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DISSOLVING BONES. 
BY UK. D. LEE. 
A correspondent of* the Rural, writing 
from Chautauqua county, N. Y., asks for in¬ 
formation in reference to tlie use of snlphu- 
ric acid for dissolving bones. In the ab¬ 
sence of a bone mill for grinding bones, they 
should be broken reasonably fine with au 
old axe or sledge-hammer, and wet with 
water in a hall-hogshead, a large trough or 
some other cheap vessel, and receive one 
pound of the acid for two pounds of bones. 
The acid should be diluted with three or 
four parts of water to one of acid before it is 
applied. Finely ground bones treated in 
this way soon form the sulphate of lime and 
a soluble phosphate; but coarse fragments 
require a longer time and frequent stirring. 
Where the fertilizer is to lie sown in the 
drill, pulverized charcoal, or fine, dry loam 
should be, mixed with the mass, to facilitate 
its thorough drying, so that it will pass the 
tube of an ordinary drill, or it may be sown 
by hand. 
It is better, however, to pay forty cents a 
bushel for good wood ashes to decompose 
bones and serve as a manure, titan to buy 
sulphuric acid at the market price. This 
may be done by putting alternate layers of 
ashes and fresh bones in an old hogshead 
till it is foil, and wetting slightly, from time 
to time, the mixture with hot water to 
hasten chemical action. Bones become 
broken down in this way, and assimilable 
plant food. According to Dr. Voelcickh, 
chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England, high-pressure steam, by simply de¬ 
priving bones of their gelatine and fat, en¬ 
ables them to “be ground into a, Jim powder, 
which in readily assimilated by plants'' He 
also states a fact known to many farmers: 
“ Placed in a heap with ashes or sand, and 
occasionally moistened with liquid manure 
or water, bone enters into putrefaction, and 
becomes a more soluble and energetic ma¬ 
nure than ordinary bone dust.” 
To such as manufacture super-phosphates 
ns a business, the use of sulphuric arid is in¬ 
dispensable ; but the farmer, who keeps stock 
and makes manure, will find the Norfolk 
plan of treating bones unquestionably Ike 
best. They grind them, and place bone- 
dust, in alternate layers with fermenting ma¬ 
nure, in conical heaps, covered a few inches 
with sod or soil, to shed off heavy rains. 
Experience proves that all the nitrogen in 
bones is saved by this process, and the phos¬ 
phoric acid made available as manure. Sul¬ 
phuric acid gives 1 he farmer nothing but 
gypsum in addition to what bones have 
without it; and this fertilizer is cheapest, 
bought as land-plaster. 
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VARIATION OF FARM LABOR. 
Ip a little more system were exercised in 
the division aud apportionment of farm la¬ 
bor, much of the drudgery incident to this 
pursuit might bo avoided. Agriculture fur¬ 
nishes such a diversity and variety of bodily 
motion, that it may be made a pangymnasium 
for the development and training of the 
whole physical organism. Here we should 
look for the best specimens of health, and 
the most robust and muscular men. Some 
farmers are more deformed and contracted 
A drouth set in, and all but destroyed the 
young plants. They had not yet felt the ei- 
fect of the manure. But in August a good 
shower or two started them, the few there 
were, with a world of weeds. The rain oou- 
tinued, and the weeds grew; all was weeds, 
it seemed; but, upon examination, it was 
found that a few straggling, spindling, pale 
carrots were there. And as t hey were some¬ 
what evenly, though sparsely distributed, it 
wita t hought best to weed the lot, which was 
done, the weeds left between the rows, thus 
forming a mulch, as well as a manure in a 
short time. 
1 have seen growths of roots that sur¬ 
prised me; but this was a miracle. But a 
few days after the weeding 1 came along, 
and the ground was occupied. It was a 
dense growth as had been the weeds before. 
There was not an inch of ground to be seen. 
The roots had reached the manure, and the 
moisture and the heat aided. And thus it 
grew till late in the fall. 
When dry, the ground was covered; and 
such large, orange-colored carrots, lying 
every way—and only large—and the largest 
I ever saw, and—what was most important 
of all— brittle,, tender, almost like the water 
itself that was in them. They served as food 
for man and beast; and everything that fed 
on them thrived. It was the sudden growth 
the latter part, of the season that did this. 
There was no chance for wood to form and 
mature. 
The crop was owned by John Hall of 
Starkvillc, N. Y., and raised on his premises. 
p. a. 
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WAGON TIRES. 
Ought not Tires of Greater Widlli to be 
Used ? 
Heavy laden wagons with narrow tire, 
when drawn over land under tillage (in 
gathering crops, hauling stone, fertilizers, 
&c., the wagon is heavy laden,) leave a rut 
or wagon track, and if the field be newly 
seeded to grass, destroy a great portion of 
that pressed under the wheels, by bruising, 
mangling and compressing the roots and 
branches of the small and tender plants, 
The ease is exactly the same when the soil 
is moist, though the land overwhieh Hie load 
is drawn lias been long seeded to grass. The 
highway exhibits specimens of the folly of 
using narrow tire for heavy draught wagons. 
In portions of the country it is unsafe for light 
vehicles to travel on highways, the ruts are 
so deep and dangerous. On the contrary, if 
wagons with wide tire were used, the deep, 
unsightly ruts across tilled fields would not be 
seen, nor would our highways be so defaced, 
though equally heavy loads were drawn, 
and the draught would be much lighter. 
Those and other facts will readily suggest 
to the thinking man the superiority of wide 
tire over narrow tire for farm and draught 
wagons. The only debatable point on this 
subject is, what should be the increased 
width ol the tire? In my opinion,based on 
observation of wagons heavy laden, with 
various widths of tire, the width of tire for 
farm purposes should be at least, three and a 
half inches; four inches would be. none too 
wide. The first cost would he a few dollars 
more, but this is more than compensated by 
the easiness of draught, durability and non- 
rutting of the farm and highway. The same 
reason that w« use wide tire'on the drawing 
wheels of our reaping machines, will justly 
apply in this ease. 
Yates Co., N. Y. L. D. Snook. 
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Gates and Substitutes Therefor. — Hero is a 
than shoemakers aud tailors; and nothing Gnte* an j substitutes Therefor.—Hero is a 
but neglect of the best opportunities for pertinent Inquiry from W. M. Tom linson, North 
symmetrical and harmonious development Urban a, Steuben county, N. v.:- ” Wanted, tho 
accounts for this lact. A man mu. t planted In the house yard against, the ravages of 
all day to make a garment; but sowing terms cu .njf., $tc., from the street. Our winters are 
n small portion of the labor in making a such that ordinary gates involve liuioli labor, (is 
crop. Hoeing, weeding, cultivating and wcitnsannoynnoo. Hencn a common and most 
,. . . . . lltM , convenient plan is to set. aside tho gate, giving 
digging each in ti t ‘ " to all free Ingress and egress through the Bnowv 
muscular effort. season. This has boon tny own practlco, but I 
Those who arc accustomed to apply thorn- (or rather wo) have a new house add propose to 
selves from morn till eve to anyone of these enclose yritb it a large yard, in which to plant 
operations will find a change from one to things ornamentet and useful My fence is to 
1 , . , . , , , , bo ot square jackets—hen tight. It m Order to 
another several tunesdurmg the day at tended swu ,iiy gates must be shut at all times, T want 
With far less fatigue and exhaustion, and re- the best—the most secure—the easiest operated, 
tire from the field with a freshness and buoy- Also want plan rorsmall gates—all self-abutting, 
aucy never dreamed of by the monotonous 'Dus writ ten hi the hope of receiving vatuablo 
plodding sons of foil. Increase of sfrength, thr , (U{ . h 1ll0 UmiAIi . 
and expansion of all the powers (physical - +++ - 
and ment al) are the result of this progressive Fencing Against Stock. — During the Agrioul- 
gysleni of manual labor. tural Lectures and Discussions at the Kansas 
^ - i j.—I. ,, _ , State Agricultural College at Manhattan this 
The farmer s dumb-bells are the ax aud W(g br0acned , am , Mr . kluskv asserted 
spade; his ropee and rings,the-plow handles that, “the necessity for fencing at nil against 
and lines; his wand, the hoe aud fork. With othor men's stock wasa cruel and unjust burden, 
this outfit, he can follow successfully that He maintained, mid defied any ono to show 
. _i, i,„,.ni. . i,i i • reason to the contrary, that, when a infill bought 
pursuit which leads to health, wealth, happi- un(l pai(1 fop a , HOd , t wm) of ri ght his 
ness and long life. I>. u. U. to use, without being compelled to build a liftrri- 
---- cade about it. to protect, himself hi the use of 
HORSE MANURE FOR CARROTS. Ills own property. If a man kept stock, let him 
_ keep it upon his own premises, ns much as the 
The best crop of carrots we ever knew ™ an «*>rn or wheat upou his. He re- 
. , . , ferred to New York and other States where tins 
was raised with horse manure, lhe ma- theory had become a part of their statutes, and 
nure was old, and made by stage horses; it. said that no State, county, town, or community, 
was, therefore, rich and rotten. In t his con- hm l ever gone back when the stop had once been 
dition it was spread on tire ground, covering tak< ‘ 11, _ +++ _ 
the soil some two inches. It was the pure A Piimp Wanted.-I have a well in which 
fiilnek'i manure there Is a rtinstant, supply of water two and one- 
pjmuij manure. half foot deep, .lust thirty-two feet deep from 
It Was plowed under, up to the beam of the top of t lie platform. What is the best kind 
♦he nb.w Tim ;,a..ii' ..i .. of junui) to raise water from It, taking into ac- 
tue plow, lhe sod ltscll was good at a count enoapness, durability am? ease of raising 
depth, a black, sandy mould, but run for a th<> water y The water never rises to a greater 
... . , . , , height, but Hows oil through a seam In the rock, 
long time, with occasional manurmgs latterly. w. e. m. 
5kc |JouIfrii-Hitrh. 
PURE-BRED FOWLS. 
Purity is the first thing to be looked tit 
in purchasing fowls to breed from; and 
having been in the business for twenty-five 
years, and bred nearly all know n varieties, T 
think I know when 1 see a thorough bred 
fowl; but not more than one in five breeders 
have pure-bred fowls, as 1 have found this 
fall and winter. 1 have for the past two 
years reduced my stock to five varieties; but 
there being so much call for fowls of all 
kinds, I thought 1 would stock up again, 
and, as T said before, 1 have only found one 
out of five who advertised that, sold pure¬ 
bred fowls; and my opinion is that if they 
only knew what was pure and what was 
not there would not be so many impure 
fowls sold for pure. But one will buy fowls 
of another who has advertised them for sale, 
who knows no more than he does, yet takes 
it for granted that the one that offers them 
to sell must know, and the purchaser also 
offers and sells them for pure-bred, so it goes 
from one to another. This, T think, is the 
reason that there are so many impure fowls 
sold—not that the advertisers mean l<> cheat 
or deceive their customers, but do so through 
not knowing themselves. I don’t wish to 
injure any one, so T will not call any names; 
but wish to speak of a few cases that have 
come under my eye, to prove what 1 have 
said. One gentleman advertised (not in 
Rural) Bolton grays, also creoles; now 
they are both one and the same fowl, and 
should be called silver penciled Hamburgs. 
(Am 1 not right? If not i wish to be cor¬ 
rected, so 1 may know.) Another has gold¬ 
en pheasants (a wild fowl of England.) Yet. 
he says to me his have large tops and are 
liens. I suppose they are Polands. An¬ 
other man has white Australians. 1 guess 
they are; some have rose, some single, and 
some pea combs; some have five toes, some 
have four toes, and some six toes. 1 believe, 
as far as 1 know, all were white in feather. 
But enough of this. 
1 wish to give my opinion and description 
of all the fowls 1 ever have raised, and if I 
give a wrong description I hope some one 
will correct me ; if i am right, then it may 
benefit sonic one who may want to purchase. 
I will first speak of the large breeds. 
First, of light Brahmas: as it, matters 
little where they came from or originated, 
they arc a good fowl and have a good many 
warm friends. Of Light. Brahmas I breed 
two varieties distinct—one smooth legs; 
the other heavily feathered legs; other ways 
alike in every respect. The cocks are white 
bodies, neck-hackle penciled, with black 
wing plumes, and saddlc-backle of rich 
cream-while color; tail black, with glossy 
green plume feathers, with black flight 
feathers in the wings. The pullets or hens 
arc white bodies, neck-hackle w T ell penciled 
with black, and black tails. Both coc ks and 
hens have small wattles, Imt ear-lobes ex¬ 
tremely large and pendulous; pea combs, 
yellow legs, and heavily leathered on the 
one and entirely smooth legs on the other, 
and should weigh from twenty-two to 
twenty-four pounds the pair. None others 
are pure or thorough-bred. 
Penciled, or dark Brahmas, as they are 
called, are, hens, ground color is a pure 
white, beautifully touched, or, yon might 
say, penciled with black all over body; neck- 
hackle dark, penciled with black; tails 
black; cocks same color as hens, with sil- 
Bpcclded Cochins are, in feather, a pure 
black; a pure white, intermixed, are single 
combs, with well-feathered, yellow legs. 
I have seen another stock of speckled Co¬ 
chins that, were red and white, or yellow and 
white. They are the same in size as other 
Cochins. 
Black Cochins, or black Javas, as some 
call them, are perfectly black liens in feather; 
!rt a air Artists. 
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ART GOSSIP. 
It gives one a positive delight to chronicle tho 
absolute success, or promising talent even, of a 
young art ist. A painter whom we come to know 
and admire through his pictures, for Which we 
Cocks usually have cream or red neck and involuntarily conceive a positive affection, can- 
saddle-hacklo and wing plumes, single 
combs, well-feathered, yellow logs; some¬ 
times 1 have seen good specimens with 
black legs. 
Part ridge Cochins T have none; never saw 
one, unless they are Chitagongs, therefore 
will not, or cannot, describe them. 
Paris, N. Y. m. d. l. 
We print this article Without submitting 
to our Poultry Editor, xvho may have some 
comments to make. The writer informs us 
he has no fowls for sale; when lie has he 
will advertise them. 
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SNOW FOR FOWLS. 
I think some of your correspondents have 
an erroneous idea that snow will take the 
place of water. My liens are os eager for 
water every day as for their food, and I am 
as particular to give them fresh waiter every 
day as I am to give them food. Homo peo¬ 
ple pretend to say that, hens don't need any 
drink at, all, and verify it by their laziness. 
As for snow, 1 think T know by my own 
experience that it will not quench thirst; 
for I have been sometimes where I could 
not procure water and have substituted 
snow, ami have always been thirstier than 
ever in five minutes afterwards. 1 hope, for 
the sake of the poor hens, no one xvill sanc¬ 
tion such ideas. .T. b. 
New Britain, Feb., 1809. 
Mv hens— Brahmas and Black Spanish — 
arc confined nearly the wholo year, but can 
get. all tlic snow they desire; still, on even 
the coldest mornings this winter, they crowd 
around the pail of water which 1 carry to 
the bum lor my horse, and drink heartily, 
apparently feeling very discontented if de¬ 
nied their morning drinks. 1 have also 
noticed, when butchering poultry, that a 
drink of water will cause the crop to get 
empty ill a few hours, when sometimes near¬ 
ly thirty-six* hours were required when Waiter 
was withheld. 
As another instance, when living at home, 
when a hoy, our liens had but little care and 
a winter egg was something to he proud of; 
but one winter we kept a pair of ducks that 
kept a hole open in the ice of a little stream, 
near by, where the hens went, to drink. That 
winter we had eggs. With no extra care, 
my half-dozen Brahma pullets have laid 
during January about one hundred eggs. 
M. 11. Prince. 
WcllsbOro, Tioga Co., Pa., Feb.. 1809. 
Snow, and water from melted snow are 
very injurious to fowls. Tn u short time, a 
bird in exhibition, though well fed, will lose 
the bloom upon its plumage and become re¬ 
duced to a mere skeleton if given only snow 
water to drink. Fowls dislike walking upon 
snow or any cold surface; lienee they prefer 
eating snow to walking “a few rods” to 
w ater. No amateur who knows the bad ef 
fects of snow and snow water, will allow his 
fowls to touch it—that is, he will give him¬ 
self the trouble to give them an ample supply 
of clear, fresh water daily. 
Montreal, Canada. M. o. v. A. 
Please tell that poultry fancier that fowls 
not be charged with having won golden opinions 
bydtntor personal sympathy. A picture called 
“The Orphan," by Oregon Wilson, on exhibi¬ 
tion fora few days at tho Academy, an<l later in 
Snkdbcor's Art Gallery in New York, has faults 
enough to constitute It the work of n human 
being, and excellences enough to deserve the 
best commendation one can give, or an artist 
wish to receive. To say that a twelve or four¬ 
teen year old girl, with brown eyes, brown hair, 
and the simplest of a brown dress on, is sitting 
In a careless, easy yet lovely attitude, in open 
air, gives one but a faint conception of lhe out¬ 
line, but naught of the Sind of tho picture. Hut. 
if you can imagine a young girl's face, full of 
deep, tender, womanly feeling, one you would 
never tire of looking into and yet never think 
of calling it either plain or beautiful, you may 
got a l'aint idea of the fare, to say nothing of 
tho fair, dear shoulders that look unprotected in 
a double sense. There may be fault in the color¬ 
ing; tho shading may have too much blue in it, 
and one of the hands is without doubt poorly 
drawn; yet as a picture, and a picture wil.1i 
meaning, and fife, and soul in it, it is most 
especially desirable, and so cheap, too, in com¬ 
parison with some five, ten, and even twenty 
thousand dollar paintings, which a person with 
good taste wouldn't take in Ids house as a gift. 
Tho price of “The Orphan" is four hundred 
dollars with frame. Wilson has on his easel a 
large canvas, six reel by eight, on which he is 
telling a Story of the late war. The story is 
this: After the battle at Winchester, a young 
woman going on the battle field to help ulJevi 
ate suffering, found a young ('on federate sol¬ 
dier terribly wounded and dying from loss of 
blood. She lifted his head up into tier lap, And 
summoning u surgeon to her aid, was told by 
him that if she could hold up his head and 
shoulders in that, way all night ho might possi¬ 
bly recover. Tho time chosen by the artist is 
I he next morning Just before sunrise. The wind 
has blown the girl’s hair about tier shoulders, 
and her face, looking on the pallid one beneath, 
has a weary, yet lender and anxious look. It is 
Mr. AVii. son's jmrpose, when the picture is fin¬ 
ished, to give It to Virginia, Ids native Stale. Ii 
will probably be exhibited in most of the South¬ 
ern States, and also chromo-lithogTaphed. Mr. 
Wilson has a young, frank, Tn.TON-ish face, 
with blue eyes, brown, waving hair, and unas¬ 
suming manners. 
.IkromkThompson, whoso “Old Oaken Buck¬ 
et" and “Home, Swept Home,” pictures exhib¬ 
ited by Mr. I'RYE of 8" Fifth avenue, and which 
claim to have been viewed by ;i50,(KK) people 
within the past year, la a genuine” down-caster." 
lie was born In Massachusetts, and retain; lie- 
original Yankee dialect to an ash* fishing decree. 
I to speaks any way but fluently, nml is a. curious 
ml Mure of egotism and modest \. He i as. proud 
of Ids pictures as a mother of her first -born ; but 
in, and of himself, he has a child's simplicity, 
lie is of medium height, stout and compactly 
built, hair and beard white with age, light blue 
eyes, a high, lull forehead, a prominent hut 
handsome nose, and a broad mouth. He lias a. 
farm in Minnesota, where he spends his sum¬ 
mers, mid comes to Ids Now York studio in (lie 
winter. Mr. Thompson has n new picture just 
from his ousel, illustrative of the homeward 
journey of Hiawatha and Minnehaha. The 
scene is an actual sketch made on the Ujiper 
Mississippi, near Luke Pepin. Tho foreground 
is a sort of plateau, or elevated spot, with un¬ 
even surface, covered with luxuriant vegeta¬ 
tion, over which Hiawatha is leading Minne¬ 
haha, with one band clasping that of the happy, 
joyous-faced I, u giiing Water, and with tho 
other lifting a recumbent vine from the path 
she is to follow in, 
“Cleared the tangled pathway for her.” 
At the bottom of a gradually sloping de¬ 
clivity, a rabbit poors from bis burrow, and an¬ 
other, W’arasso, “sits erect upon ids haunches." 
A squirrel, “ from his ambush in (lie oak tree, 
peers upon them." The meandering of tho 
river, the distent hills, the gently undulating 
very, white neck ami saddle-hackle and wing tjn „ a of anow „ n( ] a dish of water side 
1 -I. I 1 A * 1 . . . . . 
do not prefer snow to water, but xvill eat it meadows, the Indian summer hazyness of tho 
rather than go through snow to reach water, atmosphere, the Money clouds delicately burn- 
I advise him to try the experiment of set- l«»*«d by the setting sun, constitute a fitting and 
.. hntinw tti l i o II ell »•»•/ . i i i 11 1 i n 11- , . I 1 In, t »», i 1 rvlv Linia 
plumes; short black tails, well covered with p y s jde before his fowls, and see which they 
dark glossy green sickle feathers. Both cocks fi .' 0 to , nost n8( turally. Fowls require plenty 
and hens have pea combs, large ear-lobes, ()t fresll) pure water daily, in winter as weil 
with short, heavily feathered, yellow leg's; a9 8umm er, and are heartier, and lay better 
will weigh, at maturity, twenty-two to t.wen- for jt An Old Subscriber. 
ty-five pounds to the pair; all others are not __+ , »__ 
pure. Value of Poultry Manure.—A foreign writer 
The next large breed are Cochins, as they says:— “in France, as well us our own country, 
are called now, hut once, in my poor opinion, most eminent chemists have proved by analysis, 
. , , ,, I, that poultry manure is a most valuable tortil- 
were called Shanghaes; but no matter what ^ ^ yot( for W(Ull pvopol . B yste... m 
they are called, they are a good fowl it pure. Rousing poultry, ii has not been rendered avall- 
I suppose they are culled Cochins for the able to rural economy. The celebrated V att- 
reasou that all the good or pure specimens in ynKiaw says thai when the value oi man ures is 
‘ . , , considered in relation to lhe amount ot azote 
the country are from fowls, or are, imported ,| IC , V contain, the poultry manure is one of the 
from England; aud all are called Cowhins most :ieUvo stimulants; ami when, as a means 
there. They are divided into live or six of comparison, the following manures are taken 
kinds or varieties as follows—White, buff in partoof ),WH), it, will be found , hilt m 
or ml Dominique, speckled, black, and pm- Glmm>i [1S iin! , 0 ,.,,-ci. 40.7 do. do. 
trklge color. The white Cochin is pure whil e o„ a no, sifted of vegetables, etc. 53.9 do. do. 
in feather; heavily feathered, yellow legs, Poultry manure . 83-0 do. do. 
generally single comb ; (although T am breed- CnvemCwar fowls Wanted. - Of 
ing or frying to breed them pea comb.) will we have received a large number of letters 
weigh at maturity twenty to twenty-four asking where Oreve-Cojur and other fowls ean 
pounds the pair. The buff or red—mine arc be obtained, and the juice. As wo cannot im- 
red, or light, mahogany color —arc single swer definitely, we refer all inquirers to ourud- 
comb, well serrated, short black tails, with (b08e having choioe poultry for sale will ere 
short, heavily feathered yellow legs; weigh long advise how and at what price the demand 
pounds the pair. The buff or red—mine are be obtained, an 
red, or light mahogany color—arc single swer d,•finitely, 
comb, well serrated, short black tails, with Jr, having ”0 
short, heavily leathered yellow legs; weigh | ong advise how 
at maturity twenty-two to twenty-six pounds can be supplied 
the pair. . . Eufcdea Geos 
Dominique Cochins are, in color, a pure about Km | lt ],. n 
watered and white speckled, variegated or e ggs)can bepr< 
penciled all over body, neck, hackle and watch our adve 
tail; both cocks and liens xvill weigh, at tilings ask ed 101 
maturity, twenty to twenty-four pounds E ^ g of HoUl 
the pair; single combs, well-feathered, yel- inquiries for ti 
| low legs. Let those who h 
F.mlxlen Geese. —Wo have several inquiries 
about Bnibden Goose—where they (and their 
eggs) can be procured, prices, etc. For answer 
watch our advertising columns, in winch many 
things asked for are (or ought to be) offered. 
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Ekr* or Houdan Fowls. —We have a dozen 
inquiries for the eggs of this breed of fowls. 
Let those who have them for sale advertise. 
harmonious surrounding or the central objects, 
and fully verify LONorar.Low's account of the 
“ pleasant journey homeward,” 
” Through interminable forests, 
< Ivor meadows, over mountain, 
Over river hill and hollow.” 
The ornaments of Minneuaiia, and accou¬ 
terments of Hiawatha are in excellent In¬ 
dian keeping. The entire picture is a satisfac¬ 
tory rendering of the poem. “The Captive 
Child,” by the sumo artist, is Simple enough in 
composition. An Indian youth row ing a canoe in 
which a little white girl sits, forgetting for the 
moment her captivity tn pluekirig the water 
lilies over the side of the bark. The floral 
coloring forms a curiously brilliant conforma¬ 
tion of color. This picture has boon chrorno- 
lithogmphed by Mr. Frye, which ill ils execu¬ 
tion is only another proof that no people excel 
Americans in this branch of lithography. 
Vinnje Ream’s statue of Lincoln has aj>- 
proaelicd to such a stale of completion as l o ad¬ 
mit of fair criticism, and has been pronounced a 
“ success " by intimate friends of the late Presi¬ 
dent. Vlnme cornea off victorious after all, 
and Mrs. Cady Stanton wonders that anybody 
can help falling in love with such a beautiful, 
charming and heavenly-eyed creature sis the 
little artiste In the Capitol. 
A collection of two hundred oil paintings, 
by home and foreign artists, was recently sold 
in New York for six thousand dollars. The 
highest sale was one by CAROLUS, “ The Morning 
Call," which sold l’or eight hundred and fifty 
dollars. “The Empty Cradle,” by Constant 
Mayer, sold for flfty-flvo dollars. A vase of 
“ Flowers," by GEO. II. II all, brought fifty dol¬ 
lars. The rale was considered a sacrifice. 
Q uit A im Dow, a celebrated pupil of 1 H:m- 
at! a ntit, and one of the most distinguished 
Dutch (icun j,a intern, was intended by his lather, 
who was a glazier, for a gliess painter. 
Kobe Hawthorne, youngest daughter of the 
novelist, is studying painting at Dresden, aud 
shows great promise. 
