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minimum. Stones aim-the Soil. In some very stony localities, it is a popular belief that stones arein the pro- cess of formation, or as it is often ex- pressed, “they grow." The fact is, in stead of any increase of a stonefrom the surrounding soil, the action is in exactly the opposite direction. {ill of the sod, save the vegetable matter it contains, re- sults from the disintegration, the break- lng down and powdering. of solid rocks or stones. Changes of temperature, con- tracting and expanding them, break down stones. Rain penetrates the pores of rocks, and freezing them, throws 011" small particles Rain also dissolves some of the constituents of tucks, especially those largely, or in part, of lime-stone Finally, plants aid in breaking up rocks into soil, by the action of their roots while growing. Also, when plants _de- cay, various compounds. including acids, are produced, which act upon rocks and aid in reducing them to powder. .lnstead of there being anything like an increase in the size of rocks and stones, there are a number of agents silently but ceaseless- ly at work, slowly converting them to sonâ€"[American Agriculturist. Farm-Gardening. The farmer who continues .0 raise the lame crops that he grew before towns and manufacturing villages sprang up all around him, makes a great mistake. In the older States, at least, there are but few farms not within an hour or two hours’ ride of a market. It is worth while for farmers in such localities, to consider if they can afford to raise field corn, when sweet corn will pay them much better. It is true, that sweet corn needs high manurlng, but when the ears are off, there will be a heavy crop of the very best fodder. The ears will bring in ready money, just how much will depend upon the market, but safe to say, more than any crop of ripe corn would be worth. It is a mistake to grow late po- tatoes, to be dug when every one else has potatoes, and prices are low, while early potatoes will bring seVeral times the price of late ones. It is so with other crops. There are but few garden vegetables that may not be grown as farm crops, and it is a mistake to raise produce that will bear transportation from a distance, instead of that suited to a near market, and must be disposed of at once. A farmer, on the other hand, would make a mis- take, were he to devote his land to a new set of crops at once. He should deter- mine to grow those things that pay the best, and to gradually Work into a more profitable kind of farming. Those who pose to do this, will find sweet corn and potatoes excellent crops to begin with. Others will pay better, but these are best to prepare the land for other and more profitable craps. It would have been better had the land been prepared for these last fall, but as this was not done, make it readyas soon as it is safe to work it.â€"â€"[American Agriculturist. Live Stock Notes. Tue results of neglect in the stable and stall will be apparent now. All who have failed to keep their animals clean. warm well fed, will need to take more than or ary care in bringing them through the winter. Liberal feeding is the only true economy in wintering stock. Induce animals to eat, keep their appetites keen with frequent changes of food, and feel satisfied, when spring co nes, that all the fodder has been consumed in keeping the live stock plump and healthy. Every barnyard should have an abundant sup- ply of pure water Animalsthat are well wintered are half summered. Steady work does no harm to a mature horse. If well fed, carefully groomed and kept from undue exposure, a téam may labor the winter through with profit both to the owner and the animals. Horses when confined to a close, warm stable, become tender and subject to colds, etc. Incoming cows should have a limited diet of dry hay, with a littli bran, for a few weeks previous to calving. The young stock. and all others infested with lice, should have the skin rubbed with a mix- ture of sweet oil and kerosene in equal parts. Sheep need, besides abundant wholesome food, plenty of pure air, adry yard and sleeping plice. The porkers should have already gone to the market. Store pigs will make a pri fitable growth if well housed and fed during winter. Light and frequiii't meals are best. Eggs can only be expected from fowls that are “at home ' in a warm, dry house, , provided with abundant fowl, both green and dry, lime, gravel, and pure water. What is ii Silo? So much has been said about Silos and Ensilage in this and other journals willi- in the past few years, that it is surprising the subject should have escaped the zio- . what the weather is, tics of any one, yct here. is a new sub- scriber in indiana who asks in sill-ch the above queslions. As there may be others to whom the matter is equally new we answer our inquiiiug correspondent in brief. A silo is :i contrivonco for pre~ serving green fodder, in the. lion's State in a manner similur to that used in the ‘ canning of w; ,iables and, fruits for ill]- msn foodâ€"by exclusion of air. A silvâ€" literally a pit~is any airtight receptacle. it may be built of stone, of brick or of wood. It may be Consti‘imted entirely below ground, ivuiiruly above ground, or built into a. bank and ll’x' partly CUVCYL‘Ll and parly expi sod, 'l‘li » i- :llorbnl" 'zoizit i being that i;s walls ‘ Green forage of any diau corn stalks, is out small and closely ‘ packed in the silo, treading it; down firin- 3 1y. The fodder is coveer by brmds or : planks, upon which heavy weights are placed, the cover following the fodder as logs. stones or boxes filled with earth. When the fodder is taken out for feed- ing, during the winter, it may be quite unchanged, may have an alcoholic odor, or even a strong odor of vinegar. In either case the animals are fond of it ; but as the alcoholic or acetic odors indi- cate that there has been some loss of hu- tritive matter by fermentation, these conditions are not desirable, and recent experiments tend to show that they may be avoided. Several power cutters are now made for the purpose of preparing the fodder for storing in silos. The term ensilaqe is applied to the method of pre- serving fodder, and to the fodder that has been thus preserved. The term on silo is short, and well suited for the first use of the word ensilage. \Ve smile the corn fodder, and it comes out of the pit as ensilage.â€"â€" [American Agriculturist. Points in Poultry Keeping. The “Plymouth Rocks," being the best feathered of all varieties of chickens, are apt to be the best winter layers. and as they feather up very young, are better suited to the incubator trade, or the arti- ficiul rearing of broilers than the “Light Brahmas," or many other varieties. There ought to be a profit in buying up young roosters, capouizing them, fattening them an selling at the usual dmarket price. Turkeys treated in this way often reach a weight of from thirty to fifty pounds. A brood of chickens led by a turkey ban to forage in the fields, Will attain to great weight and early maturity without food or care on the part of the owner. The best eggs are the result of a meat diet ; the high colored and well flavored eggs of Kansas during the grasshopper visitation were a marvel to strangers. When grass‘ hoppers and worms fail, their lack should be supplied by feeding, cracklings and other cheap butcher‘s offal. The crushed oyster shell supply, and the boxes of road dust or ashes, should be kept Within easy reach. When moving to an entirely new location we secure immunity from gapes for two years. The farmer who does not provide his wife with a good poultry house is standing in his own light, as it need not be fine rr costly. ln winter. drop a little carhoiic acid in the food mixture, once a month, as a preventative of disease, and give afew appetizers, such as cabbage. garlic, and red pepper, with a variety of grain food and not all corn. With this treatment and a proper house, we may count more certainly on profits- ble returns than when the fowls have to roost on icy perches, exposed to the zero winds of long winter nights. The pro- ducts of the poultry yard are always in demand, and judging by the imports now made in that line, they will be the last to glut the market in our large cities.â€" [American Agriculturist. Wâ€" Animal Longevity. Camels live from forty to fifty years ; horses average from twenty-five to thir- ty ; oxen, about twenty ; sheep, eight or nine ; and dogs, twelve to fourteen. Concerning the ages attained by non-do- mesticated animals, only a few isolat‘ed facts are known. The East ludians be- lieve that the life periods of the elephant is about three hundred years, instances being recorded of these animals having lived one hundred and thirty years in confinement after capture at an unknown age. VVbales are estimated to reach the age of four hundred years. Some rep« tiles are Very long lived, an instance being furnished by a tortoise which was confined in 1633 and existed till 1753, when he perished by accident. Birds sometimes reach agreat age, the eagle and the swan having been known to live one hundred years. The longevity of fishes is often remarkable. The carp has been known to live two hundred years ; common river trout, fifty years ; and the pike ninety years, while Gesnerâ€"a Swiss naturalistâ€"relates that a pike caught in 1497 bore a ring recording the crpture of the same fish two hundred and sixty-sev- en years before. Insects are very short lived, usually completing the term of their existence in a few weeks 01' months at the most. Some even die upon the very day of entering upon their new life. As a general rule not to be applied too closely, larger types of animals live very much longer than smaller, although there may be some marked exceptions to the rule. -â€"â€"â€"â€"-moH-O‘Holh-â€"~â€"" Never Used Bar 01' Eye. Ina pretty cottage half-way between Abington Four Corners and Pom‘i‘ref live Mr and Mrs. Willis Pike and their son Warren, 4-2 years old, who was born deaf and blind. He is of powerful frame and moves with the quick graceful motions of a panther. The only food he ever swallows is milk, which he drinks from ten to fifteen tiiiws a day. He springs out of a Sound sleep in the night and dcrls out of doors. Before quitting the l home he never fails to go to the window and touch his tongue to a certain spot in a. pane, by which means he is alilo to tell Dining the day he lies on the floor. always in one place, which has been Worn into a: hollow of the shape of his body. lie can tell inu’rni'itly Whenever his parents quit lhc house and which one it is. He is able to tell ur- actly when it is noon and sunrise and sunset. His only ainuscmen" is to walk to the old-i....l1ionocl kitchen door and in: tie the thumb-piccoâ€"l Hartford Times. m.” 4...“... _ Sciatic» Llfil’.:".{'{1:.'3 some of the ‘. ished popular delusions. lerived from a” i no: ' lV'tlll '- 110 silver; L erected l‘:,‘ l pey's pillar with t' .t I not cut 5; particle oi wax ; rose is not a rose, bu‘ 'i pfiljilllill ; sin‘awbcn‘y is no? a bony ; Turk um‘l‘s did not originate in Turkey, and are not bathe at all : whisk-bone is not boar, and it settles. The Weights may be heavy . contains not any of its properties. I {12.81. LADIES’ PERSONALS. Modjeska. is playing Shakespeare ii) the Poles in Polish. Mrs. Mary L. Leonard, is the first Woman admitted to practice in the courts of Washington Territory. The Princess Louise is modelling a statue in bronze of her royal mother, to be placed in Lincoln Cathedral. A Leeds paper says that a young: widow of that city who writes well is training herself for an editor, but the paper doesn't say who the editor is. A marriage is now arranged between the little Cmrowiiz a lad of sixfeen, and one of the daughters of the Crown Prince of Prussia, to take place in a few vears. Lady llillynr, who has just (iad, was the moth! r of two adiulrals and the Widow of another, and eiire'rtaiiiud Nelson's mptains at dinner after the battle of Tralalgnr. “The first woman in Italy to become the brother of Hippocrates” is Dr. Giuseppina Catani, who lately passed a brilliant examination in modicum at the University of Bologna. The daughter of Binns, tho ex~hang- man of London,- recently testified in Court that she had frequently been frightened out of the house by her father's experi- ments in hanging dogs and cats. A singular case is that of May Wilkinâ€" son, of Newark, New Jersey, who, born a mute, never uttered asound in her life till the day before she died. when she began to laugh, and laughed uninter- tnptedly till she died. An English lady recently refused to have her baby vaccinated with virus from the arm of a grandchild of Mr. Gladstone, as all her family were Conservatives, and she did not web the taint. of Mr. Glad- stone's Liberalism introduced into it. Mrs. Horace Helyar, the young wife of the new secretary of lhe British Legation in Washington, is said to be the coming beauty. She has a perfect pink and white complexion. dazzling teeth, blue eyes, and a mass of hair like spun gold. She is tall, slender, and graceful. A young school-teacher, twenty-years old, Miss Mattie Worley, of Greenwood County, Kansas, earned money enough to buy one hundred and sixty acres of land, hired men to break up eighty acres and sow ten acres of Wheat. and purchased stock for 1he rest of the land. She is now out of debt, and still continues to teach while her cattle increase and mul- tiply. Madame Kuki, the wife of the new Japanese Minister to Washington, is taller than most of her country-women, and has more regular featuros. She is ani- mated. and the voice in which she ad- dresses her iutrrpreter. when making her social calls, is very musical. She dresses in the French fashion ; her calling dress is of rich black velvet trimmed With fur, and a bonnet of black velvet and jet with crimson pompous. Maw ‘ A Japanese Native Village. I At the invitation of Mr. Tannaker Buhicrossn a. number of ladies and gem tleinen were present yesterday at a pri- vate view of a Japanese native village which has been constructed under his di- rection at Albert gale. Hyde park. It covers a considerable area of ground, and is entirelv roofed in. No expense has, we believe, been spared to make the village complete in all the necessary de- tails aiid surroundings, and the result has been to produce a very picturesque in- terior Suspended from its various shons shopsfand houses are Japanese lanterns. which, when lit at night-time, must greally enhance the effect. To people the “ village" no less than one hundred native men and women have been brought from Japan. These represent various trades and industries, and after the or- babition has been opened to 1he public will be seen in their national costume daily, engaged in their different vocations in their native-built shops and houses, as in Japan The women Will also give musical entertainments, while the men will engage in fencing and wrestling. For this purpose a theatre has been fitted up. The visitors were yesterday afforded an opportunity of seeing some of the men at their athletic exercises, in which they showed remarkable skill and dexterity There is a tea-house, where a 5 o'clock tea will be served, and a Buddhist temple ; and, in fact, to quote the words of the official handbook, “Visitors during a short sojourn in the village can imagine themsvlves transplanted to the ‘ Land of the Rising Sun.’ ” Sir Rutherford Alcock formally opens the exhibition to-clay, and it can not fail to possess a great attraction for the public for many months to come. A hand-book and guide is published at sixpence, which gives u discription of the various exhibits, and also some information concernng manners and custom; of this interesting people.-â€"1Lm’idoii News. â€"â€"â€"â€"-co<--'>ochâ€"â€"â€" Nihilist Crime in M. P(‘l03'f'~ll)lll’9{. Excitement is rife among; (‘Z‘ovmiimout oili::als at St. Puli‘l‘liblll'il' (ivcl‘ llle al~ temp-ted assassination of Police Superin- tendent Kcllert. He was Ellleli'liOfl by two strangers in onoofa‘lio main thorough- fare in broad daylig: this im rhino. His as ants each fired shots from revolvers zit him and then fled. They wore pur- sand and captured. Ono gave his name us I’clielliigeiv and the Hi" I s as ow. Both liavo been identified as poll known Nil ilists Superintendent mum‘s excipc considered oxira/rr- dioxin us note of the shots shook his person. »-â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"‘m¢>.-â€"â€"e California's first attempts at raisin pro- ducing were made about nineteen years the is ago, The fulfoii'in: gear about 1,500 boxes were rustic. Ten years ago tho cyup amounted to about 40,000 boxes, while this year it is estimated at 200,000 1 boxes. “ Railroad Dick." In one of the large towns on the Penn. sylvsnia Railway tbei e lived, until a your or two auo, an old iilgro namud “ F. iii- road D.ck.” Dick’s self-appointed task in life Was in " see de trains in safe." In front of ihe station at this place run ei'h'. or tin wrecks, which cross a. busy fl'm' ‘UL'llf‘klrr‘ Dick made it his business in much each incoming train, and run befmi. it to clear The track of any clfiancna impediment. Pas-.ongers W1 iild hold their breath lll terror to are ilio slooping, ragged til/urn, wizh while hair flying and aims not slretchei‘, running in a kind of dog tin? before the e nuiiiu, iii the possible danger of being crushed to deanh. No in ill(,\ll“'l'z'll\38 or rcpmach could co ope} old Dlik to give up l-is perilous msk. It had not been a. useless one. l‘wice he had removed obstructions from the track wl ic‘i would have wrecked the trains. Once to had dragged a man, woo hid fallen upon the rails. to a place of ,aafety, and three times ho had saved the , lives of children. “Ole Dick's got his work, ssh l ” he Would say, when told of his (larger. He nm or left the stallon. The railway (.fiiclals made a profege of the old man, and gave him a. comfortable room in which to sleep bad: of the engine house, and a standing order for meals at the restaurateur’s. But Dirk preferred to take his bread and bone in his fingers, to be eatin as he squatted on the floor of the station. “ Dem pail fellahs fakes turns, but l'se always on guard,” he said. Dick probably grew feeble avid slifi~ by old age, and the time came which everv- body had looked for. He was caught by the cow~catcher of an engine, threwn against the rocks, and carried to his room dying. He lingered for a. few hours, With each roar and shriek that announced an incoming train, he would struggle to rise “De’s lots of chillcn on dcm tracks Y Lemme go 5 Ole Dick's got his wohk to do l " When told that he must die, he lay silent for a long time, and said finally. “ ’Peavs like dc's nobody to take up jes’ my wohk. But do Lohd'll see to it,“ and so, closing his eyes, his work was over. The roughest employees on the road were better man for having known this poor, unselfish negro, who, simply and according to his light, faithfully did the work which he thought had been given him to do. Searching for Pirates’ Treasures. An expedition is about to start from the Tyne in search of supposed hidden treasure. The primary mover is an in- habitant of South Shields, who, as book- keeper and cashier, has for many years been in a large steamship owner's office on the quaysido. A ship’s captain who has traded. to the Tyne for some years was the first person to obtain the plans and papers relating to a. hidden tree are from an “ old salt " who was ill and living in poor circumstances, and consented to hand over the documents on receipt of pecuniary relief. He had seen the wealth carefully hidden, and; in fact, was in his younger days one of the pirates who plundered the vessel from which it was taken. The papers remained in posses- sion of the captain for some time, during which he endeavored to get a vessel bound in the direction of the island to call and inspect the place. He succeeded at last in persuading the owner of a ship bound for Rio Janeiro to allow the captain to call at the island of Trinidad, which is situated 250 miles south of Rio Janeiro on the Brazdian coast, where the wealth is hidden. If. on reaching the island, an inspection of the spot be saiisfasrory, means will be used to get at the treasure without delay; but, should the enterprise on the island be a failure, then the ship will proceed to Cape Town, where the coals will be sold and. discharged, and where it is expected a homeward charter will be secured, so that the loss on the venture will not be great.- [Lodnon Telegraph. An Apc's Curiosity. The object of popular interest in the London Zoological Gardens is the monkey house. A few years ago, its most attrac- tive occupant was “ Joe,” a. chimpanzee, who was lodged and boarded iii a separate compartment. To his keeper and to the scientific gentlemen connected with tha “ Zoo.” Joe was especially attractive. UL- cause he never luimed from experience, and could be controlled only by his cm i- osily and four. lt‘vcry morning when Joe was lot out for an ailing, lie abused his liberty by leaping around the outside of tho (Ugo and pulling the lliiln of hill iu'itcl. Vi l‘lvii it use flfan to shut lllli] up again i": his cago,.loc would just as imgiilmiy rsbsl, and refuse to mine to has ke. per. As he was tux. niy‘hle to be caught, and :im oral“; I» be lil".lrc(i by dul itios, his keeper liai ti use Mighty. Near an mil if the monk. ydiouse was a. huge dork hole out of, i, “l ‘e ‘10 1“”le- 8:. ll}: vrpcimd 1E ‘ ' .- o‘i’ Joe's conifilrtiiitnt, L‘ie keeper would not 9 into lilo, uni lllfll appear i ‘ vinothimz iot-nsolv i V I. Joe would descend from i: porch, fol. low ("us koapw, and, like; iii-u, corneal; a izito the hole. Trion, V'ltl'l a gesture of .r the keeper Would rim :no Joe's cage, foj'mved by Hie yliimpanzw, chat- tering with frighc, and the door would be sliu‘. Singular as it may seem, though this trick was Z‘“[lt‘fll.‘d :"iily for month, Jw: never learned i2. Every mor ling he i. ca.le by the some ruse, and yet ox‘ PGTlcllce llLVCI‘ taught him wisdom. guy-w. Dr. chzko, of Vienna, thinks that the emanations from petroleum producing soils kill cholera germs. HEALTH ITEMS. Dr. S'zhth-hlger, of Munich, allb'ltrl‘ of the new sys‘em of re iy not ELI-fl driiikir «1 at «uric, rv'mu, but by letting With-ours terverie. liireli‘ivvn lo Pie ventilation of bed- r-unns, Horace Mann used to say that albiifldli: aLu-nsphire was forty miles iltnp all nund the globe, it was a uselres economy to breathe it more than once. is the lug flesh the in- n f u .t lij Patti seldom goes out~ofâ€"doors in win. for without filling lirr ears iiith cotton, and prul’ectlbgllar mouth wivh alianoker- (‘llltjl if she speaks, just as the owner of a precious violin would protect his instru‘ ment. Onl- of the easiest and best disinfec- tants known is that invented by Dr. Vil- andm consisting of forty drops each of turpentine and carbnlic acid, simmering in a email kenle of water over a slow fire in vb»: room where the diptheritic or other patient is. Thu learned Dr Max von Pettenkofer, of Munich. says that whatever tends to lower the general health and cause de- pression predisposes to cholera, and that plares provided with a good drainage and sound-ant pure water loae all susceptibil- ity to the decrease. '* It is interesting to learn, in view of the general belief in the leiiiheniiig of the avenge of human life. that Mrs. Sarah Howlett, of Amelia, Virginia, has just cut. a. third set of teeth. and that Sir Moses Mont. fiore, at the age of one hun- drw‘, has recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia. Mr. E, D. Smith, of NeWport, Rhode Island, an octogenarian, whose son-in-law Mr. Uiarke, has late'y been appointed Pension Commissioner, was nearly stone deaf when, slipping and falling in the street very recently, he hit his head. and on recovering from the stunning effect of the blow had entirely regained his hear- ng. Dr. Hamilton Cartwright, Professor of Dental Surgery in King’s College, Ion< don, says final; with the twenty per cent. solution of hydrochlorate of cocaine, the new ai‘wsthelic, he has removed child- ren s permanent teeth without pain, cur- ed ear ache in a few minutes, and in- stantaneously and painlessly destroyed the exposed pulp or nerve of a tooth, or- dinarily an excruciating agony. ., â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"q«,â€"-â€"â€"â€" A Singular Story. Nineteen years ago a female infant was left With an old Irishwoman in Boston. The name of the child was not given, and the only clew was a handkerchief bearing a name, which was with the child's effects. All trace of the babe’s family connection was lost, and the little one grew up in ignorance of its father or mother. cared for by the old woman and_ her family. After a lapse of years a pa culiar growth appeared on the lid of the ‘ child's eyes. She was taken to an oculisr. who remarked upon the singularity of the case, and said that he had operated only upon one other similar case in the course of his practi , and that was upon the eye of a wealth lady in a city near Boston. Here was the long hidden clew to the child‘s identity. The person who took the little girl to the oculist, report- ed what the doctor had said. An attor- ney was called in, and it was developed in the process of along investigation that the name upon the handkerchief was that of a manufacturer's wife and the girl’s mother. The girl was confronted with her father and mother. A settlement by the payment of several thousand dollars for back board and damages, so the story goes, and an annuity of fifteen hundred dollars for the daughter, now a young lady, was affected, it is said. When the child was abandoned, the husband of *he lady was a poor book-keeper. It was feared, it is said, that the birth of the baby would anger is relative of the mother’s. and so the child was given up. To-(lay the book-keeper is a wealthy man- ufacrurer. He has a family who have grown up in ignorance of the existence of their eldest sister. A Wonderful Faith (lure. There is nothing like a miracle to whip up recruits or to convince unbelievers; and a miracle has at last been worked in the neighborhood of Hawarden castle, through the instrumentality ot the Salva- tion army. A tram-car conductor in Chester had for fifteen years been lame in one leg. “ Affliction sore long time be born,” and also tried various highly re- commended patent medicines. At last he heard of the Salvation army, and he resolved to try the cure by faith. Yester- day morning the man, whose lameness had been hit._ \rto undoubted, jumped of his car, and, to the alarm of everybody, haggn to indulge in extraordinary convul. sinus A fear lest he should be demonia- mlly pawefiaed, or perhaps intoxicated, van :1: once dispelled when he fell on his knees and began to pray in what is de- scribed as “ a loud and fervent manner.” He that), we are told. “jumped joyfully about.” and exclaimed : "Pi-aiSr-d he ! I am quite cured.” Then rest of his ejacu- lations would be ordinarily considered profane. He then jumped on his car again and continued his official avoca- tions. Some people in Chester believe in the miracle ; oilicrs do not. There are always skeptics in this wicked world. â€"[St. James' Gazette. MW I, You Pliou Lee. of Fi‘agrflrlt Hills, China, tool: on) rftb ‘ of as at Yale, for Sophomore comp (ans lust month. Sir Charles Freake was made a baronet a few years ago upon his subscription of a hundred ilmusaiid dollars to the Royal College. of Music. He began life humbly, but luff; a fortune that gives his heiran income of eighty thousand a year in- dependently of certain tied-up properties.