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WISE WORDS.

Prosperity is great teacher, alver
Sity is a greater. Possession pampers
the mind; priyation trains and
strengthens it.
False friends are like our shadow,
keeping close to us while we walk in
the sunshine, but leaving us the instant
we cross into the shade.
a book, however valuable, purchased
for the admiration of others aud con-
signed to its shelf, Is the most lifeleSs
piece of furniture to which we can give
place,
We are on a perilous margin when
we begin to look at our future selves
and see cur own figures leal, with dali
consent, into insipid misdoing and
habby achievement.
To think clearly and well is the first
step to knowing anything, and. until
that has been taken, all others are use.
less Equally in the work we perform,
in the business W. manage, in the
various duties of domestic, so ial and
political life, and in the knowle lge we
gain or the opinions we hold, is the
arr of thinking well essential.
Earn your own bread, and see how
sweet it will be Work, and see how
we'll you will be Work, and see how
cheerful you will be Work, and see
how Independent you will be Work,
and see how happy your family will
he Work, and see how religious You
will be for, before you know where
you are, instead of repining at Proyi.
dence, you will find yourself offering
up thanks for all the numerous bless
ings you enjoy.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Seeds of the most valuable kinds q
cinchona bring $1,000 per ounce il
Ceylon. There are nearly l00,0W
seeds in an ounce.
Ducks are reported as being tn,
most profitable fowls kept in Great
Britain. The first in the market bring
the highest prices, Many duck
hatched in the winter are kept il
cottages till the weather becomes
warm.
The fruit put up in tin cans shoull
be taken out when the can is opened
for use. If allowed to remain aftei
the can is opened the action Of acit
juices upon the tin when exposed t
the air may form acetate of tin. which
is poisonous. Pour the fruit out int
glass or earthenwarc dishes, and TIT
danger of poisoning is avoided.
Paper mache may be made to imi
ta,e the rartst macbles, as it takes {
olish superior even to slate. and cost,
not even SO much as the preparation
of plaster of Paris, known as scagliola
while it is infinitely stronger. Pedes
tails, columns, newelposts, vases, cloch
and multifarious other articles ars
made of it in elegant and durable
forms.
A novel method Of building bridges
either for temporary or permanent use
is suggested by an English engineer
Iron or steel cylinders, twenty, forty
or mt re feet in diameter, constructed
of plates riyetcl to rolled iron or stea
ribs, are rolled into the stream oveI
which it is desired to carry the bridge
These gigantic cylinders, with hall
their diameter sunk into the water
firm 50 many arches, over which
level road can lie easily thrown. Tn,
cylinders can be built upon the spo
where they are required, or filled il
with a temporary floor at one en- |, car
be readily hoated to their destination
The system is expected to be useful is
laying railroads across land subject t.
occasional Hoods.
Professor Feser, of Munich, has beer
making some examinations on animal,
with view to establishing the con
nection believed to exist between diet
and the liability to infection. In tht
trials he has made on rats inoculatet
with the poison of cattle distemper h,
demonstrated the fact that the animal,
which had been fed upon a vegetabl,
diet were quickly attacked by the dis
ease, while those which had been fed
exclusively on meat resisted the effects
of the incubation. In recording thi.
fact leading English journal in con.
nection with the European leather
trade attributes to the greater amount
of vegetable diet in the shape Ct
bread, beer, etc, taken hy wool sorters
between Saturday and Monday tbs
greater frequency of cases of outbreak
and the aggravation of disease during
this period.
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Recipes.

GOOD COMMON CAKE.-A good COM
mon cake is made thus: Half u cup of
butter, one cup of sugar, half a cup of
sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, one
egg and two cups of flour; to this add
one cup of stoned and chopped raisins,
one teaSpoonful Of cloves, one of Gin
namon. Let one cup of dried apples
soak over night in little water and
in the morning chop very fine, and
boil them in the water in which they
were soaked; when nearly tender, stir
in one cup of molasses; when soft, mix
with the raisins and spice, and stir in
thoroughly with the cake dough. Bake
in u slow oven for an hour.
BACON SANDwICHES.-Obt from
any grocer what they call "parings,'
which are really the outer slices of
bacon, and, though equally as good as
the remainder, are often Of darker
color For this reason these are often
sold at siXpence a pound. Place them
between very thin layers of bread, and,
having previou ,ly prepared thin bat
ter of one egg toa gill of milk, i'm
merse the sandwiches into the mixture;
then place them into a pan Of boiling
lard, fat or dripping and fry to a rich
golden-brown, when the bacon will be
sufficiently cooked. These, if trimmed
nicely and served on napkin, much
resemble thin pancake,
TOMATO PANCAKES. - Slice four
large tomatoes of firm substance; they
may he peeled or u'el with the skin
on, but the potatoes must he firm and
the slices cut perfectly even and about
half an inch thick. Make a frying
batter as follows: Sift together a cup
full of flour and one teaspoonful each
of sugar, salt and baking powder; have
ready frying-ktttle half full of fat,
set over the fire, and when the fat be-
gins to grow hot beat two eggs quick
ly, mix them with pint of milk, and
then stir in the flour. work as fast as
possible, 50 that the batter may be used
while it is light with the gas which is
generated when the haking powder is
wet; season the slices of tomato with
salt and pepper. dip them into the bat
ter and drop them into the fat when it
begins to smoke; fry them golden
brown, then take them from the fat
with skinner, lay them for a moment
On lrown paper to free them from
grease, and serve them hot.
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Fine Japan cement, made with
ground rice and cold water stirred to a
thick paste, and then thinned with
boiling water, stirred smoothly, and
boiled little more than one minute.
hardly two, will make clear, white
paste, almost transparent, which is a
strong cement for glass and paper.
After the dust has been thoroughly
beaten out of carpets and they are
ia ked down again they can he bright
ened very much by scattering corn
meal mixed with coarse salt over them,
and then sweeping it all off Mix the
salt and meal in equal proportions.
A good wayto use up bits of cold
turkey or chicken is to cut them in
pieces, of uniform size if possible,
make a batter of milk and flour and
an egg, sprinkle pepper and salt over
the cod fowl, and mix with the batter;
fry as you do any kind of fritters in
hot lard; drain well; serve hot This
Is a cool breakfast dish.
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FASHION NOTES,

Plalted skirts are very much won
Brocaded foulards will lie much worl
Colored laces will be worn to tril
seaside costumes.
There is a tendency in all dress good
toward the gay co.ors.
Black lace bonnets are fashionabl
for middle-aged women.
Flowers, fruits and feathers trir
the summer hats in profusion.
The crowns of most of the ne,
Donnets are male either of gold bead
or gold braid.
Red or green silk pompon trimmin /,
are fashionably worn on walking cos
tunes of tweed or nun's-gray ladies
cloth.
Garnet, crimson, In fact, reds in al
shades, will be the colors most uset
this summer in facing hats ant
bonnets.
a new way of applying floral trim
mings on bonnetS is to sew singl,
blooms on in double row outside tn,
brim, so as to make fiat bordering.
Ivory-white Canton crepe for ,
bas lue, train and lambrequin flounces
and skirt Of Terry velvet make as
exquisite combination for dinner
dress.
One of the handsomest black sill
costumes yet shown has, at the bottom
of the short walking skirt, thre,
gathered tlounces, and each tlounct
has three rows of narrow black velve,
ribbon run on near the lower edge.
The tish-wife poke is found to be the
most generally becoming of the pok,
shapes, and 4 new. quaint effect i,
given these by slightly turning bach
the peak of the brim and filling it ou'
with small bunch of flowers or {
smart little bow of ribbon, with forkef
ends, that rest lightly on the hair.
A new fichu shows the center Q,
gold surah laid in uneven folds, which
is bordered with irills of the new
pompadour lace; collar and jabot alst
of the lace, 4 piece of inch and ,
half wide ribbon is passed around tn,
collar. over the folds of surah, and Il
tied into bow with long ends ant
left to fall over the iabot of lace.
The relingote will hold an importan'
place in walking, carriage and travel
ing toilets F.; some dresses even are cut
in this fashion. 1t is made by prefer
ence of light cloth, with ittletrimming
and is made with long plaits behind
either round or fiat, very tight sleeves
usually without cuffs. but buttoned a
the bottom of the elbow seam, and
revers or military collar.
Large English styles are seen among
round hats, and there are also smal
shapes. like a combination of the derbl
and English turbans, with roun(
and very high rolled brims
Feathers are still used in round hat
in great confusion, and many MILL
ners protest against using flowers fol
them still. many of the imported hat
have botll flowers and feathers.
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The Care of Pens,

A writer in a German paper states
that it is a custom in offices in that
country to have a sliced potato in the
desk in commercial houses. He does
not state whether the esculent should
lie raw or not, but the probability is
that it is not boilel. The use of the
potato is to clean steel pens, and gen
orally act as a pen-wiper. 1t removes
all ink crust, and gives a pecul arly
smooth flow to the ink. He also states
that the Hamburg CLERKS pass new
pens two or three times through a
gas flame, and then the ink will flow
freely.
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them just level with the surface, and
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them Just Level with the surface, an0
press the earth firmly about them.
The detached leaf buds of some
plants are capable, under favorable
conditions, of forming new plants.
The ends of the shoots of brambles take
root when bent down to the ground.
In rare instances buds form on the
roots and may be used for purposes of
propagation, as in the Japan ounce.
The squash vine root borer is one of
our worst insect pests, as one grub will
destroy whole vine. A simple way
of saving vines from his depredations
is to cover each joint of the plant with
earth. At each of these places new
roots will be formed, and if the borer
destroys the main root the vine will
still grow and perfect its fruit.
To prevent the hair falling off a
horses name and to restore the growth
rub the skin or the part with the follow
ing mixture, viz: One pint of alcohol
and one dram of tincture Of can
tharideS. Give the horse a dose of salts
twelve ounces) and feed some wheat
bran, which will allay the irritation OF
the skin, to which the loss of hair is
due.
Top-dressing, unless very fine ma
nure, says writer, is of doubtful ad-
vantage with the clover plant. The
clover is easily smothered by anything
covering its leaves. 1t may. however,
pay if the clover is to be turned under
early for corn or potato crop this
season. The best time to manure is
before the seed is sown. A very light
top-dressing then will secure a heavy
growth.
Farmers should teach those pre-
tenders who propose to cure moon
blindness in horses by knocking out
the so-callel wolf teeth that they can
not be played upon in that absurd
manner. 1t is easily seen that these
teeth have nothing to do with such
blindness. That is disease of the
eye, of a constitutional nature, and it
is barbarous to- pretend to associate the
breaking out of the animals teeth with
the cure of the diseased eye.--National |
AgricultWiSt.
A successful English gardener gives
the following experience with the goose
berry. 1t prefers loose holding soil,
which rea lily imbibas, but does not re-
tain, much moisture. The plant is
by cuttings and should be
early in autumn. thetree
being ranged in lines. The trees should
be formed with single stems foot
nigh, and the suckers, if any spring up
from the roots, should be carefully re-
moved. The ground on which the
pushes stand should be forked over
,nce a year, but only slightly, so as not
o disturb the roots. Manure should
,e applied either as Il top-dresSing or
II Il liquid form. Powdered white
lellebore is the only certain remedy
or the caterpilIars which attack the
liant
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Farm and Garden NOtcs,

Burn the corn cobs and use the ashes
for fertilizer.
The harrow is an excellent imple-
ment for finding manure that has
been sown broadcast as a top dressing.
There is no cure for a horse with
confirmed heaves; climate, foo i
and care will do much for its allevia.
tion.
Plant your corn in hills unless yoll
can make your drills so straight that
the cultivator can work close up to
the stalks.
In answer to inquiries why hens lay
soft eggs, it may be stated that the
difficulty is caused by lack of lime.
Pounded oysters shells should lie with
in easy reach of the fowls at all
times.
Put a couple of bushels of well
rotted stable manure about the trunk
of each tree, scatter little grain upon
it and turn in the poultry. They will
scratch among the manure, making
fine and mixing it with the soil, and
viii destroy multitudes of destructive
insects.
Pigs need a run at grass. An or
chard is fine place for swine; it af-
fords good grazing for the pigs, while
the trees are benefited by the destruc-
tion of insect pests. Young pigs may
be fed milk at an early age with profit
Much depends upon the early start
that an animal gets.
The term hybrid is quite loosely used
Sy many horticulturists and farmers.
# two varieties of one specimen are
united or crossed, we get a variety
hybrid If two species of one genus
are crossed we get species-hybrid !,
IL two species of different genera are
crossed, we get genus-hybrid.
Remember when setting out plants
of any description to spread the roots
out IN their natural position, not cover
them when eramped or doubled up.
BE careful not 10 cover the crowns of
strawberry plants with earth; set
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No GOngs, No Banners---" A Summer Idyl."
From n Proyidence Merchnnf

Mn. GEORGE H. Davis, fruit dealer at 297 West
minister street. bears his grateful testimony to the
unequaled excellence of the production Of one of
our mcst skillful Providence Pharmacists. Mr..
Davis says: " Last spring | was very greatly trou-
bed with severe Inflammation Of the kidneys, and
1t became so bad that at times urnated blood. and
my sufernGs were intense. My condition was so
PAINFUL that for while scarcely able to attend
to business, and the severe pains would come 40
suddenly and severely that l would be obliged to
leave a customer whom might happen to be wait
ing upon. During part Of the time l was unable
to walk. and scarcely knew what to do or which way
to look for relief. At this time friend recon-
mended Hunts Remedy. ! took two bottles of it
and it took right hold Of my disease and cured me
very speedily, and have experienced no trouble
with my kidneys since.
Furthermore, Hunts Remedy has strengthened
me very much, and since began to use 1t havo
been able TO attend to business. and am all right
now. heartily recommend ii to all. What 1t has
done for me it will do for you who are afflicted"
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The Planting Of Trees.

A Rochester firm gives the follow
ing directions: Cut off smoothly al
bruised or broken roots up to tn,
sound wood. This prevents their de
caying and hastenS the emission Of
new roots and tiberS. Cut back the
top and side branches s in such a way
as to correspond with the more or less
mutilated roots, as follows: Trees
with branching heads, should have the
small branches cut clean out, and the
larger ones, intend for the frame
work of the tree, cut back till within
two or three buds of their base. In
cases where there is an abundant root.
and small top or few branches, the
pruning need be very light, but where
the roots are small and the top heavy,
severe pruning will be necessary.
These remarks are applicable to all de-
ciduouS trees and shrubs. Eyergreens
seldom require pruning, but ar or vitp
and other evergreens planted in hedge
rows may be adyantageously shorn inn
mediately after planting. In planting
dig holes, in the first place, large
enough to admit the roots of the tree
to be spread out in their natural posi-
tion. Then, having the tree pruned as
above directed, let one person hold the
tree in an upright position, and the
other shovel in the earth, care
fully putting in the finest and
the best from the surface
in among the roots, filing every in
terstice and bringing every root in
contact with the soil. When the
earth is nearly all filled in, a pail of
water may he thrown on to settle and
wash in the earth around the roots;
then fill in the remainder, and tread
gently with the foot. Guard against
planting too deep, The trees, after
the ground settles, should stand in
this respect as they did in thenursery.
In very dry, grayelIy ground, the holes
should be dug twice the usual size and
depth, and filled in with good loamy
soil. No manure should be used |
around the roots at the time of plant
ing, only good surface soil. The ma
nUre can be applied on the surface af-
terward. If the trees are tall and
much exposed to winds, a stake
should be planted with the tree, to
which it should be tied in such a
manner as to prevent chaing. A
piece of mating or cloth may he put
between the tree and the stake.
When the tree is planted throw around
it as far as the roots extend, and a
foot beyond, four or six inches deep
of rough manure or litter This is
particularly necessary in dry ground,
and is highly advantageous every
where, both in spring and fall plant
ing. 1t prevents the ground from
baking or cracking, and maintains an
even temperature about the roots.
The grass should not be allowed to
grow around young trees after being
planted, as it stunts their growth and
utterly ruins them. The ground
should be kept clean and loose around
them until they are well established
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THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Taking Care of Hogs.

In hog raising the opinion is widel,
held that hogs need less care than any
other kind of live stock. 1t is a com
mon opinion that any kind of water 1,
good enough for hogs, and that any.
thing they eat will increase theiI
growth. With this idea many intelli
gent farmers adopt or act on the prin.
ciple that corn is the best feed that
hogs, young or old, can have fed
with plenty of corn all the time they
need no other kind of feed but ex-
pertinent has upset this theory. 1t is
well known that hogs need as much
variety in the way of food as any
other kind of farm animals, and no
farmer can make the best attainable
result in hog production unless he uses
the strictest care in feeding his pigs
and young hogs in a regular way with
several articles of food beside corn.
Corn is good in its place and should
not be dispensed with where it can be
had easily, but in addition to the corn
all young hogs should have a certain
amount of grass, roots, potatoes, arti-
chokes, and beets can be fed to young
hogs in a sparing way, mixing GER
tain amount of bran or ground oats in
with them. Any of these articles can
be advantageously used to ease down
the overfeeding with corn. Probably
the most common failure to give good
care to swine is in the matter of sleep
ing places. The hog is very sensitive
to cold, and will try to keep warm by
burrowing into his litter, or when in
large numbers crowding close together
or upon each other. Either of these
is directly opposed to receiving sup
ply of pure air, and the hog needs this
as much as other domestic animals
Rural Messenger.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.

A Mexican woman residing in S,
John, Apache county, Arizona, is sal,
to be lis years old.
In the ninth century horses wer
only shod in time of frost. William
the Norman introduced the fashion
into England.
A teamster in Maine conquers balky
horses by taking them out of thu
shafts and making them 60 round and
round in a circle.
The dance called the hornpipe is
supposed to have been so named from
its having been performed to the
Welsh pib-corn, that is horn-pipe, about
1900.
The power Of the town of Halifax
to put to death all criminals who stole
anything worth more than thirteen
pence halfpenny was used as late as
1860.
The hurricane in 1866 blew over
numberleSS cocoanut trees in the Ba-
hama islands. Instead of dying, each
prostrate tree sent up an upright
shoot from the tip.
The eucalyptus ora blue gum tree
grows so fast that a forest may be
formed in twenty years. 1t is some
times 800 feet high and has a trunk
100 feet in circumference.
The first wedding ceremony ever
performed in America by a lady took
place at Columbus, Ohio, recently,
where Mrs. Lydia G. Romick, the
evangelist married Charles PIN, of
Damascus, to Miss Emma Bryant.
The largest piece of granite claimed
to have been quarried since the time
of solomon was lately exhumed at
ThOmaston, Me. 1t measured sixty
feet in length and seven feet square at
the base. Its weight was estimated at
$50 tons.
A Danish sailor, in a ship sailing off
Cape levin. West Australia, went
aloft with can of oil and was pitched
overheard. The oil left such trail on
the sea that the man was traced and
picked up more than an hour after the
accident.
A Frenchman has recently gone
deeply down into statistics in regard
to matches. His figures show that an
Englishman burns eight matches a
day, Swede nine, German eleven
and a Frenchman fifteen. The num-
Der of matches consumed in Europe
every year amounts to two thousand
millions Nobody is likely to dispute
these figures.
An Illinois farmer has employed ants
for very useful work, as he reports.
He says he is too lazy to pick potato
beetles from the vines. and he does not
like to use paris green. In this di-
lemma he bethought himself of the
pugnacious character of ants, 50 he |
carried into his potato field old pieces
If wood, in which ants had established
heir homes, and left them to do the
work. Last year the ants domiciled
n two old fence posts, he says, cleaned
Ill the beetles from quarter of an
lcre, although their number was
egion.
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Suffered for Twenty Years.

"HoN, JOSHUA TUTHILL, OF East Saginaw, Mich,
says: Count me among the enthusiastic friends
OF Hunts Remedy. 1t has proven in my case all
you claim for it. Having suffered for about twenty
years with severe disease of the kidneys (which our
local physician pronounced Bright's Dsease l
made journey East to consult the eminent DR..
Haven, of Hamilton. New York. OF whose fame in
this speciality had heard much. DR. Haven exam.
ined me carefully and simply said do aud get
bottle OF Hunts Remedy and take according to di-
rectons.' After having travelled so far for treat
ment, it struck me as rather funny to be directed
TO take medicine which might have bought
within stones throw OF my own door; but was
in the doctors hands. and Of course followed his
fore had taken Hunts Remedy half dozen times
l found immense benefit from It, and by contin-
from my trouble entirely and am to-day, think
one Of the most rugged OF rugged Michganders
The world is indebted to you, sir, for the promul
cation OF such q medicine, and hope you may
not so without your reward"
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A Man Aged at Eighteen.

There is in Schuyler county, Mo-, a
young-Old man, who, without apparent
cause, living plainly on farm, has in
eighteen years passed through the
physical changes of fourscore. At the
age of six he had all the development
Of strength and muscle usually in a
lal of fifteen. At twelve his beard
was grown and gray hairs appeared.
Now, at eighteen, he is as decrepit as
any old man of eighty, and seems
tottering on the verge Of the grave.