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“If you desire to get a large yield ‘ of rich milk, give your cow every day water slightly warm and slightly salt- ed, in which bran has been stirred at‘ the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. You will find, if you have not tried this daily practice, that your cow will give twenty-five er cent. more milk immediately under t e efleet of it, and she will become so attached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless .Jery thirsty. But this mess she will drink almost any time, and ask for more. The amount of this drink necessary is an ordinary water pailiul at a time, morn- ing, noon and night.” To Free none from Llce. J. O. L. 13., Ulster county, N. Y.,\ asks: “ What will kill lice on hogs?" Be lyzâ€"Give the hogs half an ounce of an phu‘r daily in their food until they smell strongly of it through the skin, which will be in ten days or thereabout. In the meantime, prepare a mixture of I, lard, four parts, glycerine, two parts, and kerosene oil, two parts. Bub this upon the brisket, the armpits, and be- . neath the thighs of the animals, and anywhere else the vermin may be found. When the smell of the sulphur comes through the skin, all the lice that have not been killed by the grease will leave at once. To prevent their return, keep an earthen floor in the pen, or bed the hogs with fresh earth six inches deep, renewing it occasionally, and once a week throw over this a quart of water in which one ounce of carbolic acid has been dissolved. wipe of! the wood-work, and, before placing your furniture back, anoint all the cracks with unguentum. I have tried this way twice, and have been very successful. Also, a good way to get rid of those little red ants that are so troub- lesome to some. Watch them, and when you find out where they travel to, just turn kerosene oil into their nests, and do not be afraid to use it. I think you will soon be rid of them. I got rid of them in that way, in a house where I could not keep anything out of their reach, up-stairs and down; they never troubled me afterward. Fuller-Iv Alan and Enemies. Hedgehog lives on mice, small ro- dents, slugs and absâ€"animals hurtfu :0 agriculture. on't kill the hedge 0g. Toadâ€"farm assistant; destroys from L'W millmtfl 31111093. Don’t_ Mole is continually destroying grabs, larvae, palmer worms and insects injuri- oue to agriculture. No trace of vege- tation is ever found in its stomach. Does more good than harm. Don't kill the mole. the many readers of this department, and wishing for a recipe which would be of gr t help to me, I have, for the first time. ken up m pen to tell what I know. To those t at are troubled with bed-bug‘s; Remove all your furniture from the room, after cleaning it of all bugs and nits; then place a pan of coals in the room and pour a good supply of brimstone on it; then close the room tight, and let it smoke; do not open until the smoke has all gone out through the crevices; then tqke a 7 wet cloth and Teach your hens to break e gge and eat them by throwing shells to them whenever opfirtunity oflere. This 13 a Good wayto , ,7 An 0le turkey-raiser gives the follow- ing experiment: Four turkeys were con- fined in a pen, and fed on meal, boiled potatoes and oats. Four others, of the same brood, were also at the same time confined in another pen, and fed daily on the same articles, but with one pint of very finely pulverized charcoal mixed with their foodâ€"mixed meal and boiled potatoes. They had also a plenti- ful an ply of broken charcoal in their pen. he eight were killed on the same day, and there was a difi'erence of one and a half pounds each in favor of the (owls which had been supplied with charcoal, they being much the fattest and the meat greatly superior in point of tenderness and flavor. Bod-“nus and Auto. A lady writes to an exchange ' as fol- lows: “ Thinking perhaps I might add a mite that would be of benefit to some of May bug and its larvae or grub, mortal enemy of agriculture; lays from seventy togighty egg Kill tl‘m M9y_bug. FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD The small breeds of (owls are the mos profitable layeys. A writer in the Poultry World argues that there is no foundation for the theory that one breed of domestic fowl is more tender and juicy than another; any law] badly fed or cared for is neces- sarily poor, "stingy " and unpalatable, but, other things equal, no difference can be. discovered in the taste of the flesh of the various breeds. 'v '70 0â€"V ans. --Each dep artment loses sev- eral millions annually through insects. Birds are the only enemies able to con- tend against them Victoriously. They are the great caterpillar-killer and tam-i): cultural assistants. Children, don' t disturb their nests.-â€"Golden Rule. \\ new to Make Cows Give Milk. A 'writer' 1n the Southern Farmer says that his" cow gives all the ‘milk that is wanted' 1a a family of eight, and that from it, after taking all that' 1s re uired for other purposes, 8260 ounds of utter were made this y.ear hisis in part his treatment of the cow: V A pouItry fancier has found that lice will not venture near a sitting hen in whose nest two or three tobacco leaves hnye been plaoed. _ Cooked Menu for Fowls. Fowla, as well as dogs, beoome quar- relaome it {ed on raw meat. Besides, cooking makes it more nutritiom. When raw. it in rather harsh and crude, com- pared with the_ mild_ _n_amral glietuol worms and “be, which are for the most art so t, and easily dissolved by dig out on. Occasionally, for variety, 3 little meat Poultry Nam. Droll things happen in Nevada. The air out there, as everybody knows, is full of ozone. and ozone in the atmos- phere makes people wonderful! vigor- ous and original. A story whic comes from Virginia City illustrates the fact pleasantly. It isn't quite assured that the pleasant account really comes from that place, but it is credited to it, and, as the story drifts eastward in the v e sort of way stories from the Far est usually do, and is merely in its bearing a barometrical showing of the condition of the social atmosphere in mining towns generally, it may be located in Virginia City as well as anywhere else. There came to Virginia City a young physician from “the States,” possibly from St. Louis, a talented, nice young fellow, with considerable genius in mak- ing out a diagnosis or a bill, but inherit- ing from decent parents a fatal weak- ness. He could not overcome a fatal passion for putting on occasionally a clean shirt, for taking his pantaloons out of the tops of his boots and in other ways conforming to habits popular with the super-civilization of the Orient. He forgot he was in the Occident, where ways are difi'erent. For a time after his arrival among the ozone-faced Virginia~ Oityites he conformed in modesty and decency to their ways. He wore a dirty 3th of miners flannel, and tucked his pantaloons inside his boots, and swore wrth strange oaths, grew bearded like the bard, chewed navy-plug tobacco and spat wickedly to leeward. He was rapidly acquiring popularity and an im- mense practice in his profession, when he yielded to temptation and so fellâ€" fell as thousands of bright minds have fallen in the past. There came ugion the young physician a passion for o] hantasies. He clung again to the fiesh-p pots of his early life, and took a course insulting to all about him and dangerous to himself. As upon the reformed drunkarn comes at times a horrible thirst for drink, as comes to the opium-cater who has tried to save him- self an overwhelming passion f01 the fatal drug, so upon the young physician came fierce longing to wear again a shirt all clean, and washed, and starched to don in otherwise the garb of Eastern cities. Therest is soon told. One morning the young physician came down town with his trowsers worn outside his boots. His friends noticed it, but said nothing; they thought it merely an oversight on his part. The night passed, and the next morning the young man appeared upon the streets wearing a whlte shirt. He had shown tact enough to ut on his adornments gradually ,but he id not re- alize the full terror of his situatien. Still nothing was said. There was a muttering among the populace, and nothing more. Another day came, and with it the a pearanee of the Eastern man in public, white shirt still worn, pantaloons still outside his boots, a (1 upon these boots, not plain Nevada mud, but a polish of blanking. Then the people gathered in groups, and dis- cussed something earnestly. The blind- ed victim of impending fate saw noth- ing. He appeared next day, still clean and neat, and carrying a cane. That night the Vigilance Committee met I ting on a clean ehirt he was offering a gratuitous insult to every other man in Virginia City, in the intimation thus ex- pressed of his own superiority. He knew the risk and took it. He was infatuated. He knew of the popularity he had gain- ed,_§nd relied upon it for protection._ Of course the infatuated young man know well ewh that he was wronging those abonj: ._ _H_e_knew that; in_ put- may be given row. Fish, when plenty, in more conveniently 'ven. ballad. beâ€" cause in that state the owls mily ick every moreel from the bones, an no mincin is required. Ohandlors' Born a have 0 advantage 0! being alre y cooked, and on that account, as well as many others, they are excellent â€"The Poultry World. The next morning proved a clear and pleasant one, which was a lucky circum- stance, as it enabled most of the popula- tion of Vir rginia Cit to stroll out and speculate upon a roll object in the suburbs. Suspended from the limb of a tree, swinging gent-1‘7h in the morning breeze, hung the foe mh young physi- cian from the East. Upon the back of an old envelope pinned to his breast was inscribed the curt legend: “ He tnk risks. He baiked too heavy on_}1i_s pop'lggfiyf' But, 'as.said Hefore, the scene of this interesting episode of the ozone-bathed mountain regions may not have been Virginia City. The story comes irregu- larlyâ€"St. Louis Republican. A curious Almanac is described by a recent traveler in Tyrol. It ignores the alphabet, and goes on the presumption that “reading is an unknown a .” The picture of a saint indicates his holi- day, the peasants readily knowing the signs employed. The plow indicates the time to 'n farming thejclover leaf signifies the time for seedinfi, and wood chopping is prompted by a atchet. A hand signifies cold; a mouth, wind ; a itcher, rain; and a bat, warm weather. ike the Ober-Ammergau “Passion Play," this almanac is a reminder of the past. Time was when religious instruc- tion was conveyed by “books for the poor,” which contained only rude en- gravings. Specimens of these are not rare, and copies of single pages are common in works on ecclesiastical an- tiquity. Pictures, statues, curious heads, and other devices in ancient church architecture had a similar purpose in their origin. Though to modern eyes they seem grotesque, they“ once had a devout meaning. “ Pic re-writing,” in thiscase may be said to have survived the introduction of humorâ€"Philadel- phla Ledger. A Tyrolese' Almanac. Virginia Cl '1 Episode. She stood still some seconds solemnly sea-surveying. Suddenly she said: “See Stephen, so sneaking, so sanctlmonious, so supremely stupid; see sister Sarah so sweetly sera hie, sweet Sunday school scholar, su lime sinner, see Sophia swim. Stephen, sister Sarah shall sell sweet solesâ€"so shall she starve.” Sarah shuddered. Stephen sneezed. Suddenly, Sophia sprang, screaming, splashing s‘alt‘spray skyyard. (In-#, a So his Saunders séuohingly scrutin iaed ah, scowling severely. Stegheu Smith, Sarah's suitor. strong, 8 Ion ill-1y siuewed, shapely Stephen, s e t soundly. , gwhia spoke. She said Sarah should sell stale, stinking soles. Stephen entered. Sophia spitefully shook Sarah. “Surrender! " said she. Sarah screamed shrilly. Stephen seeiu sweet Sarah's situa- tion stealings thily,suddenly squeez- ed Sophia’s side, saying, “Stop such silly squabbles; such stupid strife; stop striking Sar .” ‘ She staggered. “So,” sneered Sophia, “savage Steph- en sneakin ly supports Sarah! Seek safetyâ€"ell dle!’ Ste hen smiling satirically said: “Sar shall sell stale soles, sweet So- phia, shall she ?" “She shall l” shrieked So his. So saying. Sophia Sann ers strolled seaward, stalking stimy, selecting slap? shingle sgots. Slaekening sp , she. sat. traightway she sentimental- A Paris correspondent writes: The jewel cuket, owder box and portemon- naie of Mrs. K. Sunderland, of Califor- nia, valued at 830,000. attract much at- tention. They were made expressly for the Exposition by order of Mrs. Sunder- land, and after her own designs and ideasby a 'eweller of San Francisco. As a work 0 the jeweller’s art they are surpassed by anything in the Exposi- tion. The portemonnaie is made of solid gold and quartz rock, in mosaic, beautifully interspersed with gold. The quartz rook used in this and the other articles comes from mines of California, Nevada, Arozona and Washington Ter- ritory. The jewel casket represents the sub- stantial wealth of the mines on the Pacific coast, being made entirely of gold and gold quartz rock from the mines of California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho, and required the steady Work of five skilful artisans for six months for its completion. It is about fifteen inches long, ten inches wide and about ten inches deep, and this,_with the other articles, weighs “See star-spsngled sky, sec sinking sun, see salt sea; see Sophia Saunders, spinster, Sarah’s sister, spurned, sli ht- ed, scorned. 80 Sarah supposes so ing stale soles sinful i Snore! she shall Sometimes she sang sad songs softly, sorrowing Sophia’s sad suicide. Still she staid single, scornfully spurning Stephen Smith’s soft. speeches.-â€"Boston Courier. 4 Large round collars are made of three rows of Valenciennes lace, each an inch wide, laid in knife-plantings, and finished at the to by one standing row of the pleated co and an inner pleating of crimped crepe liege. _ _ W“, ,f_wd .._. n... ‘ “36" Soplna, Steinem“! see, she sinks I” screamed Sarah. Moflograms are in favor again, and are embroidered on slippers, collars, hand- kerchiefs, mitts and parasols, in the gayest colors. Tho brooaded materials are gradually reviving the ntomaeher, and in a short time one need not be surpi-ised to see the waists of dresses as short as in the days of one’s grandmothere’. “Searcely, sweetheart.” said Stephen, sulleuly. So Sophia Saunders sank: Sophia’s suicide saved Sarah selling soles so stale. She systematically sold sweet soles. She survived Sophia sev- eral summer seasons. The small, round turban is again worn by young ladies. Old gold color and pink is a favorite mixture for bows. It is predicted that garnets, so long tabooed by fashion will again be worn this fall and winter. Fall heteare ef black straw trimmed with black velvet and enlivened by autumn leaves or poppies. It is the fashion now to line white muslin curtains with a color, and to tie them back with a strip of the same as the lining. The desire for shaggy goods still'con- tinues unabated. Spotted satin and silk sun umbreilas are quite stylish. Black vefiet bracelets are revived to wen; wjth llalfllpng elbqw 3195mm: They are fastened with 8 auto buckles of paste or of diamonds, an are ornamented with the serpent and lizard brooches that are now so popular. These bracelets and rococo buckles are in keeping with the black lace mitts and country toilettee known as Trianon dresses. Satan or velvet bodices, known as Revolution bodices, are worn with white muslin skirts. These are in coat shape, with revere and cape covered with white lace, as, for instance, ruby satin with Venetian point lace or the old Venice gnipnre. There is first a white silk pet- ticoat, over which is a white muslin pleated skirt, and a washerwoman over- skirt bordered broadly with ruby satin and white lace. one. He naturally supposed that the meat would be swallowed by sharks, that the poison would kill the letter, that the fish would float ashore. be cut open, the bottles discovered, the fact reborted by the news apers,, and an original and effective vertisement so» outed. That was precise]! what happen- ed._ Dex before yester my a yachting A Sad Failure. An ingenious tailor'of this city got a lot of empty op bottles, put one of his business our 5 in each, then wrapped every bottle separately in a poisoned tenderloin steak and; threw them into the be: from the ferry hosts, one by arty picked up an immense shark not ar from Alcatraz. In its stomach was found one of the bottles alluded to, and the card it contained handed to a re~ porter of this paper. The name of the clever merchant it contained will be published at our regular advertising rates, if so directed by him. See terms on inside pageâ€"San Francisco Post. In England the bio ole business is assuming large dimens one. There me 180 makers, a million pounds are invest.- ed in the businoaa,'end sixty thousand bicycles are in existence in (London and the provinces. Sensations! Story Fashion Notes. Tlie jewel casket represents the sub- stantial wealth of the mines on the Pacific coast, being made entirely of gold and gold quartz rock from the mines of California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho, and required the steady Work of five skilful artisans for six months for it8_90n1pl_etion. - A, It is about fifteen inches long, ten inches wide and about ten inches deep, and this, with the other articles, weighs nearly nineteen pounds. The casket, for richness, beaut and novelty has never been an . It rests on four feet of solid go d, each of which repre- sents the symbolic female figure that adorns the coat of arms of the State of California, with the bear at her side. The figures are in full relief and most elegantly formed, and constitute a salient feature of the beautiful work. The sides and ends of the casket are composed of solid slabs of gold quartz, highly polished, cut in spheroids, and are inlaid in solid gold, with ornamental surroundings. The four handsomely wrought pillars upon the sides are of Roman Doric style, which is artistically carried out in the entire work. The base of the casket is ornamented with graceful foliations, which are repeated upon the mouldings that finish the lid or cover. The top is of solid gold, beautifufly inlaid with gold quartz in the _ finest mosaic work, hung When our Tom was 31: years old, he went into the forest one afternoon to meet the hired man, who was coming home with a load of wood. The man laced master Tommy on the top of the oad and drove homeward. J not before reaching the farm the team went retty briskly down a steep hill. hen Tonrmy entered the house his mother dreds of piwes being required for the construction of this exquisite cover. The most elegant part of the whole casket is the exquisite piece of workmanship on the inside of the cover, it being a pictorial and historical repre- sentation of a bufi'alo hunt on the plains. The engraving of the landscape is very fine, the shubbery and trees being in bas‘relief. In the foreground is the railway track, with two bufl'aloes dash- ing across it to evade the hunters, who are in close pursuit. All of this is in alto-relievo, and with great expression. The figures are not onl correctly pro- portioned but skilfully handled, and the whole representation is artistically wrought. . The powder-box is composed of quartz rock, its abs 0 being round and made to resemble a reek dome, the top or cover being supported by eight columns of solid gold quartz rook, beau- tifully polished, each capped with pure gold. The cover forming the roof of the dome is exquisitely inlaid with quartz rock of variegated colors, filled with the precious metal, and is bound on edge with a solid rim of gold, the inside be- ing lined with solid gold. The body of the box is made from one large mass of quartz rock, bored out and elegantly polished on the outside, while the inside is lined throughout with solid gold, and rests on an ornamented base made of quartz rock mounted in gold. The whole is surmounted with the emblem of California, viz., the grizzly bear, which is reprbsented as crossing the great overland railway. The powder put! is made of the same material, and is of the greatest taste. Two pounds of solid gold, and the same quantity of ggid quartz, were required to make the a we. Garlbaldl and the Lamb. A characteristic anecdote oi Garibaldi is related in a “Lilo" of that general, recently published. One evening in 1861 he was met by a Sardinian shep- herd, who was lamenting the loss of one of his lambs. Garibaldi at once proposed to his staff that the mountains should be explored for the little va- grant, but after an unavailing search the soldiers retired to rest. Not so the gen- eral, however; for the next morning, Garibaldi, who was accustomed always to be the first man awake in the camp was found by his attendant in bed and fast asleep. On being aroused he opened his eyes in some alarm, and instantly inquired whether the rest of the house were awake or not. He was relieved on receiving an answer in the negative, and, stretching his am under the counter- pane of the bed, he brought to light a tiny lamb, which he handed to his friend, urging him to take it with all speed, and without being observed. to the dis. and without being observed, to the die. oonaolnte shepherd. The friend had just time to remark that by the side of the bed was a saucer, in the bottom of which remained a few drops of milk. “ Tommy, my dear, were you not frightened when the horses went trotting so swiftly down Crow hi_ll ?_" _ “You; mother, a ljttle,” replied Tommy, honestly, “but I asked God toyelp‘pge, find huggpn like 9 bong." Sensible Tom! Wéy sensiblel Bo- sauso he joined war to praying. his wordsJ teach the life lesson in 1:111 troubles pray and hang on like 3 Beaver by which I mean tint, wlxils you ask by which I mean tbst, while you as]: 0951 tg‘pol‘g you, y9n_ gnuat help your- sell with oil y'onr'xiight. A California Ladl’s Exhibit. Hang On Like 3 Beaver. U on the a le :1; "T .,-_, Be 3111 not thgh 533. if he’s wise. Lurking in the core there lies Colic and cramp unseen. “Dr. Carver can knock a hole in v: silver dollar every time.” 80 can we, every time we take our girl for a walk down a street that boasts an ice cream saloon and a danced big hole it is, too. â€"-P‘uck. The inhabitants of Madagascar am dying to get hold of an American ship captain who sold them 10,000 quart cans of tomatoes as a new kind of gun. powder. Their old blunderbusses would u’t go 011‘. The women of Cyprus, like all the Greek women, chew greet qulntitiee of mastic, imported by the island of Soio, and deem it gracent to up always biting this gum, and it mlfegon be in order for a later Byron to remark, “Maia of Cyprus, now we've come, leave, oh, leave ofl' chewing gum.” A German naturalist, Tulberg, sug- gests the industrial application of the mussel. The well known byam, or strong silky threads which these animals spin in order to fasten themselves to rocks and stones, is pointed out as a probable raw material to rival the some- what similiar threads spun by the silk- worm. The threads of the pinna, a mollusk allied to the mussel have been worked into fine fabrics and made into gloves, and have, for along time, been in common use among the poorernlass of girls and women in Ita-y for such purposes. The toughness of the byssue of the mussel is a strong recommendation in favor of its adaptation to some such “How greedy you are 1” said one little girl to another who had taken the beat apple in the dish; “I was going to take that n . .There was a time in this count when the man who was snnstrnok won] strike back, but Americans are loosing their taste for war. â€"Detroit Free Prou. The smnll boy looks with longing eyes, H“... Al A The annual rate of mortali , accord. ingto the most recent wee y returns in Calcutta, was thirty-three;'Bombay, thirtyâ€"six; Madman, forty; Paris, twenty-three; Geneva, .twenty-one ; Brussels, thirty; Amsterdam, twenty- four; Rotterdam, twenty-nine; The Hague, twenty-five; Copenhagen, twenty-four; Stockholm, twenty-two; Christianin, nineteen; St. Petersburg, forty-eight; Berlin, fifty two; Ham- burg, twenty-nine ; Dresden, thirty; Brtslau, thirty-two; Munich, thirt - flve ; Vienna, thirty; Buds Pee , thirty-nine; Rome, twenty eight : Naples, thirty-nine; Turin, twen mx; Venice, twent one; Alexandr-m, fifty flve; New ork, twenty- three; Brooklyn, eighteen ; Philndelphie, nineteen, and Baltimore, twenty. Americana out twice .. the English, a much in“ u The grauho' era h parodr ‘ Central AmericaF "0 up in What ought not to be. even think 0! doing. done, do not A fast young mu: Thoono who sat down on a pot of glue. Should a My, who lump. ut In 0361. be ranked among the athletic? The first piano in the United 8m was made at Philadelphia in 1775. All honest men will bou- wstohlng. It is the rascals who cannot stand it. Women love flowers and birds. They are, however, not so partial to swallows as the men are. James Nutthing, of Arkansas, plunged into a river-and n-souod a drownlng oom- panion. Good for Nutthing. Beasts of prey are unknown in Mad» gasoar, but. the rivers abound in nuisa- tors, and scorpions Hover] prolific. A quidnnnk iz an individual who goes about stealing other folk’s time, and phooling away tis owu.-â€"Joah Billings. The boy who will ride around ell dey on a velooipede considers himself terri- bly imposed upon if he has to wheel his baby sister two or three blocks. A Niagara correspondent unearths some interesting literature in a file of the Cataract House registers dating‘haok to 1825. This hotel is the oldest in the village. and its registers contain the an- tographs of many distinguished histor- ical personages. Not long1 ago an old gentleman, visiting the nose, asked permission to look at t e book. On turning over its leaves, be pointed out his name written thereon fifty yeamgo. At that time he was a young msn rinst snteringfilife, and this was his god ing tour. The name of his wife, evidently a. tenderly loved women but now deed was inscribed beside Ins own. The eight of this name was sumoient to overoom him, and he had to turn unytgb his wars. In those early days' the fashion to write remain bopks, according to the “5' writer'. The people who nave mistaken not blunders b oasaryn nv life, but mi: J sh Billings. \ Paste the date of the next ooli no in out but. You may target it. 8, AAA m 3mm: nu. “ Buzzing little busybodg. Hsppy little lay-no] rover. ”(5!" 29“ feel you! 9!!! impewea. “ Don’t your little wings grow wary Of this never-caning 13130:? When the, but! um am you, Envy you your no hbor ‘P Sta I moment 1 Buy Ind tell an. on't my gossip nuke you but]? Hurry home. then. honey-laden, Flat u busy wings on 0.11]. Fatality". 1?: Emmi!"- Thou hut tang ht a. wholesome louon To an idle daylight dream". on’t you feel your own importation. Bustling through these wildu of clover ? nre-tho-wellm tiny toilet, Noiqy li_tt_le mi -ur itetmor; Items of Interest.