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now to Overcome the Moths.

This is one of the greatest vexations
which careful housekeepers have to con-
tend with, and their d%epredations are
not to be remedied after they have once
made inroads. Houses heated by fur
naces are especially predisposed to have
moths, but every housekeeper must be
on the watch for them, for, from the
time the windows begin to be left open,
the trouble begins. Heavy carpets
sometimes do not require taking up
every year, unless in constant use.
Take out the tacks from these, fold the
carpets back, wash the floor in strong
suds, with a tablespoonful of borax dis
solved in them. Dash with insect pow
der, Or lay tobacco leaves along the
edge, and retack. All moths can be
kept away, and the eggs destroyed by
this means. Ingram or other carpets,
after shaking, are frightened by sprink-
ling a pound of salt over the surface
and sweeping carefully and thoroughly.
1t is also an excellent plan to wipe off
tire carpet with borax water, using a
thick flannel cloth wrung tightly, tax
ing care not to wet it, but only to damp
en-. Open the windows and dry the car
pet before replacing the furniture.
Other woolens, including blankets
and wearing apparel, must be beaten
and brushed, and folded smoothly. Be.
careful to clean every grease spot with
ammonia and water, not too strong, and
a dark wooden cloth. Tie pieces Of
camphor into little bundles, and put
one in each article. Wrap the articles
in newspaper, as printers ink is a great
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Cooperative Country store.

A Missouri correspondent reports to
the farming world of q successful CO.
operative country store, owned by fifty
farmers, each of whom pu: 800 into the
enterprise at the outset:
"They hired a clerk who gave a bond
of 5 1000, and a ~bookkeeper who gave a
bond of S25, 900. Their goods were
bought for cash and directly from first
hands right out of the furnishing and
dying rooms. They obligated their
clerk to sell to no man on time, not
even n of the firm. This firm sold
goods to the amount of 100, 900 i'll two
years. During November and Decem-
Der, 1882. their capital made 2S per cent.
on the amount invested. But there is
another and unexpected advantage.
Those fifty farmers get the best labor
ers i'll the country and consequently
make the best crops. Why? These
hands get all they buy at a low price,
and it has got to that point now when
our best laborers always ask when they
go to farmer to lire out whether or
not he belongs to the farmers, store.
Ii he replies yes, he can get the appli-
cant on better terms than others.n
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APreacher's Financial Experiences.

aThe Rev. DIR. Goodwin, Of Quincy,
Ill" says the Philadelphia Times, has
gone home greatly disguised with the
prevalent methods OF the banking
business. He was a delegate to the
Methodist Episcopal Conference, and
left home with q draft on the Marine
Bank Of New York. because he thought
it more convenient than currency. Be-
fore his pocket money was exhausted.
the Marine Bank had suspended. He
returned the draft to Quincy for better
funds, and received d check on the
Metropolitan Bank, Of New York, but
ON the day Of lis arrival the Metropoli-
tan had closed its doors. Not discour-
aged up to that point, DIR. Goodwin
again returned this check to the Quincy
Bank, but BY the time it reached his
home the Quincy concern had collapsed
and the minister found himself penni-
9 ~ ia 2 strange city. The facts we're
laid before Q gentleman and none
enough to take him home was adj
vanced.'
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beautiful and useful tree, upon the
ground that it blooms early in the sea-
son, and bees visit it in swarms. 1t in
sures rapid breeding in the hive and
strong colonies ready to gather honey
when white clover comes in season. 1t
also makes an excellent hedge where
Usage orange has been extensively tried
and experimental with for hedge and
failed.
The Germantown Telegraph thus in
forms it's readers how to grow onions
without labor prepare a bed, say six
teen feet square, of proper fertility,
cultivate deep, and rake it smooth and
fine. Now, lay on a board about n
foot wide at one side OF your bed, stand
OF the board and place your sets close
to the edge, say four inches apart the
entire length of the board. Now, lay
down another board one and a half inch
es from the other, place your sets as
before, and proceed thus until the bed
is completed. Leave on the boards UNI
til the onions have matured. Thus you
will have a nice bed of onions without
labor, save the preparing of the bed
and placing of the SETS"
In building a %cistern. the wall should
be coated with the cement on the out
side and inside both, as 1t goes up; and
the bricks should be soaked with water
before they are laid. The cement adj
heres with great tenacity when this is
done, but is apt to scale off ii laid upon
dry brick. As the wall is laidthe space
| behind it should be filled with earth
and firmly rammed, taking care not to
displace the brick. Ii this is not done
the pressure OF the water inside may
easily burst an unsupported wall out
wardly. Such cases have been known
to me. BY thus using precautions al
ways taken by professional men, the
cost of the brickwork is reduced just
one-half and the cistern is actually
stronger.
Shellbark hickory represents among
forest trees the highest standard for
fuel. Calling hickory 100, other trees
will compare with for real value for fuel
MS follows: Shellbark hickory, 100;
pignut hickory, 93 white ash, 81; white
oak, 50; dogwood, rs; fern oak, 10;
white hszel, 70; apple tree, 70; red
oak, e.; white beech, g.; black
maple, SO; white elm, So; red cedar, so;
wild cherry, SO; yellow pine, 81; chest
nut, 50; yellow poplar, A; butternut
and white birch, 43, and white pine, 30.
A number of these woods which show a
very low value for fuel are highly es-
teemed for fine cabinet work and in
terror wood work.
Dr.. Vessler, a German chemist, gives
a recipe for al insecticide which is said
to be excellent. 1t consists of soft soap,
four parts; tobacco extract, six parts;
amylic alcohol, five parts; methylic al
cohol, twenty parts, and water to make
n thousand parts. The extract of to-
bacco is made by boiling together equal
parts of roll tobacco and water for half
an hour, adding sufficient for loss by
evaporation. Then the soft soap is
gently and gradually dissolved in the
water by heat, and the other ingredients
added. The mixture should be stirred
before using, and applied with a syr-
inge.
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Removing Warts.

1. Burn o piece of linen or cotton on
any piece of steel and rub the moisture
left on the metal by the burning on the
wart three or four successive times. 2.
Rub the wart with a strong solution of
potash till it disappears, 3. Wet gum
ammoniac and rub it on the wart at
night Just before going to bed. 4.
Cover a few sprigs of arbor vit,e with
hot water; when the tea is quite strong.
pour off and battle the warts with this,
or cursh the juice of the leaf directly on
the wart three or four times till it disap-
pears. Take five cents worth muriate
of ammonia, wet a crystal in water and
apply several times during the day 5.
Cover the warts with baking soda, wet
with water and tie them up. Afew APP
plieations will remove them.--N. Y.
Tribune.
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Value OF old

A strict Mohammedan never DESTROYS
a scrap of paper On which there is writ
ing until lie has ascertained whether the
name of God is on it. Agood business
man is equally cautious about destroy
ing any voucher or memorandum relat-
ing to his pecuniary affairs.
A great library, according to Mr..
Winsor, the great librarian of Harvard
College, should preserve every book and
pamphlet printed. The worthless
tract oftoday may prove invaluable to the
historian writing in the a 1000. Two
hundred years after the execution of the
great Marquis of Monsrose, the account
books kept by his agent were discovered.
From these the ~biographer of the Mar
quis drew much of the history of his he
ro's early life.
Old play-bills, letters, and college
charges for breakfasts furnished stud
ents, are not usually thought worth
preserving. Yet even these "triaes
light as air" once helped a maj t a seat
in the House OF Lords.
In support OF his claim to be acknol-
edged as a peer of England, it became
necessary to establish the exact date
when a certain actress playes at the
Royal Theatre of Edinburgh.
As more than sixty years had elapsed
sincethe event, theproofseemed dicffiuIt.
Suddenly, one of the claimants lawyers
remembered that the Advocates Library
of Edinburgh preservedt the play-bils Of
the Theatre Royal. They were found
boundnp in chronological order, and, on
being searched, furnished evidence as to
the precise date.
1t was also necessary to prove where
a certain deceased Clergyman had re-
sided, sixty years before, during q period
bounded by two dates.
The minister had correspondent with
an intimate friend, who also was dead.
But in his sons library there was found
q bundle Of old letters written by the
minister to the father. They bore the
postmark of yillagein the west ofEng-
land and the dates on which they were
HN'eSu. ~ VOC INV NlItV viz Illl1llo-
ter, during the period, had taken his
masters degree at Oxford, and it was
supposed that he had resided there for
several months. Search being made
for the old bat-telling-books OF the col
lege, they were found in the cellar. In
them We're discovered entries of tea,
coffee. rolls and butter, chops and steaks
technically called '.battels, sup
piled to him from day to day, with the
exact date and charge against each
item.
The evidence furnished by these old
play-bills, old letters and old account
books helped the claimant to obtain his
peerage.
Every lawyer in large practice knows
that no novelist invents anything more
improbable than the facts of life. He
also knows that a scrap of writing, such
as or old letter, or an ancient
andnm, may become an important link
in the chain of evidence.-Youth's Com
panion.
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Butterr1ilk as q DRINK.

In Warm summer weather many per-
N feel an irresistible craving for
something sour, and often CRAFTY this
desire by a free indulgence in pickles or
vegetables made acid with vinegar.
This demand for acids indicates q def
cheney in the acid secretions of the sto,
mach, and the demand for an artificial
supply IS a natural one, but vinegar is
not the best substitute. Tactic acid is
one of the chief agents that give acidity
to the gastric juice Of the stomach in
health. This is the acid Of sour milk.
and, therefore, n of the best GUNNER
diet drinks that We can use is buttermilk,
1t satisfies the craving for acids by Civ
ing to the stomach a natural supply, and
at the same time furnishing in its
cheesy matter a good supply of whole
some nutrition. A man will endure
fatigue in hot weather better on butter
milk than on any diet drink he can use.
Orange County Farmer.
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The rapidity of his motions was won
uerful enough, but how he contriyed to
Keep his balance would have puzzled
h best acrobats of our gymnastic as
sociations.
The next performer had an atten-
dant who held u tin-box by q leather
strap, aud swung it slowly two and
fro like the pendulum of q large clock.
In the center of the box was a hole, but
certainly not 10 than two inches in
diameter. The jugler stepped back to
4 distance of about twenty yards, and
began to throw little copper balls at the
stin box. The first ball was caught by
the attendant, who thereupon raised the
box acouple of inches, but continued
to swing it to and fro. The second,
third and all following balls went
straight through the narrow aperture
without aver touching the rim of the
mole. He threw forty ofthem, and then
retired. amidst the prolonged applause
of the whole audience, for this time
everybody could appreciate the miracu-
lous cleyerness of the trick.
But the champion of the band came
last. His whole outfit consisted of a
straight wooden pole, about ten feet
long, and hardly three inches in diane
ter. 1t was cut off squire at each end,
md did not seem to be very heavy.
This pole the jugglcr placed upright on
the level surface of a wooded board,
tried the board with his feet to see that
it did not shake and then proceeded to
climb the pole.
He clamered up and down som ten
or twelve times in quick succession.
He then assembled to the verv TOP.
seized it with his hands, let &c his
feet, and went spinning around in a cir
Gle, till it made II giddy to look at
him.
By a sudden contraction of his body
he then joined his feet ut the top of the
pole, let go his hands, and slowly
raised himself till he stood bold up
right like a statue on a pillar. All this
while the pillar had no other support
but a flat wooden board, and was bal
anced entirely by the management of
the statue.
One of the spectators, an expert
American gymnast, got permission to go
on the stage, and examine that pole.
He looked at the floor below, and then
examined the board itself. It was moth
ing but a flat piece of pine wood.
We'll, how do you explain it?" I
asked him when he came back.
II can't believe in witchcraft, y he ut
tered, $50 | don't know at all what to
say aboutit."
Alter the performance was over, the
jugglers distributed little cards, showing
the portraits of their champions, and
their principal exploits. Like ell Japan
csc pictures, the drawings were made
by hand, but resembled each other as
closely as prints from the same steel
plate. They cost only two cents apiece,
and We're worth keeping, for both the
subject and the workmanship illustrate
ed the wonderful influence of exercise.
DR.. Felix L. Oswald, in Youths Com
panion.
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-Four Noted English Speakers.

Robert Laird Collier in the Boston
Herald says: When Lord Randolph
Churchill, the Marquis of Salisbury
and Sir William Harcourt are err the
stump you may be quite sure that some-
thing is being said that is worth hearing.
And they have all been on the stump
with a vengeance the past week. If only
MIR. Chamberlain had mounted the ros-
trum and uttered his crisp and snap
ping sentences, we would then have
heard the crack of the whip all around.
These four politicians all have what
Matthew Arnold is pleased to call "tak-
ingness.s The press and public are al
ways on the lookout for what they have
to 1t is not that there words are
always words of 5wisdonl, but that their
words are never lacking in wit. There
is something spectacular in their
political orations. They are some
thing more than word painters.
There is something leptangible in
their speeches even than pic
lures. a certain effect of rhetorical
sroassing of ideas and phrases that's
ike fragrance something spicy and
pungant-thatsis difficult to describe,
characteri2es the speeches of all these
political orators. 1T is a kind of speak
ing that / never heard in America. 1t
is less spontaneous in fact. and more SO
in form, than American stump oratory.
All these speakers use the English Of
the academy-that is, of the most re-
fined society. They are careful for the
most part, of certain amenities Of dis
cussion. But, all the same, their SEN
fences have teeth. Their words take
hold. They are sure to hit hard. In
short, they are talking, something is
on. When one of these four
stump orators has delivered
himself of speech, the columns of the
papers are full of meat, and meat with
gravy, to boot. Look out for a deluge
of letters contradicting certain state
ments made. Perhaps the editors of
the journals will have bushels of letters
d~eprecating the new fashion in political
discussion, and despairingly longing
for the return of the good old style Of
slow and sure, dry and duh political
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Farm Notes.

If you have a supply of poultry drop
pings, this should be worked in where
peppers, onions or cabbages are planted.
as it is difficult to get the soil too rich
for these plants. Ashes are especially
valuable for onions and satisfy.
The time is at hand when you should
examine your henhouse and fortify it
against the army of insects so injurious
to your fowls. A careful use of kero-
sene oil will keep off lice. Coal tar is
also frequently used to good advantage
for the same purpose. Apply it with a
brush into every crack and ~crevice where
there is any chance for vermin and it
will keep them off.
A wholesome cellar is at the bottom
Of healthy living. One reason is that
the air and floating germs of the cellar
find their way to every room in the
house. Many of our most destructive
diseases are supposed to be caused by
minute germs floating in the air and
finding Judgment and a congenial home
in the animal system, their development
causing disease. Widowed cellars and
mouldy closets are nurseries of disease.
Even in their dry form the spores of
those low forms of life often cause SER
ious sickness. The worst attack of ca
tarrh / aver had was caused by inhaling
the dust arising from overhauling o pile
Of mouldy rubbish.
For honey-producing the honey locust
ranks high in the estimation of bee keep
ers. It blooms earlier than does the
linden, and produces more certainly, if
not SO beautifully. The American Bee
Journal speaks strongly in praise of this
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Lines About Odd Things TO Eat
Gathered from the Caterers Papers.

a-H@.H. HE-s-E RGT" WN-EF - .a
Cabbage soakedin sherry wine is now
put forth under a French name as some
thing new, but it is merely genteel
s~auerkraut.
English snipe is about the only game
N season now and even of chat the sun-
ply Is lot as good as is usually the case
ct this season.
According to NJ. Grevy's chef the on
" U that is proper to serve with
boiled salmon is anchovy and he wants
people to rememberi it.
An enthusiastic epicure says the pre-
paration, OF q stuffed olive is, in its way,
n of the triumphs of Civilization a
magnificent example of mans victory
over nature. Sea ravens, both pink and
yellow, and sea robins were on exhibi.
ton on Saturday morning in Fulton Mar.
-ket, New. York, preparatory to doing
duty at the Ichthyophagus Club dinner.
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A Wealthy American Lady Infatu-
ated With . Dissoluts French
Prince.

The Paris correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Record writes of a shocking
case Of female infatuation, which is the
talk of the French capital, andis slight
II whispered in New York. The name
Of the lady il made known would be a
painful surprise to Americans.
The most notorious scandal now
talked about in society is that of a we'll,
known and wealthy married woman,
who is travelling in Europe with a French
prince. The father of this lady was a
successful New York merchant, who
left all his enormous property to her
when he died. She has in her own
right something like $3.50, 900 a year.
"A perfect godsend to this dissolute
French Prince. The prince also is mar
ried, and has three interesting children.
Atfirst there was an attempt to hush
up the matter, but it soon became
q public scandal and could
not be hustled up. Two of this
lady's daughters whom she took With
her to Europe when she went off with
the Prince have returned to their faith.
er, having discovered what was going
on, and both they and the father live
on an allowance furnished by the moths
Ell, who is at present living in Italy
with her Prince. The strange part Of
this is the Prince seems to have no at
fractions. He is an old man and dissi-
.pated, with certain defects in his per-
sonal appearance that make him any
thing but pleasing to look upon, and
then he is an inveterate gambler. A
friend Of mine saw him lose 81, 1000 Of
this lady's money at q gaming table one
night. He has either had q run of luck
lately or the lady has increased his al
3towance, for he has bought a handsome
hotel in Paris, where he is living in
great style. The French papers have
had o paragraph to the effect that he
has recently made lot Of money in
America out of petroleum and silver
mines, but the Americans in Paris know
better than that. The mine this Prince
has struck has yielded a richer vein and
with less risk than attends ordinary
mining spenulations.
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Feeding For Rich Milk.

1t has been stated by some so-called
dairy experts that no amount or varia-
ton of food will increase the quality of
milk; that the quantity may be ipcreas-
ed by feeding, but the fat or butter in it
cannot be. This is ut varience with, 1
believe, the experience of every .practi-
cal dairyman and every dairy expert
who has gained his knowledge. by prac-
teal experience. Professor Arnold re-
Gently showed how q native COW Ind re-
sponded to better feeding by largely in
%creasing the proportion of cream and
butter in the milk. Professor z. W.
Stewart, in his excellent work on
Feeding Animals" states how he
increased the yield of milk
one-third and that Of butter one-half by
the regular development of a COW by
richer feeding, systematically persev-
cred in. J. have increased the butter
yield of a cow one-half with very little
increase of milk, by the use of palmnut
meal, which is Very richin fat OF an ex-
cellent quality, and which has not the
highly heterogeneous character of cotton
seed meal, and is therefore a safer feed.
Anueeo, ~ "oulu Hutuly DE necessary TO
mention theseinstances wereit not that
practical men might be misled to their
disadvantage by the popular credit given
to scientific statements. But wejshould
never forget how much scientific men
have had to take back in the course Of
their Investigations, and how the his
tory of science proves that "itis human
to err, and weare all human.-A PEN
~nsylvania Dairyman.
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Last week, when about to break mn

Last week, when about to break up
for the holidays, Mr.. Spurgeon dis
missed his young men with a caution.
Don't get counting. That is not good
for students. Come back, as some one
puts it, with your hearts and
uncracked. Walk in the fields like
Isaac, by all means, and mediate, but
don't lift up your eyes for Rebecca. She
will come soon enough"
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The Boston Traveller says: Mrs. Wen
dell Phillips is again seriously ill, and
her friends are considerably concerned
at her condition.