mimyWcm!W'mT l:" MM{mftipiwa t+BZ :^''''imm^yr^-w^,' ^mK^t^MVH' JHJlumiyujm a^"ya HOUSE AND FARM. NoteN for the Itarm Yard. Song. speakable Turk this Orental gentleman ldiosyncrucies of Men of Genius The grazing cattle should be inspected is quite sis well able to take care of himself To dream, and then to sleep daily, and the fences also receive attention, Most geniuses and men of great talent as the Heathen Chinese, and not precisely Until the morn return In the I N est. lest they oe broken down by the have been known for some peculiar habit An hour of watch to keep, the "good thing" they had fancied. A little lamp to burn. rapidly growing and highly-fed stock. of striking idiosyncracy. ^^Napoleott**^ Gather thorn close to your loving heart slaughter will winter- The Scttool-Boy. Cradle them on youi breast Those intended for would tremble with fear at the sight of & To weave but make no end, They will soon enough lea\e your trooding need extra lood unless the pastures are We bought him a box for his books and cat.v General Elliott, of Gibralter frame, To sing and lose the song, caie, tilings very rich and good. The dairy will need was always accompanied by a score of Where biu footsteps wend Soon enounh mount youth's topmost stair And a cricket bag for his bat particu ar attention to keep everything Among the world's gay throng, them. Johnson liked to imbibe floods Little ones in the nest. And he looked the Drightest and best of kings* swe^t anu good,especial!y cheese making of tea or wine, Porson drank everything Frot not that the children's hearts are gay, Under his new straw hat. To know that day is here, a little saltpetre will help to keep that came in his way. Visiting once a To see that spring ha- gone, That their restless fe* will run We banded him into the railway train, the curd sweet. The aftermath will be friend's house, when evening came they And summei 's death is near There may come a time in the by-and-by, With a troop of his young compeers ready in must cases and will do much to And still the hour's roll on. desired to feed the lamp, but the bottle When jou'll pit in your lonely room and sigh And we made as though it were dust and rain keep up the yield unless the weather be For a sound of childibh fun Were filling our eye with tears. was empty. Porson had drans the spirits We fail, we fade, we die, unusually dry. Flies are still moie on the sly, not knowing it was intended Yet ouee 'twixt death and birth Thei may come a time when you'll long to We looked in his innocent face to see troublesome this month, and the cattle of To know Love's kiss, love's sigh, for the lamp. Douglas Terrold could not hear The sign of a sorrowful heart, all ages will eagerly take advantage ot Is light of heaven on earth. The eager, hoylsh tread, beai the smell of apples. Cavendish, But he only shouldered his bat with glee all shade given them. It need hardly be The tuneless whistle, the clear, shnll shout, And wondered when they would start. hated women If In met one of his owti My God! Thy sun is sweet, The hu'sy bustle and out, said that the watei supply should be If, ere the twilight come, temale servants by accident in any part And pattering oveihtad 'Twas not that he loved not as'heretofore, looked after and drink earned to all the Love walk with sacred feet of the house, she was instantly dismissed. For the boy was teuder and kind Across our naked room. stock in the fields by hand, if the ponds When the boys and girls ai all grown up But his was a woild that was all before, Garrick was vain almost to the degree of fail. Horses are now less pushed, and And scattered fdr and wide, And our was a world behind. insanity. Strange Scene on a Canal Boat. Or gone to the undiscovered shore, will ao well on less or no corn, but only Rousseau was vain and could not write,, 'Twas not his fluttering heart was cold, "Where youth and age come nevermore, cut forage besides pasture. The less except when dressed as a fop. Bulwer For the child was loval and true, You will miss them from your side. Almost everybody on this side of the pisture and the more cut foodsuch as And the parents love the love that is old, Lytton, it is said, would write best when water has heard ot the English canal lucerne, ,clover or taresthe more economical Then gather them close to your loving heart, And the childien the love that is new. dressed in a court suit. Marlborough boats, in which whole families are boin and the more manure it cannot Cradle them on your breast was a miser, mended his own stockings and live. We read an account of a juvenile They will soon enough kave your brooding And we fame to know that love is a flower be too well understood that soiling is to save paying for it, and would walk caie, Which only groweth down party held on board of one of them comparatively as advantageous for horses Soon enough mount youth's topmost stair And we t-carcely spoke for the space of an home ever so late at night rather than a good sized boat, lent by its jolly as for horned stock. Washing and dipping Little ones in the nest. hour pay for a "chair." Napoleon did his captain for the occasionwhich may sheep will be neceser this mouth, As we drove back through the town. "thinking" and lormed hfs plans for conquest prove interesting to otners. even, more than last, and the same time Episcopalian. while pacing in a garden, shrugging The benevolent people interested in precautions are needed for those with Farm Notes. A Story of Blondin, his shoulders now and tnen as if to the scheme determined to give a genuine lambs. Fold the early fields, where the Sweet-corn makes the best fodder. help and "compress" thought. When children's party, the guests to be chosen folding plan is followed, taking the fields PP!y engage* irumhiand coffee,ang Every spot here has its romance or its Steam-threshing is almost every wheie su Theirs was lon exclusively from the children belonging a in rotation as required for seeding. Swine tragedy, and the fairy suspension bridge superseding horse-power. ciatoiica displays he always had be to the canal boats. Such an event was hi tjo uc ainajo uau uc- have plenty of food yet, but dairy wash for carriages and foot passengers which They hay-crop ot Vermont pioves to side him a si sid unprecedented, and made no small stir should be looked after again3t the time was stretched in 1869 one-eighth of a mile be more than an average yield. among youn** and old The cofTefi ha ornr. riirpnt- fi-nm lMo^no, Th coffee he got direct from Mecca when there will be 1PS. below the American cataract, revives the The Eastern agricultural press call the Gibson dictated while walking in his The children born and bred upon the memory of several curious occurrences. like Scott and mam Preserved Watermelon Kind. New England Agricultural society a ring roora others. canals are as shy of strangers as rabbits When Blondin came in 1859, he had at wroten Baco withd like to study kneesinnear a small Pare off the green skin and cut into of self-elected leaders. and hares. So when a stranger went Moliere hi3 the first a good min to stretch the rope an flre' stripes or fanciful shapes. L'ne a kettle Onions Irom the little hundred-acre from boat to boat, inviting the little ones across where this bridge is, but the spacs with vine leaves, till with the rind and room, which, he said, helped him to con-_ patch of Chester, on the Eiie road, are to ttie party therp wars. well nigh a panic +r -flin^r. m _-u rOOm. whlP.h. hr XSilfi hp\npA him nnn was too wide (the bridge itself is the scatter a little pulverized alum over each densp his thoughts. George Stephenson spread amongst them, and they could now selling at $1 to $1 25 per barrel. longest suspension bridge in the world, layer. Cover with vine leaves three deep, used to he in bed for two or three days, not in any instance, be prevailed upon to A Buffalo family was poisoned the its roadway being 1,800 feet from bank to and pour on enough water to wet that the better to "think out" his plan. It give a decided promise to attend. But other day by eating ccrn-cake. Some of hank.) Consequently Blondin had his Cover closely and allow them to steam would be better it many people do this the news was spread good things were the members narrowly escaped death. r-ope stretched about a mile below the for three hou.rs, without letting the water who have much thinking to do, as rest brought there was a large parcel of toys Mr. Gold of Connecticut prefeis horses falls, and even there it was 1,200 feet boil. Take out the rind, which will be favors abstraction and thought, and those for distribution hid away in the "bottom"' or mules to steers for farm work, both for a fine green color, and throw it into long. On both sides of the river enolosuies of who have not a vigorous circulation find of the boat, and sundry fair hands set to economy ot keep and readiness for extra were built around thp rope, into cold water. Let it remain in soak, cbanging the supply of blood in the brain assisted work to prepare a feast for the invited woik. wMch ticket buyers were admitted and the water every hour, for four hours. ones. by a recumbent position.London where the acrobat had his dressing rooms. A coi respondent recommends ants foi Use four lemons, a quarter of a pound of World. The guests arrived in due time. Each He w?s to start on the first occasion irom currant-worms, hens tor potato-bugs, and ginger and six pounds of sugar for every .a^B. one had been requested to bring a "muw," the Canadian side, smd within the inciosure urkeys for grasshoppers. How about six poundsof lind. Wiap the ginger root Byromc Reminiscences. out of which to drink tea, and the array there was a number of invited anthers for bad men' in a muslin big and boil in three pints upon the ible when all were assembled suests. Among them were Henry W. While Newstead has twice changed The secretary ot the State of Nebraska of water until the water is highly flavored was quite picturesque. Aoout four-andtwenty Faxon, then the local editor of the Buffalo hand since Byron was compelled to part places the acreage of that State under remove the ginger, put in sugii were assembled at tea the cloth Republic newspaper, and the writer. with Annesley Hall, the home of his first cultivation at. 2,358,355, to a popnlation and boil and skim until no more scam was laid upon a table planted against one Faxon was a wit of more than local lenown, love, Mary Chaworth, is the home of her a little over a quaiter or a million. arises. Put in the pieces of rind and the side of the boat to keep it steady. As and Blondin, had for some reason, eldest grandson, Mr. Chaworth-Musters. juice of the lemons, simmer gently for each entered tneer was a little shout of J. J. Mechi, the veteran English farmer, taken a great liking to him. Mrs. Mustersher husband dropped his aa hour take out the rmi and lay upon welcome. lccommends and practices a four-year wife's, name although it had at his marriage Whi'e Faxon stoodlaughing and jesting dishes in the sun until firm and almost rotation of crops and deep plowing in dry After the candles were lighted a"scene been stipulated that he should assume as was his wayon the edge of the cool, put back into the syrup, simmer for weather ioi the better aeiation of the was recorded which would have delighted it in addition to her ownleft two precipice overlooking the river 140 feet half an hour, spiea^ out again, and when land. the eye of a Dutcn painter of the old sons and threp daughters. The eldest son below, Blondin appeared a few feet lirm pack into bowl3 and pour over the schoolone who levelled in strong lights, Charles P. Landers of Mohawk Valley married a dauhter of a wealthy Noifolk behind. He was about to attempt the Doiiing syrup. deep shadows and characteristic faces. says that fifty acres is not enough for a squire named Hamond, and died by his most daring feat upon a tight rope that Many of the little ones had care-worn faim unit ss it is all a man can work, and To Get Riu of Mold In Cellars. own hand in a fit of melancholy madness. had ever been preformed, and what took looks, and were t'lin and pale, as though work well, for it Is only good farming A corses pond ent recently asked us for His mother was anything but h^ppyin placo will show his iron nerve and reekess touched with pain and h'inger yet there that pays a simple and effectual remedy for fungus her married life with her coarse, unsympathetic temper. He saw that Faxon, gazing w.r a few of such strange beauty, whose Niagara Falls is to have the largest and mo'd in cellars. A German agricultural husbond, whom, however, she out upon thp river, was unconscious of his faces were chiselled with such delicate flouring mill in the woild. Its uaily journal gives the following: Put adored, and it was thought, that her unhappiness presence. Motioning to me for silence by tenderness tnat, despite their rough garb, capacity is to be 1,200 banels. What a some roll brimstone into a pan and set prior to her eldest son's birth pressing his finger to his lip, he siezed they woul I have attracted admiration in magnificent earthquake an explosion ot fire to it close the doors, making the eel materially affected his mind. When Faxon under both armpits and held him any assemfry. this mill would make! lar as nearly air-tight as possible for two Washington Irving vi&ited Newstead and out for a second or two over the verge. Here were children ot ten and twelve, or three hours, when the fungi will^be destroyed The London Live Stock Journal says Annesley, upwards or 50 years ao. the Faxon must have weighed 165 pounds. who had never kn^wn the sweet allurements and the mold dried up. Repeat that the competition of American and latter was in a very neglected condition. His countenance when Blondin laid and tender sympathies of toys, but this simple and inexpensive opperation Continental countiies in the supply ol M*. Musters hated the place and all Byronic hold of him, was irradiated with mirth. who knew ho* to steer a boat on a cold every two oi three months, and you will poik pioduct has become exceedingly associations and cut down the beautiful When Bloundin drew him back and night, when there was no stars in the have your cellar free from all parasitical discouraging to British farmars. grove. dropped him on the green sward, he sank heavens to shed a glimmer on the water: growth. there in a heap,horror stricken by a shock "Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill." The self-binding reaper has now been and who were in the constant habit of where By10a fror" the effects of which he never fully discovered to be or sufficient importance Pop-Overs One pint flour, one pint riding for hours at a stretch on the back 'Saw two beings in the hues of youth." recovered. In the next instant Blondin, to bring six or seven of them into the mi k, two eggs. Eggs beaten to a froth of some old horse, whose fate had linked *Ie deserted Annesly for Colwick, his own grasped his heavy balancing pole, danced field to bid for public favor. The more mix quickly, and bake in hot buttered his powers by a rope to the prow of the seat near Nottingham, which, Mr. Musters out upon his rope beyond the fearful inventions the better for toe farmer. cups. Serve with hot saucp. boat. For one brier space in a life-long being very unpopular, was attacked precipice, aDd, turning to enjoy the effect C. C. Schenck takes up the cudgel for recital of toil, the children were assembled by the mob during the leform bill riots One Unspeakable Turk. of his maneuvers, saluted his indignant Bermuda grass, saying: "Anything that for a treat and for play and that of 1831 when Nottingham castle was friend with a gesture indescribably euti e. stock will teed on, and that can hold its they enjoyed it thoroughly their merry sacked. His grandson has, however, reversed The Truth. He then continued his walk across the ground against sedge and briers, will be shouts of laughter soon fully proved. Among other distinguished strangers this sta*e of things, and constant Niagara chasm, experiencing not the least welcomed as an ally, not treated as an Tea over, gifts were distributedtin floating about in London is a gentleman iy resides at Annesly which is now in tremor or emotion. He was ainin without enemy." trumpets, whistles, boxes of toys, Noah's of the name of Lambri, a Turk, and an perfect order. The park, which had Deen physical fear, because he was almost Potato NoodlesGrate one do^en ot arks, kaleidoscopes, ABC blocks and hereditary Pasha." The Pasha is a allowed to run wild, is now carefully kept, without abnormal nervous feeling of any boiled potatoes, add two eggs, a little dollsand the joy of tho poor children young man, looks sleepy, says little, has the range of stables which Irving found kind His muscles was so hard that it salt, one half cup of milk, enough flour could only find expression in loud shouts money at his command, and, like all who tenantless, but which he remarks bore was difficult to in ient them. When he to knead stiff, then cut in small pieces, and a general remp. After an evening hail lrom Levant, is lond of play. traces of a fox-hunting squire now are stcod upright and assumed a certain and roll long and round, one inch thick, of unprecedented happiness the juveniles The Pasha was the other day intioduced filled with fine horses, for Mr. Musters rigidity his arms and legs seemed to the fry in plenty of !ard to a nice blown. separated, their hearts gladder tnan they to a club where billiards, ecarte an estimable country gentlemanis a touch like steel.New York Herald. Sheep raising in-lllinois has failen oft had ever been before through the generosity and baccarat formed the staple amusements. master of fox-hounds. His youEgest wras a immensely during the last ten years. The of unknown friends. Surely this On his appearance there brother is the Lieut. Musters whose work Fah Styles. decline in the puce of wool, coupled wirh was a chaiitv indeed one well worth imitating. pleasurable flutter of excitment among on Patagonia excited such lively interest the ravages of dogs and piairie wolves, the habitues, for they felt much like masters The fall styles are very pretty and attractive. two years ago. Tne ownjr of Annesley has ide their breeding not anly unprofitable, ot arms in a fencing school when a The new silks are richly brocaded is married to a niece of the well-known but a great care and annoyance. tyro fond of practicing with the foils is in India, or what are called "Cashmere" The Epidemic of Drunkenness. liberal statesman Right Hon. Robert introduced, "would the Pasha plav at colors, and small blended patterns. Lowe. Newstead is the property of Mr. A 300-pound hoif that was swept down Drunkenness has been by many believed billiards?" asked one member. "Yes, Minute lines and figures are run together, Webb, a man of large fortune. two mill-dams and a mile of rushing to be on the increase, at any rate the Pasha would." "The stakesV Tne and the rich colors are so mixed that no creek water dunng the recent tornado, in higher circles. It is curiou3 to note A Snarp Lawyer, Pasha negligently produced a bundle of one predominates, so that the effect is not and came out without the loss of his tail, that just 150 years ago an epidemic of cripp notts, and left so trifling a detail at all striking or pronounced. These A vory fair story comes from one of is advertised by the committee of the drunkenness seemed to break out in England. to his upponent. Lazily he took up a silks have dark browns or mixtures, our courts. One of those fihrewed, sharp Lewis County Fair as one of the attractions The passion for gin drinking had cue he had not played billiards for and are either used as trimming for plain and sarcastic lawyers, of that class who to draw the ciowd. got hold of the masses, and the result was, some time, but he was fond of th game silks or combined with plain silks in the take demoniacal joy and unspeakable G. Decorabcque is said to have the best in London at least, that increase in the "Would the Pasha bet?" "Oh, certainly composition of the costume. Of course pride in twisting a witness into a labyrinth managed farm in all Fiance. Last June population was almost wholly checked'. and many members took advantage of there are numerous grades ind qualities, of difficulties, had occasion, some he entertained the members of the Agricultural Before gin became popular the consumption the confiding disposition ot the Oriental. the ranges of prices beginning ior good time ago, to cross-examine a gentleman Congress which met at Paris. of beer was enormous. Almost a The Pasha won the first game, the second, qualities at three dollars and ending at of some prominence. The sharp lawyer The farm comprises 687 acres, and produces third of the arable land in the country and the third -in fact, all the games. nine dollars per yard. But of the more managed, after much skillful manceuving, among other things 6,600 tons ot was devoted to barley. In 1688, with a Tuen ecarte was suggested. It was late costly fabrics a very small quantity is to so confuse the witness that the only sugar beets. Beet sugar is one of the population of 5,000,000, very nearly 12-, to begiD, but tho accomadating Pasha U3ed, the design of the dress being carefully answer that he could obtain to his question gentleman's specialties. 600,000 barrels ol beer were brewed. would play a few hands. Again he won selected~to display the vest, the was, "I don't recollect." Goats are beginning to be much talked Up to this time our distilleries were far and when he left his bundle of notes was bands, the cuffs or the collar to the utmost When the lawyer had had this answer and written of as one of the domestic animals too dear for the masses. Bur hatred to augmented by all the currency of the advantage, these being the purposes returned to him a score or so of times, both neccessary and econonreal on France led to the encouragement of home club. for which the brocade is principally used. his patience gave out. "Tell me, Mr. J.,' a farm. Goat-breeders now dispute the distilling the trade was thrown open, Dark Scotch plaids and checks have also Perhaps the Pasha would return another he exclamed, with biting sarcasm, "do statment that the animals will" thrive and in 1689 the importation of foreign made their appearance in the very best evening, and indulge in the fascin you ever remember anything?" on chips ot wood and broken fence rails: spirits was absolutely prohibited. Then houses and in the finest qualities. ating diversion of baccarat* With the "I can," wa3 tne response. but admit that thev will live nicely on gin-drinking began, and in 1735 the The grounds of these checks greatest of pleasure and an evening or "Can you carry your memory back for old agricultural newspapers and hoopskirts. British distilleries manufactured nearly are very dark, and some of them are very two later the Pasha and his new friends wenty years, and tell me a single instance 5,500,000 gallons. Gin cellar?, where small. They will lie made into walking sat down to a baccaiat bank. Again the that happened then?" William Home, in the account ot his men could get drunk for a penny, dead suits, with scarf, talma or round cloak to currency of the club went to swell the ^gaine some composure-witeth uYes, I think I can," returned travels in Great Britain, says: I am drunk for twopence, and have straw for a match. The plainer these Scotch suits formidable bundle. Would he mind 1U1 ness charmed with the attractive and picturesque 'Beer are made, the more distinguished they nothing, abounded. Hogarth's playing against checks? Not in the least, appearance Oi English farms. Especially "Ah!'' exclamed the lawyer, rubLing his are. No combination is allowed,not even Streef'is bad enough, but his "Gin Lane" and the checks joined the bundle. Tne beautiful are the common hedge hands in orthodox legal fashion. Now, pipings of a different material or color. is so horrible t'"at but for contemporary sun had risen, and the Pasha felt sleepy. fences of the country. They have a lovely, that is consoling. Come, now sir, what is Stitching is all that is admissible, the descriptions, we should deem it an exaggeration. Would he give the losers their revenge? softening appcaiance. One particularity this instance "which you remember so same finish, indeed, that is used for Legislation endeavored to Assuredly, but another evening and a attracted my attention, and this well?" broadclothas simply and as exquisitely check the evil, but laying on a heavy tew nights after vard the Pasha reappeaed cnec me evu outlayin on a neav t*" ,1 was the uneaven shape and size of the remember that twenty neat. A revolution has tasen place in whe duty merely produced" a great deal of "Well, sir, I a you were admitted 'closes.' or fields.'* 3 first-class dressmaking. One may call it Was he come to give the levcnge he ear illicit distilling. The consumption arose Two young men at Madison, while a sort of a apotheosis of fabric. For to more than 11,000,000 had promised? Yes but before doing -i~ ^__ ,-,nnn.nnn gtheo tborrowBar, thirty dollars^ mfathero buy picacutawia you suit [i going through a pasture to examine some tos many years past we have had trashy Fielding prophesied that "if gdrin(kj so, a lUtle accident must be rectified a the your presentabla.eam*.*- came tom at~its? an 4.u j_:_ borrowu thirt mighdollarse to hn vnn "*a1t' J" tha yo mak a ap stock, were turned upon by a Devon bull, ing of this poison is continued pres- materials cut into infinitesimal forms, Some ot the checks given on the previous in 0 1 this poison is continued at its pres who led them a chae of nearly a mile bunched together and overlaid with ent height for the next twenty years there P?*pce at commencement, and I have a evening had by a strange iataiiry distinct recollection that your father never ovei fences and and fields. One of them nihDm^nM wilHi vernyr tho Kimn. quantities of trimming. Now nothing is be few the commo people been returned with the words "not suffic r%anniA distinct recollection that vour father me.nev- 5 paid the thirty dollars back to fina'ly swung himself up a tree and escaped. allowed to mar the beauty of the rich left to drink it.' \The London Quarterly ient effects"' written on them. The Pasha Ki Confusion changes hands at this point The other was tossed six feet in textures, not even a botton hole The Review. did not quite understand the meaning ot of the proceedings, and the lawyer dis- & air, and only escaped with his life by fastening, as far as possible, is concealed the phrase, but perhaps the drawer would misses the witness without more ado. A\C-^U the fortunate arrival of a Coliey dog, by the art ot the modiste, and the maerial kindly make good the checks. The Mr. Back, of Meriden, *Conn., has made of which diverted the infuriated animal's fifteen grains of gold and silver a perfect Hteara is merely a slightly draped mou Id Pasha did not play that evening, and engine, which will ran. for twenty minutes with attenion until a farmer and a pitchfork which holds the divine form.Jennie the conclusion is gradually dawning on the steam generated from three drops of appeared. Tune. the members of the club that for an un- water. W.hA- .MtlffS ..i&. /,mns.v ttfaiilywWlM!'*. irfflmlnl'rirniul il rfl