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THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE. It stood there on the sloping green, Near the margin of the wood,? The narrow graveyard lay between, "Where the gray stones silent stood; Beneath them slept the true and kind,? And?ah, how near and dear! Nay, none 'neath those green mounds confined Were buried without a tear. 1 1 * " .ins oia nouse waiis were warpeu ?uu otiuiu, And the roof was frayed and worn. ? The low door whero the sunlight streamed In the summer Sabbath morn, Bore impress of f.he ceaseless tread,? Through the unremembered years,? Of passing pilgrims, long since dead, And gone from a vale of tears. In fancy?lo, the pulpit plain,? The bcnches of yellow pine; And hark the simple, sweet refrain Of music that seemed divine; Bongs more melodious to my ear Than strains of cathe.lral grand; E'en now their echo I seem to hear, Float back from theheav'nly land, My father's voice thore road the Word, There my mother sat so meek? Her fair fare told her heart was stirred, And her God not far to seek; Oh, bless that mother, sweet and mild, Her days have been lengthened long; She 11 not forget hjr weary child When she joins the angel throng. That cLapel old?ah, nevermore Will it sound with praise and prayer; Tiiose scenes are now forever o'er? Itstandeth no longer there; And they who sought, in years agon?, Those benches of yellow pine, Have bid faiewell aud journeyed on, To the longed-for home divine. ?F. A. Sim I. ins, in Boston Courier. M. SASSON'S YALET. In 18?0 M. I'uul Sasson resided on the Boulevard de Neuilly, I'aris. He was a speculator and financier and about 50 years of age. He was married and had ! a daughter Corinuo and a son Charles. I He kept up an expensive establishment j and was refuted rich, i- arly in the year named he bccnmc reserved and moro9e j and was constantly talking to his family about their extravagance and the necessity of reducing expenses. At length he grew almost violent in his conduct to ward his family and the greatest lor- I bearance had to be exercised by them. Oct 21 M. yasson went to the city early. About noon he return, d with a van. and set several men to work removing the pictures from the parlors. He was very stem, and took no notice of his family, who did not expostulate. He returned to the city, and was not home until late. The next morning at break- j fast he informed his family ihat he was about to curtail his establishment, and to that end had resolved to move into a smaller and Jess pretentious dwelling. " Have you suHered such heavy losses fKie. nr.nrtocori'?*' Viia u'ifo {K ?V iCUUWl bUlO U\.V^O?H] asked. " It is very inopportune just at j this juncture. whenCorinnc expects soon ! to receive a proposal of marriage." ''Let her marry whom she pleases," he replied, roughly; "she "will soon bring him to poverty with her extravagance." "She is sought by a worthy gentleman," the son said, "and the connection , is in every way desirable." "It is proper for you not to interfere j in such matters," the father said; "you i will have enough to do to attend to your ; own cart g in life. You have alreadvj failed in twi? examii ations at college, , and have shown yourself incompetent for ; anything." "Iam competent," the son replied, j with warmth, "to protect my mother j and sister." "Insolent!,; exclaimcd his father: and, ! rushing towaid him, he clenched his j fist as though to strike him. Mme. Scsson interposed her person j between the irate man and his son. M. i Sasaon ground his iceth with rage, and j then struck his wife a violent blow over j the side of the head. The son was ready ; to grapple with his falhcr. but his j mother entreated him to forbear. Soon i afteward M. Sasson quitted the house. After a brief consultation Mme. Sasson resolved to seek refuge w.th her sister, and her children agreed to nccom-! pany her. Trunks were hastily packed ; and preparations made for immediate departure. While her children were en- | gnged in this work Mme. Sasson went j to a bureau where her husband kept a j revolver. "If he should return and sec us pre- ! paring for departure he might do some- I thing desperate,she said to herself. She took the pistol from the drawer; i and holding it among the folds of her j <J?-esa went to her apartments. As she quitted the library she found M. Sasson's j alet at the door. He turned aside and I made no remark, and she passed on in ! silence. On reaching the apartments oc- j cu;;ied by herself and her husband, she . found h*r children busy packing. She i placcd the revolver behind a vase on the mautelpiece without being observed. When AI. Sasson returned homo in the i evening he found his house deserted, j '1 he valet told him that his wife and 1 children had departed together, having ; first packed several trunks, which they J had taken with them. "I saw madainc go to your bureau in the library,"' the valet said at the conclusion of his story. .M. Snsson went to the library and examiued the bureau. ".My revolver has been removed," he said. "I saw madame quit the library,"the , valet sa d, "holding l>y her side 6ome- j thing whi< h was conccaled by the drap- j cry." In the evening Jlme. Snsson discovered that she had left a l;rge sum of j money in her boudoir. She had immediate need of this sum, and how to get it! was the subject of much thought. She , determined to sny nothing of it to her | children for fear (. harles should insist 1 upon going to their former residence for it, and thus perhaps be brought into collision with his father. Finally she de vised a scheme, she had th<; keys ol the I ?idc entrance to the garde n and of a private entrance from the garden to the j house. She thought tlmt in th darkness | she could easily find admission to I the <: welling-houje. re .ch uuprc- ' ceiled the boudoir, procure the I money, nod return without any one's being the wiser for her adven- ! ture. To get her children out nf the way she suggested that they should visit ht-r brother, who ic>idcd a miie away, , and communicate to him the step she had j taken. As soon na they were gone the quitted her sister's house unknown to j any one but her maid, whom she had taken with her, and, procuring a cab, went to with:n a hundred yards of her 1 firmer residence in the Boulevard de Neuilly. Directing the driver to wait for her return she went toward the dwelling, opening the gate into the gar Otn wnn cannon: .sue ieit ib n ai auu i crossed the lawn to a side door. This she also left ajar, being afraid that the clrwing of it might nroiw the inmates. Without ?>r molcstatioa she as~ Jil -1.1 ijjltU. J. cendcd the stairs and succecdcd in getting possession of the money. She quitted the house, still leaving the side door ajar, but on passing out of the garden she closed the gate and hastily walked toward the cab. She reached hei sister's house before her children returned and without her abscnce having been noticed. The next morning M. Sasson failed to call for his valet as usual. After wa:ting for so ne time, according to the valet's statement, he went to his master's apartment and found him lying in bed with a bullet hole in his head. On the coverlet lay his revolver. His watch and purse were mi>sing. His wardrobe had been ransacked and his escritoire broken open. There was no doubt that the assassin had bepn at work. The Judge of Instruction and his officers investigated the case and arrived at the conclusion that murder and rob1 U.J 1 uerjr uuu utTu u'uii;. The valet told what he knew about the family troubles and the fact of Mme. Sasson and herch ldren having left their home the previous day on account of what had passed between monsieur and his wife and son. Then the valet related the incident of the revolver. But how had any one entered the house? Jean Chnuban, the vak-t, testi- j fied that early in the morning, as he was j taking the milk at the garden floor, he I observed that the side door of the house 1 was a;ar, and going in that way closed | it aft<jr him. The garden was high, but an expert climber could easily scale it on either side. The gendarmes on duty near by testified that between 10 and 11 o'clock the previous night he saw a cab standing wifhin a fr?w hnndrftd feet of the house. He spoke with the driver, who said: "A very comely woman has just dis-1 appeared by the side of that house." The cabman was easily found by the police. Did he know the lady? No. Where did he take her up? On the corner of the Hue de Morny and the Faubourg St. Honore. Mme. Sasson's sister resid d on the Hue de Morny near the i Hue de Pontheu. It was a very painful j couc'usion to reach, but there was no j avoiding it ?Mme. Sasson had nssas- | sinated her husband and the missing ar- . J tides were taken merely to turn nside j suspicion. She had lived unhappily with j him; he had determined to reduce 1 his establ'shriient; he had struck her! ] All these facts were testified to by domes- 1 tics. Then came the episode of the pis- 1 tol, narrated by the valet, and the fur- 1 ther fact, admitted by Mme. Sasson's maid when she was cleverly captured on ' the street and re roved to the office of 1 the Judge of Instruction, that Mme. Sas- : son had a key to the garden and the side door of the house, ana that she had been j' absent from her sister's house for two i1 hours between !) ::>0 and 11:30 the night;' of 0 tober 22. ' I-'vervthing l eing thus clear, Mme. j' Sasson was arrested and charged with ; the crime of murder. Mme. Sasson de-1 nied the accusation and told the story j as the reader has it before him, omitting the epi?ode of the pistol. "Do you remember going to the bureau j in the library before you left the h>use ! 1 October 22?" the Judge of nstruction i ( asked her. "Yes, I do." "You took a revolver out of the ( bureau, and you haven't mentioned the t fact." t j. "I did; but I refrained from saying;1 anything about it because I did not wish i , _ A*- -4. -r I 1 co nave to say mau i was airuiu iujr uusband might shoot one or the other of us." "What did you do with the pistol?'' * ''I put it behind a vase on the mantel- j ( piere in my husband's apartment, in- j1 tending to remove it. but I forcot it." | In consultation afterward the Judge ! j said to Goupe, a detective: j "This woman does not talk nor look j! like a gui ty per-on. If she is not guilty j ?ornl, mark you, she has just' the sum j 1 of money she says she went for to her j1 boudoir, and the missing watch has not i< been found near her or about her?if she ! is not the assassin, how came the mur- 1 derer to find the pistol hidden behind j the vase? You have ?een the vase, and i know :ust how and where she laid it. Is j it possible that any one whom Mme. Sasson left behind her di'l the deed?' This suggestion put the detective on a lino of inquiry, and he pursued it with i1 vigor, but found no clew. Mme. Snsson ! was convicted of the killing of her lius- ! band and sentenced to fifteen years' im- ' prisonment. Jean Chauban, the former valet of M. 1 Sisson, assumed the name of Houm iine j' and opened a wineshop in the Hue (.5reuse, |. near the Bois de Boulogne. Six months i after Mme. Sasson's conviction, in the spring of 1866. Dctective Goupe was looking for a wandering swindler who had cheated several charitable ladies in the suburbs of the city. In his wander- j1 ings Goupe dropped into the wineshop of 1 Jean Koumaine, and was soon on friendly 1 terms with that gentleman; for he im- * mediately identified him, elaborately < transformed as he was, as M. Sas?on's ! 1 former valet, whom he had watched for j1 a month, in various disguises, to sec j{ whether he could connect him with the 1 crimc of October 22d. M. Houmaine had a splendid <*old chain i < on his vest, and (loupe asked him the 1 time. lie pulled out the elegant repeater, J which Goupc had no hesitation in saying 1 exactly answered the description of the ' watch stolen from M. Sassi>n when he < was murdered. ! "A line watch." said the officer. "Yes?a present from a dead friend," answered Iioumaine. "Ah, very prccious, no doubt," said J the officer. "A sad remembrance," was the reply, * with an as-umed look of sorrow. " I once knew a gentleman who had a 1 watch just like that," sa:dthe detective, 1 'and, strange to say, he is dead also." ' "A coincidence." said the valet. 1 "Won't monsieur drink?" 'Thanks." was the replv. "It is a i strange coincidence, and, would you b1 licve it, my friend was murdered. Why, 1 monsieur, what is the matter with you? j Was your friend murdered also?" "No. no, not that, monsieur," was the ' answer; " but your words startled me. 1 Murder, you see, is such a dreadful 1 thing, and one never knows, in this great city, who he has near him." "That is very true," said the officer, rav poor friend, for instance, didn't know. I iotcn. it is very strange. The jury said that my friend was murdered by his wif --think of that: but I say he was murdered by his valet." I'oumaine.pnlc as a ghost, was staring with alarmed gaze light at the officer ana ciii ging wi:h bo;h hands to the counter. " I cf us drink,'1 said the officer, apparently n'-t noticing the state in which lioumainc was. <;oupe filled his glass wi.h brandy and lloumaine did the same. ' You feel strong and refreshed?" a^ked the officer. 'Must so; now, it you please, you will put on your coat and come along with me. Jem Chauban, for you're wanted for the murder of M. Sasson." As ?Joupe covered the mau with his revolver at the moment he uttered these \vord9 there was no help for him. < uietlv and without any show of resistance Ho-.imaine -.vent with the officer.. The watc'i in his possession, the money which he bad invested in the wineshop were evidence against him, and at length, he broke down and confessed his guilt. "i saw madame quitting her boudoir on the night oi October 22 and followed Via* +/-> +v?/i Mr/1 on T tAw her lnavfi the door ajar and go out by the ga:dcn. It at once struck mo that here was a good chnnce to rob my master and lay it to his wife. After she and the children had quitted the house I searched for the pistol and found it behind the vase. After I was sure that monsieur was fast asleep I got the revolver and went to his room. He had drank heavily before retiring, but to my surpris:' he awoke a* I was rumagingthe wardrobe. He cried: 'Thieves!' and was about to get out of bed, when I fired and he fell back dead. Then I gathered all the plunder I could and hid it away. I did not volunteer too much information during the investigation, because I thought the evidence would convict Mine. Sasson without much say on my part." It is needless to say that 3Ime, Sasson was released and Jean Chauban sent to the gallows. Rules for Building. The Country Gentleman gixes the following rules by way of suggestion for country residents, farmers and others who intend to ercct dwellings in the spring: ' ' -3 A- aL- 1 ^noose a gooa spoc ior x.ue uuusc? healthy, dry, with good drainage?and if possible, with a good prospect, landscape and trees. Surface water should ran off in every direction. Secure provision for pure water, if not by wells and springs, then with filtered rain water. 3lany lose their lives by usiug impure water. hlace the house where it will be most accessible from all parts of the farm, a3 nearly as may be, for the convenience of the owner and hi3 men in their constant labors. .Beginning at the basement or cellar, let it be well lighted, with double glazed windows, and always kept dry and cleau, so as never to need cleaning. 1 et the cellar extend under the whole house, for preserving the timbers from rotting, and affording the room. For country houses wood is usually best and cheapest. Stone walls arc cold j Mid damp, unless well furred, lathedand plastered. All brick walls should have air spaces. In building with wood, adopt balloon frames with air spaces between outside and interior plastering, with the additional security of using building paper or brick inside, and use ; plenty of nails, as they are the cheapest strengthened. j If the cellar has not perfect natural drainage, lay a tile outside all around the wall, a foot and a half below the wall, with ires discharge: and cross drains into it to keep the cellar free from dampnoQ3 Few spacious windows arc better than many contracted ones. Avoid hanging doors to swing outside 3n stair-landings, and never place them so as to strike each other when opened. Bedrooms should be large enough to j ivoid placing the bed against a window ; >r closet door. Plenty of closets should be provided, | md hang the closet door so that the j :loset may receive light from the nearest 1 window. Acjoining the kitchen, dining or liv- ; ngroom, should be a small room acccs- | lible from outside, for workingmen to j cave muddy boots and overcoats, and :o wash the:r hands. In the country, avoid basement kitch;ns, and place kitchen, living room-and :ominon bedrooms all on one lloor, for ready ac< ess. To deaden the floor between the cellar ind room above, nail flooring on the ower sides of the joists, place on this ;wo or three inches of concrete and then I ay the floor This will exclude sounds, j prevent rising exhalations from fruit | oom or cellar, and prove additional se- I jurity against fire. Kitchen windows, being in constant J ase, should be hung on weights; and :hey should always be on opposite sides, to give full light and lree ventuauon. A square or rectangular house gives | the most room for the same amount of jutside walls; but some exception must bo made in ordor to obtain light and side ventilation. Avoid receding angles in roofs as much is possible, as they are a frequent cause )f leakage. Easily accessible verandas may be made with high ceilings, to prevent | larkcning windows. A high ceiling to rooms poorly ventilated is not so good as one of moderate height, but well ventilated. About tlie Cresccnt. Noth:ng positive can be traced as to , when tho cie=cent became the Turkish | jymbol, but there are several legends which give the reason for its adoption. [)ne of these says that Philip, the father jf Alexander, meeting with great difficulties in the seige of liy/antium. set the workmen to undermine the walls, but a crescent moon discovered the design, ! which miscarricd; consequently the By'.antines erected a statue to Diana, and the crescent moon bccame the symbol of the State. Another legend is that Oth-, nan.'the Sultan, saw in a vision a crescent moon, which kept increasing till its horns ;xtended from East to West, and he adopted the cresccnt of his dream for his standard. Sounds and Echoes. As the ear cannot distinguish between | two sounds occurring at an interval of less than one-si teenth of a >econd, that time must necessarily elapse between the utterance of a sound and its return j to form an echo. An echo is simply a i jound reflected from some opposing body, which must be thirty-five feet ' may from the cause of the sound. The >ouud will have to pass through seventy ! feet, and this will take about onc-sixtecnth of a second?since sound travels i it the rate of 1,100 feet per second?so that the direct and reflected sounds may | lie distinct. The further the rejecting 1 !>ody is awoy the longer of course will the sound take to reach the ear after reSection. Resolution. Resolution is the mother of security. A good resolution will make any port. Let not the sword of resolution be blunted When a resolution is oure formed, half the difficulty is over. A heroic resolution never permits life to pass away in trifles. A statue ?tauds firm' on its base; a virtuous man ou firm resolutions. Fortune, though a fi owning fortress, smilos at those whose resolution forces open her gates. i>evolutions taken with >ut ' thought briny; disaster without remedy. A good resolution is the most fortifying armor a good man can wear. Resolution is nec-Fsmry to guard us against dejection. A qurk, courageous resolution is better than a gradual d o1i b oration. Sudden resolutions like the ' suddeci '"7 rise of the } mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. AGRICULTURAL. I | TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. How to Judge Sheep. I Purity of blood is invaluable, especially in the mule sheep, as he is chie.ly to be relied on when crossing or improving the breed is desired. The English downs are considered the best for producing first-class mutton, while the merinos are remembered for producing the finest wool. The principal points sought I for in sheep are those that give evidence of their fattening properties, a straight j back, broad loins, roundness of body I are valuable . points. A good formed I animal is one with plenty of flesh, evenly i put on. and as little bone as possible, i The following gives requirements for j mutton sheep: Head moderately fine; nostrils wide; eyes prominent; cars broad, moderately long, thin and covered with short hair; collar full from breast and shoulders, tapering gradually all the way to where the neck and head join; ncck short, thick and strong and free from coarse and loose skin; shoulders broad and full, and at the same time jomea so gradually to tne coiiar iorwaru and the chine backward as not to leave the least hollow in either place ; fore legs, the mutton on the arm or fore, thich should come quite to the knee; leg with heavy bone and upright, clear from su! perfluous skin, should stand square nnd j well apart; breast, broad and well forJ ward, keeping the legs wide apart; girth i or chest, full and deep: fore flank quite ! fall, not showing hollow behind shoulj der; back and loin, broad, flat and straight, from which the ribs must spring | with a fine circular arch. Belly, straight j on under line; quarters, long and full, j with mutton quite down to the hock; ' hock should stand neither in nor out, j but straight; twist or iunction inside the i thighs, deep, wide and full, with a broad breast, will keep the legs open and upj right; the whole body should be covered with wool, of a dose texture, of good length and fine quality.?Practizal Fanner. ; Preventing Swine Plague. Dr. Detmers of the Ohio University, a gentleman well known from his investigations with the microscope, and especially in swine fever, in a late address upon this subject, held, and correctly, that once hogs are attacked but little can be done to save them. Only at the beginning, or before extensive morbid changes are produced, is it feasible to treat them. If the infection has taken place through the digestive canal it may be worth while to try an emetic of powdered white hellebore. From two to fifteen grains, according to the age a.nd size of the hog, would be about the dose. It may be given in a boiled potato, or on the surlace of a little milk. If neither the one nor the other is voluntarily taken, the hog is far gone and may be given up as a bad case. If one duse should not cause the animal to vomit, in say twenty minutes, another one may be given in about half an hour. This treatment may be followed by ti few dosen of calomel, also to be given with a boiled potato. Of other medicines tried, he aays: "I have had the best success with carbolic acid, and have obtained good results?that is, a prevention of a plain An#Vi,*.aolr rvf fho /^iaoocn Viv orivinof UUlUltua Vi KUW \4WWMWV Wj ?2 ' *"0 V*"*v a day from eight to ten drops of a D5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid for every 100 pounds of live weight in the water for drinking. Iodine in a wm:ery solution?ten grains of iodine and twelve grains of iodide of potassium to one ounce of water?and that given in small doses, has also proved to be very effective, but the damage done to the pig by this iodine treatment becomes very s;oon apparent. Hypophosphate of soda has also been tried, and has given favorable results. It may be given in doses sufficiently large to loosen the bowels, and be dissolved in the water for drinking'. ' The most obvious physiological effect of carbolic acid upon a hog is a reduction of the temperature. Whether it is this or some other property that retards or interferes with the propagation of the swine plague germs I am not prepared to decide, and to discuss theories would lead too far and be of little use. It may therefore suffice to state that the results of such a treatment have, on the wiaole, been favorable. If, howerer, the organism is already pervaded by the diseasegerms, or if important morbid changes are existing, notning whatever can be expected of the carbolic acid treatment, because the propagation has already taken place, and the acid, most assuredly, cannot repair the existing morbid changes. Neither can any other medicine, for disinfecting purposes we have, bowever, cheaper substanccs than carbolic acid; for instance, chloride of iime and a one per mille solution of corrosive Httbli mate." Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Anima'i Bureau of the United State.", says thfit for di.sinfe ting, corrosive sublimate, one to 73,000 parts, will kill the bacteria of swine-plague. The soluiion not used for drinking should bo froely sprinkled over the lot, j-ard, or pens in which the swine are kept. Sulphuric a id, one to 2,000 parts, is also recommcndcd. Farm and Garden Notes. For'cow3. one of the best supplementary feeds with corn fodder, is wheat bran. It takes six cords of hard maple wood to produce the same amount of hes t that four cords of hickory will. An Indiana farmer, after experiment, euys the Cotswold is the mr>st proitable s.'acep to keep for mutton and wool. Some dairymen save the last fourth of fc'ae milk from the cow in a separate vessel, and pour it directly into a cream j;ir. Avoid top ventilation in the poultry bouse. It v/ill cause croup, swelled iiaorl stlnnnri ovm And other difiicul- I ties. The standard for a good cow is said to be S00 gallons of milk a year, and of this there should be ten per cent, of cream. An authority says slight elevations are f afer places for the grape than bottom lands, on account of the early ani lute 'rosts. Plant trees for wind breaks if you live in thinly-wooded districts. They will nerve as useful protectors of crojis and stock. With proper caro and skill a veil selected flock of the right kind of sheep can be made to pay 100 per cent cn their cost every year. A contemporary suggests that a cow can be easily led by a halter that commands her nose, but with difficulty by a rop? around her horns. Mr. F. H. Israel says the last colony of bees should have at least thirty pounds of scaled honey to start in wi :h, the ?? ll?/3 hlma pactia 1U UOUinc-nautu tuuii >UTW. Coal ashes are of no value as nnnure. On very heavy soil, however, they are valuable as a divider of the clois, acting in the same manner as shari> sand. .* ' Bra*; ' ^ It is useless to hope to destroy the acidity of certain soils by the application of lime and other supposed correctivcs; only drainage will accomplish it. wv.on fruit tropa n.rp> nnrnved with ar senical solutions, to operate against the coddling moth, curculio, etc., do it early enough in the season to avoid poisoning the fruit. When a horse is taken into the stable, tired, muddy and sweaty, he ought to stand to hay at first, be gently batned in warm water and then rubbed wilh cloths till thoroughly dry. A good agency for keeping the air of the cellar sweet and wholesome is whitewash made of good white lime and water only. Lime in whitewash greatly promotes the complete oxidation of effluvia in the cellar air. After frost has pinched the grasses they are no longer sufficient for cattle that must be kept in good flesh, not for cows giving milk. Add enough grain, and the crass will serve much better to maintain good condition. In preparing food for stock, such as cooked vegetables, chopped feed, etc., always season with salt, livery animal craves, and must have, a certain amount of saline matter introduced into its system to enable it to thrive. Green food, well-seasoned meat, plenty of water, dry dust, broken bones, gravel and egg shells, crushed up fine, meal wet with warm dish water in the morning, sour milk, etc , are good for causing hens to lay in winter time. No kind of farm stock cost so little or pays so large a proportionate profit as sow pigs kept until they have their first litter ftf r?ic?a a snw dun to farrow in March "* I"tj? # ? ? or April is always salable at a handsome advance on her value for making pork. Guernsey grades are yearly growing more popular among dairymen and farmers, and their merits make them worthy of attention. There are but few essential difference? among the Guernseys, Jerseys and Alderneys?they all come from the same group of islands. In no other country in the world are the feathers of the barnyard fowls so recklessly wasted as our own. In France no part of the fowl is wasted, unless, perhaps, it be the intestines. The feet and heads are used at the chenper restaurants to give body to their soups, etc. It is advised, says the Cincinnati Commercial, not to allow peach trees to bear fruit until after the third year. We think it better to allow them to bear whenever they can, and to plant young trees every spring to take the places of those killed by frost, accidents or carelessness. Seed corn intended for next season should be thoroughly dried or it will not answer. If perfectly dry it will endure very severe cold, but if containing much water in its composition the extremely cold weather will injure the germ. Dry it well, and hang it up in a dry place of even temperature. A new luxury in the vegetable line is now on the market. It is called the Spanish odorless onion; is imported from Spain; varies in size from six to twelve inches, and in looks closely resembles tViA nrdinnrv onion. Thev are sweet.and I can be eaten as apples at any times with little fear of an offensive breath. By plowing under a crop when it is full of sap and water it very rapidly decays and enriches the soil, while if it is not plowed until the plant has become matured it will have a tendency to cure and turn into straw, and it will consequently take it a long while to sufficiently decay to becomc a fertilizer and bo in a condition to be taken up by the soil. Old turkeys and old gee9e are deemed worth much more as breeders on the farm than young ones. We once saw a goose which had successfully led forth a large hatching of young from the same hollow sycamore for over thirty years. She had ''the hang of the barn." Ducks are good till three years old; a turkey is in her prime at five, and a goose at twenty. To make superior hams and bacon, says Colman's Rural, corn should be mixed with oats or barley, or perhaps TnirrVif answer, at the rate of one-half 1J^ ??? ? ? ? J to a third of one of the latter to the former, and ground thus together. Such feed increases the proportion of tender, juicy lean streaking the fat, which is essential to producc a fine quality of hams and bacon. The old-fashioned, sweet-scented pot evergreen, known as daphne indica, is still everywhere popular, though as a general thing it is kept too warm. A temperature of from forty-five to fiftylive degrees is enough for it. It is an admirable room plant or for cool conservatories. They are natives of China and require about the same temperature as a camellia. In filling a box with ordinary house plants, it is better to have the plants in pot*, for then the box is perfect at commencement, and will be more likely to remain so. By being plunged in earth they are not liable to suffer from drought, and will not grow so fast as to J "draw up" and become unsightly. The j plants being root-bound will be far more prolific with bloom. A window box can be filled with plants that will thrive without sunshine, offrvrH a vnst amount of nleasure. auu uilviu m t ? ? , If palms cannot be employed, s.i all evergreens, such as dwarf arbor vit.c, can be employed to good advantage. Ferns can be used with these, and form a beautiful combination. If a climber is desirable, the English ivy will fill the place. For the sunny window there are many other plants than those we have mentioned, which can be used to good advantage. Let the box be tilled with Tom Thumb nasturtiums, with a tall growth at each end to run up the window cases, and a beautiful effect will bo produced. A Million in Money. When General Maiteullel. in 18G0, levied a contribution of 25,000.000 florins ($10,000,000) on Frankfort on-theMain, Baron Mayer Karl von Rothschild was indignant and demande l: "Does your Excellency realize the full meaning of tho word million? Has your Excellency ever seen a million of money?" The General was nonplussed, as, indeed, he had never seen such a sum at once, and to get out of the pickle he altogether remitted the contribution. Frank fort thereafter always considered Rothschild "a bigger man" than Man ten tf el. Before that General Vogcl von Falkenstein made an assessment of 5,700,000 florins (#'2,2S0.0001 upon the city, and s-.'nt "two soldiers with a wheelbarrow" to fetch it. He was much surprised to learn that the sum of money weighed about fifty tons. ? Chicago Herald. The Water in the Body. How much water does the human body contain? [It has been calculated that three-quarters of the ma-s of the human body is made up entirely of water. A man weighing Jeven stone, or K>4 tjounds, has 111 pounds of water in his >odv, or about fourteen gallons. Water i< tile most universal solvi-ntwith which the chemist is acquainted, and food can only afford nourishment by being dis solved in it. I I FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. . Jenner made the first experiment of inocculating a cnild from a cowpox pustule in 1790. California claims the largest squash of the season. It was raised at Lompoe, and weighs 251 pounds. A resident of Savannah exhibits one hundred aDd twenty-four large sweet potatoes which were grown on a single vine. They completely fill a barrel. The earth is supposed to lose time at the rate of half a second in a century. Therefore, if the earth ever ceases to revolve on its axis, it will be more than six thousand million years before it will stop. Muschenbroeck found that a human hair fifty-seven times thicker than a silkwormthread would support a weight of 2,2(5!) grains, and a horse hair, seven times thicker than this, 7,910 grains. Here is a marriage notice from a Quebec newspaper, which i3 a curiosity in its way: "D'iintremont?D'Entremont ?At St. Peter's Church, West Pubnico, by the P.cv, William M'Leod, Denis D'Entremont, the eleventh child of Dominique D'Entremont. to Sarah J. D'Entremont, also the eleventh child of Francois J. D'Entremont. A New Haven infant over two montbf old weighed only two and one-half pounds. She was well formed and healthy, and of fine vocal equipment. Her height was thirteen inches, her wrist seven-eights of an inch in circumference, tne back of her head measured one inch across, and her foot was one and one-fourth inches long. One of the most prevalent of medical superstitions in olden times was that which attributed healing virtues to rings * i ? J l?:? maae ox certain moiais anu launuuiou after certain fashion. It was a custom in England, as early as the time of the Plantagencts, for the King, on a particular holiday every year, to bless camp rings at the church at Westminster, which rings were preserved by the people with the greatest cure, as specincs agiiinst the disorders from which they take their name. . A little girl was shot in the head recently at Broekwayville, Penn. The bullet actually penetrated the brain matter, and the brain oozed out the aperture. Doctors also probed to the depth of three inches in search for the ball. For a time paralysis followed the rupture of the brain, but gradually it wore away, and at last accounts the child was in perfectly normal condition except the unhealed opening. The mental functions seem to be in no way impaired, and no danger has resulted from inflammation. Such cases have been heard of before, but they are very rare. According to the Belgian savant, Quetelct, a in an attains his maximum weight about his fortieth year, and be* i-- 1?? -*- Via oiv^iafK ronr gins lO lose lb tuwuiu UJO IJMUVIU JVU.. A woman, however, does not attain her maximum weight until her fiftieth year. The weight of persons of the same age in different classes of society also differs. In the affluent classes the average maximum weight is 172 pounds, and is attained at fifty years of age. In the artizan class It is 154 pounds, attained at forty. Among farm laborers it is 171 pounds, attained at sixty. In the general classes it is 164 pound-), and is reached between forty and fifty years of age- " Plate Glass. Plate glass is ooly made in the very largest factories. The plate glass works at liavenhead, England, are in a building 33S)xl55 feet: the melting furnace is placed in the center of the building, with openings on two parallel sides for working purposes, while along two sides of the building are arraugea the annealing ovens, which are often made very large to receive the immense plates that are madei. The materia's of which the best plate glass is made are pure silica or quartz sand, pure carbonate of soda, slaked lime, and plate glass- cullet, that is, bits of broken plate glass. These materials, in proper proportions, are put in the melting-pot, where they are allowel to remain from ten to sixteen hours, or even longer, until the whole has become fused and the soda is thoroughly volatilized. Toward the last the temperature is allowed to fall, and the glass then acquires the viscidity suitable for casting. In some factories it is then transferred to another vessel, where it is allowed to stand at the same highiemperature forsome time before casting, but in many establishments it is poured directly from the melting-pot upon the casting-table. This table consists of a massive slab, usually of castiron, supported by a frame, and generally placed at the mouth of the annealing r*n oofii cidft of the table arc ribs or bars of metal, which keep the glass within p;o|>er limits, and by their height determine the thickness of the plute. A copper or bronze cylinder about a foot in diameter, lies across the table upon the side bar3. The table is heated by having hot coals placed upon it, and is then carefully cleaned. The pots of melted glass are then lifted from the furnace, skimmed with a large copper knife, conveyed on wheel-racks to tho table, and being swung up by means of a crane, are emptied thereon. The cyliuder now rolled across the viscid mats spieads the glass out in a sheet of uniform breadth and thickness. While the plate is still red ! hot its end is turned up like a flange, j and with a rake it is thrust into the an- | nealing oven, which is heated to a dull red heat. Other plates are now immediately cast upon the hot table, until the annealing oven is filled, when it is closed and slowly <ooled for live days. Taken from the oven, the plates are ground smooth with sand and water, aud afterward with emery paper. They are then polished with powder of red oxide of iron, under considerable pressure. This 1 work of grinding and polishing is done by machinery, by means of which a most brilliant surface is readily secured.?Inter Ocean. ? *???- < The Height of Europe. ' According to a German Geographer , tbe average height of Europe may be esti- . mated at J??4 feet. Switzerland shows , the greatest mean height?viz.: t>,624 ( feet, and the Netherlands the lcast,or | 31. Intermediate are Spain and Fortu- , gal, 2,29b; Austria, 1,Gi?S; Italy, 1,G!)8; ( " > Tcio?,j= rii. I , r ruu^t*, J, i-J K I UOU 1DIUUUJ, I ? ^ I Germany, TO I; Russia, ?>49; Denmark, j 115?these figures bciug given, of t course, approximately. 1 The Singer's Reward. ! < He saug of midnights gloomy, r Of gardens bright aud bloomy, Of stars and wars, of sea* and shores: I He knew he was inspired. t Ho lived on heights Elvsian; f Hope's fancies charmed his vision; I He won some fame, hut no cash came? This last fact made him tired. < To follow high ideals When hunger on yoit steals Is suoh a game that soon grows tame; . T-Ta nnt thrivA on hone. But dropped his lofty singing, I And now grows rich by stringing ] Together rhymes to suit the times About a patent soap. j : *> Jt:*.V-?*,. i - Vi ' - .. : > ' , , - * ;3? HORSES IN JAPAN." ? , LARGEST BREEDING FARM I* THE WORLD. The Imperial Pasture of Simo?? A Remarkable Iiielosure of Large Area Containing More Than 100.000 Horses. There are large breeding eatabli/1-. 'y. ments ia many parts of the world, but it is doubtful if tnere is now, or ever was, & breeding establishment in any other country that could equal the great horse pasture of Simo a. in Japan. Nearly a thousand years ago the main island of \ the Japanese Empire was about equally divided between the conquering race s and th? tborigin-js. The conquerors held the southern half and the aborigines the northern tialf. One of the reigning Tycoons deter m ned upon the conquest ;. , Y of the aborigines, and nesent a large and 'ifJ well equipped army across the Hakoni range into the abor.ginal territory. After. *?# a long war, in wh cli there were many ;, " bloody battles the aborigines were de- . feated and driven north. The territory conquered comprises all the country around Tokio, the cipital, and several provinces still north of that. Within the boundaries of this conquest were what are now col ed the "Plains of Simosa." These plains were found to ;1 jv be admirably adapted to grazing. They V are about forty miles east of Tokio, be- t } tween the ht ad of the bay of Yeddo and! , the ocean, and are three hundred or four hundred leet above the sea le/el. They are in fact peninsula table lands. From these plains a considerable number of small streams have their source. The $3 larger part of this surface is covered with ^ grasses, indigenous to that Country, sii/ among which are several kinds of clovers, bunch grasses and a fescue grass. At " / intervals theie are groves of pines, oaks, beech and maple trees. It was determined to establish th:re * A pasture where the best cavalry horses 3 could be bred and in such numbers thai ' , their whole cavaliy could be supplied ;?&$ with fresh mounts ?t any time. Ordinary inclosures, and even subdivision fences, could have been built with little labor and cost, bi-.t ordinary fences would 2^ not have met the requirements. The Japanese population was then three hundred or four hundred miles southof thav . point. Two hundred miles north were . the defeated but still unconquered abori- V; gines, ready to pounce down upon their ?i?l* An A<>?? A AlMkAvtlf J . f ?' XUVUUwlS^UWUCIUl Ck lOTUIMUiQ U^W?VU- - , '^.n> nity presented. Under these circum- . ^ stances a fortified fence was demanded. To thus inclose 11 peninsula fifty miles by ->) ' seventy miles wa; a gigantic work, but when an absolute, authority, with mil-'. lions of submissive people ready to obey -? that authority, determines to do a wor*t the amount of labor involved does not stand in the wny of its accomplishment. An imperial decree was issued, ordering each feudal Prince in the Empire to send a certain number of laborers to buihTtho , ^ inclosure and t > make permanent settle- V m.nts there. All the lands bordering the streams, susceptible of irrigation, .'/% were allotted to tho laborers for homes. S?j From every province laborers, with their families, poured In, and in a short timei <73 250 villages were built along the line of , the proposed inclosure. Crops for the - . .J food of these workers were planted, and / the work on the fortified fences be^an. with impressive ceremonies, befitting Ithe importance'of this project. The outer inclosure was a S'jlid earth embankment, sixteen feet high. It was . j built to conform to the borders of tho table lands,.which on the bay and oce^a,_ sides were very irregular. These irregu- ' 3 larities increased the length of the em--* rV'& 1 1 ? J l.nl4 .Inn/V tt? UttUHUICUlj AUU) OS i uc lauu u vug v streams allotted to the settlers could not be included in the pasture, this tfreat embankment bad to be run up one side of the stream nearly to its source and then back again down the other side. As there were many of these streams the amount of embankment was enormously increased. In a book pnblished by the Government many years ago the length of this outer fortified fe ce or embank- ; ; ment if stated to bj five hundred miles. From two years'lcsidence on this tabla land, riding every day through variot a '.Vff? portions of this old horse pasture, I be- ,Vl/ lieve this statement is within the bounds of truth After this outer em- ; V4$ bankment was finished it was sown with a grass called "Hea,:' which become? : more deeply rooted in the soil than uny other known grass. In that case the , roots ran through the whole of the , masses of earth, and have thus heldthe-n* . together so firm y that the embankments have not perceptibly washed or weath ered through all the centuries which have intervened si nee their constrction. - ? On the top of this embankment a row of r' trees was planted This inclosure formed a very strong defense, and even if an enemy had stormed and taken it, it i.i I ~ imMooiKla tn rrof (ih* W0U1U littVC UWU Hii|A/ogiw?v w ?? ? . horses out, except at the gates, which were still more strongly fortified, and s detachment of mounted troops was sta- ^ tioned at cach one. At convenient points corrals weie builr. and these were made double strong. They were built by throwing up embankments twenty-five and even thirty feet hi^h. Incase tke aborigines had succeeded in getting inside the outer embankment, the horses were to have been run into these immense corrals and defended there. The aborigines never succeeded in getting into the pasture, and if they had the corrals would not have been * ^ needed, for in a few years these horses became so wild that the whole Sioux ' tribe of Indians could not have caught them. The work of building the outer embankment occupied many years, and the construction of the corrals many more. Then all this great plain or tableland was sub-divided into smaller pastures containing from 600 to 2,000 acres each. The subdivision embankments were made twelve feet high, and the au<nir>tAd nhicea the total LUViltjr (4UVTV %|V.W..-. length of these ?',50u miles. This work was all done by manual labor, the ?arth being dug Uj by mattocks, put in rope sacks and then curried to :hc embankment on the backs of aien. The best equine stock of the Empire was bought and brought to these pastures. Embassadors were sent lo L"orea Manchuria nnd China, and the jlooded stallions were bought for the mprovement of the native blood. By he natural increas: in a century or two ;here was an immense number of horses n this imperial pasture. The official luthority already quoti d puts th's numrrat more than one hundred thousand, fhe laborers used in the construction of he embankments settled permanently >n the lands that were excluded from he in< losure, and the villages founded iv tlicm are still there. By these means he rulers not only had a thor-jghly ortificd pasture, but they occupicd, setled and developed the country conpiered from the enemy.?6'a/i Fruncuoo 'J/tronicU. ____ Dr. E. G. Janeway, of New York city, .cting on the suggestion of a country nactitioner, has given fro/cn milk to Kitients whose stomach'' did not tolerate cc cre:im, and speaks highly of its um ' a fevers. (