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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Recipes.

Corn Bread.--One and one-half cups
corn meal, one and one-lalf tablespoons
sugar, butter size small egg, one cup
milk, One-half cup Of flour, one egg,
one-half teaspoon of soda if sour milk
is used, one teaspoon baking powder if
sweet milk is preferred.
Pumpkin Pie.-Mix thoroughly one
quart strained pumpkin, two quarts
milk, one pint cream, one teaspoon
salt, four teaspoons ginger, two tea
spoons cinnamon, two teaspoons nut
meg and mace, ten well-beaten eggs
and sugar to taste. Bake with rich
undercrust.
Bro,Oned Potatoes Peel the potatoes
and arrange them around a joint,
about to be cooked in the oven, haste
them at the same time you haste the
meat. When they are nicely Drowned
serve. They may be put in the oven
with little meat gravy and cooked
after the joint, if desired.
Stored Lamb.-Take the neck or
breast, cut into small pieces, and put
in stew pan with some thinly sliced
salt pork and enough water to cover
1t; cover closely and stew until tender,
skim off all the scum, and add a
quart of green peas, adding more
water If necessary; when the peas are
tender, season with pepper and butter
rolled with flour.
Ribbon Cake.-Two and one-half
cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one
cup sweet milk, one teaspoon cream
tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, four
cups flour, four eggs. Reserve one
third of this mixture and bake the
rest in two lOaves the same size. Add
to the third reserved one cup raisins,
one-quarter pound citron, one cup
currants, two tablespoons molasses,
one teaspoonful each of all kinds of
spice. Bake in tin same size as other
loaves. Put the three loaves together
with little icing or currant jelly,
placing the fruit loaf in the middle.
Frost the top and sides.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
An agricultural station has recently

An agricultural station has recently
been established at Aurora, H., in con
nection with the cntomo ogical division
of the department of agriculture. Mr..
Nelson w. McLain has been appointed
to take charge of the station and Pro.
fessor Riley has instructed him TO pay
particular attention to these subjects
To secure the introduction and domes-
tication of such races of bees as arc
reported to possess desirable traits and
characteristics; to prove by experiments
their value to the aericulturists of the
United States and their adaptation to
our climate and honey producing flora ;
to make experiments in the crossing and
mingling of races, and cndeavor to Sc
cure the type or types best adapted to
the uses of our bee keepers; to make
experiments in the methods of artificial
fertilization; to test the various methods
of preparing bees for winter; to gather
statistics concerning the bee keeping in
dustry of the United States; to make
observations concerning varieties of hon
reproducing plants for bee forage; to
study the true causes OF diseases yet
imperfectly understood and the best
methods of preventing or curing them;
and to obtain facts as to the capacity of
bees to injurc fruit.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Full of Peril

Arc those disorders which, beginning with ar
apparently trivial inactivity OF the kidneys
or bladder, terminates in Iirights discnsc, dla-
becs and cy-tils, The first two not only in.
tcrrupt tho functions of the renal organs, bu,
destroy their structure with rs much certainty
ms tubercular consumption does that ot the
lungs. lloseitcr's Stomach Bitters is m ex'
celent diuretic, promoting tho activity OF
these organs without over exciting them, thus
avertng the deadly mladcs in winch then
inactlon is SO prone TO culmlnnte. Tho re-
moval from the blood Of impurities which the
kidneys should but do not, when inactive
secrete, is anot her bencicent effect OF this i'll
comparable mcdcated stimuant and dopu
rent. Tho Biltcrs is, in all cases, too a fin,
restorative of vigor aud aid to digestion, rem
cdics malnrnl disease, and banshes liver COM
plant and constipation.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Married by Proxy.

A young Roman girl was lately
married by proxy in the chapel of the
Cardinal Secretary of State Jacobini ;
the ceremony was performed by his
Eminence. The bride has never seen
her husband, although he is a Roman.
lie has been living in one of our large
American cities, where he is in pros
porous business. A year ago this
young man wrote to a friend of his in
Rome and asked him to select wife
Cor him, saying he wished one of his
own townswomen, but his business
would not permit him to return home
to make the selection, nor even for the
marriage. lie did not wish girl
with dowry; indeed, he was ready to
send out money for the trousseau in
case the girl selected by his friend
should be poor.
The very evening the friend received
the letter he went to small reception,
where he saw young girl for the
first time whose appearance and man
ner pleased bin. She was with her
father among the guests The next
day the friend made inquiries about
her which proved satisfactory. The
offer was made. Photographs were cX-
changed between the young people,
and each was pleased with the others
picture. Fortunately the girl, though
not rich, had small dowry. The re-
ligious marriage ceremony was per
formed, and the bride is now on her
journey to her husband. She is
motherless, her sisters are married and
her old father has gone to live with
them. Her father belongs to that
large army of impregaN clerks he is
in the Vatican service Although u
Roman by birth, the brides grand,
father was Il Spaniard, a descendant
of the same family to which belonged
the discOverer of our Floridas--Ponce
de Leon. The name has become Ital-
ianized into POncidileOn. San hiun-
cisco Chronicle,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
IT'S Awful SSyeIl.

"The society women of New York
are very quick to catch the fashion,
especially if it be English" said q
wel-kn0wn English actor as he stood
in front of the Windsor hotel, yester-
day while watching the stream of
carriages that rolled toward the park.
Nearly every victoria that passed was
occupied by one or two ladies, and in
every instance they held their parasols
in both hands, straight up and down
in front of their faces, and within an
inch of the tip of their noses. Their
hands and arms were in precisely the
position in which u soldier places his
when he presents arms 1t impresses
the observer at first with the idea that
the woman is afraid that the paraSol
will blow out of her hands if she does
not hold ii firmly.
"Do you see how common the fash
Ion isY' continued the actor. swell,
that is all the result of the prince of
Wales trip through Ireland. American
ladies formerly carried their parasols
gracefully and easily while driving,
but when the illustrated London pa
peTs came over here with pictures of
the princess of Wales and her escort
driving about the Irish cities and
holding their parasols like llagstalfs, an
instantaneous change swept over New
York, and within a month all the wo-
men were carrying their parasols as
the princess of Wales carried hers.
And it's awful swell, too, don't you
think "-NelO York Sun
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pOtn sh and Trees.

Potash and Trees.
1t has long been known to orchard
fists that an application of unleached
wood ashes WAS excellent in the case
of unhealthy or unlruitful trees, and
especially so in the case of trees as a
preventive of yellows, and for apple
and pear trees affected with blight and
rottlng of the fruit. Unfortunately
wood ashes are not always to be had,
but the chief constituent-potash-i
comparatively cheap in some of its
forms, kainit, for example, which con-
tains from % to 30 per cent of chic
ride of potassa. besides notable
quantities of magnesia, lime and COM
mon salt Chloride of potassium also
is German product-a clay contain
ing Is per cent in its weight of this
chloride. East it is considered the
cheapest though not the best source of
agricultural potash.
Sandy land is notably sought for as
a fruit soil especially for peaches
These are often deficient in potash,
the chief source of which in soils is
from the breaking down of feldspatic
and micacious rocks and the decom-
position of vegetable matter.
AS showing the value of potash in
peach-growing. the fifth annual re-
port of the New Jersey Experiment
Station gives detailed statements of
the profits from the application of
wood-ashes, stable manure, and clean
cultivation on various New Jersey
soils in peach-culture. One instance
is mentioned where $4,000 was Melted
in twelve years from fifteen acres in
peaches. This cultivator used wood
ashes and stable manure, planted no
crops in his orchards, and cultivated
thoroughly, chiefly with spring tootli
harrow, going over the ground last sea
son from fifteen to seventeen times.
lie has almost no yellows, and all
trees are Immediately removed on the
first appearance of the disease From
one young orchard he gathered seventy
baskets of fruit at two years old.
This orchard was MANFRED with wood
ashes only. If he had enough wood
ashes he would like to apply from
fifty to seventy-live bushels an acre,
but smaller quantity does a great
deal OF good.
Another culLivator on a clay loan
set with $500 bearing trees uses muri-
ate of potash and best bone manure,
equal parts, and at the rate of $50
pounds an acre. In four years he has
realized 5000 an acre. He plants on
it the same as if prepared for corn,
and raises nc crop among his trees
Chicago Tribune.
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FOR TIE HOUSE AND FARM.
Cultivation of Corn.

The RM0I NeW Yorker, in reply to
a correspondent in regard to the cul-
tiyation of corn, says: at seems to
us that any one who will study the
physiology of the corn plant and fol-
low its feeding roots as they ill every
inch of soil, must be satisfied that no
more detrimental thing can be done
than to 60 in with plows and in a
wholesale way break up this system of
root growth.
Any one who will use the Deep
working plows, up to the time the
corn is from eight to twelve inches
tall, and after that time only use those
cultiVators that work not more than
two inches deep, will, in one season,
particularly if season of much
drought, be convinced by the rank
growing of his corn, unche,k ed by
the hottest weather, and its yield at
harvest time, that our advice in regard
tothc use of the plows was strictly cor
rect and safe to follow in the West or
anywhere else.
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1t IS neglected, and not infrequently
either pastured or moved, and the
soil is compelled to bear two crops an
nually, without manure, until it Is ex-
hausted, Then the cry is raised that
"it does not pay to plant orchards, at
best we only get fruit in abundance
every other year" The folly of this
neglect is demonstrated every year,
and the facts are published abundantly
in the agricultural papers, but unfor-
tunately these journals have quite a
limited circulation, even in the farm
ing towns. They are numbered by
tens and twenties, where they ought
to be by hundreds.
On the old homestead, where tho
writer ate apples from the tree and
the barrel, raw, cooked and preserved
the year round, in the age of home
spun, there was an old tree famous
for its early apples, a Seeding, and an
inveterate bearer in alternate years.
1t happened in the enlargement of the
garden, that the ground underneath
this tree was plowed, manfred, and
planted with potatoes, and as u result,
the bearing year was changed, and we
had two full crops in successive years.
The manure helped this result, and
the rOtting of the sod that had been
accommodating for years helped still
more. The fact did not impress the
owner much, but it did impress the
boy who helped to eat the apples, and
turned the grindstone under the CRATE
full shade. 1t is well-known fact
that pear and apple trees that stand in
gardens, especially in village gardens,
which have liberal fertilizing and cul-
tivation every year, bear regularly,
and are seldom without fruit, except
when the frost or hail destroys it.
Men who make specially of growing
fruit for market, and feed their trees
abundantly, get well paid for their
labor, and send apples to the city mar
kets by the car or boat-load. The
secret of their uniform success is in
the fact that they feed their trees regu-
larly, and thin out all supernuous
wood, and give the orchard all needed
attention. They do not steal away
the food of the trees in grass or grain
crops. They are content with the
fruit. There is no reason why the
average farmer, who has suitable land
for fruit trees, should not have an
abundant supply of fruit for home
use, and for market. Agri-
cultmist.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Hunting Water with u BabOOn.

If when upon long hunt or jour
ney the Kallir be unable for long
time to find water, he sometimes
avails himself of the instinct of one
of those animals which he frequently
keeps in 4 domesticatcd state-the
baboon. or chacma. The baboon takes
the lead Of the party, being attached
to long rope, and allowed to run
about as it likes. When it comes to a
root of bahama il is held back until
the precious vegetable can DO taken
entire out OF the ground, but in order
to stimulate the animal to further ex-
crtions it is allowed to cat root now
and then. The search for water is con-
Quoted in "a similar manner. The
wretched haboOn IL Intentionally kept
without drink until it is half mad
with thirst and is then led by cord
~ aforementioned. BY what signs
the animal is guided no one can even
conjecture, but il water is in the
nrighbOrhuDod the lnhOun is sure to
find it.--Americdn Field.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
A Family of Many Names

There is a family named Shirley in
Sharp county, living between lIardcc and
Willford, in which the children have
been given names that are startling il
not euphonious. The old gentleman,
whose name is Elisha Shirley, is n tie
maker. hewing out ties for the railroads
His wifc's name is Harriet Susannah
Maria Jane Shir cy, and their Oldest
daughter, fifteen years old, is called Ann
Elizabeth Dive Shirley Then comes
Ben amin Kirby Smith General HardeC
Shirley, aged thirteen; Robert Enos Ma.
poleon Bonaparte Lee Wilkes Booth
Shirley, who is nine years old. John
Thomas Emanuel Forest Champion Gate.
wood Shirley is seven years old, Will,
Joseph Wheeler ZolIicotfer StonewalI
Jackson Sam IIildebrand Sterling Price
Shirley is five years old. The family
ends with Mary Virginia South Caroline
Florida Georgia Alabama Louisiana
Shirley, who is three years old The
old gentleman ran tor tho Legislature
last year and secured five votes. which
shows that good man does not always
get his deserts. - Little Rock (Ark.) Ga
tette.
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A Trick in the Coffee Trade.

New methods of imposing upon the
trade are continually being discovered
Fictitious strength is given to some
things by the addition of strong acid !;
low grades are being mixed with high
grades, and limitations of popular
names are very common. The last
new dodge is in the coffee trade.
Every buyer likes to have a glossy
bean, but of course as the beans grow
old part Of this glossiness disappears
and the purchaser can tell that what is
shown him has been gathered long
time. Modern ingenuity cannot thus
be put to fault. The coffee beans Of
an old stock are placed in revolving
cylinder with a few drops of cotton
seed oil, and the cylinder is then set in
motion. The small quantity of oil thus
introduced restores the coffee to its Or.
iginal appearance, and the manipulation
can sell his consignment for Il cent
more pound than he could the day
before. The frauil can be detected by
putting number OF beans into cof.
fee cup and filling it with water. In Il
few minutes there will lie film Of oil
on the surfNce,--Com. Enquirer
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Household Hints.

Crewel work washed in bran and
water will look like new.
When putting away the silver tea
or cOffee-pot, which is not used every
day, lay little stick across the top
under the cover. This will allow the
fresh air to get in and prevent the
mustiness of the contents, familiar to
hotel and boarding house sufferers.
Fruit stains upon cloth or upon the
hands may he removed by rubbing
with the juice of rire tomatoes. If
applied Immediately, powdered starch
will also take fruit stains out of table
linen. Left on the spot for few
hours, it absorbs every trace of the
stain.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26

An exchange says that "the most re.
cent volcanic eruption in the United
States was that which half filled Feather
lake, northern California, in or about
the year 1850. This locality has lately
been visited by the eminent Plutonist,
C., Il. button, who says that the lava
sheet poured out was over 100 feet, and
covers space about one by three and
one-half miles in extent, in the centre
of which a cinder cone 600 feet high
covers the rent. The lava sheet is rough
and Jagged in the extreme, he says, but
shows as yet no signs of weathering.
For space of 400 to 500 yards from the
cone the trees were all killed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Mr. +. o. Nc
Ceary, u prominent solicitor of patents
of this city, was troubled for several
weeks with II severe cough, which not
only deprived him of sleep bit annoyed
others. The cnly thing which did him
any good, he says, was the new prepa'
ration Red star Cough Cure, II purely
vegetable compound, free from opiates,
narcotics OF poisons of any kind.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Fashion Notes.

White nuns yelling continues fash.
ionable.
The stamped and frise vclvets have
become very popular.
Lace elbow sleeves are worn with
V-shaped velvet bodices.
Vienna leather is used for parasol
handles, and resembles old ivory.
Embroideries are much employed
on summer dresses composed of cotton
fabrics.
Some of the latest bodices are made
to fasten diagonally from the left
shoulder
The beautiful Bulgarian embroidery
on white Turkish Grape appears as
parasol covers.
Plain white muslin is worn over
color, lemon, mauve and yellow being
the most popular.
Little girls wear hats of yellow or
colored straw, trimmed with immense
bows of fancy ribbon.
Some of the largest fans are painted
in oils and water-colors, not only in
designs of flowers and fruits but in
landscapes.
The drapery TO handsome dresses is
held in place with buckles of precious
metal set with diamonds, rubies and
other gems.
Glace effects in surah silk are again
seen, and besides the familiar combina-
tions of last season are several new
and striking ones.
The linen finish percales and prints,
so popular for summer wear are very
like silk in their glossy finish. These
prints launder well.
The old-fashioned bluffs in cotton
are fashionably used for children this
season, and make up charmingly with
the white and ecru embroideries for
yokes and rulllcs.
Some of the prettiest dresses for
little girls are made in strawberry or
old gold Saline, in the very tiniest
checks, in blouse styles, trimmed with
tinted lace and bows of ribbon.
The newest finish for the neck of a
dress consists of double folds of gold
or silver tulle, silk gauze, canvas or
muslin. Favorite linishings are of
cream or silver hue, though other
shades appear.
kiva lace is new variety. 1t is to
be had in fawn, buff and almond
colors combined with brown, the de-
sign run with scarlet or crimson
threads. 1t is very effective for COS,
tunes that are in two tones.
Black is always much worn in
Paris; in summer as well us in winter
black lace toilettcs are extremely
fashionable. The bodice and founda-
ton skirt are lace tulle, and all the
trimmings formed Of lace llounces.
Bright red feather fans are carried
with all black toilcttes, and also yellow
ones with yellow tortoise shell handles.
Tortoise shell, by-the-bye, is extremely
fashionable for fan handles, hair pins
and combs; the lighter and yellower
the better.
For little girls the American style
still prevails, the loose plated frock
with sash about half way down the
skirt, or the jacket opening in front to
show full plastron and fully
plated and very short skirt. They
wear the very long paletot, while their
elders, young girls in their teens, wear
the short cloth jacket.
1t was predicted that ruchings for
neck and sleeve linishings would go
out of style, but they are too becom-
ing to decrease in popularity, especi-
ally with ladies whose neck and hands
need the soitening influences of the
ruchings; those with edge lines of gilt
and tinsel are worn, also the pretty
ruchings of crepe lisse.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Mnnurlup Old ,lrcbnrtls

One of the popular fallaces that
still fingers in rural districts, is that
mature orchards do not need fertili-
GERS. Farmers may lie paiustaking in
the planting, and in cutivating the
orchard for few years, until it comes
into bearing, but, as a rule. after that
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The Wheaton Loaf.

Good wheat bread and butter is the
staff of civilized life. Take away
wheat bread and butter from our
families for few generations, and
who is prepared to say that civilization
would not glide easily to a state of
barbarism? There is sound philoso.
ply in this suggestion; because there
is no other kind of human food that is
so admirably adapted to the develop
ment of the human frame, including a
noble brain, as good wheat bread
Civilization has seemed to keep pace
with the production of wheat, and re-
fined society the world over has
seemed to exist coeval with the wheat,
en- loaf.
We find the lowest order of intelli-
gences standing on a. potato Only
one step above this class, another Or
der is found on hOecake. One de-
gree above this we meet with the class
that has risen in the scale of being as
high as it is possible for mortals to
rise on a pancake. Head and Shout
ders above all these classes we find the
highest order of intelligences, with
large and well.developed brains and
noble characters, standing securely on
their wheaton loaf. No other food
can excel the wheaton loaf, because it
furnishes more and better material for
the human brain than any other food
Tile Cook.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26
Swimming manmuyres arc now prac

Swimming mnnmuvrcs arc now prao
ticcd by some of the French reg 'menls,
n order to accuston the troops to ford a
river in the face Of the enemy, Thus, at
Limoges, the dragons in garrison cross
The Vicnnc on horseback, fully armed,
and carrying the ammunition on their
heads to keep it dry, On landing they
Immediately drawthcr sabersand charge
an imaginary foe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26

Don't take that cocktail in the morning"
IL you have n "swcled head nauSeated
stomach, and unstrung nerves resulting from
the convivial party last night The stiro
and safe way to clear the cobwebs from the
brain, recover zest for food, and tone up the
nervous system, is to use DR. Pierce's "Pleas-
ant Purgative Pellets" Sold by oil druggists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-08-26

except to put something TO eat into it, ia on
excellent motto for the gossip and the sufferer
from catarrh But while the gossip is prac.
lically incu' able, there Is no excuse for any.
ones suffering longer form catarrh. Dir.
Sage's Catnrrh Remedy is an unfailing euro
for that offensive disease. 1t heals tho
diseased membrane, and removes the dull
and depressed sensations which always at.
tend catarrh, A short trial OF this valuable
preparation will make the sufferer feel like a
new being.