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Turpentine, coal oil, and vinegar, equ 111 parts, well shaken together, and rubbed on the eggs of the bot fly on horses’ legs, will, we are bold, utterly kill them after about; three applications. A verv important item upon the farm in proper food. It should be abundant, varied and suitable. Applv this item to the land, to the live stock and to the household. Keep a. good varietv of the best farming implements. Always have them in thorough working order and keep them well oiled and sheltered when not in use. Sudden changes of the weather cause dis- eases among fowls much sooner than long- continued cold or warm weather. Roup, a, very contegiousdiaease, is, usually due to dampness. Do not sell off the hens that begin to moult early, as they will finish the shedding of the feathers and begin to lay before the winter sets in. The late moulting hens, however, should 'always be sold. When you start live poultry to market let it be with good crops of food, and with what water they will drink. Avoid crowd- ing too many together in the cage. If overâ€" crowded they become feverish the same as animals that are overheated, and their meat is not so good and sometimes injurious. By looking after these minor matters your poultry is soon in demand on the market. Let your influence be‘ felt on the side of truth. justice and the common weal. To this end give vigorous aid to sustain good schools, good churches and good government. Be vigilant, persevering and exact in whatever is to be done. " Have a. place for everything and everything in its place.” Have a. time for every duty, and let it: be done in its appropriate time. Beware of too much land. Ten acres, with all facilities for the best cultivation, will yield better returns than 10.000 acres with- out brains, labor. and capital to correspond. In all farm buildings and fences study util- ity, harmony, and elegance. Build sulr stantially, and in accordance with your means. The farmer who permits his chickens to roost in the stables does not deserve to own a horse. It generally requires but’ little ef- fort to keep them out, and it should be done by all means. Do not fail to keep an exact account of all money received and expended in the interest of the farm; it will help you greatly to learn how to farm profitably. ’As a. rule. the long, pointed eggs, com- monly called rooster eggs, do rot hatch as uniformly as those more oval in shape. No more than half of them are fertilized. THE OLD MAN MEDITATES, In the hay field how gallant and how blithe Samer their loud songâ€"luv Whetstone and my scythe 1 How 'in the dewy morning used to pass My bright blade’s whisper thro’ the shuddering rass X And 1:5ny in the harvest fields of old ,,__1 null" .“Aa‘ “nu-uh“:- ("dd luau ‘ And zmy‘ly in the My sickle znthere harvest fields of old d God’s most precious gold. But now the patent reaper rattles there, The men it drove out. ganevthe Lord knows where. It brags and rattles through the fields in haste, Gathers the harvestâ€"what it does not wasteâ€" And leaves not much for poor old men like me, Except to sit upon the fence and see. God bade man till the soil “,Tmt it would srrm He shirkcd #2 ct! on herscfl. 11:66] and team. It’s we‘llâ€""if he don’t use theyxtra time In wicked mischief or mi. h '0“: cr me i" _ L- .. -t Have-all your live stock of a good qual- itv, suited to your locality, and to the needs of your farm ; keep no unprofitable stock. Guard strictly against waste. “ Gather up thefragments that nothing be lost.” This may be applied specially to the making and saving of manures. How often we have seen the essential strength of the manure heap polluting the roadside and small streams of water: piles of oyster shells. bones. old boots and other rubbih disfiguring the highway ; ashes, soapsuds, soot and other waste ma- terialâ€"so miscalledfladorning the back- yard, when a little time and labor would convert all into valuable plant food and greatly promote both the neatness and health of the premises. But most preciou are the fragments of time. “ Time is money,” and these fragments should not he squandered but put at interestâ€"[Rural New Yorker. POULTRY NOTES. Lack of pure water may often account; for the lack of eggs. It is claimed that VVyandotte eggs aver- age two ounces in weight. Laying ducks kept in yards or on upland need and will consume large quantities of oyster shell and grass and vegetable refuse. It is estimated that 45,000.000 eggs are consumed every day in the United States, and yet there are people who fear the poul- try business will be overdone. A fruit-grower says he could make com â€" post: enough from one pig to keep an acre of grapes well fertilizedâ€"that is, by throwing into the pig plenty of refuse stuff, leaves, weeds, 9120., through the summer. Attend the agricultural fairs of your coun- ty, and make them of practical value. Keep every part; of the farm as clear of Weeds as possible, paying close attention in this respect to mad-aides and fence-rows. lll WIUKCu llllfi\lllun y... N, This [living Work th go-bv may be smart, But, I have noticed, doesn’t improve the heart. behind the rushing days, I know I'm way But still I like the good old working ways. â€"W1LL CARLBTON. Pick out for breeders, says the Farm Journal, the pigs with long bodies, broad backs and doep, round hams. Select a breed which has hair on it. A good coat of hair counts on a hog as well as any animal. It is a protection in summer and in winter. The heifer should be trained from her birth, says the Stockman, to stand, lead or allow any one to handle her. A calf treat- ed in this manner will make a gentle and valuable cow, one that will not kick, and which will be easily and more conveniently milked. Give pigs water to drink if they are wean- ed. ‘They need it nearly as much as any other animal and it adds greatly to their health and t0 the purity of their flesh. Skimmcd milk and salt slops from the kitchen do not answer the purpose. They want pure water.â€"»[Kansas Farmer. The heaviest sheep do not always bring the highest prices. A nice, even lot of neat, heavy wethers is what the best; buyer looks for ; but he does not allow weight; to shut out everything else. Aqrea’c many of the heavy \Vesbcrn sheep marketed sell away PRACTICAL HINTS FOR FARMERS. STOCK Norms. FARM. Ladders were brought and a charge of powder was fired into the face of tho rocks, a few feet beneath where the bees settled. Then the explorers went home and waited until the next afternoon. They discnvered that they had made an opening through a. shell-like wall into a hollow be) end. A rich stream of olden fluid was trickling down the face 0 the rock. This showed that some of the honeycombs had been broken. Brimstone was then pushed into the hole and then ignited. The smoke soon began to drive out the bees by the thousands. But the honey could not be ob- tained as yet, owing to the hive of solid rock. Then young Haning thought of dynamite. He obtained some cartridges, and the first cartridge that exploded bored a hole in the top of the rock that revealed the entrance to what was apparently a small but empty cave. below the best prices quoted, because they are coarse and leggy. LIGHTS AND ROPES WERE BROUGHT and the three farmers descended into an irregularly shaped cave, the size of an ordi- nary room. On all sides the walls were covered with great masses of honeycomb several feet thick. The honey was of vari- ous colors and qualities. It had gleaned from the whitest of buckwheat blossoms ro the reddest clover heads. On several spots the comb ran back like veins into the rocks where the bees had filled up the interstices. The honey, in many places, was very red and was spoiled by age and moisture. But in the main portion of the cave the honey was in perfect condition. There was a curi- ous feature about the deposit. The cave had apparently been divided up by several swarms of bees, and they had erected barri- ers between the territory they had pre-empt- ed and that of the other swarms. The bar- riers were ingeniously-constructed walls of wax, nearly half an inch thick. The de- posit of honey is very valuable. Mr. Han- ing thinks there are at least several thou- sand pounds that can be removed and be sold at good prices. The three discoverers are keeping the exact locality of the cave a secret until they can get rid of the valuable honey. A clothing firm occupying a. prominent corner in Chicago concluded some weeks ago that on the 1st of May it would extend its first floor room by leasing the quarters then occupied by 8. German saloonkeeper. The clothing people already occupied the floors above the saloon on lease, and by a sort of agreement with the owner of the block had a. cell on the ground floor whenever they were ready to pay the rental demanded. This time having arrived, the manager of the clothing store in order to avoid misun- derstanding with the German, and possibly to prevent ruinous competition in bids for the lease, called on the saloonkeeper, and in a friendly way remarked that he guessed his firm would take the storeroom after the 1st of May, and that the dispenser of beer and pretzelshad better be looking for new quarters. An exchange says that there is more wool grown on each sheep than formerly, the av- erage having doubled in twenty-five years. 1111860 the product was two and one-half pounds per sheep, while in 1885 it had risen to five pounds. This is due to the grading up of the common flocks and improving them with the use of Merino rams. Joseph R. Honing, a. young farmer of Norristown, N. J., has discovered a. cave filled with thousands of pounds of honey just off the main road from Parsipany to Morris plains. Haning was standing under the big bluff the other day and happening to look up perceived a heavy mass of honey bees thirty feet above him. A few feet further down the bluff was another mass of bees. The two swarms buzzed so loudly that it sounded as though a. high wind was blowing. It did not take Honing long to perceéve that the bees were passing in and out o He got two young farmers and they went to the top of the rock to see if they could find an opening. They had a. lot of powder with them and attempted to blast an opening. Every time there was a blast millions of angry bees swarmed out of the recesses of the rocks, until the farmers, even with the bee hats and thick clothing on, found it dangerous to proceed. - “ But I don’t vant to move," protested the German. “ Well, but you’ll have to. You’re a poor man and we are rich, and we can pay three times as much for this room as you can. If you’ll go out quietly and make no trouble about it we’ll help you to find a. new place. If you stay here at all you’ll pay a. rent that’ll make you sickâ€"mind thgt. “ Vell, yoil come in two weeks and I dell yoE vet I d_o."_ ' Two weeks later, or shortly before the lat of May, the mana. er called again. The German was all smi es. “ Dot’s all right, mine vriend. You may schtay up stairs, und I’ll ’schtay here. I don’t pay no rent at all, put you’ll pay seex hundred tollars a. year more as you paid last. I haf bought de block !” “ Are you familiar with fire~aims ?” ask- ed a. Texas man in New York, as a. friend who had called on him at his room casually picked up his revolver that was lying on the table. “ Not at all.” “ Never handled a revolver much ?” “ First time I ever had a. revolver in my hand in all my life,” replied the New Yorker. “ Then you are in no danger, sir,” said the Texan with a. look of relief. “ I notice by the papers that it is the experts in the use of fire-arms, who accidentally shoot themselves, as a general rule. They pick up a revolver that is lying carelessly about, and it Is almost sure to go off. It is the ex- pert Who blows into the muzzle of a. gun, which blows his head off in return. He pulls his gun through the fence by the muz- zle when out shooting, and is astonished at the report of his death. He thinks he can do these things with impunity, because he knows all about guns, don’t you see ?” The New Yorkuer lziys theflrevolver down very‘svuddenlyl angl‘batckSBWELy. “ You see,” said the Texan, ” your ex- pert in arms wouldn’t do that. He would laugh at your caution, and twist and turn that revolver about, and try the lock, and peer into the cylinders until he got a bullet in his head like as not. You can be trusted.” A Cave Full of Honey. HUGE HOLES IN THE ROCKS. Handling Fire-Arms. Made It All Right. CLEANING BRASS.â€"Brass work, so soiled by dirt, smoke and heat as not to be cleans- able with oxalic acid, may be cleaned by thoroughly washing and scrubbing with soda or potash lye. Then dip into a mix- ture of equal parts of nitric acid, sulphuric acid and water ; or, if it cannot conveniently be dipped, make a small swab of woolen cloth on the end of a. stick, and rub the so- lution over the brass. Leave the acid on for a. moment, then wash clean and polish. UNDUE PERSPIRATION or THE Hungâ€"A mixture which is said to be a cure for undue penpiration of the hands is made of a qum - ter of an ounce of powdered alum, the white of one egg and enough bran to make thick paste. After washing the hands apply this; let it remain on the hands two or three min- utes and then wipe off with a. dry, soft towel. Luke-warm water is better than hot or cold if the skin is tender or inclined to chap. Old potatoes thicken yeast more than new ones. To sweeten bitter yeast thrust into it a. red-hot; iron. Some one has estimated that one barrel of {four will last one person a. year. A yard and a half square of coarse table linen makes a. good bread cloth of which a. good supply should bu kept. To KEEP HAIR FROM FALLING OUT.â€"A good remedy to prevent the hair from £23.11- ing out is to take a handful of southern- wood leaves, cover them with alcohol and let them stand until the full strength is ex- tracted. Add one teaspoonful of this to a. third of a. cup of water, and wet the scalp thoroughly once a day. It is an open question whether the color of the yeast makes any difference in the color of the bread. Keep the bread jar well covered and care- fully cleansed from crumbs and stale pieces. Scald and dry it thoroughly every two or three days. Keep large squares of pasteboard hung conveniently to slip under Dots, kettles, stew dishes and spiders, whenever you set them down. Rye flour alone makes a sticky bread; corn meal alone forms a. crumbly loaf ; add wheat flour to either and the loaf will be better in every respect. Lamp chimneys will not: break easily if they have been put over the fire in a pan of cold water, with a. cloth between them to prevent breaking, and boiled for a. half hour or longer. Sew on buttons over a. darning needle, and, when done, pull out the needle and the buttons will be found to be much looser than those sewed on in the ordinary way and will not pull ofi‘ as easily. To take spots of paint off wood, lay a thick coating of lime and soda. mixed to- gether over It, letting it stay twenty-four hours, then wash off with warm water, and the spot will have disappeared. THE CAUSE OF “RINKLES.â€"It Is now claimed that rubbing the face downward while Washing is the cause of many of the wrinkles on women's faces to-day, and the best remedy is to reverse the precess and always rub the face upward. Steel knives which are not in general use may be kept from rusting if they are dipped in a strong solution of soda, one part of water to four of soda, then wipe dry, roll in flannel and keep in a dry place. Two pieces of red brick rubbed to ether to reduce as fine as flour, will ta. e 011' more black, and add a finer polish in three seconds than bath brick, coal ashes or wat- er lime will in three times three seconds. A nice way to freshen old.fashioned silk, making it look like new surah, is to sponge it carefully with strong coffee. While damp, lay it wrong side up on an ironing board and place paper over it, then press with a. warm iron. Be sure the coffee is perfectly settled until clear before using. This is also good to freshen black lace, cashmere, ribbon and alpaca. Paint on the walls of a. kitchen is much better than kalsomine or whitewash. Any woman who can Whitewash can paint her own kitchen. The wall needs first to be washed with soapsuds, then covered with a coat of dissolved glue ; this must be allowed to dry thoroughly, and then covered with paint. A broad, flat brush does the work quickly. An English Barber Tells Why Americans Grow Bald. “ People become bald from washing the head,” said an English barber. “The use of water on t scalp may make a. man feel buoyant for a ime, but you will notice that the hair becomes dry and brittle afterward. The water and subsequent rubbing with a towel dry up the oil in the roots, and in time the hair becomes dead and drops out. In England people never think of washing the hair. A good comb and stiff brush are all that are needed to keep the head clean. The women often spend hours in combing out their hair, and that is the most laborious part of a maid’s Work. Instead of shampoo- ing English ‘barbers use a machine shaped like a little barrel and covered with stiff bristles. This is run by a small gas engine, and will Winnow every speck of dirt out of a. man’s head in a. few minutes. I have heard there are some in use in this city, but I have never seen one.” “ Just help me move th'n bureau here, And hang this picture won’t you, dear v And tack the carpet by the door, And stretch this one a little more, And drive this nail, and screw this screw ; And here’s a job I have ior youâ€" This closet door will never catch, I think you’ll have to fix the latch, And, oh, while you‘re about it, John. I wish you’d put the comma on And hang this curtain ; when you’re done I‘ll hand you up the other one ; This box hes got to have a hinge Before I can put on the fringe ; And won’t you mend that broken chair "t I’d like a hook put up right there, The bureau drawer must have a knob ; And here’s another little job;- I really hate to ask you. dearâ€" But could you fix a bracket here T" And on it goes. when these are through, With this and that And those to do, Anti infln itum, end pore too, All in a men}; jingleâ€"â€" And isn’t it enough to mike A man wish he was single? (Almost) Sing a song of cleaning house ! Pocketful of nails I Four-und-twenty dust pans. Scrubbing-brooms and pails 1 When the door is opened, Wife begins to sing Housekeepigg Mekdieg. novsmmm). CRUMBS. Mr. Stanley in speaking of this same great evil, the slave-trade, tells of passing through a. part of the country which he found fertile and prosperous on his first visit. Some time after, going through the same country again, he found it desolate, and the few persons who were left, sitting in despair among the mine. Overtaking an Arab camp he learned that a band of Arab robbers had undertaken to carry away the people as slaves. Young men were fastened together by, twenties, by iron rings around their necks. Mothers were loaded with chains with little babies clingingto them, boys and girls were chained together, and the whole company was in the most terrible condition of suffering. In 1884 fifteen great powers, all the lead- ing nations of Christendom, met in Berlin, and agreed to protect the natives in the Congo valley, and aid in suppressing the slave-trade. This organization was called the International African Association, and by it free trade, and free intercourse, is al- lowed to all nations, in the very centre of Africa. The Congo Free State is 1,800 miles wide and 1,200 miles long. The popu- lation of this district is 40,000,000. The natives are all colored, but not negroes. They have the curly hair and flat nose of the negro. Mr. Stanley says they are a very fine-looking race. The natives think that white people. with their pale faces, blue eyes, and light hair are very ghastly- looking, and far from beautiful. In the eastern part, the country is ruled over by kings who seem to exercise absolute power. A missionary was asked what he wanted to do with these people, “ Teach them the good things in this book,” was the reply. “ You teach them to me,” said the king, “ and I will teach them to the people, and if they don’t take them into their headsâ€" do you see this stick ?" As you go into the interior the people are more intelligent and industrious. Mr. Stanley says he passed through villages well laid out fifteen miles long. Some tribes are very suspicious, and block the roads to prevent travelers pass ing, and those who have penetrated into the dark continent, have done so in great peril, passing in many places under a show- er of poisoned arrows from the hands of the natives. The Congo region may be divided into the upper and lower Cor go. On the lower Congo the natives are not cannibals, but on the upper Congo cannibalism is a very comâ€" mon practice. They are a very savage peo- ple, their houses are often ornamented with skulls and their streets are paved with them. The story is told that a missionary going to this part of the country was welcomed by the natives,- who looked at him carefully, and then said he was so thin he would not make a. satisfactory meal, so concluded to let him live. Dr. Livingstone yearned for the healing of the “ open sore of the world,” as he called the slave-trade, and it was to help the sufiering people that he went into the very interior of this‘ dark country. It was here that Mr. Stanley found him, and at this plsce he was found one morning by the natives, on his knees, dead. His last breath seemed to be a. pyayer for Africa. The “ Henry Reed ” is a missionary boat, and carries missionaries and the Bible through a part of the country where the gospel has never been taken before and where there are 40,000,000 of people who have never heard of Christ. When this steamer was sent tar Africa it was in 500 parts. At Vivi 500 men were hired‘ to carry the boat in these separate pieces past the Falls to Le- opoldville, a distance of 180 miles. The men carried their loads on their heads, and they must have been very careful during this long, hard walk, for not even the small- est piece of the boat was lost. The boat cost $15,000 and was the gift of Mrs. Reed who named it after her husband as a memorial to him. It is hoped that all the expenses of this boat will be met by the young people of America, and for this purpose the “ Henry Reed Steamboat Company” has been organ- ized. Any one may become a stockholder in this company by paying ten cents a year, which makes one an annual member, or $1, which makes a life-member. Perhaps if we become stockholders we can have a free ride on the “ Henry Reed ” if we ever visit Africa. The people of Africa do hot have what can be called a religious form of belief. They are fetish worshippers and are willing to make an idol of anythin , no matter how rudely it may be cut. T ey believe that spirits, good and evil, live in high places, and when they go out to hunt they offer sac- rifices to these spirits. The people are very superstitious and cruel. \Vhen any one becomes sick and dies, the first ques- tion is. “ \Vho killed him ‘3” and when the one is found who is supposed to be the cause of his death he is at once killed. In this way a great many innocent persons lose their lives on the plea. that they have be- witched the dead. The family of one of the missionaries was supplied with milk by a native woman who received in payment some cloth. One day the missionary sug- gested that she bring the milk for a week and then receive one large piece of cloth in- stead of receiving a small piece each day. “ Oh, no,” said the woman, “ for before the,week is over the king may want to kill me and then I won’t get any cloth at all.” The people obey the summons to come and be killed without the least hesitation. In their journeys through the country the mis- sionaries often come upon the bones of per sons who have thus been put to death, and scarcely a week passes but some are treated in this brutal way. At a feast the king asked for a certain man W110 was not pres- ent. Some one answered that he did not know why he was not there. “ \Vell,” said the king, “take soldiers and go and eat up his village,” which means “ Kill the men, burn the houses and bring the women ‘ and children to me.” He is a. devoted lover of Africa. When asked what turned his attention to that country, he replied that when his only son died he felt as if he had nothing to live for until God seemed to say to him, “ Live for Africa,” and laid Africa on his heart. The Congo is to Africa what the Ganges is to India. and the Mississippi is to the United States. It is 3,000 miles long, and with all its tributaries ,gives a, distance of 5,000 miles of water travel. The rapids are in some places an obstacle to navigation. It is 125 miles from the mouth of the Congo to the rapids. Here the largest vessels can sail, but from Vivi to Leopoldvllle the river descends 1,000 feet in 180 miles. Between these points everything must be ‘carried on the heads of the natives. A railway is being built between Vivi and Leopoldville, under the direction of King Leopold, of Belgium. IN AFRICA. OUR W'IVES. Ruskin, in speaking of the wife, says :â€" “ A judicious wife is always nipping off from her husband’s moral nature little twigs that are growing in the wrong direction. She keeps him in shape by pruning. If you say anything silly, she will affectionately style you so. If you declare that you will do some absurd thing, she will find some way of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all the common sense there is in the world belongs unquestionably to women. The wisest thing a man com- monly does are those which his wife counsels him to do. A wife is a grand wielder of the moral pruning knife. 1f Johnson’s wife had lived there would have been no hoarding up of orange peel, no touching all the posts in walking along the street, no eating and drinking with disgusting velocity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been married he never would have worn that memorable and ridiculous coat. Whenever you find a man whom you know little about oddlyfiressed, talking ab- surdly or exhibiting eccentricity of manner, you may be sure that he is not a married man; for the corners are rounded off, the little shoots pared away in married men. \Vives have much more sense than their hus- bands. The wife’s advice is like the ballast that keeps the ship steady.” A LADY BORN. An aged truckman bent under the weight of a. big roll of carpet. His bale-hook fell from his hand and bounded into the gutter out of reach. Twenty idle clerks and sales- men saw the old man’s predicament, and smiled at his look of bewilderment. No one ventured to help him. A fashionably-dress- ed young woman came along, took in the situation at a glance, and, without looking to the right or left, stepped into the gutter picked up the hook in her dainty, gloved fingers, and handed it to the man with a pleasant smile. The idlers looked at each other and at the fair young woman. The old truckman, in a violent effort to express his thanks politely, lost his hat. It rolled into the gutter where the hook had been. This was almost too much for any woman, young or past young, but tl is superior girl was equal to the occasion. Into the gutter she tripped again and got the soiled hat. When she handed it to the truckman ‘a happy smile was seen to play about her lips. “God bless ye, miss,” the old man said, as the fair maiden turned her back on the idlers and went on her way. A SENSIBLE PRINCESS. A private letter from England says :â€" “ The English, who have been so fatigued and angered by the Queen’s lugubriousness, are delighted with the young widow of the Duke of Albany. .The Queen has the most horrible fondness for tombs and all the trap- pings of woe. She is as fond of a. funeral as the Southern colored people and never forgets the anniversary of any one’s death. She made an “ effort to induce” the young Duchâ€" ess to imitate her own ostentatious widow- hood, but the young woman very sensibly refused to perform this moral suttee. She orders her household and way of living with quiet but cheerful dignity and makes her home bright and sunny for the rosy, chubby little princess, Whom she Watches with great care lest she should inherit her unhappy father’s weakness. On the anniversary of her husband’s death she adorned the memo- rial chapel with spring flowers, primroses and violets and covered his tomb with red roses. She did not attend the morning ser- vice herself but the little White-clad Princess Alice was there, and in the evening she her- self came and ordered her favorite anthem chanted, Mendelssohn’s ‘Hesr My Player.“ Women, especially those of the upper classes, who are not obliged to keep them- selves in condition by work, lose after mid- dle ageâ€"sometimes earlierâ€"a considerable amount of their height, not by stooping, as men do, but by actual collapse, sinking downâ€"mainly to be attributed to the per ishing of the muscles that support the frame in consequence of the habitual and constant pressure of stays and dependence upon the artificial support by them afforded. Every girl who wears stays that press upon these muscles and restrict the free development of the fibres that form them, relieving them from their natural duties of supporting the- spineâ€"indeed, incapacitating them from so doingâ€"may feel sure she is preparing herâ€" self for a dumpy woman. Failure of health among women when the vigor of youth passes away is but too patent and but too commonly caused by this practice. Most women from long custom of wearing gthese stays, are really unaware how much they are hampered and restricted. A girl of 20, intended by nature to be one of her finest specimens, gravely assured me that her stays are not tight, being exactly the same» size as those she was first put into, not per- ceiving her condemnation in the fact that she has rown five inches in height and two in shoul er breadth. Her stays are not too tight, because the constant pressure has revented the natural development of the- i‘leart and lung space. Mrs. Hetty Greehe, a. millionairess, will‘ pay $30,000 for a seat in the New York Stock Exchange to save commissions. Mrs. Cleveland has taken to the woods her mountain trousseuu with which she made a sensation at Deer Park last year. One of her favorite costumes when in re- ,tirement is a. loose flannel dress, stout shoes, and a soft felt sombrero hat. .The employment of women as printers is increasing in England. A women’s printing society has been formed with leading names on the list of directors, while the excellence of the work done by Women printers is tes- tified to by so eminent an authority as Rus- kin. . Mrs. Haddock, of Iowa, in her paper on “Women as Landlords,” read at the “’0- men’s Congress in Louisville, estimates that 1,000 women own and manage farms in her own State, while in Oregon women farmers are so numerous that they excite 110 com- ment. The number of women landowners is increasing all over the Union, Queen Kapiolani and the Princess Lilinoâ€" kalion, of the Sandwich Islands, and their uite, after a. long round of Visits from Bos- ton to \Vashington, sailed from New York! \Vednesday morning, for Europe on the City of Rome. The queen expressed herself as very much pleased with her stay in New York, but her reception in Boston cost much more â€"nearly $20,000. How WOMEN LOSE THEIR HEIGHT. ABOUT WOMEN.