_— At Night Time. Peacefully the world is dreaming, From its turmoil now set free; Softly bright the full moon beaming, Bhede its light across the lea, Gentlest dews from heaven falling Strew the earth with myriad gems; Softest night wind's plaintive calling, Weave the saddest requiems. Stars above lone watch are keeping, Cynthia's regal, glittering train; Roh ever soltly creeping, Deep enfold the slumbering plain. Tranquil now the restless billow, Anchored fast its mighty fleets; Ocean sleeps, the moonlight mellow QOalms the measure that it beats. Yea, earth and breeze and vasty ocean, Almighty God! at night to Thee Speak in words of deep devotion, Hushed in sleep tho' they may be! sss AAAS AIA Valuable. ———— DISINFECTANTS. —The London Med- jeal Record concludes from Prof. Koch’s experiments that the only cer- tain disinfectants are chlorine, bromine and corrosive sublimate. Solutions of onepart of the latter to 1008 parts of water will kill minutes, while a solution of 1 in 15,000 is spores in ten strong enough to arrest Lhe power ol develop- ment in micro-organisms, To CLEAN A FiLe,—For greasy finish file there is notl than a burning over the the flame of an alcoh The 1 by a gentle passage the flame until t burns with should be blown out When clean d . sled ¥ lve + Clean wy id Yoyo 3 s 1 / absin gas blaze, 1 g shi to and iro he grease 1.1 DiaZea, 1 13 % » the file int carded. a jar of water. in pure A novel, if not tical way disposing of the dead, so very prac that the re- mains will not tend to imperil the exist- ence of the living has been brought ward by Dr. A. Mayer. He advises 1 erlasyg =A for- the adoption of solid coffins, which after the to be closed air-tight with cement. Two introduction of the corpse, are holes are in the coffin. Through one of them carbonic acid is forced and by the other atmospheric air escapes. When the ordinary air is supposed to be all driven out, the holes are closed. In one of the course of lectures upon i The Sun and Stars,” which Prof. S. P. Langley is delivering at the Lowell in- stitute in Boston, the speaker said that the light of the sun is two and a half times as brilliant as the same area of electrie (are) light ; that if cium light be held between the eye and to De a cal- and the sun the light would appear black spot or comparison, in isting the comp sion of the thrown off by the if there a f ehen- 1 the sun, AS a measure « inlinlie was an candle power of th surface light from the earth woul one billionth that the sun ligl and thirty the standard candle. A TueoRry QUAKES, —A German writer tains that the causes of eartl much slighter than has generally believed — that sought at a depth of more than ten or fifteen miles, and often of and rather feeble forces even may produce earthquakes which will be felt at great distances. As illustrating this theory the fact is cited that the hammer in Krupp's factory, which is of immense weight, and falls from a height of ten feet, produces sensible concussions over a surface five miles in diameter—also the fact that a recent explosion dynamite factory was felt at bet ween twenty-five and thirty-five miles away. It is also argued that earthquakes might and must be produced by the increase and decrease in volume of rocks under the influence of physical and chemical forces, by concussions, by the opening of crevices in rocks, and by the sub- gidence of masses of rocks due to these agencies, but which have been made slight account of in this relation. intensity of yusand EAanTii- OW main- REGARDING HlUAKesS are been in fact, be they may, less, nn A MA For our Cooks. BAaxep Coprisi, — Pick up the fish and freshen a little as for cooking, then into a dish put a layer of cracker erumbs, then one of fish, over each layer sprinkle pepper and butter, con- tinue until you have two layers of fish and three of crackers; lastly, beat two eggs with milk enough to cover the whole and bake about three-quarters of an hour. PoraTo Strirs.— Pare, cut in long strips, lay in cold water for an hour, dry by spreading them on a towel and another upon them ; fry to a light brown in salted lard ; shake off the fat in a hot colander ; line a deep dish with a napkin and put in the strips. They should not be crowded in frying, but each should be distinct and free from the rest, MACARONI WITH Ecos. —Break half a pound of macaroni into short bits, cook tender in boiling salted water, in which have been stirred two beaten | eggs and two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, with salt and pepper: loosen the macaroni to allow the sauce to penetrate the mass, and pass more grated cheese with it. BAKED SHAD.—Shad for baking sheuld be carefully cleaned, but not split. Make a dressing of bread crumbs, a little finely chopped pork, a suspicion of onion, some summer savory and chopped parsley and seasoning ; fill and sew up the side. Put in a baking pana slice of sweet salt pork and a couple of bay leaves; make it hot before laying in the fish, which should bake one hour, and be basted with its own juice. To Make DELICIOUS ALMOND CANDY.— Take one pound of sugar and about half a pint of water; put in part of the white of an egg to clearify the sugar ; let this boil a few minutes and remove any scum that rises, When the sugar begins to candy, drop in the dry first, however, you blanch the nuts by peuring hot water | almonds ; should over them, and letting them stand in it | a few minutes ; then the skin Spread the candy 411 1s Wil shp | hie on 1 CoLp SLAW. — Beat the eggs toa 414 i LiL Very “ 11s gradually int fer over ine thicken like NEAriy Set Lhe bbage just before it hy ith salad. XPRING OUP. RL 3 tda3 Jabtries peas, Lwo siiredat {1 IELLUCES a small bunch sr, one and a hal stock. Put in a stew- onion, parsie v and butter to one wm simmer till tender, wpper. When done, strain off the vegetables and put stock. Beat up the yelks of the eggs with the water, and let ti Season with salt and | two-thirds of the liquor with the other third. toss it over the fire, and at the moment of serv add this with the vegetables to the strained-off soup. CALVES' Brains STEWED.— Take the brains from i calves’ } i in ing half a dozen yeads © let them soak in cold water for a little bacon i carr 3 * $ - > y oo about one hour. Rendei in a saucepan with a few slices ta ay 3% 1 re s ft hhern and onions Mixed, SOomMe parsiey, Layne, Ww iien tl pit 1d hall ML bav leave . a sieve ; put it some bacon cut in small squares, al A few mushe- [et them fifteen dish two doze rooms and the brains. sim- | i minutes, | garnished | met ut twelve or wi then serve them on a butter and The Caterer. with toast fried in dressed with chopped pickles, -- Home Utilities. Oil cloth may be kept bright when almost worn out if, after washing it, you take a flannel cloth and dip a corner of it in kerosene, and rub the oil cloth with it. Of course a very little oil goes a great way, and care must be taken not to use too much. Forxrrure Porisi,— For a polish to clean up and brighten old furniture, pianos, etc. dissolve for ounces orange shellac in one quart of ninety-five per cent alcohol ; to this add one quart of when mixed add four ounces of sulphuric ether and four ounces of aqua ammonia; mix thoroughly and well before using. Apply with a cloth or sponge, and rub the surface to which it is applied until the polish appears, AN ExcrrLeNT WHITEWASH, —The prudent housewife who regards the cleanliness and neatness of the home surroundings as one of the essentials to health and happiness, will appreciate the recipe appended. The mixture is used by the U. 8. Light House department, and is said to be of very superior quality, being clear and lasting. Take half a bushel of quicklime, slack with boiling water, keeping it covered during the process, strain it and add a peck of salt dissolved in warm water, three pounds of rice boiled to a thin paste; half & pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, dissolved in warm water ; mix these well together, and let the mixture stand for severa days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle or portable furnace, and when used put it on as hot as possible with either painter's or whitewash brush. Professor that the See, of the Hotel Dieu, says extract of lily-of-the-valley ‘the most important remedies The Field of Science. Zinc has been discovered near Bo- corro, New Mexico, An international exhibition of garden produce will be held m St. Petersburg this summer, The number of Edison lamps in use in American at the end of last year was more than 20,000, and in Europe at the end of February there were nearly 30,- 000. It will not be long before the grand forests of Arkansas will be more valu- able than the prairies of Illinois, acre for acre. A Western furniture firm has sent an agent south with instruc- tions not to return until he has secured 100,000 acres of suitable woodland. The best sugar and cotton districts in Texas hie along the Gulf coast, in the southeastern part of the State, About one-third is bottom land, and capable of raising from one to three hogsheads of molasses to every hogshead of sugar. At Sabastopol Government It will which a new the place of the one Was Blege by 1 184 allied Armies more than twenty-tive It will require three years and the estimated cost is HH), nt number of the the head-ache Ainnatiy ie Northern manuf; up ty thousand acres of woodland in one body have been bought It t that the Legislature should PASS a in Northern Georgia. is suggested aw to prevent the wholesale destruction of the forests, The United of Fish and Fisheries is about to build i States Commission is new there be devoted to biological connection with | station } + an aguarium, of researches every descript ion, at Prepara- at the adjoining artificial propagation | other fishes asphaitum, linseed oil as Morell iven early will rarely fail to cut The formula Resin guaiac, 70 gram. ; gum tragacanth, 43 gram. ; sacchar. alb,, 17 gram. ; black current paste, q.% M. Div. in trochischi No. 350. Sig. : One every two hours. One can also give aconite, as recommended by Ringer. If the disease is not checked. give small pellets of ice, Professor John Nichol, speaking in his ** Historical Sketch” of American literature of the non-existence of in- ternational copyright, says that *‘ this gross injustice to the authors on both sides of the Atlantic, for the benefit of the publishers on one, leadsto the intel- lectual market being glutted with stolen goods. Cousiderations of interest in business are of course everything : those of principle or art or patriotism noth. ing." In the recent international debate on alcoholism at Geneva, thenumber ofl it- res of alcohol consumed yearly per head of population was stated for the principal European countries and the United States as follows : France, 3 ; Austria, 4; England, 6; America (United States), 74; Switzerland, 7} ; Belgium, 0; Sweden, 10; Germany, 10; Russia, 16 ; Denmark, 23. In Spain and Italy the proportion was much less, wd asphalt, 5 4 aki Dr. guaiac g Mackenzie says tl short an acute tonsillities, is as follows : Two Romanoes. The son of a leading lawyer in New York, some years ago, was attracted by the innocent face and quick wit of a Welsh chambermaid in his father's house, and declared that he preferred her to all the fashionable beauties who had courted his notice. His family protested, but to no pur- pose, The only concession he would make was to consent to go to Europe for three years before marrying the girl, In the meantime, having an independe fortune, the lover placed her at one of the best schools in New York. The girl was ambitious and devoted in her affection to the man who had heart disease known. It is a power. gas chosen her. He returned, found her more lovely than ever, They were married, and the lady is now one of the live—a noble, woIan, An eminent jurist, well known in Pennsylvania in the early part of this century, was ‘making the circuit” on horseback, and stopped for dinner at the house of a farmer, The daughter of the farmer waited on them, and the Judge, who had been acynic about refined, of her voice and a certain sweet candor in her face, said ; “Mary, bring the Judge’s horse.” enclosed by a barred fence, her hand on the topmost vaulted lightly over, “1 saw,” said the Judge afterward, “for the first time, a woman with the rail she wife. 1 called Farmer C.'s. again and again at nodding who presided at his The Maud Muller all attained i t OIE, LINE 5330 ghe ig,” to the stately mu ilron $+ ic ible, nd this distinetic «om of the Judge a Fadl ‘ ; i iathier, at the bar: anotiu Was an eminent divine, at 1 Sonthern candidate for the Py of honor and a « whic} De mighty po’ Big blaze "tater De bes’ seed ain't | water-milions, t's a mighty rotten old house dat wo make kindlin® wood. Bresh Heap o’ ’ Y TY : 4 fire soon gone, wummy, scaly barks coms keep his ax sharp. A hole under de garden palin’s hard secret to keep. See whar you gwine to hit ‘fo’ if? your hoe. Sas'fus ku’t your ‘specterbility when de crap come out short, Too much trabblin’ on de railroad make some folks lose de right lick for de cotton patch, De young peaches is safe when de martin start her nest. You don’t need much fence roun’ de cowcumber vine, you root tea won't a Are Mushrooms Poisonous ? Professor Ponfick, of Breslau, has mushroom, of which the followiug are the practical results: All common mushrooms are poisonous, but cooking deprives them in a greater or less de- gree of their poisonous qualities. The repeated washing with cold water which they usually undergo to clean them, takes away a portion of the poison, and boiling does the rest; but the water in which they have been boiled is highly poisonous, and should always be carefully got rid of. Experi. dog ate one of its; own weight of raw mushrooms, it fell sick, but recovered ; if it ate one and one-half per cent. the poison had a more violent but not fatal effect, and if it atejtwo per cent. it was inevitably fatal. The water in which mushrooms had been boiled was far more poisonous than even the raw mush- rooms; while the mushrooms thus boiled could be taken without hurt to the amount of ten per cent. of the weight of the dog's body. Washing with cold water does not remove all the poison, so that mushrooms thus prepared were poisonous when taken in larger quantities, Dried mushrooms are still dangerous for from twelve to twenty days, and also the water In which they have been boiled. They require to be dried for at least a whole month, and _ are really only safe after four months’ + drying. — Hot Water as a Medicine. Sn | A young man who was compelled to “resign his position in one of the public ! schools of this city because he was break- | ing down with consumption, and who has ever since been battling for life, although with little apparent prospect of recovery, was encountered several days ago in a Broadway restaurant, prised at my improved appearance. No doubt you wonder what could have { caused such a change, Well, it was a very simple remedy-—nothing but hot water,” “Hot water 7" “That's all. You remember my tell- ing you that I had tried all the usual remedies 7 1 consulted some of the leading specialists in affections of the Jungs in this city, and paid them large fees, They went the | course of experimentation with me un- through usual der all sorts of medicines, 1 Adriondacks the in the winter, ngs did good, I I went to { the in summer { to Florida but of | these th none me bstantial any su 5 i ’ iilv ok wi ground steadily, grew a skeleton, and had all i he almost i worstsvn 4 rie 3 mptoms of i CONSE At that : food and dispose of it properly. by taking as 11 can be borne, iis leaves and the “This by an mpresseq cup 0 0) 5 go nit i} before each meal, and three it was unpleasant to drink it with a relish that I never experienced in drinking the choicest wine, I began to pick up immediately after the new treatment, waler AARNE gradually increased the dose to At first take, but now 1 cups. months, 1 have gained ground stead- ily in the trying climate of New York; and I tell you, sir, I feel un a sure way {o recovery.” turned to the “This remedy of hot- io the SONVY rsation, teacher and said : time, for some it has been of immense service in relieving me of a Lion for many years. [ tried numerous able physicians, and there is probably no medicine that is preseribed for such an ailment which was not given to me; but none of them gave me any perma- nent benefit. But the simple remedy of drinking hot water, accompanied by a rational regulation of my diet, has entirely cured me, advanced though I am in life. It was not the dieting alone that did it. 1 had tried that before. It was the use of hot water that cured me, for that made it possible to derive benefit from a judicious diet. I have also found this treatment of great benefit in kidney diseases, which are largely owing to mal-assimilation of food.” The teacher listened very attentively to the old gentleman's remarks : “1 am glad to learn that your experi- ence,” he said, ‘agrees so fully with mine. I have become acquainted with varions oases in which this simple method of treatment has effected per- manent cures after all the efforts of the physicians had failed. Tam convinced ‘simply from what I have seen, that , almost any disturbance of the human , system that: results from disorders of ne mamach can be alleviated, and, in S—— “> * The very simplicity of the thing may cause some to hesitate about attaching much importance to it; but, like the proper ventilation of your dwellings, it may prevent disease and effect cures where all the drugs of the pharmaeo- pela will fail,”’— nN, Y, Sun. a For The Young. — Mount Hoop.—Mount Hood stands about sixty miles from the great Pa cific, as the crow flies, and about two hundred miles up the Columbia river, as it is navigated, + Mount Hood stands utterly alone, And yet he is only a brother, a bigger and a taller brother, of a well raised family of seven snow peaks, At any season of the year, you can stand upon almost any little eminence within two hundred miles of Mt, Hood count clad In | eternal winter, clouds, i and Seven Snow cones, the piercing | There is no scene so sublime as this in { all the world. mountains ol JUrop aye The Only hills In | of t COMPAarison, igh some of 1er1 Flores, Liane Oregon and own Troi 1eals rope To The sole and 4 De under a sued or in | tain. hand, g VATrious ways, greatly the The rope will allow of the more difficult feat ing it. At first hn aid of the feet, along on the pole, to hang by one or { and to swin will strengthen arms and hands. of climt learn to climb the preseing After this yo up, using the hands lide but otherwise rt. Une while on a them. between oing down ! i. never s ind or.) § der-har it i 3 -LRANL hands may he badly I$ can command himself nay at times find the a juired, and n such exercise is by no useful. It is easily au me spent wasted. A Mechanical Rat. neient Parrbasios and better triumm ds eck at ther “@ s tall om looking at their portrait s master, Perhaps it really requires greater skill to deceive instir el than to deceive The fol lustrate the perfection with which anto- reason. lowing anecdote is related to il- matic toy animals are made to imitate the originals : An pomense cat, fat, sleek and a great favorite, lived and roamed at will from the top floor to the sub-cellar of one of our business warehouses. He knew very well what a rat was Hie One day a fun-loving clerk bought = tos rat, with a spring inside, which Be wound up with a Key as he would a watch. The cat was near by, and while one clerk stroked and petted him, an- other one put the toy on the oor a few | feet off, Instantly as he took off the weight of his hand, the rat started on a | ron, and like a flash of light puss had | his paw on it. While it was held down | the spring could not” work ; then puss ! Jet it go, as cats will when teasing their | poor frightened prey, when it ran awas again and puss after it. | The least change in the way of hold ing, would send it off in a different di rection when free, but finally puss thought it time to eal the ml and’ caught it in his mouth. “Whir-r-r-r I" The un-rat-ly racket made puss drop the horrible thing, which fell on its back and kicked. With eyes dilated and spitting out fright, he looked for one second, and then, with tail erect, fled for his life and has never come back, We know that when the weigl t was lifted off the spring it must run itself down ; but puss, although she knew better than we how to catch and eat a real rat, could not understand the At Fortress Monroe, twelve ‘“duramy ™ | torpedoes were sent a distance of 1} , miles under water and returned to the . base of operations by endless cable. They | were hidden from view under water, and their position was known only to | the operator, * who placed them in any | position desired to obstruct or allow the | passage of vessels.” From these ex- “a revolution in harbor defence E 3Y 3
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