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THE CHILDREN'S COUNTRY
WEEK.
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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:
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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,”
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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,
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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