European money purchased here before 
the embarkation of the excursionists. On 
the whole, an estimate that 100 million 
dollars will be taken out of the country 
by tourists during this year, will probably 
be within the truth, and it is highly doubt¬ 
ful whether the returns, in the way of 
increased culture, information, experience 
or patriotism, will be worth a tithe of this 
enormous sum. 
who was sitting on the hotel piazza at At¬ 
lantic City, surrounded by his wife and 
children, watching the bathers. Suddenly 
exclaiming that he believed one of the 
lady-bathers was drowning, he divested 
himself of outer clothing while runniug 
down the beach, dashed into the water 
and, in attempting to rescue the drowniug 
woman, was by her drawn under and both 
perished, 
These two aeta were in obedience to 
good impulses—impulses which make an¬ 
gola—and should be studied with care by 
all who believe with us, that the world 
contains mauy more good than bad peo¬ 
ple. There was no hope of reward or 
prospect of glory before these two heroes ; 
but it was sufficient for each of them that 
an opportunity offered itself to save a 
human life without calculating, or even 
thinking, of the risk incurred in so doing. 
The sequel proved that the risk was a 
heavy one, aud in the turn of the chances 
they*lost. Their enjoyment of this world’s 
pleasure came to an abrupt ending ; but 
surely, there must be a beautiful resting 
place, beyond, where such men can enter, 
with no other title to admission than the 
last thought and act of their lives, and 
without any rigid scrutiny of past deeds. 
If the doctrine of the redemption of the 
world has its foundation in laws of nature 
or morality, then such men will live for¬ 
ever. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS, 
Practical Departments: 
| Irrepressible Question—No. !. The... 
Charitable Institutions and Husbandry. 
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Hop Culture,,........ 
Parmentlrr... . 
Rtrawborriox. Amonsrthe. 
Garden, In the. 
Kotox.. . 
Three Wenplns.1 ipauese Evergreens...........•. 
Mole Question, The..•. 
Answers to Correspondents... • 
Dish-washintj. System In... 
Kectpp*......*.. 
Consumption Demons a Cure lor. 
Fruit. Eating... 
Minnesota. Note* from...... 
Texas, Notes from. 
North Carolina Note* . 
Brnrtlev, A Silver Medal for. 
Why Not Try It?. 
PrtnMov Press. A Good. 
Chair Work'. The Union,. 
Preserving Butter lor Winter Use. 
Dairy Room... ..■ •..... 
Borlmr Iambs, How we Kalse... .•••••• 
Sheep 11 UKbanary in the United States and JSu 
Bland. 
Wool. Treatment of. 
Hens One Year Old. . 
Hoe Products. .. 
PiBs. Diarrhea in ... 
Highway Pa St .. 
KniTottiAi. Page: 
The Tenth or August... 
Good Impulses... 
Notes—Brev .. 
Literary : 
Poetry..71 
.. 
Miscellaneous. 
Literary World. The . .. 
Ladles' Portfolio... 
Readi mb for the Young. 
Pussier... 
Sabbath Reading. 
Markets............*•••• 
Publisher’s Notices. 
News of the Week. 
Personals... 
Humorous.. 
Advertisements...<>>, w, 8 
Civil Service.—The late order or cir¬ 
cular of the President, forbidding the em¬ 
ployes of the general Government from 
running political machines, seems to have 
set. the politicians of both sides agog. 
Whatever displeases the politicians, is 
sure to please honest citizens. 
BREVITIES, 
Flies are “ uncommonly sassy ” in the Rural 
Grounds. So at least a neighbor remarked the 
other day. 
Black u kurikr, both running and standard, 
weio uover larger or more plentiful than they 
are this season in Bergen Co., N. J. Rural 
readers are invited to come aud pick their fall. 
Think of it. There is a Rye Hem in ary. This 
must bo the place from which depraved people 
draw their inspiration. 
Tiik war on liquor dealers has had the effect 
of raising their spirits. They are now, it is said, 
proof against the 'enemy. 
The Dingke-Conabd Co., last winter, had in 
their greenhouses 4511,000 pots of roses on their 
own roots aud 28,000 stock roses, from which to 
take cuttings. 
Salus.— This Is the name of a compound 
originated by Mr. Worthington Smith, who 
iiret discovered the resting-spores of the fungus 
in the potato disease. This Sains is a remedy 
for it. 
The finest tree in the Orangery of Versailles^ 
the “Grand Bourbon,” is dead. It was 41o 
years old. But from present indications in 
France the grand Bourbon is coining to life 
again. It's an Ultramontane resurrection. 
The latest ladies’ hat is the Lamballo. And a 
very fnnnv thing it must he. “ Turned up skirt 
at the back, with a feather turning over the 
crown and falling on its hack!" There's an 
acrobatic feather that Barnum ought to have. 
Acetic, foruilc, bucyric, valeric, and propionic 
adds, prussic acid, creosote aud carbolic acid, 
ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, pyridine pico- 
line. lntiduie, collodine, parvolino, corrodine aud 
rubidwie—these are only a few of the things 
found in the smoko of a cigar. It can all bo 
bought for r>e., aud yet growlers speak of tho 
enormous profits of the drug business! 
The Colorado beetle has crossed the Atlantic 
incognito. He landed unheralded and made a 
fiying tour inland, aud was first observed in a 
potato patch near Cologne. The entire field was 
covered with sawdust and tan-bark, and after the 
composite layer had been soaked w.tb kerosene 
it was set on fire. No visitor from these shores 
to Europe diming the season—not even General 
Grant himself -has mot with so warm a recep¬ 
tion. 
is the Journal of Forestry, a new English 
publication, i« an article on the timber supply of 
America, in which the author assumes that if no 
remedy bo applied to insure a supply for future 
generations, the timber supply in tho Eastern 
States aud Canada, will be entirely exhausted in 
fifty years, and a systematic plan Of forest con¬ 
servancy. as adopted in Germany, is recom¬ 
mended as essential- Poor New England ! With 
a worn-out soil and with the laBt tree hewn—what 
will become of her ? 
William H. Kane, of Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker, is in the city, stopping at Congress 
Hall. When the railroad embargo is removed 
Mr. Kane will proceed west.—Rochester Demo¬ 
crat aud Chronicle. 
Ah ! this news dispels a nightmare of anxiety. 
We had supposed that the entire fiot was caused 
Lv our c&relossneBtf iu permitting Kane to uicak 
loose. He 44 will proceed west.” We regrot 
that the Pacific Ocean or Chief Joseph may stop 
his progress! 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle, a London journal 
of Horticulture, presents its readers this week 
with a colored illustration representing a group 
of Roses drawn from nature—a most elaborate 
affair. The London Garden, conducted by our 
correspondent, Mr. Wn. Robinson, gives with 
each issue (weekly) a colored plate which has, we 
opine, added greatly to the popularity of that 
excellent periodical. Tho older Gardeners Chron¬ 
icle is following Buit, with occasional plates or 
the same character. 
An investigation into the loss of sheep during 
the past year reveals the startling fact that 
3,000,000 sheep and lambs were destroyed by 
n-nlv.-rt and various diseases: but of tnia 
NOTES 
Cause and Effect. A. very Bmall 
object close to tho eye, will obstruct the 
view of Sirius, though the distant star is 
2,700 times the size of the bud and incom¬ 
parably larger than this little globe of 
ours. * Similarly, the recent railroad 
strikes, owing to their nearness, have 
made most of us bliuil to the progress of 
the far-off conflict in Europe, though this 
is much more murderous and far more in¬ 
fluential on the destiny of tho human race. 
Moreover, our domestic troubles affect us 
all injuriously, whereas the foreign contest 
is far more likely to benefit than to injure 
this country, and wo are all more deeply 
impressed by the evils that afflict ns than 
by the blessings we enjoy. The length 
and complexity of the names of places 
and leaders, also contribute to our luck of 
interest iu this semi-barbarous warfare, 
aud lead us to admire the propriety with 
which Shakweare puts into the mouth 
of the sentimental, inconsiderate Juliet, 
the hackneyed phrase, “ What's in a 
name ?” Like many folks iu private life, 
both Turk and Muscovite are heavily 
handicapped as regards popular sympathy 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1877. 
In the Literary Dept, tho article “ Colorado 
Potato Beetle.” a burlesque, will amuse the read¬ 
er who knows something of tho fear with which 
European governments are stricken in view of 
its possible introduction to their fields. 
In the Practical Depts. will bo found another 
Irrepressible Question discussed by that careful 
observer, Prof. W. J. Real of the State Ag. Col¬ 
lege, Lansing, Mich.; the second article upon 
“ Docs Farming Pay ?” by Mr. Conrad Wilson, 
and “Three Weeping Japanese Evergreens," 
new to our horticultural community, by Mr. 
Samuel Parsons. 
Witu pleasure, wo announce a series of arti¬ 
cles entitled “ Gardening Pen TalkB,” to be be¬ 
gun in a week or bo, from the pen of our agree¬ 
able contributor. Mrs. Annie L. Jack. 
Mr. Idell's “ Among the Strawberries "— a 
description of some of the host of Mr. Durand’s 
Seedlings, will especially interest those who con¬ 
template making new hods now and later. 
were not lor tne wieiteu oomnmarauua m 
millionaires, every man in the land would 
illumine tho path of prosperity with the 
rays from his diamond studs, aud that the 
true Bcheme of government is that which 
evolves employment from the halls of le¬ 
gislation, and by simply decreeing it, 
creates tho wealth to reward it. 
And it was from this mistaken notion, 
we presume, that the recent grand strike 
was inaugurated. It has been ascertained 
that the strike was premature, as every¬ 
thing had been arranged to make one co¬ 
lossal demand, and for all employes to 
cease work simultaneously on all roads, 
on August 10. It would have been a great 
day for labor, and when in a short time 
the entire community had been brought 
to the verge of starvation by the paralyz¬ 
ing of all avenues of food supply, and 
when iu the rebound, the instigators of 
the folly, who depended on their daily 
wage for their daily bread, would have 
been tho first to suffer the pangs of a mer¬ 
ited starvation, they would learn some¬ 
thing about an economy they had never 
practiced—political economy. 
We have simply dealt with the labor 
question, taking no account of the crimes 
THE TENTH OP AUGUST. 
GOOD IMPULSES. 
A Waste of Money. — The wide¬ 
spread financial depression seems to have 
had little effect on the exodus of Ameri¬ 
can tourists going abroad to air their 
republican dignity and independence, 
and import European supercilious imper¬ 
tinences. More than forty-five million 
dollars have already been issued by New 
York banks in letters of credit during this 
season. In addition to this, the transac¬ 
tions of other banks in the same line, in 
other large seaboard cities and tbe inte¬ 
rior, have probably aggregated nearly as 
much \ aud moreover, a large collective 
sum has been exported either in American 
money to be exchanged in Europe, or in 
UUK°t it on —- , 
loss, about throe-fourths was inflicted by sportive 
canines. The value of the property thus de¬ 
stroyed aggregated $ 3.000,000, while thy averags 
percentage of loss amounted to nearly eight, l he 
oss was highest in the South and low est in t e 
