Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 October 1884 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Published Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - g* —- INDIANA. THE LITTLE ROUNDABOUT. Iu the grim old garret, hanging Mong tbo shadows drooping low, Is the little ragged i '..mdabout I wore long years a o. •Back the years come sweeping o’er t As a gentle dream-, ike shock, "“‘le 1 fonq recall the memories That duster round the froes. Well nigh harried by turmoiling ♦ la the busy world I rest— . 1 et the frock so fond recalling Recreates the days of blest, tainted memory of childhood ■-When life’s triumph was In store; Const thou ope to me the portals O. a half-forgotten loro'; In the Jacket is a fish-line And a bended pin or two: Next a handful of split buckshot And a cork are brought to view; Here’s an’old Jack knife that’s blunted. And a bit of crayon white. Then a tangled mass of cat-gut Greets my'fondly searching sight. Melange of a boyhood’s pleasure ’Ere this life grew gray and sear, Souvenirs of vanished sweetness Of an unforgotten year. Pare thee wed, thou banished treasure, Now forever laid away, Dust-bedecked and tattered garment Of a boyhood's happy day. —it if. Kifcer, in Texas Siftings.

A RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION. I. My house, like that of the American patriot immortalized in “Martin Chnzzlewit,” is now “beyond the setting sun”—that is to say, in the uttermost regions of western Manchester—but there was a time when it was situated at the opposite extremity of Cottonopolis, from which 1 fled, for reasons to be hereafter slated, with the feeling that I could not put too great a distance between myself and it. My former habitation was a semi-detached villa (of which I was also the proud proprietor) in Paradise Row. My occupation lay in the town; but it bad in truth but small eharms for me. It was there I made the wax from which I derived the ma;or portion of my income; but my honey—and I was a very busy bee at that time—was made at home after otly:e hours, still, indeed, by the pen, hut in a very different fashion. My soul was devoted to Literature, and all the time tliatl could spare from Messrs. Bale and Cotton, cotton eornerers, was given ft> composition. Except for the interval consumed in getting home, I might indeed have been said to have stepped from my high stool on to tho back of Pegasus, which took me flights which lasted from seven o’clock.to fen. Let me hasten to say that t&is expression is metaphorical. As a man who is still connected (at all events on one side) with business, I should be sorry to have it supposed that 1 ever wrote poetry. No; it was only prose, though prose (if 1 may be permitted to ' say so) of a high order. I wrote stories for the magazines, and leading articles for a local newspaper or two—what, in short, may be fairly called imaginative literature. 1 had a young wife and a growing family, and the addition I thus made to my official income was very welcome, yet not more so than the work itself. With my quill pen in my hand

-x cuum iu;vci use siwi uuu, jsul'LI as sufficed me in city, lor these flights 'iwie' —my knees in Weir snug haven under my writing-table, and a good stock of ideas in my head to draw upon, I feit as happy as a king. It is a modest pleasure, known to few and evied probably by noDe; but, believe me, there is none more satisfying or supreme. When pur little children had been put to bed, my wife used to come down and sit with me, occupying herself with needle-work; it was understood that (like a ghost) she was not to speak unless she was spoken to, lest she should interrupt the Jiow qj composition. I could trust her for that, implicitly. There are some good women, who can never keep silence when they work for two consecutive minutes, but must be 'always making some muttered observation about their stitchiS. Clementina was not one of that sort, which was fortunate for both of us. There might have been two opinions (that is, my opinion and that of other people) as to whether my work may have been of a meritorious or valuable kind, but, such as it was, it required perfect silence. If there was the least noise, a coal Hying out from the fire, a door banging in the attics, all was over with me. If a nightingale had begun to sing in the ba-^k garden, 1 should have been paralyzed. Our two maidservants always went about during those hours of composition in list slippers. ^ For a month alter my purchase of Eden Lodge, Paradise Slow, the house in no wav belied its name; but iu the fifth week the serpent raised its head among the flowers, and hissed out: (“Sir, you are mistaken about the name of your resilience. This is Purgatory Villa.” ° 3 It was about 7:15 p. m., and i had, as usual, sat down alone to my beloved occupation, when from the party wall at which my desk was placed, there issued forth a bang as if a cannon had gone off, followed by three or four shrill explosions, such as are caused by rockets. For the moment I really thought they were rockets, and that the sticks had penetrated my brain, which, indeed, was scattered in all directions. My faithful wife, who had felt the shock in the nursery, rushed downstall’s. ami was by my side in an instant. As she entered the room the hideous cannonade was resumed, and with such effect that the hearth-brush fell down (stunned) in the corner of the fire-place, and the top of my inkbottle shut of it3elf with a click. “Merciful heavens!” I cried. “What is it?” “I feared it would annoy you,” began Clementina, in trembling tones. “Annoy me! It has destroyed me!” I exclaimed. “Not another line shall I be able to write to night. What is it?” “My dear Charles. 1 am sorry to say it is the daughter of our neighbor, Mrs. Brown, who has just come homo from school, and is practicing the ‘The Battle of Prague.’ Jemima, whom we took with Eden Lodge, you know, says she does it all through the holidays. The foolish girl never said a word about it, or, I am sure, you would never have bought the house.” “But do you mean to say this is to go on always, alwaysI exclaimed, despannglv. “Hark at it!” It was like a magnificent pyrotechnic display without the fire works. No human being could stand it; no one but a fiend could have inflicted it. “It goes on, Jemima says,” replied my wife, despondingly, “for six weeks, from seven to ten; only, on Sundays, she plays sacred music.” I am Dot a passionate person, but 1 am impatient; and if at that moment I could have got at that girl next door, I believe, notwithstanding her sex, her age and her piety, that 1 should have strangled her. The question was not one to be put aside or debated about for an instant, and I sat down at once and wrote to Brown (as well as that infernal melody would permit me) a letter of courteous remonstrance. I • was on something more than speaking terms with him, and believed him to be, on the Whole, a good-natured fellow; but I had a suspicion that he had a termagant for a wife. Mrs. Brown laced too tightly not to have a temper; out still she must have a woman’s heart beating somewhere; and surely, in a Christian coiintry—but I anticipate, if that can be called anticipation which is the very reverse of what one Has ventured to exy letter ran as follows: I. Brows: In Urns addressingmyl know t am relying u^u our «

let Ions u friendly neighbors, and by no rneang urging a loyal right- In the eye of the atr, an Enginihmap’s House to his castle, and he can, if he pleases, toe royal salutes from lrs battlements night and day. Unfortunately, I am so constituted that noise utterly destroys my power to do literary work, in which (as you are aware) I am of necessity engaged from seven to ten every evening. Your dear little daughter's piano playing to quite wonderful for her age (this was very true: no full-grown demon, 1 should have thought, far less an imp of her years, could have created such discord), but if you would kindly contrive that she shbuld pursue it during the daytime, instead of between the hours aforesaid, you would lay me under an eternal obligation. “Awaiting your kind consent, for which I thank you beforehand, “I am yours truly. “Chabues Jones.** I.was in such a state of anxiety and excitement—the hideous cannonade continuing all this time, without one instant’s cessation—that I wrote upon the envelope, “Bearer waits,” and bade mv messenger bring back the answer. It came quickly enough, but put an end to my suspense only to substitute for it an agony of despair. It was, as I guessed in a moment from the handwriting, all sloping like the ears of a donkey in a state of obstinacy, the female Brown who addressed roe, as follows:

‘Dear Sir: My husband is from home; but your application is one which 1 have no hesitation in answering: in his name in the negative. You are, as you very properly remark, urging no legal claim whatever, and you must forgive me for adding that your request is preposterous. It is not convenient for my daughter to*pursue her musical studies except between seven and ten, to which hours, as heretofore, she will coniine them. “Yours truly, “Abioaii, Bkowjt." Late as it was, I clapped on my hat, repaired to the house-agent of whom I had purchased Eden Lodge, and procured from' him an advertisementboard, which 1 stuck up on a pole in front of the house that very night. ‘•This villa residence to he sold, with immediate possession. No reasonable offer will Iks refused;” After that I walked about the streets till ten o’clock and returned home a little comforted. My wife assured me that the noise had ceased precisely at that hour; but the echoes of it seemed to be still ringing through the house. I felt that I was on tne brink of a nervous fever, and wrote to my employers to say that my return to business must for the present be uncertain. I intended to stop at home de die in diem (until seven o’clock), so as to miss no chaneo of any one calling to bid for it, till that house was disposed of. The very next morning a card was sent in to me with Mr. Joseph Plumliu on it. He was a podgy, red-faced man of by no means aristocratic apEearanee:; but 1 welcomed him as if he ad been one of the royal family. His manner was curt in the extreme; but I thought iie looked an honest man, and fbe city side of my character assured me, at the first, glance, that he was the sort of person who means business. “1 see this house is to sell,” he said. “I am a builder, and know when a house is worth buying. If we can come to terms, I mean to buy Eden Lodge. Now what do you, want for it?” . I mentioned the sum I had fixed upon as a reasonable one; but, in truth, I would gladly have taken h'alf the money rather than not have got the •place off my hands. “Too much!” he said, shaking his solid head. “Too much by a hundred

pounds. If I had been a Frenchman, I should hare got up and kissed him on both cheeks; being an Englishman (with half my time devoted to the main chance), I concealed my joy, and shook my head almo§t as resolutely as he had done. “The house is cheap,” I said, “at the sum I have put upon it.” “No doubt it is. I know that as well as you; indeed, a deal better,” he answered coolly. “But a man don’t put ‘with immediate possession’ oh his no-tice-board unless he has reasoa»=for wanting to quit. Now, look here.cT am a man of action. (I am sorry to say, he used an aspirate.) I am" always for settling matters off the reel. I will split the difference between us, and give you your money, less fifty pounds sterling. I’ll draw you a check for it. if you like, this very moment. And he actually produced from his breast pocket a large and greasy checkbook, and threw it open, like a front door. “My dear sir,” I answered, with effusion, “there is no need to be so precipitate; a letter from your lawyer tomorrow will be quite sufficient; but, on the terms you mention, the house is yours. ” “By ‘immediate possession’ I understand that I can come in at once,” pursued Mr. Plumlin. “Say in a wees?” I nodded assent. I could hardly prevent myself from saying: “Come this evening,” which would have been fatal, indeed. If he had heard that piano the bargain would surely have been off at once I felt that, since he was coming to live in the house himself, I was about 'to take his money under false pretenses; for the poor fellow was looking forward to “a home!” Still, the city side of iny character reminded me that my first duty was to myself; and I performed it. Haring made inquiries about Mr. Flumlin which convinced me of his solvency, I went out that very day to look for a new house, and fortunately found one—this time, yon may be sure, “a detached residence.” Within the week we had “shifted,” bag and baggage, to my intense relief. Every night in the meantime was made hideous by that dread ul child’s piano. I should have thought nothing could have been worse than her tunes, but the seipent of Paradise Row had more terrible things in store. On alternate nights she played hei^scales. Six months afterward, on getting into an omnibus on my way home from the town, I found myself next neighbor to Mr. Piuinlih. He recognized me at once, though, in any case, I think I should have spoken to him. One always feels a little constraint with a stranger to whom he has sold a house or a horse. We know its little imperfections, which the other gentleman does not till he has bought it; and though there had been nothing particularly wrong about Eden Lodge, I felt that as a residence (even independent of its musical neighbor), it was not faultless. 1 took the bull by the horns, however, and at once observed: “I hope you like your house. Mr. Plumlin?” “Yes,” he replied, quite naturally (thereby lifting quite a load from my perhaps too tender conscience), “f am not one in any case to cry over spilt milk, or to complain of a completed bargain; besides, being a builder, you see, why, of course, I did not expect perfection. There’s a little damp in the front attic [there was], but I flatter myself I know how to treat it; I’ve just given it a coat of Paris cement, and that’ll soon be all right” I said to myself “I’ ll back the damp,” but did not pursue the subject. The whole topic of Eden Lodge was a delicate one; still I could hot conquer my curiosity to know how he had exorcised that musical fiend next door; that he had done it somehow, 1 took for granted, or he would never have looked so cheerful. “ Ahd how do you like your neighbors, Mr. Plumlin “ Oh! pretty well; not indeed, that 1 know much of them.” Then, as if moved by an afterthought he added: “To be sure, there’s that Abere Brown. He’s a queer one. What do You think he’s been doing, or rather his people; for I believe his wife was at the bottom of it” II NVkW** t.hniio>hf T mvoolf “Now,” thought I to myself, “it’s coming. Plumlin has bad the benefit of that piano. ’ 1 replied, however, with a blush I strove m vain to conceal, that h^bln°dSibly S®** What BroW“ tiau iJwii ftOiug,

* Well, the f««t is, Fve a Jaqje family, most of thorn gala; so, of course, they're all formnsio; they practice on the fpiatmer—one or other of them— mostly all. day long, as is only natural. Why shouldn’t they?” “ Why, indeed?” I echoed. An tinholy joy liegan to till me. I began to think that all the poets and moralists have taught ns about the retribution that awaits the wicked even in -this world might not be without foundation “Just iso,” he continued, contemptuously, “smd yet this man or his wife— for it looks like a woman’s hand—had the impudence to write to me o ne morning. I’ve got it somewhere,” ho observed parenthetically, bringing about

forty let tars out of his breast pocket, and selecting one after an nmmated search. “ lies; here it is.” He read the letter aloud in tide omnibus. with many interpolations and interjections of contempt and wrath. “Dear Mr. Phtmuin: lit was like her Impudence to begin d earing' me, ju st because sbe wanted someth! g; but she little knew J. P.] In thus addressing myself to you. I am relying upon our relations as friendly neighbors, and by no means urging a legal right. I Legal right, indeed, l should think not: 1 should like to see her trying legal rights with me u pan a matter of that kind! | “In the eye of the law an Englishman's, house is h is castle, and he can. If lie pleases, fire royal salutes from Its battlements night and day. JWell, of course hecan.i Unfortunately, nw wife is so constituted that noisesuch as cunstknt piano playing”— “Now, did you ever hear such a thing as that?’’ inquired Mr. Plumlin, laughing wildjly.- “As if I had anything to do with his wife’s constitution. WeU, to cut a long stcry short, the lady ob-. jected to ‘noise’; not very compliment-) ary, said Mr. P., to call our girls’ pianoplaying noise; but that's by the way. It’s her coolness that fetches me. Did you ever see sueh a letter?” “Never,” I said, “or hardly ever.” 1 was obliged to put that in tiecause B recognized, as' far as it had gone, in Mrs. Brown’s plaintive appea the'very epistle I had addressed to her. She had copied it otd verbatim, without the least respect for the laws of copyright, but notpl hope, without the bitter re-; ilecliou that she herself had once turned a deaf ear to its touching eloquence. “And what did you reply to her?” 1 inquired, with irrepressible complacency. “Reply to her?” echoed Mr.. Plumlin “Why, what would you, or any other fellow who was not a born idiot, have replied to her? I wrote to her husband, of course, since the letter purported to come from him, though I knew it did not, and that gave me a belter oppor-i tunity of speaking my mind, f told him that not; only haa he no legal claim—1 which, indeed, he had the sense to acknowledge—but that his application was preposterous.” [A very good word to use, was my reflection, an® also one that would be familiar to her..] “ ‘If yon don't like our music,’ 1 added,” continued Mr. Plumlin. getting himself together for his exit from the ’bus, “ ‘then go somewhere else. Buy a house a,t the other end of the town’; that’s what I told him. Good morning, sir.”—James Payne, in AT. Y. Independent.

Experiment Farms, Germany has the credit of organizing an institution which promises to be of the greatest importance to the world; but mo re part icularly to the agricultural classes. It,is what is known as the experiment farms. These are Government institutions designed primarily to assist the farming community. Through this agency seeds of all kinds are tested and distributed. The various artificial manures are experimented with, and the facts given to the farmers. The latter have heretofore spent vast sums of money upon well-advertised rubbish. The experiment farm furnishes information about dairying, the growth of fruit and vegetables, and the drying of fruit. It saves the farmer the expense of trying new plants by testing their value before money is spent upon them. In short, the object of the-e institutions is to give farmers the benefit of all the sciences and experience of the age. This admirable German institution has been imitated m a small way in New York and, Ohio; but its possible usefulness does not seem as yet to be appreciated by the American people, and by the farmers least of all. There ought to be dozens of such Government farms in tne large States. Were these institu tions numerous and the farming class wise enough to take advantage of them, it would add amazingly to our national wealth by utilizing the science and experience of the times for the benefit of the agriculture of ithe country'. The most active minclcd and intelligent farmers would profit quite as much as their more stolid [neighbors. Of course these experiment; farms and their appliances would cost money, but they would return a hundred fold for every dollar expended upon them. These experimental farms will be useful also in helping to collect agricultural statistics. A correct knowledge of the production of the country is essential in te rming an estimate of values, and the farming class will never get all their productions are worth until the statistics of the crops arc well nigh perfect. All good citizens should enc ourage these Gove rnment farms.—DemoresTs lyDoes It Pay! Taking it for granted that all tired housekeepers have been able to “get oft"’ for a week at least some time during the popular season for change, and they have got rested from the work of preparation, and conquered since their return the extra washing, settled the household in all disarrangements consequent upon neglect even of one day’s routine; this question, does it pay, comes into mind. Did you enjoy your vacation? we ask of a mother, who. with her husband and daughter, had just returned from a ten days’ sl ay beside old ocean. “Yes,” oh, yes; but it was very warm at the beach, and the house was full, so our accommodations were not the best, and, oh, dear! such a washing as I havB before me, and the house is so dus y. I do believe home is the best place, and I am quite resolved never to go away again.” But there is this: One ca n not go into the stillness of nature wit hout absorbing much €hat is beneficial; without drifting put from the anxieties, borrowed or real, which aire a part of housekeeping; then when one goes where people gather for the express purpose of enjoyment, mind must be quickened, new ideas gathered, so that the drive and strain of every-day life is mitigated. It takes quite three weeks’ time for the average housekeeper to get a week off, and when the house is in order, and her mind takes in the situation, that that peaches and plums must be canned, pickles must be made, indeed, she wonders how she was ever so foolish as to be persuaded to take even one week for herself. Still wo believe such regrets are wrong; for when the extra fail: work is over, and there comes opportunity for thinking, the deep-sound-ing sea with its dreamy restfulness, the quiet of country life, the sparkle and genial companionship of new-made friends, all combine to cheer, encourage and help. Again we say it pays, and the only poi nt to be j^sisted upon is to go, and noit be overcome by olwtacles_Manduster Union. --Cyrus W. Field exhibits with pride a piece of the cable of J8 i8, which wa« the first cable laid across the Atlantic, but which failed after 392 messages had been transmitted through it. -The Pittsburgh Times give a list oi twenty-two boys drowned in the river »t that city since July I.

FACTS ASP FIGURES. —Arizona has 1,000,000,000 foot Of pine lumber in a forest near its center. A single concern lias cut 36,000^000 feet in the last year. . —The increase in the population of Paris since 1876 has been 251,122. The total population is now 2,239,928. In 1876 the total was 1,983,806. —The annual consumption of imported and domestic cigars is sixty to every man, woman ana child in the United States.—Chicago Herald. — New York sells annually about 100,000,000 pounds of butter, of which the Commissioner of Agriculture claims over one-half is bogus.—N. T. Sun.

—One of the largest sheets of plateglass ever imported has been placed in position in Pittsburgh. The plate measures 186 inches by 101 inches, and is without a single daw.—Pittsburgh Post. A —There are 2,000,000 acres of ooffee fields in Brazil, upon which are 800,000,000 trees. Each tree averages one pound of coffee every year, ana 1,000,000 hands are employed in the industry. —Forty-five years 'ago the Britannia was considered a remarkable ship. ;She was 207 feet long, and her tonnage was 1,155. The new Cunard vessel, just launched at Glasgow, is 520 feet long, and her tonnage is nearly 8,000. —Americans are liberal patrons of French art. In seven years Americans have paid $9,180,000 for French paintings. The purchases have steadily increased from $701,000 in 1877 to $1,« 750.000 in 1883.—H. T. Graphic. , —Of the 120,000 miles of road in the United States, 6,000 are in the New .England States, 18,000 in the Middle States, 19,000 in the Southern group, 70.000 in the Western group, and 7,000 in the Pacific group.—Chicago Herald. —It is estimated that the population of the United States has increased twelve per cent, since the census of I860, and the "number of voters in the country is now estimated at 14,000,000, of whom 1,500,000 are colored — Chicago Tribune. —Taking fifteen years as the minimum, there were, in 1882, 16,500,000 persons in England and Wales of marriageable age. Of these, 8,750,000 were unmarried and 1,500,000 widows or widowers. The number of married women under twenty years of age was nearly six times tbat of married men under that age.—Brooklyn Union. —In an address delivered by Sir Richard Temple before the British Association at Montreal, it was stated that the population of the British Empire consists of 39,000,000 Anglo-Sax-ons, 188,000,000 Hindus and 88,000,000 Mohammedans, etc.—a total of 815,000,000. The area of the empire and its dependencies is 10,000,000 s-iuare miles. The number of trained soldiers is 850,000, of whom about 700,000 are of the dominant race. In addition, there are 560,000 policemen in the empire.

WIT A5D WISDOM. —It is easy enough to correct everybody but yourself.— Whitehall Times. —Girls, don’t paint Men know that a pale apple is just as sweet as a red one.—Philadelphia Bulletin. —It is commendable in a man to attempt to reach old age, but highly improper for him to try to overreach it —“Nervous Girl” wants to know jhow to cure “a tickling sensation about ;the face.” Get him to shave off his mustache.—Burlington Free Press. —Maud S. has beaten her own trotting, and the- cow Bomba, before she died, beat her own yield of milk. The next rara avis will be a hen which shall beat her own eggs.—Lowell Courier. —Cannibal King (to missionary)—“I think the best thing that I can do is to eat you.” Missionary (in earnest protest)—“I do not agree with you, sir.” Cannibal King—“Well, I mustn’t eat anything that doesn’t agree with me.” —N. Y. Sun. ' —She (after they had been married [two years—“I guess, Charlie, darling, that I’ll try and get a place as table-girl [in that restaurant down town where you get your meals.” “Why, what in ithe world possessed you tQ think of jsuch a thingi1” “Because, Charlie, il I was down there with all those pretty ■girls I know you’d find time to run in !and see me two or three times a day.” Charlie took the hint.—Chicago Tribune. —A wise Quakeress used to say, in her sermons, that there were three follies of men which always amazed her. The first was, their climbing trees to shake fruit down, when, if they only waited a little, it would fa1! of its own accord; the second was, that they should go to war to kill each other, when, if they but waited, they would all die naturally; and the third was, that they should run after women, which, if they would not do, the women would be sure to run after them,— Exchange. —Undying Love— Shall we meet asain. love. In the distant When, love, ' ■ When the Now is Then, love. And the Present Past? Shall the mystic Yonder, On which 1 ponder, I sadly wonder, Wl.h thee be cast? Ah, the joyless fleeting Ot our primal meeting. And the fateful greeting Of the How and Why! Ah. the Thingness flying From the HeronesH, sighing _ From a love undying, Tha: fain would die! Boston Transcript. —A man who opened a small fruit store on Gratiot avenue the other morning locked the doors on Saturday night and posted a notice reading: “Dis blace doair do some business next vheek.” An acquaintance was asking him what the trouble was and he replied: ‘Vhell, I shtart in mit a capital of ten dollar. Dot vhas all assets und no liabilities. In tree days I make feefty cents profit; but myshtock goes down hill oafer two dollars. In der next tree days I trust ondt oafer two dollar, und my stock goes down bill feefty cents. Bv Saturday night I vhas most all liability and shnsi asset enough to pay der rent I thought it vhas pettcr to glose ondt dan to haf some assignee come in nnd eat oop all der apples dot vhas left for Sunday.”—Detroit Free Press. Surprised. The story of the water which got into the hold of the ship loaded with rice, says an exchange, and so swelled the cargo that it burst, the vessel asunder, reminds the editor of the Kinderhook Bough Notes of the Captain of a North River sloop, who, having hired a new cook at Albany, set him to cooking rice, which he said he had done one hundred times. Telling him that he would find fifteen pounds in the locker, and cautioning him about cooking too much, the Captain went about his business of loading his vessel with pig-iron. In half an hour the cook rushed out, exclaiming: ^ “Say, Captain, don’t take on any more pig-iron; we will have a load of biled rice before night.” The Captain rushed into the cabin, where he fonnd all the pots, kettles, pans and tubs fnll to overflowing with rice, which was also seething over the top of the kettle and falling upon the stove and floor. “What you been doin’P” veiled the skipper, as he glanced around. “How much rice did you put into the pot?” “ Put the whole of it Cap,” said the lad; “andI*Ve been doin’ nothin’ but bailin’ out rice for the last twenty minutes. Where does all the stuff come trom?”

USEFUL A3D SUGGESTIYE. —Farmers are less afraid of science than theyonce were. — Good fanners do not think nowadays of sowing less than six quarts of clover seed to the acre.—Albany Jour- \ nal. —If you have a field too rpcky to be cultivated, set out an apple orchard, and in a few years you will' have a handsome income from' it. —To make sausage keep its shape in flat cakes, after making them the size you wish, dip them into flour; this will effectually prevent their falling apart —Trou limes.

■—Delicious pudding sauce is made oi mixed fruits, chopped fine and cooked until soft. Thin properly with water, sweeten, and lastly add a well-beaten egg- Serve cold or hot—Cincinnati Times. —When a horse has a good appetite and eats well, it is a good indication ot health and capacity to undergo hard labor. For such horses nothing can be gained by attempting to improve them with condition powders or stimulants. A good feeder can, in nearly all eases, be relied upon. — Troy Times. —Lovely tidies ant made of white muslin; they are hemmed, and in the center is worked in silk a suitable picture in outline stitch, if the silk is used which is intended for this kind of embroidery, it will not fade, or “run” when washed, and the tidies are thus rendered serviceable.—N. F. Post. —In a number of localities, both East and West, the plan ot holding neighborhood or township fairs or farmers’ festivals has been practiced with pleasant results. There is no gate or entry fee. An address is given, fol-. lowed by a picnic dinner. Some of these unpretentious neighborhood fairs have been conductive to more profit and pleasure than iShe “regulars.”— Cleveland Leader. —Examine the newly-thrashed wheal, after it has been put in the bins for a few weeks, and if damp or heating it should be run through a fanning-mill to cool the air in it, or i t should be spread upon a barn-floor nnd shoveled over occasionally. A good way to examine wheat in bins is to have a stick like a fork-handle constantly stuck its length down into the grain; by pulling it up and feeling with the bare hand any heat can at once be detected. — Prairie Farmer. —In the economies of tree-life water is something akin to the circulation of the blood of animals; it is through and by means of water that nutrition and growth takes place. It is estimated that three tons of water a day are used by the largest trees, and thrown into the atmosphere in the form of vapor, and it is this vapor that causes the cooler and damper atmosphere of forests, which exercises so many important conserving influences in the manifold economies of vegetable and animal life. —Exchange.

Lire Fence Posts, If wire fences are to come into universal use there appears to be no good reason why all of our outlands should not be surrounded with a line of trees a proper distance apart to serve as posts; tnis would save the expense of posts and at the same time secure a permanent fence. Around fields that are to be plowed and cultivated, there would be'an objection on account of the roots; but around pastures there not only seems to be no objection, but a positive advantage secured by the shade which the trees would afford. In setting trees for this purpose care should be taken to set durable trees, and also trees adapted to the soil and the climate. Some localities require ono kind, and other localities' quite a different kind. Within fifteen or twenty miles of the ocean the red cedar would be one of the best for this purpose; it will grow on any soil from a stiff clay to a dry sand or gravel. It is true it will not make quite as rapid growth as some other trees, but it bears transplanting as well as most deciduous trees, and will soon begin to grow; by the third, and often the second year after set, it will grow as fast as if left to grow where the seedling first started. The locust would be a still better tree if it were not for the borer that gets into the trunk, oftMi in such numbers as to kill the tree. This is a very rapid growing tree, and yet would not grow large enough to encumber the land. Where the borer does not work this would be an excellent tree for lire fence posts. The chestnut would make an excellent tree for posts if it did not grow so large; it grows very rapidly and runs up straight, but when standing single it grows very large. The black walnut is a quick growing tree and it grows in good form for a post. The white ash in some localities would be a good tree, but occasionally would in time get too large. The red maple is easy to transplant, grows well, and would make a very good tree for posts in wet land. The walnut would also make a good ,tree on dry land, but it is veiy difficult ; ;to transplant it, and the time 'required ito get if large enough for a post would ibe an objection. 1 He who attempts to surround hit land with live fence posts should first make himself so familiar with the habits of the different trees that he may not make a mistake by setting the wrong trees on the different soils which surround his farm.—Massachusetts Plough. 'man. Our Host Valuable Insecticides. In answers to inquiries for a list of the leading insecticides we say that there are six substances now generally in use, viz: tobacco, soap, hellebore, arsenic, petroleum, ana pyrethrum. The effective part of tobacco is the narcotic principle called nicotine. The vapor of tobacco is found more effective and less injurious than even tobacco smoke or a decoction of the stems. The tobacco stems are used like a mulch in the garden, or scattered on the greenhouse plants. Soap is one of the oldest remedies. Hellebore, the root of Veratrnm album, ground to powder, is useful for only a limited number of insect pests. It is the best remedy for the currant worm, and most of the saw flies. Arsenic is employed as Paris green or London purple, and is very effective wherever it is safe to use the deadly poison. Paris green became popular as a remedy for the Colorado potato beetle. London purple, an arsenical insecticide of recent introduction, is a refuse material in the manufacture of aniline dyes. Petroleum is now being largely 'used in destroying insects, either in the crude state or as kerosene. Two parts of the substance are thoroughly mixed with one of sour milk, and afterwards diluted with water before spraying upon the infested plants. Pyrethrum has been in use as 3n insecticide for many years, under the name of “Persian Insect Powder.” It is the pulvsrised flowers of several species of the genus Pyrethrum—members of the great sunflower family of plants. A species of Pyrethrum is now being largely grown in California, and furnishes “Buhach,” the comparitively new insecticide known in the trade. The Pyrethrum powder acts only by contact, and needs to be applied "directly to the insects. Unlike the arsenical compounds, it is harmless to man and the larger animals. Other insecticides employed to a limited extent are sulphur; bi-sulphide of catbon, carbolic acid; soluble phenvle; camphor; coal tar and gas lime.—American Agriculturist.

Venice. Venice belongs to gammer end warm days; we must Danish the thought of snow on the Fondamenti and east wind cutting down the narrow draughty streets. Carpaccio’s Venice is a summer city, where the streets are narrow for coolness, and the high white houses are surmounted with a ponnon of blaming sky; where the quays are piled with peaches and grapes and melons, and crowded on the shady side with bead-thread ng girls and gondoliers, and where naked urchins play about the sunny steps, and live but ;o splash aid swim in the cool canal. The landing stages are piled up with the black hoods of gondolas, which are replaced in summer time by striped awnings that bap in the slight breeze with the soft sound of sails. The gondola skims through the water with that rocking increment dear because it is a part of Venice, and the flap of the curtains and the lapping of the ripples against the sides give a strange feeling of dreaminess and silence. Vet the city is far from silent. There is norumbling of cabs and no clattering of carts; but other sounds assert themselves, l’he dreamy city, the Venice of enchantment, exists only in our fancy. In the Venice of reality gondoliers are quarreling across the wide canal; there, fruit barges run into each other, and the owners indulge in vigorous abuse; irom all the quays, from all the streets, rises a noise of busy humanity, of men and women selling cheap wares, chatting, scolding and gossiping; of little cnildren playing and crying—for 0 all places Venice is the place for children’s voices.—Magazine of Art.. —An Assyrian tablet which has been deciphered gives an account of a transit of Venus 1,600 years B. C. Mr. D. H. Barmasv, of Owego, N.Y., says his daughter was taken with a violent cold which terminated in Pneumonia; the best physicians said she could live but a few hours, when a friend recommended Dr. W m. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs. She accepted it and was surprised to find that it produced a marked change for the better, and by persevering a permanent cure was effected. __ When Fogg bought some candy, which was apparently one-third terra alba, he handed it back, after tasting of it, with the remark, “I only want what I pay for. 1 don’t want the earth.”—Soston Transcript. Colden’s Liquid VtSef Tonio Promotes digestion in females of delicate health. Colden’s, no other, of Druggists. Wht is a child, whose father and mother have no sister, like an u'nsalvable conundrum? Because it has no aunt, sir (answer). too, for all the space

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