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 }Ei?mg^iy"ifi!|»i JJiVjUfc JCIfW JJUWUWIILIJIP. â-  W.»(-'J)'"J!!»pillf|lJ!|iiBr-|^"»""J1i^»J II tm II J '*t..^'^|'ViW.^l!«IJ«?l^* Wy^JHBUU.i-. »â- ' *^- FOR THE FABMEfi FaU Feeding Mowing Lands. No farmer can afford to allow his cattle to feed off the growth of graasi in lus mowing lands in the fall. It injuries the grass roots and diminishes the grass crop the year following, for more thui the feed obtained is worth. It is cheaper to bay hay and feed to the stock in the bam than to have them feeding down the mowing fieMs. Fertilizins Lawns. Heavy dresiings of stable manure should never be made to a l»wn. Not only does it present a very imsightly appearance when thus treated, but the diressing lying in lumps, as it usually does, is liable to kill out the grass in pieces, and greately injure the appear- ance of the lawn. When any dressing is needed, it is much better to apply in the spring, a light dressing of bone phosphate or gaano. Green Food for Poultry. Green food is very necessary to the health of poultry. So eagerly is every green substance devoured by fowls that every green thing is destroyed in the hen yard, unless the yard is very large. It is well to have a large yord divided into two parts, allowing the ponltry to occupy one division at a time. By ploughing the unoccupied division and sowing it to grain, a good growth of green food will spring up, which, when a fewiochea high, is rei^y for the hens, and will afford them an excellent quality of green food for. some time, and it will keep growing as fast as it is eaten off, While the poetry is eating this supply, another growth can be started in the unoccupied portion of the hen yard, and in this way a constant supply of green food can be provided. Keeping Apples. A Pennsyvlania farmer who had tried various methods of keeping apples, ob- tained the best success by wrapping each apple in paper, placing in a barrel, and hiding it. He bored holes in the top and bottom bo as to allow a free circula- tion of air, and laid the barrel upon its side in as cool a place as was safe from the frost. The variety of apples was the Fallowatera. On the fifth of May he opened the barrel and feund thtsm in most excellent condition. There were only twenty specked and rotten apples in the barrel, "while the color was beauti- fully preserved, and the apples had a delicious flavor. Tney were fresh and beautiful in appearance, without any dampness or moisture. A gentleman present when the barrel was opened, pro- nounced them the best kept apples he had ever seen. The success seemed,to be due to the fact that the paper absorbed all the moisture that was given off by the apples, while the holes in the top and bottom allowed the free circluation of air." Tliis is a method worth trying for pre- serving a few apples for home use, but evidently could not very well be practised for preserving large quantities of fruit. When large quantities of fruit are stored for preservation, the best method seems to be to keep down the temperature as near the freezing point as possible with- out chilling the fruit. Low temperature is the best preservative, and if it could be maintained near the freezing point until midsummer, there would be little diffi- culty in preserving fruit until that time. Some store in racks, allowing a free circulation of air, and others store in barrels closely headed'up. Very good re- sults are obtained by either method. Best Way to Seed to Grass. The old, and still too common, practice of seeding land with grass and grain at the same time may do under specially favorable circumstances, as when the lanJ is con- stantly moist, and tbe grain is sown thin- ly. It does better, too, in a cool, north- em climate, or where the grain is remov- ed late in the season, after the hottest weather is passed. In northern Vermont, we have seen oats being harvested late in September, and cut at that season the grass is not so likely to be killed by hot sunshine after the grain is removed. But in southern New England and west- erly, on the same parsllel of latitude, pro- bably at least three-fourths of all the grass sown with grain is seriously injured by being grown with it. We find that Western farmers are learning that grass is worthy of being given a better chance 1±ian when sowed with grain. A writer in the the Philadelphia Press, says that farmers in the West seem to be coming to the conclusion arrived at in the East, that grass seeding is best when made alone. Th« reasons given are that "sow- ing grass seed with grain crops is on a par with trying to get two crops from the soil in the ordia^. No hmd is rich enough to serve two nuisters, for either it will have one crop smothered In infancy, or the other choked and robbed in its old age. If you wish a fine catch of grass for a superior meadow, then follow the fol- lowing "Get the land in good tilth and well enriched for a crop of wheat, harrow until the surface is perfectly pulverized, and sow the grass seed alone. Farmers make the mistake aometimes of looking upon their cows as machines for producing milk and butter, forgetting that they are mothers every year, and their daoghtem are soon to take the placaa of their duns. In like manner, the grain etop is considered the main one on the tern, beoause this ia sold and the oaas and hay are not. Without the 0BH ud the hay the grun would be light indeed." _. A WiKWuin fumer stoutly m a int a inB Aat he mewnta the xavageiof the beetles JJ^S^STeS bin. He says the bags will shun the flax eresy time, and that he liM grown potatoes in tliis mf-Um^em- yean and aeeued good cwys wiwai oihm failed. Mr. Lyman has Stonped Swearing. The, people of Lee Township, about seventy-five miles north of Iiooisville, Ky., are in a state of excitement ovex the ease of James Lyman. Lyman reonktly moved into Lee Townahip. His family consists of a son and two daughters. In early years he was a seaman. When 11 yean of age he ran'away from his home in Boston, concsa^ed himself in the hold of a ship about to weigh anchor, and was carried off to sea. On board a vessel Lyman soon learned to sweur. As his years increased, his pro- fuiity became more voluble. His ship touched many foreign shores, and by fre- quent associations with the natiTes he gradually a quired their manner of speech, and in thne becune the master of four dlffeient languages. In sll of these he was an adapt at swearing. The slightest trifle met with a volley of oaths. Let some one vex him and tiie air would be perfectly sulphurous with his wicked de- clamations. When excited his wrath was terrible, and few dared to remain witiim earshot, while curses and ^preeations rolled |with mighty .vehemence from his tongue. One day while superintending a force of hands In making a clearing, a silly ac. eident threw Lyman in an excess of passion. Words more blasphemous than ever before uttered rolled from his fluent tongue while he danced about in a perfect paroxyam. Suddenly the impious defamations ceased. Lyman fell, face downward, to the ground, and was unable to move a muscle. A genuine thunderbolt or a bullet through the heart could not have despatched his senses quicker. Sight was destroyed, speech gone, and motion im- possible. After thirty minutes' prostra-, tion he recovered slightly, but he was un- able to regain his lost speech. B!is eyes were also dimmed. On the arms of two strong laborers he was borne to his house, where he has since been resting in a half- conscious condition. Devout people in the neighborhood look upon Lyman's calamity as a righte- ous punishment and a fearful warning Against blaspheming. They verily believe that it was a visitation of the wicked man's prolonged sins upon his own head. lee Skating. Will roller-skating supplant its parent sport We trust not. But there is no question that runner-skating has been on the decline among us for some years. In Holland, Denmark, and Germany it is universiJ. There ever body skates, old and young, high and 1 v, rich and poor. Probably its decline hi •â- Â« arises from neglect of our ponds. T ere is skating until the first snow, and tf er that pains are taken in but few places 1 1 clear the ice. There are also no conveniences for putting on skates, taking care of garments, etc. It is both uncomf ortoble and danger- ous to skate in overcoats and cloaks. In Germany and other European countries the public ponds are leased by the cities to parties who, charging small sums to skaters, keep tiie ice clear and in good condition, and also provide the other facilities mentioned, It would be a good idea to adopt the same course in our cities, while in country towns the organization of skating-clubs might effect the same ends. Why the Swiss Can Drink Ro IHneh. ' Owing to the small portion of moisture in mountain air and the low barometric pressure, evaporation is very rapid. Even after the heaviest rain the ground dries in a few hours. This quality of the air tends to make perspiration more profuse and the skin dry faster than is the case at lower elevations. There is greater thirst, the tissue waste faster, and a high author- ity has said that a man's tissue is the only thing which it is his duty waste, new tissue being out of all coYnparison better than old. It is probable this rapid evaporation at greaj heights and the thirst which it engenders that the Swiss have to thi^ik for their wonderful drinking powers. The other week the marksmen of Canton Vaud held their annual rifle meeting at Pay- nere, a picturesque village on the Broye, and the local papers mention with some- thing like pride thatthe shooters and their friends drank the place dry. Everybody who has been in the High- lands of Scotland, or any other mountain land, and tried the experiment, knows that he can drink with impunity much more whiskey, or whatever tiie vin du pays may be, than he can drink at home. This, it may be as well to observe, is mentioned as a dry fact, not asan addition- al reason for going to the mountains. â-  • â€" At a recent meeting of the Neurologi- cal Society, Dr. C. L. Dana read an inter- esting paper on spinal concussion and its results. He thought, the fact was now established that railway accidents pro- duce severe shocks to the nervous system which impair its activity and sometimes cause hysteria. The sufferers are some- times as much injured as though they had lost a limb or actually injured the spinal cord. The trouble is to determine how ill such people are, how much th^ are shamming, how muc^ the prospect of damages affects them, and how many are predisposed to disease, for a road cannot be called to account beeaose it does mote provide perfectiy for valetadinaiisns. The term spinal coneossion was^ the Doc- tor thought, a misleading and ofeen inoor- recft one â€" mental abooc and physiesl braising expresses the idea bettsr. The prospect of pertisl recgv a ^: from tlisee shocks to the system Is goed^ hob not so good as reipffds eomplete xeoofeiy. Oon- eossion of the eotd atone followed by tern* poraiy loss ot function or hf myelitis, does ooear in sooie ' â€" ' â€" â€" nS.WfKIA •VEK,,; M. Pastear is going to THoSmuiho to stody yellow fever. Over S,000 patents on ^ams Imve al- ready been granted by the U. S. Govecn- mmt. Abulia pending before the Alahema L^[islatare compiling jfoauxa carrying concealed deadly weapons to designate the ct on tiieir persons by wearing a hedge insoibed "I am armed." In the Journal of the American Medteal Jjsoetattofi, Dr. Klein says that sixty- seven per cent, of Jewish physicians oc- cupy professorshiiNi in medO»al coU^es, and thirty-six per cent, are medical au- thors. In a recent work entitied "The Health of the Senses," Dr. H Maenauriiton Jones states that "eye troubles are fotrnd more frequentiy in inveterate smokers who abstun from alccdiol than those who take some of it." According to the Phttrmaeeutieal Beeerd freckles may sometimes be made to dis- appear 1^ an application of dtrio add night and morning. Dr. Dahring advises an emulsion of idmonds, to be applied until a slight amount of desquamation takes place. Paper from the yucca, a hairy plant found in Arizona, New Mexico, and Low- er California, is becoming popular in Great Britain. It is readily bleached, and has a fibre almost as strong as hemp. It can be maaufaotored at about the same cost as paper made from mixed cotton and linen rags. There is gteat trouble in the iron and steel market on account of the alleged practises of English foundrymen of mix- ing crucible s^el with Bessemer, and sell- ing it as the former. The one costs $56 and the latter $26 a ton, so that a largo profit inures to the adulterator. The Board of Trade desire to have it made a criminal offence. The Drug Neus notes an important dis- covery, by which aluminium may be pro- duced in unlimited quantities at fl.26 per pound, or one twelfth of the price now quoted. The discovery was made by Wm. Frishmuth, of Philadelphia, a pupil of Wohler, the discoverer of the metal itself. Mr. Frishmuth is said to have devoted twenty-eight years to this end.' According to the Briiish Medicai Journal there was last year an enormous less to the effective force of the army and navy from intemperance. In the army 1,490 cases of drunkenness were tried by courts martial, besides over 4,000 convictions from crimes springing from excessive drinking. During the year 15,904 soldiers, or 102 in every thousand, were mulcted in their pay for drunken- ness. English physicians have had strong dis cussicms of late as to the trutii of Dr. Crichton Browne's report upon over brain pressure in schools and its pernicious effects. The Lancet says "We have grounds for believing that certain well- known depravities which progress with cerebral exhaustion are on the increase anong these overworked children. Dr. Browne's protest has the support of the medicid profession, and, as a body, we distinctly endorse what he has said." In northern Siberia, if a young man de- sires to marry he goes to the father of the girl of his choice, and a price is agreed upon, one-hidf of which is then paid down. The prospective son-in-law at once takes up his residence with the family of his lady love, and resides with them a year. If at the end of a year he still desires to marry the girl he can pay the other half and tiiey are married on the next visit of the priest. If he does not want to marry he need not, and simply loees the half he paid at the start. The use of arsenic is alarmingly on the increase. The researches of Dr. Draper aikl Profs. Wood and Anstein show that it is extensively employed in wall papers te^ile fabrics, writing and printing pa- ' candles, toys, confectionery, -playing theatre tickets, rubber balloons anOvballs, sweatbands of hats, paper col- lars k^ bed hangings, and in amounts sufficieht to cause sickness and even death. 7 Prof. Austen reconunends a law prohibiting its use in all materials con- sumed or employed in the household. Antbn Warning left Chateau, M. T., a short ume ago to get logs from the moun- tains, imd not retoming within a few weeks,J/Bearch for him was made by friends, when his body was found beneath a great tree, which had fallen upon him and lield him prisoner until deatii ensued from starvation and cold. After the acol- dent he had written a note and tied it around the dog's neck, telling the jpar- ticulars of the misfortune, but the futh- ful animal would not leave his master, and was sitting on the body when it was found, nearly famished. The public baths at Vienna are said to be the finest in the world. The building is situated in the heart of the oily, and endoses a basin of 670 feet in length l^ 156 feet in width, and varying in depth to twelve feet. The enormous quantity of water contained in this basin Is removed three times a day. The whole establiah- ment has accomodation for 1,600 persona, and is open from May 1 to Oct. 31, and from 6 in the morning until dusk. There is also a bath restiirted to ladies, open from 9 In the morning until 1 and the Vienna ladies are especially good swim- ers. Dr. O. E. Davies writes to the Cin- cinnati Laiteet atnd Cliiiis that, having been a sufEsrer from Idood poisoning until he became'a total wreck, he visited Las Vegas, New Mexieo, took the *hnad baths ' adioiiiiittted tliece. Sad Moorered his hesltk I ^mmm tlMbltluM baths of hotminesal waten of the piMe hun per-' coleted fgr ages. The peoent is draped into a mnkf in this earth, and beeuns leoDj **poahieed." The doebor shoaU mmmmmasammmmmm be fsin^iur with tikaindiiiet, IfT Im wenifi thioagbi Uie psoMss^nz^^^ttii^ tiaieB. A doctor was lately bnnii^t before flie Genoan tribanals for haviegnii^eeted to keep himself infonoed if to .modern methods of fwactioe. A servant who re-' ceiyed a wound in the chest in A|Hcil last died hDom. septicaemia ooder the oare of this doctor, who, deqnsing sntise^c dressings, treated his patient aeoordmg to ancient mages. The court held tiiat "evwy medical praetitimer should keep himself informed on the acoompUshed progress of sicenoe, and have an exact knowledge of modem systems of treat- ment. U these had been e "^ployed tiie patient's life might have been saved, hence the liability for n^ligence." The Court of Appeal sustained l£e judgment. A curious phenomenon was observed recentiy at the London Zoo. A few weeks since a fine lioness began to eat her own tail. In one day she removed at her leisure about twelve inches, and after a brief interval she resnaied her re- past and swallowed some more. She waa then pboed in a very nurow box in the hope that something mmht be done with the bleeding stump, and that she might be psevented from farther assaults upon herself. But she was not to be denied. The tail has almost entirely disappeared, and she has^ow directed attention to one of her forepaws. If time only is allowed she nuy succeed in performing the as- tounding feat of disappearing down her own throat. SCIENTIFIC. â-  " A German botanist has given instances of the modification of plants by insects so as to produce new varieties. A motor driven by small charges of gun-cotton is an English novelty. It is SMid to be applicable wherever small powers are required. Successful experiments in distributing the electric light to great distances have been made in connection with the Turin Electrical Exhibition. A Siemens ma- chine of 30 horse-power generated a cur- rent which was simultaneously used by several electric systems spread over a cir- cuit of about 25 miles. WivD WoKK.â€" A gale at East St. Lotus in 1871, according to Mr. O. Shaler Smith, overturned a locomotive, exert- ing a force of no less than 93 pounds per square foot. Below these extraordinary pressures Mr. Smith has instanced numerous cases of trains blown off rails, and bridges, etc., blown down, by gales of 24 to 31 pounds per square foot. PiciXTBEs OF SoxTiTD. â€" Somo remark- able photographs of a pistol bullet in its flight â€" under the illumination of an electric spark â€" have been secured by Prof. £. Mach, of Prague. He has also photographed the air streams which one may see over a Bunsen burner placed in sunshine, and has even obtained pictures of waves of sound these last being made visible by a method in which advantage is taken of the irregular refraction of light by air set in vibration by sound. MoNBY VsaKTATiON â€" ^A short time since Paul Beinsch discovered several kinds of minute plants^including two algae which had before been unknown â€" growing upon coins after having been long enough in circulation to receive thin incrustations of organic matter. A Hun- garian botanist, Jules Schaarschmidt, has more recently found the microsgopic growths upon paper money, even the cleanest specimens not being free from them. He has detected seven species, including â€" although they are rare â€" the two new algae described by Beinsch. Thk Thboey of Vaccination. â€" Prof, Tyndall suggests that jnst as the soil may be so effectnidly robbed of some essential ingredient by one abundant crop, as to be incapable of producing another, so in the human system a parasitic disease may so completely exhaust the b!ood of some ingredient necessary to the growth and propagation of the parasite that the pro^ duction of a second crop in fatal or con- siderable quantity may be impossible. It would thus appear that protective vac- cination or inoculation is simply the in- troduction into th« blood of weakened and comparatively harmless disease germs to consume the material which might be- come food for similar in a more vigorous and dangerous condition. GsEAT WoBMS. â€" According to Mr. F. E. Beddard, a London zoologut, earth- worms two feet in length have been found in the British Isles, and various species as lai^e or larger are known to exist on South America, Western Africa, Austra- lia and New Zealand.* The largest species known, however, inhabits South Africa. Forty years ago a spedmen was described which measurad six feet two inches in length, but it seems to have been nearly forgotten until the other day, when a gigantic creature of the same species was sent to the London Zoological Gardens om Cape Colony. The lox^eat meas- urement of iJiis worm yet taken readies six feet five inches, its diameter being nearly half an inch. •A Lesson In Astronomy. They were yoOng and romantic, and althoiqch the minute hand was pointiog to 18 o'dodc they stood upon the porch gadm[at the stsn. ** Iliat's Jupiter, dear, isn't it V she murmured. ** Tes, pet, and that is Sirios," he re- plied, polntimr to uiotiier star. ' An yea JNrius f idle oooed. lie HsBod her serersl tapoes. Thenhe pointed opwazd and said-: 'ThiKVsMaia,dotre." "And that«8^V ditfwiiiqNMd, ss » footartepsoBaded hiiflei^^-^'°- Mr. Bpoigeon: **I wish to si^ that I moe not •duoned of ai^tUog whatever that I do. I don't think that soioiking makaa me ashamed, and thenfoie I «ean to smoke." PBBflONAI. ITIIK. eriflss nwaaeeMTPe^ie, Oaaqwnini owns two hnndred ud fiftv heed of cattle in Italy, where he now uL as farmer, wine-maker, miller, sOk-gtov. er, linen muiuiaoturer, eatUe-dealer, and tenor. Senator lUlmunds is about to build a handsome house in Washington, He has the credit of having driven out all the minor lobbyists who used to lounge about the doak-rooms of the Senate. l.W.W.Cc^«oraa, the philanthropist and banker, ough in advanced years still rides bora ioack almost daUy in the streets of Washington, and was neither scared nor hart when a vicious mare threw him, not long ago. Colonel Bobert Ingersoll's fee of $100,. 090 from ex-Senator Dorsey, for defending him in the Star Bonte trials, has awaken- ed I erne interest among the members of the bar; but there are New York lawyers whom such figures de not surprise. In a recent dramatic criticism Lord Lytton says that actors invite critics to supper, ^t them on their backs, take them bemud the scenes, and open thgir hearts to them, and that in consequence the critics "behave well" to them. Senator John Sherman smokes sm^ cigars before a wood fire in his commod- ious library in Washington, and is ,an in- teresting and instructive talker on poli- tics, and perhaps the oldest living author- ity on matters of national finance. Mark Lemon, late editor of Puru^, as described by Mr. Edmund Yates 'He was made for the part. Corpulent, jovial, bright-eyed, with a hearty laugh and an air of bonhomie he rolled through life the outward impersonation of jollity and good temper." Mr. E. W. Gosse, now on a visit to the States, has been warmly received. He is the Lecturer on English Literature at the University of Cambridge, and is learned in the languages of northern Europe, be- sides being a poet and literary critic of note. His wife is a sister of Mrs. Alma- Tadema. Mrs. Bebecca M. Levy, who died re- centiy in New Orleans, was the sister of the late Judah P. Benjamin, in whose house for for many years she dispensed a graceful and generous hospitality that many Northern friends of his still remem- ber with pleasure. Our British coueins are takisg very kindly to American periodical literature. More than seventy thousand copies of the December number of the English edition of Harper's Magazine were sold within a few days after its publication; and the sale of fifty thousand copies of the first number of the English edition of Harper's Tming People shows how well that paper is appreciated by the little subjects of Queen Victoria. On the 3rd inst. Mr. George W. Ohilds celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his parchase of the Philadelphia Public Ledger from Mr. W. M. Swrain. At that time the paper was loosing heavily, but through the extraordinary business tact of Mr. Ghilds it soon became one of the most profitable papers in the coimtry. It is pleasant to read that the man who was foreman of the composing-room under Mr. Swain, and was an important factor in the management of the paper, is living to-day, and is on Mr.'Child's pension list, drawing his salary as though still in work- ing harness. Miss Mary Gwendolen Caldwell, of New York, who has gi-en |300,000 to found a Catholic university, was of age last October. She and her younger sister are orphans. Their father was William Shakespeare Caldwell, a Virginian; their mother. Miss Breckinridge, a Kentuckian. Each parent left them a fortune, and they possess about two millions apiece. No young lady, in this country at least, ever made so magnificent an educational en- dowment. "Personally," she says, "I should prefer to see the university built at the South, for though bom and educated at the North, my family are Southerners, and my feelings are Sootkem." The valuable paintings belonging to the estate of Mr. Thomas G. Appleton will not be sold, although his furniture and bric-a-brac will. He bought some noble examples of Jean Francois Millet's brush-work when Millet was so littie ap- preciated as to be compelled to beg bread for Ms children. The taste for Millet's pictures was first awakened in this country by the examples imported by Mr. Apple- ton and the late Mr. Williun M. Hunt. Did Alexander the Great die from drink Dr. Alfred Carpenter says that he did, but a recent essayist reminds the doctor •hat there is no trustworty evidence on the subject, and,/rom the nature of the (â- ase, can not bie. "1 have heard," he continues 'Mihat Lord Eldon, who died at the age of eighty-seven, and who certain- ly steered neither 'downfall' nor 'ruin,' was accustomed to drink a bottle of port- wine after his dinner every day, except Sundays, when his brother. Lord StoweU, dined with him, and they drank two." One of the Bothaohilds was once upon a time playii^ oards, when one of the players, a noted miser, let fall a small piece of mon^, and insisted upon stopp- ing the game while he took the candle and looked for it. Whereupon the great banker, taking a bank note from his podcet, lit it, and handed it to themiserly player, bade him hunt foKhis money with that. The following inddent has the true Hl- ben^bn flavor A sentieman, widiing to praserve seme beautiful rains on his es- tstekMorSdbatfiiiift the ravages of psss- in^vandaJn, emidoyed a eontraotor to JNld; a wi^: aimnd thenu When the fair was nniabedt^ownflvoune to see it, andwas honifled and diagasted to find that the oentiaetor had need every stone of the rains %s material for the wall, niiidk theief »e enclosed nothing.