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Sanitary.
Hints ror HeanTH.—Dr, Dudley
A. Sargent, Professor of Physica
Draining in Harvard College, who prob-
1bly knows as much about the effects of
physical exercise as any man living, and
who has’ charge of the Harvard gym-
uasium, which is undoubtedly the most
perfect in the world, says that all pro-
fessional men should know the import-
gnoe of sitting at a desk properly. The
position should be erect, to allow the
lungs and other organs a fair chance to
do their work. It is well occasionally to
rise and swink back the arms and shoul-
ders. Walking is excellent exercise
when brisk and spirited, but when slow
he regards it as of little worth. Riding
‘n a carriage is of special advantage when
the mind and body are weary. Riding
in the saddle is valuable in aiding cir
culation, but it sends the blood to the
brain, and so may cause headache.
Swimming is one the finest exercises in
the whole range. Rowing is of great
great use to cure a sluggish circulation
or to relieve a morbid or torpid condition.
Boxing is the best means of obtaining
command of the body and temper. The
bicycle brings into special activity the
muscles of the thighs, and otherwise af-
fords good exerdise, but unless care is
taken its nse will make one round-shoul-
dered.
Tae MorTAL™Y REFERABLE
ALCOHOL.—A committee appointed by
the Harveian Society of London te in-
quire into the mortality referable to
alcohol have made their report, which is
published in the British Medical Journal,
Jan. 20th, 1883, and from which we take
the following: ‘‘We find, therefore,
upon the whole, reason to think that, in
the metropolis, the mortality among any
considerable group of intemperate per-
sons will differ from that generally pre-
vailing among adults in the following
important particulars, viz., a four-fold
increase in the deaths from diseases of
the liver and shylopoletic viscera;
two-fold increase in the deaths from
diseases of the kidney; a decrease of
half as much again in those from heart-
disease ; a marked increase in those from
pneumonia and pleurisy ; a considerable
increase and an earlier occurrence of
those from dis:ase of the central nervous
system ; 84 marked decrease
from bronchitis, asthma,
and congestion lungs ;
nearly as great in those from phthisie,
and a later occurrence, or at least ter-
mination, of the disease; very large
decrease in those from old age, with an
increase in those referred to atrophy
debility, etc., and the addition
desirable group referred in
terms to alcoholish
ism, or resulting from
THe TREATMENT
TREMENS, —Deatl
ium tremens arises from
but the want
want of nourishment,
Atkinson, in The Practitioner, Jan-
nary, 1883, He recommends half a tin
of Brand's iquid essence of beef
half a pint of milk to be taken alternate-
ly every two hours, and all stimulants to
be cut off. Twenty-five grains of chlo-
ral with thirty minims of compound
tincture of cardamom in an ounce of
wate, every four hours, aflier the beef
tea, will be useful. By this treatment,
the patient is generally free from deélu-
sions in thirty-six hours ; but good strong
liquid food should be taken less fre-
quently for some days, When there
have been from ten to twelve hours
more or less continuous sleep, then it is
advisable to give up the chloral, and
give thirty minims of the compound
tincture of gentian with five minims of
the tincture of nux vomica three times a
day for about three days.
the tone of the nervous system and
stomach, and creates an appetites A
little tincture of enonymin may négt be
substituted for the nux vomicay d
some Carlsbad salt may be given in the
morning when required,
os
Tobacco Cultur 2,
Mo
Hints Regarding Domestic Havan-
na.
10
a
in those
emphysema,
of a decrease
a
of acon-
ceneral
EELElA
Or chro ie aleohol-
ccidents,
oF DELIRIUM
. no doubt, in delir-
want
of sleep,
of sleep arises from
~~)
and
This restores
The Baldwinsville (N. Y.) Guzetts
gives this advice to planters in that
section, and it will be found valuable
to all who wish to raise a good Cigar
leaf: The way to accomplish the re-
sult suggested is to procure genuine
Havana Seed, from the island of Cuba,
of known merits, from the celebrated
Vuelta de Abajo district, located west
of Havana. This famous bell produces,
it is said, the finest Leaf in the world,
From this rich region came the Haynes’
Havana Seed originally, Let the
growers get their Havana Seed from
this section named, through proper and
trustworthy sources, and commence
the modus operandi of hybridizing and
cultivating the plants by sowing the
opproved Cuba Seed. The process of
hybridizing may reasonably be ecom-
menced the first year of the growth of
the pl by placing some other desir.
able e Havana plants beside
the Ciba plants.
When both aré in full bloom, foree
the pollen from the blossoms of one set of
plants on to those of the other variety,
and repeat this frequently for a short
time until you are satisfied the work has
been well dene. Let them then go to
seed. Save the seed from these plants...
the genuine Havana ones—and sow it
the second year, and the third or fourth
year, if need be, until the plants thus
produced are satisfactory.
When the tobacco is as near perfection
as you can, seemingly, grow it, save a
large quantity of sound seed from the
best plants for use for a series of years,
and in this way you will perpetuate the
growth of a desirable variety of Havana
Seed Tobacco, of almost inestimable
value. The grower can, if he shall
choose to do so, raise adistinctively gen-
uine Havana Tobacco Leaf, without
attempting hybridization, and thus keep
up the identity and character of the
Vuelta de Abajo variety,
It is a fact we have got to constantly
bear in mind that if we succeed in
growing fine Domestic Havana Tobacco
in this country we have got to preserve
the identity of the Cuba characteristics
of the plants we grow ; we have got to
preserve the of the
have got to grow plants infused with
as much oil, or the aromatic principle,
nicotine, as possible to render the to-
bacco of value : we have gol
the tobacco of the right size and
serve the fine texture
the aroma of
Havana Tobacco ; and in a word, grow
essentially a Cuba or Havana Leaf fairly
and legitimately domesticated and
climated to our climate, It is
too, for us to strive hard to pre-
vent our Domestic Havana Leaf from
running into Seed leaf Tobacco—we
must not allow plants
“ seedy,” expression
gloss leaves ;
+
Ww grow
pre-
wll
NeCes.
Bary,
to become
We
pro-
Domestic
the
as the
should avoid sowing seed that will
of
FOES,
duce instead
Havana plants,
genuine
Our object
ceptable leaf— Tobacco that will suit
manufacturers,
dark goods, a stromg leaf, fine and beau-
tiful ; for cigars are
more on account of the appearance
the wrappers around them than thro
their qualities otherwise ;
words, the cigar that meets the
f the eve sells well.
who now want
igh
or, in
approval
Healthy Plants.
Set good healthy plants, and in
+
row without disturbin
the
well
g the ridge, culti-
vate after
the plants are
i 1
again frst rain.
rooted
¥
around the plants to
i
and destroy the
be
rst weeds
Keep
we between the rows, and
piace
nd edge
simple attachment made with two
staves in the shape of
underneath a
the
IS necessary. In
common cultivator
answer purpose, Very little
about one
around the
variety of tobaeco is
hoeing
place 801i!
This
Lip over
more plant to
Keep ervet,
very liable to before it is topped,
and when it does it should be set up at
once: the
damage. It shonld be topped so low
that the top leaves will be about as
large as any upon the plant when all are
ripe. I am aware that a wide difference
of opinion exists as to how much it
pays to sucker but it should
be suckered once about half way down,
and again clean, for the simple reasen
that the sucker suck the juices abso-
lutely necessary to perfect the leaves,
hence the name suckers, A perfect
crop cannot obtained unless the
suckers are removed, besides it is less
liable to pole sweat and damage from
fat stems and tearing. Tobacco should
not be cut until thoroughly ripe. The
practice of cutting a little green to
obtain a duker color is wrong: it
should be fully matured, and if allowed
to stand a few days after it is snckered
clean, more weight and better quality
is obtained. Havana seed usually re-
quires four weeks or more to ripen
after topping, and it cures better if
hung with twine than upon lath: the
slower and darker it can be cured the
better, Tobacco should be taken down
only when just in the right condition.
When stripped the butts should be
kept even and the leaves tied with
two strings in neat bundles of from ten
to fifteen pounds each, — New England
Homestead,
sooner it is done the less the
tobacco,
be
-—w
Belgium.
Rrusse Ls.--M, Philippart, the Bel
gian financier, who was recently extra
dited from France on a charge of fore
gery, has written a letter tp the public
prosecutor, in which he declares that if
he is kept in prison beyond the present
week all the companies of which he has
the direction will be ruined,
i
Governor MeDuniel, of Georgia, was
installed. In hislinaugural address he
called upon the people of the State *‘to
ment in maintaining the credit of the
state and the enforcement of all good
nd laws,”
er RT eA! RNS
‘
For the he Young.
Don't TALk Loubn ¥, — Nothing
marks a true lady or gentleman more
surely than a low voice, and a man can
have it as well as a woman, A Jond
voice arises either from extreme care-
lessness or low breeding. No one likes
to walk beside a person in the street
who talks in a loud voice. The rule
applies to girls and boys. Play
thing and conversation another, thongh
the former heed not be boisterous,
Children may have good lungs and use
them in cheering at the proper time;
but when they talk, a low, distinct
voice marks one who has been accus-
tomed to good society and possessed of
innate refinement.
ONLY A LirrLe Waite Aco, —Our
youthful readers ean scarcely form an
idea of the world as their grandfathers
saw it, in the days when John Quincy
Adams was president,
Boys who went to boarding school
thirty miles from home had a stage ride
of five or six hours to endure or enjoy
according to the weather
is one
for boys were
apt to perch on the outside seats, In
{ muddy seasons, the five or six hours
would stretch out to ten, with a possi-
| ble alleviation of a dinner at the Half-
way House,
If they were homesick,
| box things for
| paused before writing a letter to re
that their ** Honored Parents
have to pay
on the
or wanted a |
of good they |
flect
ia}
BOLROE,
would.
twenty-five cents postage |
epistle,. Now, honored parents
who paid so much for a letter expected |
| it to contain a good deal of matter, cor |
rectly spelled, on a large and clean |
sheet of paper.
Envelopes were not
cause they would have made the letters |
“double,’’ which doubled the
| Each and every enclosure was charged
Thus,
| enclosing a
then used, be- |’
postage,
| one rate, a letter in an envelope
dollar bill would have cost |
i sevenly-live cents postage,
Hence, of letter
paper were used, especially by affection
very large sheets
{ ate mothers when writing to their sous |
Often, the tender soul |
four PRES
y news and good advice
i at school. when
| had filled Immense with
famil
| dearest son,”
to
she would still have some
thing more to say,
i cross her writing
and theng she would
| age,
| impatient youth,
| days,
who did not in those
read
i facility.
It was a high
nicely.
any writing with
t then t
lapsed
Ai €
Years ¢ i
wide a boy
s31:4 ssa k % +3 g - §
mild tuck in the outside lap without
the ends, and make
shaped
{any bulge at
i compact, well packet,
fingered fellows never
lumsy
the knack of it To all su
Ope Was in died ; precious boon
dered
Wis « a fright
VeRIrs ago to
but
very ward
East India
$1
it
seal
see ling-wax,
ing
awk article in :
bag. a
id stuck the
mail
| perature
together
Was
melted ax letters
The operation of sealing, too.
one that baffled the schoe
and |
It had to be
the postoffice |
of
subjected
i boy
often burned his fingers,
done, however, after
chiefs had g
inconvenience
them. It was only the envelope that
ended the wax nuisance,
Everything was more difficult then
than now. In 1824 the daily stage for
the city of Washington left New York
at three in the worming, and a man
went round the town to call up the
passengers ; that when the stage
come for them, it might not be kept
waiting very long. If all went well, the
passengers reached Washington the
next morning sunrise,
Those the times when college
students were fined ten dollars for go-
ing to the theatre, and it was reckoned
unbecoming in a clergyman to have a
copy of Shakespeare in his house.
oven
ven public notice
to which it
the
Lo]
soon alter
were
At that remote period, before the
Erie canal was Sinished, what was the
largest inland town of the United
States 7 It was Lancaster, in Pennsyl-
vania, with a population of something
#4 8 than four thousand !
Whar Kiriy Thovenr.- Little
Kitty, who is only years old, and
has been allowed to form her own con-
clusions about most things, seemed,
as she sat, solemnly dandling her doll, to
think so much, that we bethought our-
selves to discover what her opinion of
things in general might be,
Having done so, we found some o
them rather alarming; but, on the
whole, they are amusing enough to be
worth jotting down.
The earth, Kitty thinks, is flat, like a
plate, and the sky is a blue bowl turned
over it, with stars cut out in gold paper.
It bas, she believes, one mountain
called Snowdon-—we live in a very pretty
cottage at the foot of this splendid emi.
nence, and Kitty has twice accompanied
me (her only sister) for @ walk on a
summer's day slong its towering sides,
This mountain Kitty imagines was
made for her to go up and look off, The
ocean is for Kitty's boat to sail on, and
the lions and tigers were sent to Africa,
instead of to the United Kington, so
they shouldn't hurt Kitty ; but the ele-
fump was let 1 to olay in the irons. be-
cause he wouldn't bite her if she gave
him ginger snaps. The village chimney
sweep is black, because he played with
matches when he was a little boy, and
got all burnt,
The cave in the woods at granpa’s is
where bad people go when they die, and
“Bogey'’ lives, and looks like the bill
goat. The sun gets tired when it is
seven o'clock, and goes to bed, and then
he angels ni: out the moon to light
the world with, and good dead people go
to the sky in fire balloons,
If you are really sick the doctor can
always cure you with a powder, The
one too dreadful thing is to cut your fin
er, because as people are hollow like
bladders, and filled up with blood, *‘it
might all run owt?’ if there was a hole
anywhere not ‘tied up with a rag”
once,
God made Kitty and all the people,
and the clock, but not snakes and mad
bulls, They grew so.
In the night when she wakes up in
her crib, the clock talks to her and tells
her stories, Mamma found the
baby the duck’s nest it
sereasy’’ because the old duck sat on it
new
in and is so
a week before she knew it wasn’t a little
Good people, like grandpa, live to be
and are always
If any-
Comes over
Bad people get drowned.
tells a lie, “‘a lightning
If a little girl steals preserves out of
pantry an angel would peep down
and say “Boo! But when
milk the don’t
went to Runday
the cat steals angels
because she never
school to learn better,
a little
penny.
OTAn,
heathen, and she
He
and
Kitty
him
organ-rman’s
tied to him
SAW
sal on the
had
a
a string
ured with Kisses
old
about the house and looks ix
All day he
Kitty
COMmes
Most troublescan bee
At night when people are sleep, an
at the top windows, lives in
church steeple, is not afraid
of b for he after bad
She remembers that she used
She flew up the sky.
hier to the con-
3
ifn, Only
to fly once, 10
can’ convince
.
Lrary
tll Ap
Fashions.
Vests are much worn,
“Sleeves remain of the
shape,
Lower or foundation skirts remain
ArTow
Inch-wide velvet
te for trimming,
A new woolen
Hed bed
CH getie
Dresses « asl Vear cma
the new styles
and
med with velvel
“11
SIIKS
ribbons,
Cashmeres
soutache braid will be much used
in
Mast of the important costumes show
ribbon will be used
guantities on box-pleated skirts,
The
blocks,
ete.
Velvet is very popular for the small
accessories of a costume, such as collar,
cuffs, ete,
Some new dresses are made
of woolen stuff of light
camel 's-hair,
Velvet in great
new goods show plain grounds,
checks, small broken plaids,
entirely
or twilled
Handsome French dresses are trimmed
with braid of palm leaves ten or twelve
inches long.
Buttons are small and inconspicuous,
and are no longer used for show, but
simply for service,
Ottoman velvet, very thickly ribbed,
is the newest fabric for combining with
cloth and cashmere,
Overskirts are voluminous in breadth,
but there is a tendency to shorten dra-
peries, both in front and back.
Plain fabrics for the waist and dra
pery with the figured goods for the
lower skirt, is the rule for imported
spring and summer suits,
Palm leaves have come into vogue
again, and promise to supersede wheels
and frogs both in passementerie and in
soutache braiding.
There is a new fancy for putting
braid on a material different in color
frem that of the dress, and then apply-
ing the braided piece to the dress,
Black tulle and lace dresses elab -
about the neck and arms, bring out the
delicate tints of a fair complexion and
light hair.
a
AI 5.55 5
‘Lay off your overcoat, or you won't
feel it when you go out,” said the land-
ord of 4 western inn to a guest who
was sitting by the fire, “That's what
I'm afraid of.” returned the man. ‘The
cont, 1 didn’t feel it when I went out,
and 1 haven't felt it since.”
¢
Ch AE SI AH I SA 5
Economies of Sclence.
—
The staining of bricks red is effected
brown ; redness or darkness is increased
by using more red or brown. For col-
oring black, heat the bricks and dip in
fluid asphaltum, or in a hot mixture of
linseed oll and asphalt,
Dr. Morell Mackenzie says that guaiac
given early will rarely fail to cut short
an acute tonsillitis. The formula is as
follows : Resin guise, 70 gram. ; gum
tragacanth, 43 gram. ; sacchar. alb., 17
gram. ; black currant paste, q. 8s. 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
iterature of the non-existence of inter-
national copyright, says that ‘‘this gross
injustice to the authors on both sides of
the Atlantic, for the benefit of the pub-
lishers on one, leads to the intellectual
market being glutted with stolen goods,
Considerations of interest
of course evervihing
in business are
; those of principle
or art or partriotism, nothing.’
In the recent international debate on
alcoholism at of
litres of per
head of population was stated for the
principal European countries and the
United States as follows :
Austria, 4; England,
{United States),
Belgium, 9;
16
Italy the proportion
number
yearly
(reneva the
alcohol consumed
France, 3;
America
Switzerland,
Sweden, 10;
: Denmark, 23.
6:
74; 743
10 ;
In Spain and
was much
(rermany,
tussia,
bess,
The
sun,
the
observer finds that a
a pre-
In t}
rennial sunflowers
of sixty-eight lowers, up to one time all
had their heads dining to the
east. Three days alter this,
enty-three flowers open,
among older
sunflower does not turn with
but a recent
the
valling direction when opening.
majority of flowers do have
£14
case of one of the pe
south-
with sev.
twenty-one
the had advanced
the
faces becoming nearly erect during the
¥
OTies
northeast, their horizontal
In the
country drained by
Africa, there has
tenant Wissma
southern
portion
the River Cong
been found
1 & Very dense populiat
During his Yona to
Zanzibar
have
Un
your from
ey
this travelerdoes not t
%
ne tacles
the contrary, the no
him every assistance,
of his route he fou
nego
will be re:
published.
A Washin
Ww telephone
gion
ne transi
expected will tend st
methods of electrical
munication, The
posed to introduce invention
great hopes that it will entirely super-
sede the present system of telegraphing.
They claim that the voice can be audibly
heard in a whisper at 750 miles distance,
The electricians of the Western Union
Telegraph Company are said to be well
satisfied with the experiments which
have been made,
lutionize the COom-
capitalists who pro-
the have
Nature states that on the French
in the Channel, where the tide
mean range of about thirty-seven
cases it amounts to fifty-six
feet), tidal mills are used at various
places, They are favored not only by the
range of tide but also by the long estua-
ries of irregular border at the mouths of
the unimportant water-courses, which
have no proper current. The motors
are generally water-wheels, which are
immersed at high tide, and begin work
when the tide is half-way
of them are arranged to work
flow of the tide,
La
coast
has a
feet (in some
down ; none
with the
A story was told of a woman in Boston
who discovered and located a leak in the
waste-pipe of a wash-bowl, by taking
advantage of the fondness of cats for the
oil of valerian. Having put two eats in
the parlor where an offensive odor was
perceived, the woman poured the oil
into the basin of an upper room and
watched for the result, The cats shortly
began to snufl the air and move toward
a closet through which the waste-pipe
ran, then jumped upon a shelf and
purred as if enjoying a great luxury.
The wall was ent away to expose the
pipe, and a considerable leak was found
at the very spot pointed out by the cats,
assist
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE,
DUBLIN. ~At a meeting of the Irish
National League, it was announced
that £540 had been received from
America sitice the last report. A com-
munication from Mr. Redmond, the
Representative of the League in Austra.
lia, was read, in which he said he hoped
lo be able to send £1000 monthly to |
Ireland while he remains in Australia.
HR ATI
A Shrewd Dutchman.
——
How He Takes Advantage of the
New York Laws to the Disad-
vantage of His Creditors.
I had a bill to collect of one Nathan
The bil was
over pine months old, and we had fre-
quently written him mild dunning let-
ters, as we believed him to be solvent,
but could get no reply. 1 called on him,
nd without preliminary remarks
presented him a statement, when
the following conversation ensued :
Nathan—“Hem! oh! ha! ah’! ha!
(laugh, laugh). Eh, hem! How you
vash 77°
this
Collector “ Ploass
count.”
pl We
Nathan—*'Vell, my dear friendt,
1 vish to explain dis to you."
Collector—*'*Never mind the explana-
tion ; pay the bill,”
Nathan—* All righdt, I vill. I gif you
my note thirty days; it goodt, 1
takes you down to de bank and dey
will tell dat. 1 allers bays
wy noddings ever Foes
pack.”
Collector—**
18
you
note ;
That won't answer; it
does not change the matter a particle, 1
must have cash, security
lateral.”
Nathan
the or col
“How can I gif caash or se-
ven I haf not got em ?"
“Well, you can give either,
curity
Collector
if you try.”
Nathap—*!
attends scht
No; I'se a young man vat
rictly to business, and haf
no acquaintances or friendis here.”
Collector—**Then I shall have to put it
in the hands of a lawyer.”
Nathan—'Vell, 1
shall try and bay
shudgement.”
can’t help dot. 1
it before it comes to
I went lawyer and found the laws
New York are made for protection
t such ducks as Miller, and it
would cost $10 or 815 and would take
some two months ascertain whether
anything or not ; so I went
with the following re-
oa
of
for jus
to
I could get
back to see him,
sult :
Collector {soothingly “1 don’t want
this little account. Cant
ou pay half of it, and the balance in
hirty days 7"
Nathan—“XNo 103 friendt
ed you everyihi vot
LO Bue You on
, I haf offer.
vas right and
reasonable.”
{ollecton
. gy
Yon
indorse
borrow
you.’’
CA
sSotae one to
Nat!
credit py
for
ian-—** I would not tiketohurt oy
.
asking any =
“JY on
+ iy $3
ICH & Ving.
Ty
need not tell me that
il vou what |
per
hat vas de
ave heard
* Lie appointed 1 got his check.
hich was without a question
his,
the
large life |
which
paid
for a clean daylight steal, ‘‘vanks
He told he carried a
usurance on the Tontine plan,
kept him short. He did this to
protect his creditors, as life was uncer:
tain ; that he was young and inexperi-
enced, but that his prospects were
never as bright as at that time, and
that he hoped by honest dealing and in-
dustry to build up a good trade.
The storms of fifty winters have fanned
and tanned my wrinkled cheek and it
bas become calloused from constant ex-
pesure and rude assaults, but I eould
“only look with mute admiration and
bun.” me
in
whom there is no guile. ®
Curiosities of the Patent Office
An English journal pays a flattering
tribute to Awerican intelligence when i:
remarks that ‘* a good percentage of the
nventions are of American origin. In
that country of geniuses everybody in-
vents.” Yet there is a ridiculous side
to the question. Some of the applicants
for patents create a laugh at their ex-
pense if they do not get the protection
of the government for their * inven:
tion.” Ope man claims protection for
the application of the Lord's Prayer, re.
peated in a loud voice, to cure stam-
mering, Another asks protection in
behalf of a new and useful attachment
of a weight to a cow's tail to prevent
her switching it during the milking
operation. A lady patented a hair
crimping pin, which she specified might
also he used as a paper cutter, a skirt
supporter, a child's pin, a bouquet
hale, a shawl fastener, or a bookmark,
‘horse refresher is a hollow pit, per-
ob with holes, and with
a flexible tube, with a water reservoir in
the vehicle, so that the driver can give
the animal a drink without stopping.
The “‘snorer’s friend’ is a luxurious.
contrivance to be attached to church.
pew backs, #0 that one may sleep through
a dull sermon in peace and comfort
without attracting attention.