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Trn.'io. making j .. â- liML'tlicsi'BlW' ICliaSlES: They* I io- inSminutes. '..rsedbycone --^ m.n from f' -/Cstato \Ve?ein '.- J clnnos or the r _y i,."n:;ikfthtlB' ":iniKT ran ni»| iI.K.;.\Vashiug^ ifSteamshif •,vi:;i t'le Grand 1 insfio aQuebec«3 liner t .onths.anoo" ay drring the r l\ Kl TOOL «»:.J»rlo. Te^ loronto, F«" -id berth. 1850, l«y all outside p" .,â-  ,r,;a!n. Interme ialoons and state iiin • are anuo i^ felt, and no caw '!), For fTirtherP" ii-uak Railway- MFiptny, or to U i..\tE A CO., .TV.; Aa-PTitB M^ Offer 'i.iisli, 2.nc, or ^j, .\'.u, postpaul.a^;^ ., lul articles, «™*JT with instructiOiWj I s2 to $4 per day. IS no humbug, »^, li.. money, and w»Lj| .! Show this W ONTREAL, P* AGRICULTURAL. Iprotatingi'rape Vines in Winter. L cold parts of the Province it is the r way to l.y the grape vines dpwn at .arp'oach ot wmter in order to secure PS of tru.t; By laying the vines down .^evaiorat.on is lessened ard when the r.w falls th-y are covered by it. and thus f,reoS until ^t is meited. It is the C d. y.ng winter winds sweeping through r V 4; branches .f left on the trellis that T„re the bud3, seemingly loweiing the "l force '0 that they push feebly, it at^ll, the return cf warm weather J-ho liter has seen vines through which the LVn fret l.v ut.able to burst a bad the r "wore killed, though the wood was T'nEL'lv unit jured, it is usually better Lt'iv to throw the vine upon the ground fl tru't to the s-nnw for a covering, tl an In'ace .strawy niLiiure in which mice nay l/iior urou them, or to cover them witli ch earth, which in wet weather will rot l.aiiis. Apple Jelly. e wi olesaie nianutacture of. apple I'v has l.'^i.'ome im impoitant business, Lproco-s in one ot the largest maoufac- •jt' '11 the State â- â- '1 ^•'e^v York is deaciib- li'p tlic report cf the State .(Agricultural f.-oiii which we condense â€" The Ire ly IS iccated on a creek which furnishes Licetfaiy power. The apples as ^.,, ht 1 y larniers are stored in large bins "tre siiic ot the creuk above the mills. heu v,-aiu(d tkey are discharged from the ,iitu a trough of lunuing water, which hits â- .heiii into tlie basement cf the mill, nari'irt;,' them into a tank of water. This â- ess fcii "es them a thorou£;h scouring and n.fu.-e, litter, dirt, etc., is caried away ithi-»attr. The apples are hoisted by ci .ili-^s chain elevalor from the tank to uiii.'iiuiJ roo:n, the buckets on the ele- i.^h' ir' perforated ti allow the water fe.-cape. They .re carried to the upper Jry ui.cote tliey roll by the force of gravi- " ii;e grater. The cheese is laid up in |(.;i_' .-ottun cloth instead of straw as in times. The cider as it is expressed Escs to tlie storage lank tueuce to thede- fr.. 1, a cupper pan eleven feet long and e :cot wide. It is here heated, at first EiiiL-^a^cly by steam pipes, till all impuri- |s i:aif ri-;en to the surface and been iDin.ei' i.ii, a id then a greatei degree of it IS ;.pplif.i to reduce it to a semi syrup |1 oiled lidtr. from the defactor it passes l.i-- evaporator, also b applied with copper ta:c pipts. auu so a'raiiged that the semi- run introiiuced at cue end is reduced to It-i.iiper '.entity in its passage through, Iwiii' tli in a continuous stream, of a con- Ittucy o.' tiiii'ty degrees to thirty-two Lr.':.-' liiuni:). Great care i.i taken in all (ipea".jcs to prevent absolute cleanli- |bs, t It V pirt 1. (ting thoroughly cleDsed v.at- r a id steam each clay. Xo fer- trntioi; i-i allowed to take place in the |e:' o'.ruie reduction. The jelly iiows from f.api. lat'.r.s into large tubs, iiom which Jis .li.i\u while still warm in the various Ickaii^-s ill wiiuh it is shipped to market. favcT::i' pickago for family use is little |\tr-d woiilen buckets holding five and por.nl-i rcfptctively, and which are hilar I., the mocery trade. T:"e capacity e factory is from l.GOO to 1,800 pounds |r o'ay. A bushel of fruit will produce irom jr ti tivu pounds of jelly. Ciab-apples ak.tr.e tine.st jelly iour, crabbed natural .;i: tho best looking, and mixtures of all Irities the most satisfactory product. The !,i;ce is manipulated in water, when the â-  i.-ii;k and tlie lighter part flows off; 1 r: is said that the value of the seeds will the cast of ad the labor employed. titv are sold to nursery men for p' anting, 'jr York ' I'l-trvtr. 1 ARM ITEMS. iLickff puce and fresh water greatly in- ero with the production of eggs during JM \uatht-r. Ejgs contain a large amount â-  attr, and litns need it for the manufac- li'e ot ei::,'S. I i'a:v./...( irr,n pal'-S for drinking water I: i be used. The zinc coating is fi' y ^cted upon by water, forming a ^is.Q ..u.- txi'ie oi z nc. ' ' t-' 'cave any un'-ccupied land to OH o [, I,; weeds. When an early crop tc'.: o I. 1 -ow at once any crop that will • P â- â€¢- (iwii. li'.ickw heat and peas â-  -: i, aii'l maybe turned under belore V " :L.;niM^ a so-all sample of wheat, ' "iti. ::;(,. number of kerneh in the plf, ud multiplying by the number of â- - ;:o, v.-ij^l.t ot.sujh sample is contained •'• «.ioht of a bushel, it h^a been found t â- -".â-  V- air from G.')0,000 to 750,000 ker- iu a bushel. Milt cr.hards the trees are more im- litant t .an any crop that can be grown th'.;!-.. If they are not, cut them 1^*11. T(:e hills of potatoes or beans close trt ts never amount to much, and it is |t wortii trying to save them at the risk of iici; th.. trees. Mariner \i ho for years had his crops igeii !iy vcoodchucks, says â€" "Afcer the ' uliiicks had retired for winter quarters t; e su.-fjce of the ground wjs deeply D. i selected a cold night and shut |ery :ole with earth, pressing it down so =e ct.trLnce and exist were hermeti- l" sealed, excluding the air. With all â- r struigth the woodchucks could not dig V of their prison, and died." 'here ore farmers who have extra good Itter eows and do not know it. They have |or pastures in surpmer and nc shelter and iiiicreut feed in winter. In the house fy have !:o convenience for making but- the milk is set where there are no ar- ^gtmeots for keeping it cool in summer, 1^ m the living room, exposed to the odors jtae kitchen, in winter and neither the lantity nor quality, nor any index of what fOw can do is kept. tfie San Francisco reporter didn't get ytnicg new when he asued a Chinaman "â-  the children of Confucius kept Christ- .:' ^.iinee like Melican man," was the lomder " eat, dlink and gled dlunk." r han a ir.an enters a sample-room and pa person there with whom he has sworn ' ^^ f"" "iside says he entered to warm ' t:ands, while the other says he just drop- in .0 ascertain the time of day. HONOEISG THE DEAD. The Folly and Ix ravaKance ofCoirent Funeral Ciutomaâ€" Tbe oiigia of co3tly Bunal CeremoilUA â€" Ancient ISortaaxT Praotlo«8 "Amcng other things which are not aa they should he," a Greek tradegian is fabled to say in an English crib. "I might mention the unbounded characttr of feminine exfra- vagance." The unbounaed eh; ncter ot fun- tril arrangements is also mentioned among tmnga which are not as they should be. We published, the other day, a letter on this topic signpH by the archbishops of Canter- bury and \\ rk and by other distineuished members ot the church of England Funeral and Mourning Reform association. Accord- ing to this letter, our old funeral observan- ces "help to create a mistaken view of death." What a correct view of death may be it is perhaps not easy to ascertain. But the writers of the letter prjbably meaa that our funeral pomp gives an idea of hopeless gloom, which is certainly neither b«aatiful nor human nor consistent with either the hopeful Christian cr the resigned pagan theory of the close of mortal existence. Tne writers go on to point out that the bereaved are often unable to resist the tyratny of cus- tom or fashion. Trif^se demand in all ranks a heavy tax to Mr. Mould to be paid on the decease of a kinsmm. Hven when well to. do people have sensibly insisted on a plain, quiet, funeral, the poorer classes (especially the Scotch and Irish poorer clasb) often feel it their duty to expend compirajively large sums on "waking ' and otherwise doing honor to the depiarted. The Homeric cus- tom of a funeral feast, though Jio longer fol- lowed by athletic sports, prevails among the p ;or in many parts of these islands. Scotch tradesman are not unacquainted with "burial port," and the vintage served out at the funerals of the poor is neither old nor crusted nor expensive, though undoubtedly "very curious." "The people at large," say tke leformers, "still cling to the old so- called 'handsome funeral,' with, in various parts of England, much feasting and treat- kii, entailing often absolute want, and con- aucing to permanent piupeiisn)." This is true, and lavish Dad taste in these mortuary matters is not confined to the poor. Look at our funeral monuments in cemeteries and churchyards, look at our style of mourning in dress, look at our plumed heaijes and abominable hearse-horses and mutes. Can anything be m ire hideous and degraded than the m ea if our funeral art? While people ecu! M themselves to fl jwers and crosses they can do little harm. But they aspire to veiled urns, brokea columns, pho- tographs under glass on the tomb, and a crowd of incongruous allegorical images such as may be observed in Brompton cemetery. As to mourning raiment, the taste of most races, from that of the Australians, who daub themselves blacker, is in favor of black; white and yellow are the exceptions, l" ack is not unbecoming, but it is hot and heavy. Many women with large family circles at i martyrs to pondtijus, uncomiortable, and expensive crape. For mutes and hearse plumes nothing can be said except that they are survivals trom ages even more costly than our own in gloomy funeral arrange- ments. Tney are like the horse led behind the soldier's bier â€" a survival from the time (not so very far distant) when the h( iie was actually sacrificed and buried with the warrior. The touching relic of that sacri- fi ;e, as it exists in certain military funerals, no one would abolish. But the reformers have plenty of work before them in teaching economy and taste. That they will help to popularize cremation, the most sanitary and the noblest manner of disposing of the dead, is more than likely. The great expense traditional at obse- quies no doubt arises from a wish to honor tne dead. The old way of hone ring the dead was to fi.l their tomb or funeral pyre with all manner of precious things. Thus when Hectors's body still lay in the Acl-i*ji,n camp his friends in Troy burned many of his costly possessions. Toe idea was that the spiritual forms of these objects, like the ghosts of the slaves slaughtered besides the pyre, accompanied the departed lord into ha,de3. People had not learned that, as they entered this world naked, so they departed. They brought nothing with thorn, and car- ried nothing away. But the human spirit revolted against this infl-xible rule. His slaves, his dogs, his horses were buried with the (Jiiek, or Scythian, or Scandinavian prince; the child carried her toys in:o the sunless gardens of Persephone. In the "Philopseudes" of Lacian (the report of a mesting of a Greek psychical society), one of the charactf li tells how he burned all his dead wife's finery. But the unsatisfied shade of the dead lady haunt jd him, till he found and burned one of a favorite pair of gilt slippers, which had fallen behind a chest and so escaped the general conflagration Bedefs like this have been of the utmost service to history, because we now find in the barrows and tombs of the dead examples of all the objects they prized in life. Chris- tianity discouraged and almost destroyed the practice among her early converts. By a curious inconsistency, however, 1 he dig- nitaries of the church and the heads of the state were still buried in canonical costume or in royal robes, with croizers and rings. Other and humbler Christians have usually been buried with no saciiSce of portable pro- perty. Tnu3 prevented from sacrificing to the honor of the dead in one way, the world clang to another ancient usage, aad expend- ed needless sums of money in hideous 1 lappings of mourning and in wakes and funeral feasts. "I dinna CiiJ for your mar- riages gie me a good solid burial," said the old Scotchman, expresssing a sentiment which has a still stronger ho'd on tie Irish. All our funeral customs show a gloomy, hopeless view of death which wiser peoples have not encouraged The northern nations have a curious love of poiing on corruption, on skulls, skeletons, croso-bones, all the hideous emblems of country church-yards and of the Danse Macabre. There is hard- ly a skeleton to be found in all Greek fun- eral art. The tlehe, or pillars ovtr the dead, show us the departed as he was in this lifeâ€" the man about to mount the horse of Hades, the lady at her toilette. Some- times we find representations, as is supposed of friends meetinjr again in Elysium. The Etruscan dead are represented as lying at endless feasts, "enjoying each the other's good." The Egyptians were with Ojiria in a peaceful and happy place. Such we the usual Pagan representations of death, -bur what did they really believe about death? There was no consistent or orthodox doc- trine. HeJ' was painted on the walls cf the L escheat Djlpliiâ€"hell with a blue-black tiend, Lurynomous, the color of a carrion fly, devourmt; the damnt'd. Other souls were at the endless tasks of Sisyphus, of Tan- talus, of the c'aighters of Dinaus. Tae blue-tlack fiend may Rtlll be seen on the painted tomb walh cf E juria. Thus there was a belief in a place of torment, cr jwded by demons like those we see In old mediteval missals and psalters. But \fai the belief iu such a place common In the "Republic" one of the characters marvels at Socrates when he speaks ef a future life among just men made perfect. "These things ara old wives' fables," says the skep' i«, apparently an orthodox gentleman of Athens. Socrates' myths of heaven came like a new gospel to his hearers, a gospel attested only by the vision of Er, the ancient Dante, who had be- held the homes of men departed. Again, the people of Greece believed (as the story of Cupid and Psyche shows) in a home of future lite exactly analogous to what Ojib- beways and Soloman islanders believe in â€" a shadowy, formless place, guarded by mon- sters. There was thus no one orthodox view of death. Annihilation, immortality in our sense, purgatory, a survival of the hades of savagep, a theory of absorption into the di- vine, all these notions had their disciples. But vague as his beliefs were, the Greek treated death, when he had to deal with in mortu iry art, with a manly piious resigna- tion, not hopeless, but devoid ef fear. Eng- lish mortuary art is far indeed froni this ad- mirable eximple. â€" London Daily News. WIT AD WISDOM. STIFLING TIMES IS RUSSIA. The best thing out â€" Oat of debt. It takes a clever man to conceal from others what he doesn't know. Diamonds are a good deal like hens. Much depends upon their setting, When a joung lady refuses a marriage proposal, it is a case of slight of hand. Tfufe am mighty, but use it in small doses, in criticising the acts of yo' friends. The pow«r to do great things generally arises from tho willingness to do small things. The amount of pin money required by a woman depends on whether she uses dia- mond pins or rolling pins. It is in harmony with the eternal fitness of things that a man should turn pale when he "kicks the bucket." There is no disgrace in being poor the thing is to keep it quiet and not let your neighbors hear anything about it. The man who says that woman has never invented anythiL,; should listen for a few minutes at the key-hole of the sewing so- ciety. The latest dude story is that a farmer saw a couple of these agonizing specimens on the street, and exclaimed '(osh! what things we see when we don't have a gun." So â€" commerced the study of music only when he was sixty. We recommend this fact to the young lady whe lives in the op- posite house, and has bsgua practicing the "Maiden's Prayer" before she is twenty. A Michigan youth, aged 19, had a flare- up with his girl, and out of revenge mar- ried the latter's auiil â€" fair, fat and forty. It is the first time aunty has been utilized as a cure for a broken heart. Weakly Children. M J subsequent care can fully atone for ne- glect ot proper physical training and de- velopment in childhood. S jme parents are so tender of their children that they hardly allow them to go out of their sight. They keep them in school nine months in the year, and under more or less restraint and confinement during the other three months. The result fs that neither mind or body reach their full development and they are child- ren at twenty, and weaklings the rest of their lives. The perfection of manhood is a sound mind in a sound body." Most of the business of the great cities is in the hands of country-bred men, while those born and brought up in afilaence in cities, are, as a occupying inferior positions. This condi- tion ot things will not always remain thus; parents are beginning to appreciate the cause and to seek the remedy. Early last suaimer I we.nt op amoig the hills of Sussex County, N. J., and stopped for a day or two with some frienda who reside oa a larp^e farm a mile from the beautiful village cf Newton. A delicate lad of ten years of a^e Irom Brooklyn had been sent to spend the summer wdth this family. When he came he had but; little appetite, his eyes were weak and he could endue but little fatigue but he entered into rural life with great gusto, and when he wai sent for at the end of a month, he begged to remain longer. Another delicate boy about the same age was sent up from the city later in the sea- sou, ani the two are full of business racing over the hills, riding, bare back or in the f^rn waggons, and developing htalth and strength all the time. 1 met one of the family in October, aad was told that I would then hardly recognize these boys, so brow n and rugged had they become. It is reasonable to lay thai this summ; ring has added five or ten years to the lives of these children. The family above referred to are people of education and refinement, so that the influences under which the children are brought are the very best. The children become greatly attached to the family who allow them much freedom, aad thus the farm-house is known aa "Liberty Hall." We wish there were many such summer re- sorts for city boys who are suffering for the want of fresh country air, and the fresh milk and butter and bread and fruits that abound here. If the thousands of people who visit the fashionable watering places, leaving their children at home in hot, dusty cities, or bringing them with them to be pampered by rich food and fa'iigued by late hours, would seek for them homes for the summer at farm-houses in healthy localities^ permanent benefit would result. There are plenty of such places to be found and among the recollections of a child's life, none would be brighter or more satisfac- tory to look back upon tb a a his rural experi- ence. The highest joys and pleasures of childhood are lost in the walls of a great city. The drum we beet ourselves dnzznt sownd so loud as the drum our nabnr beets. Tbe Social and FoUtleal Ufe of the Feo- pie I ztUigntalied by tbe Govainment. "Oh, this stiflng, horribln reaction!" gasp intelligent Russians. "We are dying for fresh air." Meanwhile the government creatures are shouting "Everything is all right in the czar's coantry, it is the nicest place on the globe." For the time being there is no life at all in this huge country â€" I mean social and political life. Like school children, the czar's subjects are constantly bidden to keep still. All the functions of the autocratic government seem to be con- ctntruted on the hushing np process. I heard a' witty Russian say that nowadays the czir does not issue a ukase, but simply "Hush, No. â€" " Eirn your daily bread and eat it â€" that is, if the imperial tax-collectors do not snatch it from you. Such is the whole code of daily life for the Russians now. The czar as usual does nothing. He is merely a figurehead for his country. In order to fill up his time his ministers make him sign "hushes," and give audience to civil and rhilitary office-seekers who pre- sumably come "to lay at the feet of his majesty their loyal feelings." There are thousands of regiments in Russia, and each regiment has its own patron saint. The patron's day is the greatest holiday of the Russian soldier, anl the present cztr has made it his rule to give them a treat on that day. Besides vodka he gives half-a- louble to each man, a rouble to each under- othjer, and a dinner to the officers. And here ends the czar's "daily and nightly care about the needs and wants of his beloved country. " The ministers are certainly less idle than their master. Each of then na^. daily many orders to sign arid a crowd of â-  (H^e-seekers to see. But what particularly keep^ them busy is the competition in making up hushes or ukases. Queer, indeed, are some of these documents. Here, for instance, the mini- ster of public instruction proposes to behead all the Russian universities by establishing a state board of examiners, having sole pnw er to confer degrees upon students. The trouble is that over three-quarters of the nihilists were university students, and the professors were satisfied with them so long as they were proficient in their studies. Bat the state ex iminers would issue diplomat only to those who were undoubtedly^ loyal, and thus there would be fewer chances for nihilists to penetrate into the imperial ser- vice. Then the minister of the imperial house- hold proposes that there shall be no nfbles by the autocrat's grace. According to Rus- sian law, all suljects who, while in ihe czar's seivice, attain the rank of general or receive the cross of S:. Vladimir, become ipso facto nobles of the empire, and all their descendants preserve the title. Ac- cording to this naw project no man, how- ever much he might deserve from his coun- try, could become a noble unless he pleased the czar or his government. Such ?, system would create a nobility which would be any- thing but noble. Next comes the minister of the interior, boasting that he had sucseeded in beheading Moscow. During the last coronation the- he id, or nayor, of the c'ly of Moscow, Prof. Tehicherin, made a speech in which he urged the new-crowned czir to follow his late father in the way ot reform. "Only substantial reforms can cure the gaping wounds of our fatherland," he said. For that speech the mayor of Moscow was re- moved. Fiom that day to this the ancient c z vr's capital has renaained headless, for no new candidate elected by the city has suited the minister. Tnis is the way the autocrat repays M ):cow for her hospitality to him during the coronation. Tbe min's':er of jastice also shines with wisdom. R cently a Rossi an, who was called before the court as a witness, refused to',tike the formal oath, which begins thus "1 swear by (iod Almighty." "The bible forbids me to swear by God," he said, "though I am ready to swear before God." The case was referred to the irinister. Count Loo Toistoi, the foremost Russian novelut of the day, being called to serve on a jury, exoused himself on the ground that hia religious views forbade him to judge men. This case was also referred to the minister. Tne decision of the Rusdan minister was as follows: "Count Leo Tolstoi shall be counted among absent jurors, and, aa such, shall be fined 100 loubies. As to the witness ob- jecting to the legal form of oath, it must be understood that the imperial government is not going to change the laws of the empire to accommodate individuals." The chief procureur of the holy synod has recently ordered that The ReHijious and Social Messenqer, being too radical in its re- ligious views shall be submitted to religious censor. In compliance with this order, The Messenger sent to the censors all its re- ligious articles, but not arcic'es of a lay character. The j ouraal received a new rep- rimand, for in the procurtur's order there was no discrimination made between re- ligious and lay news. So now the reverend censors, who are all monks, are perusing even the financial articles of The Messenger in search of heresy. What can people do under such a govern- ment They can play cards and billiards, give dinners and balls, arrange masquerades, ^nd go to the theatre, and so they do. Vodka and champagne are flawing, dancing parties and light music last through the night, ballets and low plays which have al- ways the same theme, that "the lover is lovely and the hfsband is a fool," provoke thunders of appiause, and above all this babel is heard the so-called K issian national hymn "B -je, czaria hrani" (God save the cz.r). B/ the way the fiftieth anniversary of that hymn waa recently celebrated here. Oa that occasion i*^s origin aid history were fully explained. I'p to IS.S,' tnere was no national hymn in K issia, and the czirs were usually contented with the Kigliih anthem, "God Save the King." Afti r his trip abroad, in 1S3-, the Czar Nicholas ordered Mr. Lvotf, a famous Russ au musician, to compose at once a Prussian national hj mo, for his mpjesty. ' hile in fi riign courts, had been much inci einetc ;d on aciount of the laok of one. Mr. L\-oti' set to work, and soon the music was ready. Poet .1 oukovsky furnished the words ',The hymn pleased the czir, and in 181-!1 it was tirst played in the Orand theatre of this city. Such was the origin of the hymn. True, its music i.s rather national, but the words are anything but the Russian people's prayer God save the czar Mighty autocrat, Keism for our Kiory, Ueii^n for our eneiiij 's fear, U, ortliodox czar, God save the czar It is an cffioisl hymn, and is not known at all to the majority of Russians. â€" St. Peters- buryh Cor. Nctv York Sun. WHO 18 UNACQUAINTED WITH THE MEOGRAPHY OF. THIS COUNTRY, WILL SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE Chicago, Rock Island Pacify R'y, Being the Great Central Line, affords to travelers, cy reason of Its unrivaled geo- graphical position, the shortest and best route between the East, Northeast and Southeast, and the West, Northwest and Southwest. It is Irteraliy f»nd strictly true, that its connections are all of t.he principal lines Of road between the Atlantic and the Pacific. 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