OST. 2S 
THE  BUBAL 
-YOBKE 
make  oiir  lands  fat,  so  that  they  will  pay  a  good 
rent  to  the  owner  and  tiller ;  it  is  to  increase  the 
fertility  of  the  soil,  by  feeding  and  fattening  it, 
as  we  beUeve  it  may  be  made  fat  in  sod  and  in 
manure,  as  easily  as  we  can  make  a  poor  pig  to 
gain  in  flesh. 
THE  NEW  LIBERIAN  COFFEE. 
Mo.nrovia.v  or  Lihorian  doffoe  has  long  been 
stated  to  bo  a  superior  kind  of  Coffee,  although 
for  various  reasons  it  has  not  yet  obtaijied  a 
place  among  the  commercial  descriptions  of  the 
Coffee  market.  Tartly  on  account  of  the  alleged 
jealousy  of  the  naUves  in  LilK-ria,  jiartly  on  ac 
count  of  the  want  of  eommercial  enterpriso  in 
that  part  of  W  ostern  Tropical  Africa,  partly  on 
account  of  the  firm  hold  on  the  market  ©stab- 
hshed  in  rosFiect  of  the  Arabian  Coffee  as  culti- 
Tm  ,^,“''"'y«>‘»‘tries,a8wcll  in  the  Now  as 
m  the  Old  World,  and  partly  for  want  of  better 
knowledge,  this  flner  and  more  robust  species 
has  hitherto  been  permitted  in  remain  practically 
mikuown  to  tlio  markets  of  tho  world. 
At  length,  however,  thaidos  to  tho  exertions  of 
Mr.  W.  Hull,  says  tho  Gardeners’  Chronicle  of 
London,  Eng.,  and  the  ollicial.H  of  the  Uoyal 
Gardens,  Kew,  the  attention  of  commercial  men 
has  been  drawn  to  it,  and  a  wonderfully  impor¬ 
tant  change.  |>crhaps  amounting  to  a  revolnUon 
m  this  trade,  is  apparently  about  to  be  realized. 
Two  destructive  diseases  infecting  tho  old  Coffee 
plantations  in  Ceylon,  due  to  attacks  of  fungi, 
have  compelled  tho  pla/itors  to  seek  fresh  filants 
that  may  be  able  to  resist  disease.  The  more 
robust  habit,  coupled  with  tho  lowei'  and  hotter 
character  of  the  situations  where  it  is  indigenous, 
renders  it  probable  that  the  JJberiaii  Coffee 
plant,  whether  or  not  it  ho  hardy  enough  to  re¬ 
sist  the  diseases  that  have  de.stroyed  tho  ohl 
cro{)8  in  Ceylon,  will  at  all  events  bo  useful  in 
that  island,  where  previously  it  has  been  found 
impracticable  to  grow  Coffee  below  an  elevation 
of  2,000  feet  above  tho  sea  level ;  and  in  other 
Coffee-pro<lucing  districts  lilco  benofits  may  bo 
anticipated. 
The  leaves  of  the  now  spr-cios  are  much  larger 
and  more  oliovato  in  figure  than  in  the  old  ;  they 
are  also  of  a  lirmer  and  more  coriaceous  sub- 
staHco.  The  soe/ls  are  larger,  and  although  in  the 
Ai-abiari  Coff  ee  tho  smaller-sizerl  berries,  such  as 
the  Mocha  variety,  are  preferred  in  the  market 
and  retell  a  higher  price,  yet  it  is  claimed  for  tho 
Liberian  Coffee  tliat  tho  larger  berries  are  of  tlio 
beat  quality  and  of  tliC  highest  value.  Jdborian 
Coffee  is  now  lieing  grown  on  a  large  scale  from 
seed  imported  for  the  imqioso,  both  by  Mr.  Hull 
and  at  Kew,  and  a  considerable  business  is  being 
done  in  oxpiirting  young  plants  to  tho  different 
counti’ies  whore  Coffee  is  extensively  grown  for 
economic  purposes.  Tho  ooroUas  of  tho  flowers 
differ  from  those  of  Coffee  Arahioa,  Linn.,  by 
their  coiisidorahly  larger  size,  and  in  being 
usually  hoptamerous  (7-partod)  or  occasionally 
hexamorouB,  instead  of  pontamerous,  as  in  tho 
latter  species. 
SPECULATION  vs.  LEGITIMATE  BUSINESS. 
There  are  probably,  says  the  Am.  Grocer, 
some  of  our  readers  who  do  not  understand  the 
terms  used  so  often,  “  selling  long  ”  and  “  selling 
short.”  They  both  mean  the  same  thing,  and 
that  is,  soUujg  what  you  have  not  got,  and  in 
very  many  instances,  never  expect  to  have. 
They  mean  Uiat  one  man  has  made  a  liet  that  by 
a  certain  lime  some  stock  or  some  proiierty  will 
be  at  a  higher  price  than  it  then  is,  and  another 
that  it  will  he  at  a  lower  jirico.  Now  we  do  not 
mean  to  say  that  property  ought  not  to  be  sold 
for  future  delivery,  for  that  would  bo  foolish  j 
we  do  not  wish  to  restrict  tiro  legitimate  hand¬ 
ling  of  goods,  for  almost  all  and  especially  large 
business  transactions  requiro  time  to  complete 
them  and  make  deliveries,  but  we  do  say  and 
mean  that  those  bargains  for  the  ijurohaso  and 
sale  of  any  luoporty,  whore  tho  property  sold  is 
not  intended  to  be  delivered,  and  only  the  differ¬ 
ence  in  the  market  value  is  to  bo  paid,  is  gamb¬ 
ling  and  of  tho  worst  sort,  because  it  lias  a  shade 
of  respectability  about  It  and  is  not  universally 
condemned.  It  is  done  in  stores  and  exchanges 
where  estimable  merchants  moot  to  transact  their 
business ;  it  is  done  by  some  of  our  good  men,  but 
it  has  a  bad  influence  on  the  parties,  as  it  gives 
longer  time  to  manipulate  matters  so  as  to  make 
a  bargain  a  good  one.  It  is  as  demoralizing  in 
its  effect,  with  the  single  exception  of  contact 
and  association  with  downright  blackguards  as 
to  go  to  John  Morrissey's  pool  room  and  bet  his 
“  banker,”  as  they  like  to  term  it,  that  a  certain 
cord  or  color  will  turn  up. 
Actual  transactions— that  is  the  sale  and  deliv¬ 
ery  of  proi>erty— are  limited  to  tho  amount  of 
property  to  be  handled  and  by  the  laws  of  trade, 
hut  “selling  short”  and  “selling  long,"  to  be 
settled  by  paying  “  differences,”  like  the  making 
d  of  accomodation  notes,  has  no  limit.  Such 
0  tranaactiouB  do  no  good  to  the  community  at 
t,  large,  as  ono  of  the  two  parties  must  lose  what 
D  tho  other  gains ;  such  transactions  do  not  sot  tho 
o  wheels  of  trade  in  motion.  There  may  be,  for 
instance,  thousands  of  tierces  of  lard  sold  in  this 
way,  and  not  ono  solitary  dollar  pass  hands  ex¬ 
cept  betw'oon  two  men  or  firms  for  tho  amount 
one  has  “  won  ’*  from  the  other,  while  an  actual 
j  sale  for  delivery  of,  say  for  exami>Io,  5,000  tierces 
^  of  lard  sets  trade  going  in  hundreds  of  different 
channels. 
j  In  the  first  place,  actual  transactions  are  gov- 
I  orned  by  the  general  laws  of  trade  and  based  on 
.  tho  wants  of  one  community  to  soli  and  of  an- 
^  other  to  buy  ;  on  the  actual  production  and  cou- 
I  sumption  of  different  parts  of  this  country  or 
of  foreign  countrios  ;  on  the  knowledge  that  one 
party  has  of  the  wants  in  ono  section,  and  that 
;  another  has  of  tho  production  of  a  dilTcront  sec¬ 
tion.  In  a  sale  mailo  in  this  way,  although  tlio 
person  making  the  snJe  may  not  have  the  goods 
he  has  sold,  yet,  fi-om  his  knowledge  of  what 
anrplus  there  is  in  one  section  that  must  bo 
markoteil,  ho  can  ordinarily  know  about  wliat  ho 
can  bny  for,  and  tho  cost  of  delivery  at  a  certain 
point.  Tliis,  although  it  is  attended  with  some 
risk  from  fluctuations  in  values,  (and  oftentimes 
from  these  very  flotitions  sales  which  we  now 
deprecate),  yet  is  legitimate  and  results  in  start¬ 
ing  trade  nil  over  tho  coiuitry.  We  will  give  an 
instance  of  the  effect  of  fletitions  sales  on  tho 
legitimate  trade.  Hnppesing  an  order  cornea 
from  Europe,  for  lanl.  When  the  order  rcachoa 
here,  thanks  to  some  speculators  concerned  in 
transactions  in  goods  of  wliich  they  never  in- 
tendixl  to  handle  a  tierce,  the  market  has  gone 
up.  On  this  account  tho  lard  cannot  be  bought 
at  a  price  that  will  allow  of  its  sbipnient  to  sup- 
lily  tho  legitimate  European  consumptive  de¬ 
mand,  and  the  foreign  market  will  not  respond 
to  those  speculative  jiricos  put  on  the  artJolo  hero 
by  washed  sales,  or,  as  they  are  more  familiarly 
known  in  Wall  Street,  “  Puts  and  Galls  so  tho 
g'lods,  instead  of  being  sent  from  tlio  phico  of 
proiliiction,  remain  where  they  wore,  and  wo 
have  to  wait  till  ono  or  the  other  apeenJator  gets 
beaten,  and  thou  tho  market  goes  down  to  a 
jioiiit  where  this  order  might  hav«  been  filled. 
Hut  by  that  time  it  has  been  filled  from  some 
other  Hoetion,  or  else  tho  consumption  has  been 
roatricted  by  the  very  high  prices,  and  the  prop¬ 
erty  is  left  on  the  hands  oitlier  of  the  producer 
or  the  dealer,  and  thus  so  muoh  loss  gold  coruos 
into  the  ooimtry. 
Take,  in  comparison,  tho  effect  of  an  actual  ' 
transaction  in  iard.  The  beginning  of  improve¬ 
ment  in  U-ade  is  with  tho  farmer ;  he  gets  his  < 
money  for  his  hogs  and  pays  it  out  to  tho  store¬ 
keeper  and  the  mechanic,  whom  ho  owes  ;  or  if 
lie  does  not  owe  anything  but  la,  as  a  groat  many 
of  our  farmers  are  now,  a  year  ahead  instead  of 
being  a  year  bohindband,  ho  gives  part  to  his 
wife.  “  Wife,”  says  ho,  “  I  have  sold  my  hogs  ; 
hero  is  some  money ;  go  and  get  what  you  want 
for  the  house  and  children,”  and  the  wife  is  not 
slow  to  go  to  the  store  and  shop  and  make  things 
“  hiun."  With  tho  balamie  tho  farmer  calculates  ' 
how  he  can  lay  it  out  best,  so  as  to  have  more  1 
to  sell  next  year.  Such  a  trausacUon  Ijouoflts  1 
the  railroads,  which  employ  more  labor  in  con-  ■ 
sequence  of  increased  biisuicss ;  the  cutter  or  ’ 
packer,  wiiose  trade  it  starts  up,  employs  more  ' 
workmen ;  tho  cooper  conies  into  jilay— ho  has  I 
to  have  more  lalior  and  siqqilies ;  the  lard  goes  ^ 
to  the  seaboard  and  the  shipjiiug  is  brought  into  ' 
requisition  and  so  on  all  through  tho  thousand  ' 
and  one  different  channels  of  traile,  an  actual  ' 
truiiHactiou  benefits  hundreds  and  tlioiisands.  i 
Ooutrast  this  with  one  of  these  “  washed”  or  1 
“  bet”  trades  that  does  no  more  good  than  the  ^ 
turning  of  a  card  in  a  gamhling  house  and,  in  ' 
fact,  does  a  deal  of  injimy  to  the  parties  con-  i 
cerned,  for  it  unfits  them  for  legitimate  truusac-  < 
lions.  ( 
Now  to  our  good  readers,  and  especially  the 
young,  ambitious  readers  of  our  paper,  we  ^ 
would  say :  Think  these  things  over  and  see  if  * 
you  would  not  prefer  that  all  your  dealings  * 
should  be  of  that  kind,  that  would  benefit  in  « 
some  way  your  follow  men,  rather  than  to  have  f 
them  of  that  kind  that  they  are  not  only  of  no  ® 
lienefit  to  any  <)f  them,  but  demoralizing  to  you, 
unfitting  you  for  the  more  legitimate  transactions  ® 
of  business.  These  “puts  and  calls,”  “selling  * 
short”  and  “selling  long,"  washed  sales,  if  you 
have  anything  to  do  with  them,  will  make  you  in  ^ 
effect  a  gambler,  unfit  you  for  regular  business,  ^ 
pat  a  fever  of  Bpeculation  into  your  mind,  and,  if  I 
continued  it  wfll,  in  nine  hundred  and  ninety-  * 
uiue  cases  out  of  every  thousand,  bring  you  to  ® 
grief  and  your  wives  aud  cliiUlron  to  jioverty,  * 
and  will  almost  always  involve  your  best  friends  i 
financially  in  your  down-falL  « 
We  want  oiu-  readers  to  be  as  they  are,  tho 
energetic  go-ahead,  briglit,  smart,  active  business 
men  of  the  commiuiity  in  which  they  reside. 
Ono  such  man  is  wortli  a  thousand  drones  to  a 
viUajre  town  or  city,  and  while  making  money  t 
for  himself  he  makes  money  for  others.  Let 
each  of  us  try  to  bo  that  man  and  not  a  apecu»  8 
lator.  t 
SHEEP-THE  OUTLOOK. 
I  - 
The  Farmers’  Friend,  in  commenting  on  the 
general  outlook  of  sheep  husbandry,  gives  the 
following  very  sensible  advice : 
Farmers  who  keep  large  Hocks  of  sheep,  should 
not  dispose  of  them  hastily.  In  view  of  the  low 
lirioes  they  bring,  and  the  cheapness  of  wool,  as 
wo  arc  not  ahv»,yM  to  have  such  times  as  exist  at 
firoHoiit.  Probably  in  two  or  throe  years  tho 
prices  will  advance  50  per  cent.,  from  tho  fact 
that  largo  portions  of  oiu’  wool  growers  will 
either  go  out  of  the  Imsinoss,  or  greatly  re<luce 
their  flocks,  no  matter  how  much  they  are  ad¬ 
vised  to  “  hold  on.”  In  Homo  cases  it  will  bo 
well  to  get  rill  of  your  poorest  sbeep,  aud  thus 
reduce  your  Hocks  somowliat ;  hut  our  advice  is 
to  reduce  your  flocks  as  little  as  you  can,  and 
malic  them  jiay  tho  expenses  of  keeping  till 
pritxiH  go  up.  Ihu-iug  tho  last  30  years,  there 
have  boon  a  half  dozen  ebbs  in  Ibo  jiricos  of 
sheep  and  wool,  aud  yet  those  breeders  who 
“  hold  on  ”  canio  out  all  right.  What  you  need 
most  is  good  lircciling  rams;  and  we  annex  what 
an  old  sheep  raiser  says:  “Tho  best  bred  and 
best  forincd  Merino  rams  may  now  be  bail  for 
fSO  to  ijilOO,  and  tho  long  wools  or  Downs  are 
quite  as  cheap ;  and  when  wo  reflect  that  wo  may 
have  .'ll)  to  100  lambs  from  a  single  siro,  what  a 
waste  of  niouoy  it  is  to  use  an  infcrioi’,  llaUsldwl 
I  rum,  bocaiiso  he  can  bo  hail  foriJilO  to|il5!  Tho 
defects  of  a  biul  sire,  used  fur  a  single  soasoti, 
will  bo  visihlo  ill  a  flock  for  many  generations,  so 
tliat  tho  injury  dimo  caunot  ho  cstimateil;  and 
tho  services  of  such  an  animal  will  never  bo  ac- 
oopted  by  an  iiitolhgont  brooder,  if  toudorod  as  a 
gratuity, 
Tho  Muloctiou  of  the  brooding  ram,  whoro  mut¬ 
ton  is  {iroduced,  must  ho  from  tlio  long  wools,  or 
tho  Downs.  If  wo  make  choice  from. tho  former, 
we  must  bo  caroful  to  have  an  animal  of  stout 
and  robust  constitution.  Those  shwip  have  been 
HO  goiicrally  forced  with  artificial  food,  that 
many  of  Ihom  lack  tho  hardiuoss  required  for 
tho  farmer’s  puriKisos.  WJuit  wo  must  have,  is 
a  straight,  round  barrel,  on  short  logs,  with 
short,  stout  ucck,  and  vigorous,  masoulino  ap¬ 
pearance  aliout  tho  hoaii.  Tho  body  should  ho 
well  covered  with  a  long  and  lustrous  staple,  of 
uniform  quality.  If  tho  selection  ho  of  the 
Southdown  brocil,  we  should  have  tho  same  gen¬ 
eral  form  as  here  described,  but  wo  ought  to 
have  a  more  compact  and  snug  carcass,  with  a 
good  deal  more  weight  for  bulk,  than  in  tho  long- 
wool  broods. 
VETERINARIAN  SCHOOL  WANTED. 
A  Hostos  Hoy,  says  the  Scientiflo  Farmer, 
wiites  from  the  Royal  Veterinary  Institute,  Hcr- 
lin  making  a  strong  apjioal  for  moans,  for  estab¬ 
lishing  a  Veterinarian  School  in  conueotion  with 
Harvard  University,  If  it  wero  possible  to  have 
this  school  ostahlished  uisin  a  firm  basis,  and 
with  such  a  coimection  as  this  University  would 
guarantee,  sirniily  from  its  own  standing  both  at 
homo  and  ahroail,  the  diroct.lionefit  to  our  great 
stock-owning  interest,  and  through  them  indi¬ 
rectly  to  tho  whole  countiy,  would  be  almost 
beyond  ostimatc,  substantially  or  humanely. 
Regarding  tho  means  of  educating  mou  for  this 
profession  we  are  to-day  immeasurably  behind 
every  otlier  civilized  coimtry.  Even  tlie  govern¬ 
ments  of  China  and  Japan  are  taking  tho  matter 
in  hand,  establishing  sohixils,  and  importing 
educated  Veterinarians  from  abroad  as  profess¬ 
ors.  "Why  IS  it  that  we  Americans,  a  nation  as  en¬ 
lightened  as  wo  suppose  ourselves  to  be,  so  por- 
sistontly  ignore  the  claims  of  the  Veterinary  art, 
and  either  allow  our  animals  to  suffer,  and  our- 
selvos  to  sustain  imnecossary  loss  at  tho  liaiids  of  a 
set  of  ignorant  men,  self-styled  Veterinary  sur¬ 
geons,  who  do  not  kuowtlie  first  rudiments  of  an- 
atomy,  pathology,  physiology,  or  the  action  of 
drugs? or  else,  having  hail ox[H3rienc6,  follow  the 
advice  rocently  given  by  a  notoil  divine,  “  and  keep 
tho  horse  doctor  as  far  away  as  possible  from  the 
sick  and  suffering  animal."  Is  it  right  that  such 
a  state  of  things  should  exist  when  there  is,  as 
the  experience  of  other  countrios  has  shown,  a 
profitable,  foasalde,  and  honorable  remedy  ?  Is 
there  any  one  who  does  not  believe  that  animals 
suffer  as  aontcly  as  men  from  physical  pain,  or 
that  their  diseases,  if  properly  understood  by  the 
person  in  attendance  on  them,  are  any  tho  less 
amenable  to  ti'oatment  ? 
- 
CAUSE  OF  MEGRIMS  IN  HORSES. 
attack,  he  has  found  it  exceedingly  ooiivnlsed 
and  acted  upon  by  spasmoilic  affection  of  tho 
muscles — a  symptom  that  could  not  bo  present 
if  the  disease  aroso  from  distension  of  the  arte¬ 
rial  couTioctions  of  tho  brain.  Ho  has  never  seen 
a  saddla-horso  alllictod  with  this  complaint,  and 
all  tho  cases  he  has  soon  occurred  when  tho  snn 
was  shining  brightly,  or  by  moonlight,  when 
snow  was  on  the  ground. 
He  had  a  favorite  pony  which  was  snlijoct  to 
megrims.  He  removed  the  winkors  from  tho 
bridle  and  tho  pony  never  showed  any  symptoms 
of  thorn  afterward.  It  Uien  oocurrod  to  him 
that  the  roflootiou  of  the  sxui  upon  tho  winkors, 
falling  directly  on  the  optic  nerve,  was  tho  canso 
of  this  extraordinary  complaint.  Since  then  ho 
has  hail  many  patients  affocted  with  mogritus, 
aud  in  every  case  ho  has  ordered  tho  removal  of 
tho  winkors,  or  if  tliere  wore  none,  to  have  the 
eyes  of  tho  horso  shatleil  with  a  piece  of  leather 
tliroo  or  four  iuehos  wide,  extending  in  front  from 
winker  to  winker.  In  ovory  instance  this  treat¬ 
ment  was  successful.  Ho  foitls  satisflod,  from 
tho  symptoms  ho  has  always  observed  in  luo- 
grims,  that  tho  brain  is  not  tke  seat  of  the  difli- 
CEMENT  FOR  CRACKED  HOOFS. 
M.  DErAV  has  ilisoovereil  a  preparation,  by 
moans  of  which  satulcracks  or  fractures  iu  lioof 
or  horn  may  bo  durably  comented  up.  Even 
piocos  of  Iron  can  lie  sociu-oly  Joiiiod  together  by 
its  means.  The  only  procantiori  necessary  for 
its  successful  apiflioation  is  tho  careful  romoviil 
of  nil  grease  by  spirits  of  sal-ammoniac,  sulphide 
of  carbou,  or  ether.  M.  Dofay  malies  no  socrot 
of  Its  composition,  whicli  is  as  follows  :  Take  ono 
part  of  coarsoly-FJowder^d  guni-amiiiojiiiacuni  and 
two  parts  of  giitta  pcrcha,  in  piocos  tlio  size  of  a 
hazel-nut.  Put  them  iu  a  Un-linod  vossel,  over 
a  slow  lire,  and  stir  constantly  until  llioroughly 
mixed.  Hoforo  tho  thick  resinous  mass  gets 
cold,  mold  it  into  sticks  like  sealing-wax.  Tho 
cement  will  keep  for  years,  aud,  when  required 
for  use,  it  is  only  necessary  to  out  off  a  siifliciont 
quantity  and  romolt  it  immediately  before  appli- 
(Cciitfiiiual. 
A  COURESI'ONOENT  of  tho  Veterinarian  says 
that  he  has  been  in  practice  as  a  veterinary  sur¬ 
geon  for  thirty  years,  and  has  taken  pains  to 
ascertain  the  cause  of  megrims.  On  examining 
tho  horse’s  eye  immediately  after  or  during 
THE  JOHNSTON  HARVESTER  CO. 
The  reports  are  now,  at  last,  given  to  tho 
public,  and  it  is  only  necessary  to  road  them 
to  form  a  correct  idea  of  the  Judgment  of  tho 
exports  who  have  given  their  unbiased  oinnioiis 
on  implements  entered  for  conqietition. 
It  will  he  seen  by  Ibis  reiwrt  of  tho  Jmors 
of  group  twenty-three,  that  tho  .lolinstou  Har¬ 
vester  Company,  of  Hrockport,  Now  York, 
httvo,  in  all  essential  respects,  won  every  attain¬ 
able  honor,  or,  in  other  words,  secured  a  Sweep 
stakes  Award,  that  planes  them  in  the  front  rank 
of  Agricultural  Implomout  Manufaiituring  Com¬ 
panies.  Oil  analysis  of  tho  report,  it  shows  that 
each  implement  in  the  exhibit  is  singled  out  for 
approving  Judgment,  wliieli  is  a  mark  of  rare 
lionor.  This  last  triumph,  witli  the  European 
honors  previously  scored,  makes  tho  record  of 
this  company  a  proud  ono  indeed. 
OFFICIALI  REPORT. 
A  wards. 
Mower,  Wrought  Iron'  Harvester,  Single 
Reaper  Combined  Machine  No.  1,  Combined 
Machine  No.  2. 
liejKjrt. 
For  large  exhibit  of  machines.  For  excellence 
of  material,  strength,  durability  finish  aud 
attention  to  details  as  evidenced  by  thu 
following  facts  Solid  wrought  Iron  frames. 
Table  attaidimonts  very  strong,  and  easily 
adjustable  by  lever  and  outside  wheel  that 
runs  in  a  crank  shaft.  I’itman  Rod  attached 
to  kmfe  by  ball  and  socket,  giving  great 
elasticity.  Patent  Key  nuts  easily  adjust) 
able  to  compensate  for  wear.  Motion  com¬ 
municated  to  rake  shaft  by  square-linked 
chain  gear,  with  spring  tension  rollers. 
Caxnigear  for  ti-averso  of  rake,  original,  auto¬ 
matic,  and  coiitrolable,  Hpeed  of  knife  can 
be  changed  by  reversible  pinions.  Driver’s 
seat  balances  tho  polo,  Tho  macliinos  work 
almost  nowolosH,  thus  indicating  very^  little 
friction.  Prices  reasonable. 
J.  R  Haweey,  ITosident, 
A.  T.  Goshobn,  Director-Genera], 
AiaEx.  R.  Boteleu,  Secretary,  pro  tern. 
♦  ♦♦ - 
CENTURY  BLOSSOMS. 
It  was  considered  strange  that  the  flue  display 
of  furs  made  aud  exhibited  by  Swedish  firms 
should  hold  out  so  well,  when  it  was  known  that 
they  were  very  sucoossful  in  making  sales.  Li- 
quiry  disclosed  tlie  fact  that  as  fast  as  sold 
tho  fiu-s  were  repleuished  from  stocks  of  Now 
York  merchants.  This  ought  to  he  a  sootliing 
piece  of  uows  to  those  ladies  who  paid  haudsomo 
prices  for  wraps,  ^c.,  under  the  impression  that 
they  canio  tUo  Yiciiiity  of  Orcoiilaiicl’s  icy 
mouuUiui^. 
