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R^S^RAEST?1*. - ' '..... \: JRtgmj jjllatndcaltr, J. VAN 8LYKB, Pmnm. oHENBT, TLTJNQIH. ^WCLIUKiL AMD 901ESI1S. Arotrad tfc* ratm. -•-7:< OOOOH • w' HOBOB.--Cedw twigs, ^hopped fine and mixed with their grain, --•#i!l act as a speedy core for a cough in .^orses. . TOMATOES FOB Cows.--Tomatoes, as ;|bod for cows, improves both the quality ijnd quantity of the w»1fr, sad gives the #eam and batter a rioh golden color. P.. SPRAINS AND BBUIBBS IN HORSKS.-- dissolve an ounce of oamphor in eight Ounces of spirits of wine; them add one Ounce spirits of turpentine, one ounce spirits of sal ammonia, half an ounce of Oil of origanum and a table-spoonful of laudanum. Bub in a quarter of an hour #ith the hand, four times a day. To 'TAN A SKIN WITH TBK FOB ON.-- Slesh and clean the hide; wash out in lake-warm water, salt and soap. Take one gallon rain water, one gill sulphuric /Acid, a little salt and a small piece of ilium; put the hide in this bath; let it re­ main one-half hour, then wash out well St warm rain water and soap; rub dry, 4ad grease with neat's-foot or other good --^WesternFarm Journal, KILLING RATS.--The following cheap said simple method of extermination is said to have been successfully employed by Baron Von Backhofen and his neigh­ bors for some years past: A mixture of two parts of well-braised oommon squills and three parts of finely-chopped bacon is made into a stiff mass, with as much meal as may be required, and then baked into small cakes, which are put down for the rats to eat. Several cor­ respondents of the German Agricultural Gazette write to announce the complete extirpation of rats and mice from their 4ow-stalls and piggeries since the adop­ tion of this simple plan, A DRINKING YESSEL VOB Omenta.-- Make air-tight a fruit or oyster can. On one side, half an inch from the bottom, punch three holes, each one-quarter of «n inoh in diameter. Before these holes solder to the can a piece of tin to form a "trough one inch deep. Upon the side opposite, at the top, solder also a ring "by which to hang the can to the side of the coop. Fill it by immersing it for a few moments in a pail of water. The secret is in the air holes' being in the trough, so that water can escape only when they are uncovered. So long as the trough is clean the water will be pure. Chicks must be kept supplied 'with water, and it must be in vessels not deep enough to drown them.--Fancier't , Journal. THE farmer who calculates to makes llis living by farming cannot afford to lose a knowledge of the best methods in stice, and he cannot hope to learn iese methods by his own experience oven if that experience be a. rioh one. He cannot afford to lose Hie money which he certainly will by selling his produce blindly, without knowing the conditions of the market and the things which affect its rise and fall. If he is successful without, taking a paper, it is because he gets his infor­ mation from those who do. Any farmer •Who may have taken this paper for even A short period can recall the numberless ways in which he may have taken ad- rantage of hints and facts noted in the tarious departments, and turned them to his profit.--Detroit Free Pre**. MANT of our neighbors' cherry trees are becoming knotty, and dying. A lady narrated in our hearing, a few evenings since, her experience with a tree of the same description. A large fcree, of the common red variety, stood beside the kitchen door. The body and limbs were knotty and rough, the fruit scanty and worthless; the dead leaves in fall were oontinaally drifting over the porch and "Walk; in fact, in the good house-wife's eyes, the tree was simply a nuisanoe, and she importuned her husband to re­ move it. He refused to do this, how- over, and she determined to kill the tree. First, a barrel of beef brine was poured about the roots, wad this was followed by boiling suds, every wash­ day. The result was satisfactory, but far froip thit anticipated. The follow­ ing season the tree was loaded with su­ perior fruit, and was free from all knots, or other defects. The enormous crop and changed appearance of the tree might, not have been attributable to the application of the brine and soap-suds, yet we believe the experiment to be worthy of trial. Our own trees have never been troubled in that way.-- Moor4$ Rural. About the BOOM. FEED milk to children. FRBSH poultry has bright eyes. BOASTING meats is extravagant. Do NOT make your bread too light. FAT is not cheap at the price of meat. FISH will broil in from five to ten min­ utes. STALB bread may be steamed into freshness. SCALDED skim-milk will go as far as fresh milk. " MIDDLINGS" floor contains the best elements of wheat. ADD pea or bean-meal to yovur bread flour for nourishment. SALMON and sturgeon are red-blooded, and are as nutritious as meat. SALT meats should be simmered; they should not be fiercely boiled. FOUR ounces of lime to a gallon of water will be all that is neoessary for keeping milk sweet. VEGETABLES supply the place of meat. Vegetables should be oooked, if possible, in water in which meat has been cooked. IN washing fine flannels, make the soap into a jelly with warm water and dry quickly. Dd not put too near the fire when drying. To keep shirts from shrinking, stretch them on a board. NEW-YEAR'S MARBLE CAKB.-- White Part--Whites of four eggs, one cup white sugar, half cup of butter, half cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking {jowder, one teaspoonful of vanilla or emon, and two and a half cups of sifted flour, jBlack Part--Yelks of four eggs, one cup brown 'sugar, half cup (Porto Bioo), half eup butter, half cup soar milk, QM teaspoonfal cloves, one vaspoonral cinnamon, one teaspoonfal mace, one nutmeg, one tea- spoonful soda, and one and a half cups sifted floor. Put in the cake-dish al­ ternately, first one part and than the other. Tin should be lined with bat­ tered paper. A N E CONOMICAL CHRISTMAS PUDDING.-- Soak some dried apples all night, in the morning chop them very fine. Put a leacupful of them into a pint of molas­ ses and put them upon the back of the stove, where they will keep slightly warm for an hour or two. After that add to them one cup of ch< one cup of water. on« «m» raisins, a pinch of salt, a teaspoonfal of cinnamon, three half pints of flour, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Put the flour in last and stir all togeth­ er thoroughly. Boil two and a half hours in a bowl or tin pudding mold. This may be eaten with wine sauce, and is a very good imitation of a genuine plum puddiag. The finest Church in America. The great Catholic cathedral on Fifth avenue, which has now been nearly twenty years in building, promises soon to be completed. The building has been repeatedly delayed by the absence of funds to carry on the necessary work, but it is calculated the requisite help will be forthcoming to accomplish the remainder of the design, which is pure Gothic. The main exterior of the cathe­ dral, the roof included, is already fin­ ished, and all that remains to be built up outside are the towers on the Fifth avenue front, the parapet around the side aisles, and the pinnacles connected therewith. • The grading of the sur­ rounding land will be the last piece of labor, and that will not involve much cost. Standing within the main aisle of the cathedral, the impression it gives is one of harmonious vaatness. The great clustering pillars, larger than those of the Cathedral of Metre Dame in Paris, have nothing like an appearance of bulk or heaviness as the pillars of Notre Dame have. They do not seem in the least to interfere with the view, and, though each section of a pillar weighs eight tons, they look as light and grace­ ful in the covp-d'aeil as so many single slender columns of about twelve inches in diameter. The whole interior at the present mo­ ment is covered with scaffolding which, at the extreme elevation of the ceiling, resembles a spider's web, so great is the height of the roof from the ground floor. The plastering appears to have been almost entirely done, and the col­ oring of the ceiling, intended to give it the appearance of stone, was the only work going on in the afternoon of yes­ terday. It has a triforium like Notre Dame awav near the spring of the roof, but it is hardly likely it will ever be used in these modern days for the same purposes it was intended in the early time of Gothic ecclesiastical architect­ ure. There will be at least ten side chapels, and the main altar will have a space around it, giving ample room for large and impressive effects in the mat­ ter of decoration. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Mon­ treal and the celebrated cathedral in Mexico have hitherto put in rival claims for pre-eminence as ecclesiastical struct­ ures on the continent of America; but, though each in its way is vast and im­ posing, neither can attempt to compare in beauty of material and design with that on Fifth avenue. The raising of this temple to the wor­ ship of Clod has been, like most efforts in the same line of the Catholics in this country, slow and painful, but bound, as it would seem, to be solid and suc­ cessful The money has come in in a rather sluggish stream, but none the less surely, and the cathedral will inev­ itably be finished and prove the greatest ornament of the city. The cathedral has so far cost about $1,500,000. A vast amount of brick­ work has been done in its construction, but not a trace of it is visible to the eye. The foundation-stone was laid by Arch­ bishop Hughes, in the summer of 1858. The towers are at present raised 160 feet to the base of the spires, which will as­ cend 285 feet higher.--York Her­ ald. • • V • . A Woman's Spite* One of the q-sccreat niaaif ^stations of feminine rancor that we hav» heard of lately is reported from Rochester. A married woman named Maggie Connors announced to a policeman that she was about to steal a pais of shoes in order to be sent to the penitentiary. Be endeav­ ored to dissuade her, but she carried out her intention by pilfering from a store a pair of rubber over-shoes. With this trophy in her possession Maggie made her appearance at the police office and entered a complaint against herself. Re­ monstrance was useless. She declared that if not convicted and sent up she would commit some other crime. So a fine of $10 was imposed, with the alter­ native of sixty days in the penitentiary. And then the motive for this strange performance came to light. Tne woman had been quarreling with her husband and chose this method of wreaking venge­ ance upon him. It is to be hoped that Mr. Connors will refuse to pay the fine, and let his ingenious spouse serve out her sixty days at hard labor.--Troy Times. A Dog's Age. If you want to buy a dog the follow­ ing pieoe of information may prove of service : The way to tell the age of a dog approximately is to examine the up­ per front teeth. Until eighteen months old these are rounded on the edge; at the end of two years they begin to square off, and gradually wear down and shorten, until, when the animal has entered the sixth year, they are nearly even with the gums. The appearance of the eye is also an indication of age, and all dark-colored dogs show their years by the growth of white hairs about the muzzle. u The Wary. Secretary Thompson, in his annual report, says the active list of the navy is composed of 829 officers of the line, 594 officers of the staff, and 249 warrant offi­ cers. The retired list comprises 135 officers of the line, 103 officers of the staff, 27 warrant officers, and 4 professors of mathematics. There were in the service on the 24th day of November, 1877, 7,012 enlisted men and boys.