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i . v^ â- Â«?'> yi Mew Words io Auld L»ug Sjra*, Coino. brinf; theHoul flllt-d bro^kor now» Wu'li drink tu uthtir yearn, To friend^liipi halluwed by '• laug nyiu-/' And lovtiR umbalmud in le&r^. To luvos umbtiluidd in teartt, my friond. Where unly ainiluit one*; hIiodu, ^V«•'lldrJuk Che lovtM of other dayR Aud c&ll thorn " btill our uwii.' Wiy'W think upon the grahs hid mjuudi Tho ailfnt, tukcred NpotK Wliere u't<r ihelieadri of churUhed onctt Ulooui bluu " for-uot-uie-uuts." Wuil drink to thu Qt:ad and aW^ciit cnos To friuudH we u«od to know , Tu many a hand tha'.claMpud our own Ik'lovod of loiif; a^u. Wo know not which shall fall hslef]' rho flrHt, whiiSti t till thu tirHt Rhall If, Whutber my tc-arH furyouHhnll fall. Or you bend over nic. \Vu only knuw tbataa> h can Hay Horeateops a heart truth calliHl iV. own, <iod k«epit i>ur« and hanpy still. In Bight of His white- throne. -I>i«ji> Petit C'ltlf^r in Ho-'ir Joui'ti if. SIR HUGH'S LOVES. Bomebow Nea vent home not quite so happily that day ; a ditn coiiBciousiieBS that things were different, that it ncvor rested papa to play with her, oppressed her childish brain; aiii that ivcning Nea moped in her splenli 1 nursery, and would not be ooHBolod by her tovB or even her birds and kitten. Presently it came out with floods of tears that Nea wanted her father â€" wanted him very badly indeed. "You must not bo t-.auRhty, Miss Nea,' returned nurse, scverly, for slio was rather out of patience with t'.ie child'fi pc-ttishiiesiii " Mr. Uuutin)>don has a lot of ({rand people to dine with him t>) i.ifjht. The carriages will bo driving up b,, and by, nnd if you are ({ood you shall ){a into one of the best bedrooms and look at them." liut Nea was not to bo pacified by thi.-i ; the tears enladiii a fit of perverse sulkiiix that lasted until bedtime. Nea would neithar look at the carria<{L-a nor the (too^ile i the ice and fruit that had been provided as n treat were pushed iQgrily away; Nea would not look at the dainties, she turned her flushed face aside •nd buried it in her pillow. " 1 want papa," she sobbed, as nursn p illed down the biuiJ and left her. That uight, as Mr. IIuntin;{don crossed tho corridor that led to his bedrooai, he was startled by seeing what luoked like a mass of blue and white draperier flung •cross his dour, but as he lowered his candlestick he saw i'. was Ncs lying fast ksleep, with her lu-a I pillowed mi her arms, ' Knd her dark hair half hidint; her face. " Good heavens ! what ran uuraa be ftbout I" he exclaiui^'l in a shocked vjice, â-  he lifted the child, and carried her back to her be<l. Nea stirred drowsily a4 h< moved her, and s.iid, " Dear papi," an 1 one warm arm crept about liu neok, but •ho was soon fast aitleep again. Houiehow that childish caress liaunted Mr. lIuLitiiig- don, and he tbou^ht once or twioo how firetty she had looked. Nurse had assured lim that the child m int have crept out of bud 111 her sleep, but Mr. Huntingdon di I not feel satisHed, aui thu next inorntug, as ho was eating his breakfast, he sent for Nea. 8he oanio to him willingly enough, and •tood beside him. " What were you doing, my dear, last night?" he asked kiiiiily as he kisS'.'d her. " l3id nurse tell you tlial I found you lying by iiiy bedroom doo: , and that 1 carrijil you ba'Tk to be<l '/" " Yes, papa ; but why did you not wiku me? 1 triml nut to ^o to sleep until you came, but I Huppose 1 could not help it." " Hut what were you doing '.'" he asked, in a pu/./tled tone ; " don't yon know. Net, that it was very wrong for a little girl to bo out of her boil at tlr\t time of night '/ ' Out as .Mr. Hnntingdnn spoke he reineuibered •gain how nweet tho childish face had looked, pillowed on thu round dimple 1 arm. " 1 was waiting to see you, p.ip.i," replied Nea with perfect frankness ; " yo i â- re always too busy or too tired to c nmi and see nie, you knu.v, and nnrsoiHsocro-is, and so is MLih Hand'Tson ; they will never let me come nnd tlnd you; so when nurse came to take away tho lamp I preteiido 1 to be asleep, an. I then I crept out of bod, and went to your door and tried tokeepawako." " Why did you want to see me, Nea? " asked her father, moru and more pu^/.led; it never entered his head that biaonly chilu wanted him and longed for bini. " Oh," she said, locking up at him with innocent eyes that lemindod him of hir mother, " I always want you, papa, though not so bailly an yesterday ; Colonel Ilaiii- bletoii was playing with Nora and Janie, and Nora stiid hur papa was never too busy to play with them,4Ui 1 that inado niu cry a little, for you never play with mn.doyou, papa? anil vi<u iierar look up when I am waving from the balcony, and niiise says you don't want to be worried with mo, but that IS not true, is it, papa?" " No, no !" hut Ins coiiHcii'oce pricked him as he patted her head ami picked out a crimson peach for her. " There, run away, Nea. for 1 am really in a hurry ; if ynii are a ^ooil girl you shall come ilown and nit witli nui while I have dinner, for I eliall be alone to-night ;" and Nea tripped away happily. From that day (xiople noticed a clungo in Mr, Huntingdon ; ho began to takti interest ill his child, without being deinnu. Mtrative, fiU' loll. scold naturedeinoiistrutiou was im|)OtiHilila ; he soon evinced a decided partiality for his daughter's society ; and no svonder. as people said, for she was a most engaging littio creature. Ity and by she grow absolutely neoess.iry to him, and tiny wore never long ap.-xrt. HtrangerH would pause to admire the pretty child on her (ream colored \xiny canteiiug beside the dark, handsome man. N.a always â- â€¢â- -cHiiled now at the breakfast- table ; the dimpled hands wniilil carry the i up of coffee round to her father's chair, and lay Howers beside Ins plate. Wluui he was alone she snl hesiile him as he ate bis iliu- iior, and lie:iril about the ships that were roming neross the ocean laden with g.iodly freights. Neil grew into a beautiful girl presently, and then a new ainbitiini awoke 111 Mr. Huntingdon's breast. Nea was hi.s only child with snidi beauty, talents and wealth, she would he a match for an earl's Doll ; his heart swellml with pride nt ho looked at her ; ho began to cherish (treams of her future that would have ainii/eil \ua. A I'ortuin \ouiig nohlenian hail lately made their ac(|naintaiioe, a liaiid- Homo siirtple yotmg fellow, with n very inotlorat^' allou-ancu of brains ; indeed, in liis heart Mr. Huntingdon knew that Lord llertle Uowcr was merely a feather-brained boy with a weak, vacillating will that had already brought him into trouble. Mr. Huntingdon was thiakiiig about Lord Bertie Gowor as he rode away that spring morning, while Nea waved to him from the balcony ; he had looked up at her and saiiled, but as he turned away his thoughts were very busy. Yes, Lord Bertie was a fool, he knew that â€" perhaps be would not own as much to any one olso, certainly not if Lord liertie became his son-in-lawâ€" but h? was well-bred and had plenty of good- nature, and- â€" . Well, young men were all alike, they would have their fling, and he was hardly the man to cast a stoae at them. Then he was a good-looking fellow, and girls liked him ; and if Nea laughed at him, and said that he was stupid, he could n convince her that there was no need for her husband to be clever â€" she was clever enough for both ; he would like to see the man, with the exception of himself, who could bend Nea's will. The girl took after him in that tl.e had not inherited her mother's soft yielding nature â€" poor Susan, who had loved turn so well. Lord Bertie needed a strong hand ; as his son-in-law, Mr. Huntingdon thought ti:at he could keep him in order. The boy was certainly in love with Nea. Ho must come to an understanding with him. True, li"? was only a second sou ; but his brother. Lord Leveson, was still a bachelor, and lather shaky in his h-^alth. The family were not as a rule long-lived ; they were constitutionally and morally weak ; and tlie old Karl had already had a touch of paralysis. Yes, Mr. Huntingdon thought it would do ; and there was Groombridge Hall for sale, he thought he would buy that; it should be hii weddiiig gift â€" part of the rich dowry that she would bring to her husband. Mr. Huntingdon planned it all as he rode down to the city that morning, and it never entered his mind what Nea would say to his choice. His child belonged to him. She was part of himself. Hitherto his will had beenhers. True, ho had denied her nothing ; he had never demanded even a trifling sacrifice from her ; there was no fear that she would cross bis will if he told her seriously that he had sot his heart on this marriage : and he felt no pity for the motherless young creature, who in her beauty and innocence appealed so strongly to his protection. In his strange nature love was only another form of pride ; his egotism made him incapable of unselfish tenderness Nea little knew of th > thoughts that tilled her father's mind as she watched him fondly until both horse and rider had dis appeaml. It was one of those days in the early year when the spring seems to rush mwn the world as though suddenly new born, when there is all at once a delicious whisper and rustle of leaves, and the sunshine permeates everything; when the earth wakea uptroah, green, and ladbn with dews ; and soft brec/.cs, fragrant with the promise of summer, come atealiug into the open windows. Nea looked like the embodiment of spring as she stood there in her white gown, llolow her was tho cool green garden of the stpiaro where she had playeti as a child, with the long morning shadows lying on thu grass ; around her wuru tho twitter- i'.H* of tho housemarttna and tho cheeping of sparrows under the eaves ; from the distance came the perfumy breath of violets. Hnoh days niakit the blood course tunialtunusly through the veins of youth, when with the birds and all the live young things that sport in the sunshine, they feel that mere existence is a joy and a source of cadless gratitude. • Who so happy as I ? " thought Nea, as she tripiml through the great empty rooms of liolgrave House, with her hands full of I'olden primroses ; " how delicious it is only to bo alive on such a m >riiing." Alas fur that happy spiring tide, for the jiyonsness and glory of lier youth. Little (lid Nea guess as slut flitted, like a white l> itterlly, from oiiu flower vase to another, that her apriiig-tido WAS already over, and that the cloud that was to obscure her life was dawning slowly in the east. cHA.rTi:i;vni. UAl'llIlK TUVt'Klllli. 1 iiave uo rusMiu Ih l:i (l witiik&n's reason ; I thliili hiiii so, because 1 ttiliilt him lo. Shatupearr. Before noon there was terror and con fusion ill itelgrave House. Nea, flitting like a humming-hird from dower to flower, was suddenly startled by tho sound of heavy jolting foot-steps on tho stairs, and, coming out on the corridor, she saw strange inon carrying the insensible figure of her father to his riKim. Slie iittertMi a shrill cry and sprang towards them, but a gontle- inuii who was following tliein put her gently aside, and telling hur that ho was a doctor, and that ho would come to her piosenlly, quietly closed the door. Nea, sitting on the stairs and wooping passionately, board from a sympatliising iiystander tho little there was to tell. .Mr. Iliintiiigdonhad met with anaeciilent in one of the crowded city lanes. His horse had shied at some passing object and had thrown him here Noa uttorod a low ory- but that was not all. His lioriMi had thing him at thu feet of a very .luggornanl, a mighty waggon piloil with wool bales nearly as high as a liouso. Olio of the leaders had liacked on his haunches at the unexjieoted obstacle ; but thu other, a foolish young horse, reared, and ill another moment would certainly have troildun out the brains of the insensible man, had not a youth- a mere lioy suildenly rushed from tho crowdtvl footpath and threw biniHidf full against the terrified animal, so for one brief instant retarding Hill nioveiiieiit of tho huge waggon while Mr. Iliiiitingdon was dragged aside. It had all happened in a monieut ; the next inoineiit the horses were pliiiiging and rearing, with the driver awoariiig at them, and the young man had sunk on a truck while as death, and faint from tho pain of his sprained arm and slioiildor. " Who is he .'" cried Nea, imiietiiously, " what have tin v done with him ?" 1 le was in the library, the butler informed her. Tho doctor had promised to ilress I his shoulder after he had attended to Mr. I lliintiiigdoii. No, his miatreHs need not go : down, Wilson wont on ; it was only Mr. ] Trathird, ono of the junior clerks. Only n I junior clerk I Nea flashed an indignant look as Wilson spoke. What if ho were the , city luesseiiger ; her father should make his fortune, and she would go and thank him. Hut there was no tiiiio fortius, fitr closed her father's door against her was now standing on the threshold ; and Noa forgot everything in her gratitude and joy as he told her that, though sevei'ely injured, Mr. Huntingdon was in no danger, and with ijuiet and rest, and good nursing, he would soon be himself again. It would all depend on her, he added, looking at the agitated girl in a fatherly manner ; and ho bade her dry her eyes and look as cheerful as she could, that she might not disturb Mr. Huntingdon. Nea obeyed him; she choked down her sobs resolutely, and with a strange paleness on her young face, stole into the darkened room and stood beside him. " Well, Nea," observed her father, huskily, as she took his hand and kissed it ; "I have had a narrow escape ; another instant aud it would have been all over with me. Is Wilson there ?" " Yes, papa,'' answered Ne», still holding his hand to her cheek, as she knelt beside him ; and the gray-haired butler stepped up to the bed. " Wilson, let Stephenson know that he is to get rid of Gypsy at once. She has been a bad bargain to me, and this trick of hers might have cost me my life." â- â€¢ You are not going to sell Gypsy, papa," exclaimed the girl, forgetting the doctor's injunctions in her dismay ; " not your own beautiful Gypsy ?" " I never allow people or animals to offend me twice. Nea. It is not the first time Gypsy has played this trick on me. Let Stephenson see to it at once. I will not keep her. Tell him to let I'xbridge see her, he admired her last week ; he likes spirit ani will not mind a high figure, and he knows hc-r pedigree." " Yes, sir," replied Wilson. " By the by," continuedMr. Huntingdon, feebly, " some one told me just now about a youth who had done me a good turn in the matter. Uid you hear his name, Wilson ? " " Yes, papa,' interrupted Nea, eagerly ; " it was Mr. Trafford, one of the junior clerks, and he is downstairs in the library, waiting for the doctor to dress his shoulder." Nea would have said more, for her heart was full of gratitude to the heroic young stranger ; but her father held up his hand deprecatinglv, and she noticed that his face was very pale. " That will do, my dear. You speak too fast, aud my poor head is still painful and confused ;" aud as Nea looked distressed at her thoughtlessness, he continued, kindly, " Never mind, Dr. Ainslie says I shall be all right soonâ€" he is going to send me a nurse. Trafford, you say ; that must I be Maurice Trafford, a" mere junior. Let me see, what did Dobson say about him ?" and Mr. Huntingdon lay and pondered with that hard aet face of his, until he had mastered tho facts that had escaped his memory. " Ah', yes, the youngest clerk but one in the office ; a curate's sou from Birmingham, an orphan â€" no motherâ€" and drawing a salary of seventv i>ounds a year. Dobson told me about him ; a nice, gentlemanly lad ; works wellâ€" he seems to have taken a fanjy to him. He is an old fool is Dobson. and full of vagaries, but a thoroughly good â- Mil of business. He said Trafford was a fellow to be trusted, and would make a good clerk by and by. Hunoph, a rise will not hurt him. One cannot give a diamond ring to a boy like that. 1 will tell Dobson tomorrow to raise Trafford's salary to a hundred a year." " I'apa," burst from Nea's lips as she overiieard this muttere<i soliloiiuv, but, as she remembered the doctor's advice, she prudently remained ijuiet ; but if any one could have read her thoughts at that uiouieiit, could have known the oppression of gratitude in the heart of the agitated girl toward the stranger who had just saved her father from a horrible death, and whose presence of mind and self-forgetfulneaa were to be repaid by the paltry sum of thirty pounds a year ! " Papa," she exela'imt'd, and then in her forbearance kept (luiot. •' Ah,;Noa, are you there still ?" observed her father iu some surprise ; " I do not want to keep you a prisoner, my child. Wilson can lit by me while 1 sloop, for I must not be disturbed after I have taken the comjtosing draught Dr. Ainalio ordered. Go out for a drive and amuse yourself, and, wait a moment, Nea, perhaps you had tietter aay a civil word or two to young Trafford, aud see if Mrs. Thorpe has attende*! to him. He shall hear from me otticially to-morrow ; yes," muttere<l Mr. Huutingdon as his daughter left the room, " a hundred a year is an ample allowance 'or a junior, more than that would bt- ill advised and lead to prcsuniption." Maurice Trafford was in the library trying to forget the pain of his injured arm, whi di was beginning to revenge itself for that moment's terrible strain. The afternoon's shadows lay on tho garden of the sipiare, the children wore playing under the acacia trees, the house- martins still circled and wavered in the sunlight. Through the ojwn window oamo the soft spring bree/ie* and tho distant hum of young voices ; within was warmth, silence, and the [lerfiime of violets. Maurioc closed his drowsy eyes with a delicious sense of luxurious forgetfulnoss, and then openotl them with a start ; for aoino one had gently called him by his name, and for a moment ho thought it was still his dream, for standing at the foot of the couch was a girl as beautiful as any vision, who held out her hand to him, and said in the sweetest voice ho had ever heard : " Mr. Trafford, you have saved my father's life. I shall be grateful to you all inv life." Maurice was almost dizzy as he stood up and looked at the girl's earnest face and eyes brimming over with tears, and the sunlight and the violets and the children's voices seemed all confused ; and as ho took her otferetl hand a strange shyness kept him silent. " I have hoard all ikhontit," she went on. " I know, while others stood by too terrified to move, you riake<l your own life to protect my father that you stood between him and death while they dragged him out from the horses' foot. It was iioblo- heroic ;" and here Nea clasped her hands, and the tears ran down hor cheeks. I'oor iiiiiietuoHs child ; these were hardly the cold words of civility that her pomi<ous father had dictated, ana weretofliipplemont tho thirty pounds jicr annum, " othoially delivered." Surely, as she lookoil at tho uung man in his shabby coat, she must TraCfctrd, the junior olerk â€" the drudge ol a mercantile house. Nea owned afterwards that she had forgotten everything ; in after years she confessed U^at Maurice's grave yotmg face came upon her like a revelation. She had admirers by the score â€" the handsome weak-minded Lord Bertie among themâ€" but never had she seen such a face as lUaurice Trafford's, the poor curate's son. Maurice's pale face flashed up under the girl's enthusiastic praise, but he answered very quietly : "I did verv Uttle, Miss Huntingdon; any cne could have done as much. How could I stand by and see your father's danger, and not go to his help ?" and then, as the intolerable pain m his arm brought back the faintuess, he asked her permission to reseat himself. " He would go home," he said, wearily, " and then he need trouble no one." Nea's heart was full of pity for him. She could not bear the thought of his going back to his lonely lodgings, with no one to take care of him, but there was no help for it. So Mra. Thorpe was summoned with her remedies, and the carriage was ordered. When It came round Maurice looked up in his young hostess's face with his honest grey eyes and frank smile and said good- bye. And the smile and the grey eyes, and the touch of the thin boyish hand, were never to pass out of Nea's memory from that day. • • • • • • The shadows grew longer and longer in the gardens of the square, the house- martins twitted merrily about their nests, the flower girls sat on the area steps with their baskets of roses and jonquils, when Mr. Huntingdon laid aside his invalid habits and took up his old life again, far too soon, as the doctors said who attended him. His system had received a severer shock than they had first imagined, and they recom- mended Baden-Baden and perfect rest for some mouths. But as well might they have spoken to the summer leaves that were swirling down the garden paths, as move Mr. Huntingdon from his usual routine. He only smiled increduloaslv, said that he felt perfectly well, and rode off every morning eastward on the new grey mare that had replaced Gypsy. And Nea flitted about the room among her birds and flowers, and wondered some- times if she should ever see Maurice Trafford again. While Maurice, on his tide, drud(|ed patiently on, very happy and satisfied with his sudden rise, and dreaming foolish youthful dreams, and both of them were ignorant, poorchildren, that the wheel of destiny was revolving a second time to bring them nearer together. (Tu t>e ooutinasil,) FAHH Seasonable AND aABDBN. IleaTjr Uamacea for Slander. A peculiar slander case has just been triad at Tictou, N.S. The plaintiff, Mrs. Jas, Brown, of New Glasgow, claimed SIO.OOO damages from R. S. McCurdy, of the same town, for words imputing to her looseness of characlsr. spoken by the de- fendant under the following circumstances: One Leindberg, an artist, some months ago re<|ue8ted permission of the defendant to place a picture of Mrs. Brown on exhibi- tion in his store window. Shortly after a fellow-citizen, Fraser, informetl the defend- ant that the picture was that of a woman of sullied reputation. McCurdy at once re- moved the picture and when the artist called for an explanation expressed his opinion of the plaintiff's character iu vig- orous terms. For using this language the action was brought. The plaintiff is a de- cideilly pretty blonde, and her manner and appearance as she detailed the historv of her happy married life were ealculateil to make a favorable impression on tho jury. Khe related the insults to which she had been subjected after the reports got abroad through the newspapers. Pointed at and laugheii at on the streets of New Glasgow, made the victim of unsought and offensive attentions on the train and the recipient of tickets to the theatres from unknown ad- mirers, it was evident she had snCered in conseijuence. The defence was denial, and that the communication was made in good faith and privileged. After being out a short time the jury brought in a verdict giving the plaintiff 14,000 damages. The Uepvrtera* Kevease. The public do not Know how much pub- lic speeches are " touched up " by the re|>orters. Kveii the most accomplished speaker, through excitement or want of words, or beirause of interruptions, occa- sionally loses the sei|uenceot his argument, i weeds, and there be no other crop growing and repeats himself or breaks off before his thereon, broadcast ten bushels of lime over sonteiioe is completed. When tho rei>orter "•" weetis aud plow them under, befora writes out his report he is e.xiiected to ! 'hey seeil, as a green inanurial crop. Allow Hinto for Keaden In Uk« Countrjr. It is now conceded that ensilage is tha cheapest cattle fsod that can be prodriced on the farm. Fruit growers say that raspberries grown for evaporating can be much more easily gathered by knocking the fruit off. A great man) weeds can be used, wheim just coming up, as greens,, such as poke, lamb's quarter and dandelion ; but it is better to grow mustard aud kale instead, and plough mider all weeds. Experiments in the west show that ontt of the best crosses of horses is the Perclk- eron stallion and thoroughbred mare, tha produce combining the large size of \hm sire with the activity and endurance of th* dam. If the fruit coming to market were first assorted in some manner the prices ob- tained would bo larger. It is better not to pick the small fruit than to mix the berrica. Quantity does not pay as well as <iuality and attractive appearance. Pick out your breeders, says the i-'uma Journal, the pigs with long bodies. broai& backs and deep, round hams, Select • breed which has hair on it. A good coat of hair counts on a hog as well as any animaL It is a protection in summer and in winter. In twenty days the eggs of one hen woold exceed the weight of her body. So of any bird. Yet the whole of that mass of alba- men is drawn directly from her blood. If stinted in food, of coarse, it would limift the number as wellas the size of the eggs. Good butter cows will make a ^ ^\;nd~of butter to every 14 to IS pounds of milb. " General purpose cows " want from '2-i to 31 pounds, and some cows would re<iU)ro 30 pounds of milk to make a pouud of butter. Average dairies require somewhere abeut 3o pounds of milk to make a pound of batter. After shearing ticks will emigrate frona the shorn sheep to the lamb ; then is th^ time tu drive the ticks out of the flocksL Watch the lambs, says farm and Home, aui when the ticks have colonized them dip iia tobacco water. Twelve to fifteen pounds refuse tobacco trailed in a gallon or two of water, then diluted to make one barrel, witt do for 100 lambs. Josiah Hooper thinks that if farmers were aware of tha value of the cutting back process on their newly set trees we shooU hear of fewer failures and see better- shaped specimens. Peach trees a year from lh« bud should have the side branches headed back to short spurs and the leader severely shortened ; there would then be a fin« growth of young wood, aud also a good root development. If we wish to form in our cow the habit of quantity and continuity in milking wa must between the first and second calvinn exercise the utmost care to see that she is not only provided with the food to give tb« largest flow of best milk but that the milk- ing tendency is at this period fostered and encouraged by every reasonably availabls means. At this time in the life of the coiw is this tendency fixed.â€" /lurul Ciirui<lian. To cure diarrhota in fowls, take new milk, say half a cup for each fowl, heat an iron poker, or any suitable piece of iroo, red hot and scorch the milk with it ; girs as warm as the fowl can stand it. It is • sure cure for looseness in calves, colts or humans, and wilt check looseness iu fowla. Give it to fowls with a spoon ; let it roia down the roof of the mouth, so that it will not get in the windpipe. It is stated by the S\>rth Ilritiih Ajntut- turitt that in a ga'lon of skim milk there is nearly a (wund of solid food, almost chemi- cally similar to the lean of uieat. This is the flesh of the milk, and there is no reason why it should not be eaten as a food, just as meat is eaten, with the addition of any kind of pure foreign fat ; but, being mingled with a liquid, the people are unable t« appreciate it, and rarely perceive the fact that it is a food at all. Give the breed sows the run of a clovar field all through the summer if i>ossibli{! It is less stimulating than any dry wintar food, and will keep theui in health with far less fever than any other food we havs ever tried. The pigs, moreover, will soon learn to pick at it and eventually make it their staple food, giving them growth, health, frame and size, and fit them for tho purposes of life, be that breeding or fattening, better than anything else. â€" liural li'orld If the field be heavily covered with taU d'n tho saiiio gravo-looking doctor who had ' "*ve remembered that it was only Maurice make sense " of it. One of our local aldermen got out of favor with the reporters by complaining that he had never said the things placed to his credit or discredit. We had uo right, he maintained, to uomment on his speeches when we only gave garblo<l instead of rerliutim reitorts of them. So the rei>orters. who had put themselves to some trouble to translate his disjointed remarks into intelligible Knglish, agreed to reiHirt him verbatim next time. He never wante«l another rerftatim report, and it can- not be pleasant to him to know that raauy of his friends preserve that one. -^t.Jamet' Otitettc. A Man ttlioata Ills Wife. David Kobb, of No. t'>3 Pearl street, Toronto, was drinking hard on Saturday, and being jealously inclined began to abuse his wife. He pickeil up a H'.'-calibre re- volver and threatened to sh(X>t, and his wife tle<l through the back door to the wix)dshed. He kept his word and took a flying shot at her, sending a bullet crashing through her right forearm. He then sought the refin- ing intluenras of a saloon close by to drown his niurderous passions in tho flowing bowl. Dr. Cook was called and extracted the bullet from Mrs. Uobb's arm. The would-be murderer was arrested. Some of Tiftln's sweetest girls were taking a tour through the new Court House, with Celia Forbing, a Kenton bello, in tow. Just kke one of those daring Kenton girls, Celia stepvKHl up to the marriage record and blufleil any young man present to take out the papers and make horhis'n. Kd.Homan walked up and accepted the challenge. Notice of it was published in the pa]H>rs, and it is said tho yonng couple dro\ ,< over to Fostoria to get spliced in the c\euing.â€" .Uiirieri (0.) .Vinvr. Shad have nearly forsaken tho Connecti- cut Itiver. them to remain a month, then harrow in two bushels of rye per acre, and plow th« rye under when it is three feet high, turn- ing it down with a chain, and next spring the laud will be excellent for corn. In their native hills it is said that tha Cheviot slieep are excelled by none. They are as large as the C'otswolds, while ths mutton is considered better and the fleeos finer and closer. On govxl pasture the fleece gnnvs finer and sells for a higher price than when the animals are fed os coarse grass. Of course the mutton ia affet^ted to a considerable extent by tha (luality of the food, hut if they can get tha same sort of feed as in their native horn* their meat will be ojually excellent. A writer in the .Oh<tii-,ih liural Uom€ thus describes how he avoided potato bugs: " In planting potatoes I dropptsl a handful of unlcttehed ashes upon each hill after spatting the ground with the hoe, believing it would be disagreeable to the bugs when they made their first api>e«raiicc, which is the best time to fight them, as tho firs* ones that come do not fee«l upon the vines, the slugs from the eggs being tho real denrixlators. .\8 a result 1 have found and killed five bt«etles, when before I numbered thousands upon the same ground." M. Moi-Lv has submitted to official in- vestigation his system of heating buildings, by which he is enabled to transiiort heat, with hardly any loss, to distances up to HOO or hi) yards. Tho inventor completely isolates his pipes by means of air jackets. The pijwj c«ii be laid underground or over- head. M tho entrance of tho central pip* a jet of steam is placed, which, actiiy as an injoctor. forces in air. and heats the latter at the same time. The air drawn in is obtained from tho first jacket, and thna IS elevated in teni|ierature before it cornea m contact with the steam. By this means great economy in fuel is obtaiiied. $