DEC. 20 
THE 
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BRIEFLETS. 
Mr. J. G. Ervvabds, of England, remarks 
“ Any man who Las seen a turnip deems him¬ 
self qualified to advise the farmer, and though 
each man sings to a different tune, the burden 
of the song is the same—that the farmer is in 
the fault and needs setting right.” . . A very 
good colored plate of Virburuum plicatum— 
one of the best hardy shrubs in cultivation— 
appears in the current number of the Gar¬ 
dener’s Monthly. We have talked and talked 
about this plant until we hope every reader 
that cares for shrubs at all, has one in his gar¬ 
den. . . What is the reason that all the jour¬ 
nals are so much better now than dui'ing the 
rest of the year ? . . The Maine Farmer 
says that the Portland Beet-eugar manufactory 
will be fortunate if it gets a new dollar for an 
old one as the result of this year's operations. .. 
The New England Farmer says that there has 
been a charm connected with the word “im¬ 
ported,” when applied to cattle, as well as to 
dry-goods and wines; but 6iuce it has been 
discovered that as flue cloths, carpets and ma¬ 
chinery can be made at home as can be pro¬ 
duced In any other part of the world, some of 
us are bold enough to believe that even among 
domestic aniraais there may be real merit 
in our native breeds. . . Some go further, 
and claim that, taking everything into ac¬ 
count, we can do better to select from and im¬ 
prove our own animals, than to look further 
for improvement by importing. . . Hit the 
nail on the head—not ou the thumb. . . A 
rolling pin gathers no dough. . . Corn in 
the ear is worth two ,in the foot. . . It’s a 
sensible cow that knoweth her own “ fodder.” 
.Mr. Wallace says: “To prevent 
horses overreaching, shorten the toes of the 
front shoes and lengthen the toes of the hind 
shoes. . . When people are ill-fed, they 
naturally become discontented. . A good 
house and a good half-acre garden or cow pas¬ 
ture have lifted many a farm-lauorer above the 
level of pauperism, while others have been 
steeped to the chin in poverty in the first week 
of auy reverse occurring to them from illness 
or loss of work.—London Gazette. . . The 
expert who does not regard every other expert 
as au unmitigated ass is no expert at all.—N. 
Y. Advertiser. . . The green grass, which 
is the charm of all gardens, soou departs when 
largo trees arc about.—Meehau. . , Mr. D. 
B. Weir acknowledges that he issued his 
pamphlet of •• Copyrighted ” Cherries before a 
certificate of registry was received, which, as 
he says, “ was not strictly legal.” This is in 
answer to Mr. Eugene Glenu’s strictures in the 
Gardener’s Monthly. . . The Jiugko (Salis- 
buria) is capable of being trained to a wall as 
readily as a vino, and it is iu tills way very 
beautiful and curious—says Mr. Meehan. It 
may be curved iu circles, or trained to any 
the late election he waa persistently opposed to 
the movement; but he says that recent bulldozing 
has opened his eyes to the necessity or It. 
One hundred millionaires are now residents of 
San Francisco. Alackay, who la thought to be 
their chief, being worth about twenty millions. Is 
content to pass most of his time in a temperature 
of one hundred degrees, down In his mines. 
The notorious Eliza Pinkerton, the mulatto who 
rivaled Airs. .leaks as a Louisiana witness, has 
been acquitted of the charge of poisoning her 
husband, medical analysis falling to discover 
anything out of the way In the dead man’s 
stomach. 
A London paper, In recording the death of John 
Grant, for twenty-five years head gamekeeper as 
Balmoral, says that the Queen frequently visited 
Win prior to his death, and delayed her departure 
from Balmoral four days to pay him a last tribute 
of friendship. 
According to West End, Loudon, gossip, the 
libels In Town Talk on Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. 
Cornwallis West, for which Mr. hosenbergh Is un¬ 
dergoing Imprisonment, are the work of a rival 
beauty, who found herself eclipsed by tlielr supe¬ 
rior charms. Her lather’s name appears In the 
baronet’s list, and money and influence were suc¬ 
cessfully interposed to prevent exposure. 
sir Henry Havelock has been left a large fortune, 
but there Is an awkward condition attached to It. 
He is to take the mune of Allan In the future in 
return for the sudden wealth thrust upon him. 
Tennyson declined some thousands a year i ecently, 
wMeh he was offered on change of Ws name, and 
It is hard on a mau with such au honored name as 
Havelock to he obliged lo part with it. 
The long-pending “disruption” between the 
Jesuit order In England and Cardinal* Manning is 
to be Inquired into by his Holiness the Pope before 
the close of the present month. Father Porter, the 
head of the Jesuit College at Koehampton, Eng¬ 
land, has been at Home lor some time preparing 
for the conillct, and the head of the order Is on Ws 
way. Cardinal Manning has also arrived In 
Rome. 
Oen. Grant has resumed his public progress of 
the American cities. Last week he was at Chicago, 
where all the clergymen of the city called and 
paid their respects. Indianapolis next gave 
him an ovation, Louisville, Ky„ followed with a 
brilliant reception, Wednesday, and Cincinnati 
rivaled Louisville in attention to the General on 
the following day. Columbus, O,, then honored 
Itself by honoring him, and next, smoky Pitts¬ 
burgh is bright in his reception. 
The Lord Chief Baron of the British Exchequer, 
Sir Fltzroy Kelly, recently attained Ws S3d year, 
lie is a remarkable man, can walk 12 miles a day 
and sit any number of hours on the bench. Some 
40 years ago he was ostracised for having commit¬ 
ted some corrupt act at au election at Ipswich and 
committing perjury to palliate it; but he out¬ 
lived the Imputations through his great ability. 
Like the Lord Chancellor, Lord St. Leonards, he 
married his cook. 
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AU Monthly prost ration and suffering by ladles 
Is avoided by using Hop Bitters a few days In ad¬ 
vance. 
form. . . Gen. Le Hue has made the Reports of 
the Patent Office and Agricultural Department 
thrice as valuable by his General Index. Every¬ 
body appreciates the value of a good index. 
The reason why indexes of comprehensive 
works are so slighted, is because it is really an 
arduous, tedious task to compile them. . . 
The cross-breeding of fish is talked of as if it 
were more remarkable than any other sort of 
cross-breeding. . . It is tirno that there 
shoqjd be a boom iu the wood-pile. . . Mrs. 
Grubs (to her sick husband): “I wish you to 
bear iu mind, Joseph, that when I die I shall 
request to be placed by your side." Mr. 
Grubs (with a sigh): “Darnit! No rest for 
me, even iu the grave.”—Punch. . . . Roots 
of rhubarb may be lifted, if the soil is uot 
frozen, and forced into growth iu auy warm 
room. . . . Will the cat ever legislate well 
for the mouse? . . . To assure the English 
farmer good crops wheu he has neither sum¬ 
mer nor sun to work with, is the bottom prob¬ 
lem which the present agricultural depression 
presents. . . . Some oue has said that 
tables of figures are like cobwebs—beautifully 
reticulated, but holding no conclusions. . . . 
“ Waldo ” (Ohio Farmer) thinks that the 
phrase “Possibilities of an Acre” is the in¬ 
vention of Conrad Wilson. It does sound like 
him. . . . Oorn is King in Southern Mich¬ 
igan, says Mr. Lewis; and unless farmers keep 
swine that will grow and fatten ou pasture 
and harden up for market by being fed some 
grain, there is no money in making pork for 
the Southern Miebigau farmer. ... A 
Southern faueier informs the Poultry Bulletin 
that if the game of “hide 'n coop” were not so 
popular among the darkies iu his neighbor¬ 
hood, the profits of poultry-raising would be 
greater. . . . 
* An Old Hen's Epitaph. 
BY A MARKKTMAN. 
Ten years since, alive and kickin’, 
1 came forth a young spring chicken; 
And though so old when 1 did die, 
soou a spring chicken again was I. 
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