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TheFIrst Robin.
Hark ! Is it spring ?
waked, and heard a robin sing:
Only a nhower of silvery notes, that dropped
la tremulous outpouring and then stopped:
While from a window nigh
I f aw tfco little singer flitting by, .
As scorning to retreat ;
Although the sullen winds, moaned and
heat.
Had frozen the tears of April, a they fell to
tdcel.
With steadfast claim.
This messenger of gladness came
To welcome in with joy the tardy spr jig;
And, from the winter's cold farewell, to bring
One measure of delight;
Forteiling miracles of sound and sight;
Of south winds blowing strong,
When the white apple blossoms drift along.
And for this one faint lay, the whole world,
steeped in song.
Oh! Robin, you
In your belief, are strong and true;
By storms undaunted, with your
notes of
cheer,
You sing, and we grow blither as we hear;
Till echoing y ax content.
With larger faith, we li? i our heads low bent.
And by past sorrows know '
What may have seemed life's desolating snow,
Only prepares the soul lor summer flowers to
RTOW.
Boston Transcript
FARM AND HOME.
, Wooil Aahes as a Fertillwrw -
Ashes, says the Kural New Yorker,
contain essential components of all
crops. They should not be mixed with
compost (there is no gain in so mixing
them), but applied broadcast directly
over the soil, whether it is grass or ara
ble land. We never knew a farmer who
could get more ashea than it was profita
ble to apply to his land; 100 bushels
per acre is not too much to apply to old
cultivated lands. Especially are ashes
' excellent - for orcharda They should
not be heaped right about the
bodies of the trees, but spread over
the roots, which extend as far from
the bodies of the treep as the branches
do. Ashes are especially valuable as
top dressing oa old grass lands, or on
lands cropped with grain. For ,root
crops they are equally important; in
deed, as we say above, there is no crop
grown and no land cultivated that is not
benefited in a greater or less degree by
the. application of leached or unleaehed
ashes, the latter being the more valua
ble. Preventing the Decay of Bbtnglea.
Take a larre kettle or tub that full
hold about a barrel, and fill it half the
of wood ashes or potash lye; add to the
liquid about three pounds of alum and
as much salt as will dissolve in the
mixture. Make the liquor quite warm.
and put as many shingles in it as can be
conveniently wetted at once. Stir them
up thoroughly, and when well soaked
taue them out and put in more " renew
ing the liquor as necessary. Then lav
the shingles, when 'dry, in the usual
.nanner. After they are laid, take the
liquor that is left, put lime enough into
it to make whitewash, and if any color
ing is desirable, add ocher, Spanish
brown, lampblack, etc, and srppl' to
tne rooi witn a brush or old broom.
This wash may be removed from time to
time. Bait arid lye are excellent preser
vations of wood. It is well known that
leach tubs, troughs, and other articles
used in the manufacture of potash never
rot. xney become saturated with alkali,
turn yellowish- inside, and remain i m
pervious to the weather.
' 'k Practical Kaagmtions. - '
Thbbb are said to be upward of a
hundred private mansions near New
York city which employ wind-mill pow
er for pumping water, 1 sawing wood,
grinding, threshing grain, etc. The
American Manufacturer states that in
many instances they are superseding
steam engines, water-wheels, hydraulic
rams, 7 horse-power, and caloric-en
gines, being run without cost, except
for lubricating oil. ; These mills are not
only noiseless, as now constructed, but
.they are also self -regulating.
Sow Hungarian grass from April 1 to
July, any time ; sow broadcast, and not
less than three-quarters of a bushel for
seed, or a bushel and a half to two bush'
els for hay, per acre. Hungarian and
millet are cultivated alike, but the for
mer is better for hay. It resists drought
with great pertinacity, and does well on
dry, light sou. When, sown thickly it
does not head oat readily, 'and makes a
fine, nutritious hay. The prejudice
that exists i' in some minds against the
grass is not well founded. - When sown
thinly and ripened, it produces a large
-quantity of .seed, and tmsiea .so norses.
without judgment, has produced unfa
vorable results.' If Cut before the beads
mature any trouble from this source is
avoided.
C arias Bapa.
An improvement in the method of
curing hops has lately been introduced
in .England bT Mr. J. si. iiopKins,
hop-grower near Worcester, ; which is
said' to be of great .advantage' to the
grower, especially in seasons .like the
present, when prices are so high from
the light crop." The following is a de
scription of this process:
The hops being gathered, are brought
to the kiln to be cured. Xhere are
three drying floors of rafters, covered
with horse hair, so that the heat and
air can pass from below through each of
them and out at the sop, - where an ex
haust fan is kept in motion by steam
supplied from a boiler in the basement
floor of the kiln. The hops are .first put
into the top floor, where they remain
bout four , hours, until the "reek" is
. off them, when' they are dropped
(without handling) to the second, and
finally to the lower floor, which is mov
abl9. fceinsr. in fact, composed of -two
large trays, which slide id" nd out of
tha building. The temfraturs of the
kiln never exceeds 90 degrees; the Jan
gives the advantage of drying the nopa
at a lower temperature than by the com
mon process. Thus the aroma and wla
tils oil which would be driven away at
a higher temperature are saved. Th
fan system has been tried with success
in the drying of malt without tletenor
ating its Quality. Under the usual syt
tern, the drying process in a malt house
occupies three or four days; by the fan
.system it has been done in twenty -eight
hours.
Aeawiaaimad Flawer fUaaaV .
First, cover the bottom of the tank
to the depth of one-half inch with pure
fine sand, on the top of , which put an
equal quantity ol fine gravel; over tnia
grave opnn&ie small ornamental stones,
shells, coral, etc Everything put into
the tank must be thoroughly washed,
.Next put- into position an ornamental
central piece of coral, stone, or any
thing OUt Of Which Von nan Mmcfrnxt nn
arch through which the fish can readily
wfrn. leow fill the tank one-third foil
wisa pure eoia water from the lake,
rivr or vL
ihabeat aquatic plant for aaating
the yn&sg in tie aquarium is Anavfearia
Caa&Jru-ls, found growing nadsr watar
on the bottom of nearly all sluggish
streams and ponds. The Yalisnena
Spiralis (ell-grass) is the next best,
after which comes the Myriaphyllum
Verticellatum... There is a species of
Conferva found in rapid streams, at
tached to stones, that is an excellent
wrator, -valuable especially during the
winter when other plants do not flour
ish. If you get the Anarchis, remove
all decayed stems and leaves, wash
clean, and arrange in packets of ten to
fifteen. Make a hole in the sand, in
sert the butt end of the plants and se
cure in this position "by pressing small
stones about them. Insert in this way
about six to eight bunches, and lie care
ful to make them secure at the bottom.
Koots are not necessary, as the cuttings
will soon send out fine, white rootlets.
Now you are ready to fill up the tank
with water to within one and a half
inches of the top. Wait two or three
days before introducing the fish, that
the plants may have time to commence
growing. .
Almost , any small species of fish
thrive in the acquariuta, but we think
the best f 6r the purpose are the red
bellied minnows and sticklebacks, all
found in small streams. Select small
fish; from four to eight for a tank. hold-'
ing from eight to twelve gallons. Such
a tank will support four smalt ones bet
ter than one larger. Introdue also ten
or twelve water snails. The ,ymnce
are the best; yet the flanorbi and the
Physa are interesting. Better, how
ever, get a few of every kind you can
find in the ponds and stagnant pools in
your vicinity. They feed on the softest
parts of acquatic plants, and do not ex
haust the oxygen mixed with the water,
for they are air-breathing, and have to
come to tbe surface to 'take in a supply
of air to be used while they go about
cleansing the plants and glass of the
tank with their cuiiously constructed
jaws.
The ' best food for the fish is angle
worms and flies in summer, and fine bits
of fresh raw meat in winter. Never give
the fish more than they can eat at any
one time, for whatever is left will injure
the water.
The best place for the aquarium is
where it will be exposed to the sun at
least one hour each day, in order that
the plants may exhale oxygen, which
can only take place under the stimulus
of light. Too much light, however, is
to be avoided, as the fish do not thrive
when exposed to the sun, and the glass
will be soiled by conferee, a green
vegetable matter. In summer an out
door position is best, if there be suffi
cient shade. It is well to cover the
aquarium, both for the shade and to
keep the hsh from leaping out of the
tank.
If well balanced with plants, fish, and
shells, the water will remain sweet for
ah indefinite time. We have an aqua
rium that has been in service for the
last twelve years, and which does not
require a change of water of tener than
once or twice a year, and then only to
renew the sand, which becomes Llled
with excrementitious matter.
A well-ragulated aquarium is a beau
tiful ornament for the home, and one
which is a perpetual source of amuse
ment and instruction. It has the pecu
liar advantage of making us acquainted
with forms and habits . of animated
existence' which are dommonly hid. from
our Inspection. Thus, its influence upon
the iamiiy circle is wholesome and ele
vating, tending constantly to awaken in
all the members, both young and old.
an increased love for the contemplation
oi the wondrous acui and wisdom oi the
Great Creator. -
If lizards, frogs or other amphibious
animals are introduced, they shou.d be
provided with some surface, above the
water to climb . upon. . The rocks may
be built above the water, or a piece of
flat oork mav be allowed to float upon
it., where the animal wilL climb .and
produce no small amount of amusement
and instruction.
Gold fish may be kept ten or twelve
years (the average period of their exis
tence), by using the following precau
tions:
1. . Allow not more than one fish to
two quarts of water. I : j
2. Use the same kind of water.
whether well or river; change it eve:
every
each
other day in summer and twice
week in winter.
3. Keep clean sand and pebbles at
the bottom, washing it occasionally or
replacing with a fredh supply. i
4. Use a small, net rather ' than the
hand while changing the water.
5. Feed with cracker, yolk of egg.
lettuoe or flies, one each week, except
in cold weatner. .treed but little at
time. .Remove any crumbs that may
remain on the surface after feeding.
6. Do not feed at ail from November
till the end of February, and but little
during the following three months.
7. If there are growing plants in the
acquarium, water need be changed but
rareiy. r r - ; --:
b. Heep irom sun, and in the coolest
part of the room,
Aaiall Frntte an the Fan
To advise a farmer to grow small
fruits for market, and at the same time
carry on his farming operations, is
something we will not do. But there
are hundreds and thousands of farmers
who have a natural taste for fruit grow
in or. and to whom fanning has become a
drudgery, especially cnat ciass wno
are not strong, to whom a change is
desirable and necessary, f ToHhese we'
. j Ua Mttlivinflr aif hin f Iima
WUU1U "'Jf JYTlr "v
or lour mH0 ox , a goou name - maris.es,
and cities not far away Dy ran or swam
hoat. a nhance to fruit growing will be
both profitable and pleasant. The first
thing to do, is to rent out most of your
land, or let it out on shares, reserving
your home, and say ten or twenty acred
of land to 'your fruit growing opera
tinn. and if voa have a love for the
business," and, go about it systematically
and energetically, you ui uw&o
money from ten acres ox land uian you
nave ever made irom jom ni a
that too. with lees real nard worx.
Rant only of leading: well-tried sorts
that are hardy and productive, give
them good cultivation, and plenty of
mulch, and won will reap a large re
ward, and.too. this kind of work makes
less hard the women folks, and besides,.
i; , lit ' il -J.ilw
auppues ine tauie wuu uu . uwj
throughout the years. There are farm
era who have no liking for growing
fruit; but as a rule, these have sons or a
son who have, and who do not like
farming. These are very anxious to
keed their sons on a farm, away from
tne city, to such we say, let sucn
have the use of; a few ; acres to grow
small mute: and the lon&rer he is en
gaged in it the more he will like it, and
consequently his. attachment for home
is strengthened, and, too, by this the
craue is soppued witn luxuries you
would 'not dispense with after one sea
son's experience.- There are so many
inland towns and cities not supplied witn
.fruit and vegetables, that we advise tha
readers of this paper to take advantage
oi sucn openings. emau irutt Re
corder.
ataaeal as Vi, '
The value of oatmeal as an article of
f raft it gives, ia tha following msmljujt
made of it, as compared with wheat, ti e
usual food of man :
A sample of potato oats from North
umberland, England, gave in 100 "parts,
of starch, 65.60; sugar, 0.30; gum, 2.28;
oil, 7.38; avenin, albumen, gluten (ni
trogenous compounds), 29.91; epider
mis, or skin, 2.28; alkaline baits and
loss, 1.75. Again, the proportion of ni
trogenous and proterine,, flesh-forming
compounds, in oats has been determined
to be, nitrogen,' 2.82; proteine. com
pounds, 17.71 In wheat the analysis
vjiCKory, buows asiOllOWR:
Albumen, 3.0; gluten, 9.9; starch, 55.7;
gum, dextrine, pectine, and sugar, 4.6;
fiber and husk, 11.9; leaving 17.60 for
water and loss. .Thus it will be seen
that oats are richer than wheat in starch
and the nitrogenous compounds, the
first being fat-forming and the latter
flesh-forming constituents. Again, anal
ysis made by Liebig and Hassel shows
that barley contains 14, corn 12 J, and
oats 20 per cent, of the nutritive
elements of life and . of the
muscles. It is probably safe to say
that if our farmers - used more oat
meal in their food there would be an in
crease of health, strength, and mental
vigor. As a food it sits lightly on the
stomach, is exceedingly digestible, sel
dom sours on the stomuch, and. is,
therefore, one of the most excellent ar
ticles of food that can be given to .grow
ing children. Eaten as porridge with
milk, it forms a substantial and highly
nutritious diet, both for old and young.
To persons who do brain work it is ee
pecially valuable, and in our cities those
restaurants who serve oatmeal porridge
are sure to be found out and patronized
by that class of citizens who take
their lunch : down town. One of the
reasons why oats have uot been more
generally manufactured into meal in
the United States is that our dry cli
mate is not adapted to forming large,
plum grains.. Nevertheless the New
England States, Central and , Northern
Michigan and . Wisconsin produce ex
cellent oats for mealing, though not so
good as Canadian samples. Oats grown
in far northern localities are much the
finest, and this explains why the Scotch
oatmeal ranks so high, even ahead of
Irish oatmeal. .
Watering flowers in Pots.
Many who , have the care of window
plants seem to think that the operation
of watering is one of the simplest items
incident to their care, and will hardly
thank us for advice on this point, and
yet we may safely hazard the assertion
that more plants are injured and more
fail to reach their greatest perfection
from an improper mode of watering
than from all other cases combined.
To water the various varieties, that
their different wants shall all be sup
plied ah no more, is an art acquired by
but few, and the credit which -some re
ceive for fine collections is often due to
the proper observance of this one item.
It should be kept in mind that the
duty of the water is to dissolve and con
vey to the roots of the plants the .food
which they needj some plants must have
a season of comparative rest, and if such
are watered liberally during this time
tLey will keep on growing, and the nec
essary rest is not obtained. . When any
of my lady friends tell me' that they
succeed very well 'With' certain classes
of plants, such as the f uschia, call a, lo
belias, and ivies, and fail with others,. 1
at once set them down as being profuse
waterers. who by too much water injure
or destroy such plants as will not bear
it. On the other hand, there are those
who fail with this class of plants and
succeed well with others, because their
mode - of watering does not supply
enough for the wants of one class, but
is about the proper amount for another.
Many plants are permanently injured
by water remaining in the saucer; others
often suffer from a bad selection of the
soil.
Some of our amateur florists fail
with a certain class of plants, of which
the begonia may be taken as a type,
because they shower the leaves with
cold water, but for this very reason are
eminently successful with another
class, of which the eaniellia will serve
as a type. 4 ' ,
As a general rule, from which there
are few variations, the texture of the
leaf may be taken as an index of their
power to resist the application of water.
Plants having porous, open, or fleshy
leaves covered with soft down, should
be seldom, if ever, moistened, while
those haying glossy or hard leaves will
do all the better if washed frequently.
Our ivies, iioyas, and ooboBas seem
to laugh at us after a good dashincr.
but the begonias, coleue, and plants of
the same class, do not appear to appre
ciate it. .
Batter Slakina.
A party who has taken'a prize several
times for making the best butter in his
county, gives the following as his
method: I keep sixteen oows ahV
milking ten this winter, six new milch.
I make sixty-three pounds of butter a
week. The cows are a mixture of .native
with Jersey, but I should prefer that
they be half of each, for the reason
that the milk is just as good, mere in
quantity, and the cows more hardy than
11 i . r .1 a;
aunergej, course we uauve cows
should be the very best. Hay is given
three times a day and one quart each
of cob meal 'and shorts a day; I add
to this meal two quarts of sweet skim
milk. The cows are supplied with all
the salt they will eat .Water is given
twice a day, immediately after eating
nay. nea tno oows twice a oav thor
oughly witn fine shavings and sawdust,
to iteep them dry and clean, Xn win
ter card them regularly . once a day. I
treat my oows with great kindness,, be
ing very gentle with them, as
such treatment has a great deal to
do with .a generous : flow of i milk.
jsuring tne mux ing season my son
favors them with the best whistling; not
because he ever heard that oows are par
tial to such mnaie, though ' he thinks
'our oows' relish it much, and expect it
morning and night. Doubtless it has a
soothing effect upon them. My pastures
are newly cleared, one hilly and rocky,
with a western slope, and urettv emndt
the other older and more level, but pro
ductive. I have about twenty acres of
mowing land, and cut from twenty five
to thirty tons of nice English hay. ; My
farm is on a hill, soil deep, strong, and
productive: first crop cut early. I cut
several tons of second crop clover in
August. We scald eur milk, or heat it
wice a day, from the middle of October
to June 1, in a tin pail over a kettle of
boiling wate. The pail will nold what
I put into four pans, about four quarts
to a pan. Milk stands thirty-six hours,
then skim. - In winter, keep it in a room
warmed by a soapstone stove, , so that
tbe temperature is about the same, day
and night from 50 to 65 degrees. The
milk it sat on two racks, made in this
An ntnrierht square .post, eight feet
inches square, pivot in each
end, slats across, seven inches, will set
thirty-two pans oxt each; skun twiom a
day. ' KQU DUUU wu w iuuuo m wwa.
rJl.m a IrATtt in as cool a place as nos-
rihlt without freezing. When ready to
churn it is warmed by pouring sweet
11k a 4$aA m.u n frit aTimmiAa
the temperature of 62 degrees. The
butter is washed in three waters, having
the chill taken off, then weighed, allow
ing one-half ounce of salt to the pound.
In winter we lump the butter the same
day it is churned. We work it over the
same day it is churned. - We work it
over with a butter worker, weigh it into
one-pound n-asses, lump it square with
butter spatters, then stamp an 1 send to
market. '
.- - Flax Culture.
A correspondent of a Kansas paper
says: Our experience and knowledge of
flax raising only goes as far as going
through the process of raising it for the
fiber, and not for the seed, yet we shall
venture the following suggestions: The
ground ; should be plowed medium
depth, say six or seven inches, and
thoroughly pulverized before the seed
is sown, and as good a plan ,for pulver
izing ground is to follow close up to the
plow with a drag, that is, not let the
ground lay more than a day after it is
plowed, before you drag it with a heavy
scantling or straight pole, or (which is
ueircrj two poies ten feet long fastened
together, the one dragging two or
three' feet behind the other, and as
heavy as two ; horses can conveniently
draw. This leaves the surface smooth
and level, which will enable you to sow
the seed broadcast evenly over the
ground and cover it a uniform depth
two very important point to be ob
served in sowing flax, as it then comes
up, grows and ripens uniformly; where
as, if it is sown on uneven, cloddy
ground, some of the seeds will be
covered so deeply that they will not
come up for a : week or two (if ever)
after the seed nearest the .surface; con
sequently will only be in. bloom when
that which came up first will be ready
to cut. ' ..'-,..!:..
It should be sown as early as the
ground becomes sufficiently warm, and
there is no prospect for auy more freez
ing. The latter part' of March is late
enough if the weather is warm and
open; many sow it much, later here, but
early crops are almost always the best,
hence flax seed sown early, if not blight
ed by frost afterward, will yield a better
crop than that sown late. ' It ehould be
brushed or harrowed very lightly, and
there should be about three- pecks of
seed sown to the acre.
Our farmers hero who first went into"
raising it only sowed one-half bushel to
the acre, but this was found to- be too
little. We believe the same mistake in
sowing all kinds of small grain has been
practiced by our farmers; we scarcely
ever see a field of wheat harvested but
that a third more yield could have been
secured on the same ground, if sufficient
seed had been sown. ,If the ground is
perfectly smooth, sow a little. less than
three pecks of flax seed, and you will
not miss it. ' - v i
. -Almost all the ground in .this art of
the state is rich enough for flax, but it
will nor de to sow flax on the same
ground two years in ' succession, as it
will yield but little, if any, seed the
second year; but after a rotation of
other crops for a few years, you may
raise as good a crop of flax on, the same
ground as ever.
" The yield to the acre averages about
from ten to twelve bushels, yet last year
several fields here yielded sixteen to
seventeen bushels. A correspondent in
the Lawrence Standard says: The straw
is worth from 5 to $8 a ton for feed;
regards it fully equal to clover hay for
cattle, and the yield of strax ia from
one to two and a half tons per acre.' . It
should be cut when two-thirds of the
belers are blown, and if cut with a
reaper the bunches should lie from five
to seven days, or-until thoroughly cured, i
when it should be stacked or threshed.
Thresh right from the field, as it is very
easy to shatter out, and every time you
handle U you lose some seed.
The expense of harvesting a crop of
flax is not so great as that of wheat1 or
oats, and it does not have to be bound
or shocked. It is also free from the
pesky' chinch bug. It also leaves the
ground in good condition for wheat, a3
it clears the ground of nearly all the in
sects that are injurious to this crop.
A correspondent of the Kansas arm-
er thinks that there could, be more
made raising flax for the fiber than there
is for the seetL ' - -
If the seed is sown early in the spring
fas soon as there is no dancer to be ex
pected from frost), and gets a growth of
a few inches before dry weather sets in.
a good crop' may be looked for. And
when the fiber goes through the process
necessary to separate it from the straw
and is properly scutched, it should pro
duce from 400 to 600' pounds per acre,
or even more. And this, in the Irish
market, would be worth from $10 to
$20 per hundred, according to. quality.
Choice Keripea. .
Bice Pudding Without ' Egos. Put
into a well-buttered dish half a pound
of best Carolina rice, simply washed:
poor on it three pints -of cold milk;
sweeten and flavor to taste; put a little
Duuer and nutmeg on the top to brown
bake two and one half hours in a alow
oven, on which much of the success of
the pudding depends.
India h Puddino. Four tablespoon'
f tils of Indian meal, 1 quart of milk. 1
cup of molasses; salt. Boil 1 pint of
the milk; sift the meal into' it gradually;
take from the fire, and add the molosses
and salt: stir, add the remain in sr pint of
milk (cold), and do not stir the mixture
after it it is put in. Bake in a deep
dish, with a slow oven, for two hours
and a half, '
Anitoiro Cake. -One pound of sugar,
quarter pound butter, six eggs, half
pound of blanched almonds, half table-
spoonxui oi rose water, half pound Hour,
lieat tne white and yolks of .eggs sep
arately. To blanch the almonds, drop
uiem xor a moment m boiling water,
men remove the skin with napkin.
Put the nuts in mortar, add the rose
water, and pound until the almonds are
very fine. Bub the sugar and butter to
a cream. ' Add the eggs, almonds, and
nsaaoaala Iliata.
:; A Bsnua costs the giver nothing; yet
it is beyond price to the erring and re
penting, the sad and cheerless, the lost
ana - lorsaicen. it ; disarms malice,
subdues temper, turns enmity to love,
and revenge to kindness. .
: To REMOVE old raunt.. mr with
wash of, three parte quick limestone,
slacked in water, to which one part
pear lush is added. Allow the coating
to remain for sixteen hours, when the
paint may be scraped off. - - . -
Bat rum is a useful, agreeable and in
expensive application to the scalp Ev
erybody should use it, so' we will giye
a formula for making it as good as can
be purchased any where, and at a small
cost: - ... , ,
Coldsliw. Yolks of two eggs; a
tablespoonful of cream; a small tea
spoonful of mustard; a little salt; two.
tablespoonf uls of vinegar. If cream is
not used, put in a small lump of butter
rubbed in a little flour. Cut ' the cab
bage very fine; heat the fmixture and
pour it on hot. -.,-
Whttk Gaxb. Gas-half cut of butter;
two cups of sugar; o&a cup of sweet
milk; three cups of flour; the whites of
four eggs; one teaspoonful cream of tar
tar; one-half teaspoonful soda. Twice
this quantity for a large loaf.
Molasses Cookies. One cup of mo
lasses; one-halt cup of sugar ; one cup
of lard; one cup of water; one tea
spoonful of ginger; one teaspoonful of
soda, heaped on as long as any will
stay on the spoon. Mix rather soft, and
bake lightly.
Corn Bread. Four cups of sweet
milk; two, cupa of sour milk; one-half
cup of molasses; one-half cup of sugar;
five cups of coru meal; one teaspoonful
of soda. Bake two hours. '
A Curious Anecdote. '
The following curious anecdote is re
lated by M. Aureheu Scholi in. the
Evenement: "Some young men were
conversing in a private room of the
Maison d'Or. Among ' them was the
Duke de Gramont-Caderousse, deceased
at the age of thirty-two. Some one re
proached him with being , too much in
favor of the people and with . being im
bued with the new democratic ideas.
After having replied according to his
conscience, he exclaimed, ''Well, gen
tlemen, I will wager that, without haying
done anything to merit it, I will get my
self arrested before an hour." "Without
having, done anything to deserve it?"
"Nothing." The bet was taken, fifty
louis. Caderousse jumped into a cab
drove to the Temple, and soon returned,
in Ja sordid costume. A tattered cap
on his head, trousers in rags, hob
nailed boots, torn, muddy, down at the
heels. He rubbed his face and hands
over with dirt, and then begged some
one to follow him. Thus Tepared, he
entered a cafe on the Boulevard Pois
soinniere, seated himself at a table, and
called out, "Waiter, a bottle of, cham
pagne !" : The mau hesitated - an. in
stant, and then said in an undertone,
"That costs 12 francs. "Well!" re
plied De Garmont, "I have .money to
pay with." And he drew . from his
pocket 40. bank notes of a thousand
francs each,' which he laid on the table.
The master of the establishment sent
at once for some sergents-de-ville, and
in a few minutes the pretended vaga
bond was saying te the commissary of
poliae, 'I am the Duke de Gramont
Caderousse. I had laid a wager that 1 1
should be arrested without having done j
anything to deserve it. I have wen, j
I have now only to thank you."-
5 " 'Portraits in SilkT
Col. Corner's Letter from Lyons, France.
. You have, of course, seen the superb
portraits and landscapes woven on silk
by those Lyons artists; they almost
rival the matchless tapestries at Wind
sor Castle. As - we entered - the show
room of .the director; quite a collection
of likenesses, so produced, looked
down upon us from " the walks. There
was the Marshal President McMahon,
ex-President Thiers, Napoleon III., and
the Empress Eugenie; Pedro, King
of Portugal, in his youth; Pope Pius
IX. ; Jacquard, inventor of the silk
loom, born in Lyons, in 1752; and over
all a marvelous portrait- of George
Washington, And as if to prova the
veneration with which the. father of our
new country is cherished in this beau
tiful metropolis, one of the oldest oom
munities in the Old World, directly
"under his silken picture are the follow
ing words woven in English, taken from
one of Washington's public papers;
they are significant at a , time when
skeptical unbelief seems to have ae
quired a new force among the European
people: V V '!
Of all the dispoBitiona and habits which lead
to political prosperity, religion and morality
are indispensable sapporta. In vain would
that man claim tbe- tribute of. patriotism who
should labor to nubvert these great pillars of
human happiness, these firmest props of the
duties ot men and citizens. The mere politi
cian, equally with the pious man, out to re
spect and cherish them.
- Ueobok WAsmxarair.
But the pleasure of -the visit did not
stop here. . "I have got something else
to show you, my American friend."
said the manager: upon which he un
rolled an almost-speaking likeness of
Abraham 14ncoln. J. thought 1 could
do nothing better than- to purchase
three silken portraits of the same size
one of Washington, one of Lincoln, and
one of Jacquard,' and to 'preserve them
lot jay friend, CoL Etting, as. another
humble deposit in the National Museum
at Independence Hall.
Node Statuary.
TTia mrulAi-n aAnlrttor haa a hard . time
of it with his portrait statues, it must
be coniesseo. w nat is ne to oo ? nau
he dress a gentleman as he finds him;
rm A oV j-h i-.1i a tncrtk. nl" fiiTthfi" Vialr
still to the altogether natural man? Or
shall he compromise with. a eioaK or
water-proof as in the case of .the
Ssnnr nf his (Inntitrr. AYniaUnsr hia
virtues in Union Square? They have the
. , , Tt 1 3 V .
same irouoie in xingianu as nere: viae
Wm 1 tantt. For aentnries. he savs.
the portrait statues of the kings appear
ed m ute ihiuuui ciunw mui uus wuu
and knees, and their statesman, in the
nVila-m-va and hura. "On last sterj onlv
was wanting to adopt the ideal antique
. -i , i i. i
and aoauaon ciotiung auvgcuier, uiu
this was very near accomplished toward
tne Close oi last century. vanova a
statue of Napoleon, now in Apsh
House, is absolutely naked: and the
ntntnn tn Samnel Johnson, in St. Paul's.
ia almnat liTiflmnflil. .a ainirla loose
covering being thrown so as to be only
useiuixor tne sculptor s supposed ar-
fiofii, nnmnacaa lndinmna spectacle
in a simply rational point of view; the
. . .. , , , -
stout old crenueman, as ne jeans nu
head on his hand in hia naked
nana uAminir trt Iia eavinff to himself
'What a sad case things have come to
... . . a . A -ft
with me at last, standinir oeiore i&e
tin hi i i in a state of nature. "
It is a matter of tradition that the
statue of Washington, by. Greenough,
in the grounds of. the Capitol at wash
inotrvn.. ia Ravine aa plain as ceBture and
mnnlAnanAA can av: "My sword is by
mv aide. - and my clothes are in the
n-4.nt rtffiw" tnuil whinli he rmints
with majestic modesty. Soribner or
March. ' ' ; - "v. - .
A Royal Japanese Gift,
The Emperor of Japan has recently
sent to a Boston firm of business men a
curious and beautiful gift of four large
vases, with a creamy ground and rich.
inffe nrmmmt of flowers, and a came
that is played only in the imperial pal-
' ace. J. Ilia gtulie iwiuii m m uuujwi
of tfmall boxes, censers, and sauoers.
paints, ivory sticks, and little tools of
gold, and each of these fiingsis a speci
men of the most exquisite workmanship
that even Japan can produce. Xhe
whole surface of the trays and boxes is
a beautiful lacquer or enamel ox gold,
dull or shining,' and in various tints,
wrousrht into landscapes and ornamen
tal devices. Gorgeous :as this is, the
effect is wonderfully soft and beautiful.
The trame is not fully understood here.
It is played by ten persona, and involves
perfumes, fiower, and a combination of
the aesthetic av. instructive that would
make it popclar. But it is never offered
tor sale; its implements are only made
for royalty. , - -v; -; p-,
Youa mother says, my little Tenoa, , j ....
There's something not oorrest between as,
And you're in fault ae etech aa I ;
Now, poa my soul, my little Yenus,
1 think twould not be right between ua
To let your mother tell a lie. Ttotn Moor.
Man In the Diluvial Period.
The question was long s no raised,
whether traces of human ex &t nice had
been, or were to be found in the sand
and gravel of the Post-Tertiary or Dilu
vial period, which immediately prece
ded the present. Some affirmed the
finding of such remains in these, and
the contemporaneous deposits of cer
tain caves, while most geologists reject
ed such statements as erroneous, or at
best unanthenticated, plausibly urging
tnat ancient animal and ; recent human
remains might easily have , become in
termingled. And such researches were
discredited and discouraged by Cuvier's
magisterial dictum, that man did not ex
ist in the Diluvial period, and that it
was. therefore, vain to look for evidence
of his existence. . . . .
Some twenty years aaro. however. M.
Boucher de Perthes discovered a quan
tity cf rude stone implements in the
diluvial gravel beds of Abbeville, in the
valley of the Somme, in intimate con
nection with bones of mammoths. This
discovery attracting much attention, in
the rencn Academy of Sciences
sent to the. spot a committee of investi
grtion, composed, be it not f orgotten,of
men utterly skeptical as to the fact at
issue. This committee, strengthened
by the , accession of several geol
ogists, worked very loner and hard and
carefully at its task, and the Academy's
discussions upon its reports were earn
st and thorough;' yet. the result was
the - complete confirmation of De
Perthe's reputed discoveriea'acd of the
conclusions ( he had drawn therefrom.
Cuvier was refuted; the existence of
man in the Diluvial period was estab
lished. Similar discoveries in the open
country "and caves of Germany, Spain,
Italy, England, Belgium, and especially
France, followed in rapid succession,.
We cannot mention, mnch. less des
cribe;' all the localities in which have
been found the closely-conjoined re
mains of man and of animals confessed
ly belonging to the drift or Diluvial
period. We shall discuss only a few
of the many cases, of which we may
safely affirm .that the . often easy and
common mingling of ancient with re
cent remains could not have occurred.
From "The First Traces of Alan in
Europe," in Popular Science Month
ly for April. .
The Old Garret. .
It is a realm of darkness and thick
dust, and shroud-like cobwebs and dead
things they wrap in their gray folds.
For a garret is like a sea-shore, where
wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to
pieces. - There is a cradle which the
old man you just remember was rocked
in; there is the run of the bedstead
he died on; that ugly slanting contriv
ance used to be put under his pillow in
days when breath came hard; there is
his old chair, both arms gone, symbol
of the desolate time when he had noth
ing earthly left to lean on; there is the
large wooden reel which the black-eyed
old deacon sent to the minister's lady;
who thanked him graciously, and twirl
ed it smilingly, and in fitting reason
bowed it out decently to the limbo of
troublesome conveniences. And there
are old leather portmanteaus, ' like
stranded porpoises, their mouths gaping
in gaunt hunger for food with which
they used to be gorged into bulging
repletion; and old brass andirons, wait
ing until time shall revenge them on
their paltry substitutes, and they shall
have their own again, and bring them
with the fore-stick and backj log of
ancient days, and the empty churn and
its idle dasher, which the Nancys and
Jf noabes, who nave iext their comiorta-
blet places to the Bridgets and Norahs,
used to handle to good purpose,! and
the brown, shaky old spinning-wheel.
which was running, it may be, in the
days when they were hanging the Salem
witches. O. W. Jfolmes. - '' -
Monkeys Made te Work.
The Pall Mall Gazette says: : "In the
traits settlements of the east, large
apes of naturally intelligent breeds are
employed by their masters much in the
same way that human slaves are made
use of . in some parts of Africa. The
cocoanut palm is valuable f or , its fruit,
but this is very dimcult to procure, so
the landlord of a Hope of palms in the
Malayan peninsula trains his apes to
climb the trees and judiciously pick the
ripest nuts for him, just as the Mozam
bique Arab trains his negroes to per
form the same arduous office. But
there appears to be a slight difference
between the two eases the apes seem
to delight in the work, . We learn from
some correspondent in a Ceylon news
paper that the apes thus employed in
the neighborhood ; of Singapore and
Penang are .bred in Atobin, and the
owners intinerate and hire them out.
They go up the trees with a line attach
ed, and obey ' the command of their
masters, choosing the proper fruit.
They twist the nut round and round till
it falls down from its stalk, when the
feat is hailed on the part of the apes by
jumps and chuckes of evident satisfac
tion. The correspondent of the Ceylon
Journal says he has frequently stopped
at the police station at Tungey Bakup,
and had a 'kurumba' sent down' from
the cocoanut trees in this fashion."
' ; The Ostrich. , V
A Arab ehief was lyin' a seep one
day. wen he was woke up by feelin'
something in his trousers pockits. He
saw it was a ostrich, and lay still to see
wot it wud do. First it took out bis
peg top and put it down. Then it took his
kite string, wich was wound on a stick
and put it with the top. xnen an his
marbles was took out, and laid away
too. Then some cotton reels, and some
pieces of oole, and two elate pensils and
a lump of chok, and a bras button, and
some toffy, and a tack hammer, and a
handfleof nails, and a oyster sheL and
a rubber bbL and a steel pen, wich it
piled up to one aide; ahd tbe last thing
it f oun was a jacknife with thirty
two blades. Wen it had got every
thing it could find in the chief s pockets,
it went and stood oyer the pile and it
took one thing after a other till it had et
everything but the jacknue, wen it see
the chief a settin up a watchia it, . So it
took the jacknife and turned it over and
oyer: and tasted it, and put it down, and
pick it up agin, and at last brot it to the
chief and hud it . down a little way .of
and stood back and look wis bird. Then
the chief he said, O, I how it is;
you don t like to eat such a nice mossel
as that with ont you git the flavor of it;
yen want it peeled, ; So the chief he
opened all the blades of the knife and
laid it dewn, and then the ostrich came
up and swollered it and smiled and
licked its bil, like it said wot a delish
ous kanife I And the ohief felt almoee
as if he cud taste it hisself.
Tatxob Pudding. Two -thirds of
cup of butter, 4 eggs, 1 oup of molasses.
1 eup of sour mil., 1 J small teaspoon
fuls of soda: salt Flour to make a this
batter; cloves, sllspice, cinnamon; boil.
iu ut rowi uut, witn sauce.
Th Providence 'Press says it never
heard in funeral oration or aenuoo, and
eldcra in private conversation, - the
opinion expressed that man with $10,'
CC0 income had gone to hell.
Thee. Thee, Only. Thee
The dawning of rrorn, tbe daylight' einkinf .
Xhe night's long hours still find me thinking,
r; Of thee, thee, only thee.
When friends tre met, and gobleta crown'd,
And etuilea are near that once enchanted, .
Unreached by all that sunshine round, '
My soul, like one dark spot, is haunted
By ttee, thee, only thee. .
Whatever in fame'a high path could waken
My spirit Once, Is now forBaken
For thee, thee, only thee.
Like shor ja, by which aome headlong bark
To th' ocean hurries, resting never,
Like scenes go bx me, bright or dark.
I know not, beed not, hastening ever
To thee, thee, only thee. " '
I have not a Joy bnt of thy bringing.
And pain inself seems sweet when springing
i- . From thee, thee, only thee.
Like spells, that naught on earth oan break.
Tul hps that know tbe charm have poaea,
This heart, howe'er the world may wake
. Ite grief, it scorn, can but be broken
By thee, thee, only theei
All Sorts.
GkNXRaXi
. Sptsneb - is
seventy-three
years old.
JnntBnr parts A'asKa and
Hudson
Bay. -w.:r - . -'-'-- ;
Is there any law against striking an
attitude .. ' . .. .''.;
1agxjIss fly alone: ' sheep : eenaraiiv
flock together so we have herd.
A 8Kitai success The weather re
ports. '"
An iKstPB dental txPENSK having
tooth filled.
Job Jsffebson will go to England in
July. - : -
Thb severe winter has been very fatal
to old people in, England. , ,
Thb law is not cheap, although it luMt-
always had been at cost.
Why must logic have legs ? Because
it stands to reason.
Just imagine the Paris Fiaaro talk
ing about "Sir Marmaduke Whitman,
the American Poet Laureate. I -
Why is the capitol of Turkey like a
whimsical patient? Because it's con
stant to no pilL " ' " '
A young mau has sued his barber for
catting off bis mustache. The barber
says he didn't see it. .
Br the will of B. I. Jones of Liver
pool the charities of that city receive
Thb skin of a shark recently eaught
on the English coast weighed one ton
and a quarter. - ,
A 'BatjTtmobb thief had 150 hymn-
books in his posession when the minions
of the law gathered him in.
Hknby Hunt's erranddausrhterhas just
been married in Paris to the Marquis de
Jumelhac, the grand nephew of the
Duo de Bichelieu. , ' - :
An oak tree near Arnsburg, in Prus
sia, more than a thousand years old. ia
about to be cut down by its owner, on
account of the inconvenience he Buffers
from the frequent visits of strangers to
the place...
A poFFiBK fellow advised a friend not
to marry a poor girh as he would find
matrimony witn poverty . upniu worar.
"Good." said his friend; "I would
rather go up hill than down hill any
time. tK..: ', t'". f
Thb foreman of a flour mill in Indi
ana lately put a watch in a sack of flour,
and shipped the' lot before he found his
mistake. It will doubtless be found in
the flour by some poor "woman kneading
it. -2V. O. Republican. ,, t i -
A kexjoious old lady being asked her
opinion of the organ of a church, the
first she , had ever heard, replied:
It is a very pretty box of whistles.
but, oh t it's an awful way to spend the
Sabbath!' '
Ah inventive firenius in the Treasury
Department ia baisly engaged perfect
ing a machina xor revolving omos
hours with rapidity. His apparatus
will be in great demand among depart
ment clerks.
Fbom a young lady in town to her
friend in the country: "I'm sitting on '
the latest Spring style, Mary." And
judging by the number of monstrous
buttons one sees in the fashion plates.
a very unoomfortable seat it must be.
Thb West Jersey Game Protective
Society have purchased 2,000 live quail
in North Carolina, which will be turned
as soon-as the spring weather -will per
mit. ... ;. .. ..... . ,.;
Miss Inqklow is now about forly-fivat
years of age, and lives with her widow
ed mother, in a retired part of Ixmdon ;
in a quiet street, aa she has said,
where all the houses are with window
TraybiiIieb in New Hampshire to
farmer by the roadside: "I suppose you
enjoy these glorious views which people
come so far to look at" "Why, yea,
but if I'd had the 'aortin of these lulls
I'd made em a little peakeder."
Cabdihat, Mahniwo opened the Gatho-
, , i Tr r l mi a
lio uouege av xv-mgrswn, on , xnursuay.
with an address in wnicn be said he re
garded himself intrusted with a com
mission of warfare, for he believed the
charon was' approaching a orisia the
most fiery for 800 years. -
Two nobly conceived work in Coret'a
studio the "Dante," and "Hagar in the
Wilderness," have long been known to
the loved master's friends and admirer.
No offer oould tempt him to part from
these cherished productions, and it is
now found that he has bequeathed them
to the Louvre.
" Akqklus." Yes, the tendency of
modern theology is to the belief that we
shall all eventually reaoh heaven. ' But
do not mistake dear "Angelus, the
drift of this admission. Go to heave
we all may, but do not suppose that we
shall ait in each other's laps there, feel
ing a true inwardness crawling over our
heart-strings like a gentle simoon over
an Exlian harp. Oh, no; not to any
great extent. ., ... , .
Thb PostofSce Department is in reoest
of information that parties who have ae-"
cured contracts for a large number of
mail routes in the Western States are
systematically offering to sub-let than,
thereby assuming, in effect, the position
of mail-route brokers. One party in
Kansas has sent out postal-cards invi
ting bids for sub-letting spesiflo routes;
and stating in a printed postscript that
he has sixty-five routes to dispose of.
and will send catalogues on aBUca.tioa.
The Department has taken steps to break
up uiu uusiuesth
Thb New York Express announeM
that the Papal Commissioners Roncetti,
uoaioi and maresooni, who : brought
over Cardinal McCloskey's hat, are aleo
beaters of the pallium for the arch
bishops of Boston, Milwaukee, Phila
delphia and 8anta Fe. On the 2d the
Commissioners intend to visit Boston to
present the pallium to the new arch
bishop of that place. When they nsay
be expected here, Tbe Jixpreaai dea
not intimate, bet a-jdorili- to i;s
statement f the time cf t". Ir vf i -
Boston, the celebration of r?-ss:
Saw
ox tne psuanmto Archfeu&o? ILeri e1
take place-toward te cliso ej a:.
li