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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1887)
NEW YORK FASHIONS. BtyllnliNovoltlm tn Straw Hnti. I'nrmoU nml rotrimtUe. Stylish-looking conrso straw hats i it mixed colors or in ono plain shade, aro very fashionably worn this season, with promonndo nml visiting toilets. Dark blue mid fuwn colors, Roman red und bruize, gold, Italian rod and Goholin blue", green mid amber, olive nnd gold, are very handsoinoly blond cd in fancy braiiR The "Nanon" shape is a favorite, this rolling high on one side and slightly onrvod on the othor. A modification of an old favor ite, llio Knglish walking 1 : v t . is also cxtroinoly popular.' Tim liking for the natty sailor shape still continue?, and where it proves too low and Hat In of feet its nppoaraneo can bo wholly changed by means of high narrow monster of llowors and bows of rib bon S"tjini in thioontor of tlio front The attempted fashion of placing theso towering trimmings at the back of tho hat was not received with enthusiasm, and so died a natural death. In tho matter of parasols, fashion evidently Inclines to those of ample dimensions, with an unpretentious handle made of wood, with a honvv knobbed end, or one shaped like a shop herd s crook. Sun umbrollas for tho hunch, garden or country, arc mado of cotton foulards, printed with designs of various sorts, Oriental, ronipadour, etc With satin foulard, summer silk and pongee suits the parasol is matched to the dress. For semi-dross toilets there are elaborate stylos in silk, with n large satin bow on the outsuH and .i , t .... utioiiiur on tno iiniuiio. j iidso nave a rich band of plain satin as a border. Full-dross toilets are aecompaniud witli a rich ltion or tullo parasol, tho latter handed with a velvet ribbon and finished witli a Ilniugof pale tinted flilk. Finally they are not-covered models hi black, embroidered wiili white silk, lined with white, and edged with rnlllm of black and white lace. Aiid there are very beautiful ones in oream-whlte net, lined with pale rose color, and trimmed with costly eronm laeo frills, tho designs outlined with tiny ltoman and pink pearl beads. In defiance of all alluring novelties that have been Introduced since Its ap pearance years ago, the polonaise still asserts its.df among the list of highly-popular stylos this season, and Is far from being abantloued, as was predicted of it by many fashion seers early In thu year. Probably the gar ment will never bo wholly abandoned, but will continue to furnish material for fancy to exercise itself upon and produro numberless Ingenious diversi ties fro n the one familiar llgure. The polonaise of to-day is no longer the ordi nary commonplace rtlelu of wear it once appoarol. all buttoned down be fore, like old Grimes' coat, or occa sionally varied by being open from tho belt down. It has evolved in the hands of skilled designers, ami devolved into h com) Heated garment; sometimes a jacket on one side, with slashed and plaited panels on the other, at times draped mod profusely, and at others deprived of all back breadth. Tho bodice portion is subject to ipilte as much variation, and is open in Pompa dour stlo, cut down in a V front and back, for summer evening wear, and frequently cut away to a mure side form In velvet, to simulate a zonnvo jacket over tin Inner bodice of crape or silk. A". 1. iW. High Art in Now York. Miss 1 mdellppor, a New York so ciety lady living mi Fifth nvenue, re cently called at llio studio of llcrr von Dauber, the celebrated artist. "1 desire to have mv picture taken," said Miss ltondolippor. " in ii votiid you hroior. a crayon portrait or an oil painting?" asked von 1) uiber. "ou can paint mo in crayon first. nml if I don t liko it you nan put some I : . . e. I , , i i on on it auerwarti, replica .miss llondeiipper. Tern.t Si flings. Aristocratic Socioty. jurs. ii auto (oi tiosiou) i nave a letter from your Uncle .lames, Peiiel ope, who wants us to spend the sum mer on his farm. Penelope (dubiously) Is there any society in the neighborhood. Mis, Wado I have heard him speak of tlte lLdstolns and Guernseys. 1 presume they nro pleasant people J. Sun. -.V. It has boon suggested that ropes used for soatl'oldlng purpose, especial ly in localities whom the atmosphere is apt to destroy hemp, should he dipped when dt in n bath containing twenty grains of sulphate of copper per litre of wut'MV and kept in th;s solution about lour days. The sulphate of cop per tiksorbid will, it is Ixdieved. pre serve them from attacks of pnrnsitots mid rot.--Arkmiuim Tmvtkr. V seller chunk of a hoy atkod- Tioket Aytos for a hnlf ticket to Chos- him the other day. How old you?" ttsked the ticket-Sadler. n ro Am years old," wild tho boy. "When worn you born?" tisl:ud Mr. Ayre. Ton years o," fetid tlio young Yankee. He got his half-faro ticket. An inclination ot one i mm hi fif teen miles Is snllleieiit to give motion to water. An inclination uf three indie per mile In u straight, smooth ehau.iel will give ti velocity of thrvio utiles per hour, while threo feet per uitlo would produce a torrent. HvsUtn Hud jet. St, Uorvivo U tho oldest, town In Missouri, mat just last weak woko up and dinororthl mw by ti mountain $s0 feet high ttf solid rod, gray aud tone, colproi ftraiiUe. A QOOC HOG-HOUSE. DlrerllotM for Krectlnif i HutnUntlnt, Con ventral nnd Yet Simple Structure. A good hog-housoor housos if ninny hogs nro roared on tho farm enn not well bo dlspansod with on any farm I have built six for my own use since I lirst began farming, and think that in tho iater-bullt' ones I have combined convenience and oconotnv, and will tell what kind of a hog-house I liko am would build. 1 no first liog-liousos I built were made twelve feet wide, but I have now had four that wcro eight feet wide, nnd I find tnis width ample to aceommo dale as ma y hogs as can cat at tho trough, ami so I rocommoud a house of this width. It is sometimes dcslrnbln to move a house a short distance, and so 1 usunlly make them eight by six (ecu reel, and unit that three men can roll one of them from fifty to ouo linn dred foot in a few hours if it is thought best to change the location. A house night by sixteen feet will accommodate from twelve to fifteen storo hogs through tho winter, and is largo enough to fatten ten largo hogs in. Tho bill of lumber for a house of this sizo built as I direct, is ns follows: Ftft, Two Rills, 0 l)y rt Inches, nnd R fort tone IS t'lvo Joint, S ly Id Inchos, nml 10 foot lone... 1.11 Floor nml llnlnir 210 Four rornor poitu, I by -I Inchm I'lutQN nnd nail tics J I Ml M a o 10) KM Nino ntftors, S fcy t Indies, nnd 0 foot Ioiir. HUllnit. Inch boards HluMilhlng , Total utnount of lumber rcqulrod This, at $1.7o per 100 feet, will cost SIC. 711. to which add 1.000 shingles at $!).7o, and 1 for naile nrd hlngos, and it brings the total cost of material for the house to S-M. IS, The farmer, if he will follow my directions, need not employ a carpenter to build such a house, and two hands can complete one in two davs or less. After the foundation is toady which may he locust posts sot well in tho ground, bowlders or mnsoniy, if pre ferredplace your short sills across the ends and level them, ami then set the lloor j ilsts on (lie sills, so that the two outside ones will come exactly to the ends of the sills, Rritlgo the joist in (lie center and then lav tho lloor. lloor of inch lumber, laid double, is much better than one of two-inch planks, and will cost less, for the lin ing can l)e laid with cracks three or four inches wide. After tlie floor is laid, cut your posts four and a half feet, high (or the roar and seven aud a half for the front. Saw them perfoetly square at both ends, set them up at the corners, anil fasten them by what, the carpenters call "toe-nailing;" thorn spiko a two by four studding to the tops, front aud rear, ror a pinto, put up your two end ratters, setting them exactly Hush with the sills, so that tho weather boarding will be nailed to the sill at the bottom ami the rafter at the top. You will need one run of nail-ties, which can he ship-lapped to the posts, and when these are up you are ready to cover tho building. Use siding fourteen feet long cover ing it, ami it will cut one length for the front and one for the tvar. The roof of this house slopes but one way, and it is best to have the front or high part of the roof toward either the west or south, if the roof is made to project a little, and finish with a light cornice, it will present quite a good appearance. Make a good trough and fasten it se curely. 1 have never found any thing better than a good V-trough; tlie front of it should bo of two-inch lumber, but I the back part, which come against the side of the building, may bo inch. It Is next to impossible to keep hogs clean, aud the house free from bad odors, if lliey are conlined to n single floor, but by making an outside pen, with a hoard lloor, from twelve to eighteen inches lower than tlie feeding floor, and keeping it always supplied with an absorbent, 1 have no dillicultv in keeping mv hog-houses from becom ing malodorous. So I always raise the lloor of the main house, aud then lay a lloor of nearly the same sue either at tlie rear or one end of the house. As this Hour need not be laid double, it will take but 12S feet of lumber to make it, and it can rot on any cheap old scantlings thrown tint on tlie ground for mud sills. Kudos it with a sub stantial fence, made without cracks, and furnish tlie hogs some old straw or corn fodder as often as they require it, nnd they will enjoy working it over, and will shred it up and make good manure of it sooner than any other stock. Kvcry hog limit o of this Mat should be provided with a movable partition so that it can bo divided into two purls when desired, as an nppariment eight feet square is largo enough for n sow to larrow in. J wo snort posts, two by four Inches, can bo eft up, front and rear, and just far enough apart so that an inch board can bo dropped liotwocn them, ami throe hoards, a foot wide, will make the partition. To prevent hogs from lifting them out, bore a half inch hole just above the top board in one of the ltoMs, at each end, and put in a stout pin. If itlsde- shml to have room for corn abov. tiso longer iosis. say twelve feet from th front aud nine for Ut ronr, and its two by six lumber for tmll tk. ami two by eight joisl, civswlo of thu building, to support tho uiipor lloor. 'litis will givw room. t a very small expense, to Moi about oho hundred bushels of corn above the hoc. HW- do K Jinmn, in LHitrv Gentleman, H reach of promt suits am un known in Khh, Tho sii'te out tkam do notklHg on wodtt, Th?y do not oonstder iIi.mos.Ivm engaged until lliov am mat rei OLD MAN DUNDER. tin TclU tlm SorRpnnt About ills TCxpcrl rnop vrltli i Monto Hlmrk. What! you hero!" exclaimed Set goant Hernial the other day, as ho look cd up and found Carl Deader standing by the desk "Vhell, I pcliof it vhas my duty to coma down und report on some case Mavpo I vhas swindled again." "I presume so. Most anybody can swindle you. It a a wonder you have dollar left." "I vhas awful grcon, eh?" "Yes, you are." "Und I vhas innocent liko a sliild?' "About as innocent as a boy thro years old. What's tho matter now?" "Sergeant, maypo you haf seen loiter take tlireo cards und throw 'cm all around on a table liko lightning?' "I have." "Und lie likes j ou to bet dot you can pick ondt dot nco of hearts? "Yos. That's called tlireo-card monto How much did they got out of you?" A man comes in my place yester day und says vhas I Carl Dnnder. vhas. All right, Mr. Dundcr, but I like to show vou a trick to play on dcr poys. It vhas called parlor magic, und eaferv pody vhas wildt oafer her "I sec! And ho got fifty dollars out of you, I lirosuinc? "Veil, he tako a seat at dcr tablo und pulls oudt three cards und does so und so unit so, unit ho laughs all dcr time und says it vhas a good slioko on dor poys. Py und py ho like mo to pick out dot nco of hearts. "And you bet you could?" "Of course." "Mr. Diinder, vou are a bigger fool than I thought for!" "Sergeant, oxciisc me. If I vash a fool I can't help him. I bet dot man twenty dollars I pick omit dot card Shake conies oafer und holdts dor money, und I nick out a card." "And it wasn't the ace. of course?" "Oh, but he vhas! I pick her right oudt ash slick as groae, und 1 nut dot money in my west pocket. Dcr fellt humps oop and savs dare vahs a big mistake, and he vhants me to try oafer again, lint l was not on some try. "You don't say?" "Und he gets nuult und says he put ome ueaiis on mo u 1 (loan git oop dot twenty. Vhell, I vhas a greenhorn und a fool, vou know?" "And you gave it. up?" "Oh, no! I take dot feller by del neck und make his heels preak two tables und fifo peer glasses, und his oat and west vhas all in slnnall pieces, und he cries out dot "legifs me ten dol lar more if 1 let oop on him. Dot vhas wery reasonable, nnd I let linn go. 'And you made thirty dollars?" i on see lor yoursen. it vims a twenty und a ten, und in dis package vhas his boot-heels und west-buckle nnd coat buttons. I like vou to put on a ticket of 'Lost Property' und take sliarge of cm. Sergeant, good day. "Hut, say, 1 want to talk with you some " "Sergeant. I vhas a greenhorn und a fool, und I can't shtop any longer!" "Hut. here !" "Dot vhas all right. Mebbo I vhas some oldt Dutchmans from a pack county, und caferypody can shwindlo me, uml maypo 1 vhas oop to some slinutV. Good-pye. Sergeant. Itvhasgo ing to be a hot day, und Siiake vhas all alonoindorsaloon!"-Wr) Free Press. THE COUNTRY" IS SAFE. I'uollii); Soebil unit t'olltloul I'mbltum Solvoil for Another War, The country, and incidentally the universe, is safe for another year. We have been in great peril, but our dan ger has been pointed out, and not only so, but the way to safety has at the same time been so clearly indicated that tlie wayfaring man need not err therein. An abyss of frightful depth has towered above us, overshadowing all this fair land with the deadly blight of its malarial breath in accents that chilled the heart with the Upas-like touch of its basilisk glance, that echoed from sea to shore. Hut you have aved us, my boy; you and your fellows have snatched us fivni this living grave, whose hungry biv.tkers dashed their blinding sprav and wreathed their angry llames in lucid tongues about our feet. You it i in this mouth of leafy Juno have told us of "The Perils of the Kepublic;" "The Labor Prob lem;" "The Duty of the Hour;" "The Peony of Patriotism;" "Work and Wages v lhe Deterioration of Man- hood;' -The Labor Question;" "Tho Dedino of Statesmanship:" "The Labor Agitation;" "The Weaknes of a Republican For of Gov eminent;" "tabor and Capital;' The Downfall of Liberty;" "The ta bor Problem; its Uvils and Their Kein edy; "I orruption in Politics;" "The Labor Problem and itsj)ugtrs;" "Are wo a Free People?" "Tho taUr Prob lem a National Menace." The perils that beset our )mth you have s-hown us; but you hae hIso guided us into paths of safety.- You have told us of "The Only Way to Good Government;" "The Safety of the Republic;" "The Ttue Mission of the tabor Reformer;" "Reforms in the R.dlot;" " lite Com ing Man," "The 'True Reformer;" "'flie Hope of Our (Vmntry:" "The Conservation of Popular Government;" "Labor Reform;" "Th Outlook of the Hour;" "Labor Agitation a Rlee-aing;" "Our tauey for Our Children;" "What we Owe to Posterity;" aud your sisters have notdy niched to tit? niscue with aurances that "Nigtot Hritiffs Out tKe Stars;" and moreover that "Man is the Arbiter of lllsDwn PesUny;" "Woman's Sphere;" "The InllHonve of Wouiau; "Woman's Duly;" "Woman, the Hope of Um Wortd." nud ipriiye." Heawn Wo& vou. my ohiklm; you kv saved Us; Heaven bless you' (Vine again noxt .-onimcucciueut. Bunteite, tn 2nxxfc WAGES IN JAPAN. Tim 1'ar Asked hr,lnpanre r.nboren for nn infnrlor Klmi of Work. Sinco the tablo of wages in Tokio giver, l.i tho third report of tlio royal commission appointed to inquire into the causes of the depression of trade and Industry, is apt to be taken as it stands by the outside world, I shall give a few facts of such tradesmen as I havo had dealings with. Carpenters, f0 to CO cents. Tlio first figure is out of all question. For about a year I employed a carpenter oh" and on at CO cents a day that is, when time permitted. He would begin work .at about 9 a. m., "work" till C p. 'm., and devote about thrco hours a day to smoking and thinking lie was a great thinker in his way and eating, and the work lie did in tho remaining hours with the awkward toys that pass for tools here, an Knglish or an Amer ican carpenter would do in one hour, which brings a Japaneso carpenter's wages to GO cents per hour, or taking the day at eight working hours, to$ t.SO per day. And I have employed carpen tors at 7o cents and SI per day with the same result. Plasterers, lo to ,r5 cents per day; to be had at. that rate at. about a week's notice. 'J he year before last I had to employ two plasterers to repair a place in tho wall of a house whore a.pioco of plaster of about two feet square had fallen out. The two artists turned up at 10 a. in., nnd, sitting down lipon a couple of empty wine-cases, lit their pipes. At about 10:110 a. in. one of them approached the damaged place within a yard, took a mental photo graph of it, an I sat down. At 11 a. in. a mutual friend appeared, who was warmly welcomed, and, after smoking a pipe or two, amused them by stnnd ing'on his head, and by that time they bad got very hungry and made a pause of two hours for tillin. Pipes again. I'lien the one who had carefully sotind- d the wall knocked another piece of plaster down. Pipes again. Hy 5 p. m. they had made the hole about three times it original size, and were so thoroughly exhausted that thov left oil". Next day a stray drop of water, where ever it may havo come from, lighted on one inflow's nose and made them oneludo it was going to rain, so that no work could be done in the after noon. Well, to cut matters short, those two square feet of plaster that is river mud cost me An English or American plasterer would have sent one of his boys and boxed his ears if he did not como back in an hour. Painters space will not permit to go through the wholo list L'o to ilo cents per day. 1 have some work for v painter at present, aud am willing to give 10 cents per day, but the man will not work under o0 cents, and says it will take him eight or ten davs to do the job. Now. I estimate the time in which the work can bo done aud should be done and there are but few things but that 1 have done myself at two mil one-half or thrco d vs time of line working hours, so that I would paying at the rate of $1.50 to ifl.tiu per day, mid have things at sixes and sevens tor more than a week. 1 could give instances of tho same ind ad infinitum, but then the cour tesy of newspaper editors does not and in not extend to writing books in the olumiis of their papers, and if I have thrust forward a few hard facts here, I have done so from the reason that those who contemplate trying their hances in this country k tlie near future mav not be misled and after ward crv out in tlie bitterness of their disappointment that they have been de cived, and become blind to much that good and to be appreciated in Japan am not thus disappointed this to ttard myself against any such sus piciou tor l have returned to .lapan of mv own free will, knowing all t liis ind much that I have said here and much of similar import I have said to those whom the King lias delighted to honor: vet 1 am as welcome at their alaces or resiliences as ever I was. ! may hope, therefore, that the reason 1 have just given for making these re marks will 1h nccoptqd, all the more a mv broad would very probably be but tered much thicker on tlie other side. Japan Mail. Smart Florida Buzzards. A good donl of wisdom is claimed for tho buzzards of Florida. When sutlering from cold thov will warm themselves at tWheruien's tiros, and the other dav. it is related, the carcass of an alligator that had been shot came to the surface of the water ami was espied by a Hook of buuards. They swarmed about it in large niimlH'rs, but the wind was so strong that thov could not keep a foothold upon it, as it turned aud floated with every wave. They held a consultation, and as tie result two of them ilew at the sauriau and fastening their talons in the body spread their wings sail-fashion nml piloted the carcass to the shore of the. lake, where the dock feasted 11(1011 It. CJUcatfo iiM-. A Veritable Human Brute. Colonel Yerjper mtumed home very late and lu a deuiomlisetl condition. "Here you are again." ahl Mrs. Yeryur, a& &he met him at the head of the stair. "Yeah, my dear. Sere I am," mplied the Colonel, meekly. "You am a brute. Hem It Is twelve o clock, a win be alniot daylight be fore 1 get through telling ym what I think of jail. Here I have to lo my deep on yor account, and I'll feel Itatl all daj to-morrow. You am a vagal ul 0 tlie face of the earth, etc, etc, etc." TamS S:jltHJ3. DO ANIMALS REASON 7 ttow n Newfoundland Dor Outwitted m Allsehlevou Monkey. Do animals mason? Ihcro arc so ninny shades of belief upon this subject that it is a diflicult ono to decide. One incident came under my notice that showed plan, cunning and intelligent action, certainly, if not reason as an abstract clement. Our ship was lying in Port Lou'u harbor. For fear of hurricanes, we wore moored, stem nnd stern, to heavy sunken anchors. Upon our port-side, onh a few fathoms away, was a lofty East India rice-ship, moored in the same manner. A large number of pets on board the ricc-slup attracted our attention it seemed a friendlv me nagerie. My interest centered upon a magnifi cent black Newfoundland dog and a very largo monkey. Tho monkey's sole ambition seemed to bo to torment the dog by dropping things upon him from above, or by jumping towards him while trying to sleep, and then scam enng away up the rigging, where the dog could not follow. No place was safo for the dog to take i nap. The monkey was only safe while aloft, for tho dog was the stronger, and delighted in slinking the monkey whenever lie could get at him. One very hot Sabbath afternoon I was sitting under the awning, trying to read; just opposite me, under 'the shadow of the poop-dock of the rice- ship, lay the Newfoundland dog, stretched out in the most complete and utter abandonment of exhaustion, ap parently fast asleep. The monkey was upon the top of the forward hotisy. evi dently studying some mischief. When a man is studying some diflicult. matter he will some times scratch Ins head. The monkey scratched himself all over. it taking more counter-irritant, per haps, to elaborate his plan. 1 became inteiv-crl in watching tho develop ment of his scheme He soon jumped down from the house and sauntered aft towards the dog, who took no notice whatever of him. He passed close to tho dog and climbed up to the poop-ijeek. sitting iIwwh just over the clog, and began a great chattering. 1 he dog was deaf to all this, so the monkey jumped down upon the deck uul bega V "hunt for a bone," a plan that never failed t interest the dog; but now he did not move. I thought the dog was sound asleep, the monkey very evidently thought so, too, for now he proceeded to put into execution a plan that, I think, he matured when itting on the lorward house. He qui tlv r.m forward to the fore rigging uul up fore-to, then taking tlio niahi-top-gnllant stay he ran up that to the niain-top-gallant yard, then down to the main-top; after again making sure that tho dog was last asleep he ran up to the niizzeii-top-gallant stay and tbk'ii down to the ini:zen-top; here he sat down and, apparently, had a hearty laugh at the trick lie was about to play upon the dog. Having enjoyed his laugh, he very cautiously ran down the mizzcu stay, until ho reached a point just over the dog, but somo twenty feet above him. Once more he proceeded to try the dog; not a muelo moved. Tiie mnnki jumped up and down, hung down, holding on with one hand only, but 110 movement of the dog showed itself. So, getting himself together, he measured, carefully, the distance and position, and then let go and jumped for the dog. Instantly all was changed on deck; the dog sprang up witli ears and tail ereer. wide awake, and ready to give him .1 cordial welcome. Of course, it was like a flash of lightning. The monkey saw whtt a s?rapo ho wm in; his ocreams and cries were pitiful; ho would have gladly stopped and jumped back, but the laws of gravity wcro against nun, and down lie came onto the dojj. Then began the sharpest fight I ever saw. I bey were evenly matched, but the monkey was so fright ened tliKt he could not make so good a tight as usual. Round and round thev went, while tlie hnir flew everywhere; at last, get ting a ohance he sprang into th; main rigging and ran up to the roval vard, crvinT all the way. Hero he staved two or three days, nursing Ids wounds, and evidently trying to understand why his plan f.siled. The dog barked, ami, in spito of tho heat, ran up and down the dock with every show of de light nt having out-witted tho monkey. 1 think now, as I thought tliun, that the dog was not asleep, but too nearly exhausted by the heat to care what, the monkey did. so long as ho kept out of reach; but when he .had gone mi far that he could not get back he Mai ready to receive him. Ovr. tioldni llule. Emigration of the World. Recent statistics show that 19.000.000 of people am residing in other than their native country, lu huglaud there are 203,000 foreigners; in, Russia 3i. 000; France, 1,001,000; Switzerland, SU. 034; Austrit. 1&J.076; Helgium. 14, 655; Holland, G9,y"l; Italy, 6S.957; Scandinavia, 40. WS; Spain. -11,708. In North America them am 7.S0O.O12 for eigners; in South America 6,083. 105; in AMa. l.&SI.SI l, xud iu Africa, 1-tO.SSS. Kngiaiul lakes the lead in the number of people who leave her shores. At the present time 4,300,000 of her sons am scattered over the world. Germany comes ne.xt, with n total of 5,601.000; rangely euough S2.000 of these am r siding iu France alone, white S.000,- uuO are in the United States. The other nations rate in the following order: Italy. 1.0O0.00O; Scandinavia, 79&.07O; Relrinm. 4t7.C0O; Franco, ?. Spam, 443. 400; Austria, 337,000, of whom 11S.CKM reside iu German v Al 1 btrl.L HOME AND FARM. To brighten stove-zincs, rub With kerosene. A protty hammock pillow is mndt of bright awning cloth, witli some sim ple design sot bctwoon tho stripes. Albany breakfast cake. Six eggs, ono quart of milk, one tcaspoonful of salt, a half teaspoon of soda, dissolved in hot water. Stir in corn monl to niako a thick batter and bake in quick oven. Baptist Weekly. To wash colored tablo linen use tepid wnter with a little powdered borax; wash quickly, using but little soap; rinse in topid water containing boiled starch; dry in the shade, and when almost dry, iron. Tho Medical Press announces that the common wart which appears upon tlio hands and face can be readily removed by small doses of sulphate of magnesia the taking of three grain doses of cpsoni salts morning nnd evening. Plain Light Rolls: Take a piece of dough when making light broad, add to 'it two tablcspoonsful of sugar, half a cup of lard, one egg, and flour to niako a stifT dough, lot rise and bako in a hot oven. Louisville Courier-Journal. Encourage the boys and girls to make a littlo money for themselves, with fruit, clrckcns, bees, etc., and let them have the spending of it. If they make a few mistakes at lirst, they will learn wisdom by it. - The great secret of raising young ducks, says an exchange, is not to al low them to got wet. Give them all the water they can drink, iii vessels so constructed as to permit them to reach tho water only with their bills. Absolution of saltpeter sprinkled on cabbages is said to be cllective in driving oil' the cabbage-fly. It is harm less, and also an excellent fertilizer. It should bo'ilpplied twice a week, how ever, and used 'plentifully. fndianupo tis Journal. Curried Kidneys: Take one tca spoonful of curry powder, one of Hour, a little pepper and salt, into a smooth paste. Split tlie kidneys, spread tlio paste over them, and fry in its little butter as possible. Serve hot, on fried sippots. Cincinnati limes. Tlio Sanitarian says that tho well-known rain-water taste is duo neither to roof-wood nor deposits, nor to Hying particles of dirt, but to tho absorption of aerial gases. Any water exposed to the open air will acquiro the same taste. Orange Ambrosia: Slice oranges and sprinkle with sugar. L"t them stand for about an hour. Then take a glass dish and put a layer of oranges in the bottom, then Cover with a layer of grated cocoanut, then a layer of oranges. Continue in this way until the dish is full, cocoanut on top. This is dol i ci 011s. Ilo uschold. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: "1 hold that the intel ligent, farmer who has lived for years on his farm and knows its soil and capabilities, and who has settled on a plan of farming which is successful, is nioro likely to know what is best for4 him to do than someone who has lived on a different soil, and sur rounded by dilYcront circumstances." A small, plain alarm clock 111 ay bo made pretty by placing it in a round fraino cut out of cardboard, to lit snugly over the clock. It should be four inches deep. Cut two more frames of the sanio size, sew thorn firmly together, and cover with velvet or plush. Slip tho clock into place, and hang on tho wall by a ribbon bow. It requires little velvot, silk or plush for this, and if you can paint or em broider, you 111:13 make a really beau tiful ornament. ABOUT DAIRY BUTTER. Why It Should lie Tiilly ns Good nt the I'rodiut nt tlio Creamery. Notwithstanding that creamery but ter, from tho most careful makers, will bo good in quality and uniform in "it appearance, this by 110 means implies that butter mado in tho farm dairy should not be as good. In fact, it may nnd should bo better, unless every per son supplying the central factory with milk or cream oxorcisos a careful st: pervision over his cows, to know that their health is perfect, and that they are giving milk untainted by any o'l the contingencies that may tend to dis organization of tho milk functions ol tho cows. If twenty, fifty or one him, dred milk-producers would attend :n carefully to the condition of their milk as tho man or woman who makos but ter directly from the herd, and soils fha same upon the reputation acquired fot care in every department of tlie lalor, the case would be dilVerent. Hut, whore wo multiply by twenty, fifty (ft one hundred, the ifs are too many tn insure certainty. It is also a very dif lleult matter for the manager of tin creamery to keep a supervision of all the various herds. S uch inspection ol tlie milk as is generally given at tin creamery is no safeguard. Hence it'll not strange that the products of par ticular dairies should bring a groator prion thau any creamery butter. This is the fact, and always will b.. Never, thelees, it is equally tho fact that -tha average product of dairies sells fdr losi far less than the avorago prico fot creamery butter. There is prolit in dairy butter if th maker understands his bmdnoss. JJ not, and he will not learn, or will not supply the good wife with faoilltioa fot making the best, and will not uso cur. rent means for getting it to market iu perfect condition, some other branqb of agriculture requiring loss oxaot cans had better be followed. i'uni, Field and Sti4knian,