re en ¥ ADRIOULTURAL. Give the on a Name, - ; There mething in that togibe, ana't that takes | right ho hold of our i to it as ton real ing us obj ie It is said that peo i. Weves Ww eatbuatasiio about an abatract idea, at os soon as it becomes percent c, then hey at once rally round it cwith alt 1 all-their hearts. This is the sereiae on of our humanity chee we take advantage of in naming the farm. The name will stand for all that was in the home and. wil Spat appeal to the _ deepest feeling of natu Every man loves thes satis of his. mother, “and pivhough it. ma: queer, tu ae itis iull of inusic, as her face led e with ill health, is still to him the loveliest on earth, . And thus the name of our home will recall all the joys and sorrow: of our childhcod and add to the love we already bear it. Other reasons there are for naming the iieaiakes it-better known. It gives it an importance and a certain go of its awn mone pines and, perhaps, much larg- er places..It-adds tot : —s of the ceigbiatient, and for t reason ail our t rajsers are falling into the prac- tice, and their atl are known far and wide by some specific t any—men find: st the name of their farm is mutch better known than their own, and a farm with a name. has an im>>srtance lar in advance of the one without one. It ls said that the shrewdest hesrey Most pro- gressive farmers are all sure to christen their farms, and the caatain? is sure to grow as good taste and culture increases aincng our peop There should be some reason for the nains. Do not give your home farm some ridicnlous classic’ appellation, or burden it with the name of some favorite politician or soldier. Let the children have u voice in the matter. Have a family caucus'to decide the question. If you have a fine grove on your farm, or a single noble specimen of forest tree that can be seen from afar like a beacon light, let those give the name. If a stream flows gaily through “Aas meadows, cr a lovely pa ls a charming view, let them Tin re- ember ai in the name. I know a «m: aT fen that would be otherwise insigniticant, ke old-fashioned cr for rag nang yd ec ppe greg on and k peers a year wile 9 a pean Beals when he has ice gravel walks or reads about the house and bavns; or when he sets evorgreens for acreens, and plants. fruit- sare ornamental hap sud = a few choice flow- ers on the lawn esd, rhage his neig' bors are quick to follow example, ood very wk the whole on @ new aspect; and if any of the fees are offered for sale they chasers a much higher rates than equally geod land on less iniproved roads, And this is not all. The influence of such refined sur- roxaings improves the taste and character ofthe people and is fayorable to apenas sobriety, enterprise aud every good word and werk..-—-Joseph Harris in Raat Annual * £1890. —- Bnine-Salting Butter. at hen the butter comes in grains the size s No. $ shot, stepthe churn, draw off the buttermilk, pour cold water in. the chara, and after revolving ita few times, draw ¢ the water, and repeat with fresh water antil it runs perfectly clear from the churn ; this it will usually do about the third time, de- pending upon the quantity of water used in w ashing ; ; the more water the sooner the hat ter is ‘washed. This is the best way to wash the butter, no matter how it is to be salted, and the only way by which we can get rid of the buttermilk flavor, Leave the plug out of the ee after the last washing water is drawn off, and let the butter drain thoroughly, because all the water leftin the butter weakens the brine, and some fail to get the butter salted enough for that reason. While the pega is drain- ing make a brine as strong as possible by diasolving salt in cold water nul. you have all that the waber will take up. Make o enficient quai ntity to cover or nearly cover the butter, and when the butter is well drain- el pour in the brine, revolve the churn once or twice and the butteris-ea but receives great ‘consi(leration from its + special and appropriate ‘The Willows "—while another, not far away, is certain to be remembered from ** The Res fastened upon a farm, an its name, | every granule is evenly salted, anc Sometimes a famiy name is | b¢ no streaks in the butter from uneven salt- matter who | ed. This way of salting butter is — aimee and therough, Any one can do :! well the first time, and itis thorough hacmins there will ing, and if the brine is strained, and it ought may be its future owner, it ps down toi te Se, there will be no specks in the butter pety under the name ef the people who | from the salt, as there often are when dry tst lived there. ment for giving a special and selected name, for it is not agreeable to have our fin ely ¢ eul- tivated farm, with its pretty hou crate known amon e¢ anes or Smith place.” ind and other old countries the ing the place, or house, or ‘prevails entirely, and the rere is dignitied with some its o There is something about the fashion that adds great interest to our homes, to be hoped that-ere-long it wal be aiopre: Ty by all our farmers Farmers’ Kitchens, Ones: vweThe floor izlaid wit! Vnarrew: of Lis call, a ark and light altern: ns of cheere cloth dray: the Wit lows, a cesy enlica covered lonnce maplerock chairs pushed inviting Visitore, motiog a pictures on vines and flowers at the low windo which the tired mother could wateh Tittle cnes, without the ceaseless rz a to sce if are in mischief. sant ontlook was rifling. "al neatly ele nmed hedge of red os ar shut out | all hog pen and stable accessorie ther thinks a kitchen. en ould be | tight enouch to be made warm in win ter, | yet capable of unlimited ventilatien in| sumincr ; and instead of being filled with dark nooks and closets which collect ar nd | hold dust and cobwebs more than any thing | else, it should have a n attached w here ail eo supplies “and cooking vessels not in immediate use ma be kept. The woodwork may be cuinted some pretty neutral tint, ond the flor © stained a darker color r that t contrasts well with walls and « Tf possible, have the windows reac fr om floor tocelling, for 7 low the | aa ki ' if any reom needs fresh air ane ventilat ion, ' | it is the kitehon ; vet we { the windows are generally as jew! in nu a er as they are smail in size. The Diary of a Tree, Tt is not known to every one, BAYS Aco ns | lemporary, that “a tree keeps a record with- in its stem of the character of each succes: ! sive season since it began its growth. “Tha peng ‘1 tree, for instance, be examin- : ed after it has heen cut down, the ring of wood formed in each year will show by its amount whether the summer of that year was warm or dry, or otherwise favorable or adverse ; and by the condition of the wood the character of the winter will be denoted. Severe lecaying wood ; the latter frosts will be in- Wieob ya change of color, if nothing ; more, | “If a summer has been so dry as to cause , a total rest between the growths of June and September, the annual ring for that year will be a double one, and sometimes barely distinguishable as one, but liable to be taken, } by a not very 7g observ er, for two differ- ; la ent Figg growth. | a late meeting of the Botanical Soci- ety roe “Edinburgh, Sir Robert Christison gave the results of incasurements of large trefs of | different species made annually. on lines of | girth marked permanently wi ith paint. Inj the very unfavorable season of 1879, the de-! ficiency in hl mer temperature was nearly 10 degree ' In seven nak trees, of different species, , the deficiency in annual increase of girth was 10 per cent. In eleven other decit-10ns trees it was 42 per cent, and in seventeen pines it was 20 per cent, different speci. the oe family giving very nearly sinfllar ts of j Improvements on the Farm. ih There is no lack of opportunities for im- proving the appearance of our count: omes, Much has-been done and there is on & fact of great promise When one farmer ge ts/ wn mower; or nanan his front fence or! puts upa new one; or removes stones andi rubbish and plows up the roadsides and| i the neighbo: Sas | fine aoundi ing title, according to the taste of it ne t is ts an atlor aes 1 the! ry | of the pail. early frost will leave a layer of sfc, ‘a | The other old lady smiled a And this is another acgu- | 22lt is used. a ene wash the butter with weak ray a handf{fulof salt to three gallons ater, Phis, i a ,;washes the butter hetter than pure and rendersit. less lia ave w j¥cks in at, which may vome fro articles of curd formed in th e cream if the latter has not been properly hile vip ening. Untesa the butter- ied for use in the house, it is a nit th ea of wer uk rine in Trhel ne ausinin in the separation of the butter {yom the } muttermilk, ee the latter,- wen ade u echurm while “Our obje 0b in ttermall k. ror it, or interfere with its yh we Gin get the butter conus or siccharine ined, and we have a}, rine-washed le to ze to gri will ran out vand | with the water eter er can lhe made eh a rire is best, as it 3 of which are a tittle rgraunuies. Tack this cloth on to a bottomless box whieh is long cnough to span the pail, and it will cateh every granu ile that runs from the churn, and save much troable in skimming them out We also want two hard-wood yaddles to handle the butte® with, as the Le are hands must never come in contact with Ee butter. archment paper we would y know how to do without in our dairy. ut an wrap all the butter in it that e sald, bat that which we keep for And we have some big sheets of its “ich we lay on the table while the but- t cing made into rolla or prints; it i ach —_ and cleaner than the wooden it can he w ashed and used fora ne. Get some ment paper by 1 means if you — occasion t6 use ‘but- ter clo ths” o A long, thin-blad- very convenient to scrape out th e cream n pi its when pouring the cream into. the churn; * it saves time in waiting for the pails to Crain. Ifa darrel er bex churn with no dashers is used the better cin be gathered and worked in the churn, er a butter worker ean he used if preferred. It 1 bered that the only obje bie cee c tte I” Use, Ven these two objects ich e all forthe r working is in- ie? made it ean Ve eo ssily me by using two . paddies, taking about a pound at a timeand working it on a table or any plane surface. he only ponies objection that I know of t Gat can be urged against brine-salting is that it takes so much salt. It does take more salt than dry-salting, but I think the extra quality of the butter and the time and r say ed more than balance the extra quantity of salt. Give brine-salting -a fair tr “ and eee if youw ill not agree with me.— {A. L. Qeesby, in National Stockman. *s Two Littic Old Ladies. — little old ladies, one gravefone gay, In the self-same cottage lived day by (lay. ‘One —_ not be happy, “because,” she “So many children were hungry for bread;” And she y had.not the heart to smile. When the he Mid was so wicked all while. I! day long, As she knitted, or sewed, or canes a song. tic had not time to be sad, e said. Ww ag bangy children an crying for » she Ynaked and knitted and gaveaway, Tid a: the world grew putter each Two little ‘old ladies, one erave, 0 € gay : Now wait do you think chose the wiser fe The & prize for the swiftest te Paris, Ii 2746 entries, and the winner did the distance in 7 hours and 34 minutes. Fourth of July the authorities refused os the privil e, But the men of that city and of Moscow were allowed to celebrate the establishment of the first re- public of France on July 14 with great pomp and ublic demonstrations, In th ertiment of Podol the e peasants have no rps about sling their children. ee ae ting nature are re- perce in a Moscow daily. One peasant sold is daughter, a girl of 8 ears, to travelling mendicants for the sum of six rubles another one brought two girls to the town of Granova, times he sold the older, a child of 7 years, or five rubles, and the younger3 years oti, for three rubles. Such instances occur red in many othertowns of the government. | A societ poe the endowment of poor marriageable girls” is being 8 in St. Petersburg on the same plan us that of the Moscow society, which works for the same object which we mentioned some time ago. The constitution of the new soci¢ty is being drawn up, and the license of the Govern, ment ia confidently expected. A very rich vein of iron ore has been dis- covered in erson, near the village of ome cn abont 300 sazhen from the river Ingula. It is estimated that the yield will be sufficient to keep fifteen iron factories at ie The Minister of Mountain Works as ordered nes to sink shafts and to begin Z 28 800 possible. With the ric yield oh coals in ‘that di district it will be casy in a very short time to work the new mines for all that they are worth. A Roman doctor has discovered in many of the skulls in the different Etruscau tombs, as well as in those deposited in the various museums, interesting specimens of ancient dentistry work and artificial teeth. The skulls examined date as far back as six cen- turies before Christ, which proves that den- tistry is not a modern art. The forty-two days’ fast which Jacques, the old French soldier, commenced at the Westminster Aquarium on June 2ist, was brought to a most successful conclusion on Saturday. The rk ipo time gia a four o'clock, but in accordance with his one intention Sacques aid not = his t until nearly half-past when. in the central stage he took the first toad eich had passed his lips for fe weeks in the presence of a crowd of epecta The Sultan of Turkey has received a pre- sent from his aunt Adile of a Georgian slave, who is described as an ——— — a: amsel of sixteen. She was taken to th Y ra Riosk in a gilt ah. closely cur ag ed, corted by a number of gigantic Nubian ennucls, A duel with.cavalry sabres took place on Thursday in Denmark between — Castenschiold, of the Danish foons,.and the-Russian Baron von Rathen, The quarrel avose about an equestrian per- former in the Cireus Busch at Copenhagen. The baron received a cut across the forehead, but is in no danger. Tmitating the example of the Cossack Pashkoff, two gentlemen have started to ride on horseback from St. Petersburg to the Crimea, One is an American citizen, Thomas Spicns by namé, who does not understand a word of Russian ; the other is an “honorable Russian citizen,” Krig Ivan- hoff, who speaks English fluently and acts er for his companion. y send their baggay se by express from one large city to andther, and make their wity on horseback, mounted as lightly as possible. Their obje et is to become closely ae wrataied {i with the localities and the people on sad road, and, reaching the Crimea, they p pose to visit every “town and hamlet of ihe peninsnla, 4 Ru es w =e like a Turk and speaking the Turkish lan <— raanity arrived in Tiflis fon Be ey Several years ago she had been ele for her home in Kertchinsk and sold toa Turk. She was kept in a harem in Reezah since then, and no chance was given her to com- municate with any one outside. At last she a an opportunity to communicate with the Russian Consul at Reezah, through whom she was enabled toescape from the harem the and toreturn to her native land. She says that there are many Russian women kept in harems of Reezah,; and that the Turks seem to have a predilection for them them feels happy in her position. tunately. for. them, they—are — with such vigilance that they have no opportun- ity tocommunicate with the outside world or to effect their liberation. Telegraphic advices from Athens or that a disastrous fire on the celebrated, Mount Athos has destroyed the largest part | of its wonderful forests. Of th Greek ‘and Russian monasteries and 190 hermitages \ which have been located on the mountains i for centuries, many Lave been destroyed, the damage being estimated at five million francs, Tw: sventy monks and hermits perished in the } he government of Minsk, Russia, is ‘overrun ty wolves, which have become so bold as to enter the villages and attack the children in the strect, four little ones havirg been killed and eaten inthe village of Rud- nia in open daylight. Lr Governor has de- clined to lend militar to exterminate the pest on the geen that the peasants are quite _ to help t bemee opin An Exchange Compan elegram from Paris states : that the Diz yo en Siecle ublishes a telegram stating that oe Vihijist plot against the Czar has been covered in St PetersLurg, where 3: aaseoats | arrests, including that of cage aa of the university, have been m Figaro has received a despat teh « confirming the above, and adds that many arre: ave also been made in Moscow. Two postin officers compromised in the plot Rave com- mitted suicide. } A bee keeper living near a large hotel be- ing built at Kingston, in Jpmalos, recently found his hives in the utmost confusion, with many bees lying about ‘exhausted or dead. The electric light was use hotel to carry on the building operations by ight so the bees mistook the light for oy torily | ch- ad = ® chee came eet the day was ing, and poo flew off aeaie without any rest till they orked theriselves t+ death, tenn French Miniter of War atay fered from} trines ratios, There were | not allow |_SWhan the Amerioanerestatngis SE-PStere" burg) asked ion to celebrate the | ‘eechin, chectdennoys sOhote fye,an illustrated weekly of St, Petersburg, points to rely id fact that the Bohemians never ves to be Germanized,d ite ce tataeicee brought-to bear upon them for five centuries, and that the salted in ussia are t wit) e same consider- ‘ationas themembersolthe ‘orthodox’ (Greck- Catholic)Charch, A fanned co! mdent describes snobs she may see hherasif all round and trots the leather of her bonnet to the tip of her toe. irrors were supplied ya firm of cabinet-makers in Pari A Daily News Athens te A few days ago the Turkle authorities seized about twenty Christian notables of Siatista in order to compel them to reveal the names of those who were supposed to harbour brigands. They were taken bound’ to the town of Servia, and beaten unmerci- fully by the gendarmes who accompanic them. One special act of cruelty is mention- ed. Some qeulitee, with a refinement. of cruelty quite new, thrust a red-hot bayonet into the nose of Nicholas Doukas, a notable, who is dying from the offects of tieir briital- i am says :— In Australian there grows a species acacia commonly called the “angry tree.’ It —— the height of 80 feet after a rapid growth, and in outward appearance some- Sf resembles a gigantic century plant. e of these curious plants was brought from Australia and sect out ‘in Virgiaia, Nev., where it -has been ecen by inany persons. When the sun sets the leaves fold up, and the tender twigs coil tightly, like a little pig's tail. the shoots are handled the eaves rustle and move uncasily for a time. If this queer plant is removed from one pot to another it seems angry, and the leaves stand out in all directions, like ‘quills on a porcupine. <A most pungent and sige ge odour, said to resemble that given off hy rattlesnakes when annoyed, fills the air, and it is only after an hour or so that the leaves fold in = natural way. ang French officer on the staff of the Miniter of War, named M1. de Sirotka, lost his life on Saturday in the jae se of sétne Persailes. M, e Sirotka and several other officers were pon the shooting grounds witnessing a dis- charge of rockets, when one of them burst upon his head, cleaving the skull. M. de Sirotka died as he was being removed to the hospital, of Brain Graf ng. Attempts have been made to graft ne: all the different tissnes of the boty. boue, teeth, muscles, nerves, plan ids, mucous membrane, etc. grafted with more or” Jes cessful brain gratting has honets re performed. It occurred to Dr. Tho: sae locatiza- il be recently, while studying ceresral to tion invthe lower animals, that it we interesting to graft a piece of brain tissue from one side of a dog’s brain to the éthe: or from o; one anim nal’ 8 brain into pe i 6 He | 80 — alarge hy lf cient vitality to survive 5 foc» seven renks the operation of transplantation without wholly losing its identity. as brain substance, and a most interesting field for furthur research is suggested. Duplicity, Husband (after a week's absence)—Say I'm no fisherman after that! Forty lovely trout. Gaze at them ! Wife a glad;-dear. “Where did yh iol cg Pn W We See chat lovely lot of jelly ! Aren't ————_ Meney Lake. Air :—" Scots Wha Hae.” hs {All rights reserved.) Where “Chemong ” ite@ratere pours Past the “Buckhorn sheltered shores, Down through where the Baricign # were aieeaameisngea? rainy SOR Tae and bays and festooned isles, bd ae “sn ot Fa ot ihe happiest smiles, t'rous joys aw: anene a laurell’a hills a: din the i aga and rack an Blending at the water line,— In a harmony divi ets and Sina glow. ively Stony Lake. “ Jutien's ” terraced heights reveal All that souls-poctic fcol When mublime displays appeal Un #e and 80 — a vision wins the eyes! Green-robed myriad isles "Ron! na whose base in sweet surprise Laughing waters roll. Yonder, by the wnunheams kiss Methuen's 4 m0? os cleaves the mist, ¢ a royal ame _ oO) xu g ny; While, i midway ca cast and west, —Sacred | queria of the rest— * Bas * granite crest ver all is seen. Lavish pode crown “ Bo-abink” Where her clust ring fee ae link Tast each other, till they shrink, —Seen from —— abOTe= Tnto gems of rarest sheen, Set in frills of Sears green, Ww ‘here the sky-lint wares “between, Sing of peace and levy Who may te?! of Dummer’s shore? Sing her fountained life ty store } Laud her be aunty everme 10, ifnot b nd the duy is done Sec, from wher+"Waba-ne * stands, tin silver bands, USS 8! tors ne sf air y Isic, rooning “pinehurst ” Senile On and on a for many a mite, Till they—far below— Wash “ Mt Boscel’s " rugzed heach— Sin tS : thele hymns in runic speech Pa a ber Kuich-c-w2ene \ck's? reach— ocr “@- ton-a-bre" fair hea Presa they Be y up r luring rt £ho—adow a her y Aa ag ty Lys a. MORRISON, Lr S.ony Like, July 2, At Last. Ww hon on any: aay ot — whos Right is falti na ad im cdl space an hex wr rk nea cal Li ng My “feet bi mm ie 3H naw n. 33% 3 biCwa, . Thou-who-hast nade Ty “home so of life plea- % a lowe e not its tenant whenits walls deeay ; O love div! ne, O Helper ever present, Be Thou my sesonath and stay! Be ne ar mo- a ren allct! ar om , home's picture, days tseis from mo drifting, of shade aa a i indty faces to mine own ant fling he jeve which answers nailnc I have but thee, O Fathor, Ict ld Spirit Be with me then tocownfort and uphold 5 No gate of pea brane hs pain i tnerit, Nor street of shining gold. Suffice qt os my good and-ill unreckoned, an ~. 1 forgiven through Thy abounding Tana ay “a by hands famitiar-b ckoned Unto my fitting piace, - Some een ae ooramong Thy many mansions, reltering shade Where sin and striv- And hows forever thr ough Leaven’s grecn ex- pansions The river of Thy peace. There from the Hine: round. eng me =A Nea { fain would lear: bely ee And find atl ba i ne. pik ag healing: The life for which ry me OUN GREENLEA¥ WHITTIER, —<* Powerful Lord Arthur Cecil. ‘With reference to your statement that the new Westphalian strong man, ‘ Goliath,’ once laid a cow upon its back by its horns, it muy interest your readetsi’ writes a cor- respcndent, ‘‘to snow that Lord Arthur Cevil, a half-brother of. acd Salisbury, once told mea similar incident in connection with himself. Lord Arthur, though a short man, is of giant physique and enormous strength. He was one Bay walking through a field on his farm at Inzerleithen, when a young bull rushed at him. Instead of turn- ing tail, Lord Arthur coolly seized the ani- you proud of yéur little wife’s abilit Husband—Well—rather. By the “way, there is one glass you forgot to ‘ear the label off when you bought the lot. Don't ery, dear, I shan’t mention jelly if you keep , quiet on trout. va The Pipes ucknow. ace David Bai®™ “wen aletter says :—It has been often doubiv%t i tae the pipes of the Highlanders had been heard at the Residency at the time the relicf of Lucknew was being carried out. I canstate that on the night Le- fore the A are house” affair, immediately after we h sseasion of the Shah-Nu- jaff, when on ve, top of this building with ena Hope (Brigadicr), Robert Hope John- tone, Dawson (93), and others, I came across a piper of the aforesaid regiment. I said to him ‘‘ Play up,” which he immediately com- manced todo. I was told after that the tune | e played was ‘‘ The Campbellsare Coming.” | ie the Residency was, 1 should think, not more than three quarters of a mile ajay, this might easily have been heard there. I have often been asked to write of this be- ore. Although the Mormon settlements in the Canadian Northwest are small compared with those of Utah and some other of the Western Territories, complaints are frequent of theircorrupting influence upoa the In dians and of the general evil effect. of their h a barbarous en vigorous steps towards etudiing out this organized offense against law, m moralit y> and civilization, and that its efforts seem likely to be crowned with success, Canad. must do likewise, rd mal by his horns and pushed him back, wriggling and struggling inch by inch, oe e had got him into his stall, where he le him cowering and teenibling ‘all over. is,” continues our corre epondene ‘is not «-cock-and-bull story. It Lord Arthur who on one occasion w hep | cay eling by railbad his new man-servant get the tickets and seating himzclf in the eame car- riage with his master. Lord Arthur said nothing at the moment, but next time he bought the tickets himself, one first-class, one third, and, giving the man che first-class, ticket, he traveled third himself.” Our cor- respondent seems to think that herein Lord Arthur finally scored. Tut really, to round off the tale, it ought to be added that on the next occasion the servant, being again en- trusted with the task, took two third-class tickets. oO . To Bleach a Tanned Face. The callow youth who the seaside for a day or two and lets the sun and wind | play upon his skin is painfully burned and his complexion becomés a Haming red turns up around town nowadays in barge numbers, One young man so afflicted got this bit = advice from an old fishcrinan: ‘Get drug store as soon as you can and head jwe ounces of the best olive oil mixed with one ounce of lime water and a drop or two of rose water, just.to scent it. T' hen rub it on your burned face and it will take all the in- flammation out in next to no time.” Emperor William's declaration that the teociguereticn of Hebeo! and has comple the German Empire an excel- lent effect in Russian official ae as it was suspected that Germany ungry eye or the Baltic provindes,