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Oil on Breaking Seas.

Among the accounts of experiences
with oil to diminish the violence of
breaking seas is the following from W.
G. Whitmore, q pilot of Port Adelaide:
"The first time l saw the soothing
effects of oil on the sea was in 1848,
when serving my time in a whaling ship
in Davis Straits. I have there seen the
ship lying-to in a gale of wind cutting
in a whale alongside, and the seq for a
circle of many miles was quite smooth,
caused by the oil from the vale. My
next experience was in 1868. l COM
handed a ship bound from Newcastle
to Melbourne. When off Sydney Head
I encountered a terrific gale, followed
by a tremendous sea, my ship max
ing a great deal of water, and found it
necessary to run for a port of shelter.
After getting the ship before the wind
the heavy sea that was run.
ming sometimes broke over the
stern to the danger of the ship and
crew. then tried oil. but my manner
of using it in the first place was wasteful
and of no effect, as / tried it with a bot
tie and jcrked it through q hole in the
cork, but I found it blew about the stern
of the ship, and not in the sea. then
tried the oil bag, putting about one.half
gallon in the bag, tying the neck tight
and towing it astern of the ship. After
a short time the effect was wonderful,
for what was a very heavy running and
dangerous sea was reduced by the use
of the oil into what a seaman would call
blind rollers, quite harmless to the ship;
in fact the effect was SO marked that it
appeared by looking astern that the YES
sci was passing through lane of smooth
water, I reported the good effect to my
owners and others, but it was not lis
tened to. On the score of expense, as
they said it would be used when not
necessary. I have used it many times
with like success. AS to expense: l ran
my h%alf-sinking ship from Sydney Head
to Port Stephens, a distance of sixty
eight miles, in eight hours and one half,
on a consumption of two and one-half
gallons of oil, although my way of using
it was wasteful. My subsequent ex-
periences have convinced me that a ship
could run in any sea with safety for
twenty-four hours on a consumption OF
five gallons of oil. I would especially
recommend it for the use of lifeboats,
as it would enable the crews to perform
their work with less risk.
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Feeding Cattle.

Some recently published ':Notes on
Cattle Feeding" by Professor George E..
Morrow, of the University of Illinois, at
Champaign, Ill.,, are we'll worth study.
The summing up of the notes is as fol.
lows:
Bearing in mind that it is not wise to
draw final conclusions from single trials,
the facts concerning these cattle suggest
or illustrate among other things that:
1. The differences in animals of like
breeding and under like treatment are
often greater than those between typical
animals of different breeds.
2. Under the prevalent methods of
wintering steers in the Western States
little CT no gain is made in weight dur
ing winter.
5. 1t is difficult, if not impossible, to
secure under good conditions gains in
winter which shall nearly equal those
made in summer
4. The largest gains may be expected
from animals in thin flesh, if in good
health. 1t is difficult to secure rapid
gain in weight dnring long continued
eeding.
5. Under like conditions young ami
mails make largest gain in proportion to
food eaten.
6. A fair profit can be made, even at
present low prices, by grazing and then
grain feeding for two or three months
cattle which have been judiciously
bought or economically reared to be sold
when from thirty to thirty.six months
old.
T. Economy Of production is quite rs
important as maximum product, especi-
ally in times of low prices. 1t is not
clear that it is profitable to full grain
feeding to steers designed for the general
markets during the best of the grazing
season. 1t is not proved that it is most
profitable for Western farmers to fatten
and sell their steers as yearlings.
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Household Hints.

Don't stand lamps upon shelves or
mantels, the brackets of which are Sc
cured only with plaster.
To clean ivory, rub it with bicarbon
ate of sodium, applied by means of q
toothbrush dipped in warm water.
Beautiful and substantial carpets arc
made of paper at very low prices, by a
Connecticut man, not related to the
wooden nutmeg maker.
TO wash dried fruit that has sand in
it, place the fruit in q sieve. Put the
sieve in u large pan with plenty of water;
the sand will pass through and can cast
ly be removed.
Old feather beds, by putting them
upon a clean grass-plot during a heavy
shower, permitting them to be thor
oughly wet through and then dried and
beaten with light rods, will frcshcn and
e%nliven the feathers.
If boiled in vinegar, black cotton
goods will never lose their freshness.
Ox-gall is also excellent to preserve
colors, and is particularly useful in
washing delicate tinted stockings. All
colored goods should be hung in the
shade to dry.
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Saving Waste Material.

There are so many ways around a farm
for profits to leak away that it is only
the careful and prudent man who can
make the business pay. In the fields,
the barns, the house, the cellars and
granaries, there is always danger of q
waste that in the aggregate throws the
balance Of the years accounts very near
the losing side. 1t is here a little and
there a little, in the "odds and ends"
that the waste goes on. In the single
item of fertilizers enough is wasted from
year to year on some farms to make oil
the difference between failure and pos
sible success. Advising its readers on
this subject the Massachusetts P'orghman
SAYS all the waste bones that accumulate
on the farm should DO carefully saved,
and not sold for half a cent a pound,
because they are worth much more than
that for the phosphate which they con.
tain; this may be utilized by burning
them, which is the easies: way if one has
but q small quantity; but if several hun
dred pounds have been collected, it is
desirable to reduce them to plant food
in a manner to save the nitrogen. This
can be done by dlssolving caustic pot
ash in water, making it quite strong, and
heating it over the fire; when hot, and
the bones have been packed close in a
tight cask. the liquid is poured over the
bones until they are we'll covered; keep
them thus for several weeks, wheni it will
be found that the hardest bones have
softeued by the action of the potash;
take them out and mix them thoroughly
with dry muck or plaster, or even fine
coal ashes, and it will be found to be
equal to any fertilizer that is offered in
the market for fifty dollars per ton, and
the coast will be not more than half of
it. This material will be found to be
good for any crop grown on the farm,
but great care must be taken in using it,
as it is very strong AND will kill the
sprouts OF seed if brought in direct con
tact with them.
There is always on every farm more
or less waste vegetable materials that
might be collected together and com.
posted to good advantage. Whenever
weeds have been permitted to advance so
far as to ripen their seeds, they Mould
have mixed with them a sufficient
amount of horse or sheep manure to heat
them hot enough to destroy the seed,
thus clearing the farm of weed seeds,
and at the same time getting some ex-
cellent manure. Every farmer by paying
q little more attention to this subject
could greatly increase the fertility of his
farm without paying out any money for
commercial fertilizers.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

A BANJO concert has just been given OF
Chickering Hall, New York.
A THEATRE with a seating capacity of co.
00O is to DO built in New Orleans.
GILBERT and SULL1vAN's income from
"The Mikado'i in the United States alone, it
is said, will be 100000.
EDGAR S.. KELLY, a young San Francisco
musician, is writing the music for an opera
to be called Beauty and the Beast"
JENNY LIND will sing in public next sum-
mer for the first time in twenty two years.
Her appearance will be for a charitable pur-
pose.
GOSSIP says that Irving's production Of
"Faust'' in London will cost $780, LO. A
special peal OF bells has been cast for it, and
an organ has been, built for the cathedral
scene.
THE new ballet, "Amor," which is about to
be produced at Milan, requires go danseuses
and 2, 800 costumes, beside an elephant, four.
teen horses, twenty dogs and quite a menageria
of monkeys and bears.
ANTON RUBINsTEIN is now giving in Wen.
ia his Cyclus, or series of seven concerts,
illustrating the whole history of piano music.
Selections from the works OF thlrty-one COM
posers are to be performed.
THE Alcanzar, anew theatre built in San
Francisco by Mr.. DeIoung, the owner of the
Chronicle, has Moorish decorations through
out. The drop curtain, representing a Moor.
ish scene, is "a work af art"
THE private theatrical performances before
the king Of Bavaria have been resumed In
Munich, in spite of the circumstances OF his
ministers. At these performances the only
spectator is the crazy king himself.
THERE is a dog in Allentown, Penn, that
is so fond of music that he almost lives in a
barber shop whore the clarionet is frequently
plaved. When outside and refused admit
tance he keeps up q constant bowling until
the music ceases.
Mr.. HAwEIs says that the secret OF Wag'
ner's power over the hearts of the German
people was that ''he transformed their legenci
into music,' which legends, he says, have
the power within themselves Of c~ondensins
the life Of O people,"
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How to Manage Hogs.

Winter is here, and the farmer is
planning means for making his hogs lift
the mortgage off his farm, writes IAN
Old Timer" in the Hog. First he goes
to the corn crib and selects the imperfect
com, that he would not think of feeding
any other animal on the place, and piles
it in a heap for his hogs. 1t is moldy
and rotten and perhaps there isn't a per-
feet grain in a bushel, but after the
soured mass is fed to the hogs the corn
in the crib will sell a grade higher, and
he is that much the gamer. He tried the
experiment last year, and would have
made a big speculation out of it, but the
hog disease was bad last season and most
of the hogs died. He put another
mortgage on the farm, however, in Or
der to clear up the interest and
invest in another lot of hogs, and he is
sure of big profits on both his select
corn and pork this time. 1t takes
a big head to make ends meet in
farming now a days, and as anything is
good enough for hogs they are mighty
profitable for eating up all the trash.
Beside it is no trouble i'll the world to
take care OF them. All they need is an
open field, where they can have perfect
ventilation, and where they can thaw
sufficient snow to get abundance OF
drink. If they need any shelter they
can get behind a barbed wire fence and
pile on top of each other to keep warm.
If the blasts are bitter cold let them
have access to yonder old straw stack,
which should have been burnt up, as it
had all the life eaten out of it last win
ter. 1t is astonishing though, how hogs
like to nest in that straw, and it goes to
prove that nothing should be thrown
away or destroyed on the farm, when
hogs are around to utilize it.. Manure
piles are mighty servicehble in the win
ter for hog beds. They will turn out
of them in the morning as hot as a loco
motive under fall steam, and their shiv-
ering makes them 80 tired they won't
ever stop to eat their corn; it is mighty
saving on the corn and makes it last
twice as long. There is no sense in
treating hogs like other animals and
making them weigh from a quarter to a
half ton. 1t is just abundance of pork
that gluts the market and forces prices
down. Let them root, hog, or die, and
there won't be half as much pork and
prices will spring So high no one can
afford to eat hog meats but kings and
e%picures. In this way we can surely
establish a foreign market. Bismarck
wifi be certain to remove the German
tariff as soon as the price is so high
that no one can eat hog but himself.
There are a lot of cranks who take care
of their pigs as if they we're babies, in
stead of letting them take care of them
selves like pigs ought to do to be profit
able. Turn them into the woods and
never count their noses until ready to
market. 1t will make them self-sup-
porting, and we want a hog that will
support itself and its owner too. If the
rules of management laid down here
are carried out there will be no disease
and NJ hogs.
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Recipch

BEEF HASH, WITH POAcHED EGG.-
Boiled fresh or salt beef left from the
preceding day and made into a hash
with one half meat, one-quarter each of
potato and apple, and a little minced
celery, nicely cooked and served on
toast with q poached egg, is a very good
breakfast dish.
DAT FLAKE GR1DDLE-CAKEs.-One
pint of oat flakes. a t%easpoonsul of salt,
an ounce of melted butter, two eggs
we'll beaten, a scant pint of milk; mix
we'll and stir in a t%easpoonful of flour.
When the griddle is hot, grease it slight
ly; pour from a large spoon on the grid
die; continue until the griddle is COW
cred with small cakes, then turn the first
one, and so on until all are done. Wipe
the griddle with q clean cloth, and
grease slightly after each batch.
RED CABBAGE, HoLLANDA1sE. "A
Dutch recipe for cooking red cabbage
is always the most reliable. Remove the
outer leaves and quarter the head; cut
out the stalk and cut the cabbage in
very fine strips; strew over it a liberal
quantity of salt and half a gill of vine
gar; let stand a moment. Cut into dice
nearly half a pound of fat bacon; fry it
crisp, and free from the fat; then remove
the dice and add the cabbage to the
bacon fat; add a gill of soup stock or q
meat gravy; cover and simmer slowly an
hour, and add a %teaspoonful of granu-
lated sugar, and a pinch of caraway
seeds; dredge with flour from the
dredger; simmer ten minutes longer and
serve.
PURGE or SPLIT PEA Cut two slices
Of bacon into little pieces; fry them out,
and fry in the fat half a minced onion
until brown; add a pint of hot water or
clear soup, and season with a few stalks
of celery, a small carrot shredded, salt
and whole black peppers, and a few
sprigs of parsley; simmer an hour and
turn the contents of the pan into three
pints of soup stock. Add a pint of split
peas which have been soaked in cold
water over night. Simmer gently until
the peas can be easily mashed between
the fingers, taste for seasoning, add
more salt and pepper, if necessary, and q
s~altspoonful of brown sugar. Take the
saucepan off the range, and pour the
soup and rub the pulp through a sieve;
to the fire and add a ~teaspoonful
of wet flour. Whisk the soup thorough
", and let it stand on the back of the
range to keep hot until wanted. The
longer it is made before dinner the bet
ter.-NeU York Cook. =.
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Is Ev:ry Body Drunk.s

Among the many stories Lincoln used to
relate was the following: Trudging along a
lonely road one morning On my way to the
county seat, Judge overlook me with bis
wagon and invited me to a seat.
We had not gone far before the wagon be-
gan to wobble. Said 1, "Judge, I think your
coachman has taken a drop too much"
Putting his head out Of the window, the
judge shouted: why, yon Internal scoun.
drel, you are drunk!'
Turning around with great gravity, the
coachman said: "Re dad! but that's the frs
rightful session your Honor's giv'n n twep
mont!"
If people knew the facts they would be sur
prised to learn how many people reel in the
Streets who never 'drink a drop" They are
the victims Of sleeplessness, Of drowsy days,
of apoplectic tendencies, whose blood is set
on fire by uric acid. Some day they will reel
no more-they will drop dead, just because
they haven't the moral courage to defy use.
less professional attendance, and by uss Of
the wonderful Warmers safe cure neutralize
the uric acid in the system and thus get rid
of tho drunkenness in tho blood. "-7he
american Rural Home.
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MARYLAND, NV Maryland.

Maryland legislators, who are always
alive to the public interests, have en-.
dorsed the new discovery, Red Star
Cure; because it contains neither
morphia nor opium, and always cures.
The price is only % cents.
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BLOOD PURIFIERS and "invigorators,"
'tonics," and "alteratives," have been
palmed off upon the people, but, after a
brief season of experiment, have disap-
peared because of their utter worthless
ness. DR.. WALKERS famous VINEGAR
B1rTERs are not of this class. Many
million bottles have been sold, and still
does the demand continue to increase.
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It cannot be too deeply impressed on
the mind that application is the price to
lie paid for mental acquisitions, and that
it is as absurd to expect them without it
as to hope for a harvest where we had
not sown the seed.
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In a communication to the London
Royal society, Shelford Bidwell has
shown that iron bars are elongated by
maenctization; that steel bars are elon.
gated, more than hard steel; and that
nickel is shortened.
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Rescued from Death.
William j. C%oughlin, Of Somerville, Mass.
says: In the fall of 1876 was taken with BLEED
ING OF LUNGS followed by a severe cough.
lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to
my bed. In 1877 l was admitted to the Hospital.
The doctors said l had a hole in my lung as big
as a half dollar. At one time a report went
around that 1 was dead. l gave up hope, but
a friend told me of DR.. WILLIAM HALLS
BALSAM o THE LUNGS. l got q bottle, when,
to my surprise, l commenced to feel better, and
to-day Ifeel better than for three years past.
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Ex-CoNGREssMAN Bedford, of Colorado,
who had been reduced to the verge of the
grave by intemperance, has entirely re-
formed, and is once more on his feet with a
growing law practice.
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Whether transmitted from parents or acquired. is
solvent.
Cures have been made where persons have been
and 40 wears of age, by DIR. RAILWAYS SARSAPA-
RILLIAN RESOLVENT, q remedy composed Of in
gradients of extraordinary medical properties, essen
tial to purify, heal, repair and invigorate the broken
down and wasted body. Quick, pleasant, safe and
permanent in its treatment and cure.
Sold BY all druggists. One dollar a bottle.
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DYSPEPSIA!

DR.. Railways Pills are a cure for this com:
plant. They restore strength to the stomach and
Of Dyspepsia disappear and with them the liability Of
the system to contract diseases. Take the medicine
according to directions, and observe what we say in
False and True respecting diet.
W-Scnd q letter stamp to DIR. RADWAf q
90, No. 80 Warren Street, New York, Tor
False and True"
*u*Rc sure to get w
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A Lucky Man.

"a lucky man is rarer than a white crow"
says Juvcnal, and we think he knew. How
ever, we have heard of thousands of lucky ones
and we propose to let their secret out. They
were people broken down in health, suffering
with liver, blood and skin diseases, s%crofuIla,
enough to hear of and wise enough to use DR..
Golden Medical Discovery" the SOY.
ercign blood purifier, tonic and Alternative of
f1,n nra
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A Bonanza Mine

A SYNDICATE of Southerncrs is raising funds
to establish an agency in New York city for the
sale of Confederate money.
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A ONCE prominent minister Of the gospel ID
running a bar in Uleda, NJ. T.
DisaqreeabIe.-- Danqer0us

Catarrh is IN exceedingly disagreeable disease, It's
varied symptoms-discharge at the nose, bad breath,
pain between the eyes, coughing, choking sensation,
ringing noises in the ears, &c.-being not only trou.
blesome to the sufferer but offensive to others. Ca
tarrh Is also dangerous, because 1t may lead to bron-
rhitis or consumption. Being a blood disease the
true method to cure Is TO purify the blood. To purify
the blood take Hoods Sarsaparilla, by which many
sufferers from catarrh have been cured.
II suffered three years from catarrh, and my gen.
eral health was poor In consequence. When I took
Hoods Sarsaparilla I found I had the right remedy.
The catarrh is yielding. as Hoods Sarsaparilla Is
cleansing my blood, and the general tone of my sys.
tenn is improving. My case is Of such long standing
that Ibid not expect to be cured in an Instant
FRANK WAsHBUGS, Rochester, n. Y.
II suffered with catarrh fifteen years; tried all the
catarrh remedies without benefit. and was about to
try q change OF climate when l took Hoods SarSa.
parilla. l would not take any money consideration
for the good one bottle did me-. Now I am not trou.
blcd any with catarrh IL ". ILLS, Chicago, Ill.
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MENsMAN'S PEPTONIZED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nutri-
ti0us properties. 1t contains ~blood-lnakln2
Invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility;
also. in all enfccbled conditions, whether tho
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard g.
Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists.
WHEN you get your boots and shoes straight
ened use Lyons Heel Stiffeners; they will save
money, give comfort and keep them straight.
3months' treatment for Soc. Piso's Remedy
for Catarrh. Sold by druggists.
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of health is to be found in DR.. R. Y. Pierce:
"Favorite Prescription to the merits of whicl
as Il remedy for female weakness and kindred
affections thousands testify.
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Rescued from Death.

HELIoTROpEs and %geraniums in California
grow as large as lilac trees.
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DR., RAILWAYS PILLS

For the cure Of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver,
Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Loss
Of Appetite. Headache; Oostiyeness, Indigestion
Biliousness, Fever, Inflammation OF the, Bowels,
Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals
or deleteriors drugs,
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y r 4 Decline of man or woman, prema-
turcly induced by excuses or bad practices,
speedily and radically cured. Book GllustratedD
Id cents in stamps. Consultation free. Worlds
DisncnsarY Medical Association, Buffalo, \. \.
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Turkey is the only state in Europe that
is not Christian.
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rnZer Axle Grease.
The Frazer Axle Grease is the best and, in
trinsically, the cheapest. Don't work your
horses to death by using poor grease. Try it.
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It is purely vegetable, and meets q
want lever before furnished to the
public, and the utmost reliance may
be placed in it.
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A PLANT has been discovered in Central
America from which real" ostrich feathers
will soon be made.
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The four SON. of Lieutenant Kisling-
bury, of arctic fame, receive a pension of
$40 each per month.