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"Hot i»wr-- MB place and iaal to apaciaj •Iter MIII hi* ttsmA, •fcortH can*-tb<* sextan «w«a, NNpt him off, mi eo halHaftfc •Mght another ptaoa - ^ . . « -- * ̂ ; * % A Pi*. >,'* 'C':t- "$• •• At «Mk appear* m> Mtf««ld"«i.fcs' FT MIRE BO SPIDER there ham been--;..^f JtaeMte, how often have I mum !rit» pas'or bnu-hin* Hie*.* *VW jfe tri«l the po'plt, bat, alttt 'Bis feopea proved viaioaafpt • ' »•»•• •• MTH do«Uu«-brash thewextoa CMB||V ' A»d apoDed hi* geometric fame, p t tfor gave him time or apmou to 91m rtfcbt of wwiotaary. #- ' w ft'length, half-starved an<1 weak and iwa. Be nought hl« former neighbor, wiio now had growu eo sleek Kid rood, weiebod » fraction of » uoand, JV""* : AUd looked a* If tin sit he'd fonl| ',t *T <tf living without labor. J?" •'How Is it, frlibd," he wked, " thaX I Endure each thump* wad knocks flO)*)wlMW|nNmioTCO jrr.waJ* " rto phln," he inswwd-" not a suet, since Srot I «pon 11» contrs btltiou-boi." «-• m STACY'S GAL. •V tte* SUM* J«aui - The Colonel," I think, WM the first toerson to pxupose to her. He <flid it in the oratorical *tyle, for which he was %soted in the camp, and was promptly jfefused, much to his own and the boys' ' - • astonishment. I believe the Jtiltre was ' flhe next, bat aa he Dad fortified hia Courage v.-ith a large quantity of whisky i lis breath was strong enough and his Vords thick enough to insure speedy re- 1 lection. He was considerably mortified 5 *t it, and was never able to explain the $ause of his defeat, but when a Mexican froman drifted into the camp shortly ;' -tf!erwftrd and engaged in washing for , pje men the Judge tried his hand again »' And was accepted. It took him a month ' |o get loose from the bonds, and he swore " lie would " never give any darned female fritter a c* auce to hook him again," " «nd he carefully avoided all Indian . aquaws and homely senoritas who oecar Hionally passed through Mineral City. After the Judge a dozen or more of the fcovs offered their hands and fortunes to K ••'•*"'btacy's gal" and fared precisely in #ie same manner, while Old Stacy him- chuckled and " bet on his gal every .•Hp," as he afterward explained. She had coma into camp a week car |:;r "tjfro previously to the greatest surprise " of everybody, including her father. Old Stacy a good many years before, some «ght or ten, had lost his wife, and so great was his grief that he could not be induced to remain longer in the place die had made a little heaven for him. 80 he placed his daughter--his only flbild--in the fashionable female semin- . ary of the Stats, provided her with •verything that was necessary for her Comfort or happiness and then struck t tint for the San Juan silver mines to for­ get his recent loss among the excite­ ments and privations of the frontier. Stacy was one of the fortunate few out (If the unlucky many that enter a mining jf:Y Country, and in a few years he was pos­ sessed of properties Yielding him an ex­ cellent income from their hard, white mm He regularly corresponded with ; Sia daughter and kept her supplied with *. pocket-money far in excess of her needs Or requirements, but never went back J "®a& a visit, and when that young lady f • i %as duly graduated with high honors ihe determined to seek out her long-ab- tf^jfcent paternal progenitor. With an in- dependence and courage the wonder- itaent of the boy a, she traveled across th6 • ̂ ©lain?, to(A paspage on the stages and • (% - linajly rode into 'UiriGre! City, on horee- Jback, fee ftrst white woman m camp and •̂ Vjlhe object of tiie shy adoration of the ^y,.v:|men. r: It was some time before the boys could '* Istand their ground and face her, instead - fj'of scampering away as her approacli, as •? ••• '!!bad hitherto been the case, but the ̂ Western mi er is not long in getting ac- SS:, „ «cust^med strange things, and it was ? • aiot over ten days after her arrival that * : -the Colonel immolated himself on the- V, JSaltar of his affections. Encouraged by • jhia biuimple and uuterrified by his un- ^t-5 • ' ^ceremonious defeat, the boys one after v ; Another tried their luck though, as I '<ihave before mentioned, mth no better h '"v,«UCO?SS.. Stacy Was a partner of mine in the AJax k$' ! jnine, in which there were three of us <! . interested, and as we were doing consid- fkf. > arable development on the vein I was of "necessity much in his company, and H. 4MOseqnently in that of his daughter. . v ft very pretty girl, with dainty, / delicate ways far more befitting a bouse '<• Walnut street than s rough mining . eunp; bat she loved her father with an • „ ' . • earnes t , clinging affection that would not . \ listen to her leaving him, and so she to reign Qneen of Mineral Oity oil through tne summer of 1876. I doti't know when it was that I was 4 " unduly attraoted toward Nellie. I think , ; it was when she asked me to call her V thereafter by that name. She made the ^ recmeet so innocently, so sweetly •-.•'•'.'ana so tenderh, alleging that as I' ; . was her father's partnerf a gentleman by birth and education, and such a kind k'if 1 friend to her, it would be ever so much I £ .taieer for me to say Nellie, instead of . Mi* Stacy, which sounded so formal, |L,, - that I came very near adding other f ^ 'jr words to the name that our short ac- jtV,;> .̂ l̂ intanee would not justify. After " ^ that I spent most of my evenings with Nellie, and sometimes of an afternoon s > > we took delicious little rambles together t-yZ--°P the motmtain sides and into the heavy I fcnber lining the valley or canon of L'V • Uncompaghre. One evening, a3 we . were returning home, we stopped to rest f,y , 2J1 ̂ he roek-crcsted summit of Mineral S -J ^ hundred feet below us lay fe f.' the little mining camp, its log cabins jf % f lonkiug doubly picturesque in the gath- |̂ » «nng gloaming. The blue smoke was ̂ curling from a do2ien chimneys as the fesM1*- P160 PrePafed their evening meals; and, ' • ?fre there, over the various trails, a 'r ^ blue-shirted miner, with pick and drills "&'* m?088 shoulder, came striding home, "he sun, sinking behind the Wasatch mountains. 165 miles distant, cast great f;r> long shadows across the sarroundiog ^ peaks, and veiled the ravines and gulchea in deepening darkness. P!̂ ' • 8at *he croppings of a vein * quartz and I lay stretched out at her watching her pretty tender eyes aa LISYIRA^!FRSI>ALIORITT^E^ORIZON. D«>'K-1% ing in the beauty and the grandeur of mP4 w>me' ®he hft<1 wme light, fleecy h, . arraogement-a nubia, I believe it is ^ : called---wrapped loosnly about her head sjf v't c ^d shon ders, and her hair, in whose f/r ! ; meshes the sunbeams seemed to have caught, peeped from beneath, helping feC frame a face stamped with innocence UJ ,1 and purity Young people always get fe • m ^ning, when sur-| rounded by quiet, #04 I -a3 no oxoep. fe| ;-v*1 r°n fee rule, and almost before I lt r, *oymg with the little |fi hand, so white and soft, lying carelesaly - 1 1 i?^* after tt fev momenta, 'don't yon ever long to leave this roujrh §'f pl«oe«adgoback to the East?" she said slowly, "though some autmmstanoea." r not now?" i' • Oh, beoause --because--I don't want to leave papa." "Is that the real reason?"* I asked, her ahvness and evident avoidance of my ejM giving me hopes that set my heart beating with quicker pulsations. *' Let us go down," she said quickly, aa she arose. „ " No, not until yon answer me," and I caught again the little hand. She drew it from my grasp, and, with a nancy 11 Come," started down the trail and I hastened to follow. I made sev­ eral attempts to renew the conversation on the wav, but Nellie always turned it off from the subject nearest to my heart; and yet when I left her at her father's door she shyly extended her hand, and I thought I*detected a soft pressure as I took it in mine, A moment, and she had vanished, and I noticed a rosy flush on her pretty cheeks and an unusual light in her tender eyes. I went back to my little cabin with a strange admixture of certainty and doubt in my feelings, and a quickening of my pulse that made me oblivious to my rough snrroundings. After supper I lit my pipe and sat Opon my roughly-hewn door step. The sun had* gone down, but yet there was light enongh for me to see her cabin and notice her father standing in the door­ way chatting with Mineral Bob, the best prospector in camp and the third owner with Stacy and myself in the Ajax. I turned my head and saw the lights in the shaft house of the Big Giant mine on Red mountaiu gleaming away in the i distance ; I heard the clanging blows of j the«blacksmith at his forge as he sharpened the tools for the morning's work, and the deep boom of the blast in Little Emily mine came floating through the still night air. Then my eyes wan­ dered back to the cabin which held Nellie. Bob was still there, his tall fig­ ure and broad shoulders contrasting greatly with the little old man in the doorway. What was he doing there so ioag I thought, and 1 puffed my pipe viciously as I saw Nelly a moment later join the two. The night settled down, and the cabins faded from view, their presence only revealed by the lights shining through the little square windows or the sparks streaming oat of the stone and mud chimneys. It was getting cool, too, and I knocked the ashes out of my pipe and re-entered my little home and stirred np the smoul­ dering embers on the hearth. An hour went by and the moon sent its beams across my little table, with its tin plates and cups ; across my earthen and rocky floor, touching lightly my books on a shelf at the head of my bed and resting softly on the rolled-up coat that served me for a pillow. I turned on my stool and glanced out of the window. The tops of the surrounding timber were silvered by the moonlight, and the cabins stood out against the dark back­ ground of the tall spruces. The sound of singing came up from the saloon and the wind sighed fitfully now and then. And so I fell into a somber reverie, and Nellie was the center about which all my thoughts revolved. Presently there was a knocking at my door, and at my invitation Mineral Bob entered. "Hello! Philadelphia," pie Mid, "I kinder thought you wasn't in." • Why ? " I asked, rather sorry of the interruption, though Bob was good company, and no one could look into his merry blue eyes, and pleasant face, cov­ ered all over with a luxuriant, rich, brown beard, without feeling better and less ont of spirits. "Oh, 1 sort of calculated you'd be somewhere around the girl. How's your chances, partner? Good, eh ? " "Come, come, Bob, and stop your nonsense. Here, fill your pipe and sit down." Bob langhed good-bcrasedSj, assdS, pulling up a stool, sat down near the fire, and, as he filled his pipe, said : " I've dropped in on a little business --about the Sunshine, you know," allud­ ing to a mine of his and one of the best in the camp. " You know, I am obliged to sink--ain't got no chance to tunnel, and the derned surface water is getting the best of me. Must have a pump, if I want to do anything--this bailing ont by the bucketful when she's coming in near as fast is of no account You know that ?" I nodded assent. " Weil, then, Philadelphia," as he lighted his pipe and gave two or three vigorous puffs, "I want to see what kind of a dicker I can make with yon about running the mine. I ain't got the money to get an engine and pump, though I guess I could borrow it, andi beside I've got to go East on business inside of a week and I don't want to leave the Sunshine idle--I can't afford it" "Why don't you sell her to Old Stacy ?" I said. " He's got some ready cash." " Bnt he's going out shortly and wants to sell his own mines." " Going out--Stacy ?" I demanded, wondering why Nellie had never alluded to it " Yes, going to take that gal of his back to tne States. This ain't no lit place for a pretty little thing like she is, you know." "Nellie going to leave camp! By Jove, that wouldn't do. No, if she left, I would, too. I shouldn't lose her, now that I had all but won her, so I said : " I tell you, Bob, I don't know that I shall stay much longer myself. Perhaps you would like to make me an offer for my interest in the Ajax and let me at­ tend to your business in the if I can; I would be very glad to." "No; much obliged, partner; but no one can do what I'm going out for, ex - cept myself. Same time, I might be able to handle my own property l>etter if I had the Ajax, too, seeing as how the two claims join each other on the same vein. I wonder if Old Staoy would sell out cheap enough? " " Oh, I guess so," I said; "especially if lie is at all anxious to get away. I'll speak to him for you." " He said the other day,"-continued Bob, as though he were carefully weigh­ ing the proposition, " that he'd sell to me on time if I could get a good *n»m to go my security." " Would he take me, do you think?" " Take you ? A great sight sooner than any other man in camp." "Weil, then, Bob, you give mo a mortgage on the mine, and, if his fig­ ures are not too high, 1*11 indorse your note and turn you over my interest be­ side. The mine is solid yet, I guess; thouarh I haven't been to it for a week." " That's the gal's fault," grinned Bob, " but if she wasn't good I wouldn't want to buy. I believe I'll go down and see the old man--it won't take long," and Bob buttoned up his coat and start­ ed out 1 •• Half an hour later Bob returned with the necessary papers by which Stacy conTeyed his third interest in the Ajux mine to him for eight thousand dollars, payable within thirty days. I indorsed Bob's note for the amount, he assuring me that if the mine continued to pay, as it had ii the past, he could easily take it up when due, beside which, I reasoned to myself, that I would soon be 'J-V- - •' •'%* ¥\m> - . • -VVfcV vi;- ' *, * notes. son-in-law, and, in oase ot Bob's failure to hard ̂ ê̂ ^daotoJaSLrî miytted interest to Bob tor a ttka amoont, and seexued myŝ f far both snuns by a mort­ gage OR the Mopetty, and so I went to bed that night and drowned of the little wife I soon expaoted to havew I saw Nellie the next dav. and though she smiled sweetly and blushed most prettily I wasn't satisfied, aa owing to her getting things in readiness for the trip next morning there was no oppor­ tunity for a quiet little conversation. I told Stacy 1 was going out, and he laughed and said Nellie had spoken of it and he " didn't know but what it was a good scheme for his gal, 'cause it could hardly be expected that me and Bob would be gtHxi company:" and so the matter was settled ana I collected my traps together, and chose I didn't care to take with me I distributed among the boys. They all knew what I was going out for, Mid good-natured witticisms were freely indulged in at my expense. But I liked it, and rather enjoyed my triumph over the Colonel and the Judge and the others who had tried to win the little treasure that I had carried off, but had miserably failed. I sat in my cabiu that evening--the last I should ever spend in Mineral City --and somehow I got terribly blue and "PW* ^ like parting with j a state that they will fly up to meet old friends. Every tree and every rock 1 ̂ poultry men, and scramble for their Lutes quantities of hay are being ex­ ported froni New York, owing to the partial failure of the crop in England and Scotland. IT APPBABS that the factory dairies oi large distriots are apt to fait under one strong management by purchase, aftei awhile, as nuways do. IN THK past two years the acreage de­ voted to eorghnm in Kansas has doubled, and in 1881 amounted to 57,838 acres. The crop last year was partially a failure, yet the product was worth $1,754,748* an average of nearly S30 an acre. THE fertility of a soil is nearly con­ nected with its power of retaining plant food. Sandy uoils, from their small chemical retentive power and free drain­ age are of small natural fertility, and dependent on immediate supplies manure. IN ANT the operations of the dairy the greatest cleanliness must be observed. All vessels should be washed with hot water as soon as done with, to destroy any adhering ferment Without such precautions no good butter or cheese can be made. To MAINTAIN fowls in a really healthy state appetite must be kept np, and it is good management to have the poultry in seemed to have a hold on mv affections, and the rough logs of my little home had a warm place in mf heart £ couldn't shake off my low spirits, and so I went down to see my little one, and from her sweet face and pretty eyes draw the con­ solation I felt I needed. I found her looking tired from her arranging and packing efforts, but she seemed most glad to see me, and we sat on the door­ step and were soon chatting in a warm, confidential way. As I **as about to go I took her little hand in my big paun and said: food. Loss of appetite comes from un­ wise feeding on over-spiced food. A FRENCH chemist reports that water made slightly salt, and to which, when boiling, bran in the proportion of one quart to every gallon has been added, has been fonnd in a series of experiments to increase the yield of milk twenty-five per cent, if given to the cows as their ordinary drink. A CHEMICAL analysis of an unpleasant tasting bread, recently made by a Ger- t man chemist, revealed 4.2 per cent, of Are you really glad that I am going i gluoose and 16.8 per cent, of dextrine. 1 This was accounted for not on the ground out with you ?' "You know I am," she said, earnestly, her eyes dropping and her soft little fin­ gers involuntarily pressing mine, and somehow, before I fully realized what I was doing, I had leaued forward and Eresssd a hot, passionate kiss on her ps, and, with a little exclamation, ex­ pressive of surprise and not of anger, she turned and vanished. I was a happy fellow that night. Our trip was begun the next morning and in due course of time we all of us came to a halt in New York. What a delicious time I had had of it and how considerate Stacy and Bob were. They never intruded their presence, but let me have Nellie to myself, as though they had no connection whatever with us. I felt grateful to them and medi­ tated often upon what I could do to show my appreciation of their thought- fulness and good feeling. Nellie was a little paradox, however--an enigma I couldn't solve. I had proposed to her half a dozen times on oar way East, but, though she plainly showed that her heart was mine and permitted me to squeeze her hand, whisper soft nothings and kiss her good-night when she re­ tired, she would give me no answer to my pleadings, but kept me off with a co­ quetry in itself most attractive. And so the days spun around and I seemed to be no nearer than when we left the old mining camp, and I get irritable and out of sorts, and one day Nellie suggest­ ed that I had better run on and see my family and get sweetened np a little, and I savagely replied that I would, and I should not return until she sent for of adulteration, but by a kind of 'lnalt- I ing" of the grain, which was iujured by { wet weather during the s^oson of 1880. THE sugar contained in milk is known i by chemists as lactose. When milk turns ! sonr the lactose is converted into lactic j acid. This acidification of the milk in- | duces the coagulation of the caseine, and the milk curdles. The ordinary souring I of milk is the work of a ferment. When j this ferment is excluded no souring takes j plac©. I ARTIFICIAL- incubation has been prac- ! tised from the earliest times in the East, I chiefly in China, India and Egypt In I the latter country large mamals, or i ovens, holding from ^0,000 to 80,000 eggs, are still used for*he purpose; and the villagers bring their eggs in the ex­ pectation of receiving, after a lapse of twenty-one days, 200 chicks for every 800 eggs deposited. OCT of 157,588,521, the number of cat­ tle estimated to be in the world, 35,907,- 791, including all kinds, were in this country at the taking of the last census. Out of 382,763,015 sheep we had 51,183,- 903 head. Out of 81,990,330 hogs we had 47,688,871, which would place the I United States as Ihe foremost hog coun- ! try in the world, with more than one- half of the grand total. AN ASSOCIATION, to be known as " The British Goat Society," has lately been formed in England One of the objects of this sooiety is to establish a system of supplying these animals to cottagers as a source of milk. The system so far works well, the demand for goats being me, etc., etc. She smiled sweetly, and j much. 8™*^ tha° the supply. The looked tenderly out of her pretty eyes, and I took the train for Philadelphia, in a terrible temper, and yet feeling srre that I would be back again within forty-eight hours, and I was. I asked Lie clerk to send up my card, and he stud it would be useless, as the lady, with her father and the other gentleman, had left the night before, for the South, he thought. They had left a letter for me, however, and--I snatched the let­ ter, and tore it open. There was several inclosures, reading as follows : THUBSDAT. superiority of goat's milk over that of cow's for infants and invalids lias long sinoe been acknowledged, and before long it will be much more generally used than at present CROOKK:* or broken breast-bones in chickens are cMissdr by perches being placed too high from the ground when the roosting-piace is of small size. Objections are made to letting chickens roost early, but little harm will come of it if the perches are at a proper height. It is the perpendicular, sudden flight to the ground in a confined space which in- MT CHARLES; You mnat pardon nay | juries and breaks or bends the tender * ' " * * breast-bone. In limited space and with chickens brought up in confinement, shelves, sanded and then littered with chopped straw, are safeguards against this evil. terrible flirtation with you of the past few weeks, but it was the last I should ever have and you are the dearest of fellows to finish np on. I dare say you will feel a little vexed, but you'll get over it, Charley, and when Bab and myself get settled down to housekeeping-- which I trust will be a long time yet--you luuxt come and nee us and be a good friend to your penitent NKLLIS. The next was: DEAB PIM.ANKT.PMA: You've had a good time with my intended wife and I h&venl in­ terfered ; you indorsed my note for $6,000 and I won't cheat you out of it I trusted you and you came to "timeyou trusted me and here I am smiling. I inclose with this my note that you indorsed and deeds conveying to you the whole of the Ajax. She's pinched, Phila­ delphia, and ain't worth a cuss. You sabe now the business that called mo East eh ? Ta, ta. MINERAL BOB. I have never seen them since. I don't want to. I went back to the old camp the following year. The boys don't tease me now, bnt I thrashed two of them and got thrashed by three before this silenoe on the subject was observed. Berthold Auerbach, the Hebrew elist. Berthold Auerbach Was the best known to English and American read­ ers of all the contemporary German nov­ elists, and in many ways he was the foremost of them all. 'He was a He­ brew and a disciple of Spinoza, who was the subject of his first novel, pub­ lished when he was twenty-five, and whoso works he translated, and the abundance of philosophical reflection is at once the strength and the weakness of his most important works. " On the Heights," for example, is laden with its philosophy, but it was mainly its philosophy that gave its importance in A FBKNOH correspondent of the Farmers' Review writes:. In the north of France, sugaf beet is viewed by agriculturists as a cornucopia. It pos­ sesses the advantage of feeding stock cheaply, under conditions where high farming is practised. The products from beet--sugar, molasses, alcohol--re­ pay in a great measure the expenses of production, while the pulp, varying in price from $2 to $3 per tou, following not so much quality as locality, feeds working bullocks, then fats them off, in addition to supporting sheep and cows. The valne of the manure must not be omitted. In the department of the Nord, 25 per cent, of the arable soil is under beet, which realizes, on an average, about $3.80 per ton. About 2} tons of pulp are viewed as equal to one ton of ordinary hay. ' WHEN broody, that is, wishing to set, hens go about clucking for several days, sit longer and longer on the nest after laying, cease laying finally, and do not leave the nest If a setting hen is not required, remove her at once to a fresh run and new companions. Shut her ont for a few days where no nests may tempi her. If, on the other hand, she is required to incubate, encourage her by false eggs in the nest, and partially protect the entrance to the nest from other prying hens. All Asiatics are much given to setting, and Dorkings and Silkies are good mothers. No hen even Americem Germany. This philosopnie tendency j crossed with Spanish, Leghorn, Ham- is never altogether absent, but it is ! burg or Polish Mood will incubate satis- wholly subdued to the poetic feeling | factorily. The broody hen should be and artistic refinement in his shorter I fed once daily on sound grain, some stories, as notably the ' Black Forest I grass or lettuce and a treat of scraps; Village Stones that really laid the 'soft food now and again keeps her in foundation of his literary fame. Auer- j better condition than aa exclusively bach was born in the Black Forest, at Nordstetten, in 1812, and his descrip­ tions of village life are among the most tender and sympathetic and at the same time most firmly polished works of their class that have been produced in our day in any branch of German art These, as well as some of his later tales of the same character, have been trans­ lated, and the American reader is also familiar with "Little Barefoot," "Edel­ weiss" and the "Villa on the Rhine." gram diet On no account deprive the broody hen of her dust bath, and if your brood is valuable take the trouble to dredge her under wings, legs, etc., with powdered sulphur. | GREAT BRITAIN consumes an enormous ! quantity of mutton. Choice mutton J commands two or three cents per pound j more titan beef in London market. Now j England and New York farmers should | bestir themselves to secure part of fliis vast trade, they should devote more at- ! tenters s ̂ Kuli^nrfir *' I/a V.a« n V ' mutton sheep, permitting the wool to be Kaleudar, which he has published at ; ft ^on^rv Good results Berlin for the past twenty years or more, were for home consumption only, and his dramas have been scarcely suc­ cessful even in Germany, but as a poet­ ical genre painter he ranked among the foremost artists of the day, and his tales hjtve been translated into every European language. He never lost his fur liio uwu raue, »u«J it io saiu that his death was hastened by his grief at- the "Judenhetz."--Philadelphia Time*, I* the columns of Berlin papers are frequently notices offering children as presents to whosoever wishes to adopt a secondary consideration. Good results in. wool are quite certain to follow good breeding for mutton, yet our Eastern farmers can make more money in raising fine mutton than in competing with Western ranchmen in producing wool. The farmers of" other countries have their ®yes on the English market for mutton. It is reported that France and Germany, as well as some other Continental coun­ tries, are bestirring themselves to secure the English market for fine mutton by improving the quality of their mntton sheep. The French are resorting more generally to Euglish Southdown rams to cross on their Merino ewes for this pur- 1VWA wllilfi faxr/vi no , . - r 7^ ™ the Ootswoldand Linooln. Tm remarkable development of the California wheat cfop is among tte won- den of American agriculture. Nothing excepting the richness of the yield in the early gold mining compares with the development of the wheat-growing in­ terest. The valley soil, in the early days, was deemed to be so unpromising as to be ranked as practically worthless, and inspired the belief that dependence would have to be placed on foreigo countries for a supply. Upon this same hard adobe land, however, there has been developed a really marvelous wheat field. The statistics show a ninefold increase daring a qnartor of a century from 1855 to 1880. In a little more than a decade, between 1H69 and 1881 alone, there was a threefold increase. The crop increased from 19,801,000 centals in 1880 to 31,500,000 centals in 1881. There are in the State at the present time 38,000,000 acres of wheat lands, 30,000,000 of which are ranked as first- class, and are being rapidly brought under cultivation. Half a million acres have been brought into a cultivated con­ dition in the present year alone, and it is anticipated that, even should the whole of the crop of the San Joaquin Valley fail, there would still be enough left to equal the unprecedented crop of 1880. There is a prospect that it will be much larger than that yield. During 1881-'82 the crop was 27,000,000 centals. MANY an article has been written in this country concerning the injustice both to the producer as well as the con­ sumer, in the sale of eggs by the dozen, irrespective of size or weight. Nothing practical has ever been suggested in this connection, or rather nothing which would induce dealers and the public to depart from the old-time custom of sell­ ing eggs by the dozen. It seemf. this discussion is not confined to America alone. Shall eggs be sold by the num­ ber or by the pound, is the momentous question that is said to be agitating several Parisian scientists. It has been learned that the itverage weight of twenty eggs laid by fowls of different breeds is two and one-eighth pounds. The breads that lay the largest eggi». averaging seven to "a pound, are Black Spanish, Houdans, La Fleches and Creve-Coeura. Eggs of medium size and weight, averaging eight or nine to the pound, are laid by Cochins, Brahmas, Polauds, Dorkings, Games and Sultans. Hamburgs lay about ten eggs to the pound. Thus there is a difference of three eggs in one pound weight Hence it is claimed that in justice to the con­ sumer eggs should be sold by weight No one disputes this theory, bnt who will suggest a remedy HOUSEHOLD HELPS. [Contributed to the Detroit Free Press " Housshold by Housekeepers, and the results of actual experiments^) MOLASSES DOUGHNUTS.--One cup mo­ lasses, one cup sour milk, or buttermilk, two eggs, one spoonful melted butter^ one teaspoonful soda. Fry in hot lard. CHEESE SANDWICHES.--Take two-thirds of good cheese, grated, and one-third of butter, add a little cream, pound all to­ gether in a mortar, then spread it on slices of brown bread, lay another slice over each, press them gently together and cut them in small square pieces. CRACKNELS.--Beat up eight egga with •'ihe same number of spoonfuls of water, and a grated nutmeg. Pour them on three quarts of flour and add sufficient water to make the flour into a thick Easte. Then mix with it two pounds of utter, roll it iuto cracknels, and bake them on tin plates. SUGAR COOKIES WITHOUT EOOS.--Two cups granulated sugar, two cups melted butter, one cup sour milk, email tea- spoonful soda, spice to taste. Knead, roll thin, bake in a moderately hot oren. These cookies will keep for weeks, even in hot weather, without moulding, unless the cellar closet is very damp. FRIED POTATOES.--Pare, wash, and slice thin, raw potatoes, lay in ice-cold water an hour or two, dry in a napkin ; have a pan of hot lard, put in a few at a time aud fry a light brown ; sprinkle with salt, turn with a fork, take out with a wire spoon, and put in a dish and set in the oven until all are cooked. To be eaten either hot or cold. IRISH CABBAGE.--Chop a fine medium- sized head of cabbage, and season with butter, pepper and salt; add water enough to cook until very tender then, when almost dry, add a cup of thick, sweet cream, and simmer a few minutes longer. A good way is to use half cream and half vinegar for those who prefer cabbage with vinegar, or those who have no cream can use milk thickened with a little flour. RICH BROWN BREAD.--Four cups corn meal, two cups rye, graham or other flour, three cups sweet milk, two cups sow miik, one cup molasses, one tea- spoonful salt, two lfeaped up teaspoon* fuls of soda. Pour into three quart basin and steam steadily for two hours Mid a half, then place the loaf in the oven about three-quarters erf an hour, and if the oven is not too hot you will have a loaf of brown bread fit for a premium. A BEEF PIE.--Cold roast beef, one onion, one tomato, pepper and salt, one dozen boiled potatoes. Cut the cold beef in thin slices and put a layer on the bot­ tom of your dish. Shake in a little flour, peeper and salt, cut up and add a tomato * (if in season) or onion, finely chopped, then another layer of beef and seasoning until your dish is full, if you have any gravy put it in; have ready a dozen potatoes, boiled and mashed, with butter and salt, spread over the pie an inch thick; bake twenty-five minutes or a little more. FRUIT PUDDING.--To make, a plain fruit pudding, take one cup of sugar* one half cup butter and two eggs, and beat together, then add a cup of sour milk and one teaspoonful of soda, three cups of flour and one cup of choppod raihins; spices to taste. Put in a mold and steam two hours. Another way which is very nice: Take one and a half cups of flour, one cup of broad crumbs, one cup of raisins, half a cup of currants, two nutmegs, one cup of suet chopped fine, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, four eggs, a wineglass of brandy, a wineglass of syrup and a little milk if necessary. Mix very thoroughly; tie it in a clean cloth as tight as possible, and boil fast five or six hours. Serve with sauce. A Very Hard Wood. One of the hardest woods in existence is that of the desert iron wood tree, whioh grows in the dry washes along the line of of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Its specific gravity is nearly the same as that of lignum vita), and it has a black heart so hard, when well seasoned, that it will turn the edge of an axe and can scarcely be cut by a well-tempered saw. In burning it gives out an intense heat, and charcoal made from it is hardly second to anthra­ cite. • A KIVER-DOLFHIN of South America has the greatest number of teeth found in the order of whales, 222. MORE water is admitted to the atmos­ phere from the transpiration of a forest than loom m mml fesxlf # water. THE FAMILY 90CNB. Omoars is an excellent food for oolda settled npea the luqgs. Cora CUB*.--Buy a bottle of creosote ̂ and, before unoorking, tip the bottle up­ side down, then rub the oork on tha repeating this two or three time* . ' « KUHLESS II IK MST DELICATE. " every other day ft»r a week or two ; the top of the corn will become dry, and should be cut off aa soon as can be withe out making it bleed; oontinue the cttor aote until it is cured. WHAT TO EAT.--An ordinary meal is generally composed of five ingredients-* aninud or nitrogenous focd, starchy of sweet food, watery vegetables, bever* ages and condiments. This food, when digested, is taken into the system by blood-vessels. Far persons, and espa* cially for workingmenf in this climate^ meats are the most easily digested, and, at the same time, are most nourishing food. Tripe is the easiest and pork is the hardest to digest Among vegeta#- bles, rice and boiled cabbage are the extremes. Any thing that is fried in fat is extremely indigestible. Milk con­ tains the five ingredients referred above, and so is really "all sufficient9* Mothers make a great mistake in trying to induce infants under two years of age to eat starchy food, for there is no alkaline fluid in the stomach of an in­ fant, by which the starch oan be changed into sugar, and so infused into the system. It has been estimated that a man working in the open air daily needs fifteen ounces of meat, eighteen of bread, three and one-half of butter, er fat, and fifty-one of water. An ex­ cess of starchy food is to be carefully avoided. Men who handle lead ought to abstain from alcohol, for, if too much is taken, the kidneys, which throw off the poison of the lead, are likely to be­ come diseased. To Avon) COLD.--There is but one way to keep the body .healthfully warm, and that is to wear sufficient clothing, dressing differently as the weather changes. On cold, rainy days one re­ quires thicker clothing than when the - sun pours down, hotrfnd sultry. It is a popular idea in this (country that if w$ wear specially warm_.ck>tliing in the house, our ulsters and great coats will afford us no extra protection when we go ouc. But this is disproved by every one's experience, if people will only think of the facts which have come within their own observation. Most per­ sons must have noticed that, after sitting in a theater which is insufficiently heat­ ed, and getting chilled to a greater or less degree, the putting on of coats and cloaks when going out seems to have no effect, and the chill which remains is apt to resnlt in a severe cold. On the other hand, if an overcoat is kept on in a cold theater, so that the wearer feels comfortable, his warmth continues after he goes out, and the change of tempera­ ture does not bring the expected effect, notwithstanding that no addition is made to clothing. Such on experience as this should convince us that the wearing of clothing made especially for warmth should not be confined to the open air, but that the indoor draughts and occa­ sional Chilliness, to which every one is more or less subject, should be provided against by always wearing warm cloth-' ing, in the form either of an extra suit of flannels, or of an outer ooat or dress­ ing gown. TOOTHSOME HINTS.--It is natural for. some people to have better teeth than oth­ ers, but all must give attention to their cleansing and other treatment if they ' would have good teeth in old age. A moderately stiff brush should be used thoroughly at least twice a day--morn­ ing and uight. Sc ft water (blood-warm) and a mere taste of the best soap--white castile, for instance--are the only re­ quisites beside the brush. Powder*. generally injurious to the er>ameL.,, and so are ,tne much-advertised liquid mixtures. Strong acids, like lemons- juice, are destructive, and the mingling of hot and cold food or drink at meals ii very harmful. Use, however, on hard, nutritious food, like well-baked Graham bread and crackers, promotes tooth* growth; while soft, watery food tends to weaken the teeth, lt is now the opinion of leading dentists in Europe aud this country that the reason there is so much tooth decay in early life is in a large degree owin; to the soft ma­ terials given to children as food, which are swallowed with scarcely any chew­ ing. On the appearance of decay a den­ tist should be employed. Much tooth­ ache is due to indigestion (and constitu- . tional debility, and much so-called " neuralgia " may be traced to decayed, carious teeth* Care in the matter of diet, and watchfulness with regard to the oondition of the teeth, would save people a vast deal of suffering and ex­ pense. . A Beauty Factory. My conversation with the proprietress of the "beautifying establishment" was interrupted by a lady of uncertain age and pimpled skin, who remarked that, having arrived at the conclusion that it was a woman's duty to make the most of her looks, she had come to madame for assistance. "That's right!" said the madame, cheerily. " I can make you so good-looking your own husband won't know you." The lady's expression grew a trifle dubious at this, but the professor began. "First, you must learn to smile frequently; I notice your face is na­ turally grave. There is nothing men like so much as a smile, especially when it com6a from a pretty mouth,, and a mere soupcon of my lip-dew will make yours fresh and red, and by rubbing a little extra on the middle of the lip you can obtain a positively voluptuous effect." " But my complexion?" interrupted the visitor anxiously. "Oh, I can fix all that. Just let me show you," and she seated the lady in front of a mirror, whipped out a piece of chamois skin, dipped it in a creamy liquid and polished off the lady's face; then she powdered it well, ruBbed some rouge on the faded cheeks, tinted t)ie lips, penciled the brows and, presto! there was another woman. On the stage she would have looked very well, but near to, the cosmetics could not conceal either themselves, the harsh outlines, the dim eyes or the, lack of youth's roundness. The poor thing' hardly knew whether to be delighted or appalled, but when the madame went into an ecstacy and exclaimed " Beauti­ ful, beautiful; there could not be a greater success," she concluded to be delighted. " What do I owe you ?" she asked. "Ten dollars for the make-up and materials which I will furnish you," and the woman, meekly as a lamb, handed over a gold piece and departed with a packet of powders and salves.-- New York Letter in the Chicago IrUer- Ooean. IN sentencing a colored man who was convicted of stealing a pair of pants, an Austin Judge took uuu«siou tc : -- hope you are sorry for stealing those pants.' " I was sorry, Judge, de same day I tuck dem ar pants. I was sorry at not finding nutlin in the pockets ceptin a kear ticket" The most singular thing about the poverty-stricken P*nta was that they did not Iwlong to a Texaa 'l- , V ->V Tkh Bacvtvfac nmsMrti tts Loop ta a hatHfe? state. A STANDARD REMEDY IN MANY HOMES. Vte racckt, C«Ida, Cro«». Bnarkltlt nl aS • otWaffection*of ttoYhroat and l.ITNUM,Ititi«d> Mitesled and utterly barotxi oompatltlon. IN CONSUMPTIVE GASES It ftpprosches 10 Mir a specific tbat " N:n®t*-fl*en par •aat.are peim^wmtly ctu*d where the diraotiotu complied with. is no ottamioal or otbtff ^ Mcxedionts to harm th« ittuog or old. ? At AH EXPECTORANT IT HkS *0 EQUAL. IT cowTaias WO OWUM ft nxta.« FOR 8ILE BY *IL 0RI1GRIST8. IS to $20 SS£L%3SJ%%>R£!1'!S< CELEBRATED . 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