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^ MILANDGI ILARIIGR OMJk 'ioliti • «T BCOCNE J. lUt. A rich nlA man «nn Philander OoMk , % With an iron heart an' a oordid ROW, He wus a miwrly creaober; ;•« Ho would stay to liomo on the Sabbath 4H)|| "ihe rent o' a pew he wouldn't pay. Nor help to support the preacbMi " BUnee* wus bimeen." he u*ed to «ay, " An' people who went In debt mnst pay, Or why (thoud they go an' t>orr. >W " He Kjucer-i'd his victims, he hushed thrt The wfdder wept an' the orphan cried, Bat he heeded not the'r sorrow. What weretears to Philander Oatet The love inr his money filled his lOUl, An'no matter how he made it; He only thought o' the gold he lent, He only aruiled at a big per cent.. An' laughed when the needy pstd li Hie hair wun white ez the winter's snow. An' through bis *tinjry old soul below A hundred deep mjliemea were runnin' ( Hia look wus shabby, his clo's were mean, Hia shoulders stooped, but hla eyea were kM An' hia face looked sharp an' ounnin'. Hia old white hat, o' curia rtyla, Wus enough to make a mourner I Coz it looked so odd an' funny; Yet hid from tight in its old bell oroWB Wus wealth sufficient to buy the town, Hed it only been in money. He carried hla note* an' papers than, An' many a sound an' solid share In railroads, bankin' an' minin'; An' all o' his neighbors thought o' that, With great respect for liis old white hat* Or rutber its costly linln'. £U lived alone, In a mean aboda, A house remote from the old rtaga roa4. In a lonesome situation. A dozen o' spindlin' popple tree* . . Jest helped a leetle to break the U(MM An' hide It from obeervation. The robins returned with songs o' cheer, - An' the wrens an' swallows built, each y*W, Their nests in the narrer gables; To the mossy eare-troughs, rudely hand. Some grizzled old gi*p*-vin«i dOMly dn|| Like a lot o' stranded cable*. From the cottage-roof, decayed The rain ran down to a cistern deep, In muggy an' stormy weather. Where a family o' croakin' frogs An' a thousand leetle pollvwogs In harmony lived together. But trouble came to Philander Oole That tried his temper an' saved hie eou^ Fur fortune cuts some strange capera; While drawin' water, one luckless day, He dropped his hat, to his inrat dismay, With all o' hia precious papers. OfTn hie head, like a gleam o' light, Downward it sank from hia anxiona slfkt-- Oh how his papers did scatter! Amid the stioks an' among the frogs, Wakln' the wiggiers an pollywoga, That wondered what wna the matter. Ah! what <lid those slimy creachers ear* Fur the wealth so widely scattered there, Fur they all could live without it Soon on the rim o' the old white hat A speckled old frog in comfort aat An' croaked to his friends about It. Philander Cole, .with an anxious look. Fished fur his wealth with the cistern hMk, 'TWSH a i-orry occupation. Fur, reachin' too far--oh, sad to tell. He lost his balance, an' in he fell, With an awful imprecation! A fearful crya splash an' a groan I A gurgle, a shriek in an awful tone, And no one was near to save him! He floundered among the frightened frogs; He grasped at the slimy sticks an' logs, But smail wus the help they gave hi"' How sweet is life, an' with what etnage few Do we come to the close o' our career- It puts us to gravely thinkin'. The drownin' man, with a dyin' olasp. At the frailest straws will wildly graap To hinder himself from sinkia'. Within the mind o' Philander Cole A thousand mt-iuori^s seemed to roll. Ere the watt-r settled o'er him. He thought o' his useless life o' greed, O" the orphans wronged in their woe an' and Likea dream all passed before him. Pp to his chin the water roee. Then he touched the bottom, with his toss. With wondering gratification. Whi'e under his ii >-e were note an' bond. The wea'th o" which he hed been so food, Jiow vbat wus ita valuation ? It floated around an' eeemed tosttov The foily o' trustin' to things below, Ez the hope o" life was failin". a • will give it all," he cried, " to 'Jt-- Out o' tins murky in* awful i" " Hla offer waa unavailing There in the water he shoe tin' stood. Till th sui! went down beyond the An' he hoard tije iii£b*-b:rds cryin'. He sin tho t'ieaia o' the dyi;:' day OB the cirnids above, an' tried to' pray, For he feh that he was dyin'. There is a wondrous power in earnest _ From souis that struggle in wild despair. In a hnpel.*- situation. When man's be« efforts cannot prevail "The ha mi from heaven can never fail- That fashioned the whole creatiaa. Within the wat«r the miser stood, Shoutin' fur help ez loud ez he coold. With martgiges floatin' 'round Mm, Till, provic'entiai'y pass-in' by, A neiglib ->r barkened and heerd *»<• wy. An' down in the cistern found hiaal He saved the life o" Philander Col*. An' he'.ped to succor his sinfu! sow From a far more fatal disaster. Who, from that ierrib c summer day His wealth to the needy gave away, An' his heart to lua Heavenly Master. A kindlier look his feachers wore, His way was brighter than e'er before. The sky seemed fairer al>ovehim; An', when it was wlmuured lie wus dead, Many a sorrowful tear wus >hed, For all had learned to love him. found the ball, they extracted it from the bone. The wound was subsequently Srobed for loose bones aud liut, but, in Ir. Barnes' opinion, nature does Iter work better than the physicians, for, after being in the wound ten yoars, the wad of lint finally came out in piecos. His wound was looked upon as an almost hopeless one, and his escape from death was as surprising to the surgeon* as to anyone else. _ F. A. Barnard, of Denver, Co!., for­ merly a member of the Thirty seventh Wisconsin regiment, was snatched from the jaws of death, even alter the sur­ geons had given up all hope, ills story, told in his own words, is ns lollows : "I was shot," said he, "in Iroiit of Petersburg on the 18th of ,lu:ie, 1861, through the liver and left IOLK* of m> lungs, the bail entering on the right ride of my body and passing out at the left. In its course through my body it perforated the liver and cut the gall bladder, so that the bile ran out of my ride. Vomiting commenced in perhaps ten hours after 1 was wounded, aud con­ tinued for the next twenty-four almost constantly. After that the coughing set in--one of the symptoms, as the sur­ geons consider, which precede death. That lasted perhaps a day longer. All the surgeons who examined me, includ­ ing the Surgeon of the Ninth army oorps, pronounced the wound mortal, and insisted for the first ten days that I couldn't live. Oa the morning of the tenth day there was a change for the better, and from that time forward I improved very rapidly. Dtiring those first ten days I couldn't retain any nour­ ishment on my stomach scarcely. A •ary little wine and a little soft cracker were all that I could keep down. I act­ ually lived against the judgment of all MM surgeons, and, as I think, because of my firm belief that there was a chance for me if they would take care of me. And they took the very best care of me that was possible. As soon as the Corps Surgeon examined me, he gave orders that I shouldn't be placed in an ambu­ lance. I was then in Ihe camp hospi­ tal, and when we moved away I was conveyed on a stretcher. I lay on one side all the time, without moving, and I attribute my recovery to the tixcellent care I received, the perfect quiet I en­ joyed and to the strength of my will power." In the bulletin of the New York Path­ ological Society for January, 1SS1, the following case is recorded : "The pa­ tient had died of some other disease, and at the post-mortem examination an iron bullet was found by Dr. H. B. Sands i't the omentum. It was encyst­ ed, and hail evidently been there a long time. It was seated two inches from the left border of the great omentum, and two inches below the great curva­ ture of the stomach. On a more-close examination a circular scar waa found on the right side of the chest, a well- marked sear on the pleura, between the eighth and ninth ribs ; another scar on the pleural surface of the diaphragm, and still another on its lower surface, all of the same size and leading in the same direction. There was also another scar on the right lobe of the liver, which was grooved and furrowed by the pro- Oa., was struck by a ball in the right breast about half way between the breast bone and front of the armpit, a little below the level of the latter, the bullet cutting through the lower lungs and the liver and coming out near the spinal column through the "floating ribs," about eight inches lower on the trunk than where it entered. He hat! his senses for several hours, but tli«y gradually left him, and he was un­ conscious for several days. The sur­ geons all said that he would have to die, and could hardly believe to the contrary for months. It was two months before he could help himself in bed, and the opening made by the bullet as it came out is still sore to pressure. The nerves injured near the spine were such as to give him the feeling that his hip and right side were shot away. The Captain is in a great measure recovered, though he will never have his old health back again. ________ THE FAMILY DOCTOR. FARM SOTEH. To CURE chilblains, slice raw potatoes with the skins on, and sprinkle over them a little salt, and, as soon as the liquid therefrom settles in the bottom of the dish, wash with it the chilblains. One application is all that is necessary. As BVBRT particle of food must be act­ ed upon by the gastric juice, or some of it will be troublesome afterward, it stands to reason thftt the finer food is cut, chewed, masticated, the more easily and perfectly will it dissolve or be di­ gested, Meats, vegetables, any food masticated as fine as small shot, will certainly be digested far more easily and very much sooner than if it goes down in lumps as large as buckshot, or chest­ nuts or walnuts. Masticate the food fine in the mouth, and mix it well there with saliva. APPLES AS FOOD.--A raw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbage requires five hours. The most healthy dessert that can be placed on the table is a baked apple. If eaten frequently at breakfast with coarse bread and butter, without meat or flesh of any kind, it has an admirable effect upon the general system, often remov­ ing constipation, correcting acidities and cooling off febrile conditions more effectually than the most approved med­ icines. If families could be induced to substitute them for pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with which their children are frequently stuffed, there would be a diminution in the total sum of doctors' bills in a single year sufficient to lay in a stock of this -delicious fruit for the whole season's use. To ALWAYS have a good appetite-- Never eat when not hungry ; never eat rich food; never eat much; never eat heartily of rich or very nourishing food at tea time--nothing after. Better still, omit that meal when there is no special desire for food, fasting while sick till the appetite returns. To have an appe­ tite at dinner--Do not fully satisfy the appetite in the morning. To have an appetite in the morning, take a light supper or none--nothing later. To avoid vomiting or a furred tongue, eat sparing­ ly of wholesome, plain food. Plain, jectiie. The lung itself had'not been i ?™pie18 no} on!-y eA6-v of digestion injured, for the ball had passed through, i H*1 actually contains more nourishment or rather between the two pleuras, then i e c^mphcated dishes, the rich through the diaphragm, next between it j ^4 c^centrated foods such as pastry and the liver, which it had deeply j highly seasoned dishes. grooved or furrowed, and finally lodged ! ONIONS IN CONSUMPTION.--Dr. Pierce, in the abdomen, without injuring the ! a physician of the Plymouth public dis- stomach or intestines, kidneys, or any of j pensary, recommends the following : I the great blood-vessels." ! have, in a former paper, mentioned the This poor hospital patient had been : frequent desire of phthisical patients for shot years before in the chest, the ball i °nions and salt and smoked fish. Of weighing one and a half ounces, grazing j ^ho®e who asked, forty had a great de- the lungs, perforating the diaphragm, I ®re for onions, eight had not so much deeply grooving and injuring the liver, i desire; twenty-six desired pickles and and filially was buried in comparatively- j vinegar, while four did not. I cannot unimportant portions of the belly, ; avoid again remarking oh the frequency where it remained for years, the patient ; ^th which onions are debarred young i dying subsequently, and long after, of i delicate people and phthisical pa- denied but what the fairest way in dis- THH students at the Iowa College Farm last year made all the sugar they used, from orange cane. Iowa people are going largely iuto the making of sugar from sorghhm IT IS found in my own experience that urine collected into tanks from fifty oows tied up during the winter months is sufficient to keep in a high condition seven or eight acres of meadow land.-- London Agricultural Gazette. INSECTS as they relate to mail ar» nox­ ious, beneficial or neutral. Those ranked as beneficial may be directly | beneficial, like the silkworm or houey bee, or are indirectly beneficial as de­ stroyers of noxious insects. SPKAKINO of the pioneers of cattle breeding, the Live Stock Record re­ marks : " The obstructions now in the way of breeders are by no means those which met Bakewell, Collings, Bates, and Booth. They had to lay the foun­ dation and build from the ground up, while at this time these are found ready to hand, and it only remains with the present breeder to keep them up to the standard of excellence of judicious cross­ ing and true breeding." COUNT THE COST.--No tnan ig fit to manage a farm who does not think be­ forehand what is best to do, and which is the best way to do it. Work with­ out thought, without plan, has been the blunder of many who pretend to be farmers. Raising crops without knowl­ edge as to their cost, or thought as to whether they will sell or not, has sapped many a fortune. More forethought in the management of a farm is required than in most any other pursuit followed by man, and the forehanded farmer is always the one who counts the cost, and closely calculates all matters that apper­ tain to the farm, not that a farmer is necessarily obliged to make shifts and turns in order to succeed, but simply to count the cost. BALKY HORSES.--It is rarely well to whip or kick or scold a balky horse, as is the common practice. One of the best methods is to feed where he stands with any accessible food, such as oats, ears of corn, or even grass by the way­ side, or hay from the wagon, which can be provided for the emergency. For­ getting his whim he will generally start without trouble. Another good way is to do something not harmful, but new, which will direct his thoughts, and be­ fore he knows it he will be jogging un­ consciously along. Sometimes, if one can spare the day, it is best to wait till, from uneasiness and hunger, the animal submits to the will of his driver, and the triumph in this instance is gene/ally complete. In any event, it is poor pol­ icy to whip and abuse the animal, be­ cause it does no good. INDICATIONS OF THE WEATHER.--The color of the sky at particular times affords wonderful good guidance. Not only a rosy sunset pressages good weather, but there are other tints which speak with equal clearness and accuracy. A bright yellow sky in the evening indi­ cates wind ; a pale yellow,wet; a neutral gray color constitutes a favorable one in the morning. The clouds are again full of meaning in themselves. If their forms are soft, undefined, full and feathery, the weather will be fiue ; if their edges are hard, sharp and definite, it will be foul. Generally speaking, any deep, uuusual hues betoken wind and rain; while the more cyaiet and delicate tints bespeak fair weather. It is very true, however, that aH Signs in regard to the weather some timds are deceptive and fail. SELLING BY WEIGHT.--It cannot be some other disease entirely unconnected with his previous injury. Surgeon General Barnes says: " I re­ member that about sixty-two cases of recovery from shot-wounds of the liver during the war came under my observa­ tion, and about one-half of these were further complicated by lesions of other organs. At Hatcher's Bun a boy 19 years of age was shot in the back, the ball passing through the liver and emerging from the abdomen. I was so interested in the case that I looked over tients. It is a continually recurring ex­ perience with me to hear young people say how great is their desire for onions, which are often preferred raw, eaten with a little salt, and it is rare that 1 have ever heard of an onion disagreeing with them. The marked passion for, special food, such as that which phthisical pa- tients have for onions, puts us on the right path for future knowledge. A Suggestion to Commisioner Loring. A Nebraska man, writing to a New the pension list to see if he had applied ! York paper, says he has made chinch BEMABKHBLE RECOVERIES. Maj. L. H. Drury, at present residing in Chicago, was Captain of the First Wisconsin battery, and was shot at the battle of Cliickamauga, Sept. 19, 1863. He had ridden to a point in advance of the skirmish line to look over the ground, with a view of changing the lo­ cation of his battery, when wdl-aimed Minie ball from a sharpshooter knocked him from his horse. His wound was pronounced a dangerous one, and Maj. Drury was removed from the field in an ambulance, suffering from great pain and breathing with great difficulty. Stur­ geon J. T. Woods, now of Toledo, dressed the wound and found that the ball had entered the right side, passing through the liver. It continued its course, perforating the diaphragm and lungs, and was only stopped by the ribs. The surgeon was able to locate the presence of the ball without probing, and cut it out from between the two ribs of the back, where it was tightly wedged in, Drury submitting to the op­ eration without an anesthetic. A few hours later he was carried in an ambulance over rough roads twelve miles to Chat­ tanooga. The Captain mended rapidly, and was on the sick-list only three months, rejoining his command Jan. 1, 18W. On Nov. 27 following the battle three-quarters of an ounce of liver was discharged from the wound. C. T. Barnes, also of Chicago, was Lieutenant of Company C, Ninety-third New York volunteers. He was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness on the 5th of May, 1864. In his case the ball •truck a little to the left of the lower ab­ domen and passed diagonallv through the body, lodging in the right hip bone, near the spine. After he was wounded he was jolted over a plank-road, which the rebels had tried to make impassable by taking up every fourth plank. In- for a pension, but his name was not on the list, so it is thought he recovered fully. "Another cose, which it was thought important enough to be reported in the current medical journals, was that of Private Gilbert Smith. There, beyond a doubt, the lesion was the most severe. Yet, when Smith presented himtwlf to the pension examiner, a few years ago, he was reported in good health. An­ other Smith, wounded at Fredericks­ burg, furnishes an additional undoubted instance of recovery from a wound in the liver. " Recoveries from wounds in the liver cannot, however, be looked forward to with certainty; yet, beside the cases which came tuider observation during the war, I know of others. In July, 1868, a policeman was shot through the liver, but four months of careful treat­ ment pulled him through. In two cases which occurred at the battle of Suffolk, in 1863, the ball lodged in the liver and was extracted. The patient subsequently recovered. " There are also several cases in which the ball has lodged in the liver and has remained there. Among other striking cases of the ball remaining lodged in the liver was that of Sergt. Snively, of ihe New York cavalry, who was wounded at Piedmont, Va., in 1864. The ball lodged in the right lobe of the liver. True, it took a year of treatment before lie could be discharged from the hos­ pital, but his recovery was quita com­ plete. Another soldier was shot in the bugs a life study, and all his obsevations go to show that the bugs are becoming more and more numerous and destructive every year, though their operations are confined strictly to spring and not to winter wheat. He predicts that in a few years, if no remedy is discovered for them, almost the whole Northwest will be obliged to give up raising spring wheat and depend on the winter va­ rieties, which is a more risky and pre­ carious crop. We trust that the present agricultural commisioner, Mr. Loring, will find some device by which the chinch bugs may be as happily abated as were the potato bugs by commissioner Le Due. When the country was overrun with potato bugs and their destructiveness was increasing year by year, when they had reduced prosperous farms to poverty and the railroad tracks out West were covered with them a foot deep so that travel was impeded, Mr. Le Due an­ nounced that the thing had gone far enough and he would now give the mat­ ter his attention. Calling to his aid an eminent chemist, the two devoted sev­ eral days to making secret experiments with the bugs to see if they could not be turned to some account as an article of commerce. The result of. their ex­ periments was never given out to the public ; but it was soon afterwards no­ ticed that there was a great improvement in the quality of western whisky, and the potato bugs gradually disappeared. We he.ve always believed that Commis­ sioner Loring was a man of fully as much ability as Le Due, and we look liver, the ball passing through the liver for a an<l satisfactory remedy for am J • - * - _ ' ii . • -- 4rtA f Loo AtnaAn nli i r» and remaining in the tissues. It waa from a large revolver. There was no suppuration, vomiting, diarrhea or fever, and the man recovered. A soldier,21 years old, was wounded at Chancellorsville both in the liver and lung, but he re­ covered, and is as strong a3 ever. An. other curious recovery from what is perhaps, more difficult "to treat than a shot-wound in the liver, was the lodging in the liver of a large bone splint, which was shattered by a bullet, in the case of John Queen, of Pennsylvania. Not only the right lobe of the liver, but a large stead of riding in an ambulance he was ' branch of the hepatic duct was perfo- moved in an army-wagon drawn by four " mules that could scarcely mnlrA five miles an hour over such roads. The dis­ tance to Fredericksburg, as he says seemed to be fully 100 miles. Arrived there, his couch consisted of the soft side of a plank in an old church which Burnside had riddled the year previous. The bail was cut from hia back in six­ teen days from the time he was wounded. The surgeons themselves were unable to locate it, but the sensations he experi enoed assisted materially in tracing its position. In order to better instruct them where to find it he took neither chloroform nor ether. The pain of get­ ting, he says, was as notliwg compared with the pain experienced when, having rated. M. C. Hickey, ex-Superintendent of Police of Chicago, now carries a bullet in his liver, lodged there in 1864. The shot was fired by a thief whom he was about putting under arrest. His phy­ sicians said he could not live, but in spi.te of them he survived the wound, though he sometimes suffers pain in the injured organ. In his case jaundice followed ten days after he received the wound, and in twenty days he was con­ valescent. He thirsted for beer with an uncontrollable craving, and he believes that the drinking it was beneficial. Capt. Henry T. Smith, present Regis­ ter of Deeds of Kalamazoo county, while bending over at the Battle of Jonesboro, * the danger that has arisen from chinch bugs.--Peck's Sun. How !t Feels to Drown. It is not often that you hear of an editor with a curiosity. Most of them accept earthquakes, tornadoes, murders, fires and floods as every day occurrences, and even a nitroglycerine explosion next door would not interrupt the routine work of the sanctum very long. But a French editor, and the editor of a Lyons paper at that, had a curiosity to know how a person feels when drowning. He therefore put up a job on himself. He arrangi d to come within a hair's breath of drowning, but was to be pulled out in the nick of time, rolled on a barrel, hauled over the sands, thumped on the stomach and otherwise resuscitated. All went well during the first act. He leaped into the water, refused to struggle and gradually sank from sight. At the proper moment he was hauled up by a rope and act second commenced. This was an occasion where an editor was too smart. They rolled him according to programme, and seven or eight men tired themselves out with rubbing him and hanging up head downwards, but he was a dead man. He may know how it feels to drown, but he'll never trouble the public with a description of his feelings. posing of articles from the farm is by weight. It is the only proper way ; and why ? Let us take eggs, for instance ! A dozen of large eggs, under the pres­ ent system of traffic;, brings no more than a dozen of small ones. No one will pretend to say there is any justice in this. Then take potatoes or turnips, or apples or onions, or fruit of any kind. A person who understands "dark ways" can make, by measuring by the bushel or quart, a good deal more or less, ac­ cording to the interests that suits him. In all the berries sold in this market by the quart there is a leakage in the meas­ ure in most instances. Honest scales won't cheat. It is just as right to sell wool by the fleece as it is eggs by the dozen or hay by the load--as to sell po­ tatoes, tomatoes, wheat, rye, barley, oata, corn, apples, berries by the quart or bushel. There is no justice in it, neither is there any Representation in it. The only fair way in either buying or Belling farm products is by the weight. THERE is a good deal said about sheep breeding in this country, and the ail van tages respectively presented by the grassy mountain or Western prarie land for sheep culture are commented on by exchanges and correspondents. But Australia, it is probable, exceeds any other part of the world for sheep. The Government Gazt Ue for Canterbury and Otago, New Zealand, gives a list of a few owners and fluclcs, as follow, in the colonies of the antipodes : New Zealand and Australian Land Co.. 380.0 •() Mr. Robert Campbell 800.00<i Mr. George Henry Moore OO.uOO Messrs. Dalgety A Co 20rt,0')i) Messrs. Clifford & Weld 8<).00() Sir Dillon Bell.. 82,U0<J Hon. William llobinson 68,000 Sir ('rai-oft Wilson 4S,o<)0 Mr. Kitchen SO^OOO Mr. Allen McLe^u 50j000 There are a number of millionaires among the Australasian sheperds. MR. J. C. WOOD, a fanner of Switzer­ land County, Indiana, says the best way of killing the common sheep sorrel in meadows is to treat it liberally with old brine. He says the rusty brine from old pork barrels is certain death to the sorrel--a fact worth knowing. Fresh salt brine is not so destructive to the sorrel. HIGH FARMING.--High farming is a system of tillage and farm management that is self-sustaining, a system that takes nothing but the bare land, the do­ mestic animals, the farm implements and machinery, and cultivates the soil, sustains the family and the animals, pays the annual taxes, defrays the ex- pen ses incident to the improvements that must be made on the farm, cancels the have brought their land to that state of productiveness by their judicious man­ agement, that every acre yields as much, if not more, than it did originally in a state of nature. This is high farming. Yet such a system is often sneered at simply because the proprietor knew how to save his money to defray expense of improvements. There is no need of land becoming impoverished, even when it bears a crop every year. Proper cul­ tivation with plenty of manure is the key to high fuming.-- Minneapolis Tribune. HOUSEHOLD HELPS. [From the Detroit Kr e Prp« Ifou«"ho! l ] PIE CRUST FOR FOUR SMALL PIKS.-- One and a half cups lard, one cup c »ld water, three and a half cups flour ; m x lard and flour together ; add water last. HORSE RADISH SAUOB.-T-TWO teaspoon- fuls made mustard, two of white sugar, one-half teaspoonful salt, a gill of vine­ gar ; mix and pour over grated horse radish. Excellent with beef. VINEGAR PIE.--One cup sugar, one cup vinegar, one-quarter cup hot water, a piece of butter the size of a walnut, three tablespoonfuls flour ; season with cinnamon and allspice. MINCE PIE WITHOUT APPLES OR MICAT. --One cup sugar, one-half butter, one cup molasses, one cup vinegar, one cup chopped raisins, two cups warm water, four crackers rolled, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful cloves, one-half teaspoonful pspper. BAKED DUCK.--To cook a duck satis­ factorily boil it first, until tender; this can be determined by trying the wing, as that is always a tough part of a fowl. When tender take it out, rinse it in clean water, stuff and put it in the oven for about three-quarters of an hour, basting it often. MADE MUSTARD,--Pour a very little bailing water over three tablespoonfuls of mustard ; add one salt spoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of olive oil, s'^rrtd slowly in, and one teaspoonful of sugar; add the yolk of an egg; beat well to­ gether and pojLir in vinegar to taste. It is best eaten next day. SOFT SOAP.--Take six gallons of soft or rain water, add three pouuds of best hard soap (cut fine), oue pound sataoda, four tablespoonfuls of hartshorn; boil the whole till perfectly dissolved ; pour into vessels, and when cold it is fit for use. This makes fifty pounds of fine jelly soap. FRUIT BISCUITS. --One coffee cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup raisins (seedless are best), one egg, three teaspoonfuls baking powder; flavor with vanilla and lemon extract to taste ; the raisins to be chopped^ fine. Roll out and cut thin w ith a biscuit cutter. Bake in a drip­ ping pan with a greased paper in the bottom of tin. COD CUTLETS.--Steam the cod till nearly done; cut a slice and have a bat- terVf self-raising flour ready. The bat­ ter is good when mixed with one egg and water; put the piece of fish in the batter in the pan and fold it over when it sets, having first sprinkled pepper and salt on. Make the cutlets as well shaped as you can. Have potatoes cut in small balls and fried. ICE CREAM.--To each quart of milk add four eggs and half a pound of sugar ; beat yolks and sugar together; beat whites stiff, and add. Have the milk scalding hot, pour it over the sugar and eggs beating all at the same time ; then put it on the fire again and as soon as it thickens take off and strain into freezer to cool. When cold add any flavoring extract preferred, and if yom wish, one pint of cream, and freeze. Mash the ice in a cloth--not too fine, of course-- and mix plenty salt with it around the churn, being careful not not to let salt get inside. APPLE MARMALADE.--Pare, core and cut the apples in small pieces; put them in water with some lemon juice to keep them white ; after a short interval take them out and drain them; weigh, aud put them in a stewpan with an equal quantity of sugar; add grated lemon peel, the juice of a lemon, some cinna­ mon sticks and a pinch of salt. Place the stewpan over a brisk fire and cover it closely. When the apples are reduced to a pulp, stir the mixture until it be­ comes of a proper consistency, and put the marmalade away in small pots. PORTABLE LEMONADE.--Press your hand on the lemon and roll it back and forth briskly on the table to make it squeeze more easily, then press the juice into a bowl or tumbler--never use tin- strain out all the seeds, as they give a bad taste. Remove all the pulp from the peels and boil in water, a pint for a dozen pulps, to remove the acid. A few minutes' boiling is enough ; then strain the water with the juice of the lemons ; put a pound of white sugar to a pint of the juice ; boil ten minutes; bottle it, and your lemonade is ready. Put in a teaspoonful or two of this syrup into a glass of water and you have a cooling and healthful drink. To CLEAN WHITE SILK LAOE.--The lace is stretched over small clean slips of wool to keep it evenly spread out, laid over night in warm milk, to which a lit­ tle soap has been added, rinse in fresh water, laid for the same length of time in warm soap-lye, and finally rinsed without any friction. Linen lace is best cleaned by covering the outside of a large glass bottle smoothly with stout linen or white flannel, upon which the lace is sewn in a number of coils, and over the whole some coarse open tissue is seenred. The bottle thus dret-sed is allowed to soak for a time in lukewarm soft wnt^r, and the outside wrapping is then rubbed with soap and a piece of flannel. After this the bottle is laid to sleep for some hours in clean soft water. It is then rolled between dry towels, dipped in rice-water, and rolled again. Finally the damp lace is unfastened from the bottle and ironed between linen cloths. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. the annual interest on the money in vested in the land, eventually pays for the land, all from the products of the soil cultivated; and after one, two or three decades of years, leaves every acre in a far better state of fertility than the soil was at the beginning. This is, hfgli farming. There are untold numbers of quiet, unobtrusive tillers of the soil ia many of our States, who have com­ menced precisely as we have indicated, without one dollar of cash capital, who have had no revenue whatever besides the natural resources of their cultivated fields, and who have by hard work and judicious management sustained their families, paid for their lands, erected all of their buildings, paid for all their valu­ able improvements, and at the same time, Sayings of Little Ones. Little Artie came running in from the field one day, exclaiming: " Ma! ma ! I seed suffin' down here that sticked his hudd [head] right down in his mouf." Investigation proved that he had found a mud-turtle. When little Minnie was 2 years old she asked for some water one night. When it was brought she said: "Papa, can't you get me some fresh water ? This tastes a little withered." Her little sister Belle had been accustomed to a light in the room, and waked in great distress, crying: "Me can't see, Aunt Bessie; my eyes are all blowed out." One day, when Minnie was 4 years old, she was telling her grandmother about the sons of Noah--She,in, Ham and Japheth. Her grandmother said: " What, Minnie, ham liko this on the table?" "Oh, no, grandmother !" she replied, "like Abraham." Little Nell mashed her finger in the door, and came up crying and holding it in her other hand. All at once she stopped, as if listening; then, looking up through her tears, exclaimed": " Mamma, there's a little heart in my finger; I feel it frobbing."-- Youth's Companion. COPPSR, if suddenly cooled, soft and malleable; if cooled slowly it hardens and becomes brittle. THE sharpness of outline and the bright color of the brown spot which has been so long visible on Jupiter has en­ abled astrouomers to deduce from nearly? 1,100 rotations that the length of Jupi-** ter's days are 9 hours, 55 minutes, 30 seconds. A CYPRESS tree, 75 feet high, 10 feet in diameter, and more than 2800 years old was recently destroyed near Sparta, Greece. This celebrated remnant of the life of by-gone ages was described by Pausanias 100 years before Christ. The Spartans mourn its loss. PROF. HF.LMHOLTZ expresses the opin­ ion that our planetary system must sooner or later come to an end by the exhaustion of its forces. The sun must ultimately "run down" like a clock. He thinks that the existing stock of power available for the maintaining of life may last some 17,000,000 years. A FRENCHMAN proposes to rent for mushroom-raising purposes a portion of the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The part selected by him iB the avenue named in honor of Auduboi). It is said that the proposed mushroom farm will not affect the natural grandeur of the wonderful cavern. A FRENCH electrician, M. Gaiffe, has investigated the peculiar sounds which interfere with messages sent on telephone lines. He finds that the sounds are largely due to the vibration of the tele­ phone wires by the wind. The sounds are doubtless often produced by the in­ ductive action of electric currents pass­ ing oyer neighboring telegraph wires; but this is far from being the only cause, as has been generally believed. NEVADA'S mountain mahogany appears to be a tree well worth looking after by arborculturists. It will burn brightly long after the timber of other trees is re­ duced to ashes, and then give a long, glowing charcoal fire. When well seas­ oned, it is as dense as boxwood, has a fine grain, aud has properties that ad­ mirably adapt it for carving and other purposes in the arts. When full grown, this mahogany of Nevada does not ex­ ceed three feet in diameter. ONE of the leading Paris lithographers has been very successful in substituting zinc for lithographic stones. By using 5,000 zinc matrices, worth $7,700, he has avoided an expenditure of $50,000 for stones, besides considerable saving in the cost of handling and manipulating. He has published in this way the illus­ trations of the works of the Polytechnic School, the departments of bridges and Highways, the Ministry of public works and different municipalities. Each plate is good for 40,000 impressions. CAREFUL observations have shown the following to be about the average growth in twelve years of several varieties of hard wood when planted in groves and cultivated: White maple becomes one foot in diameter and thirty feet high; ash, leaf maple or box elder, one foot in diameter and twenty feet high; white willow, eighteen inches in diameter and forty feet high; yellow willow eighteen inches in diameter and thirty-five feet high; Lombardy poplar, ten inches in diameter and forty feet high; blue and white ash, ten inches in diameter and twenty-five feet high; black walnut and butternut, ten inches in diameter and twenty feet high. , . MR. BOUDET has constructed answp- paratus for relieving pain by mechanical vibration. It consists of a tuning-fork kept in constant vibration by an electro magnet, and the tremors thus produced are communicated directly to the skin by means of a rod. The efficacy of vibra­ tions is no doubt due to the irritating ef­ fects of the shocks on the terminal twigs of the nerves, after it is expected that many kinds of pain will be dispelled by the use of this appliance. When the nerves are not too deep-seated, Boudet's apparatus is said to be capable of charm­ ing away neuralgia in a few minutes. When it is applied to the skull it pro­ duces a sense of giddiuess and a desire to sleep. The. Fashion in tiait for Girls. The fashionable gait of the utter young girl at this se'ason is an importa­ tion, like most of her articles of cloth­ ing. It is supposed to be an offspring of the utterly utter manners of the Lon­ don aesthetic, who have set the fashion for languid, willowy, weary wabbles, now the rage at many fashionable gath­ erings among yonng women, who in a spirit of intense utterableness gaze into the depths of a new-blown lily or rose or silently study the heart of a field daisy. Upon the avenues, however, the great public see the aesthetic walk undimmed by the mellow light of a drawing room, and ameliorated by the rich colors of Persian portieres and Daghestan rugs. When the aesthetic appears upon the front doorstep with her Langtry hat she shakes out the bangles on her bracelets, pushes into better position the Jacque­ minot roses at her belt or the field daisies in her fourth buttonhole, then shakes out the puffings of her polonaise, raises a balloon with its ivory handle carved like a calla lily, aud prepares to get into shape for the fashionable gait. For the space of a minute her body seems to work upon eccentrics. Her spinal col­ umn shoots forward at an angle of about forty-eight degrees and remains rigid, her neck lifts, her chin goes about an inch and five-eights above its normal line, her nose naturally follows and perhaps improves upon the incline, her arms to the elbow points hug her sides like the wings of a duck, and the fore­ arms hang like willow branches, while the hand that does not engage itself with the parasol hangs limp and languid. It requires two teeters to give the shape inertia, and off' the aesthetic goes. Her progress defies accurate description. It has been compared to the amble of the kangaroo, but the naturalists insist that the kangaroo's movements have some element of grace. Others say it is very like a duck which flaps its wings, but the duck does not have French heels. A man of science says that there is noth­ ing like it in the animal kingdom, al­ though the sea gulls on the Pacific Islands have a similar motion in their walk. 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