sp Sanitary. Curr ror EArAcuHE.—Therc is scarcely any ache to which children are | subject so hard to bear and so difficult | to cure as earache, remedy never known to fail. Take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip it ir sweet oil and insert it in the | ear. Put a flannel handkerchief over | the head to keep it warm, It will give | immediate relief. CURE FOR LUMBAGO.—A correspon. lowing, and states that it is reliable: use to cover tables, but of soft, kind, sufficiently large to cover the loins ; place it over the flannel shirt, and dage ; profuse perspiration will ensue on | the loins, and you are quickly rid of the ' wéarisome complaint. How TO APPLY THE SODA REMEDY IN BURNS AND ScALDS.—It is now many years ago that the author, while engaged in some investigations as to the inflammations of the skin, ete. fortunate enough to discover that a or camphorated water, if applied speed- jly, or as soon as possible, to a burned or mediately relieving the acute burning pain, and when the burn was only super- the course of a very short time; also the very great advantage cleanli- ness, and, if applied at once, of pre- venting the usual comsequences—a pain- ful blistering of the skin, separation of the epidermis, and, perhaps, more or less of suppuration. is to cut a piece of lint, or old soft rag, or even thick blotting paper, parts, and to keep it constantly well wet its drying. By this means it usually happens that all pain ceases in from a less time. the foot and leg, has burned, it is best, once into a jug or pail, or other conven- jent vessel filled with the soda lotion, with a surgeon’s cotton bandage, and kept constantly wet with it, lief being usually immediate, the solution saturated the re- provided be and of soda is what I have commonly used and recommended, although this is well known to vary much in quality, accord- ing to where it is manufactured ; but it will be found to answer the purpese, although probably Howard's is most to be depended on, the common carbonate being too caustic. It is believed that a large proportion of medical practitioners are still unaware of the remarkable qualities of this easily applied remedy which recommends itself for obvious reasons.—F. Peppercorne, in Popular Soience Monthly. ll ssn A Sensible French Working- man. M. Joffrin, the ultra-Radical repre- sentatative of the working-classes in the Municipal Council of Paris, showed sound common sense in declining the challenge sent him by M. Crie, a writer on the staff of the Citoyen et Bataille, whom he had offended, ** This idiot.” writes M. Joffrin to the Prebeaire *¢ ought to have understood that work- ingmen do not waste their youth in taking lessons of fencing masters, and that 10 fight a duel with a workingman would be to play the part of an assas- sin.’ Furthermore, he says that the party to which be belongs, opposed as it is to conventionalities of every sort, has forbidden its members to sacrifice to the most absurd of them all--the duel, He concludes with a formidable threat, “I hope,” he says, “one day to show the weight of a working mechanic's coungillor, on the nose of an imlecile bourgeois. ”’ . as Amathematical professor had been in- vited by a city friend to visit him at his residence in a certain square, and had promised to doso, Meeting him some- time afterward his friend inquired of | the professor, why he did not come to | see him, “1 did come” said the mathematician, “but there was some mistake. You told me that you lived in & square and I found myself in a par- allelogram, so I went away again,” An old story is being revived of a prayer-meeting being held for a poor fellow’s relief who had broken his leg. While Deacon Brown was praying a tall fellow, with an ox-goad knocked at the door, saying, ‘‘Father could not | come but sent his prayers in the cart’! com,” Agricultural. GrAssEs FOR Pasture -—Wood- burne Co., Iowa, intends to start a | permanent. pasture, and asks how much of each of the following grasses he ‘ should sow per acre, viz.: Timothy, | Orchard-grass, Kentucky Blue-grass, | English Blue-grass, Red-top, Alsike Clover, White Clover. We do not | know what grass our correspondent has ! in mind as “English Blue-grass’ as | that is not a name in common use, | As he does not enumerate Hard Fescue, which may well form a part of a pas- | ture, we will substitute it for English Blue-grass, whatever that may be. i We are not informed of the character | of the soil, whether light or heavy, dry { or moist. There has been very little { done in this country in laying down | permanent pastures with a mixture of | grasses, and as we are without much | experience to serve as a guide, our | correspondent must leok upon his attempt in the light of an experiment. i The usual quantity of mixed seeds is | from 40 to 45 pounds per acre, If we were to experiment with the grasses pamed, upon land of medinm fertility, { we should try the following tions : proper- Lba Timothy [Phleum pratense} . . . a 4 Orchard-grass [Dactylisglom erata) 10 Kentucky Blue-grass [Poa pratensis]. 8 Hard Fescus [Fescula ovina var, durigs- culaj Red top [ Agrostis vulgaris] Aliske ( lover [T ium hybridum) White Clover {Trifolium repens) Total , 40 | Tue Coxyox FowL,—In the face of i all that has been done to improve the | breeds of poultry, it cannot be denied is still the fa- vorite with the farmers. This isdue to i several causes, The fowl I receives but little attention, and, from common | long usage fo exposure, has become in- | stinctively habituated to the farms that contain poultry as a custom rather than for profit. The improved breeds are | bred for certain qualities, and, unless the conditions are favorable, do not { come up to popular expectation, If i placed under adverse circumstances, i they disappoint when compared with fowls, but it is due more | to failure on the part of the improved | breeds than to merit in the i kind. No common fowl ever lived that can compete for eggs with the leg blood. There is another point in favor of the of common fowls, | which is that many of them are of the 8 of several | the common common horn majority very best blood, They motley : crowd, on any farm we may there crop out the signs of Leghorn, Cochin, Hamburg wl. This is one of for being crosses | breeds, are # mixed, and visit Bramall, or Polish : bl SUCCESS, the causes of has demon- strated that a crossed fowl has greater th and vigor than a pure bred The crossed fowl it best adapted to general purpose, and while they are not bred for special results, experience teaches the average farmer, who has no time to bestow upon them, that they suit him better than any other. He supposes they pay better, because he has not given the others a fair trial.— Practical Farmer, experience streng one, Care of Stock. Warening AxiMars.—Those who ask that in the matter of watering ani- mals they should be treated very much as we treat ourselves, are no doubt cor- rect. One thing in the treatment of work horses in hot weather we are dis- posed to deprecate, viz: the custom of watering them three times a day and no more, It is simply cruelty on the part of man toward his beast, to compel the team to plow or mow from early morn- ing until noon or from noon until night, without allowing it the privilege of a refreshing draught. It is incom venient, many times, to water the team during the forenoon or afternoon and we are apt to think the time lost, but when the farmers’ millennium comes, there will probably be drinking troughs in every field, supplied from some ele- vated spring, or from a running stream, In the meanwhile time ** lost indoing good, even though it may be in behalf of thedumb animals, is well ** lost" it may be regained, CHANGING THE Diet or Cows. Those who have dairy cows need to be careful in changing their diet. There is a great deal to be thought of in this It is a fact, well establish- ed by the experience of dairymen, that cows which are regularly fed with grain while they are at pasture, even if more milk and make more butter or cheese than cows equally good, but liv- ing on grass only ; yet if a liberal ration of meal is givento the cows living on the fresh grass, the first effect is to cause shrink in their milk ; and if the cows which have become accustomed to have meal with their grass, have their meal suddenly taken away, they will also shrink, the pasture in both cases being equally fresh and plenty, The loss of anilk in neither case can be charged to inferiority of the feed, since the changes in feed are the reverse of each other ; while the effects are alike. The effect is due to a change in the action of the stomach to adapt its character to the dig. stion of an established food. Horses, with their Winter coats, sweat easily. When brought in warm, they should be rubed dry and blanketed for an hour. Work horses should not be blanketed in the stable, but carriage horses, or those used only upon the road, may be kept warmly blanketed, for though by this they become more sensi- tive to cold, and must have more care, yet their coat does not grow so close and long, and they are much less likely lo sweat when driven. Ground or crushed oats go farther, are better digested, and mix better with other feed than whole ones, They are the best Winter feed for horses, but may be mixed with corn or barley meal or wheat bran and middlings for work horses to advantage. Whole grain is not fed without waste. In feeding for beef, the notions of each animal should be consulted—his preferances, likes and dislikes. The object of feeding usually is to get the animal to eat all that he will di- gest well, Hence a variety be at hand, and the should be varied by feeding cooked, soaked or dry meal, should ration as the case may be, with hay and roots. Take great not feed, and in case of over-feeding, starvation be the cure. Thus the 10 over- let ani- care mal will soon take to feeding again, but will be less likely fall off flesh, than if ‘‘physicked.’ Nature is the physician, Sheep should have airy, well-littered sheds, with plenty of sunshine, and pro- tected from snow. One great of keeping sheep is to convert manure, Hence much litter strewn in sheep sheds, to the the sheep, unless they have hard places to lie upon, because their feet and legs get so hot. A few platforms like old doors, which can be shifted about every few days by turning over, will be greatly en to much in best advantage straw into usually distress of is joyed, and will promote both health and comfort. Push fattening hogs forward as rapidly as possible, Keep them warm and clean- ly. Charcoal broken fine and mixed with the cooked feed, isan excellent regulator and tonic, aiding digestion, and promot- ing fattening to such an extent that itis hard to believe it does not serve as food. American Agriculiurist. i Domestic Economy. RoFT GINGERBREAD With NUTS One full cup of butter, two cups of white suzar, worked together ; one cup of good milk, five measured, cup of m lasses, one ww eet cups of sifted flour, lightly tablespoonful of both beaten with one ginger and two of cinnamon, When all add the kernels from lish pan. powdered, her, Eng- Aat AL is well toget a pound of and bake in a walnuts, SWEETBREADS make a deli cate and delicious dish for breakfast. Slice it and dip the pieces in betiten egg and in bread crumbs till they are entirely covered, then put in a saucepan a lump of butter. When it has melted lay the slices in, put a lump of butter on each slice, cover the sauce- pan tightly, and let them cook from half to three-quarters of an hour. Serve on toast, BroiLep PoraTors Slice cold boiled potatoes ; cut from end to end, and about half an inch thick; butter the potatoes and dust with fine cracker crumbs ; broil over hot, clear coals. Serve on a hot platter; garl nish with little bits of parsley. SAUCE PIQUANTE.— Brown two or three slices of an onion in some butter, Add half a tablespoonful of flour, and a eacupful of stock. Simmer together fifteen minutes ; strain the sauce; add a teaspoonful of lemon juice, a little salt and cayenne, a tablespoonful of chopped pickled cucumber, and half a dozen chopped French capers, Cuerse SANDWICHES, — Two table- spoonfuls of English cheese, finely grat- ed, the yolks of three hard boiled eggs, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, cheese and eggs, season to taste, cut small thin slices of bread, butter each slice, spread with cheese, fold together and serve, ToasTED Ecas. Cut the crust from slices of stale bread, dip each slice in beaten egg and fry in hot butter a deli- cate brown. Place the slices on a hot dish; break an egg on each slice of bread; place the dish under the hot coals in the range grate, lay some thin slices of ham on a small broiler, hold this ever the eggs and bread so that the drippings from the ham will fall upon the eggs. Two or three minutes will cook the eggs Serve with the toast. Tarioca Custarp PUDDING. Soak one and a half cups of tapioca over night in water. Place a quart of milk in a saucepan over the fire, and when at the boiling point pour it over the soaked tapioca, cit the outside peel from one lemon and add to this for flavoring. Let it stand half an hour to cool ; add one cup of powdered sugar; beat the yolks of four eggs in with the tapioca, then stir in quickly the whites of the egge beaten to a froth, Pour the tapioca into a wéll-buttered pudding dish. Bake iwi or twenty minotes, HOAST lunch and some Our Young Folks. Tue Lazy Boy.—A lazy boy makes a lazy man just as sure as a crooked sapling makes a crooked tree. ‘Who ever saw a boy grow up in idleness that did not make a shiftless vagabond when he became a man, unless he had a fortune left him to keep up appear- ances? The great mass of thieves, criminals and paupers have to what they are by being brought up in idleness, Those who constitute the business part of the community—those who make our great and useful men were taught in their boyhood to be in- dustrious, come LarTLe CHARLIE’S PET BIRD. Mr, DeWall, two-year-old son called Charlie, allowed to play in the yard. Charlie well as a devotee of pleasure, combinations which led him to craw under the house and afterwards to play there regularly. About weeks ago he told his mother he **bird”’ under the with, and almost every has related three house that he played night since he of the beanti- ful times he has had beneath the house playing with his *bird.”’ Last day he was frolicking in the bird,” getting He disc happy stories Natur- vard when his * lonely came out to sport with him, when his “hird was ah ugebiack snake was at hand and bed the Tin Here is a Was running to it mother overed that his reptile with a hoe. Jacksonville wens om. truth that lay to heart.—It will be a sorry day for this world, and for all the people when evervbody makes his moods and does nothing but what he The performance HIASIETS, is inclined to do. the that is distasteful ; Of of making the ' will to the it~ m to subjugating pulses serve, instead of allowing the rule, the higher reason; the moods instead by of character, of being them, lies at It is possible to learn fix the wandering thought, 3 . als ’ * ay the reluctant men trate the power upon of a task to which there is no inci Until this holds no thi SUCCPSR, ation. gained, hievement victory has been promise ; the ac is Lhe No matter how great 8 conquest condition of fut Hay ix natural gifts, unless there is a will that can marshal and © life issure to be a failure. Foraiving GENERAL k that ition is the mark of a mil Tie are apt to thin a forgiving dispo ksop, but that {fo show resentment Is an exh i manliness, The fact is, as an E writer affirms, ‘‘the brave have ex 'An anecdote associated with the great Metho- dist, John Wesley, the foun the iow 0 forgive, { ‘owards © sought, but a coward never forgave,’ and Gen, Oglethorpe, der of Savannah, Ga., llustrates writer's meaning. Mr. Wesley sailed in the One day, during the voyage, and Gen. Sale Oglethorpe ship to America. the clergy man hearing an unusual noise in the gen- eral's cabin, stepped in to inquire the cause of it. “Mr. Wesley, you must excuse me,’’ said the general, showing a good deal of temper. “1 have met with a provocation too great for man to bear. You know the beverage that agrees with me the best of any. ‘“This villain Grimaldi,”’ he con- tinued, pointing to tus Italian servant, “has drank up the whole of it. But I will be revenged on him.’ “1 have ordered him to be tied hand and foot, and to be carried to the man-of- war that sails with us. The rascal should have taken care how he used me, for J never forgive.” “Then, 1 hope, sir, that you never sin,’ said Wenley, looking him squarely in the face, Confounded at the mild but pungent reproof, the general took © bunch of keys from his pocket and throwing them at his servant, said, “There, villain | take my Keys, and be- have better for the future,’ ts MO SR Fresh Fashion. a There is a great and steadily growing fancy for fine woolens as summer dresses, Cashmere and flannel ave the favorite material for the demi saisen, and nun's veilings, albatross and soft, all-wool cashmeres in evening shades are even more popular than silk for evening toilets. The handsomest of these are, indeed, made up in combina- tion with, and over, silk of the same shade, the silk lining giving a silky sheen to the thin woolen fabric, Still many charming dresses have no silk about them, but are abundantly trim. med with lace and narrow ribbon, vel vet or satin, as the case may be. 1t is hard to say what is the favorite color of the moment, The purplish pink or Judic shades are the newest, and are mucii liked. Still, all the blues hold their own, from navy blue, electric blue and cadet blue, to the pale water tints. Grays, also, have a run of favor, and ashes of roses is among new revivals in color, Mouse gray is popular, to- gether with Russian and slate gray, while lichen gray, a sort of greenish gray, is a new favorite and first consin to the new toxopholite green, which is grayish in tone. ‘‘Enraged rat? is rat-gray, with a tinge of red ; *‘ fright. ened rat” is rat-gray, with ‘an ashen hue, and soap blue is less blue than gray. Strawberry, raspberry, goose- berry, apricot, peach, pippin-green and cabbage-green are also on fashion’s list of new colorings, while the browns are | coffee, toast er burned bread, seal copper, wood, mahog- earth, Zulu, Zuni color, Yeliow is, of course, a prime favor- | favorite, but few women dare wear it for more than trimmings, except in | such moderate shades as lemon, pale { canary and the like, and that for even- ing dress, In millinery, run away with us, however, it has quite ions, but- the old- cowslips, and dandel tercups, coreopsis, marigolds, fashioned button roses, Ww dwarf sun-flowers, chrysanthemums and jonquils blossom three-fourths of the bonnets The flowers look pretty, grouped favorite black from the Colored straws Oscar ilde's or yellow on one BEES, yellow i 100, with the lace and a pleasant change hitherto reigning red, to mateh suits, and lace bonnets are the bounets are by How could poplar chojce | still, jet means out of fashion, they be when wraps glitter with beads, the black toil and jet embroidery is still favorite garniture for elegant ARTY the theatre-goers, whose not in the small the proper thing for full pretty little | of where full« seals are front row, are dress : Capoles, rather flowers, i igor- of all ladies at places of head-dresses lace and Iress is ously exacted these small bonnets for- they call public amusement, | are not included in the rule which | bids True which hats or bonnets, that there is sometimes much in a name, but the thing Many gtuffs from Paris dress-caps, proves s. for all that. other wool iz the same cashmeres and en are covered all over velvet circles appliqued on and The handsomest bonnets are trimmed ti-colored lace and in ones 1 of the bom New ribbons par plumes ontrast with the ets are vel in TOsSes of and op cal extraordinary bonnet Combi gray wit al ions of h strawberry red and shrimp pink are much admired, latter requires a lighter shade than the former. Changeable si be wades, worn in trim- ril be is iKs are 10 with rich bre aut ed mings either of lace or variegat pons, cashmere embroideries, ete, Chines are slowly coming in, and some "novelties have brown grounds, with large shaded flowers and satin and silk stripes in cream, quets with chine bou- The Spanish Marriage- ~-Stone. If Ireland has its B larney Stone, which assures to any one kissing it uncommon eloquence and persuasiveness — ‘‘blar- pey,” in fact, for there is no other equivalent for the mysterious gift— Spain has her ‘“‘marriage-stone,” the vir- tues of which are equally remarkable ; for any single person, male or female, who touches it is absolutely sure to be married within a twelve-month. The stone forms part of the masonry in the Coliege of Sacre Monte, in Granada. About twelve months ago two young ladies paid a visit to the old Moorish capital, and were shown over the college by one of the resident clergy, who acted as cicerone, and who treated the fair visitors with unusual deference and re- spect, When they came to the “‘mar- riage stone’ the padre smilingly ex- plained the peculiar powers with which popular suspicion credited it. “Touch it,” said one of the ladies to her sister, who laughed incredulously, but followed the advice none the less—touching the stone, not once, but twice or thrice, Now, the two young ladies were the Spanish infantas, Dona Isabella and Dona Paz; and the latter it was who ouched the stone, Shedid so on the 3rd of April last year, an she was married to Prince Louis of Bavaiia on the 2d of April of the present year. Married Seventy-five Years. Thera is a coupse living at Downs ville, Mo., who have been married seven- ty-five years. Husband and wife are each ninety-five years old, Peter Bo- gart, the husband, is in poor health, Mrs. Bogart, the wife, Is smart, and walked about a mile every day last sum- mer to visit a sick daughter. She does her own housework, Mr, Bogart's sis. ter lives with them, and is seventy- eight years old. They have the fifth generation living. A SSB A Bir or Ecoxomy is to save the peel of oranges : dry it and grate it for flavoring mince pies and orange cakes, and custard also, If it is dried perfectly | and kept in a dry closet there is no dan ger of its becoming musty, -] A Proclamation by the Mahdi, Si The following is a translation of a proclamation recently issued by the Mahdi: “In the name of the compas- sionate God, praise be rendered to Him, the all-powerful and generous, and prayers to our Lord Mahomed and fo all His descendants. From the servant of the Lord, Mahomed of Mahdi, son of Bayed Abdallah, to all his faithfuls proselytes, We have named as Prince our beloved Sheikh Manson, son of Abdel Hakim. Executé his orders and commands, and follow him in com- bat. Do all that he orders you, and avoidall that he forbids, Whosoever submits to him submits to us, who dis- obeys him disobeys us, and God himself and his prophet. Make all penitence before God and abandon all bad and for- bidden habits, such as shameful works of the flesh, use of wine, tobacco, lying, forced witness, disobedience to parents, brigandage, non-restitution of goods belonging to others, beating of evil signs of the eyes, weeping and flamentation of the backbiting, calumy and the company of strange woren, a decent {81C hands, dancing, dead Cover your women manner, that they do speak to unknown persons, All ignore in not those who allow themselves to {hens principles disobey God and His prophet, and will be punished according to the law. Make vour prayers at the appoint- give tithe of our goods, paying it to the Prince Sheikh Mansom, to the God : ed hours, the 50 that he may remit t Adere one another, but Treasury of not aid each other to We have named Sheikh Adriss, Do disobeys him Islamism, do hate do good, son of the Light, to govern him, Who disobeys us.” you not disobey A A New Way of Exploding Bomb Shells. Many years ago a Pittsburg iron firm of condemned bomb fron. The shells were in order to melt them that they should be This was attempted with sledge hammers, but the laborers made but little progress, and it was finally given up as a bad job. One day a long slim Yankee came along and said a] understand you have a for a man “Yes,” was the reply, “we pile of bombs out there brok- en.” “How will you “We will a4 quarter cents) break tract.” ot purchased a shells for old not ioaded, but it WAS Necessary broken up. job here 7" want that much pay 7 and to Con - six if you will agree all,” “I'll take the answered the Yankee. The day the thermometer Yankee laid every ground, with the hole bucket, filled them ; then he came into the made out his bill, said Le in the moming for Every one was much mys- their give you a lip apiece them and The the He procured a Was A cold Ge, TET0, bomb out on down to up all with water house and would call around his money. tified, but in the morning ishment was great. The water had frozen during “the night. and in the morning a pile of scrap iron was found, as the freezing water had broken every bomb into at least a dozen pieces. asion- —— A Petrified Forest. The petrified stumps, limbs and, in fact, whole trees lie about on all sides, the action of the waters for hundreds of years have gradually washed away the the high hills round-about, and the trees that onoe covered the high table- lands, now lie in the valley beneath, Immense trunks, some of which will measure over five feet in diameter, are broken and scattered over a surface of three hundred acres. Limbs and twigs cover the sand in every direction, and the visitor is puzzied as to where he shall begin to gather the beautiful spec- imens that lie within easy reach. There are numerous blocks or trunks of this petrified wood that have the appearance for all the world of having been just cut down by the woodman’s axe, and the chips are thrown around on the ground 80 that one instinctively picks them up as he would in the log camps of Michi- gan and Pennsylvania. Many of the small particles, and even the whole heart of some trees, have now become thoroughly crystallized, and the beautiful colored cubes sparkle in the sunshine like so many diamonds. Every color of the rainbow is duplicated in these crystals, and those of an amethyst color would pass the eye of a novice for a real stone. The grain of the wood is plainly shown in nearly every specimen, making the pieces more beautiful than ever. — Albuquerque (N, M.) Jowrnal. A 5, OR A MiLk Brsovir.—One quart of warm milk, » half teaspoonful of salt, one-half teacupful of yeast, and flour enough to make a stiff batter; let stand over night, In the morning melt two table. spoonfuls of butter and stir into the batter, After doing this knead in flour enough to make a stiff dough. Cover it over in a pan, and let it rise until perfect. ly light, ent out the biscuit, put them in a sballow baking ig Jet them. rise half an hour, bake al quce- ven,’
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