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Tho Nest I'm tho wellington statue.

Tho Nest In tho Wellington Statue.
Wellington was a famous man, and
here have been many portraits Of him
painted and many statues of him made.
One statue of him on horseback stood
Tor long time at Hyde Park Corner
london.
In 1884 this statue was taken down
20 be placed elsewhere. The head was
irst taken down, and what do you
think they found inside the Dukes
cooked hat, and resting on his head
Surely, you would never guess it was {;
starling's nest! but it was-a perfec'
little nest of twigs. Mother Startling
had come in and out through an open.
ing under the great iron plumes Of this
hat.
The next thing to come down was
che body Of the Duke. This weighed
Iix tons, and had been fastened to the
iron horse with screws. In the big
elbow of the left arm was found an.
other starling's nest, with a family of
full-fedged birds in it. They flew
away that very night. In the right
arm was sparrow's nest with one
.iny bird and several eggs So you see
;hese birds had managed to make a
very good bird house out of the iron
Duke.
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Fish for the Farm.

Fish affords a healthful and nu-
ritious food, and every person owning
4 stream which can be gathered into
pond should by all means add fish
culture to his other pursuits. In Ger
many and the adjacent countries the
culture of carp affords a large guam
tity of valuable human food, produced
at an exceedingly small cost. 1t is
estimated there that 100 pounds of
carp can be produced at a cost of no
more than Is cents. The only ex-
penses are the interest on the cost of
the pond, and the value of the land
and the labor of gathering the yearly
crop. One acre of suitable ground
will produce 1000 pounds of fish
yearly. The ponds are arranged in
succession down the course of the
stream, and are divided so that each
one can be drained into another for
the purpose of gathering the fish an
nually from one pond. The largest
ish are then as many years old as the
pond has remained since it was last
drawn. The fish are scooped up from
the shallow water with hand nets, the
small ones being left. The pond is
then filled again. Several drawings
may he made from each pond in the
course of a year as a supply may be
4 required for sale or use. But, in a
small way, farmer may do very well
with one pond, If it is arranged so that
The water may be drawn off, or the
pond may be dragged with net to
gather the fish for selection. Carp are
The best fish for this purpose, rs they
are vegetable feeders, will thrive in
my water which has soft bottom,
and will either feed themselves If the
,ond has grassy bottom and sides, OF
nay be fed upon corn bread, cabbage
,r boiled potatoes. They will live in
water warmed up to eighty degrees,
md thrive best in warm climate
-Ne10 York Times.
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FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
NIanuring In the I'M.

There are strong objections to ma
nuring corn In the hill, urged by prac-
tical men who have tried 1t in the
same field with an equal amount of
manure distributed broadcast through
the soil. In most cases, however,
these experiments have been tried on
sandy or very poor soil, unable OF it.
self to make a crop, and the small
quantity put on hills was not sufficient
help. On tolerably rich soil inclined
to heaviness little manure In the hill
gives either corn or potatoes a better
send-off. With good stand early,
thorough cultivation will, In soil fairly
rich, develop enough plant food to
make large crop. In such cases ma
aurlng in the hill, where only a little
manure can be applied, is good policy.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-11
A New Fashion Among Birds,

That birds are initiative creature,
las long been known. Many species
will simulate the notes and calls O;
others with such accuracy as to def,
detection. while some will initiate til,
noises made by animals. or even thu
human voice. Hitherto however, TIT
mutations have been supposed to BE-
purely vocal, each species retaining it.
own manners, flight and walk, regard
less of those Of its fellows. Many Of
these are distinctive and peculiar
enough, none more so than the flight,
If the tumbler pigeon. No naturalist
mas, so far as we are aware, hitherto
sentured to grapple with tho problem
Of why this kind of pigeon should have
taken to throwing somersaults in the
air. Other varieties of pigeons have
apparently equally failed in under
standing the matter. They may often
De observed watching the performance
with an attention and gravity SAVIOR
ing of reprobation, but they arc never
seen to attempt an imitation of it. 1t
ippeafs, however, that other birds are
aking the matter in hand, and there
IS prospect, if the fashion spreads.
chat tumbling may in time become
generally popular among the winged
race, and that even the sparrow. as he
iescends from the housetop to the road,
may deem it necessary to throw him
self head over heels half dozen times.
y,e iackdaw has been the FIRST bird to
follow the fashion set by the tumblers.
A correspondent of the Field has seen
a pair of these birds near Sherborne
following some tumbler pigeons and
initiating their flight so accurately
that at short distance they might be
mistaken for them. The news will be
most welcome to the fair sex, who
have hitherto been supposed to stand
alone in creation in their willingness
to make themselves uncomfortable or
ridiculous simply because others set
| ihe fashion.-London Standard.
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Recipes.

Hominy.-Cut cold hominy or hasty
pudding into thin slices, dip each piece
into well-beaten eggs and fry on a
griddle
Fried Rice.-Rice boiled in milk
and water with little salt; mold in
a square pan, and when cold cut into
small squares; dip in egg and cracker
dust and fry light brown.
asparagus Salad.-A good salad Is
made of asparagus. Boil some aspar-
agus in well-salted water; drain and
cut in pieces, and when thoroughly
cold pour over it a dressing made OF
oil and vinegar (twice as much oil as
vinegar), seasoned with pepper and
salt.
Graham Mmfns.-Sift one quart
of Graham flour, half teaspoonful Of
salt and heaping teaspoonful of bak-
ing powders, add two ounces of butter
and two eggs, beaten; and milk enough
to make thin batter; mix. Half I'll
the muffin rings and bake in quick
oven. Substitute shredded oats for
Graham and you have excellent muf-
fins as the result.
Cold Scotch Pudding.-Soak a pint
of grated oatmeal crackers in one and
half pints of milk. Beat the yolks
of three eggs with a heaping teaspoon
full of powdered sugar, saltspoonful Of
salt and the grated rind of lemon;
mix with the soaked crackers. Beat
the whites of the eggs with table,
spoonful of powdered sugar, whisk
into the mixture; pour into small
moulds Ga little over half fully and SET
them in a pan containing warm water
place on top of range half an hour
then put the pan in the oven and bake
forty-live minutes. When cool sci
them on ice and serve with sauce.
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Rsnox.tins Fruit Trees.


An incident which occurred some
gears ago in my garden taught me an
easy way to infuse new life and vigor
into young trees of sluggish growth.
A cat was accustomed to scratch on
the body of small pear tree, and be-
fore was aware of it the entire bark
around tho tree for about foot up
was dry and dead. Considering the
chances for the trees survival very
small at best, l sawed off the stem
lust below the lacerated bark. This
was done about the middle Of May,
and the wound was thickly covered
with grating wax.
The first season a new stem of over
ave feet grew from the stump. and
four years afterward the tree had
reached double the size and bore twice
the amount of fruit of any of the
other trees planted at the same time
IN the same held.
Proliting by this experience, I have
since that time never hesitated to saw
off every limb from bark bound and
crooked branched, unsatisfactory and
slow growing trees. New sprouts will
start at once, trees will regain new
life, grow luxuriantly, and eventually
form large, symmetrical tops. or course
where there is deficiency in the soil,
Or where standing water settles around
The roots, neither replanting nor prun-
ing can do any good before the funda-
mental causes are removed.-Ameyi-
Mn Garden
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Household Hints.

Anything mixed with water re-
quires a hotter oven than anything
mixed with milk.
A half-worn carpet may be made to
last longer by ripping it apart and
Transporting the breadths.
A dripping-pan half full of cold
water on the upper CRATE in the oven
will prevent cake or pies from burn,
ing. ...... 3D..
When you dry salt for the table, do
not place it in the salt cellar until it
is cold, otherwise it will harden into
lump.
A correspondent claims that lemons
will keep fresh for months if placed
in a jar of buttermilk, changing the
milk every fortnight.
A small dish of charcoal placed in
your meat larder will keep the article
sweet and wholesome almost as well
as ice. Charcoal Is great disinfec-
tant, Occasionally used for cleaning
the teeth it will sweeten the breath
when nothing else will do SO.
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1t would seem very strange, and
perhaps not very pleasant, to my young
'eaders to hear tallow candle or the
'hin-bone of reindeer called candy.
And yet these things may really be
considered as Eskimo candy, because
hey would delight the children of the
'old in precisely the same way that a
,ox of bon-bons would delight you.
There is certain kind of water
owl in Arctic countries known as the
iovekie. 1t Is about the size of
luck, Is quite black, has a prominent
white stripe on its wings, and its
xebbed feet are of brilliant re-,
When sitting in rows on the edge Of
yreenish rocks, these little red fee
ire very conspicuous. Sometimes,
when the men have killed a number
If dovekies, the Eskimo women cut
,ff the bright red feet, draw out the
bones, and, blowing into the skins,
iistend them as much as possible so
IS to form pouches When these
pouches are thoroughly dried they are
| illed with reindeer tallow, and the
bright red packages, which 1 assure
you look much nicer than they taste,
are little Boreas's candy. In very cold
weather the Eskimo children eat great
quantities of fat and blubber; and
his fatty food, which seems to us so
lninviting, helps TO keep them warm
and well.
The only other kind of candy that
The Eskimo children have, is the mar
low from the long leg or shin bone OF
The slaughtered reindeer. Of this
also, they are very fond. Whenever q
reindeer is killed and the meat ha'
been stripped from the bones of thu
egs, these bones are placed on the
door of the igloo and cracked with {
Ratchet until the marrow is exposed
The bones are then forced apart with
The hands, and the marrow is dug on
If the ends with long, sharp, ant
harrow spoon made from a warlus's
usk. | nave eaten this reindeer mar
ow frozen and cooked; and after ont
becomes accustomed to eating frozel
neat raw, it is really an acceptable
id-bit; while cooked and nicely served
t would be a delicacy anywhere, --
Lie,tt. Scl,a0dtka nv st. Nicholas.
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Live Well.

The farmer can be the very best liver
n the land just as easily as not, and he
should be. He has his choice of the
worlds produce. He holds first mort
gage on the herds and fiocks. The
crops and fruits of the earth are his
70 begin with, and he should flare
sumptuously every day." Why not ?
He will be all the better man and bet
ser farmer for it, and it is his duty as
we'll as his privilege. The only reason
chat he does not is that he has per
nitted himself and his family to get
INTO rut of beef and cabbage, pork
and pototoes, that he finds it difficult
20 get out of. This is all wrong from
every point of view. He should get
put, he must get out, if he would make
The most of himself and his family,
and now is the time to make begin
aing. Here's spring, with all its gar
iening opportunities. Improve them
Enlarge the boundaries of the garden
and enlarge your ideas of gardening
at the same time. Plan with liberal
views, and plant with liberal hand
is the old garden cramped2 Turn it
over to the women for the herbs and
"posey bed" and 60 out to the near
est side of the corn field, and make {
garden big enough in Which to spread
,ourelf. Make the rows as long as tht
ield is wide, as as far apart as will ad
nit your cultivator or horseshoe. ant
,ome to spare, and in them plant some
hing besides onions and cabbage. TAX,
he catalogue of the best scotsman
you know, and let the whole list o
vegetables. from artichokes to turnip'
De represented by one or two of tn,
best sorts. Plant every third row will
some one of the small fruits givin;
1t an extra liberal share of space
Now give this eide of the corn lield ;
little extra attention during the sea
son. Let it be the first when you be
gin to cultivate the last when yol
finish up. You will never miss tn
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More " OrId,

Children have funny ways of ex.
pressing themselves. Johnnie, who
was born and raised in the city, went
up to Portsmouth, a nice little town
on the Ohio, not long ago, and when
he came home he had much to tell.
"By the way, Johnnie" asked his
father. sis Portsmouth as big as Gin
einnati?"
"Well. no, papa. | guess not That
is, there amt nearly SO many houses,
but there is ever so much more world"
Merchant 7TaUeteT.
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Near Astoria, Ore, there Is deposit
OF clam shells which covers an area oil
over four acres, and 10 piled in places to
a depth of over four feet, The amount
OF shells Is inoalculable. Over 1000
loads have been hauled away to make
roads, but that amount Is hardly noticed
In the diminution OF tho immense heap.
From time to time relics of the old clam.
eating tribes that made that place their
headquarters are found. Aparty recent.
ly found olam-opener 1t was made
from a whales tooth, is about eight
inches long, and Is ground sharp at the
end. There are some sixteen inches Of
soil on top Of these immense clam beds,
on which grow fir trees, some of them
400 years old.
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In CUBA two hours before u paper 10
distributed on the street copy must DO
sont, with the editors name, to the gov
eminent and one to the censor. When
the paper is returned with tho censor's
Endorsement the paper may go out 10 tbs
public. One of tho newspapers in Ha!
yana disregards the law, publishes wha.
1t pleases aud when 1t gets ready. Every
few weeks the government fines the
editor and suppresses the paper. Tho
next day the paper appears under new
name, Its frequent brushes with the
government advertise It, and people buy
It to see what new indiscretion it has
committed. The subscription price 10
&24 q year,
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CHILDRES's COLUMN
The wind.


~ saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass
o wind, a.blowing all day long,
wind, that sings so loud songl
al saw the different things you did,
utalways you Yourself you hid,
/ felt you push heard You call,
could not see yourself ut all
o wind, ALLOWING all day long,
o wind, that sings so loud songl
ooh you that are so strong and cold,
o blower, are you young or oldi
Areyou boast Of iield and tree,
Or just stronger child than mel
o wind, a-blowins all day long,
o wind, that sing so loud a song!"
Robert Louis Stepenson
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The Effect OF Culture.

Boston girl Ito Uncle james, a far
ner)-"Do you like living on farm
Uncle james,"
Uncle James--'Yes, | like it very
much"
Boston girl-"I suppose it is nice
enough in the glad summer time, but
- go out in The. cod and snow to
gather winter apples and harvest win
er wheat Imagine might be any
Fling but pleasant.-Yeto York Times
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
A gilt nutmeg was formerly a con
o,on u;ft M Ch riotnoa

A gilt nutmeg was formerly COM
mon gift at Christmas.
The Romans used movable type
to mark their pottery and endorse
their books.
The large, prominent eyes Of the
brilliant dragon flies or devils darning
aeedles are each furnished with e..
700 polished lenses.
Pigeons have double crop In the
crop of the common fowl vegetable
Food is detained sixteen hours, or twice
as long as animal food.
The intestines measure $50 feet in
length in full-grown OK, while they
are but three times the length of the
body in the lion and six times in man.
1t is difficult to drown an insect. as
the water cannot enter the pores OF
the skin, but if drop of oil be APP
piled to the abdomen it falls dead al
once, DelnS SuHocdlcu.
Sound travels through the air at
the rate of LAP feet in a second. OF
about mile in four and two-thirds
seconds. Metal conducts sound at the
rate of II, S65 feet per second.
Nine persons out of ten would say
that the actual color Of gold and silver
was yellow and white Let these nine
persons try to match these colors and
they will be astonished to find that
drab silk matches gold and gray
silver.
The practice of scalping is not pecu-
liar to the American aborigines.
Southall, in his "Recent Origin of
Man." quotes from Herodotus to show
that the Scythians used to scalp their
fallen enemies. In the present time
The wild tribes of northeastern Bengal
use the scalping knife.
According to the Medical Record,
i've per cent. of all the cancers are
situated upon the tongue. The aver
age duration Of life in cancer of the
;ongue is, without operation, stated to
DC 105 months: with operation. sixteen
months. In some cases, after opera
lions, patients have lived from two to
ave and even ten years.
BY the exertion of the late Capt
Marryat (mainly instrumental in sup.
pressing the vile system of press
gangs) no naval officer may inflict
logging until twenty four hours after
the commission of an offence, so that
punishment may not be the result OF
passion. In Scotland, by an act Of
George l., no sentence of death can be
inflicted on the south side of the
Forth in less than thirty, and on the
north in less than forty days.
1t is dogma of many of the in
habitants of the Congo basin. thai
white people live at the bottom of tn,
sea. In proof of this theory they adj
!iuce the fact that. when foreicr
vessel appears off the coast. the top
Of her maats first appear, then he
sails. and finally her hull. When sh,
sails away, the same phenomenon
occurs, only in the reverse manner
Plainly therefore European ship
come up from the bottom of the sea
and it that be the case, it follows tina
their crews and passengers must d
tho Same
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An Emperor Turneo into soap.

A parallel case TO ''Imperious Cesar,
lead and turned to clay" stopping q
iole to keep the wind away, has been
'ound in Rome this year. The ashes Of
IN Imperial Caesar, Piso, were lately en-
,loyed for the lye Of a Roman woman's
Tashtub upon the discovery of the urn
n which they had reposed for eighteen
centuries. They were so white and
,lean," explained the workman, THAT
gathered them together in a basket and
tent them to my wife to make soap Tor
washinQ,n
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IT is officially announced that the cpl.
demic of trichinosis prevailing from
September to December last in the dis
trict of Magdeburg, Germany, resulted
In 403 cases of sickness, of which sixty
six proved fatal, was caused by single
pig. Careful investigation proved that
death was in every case due to eating
the flesh raw.
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time, and you win live better than you
have ever lived before.-0ur Country
| Home


Mr.. A. G. Sharp, OF the Richmond,
Mass Grange gave in a lecture some
items of experience In renovating
worn land, which he says involves, to
begin with, "a man chock full of days
works."
"Like the old woman who put the
poorest pork In the bottom of the bar
rel 80 as to have the best to eat first
all the way down, took my best land
first and have MANFRED heavily as far
as have gone. I do not believe in
ploughing up more land than I can
manure heavily every time. What
would be light coat for some lands
would be heavy for others; we must
know our soil and how much 1t needs,
There Is little danger Of putting on too
much. l began in the middle of my
farm and have cleared on an average
two acres of rocks each year"
II have put up some new fence each
year, if only very little. make all
the manure / can each year, using
some sorbents-muck, ten to twelve
tons swamp hay, dry sifted coal-ashes
and some forest leaves, and then buy
all the fertilizer 1 dare to besides, OF
all l think l can use to advantage on
crops. We should grow more soiling
crops, such as sowed corn. Hungarian
and millet. For late fall feeding COW
barley; even after August this can
be done and make good green feed
for cows after the frost has bitten the
cornstalks.
"The more we can feed out on the
farm the faster we can improve 1t. 1t
is not safe to sell hay unless you draw
home some bran or fertilizer the same
day that you sell the hay on the return
trip, for once the money slips away for
something else you are not apt to buy
the fertilizer. There is no better fer.
tilizer than barnyard manure, but
when hay is worth over $l2 a ton in
the barn sell it aud put every cent OF
the money you get for it into barnyard
manure if you can get that which has
been under cover for IS per cord dc
livered.
81 plough in all the barnyard ma
nure can get every spring, and never
let any manure heat in the barnyards
1 believe if manure is ploughed in
green the land must get all there Is in
it, and it is then out of the way in
hoeing and cultivating. Some may
make the mistake of ploughing TOT
deep at first. This should not bt
done, but simply plough an inch deep
er every time so as not to turn up too
much clay or hardpan at one time
But do this gradually, and you can ado
much to the value of the land in thai
way in few times ploughing."
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The natives of India are said to give
their horses opium when they desire to
accomplish long journeys, 1t is related
that an Indian horseman gave his
animal dram Of opium and thus en-
abled him to travel with ease forty
miles farther,
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Japan has an army Of 10000 men,
reserve of twice that number. and q
territorial reserve of 10000, all dress
ed and equipped in European fashion,
carrying Remington rifles. Service Is
obliuntory
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A NATURAL ANXIETY

Prompts many q man of family
to seek his doctors advice as
to the best means Of preventing
disease and preserving health.
In such cases the judicious
physician will recommend the
use of
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OUR FIELD OF SUCCESS

tits, Bronchitis,
made this branch oil
ments. We have eve
the organs involved,
scopes, spirometers,
kinds of apparatus
atomizations, pulver
approved medicinal
We publish three
diseases, viz: A Ire
chitis; price, postp
Phthisic, giving new
ten cents !; A treats
two cents.
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! DISEASES Of
| DIGESTION.

tributing in their functions to th
obscure, and are not infreqcntly
physicians for other maladies, and
to tho removal of disease which
Treatise on diseases of the Digest
address on receipt of ten cents in