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Humorous. Norm uarouna Ro.iir The Household. : m : , ; CoR2f Beef.-! The Scientific American informs the ladies that if they would have corn beef juicy after it is cold, and not as dry. as a chip, they should' put it into boil ing1 water when they put it on to cook, and they should not take it out of the pot when done, until cold. Cream Drop Cake. A half pint of rich cream, and a half pint of egg, beat the yelks and whites separately; add a tea spoonful of salt, and as much flour as can be beat in with a spoon; it should be- just thick enough to drop from a spoon; butter pans, and drop the cake on it; let it bake hard. If the cream is sour, add soda. Apple PrDDixG. Take six tart ap ples, pippins or greenings are the best; steam them without peeling, after washing them quite clean; strain them through a sieve. Add six sjoonfuls of melted but ter and the same of sugar, six eggs, half a wiucglassful of brandy, and the juice of one lemon. Line a pudding disli with puff paste, and bake it. Serve hot or cold with tweet cream without sugar. FnEsn Stewed OvsTEr.sr-Take a hundred large fine oysters. Set them over the fire in their own liquor (skimming them well) and when they begin to sim mer take them out with a perforated ladle, and. throw them directly into a pirn of cold water to plump them. When they, are quite cold, place them in a sieve and drain them well. Having saved their liquor, add-to it a quarter, of a pound of fresh bnt ter divided into our pieces (each piece rolled in flour), a dozen blades of mace, a powdered nutmeg, and a small saltspoou ful of Cayenne. Set this mixture over the lire, and stir it till the butter and flour are well mixed all through. Then,' put in the oysters; as soon as they have come to a boil, take oft' the saucepan, and1 stir in im mediately the beaten yelks of three eggs. .Serve them up hot. . ; Be ax Porridge. Boil a fresh beef bone (I think salt beef would answer if sufficiently freshened, though I never tried it,) in a large quantity of water, .and use the meat for anything you choose. Let the liquid become cool, and remove all the grease., Boil a tea-cupful : of beans in 'three quarts of this liquor until thoroughly soft and in pieces; add a little rice, the nec essary amount of salt, and just before ta kingfrora tho stove a little thickening of pome kind of meal. We use it about the thickness of gruel or gravies, and. ad J 1 a tittle milk when we tlat. ' -: ' - 1 To Cook Dried (Sweet Cotix 5oak the corn two Hours in "cold water, and thou boil two hours over a moderate fire. When it is nearly done add a heap-ing-tea spoon of salt and the same of sugar to a quart of corn.' Mix a tablespoonful of flour with a-cup of cream and a piece of butter the size of a hen s egg. Let 'it boil a minute, aud it is done. If boiled too long-or too fast, the corn will --he toguh. Tn PirrKXE Oioxs. Choose small. sound silver onions as equal in size as pos- sible. il op ana tail tnem, nut uo not pare tho topi close, as the air will soften and spoil the onions. Scald them with brine, llepeat this on the second day, and, when fnld tiwl tlift onions as ouicklv as Dossible. , - - A M. throwing them into vinegar as they are done, to prevent their blackening. l3oil . vinegar enough to cover them, with sliced ginger, black ana wmte pepper, ana mace; n-hpn cooled, nour it over the onions. Cork them well,' and dip the corks in bot tle rosin. Sr-i? a m hived Eoc.s: Take a piece of 'butter about the size of a walnut, put it in itt i sAnwnanto melt." Take three eggs. : brealv'them, and put them into the sauce pan with a little salt. Put the sauce pan pn the fire, stir tho eggs quickly till they -"begin 'to set, then'serve on a piece of dried toast. Take care to stir tnc eggs quicKiy, and take them out of the saucepan as soon as they begin to set, or they become hard. Kids evs.- Take four kidneys, divide them as iirfual, put them in an ' enameled saucepan, with one pint of water and a wiuelueful of Kherrvj stew bv the fire tor four liours, flavor the gravy with'; some mucc, and thicken with flour and butter before serving. j, J)evill:d Turkey.-'Fake a cooked leg .of turkey or largo fowl, cut it all oVer tp tbe bone, peppeT and salt it well, using - black pepper and Cayenne, then get some mixed iuul;ird, mix it with about a third itg quantity of flour, and jla,ster the leg i)vcr with this mixture as thick as i' will stick, '.aloo stuffing the gashes .w4th it. 'When this is done, put it on a grid iron on kfXvia ilw .serve hot, . Field and Farm. Correspondence Southern Cultivator. TEE ATM EXT OP LAND. Having lived long enough to see much good land cleared, scratched and washed away, with but little realized from it, and much more going the same way having arrhtea of the agricultural system as prac ticed by us and having had occnlar de monstration of the practical working of that system, its results and effects, certain conclusions have been, reached by the wri ter; if of any practical benefit to the breth ren of the field, they are welcome to them if wrong in any essential particular, he hopes to be set right. It is very evident that the lands of our section of country, when heavily and close ly cropped without regard to rotation and rest,-soon become exhausted and compara tively worthless. The question then is, how are these lands to be managed so as to realize the largest profits therefrom, and at the same time prevent their Mashing and exhaustion f In other words, if we have a good piece of land, how are we to keep it good and our motto sliould be to keep it in that condition. In the first place, we unhesitatingly say that the system of hillside ditching, as has been resorted to, will not do it. Ditches are at best but an unsightly abomination, a mockery lead but to vexation and dis appointment; cutting up our fields into ill shaped patches alwavs in the wav eith er filling up and breaking over at every weak point, or washing into gullies grow ing up in briars and bushes if . they fill up, the land washes more with than with out them if kept open they exhaust the land above and below. Girdle a hillside with ditches, and in the 'very nature of things it must perish. We have our eye upon ainumber of farms, some of them the best in the country the owners thereof being desirous to save them, owning the labor, and having the determination, theyA were considered thoroughly ditched. AlasL they signally failed to realize their fond hopes, and to-day ( those old farms stand forth in their nakedness the victims of an accomplished humbuggcry and a moist damaging delusion. e are of the opin ion that a great deal mora land has been injured by ditching than was ever benefit ted thereby. Let but few of them be made; thev Should be very carefully and judiciously located, at points where the greatest damage is likely to occur from washing. If properly located, with suita ble fall, not too much or too little, precisely gullies may be prevented, and about all the dinerence at last, is whether your land goes off" down the hill or around ft. Choose ye. We prefer a ditch occasionally, though seldom. v No sirs, the salvation of your lands docs not lie in ditching it. If you love your homesteads if you wish to perpetuate the productiveness and beauty of your fields, with their smooth, undulating surface, do not depend upon ditching; but turn your thoughts, attention and efforts in a direc tion far more efficient, and which will not result in disappointment. It is admitted that broken lands planted in crops to be cultivated, will wash more on less .during the year, in spite of us. A few acres about the lot may be kept up and heavily crop ped by the liberal application of manure, liov shall we manage the remainder? The great trouble is, we don't begin in time. We clear a piece of land it is fresh and good; we run it down before we think of letting it rest; and often it is greatly ex hausted before we give it the negative help of a sowing down. After it gets full of sore places, unless these place are covered by direct applica tions of straw or vegetable matter of some sort, they wash worse lvinsr cut than when cultivated like the poor inebriate, after he reaches a certain point, itis death if he quits drink, it's death if he don't. Our observation is, that if the land be deeply and thoroughly ploughed, and a system of rotation and rest be determined upon, and carried out commencing in time giving all the weaker and broken places the advantage of additional sowings and rest keeping the stock off it turning under all the vegetable matter we can, and when cultivated let it be on a level; it will retain its productiveness, overcome the wear and loss by cultivation, and in a number of years will pay a much bettci per cent than it will by that most foolish of all policies, running it yearly. No ill-advised, half-executed plan will ever accomplish the object bring all the energy and determination of Julius Caesar to bear on it if you can it is worthy of it. Monroe county, Ga. ARTIFICIAL MAXCKIXG. v In considering, the salient features of the practice and theory of artificial manur ing, there is one point that we must all feel to be most remarkable. A few years affo it was universally believed that it did not pay to use potash as manure. This, however, was not all. Numerous experi ments made by agricultural chemists show ed that potash manures not only did not pay for their use, but that the absolute eff ect of their direct application to our crops was very, small. - Within the last ten years, we have changed our opinions in both respects. Xo one in this country, at any rate, has paid more attention to .this subject than Dr. Voelcker. From,- his investigations we have now learnt that in many cases potash produces ii great effect upon certain crops, and that in the. cheap form of the German salts we may often use it profitably. Must wc then blieve that those who came to- a different conclusion 20 or 30 years ago were all wrong, and that in this matter agricultural chemists were then. but blind leaders of the blind! Such a conclusion would be so unsatisfactory' that I "teed not perhaps apologise for suggesting another explanation, based on the nature .of these special manures. Farm-yard manure supplies all the con stituents needed by the crop. When we use a special manure our object, is to in crease the fertility of the soil by adding to it one or two constituents needed by the crop which ,are least abundant in the soil. We strengthen the whole chain when we strengthen its weakest link. But in a chain so strengthened we shall find anoth er link that was comparatively strong be fore has now become its weakest point. Thirty years ago our soils were so ranch weaker in phosphoric acid and nitrogen than in potash that no increase of potash told upon the crop. We have for many years spent about 2,500,000 a year for Peruvian guano, and probably as much more upon other phosphatie and nitrogen ous manures. We have thus greatly in creased onr crops and" grown them on land that would otherwise have been found too poor for cultivation. But the action of a special manure alters gradually the propor tions of the soil, and when by adding guano and superphosphate wo obtain 30 tons of roots where 20 grew before, we may expect to find ourselves nearer than we were before to the limit of its available stores of potash. If this be a true expla nationit is preferable to thinking that practical and scientific men came to a wrong conclusion on a question to which their attention was fully directed many years ago; and it will afford another illus tration of the lesson we must often learn in tho course of our farm practice that if we would reap full benefit from the teach ings of science, Ave must not follow them blindly, but always be alert to note the unforeseen results of altering the delicate balances of Nature. C. G. Roberts, in Gardeners' CJtron. d Ag. Gazette. The above is worthy the serious atten tion of those who are running the same land year after year in cotton, with the aid of commercial fertilizers alone. Nitrogen and phosphoric acid are the two principal ingredients of the latter, and are obviously the substances in which our lands are most deficient. But if by their use heavy crops are grown, these crops then draw largely on other substances in the soil and these other substances may become exhausted also. In that event, the fertilizer applied, to produce good results, must contain some of these Mother substances" in addition to nitrogen and phosphoric acid. The more continuously land is cultivated in one crop, the sooner will this result take place. Ro tation or rest will delay it. Time will un lock substances in the soil, no less than .it i i t j't r .11 i ineiseereis oi men. m tne outn land is dant enouch to allow either. Ed. Cult. Maxuke for Fruit Trees. It is clear that animal manures are not what is wanted for fruit trees, including grape vines, berries, etc. There may be a bene fit, and usually is at first, but the quality of the fruit will suffer, and the wood and foliage are not of that healthy character which is desired. This has been noticed by Liebig and others. We have known prolific grape vines to bear more fruit, but at an expense of quality, where the con tents of the privy were freely used for manuring. We have always found the best success Avhen leaves, the weedings of the garden, chip manure and forest mould, either singly or combined, have been free ly applied These seem to contain the different material in proportion that is, the organic, the carbonaceous and the nitrogenous; the mineral needs to be sup plied and nothing does this so satisfactorily as wood ashes. It supplies largely, pot ash, which it needed. The best success, and it has been fully achieved, which we ever attained, was by applying a coat of leaves in the fall, worked into the soil in the spring, followed by weedings from the garden, clippings of the vine, with other vegetable refuse, as a mulch, sprinkled over the wood ashes, leached or unleached; if the hitter, more were required. This made a healthy, not excessive growth, and increased both m 'quality, and quantity of theifiuif It makes a variety of soils, but particularly a clay soil. There should be good drainage and exposure to air, or else, with a green mulch kept moist by the ashes, there might be too much humidity. For grapes this will not do. Nor will it for fruit trees if there is a close, heavy top, reaching well down, holding thus the moisture which evaporates, and iuyiting parasitic lodgment which will appear in masses, mildew, rusted fruit, j &c. Herba ceous material and ashes, with occasional bone-dust, we have found the best applica tion for fruit trees in general, for berries and for the grape. Apply yearly where the soil is not rich, and in the spring, when the ground is dry enough, spade it well. Use sparingly, if any, .the strong, nitrogenous manures. Utica Herald. Cornstalks ought to be housed as soon as possible. Hay will be scarce enough this winter to warrant these being properly saved. Fire-wood axd Fencing. Provide supplies of the former at least before the roads become too bad for hauling. Now is a good time to cut your posts and rails. General Intelligence. 1 NEW. CATTLE BEGIOX. Montana, it is said, is likely to be a competitor with Texas in the way of fur nishing cattle for the eastern markets, in the following way : The Northern Pacific will soon reach tlie Missouri river at Bismarck, having connection with Lake Superior at Duluth, a distance of 450 miles. A line of steam ers is to be put on from Bismarck to Fort Benton, the head of navigation, 800 miles, which is in the heart of Montana. This, at first sight, may seem a long distance, but the truth is, the route is not so fatigu ing as it is from Texas, that is to Chicago, for cattle are driven on foot from S00 to 1,000 to Abilene, and thence to Chicago it is more than 700 miles. Then there is this difference: the cattle from Texas al ways require feeding in the corn regions of Kansas, Iowa, or Illinois, while those of Montana, owing to superiority of the grass, which never becomes injured in the winter, are fat and ready for the butcher, provid ing "they are no more than three years old. Tho plan is to put cattle on barges at Fort Benton, when they are to be towed to Bismarck, and thence they are carried to Duluth where they are to be shipped by steamers to Chicago or Bnffalo. This will answer during tho season of navigation, but after this they can be carried to Chica go via St. Paul. It is not likely, howev er, that many will.be sent in the winter. Nor is it likely that a great many cattle will be sent at present,' for the reason that they are jaot ready with large enough sup plies, since the people w ere not looking for this unexpected market. Still, the ca pacity of Montana for producing cattle is immense, andjn the course of three or four years they will be shipped in large quan tities. We may see from this what kind of a country we possess,' nil l SHIP WRECKS. In view of tho recent dreadful fate of the YUlede Havre, a list of the prominent shipwrecks for the past thirty years will be interesting : g . j President Left New York on March 11, 1841, and was never heard from after ward. Among her passengers 1 were Ty rone Power, the comedian, and a son of the Duke of Richmond. ; Columbia Wrecked in a fog on the coast of Nova Scotia, on July 1, IS 43. : - Great Britain Lost in a storm on the coast of Ireland, September 22, 1846. Helena Sloman--Foundered in mid ocean, in November, 1850; nine lives lost. St. George Destroyed by fire at sea, December 24, 1852; 51 lives lost. Uunlboldt Wrecked near Halifax, De cember 5, 1S53; no lives lost. City of Glasgow -N ever heard of after leaving Glasgow in spring of 1854; .480 lives lost. Frunldin Wrecked at Moriches, L. I., July 17, 1854; no lives lost. Arctic Run down by French steamer Vesta off Newfoundland, Sept. 27, 1854; 300 lives lost. City of Philadelphia Wrecked in 1854. Pacific Never heard from after Janua ry 23, 185G, when she left Liverpool; 200 lives lost. Le Lyonnais Collided with ship Adri atic, off Nantucket, November 2, 1856; 120 lives lost. ; ' . . Tempest Lost, with all on board; never heard from after she left New York, on February 26, 1857. Jfeic York Lost at sea, in June, 1858. Austria -Burned in mid-ocean, Septem ber 13, 1S58; 470 lives lost. Argo Wrecked in a fog on coast of Newfoundland, June 28, 1859; all hands saved. Indian Wrecked on coast, of Nova Scotia, November 21, 1S59; 27 lives lost. Hungarian Wrecked off Nova Scotia, February 20, 1860; 205 lives lost. . Connaught Burned off the coast of Mas sachusetts, October 7, 1860. . Canadian Wrecked by sunken ice in the Straits of Belle Isle, June 4, 1SG1; 35 lives lost. 2sorth Britain Wrecked during a storm on Paraquet Island, November 5, 1861. Norwegian Wrecked on St. Paul's Is land, June 14, 1863. Anglo-Saxon Wrecked oIF Cape Race, April 27, 1863; 237 lives lost. Georgia Lost on Sable I sland in a fog, 'August 4, 1S63. Bohemian YY recked off Cape Eliza beth, February 22, 1861; 20 lives lost. , City of Neiv York Wrecked on Dannt's Rock, Queenstown, Ireland, March 29, 18G4. Jura Wrecked off Liverpool Harbor, November 3, 1864. I lotca Wrecked off Cherbourg, Decem ber 10, 1S64. Glasgow Burned off Nantucket, July 31, 1S65. Scotland Collided with the 'ship Kate Dyer off Fire Island, December 1, 1866; 13 of the Kate Dyer's crew lost. Hibernia Foundered oil" the Irish coast, November 29, 1S6S; 50 lives lost. United Kingdom Left New York April 17, 1869; never afterwards heard from; SO lives lost. GermaniaJt on the Newfoundland coast. in a fog, August 7, 1S69. Cleopatra Lost on the! Newfoundland coast in a fog, August S, 1S69. City of Boston Left New York Janua ry 25, 1870, called at Halifax and was "never afterwards heard from; about 160 lives lost. - Cameria Wrecked on Irish coast, Oc tober 19, 1870; 190 lives lost. " 1 Bacian Wrecked near Halifax, April 9, 1872. Tripoli Wrecked on coast of Ireland, May 17, 1S72. Britannia Wrecked in Firth of Clyde, January 27, IS73. i Atlantic Wrecked on Man's llock, N. S., April 1, 1873; 562 lives lost. City of Washington Wrecked on coast of Nova Scotia, July 7, 1873. Is ma ilia Left New York September 29, 1873; vet unheard from. I Missouri Wrecked on the Bahamas, October 1, 1873; no lives lost. Ville de Havre Collided With British ship Loch Earn, in latitude 47 deg. north, longitude 35 deg. West; 226 lives lost. Codorus Ore. This ore is an excel lent thing to avert a threatening "chill" in a blast furnace. Several car-loads of the ore thrown into the furnace will purge it completely, causing the slag and the ore to run freely. CUBA THE GEM OP THE ANTILLES. The Island of Cuba is the largest of the West Indian' group in the Carribean Sea and the most important of the Spanish col onial possessions. The coast line is one hundred and thirty miles from Florida, from which it is separated by the Bahama Channel; is ninety miles from Jamaica, and one hundred and thirty from Yucatan. The island is about five hundred and fifty miles in length and one hnndred and ten miles in width at Cape de Cinz, with an average breadth of from fifty to sixty miles. The estimated area is about thirty-four thousand eight hundred square miles! The island is intersected longitudinally by a range of mountains which appear to have a submarine connection with the heights of Hayti and Jamaica. From the base of the highlands the country, opens into ex tensive meadows and beautiful plains and savannas, with occasionally some low swampy lands. ' Rivers are few, and consequently a large portion of the territory is subject to severe droughts, yet the undulating surface of the country, and the distribution of vege table forms, give rise to the most beauti ful and varied landscape. : The coasts arc exceedingly foul, presenting reefs and shallows extending far into the sea. There are, however, quite a number of excellent harbors on all the coasts, including the Havana. The mineral riches of Cuba have not yet been fully explored, but it is known llot to be deficient: in this respect. The climate is hot and, dry during the greater part of the year. The thermome ter rarely gets above eightv-two or below fifty-three. Snow is never known to falT on the highest mountains, though frost is seen occasionally. - . t ; The ve'eretation of Cuba is exceedingly luxunant. Forests of mahogany, ebony, cedar and other useful woods abound, while l flMa ota rvfired with flowers' and o- tiiv iuu : doriferous plants. Sugar, coffee, tobacco and the indigenous maize, or Indian corn, form the principal objects of cultivation; but of these the first is by far most impor tant. The: land yields two thousand pounds-of sugar to the acre. . The coffee plantations are confined almost solely to the northern part of the island, and the to bacco to the Vuelta de 1 Abaja district, a little west of Havana, where on the banks of the San Sebastian, the celebrated Hav ana cigar is made. The roads, formerly in a most wretched condition, have of late years been much improved, and the inter nal traffic greatly facilitated by lines of railway from Havana to ; Guines, connect ing with Batabano, Union, Mantanzas, Ci eufuegos, Cardenas, Santa Claro,Neuvitas, Puerto Principe and other important points on the island. Telegrapldc lines follow nearly all railroads. r The population is put down at lj000r 000, which includes 125,000 for Havana. The military division is in three depart ments eastern, central and western over each of which is a commandant-general. Havana, the capital, is , the greatest com mercial port of the West Indies, and has one of the best harbors in the world, be ing deep enough for vessels of the largest class, sufficiently capacious to receive one thousand ships of war and so safe that ves sels ride securely without cable or anchor,, The entrance is so narrow that only a sin gle vessel can pass at a time, and is forti lied throughout the whole distance with military works aud artillery.- The mouth is defended by two strong castles-pthe Punta, on the west, connected with a cas tle in the town, aud Moro Castre on the east, with its fixed light one hundred and forty-four feet high. There are four other forts mounted with heavy cannon and well garrisoned, and La Cabano, southeast of Moro Castle, the strongest fortress on the island. I . . . When viewed from the sea, Havana has a very picturesque and beautful appearance, yet on nearer approach it is found to pos ses but little attractions. I Such is a brief outline of the ripe apple of the Antilles the pride and plague of Spain; the key to the Gulf of Mexico, which looms up prom inently before the world just now, bidding fair to embroil tlie government of the Uni ted States in a war with the tottering re public at Madrid. IICKV TO TELL GOLD FROM OTHER MET axs. Metallic gold can be almost invaria bly distinguished, by an experienced eye by its rich yellow color, i Touch it with a drop of strong nitric acid and notice wheth er any oxidation, effervescence, etc., takes place. If no effect is produced, the article may be considered as gold on the outside. This test is, of course, only a very partial one, as the gilded sham jewelry may with stand it. To ascertain the fineness of gold, that is, how much real gold there may be in or on a gilded metal or alloy, the speci men must be done by dissolving the gold material in aqua rcgia, and afterwards pre cipitating the gold by a solution of protos ulphate of iron (copperas.) The. precipi tate (washed, dried and -gently heated) is weighed as pure gold. Reiiaixs of a Submerged Forest. At various points on the river Thames, between Woolwich and Frith, there are visible at low water the remains of a sub merged forest, over which the river niow Hows. This fact had i led geologists to conclude that 'the present out-let of the Thames to the North Sea is of quite recent origin. ! Telegraphing MArs and Plans. A A ery ingenious invention has recently been exhibited by.M.'DupW de Lome, at tho French Academy of Sciences. It con sists in a mode of sending a plan or topo graphical sketch by telegraph, without ne cessitating a special drawing for tho ' pur pose. Over the map already made is laid a semi-circular plate of glass, the circum ference of which is graduated. At the centre is an alidade, atso graduated, which carries, on a slide, a pece of mica marked with a blade point. Tho latter, by its own movement along the alidade, and also bv that of the alidade itself, can be brought over every point in the glass semicircle. Just before the plate is a fixed eye piece. Looking through this, the black dot is carried successively over all the points of the plan to be reduced and theS polar coj ordinates of each noted.1 The numbers thus obtained are transmitted by telegraph. The receiving device -is analogous to that just described, but a simple point is sub stituted for the mica dot, and by it the designated position's on the glass are suc cessively marked. Castor Oil ani Tracing Paper. Puscher of Nuremburg, has lately sug gested a solution of castor oil in. abso lute alcohol for the purpose of manufac turing a tracing paper. The oil is 'to be diluted with one, two or three times its bulk of alcohol, according to the thickness of the paper, and tjie amount consequently required for rendering it transparent. This can be laid on by nieans of a sponge; and in a very few minutes after the application the paper will be dry and ready for use. It will readily receive the mark of a pen cil or Indian ink, aud as by immersion in absolute alcohol the oil can be removed, the paper can be restored to its original condition if desired. j Annealing. The change produced by anneabng is not well understood. Most of the malleable metals assume two dis tinct forms: one crystalline, which. is the result of slow cooling; I and "tho other fi brous, which is brought about by hammer ing or rolling. If hammered or" rolled be yond a certain point, the metals become so hard that they cannot be beat without breaking. If annealed beyond a certain ponit, the metals become crystalline. The particles of the metals change their ar rangement Without altering the external form. Hence.it is necessary to preserve wire, such as is used in the manufacture of pins, in a dry air or under the surface of water. if ;'.: j ' To Renovate old Apple Trees. Take fresh made lime from the kiln, slake it well with water and well dress the tree with a brush, and the insects and moss will be ecfmpletely destroyed, the outer rind will fall off and a new, smooth, clear' healthy one will be formed, and tho ! tree will as sume a most healthy appearance and pro duce the finest fruit, . LOCAL EDITOR. ! Once upon a time a local editor dreamed that he was dead, and in another world. He approached the gate of tie city before him ami knocked for admittance, but no one answered his summons. The gate remain ed closed against him. Then he cried aloud for an entrance, but the only response were scores of heads appearing above the wall on each side of- the gate. At sight of him the owners of the heads set- up a dismal howl, and one of them cried: "Why didn't you notice the big egg I gave you? At this horrid and most unexpected inter rogation, the poor local turned m the dir ection of the voice to learn its owner, when another voice shrieked, "Where's the piece you were going to write about my soda fountain?" And close upon that was the awful demand: "Why did you write a piece about old Peddle's fence, and never say a word about my new gate? AY hat ever answer he was going to frame to this appeal was cut abruptly off by the aston ishing query: "What did you spell my name wrong in the programme for? 1 ne miserable man turned toee, when he was rooted to the spot by this terrible demand: "Why did you put my marriage among the deaths?'"' He was on the point of saying the foreman did it, when a shrill voice madlv cried: "What made you put in my runaway, and spoil the sale of my horse! And this was followed byi the voice of a female hysterically proclaiming, "This is the brute that botched my poetry, and made me ridiculous !" Whereupon hundreds of voices screamed: "Where's my article! Give me back mv article." And in the midst of the horrid din the poor wretch awoke, perspiring at every pore, and screaming for help. The next day he re signed, and we had to hunt np another local editor. Danburjf News. A wicked Bostonian calls his wife "Birdie" because she always meets him with a bill. Billing and cooing are always associated with ; love the cooing with courtship and the billing afterwards, j .... : l. "What's the date of your bustle?"; was what an anxious papa of Cobleskill asked his well-dressed daughter, after searching for the latest copy of his paper. j "First class in philosophy come up! Ich abod, what are the properties of heat?? "The properties of heat is to bake bread, bile water, cook eggs, and " "Stop! Next!" "The properties of heat is to warm; our toes when they get cold by holding them to the fire, and so forth." "Next! You, Solon !" "It expands bodies, while the cold con tracts them." "Very good, Solon ! Can you give me an exainjile ?' j ,'-.. "Yes, sir ! In summer, when it is hot, the days are long; and when it is cold the days get to be very short." "Go to the head, Solon. Boys, take your seats i"-' And the learned pedagogue was lost in wonder that so familiar an illus tration had escaped his philosophical mind. j A fashionable young lady dropped i one of her false eyebrows in a church pew, and badlv frightened a young man next to her, who thought it was his moustache. Here are two head-lines in the order in which they appear in a contemporary we only reducing the type from startling black letter to plain Roman: . "The death of Queen Victoria announc ed on the New York Cotton Exchange." "A meeting to be held expressive of the indignation of citizens." That is about equal to Governor Den nison's telegram on the night of the Presi dential election in 1S60. There was a big fire in Columbus, Ohio, which consumed the 2seil House of that citv. The Governor1 wanted to announce two important facts to the Mayor of Cincinnati, arn he did it in this way: . i i "The Neil House is on fire. Lincoln has carried the Stately ,50,000 majority. Send two steam fire-engines to put it out." At a prayer meeting in Maine, a few days ago, one of the members prayed, "Lord, thou knowest that Charles Tomp kins has sold poor 'boots to some of us. Make him do the fair thinir." The Herkimer Democrat asks : "Who is there that is not chained to some rock of the past, with the vulture of Memory tear ing at his vitals, screaming forever in ! the ear of Conscience?" - - ! "Have you seen my black-faced antelopef inquired Mr. Leoscope, who had a collec tion of animals, of his friend, Bottlejack. "No, I -haven't-:- Whom did your black faced aunt elope with?" U A Kansas City tombstone pays the fol lowing beautiful tribute to innocence: "With a yell and whoop . i' He died of the croup." ! ! Josh Billings has the following, things to be observed in his "Almanax for 1874: Whenever yn see a yung man hanging around a korner grosery, and drinking 3 cent whiskey every time he kan git ennv boddy tow ask him, yu kan make up yure mind that he haz bin unanimously nominat ed for the stait prison, and will probably git his cleckshun. ...' j- Whenever yu see an old gooso scttino on.a Post hole, and trieiug tew hatch tho hole outyu kan cum to. the konklushun tliat she is strikly a one idee goose. Whenever a forlorn kat gits under yure wmdo, in a hot nite, and begins tew holler yu may k:no that kat wants sumthin-I killing probberbly. t ; Whenever yu see a dog stop suddintly, in tho road, with a flee onto him, and benn to flea round and round, after himself, un ' till he falls over, yu will say tew yureself, that dorg iZ hke the wicked, Jie fleas, when no man perse weth. dan?f is a cliaP who Would he a ladv if he could; but as he can't, does all he can to show the world he's not a man. A Troy policeman swore as follows agams t a prisoner: "The prisoner set upon me calling me an ass, a precious dolt; a scarecrow, a. ragamuffin and idiot all of which I certify to be true. J A Western paper, under the heading of Sporting owb ," copies the announcement the Colts of Hartford are running on full time," '"' ' J" '-'-" """ , ' AND 7 O M PRINTING OFFICE. SUBSQRIBE FOIi THE KQRTH C1R0LIU Mini A LARGE SETEN-COLUUN KEWSPAP1R. Devoted to ths Principles of THE CONSERVATIVE PASU. 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