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Domestic Pond Lilies.

At the New York State Experiment
Station there is a barrel cut down to con-
venient size, and then set in a hole dug
in the earth upon corner of the lawn.
The top of the barrel is just level with
the surface of the lawn. 1t has about
four inches of river mud in the bottom,
in which were planted few roots of the
common white pond lily. The barrel
was then filled with water, and is kept
full from faucet in the aqueduct pipe,
the water being turned ON as often as
necessary. The barrel has been beau
tiful miniature pond of white lilies all
through the season. In the fall, after
the weather gets cold, the barrel or tub
is lifted out and carried to the cellar,
where it is protected from freezing, and
where the roots of the lilies will be kept
in conditions similar to what they would
be surround with in their natural
state. Nothing can be more charming in
the way of flowers on a lawn than a
small pond of water lilies blooming daily
the whole summer through. Of course,
the barrel must be set where teams and
persons would not walk into it by night
or day. If the tub is tight one, the
trouble of keeping it supplied with water
will not be great upon any lawn.-N. b.
Farmer.
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From explanations given by the Ger
man minister of agriculture, it appears
that Bismarck's scheme to drive out Poles
and settle Germans in Poland, i s aimed
at the large landholders, not at the small
Polish proprietors, who are described as
"a sound, thriving, and wcll-alrected
class" Bismarck sees 100, 900 Prussians
emigrating every year, and this volume
of surplus he hopes to keep at home by
dispossessing the great Polish landlords,
who naturally desire restoration OF their
nationality. The present is considered
an opportune time for taking action, as
the agricultural depression is forcing
great properties into the market, which
the government can buy at a cheap rate.
This movement is not a new idea in Prus-
sia. In 1907 Stein began the creation of
peasant proprietors, and there are now
1,400, 900 of them in the country, adding
greatly to its unity and strength. 1t is
proposed to apportion out the lands ac-
quired to settlers in lots of ten to 100
acres each.
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Recipes.

Pressed Beef.-Boil shank of beef till
tender, chop it not very fine, boil down
the liquor until three pints are left; three
quarts of chopped meat, three pints of
liquor three teaspoonfuls salt, three tea
spoonfuls pepper, one-half nutmeg; pour
the liquor over hot; set away till cold
and then slice in thin, even slices.
Salmon .Salad.-One can of salmon,
four punches of celery, both chopped as
fine as for chicken salad Pour over the
following dressing: The yolks of two
eggs beaten light, one teaspoonful mus
tard, salt and pepper to the taste, and
three tablespoonfuls table oil, added
very gradually, and two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar.
Pork Pie.-Slice salt pork very thin,
add one teacupful to three teacups OF
potatoes, three of water (part milk is
better, a cup of cream, small piece of
butter and pepper. Put all in a four
quart pan, set on stove while preparing
crust Take quart of flour, one tea
spoonful of soda, stir it all through the
flour, one-half cup of cold lard or pork
fat, rub all through the flour, wet with
buttermilk or sour milk; roll out size of
top of pan, cut slit in center, crust and
bake half an hour.
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Sick Headache.


GENTS:-I have been subject 10
Sick Headache oryears, and have tried,
in vain, many advertised remedies and
several physicians, but all to no purpose.
At last tried your B. B. Bitters-with-
out much faith, admit-but to-day |
can truly say, that after taking the third
bottle have not suffered from it. |
recommend it TO all my friends; several
have been curedby it. My little grand
son was permanently cured OF Bilious
ness and Sick Headache. which was
so severe ito cause commissions. They
have all ceased since he commenced
the use Of B. B. B.
Mrs. B. c. BODLE,
Orange, Luzerne Co., Pa.
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Transplanting.

There is a popular notion that cabbage,
cauliflower, celery, and tomatoes must be
transplanted. One farmer says he grows
many cabbage-plants, sowing them in
rows twenty-one inches apart, so they
can be cultivated with harrow. Last
summer he pulled the plants from every
other clean, leaving rows three and a
half feet apart, from which rows he
thinned out the plants as they were
needed. Finally he pulled or hoed out
the plants until they stood about two
feet apart in the rows. AS result the
cabbages left in the rows headed just as
we'll as those which had been trans
planted. BY far the earliest, largest, and
best celery, he says, he grew last year was
not transplanted. 1t was formerly
thought necessary to make trenches for
celery; now few growers in the Northern
States continue the practice. Will not
transplanting soon be equally a thing of
the past
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Household Hints.

To make eggs froth quickly when
beating them, add a small pinch of salt;
and it will freshen them, too.
Mix your -blacking with soap
suds; the polish comes quickly and the
dust of the backing is avoided.
Egg shells crushed into small bits and
shaken we'll in decanters three parts fill
ed with cold water, will not only clean
them thoroughly, but make the glass
look like new.
By rubbing with flannel dipped in
the best whiting, the brown discolora-
ton may be taken off cups in which Gus
tards have been baked.
When putting away the silver tea or
coffee pot which is not in use every day,
lay a stick across the top under cover.
This will allow fresh air to get in, and
prevent mustiness of the contents famil-
lar to boarding house sufferers.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MRS LANGTRY has finally decided to tour
this country again next season.
KIENzL's new opera "Urassin has been
brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre in
Dresden.
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is singing
now away down in the region OF the Rio
Graude.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has positively refused
Nieman, the singer, permission to make q
tour of America,
ANNA DICKINSON is negotiating with an
English manager to return to the stage She
will make her second venture in London.
"THE HARBoR LIGHTS" the latest melodra-
matte success in London, will be produced at
the Boston Museum by Manager Field, next
fall.
CINCINNATI has been afflicted with more
than twenty different "Mikado" companies
this season, and yet there has been no rloting
there.
oit'Fedora, " has been completed by Oscan-
yam, a Turkish journalist residing in New
York, for Fanny Davenport.
NINE. SEMRRIcu, the great prima donna,
has been singing with great success in Riga,
wilma, St Petersburg and Moskow. Russia
Is a good field for enterprising singers,
THE Countess Agatha Dornfeld, is to be-
gin a thirty-two weeks tour Of this country
on September 6, next in a reportory consist,
ing of "She Stops to Conquer, Romeo and
Juliet etc.
PATTI vigorously resehSs the imputation
that her popularity is ON the wane. She as
serts that her three concerts in Paris averaged
5000 night, and that her reception was
most cordial.
Mr. EDWARD E. KIDDER has just finished
what he terms "Frivolous Farce" in three
acts, which satirizes in good-natured man.
ner the entire secret workings of the stage
and the craze of young society girls for hand
some actors.
MAY 10th Edwin Booth and Tomasso
Salvini will begin an engagement at the
Boston theatre. Two performances Of
"Othello" will be given, one with the Italian
in the title-role and the American as "lago,"
and one with the parts reversed.
THERE were 10000 people who attended
the performances of the German Opera COM
pany during the season recently closed in
New York, according to Manager Stanton
As there were fifty-two representations, the
average attendance was about 2,5O5
THE composer who has written the most
operas is Pacini, who counts 1l5 Including
cantatas and oratorios). Next to him
Donizetti has written &c, Mercadante 60,
Auber Al, Rossini 80, Halevy 81, Ricci 2S,
Verdi 81, Petrella "a, Mozart 16, Meyerbeer
10. Gounod II. Bellini 10 and Wagner IL
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Many farmers have suffered losses
among their calves by putting them too
early upon a nonmilk diet of an insult
able nature. The stomach of calf but
few weeks old is very tender and deli
cate, and will not stand irritation such as
is produced by many feeding stuffs that
are readily digcsted at a more advanced
age. 1t is necessary to remove from such
food all particles of husk or fibre; and
whatever may be the materials used in
the mixture-whcther bean meal, pea
meal, wheat, linseed, or variety of
others-it is important not merely to
grind finely, but to carefully separate
through silk or fine cloth sieve all par
ticlcs of husk. If these are not removed
they are, however finely ground, likely
to cause serious irritation. The judicious
use Of cruel made from properly pre-
pared foods, at first in partial and finally
in total substitution for milk, from an
early age, effects considerable economy
on large dairy farm.
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Hard Times in Scotland.

The state department is in receipt of an in
teresting communication from Francis II.
Underwood, United States consul at Glas-
gov, on the financial depression in Scotland.
He says: 1.-THE depression in the prices of
merchandise here is well known. The re-
ports which have heretofore sent show that
the value Of ships has greatly declined, the
best of them not being at this time worth
more than half their original cost. A few
days since large ship owner told me he had
written down the value of his ships at six
shillings and eight pence in the pound,
thus rating them at one third of their cost.
Prices of real estate have greatly declined
also, since rents, except for desirable city
property, are low ard poorly paid. l have
heard of many instances in which the income
from estates is not enough to pay the interest
upon the mortgages. While the present prices
of wheat and other provisions rule, there is no
prospect of any Improvement in the agricul-
tural districts of Great Britain. These facts will
be important in considering the taxation of
the island for the purpose of raising fund to
extinguish the titles of the present owners Of
land in Ireland"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-15
A CALIFORNIA SENSATION.
Indictment of Prominent Citizens
by the Federal Grand Jury

Indictment of Prominent Citizens
by the Federal Grand Jury.
The United States grand jury at San Fran
cisco, have found indictments against eight
prominent citizens of the state of California
for subornation of perjury, in case of
fraudulent entries OF redwood timber land in
Humboldt county. The names of the in
dicted persons arc Joseph Russ, David Evans
and Charles II. King, who, collectively, re-
present capital of S5,OOO,OOO. The names
of the other five are not yet known, but it is
said that they are all wealthy men. The land
department at Washington had reason to
suspect irregularities in the entry of these
lands, and sent out special agent, B. F. Ber-
gen of the Department Of the Interior,
to investigate. Mr., Bergens mvestiga..
were all members Of the California
Redwood Company, the capital of
which was mainly subscribed in Scotland
The indicted persons induced about 600
American citizens to take up 100 acres of the
land each, for which each received $50. The
entries were in all cases Immediately convey
ed to David Evans, one of the indicted per-
sons, and the California Redwood Company
atterward sent an agent to Scotland to form
syndicate and sell the lands The syndi-
cate paid the California Redwood Company
$50 an acre for the land, which, as shown, the
latter had frequently purchased from the
government for $3.50 an acre. Mr.. Bergen
has passed three months in Humboldt county
working up the case, and notwithstanding
the numerous difficulties thrown in his way,
has secured testimony from over 100 persons
who accepted bride. Suit will be instituted
by the government to set aside all these en-
tries, as well as the patents which have been
issued. The land embraces Ct, 600 acres of the
best redwood timber land on the coast
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FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Salt for Animals.

An official report from the department
of agriculture in France gives the follow
ing reasons why animals should be
fed salt: First, salt ought to be given
to replace the saline parts that are re-
moved from the food whenever IT is
boiled or steamed. Second, it increases
the flow of saliva and hastens fattening,
Third, it counteracts the i'll effects of wet
food and meadows to sheep and prevents
rot among them. To which it may be
added that, according to Professor john
son, upwards of half of the saline matter
in the blood (57 per cent? consists of
salt, and as this is partly discharged
every day through the skin, kidneys,
etc., the necessity of continuous supply
to the healthy body becomes sufficiently
obvious.
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THE FLOODS ATT The SOUTH.
Loss Of Life BY Drowning in the
Swollen Alabama.

A dispatch from Selma, Ala, says: Re-
ports continue to come in showing great loss
of life by drowning, principally among the
colored people, and immeasurable damage
to the plantations all along tho Alabama
river. Relief committees continue hard at
work making rescues and distributing sup
plies. The funds available are wholly mad
equate and the committee has decided to beg
outside assistance and contributions, to be
sent to the mayor of Selma, H. S. D. Nal
lory, which will be turned over to the relief
committee, and will be promptly applied in
aiding the suffering. Decidedly wintry
weather adds to the danger of the hundreds
who are exposed without shelter of any kind.
A dispatch from Charleston, w. Va, says:
Government reports from the Gauley and
New rivers show a rise coming which will in
undate the greater portion of the city. Tho
residents of the lower part of the city are
busy removing their household effects to
places of safety.
A dispatch from Huntington, Miss, says:
Great fears are felt in Arkansas City, Ark,
on account of the threatened caving in Of the
Cypress Bend levee.
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Handwriting for tho Press.

Literary aspirants are given some ex-
celent advice on the subject of hand
writing by the New York Critics
"Lounger, who says: "a reader for a
publishing house is almost incapable of
Judging of some stories, owing to the
careless manner in which they are COM
mitted to paper. A hastily prepared
manuscript must have great intrinsic
merit to be accepted, unless the author
script to be sent to publishers, written in
lead pencil and with half the lines blur
red beyond legibility. have seen Others
written on immense foolscap sheets in a
scrawling hand, all blotted and scratched
and soiled. A reader should be something
more than saint who should sit down
to read manuscript of this sort with a
prcdisposition in its favor. Then there
are manuscripts which, while they are
not blotted and soiled, are written in a
very small hand, with the lines close to-
gether. These are discouraging to read.
But when reader gets manuscript
written out on a typewriter, or carefully
copied by hand, he approaches it with
feelings of gratitude; and it is the fault
of the story itself if he finds nothing
good in it. Unfortunately, an idea has
gained currency that it is literary to
write bad hand. [ wish to deny this
point blank. 1t may have been so in old
times, when it was literary to wear long
hair and soiled linen; but the ablest lit
erary men of this generation turn out
manuscripts that is delight to read.
Every letter is perfect, every is dotted,
every is crossed"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-15
COAL MINERS GRIEVANCES.
Petition Presented to the Governor
of PENNSYLVANIA.

A Harrisburg, Pa, dispatch says: The
Clearfeld region coal miners, who are on
strike for an increase of 10 cents ton on
coal mined, have appealed to Gov. Pattison
for help through a committee. A long
petition has been presented to the governor,
in which the striking miners say that the
present price, 40 cents a ton, leaves on the
average but $40 80 to each man with which to
feed and clothe his family. 1t is alleged
that the miners sought solution Of
the dispute by means Of arbitration, but
that the operators refused their overtures,
and that at nearly all the mines the workmen
are required to deal at the company stores
under fear of being dismissed from employ
ment 1t is asserted the miners are compelled
to pay from 25 to So per cent more than else
where, and that the operators receive a per-
centage for sending their men there to be
robbed Another grievance is the non-en-
forcement of the laws in the interest of mi
ners and mine laborers. The Berwind White
Coal Company, corporation with millions
of capital, is charged with prolonging the
strike for the purpose of crushing out the
smaller operators in order to obtain full con-
troll of the coal trade The committee who
called on the governor claim to have received
the assurance that the governor would take
action looking to the correction of evils over
which the state has control.
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Erperlments with Inseetides.

DR.. @. v. Riley, United States Entom-
ologist in a pamphlet just issued by the
Agricultural Department at Washington,
makes public the results of the use of a
great many Insecticides on various
plants. An emulsion of kerosene, crude
sorghum and water seemed effectual
cold, but with crude New Orleans
molasses no perfect emulsion could be
obtained. On the whole the result was
unsatisfactory. Ice water for cabbage
worms is of no account; pyrethrine, if
pure and kept from contract with air, is
elrectual, if busted thoroughly on the
leaves and cavities.
For fall webb Worm copperas water,
one ounce to pint, destroyed the worms
without injuring the foliage. Upon
mangel-wurzel applied to the foliage it
caused the margined blister beetle to
cease feeding and leave the plants. THE
various blister beetles feed upon avariety
VI lliiilS OtutI thuH bSStSs
The use of tar water upon ant burrows
in walk did not kill the ants, but only
caused them to open new burrows. 1t
may be remarked that ants arc among
the most difficult insects to exterminate,
and as a rule, they should not be, since,
except when tae burrows occasion some
mechanical difficulty, they are benei-
cial.
| On lettuce three ounces Of VOLTS soap
to one gallon of water proved effective
in killing the aphis or plant louise. A
saturated solution of salt and water,
killed so per cent of the aphis, Another
application killed both aphis and plants.
A solution of soluable pincolm, fifteen
parts to eighty-five parts ofwater, seemed
eflectual in killing woolly aphis, since
none appeared for forty days after. On
aphis of the apple tree, fifteen parts of
soluable pincolum to eighty-fve parts of
water killed them. A weaker solution
was not effective.
The same solution killed rs per cent OF
the larvae of the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
The same solution killed about so per
cent of clusters of worms on the bark of
black walnut trees and caused the whole
cluster to fall to the ground. A few
larvae detached themselves and again
assembled the trunk. Equal parts of ker-
osene, sorghum and water churned into
an emulsion and sprayed over the leaves
caused the caterldllars to disappear In
forty-cight hours.
Mr.. Thomas Bennett of New Jersey, in
his report to the department, of TRIALS of
infusions each of jamestown weed,
(stramonium), tomato, beans, mandrake
root, tansy and other decoctions upor
various plants and trees infested witt
aphis, says they were found of somt
merit but it is reported that tansy stands
highest in his estimation. --NeW Yorl
World.
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DESTRUCTIVE CONFEDERATION
One Thousand Men Thrown Out of
Employment.

Fire broke out in John Paul's and Charles
L. Colman's lumber yards at Lacrosse, Wis,
recently, destroying both mills and several
million feet of lumber.
The total area burned over is five blocks
long and a block and half wide. Beside the
lumber mills of Paul and Colman, with the
p,aning mills and factories, the Lacrosse soap
factory and immense storehouses filled with
seasoned lumber, laths and shingles, and 50
dwellings were burned. One thousand men
are thrown out of employment.
The fire departments from Winona, Mimi,
and Sparta rendered excellent aid. A care
full estimate of the loss places it at betwee n
$500, oOO and 100000, of which, as an indi-
vidual heavy loser, c. L. Colman's is
greatest, his loss being S400, 900, with no in
surance. John Paul's loss, mill and 5000, 900
feet of uml er, is estimated at Sl50,000; in
sured for $50, 600 The fire laid waste &c
blocks, which included two of the largest
lumber yards in Wisconsin, and some so
small houses. -Four hundred persons are rem
dered homeless. But for a favorable wind
the entire southern part of the city would
have been sweptaway.
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BLOODY RIOT AT LAREDO TEX
"Huarches" Object 10 Being Buried
In Efigy.

A Dispatch from Laredo, Tex, says; Tho
intense excitement and lawlessness which has
prevailed here for the last fortnight
eliminated recently in bloody riot, The
immediate cause is attributed by many TO
circular which announced that the Demo-
cratic party would hold funeral services over
the party known here rs "liuarcheS,N Di-
rectly after the appearance of the circular
it was announced that the "Huarches" party
would prevent by force any such demonstra-
ton. AT the hour appointed for the services
the streets leading to the point
from whence the Democratic process,
sion was announced to start were
blockaded with armed men. For half an hour
the suspense was straining. Then it was
announced that there would be no
effort to bury the efiigy of the defeated party,
This had pacific effect, and the crowd began
to disperse. Suddenly the music of tho
Democratic band struck up, and the process.
sion moved out to and down Main street and
turned into the street leading to the main
plaza. When tho head of the column had
reached the front of Martins store, party
of men, armed with Wholesalers and revolt
vers, charged the procession, Instantly over
100 men became engaged in deadly conflict,
and for half an hour a regular battle ragged
along the street near the river. During the
height of the conflict a small cannon, which
had been used by the "Huarchesn party, and
which is said to have been charged with nails
and stones, was fired down the street. At
this critical moment word was dispatched to
Col Barnard, commandant at Fort
Mcintosh, that tho heavy firing in
the city was caused by an attack by
Mexicans from the other side of the Rio
Grande. 1t took but a few moments to
double-quick two companies of infantry into
the town, before whom the mob dispersed,
and i'll short time every armed man on the
street had his weapons taken away from him,
. and order was restored The casualties, so
far as known, are five killed and three woun-
ded. All the killed were Mexicans, except
one, young American named Becker. Tho
wounded are Pancho Garcia, Nh. Poggen-
pohl and nephew of Dario Gonzales Mr..
Poggenpohl is prominent citizen, and was
wounded by stay bullet while standing in
front of A. &. Dickinson's law office. Those
who took part in the Democratic procession
claim that they wero fired into, and only &C.
ted on the defensive Tho excitement is in
tense, but it is thought that further bloodshed
will ha aynI,I