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V. 11. WALK EII & 4. B. 01)Ell,
VOLUME I.
Our Wee While Rose.
BY (}KHALI) MABBKY.
All in our irutrruigc Kurilcn
Grew. smiling up to Wnd,
A bonnier flower than ever
Sucked the green warmth of tho soil.
Oh, beautifully, unfathomably.
Its little life unfurled;
Life’s crown of sweetness was our wee
White Rose of all the world.
From out n gracious bosom
Our hud of beauty grew:
It fed on smiles for sunshine.
And tears for daintier dew.
Aye, nestling warm and tenderly.
Our leaves of love were curled
So close, and close, about, our wee
White Hose of all the world.
With mystical, faint fragrance.
Our house of life she filled—
Revealed each hour some lairy tower.
Where winged Hopes might build.
We saw—though none like u* might see—
Such precious promise pearled
Upon the petals of out wee
White Rose of all the world.
Blit evermore the halo
• if angel light increased;
Like the mystery of moonlight.
That holds some fairy feast.
Snow white, snow soft, snow silently,
Our darling hud up-curled.
And dropped in the grave- Hod’s lap—our wee
White Rose of all the world.
Our Rose was hut in blossom.
Our life was but in spring.
When down the solemn midnight
We heard the spirits sing:
" Another hud of infancy.
With holy dews impearled ;”
And in their hands they bore our wee
White Rose of all the world.
You scarce could think so small a thing
Could leave a loss so large;
Her little light such shadow tling
From dawn to sunset's marge.
In other springs our life may ho
In bannered bloom unfurled.
But never, never match our wee
White Rose of all tho world.
EYES.
[original. I
I am in tho country at this writing, in
tho little eight-by-ten library to which
my hostess has pleasantly condemned
me for the morning, that I may be safe
from the aggressive tide of house-clean
ing that is sweeping over the cottage.
The one large south window is what
George MacDonald—tenderest and god
best of all men-writers—would call both
the Kyeand the Kar of tire room ; for it
looks out upon the fairest landscape ever
kissed by the rain-wet lips of April;
and it hears the song of the robin, the
bleating of the little, new, white, weak
legged lambs on the hill, the shouts ol
children, the tinkle of cow-bells in up
land pastures, and all the sounds that
go Up from a live and busy world when
it lias wakened in the spring.
It is this Eye of a window, looking up
to the great Eye of the sky—so grandly
and yet so softly blue—that has set me
thinking of the eyes that 1 have known,
the eyes that 1 have seen without know
ing.
Holmes says we makeourown mouths,
and 1 think Holmes never uttered a
more inspired and concise little sermon !
Hut God makes our eyes. He leaves so
much of the veiled soul bare to the
world. They cannot be moulded or
deepened or softened or changed in any
way by human will. The mouth cm
be made to smile—it can be made to
utter tender, false words—to give heait
less, hollow kisses; but the Eye cannot
masquerade. Deceit and treachery may
lurk in the fringed lid, even, but it
speaks straight from the conscious,
nakeil heart.
What culture and variety shows itsell
in human eyes when compared with the
monotonous blackness of birds and ani
mals! lilack seems to have been con
sidered “ good enough” for them—it is
a cheap color with artists—but we hu
mans have our extra hazles, azures and
grays. I low kind, how excessively t ste
tul, of .Nature, to give to the fair blonde
creatines who stand at the head of all
forms of life a blonde eye !
The Blonde Eyes rank Hist, I think,
ido not know why. They are oftenest
-sung of by poets. They are oftenest
associated with romance—especially
romance of a pathetic cast. They
are attributed tw angels. An in
habitant of the celestial land possessing
raven black hair and midnight eyes is
hard to he thought of-—though 1 trusi
such angels < ire to be found there !
There is also a fallacy in existence that
giyea to Blue Eyes greater sincerity and
fidelity, greater amiability and evenness
of temperament, while Black Eyes are
associated with the opposite qualities.
That this is a fallacy, my reader may
easily prove ly reviewing the Blue and
the Black eyes of his acquaintance.
Hazel Eyes are a comfortable sort of
Eye. Spared from the pathos of the
Blue and the diabolism of the Black,
they occupy a middle ground. 1 doubt
it they ate generally addicted to weep
ing ; and 1 am certain that they never
flash with the torchesof the Bad-Temper
fiend. \ou find them, almost always,
sunny and laughing—hopeful, incorri
gible Eyes, who.-e ight it takes a life
time ot ill luck to quench ! Owners of
such eyes are not so plucky as they are
impervious. They cannot absorb a sor
row.
1 like the steel-blue Eyes—the North
sky eyes! They are cool and proud,
and yet you see the summer lightnings
sometimes at play in them, and the ten
der stars sparkling in their depths,
silent and steadfast. W hen you have a *
friend with such eyes, he true to him ;
for lie is worth all your truth.
May Heaven and Earth be kind to
tho man or woman who inherits the
hard, cold, glittering *• Prussiai -blue”
Eye. The light, vacant, shallow eye,
in which the color seems so poor and
thin that you might expect it to fade
out any moment and leave nothing but
a white ground I I sometimes doubt if
God ever intentionally made such eyes.
It seems as if human depravity had a
hand in it! Ten to one, behind such
eyes you find a demon’s spirit and a
heart as cold and clammy as the grave.
There is the yellow-brown, cat-like
Eye, which is also a hard eye to over
come, it an ancestor has inflicted it
upon one! They are not wrapped lip
in their own exclusive ugliness, like
the l’russian-blurs; but are inquisitive,
anxious, prowling! They behold all
sins and short-comings except those
which they might behold by looking
in sard. They are gloomy, unrestful,
and all that i-, expressed m that large
WO! d—uncomfortable!
1 he: e is the common Black Eye—such
;is one meets everywhere—as expres
sionless as ;t black bead; >et a merrp
bl;u 1; bead! iliey are vivacious ami
spunky.’ In a man’s head they are
hardly noticeable, but under the brows
of women they are pretty and attrac
tive, and I doubt not tint millions of
soft hearts have gone down before their
saury lances, and that millions will
continue to go down.
Lastly, there are the rare, mysterious,
velvety-black Lyes, which Leland calls
“fluid souls in mourning,” which the
wild Heine calls “sunsof jet black fire."
They are large and deep and sad and
beautiful and tormenting. 1 have
thought there were no mates for these
eyes, they seem so solitary—so unap
proachably alone, as if an unfortunate
god, a noble yet alienated soul, were
looking forth from its prison bars,
patiently suffering its bondage, and
si ill hoping and yearning for freedom.
Concerning these mysterious eyes there
is a legend. There was a great high
Angel who sinned, and God looked with
mournful sternness into his eyes until
I hey grew dark with despair and piti
ful with regret. Then the Angel was
sent down to Earth, doomed to wander
there eternally—| assing from prison to
prison, sometimes looking from beneath
the fair brow of a child, who “died
young,” sometimes lighting with their
dark sad radiance the silver-swept fore
head of age—ever wandering, ever in
bondage, and ever looking out mourn
fully and appealingly upon the world.
Beautiful Eyes! they are the eyes of
the Sorrowing Angel.
Emily 11. Moore.
Easter Eggs in Paris.
There is no disguising that these eggs
have become to many persons a tax, a
burden, and a source of bitterness. So
long as no further innovation was at
tempted than selling sugar eggs
in lieu of genuine ones, it was well; for
a sugar egg, even when colored pink
and tilled with caraway comfits, is not
much to be alarmed at. But one day
there appeared an artificer of woe who
set himself to blowing out all the yolk
and white from an egg, cutting the shell
neatly in two, lining the halves with
white satin, adapting them to each
other on the screw-top system, and then
putting a gold or silver thimble inside.
This was the first ccuf a surprise. It
looked like the real thing,and could be
set by the donor in the donee’s egg cup
without the fear of detection, until at
the critical moment when the spoon was
going to crash through the top every
body round the table would cry out af
fectionately “ 6W/’' and pleasantly
mystify the lecipient. Of course, this
ingenious invention cost from twenty to
fifty francs, and found numerous inula
tois. Ducks’, geese's and swans’ eggs
were pressed into service as capable of
containing not only thimble, but small
scissors, needle-case, etc., and of being
sold at fiom live to ten guineas. Then
somebody asked why one should not put
ear rings, sleeve-links, or brooches, into
the eggs instead of thimbles; an t this
led to an enterprising jeweler drawing
ahead of every one else by fitting up
ostrichs’ eggs as work-boxes,scent-bottle
stands, or jewel-eases. This jeweler,
who deserved well of his kind, worked
in the Easter egg trade the same sort of
revolution as Victor Hugo and the
“ Romantiqucs” wrought in tiie drama.
Up to that time, it had b on considered
essential to keep up tome semblance of
respect for probabilities, but fiom the
ostrich-egg day probabilities were dis
carded. Eggs appeared measuring a foot
in diameter—big chocolate and sugar
eggs filled with sweetmeats, or monster
eggs filled with toys; or, again, huge
mahogany eggs, with brass mountings
and feet, to stand up on an end and act
as liquor r ceptacles. Then people use
the Easter egg as a medium tor giving
presents which they would have had no
excu-e for offering at other times, and
also tor paying otf arrears of etrennes. An
august personage very gracefully sent
one of his Ministers the insignia and
patent of the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honor in an Easter egg, and the lot**
meny Due do Caderousse (i ramont pre
sented an actress with the most stu
pendous egg on record ; it was a colossal
wooden thing painted white and con
taining a brougham. They conveyed it
along the boulevards in a cart, to the
delight of admiring crowds, and it was
the nine days’ wonder of that Easter.
There must have been people who hoped
that the collapse of the Empire would
have entailed that of the Eister egg;
but they were mistaken. This year the
confectioners,jewelers, ami knick-knack
shops were as full of eggs as ever, and
the only difference between now and
two years ago seems to i>c that the
tradesmen have drawn from their coun
try s woes further inspiration in the way
of egg contrivances, and have added
about ten percent, all round on (he prices
of former inventions. Thu?, a Parisian
bachelor, who has dined out all winter,
and feels himself bound to give eggs,
has only to set out on a ramble of in
spection and he may choose either a
stuffed hen, life-size, sitting on a nest of
twelve eggs, each containing a silver egg
cup ; or a stuffed turkey, whose upper
•half comes off, disclosing a berceannette
with baby’s layette complete ; or an un
pretending pheasant’s egg with an em
erald ring inside; or moie unpretending
still, a little wren’s egg with a set of
studs; or, if he be bent on gratifying a
lady whose tastes are author-like, a
smooth ebony egg that slips into the
pocket like a darning-ball, and houses
inkstand, pens, sand-horn, stamps, wafer
ami pencil. To be sure, he may choose
nothing, argue that he is not rich, that
eggs are an abuse, and that he emptied
his pockets to feed his friends with
sweetmeats at Christmas-tide. But in
this case he had better go and admire
the monuments of London for a fort
night, or proceed to Home to sec
whether the Holy week festivities there
have degenerated ; and when he returns
he must plead that he was called away
by urgent private affairs. Even then,
however, let him not he surprised if so
ciety watches for some time with a cool
ami guarded eye as one inclined to
make light ot those beneficial observan
ces which raise man above dumb brutes.
—J all Mall Gazette.
If you find a newspaper curiously
folded, lying on a ball-room floor, don’t
ask stupid questions about it. — lloston
Globe.
An Independent Paper—Devoted t
FROSTBURG, ALLEGANY (
■; I Foreign Notes.
The weather throughout England is
| fair and favorable to the growing crops.
. Victor Emmanuel enjoys the snug
j little income of $3,000,o(H) per annum,
in gold.
’ I The death of M. Jacques Felix, the
. fat her of R ie.hel, is announced at Paris,
* at the age of seventy-six.
I The Piiticcss Victoria, wife of Prince
* Frederick Wil’iam of Germany, gave
* birth to a daughter lately.
/.ante, the well known Mediterranean
island, is said to have exported over
“5,000 pounds of currants the last year,
j and about SO,OOO barrels of olive oil.
Per uns who have recently traveled
‘ through Russia say that that country
resembles more a vast camp than a
i nation on a peace footing. Soldiers
abound in all directions, and the great
est military activity prevails.
Madame Heinrich Heine, widow of
the poet, recently came into an im
mense fortune by the death of her hus
band’s uncle. Her first disbursement
was a contribution of 1,000,000 francs
to the French liberation fund.
A Parisian, 23 years old, lately made
his eighteenth rescue of drowning per
sons from the Seine. His father saved
om* hundred and fifty lives in the same
way, and was decorated with the Legion
of Honor and thirty gold medals for
his services.
The International Working Men’s
movement seem to be fast progressing
in Spain. The association was intro
duced into that country in ISO 9, and
now numbers about seventy organized
local federations, while in more than a
bundled localities there are one or
more branches still occupied in com
pleting the local organization.
The widow of the poor workman
Merritt, who was killed in London by
fhe American lunatic Minor, has been
placed in comparative affluence by con
tributions from American sojourners in
that city. The Standards takes occasion
to remark that the Americans .have
thus “redeemed their nation fMAfcwhat
at one time seemed a reproach to the
American name.”
Tiie celebrated Gozini of Genoa is go
ing to petrify the body of Mazzini, so
that it will never change through any
vicissitude. 'Fhe professors of this art
have brought it to perfection at last.
They can render the body like stone,
or by immersion in certain liquids it
seems only to be asleep. Gozini has a
curious museum of’ humanity petrified,
well worth seeing. The ancients mum
mified, but that changed the appear
ance, while this process leaves the sub
ject life-like in appearance.
A Rag-picker’s Fortune.
From the Albany (N. Y.) Journal, April
About two years ago Catharine Jacobs,
about eighty years of age, rented the
two front rooms at 21 Monroe street.
Mie lived alone, not desiring even the
neighbors who lived on the same floor
to visit her, at any rate after a specified
hour in the afternoon. She was in the
daily habit of making rag-picking and
begging excursions, which, combined
w;ill the aid she received from the lead
ing Episcopal church and from various
benevolent sources, enabled her to en
joy comparative comfort.
On Fiiday evening last the sound of a
heavy thump was heatal on tin- floor of
Mrs. .Jacobs’ apartments by the neighbors,
underneath, but supposing that some
thing had fallen—a chair perhaps—no
attention was paid to it. Soon after, a
lady who had been in the hat it of call
ing on the old woman and rendering her
assistance, dropped in, as usual, and
found Mr-. Jacobs lying on the floor
helpless from a paralytic stroke. Assist
anee was called and the poor worn tn was
placed in bed and a physician sent for.
At ten o’clock next morning she died.
The neighbors assisted in laying her
out and preparing her for burial on Sun
day. On removing the bed on which
she had lain,it was discovered that con
cealed in and underneath it were a large
number of gold and silver coins and
greenbacks, and a small bag full of gold.
This led to a further search, and in va
lious parts of the two rooms, in pieces
of crockery and about the heirth, more
coin was discovered. This was carefully
laid aside, to await some one to make a
disposition of it, and that one arrived.
About nine o’clock in the evening a
man apparently sixty years of age
stopped in the restaurant of Mr. Tobin,
corner of Chapel and Monroe streets,
and inquired the exact location of 51
Monroe, saying that his mother, whom
he had not seen for forty years, resided
there, as he had been informed. He was
directed to the place and left. Shortly
afterward he returned and safd he had
found his mother, but found her dead.
He then inquired where lit* could spend
the night, and was directed to the City
Hotel. The next day he called again,
and saying he had to make arrange
ments for the funeral, again went to 51
Monroe street. After the funeral he
took possession of everything of value
in the house, which lie packed up, re
marking that lie was satisfied that he
had come on. The furniture he distrib
uted among several of the neighbors.
He then left, and has not since been
seen.
From statements he made to the
neighbors while here it would seem that
his name is John Beacham, a son of the
old lady by her first husband, and that
he is now a resident of Washington,
where he is employed by the Navy De
partment. When he was about eighteen
yeais of age she married for her second
husband one Jacobs, a colored man and
boss chimney sweep. After the marriage
he ran away, and his mother never heard
from him since. By her second husband
she had several children, none of whom
are living. Her husband subsequently
died.
The son, after leaving home, went to
sea. and visited nearly every quarter of
: the globe, hut finally married and set
tled down in Washington. His wife
dying, the desire came upon him to
look once more upon the face of his
mother, and he returned to this city
with the above result after an absence
of forty years. The money found in and
about the room and furniture is van
i ously estimated at from $4,000 to
i $5,000.
a Literature. Mining. Commercial, Agricultural, General and Local News.
OUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, MAY *25, 1872.
A Life on the Oeean Wave.
; The sea, tin* tca, the beautiful sea, is
a swindle : a life on the ocean wave is a
fraud; a home on the rolling deep, a
humbug, while the people who go down
upon the great waters in ships must hr
hard up for a place to go. I know
whereof 1 speak, and it is with a spirit
chastened by affliction and a body
humiliated by untold woes, that I do
• most solemnly asseverate the billow, the
1 billow, the hounding billows, to he an
impo. ition.
“ lining to Europe, hey. old hoy?"
said Muttonhead. Well, be sure you
take one of the German lines of steam
ers. Splendid table, quick trip,
ami then they land you right in the
heart of the continent. Ever so much
better than going on an English line.”
Singularly enough 1 listened to the
words of the immaculate idiot and acted
upon them. More remarkable, bow
ever, is the fact that he was right, in
the main, and I now cry amen to a
goodly share cf what he said. You see
by taking a German steamer, which
touches at England, you are enabled to
go ashore, and he rid of the accursed
cradle of the deep, full two days earlier
than you had originally intended. With
a crushed spirit, all men of sense do
just this voiy thing—a thing which
could not be conveniently achieved by
any other line. It would not be exactly
pleasant to leave an English-bound craft
two days before she reached ner desti
nation, unless one’s powers of watery
pedestrianism laid over those of poor,
old, doubting St. Peter.
The first day after the vessel had
slipped away from her moorings and
turned her Teutonic nose toward sun
rise. 1 spent in silent communion.
Alone in my closet I wrestled with ad
versity, poring tenderly over the mys
teries of a slop-basin.
The second day was fairer than a day
>*) dune ; a perfect bridal of the sea and
; ljy. Proudly I footed the deck ; in
spected the compass; talked Ned Bunt
lino lingo to myself, and allowed that
what I did not know about navigation
would not work up into a very exten
sive book.
The next day was an uneasy one to
the bosom of old ocean, and with a tur
bulent stomach I returned like a dog to
my—slop-basin.
Toward evening the waves thumped
savagely against the ship’s sides, and
the huge vessel rolled with the alacrity
of a treadmill. Gradually there grew
upon me the idea that if this sort of thing
held on much longer 1 might receive
a peremptory invitation to do a little
deep sea sounding on my own hook.
With a viscera like unto a. swill bucket,
and a head dancing with the combined
aches of 40,U00 drunks, I eratfled, out
upon deck and besought tlie captain,
by all his hopes of a bright hereafter,
to tell me if there was any danger.
“ Ignorant groveler upon dry land,
can you not see that this is only a good,
sp inking breeze? This! Why, this is
glorious weather.” I meandered sadly
back again.
The next morning the waters swept
over the deck, and the tempest roared
like a crowd o' base-hill spectators
when a favorite l> tter makes a home
run. Again J struggled toward the cap
tain, and again implored his opinion of
the weather.
“ Yes, a little rougliish, perhaps, but
God bless you, sir—he didn’t say bless
you —1 have seen a thous <nd breezes a
thousand times heavier than this.”
<>n the following day the hatches
were all battened down. None of the
passengers were allowed to go on deck,
if. indeed, any of them could have rev
eled in imbecility so supreme as to have
undertaken the job. The winds bel
lowed like a million bulls of Bashan ;
the wateis rattled with deafening ham
merings against and over the boat, and
the boat itself seemed suddenly to have
become affected with the idea that a
well regulated steamship should sail
kee l uppermost.
Again I essayed the captain. 1 caught
him gulping a final dose of cognac, in
his dormitory, preparatory to going
outside, where he* was to he lashed to
the rigging for the next half dozen
hours.
“ Friedrich, I am glad you settled
your properly upon shore on your old
mother before the last trip, for if this
devilish gale continues twelve houis
longer, it s certain to knock this boat
to pieces, and never a soul of us will
live to tell the story.”
He thought 1 couldn’t Dcvlsch
spruce hen y the dolt, but i understood
their clumsy g ittural, and was happy.
My nautical judgment was vindicated,
and, creeping back to my bunk, 1
slept sweetly for the first night of the
trip.
The storm was good enough, during
the night, to let up a little, and al
though its ugliness was such, the entire
trip, as to make it an even thing
whether we would steer into Plymouth
how or stern foremost, it was still an
improvement over the remarkable
friskiness of the preceding days.—
London Correspondence of the Chicago
Times .
Kindly Commiserate*
The Cumberland News is responsible
for the following: We remember
reading about a husband going home
tipsy one night during a thunderstorm,
and who in ascending the stairs lost his
perpendicular and fell prostrate to the
foot of the steps. Slowly gaining a sit
ting posfuso, he gazed vacantly around,
and then exclaimed to his better half:
‘ Wife, terrible clap that; did the light
ning strike anybody else ?’ The story
is somewhat eclipsed by the following
facts which occurred in this city yester
day : Two men were engaged in a quar
rt*l on the railroad, and a train of cars
approaching, the attention of one of the
belligerent# was drawn to the train. The
other man thinking ‘now was his
chance,’ let flv his fi.-t against the hide
! of the ether man's head, which felled
him to the ground, and he 1; id there
apparently in an insensible condition.
The other man, seeing what he had
done, became frightened and ran ifway.
A gentleman witne.-sing the affair went
i to the assistance of the prostrate man,
when the latter, reviving and looking
around, asked : ; Oh ! did the ears run
over the other fellow, too?’ ”
What 1 Know About Gardening.
Mr. Editor: Sine# Horace Greeley
has won so much fame by bis book
“ What I Know about Farming,” I feel
inclined to let the readers of your ex
cellent paper know “ What I Know
about Gardening.”
A plant known to many and admired
by some is
THE MORN INO UI.ORY.
This modest little flower comes up
about eight o’clock in the morning in
summer and nine in winter. It unfolds
and is seen to advantage late in the after
noon. The above was drawn and en
graved from a very fine specimen in my
own possession.
The next domestic plant is
TIIR TRUMPET FLOWER.
This troublesome little plant begins
to blow generally twice a year, about the
Christmas holidays and Fourth of duly,
I f you are not careful it will run all over
the house, causing a great deal of annoy
ance to the inmates. It requires often
pruning.
WALL FLOWERS
are also a well known domestic flower,
though by daylight are apt to look a
tetUe faded. They look best by lamp
aud are often seen growing by the
sidenf parlor walls during little parties
and balls. They grow without much
cultivation.
An out-of-door plant much in vogue
during the rainy month of April is
THE LADY SLIPPER,
which is often seen on the sidewalks,
particularly where the soil is fitted for
its production—requiring chiefly a wet
clayey soil of an uneven surface. With
these conditions the plant thrives very
well.
VIRGINIA CREEPERS
arc a foreign plant first introduce 1 into
our country by Caesar, and are healthy
growers. They make their appearance
in the South in early spring, and being
hardy they continue to bloom through
out the season. They are very fragrant.
These, Mr. Editor, are some of our
most interesting domestic productions,
and I hope many of them are familiar
to your readers. Yours,
Mangj.em CRT/.E1,.
Farm ami Harden.
White Tjeail for Wounds on Trees. —lt is
pretty well understood by those who
have had opportunities for observing
that where a large branch is separated
from a tree decay is very apt to com
mence. If the wound so made is left
exposed only for a few days, especially
if it he in the winter season, to the
sun, air and wind, little cheeks may he
seen which grow deep, according to the
size of the branch that has been sev
ered and the length of time that the
wound is left without covering. These
little openings allow the sup to evapor
ate, and sun and air to dry up the
wood, which should he kept as fresh a-s
possible. That there should he a cov
ering of some kind most persons will
admit. Much thought and labor have
been expended by eminent men in
various experiments to ascertain the
best thing for covering a wound
made by pruning, and many arti
cles have been recommended for the
inn-nose, and some of them are very
good.
1 wish to call the attention of pomo
logists anil those who have the care of
trees to the fact that white lead and
linsee 1 oil ground together is about the
best thing lor the purpose that has
been discovered.
(let the best white load (which can
he found ready prepared in almost
every city and village) and thin with
linseed oil a little, or just enough so
that it can be spread with a brush,
which should be about one inch in di
ameter. By putting it on thick a oov-
j vrin>! will 1> nui le that will prevent
? <*lie<*kin# and decay, and turn water for
: *' l time. 1 have used it for the last
I two years upon apple, pear, cherry and
peach trees with the most gratifying re
suits; and it seems to fulfill the require
ments of a covering that is necessary to
| aid the tree in healing a wound made
I*V pruning and otherwise. flouse and
( far den.
]\>nf/n/ Xofes. —Now i* tin* time to rid
fowls of lice hy painting tin* roosts with
kerosene oil. If this is done before the
weather heroines warm enough for the
lice to live oil the fowls’ bodies, it will
save much trouble. The body heat of
the fowls when on the roost causes a
kind of fume to arise from the kero
sene which is sure death to lice. I
sometimes also anoint each fowl a little
under each wing with an ointment
made of two parts of lard to one of
kerosene.
The hen-house should he well coated,
inside and out, with whitewash applied
while hot. These things are, of course,
some trouble, but no one deserves sue
cess with poultry who is too lazy to look
to their welfare.
Setting hens are fond of nests rather
secluded and a little dark. These things
are easily attained by miking nests in
barrels. Cut a hole in the barrel about
a foot square, and about a foot from
the bottom, and fill up to it with moist
earth well pulverized. Hollow out a
little ami cover with thick hay or
straw. Do not make the nest too con
cave, as the eggs are more liable to
be broken by rolling together. Cover
the top of the barrel with loose boards
and place with the opening to the wall.
A hen may be easily changed from
her laying nest to a nest of this kind
by shutting her in for a few days and
taking her off hy hand for feed and
water.
I know from experience that eggs set
in nests of earth will allow of the hen
being oil' much longer without injury
to them than in any other way. Last
season one of my setting hens was ac
cidentally shut out from her nest over
four hours, and yet a large percent
age of her eggs hatched.— Western Far
mer.
liroken Wind in Jlorses. —The New
York Tribune says :
Avoid clover or timothy hay ; above
all, if musty or full of dust. Hay from
natural meadows*or even sound straw
is [(referable. Let the hay fed be first
dampened or steamed, and feed it only
at night after the day’s work is done.
Feed morning and mid-day on sound
grain, increasing tae feed so as to make
up for the deficiencies in hay. Turnips,
beets or potatoes may be added—
a few pounds to each feed. The stable
must be spacious, airy and clean. Do
not take out to work within one and a
half hours after feeding or watering,
and do not put to severe exertion until
after a short time of gentle exercise. If
there is any tendency to costiveness,
give daily in the food one ounce sul
phate of sod i. The treatment will cer
tainly palliate the symptoms, and if
a bid case, nothing more need he
looked for.
The daily administration of eight
grains of arsenious acide and one dram
of bicarbonate of potash will often en
tirely overcome the symptoms in mild
or recent cases.
Crop Prospects.- In some parts of Illi
nois, Ohio, and other Western Sides
favorable reports are given of the con
diti >ll of the wheat. In many other
loedities the wheat has been much in
jured by want of mow in some cases
and excessively deep snow in others.
On the whole, without doubt, fanners
will find need for all the spring crops
they can possibly plant, bftth for grain
and fodder.
Hints Tor the Household.
To Keep Hams in Mummer. —Cut in
slices and tiim oil’ the rind and out
side; fry it about hall as much as you
would for the table. Pack it tightly in
jars; pour over it the fat that has been
hied out of it, close the jars tight, set
them in a cool pi see, and when used
give it a second frying before solving
up.
“ Fee cry day' 1 ' Pudding. — Half a loaf of
stale bread n>aked in a quart of milk ;
four eggs, four tablespoonl’uls of Hour ;
a little fruit, dried or fresh, is a great
addition. Steam or boil three-fourths
of an hour.
Cream Cake. —Three taacupfuls sugar,
three of thiek, sour cream, five well
beaten eggs, two even teaspoonfuls
soda, Hour enough for batter, flavor with
lemon. This will make two good-sized
cakes.
A Jireak/ast Dish. —This is from a
good foreign authority : “ Bruise into
a saucepan four ounces of cheese, two oz.
of butter, a pint of water, with a little
salt; boil gently, adding hy degrees as
much Hour as would thicken it; let it
dry on a stove until it is like thick new
butter; then add either two or three
eggs and a little cayenne.”
Virginia Applecake. —Take one cup of
broad dough ; put one and a half cups
of sugar into it, roll it about an inch
thick, put it in a long pan, then slice
good baking apples thin, and put
smoothly over the dough; sprinkle su
gar, butter and cinnamon and bake.
This is very nice indeed, ami much used
in Virginia for a tea cake, as it is a gen
eral favorite.
Texas Cvp Cakes. —Two cups sugar,
one cup cream, half cup cold water,
three and a half cups of flour, half a cup
of butter; six eggs, yolks and whites
beaten separately, one teaspoon essence
of vanilla ; bake in tins—cups are best.
This is a very light and delicious cake,
and certain of beinv good, if properly
made. m
t Spring Cleaning. —Simple salt and wa
ter cleans and preserves matting more
efiectunlly than any other method.
Tepid tea cleans grained wood. Oil
cloth should be brightened, after w.-sh
ing with soap and water, with skim
milk. Salt and water washing pre
serves bedsteads from being infected
with vermin ; also, mattresses. Kero
sene oil is the best furniture oil; it
cleanses, adds a fine polish, and [ire
serves from the ravage of insects. To
get rid of moths and roaches from clos
ets and huieau drawers, sprinkle pow
dered borax over and around the
shelves, and cover with clean paper.
Editors and Proprietors.
NUMBER 35.
Current Items.
The Prince of Wales role a steeple
chase at Home.
Tyndall is coming to lecture in
America next autumn.
' Tiirir Majesties of Saxony are going
to travel through Italy.
Tae herd law has hern adopted in
Dickinson county, Kan.
Hoc iron ore has been found in the
vicinity of Bourbon, Ind.
Count von Brest is iroing hack to live
in Dresden, whence he came.
The Apache Indiana are reported to
he dying by scores from small pox.
A colony of Germans has located in
the vicinity of Nokomis, 111.
Tolono, 111., is troubled with burg
lars, and runs three Sunday schools.
A coal deposit haa been discovered
at Vnndalia, 111., JHt) feet below the
surface.
London is known to have existed
as n town more than two thousand
years ago.
Koiiert Shore and wife, charged of
murdering a hired boy hy ill treat
ment, have been acquitted at Hiawatha,
Kan.
A “ beautiful blonde” female preach
er is creating a religious sensation in
Georgia. She makes all the masculines
feel like Christians.
Various town of Illinois are compet
ing for the heaviest cat. Carrollton
leads with one of the yellow persuasion
weighing 57 pounds.
An Kssay on Journalism, by Mr.
Whitelaw lteid, managing-editor of the
New York Tribune , will appear in an
early number of Scribner's.
Kossutii is now in liis 70th year. Ho
is not as poverty-stricken as has been
reported, but lives in comfort and ease
on an income suflicieut for his wants.
Prince Kameiiamf.ua, heir apparent
to the throne of the Sandwich islands,
arrived in San Francisco last week. He
is going to New York to be educated.
It is now rumored that the Duke de
Noailles is to be the Minister to Wash
ington, while M. Jules Ferry will go to
Kio do Janeiro as Minister of Franco to
Brazil. -
The people of Kock Island, 111., are
anticipating a celebration, about July
I, over the completion of the system
of Holly water works. Pipes are be
ing laid at the rate of 1,000 feet per
day.
Jeff. Davis' original commission as
Colonel in the United States Army lias
just been returned to him by some
Illinois soldiers, into whose possession
it came after the capture ol
Miss.
The Jacksonville (111.) • lournal lias
had three libel suits, the claims in
which amounted to ♦J5,000. These
suits have all been decided, and the
■lournal is out exactly thirty-five cents
for damages.
Every squall of wind in the Door and
Kewanee, Wis., burnt districts tips over
some of the charred trunks of trees into
the roads, making travel very precari
ous. Every well-regulated conveyance
now iias an ax along.
William llindle, the absconding
banker, of Girard, 111., brought home
from Nau Diego, Cal., under arrest, has
given fI’JUO bail to answer three
charges—one for obtaining money under
false pretences, one for forgery, and one
for theft.
The following names for stations
along the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad have been permanently adopt
ed in place of those now in use, to wit:
Withington, for Keno; Motley, for Wei
wood ; Aldrich, for Linde!; Perhuin,
for Negawnom; Antiion, for Milton;
Lakeside, for Marion: Hawley, for
Bethel ; Olyndon, for St. Paul and Pa
cific Junction witli Northern Pacific
railroad.
All the railroads centering at St.
Louis have agreed to transport visitors
to the National Siengerfest, to be held
in June, lor one and one-fifth fare for
the round trip, with ties condition that
each purchaser of an excursion ticket
shall buy one admission ticket to the
Siengerfest concert, as a protection to
the railroad companies. This proposi
tion lias been accepted by the Sienger
fest Society.
Wanted a Skillet, and Didn't Drink.
The Lebanon (Ky.) llerahl tells the
following: Judge Green relates that,
as ho was walking down West Main on
Monday afternoon, he met a venerable
man, red at eye, unkempt of lock, and
out at elbow, who had modestly asked
him for a quarter. “Stranger,” said lids
impecunious patriarch, “ I’m a movin’
to Arkinsaw —me and tlie old woman,
and the childun, and John (John's my
oldest son) and his wife and his childun
and, stranger, my steers tun away
with the waggin jest afore we got to
town hack here, and broke every bit of
crockeryw r’ we had. Didn t even
leave us a skillet to hake a hoe-cake in
for the childun when we camp to night.
And, stranger, a gentleman hack hero
gimme a quarter, and I thought if I
could get you to gimme another quarter,
maybe I could go hack to town and get
a skillet.” “ You wantit to buy a skillet,
do you?” asked tlie Judge. “Oh, yes,
stranger; I want to buy a skillet,” lie
replied—and then, as if it had suddenly
occurred to him that his temperance
principles might be impugned, lie
added : “As for whisky and brandy, i
haint teached a drop in forty year!”
“ Well,” said the Judge, who is alwajs
ready to listen to an appeal for charity,
but who was a little s jspicious of the
intended destination of the desired
quarter, “go with me back to the
square and I will get you a skillet."
“Stranger,” returned this ancient man,
“I’m afeared the wagin'U git too fur
ahead of me ef I go hack—good evenin’,
stranger.” And off he tramped, skillet
less and quarterless.
The wife of Prince Pierre Napoleon
supports the family by keeping a mil
linery store in London. It is suggested
that Pierre might help her out by
driving a cab.