NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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no extensive application for thin form of the metal 

 has been found, but the manager says the materi- 

 al must precede the use fur it. Perhaps books 

 may hereafter be printed for the tropics on these 

 metallic leaves and defy the destructive power 

 insects of any color or strength of forceps. We 

 have only to invent a white ink, and the thing is 

 done. 



Smut Machine. — D. Pease, Jr., of Floyd, Onei- 

 da Co., N. Y., has taken measures to secure a pa- 

 tent for an improvement in smut machines, which 

 consists in spreading the grain in a superior man- 

 ner to other smut machines, and regulating the 

 spread of the grain by an adjustable top, so as to 

 allow of the machine acting upon the grain in a 

 very superior manner. — Scientific American. 



Cables' JD partmmt. 



GOOD BREAD. 



Mr. Weed writes to the Albany Evening Journal: 

 — "We could learn one lesson from Austria with 

 great advantage to our people. This is the art of 

 making good bread, which, being as it is here, 

 universal, is really a great national blessing We 

 were struck first at Trieste with the fine quality ol 

 bread at our hotel. At all the eating-houses be- 

 tween Trieste and Vienna we remarked the excel- 

 lence of the bread. Here we enjoy the same lux 

 ury. Nor is it a luxury for the rich alone. The 

 same light, sweet bread is in all the hake-shops at 

 prices which enable all classes to purchase. Eng- 

 land has contrived humanely to give 'cheap bread' 

 to her people ; but Austria affords it still cheaper 

 and of an excellent quality. I do not know as this 

 secret for making good bread can be communicat- 

 ed. Perhaps it is owing to some peculiarity in 

 the flour, or in the water ; but I do know that the 

 art of making for the American people such bread 

 as is eaten throughout Austria, would be of in- 

 calculable value. A Vienna baker who should go 

 to the city of New York and vend such bread as 

 we get here, would be able to ride in his coach and 

 reside on the Fifth Avenue in two years. That is, 

 providing Yankee bakers did not find out his se- 

 cret." 



SIMPLE REMEDIES. 



At this season, we shall do our patrons a ser- 

 vice by laying before them two very cheap and 

 simple remedies. 



Dysentery often proves fatal, ft can easily be 

 stopped by applying proper astringents. A prep- 

 aration of creasote is getting to be a common rem- 

 edy among physicians ; but it is dangerous stuff. 

 The best remedy is parched rice — burned like cof- 

 fee. After it is well browned, cook it by boiling 

 in the usual way, and let the patient eat of it. 

 It digests in an hour, and therefore has a tolerably 

 quick effect. 



For Costiveness — a thing that leads to painful 

 and often fatal diseases — there is no better laxa- 

 tive than salt (chloride of sodium) dissolved in wa- 

 ter. Take a glass of warm water and dissolve a 

 teaspoonful of salt in it, then cool with ice, and 

 drink it off. To empty the contents of the bowels, 

 it is the safest and best ecphratic known. It does 

 not disturb the mucilage of the intestines, and 

 causes no pain or weakness. — Crusader. 



LACE. 



Mr. Weed, in one of his agreeable letters from 

 Europe, gives the following notice of the mania for 

 fine lace which is conspicuous among the forms of 

 modern extravagance : 



"The ladies visited the principal Lace Manufac- 

 tory, where the Brussels article is made and sold 

 for sums of money that would frighten prudent 

 people. What do you think, for example, of trim- 

 ming a dress with lace at $250 and $300 a yard? 

 But just now the rage is for old lace. In Florence, 

 Rome, Naples, Venice, &c. &c, traffic in old lace 

 18 very active. Ladies look for it with more solic- 

 itude than any other article of dress. Neither jew- 

 elry nor precious stones are so much prized as lace 

 known to have been worn by a cardinal or monk a 

 century or two ago. No lady thinks of leaving 

 Italy without securing some of their precious 

 spoils. Of course, the supply of old lace keeps pace 

 with the rapidly increasing demand ! How much 

 of it is genuine I will not undertake to say. Every 

 lady is quite sure that she can detect the antique 

 froin the modern." 



EF Dr. Franklin, in speaking of education, says, 

 "If a man empties his purse into his head, no one 

 c in take it from him." 



IWs Department. 



GET UP BEFORE THE SUN. 



Get up before the sun, my lads, 



Get up before the sun! 

 This snoozing in a feather bed 



Is what should not be done. 

 Eetween sunrise and breakfast, lads, 



Rise, breathe the morning air, 

 'Twill make you look so bright, my lads; 



'Twill make you look so fair. 



Get up before the sun, my lads — 



Shake off your sloth— arouse ! 

 You lose the greatest luxury 



Thai life has, if you drowse, 

 Between sunrise and breakfast, lads; 



Arise, then, do not lose 

 The key to health and happiness, 



By lying in a snooze. 



Get up before the sun, my lads, 



And in the garden hoe, 

 Or feed the pigs, or milk the cows, 



Or take the scythe and mow; 

 'Twill give you buoyant spirits, lads, 



Give vigor to your frame — 

 Then rise before the sun, my lads, 



And these rich blessings claim. 



The Storks an Emblem of Filial Affection. — 

 The storks are birds very much venerated in the 

 East on account of their love for their parents. 

 These birds are said to take care of their parents 

 when they become old and lose their feathers, so 

 that they cannot fly. They hover over them when 

 exposed to cooling damps, drive off all their ene- 

 mies, bring food for them, and when, on the wing, 

 their aged mother tires, they bear her on their 

 own back. 



"The stork's an emblem of true piety; 

 Because, wh<-n age has seized and made his dam 

 Unfit for flight, the grateful young one takes 

 His niolher on his back, provides her food, 

 Repaying thus her care of him, 

 Ere ho wa» fit to fly." 



