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 M VI Ki FOB THE FABMEB- Horticnltnral Notes. Th« ill effwte of plnehing baek tlia joong and growiDg â- nooU st fruit trees aad grapevines daring tlie sammer sre gTMter than the benefit. It is eertsinly â- nnstnrsl, and the io jury to the second growth entails a loss of vitality to the pbuit. There is this, however, to be said im its fav9r, ond»r proper restrictiocs The ooaauiJ vigor of some anfrnitfnl trees Bay be chanfl^ed l^ pinching back the dioota daring sammer, and when extreme nethoda mast be resorted to, if the roots are cat back, vigor of growth will cease, and f raitfolnesB be resamed. This only goes to show that the practice ia too dan- geroas to follow at all times. 2. One of the most important opera- tions is thinning frait. For market, the Jrofifc will be largely increased by this orethoaght, as the crop remaining on thrifty trees will in most Inshmoes mea- sore as mach in balk as if all had been al- lowed to remain. The great item of profit, however, ia the increased value, at regards size and qaality. The beat evi- dence we poeaesa as to the aaef alneaa of thinning is to be f onnd In the glass vinery, for he who once neglects it will quickly find his mistake. 3. The greatest Incentive to s. owth of grass is to fertilize the lawn frcwiy. Au- tumn application of old rotted manure, to be raked off the following spring, after the strength hasbeenconveyedtothe eoil, will bring beat reaulta next to it in efficiency Is ground bones with the addition of ground gypaum, sown )L.roadcaat early in the aeason. The latter ia anperior in one reapect â€" more laating its effect ia plainly diacemable for aeveral yeara. Unleached wood-aahea is always in order as a top- dreasing very invigorating to growing graaa. 4. But no matter how atrong the growth Mor rich the aoil, if we do not cut the turf frequently it will never preaent the at- tractive appearance of a well kept lawn. During a favorable aeaaon the lawn-mow:er muat idwaya be uaed once a week the length of time between cuttinga, how- ever, will have to be regulated by the raina, aa during damp weather the graas growa much more rapidly. The aurface •f the lawn ought to receive an ocoaaional raking to remove dead graaa and foreign snbatances that invariably collect and im- pede growth. 5. We ga'n aeverai days by caring for early vegetable plants in the tiue way. Transplanted stock is greatly superior to that allowed to remain where the seed was Bown. Planta atsrted in a hotbed should always have a season of growth in the cold-frame before setting in the open air, as a sudden check resulting trcm ex- tremes of temperature ia a loaa in more waya than one. In a email way the planta are beat taken out with a trowel during a damp time, so that the soil will adhere to the roots, and an occaEional watering with liquid manure gives them an additional impetus in the early stages of growth. 6. To save the crop bagging grapaa haa tome to be almoat a necsasity. Two- pound bags are proper for moat cluaters, and ahouli have one or both of the lower •orBbro cut off to allow the rains to paaa •at. Slip the bunchea in, and pin over the uppar cornera tightly around the stem. The proper time ia from when the berriea are all aet until, the aize of small peaa â€" but "earlier the better " ia aound doc- trine. 7. Weeds that increase only by seeds may readily be kept in subjection by cut- ting off the tops before the aeeda mature one or two years generally auffices to erad- icate them. Those that multiply also by underground atema or atolona are the bane of every careful cultivator. But even theae cannot exiat without foliage â€" their breathing apparatus â€" ao by constantly catting cff the tops of anch plants ae soon as they show above ground, the roots are eventually destroyed. Constant tillage for two or three seasons will kill any apeclea of plant life, no matter how tenacious it may be, and in the end will prove more effectual than all the applications of lime, kerosene, aulphuric acid, etc., ao fre- quently recommended. Poor Soil ImproTement. â-  The methoda of usiug clovec for the re- novation of exhauatied landa are simple. The crop is usually fertilized with plaster only, applied at the rate of about 100 pounds to the acra on the young crop in late apring or early June. It is common- ly used partly for fodder, at least one cut- ting being made early in the Second season after seeding then the second crop may be allowed to grow till quite ripe before it is plowed in. If it is allowed to grow still another year, a laiger mass of roots and stubble will be left to decay in the soil. The manure made with the aid of this fodder may be pub anywhere on the farm, where it is most heeded. The clo- ver may be followed by com and then by wheat with a dressing of manure or U the land is in very low condition and needs atill more renovation, clover may be immediately aown again, to be treated as above. In thus nsirg clover for the Improve- menb of soils it must not be forgotten that it can add no phosphoric acid, potash, lime or magnesia to the soil â€" and that it ueeda quite aa much of these impwtant elements of the food of all plants as the com crop does, and much more than the wheat crop, although it, for the time, leaves the aoil in a better condition for wheat than if it had not been grown there. Consequently no good clover erop can be obtained on a soU thas is wotn oat and harren because theae matten wre exhanat- ed they maat be supplied in phoapha** and potaah nits, or adiM. And eTen If tlu^.apil is not as poor aa this, a dioasing 4t'tirt»e oommercial mannrea may oftiio moeh improTe tlie dovar aa to nako llidr tha profitable for thahisertUaerap la, the man there la of vegetable mstteni to be ploughed in and Its beneficial effeoi undoabtedly depends vety mneh en this vegetaUe matter aoeamalated in Its roota and atobUe, or in the idtole crop ff that Is tamed under and which ia derived moat- ly fnmi tiie air, and not from the scdL Wheat in America and India. Consul Greneral Leonard at Oalcatta aaya that wheat is, and will continue to be, nosed cheaper in India than in America, beokuse, even with our improved m ach in ery, our wheat growers cannot compete with the laborer who wo^ks for from seven to ten cents a day, and with that sum feeds himself and family, who live in a house which can hi built for leas thsn $5, want scarcely any clothing, no furniture and less and cheaper food than any othw human being who lives among civilized pscple. Yat, in spite of this, the Consul General is doubtful whether tbis cheap wheat can be got to England aa cheaply or can be sold there for any less than the wheat from Ameiioa. The transportation of grain and eepecially the handline of it by coolies, where ever it has to be trans- ferred, and the charges of the different middlemen, are likely, for some time, to cost more tlian the shipment and handling by the railway and elevator aystems of America. The conatruction of railways will have much to do with the reduction of the coat of wheat, and that ia conatant- ly going on. Daring the years 1883 84, 539 mUes of new railroads were built. Roads are proposed which, if built would gieatly stimulate the production and ex- portation of wheat. But withe u!; these there is sure to be an amount of wheat rsiaed and exported from India, with that from Busaia, Egypt and other sources, to keep down the prices of Americui and all other wheat. The Borrowed Horse. I will relate a little citcumstance th»t took place in Mexico a few years before I left there. One of my friends had a horse extremely gentle, and of such an easy, agreeable ^t that he took the greatest care of him, and held him at a great price. A well-fed, big, and lusty friar was a friend to our neighbor â€" one who liked the good things of diis world as well as he liked to ride out to the small towns bordering upon the city of Mexico and take a dinner with the bonny lasses and countrymen in- habiting those villages. He used to ask my friend to loan him his horse to take these excuraiona just around the capital, and, aa his requests were granted with so good a grace, he, in a short time, went so faraa.to ask the loan of this favorite ani- mal to go to Cuemavaca, a distance of eighteen leagues. Aa thla happened pret- ty often, our friend complained to me one day of the indiscretion of the friar. I ask- ed liim if be could procure me a friar's dress for a few days, and leave his hoi se with me for the same time. He did so. I dressed myself in the friar's dress, and went in where the horse was. I took a good whip in my hand, and made him do pen- ance for no other sin but that of too much gentleness. Going out I took off my friar's dresa, and went in again in my own dresa, and handled him gently. I repeated the operation a few days, at the end of which I took the horse back co his master, and told him he might lend him to the friar whenever he pleased. A day or two after he came to my store. " Your remedy," said he, "has had a marvellcua effect. Our monk has just left my house, perfectly persuaded that my horse is possessed with the denl. For when the borrower came up to take him by the bridle to get on him, he was so frightened, and wheeled round so quick, and flew away from him with so much terror, that one would have said that he took him for the deatroying angel." The friar croased himaelf many timea, hurried away in all haate to ^he convent toaprtnkle himself with holy water, and never asked my friend for hia horae again. In this case the horse remembered the drees, not the features of the individual who used the whip on him. An American Political Job. Immense inconvenience is at present being canned to all paesengera arriving at New York by a disreputable job perpe- trated in the interests of thd Republican party. Although there are splendid quays at which the largest steamers can he alongside and disembark passengers and luggage, an ordinance was passed that all vessels arriving should be obliged to disembark their passengers and luggage In small steamers, the contract being given, of course, to a political supporter, althoagh another company offered to supply the iteamers on lower ternu. The conse- quence is that instead of landing comfort- ably from the steamen on the warves, all the pasaengersareobliged to transfer them- selves and^ their baggage to dirty little tugs, where they are huddled together on the deck, and wi^-hout shelter in case of wet. For this gratuitous annoyance they are obliged to pay the sam of sixty-five cents, or rather more than half a crown, for each article of baggage. Truly the Americans are the meet long-suffering of people, for in no country In the effete old continent would the aathoritiea viMhtiue to carry out such an un-called-for ter-' ference with the liberty of trade. i A nombm of willed little boya were playing base ball in a vacant lot ap-town last Sunday morning. 'Tbia ia 8ean« daloos," remarked a gentleman on hia way to dmreh. "I wonder there ia no poUoeman aboat to atop it." "HeU be here jautf aooo," aaid « mall boy: *Tm walbhetf' oat for kim." **WatchfaiK oat for himt" **Tee, he'a over et de beic plafia' aeTen op wid de boM." TBE UMB-AIIJf CLVB At the opentog 3^ merttog BioJjwr Gardner er~""'*^ that the Hon. Tf- phoonWmiams,of Hamilton, waa to the anteroom and woold addreaa the â- Â»â€¢â€¢â€¢- iur. The honoraWe gentleman waatur- teen days footing it from HaasUton to Detroit, and rwwhed here to a J**I^f' haaated condition. When brought mto the hall by the Beeeption Oommitteehe waa shaky to the left leg, n-aralghted to both eyes,.and the moat casual observer could see that his sptoal column was as mush out of plumb as the leaning towerot Pisa. The subject of his few remarks was announced as ' Am OurCup FuU 1 The orator took the ground that it wasnt. He was continually overhearhag people remark that their burdena were almost unbearable, and that life could produce no further sorrow for them. Other peo- ple were constantly declaring that they had no longer any confidence n human nature, and didn't care how oon they were laid away to reat under the droopmg yew.yew tree. No human cap waa even half full. Peo- ple had lost money, friends, position- people were poor and sickâ€" people were being vilified and slandered, but all these trials had their sunny side and were soon over. The feelings of a candidate for Governor who gets left are supposed to be intense, but they can not be compar- ed to the feelings of a man who gets out of bed in the morning to find forty-eight head of cabbage gone « ith a spotted cow. The loss of fortune seems a terrible blow, but it isn't so bad when you come to look mto the matter. It simply means going afoot toatead of Tprancing around on the street cars â€" eating more codfish and leas beef â€" wealing old clothes out instead of giving ihem away to glass peddlers. Poverty seems a misfortune, but yet the poor man needn't have his hair cut or hia photograph taken, and no one ex- pects him to give high teaa or rent a box in the poatoffice. The orator drank three ptots of water, spoke for thirteen mtoutes and upsf^t Bob Ingersoli, Plato, Diogenes, Henry Ward Beecher, Paradise Lost and the King of the Sandwich Islands. When he made his retreat it was noticed that his dress coat was made to aiao answer, for a shirt, and for this or some other reason he was enthuaiaatically applauded. OONB TO OTTAWA. The President thenc ffioially announced that Giveadam Jones had been dispatched to Otitawa to set up and put to running order a branch lodge to be known as "The Colored Canadian Tenderfoots." Brother Jcmes carries with him a written certifi- cate of identity signed by all the cfficera of the c^nb, and countersigned by the President of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals. He will be known by a slight cast to the left eye and a roll to his gait, and any Canadian lend- tog him money must do so at his peril. NABBED. i^a^'M Some time since the Hon. Cohort Jack- son read an original poem be fore the club which he en4tled: Excelaior." His poem was received with much favor and he was given a seat of honor under one of the bear traps. For some reason or other Waydown Bebee miatrusted the origtoali^.y of the poem and aet to work to unearth the red-handed plagiarist. He now rose up in meettog and asked the Secretary to read Brother Jackson's poem and compare it with the one in the prtoted volume he laid on the daak. The poem in the book wac entitled "The Old O ak Bucket." " Excelaior" read How dear ,to imy heart are the Ecenes of my cbildhood, Which fond recollection- pros' n'a to the view; The orchard, the meadowâ€" the deep. tanKled wild wood â€" «• ' ' Acd ev ery loyed spot which?jny infancy knew. When the two poems were compared it waa discovered that both were exactly alike and the Preeident asked Brother Jackson tu come to the front ani explain. "It am what dey call a curus cato- cidence, sah." "Yes, perhaps it am." "I probably happened to think of de same chilehood de odder man did." "Exactly, an' I'm gwiae to fix things so you won't do ib agato. Brudder Jackson, plagiarism am only a shade better dan hosj-steaUn' an a good, detd meaner dan settm' a boss barn on fiah. I shall fine yon fo' hundred dollars and suspend ycur active membership fur. de ispaoe of six weeks." SVfllHES SIMHERINGS. A little [shaverâ€" A earbstone broker. Short crops are long enough to com- tog. Wooden heads should wear chip hats to summer. Gciog to Europe is now called taktog ihe grand trot. The genial "garden party," the special pet of rustic England, has taken root to P*ris. .., '^a, a ^£;^Pi^t3 There is more consolation to a Ghsorgia watermelon than In a conaolate. ..,-..^. The. Jane days may be rare, but we are sure that moBt_all of the May days have been raw. Edelweiss la now to be cultivated in Switzerhmd, ao that no tourist need go home withoat hia apedmen; "gathered on the sp ot." *TheBamble Bee'a Mbt^"'lB the title of a new poem. The bumble may mistake hia mark occasionally, as he r^er sights his piece, bathe managea to get his wo rk to, as a nd A new kind of shooting match ia com* big toto favOT to aoaae piarta of tiie ooan- ^. The LoolBTilleaiidEnoxviUe Oon Oloha had a contest the odier dw, each dJeahootlag on its own gronnda, the eUba batog.oouieeted hf telegraph. oUaMLvaawheAlMm mmIi a nny^ fnU SatmTloetMa dedared hfc oonldnot poaalbly ttT« to grow vp. A potty seandal harlng been art afloat oonoeWi« htou the paatdr of an African Methodiat chnroh to Dee lidinel, Iowa, entered opon an explanatwn of hia con- neetion with the affair to his congregation on Sunday from the pulpit. He was great- ly excited, and to the ooarae of hia re- marks dropped dead. The latest discovery of gold diggings is to the Santa Rosa mountains of Otohua- haa, Mexico, an almoat inaccessible re,- gion surrounded by arid desOTta and in- feated by nttleenakas and hostile lodUns. Fabulous reports of wealth, however, have started the usual caravans of adventurous men to the locality from Eagle Pasa, New Mexico. In the JcunuJ de« Debats M. de Par- ville says he was present at the birth of the "microbe," and that **it came toto existence in the hall of the aoademie dea Sciences one Monday to February, at 4:30 to the aftetnoon." This ia perhaps the only case on record to which the In- troduction of a new word has been accur- ately timed. Seven weeks before his death, Grordon sent f rom Khartoom, todosiog a well-ex- ecuted decoration, this letter to Arabic to his old friend and patron, Ismail "To His Highness the august Ismail Pa- cha, ex-Khedive of Egypt 1 May God pro- tect him â€" Among the many honon which your Highness was pleased to shower upon me during your glorious reign, you have bestowed upon me many decorations of which I am proud, and for which I am grateful. Having been appomted Gover- nor of the Soudan, I repaired at once to my poat, and arrived safe and sound at Khartoum. Two months later commun- ication with the north was cut off and the city was besieged. During the siege it has been my lot to witnf ss the many cases in which soldiers, civil employes and leadtog men of the country displayed courage and self-sacrifice to valiantly un- dergoing difficulties and privations. To award their commendable conduct and fidelity I caused decorations to be made for distribution among them. I have al- ready sent a speeimen of this decoration to your Highness, but as I fear it may never have reached you, I send to-day another for your acceptance. Receive It, Highness, to remembrance of my aSiC- tionate devotion, with the respectful hom- age of your grateful and faithful servant, 0. G. GOEDON." Priraters. Public Adrertisins. The newspaper ia, to every sense, the best medium for advertising and, for a given result, it is by far tho chAapeat also. It reaches a far greater number of pos- sible cuatdmen than any privateannounce- ment c«n and it is more certain to receive attention. The private circular is thrown aside as a thing of which people have come to regard as a bore, and which is neglected biscause its recipients have no time to attend to it. The newspaper is used to each day's hour of leisure, and readers find toterest in readtog its aidver- tisements as well as its news, because of the variety they present and the toform- ation they convey respecttog a wide diver- sity of toterests. It may he safely esti- mated that an announcement made through the press is noticed by fifty read- ers, where, made to a nrivate way, it would reach but one. If, therefore, the same amount were expended in either case, the result would be fifty fold batter from the former method than from the lat- ter. There are undoubtedly cises in which the circular is a better medium than the newspaper. Bat such cases are quite ex- ceptional, and the sooner aavertisen learn the folly of their present large ex â-  penditures to seekmg publicity ttorough private means, the better for their pockets and their success. The BcTised Bible. Among the odds and ends relating to the new iaaue the following will be interest tog:â€" The paper upon which it has bsen prtoted was maniifactared at the Oxford University's paper mills at Wolvercote, near Oxford, where 376 tons of rags have been worked up toto 250 tons of paper. This would cover 2^ iquare miles. In a strip of six toches wide it would go round the world, or if the pages were laid open one after «nother it would also be suffi- cient to encircle the globe's ciroamference. The sheets p'led on reams as they leave the mill would make a oolamn ten times the height of St Paul's, or, folded toto books before binding, a column a hundred times the height of that cathedral. The copies which are being prepared by the Oxford Univwaity Press alone, would, If placed flAt oiM upon another, ini^e a col- umn more tVan 14 miles high, or, if placed end on end, woukl make a column 74 milea high. Some idea of the number of goat and aheep skins which have been required for binding the copies may be gathered from the fact that iB^goatskus have be«i used to btoding tike copfea which wilt be fweaentei miaoag the Amerioan Committee of Reviaioiionthe 2l8t of this monthi. A speetal Act: of OMgraas haa been pasaed to i4mit libese books tobo the United State* duty fiee; A premteeirt dittoe who waa to offidate a* a wedding,, finding himaelf and con. gregatton to the ehnrch oonaldenbly to advance of the bridal parly, aaked that someone shpqld fitrike ap a hymn to improirethetime;^A good brotlier started Sr I^ "â- J*i*^ P*"y entered, with SiTtfS*^* **Oww on, bJ part. ifK,9 JONES' Fl The man who^h*. A lie Is like a cat lt„*^ ma.atraightline^^;!"** Advice is like ca8ld;tn to give, bat dreadful u3«J, J When a man meaenZ^** himself, he always h4?ij* I What a man gets fo, " very apt to value at jaBtL-^ Medldne haa cost thr ttonti bread, and has killed cured. Politeneiis never makfi. li^often.gets enubbed, bj' A reputation for much looking after as a honeaty. Lazincsa is a good deal Uk. more a man haa of it the P to want. Hewho has nothing todoLu but amuse himself has f " hand I know of. An idler ia twice a thief v. steals his own time, but and tries to steal yours. I never knew a man that n J hope, but that he spent hi, Jf somebody elae'a expense. ' When you atrike ol j man has bored clean ^^ the oil ron out at the bottom," I never knew a man to Wj money or his pedigree who lu,U else worth bragging about. When you come acroaa i neither flattery nor abuse vjll let him alone, he has gone toMdl There are two kinds of taA want to meet when I am in si, that I owe and men that wantt Those who are too proud b J what a thtog costs when thw J the firat to find fault when the? i pay for it. ' Whenever the minister ikic!| mon that pleasea the whole cooeg in nine caaesout of ten he hug a sermon that the Lord won'ta Gkslow, young man, if yom ear's of yuur cider barrel »t ql draw out the bang-hole beddu cider ato't a going to hold out 1 It is only a fool who would l wind to be always blowing fronti pototof thecompsLsa. Andareili an old sorrowâ€" I've known ittol a ballast. It's heavy, aye, bat] the boat. There's many a mui sail so straight if there wasn't i weight o' that aort at his heart til him. Bill Wye's f ariiiB Mf carvtog is like my duxisfi not conventional. It is f xtremelf if bold, and audacious. I try to I jotots where nature did not i fave them, and I seek to makei across a fowl in a way that Is i only of chagrin, vexation, and i of hen. Man is a weak, fallible g and he ought not to seek to mon) the anatomy of a fowl or to inpnnil and apertures where they donotlf for at such time as you think noti will slip, and it will tr'p orei tlii| glass and fill the bosom of a voi| with gravy. To attract attention and keepj spirits of the company, thereton, I it a ktod of business, as it veR,| the air with harmless same time that I shed the atmosphere and matilat« tbl of the hen. This gives me an ol ity, occasionally to gather np til bK»d-cramb«, and gizzards oat oij and return them to the platwr r exclttog remark. A few weeks ago, on one i this kind, a couato of mine, ayoi yer connected with the OiDilul young man of good parts, and wlx neas is to stand between the Our and substantial jaatice, at bo irv and traveling expenses, was pw I had just said something MD*" the company good-natured tW a young tody at the other end of 4 to please return the duck whii»| inadvertently presented to hei ' carving fork stuck in it. E^ery^ laughing joyously and trying *».' by putttog their napkins to tbtfj when my couato turned to royli*^ ter and said ** Bessie, haven't you got a I though " "Yes, todeed," said the anfilial, and irrevent hel^»PP sreat name. "Tou better fonny whenwehave* And yet people wonder wtM the same genial host that 1 ^\ and why the chUdren do not a^l first table, and why there fa » kicking against the door oE » ,. room, and the occasional »»"'» l child aa the meal A New York Sunday aaked her pupils to each prlate verse of scripure wli«"-L contributions to the bsi. J^ boy dropped to hia pennf ^^ tation, "Afoolandhiamonej parted." "Look here, boy," BaidtJ Deacon Tralygood to a neinD^ found dancing a jig on the P Sunday, " do you know *» kP- "I may be a Uttleoft the Arab, squinttag l^P^lIiiilJ one eye at his questioner, j yon don't oany it around "» pooket."