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Experiments on the Farm.

In general farm and garden culture,
the opportunities for investigation are
endless, and the methods are simple.
The trial of new seeds; the variation
of time of planting and harvesting, to
determine the best results; expert
ments with new or unusual crops, as
seed-raising, new fodder crops, such
as millet, sorghum, mustard, and 9th
ers; the effects of drainage; the value
of special fertilizers, as lime, bone-
dust, potash; the trial of the various
remedies suggested for insect pests;
the methods for preserving posts and
other timber; the feeding and manage
ment of stock; ensilage; the produce
ton of new varieties OF vegetables,
fruits, grains, and fodder plants, by
selection, and it may be, by crossing
the existing varieties; the invention or
Improvement of agricultural imple-
ments, etc.-these r q few of the
many interesting branches of agricult-
ural investigation. Consider next the
methods of experiment. There are
two great essentials 1t the foundation:
exact measurement, and exact record.
Measure everything. either by weight
by dimensions, or by duration of time,
and keep q systematic record Of every
thing. Add to this thoughtfulness,
and you have the whole secret Of ex-
detrimental science. Think what you
desire to ascertain, and direct the ex-
periments accordingly. Think overthe
results of your experiments carefully,
and draw your conclusions. In deal
ing with crops, the customary method
| ia. to vid a sI1 ficient area IF land
into carefully-measured small plots,
and use each plot, or q number, for
any particular plant under trial.
Where it is a question of soil or ma
nures, always have the crop under test
on at least n plot, the soil of which
is left in the natural condition. This
last serves as a basis of comparison
with other plots that have been var
iously fertilized.- *. Clark Anaeri-
can 4griculturist for March. \.
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will not be well for those having no
warn place for the young chicks, to
attempt Matching before the last of
March or the first of April. Pullets
coming out at this time lay in October.
and with good care. will continue to
lay all winter, when eggs are scarce
and high, and cockerels will bring
NOR for broilers at three months old
than when raised later and kept much
longer. Keep watch of your locks, so
that the difference in their dispositions
can be noted. Use only those hens for
sitters that are quiet and not inclined
to be nervous, for they will invariably
make surer hatchers and better moth
ers. A hen thai Is uneasy and wants
to be of the nest frequently during in
cubation, especially in the cold
weather of spring, should not be de-
pended on. Provide the hens with
large, tlattish nests, and place whole
corn and fresh water each day near
them. 1t is most necessary to keep
the nest and body of the fowl free
vermin, for if they + not, they will
not sit quietly, and labor and eggs are
lost. 1t cannot be expected that sue
cess will follow attempts at Matching
and raising chickens, Irless the hens
have been kept in a clean and thrifty
condition during the winter. Filth
causes weakness and breeds disease,
and the product, if any, of a ~slovenly
kept flock of fowls, will always be
weak and Improbable in the extreme.
Il. G. BroWn, IN american Agricul-
yy,jef
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The Great Grazing Country.

In response to an inquiry as to what
are the boundaries of the great grazing
country Of the West, and what are it's
possibilities. the Denver Live Stock Rec
ord says: "The plains country-that
susceptible of growing cattle-embraces
a district of 5000 miles in length from
north to south, and 1900 miles wide
from east to west, and has o grazing
capacity sufficient to maintain 90, OOO,-
900 of horned cattle and twice as many
more of horses and sheep. To be more
explicit, we will say the country where
cattle grow and thrive on the open
plain at all seasons of the year com
mences Mt the Gulf of Mexico in the
south and extends far into the British
Possessions in the north; commences
OF the westernmost border of Kansas
in the east and extends to the Sierra
Nevada mountains in the west. We
will furthermore say Colorado, sus-
ceptible herself of holding 5000, 900 of
cattle, is in the geographical centre OF
this vast grazing field"
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have led me to suppose your heart was
wholly NINE"
"But l have no money, my dear
Bertha, and what good would I be to
you?"
"You are unkind; you are cruel,
when you know how much Hove you.
I have wealth sufficient for two; what
should 1 care for your money!
II have heard e~nough!" cried Vino
ma, s%pringing from the darkness.
Frank, u paths will lie in opposite
directions in the future. Mr.. jackson,
take me home"
Eyes. Mrs. Bernet," said that gentle
man, latter 1 have informed you that
your husband is perfectly innocent and
this has been o use of his to show the
true character and unbounded friendship
Of Bertha Rol,nd"
"Thank heaven!" gasped the young
wife; ''and thank you for opening my
eyes to the treachery of that woman"
"Mrs. Roland, my dear" said Frank.
mot that woman!" Remember how
you berated me for so designating her!'
Winona only sobbed and nestled
closer to his breast.
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Electric Lighting in America.

AT the meeting of the Society of
Arts on Dec. 8, Mr.. w. H. Preece
read a paper in which he stated that
electric lighting is lo%urishing in Amer
lea much more than in England. There
are probably ninety thousand arc
lamps alight every night IN the United
States. He had found it a dismal ex-
perience to be transferred from the
brilliantly illuminated avenues of New
YORK to the dark streets of London.
On the evening OF Oct. 21 he drove
from the Windsor hotel, New York, to
the Cunard wharf, a distance of about
four miles, through streets entirely
lighted by electricity. On arriving in
London, he drove from Euston to
Waterloo without seeing a single cleo.
trio light. In Montreal, Philadelphia,
Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, st. Louis,
Indianapolis, and Boston he found the
principal streets and warehouses, as
well as stores and places of public re-
sort, lighted by arc-lamps. Police
supervision of the streets is rendered
far simpler when they are brilliantly
illuminated by the electric light. It
is with a%rc-lighting that the greatest
advances have been made in the States.
In Chicago the number of arc.lamps
installed has doubled during the past
twelve months. 1t is now twa thou
sand, and increases daily. More than
one electric light company pays divi-
dends to its shareholders, and all of
the manufactures Of supplies are busy.
The great ferry-boats Of the Philadel-
phia railroad are lighted by electric
ity; those magnificent hotel-steamers
that ply between New York and Fall
River, those on Lake Superior, on the
Mississippi and other large rivers, are
either SO lighted or are gradually be-
ing fitted for the lamps. Mr.. Preece
said hat electric wires carried over
head, in the unsightly fashion which
prevailed in the United States, were
hideous in the extreme, and the only
advantage he had found for them was
that they afforded a welcome shade
from the fierce glare of the sun. He
had counted 144 wires on one post in
New York, and six lines of posts might
be found on Broadway, there being
thirty-two companies in the city carry
ing wires on poles. There was no ne
cessity for it at all, for it was found
by the English postoffice that, when
ever the number of wires through a
town exceeded fifteen, it was cheaper
to put them underground than over
head.-Popular Science Monthly.
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Facts for Skaters.

Said / the other day, to one of our
leading physicians doctor, what do
you think of the present roller skating
m~aniap"
"Well." he replied slowly, "It's a
very good thing for the doctors, sur
geons, and specialists, too. Oh, yes,
indeed. 1t brings on the high-priced
class of complaints, much more lucra-..
tive than common measles or rheu-
matism. In the first place, it is a sort
of motion quite unnatural, and entire-
ly different from anything to which q
girl is accustomed, calling into most
violent play muscles which are but
little used. If it We're not craze
which seems to admit of no modera-
ton, no gradual inuring of the muscu-
lar system which might grow tolerant
of the exercise, tho case would not be
so bad. But this is not, after all, the
worst feature. The prevalent, and all
but universal mode of dress, is really
the greatest cause of trouble. The
average girl-though you may be sure
she will Indignantly deny it-could not
| get a full. free breath inside her corr
set to save her life. Oh, yes, she thinks
she does; because she doesn't know
what it is-a full, free breath, which
reaches clear down to the waist line,
ard demands a free play of the alb
dominal muscles. Those muscles, and
others SO important to locomotion, are
cramped and restricted, while all the
time trying to respond to the violent,
and unnatural strain upon them, and
as a result some of the more delicate
organs of her complex system are
sure to suffer, and suffer severely. It,
is with physicians no secret that there.
is o great increase of maladies and
weaknesses among girls directly
traceable to this sport. ! would rather
my daughter should run up and down.
stairs,from cellar to attic forty times al
day than become a devotee of this
kind of amusement. The consequences
are similar, but worse in the latter
case"
"But do you consider it worse than
skating on ice?"
Skating on ice is not a good thing,
for many girls-for none but the
heartiest who are accustomed to vig-
orous exercise-and not for them un-
less properly dressed. But the out,
door is, of course, an improvement on
that of the rink, not only because Of
its purity and invigorating qualities,
but because the cold puts a limit to
the number of hours devoted to the
amusement. Then, too, there is usu<
ally plenty of room, and, c~onsequent-
ly, less liability to accidents Of one
sort and another. But, the one fact
is, that girls can never profit by the
present popular rage for physical
exercises and pedestrian feats until
they conclude to dress sensibly so as
to allow the free use of the muscles
they are ostensibly seeking to de-
velop. It is perfectly absurd other
wise, and nothing can prevent its
working an injury."-Minneapolis
Tribune.
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A Theological Question.

elbow many husbands did a won a
have in the Old TESTAMENT" ask g
Miss Sanderly, who has just complet
ed her education at a fashionable in
stitute, in Austin.
"What do you mean by such a silly
question:" asked Mrs. Yerger, to
whom the question was addressed.
II don't think it is silly. 1t says in
the Bible, that whenever a man dieth
he was gathered to his fathers. If the
mother of the deceased did not have
than one husband how could the
deceased be gathered to his fathers,
which means more fathers than one
He certainly must have had several
fathers"
Perhaps" said Mrs. Yerger de-
murely, ''the man who was gathered
to his fathers had several mothcrs.''-
Texas Sifltngs.
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Is Cholera Spread by Drinking
WotarS

For good health, pure water is as
necessary as pure air, good food, COM
Portable quarters, and SO forth. | my
self am IN enthusiast in the matter of
drinking water, but not from fear of
cholera or typhoid fever, but simply
from a pure love of the good. For the
water is not only q necessary article
of food, but a real pleasure, which |
prefer, and believe to be more health
full than good wine or good beer.
When water fails, mar may suffer not
only from cholera, but from all posi-
bic diseases. In places where cholera
prevails the water may always be in
Dictated, for the supply is always a
part of the locality, and the doctrine
will frequently hold good, because the
part may be mistaken for the whole.
Where the influence of the water is
held up to the exclusion of all other
local factors, error is liable to creep
in. In England, where the water
drinking theory is fully believed in,
two like influences, in which every
other local factor was excluded, were
observed in the cholera epidemic of
1854. In n case, in a street in Lon
don which was supplied by two water
companies, the Lambeth with pure
water, and the Vauxhall with impure
water, it was found that the cholera
was practically limited to the houses
supplied by the Vauxhall company. I
was SO much impressed by this fact
that l e~ndeavored to see whether the
epidemic of 1854 in Munich could not
be explained on a similar hypothesis.
But my researches led to negative re-
suit. Without doubling the facts OBJ
served in London, l am OF opinion that
the impure water of the Vauxhall
company did not spread the germs
of cholera, for the propagation of
cholera was not effected by this means
in Munich, but that the water increas-
ed the personal predisposition to chol-
era, or perhaps the local predisposi-
ton, since the water would be en-
ployed in the house and about the
soil. Later on, in 1866, Letheby
doubted the accuracy of the drinking
water theory, and proved that there
had been considerable confusion, so
that a house which was registered on
the Lambeth company really drew its
water-supply from the main of the
Vauxhall company, and vice versa.
The cholera epidemic of 1866 was es-
sentially limited to East London. The
East London Water company supplied
this district with water filtered from
the river Lea. Letheby brought for
ward a series of facts to prove that we
might with equal justice accuse the
East London Gas company, since the
first case of cholera broke out at the
gas factorY.-RornLnr Science MonkhIu.
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The Earth's Surface.

Scientific men have been disposed to
attribute the evidences of changes on
the earth's surface to violent catastro-
Plies in the operations of nature; but
Lyall and the more recent biologists
say that most of the alterations we
witness were brought about by the
slow operation of natural forces, act
ing through vast periods of time. The
several earthquakes which have re-
Gently visited the northeast quarter of
North America did something toward
either raising or depressing the sur
face of the region affected. 1t is
known that the Atlantic coast between
Cape Hatteras and Cape God has been
steadily sinking for centuries, and it
is within the bounds of probability that
before 1000 years have elapsed the
cities of New York and Brooklyn may
be under water. When the Dutch
colonized Manhattan island, 200 hun
dred years ago, the Indians told them
that in the time of their great-grand-
fathers it vas possible to cross He'll
gate dry-shod from one bank to the
other. Prof. Guyot estimated that the
lowering of the Atlantic coast was 23A
inches every century. At the same
time it is certain that the greater por-
ton of the American continent is ris-
ing, while the continent of Australia
is as certainly sinking.
Very many islands of the Pacific
ocean We're once the tops of noun
tains on continents afterward sub
merged. The stupendous volcanic
eruption of Krakatau, on Aug. %, last
year, entirely changed the physical
aspect of the Sunda straits. A part of
krakatau vas shot out of the sea and
dropped into the straits eight miles
nortnward. The greater portion OF
the island, containing several thou
sand million cubic yards of earth, was
hurled through the air, over Zaug is
land, and plunged into the channel
seven miles to the northeast. These
two new pieces of land, which have
been named Steers and Calmeyer is
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Childish Diplomacy.

The-ten-year old daughter has been
wearing n of her mothers rings. Ii
disappears and she annot find it. She
is surely disturbed and puzzled a long
time as to how she will break the acci.
dent to her mamma. At last she goes
up, and with childish hesitation say
Mamma, please tell me what is the
French for lostp"
Lost, my darling? The French fo1
lost is pcrlu."
well, the little ring you gave me is
perdu."-San Francisco Chronicle.
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lands, now appear above the sea where
previously $50 feet of water existed.
Where the volcano of Krakatau stood,
g. sea fathomless by a line of LOO
feet now exists.
In the neighborhood of England, re.
Gently. new lands have appeared COM
posed of black volcanic rock, and 50
these mighty changes keep on.
Oceans of vast antiquity are continents
to-day, which the populous plains will,
in the distant ages hence, be found at
the bottom of the mighty seas.-Dem-
oreSt'S MONTHLY.
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soudan and the Soudanese.

What is the extent of the region
known as the Egyptian SoudanP What
is the character of the country What
are its productions How do its mil
lions of inhabitants manage to sub
sistp What races or tribes constitute
its population? These are questions
often asked since the barbarian hordess
under the leadership of a Nubian boat
builder who calls himself the Prophet,
took up arms against the detested
Egyptian task-masters and tax-gather-
ers and their European ally.
The Egyptian Soudan is a vast terri
tory stretching southwark from the
twenty-third degree of north latitude,
which runs not far from the second
cataract of the Nile. The principal
provinces are Nubia, SEMINAR, Kordo-
fan, Oar Fur and Dongola. These
provinces have been made tributary to
Egypt by conquest. Nubia lies east of
the Nile and extends from the north
ern limit of the Soudan almost to the
southern extremity of SEMINAR, more
than 800 miles south of Khartoum. A
large part of Nubia is an arid waste,
consisting of sandstone and granite.
Vegetation is scanty and the water
supply at best precarious. Along the
banks of the Nile the soil is %cultiyable.
The products are numerous, including
MARIE, dates, tobacco, coffee and cot
ton. The Nubians, or Dongolawce,
are a dark brown race, hardy and
brave, and are excellent fighters.
The great province of Kordofan,
stretching southwest from Khartoum,
10 n rraSsv Sfnnra country nnnrly
watered except in the summer season
when there are frequent showers. The
Inhabitants are of mixed races and are
fanatical Mussulmans, ignorant, with
out tribal organization, and in every
respect inferior to the Arabs. They
cultivate the soil and engage to some
extent in cattle raising. AS warriors
it is said the Kordofan people rank
low, being badly armed and less
courageous than the Dongolawee. On
the plateau of Oar Fur, west of kordo-
fan, the soil is capable of cultivation n,
but yields a scanty return of corn and
cotton. Mixed races inhabit that re-
gion, as in Kordofan, but they are
more resolute and warlike. They
raise cattle, sheep and camels, and are
nomads, wandering from place to
place, having no villages. The pro-
vince of SEMINAR, in the northern part
of which Khartoum is situated, is an
oasis in the desert. This province,
lying between southern Nubia and
Kordofan, is the river region and COM
prises the real riches of the Soudan.
Here an abundance of fertile land is
found along the Blue Nile and the
White. Large crops of grain are
raised near the rivers to 4 distance of
300 miles from Khartoum. The breed
ing of cattle and sheep is also extern
sively carried on in SEMINAR. The
city of Khartoum is the commercial
center of this entire country. from
Berber on the north, to the Shillook
region on the White Nile. Its impor-
lance, therefore, from a military point
If view in the present wal is readily
,een.- Cincinnati Times Star.
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Prepare for the Matching Season.

The time is now approaching for the
interested %poultrvman ard the thrifty
farmer who thinks, and rightly, that
fowls properly managed. are good
paving stock on the farm. to make
preparation for the annual setting of
eggs and Matching Of chickens. 1t
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AN exhibition of the works of Hans
Maklrt has been opened in Vienna.
His pictures are to be found in mos
of the great European galleries. The
Art association of Vienna desires grad
1ally to collect as many as possible of
.hem.
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AMONG the fashionable waltze now
taught in London are "the Boston
%slouch," ''the New York Pump
aandle," "the Kensington crawl"
and ''the English straight"
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CAMERON, the correspondent who
vas killed in the Soudan recently, was
unmarried, but his aged mother was
dependent upon him for support. The
london Standard, for which he was
working, has granted her II handsome
life pension.
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WHEN Adam Black, the Edinburgh
publisher, was sounded on the subject
Of receiving knighthood, he said:
'Nae, nae; it wad ma do. You see," he
added, 'if a boy cam into ma shop
and said, "a ha'peth O. slate-pencil, Sir
ADAM it would ma sound weel.'
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Rev. DIR. SroTswooD, who died in
New Castle. Pa, recently, was a lineal
descendant of the colonial governor,
Alexander Spotswood, after whom
Spotsylyania county, TIE scene of the
battle of Spotsylvania, was named.
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SENATOR HoAR is said to be the
worst story teller in the senate. He
likes to entertain his friends by rela-
ing funny incidents now and then,
out they say he would spoil the most
anghable story ever known in the tell
i've 81
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The death is announced, at the age
of 76 years. of the Countess de Cam
bacerea, eldest daughter of Marshal
Dayoust, prince of Eckmuhl.
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In his passage through Paris, en- route
tor Cannes, the prince of Wales stop
ped thirty-six hours. He went TO sec
Bernhard in ~'.Theodora." Between
the acts he visited Sarah in her box,
and warmly congratulated her. The
actress ordered e bottle of champagne
and the prince drank to her health.
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A TOLEDO lawyer, on trial for kiss
ing a young lady in an elevator, has
entered a plea of insanity.
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KNIGHTHooD does not always come
Unexpectedly rs a reward for faithful
services. 1t is often secured by effect
and influence, like some other
honors. The mayor of Chichester re-
Gently applied for the title because he
had nine times been elected to the
civic chair, but Mr.. Gladstone, in a
diplomatic and noncommitai note, re-
fused the request.
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PROF. w. j. RoLFE believes in the
probability of Shakespeare having Wis
tied Italy. The atmosphere of many
plays is thoroughly Italian. Portia
says: This night, methinks, is but
the daylight sick, it looks a little
p%aler." No such moonlight was eve
seen in England.
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NINE. JENNY LIND GoLDscHM1rl is
losing health, and thinks of reducing
her hours of labor at the Royal Col
hge of Music.
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GENERAL LEW WALLAcE's "Ben
Hur" has been translated into the
Turkish by command of the Sultan.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

Tue marquis of Lorne always be
gins breakfast with a large bowl d
oatmeal.