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Timber in EurOnc.

Some European countries arc almost
rs bad off, as far as supply OF timber is
concerned, as is the United States. Ac-
,ording to French agricultural journal,
the oak of Sweden and Norway is
about exhausted, and they are compelled
to buy their wood in Poland, and the
pine is being rapidly removed. The
forests of Russia, along the shores Of the
Baltic, in Finland and in the Southern
provinces, have been so rapidly thinned
that tho forest area of the empire is now
only one-tenth. The forests of Germany
are well cared for, and there are now in
that empire about 34,0O0,00 acres of
forest lover half Of which are in Prussia
valued at about $500, 900, 900, and pro-
living an income annually of nearly $780,
100000, The greatest effort is made to
preserve the forests of Germany and to
increase the forest acreage (about $780,
900 being annually expended in replant-
ing by the State, and the imports exceed
the exports by over 1000 tons. There
are about $4,000, 900 acres Of forest in
Austria. Austria, however, has 80 reck-
lessly cut her forests that she is obliged
to buy most of her timber in Bosnia and
Montenegro. Servia, Roumania ard
Portugal have good forests, but the fine
forests Of Italy and Spain are so situated
that they cannot reach market when
cut. 1t would seem that the United
States might profitably follow the exam
pie of Germany and save her forests.
South Australia is at present engaged in
this work and planting trees on an cx-
tensive scale. -BoSton Globe.
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Know Your Business Thoroughly.

A Young man in leather store used to
feel very inpatient with his employer for
keeping him, year after year, handling
| hides. But he saw the use years after
when in an establishment of his own he
was able to tell by the touch the exact
quality Of the goods. It was only by
those thousands Cf repetitions that tho
lesson was learned; and so it is with
everything in which we acquire skill.
| The half-informed, the half.skilled, in
every business outnumber the others,
dozeps TO one. Daniel Webster once
replied to a young man who asked him
if there was any room in the legal pro-
fession. "Thcre is always room at the
top" The better your business, the
better your chance to rise. You can
gather much information by making a
wise use of your eyes and ears, and per.
haps be able to surprise your employer
in an emergency by stepping into the
next mans" place, and discharging his
duties satisfactorily 80, learn your bust
ness.
We would guard the young against
the use of every word that is not strictly
proper. Use no profane expression,
allude to no sentence that will put to
blush the most sensitive. You know not
the tendency Of habitually using indie
cent or profane language. 1t may never
be obliterated from your heart. When
you grow up, you may find at your
tongues end some expression which
you would not use for any money. 1t
was used when quite young. Good men
have been taken sick and become deliri-
ous. In these moments they use the most
vile, indecent language imaginable.
When informed of it after their restora.
ton to health, they had no idea of the
pain they had caused. They had learned
and repeated the expressions in child
hood; and, though years had passed
since, they had been indelibly stamped
upon the heart. Think of this, you who
are tempted to use improper language,
and never disgrace yourself or your
friends.
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The Oneida Community.

The Oneida Community is commun.
istic society on Oneida Creek, in LenoS
Township, Madison County, n. Y, abou.
which much has been said and written,
and which has some remarkable features
The founder of the organization wac
John Humphrey Noyes. He was born
at Brattleboro, VT, September 3, 1911.
and graduated at Dartmouth College,
when scarcely twenty years Of age. At
first he studied law, but he soon forsoob
Blackstone and turned his attention to
theology, studying at Andover and New
Haven, and was licensed to preach when
he was twenty-five years old. In 1884 he
experience what he named "second
conversion aud made at once an at
tempt to found community at New
Haven, which, however, was unsuccess'
full. Three years later he organized the
existing association, at Putney, VT, and
the members removed to the present.
locality in 1S47. The Community Oh
Oneida Greek has fine estate. several
mills and manufactures, and is reported
to be in a prosperous condition. The
cardinal principles of the Community are
four in number reconciliation to God,
salvation from sin, recognition of the
brotherhood and equality Of man and
woman, and the community OF labor and
its fruits. The last-named principle
embraces scheme by which all the male
and all the female members of the Com
munity are held in sense to be married
to each other. This has led to the charge
being made against them of being I" free
lovers" but, says one writer, the system,
as regulated by the principle of sym.
pathy," and controlled by that free pub
lie opinion which constitutes the supreme
government Of the society, sis far from
being amenable to the reproach Of i'm
morality in any ordinary sense Of the
word" These "Bible Communists. az
they are styled, reject all rules OF conduct
except those which each believer formu.
lates for himself, subject to the fros
criticism OF his associates. They hold
that the Mosaic law and ordinances weri
abrogated by the second coming O.
Christ which Mr.. Noyes places at II
A. D., and at which time the reign o
sin was concluded, and true believer,
have since been free to follow the indica
tons of the Holy Spirit in all thing
nothing being good or bad in itself.
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with an assault on j. G. Sperry, the
latter testifying in the case. After two
days deliberation the jury returned into
court with q verdict Of manslaugher.
II would be hard to picture the scene
that followed. The bar was convulsed,
the "dead man" smiled audibly, Judge
Palmer looked on for moment in mute
establishment and then hid behind his
newspaper.
Richmond, (Va.) State: 1t is impos-
sible for the south unaided to educate
all within her borders. While she asks
no exemption from all just obligations,
this duty Of fee education does not rest
on her exclusively. DR.. Sears in 1879,
said there were 100000 Of children
in the Southern States, without the
means of instruction. Increasing eff
cheney of school system is daily furn-
ishing additional means, but the latest
reports OF state superintendent show
wide difference between the number Of
educatable children and those in actual
attendance at schools.
A writer describes Christmas din
ner at a country house near Richmond,
Va, during the war: The four gentle
men were in uniform, and the three
ladies were in homespm. They had for
dinner $500 ham, and the last turkey
on the plantation, value Sl75, with 800
worth Of cabbage, potatoes and hominy.
Corn bread wrs served, made of meal at
$50 per bushel and salt at 81 q pound
The dessert was black molasses at $50 q
gallon, and after one cup of tea-real
tea, worth 800 pound, treasured for
the occasion as surprise, and not sas-
safras-there was coffee at discretion,
made from sweet potatoes cut into little
squares toasted and ground down.
Memoirs Appeal: Mr.. May, a young
Shelby county farmer, has been success
full in the manufacture of ensilage, a
species of fsod for cattle, that in winter
takes the place of the clover of summer
and is more nutritious. he method
adopted by Mr.. May was simply to cut
the pea.vine down, chop it and press it
into pit forty feet long, ten feet broad,
and ten feet deep. In this pit he made
fifty tons of ensilage, with which he
proposes to fatten fifteen head of cattle
for three months. Mr.. Mays example
should stimulate every farmer in this
section of the country. Immense guam,
titles Of hay and corn are sold in this
market every winter, the money paid
for which might be put to some other
Use, if only ensilage were made for cat
tie, The best stOckraisers recommend
it, and the practical farmers at the
west are loud in its praise.
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The Egg Story.

IL would violate all precedent If the
story of Columbus and tho egg were to
he spared the readers OF this volume. II
is briefly as follows: Soon after his
return to Spain he dined with Cardinal
! dc Mendoza, an eminent clergyman with
/ talent for dinners. An Objectionable
young man who was present, and who
undoubtedly had taken more champagne
than was good for his fellow diners,
asked the Admiral if he did not think
that if he had not discovered the New
World some one else would have very
shortly discovered it. He was unques.
tionably an impertinent young man, but
he was undoubtedly right in assuming
that sooner or later the Atlantic would
have been crossed, even if Columbus had
never been born. Historians tell us that
Columbus, i'll reply, asked the young
man if lie could stand an egg on its little
end, and when the young man, after
rudely inquiring what Columbus was
giving him, was constrained to admit
that he could not perform the feat in
question, the great explorer simply fiat
tened the little end OF the egg by knock
ing it against the table, and then easily
made it stand up. The whole company
instantly burst into tears, and exclaimed
that Columbus was the greatest and
noblest of mankind. If this trick Of
nattening an egg was really regarded IL,
a brilliant reparteo, by which the imper
tinent young man ought to have beer
utterly withered up, it gives lis melan
choly view of the state of the art O
repartec among the Spaniards. The rea
facts of the case are probably these
Cardinal de Mendoza, the dinner and til,
impertinent young man doubtless ex
listed in the manner specified, and thu
impertinent young man, in an advanced
state Of champagne, probably said some
thing insulting to the Admiral. TIL,
latter, disolaiming to notice the affron
by words, and reluctant to cause an,
unpleasant scene at the Cardinals table
merely threw an egg at the offender
head, and pursued the conversation will
his host. Subsequent writer's, deter
mined to give a profoundly scientifi
character to everything the Admiral did
built up from this slight basis of fact tn
egg-balancing story. In point of fact
any one can balance an egg on its littl
end by the exercise Of little care an
patience, and it is rather more easy
do this with all egg that has not bee
fattened than with one that has. = W. 1
Alden's CHRISTOPHER Columbus.
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Had a Hallucinati0n.

They were sitting beside the crate
when all at once she looked up and said:
Richard, do you believe people ever
labor under hallucination
"Of course they do" he replied.
III was just reading Of husband who
went to bed supposing he had 500 in
his wallet, but on awakening in the
morning there was but $ls. He at once
charged his wife with robbing him, and
a separation resulted. Wasn't it awful ?"
eyes, rather"
If you should suspect me of getting
up in the night and going to your wallet
that would be awful too, wouldn't it?"
"Not any too awful, for I haven't had
a cent in it since I can remember" he
said as he turned to his paper.
That was all she wanted to know. She
got up that night and went through the
hind pocket Of his pants, and next morn
ing he had hallucination that no was
81 short. -Detroit Free Press.
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HuMORS OF THE DAY.

"JULIus, seize her T. said Sambo, a.
julius was contemplating fat pullet in
he moonlight.
DOMESTIC troubles come punched, like
,elery.
Tne only thing in this country that Is
iot injured by bursting, is applause.
WHEN you See m act committed are
you not necessarily an nigh witness?
"HUsBAND and wife, says some sage
person, "should no more struggle to get
he last word than they should struggle
or the possession Of lighted bomb"
They don't. The wife gets it without
struggle. The Judge.
"SAvE One Little Kiss for Papa" il
.he title OF the latest song. If this "a
mark is aimed at Chicago girl with
our steady beaux the old mans chances
ire pretty slim.-Chioago Tribune.
"WH,r contradiction watch is p
,aid Timmins. "How so ?" asked Mrs.
rimmins. "Why. because it always
Keeps perfectly dry, although it con.
SANITY has running spring inside"
WILL the looming man" shut the
loor after him p He will in this Office,
u the going man will go out of the
window. -LO,oeH Citizen.
BLONDE" They say Carrie is en-.
gagged" Brunette -" Engaged why,
she married a month ago aud has just
sued for a divorce" Blonde" How
romanticl Isn't it splendid ?"-Boston
Transcript.
"YEs," said the Denver editor, 81
think | must have got out u very reada-
BILE paper this morning. I've been licked
by three prominent citizens to-day, an
other chased me with dogs and gun
apd the police had hard work to keep
mob from wrecking my Office. Chi.
cago Tribune.
DIR. D. has bright little girl about
four years of age, who is very fond oi
dolls and he buys new one for her
nearly every day. He brought her q
new one the other evening, but it did
not appear to take her fancy at all.
"What, don't You like the new doll ?"
he asked, after watching her few mo.
ments. "No; is tired of stuff dolls.
| want real meat baby" she replied,
earnestly.-Me Judge.
~ CAN well remember the time" saiS
Mrs. Marrowfat, leaning over the fence
rail, in confidential conversation with
her neighbor next door, "when Simp.
sons wife was glad enough to get plain
wooden shawl to wear. Now she always
appears in sealskin sacque.' "Ah,
you forget" was the reply, that Mr..
Simpsons brother has become banl
cashier"
A DETROIT man calls his wife Vesu.
vius, because she is holy terror. -ChqG
A Burlington man calls his wife Coto.
paIi, because she spits fire and won't
lava the neighbors alone. Huntington
" j. Enterprise. A jamestown man
calls his wife fool because she has not
Etna thing since the winter bonnets
have made their appearance. -Leader.
A Stnbeuville man calls his wife after
he gets up aud builds fire, for she
won't get up in the cold. -SiuJenuille
Herald.
DARWIN acknowledged himself match.
ed when his little niece asked him,
seriously, what a cat has that no other
animal has. He gave it up after mature
deliberotion, aud then the sly puss
answered "kittens."
SAUSAGE FRrz, Of this city, is gu
aesthetic. He says he now has "goOd
quality Of home mate sossiches, with der
dog collars all picked ovid. Dey wash
doc utterly Ply gosh a goople of dimes,
ant you pet my life if l dold you so I
bite mine het off."-Larnic Biz Nye.
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He Had Done 'em Often.

Over in Jersey the manager of a
combination was applied to by lanky-
legged chap for an engagement. The
fellow, who looked lugubrious enough
to have been the shadow of badly
acted Hamlet, stumbled across the stage,
and upjointing himself. collapsed into a
chair.
"Well, what's your line of business? ?"
queried the manager.
"Not particular anything thatpays."
Ever been on the stage?"
"Often?" remarked the aspirant,
throwing quid of dog-leg at the head
of the big fiddle, and his left leg over
his right knee at one and the same time.
Dye s'pose you can do the landlord
in the Lady of LyOnS?"
eyes, sir-ree-I've done all the land
!ord's in Camden"
An yet the aspirant wasn't engaged.
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THERE are Incidents which, when we
read them, seem really to be so exhiler-
ating that one almost becomes intoxi.
Gated with the Esprit Of approval"
if that were possible. A young lady in
New York City, who was accosted by a
well-dressed man in an insulting man.
ner, accepted the offer Of an old woman,
who was grabbing in an ash barrel close
by, to "cover him with ashes for ten
cents" The man was pelted with hand
fuls Of ashes, covering him from head to
foot, before he could escape. The old
dame was rewarded with quarter.
She should have had, at least, dollar
for such appropriate services.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25
THE printers in the Government Prin

The printers in the Government Print
ing Office are being meanly treated.
Notwithstanding they get higher price
for their labor than is paid for similar
work in any Office in the civilized world,
they 7till ask for more. So long as they
are so modest about it, We do not see
why the Government should not be
willing to divide the profits with them
or it might turn the institution over to
them and make it stock concern for
that matter, and then allow them an
annual appropriation besides. The boys
should be treated on the square.
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DIR. BLISS thinks $4,000 would be

DIR. BLISS thinks $4,000 would be
about right for his services as physician
to President Garfield. The services of
Drs. Agnew and Hamilton he reckons at
$4,000 each, and Reyburn, he thinks,
ought to be satisfied with $4,000. DR..
Boynton and Mrs. DR.. Edison he consid-
erately allows 81, 900 each, although per-
haps Mrs. Edison did more real service
and suffered more anxiety than the whole
lot. Yes, DR.. Bliss is great man.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

BUSINESS seems to be pushing in
Nevada. Says Nevada paper: Not
outstanding the absence of bonanzss,
nearly 1900 miners are at work on the
Comstock at present, representing a
monthly payment of nearly a quarter of
a million dollars. The miners in turn
give employment to many in the mills
on the Carson River, in Gold Hill and
Silver City.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

Miss IDA ULLMAN, a New York belle
who, few days ago, recovered damages
in the breach of promise suit against
Mr.. Henry Fl. Meyers for 81, $50, has
married Mr.. Cohen, one of the witnesses
in the case. Ida is charged with daring
everybody to kiss her on New Years
day, and that was one of Mr.. Meyers
reasons for not wanting her for bride.
Her kisses were too abundant
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

HUMAN nature is hard to understand.
The wife of Henry Kirk, Of Madison,
Indiana, q virtuous and handsome wo-
man Of thirty years, was recently called
upon by a young Pennsylvania jewelry
member, Of good address and oily tongue
g. Mr.. Kirk was absent at the time. The
young man was so excessively po-
lite and irresistibly fascinating that
Mrs. Kirk was completely captivated.
A few days after the event she became
wildly deranged, constantly repeating
the substance Of the conversation, and
her husband has been compelled to send
her to the Insane Asylum.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

IDAHO contains $4,000 inhabitants.
Its gentiles or anti Mormon residents are
frontiersmen of the better class. I'm
fortunately theTerritoryiies Immediately
north Of Salt Lake City, and the Nor
mons, finding themselves rather cramped
in Utah, have marked out Idaho for
their own. This is an imperative reason
used by the Denver Tribune why Con-
gress should not delay the Mormon
question.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

The Cincinnati Gazette states the case
briefly as follows: If Congress will AL
NIT to seat in that body delegate from
Utah who admits that he has several
wives and believes in and practices the
doctrines of the Mormon Church, it
might as well stop talking and legisiat.
ing against polygamy. A man who de-
iies law should not have a seat among
lawmakers.
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A e1nDED youth, who had met with

A a1nDED youth, who had met with
misfortunes, entered n fourth. class res
taurant. He there encountered waiter
whom he had formerly seen In the luxu-
rious establishments which he himself
had frequented. "What!" said the
waiter, "do you dine here, sirf"
"Well," returned the other, gloomily,
"you wait here, don't your" ut l.
true, sir" replied the waiter, with con-
nsious dignity; "but I do not eat here"
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II DIDN'T call, because when passed
the house 1 noticed there was no light
in the parlor and 1 thought you were
out, "apologeticAlly observed the simple
minded Chicago man who had an APP
pointmeut with Cincinnati merchant
"Never be such fool as that again"
angrily responded the disappointed pork
packer, "you ought to have known it
was only one Of my gals receiving COM
paay."
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frequent, to the population, than where
the country is dotted with courts OF law.

GERMANY has $3.50 cooperative asso-
Citations, of which /, 1896 are loan or credit
societies, peoples banks, etc., 874 in
dustrial societies, CAS- stores for the sale
of goods, and SO building societies.
And yet Germany is reputod to be about
the hardest country on the poor there is
in the world.
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WHEN the weather in the Middle and
Western States is very moderate, mer-
curry in Dakota Territory is generally
below zero, but up to the middle of jan
uary the present season it seems that
they have had nothing up there but
Continuously warm weather" not even
an ordinary snow.
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OSCAR WILDE seems to be the boom
for the present, and it is singular how
the aesthetic crowns his every move. His
arrival in this country was January 2,
or 1922. He talks in rhythmic chant,
accenting every fourth syllable, thus
u came from England because I thought
America was the best place to see."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

PRoHrB1r1oN has moved on Congress
in a body. On the 18th inst. every mem
Der of the Senate had memorial to
present from his constituency, asking
for law to prohibit the manufacture,
sale or importation Of alcoholic liquors
throughout the national domain.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER is said
to put on more style than any other
Cabinet Minister who ever courted the
smiles of fashionable society. His
"turn out" is as gorgeous as that OF
any English lord, and his personal ward
robe corresponds with it.
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The two heaviest taxpayers of Boston
are Moses Williams and Joshua M.
Sears, the first name being assessed for
100000 and the other for So, 244, 900.
And yet we never heard of these men
before. Riches and fame don't always
go hand in hand,
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JoHN 1,yLoR, President Of the Nor
mon Church, has taken up his abode in
the Gardo House, at Salt Lake City, the
magnificent structure which Brigham
Young built for his favorite, Amelia. 1t
has been lu1uriously furnished through
1,,k
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25

The members of the new Chinese
Legation at Washington wear their ma
tive costumes on all occasions, and at
tract considerable attention on the streets
and elsewhere, by their startling COM
bination OF colors.
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THE Mormons had an idea that Presi-
dent Taylor was stealing from them, and
when he got hint of it he replied !:
"Let me see the man who said so and
I'll hang him inside Of an hour That
sottlsd Tho question Of biz honesty.
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IT is said to be feet capable of dem
onstration that two summer marriages
end in divorce to one winter marriage.
Hence probably the wisdom of society
in evincing q desire 20 change tho marry.
ing season. --Ne,s Yci's Star,
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PROF. WILLIAMS, of Yale College, re-
Gently received dispatch from the in
terror OF China which had been sent the
day before, travelling within twenty-four
hours the distance of 5000 miles.
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MANUFACTURING paper from palmetto
is one of the new enterprises in Florida.
Twenty mills in all are shortly to be
erected by a company in sections of the
State where palmetto is abundant.
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OF THE population Of London, $780,
600 are vaccinated and 1900 are not.
There were 1852 deaths from smallpox
in that city the past year.