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A Philosopher With a Wooden Leg.

"Until I grew a wooden leg myself"
said q retired warrior marching along
State street, ~ never knew how many
of my fellow-mortals enjoyed similar
experience. Now, more than half the
fun have in life I get from looking out
for other fellows game legs and arms,
and eyes and teeth. know two fellows
that have false noses, and about couple
of dozen that have chaney-alley eyes.
But that's nothin'. Sure I hear that
over in Paris the surgeons can take a
baby's face and change every feature in
it until its own mother would not know
her offspring. I do be always poring
over old books and lookin' out for curl
osities of men and women who manage
to live though they're all cut to pieces.
There's q man living in Munich, l be-
lieve, that plays the violin with his toes
and leads the orchestra in the theater.
An there's a bully artist, | hear, in
Antwerp, who was born without arms
or legs. But the quarest ould Mohawk
of them all is Kavanagh, who used to be
member of Parliament for County Car
low, Ireland. He was born without
arms or legs, but that doesn't prevent
him from doing anything he wants to
do. He writes books, makes fine
speeches, drives a four-in- hand, goes fly
fshin' for salmon, and can carve duck
as nstely as you place. Oh, pshsw!
'Tisn't nothin' to have a wooden leg.
don't care SOS 7 haven't wooden
head. Cbisalo Journal.
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Troin Robbinc i'm the West.

In the good old times, when traveller
took journey in stage coach, he
carried pistols ready for immediate use,
and was on the lookout for highwaymen
all along the road.
But our modern robbers do not care to
bother with small matters. A stage is
safe enough, except down in Mexico,
where it is a common thing for few
dashing knights of the road to stop a
coach and strip the passengers, leaving
them to make their way to the next
town attired in a stray copy of the New
York Herald. In this civilized country,
however, the Dick Turpins of the pre-
sent day have their minds directed to
bigger things. They will be satisfied
with nothing smaller than a railway
pas>ET ger train.
The recent action of the Arizona
Legislature in imposing the penalty Of
death for train robbing has brought this
nuisance prominently before the public.
In O review of the situation the
New York Herald enumerates more than
twenty train robberies within the past
three years. These robberie' all
occurred in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
the Indian Territory, Ohio, Arkansas,
Arizona and Illinois, but most of them
occurred in Texas. The robbers at
different times secured $G0,0OJ, $40,-
600, $4,000, s25, 900 and SIS, 900. More
than half dozen train men have lost
their lives in these encounters.
In the majority Of the cases mentioned
the train robbers escaped unhurt, and
were never captured. Generally the
number of robbers is small. 1t is rare
for a gang to be composed of more than
six men. They take train by surprise
in an out of the way place, and 60
through it in perhaps two minutes:
When pistols fail to intimidate, the bold
marauders have more than once produced
dynamite cartridges. The prospect of
being blown up induces the bravest men
to surrender. -Times-Democrat.
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Raising Onion Sets.

Onion "sets" are small onions that are
planted in the fall or spring for the pur-
pose of producing green onions for pull
ing early in the spring, or for growing
crop of large onions. For the latter
purpose, especially, it is desirable, in
deed essential, that the sets be quite
small, not more than half an inch in
diameter. If the sets are too large, in
stead of forming large bulbs they will
run up to seed. For furnishing green
onions for pulling in spring some gar
dencrs prefer good sized sets, as they
make stronger and earlier growth.
There is general impression that the
seed for onion sets should be sown late
and on poor land On the contrary, the
seed cannot be sown too early in spring
or on too rich land. The real point is to
SOW very thick, say twenty seeds to each
inch of row. One practical difficulty in
sowing so thick is tc get the seeds to
gcrminatc. AS every farmer knows, be.
fore seed can germinate it must absorb
considerable water, or, as we say,
"swell." 1t absorbs this water from the
soil in immediate contact with the seed.
But when you have large number of
seeds in q small place only those
in direct contact with the soil
will get moisture. The others
will remain dry and hard. and some
times "burn." There are two remedies
for this difficulty. Either sow very
early in the spring when the ground is
moist, and when we are likely to have an
abundance of rain, or soak the seed two
or three days before sowing. We say
two or three days, but by this we do not
mean that the seed should remain
in the water for that length of time.
Soak the seed for twelve hours, and
then throw it on to sieve or cloth and
let the water drain off. Keep the seed
in moist state in warm room four or
five hours and then soak it again in
fresh water another twelve hours, and
keep repeating this till you are ready to
sow. After such treatment for two OF
three days, if the weather will not per-
NIT sowing, rut the seed in cold room
and no harm will be done. We have
kept the seed moist until it commenced
to sprout without harm. In fact, We
never had better sets than from this
sprouted seed. We repeat that early
spring. rich land, thick seeding and
clean culture are the great secrets OF
success.-American AgricuLturist.
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A Misft Crown.

The young Emperor of Germany has
ordered his court jeweer to change the
shape of his crown and model the i'm.
proved edition after the exact pattern of
the coronation outfit of Charlemagne. A
French paper suggests that the crown OF
William the Victorious and Frederic the
Noble ought to be good enough for a
youngster who, thus far, has done moth.
ing more remarkable than snubbing the
German Liberals and assisting his court
bigots in driving his mother into exile.
The Berlin wits cannot risk such out
spoken comments, but express their
opinions by caricature of a snub.nosed
boy trying on an antiquated head-dress
about forty sizes too small for his skull.
Detroit Free Press.
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A Public Benefact0r.

uWho is Fl. 81. Warner, of Rochester, N.
". whose Safe Remedies, especially war
ner,s Safe Cure, have attained such success
and celebrity at home and abroade
The question is inspired as much by anec-
tion as curiosity, since through his lnstru-
mentality hundreds OF thousanas, - 10 hsa3th oIth
hemspheres, have been restored TO healtn
and happiness.
Hon. Il. H. Warner, then, is leading and
honored resident of Rochester, not only, Dut
q prominent and influential citizen or tne
United States. On several occasions chosen
by his party as National delegate 10 noml-
nate President Of the Republic, ne has been
member of the Republican State COMMIT
tee and of its Executive Committee he is
member of the American Institution for the
Advancement of Science; President OF the
Rochester Chamber of Commerce; success
full and upright business man. He has given
eway fortunes in charities. The celebrated
and costly Warner Observatory OF Rochester
YVES conceived, endowed, and is maintained
by him. His munificent prizes for the DIS
covery of comets has been at once tne "on-
der and delight of the scientific world.
The yellow fever scourse in the South, tne
Ohio floods, the fire disasters OF Rochester
and other cities awakened his profoundest
sympathies, and in each instance MS cneck
for from $500 to $4,000 swelled the several re-
lief funds. Where other wealthy men give
tens and hundreds, he gives hunureos anu
thousands.
His charities are as ready and magnificent
as his enterprises and public spirit are bound
less.
The world has need of more such men.
An incident led him into the manufacture
of medicine. Seized some twelve years ago
with what the ablest physicians termed fatal
kidney disease, he was miraculously restored
to health by what is now known as Warmers
Safe Cure. At once he resolved to make
known the merits OF so potent a remedy, and
the consequence is that today he has i'm
mense laboratories and warehouses IN the
United States, Canada, England, Germany,
Austria, Australia and Burmah. Saies OF
his Safe Remedies are enormous, anu tnelr
power over disease simply marvellous.
The merit of production is in exact keep
ing with the character of its producer: An
honest and reliable man himself, Mr. Warner
makes honest and reliable medicines-a fact
abundantly attested by their phenomena
efficacy and popularity.
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For the Good of the Colts.

Give the mare a daily feed of bran.
Treat her with the greatest gentleness
and kindness. If it has never yet been
done. give her few slices of apple from
the hand, and make her approach you
for them. The coming colt will inherit
this disposition and can be made as
friendly and coniding as the dam be-
fore it is a week old, and it will never
forget your kindness unless it is badly
treated afterward. In thirty years Of
farm work and horse keeping the writer
has never owned or used a whip, nor
has he permitted a hired man to use
one, and every horse, cow, bull or
sheep, and even mule, he has reared has
been pettcd one and would come to
his hand freely. Kindness is a good
crop to sow in the farm yard, for it
yields IN profit an hundred fold.-
4me,.i:an Agriculturist.
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admirable trait of euietness when the
combs are being handled. They do not
fly off or crawl over and cluster on one
end or side of the combs, but keep their
places quietly until driven away by the
operator. During the honey season they
are very easily handled, but when
swarming, they are crosser than our
native bees. When robbers are around
in the fall, they become fierce, and de-
fend their store well. They also defend
their homes in superior manner against
the wax-moth. If properly cared for,
handful of workers with good queen
will soon build up to powerful colony.
AS honey gatherers they are certainly
far superior to common bees. This
point, in connection with greater pro-
lifcness. beauty and quiet disposition,
has made them general favorites.
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AnchOYies.

The true anchovY is a fish of the her.
ring tribe. It is taken mostly in the
Mediterranean, where it is found in vast
shoals and is caught and picked in salt
for use as a condiment. There are seven
known species of this fish, differing
chiefly in the form of the fins and the
color of the skin. They are members of
the herring family, as are the shad and
the sprat. The Mediterranean species
is not native of that sea, but its abode
is in the Atlantic, whence it comes to
the shores of Europe and of some of the
islands (as the Bermudas) to spawn; it
is found along the Atlantic coasts of Eu-
rope as far north as the Bay of Biscay,
but prefers the warmer waters. 1t is
probable that the Bermuda species is
identical with that found in the early
summer in the Mediterranean.-New
York Times,
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Farm and Garden Notes.


|. Use the currycomb lightly.
White oak makes one of the finest park
trees.
NIlnorcas are good summer and winter
layers.
Hens should be given plenty of room
to scratch for living.
Butternut is rapid growing tree on
good soil and ornamental.
Doctoring poultry don't pay every
time. But prevention does.
Charcoal aids digestion and should be
kept constantly before the fowls.
If you want good vigorous chicks,
take good care of your old birds.
Pastures may be late in starting.
Don't sell the surplus hay and fodder too
close.
Has the wood-pile for the coming
season reached its full size4 If not keep
it growing now.
Keep a horses bedding dry and clean
underneath as we'll as on top. Standing
in hot, fcrmcntlng manure causes thrush.
A heavy growth of buckwheat is not
only a good way OF killing out weeds,
but is also good means Of getting rid
of cut worms.
The red spider so harmful to roses, can
be held in che:k by Swinging the leaves
with clear water; in dry times this
should be done C cry day.
If the fruit men would only think o
little, they would keep a few hives of
bees, just for their valuable services in
fertillzing the fruit blossoms.
Let the man about to select vocation
for his son, or let young man about to
choose vocation for himself, consider
the advantages of horticulture.
A golden motto for any bee keeper is:
"IaVe everything ready early, and get
all in readiness when it can be done with
the least outlay of valuable time"
Let your horse stand loose, If posi-.
bic, without being tied up in the
mangcr. Pain and wearincss from q
confined position induce bad habits.
The tubcrs of Stachys Tuberifera are
said to lie very good eating when boiled
like the potato. They are also palatable
when eaten as salad or raw with salt.
To protect young trees from sun scald,
mi. e. rabbits, and the ravages of whitilc
trees, take eight lath and weave togeth-
er with binding wire. Surround the
body of the tree with this. 1t will last
| five years.
Never allow any one to tickle or tease
your horse in the stable. The animal
only feels the torment and does not un-
derstand the joke. Never beat the horse
when in the stable, as nothing so soon
makes him permanently vicious.
The farmer who raises COWS that will
give more and better milk than the ordi-
nary cow, steers that will net more beef
per head than the average, horses which
are stronger, handsomer, and more reli-
able than the common horse, will get
/ better returns than the ordinary stock
raiser.
Apart from the cost of sto k transpor-
tation, the facilities for so doing, the
question of time, of care in transit and
ability to handle, so as to conserve the
shippers interests, as we'll as the more
profitable convenience of the carrier, are
all proper questions to be considered by
sto .kmen to the end that the maximum
of profit may be realized for the pro-
Sucep
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Cotton Spinning in Japan.

It IS reported from Japan that the
rapid growth of the cotton-spinning in
dustry of that country is beginning to
direct public attention to the supply of
the raw material. The total production
of cotton in Japan, it is stated, IS
about Al, 900, 900 pounds, and at present
the mills consume 1900, 900. In con-
sequence the price of the homegrown
cotton threatens to be disturbed, and
the mill-owners are anxious to procure
supplies from China, and desire the
Government to reduce or abolish al
together the import duty on the raw
material, which at present stands in the
way of importing it from abroad.
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The Trees Of America and Europe

That this country once consisted large
ly of unbroken forests is we'll known to
all intelligent persons, and although
sections have been greatly denuded none
of the original species have become eX'
tinct. Few persons, however, are fully
aware of the remarkable number of the
species as compared with other parts of
the world. In a report on Michigan
State forestry DR.. w. j. Beal, an officer
of the Commission, makes some inter-
estine statements not only in regard to
the forests of that State, but of the trees
and shrubs of North America and Eu-
rope as well.
The relative importance of the trees
and shrubs of this country as compared
with those of Europe is surprising.
Great Britain has one specie of bass
wood, one maple, not over twenty feet
high; one cherry, from ten to twenty
feet high; one small ash, two elms, two
poplars, one beech, large but not high; ;
one small white birch, one species of
pines, inferior to our white pine, and a
species of oak which sometimes grows to
a great size. About ten species OF trees
are natives of her soil. Michigan, with
half the territory, has seventy species.
Great Britain has no white wood, no
white or red cedar, no hickory.
Michigan has six species of maple OF
tree size, Eastwood, a white wood,
honey locust. kentucky coffee tree, two
cherry, a pepperidge, five species of ash,
O. sassafras, three elms, a blackberry,
mulberry, q buttonwood, black walnut,
butterrut, SIX hickory, about twelve
oak, chestnut, beach, four treebirch,
four willow, of tree size, six poplar, three
pine, four spruce, one larch, one arbor
vvitn and red cedar.
In the Atlantic region of North Ameri-
ca there are 202 species; in the Pacific
region 153 species. In all Europe there
are only eighty-fve species of trees.
Naturally the question arises, what
has caused this great disparity? scien-
fists explain it to their own satisfaction
by attributing it to glacial action. Away
back in the tertiary period the trees OF
the regions now possessing an Arctic cll-
mate were such as now thrive in warm,
temperate zone like that of Georgia and
Califolnia. Then came the glacial epoch,
when snow and ice for most or all of
the year extended to the Ohio River. At
the approach OF cold the trees slowly
retreatcd southwark as generation fol-
lowed generation. As the climate again
gradually grew warmer the trees and
other plants slowly migrated northware:
In a similar manner during the glacial
epoch the plants of Europe were driven
southwark. Europe, says Dr. Gray in
the american Journal of S, isnce, is all
within the limits generally assigned to
severe glacial action. Nest OF the pants
of the warm temperate region had per-
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Whftexyash and Poultry.

A fowl-fancier writes that neatly
whitewashed roosts and fences make
the poultry yard look clean, but the
whitewash has more effect in subduing
or preventing the multiplication of lice,
if some death. dealing substance is in
corporated with it. Carbolic acid is
death to lice, and if mixed with the
whitewash in the proportion of an ounce
of the acid to a gallon of wash, it will
not only destroy the lice that it touches,
but because of the porous character of
the wash the acid will continue to be
effective for several months. A good
plan is to whitewash as early in spring
as possible, thus making the coops in
viting to the sitting hens. Such labor
always pays, and especially at this sea-
son.-NeW Ktrk Witness.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OFINTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Sowing Clover.

When land is thoroughly we'll pre-
pared and made perfectly fine there
is no need tor rolling it after sowing
clover. 1t is a good practice to sow the
seed by itself on the freshly-harrowed
and finished surface Immediately after
the narrowing, and it Will very soon get
covered by the settling of the soil. 1t
is the writer's practice to do this, and
two days after the seed had been sown
an examination showed that almost every
seed had been covered by the settling of
the small furrows left by the smoothing
harrow. If, however, the sowingis de-
layed, the seed should be lightly har-
roHed in.-Mp York Times.
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Italian BceS.

In form, the queen bee is long aud
slender, and very symmetrical in all her
parts. The whole abdomen of most
italian queens. except the last segment,
is of beautiful golden color. The color
of queens varys somewhat, some being
darker than others, but all produce fine
workers, writes Dayton f. Barker, in
Bee Jourha'. Her movements among
the bees on the combs arc well directed
and graceful, and on account of her
quiet disposition and fine color, she is
easily found by the operator, on the
combs. have often seen the queen
laying, while holding the frame IN my
hands.
Italian queens are also more prolific
than the common black queen, thus
keeping their colonies strong. they
also cast larger aud earlier swarms than
our native bees.
The drones, or male Italian hees, also
vary in color. but in general the three
first segments or lands are yellow, and
somewhat scalloped with black. Ihave
had drones in my ap;ary, of which nearly
the whole abdomen was covered with
yellow, and l always prefer to breed
from these dark drones; especially
those reared from queens that mated
with a black drone have tendency to
produce workers that do not show the
fine yellow bands so uniformly as they
should. My advice is, If possible, not
70 breed from such drones.
When the queen is pure, and purely
mated. the workers are fne-looking,
have three yellow bands around the abdo-
men, and very symmetrical bodies. They
possess agility and strength in q very
marked degree, are excellent nurses. al
ways keeping the brood up to the high
est possible point. They also have tho
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The Profit in Sheep.

Keeping sheep is always q profitable
industry when carried on with Judgment,
even if not with experienced skill. There
is room for twice as many sheep as we
now have and for some kinds which We
have not at present. The CheViot sheep,
for instance, is hardy, large-bodied, and
is excellent for its mutton and its fleece.
The Cheviot wool is used for mems
clothing, of which it makes the most
durable and desirable kinds; its fleece is
heavy, and eight pounds OF washed wool
is o small product for the ewes. The
writer's experience during few years
past with this sheep is wholly favorable; ;
two.year- old carcasses have weighed,
dressed, 120 pounds, and the cross upon
the common native sheep makes nearly
as good mutton and wool as the pure
bred. 1t resembles the Cotswold in size
and somewhat in its general character.
That it is not better known in America
is due no doubt to the neglect of sheep
in general, neglect which is exceed
ingly costly to the agricultural interest,
as sheep rearing is the most profitable
branch of farming. It's because of this
neglect, no doubt, that journal de-
voted ostenslbly to the sheep industry
(the Sheep Breeder) makes the strange
mistake of saying that the Cheviots are
black-faced breed. --New Yor& Times.
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The Malaga grape crop is short this
year and only 150, barrels are COM
ing to this country, in place of the 3OO,-
O0O barrels that were expected. A
single storm destroyed 100, 900 barrels of
the fruit.
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From Republican HEADQUARTERS.

MoRAv1A, n. Y, May S, 1870. F. WOOD
WARD: I have been using Kemp's Balsam and
I find it very effectual in relieving q cough
with which have been afflicted OF late. Our
druggists tell me they sell more of this than any
other cough remedy. can cheerfully recon-
mend it. Yours Truly, j. J. PEAsE, Editor Re-
publican. At all druggists. Large bottles, SOC
and S1
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ished, and therefore were unable to re.
treat when the continent became warmer.
$50 our lines have been cast in pleasant
places, and the goodly heritage of forest
trees is one of the consequences. ."-Neao
York World.
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DcIicntc Chl1dren, NHFsIhV
Mothers, Overworked Men,and for all diseases
where the tissues are wasting away from the
inability to digest ordinary food, or from over
work of the brain or body all such sho1id take
ScoTr's EMUL SION of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphitcs. II used the Emulsion on q
lady who was delicate, and threatened with
bronchitis. 1t put her in such good health and
ever ever used. ~. P. WADDELI, MD, Hugh's
Mills G q