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Seven Sensible Suggestions.

Sweet milk, used before the article is
washed, will almost infallibly remove
ink stains.
The wornout cover Of an old silk UNI
brella makes an excellent dust cloth for
fine furniture
A few drops of ammonia in BASIN
full of water is much better than soap
for the toilet
A few oyster shells, mixed with the
coal used for a furnace or large stove,
will effectually prevent the accumula-
ton of clinkers.
Medicine stains may be removed
from silver spoons by rubbing with
isifted wood ashes and soapsuds.
A pair of thin, white stockings, worn
inside fine colored ones, viii preserve
them from soil and make them last
much longer, the inner pair acting as
lining for the others.
A small piece of resin dipped in
water, which is placed in vessel on a
stove, viii add peculiar property to
the atmosphere of the room, which
will give great relief to persons
troubled with cough. TIE heat of
the water is sufficient to throw off the
aroma of the resin. and gives the same
relief that is afforded BY a combustion
of resin. It is preferable to combus-
ton, because the evaporation is lnore
durable. The same resin may be used
for weeks. = Munyon's ILLUSTRATED
World
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Salaries in Different Countries.

In Hungary each member of the i'm
perial legislative body receives for
every day of the session about g. 40.
besides 800 annually for lodgings; in
Aus tria about s. day during the scs-
sion. France pays her Senators and
Deputies about s., 250 per annum; Hol-
land, about $3.50 per annum and travel
ing expenses; Belgium, S84 q month
during the session; Norway, about
$3.50 a day and travelling expenses;
Portugal, $3.50 per diem. Members OF
the Canadian Parliament receive for
every session lasting over a month,
81 900 and 10 cents mileage; Brazil
gives to her Senators S.. 800 and travel
ing expenses; Mexico allows the men,
bers OF both Houses s., 600 per annuln;
the Argentine Republic even goes as
high as So, 800; and in the United
States. both Senators and members CT
The House Of Representatives receive
:, 0oQ annually. Wstii mileage of twen-
y cents pcr mile. IAslQdelplsa Press.
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SALT
It's Value a Fertilizer Is as Great as Its |
Value as Food for Stock.

Its Value as a Fertilizer Is as Great as It's
/, Value rs Food for Stock.
If it is to be believed that plants re-
quire in the soil supply of every ele-
ment they contain, then salt must be
considered as plant food and as fer
tilizer. Salt is certainly contained in
all plants, and is also component part
of the blood and of the flesh and fluids
of the animal system. 1t is also con-
tanned in almost all soils, but it is so eX-
ceedingly soluble that it cannot help
but be carried off by the drainage
water to very large extent. Conse-
quentlY it is exceedingly probable that,
in inland districts at least, tie soil will
in many cases be deficient in this sub
stance and should be supplied with it.
In practice it has been found very use
full to many crops, especially grass,
oats, wheat, cabbages, turnips and
mangels. 1t consists of chlorate and
sodium, the latter. being the basis of
the common soda. 1t has been used
with good effect upon the light soil of
New Jersey quite close to the ocean,
and a well-knoWn and successful farmer
of that State uses more than a ton of it
on his meadows every year. Being sol
uble, it should be applied when the
crop is in growing condition, which is
early in the spring, when the growth is
about beginning Its greatest effect is
upon clover, which is very much i'm
proved by it; 250 pounds per acre is
the usual quantity. Wheat is also
greatly benefited by an application of
800 pounds of salt to the acre; the effect
of the salt being to produce a thin
bright husk and to prevent smut and
rsst. Barley is also affected in the
same favorable way by similar appli-
cation of salt. The crop most bene-
fitted by salt is mangels, to which about
600 pounds per acre is applied immedi-
ately after the seed is sown. Pastures
are greatly improved by liberal dress
ing of salt, as may be seen by the
brighter green which appears a few
days after its application. This is not
at all times due to the increase of mois-
ture, as is sometimes supposed, as the
small quantity of water absorbed by
500 or 600 pounds of salt would he
wholly incapable of making any visible
effect upon the field.-M z Times.
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HUMOROUS.

The ice man may not be much of a
skater, but he is able to make fancy
figures on ice.-B0St0n Post.
"A market reporter says that his
sweet heart encouraged him, and he
thought of marrying her at once, but
that further advance was followed by
a decline. -LouisUiUe Courier-Journ0i
We are in danger of having too
much culture in this country. An @s-
thetic buff-coored pug recently went
mad in Boston because his mistress
dressed him in light green blanket
~ 7. Graphic.
A patent medicine advertisement
speaks of the oliver falling to act !"
We suspect the manager cut down it's
salary. When the liver refuses to act
the drama of Life can't 90 ON very
successfully Norristoa0n Herald.
--1nquiring child-"Pa, what is the
difference between sitting lpp and sit
ting DOWN." Pa with perfect con-
fidence in his ability to explain) -
'sWhy, my child, when somebody is
standing up, and he seats himself, he
sits down, and when he doesn't go to
bed, and sits down, he sits up"
Forced to wed
To speak the words her tongue did falter,
But all her tears and prayers were idle;
Her father forced her to the halter,
For he'd determined on the bride.
She did not wish to Stirrup strife,
And so her feelings she did smother;
But saddle be her married life
She welded one, but loved another.
Boston Courier.
First Dude ''Aw, Chawley, my
dear boy, what a wattlin pace you are
goin' this mornin' = Second Dude
Jaw, yes, Fitznoodle, my dear fellow.
Don't detwain me. I'm hard at work.
This is the busiest season of the year to
me. by Jove, Chawley, what are
you doin'?n "I'm dodgin' my credit
ors. Philadelphia Call.
Calling Contributor: Is there any
one here who appreciates poetry? Ed
itor: Yes, certainly; have you some?
Poet: Yes; four. all on the seasons.
Editor: Good; that's just what we
want, Here, John. sprinkle a little
sauce on these and take them down
stairs. Poet: What for? Editor: For
the goat. He is the only one about the
GSbdDuSuinGub WHO IONcS pOcIlg. pub
he won't eat season poetry without mint
sauce. N Z. Sun.
-''Faith is a confidence in the exist
ence of something we can not see, my
little dears," the superintendent ex-
planned to the juvenile Sunday-school
class. For instance, when you buy
peanuts you know there is kernel in
side of the shell though you only see
the she'll Now, that is faith. Do you
all comprehend me?'' Glass unani-
mously: Eyes, thir." Superintendent:
'EIhen what is faith?', Glass unani-
mously; ''Peanuthsr' = Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
A Texas Doctor: DIR, Blister is one
of those physicians who do not take any
nonsense from their patients. One day
last week he presented his bill to Nose
Schaumburg Zone hundred and fifty
tollars!n exclaimed Nose. "Vy, mine
Colt, two funerals in dot family would
not hat cost me so much as dot s'It's
not too late to have funeral in the
house yet, replied DR.. Blister, drawing
an army-sized revolver. The physician
heels himself whenever 4 patient feels
indisposed to settle. Texas Sifti1sgs.
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TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

It's meet and drink that is depriying
many family of food. - Western
RarGt
OF the SIP arrests made by the po-
lice at Louisville during the year 1884,
5,643 were for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct,"
LAST year there was an increase of
Is per cent. over the number of suicides
in 1888. Physicians and philanthro-
pists may study this interesting prob
lem, but the saloon-keepers furnish the
solution. - Chicago Inter ocean.
THE citizens of Frankford, Sussex
County, Del, and some of the neighbor-
ing towns, Selbyville, for instance, have
prevented the sale of Intoxicating liquors
in their midst by m aking vigorous use
Of the one legal check legislation has
placed at their disposal-the power of
remonstrance. Two or three recent at
tempts have been made to establish sa-
looms in these towns, but every time the
Temperance sentiment has proved tri-
umphant.
THE Chicago dailies reported the reg
ular grist of the liquor mill on Monday
morning last. A suicide, first by drink,
and only incidentally by pistol-shOt; a
murder by a policeman, who says he
was trying to quell drunken row; a
drunken woman frozen close to deaths
door, if not now passed through. Three
cases of cholera deaths on Sunday
would drive Chicago wild. 1t is only
Drink, but it is Doom, all the same
Union Signal.
DRUNKENNESS is a devilish sin, dis
tinct from all others, upon which God
sets His particular mark. He writes it
in the blood-shot eye; He writes it in
the red nose; He writes it in the tremb-
ling hand If you are drunkard God
will surely hang out your sign. You
can be secret with other sorts of crime
but you can not with this. And man
is responsible for his self-Superinduced
inability. If you can find man who
could not from the very beginning resist
a tendency to indulgence of appetite
then he is not responsible Req. Il. r.
Meredith.
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be considered oy the public. There
must be some way to check these men
hunters. Toledo Blade.
AN AFFECTING INCIDENT.
A Sad and Pathetic Ssory Which Carries
Its Own AInraI

A Sad and Pathetic Sorry Which Carries
Its Own Moral.
Christmas morning, one of the police
courts in New York witnessed an un-
usual scene. A young woman, misera-
bly, clad, pale and thin, came before the
Judge, leading by the hand a pinched,
hungry-looking little girl of four years.
The mother, with trembling lips asked
to have her little girl sent to some char
liable institution, because she could not
support herself and the child. While
she was waiting for the necessary
papers to be made out, she chung to the
baby, kissing it again and again, while
tears dropped on the face and hair of
the little one, to whom the whole scene
was a mystery. Suddenly an elderly
gentleman came into the courtroom,
gazed eagerly about, fastened most
searching look on the face of the young
mother, who was entirely absorbed in
her grief. A sharp cry: my child,
my child, but how changedr and no
clasped the mother in his arms.
After time, in the Judges room,
the story was told; it is not new, and
without doubt will be repeated again
and again in other lives. Five years ago,
the young women was a much-loyed
daughter in home that was more than
comfortable. She insisted on receiving
attentions from a young man to whom
her father and mother objected because
he drank to excess. The daughter re-
fused to listen to advice, and when ex-
IRENE measures were resorted to on the
part of the parents, and the young man
forbidden to visit her home, she met him
outside of her home, and at last eloped
with him, believing that his love for
her would lead him to resist temptation
In one month he came to the poor home,
he was able to provide, so drunk that
| other people were called to assist him
| to his room; this was the beginning
of a debauch that led to his dis
charge from a good situation, and he
was unable to procure another; finally
he deserted his wife, who for a time
supported herself by working in an
East Side factory. After her child was
born she was forced to take sewing at
| uOIu6, anu ICdTueu 10 KNOW, only 100
well, what hunger and cold meant. The
day before Christmas, pennileSs and
homeless, she went through the streets of
New York, and after nightfall Logan
begging, passing the night in & station
house, and in the morning decided to
part with her child to save it from sut-
fering.
All these years a man and woman
prematurely old had been looking for
their hayward child, of whom no trace
could be found, until by accident she
was recognized by an old friend, who
followed her to the police court. and
then notified the father, who gladly
took his child and grandchild to the
now motherless home.
This sad story, with its blessed and
yet pathetic ending, carries its own
moral. She must be dull indeed who
needs to have this moral drawn out for
her Christian Union.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Bishop Jackson, who died in LON
don the other day, had nine daughters.
for whom he found husbands IN nine
Wears of his own diocese
There are 3, 900, 900, coo copies of
daily, weekly and monthly journals
| published annually in America, against
1900, 900, 600 copies in Europe.
-Diaz, the new President of Mexico.
is a full-blooded Indian. Mrs. Diaz.
wife of the President, is only twenty
five years old. She was Rubie before
her resetting.
General Hancock lost his only
daughter in 1873 and Mrs. Hancock
has worn mourning ever since for one
relative after another until now she
wears it for her only som 7. Sun.
Newspapers in England do not cir
culate by subscription as they do in
| America, but they are sent over the
country and sold by news-agents. Then
| they are sold cheaper here than in
America, one penny 1.-TWO cents) being
the usual price. Cor. Christian EUars-
| geIist.
Patti told the Boston Herald that
she had worn diamonds worth $500, 900
the last time she sang in ia Traviatan
in New York, but that she supposed the
I audience thought her dress was fronted
with glass beads instead of gems She
! had left most of the collection in q safe
deposit vault during her tour,
"A statue to Poe, with the inscrip-
ton written by William Winter, has
been finished in Italy by the order of a
number of actors and literary people,
| and will shortly be erected in New
York. Poe has waited long time for
such honors, but he has appeared to
| grow in the popular estimation as the
memory of his personal faults has faded.
| Current.
In the album of the widow of ex-
Senator Evans, of Maine, is the follow
ing verbatim autograph of Davy Crock
EFT: ''Mrs. Evans of main requests The
| hunter from the west to write his name
| in her Album. Her curiosity shall be
grattifed by Sentiment wishing her
helth and hapines and safe arrival
at her residence with her family and
friends. ''-H0per'S BGzdr.
-IdIh i WALL Says uudG u6 uSCu To
be neighbor of Bret Harte in San
Francisco, when Harte was editing a
weekly journal and acting as Secretary
of the United States Mint, and Twain
was reporter on daily. The popu-
lar hit of .The Heather Chinee' nearly
ruined Harte in his own estimation, for
his ambition was to make fame in
writing the kind of prose sketches
which have since gained so much APP
probation, and he feared that people
would insist upon always regarding him
as merely writer of funny rhymes. -
N. Y. Tribune.
Correcting some recent reports
about Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the Oswego
| IN. W Times says: "Belya Lockwood
was resident of Niagara County, in
this State, and her first husband was a
| gentleman by the name of McNall.
After the death of MIR. McNall she re-
moved to Washington to take charge OF
young ladies seminary. In Washing
ton she married dentist by the name
of Lockwood. Mrs. Lockwood is a
talented woman of excellent character,
and the fact that she has become some
what conspicuous as a leader among
the woman-suffrage advocates is nc
! justification of the lies they tell about
| herr
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FOOD CHEWING.
Some Hints Regarding the Proper Masti-
cation of Food.

cation of Food.
Any imperfections in any one stage of
the preparation to convert food into a
living organic mass may be considered
causes of indigestion. These few words
on Indigestion may plainly show why
we should eat slowly, why we should
well mastioate our food, and why some
persons do not easily digest it. and
change it to milky fluid, that can be
easily absorbed and contributed to the
quantity and richness ST tlseir blood.
Often we dine with friends who do not
seem to know that they in eating have
anything else to do but to place be-
tween their jaws as large masses of
food as they can place there, and move
their jaws little or just enough to
shape the mass of their food so that
they can push it down their gullet into
the gastric sack below. They do not
seem to know that food is useless and
may be injurious unless they prepare it
for complete digestion, and aid the
normal functions of the stomach and
duodenum to convert it into milky
fluid, that may pass easily through the
mucous membrane of the food canal.
Not long ago we were'called to visit a
man who was in great distress. He had
crowded his breakfast down some thirty
minutes before. He was in greater dis
tress than he could possibly enjoy. The
cause clearly was an overloaded stom-
ach. So we gave him half a bowl OF
mustard water, and he soon vomited
four halves of breakfast biscuit. The
biscuit were large and hard. He was
astonished at the result of our preScrip
ton, and was inclined to deny that be
ever swallowed them. He paid our
fee, and we gave him good advice.
First, to properly cook his food; sec
oudly, to place within his mouth only
small pieces of any food-to use his
knife very freely; thirdly, to masticate
every kind of food until it was reduced
to soft pulp and had been mingled
with proper amount of oxygen. He
could buy new knives, but not new
stomach. All readers may not know
that one advantage of thoroughly mas
ticating our food is that in so doing we
necessarily mix air with the pulpy
mass, and thus assist nature in the
process of digestion. In this condition
of pulp the digesting juice combines
with every particle, and converts it into
a milky fluid that is readily absorbed.
All kinds of food treated in this way
mingle and form nutritious mass that
never distresses or torments.- allen,
N. d., IN Western Rural
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MY HERO.

have my hero-let me say
He wears no sword or uniform;
He never braved the leaden rain
Amid the battles fiery storm.
The world knows not his face, nor name,
He makes no speech, he sings no song,
He stands not for some fancied fright"
He champions not some fancied wrong
He has no rank, no store Of gold
He rules no "board nor company"
He has no patronage to give,
No sinecure, no salary.
He is no dainty exquisite
For Fashion to adOrn at will;
No social ornament, no pet;
And yet he is my hero still.
This man of perfect health and strength,
OF kindly purpose, chaste and good,
Who wakes each morning with delight
To do the thing he knows he should;
Who, with frank eyes and honest lips,
Greets every man, and woman, too;
Who scorns a lie, and hates vice.
And pays to every one their due;
Whose strong right arm and sweet true
heart,
Firm will and clear-fbred brain,
is Joyful in all hours of joy,
Patient and grave in grief nor pain;
Who lends not body, will or mind
To any wrong, though small it be;
Unknown he may be, yet he is
A hero great enough for me.
" An average man." you smiling say;
" The world has thousands of such men,"
] answer: That is rare, good news;
The world is full of heroes, then;
Heroes for every grief and strait,
In fire or food no whit afraid;
And it is of such average men
The leaders of the world are made"
lille n. Barr, ill N. Y. Ledger.
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WIFE-SELLlNG.
Ehe Old-Time Custom of Disposing of I'm.
desirable Helpmeets.

desirable Helpmeets.
The custom of selling and purchasing
wives in England certainly can claim a
very respectable antiquity, and probably
is based upon the ancient laws of the
Anglo-Saxons. If a freeman took away
the wife of freeman, he was to pay
his full weregeld, to buy another wife
for the Injured husband, and deliver her
at his home. In the reign of Canute
the law received some modification; no
guardian could compel his ward to
marry man she disliked, and the
money paid for her was to be volun-
tary gift, and not compulsory pay
ment. 1t is not unnatural to suppose
that the commodity thus obtained by
money was transferable to another for
a similar consideration whenever it NAV
have become useless OF disagreeable e
its original purchaser. 1t seems, how
ever, not impossible that the commence
ment of the custom would be found even
in times antecedent, when women
guilty of unfaithfulness were either put
to death or sold as slaves.
The value of wife seems to have
been mostly held in light esteem, for
one was sold at Gloucester market by
auction in 1871 for half a crown, and It
is recorded that the purchaser frequently
congratulated himself on his bargain. .
Even in commercial sense he could
well afford to be jubilant, for the lott
was attired in new white bonnet and
a black gown, the usual ornament in
the way of halter being included,
which was not bad consideration for his
money, let alone the lady's charms.
In the year 1859 another instance OF
this moral degradation was furnished
by the town of Dudley, where hundreds
of people were assembled in Hall street
rome evening to attend wife sale. The
first bid was three-halfpence, and ulti-
mately reached sixpence. Her husband,
in his ignorance, thought that after the
ceremony had been repeated three times
she actually had no claim upon him.
In 1881 wife was sold at Sheffield
for the paltry consideration of a quart
of beer, and in 1862 similar purchase
was made at Selby market Cross at the
cost of only one-half that amount, mere
ly pint of beer, which was thought
sufficient for mans helpmate.
The tariff would seem to be on a
downward sliding scale as we advance
in the century, for a case occurs, re-
corded by the South Wales Dailg Neaos,
May 2, 1882, at Alfreton, where q
woman was sold by her husband for a
still lower valuation in pubhc-house.
The modus operandi had the charm Of
simplicity: in a room full Of men be
offered to sell her for glass of ale. and
the offer being accepted by young
man, she readily agreed. took off heI
wedding ring, and from that time cons
Sdered herself the property of the pur-
ehaser. -Halper'S Weekly.
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FOUNDER IN HORSES.
The Causes Which Tend to Produce I'll
Disease

The Causes Which Tend to Produce tn .
Disease.
A disease that is far too common is
horses is caused most frequently By
driving or working them till oyerheateC
and more or less exhausted, and then
allowing them to cool off suddenly with.
out rubbing dry. A horse is driven hard
for several miles, and then hitched to a
post in the open air in cold winter
weather, and perhaps forgotten by tile
driver, who may be telling stories or
smoking cigar by warm fire; the
next morning, if not sooner, it is noticed
that the animal has not eaten well, and
can scarcely move from the stall. The
lameness may be chiefly in one limb, or
in more than one. DIR. Cressy, in his
recent lecture before the Connecticut
Board of Agriculture, said that any
case of founder can be cured if taken
within thirty hours of the attack. The
first thing to do is to place the horses
feet in tubs of warm water, then blanket
heavily, and get the animal thoroughly
warm all over. The lameness is caused
by stagnation of the blood in the feet,
the result Of being cooled too rardly
after exhausting labor The warm
water thins the blood vessels, and ia
yors increased circulation. In very bad
cases bleeding in the footmay be neces-
sary, though ordinarily it may be dis
pensed with. Knowing the cause of
founder, it viii be seen that it is much
easier to prevent than to cure this
disease after it becomes established. In
the first place, avoid very severe driv-
ing and over-eXhaustion; but if abuse of
this kind is unavoidable, see to it that
she horse is not neglected at the end Of
his journey. Drive into warm she'd or
barn free from cold draughts, and rub
vigorously till the animal is dried off.
Give warm water to drink, and coyer
with warm blankets. In short, treat
the horse just as you would treat YOUR
self under like circumstanees.-T'arm,
FsaR and St0cknsasA