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A / ■ ' snffwepa H«,re Re- «oirea ifaso,QQO,OOQ^Won^riT Nobles^ recttUariti^,* o f tixe Rooplo* tricts, says Fxabk Q. Gai-penter ja a St, Petersburg letter to ^ s r S a S s ? ^ ' transportation of fanxiae relief here, is ^ itta peoplele outt 0 - ousana peop ou of beltaa « ^“”J|are in rags. „^® ^ J n th .tep boots, and the ISTa- the 'Waj andthoi: [1 Ml baclcboae moa of Ri Qgtoa^tar, iceuraging, ough the fam- itill raging^ the- people This ically thoroi outside of is relief work ^'igh orgaaizatiuu, ani brains as you -will fiad anywJbasa 'Olid are managing it, m d thSy ike childrfte of chil- advice a n d t ^ s i a of >ple of' neatly etcry ,. large extent ^flfie I of the rioh,' though the Wealthy the clvjlited wotad dtesf much J^^sam e as -we do. The ai^erende here id among tplM g ely in the quality of gM s worn, ^ St. Petersburg may be said to be a city where the people wear ulsters,, — ’ boots the year xpoad, no i ^ ler it be as hoi Tophet or as, 3 estate?, is not done spi system. Thy tiou, '^n*jon will, it lievod, be broken by f Septem- the 1; >lo wear Ulsters, caps year xpflnd, no imt- I hot /ia Tophet or as These Russian bo<' are worth lookins''at,.^They are abc theonly cheap,*ii“SA'i ? ter w h ether i t b e as h . * cold as Alaska. These Russian boots gathei *\g. r the t lered. Great want aJd m S suffS“ »St^ 7 e ’ io exist for xist for about $3S,000, which works,4 Wernment. ‘•‘tms, directly planuing The Governmeiiu*^'*^® recurrence of concerning tl cd States hi terrible extent manner handled it. No country strain as Russia is there is m I t No of thevaribus dist r Consul General, Interior Depart- mr system of crop 'feports and has just now decided to adopt this system for Russia. Secretary Rusk forwarded full .information, and from now on the Same organized system that we have cUnstructed will be in nUSSIAN FABMERS. perhaps ( emwgency a ' pie as E m il § 1 buoV»V'M ’’\dur'and told, to perhaps three-quarl million dollars. The donations of the Government and the people represent in the neighborhood of $360,OOU,- 000, and tju Czar himself has giyen' about ten million dollars out of his private fund. The Govern ment loans to the famine villages amount to more than one hundred million dol lars, and these loans no one ever expects Gofovernment said o me latterly, the Czar He les not expect repayment. He always gives a present to the people upon certain 10 people upoi X ns the coronation of a id at the next event one of is presents will probably be the-forgiv- ig of this debt. This one hundred mi almost outri; . X Ing lion dollars was given almost outright by the Government, but in addiion to it numerous schemes have been favored and authorized by the Czar to get money for the sufierors, and the bulk of the gifts have come from the people. Consul General Crawford estimates that the gifts of private citizens in Russia to this famine have -been not less than. 860,000,000 roubles or the enormotfs sum of $176,000,000. The gifts almosl surpass comprehension, and all told, not withstanding the vast population of Russia, they amount, including those of the Government, to $3 for each man, woman and child in the whole Russian Empire, or to $15 per family. When you remember that of the twenty edd million families that make up the Russian people not many more than one million of them probably has ever had $15 at ---- ssession you get some L this has been a. Heretofore Russia has had. ultural statistics and thepeijB^ j lived from hand to moui i ^aom lM l or »a atuclT r.' i to underataud thi , one who visits Russia can b« un- 'ki|tRg|sd with the strength of character seen ia ',he faces of the people. | first saw these Russian peasants at JTerusah about four years ago. It was at EasI ley had come by ' (ars, aud the finish of as fine at that of a the best leather is as hue at that or a portfolio or pocket book. These boots reach to the knees, and the best of them shine like patent leather. The pauta loons are always tucked Inside of thei and theie is a fancy section about six inches wide above the ankle of every boot, in which the leather lies in wrinkles with the regularity of a wash board. It takes at least twice as much leather to make a pair of Russian boots as it does an American pair, and the same may be said of the Russian over coat. The droschky drivers wear more cloth than any other cabmen the world over. It takes more of good cloth—^for the blue goods they wear seem to be of ex cellent material—to make a droschky driver's coat than to make a ladies’ trained ball dress, and this coat has to he padded and quilted. This coat has long skirts, and it is made very large so that ituff Ms hoc appearance of prosperous fatness. Nine- tenths of these drivers are padded in this way, and no well-to-do mau would own a lean coachman. Lieutenaut Allen, the military attache of our legation here, told me yesterday that his coachman ap peared to be of dime-mnseum fatness when he engaged him, and that he sup posed his great frame was that of nature, until one day he met him before he had put in his pads and he was as thin as a rail and looked so different _ that it was some time before he knew him. Speaking of Russian caps, the officers whom you see here by the thousand all wear them, and the most of the soldiers have caps as a part of their uniform. Every servant or messenger wears a cap and the hoys from the ago of four wear dhers. 1 , and the favorite hei ! overcoat! 1 the little loys from the ago of four weai long-visored caps and litf just like their father! girls wear caps, covoring^ of the two to six or seven running about wi little maidens of fron years, whom I se? their nurses in the parks, is a jockey cap of the brightest red, blue, yellow or green silk. The colors of the caps of the men are usually The police men, as a rule, have red bands about their caps. Some of the private soldiers !aps..of.^whi|e. O f ta a - s color dem M A L T A . A fi^AiroTJst iciW?rjbB isrand and ITS INTERHSTIN® JPBOPXiEi, A Handsome n il A Haoe—• A Mixed* IiangwiNKe — Cutrioi MArxtiiire And Pane^Al Gu?. tonlsrr-Knlgiits of MaitA, gsaeration asked for what prod- uct» the little Island of Jffftita is famed, theanswer would be given without hesi- Ijj ts«cy,‘'M:altesi»'eat8,” ax^ at that -point his kubwiefige, or rather hii ignorance, would ceiiee. But t h e r e is no lexioographei* . -, vffsi couldadd to this bit of information. 4 search records of the cat doosjnoi than a mere mention Ofiiht Mali*. The annals o« Malta tell us of fhoiffl^ese dog, an oririnally wild type, whieHffipI exists on the island, but in a dom esKted state. These wei tioned by ancient writ found insculpture, 1 of eat not a word seems tioned by either old i iUlptur bill of the Maltese ord seems tt haive Malt , i been men- by either old oh modem writers. The Knights of Mahja readily occur to ,-and of these we f i |i sufficient fame bequeathed in the qua^t records of their military and social progress. itherprodust cOB^to mind to fa- ^ h e ^ r s t Guipure ifaotured on that s a time when rised, the patterns 4 and the strong 1 1863 a lady of i possessed an indo of a peculiar ^ Ace maker named ipieilt, and then, hav- _ . . fts^lxAs iu the art, the Ciglia family began tie manufacture of both black and white guipure. The lace makers of Auvergne hastened to copy i't, and made great fortuutS out of the fine Guipures originated ,at> material was the lace design. An i Madonna Ciglia copieMt, and thei m g perfected themselrAs in the lia family beg MALTESE WOMAN. lerly all horses used by the deceased deprived of their tails. Mortuary cakes were given to the friends with boiled wheat, an ancient custom of thi pillc Egyptians. . orange leaves as au expiatio also spread over the custom of the of laurel and %s interred in the grave for sin. A carpet was spot to prevent any custom re- ilti- ne from walking over it, a ,ned enough to be used by vated people. The capital of Malta, Yaletta, was es tablished in 15665 by Johnohn P . Yaletta,alotl Grand Master o and until the by J P . Y St. John of Jerusalem, rad passed into the ih, it was under the hands of the Britisl rule of the Knig zatiou as famous for ic rule, as th the Knij^ts Tempi lion to peace aud e hundred of these cl ied on the island i John’s Uhuroh. T i^ Maltese cross, » sacred emblem of the Knights Templar, ra, are for their devo- success. Four ric men re for tl |ho crypt! ■'iltese are bur- TAIBTTA, ISLAND OX MALTA. Catalonia for the mmt^ Spanish noble [originated with them FOB FARM AND GARDEN. j I \Wm CATTLE eat EA bt H, , I animals eat or lick earth indicates that the food is not suffi- Wntly supplied with lime and pic&sh. |o give a handful of fresh wood ashes, with an ounce of salt, once a week, will act as a remedy, This ab- Jiormal appetite also indicates indiges tion, and a dose of one pint of raw linseed oil will remove the trouble in we majority of cases.—[New' York Times. Cher, was gatthered ters of the rag in fe hepolygh i there froi irld t im the four < wore none streets of St. Petersburg xviti their backs, driving cabs or droschkic and working on the streets, men whose nobility and strength of features would create remark in the ■American crowd, and at every comer you meet men whoso faces are such that you would be prout to acknowledge them if you found then among your ancestral portraits. Theii foreheads are high and broad, their eyei on those i The nobili 1 give aud have give: ility have in all cases led the lis and hundreds of well-educated girl! .^W'nniea of the best families of this ' other Russian cities are districts:s fightinghting thei di fig tb ?phu3 fevei tion, typh behalf of the peasants. the list, jirls and families of iwiathelamine lemons of starva- rer and the smallpox in A number oi A DROSCHKY DRIVEB. straight, honest a nd kindly. Their noE are large and clean cut, and their chcE bones often rather prom inent. Nearly all are bearded and many are long-haired aud part their hair iu the m iddle. Their fram es are as strong as their faces. They are a big-boned, w ell-joined race, and they look as though they were made to stay. The women are of the same char- people acter as the men. They are not hand- destroy some nor pretty, but they look kiud and m otherly and what w e would call fine looking. They lack taste in dress, have^nc ideas of the harmony of colors, and weai 1 the peasants—handlkerchiefs ■ightest colors of the of alT S g : . ....... . ' or other XBASANt WOMAN. red, b lui or Other g a y ^ o r s , are gatlreied in At the neck an* vraMt, and fall to the feet in uftgraoeful folds. They are sturdy of frame aud rather dull rainbow icy are sturdy of frame aud rat rad quiet in manner. They do as muou rhe men of the lower classes, as I sec The then dross th( land of tl de. ics, as 1 see que in their fiOWlNO THE SEED, like Tam O’Shanters, and the cavalry many different kinds of headgear infantry. Some officers have green bands about their caps and blue, and in short there is every possible cap combination from the shaggy fur of the peasant from the wilds of north' Russia to the brimless astrakhan, which, with it red silk crown, covers the head of the .cartridge breasted Caucassian of the people of the country leers wear different soldiers. The overcoats from th e different parts are also di o f different colors iffereut, and the offic out colors and of grades of length, ranging from the feet to the top of the hoots in size. AU told the dress of the men is the most picturesque one of Europe, and the crowds which throng the streets of St. iersburg are like those of no other capital of the world. The men are naturally large and fine-looking. These long ulsters make them look bigger, aud the general effect produced is that of a Nation of giants. Elizabeth Wore au Amulet. Queen Elizabeth, during her last ill- ss, wore around her neck a charm made of gold which had been bequeathed hei by au old woman in Wales who declared that so long as the queen wore it she would never be ill. The amulet, as wai generally the case, proved of no avail; and Elizabeth, notwithstanding her faith in the charm, not only sickened, but died. During the plague in London, le wore amulets to keepoS the dread ■oyer. Amulets of arsenic were wo the heart. Quills of quick silv were hung around the neck, and also tl powder of toads.-~Detroit Free Press. from a cast tomb, which mag- J mficent monument tojhis memorj erected in the OhuroB of bt. John at AlaltS. The arabesqv^ pattern of the Maltese lace fits it espedally for sacred- otal use. j' Malta is at this timG and tide in the affairs of the world nr from being a barbarous island. But the story of the New Testament recurs mturally to every traveler who stops ati{th 0 solid little fortress of the sea, wifi its limestone ■walls and terraced s population is made u Gentile, Hebrew, Turl the native fisherman, of i in his\ ■here the Greek and Arab, and latskin jxclusiva all itt,o 04 exclusive of :oops and their families; 24,000 Lish and foreigprs. It is said attendance of chools which The arts aud are Engli that there is a dailj pupils at the different numbers some 8000. trades are all well repreiented. There are twenty-two village for the use of the artisans and their ative filagree jew > foreign markets, for amilies. Much k finds its way “A Swell Turn Oat.’* fmaf if- PAtftwOMu# limrnl geo k v without ovpoo^. h ^ ......... .^'ana^produced 15,000,000 |)pv^c[i !wei-wo « The Maltese are an Industrious and ingenious race. The aen aud women are handsome, well-formid and with the easy grace of carnage wlich belongs to the Orientals. The women have small hands and feet, black e^s, only one of which is visible, the othir being hidden under the folds of the faldotta-.a mantle they wear. T The Maltese language being a mixture of alt languages, cannot be defined. It is full of metaphor, of rare old proverbs and animated expressiois. They are dependent upon Italy for their literature, their own being of th* scantiest de scription. Marriages in Malta ire usually ar- young people by re very sweets :emonies. The Palma and cacti grow profi oranges and other tropical fruit! fouud there, and there are curious ma# rinc plants that are indigenous to thal shore which had the honor of giving birth to Yeuus. But the sirocco make* unbearable with its hot, stinging itli, and the yellow cliffs whi<fi& ged into a pallid rosiness of color ra the sun goes down, afflict the tr«Y« with ophthalmia, and St. PaaPs viper and greeen lizard hide in the flow ers as they did in apostolic days. B«t perhaps these are the very things that attract the curious to the “ little militafy hot-house,’’ as Byron spitefully called it lU Napoleonic days. ranged between the parents. The native cu interesting, music, floW! being prominent iu the cer< mothers of the contractiiig parties meet to brew a concoction of anise-seed, honey, and other aromtfltc plants, with anoint the bride’s lips to oney, a ■hich tl ring upon ■wWfft tw o clasped hands, sign ifying fidelity, Me engraved, and as large an assofttnent Of Other jew elry as M b station in life ■will a llow , while bestows upon f, tied w ith r: 'she bestows upon Mm a Iftco ham ribbm ' ..... purity and Qhastiljr, chie f, ibboas! symbolical of ■ ^ marriage amoag a crowd. The lasts iwvtfsl hours. enter the aistrilmtwd oeiemony As the young eostplr*' enter house on their retea,*M*wflant8 grain and small cola hoi.^, - insure their being rich frWtful. One of the superstitions of the Maltese is the belief that If the bride first steps over the threshold her hnsband will be in do- to her, so this mischance is ' voided. studiously avoh Their mourning customs ate also full of interest, and most impressive. ■Women of dwth, 0i;Ue4 Heuicha, hiyed fof Msfsti selvas are Hidden from i eye r»f slrangera by terraces and w alls of lim estone, bu t their can be perceived at a lon g distau! the scent they give to the ■winds. MALTESE I raspberry CULTURE. There has been no real advance or Improvement in the raspberry during the past forty years or more. There ave no larger, better flavored, nor pro- liflo varieties iu cultivation than for merly; but oiir apparent advance is merely the result of making a change fi'om the European Varieties to the native, there being more honey and with good cultivation yield well at little cost, and as a result our markets ave now supplied with this fruit, but not of the best qimlity. It is good, but not as good as most persons de sire.—[New York Sun. PEHTILIZERS FOR APPLE TREES. As a fertilizer for fruit crops we cannot improve on wood asbos and ^one meal. If the ashes are leached md liberally applied, say at the rate <f even ten tons per acre, nothing nore will ho needed in most cases, fhould yellow foilago and slow growth <f wood indicate lack of nitrogen, this an bo applied to the form of nitrate d soda, dried blood, ground fish, col- bu-seed meal, sulphate of ammonia, cc., whatever is easiest to procure, or oeapestin your particular locality, hne-moal contains over twenty per C it of phosplioric acid and four per (at. of nitrogen, and if added to the i leached ashes at the rale of 200 or £0 pounds to a ton or two of the dies per acre, will make a complete ad well-balanced fruit-tree fertilizer, liually this combination is one o f the ceapest, and at the same time most i^bctivo, o f all manures available for <0 ijurpose.—[American Gardening, BEES AND HONEY. ^ Professor A. J . Cook says thal iu 'jjttud numbers it is not far out of h way to say that 4000 bees -weigh 1.10 pound, and a hive in early sum- I r often has 40,000 bees iu the col- I Yhen ^ e s are exceptionally cross, |ri(di;gw|Kjn slight prOTOaattoli *]Wu-or« \ ‘ “ - « » » J U . - n n T « e » f ro m « «lony that have t <* ; al dlspaaitions. As ihe lifo of the |;0rki*rbeo Is short iu summer, is I ' II be but a few weeks before there U bo an entirely now colony with ‘iv&ritable temper. hA beginner in bee-keeping will d w«ll not to go in too largely at fi, bat it would be better to start m two or three swarms from as my difierent yards, and occasion al to introduce a new swarm or a if now queens from other yards to pvent inbreeding. Which may be as b in bees as'in poultry or animals. “ Boston Cultivator, A Jelly Palace for the 'World’s Fair. The women of California are going to build a jelly palace at the fair—not a sMvering, unsteady structure like a new iustardpie, but a solid building, -with sides of glasses full of jelly, says the Chicago Times; These glasses -svill be transparent and of rainbow hues. The building will be tbirty-ono feet i, surmo'unted by a glass ball, two feet in diameter, full of jelly. The four arche.d entrances will form a shrine twelve feet square. The ft structure will be steel. It -will can its entire height. On these shelves the )ottles centaing jelly of every color will be arranged. Some of them will be set upright and others horizontally, accord- frame of the ;htest possible THE JELLY PALACE./ ing to the effects to ho proved. Iu the doootatlon of thi* novel/luce 2644 , 2 i inches in diao^v, will bo 966 four inches in /meter, and 1048 of assorted sizes, a total of 4688. romon e£ will cost $2400, of wl; jpx the ste^l /a t this palao* f fiooo Willi#..' THE ASCENSION LILT. There are so many different kinds oi lilies, each with a charm of its own, that it Avould bo hardly just to tingle out one aud pronounce it more beautiful than all the rest. Bnt cer tainly it would bo hard to name one t at excels in good qualities the old- tushloned Ascension lily, which has I >en cultivated probably as long as f ry other flower known iu gardens, ihe disease which has injured it for obmo years past seems to have run-its rourse; at least these lilies wore neyer more luxuriant or the flowers teore perfect than they have been this ^ A mass of these flowers in full {sioom. with some dark green foliage bohhid llicm, is a beautiful spectacle, and so is a group of thorn mixed with the tall blue spikes of the perennial delphiniums. Hardy lily bulbs are usually planted in the autumh, but the bulbs of this one should be lifted in late July or early August and planted at once. At that time the stalk? have died down, and soon after now roots begin to put out,and some glossy radical lo^es spread over the ground and re main green all the winter. The bulbs should be planted before this new growth starts, or there will be a great loss in the vigor o f the plant’s growth. 4[Gai.i.-.. U-'orcst, tli.K MVEhTJ. ITbevo r. Jiba'* they reoel-ye eeoeasion to ■ their income, ago Bt*. Bassett was called lionally to one of these farms. !nd a piggery some 800x40 feet, [walk in the centre and styes on Each stye contained six to Rigs, shoals one year old, Sows, some of which were ind a few had died. Ho killed a sicR one, and on post mortem exam ination found the disease to be thal Itiioffu as hog cholera. The pigs were ppl under tlm bpsfc j^nown treatment. which •was of no benefit apparently^ a? one or more would die daily. Out Of one hundred he lost between thirty and forty. The first visit Dr. Bassett attempted to seek out the cause. He found that the breeder had been successful until this winter. PreTious to this winter he cooked the pigs’ food in the pig gery, but the past winter he did not, by reason o f the kettle being cracked. Consequently no fire was built in the piggery daring the winter or spring. In the absence o f a fire aud an accu mulation of tho necessary moisture ■ from the pigs, connected with poor ventilation, it made a fine place to cul tivate tho germ of hog cholera. As soon as the warm days came the dia* ease subsided and all the pigs looked healthy. Standing in the piggery a few moments you would feel qmte chilly. Farmers should guard against poor sanitary regulations in piggeries and other buildings.— [Farm, Field and Stockman. FARM AND G-ARDEN NOTES. A full-grown fleece means 36o-day8 and six hours. Joint iu wool is caused by hardship, starvation o r sickness. Witli cholera (he fowls have great thirst and usually die in a few hours. Diversified, intense'sheep raising ia the front row on top shelf, and can A mutton and wool sheep in ifct best typo meets all tho purposes of a sheep. Is it a fact that sheep will destroy wild garlic ? and how wiU it affect the mutton? Beans or peas cooked or mixed with bran makes a good ration for the poultry. “Keeping, evoriastingly at it” brings Poultry keepers should use tobaeow’ i - —aground tobacco stems in nests. Dio® '...- I are anli-tobaccouistg. - J Card is one of the best feeds that can be given lo young turkeys. Give them all they will eat. Don’t give young chicks a deep vessel to drink from ; they are apt to fall iu and g et drowned. Bisulphide of carbon placed iu an j open mouthed bottle in the grain bin is-h preventive of weevils. Ducks require more bulky foodthau chickens; too much concentrated food willjriye them the cramps. / / th« M rir U m b $ inA a g m im A r 4 m i t t J — -J * \ ' 1I.W wUb sheep are most interesting and surpaw all other domestic animals. A Kentucky sheep-raiser s ays: , “ IC the crop of dogs was not so lurgo iu this countiy, tlipre would be ,a great deal more pr<rfitin sheep raising.” One man succeeds witb sheep aud another does not. Can anybody tell why? Maybfl (hero are several good asous. It is time this was explained. Orose-bred Dorset horn ewes make good mutton lamb mothers. This Mut may be noted b y j t ^ -nrho propose to make this thoir buei- Scrub sheep ajg not toboabnsel. The/ have the best blood in their veins and are made scrubs by scrub care mad iment. “ That’s what’s xlw*.\ matter.” Do you plant corn for the silo? I f not, why not? One acre will produce about fifteen tons if well managed, aud this is enough to feed five cows forty pounds each for one hundred and fifty days. If you want lo haul out some manure, when the hay and grain are out and put away, wo would suggest that the timothy meadow is au excel lent place for it. If you keep at it industriously you cau double the hay crop on that field. She Improved Upon His Hint. At homo stations the private soldiers’ washing is usually done by tho mar ried soldiers’ wives, who are expected to sew ou missing buttons and do re pairs, for which a small sum is de ducted from the private’s pay. Pat McGinnis had a good deal of i trouble with his laundress. Sunday after Sunday had his shirt come back with the neck button off, or else hang ing by a thread. Ho had spoken to her on tho subject and she had prom ised to SCO to it, but still the button was not on properly. He got out of patience one Sunday v.i. 'if 'If* inis'lnv' bntton had made ’ t ' r nnilrt-r Ho Iheer took the M ^ a tin bliwic- ing box about three inches in diameter, drilled two holes iu i t with j^fork and Sewed it on the shirt next to be washed. lYhon his washing came back he found she had taken the hint. She had made a.buttonhole to fit it.— [Spare Moments. Tlio now Boston directory, which has just been ia.-uod, contains 206,862 names. There were 46,405 new names added this year ftud 39,998 naipe? arftBfid
