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The Use of "H0nOrable."

An esteemed correspondent submits
the following inquiry:
"Wiil YOU kindly inform me what the
lowest public position is that man can
hold that would entitlc him to put hen
orabic before his name"
There is no law whatever on the sub
ject, and the grades of those who enjoy
this complimentary distinction seem to
be widening out. Ori@inallyit was con-
fcrred on members of Congress, members
Of the cabinet, governors. and other high
mugwumps. Next members of !egisla-
lures were called honorable. and now
pretty much every fellow whom any
body wishes 10 please gets this vague
and indeterminnte cpithet. 1t is matter
of taste, and there is no precise rule
about it."-NeU I,0rk SHn
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Weather Signals.
Shut the door.

Shut the door!
1t is no longer popular to kick the
bed clothes off.
Mosquitoes have stopped presenting
their bills.
Perspiration has gone out of style.
The icicle has taken the place of the
lawn mower.
Shut the door!
The garden spade has been knocked
out by the snow shoval.
The storm door is coming to the front
The man with the red nose now
blames the weather.
The gate and the moonlight have
changed with the sofa and freight.
Shut the door!
Mortgage your salary for sleigh.
Take a charcoal stove in swimming
with you.
Fans are no longer de riguer.
| Shut the door - Merchnnt- TrnrAzar.
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stock Note :.

Grooming the COWS IS not often done,
but it would add to their spirit and COM
fort.
When q horse refuses to cat allow him
to rest. It will in jurc him to make him
do any laboriou> task.
The Duirynaa thinks q yellow skin on
a COW does not indicate yellow butter,
necessarily, but does Indicate yellow
milk.
Over one quarter of a million Of hogs
have died of cholera since last fall, and
vet this loss woLld not have occurred,
but for feeding too much corn and keep
ING hogs in filth. This is the secret OF
the evil, and farmers might as well real
ize the fact and save themselves further
inhiction.
It is clear that the prevailing disease,
pleuro. pneumonia among cattle, glanderss
among horses, foot rot among sheep, and
cholera among hogs, can never be held
in check or stamped out so long as we
allow irdiscrimite transportation OF dis
eased animals or animals from diseased
herds or enclosures where diseased anil
mails have uuartered. d.-Ohto Farmer.
A great width between and promi.
nence of the eyes indicates a teachable
and tractabe horse. Width between the
ears indicates courage, nobleness and
strength of character: Roundness and
elevation between the eyes indicates
mildness of disposition and desire to be
caresscd and to reciprocate kindness; but
never trust one that shows much white
above the pupil of the eye, or with white
in that organ.
While barn Easements make warm and
comfortable quarters for stock, there is
reason for giving mich COWS some ex-
ercise in the open yard every day, and
on sunny winter days for a considerable
length of time. 1t will increase the flow
and value of the milk product, and will
also help the COW to prepare tor bring
ing forth healthy calf in the spring.
Too little air, light and exercise are bad
for the cow at this time.
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Poultry Notes.

Bnckwheat is very good for poultry,
although we think its merit is not to be
compared with other grains for the same
purpose. Decayed grain can never be
fed with safety and should be Stunned.
Dirty rice or rejected wheat both make
good grain feed and are sale.
Do not forget that i'll winter time the
birds need more and better feed than in
summer. Give the noon meal of cracked
corn, whole wheat and oats. The even
ing allowance may be whole corn and
full feed, which will last them ad-
vantageously through the long nights.
Hens often learn to eat their eggs from
eating the egg shells which are given to
them with their food. They find it easy
to crush the shells which are thus scat
tered in their way. If you have plenty
OF oyster and clam shells or ground bone,
the amount of lime in the egg shells is
scarcely worth saving for your fowls.
The cross-brcd fowl is often larger
than any of the breeds of fine bred stock.
The prizes for dressed poultry in Eng
land nave often been won by crossbred
birds, Just as in the race of cattle mon
grel steers frequently carry away the
prize for fattest weights. Blood from
pure varieties, however, was used in
making the cross always.
A constant supply of pure drinking
water is equally as important as food.
An inexpensive drinking fountain is. of
course, the best method If securing this,
but the hGme made small shallow tin
dishes are the next best thing. 1t IS true
that fowl or chicken will often drink
dirty water even when clean water is at
hand, but this is no reason why they
should be compelled to do so.
Regularity in care and feeding is of
the utmost importance. When the usual
feeding time of the chickens arrive. if
you are not on hand with the usual food
they worry. They cease their own efforts
in a great measure and stand idle and
expectant. Every approach. they think.
is that of their keeper with his pail and
long-handled spoon. Every disrppoint-
ment adds to their impatience and un.
easiness. aud they are in fact, fast losing
flesh and 60 ne back on you.
When fowls a'e confined in limited
quarters. the nests should be so con-
structed that they may he in darkness,
or at least in twilight. This is an excel
lent preventive of egg-eating. Locate
the nests as far from the windows as
possible, and compel the hens to ap.
proach them through long, low, COW
cred passage which turns one or two
abrupt corners to shut out the light.
The benefit which fowls derive from eat
ing charcoal is very marked. The best
method of pacing it before them is not
we'll understood. Pounded charcoal is
not in the shape in which fowls usually
find their food, and hence is not very
enticing to them. Corn burned on the
cob and the refuse, which consists al
most entirely of the grains reduced to
charcoal and still retaining their perfect
shape, is greedily eaten by them.-P0ul-
Try World.
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It has been shown by many careful ex-

It has been shown by many careful eX-
periments. and by the results of long
practice, that succulent food helps to
produce large quantity of fat IN the
milk. and also has such an effect upon
the same, as to cause the cream to sepa-
rate more completely from the milk,
leaving less fat to be lost in the butter
milk. Hence, the use OF ensllage, or,
what is better for most farmers and easier
TO accomplish, the feeding of roots OF
an unob iectionable kind, such as mangels
or sugar beets in the winter, and the use
of some kind Of meal. preferably mix
ture of corn meal and coarse mlddllngs,
with pasture in the summer. In winter
the use of cut hay, or fodder. Further'
it has hcen found, that when the milk
of the whole herd has been mixed TO-
cether. and when the milk has been set
for thirty-siX hours, and the cream
churned at the end of twenty-four or
thirty-six hours more, the largest pro.
duct of butter was obtained. When
these periods are shorter, or longer.
the character of the cream differs, ana
there is a loss of butter in one or the
other of the settings of milk or skim
mincs of cream. Hence it is most protlt'
able for dairy to consist of as many
COWS as will supply cream enough 1or
churning at one milking, and to churn
the cream of one milking by itself.
Lastly, the temperature of the churnlng
is of Importance, both as to the time OF
churning, and the quality of the butter
made An examFle from the records OF
Houghton farm in regard to this point
will be exec edingly instructive, and they
fullv accord with great number OF tests
made by the writer during several years
past. At Houghton farm. when the
whole milk of COW (clover) was
churned at temperature of seventy,iour
degrees. somewhat more than a half OF
the butter was obtained; while at one
time actually less than half of the butter
was the result, and it required three and
sometimes four churnings to procure all
the butter. On the other hand, when
the cream was churned at tenn
perature of sixty-two degrees, all
! the butter was obtained, or IN
one case only from one and one-elghth
ounce to two and a quarter ounces from
about forty pounds of milk remained IN
the buttcrmill1, and was procured at
second churning AS double or treble
churning is man!festly impractlcable IN
business dairy, and is troublesome any
where, it is very important to observe
every necessary precaution in regard to
the temperature of the churning. In the
writer's dairy the regular winter churn'
ing temperature was kept at slxty-two
degrees, while the summer temperature
was fifty-tive degrees. The temperature
at which the milk is set and the cream ls
kept, should also be uniform, so that the
! character of the cream is always the
same 1t may be thought that few de-
grees in the temperature OF the cream Is
a small matter; but great results depend
upon small things in all human affairs,
as we'll as in nature; and if dairyman
would succeed in his business. he must
observe carefully all these small things.
american Aqriculturist.
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A Strange Story OF Byron.

Speaking of the men who have known
great men," says John Russell Young in
the New York World, Il remember
meeting a gentleman who had been a
personal friend of Lord Byron. He told
me curious story. He was in Greece
with Byron, and they were travelling to-
gether to Mlssolonghi. A heavy rain
storm came on and they had to ford a
river, and they came to little Greek
inn, riding horseback, and of course
very wet. Byron and his friend went to
their room until their clothes became
dry. Byron lay down upon his bed, put
his arms under his head and said:
"'Do you believe in witches and war
locks2"
"'Why9" asked his friend.
"'You know replied Byron, I am
almost o Scotchman. spent my early
days in Aberdeen, and when was a
child a gypsy read my fortune. She
told me that very important events would
happen in my life at ten, twenty eight
and thirty-six At ten was lord, by
the death of my granduncle. At twenty
eight was married. And now, con-
tinued Byron, the third event comes.
What will it be?"
my friend said to Byron: lob, that's
all nonsense
"'No,' said Byron, shaking mis- head,
and talking In his slow, lisping way
Don't you disbeleve the witches and
warlocks.'
He died in ten days.
81 remember asking this gentleman to
give me his views of Lord Byron as de-
rived from his intercourse with him.
He said that Byron had an affected,
drawing, almost lisping voice, and the
general impression he made upon him
during their days in Greece together was
of insincerity and sel6shness.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
Dairy Notes.

Although salt is used Ill packing but
ter. vet it does very little to preserve it.
Salt. however, retards the decomposition
of Gaseous and albuminous materials left
in it, There have been cases in which
butter has been kept without salt for a
long time.
II YOU are having trouble with the
quality of your butter, just take down
the scythe from the old apple tree, says
the American Dai'ymon, and march out
into the pasture and stay there until you
have cut down every weed you can find.
There is no weed known in botany that
makes good milk; they are natural enc,
mics of every product OF the farm and
to dairy products in particular.
The art of butter making will never
reach perfection until we stop putting
salt in the butter, says the american
Dairvaauu. 1t is depraved taste that
REQUIRES salt taste in butter. The most
critical judges in the old country never
think of allowing salt to come near the
butter, and after getting accustomed to
it. there is all the difference between
the two, that there is between salt and
fresh fish, flesh or other dried or pre-
pared food.
Cheese ought to be eaten instead OF so
much meat. Iti just the thing to take
its place. But then we must have cheese
not quite so aromatic with the putrld
whey stored up in it. nor quite so sting
ing in its tas:e. There are many cheese
factories where hint of this nature can
be applied with decided benefit. Make
cheese people like and they will buy it.
They buy other things, not leaving out
whisky and tobacco. That IS the way
the world goes.
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VINEGAR BirrERs

is the great Blood Purifier and Lifegiving
Principle; Gentle Purgative and Tonic; perfect
Renovator and Invigorator of the system. y
In Vinegar Bitters there is vitality but
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Diseases Of the Skin, Of whatever name
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the system in short time by the use Of the Btters
Vinegar Bitters allays feverishness. ~ re-
Gout, and similar painful diseases.
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Never before has o medicine been eom-
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The reserxed man nossesses strong af.

The reserved man possesses strong af-
fections and warm sympathies, may hold
his convictions with ferver and his prin
ciples with enthusiasm; at any rate, no
one has the right to assume that he does
not, simply because he does not hasten
to proclaim the fact. Reserve indeed
implies that there is something to reserve,
and we may we'll wait with modesty to
discover what it is that our reserved
friend thinks it advisable to keep back
before he is charged with GOODNESS or in
sensibility,
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Round With the World.

Oh, never mind what people say,
The world goes round;
They blamed yestereen, and they'll praise
to-day,
The world goes round.
Keep your eye fixed OH the beacon light,
The world goes round;
Steer through the breakers for the right,
The world goes round.
The woes Of the past are now as naught,
The worii goes round;
And happiness sure is in the thou ght,
The world goes round.
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The Doctors Endorsement.

Dr. ". D. Wright. CINCINNATI o., sends the SUD
ioined professional endorsement: 81 have prescribed
DR VIM HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS
in great number OF and always with success
one case in particular given up by several phf
sicans who had been called in for consultation WIN
myself The patient had all the symptoms or con
Hrmcd cons,1mptOn-cold night sweatS, hectic FEVER
harrassine coughs, etc. He commenced immediateH
TO yet better and was soon restored to ms uSua
health. I found DR.. WM. HALLS BALSAM fof
THE LUNGS the most valuable eXpectoraiII i''
breaking up distressing coughs and COLDS.
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MANY A Poor SUFFERER has expended
hundreds of dollars in the purchase of
costly medicines put up in ''prescription"
form for the cure of rheumatism or gout,
and without any benefit. If oil such
would but drop drugs and attack blood
impurities with VINEGAR B1TTERs, they
would find that nature had provided at
least one remedy for these terrible af1ic-
fiona
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How to Get the Most Butter.

There are several things which affect
the Weld of butter from a COW Of any
kind. First, the food of COW affects
it: second, the manner Of setting the
milk, chiefly in regard to the time which
it requires for the cream to rise: and
third, the temperature at which this
cream is churned.
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girls" who are employed to enliven
ban ,uets and other entertainments, and
are educated for their profession. In
Soul, city of $50 900 inhabitants, there
are not more than twenty or thirty Of
these professional beauties.
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Many hospitals and curati re institu-
tions use only Red Star Cough cure, for
throat and lung troubles. 1t cures.
Price, twenty-five cents. St. Jacobs Oil
cures rheumatism.
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"Said Aaron to Moses
Iatfa mt OFF nlfn nnSas W

5
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mucous membranes healthy and strong. BY
drucoiStS.
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1t is dangerous to tamper with, Irritating
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All DRUGGISTS have it. Price 0cents. By mai!
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find Ely's Cream Balm good for Catarrh OF
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On Roberts Island, on the Pacific coast, :
4OO-acre tract Of peat is burning fiercely.
81 Doa,t Kuow yVhnt Ails mc,'

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"Golden Medical Discovery" use it faithfully,
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Ancient Carriages.
of carriages dates from very remote antiquity,
When Pharaoh advanced Joseph to the second
place in Egypt ''hc made him to ride in the
Joseph, by command of the king sent wagons
out of the land Of Egypt to convey Jacob and
my mother has been afflicted with Bronchitis
for about 20 years, and very bad at times. She
is using Piso's Cure for Consumption, and it
gives her more relief than anything she has
ever taken.
J.H. CARLETON.
Union Centre, ILL.,, March 8, 1886.
his whole family to the land of his adoption.
Thus at this early period there were two dis
tinct types Of carriage in use among the civil
lied inhabitants of Egypt-a country which
from its level character presented facilities for
the development Of this species of conveyance.
The vse of chariots in Egypt and among the
early nations generally was reserved for
rulers and warlike leaders.
1t was among the Romans that the use Of
carriages as q private conveyance was first es-
tablishcd, and with that people carriages at
tanned great variety of form as we'll as richness
of ornamentation. At all times the employ
ment of carriages depended greatly On the
condition of the roads over which they had to
be driven, and the establishment Of good roads,
such as the Appian Way, constructed S3l b. C.
and others, greatly facilitated the development
of carriage travelling among the Romans. In
Rome itself, and pr obably also in other large
towns, it was necessary to restrict travelling in
carriages to few persons Of high rank, owing
to the narrowness and crowded state Of the
streets.
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An engineer, recently employed in
Burmah, says the women were the best
laborers to be found there.
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LYONS Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners keeI
new boots and shoes from running over. solti
BY shoe and hardware dealers.
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Cab is the expressive title of new
Ohio paper.