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Hints for the Household.

Embroidered jute velours are taking
the lead this year for furniture cover
ings.
Brass pins with round, fiat heads. to
screw on. are taking the place of stair
rods.
To renovate a black chip hat, add to
one pint Of cold water a t%easpoonful OF
spirits Of ammonia: use with q soft brush
"a tooth or mai, brush will answer the
purpose, )and when well cleansed, rinse
with cold water and place in the sun to
dry. Do not soak or scrub sufficiently
to destroy the shape. 1t will look new.
Country Gentleman.
Speed plums are delicious. To eight
pounds Of pluns allow four of sugar, one
teaspoon each cinnamon and cloves, one
small cup of vinegar. Cook until they
are thick as Jelly.
Homes can DO furnished so tastefully
and economically nowadays, and there
are so many ways OF making really ele-
CANT little affairs for adjoining a room.
that there IS positively no excuse for
their non.nppearance, except a distaste
for such work which it seems to me ) is
an element foreign to woman's nature,
Polished floors should be rubbed two
or three times with linseed oil, and
then polished every week with turpen-
tine and beeswaX. The oftener the oil
is rubbed in to begin with, the darker
the boards will be.
Lace spreads and pillow covers when
washed may be dipped in very weak
cold coffee in place of bluing, and they
will thereby receive a beautiful ecru
shade which isl so popular just now.
Curtains may be treated in the same
way.
Oil cloth may be improved in appear
ance by rubbing it with a mixture o
one-half ounce of beesWax in a saucerful
of turpentine. After being applied il
must be well rubbed with a dry cloth
otherwise the floor will be quite slip
| perry.
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..Nothine for IT, .

A farmer came to town last week with
sadness spread all over his features. A
merchant asked him about his crops.
He said he had cut his wheat and it was
the best he ever had-it was just prime.
His oats were ready to cut. but the
yield would evidently be so heavy that
he would not have storage for it. They
were Just lawful" But the merchant
wanted to know about the corn, as that
wa the main crop. at is just booming
the stalks as big as saplings, and two
or three ears are setting on each stalk
so if it goes On in this way corn will be
worth nothing" His hay was 50 heavy
it was difficult to cure, and the stacks
would nearly cover the meadow. And
his potatoes were crowding each other
in the hills. '"The fact is" he said, "the
crops are all large, and will be worth
nothing. Don't see how this country is
going to stand it. Everything is going
to destruction. Bad times, and the
farmers ma as well quit trying to do
anything" and he made his way toward
a saloon to see a man.-Des Moines Reg.
lister.
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"Ho, We will not,r L said. 81 don't !

"No, We will not.~ L said. ST don't
want to 60 dragging in just at the tail
end OF the ceremony. Pm cold and
tiredand wretched", but I was more than
that. l was thoroughly indignant, for 1
was sure that Charley had done it all on
purpose. Though | had a hidden con-
seriousness that / deserved lesson of
some kind | thought that he had pun
lshed ne too severely, 30 / had little to
say to him either then or when we
were sitting together in the evening.
Charley was too busy with paper and
pencil to take any notice thou h.
Leila" he said suddenly.
what is it 2" J asked rather sulkily.
II am thoroughly convinced now"
said Charley, that punctuality is the
king of all virtues, the browning merit
of humanity; but doesn't it strike you as
rather an expensive one?"
How" | asked, melted a little, but
not much.
"Well, l won't speak of to-day, for
that was not a fair test. I know Won
think that | made all those blunders on
purpose, but I didn't. suppose the in
toxication of such unusual virtue flew to
my head and muddled my wits, for l
certainly made uncommon hash of that
affair. l had been punctual according to
your ideas, for a month now, and 1 have
Just been making a little computation of
the result. | began to practice the vir-
tue on the night of Mrs. Lees reception,
| believe? Very we'll. We each spent
a solitary hour in the dressing room
which, | suppose, may fairly be con-
sidered wasted. Two hours, to begin
with. We went to the opera an hour
too early Though u seats were en-
gaged) on two occasions-six hours.
Theater. ditto, twice-four hours. Six
and four are ten, and two make twelve.
Really. my dear Leila, punctuality is a
noble virtue, but, do you know, it strikes
me that life is too short to practice it in
1t might do for Methuselah or an arch
angel, but for ordinary mortals-"
Don't Charley!" l cried breaking
down suddenly. II have been a vain,
conceited, little idiot. l was so proud
of my own virtue, and it is nothing but
a vice after all. I have been beginning
to see it for ever so long, and aI ready
by being punctual again."
"Don't' said Charley, laughing.
This month has done me no end Of
good, for l was inclined to run things
much too close. l was never exactly
late, but l often made a precious tight
shave of it. Wen help each other after
this, won't we, little woman? You'll
spur me on and I'll rim you in, and we
will neither of us get out of temper with
the other. Is it a b%argain?"
His hand was out, and his good honest
eyes were shining into mine, and before
l knew it my arms We're around his
neck, and l wa promising anything
and everything.
So that was the end of our first and
last quarrel that threatened to over
shadow our married life.
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COLUMN.
Agricultural Notes.

Michigan is puzzled because immi-
grants pass it by for the Far West when
SO much good land in oldIsections is still
unoccupied, and for sale at low figures.
Only about 100000 of 1000, 900 acres
of land in the state are improved.i
An excellent remedy for cholera in
hens-the cocks never have it's to give
each sick bird one teaspoonful Of satura-
ted solution of hyposulpbite of soda and
put it in a coop on the ground on loose
soil or ashes, The salt causes active
purging, which removes the poisonous
germs from the system. A young chick
should have about five drops ofthe same
solution. A saturated solution is one in
which no more of the substance will
dissolve and some remains at the..bottom.
Tomatoes, not many generations ago,
were considered poisonous. Last fall
there were ~, 322 ,O52 cans of tomatoes
put up by the canning establishments of
the United States.
The largest sheep rancho in the world
is the one in Dimmit and Weber coun-
ties, Texas, where 300,0 900 sheep are pas
tured on 800, 900 acres of land.
Mr.. Meehan remarks that the Mich
igan farmer presents the following ex-
cellent bit of common sense in regard to
the common newspaper cry Of, "Spare
the Forests" "Of what use is forest
If you do not utilize it? 1t produces
nothing, and prevents anything else
from being produced. Cut it down and
turn it into cash, and in its place grow
crops that will feed the people and en-
rich the grower. If timber is wanted,
grow it as you would any other crop,
and when it is. ready to cut put it in
market with as little conjunction as
you would a crop of wheat. Let us look
at this question in a practical way,
and do away with such sickly sentiment
tality?"
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Baby Bellies.

Even the young children at Saratogs
are drawn into the whirlpool of dissipa-
ton, and dance and dress and firt to an
extent that promises badly for their own
future and for that of their parents and
country. Children's hops, children's
Germans, children's fancy balls and gar
den parties are a regular feature of the
seasons both at Saratoga and Long
Branch, and Newport is now the only
watering place from whence details OF
children's gayeties and designations do
not come. The folly and wickedness OF
these unnatural displays are abundantly
evident in the whole after career and
development of these unfortunate little
ones. At 10 years Of age the little girl
of the day is n incipient coquette, at IA
she is a finished woman of the world,
and, as some one has aptly remarked,
"knows as much as her mother and en-.
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Il ron tie Detroit Mich Free fress.
III ! recent address at; Belleville,
MIh.. ex-(3ov. Austin Blair. gave an
aeconnt Of the convention of governors
81 northern states that met at Altoona,
Pam, ii the time OF the issuing of the
Fermentation Proclamation by Pres.
Lincoln. Ia 1862. The convention VAS
calIed to bring an Influence to bear up
3 President Lincoln to induce him to
iaene q proclamation OF, do some act
that should set at liberty the 10000 00
slaves; but the president outwitted the
20 governors by issuing the proclama-
Hon the same day their convention met.
,ThS governors then decided to go IN to
Washington and present to the presi-
sae1t, not sthessnrgent resolutions they
had intended, but an address compli.
menting him upon the step he had
taken. This address vas prepared in an
chusetts. who read !. to President Lin
colin & he sat at his deAs, while the gov
ernors were seated around the room.
After that an incident happened that
Gov. Blair said he had never before re-
Iatedsto any one. Gov. Kirkwood of
Iowa, since a United States senator and
secretary of the interior, rose and said:
sMr. PRESIDENT should be delight
ed could | return to my home and say
Is tie people Of Iowa that the president
Of the United States believes Gen.
George B. Mcclellan is a royal man."
He branched off upon other subjects
connected with the war, and then
closed by repeating with more empha-
sis: IT should be glad, Mr.. President to
be able to tell the people of Iowa that
you believe in the loyalty and patriotism
Of George B. Mcclellan"
Taking his feet down from the desk
upon which they had been resting, Mr..
Lincoln sprang to his feet and straight
aned up apparently two inches taller
than usual, and said, with much force
and apparent excitability: "Loyall
George B. Mcclellan is as loyal as any
one az you." Then stopping a moment
the presidents face assumed its natu-
rally pleasant look, and he continued in
8 natural and pleasing tone: #"IT tell
You gentlemen, Gen. Mcclellan is an
exceedingly well-informed General, and
is very careful, in fact, too careful, and
the great trouble with him is that when
b be a yin ( victory Its he doesn't know what
!. Why not try somebody elso7" mildly
suggested Gov. Blair.
1--WE might do that and might lose an
army by IT, was the quick response of
the president, which Gov. Blair admitted
completely endorsed him."
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To Prevent Cows From Sucking
Themselves.

Seeing SO many men asking for means
to prevent cows from sucking them
selves, I here give my experience in the
difficulty; 1 had two good Jersey COWS
which had that bad habit, and / tried
everything l could hear of to keep them
from sucking themselves; but they would
fall away in flesh. At last l tried milk
ing them and then thoroughly ~greasine
the teats with good be~ef-tallow warmed,
in the evening; next morning cleaned
the teats with a cloth and MIXED them
and then again applied the warm tallow,
After three applications n Of the cows
never did the trick again; it took about
a week to break the other of the habit.
That was three years ago, and l have
had no trouble with them.
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joys her knowledge a great deal more
And this false and hurtful training doe'i
not belong to Newport or New York o,
to n other city or section OF our ooun-
trv, but is most largely to be noticed at
cosmopolitan assembiages like Saratoga,
where East, West, North and South are
all represented. What the result will
eventually be is a grave and serious
question. At present it might draw
tears from the hardest worldllng to see
wholesale destruction Of natures most
beautiful work which is going on.-New
York Sun.
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How to Drive flies Ont of Room.

oht ~ q ktSbiii.
From the British Medical Journal.
Observations made by NJ. Rafford, a
member of the Society d'IIorticulture at
Limoges, show that a castor oil plant
having been placed in a room infested
with flies, they disappear as by enchant-
ment. Wishing to find the cause he
500 found under the castor oil plant a
number of dead flies, and a large num-
Der of bodies had remained %clinging to
the under surface ofthe leaves. 1t won
therefore appear that the leaves OF the
castor oil plant give out an essential oil,
or some toxic principle whie: possesses
very strong insectictide qualities. Castor
oil plants are i'll France very much used
as ornamental plants in rooms, as they
resist very well variations of atmosphere
and temperature. As the castor oil plant
is very much grown and cultivated in all
the gardens the Journal a. Agriculture
points out that 1t would be worth while
TO try decoctions Of the leaves to destroy
the green flies and other insects which
in summer are so destructive to plants
and fruit trees. Any how, M. Railroads
| observations merit that trial should be
made of the properties OF the castor oil
plant both for the destruction of flies in
dwellings and of other troublesome in
SectS.
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This is not absolutely correct, because
the harbon hydrates and fats in some of
these would materially aid the ~proteine,
and hence would be worth relatively
more than above represented.
IT. is, however, sufficiently correct to
show that the cheap foods for milk i'll
Iowa are well-cured clover hay, wheat
bran with q little corn maaland oil meal
added
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Feed For MIR.

The following are the conclusions
reached at the Iowa Agricultural col.
lege. The supply of milk depends es-
sentially upon the rapid growth Of new
cells in the milk glands. These cells
consist largely of proteine. The caseine
and fat Cheese aud butter elements) are
formed from the p%roteine; hence profit.
able d~airying must depend largely upon
the amount of proteine contained in the
food and made on cheap food. Where
rations rich in proteine are fed, such as
clover and oil meal, the following re-
suits may be noticed:
|. A decided increase in the quantity
of the milk and %vertklittle shrinkage fol-
a long time.
=. Considerable gain in the solid mat
ter Of the milk, as shown by chemical
tests, or by the increased butter and
cheese production.
3. A gain in the quantity of the
milk where folders rich in carbon hy-
drates and fats are given. The slight in
crease i'll quantity and richness of the
milk is not due to any direct action
these have, but the assistance they af-
ford The Proteine in preventing
us eSOluaLlOn. Animals 1eu
mainly on sugar bsets,
potatoes OF corn will give considerable
milk; but it is done at the expense OF
the proteine of the. body, and after q
while the animal will suddenly waste
away.
In view of these well-es'ab1ished facts,
what shall be the economical milk ration
for farmers?
Calculated uponthe basis ofthe amount
of proteine contained in each, and
taking corn as the unit of value, when
corn is worth fifty cents per hundred
pounds, the following articles will.
approximately be worth per hun
Gred-.
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1t is reported that ex-Mayor Isaac S
kallock, late Of San Francisco, CAL, in
tends to settle in Washington Territory
and to endeayor once again to make a
new start in politics.
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Ex-Secretary William NJ. Evarts is to
deliver the annual address at the joint
exhibition of the Vermont State Agri.
cultural society and the %Champlain Val
ley Association al Howard Park, Bur-
linptOu. in September.
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The late General Ord was a grandson
of George ". and Mrs. Fitzherbert.
His father, James Ord, a son of that
m%organatic marriage, came to America
when q youth, assuming the name OF
his tutor. MI. Ord.
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The adopted daughter of Mr.. Forster,
the late Secretary for Ir Gland, has been
married to a nephew of the late Will.
liam Smith O'Brien,
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Why Men Don't Wear finer Clothes
From the New York Post.

Why Men ont Wear r'iner Clothes.
From the New York Post.
The reformers who have been endeav-
oring for a number of years to induce
men to clothe themselves in more pic
turesque garments have made little head
way, evidently because they have over
looked the economic relation between
male and female costume. All econo-
mists know that there is only q given
amount of capital in the world at any
given time which can be used by the
two seXes as what they call the clothes
fund; n that the more OF this there is
used by n the less there is left for the
other. In early times, when men were
stronger than women, and made use of
their strength in their own interest, they
took The greater part of this fund and
spent it uoon themselves, which accounts
for the splendor of male attire among so
many primitive races, and for the seclu-
sion i'll which the women were kept
much lavish expenditure in Shopping"
being thus prevented. In our day, on
the contrary, the progress made by won-
ell in establishing an independent po-
sition for themselves is seen in their get
ting the lions share of the clothes fund.
just as it is elsewhere. For the last two
centuries every step in the advance of
| women in getting their rights has been
marked by a corresponding decline / n
| the dress of men, until knee-breeches,
slashed doublets, jewelry, wigs and lace
| have all been discarded. while that
share of the fund formerly devoted to
these no /: goes into the dress Of women.
What reformels ought to advocate is,
first of all, the r~esubiection of woman,
her RELOCATION to her old position. This
however, involves a general rising by
men, for which they show no evidence
of being ripe.
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Pure Water for Stock.

The vilue of pure water for the stock
at this season of the year cannot be
over-estimated. A number of careful
experiments made by NJ. Dancel and
given to the French academy of science
go to show that the amount of milk OBJ
tanned is approximately proportional to
the quantity of water drank, and that
the yield of milk can be increased to a
considerable extent without deterlora-
ting i'll value, by inducing mich cows to
take an abundant quantity of water. In
deed, M. Dancel maintains that a COW
that does not commonly drink as much
as twenty-seven quarts OF water a day is
necessarily a poor mixer, while a COW
that drinks as much as fifty quarts daily
is sure to be an excellent mixer. Stag
nant water, and that from standing
pools and small ponds is always more
or less foul in summer time, and even
though abundant in quantity and easy
of access, has an injurious influence on
the favor of dairy products, often COWS
seem to prefer such liquid ever to clear,
running water. but experience album
dainty shows that when mich COWS
have access to such pools a .tirst-class ar
ticle of butter or cheese cannot be made
from the milk which is sometimes found
to be absolutely unwholesome.
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Rnskin saysA couple should court
seven years before getting married. M.
Ruskin evidently never loved q SlO0. OOO,
rirl.-Rochester POST Express,
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1t is said that British capital to the
amount Of 3 1900, 0O6 went into Wyo-
ming and Texas last year.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-30
with Miss Susie Martin. DE. NJ. NJ.

with Miss Susie Martin, DR.. NJ. NJ.
Tubb with Miss Sue Gribble, Mr..
DaYe Lane with Miss Dora Randolph,
Mr.. Bill Womack with Miss Fannie
Gartner, DR.. Arsey Womack with
Miss Brack Mullican, while the rear
was brought up by our jovial friend,
Mr.. Joe Couch. After descending a
very rugged precipice we arrived at the
river without a fish hook, line or pole.
After enjoying the hours most pleas
antly amid the beauties of nature,
frightened by the presence of such fair
and charming young ladies, we resorted
to the residence of Mr.. B. H. Womack,
where we were RECALLED by some excel
lent music from the Collins River
String Band.
The people are busily engaged in
the harvest fields, while some are lay
ing by corn, which is tOlerable good,
oats fair, wheat a half crop.
Miss Mary Mullins, of Franklin,
Tenn, is visiting her sister, Mrs. j.
H. Zwingle. One.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-30
Tennessee NuptIals IN Cincinnati.

One of the most notable weddings of
the season will occur this evening at
the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, the con-
tracing parties being DIR. L. T. Noel,
one of our most prominent and wealthy
commercial men, and Miss Mamie L.
French, the highly accomplished
daughter of Col. John II. French, of
McMinnville, Tenn, and a recent
graduate of the art department of the
Nashville College for Young Ladies.
She is possessed Of many of the great
faculties of her mother, the late L.
Virginia French, whose contributions
to the literature of the day will be so
pleasantly remembered.
The pair leave Cincinnati for a
visit to the White mountains. The
American joins with their numerous
friends in wishing them a long life
of happiness. American.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-30
Care for Wagons.

A correspondent of the American
Agriculturist says: "The experience
of a California stage proprietor in oiling
wagons led me to try this plan for pro-
longing the usefulness and strength CT
wagons. He soaked in oil all the wood
work of his vehicle before it was put
together, and discovered that he had
little need of repairs. The oil used
was crudepetroleum. l wash my wagon
with ii twice, even to the end of the
pole. 1t is quick work with a good
brush. An application once in six or
eight weeks sufficed to save me from
repairs, except of slight character.
| ascribe these results to the oil pre-
venting the wood from shrinking or
swelling. The cost of the crude oil is
but triAe, and the application of it a
very insignificant item compared with
the ostof smith work and the increased
durability of the wagons. Petroleum
oil is better than other oils, because Of
its superior penetrating character.