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Health Hints.
How to Preserve and Restore
Health,
NEw CURE FOR SMALL Pox.—A
surgeon in the English army in China
has discovered a remedy very eflicient
in small pox.
as follows: When the fever has
reached the highest point, and before
the patient with croton oil and tartaric
ointment, which makes the eruption
appear on that part of the body, and
not on the rest of it. By means of
this treatment they also obtain the re-
out entirely, and of preventing the dis-
ease from attacking the internal or-
gans.
in the English army in India, and it is
considered a perfect cue
Wary FEET. —Children and all fee-
ble folks whose feet b come cold in bed,
should be provided with a foot-blanket.
An ordinary woolen blanket will make
four, if cut in two and then across at
right angles ; hem or bind the edges
and the blankets are ready for use. To
insure complete comfort, warm the
blankets at bed-time. The habit most
children, and many adults, have of
drawing up the limbs in bed for great-
er warmth is a bad one, as when the
body is in a constrained position, the
circulation of the blood is greatly re-
tarded. Children in particular should
be taught to lie straight in bed, and
when they sleep in a very cold room, it
is but common’ comfort to give them a
foot blanket. It is one form of safety
to warm foot blankets ready for such
members of the family as have been
out in the cold at night. Rubbing the
feet smartly is better than warming
them at a fire, For sick persens, warm
shoes as hot as the feot will bear, and
put them on; it is a much belter and
vuicker way than using a bottle of hot
water, or heating a brick. To go to
bed with cold feet or hungry, is idiocy,
when both can be avoided, — Rural New
Yorker.
MiLk AND On IN DIsEAsE.—Dr.
W. W. Townsend, a well-known physi-
cian in Philadelphia, in writing to the
Seientific American on the use of milk
as a diet in dysentery and typhoid fever,
2ays :
and have witnessed several epidemics of
ing fevers, small-pox, measles, &e., and
have used milk in every case ceming
under
every stage of the disease. I will no
say it is a cure, for [ do not believe in
the so-called cures and ‘‘specifics.”
Milk is the natural food of all mamma-
liane, It not only sustains life, but
raromotes the growth of every part of
the system. No other article contains
all these ingredients. It is the recup-
the cure, and he who studies how to
assist it by sustaining the system is the
best agents that can be used. In dys
entery I prefer fresh buttermilk, as all
the patient wants is perfect rest, and
discard all irritating cathartics and pur-
gatives, Mercury in any of its prepar-
ations is polson in dysentery or scarlet
fever, and the physician who gives them
will never be suceessful., If his patient
recovers, it will be despite his treatment,
I will add that in small-pox and scarlet
fever I anoint the patient from head
to feet with olive oil, by means of a
Yadger brush, and repeat as often as it
disappears ; thereby allaying the heat,
keeping open the pores of the skin, pro-
ducing quietude, preventing congestion
of the capillary circulation, and obviat-
ing the necessity of anodynes. I have
practiced the greasing for 35 years, and
was sneered at by my medical brethern
for it and the milk treatment. Now 1
believe it is in general use, and with the
best results,
att sas
A Doctor's Recollection of an
Epidemic.
Dr. C. H. Van Klein, of Hamiiten,
‘Ohioc, is perhaps the only phytician in
the United States who went through
the terrible cholera epidemic in Russian
army in the war between Russia and
Turkey, and was the only American
physician in the Russian service proper.
The unfortunate Dr. Lamson was
appointed by the English Red Cross
and was assigned to the Armenian
troops, where he served with the dis-
tinction, and was afterward decorated
by the Princess of Armenia. Dr. Von
Klein has a very vivid recollection of
the scenes. When he was mustered out
«of the service at the close of the war
the cholera was raging at Astrakhan
and other smaller towns on the line of
Siberia, People were dying by the
hundreds, and a semi-panic had taken
were fleeing from town to town and
city of about 16,000 inhabitants, and
months,
the government to go into the infected
| region and break up the epidemic, if
possible, When they arrived at A strak-
| ham the mortality was great and all
kinds of business was practically sus-
pended. The local physicians were all
. dead or powerless to help. the people,
Burials were made in the night-time
and the dead were hurried out of sight,
sometimes three or four in one grave,
Every measure was taken to stop the
spread of the disease, but to no purpose,
The towns were put in as good sanitary
order as the means at hand would ad-
mit. Tar, sulphur and juniper trees
were burned in the streets, the burning
of the juniper giving the most satisfac-
tory results, The disease had taken
such complete hold of the towns that
sultation with the government, it was
decided to burn the infected villages
that were past hope. Astrakhan was
spared, but five other towns cf conse-
quence were obliterated by fire. The
inhabitants were removed to the coun-
try, the afll‘cted taken to hospitals and
then the tourch was applied. The
towns were fired at several places and
one by une were speedly blotted out.
In this way the scourge was checked
after eight months, It was heroic treat-
ment, but Dr. Von Klein thought it
was the only thing to do, seeing that
the whole country was threatened.
Eight thousand persons died dur-
ing this epidemic in a very small
area.
In the event of the disease reaching
our shores the doctor recommends that
every family should take great precau-
| tion against it, and it would be better
if this were done right away. Cellars
should be kept clean and dry, and yards
and alleys put in the best condition
possible. Tarshould be turned about
the house and inside of it. The wood
of the juniper tree, or juniper berries,
he regarded as even better than tar
for this purpose. Either or all of these
could be burned in the house. As
to food, oatmeal, cracked wheat
and sweet milk are good. Eat
sparingly of meats, Fowl and game
| are less hurtful than beef. Vege-
tables increase the temperature
of the body, and should be avoided
as a rule, — Cincinnati Enquirer,
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Prominent People.
| Brac iP URN. Governor Blackburn,
| of Kenfucky, has issued 545 pardons
during his administration.
TeExNYSON, — Alfred Tennyson's
| publisher used to guarantee him
i $15,000 a year, but they can do it no
| more.
ARMOUR.—P. D. Armour, the
| Chicago speculator, is fifty-four years
| old. and worth $10,000,000, He isa
| New York farmer's son,
EADS. Captain Eads, the engineer
of the Mississippi jetties, has been in-
| vited to attend a meeting in Paris to
consider the question of the improve-
ment of the river Seine,
|
i
| er's vacation has been extended by
| the members of Plymouth church. The
| extension is granted so that Mr.
Beecher may lecture in some of the
Southern cities,
Kink woop, — Ex-Governor Kirk.
wood, of Iowa, since his return from a
tour to the Pacific coast, is earnest
in his advice to sight-seers to visit the
Rocky Mountains rather than to Switz-
erland.
HAWTHORNE. — Julian Hawthorne
greatly resembles his father, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, but is hardly so large and
handsome, He lives at Morrisania, N.
Y., where he is writing his’ father's
biography.
Burren. —General. E. G. W. But-
ler, who, on the establishment of the
Southern Confederacy, was offered the
position of commander-in-chief of th
Confederate forces, is enjoyng a heart
old age in St, Louis,
TeemeRr.~John Teemer, the young
oarsman, who recently achieved the
distinction of winning a race in which
Edward Hanlan was his competitor, is
a native of Pennsylvania, nineteen years
old. He is tall straight, square shoul-
dered, with large dark eyes, and weighs
155 pounds when he rows,
CARLETON. — Will Carleton, the pop-
ular verse writer, is thus described by
a reporter in Indianapolis where he has
been visiting: ‘‘He is nearly six feet
tall, of slender build, with a bright,
rather youthful face, blue eyes, aqui.
line nose, and short whiskers, which
cover only his chin, His hair which is
slightly tinged with gray, is combed
smoothly back, and this, combined
with the somewhat clerical cut of his
clothes, giver bim rather the appear-
ance of a well-to-do young ministeron a
vacation,”
ibiasidione
—Dr. T. R. Allison, a believer in the
worth of vegetable food, says that diet
is the philosopher's stone, ‘‘Allow me
to diet a’man,” he says, “and I will
make him lively or sad, good or bad
tempered, lazy or studious, long,
or short lived, or give him almost any
known disease,”
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Uncle Sam's Gold and Silver.
Uncle Sam has a money house in Wall
street, New York, called the sub-trea-
have liked to visit. It contains, at pre-
sent, in gold and silver coin, about one
hundred and five milllions of dollars all
neatly packed in bags, or stowed in bins,
| in vaults which are supposed to be burg-
lar proof,
In fact, they are burglar proof ; else
some gentleman of the profession would
have attempted them during the last
forty years,
They are deep down in the bowels of
the earth, under a building the most
massive and solid in all America, The
building was built as for eternity, cov-
ering the whole basement with arches
as strong as a stone quarry. Down in
that marvelous understructure, Uncle
Sam keeps the bulk of his gold. Doors
beyond doors of solid steel protect it,
these secured by locks that are wound
up every night like so many clocks,
which no key of man can open till they
run down,
The silver vault is a spacious under-
ground hall forty-seven feet long,
twenty-eight feet wide and twelve feet
high, divided inte bins of various sizes.
Here are nine hundred tons of silver
coin, with thirty-three millions of dol-
lars.
The gold is all kept in bags, each
of which contains five thousand dol-
lars, and the bags are piled one upon
another in even columns twelve bags
high.
When the sub-treasury bHI was
before congress, Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster, and the whigs generally
saw in it certain ruin of the republic.
Since the syslem was adopted, how-
ever, the sub-treasury has received
and paid something more than a bil
ion and a half of the
without the of a dollar, and
without disturbing the course of busi-
ness,
public money
loss
A lady of great ability, Mrs. Lamb,
editor of the of Americ
History, kas looking into
vaults and offices of the sub-treasury
Magazine
been the
recently, and gives us a pleasing view
The
any-
of its excellent and easy working.
sub treasurer, however,
thing but an easy time. In day
the office has paid eleven thousand pen-
sion cheeks, averaging twenty-six dol
lars each, and it 8 not uncommon for
has
one
thousand times in one moming to bond
and gold certificates. Youths’
pOnion,
ome
Keep the Children Happy.
Invent every possible amusement to
keep your boys at home in the evenings,
Never mind if they scatter books aud
pictures, coats, hats and boots | Never
mind if they do make a noise around
you, with their whistling and hurrab-
ing! We would stand aghast if we
could have a vision of the youug men
who had gone to utter destruction for
the very reason that, having cold, disa-
greeable, dull, stiff firesides at home,
they sought amusement elsewhere, The
influence of a loving mother or sister is
incalculable. Like the circle formed
by casting a stone in the water, it goes
on and through a man’s whole life,
Circumstances and worldly pleasures
may weaken the remembrance fer a
time, but each touch upon the chord of
memory will awaken the old time
music, and her face, her voice, and her
loving words will come up before him
like a revelation, The time will come,
before you think when you would give
the world to have your house tumbled
by the dear hands of those very boys;
when your heart shall long for the noisy
steps in the hall, and their ruddy cheeks
laid up to yours; when you would
rather have their jolly whistle than the
songs of Neilson; when you would
gladly have dirty carpets, aye, live
without carpets at all, but to have
their bright strong forms beside you
once more, Then play with and pet
them. Praise Johnny'sdrawing, Betty's
music, and baby’s first attempt at writ-
ing her nase, Encourage Dick to per-
severe in making his rabbit hutch. If
one shows a talent for figures, tell him
he is your famous mathematician ; and
if another loves geography, tell him he
is sure to make a good traveler or for-
eign missionary. Go with them to see
their young rabbits, and chickens, and
pigeons. Have them gather you mosses,
and grasses, and flowers to decerate
your room. And you will keep your-
self young and fresh by entering into
their joys,
Preserves, JAMS AND JELLIES
keep better if the pots into which they
are put are sealed up while hot, because
if exposed to the air until cold little
germs will fall upon them from the air
and retain their vitality, and will soon
fall to work decomposing the fruit. On
the other hand, if the jars are sealed
while hot the germs are destroyed by
scalding.
Ge ns of Thought.
leave home with unkind
words,
. =—Never neglect to call upon your
| friends.
Never laugh at the misfortunes of
others,
~ Never give a promise that you do
not intend to fulfill,
—We walk on the verge of two
worlds ; at our feet lies the very grave
that awaits us.
--Keep your religion sweet, A sour
kind of piety that is always finding
fault with others, grumbling and
growling because things are not differ-
ent from what they are, is neither well
pleasing to God, nor profitable to men,
Open your heart to the sweet influences
of divine grace, and let a little of God's
sunshine into your soul.
A Touching Memorial,
The superintendent of a street rail
way leading out of New York into the
country, tells how a father and mother
erected a memorial to their dead boy.
Sitting alone in his office one day, a
strange gentleman entered, who proved
to be an officer in the army. He
carried a little box in nis hand, and
after some hesitation, said :
“I bave a favor to ask of you. 1
had a little boy, and I've lost him,
He was all the world to me. When he
was alive my wife used to search my
pockets every night, and whatever
loose change she found, she would put
it away for the baby, Well, he’s gone,
Here is the box.
“We talked the matter over, and
came to the conelusion that we could
not do better than to bring the money
to you to pay the fares of poor sick
children out of town during the sum-
mer,
“It would please him to know that
Le is pelping to save the lives of other
poor children. as the box is
empty it. While
we will keep up the bank.”
The box has been twice emptied and
As soon
we will fill we live
dren have owed to this dead baby their
one breath of fresh air this summer,
Duties of Dally Life.
Life is not entirely made up of great
evils or heavy trials ; but the perpetual
of petly
trials is the ordinary and appointed ex-
To bear
with the failings of those about
with their infirmities, their bad judg-
ment, their ill breeding, their perverse
tempers to endure neglect
feel we deserve attention, and ingrati-
tude where we expected thanks: to
recurrence evils and small
ercise of the christian graces,
US
when we
bear with the company of disagreeable
people whom Providence has placed in
our way and whom he has provided on
purpose for the trial of our virtue, these
are the best exercisers of patience and
self denial, antl the better because not
chosen by To bear with
vexations in business, with disappoint-
ment in our expectations, with inter-
ruptions of our retirement, with folly,
intrusion, disturbance iu short, with
whatever opposes our will or contra.
dicts our humor this habitual
quiescence appears to be more of the
essence of self-denial than any little rig-
ors or afflictions of cur own imposing.
These constant, inevitable, but infer.
jor evils, properly improved, furnish a
ourselves,
ac
the days of ignorance, have superseded
pilgrimage and penance.
EE —————
Home Economies,
iss.
LerTucE SALAD.—Directions for
the preparation of lettuce were given
in the “emergency dinner,’ and also a
tule for making a boiled dressing, which
is one of the most delicate and delicious
of smiad dressings. A word or two re
garding treatment of lettuce may not
be out of place just here. Never cut
it or use a knife to it in any fashion,
Tear it apart and arrange it with the
larger leaves on the outside and the
smalier light yellowish leaves in the
centre, so it will look like a head of
lettuce fully opened. Itis well not to
dress it unless you fully know the tastes
of each individual and find they are
similar, for tastes about salads are quite
apt to differ. Some prefer sugar and
vingar merely ; others like best the
French dressing, while still others de-
sire the boiled or the Mayonnaise dress
ing. If you don’t want the bother of
making a dressing yourself it will
save you much trouble to have a bottle
of salad dressing always on hand in the
chest.
CARAMEL SAUCE. ~ Pour one-half a
cup of sugar in an omelet pan and stir
over the fire until it is dark brown;
add one-half a cup of boiling water, and
just simmer, not boil, for a quarter of
an hour ; pour ever the custard just be
fore serving. This ‘so delicious onan
apple pudding.
Frexon Dressing, —This is made
and the lettuce is dressed at the table,
Mix one salt-spoonful of salt and half a
saltspoonful of pepper in the salad.
spoon ; then fill the spoon three times
with oil and once with vinegar, and toss
all lightly together,
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Cocoaxvr Cake.—Take the whites
of five eggs, one small cup of sweet
milk, one cup and two-thirds of another
of granulated sugar, two-thirds of a cup
of butter, one teaspoonful and a half of
baking powder, about three cups of
sifted flour ; flavor with almond extract ;
bake in layers. Beat the whites of two
or three eggs to a froth, add pulverized
sugar enough to make rather thin frost-
ing, and put between the layers; on
this scatter cocoanut ; put on enough to
make a nice layer ; for the top and sides
of the cake the frosting should be a
little thicker,
CHOCOLATE CAKE. —Take a half
pound of melted butter, and stir it un-
til it froths, Take the yelks of twelve
eggs, stir them into the butter, add
half a pound of pounded sugar, the same
of ground almonds, a quarter pound of
chocolate, ground, a tablespoonful ef
cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of cloves,
pounded, Stir all well together for a
quarter of an hour. Then beat the
whites of the eggs to a froth, and
add these to the above mixture, Bute
ter the and bake the above
in a moderate oven for an hour and a
quarter,
JELLY UAKE.—Deat three eggs three
minutes ; add one teacupful of white
sugar ; butter the size of a small egg,
warmed but not melted, and one small
teaspoonful of lemon extract, Beat
altogether five minutes, and add one-
third of a teacupful of sweet milk. Sift
one heaping teaspoonful of baking pow«
der into one teacupful of flour, and stir
into the other ingredients. Spread thin
on round tins, and bake in a quick
oven. When partially cool spread with
currant jelly, and put the layers to-
gether,
CanaMer Custarp.—Put one-half
a cup of sugar in an omelet pan and stir
until it melts and is light brown, Add
two tablespoonfuls of water and stir in-
to one guart of warm milk,
eggs slightly, add one-half a
teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of
mold,
Beat
seven
Strain it
into the remainder of the milk and pour
it into a buttered two quart
vanilla and part of the milk.
mold ; set
the mold in a pan of cold water and
bake thirty or forty minutes, or until
firm and a knife-thrust comes out clean.
Serve it eold, with a
To
ina pan of ice walter,
caramel sauce
it for dinner
poured over it, cool
place the mold
and do not remove it until it
fectly cold and you are ready to serve
it.
ing veal has been very much liked at
the cooking-school, and several repeti-
tions of it have been asked in the dem-
onstration lessons. Veal from the leg
is always used for cutlets. This pore
tion of the meat is tough, and, if fried
or broiled, as is often doney without
any preparation, is hard and indigesti-
ble. Pounding and trimming carefully,
and then simmering in the nicely sea-
soned gravy, make it tender and deli-
cious. Take one slice of veal from the
leg, wipe it well, and remove the bone,
skin and tough membranes. "Pound
and cut into shapes for serving. Sprin-
kie with salt and pepper. Roll in fine
cracker crumbs, dip in beaten egg,
then roll again in the cracker crumbs,
Brown the pieces in hot salt pork fat,
and put into astewpan, Make abrown
gravy with the pork fat, if it is not
scorched, by adding to It and working
thoroughly iato one heaping tablespoon-
ful of flour; when this is smooth and
well cooked add one and one-half cups
of hot water, or stock if you have it,
Season with Worcestershire sauce, or
onion or tomato, as suits your own taste,
Pour the gravy over the cutlets and
simmer until tender, which will be in
about three-quarters of an hour, Take
out the cutlets and put them on a hot
platter, remove the fat from the gravy,
add more seasoning if needed, and strain
over the meat. Garnish with sliced
lemon, In seasoning any dish remem-
ber always that a successful flavor is
one which cannot be defined. If any
taste is marked the delicacy and refine-
ment of the dish is lost. Too many
cooks insist on emphatic flavors, and by
#0 doing lose all elaim to the title of
artists, Sh. i
Liberal in One Way, at Least.
¢} should hate to have a husband
who "lowanced me every time 1 wanted
to buy anything,” said Mrs. Slimms,
“When I tell Slimms that I want a
little change to go shopping with he
doesn’t hum and haw as some men do,
He just takes out his pocketbook and
says : ‘‘Certainly, my dear ; how much
do you want, a five or a ten?’ “And
what do you say?’ asked Mrs. Smith,
“Oh, I never say anything. He gives
me the money right off, without wait-
ing for me to answer,” “And how
much does he give you?’ “A dollar,
generally—unless he has some change
handy. But then it isn’t the amouut
that I care so much about. It is the
readiness with which he responds to my
request that makes me think so much
of him.”
AAA IRSA
~<One of the most singular of the
fish family is the whistling sucker,
which is sometimes caught in Walker
lake, in Nevada,
BE MERRY.
BY A. ASTIMUN KELLY.
Youth's a time for mirth,
And not for sorrow ;
Value life for what it's worth,
Discount not the morrow,
Youth's a time for love,
And not for reason ,
hen young blood the pulses move,
Then love is in season
In age "tis time enough
8
To harbor melancholy ,
The wisdom of mirth need no proof,
Sariousness is folly,
It's well enough, perhaps,
To caution reekless sinners
But let alone those merry chaps
Who revel in good dinners
Wine and song and women fair,
hese all make life cheery ;
For doth not holy writ declare
We should eat, drink and be merry?
(Bryn Mawr Homx News.
Scraps.
—Key
papers,
West has four local Spanish
—(renerally profitable mission — a
eomnission,
--In Savannah, Ga., an income over
$800 per annum is subject to a city tax,
—The antl-billous American tomato
are shipped largely to London for the use
of her clubs,
—~]t is understood that Mr, A. J.
Cas<att will have his famous horse
Bend Or in the New York Horse Show,
~—J3t 18 a well established fact --that a
person who is guilty of squirting tobacco
juice in the house of worship, don’t
expec-to-rate as a gentleman,
—Three new operas will be produced
in Hamburg the coming season ;
amith,”” by Anton
cmba,”’ by
*“Sul-
4 : # * fA
iubinstein ; “Col-
Mackenize ; and ‘The
Veil of the Prophet,” by Stanford.
~The Chimney,” at
Port Dundas, Glasgow, is 468 feet high
“Townsend
from foundation to coping, and is as-
serted to be the tallest chimney in the
world, It contains 1,400,000 bricks,
and weigh 7000 tons,
A Brooklyni named WwW.
Parrett, says he has been supernaturally
te, (200,
informe that a large treasure lies hid-
den in the Central Park, N. Y., but the
commissioners will not let him do any
experimental digging there,
F. JL Loees, a well-known, Sheffield,
Eng. bicycle rider, recently covered 20
26 sec, to spare. and the English papers
declare this to be the most remarkable
bicycling on record.
How peaceful is the night !
The moon pours love and light
©)'er all the scene ;
The house dog glares askance,
With a shred of lover's pants
His teeth between,
— Burlington Free Press.
Clothespins, which come principally
from Maine, are made chiefly of white
birch and beech. When the logs are
cut proper lengths by steam
machinery, the cut pieces are deposited
on an elevator belt, which feeds them
into turning lathes, each capable of
turning = pins a minute,
nto
Assays of the nickel ore discovered
in Churchill county, Nev., are said to
have yielded 3 per cent. of pure metal.
~ Some oystermen express the belief
that the oyster, like the lobster, will be-
come too scarce to meet the popular
demand in a few years,
JA young lady living in Port Jervis
went to a barber shop there last week
and had ber hair (which was 3 feet 6
inches long) cut because it made her
head ache.
—According Lo the latest census of
Japan, taken the first of the present
year, the population of the empire is
26,700,110, of whom 18.508 908 are
males and 18,102,112 females,
~ What is the difference between
a muscular tramp and a newly
cleaned lamp? Only this, one is
a well-limbed tramp and the other is
a well-trimmed lamp. — Oil City Derrick.
‘there is, likewise, this difference, that
generally the lamp iz worth something,
and the tramp is worthless,
—A meeting called by temperance
leaders in Liverpool recently, was cap-
tured by men pot in sympathy with its
real objects, There was no disorder,
and but little feeling beyond the natur-
al vigor of speech on either side, and
the Chairman of the meeting, Mr. Bal-
forer, a noted temperance worker, de-