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How many thousand years, we wondyr, la it imiuir S-i nl.-i, let fn.uili .wm.1.t . 1. . 4 shorten the time from the milk pail to Lilt' IJUOKtllZU IS Lilt! H lV TO tllllUM T1I1A butter. " Cucumbers Not Notion. Many people are under the impression that cueunilier is very indigestible, and when they eat it they do so under protest and with apprehensions of possi ble dire consequences. How this delu hion can have arisen it is dillicnlt to say, nnless it be that cucumber is often eaten with salmon and other indigestible table friends. It is not the cucumber, how ever, but the salmon that sits so heavily upon our stomach' tl rone. Cucumber, in fact, is very digestible when it is eaten properly. It cannot, indeed, be otliei wise when it is remembered that it con sists mainly of water, and thu those parts winch are not water are almost ex clusively cells of a very rapid growth. In eating cucumber it is well to cut into thin sliots and to masticate them it.or onghly. liven the vinegar and pepper that are so often aMed to itaieof service to the digestion, if not taken in excess. The cucumber, as every one knows, be longs to the melon tribe, but in our somewhat cold country it doo:i not grow to any very lurge size! ami therefore is firmer and looks less digestible than its congener, the melon. ' Horn 1'eet ill Sheep. ( With an experience of over thirty years in handling cheep, according to the iKiuks or accounts given, I do not know as 1 ever had a fully-ilcvelcped cae of foot rot. savs u writer in the V. ilnntil Sfti i7-i.it i Hut na I li.wl In..... .itsi.i.i- rwmiM. 1 a l 1I11W Hill", "II which were verv tender in the feet and frequently lame, my view of the matter rot was to neglect giving attention at the nrntier time kh Mint I wih nlvtvifu .mi li. lookout; for a sheep to limp was enough to cause me to investigate and act. With an average of about 200 iienrt, there were times during warm, wet weather when in.itters would Income a little serious, but 1 never lailed to come out on the winning side, i nave maue use of dill-rent remedies, some ot wlucli were cost v nreimrations. and have long since arrived at the conclusion that, if taken in time and attended to as it should be. there is nothing better to ef fect a cure than blue vili ol, either pow- .inrmt mill iititiliml i1l--..r tliuanlvoil 111 vinegar. Of course, where large flocks are kept and the pastures and stables iMwniiii' im iiiien. rue case is soiiiewiuii. didicult: but the greater vigilance re quired, if attended to, will fully meet the exigencies ol the case, it is a mg I!. II.. 1. f 1.,,.,.,.. -I. ...... n.wl I lOI) til lllllllllt; il 1UI. Ul llt'il nnuuir, dtiu 11JUI1I41 UHH llll.C IAJ ill... v.. v. iniinl en.i h. nut mtn a shal low tank r- ' - - ......I. ........ nun i,,tr rrnn II it with f.iiiri claimed bv soine is a result of its use. Of IntTOHt to If miMi'kt't'iirrH. Old napkins and old tablecloths make the very best of glasscloth. Asthma mav be greatly relieved by poaking bio' ting or tissue paper in strong saltpeter water; ury it, anu then mini u in tlie sleeping room. A nice way to servo stirred eggs is to heap them in the middle of a platter am' garnish them all around with slim slices of smoked salnwin, which have been dipped into melted butter and then allowed to frizzle slightly on n slow lire. A rough test for the detection of wa ter in lurd consists in melting u in a test tulw. If free from water it becomes per fWt!v plfiar. while the nresence of water causes na opaque appearance. 11 jirea- on tlio liquid stands, but where the two -have been well incorporated separation only occurs most slowly. What to do with cool beefsteak Chop me nesi anu most lemier puruuiin; nun hot water enough to moisten slightly; heat quickly and serve at once as soon as hot. Add butter, salt and pepper. The tough parts of steak or of roast beef are much more palatable if boiled llrst in water to cover until tender. Then use them in any of the ways given for cold meat, as croquettes, hash, mince on toast, stew, ragout, meat and potato pie, braised meat, etc. Despondency on the part of the patient is in Miany cases more deadly than dis ease, and whatever is Bald or done in or about the nick room should be with a view to dispel that emotion and replace it with something more healthful. Do not go tiptoeing and creeping about the rtiuent . do not stand lHhind a screen, curtain or door and peer wistfullv at the invalid ; do not stare fixedly at him from anv point, and do not indulge in persist ent questionings which ure evidently annoying If the patient invites con vemtinii and is able to endure it, talk freely of those matters in which he is in terested, tho curredt news of the day, wx'al events or reininisciiiicen; but un der no ( imuiistances permit ucli topiea eu Hickuesw. death, sull'ering and othura of like nature. The Paris Cliainler of Commerce Htrongly recommend manufacturer to iliJhlt good at the World' l air, miscellaneous. Money Heine Trmiferroil to New York for . t i i 1 1 Veterii Crops. The trouble with the Xavajo Indiana is at an end. There are over 101.003 cattle on the Cherokee Strip. grazing Kansas h is been completely boycotted by the tramps this season. Five more men will soon be execu ed by electricity in New York. The largest live manufacturers of as K'stos in the country have fo lined a trust. The Department of Agriculture will probably investigate the change going on in the Colorado Defcrt. No workman can secure etnplov nent on the streets of New liedford, .Mass., until lie shall have been naturalized. The St. Paul Chamber of Commerce has tsken action looking to the perma nent union of Minneapolis a:id St. Paul. The Ijuisville, Nev Albany and Chi cago road has sued the heiiti of its ate Vice President, Dr. Mandiford, for .a0, 001. During the past twelve mouths 14,013 tailors and shoemakers have arrived in New York as ?teerage passengers from Europe. Thtity Russian Jews, assisted immi grants, are detained at New York, and will be sent back to Europe, they being paupers. Iix-Goveruor Hanison bnJiugtoti oi W'ieeoi.sin, who died recei i.v, left an estate of over l,000,00i), ai Ix-queathed to his widow and childiei The autumn maneuvers of the squad ron of evolution will take nl' c.e in Sep tember, prob'ibly at several places be tween Portland ami Delaware Bay. Ohio visitors to the Grand Army en campment at Detroit are traveling at the rate of I cent a mile. This will lead to a smash up in rates on all the lines. Senator Quay says lie will not have charge of tbe campaign of l.s:i2, but won't say positively tn.it he v " 1 1 resign from thecliairuianshipof the committee. The report of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture shows that u pays I best to raise cucumbers, as they return I $280 per acre. Sweet potatoes coine next at $l-2. Adelina Patti will most likely sign with Marcus Mayer for a concert tour of tlie United States next season, although Mr. Abbey is alao trying haul to secure the diva. The ashes of Mine. Blavatsky will be divided into three poitions, to be pre served in New York, London and Adyar in tlie Province of Madras, the head quarters of the Theosophical Society. New York's hoard of Charities has within seven years shipped back to Eu rope l,:i"4 ' permanently disabled and helpless alien paupers," who had been sent to i:iis country to get rid of them. The Attorney-General of Texas i pre paring to bring suit against the Texas niul Pacific rail vvav and Charles Cnnola, Simon Drake and William Straus of New York for the recovery of 700,000 acres of land. The Sheriir of Fayette county, Tex., has been indicted b"v the United States grand jury for unlawful interference n itli the mails. It has been the custom ji uie .Mieiiif to open all mail matter ol the prisoners in his charge. The Cnited States Treasurer is buuily engaged in transferring money to the Mib-treasury at New York for moving rops from the West. The demand for money for this pnr;xsK comes eirhei than uaiial this year, and the amount isked for is greater, indicating heavy crops. Arthur do Bausset, a French scientist, I claims to have invented an air ship, which he will exhibit at Chicago, tin1 minimum speed of which will lie seventy miles an hour. He says he sees no rea I son why Europe should not be reached j from Aineiica in loss than twenty-four hours. Frank Vincent, author and traveler, will start in August on a 40,000-milo journey, which will take about three years. ' He will go around Africa, up the Congo and into Asia, Kussian Turkistan and Persia, and will study the personal characteristics of the natives and devote his attention to tho geographical features , of tho country through which ho passes. J It is reported that negotiations are in progress looking to the consolidation of 'the Union Stock Yards, the Union Transfer Company, the Stickney Enter prise and tho Chicago Belt road at Chi cago Competent persojis are said to bo ! at work determining tho question of lvalues. Thu object is thu final removal , of the stock yards to tho inoro commo dious Stickney tract. I Mrs. Cramer, the mother of Jennie Cramer, the girl whose body was found drifting with the tide at Savin Hock, near New Haven, Conn., fifteen years ago, was found dead, hanging by tho I neck, at her residence at New Haven. It was a deliberate case of suicide. Mrs. , Cramer was quite wealthy, and lived alone at the old house. Among the . crowd aliout tho residence after finding tho body was Walter Malley. who was , tried for tho murder of Jennie, and te now at liberty on $50,000 bonds, owing to a disagreement of the jury. i SPORTING NOTES. Ot-orKf HIiinhoii mill liiroli Srlini-fer Will .Meet A mil n 111 Itlllliinl .Mutch. i The raco for the Liverjwol cup, a mile j and three furlongs, run in Liverpool, I Eng., the other day, was won by Rath ' beal, St. Benedict second, Bttrnaby third. At a meeting at Blsley, Eng., ol the National Rillo A80ciation the English team won the Kolapore cup with a score of 070 points. The Canadian team was second with 072 points. (Muirlev JolniKon of Brnoklvn has posted $1,000 with tho New York Herald to bind a match between champion John j U. Sullivan and Francis P. Klavin for the t lieavy-weightchampionshipof tho world. Johnson will back Sullivan. I All doubts as to George Slosson and Jacob Schaefer meeting again aro entire ly dispelled. President Keneiugcr of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, has elated that a contest would certainly take place, as Schaefer had signified his willingness to go to New York and play Kluifflou on hid own terms. He said : "I Iihvo l'0ji working very hard to bring Hlowiori andBehttofer together again, and j I'm glud 1 have succeeded. K'haefer ban agreed to go to New York and iduy Slow eon for the fourteeii-iurh Bulke-line rlumpionnhlp emblem and W) a eldo, Tlio content will lake place ulout No vember I," A ClTAPTEIi OX 0EESE. GTUPID BIRDS, DUT WITH MANY IN TERESTING POINTS. Why tlio .Iitmh I'uriiler Kmpi tirt'M Vn Old ; inli'i'. Ilnli- oT "I'loli- llllllltlco" M'CIIO lit i tioill! riui'Mll. Tlio J'oh l" 1'nli it title. "May lo you lave often noticed," said a dealer in font liei-s, "tlmt soine fanners keep gecso venr in ami vear nut. let tlieui have tlio run ot the lann, niul veein tu mIiow tliem nil kinds of coiiMi'.enitiim, v et are always swear ing that they are the lngi.t muimiiuv that it could lie ihmmIiK' to lmo arouinl. If you have noticed that iHs-uhaiity in tho daily rounds of the liu-Umiliuuii, win have douht lr aNn wondered h m Mazes the fanner kept Mich nuisances aiimnd his premises. 1 ued to wonder vvhv it was imself, hut I never found out the ivason until one day last suintutT. 1 was out on a .li i-vy farm, soiul- ing my vacation. Tlie I armor had a lug llock of peese, and he vvu.s eternallv throwing the most hefty kind of Jersey cuss words at them. One tin v I sal on the fanner's piazza talking with hi.n. The pis-se weiv placidly cropping grass down along the rond, n great big gander leading them on. Peace, tran quility and contentment spoke m every movement tho lawn iiivtrov ing hieds made. "Theit) wasn't u cloud in the sjy, Tlio farmer's men were working without much apparent vim at r.il.uig and loading hay iloivn in aiiuwliiH not faraway. Suddenly the old gander i;ed up his head, gave voice to a ieculiar squawk, hltisl his wings mid started oil' on a run as fast as his big web ftt't would let him go. All the geese Hiked up their necks at the sound of I lit gander's voice, lifted their w ings, and with a cliorus of noises that onlv a llock of geoso can pro- I duce, started alter the gander as tight as; they could wabble. The gander ran may bo i twenty yards, anil then, with a wild shriek, I he took wing and How in the direction of a! pond a short distance Iron the road. Tlio' geese raised and Hew alter him, tilling the air with their discordant cries, uauder and geese alighted in the pond, w here they all gathered m a hunch, held a consultation or congratulatory conlab in a subdued chorus of cackles, and went through all sorts of maneuvers on the pond lor a time, when they separated and swam about as placidly imtli.irh.iil )UHiii . .. I'..... ... I..!...., I..T. - ' iiiij in... .rv.i. ii i.uii,, iiii nil ii mvn in. i fore. j "At tho llrst movement of tho gander when ho broUo the tranipiibty of the leeding llock, my friend, the tanner, arose quickly to his loot, and as ho turned toward tho meadow, said: " 'There's them dinged hayin' hands work in' as if they had all the rest o' tho year to get that hav m, an' here we're goin' to Ik) ketclicd m a teann' old shower in loss'u an hour, or elso there hain't no iiso in keopin' glt'so.' "The farmer hurried dow n to the meadow, spurred up tho iu"ii, and lent a hearty hand himself at tho hay. before iiiiuiy minutes hud passed 1 saw clouds banking themselves ill tlio horizon, and presently thu mutter of distant thunder was heard among them. The farmer was rigid. In an hour's time one of the hardest thunder storms 1 ever saw was raging over that part ot 'ew Jersey, mid it caught the last lo.nl of the old man's hay in transit. Alter supper that night 1 questioned my hoM on the geese, and found that tho reason he kept iheui was to keep him posted on the we.u her. " 'They hain't never lulled mo yet,' hesaid. 'When 1 git up in the morniu' an1 see them geoso out oa the pond a-divin' an' u-dressin' down their feathers as if they was gettin' ready to go to some party or other, I know that we're sure ol cl-ar, warm, dry weather, an' 1 make my eale'lations 'cordm'ly. If they haiu't u-drossm' of themselves much, but act kinder as il it wasn't o' much account n-sprticin' up, then I keep my eye on 'em. That's a wiirnin' that we're in danger of a spell o' weather. Il the geco quits tho pond an' don't go back much through tho day, 1 know that tho danger holds, an' 1 git ready for u set ruin of a da.v or so. If th.y food along awhile uud waddle back to the pond kinder chipjK-r h.'.e, and go to dressiu' them pelves and divm', the i I'm ity sui tm' that they won't lo no set rain comniencin' that day. If tho geese gits-tip all of a suddeut un' tears around like ye see 'em this after noon, thou there's a shower eoniin', an' it's u-eomin' last, ye kin lot.' "So you need never wonder why some farmers keep gee:e around, and still wish they were in Ihdilax. They are their weather progiiostienior, and they lieliovu in 'em as firmly as th".'. do in the making of ap plejack. This fanner told me another funny thing about these cose weather signals. Ho said that when thev prophesy a storm tho bound.) they nitike arc not like their cries at any other time. Consequently tho farmers are never fooled by the cries of a llock of goeso that may rise m the air troiii a place where they were out of sight, if tho rise law lieon caused by any I right tho geoso may huvo lieou subjected to. An exjiort reader of gooso slgnuls can toll tho frightened cry irom tho prophetic shriek as far us ho cm hear it. "Never Kiw a gooso plucking, hoy? 'Well, it isn't a sight that would give you much pleasure. On tho day set for stripping geoso of their feathers thoy are enticed into bomo airtight outhouse, Tho picker, who aro nlvvuys women, go among tho geoso with their heads and faces entirely covered with hoods fastened around the neck with a shirr string. There aro holes lor tho eyes, und also littlo holes at tho noso for fresh air. l'Vom tho nook down tho picker in covered with a glazed iiiiullu garment, to which no feathers or down will adhere. The pickers sit on low stools around a largo and erfoctly dry tub. There is generally a man or boy hi tho noighliorhood vUio is an exKirt at getting tho gooso ready for picking. Everybody can't do thaU Tho wings of tho gooso have to lie locked together by a jeoulmr arrangement of tho two near the rhoulders, and while thoy ure not tied or fustened in any other way, tho lock is such that no gooso can unlock It without aid. Tho feet uro tied to gether with broad bands of soft muslin. When a gooso is thus niado helpless it is taken on tlio picker's lap, and sho plucks tlie leathers out rapid h but with hue), fckill that tho seldom brc;U tin- skin or eaitsiw blood to follow. Tho air is kept full of feathers dur ing tho process, all ol which settle in tho big tub at hist. Before In-ginning on a gooso tho picker brufchtu tho fmuhurs back tho wrong way, m thut sito can w tlx- skin. An expert oau toll ut a glance, b tlio color of tho nkiii, whether sho uiui cxen iMi more tlian ordi nary care In piucktug it, or w liettiw it in not better to let the goM go without plucking ul that time. In every cuta the picker mint be careful and not pluck tltu tent loan too cIojo it under tho wIiikc If a gooso I uu Uu lin properly piokwl m tliat runpoct tho w ings wiL drop and druK on tho ground. All thruugt tlii prow of yanking tltu lwitUra out of t gooso'4 Wly, nut a waled of uonijtUlut or arj of jiain U huanl fiom tlw gotMu. They Mib nut with u boloimnty mm li would Im laugh ftblo if it who nut for tho uv ntunt furtiludi that c00 wt t.' '-v York hun. The (.'Imiaiueti in huw YwU ure wJ4 U mini homo oyu' ( MfW u year, MAKING TERRA COTTA. rnrloiK 'Jt In Wlilrli tt:llied Tiny II Turin il to Arcniint. I was taken into the photograph room, 0 useful appendago of a terra cot t a fac tory '."hero the molds and models aro photographed and sent by mail to the architects, who can revise them and send them back. In tlio same way they pho tograph tho entire, profile or elevation of a building from the architect's drawing, nnd as the successive parts .if the terra cotta aro mode they are crossed out on tlie drawing. Tlie owner of tho building conies in and says "How tire vou get mg along with tny t et ra cotta"'' They hand out to him this tracing, and say "We aro all finished up to there." At a glance ho can see just w here he stnnds. I asked if terra cotta when lu ! weighed more than in the clay "That depends upon how dry theilay Is before it is baked If most of the moisture Is out of it, it will gam somewhat 111 weight after it is put in the lire." I walked into one of the kilns They are about fifteen to twenty feet perhi'ps in diameter, and are a patent kiln devised in the etensive pot t cries of Ureal Britain. The old Woman open lire kilns were long ago replaced there by Blashtield's mulUod kilns. The color of these kilns is white, and they nre made of lire brick. Within tho pottery is piled up, and every few feet you see a kind of shelf made of terra cotta already baked, whit'ii stands upon terra cotta bricks. This is to prevent the weight of the molds pressing down toward tho bottom, by which the bottom pieces would be squee.ed out of their shape. When the kilns tire burning and a perfect hell of llanie worse than Nebuehud nez.ar's furnace is going on within it seems just as cool outside as if there was no lire at all. Among the objects at the factory I no ticed the model of a Turkish girl, as it seemed, bare to the waist, where hung some kind of Asiatic fringe or drapery. Thevsaid that a Hebrew had put up some kind of a club house, and had supplied his daughter for the model, considering that her form was worth perpetuation. 15ut it is no tiiieoinnion tiling for a sculp tor to employ his own family for model ing, and 1 understood more than twenty vears ago, when in Florence, that Hiram I'owers modeled his statue of California from one of his unmarried daughters. Tho fuetorv has on tho lower Hour washers, tuid;s. crushers, millstones to tuako grit, pug mills, etc. Tho second storv is tlio entrance to the kilns, which aro iiurned aliout eight days, each holding over twenty tons of terra cotta. Tho third story is the studio and tho molded brick factory. They burn a great many architect tira'l bricks" hero as attributes of the terra cotta. The pressing and finish ing is done on the fourth ami fifth lloors, and tho sixth story is tlio model and mold department. Architecture In the Tinted States is now callable of almost any kind of repre sentation through tho plant given by biich factories as this, which has many acres of s torn go room. The lloors are so largo that they can lay down tho entire cornice, belt course or outline of a build ing of great sie and height in it. You can in these Honrs show in your terra cotta, already modeled or baked, a height of about loO'foet and a width of over 170. A few female laborers are used to go over the tiles before they aro baked and sharpen tho work. An immense amount of terra cotta is kept perpetually on hand to (ill pass jug orders, for men'are changeable in buying tilings of this kind and have a mood under tlio influence of art which they may lose tho moment they turn their hu-Its. Tho public architecture of tho United States lias been mainly executed in hard stono, seldom suggestive of tho purpose in tended. Terra cotta, with its indestruct ible quality, alTonls the government all sorts of possibilities, didactic, sentimental and patriotic. (Sen. Meigs had a largo order for terra cotta executed In Boston which represents in costume as they lived, with nil their wagons, batteries, launches, row boats, ambulances, pontoons, infan try, cavalry, etc., tho army in tho time of tho civil war In tho course of timo these habits and appliances will change, but thero will stand for hundreds of years, in legihlo Illustration, tlio people as they lived in that great contest. "Oath" in Cincinnati Enquirer. Wur Time Clothes In tlio South. A Raleigh gentleman has collected and preserved an interesting souvenir of war times down south, in tho sliupoof a scrap book filled with samples of homo mado cloth of every description. Tho sight of these goods "forcibly carries one hack to tho days when the old timo spinning wheel and loom were to ho heard in every hoiibo. IJverv grade and color of fabric is represented, from the coarsest copperas checked to the finest "silk mixed," which was mado by carding nnniito bits of old silk of any kind with cotton, about half and half, and' then weaving tho cloth as lino as possible on a rough hand loom. It now looks st-ango that persons of wealth, tasto and ciiltu.e could over have worn such clothing, but thero was no help for It. We did wear It anil were proud of our independence. .Most of these specimens have a family history of their own, hav lug been preserved by his sisters, cousins und uuntsund presented to the gontleman who placed them in tho bcrap book for futuie generations to seo. Ualelgh Novvs. I'liio Sport In Austria. Austria is tho finest sporting country in Europe. Tho nuiuherof preserves, not counting thoso in Hungary, Is stated at 15,701, and on theso there were shot hi 1S87 32 hours, 1HJ wolves, SM lynxes, 0,4'JO Htags, C0,2.W roebucks, 7,700 chamois, 2,008 wild boars, 211,111 foxes. 0,72'J polo cats, 1.0M otters, 2,(172 budgers, mar mots and no fewer than l.l;!!),l!H hares. The totals for feathered garno aro '1,408 grouse. 1,1100 wild gceso, 102,718 pheas ants. 1.3:i0.0:it partridges, 111,118 quails, 12,052 woodcock, 7.01 1 milpo und 28,011 wild ducks. Tho birds of prey shot woro 001 eaglos, as.010 owls. l.JloTi Ii rued owls nnd lOUJol) hawks, kestrels, kites and vultures. Now York Sun. Aliuliii'i. tVouilerful .MlniR". Tlicro Is n wotidorful inlniKo In Glnclor ly, Alaska, relluctwl from thoglaBsvuur faco of tho Puelflo glaeier. It U wild that juutnftur tliuchauaof tho itin In Juno, soon uftttr Bimsot und vvhllu tho moon U cllmbliif,' In tho bky. a city upioartf nbovo thu f.'L.'-ii'.'. It U w distinct that a nliolo (PI!i la salil to huvo boon mado thl.i ecu boil by a roiildmit of Jiimiau, who loarnod thu mirogo from tho Indians und lion WH-n It uppwir and dlnuppeur for four yiw. Now York Sun. Cninlly lo Clillilnuu IU)v I). WaughiKucroluryof on HnglUh utclbty for tho iTuviuillmi uf rriiulty to chlldron, ricoity iikkortwl that t .000 -hll-drwii aro innrUi-riMl tn'ry winter In Kiifp laud to oblulii thu tiuurunco on tlicir liyuo, -Clilcugo Ucnild. 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Min of tli'1 1 ctopa, gate m1 feiicra, fertlllicra, 1 1 nt titihl Miftd , litft'tv'k talah 2, liiclnllng tho tifatmrtil of I m nt imrtl4 HittintU , potiltrr keaplnc, ant how ma1e t.il in I i f1iu11 lof kffplnc, ilnlrr f aiming, etc. Th i nun- tit i r I )'! aiihf-a la compote atit r iliautlt e, ainl nt i i tu u ul k -f girat raotlcal uie to fariuf it atilalockintn, MOtt I K I l. i riM'. Itftrlu la gircn theino't urful hlnta i. i;iii ft 1 1 nil Mill- nf triiflalilra out frnlla, aa gathered fmiti the r I'oriv iic of the luoi aucofxtul ttui tloult in lata. A II Oil ITC'I'l'Iti;. IValgna anl planaf.tr lioiiaa, rottagea, i-tn4 ml oiii.r iiitltiiitlnga, with, valuable ugratloua lo tiif Inirii ling t. hull I. Iltiri:il Ot.l. Tlt rrotk ron'aloa tilct anl tf tf t trclpra lr riliiil tH t iMMglualil4(th for I'lfakfaat, iltnnrr an 1 Ira. tlii ilt 1 vtnM'nt a'imio tiflug noitli mole than nine lenlha of I'te cook (Mok oM . nlmot lnnumrrllo hint, help and atig Cation ti lioipkpfta , tign and auggratlona lor making in 101 r ! iiitllul thing for the adornment of home, In needle work, enii'i 11 lei 1 , eitj , hlutaoii tlorlO'illuf e, telling how to lie an oful n Hit till (he t nrlou plant : lolli't Mm, trilling how to piciM-i te an t K-niitKjr the coinpteiloti, InuJi, IretL, hair, etc . t ic Mr.1tr!.. Mmr do.Ur In doetora hill will ha aired iiiiimi illf lo very pneor of thl look Hit oug.lt the taluahle Itiformiilon herein contained, It tflt how to cure, hr alinpl rrt rellthllmiiit lemodle, atallaMe In rterj ioueliod, ettry dHrnvo nti 1 allinont that I cnrnhlc, thl derartment forming a rmiip ct mrdl''! hook, the tat no of ntilclt In any home can h.ir 1 1 t le ciiipmfl In dullur and crot. I NVi:.'l'0. AMI MHCOVni V, HemarkaMr I ujr rlliiK dea'tintiiMi vi great Intention, hu'luding Steam 1'iigtiie, thiTfli'itra Ii, tho Pilntlng I'rea. llm I'leeldo l.tchi, llie.senlng Ma.dilne, (ho Telrplione, tho ly e Wlltit, the Tjpe Sitting Ma-luiio, the Cotton tiln, no. Till: WOltl.O'.H WOMir.lt, Craphlo .Itaerlptlona, 1i'ntit If nil r lllulriit.l, of the Yellow atone I'ai , Yosemlto Vnllej. Klagnnt tho Alpi, Purl, Yeaiitlna, Venloe, Ylouua, the t'nnona of t'olorndo, Mum moth ('ate, Natuial MiMge, W atklua (lien, the U hite Uouutalna, eta , eto. Tit Vll.. Pearrlptlona, prnrnety Uutrated, of the life, iiiauiicn, cuitotu, pacullar fotiua, rltca aud orictuotilca uf tha iiisiom t. 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Kcii liook Ih iuteiiHely tulert'HtliiK. No liiuueHi oiihl lie without u xet of Hit mu hidhI m.il leiuuik ulile vvoikH, Not to huvo rend them la to bo fur behind the u(?e in which ho live. Tlio (tut of Dk'keiiH' Hoikn which w oiler iu a BARNABY RUDCE AND CHRISTMAS STORIES. OLIVER TWIST AND GREAT EXPEC TATIONS, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP AND THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, HARD TIMES AND THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. laiiiuun ikivcIh thut were nvor wrilttn. For