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 vjnm^ '-*;**' |-« i ii= J 1 i If agricultdral:"'" A. fanner, tobeaiiumiwfal, liwld ngrer mU poor theep, bat idl ikk ones and fat- tea the poor ones. Some fanMn do not ateble eheip, *i»i«»»i«g Uwt thejeaamake them thrive oat of doon. Nov it ie eb- â- ord to tell people that ebeep will do bet- ter out of-doors, and that it doee not paj to shelter them. A man that can make a ' sheep fat ont in the wet and eold, would make a good sneoess of feeding in shelter, if he woidd pat his attention to his work Uke he woaid haye to ont^f-doors. A man shonld never keep more sheep than he can shelter withdnt crowding, although Bone breeds will stand crowdiDg mote thtn others will. The first thing in f feeding is to be r^a- lar. Feed at a certain hour, and then stick to that time for where feeding is done with regularity, you can go about the stable and sheep will not pay any at- tention to you until the feeding hour. Second is cleanliness. Keep the troughs clean, ani do not let them stand in the wet manure, but use plenty of straw. Third, I would say that good hay or oom-fodder should be used. If you have poor hay, feed it to the cattle, but never to the sheep. Com shelled and mixed with oats and bran makes a good feed, but when the farmer has the money, it is good to buy oil-meial but we do not al- ways have the money. ' The best rations are shelled com, one bushel oats, one peck bran, one peck, and to make certain that they get salt, mix a small amount with the grain, for feeders are apt to be forgetful When it comes to giving on a cold morning. The last, and most Important, Is water. A great many farmers claim that sheep do not need any water. I often wonder how they would like to be fed on bread and potatoes for six months without water. Water is necessary to animal ex- istence, and why deprive them of it To feed successfully, sheep should have water accessible at all times. In these days of bored wells it will pay a farmer to have a well by the sheep stable. Do not scare your sheep, but make thnm know that you are their friend, and L^ ey vill thrive and it will be a pleasure t tst .ad In the stable and watch them crack com and eat hay without being on the watch to see if any danger is near. Shoot all stray dogs and some that are not stray. I believe the best motto would be, shoot all dogs not with their owners, and it woald be better for the farmerand shepherd. To Preserve Fence Posts. A correspondent of the Country Oent'e- man recommends saturating fence posts with crude petroleum by boring a half dozen holes into them obliquely, near the butt, with a three- qoarter inch bit, then filling with petroleum, and plugging to prevent waste. After the operaoion the posts should lie in piles a week or ten days, when the pores of the wood will be completely saturated as high up as they are Bpacially liable to decay. A paint composed of raw linseed oil and pulveriz- ed charcoal is then spread freely over the lower end of the posts, and six inches above the surface line when set. White oak posts, cut in February, and sawed 4x4 at the butts and 4x2 at the top, and pre- pued as directed, are claimed to be good for any man's lifetime, if occasionally cov- ered with a fresh coat of cheap paint. A four inch vide strip, one inch thick, should be nailed on tor a top rail, and the posts then sawed off square, when a five hich strip nailed to top of posts, and edge of the four inch strip, wlU keep water from getting into the tops of the posts and rotting them. Two strands of barb- ed wire below the top strips will make a fence that will turn cattle and look well. The wire should be put on in warm weather to secure the proper tension, and one or more additional strands should be used if sheep or swine are to be pastured. To Kill Wheat Smut. A correspondent, at the risk of being laughed at by scientific men, contributed to Xhe Ameriean Miller hii experience in clearing his whtat from the black emub. Before applying the remedy the men at threshing time were as black as Africans. The wheat, before sowing, was soaked for to hours in etr ng lye made from wood ashes, and wa then sown while yet wet. The application made the young wheat plants look as if a coat of manure had been spread upon the land. After two years amnt entirely disappeared from the farm, and none has been seen since, al- though the experiments were made near- ly forty years ago. Our s^vice is to try such a remedy on a small scale before risking the entire crop. Lye will quickly start the hull fr^m grain, and it will also eat the skin off the hands of those who may handle it. It is oastomary to roll and dry soaked seed in plaster of Parts before trying to sow it by hand or with a machine. The remedy. If eff jctu3kl, would doubtless be equally applicable to pats and other spring grains. Domestlcatlme the Indian. One of the experiments in tiie ciyQsa- tion of the Indian undertaken at Hamp- ton, Mais., this year ia taking several young married couples from diflbwent Indian tribes and teaching them how to make a home. It has been very sucooss f ul, and the dawniiig gentleness «^ the men to their wif es and.ohildren, the new tendemtrs and pride of the womra, their eagerness to laara how to sew and t tw^r pleasure in c'eanliuess are enoonraginv In every way. It is f u any, and yet toaddng t) see tha men with thdr ohildrai, their awkwardness in handling them and yet their determination to oarry tiie heavy youngstera and share the care of them with their tquawa. And these are not the Creeks end Cherokees, bat tiie like Sioux and Ojo^um. .CE9i»»ninL ^1 «• AlfiuNigh quite eommon In abnQrt all file luge etties hi the Wert, the halnt of opiom smoking or ** hftiDg pipe," M n called, is qnifee^nnknoetn in some dtttricfci. This habit haa grown to an alarming extmt on til* Paeifio slope and in all other loealltiea where OUneae are to be foond In any great numbers. I have visited many of the Chinese opium jointa, both in New York and San Francisco, and c n tell at a glance whether a per- son Is addicted to the ose of the deadly drug or not. I have had strangers come into my store whose facial appearance indicat- ed that they were the slaves of the habit, and so far as I know there is no sure cure for it except to shun the drug as one would a viper. The opium used by the Chinese is of an inferior quality, and Is brought to this country in the form of a paste, put up in small round foil-lined boxes similar to those used for pUls. The pipe is a cur- ious-looking contrivance, and might be taken for a common walking stick were it not for the little metallic bowl placed midway between the mouthpiece and the end of the stem. The stem itself is con- structed of bamboo, one end being plug- ged, the other fitted with an amber or metallic tip. In the bottom of the bo«l are two snudl holes, one of which leads through into the stem, the other only about half way. In using the pipe a small quantity of the opium paste is rolled up into a pellet and placed on a wire, the end of which is Inserted in one of the holes in the bow of the pipe. The smoker stretehes his or her form on the floor or alow divan, as the case may be, and ignites the opium by applying Uie bowl of the pipe to the flame from a charcoal brazier. If it be his first attempt the initial whiff will be sufficient to partially strangle him, as the fumes of burning opium are exceedingly pungent and distasteful. Very soon he becomes accustomed to the peculiar taste, and gradually succumbs to its Influence, as one does in taking an anaesthetic, and finally drops off into a deep sleep. I tried it once and that proved sufficient for me. I had the most delightful dreams, and imagined that I owned the earth, and had a chattel mortgage on the other plan- ets. When I regained consciousness my head felt as large as a Saratoga trunk, and for two days at least every bone in my body ached as badly as if I had been punished with a dub. I had no desire to try it again. ** Second Wind." The reader may not be aware that in or- dinary respiration we only use a portion of our lungs, the cells at the extremity not being brought into play. This is the rea- son why those who are not " in training," and who try to run any distance, soon be- gin to gasp, and, unless they are courage- ous enough to persevere in spite of the choking sensation, are forced to stop. But if they ill persevere, the choking goes off, and the resuh is what is techni- cally known as ** second wind." When the second wind is fully established, the runner does not become ont of breath, but goes on running as long as his legs will oar- ry him. I know this by experience, have ing been accustomed for some years to run three miles every morning over a very hilly road. The fact is, that on starting, the farthest portions of the lungs are choked with effete air and the remainder do not supply air enough to meet the in- creased circulation caused by exercise. By degrees, however, the neglected cells come into play, and when the entire lung is in working order the circulation and res- piration again balance each other, and the •^second wind" is the result. Now, let the reader repeat his experiment of hold- ing bis breath against time, but first let him force out of his lungs every particle of air that he can expel, and then draw as deep breath as his lungs will hold. If this be repeated some seventy or eighty timesj by way of imitation of the whale, the ex- perimenter will find that he can hold hia breath for a minute and a half without in- convenience. Should he be a swimmer, he should always take this precaution be- fore " taking a header," and he will find ihat he can swim for a considerable dis- tance before he needs to rise for breath. Red Pheasant. This Indian Chief is the head of a band Crees, about one hundred and forty in number (f whom sixty- nine are men and women able to work, who have for some time been settled upon a reserva«^ion a ehort distance to the south-east Battle- f jrd. While that post was the Indian headquarters for the Norbb-West, this buid received a great deal of attention, but while they were encouraged to break up land, given implements and tools and were provided with hpases, they appear to have become ateually paaperizad. They are spoken of in the last reporta as being 'aprthetic," and as having made but Uttle progress. In idl thev had twen- ty horses and about fourteen oxen The fast offensive aet of this band was the breaking in upon thdr ins'mctor, Ifr 6eor({e Applegsrth, and Uieir mmoit of him and hia wife aa they eaeaped over the plains toward the aonfch. Poor Payne, the instmctor upon the ad jofaifaig leeerve, was not so fortonato, having been killed. The two beada, whldi Inall would aaioast to abont 450 apols, titen q^paar.to have abandoned their reserve and gone nqcth- mat to join Ponndnuker the leader ol tha, lodfan rising west of Battlefacd, aa when OoL Otter's oolamn reoehed the rese^e, it was antirmydss cataid, udiHearoiMcrea- pondent stated in his dispatd), the dead- body of the niardered»an. waa ditou wâ€" edandhassinoe been borledat Battle- Itis genmU^ as«i«ed that 4he Jwb radfanratsUtuLtspfaltofgamitlg whieh itMlfuiniipiaiwaefgemlinieto timer __ all shMMs of Sni^idunen at the pMMStdnr,n47be traced back to ^oe UMoiatiooadi the SaxoBs with ow ««li- estanoeatry. And it is perfectly reasm- able to believe that tile helpless Britons, when they invited the piratieal Saxons to land on their 'dwres, and protect them from their domestic foes, may have read- ily fratenizad with a tribe sesxceJy lea barbaiDOs than themselves, adopted their habits and customs, and followed some of their favorite amusements. We read how the plungers of the period would boldly stake all they pomesaed, even to their personal freedom, till the losers were often made slaves to the winners, and sold in traffic like other merchandise. But, after all, we can hardly fey the bur- den of our viotoUB practaoes on the shoul- ders of the ancient Saxons,^ or the habit of gaming was never oonfined to any par- ticular tribe, but it ia common, to all countries, snd almost every age and it is not ttU' long after the fusion of the Anglo-Saxon with the Norman racea that gamins in England was carried to such excess as to adl forth the intervention of the legislature. In the middle of the sixteenth century we find the first act prohibiting gaming to all gentlemen, and intordictiiig tennis, cards, dice, and bowls to all inferior persons except at Christ- mas time and a hundred years later on it was enacted tiiat any person losing more than £100 at any one time should not be compelled by the law to pay ohe Siune. From that date cnwards the legis- lature has passed various acts to restrict the evils of gaming, and has latterly di- rected its attention principally to gaming- houses and places of batting, while still refusing to acknowledge the legality of any sums of money won or lost in wagers. How the enriched fraternity of book- makers can drive coaches and any num- ber of horses tluough these fragile restric- tions, and how ^he smaller dependents on the betting ring can evade such ambiguous penalties, the broken ranks cf infatuated backers of horses can testify to their own grief and to the amazement of the unin- itiated lookers en. Statistics Concerning Women. Almost all the Southern States have a nearly equal Lumber of each sex. In Massachusetts the females between twen ty and fif cy years of age exceed the nutles of the same age by about 44,000 In seventy-eight cities the excess of females is 148,000. That illiteracy prevails more among women is due probably to the fur- eign papulation. Women contribute less to pauperism, the pre p irtion being 31,000 to 36,000. The atiu of prison inmates standi! 6,068 women to 64 190 males Women are in excess among the insane, men in excess among the idiotic, blind and deaf mutes. The proportion of wo- men who engage in oc pupations outside of the household is smaller in the United States than in foreign countries, but in no country is the proportionate number en- gi^ed in superior industrial occupations equal to that in this country. Of the 2,647,000 women in occupations 695,000 are engaged in agriculture â€" most of them colored women in the Southern States 632,000 are in manufMstories, of whom about one-half are in New York, Mass- achusetts and Pennsylvania 282,000 are milliners, 3., 62,000 are teilorp. Of the forty-four occupations recorded as 'par- sona! service," forty find women in them. The 626 female suigeons of 1870 have increased to 2,473 th 7 lawyers to 76; the 65 clergymen to 166. The number of laundries has increased from 61,000 in 1870 to 122.000, and of the latter 108.000 are kept by women. This large increase shows a great lightening of the housewife's labor. Ijettlng up his Appetite. ** Out in Portland, Oregon, where dis- tances are so deceitful, a very amusing incident occurred last summer among a party of friends with whom I was travel- ling. It happened that one of our num- ber waa troubled somewhat by insomnia, so much so that he arose one bright morn- ing just as the day waa|beginning to dawn, dressed, went to the office and inquired of the derk at what time the matutinal repast began. Being told that 7 o'clock was the earliest hour, he walked to the pihzza, looked around foe a few moments, resumed and inquired what mountain that was in the distance. Upon being told that it was Mb. Hood, he said to the clerk: If any of our party inquires for me, say that I am going to take a run over there to get ap an appetizer wUl be back in time for breakfast 1' Now Mt. Hood is some twenty or thirty miles from Portland, bat haa the appearance of being not ovar two ae three. Aa the hoar for breakfast approaohed, our party began ooanting up its numbers, but Mr. A was nowhere to be foundL " Inquiry waa at onea institated aa to what might hate become of him, when it was aaeertained from the elok tiiat he had gone to Mt. Hood for a morning walk, and, with a meny twinkle in his eye, headded, *hemi^nothebaek hitime f « the first hreakiEast ' oonaequently we took our breakfast mimM the absent Mr. Aâ€", and immediately ailar took eaniagea for a drive '.o Mt. JEood, if poaolble to overtake the ptodl^ Finally, after rUUiq; an hoar or Mrn, «• eame to a UkOe Icook, and then, awe emnogh, was Mr A~d i iest iug tdamelf of %a]l hli dothhigi Whan edited idia* he waa abcnt to dohe repUea ttiife he was goli^to awim Bat ir^'don't yon «iep ixnt fM one. •Wifll,»rB«am A-7*hi4hla •wmtayoOMirofio^ I know 4pl at ii t«o jdOmi «««)« r " .This ie«oribta|rteddeftfii^ pwh^ bMnagrioleripivce «'*»«»£•£.£; iBdiaD department IhoDW of*»^«»» in the NoS-Weet, t^^^^, .{^ not yet g«t into any tiofble th» l|ar ttet he lAu imoi^ be ** np " hie c»Bated • panic more than once. Hia reservation, to which in 1«82 he withdrew his pe«mle be- eaoae if he had nd; they would, have starved to death. Is in the vicinity of In- dian Head, and is of bis own ^oosmg. His band numbered, in 1882, 662 soals, but they have suffered much smce they came under the treaty, forty-five dying in ten months in 1883, no births occurring during that time, and the rations list for 1884 was for 370 persons. They have made but little progress in agricoltnral pursuits, as there are only about twenty- two acres of land broken, and their entire crop for the last harvest was 250 bushels of potatoes. The trouble with Pie-aPot runs over a considerable number of years. He and his tribe followed the buffalo south, and for some ye*r8 he and his people loafed around Fort Walsh, utterly and entire^ refusing to return and live upon the reservation offered to him. In 1882 he was induced to come back and settle on a reservation of his own choosing, but he with a lai^e portion of his band almost at once retnmad to Fort Walsh. He could obtain nothing to eat there, however, and during the month of August, with 436 followers, he went to Fort Qa'Appelle and demanded food. Tho Chiefs of the district, with 600 followers, assembled to meet him, and for a time things looked serious, but the Indian agent was firm and would neither feed nor pay a cent of subsidy to the Indians of Pie-a-Pot's band further than a supply of six days to enable them to rest. Pie-a- Pot, at last, in the face of threats and privations, stertod for Indian Head, dal- lied three days irresolntely on the road finally reached his reservation, submitted to the Government, and was given the food he required to feed the women and children. It was the same chief with whom Mr Dewdney. the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor of the North- West, got into serious difficulty regarding a spring cart, which he promised Pie a Pot, and then did not give to him, provoking the Indian to most immoderate expreasions of disgust. ITaTal SerTlce In Shallow Streams* The naval service of the delta, with Ito many hundred miles of shallow channel, is done by seven or eight small gun-boats of peculiar pattern and half a dozen steun-launches, each carrying a Hoteh- kiss (French, OMcees) gun, and manned by six or eight sailors. The gun -boats are called oannonieres. They are nearly all of them of the same pattern, broad, flat- bottomed, and not arawing more than three feet of water, even when heavily Icnaded. The idea is a peculiarly Ameri- can one. borrowed entirely from the lit- tle shallow steamers tlu|t have for the last half-century* nearly "been running on the upper water of the Ohio, Misaissippi, and Missouri, and more directly from the tin dads that did such excellent service during the rebellion. The boilers are in front, protected by a thin steel plating sufficient to turn any fire to be expected from hostile iorces in the ddta. The engines are aft, and similarly protected. The quarters of the officers are amid- ships, or. If the pattern is varied, where- ever convenience dictates. The armament is usually two medium steel guns forward on a revolving platform, with a range of two miles, the gunners being protected by semi-circular steel plates at the edges of the platform, and two or three Hotoh- kiss guns at the sides or on a matt guard- ed in similar fr shion. The wheels at the stern are sometimes masked by broad plates of steel, a continuation of the plat- ing on the sides. The small-arm is the Mauser rifle, a heavy weapon, but «)n- sidered by the French the most efficient. These vessels are all painted gray. They were built in France brought out in pieces and put together either at Saigan or Haiphong. Two are now on the stocks at Haiphong, which will in a few days be added to the delta Equadron, making it the most useful for the special duties exacted that could be devised. Tmr The Weird Bird of ou Atlantic.^' Aa the craft bowls along Jq a .tiantie a new world seem. i**l Atlantic a new world seenTi^ the voyagers. The constelUtL'" Sonthetn cross has soarcfil* i? ii Josh Billings' Haxims. Most people are like an egg, to phull of themselves to hold anything else. Cariosity is the germ ov all enterprises â€" men di| for woodchucks more for curi- osity than they do for woodchaeks. Thare iz lota ov pholks in this world who kan keep nine out ov ten ov the commandments without enny trouble at all, bat the one that is left they kant keep the small end ov. There is numerons individuals in the land who look upon what they ludn't got as the only thing worth having. One man ov genios to 97 thoasand foor hundred and 42 men ov talent is just aboat the right proporshnn for actual bizzineas. Thare is menny a slip between a cop and alip, bat not bidf aa menny az thare ouhttowbe. Rather than not have faith in enny« thing, I am willing to he beat ninetimai ont of 10. The two most important words in enny language are the â- hortest, **Yei and No.^' -fiisd ' Never pay cadi when you can get trust- ed. Remember, it wjsa a gooee who laid a golden egg eveq^ da^^ Shakaf9«ure( woml'I a broker at idL biit do yon know oif any man who h«a lp|!idd». Whofefiii^^dU^^ amMEMedJi^HMrand%,poor n^ oon. dnforrHonei ai^^^S^^ scarcely „ miliar to him before he begfau t. nial, ot rather bird, lite altogetw* him. One of the greatest iionL this kind that can ever impren Cl the mind of man is the alUttte fP morning the lounger will rea^ij'l and, casting his eye in the vah 1 ship to judge her speed, will aej!"' joBC above the horizon faraatetn ' ing larger and larger as It appto^ finally develops into a gigaatisliL, the old sailor, conning the h^' gruffly suggest the fact that itir ' for the tyro to wet his first introdn an albatross. There is somethim presdbly wierd about the birdlLl well as in its manner of flight, uT' matter of little wonder to those n^l seen it. that a brain such as .CoW should have hit upon it for thete^ Lay of the Andent Mariner, ^j} a beat of wing, without motion cf i body, the bird will, by long, tn,^ tacks, swoop up from astern nutil L within easy watching distance from j ship it chooses to follow. It viU u **lay too" at that respectful diBtnce, after takln? thorough/stock of the tttui that has invaded its domain «i!l, ^-m apparent effort, stroop past the tWJ port or sterbosrd, aa the case iu7|| pass it by several cable lengths sndtk laying too on the oppotite l^nd toitsi vance, allow the ship to pass it, and i then once more take up its post ui guard of the procession. Nothing ani more ghost-like than the action o!ii albatross in thus passing or being pv No stroke of the wing occurs sndsjl^ motion apparent, except that of the most unintelligible cleaving oftheiiri the half turn of the bird's head towii ship, nuide as if to see what maniet i beast this was that had come to bother ii Though sailors are over prone to sapi stltion, they seem not to be very pu ular as to the sacredneis of the albtb and will always assist in a captareini of the curse Coleridee associates vlthii killing. Increa^ng Size of Ocean Steamers. The Etruria, the latest addition to Cunard fleet, has made her trial trip, is said to be the most powerfal stesi in the world. Her dimensions inl Length, 620feet ;baeadth,57feet3ini depth, to upper deck, 41 feet to proi ade deck, 49 feet tonnage, 8 000 hi power, 10,000. Comparing these with the dimenrii of the first steamships that crossed Atlantic by use of steam during the enl voyage, and it will be seen what progress has been made in increasing size of sea-going steamships. The dimi slons of the Sirius. which left Cork on 4th of April, 1838, and arrived at Neil York on the 22nd of that month, vete; Length, 178 feet breadth, 25 feet » incbes depth, 18 feet 3 inches tonnip, net, 460 horse-power, 270. The dhsen^' sions of the Great Western, which libl Bristol some days later than the Siris and arrived a few hoars later on the itf of the arrival of the latter vessel, wen: Length, 236 feet; breadth, 35 feet 41 inches depth, 23 feet 3 inches t:nnig^| 1,340 horse- Dower, 400. The difference in the speed of the twol classes of ships is also nearly as great si the difference in tonnage. Thns, the I Great Western's best time was 12881 miles, wUle that of the Etruria is expectei| to be twenty-one miles per honr. Oi her last trip from Qaeenstown the Umbiiii the sister ship of the Etruria, for tventj- four hours made twenty nautical miles pet hour. Tet, after all this enlarged size m this increased speed, it is only the grot ocean steamers carryins lan;e nnmben] of saloon passengers that are at present) on account of the great trade depreaiiO the world over, mining money. It may be faiterestiog to the maiitf antiquary to know that the Sirius, wlua was built in 1836, was stupidly leststefj years after she had made two trips » New York, on the Smith's rcc'is, to vt east of Cork harbor, and that the Gieit Western, which was built in 1838, '"I broken up in 1858. Tamed With Electricity. Nearly every day some new use fafo""" for electridty, and one of the most lecetfl applications of this power is in the biter-l est of the professional tamers of wild aa^l mala. The inventor is a tamer hlmieiil and his inateument is an apparatus ship- 1 ed like a stick and highly charged vitfl electridty. When the animalB beeovi unruly, he gives them â- boc^"^*" ^1 battery, and the effiscts are said to be »' stantaneoos. il Three of hia lions Immediately abov^ signs of the greatest terror, ^^ef i^ sdzed with trembUng, and ffeowledf^ ly. The tiger was more quickly enbdoj became atnpefied, and crouched hi • *^ was mow" seeiB'jl ner of the cage. Bruin fraotoiy to electridty, â-¼Wch â- ooroely to elTect Urn. He would g« and show his teeth, but wassubdoeav^ ter repeated disohaiges. The moot astonlAhig effect8,ho«^ were perceptible in the boa consttj^ On recdving the discharge the "Pf^ hmaii Cayenne, nearly twenty i IeiMEth,beoame at once paralyzed aao^ nuaed motionlms for six hours ft"^^ When he raeoirared, he showed »g^ hel^edmeH for three whole cl^y^.^Jw aUy^heele^haat,on being electnti0^| -TV- apon the tip %l ofwUdcriestfJJ atoodLol theodck nponthe tniAk»aetitipaaeriea( '" «HM op fraMie that the tamer wpoid fawalrhii heavy iron chain. if " 'S