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Household Hints.

A. little salt added to lemonade i'm
proves it.
Mutton tallow is perhaps better for
candles than beef tallow, and is, usually,
cheaper.
To restore crushed velvet hold it over
the spout of the steam kettle and let it
steam we'll, then comb up the knap.
Kid shoes may be kept soft and free
from cracks by rubbing them once week
with little pure g]ycerine or castor oil.
To wash doubtful calico, put tea
spoonful of sugar of lead into pailful of
water and soak fifteen minutes before
washing.
To remove white spots from Vanished
tables, caused by setting hot dishes on
them, NJ. L. VI. says pour some oil on the
spot, and rub hard with soft cloth.
Pour on little spirits of wine, and rub
dry with another cloth. The marks will
disappear, leaving the table as bright as
before.
A convenient article for the kitchen is
a stout tin box in which may be kept the
stove polish and brushes and cloths used
about the stove. 1t should have handle
and cover. 1t will pay for itself over
and over, in lessening the cleaning of the
shelf upon which brushes and blacking
are usually kept, and it will be found
also that more attention will be given to
the stoves where the necessary means are
so easily carried about from room to room.
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A South African Sea Serpent.

From advice brought by Cape mail
steamer it would seem that the great sea
mystery, the great sea serpent, has just
made its appearance in South African
waters. In this instance it was not
seen to the terror of the sailors, but
was observed from the shore. Ac-
cording to the despatch huge monster
was observed in Moorehead's bay, Umh-
lali, by eight or nine people. 1t was
first seen seven or eight miles from the
shore, swimming in very erect manner.
From the first sight it seemed as if there
were two fish, but closer inspection
proved that the rear one was the tail OF
the serpent. According to the account
furnished by those who witnessed the
sight, the monster appeared to proceed
at the rate of about eight miles an hour,
occasionally plunging into the water,
making noise as if a sea was breaking
heavily on an open shore and causing
foam to extend about twenty yards on
either side of it. Itappearcd to be about
fifteen or twenty feet out of the water,
and it's whole length was computed at
not less than ninety or a hundred feet.
Fins like immense oars were seen striking
the water on either side. 1t had h large
stripe down the body, the remaining por-
ton being of dirty ycllowish COLOR
L0u10D Standard.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

King Thcebaw had a gold cuspidor
which it took two men to lift.
The smallest firearm in the world is a
gold watch charm, in the form of re-
volver, about an inch long.
individuals have been cured of STAN.
mcring by always filling their lungs with
air by a strong inhalation before begin
ming to speak.
In spite of four famines in India in the
last twenty-six years, which killed off
millions of the population, the number of
inhabitants steadily increased as whole.
The matcria medica of China requires
thirty-eight huge volumes, named Pau
Too, to describe it. 1t presents II, 500
formulas, and includes over /, 900 sub
stances of supposed medicinal value.
1t is well-known fact that toads usu-
ally come out of their hiding places just
before a storm and hop about on the
grass. The assertion that they always
hop in southerly direction, however, is
pure fiction.
All wool is not bunyant in water. A
perfectly dry stick from any one of some
sixteen species of trees growing in the
the southern and southwestern States will
sink. One kind-thc Florida ironwood
is thirty per cent. heavier than water.
The old Roman custom or law, that an
enemy who had come to another country,
even in times of peace, could if war
broke out be enslaved, existed in Europe
in the middle ages; and the enslave-
ment of prisoners did not cease till the
middle of the seventeenth century, the
treaties in that country generally stipu-
lating that prisoners should not be sent
by their captors to the galleys.
Both the Greeks and the Romans rode
horseback without stirrups, and either
upon the bare back or upon saddle pad
which was mostly covered or concealed
by piece of colored cloth thrown over
it, but never upon regular saddle made
like ours upon a frame, which was late
invention toward the decline of the
Roman empire. The women rode side
wise like our own upon apad. The same
fashion was also adopted by men.
Stoves are OF very ancient origin. A
fixed stove (stuba) was used in the time
of the Roman empire for heating baths
and houses. In the middle ages they
were generally constructed of brick OF
tiles, sometimes of slate or steatite (soap-
stonc) and used for warming dwellings.
They we're huge structures, sometimes
occupying the whole side of a room, and
in Scandinavia their broad, fiat surface
was the sleeping place of the household:
The fire was kindled at the bottom and
the heat and smoke passed through
various flues before reaching the chimney.
These stoves were economical of fuel, a
matter of much Importance in some parts
of Europe. In the homes of the rich
they were sometimes faced with porce-
lain or highly ornamented tiles.
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A Persistent Fox.

A curious story of fox's tcmerity an
persistence in the pursuit of prey is re-
ported from the farm of William Bun
nell, who lives on the hill back of Big
Cannon, near Pine Creek, Penn. Like
all localities in Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania, that neighborhood has suffered
greatly the past winter by the raids of
foxes on the poultry yards of the far
mers. Bunnell's flock of chickens had
been reduced to one hen, although traps
and all sorts of devices had been tried to
foil the raids of the foxes. A short time
ago Bunnell went to a ncighbor's to
join him in fox hunt which had been
made up for that day, taking his dog
with him. He had been gone but few
minutes when big fox came into the
door yard, where the last member of
Bunnell's flock of poultry was feeding,
and chased her past Mrs. Bunncll who
was boiling soap at the back of the
house, and into the house through the
open kitchen door.
Mrs. Bunnell ran after the fox, carry
ing clothes FOUNDER as weapon. The
hen ran upstairs and into bedroom, and
hid under bed. The fox followed, and
when Mrs. Bunnell reached the top OF
the stairs the fox was coming out of the
bedroom with the hen flung over his
shoulder. Mrs. Bunncll struck at him
with the Globes FOUNDER, and the fox re-
treated into the bedroom and went under
the bed, where he leisurely proceeded to
make his breakfast off the hen. Mrs.
Bunnell made him prisoner by closing
the door, and then ran to the neighbors,
reaching there before her husband and
the rest had started away on the hunt.
She told the story of the hen and the
fox, and the hunters returned with Mrs.
Bunnell to have some sport with Rey-
nard. When they arrived at Bunnells
they found that the fox had jumped
through window pane in the room and
escaped. Big tufts of hair were fast to
the Jagged edges of the broken glass,
and trail of blood leading away from
where the fox had landed in the snow
showed that he had not got away with
awhole skin. The trail was followed
four miles. Then the fox took refuge in
crevice in some rocks. He was routed
out, and the dogs soon killed him.
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English Luxury.

Speaking of English luxury, Adam
Badeau says in the New York Sun: 'In
great house thirty or forty indoor SER
wants is common number, and often
there are as many more in the stables,
and still as many others in the gardens,
or the glass, as the Conservatives are
called. One nobleman that knew was
master of the hounds and kept seventy
horses, and for every two horses a man.
At an entertainment in the country-a
sort of pageant or play-I heard some
say that a hundred of the servants
came into the great hall and stood be-
hind the guests; the remainder were on
duty elsewhere. Several times, in large
establishments, I asked permission to
visit the offices; and the kitchens and still
rooms and scullcries, the larders and
laundries, the gun rooms and plate rooms
and brushing rooms, the housekeeper's
rooms, the pantries and the servants
hall made a labyrinth of labor difficult to
explore. In making the rounds was
taken to the nurseries and the school
rooms. for tutors and governesscs are
only higher sort of servant in England.
They live and eat apart from the gentry,
and often get less wages than Wallets and
ladies' maids I saw, too, the bedrooms
and the linen rooms and the rooms
where the maids were making up clothes,
all rising when their mistress entered. l
visited the stables and the carpenter
shop, even the butchery and the brewery
for many of the large proprietors kill
their own meat and brew their own beer.
Each servants allowed beer rmoney, as we'll
as wages, or else supplied with so many
glasses, or sometimes literally horns of
beer.'
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Regina'S Magnificent Distances.

A gentleman who has recently returned
from the Northwest tcrritoey comments
on Regina formerly Pile of Bones) in the
following sarcastic strain: The town is
laid out ten miles square. The postoffice
is in the centre of this square, and there
are four government buildings at diff
fercnt corners. 1 asked where the bank
of Montreal was, and was told that it was
three fourths of mile down the road.
Searching for hotel found it to be six
miles away in one direction, while the
station is two miles the other way. 1t is
u city of magnificent distances, and
no prospects beyond the freezing to death
of its inhabitants. ."-,St. Paui Pionee,
Press
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FARM AND HOUSE.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE
FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE.
Poultry Hints.

Soft warm food in the morning, vege-
tables and cracked grain during the day,
and whole corn at night, is good for a
steady cold weather diet.
If YOU are running incubators and
brooders, be very careful of fire. There
is more danger in cold than in mild
weather, since it is necessary to have the
fame higher.
Ruth Brown keeps the Matching eggs
in basket wrapped in flannel, and the
basket in the closet in the sitting-room.
She is very careful to gather them before
they become chilled.
If you expect to make poultry keeping
profitable, one thing is of the utmost i'm
portance; some one must look to the
comfort of the fowls and supply their
wants carefully every day without fail.
Very likely you have put too much
glass in that house intended for early
chickens. If so, cover it with old carpet
or shutters at night. Glass is warm
when the sun shines, but very cold at
other times.
Hens that are expected to hatch this
month OF next, should be fed freely on
corn. But this will do no good if they
have not been laying for two months
past.
Be sure your fowls get gravel and
water, and some substitute for the grass
and insects that abound in the summer.
If your fowls are roupy or otherwise un-
healthy, don't breed from them. You
had better buy eggs or get new stock of
fowls. .-Faam Journal.
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HOrse-Trading in Georgia.

Horse-swapping is one Of the attrac-
tions at jackson court. This is a time
honored custom, but it is now indulged
in with unusual interest. The swappcrs
assemble on the Martin institute hillside,
with their blooded and scrub stock,
(most of the latter, prance up and down
and across the grounds, finally stopping
under the shade of tree or in some
fence corner exchange saddles and
brides and ride away to cheat or to be
cheated by some other jockey. Your
correspondent saw one man who had
snapped twenty seven times Tuesday.
He was riding the first horse he snapped
early in the morning, and had put out
during the day $15 differences .-1thens
(Ga.) Banner.
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The Value of Trees.

Mr.. Milo Barnard, whose home is near
Kankakee. ILL.,, in an address before the
Northern Illinois Horticultural society,
covering large experience during the
last twenty-five years in planting trees
for wind breaks, groves and for other
protection, concludes as follows:
My timber has for several years fur
nished tirewood for three families, as
we'll as poles, stakes and posts in abun-
dance; the naples of all kinds have pro-
vided delicious syrup, the walnut trees
have yielded nuts, and all have given
shade from the burning sun and shelter
from the blasts of winter, both to man
and beast. The ssprotection to the gar
den from cold, spring winds is one great
advantage. AS 1 never had fruit tree
girdled by rabbits and little damage
done by insects, except the coddling
moth and curculio, think the groves of
forest timber are entitled to part of the
credit, at least, for this immunity from
damage, by providing a good harbor and
food for the rabbits, as they eat the ten
der twigs of the forest trees doing no
harm if they do not cut the leader, and
they have no occasion or desire to gnaw
apple trees in open ground. The birds
find their natural resting place among
the branches and so increase that they
keep most kinds of insects in check. My
forest tree planting has been to me
entirely satisfactory, taken as q whole.
It has transformed an open, bleak, wind
swept prairie into an attractive, shelter
ing, cozy, home-like farm, where the
melody Of the song-bird blends har-
moniously with the evening zephyr as it
goes whispering through the pines.
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WORMS ARE THE SCoURGE OF CHILD
HOOD. Thousands of children die or
grow up weak and sickly, with disor-
dered nerves and stunted minds, the food
necessary to their growth having been
eaten up by these disgusting parasites.
DIR. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
B1rrERs not only expels worms, but frees
the stomach from the unhealthy secre-
tions in which they breed.
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Farm and Garden Notes.


Old cream makes streaked butter.
Destroy the nests of caterpillars now.
There are many pitfalls in peach
orchard.
Cut off sappy shoots from the main
branches of appletrees now.
It is good thing to make manure and
agood thing to save it. Be sure and do
both.
A rat-proof corn-bin may be made by
lining the inside of an ordinary bin with
No. 4 wire.
We should look more to our gardens
and orchards for our medicines, and less
to our drug stores.
A well-fed cows ''first impression" of
hay are more reliable than the ordinary
analysis of the chemists.
Bank up the manure yard so that the
water on the outside cannot get IN, and
that on the inside cannot get out.
Try new varieties of seed corn, but
don't give up your own until you have
proof that there is something better.
A tree is not a post. The post requires
a small hole and deep; the tree a broad
hole well filed with rich, friab]e earth.
Young horses don't need to be broken,
but to be taught what you want them to
do. Instead of breaking horse train
him.
If the knives of the reaper and moving
machine are kept in a box Of slaked lime
: ley will not rust. So with other bright
TOOLS
1t is stated that apples in salted, lined
4 whitewashed cellars are keeping better
than their over-ripe condition in the fall
gave reason to expect.
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Twice the Distance.

First Girl (who has been at college for
some years)-"Why, what is the matter?
Why are you crying"
Second Girl (ncw arrival and feels a
great deal homesick)-'I-I-it-boo-
hoo-it makes me SO awfully unhappy to
be SO far away from home"
First Girl (soothingly)-"Oh, you
must try not to give way so. Why you
crv twice as much as I did when 1 left
home"
Second Girl-"But I am twice the
distance from home that you are."-
CnW.
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In both America and the Antilles green
turtle soup is extensively "put up'' in
Theoretically sealed tins and sent to all
parts of the world. One manufactory in
Key West, in Florida, prepares over
300, 600 yearly, and employs quite little
fleet Of vessels and large number of men
in catching the turtles or in collecting 6
them from the catchcrs In Jamaica,
Barbados and other OF the West India
Islands, also, good business is done.
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People are recognizing the danger at
tending the use of opium, and Legislative
bodies are being called upon to suppress
the growing evil. The only cough mix
ture which does not contain opiates, and
yet is of remarkable efficacy, is Red Star
Cough Cure 25 cents.
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Peat is used as fuel by one of the Rus
sian railways at half the cost of wood or
coal. The peat is found chiefly near
Moscow and is cut by steam machinery,
which can penetrate to depth Of twenty
feet from the surface of the bog.
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A Change.

In days of past that has flown,
When dead folk were buried, ween,
The dying one feebly would groan:
please see that my grave is kept green"
Cremation, alas, has to-day
This saying completely abolished,
1t now is the custom to say:
Just see that my urn is kept polished.
--Ramble
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Skilfui Cultivation.

Skilful cultivation should be the aim
of every one who raises plants and crops.
To make gardening and farming protita-
BILE, it is necessary to have something in
return for every stroke that is made, and
for every dollar invested. Even when
only few house plants are cared for, we
expect to see growth and bloom in re-
pay for our care, if not, our interest In
them would soon be lost. We devote an
acre of land to a certain crop; it costs
for the season the interest for year on
the investment made for it, beside the
expense of preparation, manuring, culti-
waiting, harvesting, marketing, etc. Our
crop IS but hale what it might be, or
what good cultivation has proved might
be obtained. The time and expense of
preparation, of sowing, and of cultiva-
tion, have been as much as for full
crop, and the cost of harvesting and
other expenses but little less; but part
of the land was too wet, and the plant
ing could not be done early,
as it should have been, and on
the same account the manure that
was applied, though there was not half
enough Of that, could only produce par
tial effects, and so, from these combined
causes, we get back for our seasons
work, perhaps, the expenses and little
more. The interest and expense were
fifty dollars on the acre, and our returns,
all told, amounted to sixty dollars, Civ
ing profit of ten dollars. At this rate
per acre on the whole place, with what it
provides for the table beside, with great
economy, one may, perhaps, live along
for while, and the land is growing
poorer, and the value of the first invest
ment is lowered-the place is running
down. But at little more expense in
preparation, perhaps ten dollars on the
acre, enough to insure the best result,
making the whole sixty, instead of fifty
dollars, as before, and the crop is twice
as great, and perhaps further enhanced
in value by its superior quality. All Of
this success, then, is proft-sixty dollars
or more, instead of ten-an amount that
makes prosperity and success, instead of
failure. .-VicE's Magazine.
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Ff0UTtBBs
AS stages are quickly abandoned with the
completion Of railroads, so the huge drastic,
cathartic pills, composed Of crude. and bulky
medicines are quickly abandoned with the
introduction Of DR.. Pierce's pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets which are sugar-coated, and lit
tie larger than mustard seeds, but composed Of
highly concentrated vegetable extracts. By
druggists.
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For twenty years Mrs. John Gemmill,
Milroy, Mifflin county, Penn, could not
walk on account of an injury to the spine.
One bottle of st. Jacobs Oil gave relief;
the second enabled her to walk and
cured her,
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DR.. Robert Newton, late President Of the
Eclectic College of the city Of New York, and
formerly Of Cincinnati. Ohio, used DR.. WIN.
HALLS BALsAM very extensively in his prac-
tice, as many of his patients, now living, and
restored to health by the use of this invaluable
medicine, can amply testify. He always said
that so good remedy ought to be prescrib-
ed freely by every physician as q sovereign
remedy in all cases of lung diseases. 1t cures
consumption, and has no equal for all pectoral
complaints.
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DYSPEPSIA!

DR.. Radway's Pills are q cure for this com.
plant. They restore strength to the stomach and
Of disappear and with them the liability Of
the system to contract diseases Take the MEDICINE
"Falss and True'' respecting diet
uSend = letter stamp to DIR: RADWAY -
CO., No. 32 Warren street, New york; tor
*.*Be sure to get RADWAY'S.
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Twenty years ago hardly any butter
was imported into England; now ninety
per cent. of all that is used is imported
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When the follicles are not destroyed. Halls
Hair Renewer restores hair to bald heads.
For all ailments originating in disorders OF
the stomach and liver, take Ayers Pills.
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IT IS so EvERYwHERE.-E.B B. Ball, druggist
Aliens Lung Balsam: 1T is the best selling
throat and lung remedy. and gives general
satisfaction. I cheerfully recommend it."
Price 25c., SOC. and 81 per bottle at Druggists.
No fewer than 164 mem bers Of this Congress
were col1epjans
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There are now in the Southern States
139 cotton seed mills. In 1866 there was
not one.
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A small Leak
will sink great ship; and what at first appears
to be a trifling cough is apt to culminate in
consumption if not properly attended to in
time. For consumpti n, which Is scrofula Of
the lungs and for Ill blood and skin diseases,
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" has
no equal. By druggists.
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A small Leak

OF the 5000 cigarmakers of New York about
800 only are skilled hand workers, the rest
working with mOldS.
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A Remedy for Lung Diseases.

EIGHTY-s1x college graduates enlisted in the
signal service last year.
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For fourteen years South Carolina has
exempted manufacturing companies from
taxation.
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SCROFULA,

Whether transmitted from parents or acquired. Is
solvent
Cures have been made where persons have b been s0
and 40 wears Of age, bv DIR. RADWAY'S SARSAPA-
RiLLiiN REsoLVENT,a remedy composed Of in
gradients of ordinary medical properties essen
down and wasted body. Quick. pleasant, safe and
permanent in its treatment and cure.
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The dog tax in Louisville pays the salaries OF
the mayor and city attorney.
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The Andover Theological seminary has
three Turkish students.