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COIiIi. "VUVN CLEVE. ALBANY, OREGON. ' "' FRESH TOPICS Oars a, with a three-year-old Emperor, will doubtless have a children.s psr y. - Tuton avers t nder oath that there pre "not exceeding one thousand "cminont' nen in the United States. . ,i i : .; :- . Twhsty thousand people are said to be -suffering for food in Kansas, and all on .account of the grasshoppers. To that neighbor over the way who is everlastingly wanting to borrow some thing you can truthfully say it is Lent Bazaink is regarded as the ooming man of Spain. He is in favor with Queen Isabella's household, and will be given a command in the Northern army. Wh are not astonished at the statement "that one of the Beecher jurors is sick. The wonder is that the stream of filth under which they are compelled to sit -day-after day has not rickened , the whole twelve. " - Charles Francis Adams, Jr., thinks the Grangers have proved the best friends of the railroads. Thev rmv stopped eonatruction,' which is a good thing. If the mania for railway building ad gone on unchecked much longer there would have beea nothing left but railroads in the country. Everybody would have taken to making tracks. Thb proposition of the Union Pacific Railway to compromise the suits brought against it by the Attorney-General by paving into the 'United States Treasury 3500,000 yearly for twenty years, and 5750,000 annually thereafter, is re garded with favor at Washington, and will probably be accepted by the gov ernment. " ' ' . Thb Hon. Thomas Durf ee, Rhode Island's new Chief Justice, has requested the Legislature to reduce his salary from $5,000 to $4,500, because he thinks there should be no more than $500 difference between his salary and that of the Asso ciate Justices, who receive $4,000. He thinks that judgment, like charity,should begin at home. ' Teat . loathsome disease, small-pox, has been doing bad work in many parts of North America during the past few weeks. We hear of it in the Eastern States, in Canada, and lately it has closed a large Catholic school in one of the principal towns of Texas. It prevails to a greater or less degree in most of the large cities, and many of the smaller cities, of the Union. Ax imaginative correspondent of a Chicago daily paper thus depicts a scene in the Illinois Legislature : " Nervous hands sought imaginary pistols, nervous fingers grasped material ink-tAn3 and prepared for the fray. But ere the first blow was 8 truck, ere the first ink was spilt, the clear, ringing voice of the Speaker fell with a magic influence upon that wild, tumultuous throng, ' The Clerk will call the roll. " Minister Scmwcx writes to his friend, GeO. Young, of Cincinnati, explaining the story that he had published a book on the art of playing poker. He says that, when leaving a country residence in Somersetshire, he was asked to. write down the rules of the game as played iu America. He did so, and heard no more of the matter until 'he received copies printed for private circulation by an amateur compositor. ,: .- " -, Training for the witness stand is an other one of the new things born of the .great scandal case. It is asserted that Moulton kept iu vigorous physical .and mental trim throughout his examination by going through a course 'of training -every morning like a pugilist. - Mr. X Beecher, we are told exercises a half hour every morning with dumb bells, sponges himself down with , alcohol, breakfasts on raw beefsteak, and washes it down with Dublin porter. ' - - Vj - . Advicbs from the Eastern an Middle States, represent the prevailing drought very serious. In some quarters melted snow is the only drink that can be fur nished the cattle, and. iu others their owners are shipping them off to prevent their dying of thirst. There were no rains previous to the beginning cold weather,? and unless f there are. (heavy "spring rains the dry ground may prove .as detrimental to the Eastern crops as the grasshoppers have to those of the West. By wpjyf pofctrast; kjalHprtia lias been deluged lay the exeessive rainfall! t Thb Chicago Tribune has two special correspondents - attending the Beecher trial. ', That they are trustworthy and re- - liableweareassuTedrromthefonowuigre perts printed the same day k Speaking of Beeci's appearazice while Tilton was ' ieHvenngi hfe tsatimocnyVt one. corre- : wpondent Baysf Hla tiuxwtut very calm, ' -and was almost' constantly turned to the witness chair isiti an expression of quiet , interest" Says ;the other: Hie , face was as livid as the face of a' corpse, aud he looked palsied by shame and anguish." There you are. Ton pavsyour. money . and takes your choice. - Tss completion of the ' great " Hooeac unnel is an event of almost national .impojrfenosw I IfewitroA & 4st the labor of an immense number of men ; or marry yefira, the expenditure of $13;--CCO.CCQ, and the saeriSoe, of 142 lives. The turael is nearly fesw miles Jong, a?sd -it ga stated tUJL' is take a loaded : 't&tiBghfcvtnia-) fer .-wfctmfe to ftm &xtroA,-i7-..Tiasmp&dabam.- companies oo elijpers are repreeesitsd to bs'eagar to avail themselves of t its facilities for shortening the distance 'between New England cities and the West, and great expectations of , increase Sof ibusiness are . ased thereon. "J; AooiiDrjKo! o tiie St' Louis' Republi can"; the aggregate of State debts in the Union iu 1874 was $382,970,517, being an increase of 38,200,000 since 1870. Of this amount $164,732,000 is in default the defaulting States being Alabama, on $21,350,000 ; Arkansas, on $12,800,000 ; Florida, on $3,774,000 ; Georgin, on $11,000,000 ; Louisiana, on $24,433,000 ; Minnesota, on $2,275,000; Mississippi, on $7,000,000 ; North Carolina, on $24,900, 000 ; South Carolina, on $13,200, 000, and Virginia, on $46,000,000. Of the total State debts $92,924,000 is esti mated to be held abroad, and of the amount in default $54,174,000 is held abroad. The debts " in default bear an average interest of about seven per cent. Some of the defaulting States, as Georgia and Minnesota, have disowned the debts; others, like Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, have repudiated them and others, like North Carolina and Vir ginia, aeciare tueir inability to pay Virginia, because the new State of West Virginia refuses to assume its just share of the indebtedness. Of the whole amount ($164,732,000) it is probable three-fourths will never be paid. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. senator John A. Logan has a bad at tack of neuralgia. , Thb Milwaukee . Sentinel denies that Senator Carpenter is going East to live. Halktkat), of the Cincinnati Commer cial, nominates William Cullen Bryant for President in 1876. i It is said Senator Thurman, of Ohio, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, looks very much like Kev. Robert CoUyer, of Chicago. x kkn ando Wood complains that his chances of being elected Speaker of the next House are much injured by the Republican support he is receiving. Hon. William "W. Eaton, Senator- elect from . Connecticut, has been . ap pointed by Gov. Ingersoll to fill the late Senator Buckingham's unexpired term. GailUattn (Tenn.) Examiner : " From every quarter comes a renomination of Andrew Johnson for the Presidency. We regard his nomination highly prob able." Says a Washington correspondent : " Alexander Mitchell, who has just re turned to Washington, is quite generally credited with having defeated Carpenter in his late Senatorial contest." Thb Republicans of Michigan will hold a State convention at Jackson on March 3, to nominate two Justices of the Supreme Court in place of Judge Chris tiancy, U. S. Senator elect, and Judge B. F. Graves, and two Regents of the State University. Senator Gobdon, of Georgia, has ad dressed a letter to Wendell Philips, ask ing him to take a tour through the South aud report on the real political conditions there. Gordon says that he thinks Phillips an honest man, and that he would be quite content to abide by the decision Phillips could but arrive at in his tour through the South as to its real condition. Chicago Journal.' " It now comes out that Hon. J. K. Doolittle was the manipulator by whose magic power the contest for United States Senator in Wis consin terminated in the choice of Angus Cameron as Matt. Carpenter's successor. Judge Doolittle spent a day or two at Madison as a peace-maker and compro miser, and it was he who -consolidated the opposition element on Mr. Cam eron." , - ; A rJisTiNGCisHED member of the United States Senate sticks to old clothes from policy. He owes an election to them, he says. One of his friends stumped a district for him iu which he was unpop ' ular because they said he was an aristo crat. , ''Aristocrat, indeed," said the speaker, with great enthusiasm, "you ought to see him. Why, every rag of clothes he has iu the world isn't worth $10." . - - Ik a recent letter to a personal friend, Judge Chrietiancy, the new Senator from Michigan, is credited with saying : " The manner of my election leaves me at liberty to support or oppose measures upon their merits, according to my con victions pf right, and with reference to the interests of the , whole country, rather than for any partisan ends ; aud I propose to avail myself of that liberty on all proper occasions." Thb members of the United States Senate whose terms ' expire . March 3, 1875, and who took the back-pay and refused to refund it, were the following : Boreman, West Virginia ; Brownlow, Tennessee ; ' Carpenter, Wisconsin ; Flanagan, Texas ;. .Gilbert Florida ; Lewis, Virginia ; Stockton, New Jersey ; Stewart, Nevada ; a Sprague, Rhode Island'; Tipton, Nebraska. This is the full ctsc of taoae wno took tne money . in 1 March,' 1873, and not one of them has been re-elected. i . As thebs is some controversy regard ing the political creed of Mr. Carpenter's successor in the Senate from Wisconsin, we present the opinions respectively of the , Republican and Democratic organs at the new Senator's home, LaCrosse. The Jiepublican . regards the efforts pf the Democracy to claim Mf. Cameron as " simply malignant," and says he hearti ly indorses the policy, pursued , by Presi dent Grant and his. subordinates. The Democrat thus defines the status of the new Senator : . ' -. "Yio notice that ' various, papers, especially Demosntie and Reform papers, are apeakiog of Mr. Gtmeroa ss " War Democrat," m "Liberal Republican," an '""Independent Bepabliean," tc, with maoh other of such mud similar flap doodle. A great and surprising mistekew Mr. Cameron baa always .been a Republican he is toow a Bepcblioan ; he has always been a eonmst ent and square Republican, never pretending under any circnnwtaneea to be anything but a BepabUoan ; a rigid partisan withal, never per mitting rnnwelf to break the roles of party dis cipline for any oause or any offense no matter how great. In abort, if the State of Wisconsin had been raked with a fine-tooth oomb, it would have been utterijr impossible to catch a more perfeot Bpeefaaen ethe estreum radical Repub lican partmaJL." A ' rxOTBumrivn invalid writes from Colorado . ' We. sit comfortably out of 'doors' l ike , suushine jifi i midwixiter, though all summer: we slept under blankets. There is aort of , radiance in the atmosphere which I ' have never wit nessed iu any other country, probably from the snizitr and dryness thereof. At mrht the moon and stars seem" to- comer down ana uxmost iwsuua ana glow near one's eyes." .. i .. ' i"t I''Hi'ir-iTnr l"-rti tn 1117 irii 'I ii ir 1 I'm nun iiiiiil)i)iiii-WH!Hjipiiiiiiiinj mi ijm. tj miipiinrinri mr .st.wi jju j. m J jsauiftij. aoi-u ism iim 1 ul.m'H"- -.. n.-'r "". '"i'''''''"W'M'Lrmm's --' i - , -f- - 1 -f- . . ; r1." .". t ... T.,.-v.i-J -. C11IT-CHAT FOR LITTLE FOLKS. i Trainins Time. Bnpper is over, ' 11 " Kow for Uie fna, ' This Is the aeaaon Children must run. Faps is reading, ' Hays of those bora:' " Pray, dia yon ever : Hear such a noiae T " .A ' , Biding on "eamela" Over the Boor, See, one' a squirrel CumHtng the door. Ther goes the bair Flat on hist ncM, Brother was tntng To tickle bw toes. f LHtlfl be minda it, Thought he would cry, Cbsnged it to langhter As t.yn galloped by. Order fa nowhere, Siia is the rale. Think they are children Juttt out ol school. i Home is their palace They are the kings, Iet them be masters Of Just a few things. ' i nlT one hour ; Out of all day .' Give them full freedom, Join in their play. Do not be srusiy. Do not forget You Uked to manage Sometimes do yet. Bone will be sweeter Till life is done If you will give them One hour for fun. My Porcelain Vase. BY KTiT.V.y BEBTHA HBADXtKV. , This afternoon I received a beautiful pair of vases, a present from a friend who .has just returned from Europe. They are ; pure white, about six inches high, aud of the antique style now so fashionable. I placed them on the man tel, and when Ned came home he noticed them instantly. "What are they?" I asked, when he had looked at them admiringly a few minutes. "At the first glance I thought they were alabaster," he- answered. "But they are a beautiful specimen of un glazed porcelain. I . saw similar ones being made at Etruria." "Where's that V said Susie. "In England," he replied. "It is where the Wedge wood pottery and por celain are made. Mr. Wedgewood put up his factories not far from Shelton, and built near them a mansion for himself and rows of cottages for the workmen. The village thus formed he, somewhat fancifully, callee Etruria, the name of a part of ancient Greece where many beau tiful specimens of pottery have been found. That was just about a hundred years ago. The mansion is of the style then common among persons of wealth. It is a large, roomy, brick building stand ing in a park. The cottages are all of the same size aud pattern. I was told that their resemblance to each other went so far that each front door opened into the best parlor, and in each parlor stood a manogany ciiest ol drawers, but I can not vouch for the truth of that state ment." " What about the factories ?" said L "Oh, yes !" said he. " Thev are the first interest to you until you find out how your vases were made. Well, if you re going through the process you must begin with the mi-ring of the clay, and that is pretty dirty work, I assure you." "Never mind that,"i said I, laughing. "I'm not afraid of the dirt." " Very welL" said he. " The materials used in making the finest kinds of porce lain are flint, bone, Cornish stone, and Cornish clay or kaolin." : "That is to say, China clay," said metber. " Is it brought from China ?" asked Harry. "No," said his uncle, "but it was long supposed to exist only there. Pot tery has been made iu Europe since the earliest times of which we have any record, but until within the last two centuries it has been believed impossible to manufacture the delicate, half -trans parent porcelain of the East, because of the absence of kaolin. : After it was dis covered on the Continent, it was long supposed not to exist in England, and British crockery remained a very inferior quality. t , "What is kaolin?" tasked. " It is a clay formed by the wearing down of certain granitic rocks by the action of air, water aud frost," he an swered. " It was found in the bottom of some ponds in Cornwall, called catch pools, into which it had been washed by streams from neighboring hills. Mr. Wedgewood seized upon it as soon as it was discovered, and began the improve ments in British crockery which have made it famous the world over. Greater masterpieces of art are produced upon the Continent than in Great Britain, but in no country is the general character of pottery so high. That from Etruria is shipped all over the world." "It seems to me, said I, " that we are not getting on very fast with the his tory oi my vases, i " Oh, those vases !" said Ned. " We mustn't forget them. The first step to ward making them was the burning or calcining of the bone ' and flint, then they and the other ingredients were ground to powder and mixed with water into slip." " Into what?" cried Harry. ;" Slip," replied his uncle. Broiling. " I suppose the name is given to the mix ture because of its perfect smoothness. That used lor tne finest porcelain is strained through sieves the meshes of which are' not : more; than the three hundredth part of an inch in diameter. The slip is poured into a wide flat oven. where it is reduced by evaporation to the proper consistency. It is then taken out and kneaded by machinery until it is soft and pliable, when it is ready for the pot ter's wheel or the mold. These vases of yours, 1 Mary, were probably run in plaster-of -Paris molds ; most delicate and complicated forms are, although the wheel is used with astonishing skuL ; A lump of clay of the right size is placed on a revolving tablet, and as it turns the potter works it into shape with his hands. The proper form having been given by either method, it is dried by exposure to the air before being placed in the biscuit kiln, where it is exposed to a fierce heat for forty or fifty hours The oven is then allowed to cool gradually and the pottery is taken out ready for the glazing. . ; s Theseare not glazed,' said Susie, taking up one of the vases. V - ! " No," said he. " These are of the most delicate and beautiful porcelain, and are left in the biscuit state. They are an almost exact imitation of alabaster. In fact, they are Parian." t - i "Lake what statuettes are made from ? I asked. - s ,?;-.;.'." ("Yes," he answered. " Anythingthat is purely ornamental need not be glased, but all articles- intended -for use, from our yellow pudding dishes to the delicate porcelain from which ? Queen? Victoria drinks her - tea, must be dipped ' into liquid glazing and then baked. -'--.. "Except drain-tils and ; bricks," said 1. , . . ' r You are right," he replied. "They are certainly useful articles and they are not glared. Neither are flower-pots. You know plants will not thrive well- in vessels having thin, glassy coating - -" . 3 pass. But it would not be pleasant for you to have liquids penetrating your kitchen utensils as the water sometimes does the saucers to Annie's flower-pots." . IJttte Oertie.; Gertie Mayhew wound hsr golden curls in a massive coil around l"sr shapely lit tle head,' fastened the dainty ruffle at her throat with a rose coral pin, hung the drops in her delicate ears, and threw herself into a sleepy-hollow chair to thUlk. w: )-...:. So absorbed was she' in her medita tions that the dumer-hll arnitiJ t : ere she heeded it, and when at last she rose wearily irom ner seat, the blue eyes were brimming with tears, and the rosy mouth was quivering. .. y 4 -y J Twelve years before,! when John jMcneiora stooa Dy the bedside of his only sister, and received from her dyinir lip the charge to be kind to her little girl lor ner sase, if for nothing else tears stood in the stronc man's m, j his lips trembled as he promised to be a father to the little Gertie, who looked on with wiae-open Diue eyes, too young to understand what it meant, and only wonaenng - way mamma didn't get So Uncle John took her away from the rjrettv villacre whnra aha VnA ainro-ra i; i to his own grand home in 'London, and stately Aunt Irene kissed her and bade her welcome, j : . ; i Terlmra thnv miunf Vn .1 t i . but Mr. Boohef ord was wholly absorbed iu his business, and his wifA vu fash ionable woman of the world, indulging her own children. Irene &n1 Ttai! ;n every whim. , ; And so Gerae was a stranger and un loved, with the sole exception of Lloyd Preston, her uncle's ward, who, from the time he first saw the beantifnl ohill in stituted himself her protector. But, two years later, hej was sent to one of the far-famed German universities. And during the long ten years of his ab sence Gertie was lonely indeed. NOW. after thia Inner ahnanoa Via woa home again ; aud it was noi wonder that uu uwd vtci uo uvuiuieu as sue uescena ed the stately staircase, and entenul t.hA brilliantly-lighted dining-room, where the family had already assembled. " It is a week ; later Christmas Eve, and Lloyd Preston entered the brilliantly lighted drawing-room. - j " Where is Gertie V he asked. "Gertie?" said Belle. I " Moping, I suppose. She always is." j "Will you please bring me a book youH find on the library-table, LoydJ" asked Irene. - ,.:. j And so entering the jdimly-lighted library, he found a very disconsolate lit tle girl sitting in the comer. " Gertie I" he exclaimed, " why aren't you with the girls f " A half -suppressed sob was her only answer. j "Little one, come to me ; only give me your love, and to-morrow will be a blessed Christmas." ' Ah ! there was no migfcnVi'ng the look in the brown eyes then, and in the dim light a little white hand was slipped into his, and they only knew that they were very happy. j Irene opened the door. I " Can't yoi find " j And then she paused, for she read their secret in the happy faces before her. j . - - "Look, girls, here is a pretty tab leau!" j "Yes," said Lloyd, proudly drawing Gertie's hand within his i arm, " Miss Mayhew has promised to be my wife." Vrell-BCannered Children. " Thank you, - Charley," said Mrs. Brown, as her little son handed her a paper he was requested to bring. " Thank you, Bridget," said the little fellow, a few hours after, as he received a glass of water from his nurse. "WelL Mrs. Brown, you have the best mannered children I ever saw !" said a neighbor. "I should be thankful if mine were a3 polite to me as yours are to the servants. You never spend half as much time on your children's clothes as I do, and yet every one notices them, they are so well-behaved." . . "We always try to treat our children politely," was the quiet reply. This was the whole secret. ' When I hear parents grumbling about the ill manners of their children, X always wish to ask, " Have you always treated them with politeness f" . I once knew a man, considered quite a gentleman in society, who would speak to his children in a manner that a well-instructed dog would resent. He would order them with a growl to bring his slippers, or perform some other little service ; and yet he com plained of the rudeness and disobedience of his children. , ; ' , j . A Boy's Composition on Sticks. . - There are a great many sticks in the world, some big and some ! little. Some are sticky, and some are not. There are large sticks of wood, and that is one kind of sticks ; and there are ; little bits of sticks, and that is another kind of sticks ; some people when they handle money it sticks to their pockets, so that is another kind of stick.' . Sometimes when a boy is doing an example he gets stuck, so that la another kind of stick. Sometimes when a horse is going along in muddy weather he gets stuck. That is all I can think of now, so that, is another stick. Fbabx S v Our Production of Noble Metals. ThA "MTaw Yra-V A raxr itK n,V. some very interesting statistics in regard Thirty million dollars gold (bullion) were months, and $7,500,000 silver. The shipments of silver from iNew York to Philadelphia ' amount to several tons a month. Last year there passed through the laboratory 40 tons of gold, worth S20.000.000. aa a tnn. rvr 9 (Wi nf gold is 32,000 ounces, which at $16 per H1" ounce would oe auout'iouu.uuu per ton of gold. Most silver carries gold, and the nrennniw nf mlA amiMisnT noticed in the silver ores of Utah and Nevada. The Assay OflSoe does not re ceive crude ores of any kind only bul lion, which signifies either coin or bars. Many of the jewelers 'send samples of their goods to the Assay Office in order to test their value. ; A " few days aero a macnufioent eoMni nh&i-iMo : fii. can convent was thrown into the crucible, and old family plate frequently meets the nauto xtmtm. xnuuig tne lass twenty years sold bars to thA smn-n oio Ann ruvt . ' ' 'VMM. VA, VW, WW and silver bars to the amount of $15,000, 000 were manufactured in' the New York Assay vsmoe. Thu Marquis of jHartington, the new leader of. thn F.mrUoi, t ;wi afSSkassjAaaA - fc ACJ A Vm a m " r fj SI have married the Princess Louise, but he preferred not to make a , political eTDher Of himnnlf h V, ut--- ,4 r- stall unmarned. He is the eldest sou of ,ke 01 3oon8hire, and was born m 11233 r, 4 - ' AjkAW,i?..Rt aat proposed for the se curity of life t aU the public bathing resorts. This is especially nef2ful on the Sea Coast. Wham wt raan-r 1-l-ma ar through which , ai and 'water cannot AND GABDEN The Farmer Feedeth All. ' My lord ridea through hie palace gate, . My lady sweeps slou? hi state ; The aage thinks long on many a thr g, Snd the maiden muaea on luairj.nf ; The minstrel hatpctn merrily, The sailor ploughs the fosmtaf seat. The huntsman tuttt the good ti d deer And the soldier warp without e'en f esr : But fall to c ach, whate'er befalt, The farmer he must feed them all. - Smith hammereth cherry rr d the sword, driest pnaeheth pure the Holy Word ; Dame Ahoe worketh "broidery weU, Clerk Richard tales of love can tell; The tap-wife sells her foaming beer ' ' Daa Fleher nsheth in the mere ; And oourtien ruffle, strut snd shine, W hile pages bring the Gascon wine ; . But fall to each, whate'er befail. ' The farmer he must feed them all. Man bonds his essuee fair and high,. -: Whatever river runneth by 5 Great cities rise la every land, ' - Great ehucchee show the builder's hand ; Great arches, monuments, and towers, . Fslr palaces snd pleasing bowers ; Great work fa dene, be it here or there, And well man worketh everywhere : But work or rest, whate'er befalL The farmer he must feed them all. CAorlM O. Leland. TVlnter Feed for Ztegs. v .. r Store hogs can be wintered thriftily on finely cut clover hay, corn fodder, and potatoes, if these articles are steamed or scalded with hot water, aud a little bran or meal sprinkled on. The fodder will be greedily eaten if prepared in this way. A. Novel -Way to Test Seeds. The Indiana Farmer says : "In a por tion of Denmark, where one-fifth of the land is cultivated to clover, the vitality of the seed is tested by placing a quan tity on a knife blade, and heating it over a lighted candle. The good seed will pop open and hop off, while the worth less remains and carbenizes on the blade. Mr. Christopher Bagge, of Oakland, re minds us of this fact in response to an inquiry for practical tests for seeds." Spontaneous Combustion of Hay. We frequently hear of conflagrations caused bythe : spontaneous- combustion of hay. The prevention in such cases is Bimple and cheap. Combustion in hay can arise only from one cause the damp ness thereof. This may arise from the condition of the hay when put into the barn or warehouse insufficiently cured, or by being wet by exposure to rain. : The precaution is a liberal quantity of coarse salt, sprinkled : through the mew, which will invariably prevent the heating which causes combustion. ' The same method will save hay put on board a ship, par tially wet. This experiment was ' tried on board the ship Lancashire in 1847 with perfect success. Traveler. How to Varnish. V . Varnish should always be applied in a warm room, as warm as a person can work in comfortably. At a lewer temperature there is always moisture in the air, an in visible dew, which gives the varnish a milky and cloudy appearance. This will happen even on a fine summer day, and the only preventive is to employ arti ficial heat to produce a temperature of at least seventy-five degrees. At this temperature the moisture is not precipi tated until the alcohol of the varnish has sufficiently evaporated to leave a thin and smooth film of shellac The gloss and durability are entirely dependent upon this. The article to be varnished should be brought into the workshop a few hours before the Work begins, so that it may get warm. The surface is smoothed", washed, and rubbed dry with chamois leather, or a piece of silk, and every trace of dust, moisture and dirt removed with a clean, soft brush, but no oil or grease must be used. The varnish is now lifted lightly with a . flat brush not immersed too : deeply in it, and a thin coating applied. It is well to begin in the center or at the highest part, and approach the edges with long, straight, rapid and even strokes, aud a gentle pressure. Care must be taken at the corners and edges. The film of varnish should be about as thick as a sheet of paper. When finished it should be ex posed to the sun's rays or artificial heat, and carefully protected against draft and dust. Cold air or a draft over the article gives the varnish a dull look. When this happens, the only remedy is to apply a second coating, and hold it near the fire so as to dissolve the previous coat,. but not so near as to buster it. . Spontaneous Combustion in Hay. There are doubtless many farmers who have experienced sudden and destructive conflagrations in their hay-lofts, which could not be ascribed to any exterior agency. . Barns have been known to burst into flame, almost without warning, save perhaps a significant odor, for a few days previously, around the places wnere tne nay was stored, and a summer s harvest is swept away in as many minutes as it had taken days to gather it. These pected conflagrations are generally un ex accredited to tramps who have made the hay-loft their sleeping resort, but it - is now asserted that such calamities are fre quently due to the spontaneous combus tion of the hay, a circumstance theoreti cally quite possible, but rarely consid ered. Abbe Moigno in Lea Mondes, gives tne ioliowmg as tne tneory ox the phe nomenon : Hay, when piled damn and in too large masses, ferments and turns dark. ' In decomposing, sufficient heat is developed to be insupportable when the hand is thrust into the mass, and vapors begin to be emitted. When the water is almost entirely evaporated, the decomposition continues, and the hay becomes carbonized little by little ; and then the charred portion, like peat, peat cinders mixed with charcoal, sulphurous pyrites and licnite. etc.. becomes a kind of pyrophorus, by virtue of its great porosity and ol tne large quantity of matter exposed to high oxidation. Under the influence of air in large amount, this charcoal becomes concentrated on the Surface to such a decree that the mass reaches a temperature which results in its bursting into names. The preventives for this danger are care that the hay in the lofts is "kept perfectly dry. that it is well packed, and that it is stored in email heaps rather than in large THE HOUHEKEEFEK. GltA CTMOTHX31fS OlNn-scnn-RWi-n firm and a half of molasses, cup of rich sour cream, teaspoolful of saleratns, teaspoon-' fril nf mnor mi a liffla nUtt - - v ftATTRAms. Good (tanoAim ran tux mula cup Tninn meal to four pounds sausage' juix omy euoagu u usi iour or nve days at a time, as it might sour. - , , . , Oebman Toast. To one era. rjn&tnn well, add one cup of sweet milk or cream, naon with a little Hfi.lt anrl nenrier f!nt in slices and fry in butter on a griddle. This is a nice dish for breakfast. Bkdbtg Dbstbotkb. Although these pests do not annoy one in winter, still it is well to look after them. Boil in one gallon of water one-half pound of alum. Wash the . bedsteads with the mixture while hot, twice or three times during the season, and yon will exterminate them, -. - -i ; , - - Baked Indxaw PuDPore . ' Four eggs ; one auart of sweet milk: fly larsa tea- spoonfuls of Indian meal ; nntnieg'and sugar to tne taste, xfcm ta vans, and ' cald the XndiATi nuuil 'in u . tw. i, x cool before adding the eggs. Bake three- Huw.ub j. mi uuur. juii wita Dutter or sweet sauce. ' - ; , f t - - Bum's Nest Puddo. Pare and core six rich, tart apples. Set them in spud ding dish, filling the cavity of each with blanched raisins, two blanched almonds a Kjoapuumui oi sugar, xnen pour over it tapioca, prepared by soaking for three hours one cup in two cups of boil- ".f, auu two cups stewea apple, sweetened. Bake until the apples are tender and serve cold. Science of New York Fashions. . SFBTNO HATS. The new hnfci una i,nn - - MM Q HI 11.11 mij that have been worn for many years, and chip is the fashionable material of which thev sta Mnmnooo Tl nl hats now in vogue give some sugges- taraia nf tlui nr4Vm rt l i. xi. , i 1(5 Diiajn, uut uie now Chlt hats am afill lonn than tiA J iLftw mii.1 1 wimw, n&u as soft as any slouch hats, have high AFnima en1 mmri J a ; ; i F 1 1 aiawsA tU4 OiM) they are like gentlemen's hats, very slightly modified. -; Importers churn for these mimmnth . Viain that. t, AM - --l.i. MAO only becoming, but sensible ; as they cover and protect the head. The latter assertion is true, and as they will soon be considered stylish, the former is a matter For vnnncr . trivia on1 mim, o.. hatS are Shown in SJl im-nnvtrarl Ofilro- shape, known as the Leopold. The crown is round, instead of being square and flat, an ii. voa lruaf. voa, an wide brim is turned upward all around. 1 1 i -. i i ' i j" wgo .m uuoiHi wiui Diaca, Drown Or blnA fm-MEL-OPrain n'KVmn . 1. . Lnx O O1'111 ..wwu, U1D AJXtil- band and ribbon to match have bars and triangles of gilt or silyer White straw Leopolds are prettily trimmed with navy blue ribbon that is almost V1 11 rAr .1 A 3 ' A 1 i . wm&, ujiu w iittmrifibcti witn stamped bars of gilt. SPRING COLORS FOR TRIMMING. The list of colors for the ribbons, damasks, figured crapes and other new materials for trimming bonnets is as follows : Soft pink,, sky , blue, silver gray, cerise, ponceau, nut brown, lilac (with both pink and blue tinges), drab (of dark, light and medium shades), paille, or straw color, navy blue (which is now black-blue), and lastly, beige, Manilla and cream colors, which are natural unbleached buff shades, with more brown in them than in the ecru tints so long in fashion. NEW MATrTRTATaS FOR TBMMINO. , The novel trimming for these new large hats will be wide scarf ribbons of soft damask serge of a single color, with damask figures, arabesques and vines of the same color and similar shade. These are as broad as Bash ribbons and as pliable as the plain twilled India silks used for neckties ; the brocaded damask designs upon them make them very rich, looking. They are shown in sky blue, rose pink, beige and other spring shades. FRENCH FIiOWEBS. The French flowers for trimming hats are mounted as large wreaths with trail ing sprays behind, or else in one single compact cluster. Of the wreaths many are altering pink and tea roses to go round about the hat, while pendant be hind is tied a bunch of dark red Agrip pina roses, to show their long stems of small scarlet poppies with dark green ivy leaves, or else of wild sweetbrier with green arbor vitas ; lemon-tinted roses form the center of wreaths of glossy green smilsT ; or else there are large white roses with every petal separately curled. The clusters are pale rose gera- : '.i. . , , . mmiin wiui iern leaves, Baunon enrysau themums, and lilacs with pink shading ; or else large loose-petaled pink' rose with spring violets the single blossom that grow in shady dells ; or else lilies-of-the-valley with rose and hawthorn berries. NKW OOrFFCTRES. . The silver and gilt trimmings in vogue- ior. ruu-Gress toilettes in Jfaris appear first here in coiffures. . For instance, there are wreaths of gilt wheat, with tiny straws in them, and a tea-rose in the center with dark brown foliage and un blown buds. Those of the new silver goods are wreaths of silver wheat with pale blue forget-me-nots mixed in, with a white rose in the middle. SPRING PLAID BUTTINGS. The first importations of dress goods for the coming demi-season are what dealers technically call " suitings," but are designed for only parts of suits. They are single width twilled all-wool goods, in broken plaids or in blocks, and are also called eamel's hair as it is now the caprice to call all twilled stuffs. These plaid wools are in nut brown Bhades or in gray tints, and sometimes bars of blue, of cerise, or of violet are introduced. ' ; ' ' shirring. ' Shirring has by no means had its day, ' and, it is said, will be used conspicu ously for sleeves of the spring suits just described. . , SPRING FOULARD CAMBRICS. The plaids and blocks just mentioned for woolen goods are also represented in the soft-finished foulard cambrics im ported for spring. Dark -blue and nut brown are considered the most stylish among these, but far more spring-like are the blocks of mottled gray barred with rose, blue, cherry, green, or violet. Harper a Bazar. ' The Signal Service. The United States Signal Service, at tached to the War Department, continues to increase in interest and usefulness. The publications now issued directly by the signal office (apart from the synopsis and probabilities given daily . by the press, " at three different hours, and the War Department weather maps) are as follows: Postofflos Bulletins, dally ...........13,490 River Report. 148 Monthly Weather Report............,;. ...... 2,100 Weekly Weather Chronicle SIS Cantoinary algnala displayed... ............ ... 40 The number of stations from which re ports are new received aggregate 831. : , , Frozen Mercury. Mr Fogg, of the Michtand County Republican, says, that the mercury in Richland county -thermometers went dowu to 43, and froze on Sunday morn ing, last. , Nothing like it baa been known for years, ; We have just received the following : Bxjunt Easts, 'WIb.," Feb. , 1875. For three mornings, the thermometers have in dicated 40 degrees and below. Mercury oon peaJed. 5 No euah reoord prsviooa by tit oldest inhabitant." , Mr. McLay, living on the north side of Lake Mendota, informs us that his thermometer stood at 42 this morning.- Madison (Wis.) Journal. t Thb tyrant man has treated contempt uously the 'woman suffrage proposition in Michigan, and Susan swears that if any voter ever lets her sit in his lap gain, shell punch , him, so help her gracious, " ' ., 'V-. 7 ' A lmjTART academy has just beea es tabiished to Japan- - with an ex-TJsited States ofSoar at it head- '-'" - ; Persons and Tbinsn. . , f Ohio conrts cranted 1.13 drraroea laefs year. ;, ' Mrs. Ltdia Bbadijet is a bank direct or at Peoria. . iiSr. Loots has $3,000,000 planted is Utah mines. ..." Cincinnati t has raised $100,000 for a club-house. Cleveland handled 170,000,000 feet of lumber last year. - Xxnia, Ohio, has a postmistress with a salary of $2,900. . .. i ' Senatob-kuktt Chbistiavct's ' father used to peddle salve. - O? eiffhtv-nichi: mnntiaa Vl.: Anl . - V O -ww, AM VI W, VUIT eight are without a railroad. , rw couKii UJHD WO meanest team ever hitched together. Flora Tevpt-i!. eh. is still alive, and in a stable on Long Island. Thb Fa.irba.nVa StmlA nM..n i Oi Johnsbury, Vt, had orders, for 4,734 scales in January. - If ConcTent hiuln'i luun r,A tr:n: Sherman Fiteh wnnM T o ,a 75,000 to get her diamonds. . " Fat," ef the Courier-Journal, pro- Mouse the happiest in the world. StTTBrvmrTa v in ww wi w - - - maiTiea. to Jnlia. Llrtolrimvawa-:n:K.i.. . " mwn ii un Willi! js-i 1 1 iffm la, at South Bend, Ind., last Sunday. .. Thb new Wi(irn tt.,,". m.t. - building at New York, opened Monday, contains 100 tons of electric batteries. CloSB on the heeln nt TVo'J ,1 T.riA Tkinllawla wav. m 2-1 " . w "P" m now , WDBOOO factory m Jersey City, employing 2,000 hands. 90 m March; has hauled saw-logs twelve miles every day since Dec. 1 ; uses to bacco. The present indebtedness of the eitv of Paris is over $360,000,000, yet it w not satisfied ; it wants to borrow $40,000 more. . .. -. , . , . Satd a Dubuaue Alderman : " WW the eaprles are. there will the rm.rirn Ivn gathered together," and he offered to back the assertion with a two-pound ink- Btand. " Oh f for those tmnci riam " sighs an Indiana editor, "when this office received ennno-h "Pnfonf iVfHna i-ono n keep every stove red hot from November . ir i. " Only eleven cents for fh WHum i" exclaimed a- Geonria colored minister - cive it back. brnrMAi .Tatuh ?i Lord nebber heard of dis miA-hnnw mn- gregation!" , It is rumored that Alf . Tennvsbn has telegraphed Ben Butler that if "he ever dares quote him again, either in pubho or private, hell introduce him as one of the leading characters in the next " Idyl of the King." St. JLoui Globe. f . Thtrtken million dollars is paid annu- ft.11 v tn thn rtrsifmiuifaN an1 lo.V. J X - -" A.VJA vt . beloved country ; and if we could receive our nrst love-letter again we shouldn t hesitate to remark that their services were worth twice the money. Rochester Democrat. Kalakatja said:"! think American women are handsome, bold and forward. Why, I actually received several letters from ladies in New York, Washington and Boston, plainly proposing marriage. I am a bachelor ; but when I want to mar ry a woman I will ask her. I do not like to have women propose. It is, in my opin ion, wrong." , ,. When Jesse James-sits down to dinner he lays his Henry rifle across his lap, puts a navy, revolver on each side of his plate, buttons up hia coat, distributes four other revolvers conveniently about his person, and then "pitches in," to the unqualified delight of , the other guests at table. This is only on full dress occasions, however. Thers is to be a great international chess match between English and French players. The last was thirty years ago, and lasted two years, when the English were beaten. They have now challenged the French to another trial of strength. Three days will be allowed for each move. The stakes to be. played for will be carried on by telegraph. ; ..-' Three Saginaw girls having met to- of their lovers, but the first one had not got iar aiong m ner petition wnen it was discovered that thev were all nnmiw tA the same man. The religious exercises were at once terminated and an indigna tion meeting organized, the result of which was that tHa mw iiiwT.aw Au Iiged to leave town. How Some Folks Walk. ' Unstable persons, like Theodore Til ton, George JP. Train; Mrs. Woodhnll, and Gov. Beveridge of Illinois, walk slow and fast by turns. Careless persons, like Lincoln, Gree ley, Zack Chandler and Susan A., are continually stubbing their toes or step ping on somebody's dress. Ke tiring persons, like A. T. Stewart and Charles O'Conor, walk swiftly and slip through a crowd unobserved, like eels through a fiah-rack. i. Good-natured persons, like Schuyler Colfax, Matt. Carpenter, G. O. Seilhamer and Frank Carpenter, put an envelope or knife in the palm of their left hand, or snap their fingers every few steps. Fun-loving persons, like Sam Cox, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Olive Lo gan and Oliver Wendell Holmes, tilt up and down when they walk, like a teter snipe on a - salt-meadow holloaing "obeep." v" Strong-minded people, like Anna Dick- inson. Gen. Belknap, C. A. Danna, Maj. Bandv and Secretary f Bristow," toe straight ahead, shut their mouths and plant their whole foot down on the floor at once. Managingpersons, like Thnrlow Weed, Gov. Fenton, CoL Young and Andrew Green, generally walk with one hand clutched hold of an envelope or stuffed into the pocket, while' their heads lean, forward; indicating 'subjective ; thought, v Careful persons, like Peter Cooper, Gen.- Dix, Georga ;Bipley,; James B. Young, Fernando Wood and Augustas Scheil, lift their ' feet high and bring them down slowly, often touching some thing with their canes, or kicking a siona or stick, to one side of the way. : - . ' Observing persons, like Wendell Phillips, Whitohtw Beid, Henry Ward Beecher and Josh Billings, walk slowly, while their eyes look down on the ground and on each side, and the body frequent ly turns clear round, as if the mind wer reflecting on aomethincr passed. JYank Zeelie'a Weekly. Two JlPANffins PffnilamfLn been OTamiiung the Pennsylvania c l re gions under a oommiasion from Hit ' -y-ernmentj hav'"svttchaaed -'for Lir.aen4 ' to- Japan," two b1s and unM;? -v aeoessary trilr.3 tools fiztares for earth-bon. . - ,