Religious Sentiment. Duty is the only thing really worth 11 ving for. The only thing that will pay a man, either for this 1ife or the next, The only thing which will give a man rest and peace, manly and quiet thoughts, a good conscience, and a stout heart in the midst of bard labop | Anxiety, sorrow and disappointment ; ‘because he at least that he is doing his duty, feels that is working with them, and that they are working with him and for him. rod, Christ and duty, these and more ‘will a man see if he will awake out of sleep, and consider where he is by the light of God's Holy Spirit. — Charles Kingsley. Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous, and lose not the glory of the mite. If riches increase, let thy mind hold peace with them ; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munifi- cent. Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without, its re- ward, yet stick not thou for wine and oil, for the wounds of the distressed ; and treat the poor as our own Saviour did the multitude, to the reliques of some baskets.’ Diffuse thy benignance early, and while thy treasures call thee master ; there may be an atropis of thy fortunes before that of thy life, and thy wealth cut off before that hour when all men shall be poor; for the justice of death looks equally upon the dead, and Charon expects no more from Alexander than fromIrus,— Sir Browne, Thowas One Sure Defence. All thy paths may not be peaceful All thy ways may not be light: All thy years may not be sunshine; All thy days may not be bright Speings the blade in only Ad, Blooms the flower in only light? Nay; by storms the vy oft are beaten Bathe. d in dews that fall at night. All thy friends may not be faithful Nor thy fellows all prove true? E'en thy chiafést boon companion May with thorns thy pathway strew But thy trust should be above thee, — Trusting, shoulds't thou ever fall, God Almighty aid will lend thee— Aid to rise and conquer all. Were men s0 enlightened and studi- ous of their own good, as to act by the dictates of their reason and reflection, and not the opinion of others, conscience would be the steady ruler of human life. and the words of truth, law, rea- son, equity and religion could be but synonymous terms for that only guide which makes us pass our days in our own favor and approbation, —Sir Rich- ard Steele, The joys and sorrows of this world are so strikingly mingled! Our mirth and grief are brought so mournfully in contact ! and others rejoice The light and go about toge spread pall ! when we are sad «ther | Beneath the The burial hymn’ marriage bed, another : and all is mutable, uncer- Lomyfe Hoar, bv side the same roof are feast and the funeral song mingles with the One goes to the to the grave {ain and transitory.— mind with of life, It casts the light upon them, and transforms them into good. It makes the bitter waters sweet, the barren and dry land fruitful. Deso- lation it makes loveliness with God ; the parching of sickness to be the fire of His love : weakness to be His strength wounds to be health ; emptiness of all things fo have all things from Him ; poverty to be true riches ; his deserved punishment to be his rainbow of mercy; death to be His life.— Dr. Pusey. THE SABBATH SAVES AMERICA —Jt i8 not enough considered by atudents of progress, how great a gift to the laboring classes, and to the whole world, is the Christian Sunday. It has become 80 great a necessity to the civil- ized world, that the wonder is how the non-christian races, or classic peo- ples, were able to do without such a day. Plato says, somewhere, that leisure is necessdry to the acquisition of virtue, and that, therefore, no workingman can acquire it, Plutarch calls it, one of the most beautiful and happy inven- tions of Lycurgus, that he obtained for the citizens the greatest leisure by for- bidding them to occupy themselves with ANY Mercenary wor x, Christianity éarly obtained for the working classes of the Roman’ empire this great blessing, and not through the Greek niethod of creating a élass of help- Ios Helos, but by the institution of the Lord's day. Under the prodigious impulse of the leading races of modern times toward production and the acquiring, of ate- rial wealth, there would have come without some Such day an absolute breaking down of the physical power* a wearing out of the brain, and a cor- responding moral degeneracy. In fact, the Christian Sabbath may be said’ to have saved the modern Enropean and Anglo-American races. Had the greed for money never known any enforced rest; had the wheels of the factory, the fhum of the market, and the din of busi- 3 through the streets seven ary day called away thoughts Lo things not bought or sold, and to pringiples un- seen and eternal, the modern people might have run down to the lowest point of materialism, The Lord’s day the working classes, The laborer is én- sured his rest. ly cut short one-seventh ; but as in limi- ting the hours of a day's labor, he is found to efféct more in the year, owing to the refreshment and rest given, and value increased. When the Sunday is made a social and religi- ous day (as in New England) without excessive strictness, the workingman or woman returns to the task revived, and morally, as well as physically, strengthened, In all countries nominally under the teaching of Jesus, this day has relaxed the muscles of toil, wiped away the sweat of incessant labor. and restored the work- er to his family, reminding him that he is something besides an’ instrument of gain, and that he has other wants than those of earth. 15 —— Home Economies. The brilliancy of gold can be imparted to brass ornaments by just washing them with strong lye made of rock alum, one ounce of alum to a pint of water | when dry, rub with leather and fine tripoli. PASTE FOR WALL PapPer.—Take sifted flour, add sufficient cold water 10 wet it. mixing well. To each quart, add a teaspoonful of salt, and the same of powdered alum, then pour boil- ing water, stirring all the time until the mixture thickens. Pour on boiling water slowly, and stir briskly. on As a material for fire-proof stage cur tainsthe New York fire commissioners have experimented with asbestos and found it satisfactory. It is claimed that curtains prepared with this material will resist heat, without burning, long enough to allow any theatre audience to leave the house before the fire could break out beyond the stage. SAVE THE CHILDREN'S STOCKINGS. —How many mothers know they knit up as well as down? When dren have reached the age when they can and the heels and toes also, be exercised. In usually a strip at least an yard long which is too good to AWAY, throw and vet is too much worn to and Knit from pay over | then cut and knit well as down, If the color or to a brown strip knit rown t up as You cannot match use a Scariet Or gray ish 1 op Your Owx BLACKING.—An Eng- recommends the following : of and a large basin one pound of treacle, sweet oil. ivory black. one pound 3 I ingredients up with a stick, and it stand for twenty-four hours, guartenpound oilof vitriol, mix with three times its weight of cold water, Stir well and let it again stand for a few hours, then add a quart of sour beer Pour it into a stone jar, which keep in a dry place. Before pouring some into the small bottle for daily thoroughly shake the contents of large jar for several minutes, Some of the cheap ‘‘blackings " sold are very injurious to shoe leather, as they crack and bum it. it ater, use, the Derictovs Pubpinag.—A delicious pudding is made thus: sift two table- spoonfuls of flour, and mix with the beaten yolks of six eggs, add gradually one pint of sweet cream, a quarter of a pound of citron cut in very thin slices, and two tablespoonfuls of sugar; mix thoroughly, pour iuto a buttered tin, and bake twenty-five minutes. Serve with vanilla sauce, Fancy flower pots for house plants are much more expensive than the plain ones, But with a little Chinese ver- million and black paint the ¢ommon pottery can be made quite ornamental, Paint the body of a pot with vermillion, and edge it with black, The effect is much prettier than that of the burnt clay, and you have fancy pots at a trifle more than the cost of the common ware, A correspondent of the British Medi. eal Journal (Jan. 13, p. 99) states that he has found the application of a strong goiution of chromic acid, three or four times, by means of a camel's hair pencil, of removing warts. They become black and soon fall off. “Is dis heah letter all right, boss?’ asked an Austin darkey, handiug the clerk a letter he wanted to send off in the mail, The clerk weighed the letter and returned it, saying : “Yeu want to put | do ‘letter, dat won't make hit to lighter. Dat’s gwine ter make it weigh mare," For the Falr Sex. c— Orange and flame colors in vanishing effects are seen in many of the silks and nevelty goods, The dressiest silk wraps are dolman silk, plain orbrocaded, ming spring bonnets, An eccentric fancy is to cut the ends into long forks or notches, Cats are the fashionable animals at present, and cat-head and eat-paw ornaments are in high favor. Brown and dark (almost invisible) green are favorite colors for spring wraps when of woolen cloths. The new - wraps, pelerines, scarfs, dolmans and visites areal] made bouf- fant on the top of the shoulders Merinos are again in favor, and, combined with velvet, bid fair to rival cloth for dressy street costumes, The long nurse apron front, paniers above it around the hips, favorite style for spring costumes, with is & Among the designs in the now sateens are red and green pepper (capsicum) pods, with foliage and stems, Embroidered costumes of black cash- mera will be still more dressy with trimmings of the new soutache laces, New China crapes of the finest qual ity are beautifully embroidered (by hand, of course) in palm-leaf and other Oriental figures, One of the loveliest dresses for mid- sunmer. or spring festival wear of white veiling, closely dotted with silk brocade dots, Comn-flower and royal French orange, flame and gold-yellow, ox-blood, and cardinal-red crop out in most of the new fabrics. Large palm-leaf patierns appear in involved designs, covering the entire surface of new cashmere broches of the finest quality. is blue, The new fraises and ruches for the neck are very wide and full, are nearly 4 yard long, so as to form a jabot down the front. Lady Habberton continues to wear and advocate her divided dress skirt in spite of the disfavor showh it by the Waistcoats of all kinds, Directory, Louis X1V, Continental, and IYOrsay are all in high favor on ladies’ basques, jackets and bodices, Straight of black Sicilienne, are coats worn black velvet dresses, and are trimmed with feathers, Hand-run Andalusian lace with is the fashionable garniture for black The new printed sateens are very at- Some of the latest patterns showing a num- enliveped by a few dull tints red ; of soft- clusters of laurel soms, arbmtus flowers, scarabmi, geo- metrical figures and tiny moons and crescents, These fabrics are to be used this season in conjunction with seif- colored materials, and great taste and tact are necessary in combining the two fabrics. The printed sateens are used for panels, tablier, facings and corsage which are thrown masses blos. No one but the very rich or. the inexperienced heusewife enjoys using tidies that will not wash, and there are few women who have not suffered pangs of grief in finding some delicate but useless article of this description hang- ing by one pin in undistinguishable ruin from the back of a chair after the exit of a “gentleman friend." The tidies made of macreme and of the lighter fish cord, embellished with bright ribbons, are really pretty, and can be used with unconcern. Those crocheted of the fish cord are very easy (0 make, After making a chain of properiengii for the width of the tidy, make alternate rows of thick stitches and of chains, so that bons ; exact width of tha spaces ; black velvet ribbon is also pretty to run in. . When it forms a block on the right side work a star in yellow and seariet silk. —— ————a Culinary. Lamon Cu ATA RD. Custard is sim- ply milk thickened with eggs. When a over the rind of lemons to get the “zest.” Thid is a more delicate way than using the juice of the lemon, which is apt to ctirdie the custard. From the lemon rind you get the oil, which makes a better combination. Take half apint of milk, boil it iti a small sucepan, and pout | it Into w ug, Put a large saucepan ori the fire half full of boiling water. Break two eggs inten bowl and beat up yolks | water snd: stir dati thee custar rd thiekous; Pour into cups and set aside to cool, English cooks stir the custard until it is pearly cold, Very delicate custard eal be made with rice, flour or corn the package, AN EXCELLENT Bovr.—An lent soup can be made by taking one can of corn and boiling the corn in one quart of milk and water in equal pro- portions ; season with salt, After it has boiled pepper and for about Serve hot, added little rolled sending with a just before f eggs. cracker, the table, Turkey lLivERS, - chickens and turkeys are nice fried with afew thin slices of bacon. CHICKEN AND The livers of Cut the liver and bacon very thin ; son with pepper and salt, breakfast dish, EAsiLY PREPARED DESSERT.—AnD easily prepared dessert pioca. It hardly seems appropriate call 50 dainty a dish a pudding. cold water cupful of tapioca for an hour in water, then boil, allow adding warm enough to it to expand : tender, sweeten it, and take it from the fire : add an orange cut in small flavoring. bits foi serve with cream. The following receipt for corning beef riod ght is said by reliable authority te be For 100 pounds of beef, take ei one-fourth the of saltpetre, or nearly let summer scald, June, This pickle and just right for and shoulders put on cold, meat pound of soda, Saline skim, rernain, put upon meat hot In boils, and it the spring o1 beef For makes drying. hams heat be out of CAKE, for SPANISH SHORT short cake is excellent Spanish tea, sugar, two-tl ittle cinnamon, two cups of flour, teaspoonful of baking powder ; flour in, tad it ; the eggs, ter and sugar should be beaten together until very light. sur do not over the top | one egg, teaspoonful of cinnamon oven to brown. a little pul verized sugar set it in a Value of Foreign Coins, 41.8 and silver, gold A ustria—florin, cents, Jelgium-—frax silver, 19 $a a 1 dellar, gold, . America- JMB, Central Chili Denmark gold, CTOWE., gOld SUVEr, ma. Gopnts of 100 Ecuador— peso, Egypt-—pound $4 07.4. France ¥ i FO jhasters, i. a els 1 Rina. franc, gold and silver, 14, Great Britain rling, #4 Hi. 64. Greece- drachima, pound ste gold and silver, 19, cents, German Empire—mark, gold, 20.8 India—rupee of 16 annas, silver, cents, Italv-—lint, gold and silver, 10.3 Iapan-— yen, gold ; cents, Liberia-dollar, gold, $1. Mexico—dollar, silver, 90.9 cents, Netherlands—florin, gold and 40.2 cents, Norway-—crown, gold, 26.8 cents, Peru 1, silver, 83.8 cents, Portugal-—milreis of 1000 reis, $1 08, Russia—rouble of 60.9 cents, Randwich Islands—dollar, gold, Spain—peseta of 100 centimes, gold and silver, 10.8 cents. Sweden-«crown, gold, 26.8 cents; Switzerland —frane, gold and 10.3 cents, Tripoliemahbub on 20 74.8 conta, Turkey piaster, 4.4 cent, United States of Columbia peso silvery SO.5 cents, ots, 8 cents, gold and silver 90.7 silver BO gold 100 kopeks, silver, silver, ) pinsters, sil ver, a Sound and Color. ns mp— Everybody has heard of color blind. nets, but it is a curious and little known fact that some persons are so constitiit- ed that the hearing of sound is always Apis, by a sensation of ‘color, A German by the » of N baumer made the discovery first, a numerous cases have been raported since attention was called to the matter. For instance F major is yellow and A tenor saxophone is yellow, on aclarionet: 6 to the intensity of the | forces. FH AAI i AA 0 A BA BINS A Story with a Moral. Ten years ago there was a religious revival in a Rhode Island village. The blagksmith of the place returned from { his forge one night, and seeing his wife | pumping a pail of water took the pail { from her, finished the pumping, and cagried the water into the house, | wife fainted on the spot, the result of the shock occasioned by ber husband's { attention. It was the first time in a | married life of twenty-three years that | the immense brawny fellow, six feet {two in his stockings. had lifted a finger to help in any domestic duty the slender { little wife whose head hardly reached | his shoulder, The blacksmith had “got i religion,” and with that | got understanding also—embodying { both in a most practical matter | manner, This story, with illustration the | hearer can hardly fail to furnish for | himself, may bring a smile from | telling or the picturing, yet it more than a laughing matter. John Smith has worked at his forge, his bench, his desk all day long. He hour's leisure at noon, | but o'clock home as the and the o1 had had an is tired, and glad of his six He thinks of { of his comfortable relief, place supper, his old slip | pers, and daily | legitimate as well as pleasant Mis, and at day. his easy chal paper ; a Smith worked at tub all the sewing machine the has tended the dressed the children, beds, fi | the lamps, cooking- stove wash forenoon, : and the | the She made ed mopped the kitchen, planned breakfast, table twice, i the | the i twice dinner and supper, washed and wiped d answered the door-bell a count- jess number of times, in addition to | the eook-stove, wash-tub and sewing machine, John Smith is tired ight, Is Mrs. i table must at six o'clock at But the cleared in Smith less so 7 be set again and the dishes AWRY ag undressed again, put i be The and put to clothes must be brought yard, sprinkled and folded f | dav's ironing ain. bed, in from for the must the next read he | and set to rise for the next day's fast that Mr, Smith the There are a few buttons to put on Jun ncket, apron to ! for one of his sis The clock strikes Smith hink break- may not miss his | favorite item of meal-—hot biscuits, John or's a torn fers, Mrs, | & g | en before can t | rest. Meanwhile Mr. Smith reads his paper, | goes into a the street for as much she | husband to | oF down a little { She is interested as he in the would be as glad as hear about her nel the he | trip and i brought a] fine pK Above with tures home, all things ] would enjoy 4 wa k ‘her husband, ind the chance to get a | i sm ‘you behold all that remains of Oardi- nal Richelieu,” In the month of December, 1793, when a revolutionary party pillaged the tombs of the Borbonne, one of the sol- and, finding that the mask of the face, doubtless in the rest of the head, possessed himself of it, who thought that he bad him- 's head. Bub. The Oth the hatter, mask in charge te Thermidor came, who carried it with him to Brittany gave it to his brother. The brother, relic, consulted the village apothecary, by whose advice it was varnished. It in 18645, it and in December of was restored great t to Paris VOeAr with ment of the cardinal in the presence of Duke and a Kinoe of Richelieu, great that day the arch- and the hae died the emperor has died in exile, shot e name of Richelieu bishop of Paris bas been without issue. - aw An Irish Girl's Experience Tooth~Pulling. in “ Weel, Bridget, said Margery, “how did you get along ‘with the docthur ¥’ “Bays I, * Och, docthur, dear, tooth that aches entirely, and 1 have a if it plaze Says he to me : ‘Och, murther, can ye ask me that now 7’ Says I, ‘Sure, have I slept day or night these three dave?’ So thin the docthur tuk his iron instrument in a hurry, with as little cansarmnment as Barney would sweep the knives and forks from the table. docthur,’ says 1, * there's time you'll not be in such a hurry it’s me $09 ye. Be aisy, enough Oh, well.” says the now docthur, ‘an’ yer to-mor- not stir tooth alive ‘clap on ver pinchers, You may docthur., I'll Come row.” *Indade, in me jaw.’ says 1; | woman's r done’ | Smith’ It is tal i ironing { but there i day, work 1s neve 8 {8 no exception to the rule, washing Ni Wavs th h nin day in the is sweeping day and count two more out of the co king which seven, the belong Lo every The baby ten and day ing, bed -making the the week, work in { addition to whatever extra i day brings with it Mr. often a very tired Mrs, John Smith is an equally industrious woman. Is she any less tired than her husband ? man. certainly to think so, She certainly is not happy, and she is break- ing down and growing old at an alarm- ing rate of progress, NCR Suppose Mr. Smith—by way of variety as well as experiment--sghould help un- dress the children some night before he turns his attention to the newspaper: or help cléar the table while she is doing it; or even wipe the dishes in order to give her time for half an hour's walk with him out of doors? In all probability she will be too tired to go, but the tired heart will be rested, even if the feet are not, and gladdened fact that be considered such a thing possible and desirable, SS atte Richelieu’ s Skull. The Curious Adventures that have Befallen the Great Cardinal's Remains, Cardinal Richelieu, the King of the king, as the pecple had nicknamed him, was entombed in the fullness of his | glory in the vaults of the Sorbonne Church. One day, some sixteen years ago, the mayor of a little village in Brittany presented himself before the + Emperor Napoleon 111. [He opened a | small box which he brought under his arm, unwrapped the ‘parcel. which it pe and drew from it a as The skin was dried up 4 up and aizly see it jumping.’ “With may by its aching and that he dabs a rasor-looking and up me but owld * Docthur, want to make “Sit like twisting I sat still be- cause the murdering thafe held me down into me mouth as if 1t cut gums, were naught SAY 8 1. after? DD mate for breakfast. what an are ve ve anatomy of a living crather ¥’ ming something. my jaw, still,” says he, jan a corkscrew into and 3 thie EF very sow] out of me. He then gave an awful pull, blanket as think the tome? J hard enough to wring a wet Didn't 1 Was come £4 I felt me bead fly off my shoulders, saw something in the ‘Is that my got there?’ says I. ‘No, it's only ver tooth,” he answer, ‘Maybe it is,’ says I. as my eves began to open, and by putting me hand up 1 made I felt as if all the inside had been hauled out. I had taken a dollar te pay for the operation, but I thought I'd just ax him the price ; so I says, ‘Docthur, how much may you ax besides the trouble ¥ Fifty cents,” says he, * Fifty cents?’ says I, ‘sure, I've not been submitting three days to that tyrant tooth for fifty cents. Troth, this same tooth-pulling is not so very expensive, and I'm much obleeged to ye, docthur,” ”’ —————— De Latter. A good priiter follows copy, goes out of the window. obeys orders, if it breaks the owners, Mrs. Cobb's cook also possesses this trait, and it will make her a valuable servant when she learns to read. The Elmira (N. YX.) Telegram reports as fol- lows : Mrs, Cobb's colored cook grad- vated at a female seminary. She can read, and gives much of her time to perusing the cook book. A few morn. ings ago, the cook, whose name is Mandy, was told to make some cake. A short time afterwaids she appeared in the parlor with the cook book in her hands, and said," I wants yer ter send right off to de store and get some latter to put on de cake.” ‘‘Some what?" “Some latter.”’., “ Latter ¥' ‘‘Yes, latter. 1'se done tole yer four times." “In the name of common sense, what is latter ¥ “I dunno what hit am, 1 didn’t write dis heah book. It reads dat & cupful ob de latter should be put on de cake to make wd i Mn, Cobb if it A sea captian