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, sew-ma! , PRACTICAL FARMING. WW FALL SEEDING 0F TIMOTHY. No matter what time of year the Tim- othy is sewn one cannot count with ab- solute certainty of having a good catch every time, writes C. P. Good- rich. ‘ If it is eowp in the early spring it will be quite sure to come up good. but if the hot. dry weather comes be- fore it has root enough to withstand it. the small, -feeble ,Timothy dies. This I have found to be the case on an average of one year out of three, and a real good stand was not secur- ed only about one year out of two. When the seed is sown in the fall (about the first of September is the best time) on land properly prepared and the seed well covered. the cases of failure are rare. Of course we have had falls when there was just rein enough af- ter sowing to make the seed sprout and come up, and then the weather turned IO dry as to kill it. I have had good success in sowing Timothy with rye when the rye was sown early in Sep- tember, but when sown in October it was a. failure. The Timothy came up, but was so very fine and'small that the winter freezing killed it. few ears ago I sowed rye on a piece of lack, mucky land which was a. marsh reclaimed by tile drainage. sowed on it, after the rye was drilled in, four quarts of Timothy seed and two quarts of Als'ike clover seed to the acre and harrowed it over very lightly..'l‘his was thick seeding. It came up nicely, but was rather small when winter set 1.11. Early in the spring 1 examined and found the clover dead. ( l sowed on an- other two quarts to the acre of Alsrke clover seed about the first of April. I had a splendid stand and for three years a very fine meadow. When I need with clover I seed in the spring. If I wish to have Timothy grow With it I usually wait until the fall after. then now on from two to four quarts of seed to the acre and go over it With a harrow, so as to have it slightly cov- x ‘ ~\,-_m\ w.~ x-VMNM' cred. Three . different times 1 have sown clover in the fall with wmter grain. 'l‘wrce it was a failure be- cause the clover was so small when hard freezing came that it was killed. Once it was a success and. I had a fine stand. As a result of this exper- ience I have decided to always sow clo- ver in the spring. When I sow Tim- othy with grain I use a grass seed at tachment with my grain drill for the purpose, sowing about four quarts to the acre and then harrowing it over lightly. '- thn Timothy is sown by itself a wheel-barrow gi'ass-med-sower is used which sows sixteen feet wide and does it very evenly. If one has a field that has been in small grain this year and was not seeded, and which he wishes to3 get into Timothy as soon as possi- ble, this is the way he should proceed: Prepare the ground nicely the last of August by plowing and harrowing, or disc it up and then barrow. Sow on the Timothy seed, barrow lightly and roll so as to pack the ground and make it smooth. if the season is favorable a. retty fair cropâ€"sly two~thirds of a. ull cropâ€"of hay may be expected next year; and the year after that it will be at its best, producing a. full crop. It is not profitable on most lands to let 8. Timothy meadow run more than three years without plowing up. The second or third year a top dressing of manure will help it wonderfully. The manure should be hauled out right from the stable during the winter and spread evenly over the surface. Early in the spring go over it with a harrow. This .will make the manure fine; work up the ground a little around the roots of the grass and mix in manure to some extent. Timothy is an exhaustive crop on the soil and good crops cannot be raised on the same ground many years in succession without applying some fertilizer. - SHRINKAGE 0F WOOL. "It is often desirable to know the loss occasioned by shrinkage in hand- ling and storing of wool under varying conditions, and I think an account of an experiment undertaken with this end in view may not be without inter- est," says a writer in Farm and Home. “Twenty-four fleeces, divided into four lots, were stored, by three different methods. and weighed periodically (gen- erally monthly) for a year. Three lots of the wool were from Shropshire sheep clipped between the 14th and 18th of April. One lot consisting of five fleeces was weighed, each separately, and packed in a clean, dry box, just large enough to hold the wool con- veniently, and a close-fitting cover nailed on. {Another lot, containing. eight fleeces. was weighed in the same manner, sacked and suspended from the ceiling. Another of five fleeces was placed on a. shelf and closely covered, 80 as to exclude all dust and revent disturbance. On June 24. anot or lot of six fleeces was secured from a farm- er in the neighborhood. weighed, sack- ed and placed under the same condi- tions as the other lot of sacked wool. This wool was clipped about June 15th, and the object in securing this lot was to compare the shrinkage of wool clip- ped later in the season with the early- clippednvool. All of the wool was stored in the same place, a well-venti- lated barn. and cruised to a free cir- culation of air. t was found that there was practically no cha e of “Eight. in_ the first three lots c ipped in April: in fact. the aggro ate weight of the three lots on J one 1 was exact- ly what it was when taken off in April of the pronoun year. Some variation oc- curred in the meantime, a few of the changes being hard to account for. but the variation was not great at any time. The late-clipped wool, however. show- ed a loss of about 6 per cent. of the originabwelght during the year, and, so the first Wright was not taken un- til a. week after shearing, there may have been In} additional lam that was Emir determined. The indications from this} instigation are that: First, ear- ly-clip medium wool. from a well kept oak. free from dirt and stored in good quarters. will not shrink in weight to any appreciable extent will!- in a year from date of shearing. Sec- ond. his clipped wool. of siilsianiially Lho some kind. will, under the some I u 1 treatment. shrink about 6 per cent of its original Weight within a year. It lepromble that heavy, greasy wool will shrink considerably more than this \\ 001 dealers state that they can never handle this kind of wool, in the early part of the season without sustaining a heavy loss in Weight. Be- fore deciding to hold wool it is well to takehmto consideration the kind and condition of the clip, and calculate the probable loss from shrinkage." SUMMER FEEDlXG OF SWINE. "A series of green foods can be had in succession on most farms throughout the summer with very little prepara- tion. The clover field supplies the first pasture, and will last in good order un- til the green peas are ready to feed. It is not well to, make sudden changes, as even‘a pig will get sick if unwiser fed. The new food may be introduced by throwing in a few forksi'ulr. daily foraweek before the permanent change is to be made," says N. 1'. Farmer. “if there is then_a small field of peas to be fed. the pigs may be turned in at once, or_ it may be wise to hurdle a plot which can be ‘hogged off' thor- oughly without any waste. Along with this. if sweet whey or skim milk forms the drink, which should not be fed in a larger quantity than eight pounds per day .to a full grown hog. steady and profitable growth may be expect- ed. After the pea season has passed, second-growth clover or corn will be on hand to form the bulk of the diet. As_finishing time approaches, a grain ration composed of corn, peas, barley or shorts will be profitably fed in con- Junction With the green fodder. Fed in this way, the land upon which pork is produced Will have gained fertility. Hogs and hog products have been hold- ing their own remarkably well this mason. As in days gone by, he is still the “gintleman that navs the nu ." -â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"._. HOW THEY ARE TREATED. Scan! Courtesy Extended European Rulers By Their Subjects. The loyalty of Englishmen toward their sovereign and the royal family , men, on the tenth great travellers, on- certainly be a, satisfaction to l the twenty-first bold marauders. must those born in the purple, when they, cogitate upon the shabby treatment ac- i fatality date bank to long befiore Anglo. corded the reigning monarchs of other Saxon times; we find them firmly be- countries. A traveler writes of seeing : lieved in the earliest ages; and held. King Alfonso of Spain goâ€"I lworld over. the late ing in state procession. He was seated in an open carriage, and, although the weather was bitter- ly cold and the wind piercing, he re- mained bareheaded during the whole time that the cortege passed along the Puerta del Sol, which was crowded with people, not one of whom appeared to ' stition. :former event, although tradition has ' often pointed out certain locales as par- 7ticularly auspicious for a child’s en- ' Katherine of Valois for the misfortunes take the slightest notice of His Maâ€"‘ Jesty's. Salutations. He was bowing lromfiide to Side with’ what seemed at the time a specres of appealing expres- sron on his features, as if entreating some response, but not one head was bared among all the immense crowd. _Much the same spectacle may be Witnessed at Rome nearly every time that King Humbert drives his mail pheaton up to Pmcio. He is so accus- tomed to have the members of the old Roman. aristocracy (which constitutes the mayority of the afternoon proman- aders there) avert their faces when he drives by. on . the pretext that their ancestry is infinitely more ancient and more illustrious than that of the House of,Savoy, that he always seems quite grateful to anybody who doffs his hat. and if one is at all low in doing so, he a pears to look at you inquiringly, not ' owing whether he is going to expose himself to the cut direct. King Christian of Denmark may be seen nearly any morning when he happens to be in town strolling about the streets of Copenhagen with his two great dogs, generally arrayed in a. soft felt hat and an old gray jacket, and relatively unnoticed by his sub- fects. Indeed, the only people who sa- ute him are the military, the police, and those wrth whom he is personally acquainted. A crowned head who often fails to acknowledge-popular greetings and 0b- eisances, while at other times he reâ€" sponds to. them mmt graciously, is Em- ror \tham of Germany. He has n seen to ride through the streets of Berlin at the head of one of the guard regiments, entirely insensible. apparently, to the demonstrations of loyalty .Wlth which he was greeted on every side. He looked neither to the left nor to the right, but straight ahead, With a face as set; and as impassive as that of any Oriental potentate. One crowned head who is keen to notice whether people doff their hats to him or not, is the little King of Spain, of whom it is told that he lost his temper the other day when driving in the Prado, because an old blind man failed to bow to him. AN INCUBATOR ' That Is Used To Hatch Out. Microbes For Expcrlmenml Purposes. A firm in Regent street, London, makes a business of hatching out arti- ficially birds, chickens and the like, and the incubators adapted for their various purposes are lined up against the sides of the long room. They also take infants that are prematurely born ‘ Harry, born at Windsor, shall live long 'g‘aul IVf, Henry II. of France, and. : hill 'to to low the writer through his long ‘Whosp fame will scale the height of and by keeping them in a certain un-l varying temperature, and giving them r0 er nourishment. develop them into ea thy and lusty babies. Perhaps the strangest of all their many appliances for hatching living organisims is their biological incubator. Here are “cultivated” whole "colonies" of deadly microbes for purposes of bac- teriological investigation and experi- ment. The cholera bacillus, the scarlet fe- ver microooccus. the leprosy and tub- erculosis bacilli and dozens of other varieties of these postiferous little or- ganisms propagate ihuuiselves in these forcing houses with marvelous rapid- ity. 'l'hey are grown on small lozenge~ shaped pieces or gelatine, and :i frag- ment the size of a quarter suffices to maintain a "colony" of 80,000,000 of microbes. This particular incubator is fastened by two locks of the latest design and most intricate construction; and. in View of the terrible results- that might possibly follow from any unauthorized meddling with its grewsorne contents. the precaution seems a wholly nuccssary mm- ' From oracles the breath of bliss. being noted among instances of per- mns to whom The same day life did give BIRTHDAYS. Who can my that the practice of "511- . - . . . . ,, . 1 _ . There isa\Vest Country superstition d1ch 85tr°1°¥5 ‘5 OI’SOILtB' “hue 3’ ; that children born in May. and wean- modern American newspaper professes 5 ed upon a Good Friday, are always u“- to cast horoscopes for its clients; and. lul‘k)’. An old rhyme regarding the pen the coming - :influenco exercia‘d u thfmgh '3 gsuffh'lent ‘5 “Barge? for Iyear by the day of the week u n which thls Purpom‘b the 33‘1"“ C3°ter ‘5 .50 ; Christmas Day falls, states. l at when overwhelmed by applications that 111‘ ; the 25th of December is upon 8. Mon- quirers are warned that "delay must {(1853 . mmetimes ensue regarding replies in: Thl‘f that be 1‘0“! that day. 1 W09“. consequence of the large number of let- They 51m" be lust)“ Strong “Dd keel . ., . . Tradition is often an authority con- ters received? runs mOdern reader 0f 1 coming birthdays regarding whose date fate reqllil'es to be accurateb’ informal i history is silent. “'9 are fold. for of the. exact date, day, and hour, at example, by an old writer that "there which his clients first entered this .3” h. htwto.Mondi‘i:ys ifn t thet say on . .. .wr iism‘unor eoxxg worldâ€"for all astrological predictions 2 Mycnotame “$1; . ‘ . ‘ltrfiise be. fir may be said to center round a question E the first Monday in April, for on that of birthdays. Days of the week, dates l day Cain was born; second, the last of the month, hours of the day, are all i MOHdB-Y 1“ Dt‘cl‘mbf‘r: {or on that day . , . . ‘ Judas Iscariot was born." credited With benlglmnt 01' mahgn‘mt Certain days of the week or month influences over those born at these par- have constantly been marked ones in ticular dates. It is curious to note how some persons’ lives. Nearly all. the ancient and widely spread is this superâ€" 011‘“ events 0f Thomas a Beckets oar- , . eerâ€"includ' his murder, and the The Ideas 8% forth 1“ the fa" l translationuzf his bodyâ€"occurred upon miller rhymes, “Monday’s bairn is fair ' a_Tuesday. Augustus Caesar received of face," etc., reflect a fairly universal : his 8d0pt10n. began his consulshm. con- . . . qucred the triumviri, and diedâ€"ell upon oplmon as to the luck or the “name a 19th of Au ust. Charles V. gained which follows birth on certain ‘days in l the victory o Pavia and received the the week. "Sunday’s bairn" being in imperial crown on annivermrics of his , - f t _, birthday, the 24th of February. Pope nearly an fondue described as or u 'Sixtus V.. born upon a \Vednesdayâ€" nate, while \Vednesday's and Saturday's a date marked as unlucky by nearly an children are considered less haPPY- folklore ("\Vednesday's balm is full of The Anglo-Saxons attached much im- wloe.”) “\Vednesdgy’s chilld is! splur and ~ _ g um "â€" receiv near y a is pro- Portance to the age 0f the moon “1 de motions upon that date. On W'ednesday terminng 11101;? and “much? birthdays' he was professed a monk; on the same Children born on the first day of the day of the week he was made General 1 l moon would live long and be prosper- I Of his Order; on a Wednesday creat- ous. while Should this date fan upon a ed a Cardinal. elected and inaugurated _ h as Pope. It has been often _noted that Sunday, the infant born under 5‘10 an Henry VIII. and all his childrenâ€"Ed- auspicious conjunction of circumstances yfiird, Mar , Efliztzilmthâ€"ixpilrfid uipon , - - _ e. same ay 0 e wee 'â€" urs ay; would the haplflesr' 0f (infinklgg tTh: while Saturday has been. a marked enter me “P011 t e 3600“ ay_ fatal day to the royal family of Eng- moon was to insure an early eXlt from l land since the time of William 111.; the world. Children born on the fourth many of our sovereigns and their rel- . ativesâ€"as the late Prince Consort and day Of the moon would be great States” the Princess Aliceâ€"expiring upon that day of the week. An epitaph in a. Shropâ€" shire churchyard records that . On a Thursday was she born, And on a. Thursday married; On a Thursday broke her leg; And was on Thursday buried. \Veather as well as date was suppos- ed to have influence upon nativitics; the reader of omens noted not alone the ex- act moment of birth. but the conditions of the sky as well as the aspect of the planets. Full moon and high sea, Great man shalt thou be; Red dawning. stormy sky, Bloody death shalt thou die. Some years ago, in the Museum at Lewes. Sussex, a. horoscope of the last century was preserved among the cur- iosities; but to judge from the long list of predictions published in each num- ber of the American magazineâ€"these being exclusive of private and higher- priced replies by postâ€"the belief in “day fatality” flourishes strongly in this century; and modern astrologers find patrons as easily as did Nostradamus and Lilly in the days of yore. ...__â€"â€"â€"-4'â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" ANOTHER RUSSIAN RAILWAY. But these superstitions regarding day by savage and civilized races, all the We can no more select our day of: birth than our day of death, nor ourselves fix the locality for the Many a superstitious trance into life. Queen Lancastrian doubtless blamed which dogged her son, Henry Vl., throughout his life; for had not that royal lady, in defiance of her husband’s I express desire, insisted on i'taking to her chamber" at beautiful \Vindsor, for- getful of the warning prediction: Harry, born at Monmouth. shall live short time and gain all; time and lose all, a. vaticination truly fulfilled the af- ter careers of Henry V, and his ill-fated son, who, thanks to his mother's pervcr- I sity, was “born at \Vindsor." l Birthda congratulations have always been a. avorite form of pffermg flat- ter as well as of evincing affection; an if a. great personage did not hap- pen to have been born upon a_ lucky day of the week, it was not obligatory to find some auspicious and redeeming dates regarding the time of his naLrVity. If. the week day was unfortunate, hap- pier auguries might be discovered in the day of the month, or the age of the moon. There is a curious little trac- tateâ€"reprinted in the "Harleian Mis- cellany"â€"written in 1679, on "Day Fat- ality....with some remarks upon the 14th day of October, being the auspwi- ous birthday of his Royal Highness James, the Duke of York." If the stars spoke truly. never should there have been a less fortunate horoscope than that of James II.-â€"a man luckless throughout lifeâ€"but the courtly writâ€" er proves that “this 14th day of Oc- tober....hath been lucky, not alone to the Princes of England, but auspicious to the welfare of Euro e;" and counts up, in Latin and Englis verses various fortunate historical occurrences, espe- cially to ro a1 ersonagesâ€"which took 918108 “POI! t_ 13 t8. According “In” work on a large scale in connection writer,_Wiilia.m the Conqueror gained with this railway will be undertaken "that Victory whence he bnsland's scep- until the principal difficulties of the â€"â€"â€"- That Government Will Build a New Rail way in the Caucasus. From Tiflis it is announced that the Russian Government has finally re- solved to build a railway across the main chain of the Caucasus, from Vla- dikavkaz to Kutais, on the Transcau- casian line. If this report be true, it means that the engineers who last au- tumn carefully surveyed all possible routes for the contemplated railway have decided in favor of carrying it over the Mamimon Pass, which attains an altitude of nearly 9,500 feet, and re ‘ected the alternative proposal of tunâ€" ne ing the mountain at the head of the famous DarieLGorge. 'l‘o funnel the Cross Mountain on the more Eastern route would entail an enormous present expenditure; on the other hand, to keep the Mamisson route free of snow for‘srx months of the year will be a most difficult and costly un- dertaking. It is not. probable that any ter took on the 14th day of October; Sibel-11mm“ have been surmounted. as on the same day 05 the 34.11110 month most of the best Russian railway engin- Edward 111., landed safely in England ears are engaged in Siberia. after being “with raging tempests toss- ed." returning from his conquests in France; and in 1360, the same monarch signed the treaty of peace With the French King on the 14th day of Octob- er. On the same date, in 1557, a peace "much for the saving of Christian blood" was concluded between the Pope ..._â€" HER VISION CAME TRUE. â€"0 Her Father Met Death at the 'l‘lmc and In the Way He Saw It. A few days ago Alex Gindelsbergcr, a farmer living near Portsmouth. 0., was called from his home at night by unknown men and murdered. The night the crime was committed his daughter, Mary, thirteen years old, stayed at the home of William Cook. in Portsmouth: The next morning at breakfast she told of her strange dream. She said that it seemed that some one called her father and that he went outside, where he was murdered. After this she thought that she heard rap- piiigs in her‘ room and on the head of the bed, in which she was sleeping. She was so terrified that she covered her head with the bed clothing and went to sleep. She was awakened soon and imagined that a hand touch- ed her and pointed towards where her falhfr _wa.s 'ing dead. Within an our after she had finishâ€" ed telling about the dream she received a fell-gram saying that her father was dead. She afterwards learncd that he had been killed as she had seen in the Vision and at about the same time. 11. of Spain. It would be tedious list of “auspicious occurrences’f which took place upon “his Royal Highness' happy brithday." Read in the light of later facts. there is something almost sardonic in these confident predictions of prosperity to the Prince who was to A mighty pillar of this nation. _ A stay of state. a strong supporting Prop. heaven's top. 0 O O O O O O O O 0 What better things than this can wish This optimist prediction was published in 1079; ten years later the “Prince born in a happy hour" was a discrowned fugitive, his own children ranking among his enemies: twenty-three years afterwards he died in exile, the pension- er of strangers. To King . ames. birth upon the 14th of the month had certainly not brought the good fortune foretold as sure to felicity the accidéentt of 1iiisharrivaldin the war ii us a e w1c . accor mg to v this tragt), had been fortitude "to the SHEES THIE RécE' , children of Israel (alluding to the first Your friend Miss Scriblet is a writer Pasover) . . .. to the Romans and . . :01 V9130. 5'0“ 5:1)“ IS She 2* 906688 of . . and to many others." 98883011? . . \Visely does the classic roverb hid “C”. You W011” think 39 11 you uscall no man happy until is death. heard her talking to her maid. Through several pages the seventeenth century writer traces out the associa- . . ABSI'ZN'ILBHNDED. none of various days of the week or . , month with great men. Many celebrit- That child cried for an hour this aft- ies hart-plied upon'one of their birth- ernoon. . . . . «lav anniversirios; Pompey, Alexander. “11! didn't 3'00 ENG It to bun? flaked Elizabeth of York. Sir Kcnclnr Digby, the absent-minded father. THE coon uses or SALE It is the Readies! and Cheapest of Berne- dles for Nanny Things. Salt cleanses the palate and fur-red g tongue. and a gargle of salt and water xis often efficacious, i A pinch of mi: on the tongue. fol- :lowed ten minutes afterward by a. drink of cold water. often cures sick headache. Szili burdens gums. mzikm teeth white and sweetens the bruiih. Cut flowers may be kept fresh by adding Slit to the water. S “'eak ankles should be rubbed with solution of salt. water and alcohol. lime colds, hay fever and kindred sf fections may be much relieved by using fine dry salt. like snuff. - Dyspepsia, heart burn and indigestion are relieved by a cup of hot water in which a small spoonful of salt has been melted. Salt and water will sometimes revive an unconscious person when hurt, if brandy or other remedies are not at hand. Hemorrhage from tooth-pulling is stopped by filling the mouth with salt and water. weak and tired eyes are refreshed by bathing with warm water and salt. Public speakers and many noted sing- ers use a wash of salt and water before and after using the voice. as it strengthens the organs of the throat. Salt rubbed into the scalp or occas- ionally added to the water in washing prevents the hair falling out. Feathers uncurled by damp weather are quickly dried by shaking over fire in which salt has been thrown. Salt always should be eaten with nuts, and a dessert fruit salt used should be specially made. ' If twenty pounds of salt and ten |pounds of muriate of ammonia be dis- solved in seven gallons of water and bottled, many fires may be prevented. By splashing and spraying the burnâ€" ing articles the fire is soon extinguished An incombusiible coating is immedi- ately formed. Add salt toth‘e water in which black and white cotton oods are washed. Flat irons may made smooth if rubbed over salt. Copper and glass may be quickly cleansed by dipping half a lemon in fine salt, ihcn rubbing them over stain- ed objects. Lemons and salt also remove stains from the fingers.- Do not use soap afterwards. If a small lenspoonful of fine salt be added to a quart of milk it will be pre- serVed sweet and pure for several da '3. Eggs packed in salt can be kept or several months. A pinch of salt added to mustard prevents it souring. A smouldering or dull fire may be chaired for broiling by a handful of so '. Salt thrown on any burning sub- stance will sto the smoke and blaze. Bread insufficiently salted becomes acid. dry and crumbles. Bread made Willi salt water is said {9 be good in some cases of consump- 1011.. \thn cabbage, onions or strong smelling vegetables have been boiledin pans, to prevent odors clinging to them, place some salt; on the stove and turn the pans bottom up pver the salt. In a few minutes the pans will smell sweet. All salads should be soaked in salt and water to destroy animalculae or small worms. Make a strong brine and water gar- den walks to kill words. A moderate quanliiy of salt stimulates their growth. Salt and camphor in cold water is an excellent disinfectant in bed- rooms. Housemaids should pour salt water, after using it, down the drain pipes. Sewer as is counteracted by a handful 0 salt placed in toilet room basins. Water for la ing dust is more ef- fective when en t is added. Sea water is generally used in England coast towns for this purpose. Rattan. bamboo and basket work furniture may be thoroughly cleaned by scrubbing With brush and salt water. Ja amuse and plain straw matting shou d be washed with salt and water and rubbed dry. This keeps them soft and prevents brittle cracking where traffic is heavier. Brooms soaked in hot salt water wear better and do not break. Bedroom floors may be kept cool and very fresh in summer if wiped daily with a cloth wrung out of strong salt water. All microlms, moths and posts are thus destroyed. Black spots on dishes and discolora- lirins on teacups are removed by damp sa t. CORRECT HUMAN PROPORTIONS. Prof. Boofelt says the head, according to correct proportion, should be one- seventh of the body. The distance be- tween the eyes the length of the eye. The distance from the inner nnglepf the eye to the dividing line of the lips should measure from two and a quarter to two and a half inches. Also, that a. man should weigh twcnly'eight pounds to every foot of his height. __.________..â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- PEAT AS AN ANTISEPTIG. Peat enjoys certain antiseptic quali- ties. A dead body which was buried in this substance for over 100 years was found in a state of goal preservation. Peat is used in the northern countries of Europe for surgical banda es, and the favorable resulis obtained ) ' Rus- sian doctors have induced the .‘rench \Var Office to utilize it in their hoeâ€" pitals. A BANK 200 YEARS OLD. The banking firm of Goslings Sharpe, which has been in business in London since 1050. and for the last one hundred ears without a change of name, has ..en consolidated with half a dozen 0mg”, [1 has lodgers dating back to 1715, showing the more of Warren Hastings. Alexander I' '1, Lord. Clive. ubhop Dewey and other noted persons. t