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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Ho iv to Grow Corn Repeated experiment has illustrated the efficacy of careful selection of seed corn, the necessity of generous broad est manuring on worn lands and the idvisability ot planting in drills and giv ing flat culture. Professor Sturtevant, after several (rials, has decided that the kernels from one portion of the car arenas good as those from another, and that there is certainly ao inferiority for the tip seed. He has found no evidence favorable to the breaking of the roots of corn in order to influence the crop. On the contrary, ex cessive root-pruning of corn, during growth has proven unfavorable in the clay soil of the station. As regards distance of planting, it ia quite evident that distance must vary with the variety grown and with the rainfall and general climatic conditions of the locality. At the Kew York sta tion trials with "Waushakum corn indi cated that three and one-half feet by three and one half feet is the best dis tance for that variety. The influence o weeds in the growing crop of corn seem productive of injury not only from their use of food supply of the soil but from the shading of the ground. New Tori World. Improvement of Live Stoc.lt. To those who make farming a business farmirfg in its best sense the subjec of the greatest interest is live stock, foi without live stock there can be no per manent success in agriculture. Mixed husbandry is the best of all husbandry : and mixed husbandry without farm ani mals would be an absurdity, something that only a lunatic would persist in. Generally all this is readily allowed ; it is seldom, however, that it is properly and in the right spirit acted upon. In this inaction is implied incapacity, which is the most melancholy feature of the situ ation. The chief hope of the future, as to all this, is the fact that there is a growing belief that the highest order of mind and business ability can find ample 6Cope for the exercise of its greatest pow ers in the study of agriculture. In all the more highly civilized countries ol Europe can be seen the practical demon stration of these ideas, and the necessi ties of competition will force the Ameri can farmer to adopt the same practices or to throw up the srjonge. Machinery is doing all the drudgery of the farm, consequently more time can be given tc the farm stock. The first step toward this end is to employ only thoroughbred males. It is not enough that the male be a good-looking grade. A grade maj look just aB well as the very best of the kind, but it ha3 been demonstrated that liis excellencies are not transmittab'e, while the qualities of the thoroughbred are fixed and hardly ever fail to be trans mitted. It is not infrequent that grades are disposed of to the unwary for thor oughbreds, hence great care should be used in buying and none but reliable dealers be trusted, for, if the start it wrong, time and money are thrown away. Journal of Agriculture. Setting Ont Cabiae Plants. Practically the real point to be looked to in setting out cabbage and othei plants is to get the soil in a Ood, moist mellow condition. This can be done b? thoroughly working the soil until it is reduced to the finest tilth. Setting out plants during a rain is de sirable, inasmuch as the evaporation is moderate. Setting them out before a rain is still better. Cloudy weather, with the atmosphere full of moisture, ia equally advantageous. In regard to pre serving the roots or stripping them off, it is better to preserve the roots, pro vided they are not allowed to dry and shrivel up by exposure to the air. Ii the roots are kept intact, or if the roots which are broken off a short distance from the tip3 are kept so moist that they will speedily callous over and then throw out fresh roots, the plants will suck up water from the soil and "hardly feel the moving." But if, on the other hand, the fibrous roots' are al lowed to shrivel up, they had better bo removed altogether.and let the stem throw out new ones. In regard to whether it is better to set out the plants as soon as possible, or to let them wilt in the cellar, much will depend on the weather. It may well be that a fresh plant, full of sap, by exposure after transplanting, to our hot sun may shrivel up so rapidly that the leaves may be reduced to a powder and the plant destroyed before the roots have time to callous over and throw out new fibers to suck up water from the soil. In the shade in a cool, moist place, the leaves part with their sap slowly and the roots heal over and when set out new roots are formed be fore the comparatively dry leaves part with the thicker and richer sarj Household Hints. To spoil steak, fry it. Cut warm bread or cake with a warm knife. ' , .. ; ' To spoil pancakes, 1 bake them on a hike-warm griddle"' ' f. To spoil a breakfast " grumble all the while you are eating. To 6PU potatoes, let them lie and soak in water after boiling. A tablespoonful of vinegar in the pot will make tough mat or ebjeken tender. Fish may be scaled much easier by dipping into boiling water about a minute. To spoil bread, use poor flour and sour yeast and tet it rise until too light and it runs over. If you wish to pour boiling hot liquid into a glass jar or tumbler it can be safe done by first putting a spoon in the dish. Good Housekeeping Story of a Wampum Belt. There is in the possession of the de scendants of Colonel Andrew EUicott, of Columbia, Penn., sajs the Erie Dis patch, a wampum belt of rare beauty and value, which is preserved as a memento of the shrewdness and skill of the great surveyor, by which he not only became the possessor of the belt, but saved his life and the lives of many others. Directly after the purchase of Louisi ana from the French government Colonel EUicott was sent by the United States government to survey the boundary line between the new territory and Mexico, which then included Texas. He was accompanied by a large carps of engi neers and 100 government troop9. They had penetrated into the interior of the then wild country, when one day Elli cott and his engineer corps found them selves surrounded by a large body of Blackfeet Indians, by whom the entire party was captured. Colonel EUi cott had a half-breed interpreter, who found out that it was the intention of the Indians to massacre the white cap tives, and he informed the chiefs that his master was a great medicine man who could do many wonderful things, among them being his ability to kill a man, or any living thing at a distance of 150 yards, while the object he shot at was hidden from view behind a tree, and he would not aim at it or shoot througt the tree. The chiefs said that if the i preter's master would kill a wild tursey in that way they would give the whole party their liberty. Colonel EUicott was not a good rifle? shot, but he was able to do many clever things in shooting by means of mechani cal tricks. When the decision of the; chiefs was given they procured the turkey and told Colonel Elli-j cott to exhibit his power.. Confident ol his success, he drove a stake in the ground a few feet beyond the tree with an axe. Tying the i uikey firmly to tho stake so it could not move from its posi tion he walked in a oblique direction to one side of the tree and struck tho blade of his axe, apparently with no design, into the ground and then made a mark on it with chalk. Pacing off the 150 yards, he aimed at the chalk mark and fired. The Indian chief ran behind the tree and brought the turkey out dead, the ball, glancing from the axe, having passed clear through its body, with such nicety had Col. EUicott calculated the angles. The principal chief was so delighted with the feat that he unclasped the magnificent belt be wore and fastened it about Col. Ellicott's waist. The sur veyors were given their liberty, and the belt worn by the colonel insured him and his party safety and reverence during the remainder of the survey. Preacher Davies and King George. When president of Princeton college, Samuel Davies visited England for the purpose of obtaining donations for the institution. The king (George II.) had a curiosity to hear a preacher from "the wilds of America." He accordingly at tended, and was so much struck with his commanding eloquence, that he express-, ed his astonishment loud enough to bo heard half way over the house, in such terms as these: "He is a wonderful man!" "Why, he beats my bishop !' etc. Davies observing that the king was attracting more attention than himself, paused, and, looking his majesty full id the face, gave him, in an emphatic tone, the following beautiful rebuke: " When the lion roareth, let the beasts of the forest tremble; and when the Lord speaketh, let the kings of the earth keep silent." The king instantly shrank back in his seat, like a schoolboy who had been rapped on the head by his master, and remained quiet during the remainder of the sermon. The next day the mon arch sent for him, and gave him fifty guineas for the institution over which he presided, observing at the same time to his courtiers: "He is an honest manan honest man." What Free Lunches Cost . Millions in free lunches are spent ever.. year in New York. Xo other city in the world can equal it. There are over 10,- 000 saloons in the city that run free lunch counters. Some of them are at a great expense each day to supply a free lunch to. their customers. The cheap saloons have reduced the matter to a science and know almost exactly how many ounces they have consumed each day. The New York Mail has gathered some statistics as to the expenses of the various saloons and made an average of them. The following table will not fall far short of the exact daily expenses of the free lunches of all the saloons. Th Sundays are left out in the estimate: 15 saloons at $20 a day.... .... $93 003 300 saloons at $12 a day.'. l 126 Wd 1,500 saloons at $5 a day. ........ 1347' 500 3,000 saloons at 2 a day ........ . lSiOO 6,000 saloons at $3 a day 5,634030 10,815 sajoonsj annual expense .... $11,080,200 TWO RICH AMERICANS. Field, tile TTfw Tork Capitalist Ar mour, the Chicago Pork Dealer. Cyrus W. Field is one of those distin guished Americans who have fought their way to wealth from a humble begin ning. He is one of four brothers who have made their mark at the bar, in the pulpit and on the bench. Mr. Field was not especially known until his exertions resulted in the successful laying of the first Atlantic cable. This great work was an experiment, and a most ex pensive one to its promoters until it was actually proved successful. For more than twelve years Mr. Field gave his whole time to this work, though the idea did not originate with him. . The cable of 1S57 broke, and that of 1858, as ia well known, parted after it had been working about two weeks, and just at the time when it was thought it was ready for business. Notwithstanding this terrible disappointment, the work was continued. In 1865 there was another failure, but a year later a cable was laid which was successfully used. The persever ance of Mr. Field, who never lost his faith during all the trying years, is ono of the strong characteristics which has marked his whole career. When the cable of 1800 got into good working or der Mr. Field sent out an expedition to pick up the broken cable of i865, and the success of this wonderful enterprise caused almost as great a sensation as the completion of the first cable had done. For several years Mr. Field rested from his labors or traveled. He went around the world, visited the Arctic re. gions and Africa, and became famous" for his excursion parties of friends td Iceland or India. During the latter part of his life Mr. Field has again become active in the business world. He took a leading part in the reorganization cf the Toledo, Wabash and Western rail road, and lately he has been largely in terested in other corporations, notably the Western Union, and the New York Elevated roads. Mr. Field's holdings have made his name quite prominent in Wall street. A year or more ago he built in New York one of the finest of. fice buildings in that city on a beautiful site near the Battery. In appearance Mr. Field is grizzled and gray, but his eye is clear, and he has a brisk step, wliich be tokens strength for a long continuance of his business career, though he has very recently announced his intention of retiring from his more active engage ments. Philip D. Armour is probably the rich est man in Chicago to day, and, although a great deal of the wealth he hts amassed he owes to his own enterprise and pluck, he has been fortunate in his asso ciates, and has generally had rich and influential men co-operating with him. Mr. Armour was born in the year 1832, in Onondaga county, New York, of honest farming par ents. His first enterprise was to as sis! his father in the management of the team and in keeping it straight as it plowed a furrow. His rather ambitious spirit soon got tired of this, and some where between the ages of seventeen and nineteen years he started out for that El Dorado of ambition California. Ar mour reached the Pacific coast, although the walking was not good, and, things turning out well for the young miner, in three years ne had acquired a sufficient competence to return to his native place and purchase a farm, which had been the hight of his ambition before he left. He did return, but the sights he had had of new lands and the reckless spirit of roving he had in the three years acquir ed, made him unwilling to settle in the quiet old places of the East. Visions of the West fired the young man's ambition and ho started for Cincinnati. There he stayed a short time, sufficiently long, however, for him to make the acquaint ance of Miss Belle Ogden, vrho, toward the end of the war, he married, and who during his residence in Chicago has been known for her universal charity and good works. From Cincinnati Mr. Armour went to Milwaukee, and there he made the ac quaintance of Mr. Plankinton. Between the two a business connection sprang up, which resulted so successfully that they are two of the very rich men of the West. At Milwaukee a packing-house was started. About the opening of the war Chicago presented a good field, and Mr. Armour came hither and opened an es tablishment on Archer avenue. Here business prospered, and, as Armour was a shrewd man, he did not lose the op portunity which presented itself when "gold was really gold," and speculation in it meant coining money. This gave him all the capital he wanted, and in 1865 he had, together with Mr. Plankin ton, a transaction in pork which cleared them about $S0O,00O.. Matters generally had an upward turn, though occasionally he lost a little money, but nothing to speak of. In 1879 he and Mr. Plankin ton went into their big deal, and by carrying pork for six months cleared about $4,000,000. Since that time they have made large deals, but none of suf ficient importance to dilate on. There are connected with the firm several brothers, but Philip D. is the chief, and his word in the management of the af fairs.of the firm is law. The firm has packing houses in Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas City, and employs about 10, 000 men. Its foreign trade is very large, and it has recently shipped large orders of canned beef to England for use in the Soudan. Mr. Armour is a hard worker. He is at his office every morning at 7 o'clock and never leaves until 6 o'clock in the evening. Winter and summer he retires between 8 and 9, and all the social duties have to be performed by his charming wife and two sons, one of whom, aged twenty-one years, is in his father's office. Mr. Armour is perhaps the most liberal of all the Chicago merchants in his con tributions to charitable objects, but being so much engrossed in his businesa affairs he allows that beneficence to come from the hands of his wife, and accord ingly holds an inconspicuous place as a philanthropist before the people, who arc but little acquainted with him. Philadelphia Press. Curious Things Under Water. Professor Yerrill, of the United States Fish commission, reports that the zoolo gical results of the deep sea explorations last year were of great interest. Many additions to the fauna of great depths were made, and a lame proportion of them are undescribed forms. Some of the fishes were of great interest. Huge spiny spider-crabs over three feet across were taken in 1,000 to 1,230 fathoms, and another very large crab occurred ia great abundance in 500 to 1,000 fath oms, while in 2,572 fathoms a larirc and strong crab-like creature was taken. Many curious shrimp, some of them of large size and brightly colored, and often with perfect eyes, occurred ia most of the deepest dredging. Several very interesting new forms of star-fisher, ophiurans, and holothurians were dredged, some of them in large quanti ties, even in the deepest localities. Sev eral interesting new fprms of corals,gor gonians, sea-pens, and allied forms also occurred. Numerous specimens of huge sea-urchins with flexible shells were ob tained from several different stations, in 600 to 1,100 fathoms. Some of these are about tea inches broad. One sea urchin not before observed north of the West Jndies, was taken in 991 fathoms Most of the deep-sea starfishes belong to the genius Archaster and other closely related genera. The Upper Air. The greatest difficulty which meets every thoughtful weather student is his inability to obtain any satisfactory ac count of the condition and motions of the upper portion of the atmosphere. As has been saiJ, "we live at tho bot tom of the atmospheric ocean, of which the upper layers are practically inacces sible to us." The air is arranged sym metrically about the globe, and it is much denser close to the earth than above it. The actual height to which air extends is not known exactly, but at the level of about forty miles it is no loDger dense enough to be capable of refracting the sun's rays. At the height of about seven miles, or 37,000 feet, be lieved to havo been reached by Messrs. Glaisher and Coxwell, in a famous bal loon ascent from AVolverhampton, Sep tember 5, 1862, the air was found to be so rarified that great difficulty was ex- perienccd in breathing. Such a height as seven miles is quite insignificant when compared with the diameter of the earth. In fact, if the earth were repre sented by a twenty-four inch globe, the height of the atmosphere, even sup posing it to be ten miles, would be re presented by a shell four-hundredths of an inch thick, about the thickness of a shilling. LonqmarC Magazine. An Old Battle-Field. Chickamauga, like Plymouth Rock, is adapted to deceive persons at a distance who have heard ' General Tnomas called the "Rock of Chickamauga." They in wardly conceive him to have been like Roderick Dhu, with his back against a rock, and poetry in his mouth. The rock, however, was nearly level earth in the midst of the woods, with smoke and fire, and whistling shot and thundering cannon being both landscape and atmos phere. At the Kelly Hospital, only a jfew rod3 from Thomas's position, ono o! those honest, manly, crude Tcnnesseeam 3eft his wood-chopping near by to talk to us, and his little children gathered around with grape-shot to sell. The price of grape-shot seems to be twenty five cents apiece. At several places in the woods I found trees recently felled and curious notches cut in them, which 1 supposed to be trees prepared to build iog cabins with, but Ben . said that they had been cut down to get the balls out of them, and that it was the proper thin to cut out the big chip with the ball cz posed in it, and let the tourist go home with both a shingle and a relic Cincin nati Enquirer. A Discreet Youth. A discreet young man sends this int under cover of darkness: Have you thought to chain up the dos, dear Mande! Have thought to chain up the dog! If you havent, I cannot call, dear Maude, And ruin my Sunday tog. ' Merchant Traveltr War rlc pai tments arc interested in a new kind of gunpowder, whichis brown m co'or, and when fired produces but little smoke. POPULAR SCIENCE. Water may be as clear as crystal and yet carry typhoid fever from a hamlet oa ane side of a mountain to dwellers on Ihe other, as in the celebrated case at Lausanne, Switzerland. The opinion is entertained now by many men of science that the art of making artificial stone for structural pur poses is prehistoric, and that the Pyroj tnids were, in fact, built of artificial blocks manufactured from the Burroundj ing plain. Aa Atlanta man claims to have dis covered anew principle in hydraulics which upsets the old theory that water will not rise ia a vacuum more thaa thirty-three feet. He sajs he caa pumjl water any distance required, and par tially proves his assertion by pumping it 600 feet without a valve and on a direct vertical rise. A curious observation has beea madtf by Dr. Copelaad, aa English astrono mer. While watching one of Jupiter's satellites he was able to see it pass over its own shadow on the planet. For this to have happened the sun, the earth, the satellite and the part of Jupiter's disk occulted must have been all in oao straight line, and, as seen from Jupiter, the earth must have appeared making a tran?it across the sun. At a recent German scientific congress Dr. S. Hoppc, of Hamburg, endeavored to prove that the electricity of storms is generated by the friction of vapor par ticles. This view was strengthened by experiments in which compressed cold air was allowed to rush into a coppct vessel containing warm moist air, a large amount of electricity being thus pro duced. He concludes that the rise of a column of warm moist air into the colder atmosphere above will be followed by a thunder storm if it acquires suffi cient velocity to prevent neutralization of the electricity generated by the fric tion of the air. Hence, he regards open districts as more liable to thunderstorms than wooded regions, where the trees prevent the rapid rise of humid air cur rents. A French writer gives a long list ol apparently well-authenticated instance of the finding of live toads in solid mas ses of stone, referring ia particular td such a dLcovcry made ia 1851 by three warkmea of Blois on breaking open a large piect of flint. The strength of the evidence thus presented leads him to insist that it is unwise to pronounce the phenomenon absolutely impossible, al though none of the reported cases are quite beyond the suspicion of fraud. To explain tho occurrence, if genuine, it seems neccssaiy to suppose that the crea tures have existed in their close prisons during the unnumbered jears in which the plastic material ha beea hardening into rock. That they may endure a somewhat prolonged confinement was shown by Scguin, who, in 1822, enclosed a toad ia a plaster covering, and found the reptile alive and in good condition oa breaking the shell ten years later. An Insect Goliath. The bird-spider of tropical America, aceording to a French writer, has a body as much as four and one-fourth inches long, or a diameter of seven inches with the legs extended, and is the largest of the several hundred known species of spiders. Its nests resemble those of the large caterpillcrs of France, and consist of a beautiful white silken tissue, of sev eral thick layers, and strengthened by very strong threads capable of arresting a small bird. In the center are placed the eggs, perhaps 1,500 or 2,000 in num ber. The creature is very powerful, aad is provided with formidable instruments of attack, enabling it to destroy not only young binls and adult humming birds but large lizards and reptiles. A prohibition paper published ia Buffalo, has a standing heading which reads, "White Wheat AYhisky Wajtes Wealth, Wrecks Womanhood, Wallops Wivov' Copyrijlited. For all dUeun originating la topureblood Ule Ayer's Sarsaparilla, rterared Ly Lr. J. C. Ayer Si Co., Lowell, Insect Pm. Shakespeare betrayed an ignorance cf insect anatomy vshea he wrote, "The poor beetle that we tread upon, ia cor poreal sufferance feels & j an as great as when a giant dies." Minute dissec tions have proven that in&rcts, though possessed of nerves, have no well-defined organs represe nting the brain, the scat ol concentrated feeling, where all the ner reus connections meet. They have, in stead, a chain of ganglia or bundles ol nerve substance, from each of which nerves branch out to contiguous parts; so that the sensations are not all carried to one grand focus of acute sensibility as with us, but form in fact separate sys tems, any one of which might be de stroyed without disturbing the sensation of the others. Sleeping moths may be pinned to trees without feeling pain enough to awaken them; and it is related that a dragon-fly, whose long abdomea an entomologist had accidently severed from the rest of the body, suffered so little inconvenience or loss of appetite that it at once greedily devoured two small flies. A School Girl Rant an Englna A recent issue of the Wichita (Kin.) JEbtf&says: All the engineers oa this end of the Fort Scott road accompanied the remains of McDaniels to Fort Scott last Saturday. Oa Sunday it was found necessary to sead a train out to the ?un ncscah bridge with material, and, no en gineers being on hand, Mr. George N. Bauman put his daughter Bessie, a school girl, ia charge of the engine, furnished her with a fireman, and she did her work nobly, handling the throt tie and guiding the iron steed as well a the best man oa the road. Bessie has frequently run the engine about the yard, but never before made a trip over the road. We don't know of any other road having female engineers. . , Three Georgia weeklies are edited by hrlirs. Brown's Little Joke. "Why, Erown, how fchort your coat i. said J cues cne day to bis friend Brown, who wittily replied; "Yes; but it will be long enough before I get another." borne men spend so much for medicines that neither heal nor help them, that new clothes is with them like angels' vbits few and far ttwn. Internal fevers, weakness of the lungs, f holi ness of breath anl lingering coughs, soon yield to the magi; influence of that roval remedy. Dr. IL . Pierce's 'Golden Medical Discovery." Bear trapping is hi a proiltabie cnUinir la Clarke county, Ga. $00 Reward. The former proprietor of -Dr. Safe's Ca tarrh Itemedy, for years mode av stAiidins, public oJTtr in all American newspapers of 500 reward for a case of catarrh that be could not cure. The present proprietors have renewed this effer. AU the druscisls sell this Ilemedv, together with tho Douche," and all other appliances advised to be used in connec tion with it. No catarrh patient is longer Able to tay "I cannot be cured." You get ?oO) in case of failure. Miss lsfippi will cie her crand spring opening in a very few days. Stricture of the urethra in its worst forms, Frcedily cured bv our new and improved methods. Pamphlet, references and terms two three-cent Ftarnps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 013 Street, Buffalo, Jff. Y. The mosquito always maxee hiirself to bum. A Til k ks. A well known business man of Wflmlns ton, Jf. C, writes to express his thanks for tho benefit which his wife has derived from the US3 of Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. "It is with pleasure,'' he says, "that I write to express to you my gratitude for the relief and beneSt your Vegetable Com pound has been to my Wife, who has been troubled with ulceration and a tumor weigh ing 2 1-2 lbs., so tha doctor said. She has been under the treatment of the doctor for six years. Finally ho said hs could do noth ing more for her, that she woukl die in 24 hours. Then I commenced nsin your Com pound, as soon a? sho commenced to take it she commenced, gettin; better, and now she caa attend to her domestic affajrj as well as sho ever could. IMP 0 RYE DGLARET grCON.VEl.t, Imnnrtr.s; hrrwl ht.. w York City SURE CURB fcrpTPPEPSIA and rVDW UtXL, Chariot U. N. U, TO A FRIEND who is suffering from Boils and Carbuncles, no better advice can bo given than to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Orlaxpo S.nell, 133 Forxl si.. Lot? lit Mass., was terribly aSicted with Car buncles on tho back of his neck. Ayer's Snraparilla cured the Carbuncles, and has kept him free from them. F. P. CoccEsnaix, BockstUer. Lcc ftf.says: I have been taking AVer's Sar saparilla for an Impurity of the blood, which manifests itself La troublesome Bolls and Eruptions, aad caa truly aay that I have nerer found any medicine to prompt and certain la curative effect. It has done me great good. n.-, J ifcDoxALD, SoUy St.. Chariest wn, Mass., teatiSes: One year ago I suffered greatly from Bolls and Car buncles, and for nearly two months was unable to work. A druggist adrised me to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. which I pur chased. After taking two bottles of this medicine I was entirely cured, and have remained well I
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