THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



II 



Odds and Gnds. 



Three years ini-lude 36 months. We send this pa- 

 per/or 3H months to every one who will send us a 

 <:hib of la yearly snljsrrihers <it ?.5 rents each. 



A HELPFUL BOY. 



A twelve-year old lii>y, of Farmington, Maine, 

 •did all the work of a liouse for his sick mother 

 for five weeks, taking i-are of three little children, 

 all mere babies. He made butter, pies, biscuit, 

 and cooked meals for a party of threshers at 

 •work in the barn. His name was Willie Rad- 

 «lifie, and he has made it a name to be proud of. 



RAPID MANUFACTURE. 



Many years ago the late .'-tir John Throckmor- 

 ton sat down to dinner dressed in a coat which 

 had belonged to a sheep in the morning. The 

 animal, or rather animals, one black and one 

 ■white, had been slieared. the wool washed, 

 •carded, spun, and woven ; the cloth was scoured, 

 fulled, sheared, and dressed, and then by the 

 tailor's art made into a coat between sunrise and 

 the hour of seven, when a party sat down to 

 dinner with Sir John as their chairman, wearing 

 the product of the active day. 



A LITERARY CURIOSITY. 



I 



THE MISSING G." 



The child that begins to talk bv using such 

 words as goin', seein , eatin'; that goes through 

 the primary and grammar schools ivpherin' and 

 parsin", and is occupied in tbt- Ijiyli' school com- 

 •^osin' and translatin', will wake up some day to 

 *lnd himself a slave to a habit of speech which 

 ■will subject him to a sensation of Inferioritv 

 whenever he is among cultivated people. If he 

 tries to pick upa^'g^and put it in the right 

 place once, he forgets it in the next, and the 

 ■whole language seems full of these participal 

 ■endings. At two years old it is as easy to say 



f:oing as goin', but when the latter has been used 

 or .twenty years it is hard to break the habit 

 Jr'arents are responsible for this slip-shod ijro- 

 nunciation, and they alone can prevent it. 



Josh Billings says he will never purchase 

 lottery tickets so long as he can hire a man to 

 lOb him at reasonable wages. 



When Berijamin Franklin was first Postmaster- 

 ■Oeneral of these colonies, he set out in an old gig 

 to make an official inspection of all the princi- 

 pal routes. A small folio, containing about three 

 guires of paper served as his account book for 

 two years. 



Mr, Beecher was once asked at a pic-nlc " wliv 

 ■ he did not dance? " " There is but one reason '" 

 he replied, " I don't know how. All tlie dancin- 

 I ever did was when my father furnished the 

 music, and used me for the tlddle. 1 took all the 

 «teps then." 



Tonr !<tate lias not its slinrr of snbNcriliers to 

 this paper. Please do na( let it be beliiiiil. 

 Notice our oiTer on pnse 1. 



A lady of New York, with more leisure and 

 money than good common sense, sailed for 

 Pans to consult a celebrated dog-doctor about 

 her poodle's health. He is sixteen years old, and 

 has a bad cough. She is very anxious that he 

 shall live until he is twenty-tlve. He Is as u^ly 

 as a dingy door-mat. 



Governor Morgan was a farmer's boy, and thii 

 IS what he says lu other working boys: "There 

 is not an individual in the country who began 

 earlier, worked harder, and had fewer advanta- 

 ges, prior to the age of seventeen, and if I have 

 obtained any measure of succi'ss in life It is 

 •owing to the lialiits ineuLcated, discipline' prac- 

 ticed, and lessons learned on my father's farm. 



"What plant we in this apple tree" 

 Fruits that shall redden in sunny June 

 And redden in tin- August noon. 

 And dio|) wh^^ii gciitl.^ airs come by 

 That fans the hlu,- s,.|,t.nil>ei' sky,' 

 While children come with cries of glee. 

 And seek tlnjin where the tragrant grass 

 Betrays their bed to all that pass. 



At the foot of the apple tree." 



—Bryant. 



A Pennsylvania fanner once ob-served a large 

 bird fly up from a lonely place in the rocks and 

 «oing tothcsjiot be discovered a nest with two 

 large eggs, resenihllug turkeys eggs. He took 

 them home jind placed tlieiu uiuler a setting 

 hen. In jirocess of time they were hatched, and 

 what was iiis surprise to find that he owned two 

 young eagles. The hen mother was al,so suriirlsed 

 and fluttered about .so wildly tliat she trampled 

 one to death. The other grew and thrived, but 

 whether it lias yet carried off' its foster mother 

 we are not informed. 



• <J'Ood Isaac Hopper, when he met a boy with 

 soiled liands and face, was wont to ask him " if 

 he ever studied chemistry. 



Of course lie was answered "no," with a won- 

 dering stare. 



"Well then I'll teach thee how to perform a 

 •chemical experiment. Go home, take a piece of 

 soap and put it in water, and rub it briskly on 

 iny hands and face. Thou hast no idea what a 

 hcautitul froth it will make, and how mu.-h 

 whiter thy skin will In'. That is a chemical 

 experiment. I advise thee to try it." 



It is an excellent one for all boys and girls to 

 try dally, once or twice at least. 



The following rather curious piece of composi- 

 tion was recently placed upon the blackboard at 

 a teachers' institute, and a prize of a Webster's 

 Dictionary oflfered to any person who could read 

 it and pronounce ever.v word correctly. The 

 book was not carried ofl', however, as twelve was 

 the lowest number of mistakes in pronunciation 

 made: 



"A sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered 

 from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, 

 in order to make good the deficit, resolved to 

 ally himself to a comely, lenient, and docile young 

 lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He ac- 

 cordingly purchased a calliope and a coral neck- 

 lace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suite of 

 rooms at a principal hfitel, he engaged the head 

 waiter as his coadjutor. He then dispatched a 

 letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy ex- 

 tant, inviting the young lady to a matinee. She 

 revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself 

 sacrlficable to his desires, and sent a polite note 

 of refusal, on receiving which he procured a car- 

 bine and bowie knife, said that he -would not 

 now forge fetters hymeneal wit.h the queen, went 

 to an isolated spot, severed his Jugular vein, and 

 discharged the contents of his carbine into his 

 abdomen. The debris was removed by the coro- 

 ner." 



Mistakes were made In the following words, 

 of which we give the pronunciation as near as 

 possible to be given according to Webster. Sylla- 

 bles In italic are the accented ones. TbLi list will 

 be valuable for reference.— F. & Q. 



Sacrilegious (Sacri/ecgious) ; Belial (Beelial) ; 

 Bronchitis (Bron*.i/tis) ; Exhausted {Egzhaiestedy 

 Finances (Fih/in/wes) ; Deficit (/.ip/icit); Comely 

 lA'itHily)- Lenient liccnient) ; Docile (/tavile) ; 

 Malay (Mah/«,!/); Calliope {Callyeopee) ; Chame- 

 leon (Kamco/eoni ; Suite (.S'lcfcO; Coajutor (Coea- 

 jootor); Callgraiiby (VRlir/raty) ; Matinee iMateh- 

 "";'/); Sacraflcalile (.Vocreflzeable) ; Carbine iCar- 

 bein)- Hymeneal (////niencfal) ; Isolated (IssolHr- 

 ted); Jugular (Jewguler); Debris (Day6)-ee). 



A gentleman once observed a horse in New 

 York, standing just behind a cart loaded with 

 branches of lilac sprays, put down his head again 

 and again, as it smelling them. He did not 

 attempt to eat them, but seemed to enjoy their 

 fragrance. Perhaps it brought up the memory of 

 brighter days. 



True Benevolence.— A gentleman gave a 

 large sum to a solicitor for some kenevolent 

 entorprise, aud when the gratified agent thanked 

 liim warmly, he remarked, "perhaps you would 

 like to have it published in the papers." " To 

 be sure I would," he replied. "What do you 

 suppose I gave it for? 



They are not all that way. Henry F. Durant, 

 who foiinded Wellesly College, would not allow 

 a tablet witli his name on it, or a picturs ol him- 

 self, place<i on the wall. He would not even 

 liave one of the college buildings named after 

 him. 



An Odd Witness.— Dogs have sometimes boen 

 brought into court to "testify," which they did 

 in a very convincing way. There is no bribing a 

 (log to perjure himself." But a hen is a ratlier 

 uncommon witness. A man proposed to prove 

 that his heighbor had stolen his hen by the bird 

 herself. She was brought into the court room to 

 the no small amusement of those present, which 

 was not diminished when her owner said: 

 "Annie, sing for corn." Whereupon, Annie 

 struck up a song, as well as she knew how, and 

 was soon handed over to her owner, amidst peals 

 of laugliter. The kind hearted judge thought she 

 might perhaps liare "strayed over" to the 

 premises of the other man, so he was acquitted. 



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