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; i .1 r 11 i i 11, i . i R.1 ri - , I J J"" . . - . i 1 I F y - - : Srrj;li-X:V' a I amaA I m. nKwuwoMVA UIBMUUBWD nas dccuct ted and some scolding has been indulged In DT UUHAWhA in Min nAmnaHlia -.l.iL;.. -M by those who id the competitive exhibit of .r- - a uiuutuiUQ position won medals or diplnmoa ml who now fiud by a strict construction of the law under which the prim were awarded they are liable to imprisonment In the peniten. the WorUTs Columbian Kx Sf JmblWl Plcture of the diplomas of .... 11 un j uttvu won. The law as it standi was drawn at the sn pestion of Director General Davis, who had no other idea in making the suggestion than the prorentuip of exhibitors who had won no distinction by their exhibits from claint- ng meaaia or diplomas, and thus deceiving the public. He had not a thought of depriv !! J!? honest and successful exhibitor of -- - " vuu i'uuui wi uis aa vercise mentbf the medals and diplomas which the merit rt Hia 1 ' " " v-n uou .1111 1"V1. ut In drawing the law the mistake was de of depriving the prize-winner of mm In advertising his manufactures. He can hare his diploma framed and hung up u uis iianur na can aeep nis medal locked np in his sare to show to his friends, but nothing more. Ruth is. at least, the con struction the attorney general puts on the law. ' ofcoius mi iuipuu;Biiy criminal in tent to throw who have used for advertising purposes the recognition their goods have VAn. Kiwh bgA h,a fAllmnwl - ! I f inn (li.l liBi Kash .1 M :i i , ln " ' umi in in, auu it, is rigOl Da proper that the public should know whose goods entitled their maker to such recogni tion. The crime, if there be anv, is onlv the i-musc in a law wnh n likely that the law will be amended so that those who won prizes mav let the world know It, giving siuh evidence of the fact m -. ( -,w kn A . J . . 1 i-ii .. . i -- in... ...i ii ucuiMiuw, tRicn xtrcura. ilay 24. '.ti. Touching this matter, a neat circular has been issued by the Whitman Agricultural V nf Lit I Aula iPi.:- : the V nrld's Columbian Modul. tlie highest ipuroiuitj awaru, on uaung presses and a Vital of twenty awards on other entries, but are of course, under the law, restrained from giving proper publicity to the fact. "Cas a man servo two m alters !" Inquired The pastor of the mild-eved deacon. "He has to. sometimes," nn f,-tMvi the deacon. I think not." "You never had boy twins at your house, did your inquired the deacon softly. Detroit Free Press. Deafnes Cannot bs Cnred by local applications, as thev cannot reach thediseased portion of theear. There isonly one way to cure I leaf ness. and that is bv con stitutional remedies. ieafncws israusrri bv an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tulie. When this tub gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed leaf ness is the result, and unices the fnnammatioc can he taken out and thistuhe RMormiloitsnnrtnil romlitinn. hearin; will be destroyed forever; nine -as:s out of ten arccauAcd by catarrh, which is nothiughut an inflamed condition of the mucous sur faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars forany ease of Deaf ness d-jin.il bv catarrh) that cannot be cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure, bend for circulars, free. F. J. Ciirxsr & Co., Toledo, O. aJ9'Bold by DnnrisL. 7."-. Hall's Family i'llls. i', cents. DoToumenin the drv west want to go back and make hav as thev do in ithodo Is land I Kural New Yorker. " I Feel It a Duty To tell the world that Hood's Siirsaparilla has saved my life. 1 had dizzy siclls, nausea and pains in my side, caused by Hood M. A-Sasvvsi g Sarsa- bad condition of my liver and kldnevs. I Ul Soon after 1 com- zv menced to tako Hood's Karsanarilla. I bOL-.m to fif lictter. 1 l4Hk four Imttli's ami 1 now consider my self a well woman.'' SI it. Pai-uss Kibt, Buffalo, Iowa Oct Hood's. Hood's Pills an- purely v. ccluMc Sk. Positively you have the penuine De Long Patent Hook and Eye it you see on the face and back of every card the words: See that hump? Rkhanbon ft Vt Lnoj; Fros., Philadelphia. 0"RUMELY-a TRACTION AND PORTABLE NGINES. Threshers and Horse Powers. Writs tor IlHrtntedCatalnme. mailed Pres. RUM ELY CO- LA PORTE. I NO. V to. Scnjrtter, W lb. Fitted with 41. A J. rllnrhr Dnramalle tlr. WimntMl "nil to my btcTt-le built. rrnntUMof prtce. Cats. Afnta wanted In erry town, todtana Bkjcle Cow, o. iu Z St., iDdlaaapolla, Intf. rwee so cents, au druggists HOW HE WAS SPOILED. Masting for the Kvnlatlon of a Neigh. : borhood Terror. I ; "Sanger." said Mrs. McSwat, "I wish yon wonld drive those rude, noisy vbildrsa home that have been nlaving mi tLY'S CREAM BALM CURES Br2! a oar front walk all the afternoon." Xsa't yon send them home. Lo belia?" s "It wonliln'tdo any pood for me to order them to go. They know I can't chase tneni. What they neetl is a (rood can, sad they'd pet it if I were s Mtn." -.' 'Boys," thundered McSwat, appear ing sadden !y on the sidewalk about "e minutes later with a huge club in bis bMid: "111 give you just two sec onds to pet away from here and if yon come back again I'll skin yon alive! Eon. now! Scat! (let a more on you! Bnstle, if you don't want every bone in vour rascally little carcasses broken!" "I'm petting ready for church as fast as I can, liilliper, and yon know it," said Mrs. McSwat, with her month full of hairpins. "I wish yon wouldn't be so cross." "I'm not cross. Lobelia." he answered, pacinp back and forth and looking impatiently at his watch. "Yon're not?" No." "I say yon are." "I say I'm not" "Billiper," she said, slowly, and point ing her finger straight at him, "yon have the reputation of being the cross- eat, surliest man in the neighborhood There isn't a child within half a dozes blocks of here that doesn't run as sooa as it sees yon coming!" , And liilliper went out and sat on th kitchen steps to cool off. CliicapoTrib THE SINGER'S TRIUMPH. " Ths greatest triumph of my Utsf 1 he slaver softly said, " Tni In a city hospital, Eeslde a fair girl's bed. They called bar -Sister Madeline An orphan and alone. And -Mother, sing: oh. mother, slafl Was her unending moan. The cruel name had spared her faos, Twas heavenly to see, I took her Ice-cold hand In mine. And sang to old 'Dundee:' " 'Father, whate'er of earthly bliss Thy sovereign will denies. Accepted at Thy throne of gracs Let this petition rl-s.' " The moaning ceased, np Into mine She lUted ryes that shone With something more than mortal lova, Or beauty's light, alone. " I sang of Heaven's perfect rest. Of Christ, 'the dying Lamb,' And 'Bias, my soul, and stretch thy wings,' To dear old 'Amsterdam.' . Then 'Jesus, lover of my soar The fluttering fingers led The tender cadettre of the song 0 singer sweetrahe said. Then, kneeling there. I chanted low The Gloria' my eyes Were closed, and as a dreamer Bees, SoIaawParadlie. 1 knew that death was coming fast. And kissed her tenderly. The smile her lingering spirit gave Was Triumph's height to me." Mary A. DenlMon. la Youth's Companion. THE WRONG MAN. & Case Where the Joke Was on the Joker. "It was this way, prefaced the old tailor, HI Hup his pipe. He struck a match, took a pull or two, and then ave the following- story: "I'd been off in the little trader Nydia Cnp'n Mark Hazard on a trad ing1 run to the Sandwich island. "We came into port one line morn ing", unloaded our cargo, and the ves sel having to go into dry dock most of her crew, me included, had nothing to do hut stroll about and spend our money. "One afternoon when we were loung ing alHiut a trim sharp-eyed 3'oung fel low in a long coat passed us on his way uptown. "He had on his arm the sweetest faced young girl I ever set my eyes on. "She wasn't more'n eighteen, her hair ivas like gold and she was as trim as a vacht. 'Well, I hadn't a thought of any of us seeing each other again, and 1 don't think Itoh thought anything at all alMitit it; but an hour later the same sharp-eved young fellow who had leen the young girl's companion came up to ns and passed a word or so about the weather. '"When do you sail and for what place' he asked, after a little time, ad dressing his talk to Bob. " 'We're out of a berth, said Itob. "The young fellow was going to leave as when ikb said that, only a man standing close by us turned out to be a skipper short of hands, and we signed with him for a whaling voyage to the Windward islands he coming over to us when he heard Itoh say we wasn't hired, and hiring us then and there. "His schooner, the Nancy, he said, was lying three piers down the west ward and was to pull out at altout three o'clock in the morning. "The voung fellow asked ns to go along with him when things were Net tled. 'What tack are you drivin' at, any way?" Hob asked when we had stopped in a quiet doorway; 'speak up, for we re vour men. "Well, it's this, the sharp-eyed young fellow said. 'I want to play a joke on a friend of mine, and you two will be paid for helping me. ''Orders? said Itob. "At alwmt half-past twelve o'clock to-night come np to , and he gave us the name of a boarding-house that I forget the name of, 'and go up to the second floor. The man 1 want you to take on the cruise with you is in room Si, at aiiotit the head of the stairs. io in quietly, chloroform him and take him downstirs to a hack 111 have waiting in front of the house. And ' " 'Knough said, Itob interrupted. 'I've doue the thing before. Smuggle him abroad, and when he gets his senses he won't know who brought him there a2 we won't be HkeH- to tell him. "How aliotit the pay for the job?" Itoh wanted to know. " Til give the hackman five dollars to give each of you when he sees you've done the thing, said he. " 'That's agreeable, said Itob. 'How can we get into his room the fellow's rou want to joke? 'It just so happens that the lock to his door has been broken for the last week and he has been unable to fasten It. said the young, sharp-eyed fellow, 'We're in luck, you see. "It turned out afterward that h; his name was Fink Campbell was in love with the pretty, sweet-faced girl we d seen him with. "Her name was Elsa Horton, or I make a mistake. "And she was in love with the chap this ( ampbell hired us to kidnap a handsome, manly young fellow, whose name was Fred Kingsley, and who loved her for her sweet face and not for the money her old father was said to have, the way young Campbell dm. "Then he got her she and young Kingsley, it seemed, were to be married in a few davs to say, without think Ing, that if Fred Kingsley didn't appear when it was time for the wedding she'd marry him as girls talk sometimes. you know. "Then he must have begun to scheme how to get Frank Kingsley out of the way. or perhaps he had the scheme all made up at first. "Itob and 1 bought a new fit-out, and took our bags aloard the Nancy. "Then about twelve o'clock or a lit tle after, we" struck out for the board ing-house our employer had told ns to visit. "t'ampMl forged a letter and fixed It so Llsie s father and she would get it, and it had Fred Kingsley s name at the bottom of it, and said as how he was sorry, but he had a wife somewhere and he was going off to see her. "The upper hall was not so very dark, we found, when we got up to it. "Itob went around and looked at the numbers on the floors, and I waited until he beckoned to me to join him. "He's asleep, said Bob. with a jerk of his head toward the door. It was a bit darker than the hall. but we could make out our man sleep ing on the bed. "Hob took the chloroform and tixea the cloth with it on, where the young fellow had to breathe it. A policeman was coming down the street when we got to the door, but the cabman saw him and gave as the word not to come out for a bit. "We wasn't bothered again, and we got our fellow aboard the Nancy all quiet and peaceable, and then the cab bie gave us the money and was off. "Then on deck we went, and the Nancy sailed at three, jnst as the cap tain had said she wa going to, run ning out with the tide. " 'There's a stowaway below in the fo'castle! some one sang up from there when we were in a nice o fling, and Bob looked at me and winked- "The mate dived below and came np) again with the seaslckest looking fel low in tow I ever see. "The fellow's legs were like a shoe string, and his face was white as a new topgallant sail. "Would you lelieve it, but we'd not only shanghaied the wrong fellow, but shanghaied the one that had hired us to do the shanghaing, and it wai too late to get back and do the job over again. "When young Camplell got well enough to talk he gave ns a piece of his mind and he tried to get the cap tain to put back with him, but that wasn't no use and he had to take the eight months' run with us not much fun for a masher like him, I can tell you. "It turned out that the way we came to make the mistake was because he and young Kingsley roomed in the same lioarding house, and one's room was No. and the other's room was 23. " Itob got the numbers turned round, and we'd gone to 23 instead of Si. "Ami when we got back in port, if there wasn't a bit of news! "Young Campbell's disappearance had caused an examination of the books he was keeping in the same warehouse, and it was found out that he had leen stealing from the firm. "He hadn't been on shore three hours before the police had him locked up. "The 3'oung fellow had proved that he was straight as a gun barrel to every one's satisfaction, aud in an old paper, dated altout when the Nancy was two months out of port, was a no tice of Fred Kingsley s and Elsie Uor ton's wedding. itoston Ulobe. CLIPPED TALONS. The Very Clever Trick That Wa riayed on a French Landlord. The following clever trick was re cently t played upon an avaricious rrench landlord by a .poor, wretched engraver who had got into arrears with his rent, suj" an exchange. "Uive mc more time," said the tenant. "I have diseovered a means of paying you everything." "Ituh!" returned the landlord, in credulously. "How, I wonder?" The engraver took a hundred franc note from a drawer. "Look here," he said, "that is mj last piece of work," "Did you doit?" "Certainly." "You yourself and not the bank of France?' "No, it's ray own work." "Will you trust mc with it fur hall an hour, monsieur? "Yes." The landlord took the note and hur- rieo on to tnu baiiK. 1 here they as sured him that it was perfectly good and dually changed it for him. As he hurried back to his lodger the wretched man's head fairly swam with visions of untold wealth. "My good fellow," he cried, on reach ing the house all out of breath, "how clever you are! Why don't you try your hand at making thotisand-frano notes? "For the simple reason that I have never seen one. "That need be no obstacle here is one. Copy it. and I will be tack hero In a weelt. We will share it." At the end of the wek the landlord made his apearance. "How din's the note get on?" was hit anxious inquiry. "Your note?" "Yes. my note." "Why, 1 spent it with two or threa friends, you vagalmnd," majestically replied the clever engraver. "Spent it? "Aye. sirrah!" "Itut, monsieur" "No noise, or I will peach. The engrm-er explained to his land' lord that he had outrageously taken him in and that the hundred-frano note was perfectly good. He wound up by advising him to turn his avari cious ness in another direction. Chica go News. FREAKS OF FIGURES. The TrrniM LXitrn and Thousand Ilnve HeTftral lnlrretaf Inns. if an onuuary business man was asked to state how much is one hun dred ami one dozen he would most likely reply, without any hesitation one thousand two hum! red and twelve (1.21:!). He might, without violating the customs of the country, put the figures ut l,osr or l.:ws. A dozen ia commonly supposed to be twelve single things, says the tireat Divide. A baker's dozen is thirteen. A dozen of cotton yarn is just one "hank" com posed of twelve "cuts." A dozen of fish in some localities is twenty-six, and a dozen of pottery in the wholesale, trade may mean two or it may mean fifty pieces, not depending on the ac tual numler of pieces, but on the size, weight, etc., of the jugs, bowls, plates, etc. A printer's 1,000 is only VtTO, but it takes 1,200 staves to make 1.000 in nine sizes that are made for export. In many of the trades, the terms "dozen," "hundred" and "thousand' do not bear their literal English mean ing, but a technical one peculiar to each trade, as in stone work, lath, shingles and cotton .yarns. This tech nical perversion of plain English ex tends to most of our weights and meas ures. Thus a gallon may le 231 cubiq inches or it may le 203. In the school arithmetics four quarts make a gallon, eight gallons make a bushel, but in practice it takes forty quarts to make a bushel of corn, beans, etc. That is because only the liquid meas ure quart cup (231 cubic inches to the gallon) Is in use, while the dry-measuri gallon contains 205 cubic inches. .lie Knjoyed the Funeral Food. An old woman of a thrifty turn ol mind lives in a village far away from any town. Some time ago her husband lay very ill and the doctor had said he had not more than a week to live. The old lady had to go to town to have her husband's medicine made up. and, thinking it would save her a second long journey, she took the opportunity of buying the cake and wine for the apparently inevitable funeral. On her return home the dying husband inter rogatrd her thus: "What did ye get in th toon, uman?" "I got yer medicine made up. "An what else?" inquired the invalid. "Weel." hesitatingly, "as it's sae far to toon 1 thoeht I nucht aa weel buy the cake and wine for the funeral." 't.ic a taste, lass." Shecut a piece of cake and gave him a glass of wine. He liked them so much that he asked for some more, and, finally con suming ail the cake and wine, he re covered. Edinburgh Scotsman. DintinetlfiR with a Difference. See those young ones!" exclaimed a little six-year-old. looking out of the window to where Fome little girls were playing in the soft mud of the gutter. Can t you say children?" asked her mother, in a correcting tone. "But they are not, mamma, said the child. "The little girls that go to my kindergarten and keep their faces clean are children, but those dirty ones are just young ones!" Youth Com panion. -A company attitude is rarely any body's best. Miss Sedgwick. AGRICULTURAL HINTS. PLANS FOR A SILO. " A thaap Tet Dwtfabla straetara Foil Specification, FuraUhed by an Ohio Dal rjmu ET.ry Well-Managed Stock Farm Should Hara One. The ailp here deseribed is 10X feet in diameter, inside, and 27f feet deep; SX feet of stone and cement in the ground, and for the other 22 feet a pair of perpendicular board walls with girts, shown in Fig. 8, between. There are no stndding; the girta (and sill) are powerful wooden hoops made by cut ting zxO-lncn joists to the lengths and angles shown in Fig. 2, and spiking them together in two layers. The lower pieces make the silo an octagon outside, while the inner edges of both the upper and lower pieces make it sixteen-square inside. I cut the pieces for the lower course of such length that a 14-foot joist made three pieces without waste, 4 feet inches (nearly); the same joist cuts four top pieces every fourth piece being shorter at one end for the doorways at O O. For a larger silo 12 or 14-foot joists may be cnt to make tiro lengths instead of three, thus: ft-foot bottom pieces make a IB-foot silo, and so on. Norway pine takes nails better than hard wood. The mitre-box for sawing girt pieces with a cross-cut saw will be described in next paper. The mode of drawing the patterns for any diameter of silo is in dicated by the lines and angles A U C, Fig. 2, the circles drawn from the com mon center serving as guides. The patterns were only used to fit a stop against one end and the saw against the other, in the bottom of mitre-box, and until hard wood guides were fastened to hold the saw in position. No further marking is required; the mitre-box "lays out the stuff." Two men with a saw in good order can saw riO. 1. F.I.EVATIOJi OF SH.O. the girt stuff for a silo in half a dav. Tne angles of the bottom niecesshould he exactly right, but the pattern for the top pieces may be a little short, as the inside edge is facet!. The sill, Kig. 2. should lie made true to circle ln-fore the top pieces are spiked too solid. A strip of lumber as long as the diameter, reaching from face to face inside, will show where to strike with the sledge to true up. We dug the pit aliout three inches larger than the sill, all round, gradu ally changing.to a circle at the not FI. 2. m. A couple of Joists laid across the pit, and blocked up to the proper level, supported the sill which wat then starlathed to the barn and a couple of stakes. For wall-guide stud, we used the girt stuff, not yet sawed, one for each Inside corner half way round, and when the wall was done that side we moved all but the end ones to the other side. These studs were set up on end against 1 '4-inch block at I. not shown, tacked to each corner, and the studs held to the sill by strips E. tacked (nails not driven home) to the top of the sill and the side of the stud. Section of the stud at F, s-hows the position. After thev are set up, one man on the sill with a plumb line and another fn the pit with a heavy ham mer soon bring the studs to a perpen dicular. An iron pin driven in the clay holds the bottom from slipping inwards. I se green lumler, surfaced, for the boards behind the studs, 10 or 12 inches wide; the ends should not quite meet where they lap behind the edge of the studs, so they can 1e raised as the con crete and stone are filled In behind. More about the wall, tile and cement floor in next paper. hen the wall is built up to the sill. rest the sill, level, on 0 or 8-lnch square strips of wood laid across. To build the girths, lay the corresponding pieces exactly above those of the sill and nail them together. We sawed props (pieces of old rails) to space the girts. the lower ones 18, the next above 20 Inches and so on to 3 feet at the top. For stay lath we set up fence boards 16 feet long and securely staynailed the girt both sides, faces and corners plumb above those of sill. The sec ond girt was nailed together upon the other, raised upon next set of props, nailed to stay lath, as before, and so on to the top. Girts were so spaced as to bring the center of lower pieces of one just 16 feet above bottom of ceiling. The spaces in this lap-girt, in dicated by the dotted lines at X, Fig. were filled by triangular pieces. sawed in the miter box, so as to join the two courses of ceiling, in feet and 8, in one straight line around. The stay ing poles were set up In pairs against each corner, but staylathed together and to the barn so as to stand indepen dent; and platforms put on as the height of work required. The pine ceiling, thoroughly sea- soned, was all cnt by measure to two I lengths, 16 and 6 feet for the two 1 courses, together 22 feet high; no piec- P no. 8. ing. The making and applying of th "fat paint" to the celling, both sides, tongues, grooves and ends before lay log, will be explained at another time. Parallel plumb lines were drawn from 0 0 across all the girts to the top. The. tongue of the first 16-foot ceiling being shaved of? rd the edge beveled and jolnt?d to fit the angle at P O, was nailed on the plumb line. This formed the jamb casing to the doors, and when the opposite one was fitted to its lino all the doors were marked, beveled and jointed to the same width. The grooved edge of i!e ceiling faces to the right; two men on tha staging outside, and part of the tima astride the girts, drive the tongue of the next piece home with a jointed hardwood block a foot long, and a heavy hammer, keeping the top end to the line before nailing fast. If it will not go, it is forced with the block and key, seen in Fig. 4 from the inside. The block is nailed to the girt with short, heavy wire nails, then alternate blows on the key and the (other) block soon make a joint. The block is SECTION OF GIRT AT l? FIO. 5. knocked off, the nails driven back, and it is ready for next time. The corners should lie turned on lira joints; if the turn is all made on one. in the corner, the tongue docs not en ter the groove enough. If the ceiling is made of different widths, S, 4 and 5 inches, we can select in advance such widths as to bring the middle of a ceiling over the corner. The Idea is given in Fig. 3, where theetlges of M M are equi-distunt from the corner. They are shown wider than the others, but they should be as narrow as prac ticable, as only the edges rest on the girts. AVe supported them toward tue bottom with wedges riveted from2-incti lengths of ceiling. Fig. 5 shows how to make an air tight joint where the ceiling meets t'le concrete. It will not do to "bed the sill in mortar" when it is ilr&t laid; t':e after-hammering breaks it np. The bill rests on the inch-square strips, and to fill the space 11, between F. K, tve pushed the coucrete in. from the out side, with the end of a short board and flushed it agaiust the ceiling C, tunq ing it solid to the outside. We tilled the cavity. A, under the top piece, I, from the inside, after the ceiling was partty laid aenss it, by throwing con crete In-hind it with a "spoon trowel. The aftr two coats of cement at , make the joist sur. Will give fur ther account of drain, tile, floor. dors and painting in another paper. .1. W. Tike, in Ohio Farmer. (row More leguminous t'roM. Farmer's Bulletin No. In of the I'nited States department of agri culture, prepared by l)r. Allen, assistant director of the otlioe of experiment stations, discusses the value of leguminous plants for green manuring as compared with the results to lie obtained by the use of these plants for feeding the stock. Ills comparisons are strongly in favor of the latter, provided all manure is care fully saved 13- the farmer. His closing remarks on the subject are as follows: (irinv more leguminous crops. They furnish the cheapest food for st,M'k and the eleaest manure for the soil. They do this leeause they obtain from the air a substance necessary for plinits and animals alike, which costs in tint form of fertilizers and feeding stuffs from lifteen to twenty-five cents a pound. AbnM In Shep Vi'aihuir. It is time now that humanity shoulti lift its voice in thunder tones against the bnrlmrous practice of washing sheep, for it is certainly cruel to drive sheep several miles on a hot d:;y and plunge them into a stream and then return carrying a heavy load of wet wool on their backs. The proHr value of wool can as well !e determined without the so-called wash, and it wonld seem even more easy to give a proper estimate of the value, for the writer has seen wimiI in a worse condi tion after the ablution than lcfore. If the practice was abandoned sheep could Ik shorn as soon as the weather would permit aud do away with the discomfort to the sheeD carrying their fleeces until dry enough to lie shorn. Sheep will do much lictter with fleece ff in hot weather. K. o. Logan, Sec retary Merino National Sheep Associa tion. rotator, from Seed IIhII,. n answer to an inquiry as to how tc. grow potatoes from seed ualls. we would say, in order to procure the seed for sowing the seed bull should lie gathered when it is quite ripe and dried, and the seeds rubbed out with the hands. They should tie kept in some dry place until the next spring. then sown in shallow boxes of well pulverized earth. When the plants are four or five inches high they should lie transplanted into well prepared beds. allowing anoni six inches space lie twecn the plants. Keep the beds free of weeds and give them good culture. and in the fall you will find at the ends of the roots small tubers. These want to lie kept until the next spring aud planted. At the end of the second year some idea of their value can be ob tained. Farmers" Voice. rianttnfr t orn Too leepl-. The seed bed cannot lie made too mellow for corn, but making it loose and pliable necessitates care not to put the seed in too deeplv. An inch in depth if the soil is loo-e and moist is deeper than is necessary. With the drill the depth maybe regulated, but it is one of the disadvantages of drill ing that when the field is harrowed after planting this operation fills the hollows in which the seed is deposited ana covers them too deeply. Where the marker is used the more mellow the soil the deeper is the furrow made, and this, too, puts the seed grain lower down. The corn roots, even in mid-summer, mostly run within three or four inches of the surface, and when the seed is planted their tendency is to run nearer the surface than that. Colman's Rural World. Bee, Tnuiftfer the Pollrn. United States Consul Germain, at Zurich, has transmitted to the depart ment of state a report of experiments made in Switzerland to demonstrate that the bee has other uses than as a honey producer. To ascertain whether the bees injured fruit and vegetable flowers by extracting their honey, the experimenters covered part of the branches of cherry and pear trees and fruit bushes with fine netting to ex clude the bees. Nearly all of the flow ers dropped off the protected branches and there was no fruit on them, while the uncovered branches bore lu.- uriantly. The deduction is that tV bees' visits are necessary to feniH. the blossoms by transferring pollen 1 MUSICAL MATTERS. The musical service at St. Paul's, In London, is said to be the finest in the world. Masteb Bbosislaw Hcbebxax, the new ten-year-old violin prodigy, who is, now astonishing London, is a Pole, four feet high. Mascagsi is said to have made ninety thousand dollars In profits from "Cav alleria Rnsticana" down to the end of last year. It may not be generally known that Mr. J. L. Molloy, the popular song writer, is an English barrister. Ilia work is the law; his recreation, music Tus London stock exchange has an orchestra, composed of members of the exchange, accounted one of the finest amateur musical organizations in that city. The jewels of Mmc. Tetrazzine, the most famous prima donna in South America, were recently seized for debt, when it was found that all the genu were made of paste. Miss Frances Cbosbt, author of "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and other widely-sung hymns, is sixty-one years of age, and has been blind since she was six weeks old. ArsTRAMA is sending another gifted singer to. England. She is Miss Ada Crossley, a native of Gippsland, Victo ria. She is young, vigorous in physique, and has a magnificent contralto voice. The secret of Paderewski's long hair has just been casually disclosed by some persons not remotely connected with his enterprising managers. He has weak eyes, and his physician thinks that cutting his hair would tend to make them weaker. JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE. The return of pendants Is conspicu ous. A rRETTT new slide is a lyre set with gems. Tixv alcohol lamps with ivory handles arc seen everywhere. A cfiiiois novelty is a street lamp in silver gilt and enamel. There Is a sudden influx of match safes of silver in raised relief. Long silver brooches are of blue enamel with broken edges of silver. Ice cream sets are oblong salvers with broken edges and trowel-like knives. The mania abroad for paste in mil linery, brooches and slides is com mented upon on every side. Almost every woman now wears a long slim chain of silver if not of gold. The silver chains punctuated with en ameled beads are very pretty. New silver brooches are in foliated forms with bill lis of enamel set in the Interstices. These are Intended to litok like torquoise, catseyes and pearls. Ornaments of frosted gold are seen. The tortoise and the lizard are in the lead. The lizard has a green olivine streak down his back. The tortoise Is spotted with jewels. The silver vases that are now brought out are the most artistic yet seen. They are intended for single flowers. A new form is a copy of the shape known as the pilgrim vase. Jeweler's f ireular. LITERARY LITTER. Holmes has his memoirs half com pleted. He works on them an hour or twodaily. The manuscript will be con fided to his publisher, to be brought out after his death. It is sure to exert ex traordinary influence. When Ir. Murray wrote to lirown ing In the interest of the Philological society's new dictionary, asking for the significance of certain words as used by the poet. Browning replied: "Don't know what I meant, ask the Browning society." II kv. Georoe I). Black, pastor of Park Avenue Congregational church, Minneapolis, has been giving his peo ple a course of weekly lectures, chiefly on authors and their works. They hare given great satisfaction to large audi ences. Literati'RR was as uncertain in 1814 as now, for the lkiston Spectator of that date bears this witness: "Such is the capripe of the multitude, that what at one time meets nothing but neglect or perhaps reprehension, will at an other command applause. A writer in the Mount Holvoke re fers to a class of grief-stricken and broken-hearted college magazinists in this unfeeling manner: "With little ef fort we ean picture them sitting before a lone candle, the tears falling thick upon their 'habiliments of woe.' EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS. The site for the exhibition of 1896 in Berlin has been selected, the grounds covering one hundred and fifty acres bordering on the Lichten See. A reii-skinsed fraud is being exhib ited at the Antwerp exhibition as "Sit ting Bull." The genuine old chief, it will lie remembered, went to the hap py hunting grounds many moons since. Ax exhibition of gold ores and of precious metals and stones is being or ganized at St, Petersburg by the Rus sian Technical society. The date of opening has not yet been arranged. One of the principal special features of the International exhibition to be held (i Paris in l'.xw is to be a repro duction, in the most realistic fashion, of the famous palace of the Alhambra. The first Egyptian National Exhibi tion of Art and Industry ever held was opened by the khedive at Alexandria on April 22. The exhibition is a very fine one of great and varied interest. and is pronounced a big success. THE MARKETS. New York. June If. IKM. CATTLE Native Steers I 4 50 d 4W CinTdN -Mi.lrtlinc I5 74 FI.OCU -Winter Wheat 6i Sm WHKAT-N.i.2KeU l ('IKS No. 2 4'.ff4 lt OATS Western Miied -"4"o 4'i I'OUK New Mess 11 J6 13 50 ST. ML"IS. fMTTOX-Miil.lline T'jOl 7' ISKKVKS shipping Steers... 4 in it 4 ut M.ilium 3 M f 4 linesFair to Select. 4 5cl t 4 1 S1IF.KI Fair to choice ITS i 3 2S FI.IU'K- I'alents S 90 fr, Jul Fancy to K.ltra 1o . Z -.11 f 5 Ttl WIIKAT-So. SK1 Winter... SSVftl W (HUN No. 3 Mixed 3B4 S"4 OATS Nc. i fc 41 IIVK-Sn.: K 18 S3 ToiiAtvo l.iurs 4 so or. 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