Pointers For People

Never put meat away in salt when n is frozen : it will not keep. Grease the axe with bacon rind if you are splitting dry, hard wood. We know a man who carries a dull pocket knife - but it cannot be you. The farmer who knovrs enough law to keep out of law suits, knows enough for practical purposes. It is all very weli for a man to have a bald spot on the top of his head, it does little harm ; but let him beware of one on the inside. New York city, it appears, has been sending her homeless waifs to Kansas, to be cared for, and now Kansas objects. Very properly, too. The railroads have defaulted on $900,000,000 of their bonds-and nearly all our law-makers ride on free passes. A good deal of tarnished honor in that. Yes, gentlemen, we want good roads but good roads with gumptiou ough t ;o cost no more than bad roads without ït. So work in a little gumption. Well, what are you goiue to do about it? 3STot going to speak a good word lor ihe Courier amoug your neighbors? Too bad. I thoughtyou would ; we'd do that much l'or you. The brush lying around loose should je put in the gullies aloug theroad or on ;he farm. It will pay to haul cedar jrush fiom the woods for this purpose. Put t in with top down-hül. The place to look for anything is the place where itought to be. A good wagon grease is made of eqaal parts of black lead and lard. Strips of bed-ticking make good bag strings that will not hurt the hands in tying. Getting up in the moruing and getting up in the world both require more orless self-denial. Two or three coats of pine pitch and tallow, equal parts, applied hot to boot soles will keep out February slush. More people, José Billings said, are croos-eyed in the tongue than in the eyes. They talk oue way while they hink another. A razor is best whetted in oil and the edge of wit is best sharpened by politeness. If either gives pain the work has rot been well done. Those who care for it will find infornation on peanut culture in Farmers' iulletin No. 25, which they can obtaiu by making request of the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Mothers should not allow their childen to make "ice' crearn" out of snow. tfo matter how clean the snow may look, t is said to be very injurious, and there are chances of its containing the germs of disease that lurk in the air.