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JULY 2,

without iniuring Cactii when using
a weak emulsion of kerosene on IL
would kill the same plants; when
made too weak it is Of no use at all
speaking of kerosene. Yet this RUE
may not apply to fruit trees.
Another good remedy against inc
scale insect, is to use suds made OF
acarbolic soap" and brush the al
tected parts with it thoroughly. ieay-'
ing it to dry thereon. My friend;
Mr.. Isaac Buchanan, the veteran OF
our New York horticulturists, told
me a few days ago thai he now en-
ploys "carbolic soap" suds exclusively
on his plants suffering from the effect
of this scale insect. 1t seems TO me
that some of these remedies ought to
furnish your enterprisiug orchArdists
with the means to rid themselves OF
that pest and trouble-the scale m
sect.-Dr. z. C. Lectic, an Pdclf1c
Rur0L Press.
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WhitewaShing Trees.

This old fashion probably origin
ated with some tidy, thrifty Hollander
whose stiff taste was pleased with the
effect of the uniform whiteness. 1t
is not, however, to be commended on
the score of productiveness, and many
a beautiful old orchard is spoiled by
the staring, unnatural appearance OF
its whithwashed trunks. The Ger
mantown Telegraph says: "What
we know about the matter ourselves
is. that we do not think it makes
much difference, so far as the health
and productiveness OF the trees are
concerned, whether they are white
washed or not. In oLher words, we
do not think it pays. 1t certainly has
a tendency to close the pores OF the
trunks, as well as that it has an I'M
natural appearance. So far as it is
declared that the whitewash causes
the old bark to scale off and hiding
places of the insects to be disturbed
and this is about all that is claimed
for it-how much better for every
farmer having an orchard to scrape
the trees once year, or only every
other year, and follow it with wash
inc of whale oil soap or carbolic soap
and water, applied with a short
broom. This would be sure TO dis
lodge the insects, open the pores OF
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Disease Germs in DiphtherIa.

The recent application OF the NIL
croscope to medical inquiries has de-
veloped the important fact that many
diseases are occasioned by mallgn
attacks upon the vital domain oy
germs of various kinds. 1t Is well
known that typhoid fever, yellow
fever, malarial fevers, and most other
febrile diseases, are occasioned by Inc
introduction of germs into the sys-
TEN; but it has not, in many cases,
been the good fortune of physicians
to discover the exact character OF
these microscopic enemies OF human
life. In the case of diphtherla, many
most eminent physicians and scientists
are satisfied that the mischlevous
germ has been discovered, after a
long and pains-taking search.
The germ causes of diphtherla are
very minute organisms, being too
small to be seen except by the aid OF
a very good microscope. They are
so snail that row OF them an inch
long would contain from 10000 to
10000. Singly they are too insignl-
ficant to deserve attention. except as
microscopical curiositles; but when
massed together in the countless
numbers in which they intest the mu'
cous membrane in this disease, they &C.
quire an Importance which is often
terribly great to the victim OF their
ravages.. There are two varieties OF
these parasites, known respectively as
a,eicrococcus and 60cteriUn1 teynlo :;
the names are certainly no more for
midable than The creatures them
selves, small though they are. The
two organisms are always associated,
and can be very easily studied with
the aid of good microscope, by any
one at all familiar with the use of the
instrument, by examination OF the
false membrane, freshly taken from
q patient.
We have just taken a small piece
of diphtheritic membrance from the
throat of patient suffering with the
disease, and placing it under the mi
eroscope, with a little mucous from
the same source, the germs referred
to are distinctly visible in great num-
Der, all actively, swimming about,
making the whole microscopic field
alive with motion. just so they ex-
listed in the throat Of the patient a
few moments ago, vigorously at work
insinuating themselves into the mu-
cous membrane, prying their way in
between the cells, even getting into
their interior and depriving them OF
the power to perform their functions
clogging the blood-vessels, causing IT.
ritation OF the membrane, and, as a
consequence, the pouring out OF
fbrous matter which forms false
membrane.-J H. Kellogg, NJ ID.
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Estimating Measures.

A pint of water weighs nearly
pound, and is equal to about q Gu
bic inches, or square box 8 inches
long, 3 inches wide, and 3 inches,
deep.
A quart of water weighs nearly z
pounds, and is equal to square box
of 1 by 4 inches, and 81 inches deep
A gallon of water weighs from
to 10 pounds, according to the size
OF the gallon, and is equal to bo1'
6 by 6 inches square, and 6, I, or =
inches deep.
A peck is equal to box 8 by s
inches square and inches deep q
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Remedies for Scale Insects.

In reply to your correspondents
inquiry concerning the dreaded scale
louise or insect, which noticed in the
Ratral Press of March 9Th, let me
give some remedies, which / fail to
see recommended in your valuable
publication. For years l have culti-
waited and experimental with Cacti.
One of their worst enemies is that
species Of scale insect known as As
piodtus ecJlinoc0cti, which likewise
infests the oleander, orange, lemon,
and various other plants that may be
in close proximity to overcrowded
greenhouses. l have succeeded in
exterminating this insect by using
the common 'saqua ammonia" or
"water of hartshorn" of the shops.
To lessen the cost [ should advise
your correspondent to purchase the
article known to druggists as the
concentrated liquor of caustic am
monia,!: which, by adding two parts
of fluid measure of water to one part
fluid measure of the former, you have
the strength of the common "aqua
ammonia" The concentrated prepa-
ration, here at the East is generally
put up in pound or tive-pound glass
stoppered bottles, as well as in large
carboys. 1t may be suggested to
open such bottles with care, and pre-
serve it in cool place. A pound of
the concentrated ammoniacal liquid
costs (here) 25 cents, and when d.
luted with water, makes three pints
of solution ready for use. l apply it
with a brush to small plants. A
sponge, providing the nostrils are pro-
tected, might be tied TO long pole,
and the liquid applied to the branches
and trunks of trees, standing at a re-
spectacle distance, of course.
Ammonia, like potash or concen-
trated I've, is strong alkali and an ex-
cellent fertilizer, yielding up large
percentage of nitrogen. The strength
indicated is not too strong for CdctS,
of which one or two applications, in
the course of ten or fourteen days, are
sufficient to kill the insects. Scraping
off the loose bark of fruit trees previ-
Gus to using ammonia would facili-
tate matters much. 1t is possible
that the potash lye is, perhaps, the
more economical of the two remedies,
yet it may be interesting to others of
YOUR readers to know of different safe.
Guards used elsewhere. Potash has
long been used by horticulturists to
free plants from the scale insect.
Ammonia must not be applied to
tender plants or the roots of the same,
unless very much diluted. However,
I can use the ammonia as indicated
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the trees and give them q natural,
healthy appearance. This would do
the work effectually, and leave no
room tordoubt ordiscussion. What
ever aid the whitewashing of trees
NAV be to their health and produc'
tiyeness. the best orchards we ever
saw, which bore full crops for a gen
Grafton, were not whitewashed, but
scraped:and washed with soft soap.
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PALMS.
The Mountainous or Alpine Palms.

il IIt UlUuIlIll1IOuoO VI AARAAAS -
Lriartca Andicola, Spr. CeroGyton
Observation-Disclosures Palm OF
the Andes. " -s*t
II found this tree says Humboldt,
Sin the Cordillera at the Pass OF
Quindin, between hague and Car
tago, between 1900 and 300 feet
above the sea in company with po-
docorpus trees, and qatercos gd'adte"'
SIS"
"The tty,noble trunks of this tree"
says w. Purdie," are covered with
a coating of resin.like wax, (this sub
stance consists OF one-third wax and
twothirds resin) which gives them a
white and maj ble-like appearance,
imparting a lively feature in the seen
cry, so peculiar to the Paramo OF
Quindin, where the palm abounds to
an extraordinary degree, without any
apparent injury to the noble but sub,
ordinate forest beneath its grateful
shade. To obtain the wax the tree
must be felled; and was informed
by nv guides that each tree gives an
arroba, or twenty-five pounds. A
man will cut down and scrape two
trees in a day, giving fifty pounds at
least. The wax is used, mixed with
tallow, for making candles (alone it
is said to burn too rapidly after
scraping, it is merely melted and run
into calabashes, for the use OF the vii
layers in the neighborhood OF the
~olme range. 1t is sold in the town
Of hague, at the foot Of the Quindin,
at three pence or half seal per
pound; it is in considerable demand,
but is abundant and easily obtained. :"
"This, however" says Bonpland,
lis not the only advantage which can
be derived from this tree; the height
of it's trunk renders it preferable to
the other palms which are principally
used to make canoes, aqueducts, etc;
its wood is very durable, and de-
serves also the preference in the
construction of houses"
OreOdos0 Frigit1G-Humboldt
The palmito of the mountains OF
Ouindin is remarkable on account of
the high elevation above the sea at
which It grows, being one of the lit
tie group of alpine palms quite I'M
known before the time of Humboldt
and Bonpland's travels in equinoctial
America.
.Xso,tsioc Observation-Disclosures:
In the temperate parts OF the
mountains of New Grenada, between
Almagney and Paste, near San Pablo,
grows reed like palm, which is
known to the inhabitants OF that dis
trict by the name of Cana de la Vi
bora (Snake- cane) and is the only rep
resentative OF the genus KuntAio.
Its annulated trunk is from twenty to
twenty-four feet long, about as thick
as a finger; it's leaves are terminal and
pinnatisect; it's flowers appearing be-
low the commencement oftbe foliage,
are white, monpcious, and arranged
in simple branches; its berries are
round, green, one-seeded, and about
as large as the fruit of the sloe
The wood OF the trunk is used by
the Indians for making blowing-tubes.
through which they discharge their
little poisoned arrows. The saccha-
rine juice of it is considered by those
people remedy for the venom OF
snake bites, and is either taken inter
nally, or applied externally to the
wound.-Seemdn's Popular History
ofthe Palms.
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than Iaboriously to collect each little
particle. by travelling from flower to
flower, and. their greediness beng
thus aroused, they will assail and rob
the weak colonies.-Rurdl Neao
YORKER.
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Eastern and Western Stories.

1t is no use, says. the Boston Trans
script, for an Eastern man to try to
tell big story when there is a Wes-
tern man about. "When l was a
young man. said Col. B., "we lived
in Illinois. The farm had been well
wooded, and the stumps were pretty
thick. But We put corn in among
them and managed to raise fair crop.
The next season I did my share ofthe
blowing. We had a 'sulky' plow.
and | sat in the seat and managed
the horses, four as handsome BAYS as
ever man drew rein over One dav |
found a stump right in my way. |
hated to back out, so l just said a
word to the team, and, if You'll be.
lieyo it, they just walked that pillow
right through that stump as though
1t had been cheese" Not a soul
expressed surprise. But Major s.,
who had been a quiet listener, re.
marked quietly. ats curious, but l
hada similar experience myself once.
My mother made our clothes in those
days, as well as the cloth they were
made Of The old lady was awfully
proud Of her homcspun-said it was
the strongest cloth in the State. One
day had just plowed through a
white oak stump in the way you
speak Of, Colonel. BUTT was a little
too quick for me. 1t came together
before was out Of the way, and nip.
ped the seat of my trousers. l felt
mean, tell you, but put the string
on the ponies, and, if you'll believe It
they just snaked that stump out,
roots and all Something had to give,
you know
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Common-sense Driving.

Somebody who knows what he is
saying speaks good word for horse
and driver in the following: Most
men over.drive. Now and then you
find q horse with such a vicious gait
that his speed is got from him by ar
tifcial processes, but such horses are
rare, and hence the style of manage
ment required cannot become gener-
al. The true way is to let the horse
drive himself, and give him that con-
6dence which a horse only gets in
himself when he feels that a guide
and a friend is back of him. The
most vicious and inexcusable style
Of driving is that which SO many
drivers adopt, viz Wrapping the
lines around the hands and pulling
the horse backward, SO that the horse,
in point of fact, pulls the weight
back Of him with his mouth, and not
with his breast and shoulders. This
they do under the impression that
such a dead pull is needed in order to
steady" the horse.
This method of driving is radical.
ly wrong. With rare exceptions,
there should never be any pull upon
the horse at all. A steady pressure
is allowable, probably advisable, but
anything beyond this has no justif-
cation in nature or reason, for nature
suggests the utmost possible freedom
of action of head, body and limbs, in
order that the animal may attain
the highest rate of speed; and reason
certainly forbids the supposition
that by the bits and not by the breast
collar is the horse to drrw the weight
attached to him. In speeding horses
we very often grasp the lines with
both hands when the road is straight
and free from distractions. The
lines are rarely steadily tight, but
held in easy pliancy, aud used chief
ly to ship the bit in the animals
mouth, and by this method our
horses break less and go much faster
than when driven by men who put
the old-fashioned steady pull upon
them.
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What Makes Hard Times for
Farmers.

81 live in q settlement where am
the only one who takes an agricul.
tural paper. The rest study politics,
and, instead of getting a living from
the soil by, cultivating it, they mort,
gage it. My farm, with one or two
Others, is all that remains for miles
around not mortgaged."
Thus speaks an Illinois correspond
ent to the Indiana Farmer. That
man tells in a short sentence what
keeps so many farmers noses to the
grindstone. They spend their time
in studying pot.house politics and
voting to put professional Office hunt.
ers in Office, Let them study half as
diligently politics from a farmers
standpoint, and the evils complained
of will soon begin to mend.
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LOWEST PRICES

The Weekly Register has the largest and
best assortment OF job material in the State
and fast presses, paper and card stock, and
is prepared to do all kinds OF job printing
neatly and promptly, at'the lowest prices.
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who should Come 10 West Viz.
ginia.


First. Men with families, whose
means are too limited to buy and
stock farm in an old section, where
lands are high and buildings expen-
siYe. With few hundred dollars
such persons can buy one or two
hundred acres in West Virginia.
build a permanent home, and, if they
are industrious, energetic and .perse-
vering, can soon surround them.
selves with comforts which they
could never hope to enjoy in their
old locations.
Second. Young men without fami-
lies, and with no capital except
health, strong arms, and an average
amount Of common sense. Such per-
sons can buy on credit few acres of
timber land, and in few years, with
only their own axes, can clear and
pay for a comfortable home for them
selves and their future families.
Third. Business men Of moderate
means, who will engage .in,the get
ting out of timber, the saving Of luui.
Der. or the manufacture of furniture,
agricultural implements, and wood
Eenware. The material for such man.
ufactures grows in West Virginia in
front of every doorway, and the West
and Southwest offer unlimited mark
cts for all such productions.
Fourth. Capitalists who will buy,
and divide in to small farms and
town lots, the vast tracts Of land that
now lie there in their primitive con-
dition. Such men should settle colo.
MES upon their purchases, and thus
secure to newcomers, at the outset,
society, schools, churches, and other
advantages of old communities. Thus
they would, while making fortunes
for themselves, become genuine pub
lie benefactors, We know ofno way in
which capital can be invested at the
present time with prospect for
surer or more profitable returns.
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Do Indians Swear?

This is a curious question, and the
answer by Mr., Schoolcraft should put
the white man to the blush. This
gentleman, who has for many years
closely studied the characteristics OF
the race, says: "Many things the In
dian may be accused OF, but the prac.
tice of swearing they cannot. Ihave
made many inquiries into the state
of their vocabulary, and nothing is
more bitter or reproachful than match
anncmoosh, which indicates bad dog.
They have terms to indicate cheat,
liar, thief, murderer, coward, fool,
lazy man, drunkard, babbler; but |
have never heard of an imprecation
or oath. The genius of the language
does not seem to favor the formation
of terms used in oaths or for purpos-
es of profanity. 1t is the result of
the observation of others, as well as
my own, to say that the Indian can.
not curse in his own language.
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TRUTHS.
Hop Filters are the Pnrest and
Best Ritters ever Made.

4 They are compounded from H0ps,H
BWchu, Mandrake and Ddndet-E
sioin,-the oldest, best, and most valua.9
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Gall the best and most curative properties:
dof all other Bitters, being the greatest
Blood Purifier, Liver Regulator
Szand Life and Health Restoring Agent on!
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Fused, so varied and perfect are their Cpl
serati0ns.
i They give new life and vigor to thes
Eaged and intirm. To all whose EMPLOY
Snents cause irregularity OF the bowels
Dr urinary organs, or who require an ap-E
gpetizer, tonic and mild stimulant, theses
sBitters are invaluable, being highly cu-l
krative tonic and stimulating aUithoutj
EintOricating.
A No matter what your feelings or synl-t
IONS are, what the disease or ailment is,
fuse Hop Bitters. Don't wait until yous
sare sick, but if you only feel bad or MIS-
derable, use the Bitters at once. 1t maya
gsave your life. Hundreds have been sal
Eyed by so doing. esSr S50O'Ssa will bee
apaid for case they will not cure ors
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4 Do not suffer yourself or let YOUR
sfriends suffer. but use and urge them toll
guse Hop Bitters.
h Remember Hop Bitters is no vile,E
irugged, drunken nostrnm, but the Pull
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BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.

Those who have books or pamphlets to
print, can have such work done in good
style at this Office.
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A North Carolina tar-heel, living
near Washington, in that State, is
credited with having in three hours
devoured three water::melons weigh.
ing forty. pounds, t@o:and a.half
pints Of whiskey, two dozen raw eggs
and quartof peanuts, and then was
willing to bet on another bait.
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RaLsIng in Wesl ylrgInla.

=
Climate. Our climate, while much
milder than that Of the New England
and Middle States, is yet sufficiently
severe TO cause the consumption Of
food enough to produce an extremely
heavy fleece. The aeeces Of thor
oughbred American Merino ewes,
properly summered and wintered,
and cared for generally, range from
Toto IS pounds, while buck-feeces
weighfrom Is to Is pounds. With
the extra amount of feed and atten-
tion given in the Eastern States,
these weights could, without doubt,
be considerably increased.
sour winter weather usually be-
gins in the last week of November,
and continues until about the first Of
April. While our climate is compar-
atively mild, it is very salubrious,
and highly favorable for the main
tenance of the general health Of
the flocks.
mo such things as scab and the
other malarial diseases, so common
and destructive in other States, are
known to the sheep breeders Of West
Virginia.
Surface Of the Countrywide charac,
ter Of the general surface of the coun-
is another advantage not to be over
looked in reckoning the facilities Of
our State for sheep raising. The dis
position Of the sheep to climb to the
top of the highest hills points plain
ly to the fact that their nature re.
quires high and rolling country.
An elevated table-land would render
the climate too cold, and the winters
too long. This difficulty is olivia
ted by having the surface diversified
by hills and valleys, and such we find
to be pre-eminently the character Of
West Virginia. In our deep valleys,
watered by cool, pure, never-failing
streams, in the smooth slopes of the
hills, covered with luxuriant and
succulent grass, and in the lofty
rounded crests or table.lands that
crown the SUBMITS, the shepherd has
an assemblase Of all the good things
that nature can provide for him.
The peculiar topography of our
State furnishes in the warm months
of the year high and dry range for
the focks, and enables the shepherd
to find in the same pastures shelter.
ed valleys and hooks which afford an
abundance of pure water, while they
are protected from the violence Of
storms and winds. soample, indeed,
is the protection provided by nature,
that many do not think it necessary
to house their sheep at all. 1t is nc
uncommon thing to see sheep fed out
in the open field the entire winter,
and though the practice is not to be
recommended, yet those who have
adopted it appear in most cases to
have realized fair profit upon
their aocks.
The billy and diversified character
of the surface prevents the occur,
renee of tornadoes, and such things
as sand storms" elsewhere SO inju.
rous to the wool, are unknown.
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A little four-year,old girl seeing the
moon one evening just as a light
cloud was passing over it, said. ooh,
papa, l guess the moon is crying; see,
it has just wiped its eyes with its
handkerchief"
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Poster Printing.

We prepared to do hand.bill printing
from a double-sheet poster, down to the
smallest dodger. Programmes printed in
the best styles known.
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Commercial Printing.

We keep in stock full line OF CONNER
cial Stationery, which we are prepared to
furnish in any style desired. Envelopes,
Cards, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill
Heads, Checks, Drafts, Notes, Statements,
Bills of l.ading, Dray Books, Shipping
Books and all other variety OF work need
ed by business men furnished on short
notice. Printing for Salt Furnaces and
Coal Companies, n speciality.