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Year: 1877

wish to say something about our

 front yards early this spring, so that the farmers will not have the excuse that they were reminded of it too late in the season. If you travel through the city and country in the summer time, you cannot help noticing the difference between the lawns in the two respective places. In the clty they are generally ornamented by art and nature combined, to their full Ca pacity. In the country you seldom see anything but sickly attempt in this direction. Farmers may say that they have no time to spend in such unprft- able work. Let me ask such man if he ever found \ person who ever re- gretted the time he spent at this work

 Did you ever pass farmhouse whose lawn was artistically ornamented with flowers and shrubbery without being sensibly attracted toward it? and if you were looking for a home it would be the very place where you would stop to inquire whether it was for sale. Shabby front fences and yards filled with weeds and grass are great detriments to the sale of a place.

 Farmers could find time if they would. There is nothing which so adds to the cheerfulness of your home as some bouquets of flowers adorning the table and shelves, and nothing will give so much enjoyment through long hot summer as . door-yard full of flowers. I think that mother loves flowers next to her children; I knew that my mother had 8 passionate fond ness for flowers. do not see why they should not, for if there is anything beautiful it is collection of sweet, sdented flowers.

 The boys and girls can spend time enough to weed and take care of the flowers, and the seeds can be bought with but little cost the first year, after which they can be raised.

 Ire flowers are natures ever cheer full, ever pleasant blessings, usheripg in the joyful spring, and bidding adieu to us at the commencement of winter. The invalid and working man can alike enjoy these most beautiful of all crea- lions. Many man has been more thankful for little flower than he would have been for cup of gold
Year: 1877

A silver dollar represents a days work of the laborer. If it is given to boy, he has no idea of what it has cost, or of what it is worth. He would be as likely to give dollar as dime for top or any other toy. But if the hoy has learned to earn his dimes and dollars by the sweat of his face. he knows the difference. Hard work is to him a measure of values that can never be rubbed out of his mind. Let him learn by experience that a hum dred dollars represents hundred weary days labor, and it seems great sum of money. A thousand dollars is a great fortune, and ten thousand is almost inconceivable, for it is far more than he ever expects to possess. When he has earned dollar he thinks twice before he spends it. He wants to in. vest it so as to get the full value of a days work for it. It is great wrong to society and to boy to bring him up to mans estate without this knowl. edge. A fortune at twenty.one, with. out it, is almost inevitably thrown away. With it, and little capital to start on, he will make his own for. tune better than anyone can make it for him.
Year: 1877

A cable dispatch received in this city Saturday by shipping agent states that lover twenty thousand Russians may be expected at this port during the summer, and that nearly the same number have decided upon going to Australia This piece of news points directly to. ore very im- portant advantage which this country is quite sure 10 derive from the im- pending war in Europe, provided only we have common sense and practical capacity enough left in us to avail our selves of it. The emigration from Europe to this country to which we have been so enormously indebted in the past, has been steadily falling of for the last four or five years, until 1t has shrulk from a river to q rivulet. Within the last twelvemonth, indeed, we have actually begun to lose popu- lation instead of steadily acquiring it A small but ominous drift has set in of skilled and enterprising emigrants from this country to the Antipodes, not as yet of sufficient importance to startle the general public, but signi6- cant enough to set cooler and longer heads thinking as to the causes and tendency of so novel phenomenon. The approach of great war on the other side of the Atlantic cannot fail to disturb and alarm the industrious classes in all the countries which are al- ready within or are likely soon to be drawn within its vortex. Great wars call for great armies, and great armies mean the sacrifice by great numbers of the people of their property, their prospects in life, and their lives them selves. All who can contrive to escape from the burdens of great war will naturally set about it, not only in Russia, over which empire the cloud now hangs, low and black and ready to burst, but in eastern and central and western Europe. Austria is on the very edge of the approaching con- hict; the German empire within its immediate influence; Great Britain more than likely to be involved in it at no distant day. If so large an emi- grafton as the dispatch upon which we are now commenting states, has already been organized in Russia, it is only reasonable to expect still more important revival of the European exodus from other countries. Whether this new exodus, when it fairly begins, shall turn westward to us, orsouthward to the Australian world, will depend mainly on the evidences which we may be able Co give, within the next few months, that industry may look for remunerative employment once more among us. To exchange the pleasures of unproductive tax-paying in tine old world for the pleasures of unproductive tsx-paying in the new world, is not ex actly the sort of prospect which can be thought likely to allure the small capitalists and hard-working farmers mechanics and laborers of Europe te our shores.
Year: 1877

A gentleman in the west of ireland, near the sea. had seal that was SO tame and so attached to his master that it would follow him about like dog, and seemed much pleased when. ever allowed to lick his hand.

 People in that part of the country are sadly ignorant and superstitious. Two bad harvcsts having succeeded each other, the foolish inhabitants took into their heads that the disaster was caused by the innocent seal. So many were the complaints they made, some people even threatening the owner, that, fearing the life of his favorite might be endangered, he va, obliged to consent to it's being sent away. Having been put on board a boat, it was taken some distance and then thrown into the sea. Very shortly afterward, however, it found it's way back to its beloved master. Still anxious 10 preserve the animals life, he consented to its being carried away 10 greater distance; but once more it returned. This made the ignorant people more certain than ever that the poor seal was some evil being.

 Again it was put on board a boat, the crew of which rowed to much greater distance than before, deter, mined that the poor seal should trouble them no more. Though following the iniunctions of their master not to kill it, they cruelty put out its eyes and threw it overheard to perish is the wide ocean, as they believed. Some time passed, when one stormy night ihe gentleman hearl above the moan. ing sounds of the gale the plain,ive cry of his iavorite close to his house. He went to the door, and opening it, there lay the body of the affectionate animal, quite dead. Though deprived of it's sight, it had found it's way back to the shore on which its masters house stood, and exerting all its strength, had crawled up to the door; thus exhibiting an amount of affection for its human friend such as can scarcely exist in greater degree in the breast of any animal. Ame,ieun Young Folks.
Year: 1877

A SAYING by the lamented Cho. quart, duelist: They were speaking of some one not present, for whom ne did not appear to entertain much affection. "Unless l am seriously mistaken" said Choquart, "l'll have to pull his nose some of these fine days" But what for ?" "What for? If I knew what for I'd go and do it now."
Year: 1877

Farming and Science.

 Farming is just az much science as an art, althouOh not yet elevated to that stsndard to cntitle it to the full term. The prime reason may be that there are too many following it who are ignorant of the grand principles: too many who think that all that is necessary to be 2 farmer are good soils and strong muscles; too many who think that when they have failed at everything else, they can turn to farm ing and earn a respectable living. Evidently, they labor under the i'm pression that man can learn farming in few weeks. It will remain go un- til farmers, as class, are better cdu- cated, and have more scientific knowledge of their business.

 This may be accomplished when we have Aourishing agricultural colleges, which will teach the art practically, and which will turn out regular scien- tiiic graduates, and thus make the oc- cupation not the low drudgery which it is in some places, but the higher aoa nobler profession for which man was created.

 A physician is scarcely trusted in a family unless he has passed through Q regular medical course, and has had some experience in practice. A law yer receives but little patronage unless he has thoroughly prepared himself by legal study. Even the mechanic must have gone through a regular training, both physical and mental, to meet the approbation of his patrons in trade, and is it possible that the farmer needs none of this careful training -none of the anslyzing of principles to fit him for his business?

 We do not wish to degrade the farmer in his own estimation; on the contrary. we would show him the ex- act position he occupies in society, and fpossible give him an infinitely higher position than he now fills.

 Long since the school teachers of the land resolved to make their occu- patton a profession. They labored loug and steadily before they at last reduced their work to an accurate system of which crops out every year in the way of teachers institutes, an. nual conventions, etc. The same glori. ous spirit is gradually working up the agricultural class-thanks to the grangers of Kentucky--a noble old state, upon whose placid streams and hillsides slumber thousand youthful dreams.

 And when upon ner surface Is heart to feeling dead?

 Oh, when mas needy stranger Gone from those hills unfed? Then let her farmers elevate their occupation, and it will elevate them. Let them encourage agricultural schools, agricultural papers, and be. come champions for every step up, ward in the agricultural world; teach their sons who follow in their place to love agriculture for its own sake; let them feel that it is great work, and an honor to them and their country and when it becomes elevated by lib eral education, and enlarged by scien. tifc learning, then we may expect tc see the term farmer" used synony mously with the highest title of the land.

 Let us hope, ere long, to see farm CTS millennium, when fair science shall stretch forth her hand over our fields and bid Ceres return with two sheayes where she now reaps but onc.--Ken lucky Agricult,uulist.
Year: 1877

where there h a doubt as to its advisa-
bility.


The method of arranging the hair is
now and has been for some time very
simple. A crimped fringe across the
front, halved on the top, and braided
knot, broad ar fat loop a. the back,
pinned close TO the head. Middle-aged
ladies surmount this with comb, a few
pufis or braided coronet OF hair, but
the young bride has the privilege Of her
years for some time at least is keeping
herself free from all such acknowledg-
ments of insufIiciency. - Cor. Courier
Journal.
Year: 1877

SoFrSoAP.-Dissolve one pound Of pot
ash in two gallons of hot water; then
add two pounds OF clean melted grease
while stirring. Set aside, and IN few
days you will have excellent soap.


Good UsE For SoAP-sUDs.-Save
your washing suds for the garden. II
they are poured over the roots Of the
plum trees they will kill the curculio I;
IL turned at the roots of geraniums,
roses, etc, they will enhance their beau
ty knfold.


OLD CHAIRs.-To restore the elasticity
of cain chair bottoms turn the chair bot
tom upward, and with hot water and a
sponge wash the cane work it In well, 20
that II will he well soaked; let 1t dry in
the air aud IL will be as tight and firm
as new, provided none of the canes are
broken.


IRoSiNa.-To iron smoothly, purchase
few cents worth OF heeswax, and rub
il over the leaves OF thin pamphlet,
which have been heated by fat-iron.
Keep it with the ironing sheet and blan.
ket, and when the fiat irons are to he
used, rub them over the waxed surface
then wipe gently on soft cloth. Shirt
bosoms can be easily ironed in this man
ner.


FRUIT SrAINs.-To remove fruit stains
let the spotted part of the cloth imbibe
little water without. dipping it, and hold
the part over two or three lighted
birthstone matches at a proper distance.
The sulphurous gas which is discharged
soon causes the spots to disappear Or,
all bright colored fruit stains can be re-
moved BY scalding in clear, boiling water,
before any soap is applied.


REMEDY FOR WHooPING CouGH..-.
Take halt an ounce each of spirits of
hartshorn and oil Of amber; mix them
well together; every night aud mornins
anoint well the palms OF the hands, pit
of the stomach, soles of the feet, arm.
pits, and the backbone. As long as the
eminent is being used do not allow the
parts annointed to he washed, the back of
the hand may be washed, but not the
palm care must be taken afterward not
to take cold. This cannot injure the
smallest infant. Keep the bottle well
corked.


TOMATO FIGs.-.Take six pounds OF
sugar to enc peck Tor sixteen pounds) of
the fruit, scald and remove the skin of
the fruit In the usual way; cook them
over a FIRE, their own juice being sufi
cicnt without the addition Of water,
until the sugar penetrates and they are
clarified. They are then taken out,
epread on dishes, Aattened and dried in
the sun; a small quantity of the syrup
should be occasionally sprinkled over
them while drying; after which pack
them down in boxes, treating each
layer with powdered sugar the syrup
is afterward concentrated and bottled
Tor use; they keep well from year to
year, and retain surprisingly their
favor, which is nearly that OF the best
quality of fresh figs; the pear-shap d
or single tomatoes answer the purpose
best, ordinary brown sugar may be used,
a large portion of which is retained in
syrup.
Year: 1877

We often nee items of advice about the
best methods of removing cream skill.
fully from milk, but never have found
nything that was neater than the fol-
lowing process described by writer in
the N. Y Tribune.


was visiting large dairy in York
shire, and for the first time saw the sys-
TEN in operation Of taking the milk from
the cream, and believe that that system
Ia very little known out Of that country.
To take the milk from the cream requires
the dairy utensils to be specially pre-
pared for that purpose, as follows: In
the dairy refer 10 the milk-pans were
oblong In shape (made of zinc, thipk) },
three feet long BY two and half feet
broad, and about eight inches deep Il
did not measure them at the time, and
the bottom OF the milk holder was about
one inch smaller all round than the top,
and each zinc basin was fitted into a
wooden frame on four legs, which carried
it about two and q half feet from the
| floor of the dairy. In the bottom OF
each zinc basin near one corner there
was q large hole made, and in that hole
was soldered piece Of zinc pipe about
two inches long, projecting under the
basin. and Of such a diameter that a
common bottle cork would fit into it.
The method Of using the above appara-
tus was ~ follows: When wishing to
get the cream the dairymaid placed a jar
under the pipe, and Withdrawing the
cork, allowed the milk TO flow in rapid
stream, and just before the last Of the
milk was ready TO escape she replaced
the cork, and the result was that in
about one minute or less an unbroken
mass of cream was left in the bssin--at
least it was only broken round the edge.
l think the above process well worthy OF
being adopted in all large dairies, as il
seems to me to be very great saving oI
Year: 1877

ones, il IL plain that the chances are that
the wheat which is reserved for seed has
some of the dusty spores Of the fungus
clinging TO 1t. To SOW this would be to
SOW grain and fungus together, and thus
evidgntly largely increase the chance OF
the fungus sports TO get 10 the wheat
plant. But, before sowing, the farmer
bluestones his seed. The solution OF
copper, being fatal to the vitality Of the
smut spores, simply assures the farmer
that he is not sowing live fungus spores
with his wheat. OF course this action
will not assure him freedom from smut,
for there may be live germs waiting in
the sail, and germs may be blown upon
the plants frsm adjoining fields. Thus
Mr.. Phelps Is right in concluding that
the smut comes from external causes;
but to draw from this the decision to
abandon bluestone, would be simply TO
say that man will take both chances,
one Of putting the spores into the soil
and the other OF their already being
there. Practice has shown that blue
stone wheat Is not 80 likely to betmutty
as that which Is not treated with the
solution, for the reason we have named.
Thus, In this sense of the term, the sun
is correct In characterizing the use OF
bluestone as precautionary.


We are hardly sure Of the exact
meaning Of the terms external" as
opposed TO "organic," in the mind Of the
writer above. Do not most organic
troubles and diseases, both Of plants and
animals, come from external causes +?
Smut Is organic, In that its germ, falling
on the plant, germinates and sends a
minute thread-like appendage directly
into the organic structure of the plant.
and, ramitying in its growth, finally
bursts forth from the cuticle; thus hav.
ing accomplished the destruction of the
organic structure, and, like true
parasite, having transformed the tissue
into its own form and substance.


The sun is right in the surmise that
external conditions have much to do
with the growth OF the fungus. II Is q
fact Of frequent observation, that fungus
germs are dormant, or possessed Of ex-
cceding great vitality and power OF
reproduction according as the conditions
necdtul 10 their development are favors
able or otherwisc.-Pac.fc Rural Press.
Year: 1877

The Newark Advertiser has this story {:
Fish are cold-blooded creatures, as every one
knows, but the proprietor of the Fourteenth
Ward House. on Murray street, has sample
of the piscatorial tribe which tor co91ness IS
eoualed only in scientific annals. He is OF
diminutive size, minnow in fact, and was
brought to the establishment embedded in a
block of ice, some two inches below the sur
face. He had evidently been frozen in when
The ice " as formed last winter, and has been
living comfortable though inactive existence
ever since. That he was alive, has been alive,
and is alive at present, is demonstrated by
the fact that when removed from his icy
home yesterday morning and placed in water
he padded off comfortably and easily, evl-
IDENTIFY enjoying a release from his long inn
prisonment. The little fellow has been liv-
ing life of suspended animation for nearly
a Year at least. but though it has retarded his
growth, he is evidently in healthy condl-
fiOn
Year: 1877

The suffering among the poor in Brooklyn
this winter is likely to be very great: Mayor
Schroeder is of the opinion that, incluoing
the relief that will be needed for those lett
destitute by the great fire, there will be needed
from $500, 1000 to $4OO, 900 to keep the peo-
pie from actual starvation: Large numbers
of men are out of employment and have
pawned or sold everything that they could
spare, and must be dependent in great
measure upon the generosity of their more
favored townsmen. In the course OF his re-
marks Mayor Schroeder says that he knows
of one widow, with four little children, who
live in tenement house with not enough
clothes to cover their nakedness and with
hardly any furniture. Yesterday there was
not morsel of anything to eat in the house.
"a man that helped last winter" continues
the mayor, "writes letter to me saying that
he had to send his children to school without
any food yesterday. He says that his family,
consisting of four children, himself and his
wife, must perish unless something is done
for them"
Year: 1877

from the San Francisco Chronicle.]


Most of the enthusiastic supporters OF the
Bland Silver bill were ardent friends OF that
measure because they believed that silver was
bound to become cheaper than greenbacks,
and expected. when the bill became law, to
be able to pay off their creditors in debased
currency The learned and enlightened
Franklin Landers did not, indeed present this
view Of the matter in advocating his bill. Un
the contrary, he enlarged on the happy effect
which the :sdouble standard would have in
preventing fluctuations in silver. But all the
same-his followers wanted silver as IN un-
limited legal tender because they thought 1t
would be ''cheap money" NJ. Cernuschi is
one of the stanchest and most consistent ad-
vocates of the double standard, and yet be
admits that it would be disastrous tor the
United States to set up silver as an unlimited
legal tender unless majority OF the great
commercial nations would cooperate IN the
movement. He evidently perceives that such
individual and isolated action on our part
would simply cause the nations having COM
mercial transactions with US to send SILVER
here to exchange for goods which could be
sold in other countries for gold. There is a
prodigious amount of available silver which
would promptly respond to such an invita-
ton. In England, Germany and france
there is not less than 5000, ,000, 900 OF silver
ready to be precipitated upon us the moment
we declare it a legal tender alternative with
gold. At present the discussion OF the theo-
retical advantages of the double standard III
Congress is utterly Improbable. because we
can do nothing in this matter alone. England
Germany, Holland and the scandinavian
countries have virtually abandoned the silver
standard, and we cannot set ourselves up
against the whole world.
Year: 1877

New York Letter to Washington Capital


One figure among the mourners attracted
the attention of all who knew Claude Bur-
roughs. Scarcely more than week ago
this actor, dressed in the height of fashion,
might have been seen any pleasant afternoon
ON Broadway or the avenue in the company
of young lady to whom he was understood
to be engaged. She, too, was always attired
in the extreme of fashion and in the pictur-
esQue dress which it is the privilege and the
pleasure of the elegantes of the period to array
themselves, and looked half like some Wat
teau shepherdess who had stepped from
some Dresden bit in which she had been i'm
prisoned to seek her mate like another Gala
thea. Her tete r0usse was crowned by a
couuettish hat. her petite form was clothed in
a dress that fitted to perfection, and her
dainty boots went tic-a-toc as she walked on
by the side of her companion. Who would
have recognized in the suffering girl, yelled
in Grape and bowed down with grief at the
solemn services of Sunday, the animated
BELLE all life and gayety, who was wont to
turn all heads as she passed! The watchers
who sat all Saturday night beside the cofins
of Murdoch and Burroug hs as they laid IN
state in Irving Hall, opened in the wee sma'
hours the casket that contained all that was
left of the latter to place in it some flowers
from the tribute of the poor bereaved father.
And then some kind soul who knew the ro-
nance Of the dead actors life, and remem-
bered it, plucked few violets from simple
cross that bore the words, ''Dear Claude, "
and put the flowers gently with the poor
disfgured body.
Year: 1877

THE merry jingle of the sleigh bells, the
sparkle of the crystal snow in the lambent
light of the moon, and the confiding creature
that nesties closely TO him beneath the buffalo
robes, tenderly clasping his left hand in hers
while his right holds the reins. constitute the
winter nights poem that is floating through
the doting lovers soul, and leave him in
doubt whether to let 60 long enough to get
his handkerchief out, or draw his coat sleeve
across his nose.