AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to the Interest of Farmer
ami Stockmen.
Il) Tent Ml-el.
The Oiiliiriu Agricultural College
has issued u bulletin on this subject, of
which Ihe following lire extract : Ful
some year past, especially in Knghind,
'armcrs liiiTc hnil llicir at lor.tion di
rected to tin; condition of tlic seed
-own on the farm, and in many ciimcs
have found Unit seed is far from being
piirenr suited for the purposes intend
'l, It fails in being true to il.i lulicl ;
a her needs, lire mixed with it, especially,
in Urn case o( grass Hied. In sumo
-amplcs tunny hiciIh of wood arc
i'i til tid , and ilk not a few ciihch there is it
lack u( germinating power ia the need.
These facts have led to tlm practice
among prominent seedsmen of guar
anteeing the purity, cleanliness and
vitality of needs Hold, and it lui heen
i ihsorvod Dial during the pant few yean
.1 marked improvement haw resulted.
Leading Canadian anil American
-.i'(Ih ii have uIho adopted thiH idea
of tenting llieir feeds hcfor' recom
mending them, ami lind that the ex
pense in well repaid by securing the
t'oiilidenco of the people. With a view
of calling thi' attention of fiinncrs to
'!lin (pietitioii of tehling Hccdri this bui
lt tin in written.
While Mil fnihiri'M in germination can
iiot lie uttrihuted entirely to pi Mir need,
aiiore iM no doubt that imieh need is
miwii which has very little vitality, and
in Mime raw-it, especially grass, several
v arieticH spring up where only one whs
expected. The seeds of weed-1, (oo.are
not unconinion in ft I grain, and thus
.il a period in Canadian fcrniiug, where
(here in ho much interchange of grain
fur seeding purposes is li.e present, il
i nut a mutter of surpiise that we lind
weeds on the increase, both iii regard
to nilinher and variety. The following
niolhods (if testing seed .ire recom
mended :
1. Place I'l l -ceils hel ween sheet of
blotting-paper laid nil f ind, and keep
'tie paper damp in a place vt here the
temperature i about 7S to So degri
Fahrenheit. Tin number of seed.
germinating will indicate tin- percctit
,i';c goisl.
'1, l'lace I he H'ad on a piece of Man
m l in a Mincer, with Millioicnt water
i.i moisten il thoroughly, After seat
toting the need ( 1(M( , on the llmincl.
put a piece of damp blotting paper
erllie whole and place in a warm
room. Keep ii continually damp, and
in a short time the seed will gerini
natc, ihe number sprouting will lie the
ocrcenlagc of Hood seed
il. Tint following method is much
nor" complicated limn the preceding,
and can only be adopted where (he
-object i.s made a study. Thin is the
apparatus used at the college. It eon
ints of u hemispherical copper boiler,
one foot in diameter, fastened to the
bottom of a galvanized iron pan two
feet wide, four feet long and live inches
deep. The water nassc-from theenp
boiler into the pan through four
-mall holef, nod is made to circulate
over every part of il by guides three
fourth of nil inch high. Another bot
tom resting on the top of tliCH' Is lirinlv
soldered nrolind theedi;eM; at fine cor
ner a tube passes through the bottom,
'or the purpose of tilling tint boilerand
a 1 1 1 1 1 -r pan with water. After coming
Horn the copper ves-cl the heated wa
ter runs back and forth several timed
in lint lower pan, ami is finally con
ducted by it return tube back to Ihe
Copper boiler, entering near the bot
tom. Some sand (about two inches
deep; is put in the upper part of the
pan, and on thin rests the boxes, etc.,
containing the seed to he tested. This
tin box and boiler is set in something
like an olllce desk, about four feet
high, standing on four legs ami having
i lunged, glazed top. Heat in pro
duccd by a small coal stove , below .
This gerininalor is well adapted for
'.esting many samples at the same time.
I. For examining seeds as tw purity,
-cutter them on a piece of black card
board, ami the foreign grain urtt read
ily observed. If it goo I selection of
ceils, true to their kind, is kept for
comparison the impurities emi be
easily idtint iticd.
Here follow Ihe results of several
tests in the gerniinator, but Hie follow
ing inferences drawn from llieiu cover
the ground no far an all practical pur
poses are concerned :
I. Age lia.s a marked died on the
v italily of certain seeds.
"2. Many seeds have lost much of
their vitality from improper curing, or
other ciiusct .
.'I. Frozen wheat is not reliable for
-eed, even though germinating a fair
per cent., its growth in the field is of a
more or lens weakly nature.
I. All ncedH should be tested for vi
tality and purity.
ii. Seeiln are mon likely to be good
from seedsmen than from commission
agents.
!. A Hinall percentage of imputr
ceds iiKitn.s very many in a bushel.
7. Thistles can be grown from seed
a fact contradicted by hoiiic fanners
at ticveral lliMtitnlec. They miiinhiiti
t hat, tlutl"8 are propagated from the
root only, and that all Ihe seeds me
i in perfect.
II iiiiltai lllil .riis.
Stephen l'owers, a well-know n writer
on agricultural matters, in ueonmiuni
cation to tlV.' (.'mmtrii ( li'iillrnitnt on this
foreign plant sii.vk : "I n addition to its
value as a snpplenientiiry forage crop,
I found this grass out; of the best me
diums for the renewal of un old nioss
bound or ot herwise deteriorated mea
dow without thelosH of a year. It will
grow in eighty days, so that it can be
sown alter timothy is cut, and a crop
of hay secured from it in time to plow
the, land and reseed it to meadow again
in tint fall, for which it leaves the
ground in good condition. One year.
1' remember distinctly, a Hevere winter
huil reduced my stand of timothy una
, , ,.
Hpouty piece of red, creik bottom so-!
gar liey hind to a ' thing of hIiiciIs and !
patches,' but as it was lit, only for,
Ineadow I did not want to break it up j
for coin, n ml il, wuh iiscIcsh to sow it
for oats. So 1 cut 1'iirly the Mtraggling '
timothy and at oiu c brnke it up about
six inchcH ileep, turning smooth, '
even furrow, harrowed and sowed it to
Hungarian grass. A timely ruin gave
it an excellent Maud ; 1 cut and Nitved
morn hay than tne timothy would have
yiclileil at itH liesi, anil miu nan tune
to res I it in tint ' t 1 iv and get u growth
strong enough to withstand the wintur
llllHllillg,
"Hungitriaii griiHH is not (iernuin or
any.utlier inillel; the Iliingariaii grass
has black h I. the millet vellow. Mom
Hungarian griisH K-ed in tlm Mtoren !m
mixed, but that hliould be selected
which has the highest percentage of
black seed, (lermun millet, if howh
very thick, makes a. tolerably good feed
for nit tli.' mid lioix-c, though noteipnil,
I think, to Hungarian, but for sheep
the Hungarian is much fiierior, on
account of ils fineness and gieuter
amount of foliage.
" The seed, being email and light, re
ij uirt'H a very thoroughly prepared bed
to w cunt lt.sgerininaliiiii.iind the more
no since is sown iit hot weather. It
is imperative that the land hliould be
well harrowed with a line-toothed bur
row. If the luii'l is left rough and
cloddy some of the seeds w ill fall deep
into the cracks and never appear above
the surface, while others will lodge on
lump. Iw lightly, covered, or not at all,
and dry out. They will come up hciiI
tcring, unil the rcMiltant buy w ill be so
coarw'.as to be wholly unlit,. for sheep,
and decidedly unlit for horses and fat
tie. The land iiiu-t be harrowed until
il is well compacted, ebe there will be
air spun .- left below the surface, w hich
w ill dry out in the milium r heat. Then
the seed sin ulil be sown one and a
half ho shi. In to the ut rc i not t wo much
if the buy is for sheep ; one bu.-hel w ill
ansvvi r if for ciitlb pint before or after
a rain and lightly harrowed in, not
brushed ill, lor it bru-h will soon wear
out and go on it. knee-, leaving un
sightly streak- or -earns. Last of all.
lei il be rolled wry -inuoth, for there
wdl be no sod as in an old timothy
meadow to hold up Ihe mower knifv,
and if the laud is uneven the knife will
be conMaii '.ly cutting oil' the lop- of
hillocks ami gitting gritty and dull.
Some farmers are in favor of letting
Hungarian grass stand until the -eed
i- nearly unite ripe, but I prefer to cut i
il much greener ihiin that uy when
liieluad- are fairly in -ight. What
limy he ga ilieil in seod is more than lost
in foliage if it is left to ripen. TheCali
foinia farmers are compelled to sow
barley or when l for hay, and they al
ways cut it green, because it is hay
they want, not straw and grain. So
with Hungarian gru-s.
"Of con rse, when cut -u green it w ill
icipiire thorough curing to prevent
molding in the mow, and here in where
the beginner isliubb' to make his great
est mii-lake. The large, succulent
heads ought to lie in the sun two full
days, els- they will mold, and the
sheep will consume all the foliage ex
cept them, leaving the bottom of the
hay iack full of tliem, like so many
given, fu.zy culerpilluin, , Left ho long,
in the sun, of cum si? the hav will look
rather yellow, but is fur better this
than moldy. II cut aslale us Septem
ber the short days and heavy dews
render il dilliciilt to cine Hungarian
grass well, and it is absolutely neces
sary to let it have at least two days of
sunshine. It iN bet tel to sow it, if pos
sible, by .1 one 1st, to bring i nit the cut
ting farlier. licfore the dew fulls on
the second day it -liould be raked and
cocked up; but if it seems wry heavy
on the pitchfork and the juice comes;
out when a wisp of it in twisted in the
hands, it must he uncocked, spread out
say twice as thick as it grew on the
ground, and dried the third day, else
il w ill be almost ct'i tcin to mold in the
mow. I prefer to rake it Ihe same di
rection around the 'land' that it was
mown, especially if it was lodged. In
this way the rtko teeth are less liable
to get fouled in the slubble. If the
swaths are very heavy they should be
carefully gone over with a pitchfork
right after the mower and the thick
places shaken out, or a tedder may be
used if preferred. "
IIHitH In I-ru M'-. r i' rs.
(io ihrough the vineyard and take
out all the suckers that start from be
low the ground and use your judgment
us to those above. They may sometime-
he left as a sort of safely valve
for a too luxuriant growth.
Look carefully to the new grafts, if
you have any, mid when you see that
they are growing do nut fail to cure
fully pull out all I lie suckers from the
old stock.
Sulphur the second time us soon as
Ihe fruit is sel.
Attend to your summer pruning.
You can in ayieat mcii.-ure control the
setting of a second crop, preventing it
a great deal hy wit libolihug for a tiniu
the pinching of the tips if the growth ;
is vei-v vh'oroiis !
If vou have wines in the cellar thev
fan be racked when they come clear.
linn a weed-cutter in your young
vineyards and in the old before the.
v ineH get loo long.
Keep the ground stirred and mellow
in the young orchards, at least, and
you can't do too much of il, n ny where.
The regular Hiinnuei pruning or
pinching of trees is not advocated, us
a general rule. Shouts that are grow
ing in wrong places may be removed
and some attention paid to shaping
the tree, but us a rule wait till the reg
ular winter pruning time. ,
A good garden, well Hipplicd with
choice varieties of vegetables and
fruits, is one of the greatest luxuries
of the farm and household. There, is
no farmer but can afford to have a
garden und take care of it in the best
1 ..i.i
iossu ie. iiiuonvi.
THE GOLDEN BERYL.
' i.riini... r N..r !
" "' v,
" I- "'"" ".' X "'w "
well-know u dealer in precloiiH slone.i
un-; asked.
" Th ily tiling I can tliinkofat
this moment," replied the dealer, "i
tlic golden beryl, w Inch has recently
made ils appearance ill the jewelry
market. The distinctive fealure of
this -lone is that it is native only in
this country. Il lias been proiiuimccd
hv I'rof. Dana, nf Villi! College, as
ilill'iTciit in color from any thing he
lias ever before seen. Iteryl stones
have been discovered in holh liemi-
p r.plieres, ,'iud include various colors,
aiming tliem llie eiiiclalil ami aipiu
i marine. Formerly il. was classilied as
mi diU'crciil specie- from I lie emerald,
i bill modern mineralogists classify the
: line green linl us the same species.
! The beryl has never attained any
great popularity in this country, but
I in Kiigland il is prized us highly as Ihe
Inpu. in Spain. A blue beryl sur-
mounts 1 1 1 - glove in the crown of (ireat
' liriliau. In the Hope collection, in
London, there is a single gem which is
valued al 4'i,."i()0. A specimen of api:i
marine liervle found in I'ussia in H-1
was valued al II,IU"I. Many lieryl
j gems have been brought. . here from Si
1 hcria, bul as the shine was not ''I'lii'r
; -Jlv known il was (Milled by .-nine oil
! name as the sapphire and oilier ori
ental stones. The beryl is alw.'iy
; found in dcpo-ils of mica, with granite
or gncis-.' The golden bery l was dis
covered in a mine nf this eliaracler in
I ( 'oiineeiieiil. Il is found attached to
a rock coinpo-ed of 'piartz. tiirnialine.
spar .ind iniea. I )i her bery I- have been
I'liiiml Ihcrc, bul much w as ni:niic and
lllllil tor gelll-.
After Ihe gotden beryl had been de
clared o he :i new mineral il was
placed in 1 1 1 - hands nf a lapidary lo lie
cul into gem-. The rc.-ull vva-lhe pro
duction of a gem which has excited
cmi-iib'i a Me study and inlcivst in the
diamond trade. Three -I. tide-of golden
cnl'ii- vv ere ohiuined. tin' wa- pro
nounced, am! the oilier a -hade les
than Ibis and :t I rille deeper I han the
third, which is faint. Its liarilne-s is
SI a- compared with the diamond
.-lamlaid of 10 hy actual tc-t. This
, i j 1 1 : 1 1 1 1 has heen found -ullicicul to en
; able il to ohtain ils brilliancy. Its spe
' cilic "l avitv is J0 iii'r cent, less than
Ii.iim.cmI. nud ils den-ilv ranks
next lo 1 1 1 -1 1 ino-l preeioll- of .tones.
It- t ra ii .pal eiiev i- greater than i-cliaraeleri-tie
of other colored gems,
ami lie; lav of light il affords i--nnie-wlial
-imilar to llialofihe diamond.
The gems are being ii-ed in bracelet.
Iirooche-, ling- ami ornamental de
signs for evening wear, and in nearly
evciy in-iaiiee an mounted with diamond-.
Tliey rank in value with
shine- other than diamonds. They are
being exported in limited number.- lo
I. undo. i and the cniit iuciil, mill have
been i-hnvvn by the lllo court jeweler-.
The civ l als have heen found in
small ipianlilics. and il i- a ipics)u
vv hel her uian v more will be obtained.
Hill cv en a- it is. Ihcdepo-il is i:oiiid
ered a i einark.ihlc one by expert luin-rralo.-i-!-.'-
S. )'. lylt.'i:
CIRCUS LEMONADE.
h sinitiiii; simiei'r I'nriilvi'il
i-nilrr fl thfi Ohnstly Fluid.
"This is lemonade, is it not!'" in
iiiired a liglil-haireil gentleman bland
ly, as he stepped up ill fl out of a stand
on the circus ground.
The proprietor replied that il was
ice cold lemonade, and generously
threw in the information thai the price
was only live cents a glass.
d'll take a glass, if you please."'
said I he si ranger, and it was placed
before him.
"If there is .my thing, I am fond of.'
he continued, wit h much a ll'abilil y, "ic
is good lemonade:" and he drew a
lemon from one of his pockets, cut a
hole in il, a'lid with great deliberation
sipiee.ed I lie juice into t lie glass. Then
from a liol her pocket lie took a spoon
and a small paper sack tilled with
sugar, with which he pri ded to
sweeten the mixture. A crowd was
gathering about linn by ihis time, and
the proprietor of the refreshment
sland was becoming red ami very
liioisi.
"I'll give you half a dollar lo go
away l'roin here." lie said lo the bland
gent Icioan. a n xioiisly .
"My friend," said the smiling cus
tomer, sipping with evident satisfac
tion I hi' bev erage iie had mixed, "it
afford mi' plea-iirc lo say that this is
Ihe best lemonade 1 ev er drank on a
show -gTou nil. II ere is your live cents. "
And he finished the gla-s, pahl his
money, and elbowed his ,t ay out
through Ihe crowd. ,
Half an hour Inter the leinfuiade
vender, broken up in business and dis-
"i-co o. a pun- u green goggie ami a
f'llsi' beard, was doing the ihree-card
imilile act ill a secluded place among'
Ihe can v as
-vv agons and looking- about i
searehingly for a light-haired and smib ;
nig si ranger. ( 'hirmjti Tribune. I
One Dose Was Enough.
A prominent phy sician, w ho has since
died, once w rote a prescription for a
powerful liniment. He was nuled
among the druggists for his chirogra
pliy. He had a large practice, and oft
en wrote in Mich basic thai it was tlilli
clill lo read his prescriptions. The di
rections written upon the a bin e-ineil-lioiied
''eeipe" were: "Apply locally
a-directed." The clerk read il : "'I'ake
ii leaspooiifiil I hcee limes daily." The
I'alienl took only one dose, llmwr's
Mttit:iiir.
- There is a village in Wales with a
flame containing seven.! v-l wo letter
ird tw eiitv-lvvo svllablcs.
A NIGHT IN POMPEII.
Dri'lillllnir or Thing Long lli-iiil ami On no
In the l ut'-l Hindi Temple ol Isls.
The Italian tiovernmeiit has taken
pos-e ion of the excavated city ol
I'oiupcii. A law recently enacted
strictly forbids ranger entering oi
remaining after sunset. I was aiixioii
to see the ruins by moonlight, and re
solved to spend a night in that resur
rected eil y of Ihe I'ollllllis, the law to
the eonlrary not wit h-landiiig. The
preceding night had been spenf on
Mould Vesuvius, and early in lhe
morning I aro-e from my lofly couch I
unil ih'sceudeil Ihe shleof the mountain f
Inward I'oinpeii along the same route
that the lava, ind a-hes took eighteen
hundred yeur ago when the unfortun
ate cily wa buried. The earth exca
vated from I'unipcii ha been thrown
aroiuiil the city, making a wall twenty
or Iwenly-tive feet high. The only en
trance i through a gate with a revolv
ing slile. where Ihe v isitor pay s forty
cents admission,
I'oinpeii i- a wonderful place. The
old Inhabitant, subject- of the Km
peror Titii, are .-till there - there in
glass eases, hi the very posture in
which they died eighteen cent lil ies
ago. In t he court-V ai d of one house is
still standing a pede.-tal bearing a bust
of the owner nf the house Cornelius
Kufus.
LA" ard net of un. worn out with
wainleiTiig among the curious, ruin
and ii'lics of the dead pat. I sought a
place wherein lo rc-l and wail the
rising of the inooii. In the temple of
I-is ..till stand, the altar where the
l'ouipeiian prii-t delivered oracle- to
the credulous people. The .lalue bend,
whence isiied the oracle-, stands now
as it then stood, on a pedestal, under
vv liieli the cunning priests had hidden
Ihi'lii-elv es. Into thi- i la-lit and -ei'iel ;
place I crnvv led. I cfre-hed my -elf whhj
a luncheon from my knap-nek and lay 1
down to re-t. The dcccnl from Vo-u- ;
in- unil Ihe day'- -ighl ceing proved
inn much for inc. I -auk into a sleep,
nut deep, but di-turbcil hy dream of
thing- long dead and gone. I saw old ;
pagan prie-l talking Ihrough the!
sculptured head to humbug the igno- I
in 1 1 1 wor-hipper-. -aw the gaping;
crow d of v oineii and men, w ith faces
of awe anil reverence, receiving the
Iving oracle-; then -iiihlenly, a il :
-ceineil. a man of grave and revel end ;
aspect, with long, (lowing heard ami i
long hair, confronted the deceiving
priest-, and with commanding gesture. ;
ordered t hem away a nil ov er! in ned thu ,
oracle head, which fell with a cra-li !
amid the pagan's eric-ami -limit".
1 -tailed up wildly, -o vivid was the j
scene. I found my -elf in dai Klie-.. :
the -nuiid of rough voice-were shout-
ing near by : J could not al lir-l realize j
where I was. ;
'Ahimr Ini e ii!" (here he i!.
-honied the iniigh voice Then a man (
with a lantern poked hi- head into the
place, and threw a mldeii light upon j
me. I w as Minded ami dacd. The :
man began talking Italian a l me so ;
rapidly that I became still more he-j
wililcrcd. Was I dead and in hade?)
The brigamli-li-looking fellow vv ith the j
lantern seized tne fiercely, jerked n:e
up ami oiil of my hiiling-plaec and.:
dragged me along to the gale of the ;
city, t luce in Ihe open air. my d.-t.cd !
sense- cleared ami I began to lake in(
the situation. A tierce-looking fellow',
with a bristling mustache and a showy
uniform wcnl through my pockets and
knap-ack, and then I w :i escorted down
the high road to I'orlici. a village about
seven miles distant, in the direction of
N'aples. There I was lodged in jail,
ind the ncxl morning brought before
an nll'icor of justice, charged with the .
heinous cl inic of sleeping in the dead
city of I'oinpeii. Putting on an in no- I
cent air. 1 -aid in my best Italian that
my -intention were not felonious, that!
1 had taken nothing, that I had fallen
asleep from over-fatigue- Vesuvius, ;
siglileeiug and all that; and finally, as i
mi purloined relics vv ere found upon me, j
I was let oil' w ith a reprimand and a I
warning not In do so again. j
I discovered, on a -eolid visit, that '
l!a" siile through which the visitor en-j
lei's I'oinpeii registers each person pass
ing in. A l sunset another stile regis-
lei- the exits; exit and entrances iuut j
tally. Ihi this ev enlfiil cv e they -did not
laliy, and ,, the silclil streets and I
hoii-cs of the dead were searched with i
the result described. - l-'rmii ".I Trmiijil
Triii" lii .if Mi rin; tin r, j
-
Ho Was Scared Indeed.
"Vou know Jimmy Say well'.'" said a
traveler.
Ye."'
"Well, he's a great poker play er. "
"f,V-',".' has the reputation of being
,.iie of the hell in the city. Lot of
nerve. Never known to hack down be
fore a poor hand."
'Ye, but I saw him scared nearly to
death Ihe oilier day al a sniajl pair."
"Indeed! W ho held it'.'"
"The nurse. They were twills."
.1 irhiinl Trun l, r.
A story is told in art circles of a
young American painter who returned
from a course of F.iiropcau study w ith
mil :i cent in his pocket. His ambition
was eipial to the situation, and he hired
a inagniticeiil studio, tilled il vvilh
ithoice si nil's and brie-a-brae. and pro
i' ceiled to take fashionable pupil of
e gentler sex. having borrowed hi
equipment from a fashionable liouse
decoraloi', XV hose business he "boomed"
it the houses nf his pupils' parents in
return for the loan of the bric-a-brac
and stuff's. Cliicain Tritium .
-A foreign lady who had not be
come used to Ihe F.nglish language was
invited to parlake of some oysters. "O.
It link you," she replied. "A little of
i lilt juice, please; none of the beasts."
MARTHA WASHINGTON.
rai ls snowline Tht Hint W Not ri
II, Mleil VVoiimn In till) Konsii or To-l.
She did not spell well, and her gram
mar would li udly stand the parsing of
the public sijiool-s. Copies of two of
her letters hi lief sister, Mrs. H.i.ssett,
lie before me. They were writ ten at
about the hi'gining of the revolution,
side begins one thus: "I hare wrotu
to y ou several times, in hopes it would
put you in mind of me, hut I find it
has not, had itsi Intended effect.''
Further on hhfl adds: "The rivers has
never been frozen laird enough to
walk upon the ice Bini o I came here."
Among the mixspc-lt words of the letttr
aiv: "Xavey" for navy, "lodetl" for
loaded, "coles" for coals, distant"
for destined, "clem" for clear,
"hcare" for here, "plrscd" for plensed.
and "greatful'' - for grateful. Com
pany she spells "compaucv," and per
suaded perswaded."
In the fac-shnile of a letter that she.
wrote, to William B. Heed, of .New
York, in 1777, I m;o that she knew no
other punctuation mark than Ihe ilasli.
that tlm apostrophe) was u stranger to
her, and that her writing, though jiot
illegible, was. far from beautiful or !l
gaul. The use of the capital was a.
embarrassing to her as the use of tint
punctuation point, and her letters look
a- though the capitals had ljeen shaken
out of a juuiiimotli peppce-box and iter
ant led tn'lie'wh'erev'er they fell.
One of her letters, commencing "My
dear Fanny," was lately i oiniiiiniieated
by Lev. H. K. Hay-dun, of I'eiuisylvaiiia,
to the Minjaziur of Anirrirun llirtory.
Il is dated "Mount Vernon. Aug. 7.
17SI," and the verbatim spelling and
piuii-tiiation are (ireserv ed in the publi
cation. Some of the sentence begin
w ith capital and sonic without. She
write- of ".My little nelly." referring
probably to Nellie Cu-li-. and in the
same line say that "Tut is the same
claver (clover) boy you left him." tlm
capitalizing the boy '" name, while she
give no capital to that of ihcgirl. She
vv riles Fanny "that tliethmeral had re
ceived a letter from her papa" dated at
"riehmond,'' begin the next sentence
with a s-iiiull letter, and hi il capitalizes
lirothers," "Families" and "tieu
cral." A person use his he-1 grammar
while writing, and he who makes ini
lake here makes more in conversation..
Martha Washington may have !-eu
well educated in the school of society
ami in that of lifo. She wa certainly
not o in hooks and literal lire. There
w as no library to speak of al Mount
Vernon, and (ieneral YVa-hingtoii was
more of an out-door man than a stu
dent. We have no record of hi wife
being a reader, save that -he read a
chapter in her Bible every morning
after breakfast. She k.-.ew nothing
about novels, and the American inouth
Iv magazine, the great family educator
of the present, w as not yet born.
Martha Washington had, however,
the best advantages of the day. Her
whole life was pent among learned
men and bright women, hut there is no
record left that lie was brilliant in so
cial couv -f s.'itioti. and you will read in
x.iin for the lvporh 4. lion mots of
Martha Washington. The truth seem
lo he that Martha Washington thought
woman's sphere was home, and that
knitting and cooking were more iin
..irlant than writing letters and a
' lovvh'dgc of French. She is said to
h iv e been a good btisiness-w oinan and
lo have managed the large estate of her
si husband cry ,:hly before :-he
handed her share of il over lo George
Washington. - ' 'o.-oiow''k.
A BOOM STOPPED.
Why C'U4ittir Take N' stock in a Cer
tain Uiakolit Town.
' Having a boom h.re?" asked a
jlra, :M a he put his head out of a car
w iin' ivv at a Dakota station.
"Naw !" replied a nativ e.
'That's slraiigo - -thought every place
had one this spring."
"They be. mostly," and the mail
sighed and le.ined up against the
depot.
"Then why i-nt this town having
one?'
"W'y. you see, Strang',, it wasovviu'
lo a little mismanagement. We platted
a big Heighten Beach Boulevard addi
tion over to the lake j'illiu' the town,
and you know the land there is just a
lillh bis soft. like. Well, the first
spee'lalor that conic along the boy
got too fa1, and took him down to it
and he tarled to walk oil' across the
lots, and I'm blamed if he didn't stick
there and we couldn't git to him to pull
him out."
"How long ago did it kappeti?"
"'limit two weeks."'
"lie iiiil.-l he dead, then'.1''
"Oil. yes, 1 reckon lie's dead all right
enough, but before ho sunk out o' sight
he hollered lo other buyers that we
look down and warned them 'bout the
place, and somehow capitalists kinder
got prejudiced ag"ln' our real estate
and we haint bavin' no boom u-tail.
I'm goin" hi move. " Dakota Ikil.
How Bertie Knew.
licrlie i-J'a, is that new Mr. Hanks
an ice dealcri1 :
l'a, -Yes Bi.Ttie-, how did you know?
lleiMie I didn't know, only
thought he was. for when the niiiii-toi
prayed for lint weather yesterday he
said "Allien'' awfully loud. (Vioyo.?1
Iiitrr Omul.
The KnipiTor of Japan has been
making a tour of the chief cities of his
kingdom. Al. Osaka the authorities
presented him with a handsomely en
grossed copy of the ccn.Mis of the in
habitants of Ihucity, one of its inter
esting foal hits being that out of .'itti.OOO
people 7 1H were over eighty years of
age-- Iktrvil t'rei Press.
r
Frailty ftrtnfitii unit MoorMtly Hmalt
llU ?onrinf Into fashion.
Although in a gnmrftl rievv the mil
linery on exhibition in the retail honsen
i t the trade repealed the styles in than
shapes of bonnet and hats, material
and trimmings, there were certain:
fancies ami features ob-jorvablu that
were not very coii-piruou in thi; earlier
importations.
As a rule, the bonnet1 nrp small, it
poke occasionally giv ing variety to tint
headdress for out of doors wear, whiht
the large hats seem somewhat larger
in the eircuinforeiice of the brim than
lire hat of the la-t season and thn
crow lis a trrfh' less tall, the larger
shapes varied by till ha. is and toiptes.
In the bonnet the shapes v hiidt obtain
are v ariation. of the little French cot
tage Ixinnet-, the Knglish capote and
the Manoii, the l:nt a special favorite
with young ladies, anil for wear in vis
iting toilets.
The large hat which seem.- at present
in favor is that with the moderately1
tall, slightly tapering crow n, and tlm
brim very narrow, or forming only n
shallow scallop at the ba.e of th
crown, widening out to about twi
inchi at the rijht side, projected afc
the front, mid widening out until al
most as broad a the crow n is tall, and
curved up at the left side. A rival to
thi particular shape Jips fpilr
crown (or the same crown), xvitli tliej
briiu wider at the right side and curved
up at each side.
New shape in turbans have a me
dium trill, -lightly tapering crown, and
e round or dome shaped crown, and
the brim wide and pressed up piit
elo-cA all .-troll ml. though the :sha4
in t iicb.ins are f reipieut ly lost or nega
tived by the drapery, which smothers
the crown em-npletcly and giws tht
hat an entirely different aspect.
I'rett . small bonnets with drapery of
pl.vitod trd'eta ura. and gauze, velvet
over the crown, have the brim of plain
velvyi. completed hy a bow of sioine one
or Iw of the im.-t destinetive or thi
grounding culm in the plaid, sustain
ing a li.Tou aigrette to match, a hunch,
of din-suit- or strawberries, or a clus
ter of in uia. verbena or other dower
of similar character. There is, indeed,
for thi sea-on a fureiir for mixtures of
high colors: and varying the fancies
alluded to are the hats and boimeU
made of the braids woven in intermix
ture of color. These braids havu
been produced in great qualities, and
form a coiispieiious factor in miiinary.
Hats made of them are either self
faced in the turning of the work of
making on tht outside, or are faced
with velvet, the trimming consisting
of a hand of ribbon or velvet of thu
darkest color in the braid around the
crow ii. coinpletod by bow set at tlm
left of the front, made of ribbons in alt
the dors that are introduced in thn
braid: a bunch of ostrich tips posed on
he edge of the crown, the tips in tw
or t hive shade of color, or shaded iu
dyeing, in son. e model being Mipplc
nie.Hary. mttm
The bonnets of the braids in mixed
color- are faced with velvet and trim
med with a bow- made of ribbons in
two distinctive colors, or iu all the col
or seen iu the braid, completed by
string of ribbon iu the darkest color
employed. v
The bow which trim hats when of
the several color understood are gen
erally of ribbon about three indie
wide, and made of flat butterfly fash
ion, and massed in a great fluster at
the left of the front or at ihe left side,
while the bow s are .still stiff and up
right on bonnet, formed of loops of
the several color-,
sary to -ay, after
that ribbon bow
giiishing feature
It is carcely neces
what ha been said,
are again a distin
iu millinerv g'.trnt-
tares. A. )'. Ih-rahl.
4
ADVICE TO OLD MEN.
llitw They Slay Scsre Ciintentuieut itud
Attain (.rent Aire.
In the mutter of advice, old men hav
been neglected. Young men, girls,
married women and hoy have all re
ceived the philanthropic attention of
newspaper writer, but it seems that
no one has the time to drop a few usi
ful hints to the man li'i has done
so much for the world. Th following
suggestions are freely given:
Did men hoiibl he careful of their
health. They should not go to the
theater in damp weather without a,
shirt. It is alo advisable to wear
something mi the feet.
Old men will find it to their interest
not to remain on a railroad track until
after a train has passed. Well-read
phvicians now generally agree that
heavy freight trains, especially late jfs
night, are hard to digest.
Old men, especially in a cold climate,
should not go in .swimming until after
the tirt of January, nor recline on let)
in thu evening. .
An old man should nuirtv a very
young woman. It teaches him that
there is nothing in life after all, and
ri eoiiciles him to death.
Bv observing these and other rules,
ii.me old men have attained great age.
-. l',o(.iK' Trurrti r.
A teacher iu Massachusetts: wast
speaking of the dilliciilty of defining
some very rout mon word. "Now
there is the v erb 'to be.' What does
it mean when I sav 'I am.' ' Maggie's
hand was waved frantically around,
ami her whole body eenied lo be in
the throes of a mighty and startling
thought. "Well. Maggie, w hat does it
mean'.'" "It mean -it moans that
when any body says as how y' ain't,
an' thin y' are." llnrprr' k Itn.ntr.
(Irav "Say, libick. why is the
uiuon like a city attic window '.'" Black
- "Why?'" tlray "liecaii.se it's a sky
light, of course. "Uoslutt Huduel. .
STYLISH MILLINtRIT.