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WALTER a BBADFUTE. - - Publisher. ' j ; THE NEWS. lateffigwieeby Wirefrom MtlM World. "-The drier Nihilist organ la still beta? secretly printed in St. Petersburg; The last issue declares that "the days of Count Tolstoi, the hangman, are numbered. " Count Tolstoi is the Imperial Minister of the Interior. A death from cholera is reported to have occurred in the Sligo Hospital, Ireland. European journals are setting up the claim that Gladstone went to Copenhagen to form a coalition against the German Uance,' ' Fifteen coal miners were killed near TJnna, Westphalia, by a fire-damp explosion, The steamship Oregea made twenty knots an hoar, on her trial trip on the Clyde, and the builders feel confident that she can cross the Atlantic in five daya O'Donnell is astonished that the Irish do not come forward with a fond for his defense. He already expresses himself with much bitterness, At Farkaswinch, Croatia, the soldiery fixed npon a mob, who shouted, "We won't belong to Hungary," and who previously had repulsed a body of troops. Ten of the rioters were killed and many wounded, A cable dispatch says that Prance, on the China question, is torn up. M. Ferry has the portfolio, but it is generally understood that the French Cabinet will have to settle the Tonquin question before the Chamber meets, or the Chamber will settle the Cabinet Ferry's proposition is that the zone be limited to a narrow belt between the Chinese frontier and the Bed river, but the Chinese insist that the zone shall include the -whole delta of the river, and also that the Government shall be administered by them. They are willing to open the river, however, to general European traffic. Lord Granville favors the Chinese proposals, and, in the event of arbitration, it is thought that Ferry will try to join Russia with England in mediating with Peldn. ' Deafness has attacked the Princess of Wales, and the best artists are unable to suggest a remedy. A Yienna correspondent states that extensive military preparations are being made by Russia along the Austrian and German frontiers. : France will restore the salaries of the C atholic priests and otherwise make peace With the Pope '. Catholic Bishops, who were expelled from Prussia by Bismarck are directed by the Vatican to open .negotiations for their return. Ireland is again in a foment The Government is doing its best to prevent free public speech. Several meetings were held last week, but many which had been projected we re prevented by the police, A letter from Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, has been received by the British Association for the Advancement of Sci ence, in which he urges that Great Britain should claim a protectorate over the Congo country. It is said that the English Commissioner has been charged with the duty of acquiring for Great Britain the territory. PEESOSAL. The will of Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, directs the distribution of 16,000,000 among relatives and friends. John MeCultough's engagement at St Paul, last week, was the finest ever known there, "standing room only" having been nightly placarded. So far, the season hag been the most auccessiul one this popular tragedian has ever had. He opened on Monday at Mc Victor's Theater, Chicago, in "Virginias," which will be played all the week. Dr. E. F. Hatfield, Moderator of the last Presbyterian General Assembly, is dead. Senator Pavid Pavgs js rusticating in Xiorth Carolina HMfCIAL ASP LSDUSTRTAL. The shoe factory of P. Cross, at Brockton, Mass, which has been running thirty years, was closed last week on an attachment for large amount J. Bloch & Brother, shirt manufacturers, of Philadelphia, whose liabilities are 50,000, have made an assignment Kassen & Co., boot and shoe makers of Cincinnati, have made an assignment to cover debts of $45,000. Rev Heber R. Newton, testifying be fore the Senate Sub-Committee on Education and Labor, said the condition of the laboring classes was a subject for expert study, and at the present time there was not sufficient information regarding it upon which to base any intelligent legislation. The difficulties met with by labor reformers were the intemperate habits of the laboring classes and tbe improper methods to which labor resorted in endeavoring to accomplish its desires. The great want of the people he considered to be industrial education. Instruction in public schools was woefully deficient, audits tendency was entirely one-sided. It has given to the youths of the country a dislike for manual labor, which had a very dangerous tendency. Cooperation was spoken of by the witness as tbe greatest aid to the. elevation of the working classes. lillie Deveraux Bloke, another witness, advocated the establishment of matronships in all the penal institutions and State reformatories for girls. Mrs. D. G. Croly, a newspaper writer, who has given considerable study to the condition of the laboring women in New York city, recommended a system of compulsory education, not only in the common schools, bu in the industrial schools, where women would be taught how to work Mrs Br. demance S. Lozier advocated the use of the ballot by women as the next practical means of improving their condition. Bradstreet's Commercial Agency reports 117 failures in the United States for the week ending Sept 22, forty-one more than in the preceding week, and thirty-six more than in the corresponding period in 1882. Dun's weekly report of trade is very rosy. The diminution in the total showings of the clearing-houses' is referred to as misleading in Cat it gages rather the extent of specu

lation than the voume of legitimate business. At the, chief lobbing-centers a large and rapid absorption of goods is no

ticed, money is plenty, and collections are exceptionally easy. Even the dry-goods men are again in good spirits. F. B. Thurber, the leader of the AntiMonopoly league of New York, appeared before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. Ho asserted that of 264 lawyers in the last Congress, a majority were re tained by corporations. Senator Call promptly challenged the statement Sen ator Blair took occasion to say that since entering public life he had never accepted a pass from a railroad. Prof. John M, Gregory, for thirteen years professor of political economy in the Illinois State Industrial University, told the committee that the antagonism between capital and labor was not a purely economic problem, but was largely social The trouble arose partly from the social distinction of the classes consequent upon large accumulation of wealth. The real ground of the dis content was the disparity in the relative conditions of the laborer and the capitalist at present Education was a large factor in the remedy for this state of affairs, and technical education was especially im portant An assignment has been made by the clothing firm of Seidenbacn, Schwab & Co., at New York Their liabilities are said to be between $350,000 and $400,000. The Agricultural Department of Kansas places the corn yield at over 306,000,000 bushels 50,000,000 bushels more than last year. When compared with the precedinsr week, the clearing-house exchanges for the past week $',)60,389,16'2 show a decrease of 27,063,800. From this the deduction is made that general business is quiet, and the outlook not very favorable. The falling off, when comparison is made with the corresponding period in 1882, is 21.5 percent POLITICAL. The New York Republican State Convention was called to order at Richfield Springs by John F. Smyth. Senator Lapham presided. Among the delegates who failed to appear were George William Curtis, Whitelaw Reid, ThomaB C. Piatt and Gen. Sharpe. Senator Lapham was called to the chair, and made a few remarks which evoked hearty cheers. A platform was adopted, eulogizing President Arthur and calling ior a moderate protective tariff and the taxation of corporations. The following ticket was placed in nomination: Secretary of State, Gen. Joseph 3. Carr; Comptroller, Ira Davenport; State Treasurer, Pliny J. Sexton; State Engineer and Surveyor, Silas Seymour; Attorney General, Leslie W. RusselL The Maryland Democrats met in convention at Baltimore and nominated Robert McLane for Governor, C. D. Roberts for Attorney General, and J. Frank Turner for Comptroller. The platform declares that the inauguration of Hayes and Wheeler was brought about by fraud, and says the methods used by Garfield and Arthur were, "if possible, more discreditable than those adopted by their fellows in 1876. " It denounces the Republican party as having made public lands the spoil of favored corporations, and as having "squandered the money of the country in maintaining a horde of idlo.profligate, and incapable place-men;" declares equal protection is not given to the industries of the country, and that under the administration of the party now in power the merchant marine of the United States has been broken up." CoL Charles R. Codman was chosen to preside over the Massachusetts Republican Convention, at Boston, and in taking the chair said there was no room in that Commonwealth for a cheap and vulgar dictatorship, but there was a necessity for a Governor of decent manners and seemly behavior. On the first ballot for Governor Hon. George D. Robinson received WQ votes and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 117. Mr. Adams at once caused the nomination of Mr. Robinson to be made unanimous. The remaining State officers were renominated. Mr. Dawes presented the platform, which was unanimously adopted, and which, after indorsing Arthur's administration, favoring civil-service reform, a currency based on specie and a higher standard of temperance legislation, arraigns and denounces the administration of Gov. Butler. The Dakota Constitutional Convention, which met at Sioux Falls, has adjourned, leaving the final arrangement of the constitution in the Hands of the Committee of Arrangements and Phraseology. Very stringent safeguards will be made agaist the monopolies of banking and railroads. The convention defeated an amendment to the article on corporations, assessing railroads upon their gross earnings. The question of salaries to be allowed State officers was decided as follows: The Governor, 2,000; the Treasurer, Auditor and Attorney General, l,00i) each; the Secretory and Superintendent of Public Instruction, $1,500. The Legislature will fix other salaries. A provision was adopted to submit to a popular vote any prohibitory measures upon the petition of 5,000 legal voters, and upon a majority vote it shall become a port of the State constitution. A mass convention of colored voters of Ohio was held at Columbus, Sept 20. The Democrats took control at the outset, but the Republicans reorganized the affair after recess. Then a split took place. One convention refused to send delegates to the Louisville convocation; the other appointed a full set The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts nominated Charles Almy, of New Bedford, for Governor. A Philadelphia dispatch states that Judge Hoadley has entirely recovered from his recent illness, asd will shortly take an active part in the Ohio campaign. In the interest of harmony, the Democrats of New York filled the large hall of Cooper Union. David Dudley Field presided, and Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were among the Yice Presidents. Resolutions were adopted calling upon all Democrats to unite against "the common enemy." GENERAL The Chicago Christian Convention, led by Moody and Sankey, opened at Farwell Hall, in that city, in the presence of an immense audience. Many noted evangelical workers were in attendance, and during the series of meetings the best methods of Christian work were elaborately discussed. Interest in the meetings did not Hag as they

progressed, but there was a great rush ana

packed houses each day. The Shamrocks beat the Montreal club in the latter city iu a lacrosse contest foi the championship of the world. Postmaster General Greshain has ordered the Postmaster at New Orleans to de liver no more registered letters or moneyorders to the New Orleans National Bans until it shall have discontinued receiving the lottery-man Dauphin's mails. Postmasters have drawn so heavily upon the Department at Washington, for 2-cent stamps that the contractors are unable to supply the demand, although they manufacture 1,500,C00 daily. The new South and Central American telegaphline to Brazil, via Galveston and Valparaiso, was opened last week, upon which occasion President Arthur sent a fitting greeting to the Emperor of Brazil The shamefully large number of fiftyseven suits for divorce from matrimony were heard iu the Chicago courts in one day, and twenty separations were decreed. Nordenksjold, the Arctic explorer, has been heard from He reports that his expe dition penetrated Greenland a distance of S60 kilometers, and found the whole region an ice desert They attained the height of 7,000 feet above the sea The Brunettes and Blondes, gorgeouslyattired young women, played a game of base ball in New York After five innings the score stood: Blondes, 22; Brunettes, 52. Sullivan, the pugilist, and Hanlon, the oarsman, will contest a 100-yard running race for 1,000 a side in a few months. The release of the alleged Invincible McDermott is said to confirm the suspicion that he bos been a spy among the American Fenians. The Irish National League is arranging for a series of mass meetings in America, to be addressed by leading Nationalists, among them being John Redmond, who will reach San Francisco in November from Australia. The new Brooks comet is now shown to be the long-expected visitor of 1812. It will be risible to the naked eye before Christ mas, BRIEFS. The price of matches has been reduced nearly one-half, Rains have checked the yellow fever in the Mexican citiea Ashton-under-Lyne, England, is the scene of a great weavers' strike. Barn-burners are creating great alarm in Niagara county, N. Y. Cadet Tuggle,of Kentucky, has been dis missed from the Naval Academy for hazing. An assignment has been made by H A Ramsey & Co., bridge-builders, of Balti more. Supervising Architect Hill has re-signed. A national conven on of postal railway clerks has just been held at St Paul Reports from Guaymas, Mexico, are to the effect that the fever has been checked by the rains The Bulgarian Ministry has resigned. C E. Hawkes is the latest naval, cadet to be bounced from Annapolis for hazing. Relief money is now flowing toward Java. Seth B. French gave a grand dinner at Newport in honor of President Arthur, A statue of Gen. Zaohary Taylor was unveiled at Louisville, Ky., last week. Judge Greshain has started out among the postofflces. There is in the National Treasury to the credit of the Patent Office the sum of $2,500,CO:. Passaic, an American horse, won a race at Manchester, England. Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of En gland, has been "doing" Chicago. The wife and children of James Carey, the informer, have returned to England. Vandals have defaced Daniel Webster's statue at Morshfield. Randall is sure he will be chosen Speaker. Judge Greshom is favorable to the pos tal telegraph. Cholera quarantine has been removed by the authorities at Gibraltar. F. Rolshaven's jewelry store in Detroit was robbed of $15,000 worth of property. At Pretoria, the capital of Boerland, two rebellious chiefs have been sentenced to death. FERES AND CASUALTIES. Fire destroyed the packing-house of F. S. Andrew, at New Haven, Ct, valued at $25,000. A fire at Cincinnati destroyed the works of tho Enterprise Carriage Company, valued at $30,000. A hurricane that swept over the Bahama islands caused great destruction of life and property. Over fifty vessels were wrecked, and between sixty and seventy people drowned. Nelson Lyons' furniture factory at Albany, N. Y., was destroyed by lire, entailing loss of about $65, tOO. A collision occurred on the West Shore road, near Syracuse, between a construction train and a hand-car. There were 150 workmen on the train, three of whom were killed and thirteen severely injured Burt & Ca's tannery, near Elmira, N. Y., was burned by an incendiary. Loss, $50,000. A terrific boiler explosion in the iron works of Lyon, Shorb fc Co., at Pittsburgh, Fa., killed five and badly wounded tea men. The machine shops of the Hannibal and St Joe road, in the former city, valued at $40,01.0, were burned. A lire in New York swept away the planing-mill of Robert Ellis and huge piles of lumber worth $50,000. One hundred convicts in the Connecticut State Prison were accidentally poisoned at Weathersfield. In the Woodward shaft at Kingston, Pa., four men were drowned by the fall of a platform. A railroad accident, in which two persons were killed and several seriously injured, occurred at Seymour, III Following a gas explosion near Birmingham, Ala., the Oxmoor iron furnaces were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $500,00.'. The engine at the Red river biidge at Shreveport, La., exploded, killing five men at work and injuring several others. j George W. Alexander, a stock-raiser nearVincenues, IncL, was gored thro ugh the breast by a Jersey bull and carried about the lot on tbe horns of the infuriated uni- j mal, receiving fatal injuries. A block of buildings at Ilailey, Idaho, valued at $0,000, was swept away by fire. Twenty-six houses were burned in New Orleans by names originating at the corner

of Johnson and Duniane streets, the loss being 00,000.

CHIMES AHD CRIMINALS: A stage-coach was robbed near Weatherford, Texas, by a lone highwayman, who took only the moils Sal lie Johnson, a belle in Baltimore society, committed suicide by hanging herself from the third story of the staircase in her father's residence. Near Oxford, Ind, the youngest daughter of Cephas Atkinson was found in a fieUl with her throat cut front ear to ear. LATEST HEWS. The Greenback State Convention in Massachusetts was attended by 375 accredited delegatea Ben Butler was nominated for Governor and John Howes for Lieutenant Governor without the formality of a vote. Hower declined to terve, and joined with other prominent Greenbackers in calling a new convention at Worcester for Oct 16. The heaviest gale known for years swept over Lakes Erie and Ontario on the night of Sept 24, causing innumerable marine disasteia Considerable damage was done to property in Buffalo and vicinity. At Bristol, B. I., the corner-stone of the Burnside memorial was laid w.th Masonic formula?. President Arthur, Attorney General Brewster, and other prominent persons attending. The President on his arrival at Bristol, was first conducted to CoL S. P. Colt's residence, where twenty young ladies strewed his path with flowers. A similar mark of honor was shown President Monroe at the same house in 1817. Maj. Gen. Pope will probably succeed Gen. Sheridan in command of the Military Division of the Missouri. Mr. F. Lyman Blair, a prominent merchant and esteemed citizen of Chicago, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun, when about starting on a hunting expedition to Tolieston, Ind. At a railway crossing in Detroit, two men were killed and a boy fatally injured by a Michigan Central locomotive. The New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad shops at Port Jervis, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. A lighter, carrying 1,000 bales of cotton, burned in New York harbor. The loss is $55,000. A defective flue caused the burning of the rolling-mill at Fair Haven, Ct, causing a loss of $40,000. Reports from the Chief Superintendent of the Panama canal indicate that the big ditch will be completed in 1SS8. The Judge AdvocateGeneral is invited by some of the United States army officers to decide that au officer shall not forfeit official or social respect by living openly with a mistress, but shall be dismissed the service for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman if he marry her. It is announced that England will resume negotiations with the Suez Canal Company relative to the proposed canal. The Paris journals exhibit much ill-feeling at the acceptance by King Alfonso of the Colonelcy of the Uhlan Regiment con ferred upon him by the Emperor of Germany. A railway train from Paris for Constantinople was thrown from the track near Bucharest, several carriages demolished, and many persons killed and wounded. O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, was arraigned at London, Sept fclx The most sensational evidence was given by Carey's eldest son, who swore that he heard O'Donnell tell his (Carey's) mother, that he was sent to kill her husband F, Mayer & Co., jobbers in woolen goods. New York, have failed, with liabilities of $1,250,000. Levy Brothers & Co., New York clothiers, have also gone to the wall, with liabilities of $1,500,000. Among other New York failures are Charles W. F. Dare, car riage-maker, and Julius Kaufman, jeweler. Sad, indeed, is the spectacle of tbe youth idling away the spring-time of his existence, and, not only "losing the sweet benefit of time," but wasting, in the formation of evil habits, those hours in which he might "clothe himself with angel-like perfection. " Landon. They call it a romantic marriage when a couple of the neighbors get the bride's father in a back room and sit on him to prevent his interrupting and breaking up the wedding. THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves $ 4.60 c.-to Hogs 5.30 5.70 Flour Superftne. . j 3.85 i.ao Wheat No. l Whie loo & l.oo'a No. 2 lied. i.12&b$ l. is COEN No. 2 L G2 (Si .234 Oats No. 2 ; 34 g .: 5 PoitK Mess j. 12.00 w-12.25 Lard i os .0835 CHICAGO. Beeves Good to Fiincy Steers.. 6.00 jj 8.:f0 Common to Fair 4.35 m ' Medium to Fair 6.00 6.55 Hogs i 4.75 U 5.45 Flouu Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.50 &, 5.00 Good to Choice Snr'tr Ex. 4.75 m 5.00 Wheat No. 2 Sprla 93 (?) .!83i No. 2 Red Winter 101 C") .1013" Corn No. 2. Wttta .m Oats No. 2 a7 .2754 Rye No. 2 55 6 .553a IUliLEY No. 2 M)Am .50 Bctteb Choice Creamery 25 ( .27 c(h;.h resu. 21 & .22 POKK Moss , 10.70 (gl0.?S0 liAKK 0576 -06 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2. 93 .9336 Corn No. 2. 00 (& .51 Oats No. 2 27. g5 .2736 Kye -No. 2 54 C'4 .55 BAUI.EY-NO. 2 02S3! .63 Pouk Mess 10.50 ?"10.75 IiAUU 07J6) .08 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.01& Couk Mixed 40 A6)fs Oats No. 2 25 & .2534 Rye 529.ia .53 Pork Mess 11.37 '"11.50 Laud .ofJs .01H CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.04 1.05 Corn 52 & .523s Oats 2.)36 .30 Rye. 6(S i6 .5634 Pork Mess. 11.50 ll.75 Lard 07MsJ .08 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.03 1.04 Corn 54 .55 OATS HO, 2 27 & .27Js DETROIT. Flour 4.00 6.75 Wheat No. l White l.or.VjKfl 1.07K Corn No. 2 .53 .54 Oats Mixed 23 t .2956 Pork Mesa 13.00 cgi3.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Ued 1.01 1.01 Corn No. 2 . . . 47 .48 OATS Mixed 27 (Si) .2736 EAST LIBERTY, PA.Cattle Best C.00 c.35 Fair 4.75 o B.80 Comu on 4.00 ci 5.25 Hons 5.10 5.35 Sheep 4.10 S 4.76

THE FARM. To prevent the hair falling off a horse's mane and to restore the growth, rub the skin or the part with the following mixture, viz : One pint of alcohol and one draohm f tincture of cantharides. Give the horse a dose of salts (twelve ounces) and feed some wheat bran, which will allay the iritation of the skin, to which the loss of hair is due. The wise farmer will keep a good class of horses or none. There are cases in which circumstances may interfere somewhat, bnt the man who tries to ran a farm and get this best results by getting along with old plugs of horses, certainly stands in his own light. The character of his horse is generally a pretty good indication of the character of the owner. It is recommended that oats be soaked sufficiently to swell them before feeding to stock. Ground oats are in proper condition at all times, but many farmers feed them unground. When soaked the husk is partly torn away and facility of digestion increased. Poultry will carefully pick out the soaked grains from the dry when allowed a preference in the matter. Pasture ought to be had for hogs. They will be all the healthier for having the ran of a good clover pasture, but they will lay on flesh faster when kept in close confinement and fed all the grain they will eat. The best breeders believe the best plan is to give the stockers or young swine the run of pasture up to within about two months of the time when they are to be marketed, and then confine them to close, comfortable quarters. They will gain bitt little when exposed to severe cold. Artificial Incubation. "From seventy-eight eggs placed in a incubator at one time I hatched on the 8th of March seventy-one chicks. The following was the temperature was kept up : The first week 100 degrees ; second week, 102 degrees; last week, 104 degrees. I did not let the mercury at any time get below .92 degrees, and then gradually up. I kept up a moisture by sprinkling thoroughly once a day with water rather above blood-heat, with a whisk broom. I turned the eggs twice a day and kept it up until signs of hatching. I made it a point to be regular in hours of sprinkling and turning." Thus writes a New York correspondent in

the Country Gentlemen. Gas-Tar and CrRCcno. "I have had success with gas-tar and curculio. I put tho tar in a long-handled fryingpan heated with cools just so as the tar will not blaze, and walk through the orchard. The curculio will immediately fly off beyond the fumes of the burning tar and will not return o long as any of the fumes remain. I begin this fumigation as soon as the fruit is formed and keep it up during the season, say twice a week and directly after a rain. I have no trouble with curculio in plum-orchards thus treated." G. H. W., Sioux City, Ioiva. The back door of the farmer's resi'denee may be kept perfectly clean by a little preparation for that desirable 'object. The pig pens should of coarse, be removed quite a distance from the house, but they should bo so connected jwith the house by board sidewalks that 'the process of getting to them will be an easy matter. If a barrel is hung on it wo wheels, and the sidewalk is wide enough to run this on it from the house to the pig pens, it wiL be an easy matter to convey all refuse dishwater, vegetables and milk to the pig pens. The best barrel to use is a kerosene barrel which lias been cleaned out. The blacksmith can so rig the iron sling for this and two old buggy wheels will do for the running gear. The contents of this barrel may be emptied into stationary barrels at the pig pen, in which the necessary ground grain which is to be fed to the hogs should be allowed to soak for twenty-four hours. It should not be allowed to get too sour, but a jlitfcle does not hurt it. Where milk is 'not abundant enough to furnish the hogs what drink that they want they should have access to some clean water 'as well as this swill. In his book, "Feeding Animals," Prof. E. W. Stewart says : " That you can take an ordinary cow, of good condition and form, and greatly improve both tho quality and quantity of milk, we have demoustratad in several instances. Let us take some examples! : First, a heifer with her third calf, at 4: vears old, that had in her first and second years given a very moderate quantity of milk ; and on a test during the fourth week of her second lactation made five pounds of butter from 150 pounds of milk, and during the fourth week of her third season made five and one-eighth pounds of butter from 1(50 pounds of milk. At the olose of this second test we began the experiment of developing her. She was a cow of rather spare habit. It was the latter l)art of January, and her ordinary food tad been timothy and clover hay, with one peck of carrots daily." The work of improvement began by increasing the food ration by the addition of a pint of oil-meal and three quarts of

bran per day, which was gradually increased during the first month to six quarto of bran; the second month toone quart of oil-meal, six quarts of bran and two quarts of- ejrn-meal, which was continued until grass came,, when the ration was reduced to one pint of oil-meal and four quarts of bran, per day. This formed the daily ration through the summer. Such experiments have considerable value, not only because they show something f what can be done with the common cow, bnt because they serve to encourage the average farmer to give hisconimon or "native" cow some of the good care and abundant food he would: l very likely to bestow upon highlybred and high-priced stock. Upon the whole, the scrub or "native" cow deserves far more credit than she has received, for the treatment which ha been accorded to her has certainly not been such as would encourage any animal in well-doing. The meaning of language may be taught a horse in a limited way, but only in connection with the bit. It is comparatively easy to teach the colt to advance npon the loose rein and to stop at the sound of "whoa," that sound being simultaneously accompanied with & sharp pull upon the bit; but backing is another process, less natural to the ani-l maL and requires patience and gentleness on the part of the trainer. The first lesson in backing should be given without any load behind the colt. Stand directly in front of him, take hold of each rein, and gently press the bit against his mouth, using the simple word "back" in a clear voice, not too loud. He will naturally step backward. Show him your approbation of this by pattingand "gentling" him. Repeat the lesson, but do not tire him. Do this on several occasions, until he associates the sound of the word with the motion j then try him with the wagon behind him, and, finally, from your seat in the wagon. Chicago Journal.

THE KITCHEN. Bananas sliced and served with icecream are very delicate and dainty. They should be sliced and have a little powdered sugar scattered over them, about an hour before serving. Set them in the refrigerator for that length of time. Salt sprinkled thickly on dusted carpets cleanses them well; also bran made damp or tea leaves. After a thorough sweeping with either of these, use ox gall in water or hartshorn and a sponge ; wipe over entirely, and leave the windows open all night if possible, Ladies' Cabbage. Boil firm a white cabbage fifteen minutes, changing the water then for more from the boiling teakettle. When tender, drain, and set aside until perfectly cold. Chop fine, and add two beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, pepper, salt, three table-spoonfuls rich milk or cream, Stir all well together, and bake in a buttered pudding dish until brown. Serve very hot. Currants frosted make a tasteful garnish for jellies, or blano mange, and add to the good looks of a charlotte russe. Choose the nicest stems possible, handle them carefully, so that the fruit will not fall off, dip them, one stem at a time, in the beaten white of an egg to which a little cold water isadded, let them drain till they are almost dry, and then dip them in powdered sugar. Grapes, the Delaware especially, are very satisfactory when frosted in this way. Ginger Crackers. One pound of brown sugar, one pound of butter, four pounds of flour, one quart of molasses, two ounces of ground ginger, twoounces of ground cloves. Put half the flour into a large bowl, and rub tho butter into it with the hand until it become as fine as pulverized sugar; then add the sugar, molasses and spices. Work in gradually the rest of the flonj ajid knead it as thoroughly aaror bread. The more it is kneaded the crisper and better the crackers will be. Boll out thin, cut with a round cakecutter, and bake in a moderately-heated oven. These crackers are excellent, and will keep fresh and crisp for along time if excluded from flie air. Colp Veal and Macaroni. Ingredients: Three-quarters of a pound of minced cold roast veal; three ouncesof ham; one table-spoonful of gravy ; pepper and salt to taste; one-quarter teaspoonful of grated nutmeg; onequarter pound of bread crumbs; one-quarter-pound of macaroni; one or twoeggs; a piece of butter. Mode Mince the veal and ham; season highly with pepper and salt; add nutmeg and bread crumbs, and enough gravy to make it moist Mix these ingredients with eggs well beaten. Boil the macaroni in salt and water till tender, and drain it; butter a dish, put the macaroni at the bottom and sides of it; mix the remainder with the meat, and fill up the dish ; put a plate on it, and steam for half an hour. Turn it out carefully. Serve with gravy poured round, if one chooses. Deference is the most delicate, themost indirect and the most elegant at all compliments. Shenstone