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A Chinese Book of Etiquette.

Sir James Legge, the Professor OF
Chinese at Oxford, has recently published
some curious details concerning the
"Li-Ki," or "Rules of Behavior" clas-
sic work in a country where man is bound
by traditional ceremony from his first
steps until the day of his death. AS to
visits, the manual directs, among other
things, that the master of the house must
advance outside to meet his guest, who
will refuse to enter the door first; the
host, after a profound bow, then enters
at the side of the guest. The door
passed, the same trouble occurs about
going up stairs it is only after a long ex-
change of set compliments that the two
walk up side by side, but even then the
visitor must mount the first step with
his right foot, and the host with his left
foot. Cinnamon who failed to observe
this ceremonial would be considered
without breeding.
If the visitor is invited to dinner. Gus
tom orders that when the invitation is
given he shall receive from the host GER
tain adv 'ce as to conduct, such as: "Do
not eat with noise; do not crunch the
bones with your teeth or drink down the
sauces at gulp." This is said seriously,
and seriously received. If the master OF
the house is person of importance, and
offers to his guest fruit with stones or
pits, such as peaches and cherries, the
guest must put the pits in his pocket in
order not to appear to refuse anything
the host is good enough to offer. If a
melon is served, the manner of cutting
it depends upon the caste to which the
cutter belongs. Sentiments are regulated
BY custom, as we'll as their expression.
Thus, if in the course of visit, refresh
ments are offered to the guest, he must
drink the first cup "with an air of pro-
found thought" the second, "with a
satisfied expression"
The "Li-ki" has many pages devoted
to the ceremonial of mourning. Gr.ef
must attain its height at the return from
the funeral. The code says "When a
father has died, the son must seem to be
completely overwhelmed: when the body
has been placed in the cofin, he should
cast around him rapid glances of affiic.
tion, as if he sought for something he
could not find. After the burial he
should appear uneasy and alarmed, as if
waiting for some one who does not come.
At the end of the first year of mourning,
he should appear sad; at the end of the
second year, uneasy" Lamentations are
restricted to certain hours and places.
At certain times the mourner must bare
his breast and jump up and down. If
mourning for distant relative, it is suf.
fcient for him to pretend to jump. Con
ISOLATION is also meted out by rule. The
,'Li-Ki" mentions woman named King
.Kiang, who was so well-bred that having
lost both husband and son she mourned
for her son day and night and for her
husband by day only. 1rregularity in
ceremonial as to mourning is regarded
with such disfsvor that the "Li-Ki'' OBJ
serves: 1T is better not to mourn at
all than to mourn after an improper
fashion and in improper dress. ."-Ne~
York Post.
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Practical Turnip-FeedinS.

Mr.. F. d. Curtis, to practice what he
breaches, uses turnips in feeding his
hogs, and gives his experience. He says
that the best pork ever made on the farm
was made by feeding sixteen old hogs,
twice day, five bushels of turnips and
swedes, boiled, and mixed with half
bushel of rye, ground entire. Three
weeks before killing-time the rye was
increased to three pecks at each meal.
The turnips were cooked in a potash
kettle, which held, heaping full, ten
bushels, when boiled unit ! soft they
were shoveled into a barrel, and the
kettle filled again; these were cooked
with about half the fire required for the
first lot. The troughs were filed with
the turnips, the meal spreal on, and the
mass worked together with hoe. The
hogs were then allowed to pitch in.
After filling themselves with this succu-
lent and healthful food, they would 60
out into the field and lie down and
sleep until it was digested, and then go
and eat the rowen, or pick up the green
leaves from the roots, and also the little
turnips left in portion of the field.
. They were fed only two meals a day,
and this gave them time and an appe-
tite to eat grass, leaves and raw roots,
which in their turn helped to make
growth and healthy condition. These
hogs were fattened with seventy-fve per
cent. of lean meat in thtm, and the
flavor was as near perefect as possible.
The store hogs were left in the pasture
until winter came, and had very little
meal, plenty of swede leaves, carrot tops,
some apples, and all the grass they
wanted.
have never wintered hogs cheaper
than the past year. Two thirds of their
entire food up to within a few days, has
been nothing but turnips, and the most
of these common flat turnips, called the
red-top. The turnips have been fed raw
morning and noon, with supper of thin
slop, made of bran and rye meal and
water, mixed up fresh.
To cap the whole experiment, one of
his young sows on very cold night,
farrowed litter of eleven fine pigs, all
of which did we'll. He says, if turnips
are 80 or IS per cent. water, they produce
wonderfully smart litters of pigs. The
average squeaking, weak and helpless
litter of pigs would all have died if they
had been left to help themselves =
Farm, Field and Stockman.
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Grape-GrowinG.

The Indiana Farm = has the following
points for grape growers:
Prepare the ground in the fall; plant
in the spring. -,
Give the vine plenty of manure, old
and we'll dccomposcd; for fresh manure
excites the growth, but does not manure
it.
Luxuriant growth does not insure
fruit.
Dig deep. and plant shallow.
Young vines produce beautiful fruit,
but old vines produce the richest.
Prune in autumn to insure growth, but
in spring to insure fruitfulness.
Plant your vines before you put up
trellises.
Vines, like old soldiers, should have
good arms.
Prune spurs to one developed bud, for
the nearer the old wood, the higher fla
vored the fruit
Those who prune long must soon
climb.
Vine leaves love the sun; the fruit
the shade.
Every leaf has a bud at the base, and
either branch or tendril opposite it.
A tendril is an abortive fruit bunch
bunch of fruit productive tendril.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm ana Garuen NOteS.
Moss in meadows means wet, poor soil
underneath.
Breed, weed and feed are the three
needs of stock raising.
To cure a dog that kills sheep or
chickens the dog.
Keep all grass and rubbish at least two
feet away from the base of the tree.
When too large flower pots are used
there will be more foliage than flowers.
Sulphur is the remedy used for the
mildew in California vineyards with
great success.
Asters are desirable because they come
into bloom after the greater portion of
garden flowers have passed their prime.
Do not let young rose bushes bloom.
Give them the whole season for growth.
Every rose produced will be at the ex-
pense of growth. Keep the earth always
loose around them.
The proper time to cut rye for hay is
when the heads are formed and the first
blooms appear. Rye makes rather coarse
hay, but it will answer very we'll for
cattle, also for horses if cut up and used
with ground feed.
AS a result of some experiments by the
Agricultural COLLEGE. of Michigan, with
a large number OF different varieties of
potatoes, the Beauty of Hebron, Thor
burn, Dacota Red and White Star were
found to he varieties which gave the
highest yield.
Luck with flowers" consists in TAX
ing intelligent care of them. The air OF
living rooms is usually too warm and
dry for them, and the accumulation Of
dust on the leaves prevents them from
im5ibing the moisture and gases that
are necessary to them.
Milk should be fed to young animals
warm, and never in any other condition.
Best results follow by feeding at regular
and proper intervals, in Just the right
quantities. Overlooking the stomach of
hungry calf is followed by worse conse-
quences often than by little stinginess.
An orchard that is at the same time
the poultry-yard will produce 100 per
cent. more fruit, of better quality, than
one receiving the ordinary culture of the
average farmer. The constant scratch
ing about the roots, the gobbling up of
all the insects, the constant droppings
which the rains make soluble, and the
continual supply, is marked by dark
green verdure AMI large, ia fruit; the
la, ge runs make the fowls healthier and
the egg product greater.
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A Homemade Juice Press.

The ordinary method Of extracting
juice from fruits, lard from scraps, etc.,
by placing the material in strong bag
or cloth and squeezing and wriuging it
by hand, is exceedingly irksome. There
are screw presses for the purpose, but
they are more or less expensive and are
to be found in few kitchens. Muth aid
may be derived from the use of simple
lever press, made on the principle of q
lemon squcezer. 1t requires two persons,
however, to manage this, one to hold the
material in the bag or cloth, and the
other to apply the pressure. But if one
Of the halves of the press is hinged to a
piece of board, 3 feet loag. and ii inches
wide, aad set upon table with one end
allttlc elevated, it can be worked by one
person. This press will be found es-
pecially convenient in jelly making time,
as with its aid the juice may be pressed
without either unduly staining or firing
the hands. .-Brooklyn Citizen.
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Masterpieces in Flower Gardening.

Florist Ettore Tassinari has completed
his designs at the Danvers Hospital for
the season, and they are doubtless un-
surpassed by any in this part of the
country. The flower beds are on the great
lawn at the front of the buildings, fac
ing west, and are daily visited by
scores.
The principal design is similar to that
oflast year, a Chinese pagoda seventeen
and half feet high, surrounded by a
dome seven feet high, supported by six
pillars, and made of house leeks. In
the centre is tiny fountain. The Gil.
cumference at the base is nearly seventy
feet, and the base is made of alternan-
thera, echevcrria, and other bedding
plants. On the front is calendar, with
year, month, day of month and day of
week in separate boxes which are changed
from day to day and month to month.
On the reverse side is an American
shield and crossed flags of red, white
and blue plants and flowers and border
of a different color. An archway seven
feet high is made under the design, and
is lined with growing plants and flowers.
The floor is paved, and two fountains are
in operation. Over thirty kinds of bed
plants are used in the design and it is q
very fine exhibition. Photographs have
been taken of it.
The next in importance and beauty is
''solar clock" or sun dial, arranged on
a scientific principle, which accurately
tells the time of day. 1t is in the form
of horseshoe and the Roman numerals
are arranged in the rim of the shoe. A
pole pointing north, at an angle of forty
seven degrees, casts a shadow on the
numbers. The pole is made of growing
houseleeks, and the bed is made of the
same and other low plants.
There are twenty or thirty other beds
about the buildings in designs of stars,
crescents, etc., and al are very hand.
some. The lawns are beautiful and the
grounds always neat and we'll kept
Boston Gl6e.
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DR.. SCHENCK'S
MANDRAKE PILLS
N 2 N U-30

CLEANSE the mucous men-
branes of the stomach and bowels of all slime
and foreign matter, start the secretions. xsslA
digestion and assimilation, nutrify the blood,
They relieve the liver of congestion, given
a chance to extract bile poisons from dhs
blood, to make them into good bile, and 70
secrete Just what is needed. They do not
tear their way and irritate like most purgz-
tives, but they treat all the surfaces and o.
gans, so that the entire system respouds
They are based on scientific principles.
They are entirely rational and natural.
They always do what is claimed for them.
They work on the system in the way claimed.
They work together for the greatest good
They are not like new and untried medicines
They need no praise, but only simple mea-
ton of merit. ... ~,
IBDr. Schencks purely vegetable and
wholly reliable family medicines are for sale
by all Druggists. Every package has neatly
printed directions for use. If you wouA
understand yourself send for DR.. Schencks
new Book on Diseases of the Lungs. Ivo
and Stomach. Sent free. Address DR.: J.
H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia, Pa
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How to Wash Lace.

The only way to wash lace is on a
bottle. Cover the bottle with cotton
cloth, sew the lace around, sewing down
al the delicate points; then sponge it
clean; or, if necessary, soak the whole
thing in soap. suds look out for your
soapD or boraX-watcr, or ammonia
water, or whatever you think the best
thing; rinse by soaking in clean water,
and let the whole thing dry perfectly
before taking the lace off. Lemon juice
ran be applied to spots before the soap
water is used. If the lace is carefully
scwed down in the first place it should
come out of its washing" as good as
new.-DetroN Free Press.
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Scab in Potatoes.

The two principal desires of the potato
grower are, of course, quality and
quantity, and if only one may be realized
the former has the preference. Potatoes
without disease are, or ought to be, the
great aim in this day of rot, blight and
scabby tubers. Of late years not only
learned scientists, but progressive farm
ers, have endeavored to discover the
cause, and preventive, for scab in
potatoes.
Some of our ablest authorities, includ.
ing DR.. ]. B. Larves, of England; E. S.
Carman, editor of the Rarat INe,0 Yorker
DR.. F. NJ. Hexamer; DR.. Henry Stewart,
and Professor Goeesman, after extensive
and repeated experiments, have become
convinced of the efficacy of special COM
mercial fertilizers for the potato. Mr..
Carman, who believes that wire worms
are at least one cause of scabby potatoes,
SAYS: "Whether the wire worm dislikes
potato chemical fertilizers, or whether
these do not furnish the shelter which
the worm prefers, we do not pretend to
say. We do say that in all OF our tests
the potatoes grown with farm manure
have invariably been more injured with
wire worms than those grown with
fertilizers
The feeling very generally prevails that
manure, especially fresh manure, is a
prolific cause, in many soils, of potato.
scab, and ought to be avoided for this
crop. In general, it is claimed that
potatoes grown on chemical fertilizers
are more free from rot-scab and blight,
and are smoother, more uniform and of
better quality than those grown on un-
fermented stable manure.
In word, experience has pro7en that
organic manures tend to promote scab
and rot in potatoes. The organic sub
stance seems to AFFORD soil peculiarly
adapted to the development of fungi and
insects, which in time attack the potatoes.
On the other hand results favor the belief
that commercial fertilizers made from
minerals and properly treated animal
products are comparatively free from
fungi, and that such fertilizers tend to
prevent or destroy any chance fungus
growth in the potato itself.-Neo York
World.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
The Four Courses of Chicken.

The Four Courses of Chicken.
At first the chicken stuff and roasted brown
With apple sauce and fixings all complete,
And then the fricassee, all cover'd DER
With thickened butter, pour'd with lavish
hand
To hide the bones. And then what may be
left
Is done up into pies, with pastry tops
Just fitted 70 the dish: Last course of oil
Of this yhtful bird is chicken soup
The general lcavings and the scrapings-up
Of wings, legs, tails, necks, bones and every
thing.
-Ne,U York World.
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TUT 11&1o1*&, 1oo''l
feeling of dread. or of i'm

indescribable feeling of dread, or Of i'm
pending calamity
If you have all, or any considerable
number of these symptoms, you arc
suffering from that most common OF
American Manifestations Dyspepsia, or
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If not cured, complications multiply and
Consumption of the Lungs, Skin Diseases,
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1t is generally admitted that the
Frenchman is the most volatile person
on the face of the earth. - .. -.
A Woman,s Confe ssfon.

"Do you know, Mary once act, actually ally Sf9s con
nRitn s. Fell me about it." Il was suffering from
chronic we kness. ! believed myself the
most unhappy woman in the world: II lo9ked ssst
ten years older than ! really was ana iIeit
worth living for" II have experienced all
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was save at the eleventh hour from the & com m
m ssion of a deed which shudder to think OF.
A friend advised me to take DR.. Pierce's Fa-
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Miss Mercer Henderson, the great
Scotch heiress, is to marry the impover-
shed Earl of Buckinghamshire. His
iordship is descendant of the patriot,
John Hampden, the friend of Cromwell.
Kis marriage will enable him to restore
his ancient family mansion to its historic
snlendOr.
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A Pill in Time, Saves Nine |!

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pei cts are
preventive as well rs curative. Afew OF these
kLittle Giants" taken at the light time, with
little expense and no inconve lience, will ac-
complsh what many dollars and much sacrl-
fice of time will fail to do after Disease once
holds you with his iron. grasp, Constipatlon
relieved, the liver regulated, the Blood puri-
fed, will fortify against fevers and all con-
tagious diseases. Persons intending travelling,
changing diet, water and climate, will ind II IN
valuable, DR.. Pierce's Pleasant PurgatlVe Eel
LET'S In walls convenient to carry
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From the Ex.President of the New York
Stale Senate.

STATE OF NEW YORK, SENATE CHAMBER,
ALABNY, March II, 1856.
Ihave used ALIcoCK's POROUS PLAsTERs in
my family for the past five years. and can
truthfully soy they are a valuable remedy and
effect great cures would not be without
them. have in several insta ces given some
to friends suffering with we TX and lam: backs,
and they have invariably afforded certain and
spe, DIV relief. They cannot be 90 highl, COM
mended EDMUND l.. PITTS.
Yale has over eighty post-graduate courses
and owe" thi teen hundred graduates.
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liable to set in, and, sooner or later, in
duce fatal termination.
DIR. PIERCEs GOLDEN MEDICAL DIsc0v-
ERY acts powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blood-purifying organ,
cleanses the system Of all blood-taints and
impurities. from whatever cause arising.
1t Is equally eHicacious in acting upon the,
kidneys, and other excretory organs,
cleansing, strengthening, and healing their
diseases. AS an appetizing, restorative
tonic, it promotes digestion and nutri-.
ton, thereby building up both flesh and
derful medicine has gained great celeb
rity in curing Fever und Ague, Chilh
and Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred
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ARE YOU SICK ?

Do you feel dull. languid,. low-spirited,
lifeless, and i1describa6ly miserable, both
sense of fuilness or bloating after eating,
or of "goneness." or emptiness Of stomach
in the morning, tongue coated, bitter or
bad taste in mouth, irregular appetite, diz-
ziness. frequent headaches, blurred eye
nervous prostration or exhaustion, irrita-
bility Of temper, hot flushes,. alternating
with chilly sensations, sharp, biting, tran
sient pains here and there, cold feet, drow-
siness after meals, wakefulness, or dis
turbed and Undertaking sleep, constant,
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COLUMBUS, OHIO, Aug. 18th, 1887.
WORLDS DIspENsARY MEDICAL AsSoCIA-
TIoN, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y:
Gentleme,,-For several years have felt it
to be my duty to give to you the facts in rela-
tion to the complete cure. of a most aggra-
yetSd Goden safs scacaP S % An elderly lady
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If all so-called remedies have failed, DR..
Sagc's C,tarrh RENEE dy cures.
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Mrs. Garfield has given 1000 to the Garfield
University at Wichita, Kan.
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humors, from common Blotch, or Erup-
ton, to the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum,
Fever-sores," Scaly or Rough Skin, In
conquered by this powerful. purifying, and
inyigorating medicine. Great Eating Ul-
GERS rapidly heal under its benign infu-
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Detroit has opened woman's school OF jour-
naliSm,
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Lungs, Splitting of Blood, Shortness or
Breath, Bronchitis, Chronic Nasal Catarrh'
Severe Coughs. Asthma, and kindred atlec-
tions, it is q sovereign remedy. "hlle IL
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Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is
the fountain of health, by using DIR.
PIERCEs GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY,
and good digestion, a fair skin, 6uoyants
be established. -,
GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY cures all
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ence. Virulent blood-poisons are, by its
use, robbed of their terrors. Especially
has it manifested its potency In curing
letter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbun-
cles, Sore Eyes, Scrofulous Sores and Swell
ings, Hip-joint Disease, white Swellings,"
Goitrc, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged GlandA.
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A WORD OF WARNING.

There many white soaps each represented be just as good as tho
y they ARE NOT but like couets lack the peculiar and remark
able Qualities Of the genuine Ivory" and insist get ing
copyrht 1885, Gamble
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SALT.RHEUM
and
RHEUMATISM.

GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY cures Con-
s1mption (Which is Scrofuln of the Lungs,
by its wonderful blood-purifying., inTigora-
ting and nutritive properties. For Weak