FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Hoaaebold Hints. Corsets with the whalebones removed make good cleaning cloths. Do not allow your fruit trees to over bear. It will pay you to thin ont the fruit. Onions and potatoes should be put into warm water an hour before cooking. Bat holes may be stopped effectually by filling with broken glass and plaster of paris. Old boot tops, cut into pieces the right size and lined, make good iron holders. The leather keeps all heat away from the hand. To remove grease from wall paper, lay several folds of blotting paper on the spot and hold a hot iron near it un til the grease is absorbed. Season now vegetables with a good deal of black pepper as well as with salt. There is then less danger of their affecting the stomach unfavorably. llecipes. Boast Veal —Before putting a roast of v -al in the oven cover the upper side of it with thin slices of bacon. Unless you have tried this you will be surprised to find what a delicate flavor and rich brown color will be imparted to the otherwise almost tasteless meat. The gravy will be greatly improved, and the dressing also, it the knuckle is stuffed. Cucumber Frits.— Cut the cucumber j (already cooked) into pieces about the I length of your little finger, dry them very carefully in a cloth, and fry them in tutter. They can also be dipped in a good batter, and then fried in the same way as salsify. Particular care must be taken to have the vegetable very dry, as the slightest moisture will prevent them fryiEg crisp, Tgmato Salad. —Take the skin, juice and seeds [tom nice fresh tomatoes, chop what remains with celery, and add a dressing made of two hard-boiled eggs, rubbed fine and smooth, one salt spoon of English mustard, the yolk of raw egg beaten into the other. Add very best salad oil, poured in by very small quantities, and beaten as long as the mixture continues to thicken, then add vinegar till as thin as desired. If not hot enough with mustard, add a little cayenne pepper, Apple Sauce. —Apple sauce can be made either sweet or piquant. If the former is preferred, take six large apples, pare, core, and quarter them; throw them into cold water to preserve their whiteness; put them in a sauce pan with sufficient water to moisten them, and boil till they are soft enough to pulp ; beat them up, add sugar and a small piece of butter ; some persons think a clove a pleasant addition. To mako apple sauce piquant, take aix apples, peel, core, and quarter them, ->nd have ready half a pint of brown a vy ; place the apples in it; let them gra er till tender ; beat them to a pulp simm. ' oftiayenno. ,- ' ... and season with \JSZT ~ - v * > Sheltering Orchard*. In a paper on protection to the orehard, read before the American Pomological Society, by Dr. J. A. Warder, the vari ous means of provision and protection taken advantage of in various sections of the country were dwelt upon at length. Following is a summary of the list: Bidges of elevated lands or ranges of mountains across the direction of tha prevailing storm will ward of the rigors. Aspect and elevation of the orchard site above the frost line promise favorable results. Sheltered valleys are some times successfully planted with frnits. Masses of water, with their influence upon the temperature of the air, both in winter and spring, insnre the safety of crops even in high latitudes. Fogs prevent the action of frosts and are often beneficial. Smoke or smudge will act as a clond in checking the radi ation of heat that might produce a frost. All these natural features may be taken advantage of where they exist, and may be used as means of provision by the well-informed orchardist. Where the sheltering woodlands have been removed, or where these do not naturally exist, the following means may be provided: Forests natural or artificial, groves or copses judiciously placed, artificial wind-breaks or shelter belts at moderate intervals and set across tha lines of the prevailing sum mer and winter winds, hedge-rows of trees between the fields, hedges for shelter, as subdivisions of the farm, and around orchards or fruit gardens, trees deciduous or evergreen scattered through the orchard, walls and close fences, particularly abont the gardens. The sides of buildings may also be utilized. Mr. and Mrs. Young in Japan. Mrs. John Bussell Young, nee Jewell, writes to friends at home some en tertaining aoconnta of the honors paid to her husband and self in the Flowery Kingdom. Every stopping place en route is remembered by the unique fetes given to them. At Yokohama they were entertained at dinner that lasted eleven hours. At this banquet all sorts of Oriental dishes and delioaoies were served, interspersed with French cookery and American fruits and vege tables, the last out of compliment to the new Minister and wife. Conserves, wines, sweetmeats and such, he and we in this benighted land never dresmed of lengthened out the endless course, in the intervals of which the guests arose from their place and wandered about the table ohatting with one another. An Expensive Shave. Bruno Meyer, a cook of a ship which recently arrived at New York, went into 8. Joseph Pieterkowski’s barber shop, at the comer of Greenwich street and Battery place, one Sunday afternoon. Mr. Pieterkowski is a dapper Pole, with beautiful whiskers, long and glossy and ourly, depending from his cheeks and concealing them. His manner is emi nently winning. Meyer, on the other hand, is a German who speaks no Eng lish. He wears a moustache and short imperial, and his hair radiates in all directions from the centre of the top of his head like the bristles on a window brush. Meyer wanted to be shaved, and Mr. Pieterkowski laid him out in a chair and drew a calico cloth abont his throat, and tncked it in on all sides. Mr. Pieterkowski then insinuatingly asked if he wouldn’t have, his hair cut first. Meyer consented, and his cow lick was trimmed down so that it stood bolt upright in an astonishing way. Meyer was then persuaded to have a shamp o. He was lathered with borax and his head was rubbed until it ached. He complained of the ache. The affable Mr. Pieterkowski suggested that a few cuppings were just what Mr. Meyer needed for his headache. Meyer feebly yielded to the suggestion, not knowing clearly what cnppingß were for. The gracious and solicitous barber produced a dozen and a half of small glass cups and Mr. Meyer bared his back. Pieter kowski began. He put the heated oups up and down Meyer’s back and sides and flanks. Wherever there appeared j to be room for a cup there he put one. j He put the eighteen cups on three times | ! each, making in all fifty-four distinct ■ operations. When it was all over Meyer j was a little sore, but said he didn’t feel any better for the operation. While shampooing bis patient, not to say victim, Pieterkowski assured Meyer that his hair could be made to grow straight and uniform in some particular direction, and could be made rich and luxuriant by the use of his famous cap pillary, a preparation which he bad never known to fail to turn gray hair a most beantiful and natural jet black, as well as to impart to the hair a glossi ness much to be desired. Meyer, some what enfeebled by the incessant and fascinating conversation of the barber, felt himself altogether in his power. He would take the capillary. “-Small bottles, $1; large bottles, $2. Whioh shall I give you F’ “A large bottle,” said Meyer, help lessly. “And a bottle of lavender water?” asked Pieterkowski, in a kindly inter ested tone. “Yes," said Meyer, without asking the price. Then he bought a stick of cosmetio for his moustache and two cigars, and with a struggle broke in on the barber’s flow of language to ask how much he. owed. Mr. Pi. terkowski added ur> till items glibly, and aloud : _ Ir ;.. - n ® “The cuppings, say $5 ~ charge 25 or 50 cents a c ; I usually quarter; shampoo u i ? i : - U P > hair cut, a with bay rum » i a quarter; shave, illay, 82 ; 15 cents ; then the cap -50 centaiiir® lavender, 81.25; cosmetio, -‘ —oh, yes, and two cigars, 10 c&is—that is all; $9.50, please.” Meyer fell against the wall, aghast. He had fonr Mexican dollars in his pocket. “Take these,” he said in German, “and keep the other things till I call for them." He plunged out of the shop, and the barber laid the capillary, lavender and cosmetic to one side upon a shelf. Meyer went to Gastle Garden yester day to ask if he could be compelled to pay the balanoe of $5.50 in Mr. Pieter kowski’s bill against him. Superin tendent Jackson sent a policeman with Meyer to call upon Pieterkowski. Finally two of the Mexican dollars were refunded. Treatment of Women. An American woman expresses her pain at seeing in Germany women carrying on their Backs great baskets of earth, which men filled with their shovels, and at a Holland woman’s pulling, by means of a strap aoross her breast, a canal-boat in which two men cat smoking. She has also seen women harnessed together, dragging a cart in which sat a man, laying his whip im partially ovir both woman and dog. “ Being a woman,” she says, she ex claimed every hour she was in Ger many, “ Thank God, I was born in America I” It certainly is one of the privileges of birthright here that women are not forced to toil, as the women d - whom she describes. Yet, in all probability, so far as health creates happiness—and happiness is almost impossible without health—the hardy peasant women of Germany and Holland might not have much oooasion to envy their pitying American sister. The chances are that the American woman has scarcely known sinoe she came of age a whole year of healthful, hearty life ; that she has some ache, some ail, some weakness, brought on by bad habits of living, imprudent diet or fashion able olothing ; that her hips are loaded down with several pounds’ weight of skirts; her waist laced so tight that she can scarcely breathe ; and that the heels of her shoes are in the middle of her instep, and bound to produce, if they have not already produoed, serious physical complications. The peasant woman's lot is a hard one, but it is out of doors; her food is coarse, but she baa a healthful appetite ; and if she is killed by toil too severe, it is quite as likely that her American prototype will die or live a protracted invalidism, in oonaeqnenoe of a too luxurious and fashionable existence. — rt Ike Destruction as Forests. The meeting of the Ameiican Forestry , Congress, whioh is aow in session at Montreal, revives for the time being a subject in which Pennsylvania people l are much interested and which in gen eral they persistently ignore. But the i rapid destrnotion of onr forests is already 1 producing evil results that cannot be 1 much longer ignored without great - damage to our agricultural and com ’ mercial interests. At the present rate at which our timber is being consumed - the next twenty-fiTe years will witness I the absolute destruction of the great t bulk of our virgin forests. It is all very well for forestry con gresses to meet and read essays on the i subject, or for agricultural journals to mildly deprecate the wholetale vandal ism whioh is ridding our hills andmonn tains of everything green but btiars and thistles, but, in the meantime, the greedy lumberman and his enterprising brother, the tanner, are pursuing their work of destruction with the true Anglo- Saxon disregard of the future and with out any care for consequences. Pennsylvania which has long been egarded a s the Mecca of the lumber man and tanner, needs just now some power that can stay this devastation, and the destruction of onr lumber and j leather interests will proTe the least of ' the consequent evils arising from this ■ short-sighted policy. It was long ago ; demonstrated by the experience of the i older States that stripping too large a ' portion of the snrface of its timber . tended greatly to increase droughts and lessen the nater-supplv. j The question naturally arises, is there j any remedy for this threatened evil ? j For the use and consumption of the j hark and timber, of course, there ia no remedy, for a man may do what he pleases with his own, and if the land owners choose to strip their forests as bare as a Jersey land hill there is no help for it. Bat there should be very stringent legislation to guatd against the extensive conflagrations, which I often destroy mere in a few days than the combined lumberman and tanners do in as many years, and the various agri cultural societies in the State should organize themselves into a series of vigilance committees for the rigid en forcement of such laws, as in this way they can do themselves and their in terests more practical good than by all the essays and junketing congresses in the universe- Is this advice not appli cable to other Stales ? [Philadelphia Times. A Turkish Bachelor. No wonder the Turks are fond of mw/ ried life, for bachelorhood is a ve-jt*., * misfortune. Both State o combine to make the ,“ n “ re T bachelor miserab’ °f * Turkish parents are.Vfo' A8 1 - lon8 .,“ w h “ withe? - save, ne can live with them - fwiu? lunch trouble. As soon as they die he must get a permit from the civil and religious authorities before he can be admitted to any household. Then ! the proprietor thereof, in the interest of public morals, must see to it that, other persons than females unit upon | his boarder. If the bachelor be rich euongh to occupy a house or to rent unfurnished chambers, he eaunot possi bly obtain that simple privilege unless he shows that a woman oi good repute lives with him therein. A mother or sister or aunt removes that difthulty. j Bnt a man without kindred may go an i ndefinite period without a home. — Prentice Work at a Barber Shop. A Vineland exchange rays: A farmer's son took the place of one of onr larber’s apprentices while the latter was on his - vacation recently, and as he was green , | in the business the heed barber only j allowed him to rnb customer's heads and I comb hair, besides brushing hats and j clothes occasionally. A customer with a wig was turned over to the young man to put the finishing touches on, and not knowing that the gentleman in the chair wore a wig, the greenhorn began to pour on the oil and rnb vigorously. The 1 irate enstomer felt his wig moving over his pate at the rate of forty knots an hour, got disgusted and left the shop. The apprentice decided that as a bar her he was not a success, and has returned to his former avocation—t Lat of raising and shipping blackberries. There are abont 1,000 eats in the em ploy of the postoffice department of the United States government, and Urey are paid tor their services with food and shelter. As simple as this matter seems, yet the government expends abont 81,000 per year in the mauite- ; > nance of cats at all the principal poet- i > offices and large public bnildiuge in the oonntry. DlurmaeS N. Ware. WiufisaTos, N. C-. Febv. 4,1881. H. H. Wars eh A Co.: Sire-Toor Sate KM -1 nay and Liver Cura haa eullretj relieved me : of a dietteeeiu* kidney difficulty, i Boats Moons, Ex-Ctuef, Fur ftepk 93 Oeala Will bar 1 a Treatise neon the Horae and hi* Dieeaaee. 1 Book of 100 p*ge«. Valuable to •▼•nr owwi i of burses. Footage •tamp* taken. 8t ntpo**- I paid by Baltimore Newspaper Uuion.ii to £2 N. Holliday St., Baltimore, Md. I “Btckaialte.*' Quick, complete cure, e . sc oyiaa kmoey, I Bladder and Vnnniy Diaea-a. It Hu - Rials. Send Ibr pamphlet to £. 8. Wsua, ; Jersey City. M. J- 1 Everybody to pleased with the improved - Carboline, a diodorised extract ol petroleum. J It i» aa clear and limped at apiiu* water, ia -1 tended by nature ter all diaaawe of the scalp > and akn. and aa anatural hairreuewar. | Pc an ooc-uru oil, horn selected liven, ea 1 the seashore, by Caswell, HaaardhOn.. N. Y. > absolutely pure and eweet. rati eats whs have I earn taken It prater it to all others. Phiat i elans declare it superior to all other nils, Qnsmto tuts tecs, pimple* aad rough •kin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, mads by Caswell. Hanard * Oe, Hew lark. Altheaih aa Pa strive Dlaeaam • Inactivity of the kidney* isa eymptoif of the i approach of more eerioue trouble, and a among those indicia, therefore, nb chit is 1 very unsafe to disregard. A good ei'mulus is 1 Elton bv bnt tew medicines to those delicate organ* when they become torpid, but promi - neut among those which renew active? with out producing irritation ia Hostettei a Btom sell Bitters. It invigorates as well as gives an impulse to the action of the klt.-ieya aud blad d*r. In diseases involving liver disorder, in which the kidneys take up an unnatural quan tity of bile from the blood, the Bitters exer a puiff us influence. And tends to re store both accretion* to a healthful condition. Malarial fcve'a, for which the Bitten* are one of t ie tineat known epee fica, are aleo prevent ed by it, aa are also chronic constipation and dyipqpia. A German profeeaor claims to be able to tell a man's character by feeling of bis nose. It is possible to tell some men’s character—or absence of character—by merely glancidg at their nova. A FORTUNE may be made by hard work, but can neither N made nor enjoyed without health. To tho« leading sedentary lives Dr. R. V. Pierce’t ■“Golden Medical Discovery” is a real friend It atimulatea the liver, purifies the blood, and is the best remedy for consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs. By all drug- There is a girl in Plymouth county who b&s Ihad eighteen different lovers, and not one of them ever got his arm around her. She weighs SSI pounds. •tew Piwce’i “Favorite Prescription** J always becomes the favorite re medy of those laojtry it. It is a specific for all female ''Weaknesses” and dcrangemeuts, bringing strength to the limbs and back, and color to the lace. Os all druggists. An undertaker may know nothing of the seienceof pugilism, but he can lay out a fel low beautifully. Be ng entirely vegetable, no particular care ia required while using Dr. Pierce's ‘-Pleasant Pdrgative Pellet*.” They operate without ; disturbance to the constitution, diet, or occu i pation. For sick headache, constipation, im pure blood, dizziness, tour eructations from the stomach, lad taste in month, bilious at-' jaeke. pain in region of kidney, internal fever, heated feeling about stomach, rush of blood to he* 1, take l>r. Pierce’s “pellets.” By druggist*. Butter was not so firm last week as it has been. Still those who had lots of it on band haul a soft thing. “HAINES” PIANOS ARB CSKD ASH INDORSED BV THE GREATEST ARTISTS IN THE WORLD. PATTI! GERSTER! MARIMfIN I VALERIA! -•<•»”; jOGG! MtBUCHE! CAKPANINI! GALLASSI! RAVELU! ” BRIGN0LI! 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When wo make this announce ment we do so without fear of contra diction, notwithstanding we are aware there are many who are more or less prejudiced against proprietary remedies especially on account or the many hum bugs on the market; however, we are pleased to state that such prejudice does not exist against GARGLING OIL We no not claim wonders or miracles for our liniment, but we do claim it is without an equal. It is put up in bot- ties of three sizes, and all we y rrl ffTli aflk 7 on K' ve h * fair I pffl j trial, remembering that the Oi/ P ut U P wit h white wrapper Vl (small) is for human aud fowl flesh, and that with yellow wrapper (three sizes) for ani mal flesh. Try a bottle. As these cuts indicate, the Oil is used success fully for ail diseases of the human, foul and animal Shake well before using. Cannot be Disputed. One of the principal reasons of „ a. «*■ -—dEfr the wonderful enccess of Aier chant's Gargling Oil is that it is manufactured Btrictiy on honor. -tMkpRMVFHpF Its proprietors do not, as is the '.s*- c**® with too ninny, after making - A* -for their medicine a name, dimm ish its curative properties by using inferior com pounds, hut use the very best goods to he bought in ~ jr. the market,regardless of cost. For Wj half a century Merchant's Garg ling Oil has been a synonym for honesty, and will continue to be so, long as timo endures. For cSHEZBEaF*™ sale by all respectable dealers throughout the United States and other countries. Our testimonials date from 1833 to the preßcnL Try Merchant's s/ Gargling Oil Liniment for internal flkYl-VTT 1 and e*t erna l use, and tell your nei uhbor what good it bti6 done. Don't fail to follow directions. Keep the bottle well corked. Bprain* and Bruises, Stringhalt, WiudKalls, Foot Hot in Kbe«p, Foundered Feet, Roup in Poultry. Bore Nipples. 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