PERSONALS. 
Howto Spier t Cows. W. P. Hazzard... 1.00 
Crops of the Farm.75 
Plant Life on the Farm. .75 
The Dairy of the Farm.75 
Animal Life of the Farm.75 
The Soil of the Farm.75 
The Chemistry of the Farm. . .75 
Harris on Manures. 1.50 
Law's Veterinary Adviser. 3.00 
Science in Farming . 1.00 
horticulture. 
Dowuing’s Fruit snd Fruit Trees. 5.00 
Thomas' American Fruit Culturist.. 3.00 
Quinn’s Pear Culture. 1.50 
Grape Manual......1 00 
Warder's American Pomology... 3.00 
Gardening for Profit. Peter Henderson. 1.50 
Practical Floriculture. Henderson. 1.50 
Rural Affairs. 9 vols. J. J. Thomas_ 1 50 
American Weeds and Useful Plants.1 50 
History of Massachusetts Hurt. Soc. 3.00 
Success with Small Fruits.4.00 
Hand Book of Plants. Henderson ... 3.00 
Gardening for Young and Old. Harris. 1 50 
The Rose. Elwanger. 1.50 
A catalogue of books suitable for country 
libraries is issued by Porter & Coates, Phila¬ 
delphia. Special prices are made to Granges. 
Robert Clarke it Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, issue 
a first-rate catalogue of agricultural and hor¬ 
ticultural books. 
Mary Howitt, the authoress, who was born 
and reared a Quaker, has become a Roman 
Catholic. 
Ex-Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, has re¬ 
ceive i a divorce from his wife oil the ground 
of cruelty. 
Mrs. Bishop Warren, who is credited 
with being the wealthest woman in Colorado, 
is worth 310,000,000, and has made it on 
cattle, 
Frederick Douglas will return from Eu¬ 
rope m September, and the colored people of 
Washington are making arrangements to give 
him a rousing reception. 
Guy C. HOTCHKISS, after a secluded life of 
20 years in California, returns to his family 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., and becomes possessor of 
$13,000,000, which his father left. 
Tine Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford 
have been exploring the Yosemite Valley. 
The marquis is the heir of the Duke of Suther¬ 
land, the largest landholder in Scotland. 
It is announced in social circles that Miss 
Mollie Garfield, of Mentor, daughter of the 
late President Garfield, will be married soon 
to Stanley Brown, who was Garfield’s private 
secretary. 
Frok. W. H. Wynn, lately of the Iowa 
State Agricultural College, has been elected to 
be the head of the fraternity of the new Uni¬ 
versity of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 
at Atebison, Kansas. 
President and Mrs. Cleveland are very 
fond of oatmeal and always eat it for break¬ 
fast. Mr. Cleveland is not a lover of tobacco 
and seldom smokes more than one cigar a day, 
and this one immediately after dinner. 
Assemblyman Ives, of New York, autlor 
of the pool bill which bears his name, regu¬ 
larly attends thi races about New York and 
wins so often that malicious gossips say that 
he has "straight tips” from racing men. 
Gilbert N. Marshall, Jr., an El Paso, 
Tex., man, and direct descendant of Chief 
Justice Marshall, was married Monday to a 
New Orleans creole at the residence of her 
brother-in-law, a millionaire Chinaman. 
George W. Cable was born left-handed, 
but. has learued to use his right, and so is 
amhi-dextrous. He writes with either, usu¬ 
ally making the first draft of a novel with bis 
left, hand and copying it for the printer with 
his right hand. 
The son of Joshua R. Giddings, the old 
Ohio abolitionist, practices law, runs a farm 
and shuns politics, at Jefferson, the county 
seat of Ashtabula County, O. Ben Wade’s 
son lives in the same town and devotes him¬ 
self to horse-racing. 
The following named bishops have beeu ap¬ 
pointed from Rome for the United .States: 
Rev. James O’Reilly, of Wichita, Rev. Rich¬ 
ard Scanned, of Concordia, Rev. Thomas 
Bonaeum, of Lincoln, aud Rev. Maurice 
Bouike, of Cheyenue. 
The Empress of Japan, accompanied by a 
retiuue ot*2d persous, will visit the United 
States in October. She will laud at San 
Francisco, stop at Salt Lake, Omaha and 
Chicago, and return, after two months’ so- 
j< urn, by the Southern Pacific route. 
It was one Alpheus Hardy, of Boston, who 
dropped a shears, which he w'as using to cut 
off coupons, and cut himself quite severely. 
Nothing was thought of this at the time, but 
soon after blood poisoning set in and the mat¬ 
ter became very serious, and it appeared 
doubtful if Mr. Hardy would recover. Don’t 
cut off coupons. 
Elam Brown, one of the early pioneers to 
California, who crossed the plains in an emi¬ 
grant traiu in 1*4(5, celebrated this month his 
90th birthday, at bis home in Contra Costa 
County, Cal. The patriarch owns the Acal- 
eues Ranch, which he bought from its Spanish 
proprietor, and on this anniversary no less 
than 75 of Ids family and immediate kindred 
sat down to table. 
The largest olive grower in this country is 
Mr, El)wood Cooper, of Santa Barbara, Cali¬ 
fornia, who has (JO acres in bearing olive trees. 
He sets out many acres in olives every year, 
but as it takes 10 years for the trees to come 
into bearing, it will be well into the next cen¬ 
tury before he has the thousand acres iu bear¬ 
ing, which is the limit oi Ins ambition. lie is 
also the largest manufacturer of olive oil on 
this side ot the Atlautio. 
Mrs. Pickett, w idow of Gen. George E. 
Pickett, was married when she was 15 years of 
age. Her son was born before Ins mother had 
reached her 10th year. Mrs. Pickett is still a 
very young-looking woman, extremely baud- 
some. Since the war she has persistently 
avoided society. Her appearance at Gettys¬ 
burg, on July 2d and 4th, ufc the reunion of the 
survivors of her husband’s famous brigade 
LITERARY NOTES. 
We always make it a point to read “Snow 
Bound,” every winter. It is a remarkable 
poem; simple, truthful and full of thought. 
Its popularity is largely due to the fact that 
a surprisingly large proportion of men aDd 
women in all parts of the country passed their 
childhood on New England farms. Another 
poem, by Whittier, admirably suited for sum¬ 
mer reading, is “Among the Hills.” Many 
novels have been published which contain less 
than can be found in the few pages of this 
poem. Would there were more city girls who 
like the heroine, can see the man beneath the 
farmer’s tan and rough clothing. 
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Mrs. E R. Shepherd has written a valuable 
book in “For Boys: a Special Physiology.” 
It is published by the Sanitary 1 ublishing Co., 
Chicago.. III. Many boys and girls are permit¬ 
ted to grow up entirely ignorant of the most im¬ 
portant aud necessary laws of health. Parents 
unwisely shrink from telling their children 
things that every boy and girl ought to know. 
The result is that the children obtain their first 
idea of such information from the ignorant or 
the vulgar, and thusdo themselves much barm. 
Wo are confident that a larg a proportion of 
the indiscretions of youth are committed 
through ignorance, and that a false modesty 
on the part of parents is largely responsible. 
This book is one which any boy could read 
with bismother. It, is a sensible, earnest and 
well-meaning volame. 
Boys are fond of reading good stories of 
home or college life, * Tom Brown at Rugby” 
and the longer “Toni Brown at Oxford” will 
always appeal strongly to the boy reader. 
"Hammersmith” is a fine story of American 
college life, andtheie are mauy others that 
treat of a period of life highly interesting to 
the bright American boy. A well-written 
story of life at an agricultural college ought 
to do much good. Student life at one of 
these institutions is unique in many respects. 
The student who goes through the course “on 
his own hook,” spending his winter vacations 
iu a district school or in a lumber camp, work¬ 
ing ou the farm at every odd moment and 
still keeping up with his classes, could tell a 
story that would prove readable enough. 
There are plenty of just such students at our 
true agrieultuml colleges. A history of their 
straggles would spur many a young man ou 
to a harder effort tor an education. 
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In First Lessons in Agriculture, Professor 
F. A. Gulley offers the public a very useful 
little book. It is one of the most promising 
volumes of late years. It is the first attempt, 
as we believe, to prepare an agricultural text 
book that could be used in a district school or 
wherever students are to be prepared for the 
agricultural college. The book is a synopsis 
of the lectures delivered at the Mississippi Ag¬ 
ricultural College before the preparatory 
classes. It is really an agricultural primer. 
The book is written in a concise and business¬ 
like way. It is mainly a collection of facts, 
which are to be enlarged upon aud explained 
by the teacher. Most agricultural schools 
and teachers aim to work up, when in reality 
the}' ought to work down. We do not need 
books for the instruction of teachers half so 
much as we need books that are within the 
comprehension of those who never will go to 
college. We need graduates at our agricul¬ 
tural colleges so trained that they eau go out 
among the people to district schools and farm¬ 
ers’ clubs and teach with such wisdom and 
simplicity that the dull and heedless will be 
forced into interest. This volume of Pro¬ 
fessor Gulley’s ought to be used as a text book 
in our district schools. It is high time we cut 
down the time spent in spelling, geography 
and “elocution” one-half, and substitute bot- 
auy aud agriculture. In States like Michigan, 
Iowa. Kansas or Mississippi, this text-book 
placed in the country schools and intelligent¬ 
ly explained by competent teachers, would 
work more good for the cause of agriculture 
than a dozen "Hatch Bills” ever will. We 
call the attention of school trustees and, in 
fact, alt who are interested in country schools 
to this volume. We shall be glad to print the 
address of any school which will adopt it as a 
text book. The book is published by the au¬ 
thor at Starkville, Mississippi, aud costs 75 
cents. 
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J. T. Trowbridge has written some excel¬ 
lent poems on farm life. They are well worth 
reading over and ov er again. "Farmer John” 
is excellent: 
“Home from his journey, Farmer John 
Arrived last evening safe and sound; 
His black coat oil ana his farm coat, on, 
Now I’m myself says Farmer John.” 
It is as true os a photograph, as every good 
farmer can testify. It is a perfect picture of 
the happy, home-loving farmer. He has seen 
many strange sights while on his journey. 
The old farm seems better than ever now that 
he comes back to it and cau see how the crops 
have grown and how well the stock are look¬ 
ing. Happy is the mau who can look back 
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y et feel that the coming home was the best of 
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believe a man or woman would lose uothiug 
by going to the labor of learning them. Such 
thoughts, stored away in the memory, have a 
good habit of crowding themselves iuto our 
minds when we need them most. For this 
reason, the time spent in learning some noble 
poem or speech is never lost 
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Some months ago. Dr. W. J. Beal made out 
a complete list of books which he considered 
suitable for farm libraries aud granges. We 
are permitted to make a copy of the list. It 
will be of assistance to those who believe 
with us iu giving a portion of our library 
shelves to such literature: 
A Text Book of Botany. Julius Sachs..$8.00 
Botany for Schools aud Colleges. C. E. 
Bussey. 2,50 
The Essentials of Botany. C. E. Bessey., 1,15 
How Plants Behave. Asa Gray.75 
How Plants Grow, " u .... . 1.25 
Gray’s Lessons in Botany. 1.25 
Gray’s Manual " " 1.50 
Physiological Botany. Prof. Goodale.... 2.00 
Botanist aud Florist, A. Wood. 2.U0 
Elements of Forestry. F. B. Hough.2.00 
Book of Evergreens. Josiah Hoopes_3 no 
Treasury of Botany. 2 vols.4.00 
Cross and Self-fertilizing of Plants. 
Darwin. 2.00 
Tower of Movement in Plants . 2.00 
Climbing Plauts.... .. i.oo 
Animals and Plants under Domestica¬ 
tion. 2 vols. 4.00 
How Crops Grow. S. W. Johnson. 2.00 
How Crops Feed. “ .2.00 
Grasses of North America. W. J. Beal.. 2.00 
agriculture, etc. 
Feeding Animals. K. W. Stewart. 3.00 
H. F. Armsby.2.00 
Stock Breeding. M. Miles . 2.00 
Hand Book ot the Farm Series. Pub¬ 
lished by Bradbury, Aguew & Co., 
London... 
Husbandry, By Columella. 12books.". 5.00 
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