x= THE CHILDREN'S COUNTRY WEEK. o—— By A, AsuMux KeLLY. They come from hot and noisome streets, From haunts of crime and care, To taste awhile the country’s sweets, And drink its healthful air, To hear the songs of birds and breeze Down in the waving broom, To ramble with the busy bees, Among the clover bloom. Their pallid cheeks grow almost red, Their sunken eyes grow bright, As scampering down the flowery mead They chatter with delight. The buttercups to them are gold, The daisies silver-rimmed; And greater wonders there unfold Than ever they had dreamed! A sweeter cup was never quaffed By King or Queen, they think, Than from the pail the milky draught, The farmer s wholesome drink. And oh! the red, ripe apples, too, Which load each orchard tree! It seems to them it can’t be true, Such lots and yet so free! Back to the city's noisome streets, With visage sad they hie, To miss and mourn the rural sweets, The' birds and fields and sky. And daysto come, ‘mid want and care, In hot sand dusty streets, They'll oft recall the country’s air, In fancy taste its sweets, God bless those noble-minded men, And bless those women, 00, ‘Whose hearts and hands are open when There's kindly deeds to do! No matter where reward begins, No matter where it ends; An Angel blots out half his sins, Whose ear to pity bends! Health Hints. How to Preserve and Restore Health, Reading aloud is health, Children should sleep in separate beds, and should not wear night caps. Sleeping rooms should have a fire- place or some mode of ventilation be- side the windows, The best remedy for eyes, weakened by night use, is a fine stream of cold water frequently applied to them. Children and young people should be made to hold their beads up and shoulder back while standing, sitting or working. conducive to From one to one pound and a half of solid food is sufficient for a person in the ordinary voeations of business, Persons in sedentary employments should droprone-third of their food, and they escape dyspepsia. The king of Prussia once sent to a tribe of Bedouins a very celebrated physician, who inquired on his arrival how they lived. ‘‘We never eat till we are hungry, and then not to repletion,” was the answer. ‘‘I may return then,” said the doctor, ‘‘I have no business here.” The New York Sun’s infallible chol- era cure is as follows : Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne, tincture of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint and spirits of camphor. Mix well, Dose, 15 to 30 drops ina wineglass of water, according to age and violence of attack. Repeat every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is obtained. For Sleeplessness. A physician writing to the Christian Union on the subject of sleeplessness, remarks : If neither beef tea or milk can be easily procured, hot water with an infusion of hops or mint may be suib- stituted or even hot water alone will quiet restlessness and indice sleep. A darkened fool, that the moonbeams ¢dnnot enter, a little fresh air from an open window or fireplace, are valuable assistants in making the sleep continu- ous, The Care of Infants in Summer, The New York board of health rec- ommend the following rules for the summer in regard to the nursing of in- fants: Over-feeding does more harm than anything else; nurse an infant a month or two old every two or three hours. Nurse an infant of six months and over five times im twenty-four hours, and no more. If an infant is thirsty, give it pure water, or barley water ; no sugar. In relation to the feeding of infants, the board advise: Boil a teaspoonful of powdered barley (ground in coffee grinder) and one-half pint of water, with a little salt, for fi{- teen minutes, strain, then mix it with half as much boiled milk, add a lump of white sugar, size of a walnut, and give it lukewarm from a nursing bottle. Keep bottle and mouth-plece in a bottle of water when not in use, to which a little soda may be added. For infants five or six months old give half barley water and half boiled milk, with salt and a lump of sugar. For older infants give more milk than barley water, For infants very costive, give oatmeal instead of barley. Cook and strain as before. When the breast-milk is only half enough, change off between breast. milk and this prepared food, Dr. Page says that if infants are fed only three times a day they will escape colic Variety in our Food. Happiness and bodily comfort depend largely on the food we eat, and how cooked. a There is nothing more acceptable to the appetite than a change in diet. A "Jong continuation of the same food, Ei “tiresome. lt is easy to have a variety, if one chooses to manufacture it, out of the very same materials, For instance, one wearies of having boiled potatoes continually. They are good, whole- some, but it is easy to mash the pota- toes, add a little salt and milk, heat it in the oven, and set the dish on the table in a new form ; or cut the pota- toes up, when cold, in chips, and stew them in a butter gravy till well scalded. It isa delightful change, and an econo- mical one, too, as it saves the whole potato, which is quite an item in many families at present prices, Slicing is another good way to cook this vege- table. In meats, too, different methods of cooking are very desirable, as well as saving. One gets tired of fried meat ; it is better occasionally to roast, bake or stew. There are many dainty meth- ods of preparing meats for the table that it really seems as if there is little need of urging the necessity of change in the method of cooking. Still, many families are in the habit of having the same bill of fare all the week. No won- der people who live in this style like to make visits so as to get a change of diet once in a while, Vegtables should form one item of food at every dinner- table. Perhaps farmers cannot obtain so great a variety of those as if they lived next a market, but every man who has even a garden patch can have cabbages, turnips, beets, parsaips, onions and squashes, all of which form a most excellent variety of feod, as well as a healthy appetizer to one’s meals. Ap- ples and pears, if eaten after meals, are a most wholesome luxury and one which all enjoy. Fish is another pleas- ant change of diet, and is far better for an occasional meal than for a summer diet, Indeed, there is no kind of food that will not tire ove, and satiate the appe- tite if used all the time, All kinds of poultry make a very inviting meal occa- sionally, but one cannot relish them It is the same with pastry, a change is needful in order to have it well appreciated. Bread is the only compound of which people never tire, and they enjoy that occasionally toasted, better than to have it set on the table in a stack of thin slices. I know that some claim that it is of no account what you eat, it is sweet and wholesome, and will sustain nature, but it is not true. Our happi- ness and bodily comfort beth depend in a great measure upon the food we eat and the manner of cooking it. Admit- ting this fact it is an important branch of science to understand cooking in all its forms, and be able to make victuals as tempting and palatable as they can be cooked. Ido not believe in too rich food, or extravagance, but light, wholesome, plain and substantial food, cooked and arranged on the table so as to look nicely and taste well besides. Let the housewife seek for a variety of dishes, not for a variety at one meal alone, but a change for every meal. It is just as easy as the everlasting same- ness that cloys the appetites of a family. Hash for breakfast is very well once a week, but to have it seven times a week is six times too much. So with every kind of cooking. Baked beans are very nice once ina while, but to have them for four or five consecutive days would incline one to the belief that he is not very fond of beans, Cir cumstances alter cases, but a little fore- thought will generally arrange matters 80 that the mistress of a family can vary the bill of fare, so as to have her cooking enjoyed and appreciated. No more kinds are needed, but a variety of kinds, and as variety is the spice of life, 80 is it the greatest appetizer for our daily food. . Water Pollution. The effect of water pollution upon the health has been repeatedly published, Goitre is caused by drinking water im- pregnated with animal matter, and dis- appears when pure water is substituted. In Great Britain, 164 epidemics of en- teric fever were traced in four years to impure air or water—usually both—and 6807 deaths occurred in a single year from these causes, In the historic out- break at Over-Darwin 2000 cases of sickness and 100 deaths resulted from a polluted water supply. A simple test for pure water such as might be used by ordinary householders, is very desir able, but none exists, and it requires much skill to prove that water is abso- lutely pure. Chemical tests are uncer- tain. The taste is not to be depended amination of some of the wells used hy holy water consisted of almost pure sewerage. The frequent outbreaks of fore explained, So difficult has it be. Important Legal Decisions: a CONTRACT OF INFANT—PROOF OF NecessiTY—\W,, an infant, was sued for the price of a horse, and judgment wis recovered against him, He carried the case in error—Wood vs, Losey—10 the Supreme Court of Michigan, where the judgment was reversed. Judge Campbell, in the opinion, said : “The plaintiff only proved, though the infancy of the defendant was admitted, the sale of the horse, and rested his case; but he had failed to show a cause of action, as he had not proved that the horse was a necessary supply to the defendant. The request by defendant’s counsel, to charge that a necessity for the purchase must be shown, was proper, and the charge should have been given. It ap- peared that the horse was used on a farm in which the defendant was interested, and the refusal to charge gave the jury to understand that it was the necessity of the farming business, and not the necessity for the defendant’s part of it, which would make him liable, and they were led to a verdict whieh had no tes- timony to sustain it.” RAILROAD TICKET —~UONTRACT OR Recerrr.—L. bought an excursion ticket to X, but got on the wrong train, and when the conductor demanded the fare I. insisted on being carried to and jeft at X. He had no right under his ticket to stop at’Y, and the conductor ejected him from the train on his re: fusal to pay fare. Im an action for damages— Logan vs. Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company—the plaintiff recovered a judgment, and the com- pany took the case to the Supreme Court of Missouri, where a decision was made in its favor. Judge Henry, in the opinion, said : **The position of the plaintiff that the ticket was a contract for transportation is not tenable. A ticket cannot be sald to be either the contract ¢r to contain the contract The settled opinion is that it is a mere receipt taken or voucher adopted for convenience to show that the passenger had paid his fare from one place to another. A contract for transportation may therefore be proved independently of the terms of the ticket, It was the duty of the passenger to get on the right train on which his ticket was issued to carry him, and if he went on another train which did not stop at his station he could properly be ejected therefrom if he refused to pay the usual fare.” ATTORNEY DISCHARGING Dest Without Frin PAYMENT. —AD at- torney who had been employed to re cover money got a judgment for his client. and then satisfied the judgment for one-third of its value. In this case — Hamsicks vs, Combs—a motion was made to revive the judgment, and it was denied. The plaintiff carried the case to the Supreme Court of Nebraska, when the proceedings below were res versed. Judge Maxwell, in the opinion, said : **Theextent to which an attéIney would be justified in entering into & compromise of a doubtful claim Ji is unnecessary te consider ; but it is very clear that hie cannot, in the absence of authority to that effect, enter into an agreement to take about one-third of the face value of a valid judgment.” BreakinG Into Sor sy OFFICER WITH ATTACHMENT. ~— An officer sought to attach certain cigars and to- baceo which were in a shop detached from the dwelling of the owner, and, being refused admission to the shop for the purpose of making the attachment, he broke into it. An action of trespass was brought against the officer—Clark ve. Wilson—but the plaintiff’ was de- feated, and he carried the case to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, where he was again beaten. The Chief Jus- tice, Durfee, in the opinion, said : *‘An officer cannot break into a dwelling house to serve a civil process, but this privilege is not extended to a detached shop, barn or outhouse. He may force his way in there, after asking for ad- mitta ce of any one present who is authorized to give it.” RAILROAD TiokET NOT TRANS. FERABLE—~EJBOTION=DAMAGES — A bought a railroad ticket in which there was a stipulation that, in considesation of the reduced rate at which it. was sald, Tsland and Pacific Railroad Cons of days from the date of issue, is rea- sonable and proper, The purchaser gets the benefit of cheaper rates, while the railroad company, being advised of the number of tickets out, ir enabled to far- | nish ‘accommodations without ineon- venience,” INJUNCTION — TRESPASS, — C re- moved a fence which he sald was on a public road, and after it was replaced he removed it again. He threatened that he would continue to remove it, and he applied for an injunction to prevent the replacement of the fence, and got it. The defendant carried the cause—Owens vs, Cropett—to the Su- preme Court of Illinois, where the de- cree was reversed. Judge Walker, in the opinion, said : ‘For a single tres- pass, when the partly charged can re- spond in damage, an injunction will riot be granted upon a threat to commit another trespass, But if he is insolvent or threatens to continue the trespass he will be enjoined. In this case, however, there is a defect in the proof which will defeat the plaintiff’s bill ; he does not show, as he must, that the fence in question was on a legally established road, and was located at the precise place where the fence was built,” - a Jottings. Tae public debt was reduced $5,000,- 000 in July. Eiwcur million acres of Government land in Dakota have been disposed of to private persons within a year, Trae Philadelphia Mint turned out in July, 1,200,000 silver dollars,” 256,- | 000 five cent pieces, and 1,600,000 cents, Tue expenses of running summer hotels and large boarding houses are said to be greater this year than ever before, Tne merits of the castor oil plant in the destruction of flies and mosquitoes is again coming before the public. The Record says one of the largest hotels at Atlantic City has ordered 200 castor oil plants to effect a removal of these pests, A vERY large number of Knights Templar are enroute for the triennial conclave of the Grand Encampment to be held in San Francisco, the 20th, It will, perhaps, be one of the largest gath erings of the fraternity ever heretofore known in this eountry. A youxo machinist of Frankford Pa. , thinks be has discovered a new mechan- ical law, By a combination of known powers he says & new law is evolved in the application of which he is enabled to increase a hundred fold the power of #ny machine from a clock to a steam- ship. Just how it is accomplished we are not told, but the inventor says he combines the action of the screw and the inclined plane, and ore other form, which he refuses now to mention, but says the multiplication of power is an accomplished fact. Nous Verrons, — Very few trade dollars are now See, Millionaire Floods new house in San Francisco will cost about $5,000,000. ~The Pennsylvania railroad gives employment to five hundred telegraph operators, —JIn ‘England 200 years ago, the deaths were 1 in 124, now the rate of death is 1 in 42, —In Boston, from 1728 to 1752 the deaths were 1 in 21 of the living. In the same city the rate was 1 in 42 be- tween 1540 and 1865, — Allen P, Morris was the first con- federate soldier to draw a pension un- der the Tennessee law allowing $10 per month to Confederates in the army. Peter Henderson, the great New York florist and author, drives away ants from his rose bushes by affixing to the stems a sponge dipped in paraffine, Sojourners at summer resorts feel the need of a key to the bills of fare, on ‘which the commonest of dishes are disguised by being set down in bad French. —Trees should never be allowed to shade human dwellings, They are very beautiful and noble objects ; to my own fancy, abore beautiful and noble than afiy other production of our plavet, and wold have them multiplied, but juld not have them near our houses. — Fewis’ Monthly. —Thackeray is made by the London World! fo tell the story of the birth of ’ Fa air? “1 was ransacking Floriculture. Grasses, Just a bank of flowering grames, Lightly swaying to ap As the summer south-wind passes In the noon tide glow, In their diverse beauty fashioned, Turning often to the sky, Whence a glare of light impassioned Answers to the sigh. Guily greeting each wayfarer, Shy y bending 10 the breeze, Surely earth's gre.t Burden -besrer Careth much for these. Ah, the quaintly flowering grasses As hun we pais them by, Lie in brown and drooping masses, Gathered but to die! Is their murmur a complaining For their day so quickly passed ? Do they mourn its Bening claiming It should ever last? Buck a wealth of sweetness granted, As had never graced their bloom, Fills the air till we are haunted By the rich perfume, In their fragrant stillness lying, Where so lately they counseled faith,’ They in every act of dyin hieper * love in death.” Restoring Plants 3500 Years Old. A curious experiment has recently been tried with wreaths and votive offerings taken from the tomb of an Egyptian king, where they had been drying for 3500 years. Under judicious manipula- tion in hot water the dry cells swelled into their original plumpness, and the leaves, attached to card board and treated like recent specimens, were sent to Sir Josep) Hooker at Kew and exhibited ata late soiree of the Royal Society. Not only were the form of the leaves so far re- stored that they could be botantically identified but the intricate venation of the flower petals could be plainly trac- ed ; the coloring of lilies, larkspurs and other flowers was displayed, and even the distinctive orders of some speci- mens were preserved. In general, these old leaves and grasses were the same as of similar species to-day. Rose Perfume, The Weekly Hawkeye says: “Gather all the fragrant roses you can—no mat ter if you are a week gathering—and when you get a good many, take an iron mortar and pestle, like a druggist has, fill the mortar and pound the leaves toa pulp. It will be quite like a lump of dough. Then take your thimble and use it for a measure—fill it full of the mixture, empty out in to your hand, and between your palms roll and roll, until you make a compact little ball round as a marble. Make up all your rose dough material this way, place on plates and dry in the sunshine, They will be dark and brown looking, but “The scent of the roses will cling to them still,” These are to be put in drawers and trunks and band-boxes, and among your table and bed and towel linen, and they will be just as fragrant for years as when you plucked the short- lived beauties and buried your face lov- ingly drawn into their glowing red hearts. 1 have made beads of them by making them a trifle smaller and dry- ing them with pins stuck through the centres, Then they can be strung. Again, 1 have made them into little thin cakes the size of crackers. They are nice any way, for the great charm remains the same, Instead of pestle and mortar you can take your stew kettle and potato masher in a pinch.’ An Italian in America. Landing at New York by a ferry-boat is the first impression I get of Ameri- cans. To us who have no estimate of hurry, and live longer than these people exist, the scene is very attractive—in one sense! The ferry-boat is crossing early in the morning and is full of busi- ness men- that proud term of a country which recognizes the dignity of labor and condemns our dolor far niente. No one waits for the chain to be lowered ; this chain oftimes protects a free peo- ple from going overboard. They all jump over it, and frequently before the boat touches the wharf, That is pro- gressive young America. And from that early hour until the evening, when they go back on this boat, they are jumping over endless chains of com- merce and coins, The great nation of jumpers ! The republic of hurry! Young men in the prime of life jump into graves; middle-aged men hurry into coffins! 1 live on, a type of retro- gressive Italy !| Oh, progress, progress ! On thy altar are the sacrifices of mil- lions of lives, millions of luxuries, and millions of happinesses. 1 am hurried off the ferry-boat and hurried into a cab; 1am hurried into a hotel, a bath, a dining-room where a dinner is hurried into me, and then told that this is prog- ress, 1 am hurried in and out of bed and down Broadway, the veriest gulf stream of all hurry. Yes, it is prog- gress | So is a locomotive on the Hud- son River Railroad at eighty miles an at Albany on appropriation bubbly, sweet, dry, tart—in a word, in, — makes her a most attractive coquette in her frankness, in her pardonable fri- volity, in ber being a phenomenon of of verbal intrigue! You may lose your head easily with her in a week, and in the way of recollecting what you had said to her yesterday, for she is gifted with mewory, but your heart— jamais ? It takes a longer time for that! But be sure she will have both sooner or later. I don’t believe she is half as mercenary as she tatks, in the vein of what female heart can gold despise, Yet she gives you a strong impression that the alpha. and omega of life, is a modiste and a millionaire. My impression of an American gir! is one never to be for- gotten, She is bright, brisk and busi- ness-like, To be concise, 1 would call the American girl a sort of social eate- chism-full of questions and answers. In wany instances she omits the answers and becomes an incarnate questioner. I never experienced such a pleasurable witness-box position in all my life - Rome Letter, cmt ——————— Are All Birds Flesh-Eaters? Mr. Grant Allen, in an article in Knowledge on the English black-cap, answers this question in the aflirmative, Although the old black-caps eat largely of fruits, the young black-caps will eat nothing but insects, Breeders of canary—a seed-eating bird—are also well aware of the fact that the young must at first be fed on aminal food, usually given in the shape of boiled egg, Mr. Allen says that this trait of the black-cap, common to many if not to most fruit eaters, may be put side by side with the one noted by Mr. A. H Wallace, that the young humming- birds, which are developed flower-haunt- ing swifts, will eat nothing but spiders and small flies, In both cases the facts point back curiously to the original habits of the whole race. There can be very little doubt, adds Mr Allen, that all birds were at first carnivorous piscivorous, or insectivorous, and the greater part of them probably remain 80 to the present day. The practice of eating grains and seeds came later ; while that of living upon fruits, or nectar of flowers, must have been the latest of all. Indeed, the development of succulent fruits or berries seems to be a very recent acquisition on the part of plants generally ;: and it must have proceeded side by side with the evolu- tion of fruit-eating habits in the corre- lated birds. Hence we find the young still require to be fed upon animal food ; and indeed the adult black-caps, like many other similar mainly frugivorous species, cannot get along for any length of time without a liberal admixture of slugs and caterpillars in their food. On the other hand, the most advanced fruit- eaters, such as the parrots, readily re- vert to carnivorous practices in con- finement ; and one New Zealand spe- cies, since the introduction of sheep into the colony, has become a perfect pest to the breeders by its partiality for animal dainties, the the EE The Cholera. Some time since we alluded to the ravages of this fell destroyer of the human family, and of the possibility of a recurrence of its visitation to our shores, We enlarged at that time, but pow simply suggest that the possivility of ita presence in western Europe, and if so, the strong probability of its ad- vance towards America, justify the National, State and municipal authori- ties in exercising the utmost vigilance in enforcing a rigid quarantine. Fore- warned is forearmed. Sanitary rules enforced is one of the greatest barriers to the march of the scourge. Each administrative body should see to it, that no method that tends to promote cleanliness should be neglected ; other- wise, we may have a visit of the disease with its attendant calamities much sooner than many would think, We are no alarmists, but it is better to realize that an ** ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.” If the cholera should come, however, we would suggest—with the consent of course of your family physician--the following remedy we used in one case with marked success in 1840 : Our physician, an eminent one he was, Dr. Doyle, said to the writer a month befose the epidemic made its appearance, “‘Purchase a bottle of pure brandy, a vial each of spirits of amme- nia, landanum, and peppermint ; place this near your bedside at once, and don’t Jet them be disturbed, thus form. ing a habit of keeping them within reach for an emergency, as there is no time to search for remedies when the disease attacks you in the night.” obtained the articles, The cholera made its appearance, and a member of the family had what is termed several
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