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It costs much more to seed an acre mth sowed corn than it: does with millet or rye, but the yield is so much greater that, the extra. expenae can well be afforded. Three bushels to the acre is hardly enough unless It be sown early in the season on very rich land. If sown lawn-d the last of June four bushels to the acre in none too much. Mr. Monroe Morse. a. closely observ- ing farmer, says that after trying many of the unew kinds" of potatoes, he finds nothing to take the place of the Early Rose. Other kinds often do well one year, and then fill the next, but the Rose is particularly reliable. Several of the new- er varieties are but old sorts under a new name, or new sorts so nearly like the old ones that no one can separate them if mixed in a. heap. Hie Clerk No. l, and early Vermont can not be distinguished from the Early Ruse, nor can the Early White Elephant from the Beauty 0! Hebron, though there are two or more kinds of Beauty of Hebron, The best time and place to select seed potatoes is, when digging in the field at harvest time; select seed from the best hills. ls‘ only small in comparison to many fac- tories, but all the spec.) is profitably util- iced. The whole building is only 32 by 32 leet, and is 1§ stories high; the engine room is 8 by 16 ;butter room, 15 by 20 ; cheese room 16 b 25 ; drying room 15 by 20 ; driveway. l by 22. The building cost $500 ; the implements, including the Destsi separator. $750. The farmer having reached the facaory, puts the milk he has brou ht into the receiving can, where the ml k is examined and wei hed. From the receiving can a conductor sails to the feeding can ;from the latter it is admitted into the DeLaval separator. The velocity of the separator is such that it revolves at the rate of four miles a minute. This rapid motion throws the milk to the outside edge of the Separator, and the cream being the lightest, tires to the top, and is discharged. The eueam runs into the cream can standing on the floor, the milk pouring into the conduct- or to be made into cheese. From the receiving can a. second conducting through runs from the bottom of the can into the cheese factory. The cans containing the cream are placed in a coolingvat, which is 2§by7§ feet, and contains 12,cans; the cans are 19inches high by 9 inches across. When the proper temperature is obtained, it is placed in the churn. The churning is not such a rapid process as gathering the cream, for a slow motion is required to obtain good butter. The churn will hcld 80 gallons, but 6013 the working capacity. When churned, the butter is taken out. properly cleaned, united and packed. Substitutes tor [lay- In prosecuting a regular rotation of crops on the farm, it often happens that the farmer has ton small an area of land for pa-turage and the production of a winter euppl of bay to carry his stock through. The rotation usually goes by fields, of which the aims and qualitlaa vary considerably. Then. too, the sup- ply of hay is largely dependent upon the fnvorableneea of the season. Owing to these and other cause! the hay Wlll e0me~ times vary several tone from one year to another. Butter Making. It may not be generally knownthsh the DeLavsl cream sepautor was used last season by Mr. Sprague, at his creamery It Amellasburg, and was an entire success. This machine obviates the necessity of placing the milk to stand, for the cream to rise. The milk is put at once into the machine whlch revolves with such rapidity that the cream being the lightest particles. is thrown to the top, and is drawn off. The following is a description of Mr. Sprsgue’s factory. His presenh building Th1! shortage in the hay crop often in- duces the farmer to cut duwn his stack proportionally. While it; might some- times be advisable to do this rather than cramp other Interests by taking capital to bay hey, it is certainly a bad thing to lessen the manufacture of manure, and do away with the home market for the pro- duce of the farm. This would be the re unit if the stock were cut down. It is much better to devote a few acres to the production of substitutes {or hay. We have several resources for such an emergency. There are several forage plants that may be sown late in the sea- son, when we will be able to determine almost to a certninty what the shortage will be, Prominent among these may be men- tloned corn, millet, rye and Hungarian. Of these I am very much in favor of the corn. In any be eown any time up to the let (f July in an ordinary season with apretty posu'tive assurance that it will bring forth a heavy crop of forage. It will stand the dry, hot weathu that usually comes in August better than most other plants. It bound in amall bundles Ind stood up in narrow shocks it will cure excellently. 14ft; real eats! 5nd Cherry 3 t e farm,unex Ieaided. Elisha farm in were no money. nd 9 FOR THE FARMER ned A Very Rich Couple. W Potato Notes DCUL 11 liv 7, and h she and and ---_, _77-i , into an ape, then into a bear, then into an elephant, and finally, being still dis- contented with its lot, into a. beautiful maiden, to whom the sage gave the name of “Postomani,” or the “poppy~seed lady.” One day, while tending her plants, the king approached the rishi’s cottage, and was invxted to rest and refresh himself by Postomani. who ofi'eredghim some deli- cu-us fruit. The king, however, struck by the girl's beauty, refused to eat until she had told her parentage. Postomani, to deceive the king, told him she was a princess whom the rishi had found in the woods and had brought up. The upshot was that the king made love to the girl, and they were married by the holy sage. She was treated as the favorite queen, and was very happy, but one day while standing by a well she turned iddy and fell into the water and died. he rishi then appeared before the ting and begged him not to give way to consuming grief, assuring him that the late queen was not of roysi blood. Said be: “She was a mouse ; and according to her own wish, I changed her successively into a cat, a dog, an ape a hear an elephant, and alovely girl. Let her body remain in the wall ; fill up the well with earth. Out of her flesh and bones will grow a tree, which shall be called after her, ‘Posto’; that is, the ‘poppy‘tree. ’ From this tree will be ob- tained a drug called ‘opium,’ which will be either swallowed or smoked until the end of time. The opium swallower or smoker will have one quality of each of the animals to which Pustomani was transformed. He will be mischievous, like a mouse‘; fond of milk, like a can; quurelsome, like a dog; filthy like an ape; savage, like shear; and high-tempered, like a queen."â€" Weoldy Medical Blunder, The Shiahs and Sums. One of the most striking chsrsoterietics of the Afghan Turcomen tribes. which has more than once been very skillfully utilized by Russia. ln her operatlons against them. ls the extreme bitterness with which they take sides in the great controversy between the Sunl and Shlnh sects, which may be called the Catholics and Protestants of Islam. The Shins, who are strong in Porsin, held Moham- med’s son-in-law, Ali. the fourth Onllph to be the pruphet’e only legitimate success- or, denouncing his three forerunners ss osurpers ,wlnle the Sunis, who abound in Afghanistan, hold 9. directly opposite creed. This feeling, which has msde the countless PersovAlghsn wsrs unspeakably ferocious, is carried to such a height that an Englishman who lately bagged the life of a. wounded Persisnwaa answered by one of his Afghan comrades : “ Were he only an unbeliever I would spare him, but being e Shah he must die.” A stranger ent ring an Afghan or Turcoman camp in often met with the challenge, “tht stay'st thou of the first three Callphs l” and should he pronounce ln their favor the crucial question follows, "What think’st thou of Ali 7" to which, if he value his life he must answer "All was s. Knfir (infidel). According to the Bengali legend there once lived on the banks of the holy River Ganga a rishl, or sage, in whose but made of palm leaves, there was a. mouse which becamea favorite with the near, and was endowed by hlm with the gif; of speech. After awhile the meme, having been frightened by 8. ext, at its earnest aolicl- tablon was changed by the riahl lnto a cat; then, alarmed _by dogs, into a. dog ; then The Bright Side of Being Little. Unfortunate as they deem themselves for their fine feet and less of goodness and dimples, no women are so looked after, potted, housed tenderly and made “much of” as are li tle women. Men rush for- ward to shield them {10m danger and comfort them as they would bxbies who may be walked on by great. hulking wo- men Gullivers, who always stoop before seaside mirrors Who ever heard of any- one soothing and mollifying a tnll woman 7 She can stand In the car because she is big enough to reach the strap. thtle Woman ue hustled about by the big ones. bun men frown ferociously at thls and take up t_helr_ba.ttles. ' “01f. I wish you were bigger, Sallie," said a bhckamith once, “won a wollopin' I'd give yer, gal. ” Big men almost always ate captured at night by little mltea of womenâ€"their help- lessness appeals to them. Suppoae some ona should hurt theml Yeb little women are blind to all this obviouu advantage and are forever bemoaning a. lot. which stunted their gro Nth. Cocaine, the new an, aesthetic, is a. fluid not unlike glycerine. Under its effects a patient at; a. hospital the other day sub mitted to the ball of his e 6 being punc- tured by a delicate speugead knife, and in its place a. small suction pump insert- ed which bxonghb out some pus from a sac which the knife had punctured, and all the while the patient, mentally con- scious, chatted pleasantly will: the oper- ator, as insemlble of the operation as phongb it were being performed on his hat Band never lost my Iondnels food I used to be aecus boyhood." What Mr. Gould Likes 1 A Bit of Eye Surgery. Origin or flpium {II EVE my several 9f th‘ knock bun d Thirst Trials in African At Taro we for the first time in four days enjoyed the glorious luxury of a wash in good water. So far we had onlv met water that had been characterised by an amount of “ body " and a. “ bouquet" that required all the pangs of Mint to make us drink it ; ,even after much boil- mg and filtering through grass and cloth â€"for our pocket filters were absolutely useleu in this liquid mud, the color of road weshing: or sepia. ink. Though we drank this decoction, the idea of Washing even our feet in it was loukud upon as rather too good a. joke. We therefore had to take it internally ani eweet it 0116, and the perspiration Wu. 0 minus a mega. with the aid of our handkercl‘iafa, to keep us from becoming literally anruBC' ed. From Taro a dlflidult. wateflesa march was before us, which wouil Lax all the strength and stamina. of my men, and all my paueuce and influence to get them along. Starting at cayhreak, we traversed an undulating region, which seemed wonderfully fertile. and we: cov- ered With apleaaant, open forest, under the shelter of which gr: a 4 rich carpet of tender grass, Five rm.“ march through Pearls deterionte by age, contact with acids, gas and noxious vsours of all sorts. This is especially true of pier-cal pearls. Various means for restoring them have been tried, but experience shows them to be useless. The best wsygo preserve pearls is to wipe them with a clean lines cloth after being worn and deposit them wrapped in linen, in a. closed box or cas- ket. A leading importer of pearls ad- vises that pearl necklaces, which are liable to deteriorate by coming in contact with the skin, be restrung once a year, as drawing the silk threads out and in throngh the pierced parts tends to cleanse the pearls. In Ceylon, we are assured on fairly good authority, that when it is desired t.) restore the lustre to Oriental pearls the pearls are allowed to be swal- lowed by ctheus. The (owls with this precious diet are then killed and the pearls regained in a white and lustrous state. ' mm agreeable m came unexpecu ad with filuhy liquid seemed, i to several of 0 charmterlnio I had already dt‘ ad wlnh filuhy outer. liquid seemed, in was a 1 Eu several of out man, characterlazio reokleaaue had already drunk up 3.1 had brouym with them marches. There was j give emh man a. mono draining in to the drag», for in was all dragsâ€"r march. A native surge-m, M, Nurelmuln. has written a letter to the editor or the Times of India. from which it would appear that he has treated successfully a. cane havmg all the symptoms of hydrophobla. Tau treatment adopted was the subsumneoum injection of a sixteenth of s grsln of ai- ropis. The breathing became infrequent (twelve per minute), and the pulse 310»! to the rate of 50 per mlnu ;e. A quarter of a. grain of morpnm we: injactuu hypo- dermicsllyasan antidote to the atropla, and this was repeated seversl times. The symptoms disappeared the thizd dsy after the onset of the malady. The patient was s soldier, gged 24, who ban been bitten by a dog the week below the symp- toms sesemblingjydmphobia appeared. Lt the (me was one of hydrophobia, it must it bu allowed the period of incuba- tlon was very short; the dog in not stated to have been mad, and it must not be forgotten that the presence cf symptoms closely resembling, it not ideflblczl with hydrophobic, do not prove that the one was one of qenu‘ne rabies. ered With a pleasant, open the shelter of which gre a K tender grass. Five hou'd x thin agreeable trues, and we The Treatment of Hydrophobic Boiling Water in :1 Sheet of Paper. Take a piece of papa: and fold it up, as school boys (10, inno a xquare box wiuhoub a. lid. Hang this up no a walking stick by (our threads, and support the suck on books or other convenient props. Then a. Imp or taper muss be placed undar this dainty cauldron. In a faw moment: the water will boil. The only fear is lest._ the threads should catch fire and let the water eplll (mo nhe lamp and over the table. The flame must) therefore nob be too large. The paper does not burn, because in is wet, and even if it: resisted the wet it would not be burned through, because the heat im- garted to it one side by the flame would 9 very rapidly conducted away by the othenâ€" [Nature ollver Pain's Cruel-Looking Face. The following is the text of the official notification regarding the cuptme of the communist, Oliver Pain, alleged to have been acting in El Mahdi’a cam p in viola- tion of international law : “Fifty pounds rewardâ€"The above reward ls Offul'dd to any one producing Oliver Pain (and his papers). dead or alive. He l¢fc Dabbah on a camel on the 13th of March, 1885. His description is as follown : Fair, with light hair and heard, about: 5 flash 7 inches high, blue eyes, leghb build, thin. com- pressed lips. with a cruel-looking face, reticen is very His bh Wilson 11p: The Lustre of Pearls. 1b ABigI w Havel 5b wn almost) nameless M->u-â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" I, u p013 1H1 UI‘L 1H1 )1‘3 to our ‘ and afcer 3 the mudâ€"- hmugh dellght )u a. age. They are having their usual spring dial cusaion over the matrimonial market Did the reader ever notice how in th nutmeg state this topic buds and blossom with the lilacs '1 Generally the dlacuesi/n runs in the line of a lamentatiun over th< large number of “likely” girls who rn. large number of “likely” girls who re; mam upon their parenta' hands during and long past; the pairingseasou. For years Lhu cry Las gone up. “What shall we do with our surplus of marriagaable daughters ’1" At one time it was thought that a. liberal divorce law would encourage marriage. ban recent; investigatiun roves that; than was a dolusive tvheury. cfore the Am- eri<an Warme young mu: m the («bales did their duty ncbly, I: is computed Lhat at. least 90 per cent of them were married before they were 26 years old. that; an least 90 per cent: of themâ€"wen manin befom they were 26 years old. Now, howaver, itia found that ablemt 50 per cent. of the young men between 21 «mi 30 are unmarried The young mm is not when: he naed to be. He flock: too much by himself. In the daytime he chases fortune with unwvaricd nap, and an nlght dreams of the time when be m “afford to many." In the meantime he iI chases for at night d “afford to chcatlng t of its mod mm nf 189K be watchful. The twitch is I63 and, seizing the red flag, 5118 give: the signs) to the engineersand the trains p155 by lately, the passenger. lmle drenmmg that their we 7 his been (ill cxeiby the hand of a. womn. Her life story in romantic aha has had three husbands and m the mother of five ch‘ldrem Om of her hunbande, named John Carroll. was switchmen At 1h.“ pub: in 1869. Whom he died Mrs. Carroll's nuns was put on the roll, and during the time she has held the pleas twenty night brakemen have been (uncharged. She has never had an} :ccidenta. A Woman at the Switch. In Macon, GA, there in living one of the most remrkable women in the World. Mary Cnrrol by name, whoae ocenpatirn for fifnteen you: past has been that. of a switch tender at. the junction, of the Bomb- western and Central railroads. Sheliveu in a house in the junction, in the centreof which in a. large switch with crank and windlaea. He: duty in to change the mile for dlfletent trains by this vindlay. She saw the fuel; but Ll hon laid on the road in 1838, and has been personally ucqualn bed with every engineer on the rod since lhat nme. Her wurk my be watched thlu : Here comes the train from Atlanta. She puts aside her pipe and knitting, remove: the pln from the nlndlau. grasps the handle, throws her-elf forward and, with a grunt, puia the switch in poallion when the train comes by. Away down the Soathweatern buck is seen a train (181! - ed. and in another dlrecfinn there is t e Central train on time. It looks as if there in to be a collision. The womJn stands, cool, with a. carnage glitter in her eye, her quick perception‘oi danger canning her to ly cohling in the from In one of th social problems of life In this m The young man makes huts m gen hope Um some time he wliflltd a El: foreign-born fellowmiclzm haste to marry. npparantly believi home is the first. and bear. invest young mm can make for Mime" The Balloon Corps in the Soudan. For the flat time in British waxfare balloons are being nyillzed in the Soudan campaign. The balloon and telegraph corpniaadistlnct branch of the expedition- ary force, and it has under its one three balloons with all the necessary appliances for taking observations of the enemy's poallion. The whole outfit was made at the school of engineering. Nature thus describes the shipment of supplies. and how they will be turned to account : Com- at night dreams “afford to many chcatlng the gm of its most tucen ausof 18900Hte] tar of the (Maine pressed hydrogen for inflating the balloon is carried in imn cylinders 12 feet long by 1 foot in diameter, but these are only for a reserve supply, and, weighing half stun each, will be left behind at the bane of operations, where also a. gun factory and pumping machine will be put up. Meter- ials for this purpose are on board the ship, including a. small gas-holder. and all the necessary chemicals for making more gas are provided. About a hundred lighter cylindem,easily curled by men, form part of the equipment. Each of these, which are nine feet long, contain 120 cubic feet of hydrogen in a. compressed state, and, as they are emptied, they will be taken back to be recharged at the Suekinstntion. One wagon, containing one ton of stores, will sufiim for a balloon ucent. Captive ascents only will be made, in which the balloons will be tethered by rope or wire. balloons a Communi‘ balloons mm the enemy’s pension of $5,000 the widows of all Young Men opposed to Marri- 3 upon grocer M rs bebwaen t1“ 1 the chief an government or in fee, 34 Lemming gonip, and 1h improper Increase. Th1 Ilncunatlon of yonnu Ir Garfield’s Fortune ripvion rained throng! ‘atlon of young men t.‘ elven the Jays, dutjel ! married at. i: rapid which is now voted ex-Preaidenta. ) tak nerally the discussio lamentatiun over th‘ ikely" girls who ra :ntn' hands during an a observatzuns of m and th ll'fi ciei y close be found thousands of the strongest and most enduring phyniques in America.and thoulands, too, of deucate organizstions, which would at one: succumb to a palson as active and virulanb as tobacco is said to- be. Some of the jingo mand that the Bu: 28mi- authority. When it Is understood, however. that such a. demand as this would neutralize three-quarters of Great Britain's power to wage an ofianaive wax-fare, db will be een how impouible of practical realization such a proposition is. In the first plnce, to give such ademand practical effect. is would be necessary to! can a. European congress. [n the second plsce, such a congress would need to be aubabanflally a unit. on the proposition in 53mm aubho: however. th neutralize ti powar to u will be see] reallzation l plsce, each a congress would need to be substantially a unit. on the prupueitlon in order to place the nrcaaaary material force in the hands of those who fever it. The law of nation: has heretofore guar- 82:11?on the entire freedom of the sea: to belligerent: within certain preacribed lim- ita. Consequently, to make amnre clau- sum of any pmtlom of the ocean, or its arms and Days, at the instance of any one power immedmtely threatened by another, Would simply be for all the other nations ex cwt the threatening belligerent to range themselves Agmnst the latter. Ifis i1 internationally just and rlght to cluae the Baltic against aparticular beliz- He Couldn't Make It Out The proprietorofatennery having erect- ed sbmldjng on the main street for the sale of his leather, the purchase of hides, eto. , began to comlder what kind of a sign would be moat attractive. At last what he thought a happy ideastrnck him. He bored an anger-hole through the door poet and stuck a. calf’e tail into it. with the bushy end fleuntlng o it. After a while he noticed a grave-looking person standing near the door, with spectacle: on, gazing intently at the sign. So long did he gaze that finally the tanner stepped out and addreased the individual : “ Good morning I” “ Morning,” replied the man, without moving his eyes from the sign, “ You wan: to buy leather '3"â€"“ No. ” “ Want to sell hides ?”â€"“ No.” “ Doctor 'l"â€"“ 1‘40." “ M1nieter?"â€"“ No.” “ What in thunder are you T'â€" a. philosopher. I’ve been standing half an hour trying to decide how calf got th the life of ed aw Why flair oil is Out 0! Fashion A Vain Russian PropOSition. A lady can anticipate many disagreeble 'ssibflitzies with firmness. but t9 wait lmly to grow bald-headed is too much r their endurance. SJ they dropped sir oil. Hair oil is now used by dude: [d flashy men in order to insure a. good mb. The cities are filled with pmmatnre- :d by com: Are you a farms: '4 'â€" Are you a merchant? {awyarKT’f‘ZN The Poison in Tobacco rough ‘t war : ( than the lo a: auger-hole. and for maka it out !" uruals of Russia (16 Vessels by the js understood, ‘ powers go still canal be by the ESE