— Science. ' It has been proved that the aurora borealis occurs more frequently out. side the Polar regions than is gener ally supposed. Iron chess-boards and chessmen with concealed magnets to steady them are sold in Berlin for the con- yenience of travelers, At Rouen the Municipal Council propose to use the current of the Heine to drive dynamo-electric machines for lighting the city. The Chemiker Zei'ung says that a solution of quinine hydrochlorate aci = ulated with hydrochloric acid will quickly and entirel y remove the odor of musk from any object. It is estimated that from 450,000 to $00,000 tons of charcoal are annually made in the United States. No won- der the necessity for foregtry culture becomes daily more apparent, Incandescent electric lighting with the Swan system has proved highly satisfactory in the Paris Opera House, The use of gas in the foyer destroyed almost entirely the fine decorations. Experiments conducted beiween Munich and Miesbach have proved conclusively that electrical energy capable of being converted into mo- tive power can be sent over an ordi- nary telegraph wire. It Issaid that plaster of Paris of hardness sufficient to be employed as a mold for metal may be made by using 10 per cent. of alum in the water which is intended to be mixed up with the plaster, Captain Webb seems to think that the use of porpoise oil rubbed all over the body and even the face, pre- vents the chilling action of cold water affecting the vital parts of swimmers whe remsin a long time in the water. All professionals. he ge= now use oil. An experiment is to be made in New Orlesns to adapt mesquite wood; a native of Texas, very durable and nearly as hard as iron, for street-pav- ing purposes. It is so abundant that the cost of buying, cutting, and trans- dorting will be very slight. Dr. Denker of St, Petersburg, treats diphtheria by first giving the patient a laxative, ana when its operation has ceased he gives cold drinks, acidulat- ed with hydrochloric acid, and then a gargle of lime-water and hot milk in equal parts every two hours. His method is very successful. Eighty Frenchmen engineers,guides foremen and navvies, with six hun- dred Morocco navvies, enlisted in Al- geria ; six hundred Bennegal negroes and two hundred or three hundred krotmen, are about to commence the construction of the railway to connect Sennegal with the Niger. Their oper ations will be protected by a column under Colonel Desbordes, which will wvictual the posts, plant the French flag on the Niger and erect two forts on that river. A second railway from St. Louis to Dakar, is also about to be commenced, and a cable will shortly be laid betweem France and Benegal. The breakfast we take in winter will determine our efficiency for work in the day, and will so irfluence our whole being for that pericd of time that no aftermeal can correct it. The breakfast in winter must contain more nitrogenous food than in summer ; it is absolutely needed. You must store heat to furnish material for absorption and for maintaining vitality ; add to this nitrogenous food something that will disengage heat from the blood and keep up temperature, and you may defy the coldest day. Your face may feel it, your hands may feel it,but your body will be impervious to it, and go on disengaging that inward heat which can alone stand against the lowered temperature without, If this first meal has been properly at- tended to we may presume that vital action can be maintained in full force for five hours at least before it needs replenishing. in Unpecessary substitution: * Why didn’t you deliver that message as 1 gave it to you ?"’ asked an Austin gen- tleman of his stupid servant. “1 did de best I could, boss,” * You did the best you could, did you?’ imitating his voice and look. *“ So you did the best you could. If I had known that I was sending a donkey I would have gone myself.” Two Germans met in Ban Francisco recently, “Fen you sald you hef ar- rived?’ “Yesterday.” ‘You come dot horn around 7’ ‘‘No.” “Oh, I see, you come dot land across?” “No.” “Den you hef not arrived ?"’ “Oh yes, | have arrived ; I come dot Mexico through.” A prominent feature of Mr, George Falntsbury’s edition of Corneille’s play of “Horace” [Is the Introduction, which consists of short essays on the life snd writings of Corneille, French tragedy before Corneille, the tragedy of Corneille and Racine, French tra gedy after Racine, and the stage in the time of Corneille. ‘Wem en reldom stop to think, True encugh, but they never fail to stop sndislk, OLD WINTER COMES! The hoary hills are streaked with white, The flelds are swept as bare, And, through the howling blast at night, Old Winter cries, “Beware!” He mocks us with his flery stings, He strikes bis hands together ; And, like a hawk with flapping winge, Dewn swoops the stormy weather, He binds the running water fast In stony links of mall; He strikes us with the sounding blast, His mighty har vest-flall, Away! away ! the forests reel, The red leaves circle after, Bencath the grinding of his heel, Beneath bis savage lnughter, He beats his clashing cymbals—hark! Toarms! away! away! The forest bellows in the dark And mutters La theday, He drains the earth to meet his mood ; He strikes bis hands together, And, ike a hawk upon a brood, Down swoops the stormy weather, mo A por —— The Solid Side of — LexTiL Boup.—Two quarts and a pint of water, one pint of lentils, a soup bone, a small bunch of soup vege- tables, salt, and a little cayenne; boil gently three hours. When strained there should be one quart and one pint of soup. Press the lentils through the sleve with a spoon, stir well into the broth, return to the fire and simmer slowly for ten minutes. Berve hot with some slices of fried bread. CREAM WALNUTS. —~White of one egg, sur into it powered sugar to make it stiff enough to handle, flavor with vanilla, dip the walnuts into a syrup aisde of twe tablespoonfuls of sugar and one of water, boiled three or four minutes; the cream must be moulded with the fingers, and then placed between the two halves of & walnut, Dates and Malaga grapes may be used. To make chocolate cream walnuts stir two tablespoonfuls of dissolved choce- late into the cream. Loar CAKE —One quart of dried and sifted flour, a pint of new milk warmed a few minutes before using it, one-half cup of butter, two cups of sugar, a large cup of hnome-brewed yeast or'half as much brewer's yeast, three eggs and one pound of seedless raisins, a glass of wine and a part of a nutmeg ; beat the butter and sugar to a cream, and then add the spices, and let it rise over night. Flour the fruit and add in after the cake has risen ; bake In a moderately heated oven. FrexcH CURRY oF LoBSTER.—Boll one good-sized lobster; when cold, pick the meat from the shell, put it into a stew-pan with one pint of boil- jug water, two or three rounds of an onion, two slices of lemon, three co: four bay leaves; mix tegether one spoonful of flour and two of curry powder, and a tablespoonful of butter. Boil all together five or ten minutes. Strain the gravy from the lobster, cut the lobster in small pieces, add to the gravy ; season with a very little pep per and salt; add the juice of haifa lemon jrimmer a few minules. Berve hot. YorgsHiRe Puppixna.-~This pud- ding is an especial sccompaniment to roast beef, and is served as a vegetable would be. Take six large spoonfuls of prepared flour, three well-beaten eggs and two cups of milk ; beat the flour, eggs and a part of the milk together ; when quite smooth, add the remain- der of the milk, beat all together, pour into a well-buttered pan and bake haif an hour. When the beef is three-quar- ters roasted, take it from the baking: pan, place it on a pan without sides on the upper bars of the oven, then place the pudding in the pan under: neath the beef to catch the stray drops ; cut the pudding in slices. Berve hot. Exorisa Puppisag —Grate four or five egz crackers; pour over them one pint and a half of boiling milk ; cover closely until cold ; then add the yelks of four well-beaten eggs two whites beaten to a froth, some nutmeg, the grated rind of a lemon, twe large spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and one tablespoonful of prepared flour; mix all well together ; pour into a pudding boiler and boil rapidly one hour and a half; the water must boll eonstantiy, and the pudding be kept closely cov ered. Make sauce for the pudding with two tablespoonfuls of butter, one cap and a half of sugur; beat the but. ter and sugar to a cream. Stira des sert spoonful of corn starchand a cup of milk together ; add toita teaspoonful of boiling water. Place on the fire ar d when it comes to a boil ad d it gradually to the beaten butter, return to the fire and stir constantly until it boils. Pour into a sauce bowl, add the two beaten whites of eggs that were not uscd for the pudding,and a wineglass of brandy, Life, A Hur vor THE TREATMENT CF CoNsuMpTION.—Mr, H, Osborn Bay. fled suggests (British ioal Jour. nal) that the use of inhalatious of vel. stilized palm oll may be useful in the treatment of phthisis, He bases bis opinion upon the fact {hat kmen, engaged in tinning, where palm ofl is used as a flux, inhale the voladlized oil and get fat, Those previously emaciated or weak rapidly improve. he ides is worth a trial, TUBERCULOSIS, — Dr, Kammerer, Imperial Health Officer to the city of Vienna, has published an important address to the magistrates of that eity on the dangers which threaten the health and life of the population, through animals affected with tuber- culosis, The victims are Insidiously struck down, says Dr Kammerer, through two of the most important articles of daily diet--milk and meat, The milk of cows with tuberculosis acts as an unconscious inoeulation ( upon aduits and children who par. ter, the seed of tuberculosis is being imperceptibly sown smong thousands inthe great towns. Dr. Kammerer regards infection by this channel as being quite as frightful a source of the disease among the young as he- reditary taint, to which it is usually traced. He regards it as exceedingly doubtful whether boiling or roasting ever can effectually «radicate the germs of infection from the flesh of tuberculous animals, TREATMENT OF OBSTINATE VOMIT- ING.~—In the course of an article on this subject, in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Dr. 8B G. Web. ber says : Oilten the best method of treating this complication is to give the stomach rest, Sometimes a large amount of food taken at one time ex- cites vomiting ; then it Is sufficient to | resort lo frequent feeding, giving a very small guantily each time, a mouthful, or a spoonful every fifteen or thirty minutes ; thus the stomach never contains a large mass of food requiring considerable muscular exer- tion to roll it about, and by its weight or bulk exciting the reflex Irritability of the nerve centres. Many times, however, this is not enough ; the stom- ach requires more complete rest, and the best treatment is to withhold all food and medicine ; sometimes a few | hours’ rest is enough, again it re be necessary to use nuirient epemsata. | Where there has been much vomiting | thirst may be very annoying to the | patient ; small lunaps of ice held in the | mouth will relieve this, and generally do not cause vomiting, After the | best to commence feeding by the | mouth, with caution, giving = little | frequently. Milk and lime water, equal paris, a teaspoonful every half | hour, should be first tried; if well | borne the smouut can be Increased | gradually. Itis a mistake to increase | the quantity too rapidly. | om i od sa fp — Odds and Erds. Muscatine, Iowa, has a cornet band At three vegetarian restaurants in the city of London the dinners daily served average 1550, Americans leave their goodness be hind them when they go to Paris, So Mr, Moody sald in his first sermon in that city. Thelr desire is to see sll the sights, and these, he thinks Christians should avoid. The veteran historian, Leopold von Ranke, is now engaged in preparing | for the press the third volume of his | “Weligeschichte.” It will comprise a history of the Roman Empire, and the beginnings of Christianity. It seems ac if tobacco were destined | to universal empire. The Iantest sign of the times was furnished a ferinight ago in Eagland when a Croydon evan. gelist invited the people to attend his services in their working clothes and smoke thelr pipes If thev pleased, This example would probably have proved more contagious If the experi. ment had not been cut short by the evangelist's arrest and sentence to'pay a flae of forty shillings and cosets for using abusive language to a woman, As seen in his prison, Arabi is a man of singularly courteous manners, tall, burly, not uncomely, with a ten- dency to baldness and snowiness about the beard, He should be a man of fifty-five, but Orientals are inserula- ble in the matter of age, some of them looking one hundred, while in reality they have just turned thirty, He Is a fellah of the fellaheen, The shape of his eyes and cast of his countenance show this. He has the ignorance of the fellah, his boundless frast and grotesquely selfish belief that Allah's time is occupied with specially watch. ing him above all other creatures, The method in which Japanese newspapers are conducted is often amusingly naive, A recent issue of the Nichi Nichi Shimbun—which, like all ita native contemporaries, is print. ed not in columns, but in squsres— came out with one square Llank, the empty space being covered with a number of straight lines. The editor minds The Jowa State Register of a good joke at their expense, Beveral years ago when they were on opposite sides of a case, one of them, Judge Nourse, in the course of his argument, repeated the lines : “There Is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to for- tune referring to them as the very well known words of Martin Van Buren. His opponent, Judge Cole, eager to make & good point, slyly responded that he would never have supposed Martin Van Buren guilty of plagiariz- ing Byron. A A rt About the Ostrich, There is some prospect of ostrich farming developing into qaite an in. dustry in the south-west, and it will some time be a cold day when the gimpleminded rustic of that region will not have ostrich on toast if he wants it, Ostrich farming, however, will always have its drawbacks, The hen ostrich is not a good layer ass rule, only laying two eggs per annum, whieb, being about the size of a porce- lain wash bowl, makes her so proud that she takes the balance of the year for the purpose of convalescing, The ostrich is chiefly valuable for the plumage which he wears, and which, when introduced into the world of commerce, make the husband almost wish he were dead, Probably the ostrich will not come few people caring for it, as the meat is coarse and the gizzard full of old hard- ware and relics of wrecked trains, and old irons left where there has been a fire. Carving the ostrich is not so difficult as carving quail, because the joints are larger and one can find them with less trouble. Bill, the bird takes up a best circles srz not using them. The ostrich does not ret, She don’t She does not squat down side to quiet her shattered nerves, Tacks, possessing the peculiar power, when man in might be, Tacks are 1n season all the usually the time selected by them for a grand combined effort, and then they flourish everywhere for at month. Bince the insuguration of the time-honored ceremonies of with long experience in the line of from the shaker's hands, unless the But the triumph of the tack is not of the carpet issues forth with double foree, After searching the entire hose for a paper of tacks, without sucoess, the unfortunate man falls on his hands and knees fo begin, and imme. diately discovers four tacks at lesst, aod as he rolls over and sits down to extract these finds the rest of the paper directly under him, and then, unless he fa accustomed to put up stoves and Join stovepipes, the chances of laying the carpet en that evening are slight. In selecting tscks from a saucer, he always inspects the points with his forefinger, as the tack instantly loses its head when they come to blows. In argument the tack 1s sharp and pointed, but the display of either or both depends largely on the amount of pressure employed by its opponent, In direct contrast to a good joke, the amusement generally begins before you see the point, and this fact is eash ly demonstrated by walking the floor in your stocking feel, a well-kept room on such an ocession averaging two tacks (0 the square foot, The future of the tack gives great promise of mora extended usefulness and unlimited possibilities, as several of our most eminent oollege professors, having carefully studied the effect of a sharp tack of reasonable length placed prov perly in a chair or under a oot, are about to introduce tacks and do away with spring-boards in our college gym- nasiumes.— Detroit Free Press, i AB Ot. Christopher Dresser, Ph, D., has written a new book on “Japan' with a special alm, which 1s to set forth what the Japsnese have accomplished in architecture, art and art man- ufactures. Dr. Dresser visited Japan as the guest of the nation, and had unexpected opportunities for studying all forms of its art industry ; and his work, which is brought out by the Longmans, London, is the most no. | curate and complete account of Japa nese industriss that has yet appeared. The volume is adequately lustrated. I ae Dry Goods Clerk's Guar- dian Angel, “Editor in?" “Yes,” replied the horse reporter to the person asking the question—a young man with a tablespoon hat and # you-may-Kiss-me but-don’t-you-tell- papa moustache, who stood in the doorway—*‘the editor is in, and the chances sre that he prefers staying in rather than run any risk of falling sgalost you,” “Well, of course, you know,” sald the man, “very likely it wouldn't be absolutely necessary for me to see the really and truly editor about this mat- ter that I wanted to have settled. It’s a question to be answered you know.” “I should surmise,” said the horse reporter, “that an average deck hand could successfully wrestle with any problem you could evolve,” “Well I don’t know,” continued the young man. ‘This is a real hard question, you know, and a good many of our set over on the West Bide have tried awfully to settle it but we can’t. I never saw such a provoking thing in all my life, and last night 1 was talking with my roommate about It, snd we got real angry, and it looked once as if we should strike each othr, I wouldn’t have had a row with Cholly for anything, you know, be- he was promoted to the ribbon counter “In what | porter, “In the threads—the thread said nothing could ever make me go back on Cholly., You know how any- thing hike that makes two awful chums.” “Yes,” said the repc rier, “but what is your question ?"’ “Weli, you see, some close to the home stake. having stroke he forces the rover against the stake, Now I say the over is dead, but the other fellows say lsan't, and we had an awful tim “Yes, you told me that before, Our | eroquet editor is on his vacation, | spends it in the Asylum for | fix this thing up for you.’ | “Oh, that’s awful jolly. | cigarette 7" “No, thank you, | years old, But sbout You say the rover So stake 7 “Yea “And | against the stake?” “Yea.” I am over nine this croquet. “Yee, that’s it; and they can't | agree,” “Well,”! said the horse down, They don't quarrel at all.” “Why, certainly.” “And they didu’t quarrel 7’ “Why, of course nut.” “Then the fairies are indeed kind to the dry goods clerks. We can them no advice,”— Chicago Tribune, Frogs for the Feast. a— How the Savory Batrachian is Caught, Cooked and Eaten. Frogs are most plentiful about the months of Juve and July. Then, as the colder weather comes, they bury themselves in the mud and lie dsrmant through the winter, The largest sup. ply in early sumamer comes from League Island, inthe Delaware river, pear Philadelphia, After July th frogs are csught sod shipped from Canada, The town of Perth, Ontario, has the most jmporiant trade and de. rives quite & handsome revenue from the shipment of the frogs to New York snd Chicago. There is no dis tinguishable difference between the Pennsylvania and Canadian breeds, the frogs of both being nearly of the same size and appearance. The Southern eateh is considered the most profitable, because it reaches the mar- ket at the opening of the sesson and farnishes a new delicacy. In fhe course of the season New York receives from 1000 to 1500 pound per day. The price averages 50 conte a pound, but as the supply diminishes it resches the retail prices of 60 and 78 eents, Ix the summer of this year Canadian frogs sold for 256 cerits. It is noticeable thet the frogs are becoming poarcer every year, The consumption of them as an edible is rapidly increas- ing, and I have no doubt that in a few years they will wot be purchasable. A number of persons have tried to culti- vate them, but as yet no one has found food for the young fry. If a number are placed together in a tank they will fuevitably starve, and we can do noth. ing to save them. ih Miss Mary Li. Wately wives a glimps behind the curtain im her little vol. ume, * Scenes from Life in Cairo,” which is published by Seeley, Jaok- son & Halliday, London, It is a book for the day, sad will be read with special interest in connection with tbe present state Egyptian » faire, — Rules for Keepers of Sheep, 1. Keep sheep dry under fool with litter. This is even more Necessary than roofing them. Never let them stand or lie in mud or water, 2. Take up lamb bucks early in sum- mer, and keep them until December following ; when they may be turned out, 8. Count every day. 4, Begin graining with the great. est care, and use small quantities st first, 5. 1f 5 ewe loses her lamb, milk her dally for a few days, and mix a little alum with her es 18, 6. Let no hogs eat with the sheep in the spring, by any means, 7. Give the lambs a little mill fe-d in time of weaning. 8. Never frighten sheep if possible to avoid it, 6. Bow rye for weak ones in cold weather, if you ean. 10. Beparate all weak, thin or sick from those strong, in the fall, and give them special care. 11. If any sheep is hurt, catch it at once, and wash the wound, and if it is Hy-time, apply spirits of turpentine daily, and always wash with some. thing healing. If a limb is broken, ing as the limb swells, 12. Keep a number of good bells on 13. Never let the sheep spoil wool 14. Cat tag-locks in early spring. 15. For scours give pulverized alum in wheat bran ; prevent by taking 16. If one is lame, exam ine the foot, and apply tobacco with blue vitrol boiled in a little 17. Bhear at once any sheep oom. mencing to shed its wool, unless the fully the pelt of any that die, 18. Have at least one good work by This will be money in your pocket. Eclipses for 1883. During the yesr 1888 there will be A slight partial eclipse of the moon, A total eclipse of the sun, May 6th, visible chiefly on the Bouth Pacific A partial eclipse of the moon, Octo- Bouth America, and extreme western portions of Europe and A fri- An annulsr eclipse of the sun, Octoe also on the extreme eastern ocean ; beginning at Ban Francisco st 3b. 47m. p. M.; the sun seiting st Sex of Eggs. Belence and experience have suffi cently demonstrated that everything that bears must possess both the male and the female qualifications: bu perbaps it is not generally known tha such is the case with eggs. I have found by experience that it is, and by the following rule: I raise ns MALY pullets among my enickens as [ wish to, while some of my neighbors com- plain that their chickens are nearly all roosters, and they cannot see why there should be a difference. I will tell you here what i told them, and for the benefit of those who do not know that the small, round CERES are female ones, and the long, slender ones are males. Tis rule holds good among all biris. Bo you wish to raise pullets, set the small, round eg; if you wish to raise roosters, set the long, slender ones, In this WAY you will be able to raise whichever sex you wish to, A new Lincoln story was told st grand s:my headquarters in the Windsor, A gentleman who formerly practiced law in the same courts in Illinois where Lincoln did, says that on one occasion Ward Lamon osme Into court, in the summer time, in his shirt sleeves, and there was a huge rea 1u the seat of his pants, For a e some of the lawyers got up = subscription to buy Lamon a pair of breeches, and going to Lincoln with Yat pnper je objected to signing it, saying: ve noth to the end in view," hk 40 sutton
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