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