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FAEM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Potaro (utile, Peter C. Hiller, of Pennsylvania, thinks clover ground the best for" potato land, though corn stub le is genera ly used because more conven eut. Hillsides are not the best selections for potato culture, as heavy rains often damage the growing crop. He cultivates the land with a harrow as soon as the ground is dry enough after very heavy rain. Fertili zers, especially those that contain pot ash, he found better than barnyard ma nure. A. W. Harrison has no faith in the analysis of the soil as u guide for the farmer. It is a -will-o'-the-wisp, lie feeds the plants on the principle of like begets like. For instance, a pear tree he would fertilize with the ashes of a pear tree. Oyster shell lime is preferable to the common stone lime. His potato field of twelve acres he plants in rows three feet apart, sowing a handful of fertilizer of wood ashes and oyster shell lime at each' hill. Cultivation is essen tial. It is important that the field bo kept ctean of weeds. Cattle Feeding;. A cattle raiser in Illinois has so far changed his system of cattle raising that he now feeds corn every day in summer to his steers in pasture. He has experi mented until he is convinced that this way of feeding pays best. Many Orange county dairymen feed their cattle more or less chopped corn at all seasons of the year. The best feed makes the best milk, and milk dealers have found it out. Corn and bran in some form is the natural food of cattle. In seasons of drought and during the extreme cold winter, cat tle need a large amount of farinaceous matter of some kind, if continuous growth and thrift are to be maintained. This is one of the best of arguments that can be used in favor of grain raising, and as we have repeatedly" shown, can be pursued with equal profit in Orange county as in the West. Every Orange county miller who has to pay the cash for his corn, oats and rye "will tell you this whenever you have occasion to take, a grist to his mill. Orange County Farmer. Destroying the Codling Worm. i An inquirer asks the Country Gentle man for the comparative advantages of the different modes for destroying the codling worm, the great enemy of the apple crop. It is replied that there are" three remedies, all of which have merit,; the paper bands the least. Large num-j bers of the insects are caught under these bands, but often a larger number escape. Where practicable to employ; sheep, they prove an e.licient protection provided they are in sufficient numbers to keep the fallen fruit promptly de voured, and provided also that they are kept in the orchard year after year, through the summer months. Where! sheep cannot be turned in, the paria green remedy has proved a very efficient one, and both may be used together il the sheep are not adm'tted until copious rains have washed away all the poison that has falien on the grass during the operat on. In cases w here this remedy has not succeeded, it has been ow.ng to a want of thorough and repeated spray ing at the right ime. After the poison has done its work in destroying tho mi nute' young larvse. the summer rain3 wash off ail that remains. Against Ensilage. Professor L. B. Arnold lately referred in the Ttutuneto the lejectionby the Anglo-Swiss Condensing company of milk of. cows fed on ensi age. A letter from that association, published in The London Ag ricultural Gazette, states their position fully. We make an excerpt, and invite attention especially to the concluding sentence: "The evidence that si age milk cannot be be used for condensing is conclusive. Both in our interest and in the interest of farmers who m iy con template the use of s kge, we find it ad visable to announce at . n early date that our future con'racts for the supply of milk will contain a clause declining to re ceive milk from s:lage-fed cows. Exper- iments with silage were oegun m America several years since ; out we are informed that agitation there regarding it has in a great meas.ire subsided ; tnat large numbers of silos have been thrown into disuse. The American condensed milk factories without exception decline to receive such milk, and many butter factories do the same. Milk is a pecu liar substance, its soundness can scarcely be graded It is either sound or good, or it is bad. It is our opinion that milk not gooa for one purpose is also not good for any other purpose." New York Tribune. Bones as a, fertilizer. Henry Stewart sets forth the value of bones as a fertilizer in a very plain man ner. They consist, wheh fresh, of sixty three and a half per cent, of mineral matter (of which fifty-five per cent, of the bone is phosphate of lime) ; thirty one and a half per cent, of organic mat ter, chiefly gelatine and fat, and five per cent, of water. The organic matter con tains three and a half per cent, of nitro gen; the mineral matter contains from twenty to twenty-five and a quarter per cent of phosphoric acid, and thirty to thirty-five per cent, of lime. The phos phoric acid and the nitrogen are the val-1 uable elements, the former being worth, at six cents a pound, $1.50, and the lat ter, at twenty-live cents a pound, eighty seven cents; 100 pounds of bone, then, in a conditipn to be available would be worth $2. 3 iBut hones when whole are only slowly sblribl&ra the soil. In most soil they will decay and wholly disap pear, only in so many years that it is necessary to reduce them to a fine state of division to make; them useful. This is done by, jjd&io powder or by barniWiaSltesSMv!-- The latter Ymethod is the cheaper, but the nitrogen is lost, and if the bones can be reduced to powder for less than the va'ue of ni trogen, the more costlv method is the better. But in many cases it is impos sible to grind them for .want of mills.and then the burning becomes the only prac ticable method. This " leaves the phos phate of lime in the finest possible con dition to be as available for plant food as in the raw bone or more so, because it is not held in any undecoinposable cond:tion by the gelatine. Uural New Yorker. Itf.Uk Sickness Milk sickness is nothing more or less than splenic fever, and is a disease of the blood caused by some poisonous in fluence in the soil, water or food, or in all three. It is chiefly marked by a muscular trembling about the neck and flanks, and by the drooping of the head near to the ground. The milk of cows becomes poisonous to persons who drink it. It is known that the disease U ac companied by vegetable organisms in the blood which poison it and change its character, causing it to escape into the tissues and through the kindneys, mak ing the urine dark, red 3r black, while the spleen becomes enlarged and gorged wMi Vo"d. It is probably malarial in its origin, and is produced by unwhole some exhalations from the soil, which not only infect the cattle breathing the air, but also po'son the water and the herbage in cei tain localities. It prevails in the" Southern States, but occurs in the North in the fall, when the vegetation becomes hard and indigestible and the soil, saturated with decaying and fei menting matter. In the Southern moun tains it prevails in certain well-known places, as in rich coves where the watei gathers and forms the heads of springs and streams and where the air is con fined and usually warmer than in open places, and where decaying vegetable matter in the soil is abundant. For pre vention all such places as are known to be productive of the disease should be ditched so as to draw off the stagnant water, the ditches running up to the ris ing ground; sick cattle should be kept inclosed, as their dung and urine will infect the soil, and dead animals should be buried deeply or burned. The treat ment should be as follows: Give plenty of linseed meal gruel, warm, three times daily, and two dram3 of chlorate of pot ash in each mess. New York Times. Houselioltl Hints anil Recipes. If you put soda in the water with which you are to wash windows, you will find that finger marks, putty stains, etc., will be much more easily removed than if clear water alone is used. Celery may be kept for a week cr lon ger by rolling it in brown paper and then pinning it up in a towel, keeping it in as dark and cool a place as possible. Be fore using let it remain in a pan of cool water for an hour, and it will be quite crisp and cold. A lunch or tea cake made by this re cipe is very good. One cup of sugar, a piece of butter the sue of an egg, two cups of milk, two eggs, one quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls" of baking pow der and one teaspoonful of salt. " Bake in a good oven, and eat hot. This cake must be broken, not cut. Light and delicata dumplings are made by this recipe: Half a pound of beef suet, chopped extremely fine, ten ounces fine bread crumbs, ont large tablespoon ful of flour, the grated rinds of two small lemons, four ounces of powdered sugar and four eggs beaten very light. Mix thoroughly aud add the iuice of two lemons. Divide this mixture into four pans, tie in well -floured cloths and boil one hour in slightly saltrd water. To make meat pie, slice roast meat in thin slices, and put in a s tucepan with a little water, and the gravy left over. Add a little butter, pepper and salt, and cook slowly till tender. Slice in a few raw potatoes, cover and cock till soft. Line a deep dish with nice crust, as for a chicken pie, pour in' your meat and po tatoes, bake just long enough to cook the pas'trv, and serve. Leave an open ing in the top for the steam to escape. Hominy fritters help make variety for the breakfast table. Boil the hominy the day before, then take two teacupfuls of it and stir a small cupful of sweet milk and a little salt with it, and one egg, four tablespoonfuls of flour, with half a tablespo.m:'ul of baking powder. Have your frying pan ready with the fat hot in it; drop this batter in by spoon fuls, and fry a delicate brown. The flavor is better if half butter and half lard is used, rather than all lard. In connection with ironing, a hint on the use of irons may not be out of place. When done using let the irons be at once removed from the stove, and as soon as cool put on a shelf, or in a closet away from steam if possible, as they become rusty if exposed. Starch is so apt to stick to them it is well to always wash them before putting them on to heat for the week's ironing. Many a soiled spot on garments may thus be saved. Wash ing is better than rubbing with salt as many do after ironing starched clothes. Take an ordinary cracker barrel .and either paper it or cover with cretonne by gathering the top and bottom or lying it in side pleats. The lid may be made by joining the pieces of the barrel head, or by cutting a new lid. This should also be covered and have a finish of knife pleating around its edge, two or three inches wide. For a knob use a part of a large spool, cut crosswise, and fastened on with a large screw ; or a small knob handle in wood can be bought for a mere trifle at hardware stores. This makes a handy depository for the soiled clothes, and will be useful in any family. A Novel Contest. The great sword contest on horseback between Duncan C. Ross, the champion all-round athlete of the world, and Ser geant Owen Davis of the United States army, for $500 a side, was decided at Central Park, San Francisco, recently. About 3,000 persons were present. The costumes of the men were those usually worn by wielders of the sword, consist ing of an iron coat of mail, and having their heads incased in an iron mask sup porting a helmet, on top of which a small flag waved idly in the breeze. The con test, which was very interesting, and at times very exciting, was won by Davis a nid tremendous cheering. Ross proved he was a finished swordsman, but the horse being a racer, was frequently un manageable. The blows exchanged dur ing the a 'fair must have been very severe, as the thick armors showed deep dents on the back and on several parts of the breast it was cut through. Both men looked exhausted after the battle, on ac count of the bearing of their heavy armor and the trouble wh.ch their horses caused them. Queen Victoria, according to an ofH cial announcement, has never eaten a niece of cake. BEDOUINS IN THE SOUDAN. THE FEOPlE WHO AKS ' TBS BKITISH. FIGHTXHQ Facts of Interest About the False prophet s Aomadic Followers Their Habits and Modes of Life. The small area, not exceeding five or six thousand square miles, coming under the description of the "wilderness," is the wandering-ground of those tribes of nomads called Bedouins. Their total number is probably about half a million. They all claim to be of Arab descent, their ancestors' having crossed the Red Sea from the Hejaz (Northern Arabia) centuries before the Christian era ; but some of them have become very much mixed since that time. In fact, in the Arabic language, whose piurals are so strangely formed, Arab is the plural of Bedawee, and is the name of the inhabi tants of Arabia proper, though very im properly applied to all the people of Egypt, who speak Arabic, it is true, but belong to an entirely different race. The nomads of the desert are always called Bedaween. The principal tribes between the Nile and the Red Sea are the Abab dehs, Bishareens, andtladendawas; west of the Nile are the Hassaneeyehs, the Kababeesh, and Beggaras. All these, divided into numerous sub-tribes, have almost identical customs, and differ chiefly in their dialects and the mode of wearing their hair. They constitute the great bulk of the Mahdi's fortes, and are the most formidable adversaries the British have to encounter, as the latter learned rrom their experience at Tamai, where a British square of two thousand men was broken, driven nack halt a mile, and its artillery captured by these nlked sons of tho desert, armed with only swords and spears. This alone would suffice to attract the attention of the world, even if their customs and modes of life did not invest them with peculiar interest. Their wealth consists in flocks and camels. They are carritrs. guides, and camel-drivers, but no amount of money can induce them to work the ground, and they look with infinite con tempt upon the fellaheen and the inhab itants of towns, whom they scornfully term "dwellers among bricks." They are governed in an absolutely patriarchal way by their great sheikhs, and their condition is verv much like that of their ancestors in the days of Abraham and Lot and Ishmael. They have no individual possession in the land, but the territorial limits of each tribe are well defined, and the encroach ments of one tribevunon the ranire and weils of another ard the most frequent cause of their feuds. The great Bedouin tribes were not re duced to obedience to the Egyptian gov ernment without long and fierce strug' gles. Mohammed Ali's iron hand forced them to iubmit when he conquered Kor dofan in 1820. But it was a very limited submission. The government never in- terieres with tneir internal artairs or wars, leaving them to the rule of their sheikhs, and well satisfied when able to collect their taxes more or less irregu larly. inev are a hne-JooKing race, oi me dium he:ght and very well formed, with sma.l hands and feet, and the arched in step of the Arab. In color they range from dark olive to ueep chocolate, but their features are equal to the best Eu ropean tvpes, with aquiline nose, thin lips and splendid teeth, and their hair is long and frizzled. The girls and young women often have really beautiful faces and graceful forms, but they lose their beauty early and become hideous hag9 They wear no veils, like the Mohamme dan women of Egypt, and their only dress is a few yards of cotton, once white, wound around the waist, hanging to the knees. The Bedouin is the most abstemious of men. His food is a little doura obtained from the settlements in exchange for the surplus of his flocks and the skins and charcoal that he prepares for sale. His camels yield him an abundance of excel lent milk, and he could live on that alone and its various preparations. He needs but little meat, which is supplied by his sheep and goats, with an occa- sionai camel for some great feust. Those who live in more favored regions breed horses and cattle also. The desert grasses supply him with mats for his tents, and the trees with pack-saddles, ropes, ana tan-bark. His water and milk are carried in goat-skins ; his drink ing-vessels are gourds and crass-woven bowls, which hold water perfectly. Civilized enough to appreciate the value of money and a few articles of European manufacture, he wants little else than long, straight, and broad double-edged sword-blades of German or Spanish make, to which he adapts handles and scabbards of his own contrivance. A few possess flint-lock muskets and double- barrel guns. All carry lances made in the country, whose iron or copper heads are generally oarbea with such cruel in genuity that it is impossible to extract them from a wound without the most horrible laceration. Fastened above the left elbow is a curved pruning-knife used to cut twigs of the mimosa for cam els. On the right upper arm are one or two small morocco cases containing texts of the Koran as amulets against the "evil eye" and other dangers. Most of them carry round or oval shields of hippopot amus or giraffe hide. Their warlike disposition is nurtured by the frequent feuds between neighbor ing tribes, generally arising about water and the thefts of cattle. The unwritten law of the desert forbids any settlements around the wells, -which are common to all. But two parties arrive at the same time at a well which is insufficient for both. A dispute arises as to precedence; they come to blows and a man is ki.led. The murderer flies to his tribe and sends to offer the price ot blood; for the avenging of blood as practiced by the ancient Hebrews exists in full force here, except that there are no "cities of refuge." If the family of the dead re fuse compensation, war begins, and it may last for years, each murder by one side demanding retaliation by the other. Hence it is that even when neace Drevails in the desert, if two parties meet, both halt and send out a man or two to recon noiter and ascertain if there is blood be tween them. When a caravan arrives unexpectedly in the neighborhood of a Bedouin camp the first'impulse of the natives is to vanish ins'antly, especially if soldiers are seen among the new-comers. The sheep and goats, driven oft by the women and children, disarmear in i twinkling beyond the next ridge. Having no other encumbrance than a few skin and gourds, their migrations are exceed ingly prompt and easy. The tent3 and other baggage are loaded upon camels, and in a few minutes a whole encamp ment disappears. After thi3 precaution is taken, one or two men return, and when they have ascertained the peacetui intentions of the strangers, the others ap proach to trade and to learn news, oi which they are very greedy. Thev are all Mohammedans, but their mode of life prevents their giving much attention to the minor practices oi tneir religion. The customs of marriage ana divorce differ but little from those prevailing in all Moslem countries. The Bedouins ai wa s go bare-headed, even in the fiercest heat of summer, ana, strange io j, Rom tribes, like the Beggaras, shave their heads. The Abacdehs twist their hair into plaits the size of aquill.thrown shra P-ht back from front to rear, vmw Tip Tiishareena comb all the hair from the forehead to the crown of the head in ihp. heifrht of five or SIX inches, the rest hanging in braids nearly fc i . . , aown 10 ui'j Buuumcis. v.j rvr" . their heads with suet and earners tallow, rr onv nthor srrcasc thev can procure, letting it trickle down upon their naicca v.rpnit and shoulders. The tribes are distinguished also by the form and posi tion of crashes cut in the cheeks in in fancy. The Beggaras who inhabit south ern Kordofan. near the Is lie, are very warlike, and when beyond the reach oi Eirvotian garrisons are addicted to brig andage. They possess great numbers of antpmlid oxen, mounted upon which both men and women, riding alike, and all armed with four or five lances, come in hundreds to the market at El Obeid. The great sheikhs of all the tribes usually . , , i -i j3 : i r wear tne ruruans anu o ' the Egyptians but the common people are sansnea witu lew yams ui tunuu around the waist, and sandals upon their feet. Century. A Conntry Doctor. He was an excellent specimen of the countrv doctor, self -reliant, self-sacrific-inf. working airrcat deal harder for his livincr than most of those who call them selves the laboring classes as if none but those whose hands were hardened by the use of farming or mechanical implements had any work to do. lie had that sagac ity without which learning is a mere encumbrance, and he haa also a iair share of that learning without which sagacity is like a traveler with a good horse, but who cannot read the directions on the guide-boards. He was not a man to be taken in bv names. He well knew that oftentimes verv innocent sounding words mean verv crave disorder; that all degrees of disease and disorder aro frequently confounded under the 1 . ... . . i same term; mat "run aown may stand for a fatigue of mind or body from which a week or a month of rest will completely restore the overworked patient, or an advanced stage of a mor tal illness; that "seedy" may signify the morning's state of feeling, after nn evening's over-indulgence, which calls for a glass of soda water and a cup of coffee, or a dangerous malady which will pack oil the subject of it, at the short est notice, to the south of France. He knew too well that what i3 spoken light- lv of ns a "nervous disturbance may imply that the' whole machinery is in a deranged condition, and that every indi vidual organ would groan aloud if it had any other language than the terrible in articulate one of pain by which to com municate with the consciousness. Oilier Wendell Holme., in the Atlantic. Some Fanny Fancies or Aristotle. Among other curious zoological state ments of Aristotle's which seem to re ceive hi3 support, and which may be set down as current folk lore of his time, are the following: "If any one make a noise as grasshoppers fly along, they emit a kind of moisture, as agriculturists say. They feed on dew, and if a person ad vances to them bending his finger and then straightening it, they will remain more quiet than if the finger is put out straight at once, and will climb up the finger, for from bad sight they ascend it as if it were a moving leaf." "Persons who have parasites in the head are less subject to headache. Moths are produced in the greatest abundance if a spider is shut up with them in the wool, for this creature being thirsty dries up any mois ture which may be present. Small birds during the day fly round the owl which is called admiring it and ns they fly round it they pluck out its feathers." "The anthus" (some bright colored bird) "is an enemy to the horse, for it drives the horse from its pasture and eats the grass; it imitates the voice of the horse and frightens it by flying at it, but when the horse catches ithe kills it." "If any one takes hold of a she-goat by the long hairs of the beard, all the others stand still as if bewildered and gaze at her." "The hawk, though carnivorous, does not eat the hearts of the birds it has killed." "The jav has many varieties of voice; it utters a different tone, so to speak, every day." "The goat-sucker flics against the she-goats and sucks them, whence its name. They say that, after the udder has been sucked, it becomes dry and goes blind." "Mares become less ardent and more gentle if their manes are cut. At certain times they never run to the east or west, always north or south." "The sow gives the first teat to the first little pig that is born." "When a serpent has taken its food, it draws itself up till it stands erect upon its tail." Popular Science Jlontfdy. The Smallest Republic. The little republic of San Marino is in closed in the kingdom of Italy. San Marino owes its foundation to a hermit of that name, bora in Dalmatia in the fourth century, and who went to Italy to work a3,a mason at the re building of the wails of Rimina. Its territory covers about twenty-two square miles. The population numbers 8,501 souls, and the capital, San Marino, has 1,200. It is perched on the summit of a moun tain called Mount Titan, or the Giants, which sometimes leads to this state be ing termed the Titantic republic. The republic has an order of chivalry, created in 1839, under the name of Or der of San Marino. , The motto is " Libeatas." "When Italy became a kingdom Napo leon desired to preserve this small state intact. "It is a rare sample of a repub lic r nreeon. J .a!il 4 V. n THE CHASE OF THE SEAL HtJHTEaS OJT Tan JTEW TOU1TD' Peculiarities of t be Seals there Found and tbe Pro II U inane on we h and Hides " The seal fisheries of Newfoundland, said Captain D. R. Logan, an old seal hunter, to a New York Times representa tive, "are the greatest ocean hsneneg m the world, a statement which will no doubt astonish nine-tenths of tho people of this country. For the past fifty years the catch of Feals on the newiounaiana coast has averaged more than 450.UUU ovf.rv rear, and over 600.000 have been tikpn some rears, tne largest caicu on - J - - i . rrrnrd bein 687.000. in lb31. "About 10.000 men find profitable emnlovment in the seal fisheries of Isew- f nundland. There ave Deiwcen ouu anu r" - s . rtv 400 vessels engaged in the trade, many nf them steamers. Steam vessels were not introduced in seal fishing until 1866. tv rnirf prpd from chartered from nearly t ia the pr0Tince a,nd start on thft vovaire on the 1st oi iuarcn. as a ireneral thine: they make two trins between that time and the last of Mav. when the profitable season is over. Some steamers make three voyages, dui weather and all conditions must be very favorabie in such cases. These New foundland fisheries are not those in which the fur seal trade is interested, as that variety of seal is not found there. The Newfoundland seal is hunted for its oil and hide, the former being used in .Lnglana ana other European coun tries as an illuminating oil in mines, and the latter being made into leather for shoes, trunks, and similar articles. The owners of sealing vessels equip them with everything and pay all the expenses of the apaia of each ves- voyage, l he cap sel is paid a royality on every seal put aboard his ship, and royalty will aver age him $2,000 for his two months' work. The men on each ship engaged in the seal hunting receive one-half the catch, which is divided up equally among each crew. The vessels carry crews some times numbering '625 men, yet it is a poor season when each man does not re turn home well paid for all the risk and hardship he has undergone among the ice floes. They arc obliged to pay the vessel owners from four to six dollars for their berth on shipboard for the voy age. The profit to the owner on each vessel is seldom small. "The largest seal taken on the New foundland coast is the square flipper, so called on account of its flipper being square on top, a peculiarity not known in any otner variety. A sixteen-day-old square flipper whelp will weigh nearly 200 pounds, almost half as much as the mother, who will weigh about 500 pounds. His father would tip the beam at 900 pounds, and measure from ten to twelve feet in length. The square flip per is very scarce, and, like the dotard, congregates only with its kind. They give birth to their young about the mid dle of March, on the ice, but keep so much to themselves and in isolated spots that if 200 are killed in any season the number is recorded as exceptionally large. "It is rather a monotonous pursuit, the killing of seals, the only excitement mm . Si . S. m ucing the cnase in tne water oi some fierce old he hooder, who is apt to give you a long and lively chase before his vulnerable part is brought to sight. There is something pathetic in the hunt ing of the female hood with her young, for she will make every effort to get it out of harm's way, and then seeing that escape is impossible, will protect it with her body from the blows of the hunter, uttering her low, appealiug murmur, until shs herself is killed and can protect I her whelp no longer. It is believed by ! all seal hunters that a mother seal can i distinguish the cry of its young among a thousand others. It is a curious sight during Apnl to watch the seals. They come ottt on the ice, yearlings, two-year-olds, and old seals, about the middle of that month for the purpose of scrubbing themselves. If the sun is shining their skin will be sure to burn so that some times it may be pulled off with the fingers. At such times to return to the water cvill subject the seals to intense pain, and so well do they know when they are in this condition that they will remain on the ice and be killed rather than enter the water and submit to the pain. If a sun-burned seal is forced into the water it will utter sharp cries of agony and try to climb back on the ice in spite of the men threatening them with gaff and guns. Seals have relent less enemijs in sharks and sword fish, and mey win rush irom tne water to the ice when pursued by these monsters, and place themselves behind a hunter, or run between hu legs, for safety, shaking with fear like a frightened human being. "The skins of all seals are weighed with the fat, and arc calculated at fifteen per cent, of the whole. A barrel of young harp seal's fat will weigh 225 pounds and produce twenty-two gallons of oil, there being only fifty-two pounds of residue. A young hood seal will yield only twenty-one gallons of oil to the barrel, although it weighs five pounds more. Old harp will yield twenty-two and a half gallons of oil to the barrel. The fat is now rendered by steam, but formerly it was rendered by exposure to the sun in wooden rats. 'Miners prefer the sun-drawn young setl oil, as it smokes less. It has a bad odor, how ever, while the steam-rendered has not. It is a curious fact that when seal -oil is drawn from the vats tbe oil of the young seal will come first and it is readily known when that is all out, for it is of a pale yellow, and the oldpil runs a deep straw color. Seal milk is a curious feature about this useful animal, for it is as thick slmost as white lead. Fishermen have in an emergency stopped leaks in boats with seal's milk. Not less than 25.000. Oiv) seals have been taken from the New foundland ice fields by the seal fleets alone since seal hunting commenced there, more than 100 years ago, 22,000, 0J0 of them having been taken since 18.J0. j33pvnb o snrrioiA ati ojv oidoad pojojoo sqi rcqi sqt q JOJ paiunoa ob st stqx saitr. qx Suoui nvqt j33js tpum sx S2piq oqi Suoutb ayu qivap oqi zJL 'siuaptsaj pajoip9 trs airq lUBra SB 301M1 OJB OJ3TTI SltldoiDJ V The fully equipped Swiss infantry sol dier is the most heavily loaded of any Is) rf-ain slimy rpo iBtrodace nd I ii-bI r-mntmiMna. AX ART or Cohtoskw rii to th rtKbt man. or fart be r particulars an' The New Mi ler term addles, at once. Y.rk At !! t'lgsr t .. 37 llreadwar tw 1 erk. HEALTH HINTS. A gargle of strong black tea useacold night and morning is now lashionaiue in London as a preventive of sore throat.- Headache with sensation as if lop of the head would fly off, and all neaa aches from within or outward are readily relieved bj moderate doses of cimicifa-' ga. - To cure a red nose, take of vaseline one ounce, prciipitatea suipnux iwo drachms. Mix well and apply to the t fleeted part night and morning, rubbing in well. Continue the application for one or two weeks, and the redness will disappear. Infants should never be washed except in warm water, nor their bodies exposed to cold air. Their circulation is carried on more actively externally, and their greatest heat is on their surface. To check this is one of the most fruitful sourcrs of many of their ailments. One hundred grains of fresh mullein leaves or thirty grains of the dried leaves, brought to boil in a liter of fresh cow's milk and allowed to stand for ten" minutes, then filtered, sweetened and drank when warm, is the usual prepara tion and dose in the mullein treatment of phthisis pulmonali. This dose is re peated two or three times a day. The compound syrup of saxifragia is the greatest and best vegetable alterative in the materia medica. It possesses the rare property of stimulating all the ex cretory glands of the body, and at tho same time acting as an antidote or anti septic to all poisons, whether germ or parisitic that exist in the blood. Scrofu la, cancer and tubcrcula, all disappear under its employment. Health and Home. The South American ram pas. The peculiar characteristics of these vast Iqvel plains which descend from the Andes to the. great river basin in un broken monotony are the absence of rivers or water storage, and the periodi cal occurrence of droughts, or "siccos," in the summer months. These conditions determine the singular character both of its flora and fauna. The soil is naturally fertile and favorable for the growths of trees, and they grow luxuriantly wher- ever they arc protected. The Eucalyptus is covcrinir large tracts wherever it is in closed, and willows, poplars and the fig surround every cstancia when fenced in. The open plains arc covered with droves of horses and cattle, and overrun by numberless wild rodents, the original tenants of the pampas. During the long periods of drought which are to great a scourge to the country, these animals are starved by thousands, destroying in their efforts tjlivc cvery vestige of vegetation. In one of these siccos, at the time of my visit, no lc&s than fifty thousand head of oxen and sheep and horses perished from starvation and thirst, after tearing deep out of the soil every trace of vegetation, including the wiry root of the pampas grass. Under such circumstances the ex istence of an unprotected tree is impos sible. The only plants that hold their own. in addition to the indestructible thistles, grasses and clover, arc a little herbaceous oxalis producing viviparous buds of extraordinary vitality, a few poisonous srccics, such as the hemlock, and a few tough, thorny, dwarf acacias, and wiry rushes, which even a starving rat refuses. Although the cattle are & modern introduction, the numberless in digenous riMlcnts must always have ef fectually prevented the introduction of any other species of pianti, large tracts are Mill honev-curabed by the ubiquitous I biscacho, a gigantic rabbit; and numcr- i aiio stt,r rrulonto dill tif tnrllirlin' rats and mice, pampas hares, and tho great nutria and carpincho on the river banks. That the dearth of plants is not due to the unsutability of the sub-tropical species of the neighboring zones can not hold good with respect to the fertile valleys of the Andes beyond Mcndoza, where a magnificent hardy flora is found. Jloreovcr, the extensive introduction of European plants which has taken place throughout the country has added noth ing to the botany of the pampas beyond a few species unassailable by cattle, such as the two species of thistle which are invading large districts in spite of their constant destruction by the fires which always accompany the siccos. London Nature. The Good Old Cow. Mr. Robert Jlruce contributes an in teresting article to the Lite ttock Journal (Eng.), in which he copies from an American paper an excellent description of the farmer's cow, viz. : "The good old cow has paid off more mortgages and paid for more farms than any other known product. She is the mother of beef. In the household she catches the wolf on hrr horns and tosses it far from the door. She has turned the tide of our agricultural prospcritr. in manv parts of the country, from a downward course, in raising grain and cotton to an upward and prosperous one, in raising stock, grass and hay. Flowers and grass spring from beneath her feet on the most barren soil. The old cow does not stop to enthuse over them, but converts them into good, solid, hard cash. There is certainly much truth in this description of the merits and value of the good old cow. New York Sun. A very larjjo proportion of the suffer ing that afflicts mankind proceeds from the simple feeling of discouragement. Beside the misery which it inflicts, there is the palsying effect which it exerts on all human effort. As long as hope reigns in the heart, no exertion seems too great; it is when hope sinks away and despond ency takes its place that labor of head or hand languishes. br . y. WUItf-i, (JU btL. way. N- Y. 1 AS& FUR IT
The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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