13 WILLAMETTE FARMER. n F-ii I Te HPIE Circle. A Memory. Bj ELUA E. AilTHONT. Fair land we, a fragrant odor Steals soft o'er my senses no, A I kneel here, closelr clasping net hands 'gainst tn aching brow. Tin the ame sweet, dizzying odor Of the fragrant tuberose white, TLat he twined among my tresses, Just one year ago to-night. Just one year but O, what changes; To liim, 'twas lut a brief delight; I was a toy a passing Joy. Would that I had died that night I 'lis all past, but not forgotten; O. that there would never coma The memory of thine happy hours, l'ragraut with the tuberose bloom. ? uomg tain, lio urged tbat mere siiould be n- exces-1 snakespeare s play, by Alfred de Vlgney, nav- " sive use of mineral water, whtther it be attilicial I ing been acted, the word handkerchief was used ., , . . . . .. t hi.. , or not. saying that it produces tipsyness and for the fir-t time on the stage, amid cries of in- That word home always sounds like poetry to He 1,'ai!Cewry , 0 ,, 8peciB, dignatjou from the Budlene'. I doubt if to me. It rings like a peal of bi-lls nt a wedding, attention to the fact that many ol the syrups day French elegantes would carry handker only more soft and sweet, and it chimes deeper used at soda fountains are manufactured from chiefs if the wife of Napoleon I. had nut given into the earH ot my heart. It does not matter objectionable materials, and are injurious to the them the signal for adopting them. The Ein- araiorn n ntio i fva ri lliu urvntphAiiFV atrvnna ' ttrnja .TnounhitiA llmnnli anlln Intro It nnn llfTitr wnetnerit meauB matcueu cottage or miuu. house, home is home.be it ever so homely, and there's no place like it. Green grow the houscleekou the roof forever, andh-t the moss flourish on the thatch. Sweetly the sparrows chirrup and the swallows twitter around the ohnsnn snot which is mv iov ond rest. Every bird loves its own nest; the owls think the old ruins the fairest spot under the moon, and the fox is of opinion that his hole in tbe mil is re- markably cosy SVben my master's nag knows that his bead is towards hnms he wants no whip, but thinks it best to put on all steam; and I am always of the same mind, tor the charcoal process ior purifying wter. tie way home, to me, is the best bit of mud in the ' strongly opposed the Uie of z no in lieu of tin, country. I like to see tbe blue Hmoke out of , io the construction of vessel-, for watnr. Nut my own chimney betterthan the lire on another ' he referred to tea and coffee and the rapid and man's hearth; there is Bomeihing so beautiful I most txiraordtn try introduction of these bev in the way in which it curls up among the trees. erngea or tonics among nil nutiuus, and the ef Cold potatoes on iny own table toste hotter feet such decoctions would have on the brute than roast meat at my neighbor's, and the creation. Six ordinary cups of coffee will kill honeysuckle at my own door is the sweetest I ' n cat. One cup contains ubout a graiu of caf ever smell. When yon are out, friends do tbeir fein. In making coffee turee groups are ex best, but still it is not home. "Make yourself at traded by the hot water: Volatile oil, the home," they Bay, because everybody knows t aroma or coffee flivor; the active cuffeiu and that to feol nt home is to fetl at ease, Ihe fixed extract, the brown substiuce in ihe "East and West, cup containing a small nmount ot c iffein and a Homo is best." large amount of extract. Why, at home yon are ot home, and what more , Tbeiu and caff in aot directly ou tbe ststem do you want? Nobody grudges you, whatever and satisfy ihe human demand for o mild ner your appetite may be; and joii don't get put vous tonic The researches of tnvelers have into a d.imp bod. Safe in bis own castle, like i shown tbat every people, be they in one hetni n king iu bis palace, a man feels himself j sphere or the other, have these ut tvh exuting somebody, and is not afraid of being thought I Leverages, and though different in lorm, color proud for thinking so. Iery cock may crow ' and niUhod of use, they are compos-d of hIo on his own dunghill; and a dog is a lion when meuts with the same bise caffeiu. The he is at hoinoi. A sweep is uia-ter inside his higher iutillectual development of the past own door. No need to guard every word bo- fen hundred j tars with the tension of nervous cause somo enemy is on tbe watch, no keeping energy of the times, is doubtless the caue of the heart under lock and key ; but as soon as the geueral u-e of theo bavirages, which have tho door is shut, it is liberty hull, and none to a mild stimulating effect on the nervous lassi peep anil pry. There is a g'orious view Iroui tude of the age. The various varieties of te the top of Lnth hill, in our dear old Surrey, were spoken of britfly, the strong effict of the and Hindhead nud Martha's chapel and Box- green variety being attributed to the excess of hill are not to bo sneezed at, but I oonld show the principle therein. The particular offtct you something which to my mind beais them and use of tannin iu the leaves was also alluded all to nothing for real beauty; I mean John Uo. The composition of toa was: First A rioughman's cottage, with the kettle boiling on volatile oil, which passes' off as aroma in the the hob, singing like an uufallen black angel, preparation of tea. Second Tne principle while the ot is lying asleep in front of therein, ond third, a fixed extract which is the fire, and the wife iu her chair mend- mainly tannin. The boiling of tea was stated ing stockiugs, and tho children cutting to be absolutely objectionable. The Japanese boai tne roin, as tun ut-fiiuijii young iiinjux j dare tea lick o tne eighth century uud.Chi- It is n singular fact, and perhaps Home of you will doubt it, but tnat is your unnuueving na ture, our little ones ore real beauties, always a pound or two plumper than others of their afe, oud yet it don t tire you half so much to nurse them hs it does other people's babies. Why, bless you, my wife would give out in half the tiuio, if her neighbor had naked her to see to a room may be learned fiom the following solilo- If one starts in hanging piotures with the de trange youugster, but her own children don't quy of n baby : I termination to place them where they oan be Attain tn tiro liei nt all: now niv belief is that it I nm liprn. And if thin ia wlint trim- null Ilia i :i- aaan nn.i untAAj -.... .......i .i. nil comes of their having been born at home, Just so it is with everything else; our lane is the most beautiful for '20 miles around, because onr home is iu it; and my garden is a perfect paradise, for uo other particular reason than this very good oue, that it belongs to the old house at homo. x uuuiiui. uiiknv uut uj bu ujriiij t.uiniu men spenu tueir oveuiugs at tne ptiiiuo nouse, when their own firesides would be so much bet tor and cheaper too. There they sit, hour after hour, boozing and talking nonsense, and for getting the dear good souls at homo who are half starved and weary with waitiug for them. Husbands should try to make home happy and holy. It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest, a b id man who makes bis home wretched. Our houHO om-ht to be a little church, with holiness to the L jrd over the door, but it ought ueer to tie a pri-ou wuere mere is plenty oi and I suppose tbnt pretty wblte-taoed little wo rulo and order, but little love aud no pleasure. , man on the pillow is Emeliue. Married life is not all s igar, but grace in the No, I was mistaken ; for a chap was in here heart will keep away most of the sours God 'just now andwautedto see Bob's baby ; aud liuess and love can make a man liko a bird iu ' looked at me and Bald I was a funny little tcad a hedge, slug among thorns oud briers, and set and looked just like Bob. He smelt of oigars. others a singing too. It should be the bus-1 1 wouderwho else I belong to. Yes, there's baud's pleasure to please his wife, and tho another one that's "Gatmni." "It was wife's cure to care for her husband. He is Oamma'H baby, so it was" I declare I do not kind to himself who is kind to his wife. I am know who I belong to ; but I'll holler, and afraid some men llo by the rule of sell, and maybe I'll find out. There comes Snuffy with when that is the case home happiness is a mere catnip tea. I'm goiug to sleep. I wonder why sham. When husbmds and wives are well my bands wont go whore I want them to. yoked, how light their load beoouies! It is i'aniidriaii not oiiery oiipie that is a pair, oud the morn's i 7. 7. r- . the pity. In a true home all the Btrife is which' Interesting FaCtS. can do tho most to make the family happy, A home should be. a Brtbtl, uot n Babel. Tho A blind boy had become thirteen years of ace husband should be the hoiieebaud, binding all logetuor like a corner aione, mil not criluitig .. ...... i in in.. tr..i.i.i I..... titrrviuiuK imc- n ujuipiuud. -jukium wim uuuil. ueerlug husbands ought not to pretend to be Christians, for they act cleau oontrary to Christ's commauds. Yet a home must be well ordered, W it will become a Bedlam, and be a scaudul to the parish. If the father drops the reius, the family ooaeh will boou bs in the dltoh. A wise inixiure of love and flrmueBs will do it; but neither harshness nor softness alone will keep home lu happy order. -Spurijton. llKADisa as x I in ABT.-Readiug may be ..'j,, asMlA 0Ol,ia dUcover that the boya said to bear the mime relat on to written lati- were ,,, lu diltUm oorUBr of the ro0H, guage that the art of executing musio does to I steAi,t studying, although a person using his the science of composing It. hvery true per- eyes could not detect lb slighUt sound. Pro former executes the works of the great masters j,,, Band.won, who was blind, could In a in a manner peculiar to hmsolf; grasping by , minutes tell how mauy persons were in a instinct the hidden boamiea of thought aud mlxed comply, and ol each sex. A blind poetry hiuuuk iuo vuuiun, ua uuiuma lueiu iu ears to which the familiar tuues sound like a rf elation. The player creates nothing, he wishes to benothiug for the time being but tbe embodiment of the spirit of his master. It is imolstly the same with reading. Happy is the reader who has attained that hlght in his art which causes hi listeners to forget him in their absorbing interest! in the thought and soenes he is laying before them. He is like a mighty conjurer who alone has deciphered the secret of spells, written perhaps yearn and years ago wntteu i-o that all may read, aud who cau, with a wave of his luaglo wand,, conjure loith before our aitouished gate visions of life lu every as peot, from tbe uigantio ambitions aud paiou ,f Lady Macbeth to the wflt "; Wj' thai over wa written. Tht Liberal (MrWum. Domestic Beverages. On Saturday evening, Feb. 12th, Professor lE V. Hilgard, of the Slate University, de livered the first of a series of lectures on "The Domeetio Beverages of Different Nations." He first directed attention to the beverage clear, I pure, sparkling water, and Bald that it has been asserted that water is most Injurious to the ' bnman system when it is taken raw and not boiled; that to be most healthful it should be most pare, and that it should be in the state . which cbemists call distilled. Such water fails to quench thirst. Ihe lecturer touched upon the gases of , water, and referred to the health-giving prop- erties of soda water, but deprecated the fact 1 that injurious materials are used in the con - struction of the receptacles and pipes. The pipes irequentiy poisoned tne water, He ad- vised persouB who wished lo obtain pure soda water to test it by trying it without syrups, and 1 if it left a disagreeable and flatfish fl vor in the mou'h to drink no more of It from tbat foun- tVer saw a httawberry. They are made out of oldehisse. Of course, tbe cheese is so trans- lormed that all truces of it are entirely gone, The M. of mineral water,. is too frequent in ci J aiuuii iu wuv u u u ii uw ntiian uua j nj a uo trict iu Mississippi tbe people had nothing else iu the character of water to drink, and epsom salts (as it really was) was used in coffee and teannd as a refreshing drink. There was much sicknoss in consequence. Tli tiarjnnn tirliit tnlia mArlim rtA hananaa (lifif , 4kUC7 UOIOUIJD HUV 1MOU UJIUIUIU UBli'lMOU IUVT are ill will and tlmt it is not nenltutul to con-1 tinue the drugs afti r they have been restored, to health. Tho ltcturer spoke oa th coutami-1 nation uf wells, and suggested the use of the i nese sun lunuer, out it is not oenevea mat tne knowledge of tea extended in time anterior to the first mentioned century. A Baby's Soliloquy. Some imnortant hints in roewd to the sick- world, I don't think much of it. It's a very llanuelly world, and smells of paregorio aw- tally. It's a dreadful light world, aud makes me blink, I tell you. And I don't know what to do with my hands ; I think I'll dig my fists I iu my eyes. No, I wont. I'll scrabble nt the ' corner of my blanket and chew it up, and then i x ll uotier, juu me uiuro ji ireoriu luey give me, me jouoor i n yen. ium uiu nurse puis can t ue nung too securely out oi tne reach oi the spoon in tho comer of my month in a very meddling hands. They are often not clear in tint nay way, and keeps tasting my milk her- their minds as to what a picture is meant for, self nil tbe while, bhe spilt sunff in it last and not finding in it auy practical relation to night, and when I hollered, trotted me. That human life and society, they treat it with rev came of being a two days old baby. There's ereuce and put it where it will disturb thorn us a piu stickiug iu me now, and if I say a Hltle as possible. But, as people come to en I word about it, I'll be trotted or fed ; and I joy pictures and get some in ellectual, spiritual would rather have catnip tea. I tell you who i nourishment out of them, thev want them as lam. I iound out to-day. I heard folks say, " Hush, don't wake up Emoliue's baby," when his eyes were touched by n aurgeou. Ha iuuuKui, ur us uiu.OT1,unutuiui, wvt ...o ,,i(i h- .,i! arorv h ui i,,i, i ,.,u,..., - .-uv.wv. v..j ijwv, .umvuc "'m, uud he could not dbtinguUh by sight whnt he perfectly well kuew by feeling, for iuitance, the cat and dog. When bis Becond eyejwas touched, he remarked that the objects were not bo large in appearauoe to this as the one opeued at first. Pictures he considered o"1' partly colored surfaoes, and a miniature abi-olutely astouished him, seeiug to him like putting a bushel iuto a piut. Stanley, the organ- lli iiuu mnuy uuim uiiibiuidus uuvn uctfll lUO lt.iit idfnrlilaril i-tf tVitl flmi un.l i o.iknnlmld Freuoh lady oould dance iu figure dances, sew, ana i ureaa ner own needle, a bllud man in Derbyshire has actually beeu a surveyor of roads, his ear guiding him as to distance as accurately as the eye lo others; tbe late Justice Fieidiuit, who was blind, on walking into a room for the fint time, after speakiug a few word, said, "This room is twenty-two feet long, eighteen wide, and twelve high," all of which was revealed to him with accuracy through the medium of his ear. Verily, "we are tearfully and wonderfully made." A N-loiiDoaiNO farmer gives this bit of ad vice, whioh oontaius a very good hit; "If yon waut tbe bojg to stay on the (arm, do not bear on too bard when the boy i turning the grindstone." The Handkerchief Seventy Years Ago. The handkerchief, which is nowfa indispen sable appendage of every lady's and gentle man's costume, is of comparatively modern in troduction. It was not very many years ago deemed a vulgar object, instead of a mark of neatness, as now. Until the reign of the Empress Josephine, a handkerchief was thoueht. in France, so shock ing an object that a lady would never dare to . use it before anv one. The word was ever carefully avoided In refined conversation. An actor who would have used a handker- chief on the stage, even in the most tearful j moments of the play, would have been unmer- cifully hissed; and it is only iu the beginning 1 ol the present century tbat a celebrated aoi- , ress, Mile. Dachesnoise, dared to appear with nandkercnlei in band. Having to speaK ot tne nandkerchlef in the course of tne piece, sne never could summon courage to call it by its true name, but referred to it as a light tissue. A few years later, a translation of one of jj v a v uoi juiUD) IUUUUU CUltJ t iuj f w ugij teeth. To conceal them, she was in the habit of carrying Bmall handkerchiefs adorned with costly lace, which she continually raised grace fully to her lips. Of course all the ladies of the court followed her example, and baudker Chiefs have rapidly become an important and costly part of the feminine toilet; to that the price of a single handkerchief of the trousseau of the Duchess of Edinburgh would make tbe fortune of a necessitous family. Phrenological Journal. The Influence of Song. It has been said by a writer on the history of the Crimeau war that the English soldiers upon very numerous occisious. worn out by fighting and weary of their iru tless toil, would, when night fell above thy battle-field collect them selves around tbeir camp fires, and, with hearts heavy on account of ho,e e-s absence from home and kiudreil, shed many tears oi despondency in view of the threitemug struggles of the future. At last, toward the close of that frightful conflict, when night again had closed upon a scene of unparalleled horror, and wi h ranks even more than usually thinned by slaughter, tbey had once more tn't to call over the names and numbers of friends then dead or dyiug, many a breast hitherto bold for battle now shrank iroui further fight, aud many a veteran now breathed cursed against the banner of his queen. But, as here aud there the lights burned low, and ifficers and men were dropping down to slumber, from the far boundary ot the English camp came rising on tbe air the notes of song it was "Anuie Laurie;" and as it rose it gathered strength, lor here a soldier caught it, and there another, and there auotuer, until in one grand volume of sound tbe words of the beautilul chorus rolled above the weary army. D iy soon dawned, and with the music ot "Anuie Laurie" in iheir hearts aud on their lips one Krand charge was made many a poor soldier fell but Sevastopol was taken. J. W. Dodd, in Rome and School. How 'to Hang Pictures. No picture ought to be hung higher than the bight of tbe avenge human eye when tbe owner of the eje is i-tacdmg. It is the almost universal rtdann 6Sir houses to bang pictures much above this level, and tbey canuot be en joyed there. If the picture is a portrait, or if it has faces in it, its eyes should look as nearly into ours as possible ; and if there be no such simple guide, perhaps a good rule will be to have the hue that divides the picturo horizontally into equal parts level with the eye neck the least, or stooping the body, he will be pretty sure to do well. In remote farmhouses i and country taverns we often see pictures, par- ' ticularly portraits, skyed as high as if their owners had bten academy hangers, and the painters young rivals of a new school. I i.up-1 nose the reason is that the simnle-hearted owners tUlUK a plCtU k Dlcture such a nrecious thini? it hhev want tbeir books, where thev cau see them and use them. JV. 1. TW&uiie, Gin and Aloks. A few mornings since the conductor of a train which daily brings to our city many of our substantial business men, who reside in the southern part of the state, asked oue of the patrons, who is something of a farmer, what he gave his pigs when they were troubled with worms. "Gin and aloes" promptly responded tbe perron questioned. 1'hts morning the conductor, as he entered the smoking car, approached his former advisor and told him tht the doe which he had recom mended had been gieu and the pig had died, "Nothing strauga about that," responded the other, "I gave it to tie of mine aud ullof ihem died " "Why didn't you tell me so?" said the conductor. "Because you didn't ak," replied the other, oud tn-u such a roar as went up Irom tbe inmates of that car has seldom beeu heard ..... w. prr)1,f,r,n, p,,, on mat line. xrouiaencr rrcss, Thk Fdtubk, The more we think of the state after death, the deeper is the awe with which we must contemplate it; and sometime in weakness we long for the happy, bright imag inations of childhood,, when wu saw tbe othor world vividly piotured, a bright and perfect copy of tbe world in which we now live, with sunshine nd flower', aud all that constitute our earthly enjoyment. In alter life we strive to trans' ate these images iuto something higher. We say all these we shall have, but iu some higher form. All this beauty around us i per ishable; its outward form and substance is cor ruption; but there is a soul in it, and (AU shall rise again. Vkbt. few ladies kuow how serviceable they may make the faded roses of a bouquet. For their future kuowledge is this told. By placing tbe leae iu a dish aud adding a few drops of alcohol a delioious odor is diffused through the room. In EugUud, especially, this mode is quite generally adopted, very Urge flower vases btiiig used as receptacles, and they are fre quently half tlllea with these dried dowers. The flavor of rosa may be given to cake by placiug the butler uied on a plate in a covered jar of tbe leaves prepared in this way, Ex. A Novix Use rou Oil. Two hundred barrels of oil bare Wen pouted iuto the basin at Balti more to destroy ihe effluvia. Tbe oil, it is said, deodoriia the globule of sulphuretted hydrogen generated by the sea water's action upon organic matter. YoUfq Folks' CoLAJpfl. "He Says He Will." One bitterly cold winter a poor woman, who had been struggling against illness and poverty, was left without a shilling in the world. With many tears she was obliged to tell her little bov, who was her only son, that she could give no breakfast that morning, for sbe had not a loa' ot bread in the house. She was therefore vi-rv much surprised when, after having been out of tbe room, he presently returned, ana Degan (which he always did) to lay the little white cloth on the table, get out tbe plates and cup, and put everything in readiness for breakfast. "Why, Frank," ! said his mother, "what are you doing that for? Did you not hear me say that we have not a bit of bread in the house? ' " Yes, mother, but I have been ankiug Qod to send us some, and I know he will hear me, because you know, mother, he Fays he will," answered the little boy, with a cheerful smile. This answer cheered the poor widow's heart, and she remembered that Gudhas promised to provide. Men may break their promises, but God never does. Presently they heard the sound of a horse's feet coming up tbe roa i, and goina to the door, Frank perceived a gentleman slowly leading o horse along. He stopped at the little wicket gate and said : "Look hero, my boy, my horse has lost two shoes, and I have still 12 miles to go ; lake him to ihe blacksmith's shop over the way, and when you have bi ought him i-afelv hick I will reward you for your trouble. Will jou allow me to rest in jour cottnge in the meantime ?" he added to the poor widow, who appeared in the doorway. 'Surely, sir," she answered with a courtesy, "and welcome, too." and hastened to set a chair for the gentleman. Tbey soon got into conversation. " 1 un ufraid I am keeping you from jour breakfast, my good woman," he said, seeing that tnere was notning on tne tn b e but pi tes and cups, " pray do just as if you were nloue." And hepressed her so much tbat the poor woman was at length obliged to tell him the true state of the case. When lit tie Frank came back with the horse the uentle man mounted quickly, aud rode off, having firt dropped a five shilling piece into the boy's band. "You shall hear from me again," he said, as he galloped away. 0 how eagerly Fiank ran in-doors. to show his mother what God had sent him 1 What was his surpriio when, with tears ot joy, the. poor widow held up a bank-note, exeUming, " O my child, Low could I doubt the Lord for one moment I You were right, you were right, my boy I" Aud tbe happy mother, and still happier son, kutlt down and returned tbauks to their heavenly Father for his goodness to them. O that ye all bad this dear boy's faith in God's promises. Then, indeed, should we find the truth of David's words : "The Lord God is apresenf help iu time of trouble." Childhood. Children are but little people, yet they form a very important part of soci ety, expend much of our capital, employ a great portion of our population in their service, and occupy half the Uleratl of our day in labors for their instruction and nmusement. Tbey cause more trouble and anxiety than tbe na tional debt; the loveliest of women, iuhermatu, rity of charms, breaks not so many alumbers, nor occasions so many sighs as she did in her cradle; and the handsomest of men, with full mustache, must not flatter himself that he is half so much admired as he was when in petti coats. Without any reference to their being our future statesmen, philosophers, and mag istrates in miniati re disguises, children form iu then? pre-ent state of pignVy existence a most influential class of beings; and tbe ad vent 'of a tiny creature which can scarcely open its eyes, and only opens its mouth, like an unfledged bird, for food, will effect the most extraordi nary alteration in a whole household, substi tute affection for coldness, duty for dissipation, cheerfulness for gravity, and unite hearts which time had divided. Ex. Production and Price of Wheat. The statistician of the Department of Agri culture has summarized bis reports of the crop year of 1875, and gives tbe following table of estimated yield per acre in the leading wheat producing Stales: States. 1871. 1873. 1871. 187S. Bushels. Bushels. Busbels. Bu.hels. NewTork 12.5 13.5 15.0 8 Pennsylvania 10 8 1(2 118 13 8' Ohio 11.7 13 15 9.5 Michigan 12 122 11.2 13 5 Indiana 12.4 11.2 122 9 Illinois 12 1 13 5 11.5 10 5 Wisconsin 14.3 10 5 11.5 11 Minnesota 10 5 18 3 11.4 17 Iowa 12 6 13 11.6 9.7 Missouri 8 8 12 8 13.5 9 Kansas 110 14 1S.7 12.5 California 12.2 13.5 13.2 11 Price. The following table shows the price per bushel on December 1st, 1875, ns contrasted with the preceding years in the same states: States. 1872. 1873. 1874. 1875. New York $165 $160 120 $131 Pennsylvania 167 150 121 129 Ohio 142 131 104 109 Michigan 1 46 1 35 1 08 1 15 Indiana 132 122 94 97 llllnol 1 23 110 86 91 Wisconsin 103 . 97 83 91 Minnesota 83 SO 70 86 Iowa 85 79 05 71 Missouri 1 41 1 13 83 95 California Ill 132 99 118 The Taix Mrs. Aceording'to the report of tbe United States Sauitary Commission, it ap pears tbat this country, instead of being degen erate and iuferior to the European races in point of physical perfection, is far tbe reverse. The figures adduced show tbat "tbe tallest men were from Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin; the next tallest, New England, New York, New Jersey; und the sbnrtet from Scotland, Eng land, Germany," In weight, tbe men of Ken tucky aud Teunessee were the heaviest, averag ing one hundred and fifty pounds, while those ot England, Scotland, France, Belgium all aver age between oue hundred and thirty. eight and one hundred and thirty-nine pounds. Machine Suors in BnssiA. In 18G6, Bussia had 100 foundries aud maohine shops, only M of which were provided with steam. At the present lime there are 3U2 of these establish ments, 79 of which are exclusively occupied with the manufacture of agricultural imple ments. Statistics are to band concerning 179 shops only; the-e employ 46 528 workmen. In 18G8 there were 222 locomotives made in Bussia; last year the number was 768, A large number of English workmen are employed in Bussian engineer shops, but they complain of belug treated as naturalized Bussian subjeots tbat i to say, their personal rights and liber ties are bat little respected, FaMXTraa Cofpib. A process has been pat ented by Mr. S, L. Crocker, of Taunton, Mass , which consists in adding zinc in small quantity in a furnace to the copper ore or ores, or to the partially refined metallio copper therein, con taining arsenio and antimony, whereby, it is claimed, those impurities can be readily removed. Domestic EcojJopny- How to Wash Dishes. Faith Rochester writes in the American Agri culturist: I dislike greatly to wipe dishes that have not been drained from clear hot water. Yet I seldom see any one wash and wipe dishes in my way. Usually the diBhes are washed in ends, and then are either passed immediately through hot water and wiped by an assistant, or they are piled up and afterward are turned down in a dish-pan as though to drain them (over their backs), after which each is taken from the rinsing water and immediately wiped without previous draining. In either case the wiping cloth is made quite wet, and sometimes two or three are needed for the operation. I think it is a saving of labor, on tbe whole, to drain the dishes, though one has to use a com mon dish-pan for it, as I do. There is no other comfortable process if children do the work, A little girl, six years old washes and wipes all of my breakfast dishes, and usually wipes the dinner dishes for me. Sbe kneels in a cbair at ibe dish-table and does her work very satis factorily, I first wash tbe pans and stone or iron dishes, all of the big, awkward, or very ticky uttnsils, and my rinsing water serves as her dish water I get the work all ready for her, placing the pi ites in the bottom of the dish-pan, with saucers, cups, etc., at the top, and knives, forks, aud spoons stuck iu around the sides. When I call her to the work, she finds these dishes soaking in warm water, with a clean, orderly table to pile them upon as she washes them. Sometimes I get the rinsing water for her from the stove reservoir, bat if I am busy she gets it herself, if able to empty the big dish-pan of the dish water. Tbe uig pan is used for draining the d sbes, after beiug wiped out clean with the dish-cloth. The rins ing water is iu another pau, and the washed dUhes are run through it, cups first, then bowls, i-aucers, plates, etc., and are all turned down to drain in the dish-pan. They dry very faBt, and the wiping cloth is scarcely damp when the work is done. Some good bouse keepers wipe the dishes directly from the first suds, but that never seems to me a clean wny of doing. "l always scald my dishes, boasts one, but I happen to know tbat ber dishes are usually streaked or sticky when put upon the Bhelves, oec.vuse sne "scalds ' tnem in sucn an aoiuro manner, turning them all down in ber pan, and pouring hot water over the backs of her dishes, leaving the faces of the plates nnd other dishes unrinsed, while the heating they get from the bot water on their backs dries the suds or gieisy dish water in streaks, which do not all wipe off ; and so the wiping-towels get quickly soiled. A Royal Dish. I lately saw a picture and a description of a dish said to be greatly relished by Emperor Dom Pedro, from whom it derived its name. Now, I had no such pan or dish, but I was de termined to coutrive one. Therefore, I went to the kitohen press, took down the steamer its bottom is loose, and can be taken out took out the bottom nnd found that it would just fit the ton of our smallest frying-pan or spider. Next day I contrived to have too many pota toes lor dinner; these I placed on tbe steamer bottom, makiug a smooth pyramidal shape of them, placed a bit of butter upon them, then put the gravy and meat scraps left from dinner in the spid-r, added a little water, and put the potatoes and steamer-bottom upon this and placed all in the oven of the cook stove. At supper my makeshift dish was heartily par taktti of and praised, and I presume was as goodas if I had possessed the real "Dom Pedro dish" to cook it in. The potatoes were baked a nice brown, tbe meat and gravy warmed over nicely, and the steam from tbe meat had gone into the potatoes, making them better than if baked in a pan. Carrie Lee, in Am. Patron To prevent flat irons from rusting, melt one fourth ounce of camphor and one-half pound of fresh hog's lard over n slow fire, take off the scum, and mix as much black lead with the c imposition as will bring it to the color of iron. Spread this over the articles for which it is in tended. Let it lie for 21 hours, and then rub it well with a dry linen oloth. Or smear the irons over with melted suet, and dust thereon some pounded unslaked lime from a muslin bag. Cover the irons with baize in a dry plaoe when not iu use. GiNot.it Cakhs. Rub a quarter of a pound of butter into half a pound of flour, mix one egg, three ounces of powdered loaf sugar, and half an ounce of ground ginger with the butter and flour, and make them altogether into a paste; roll it out a quarter of an inch thick and cut it into round cakes, about two or three inches across; bake them in a warm oven, on iron plates. A Good Giuvv. Chop fine some loan meat, an onion, some slice j of carrot and turnip, and a little thyme and parsley; put these with halt an ounce of batter into a saucepan, and keep them stirred until tbey are slightly browned; add a little spice, and water in tbe proportion of a pint to one pound nf meat. Clear the gravy from scum, let it boil half an honr, and then strain it for use. Science in tub Podmo Schools. At the close of his series of six Christmas lectures, in London, on electricity, Prof. Tyndall remarked tbat five of them had been illustrated with ap paratus which any teacher could make of the commonest material, at scarcely any cost. He hoped the example thus set would be followed, for tbe future oi science depended to some ex tent on teachers in the public sobools. The masters of schools, he said, should look the problem of scientific education straight in the laoe, tor science was growing day by day and hour by honr, and, although he would depre cate any change from without in the publio school system, he would advise the masters to make the change from within, before the out side pressure became too strong. Fibe-Pboof Joist. An ingenious kind of fire-proof joist, recently introduced, consists of a slip of wood five inches wide by five-eighths of an inch tbick, belted between two flanged strips of quarter-inch iron, making a beam quite as stroug as those of wood ordinarily empl iyed. The iron sides, in addition to af fording strength, it is claimed, render the joist substantially fire-proof, while the center of wood affords the means of putting down floors and nailing on laths in the usual manner. The impediment to the manufacture of these joists heretofore has boen the difficulty of rolling the flanged iron sides, but this has now been suc cessfully overcome. Fr.rfrrrTTaTinva tv "PirrrtnT.vm ftrAt t,a.A been the fluctuations in tbe price of petroleum. aiucu ion lao mommy prion at xiiosvuie Has been all the way from $13.75 to 73 cents per barrel, and the average of prices has been from $7.62 in 1861 to $1.29 in 1874. Fortunes have been won but few have been 'kept. The sud denness with which those who were poorest of the poor have become millionaires, has only been.qualed by the suddenness with whioh tbey have become poor again. wnoaaiawaswiitw Tita Hf rvmMriitiULiSSfailfiTi,'yMiii-' irrnriMitiianffii.