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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. Horses hate solitude, and are made savage by being kept alone. Tooth aciik. To cure toothache, take of chloroform, spirits of camphor, laudanum, of each one drachm. Apply on a little cotton wool. Southern Fried Hominy. Warm some boiled hominy left over from the day before! add to it a tumbler of cream or rich milk, a piece of butter, two well beaten eggs and a little flour; fry in hot butter. The New York Spirit of the Times say9 there is no cure f or aconllrmed wind pall, blistering and rest would.no doubt, reduce the size of the wind gall tem porarily; but a long Journev or a few last drives invariably bring'thom back again as large as ever. Preserving Sacks. In Germany sacks are admirably preserved by steep ing them in a solution of tannin for twenty-four hours and instantly drying them; two pounds of tan is allowed to steep in twelve quarts of boiling water for one hour, and is then filtered. A correspondent of the Massachu setts Ploughman gives the following remedy for choked cows: One pint of milk, half a pint of soft soap simmered together. Give the cow half the quan tity. Hold the cow's head up ami rub the throat. Then let the hoad go down suddenly. If that does not relieve, give the other half. I have never known a case where the second dose has been required. The Iowa Madisonian, gives another reason why farmers should keeD a few bees: "And then you want a few hives of Italian bees to fertilize your red clover and make It yield seed (for clover will not produce seed where there are no humble bees or Italians.) and gather up the fragments in the shape of honey, and take the sweets from the fruit blossoms, the buckwheat, the smartweed, the linn and the golden rod." Tomato Socp. Take a shin-bone, have it broken, and put in a soup-kettle with live quarts of cold water; allow it to boil steadily, and skim. In an hour put in two dozen good-sized tomatoes; do not skin them; boil until your soup is reduced to one-half; take a potato masher and crush the tomatoes; pass through a strainer; return to kettle, and remove beef before serving; season with san ana pepper, mis 13 a plain coun try tomato soup. Coloring Ficki.es and Sweets Green. The following green coloring extraot is said to be destitute of any poisoning properties: Dissolve five grains of saffron in one-fourth ounce of distilled water, and in another dish dis solve four grains indigo carmine in one. half ounce distillod water. After mix ing thoroughly let stand twenty-four hours, then put together, and the result wm be a, green solution capable of coloring iour or nva pounas 01 sugar. Apple Cheese. Peel and quarter a quantity of apples, stew them with a little water, a good deal of sugar, the thin rind of a lemon and a few cloves, or a stick of cinnamon. When quite .. U .1 u 1- 7 uuiio piv-so luciu uirouu n nair sieve; nnd to one quart of the puree thus ob tained add half a packet of gelatine, dissolved in water; mix well, pour into a mold, and when set, turn it out and serve with a custard poured about it. It is well to remember that the puree muse oe morougniy wen sweeteneil and flavored to carry off the insipidity oi gelatine. Mange in calves, says the New York Timet, is caused by a mite burrowing in the skin. The cure is reached by dressing the part with an ointment com posed of four ounces of lard, one ouuee of sulphur and one drachm of creosote, well mixed together. Hub this into the skin every morning, and give each calf one teaspoonful of sulphur daily for two weeks. By giving this quantity of sul phur for a week, twice or thrice in the year, this disease is prevented. The sulphur is absorbed into the blood and passes through the skin in the perspira tion, and in this manner reaches and destroys the parasitio mites, if present there, or secures such a condition of the skin as to repel them if they attack the skin. Cut Flowers. The main feature arranging cut flowers is to show each flower separately and not a quantity crowded together, forming a mass of petals, but that each flower may be seen reposing quietly among the green, giv ing to each bloom an individual charac ter. A few colors in a bouquet have a much prettier effect than a mixture of many colors. Ited, white and buff go well together with green between. A few rose buds with their own leaves, and a little green smilax, make a bou quet more handsome than one composed many kinds of inferior flowers. In all floral arrangements, whether for vases, bouquets or designs, it is better put in the green first, and gradually working them up to the required bright ness, always remembering that the col lection had better lack a flower than have one too many, the object being to form a graceful, refreshing and sug gestive picture. The highest monument in Great Britain, and possibly in Europe, is that erected by his tenantry to the first Duke of Sutherland, on the summit of Ben Vraggie, Sutherlandshire, 1,41)0 feet above the sea. The pedestal is 106 feet high; the statue, from a model by Sir Francis Chantrey, thirty. It is a conspicuous landmark on both sides of Moray Firth. The census enumerator of Nevada County, Cal., came across two ladies who were twins. One of them placed age at twenty-eight years and the other at twenty-two years. Cause one was married and one was single. Wholesome Pork. J he truth of the curt adage, "the devil is in mirk." mun be quite gener ally coticeueu 11 lis manifestations In lung list of cutaneous, felirous and bilious disorders be taken for a sufficient personification of bis salanio majesty. But as a temperate eater of the flesh of properly-grown, home-raised hogs, the writer protests that such is not necessa rily the case, and that pork might take as high rank in poiut of healthfulness in comparison with other meats as it noius in palatability. The deleterious consequences attendant on its use are clearly traceable to the abuse of man and to no fault of the creature. The simple fact is, swine have for untold generations generally been confined and fattened in close styes reeking with tiltl. I .l . n . . uiiu, mm icu on a comuseu mess 01 de composing stuff' a nart of which lias. perhaps, been fermenting in the swill ban-el for days or even weeks. It is only necessary to mention as coordinate with this treatment, that wholesale process by which hogsare furnished to the market from distilleries. If there is any relation between cause and effect, how can it be expected that pom prouucoa under such noxious con- ditions can be a healthful food? It is a significant fact that these conditions are so notoriously bad that municipal authority usually prohibits or regulates the keeping of swine within city lim its. Even the constitutions of the hogs uiuiiisuivcg nave wanou un erthis lonp-- continuod abuse, as trichina, choleni. Kiuney and other diseases prevalent among them attest. It is safe to affirm that the livers of a large majority of hogs are pitted and mottled with putri fying ulcers; yet from its very fre quency, few think of pronouncing the hog unsound simply because it has a diseased liver. Another potent fact in bringing pork into disrepute as an ar- ncie 01 general consumption, is found in the ill-devised system of breeding pigs with a viow of producing a carcass of thick-sided, clear fat As a result the long, deep-bodied, sweet-meatcd swine of twenty-live years ago with their alternate streaks of fat and lean. are rarely to be found. So universal has this system of breeding become that a strong protest from the pork dealers of England has been made. stating in Bubstance, that the hogs of yore must be bred again, or the exten sive trade in bacon in that country must cease. The simple remedy for the evils com plained of is of course found in revers ing the conditions. Homeopathy, how ever good m other places, will not work a cure here. I have been long con vinced that persons of enteprise who understand the subjeot would find it Dotn a lucrative aim sanitary move to grow hogs according to all the hygienic conditions requisite to make the pro duct healthful and relishable. Their market would at first be sought at the tables of select consumers who would be as able and willing to pay an ad valorem price for what might be termed fancy pork, as for fancy butter. It is probably too much to expect to success fully oppose the greed of hog raisers, with a mere anneal to the laws of health. But independently of this, if intelligent consumers would demand, and persist iu ueiuauuiug, a oeiier article, tney would get it, through notions of policy if not of philanthropy; and certainly the great farming communities of the West and South, on whose tables pork is served one to three times a day, can be taught, in their own behalf at least, to raise swine of the proper .stock, in fields and cleanly kept comfortable pens, with suitable food and drink, and not be satisfied with doing things no better than their fathers did. A ten dency in this direction would do much in exorcising the devil from the pork of our day and indirectly from the human system Cor. N. Y. Tribune. Harness Sores on Horses. There are few things which cause more delay and trouble in farm work during the hot months of summer tjiaa the galls and sores that come upon the shoulders and backs of work horses. A vast amount of hard work must be done, and the animals are strong and well enough to do it, provided there were not these aainful sores that prevent their applying themselves to the labor. A horse with shoulder or back galls, or both, suffers pain, when it is put into the harness. The direct cause of these sorts is the friction to which the parts are subjected, combined with the ex cessive heat and great flow of sweat, Intlauiation and dialing of the skin are firodueed much more readily in hot than n cold weather, because the condi tions of greater friction are then pres ent. The preventive is in reducing the friotion to the least possible amount. In the first place, the harness must fit closely and smoothly to the form of the horse, that the weight of the load may be uniformly distributed over the surface beneath the harness. Secondly, the horse should be in a healthy state, that the muscles and skin may be of their normal toughness, aud the sweating not unnaturally profuse. This involves the proper care and feed ing of the horse. A poorly kept ani mal, or one not in good health, will be come sore more readily than one in good health. When the sores are al ready formed, a speedy cure is the thing needed. Sponge carefully the afflicted parts, to remove all accumulations from sweat Then bathe with a lotion of alum and tannin, with a little laudanum added. All pressure upon the sore should be removed by a proper adjust ment of the harness, and, if necessary, keep the horse from work until cured. American Agriculturist. a I 1 a on Tanner's fast is not original. The old gentleman, Noah, lived forty days on water. Boston Commercial Bulletin. Harness Sores on Horses. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. The Universities' Mission In Cen tral Africa is to be re-enforced by nine missionaries, wno sail irom JxinUun next month. The study of the National and State constitutions, made obligatory in th public schools of Wisconisn, has been attended with excellent results. The Rev. Mr. White, a New Hamp shire preacher, has founded a religious sect called " Angelic Believers." They believe in tho disKsition of angels to visit uiu iiiuuunne spnere. The manual training school at St. Louis, in connection with Washington University, will open on September 6, with workshops and recitation-rooms completely arranged. The prospects ior tne nrst year are said to he enoour- afrincr. Onlv one claaa nf liftv nr aivtv students will be entered, and there are already a large number of applications irom famines 01 high standing. The American Missionary Associa tion, which is the principal evangelical engine of tho C'ongregationalists, is an noyed by an impending debt of nearly $-'0,000. It appeals to the churches to send between now and the last day of September sufficiently pencrous dona. tions to enable it to close the fiscal vear free from indebtedness. The Secretary says that the field has never been more fertile in good results than now. For the now year which begins on the first of October, large plans f6r increased usefulness have been devised. A curious case is reported from Edinburgh. Thomas Crawford, a mi ner, has a son twelve years old who for two years has been irregular in attend ing school, notwithstanding repented admonitions from his parents. Ou these grounds, and in order that the case might be a warning to the parents of other dull and refractory children m the district, the Sheriff was asked by tho prosecution to send the "accused to prison. Tho Sheriff' complied with this request, and Urawloru was accord ingly sent to jail for seven days. The State University of Athens Ga., has received a singular endowment. An eccentric gentleman, non-resident ana not an alumnus, bestowed by deed the sum of $7,000 ou the University. coupling the gift with tho condition that tue money should be invested tor and mirintr t hta lliroa off fu-anti'ina rner.na all children, whose names are given in the deed, the interest to be compounded annually till the last one dies and twenty-one years and nine months there after. It is calculated that the bequest wnen paid over will amount to l,700, 000. WIT AND WISDOM. residential candidates have as many lives as a cat, or will have before all their biographers get through L,oweu courier. Observing men have noticed that the hair on the forehead of a chimpan zee is always parted in the middle. New Orleans Picayune. A Whitehall man has discovered a way of instantly turning sweet milk into fresh butter. He feeds it to a goat. Patent applied for. Times. During this weather, there is noth ing hotter than the woman with dusting-broom who is wearing herself out doiug nothing. Atlanta Constitu- ton. A Western journal heads an article: " A lunatic escapes and mar ries a widow." Escapes, eh? We should say he got caught. Binghamp ton Bepublican. Either we have got into a regular resort of flies, or Dies are far more nu merous and tenacious this season, than they have been since the days of Pha raoh. Darkening is no bar to their progress. When a room is so darkened that they cannot see to move about, two them club together and hire a fire fly to traveL with them. JJanbury ieivs. Mother, do all angels have wings?" Yes, my dear." "Will I bean an gel and have wings when I die?" Lertamly, my love." "Golly, what big pair Mrs. Thompson must have; should think they must be as large as the sails of Uncle Tom's yacht" Mrs. Thompson, it may be stated in explana tion, is a lady who weighs in the neigh borhood of three hundred pounds. Boston Courier. A few days ago a young man in business was greeted by oue of the clergy in this city, and was congratu lated on his new venture in business. In the course of the conversation the clerical brother expressed his opinion not in favor of the young man keep ing open on Sunday. "No," s&d the young man, "1 don t want to keep open on Sunday, but will probably have to. I work hard all the week, and would like to shut up on Sunday, be- auso it s the only day iu the week that can have to myself to go hunting and fishing." Tho clergyman moved on. Kuchcder Pot. A bald-headed man is refined and always shows his skull sure. A good novel for bald heads to read The Lost Heir. What dues a bald-headed man say to his comb? We meet to part no more. Motto for a bald head Bare and fur-bare. However high a position bald-headed man holds, lie will never oonib down in the world. The bald headed man never dyes. Advice to bald headers Join the Indians, who are the only successful bair raisers. What does every bald-headed man put his head? His hat. Youneversawa bald-headed man with a low forehead. Shakespeare snys There's a Divinity that shapes our ends. Bald men are the coolest-headed men in the world. Some bald men have heirs. Boston Transcript. Youth's Department. JOHNNY AND THE TOAD. JOHNNY. I want to iro In sphonl. Awl he won't lt mo pass; I think thHt a toad Ouifbt to hi.p nn the graft. 1 don t want to crv; hut I'm arraid f'm frulng to; Oh. di-ar me! What am 1 to do? TOAD. ITc-re'a a dreadful thlnirt A Imy In the way. 1 don't know whin to do: I don't know what to say. I can't Bee the p-aon Such mnn"ien should he looses I'm tn'tnl'Mnir all ov,-r; ljilt that Ik of uo UMC. JOHNNY. I must ffn to Reboot, The Iwll t imlnjr to stop; That ti-rrihleold tottd II be only would bopl TOAD. I mnut erosa the path, I fan b'-ar mv children croak; I hop,, that dreadful boy Will nut give me a puke. A hop and a tnrt, a flutter and a rush, Jobnny la at school, aud tbu toad In his hush. Aunwry. THE COLT'S STORY. My name is Bessie, as I suppose vou know. Tiny Floy calls me the little horse," and I tliink I like this rather ueiier than Hessie. 1 should like it much better if she would only leave off me -lime. j Hut never mind. I shall be a year ! old in about eight months, and then, , perhaps, I shall be treated with more , I am sure I hope so. I , don t think I am very well used at present. Not that I complain of my mother. Oh, no! She is always good 1 to me as pood as she can be. But it is very plain that she is not allowed to have her own way in regard to my i bringing up. Why! sometimes I am shut away from her for hours at a stretch. I hear her calling me, and I try to go to her, but it is of no use, I can't do it And sometimes I am left at home while she driven away ever so far, and I don't know whether I shall ever see her again or not. All our begging and im- , ploring doesn't make a bit of difference 1 with our hard-hearted master. He seji- ! us just the same every time lie j a fancy to do it. I wonder that I my mother doesn't assert her rights and put a stop to it. She is bigger ! than ho is, and I know she could master ' him if she tried. May be she is afraid I he wouldn't give her any more oats if I quarreled with him. Dear me! I j wouldn't be so mercenary. As if she j couldu't live on crass! And there ia J couldu't live on grass! plenty of grass everywhere. Perhaps that isn't the reason; 1 always thought she had spirit enough. I can't under stand it at all; and she never explains. They call me a sociable colt, and it is true that 1 like company. I should like to go into the house and call on the people there, but they never ask me Sometimes I go to the window and look in, and rub my nose on the panes and lap them all over, just for a hint, you know, and to show the people how much I should like to be with them. But they just scream out: "Uo away, Bessie, go awav! Oh. dear! Those windows will have to be washed all over again." Serves 'em right What do they have the windows there for? They could see just as well without them, and it would be a deal more convenient. I could go and talk to them at any time then. But what do you think?" Half the time they keep sbme ugly, green. slatted things all over the windows, and I can't even look through, or touch the glass with my tongue. Perhaps they think it is not polite for me to try to visit with them through the windows. I am sure I should be glad to do it in a more proper way if I could. I have often marched up the front walk with as dainty -steps as I could manage, and tried to get on the veranda and ringthe bell; but the steps are so steep and narrow that I can't reach the door to save me. Sometimes I have a little fun with the chickens and turkeys. You know how they will strut around. Little, puny bunches of feathers! As if they were of any consequence to anybody!" Well. I just prance up beside them and raise my fore feet and show my teeth, and ought to see them scatter. They , never stop until they are safe on the fence; then I dance up and down and : run alone before them, ami they don't 1 daro to oome down until 1 get tired and ( go away. After all they are not worth i much trouble. It is mure fun to treest the boys who come into the yard and think they will tease me. They get the ' worst of it, I can tell you. They might , better stay at homo and mind their own business. I 1 usually have a pretty good time on j washing days. I keep very quiet until j I see a nice lot of clean clothes hanging ', on a line, and then I make a rush. 1 sometimes wonder if the people of the house put those clothes out expressly for my amusement. On the whole, I guess they don't; for sometimes they come out of the house and scream all sorts of queer things, and run after me with hroom and sticks; and if 1 didn t get out of the way in such a hurry, I am not sure but they would actually strike me. I generally manage to get some of the clothes into my mouth, and unless they are very tough, I carry a few pieces away with me to some quiet place where lean chow them and dance on them aud toss them up and down as much as I like. When they are dis posed of, I watch until the coast is clear again, and then I make another rush. You'd nover imagine how jolly it is un less vou had tried it. I like Trudie pretty well. Trudie is a pretty girl, with black eyes, and she ' Wlth ,er. Now. if there is anything trvm" to the nerves oi a sociable and sensitive coit, it is such conduct as this. I as considcration. sure vou it was nut to be endured. I thought I would "ive her a hint, jut to let her know that I was not alt ugether in-ensible to her rudeness. So I softly stepped up behind her anil catiHit her lung braid in my teeth, and trie.fto pull her away with me. Oh. deal! What a squealing and protesting she did set up! Hut it was fun to see her dance around, Then that stupid fellow who was the first cause of all the trouble set himself up to interfere, and he took the braid awav from me. He didn't get the rib is bon," though. It was a fresh, creamy " one. and T chewed it well. 1 don t think Trudie ever cared to wear it again. "it was not long before I paid the fel arates low for his impertinence. One even takes ing I found his carriao-e standing in the yard, and I served the curtains as I did Trudie's ribbon. Wasn't it good for him? And such fun! The next time I went to the porch after some salt Trudie said 1 didn t de she serve any. I am sure I don't know why. I heard her tell her mother that that nnal.a I....1 ir. !,.., n.. has a long braid hanging down her back. Sometime she brings me salt, or pieces of sugar, and lets me eat out of her hand. Salt is good and sugar is good, and Tmdie is good to give them to me, but I can'thelptcasing her some times. One day, when she went to the hen house to look for eggs, I danced up behind her very softly. She didn't hoar me at first, but all at once she looked around and saw me stepping along be hind her on iny hind feet, with my fore feet pawing the air and almost touch ing her shoulders. I was only trying t walk as she did. but, oh, my g'xxl ness, how fbe jumped and run! She went in that hen-house as quick as a flash. 1 couldn't get in with her nn.re's the pity but I pawed at the door, and ran around and around the place until 1 got so tired I had to go awuv and let the poor thing come out. Did you say it was mean of me? Well, may be it was. a little. But she needn't have been so scared. I wouldn't have hurt her for anything. One afternoon Trudie came out into the orchard to give me srtme salt; at least, that is what I supposed she came for. But there was a young man with her who persisted in taking all her at tention away from me. She didn't Bay niui h of anything to me. Just gave me a few grains of salt and then seemed to forget all about me. She utterly ignor ed me. in fact, and turned her back lllinn im itltliomrli .liu Lnuu. I .1,.. ing Ui have a nice little chat and frolic ol new curtains. I am glad of it. I like new things, and I will have a tste of those new curtains yet, see- if I don't Oh, how are you? I am so glad to see you. What a time it is since we have had a talk! And such changes! I've scarcely the courage to speak to you now that we have met. You thought 1 looked rather discon solate? Well, so I am, and no wonder. But you can see what has happened. They have put me into this held, all alone by myself; away from my mother, away from everything that makes life worth living. I heard those people say that I had got to be a regular nuisance, and my pranks were beyond endurance. Think of it! Me a nuisance! How could they say such a thing? They kuew I thought all the world of them, and liked nothing better than to be with them. And yet they have banished me to this dreary place. How could they have the heart to do it? There's plenty of grass here, to be sure; but what is grass? I can't see my mother. There's no house to visit, no clothes to pull off the line, no little trees to rub over, no rose bushes to trample down, no chickens to scare, no hair to pull, no no no nothing. I think it is a regular shame. Helen Herbert, in N. Y. Tribune. Bad Company. with bad company. You may not do you just what you have seen done, and you will perhaps not say what you have heard said, but something will show itself in your character in after life, like When you drive a nail into a board and pull It out again it will leave an impression, will it not? And when yon leap into the water you will got wet, will you not? It is exactly the same the impression of the nail in the board, Suppose you were walking along a street, and somebody said to you, "This is a dangerous street- I would keep off of it; do you see the holes and ditches here?" would you not go to another street that was safe to walk on? Bail company is dangerous. A very good rule for boys who are about to start out on the rouh sea of life, is, "Keep out of bad company." Boys should ask their parents, or some responsible person, to choose what is good or bad company for them. Be careful what you read, bo careful with whom you go. and keep out of bod company. It is more infecting than yellow fever, and it always leaves impressions on your character. Gotiten Days. The following substances have been sanctioned by the Public Health De partment of der many for use in confec tionery and other edibles as non-poisonous coloring matter: Flour and starch for white; cochineal, carmine, madder red and the juice of carrots and cherries for red; saffron, saffiower and turmeric for yellow; indigo and litmus for blue; the juice of spinach and mixtures of the already-mentioned blues and yellows for green; burned sugar and Spanish juice for brown, and Indian ink for black.