How Colds are Taken, A person in good health, with fair ‘play, says The Lancet, easily resist gold. But when the health flags a little, and liberties are taken with the stomach, or the nervous system, a chill is easily taken, and according to the ~weak spot of the individual, assumes the form of a cold or pneumonia, or, it may be, jaundice. Of all causes of “‘eold’’ probably fatigue is one of the most efficient. A jaded man coming home at night from a long day’s work, a growing youth losing two hours’s -aleep over evening parties two or three times a week, or a young lady heavily “doing the season,” young children over-fed and with a short allowance of sleep, are the common instances of the victims of ‘‘ecold.” Luxury is favors able to chill-taking ; very hot rooms, soft chairs, feather beds, create a sensi- tiveness that leads to catarrh. It is not, after all, the ‘cold’ that isso much to be feard as the antecedent conditions that give the attack a chance of doing harm, Some of the worst ‘‘colds” happen to those who do not leave their house or even their bed, and those who are most invulnerable are often those who are most exposed to changes of temperature, and who by good sleep, cold bathing and regular habits preserve the tone of their nervous system and circulation. Probably many chills are contracted at night or at the fag end of the day, when tired people get the equilibrium of their circulation disturb- ed by either everheated sitting-rooms or underheated bed-roems and beds. This is specially the case with elderly people. In such cases the mischief is not always done instantaneously, orin a single night. It often takes place in- sidiously, extending over days and even weeks. It thus appears that *‘taking cold” is not by any means a simple re- sult of a lower temperature, but depends largely on personal conditions and habits, affecting especially the vous and muscular energy of body. ner- the —— A——————— Sunlit Rooms. No article of furniture will be put in a room that will not stand sunlight, for every room in a dwelling should have the windows so arranged that sometime during the day a flood of sunlight will force itself iuto the apartment. - The importance of admitting the light of the sun freely to all parts of our dwellings cannot be too highly estimated. In- deed, perfect health is nearly as much dependent on pure sunlight as it is on pure air. Sunlight should never be ex- eluded except when go bright as to be uncomfortable to the eyes. And walk- ing should be in bright sunlight, so that the eyes are protected by veil or parasol when inconveniently intense, A sun- bath is of wore importance in preserving a healthful-condition of the body. than is generally understood. A sun-bath «osts nothing, and that is a misfortune, for people are deluded with the idea that those things only can be good or useful which cost money ; but remem- ber that pure water, pure air and sunlit homes, kept free from dampness, will secure vou from many heavy bills of the doctors, and give you health and’ vigor which no money can procure, - well established fact that people who wr aud healthier than those whose occu- pations deprive them of sunlight. And certainly there is nothing strange in the result, since the same law applies with equal force to every inanimate thing in nature. It is quite easy to arrange an isolated dwelling so that every room may be flooded with sunlight some time in the day, and it is possible that many “town houses could be so built as to admit more light than they now receive, Anos — The Irreprsseible Celt, The Irishman was arraigned for as- sault and battery. The clerk, after reading the indictment, asked the pris- -oner, in accordance with the form then is use,—*“Do you demand a trial on “#his indictment ?’* ‘‘Niver a trinl do I want,” answered Pat, with the utmost monchalance. “Ye need not give your- wolf the throuble of thryin’ me. Ye anay as well save the expinse of that, sand put me down innocent. Contint 1'd Le to lave the house wid me blessin’ * von ye ; indade,Lit’s anxious 1 am, for me ices is waitin’ for me beyant. I want mone of yez trials at all, at all!’’ And Pat, thinking be had settled the busi- ‘ness, rose to leave the dock, but was, of « «course, prevented. When the laughter . had subsided, the clerk, changing the form of the question, asked-—‘‘Are you . guilty. or not guilty ?’ “‘Asrah, and tow cau I tell till 7 hear the ividence I” aawered Pa, It was several minutes Home Economies. A mixture of two parts of glycerine, one part of ammonia and a little rose water whitens and seftens the hands. Washing pine floor in solution of one pound of copperas dissolved in one gal- lon of strong lye gives an oak color. Goop, PLAIN Sours,— Beef Soup.— Procure a good shin of beef and crack it three or four times; put on to boil at nine o'clock ; boil hard till eleven, then take out the meat and be sure to get all the bones out; then put four turnips, four carrots, half a small head of cabbage, cut all up fine in the chop- ping bowl ; put in a large onion, if the family like onions, and put the chopped vegetables in the soup pot. At half- past eleven, if dinner is to be served at twelve, put three or four potatoes sliced very thin and some milk dumplings into the soup; just before taking up season with salt. and pepper, and put in some parsley or summer savory. If you make beef soup in tomato season, put in half a dozen, Chicken Soup.—Wash two good, fat fowls, and put on to boil, according to size and age of the fowls and the time you are to dine; if at twelve, put some nicely washed rice, about a tablespoon- ful, into the pot at ten, make some drawn butter, take out the chickens put them whole on a dish, pour the drawn butter, well seasoned, over them, and four hard boiled eggs cut crosswise and laid ower them: send to the table piping hot. Season the soup with pep per and salt only. Veal mutton makes an excellent soup in this way. Noodle Soup.---Cut fine all the flesh from the bones of two fowls and to gether with the frame put the meat to boil ; about an hour before dinner take out the bones, or frame ; half an hou- before put in some made as follows : Four eggs well beaten, mixed well with flour and a pinch of salt, stiff enough to roll very thin; make two hours before you are ready to use them ; cut them into the thinnest possible strips; season the soup with salt and pepper. or noodles - As Queen Victoria's Yachts. The Admiralty have decided that the Victoria and Albert, the Queen’s prin- cipal yacht, is to be thoroughly refitted and renovated, The vessel is a steam- yacht of 2470 tons, and her original cost was nearly £120,000. There would be no justification whatever for building a new yacht in the place of the Victoria and Albert, as was recently proposed, because during thelast ten years she had not been used by the Queen for half as many weeks, Her sole service, indeed, has been to convey Her Majesty to Cherbourg and back, on the rare occa- gions when she had visited the Continent, an amount of work to which her annual cost seems monstrously out of proportion, especially when it is remembered that there is the Osborne (1850 tons) always available, to say nothing of the Alberta (870 tons) and the Elfin (90 tons). The ammual pay of the officers and seamen employed on these four vessels to over £16,000, and last year over £5000 was paid to workmen in Portsmouth amounts dockyard who were employed on them. Besides which there are further charges jn connection with them, amounting to at least £10000 a year, and they are altered and redecorated with startling frequency, which entails additional ex- penditure, --- A Noble | Lad. A poor boy, ‘whose name no one knows, but which should be written in the book of fame, found three little children, who, like himself, had been washed ashore from one of the many wrecks, wandering along the dreary coast in the driving sleet, They were crying Dbitterly, having been parted from their parents, snd net knowing whether they were drowned or saved. The poor lad took them to a shelterd spot, plucked moss for them, and made them a rude but soft bed; and then, taking off his own jacket to cover them, sat by them all night long, soothing their terror till they fell asleep, In the morning, leaving them still asleep, he went in search of their parents, and to his great joy met them looking for their children, whom they had given up for dead, He directed them where to find them, and then went on himself to find some place of shelter and refreshment. But wben the parents were returning with their recovered little ones, they found their brave preserver lying quite dead upon the snow, not far from where they part~ ed from him, The long exposure in his exhausted state had proved too much for his little strength, and after saving his little charges—a stranger to them as well as they to him—he lay down to die, ns soins IS The young man was trying to play sober. He sat with the young lady on ‘the front steps. He studied for a long time, trying to think of something that would illustrate his sobriety. Finally be looked up, and solemnly said : “The (hic) moon's full as a goose ; ain't it ¥’ The Art of Cooking an Ome~ lette., a Why is it that we so rarely get a good omelette? What are the reasons that make the majority of cooks break down over this simple dish ? These are easy questions to ask, but ditlicult to answer. I will try and explain how to make an omelette, though I must say that personally 1 think a little piece of onion is a great improvement to savory ome- lettes, We will first make an omelette fines herbes, as perhaps under this name some cooks will be more willing to learn ; and I will go to the bottom of the secret at once. Would it surprise you to hear that you have nothing in the house that you can make an ome- lette in ? “This is probably a fact. An omelette should be made in an omelette pan, and naturally the next question is, * What an omelette-pan ?' The most practical answer to this is, An omelette-pan is a small ordinary frying- that has never cooked anything omelettes. This what cooks believe, Their argument is, parcel of stuff.” But it fact for all that, If you dou fact, order omelette the ordinary frying-pan— it be cleaned—and then notice its color, Next buy a small new frying-pan. Boil a little water with a piece of soda in it take the of the make an omelette in this, and you taste the diffs this experimch aur 18 pan but won't Oh, is is a the an to be made in however well AWAY taste tin, and see, and too, ence, We will been tried. Next, we will start as fol- We three and some butter ready. F a small suppose Las lows- have ley, enough parsley to egEs, Some pars- make of “mixed sweet herbs ”’ take have a bottle in the house finger and thumb—and add to the pars ley before you chop it. Chop up the parsley and herbs fine, and add to them | a small saltspoonful of salt and half a one of pepper. eggs separately to.see if they are good, beaten add the chopped parsiey, ec. and mix them thoroughly in. Next take two ounces of good butter and melt it over the fire in the omelette- pan till it froths, Remember, the fire must be good and in fact, an omeletie wants a In the present day most but if you try and make an omelelte over vou must take care there is no smoke, Another point to remember is to have | the beaten-up eggs and all ready, 50 as to add to the butter directly it froths in the omelette-pan, After a very little time over a good fire the butter will begin to turn color, and at last turn a brown. Now this very well if we want to make butter for boiled skaté, but spoil an omelette, and clear ; sharp fire, stoves are shut-up ones, will rich black it will As soon as the butter begins to froth | from the (ire, pour quiekly into the omlette-pan the beaten eggs, Xo. also froth from the beating. air-bubbles help to make the omelette light. Directly you pour the egg take a tablespoon and stir it up quickly, scraping the bottom of the omelette-pan all over to prevent the mixture stigking, and consequently burning. You will now find that it all commences to turn lumpy. This is what it should do, and when it is nearly all lumpy scrape it on to one side of the omelette-pan—the side away from you «80 a8 to make ita semi-circular shape, You can now, if the fire is rather flerce, raise the pan 0 as to slacken the heat. When it is almost set, take the pan off the fire and slant it in front of the fire, if you have part of the front open, or, still better, hold a red-hot shovel over the omelette. This will help to make it light. Do not, however, brown it beyond a few brown specks, Now take a slice and slide the omelette off the frying-pan on to a hot dish, and serve it quickly. This is a plain, savory omelette. 1 have before said that I think alittle piece of onion chopped up with the parsley an improvement. If you like onion take care you den’t put in too much. A piece of onion the size of the top of the finger would be ample, aud be careful to chop it fine. Itis not pleas- ant in an omelette to come acIvss a piece which we have to crunch, Another open point is whether it is best to serve gravy with 4 savory ome- Jette, Like adding onion, this is a matter of taste, 1 think that, if you add onion to an omelette, gravy is a decided improvement, and that if you don’t intend serving gravy it is best to omit the onion, The gravy suitable to be served with omelettes is a good brown gravy, similar to that which would be handed round with a roast fowl or turkey. Sometimes gin are served with some sort of rich with them, For mstance, we can have omelette with kidney, oyster, ham, or | Parmesan. When you have the meat must These 1 or rich ragout served with the omelette, but not mized with it, you must some- what vary your method of cooking the omelette, a large ladleful of stewed kidneys; omelette with oysters is an omelette with a mixtyur: similar to the inside of on oyster patty served with it. When you have a meat or forcemeat of this description you should let your omelette set in the frying-pan in a cir- cular shape instead of a semi-circular, and when it is almost set, spoonful or ladleful of meat, &c., on one half, and then turn the other half of the omelette over on to it, leave a little omelette mixture sufficiently unset to scrape it quickly round--to fix to- gether the edges when it has been turned over. This requires some little prac. tice, the omelette by mixing in other things with the beaten egg. For you can add Parmesan cheese of course— instance, grated, or any kind of grated cheese, A Mispronounced Words, not kal kam-el-o-piird, not kam- Calliope—-kal-li Camelopard el-] Cantatrice- ta-treess’, Canon—Xkiin’-yun, not kan"-nun, word Is also sometimes spelled “O-], ~li-0pe, top’-ard. kiin-ta-tré-che, not kan'- This canyon, pronounced as above or kiin-yone. Capoch—ka-pootsh’, not ka-poch, This word is also spelled capouch, but pro- nounced as we give it above. Carminative Kiir-min’-a-tive, not {| Kir’ Casualty —kazh’'-u-al-ty, not kis-u-al' ~min-nia-tive, Cater-cornered —ki-ter-cor-nerd, not Ay-cor-nerd, ‘atalpa—ka-tal-pa, not ka'-tawl-pa ‘ateh—-kiteh, not kétch, Caucasian--kaw-ka'-sian, | kiish' Tue production of the precious metals in the United States from 1848 to 1882 amounted to 2,200,000,000, the portions being —.gold, 1,600,000,000, ‘and silver, $600,000 The product of SA wan, guid, $32,- 500,000 ; silver, $46,800,000 ; There was a small falling off in gold as compared with 1881, but an increase in silver for same period, more than making up the deficit in value, It may be gratifying to know that the United States stand first in the list of or 7. not kon-je’, not kon- ma-le, not kin- not kin- second and Russia third, The French System of Arbitra- tion. A “Council of Wise Men” is created in a manafacturing centre on the re- quisition of the Municipal Council, It consists of six or more prud’hommes elected in equal numbers by the masters and workmen, and a President and Vice-President appointed by the Gov- ernment, one of them being an em- ployer and the other a workman. The nomination of the two chief members is complained of by some workingmen, but is approved of by others, as experience gained under a former law tended to show that election by the Councils caused strife that was never healed, and led to much party feeling. The President and Vice-Presi- dent hold office for three years and eligible for reappointment, prwd’ hommes are elected for six years, but one-half retire every three vears, In case of vacancy occurring the Prefect of the municipality orders a new election, No man iseligible under be must are i“ the age of 30, and the electors must 25 years of age, if workmen, have served at their trade for fives Neither President, Vice-President member of the Council is paid, a w hich, and, Curs, nor fact surprising as it may seem to us is not apparently looked upon in France as materially efficient working many towns there intertering of the are several council, trades being in a somewhat with the ge on of securing in measure grouped arbitrary fashion, intent but neral some similarity in the trade customs and regulations of and the vach group, acquaintance with enable them to adjudicate The most pect the powers of a regular Law Court, and take ¢ maser sufficient uf 10 on part tra les intelli the councilors these ge i §1 it] iy, mseils’! have in oghizanc 0 Of « disputes be {tween and workman JeTnsel ves, and The into a private Bureau a general Bureau, the former consist of two members and intended to + fect workmen tl Conseil is sub-divided ¢ ¥ dispute makers ‘the the 18 from * for hearing before Surean, must go larger Procedure and admirable, On the CO] of sends a corteous invitation for.dant 10 This invitation buat if not, at the cost of the suit simple & Of the ( to ceria ers ounce the de- attend at a Lime, is generally accepted | a formal summons is , and, if necessary, a third is issued at the cost of the fendant, who, failing to then appear, liable to punishment for contempt of Court and to having judgment by fault rendered against him, At hearing no lawyer or attorney can plead ; (fe and defendant permitted, as it might by developing hot temper retard an Fach party stricted to merely answering of fact. if necessary, and are allowed small fees, The of except in certain cases, as ments In CAsY settlement. is wisely re- questions decision the Council is final, when these docn- are disputed. ex- to the tribunals, fourths of the cases which come the general Bureau exvending sixpence | Ordinary before involve costs not the utmost cost possible is not over five shillings ster- ling. Now, as to results. There are in France 132 Conseils, a considerable in- erease on a few years ago. Before these, in 1880, 30 429 cases came up, of which one-fourth were settled before passing the conciliators of the private Bureaus. In an annual average of 7955 cases put down for hearing before the general Courts 4780, or three-fifths, were withdrawn before hearing. A system which can show such results in the conciliation of contending parties and in the prevention of costly appeals, and yet at the same time secure sub- stantial justice to all concerned, is well worthy of the careful consideration of social economists and of the general public, The Champion Kisser. The return of Miss Alice Harrison to cident of her career when a member of the famous California Company of four or five yesrs ago, which may still pro- voke a smile from those who witnessed the occurrence in question. About the time of Miss H.'s farewell bénefit at that theatre General Sherman was visit- ing the city, and with his staff occupied a box of said performance. Now, whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the military renown of the General of our armies, there is no dis pute as to his being the champion kisser of our continent, and is known to frequently indulge in the proud boast that he has kissed 90 per cent, of all the preity girls of the United States. His chief of staff once computted the Gene- ral’s kissing monthly average, taken all the year round, dry and wet seasons in- cluded, at about 1806, or say, in round ny he would have kissed his way into the White House years azo ; but his reluc- tance to waste valuable time and raw material in the pursuit of his hobby induces him, with the true instincts of a veteran professor of osculatiomn, to select only the prettiest of the sex for that honor. At the benefit referred to, no sooner did Miss Harrison appear on the stage than the old war-horse snuffed the bat- tle from afar, and began to grow rest less and uneasy, The stalf winked at each other, and soon their chief sug- gested the propriety of going behind the scenes to compliment the benefici- ary. We must now ask our readers to accor - pany us to the little Danish settlement of Eericvland on the borders of the Bal- tic, in the year 1831, A village festival being held, and as usual the distinguish- ed visitors gather to salute the girl has taken the annual prize for cooking and virtue, There is a young officer amid the number, instead of printing the customary upon the cheek of the folds her his sky on her pump on The minutes fly by, the spectators their stop watches on American who, chaste salute village celebrity, in blue arms and settles down about the the young officer comes “as ure inst fjuarter 0 Lue As he recovers his ex- hausted wind the weather-beaten cap- w approaches, and BAYS : “Young man, I'll give vou your own “And why 77? “Because hold man you ran longer than any ay your in the We merely relate this little incident The kisser was Sut resume, staff were behind t Tecumseh. to As soon as the he with the remark that he hadn’t kissed any- He was standing with his and absorbed in be- stowing a paternal kiss upon Alice, and middie of the stage, ing down a buttered rainbow, when that impish young lady saw that the promp- up the “drop.” her hands over the he could not hear the ked him against the curtain, As.every one knows, this wound around wooden roller inside of The General's coat-tails were caught by this as the curtain went and before the prompter could the astounded man about ten froin from a clothes was about to ring plac ing weral’s ears so she bac on the CANVAS, was suspended feet a sheet line, The audience weni off into hysterics while the members of the box absolutely howled, for they only knew that those convulisvely clutehin gaiters belonged to Commander-in-chiet of all our But the first thing we know Greneral’s coat will will down fui hed dT ring give way, so we the curtain, -- Clothes- Pins, Nearly all of theo tothe sg-pins that find in New England. The woods of which they are made ave of white birch and beech, good for this use but for not mnch else, The logs are sawed off into lengths of sixteen and twenty-two inches, The latter are sawed up into little boards to make the boxes for packing the pins. The shorter lengths are sawed into strips of suitable thickfiess for pins by gang saws that make a block into strips quicker than you could say Hohokus. Then a gang of three saws cuts off the strips into five-inch lengths, Each pin is now just a squared block about five inches long and three-quarters of an inch square. In this shape they are fed out of the troughs into automatic lathes, each of which turns out eighty rounded pins per minute. With equal rapidity the knives of a slotting machine, set to work like a circular saw, bite out the sloping slot of each pin. When this is done they are thoroughly seasoned in drying kilns. The next process is pol ishing. Forty bushels of them are tossed together into a revolving drum, where they make each other smooth by their friction, and to finish them a little tallow is thrown in when they are almost done. That gives them a nice glossy surface. After all that they are packed in boxes—five gross in a box-—by girls and are ready for the market, Opposition is what we want and must have, to be good for anything. Hard- ship is the native soil of manhood and self reliance. A MA Said a student of one college to a friend who was attending a rival in- stitution: “Your college never turns out gentlemen.” ‘‘No," was the reply. “Our college allows gentlemen to go right on and graduate.”