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School Books /!

A full line of School Books and Sta
tionery, and other school supplies
Parents and guardians will consult their
interests by calling on me and pricing
these goods.
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CHARLES BARRING,
Next door TO Gattman's Bank.
January 22m.
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Mackeral. Of "tLe new catch, fresh
bud fat, at Is. O.. SIMS.
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VKTANTED.-PEAS,P POTATOES
" EGGS AND BUTTER. AT
Nv @. A. HENLEY'S.
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EEMGEEL.

l respectfully inform my customers
and the public generally, that ] have re-
moved my Jewelry store and Sewing
Machine Depot, to one Of thest1re rooms
under the Gordon House, where ! shall
be pleased to meet and serve my friends
and others in buest of anything in my
line. Respectfully,
Jan'y IA I'm, l, Y. JOHNSON.
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won't come; If I have to do it three huns
dred times I mean to have il. So
therei"
Bother take the old example, any
howP" said Harry, in his crossest tone.
'Come on boys; we can't lose all the fun
waiting till midnight for him. and
away every boy went.
"Nine times four are thirty-four, said
Willie, patiently; and though, of course,
it was not right, and never viii be, he
worked away just as steadily; and when
he found that he was wrong. again, he
said, talking to himself: Nov, look
here! You think you are going to beat
me, don't you? Well, you were never
more mistaken in your life. My name
is Persevere Wilson. Father said had
earned that name, and that should
have it as long as deServed it; and
hope You don't think ami going to lose
my name and my place in the class just
to please you.
Then he began again. slowly. patient
ly, each figure carefully studied, anu mt
last the example proved itself, ," AMI
Willie, with a soft hurrah and loud
yawn. got up from his corner. The
last glimmer of twilight was fading. No
use to talk of ball playing now; fun was
over for that evening.
~ dom care said Willie, as he went
up to bed; ''it will be moro fun for me
than for the others when the roll of ex-
amples is called tomorrow.
Sure enough! Master Willie" said
Prof. Bennett, looking up over his spec
tacles, "you are the only member Of
the class to be marked Perfect to-
day. There was more bal-playing than
perseverance by the rest of the class, l
fear. - Young Reaper.
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Cats Meat.

Correspondents of knowledge, in
treating of cats, do not seem to have
remarked some acts of intelligence
which may be observed daily in the
streets of London. At the cry of the
cat's-meat man all the cats are in COM
motion, but all are not excited by the
cry of the same man. A dozen men
may walk up and down the same streets
with tempting morsels, crying "Meat,
meat" but only at those houses they
are accustomed TO serve will the cats be
reused by the call. No sooner does the
proper man arrive in the street than ev.
cry cat he is accustomed TO serve rushes
frantically to the door, or, if allowed,
into the street, running mcwing toward
him, rubbing against his legs, or some
times sitting in a begging attitude be-
fore him. but never, as far as have OBJ
served. attempting TO steal from the
open basket.
One day / noticed a cat whose man
had either forgotten her portion or had
been unable TO make her mistress hear,
and so had passed on. The cat, however.
insisted on being attended TO; she ran
after him, mewing piteously, and when
at last she made him understand, she
ran back to the house before him,
where, by this time, the mistress was
ready to take the delicacy so much
priced by all London cats, however wei
fed. l have often watched this act OF
discrimination in our own cat Tom
would sit quietly DOING while man aft
er man went by with the familiar cry o.
"Meat, meatr but presently he would
Jump, rush to the window, and remain
in state of great excitement, and soon
after a distant cry of "Meatr' m ght be
heard. and we knew that Tom had rec
ognized his own man long before we had
heard him. As the cry drew nearer,
Toms excitement increased, and he
would almost fiv to the door. A singular
fact remains to be told. On Saturdays
the man would leave two portions, as he
did not go his rounds on Sunday. These
were often thrown into the area, TO
which Tom had access. He would al
ways greedily deyour the one portion.
but never touch the other. although
they lay side by side. This cat would
also open the latch of the kitchen door,
as observed by several Of your CORE
spondents. and would also o.eu the
shutters in the drawing room (closed.
but not fastened), in order to look out
of the window. i have, however, been
told of cat who would open not only
3 latch, but an ordinary drawiEg-room
door. rather loose, by taking the round
knob between her paws and twisting il
round till il opened.
The fact of cats distinguishing be-
tween one meat man and another seems
TO me to disprove the oft-repeated as
sertion that cats attach themselves only
TO places and not to persons, for here
we see them able to pick out q certain
man by his voice alone, even at great
distance. BuckiGssd.
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Fashion in Butter.

Say what we will, fashion is what
makes the difference largely in the sell
ing price of butter. While we hear a
great deal about quality, it is fashion
that has quite as much to do with get
ting good or fancy price as quality.
There is no better butter made for the
general market than some that
is packed in thirty-pound tubs
or pals, yet it is a hard matter to
get over twenty or thirty cents a
pound for it, when that put up in fancy
prints, weighing half pound or Q
pound, will bring fifty, sixty or ever
seventy-five cents per pound. In fact,
it is well to remember that the less sur.
face there is exposed the better will the
butter keep. 1t is contact with the all
that Injuries it.
Moreover. prints have to be carefully
packed, each package being wrapped
to protect it from contact with others,
and great care is requisite in handling
it. 1t will not do to let the prints be-
come untidy. A fine stamp or mono
gram on the butter brings a good price.
Coloring butter with annato is also to
comply with fashionable fancy. A
product of the very finest quality, yet
without a certain color, will not sell as
well as one that has the right tint, even
though of poorer quality. Dairymen
find themselves driven to the wall un-
less they try to please the eye rs well
as the palate of the buyer.-Cor. ". T.
examiner.
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The Skinner.

By SKINNER is understood n circu.
lar piece of tin, concave on one side
and convex on the other, with hol e.
more or less numerous in the center.
having a handle of the same materia'
attached, for convenience in holding
and manipulating. This is an ancient
dairy implement. 1t is old enough &c
be venerable, but, like some other old
things, it is too faulty to be entitled te
much generation or respect. where
economy is of any importance. What
did the inventor put holes in it fort
why says dairy-maid, Ito let the
milk drip away when the cream is lift
ed from it.
Doubtless that was the reason, but
that is Just what should not be done,
for, if the milk is liquid enough to run
through the holes in skinner, a part
at least, of the cream will be thir
enough to run through too, and &C.
casion loss. The holes imply skimmine
when the milk is liquid, for, if it wa;
thick, they would be useless. In the
ordinary manner of setting milk in the
diaries, the top of the milk, or that
which lies next to the cream, Away.
COulstiHS w 1CSS duu
be taken in and churned with the cream
If, in skimming. this is allowed to run
through the skinner, it is lost
or, at most, goes away fol
pig feed. Swimming is bes
done by taking in the top of the milk
so that from twenty to twenty-five pei
per cent of the original bulk of mill
will be churned. Where large bodie:
of milk are creamed, the cream is bes
separated from the milk by drawing il
out from under the cream through ,
faucet, leaving the cream in the vessel
but where the milk is to be left in tn,
vessel and the cream removed, it il
much better to dip it off than to skim il
of. AS the economy of this mode i
better appreciated, the skinner goe'
out of use, being regarded only as I
source of waste. 1t is often said tina
the dairy is full of leaks, which empt,
the pockets of the owner. The holes il
a skinner constitute one of them
National Lire Stock Journal.
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A Legend or Niagara

A great want has Just been filed. Le-
geDds about the Niagara Falls have
been so scarce that it will be great re-
lief TO many to know that a new one has
been discovered. Not exactly new,
either, for II is written on old parch-
ment, and must have been lying where
1t was found for many years; but, as it
has Just recently been discovered. it is
to the present generation new. Viii e
shoveling snow from the steps of the
Extortion Hotel just after the recent
heavy fall the above-referred-to parch-
ment was found. The following is a
free translation of its contents: John
jackson. a young man of some pugil-
istic attachments, who dearly loved a
handsome young lady in Buffalo, deter
mined to take his darling to the Falls
for a trip. Now, John, like many
other Buffalo young men, didn't know
much about the outside world,
and had never been warned to
avoid the Niagara Falls hackmen.
1t was with a light heart that
he stepped from the train on that bright
May morning. and with Angel na
thompson hanging gracefully on his
arm, started gaily for the great catar-
act, little dream ng of the terrible fate
that awaited him and that was destined
TO bring to so gloomy a close day
which seemed to have dawned the
brightest of all the DAYS of the year.
The couple had gone but few steps
when they wee accosted by hack
man. who said:
''dave q hack. sir?''
'.Nol"
Better take . hack. This il one of
the finest, and III drive you 10 all the
points of Interest,"
'.No; we will walk!''
"What! Do YOU mean to say that
you're going to make that young lady
loot It over these rough streetsp II ]
had as handsome lady as you have !
wouldn't be SO penurious as to make
her tramp around here and have sore
feet for a week"
Now John. as was formerly limited,
had some knowledge of the manly art.
and the remark about penuriousness
grated ON his finer feelings. Angelina
said:
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A Few Words TO Young Men.

Ambition is very good thing TO have
if you don't have too much of it. 1t is
like quinine-good in small doses; il too
much Is taken it is apt to have bad
effect upon the head. Ambition is a
difficult thing to define; cruelty, selfish
ness and false pride are its first cousins.
Ambition, in Unbalanced natures,
makes them cruel; the possessor will
step to the prize over the quivering
bodies of his mpetitors-physica2]y
speaking, in by-gone ages; tiguratively-
in this nineteenth century-without a
qualm of regret, except that the guer-
don is not greater than it is, and with
out compassion for those who have
fallen in the struggles. OF seltishness
there are many kinds; the common.
everyday. won t-give-up-my-seat kind
OF selhshness, and the other kind-the
rendering of small favors in expectation
of a return at uSury-this is the pure,
double distilled, Northumberland
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. kind. OF false
pride there is only one kind-hut tlrat
is the meanest kind manufactured
False pride viii tell young man to-
steal rather than TO beg; To lie concern
ing his prospects rather than tell hi
friends he has been unwise and is in
straits. The young man who arrives Ia
city without any friends, registers at
the best hotel, and has his mail from
home addressed there, taking his board
out of his prospects for getting work,
will be very likely TO get himself into
the papers as a hotel beat, and be
obliged to have his letters addressed to-
the Jail. The young man who starts
out in life with the idea that in few
years he will own the whole earth and
few acres of the next field, may have
to come round at the last minute and
beg for so much as n seat on the
fence. "Make haste slowly is wise
proverb; its wisdom is proved by the
test of experience. Rome was not
built in day, nor even great many
towns of lesser Importance in history
The only thing that ever was built in a
day is a young mans air-castle, and we
all know of its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ADDedL
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.oh. never mind him. John .


But Johns blood was I'D. So he put
up his hands and gave the impudent
hickman one in the neck. In an in
slant they were surrounded. All the
hackmen came to the rescue of their CO.
laborer. Angelina screamed, and that
made John nervous, and he could not
attend to his counters and guards. The
only faint made was by Angelina, and
the blows from whips, fists and other
missiles that rained on John from all
sides made him retreat in dismay. And
this. the day that opened so brightly,
closed darkly, particularly in the re-
gion of John Jackson's eyes. But as
he washed the blood from his face and
tied Angelina's handkerchief around his
throbbing temples, he was heard to
mutter: al will be revengedr'
Several weeks had passed. The cat
aract was still doing business at the old
stand, and waving on high its glorious
plume of white spray. The hackmen
were also at the old stand. The battle
with the young Buffalo man had ceased
to be topic among them, and in the
wild rush for worldly gain they had al
most forgotten the face of Jackson. A
wild shrek pierces the morning air, and
the train from Buffalo, with Changing
bell and kissing steam, brings up at the
depot. John jackson walks from the
train. At his side is person in female
attire, but the person has not the hand
some form and smiling face of Angeli-
ma. The hackmeu, in the aforesaid
rush for worldly gain, do not recognize
the man.
Have a hack, sir?"
mo"
Better take a hack. It's fifteen
miles to the Falls"
mo; we will walk"
"Oh, you're pretty fellow to make
that young girl trudge around
That was as far as he got. Jack 5
arm had Strengthened. His fist had
come in contact with the nose of the
speaker. The noble form of the hack
man was groveling in the dust. 1t was
at this period that the conduct of the
person in female attire became notice
able. There was no scream. and no
body swooned, while the attitude as
sumed was not n usual one for a lady.
The hat dropped forward until it nearly
touched the nose, while the fsts-very
large ones for lady-were tightly
clenched and the elbows were drawn
back in a Pat Rooney style, which
plainly showed that their owner
would put up with no nonsense
The other hackmen rushed to the
rescue of their fallen companion.
but the first to arrive received such
singing blow from Johns COM
panion that he retired in dismay. The
second was similarly dealt with, and
he also took back seat. In the mean
time John was not idle. He kicked,
thumped and otherwise maltreated his
antagonist until he felt that the dishon-
or heaped upon him during his previous
visit had been wiped out. Then his
companion took his arm, and, looking
up into his face with sweet. seaside
musiny smile, said: "Did you see me
| get away with that red-nosed coon what
tried to interfere?" The loving couple
went immed ately to a hotel, and shortly
after they had disappeared through the
doorway two young men came out. One
of them was John, while the other was
stranger, and carried a small bundle.
The woman has never since been seen
alive.-DetrOH Free Press.
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The Use and Abuse OF the Rubber Coat.

The season has set in for wearing
mackintoshes, says the Lance. A eau
ton NAV be therefore not unnece ssary,
and let US hope. not UNDECIDED, rs TO tho
use and abuse of this serviceable, but,
when improperly employed, dangerous,
article of clothing. When once
macintosh is put on to defend the body
from wet, it should on no account be
taken off until the wearer has not only
taken shelter, but is in position to
change lis clothes, What Il covering
of oiled skin does for a wet rag in the
surgery-viz.: convert it into n poultioe
the macintosh does for the clothes
of its wearer. The insensible perspira-
ton which finds way Of escape
through ordinary clothing is kept in by
the waterproof, and the clothes are
saturated with moisture. A very few
minutes will suffice to render the uu-
der clothing damp" under mackin.
tosh, particularly If either the wearer
persplres freely, or the weather be
what is called ''muggy' rs well as wet.
When, therefore, the wearer of
macintosh takes off that article OF
clothing because it has ceased to rain,
he is in the position of person who has
damp othes on. and if he sits in the
saddle. or walks home, or rides in an
open trap, he is more likely to take cold
than if he had not used the macintosh
at all. If therefore, we say, mackin-
tosh is once put on it should on no &C
count be removed until the clothes can
be changed or dried by fire without
reduction of bodily temperature. The
use of macintosh is TO protect man
from severe storm of rain. His
clothes must be damp if he wears one OF
these protectors. The sole gain from
using il is to render the moisture warm
instead of cold, and 10 prevent loss OF
heat by evaporation. If the macintosh
be removed evaporation commences inn
medately with all the consequent risks
of that process.
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Common or Native Cows.

Isn't the common cow left too much
out of the question in these days of
blooming" the fashionable breeds?
There are poor scrubs among our COM
mon cattle, as everybody knows. but
they are not all such. Great yields of
milk and butter are reported from Jer-
seys. Holsteins and other fancy breeds.
but many a COW among our native stock,
if pampered and nursed and fed as they
are. would do almost If not quite as
well as many of the foreign breeds Did
any one ever hear, through the papers,
of a real poor Jersey? They all
seem to produce about two pounds
of butter 3 day. rain or shine.
But how about those we do not hear of?
II would not be o bad idea 10 take some
good native cows, treat them as if they
were worth $4,000 each, and keep q
careful record of the amount Of butter
they produced The comparison would
then be, not between the poorest ma
tives and the best Jerseys, but between
good specimens of each class. The
discrepancy might prove to be less than
1t now appears to ben. Y Examiner.
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Perseverance.

Eight times three" said Willie Will
son. impatiently. ''Oh, what is the
matter with me? Can't I get that
right?"
Come on. Williel" shouted the boys
at the window; 1--WE can't wait; finish
your lesson afterward."
20, yes" said Willie. 'Afterwardr
know all about him; he has cheated me
many a time, and / have no faith in
him. Nine times four are thirt5-six.'
Bother nine times four! 1t is time
we were of, and we shall have to 60
without you.'
II should like to bother it." said
Willie; cit is giving me bother enough.
How much is It. anyhow"
Zone hundred and seventy-nine. Now
como on this minute, or we shall 60
without you"
Look here. Harry JONES'" said
Willie, looking up minute from
his work; '.this is the last ex-
ample in our lesson. I've got all the
others, and 1 know / shan't have any
more time for arithmetic, and 1 don't
mean to stir from this corner till get
this bothering old fellow right I've
gone over him three times now, and ii
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THE DAIRY.


The cow must not be fed on roots
Or tubers that are decayed. A very
small quantity of decayed potatoes or
beets will inject the milk with a faint
that win prevent getting a high price
for the butter.
Cows must not stand in filthy sta
bles and where there is no ventilation.
No COW can make frst-class butter if
she inhales noxious odors, nor can her
milk be transformed by any known
process into fine butter. if filth finds its
way into the pail. Washing. rinsing
and working will not remove the faint.
AT the convention of the Vermont
Dairymen's Association Mr.. NJ. w.
Davis, member of the State Board of
Agriculture, said there are not over
fifteen dairymen in the State who are
making an average of 800 pounds of
butter per COW annually from their en-
tire herds. This is a capital showing
for Vermont, and the officials of other
States would be doing a good thing if
they would collect similar statistics.
After churning at the proper tenn
perature (about sixty degrees), care
must be used in working the butter.
Avoid spatting or smoothing it; this
destroys the grain and makes il salvy.
Wash out all the buttermilk and salt it,
less for immediate use than for keep.
ing. An ounce to the pound is the old
rule and good one; but fer butter that
is to be consumed within five or six
days, many claim that half an ounce of
salt is sufficient. Use the best ashttubs
for packing, and when packed keep IN
q cool place until marketed.
Professor Venab!e SAYS of the COW
that she furnishes us with milk, butter,
cheese and meat for our food. leather
for our clothing, tallow for candles, hair
to make the plaster firm, bones for
fertilizers, horns to handle the very
! knives with which we take her life.
Chemistry has stepped in and initiated
all these products, making milk with
out milk, bone without bone, etc., etc.
The only product of the COW, says the
witty Professor, that chemistry cannot
initiate is glue. AS a glue-maker she
stands without peer.
1t is doubtful if the value of any
cow feed can be properly determined
by ANALYSIS. Its feeding value car
only be determined by its effect on the
animals. In this way we have Otter
been led to praise the feeding quality
of corn fodder, believing it to be, when
properly cured, very nearly, if moi
quite, equal to the best hay for COW
feed. Professor Sanborn, however. OF
the Missouri Agricultural College
claims to have proven by long practice
that corn fodder has a practical value
of two thirds to three-quarters that @
good hay. The fodder is to be valued
according to the state it is in when cut
If allowed TO tassel and not dry up i
makes the best rough feed we know O
for Authoritarian Dairyhidn.