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 '1 • AMPto-Tnrklak Hun -Brlttah Trovpm Thd BrttUh Ran wi â€"Spain aa4 the «g|| Ahemed Eased Kffendi/v ilam, in an interview wiSk •^ursday, explained the atian revolt, with the a the Sultan had not cob alao declared that the Si ibi as a rebel. ' 'The Sheik Ul IsUm paid W bond visit. Lord Daff^tinf^ had received inatructiona i Mnent to sign the draft of 1 yention as agreed upon bv hJ»«^ •ha on the 18th inat -irllfv ^subject to further conside^. flFerm gave the Sheik return^ ns in regard to the intintS ARABl'8 FOKCKS LVraWa has 25,000 men aid ll-el-Kcbir. The Seventh 1* have been ordered to Ser.. Jez. ^*S l\ccoriling to authentic inform»*s-: I 25.000 men at K^T-S^^ T i' il-T" "" ?^°«=antly «Sl Telel-Kebir, and there d U^ it the big hght of th^ {Jar '^^ The prisoners taken at Seranenn.! r report that many of the eSj* t"hcre are increased sicna tK.*-^ [ring from Kef r-el-DwHr. The enemy have thrown un lits on the extreme rii{ht acro^ tk Jard Lake Aboukir, probably Ince of the movement of the Hi 1 Sunday which threatened tj r [/ ^fTenJi, the loyal Governor b ".has been appointed provisio J of Ismaiha, and proceed May in the Khe^diVe'T^ rea, which also takes Lord .s ord, Monce Bey, D^, fal Bey and three of the K, fers, who immediately proceed Ismailia, the Egyptians have d Ih v^ter Canal, but the supply flS] I sutface for some time. ' le British have captured Ruchdi kerly the Khedive's Minister of ffc ISeuhkar Pasha, of the KhediveJ 1, who espoused the cause of AraS be have arrested 19 Greeks wktl [giQg the Arab quarter. BRITISH TROOPS M0^^XO FOR Wi k troops now at Nefisch, with In of three squadrons of the Hou Vlry, two guns, a detachment of] •and mounted infantry have gone far on the Freshwater C^ial Imiles west of Xefisch, leaving oi t there to guard the bridge oi Garnet Wolseley intends poshia fi" "T," once. Atramwayl liy laid between t lie railway stat? juay. le Government schoolmaster amn »aiu irom Cairo on the 14th. Hll torchlight proceosions parade i* ind hoys calling on Allah to sendi ' I'.ughsh and all Christian doga • Archbishop, for fear of hu all demanded of him by ArabL is levyiijg war contributions t fliecouncry. Every fellah mi [•-* to 8 piastres, according to \ns, half his cattle and a m; ^re has arrived at Port Said froal 1 Egyptian otHcer, who says tbttf id by Mehemit Naadi, Gove in, to inform the Khedive that Ill- officers and soldiers und« ^au.l are loyal and will not re The Work of Lir?itnlng. kg'e Coleman was kii jd by li| rcailiiig a book under a tree. lavelling pliotographer was kil |ing in his car at Corinth, Ky. Prank Acorn of Dedham, MasaJ l-y lightning whils at v.ork machine. lining struck the rod suppoi f^r vuiie on the steeple of the at Colt's ^â- eck and split the pautauqua Lake lightning struo Idaughter of James Hamilton, ^es from her feet and burning It not otherwise injuring her. tin gutter leaJioj? to the cistertj jiu Galveston, Texas, conduclr pg stroke into the house, wh« Mis. Emily Scheidmandt and twol |at were lying beside her. |rt Fleming and William Bird of I Kansas, were standinsr on the driver while riding in a 'â- ^ thunder storm. Lightning " both without injuring uje [stunning him for a minute. il of hay on which Philander Y1 Charles and two grandsons pit Worcester, Vt., was stnK '^. One of the rardsons, a led, and all were rendered ui [oung recovered in time to res liom the burning hay. One (rfj Tas also killed. I'awayanda, N.Y., lightning re summer boarding house of thriwing the plaster f earing a great hole in the it on fire and splintering tb«.' jht and left through the mid ding. The hotel was tilled Dut no on 3 was injured. h:»rles Huber of Miokapoo, infant on her lap while and Katie Rogers, aged 12, |de of her. ' We are safe heoB said the boy. A bolt of large tree in front of the \, ley were and killed the two! the mother and iniant Mil :. jyt^-^r »• -â-  »^ 'K^fi _fcvett't been awav thia aommer it yoa feel reconciled to learn that imer ho tela o-it of aix will more expenee** (b jadge holda that a young man home with a girl and aaid he fe would have jost such a lispaa guilty of (Nropoeing marriage, liahman has eloped with his mo- because she had the money and iter had none. This is the hard- earning a living yet discovered, juis jfirl 16 years old, pretty aa a id having a voice as soft as currant split the panel of a common pine one blow of her fist. She is not yman having told a pjoor woman the whole. Providence had treated well, she agreed to it. " I don't said she, " but I sometimes think i even with me on corns." ^ears ago a fortune-teller prophe- a young girl at Fresokill, L. 1., when she was 30 years old. Last tnctual to the day, she died. Just Inrise, her mother and sister spy, a shadow come into the room _, window and hover over the bed |r8. Newman lay dying. It remain- few seconds, after which she was I be dead. hed woman in Ohio having agreed husband to give their property to ed daughter, who hacf grown up [she was their own, has, now that id is dead, told the story in hopes ag the who'e of his estate. The however, insists that she shll lo the agreement she voluntarily th her husbard, and the case is in girl only 12 years old last week ^to the deep water at Bath, Long id clung to a little boy aged 9, fallen into the water, until rescue took them both out. The father Bcued boy gave her a gold watch in as a token of his gratitude. lore than one young man who in a will be glad enough to fall into ^r on condition of her jumping in less of discrimination is one of the luisites to the ;8ucce8sful pursuit of anal horse-stealing in Arkansas, ponf routed recently by two sheriflfs, Bring him with a " bull-dog " revol- the other with a long rifle-barrell- ll, a thief said, "Gentlemen, if you \i guns like that " (pointing toward )lver), "I'd have given you a tussl' ^n't want no truck with them taran- -amd he thrust his thumb in the di- )f the slender barrelled weapon. |orado Sheriff recently caught a young iief and being pleased with his man- re him employment on the ranche ider bonds awaiting trial. But in In a week the young man fascinated, |off and married the Sheriffs daugh- is only 15 years old. The girl is |home and saw her husband for only minutes after the marriage. The [has taken bteps to have the marriage |d. He wants to know what that aian won't steal. [chief sportsman of Hartwell, Ga., that he practised with a toy rifle could hit a nail with the little bul- time, and then went frog hunting liiill pond. Seeing a big specimen bing on a log, he began tiring. On ^nty-seventh round the game rolled water, but when taken out it was Ulive, though terrible swollen. The id mistaken the bullets for flies, I them in his mouth, swallowed every Ihout discoverinc: the error, and been [carried overboard by the wcicht of A Woman and ber Balloon. Carlotta, aeronaut, who ascended ingress Spring Park, Saratoga. sday afternoon, descended safely. ^s when the balloon was seen to veer [north it struck a new current, and ^me was whirled around in a vortex, basket was shaken and twisted in a il manner. Her barometer showed [e was two miles and a half high, and BO cold that her breath condensed and as[on a January morning. Just after m to descend the valve cord broke, could not control the balloon. It |own quite rapidly toward the large woods and she could not control her place. She did not dare to throw ballast, for fear she could not de- pvhen she desired. The balloon came ig down, and bounded along on the thft trees until finally its cords got |[1 in the branches, and it was held fast top of a tree in the depths of the Baker woods. Fortunately, the at- of James Cleveland was attracted I balloon as it descended, by the great tion among the chickens and turkeys, set out and found hsr in her perilous |n. He was obliged to chop down the ^hen the balloon and the aeronaut also ^own with only a few scratches. The which is sixty-five feet ia circum- when filled, was borne on Mr. id's shoulders out of the woods, and ii^arlotta, with her silken car, reached ;a by private conveyance about 10 in the evening. The distance to the b'oods is about six miles. This is the th ascension that Mile. Carlotta is, and the s'xty-seventh with thia A Straase PHenomenoa. terel fishermen returning from the coast describe a strange phenomenon they do not pretend to explain.- They it beginning at a point oflTMonhegan, id extending north-east for sixty-five Inty miles, the blue water is sharply la whitiah stream some thirty mileain The line of demarkation is perfect- tmct and extends downward like a I far as the eye can penetiate. Mack- imming into the white water are rly affected by the chuige, and dia- I their movements great activity and 8s. Capt. Stephen J. Martin, a fisherman and an employe of the [States fish commiaaion, remembera [1849, in the same region, the oeean ' a similarappearance, and that the ^enon waa repeated in 1851 on ahe stem part of Qeorge'a bftok. M. deFrerreiBet nsreilecl the atatoe of Boocet de llale reoeatly «t Choiay-lA-Bat. Wbile thegnerta werewaitiagfor ttia aome of the viaiton went to the hovae where Rooget derialepaaaedtbelaBt few yeaza of hia life. PeoplearestiU alive who remember him, weary and taciturn, crawling pain- fnUy along aa be tried to aid digeation by a walk after breakfaating off bread and cheeae at the ooat of hia friend M. Vdart or tJ^r dining with Qen. Blein. Half a oentniy ago no one could h*ve reoogniaed, in the gray-haired, wrinkled old man, the brilliant yonnff ofioer who ataoda brandiahing hia aword on hiirh with hia left hand claaped on his heart singing " Aux arms, eitoyena," on the market-place of Choiay-fe-RoL Among the peraona invited by the muni- cipality waa M. Amedee Bonget de I'Ide, the nsphew of the hero of the day, and beairing a striking reaemblance to hia uncle, if one may judge from the portraita of the time. The nephew lookea round at the declarations and at the manifestation, which was more political than personal, and ex- plained, with all the authority of one who has written from authentic documents the life ard memoirs of the author of the " Marseillaise," that his uncle was not a republican, and that his fhmily were royal- ists, who had given their support to the cause of constitutional monarchy. When Rouget de I'Isle wrote his famous poem, which has been adopted as the national anthem by the repuolic, it was modestly entitled the " Chant de Guerre," and com- posed for the army of the Rhine. A number of anecdotes were related about the hfe and habits of the little old man whose Alsatian costume and poverty covered the auther of the song which has become the war cry of the revolution, and which sound- ed in the ears of the old aristocracy as they marched proudly and disdainfully to the scaffold. The secret of his long and lonely life has been told. It is said that he was very fond of fireworks, and was a clever pyrotechnist. He was paying his attentions to a young lady at Courbevoie, and one Sunday when he was invited to dine by the parents of his intended he took some fireworks with him and promised to let them off in the morning. Before he left he kept his promise, and the young lady with her parents, repaired to the garden. The stick of one of the rockets fell so un- fortunately that the young ' girl was mortally wounded, and died within a few days, to the inexpressible grief of her lover. He remained faithful of her memory, and is said never again to have smiled on a woman. The garret where Rouget de I'Isle died is still to be seen, and when the owner of the house tells those who call on him the story of the man whom Choisy-le-Roi de- lighted to honor, it was impossible not to remember the anecdote told by M. do la Fernere. One day Brig. Gen. Rouget de L'Isle was talking to Mme. Dolouriere and one of the ladies of honor to Queen Marie Amele at Lyons. The ladies, who had heard of the manner in which the general had struggled to obtain promotion, were surprised to learn that the so'dier was about to be placed on the half -pay list with out the brevet rank which would increase the pension to which he was already entitled. They asked him how he could account for having been forgotten bv the restoration and Ix)uis Philippe. " Oh, family affairs, ladies family alfairs " said the general. He was pressed for a fu.^'ther explanation, and then said that the small amount of interest he had hoped to have commanded had been taken from him by the conduct and notoriety of one of his nieces, a *daugh- ter of his brother. " What niece " asked the ladies, anxious to know her name. " The Marseillaise " replied the general, who was at once understood, for the hymn of Rouget de I'Isle will even in France be associated with the hideous scenes enacted on the Place de la Revoluticn and with the horrors committed in the provinces by the butchers and iconoclasts; who sang it as they violated God's altar and slew his priests. â€" Paris Letter to the London Globe. Wby ahe Talked to the Fly Screen BIZan. She knew he was the fly screen man by the samples under his arm, but she held the door open and permitted him to say " Madam, I notice that you haven't a fly screen at any door or window." " Not a one," she answered. " You must be overrun with flies " " We are." " Flies are a terrible nuisance ' "Yes, indeed." ' ' And this seems to be a good locality for mosquitoes " " Oh, yea, sir." " 1 presume they bother you nights " "Very much." "And a great deal of dust blows into a house not protected by screens " " A great deal, sir." "And how many windows have you in the house " "Sixteen." " Eaeh one ought to have a half size." "Yes, sir." " And I con make them cheaper for you than any other man in the business." " I think you can." " Do you prefer plain green or figured " " Well, I always did like plain green." "Very well 1 will measure the windows and take your order." " You needn't troaUe yourself any farth- er," she quietly replied. *• What I Don't you want screecs." "No, sir. The other day the woman across the street had ten minutes' conversa- tion with a tin peddler, and she's had her nose in the air over me ever since. A fly- screen man is about three timee aa high as a potato man, and I've been talkins with you to let her see that ahe isn't the omy lady in town who can put on aira. She'a mad as a hen by this time, and now you get up and dnat or I'll have my dog mn you dear to tiie river. â€" Detroit Free Press. Montreal haa had another aenaation in the shape of ai^ action for d£amation of charac- ter brought by a notoribiaa eonyteean a^punet one of the city jonmala. Aa the propnetmv oi the papCT in qoeatiaii are prepared to jnatify their atatunenta and are about to aokocMHi witD«Mt%' a geaeral atami«de of high-ta»ed fre q aaat cua pf 'the piaii^tMra boaaehaa taken place. (IVanitlieAdTaDoeB^ertaf the P t| i i1m e at Ontario AgdcnitMaJ XSoUqge.) Any braneh of acieMe that ia intimately related to tha man proauBcnt iiarâ€"Baiiiia of hnman life mnat be tiie moat intereatii^ of all adcDoea. The beaatiea of atndy in aatronomy and geology cannot, for ezai^e,, oempare in intrinaie yalne with animal I^iyttoloflrT and chemiatiy aa taogfat through the npbauding of a fattening ateer and ox a bnahel of wheat yet the dMooverer of a planet .or of a new oomponnd aecnrea the worid'a applaoae, aa againat the prodnoer of imi»oved xootl for man. That th^ will alwaya be so is not evidoit, becanae^ aa the world becomea more practical, it will alao become more honeat in the diatribntion of fovonrs that bear upon tiie eVery-day com* forta of ita people. THX FURPOSK OF CATTLK FATXXKIKO ia to obtam the largbat quantity of the beat quality of beet, at the leaat coat, under three years of age. To aim at breeding, raiaing and fattening one cattle beaat from every ten cultivated acrea of the province. Togroirall the food required for these purposes within ourselves. The animals to aeighidive not less than 1,500 pounds each. The net cost of production, giving credit for manure, not to exceed five cents per pound, live weight. To obtain one ton of numure per month from each cattle beaat over two years old, when stabled to finish the fattening process. The value of such manure, under the best management, to be made worth |2.50 per ton. THE AXI3IAL IN CATTLE FATTENING. In any case it is desirable to hays Purity of sire A certain age and sex A quiet disposition Quality, as indicated by fine head and ears, fine bone, horb, tail, and a medium thick skin, having plenty of fine, soft, silky hair, with mellowness A weight-carrying frame Such a breed will mature, or pre-mature, from two to thf-ee years of age Having the character of doing best upon Ontarip pastures Giving the best quality of flesh, with least offal; Sure breeders and good nurses The Shorthorn grade is best for weight, early maturity, and stall-feeding The Hereford grade is best for hardiness and grazing disposition The Aberdeen Poll grade is best for an even average of all requirements The Galloway grade is best for extreme hardiness and quality of flesh The Devon grade is best for good nursing and sure breeding. THE FOOD OF FATTENING CATTLE. Its use is to â€" Keep up animal heat, or life Repairjthe waste Increase growth Produce flesh and fat. Its value is affected by â€" The particular breed Age of the animal Individual character Conditions of life, such as temperature Management. In growing our own cattle food, the first question should be, How much beef pan we get per acre the second, How much manure are we able to return The amount of increase that may be calculated up n as the produce of certain quantities and kinds of food depends upon paragraphs eight to thirty. Chemically, we can calculate upon getting one pound of flesh from any food that has ten parts of dry substances in its composition; thus, 100 pounds of Swede turnip, having as much aa ninety parts of water, will only give the pound of flesh, while 100 pounds of com, having only thirteen parts of wter, will give ten pounds of flesh. Practically, foods give results according to their chemical analysis, when combined, or mixed, to suit the particular animal system. For example, a mixture of com, peas and cat's will give better results than com alone, although seven per cent, lower in nutritive properties. Never forget the difference between " life" food and ' fattening " food starch and sugar keep up heat and life, and unless they are supplied along with fats and oils the fattening process will be slower, because heat and life would have to be supplied from the fats and oils if given in excess starch and sugar will produce fat on animals, A young animal, building ita bone and muscle, requires different kinds and quanti- ties of food from the more mature one. Hay, straw and other fodders are beat for the im- mature animal they are also heat and fat makers, and would fatten alone, though slowly. Rapid growth and much fat are opposed to each other so, to grow carcase and alao fatten early, requirea bone-forming and fat- forming materijds â€" they must go together. A maturing animals-cattle two to three years old â€" having built the most of ita frame, requirea leea foddora and more fleah and fat- formers. Grain in many forma ia therefore beat for finii^iing fattening cattle. J^Vom birtii to the time a cattle beaat ia ripe, the diuly rate of in c re aao oa an average ahonld not be leaa than one and one-half pounds â€" thus, a three-year old should weigh 1,600 pounds a two and one-half-year-old, 1,360; and a two-year-old 1,100 pounds alive. But, in fact, the daily rate of increase is more up to two years than at any time af ter** wards. A two-year-old, well done to, will weigh 1,400, and if carried on to three years will not scale leaa than 1,800 pounda. Thia m^ be called pre-maturing. Veij much, then, of the auooeaa cf obtain- ing big weighta in a abort tiatie bea in a knowledge of individnal oharaoter and the proper propdrfikMia and kinda of food. The beat kind of permanent pastureâ€" a mixture of eertaia gcfmm aad clovenâ€" under favourable oonditlona, will' give a greater daily increaao tiian ttiy other form of food. A two-vear-old cattle beaat pattoauoh paa* tore on May 15, iHien it W9^^ 1,100 poanda^ will atand 1,400 on Oct 1 foUawing. The addition of vraia under anch drcoinalanoea doea not add c M i my m t iitk^ to'w«|f^ tbooi^ it doea ao oo coasparatively poor PiroMr aheltar and water on paatura forgjgr oat, ok tte hiereaae. Whew BO finlf^laai wnaastnt Inpt. it is rleaiiiMat|||S«l»M»«g ^, mona by haviaca iwular aupply of amam foddett feed theao ^her upon the Oelda or by •Bai«g.*' Seilijutfattening cattle in Ontario impliea the production of one animal p«r acra, ia place of three aorea of ordinary jpaature maintaining one the prhicipal aouij^ot^ are o(nn, Inoeme, red clover, tareo andoata, ryeandra^ When it ia deeired to prepare for exhibi- tion* or for extra condition at Chriatmaa, aoiling, in a loose box, all aumm«, in addi- tion to grain, oannot be aurpaased by any other form of feeding. Straw cut and sli^tiy fermented ia one- fourth more valuable for fattening. Green oat straw and pea atraw together are about equal in value to hay. Thirty-five pounda a^rede tumipa, aix pounda clover hay, and 21 pounds oil oake will produce one pound of beef. OiM t(m of fermented cut atraw and two hundred pounda oil cake ia equal to one ton of hay. Six pounds hay, one pound bran, twenty pounds turnips and five pounds com meal 'will add one pound to the weight of a good two-year old steer. Six pounda hay, one pound bran, twenty poohds turnips and aix pounds poa -meal wiU do the same thing. The like quantities of hi^, bran, turnips, and 7h pounds crushed oats, will do the same thing. Cora, peas, oats and barley will pay to fatten cattle, when not over one cent, per pound in the market. Barley meal gives a fine finish and sleek, mellow handling. In soiling, ereen fodder is safer when cut and mixed with cut straw or hay, allowed to slightly ferment and sprinkled with meal. It is still an unsettled qu^tion whether cooked food or raw food is best for cattle fattening. All animals fatten cheaper and faster on prepared raw food, as ag^st whole or un- cut hay and roots. Every animal that chews the cud must have bulk it is not enough to give sufficient nutritive value ih small quantities; the stomach must be filled to give material for ruminating. Most foods are better in combination than aloae. Combine so as to have little or no waste. Fat-producing and flesh-produciilg food together will give sixty per cent, more in- crease than when given singly. For young cattle give one of flesh to eight of heat producing substances, and to older ones give one to six. Most food of young c «ttle goes to make- up bone and muscle, leaving third-class manure. Most food of half-grown animals goos to make flesh, leaving second-class manure. Most food of mature animals goes to make fat and support life, the excess becoming first-class manure. Exclusive of water chemically, animals coming to maturity will eat about one-fiftieth of their own weight per day. THE MANAGEMENT OF FATTENING CATTLE. Most auimals eat in proportion to their weight, under average conditions of age, temperatuEe and fatness. All animals increase in weight in propor- tion to the quantity and character of the food consumed, it fed exactly according to breed, size and condition of surroundings. Give fattening cattle as much as they will eat, and often â€" five times a day. Never give rapid changes of food, but change often. A good guide for the safe quantity of grain per day to nmturing cattle is one pound to every hundred of their weight thus, an ani- mal weighing 1,000 may receive ten pounds of grain. Early stall feeding in the fall will make the winter's progress more certain by thirty per cent. • Give as much water and salt at all times as they will take. In using roots, it is one guide to give just so much, in association with other things, so that the animal will not teke any wa- ter. In building, have warmth with complete ventilation, without currento, never under 40 ® nor over 70 ® Fah. A cold, damp, airy temperature causes animals to consume more food without cor- responding resulte in bone, muscle, flesh or fat, much being used as fuel to keep up warmth. Stall-feeding is better for fat-making than box or yard management, irrespective of health. The growing animal, intended for beef, re- quires a lictle exercise daily to promote muscle and strength of constitution when ripe, only so much as to be able to walk to market. Currying daily ia equal to aeven per cent, of the mcrease. ^eep the temperature of the bodv abQut 100 ® not under 05 ® nor over 105 Fah. Don't forget that" one animal's meat may be another animal'a poiaon. It takes three days' goodfood to make up for one bad one. The faster the fattening, the more the profite leaa food, earlier returns, and bet- ter fleah. €let rid of every fattening cattle beast be- fore it ia three yeara old. Every day an animal ia.kept, after being prime, there is loaa exclnaive of manure The external evidencoa of primeneaa are full rumps, flanks, twist, Ionise, sh ulder vein and eye. A good cattie ihan means a diflference of one-fourth. He should know the likes and dialikea of every animal. It paya to keep one man in omstent atten- dance on thirty head of fattening cattle. Immediately an animal begina to fret for food, immediately it b^;inB to loae fleah never check the nittening proceaa. Never b^gin fatt^oing without a definite plan. A steady, frostv winter is better t^ an open one for oatttafiatteniog in Ontario. There is no bis in fee^Uag a cattle beaat van foe the aalte of tiia aaaanea alone. No cattle beast whatever wiU pay for the direct increaae to ite wei^t om tins con* K*£Sl^i2J'S*^ %aaiity af foodâ€" inaiBanara turn wa Taiswiilj vanad. Ony avag s it â€" Srn iWialaa imi vp"^.itaav twahv i^ /frmr adS. tioMl pooad added to tfai v«i,M oTa^ or â€" 1 â€" ^*^ ftitfwim oittlT timil ln:tfala ooi^liylhaSSLZWhMTU.. during u motttiia of the laainK^Biahr' Inordartoaaonrsassni mttLna ateM oattle beast, of th. 1^ £^ J^^ doiMto,oanbe sold aTleas^Zn 41 oante per pound, Uve weisht. aJS^^I^'^^^^^ two-yaar-old for beef, i^^ ,fc»y,»*i'xiaaaths of winter iU finansial hiatoryoooaiste of three thiaaa of nearly proportionate values :â€" (1) yalwofanimal.pr«TloostoenlxTfQr Cash profit 10 m (4) VaJue of manure produoed..."./.*.*..' ao 00 Total profit "flOOO During winter feed thus for finishing :â€" First monthâ€" Common tumipa, 40ponnda • atraw, cut, 7 pounda hay, cut, 5 pounda oata, cmahed, 5 pounda. Second and third monthaâ€" «wede tumipa, 40 lbs; hay, cut, 7 pounds; straw, cut, 3 pounds com, 8 pounda bran, 2 pounds. Fourth and fifth monthsâ€" Swedes and mwigela, 50 pounds hay, 10 pounds com and peas, 10 pounds bran, 3 pounds. Sixth monthâ€" Mangels and awedea, 50 pounds hay, 12 pounds com, peas and oate, 12 pounds bran, 3 pounds oil cake, 3 pounds. A Woman on Woman. Upon the whole, it is a dreadful bother to be a woman, and to do the business up in good shape. In the first place, you've gottolook well, or else you re nobody. A man may be home- ly, and still popular. Whiskers cover up most of his face, and if he has a large mouth nobody mistraste it and if he has wrinkles, bad on his forhead, his friends speak of his many cares, and of his thoughtful disposi- tion, and tell each other that hia wrinkles are lines of thought. Lines of thought, indeed when in aU probability his forehead is wrinkled by the habit he has of scowling at his wife when the coffee isn't strong enough. A woman must always hie in good order throughout. Hor hair must be frizzed and banged as fashion demands, and she ;nust powder if she has a sbinmg skin and she must manage to look sweet, no matter how sour she may feel and she must hang just so, and her laces must be always spotless, and her boot buttons must be all in place, and her finger-nails clean, and she musta't whistle nor climb fences, nor stone cats, nor swear when she's mad. She can't go out alone, because she must be protected. She can't go anywhere when it rains, because her hair won't stay crimped, and she'll get mud on her petti- coato and things. She can't be a Free Mason, because she would tell their secrets and everybody would know about that goat and that gridiron. She can't smoke, be- cause it wouldn't be feminine. She can't go courting, because it is unwomanly. But she must get married before 30, or every- body will feel wronged. People will sigh over her and wonder why it is that the men "don't seem to take," and all the old maids and widows will smile significantly and keep quiet. It is everybody's business who a woman marries. The whole neighborhood put their heads together and talk over the pros and cons and decide whether she is good enough for him. And they criticise the shape of her nose and the way she does up her hair, and relate how lazy her grand- father was and how her Aunt Sally sold beans and buttermilk. A woman must wear No. 2 boots on No. 3 feet, and she must manage to diess well on seventy-five cents a week she mustn't be vain and she must be kind to the poor, and go regularly to the sewing society meetings, and be ready to dress dolls, make aprons and tidies for church fairs. She must always have the masculine but- tons in the family sewed on so that they never will come off while in use, and she must keep the family hosiery so that every- body would mistrust that there were toes inside of the stockings when they are on. She must hold herself in continual read- iness to find everything her husband has lost â€" and a man never knows where any- thing is. He will put his boote away on the parlor sofa, and when he has hunted for them half an hour he will appear to his wife with a countenance like that of as avenging angel and demand to know "What she has done with his boots " She must shutidl the doors after her lord and master, and likewise the bur^u drawers, for amarried man was never known to shut a drawer. It wotild be as unnatural as for a hen to go in swimming for re- creation. Ah, there are a ffood many tricks in the trade of what isculed " Lving together!" A woman ia expected to take care of the baby even after the first infantUe wonder mnltipliea into a round dozen. And if he doublea up with the colic, or the trials of outting teeth, necessary evils of the mumpa and meaalea, and acarlet fever and rash, and throat diatemper, and short sleeves and bare legs, andpina aticking into him, and too much candv, and a bad temper, why, her huaband tella her that "he doea wiah she'd try to quiet ber baby." And he says it just aa if he fully believed chat ahe alone waa reaponaible for ita exiatence and as if he thought she was considerably to blame for it,too. Wemishtgo obr mdefinitely with the tronblea being a woman bringa and if there iaaman in the world who thinka a woman haa an eaay time of it, why juat let himpinapoundof falae hair to hia head, and get inaide a new pair of oorsete and put on a pnll-baek overakirt, and be a woman himaelf, iiad aee how helikea it. Thegigantic oak on Mount Vernon known as " li^iriiington's Oak," was dasteoyed by lil^taing the otiher day. lbs tree had many hiatorie aaaodationa, and Waahjaur* km'a ^vmrite resting plaoe aifteir the heat and Ubora of the ^y waa htaiaath tta shade. iff