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PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.
Tub small-pox is spreading in New York
city, and the Sanitary Inspector thinks it
likely to become epidemic A party of
young Japnneso have arrived at New York,
from San Francisco. They will leuve soon
for Kngland, having been Bent out by their
Government to receivo an English educa
tion Twenty election fraud cases are
before the Brooklyn Grand Jury It is
said that forgeries on the New York city
banks amounting to $100,000 have been dis
covered and traced to one Saroni, who lied
to Cuba. Forged papers are said to have
been passed to a considerable extent in
Western cities An expedition of Catholics
has left New York to teach tho natives of
Ecuador tho mechanic arts ami farming
Investigations show that $179,000 of the
money furnished to tho Brooklyn Water
Board tho present year has not been ac
counted for Fetitions for a commutation
of tho sentence of Botts, tho murderer of
ret llalstead, will be presented to the New
Jersey Court of Pardons Judgment has
been entered in tho sequestration case against
ex-City Treasurer Marar, of Philadelphia,
lor $178,000, the amount of his defalcation.
Charles II. Wallace, clerk of Tiil'any's
jewelry store, has be u committed for trial
at tho Jefferson Market Police Court in New
York on a charge of stealing $16,000 in
jewelrp Tho ico is two inches thick
throughout tho whole section of the Frio
canal, at Boonville. Tho canal is frozen
tight east of Utieu. No boats aro moving,
and tho weather is cold and freezing.
A iii i!i:k ank visited the northern sido of
the island of C;ipe Breton on tho night of the
26th ult., doing immense damago to houses,
barn?, trees, and shipping. Tho gale began
at H o'clock, and lasted until .1 o'clock tho
next morning. The tide was four feet higher
than ever known before. The pulic wharf at
Port Hood was swept away, and in tho villago
several houses were blown down. A number
of vesselsanchored at Port Mulgrave dragged
their anchors and passed out of the strait to
sea. Tho Bermudean brig Jabez, from Char
lottetown, was wrecked on Fox Island, and
only one man saved. Ten schooners were
wrecked in the Strait of Canso. It is feared
that there has been considerable lo.-s of life
by the gale Water has been introduced
into Providence, K. I., from the Pawtuxet
Fiver Tho (irey stone Mill, in North
Providence, was burned Friday mrning
The ice is about thrco inches thick in the
Welland Canal. Eight of the Northern
Transportation propellers and other vessels
arc in tho canal. A tug is trying to break
the ice, but the prospects are 'doubtful.
A roMMov kitchen boiler, in a dwelling in
rater?nn,N. J., exploded on Thursday night,
demolishing the kitchen and basement, and
partially demolishing the walls on one side
of the house. No lives were lost Owing
to the prevalence of the small-pox in East on,
Pa., tho students of Lafayette College gave
themselves a vacation for three months quite
regardless of tl io protests ot tho faculty
Five hundred more vessels passed through
the Welland Canal this season than during
any previous one At New York, on Satur
day, Henry Beeket, in a quarrel with Baker,
a conductor, was llung from a street ear, and
had his leg broken by another car coming in
an opi osite direction. Both conductors were
arrested.
Tlxo West.
Tun Supreme Court of Michigan has de
cided the Detroit Board of Public Works
act to be unconstitutional.
A run: at Bloomingfon, 111., on the .10th
nit., destroyed property to the amount of
.f5,ooo By the explosion of a boiler at
Hansom, Mich., recently, John Critton, tho
engineer, was killed, and six other persons
seriously injured Miss Sarah Hughes wa3
found dead in bed at Hamilton, 0M0. Thurs
day morning. She lmd retired tho night bo
fore with a handerchief Faturated with
chloroform laid upon her face, for an aching
tooth, and, filling asleep, inhaled the ana s
thetie in such a quantity to eau-e death
Rev. Wm. Sedgwick, fifty years a I'. ip-
tist minister, died on Thur.-day, at Chilli
cotho, Ohio. Heprcaolud in the morning,
and at '2 o'clock p. in. was dead.
A man named Emery was killed by Blythe
K. Beatrice at Nebraska City, on Tliursdav,
by a blow from a billiard cue The L3
Angeles grand jury has found thirty-five in
dictments for the Chinese massacre and se
verely censured the municipal authorities
In clearing up the residence of the late
licsin I lam in -'U l.a wealthy citizen of Charles-
A t 1 I 1
wwii, mu., reeenuy, an oni iruiiK was resur
reeted eonntainins: coin, treasury notes, etc.,
to the amount c-1 sL'0,h)ii.
Major Utiiam, commanding at Fort Scott,
Scott, Kansas, has received orders from tho
War Department to remove all whito set
tiers from the Osage reservation. There are
about 500 families, embracing .1,500 people
on these lands Governor Campbell, of
Wyoming, has vetoed tho bill passed by the
lerriionai legislature, repealing tne wo
man Suffrage act On Tuesday, Daniel
Balliard, a farmer, residing near Monroe
ville, Ind., was shot and almost instantly
killed by a posse of three men, one named
John Kline, and it is believed tho other two
were brothers named Brinkncr. Tho former
was arrested.
Tho South.
In the Houso of Representatives, at Colum
bia, S. C, on Saturday, C. C. Bowen,the much
married ex-member of Congress, presented
his credentials as a member from Charleston.
The objection was made that he had been
convicted of an infamous crime, but he was
finally admitted by a vote of C,Z to 22.
Dvrsey's celebrated stallion, "Gold Dust,"
died on Monday, in Louisville. The horso
was one of tho most famous in the country,
being tho eire of many celebrated horses.
A few days ago tho owner was offered
$50,000 for him In tho Second District
Court, in New Orleans, Judge T. Wharton
Collins decided fho caso of Joseph Tuentse
et. ah vs. Myra Clark Gaines. The opinion,
which is lengthy, declares that Mrs. Gaines
is not the legitimate child of Daniel Clark
nor his universal legatee: orders that tho
will of 181.''., purporting to be tho will of
Daniel Clark, probated in lSSS, be revoked
and declared invalid and that the probato
thereof Le annulled. Mrs. Gaines relied
mainly upon this will in her claims.
WnahinKton.
Tur. disbursements from the Treasury De
partment, during the month of November,
on account of the war, navy, and interior
departments, and civil and miscellaneous
account, exclusive of that paid on the public
debt, were $15,.rr,s,M)0 The claimants un
der the Loyal Southern Claims Commission
express a grod deal of uneasiness for fear
that Conpn fs will fail to make an nppropria
tion of $x,000,fino or $10,(100,000 to liquidato
each claims have been audited and proven
Only about twenty claims have as jet
been presented to tho United States and
British Commission There has been eo
much said as to tho orders which the Admin
istration have given on tho Spanish question
that the organ of tho tamo had tho following
in its issue of Saturday: "Tho Administra
tion will not tolerato any interference with
the guarded vessels. Any attempt on the
part cf Spanish naval ofheers to seize tho
Hornet, Florida, or Virginia, will bo con
strued as an insult to the United States, and
just cause for our Government vindicating
its national honor."
Foreign.
A stkcial from Koine says Victor Eman
uel was received with tremendous enthusi
asm by the Italian Parliament. In his ad
dress ho said that tho work to which he had
devoted his life was completed, with an inti
mation that there was a necessity for concili
ating tho Vatican, which was ooldly received.
At the conclusion of the ceremonies of the
opening of Parliament, he was called to tho
balcony twice by the populace. The city
was grandly ilium inateu in the evening.
The Pope- was consoled by the priests."
Gen. Sickles was married to Miss Creach, at
Madrid, on Monday, and started for New
York immediately The telegraphic dis
patch recently foisted upon nearly all tho
newspapers of the kingdom, announcing tho
amalgamation of the leading English railroad
lines, is found to be a forgery. Tho Directors
of tho Midland Railway Co'mpany have of
fered a large reward for the detection and ar
rest of the perpetrators.
Tiik Germans have commenced to build
fortifications in tho passes of Vosges Tho
press throughout Prussia comments with
indignation on the frequent assassinations of
German soldiers in the occupied districts of
France, and the almost total immunity of
the perpetrators from punishment, and de
mands of tho military authorities energetic
and efficient action to put an end to tho out
rages Trince Metternich has asked per
mission to resign his post at tho head of tho
Austrian Legation in Paris, which he has
held since 1 859.
Tiik German military authorities at Eper-
nay have executed two Frenchmen who
killed a German sentinel It is said that
the Span'fh Government has resolved to re
move Captain-General Valmaseda from the
Governorship of Cuba, and that M.O0O fresh
troops aro to be dispatched to tho island.
Miss Lotta K. TritNKR, daughter of the
pate Admiral Turner, of the United States
navy, who sued Don Caledona Alis,of Sonora,
for $200,000 damages for seduction and breach
of promise, has obtained a verdict of $7,500
('apt. Shaw, of the London Fire Brigade,
has been granted leavo of absence for six
weeks, to enable him to proceed to Chicago
to investigate the causes of the fire'in that
city.
A great fire occurred on Tuesday in the
Hotel Hue de Livrc, which contained many
of tho most elegant shops in Taris. Owing
to the exertions of the firemen the flames
were extinguished before any injury had
been done to tho palace itself. The los3 to
store-keepers is immense Honolulu ad
vices report that tho eight whalers, includ
ing all which escaped destruction in the
Arctic Ocean, have refitted ani sailed.
Proceedings in Congress.
In tho Senate, on the 5th inst., tho business
was of no general importance various bills
were introduced and referred, and a number
of resolutions ollered and adopted. The
bill declaring the meaning of the eight-hour
law came up, but beforo action was taken the
Senate adjourned.
In the House, on the 5th, there was a con
siderable amount of business done. Farns-
worth reported a bill to revise and consoli
date tho statute relating to the Post Ollice
Department. A general di-cussion arose
upon the motion to distribute portions of the
President's message to appropriate commit
tees. Wood objected to tho revival of the
Committee on Insurrectionary States: this
committee was revived, notwithstanding
W.'s objections. There were different opin
ions in regard to the disposition of the ques
tion regarding the union telegraph and post
al service, and after a long discussion it was
referred to the Vmiin.ttce on Appropriations,
by a vote of 15ii to tts. The resignat ion of
Mr. Washhurne, of Massachusetts, was pre
sented, after which the House adjourned.
Public Debt Statement.
The following is the reenpif ulatioa
of the December statement of the pub
lic debt
Debt boiirintr interest in coin
Bon-Is, ii percent ?1,"T7,1'.",1"0
i.itmls, per cent 2, i,:v ;,,uo
l'rineipal 1.sl.1'.,y,,.v"'0
Interest .';t,'.i." ,s.;',i
1'ei-t bearing interest m hmtul nmney
Ccrtilk-ates if indebtcdncr-s, 1 per
rent t'T.t i(
Navy pension fund, per cent 1 l.dti ;,mmi
Certificates at percent lM,r.'ii,(',l
Principal .'iS.li.s.noo
Interest i' ,7r,)
Debt on which interest has ceased since ma
turity
Principal l.Ttl'.'.'T
Interest .M,:iM
Debt bearing no interest
Ol-l demand and lejral-tcndor notes...? li.'T.r'J.sol
fractional currency lo. 1 w w
Coin certificates i! I.'.'lis.l lo
Principal J 22,fSf, 77
Lnelaimcl interest 1 1,112
Total debt:
Principal S2..51 7,1 2.1.121
Interest ;;7,fus,:is7
Total .Vd.trd.fdl
Cash in Treasury:
Coin ),2V.,r.vl
Currency. K,12.VS'J
Debt, less cash in 1 reasury, Dec. J.
171 2,21S.2.-,1,sr,'.
Decrease durimr the month .",1-2,HO
Decrease since March 1, is 1 4'2.luti'J
Decrease troin March 1, lsr.'t, to
March 1.1S71 12I,7.-1,11:5
Don-Is issued to tho Pacific Railroad
Company, interest payable in law
ful money, principal outstanding... 1,01 h,s. Ill
Interest accrued and not yet paid 1 17(
Interest paid by United States I2,i''. '2,175
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails .Vd7,e7
Dalance of interest raid by United
States i,:J7I..Vi7
A GENTLEMAN of NoTWalk, V.I.. who
had been tortured for a long time with
neuralgia, hearing of a noted physicion
in (Jermany who invariably cured that
disease, visited him for treatment. Ho
was permanently cured after a short
sojourn, and the doctor freely gave him
tho simple remedy used, which was
nothing but a poultice and tea made
from our common field thistle. The
leaves are macerated and used as a
poultice on tho parts affected, while a
small quantity of tho leaves are boiled
down in the proportion of a quart to a
pint, and a small wino glass of the de
coction drank before each meal.
Four remarkable children were re
ported last week in Connecticut. Two
of them have recently been born in
Watervillc. One of them was born
minus the left hand, and tho other
weighed thirteen and a half pounds at
birth. At Dover South Mills, there is a
child nearly a year old, which is bright
and active, but has no ryes. In the
same neighborhood there is a little girl
twelve years old, who, as if tomakn up
for the lack of vision in that section,
has rye? as large as a horse or rather.
a horse's eyes.
A Paris Mystery.
Correspondence of tho New York World.
Tho mysteries of Paris aro endless.
If any day you go to Pero la Chaise and
quit boulevard Voltairo (ex Boulevard
du Princo Kugeno) for Hue liampon you
will see a mansion which was probably
built in the eighteenth century for tho
retreat of some wealthy farmer-general
of tho taxes while enjoying the honey
moon of his last amour beforo custom
had staled her novelty. There was
moro than a court, 'twas a garden in
front of it, and a larger garden stood
behind it. There are still a great many
market gardens in this north-eastern
quarter of Paris, which is farther from
the heart and brain of this capital than
Versailles or St. (Jermain, or even
Mantes, the farthest of our suburban
homes.
Solitary as this mansion was it ap
peared still more solitary from its want
of animation. The door never opened.
The shutters remained closed tho gar
dens were overrun by weeds. All these
things would have atti acted little atten
tion. There is many a deserted houso
in Paris whose very sight at summer's
noontide would freeze your marrow, so
dark aro tho walls, so moss-grown aro
tho doors and shutters, so desolate, so
mournful, is tho look of everything
about it. You might disbelieve in
ghosts and still be unable to shake oil"
belief that there ghosts (old masters
and the guests of auld lang syne) re
vived departed hours, holding revel
from midnight to cockcrow, and witches
kept unhallowed saturnalia. There aro
so many of these deserted, haunted
houses in Paris, the f ombre cloud which
rested on the house in Hue liampon had
remained unnoticed, except for the
change which came over it at night
and if this change had been well ascer
tained, eertain it would have remained
unchallenged but some people swore
lights had been seen Hashing through
the interstices of the shutters, sparks
had been seen Hying out of the chim
neys, and the roar of subdued voices
(noisy despite every precaution, because
they were numerous) had been heard.
Then watch was set, and neither sight
nor sounds met watchers' eyes or ears.
Again people saw and heard all those
things. Women crossed themselves
whenever the unhallowed house was
thought on; men talked of it with
bated breath and looked at it only ask
ance. Some said it was La Tour de
Nesies. Girls were decoyed into it, rav
ished, and murdered when lust cooled.
Others were sure a gang of counterfeit
ers pre ared there fae similes of bank
notes. These surmises in time reached
tho ears of the police. Investigation
was made in the cautious tentative
method always adopted in doubtful cir
cumstances. The police has good rea
son to be cautious for it is not enough
to detect crime, criminals should bo ar
rested. To give notice of investigations
on foot would be to give a warning
which would put to flight all the birds
of prey. The enigma seemed insolvable.
The expertest policemen were ordered
to examine the premises. Nothing could
be discovered. Tho neighboring bowses
were examined from top to bottom.
Nothing. Walls were sounded, still
nothing. Nevertheless occasionally a
gleam of light flashed through some
crevice in a shutter, a spark Hew up
wards from a chimney, revealing lite
within the bleak house. The police
were reinforced. The house was sur
rounded, skirmishers were thrown out
beyond this circle of policemen. At last
a skirmisher, thrown out some two hun
dred and fifty yards from the house,
reported that he had seen people who
moved cautiously and rapidly about
midnight, disappear in a blind alley as
if the earth had swallowed them. This
alky was examined. In it the police
discovered a subterranean passage. They
entered it. It was so low they could
advance only in single fib4 and bent
double. They were obliged at some
places to go on all-fours.
After going m this way two hundred
and fifty yards they found further pro
gress checked by a stalwart wrought
iron door, which jeered all their ellbrts.
They returned. Kntered a house whose
blank walls had a small window on tin.
fourth story which overlooked the gar
den ol the bleak house. J fie police
procured a rope, entered this house and
after securing the rope inside the house
and tossing the other end into the gar
den, they crept down the rope one by
one. Their investigation of the house
showed every door and window plated
with wrou!ht-iron. J tie commissioner
of Police remembered one of his police
men was oncea blacksmith. lie ordered
this brawny fellow to get the largest
sledge-hammer he could procure. When
he returned he swung the immense
hammer over his head and brought it
on the door with a force which splin
tered the wood, started the bolts and
broke tho locks. Bang! bang! came
two other blows, loud as thunderclaps.
The door was open. The police swarmed
in. 'Twas a great gambling-house.
Many gamblers, terrified at the sounds
of the hammer, lay fainting on the
floor.
Specific for Diphtheria.
The Italian journals publish a letter
from Dr. Giovanni Calligara, describing
the remarkable success which has at
tended his treatment of diphtheria with
phenic acid. He relates tho losses he
formerly experienced among his patients
when treating them with emollients,
solvents, and cauterization with hydro
chloric acid, and observes that this
cauterization can no moro eradicate the
morbid principle than tearing the leaves
off a plant will destroy the root. lie
now simply uses a gargle of phenic acid
and distilled water, with external appli
cations of now flannel: the food and
drink to be taken cold. After the
adoption of this treatment, Dr. Calligari
lost but one patient out of fifty-eight.
Ho requested tho Italian journals to
publish this discovery. Phenic acid is
the agent which is now being used in
this country as a remedy for cancer,
and seems likely to elfcct an immense
saving of lives formerly hopelessly sac
rificed to that disease.
An atndicant for the nosition of do-
ii i
mestic in a Danburv fainilv was asked
if she knew how to use kerosene. Use
it, is it?" sho exclaimed in a tone of
reproachful resignation, "give mo a can
of karyosane and I'd never ask for the
lift of a shavin." She was not engaged.
A panhv on shore is discustinir. but a
swell of the sea is sickening.
A Fatal Hunt.
Another instance of the pitcher going
once too often to the well has occurred
in India. Captain Doig, an infantry
ollicer, had become renowned as a tiger
hunter, and the fame of his exploits
had even reached Europe. He was sup
posed to bo invincible, had performed
almost fabulous feats, and was held by
tho natives to bear a charmed life. The
1oor gentleman was notwithstanding,
tilled by a tiger early in September.
Ho went out one day and had a
brilliant success, slaying a fine tiger
single-handed. Tour or live days after
news canitt that another tiger was lurk
ing in the same place, about six miles
from the cantonment. Tho new arri
val at once began to distinguish himself
by slaughtering bullock-1, and Captain
Doig resolved to bring his sport to an
end. Unaccompanied save by his own
Shikaries," the hunter repaired to the
spot. The savage beast was soon found,
and Captain Doig got rather a long shot
at him, and felt sure that ho had hit
him in tho head. His impression, how
ever, was that the tiger had got off into
tho jungle not much hurt, and that he
must beat again for him in a fresh quar
ter. While preparing to do this, Cap
tain Doig being at the moment alone,
the enraged animal leaped from cover,
and in an instant seized his foe and
bore him to the earth. Captain Doig
afterward said that the onset was to
swift that he never even saw the beast
until he himself was on the ground,
and being, as he expressed it, calmly
eaten." A horrible strugglo ensued,
tho "Shikaries" sprang to the rescue,
and the interpid hunter actually fought
himself out of the tiger's clutches, and
not only that but managed to destroy
him. The encounter was nevertheless
fatal. Captain Doig had the pluck to
ride back to the cantonment, being
lifted to tho saddle for that purpose.
But he never recovered from tho shock
and the frightful laceration he received,
and five days after breathed his last.
For men who get celebrated for this
kind of achievement its pursuit seems
to have irresistiblo fascination, and the
sad case of Captain Doig has many
precedents.
A (ierinan Fable.
A raven was crossing a field and saw
a cuckoo preparing a soft bed behind a
shady bush. That seemed very odd to
him so he crept nearer and asked the
cuckoo what he was making there?
A bed, as you see," the cuckoo an
swered shortly.
u A bed, what for?" the raven kept
on inquiring, You are not going to lie
on the ground? As far as I know, you
usually rest in. a hollow tree."
It is not for myself," replied tho
cuckoo, "but for that poor sick hen
there, you see behind the bushes. See
that poor creature," he continued weep
ing, "she fills my soul with pity; she
has not been well for a long tiine."
Really an odd kind of neighborly
love. 1 could never in the least have
expected that of you," the raven cried
in an ecstasy and the bright tears
floated down his raven cheeks, at the
thought of this noble deed.
"Yes," tho cuckoo continued in a
whining tone, this good hen laid me
early every day, an egg; upon that I
have hithertoo lived when I could get
at nothing else, and how miserable I
should be if she should die I must
perish. Yes, must starve in these famine
times."
"Aha, so! It is not precisely for the
poor sick hen, but for the eggs you
make the nest," croaked the raven, as
quickly drying her tears she flew away.
Ice-Cnivu Pork.
The Cincinnati Price Current, under
the heading of Provision Trade lie
volution," gives some interesting in
formation concerning the growth of a
new industry the ice-curing of pork in
the summer which it says is making
great breaches" in the packing trade.
According to this trade journal, it may
almost be said that it is not longer ne
cessary to pack and lay aside meal in
winter at all, any more than at any
other season; there being, however, a
few weeks in the heated term of sum
mer when it is not necessary nor desir
able to handle or use much meat.
Swine are fattened more conveniently
and more economically in fall weather,
and then transportation can be done
twenty per cent, cheaper. Fresh ice
cured meat is brighter, sweeter, and
sells higher for several of the leading
qualities than the dry, highly salted
winter-cured. Ice-hou.es have been
constructed at many Western points,
where packing continues constantly and
safely all summer. The extra cost of
cold air from ice is being rapidly re
duced, and is already counting less than
the expense of holding meat over from
winter to summer. This state of affairs
has completely upset the old business
by which the wealth of the pork-packing
business has been acquired. And
the article concludes with the remark
that "the last winter's packing stock
has lately been selling at a loss of some
forty per cent."
Well Informed Ladies.
How much moro intelligent and
fascinating the majority of young ladies
would be were they to give a littlo more
attention to newspaper reading. We
do not mean the flash papers of tho day
which are filled with matter which, if it
does no harm, can certainly do no good,
but to newspar ers those which make
us familiar with present character and
improvements of tho age. It is well
enough to know something of the
world's history, but it is with the pros
ent wo have mainly to deal, and we
know of no more engaging trait in a
lady's character than a fair acquain
tance with passing events. Every
young lady should have an intelligent
opinion on tho moral, mental, political
and religious subjects of tho times,
and the best and indeed tho only way
to find this, is to read good newspapers
diligently.
Detection of Flsil Oil. Tho exis
tence Of fusil oil in nleobnlin 1
can, it is said, bo readily recognized by
placing a portion in a class tube, nml
shaking up in it a piece of iodide of
potassium, siiould thero be even one
fifth of one hundred Per cent, of fnil
oil contained in the liquid, a distinct
ngnt yenow color will be developed,
tho change taking place with still grea
ter rapidity if tho tube be heated.
Farm and (.anion.
Hepair and Cure ff Implements. As
soon as plowing is over for tho season,
it is advisable not to leave the plow in
tho furrow or lyin looo on the head
land, but to bring it home and house it
as carefully as though it were alive, and
would sutler from the inclemencies of
the winter weather. In fact it will
sutler, and so will tho farmer's pocket,
if it is exposed to tho rains and frosts.
Before it is stowed away in a dry place,
it should be washed and scoured, and,
when dry, coated with hot boiled linseed
oil. This will penetrate the pores not
only of the wood but the iron, and pre
serve the one fiom dry-rot and "powder-post"
(borers which destroy dry
wood), uud the other from rust. If
rakes, forks, scythesnaths, cradles, etc.,
aro thus treated, their elasticity is pre
served and their durability increased.
Cost of liaising Calves. There are
many operations on tho farm that are
unprofitable in themselves directly, but
we can not avoid them, we must credit
them with a share of the profit they in
dividually produce. Take, for example,
raising calves. Mre viust raise them, and
yet no' farmer expects to realize tho
cost of a yearling if sold as such but
when the yearling becomes a cow the
profit comes in. Nor is it necessary to
feed ten quarts of new milk to a calf
daily for 100 days, at a cost of fifty
dollars. A farmer who does so (if there
are any such) is simply no farmer. He
may be an amateur or a fancy stock
man, who counts no cost. We never
fed a calf new milk for longer than a
week, after which skimmed milk,
warmed at first, with a little linseed
meal, was successfully substituted.
The Cost of Weals. If there is one
thing moro than another to which a
farmer should feel a strong antipathy, it
is a weed. Not only do weeds injure
tho appearance of his farm, but their
production costs an enormous amount
of money. There is no doubt at all but
that our crops would bo doubled in
amount if we could keep down the
weeds. They thus cost the country in
two years an amount equal to the whole
of our national debt. An experiment
made by a knoted English farmer gave
as the result ot a crop of barley on
good soil, well manured, thirteen bush
els on unweeded land, and twenty-eight
bushels where the crop was weeded.
Were similar experiments made on our
farms, who can doubt that similar re
sults would happen
Florida Agriculture. The agriculture
of this State seems to be in a bad way.
It is stated that the sorghum raised
there is of the poorest kind, the plant
not reaching a height of more than
three feet. And now complaints are
made of the yield of cotton. So de
generated has the crop become that it
requires seven pounds of seed cotton to
make one lint. Some of the bolls are
entirely barren of lint, producing only
seed. And the farmers of the Flowery
State" cry for better seed. In States
not so flowery, when farmers know they
want better seed they get it, and our
Florida brothers must learn to do the
same. Seed which has continuously
occupied tho same ground degenerates,
whether of cotton or of grain.
Warm Cellars. A correspondent
writes: i If any of our readers wish to
keep their cellars warm not warm
enough to eat and sleep in, but warm
enough to preserve their stores of roots
from frost they can find no better way
of doing it than by pasting four or five
thicknesses of brown paper, or old
newspaper, against the walls, and across
the joists of the floor above. All cracks
and openings in the windows should
also bo carefully pasted up. It will not
be found an easy thing to fasten paper
to stone walls, but it plenty of good,
strong paste is used, and the walls are
well swept down previously, it can be
done, and the difficulty will only be
with the first thickness. Paper, and
old paper in particular, has never had
its proper degree of credit, and if we
knew how valuable it was we would
seldom kindle our fires with it if any
thing else was to be had. It is an ex
cellent non-conductor of heat, and
when well made and of average thick
ness it is among those substances which
air finds it very difficult to penetrate.
Whenever, then, we wish to keep in
heat and keep out air, our old papers
will come admirably into play. Many
a poor man has shivered through a cold
winter night, when in his room there
were old newspapers enough, if spread
beneath his miserable covering, to have
kept him warm and comfortable."
How to Get Good Eggs. There is a
vast difference in the flavor of eggs,
liens fed on clean, sound grain, and
kept on a clean grass run, give much
finer flavored eggs than hens do that
have access to stables and manure heaps
and eat all kinds of filthy food. liens
feeding on fish and onions flavor their
eggs accordingly tho same as cows eat
ing onions, or cabbage, or drinking
ollensive water imparts a bad taste to
milk and butter. Tho richer the food
the higher the color of the eggs. Wheat
and corn give the best color, whilo
feeding them on buckwheat cakes
makes the eggs colorless, rendering
them unfit for some confectionery pur
poses. Seed Corn. Ears of corn that have
been selected for seed should be hung
up in a dry, cool place. Taken promis
cuously from the crib in tho spring, it
is more than likely that the majority of
the grains will havo become injured and
unfit for seed, and then the white grubs,
cut-worms, and crows will be accused of
destroying the young shoots, which
really never existed. Thero is no bet
ter place to hang up the seed-ears than
in tho top of tho crib, where rats or
mice cannot reach them, and where a
constant current of air is passing. If
we would improve our corn, we must
select tho seed as well as give it good
cultivation.
Charcoal or Earth for Hogs. Hogs that
aro put up to fatten, as well as store
hogs, should have some charcoal or
earth given them occasionally. We
havo found it a good plan to dig a few
sods from tho fence corners for them,
which they will consume with much
relish. In a state of nature, tho hog,
which roots for his living, must neces
sarily take into his Momach a largo
quantity of earth. It is advisablo to
allow him to do this when penned up.
Economy in Fattening Animals. It has
been proved by experiment that tho
more rapidly an animal is fattened the
less quantity of food is necessary to
sustain its mere vitality. Thus, an ani
mal can bo more cheaply fattened by
consuming ten bushels of corn in two
months than if four months were oecu
pied in tho process. Liberal and abun
dant feeding is tho most economical,
and a saving of time in producing the
same result is a gain in the profit.
llural Life. Statistics teach us that
farmers live longer lives than any other
class who perform labor of a mechanical
kind, ami that they are excelled in
longevity only by those who work with
the brain occasionally, as preachers,
orators, and public speaker-'. And the
probability is that considering tho
healthfulness of their employment and
the general freedom from annoying
cares and anxieties which they enjoy,
their, lives might become relatively the
most enduring, did they exercise more
care in choosing their diet and in pre
serving themselves from sudden chills
during tho most trying season of their
labor, that of harvest. It is then that
most farmers contract diseases which
aro sooner or later fatal to them.
Spreading Manure. We think it a
wrong practice, when hauling out ma
nure in the fall or winter, to place it in
heaps. It is better to spread it at once.
In tho first place, labor is saved. But
most important of all is the fact that
much of the 'manure ii waited when
placed in heaps. If spread at once, it
is more equally divided than it can be
afterwards. Wo once hauled out ma
nure on to a field, leaving it in heaps
until the hauling was completed. Dur
ing this timo some showers fell. The
land was sown to oats next spring, and
on the spots where the heaps had been
the grain lodged and was spoiled. The
following crop was wheat, and on those
spots the wheat rusted and yielded
nothing; whilo tho growth of straw was
remarkable. We have never since re
peated the practice.
Simple Cure for Hurns.
A varnisher of metals, in Paris, one
day got his hand badly burned, and in
his agony thrust it into a pot of varnish
at his side. To his astonishment the
pain at once ceased, and the wound
rapidly healed. The fact being reported
around, persons in tho neighborhood who
had got burned came to the varnisher
and were cured in like manner. The
news circulated farand wide, and finally
reached tho medical faculty, and the
varnisher was sent for to try his skill in
the hospital. He responded to the call
and succeeded in curing all on whom
he operated. The philosophy of the
cure is, the varnish keeps the burn
from the air, and gives nature a chance
to supply a new skin under its protec
tion. Dr. 11. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
in his book on Chronic Diseases, says in
regard to his Golden Medical Discov
ery, with which our readers are fa
miliar: "From its wonderful power
over Consumption of the Lungs I had
thought btrongly of calling it my Con
sumptive Cure but from the fact that
it is a perfect specific for the sore throat
and hoarseness to which ministers and
other public sjieakers and singers aro
subject, and also for Bronchitis and all
sevac CovgJis, and is an invaluable rem
edy for diseases of the Livrr, and also
as a Blood Purifier. I decided not to ap
ply to it a name which might mislead
and prevent its use in other diseases for
which it is so admirably adapted.
"It will cure a cough in one half the
time necessary to cure it with any other
medicine, and it does it not by drying
it up but by removing the cause sub
duing the. irritation and healing the af
fected parts."
This valuable medicine is sold by all
first class druggists.
Tin: New York Sun says Mr. J. Pren
tice, of that city, individually owns and
controls between ..0,00() and -10,000 acres
of oil lands in Pennsylvania and West
Virginia, and his income from hw oil
interest alone is estimated at $2,000 or
$o.000 a day. Ho is constantly buying
new territory.
The Houses We Live In. In other
words, our bodies are held on repair
ing leases. We must prop and sustain
them when they exhibit signs of weak
ness and decay, or they will inevitably
break down. In Dr. Walker's Cali
fornia Vinegar Bitters, a matchless
compound of newly discovered medi
cinal herbs, peculiar to the Pacific re
gion, the debilitated, the bilious, the
rheumatic, the consumptive, will find
the most genial tonic and restorative
ever offered to the suffering invalid.
It contains no alcohol, and consequent
ly leaves no sting behind.
An Indiana editor announces: "We
leave tomorrow for the county hog
show, and hope to take the prize."
A Neglected Cotcn, Cold, or Sore
Throat, which might be chocked by a
simple remedy, like "flroicn's Bronchial
Troches,'''' if allowed to progress, may
terminate fatally.
Iiufus Chapman, of Liberty, Maine,
hal a stiff leg bent at the knee, limbered
nnd strengthened by the use of Johnson's
Anodjnc Liniment.
A Chicago policeman wrote the fol
lowing complaint against a saloon:
"Kepby Gambonis Plaid musick and
sang songs sow as to Heer them a blocks
from the Say Ion."
Vegetine is a great pnnacea for our
nged fathers and mothers; for it gives them
strength, quiets their nerves, and gives
them Nature's sweet sleep.
Over the door of a cobbler's Rhop in
Savannah, Ga., appears this legend
Poots and shoes is made hear- ladies
and shentlemens repared. Kum in
hear."
Gout or Hiieumatism is quickly re
lieved nnd cured in a few davs by that cele
brated English Medicine, Blair's Govt ash
Kiif.imatic Tills.
It is stated that the Karitan, New
Jersey, Woolen Manufacturing Compa
ny has engaged four hundred China
men to work in its factories.
Br the payment of annual dividends
The Mutual Lifo of Chicago supplies insur
ance nt cost. Insuro there.
The Youth's Companion. The safest
and best paper of its class that can find a
place in the family.