Year: 1874

seasons of the year"


AN attempt was made to burn the Ne
braska State Insane Asylum, the other
day, by crazy woman.


BUTTERMILK is an almost unfailing
cure for scurvy in hogs. Merely pour the
buttermilk over them few times in the
| pen. -
IT is estimated that England will want
| but S110 600 900 worth of wheat this
year, against the $175,000,OOO paid last
| year. -
A TENNESSEE man wrote his will on q
paper collar, and it passed safely through
the courts, although little unhandy for
| filing.


MEERscHAUM is likely to become an
article of the toilet, as it is found that
the chips, when ground to powder, make


delicate and very effective cosmetic.
SALTS of lemon will take ink stains
out of cotton, and spirits of ammonia
out of wooden goods. Acid stains may
be removed by applying, first, ammonia,
to neutralize the acid, and then using
chlofoform.


BLUING FOR CLOTHES. an ounce
of soft Prussian blue, powder it and put
| it in bottle with one quart of clear ram


water, and add half an ounce of oxallc


acid. A teaspoonful is sufficient for
large washing.


| THE custom which express companies
| have of selling off, every now and then,
unclaimed packages, which are unopened,
is declared by the Supreme Court OF


Pennsylvania to be illegal, and a fraud


upon the rights of the owner, for which


the company is liable in damages
| EXCELLENT paper pillows may be made


of old letters-the stiffer the paper the


better Newspapers will not do. The
paper should be cut into slips and rolled
round an ivory knitting-needle. 1t is
| then almost like spring, and makes
much better cushion than the torn paper,
| being more elastic.


| A SOMEWHAT unusual but interesting
spectacle was recently witnessed in War
rem, Mass, when an aged lady, now in
her ninety year, rode up and down
one of the streets on horseback, with all
the confidence and agility of young girl
only complaining that the young morse
would not move faster.


To MAKE ARTIFICIAL HoNEY-MiX eight
pounds of refined sugar and two-thlrds
of an ounce of alum in one pint OF pure
soft water. Add to one pint of alcohol
five drops of oil of roses. -Four table
spoonfuls of the alcohol and Oil OF rose
mixture is sufficient for eight pounds OF
honey.


THE State of Nebraska owns church


at Lincoln, the capital. The state ad-


vanced money on the church building Tor


school purposes and, the debt falling due,


the property was offered for sale. There


being no offer high enough to pay the
debt the church was bid in in the name of
the Commonwealth. 1t is probably the
| first instance in the United States of
State owning church building
TOBACCO which contains great guam
titv of nicotine is the best for coloring
meerschaums. The pipe is most beauti-
! fully colored when done so gradually by


never allowing it to get very hot, and


thus expelling the wax from the meer-


schaum by degrees. When you first use


the pipe only half fill it with tobacco,


and on every occasion after smoking al


low it to cool thoroughly before you use


it again.


AS very pretty girl asked young


man on the Maine Railroad the other


morning if the vacant seat by his slds


was engaged, after saying: "No, MISS"
he, highly approaching her beauty, un-


consciously said: care you?" She SO


pleasantly and promptly replied: " NO,


sirn that the agreeable conversation


which followed for ten miles leads nm


to hope for better acquaintance before


his season ticket expires.


STRAWBERRIES, when grown in hills


the most laborious but most productive


method of growing them-should have
runners cut off as they grow, and the
surface soil kept loose by shallow hoe
ings occasionally. Short litter, half
rotten, as mulch is also beneficial.


Lawn mowings are often applied, but


with little benefit Where they are


grown in beds they should not be too


thick, as they. staTNe one another, and


the crop next year will be poor
NEAR Summit HILL an eminence in the
neighborhood of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
there is a natural cave two hundred feet
| long, seventy-five wide and thirty high,
| in which the temperature is so low that
the water of the mountain springs trick
| ling through the roof is quickly changed
! by it to ice. Hence floor, walls, and


ceiling of the cave are perpetually coy
cred with ice Of crystal clearness, and IN


beautiful fantastic shapes, though the


temperature outside may be glowing IN
the nineties.


SAIMoN-FIsHING must be superb in
1
editor states that one afternoon he took
two fishes weighing more than thirty
and twenty pounds respectively. OF
trout he writes: "The trout here are
pvery large and very abundant, but we
won't bother with them. | gave an hour
to it Saturday and caught forty-one OF
four pounds and four that weighed
twelve pounds-inside of twenty min
utes. We lose our patience when trout
strikes"


A CoUNTRYwoMAN went into a store on
Hanover street, Boston, the other day.
and, putting four dollars on the counter


remarked to clerk: "There; fourteen


wears ago, twill be fifteen this fall, l
bought something next door and gave
them dollar bill, but they couldn't give
me change: So they sent boy INTO the
next shop, and ne brought me back the
change for five dollars instead OF one
dollar. I took it; but faint no use,
amt going to keep it no longer; SO there
il is. all back again" and before the as
tonished clerk had time to make any In
quiries she was gone.


SELLING berries by the foot is new
idea, the offspring of a Milwaukee girls
brain The young lady, who was on
marketing expedition, desired TO pur
chase some berries whereW1th TO add Zest
to her evening repast, but she wouldn't
trust the fraudulent little boxes Whlcn
the grocers with pleasing fiction call
q quarts" She wanted. full Scriptural
measure, and proposed to the dealer to
adopt her shoe as the standard of quanti-
ty. Visions of Cinderella foated through
the huckster's brain, and in moment OF
forgetfulness the deluded man accepted
the proposition. Off came the shoe, ana
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