The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

UUficiug flaiadcaln J. VAN SLYKE. Editor Mtf faMichsr. BioHENRY, ELLINOia A POPULATION as large as Chicago has been added to Liondon in ten jears. HntnM 1877 the school population of D&ver lias jtutiped from 2,440 to 5,700^ PIKBKK LORILLARD made $50,000 more o» Parole's first race in England than he -did upon Iroquois' recent viotory. CHICAGO »the second postal city in the country, the business of its postof- fice being next in magnitude to that of New York. THE Winchester Armory, New Haven, Ct, declined an order for 50,000,000 cartridges from Turkey until satisfacto­ ry security should be offered. and angels and have not love, I am as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." Again, in the fourth verse, "Love suffereth long," etc., and in the thirteenth, "And now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three ; but the chiefestof these is love." IITK educated Indians, who are theo­ logical students, will spend the next two years in the missionary work among the Cheyenne tribe at Fort Reno. IT seems that the attempt to natural­ ize camels in Texas and New Mexico was not, after all, au utter failure.„• The camels used tor carrying freight across the California desert did not, for bomo reason, prove profitable, and they were turned loose on the Gila and Salt river bottoms. There they lived and bred until now,. it is said, they roam the Lower Gila plains in large numbers, giv­ ing the Louisiana Citizen ground for the belief that they "will continue to increase in numbers until a drove of wild camels will be as common on the western plains of Arizona as buffalo now are on the plains east of the Rocky mountains." WATCHES are smuggled into Italy from Switzerland through the agency of car­ rier pigeons. A Swiss firm is said to use hundreds of pigeons in such work. LORD BUTE'S new house in Scotland will cost about $1,000,000. The great central hall will be 130x60 ; the great drawing-room 60x23. Three hundred men are employed on the work. THAD STEVENS' old home at Lancas­ ter, Pa., is now used as a barber shop and cigar store, and a barber pole and wooden Indian are the unsentimental objects that first confront the visitor. MR. COOK, from the country, fell asleep in his chair on the veranda of the St. James Hotel, St. Louis, and did not awake until 4 o'clock a. m. His watch and $500 in money had i'i the meantime been stolen. He was very angry, ami resolved to catch the thief at any oost of time and trouble. On four successive nights he feigned sleep in the same chair, with the brtiss chain of a brass watch hanging out temptingly, but nobody touched it. On the fifth night, how­ ever, the pickpocket returned. He had scarcely pulled out the watch when Cook opened fire with a revolver, and, when a surgeon looked the thief over critically, four bullets were found in his body. IT is asserted that the tract of coun- j try, including the celebrated " Ever- 1 glades," which the State of Florida is ' now going to drain, will be able to pro-• duce more sugar than the United States I can consume. V HXKBY CBCM, a lawyer of Newcastle, Pa., was recently mistaken for a horse- thief by a band of vigilantes, and nearly killed before he succeeded in proving his identity. Lawyers should stay at home nights. THB Superintendent of the Census has received a request from a poor woman to run his eye over the names on the rolls and see if lie cannot discover the where­ abouts of her brother, who disappeared fifteen years ago. STOPPING at a ranch on the San An­ tonio river, in Texas, a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune saw the handsom­ est dogs and horses he had come across in that region. "The proprietor," he says, "came out dressed in baggy, brown pantaloons, bed-ticking suspend­ ers, and a Yankee chip hat turned up behind like Joshua Whitcomb's. He was a very handsome man--tall, muscu­ lar, with a manly brow; features fit for a model, and a rich, full voice, which spoke pure English. ' I thought at once, ' What a handsome man ! How did you come down here on a ranch ?' ' My two men are sick, and I'm working like a slave myself,' he said. ' Yesterday I dug out that irrigating ditch, and I've drawn 171 loads of manure this spring myself, and spread it on the land, too.' " This agriculturist was the Rev. Adiron­ dack Murray, formerly of Boston. THB hospitality which Mr. A. H. Stephens offers to strangers at his Georgia homo is something unique. He has even, it is said, fixed his din- ' ner hour at 11 in the morning, be- i cause that time suited the railway | arrangements, and he could invite all j those who came to see him to dine be- j fore leaving. „ j MANY persons are misled by the term, a "fair" day, in the United States Signal <5fetvice reports. It does not mean clear and bright, but cloudy, though neither ; stormy nor threatening storm. It will j probably soon be replaced by some other term, such as "overcast" or "neutral," • so as not to convey the erroneous iin- | pression it has hitherto caused. - A MAN in Ottawa, Canada, built a | ;smftll edition of Noah's Ark, with which j to escape the second delngo which he [ believed would drown the world on June 19. His wife laid in provisions, which she had been cooking all the week. An­ other resident of that city was taken Jto the insane asylum, crazy OD the c<5n- 1 templation. of the end of the world. j ILLINOIS NEWS. THB little village of Abilene, Kan., is noted for having six churches. It has only one newspaper, and that is a weekly; but Abilene is nevertheless ahead of all other towns in this season's competition in the matter of warm- weather stories. A farmer living near Riley Center--so it is printed--started for Garrison with a load of hogs ; but the sun was warm, and the hogs were fat, and when the farmer arrived in Gar­ rison, his $85 worth of pork had melted, and leaked through the bottom of the wagon box. ONE of the most interesting and prom­ ising recent inventions is a machine for purifying the middlings of wheat flour by electricity. The work is done by passing the coarsely-ground middlings under a series of hard rubber cylindrical rollers, which are kept in an electric condition by the friction of sheepskin pads with the wool down, pressed upon them from above.: The electrical roller picks up the bran from the middlings, leaving the pure parts to be ground over into flour of the highest grade. A COLLECTION of fossils from Wash- i ington Territory, on exhibition in Den- j ver, Col., consists of the bones of what is believed to be a new species of mam- : moth, which the discoverer, Mr. Coplen, j has named Flephat Columbians. The j tusks axe about twelve feet long, and the i teetk of th# lower jaw weigh twenty ponlMis 4Mb. The bones were discov- j ered in May, 1876, in a" mineral spring j in Spokan county, W. T., and have un- ] til lately been jn the cabinet of the Pa- J cific University, Oregon. They are now to I be brought East, and will probably be placed in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. THE changes made in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, by the re­ vision committee, substituting the word "lover-Cor " charity," are not new. In the edition printed by Robert Barker, of London, in 1610, "love" appears throughout the thirteenth chapter ,of the First Corinthians, thus : "Though I spaHc ..with the tongues of men PEORIA'S city Directory contains 11,104 names, a large gain over last year. THB new depot at Peoria is to cost $400,000, and work will begin on it next week. THB Mokema Turner Hall, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000; in­ sured for $2,000. CUMBERLAND county is troubled with chinch bugs, which have destroyed her wheat and corn crops. NOBLE PHELPS, the owner of the pre­ mium farm of Knox county, died of small-pox at Wataga. JAMES CONNER, a farmer living near Carlinville, was killed with his team by a stroke of lightning. THE citizens of Quincy are becoming considerably interested in a project to establish a watch factory. THE Mascoutah llouriug mill hits been sold for $36,000, to close out the estate of the late Mr. Schindler. Ex-Gov. PALMER, of Springfield, has donated $300 to the Blackburn Univer­ sity, Carlinville, to found a prize in oratory. PLANS for the new glass-works at Pe­ oria are completed, and work on the buildings will soon be prosecuted with vigor TnE wheat harvest in Southern Illi­ nois is now in full blast, and there will be about a three-fourths crop of good quality. A 3-YEAR-OLD daughter of F. L. Sonn- taig, of Alton, died Irom the effects of a terrible burn received the day before by falling into a tub of water. WORK on the extension of the Pitts­ burgh railroad, from Belleville to Cen­ tral ia, will soon be commenced. The distance is about forty-five miles. JAMES BURKE, who killed his brother in Chicago last October, was found guilty by the Criminal Court jury, and sentenced to five years in the peniten­ tiary. IN the suit brought by Mrs. Elkins, wife of the Chicago artist, to recover $25,000 damages from liqwor dealers, the jurors were equally divided in opin­ ion, and were discharged. SENATOB DAVID DAVIS is said to own more land in Illinois than any other res­ ident of the State. A Bloomington cor­ respondent estimates his wealth at $5,000,000. He pays $38,000 in taxes yearly. WniLE there has been a decrease in the exports of the country, there has been an increase in the exports from Chicago drring last month of $225,000 in value, as compared with May of last year. LOMBARD UNIVERSITY, at Galesburg, received collections and pledges during the pact year for $5,550, and sold schol­ arships tor $1,750. The proposition to crect a boarding house was referred to a committee of the alumni. J. M. HBNDLEY, a well-to-do farmer near Golconda, was thrown from "his horse the other day, and seriously in­ jured. His wife, hurrying to his assist­ ance, was attacked by a butting sheep, and had her arm broken. PROF. BYFOBD, of Rush Medical Col­ lege, Cliicago, removed a fifty pound ovarian tumor from the stomach of Mrs. J. A. Rnssell, of Aledo. Twelve doctors of that vicinity witnessed the operation. The patient is doing well. THE reports from the corn crop ot Illi­ nois show the usual acreage and a 'yield of 86 per cent for the northern division ; a large increase in territory and an aver­ age crop for the central portion, and the asual acreage and a yield of 75 per cent, for the southern division. DICK SINCLAIR and a man named Hutchinson got into a dispute the other night, at the town of Opdyke, over 60 cents, and Sinclair stabbed Hutchinson to the heart, killing him instantly. The murderer was lodged in the Mount Ver­ non jail. THB Springfield Diocese of the Epis­ copal Church has purchased the Berg- stresser residence, at Pekm, which cost nearly $35,000, and will establish there ; the Cathedral Grammar School, which ! will be opened next fall. Rev. G. W. j West will l>e in charge. | A FARMER near Shawneetown, named j John Holland, whi e trying to work a . balky horse in a reaper, the other day, ' was knocked down by the horse, dragged | twenty yaids and rnn over by the r^ap- ; er, wounding him in five different places j very badly. It is thought he may re- j cover. j HENRY MEYERS fell from the third i story of the City Hotel, at Peoria, a dis­ tance of forty feet, fracturing his left | arm between the elbow and shoulder, i the bone protruding from the flesh. He • had been spreeing, and during the night ! went to the window to cool off, fell | asleep and tumbled out. So VIOLENT has been the resistance of i the citizens of Harp township, De Witt j county, to the sale of lands for delin- | quent i axes that Lieut. Gov. Hamilton, j acting in the absence of Gov. Cullom, I thought it necessary to send a company j of militia to assist the officers of the law. j The sale was postponed on account of ; the excitemeut j AN inquest was held on the body of j Hugo von Malapert, who suicided by j throwing himself from the Chicago j water-works tower, 180 feet from the | ground. Chagrin at being whipped in a ! quarrel with a fellow-boarder was the ! cause. Deceased was the son of Baron { von Malapert, High Chamberlain of the 1 German Emperor. J THE first meeting of the Directors of | the Illinois Central railroad since the : general meeting of the stockholders was j held iu New York. Gov. Cullom, ex-offi I cio member, was present and took part. : The former officers of the company were i re-elected. It was reported that the I Cairo elevator, holding over 600.000 J bushels, was nearly completed. A LARGE number of old Bettlers oi j Bloomington celebrated the golden wed- | ding of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua R. Fell, ; who were married in Chester county, Pa., and have lived in Bloomington since ; 1837, being closely identified with the j grow th and history of tlie city and I county. The worthy couple were pre- | sented with a large sum in gold coins; 1 also with a valuable clock, the gift of i Senator David Davis, who was one of the ! honored guests. THE June crop reports now being re­ ceived at the Agricultural Department at Springfield show a great decrease in the acreage, and that the wheat which has not been plowed up for corn or other crops will not make as large yield per acre as previously rejiorted. The pros­ pects for corn are very encouraging. The acreage is far in excess of former years, and the stand is remarkably good. THB funeral of Eli Bates, of Chicago, took place last week. It has been learned that he left $40,000 for the erec­ tion of a monument to Abraham Lin­ coln at the entrance to Lincoln Park, and $15,000 for a fountain; $25,000 to Unity Church and $20,000 to its In­ dustrial School, and $5,000 to the Free Dispensary of the North Division. THE banquet of the sons of Maine resident in Chicago was in every sense a grand success, especially as a large dele­ gation of distinguished citizens of the Pine Tree State were present as guests. Judge Drummond delivered the address of welcome and Prof. Rodney Welch the poem. Among those responding to toasts were Hannibal Hamlin, £. B. Washburne, James H. Howe and Mark H. Dunnell. THE State Auditor has notified the Assessors throughout the State that they must disregard the Needles bill, which passed the Legislature at the last ses­ sion. It will be remembered that, un­ der the law of 1879, the assessments of real property for taxation luade in 1880 were to remain in force four years, and thereafter such assessments were to be made only once in every four years. The Needles bill, passed at the late ses­ sion, repealed this provision and pro­ vided for annual assessments, and pro­ vided that tlie first of these annual assessments should be in 1881. The difficulty in this case has been that this law of 1881 will not be iu force until July 1, at which time, by existing law, the assessments of 1881 will have been all completed. The execution of the law of 1881 being then impossible, the Auditor very wisely instructs the As- i>efsors to disregard it. The assessment of real estate made iu 1880 will, there­ fore, stand also for 1881, and the Needles law will not take practical effect uutil next vear. FARM NOTES. Thoughts from Landor. Life is but sighs, and when they cease 'tis over. The purest water runs from the hard­ est roct. No ashes are lighter than incense, and few things burn out sooner. Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always ex­ cursive ; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. Whoever is an imitator by nature, choice or necessity, has nothing stable ; the flexibility which affords this aptitude is inconsistent with strength. To discover a truth and to separate it from a falsehood is,surely au occupation worthy of the best intellect, and not all unworthy of the best heart. Neither worth nor wisdom come with­ out an effort; and patience and piety and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen from under the harrow of affliction. 1 feel that I am growing old, for waut of somebody to tell me that I am look­ ing as young as ever. Charming false­ hood !" There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words. Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient lor it to spring t/oin to the highest ac­ cent. Thfra is usually some baseness before there is tuiy elevation. The worst ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles in- ci usts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hard­ ens under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness and softness and its apti­ tude to receive impressions. MR. JCLIAN HAWTHORN* writes con­ cerning Lord Beaconsfield's audacity: "Some years ago, while he was plain Disraeli," he was at a large dinner, where his wife also was present--an excellent ladv, but not distinguished for outward attraction. It happened that her next neighbor at the table was Bernal Os­ borne, and after the ladies had with­ drawn, the latter (who has the manners of a city cabman) broke out in a loud voicc: 'Good God, Disraeli, how on earth did you oome to marry that woman ?' Hereupon ensued an appalled hush, all eyes fixed on Disraeli. At length ha said, with a quiet, friged drawl: 'Partly for one reason which you, Osborne,, are incapable of understanding--gratitude 1* This completely crashed the vivacious Osborne. THBRB are said to be 50 injurious in­ sects in our vega table gar dsns, 50 in our vineyards, 75 attack our apple trees, more than 100 injure onr shade trees, and more than 50 our grdin fields. Sev­ enty-five millions of dollars is estimated as the damage done to the wheat in Illi­ nois in one season, and nearly ten years ; ago the annual loss in the United States, ! from insects alone, was nearly $400,- j 00,),000. ! TESTING EGGS.--Les Monde* a French paper, gives the following old recipe for testing eggs, which it thinks, seems to have been forgotten. Dissolve 3J ounces of common salt in 1J pints of water An egg put in this solution on the day it is laid will sink to the bottom; one a day old will not reach quite to the bottom of the vessel; an egg three days old will swim iu the liquid; while one more than three days old Will swim on the surface. A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio Farmer states that excellent results attended the use of dry unleached wood ashes as a preventive of the ravages of cabbage worms. The ashes were thrown on top of each plant, pains being taken by the operator to jar the plant by hitting it with the foot, so as to shake the ashes down thoroughly between the leaves. Not ouly were the worms killed but "the cabbage instead of taking hurt from the bountiful application started with new life and energy." Several w-eeks later it was found necessary to repeat the appli­ cation. The result of tne experiment was an unusually fine crop. AN ENGLISH gardener, Mr. Barnes, of Devonshire, in giving an opinion of the importance of hoeing, said he "did not agree with those who say that one good weeding is worth two hoemgs; I say never weed any crop in which a hoe can be got between the plants, not so much for the sake of destroying the weeds and vermin, which must necessarily be the case if the hoeing be doue well, as for increasing the porosity of the soil, to al­ low the water and air to penetrate freely through it." He adds: "I am well convinced, by long and close practice, that oftentimes there is more benefit deriven by crops from keeping them well hoed than there is from keeping the manure applied."-- Exchange. PERSIAN POWDER.--Au Ohio farmer •ays: I have tried good pyrethruui (Per­ sian or Dalmatian insect powder) for lice on pigs, cattle a.id horses, by sprinkling upon and rubbiug into the hair, and on chickens bv blowing under the feathers with a bellows; aud find that it is harmless to the thick just hatched, also sure death to fleas ou dogs. I have tried it on many kinds of insects --cabbage worms, potato bugs, flies, l>ees, moths, spiders--and I have failed to find the insect that would not suc­ cumb to contact; and, barring the ex­ pense, consider it ahead of all other powders, with the added benefit that it seems not to be the least injurious to vertebrate animals. SHORT-HORN SALES.-- The Country Gentleman give* the following as the leading sales for the past eleven years. Of course only sales at leading poiuts are included, but this is thought to show a fair average of the interest iu this re­ spect: •Sale*. Na Average. T'tal fSHO S,2as |1M $404,(178 1ST9 J.SMS 115 826 lSu lJt7« 2.n« 13$ ai7.«4* 1877 R,i!7 £» ~ ?4-\S7l If 76 4 <• 4 841 l.SWB.Sttt 1N7J 4S47 422 1 W74 2,r.7« .185 1," :tl,' M 1*73... l.fMO 5:U 996..*,.>7 1S72 1,014 813 . 317,<i*.S 1*71 407 »l 117,>JI4 lii7« 495 313 160 .">57 During the eleven years included al>ove, our recorded sales of short-horns have reached an aggregate of 26,151 head, which have realized in the ring a total sum of $7,682,4'W--being equal to a general average for the antire period of a fraction short of fwr liquid. • SELECTING SEED.--The prudent farmer will select his seed in October and care­ fully store it away where it will not be exposed to moisture, nor to a tempera­ ture below zero. Even when seed corn is not destroyed, it is frequently so in­ jured that it sends up a feeble shix>t that require sonte w» eks t> recover its\itality. | lint this is au accountable carelessness, too common among farmers, in the se­ lection of all kinds of seed. In the rais­ ing of wheat, oats or other small grains, it will pay to raise a small lot, to which special cultivation and care is given, for the express purpose of producing a per­ fect grain for seed. The maii who sows twenty acres of wheat can well afford to raise one acre for seed, even if it costs him $10 extra labor and manure, and in­ creases his general crop but one bushel per acre. But this process continued from year to year--planting the best seed for seed, and giving it the highest cultivation, the general crop, grown from such seed will steadily improve. In this manner all our 1 letter varieties of grain are more conservative than others and retain their old character and habits of growth with greater tenacity. Of these, none are more fixed in their habits than wheat, yet high cultivation for several years will materially affect the character of even this grain and its pro­ geny for several generations, though the methods which improved it may be neg­ lected. But maize is most easily affected by selections of seed and modes of cul­ ture of any of our grains, but at the same time, no grain degenerates nnder neg­ lect so rapidly as our Indian corn.-- Indiana Farmer. BENEFITS OP HOEING.--Too many per­ sons who use the hoe suppose that the chief benefit derived from it is to kill the weeds. That, certainly, is an important work, aud one which is greatly neg­ lected. Weeds are not only in the way of cultivating crops which we plant, but they rob them of mnch of the nutriment which they need. Hoeing, then, is an essential service in respect to destroying the weeds. There are other advantages, however, which are quite commonly overlooked. Let us see: 1. The loosening of the soil in the op­ eration of hoeing is beneficial to the plants; as much as the destruction of the weeeds. or more so. 2. Moisture abounds in the atmos­ phere during the hotest months, and it is absorbed and retained most abund­ antly by a soil which is in the most fri­ able state. Professor Schluber found that 1,000 grains of stiff clay absorbed in twenty-four hours only eighty-six grains of moisture from the air; while garden mold absorbed forty-five grains, and fine magnesia seventy-six grains. 3. Then, again, pulverizing the soil enables it better to retain the moisture absorbed. 4. The soil, in order to be healthy and active, must breathe. A light, porous soil admits the air, and thus it is fed and greatly invigorated by the atmosphere. 5. The sun's rays heat a hard soil mnch anicker than a loose one, and the hotter le sun is so muoh greater will be the evaporation from it; so that the hard soil is deprived of its moisture much sooner than one of a loose texture. 6. The roots of plants can fin<f their way through a moist, loose soil in search oi food much better than they can 1 through a hard, dry soil. I r' 7. A foil that is kept loose near the surface by the action of the hoe will receive and hold the rain water that falls, while a hard soil will allow most of it to run off into the valleys and streams as it falls. A PLOW THAT WALKS.--The steam plow invented by Mr. B. S. Benson, a well- known machinist of this city, has been put into practical operation. * The vari­ ous attempts heretofore made to plow by steam have failed mainly on account of the difficulty in adapting a traction en­ gine to the varying conditions of the ground over which it must move. An engine which will run very Well over a hard surface or firm sod will sink into loose loam or wet ground to a depth that stops all locomotion. Mr. Benson has sought to overcome these difficulties bv constructing an engine which lays down and takes up a track, over which it pro­ pels itself and draws a gang of plows af­ ter it. The portable track consists of four endless chains, constructed of links or sections about fifteen inches in length. Each section has a sort of foot, with a saucer-shaped base projecting from it One-third of these feet are constantly resting upon the ground, each one being taken up in turn by the revolution of the chain, which is carried around a triangu­ lar frame on each side of the upright boiler. The lower side of the triangle is have never known the simple saucer of parched corn pudding refused. The coi a is roasted browL precisely ah we roast coffee, ground as fine as meal in a coffee- mill, and made eithei into mush, gruel, or thin cakeB, baked lightly brown and given either warm or cold, clear, or what­ ever dressing t.Kej stomach will retain." Parched corn antCgieal l»oiled in milk, and fed frequently to children suffering from summer di&Trfiea, will almas* al ways cure, as it will dysentarv in aduUs STicxtsa-P.-iVsrET --An exeslta-it stick in sj-plastei foi fresh cuts or cracked hands is made of three pounds of rosin, a quarter of a pound of beeswax, a quar­ ter of n pound of mutton tallow. When well melted aud dissoled together, re­ move from the lire and keep stirring till it is about as cool astit will pour, then add one tablespoonful of spirits of tui pontine: then pour the whole into a pail of cold water, and when cool enough take it out and work it as a shoemakei does his wax. When sufficieutly worked roll it out in small sticks. This is equal to any plaster ever bought. Keep the hands greased, to prevent it Irom stick­ ing to them while working it. I The Trne Story of the Cackoo. ^ i Our correspondent whose interesting a constantly shifting railroad track. or ! °°mmu11 Nation on cuckoo lore appeared rather a double track, resting on feet * " ' * * -- about ten inches long, which support it like so many sections of trestle-work. Or this tramway the truck which carries tin boiler and engine reots, and when the machinery is put in motion the truck wheels run along the track, which moves forward with a sort of walking motion as the wheels at the three corners of thi triangular frame take up and put down the sections of the chain. A gang oi nine pious is drawn by this track-layiug engine, and the nine furrows cover ii soace of ground about eleven feet iu width as they move forward. Tlie plow­ ing yesterday was done in a field from ! which a crop of corn was taken last | year, and the surface was deeply furrow- «d and quite irregular. The engine'was ! worked under a pressure of forty pounds 1 of steam and the plows did their work j admirably--quite as well as if each one j had been drawn by a team and managed | bv au expert plowman. A forward mo- i tion of about one hundred feet to the | minute WJIS deemed best in order to give | a committee of the Maryland I nstitute an i opportunity to see the working of the ma- I . A , c last week is at fault in stating that the Jrouug cuckoo turns out its fellow-nest­ings from a love of supremacy aud that the young birds expelled are smaller than itself. Being usually hatched before the cuckoo, they are generally of equal size, aud rather larger than the intruder; and their expulsion is necessary for his due nourishment by the miniature foster parent. In fact, when, as sometimes happens, two cuckoos are hatched in one nest, they endeavor each to expel the other; and in one case observed by Herr Adolph Muller, aud described in Drr Zooloyisehe Garten for October, 1868, the smaller succeeded in expelling the largei. But we will let Mrs. Blackurn relate her own account of what she saw The nest (which we watched last June, after finding the cuckoo's egg in it* was that of the common meadow-pipit (titlark, mosscheepes), and had two pipit's eggs beside that of the cuckoo. It was below a heather-bush, on the declivity of a low, abrupt bank on a Highland hill-side in Moidart. At one visit the pipits were found to be hatched, but not the cuckoo. At the in acre or an acre aud a half per hour or fifteen acres a day. Three men are required to run the machine, namely, an engineer, a man to look after the gang of plows and a man to keep the boiler sup­ plied with water and the furuacc with fuel.--Baltimore Sun. FAMILY REMEDIES. (Ethel MAT, Goodrich Mich ] SWELLED NECK.--Wash the part with brine, and drink it also twice a day un­ til enred. To CURE CORNS.--Apply morning and evening one drop of solution of per chlor­ ide of iron. To REMEVTI ASTHMA.--Soak blotting or tissue paper in strong saltpetre water. Dry and burn at night in the bed-room. To CURE WARTS.--Cut a slice from a raw potato aud rub the hand each night; let the water dry on the hand. It will need but few applications. To STOP THE FLOW OP BLOOD.--Bind the cut with cobwebs and brown sugar, pressed on like lint; or--if you eannot procure these--with the fine dust of tea. To RRMOVH StTBSTANCES FROM THE EVE. --Make a loop of a bristle or horse­ hair, insert under the lid, and then withdraw slowly and carefully. This is said to be neverfailing. GARGLB FOR SORH THROAT.--Take one tenspoonfnl of cayenne pepper, one tea- spoonful of salt, one pint of water, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar; sweeten to tnste with honey or loaf sugar. Mix together and bottle. FOR SPRAINS. --There is nothing better than a strong decoction of wormwood and vinegar. A flannel cloth wrung out of the above just as hot as the patient will bear, and bound on tlie affected part will give immediate relief. RELIEF FOR BITRNS.--A quick cure is to apply a layor of common salt and sat­ urate it with laudanum. Hold it in place an hour or so by a simple bandage. The smarting sensation will disappear rapidly aud the burn get well. To REMOVE PROUD FLESH.--Pulverize loaf sugar very fine and apply to~ the part afflicted. This is a new and easy remedy,'and is said to remove it without pain; or burnt alum pulverized and ap plied is an old and reliable remedy. To CURE COLIC.--For the violent in­ ternal agony termed colic, take a tea- s]K>oufnl of 'salt in a pint of cold water; drink it and go to bed. It is one of the speediest remedies known. The same will revive a person who seems almost dead from a heavy fall. CROUP.--A towel or flannel cloth wrung out of hot vinegar iu which a lit­ tle salt has l>een added, and placed upon the chest and throat--changing every ten minutes--with a dry towel thorougly covering it, often materially assists in re­ lieving an attack of croup. To PREVENT CHOKING.--Break an egg into a cup aud give it to the person choking, to swallow. The white of the egg seems to catch around the obstacle and remove it. If oue , egg does not an­ swer the purpose try another. The white is nil that is necessary. To CURE A FELON. -- As soon as the ! >arts begin to swell get the tincture of obelia and wrap the part affected with a cloth; saturate it thoroughly with the tincture and the felon will soon die-- poisoned instead of hung as felons ought to be. This never fails if tried in season. MUSTARD PLASTER.--By using syrup or molasses for mustard plasters, they will keep soft and flexible, and not dry up and become hard, as when mixed with water. A thin paper, or fine cloth should come between the plaster and the skin. The strength of the plaster is var­ ied by the addition of more or less flour. To STOP BLBEI>ING AT THB NOSE.--A French surgeon says the simple eleva­ tion of a person's arm will stop bleeding at the nose. He explains the fact phy­ siologically, and declares it a positive remedy. It is certainly easy of trial. Or, a strong solution of ainin water, snuffed up the nostril, will cure in most cases, without anything further. DIPHTHERIA. --Dissolve one table- spoonful of sulpher in a glass of cold water; gargle the throat six or eight times a day. Cook salt pork in vinegar and bind on tlie throat; when the par- xoysms come on soak the hands and feel in just as hot water as the patient will bear, with a tablespoon of baking pow­ der thrown in. Rubbing the limbs and l>ody will assist greatly in throwing of! the disease. The simple sulphur remedy is very effectual in common sort throat. FOB THB SICK.--Frequently we find sick pe*j>le whoso stomachs reject all the customer. . . kinds of nourishment, uutil conditions keep on -washing the baby m the coal- follow that are in many casea fatal. 1 scuttle until prioes core down. forty-eight hours, we fouud the young cuckoo alone in the nest, and both the young pipits lying down the bank, about ten inches from the margin of the nest, but quite lively after being warmed in the hand. They were replaced in the nest beside the cuckoo, which struggled about till it got its back under one of them, when it climbed backward directly tip the open side of the nest, and pitched the pipit from its back on to the edge. It then stood quite upright on its legs, which were straddled wide apart, with the claws firmly fixed half way down the iuside of the nest, among the inter­ lacing fibers of which the nest was woven; and, stretchiug its wings apart and backward, it elbowed the pipit fairly over the margin so far that its struggles took it down the bank instead of back into the nest. After this the cuckoo stood a minute or two, feeling back with its wuigs, as if to make sure that the pipit was fairly overl>oard, and then subsided into the bottom of the nest As it was getting late, and the cuckoo did not immediately set to work on the other nestling, I replaced the ejected one, and went home. On returning next day, both nestlings were found dead and cold, out oi the nest. I replaced oue of them, but tlie cuckoo made no effort to get under and eject it, but settled itself contentedly on the top of it All this I find accords accurately with .Tenner's description of what he saw. But what struck me most was this: the cuckoo was perfectly naked, without a vestige of a feather, or even a hint of future feathers; its eyes were not yet opened, and its neck seemed too weak to support the weight of its head. The pipits had well-developed quills on the wings and back, aud had bright eyes, partially open; yet they seemed quite helpless uuder the manipulations of the cuckoo, which looked a much less developed creature. The cuckoo's legs however, seemed very muscular, and it appeared to feel about with its wiugs, which were absolutely featherless, as with hands, the "spurious wiug" (uu usually large in proportion) lookiug like a spread-out thumb. The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose with which the blind little monster made for tlie open side of the nest, the ouly part waere it could throw its burden down ttie bank. I think all the spectators felt the sort of horror and awe at the appareut inadequacy of the creature's intelligence to its acts that one might have felt at seeing a toothless hag raise a ghost by an incantation. It was horribly "un­ canny" and "grew-some."--The Queen. Natife Dances. The most graceful meke oi ail Fijian dances was one which represents the breaking of the waves on a coral-reef, a poetic idea, admirably rendered. Years ago T remember the delight with which we hailed an exquisite statuette in Sir Noel Paton's studio, representing the curling of a wave by a beautiful female figure, supposed to be floating thereon; but I never dreamed that we should find the same idea so perfectly carried out by a race we have been wont to think of only as ruthless savages. The idea to W conveyed is that of the tide gradually rising on the reef, till at length there remains only a little coral isle, round which the angry breakers rage flinging theii white foam on eveiy side. At first the dancers form in long lines and ap­ proach silently, to represent the quiet advance of the waves. After a while the lines break up into smaller companies, which advance with outspread hands and bodies bent forward, to represent the rip­ pling wavelets, the tiniest waves being represented by children. Quicker and quicker they come on, now advancing, now retreating, yet, like true waves, steadily progressing, and gradually closing on every side of the imaginary islet, round wliich they play or battle, after the manner of brekers, springiug high in mid-air, and flinging their arms high above their heads, to represent the action of spray. As they leap and toss their heads, the soft white mati, or native cloth (which for greater effect they wear as a turban, with long streamers, and also wind round the waist, whence it floats in long scarf-like ends), trembles and flutters iu the breeze. Tho whole effect is most artistic, aud the orchestria do their part in imitating the roar of the surf on the reef --a sound which to them has a never- ceasing lullaby from the hour of their birth. At Home in Fiji -- Gordon Camming. A orrizBN went into a hardware store fee other day and inquired, "How much do you ask for a bath-tub for a child Three dollars and seventy-five cents, was the reply. "W-h-e-wl whistled Guess we'll have to He knelt at the feet of _his ctunM And clasped her soft hand in his own; He talked in > wiy to alarm her, * Ot love, but her heart was of stone. Her " nar " to his suit waa lurprljiog. For he nad considered h«*r won. ,, ... ** Ah well," he exclaimed, quickly rUtnlfcTI, " You know I was only in fun." And shortly he left, when she, sighing, 8aid slowly, "Ah! what bare t done-* COM* back, oh, my love. 1 am dyin*-- 'Twas I, not thyself, was in fun." -- Aorri stoicn BmUL -.m. PITH AND FOOT.' T* ̂ AN unpleasant trip--Ejown two of stairs. FROM the humorous to the grave--A paragrapher's life. SOLDIERS are not usually profane, thongh they often speak of cart­ ridges. " Ynr (fare mo the key of your heart, my Idte; Then why do you make me knock ?" " Oh, that was yesterday, saints abore! And laat night-I changed the lock!" '• " ALWAYS pay as you go," said an old man to his nephew. " Bat, ancle, sup­ pose I have nothing to pay with ?" "Then don't go." _ IT would be quite easy to pay the na­ tional debt by imposing a tax on beauty. There isn't a woman living in the coun­ try who would not demand to be as­ sessed. " BRIDGET, I cannot allow yon to re­ ceive your lover in the kitchen any longer." "It's very kind of you,ma'am, but he is almost too bashful to come into the parlor." WHENEVER yon see a woman talking at a man and beginning to nod her head and keep time to it with her Upraised index finger, it is about time for some­ body to climb a tree. THERK was a young woman named Mi""**, Who*e lover was such a sad ninny. He crept »p like this, To give her a kiaa. And embraced her old laundress, Vipginny. Miss SOPRANO (who has just finished playing): "Did I drop any notes, Susan?' Her cousin (from the rand districts)--" No, not as I knows on, but I'll look under the pianny an* see." WHEN a Boston girl is presented with a bouquet, she says : " Oh, how deli- ciously sweet; its fragrance impregnates the entire atmosphere of the room." A down-East girl simply says: "It smells scrumptious; thanks, j»euben.M A NEW HAMPSHIRE man got up to light a lamp and fell down dead. Our readers will bear witness that we have always pointed out that this getting ap at night is a man's wife's business. Be­ hold the terrible justification of oar course ! WITH pleading eyes she looked np from the i)iano ana sang, " Call me your darling again." But he refused, as there were witnesses around, and there is no telling when a man will be introduced to a breach-of-promise suit in these days. THE SAME OLD GAMS. They camo into a dangerous place. Where one might come to harm; He feirtMi xho'd fall, and go he ssid, •' Won't you accept my arm ?" 4f Ob, no,'" she quite demurely said; "t'nlesfl, sir, you command; But then I thiuk it better far That you aooept my hand." Their glances met, the heart of NCk Was in the mouth. " Oh, bliss!" . Those hearts were quickly joined in one. And welded with a kins. A SLANDER refuted : George Selwyn once affirmed in company that no woman ever wrote a letter without a postscript. " My next letter shall refute you," said Lady G . Selwyn soon after received a letter from her Ladyship, where, after her signature, stood: P. S.--Who waa right; you or I ?" " WHY, I'm so glad yon've come. Did you know that I've been worrying about you, John, all evening?" "That's just what I married you for. It is pleasant to think that there is some one home worrying about you." Somehow this view of the matter didn't exactly coincide with her ideas of marital amenities. IF she's got to talk slang, a Boston girl will refine and beautify it The proper caper becomes the appropriate gyration; bang-up is front hair elevated; tumbling to the racket is falling to the audible disturbance; and a square deal a quadrilateral distribution. Oh, refine­ ment is a great thing. You can just wager your saccharine existence that it is. THERE is a uewspapcr epidemic of stories reflecting upon the mothers of marriageable youug lad es. Here is the latest: " How came these holes iu your elbows ?" said a widowed mother to her only son. "Oh, mother I hid behind the sofa when CoL Gobler was saying to Maria that he'd take her even if you had to be thrown in; and he didn't know I was there, and so I held my tongue and laughed ;n my sleeves till I burst 'em." Two CONNECTICUT brides, both of them still in their teens, came down cm the cars to New York, and look advantage of their occupation of the same seat to exchange confidences. "Mary," said one, "how do you like married life?" "So far as I've gone," answered her oompanion, quite enthusiastically, "I think it scrumptious. How do you feel about it, Anna ?" Anna rolled her eyea like a school-girl with a mouthful of caramels, and, clasping her hands on Mary's knees, exclaimed : " You won't think me foolish if I tell yon ? Well- then, if I had known what fan it was, I would have got married years ago." Extra Haxanloos. A certain officer received a report of a policy written, covering, among others, thiB item: $150 on her wigs, braids, puffs, rolls, curls and other hair for her personal use, etc. The presiding geniua of said office ex­ hibited an alarming ignorance of the subject in writing the agent as follows: " This is an uncommon item, and, as we find no blanks for an appropriate survey, you will please speedily answer the following interrogations: What is the color of her hair ? and, if red, de­ cline. Is assured married or single ? If not single, is her husband quick tem- Eered ? Does she ' fire up' quickly erself ? If single, has she beaux, ana do they smoke ? Does she use a spark arrester ? Is she near-sighted or cross­ eyed, and are her dressing-mirror lights globed or basketed ? Is she a match­ maker, and is she subject to 'em ? _ Has ( she sparkling eves, and is she a heiress? Limit degree of heat of curling tongs, and toilette chemicals to bay water aud champagne, and not more hazardous. Strike out lightning clause if steel hair­ pins are used. Celluloid pins, back combs, bang supporters and other arti­ cles prohibited, and powder limited to twenty-five pounds in metal packages. If any moral hazard or enemies decline." M. BLONBBMT gives the following re­ cipe for purifying and bleaching sponges: The sponges are first washed in teped water, and then in hydrochloric acid, which frees the pores from the carbonate of lima. To bleach them they are im­ mersed for twenty-four hours in a solu­ tion composed of five parts of hydro­ chloric acid to 100 parts of water, with the addition of six pints of hyposulphate of sods. In this way sponges may be bleached mora offectually and rapidly (bam With malykimtm mad. £9