FIDDLE.
As I before the tlmlwr of my elbows got o
And"hn2,m0re "mber ,ik anJeal,0r
Vet I cau plonk ami plunk and pllnk,
And tune tier up and play.
x And jest lean back and laugli and wink
At every rainy day.
Mr PwhennaSLmid,,"U,-tUne8 1 P
T1'e eorilaroL0" ' flJdlin, ,Uat the folks caU
"The Old Kat Oal," and "Ryestraw and "My
Sailor's On the Sea," 1
btbe oowtllUoDs that 1 saw when thecVico is
left to me.
And so 1 plunk and plonk and pllnk.
And rosum im mv iu-
Aiul play the tunes that make you think
The devil's in your toe.
.
indurin'lovo! U'US a my Ueart 8
...v k.nHitj uli i r-v hit niwiit in tn ...i.
jTotnhcr niicru. over bridt-o nn.i d,.,!i.i
hhiuu iifi uirnar.
She's n wooin'. cooin' piKeon, siurin' "Lovo Me"
every note!
And so I pat her neck, and pllnk
Herstritis with loviu' bauds,
An' llst'nln' clost. t sometimes think
She khid o' understands.
-James Wliitoomb Ulley,
FOlLKlT"
The scene of our storv is in Russia
"Holy Russia," as the Russians call it. In
the land of the czar the police officials are
allowed considerable latitude. They take
conious advnnt:iL'i nf tlw.ii. n,t,,..ni.. .
- . " .
to mane it unpleasant for their persoinl ,
nnnmlna Tl. 1 . ' !
enemies, t lie man or woman n mi Inst.
whom the police have a spite is not safe
in person or property. The usual mode
of conciliating those in authority is to in
vite them to take snuff out of a snultbo.v,
the contents of which are gold rubles. To
avoid trouble with the police a man in
Russia must be reckless with his rubles.
Police Commissioner Suboir was very,
very obliging in some respects. He was iv
hopeless victim of the snutr habit when
the snnlT box had a gold lining. He was
up to snufT in several senses of the word.
To use an American expression, Suboir
was an investigating committee of one,
that had to be continually lubricated. He
had, however, one other weakness. Ho
was very much given to paying his ad
dresses to the fair sex. He was not pretty
to look at. He was a short, fat, bald
headed man. Scientists say that in a
thousan.l years wo will all bo bald.
SuboiT had merely anticipated the scien
tists by a thousand years. Ho was bald
already, although ii? was unmarried. No
body could accuse him of failing to re
move the hairs out of the comb. His
blood might curdle in his veins, but his
hair never stood on end with terror.
As an additional attraction his com
plexion was very much the color of an
Italian sunset, or a circus poster. His
mouth was the shape of a semi-circular
gash, and looked as if it might be
partial to pie. His ears were largo and
generous, and gave him tho appearance,
at a distance, of being provided with
wings. His face betrayed about as much
intellectuality as an Irish potato. It was
only when he leered that it seemed to
have any expression at all in it.
One would have supposed that such a
caricature of a man would have conllned
his attentions to females who were, com
paratively speaking, as devoid of personal i
attractiveness as himself, such, for in-
stance, as those who wero adorned with a I
hump and ono eye. That, however, was :
not tho modest sort of man that SuboiT '
was. He forced his attentions on the '
loveliest in tho land. If they opposed his 1
wishes he promptly trumped up a con- I
spiracy against the government and sent
them, or their relatives, to Siberia. If a j
handsome woman desired to have any of
her relatives sent to Siberia all that sho
had to do was to refuse to admire SuboiT.
SuboiT was in Warsaw investigating a
conspiracy. A number of prominent
Poles were arrested nnd sent to Siberia,
ami SuboiT was hunting for more conspir
ators. He was kept pretty busy, but he
would have paid much more attention to
his official duties if it had not been for tho
beautiful eyes of the wife of a certain Col.
Sabinsky.
Mrs. Sabinsky was indeed a beautiful
woman. She was tall, well formed, with
wonderful black eyes and a wealth of hair
to match. Her features wero as faultless
as thoso of a Grecian statue.
Police Commissioner SuboiT had seen
her at a ball, and immediately fell vio
lently in lovo with her, as far ns tho term
was applicable to such a creature as him
self. He paid every possible attention,
bat tho handsome Polo ignored him com
pletely. When ho endeavored to becont,
more familiar she said something to u.
group of ladies that caused them to ssi'Js
audibly. She was evidently making 'u.
of him. He felt pretty sure that sho said
something about his personal appearance,
and that was a subject on which he was
very sensitive.
Ho rushed out of the ballroom foaming
with rage. The more ho brooded over
tho affair tho worse ho felt about it. Ho
determined to bo revenged. He would
llnd means to tamo the prido of tho
haughty beauty. Next day Col. babiusky
was arrested for conspiring against the
csar. This meant that, perhaps without
even tho formality of a trial, ho would be
transported to Siberia.
Col. Sablnsky's wife was at first very
much alarmed for the safety of her hus
band. She felt pretty sure that her un
willingness to smile on SuboiT was tho
real causo of her husband's arrest. Sho
vorv smart woman as sljjrp as a
steel trat). She said to herself
'As Mr.
Suboff has begun to play tricks o- mo, 1 11
sco if I can't play tricks on him. I I fcti
if I can't beat him at his own game."
Sho managed to have a note conveyed
to her imprisoned husband, telling him to
keep up his courage, as she vrould llnd
means to procure his liberation.
In the meantime Suboff remained in his
office awaiting the result of his first move
tocompcl Mrs. Sabinsky to come to terras
Ho did not have long to wait, for on the
day following the arrest of her husband
Mrs Sabinsky called at the office of the
She'ndmltted into the room. It
was nuito large, with a closet. In tho
niiddhi o the Urn was a large tab c, on
w eh were writing mnteriuU and oil e la
K,iliir was ill. Ho received
... .,(,,, ..'Hi
her with a hUleom. gnu " "7
.,!. mid her uvea iuuwoiv m -
jwieiinu erejw
"wZ l the caiue of your grief, beau
. ., K
(eollS lllii) ' nn vnu
nHlu InlHimiUl IS III P"""1 '"
ii u u vary frw" ""
'''"ITS. ti uuihr u"m
not that I hnre nnr doubts nbont your
husband's guilt, but ns a matter of ac
commodation to you. I ant very busy
now, but please call to-niorrow afternoon
at II o'clock, nml I'll see what can be
done.'
The grimaces and k crs with which these
worn were ULTotupanied left no doubt in
the mind of his visitor as to his real in
tention;., but she managed to conceal her
disgust and promised to call at the ap
pointed hour. As for Snbotr, ho was in
nn eotatie frame of mind. The manifest
absurdity of a man with his cast of coun
tenance creating a favorable liupressiou
on anybody, excepting perhaps himself,
never occurred to him.
An hour before the, appointed time
Suboir was arranging his toilet before the
glass. He festooned his dome of thought
with a wisp of about eleven lonesome
hairs that still lingered around the base
of his bald head. To himself he appeared
to be excruciating lovely. A carriage;
stopped before the door. He pranced to
the window and gazed out, looking, as
Mrs. Sabinsky afterward told a friend, for
all the world like an immense turkey gob
bler. He opened the door and gallantly
kissed her diminutive hand.
"We are quite alone." he said.
"Suppose somebody were to come? My
reputation would bo ruined!" exclaimed
the fair visitor.
"There is not the slightest danger; and
if there was hero is a closet in which you
could hide."
"Why, that closet is not big enough.
How could I get in there with my dress?"
"It is much larger than you suppose.
I am quite large, and it can accommodate
me."
"I don't belleTe it," replied the visitor
j incredulously.
! To relieve her fears SuboiT went into
, .., i i ,..
-"-k i'." ii. tiw mv uwi.
Tllp lll'Vt milllllMlt. till' llnnr WHS tlllsllPfl tO
l'he next moment the door was pushed to
and locked from the outside.
SuboiT was very much crowded in that
closet, almost as much, perhaps, as if ho
lived in a Harlem Hat. Heithouchthis vis
itor was playing a practical joke on him
and that he would bo released in a few
I minutes, but this delusion was dispelled
I by a linn female voice whispering through
I the keyhole:
"Don't you try to get out, you old
scoundrel, or I'll stab you to tho heart."
There was something in the tone of tho
voice that convinced him tho speaker
meant business.
Col. Sabinsky's wife tripped to the table,
nnd on one of the olllcial blanks, already
signed by the wretched SuboiT, sho wrote:
"Release immediately Col. Sabinsky."
SuboiT heard a silvery voice say:
"Farewell, my dear Suboir, but don't
excite yourself. If anybody calls remem
ber that you are not in. You have cheek
enough to carry you through anything ex
cept this door. Please shut this door
after you. Ta ta."
When SuboiT realized tho peril of his
situation he made frantic efforts to burst
open the .ioor, but it resisted all his ef
forts, although ho sworo llko a man who
was trying to write with a stylographie
pen. He made almost as much noiso as
i a woman's rights convention and with
I just about the same result. Ho was geu-
orally very successful in attracting atteu
i tion, but on this occasion ho failed igno
I niiniously. He was ulmost speechless
when ho was released, and ho had fallen
I off like a ton of coal on tho scales of a
dealer.
j Ho got out, hut tho story also got out,
! and he was the subject of inextinguishable
I ridicule wherever ho went. Hours before
I Suboll' got out of that closet Col. Sabin
i sky and his wifo crossed the frontier.
I They reached Paris in safety, and there It
was that tho latter told the story to the
writer, who was a member of tho German
legation. Translated from tho German
by Alex. M. Sweet for Tho New York
Mercury.
Ills Sensti of tlio UliUruloiiH.
The other afternoon, as wo wero rolling
out Woodward avenue, a swell young
fellow entered tho car and recognized a
fellow swell, when tho following conver
sation ensued:
"Aw, there, Chawley, mo boy."
"Aw, there, Fwedlc, old chappie."
"Wery slipewy, Chawley."
"Indeed, Fwcdie, that wemlnds mo of
w'at happened w'ilo I was waiting for
the caw ah."
"W't was it, Chawley?"
"W'y, ono of thoso fellahs of the ah
of the of the ah twadeclawses, you
know ah, was carwying a basket of
ah ah hen's fwruit, you know ah,
w'en ho began to look at me, the benstly
fellah, instead of where ho was walking,
and ho slipped up all, and dwopped his
basket of ah ah lien's fwruit, and sat
wight down In it ah, and it bo gwati
fled my sense of tho wridlculous that I
actually smiled, Kwedle, actually smiled
ah." Detroit Free Press.
Illhtiiricill Sunn felloes.
W. P. Dennett, for many years superin
tendent of the teams and stages of "Wells,
Fargo & Co,, has just sent east from Vir
ginia City, Nov., tho Norwegian snow
! shoes with which for twenty years ho has
1 traversed the Sierras. They aro of white
ash and ten feet long. In 1BU7 lio carried
the company's express packages across
tho mountains and was fifty-two hours in
a snowstorm. When he got back the
Widow Hryant now Mrs. John W.
Mackay told him that in twenty years
hi snowshoes would bo bought as relics.
She was right. Onco the shoes ran away
with Mr. Dennett, and ho went down the
Kingsbury grado into Lake valley, a dis
tance of over two miles, in four minutes.
New York Sun.
Dunceroii-ly TtiixiRlit fill.
Chicago is f"" of dangerously thought
ful and Mature children.
"Mamma ' .aid ono of them a 5-ycnr-old
the other day, "ain't there any other
senses 'cept seeing, hearing, feeling, tast
ing and smelling?"
"No, my child," answered tho mother;
"it is usually considered that thoso Ave
are enough."
"Well," said tho little one, with nn nir
of deep conviction, "I s'pose talking
would Imj railed a senso if there wasn't so
much uonsenst about it." Chicago Tri
bune. rincr Irntl
A comparison of the lengthr of tho first
nnd third fingers has een m&uy years in
progress. Ancient Greek urt seems to
have found the greater beauty in n longer
forefinger, hut in the Apollo Dulvldere
there U no appreciable difference in tho
i i. t,u twn f!orrilla. orntiL'
1" L .',,'.. , have a longer third
the two. uornuai,
, iwiii, - -
Augur, while among Kuropwuw and
AiMriraiw the hmr rtimor U tometimea
' tiw Hr.t, fcrttli th thml, and wme-
ti.il jn.iuuir of irnuul lullgtll. Ar
, - -r -- - -
krniwiw Truvrler.
Amluiulx Willing An ,tr.
RUa HH, h hUUUUiiaH, M toll U4 If
ihre U nw Hwrrtntf- In lwl )r than
itMwr ir, uud than wo thull luuw WW
in aa -Al'auy JuuruaL
AGRICULTURAL.
Fall Pruning- Will Save
Much Labor.
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
Producti von ess and Value of an Or
chard Depend on Pruning
While Young.
It will save much labor if the effect of
full pruning is thoroughly understood.
Wherever a dormant limit la rut oil", tho
bud just below the cut will next seasnn
push with greater vigor .uul become the
main shoot if the highest left on the
tree. The more vigorously a young tree
is p uned in fall or winter the stronger
growth of wooil it ill make next year,
ami the concent rut ion of sap in a few
lnr'e shoots will prevent fruiting. The
only pruning that can promote fruitful
nes's is that done while the tree is in leaf,
and this result is effected by cheeking
the vinorof its growth.
It is a good plan to use the suninier
ir.ade nuuiure as a top dressing for the
poor places in wheat fields. A very little
fertilizer goes a grout away in such eases.
In our experience, when the ground i
drv, little damage is done to wheat by
driving over it with loaded manure wag
ons having bro;)d tires thnt do not cut in
deeply. U oniv ordinary wheels are
used, defer drawing until the surface i
frozen so it will he ir a load, or wait still
later and draw on the snow with a si !.
In this ease some nnrks should bo put
up beforehand to show where the ma
nure had better bo ipread.
It is not often that n careful fanner
will nllow sows to breed so as to drop
their pigi late in the fall. It costs more
to winter suei pigs than they are worth,
us it is almost impossible, however well
fed and housed, to keep them from be
in" stunted. Rut the pigs need not be
whollv lost. Probably tho liest use of
them 'is to fatten rapidly and sell for
roasters about holiday time. Roast pig
is better liked bv many than roast tur
kev, and if it were offered generally in
fall and earlv winter, it is probably the
best use to which piga dropped at Una
untimely season can !e put.
The future shape, productiveness and
value of an orchard depend mainly on
the wav it is pruned whilo young. It
requires 1'iiowledge of tho habit of
growth of different varieties to know
how to prune them to advantage. A lit
tle pruning while the tree is small pets it
to growing in the right shape, and avoids
the need of sawing oil" large limbs later,
which can never be done without inflict
ing wounds likely to destroy the vitality
of the tree. It is in pruning, more oven
than in anything else, thnt a little done
at the right time saves the necessity for
doing much more afterwards.
A 'though hops can bo grown from seed,
this is not the usual way of propagating
them. Tho best time to plant hops is in
the spring, as early ns tlio ground can
be worked. The lows aro made altout
eight feet apart and the sets planted in
these at about the same distance. Each
set has two eyes, is plan tod nbout nn
inch deep and pressed firmly down.
The first year a hill of corn may bo
planted each way between the hops, but
the second year the entire ground is to be
kept well cultivated. Where the hop Iono
has not made its appearance the crop !h
generally a very protitable one.
Many fanners who have practiced the
plan .Jconiiiiend cutting corn fodder and
piling it in small cocks to cure. In it
largo stack the heating of so much wet
material would certainly provo injurious,
but in 8innll-8ued cocks' tho fermentation
is just enough to furnish heat to dry
them out. It also softens the stalks,
which aro eaten with less waste than
those set up in stacks and dried by ex
posure to the nir. Rain does not pene
trate these cocks to anv great extent.
Farmers have often noted that tho dam
pened stalks kept in mows, even when
slightly moldy, were eaten cleaner than
those thoroughly dried.
The United States Consul at Mann
heim. Germany, reports that German
chemists have learned how to make but
ter from tho oil of the cocoanut. One
factory already produces (iOO.OOO pounds
daily, which is sold at 15 cents per
pound. Tho nuts aro procured from
Africa, South America nnd other trop
ical countries. Cocoanut butter contains
70 per cent, of fat, nnd of the remainder
one-third is composed of the albumen,
which give it a greater nutritive value
than cow butter possesses. Tho now
butter is used largely in hospitals, and is
finding its way on account of its cheap
ness t) the tables of the poor, especially
asasubstituteforoleomargitrine.towhic.n
it is certainly superior ns usually mado.
Hoots of all kinds aro better kept in
nits than in cellars, where they aro ox
posed to currents of air. Homo earth
should lte mixed with them to till up tho
spaces, and tlius prevent tno evaporation
that uaually makes them dry and taste
loss before upnng. Beets and potatoes
are more easily injured by freezing than
other roots and require a double or triple
covering to exclude cold, turnips, rota
bagns, carrots and parsnips will a'l Iwai
a temperature nearly or ninto down w
the freezing point, provided they are in
contact with tho soil. Purnins with a
slight covering of tho part of the roots
ultove tho surfaco may bo left in the
ground until spring without injury, and
even with benefit. The freezing makes
them better flavored than they will be it
dug in the fall.
M-verai trials in recent years have
shown thnt th" nine leaves or needles,
hh they are called from our common
'due forests are valuable, or can le made
so, w a fertilizer for itotato-! on H'indv
toil. If the prejudice against sawdust
from resinous wood in general can w
removed and vegetable matters gathered
and applied to the soil with lex regard
to its origin ami more for its effects, it Is
quite likely that many Iiirmi-rs would
lii.d in the line JonwtH and groves a viil
iiuWm udditlon to their ncant supply of
Imldliig "ml at tho fume time iiintiuli
the much niltti vegetable inulter. .One
until raked up liu p - leave Kith wlmi
Uim vvgtitMhlo muiutr I hem w n n
Ur tliuHi mid imIkimI ilit iim" with lime
mid Ut it Im In a pile u few weUs uud
li i ii.J it fur ixdaU04 hIUi uuod
r . .Its,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tin Mine ltl.ro vrrrtl In tho MoiiutnltK
rur lint Spring, Ark.
The great Hennepin canal in Illinois
has been begun.
The Railway Commission of Florida
lias been alolished.
Indiana's nntnrnl-gfts supplv is believed
to be inexhaustible.
Nntive Alaskans Imvo decreased 5,000
in ten years. Drink.
Philadelphia's Chinatown is to have
nn employment bureau.
The World's Fair prizes for horses will
be rt'.'.OOO and for cattle 50,000.
The rush of grain shippers threatens
to blockado all tho roads in Kansas.
The telephone companies in Philadel
phia have put their wires underground.
The Hownrd Athenieuni, the oldest
theater in Boston, is to bo demolished.
Baltimore is to have a tin-plate manu
factory inoperution within three months.
Uss than half the children in Mis
souri of school age attend Sunday-school.
An English syndicate has an option on
the threslting-inachine interests of this
country.
An effort is being made to introduce
the mango, a delicious ICast Indian fruit,
into Georgia.
Uncle Sam is nbout to iseuo the most
beautiful bill ever printed tho new sil
ver certificate.
The log cabin which was the Ixiyhood
home of Lincoln is to lie exhibited at
the World's Fair.
Tho cotton crop of tho United State
this year is 8,052,507 bales, or l.IWO.OJO
more" than last year.
It is announced thnt a general election
will shortly take place in Canada, prob
ably in December or .lantmry.
The discovery of a tin mine in the
mountains near Hot Springs, Ark., is re
ported by Memphis capitalists.
The Consul-Generalship of Corea at
New York and the Consulship at Phila
delphia have Iteoii discontinued.
George W. Trehorn, Mayor of Broken
Bow, Neb., has disappeared, leaving
creditors to whom he owed !fl!0,(K 0.
Thebig2ti-ineh lens, which Alvin Clark
has made for the United States naval
observatory, is about ready to be placed
in position.
National President Polk of the Fann
ers' Alliance savs the talk of his having
been challenged to fight a duel in North
Carolina is a pure invention.
Georgia's new county railroad tux law
has been sustained by the Supreme
Court. This will add $51X1.000 a year to
the burdens of the railroads of that State.
The memory of Wendell Phillips is lo
be honored in Boston by the erection ol
a public hall bearing his name. Mrs.
Phillips has always objected to tho build
ing of a statue to his honor.
The negro cotton pickers throughout
the cotton belt have organized and fixed
the price of work at $1 per 100 pounds
nnd board. This organization is brought
nbout by the Colored Alliance.
A contagious skin disease has inndoits
nppearance at Norristown, Pn. It is an
itch, and generally begins on the soft
part of the hand,' between the fingers
and altout the wrists and elbows.
The exports of silver for the first seven
months of the year were if 11, :!.'!:!, li-Ul,
iK'ninst imports of !f8.:i)S,:i77. showing
that production of the white inetnl still
outruns the enforced demand growing
out of silver legislation.
Muvor Grant of New York bus de
clared in favor of Sunday liquor-Belling
at certain hours of tho day. His plea is
that clubs and hotels sell on Sunday,
and therefore all liquor haunts should
have the same privilege.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding informs
tho Nognlcs (A.T.) Collector that, the
practice of persons crossing to tho Mexi
can side and purchasing clothing, which
is carried back into the United Sta'et
without payment of duty, is smuggling.
A company has been organized nt Do
val's Bluff', Ark., with a capital of if 100,
000, for dredging the Upper White river,
which, it is claimed, can he made navi
gable as far as Yellville, on tho Missouri
line, thus adding nearly 100 milcH to
navigation in Arkansas. Tho White river
empties into the Mississippi below Mem
phis. SPORTING NOTES.
Hiinnl Will Trot on Itotli thn Iti-culnllon
anil K ll'-" li ni'il Track.
The Occidental Atnletic Club of San
Francisco has matched Billy Mnhnn ol
that city and Billy Matter of Australia,
light weights, to light at 1118 pounds for
a purse of $1,000 October 21.
In the bicycle race" at Hampden park,
Springfield," Mass,, Zimmerman of the
New York Athletic Club was tho star
performer, winning tho mile ordinary,
liiilf-'iiilo ordinary, quarter-mile Safety
and half-mile Safety handicaps. His
time in the latter race was 1 :0(! 4 5, beat
ing the world's record of 1 :07?,j.
At tho tournament of the Southern
California Lawn Tennis Association at
Los Angeles Tncndore Coulter beat U,
Caustou in the all comers' singles, win.
nitig the championship of the Ktuth.
This is the first time in Southern Cali
fornia that an American has won, the
Knghsh residents having heretofore been
the strongest players.
It is asserted in sporting circles at New
York that G. 15. Smith, better known as
" Pittsburg Phil," whose colt King Cud.
inns won the Sapphire stakes at Kheeps
head Bay, is from $76,000 to $100,000
richer than ho was tho tiny before the
race. He got all tho way from IJ0 to 8
for 1 for bis money at New York a id in
the Southern pool rooms.
From the following letter, which Hob
ert Bonner received from Senutor Stan
ford, it will be seen that Suuol is to trot
on Itotli the regulation and kite-shaped
tracks: "Kunol has apparently entirely
recovered, and for altout ten day she
has shown no symptoms of laiuenc-H.
We shall soon give her good work. Her
general condition seems to bo very gd
indeed, nnd if nothing happens, weeh;ill
lte prepared to give her n trial in His
courfuof two or three weeks, if every
thing in favorable to tho full exhibition
of her jtowers, I have no doubt thut the
will lower her record several seconds.
Friiin what I have seen of her this sea
son 2;0d docs not seem to ho Iteyoud her
poHvrs. Before she wont lame she trot'
iel quarters In 2Si' fecoiidw, the hud
itluhth In I II,. Hinf nciiiiind very oolii
forluhht while doing It. Wo shall in
lier on the Stockton kltoliped trm k
snd kIvm Iter tint) or muru trials, if every
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Harrlaon. tilt rlmli n.i otWr llluatrttloni, tlis !. nJ
p.ttuntt r Nniotcitii lton rt. Shftkni'tarr, Hyron, WlllUm
I'rnii. Itfii.Uinlii Frmiilhi, Unity ('ly, Itanlfl Wblrr, ftn.1
In mon atfttffttntii, niitl.or, I'ovli, (cnrri.lt, Cliff jnitu, ttO-i
tlnnii to tlx rctent tUy
Aflltlcri.Tt'ltl.. YnliitM Mnlit.nl nful tiiKtitlnt
10 I'Mtnif r, irf tiiiiit f AtM rrot( gaita ami frncta, rrrllllira,
farm liiipifiitfnta t lltfMocl. rUliiR Incliivllnt th tltattnuit of
dif.f tf ihuiitnia animal , poultry httplnc ami how ut.1
iKvtMfni n I 1'ioflUbl btt kfiliif,.Wlry fatmlnt:, tie. Tho
Irfttinritt pf tli anliJriMl If conipltio onj eihouallvo. inJ
Tf ndfia the work of gt fat practical um to fatiutra aiiJitockniiu,
MOltTlrri.Tl'ltr.. Ittrtln 1$ lrn tho moil titoful hint
lofcitrraffii)l kliil nf iriftftblta nl fruit, ta rtlbttti
front the exrrrtrnco of tho rue I tuecttaful l.oitlculturlttt.
AIK'III I i:' rntl'. PiUQiin.1rUinrri.ouifi,reiUcta,
tarsia tint other ontbullJluit, wliti TtlutMo tutilono to
IllOOOtlltOUdlllft It- I'UtU.
IIOlTHi:HOI,l. Till work fonttlna trlrl nnd trtM roclrtt
f.-r aloioit otrry ImtRlntblodlili for lrrakfatt( dlnurr nl trt.
tKI Jfratltnfnt nlono bftiitt worth moio than nlno ttntha of
the took tmcki aaU , tlnwil InnunifruM lilntt, IirlpatiKl tut
ffitlotH tolioinrkffprrti dilni tul tu(goatlont for rutklnc
nifttiT btaullful thliiRt tvt tho ajorntntiit of homo. In riffJIo
work, ombrol lerr, ota. t Mntion tlorloulture, totllng how to b
auicoaral nttli nil tho rtrlout 1tnta i tollol lilnta. trllllnf how
to prrtTTo tnl ttaullfy Hi couiptosloii, btuilt, tftth, ttlr,
tlo-i tto
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INVENTION AMI IMHCOVKUV. IltmarkaMr tular
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thoStnlng Mtohlno, lh Ttkphouo, (ho Typ Wllttr, lb Typ
Hotllni Mtchlno, th Cotton Oln, etc,
TIIK U'O II !.! WONIIKHN, nrtphlo .Ififtlrtloni,
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TUAVr.I.. Pftortpttoni, proruitly lUuitratf 1, of th I Iff,
tutuuert, ouiloma, icullar fornii, tllr auJ oerruioul of th
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For want of -acwcan only briefly aummar
It a finall portion of thocuDlentaor I tils I rtat
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Chlnta, Jrn'i, lh fnftt of I a 1 1 a , Africa. Uli,aMar,
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Hrvl. KttTrarli, Tirury, Cftihintr ml TunU, lh Araas,
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Italian., Orrtkt, Iluaalaaa, Vltxilana, ifahane, rtialus
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MANIirAOTItllE!!. In Ihlnttal woii It alto dtattlkt
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IwaMnJItn. ooo.l tnlaln(, lllholtaihy.rlioloitapbT.eallo
rrlnlllK, rl" rnatlnf, ateh makliic. paptr maklaf, tha
manufaclutt of allk, Iron, alttl. latt, china, prrfumtl;, ooap,
Ittthtr, alarch, wall paptr. turptntlnt, poatal earJa, pla
llamrt, tnttleptt, ptna, ptnetlt. nttJkt, an.l many otatr
ihlnit, all of rilh -III tit fauna ptculltrl; lottriiUof to 4
iDiirueiltt,
l Oltf.HJN IMtOlU'CTN. tnltrttllo, Jt'trlrllont, lllao.
IraltJ, of Hit oulturo auJ prtparatlon for malktl of tta,t(Tr
cliooolalt, cotton, flai, htinp, tufar, lit. nittmt,t. clttrr.
fln,tr. cinnamon, tlltplct, ptpptr, coooaoutt, pliioappltt, ban
n, piuntt, ilaltt, lalilui, it: ollrta, InJIa-rubbtr, jolla
ptrcha, coik, camphor, caitor oil, laploca, tic, tie.
NATl'HAI. 1I1RTOHV. Inttrtalb, an.l Inalrnellta
ilraerlpllona, aecompaultj br lllualratlont, of nurutrout bttala,
blrJt, dihta aul Intftta, wtlbniuOQ eulloua lulf ualloti rtfari
In, Ititlr lift auJ litbltt.
IiAW. Tin kliuMorH CfClfrM It tla a compltlt law
book, Itlllna tiny man how ht may b hit own lawjtr.aoa
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an.Kbt lawaof Iho atrtralBtftlta upon all nialltra which ar
tubjtctto llllallon, wliu uunitrout formt of Irg al Joouiutntt.
.MINIMI. I'taorlrllona an.l llluilrallona or Hie rnlnloc of
lolJ. allicr, dUmoDjt, ooal, tall, eopptr, laJ, iluo, tlu and
qulckallrtr.
WOMIKItN OP Tlin 8KA. Ittrtln art itccilbt.t an!
llluitratt'l Iht many womlrrruland btaullfnl tlilnca foun fttlfaa
bollon flhooetan.lho planlt, nowtit, tlitllt, Habit, tto., llko
alio rtail dlilm, eon) nihln,, tie., tie,
MTATIHTIOAIt ANI MlNtinM.ANr.orn. nertla
It , If tn a tail amount of uttful anj Inltrtatln Informallon,
coiuoof -vhtrb Itlbo population of Aratrlcan cltltt, arra ant
noruMloncf tliocontlntiitt, of llitfllalti an,l Ttrrlloiltt, aa
iffho Ttlnilpalcountlltt cf Iht wttlJ, ltn,th of tho principal
llirlWldoulle, ol for alklt Jtara, rrcthltntlal attllillea,
arc . StlO Jtpth of ttal, laktl inl octant, btlhl of mountains,
looonv lloncf anlraalt an.l ftlodly of bojltl, htldit of ratau
mtntt, toKOC. anO ttiuelurti, illtunctt from Waahlniton, alt
fromNcw Y rll.tolruporlant polnla,chronololclhlitoryofdla
etvcrr anC progrttt, (topular aobrhiutlt of Amrrlean BUUt
elllca.cte., eommon (rammatleal orrort, rultt for tptlllnc, pro
nunciation nnO uat of capllala, Wall Strati phraati, eonxntrea
of (ho troth), curlout facta la natural Malory, lonitrlly at
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woikl, popular fabltt, ranilllar quolatlont, of f'ltlut and 4
plantl, djlni wolda of ramoua ptrtont, fate of tht ApoatNa,
atatlitlctoflbt ilobt, Itallnf tortinmiula of tlit oilj, tt,
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