BUCK ITES. Than- are three things that All my heart with aigha And steep my soal in laughter 1 when 1 view FUr maiden forms moving like melodise) 1 Staples. rose lips and eyea of any hue. There are three things beneath the bleeeed akiee For which 1 live—black eyew, and brown and bine, 1 held them all moetdear-but oh 1 black eyes I live and die, and only die for vou. Of late auoh eyee koeke.l at me while 1 mused At eunset underneath a shadowy plane In ohl 1 layout nigh the Southern Saw From a half-opaa lattarr looked at ree 1 as* uo mora, only thoae eyee. ceuf ueeti And dasaled to the heart with glorious pain Jsrnewlem Sir Moeoa Montctions now in the ninety-second yewr of In* ap\ A few months back paid a seventh vi*it to Jerusalem for the purpose of collecting information relating to the actual oou dition of the Jewish inhabitants of Hie Holv 1-aiui, as to their capability and inclination to cngagv> in mochanhal and general agricultural pursuits. 1 lie report (the London Tim** says) is no* published, with a h'tter to tiir Moatw from two of ths leading Rabbis of Je rusalem, in which they refute the char ges of disinclination to work of the Jews of Jerusalem while there was s possibility of obtaining sutlicient chart tj to enable them to lire. It is ku iw n that, in order to give a refutation to these charges Sir Moses Montetiore de termined to undertake a mission to the Holy City and report on his observa tions. Sir Moses states that a whole village has been pointed out to him which might l>e purchased at a moder ate rate. All the persons who reported to Sir Moses on this subject stated that there would be no difficulty whatever in securing as ninrh land as might he reouired, either for cultivation or building purposes. The Governor and Kad! of Jerusalem assured him of the readiness of the Turkish Government to render every possible assistance to encourage any industrial scheme for ; the promotion of the welfare of Un people in the Holv The French and American consuls also assured him of their willingness to assist. Sir Mo ) •es states that a great struggle mav arise ia the future between the educa ted or Progressist party— those who do not come to the lloly O.ly from roll gious motives, but from reasons con nected with special circumstances—and the strictly Conservative party, whose sole object in going to Jerusalem was the preservation of their religion. I>u ring his short stay at Jaffa Sir Moses Montetiore notices some indications to that effect. Sir Moses gives a long ac count of the different institutions es tablished in Jerusalem for the benefit of the poor. There are a soap kitchen ; a loan society, whose object it is to make advances without interest: a hospice, which provides every poor person coming to Jerusalem with gra tuitous board and lodging until he may have procured for himself a suitable residence; three building societies,"A c. Sir Moses says: "1 had some conversa tion on Uie subject of general drainage in Jerusalem with a gentleman of au thority. He told me that all the refuse of the' city is now carried into the pool of Bethesda, which, strange to say 1 wan informed, is close to the house in tended for the barracks, and the sol diers living there appear not to expe rience the least inconvenience on ac count of its vicinity. If arrangements could be made to clear that pool en tirely. to admit pure water only, and to dig special pools for the purposes of conducting there the city drains, Jeru salem might become free from any threatening epidemic. All the doctors in Jerusalem assured me that the Holy City might be reckoned, on account of j the punty of its atmosphere, one of the healthiest of places." Sir Moses ■peaks of the skill of Jewish mechan ic* in Jerusalem, whereas it has been ■aid that there are no Jewish mechan ic* in the Holy City. Sir Moses saw watchmakers, engravers, lithographers, sculptors, goldsmiths, bookbinders and carpenters, and, he says, "all did their work most satisfactorily." A watch maker into whose bands he gave a val uable repeater for repair put it, within a very short time, into excellent order. The same man, in additiod to his skill as a watchmaker, displayed also great talent as a Hebrew caligraphist. He presented Sir Moses Montetiore with a grain of wheat on which were written nineteen line*, forming an acrostic on the name of the venerable philanthro pist. The traveller states that he has had every opportunity of convincing himself that the Jews are eager and willing to engage in any kind of labor, agrienltnral or otherwise, which will obtain for them the necessaries of life and place them above the need of the chant v of their benevolent co-religion ists. Sir Moses says that the great re gard which he has always entertained towards his brethren in the Holy Land has now become, if possible, doubly increased, and be emphatically asserts that they are deserving of assistance ; they are willing and able to work, their mental powers are of a satisfac tory nature, and all Israelites ought to render them support. The Jews of Jerusalem, and in every part of the Holy Land, be observes, "do work," and he furthermore says that they "are more industrious than many men, even in Europe, otherwise none of them would remain alive, but when the work does not sufficiently pav, when there is no market for the produce of the land, when famine and cholera and other misfortunes befall the inhabi tants, we Israelites, onto whom God revealed himself on Monnt Sinai, more than any other nation must step for ward to render them help, and raise them from their state of distress.'' He suggests the building of houses in and around Jerusalem, with European im provements. also colleges and public baths. Each bouse should possess a plot of ground large enough for the cultivation of olive trees, the vine, and neeeesary vegetable*, so as to give the occupiers of the house a taste for agri culture. He states that many persons in the cities and aronnd Jerusalem have already announced their willing ness to follow agricultural pursuits. Peril* sftbe < * ■ A French caricaturist has Lately de picted in a certainly humorous, if some what extravagant manner, the peril to which the patron of a hackney carriage, at a period of very severe frost, might find himself exposed. The occupant of a coupe on the boulevards is suddenly confronted by a pair of human feet thickly encased in muddy boots. The fact is that the frost-bitten driver has turned around on his box, and thrust his legs through the window full in the face of the fare. "Excuse me, bourgeois*," he remarks, "but it's so cold that I would just give myself a bit of a warm." Fortunate, indeed would it be for the English fare if such a con tingency as that imagined by the Par isian artist were the only one to which he was liable while journeying in one class, at least, of London cabs. A correspondent of a medical contem porary has just alarmed the cab-using community by pointing out that the popular handsom labors under the se rious disadvantage of the passengers head being on a level with that of the horse, and that the secretion of the ani mals nostrils are exceedingly apt to be blown into the, face of the fare, whose more exposed mucous membranes are thus rendered susceptible of intractable irritation. Dreadful to relate, a more serious danger is involved in the actual construction of the vehicle. A few months ago a glandered cab-horse co - veyed a whiff of contagious vapor from his nostrils to a well known member of the stock exchange, who survived the infection only a few days. The case came under the notice of two Lon don physicians, and they were both of the opinion that the poor gentleman died from glanders. Our contemporary suggests that, as diseased horses are fre quently driven in hackney carriages, the front of hansom cabs should be al ways protected by a screen placed direc ly above the apron. This appliance might serve a double purpose, since, al though happily the wind is not always in our teeth, aud we are thus not always liable to catch fatal diseases from the vapor issuing from the nostrils of a glan dered horse, we might, if they were the other way and there were anything the matter with our mucus membranes, afflict the horse himself with bronchitis or catarrh, or give liim at least a stiff neck. Really there would seem to be no end to our woes in connection with cabs. In the neighborhood of the metropolitan dead meat market, four-wheelers have been seen ere now crammed to the roof with carcasses of beef and mutton. How aland the fool-ami-iuoulb dlaeaaa f On the dancer of communicating small-pox and scarlet fever throueh trie medium of eah* we need not dwell; atlU hitherto the hansom, o lone s tlia driver Is aolier, and the wheel does not fly off, and the horse doe* not kick through the splash-hoard, and the Mind lu front does not come down without warning and break the bridge of the passenger's nose, has la-en held to la> a tolerably secure and commodious vehicle, justify ing its claim to the term "patent safety.' A* things stand at present our faith In the gondola of Lomiou—to say nothing of the gondolier—must !>e terribly sha ken Dflp la orlj nkl Uafssaw The following list, eotnprlalng the nauie ol God In forty-eight language*, WW com lit led by thu welUkuowu Vrench philologist, lA*>UU Burger, In 0M fD lowing manner: One day, as he was walking along the street* of l*arU, he heard a voice beseeching him to buy some nuts. 11|HMI looking hack he dis covered that it w a* the voTcc of his old tWrber. will) was gaining a s><auty living hy telling tint* ou the street. To aid him, he hastily made out aud gave to the barber the following list: Hebrew —Kiohiuui, Kloalt. Chaidale — Kilah. Assyrian-- Kleah. Svrlac and Turkish —Alah. Malav—Alia. Arable—Allah. language of the Magi—Orsi. Old Fry dan—Tuet. A rtnorian—Teuti. Modern Egyptian—Teuu. Greak—Theos. Cretan—Thioa. AGoUou and lorio Ilos. 1-atui—lVus. la>w Latin—lMex. Celtic aud Gallic—l>lu. French—l>iea. Spanish—l>ios. Portuguese— Deo*. Old German—l>iet. Provencal— Diou. Low Breton—lhiue. Italian—l>io. Irish—l>ia. Olaiu Tongue—lVu. German and Sw las—Gott- Flembth—Good. Hutch—Godl. Knglish and Old Saxon —God. Teutonic—Goth. Danish and Swedish —Gut. Norwegian—Gud. Slave—Buoh. Polish—Bog. Poliacca —Bung. Lapp—Juhiual. Finnish—Juutaia. K utile—As. Zembtain—Fetlxo. Pannouian—l.tu. Hiudo6tance —Rain. Coromandei—Brauia. Tartar—M agatal. Persian—Sire. Chinese—Prussa. Japanese—Goes nr. Madagascar—Zan nar. Peruvian—Puebecaunnac. By the sale of these lists the barber was'euabled to make as good a living, if not better, than M. Burger himself. Trees ef Hratal). BritUh Consuls in Brazil notice the extraordinary floral wealth or that vast i empire. Their reports in 175 call at tention to the abundance of the trees from the juice of which iudiarubber is prepared. At Aracaty this has recently become tlie most valuable article brought into the produce market of j that place. From Bahia Consul Mor gan seeds a translation from a book published by the Inspector of the Cus tom-house of that port, iu which it is stated that the consumption of a century ; would not exhaust the supply of india rubber. The inspector glees an account of a very remarkable tree, the Carnauba palm, which grows in Brazil without any culture, and it is so hardy as to flourish in the most prolonged drought, and has often served at such times as the means of support to the population of more tiiau one Province. The top. ' when young, is an appreciable and nu tritious article of food; and from this | tree also wine, vinegar, and a saevha- , | riue matter are extracted, as well as a kiud of gum similar in its taste and properties to sago. From the wood mu- j deal instruments are made, as also tube and pumps for water. The delicate fi brous substances of the pith of the stalk and its leaves make a good substitute for cork. The roots have the same vir tues as the sarsaparilla. The pulp of the fruit is of an agreeable taste, and the nut, oily and emulsive, is roasted and then used as coffee by many per sons. From the trunk are obtained strong fibres, and also a species of flour similar to maizena, and a liqnld resem bling that of the Bahia cocoa-nut. From the dried straw are made mats,hats, bas kets, and brooms, and large ouantlties of the straw are exported to Europe for the manufacture of fine hats. Filially, from the leaves is produced the wax nsed in the manufacture of candles; and the export of this wax exceeds £162,000 a year in valae. The Inspec tor suggests that perhaps in no other country caa there be found a plant ap plied to so many and varied purposes. Talkers sad Thinkers. One seldom meets with a truer thing than the following observation by a quaint and witty author upon what "are termed, lees byway of "eminence," perhaps, rather'than "notoriety," Ureal TaUcert. —"Great Talkers not only do the least, but generally say the least, if their words be weighed instead of reck oned. He who labors under an Incon tinence of speech seldom gets the better of his complaint; for he must prescribe for himself, and is very sure of having a fool for his physician. Many a chat terbox might pass for a achieved man, if he would keep bis own secret, and hut a drag-chain now, and then upon his tongue. The largest minds have the smallest opinion of themselves; for their knowledge impresses them with humility, by showing them the extent of their ignorance, and the discovery makes them taciturn. Deep waters are, still. Wise men generally talk little, because they think much. Feeling the annoyance of idle loquacity In otners, they are cautious of falling: into some er ror, and keep their mouths shut when they cannot open them to the purpose. The smaller the calibre of the mind, the greater the bore of a perpetually open mouth. Iluman beads are like hogsheads—the emptier they arc, the louder report they give of themselves There are human specimens who never think; they only think they think. The clack of their word-mill is hexrd, even when there is no wind to set it go ing, ami no grist to come from it. A distinguished Frenchman, of the time of Cardinal Richelieu, being In the ante-chamber of that willy states man, on one occasion, at the time that a great talker was loudly and Incessant ly babling, entreated him to be silent, lest he might annoy tlie Cardinal. "Why do you wish me not to speak ?" asked the chatterbox; "I talk a good deal, certainly, but then I talk well." The Popnlallea af ladla Here are the results of the first census of the population of India, taken from the English documents, complied byL' Union Medic-alt. India, with tlie vassal states of England and all their depen dants, contain* 238,830,958 souls, which is equal to the entire population of Europe. To every square English mile, there are, on an average, 211 persons. The largest city is Calcutta, and It pos seses a population of 895,000 inhabitants. Bombay has 644,000; Madras, 398,000; Lucknow, 284,000. Their religions, in round numbers amount to 140,500,000 Hindoos; 40,750,000 Mahomedanst9, - 500,000 Buddhugts, Jews, and Parsees, the Christians amount to 900,000, of which 250,000 are Europeans, the other 650,000 are native. There are 23 differ ent languages spoken in India; in the Western Provinces there are 300 differ ent castes; in Bengal about I,oooexist- There are employed by government 1,236,000 jiersons (the natives included); 620.000 (of which 819 are missionaries) are supported by*religion; there are 30,000 religious uiedicants; 10,000 astro logers; 6 sorcerers; 465 exorcists; 518 poets; 1 orator; 33.000 jurists; 75,000 physicians: 218,000 artists, among whom are acrobats, serpent charmers, and monkey showers; there are 137,000 agriculturists; 950,000 elephant and camel drivers and shepherds; 22 profes- gamblers; 5 pigeon trainers; 49 spies; 361 professional thieves; 30 highway robbers; 103,000 mendicant vagabonds. MliniLtVUU TIMUT HlM*. —Wlwn I*l* well up, ihurp iHHXioniv requires thai vou hm the ripclil IH>IH HI hand. A ftml-cluH inh 11 la often kanl to earn on* Imlf hi* because his riupluyiT (H|ul| him MI JMHUIJ*. A* II ho wre kept snapping away 011 an old (Hut look, when, hl ho a SpwiiHT rifle, with It* aw lit stream of bullet*, Iho lw wouhl flee. Have your cart w hods with felloe* three or four inches whir. Each whorl requires two pieces lor the rim, steam bent. Kent properly painted, tire auug, under shelter w lieu tnt at work, your carta w ill last you a lifetime. The severity of aonto of our winter days taachea the worth of auiiny local iona for harua. VY hols so dull aa not to MW< that the w ell-fad cow a delight to dally haak In a hath of autiahlne 1 A liarn requires gla* window a a* well aa a hou*e. The aiahlea *huld be on the south aide. 1 am only deacrlb ii*C my own. A cow *ta<ii learns to return to her stall if she tlnd* a g*Hnl bile has been left there tor her. If the hard floor under the cows al low s stiine of them to slip and grow great, unsightli knee*, dout go another day without tacking MUIIO strips of iron or wood across these smooth places; lor wldch your animal will thank you. rarUtloti* across long lean-toa prove a convenience Tliey divide cattle for quick ta*teiiliig. They restrain a rover from hmg range* for mischief. The products of a lartii are bulky. Few liarns are more than half large enough. The sweating aud cramming lu the heat of Summer is iuo>t pitiable. Often, were there more room, there would be more crop. It pay * well to have araiuy-day room on a farm ; not a *iuall,crauipcd-up place, hut a large, light room, furnished with a stove. Here valuable seeds are arran ged. Many crop* are prepared for mar ket. Farm vehicle® are repaired and painted. Thing* are got ready Iwifure the day they are wanted, and much had talk is saved. Au euteriiriaing town reduces its hills, and nil* up its hollows auuallv. Many crooked road*are Improved where the right man dlreet* attaint. A small outlay sometimes yields the best return. After a large job of new work, frequent attention afterward* secure* success. It is a question if wheel rut* should las allowed 011 tirst-class roads. Every highway should be treated a-righl, aud llieu be frequently dreused with a road scraper draw n hy a team. To gather up the loosened cobble stones, the tw o workmen, w lib the horse ami cart, need an iron bar, pickaxe, two ten or tw elve lined forks Stock and ire t'sKA.—The farmer who is Indifferent as to ttie kind and condition of stuck he ha* about him, will generally show Ids indifference about his entire farm and household af fair*. If he kee)>* such stock a* w ill barely till the place of slock iu numbers, he feeds them without any profit, work* or ride* them with no comfort, and rea lises that he i* rather armored than ben efitted by owning them. His cow s are hi* scrub slock, made poorer by the lack of attention and feed, and when one die* he feels that the hide is worth more to him than the cow was when living; and that he would make money by killing off the balance, and Helling their hides. His hog# are the regular rmsor-backs, with heads weighiug 16 o'*, and their bodies 17, turned out to pra. - ties "root hog or die." Hi* sheep, if he has any, are left out, uever cared lor, except at shearing lime, aud theu he geta lea* than a |ouud of fleece from each of his four poor, degenerated defen dant* of the pioneer scrub sheep of this continent. Ills horse*are of no partic ular breed, and are equally suited to any purpose, and specially adapted to none ; numbers of them are hip-shot, going In and out of hi* bad gate* and stable doors, while many an eye ha* been knocked out by hi* boys throw lug rock* and •ticks, trying to drive them into those old stable* to beat them for throw tug down the fences to gel something to eat. Hie balance ofhislive st.sk, poultry, bees, aud bis orchard, fencing yard, garden, houses, inside and outside, are on a jar with his stuck above men tioned.—ifural HUH. WHAT TO DO w rru TUK Sriuw.—Many farmers in "the West," and some in w hat we call "the Ea*t," are troubled a# what to do with the straw which lira about the fields. The solution is easy where conciderable stock is kept. Some |>o]e* should be set in the ground, and rail* or ether pole* laid U|H>II them so a* to form a sloping mof. ThL 1* made near or around the place chosen for threshing tiie grain. The stiaw from the threshing-machine I* hca|.ed upon the rails, making a long slack, which forms three sides of a square, with the open side towards the .South. and leaving a space beneath it in which cattle may be sheltered from stonus. In this enclosure some rough troughs or racks may be placed, from which to feed corn. Here the cattle will feed and lie, or will lie at night under shelter, while fecdiug during the day 011 corn in the field. As the straw that is given them becomes trampled and mixed with the droppings, a further supply I# thrown from the slack. The accumu lation may be removed and spread upon the field to lie plowed up ami car ried to another place, where they may be needed for the same purpose. Such a shelter a* this would be very servicea ble for the purpose of making manure, even where straw is scarce. WASTK OF LAXD.— If a faim of ICO acre* is divided by fence* into fields of 10 acres, there are five miles of fence# If each fence now is one rod wide, no less than ten acres are occupied hy them. This is equal to per cent- of the farm, and the loss of the use of the land is exactly equal to a charge of 6' 4 per cent, on the whole value of the farm. But nearly every fence row in the country is made a nursery for weeds, which stock Uie whole farm, ami make an immense amount of labor ncce#ary to keep them from smothering the crops. Much damage always results to the crop from these weeds, and If these ex penses are added to the first one, the whole will easily sum up to twenty per cent., or a tax of one-flnh of the value of the farm. To remedy this we would have fewer fences, or we would clean and sow down the fence rows to grass or clover, and mow them tw ice a year. Ten acre* of clover or timothy would, at least, supply a farm w ilh seed and a few tons of hay every year. We would in short consider the fence rows a* a valuable part of the farm, ami use them a* such. WOOD ASHES. —The Sclentijlc Ameri can nays: "The point to which we now call attention is, that our farmers and frott-growers have ignored, or rather have oeen ignorant of the imjsirtanee of wood ashes as a vegetable stimulant and a leading constituent of plants. Even coal ashes, now thrown away as useless, have been shown both by ex periment and analysis to posse** a fair share of alkaline VAItM. W> will rililfl only one experiment. Some twenty-five years ago we treated an old pippin apple tree as follows: The hollow to the height of eight feet, wus filled and ram med with a composite of wood a*hcs, garden mould, and a little waste lime, (carbonate). The filling was securely fastened In by boards. The next year the crop of sound fruit was sixteen bushels from an old shell of a tree that had borne nothing of any account for some time and for seventeen years after the filling of the old pippin tree contin ued to flourish and tiear well. THE VALCK or OUR FRUIT CULTURE.— F. H. Elliott, a writer on agriculture, has been collecting certain daia in re gard to fruit culture, and gives the total market value of the crop of the entire country at $47,000,000. New- York leads all the .State* In amount with $7,000,000. California's figures are larg est in proportion to population, being $0,000,000; this sum probably including the yield from vineyards. The total sum for New England States is put at $0,000,000, the individual States not being itemized. In commenting 011 those figures the San Francisco llulletin, which already claims that California is the leading wheat growing State, thinks that it will speedily stand in front as the greatest producer of fruit, and holds that BO far from being overdone there the fruit business is but in Its in fancy. —ln the vicinity of Detroit there are twenty-six brick yards which make an nually about 60,000,000 brick. NflEßTiriC. fitclriiil /UNMII in Ihr /Vii/imitinn 0/ .WUN. I>r. Kluuth. of /urh li, .Swll/rr lutut, ha* fotltlil, any a the Vfiticot Kt mul, by the mil ol the uiteioaoopr, ill the sweat ol the faro some corpuscle* which hr considered aa luutens. This view became continued when he ex amiuril the iivilla. hiraat, anil inner anlr ol the thtgli of several pciaon* 111 II atiltr of pi'iapttatioil. I'lir awrilt of these pm (a con tut ti oil neatly always r 1101111011 a tiiittilMia ot havteiia. lu IliiMit rjiara thr\ originated liolll ml 11 Uto trodies tonUtt Upon ttir hails in the mentioned region a, fount 111; little uo ilulea 011 tliriu, it ml giving tluin a gray iah or a lu trk color. I hey were recognised hy the ailtluu a* aecuniula tioiiaot iiiiruaDi ii I hey may tapnlly incrraae in Milliliter, air aiuullrr than tlir dliithet lal micto. occi, and are near Iv tmlitlr 1 rut to ie agent* icoiiccutia tut aeida, nlkalira. alcohol, ether, chlo rofoilu). lodine rolom tin 111 yellow. I'lie vegetation of bactciiaon the batra may In- oliMivedtn caaea w here tliey ate changed allrndv . beginning pla ce* which Inive cleft* lirlwrril tlirir ci lia. Ihe Vegetation occupiea large spaces, especially 111 the duectloti ol the longest dlauirtei of the hair. Dr. Ktiereth observed a uiycelittui and micrococci, aud think* that the lat ter air the tiuita of the former Other investigators ohseited colored awi-at, ted and htuc, w hteli contained micro cocci. It was difficult todecide in these caaea it the colortiiit matter wna adhe rent to the micrococci, or it it waa a ploductot the Vcgetatlou. (r/ycrrtnr tor Ilium la.itioa unit llrot ip<j tiodetiioy of \ n una found that cheiuicallv pure glyccriue tsfi. gr. 1. Jtidt)'. w Sen heat< d to 3trj deg. burned quietly with a blue, nou-luniiuous lltnir, without the least odor utid without leaving any residue, and also that glycerine of a low specific gravity, if but too dilute, may be burned by means of a wu k, or cotton mummed in it in an open porcelain capsule. Schertiig has recently communicated the lact that it can lie burned fn any lump in which the flame is immediate ly above the level of the liuuid fsuch a* the iierxchtiß lamp*, its thick cou slsteucv preventing u giving a con stant tlaiue with a higher WICK. Since Us tlaiue Is hut slightly colored, like that of alcohol, and since if is a much betlel solvent fu salts, he found tl preferable tor the production of ditler rut colored llames; and he suggests the important** of futther expeiimeuta npou the adaptation of it to illuminating put poses by mixing with it other sub stances rich in cat IKIU, and also U|HHI lis heating power. Its cheapness and freedom front danger, owing to its comparative non-volatility, would ren der its use for ibe above purposes de si ra ble. Arw Rlasttng I'otetler.— The new blasting agent limssose indented by lia roti von Trubr-schlt-r PalWeusU iu, and apparently luulr of WIHWI > tilwr pre pared with nitroglycerin. has been re cently tested, (we leaiu fioui /'rats he Industrie /cituna) in xanotis mines in Upper Silesia. The re •oils were on the whole not unfavorable. but the action was not always regular. Ihe sub si..nce has not (as was at tirst claimed for it by the lavenlur) five times the force-of an equal weight of ordinary black blasting powder, and even lour time* was doubtful; but a threefold force may be readily conceded. Ihe price tived by von Truta#* liler i l>er cwt., or tlnee and a half times cheaper than the price of H cwt. of powder. The advantages of the new agent are les* danger, as it does not evjdodt ou contact with open tire, and is hut difficultly exploded by friction or concuastou : mud the tact that to ef fect its explosion it) a blast hole, the straud match may IK- used. The pow der is very light, and in the loose state burns very slowly. A manufactory for the Ucw agent ha* beetl entabllnhed at Kieltscli. Tkt Locaiiik* of Malaria in the City. —The health board t* eudeavoiing to ascertain the different localities to the butit-up portion* of tins city subject to strictly malaria trouble*. Not only i* this inquiry to be confined to intermit ■ tent and remittent fixers, but to all the obscurer disease - iu which the ele uieut of periodicity is sufficiently well marked to cause suspicion. A map of the ntv is *rnt to each |di>*triun, with the request that he will indicate the precise situation of each case of the sort which he may le called upon to treat, and transmit in due time the re suits of his labors. This is a matter of the greatest possible irupoitance in connection with the tiue sanitary inte rests id the city : and it is to IK- hoped that every medical man will do 1II ut most to second the endeavors of the lioaid and offer to it any suggestion# which may tend lo promote the end in view. It i by the accumulation of such report* that a scientific basis can i>e made for an accurate estimate of the means which mar IK- necessary to remedy the evil.— Acre lri Mrthml Record. Cause of the llUiek Spots on the Settles of t'ish. —The ahuortual occurrence of black spot* or specks on the scale* or external surface of fishes ha* frequent ly been obac Vcd ami quite often mis taken for regular coloration. Dr. Fa tio of Geneva, however, ha* IKH-II in vestigating some of thew cases, ami finds that in nearly all of them a small parasitic woriu occupies the center of this s|K>t, and t* easily olmervablc by the tnicroscAi>e. 1 his is inclosed in two cyst* with a peculiar liquid be tween! the tnuer Iw-iug oval ami trans parent, and the outer round, with thirk tilirous walls, outside of which is the mas* of star-aliajH'd pigment cells. The further stage* of tin* worm have not yet been wotk<4i out. although it is quits- probable that when the tl*h is devoured by its predaceou* neighlMm this enter* into atiotlier stage of the alteration* of generation which have la-come so familiar ol lute years to in vestigator*. Cutting Class tcithaul a DiamontL—Atl easy method oi breaking glass to ativ required form is by making a small notch, by means of a file, on the edge of a piece of gla** ; then make the end of a rod of iron red hot in the fire, ap ply the hot iron to the notch, ami draw it slowly along the surface of the glass; in any direction you please; a crack will 1M- made and will follow the di rection of the iron. Round glass bot tle* ami flasks may IK- cut iu the middle by wrapping round tin tu a worsted thread dipped in spirit* of tnrpenline, and setting it on fire w hen fastened on the glass. This proves is familiar to old campaigners, with whom glass Isittles are more plentiful than tum blers, ami the former is thus utilized to supply a want of the latter. To cure the intolerable itching that always follows frost-bitten toe*, it is necessary to exclude the air from the affected part. If it is not accompanied with swelling, gum shellac disolvcd in alcohol, applied so as to form a com plete coat, is the txasiest rcmi-dy we know 01. It Mm MM, IIIK-S not nd liere to the stockings, and generallv lasts until they are well. If the tlesli become* swollen and painful, plasters of good sticking salve are of great ser vice ; hut if highly inflamed, use any mild poultice that will exclude the air from the diseased part, ami keep it mood, nature doing the rest. I'niversul Nature. —Nature has al ways had the credit of adnpling her means to end*. The tenderness of her provision for the wants of the humb lest of her cicntures is illustrated by- Mr. Darwin, who *a\* that male grass hoppers use theft him! legs to fiddle on the edge of their w ings, and that the la-st tiddler first succeeds in fascinating the females, lit hold how the indus trious spider spins her web, ami then sucks the I>I<MMI of her hushaml ami (lings his carcass out in the back yard. Thus it is that the harmonies mf life swell the grand diapason of rhe Uni verse, as it were. The Telegraphic Value of language. —A larger number and greater variety of idea* can lie convoyed, with more exactness, in a given number of word* in the English language, than iu HIIIIONI any other. This is strikingly shown in the matter of telegraphy. It ha* been demonntrated that, for all telegraphic purpose*, the Kngli*h language is from 3T> to 83 per cent cheaper than the French, German or any other language. Organic Elements as Electro-Motors. —lt appear*, from the authors re- Hoarchc*. that the interior of a muscle i* negative, which indicates that there is oxidation in the interior ami reduc tion at the exterior, and that all orga nized bodies appear formed of—so to say—an infinite number of electro-mo tors, which intervene probably in the phenomena of nutrition.^ ~itcqusrsl. IK) i prut. To IMCKOVK IIIK l.ouai or Ki ttxt nMr The humidity of the atmoaphere and the artlon of ga cause a hluelah white coating to collect on all furni ture, audaliowr conspicuously on bright, polished aurfacea, auch a* mirror*, piano*, cabinet ware mud |xdtlied metal. To remove It, take a soft sponge, wet w llli clean, cold water, and wash over the article. Then lake a soft cliamol* akin and wet It clean. I'r v the skill as well as you call try wtinging It In your hand*, and wl|ie the water oft the furniture. la-lug careful to wipe only one way. Sevei uae a dry chamol* on VaioUh work. If the varnish lade faced and ahow* dingy or while mark* lake litißccii oil and turpeutliie In equal parts, shake tliein well In a vial, and apply a very amalt quantity on a aofl rag, and wl| the mixture off. In deeply carved work, the du( cannot ta re moved with a s;a>nge. la* a *liff halted paint brush itialead* of a |a>nge. To varitWh old furniture It should I* rubbed w Ith pulvetUed pumice atone and water u lake oft the old aurface and then varnished with varnish, that I* reduced, by adding turpentine, to the consistency of cream. Apply with a atifl halted brush. If it does not |(K>k well, rr|>cal the I uhblng w llh pumice alone, and when dry, varniali again.— if it'H J our Hiit of Ckemittiy. llutr Tu nut SICK I'KMOXI. —The proper way to make this article I* to lake a faiuud of the l**l ia-cf, cut It Into small pieces, and place it in a good sized, often-mouthed bottle—a pickle jar is fa-rhap* as convenient as any. Cork the bottle loosely, and then Set It into a kettle of water, which Is to be kept boiling for two hours. If the bottle Is now removed it will lie found that it contains a considerable quantity of fluid, w liich may be turned off, and the la-cf subjected to slight pressure to remove still more. In thi* fluid we have a concentrated article of nutriment, and it may tie given, alter it has been seasoned, either pure or diluted, accord ing to the condition of the stomach, thief extract is not nearly so palatable an ml tele of fiaal as rich ta-ef lea, made In the manner described. Ordinarily, however, the tea Is badly made, and contains hut little ta-ef and considerable water.- —tlerutJ of flntUk. To I'LEAX Out I'oax BARRELS. —OKI pork larml), whether tainted or sweet, should IK* thoroughly cleansed before being UMSI for in-* |>ork. A very simple and effectual method is to put in a peck of strong wood ashes and a couple of paila of Mater and let It aland a day or two; then scour thoroughly with a stiff corn brooiu. The lye will take hold of all the greasy particles with which it routes in contact, and the ashes, water and broom will, if vigor- ously used, leave them as sweet as new barrels. Rinse In cold water to remove all the adieu, then pour bolting water alt around the side* aud wash clean; now rinse again in cold water and the work is done. Mituaji It *II ut T. —Cut the Ash into piece* about four Indies square, of course omittiiig the boue. Season it Tery slightly w tit. salt, and let It rest for half an hour.—Then lake It out of the salt, put it in a large, deep dish, ami strew over it a mixture of cayenne pepper, ground ginger, and grated nut meg. Lay among it some small bit* of fresh butter rolled ill bread. Add halt a pint of vinegar (lerragon vinegar if you hare it.) l'lace the dtsb In a slow oven, and let the halibut cook till thor oughly dour, basting it very frequently with the liquid. Whet, nearly done, add a large taldespoonful or more of ca|<ers, or pickled nasturtiums. AKTK NOKK* PUR KKEI MATMM. lu the Hrlt.sh it'J; :t Joum.it, Dr. Cop land of Norwich, ha* published some cases of a former paper recommending the tp-atim-nl of rheumatism with the common artichoke in the form of liuc turr or extract. These are prepare*! from the leaves gathered jul before the vegetable is At for food, and w hlWt they are full of Juice. If the leaves are left until the top is cut ofi for cooking pur pose*, aud the plant begins to wither, the product U useless and inert. To this circuit]stance Ir. Copelaml attri butes lite negative result* met w itli by some practitioner*. SRULXDIP St EI ITPPIXU.—A lady corre|>oudei)t of the Rural Sett Yorker wrtie; "Our Suet l'udding for dinner w as so very like, am! give such general satisfaction, that 1 semi the recipe for the bem-di of my Rural Sisters, a* it may be m-w to some of them. It 1* particularly uice ami convenient for housekeepers, as it will keep nicely a month or two in a cool, dry cellar in eartlieru Jar* or a tin box, aud a part of it may be sliced ofi ami steamed from time to time as needed—when, with suitable sauce, it w ill IK- found a* good aa wheu new ly made. I.AHP. — In preparing lard for the market, if should first be rut Into piece* about the si/e of a walnut, and these should b>' allowed to stand In water for hall an hour. Then work the material with the hands in Ave or six successive portion* of water. Next pour off the water, melt the lard ill aw aler-bath, ami strain through fine linen. In the first straining it will bo impossible to get rid of all the water, so that, after cooling and draining, it w ill tie neces sary to reuivll the laid, ami Auaily to filter it through (taper iu a warm closet. THE EFFECT or ('out ox ("oxas.— Crisp, cold mornings, M> acceptable to the human family, are fatal, frequently, so such delicate things a* tortoise-shell comb*, and even with cautious u*ing, they suddenly snap asunder. By care fully placing the edges togct her, follow ing the grain of the shell, then w rap ping or covering the broken place with pa|ier*, the fissure inay lw closed by holding It iM-twccu hot pincers, apply ing * moderate pressure, at the same time being sure that the heat 1* not intense enough to hum the shell. To ricKt.K beef for long keeping: First, thoroughly ruh ult Into It aud let It remain in hoik for twenty-four hours to draw off the blood, tiecoml, take up, letting it drain, ami pack as desired. Third, have ready a pickle prepared as follows: For It*) 1. teef ll sti 7 B-s. salt; saltpeter ami cayenne pep[M-r, each 1 ox.; molasses, 1 quart; ami soft water, 8 gallons; U>il ami skim well, and when cold |Rur it over the beef. GEKMAX TOAHI. —Cut thick slices of bread—baker's is the best—dip them each side in milk enough to soften, then dip in beaten egg; put in a pan greased with just sufficient butter lo fry; fry till brown a* an omelet, then serve, well sprinkled with white sugar. Two eggs would be sufficient to dip nearly a dozen slices ol bread. Like pancakes, the hotter the toast the better. Tur.iiß is scarcely any ache to which children arc subject so bad to bear, and difficult to cure, as the earache. Hut there 1* n remedy never known to fat). Take a bit of cotton-batting, put U|KII it a pinch of black |**ppcr; gather it up ami lie it; dip it in sweet nil, and In sert into the ear. I'ut a flannel bandage over the hood to keep it warm. It will glvu immediate relief. IF vot want to thaw a frozen pump, put a three-fourths inch lead pi|ie down into the pump, as far as frozen, letting the pipe rest on the ice put a funnel Into the other end and (onir In Imillug water. A pump that Is frozen ten feet solid may 1M; thawed In ten minutes, while a barrel of hot water potirel In without the pl|H would |HMielralc the Ice very slow ly. IT IS a difficult matter to obtain a "steel" which retain* its shar|>ciiing qualities for any length of time. A common round file answers the purpose admirably. Fasten It on an old knlfe hamlie, ami it is ready for use. VEAI. BROTH. —Four pounds scrag of veal, aud a bunch of sweet herbs, sim mer in six quarts of water; when hall done skim, ami add an onion. Add two ounces rice, parsley, celery, pepjer and salt. YORKSHIRE. PI ODINO. —One pint boil ing milk to a small loaf of bread, crumbed fine, four eggs, a little salt and fiour. Ba"ke in a tfii under the drip pings of the beef. CocoANtrr CAKK. —One and one-half cups of sugar; two cups of cocoanut; one pint of flour; six beaten eggs; one tesspoonful of sods; two teaspoonfuls •f srsaas tartar. ■tmeaotm. A rot-oorric. A merchant going home elevated, staggered against a tele graph |ai|e. "Meg your pardon," aald he; "I hone no oflettce. It's railo-r dark, and the street la very narrow, you awe." In a few minute* he came In contact w ith another |ale. "CoulditT help It, lr," aaid he, lift lug Id* hat. 1 never saw uch ertaiked lane* a* we have here In till* city." Again he ran afoul of a |Kle, till* time with a force that sent him Itackw ard to the ground. "faaik here, neighbor, you needn't push a fellow down because lie liap|ieii* to touch you; the rowl I* as much mine a* your* and I have as much right here as you have, old stick 111 the mud." | He picked himself up and made an other effort to reach home, hut he toon came plump against another |>ole. "Nhaii'l make any more s|logiea," said he; If you get Into the middle of the rtieet and stand in my way, that'* your look out, not mine." Proceeding on hi* Journey again, and la-roming angry and dUty lie seemed to l>e entangled In an extricable labyriutli of telegraph tvolcs, which led hiui to make a general speech. "Gentlemen you are not doing the fair thtug. You do not give a malt a fair t hanee. You run from one side of the street to the other, right In uiy war." Just then tie met a friend, and taking hiui by the hand, he said: "There is a procession going along this street, and every man Is druuk: they have been rutin I tig agatust me all the way from the club. 1 knocked one of the fellow* down, and one of theui knocked me down, and then a lot of them got around me, and I tielleve they wouldhave licked me within an inch of my life if you had not come to the rescue. Is-1 us go out of this street lie fore the procr-aioii come* back, for they ate all druuk." "Watt., my good fellow," aald a victorious getters! to a brave sou of Kriu after a battle, "and what did you do to help us to guilt this victory f" "Dof" replied Mike; "may it ple*e your honor, I walked up boldly to won of the iiiitnr. and cut off hi* feet." "Cut off hi* b-el f aud why did not you cut off Ida head?" said the general. "Ah, an' faith that was off already," aald Mike. "Mr nr.su*, 1 miss something or somebody, 1 can't tell what or who," said Jones to his children, as he aal down to lea the other night. "P'rajts it* mother," taid littla Billy, "she's gone over to Aunt Jane's to tea." The child was right. It was Mrs. Jones wito was missed, and Jouea said in con tinuance, "Well, let's hare a quiet supper, then. Button rrues/ler. A Fumed DOCTOR, many year* ago, advertlaed a cosmetic—the "balm of one thousand flowers." It Anally got him into court, charged wltli swindling the purchaser, because it would be l(n|KMsi hle to collect and combine the odor of "one thousand dowera." Hut the witty Frenchman, with a ready smile, put them down with the reply, "honey • which was oue of the Ingrr lleuls ill th "balm." A rokrot * fellow was dining with at country family, when the laity of the house desired the servaul to lake away i the dish coulaitiing the fowl, which word she pruuounoed fool, as ia not un common in Scotland. "I presume, . madam, you mean fowl," said the prig, iu a reproving tone. "Very well," said the lady, a little nettled, "he it so; lake away the fowl and let the fool remain." WHW the port Saxe was examining houses In Brooklyn with a view U pur chasing, a lady acquaintance, of ambi tious ideas, said to him; "Whatever you do, Mr. Saxr, be sure and purchase a house with a Ane outside," Meeting her afterward he said: "1 have done what you wished—l have bought me a house with a due outside to which you wilt always be welcome." "lii Hit's no humbug about these sardines," Mid Brown, a* be helped himself In a third plateful from a newly j o|ieued box; "thee are Uie genuine j article, aud came alt the way from the Mediterranean," "Yea," replied his economical wife, "and If you will only control your appetite, they will go a great deal farther." An KXTHISIASTIC young merchant of Ogdensburg, a few evenings ago, in a serenade to his Inamorata, thus recorded his high resolves: "I'll chase the antclo|M- over the plain, and the wild spring chicken I'll bind with a chain; ' and the cauliflower, so fierce and neat, I'll give tliee for a nosegay sweet." "MAIAH," said a quack to an old lady who insisted on knowing what ailed Iter, "the nerves of your tympanum have fallen on the cerebellum, causiug a tiurlxen, aud it Is w hat we call a < ' scriitlnarvcomplaint." "Goodne**tue," die exclaimed, "you're the first doctor that ever told me exactly w hat was the matter." Two tor NO l.sniKs in the Mercantile Library, yesterday afternoon, were dis cussing a preference expressed by one of them for clean shaven men, when the other was heard to remark: "1 don't object to a man with a reasonable , quantity of hair ou his face, but 1 wouldn't like to marry a buffalo robe." H HEX a boy ha* been off all day, con trary to the oxpreaacd with of his mother, and on approaching the home stead at night, with an anxious and cautious triad. And* company at tea, the expression of confidence and recti tude which suddenly lights up hts face cannot be reproduced on canvass. MB. I'fWCH, being asked his opinion of the present ladies' dress, replied : "1 highly approve the present fashion, j comprising, aa it does, the highest ■ grates of the two must distinguished . models of female beauty—having in I front the Venus tie Medici, behind the Venus tie Hottentot!" j IT WAS a Cheyenne small boy who was being talked to by his Sunday school teacher on sins and ftailities of j the body, ami was aked : "Well, my I son, what have you beside* this sinful body?" Quick a* thought the urchin resjHuidod : "A clean shirt and a nice new pair of breeches." I'AT had tieeu engaged to kill a turtle for a neighbor, ami proceeded immedi ately it) cut off It* bead. His attention was called to the fact that the turtle still crawled about, though It had been decapitated, and lie explained: "Sure the baste is entirely dead, only he is not conscious of it." WHKX Pope, the great poet and satirist, was dying, a friend coming in jtist after the physician, w ho had sjxoken encouragingly of hi* cao, had gone, , Inquired how he did. "1 am dying of a hundred good symptoms," was the characteristic reply of the great wit. "I SAT, Satubo, where did you get de shirt studs?" "In de shop, to be sure." "Yah, you Just told me you hadn't no money." "l>at's right." "How did you git'cm den?" "Well, I saw on a ! card in de window, 'collar studs,' so I went in and collared 'em. AN ACTIVE WOMAN. —Wishing to pay hU friend a compliment, a gentleman remarked: "1 hear von have a very Industrious wife." "Yea, 1 replied the friend, with a melancholy smile, "she's never idle. Sht'i alwaya Hudlng some thing for me to do." Mi. Ri. SINK'S nttempt to aaddle the disordered condition of the finances on the Democrats Is a rather large-siaed niece of cheek for a man whose party has been In full |H<sses*ion of all branches of the Government for fifteen years.—fot. TIIK dental colleges are wrestling with the problem of why women's teeth give way so much sooner, as a rule, than the men's. Rut when you stop to realize the Immense amount of linguistic friction they have to go through, it is no longer a mystery. AN AI)VKRTIMKMK.NT In a rural news paper In England, announces that "a grand piano-forte will be exchanged for three or four small pigs." That family was tired of one sort of music, and wanted a change. THI hardest kind of chasm to gst over —sareaam. b* latMtiMl bamir Few lit veu lion ■ have Inn) • w liter o more varied unefulnea* tlian the bar rel ; few give aueli |iroinle of jier petiilly. IJiilqiie In principle, wimple yet singularly perfect In plan and atruc ture (lie barrel la little lean than aatroke of genius. Wlio art up the Aral onef Wlio first conceived the happy thought of makliiK a veaael tight and atroii|( out of atrip* of wood IKHI mI together with hiMipar And when did he live f No hlwlory of Invention*, none of the eucyclo|iedla* til our great lihrarlea, no hUtorlaii of human progress, no far a* we know, give* any information on the *uMeet, iinlt-ss we except the ltoinan author Tlluy, who mistakenly attrl hule* the Invention to the tiaui*, who Inhabited the bank* of the l'o. We say nilalakeiily, kluce there la the heal oi good reason for believing that Uie bar re| was In use long liefore die Hauls look possesion of tiielr Italian home, |>erhap* long before the Uaul* existed a* a |ample. The iiiomument* of Kgypt furnish proof of the early uae of hooped veasel*, though no date is given of their inven tion. In one of the Inscriptions copied by Wilkluson may las seen two slave* euiptyiug graiu from a wooden vessel made with hoops, while a scribe keeps tally and a aweeper stands by with • broom to sweep up the scattered kernel*, (.'lose tiy an iiufortunato la undergoing puiii*iimetil by bastinado, for abort measure perhaps, or a* Mr. Wilkinson suggests, for petty theft. The measure Is barrel-shaped, and precisely like the kayl of modern Kgypt- It would hold apparently about a peck. Uufortuuately the age of thla Inacrlptiou Is not indica ted, Measure* of the sort would seem to have been In common use very early in Kgypt, though not for the storing of liquids, for which skin and earthen vessel* were used. At first thought Kgypt would lie the last place to look for the Invention of hooped vessels, Its arid climate making it specially unsuiu-d fur their employ ment. Possibly that may have been tbeooni|ielltng caafc of their invention. Throughout the Kast, the bamboo U largely used for making hollow veaeeU, a Section of the stem through a uode se curing a aolid bottom, aud one tieiween the uodea ati open mouth for natural tub or bucket, lit well wooded region*, nothing would be more natural than the employment of hallow tree trunk* for the same purpose or section of tree stem*, hollowed out by flue or other wise. In drying, such vessel* would •pllt and spoil, and it would require no great genius to repair them by mean* of withe* or wooden bauds, the prima live form of the hoop. If the users of aucb natural barrels should migrate to a region where timb er was scarcer, eticonotny of lumber would be likely to suggest the building of barrels from piece* artificially split. In short, the use of slaves, by means of which the primitive cooper would he able to make several barrels out of a block that would suffice but for a single dug-out. But this Is s|teculatlon merely. It la enough to know fori certainty that the cooper's art, like the poUrr't, is oue of extreme antiquity. We bad no sus picion of its vetirrableneas when we be gan u> trace Its history iu respouce u> the inquiry—-whomade the flrst barrel ? Tfc* Tas rropbeta si rrayev. Here ia a pretty story for you from the iiadetk m .Vehfcee, .(sayings of the ProphetJ "Two prophet* were sitting together, and discoursing ot prayer and the difficulty of fixing the attention en tirely on the act. On* said U> the other, •S'ot even for the duration of two re kahs, (prayers ending with the prostra tion aud nilhi A akbar) can a man fix his mind on God aloue.' The other said, 'Nay; but I can do It.' 'Sav then two rrlcuA*,' replied the elder of liie two; 'I will give thee my cloak.' Now. he w ore two cloaks—a new red one and an old, shabby blue oue. The \ ouuger prophet rose, raised hi* hands to hts head. Mid allah akhar, and bent to the ground for bl* first rtkah ; as be rose again he thought,' will he give mo the red cloak or the bine, I wouder?" It l very stu pid of me not to write down all the pretty stories I bear. Some day 1 must bring Omar with me to England. and be will tell you stories like hebehrrax ade herself. A Jolly Nubian alien told me the other night "bow, in his village, no mau ever rat* meat, except on Ital ratn day; but one night a woman had a piece of meat given her by a traveler; she put it in the oven, and went out. I taring her absence Per husband came in and studied it, and a* it was Just the time of the rib, (flrst prayer, one hour after sunset.) he ran up to the hill out side the village, and began to chant i forth the Tekbmr with all hi* might— aJLth iikh-tr, atlih u aklmr, Ac., till the people ran to aee w hat was the matter. "Why, to-day 1* list ram," My* he. "Where i* thy wit lie**, Oman." "The meat in the oven."— Lady iMf tfsrioa'i ! hill Letters. The SwMereee. Human live*, though short, are still long enough to witness the birth, the mature vigor, ilic decrepitude and death of many plant* aud animals. The rise and fall of nations and race*, the foun dation. prosperity, and decay of cities demand great longevity for u* to ob serve them In our proper persons. Im ' portant topographical revolution* are mostly effected still more slowly. Hol land present* u* with those event* compressed into sn unusually short space of time. The Zuiderzee Is of . quite recrnt formation. It I* the very youngest sea in Kuropr, not having ac quire! It* full develo|xnrnl until the close of the thirteenth century. When the Roman* penetrated into these north ern wilds, the present vast gulf was covered with deuse forest*. Bears and xrolve* disputed with man whatever game might lurk within them. In the midst of all w as a great lake, the Flrvo, mentioned by Tacitus, communicating with the sea by a river, which w as cal led by the Romans Flevtitn. and which, l>erhaps, is the Medetoelach of the Frl sons, nut whose course it is now impos sible to trace. The lake, swollen by the rivers Amsteland Yaael, fespecially after Ilrustis Nero had diverted Into the Utter a portion of the Rhine water*,) burst Its bounds, converted woods Into swanqis, aud soon became the Zuider see.—All Tear Round. The First Flnger-Rlns. An amusing myth Is told of the orig in of the Anger-ring. When Jove re leased Prometheus from the bonds by which he had been confined, be con demned him, as a . ort of penance—per haps somew hat after the fashion of a modern tlcket-of-leave —to wear upon his Anger, as a ring, a link of the iron chain that had bound him to the Cau casian rock, in which was set a frag mentofthai rock itself. In this way, so fable goes, the custom of the finger ring originated. There Is every reason to believe that this use of the engraved stone begun with the Greek*, aim from them was copied by their servile imita tors, the Romans. It ia every way a convenient and a natural one; and our grandfathers' custom of wearing their seals at the fob, as it was called, or hanging from tlrn side-pocket, was a recurrence to old Assyrian usages, which did not long hold It* ground. — Fraser's Magasine. "Know Thj Opportunist." The grim monster, I>eath, was steal thily approaching. I could almost feel his not, fiery breath upon my forehead. My faithless goddess, Hygeia, had ut terly deserted me. Only now and then would Morpheus befriend me, but on this auspicious day, he had deigned to moisten my eyelids with heavenly am brosia, ami I slept. As 1 slept, behold, I had a dream! 1 thought that 1 was roaming unon foreign soil whither my physician had sent inc to recover my health. I was in a great metropolis— one of the grand mart* of the world. In one of my strolls 1 chanced to meet a man who had In Ills hand a handsomely bound volume, entitled "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," and who said that he was an agent for the sale of the book. The title was such a novel one that I was Impelled to give the work a casual notice. As 1 hastily glanced over it pages, I observed that ft contained treatises not commonly found In medical works. But 1 had too many times been hoaxed by ap|>earances. and I determined that 1 would have nothing to do with it. A voice within me, like a faithful mentor, whispered, "Knotc thy opportunity; in that book is thy sal vation !" I began reasoning with my ■elf. Although doubtful ami distrust- fill, yet I put forth bend to take the book, and,lu! the agent u gone! I WM miserable. In my agony t awoke. Great drop* of perspiration were upon uiv brow. By my bedside wan a friend who had called during my alutnber to see aw. Ha hi my friend, "f have brought with in** a book, just published, which 1 thought might Interest you." One glance at the work, and I waa assured that It wa* "The People's Common Benae Medical Adviser," by Dr. It. V. Fierce, of Ilulfalo, h*. Y. Hurely, this waa the veritable book which I had aeen In my it real as. My friend loaned me the work, ami every day, a* my strength (•ermine*!, I (leruaed its pages. Al though It contained very Interesting treatise* on Biology, Cerebral Physiol ogy, llmnsn Tern|M*rainents, Nursing of the Hick, etc., yet, being an invalid, 1 waa most Interested in the subjects of Diseases and Itemedlea. I believed that 1 had a liver affection, and vet more than one medical attendant had pro nounced my disease Consumption, and that f would fall with the autumn leaves. In that book 1 found my symp toms perfectly portrayed. 1 waa then confluent thai I had not deceived my aeif. 1 reasoned thus: "Any man who oau so truthfully depict my feelings, end apparently understands my consti tutional tendencies, must know Jest •kat my pliyxicoJ system demands. I will trust HIT esse with Dr. Pierce. 1 will take bis Golden Medical Discovery as recommended for my disease." The result is, that after having perseverlngly follow <ii hi* pr*-* rlhed treatment, I once again enjoy the blessing* of heslth. Therefore, I would say to the afflicted, "Know thy opportunity," and take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1 Qtns. Ur Or hearts '# tusSsrS KiaiStiS The standard remedies for all diseases of the lungs are fx nance's Fvuioirao Bvurr, HHKKU'I Has Wue lonic, and hcunci'i Hssouu Ftixa, and, if token before the lungs are destroyed, a speedy cure Is effected. To these three uu-dnines Dr. J. H. Hchenck, of Philadelphia, owes bis nn rivalled success in the treatment of pul monary diseases. The Pulmonic Syrup ripens the mor bid matter In the lungs; nature throws It oil by an easy expectoration, for a hen the phlegm or matter U ripe a slight cough will throw it off, the patient hoe rust and the lungs begin to h*l. To cusble the Pulmonic Hyrup to do this, N'heut k's Mandrake Ptlla and Hcbenck's Has Weed Tonic "must be freely used to cleanse the stomach and liver. Schenck'a Mandrake Fills act on the liver, removing all obauuetioas, re lax Ute gall bladder, the bile starts freely, and the liver la soon relieved. Hcbenck's Hea Weed Tonic Is a gentle stimulant and alterative; the alkali of which it is ootnjwwed, mixes with the food and prevents souring. 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