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 I II J r EOBTHE FAEMEB. MM of fomatMWi Wfi mW^^ nr id, **tluy.jp«v." tlf» fi^ii, ia- of aiij JnnrMH of • stone fieom tta â- â- nmandlog aofl, £he actioii is in exaeti^ tk» opposite direetion. a11 of the soil, SKve tlM regetable m»tter it eontaiiiB, re- â- alts bom Qxe disint^wtion, tlie tweak- ing down and powdering, of solid xoeks er stones. Changes of temperatnze, con- tneting and expanding them, hveak down â- faAies. Bain penetrates the pons of â- oeks, and freeaingthem, throws offsiaall particles Bain also dkeolres some of the eonstitnenta of rocks, especially those largely, or in part, of lime-stone. Finally, plants aid in breaking op rocks into soil, by the action of their roots while growing. Also, when plants de- cay, varioTU compoands, indnaing acids, are produced, which act upon rocks and aid in rednciog them to powder. Instead of there being anything like an increase in the sf za of rocks and stones, there aie a number of agents silently bat ceaseless- ly at work, slowly converttng them to soil. â€" [American Agricultorist. Farm*Crardeiitnff. The farmer who continues .o raise the same crops that he grew before cowns and manufacturing vil^ges sprang up all around Lim, makes a great mistake. In ^e older States, at least, there are but few farms not within an hour or two hours' ride of a market. It is worth while for farmers in such localities, to consider if they can afford to raise field eom, when sweet com will pay them much better. It is true, that sweet com needs high manuring, but when the ears are off, there will be a heavy crop of the yevy bsst fodder. The ears will bring in ready money, just hc^w much will depend upon the market, but safe to say^ more than any crop of ripe com would be worth. It is a mistake to grow late po- tatoes, to be dug when every one else has potatoes, and prices are low, while early pototoes will bring several times the price of late onea. It is so with other crops. There are bat few garden vegetables that may not be grown as farm crops, and it is a mistake to raise produce that will bear transportation from a distance, instead of that suited to a near market, and must be disposed of at once. A farmer, om the other hand, would make a mis- take, were he to devote his land to a new set of crops at once. He should deter- mine to grow those things that pay the best, and to gradually work into a more profitable kind of farming. Those whe propose to do this, will find sweet corn and potatoes excellent crops to begin with. Others will pay better, but these are best to prepare the land for other and more profitable crops. It would have been better had the land been prepared for these last fall, but as this was not done, make it readyas soon as it is safe to work it. â€" [American Agriculturist. Live Stock Xotes. Tue results of neglect in the stable and stall will be apparent now. All who have failed to keep their animals clean, warm and well fed, will ne^d to take more than ordinary care in bringing them throaeh the winter. Liberal feeding is the only true economy in wintering stock. Induce animals to eat, keep their appetites keen with frequent changes of food, and feel satisfied, when spring cones, that all the fodder has been consumed in keeping; the live stock plump and healthy. E^ery barnyard should have an abundant sup- ply of pure water Animals that are well wintered are half summered. Steady work does no harm to a mature horqe. If well fed, carefully groomed and kept from undue exposure, a team may labor the winter through with profit both to the owner and the animals. Horses when confined to a close, warm stable, become tender and subject to colds, etc. Inooming cows should have a limited diet rf dry hay, with a littlj bran, for a few weeks previoas to calving. The young stock, and all others infested with lice, should have the skin rubbed with a mix- ture of sweet oil and kerosene in equal parts. Sheep need, besides abundant wholesome food, plenty of pure air, a dry yard and sleeping pl^ce. The porkers should have already gone to the market. Store pigs will make a prc-fitable growth if well housed and fed during winter. Light and frequent meals are best. Bsgs can only be expected from fowls that are 'at home" in a warm, dry house, provided with abundant food,, both green and dry, lime, gravel, and pure water. What is a Silo? So much has been said about Silos and Ensilage in this and other journals with- in the past few years, that it is surprising tiie subject should have escaped the no- tice of any one, yet here is a new sub- â- criber in Indiuia who asks in effect the above questions. As there may be others t* whom the matter is equally new we answer our inquiring correspondent in brief. A silo is a contrivance for pre- aerving green fodder, in the fresh state in a manner similar to that used in tiie eanning of vegetables and fruits for hu- foQd â€" by exdusioB of air. A 'silo â€" ly a pit â€" ^is any air-ti|^t reeeptacle. i may be built of stone, of brick or of It may be crautracted entirely helow ground, entirely above ground, or built into a bank and be partly covexed •nd parly ex p a n d. The baportaatpoint h«ing that it* walb ahall be av-tighfc Qteen f »i^ fd any kind, espeoaUy In- dian, com atalkB, ia ent small and doaefy padked in the alio, txeadina it down fina- ly. The fodder k ooVenv hy bond* or ^Mika, upon tAiob heavj weif^ an gfa.MMi,' the ooTcr |oilo«iBg the fodder as ft ^m, atoMeer biacM iiled wth Wkn thefodiv litekmooftior ing, dariac the «ial«|^ Ik Mf â- aft Hhea^telk aea^oad ci ttj ImtM die ilOTlnilia.or â- qotio jidoWjiiti •ala^lhat tliwe Sea been aoaie Joa of no- t^^e Blatter hf fwrawntattoa, t h eae eoAditioDB eMrnot daaiiaUe, andreeent experlBMBta tend to â- hov thHfc they aaay be avoided. Serenl power enttera are now made lor the paipoae of prepecing the foddflrfor atoriag in aflos. The term ensilage is apfdied to the method of pre- serving fodder, and to the fodder that has bcMn thus preeerved. The term en nl« ia ahort, and well suited for the first Qse of the word enailage. We enailo the com fodder, and it oomea out of the pit aa enailage. â€" [American Agrionltnriat. Points in Pooltry Keeping. The 'PlymoiithBoeka," being the best feathered of all varietlea of chiekena, are apt to be the best winter layers, and as they feather up very young, are better suited to the incubator trade, or the arti- ficial rearing of broilers than the "Light Brahmaa," or many other varieties. There ought to be a profit in buying up young l^oosters, caponizing them, fattening them an selling at the usual dmarket price. Turkeys treated in this way often reach a weight of from thirty to fifty pounds. A brood of chickens led by a turkey hen to forage in the fields, will attain to great weight and early maturity without food or care on the part of the owner. The best eggs are the result of a meat diet the high colored and well fltivored esgs of Kansas during the grasshopper visitation were a marvel to strangers. When grass- hoppers and worms fail, their lack should be supplied by feeding cracklings and other cheap butcher's offal. The crushed oyster sheU supply, snd the boxes of road dust or ashes, should be kept within easy reach. When moving to an entirely new location we secure immunity from gapes for two years. The farmer who does not provide his wife with a cord poultry house is standing in his own light, as it need not be fine cr costly. In winter, drop a little carbolic acid in the food mixture, once a month, as a preventative of disease, and give a few appetizers, such as cabbage, garlic, and red pepper, with a variety of grain food and not all com. With this treatment and a proper house, we may count more certainly on profita- ble returns than when the fowls have to roost on icy perches, exposed to the zero winds of long winter nights. The pro- ducts of the poultry yard are always in demand, and jadging by the imports now made in that line, they will be ihe last to glut the market in our large cities. â€" [American Agriculturist. Animal Longevity. Camels live from forty to fifty years horses average from twenty-five to thir- ty oxen, about twenty sheep, eight or nine; and dogs, twelve to fourteen. Concerning the ages attained by non-do- mesticated animals, only a few Isolated fects are known. The East ludians be- lieve that the life periods of the elephant is about three hundred years, instances being recorded of these animals having lived one hundred and thirty years in confinement after capture at an unknown age. Whales are estimated to reach the age of four hundred years. Some rep- tiles are very long lived, an instance being furnished by a tortoise which was c nfined in 1633 and existed till 1753, when he perished by accident. Birds sometimes reach a great age, the eagle and the swan having been known to live one hundrea years. The longevity of fishes is often remarkable. The carp has been known to live two hundred years c ^mmon river trout, fifty years and the pike ninety years, while Gesnerâ€" a Swiss naturalist â€" relates that a pike caught in 1497 bore a ring recording the capture of the same fisti two hundred and sixty-sev- en years before. Insects are very short lived, usually completing the term of their existence in a few weeks or months at the most. Some even die upon the very day of entering upon their new life. As a general rale not to be applied too closely, larger types of animals live very much longer than smaller, although there may be some marked exceptions to the rule. Um^ I^Miind, "Mttn ' ' i^pn^ictein jrWaakiBg6Mi Tmatorj. The Fiineeia Looue ia modeQipiS a etatae in Ivonxe ot bt royal mothert he placed in linooln CadiedraL A Leeda paper aaya that a yowsa widow of that dty who wfitee well is training faSraelf for an edit^, but the pi^ier doean'c cay who the editor is. A aiaxriaigfe is now arranged between the little Cz%ro«its. a I*d of sixteen, and one c^ the daughters of the Crown Prince of Prussia, to take place in a few rears. Lady fiillyar, who has just died, was the mother of two admirals and the widow of another, and en"«rtained Nelson's esptains at dinner after the battle of Trafalgar. ' The first woman in Italy to become the bro her of ilippocrates " is Dr. Gioseppina Catani, who lately passed a brilliant examination in medicine at the University of Bulogna. The daughter of Binns, the ex -hang- man of Lcmdon, recently testifaed in court that she had frequently been frightened out of the house by her father's experi- ments in hanging dogs and cats. A singular case is that of May Wilkin- son, of ^Newark, New Jersey, who, bom a mute, never uttered a sound in her life till the day before she died, when she began to laugh, and laughed uninter- ruptedly till she died. An English lady recently refused to have her baby vaccinated with virus from the arm of a grandchild of Mr. Gladstone, as all her family were Coneervativen, and she did not wish the taint of Mr. Glad- stone's Liberalism introduced into it. Mrs. Horace Helyar, the young wife of the new secretary of the British Legation in Washincrton, is said to be the coming beauty. She has a perfect pink and white complexion, dzzling teeth, blue eyes, and a ma^s of hair like spun gold. She is tall, slender, and graceful. A young school-teacher, twenty-years old, Miss Mattie Worley, of Greenwood County, Kansas, earned money enough to buy one hundred and sixty seres of nd, hired men to break up eighty acres and 80W ten acres of wheat, and purchued stock for the rest of the land. She is now out of debt, and still continues to taach while her cattle increase and mul- tiply. Madame Kuki, the wife of the new Japanese Minister to Washington, is taller than most of her country-women, and has more, regular features. She is ani- mated, and the voice in which she ad- drepses her interpreter, when making her, social calls, is very musical. She diesses in the French fashion her calling dress is of rich black velvet trimmed with fur, and a bonnet of black velvet and jet with crimson pompons. ^»^'e setf-appoiitted task in lifewaaio '^^^itrainainiafe." In front of the ali tbiH^plaee rOB ^iH 'ia^H^ sipoe the deep all atancpi r- trseka, which eram a hosy tli6fo«ighfare. 'InxMas IMek BMHio it hia bpirineaa to meet each iAcoming tr^, and tail h^nMre it to qlefr the track of aii^ dianee impedimoit. PaasMi^rs would hold their breath in terror to See the stooping, Ttifoifid figure, with white hair flying and ajrvis out- stretched^ runting m a kind of dlogtrot before the engine, in the possible danger of being crashed to death. No rtmonsmmce or wproaoh oonld compel old Dick to sive up bia nerilous tMMV, Ic had not been a oaeloM one. Twice he had removed obstructions from the track which would have wrecked the trains. Once be had dragged a man, wiio had fallen upon the rails, to a p^aoe of safety, and tiiree times he had saved the lives of duldreo. " Ole Dick's got hia work, sah 1 " he would say, when told of his danger. He never left the station. Tbe railway officials made a frrotege of the old man, and gave him a comfortable room in ibich to sleep back of the engine-house, and a standing order for menla at the restaurateur's. But Disk preferred to take his bread and bone in ms fingers, to be eaten as he squatted on the floor of the station. ** Dem paid fellaha takes turns, but I'se always on guard," he said. Dick probably grew feeble and stiff by old age, and the time came which e'ery- body had looked for. He was caught by the cow-catcher of an engine, thrown against the rocks, and carrieid to his room dying. He lingered for a few hours. With each roar and thriek that announced an incoming train, he would struggle to rise. " De's lots of chillen on dem tracks Lemme go Ole Dick's got his wohk to do!" When told that he must die, he lay silent for a long time, and said finally, ^* 'Pears like de's nobody to take up jes' my wohk. But de Lohd'U see to it," and so, closing his eyes, his work was over. The roughest employees on the road were better men for having known this poor, unselfish negro, who, simply and according to his light, faithfully did the work which he thought bad been given him to do. prjggjwn jrf reducing ^5^ MttiJea. TtBWiiiiilibB magr lithmfy .a^wsj^i .1 Never Used Ear or Eye. In a pretty cottage half-way between Abington Four Comers and Pomfret live Mr and Mrs. WilUs Pike and their son Warren, 42 years old, who was bom deaf and blind. He is of powerful frame and moves with the quick graceful motions of a panther. The only food he ever swallows is milk, which he drinks from ten to fifteen times a day. He spnngs out of a sound sleep in the night and darts out of doors. Before quitting the house he never fails to go to the window and touch his tongue to a certain spot in a pane, by which means he is able to tell what the weather is. During the day he lies on the floor, always in one place, which has been wom into a hollow of the shape of his body. He can tell instantly whenever his parents quit the house and which one it is. He is able to tell ex- actly when^ it is noon and sunrise and sunset. His only amusement Is to walk to the old-faahioned kitchen door and rat tlethethumb-pieee. â€" [Hartftnd Times. ^~" â€" I"â€" f iii^ Seienee deatroya some of the most ehev- ished popular ddunona. Catgut is derived from sheep German silver was not Invented in Germany, and it oontaina no^vCT; Gleopatia's needle was not ereeted by her, nor m her honor Pom- p^'a piDar had no historical oomuetion ^A pttBonaeBraediogwmx doea not centain a. partide of wax,; thetidte. roae u not » to^ but a poknutth 4be did not oHgUwka in TCfsSum^ and an not â€"•-*-- not aaf of iU •• "'~^~~ A Japanese Native Village. At tbe invitation of Mr. Tannaker Buhicrosan a number of ladies and gen- tlemen were present yesterday at a pri- vate view of a Japanese native village which has been constracted under his di- rection at Albert gate, Hyde park. It covers a considerable area of ground, and is entirelv roofed in. No expense has, we believe, been spared to make the village complete in all the necessary de- tails and surroundings, and the result has been to produce a very picturesque in- terior Suppended from its various shons shops'and houses are Japanese lanterns, which, when lit at night-time, must greatly enhance the effect. To people the " village" no less than one hundred native men and women have been brought from Japan. These represent various trades and industries, and after the ex- habition has been opened to the pubdc will be seen in their national costume daily, engaged in their different vocations m their native-built shops and houses, as m Japan The women will also give musical entertainments, while the men wUl engage in fencing and wrestling. For this purpose a theatre has been fitted up. Tbe visitors were yesterday afforded an opportunity of seeing some of the men at their athletic exercises, in which they showed remarkable skill and dexterity. There is a tea-house, where a 5 o'clock tea wiU be served, and a Buddhist temple and. In fact, to quote the words of the official handbook, "Visitors during a short sojourn in the village can imagine themselves transplanted to the ♦ Land of ?i® ?^'°8 ^°""' Sir Rutherford Alcock formally opens the exhibition to-day, and it can not fail to possess a great attraction for the public for many months to come. A hand-book and guide is published at sixpence, which gives a discription of the various exhibits, and also some information concerning the manners arid customs of this interesting people. â€" [London News. Midlist Crime in St Petersburg. Exdtementisrife among Government officials at St. Petersbui^ over ihe at- tempted aasaaainatiiHi of Police Superin- tendent Kollert. He was attacked by two steangen in one ol|the main thorough- fares m bread daylight this morning. His asMihtots each fired shots from refolvers athimimd than fled. They were pS- arod and captured. One gave hia nLne as Pchehngew and the other gave hia aa li^ow. Both have been identified aa J**-pwn Nihiirta. BuperinteSteS Kollert a escape is doaddeted exttaoiw «na«y, aa none of the shot* atrack hia 3^b^iBa»,'u fint attampta at laieiD pm. made about "inftteen yean ^^^ ^_._it btfua •» 980^000 vii Searching for Pirates* Treasures. An expedioion is about to start from the Tyne in search of supposed hidden treasure. The primary mover is an in- habitant of South Shields, who, as book- keeper and cashier, has for many years been in a large steamship owner's office on the qaaysido. A ship's captain who has traded tp the Tyne for some years was the first person to obtain the plans and papers relating to a hidden treamre from an " old salt " who was ill and living in poor circumstances, and consented to hand over tbe documents on receipt of pecuniary relief. He had seen the wealth carefully hidden, and; in fact, was in his younger days one of the pirates who plundered the vessel from which it was taken. The papers remained in posses- sion of the captain for some time, during wbich he endeavored to get a vessel bound in the direction of tiie island to call and inspect the place. He succeeded at last in persuading the owner of a ship bound for Rio Janeiro to allow the captain to call at the island of Trinidad, which is situated 250 miles south of Rio Janeiro on the Brazilian coast, where the wealth is hidden. If, on reaching the island, aa inspection of the spot be satiaf acrory, means will be used to get at tbe treasure without delay; but, should the enterprise on the island be a failure, then the ship will proceed to Cape Tpwn, where the coals will be sold and discharged, and where it is expected a homeward charter will be secured, so that the loss on the venture will not be great.â€" [Lodnon Telegraph. An Ape's Curiosity. The object of popular interest in the London Zoological Gardens is the monkey house. A few years ago, its most attrac- tive occupant was "Joe," a chimpanzee, who was lodged and boarded in a separate compartment. To his keeper and to the sc'entific gentlemen connected with tha " Zoo," Joe was especially attractive, be- cause he never learned from experience and could be controlled only by his curi- osity and fear. Every morning when Joe was let out for an airing, he abused his liberty by leapmg around the oatside of the oase and palling ihe tails of his mates. When it was time to shut him up again in his cage, Joe would just as regularly rebd. Mid refuse to come to his keeper. As he was too niihble to be' caught and two crafty to be allured by dainties! his keeper had to use strategy. Near an end of the monkey-house was a large dark hole out of which came agas- pipe. Having opened the doer of Joe's the dark hole, and tiien appear as if he saw Bometbing hitenaely interesting Joe would descend from his pwS, fd. low^e keeper, tod, like him,*^'e.tiy g«» into the hole. Then, wiSi gi,?^ oage, loBowed by the ddmnanaee* durfJ tenjg with fright, and the Aw^nJ^SS Siiigiilair i«a hoQuj ioi| |o the veiitdation of i„j tajift; IMl i«»*a to saytbi atmoaphere was forty ^^1, ronnd the globe, it wsai Qseleaa economy to breathe it more thia 004JB. ,;,,.'•' Patti seldom goes out-of-doors in iria. ter without filing, her ears with cottoiL and prot^Wtingller mouth with ahandker^ ^ief if she speaks, joat aa the owner oft precious vioHn would protect his inatm. ment. One of the eaaieat and best dLsinfec. tants known is that invented by Dr. Yj], andt, oonaisting of forty drops each of turpentine and carbolic add, simmerin{ ia a amall kettle of water over a tlow fit^ in the room where the diptheritic or other patient is. The learned Dr. Max von Pettenkofer of Munich, says that whatever tends t« lower the general heahh and cause de- pression predisposes to cholera, and that places provided with a good drainage and abundant pure water lose all susceptibfl. ity to the decease. It is interesting to learn, in view of tfae general belief in the lenthening of the average of human life, that Mrs. Sarai Howlett, of Amelia, Virginia, has jait cut a third set of teeth, and that Sir Moses Montfcfiore, at the age of one hun- dred, haa recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia. Mr. E. D. Smith, of Newport, Rhode Island, an octogenarian, whose son-in-lav Mr. Clarke, has lato'y been appointed Pension Commissioner, was nearly stone deaf when, slipping and falling in the street very recently, he hit his head, sad on recovering from the stunning effect of the blow had entirely regained his hear- ing. Dr. Hamilton Cartwright, Professor of Dental Surgery in King's -College, Lon- don, says that with the twenty per cent, solution of hydrochlorate of cocaine, the new ansesthetic, he has removed child- ren s permanent teeth without pain, cur- ed ear ache in a few minutes, and ia- stsntaneously and painlessly destroyed the exposed pulp or nerve of a tooth, or dinarily an excruciating agony. A Singular Story, Nineteen years ago a female infant rat left with an old Irishwoman in Boston. The name of the child was not given, and the only clew was a handkerchief bearing a name, which was with the childs effects. All trace of the babe's family connection was lost, and the little oDf grew up in ignorance of its father ot mother, cared ffr by the old woman aoi her family. After a lapse of years a pe- culiar growth appeared on the'lid of the child's eyes. She was taken to an oculist, who remarked upon the singularity of the CMC, and said that he had operated only upon one other similar case in the course of his practice, and that was upon the eye of a wealthy lady in a city near Boston. Here was the long hidden clew to the child's identity. The person who took the little girl to the ocuhst, report- ed what the doctor had.said. An attor- ney was called in, and it was- developed in the process of a long investigation that the name upon the handkerchief was that of a manufacturer's wife and the girl's mother. The girl was confronted with her father and mother. A settlement by the payment of seveial thwusand dollars for back board and damages, so the story goes, and an annuity of fifteen hundred dollars for the daughter, now a young lady, was affected, it Is said. When the child was abandoned, the husband of *he lady was a poor book-keeper. It was feared, it is said, that the birth of the baby would anger a relative of the mother s, and so the child was given up. To-day the book-keeper is a wealthy man- ufacturer. He haa a family who have grown up in ignorance of the existence of their eldest sister. f^^ii $?»»F oanat stbBQgh tiiia -•ill ,ic.i-y' A Wonderful Faith Cure. There is nothing like a miracle to whip up recmits or to convince unbelievers and a miracle has at last been worked in the neighborhood of Hawarden castle, through the instramentality ot the Salva- tion army. A tram-car conductor in Cheater had for fifteen years been lame mono leg. "Affliction sore long time he bore," and also tried various highly re- commended patent medicines. At last he heard of the Salvation army, and he resolved to try the cure by faith. Yester- day monung the man, whose lameness had been hitherto undoubted, jumped off his car, and, to the alann of everybedv, began to indulge in extraordinary convpl- aions. A fear lest he should be demonia- cally possessed, or perhaps intoxicated, was at once dispelled when he fell on his knees and began to ptayin what is de- wnbed aa " a loud and fervent manner." Me tten, we are told, "jumped joyfuUv about, andexcUdmed "Praised be ' I am quite cured." Then rest of his ejacu- lations wouM be ordinarily considered profane. Ho then jnmped on his car again ai^ oontinned hia official avoca- tions.. S6ino pepple in Cheater beMeve in the mixade otliera do not. There •^it^y" akeptKa in this wicked world. --iSt. atuMaVGIiasette. Ywi^Rw, j^B», of Fragiwit HillB, Jo^jone «|,t^ fiiilt priaes at Tale, '" utM last month. :e waa made a baronet a hia aahacription of i ioBlni %o the Boysl BelmgaHMe hoatbly, ilwhiflv^iliia heir an j^lleMaqd* year^ia* M fefSd ki^i^.^ --^« 1