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REPAIRING IMPLEMENTS. tr.irk Which lb Kromimlral Fanner Will l II nnlf. Here again wo see a vaHt difference In tho management of farm trs. Some are nlwnys running to thu shops lor repairs, or buying new part from tne manufacturer, to replace tho used up old onus. Like llio gun tliat was re newed in lock, stock and barrel, the original iiiiploniont U gradually lost In repairs So nutter what tho implement, the character of the work, seed time or harvest, these men will bo seen on the read to or from the shop. It makes very little difference about the quality jr atfo of tno implement, it u con tantlv in need of repairs. Oilier farmers again nrtvor eem to have break-downs, llio machinery always runs smoothly and is seldom repaired. I hero can be no fatality about this, it must all be iu tho inan- a.reiiienl of thu farmer Machines are not, of course, built lileo tho famous "one-hoss shay." Thev have all got ttioir weak places- places that will wear out or break first, and inns come to need repairs but it should bo the study of tho farmer to keep those down to tho min imum. Repairs wtt MpwMlve ex pensive in themselves and in tho losses thev directly and indirectly occasion ( uiipuro tho cost of a easting that it bought to take the place of a broken one with tho cost of tho original pioco proportionately figured on the price of the whole . machine. Manufacturers am' dealers readily admit that their prutits on those repairs are enormous, The farmer knows he is paying two or three hundred per cent, more than tho article ought to bring, hut he is obliged to buy. and of that particular shop tvhero ills machine was built, so ho is completely at the mercy of dealers. It cortainly behooves tho farmer to look carefully after the con dition of his implements, and not al low these breakdowns to occur. It does not take long to lay out tho price of a new machine upon an old one. There is but littlo use to buy repairs for an old machine that is becoming badly worn in all its parts. Better buy new than to do this. An old, worn-out machine may occa sion much loss of valuable time. No farmer should enter tho hay or harvest Held with such a machine and trust to repairs to carry him through. It is an easy matter to loso tho price of a ma chine in this way. The losses occa sioned by having to tako tho team out of the field and away to town for re pairs every two or three days can hardly bo estimated. Haying may bo delayed, bad weather come on, and the product so much injured that tho condition of all tho farm stock subsist ing upon it is affected during tho fol lowing winter. There is no depart ment of farm management but that affects and is affected by all others. Much of the repairing needed by the farm implements can bo done at home by the farmer if he is suitably equipped for the work. Actual cash outlay is saved in this way, and much time that may be of even greater importance to the farmer than tho cost of tho re pairs. Every farmer should have his small workshop and outfit of tools. A small portable forgo with tho common iron working tools can now bo had for a very moderate sum. Those, in addi tion to tho common wood-working tenls. will enable a man with very or dinary skill to perform many little jobs of repairing. Ho enn put n new bolster in a wagon, repair any part of a sleigh, replace a broken beam in a plow, rivet, splice or wold any piece of iron that gives out about his imple ments. Even acasting may sometimos he drilled and iron-strapped, and a re pair thus effected without buying new. There are many simple and conveni ent tools that may be made at home by the farmer, and which will answer his purpose as well as thoso costing seqeral dollars, perhaps, at tho shop J uki' a land roller, for instance Al most any man, who has the material Ud tools can mnko a roller that will bp just as serviceable as one costing ll&orfSOl He can make a marker, a tone boat, wood frame for a new har row, or whatever simple tool ho may need. Too many farmers have an idea that a skilled workman must be em ployed for all such jobs. Tho farmer cannot afford to adhere too strictly to old maxim of "every man to his trade," especially when ho has weeks of comparatively leisure time in win ter in which to do such work for him self, For want of tools and materials to work with, many boys grow up with out the least knowledge of their use, and consequently without the develop ment of any mechanical ability that they may naturally have been DM sessed of. Every farmer's boy shou'd have n knowledge of practical ma chines, so far, at least, as they apply to agriculture. And he should have an opportunity of acquiring the skill needed in their application to the va rious departments of farm work. The Work-shop is a great practical educa tor, and should be a permanent iuti tution on every farm V. I). Boyn ton, in Western Plowman. In brooding and feodinir cattle the Inl legitimate purpose is to make the animal do the very best that it will. The saving of food in the direction of depriving the stock of all that it will Pt- hi no place in the calculation 't elL It is true that in someeasw the animal will eat its head off, though at .... sew win occur only with scrub stock, "it in such cases Hie animal should I got rid of. It does not destroy the Ne that profitable meat production H'l i'l'ii t il'.. ....... ...1- l,in. Im - -The late Isaiah V. Williamson, the i m i iicii nan e i 11 1 idii' 1 1". ' a" a most eccentric man. He wm red. silent, abstracted, careless his dress and utterly indifferent to -.. uoiiues. me uninreua wuien 'ways carried was thirty years old ast l-ord Balfour, of Rurleigh. is a di desoendent of Robert Bruce, and , ln his family archives a deed sueu by that monarch conferring 1 one of his ancestors the title to a " estate at Clackmannan, which ver sine., remained in the posses- PECULIAR FRIENDSHIP rt..AunofR lh.T . T.rrl., Pup. No sketch of Ra would P'eta without some mention oj.2 Z "-roe was Lo California ,i BMJtO Splan a wiry-haired Her pup, who was then two moo tl. oUl and weired -hfuUfWS pup to Have, the groom of Rurus. with hlm lo' 10110 ll ,h"honw h" him. for on several occasions Rare, taJ MttiO dogs that ventured into -But to this terrier who is r.bed as assessing ..amost n "toJhgenoe." the trotter took JSS fancy, which the dog full, returned frle,L "Not only." say, Mr. Splan. -were ey ext.emely fond of each other, but bey showed their affection plainly a d'd ever a man for Wollmn V 'ever look any polos to teach the doe MJ thing about the horse. Even tb.ng ho knew bum to him by his own patience, rroni the time I took him 10 the stable a pup until I sold Rarus hey were never separated an hour eouce left the dog In the ttll while we took the horso to the blacksmith hop. and when we came back wc found he had ,ade havoc with every thing there was in there trying to gel out, while tho horse, during tho en tire journey, Wlls uneasy, restless, and in general acted as badly as the dog did. Have remarked that he thought that we had better keep the horse and dog together after that. When Rarus went to the track for exercise or to trot a race the Jog would follow Dave around and sit by the gate by his side watching Rarut with us much interest as Davo did. When tho horse returned to the stable after a heat and was unchecked, the log would walk up and climb up on his forwai-d legs and kiss him, the horse always bending his head down to receive the caress. In the stable after work was over Jim and tho horse would zfton frolic like two boys. If tho burst ay down Jim would climb on his back, md in that way soon learned to ride 'iim; and whenever I led Rarus out to ibOW him to tho public Jim invariably new what it meant, and it enhanced the value of the performance bv the manner in which he would get on the .torso s hack. On thoso occasions the liorse was shown tho halter, and Jimmy, who learned to distinguish such events from thoso in which the sulky was used, would follow Dave and Karus out on tho quarter-stretch, and lien when the halt was made in front if the grand-stand Davo would stoop lown and in a flash Jimmv would iiiniu r on his back, run up his shoulder, from there leap on the horse's back, and there he would stand, his head high iu the air and his tail out stiff behind. harking furiously at the people." When Karus was sold to Mr. Bonner Splan sent Jimmy with the horso, rightly judging that it would be cruel to separate them. But iu Mr. Bonner's table there w as a bull-terrier in charge, md one day when, for some real or fancied affront, the small dog attacked tho larger one tho latter took Jimmy by the neck and was fast killing him: but Rarus heard his outcries, and per- ".civitig that Ills little friend was in danger and distress pulled biu'k on the halter till it broke, rushed out of his dull, and would have made short work vith the hull-turner had ho not been ostrained by the grooms. Atlantic Monthly. PERILS ON THE STREET. i In- I 1 1 1 1.- ThlnsjS That F.mliingrr Ihi I nr. of i h I'eiiplr. Wo stop to chat with a friend and enn amdnst a deadly charged electric jole, and it is all over with the con rsation. A passing plumber burns our coat with his unextinguished hand furnace. A passing carpenter lacerates mr trousers with a saw. A DaMinfl purler imperils our head with a long . t lR -1 i ,i ece 01 gas-pipe on ins snuiiiuer. One is annoyed if not endangered by Die servant washing a sidewalk with 8 lose, or a fireman carrying his wng fling serpent up a ladder. A fresh young Italian maul from I ork. with I .vhite muslin nightcap on Her MM una us down with a baby carriage. earring our shins or necessitating n . isit to the chiropodist. Then there is the woman's umbrella ,hat wasteth at noonday, scooping is up after the manner of a drag-net or impaling us in its blind and head long charge. All these are side-walk lorils. If we undertake to cross the -tr...it dangers multiply. The pedes trUn has no rights which tho driver is lOOOd to retptOt, and the footfarer. inless a handsome woman. ersonall onducted by a big policeman, will b. uibjeet to being run down by the driver if a beer wagon, or a physician in s iiirry. or tho chief of the tire depart ment on his golomping" way toa con lagration. or a coroner intent on beat ing a rival, ora belated voter, standii!" nit till the last moment for his price. ,r even a hearse on it business way mck from the grave. Runaway horses are another source if midway perils, and so are wagons turning around corner with long irons r beams projecting 'rom behind I his I ,st might, perhaps, ha increased, but hese common instances show that man .talks the city amid perils scarcely less nan those of the d sort, the sea. th orest, or even the battlefield, almos deadly as those encountered and numerated by St I' oL Mo of them, to- "perils by le brethren." against which the in unctions and penal' ;os of the law an, ,lile To avoid raise iprehensious. we . ill add thai these li s a(e uol written the interest of an lent insurance company. -Albany (H f.) I-iw Journal. 1 he Italian laooreni oi New Ycrk ,re said to be largely given U e .uaning of -ariparill. and other light )1n.intoicating beverages in the sum mm season. Comparatively few hem indulge in beer or other alcoholic iquors while at work. Vntlong since a resident of U Wte, iu Dooly County. Ca.. hear ' a Ukm equalling in hto !J ,ent ut te see -hat -a. the m.'ter .ho, ing of the chicken, trying to. -el-owsnobjwn twice-large "h. U LadtoUIIthefroto-wtfc tMW OF GENERAL INTEREST. -In Bangor. Me., says an exohsn.re, the electric lights resemble sunlight o closely that the people carry paru ols at night. Three boys of Jackson. Mich., re. cently saved a girl from drowulug, and the grateful father gave them five cents, telling them to divide it be tween them. "XOO are a domestic servant?'' asked a lawyer of a female witness in a Liverpool (Eng.) court tho other day. "No, sir." she indignantly re plied. ! ama house maid." Of the street accidents in Chicago caused by reckless driving, the Ice wagons are responsible for tho greater share, while the butcher cart plays second to even the baker wagons. Bowie knives are being manufact ure I as plentifully as ever, but they are aiiogetiier lor show. There is no record of one being used for years. The sijjht of one keeps tho other fel low off. The fastest regular express train in the United States runs between Philadelphia and Washington. They maintain an average speed of forlv- flve miles an hour during the entire uisiance. Cairo has a grocer named Tyler, and tho first question he asks a would be purchaser is: "Do you snore?" If the fact is admitted that ends the mat ter right then and thero no purchase can be made He has taken a vow not to sell even a strawlierry to a man who snoros. There are said to bo fifty different kinds of cycles manufactured for the use of women. The most popular kind Is a safety machine with MMllOQ wheels and a goose-neck. d b ickboM to allow room for the flowing skirt of tho ladies. An alligator and an Knglish spar row engaged in a battle near D irion. (ia., the other day. The 'gator pro voked the light by mapping at tho bird, which In turn flew furiously at its ugly antagonist, aiming with pre cision lit the saurian's oyes. The 'gator finally gave up tho contest and took to the river. When tho Somlnole Indians, of Florida, elect a chief, they choose the biggest fighter and most successful hunter of tho tribe. If there happens to bo a tie between two candidates, their method of deciding it is to have each candidate place a live coal on his wrist. The ono who flinches first loses the office The Kgyptians hnve always been recognized for their ability in the man ufacture of perfumes, hut duo credit was never given them before a vase containing some Kgyptian ointment wjis opened at tho museum at Alnwick. The perfume it contained still had a pungent odor, although it was more than three thousand years old. There is a whi-tling well in Logan County, Kan., which warns people of approaching storms from six to twelve hours in advance. It is 1 ,'!, feet deep and sends out a strong current of air, which, as it escapes through tho apertures about the pump, whistles ill a loud, flute-like tone that is dis tinctly audible to every person in tho township. The total production of coal in tho world during the year HHH is put by a high authority at H.'tO.OOO.lMX) tons, of which tho United States produced 180,000,000, Of tho home product Pennsylvania is credited with 71.000. 0000. or more than one-half. Little coal is exported from the United States except to Canada, which took from us lust year 11,860.000 tons. Workmen doing the grading on a railroad near Atlanta, (ia,, witnessed the sight the other day of a snake feeding its offspring. The baby snakes were secure in the roots of an old tree, nnd the mother, which caught flies by springing at them, would, when (mis sessed of a fly. rapidly glide to the young snakes, which came ell-niell, helter-skelter to meet her. She caught I fly a minute, and was watched se curing them for over two hours. Thero nro some queer instances of transliteration of names in the Prov ince of Quebec. A suburb of tho old city of Quebec was originally named Shepherdville, after an Knglish resi dent of tho name of Shepherd. Tho French translated this into Bergor vllle, which tho Knglish soon corrupt ed into Begg.irvilo. Hope Cape was turned by tho French Into Cap d'Ks M)ir. which tho Knglish then trans lated into Capo Despair Point of Cliffs first became Pointe des Monts, and was then Anglicized, first into Demon's Point and then into Devil's Point. Reindeer Lake became Lac a la Renne, which was soon corrupted by the Knglish into Rainy Lake, and then, -trange to say, was corrupted by the French into Lac a la Pluia A Mine of Valuable Wood. Forty miles above Now Orleans is the old bed of the Bonnet Carre crevasse. Fifteen years ago the Father of Waters burst his bonds and swept through there to Lake Pontchartrai n. Five years ago the State of louisiana. with the assists co of the Mississippi Valley railroad, rebuilt tho Bonnet Carre levee, but it could not restore altogether the conditions prevail ing antecedent to the crevasse. The river i the ten years it passed through the vamp piled up the sands against the Bag cypress forest, there. It has left behind a buried forest. The plied up sand has deadened nearly all the trees, and a shingle mill is now at work there manufacturing them into shingles with all the rapidity with which that machine works. N. 0. Times-Democrat. A Jamesburg (N. J.) Christian Endeavor Society has opened a '.'bnslian parlor for young men and boys, where reading, quiet games, qusic, etc. can be enjoyed. A sing ing school, literary entertainments, a library, etc, are furnished, and all under the charge of different mem bers of the society. A savings system has also been instituted ln connection with the "parlor." &ucA' effort as Uis are being ade by a number ol ta lavtottoi FOREIGN GOSSIP. The hWIe of the royal family It said lo to) Princess Victoria of Took, A society has been formed In China by women lo oppose the binding of women's feet It Is called "The Baafaaly Foot Society." Rents Iu Scotland are getting lower and lower. Four farms recently relet in the South for the approaching term brought less than half their former rent The Prince R 'gent of Bavaria is the founder of anew school which will impart to its pupils the art of restoring pioturea, The school is tho first of the kind ill the world. The Kiffel Tower is now declared, even by those who feared that it would be uti.ighlly. to have a "light and gracef.il appearance In spite of its gi Mtla size, ami to he an Imposing monument, worthy of Paris." The money paid now to the British royal family amounts to 548.000 s fear. Out of this. 88d,00 is paid the Queen for the expenses mid salaries of her household, retired allowances, bounties, alms, special services, etc For Her Majesty's privy pins i'lU.OOO is allotted. Ill addition to this she re ceives from tho Duchy of Laaoactai about 45,000 year. The Russian Government has offered n prize of 6.000 rubles l'.oOO) for the best inquiry into the nature and ffeets of the poison which develops iu :vd fish. Tho competition Is op.n to ill and the memoirs must lie scut in by lanuary 1, 1898, iu the Itu'siau, Latin. Preach, Knglish or (iorinan UUHgUOge, - Canton, China, has the largest mint iu the world, tho plant consisting of linely coining presses, while the Paris ii i nt has only twentv-two, nnd that i f London only nineteen. While the Paris mint has a capacity for turning out ivory ten hours .V.H.OO.) coins, the Can on mint can produce 700. 000. - According to the Persian custom, 'he Shah has his mutton killed in his iwn palace. He minted to do this while staying iu Buckingham Pniao. hut the Queen would not permit it though long iiegotin'lons were carrtati ou to obtain her permission. Iu tho md il was settled that the royal butch u'iug should bo performed at Prince Malcom Knhn s house iu Holland Park. There Is a curious museum at St. Petersburg, to which access Is not easil Obtained. It contains nil the imperial state and private carriages, h,:' tlui must interesting among all Is the brougham in which Alexander i. w.u filled. The back of it is nil in ruins and inside it looks quite dreadful. Onn if the cushions, however, is still good; here and there splashes of mud arc on it The number of women who hunt In Knglnnd is year by year on the in crease, and tho latest variation of thq sport is otter hunting. Otter hunting is done on foot and requires an equip ment of short petticoats and thick boots. The otter Is almost the only existing species of the wild fauna of England, with the exception of the badger and the roedeer. and thero is something sad ill seeing tin- war of ex. termination begun against him us a fashionable fad. - The Kmpress of Cerm iny has an army of seamstresses, but it is her delight to preside over and assist In the manufacture of her children's garment, She is n person of great I. isle, and generally picks her ow n and her children's hats to pieces and makes them over after receiving them from a renowned French modiste. She Is. also an adept in Hue embroidery in white and colors, and is as industrious, as many a woman of limited means. SCHOOLS IN TURKEY. ii.M, iio.t mid Olrii i 'iMi Lessees '"' i I.- ii aii AroaaeV' Turttith bOyi and girls are of the race which has given the alphabet and the sciences of numbers, navigation and astronomy lo the world; hot they study only one book now and learn only one science. They study the Koran, from which they learn lo read, and the science of Mahomet's religion, as soon as they can commit sentences to memory, either by having it read til them by reading it to theinse'.vos. They study aloud as hard as ever they mil. each beginning with a different sentence, rocking to and fro, "weav ing trouble" meantime. If they falter in their shrill reH-litions the master's duty Is i'n; to admonish, and. If this Is uuheeiled. to spare not the roil. There la u lull when tho "mue..ln's" call is heard al noon from the mosque uifuaret BOW by, and then the master and pupils, with fa lurnud toward Mecca, drop to their knees and say a prayer. When he priest's call ceases and the prayers at over, the voico of the art ful candy man Is often opportunely heard near the school, for candy Is ped lied alxiut on trays there, and not sold at sliops as with us. The new scholar is permitted to "treat all around" on the first day. and there are no bette sweets than "Turkish deligM" pasty, creamy, crackly things made up from rose leaves, violets and poppios. nuts dates, grapes and simegranat,-s. lalWwtely m:)0 with honey, sugar, sirup and spli. Pure cold water after sweets is known by all Turlts, young and old, to be the most delicious of luxuries, and this the school children often enjoy, for the water man is cun ning enough to follow closely in thu Alike of the candy vendor, anxious to ighten his burden and draw a profit, as well us spring water, from the innned skin of a pig. which ho carrio .trapped to his shoulders like a bn pipe the Turkish water bucket Wide A -sake. A strange scene was enac'nd n few days ago in Button r-staunuit A well-dress-,! man entered and called for a raw ,-gg and a glass of sherry. His order was filled the egg broken into the glass and drank. In a few minutes the order was repeated, and the egg nnd sherry followed the first order. For seven hours the man sat at the table and kept on drinking eggs ln sherry until he had consumed twenty-four. He then paid his bill and quietly left the restaurant, appa rently none the worse for his gaalro uoiaic efforts. VICTOR A AT HOME. Saiuotlilng ,Miut ll Inner I If. of lbs t iigllati f'uurl. The inner life of the court has little Initio t, mpt a Sybarite simplicity, dutifulness, conscientious performance of work are Its characteristics. At nine o'clock Her Majesty breakfasts alone, unless some of her children grnndchlldivL or jiersonnl friends are slaying iu the palace, and she Is rarely without them. Iu summer, at Osborne, Windsor or Balmoral, this meal is gen erally served out of doors, in some ul cove.tent or summer house.afler which the Queen either driies iu n small pony carriage, accompanied by one of the princesses, or she Walks, attendod by a lady-in-wailiug or maid of honor, with whOUJI she conxerses w ith friendly ease, and fo' lowed by two Highland servants and some favorite dogs. Luncheon is served at two o'clock, the convives being Her Majesty's fam ily or royal guests. Until this hour, from her short lifter-breakfast exor cise, the Queen Is diligently occupied with official correspondence and husl uess of various kinds. Long training has made her a politician of no mean ability and breadth of view, her natu ral common sens" forming an admira ble basis for such a superstructure. It assists, too, in enabling her to choose her friends well and wisely, though the court surroundings are not calcu lated to help royal personages in form ing a just judgment of character. Hu man nature puts on a somewhat too Bngnlta guise, where every thing may lie won by amiability and nothing by the reverse. In the mornings the maids of honor (they nro nine In all) in wailing for the lime are with the princesses rend ing or practicing ou the piano, sing ing or pint ing lawn tennis with them, as any young ladles, companions to gether, might The lady-lu-waiting accompanies the Queen in her after noon drives and visits, which are most ft. quently to tho poor anil to humble workers, often lo simple gentry or any one in trouble. Afterward this lady reads aloud to Her Majesty iu her pri vate silting room. The roy al dinner hour In AM. and that meal is shared by those of the royal fiimily Ihen residing with the Queen, by distinguished visitors and some of the household in rotation, via. : lords and liulies-iu-waltlug. maids of honor, equerries and grooms-ln-waiting, this latter otltelal holding a con siderably lower position than llio equerry, though to the iinlnstructed It sounds like a distinction without a dif ference. The Queen Is n woman of strict huslneis habits and steady applies lion. The amount of correspondence she gets through is enormous. In the private portion of this corivspondcnoo Her Majesty is assisted by her private s ci clary, a lady-ln-w ail ing and a maid of honor, especially the Dowager March ion eol of Kly, one of the ladles, who is a valued friend. When I hit court is at Windsor the members of the household In attend ance are ono lady-in-waiting (these ladies are always peeresses), two maids of honor, a lord-in-w ailing, also the keeper of the privy purse, the private reerelary. assistants In both depart ments anil the mister of the house hold. Tho attendance Isthesinio at Osborne Hud Balmoral, with the ex ception of the lord-iii-walting. to attend Ul Her Majesty's toilet nnd Wardrobe Lhere arc live maids, viz.; '.in dreeaon and two wardrobe women. The senior dresser, who has bean many years with H r Majesty, Is charged specially with the task of convoying orders to trades people -jewelers, drapers dressmakers, etc ; one dresser and one wardrobe woman are iu constant attendance on the Queen, taking alternate days. Dress is n lualter iu which, even li ber yo ing days, II ir Majesty dooi uol appear to have taken much interest. Al present br porMUlul morning al lows of no crude color combination. Some of us elders have n pleasant. If vague, recollection of Victoria Region a good many year, ago. say forty or fin ty-three. In a very simple and b OOmlng bonnet tied beneath llio chin, ii wreath of wild ro-es under the brim framing a sweet, kindly young face Ah. Do! sorrow and exp rieuce havu writ Ih dr cruel marks on hers and ours since then Mrs. Alexander, in Philadelphia Times. Extension of the Metric System. Al a recent m -cling of the French Academy ol Sciences, M 1). Malurco, speaking of the extension of tile metric system of weights and measures, gave some interesting figures. In 1HX7 the aggregate population of tint countries iu which the metric system was com pulsory ana over ItOO.oOO.ouo, be ing an l icroiise of 6:1.000.000 in leu years. Iu IHH7. in countries with a pop ulation of close ou 117,000. 000. the use of the system was optional; and the coun tries wh Iff tho Hint ric system Is le gally admitted iu principle and par Dully applied (us in Rii'sia. Turlcuy and British India), had In l-; a pop ulallon of ill i.O 10.00 I, being an in crease of ii I, OHO, 000 In ten years The increase is due to the growth ol population in tho vounlrios which h,n. already uJopted the system and In It' adoption by new countries. The sys eMO! China Japan and Mexico an decimal, but lift metric. The metrii ivsteni is fiaa l 'gal i ratogatoM by nM.000,0 10 of people, and the thre, last-nan. I'd countries have a popula tion of abyul 171,003,000, so thai only about f.'.OMJ.OOO id Inhabitants ol the o: vi I i zed world have system . hieh are n-ilher iieitrlc nor ducimal. London ilaadofd Mr. Fangle "Well. I see they inve orgunieJ a milk trust now Mrs Fangle "I suppose the nexi '.h'ng will be to build crematories." Drake's Muga.ine. Mural Iteef -Farmer's wife-"Why Jo you get up and leave thut piece u teak?" Tramp "I didn't ask fo work, maun: I aakod for ometbing l ' eat." Burlington Free Press. Trumble (on Labor day) "Ar, the men who march at the head o each company the walking delegate f Laborer --"No: thlm gintlemin what rides In kerridges are lb' walking del egates, sir." Munaer's Weeklv. QUEER MEDICAL OMENS. Uriiiln l'r?ll nf In Vsrluut Part ol the im.i it ,. Of all superstitions, medical ones an1 perhaps those endowed with most vitality. People of all times and all ages, including even those of thr nineteenth century, of which we art all so proud, have always attached to, much importance to the opinions o! their medicine men. But the middlt ages was the lime for the currency ol pure and unadulterated medical super slitious. The MdUeva doctor must have added another terror to death lie his advice certainly Increased lb probability lu illness. To wear a dead man's Imiiics was thought an excellent ipeoiflo. To eat the first Kasler daisy Unit could Ik' found, and receive tin benediction in three different parish ou the same Sunday, was still a mon potent remedy. To stettl a cahbug from a neighbor's garden and hung i ou a hook to dry was another cure, mid one certainly within the means o the poorest patient. The efficacy o this remedy was possibly to be found in the theft. People who hung in horseshoes for luck may perhaps hi templed to try it on their friend' when quinine uud bark have heel found useless. A load choked ti death ou the ove of St. Joint's day was possessed of evou still mon virtue. When we recall tho Ingre dieuls of the witches' caldron iu "Mac lhtli" we are afforded, as it were, i bird's-eyo view of the phannacopuMi of the contemporaries of llieconqiieroi The water iu a ton I s bruin was dcemei a most etllcienl remedy in Illness iibou the Mime period. There were cure tor mental failings as well as bodily alllictions. To stick pins In a item man's shoes, or to carry alxiut in tlu pocket a wolfs tooth or eye, or, if i were handy, to ride upon a boar, wer, all especially I he hitler cures foi cowardice. Wo sometimes consult doctors nbout our nerves now. Per haps it Is the naino and not diseas, that is changed. The modern pruc UtlOOnr who should advise a nervuui patient to lake equestrian exercise oi a bare-backed boar would possibly oh tain notoriety, If not patients, to-day A MV0relgn cure for toothache was ti apply a dead man's tooth to tho suitor Ing jaw of the living. For epilepsy the remedies were many and peculiar One was to wear a mediil bearing lh names of (iaspnr, Melchior and Ha thiisar. M. ('hnlliimel Informs u that some faith is still attached It rural France to tho extraordinur; remedies wc have mentioned, ami ivai in London and Paris, lu educated clr clcs, a good many medical suHrstltloiir are still extant. Journal of American Folk-Lore. ILLICIT TRADERS. lu. i. ,i. in iii IVIiii ti.- .i Hourr ,il 41ra PrstaMe in Deals smir iiiiiir One of the purposes for which troops under express provisions of the K. vised Statutes, may be employed in Hi. Indian Torrltory is tho arrest oi Ullol traders. Iii llnit Territory, and In al reservation! set apart for the use o DM red men, the I int ernment guiit nii tecs that white shall lie kept away Kxceptlons tire made, uf course, mule: tho permits of the Indian Bureau through its agents, and soldiers an also authorized to perform certain dn ties there. But the chances of proll carry into the Indian country trader '.t ho have no authority to enter it. Tin tribes themselves In some instances en courage their presence, especial!; when they hnvr alcoholic liquor anion their goods, the selling of which to lu diaus Is forbidden any way, and they are the more tempted to risk urre and punishment from tho good price they can get. When their presence bo comes known, troops are sometime, summoned by the itgeuls to scout fo and arrest the offenders. Bather a striking Instance of th trouble occasionally caused by illlcl traders occurred among the Nnvajoi e Now Mexico a year or two ago. squad of soldiers, starting from For Wlngalc t arrest whisky peddlers, wu confronted by a large force of Navajo who declared thai the men should no lie taken away. Tho sergeant in clinrgi of the squad, finding his party greatly outnumbered, was compelled lo pro Oaad to Fori Defiance, where the Indlai agent communicated with Fort Win gate, and a troop of cavalry was sell out For a time an outbreak of till powerful tribe was feared from tie mischief thus stirred up by the whisk, sellers. More recent testimony to tin connection between the suppression o illicit traders and the well-being of tin Indians is given in this extract Iron the last annual report of Mr. Carrol II. Potior, acting agent for tho Osaife, in tho Indian Territory: "Thore hu been no Improvement in the couditioi of the Osage Indians duriug thu lai year. These people are not sufficiently industrious to control In the right direc tlon the amount of money they get Ii consequence a large share is spent fo contraband articles, which it seem very easy for them to procure alnn; the State linu and from peddlers ou th reservation. The latter class the In dians will protect In every fiossibli way. The trulllo In whisky by ped dlers on the reservation Is. in my opinion, alarmingly on the increase Harper Bazar. Cherry Jelly: Common wild bird eherrleii make a nice and handsome jelly: Pick the cherries, put In an earthen dish, add a spoonfull or two water and steam them half an hour mash them well with n wooden spoon place in a jelly bag to drip, measure your sirup, place it in a kettle and i xil I it AosSJ minutes, add a pint of netted sugar to each pint of and Im.i I fifteen minute longer, iuen our ii jell v vlasMtK. The Home. - A young man who never earned a lo lar. indenting a fortune, will often fool nwny more within six months than his father sient needlessly In forty year. Olve opportunities for honest nUir tilt by earning money be know he worth of It When you are judging a friend t hose actions puzzle you. but whose motives you can not see. remember tout "Charity thlnket). no evil." It la - blessed thing habitually to put the best construction on the behavior ol others. INTELtlObN I MONKfcidh Curious Alltnlutr uf S l'llllliplll suit itD Orang 1 1 .... , The great physiologist. Bliimeuhach. had one of the monkey tribe, whoso movements and conduct he carefully watched for more than a year together. It came lo manage the wood for the stove wiih great dexterity, and would put It lu with as much judgment uud economy as a cook-maid or a parsi monious spinster. This unimal was very partial to tho fire, liko all other apes, and would occasionally singo himself, when he would sally forth and roll round In the snow with all the ecstasy of a Russian afler taking a warm vapor bath at 1MO degrees of heat. After en joying this luxury for a time ho would return to his old quarters by the fire. He once swallowed a lump of arsenic large enough to have done the business uf ten Kalmucks, hut In him It pro duced only u trilling indisposition, nnU in a short while he whs quite well again. A work ou insects happened to lie for some time upon the table, and which our philosopher contemplated with solemn stiidiiiusness fur about an hour. Tho illustrations particularly riveted his attention; whether they awakened reminiscences of his former haunts is unknown, hut when the book came lo lie examined, It ', discovered that with consummate address ho had pinched out all the beetles of the large plates and actually eaten them It I supposed mistaking them for real in sects In some unknown slate of pre servation. Some curious details are given of the habits of orang outangs exhibited many years ago in liudon. They were male and female, Ihe former the Chim panzee, and the littler the Borneo. In some respects they presented a marked contrast, ami did not show the least tenderness or attachment to each other. The social habits of the Chimpanzee far exceeded those of tho female. In the morning, on first seeing a pareM whom he knew, ho would utter a loud cry of recognition, and running to wards him, would stand perfectly erect, spreading his arms like a child to be taken up. when he would wind them around the neck of the individual In the manner of the fondosl embrace; nor was it an easy task for those to whom he was attached to leave tho room ex cept by stealth. The Instinct of providing and plac ing warm materials for her bed was most marked In tho female, whn would he for two hours drugging blankets from various parts of the room, smooth ing and changing their position, and beating any raised part down with her knuckles, assuming at the same lime a look of gravity mid an appearance of wisdom. The hearing of both animals was ir uiarkahly acute, and the knowledge of sounds was accurately shown. They also seemed lo have a pretty good idea of time, for as the hour approached at which they were removed to their nightly quarters, they would of their own accord get the blankets, and en fold themselves iu readiness to depart; and if their removal was protracted be yond the usual time, it required force lo prevent them from going to the door. Tike Chimpanzee having caught a cold, ho had a violent cough that ln sound was remarkably human; and when u fit of coughing came on he was usually given some sweetmeat or cur ilial to stop It. He soon adopted tho cough hh means of obtaining those lux uries. Really, those creatures that "ape humanity so," create in us strange and by no moans agretable sensations about ourselves. -N. Y. LadgOf, A HEALTHFUL DIET. I mil l'i-i i.-i l VdixI In Sumuinr Writ . lMiil.-r. Some people are afraid to eat fruit, thinking that fruit and diarrlui'ii are always associated, when. If they under stood the true cause of the diurrlucu. they would know that it wus caused by eating meat, ln hot weather meat pu trelles very quickly, and during this process alkaloids are formed which are very poisonous, acting as emetics ami purgatives. "Pis true that fruit eaten green ot between meals will Interfere with digestion and cause bowel troubles; but use fruit that is perfectly rite at meal-time, and only beneficial results will follow. Acids prevent calcareous degenera tions, keeping the bones elastic, as well as preventing the accumiiliilion of .-sit lily matters. This is because of the Solvent power ol the acids: but manufact ured acids are uol harmless, as are those which nature has prepared for us In the various kinds uf fruit Fruit is u porfitcl fond when fully ripe, but If it went In dally use from youth to age there would be less gout gall-stones and stone iu the bladder. Stewed ap ples, peurs and plums uro favorite ar ticles of diet' For breakfast or lunch eon, lo the dining room or in the nur sery, there nro few table dishes mure wholesome and more delicious than well-stewed fruit served up with creum or custard. There are many persons, however, who can not eat it on account blther of acidity of thu fruit or the excess of sugar necessary to make it palatable. Sugar does not, of course, counteract acidity; It only disguises It, and Its use In large quantities is calculated to re tard digestion. The housewife may, therefore, lie grateful for the reminder that a pinch, a very small pinch, of carbonate of soda, spriukled over the fruit previously to cooking, will suve sugar, and will render the dish at once more palulable and more wholesome. - Medical Classics. Summer boarding. Algernon de Hwellton "Will you please pass me the menu?" Kliza Jane "We haven't any this morning, sir. They're not in season vet" Too Much of This Nonsense. Sink (of the firm of Sink & Swim) Well Mr. Ollhooly, we don't need a man jnst now: but It you will work for the salary we have spoken about I will hire you on one condition. Otlbooly I accept Name It Sink That you will not have the daily papers announce that you "have accepted a very advantageous offer from Sink 4 Swim." Judge. I Joes a horsa ceaae to be bervlbar ous when It is esttinv lta head off -W. If. Uarald, . oi the family.