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portion on the cone will be entirely of white 
marble. Some of the slabs have been sent from 
foreign countries. One is from Greece, another 
from Turkey, and others from China and Siam. 
Other stones again are gifts from several states 
in the Union. We should not begrudge the 
money spent on memorials of our great men. 
They honor alike the monument builders and 
noble men whose services they commemorate. 
This structure will be one of the first things to 
impress the traveler with the splendor of our 
capital. It is situated upon the bank of the 
Potomac, from which the great white marble 
shaft will pierce the clouds, and will be outlined 
against the blue of the sky.—[From Demorest’s 
Monthly for September. 
Spirits of Turpentine.— This is one of the 
most valuable articles in a family, and when it 
has once obtained a foothold in a house it is 
really a necessity, and could illy be dispensed 
with. Its medical qualities are very numerous; 
for burns it is a quick application, and gives im¬ 
mediate relief; for blisters on the hand, it is of 
pricelese value, searing down the skin, and pre¬ 
venting soreness; for corns on the toes, it is use¬ 
ful, and good for rheumatism and sore throats, 
and is the quickest remedy for convulsions or 
fits. Then it is a sure preventive against moths; 
by just dropping a trifle in the bottom of draw¬ 
ers, chests and cupboards, it will render the gar¬ 
ments secure from injury through the summer. 
It will keep ants and bugs from closets and store 
rooms, by putting a few drops in the corners, 
and upon the shelves; it is sure destruction to 
bed-bngs, and will effectually drive them away 
from their haunts, if thoroughly applied to the 
joints of the bedstead in the spring cleaning 
time, and it injures neither furniture nor cloth¬ 
ing; its pungent odor is retained a long time, 
and no family ever ought to be entirely out of 
a supply, at any time of the year. 
There is nothing that adds more to the at¬ 
tractiveness of a farm house than a nice row of 
shade trees. They add to the cash value of the 
farm, and e very farmer should spare time enough 
in the spring to set out a number of these trees 
in front cf his dwelling, if he has not already 
done so. In former times the elm was consider¬ 
ed the best tree for that purpose on account of 
its beauty and fine shade, but for the farmer 
there is one great disadvantage in using this 
tree, and it should never be set within 100 feet 
of cultivated land, on account of the great length 
to which its roots extend. It is almost impossi¬ 
ble to plow in such land. The rock maple is 
the tree that should be set out by the farmer. 
It is as beautiful as the elm and equally as good 
for shade. Its roots extend deeper into the 
earth and cause no trouble to cultivation when 
planted within a few feet of the wall. If enough 
are planted in the highway adjoining your land 
they make a handy sugar orchard, and will fur¬ 
nish sugar for the family the year round.—[A. F. 
Emerson, Rockingham County, N. H. 
I am prompted by my own experience to say 
something about cabbage as a farm crop. More 
valuable vegetable food for our domestic animals 
can be raised per acre in cabbage than in any 
other crop. My cows have for two years had 
from July 15 to October 1, twice a day, all the 
cabbage they will eat. The result is as delicious 
milk as mortal ever tasted and fully one-third 
more in quantity. But the best use for cabbage 
is for hog feed. I have at present four hogs. 
Their food is simply cabbage twice a day and 
four quarts of wheat middlings mixed with a 
pail and a half of water. Te the doubting farm¬ 
ers who ask, Do your hogs thrive on that feed ? 
let me say, Come and see. If such an one 
could see how the pigs take hold of a tender head 
of cabbage his doubts would be soon dispelled. 
Having tried the matter for two years I affirm 
that I can produce a better growth of pork from 
cabbage than from wheat middlings.—[A. G. E., 
Hamden County, Mass. 
A writer in an exchange says: “I discov¬ 
ered many years ago that wood could be made to 
last longer than iron in the ground, but thought 
the process so simple that it was not well to 
make a stir about it. I would as soon have pop¬ 
lar or basswood posts. I have taken out bass¬ 
wood posts after having been set seven years 
that were as sound when taken out as when 
first put in the ground. Time and weather 
seemed to have no effect upon them. The posts 
can be prepared for less than two cents apiece. 
This is the recipe. Take boiled linseed oil and stir 
in pulverized charcoal to the consistency of paint. 
Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is 
not a man that will live to see it rot. 
The largest harvest of cucumbers in this 
part of the country is upon Long Island. The 
average yield is 120,000 cucumbers to the acre. 
Some of the land under especially high cultiva¬ 
tion produces as high as 175,000 cucumbers to 
the acj e. 
The Bural New-Yorker says that among 
some forty watermelons tested this season the 
Boss has been found decidedly the best in qual¬ 
ity. It is admitted to be the same as sent out 
in their seed distribution as “Perfection.” We 
believe it is one cd' the finest varieties yet in¬ 
troduced. 
