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The Canadian fresh eggs which have as yet arrived this season have not been of the same general good quality as in former years. It is my duty to warn shippers that, if there be any doubt about the freshness they should on no account ship them. The injury al-. ready done by not taking these precautions my seriously effect the prices of Canadian fresh eggs at Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle and other centres of population, this season. ‘ fThat they can be safely and remuneratively shipped is proved by the large shipments made during the last three seasons by the same parties. I was much amused the other day when my attention was called to a ship- ment of pickled eggs from Canada. they were packed in the following manner :â€"â€"Placed rather loosely in layers of chopped straw. in a beer barrel, and then filled in with salt brine and headed up. No bill of lading accom- panied them and the commission agent had to pay freight and other charges. A letter ar- rived informing the consignee that other ship- ments would follow. The result may easily be imagined. Upon opening :the barrell a terrible stench was emitted, and not only did the unfortunate man lose the expenses advanced, but was threatened by the police with proceedings for creating a nuisance in the street in which the eggs were opened. Eggs pickled in this manner,£ need hardly state. are not required in England. The method 0f pickling, as generally followed in Canada, leaves nothing to be desired ; but the following simple precautions must be taken to ensure successful transit to Great Britain, viz. :â€"The eggs must be thoroughly dried; then take a flour barrel, and place in it about three to four inches of chaff, or finely cut hay, which has been previously dried in a kiln or oven. Commence packing the eggs flat, with the large end towards the side of the barrel, in circles. care being taken to keep at least 1;; inches of chaff between the sides of the barrel and the eggs; then place another layer of chafi, and repeat until the eggs are about 6 inches above the top of the barrel ; they should then be pressed, and headed in, and will arrive here with a wonderfully small amount of breakages. In this manner seventy dozen eggs can be placed in each barrel, and the freight on the same from places easy of access in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec will not exceed 2 cents per dozen, and the same from the Maritime provinces. Unless the British salesman is personally known to the shipper, I strongly advise him to accom- pany the first shipment. The necks of all poultry should be broken close to the head, not cut. A slight. incision may be made in the roof of the mouth to dislodge the blood, which would otherwise settle in the head and neck. They should then be placed in a position to thoroughly cool, care being taken to arrange the feathers, for an attractive appearance is of primary importance. It is very important that all poultry for shipment to Great Britain should be neither plucked nor drawn. The feathers not only absorb any moisture which may arise during the passage, but act as the most natural and at the same time most effi- cient, nonAconductors of heat. Nothing, in fact, will tend to the preservation of any bird more than its own feathers. Select young cock turkeys, the heavier the better. Cock turkeys will realize at least 20 per cent. more than hens. If convenient arrangements can be r.nade,shippin,x,r in s refrigerator on board ship is to be preferred. The packing should be in light wooden cases, not necessarily air tight, about 7 feet long, 2 feet 6 inches to 3 feet wide, and about a foot high, to contain about a score in each case, which should be marked with the weight and sex of birds, to facilitate the sale to dealers. On no account should the heads be placed under the wings. Place them as straight as possible in the cases, that they may retain their proper shape. taking the precaution to arrange them breast downwards, thus avoiding sweating. If it is impossible to Obtain space in refrigerators, in cold, frosty weather, they may be en- veloped in newspaper and packed in flour barrels, and shipped as ordinary freight. No hay, straw, or any other article which will heat or ferment, should be used in packing. Several lots sent in this manner have arrived in excellent condition. Exporters to the London market from the Continent and the West Coast of Ireland use a solution of perâ€" manganate of potash as a preventative of decomposition or taint with great success. The plan adopted is thisâ€"a piece of paperâ€" or perhaps cotton batten would be best for Canadian shippers to use-is soaked in the solution, and placed in the mouth and vent of each bird. I should also recommend that the heads be wrapped in paper prepared in a similar manner. F03 Indigestion. Dyspepsia and Costive- noss‘use Edison‘s Electric Absorbent Belts. â€"-A remarkable breach of promise case is to come up for adjudication at the next Guelph sssizes. The parties were introduced to each her, engaged the engagement ring given, the adding raiment purchased and made, the wedding ring bought, the person engaged the license procured othe meets baked the com- pany invited. the day set, the engagement broken and the writ issued, all inside of ten days. â€"Ningam Falls hackmen are trying to form a joint stock association, but a number of the clan refuse to go in, being satisfied to make from 550 to 3100 per day under the present Iystem. Having paid considerable attention to the initiation and development of a trade between Canada and Great Britain, in poultry and eggs, I have arrived at the conclusion that a very remnnerative business can be conducted if proper care can be taken. This opinion is based upon a careful examination of nearly every consignment made from Canada since February, 1874, when, with the first shipment of fresh meat from the American Continent, we had a ton and a-half of poultry ; and upon an intimate knowledge of the market here. With the View of extending this branch of export trade, I propose to give the result of my enquiries, together with the practical experience of shippers from Canada, and also of the London and Liverpool salesmen, who have for many years conducted an enormous trade from France. Holland, Belgium, Italy and other parts of the Continent. 'l he value of poultry imported into the United Kingdom from abroad in 1877 was upwards of $1,600,- 000, being upwards of 0100.000 more than in 1876. and it is hardly probable that the present high prices would be seriously afâ€" fected if these imports were quadrupled. Shipments of Canadian turkeys to Eng- land have proved most remunerative, whilst those of fowls, ducks and geese have also proved fairly successful. The directions for fattening as given by La Basse Cour, an eminent French journal, specially devoted to the interests of the poultry yard, to ensure white plump poultry, are as follows â€"“ To get good weight and a delicate color, only meal from grain of last year’s growth shoul be used in the fattening process, and the water employed for mixing the food should be salted in the proportion of six drachms, or about one-third of an ounce to the quart. Further a small quantity of coarse gravel should be added to the paste thus made, so as to assist the bird‘s digestive functions. Special care should be taken to keep them perfectly quiet, and not to give them any heavy meal for at least twelve hours before they are to be killed, so that the intestines may be empty at the time of death, and the acid 'fermenta- tion of their contents, which would otherwise ensue, and which facilitates decomposition, may be avoided. Poultry killed when diges- tion is going on will hardly keep for a week. By attention to the above directions, they may be preserved for a fortnight in mild wet weather, and for a longer period when it is dry and cold.” CANADIAN [’(DULTRY AND EGGS FOR TIIE BRI I‘ISH NIAKKE'I‘. (From :1 Circular issued by John Dyke, Canadian Government Agent; in Liverpool, 6. B.) Valuable Infarmnllon Inr Raisers 'and Dealer: and Exporters of Poultry and Eggn. 0n the 10th of December two men appar- ently in a. tremendous hurry rang Mr. Brown’s hell with a great vehemence. One carried a small package, the other a. still smaller box of tools. By nightfall the tallyphoneaâ€"a panel of black walnut, with a box and a. bell and an in- finity of knobs and wires in the middle ofitâ€" was in its place. “ When shall I be able to use it, ” inquired Mr Brown mildly. “ 011. l We don t know nothing about no using it ” said the conversationalist of the duo. “The inspector ’ill be along here soon. He’ll tell you when it’s all right. ” Meantime. those who entered the house per- formed all sorts of marvelous mechanical and gymnastic feats. They bored fifteen or twenty holes in the Window frame. The dragged coils of wire up and down stairs. They kept going up on the roof and coming down again. They hung loops of wire out of tile Windows. They clambered allover the front of the house like flies. They darted hither and thither on short excursions that ended abruptly, like beetles. They squatted among the chimneys like pigeons. All day long those inside the house kept up their mysterious operations, and allday those outside leaned up against the front railing and thought. When they had leftâ€"both divisions of themâ€"there were two wires peering through two holes in the window frame. That was all. On the 14th of December, a timid, shrink- ing scholarly person tripped up the front stoop, rang the bell and cautiously announced that he was the inspector detailed to examine and report on the instrument. He was shown up stairs, and, shutting all the neighboring doors upon himself, began, with great industry, to test the telephone. He tested it by cautiously fingering a, white knob as if he were picking out some imaginary tune on a. silent piano, and by shouting at regular intervals of a minute. “Hello l hello ! is that you, Wylie ?” “ We’re the men as has come to put in your tallyphone,”aa.id the spokesman of the party. Upon which three of the men and one boy entered the house, and the rest began leaning up against the railingâ€"a. feat in which they successfully persevered until dark. “ We’re the men that’s sent to up yer tallyphone,” said the younger of two. It Wis evidefitly not Wylie, for he got no answer whatever to his inquiries. On the 20th day of December the telephone was still useless, Mr. Brown attempting with: out avail, thrice every day, to effect a commu- nication with the central ofiice. On the 20th, his temper being a, little the worse for wear, he communicated with the central office by another means, and asked: “ How about Mr. Brown's telephone 1’" “Mr. Brown, of Nine Hundred and Seventy- First street ?" “ Exactly.” “ 0h 1 that‘s all right.” ” How long has it been all right ?" “ Nearly two months." Great heaven l I’m Mr. Brown, and I haven‘t heard a sound out of it since it’s been in my house!” Fortunately. they were in Capt. Murphy’s precinctâ€"for had it been after dark in any other precinct they would have. been arrested on the spot as bulglars. After keeping up his fingering and his shouting till sundown, the new inspector re- tired from the telephone, a worn and weary man. “ The line is grofinded somewhere," said the inspector. “ and we shall have to go all over it to find out what is the matter.” On the 3rd of the following December the area way, about noon, was darkened by the sudden apparition of four men, three boys and a coil of Wire. “ When shall I be able to use it 7” quoth Mr. Brown, curiously. Then he left as gustily as he came. That card remained there till the 3rd of the follpwipg chemperi ,, “ Can’t help it, air. You used your telephone yesterday, and held a long conversation with the Law Exchange.” “ The deuce I did. What time?” “ Three o'clock.” “ But, my dear sir, at 3 o’clock yesterday I was in Westchester County.” “ Can’t help it. Must have been your family then.” “ But my family was with me I” “ Can’t help it. Must have been your serâ€" vent!” He was shown the room. After scowling darkly upon every separate piece of furniture, and pricklng so many holes in the wall that it looked as if it had recently suffered a very severe attack of mural small-pox,the dark persen commanded the desk to be moved, and then where the desk had been tacked upon the wall a cardinal red placard on which was printed : 1H “ My servant l She’d sooner play with a keg of dynamite l" The paper was a third formal request that the Bell Telephone Company should establish one of its instruments in Mr. Brown‘s house. That was in October. About the 6th of November, a dark pers 11, with a scowl upon his face and mud upon Eris boots, rang Mr. Brown’s bell so violently that the servant girl went into convulsions and shouted “fire 1 ’ Upon being admitted into the house, the dark person inquired in a voice like a rising thunderstorm : house ‘2” Mr. Brown with hideous audacity said ‘Yes !”â€"also for the last time. “ P-p-p-please Sign this p--p~paper !” sobbed the stranger, and the honest fellow pulled out his pocket handkerchief and wept. A look ofinfinite pity suffused the stranger’s face. Contendiug impulses struggled in his throat. His dark eyes glistened with a tear- ful sympathy, perhaps protest. Extracting a, paper from his pocketbook for the last time, in a voice of agonized regret. he cried : house ‘2” It was as if he had asked, “Are you really bent on being measured for your coffin ‘2” Mr. Brown, a. trifle timidly. said “Yes.” The stranger sighed and turned his head away. as if to conceal his deep emotion. Mr. Brown’s uneasiness considerably in creased. He replied: “ Well, yes; icermiuly didexpress a. desire to have a telephone in my houset” “You really want a telephone ?” he con~ tinned after a pause, as much as to say, “For heaven’s sake be cautious I” Mr. Brown, in a. moment of unexampled iashness, informed the Bell Telephone Office that he too would like to be a member of its mystic oschange. This was early in Septem- ber. About the middle of October a. tall,thin, sad-eyed and extremely courteous person, with that airof professional melancholy which best befits an undertaker, called upon Mr.’ Brown. In a tone of sorrowful interest he inquired : “ You wish to have a. telephone put in this ” What izoom does he want the telephone THE TERRIBLE TELEPHONE. VOL. XXII. Doryou revally want: a. telephone in your PUT INSTRUMENT HERE JOHN SMITH, Inspector. BELL TELEPHONE CO‘ put the On January 2. 1880, Inspector Morris re- turns to the charge. “ How is your telephone working ?" “ It doesn’t; work at all." " “[110 says so 7” “Some fellow at the central office." “ It was all right the other day." “I told him you said so, and he replied that you @jdn’t {Glow anything about it.” 7 “ He said I didn’fi 1mm} anything about it, did be? If I find out; who it was I’ll punch his head.” And with great indignation Morris sets out to prove that he does know something about it by taking the instrument to pieces, by discovering that something else is out of gear and by putting it together again. Then he says : , “ I wanted to see if your instrument wasall right,” says the voice. “ Is it all light ‘2" “ N0.” “ Can’t I use it ?” “ No, not yet.” “ When shall I be able to use it ?” ” Can’t tell.” “ But Inspector Morris says it’s all right.” “ He knows nothing about it.” Another explosmn of crackers ; then si- lence. " 11’s all right now, and I’ll bet ten dollars on it.” That afternoon, none too sanguinely, Mr. Brown rings up Central Office, anda very pert young lady, so far as one can judge from her voice and her manner of speaking, replies with the usual “ Hello 1 hello 1” “ Is my telephone all right 2’” “ Who are you ?” > “ Brawn, Nine Hundred and Seventy-first street !” “ I’ll see-â€"but, say Brown, what’s the mat- ter with you ‘7 I’ve been ringing your bell half a dozen times, and couldn’t get you any- how 7” “ I’ve been sitting right under the bell all day and it hasn’t sounded once.” ” Then there's something wrong, and our inspector ’11 have to call and see what’s the matter." “ The hell's wrong now, is it ?” he says. “ I'll soon fix that!” He does fix it and goes. Then Mr. Brown once more. faint-hearted and desponding, tries hisf telephone. “ Hello 1 hello 1” “ Who are you ?" " Brown â€"-Nine Hundred and Seventy-First street ! Is my telephone all right?" “ Yes 1” “ Please have the kindness to ~â€"" Crâ€"r-râ€"râ€"rack l Silence. That conversation has never been ended. On the 9th of January the Bell telephone in Mr. Brown’s house reached such a degree of perfection that he has ever since been able to hear the commingled conversation of all other telephonists without being able to chip in more than two words at a. time on his own account. “ Send me hello ! hello ! home at six two bushels’ short of ostrich feathers numbers ninetyfive half a column more in which to finish hello ! hello ! who are you ? dinner will be six crates on the Fall River case tried and judgment rendered hello ! hello! Mrs. Blum- ensteil please hang up three-forty train from Grand Central Depot twenty-two casks more darling I didn’t mean what I said this hello! hello! Going to see Kelly right of? no swear- ing please hellolhellol I want to be con- nected with warehouse receipts are on their Before he has quite recovered his senses a voice says : “ Did you get me then ?" " Get you then ?" roars Mr. Brown ; ”I only Wish I could get you now. What do you mean by exploding torpedoes in my ear ‘2” Inspector Morris does call on the 5th of January. In about five minutes, just as Mr. Brown 18 about to Limp the teléph’one with aloud curse, atremendous explosion goes 01f 11] his rig ht ear. Twelve extra large bunches of fire crack- ers have been apparently fired 01? in the tele- phone. One minute at his telephone enabled him thusjo tgp this lmgg river of dialogue : Fair Unknownâ€"“Blumensteil, Forty-first street.” Mr. Brownâ€"“Never mind. Thank you.” In a. half an hour Mr. Brown has another fly at the Bell telephone. He rings twice and puts the telephone to his ear. This time an. other young lady sweetly replies. Young Ladyâ€"“Hello 1 hello !” Mr. Brow1 â€"-“Hello 1 hello 1 Am I speaking to central office ‘2” Young Ladyâ€"“Yes. Who are you?” Mr. Brownâ€""John Brown, Nine Hundrei and Seventy-first street ‘1” Young Ladyâ€"“What do you want ?” Mr. Brownâ€"â€"“To know if my telephone is in working order yet 7” Young Lady ~‘zKeep your instrument to the ear, if you please. I will find the general superintendent.” Fair Unknownâ€"“Lena. do hush, I can’t heft; ajvord he says. What‘s that ‘2” Mr. Brownâ€"“AM I TALKING TO CEN- TRAL OFFICE ?” Fair Unknownâ€"“I don’t know.” Mr. Brownâ€""Who in the name of heaven are you Mr. Birownâ€"-“Am I talking to Central Office?” Fair Unknown -â€"“Eh ‘2" ‘ Mr. Brownâ€"“ Amâ€"I -â€"talking-â€"toâ€"Cen- tral Office ?" " Shut up. “Lena! I ca'u’t hear what he says.” Mr. Brownâ€"“Hello! hello 1" Fair Unknownâ€"“Hello I hello I” Mr. Brownâ€"“Am I speaking to Central Office ‘2” Fair Unknownâ€" “Will you hush, Lenal? Wpizt dc: you say ‘2” “ Hello-l hello !” he éays, after the orthodox fashion. He listens for a while to aconfused murmur of voices. to girls laughing and scuffling. Then a clear girl’s voicg says : Upon which Inspecior Morris says, “Mr. Brown, the mstrument is all right ! You can use_it {[11 you want’jfand then goes. Mr. Brown, trembling with gleeful antici- pation, goes to the instrument and, according to rule, presses thrice upon zhe white knob and then puts the telephone to his ear. He goes upstairs and operates on the Bell telephone for about two hours. He takes it to pieces, puts it together again. discovers that the wires have been reversed. and that every- thing that ought not to have been done has been done, and that everything that out to have been done has been left undone. Then he. too, fingers the white knob and inquires, “Wylie, is that you ?” to which, this time. Wylie makes faint response that it is he. “ My name’s Morris,” he says briskly. “I'm an inspector of telephonesâ€"Bell Exchange. Yqur's wants seeing to, I believe ?" On the 26th of December a. boyish young fellow comes along, with a. small valise in his lisnd and a. pleasant smile on his face. “ John Brown, Nine Hundred and Seventy- First sheet.” “ All right, 311‘. I’m Wylie, the chief opera- tor. Your instrument shall be attended to at once.” “ Who are you, sir ?"'â€"this time in a smooth courteous, conciliatory voice. “ Your inspector says the instrument Isn’t working, and I insist upon somebody being sent to attend to it.” “ Can’t help it. It’s down on the records, and you must have done it.” 9n RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1880, (From the Americus (Gm) Republican.) About three weeks ago. during the beauti- ful sunny weather we have had,which induced the trees to bud and bloom. I was walking in my garden one morning, thinking about my early start for spring vegetables, when I saw a large rattlesnake running. My first impulse was to go to the house. get a gun and kill it. But looking around. I saw a very large house cat cautiously creeping upon the reptile. ' Anticipating a fight, and equally desirous of getting rid of the cat, which killed chickens I concluded tn witn as his a "ack upemthdvng 'apunfh' s.toVnac'h pulling along- on its feet, whistling its tail from side to side. and every now and then stretching its neck to view the snake, when about eight or ten feet off the snake suddenly coiled up, sprung its rattle, faced the cat and darted its forked tongue out rapidly. The cat commenced a rapid circle around the snake, so fast in fact that the eye could hardly keep up with it. At last it get near enough and made a dart at its enemy, but through providential reasons it went high above the snake. which also struck at the cat, thus breaking its coil. The cat went too far and by the time that it had turned to its foe the reptile was again coiled and ready for the attack. The same method was adopted and carried on for four or five times, occupying at least half an hour. The cat wished to catch the snake, but seemed aware that if it missed the neck it would be certain death. At the sixth assault they met, and instantly the snake was wrapped in several folds around the body of the cat, which used its sharp claws with deadly effect. The cat had been bitten on the head and neck several times, and both continued to fight. The snake was torn near- ly to shreds. but did not unloose its coil around its victim. The poison was swift and deadly, but before the cat died it caught the snake's head in its mouth and crushed it, and fighting they died, the snake enwrappmg the cat in its coils. The snake measured four feet eight inches and had 13 rattles. About a year ago a well-known young phy- sician of Chicago shot a young lady in a quarrel, and believing that he had killed her he. fled. The matter caused intense excite- ment, as the young lady was a member of a first-class family, and the physician had a large and lucrative practice. The tragic affair was the culmination of a lover’s quarrel. the young lady having broken her engagement. Happily she was not killed, and recovered in a few weeks. The physician took a M1chigan Central train and went to Kalamazoo, where he had friends. He related the circumstances of the case to them and asked for aid but they refused to shelter a self confessed murderer. He was on the point of despairing when he was recommended toa farmer about eighteen miles flow the “Big Village,” and as soon as darkness set in he started on foot for the lat. ter place. The farmer listened to his story and consented to harbor him for a short time. Through his pleasant manners the Doctor soon made hosts of friends, and in order to dispel the supposed horrible tragedy from his mind, he mingled freely in society under an assumed name. He made the acquaintance of a handsome young lady, to whom he sub- sequently became engaged. The day of the wedding was set, but the matter was kept a profound secret until suddenly the news came that the young lady whom the physician sup- posed to be dead was still alive and was about to be married. ' way up town now Jennie wants to hush Lena 3 I can’b hear a hello! hello! and take South Ferry boat the funeral’s at 12 hello I hello l who are you Gordon you’ve short of copy l down town Truth office to go to hello lhello l” ' Some day, perhaps, Mr. Brown will have a 1 chance to cast his own little talk upon this , phaiitom current of small talkâ€"N. Y. Dra matic News. A CHEAP VEGETARIAN DINNERâ€"The exper- iment of giving a cheap vegetarian dinner to poor children. which has been tried with much success in other English towns, was repeated at Manchester recently, when nearly 500 of the poorest boys and girls to be found in the city were served with a good dinner in thelarge hall of the Young Men's Christian Association. The provisions consisted of soup, bread and plum-pudding. Each child had four ounces of bread with the soup. which consisted main- ly of peas, onions, flour and water, seasoned with pepper and salt. The total cost per child was two and one~half pence. The Executive Committee of the Manchester Vegetarian So- ciety have the credit of providing the repast, which was heartily enjoyed by the children. As they left the hall each boy and girl was presented with an orange. The physician threw aside his assumed name, and after satisfying himself that he had ignorantly accused himself of murder, he has- tened his wedding ceremony, and today is a. happy father and a. prospective heir to valua- property. The physician has a. number of longstanding friends in this city who will vouch for the truth of the romance. 'l‘he Idle and Death Struggle Between a Cat and n Rnuleuunke. The Duchess of St. Albans, in bequeathing her fortune to Miss Angela Burdett, dcsired her to take the name of Goutts. This lady was born in 1814, and received the vast legacy of $20,000,000 in 1837, since which time she has been conspicuous for her charitable deeds and humanitarian schemes. Her liberality in establishing the corps of nurses under Florence Nightingale, in the Crimean war. is familiar to every one. She is said to spend her entire income, $1,000,000 to $1,200,000 a year, in her philanthropic projects. She is an unfailing friend to the poor, a protector of dumb animals,.and founder of churches and schools. In 1847, ten years after obtaming her fortune, she endowed a. church with par- sonage and school attached, in Rochester Row, one of the most neglected parts of London. She also established the drinking fountains, which are such a blessing to weary pedes- trians ; also the coffee saloons, which are such aids to the temperance movement. She is so much revered and beloved by all classes that the very populace, when exasperated by poverty to extreme measures of violence, pro- tected the home of Miss Coutts, and declared that no hand should be raised against the peace of their benefactor. This beneficent lady, who has spent her wealth so freely for the improvement of human welfare, is by no means averse to the pleasures of life. She has just been seeking a little healthy recre- ation in a yacht voyage up the Mediterranean with a party of distinguished guests. one of whom, Mr. Henry Irving, of the Lyceum, had an opportunity thus given him of surveying the identical scenes which! he so forcibly por- trays in enacting the part of Shylock in the “Merchant of Venice." After returning from the Sunny South and re-entering the Thames, her ladyship’s commodious steamer lay a week off Gravesend, where she and her‘com- panions had leisure to study the vast mari- time, coasting and river traflic of the port of London, which had great interest to Miss Coutts, as the condition of those employed in it had long engaged her kindly attention.â€" Boston Herald. A PHILANTHRBPHIC BABBNESS. A RONIANCE WITH A TRAGIU FLAVOR. A FIERCE UOHBA'I‘. Occasionally we have an inquiry in regard to using salt as a fertilizer. In nearly all ages and countries, salt has been used as a manuie. While it acts as a feeder to plants, it performs the office also of a solvent, dis- solving, in the fluid state, other substances, and rendering them available as plant food. But it should be used with care, especially in a dry season, or in dry climates, where the rainfall is deficient. It should never be ap- plied directly to plants, although sometimes it is applied to cabbage to hasten their head- ing, and render them more solid. The Farmers's Club of Rio, Wisconsin, had be- fore it for discussion recently, the subject of salt as a fertilizer, and a friend sends us a brief report of what was said on the occasion, which we give for the benefit of those who desire to learn the experience of farmers Who have used it for that purpose. The results seem to have been highly satisfactory. Mr. Seth Allen opened the discussion by giving his experience in the use of salt upon his land ; and stated that he had first used it on his farm eight years ago, and that it added fully 50 per cent, to his yield of wheat that year. That for a year or two thereafter he did not use salt, on account of the cost ; but that he became thoroughly satisfied that a free use of salt was indispensible to the suc- cess of his farming operations ; and that he has used it every year since, resulting in in- creased crops of grain of improved quality, â€"his wheat from salted land never grading below no. 2, while that from unsalted land was inferior in both quality and quantity. At first he had used at the rate of one barrel of salt to three acres, but now uses one barrel to two acres. Other members in giving their experience and observation, fully coriob:rated all that Mr. Allen had said. in behalf of the use of salt as a fertilizer; and after a full con- sideration of the subject, the conclusions ar- rived at were as follows : That salt has the property of hastening the maturity of all grain crops; that wheat will ripen six or ten days earlier than on unsalted land, all other condi- tions being equal. That it increases the yield from 25 to 50 per cent. That it stiffens the straw, and prevents rust and smut. That it checks, if it does not entirely prevent, the ravages of the clinch bug; and that there is no danger of a man’s pocket permitting him to put too much salt upon his land, as two barrels per acre will injure no grain crop. In answer to questions as to the best time and manner of sowing salt. as also the proper quantity to use, the following answers were givin: The best time to sow salt is in the spring; and it ought to be the first thing done on either fall or spring plowing. as all the after-stirring of the land assists in its equal distribution through the soil. The best and easiest method of sowing salt, in the absence of a machine for that purpose,is to sow it from out of the rear end of a wagon~ the sower using both hands, while the team is moving at a slow walk ; in this way, thirty or forty acres can be sowed in one day. The quantity used may be from 150 to 300pounds per acre; but the greater quantity is the better. gelling liens. Josh Billings says that the best time to set a he’n is when the hen wants to set. To add to a piece of wisdom let me add : Set your hens at nightâ€"always. If you have any doubts about the reliability of your hen, give her two or three china or wooden nest-eggs to practice upon until she settles down to business. If you want to set your hen in a strange place, have your nest ready. get your hen after dark, avoid frightening her, lacep her carefully on the nest, fasten aboard over the front of the nest, leaving only a crack for ventilation, and do not remove the board until after dark the next night. In nine cases out of every ten the hen will come off in the morning, eat her breakfast, and go back to her nest ; but you must be en the lookout for her soon after daylight, and if she does not go back to her nest, put her back gently, and fasten her for another day. Keep corn, water, gravel and charcoal, and a dust box where your setting hens can help themselves. After An idea is prevalent that root culture is costly. It may be at first under certain cir- cumstances ; as uoon a poor soil and one full with Weeds, and especially under careless management. It may be made castly when, by neglect at a critical timeI the whole crop is lost by being buried in weeds. But that is not the fault of the crop. but of the management. The seed of an acre of ground costs $56 ;that is for sugar beets. which may be grown closer than mangels; 12 lbs. of seed being needed for an acre ; the cost of cultivation need be no more than for a crop of potatoes. The yield will be of a considerably greater value than that of potatoes, reaching, under favorable circum- stances, 800 bushels per acre, or 25 tons. For feeding. the sugar beet is worth more than double the quantity of mangels, as it contains more than twice as much solid matter, so that 25 tons per acre is equivalent to a large crop of grosser mangels, as can be expected under the most favorable conditions. The direct profit is then attractive enough to induce farmers to raise sugar beets merely for feed- ing purposes, while the indirect profit arising from the improved condition of the soil gives a. respectable return in addition. When the culture of sugar beets then becomes general, there will doubtless be no lack of capital to Work them into sugar, any more than there would be to operate a silver or gold mine that may be discovered on aman’s farm. It is the mantahfihorialthat has. kept back enter. prise in this line ; the men and the money are always ready to develop any staple and profitable raw material.â€"American Agricul- twist. i We have frequently referred to the advan- tages promised by the culture of sugar beet for the manufacture of sugar. But the great industry does not grow, blossom and become fruitful in a year or a fewyears. Yet its final success is hastened by the ease with which the raw material can be produced. If sugar beets were now grown as plentiful as pota- toes, sugar factories would be as numerous as starch factories. It was the abundant supply of potatoes that tempted the starch manufac- turers to build their factories, and offer a steady market for the farmer’s produce. Let sugar beets become a staple product of our farms. and the only obstacle to the establish- ment of a vast business in sugar-making would be removed. Sugar beets can be made profitable for feeding, and not only so, but the efifect of their culture upon our system of agri- culture cannot fail to be so advantageous as to invite the farmers to adopt it, if but for its own value alone. Root culture implies good farming, for with poor farming one can not grow roots. Roots may be grown upon poor land, by using the proper fertilizers and methods of culture, and there is no better method than this of working up the soil to a good condition. For if one grows a quantity of roots, these must be fed, and they cannot be fed without making a large quantity of manure ; further, they can not be fed with the greatest profit without the addi. tion of some concentrated food, and that in- volves rich as well as abundant manure. Be« sides, in using roots and meal as a daily ra- tion for cattle or sheep, it is found that straw will be consumed with avidity ; in fact, it makes an excellent substitute for hay, and uses up profitably a waste product that is generally used only for litter. Seasonable Information for Tillers of the Soil. 'he Benefit 0! Sugar Beel Culture. FARM AND GARDEN- Halt asa Manure. “ I am bound to wipe every gas company in existence from the face of the earth. I will do this by supplying light at a figure which no gas company can touch and live,” he said; “the least figure for which gas can be menu- factured is $1 per 1,000 feet ; of course, they will attempt to put it below this figure, but it will be useless to compete with the electric light. The electric light 1 can furnish at a rate equal to 50 cents per 1 000 feet of gas and make amagnificeut profit. Besides sup- plying light at night, I have another advan- tage over gas companies. I can supply mo- tive power in the day time. The same maâ€" chinery and apparatus which I use for light- ing purposes at night I can utilize for hoist- ing elevators. running lethes and sewing machines, pumping water. and, in short, for any purposes in which motive power is re- quired. In one block in New York my can- vassers found where fifty-horse power could be divided among twenty-eight small firms, and that is three-fourths of the lighting power. In other words, if seventy-five horse-power is required for lighting a. certain locality atnight and if I can use fifty horsepower of this in the daytime, I have saved three-fourths of my power for lighting purposes. The per- centage of power required for lighting is one horse to every eight lights. The power required for running a. sewingmachine, for instance, is equal to burning one lamp.” Mr. Edison says the great item of impor- tance to be secured in connection with his electric light is cheap steam engineering. A pretty correct idea of the relative value which he places on his lamp may be gained from his own division of the relative value of the com- ponent parts of the entire system. He says: “ Steam engineering forms 75 per cent of the electric light, 20 per cent is in the system it. self, 4 per cent is in the dynamos, and 1 per cent in the lamps ; and yet they are howling about the lamps as if they were the item of greatest importance, when. in fact, they are the least.” An article clipped from a Philadelphia pa per was shown to Mr. Edison, in which the statement appears that it has been “ proved that his lamps were invented twenty-five years ago in France; further. that his ad- mirers urge that the generator and the divis- ion oi the current are the real triumphs of the invention, and that these are his inven. tion.” Then the announcement is made that his generator is “borrowed,” and that Dr. Siemens divided the electric current long ago. and put his invention to the practical test of lighting the Imperial Arcades in Ber- lin. “ It is strange." said the wizard, with a disdainful smile, “how these false reports creep into the newspapers. Leta men get up a, phonograph or something which, in fact, is a mere toy, and has no commercial value, and there will never arise so much as a breath of dispute as to the rightful claim of the inven- It is the purpose of the Electrical Light Company to sell the franchise of large cities absolutely. In reply to the inquiry: “ Do you know how much capital will be required to put a station into practical operation ?” Mr. Edison answered, "Yes. I know to a. frac- tion, but I am not at liberty to state the figures. I will say this, however, that it will cost four times less than it would to furnish the same illuminating power in gas.” “ It is astonishing," observed Edison, with a significant smile, “ with what cheerfulness the people give the information desired, and how ready they are to extend every courtesy to our canvassers when it is ascertained what they want the information for. I guess there are a. great many people in Philadel- phia who feel the same way toward your Gas Trust." Mr. Edison has already taken steps toward establishing central stations in New York City, and has perfected his plans for district- ing the city, each district containing from twenty~five to thirty-two stations. Each sta- tion will be supplied with five Holly engines of atom 250 to 309 horse-pow er. Four of these engines will be in constant use, the fifth to be reserved for use in the event of an acci- dent to any of the others. Each station will occupy a. space of 50 by 100 feet. His can- vassers in that vicinity of New York known as Newspaper Row, fronting the City Hall, have nearly completed their work of ascer- taining the number of burners in each building in the proposed station. the number of hours that gas is used, and the amount consumed. He Sllll lla- Pertecl Faith In Himsellâ€" Ili- Plnnn for Lighlinfl New York. (Philadelphia Record.) Mr. Edison says: “My experiments have been crowned with perfect success, and the commercial value of the electric light for illuminating either streets or dwellings is established beyond question." The difficulty at first experienced in the breaking of the lamps, caused by the expansion of the wires, has nearly, if not entirely, been overcome. In his laboratory are lamps which have been burning constantly for upward of a month without the least sign of interruption of any kind, and he says that he sees no reason why they should not continuein their present perâ€" fect condition ad infinitum. Besides twenty lamps used for lighting the streets at Menlo Park, every night there are sixty lamps placed in different houses. which furnish the only, light for illuminating the residences. Mr. ‘ Edison is now preparing the ground for lay- ing the foundation for three new buildings in connection with those now in use. One of these will contain dynamics for lighting the Park, his intention being to erect, as soon as possible, 700 additional lamps in the Park. Another building, 25 by 100 feet and two stories in height, will be devoted to the manu- facture of his lamps. The third building will be constructed of iron, 25 by 34 feet and one story in height, and will be used for making the horseshoe carbons. The carbons and lamps are the only articles in connection with the electric light which will be manufactureé at Menlo Park; the dynamos will be made at Newark. n. Do not imagine that handling eggs during incubation will prevent hatching. With care the eggs may be handled every day, and not the slightest harm result therefrom. Should any of the eggs get broken in the nest, wash the remaining eggs in warm water, and clean out the nest, for an egg that is daubed with the contents of another egg will not hatch. During the last week of incubation the eggs should be sprinkled every other day with warm water. The advantages to be derived from asserting eggs during incubation are obvious. If three or four hens are set at the same time, it quite frequently happens that after the non-fertile eggs have been taken from the nest, two of the hens can accommodate all the eggs that contain a living germ, and in that case the other hens can be set again with a fresh lot of eggs. In the earlier part of the season, when setting hens are scarce, I find this a great advantage. The clear eggs, if taken from the nest before the ninth day, can be boiled and used for chicken food. the eggshave been set on a. few days the eggs that have been impregnated can readily be detected by testing them with an egg- tester. If the eggs are white-shelled they can be'sssorted by the fourth day, but with dark-shelled eggs, it is better to wait until the eighth day. The nonrfertile eggs will present a clear, unclouded appearance, while a dark spot, with small red veins radiat- ing from it, can be distinctly seen in the fer- tile eggs. WHOLE NO.‘1,122.â€"â€"NO, 89; be", EDISON. “It was the blennies who manifested that appreciation of feminine beauty to which I have alluded. They were generally indiffer- ent to the presence of spectators. On the oc- casion in question I had the horor of conduct- ing a number of young ladies, pupils from one of our principal schools. round the exhibition. It is necessary to say that the young ladies were merging into womanhood and where ex- ceedingly good-looking. No sooner had we arrived before the blenny tank than one of the fish, happening to turn his head, caught sight of the unusual spectacle and instantly rushed to the front. Other hlennies, attracted by his sudden movement, turned round and followed, and speedily every blenny in the tank (there were some hundreds in all) was pressing his nose against the glass, and a row of gleaming eyes was seen, expressing such intense and unmistakable admiration and amazement that some of my fair companions actually blushed.” Fon Rheumatism and Nervousness use Ediwn‘s Electric Belts. They act upon the nervous system. â€"Sir Henry Selwin Ibbetson has just had, ccording to the English Country Gentleman, a. couple of very curious experiences in fox hunting. Upon the hounds being put in a covert close by his house. where the meethad previously breakfasted, a fox was found and almost immediately lost. To everybody pre- sent the disappearance seemed so mysterious that a more than ordinarily careful search followed. when one of the field espied the crea- ture lying along the branch of one of the trees in Sir Henry’s fernery, forty feet above the ground. Stranger still, another fox was directly afterwards seen similarly lodged on another branch of the same tree. With the aid of a long ladder and a hole the vermin were dislodged, and after a sharp run,one was killed. But the day’s adventures for the Financial Secretary were not yet concluded. Another fox was presently started from the gorse and kept the bounds going for an hour and ten minutes, being pulled down inside a cottage. The paper which chronicles these occurrences very properly allows them as both rare and notable. When she had seated herself upon the robes spread over the throneâ€"which she might have worn. one would thinkâ€"there is again a pause, almost solemn, and there is time to observe the gown which the Majesty of England has on. The Majesty and the Beauty of England are face to face, for the Princess sits nearly opposite ; and as the Princess is perhaps the best dressed woman in the room, so is the Queen almost the worst. Her gown is of velvet, with broad longitudinal streaks of miniver or ermine running down the skirt and horizontal trim- mings to match about the body. But you need not stop to look at it ; the Koh-i-noor grows in her corsage, and a miniature crown of diamonds shines above the stony head. The Princess Beatrice, in blue velvet, stands by her mother’s side, with traces of the womanly attractiveness which belongs to her sister Louise. now reigning over the hearts of our Canadian friends. There was some maneuvering with footstools and arrangement of trains, and the Queen’s veil had to be ex- tricated from the netted work of the throne. Then the Queen said, “Pray, be seated,” and once more came silence.â€"â€" [.S‘mallcy, in New York Tribune. In a. paper by Mr. Faraday, a member of the Manchester. Eng., Anglers’ Assocxation, the author tries m prove that some little fishes are admirers of human female beauty. A l'en Picture of Her Majesty as She Ap peered a! Ille Opening 0! Parliament. Her Majesty acknowledges the grave greet- ing of her lieges by scarcely more than a glance of the eye. The head bent slightly, perhaps,but I am not sure. She, too, walks slowly ; there is no vulgar hurry about any part of the business. As she rounds the corner of the dais, her face is turned full towards our gallery. It is the business of courtiers to say that the Queen looks always well. For my part, I thought she had grown gray since last I saw llerfind that the lines of the temples and about the mouth were cut deeper than ever. It can never have been more than a comely face, and there is nothing, strictly speaking. in its contour, and nothing in the figure, which can be called beautiful or noble. What strikes you, nevertheless,is the air of authority and ‘the air of stem sincerity which sits upon thls royal brow and marks the least gesture of the Queen. The sadness of the face is profoundly touching ; the dignity with which the burdenâ€"the all but intoler- able burden of her life â€"is borne,rappeals to your respect. She is here, they sayfi’to’fifiérk' once more her sympathy with the First Min- ister of the Crown ; and with the party which, under his guidance, has been leading this country so strange a dance for these years past. But politics are forgotten in such a presence ; and any criticism one has to ofier is put decently aside so long as the woman and the Queen is here. USE Edison‘s Belts for Female Weakness {hey assist nature to overcome disease. Taking drawn a. book containing over 300 pages. Mr. Edison remarked : " There is a. book on the use of belting. in which are the opinions of over 100 master-mechanics, and no two of them are alike. What am I to do ? Why. I must find out for myself before I run the risk of putting up my apparatus in New York. In less than a year we will have the electric light in successful operation in New York. and than gas monopolies will be a thing of the past. In res; onse to the inquiry as to the date when he would be able to open his first cen- tral station in New York, Mr. Edison said he could not fix a definite time. His lamp. he claims, is perfected ; but, before starting with it in New York, he will test an entire station by constructing at Menlo Park a fee- simile of the first station to be opened in New York. So careful is he in his experiments that the measurement of every belt, the dis- tances between pulleys, the elevation of ma- chinery, and every minute detail connected with his electric lights will first be tested at Menlo Park, and then removed to New York and placed in exactly the same position there. tion; but the moment he has perfected some- thing of commercial value, something that will conflict with the interests of long-estab- lished monop >lies, and then there is a general rush to endeavor to pull him down, and to show that, after all, he has accomplished nothing. The idea of electriclights in France twenty-five years ago was only a theory. when an inventor gets a patent from the Patent Office it is a contract between himself and the public for furnishing something prac- tical. not for a mere theory ; audit is simply absurd to assert that any one else has ever put to practical test the use of the electric light as you see it illustrated here. To say that my generator is ‘borrowed’ is unquali- fiedly false, and. so far as the statement is concerned that Dr. Siemens divides the elec- tric current in lighting the Imperial Arcades in Berlin, why, he divides it in the same man- ner that John Wanamaker divides the elec- tric lights in his store. He can divide them into groups of twelve or fifteen, and no more. But a system that cannot divide and sub- divide from one lamp to a million of lamps is simply imperfect. With my elec- tric light I can cut out any one or more lamps from 100,000 lamps, and can light and extinguish all of them at once. I can stand by the switchboard in my laboratory and extinguish any one or all of the lights in the park or in the houses illuminated from my laboratory. Siemens cannot do this, and neverprofessed to. Now, in relation to the generator : Of course, Far- aday was the original inventor of the gen- erator, but generators are like sewing-ma- chines,â€"they are of many different kinds. My machine will afford 40 per cent. more of electricity than any other machine ever made. What I mean is the amount of electricityyou actually get into the lamps.” D0 FI§HE§ ADDIIRE FRET'K‘I’ IWUJIEN. VlUTORlA ON HER TflBONE