ee ee singe pos
For the Fair Sex.
tr—
Boys AND GIrrs,—* ‘If I had adozen
children I would want them all boys,”
said Mrs, Thrifty, “Boys can take
care of themselves, they are energetic,
enjoyable, and it doesn’t take half so
much sewing to keep a family of boys
along.” “Now, if I should have my
choice, said Mrs. Workhard, ‘1
should rather have my children all
girls, Girls are so gentle, so helpful,
have so much more refinement than
boys ; and then it is such a pleasure to
sew for them, they look so prettily in
the garments made for them.” “Very
well. ladies.” said Mrs. Sensible, ‘you
are both right and wrong. I believe in
a mixed family—part boys, part girls,
The boys influence the girls to self-reli-
ance. the #irls refiie the boys by their
A. boy who is brought up
most manly
up
most
1"
gentleness,
with sisters makes ti
man, and the girl who is brong
with the brothers makes the
womanly woman,” :
SWEET-MINDED WOMEN, —D0
is the influence of a sweetsminded
woman on those around her that it is
almast boundless, It is to her that
friends come in seasons of sorrow and
sickness for help and comfort, one
soothing touch of her Kindly hand
works wonders in the feverish child, a
few words let fill from her lips into the
gar of do
raise the load of grief that
its victim down to the dust in anguish,
The husband comes out
wi h the pressure of business, irri-
table with the word in ge but
wen he sitting room,
and sees the blaze of the bright tire;and
mets his wife's smill
cumbs in a moment to the southing in-
fluences which act as a balm of Gilead
great
a sorrowing sister much to
is bowing
home worn
and
eral,
enters the cosy
ng fice, he sue-
to his wounded spirits thal are wearied
with combatting with the stern
of life, The rough s shoolboy flies in a
rage from the taunts of his «
* é i
to find Solace in his mother’s il
realities
ompaiions
the little.one, full of grief with his own
large trouble,
mother’s breast |
with
finds a haven of res
and SO One
instances of the influens
Ripa
sweet-minded woman has in the
'
ife with which she is connected
Feauty is an ins znificant when
compared with hers,
A BEAUTIFUL INDIAN LEGEXND.-
The legend of the Cherokee rose is as
pretty as the flower itself. An Indian |
chief of the Seminole tribe was taken
prisoner by his enemies, the Cherokees,
and doomed to torture,
power
but became so
wait for the restoration to health before
committing him to the fire. And as he
lay prostrated by disease in the cabin of
Cherokee warrior, the daughter of the
latter, a dark-faced maid was
his nurse, fell in with
chieftain,
his life, urged him to escape;
young,
She the
love
voung and,
batt he woud
i
i
|
mixture put aside for twelve Nours,
there be present even so small a quan-
tity as 5 per cent. of cottonseed oil the
mixture will have a reddish color. This
reaction is said to be preuliar to cotton-
seed oil,
As to the preservation of wood, M.
Fayol finds that treatment with tar in-
creases and sometimes doubles the dura-
ration of oak timber used in eollieries
but has litle influence upon that ©
pine. Oak wood prepa wed with ferrous
sulphate lasts longer—ten times— than
in its unprepared state, after it has
immersed for twenty-four in a
solution of 200 grammes of ferrous sul-
hours
phate per litre.
Contrary to the opinion of old fislypr-
men. statistics clearly prove that there
hasibeen a steady increase of the her-
ring taken annnally on the northeast
of Scotland. . From observations made
by Dr. Day the herring of late years
seems to take to deeper waters, but at
intervals to return to the shallower
waters. usually frequented for feeding
or for breeding purposes, from which it
had been apparently frightened by ex-
vast shoals of dogfish,
cessive netting,
ete.
The
tude of éells of thin walls containing
carbonic acid gas, the product of fer-
mentution in the dough. These walls
of the cells contain both gluten and
starch and traces of dextrine sugar, As
the with
water and the application of heat, the
which, in their normal
little sacs filled with mi-
granules of starch proper, kave
bread crumb comprises a multi-
a consequence of treatment
starch grains,
condition are
nute
swolleu and burst,
A non-¢«
to be found, for
mductor of electricity has yet
all substances hitherto
discovered are conductors of the force
certain known conditions
under
those which offer a great resist
PR F % sesvied is
the ti Be Of Don-conau
' 2 :
classed as goo
conductor
the worst
Most bn
SOO
GI
assuine: an
i
:
Y et before 8
by soft
he had far,
regret at
asked permission of her lover to return
gane
leaving home,
for the purpose of bearing away some
memento of it. Ho retracing he:
steps, she broke a sprig from the white
rose which climbed up the poles of her
father's tent, and preserving it during
her flight through the
planted it by the door of her new home
in the land of the Seminole, And from
that day this beautiful flower has
always been known between the capes
of Florida and throughout the southssn
states, by the name of Cherokee rose, —
Christian Advocate,
Science.
A new fabric, recently patented, is
paper woven into matting for floors,
rugs, borders, window shades, chair
table These goo's
much admired, claimed
durabel
can be sup-
insure their
Seals, covers, ete,
are and it is
hat they much
than straw matting,
plied at prices that
sale,
The Lay torpedo was lately subjected
to a severe test by its inventor in the
Bosphorus, It was discharged over a
at a target only
sixty feet in length. In going to the
usirk the torpedo bad to pass through
three distinct earrents and a very lumpy
wea, but the trial proved very success
ful.
By vaponzing two quarts of tobacco
juiee over a slow fire, Baron Rothehild’ 4
gardener, at Paris, Monsieur Bozard,
are more
and
will
that may be contained in the hot-hou:e
in’ which the operation is performed,
says it rarely injures the tenderest
plants,
Abercromby and Marriott, in a paper
will never be superseded for fie At sea
and isolated and ‘remote places on
"tand. Prognostics ean also be usefully
combined with charts in synoptic fove-
casting, especially in certain classes of
showers and thunder-storms, which do
not affect the reading of the barometer.
The following Anaple test for ascer-
of i is stirred up with the ofl po” the
i
i
{ green transparent film Known as
| To produce the patina co
mosphere {ree
vering a
from deleterious vapors,
the presence of moisture
of the
Zine
metal
White
ack,
i required, allovs or brass
soon turn bl bronze
alloys o1
Mr. RB. Weber
sen]
Tin
are less rapidly oxidized,
ancients
their
patina formation
zine in
he fine
fine statuary. and hence
“ew
A Remarkable Maine Girl.
In the plantation of
y., Maine
Oakfield,
v of spelling difficult
without
Hattie M.
twelfth
backward
Drew : she is
just past her birthday, and re-
peaple
of modern education, upen a
farm. While this little bright
aud simnart as the average of her mates,
whe are
living
girl is
i
tention until, a little more than a year
was accidentally discovered that
she possessed the singular gift of spell-
word with
wl,
which she was
quainted backward and without hesi-
tation. At a spelling match recently
the
without any warning,
audience for ten minutes,
spelling selected at
He.
school which she attends,
she stood efore
sSOoine
words random.
}
what they were to be, and
rectly, except which
vould not spell in the proper way, and
when prompted in the correct spelling
would immediately reverse it. Among
the worlds which she spelled were these :
Galaxy, syzygy, astronomy, robin, po-
nography, difficulty, attendance, indi-
visible, ete,, and many other words of
equal Jength and difficulty. All of
these were spelled as rapidly as the eye
could follow, without a single. mis-
placement of a letter. Has any other
person wi hout any training been able
to do this or similar feats ? In addition
it may be said, upon the testimony of
the girl, that ‘she can see the words in
her mind, and knows no reason why
she should not read the letters back-
ward as in the usual way.”
rapidly
two
Cor-
one or she
—-
Joseph Childs, a resident of Radnor
towns tip, has in his possession a copy
of the first issue of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, which is rendered doubly
valuable as a curiosity by reason’of hav-
ng been made highly ornamental by
he pectiliar skill of Mr. Thomas Kay,
of Philadelphia, who by folding and
ously operating upon the pajer
ih his fingers produces w plece of work
which, by unfolding the paper, presents
i strikingly accurate and artistic speci
men of skill, resembling a stencil pat
tern peed by decorators of walls and
ceilings.
Shall We Fight Them, Play
Them or Work Them ?
This is the handle of a subject with
which we will attempt to flagellate the
intelligence of our readers who may
take the trouble to step aside from the
humdrums of routine and grasp our
article by the throat and try and shake
gomething out of it for individual or
general edification. Shall fight
them, the people? All policies since
time immemorial have used this seem-
ingly cruel factor in the policy of ad-
ministrative governing as the most di-
rect method of utilizing surplus, fretful,
revolutionary
arguing that what was lost to national
vitality was more than compensated for
in the general stimulus given to the
interests of who exist in that
economy known “Fittest who
survive,”’ We think it is,
but our thought is not the kind of
proof wanted, practical fact is
worth a thousand theories, and the fact
you glut a market with any
commodity, and there is ‘danger to the
holders.
we
discontented, material,
thosa
as the
Is this so ?
one
is (hat
The same rule applies to hu
manity who suffer as a whole, as does
the stalk when there
grains in a hill. When
comes overstocked with men it 18 as
are wo many
a country Dim
much glutted as it with too many cottons
And the animal
feels the plethora or redun-
or too many woolens,
economy
financial market
dancy as much as the
would an over-issue of 5-208 or 6-308,
To deplete this condition slujees must
be opened as in a choked-up gutter,
Most nations go to war,
the
when this is in
thus opening a
drain through sword or barking
cannon, and «x peddient
they amuse their people with he pomp
and circumstance of mock displays,
pageants and paraphernalis
and camp, music and
many and gorge
and
1 congestion
+b \
ved the glutied m arket
a normal condition
The
} i
could
our own country. He
He ordered a canal
TH sav the cost was $10,000, 008)
} 5s |] : Yorst
pon which he ssuexd first-class bonds,
it the work, He ti
bonds based
canal, interest ug
being added to
this
€X ju
second-class, these oblig
tions would bring, say, sixty cenls upon
: : ~~ ' ’ :
:
the dollar
nt of
in the second system of
This amou £6,000.000 was then
invested canal
or other internal improvements, and so
on od imfinthwn, until each laborer in
France found employment, Even
Third
management
the manufacture
was at
under the Napoleon the same
observed, If
of silk languished it
found necessary that
each company, regiment, brigade, and
division of the Grand Army should have
a 1 w silk flag ; at once the silk indus.
try revived, Had we power we sho d
knew what he was saving, “The mote
the body politic persplies the healthier
it becomes,’ We must
and with
requires herole treatment.
Wise Was
at once
iety,
blankets ; it
If must be
through the brow or the sword, or the
jumping jack, we'll take the latter
horn of the dilemma. Some may pre-
fer to ‘seek the bubble reputation at
the cannon’s mouth.” But be it labor,
amusement—a felicitous blending of
the two--or be it war, one or the other
is the destiny of all nations. War is
man’s normal condition, as it is the
greatest of all incentives to action, hence
nothing so popular. We prefer some
other method of employing our masses,
but geptlemen who are always ready
“to die with their boots on'' will never
be happy without excitement, and this
family is a numerous one in the “Land
of the free and the home of the brave,’
«Phila, Thoroughbyved Stock Journal,
SWent soc
it can't be done
A] U5
The Dispensary.
How to Stand Cold.
Professor Raymond Lee Newcombe
who was the naturalist of the Jeannette
expedition, has formulated some hints
on the best methods to endure cold. He
advises no fire in a room where a half
dozen or more men sleep, He advises
ample exercise, and to remove the cold
feeling in the stomach after exercising,
hot tea he recommends as the best rem-
edy. He advises not to bathe frequently,
le bathed his feet often, took a dry rub
and kept clean underc oteny gd did
not suffer so much cold as ot who
bathed oftener than he. He gained
flesh while in the frozen, regions. and
slept excellently well,
He found woolen underelothes to.an.
swer well, but he would adwise under.
garments of cotton and; wool mixed.
They shrink less and are more durable,
Totton and wool stockings are the bast
Exterior fur clothin: he found indis-
pensible, reindeer being the warmest,
but sealskin the strongest and will stand
more wetting, He used deerskin or
young hairseal stockings or. foot nips in-
side his boots and over his sfockKings.
Fis mittens were made gauntlet fashion,
with woolen linings, fur seal backs and
buckskin palms. He lined the palms
He advises. an opening
the paim, By
readily
thumb and fingers without exposing the
whole hand,
A properly filled stomach he advises
Soups should not be sub-
stituted for meat.
For frostbite he declares cold
to be the remedy. He found a
mixture of glyeerine and burnt cork on
exposed parts of the face and nose to
prevent frostbite, It looked dirty, but
it was most beneficial. He also rubbed
some of this on the eyelids to relieve the
glare of the snow and the light, *
this
the
in front, below
Means one cian Hnncover
by all means,
water
best
Domasticity and Madness,
No class of people furnish more in-
mates to the insane asylum than domes.
ties and farmers’ wives, Such a woman,
aged the mother of eight
children, recently brought to the
hospital retreat for the insane, suffering
The husband when
could suggest any cause
with
could not
forty-four,
Was
{froin acute mania,
asked if he
her
for
iliness, exclaimed much ani-
mation that he conceive any
reason, “she 18 a4 most
woman ; is always doing s
her children
1 ney aos Ot
all Lit I EOS Ol
to of
. 15 always al
appre
the causes «
nity bad he understood th
ever so thoroughly.”
How It Feels to Fall JOOO Feet.
With
cide of a girl by
regard to the recent sad sul-
leaping from one of the
Notre Dame, P
Bronardeli’s expressed
towers of aris, Dr.
view that as-
phyxiation in the rapid fall may have
of death,
to some correspondence in
been the cause has given ris
Nature, M.
Jontempts points out that the depth of
i
fall having been about sixty-six metres,
ty acquired in the time (less
onds) cannot have been so
attained
£
second on the ix
the effect sl
never
Paris, where
same © yet we hear of asphyxia
tion of drivers and stokers,
He considers it that the
in question should be exploded,
engine
desirable idea
as un-
happy persons may be led to choose suil-
by the fall from a height, unde
the notion that they will before
reaching the ground. Again, M.
few vears
man threw himself from the top of the
Column of July, and fell on an awning
which sheltered workmen at the pedes.
tal : he suffered only a few slight con-
tusions, M.
cide
da +"
{2008
sin mentions
that a ALO A
Remy says he has often
seen an Englishman leap from a height
of thirty-one meters (say 103 feet
and he was shown in
in the island of Ohau, by mission-
aries, a native who had fallen from a
verified height of more than 500 meters
thousand feet), His fall
broken near theend by a growth of low
ferns amd other plants, and he had only a
few wounds,
into
a deep river:
1852,
{SR/Y one
was
Asked as to his sensations
in falling, he said he only felt darzied,
Mixing of Races.
It will be remembered by those who
have been familiar with our writings
for the last thirty years, that we have
counted very much upon an improved
race in this country growing out of the
mixture of m2. Herbert Spencer, in
giving his impressions of America, says:
“It may, I think, be reasonably held,
that both because of its size and the
neterogenity of its components, the
American nation will be a long time in
evolving its ultimate form, but its ulii-
mate form will be high. One result ix,
I think, tolerably clear. From biologi.
eal truths it is to be inferred that the
eventual mixture of the allied varieties
of the Arvan race forming the popula.
tion, will produce a more powerful type
of them than has hitherto existed, and
a type of men more plastic, more adapt-
able, more capable of undergoing the
complications needful for social life, 1
think that, whatever difficulties they
may have to surmount, and whatever
tribulations they may have to pass
throfigh, the Americans may reasons.
bly look forward to a time when they
will have produced a civilization
grander than any the world has
konwn, ”
Japan Clover.
The Japan clover takes the lead far,
the land. Japan Clover, Bush Clover
( Lapedeza Siriata) has several qualities
in common with clover. It is trifoleate ;
has a deeply penetrating root, and pre-
fers a clay soll, growing and thriving
on the naked banks of gullies, and so it
brings its supplies from the depths to
improve the soil ; like clover it is a
stock, and they seek it.
also has a notable fattening quality, and
resembles it in its composition
analysis is as follows :
Nitgs. Fat
16.6 41
1.23
Soh, Lime. Mag.
5.92 pe i
30 5LH.56. L082 fi
Potash B. aeid. SB. wcid
Lepedeza, BH bl 49 2
Clover, 1.95 Ox Hh 51
Lespedoza,
Clover
Soda
|
i
i
i
and that
Its
capacity,
clover.
the soll,
is shown by
it surpasses that of
utility as an improxer of,
its. analysis,
tributing to that end half
two-thirds of the
and more sulphuric
as muelh pot
ash. phosphoric acid,
acid,
8 that it t
W here
A notable advantage
in an exhausted soil clover will
not eateh at all,
perfection less of the wore exhaustible
soil
the
and BEC capable
constituents--these withdrawn in
cultivation of the common crops
of even of substilulin
for
16 latter
sola for potash, ILE OWN use,
it restores tl out of
other valuable
stands
quality
midsummer
Weil
luxuriantly on the summit
f 4000 feet,
thirot
on till frost
fer most
NOOSE igh
erbage
portion of the surface f most of
Our
——
The Dance of Los Sicpass
The most curjoms privilegg off the
Beville Cathedral is the so-cilled dance
of los siexex, which takes place avery evens
ing at twilight for eight conseeetive days
As
Lihappened to be at Seville during those
days 1 went to see it, anil think it
worth describing, From what I had
heard 1 thought it must bea scandalous
buffoonery. and I entered: the church
with my wind prepared for a fecling of
indignation at the profsnatien of this
sacred The chiggeh was dagk ;
anly the prineipal chapel was illuraing
ted, A crowd of kneeling women agca-
betwen the chapel: and
the Several priests were seated
an the right and left of the altar before
the steps was stretched a broad carpet,
and two rows of boys from eighi to. ten
place,
space
choir,
of the medimval age, with planed hats
» stockings, were dgiwn up op-
cach other, in front of the altar.
At a signal given by a priest 4 low music
from violins beoke ti silence
and the hovs moved for-
ie profound
ward with the steps of a eoutra-dance,
separate,
thousand
then all broke out to,
a lovely and harmonjous
h echoed through the darks
like the
and a mo
OG geome»
the dance with casta-
No CETEINGRY ever
ne like tl we, It 8 Impos-
produced by
tha! mens
little creatures at the foot of
and
interlace,
and gaiber again with a
gether into
the vast Cathedral
a choir of aneels,
later they commenced
and chant
'
religious
sible to describe th
all
sail
Lhe
those voices under
grave
» ancient cos.
around
with
+510
Centuries
HE] ah
and
raise the
re-
Howed in con-
$3044,
ana ithe
i"
jdle and
an worse
slote mantling them with a beauti-
hes,
g¢ of valuable
this at a season when it
ful covering
is most needed,
no care or culti
vet while it
It requires vation
DEVEr runs and
aggressive it
undes
out,
is easily gotien
with the
MIPOSES,
turning plow,
it rapidly dec
with the same chemical element
red clover or pea~y
that it
grazing.
other good quality 18,
There
would work s
destroyed by
doubt but it
on the sands, and in the old fields
pineries of Florida, Jd. WW.
Franklinton, N , mn
F.owers
Land
- yw
A Hint to inventors.
It is noteworthy,
that some of the most bril
applications of electricity
simply developement, by
and study, of familiar and apparently
ificant effects. Every telegraph
operator has been familiar,
there has been a telegraph,
SAYS RK now ledge .
ant practical
have been
experiment
insign
ever since
with the
phenomenon of the electric spark, and
with the fact that a strong current will
heat a conductor of high resistance ;
vet the electrie-fire lamp is simply a de-
velopment of the former and the incan-
descent lamp of the
In the same
latter phenomenon.
way the ‘polarization’ of
batterics was known to telegraphists for
years, and was regarded by them sim-
ply as an impediment to be got rid of ;
but the Plante and Faure accumulators
are only developments of the same {7}
ciple of ‘polarization.’
Starting the Boys.
An aged and respec ted New Yorker,
who was on a visit to relatives in the
interior the other week, was interviewed
by a farmer who wanted advice as to
how he should start his two sons in life,
“Haven't you got anything in your
mind, yet?’ “No--nothing.” “Do
you want them to be rich and re
gpected #*° “Of course 1 do.” “Well,
I should send one to West Point, and
make a great General of him.” “Yon
would #7 “Yes; and I should start the
other in the live stock business
“What for? “Why, let one lead an
army and the other feed it. It is
twenty yeurs since the war closed and
we ure still making up purses for Gen-
erals and paying the claims of con.
tractors. You might as well start
right, and give your sons a first mort.
gage on the United States as to turn
out a pair of patriots who can’t buy
courtplaster to hide their scars.”
assis oun oir.
An Illinois court has decided that
woman's lie about her age doesn’t vitis
wie her insurance policy.
he dance with his
judgment in
like cav-
order to give
The
taken t
Tatican, and
his
boys, dre saad]
, Wer y Rowse, received at
Huuie oo dance ana
Holi The Pe pe
id not disapprove of it,
ESN,
and
to satiny the canons without
Te hbighop, decreed that
until
Wud ad dances the clothes
were worn out, after which
be considered as
Archbishop smiled, and
their sleeves like
le who had already discovered a way
both Archbishop and
In fa
boys’
t. they renewed one part
so that it
that the costume
and the Archbishop,
scrupulous man, took the
as a au pied de lo lettre,
of the dress every vear,
could never be said
worn out,
who, 48 a
could never make any opposition to the
ceremony, So they continued to dance,
and will continue to dance as
long as it pleases the canons and the
good Lord.
— -—p —
Home Hints.
The best way to hang up a broom is
to screw a large picture ring into the
top of the handle.
To cure a bruise or sprain bathe it in
cold water, and then apply a decoction
of wormwood and vinegar.
To prevent the juice of a pie soakiug
into the under crust, brush the crust
with the white of a beaten egg.
To take oil spots out of matting, ete.,
wet the spot with aleohol, rub it with
lard soap, and then wash well cold
water,
To renovate black sil | sponge it
with spirits of ammonia or alco Hl, di-
luted with warm water, and press cn
the wrong side.
To remove stains from cups or other
articles of tableware or marblesized oil
cloths rub them with saleratus, eitheg
with the finger or a piece of linen.
To rid a room of the disagreeable
smell of fresh paint let a pailful of
water in which a handful of hay has
been placed stand m the room “over
night.
To remove ink stains from mahogany
apply carefully with a feather a mixture
of a teaspoonful of water and a few
drops of nitre, and rub quickly with a
damp cloth,
Ix the Columbrian Jowraal for Jan.
nary, 1855, is the following translation
from the original Welsh of
THE CYCLE OF THE WORLD AND
OF LIFE.
do dance,