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A SO Cfj.fSIiH OF rKMETEBY WO UK FIXS MONUMENTS A SPECIALTY. ALBANY. ORKOON. BUTI XfXIX.Ii FOR SALE. A Double Circular Water Power Saw Mill, Neai Ielnoii, Or. Capacity about 600 " feet pr day. Also, 4 J acres of land on which the sawmill is located. PRICE, $3,000 Also lave a large atock of FIRST QUALITY LUMBER At lowest market ratea for cash. . W. WHREtEB, Lebaaaa. Or. WINTER Artistic Photographer, BROWNSVILLE, OR. Enlarging from Small Pictures. In stantaneous Process. WORK WARRANTED. C. T. COTTON, DEALER IS Groceries and Provisions, TOBACCO & CIGARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY, V.aeeasware aad Ctlaaaware, Ijaaiaa and Lanp Flxtarr. Hala nt Lfbanta, Orraran. OREGON Land Company R. F. ASH3Y and CEO. DICKINSON General Agents for Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon. Bujingr and 8eliing Ei-Eslat8-on-Coiission. Alt Dataar a Cteaeral Real Estate Baalaeaa. a-Land Solicited for Sale. ASHBY & DICKERSON BURKHART & BILYEU, Proprietors of the Liyery.Sale anil Feefl StaMes LEBAXOV, OR, Southeast Corner of Main and Sherman. Fine Buggies, Hacks.Har ness and COOD RELIABLE HORSES - Torprties going to Browngville, W itarloo, Sweet Home, bcio, ana all parte of Linn County.- .11 kinds of Teaming DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. BTJRPT A RT & BILYEU VOL. II. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS An Interesting Resume of the Week's Happenings in Both Branches of the Nation's Legislature Samuel N. Bixtey baa been appoint ed postmaster at Kelso, Cowlits coun-T- James P. Statr baa been appointed postmaster at Syracuse, Polk county, in place of Frank R. Hubbard, re signed. A railway mail service bas been es tablished on the route from Wood ville to SnoUotuisb, six times a week to take tffect from tke 28th. G overnnr-elect Hovey lias left Wasb initton for bis borne in Indiana. He will resign his seat in the House, which will be fill d by a special elec tion next month. Senator Cnllom has reported favor ably a bill from the commerce com mittee to increase the salary of the furgeon general of the marine hos pital service to f 6000 jierunmmi. The total coinage of the United States miuta for the twelve months -ndirK the calendar year ef 18S8 wa 165 318,614, divided aa follow-: G.ld, f31.3SO.tt80; silver, $ 33,025,606; mi n .r. 4912.200. Tbe Secretary vt tbe Navy bas is sued peremptory orders to hasten tbe worked preparing the Unite StaUs ships All -ma, vauiaha and Aloiiicin for te t It a rt ported that the last wo named will be sent to Samoa te reinforce the Nipsic. A party of Dakota Democrats, re cently elected deb gates by the Miti bell couveu'ton, are now in V aeh ington, their object being to secure necessary legislation to carry into ef fect the d8iic8 of the convention, and tty express tbe intention of remain ing there until that is accomplished. Tbe President gave .a etste dinner of bjrty-eigbt covers to membera of the CAbiuet Friday night, the seconu of the winter's series of official enter tainments. The White House was handsomely decorated for the occa sion. A miniature lake, with banks bned with evergreens and red and white roses, was the principal floral decoration. Claus Soreckels bas made a state ment before tbe Senate committee of finance, concerning his experiments in the manufacture of beei aagar in California, intended as an argument against tbe pivposed reduction of duty on sugar and the substitution thereof of a bounty of 1 cent a pound. Dur ing tbe hearing it was intimated that the committee would insert in the bill a provision, making the bounty of one ci-nt t pound operative until the year isyo. A letter was laid before tbe Senate Friday from the Secretary of the treasury m reply to a resolution 01 the Senate asking for copies of the rul ing made by the department as to ti e classification of gill-nets roada 111 S.-otland, and imported for salmon u-herits on the Pacific Cc-ast. The Secretary says no decision has been made during the p.tst year on gill- ne's ready and fit for use by salmon fishermon. Tbe members of the Senate commit tee having charge of the tariff bill h tve decide to effer an amendment making the duty on lumber f 1.50 er 1000 feel, a reduction of 2a per cent in the bill as repotted from the com- tiiitee. It was first proposed to make tbe duty 1.25, but a compromise on a $1.50 rate was secured by the sena tors Irom the Northwest. A proviso will be inserted that this rat shall te conditional on Canada removing ber export duty on lumber. C. C. W. Ve.-t, Governor of Utah, is 1 ow in ashi,gU:n. He intei ds to appear before the House committee i'ix territories to opp se the admission 01 Utah as a btW. This sentiment, hi- nyi-,is t-bartd ty n-mly every Grin- ilr- m ike u-mtory. W places m t it-ctioit 011 the tr.ad ground that Mt)rmous are untitled to exercise the lights of eit zeiisliip. Heay8: "To give Hies- people sovereign rights, as lnpost-d, would be to place evtry non Mormon in Utah completely at their mercy. Under i:ie territorial iorm 01 guvemmeut we are protect d by Con giess ai d the Executive. Confer the rigbt 01 Statehood uon Utah and the Mormons would frame a constitution and laws so unjust and arbitrary in their character tnat an outsider could not live among tut-m. I lavor leav ing it a tenitory, t ut so amending the latr as to abridge the power cf the church." The National Woolgrowers Associ atiou met in convention at Washing ton last week. Resulutions were adopted declaring, that while Con gress maintained a gene.al policy of protection, tbe wool gtowers aaa wwi manufacturer in the United States have a right to demaud that the du ties on wool and on woolen and worst ed goods shah be adjusted and main tained so as to secure to them the American market. The r solutions pro tea tagamet the Senate tariff bi.l so tar as it affects wool, and providing for a committee of seven to formulate such schedule of tar.ff duties for wool as may bv deemed just and neceary, and to present the same to the finance committee of the Senate and urge it adoption. Tuey further declare that the determination of the economic and financial policy of this govern ment is so important to wool-growing and all other industries and business of the nation 8 to require immediate Mild definite legislation, and if this shall not be accomplished during the pretent Congress an early extra ses sion of the 51-t Congress is recom mended. David Hait, a blacksmith and train ing with the Salvation army at Port land, took morphine and told the sum moned physician that he had had the drug for two years, but had not had the courage to use it before. - He said he wanted something given him to make death easy, and whpn asked why be didn't jump in tbe Willamette river, he said he did not know how to swim. PACIFIC COAST NOTES. Mfct'ers of Local and General Import Gathered from All Sources for the Benefit of Our Readers. Fresno tailors are striking for better wages. Albuquerque, N. M., built 300 be as is last year. WalluU and Walla Walla are now connected by rail. Jiifin P. St. John will make bis resi dence iu California. Traver, Tulare county, Cal., now boasts a cheese factory. Tbe penitentiary of Washington Territory is now heated by steam. , A pang of ho odlums at Victoria at tacked tbe salvation army recently. N rtb Yakima i soon to have a system of waterworks to cost f lUO.000. Attempts have been made to rob people while ge ting on trains at Col ton. J. C. Leisure, of Pendleton, ha re signed the position of deputy district at oruey. An effort is to be made in tbe Ne vada legislature to obtain a charter fer a lottery. Many arrests bare been mad1? on ac count of the recent riot at tbe New castle mines. The sealing schooners are all pre paring to leave B.-iliah Columbia porta for the north. The repairing shops of the Oregon and Washington Territory road are tt be located at Walla Walla, The loie highwayman appears to be busily engaged in holding up stage coacutt in northern California. The wind from eastern Oregon blows alkali dust which settles on the glass of the Fort Can by lighthouse. A co'.ored man sssauted a pretty Pasadena girl last week, and if be had been caught the mob would have lynched him. Large numbers of miners are flock ing to he gold mines in the Harqna Uala mountains in Yumi and Mari copa counties, A. T. John and Fred M te, who attempted to murder their father-in-law, Henry CaS'ery, at Santa Rosa, will have to serve one year in San Quenlia. A Chinaman at Sicramtnto at tempted to tike a stone from a rail road track, to prevent what he thought would be an accident, and was killed by a passing train. The wife of Charles Allen, of Grass Valley, has been sent to the insne asylum. She fancier she is a bird, tries to imitate its twitterings and at tempts to climb trees. John Barry, a drunken scoundrel at Portlaud, was arrtsted recently ftr whipping his wife's dead body and dragging it from the bed to tbe floor, because it would not rise at bis bid ding. At a recent meeting or the Colum bia River Fiihermeu's Protective Union at Astoria, the price of salmon for the next cannery season was set at ft per fish it caught in cannery nets and f 1 25 if caught in private nets. The colored church in Sacranento had a sensition last week, b 'n the janitor found a number of loud ciga- ar tte pictures m the ee t which ins been occupied the previous evening by a ptr y of young female members. John Foster, who stole a h rse from the neighborhood of Eite Grove, 8 tc rameato comity, Cal., last month, and who left a pi-ce of doggerel after him t induce a believe in the proximity of Black Bart, has been sentenced to ten years at San Quentin. While passengers were being landed from the steamer Point Arena at Lit tle River, Mendocino county, lam week in a boat, the latter was cipsiie and Mm Kddiyand the daughter eif an 8-it-iit keeer at the lighthouse at Poiut Arena were drowned. Lat week, at Bonita, Graham county, A. P., several heepmen were graiing their flocks neat the range of some Chiricahua cattlemen, who wanted the sheepmen to go elsewhere. A bUtl enmed and fivt- sueep-herder- were kilted and one cattleman wounded. There is trouble over land claims at Los 01ivo8. Squatters are flocking in from all quarters and taking possession of land 011 tbe Brinkerhoff and Laguna extension, near the town. The land in dbpute ia claimed to be part OS the B -11 ranch, lielween Los Olivos and Ljmpoc, Santa Barbara county. The little daughter of L. 8. Kenne dy, living at Pilot Rock, ' had a nar tow escape fiom death last week. Two school-boys were shooting at a mark, and while crossing a field on her way to school the child was struck by a passing bullet, inflicting a painful though not serious wound above the right temple. Charles Johnson, recently an in mate of the British Columbia peniten tiary, and now a resident of Portland, was engaged last week in circulating a paper iu Victoria headed, "Prison reform and hidden secrets , a brief ac count of the tyrany, injustice and op pression practiced in the British Co lumbia penitentiary." The charges made against the officials are very se rious. George Vanderbilt, the millionaire son of the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt, has purchased a tract of 3000 acres of valuable land in Nort'a Carolina, It is believed be intends to erect a wtman's college. Western spoitstuen complain that wild ducks are becoming scarce in many sections and attribute their scarcity to the uss of duck eggs in making a new glue that is manufact ured in Canada. Their eggs having become valuable, Canuliau hunters despoil their nests and thus materially reduce the supply of young ducks. Hunters in Massachusetts concede that. dier never were so numerous in the woods of Cape Cod as al the. pres ent time. It is unlawful, however, to kill ' -; - LEBANON, OREGON, MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS A Brief Mention of Matters of Oen ral Interest. Notes Oat erod from Home and Abroad. R ice troubles are feared at Arcol , Miss. Bernhardt gave ten performance at Cairo, Eypt, recently. Last year 1356 people died of de lirium tremens in Euglan I. The Paris p lice will search the hous-ea of all known anarchists. The Sultan is one of the most en thusiastic ehesa pi lyers in Europe. In Russia last year 80,000 dram shtps were done away with by law. Lord C.deridge ha collected 3 ),000 for the wido and daughters ot- Mat thew Arnold. " The British government states that a successor to Sacktille West will shortly be appointed. Final preparations have been mad' for the oJBciitl trial of the 15-.nch pneumatic dynamite guu. Am th' r valuable coal depo? it h is jtn.t been discovered in Dakota, three miles north of Centerville. The Italian railway system is un dergoing a radical reform to facilitate the mobilization of troops. The largest organ in the worll is now being built in 1mi'on for Syd ney. It will cost about $75,000. France appears to be somewhat dis pleased over the debate in the U. S. Senate on the Panama cal pn ject. Eugene Wetherill, husband of Em ma Abbott, the noted prima doum', died suddenly at Denver hu-t week. Mrs. Sherishn has accepted tbe de sign of Samuel II. Kittson, of New York, for the monument to General Shwridan. President Carnot of France received nearly a thousand Christmas presents from bis admiring fellow-citizens of the Republic. Mrs. Parnell bas deeded to her son, Charles Stewart Parnell, the Ironside? homestead and other property at B-rdentown, N. J. - Thoueh nearly a million Lebel rifles have been turaed out in France, the government workshops are slill turning out 3000 a day more. King LeotKild, of Belgium, has in siiuced the LUbops of his little realm to have prayers t. flared constantly lor the safely of Stanley aid Emin Pasha, A celebrated team.2 of bull-fighters "rom Seville, Spain, performed before 30,000 excited people at the City of Mt xico recently. Four bulla were killed. ,f . Articles have been signed by Sulli van and Kilrain for a tiiht near New Oilcans for a purse of 110,000 and the diamond championship belt now bel 1 by the latter. The most prominent brigand in China, Ho Ta Lao-hu, has been cap lured and killed.. He was a giant, being 7 fet 2 inches in height au 1 broad in prooriien. Five negro murderers were drowned in Broad river, 8. C, a few day ago, while struggling f-r the oesesaion of money they had just taken from the body of one whom they had murdered. Empress Frederick is understood to have made friends with her eldest son. the Emperor, but she faile I to receive the cus'omary Christmas present from him. It is given out tu.it she requested him not to send it. James L. Wright, R. X. Keen, R. C. McAi.Iey and J seph S. Kennedy, the four original members of the Knight of Lbor, have issued circulars to the knights which are expected to over throw the Powderly administration in tbe order. The Czar is said to have become reconciled to Prince Alexander of Bat- teuberg, owing to the kindly t ff h t of a mo herly Grand Duchess wtio tke interest in the Piincess Victoria of Prussia, and wants to see the young couple happy and married. Depu'y Sheriff Moore, of Dallas, Texas, twice rescued a burglar fiom the hands of a mob last week, and each time th culprit was hanging from a tree. The second time the res cue was made the deputy fired upon the lynchers and injured several. The city council of Cheyenne, Wy. T., has closed the deal with the Union Pacific and work-hops will be imme diately established. The citizens of Cheyenne are oveijoyed, a boom has set in, and land in the neighborhood has increased in value wondenully within the last few weeks. M. Lucien Gaulard, who had so large a share iu the introduction of the transformer system of electric lighting, died recently in a lunatic asylum in France. His friends at tribute his mental failure to the legal troubles he bad experienced in con nection wilu his various patents. When Will Bright, son of John Bright, wanted to reprove his father for the latter's severity for comment ing on his eon's adherence to home rule principles, the young men wrote : " My dear father, these are not the kind of letters that should be: ad dressed by one statesman to another." It is expected that not more than one million pounds of tobaeco will be raised in Egypt this year, although, three million pounds have been pro duced in former seasons. The de- cease is owing to the recent action of th Khedive in putting a tax of $157 50 on each acre of ground de voted to this crop. , , Eics are scarce this season, com pared with the corresponding period ot last year, and prices are higher everywhere. The operators 01 incu bators find great difficulty in securing eggs that give good hatches, and e ffer extra prices for eggs from choice stock. 1 Artificial incubation is being conducted new on a larger scale than at any previous time. An increase 01 pension bas been granted to RWwell D. Carter, of Port Gambi-. W. Tv; also to W. S. Caipen-U- .' Ury, IvT. FRIDAY. JANUARY THE AGRICULTURALIST Newsy Notes C'once nlng the Farm and of Especial I terot to te Pa cific Co st Huabindman. Georgia is to have an immigration bun an to encourage immigration to the HUte tf in ntriou ami intelli gent farmers and mecliau'C'-t. D-i not M'U ifT your Hiirplu-i hay n straw yet, r you may lind yotirfH sliO:t of a supply before the winter if over. The amount t: tie retained de pends on the condition of the sto fc and the severity of the weather tn tweeu now and spring. Every farmer's son should be edu cated 10 a knowledge of Itotany arid to thoroughly understand nil tie jaiints of t lie different breeds of stock, as well as be familiar with the nature of fertilizers and their fitness for cer tain crop and soils. Dj not be afraid to cpn the doors unit windows of the cellar -on clear days. It is much better to l.ave pur air in the cellar than to keep it cl e ami damp. When th cellar is musty ami a disagreeable tbr noticed tlu entire house is likewise sfHcted. A farm rau'.t not only be self-sun porting but should pay a profit. When the farmer reaches that stage when he is compelled to borrow, or de pend on some income from an lher source, hi farm is unprofitable, and be should Ihen endeavor not only t discover the cause of his loes but alo aim to improve iu some manner, in order that the farm may be self-sui porting. The ni'-st disigreeable thing on the farm in winter is mud, and, although it can not be entirely avoided, yet some of i'a disidvantaxes may be overcome by c irefully draining every location that allows an exctsj of wa ter to accumulate. When the cattle are compel!! lo stand km e deep in mud there is aljssof animal heat, and a greaU-r projx r:ion of food aillle lequired to keep them m conditio:!. Churning cream wh?n slitrhtly sour, as i-t the custom in the llolstein daiiiep, yields bu ter of a peculiar and fine aromi. Butter made from verv sour cream is destitute of th:s aroma, and baa the t ste winch the Mortem butter acquires after keeping some time. Stirring of cream does not pro mote souring, but rather hinders it bi increasing aureus tf air; it may lie ad vantageous m mating the souring 11 11 if 01 111. For very euly eggs warm, com fortable houses, proper fee', and toot! care are necessary If the beus have to use all the feed they get to k ep themselves warm, if they are not sup plied with f 1 mrI coutainiug egg-forming material, and if the houses are not kept c ean and well ventilate!, the eiig bak t need not be alirgetme. I he rouf of the p'mlt'v housij should beliht, the sides well battened snJ ih : knot-bol-'s covered, or the entire ides covered with ture l paper to pre vent draught, ami tin- tlxirmadeiu a way to take no drainage from th outside and be perfectly dry. For veniili'i ni, any pln, whereby thfr fowls can be supplied wild pure fresh ai r with' u I bei 11 g t ubj eele J to d raug h t s will answer. Ou ho v many places is it a pleas nre to visit the ben hou T Although there has been a great change for the better during the last fear years, tin- average hen house is still shunn id by all who are not obliged to visit it Tni is not surprising, as it i full of lic" in summer, and 111 winter i-t fou'- with the stench from a year's accu mulation of huh. Tins need rot and ought not to be. The poultry ou plat , esa dally if a pure breed 1 kept, should be a "joy forever." They never Ioe their luterest. Each has its individuality, is likes ami dis'ikes, like all other stock, and a half hour spent iu watching them is alwavs ful ( f pleasure, and seldom without profit Somtthinst new can be learned al ever visit. Wood ashes have too greatavilm to be wanted. Every favniar's f nuilv should make its own soap supply. It is cheaper for tbe farmer lo mak soap than to buy it. When not u'il ized on the farm, "soap gn a e i either wasted or sold for a pittance. After the ashes are leached they are as good as before for manor.'', where the soil does not ljck potish. If a teapoonful of clean wood ashes i given every third d ly to hoises i. their feed they will will very rarely n-cd condition powders. The sam amount given to cattle will have good results. Cattle, also swine, are fre quently seen licking asl ei where rul bish has been burned. Tiie ashe given to hogs may be mixed with their salt. Ashes correct acidify of the stomach and destroys some in testinal worms. Wood ashes are a valuable fertilizer for all crop-1, but es pecially for orclurd crops. They con tain all the mineral element r. quired by plants. The fine condition and peculiar proportion of their ingre dients make their real agricultural value greater than the value com puted from chemical analysis. Coal ashes are comparatively worthhs, but wood ashes should never be thrown away. Allowing each tree thirty feet of room (that is p'anting the trees thirty feet apart iu checked rows), an cre will ptr.nit tf abuut fi ty trees. They will 'not be ready for market, or to br sawed up as lumber, until they are about twenty years of age. Their value will then depend on the kin 1 of trees and the number of feet of lum ber that can be sawed from each tree. If the trees are twenty-five feet apart about sixty-five trees can be grown en an acre, but the closer the trees the slower the growth and the sooner they must be cut down. Each acre of land can be made, to produce $1000 in choice tiees in twenty y ars, or at the rale of $25 perV-acre annually, while the yield' of nuts will more'tha'n pay he interest on capital. No correct n-timate can be made on the value of an acre of walnut. - In Indiana re cently trees sold at the rate of $3000 per acre, but they were very lirge. If an application wf ashes be giv-n th tree ev ry year the growth will be So creased. The pn fi', arises from utilization of laud that would lemaiu 1 idle if not occupied by trees. IS, 1881). PO I TLANDliM RKET REPOR1 0 OCEItlKS -Sutra hare fallen is Hiiie-our last report. We quote C f i:, extra C Bb r'ry ftrn"ltd fljf, euie, i rutlied and p jwdrred $c. Colin t Arm, (In ttetn da IS.'tfl c, J.wia I'.lra '821 l!io -M 1 .c, taJva iorlli a jjUj, Arbuckle's mauled JSJjc 1 KOVISIOXS Oregon hinis are qnot ed ulli ll .c, brt-akfant bacon 1'IJ'T-14-c, Khitii m ot is!noted a fololws: Hams 1 l" la , Sinclaira 14 15c, Orpon breatc Utit b-on l:iiu 1 4c, Kanlern 113 c. FHUlTS-tirren fruit rerv-fpts 13 bxa. Hard fruit l-t scirce, and th.-HUpply of ap p rn not qual lo the uatina-nd. A pples tl.itfi K per tix. M.-xic n oranges fi, lemons 00 50 prr bx, bauanis :i.aia.4.i'X). quinces 10 (JOc, V -tJETA OLE 5-MarltH well supp led. CfthhaKe j lc per tt, carrots and turnip. Hi per Ha- k, red pt pper .1c p;r potatoes 3 1 4 p-r tack, sweet I e per lt. Wt'Ell FUUIlS-Recelpta 01 pkjres. -un-drird a -nte 4 52 pt-r lt, factory n!ic d 8k, factory plums 7Uc, Orrjron prune 7 lie, pear ft 10c, peache Ha 10c. raid us 2 a 2.2 j per box, Call ornia fig sc, Smyrna 18c per tt. DAIRY PROMT E-Oregon creame-y atidrhuice dairy 35c, medium 7o3Jc C'a fornia laiicy- 3Jc, choice dairy 27jc, eastern 25 TaOc. EGGS R-ceipts 01 case. OreRon 25c POULTRY Chickens V5.2 for Itrjje yountt and f4 i 73 for old, turkeys 111 c per 11-, ducks $.'s7 per dozen. WOOL-Vailej 18120c Eastern Orcgcn 10 a lSc. HOPS -Choice 8 6 14c tilt. IX-Valley fl.31, Eastern Oregon tl.: Oat-t ai -' .:. F OUR -Standard J.50, other brands fl.t'5. Day 'on and t 'a cade f 4.10, Gaaiiam -1.2 , rye flour d'j Graham 5.t0. Flt'SIl MEATS Beef, live, SJ33ic. drtrs-d 7-, mutton, live. 3.J J c, dressed 7-, lamHs f i.i.O each, hog, lire, oj 1 Gc, dresxed Ta 1, veal e tc FOREIGN GOSSIP. -Kerosene oil Is responsible for nine-tenths of the fires that take place in China. -The Emperor of Austria la very fond of chamois shooting, and in that sport uses an old-fashioned muzzle loading gun. 1 he great game of Japan Is "Go." It is something: like chess, and the masters of It sometimes take twenty four hours for a game. English girls are said to laugh at the Idea of wearing stays while playing tennis. They mean business when they go Into a court, and for the moment forget to worry about what sort of a figure they cut. "Walking Day is the odd and ap propriate term of a holiday in War rington. England, when children and teachers inarch in procession, and large numbers of tbe people take excursions to various points of interest. Oid Emperor William as Jupiter, fcmperor Frederick as Mars. Empress Augusta as Juno and Empress Victoria as Minerva are four statues of sand stone which have been placed in niches above the grand entrance to the Royal Schloss iu Ilorlin. The Austrian Consul at Yokohama reports great difference in commercial morality between the merchants of China find Japan. The Japanese, he says, are neither enterprising nor up- riiiht, but the Chinamen are solid and trust worthy ia every respect. A few years ago the Argentine Republic did not raise wheat enough for homo consumption. Last year it exjiorted 7,W1,WJ bushels. Immense tracts of pasture tiro being convene! Into farm land, and the country is be coming a great grain-growin J region. English business men who have to send large quantities of mail matter to distant parts of the world End that they enn save a great deal of money by sending their mall in hulk to Bel gium and posting it there, the rates being so much cheaper. It is said that the saving to one firm alone by this course amounts to $3,000 a year, and there Is a loud demand for reform in the Uritish rntes. An elevator for canal-boats, as a substitute for five or six locks. Is in successful operation at Arques, near St. Omer, France. The boats are lift ed to the height of nearly fifty foet by dydraulic pressure, inclosed in a reser voir made of wrought-iron plates, and separated from the rest of the canal by Iron gates. When the required height has been reached, the gates are opened and the boat is drawn out into the main channel. A British agent at CettiDjo, Monte negro, reports that there is only one rond fit for a wagon in the "ole coun try, and that there is practically no indu ry, Montenegrins scorning any pursuit but that of arms. AU the tailors, painters, carpenters, masons nd other artisans are foreigners, and all goods except those which are the direct product of agriculture are im- porteu, and are of the commonest de scription, except the green and white cloth used for men's coats. The English law carefully regu lates the subject of the sailor's grog. Every, ship must carry a quantity of lime or lemon juice as an antiscorbu tic contaiaing fifteen per cent, of pala table fruit sirups, that is, sound rum of a specific gravity fixed by the stat- uto or sound brandy of a quality simi larly fixed. The Board of Trade tells how the grog shall be mixed. One ounce of the lime juice is to be mixed with one ounoe, of sugar and at least half a pint Of water and must be served " ip time for dinner. What we are doing for the childrei to-day, we are doing for the Nation to morrow. This ia the teacher's field of work, -and it is a grand one. Let the politician work upon the g-own-up me all he may; ho can do little, after all that is, in improving them mentally and morally. They have passed the plastic st-sra But there is hope in the children. Those who would do good to In mi nr. Uy v.-ill be most successful who take the children by the hand. The teacher is the true state-builder. Ferret breeding is a new and highly profitable - branch of farming in Aus tralia and New Zealand. One firm that Ins commenced the business on a lurtre scale has contracted to supply 14.000 ferrets per annum for three years to the government at 7s. 6 !. per head, the creatures bein; delivered when they tre three months old They have on band two bun 'red frr reis and thirt - rhbbits,. and the nnlk of three cows is required every djj for their food. ; NO. 45. NATURE OF FOODS. - The IlfT-rnce Hetre-n Nltrrxcrnotu and 'atrbunmcotui Articles of ll-t. Foods that supply material for growth and repair are called nitro genous foods. Ther are also called proteids, from a Greek word meaning first," because in the living cells which are the first principle or form of life there is always nitrogen. A common name is albuminous foods. Albuminous substances exist in many forms, and are called by different names in different things. They are found largely in meat. fish, milk, peas, beans and grains. The albumen and fibrin in the juices and flesh of meat and fish, and in the juices and mem branes of some vegetables and fruits, the casein in milk, the vegetable ease-in in peas and beans, and the gluten of grains, are all forms of nitrogenous substances, or pro'eids. .The cnrlKnaceous foods aw fats. In eluding butter, the fat of meat or fish, oils, eggs, and some kinds ef ehesse. A small amount of fat is neees sary in digestion, aud indispensable to perfect nutrition. Starch and sugar as found in vegetables and fruits are a!so fat producing. Fats from the principal material of certain t'ssues giving rotundity and beauty to the form and being non-conductors of heat, keep the body warm. An undue accumulation of fat is a species of dis ease and is often dangerous. Thus we see that the solid part of the fiesh and blood is largely fibrin and albumen, substances similar to the fibers and juices of meat and fish, and that eggs, milk, peas, beans and grains also contain fibrin and albumen, and it is from these nitrogenous foods that the bodily substance is chiefly built up. Age, occupation, climate an 0UP finances should influence our choice of food. Persons whose occupations tax their muscular strength often think that they require a great deal of meat, when there are many foods that con tain as much as, or more, proteid mat ter than meat, such as peas, beans, cheese and grains. Animal food fs better diet for cold weather than for hot. Tat is not di gested easily unless exercise is taken. Fruits, vegetables and grains eaten with milk, butter Or oil, furnish the carbohydrates needed in summer. Those who labor or exercise in the open air ned a large quantity of wholesome food, and it need not be the most digestible, as they require food that m ill s'ay by them. Persons engaged in sedentary occu pations or who take little exercise and live in close, confined rooms, can not digest as much or as easiiy as those who labor out-of-doors. Those who tax their brain severely should avoid fat. People who consume much starch or sugar are liable to grow fat. As a rule the majority of people eat too much, and between forty and fifty years of age an excess of abiuminates is liable to develop heart, liver and kidney troubles, which are more. or less akin to dyspepsia. An excess of starchy food or of sugar or fat. causes obesity, not only of the body, but aa accumulation of fat about the heart and other internal organs which is lia ble to prove very dangerous. Build ing Ncu-s. TREAT STOCK GENTL.Y. Why It I Wrong ta Worry Animals fcy Rongh Words and Way. I have known a great many free-going hores of nervous temperament kept in a continual worry by the rough ways and words of theirdrivers. They would fret and sweat and grow poor doing the work they would thrive whie doing under mild-mannered, con siderate control. I have seen a great many heifers and cows in a tremor of excitement while some ignorant or brutal fellow was milking them. I never knew them to be made quiet and willing to he milked by scolding, kick ing or pounding; but they might have been made docile by early and gentle handling. It is safe to say that rough usage of cows often oecassions the lose of half their milk. Thej- refuse to "give down," and that dries them up rapidly. Boys, dogs and heedless men worry them when driving from the field.- Irregular feeding and milking, and every thing out of the regular or der, disturbs, and therefore damages them. Change of residence frequently causes cows to shrink their milk for a whole year. A noted Ilolstein butter cow, taken to the fair to test her butter-making qualities, made only a pound of butter from forty-four pounds of milk, while in the quiet of her home she made "a pound of butter f rom t .venty-ono pounds and three ounces of milk. Likely she was extra nervous, but all cows have nerves enough to require that their treatment be gentle and regular. Hugh 7. llrooks, in A'. T. Tribune. Ia one respect rye is a cheap crop because it requires no land for its growth, to a certain extent. That Is, if tht: seed is sown in the fall on land intended for corn in the spring, and the rye turned in before planting the corn, the rye simply holds the land that would otherwise be unoccupied during tho winter. It is also excellent on the land intended for potatoes, and, as it resists in keeping down the weeds, I ; saves much labor in that re spect. Tho plan has been proposed by a competent authority in such matters that in order to Insure greater strength nd consequently more safety in ropes used for scaffolding pa.-pjaes particu larly ia those localities where the at mosphere proves destructive of hemp fiber such ropes should be dipped when dry into a bath containing twenty grains of sulphate of copper per litre of water, and allowed to soak in this solution some four days. By pursuing this method, which is claimed .to be much more practicable and effective than any othr yet resorted to for this purpose, it is found that the ropes will thusbaxe absjHae'd a CrViii quantity if sulphate of ccspjter,- w,hich will pr soi-ve-t !'"u for ori3 ti'r both from the ki.Uu.-iL 3 of nnor. . - Legal Blanks, Basin" Cs.r Letter Heads, I. Circular. Fes : Executed la food n;liu4 st k-s-mt Ktk t I A BEAUTIFUL HARBC." . t Sights Which Crwt tb Trirrlcr Approaching- fiatlftc But it Is a beautiful barW, i.Z ft lies behind Cape Sarabro, w? i ' breaks the force of the sea co.r ly. To the right and left a yo i t lighthouses and massif e fort;5:f: ) are everywhere seen. On the u shore is Herring Cove, iti which 1 gion many picturesque fishers' v'u , are found. A little further 01 J bury Head Is passed, and yc--s v .- . ' the harbor proper between the J'ar tello Tower on Meaghers Beach a rr the York redoubt. Leaving XfcNab Island, now a pleasure resort, behlsdf, you pass under the frowning walls of Fort Clarence and the great fortress b George's Island, and the city and fatt bor with its fine groupings of shlppisjs are before you. The chief feature 0 the harbo r ia its magnificent Bed fore Basin, extending for five miles hi shore between Halifax proper and ill chief suburb, Dartmouth, whera are many delightful villas. This basin is nearly a mile ia width, of great depth, able to accommodate m I thousand ships at anchor, and baa gradually ascending shores whoso I highest elevations are about four hun.- 5 dred feet. The city of Halifax lies" I aloog the west shore of this basin, ita wharves and lower streets circling away to the southwest where North west Arm, another important body of water, extends behind and above the J city, and its terracrUke rise of street . " and brown old structures, terminatiog. almost in the city's center? in a lofty . height Above this rises the Citadel. upon whose somber redoubts are for ever pacing the red-coated British sen- tinels. From the sea, advancing upon " the city, from Pleasant Point, looking 1 up the noble basin, from Dartmouth. gazing across the city facades and upw the fortressed islands, or from-tfeflTtut- adel peering over the slate roof sand '; grim chimneys of Halifax to the shirt ing sea and the far horizon beyond, is a spectacle of unusual and reflective In- " terest Edgar L. Wakeman, in Denver 1 Republican. WORTH REMEMBERING. WbOM Absorption Will BeaaBt rerr Reader. Imag-yaatLan never disturbs existing facts. There is no virtue in a promise until it is redeemed. .- Many weaknesses of human nature are 'distorted virtues. . The wisest fellows we think are those who agree with us. , Contentment does not demand condi tions, it makes them. Whistling doesn't make the locomo tiva go, it is the silent steam. Now is always the very best time if we will only make it so. To be really yourself yon must be different from those around you. - The ups and downs of life are better than being down all the time. .-' A little knowledge wisely 'used is better than all knowledge disused. Excessive labor is wrong, but ju dicious labor is the safety-Talve of life. Man may growl, grumble and fight, but it has no effect upon natural right. Falsehood can make the best spurt, but truth can do the steadiest trotting. Fashion is only gold front jewelry, it may appear well, but the value is not there. Slander is a slime which envious people throw on others better than., themselves. Knowledge, like money, increases our responsibility in proportion to the amount obtained. We build barriers against the flood tide, we should place some restraints to all prosperity. " The lightning is vivid against a dark cloud, so the bravest lives sometimes are amid trials. Flags, brass bands and fire-works may influence weak minds, but they are not real arguments. . . The nearer we get to the ocean the grander and greater it appears! The same is true of truth. Don't depend on borrowed ideas any more than you would be content with second-hand clothes X. T. Mail and Express. A Novelist's Arithmetic. In Dickens Christmas number, Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions." one of the Ules, "To Ba Taken in Water," de scribes the adventure of a clerk who was traveling through France in charge of "a quarter of a million'' in specie. He had it "in two iron boxes, inclosed in lether to look like samples." The French porters seem to bare noticed that the boxes were heavy, but man aged them well enough, two porters to each box. My copy of "Dr. Marigold' bas a marginal annotation by an Impa tient reader. "Bosh! A quarter of a million in gold coin would weigh up wards of two tons." The calculation does not seem to be quite accurate, but it would weigh about one ton sev enteen hundred weight, avoirdupois. A thief who got at the boxes Is de scribed in the story as stopped In mak ing bis way out of a window with a carpet-bag half full of sovereigns. The annotator reckons again, from the de scription of the bag that it must have weighed five hundred pounds. One wonders that errors so easily notice able escaped the sharp editorial eye f Charles Dickens. A'otes and Qtteriea An infant was bora at Logan. O., recently, minus legs, and with only a small stump for a right arm. The left hand contains but two fingers, which are united, and a thumb. Otherwise the little fellow is perfectly formed, and is bright, and gives every iadiea tion of living. Mr. Isaacs tein, I love your daugh ter sincerely and long to ma'ce ber my wife. May I venture to ak your per mission?" . "My young YTiend. vea you ask me for my daughter's hand you ask me ta make too great a sacri-' rice "-."Very well, Mr. Isar.cst- ia, I will transfer my affections eisewi. rr then Cood-day." Come back, jc young -friend, come back! 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