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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

If the paper which is put over Jelly
and jam Is wet in the white of an evg.
L will when dry be tight and firm, and
keep the fruit from molding with much
more certainty than if it IS dipped in
alcohol or brandy. The paper which is
laid next the fruit is meant, not that
which is tied or pasted over the glass;
n. T. Post.
If your lace bed-spread and pillow
covers are soiled, wash them, and. in
stead OF blueing them, dip them in
some very weak cold coffee, and thew
will receive from it delicate shade of
ecru, which is so popular for laces Just
now. Curtains and other articles of the
kind may be treated in the same way.-
Exchange.
The best way to get rid of the
docks is to spade them out. and Law the
roots up to dry. If that is considered
too laborious a job, take a sharp hoe
and cut them off just below the surface
of the ground, and in few weeks po
over them again, cutting off all that
have sent out new leaves. GOING over
them few times in this way will finish
them all.-N Y. Times.
Steamed corn-bread is particularlv
wholesome when made with buttermilk.
Ii this can not be procured. use lobbered
milk. To two cups of Indian meal nj.
low one cup of white flour, two table.
spoonfuls of white sugar, two and a half
cups OF milk. one teaspoonful of soda.
one OF salt, one tablespoonful and hall
OF melted butter; steam for two hours
in well-buttered tin. and dry off in the
oyen.-The Household.
1t is good plan to have few egg.
plants in the kitchen garden. The fruit
is much nicer freshly-cut than after
standing several hours in the market
The plants do best in moderately rich
and very mellow soil. Select warm,
sunny spot, set the plants about thirty
inches apart, keep the ground clean,
and look out for the Colorado beetle
which Is as partial to the eggplant a:
to the potato.-M. Y. Examiner.
Every farmer should take som,
pains to interest his children In the
fowls on the farm, and there is NOTHING
that so quickens that interest as to give
them the right to all the money the,
can make off the fowls. In return fol-
feed, etc., the obligation can be put OF
them that they place the money in ;
sayings-bank, or buy clothes with it, O.
put it to some good use, in such a wa,
as may be mutually agreed upon
Children can not be too early laugh
TIE knack of making money, and, wha
is of still greater purpose, the art O
keeping it.-N II. Farmer
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Care OF Pastures.

Too many farmers think pastures can
AXE care of themselves, and no matter
how greatly they are robbed and denuded,
the cattle feeding on the pastures can
take care of themselves also. We have
heretofore urged the Importance of al
lowing blue grass to grow several inches
high before stock is turned on it, and to
( have no more stock than will allow the
grass to continue that high with q
thick coating for the ground, keeping il
moist and the grass green. But AL
kinds of pasture need care and feeding.
The grass crop on a well regulated and
properly ordered farm is worth more
than the corn and wheat crop. And
vet all the care and expense are de-
/ voted to the cereals, leaving the grass
to take care of itself. This is unwise
husbandry and poor economy. There
Is no crop which responds more cor
daily and pays more literally for good
treatment by the farmer than his past
ure and meadow lands.
If man keeps his moving land in
good condition, he will have an abun.
dance of hay in winter and spring, so
that he will not be compelled to turn
his poor cattle on his pastures before
there is bite for them. They tramp
the soil into mortar and gnaw the very
roots of the grass from the soil. In this
condition the ground is bare. soon bakes
In the sun, and there is a scanty crop
of grass the entire year. If hay Is
plenty in the spring it is better for stock
than half feed on grass, and ten times
better for the pasture.
The thoughtless farmer scarcely lets
spear of grass stick its head above the
snow-bank before he will turn his stock
in to eat it, and poach up the soil. And
too often both pasture and meadow get
this annual treatment. The right way
is to keep both in a good, rich and pro
ductiye condition, and then keep nc
more stock than will eat in suitable
time and way the products of both. L
there be too little hay and too mucf
stock the grass is sure to suffer the mex
spring. 1t Is almost impossible t.
avoid it. There must be Judgment ant
! wise management to make farm prof
liable. There is nothing to be let alon,
nothing to take care of itself. All o
the time and expense must not be de
voted to the grain crop. What is plant
ed should be done well and on soil wei
prepared for it. But in order to have
plenty of meadow and pasture, rails
eighty bushels of corn to the acre in
stead of forty. Or raise as much Of
twenty acres as you do now on forty
1t can be done, and should be. Tn
acreage of all the cultivated crops ca
be greatly decreased without lessenin
the product. In this way the gras
lands can be greatly increased in acre
age, and much more time allowed +
enrich it in various ways to double it
capacity. These are not idle words
This system of management is what thi
country must come to. More corn
more wheat and more grass on les
acres. But grass being worth as niue
per acre as grain, with one-third of tn
labor, it is policy and wisdom to max
!. the soil more productive in the variou
ways which good farmers know, ant
then farm to more profit with less la
bOr.-Io,0a State Register.
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HUMOROUS.

"A man recently knocked down an
elephant, lion and rhinoceros. He
was an auctioneer.
"A man whose best works are al
ways trampled under foot-A carpet
manufacturer .-BaltimOre Erery Sdtur-
day.
To be tried for his life-The hen.
pecked husband. Two cats on the back
fence meet purr-chance the usual way.
Brought up by hand-The coal-hod. =
N. y. NeUS.
"A barber-shop bit: ''Is that about
the right length, sir?" asked the skill
full barber, rs he finished cutting his
customers hair. Il like the DIES and
back, was the RESPONSE" "but wish
you would make it little longer on
top. "-LouiSriiic Courier-Journai.
"A package containing two drafts,
one for 81 900, another for 1900. and
50 gold piece, belonging to lady in
Beauregard, Miss, was found 10 miles
from that place, having been blown
there by the cyclone. 1t takes cyclone
to ''raise the wind" and you will al
ways find more or less breeze where
there is draft. -Norristo1cn Herald.
AT fashionable wedding in New
York the ceremony was performed un-
der floral umbrella. This was proba-
bly, little suggestion of the brides
mother. who wanted the groom to I'M
derstand by the emblem that he ought
TO put up something for a rainy day.
Hartford Times. Oh, no! 1t was a
suggestion for paraSol-taire diamond
a,r ,.ir,
-" Mehitable Jane, can not give you
another new dress this summer, eiacu-
lated Mrs. Purse proud to her darling,
"yOur fathers pocket-book has been
drained by you now; in fact, it is dry"
But, mamma, / must" "You must
not interrupted Mrs. p. "You are
a-a-' "A regular clothes wringer,"
rejoined the young lady.-BOSton COur-
Ter.
"A Boston man chung to 4 friendly
lamp-post in the vicinity of the Univer-
sity Club, and, as he made several inef-
fectual attempts to stop the drugstore
on the corner, under the impression that
it was horse-car, exclaimed: IF (hic)
there'sh anything (hic) that 1 (hic)
despise. it'sh one thing (hic) more'n
mother" The drugstore continued to
whirl around until policeman came
along.-BOStOn Post.
"A youth who had for two or three
years been paying his addresses to a
$4,000 Brooklyn girl discovered the
| other day that there was rival in the
! field: He thereupon sat down and
wrote: Darling, have advanced over
$500 margins and can do no mere. How
does the deal stand?'' The next day
brought him an answer which read;
Margins exhausted and deal closed.
Better invest in a 5000 girl. Brook
Ign Eagle.
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It Makes a difference:

The other day a tramp found real
female philanthropist in Detroit. She
felt sorry for him, and fed him, and said
she. knew that be was the victim of mis-
fortune, and there were tears in her
eyes as she gave him an old vest and
told him to return next day and get the
coat TO match. He told her of losing
his family by q steamboat explosion
OF having his home taken away on a
mortgage-of being wanderer before
whose eyes the lost wife and precious
children We're ever appearing to keep
his heart big. and his courage down,
and il he had only remained FIVE min
utes longer she W ould have wept out
right.
He went away thinking what n soft
thing he had on this cold world, and a
day or two subsequently, he returned
Tor the coat. The painters had been AT
work and had just finished the floor of
the veranda. As there was no board up
the tramp walked up the steps and
marched the whole length of the freshly
painted floor, and raped Mt the door,
with his mouth puckered up into the
proper mournful expression. 1t was
opened by the woman n, but she had no
smiles nor tears.
Get off that paint, you good-for-
nothingr she yelled. ''Get out o. here,
you villainr'
Madam, that coat YOU
III coat you, Look at your feet
iook at taat paint-look at the
damage
he was stu looking, holding up first
one foot and then the other. when the
handle of a broom cracked across his
back and he felt obliged TO slide.
Il came for that coat" he remarked.
as he stood on the grass.
"1ou'n get a prison coat If YOU don't
travel" she replied. Here dog
here dog-here dogl Take hold of him.
BowserH'
The tramp moved on to the front.
and standing there with his hand ON n
shade tree, he surveyed the house and
B1uftcred:
why didn't Shakespeare saw
that hell hath no fury like a woman
cleaning house? Well. I'd better stop
here and warn agents not to enter the
Shsdder Of death, ~ Detroit Free Prsss.
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One warm August morning, the
teacher, with no little vanity in a knowl.
edge universal in those days, began to
lecture to the boys on the habits and
characteristics of fish which one of
them had caught during recess. He
finished, and was about to dismiss the
school, when his inquisitive pupilasked
about their gills and their use.
The question answered, others fol.
lowed, concerning the scales. skin, flesh.
The poor teacher struggled TO reply
with all the information at his com
mand. But that was small, and the
day grew warmer, and. the Saturday
afternoons holiday was rapidly slip
| ping away. 1.-The school will now be
dismissed he said, at last.
'But the bones! You have told us
| ious boy.
and gave all the information he could
command on the shape, structure and
use of the bones.
"And now the school"-he began.
"What is inside of the bones?'f
stolidly came from the corner where the
quiet boy was sitting.
Mr.. Dash never remembered what
answer he gave, but the question and
his despair fixed themselves in his
memory. Thirty-five years afterward
he visited Washington and entered the
room where the Justices of the Supreme
Court were sitting.
The Chief-J Justice, the most learned
and venerated man of his day, was a
man like ST. Paul, whose bodily presence
was contemplate.
The stranger regarded him at fiat
with awe, then with amazement.
g 1t is the boy who went inside of the
fish's bonesr' he exclaimed.
If he had not tried to GO inside of
every tish's bones - he would never
have reached the lofty position which he
held.
1t is the boy who penetrates to the
heart of the matter who is the success
full scholar and afterwards lawyer, ply.
stefan, philosopher or statesman.
1t is the man whose AK is laid TO the
root. not the outer branches, whose re-
ligion is a solid foundation for his life
here and beyond. -Bdptist Weekly.
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Personal AND LITERARY

John Russell Young, United States
Minister to China. is collecting material
! for work on that country.
Charles Dudley Warner states that
in literature there is Iardly any money
for the author. The publisher gets the
profit.
AT $1,000 a night it is calculated
that Patti in Lucia" will be Maid
over $50 dollars minute, $4.16a word
and Sl.75 a note.
Sir Julius Benedict, though very
old, is preparing to come TO this coun-
] try, where he has not been since he
came with Jenny Lind.
Philip Phillips, ''the sweet SINGER. -
has started for Amsterdam, intending
to give there n hundredi' song services
during the Worlds Fair.
Mr.. Langtry is living in little
Welsh village, and receives, an English
journal announces, a weekly remittance
from his wife of Is IS.
Captain John Ericsson. the inventor
of the monitor, still hale and hearty. is
now eighty, looks about seventy, and
works like sixty Chicago Inter Ocean.
1t is said that son of Prof. Donald
son, the lost aeronaut, has been COM
PEELED to ask Rochester On. W Jus
| tice to send him TO the House of Refuge
that he may obtain an education.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Perkins, OF
Athens, Bradford County, Pa, recently
celebrated their diamond wedding.
| During their married life of seventy
five years they have resided in one
house.
Rev. DR.. r. A. Holland, of Chi.
cago, who has been called TO the rector
ship of Trinity Episcopal Church, New
Orleans, was known at the early age OF
sixteen as the "Boy Methodist
Preacher"
james Freeman Clark's g Compar-
ison of All Religion, just issued in Bos
ton, is probably the last important lit
erary work he will undertake. He is
seventy-three years old. and not OF
strong physique, and, Notwithstanding
he has written so much and preached SO
steadily, he is careful in his habits OF
labor. and never consciously oYertaxe:
his powers. Boston Post
General George Crook, of the army
the Indian fighter, is about fifty-thret
years of age, but he looks but little
more than forty. He is about five fee
ten inches high, wiry rs greyhound
and can outride and Outmarch any mar
in the American army. 1t is Il histor
zeal fact that he lived for three days OF
no other nourishment than tree bark
during one of his campaigns against tn,
| Indians. CHICAGO Journal
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The American Pig.

The American people rear, fatten and
consume more pigs than any other
people, and they may be supposed to
animal. 1t furnishes very large share
of the flesh of the people. Our forty
seven millions of pigs also furnished
commercial products for export in 1881
of over one hundred and five and three
quarter millions of dollars. The aver
age pig exports, for the last six years,
have reached nearly eighty-four and
one-half millions. 1t leads every other
export except wheat and cotton. Ameri-
can farmers have studied the breeding
and feeding of the pig more systematic
ally, have handled them in larger num-
bers and more successfully, than the
farmers of any other country. The pig
has been the great resource of the pio-
neer in his contest with obstacles in set
ting our vast territories. The pig has
always been ready to furnish the money
for needed family expenses. In the
great corn belt. where, in the
early stages of cattle feeding they are
so wasteful of the corn, the pigs follow
the cattle, and in merely picking up
leavings often pay more real profit than
the cattle. The pig is the greatest fer
tilizer of food among domestic animals,
and his flesh being consumed by fifty
millions, it is safe to say that not one
case of trichina occurs in million OF
people.
This disease is extremely rare here,
much more so in Germany; yet the Ger
man Government processes to- be in
great alarm at the danger to its people
Of disease from eating American ham OF
bacon And when they proclaim Ameri-
can pork to be dangerous as human
food, they are guilty of gross libel on
one of our chief food products. Our
Minister to Germany investigated the
reported cases of number of soldiers
suffering from this disease, and found
they had contracted it from eating Ger
man ham in the village near by.-TG-
fiepak Live Stock Journal.
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Birds Of the HebrideS

Cautiously enough of all the birds pro.
hibited by the Levit;cal law as unclean,
the only one ever eaten is the cormo-
rant, which is certainly one of the least
tempting of fowls. 1t is such satanic
looking bird that the very look of it
always suggests Millions legend of its
having been the first creature whose
form was assumed by the arch-fiend,
when, perched on the tree of life. he
overlooked with envious eve the fair
Garden of Eden, plotting how to work
mischief for the blissful pair. The fishy
taste of this repulsive-looking bird is
considerably diminished by brIrying it
in the sand for four-and-twenty hours,
and then skinning it, after which its
flesh is said to make tolerable soup, in
flavor happily combining fish and fowl.
the former predominating There is
something very weird about these sol
emn black birds, (scarts, as they are
called, which haunt the dark caves
along the rocky coast. In the inner
mostrecesses they heap up a pile of dry
seaweed, selecting, with unerring in
stinct, spot where the highest spring
tide can not touch them. There they
lay their eggs, and sit guarding their
nests, or else stand solemn and immoy-
able on the rock lodges, never stirring
till we are well inside their cave, when
sudden flap of dusky wings startles
us, and they dash past US with piercing
cries. Well does the seaman recognize
the voice of these birds of ill-oinen.
whose shrill notes invariably herald the
coming storm.
tits verypretty, however, to watch them
fishing, as they pounce on their silvery
prey and gluttonously struggle to swaf-
low it alive, though, perhaps, twice too
big. for comfort. and, moreover, wrig-
Cling piteously all the time. In olden
days, some of our ancestors imported
fishing cormorants from France and
from Holland. and enjoyed their sport
as fully as do the Chinese .cormorant-
fishers of the present day, fastening
leathefn strap round the lower part of
the throat, to prevent the birds from
actually swallowing their prey, and
training them to return to their masters
and disgorge their spoils. Wonderful
is the amount and variety of bird-life
to be seen on some of the OUTLYING
rocky islets, where sea-birds of every
sort and kind congrcgate in countless
multitude. Thousands of puffins bur-
row in the turf like rabbits, while on
every rocky ledge sits elosely-packed
rows of sea-gulls, guillemots and kitti-
wakes. black-headed gulls. stormy pc
trels, eider-down ducks; in short, all
manner of wild-eyed beautiful birds
guarding their precious blue or green
eggs, which lie in millions on the bare
rocks or half hidden among the grass
and PUSHES, while feathery clouds float
in mid-air, lowering near their mates,
and appearing in the distance almost
like shower of drifting snowflakes
cleaning in the sunlight For all low
ers Of such beautiful, wild bird-life,
l can conceive no greater enjoyment
than a yachting cruise in the Hebrides
in the early spring-time.AH the Year
Round.
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rhe Boy Who Was Thorough.

A young New Englander, whose
knowledge was more snowy than deep.
went many years ago to teach district
school in Virginia.
Among his pupils was small, rather
dull and Insignificant looking boy, who
annoyed him by his questions. No
matter what the subject under discus
sion, this lad apparently never could
get near enough to the bottom OF it to
be content,
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WELCOME NOME TO. TIE AU-
THOR or .'SWEET HOME"

WELCOME NOME TO TIE AU-
THOR or ''SVEET HOME"
nunfED ~ OAK NM CENs w. WASHING
TON, n. e., JuNE ., lssA
IN. devvs and flowers 81 splendid juno.
49,. With pearls and garlana,ds grsce bis tomb
That times the whole worlds loving feet
To which ell golden hearts shall beat.
S m'sIsT a wsss Home ssss Fof SS SGa"
our n,affner on she Spanish main.
Tho tAttcrcf miner IN his tent.
Tho wRndcrcr on tho throbbing plain
Whore yellow moons by siInoQns wheeled
Smitc Dcsolntion's fiinty shield.
a aaoond-liow OF Hope Il bent
In Home, Sweet Home" forever.
: And Fhcn 90 bpge and the blast
where hattlotufns The lilies red,
Through nashiug columns standing fast
The soldier cuts his narrow lane
That lets him through % lory's fame.
II hear 10 angel overhead
sing Homo. sweet Home forever.
Tho weary traveller who waits
- In twiight.s dim and drca abode
The opening % the Peary Gates.
That some iaint my or friendly star
Aud show his fading eyes the rad.
signs Home, sweet Home " forever.
A camp II Blue. camp OF Gray,
A peaceful river rolled between,
We're ptChoi two riue-shots away.
The 81 n hnd set The West aglOw.
The evening clouds were crimson snow,
The twinkiing camPhrcs family seen
Across the dark'ning river;
Then noutcd from The Federal band
INC "SrAnkfrd BnnnCrs" starry strain:
H KSS 9 RSyiS sSsS sS, DI5is IaS 9a"
And . Rod and vyhne I alternate iiew-
All, no strnhtnl<ht@shallcrOss avaln
The Rapr'ahannOck River!
And then. above the CHANGING beam
Qfsong, y buglc warblcd low.
Il0nc, Homc sweet Home" and voices
raug III NJ
And GRAY utd NM harmonious sang
Al nfhcr songs were like the snow
Among the pines When winds arc stillcd.
Aud hearts and voices throhbcd and thdllcd
Witht' Home. sweet Home forever.
No matter what the Flag unfurlcd
Al, Du'ee DomWm r'acsthe world!
sweet Snfor'of thy song ofmcn.
fhou cutncst liae 20 claim thine own
hut whcuthe daisics risc again
Arraycd In all tho borrowed dust,
The world will hold thy words In trust,
And a9rs chant from zone e. zonc
Thy Home. sweet Homo " forcvc..
Tho Mcmnon murmurrd song, they thought,
when dawnint day his lips impressed
And flushing marine warmed aud caught
The sweet Ionic Of The Greek:
Ahstucr Tar nv lips shall speak.
Nor wait thc touch ~ sun or stars,
For Thee The nighttime has no HAIRS
welcome. dear heart. and take thy rest
At" Home. SEpCt Home forever.
-Hcndmin =. Taylor.
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The Philadelphia Geological Garden
has been presented with $50. 900 on the
condition that it be free to all persons
two days every week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-10-24
MERCER.

Mr.. Levi Eidridge, aged 81 wears, and his
wife, Mrs Priscilla Eldridge. aged - years
reside on a farm on the so called Beech Hill,
in Mercer, about two miles from the village
on the Smithtield road the farm contains 100
acres. They have hired only 81 days labor
this season When Mr.. Eldridge has had
more than he could accomplish alone, she has
gone into the field with him and helped him
out Seventyone horse loads of dressing
have been distributed on the farm this sum
mer. They have prepared the ground for p
acres of corn, potatoes and beans. and four
acres of oats They raised 90 bushels of oats,
20 bushels of beans and 30 bushels OF pota-
toes. The corn was hauled to the canning
factory. They cut 16 tons of hay; the now
ing was all done by hand. Mr.. Eldridge
moved | ! acres in half dav. he averaging
during the getting of the hay, two acres per
day. The work has all been gotten through
with in good season. He reads now and has
for some time past, without the aid of
spectacles.