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Saving Off q Church Steeple.

To O reporter Mr.. Aubin conided yes
tcrday a few of the mysteries attending
his ascent to the top of St. Paul's Re-
formed Episcopal steeple, which explain
pretty much how his work in general is
accomplished. The total height of the
steeple from the ground was 200 feet,
the spiral portion which rose from the
tower being 1875 1cet. Placing his block
and tackle and his swing-stage in a con-
venient position on the ledge of the
tower, he climbed to the highest possible
point in the inside of the spire from
which he could gain an exit to the open
air. Emerging from the interior, he
winds a rope three times around the
spire in a mysterious and unexplained
manner, and fastens its ends together.
He then winds another rope nee around
the spire, fastens its ends together, and
attaches thereto a belt which is bound
around his body. This part of the ap-
paratus is designed to keep his body
from falling back, and afford general
steadiness in the ascent. He then grasps
the lower coil of the triple rope with
Que uduu dIu lue uiSA0i VII IAo oeo"i,
and walks along the centre rope, chang
ing at every step his hand-grasps on the
other ropes. He thus winds his way
around the spire, getting higher at every
step, steadied meanwhile and kept in
position by the rope to which the waist
belt is attached. AS he gradually gets
higher the support rope tends to get
loose, and this is remedied by drawing
on it by the buckles of the wafst-belt.
When a height is reached where the
spire is sufficiently narrow to permit the
climber to grasp it around with his arms
he let's go his hold on the ropes and
chambers to the top. Once there, by
means of a small clothes line he lets
down a hammer, the claws of which
seize the block and tackle On the tower
below, and both are raised to the top.
A descent is then made for the swing.
stage, which is attached to a hook of
the block, and the stecple- jack is now
ready to begin work. He starts in to
remove the boards of the wooden spire
about eight or ten feet from the top,
and then saws off in sections the posts
above. The same process is earned on
in the descent by block and tackle, until
after a weeks work the steeple lisa thing
of the past,
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StHbIing DairY Cows.

It is a good plan to have the cows
stabbed above ground: the cellar stable
being undesirable for the reason, if none
other can be given, that it is impossible
to get sufficient fresh air about the ami
mails. In fact, whatever be the form of
stable, too much pure, healthful air can
not be obtained, aud even an above
ground stable is very defective if there
is a manure cellar underneath. Such
stables are to be condemned and are
often revolving, the air about them
being impreguated with foul odor, which
will penetrate the milk in spite of all
efforts to the contrary. There is no alb
solute need of a gutter behind the COWS,
if the platform is raised six or eight
inches, and if this fall is just behind
their heels, and the passage way is kept
sprinkled with gypsum and covered
with dry sawdust. Without the gutter
the stable can be kept cleaner, and if
the COW is so fastened that she cannot
walk forward and dung that portion of
the platform upon which she rests her
flank and udders when lying down, this
method will give satisfaction Tribune
and Farmer.
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How General Gordon Was Killed.

The war office has forwarded to us the
subjoined copy of the confidential report
made by Major H. H. Kitchener on the
fall of Kha.toum:
The only account by person claiming
TO be an eye witness of the scene OF
General Gordon's death, relates: ION
hearing the noise, I got my masters
donkey and vert with him to the palace.
We met Gordon Pasha at tho outer door
of the palace. Muhammed Bey Mustapha,
with my master, Ibrahim Bey Rushdi,
and about twenty %canvasses, then went
with Gordon toward the house OF the
Austrian Consul Hansel, near the church,
when we met some rebels near the outer
gate of the palace. Gordon Pasha was
walking in front leading the party. The
rebels fired a volley, and Gordon was
killed at once; nine of the %canvasses,
[brahim Bey Rushdi, and Muhammed
Bey Musaapha were killed, the rest ran
away"
A large number of witnesses state
Gordon was killed near the gate of the
palace, and various accounts have been
related from hesrsay of the exact manner
IN which he met his end. Several re-
liable witnesses saw and recognized
Gordon's body at the gate of the palace;
one describes it as being dressed IN light
clothes. The Soudan custom Of behead-
inc and exposing the beads of adverse
ries slain in battle was, apparently, carried
out, as was done by the Mudir of Dongo!a
Alter the battle 81 Ho.j.
The Bagara savages seem to have had
some doubt which was Gordon's body,
and great confusion occurred in the
Mahdi's camp at Omdurman, where the
heads were exposed, as to which was
Gordon's head, some recognizing, Others
denying the identity of Gordon's head.
One apparently reliable witness relates
that he saw the rebels cut off Gordon's
head at the palace gate after the town
was in their hands. London Telegraph.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
Mango i'm Horses.

Mango is of two kinds; one consists
of an animal parasite, a small insect on
acorns, which burrows in the skin, and
q plant which grows upon the surface
and sends its roots under it, causing
much irritation and destroying the hair.
Either kkinds is destroyed by a caustic
application mixed with oil or greesc.
such as lard. The skin is first softencd
by washing with warm water and soap
and is then dried. The caustic mostly
used is creosote diluted with oil or lard.
A proportion of kerosene oil is often
used with advantage for the acid which
it contains and for it's penetrating quality.
The proportions are as follows: Four
ounces of oil or lard, one ounce of kero-
seneN oil, and one dram of creosote. This
is we'll rubbed into the skin after it has
been washed and dried. If any crusts
exists under which the parasites are pro-
tected these are to be thoroughly broken
up and removed in the washing.--NeW
York Times.
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Household Hints.

To clean furniture that is not vanished
rub with a cloth wet with kerosene.
TO brighten or clean silver or nickel
plated ware, rub with a wooden cloth
and -four.
If you wish to pour boiling hot liquid
into a glass jar or tumbler, it can be
safely accomplished by first placing a
spoon N the jar.
Carpets should be thoroughly beat en-
the wrong side first, and then on the
right side, after which spots may be re-
moved by the use Of ox-gall or ammonia
and wat"-,
1t is surprising how much a little ten
cent bottle of glue helps to keep things
from growing shabby. A corner falls
out of your bookcase or bureau-it is
lost or mislaid--and the piece of furni.
ture looks poor indeed with that CLEAN
of pine against the black walnut. But
if you have one day in the week for
mending, all is kept tidy with little loss
of time and without expense.
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TIE Tucrease os Tpsr,j.v

= Boston supports 500 insane, says Mr.. 7. B.
Sanborn, not IS of whom will recover!
This is frightful! Insanity has increased
40 per cent. in a decade and most Of tine case:
are incurable. Whatever the individual cause
may be, the fact remains that Uric Acid
blood sets the brain on fire, destroys lis It's
sues, and then comes some form of fatal
lunacy.
Nothing is so pitiable as a mind diseased.
Most brain troubles begin in the stomach
then if the blood is filled with uric acid.
caused by failure of kidney action. and the
consequent destruction of the blood life-al.
bumen-you have the fuel and the flame and
a brain in full blaze as when one raves, or in
slow combustion, as in miider forms of insan.
ity. Rev. L. D. Hopkins, of St. J%ohusbury,
VT, q few years ago was confined in an asy.
lum. He took a terrible cold while aiding in
putting out a fire in a neighbours burning
house, and for twenty-five years that cod was
slowly filling his blood with uric acid and
finally the deadly work was done. The case
looked hopeless. but he happily used Warmers
safe cure and recovered. That was three years
ago, and having ridden his. blood OF all ST..
plus uric acid, he has remained we'll until
this day.
1t is indeed a terrible thing to lose ones
mind, but it is a more terrible thing to suffer
such q condition when it can be so easily pre-.
vented.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

The secret of success is %constancy to
purpose.
We are never so happy or unhappy as
we suppose.
One mans word is no mans word
we should quietly hear both sides.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch as the sunbeam.
Moderation is the silken string run.
ming through the pearl chain of all vir'
tues.
Teach self denial and make it's practice
pleasurable, and you create for the world
a destiny more sublime than ever issued
from the brain of the widest dreamer.
Carlyle says: We are firm believers in
the maxim that, for all right judgment
of any man or thing, it is useful, nay es.
s%ential, to see his good qualities before
pronouncing on his bad.
Everything which tends to discourage
or agitate the mind, whether it be exces'
sive sorrow, rage or fear, envy or re-
venge, love or despair-in short, what.
ever acts violently on IL mental facul-
ties, tends to injure the health.
Exemption from mistake is not the
privilege of mortals ; but when our mis-
takes are involuntary, we owe each other
every candid consideration a; and the
man who on discovering his errors &C.
knowledges and corrects them, is scarcely
less entitled to our esteem than if he had
not erred.
Every one, however humble, has a
mission to do, or say, or think something
which has never been done, or said, or
thought ; therefore let each one, while
gratefully accepting the help and profit.
ing by the wisdom of others, cultivate
his own individuality, live his own indie.
pendent life, and fulfill his W posi-
bilities,
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Recipes.

FRUIT CooKIEs.-Two cups of sugar,
one cup of butter, two cups of chopped
raisins, two eggs, two tablespoonful of
SOUL milk, two tablespoonful of CHINA
mon, one ~teaspoonful of nutmeg, cloves
and soda. Bake same as other cookies.
Nut CAKE.-Two.th thirds of q cup of
butter, two cups of sugar, three eggs.
one cup of milk, three OF -four, two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cup
of hickory nut meats chopped fine. This
makes two layers; frost, and lay on
halves of English walnuts.
BEE FE1TTEEs.-Beef fritters are nice
for breakfast; chop pieces of steak OF
cold roast beef very fine. Make q batter
of milk. -four and an egg, and mix the
meat with it. Put a lump of butter into
n saucepan, let it melt, then drop the
batter into it from a large spoon. Fry
until brown; season with pepper and
salt and a little parsley.
APPLE Por P1E.-Fourteen apples,
peeled, cored and sliced, one and one.
half pints -four, one "teaspoonful baking
powder, one cupful sugar, one-half cup
full butter, one cupful milk, large pinch
salt. Sift flour with powder and salt,
rub in butter cold, add milk, mix into
dough as for tea biscuits; with it line
shallow stewpan to within two inches of
bottom; pour in one and one-half cup.
fuls water, apples and sugar: wet edges
and cover with rest of dough; put cover
on, set to boil twenty minutes, then place
in moderate oven until apples are cooked;
then remove from oven, cut top crust in
four equal parts; dish apples, lay on
them pieces OF side crust cut in diamonds,
and pieces Of top crust on a plato; serve
with cream.
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thus Handled. They are Shipped in just
as weak brine as experience has shown
will keep them from tainting on the voy.
age. On arrival, the casks arc opened,
and the hams thrown to soak in a great
vat. When the salt is sufficiently drawn
from the surface, they are taken out and
beaten up into their original form, then
the trimmcrs take off a shaving all
around on the feshside; they are exposed
a day in the smoke-house, just to give
them a golden russell tint, and then they
are exposed for sale. We will warrant
that slices of such hams, we'll broile6, OF
ever fried, will in every quality, beat
the native American home-cured article,
out and out.-American Agriculturist.
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C1Nc1NNATI.-The 1Imes-S Star says:
"a remarkable discovery, made last
winter, is attracting widespread inter-
est. As it involves a most important
question-that of public health, it is
being discussed by eminent physicians
and public men. 1t is shown conclusively
that throat and lung troubles can be
cured without resorting to the use OF
morphia or opium-especially danger
Gus in the case OF children as arresting
development, and poisoning the system.
The Governor of Maryland II | all the off,
rills Of t!at STINT. ialorsc The remedy;
the State chemist Of Delaware pro-
nounces it the purest and most effective,
and hospitals and charitable institutions
in Philadelphia and other cities use it
with remarkable results. The remedy,
which is only twenty-five cents a bottle,
is Red Star Cough Cure. 1t is purely
vegetable; it contains no poison or
narcotics, and is q positive cure"
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Sunlight In BARNS.

Farmers, when building barns, do not
give enough attention to the matter OF
light. A horse, q COW, any domestic ami:
NAL, needs light as much as men and
women do. If one would know some.
thing about the effect of light on vege.
table life, let him undertake to grow
something in the dark. If it grow at all,
it will be thin and white. Remove it
into sunshine, or remove coverings and
let light fall upon it, and in a short time
the form and color will change. Light
and darkness are common conditions,
and men and animals-indeed, all animal
and vegetable liie-are made in harmony
Herewith. If an animal is kept con.
t%inuously in darkness, it loses health and
its sight soon becomes defective. The
same thing, on smaller scale, happens in
case of dark stables.
We have the report of an experiment
made with a calf some years ago as
follows:
We had two deep red calves of the
same age (sixty days., n weighing $50
pounds and the other 1872 pounds. The
latter we placed in a dark room, with a
trough that could be filled by a spout
through a partition. The other was
confined in the same amount OF
space, but in full light, and
fed exactly alike for the next
three months. The object was to test
the effect of light upon such agrowing
animal. At the end OF the time, the one
in the light weighed 43O pounds, and the
one in the dark weighed $50 pounds;
and it's color had faded to a very pale,
dirty red. Its eyes were so much affected
when admitted to the light, that it kept
them closed most of the time, for the
first week or two. The two calves were
kept on together, but the one from the
dark room never fully recovered from
the three monthS of darkness. 1t never
recovered its bright red color, al
though the color improved. Any one
who noted these two calves, during this
experiment, would never after doubt the
impolicy of a dark stable.
Every barn ought to be lighted, mot
so as to produce a glare in the stalls, but
sufficient to obtain a natural and COM
Portable condition of the animals as to
sight. Every stall ought to have one
small window, and that ought to be so
arranged as to prevent the suns rays
from shining directly in the animals
eyes. This can easily be done by pro.
tecting shades or blinds. The feed rooms
and halls, all ought to be lighted. Sun.
lirht is healthy. It is a good tonic and
health restorer. -Kansas Farmer.
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AWFUL INcEND1ARIsM.-To set on fire
the dwelling Of an immortal soul with
Alcohol is a great crime. Whoever
administers Rum Bitters to the sick is
guilty of it. The only medicine in ex-
istence which yextinguishes disease, by
removing all morbid matter from the sys.
tenn, is DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR BIT-
TIERS, a tonic, yet free from Alcohol.
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Poultry Hints.

The comb is a good indication OF q
fowls health. If she is in good
healthy condition her comb will be a
bright red; if otherwise her comb will
be of a pale color. Give variety of food,
q warm breakfast, meat quite often, with
wheat screenings and the like; cayenne
pepper mixed with the soft food given
them is excellent. Do not feed too
much corn to laying fowls, as it is very
fatteniug.
Look over your flock Of chicks and
pick out the culls, keep only the best
birds for breeding, select your finest
cockerels nov and market the rest.
A little wheat should be spared daily
for the growing chicks. Nothing will
bring the pullets to early laying better
than wheat. Feed generously.
Do not forget to feed the chicks
plenty of ground bone, oyster shells and
an occasional feed of meat. Boil the
small potatoes or other vegetables mixed
with bran, adding a dash of red pepper
and salt every few days. Ginger and
sulphur may be fed in soft feed occa-
sionally.
Milk in some form is a necessity for
little chicks. Keep the poultry house
and every place about it thoroughly
clean. Above all things be kind to your
fowls. Do not allow them to be afraid
of you. Cultivate their acquaintance.
If your che. Ive sud tx months old
are dropping and dying from no appar-
ent cause, they are probably suffering
from distemper, which generally occurs
between the twentieth and twenty-siSth
week of lie in the different breeds. Put
bromide o. potassium in the drinkin.
water in the proportion of two grains
per head, adjusting the quantity of
water so that all will be drunk in one
day. Do this every alternate three days
until twelve days have elapsed and you
will probably find the trouble has disap-
peared.-Pou!try Monthly.
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Home Items and Topics.
-"Al your own fault
II you remain sick when you can
Get hop bitters that never-Fail.

49,. -"An your own fault -
II you remain sick when you can
Get hop bitters that never-Fal.
The weakest woman, smallest child, and
sickest invalid can use hop bittsrs with safety
and great good.
Old men tottering around from Rheums-
tisln, kidney trouble or any weakness will be
made almost new by using hop bitters.
t8y-My wife and daughter were made
healthy blythe use Of hop bitters and I rec
ommend them to my people.-Methodist
Clergyman. . 49,. ~
Ask any good doctor if hop
Bitters are not the best family medicine
On earth /! !
IMalarial fever, Ague and Biliousness,
will leave every neighborhood as soon as hop
bitters arrive.
MY mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out Of her system with hop bit.
ters."-EL. Osoego Sun.
w-Keep the kidneys healthy with hop
bitters and you need not fear sickness.
The vigor of youth for the aged and in
firm in hop bitters q! !!
LAT the change Of life nothing equals
Hop Bitters to allay all trouble incident
Thereof"
1.-THE best periodical for ladies to take
| monthly, and from which they will receive
the greatest benefit is hop bitters."
Thousands die annually from some form
of kidney disease that might have been pre-
vented by timely use of hop bitters.,
T,d;roe+;on wooL eton,ach irraon1or;.
ties of the bowels, cannot exist when hop Bit
tiers are used.
A timely 49, = use Of hop
Bitters will keep a whole family
In robust health a year at a little cost.
TO produce real genuine sleep and child.
like repose all night, take a little hop bitters
on retiring.
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When you visit or loave New York city, save baggage,
express .ge and 50 carriage HRS. and stop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot.
GU elegant rooms. fitted up at q cost of one million
d,llars, 81 and upward p.r day, European plan. Ele'
stages and elevated railroads to all depots. Families
can live better for loss money at tho Grand Union
Hotel than ut any other trst-class hotel In the city.
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There are on the retired list of the
Boston police force about sixty-fve pa
trolmen, who receive a pension of 81 q
day.
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Dyspepsia

Is caused by careles7ness in diet, high living, eatinG
too rapidly, too rich food, overtaxirs the stomach
with ind:gostible food, &c. Constipation, headache.
heartburn. sour stomach, distress after eating, faint.
ness. dizziness and capricioas appetite are come o: tie
many d st.essns symptoms. HOBS Srrs tparilla
tones tho stomach AM promotes hsilthy digestion.
thus curing the m ,st obstinate cases Of dyspepsia.
II suffered with dyspepsia many yea:s. AMI dc.
SPARED Of ever being WILL. The me !icinos USED d!
me no good. Hooa's Sarsaparilla being Il
1 tried it, and eonside: myself entir,l we'll. I cannot
express myself strongly en- ugh in favor OF Hoods sas
saparilla ."-MRs. S. M. BEEDE, Mtrbleaead, Mass.
Il had dyspepsia several years, and tried Hood's
Sarsaparilaw with the very best resi- II ."-MRs. II. j
RYAN. indianapolis, Ind.
"Ihave used Hoci's S irsaparilla for sick headache
and Indigestion, and it h,s relieved ms of days and
weeks of sickness and pair. MARY G. SMITH. Cam
bridgeport, Mass.
Hoods ~Sarsaparnla
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for IS. Prepared b
G. /. GOD l. co.. Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
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HE who is false to present duty" says
Henry Ward Beecher, ''breaks a thread in
the loom, and will find the flaw when he may
have FORGOTTEN the cause" A case in point
occurs to US. MIR. VIM. Ryder, oil. 81 Jeffer-
son street, Buffalo, N. Y, recently told a re-
porter that, II had a large abscess on each
leg, that kept continually -dischargins for
wenty years. Nothing did me any good ex-
cept DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
1t cured me-" Here is a volume expressed in
a few words. Mr.. Ryder's experience is en-
titled to our readers careful consideration
The Sun.
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Pruning Trees.

After the ground is we'll prepared by
deep blowing let the holes be dug broad
and deep and then fl ed up with good
surface soil, so that when the tree is set
it will stand just as deep as it grew in
the nursery. Such trees should he Sc
lected as will bear to he cut back to
within two or three feet of the ground,
so that low heads may be formed. The
long spindling trees, pruued to six or
eight feet in the nursery, are not fit to
plant in any situation. If the trees are
turned low in the nursery, cut back the
leading branch and thin out the side
branches to q suitable number to form a
clear open head, and then shorten the
side shoots to three or four buds of last
seasons growth. All subsequent pruning
should be done during the season of
growth; at any time when it is discov-
cred that any branch is coming forth
where it is not needed, or of making an
underground and likely to destroy the
balance of the head, it should be pinched
back so rs to allow the others to come
up with it. This kind of pruning af-
fords recreation and pleasant employ
ment for a leisure hour at any time when
it can be spared from other duties. In
this way a tree may be made to assume
any form desired. A regular systematic
pruning, such as some men practice, of
cutting off the branches of the growth
of a year or two, should never be
thought of. Let the pruning be perpet-
ual and every unneeded branch nipped
in the bud. or as soon as it is discovered
out of place. An occasional hour en-
ployed in this way will keep an orchard
always in order, and no unsightly ''water
sprouts" will ever be seen to tax the en-
ergies of the tree and throw it out of
shape.-Meu York Herald.