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V CULTURAL NOTES. an StvoUd to the Interests of Firmer! and ttoekmea. hundred tons of honey will be ivenu:a m veniura county, (Jul., I XT ... . j". t; m Kt'rtson. With hay atove $ 10 per ton it is fr' very poor policy to feed cattle that 'k when sold will not bring top price. ' Good ripe fruit is never too j lenti 'S fvil fur use, but it may be bo abundant it:, it marketing will not give prolit. J Nobody has Been ground harrowed t"0 iiiut'h H8 a preparation for wheat, for it m hardly possible to get too fine tilth. If swine are to be kept on the farm the bent profits will be found in the finest breeds that run into matured meat the first year. The agricultural distress in Germany is so great that it is proposed to divide ;! Urge ttfetates for planting in the col- 1 cnies among Oerman peasants. si: In Marion and Polk counties, OrcRon, tv! the hop crop haa not turned out as ft well at expected, and in some places I there is not more than half a crop. $ Deep tillage is the privilege to which $ latent fertility in the lower soil re J eponds with alacrity where the exer cise gives invitation, bo multiplying frui's to the measure of enlarged re sources. The methods of wheat farming in these days of hurry and worry to get rork done cheaply, are much inferior i those employed a few years ago n hindrances were less trouble e than now. cspite the numerous chapters on J encroachments that have filled ns upon reams of agricultural erg their extent increases, and each ceding year finds them more "V established. l"r. George Graham, of Beaver C. Clackamas county, Oregon, hed an average of 40 bushels of in, wheat and oats, off of 25 acres. '. ? most of this land has been in tant use for the last 25 years. I; is said that a tablespoon ful of ,'ered alum, sprinkled into a hogs i of water and stirred, will in a ' hours, precipitate to the bottom , '. Cie impure particles and leave the r clear and pure as spring water. . . r gallons would need but a tea onful. " p dairy salt and all other that is i 9 used for human food in clean Lages and away from all foul odor, . r salt will absorb impurities from the nogphere and afterward impart it Lto food with which it comes in con i. i. Serious losses have occurred i . 1 1 ignorance of this fact. A blacksmith who does not perceive ' requirement that the foot of a 1 must be pared to natural shape i long wearing of shoes until the i 5 are overgrown, has an important a to learn, for no horse can travel i I with projecting toes and re ! ily shortened heels. imp is one of the most valuable ts for bees. The flowers are rich i i honey, and for several months, com mencing with June of each year, ; ie Id it freely at all hours and in every kind of weather. A patch may easily he raised from the sued, sown tho lat ter part of summer or early in the spring. The turnip crop in all parts of this country und in Canada is reported as very poor. The dry weather and in sects have interfered witli the growth of the plants. Roots that grow under ground, like carrots and parsnips, have duna much better, as they have not 1"tiv exposed to the dry air and the 1 t of the sua. I ; i A pple, peach, pear, plum and cherry I a Bet along boundary lines f as interfere very little with culli- i ion, and their fruit is produced ,r i 'lost without cost after the trees are '.v l established, while at the same 1 t i9 they may serve a useful purpose 'u screens to mitigate the force of living storms. Treskrviso Egos. The following in the "Havana process" of preserving V.;s,lhe formula for which has been kept a secret or sold to persons who "' i willing to pay $2 for it: Take twenty-four gallons of water and put in it twelve pounds of unslaked lime 8i.il four pounds of salt. Stir well veral times a day and then let it md aud settle until perfectly clear, i lien draw off twenty gallons of the leur lime and salt water. By putting f spigot in the barrel about four inches HiKJve the bottom you can draw off the clear water and leave the settlings. Thea take rive ounces of baking soda, five ounces of cream tartar, five ounces saltpeter, five ounces borax and one ounce of alum ; mix and dissolve in a i'.!on of boiling water, which should ' ' poured into your twenty gallons of i 'ie water. This will fill a whisky rrel about half full, and such a rrel holds 150 dozen eggs. Let the ter stand one inch above the eggs. ' ver with an old cloth and put a 1 : kit of the settlings over it. Do ; t let the cloth hang over the barrel. ' the water evaporates add more, as eggs must be kept covered. Female garroters are numerous in 9 City of Mexico. leading cltLzen of Hageraiown, Md., George W. Harris, had Buffered for ie time with facial neuralgia and tooth e, when he tried St Jacobs Oil lie "It pave me instantaneou relief, i I consider It wonderful remedy." Tie Connecticut onion crop Is failure season. TVof. Chaa. P. WlMams,Pb. D., of Phils, phi, uji there ia neither morphia, am nor minerals in Red Star Cough re. price, rwen'-Tflvs cents a bottle. i HOME DRESS-MAKING. Practical and I'wful Migration fur Eco. nODlla UoileO-WiVM. What Is called the "laveu-ie" or milk nia'd skirt, is a good and stylish doi,-n for both light woolen and wash fabriea. In this tho plain overskirt in tnrno.l Lack with deep revers on the right side, the narrowest port on of the revers reaching- to the belt, and it is drapeu very high on the left side. A yoked, belted bodice suits with this kind of skirt If your goods arc part striped and part plain, use the plain for under and ovwskirt, sleeves and full part of bodice, and the stripe for revers, yoke, bolt aud cutis. If your goods is plaid and plain, use the pla d for skirts, etc, end the plain for yoke, revers, etc. A eouave jacket over a lull vest also suits for a bodice to tile milk-maid skirt or the bod'ee may bo made full surplice with the V-shapoJ front tr. mined in some way similar to a vest For quite young girl and mUsos, yoke bodices are very much the stylo. Many young lad es are embroidering the yokes, belts, cull's, etc., of chambmy, organdie, batiste, and even eephyr ginghams. Multi-colored fast-dye cottons aro used, and Ihe stitches are executed in what is called Russian embroidery that is usual ly done in bright silks. 1 his kind of embroidery does not take long, and is very effective. oot-plaitirgs on skirts have almost d'sappeared. This does not mean that they are not used, but that they are put almost out of sight If the lower part of the skirt has a trimming fold, the foot-plaiting is made very narrow and set underneath It, so that only about half of it is in sight The reason for not dispensing with it entirely is be cause it saves a skirt from much wear and tear. It takes up the dust and mud before it reaches the skirt proper, and can be renewod when soiled nioro read ily than the bottom of a plain skirt can be renovated. But as little trimming is now put on street suits, the foot-plaiting must be placed so as to be as little con spicuous as possible. There are, as usual, summer fashions for children as well as grown people, but, after all, the most important thinj to bo noticed in making clothes for chil dren is to see that they tit comfortably. Grown people, who are supposed to have more ambition and perhaps pardonable conceit in regard to the appearance they make in their costumes, will often under go much inconvenience and submit al most to pain in order to have their clothes seem to fit well and look stylish; but with children It is different .Grown people make them selves miserable at their own option in doing this, and if they are foolish enough to do so, have them selves only to blame; but tho mother who forces a litti child to wear a gar ment that hurts or even inconvenience her free motion and play of limbs, does not deserve the name she bears. Good sense rutlvr than fashion should govern the uWgnlnr of children's clothes. Lot them be (piito loose enough to insure the free movement of every part of tho body. This can be done compatibly with all n atness and grace of design. Dresses need not hang in bas on a child's form and make it look as though her garment had descended to her from a sister several years older than herself. The present stylo of dress for little chil dren is tho long sk rt reaching to the nnklo, the short waist, tmsh-bo mil, und tho large-brimmed hat s t well hiiek on the head, or tho scoop bonnet tied un der the chin with ribbon strings in a little prim bow. These qmr'nt, big hats nnd bonnets mnki children's faces a' I tho prett.er and more cunning by the contrast of tho small, infant ne features and baby expression, with the old womanly-looking bonnets; and, as some one has somewhat poetionlly said, the present stylo of children's hats and bonnets "tie in many a nnthcr's heart." As to the long sk'rts, it Is but fair to acknowledge that they are a great draw back to the free mot on of a little child in its play and gambol, and in our es t mation should bn used only with tho "dress-up'' suits that children wear when not expected to raco and romp at lurge. For every day wear there can be nothing more suitable than the "Mother-llubbard" style, and it is used by as many ultra-fash'onable mothers as by those who are less so, for tho rea sons given. Guimps and yokes of col ored goods for white dresses, and of white for colored ones art) seen on chil dren's dresses for nearly all ages -from tho very youngest to young ladies. Th;s is good fashion, as they cun be made separately from tho full body as wo have before described, and ilillerent ones used at different times, mak'ng pretty changes w.th the same dress. Cor. Ohio fanner. FLORENTINE STRAW. A ConMilHr Kcport on ail IndUKtrjr Prao. Herd In a Large Ilullan DUtrlet. Consul-General Colnaghl has sent to the Fore:gn Ollice an interesting report on the Florentine straw industry, and it has just been published as a Blue Book. We extract the following passages: The industry Is so generally extended throughout the district that there is scarcely a family in which some of the members are not engaged in the work. Children begin to plait at five and six i x years of age; while mothers of fam ilies, in addit.on to their domest'c oc cupations, and females of all ages and almost all conditions, who do not fol low the bus.ne-8 as a means of liveli hood, employ the r leisure time in it Formerly, whin the production was carried on by persons connected with agricultural lalor only, the work was not cons'ant; bu,t now, excepting, per haj s. w th a few "contadine." it goes on all i lie veur round. The plaiters work in their own homes, and their busy fingers are rarely at rest The larger nunibtr work up the straw on their own amount and se.l the plaits, or haU, on the public markets held at Florence and in other towns. Others receive the straw from and are p d J ttte "'al torini." a class of middlemen who con sign the pl.kiis aud hats in the rough to the principal manufacturers, who finish them for export Others, again, are in d rect communication with the manu facturers themselves. The earnings of the plaiter are subject to considerable fluctuations, partly depending upon the market prices that may from time to time rule for tho manufactured article, and partly to tho higher or lower rates of the straw. On an average, the daily earnings of children and of young girls may be taken at from thirty to forty five centimes, and of women at from sevcntv-live to eighty centimes. Much depends upon the ability of the workers, and a considerable number of. expert hands earn regularly, under ordinary circumstances, from one lira to one lira ten centimes, and sometimes as much as one lira fifty centimes per diem. At sew ing hats "a maglia," about seventy-five centimes-per diem mav bo earned. Pay ment is always made bv the piece. As regards cost of production, three fifths is credited to labor and two-fifths to first mate rial; but this statement is approximative only, as the relative proportion of value must be subject to considerable fluctua tion dcpemhng upon the price of the straw. The articles chieflv exported are the Florentine hats and plain and fancy plaits. The principal countries of ex port are France, tho United States of America, Great, Britain, Germany and Austria. The future prospects of the Tuscan straw industry are at present by no means encouraging, as so many new articles spring up which are more fa vored by fashion. The competition of English plaits, as far as prioes are con cerned (fashion apart), does not much affect tho sale of Italian straw products; but that of the Chinese plaits in the coarser qualities is almost crushing, and to a very considerable extent now supplies the markets of Europe and America, to the nearly total exclusion of the same qualit es of Italian plaits as regards foreign consumption. These Chinese plaits are of excellent quality, well made, strong and serviceable, and supplied at prices with which it is im possible to compete in Italy. London ijneen, THE NEW HEBRIDES. The Social Condition and Commercial Ra aouroaa of Thalr People. The archipelago known as the New Hebrides, ovei which England and France have for some time past been striving to gain supremacy, is situated between the parallels of 14 degrees and 10 minutes and 20 degrees south and the meridians of 166 and 170 degrees east, and at a distance of 1,000 miles from the coast of Australia. The chain is about 400 miles in length. No region could be more curious or attractive in its natural aspects. There the elements of fire and water may yet bo seen in ac tive operation, building up a small con tinent, the gigantic volcano and the minute coral polype each doing Its re spective work. Tho largest island of the group is Es piritu Santo, about eighty m loslong by forty-fivo broad. It has a tine deep bay on its northeastern side. Next in Im portance is Mallicolo, fifty miles long and twentv-live wide. EVromango is twenty-eight m les long by twenty broad, while Ambrym, Tanna, Vate, Pentecost and Aurora are minor islands, 11 of which, however, are of considerable extent and form collective ly with smaller islets a largo area of country. Tho natives inhabiting the various isl ands owe their orign to the same stock from which the western and south ern portions of Now (iuinea appear to have b en peopled. All their physical characteristics denote them to belong to the Papuan race, but they have evident ly reeuived a considerable admixture of Malayo-Polynoshin b'oud. Plnsically cons.dorcd the native are a well-built, athletic raco of savages. I'ho men av erago about five feel six Inches in their height, nnd their limbs are muscular and well turned. They have large, woll-formod heads, and the features are usually regular. Tho hair, which forms one of the most remarkable features of the race, is distributed over the head in small spiral curls. Thosocal coml ton of the natives presents many characteristics indicative of the infancy of mankind They dwell together in villages, and the ownership of the soil is vested in the tribe. On the same island there are several tribes, each having its own district and chief. There is no recognized native sover eignty over tho group. War is the chief occupation of tho men as tribal feuds are very common but they like wise build the houses and canoes, go fish ng, and prepare the implements of war. Tho women till the soil and per form all domestic duties. They have no form of money, but barter pigs, fowls and shells for trinkets and native cloth. All the tribes are well supplied with de fensive weapons, such as clubs, spears and bows and poisoned arrows. It is an interesting fact that notwith standing the proxhu.tr of these islands to one another the nauves of each have a d st net dialect; nor does this apply to the separate islands alone, since the dialects of tho various tribes inhabiting each island undergo a remarkable varia tion. It may be adJod that the natives, as a rule, are remarkably Intelligent, and when well treated are friendly and hos pitable to a degree. Chicago Times. I Mistakes of Life. Somebody has condensed the mistakes of life, and arrived at the conclusion that there are fourteen of them. Most people would say, if they to d tjie trnth, that there was no l mit to the mistakes of life; that they were like the drops in the ocean, or the sands of the shore in number, but it is well to be accurate. Here, then, are fourtoen great mistakes. "It is a great mistake to set up our own standardof right aud wrong, and judge people accord ngly; to measure the en joyment of others by our own; to expect uniformity of opinion in this world; to look for judgment and experience in youth; to endeavor to mould all dispo sitions alike; to yield to immaterial trifles; to look for perfection in our own actions; to worry ourselves and others with what can not be remedied; not to alleviate all that needs alleviation as far as lies in our power; not to make allow ances for the infirmities of others; to consider every thing impossible that we can not perform; to believe only what onr finite minds can grasp; to expect to be able to understand ever thing." Montreal Witr&ts. ABOUT DOG1. Point of InUrr.t to All Admlrrra of C.r I mitu I'.arw. The wonderful variation in si.p, np pear moo and intellect of dogs mnt strike every one who remembers lli.it this great variety came originally tM i three or four 'species of wild"do!:. There Is now preserved in an Eneli i museum a little dog of the terrier kind which was about two venrs old at In death. It was exactly five and on half Inches long, which is just the length of a German boar hound in an other part of tho museum, measured from the corner of the eye to the tip of llio noso. So givat is the difference that one can hardly realize that they probably had a common ancestor. The original wild, dogs had very much the aspect of wolves erect ears nnd bushy, flowing tails. It is thought by many that the dogs most nearly up I Touching tie in in ui penraiii e nn nearest thcni In point of development and that the breed closely related are our shepherds, but an examination and comparison of tno bones, and parti, u larly the skulls, show that among the principal breeds the line of descent is: First, wild dog; theu Danish dog hounds, pointers, terriers, pugs, span iels and pet dogs in general come last. The intlueuee of men over all nature Is nmst markedly shown In pet dogs. They are, as a rule, small, with tails curved upwards, ears drooping, but sure signs of domestication. Besides, the temperament and disposition are wholly changed, whereas wild dogs are natural hunters, the pet - dogs being wholly ignorant of the wiles of the chase. A pug would probably be as much surprised at the sudden appear ance of a rabbit as bunny would be at the pug. The probability is that both would rua as soon as they saw each other. The varieties have boen so long bred that they would never return to origin al swcies again, even if left to run wild. That they are closely related to wolves and other animals, however, is shown by the fact that they will breed with them and also by the taming of wolves taken very young. They become gentle and affectionate, A wolf yelp when young, if suddenly menaced by a master, will cringe and beg off just as a dog does when he thliiKS he is going to lie whipped. They have many other traits which indicate a close re lationship. Not only are wolves capable of do mestication, but on the other hand dogs often escape and beoome wild. A case is related of a greyhound who con cluded she would take to the woods. After a year or two she was captured nnd brought back. In a few months sho presented her master with soma pups, but as soon as they were able to take care of themselves she left them nnd again ran away. Throe of the pups stayed at home and became good eiti.eus, but two partook of the moth er's nature and ran awav to join her. They at Inst became so destructive to young nniiuids Unit they were hunted down and shot. Puppies get their eyes open on, the tenth or twelfth day, reuch their full growth nt the end ol tho second year nnd are very old at ten years, very few of them reaching tho green old ngo of twenty. Although their lives nro short they are full of interest The devotion of n dog for his master Is phenomenal, lie will stick to him whatever bn his fortunes, stand any amount of abuse und love his master with a forgiving spirit in spitu of every thing. I'Ufa bttrhg Dinpatch. THE EX-EMPRESS. A Touching- Story of the Unhappy and llouielea Kugrnle. The following is tho latest story that is told about the Empress Eugenie, who has ever been a striking figure since the day sho charmed Napoleon III. with the wreath of violets which she wore in her golden hair. "'Twas morning then, but now the night has come." A few days ago, says the chronicler, a visitor to the Marcus Church at Venice, where the ex-Empress U now staying, observed a lady dressed in deepest mourning kneeling in long silent prayer before one of the side altars. When at last she rose she looked about her in search of some thing which she missed, and then walked slowly away, and supporting herself bv the wall, toward the en trance. The stranger politely offered his arm, which was gratefully accepted, the lady meanwhile explaining that one of the beggars must have taken her silver-headed walking-stick awav, with out which she was "very helpless." Outside tho church two liveried foot men were waiting; the stranger on re tiring offered bis address card (alas, for cruel Nemesis, he was a German from Berlin!) glancing at whh the lad V wits seen to shudder siighily and and then return the civility by whisper ing: "Empress Eugenie, and-huuicr le.ss."-7JM Mall Qatttte. WHAT HE WANTED. Tba Kind of LleDa Daalrad by aa En amored Old Baobelor. The following story is told of a well known gentleman of this city who re cently married a belle from a neighbor ing Pennsylvania city after his case had been given np as hopeless by all the managing mammas of Buffalo. It seems that the gentleman in question regarded his abnegation of bachelor hood with a sort of rueful misgiving, which increased as the days of his lib erty waned. His last revolt agairst the shackles of matrimony occiim-d whim he was sent to procure the mar riage license, a few days before the ceremony. He sought the city official who presided over the license depart ment and asked gravely: "Is this where licenses are kept?" "Ves, sir," answered the clerk, politely; "what kind of a license do you want? ' "Well, what kind have you got?" rejoined o.;r friend with superhuman gravity. The clerk had begun to look upon hi vis itant as a lunatic, but be oblL'iiily rattled off the list "Give you a license to drive a hack, give you a license, to pull teeth or practice medicine, give ion a pawnbroker's or huckst r's 'icense, give yon a license to keen gun powder in the house " "Stop, said our friend, quietly; "that's what I a not" Lujfalo Courier. am " Royal " the only absolutely pure baking pow der made Action of the New York State Board of Health. Under tho direction of tlio New York. State Board of Health, eighty-four diCorcnt kinds of baking powdors, embracing all tho brands thr.t could bo found for salo iu tho Stato, were submitted to examination and analysis by Prof. C. F. Chandler, a Mem ber of tlio Stato Board and President of tho New York City Foard of Health, assisted by Prof. Edward Q. Love, the ,well known Lite United States Government chemist. , Tlio official report shows that a large number of tho powders examined were found to contain alum or limo; many of them to Bach an extent as to render thctn seriously objoctionablo for use in tho preparation of human food. Alum was found in twenty-nino Baroplos. This drug la cm ployed in baking powders to cheapen their cost. The presence of limo is attribatod to tho impure cream of tii'tar of com mcrco used in their manufacture. Such cream of tartar was also analyzed and found to contain limo and other impurities, in some samples to tho extent of 03 per cent of their entire weight. All tho baking powders of tlio market, with tho singlo excep tion of "Royal" (not including tlio alum and phosphate powders, which wore long sinco discardod as unsafo or inefficient by pru dent housekeepers) aro mado fro ti the irapuro cream of tartar of commerce, aud consequently contain limo to a corresponding extent Tho only baking powder yet found by chomical analysis to be entirely f roo from limo and absolutely pure is tho " RoyaL This perfect purity results from tho exclusive uso' of cream of tartar specially refined and prepared by patent proccsBoa of tho N. Y. Tartar Co., which totally romovo tho tartrato of limo and other impurities. TLo cost of this chcmicully pure cream of tartar is much greater than any other, and on ac count of this greater cost is used in no baking powder but tlio "Eoyol." Trof. Love, who mado tho analyses of baking powders for tho New York Stato Board i Health, as well as for tho Government, says of tho purity and wholosomcness of "Royal": " I have tested a paekago of 1 Royal Baking Towder ' which I purchased in 'tho. open market, and find it composed of puro and wholesomo ingredients. It is a cream of tartar powdtr of a high degroo of merit, and docs not contain either, alum or, phosphutcs or any injtu'ious substances. "R. G. LOVE, Ph.D. " . .I,... i -i h-ii-i- - m-i ' -- , i.... .,..-,-. for Infants "CastorUliioweUadaptodtoehndrMtlul kMWBtoms." IL A. Aacaxx, M. D IU Bo. Oxford St, BrooUjm, K, T. VAN B DkLAHHMUTT. JUUOKW. W THAYfcK, rmlibnt. VIm PraUJou RAM J. (H)ltMAN. Owlilw. MLTOOLITAN SAVINGS TBANK. PORTLAND TrwKu 1 0nnU Hanklni HiuinM; Uun iatttmt on dfintlu M follows: On I month! onrtlftcttw 4 mt tenl (id 6 moullu onrtlhi uhi ( por oeuL On 11 uunUui mrtlSraiM I p Mil. Iiikiuioiu: Judf W. W Thyrr H. W. (tcnii, Jiulvt K. I Bhtltuok, H W. 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