Whoppers. It was at a miner'seabiu inTennossee; a dozen or so of rough, nnoonth, un kempt looking fellows sat over a stove in an atmosphere redolent with oold cof fee and tobacco. "Tulkiu' about your stories," said a grizzly, gray old fellow, removing his pipe from between two shaggy moases of tawuy hair, while his companions gave each other bignittosut glances— "ltnlkiu' about your stories, why, y've all liearu on itill 11 ess, him us was killed in '7O, a moonshining, Well, Bill an' me wns old erouies. A year afore tho war Bill, ho swelled of a poach pit. It trubblcd of him n kinder, but no one thought muck on't; but Bill's appetite it got stronger aud stronger, till at last he'd cut and de vour of every think as what ho could lay of his hands on. An'tho mystery about tho affair wns, that tho moro Bill he would eat, the thinner did he become. " It wus six years nrter that—yes, it wns coving years—when one day Bill ho wus took with a gripin' an' a groan in'. Bnnkes ! how he kicked and yelled; seving men couldu'l hold of him. No doctor wus in the ports where we wus. Woll, he had couwulsious, an' he bad 'cm right smart, too, I tell yer, and the furst think we knowd, up came a small cheery tree " " I thought as 'ow he swalled of a peach pit ?" some one asked. " Well, so ho did,and he disgorged of n poach tree about three feet big!*-did I say cherry?—woll, that wus a slip of the tongue—with bloomin' peaches on it. And arter that Bill's health cum back to him, and he wusu't afflicted uc more." * " I've got a story to beat that," ex claimed a yonng, sprightly-looking miner, with n merry eye and a clear complexion. "Me an Bob Jones we wns a travelin' in 'SB, jnst about the time that ere accident happened to Bill Hess,and Bob he got a cinder in his eye, which kinder annoyed him. It got wnss and wusp, till the poor feller hadn't no peace or comfort. Ono day, savs Bob to me, says he: ' Pete, somethink is the matter with that ere eye.somethiuk is the matter. It feels like as what it was gettin' bigger and lenvin' of my head.' " I looked at it,and sure enough there wns a raisen-like sort of think on it. Htill it trubblcd of Bob. Day by day, that raisen-like sort of think growed ami growed, nutil it wouldn't let the eyelid shut. Mind ye, all this time Bob could see just as well as ever, if auythink, bet ter than nor before. The raisen like sort of think growed nnd growed for two years, when it bail growed three inches ont of Bob's eye. It was just like a bush, with tiny brunches and little bits of leaves. Well, to make a long story short, one night Bob turned over on Lis face in his sleep, and in the mnrnin' he found a little maple tree lyin' alongside of him, and the pain iu his eye and tho bush wns gone. That, there," pointing to a sapling just ont of the door, "is the tree which growed of the cinder what Bob Jones caught in his eye." French Doctor*. The fees which French physicians re ceive, says tho London Air to*, wonld seem to their English brethren very low. I gather from a recent controversy in the papers that some leading London practitioners lately raised their fee for a first consultation to two guineas. In Paris the best physicians expect fonr dollars for a consultation at home, and eight dollars if they go out; but a rather exaggerated sentiment of professional delicacy prevents them, sa a rule, from demanding more than a patient chooses to give. The table of a busy doctor is littered over with gold-pieces so group ed as to convey the hiut that fees of one, two or three napoleons have been received; bnt if a patient lays down two dollars, or even one, ho n-ceives his bow and thanks without a protest, tho doctor assuming (often wrongly) that tho man has given ail he can afford. In country towns one dollar is the nsnal fee, bnt forty cents are often given by men who ought to know better, and forty cents is tho invariable fee which village doctors put down per visit when sending in their bills at the end of theyerr. One is ashamed to say thst these doctors' bills often give rise to the sorriest hag gling, for there exists a crooked opinion that a physician should regard himself as a philanthropist, and pay his butcher's kills with the mortant qualify of detecting insects by the slightest touch wonld have been lost. Numerous fanciful notions are enter tained regarding bats. They are said to be able to see in the dark, and that they are bloody aud vengeful in their nature. As concerns seeing in the dark, that is quite erroneous. Their power of avoid ing obstacles when flying in darkened places is not due to their eyes, but to that keen sensibility in their wings that has been jnst alluded to. The thin leathery wings of bats are their antenr.w, or feelers. I)arting about iu nil direc tions in utter darkness, they are never by any chance impeded or injured by obstacles that happen to be in their way. Experiments have ocen made by stretch ing strings scions darkened places iu which a number of them are conflr.nl, and no string ia ever disturbed in Un-ir flight. The exquisitely radiated syatem of nerves in a bat's wing offers one of the finest studies in animal physiology, or, we might say, in natural theology. Shall a creature ao ingeniously formed bo spoken of with sentiments of hostility or derision T On the contrary, it shnnlil excite our warmest admiration. Artists from time immemorial have been in habit of depicting malevolent demons with wings on the pattern of those of the list—a piece of conventionality wholly at variance with what is learned from a contemplation of the actual facts in na ture* The bat is no more fiendish than the swallow or any other bird which has been appointed to rid the atmosphere of superfluous and deatructive insects. Women Druggist* in Holland. I . 18G5 o young laly of Zaaadijk, ST -a A. M. Tobbe, wrote to the medical commission of Northern Holland, a.akir.g to lie admitted an a student of pharmacy; she desired to fit hernelf to carry mi the druggist buHtness of her father, who had juat died, and which wan abont to be entrnated to a graduate with a diploma. The commission answered her that her request wan no exceptional that they did not think they had a right to decide it, and advised her to write pcisoiajly to the minister of the interior, M. Thor beeke. On the 25th of J nun, 184)5, he refused her rrquest on tlie gmutid that aa article seventeen of the instructions for druggists used only the pronoun hr. The law of IMf.dkipon the exercise of the art of healing was, however, more gal lant than its predecessor and admitted women as wf 11 as men to the examina tion as either stndtnta of pLarmacy, druggists' assistants or druggists. Hard ly eleven yeara haTe panned aince this laat medical law liegan to operate, and already a hundred women have l>eeu re ceived aa student* of tiharaacy, and when they havo acquired the necessary knowledge and satisfied the legal re quiremont* will pass through the ex amination* neecsarv to qualify them for the right to open a drug store. The examination required for becom ing a student of pharmacy is itself quite a serious one. It comprehends the Dutch language, arithmetic, Latin, the reading and application of written re ceipt* and some of the prescriptions of the PhartiHuxiprra hrs.rbandiea, atlieo retical knowledge of medicine, a knowl edge of simples by their exterior charac ter*, the origins of medicines, their scientific names with their eynonyros and the preparation of reoeipt*. The fact is not very flattering to the stronger sex that, on the average, the nnmlnrr of Liascnliuo candidates refused ia double that of women candidates. These future druggists, many of whom are the daugh ters of druggists or country doctor*, do at find their places only in their fathers' offices bnt are in demand among the druggist* of the large cities, in Amrter dtm especially, and now in the phar macies of hospitals, and oommend them selves by their habits of order, neatness and exactness, which are rarely met with in equal degree among their male competitors.—AVic York Graphic. Droeden haa a aingnlar educational inatitationwhich ia called the " Dres den Academy for the Teaching of Tail oring and Drewimaking." It waa at tended laat year by 254 pupils, male and female. Of theae 187 followed the class for the cutting of women's drecsee, twenty ihat for the ontting of meu'a linen, and ninety-five that for arithmetic and bookkeeping. Among the foreign pnpila there are natives of Belgian. Denmark, Holland, Russia, Hwedon and Norway, Hwitaerland, Austria and North America. Curious Method of Catching Quail. The following passage, from a work called " Hport and Work on the Nepanl Frontier," desorilicß the manner of cap turing qunilH in tho East Indies: Tray cling one day along one of the glades I have mentioned as dividing the strips of jungle, I wan Hummed to ee a rnsn before me in a field of long Htnbble, with a cloth Hpread over his head ami two sticks projecting in front at an ob tnse angle to hiH body, forming horn like projections, on which tho ends of hi olotb, twisted Hpirally, were tied. I thought from his curious antics nod movements that ho mut be mud, but I soon discovered that there WHS method in hiH mndncHH. lie was catching quail. The quail are often very numerons'in the stubble fields, and the natives adopt very ingenious devices for their cap ture. This WUH one I was now witness ing. overing themselves with their cloth as I liuve described, the projecting ends of tho two sticks representing tho horns, they simulate all tho movements of a cow or ball. They pretend to pnw up Hi" earth, tons their make-believe horns, turn round nd pretend to scratch thcmi'elves, and, in fact, identify thcra selves with tho animul they are repre senting; and it is irresistibly comical to watch a solitary performer go through tliis at fresco comedy. 1 have laughed often at some cunning old herdsman or shekarry. When they see yon watching them they will redouble their efforts, and trv to represent an old bull going through all his pranks and practices, and throw yon into convulsions of laughter. ltound two sides of tiie Held they hove previously put fine nets, and at the apex they have a largo cage with a decoy quail inside, or perhaps a pair. The quail is a running bird, disinclined for night except at night; in the daytime they prefer rnnning to nsing their wings. The idiotic-looking old cow, as wre will call the hunter, has all his wits about him. He proceeds very slowly aud wanly; hiH keen eye detects the conveys of quail, which way they are going, his ruse generally suoeocdH won derinily. He Is no more lik" a cow thin that respectable animal is like a encum ber; but he paws, and tosses, and moves about, pretends to est. to nibble here, uud switch his tail there, and so on maneuvers as to keep the running quail away from tho unprotected odges of the field. When they get to tho verge pro tected by tho net, they begin to take alarm; they are probably not very cer tain about the peculiar-looking "old cow " behind them, and rnnning along the net, they see tho decoy qnails evi dently feeding in great security aud freedom. The V-shapod month of tho largo basket cage looks invitingly open. The puzzling nets are barring the way, •and the •' old cow " is gradually closing np behind. As the hunter moves along, I should have told Ton, he rubs two pieces of dry hard sticks gently up and down his thigh with one hand, prodnc ing a peculiar crepitation, a crackling sound, not sufficient to startle tho birds into flight, bnt alarming thcra enough to m:il£ them get out of the way of the "old cow." One bolder than the others, possibly the most timid of the covey, irritated by the queer crackling aonnd, now enters the basket, the others fol lowing like a flock of sheep; and once in. the pnzsling shape of the entrance pre vents their exit. Not infreqnentlv tho hunter bags twenty or even thirty Lracc of qnail in one field by this ridiculous ookiug but ingenious method. The Trade in Hlrdft* A busy bat quiet industry in tins city is that >( tho bird fanciers. A dealer in canary bird* nay* that last year ho im ported 100,000 bird*, which were readi ly disposed of at fair prices. They are generally brought from tho Uartz moan tain region of Germ any. From the large dealers a fine male canary with a good roiee can be bonght for s.l. Choice specimens with eitraor.linary vocal powers tiring, sometimes, $lO. Female birds for breeding purposes sell for sl. Unscrupulous dealers,particularly street vendors, palm off on the unwary the to males for good songsters, and only after patient waiting do the owners, who have lieen aohl as well as the birda, find it out. An amatenr slight of-hand per former gives this ns hia method for MB daring a canary tame enough for trick playing: " Take a young bird and pnt oil of hergmmot on hia bill. It will make him l as drnnk as a lord'; then roll him in yonr bands nntil he is famil iar with yonr toneh, and pnt him in hia eage to oorne to hiraaelf. He can lie handled afterward at any time witbont lieiug at all frightened. Then the first thing is to toach him to climb np yonr fingers aa a ladder, and to hop on yonr thnrab. Boon be can be tangbt to do anything." Next to the canary the mocking bird ia most in demand. Tboae whose vocal powers are well-developed are aold for $26 and npwtnl. The nirda come from Virginia and other Southern Htates, and alao from Mexico. The bullfinch ia highly regarded when well-trainod. It can t>e taught to whistle tunes. There is one in Chatham atroet which whistles " Pretty Polly Perkins." Its price ia $25. One which can whistle ten tune* ia vslned at S4O. The goldfinch,chaffinch, nightingale, lark and the linnets ami thrushes are alao prized as songsters. Of other birds not songsters, thirty dif ferent specie*, kept as pets for their beanty or acquirements, may Ire found in market Of these the parrot is most in demand. A well-trained bird of either the gray Afnon variety, or the green American, la worth 150, or even SIOO. The moat brilliantly colored birds are the Australian paroquets and strawberry finches.—m YorkTribunr. Heller From s Cera. Bosk the foot in warm water for a quarter of an honr every night; after each snaking, rub on tbe corn patiently, with the finger, a half dozen drops of sweet oil; wear around the toe daring the day two thicknesses of bnokakin, with a hole in it to roodve the oorn, and continue this treatment until tbe oorn falls out. If yon wear moderately loose shoes, it will be months, and even years, before the corn returns, when the same treatment will be sAcieut in s few days. Faring corns is always danger one, Iwside making them take deeper root, es does a wend nut off near the ground; but tbe plan adviaed is safe, painless, and costs nothing but a little attention.— Kxnhang*. The Atlantic Cable. The New York Evening Poet saya, in an article referring to the grand rooop tion given at tho honse of Cyrus w. Field, to commemorate tho twenty fifth anniversary of the formation of tho first company to lay a telegraphic cable across tue Atlantic ocean : As early as 1850 a copper wire, cover ed with gutta-percha, was laid across tho English ohauncl between Dover uud Calais, but communication waH kept up. bv it for a short tinie only. It was re placed next year by a cable of four wires, which is still working. Still earlier a wire bad been laid ucross the ! Rhino, a distance of only half a mile, ; and within a few years severul other | submarine cables were laid, but they ' were all short and iu shallow water. The longest was the Holland cable, Which was stretched for bnt one linu j drod and thirty miles and in water but a few fathoms in depth. No at tempt was made to establish telegraphic communication across tho Atluutic until j 1854, wiien tho "New York, Newfound- ! land and London Telegraph company " j was formed iu Mr. Field's house—the) samo whirb he now inhabits iu Cramer- i cy park. The agreement to organize ! this company was signed in Mr. Field's dining-room on the 10th of March, 1854, , by Mr. Field, I'ofc-r Cooper, Moses Tay- J lor, Marshall O. Roberts and Chandler i White. David Dndlcy Field was pres- ! cut on the occasion as counsel, and went ! with his brother Cyrus to St. Johns to obtain tbo charter, which declared the j object of the company to be " to estab- ] lmh a line of telegraphic oommnnica- i tion between America anil Europe by ! way of Newfoundland." Mr. White died soon after, uud was succeeded by Wilson G. Hnnt. When the lino to Newfoundland was com pleted Cyrus W. Field went to London, where he organized the Atlantic Telc gruph compauy in 1856. In the follow ing year an attempt was made to lay tho first transatlantic cable, bnt it broke when tho ships were about three bun | dred miles from the coast of Ireland, ; and the enterprise wns suspended. In 1858 a second attempt was made. The American man-of war Niagara and the English man-of-war Agamemnon sailed for the middle of the Atlantic, where it WBH intended tlint they should join j cables and then sail back, east and west, to carry the two ends to their respect j ivo countries. A violent storm arose ; before the vessels met, in which Uie j Agamemnon uarrowly escaped founder- ! ing, and after the cable wus joined it parted several times, so that the expc 1 dition was abandoned. In the snmmer of tho same year another effort was made with success, and the result was hailed with public rejoicings ; but al though messages were exchanged be tween England and the United States, aud the practicability of tho project was demonstrated, comtnunicition was main tained for only three weeks. It was re established in 1846, after two new cables bad been manufactured. One of the latter was partly laid in 1H65, but broke iu mid-ocean. It was 11 de lup in the follow ing year atm curried to The m-t of Newfoundland. The cable of IKSB was th* pioneer of deep-sea telegraphy throughout the world. In oonzeqneuce of its success, temporary OH it was, cables *< rc laid iu the Mediterranean, the Red *oa, the Persian Rnlf, the Arabian sen and the bay of Bengal, down the Malayan pe - musnla to I'c-uang and Singapore, along the coast of Asia to China, and across to Japan. Lima were also carried to Java and across to Anstralia and New Zealand, while in the western world cables were laid to Cubs, the West India islands, and along the coast of Month America. 1 Of the persons who compose 1 the original Atlantic cable company, all ex cept Mr. White are now living." A Female Crn-oe. The Son Francisco journals contsir an acconntof what tlicy call a Califomion Crusoe, an Indian woman who hod for eighteen years lived alone on a dreary desert island, and was finally diacovcn-d and taken off by the crew of a vessel in search of her. Many years ago a small schooner was sent to tho island of San Nicholas, in the Pacific, some seventy five miles sontlieast of Hants Barbara, to bring awav a nnmlier of Indians liv ing there ami settle them on the main laud. Nineteen men. women and children hail been got on board, when one of them, a mother, fonnd that two of her offspring hod been left behind. She immediately jnmped overboard and swam to the island, where she sought in vain for her children. Having re turned to the shore % she saw the schooner sailing away, and trie-*! in vain to attract attention. The island was not visited again for sixteen years. Then George NiJever, an otter-hnntcr, com manding a small vessel, landed there, and detected evidences of hamsn habi tation, bnt could not stay long enough to prosecute bis qneat, vo years after be sailed there again and, roaming over the island, esme upon the woman, who was not at all witd, and made no effort to escape. Hho was clad in a garment fashioned of the skiu of a sea-fowl, and was occupied in skinning seal blubber, which had formed the greater part of her diet. She was quite good-looking, seemed about fifty years old, and spoke a language nobody could understand. She died a few weeks after reaching Santa Barbara, while living in the house of Nidevor, from the effects of a fall se riously injuring her spine. Tossed bike a Hall. " Hs will surely violently turn and toes thee like a bail into a Urge coun try." (Isaiah, xxii., 18.> Many have no doubt marvolled much as to what oonld be the physical fact intended by this simile. A correspondent of the Loudon Note* and Qverien used to wonder till he was a witness to the sight. He was in the island of Mityleue during a great storm of wind in winter- There ia a plant, not unlike wormwood, whioh grows into s compact globular form, with vary stiff talks and branches. In winter it dies down to the ground, and in its dry and light condition is torn from its roots by the wind, sod set bounding over the wide end unendowed country. He has seen five or sis of these coursing along at once—e vivid emblem of a man at the mercy of s higher power, helpless to choose hia own course, or even find rest. The Preservation of forests. In au article with the above title in the North American fteview, Felix L. Os wald, after reviewing tho disastrous ef fects which have followed tho whnh*alo destruction of forests in various coun tries of the world, remarks that since the year 1835 the forest area of the Western hemisphere lias decreased at the overage yearly rate of 7,600,000 ai res, or about 11,400 square miles ; in tho United Htatc-a alone this rate has advanced from 1.600 square miles in 1835 to 7,fK)O in 1850. aud 8,400 in 1876, Between 1750 and 1835 the total aggre gate of forests felled in Houth aud Cen tral America (especially in Southwestern Mexico), and in the Eastern, Southern and Houth weetcrn States of oar republic, may be estimated at from 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 acres. In other words, we have been wasting the moisture supply of the American soil at the average ratio of seven percent, for tact* juarter of a century daring the last one hundred and twenty-five years, nud are now fast approaching the limit beyond which any further decrease will affect the climatic phenomena of the entire continent. If wo consider how the agr.cultural products of the eastern continents be come from year to year more inadequate to the wants of their stilt-growing popu lation, we may f'-rsee the tune when the hope of the world will dependupon the productiveness of the American soil; but tbat productiveness depends on the fertilizing influence of the American forests. If they are gone we shall ave on earth no newer world to hope tor— no future Columbus can alleviate the struggle i< r existence. To stay snch a catastrophe the author suggests that in every township, where the disappear ance of arboreal vegetation begum to af fect the |>ercnninl springs and water courses or the fertility of the fields, a spuce of fifty acrea should be appropri ateil for a " township prove." en oasis to be consecrated forever to shade trees, birds' nests, picnics and playing chil dren. In all new settlements, where a remnant ol the primeval forests has sur vived, let the woods on the upper ridges or on tho summits of isolated hills be spared by mutual agreement of the pro prietors. In the treeless regions of the great West not only the amateur socio ties, but every grange and farmers' union of every county, should devote to em sol ves to the work of tree culture ; and ev. ry landed pr"j rietor should see to it tbat the boundaries of bis states lie set with shale trees, and that the wooden fences Is- supplanted by quick set BO'gis. Ist fruit trees ISJ planted wherever there is a piece of ground neither otherwise occupied nor almoluie ly barren : and Is- tnre that their influ once on the atmosphere in summer and llieir fertilising leaves in fall w.ll more than indemnify the adjoining fields for the modiolus of sunlight they msy in tercipt. Any Slate where these pre cautions should be gem-raliv adopted would roon be so unraistakafdy distin guished by the unfailing humidity and freshness of its fields and the abundance of its crops, that the sheer necessity ol competition w.-uld induce backward neighbor* to try the experiment, and be fore long the mnrirn would not only be gene rally recognized, but generally act en] upon, tbat husbandry and tree col ture are inseparable Scientific Amer icon. Alllgator-Steakx. The following letter is from the eorre sj>oudei cc column of the New York Ercniny Pott: " A short paragraph about A'-hille Murat in the Ei cniny Pont re i.iiiils me of some stories about him that I have often heard on the gnlf oast of Florida. Only the older feroi lies rrtm mbered bim.e* he died in 1K47. His wife is bnried with him at Tal.n haaae. " With n Frenchman's instinct for new and rare foods, Mnrat hinnelf cooked and ate from nearly the entire fauna of Florida. He need to cook a.ligator steak in away ro delicti us that no alli gator in all Florida wonld recognize it as a morsel of one of his brothers. Another of bis experiment* was in cook ing the turkey buzzard, the scavenger of Southern cities. These birds are among the licet of flyers, soaring around at a great height for honr* at a time, with no appearance of moving their wings, which have a spriad of ahont aiz feet. Itnt they are foul ami disgnating birds, always eating carrion food if they can get it; and I have seen great flecks of them so gorged with such food that they could not raise themselves from the ground, and so were at the mercy of any one who chose to wnlk among them and knock them over. They arc seldom killod, and in most Southern towns and Tillages are protected by law. Ferhap* their occupation iaof value in that warm climate in disposing of dead cattle, alli gators and fish. Mumt worked faith fully over his buzzard rcasU and buz zard fricaece until he oonld stai.d it no longer. When asked how he liked it, he aaid; 'Oh ! I can eat any kind bird; lam not affrate to cat anyxing. I have no prejudice; but xe buzzard is no goode.'" A Si w Astronomical Wander. At the last total eclipe of the tan, many astronomers busifd themselves chiefly with observing the corona which hail excited so mnoh interest and specu lation at previous eclipses. This is the Dims given to the bright light seen out side of the moon's disk when the body of tho sun is completely hidden by it. Opinions were divided as to its cause; some observer* thinking it proceeded from the son's stmosphere, or from lu minous gsses which shot fsr strove its snrfaoe; while other* imsgmed it sepa rated from the sun altogether, and Una to other causes in the depths of space. From the obaervations made, and from photographs taken, it ia now be lieved to be simply the reflected light of the sun. This reflection is supposed to be due to immense number* of meteor ites, or possibly, systems of meteorites, like the rings of Saturn, revolving about the sun. The existence of snob meteor ites has long been suspected, and ob servations now seem to justify s belief in their existence. Their constant fall ing into the snn is thought to be one of the methods by whioh its heat It main (ained without loss. On the Atlantio ocean, daring the pit valence of a heavy storm, the ex In m • altitude of waves above the inter vratng depressions or hollows was found i to be forty-three feet. Hj*tem. Every young housekeeper who aits dowu and seriously studies out the *ub ject will And heraelf a different being if she manage* her affair* with ayatem, or if she let* them manage her without it. It in true that liefore ahe i* married, or while ahe in l>oarding, ail her study on the a object will IKS theoretical, hud pos sibly somewhat impractical, and tome thing like the honao one bnilda and ia enchanted with till ooming to live in it. For there are thing* which only experi ence can teach, and in matter* where the experience of noliody el*e can be of a:-.y mate-rial nervice. If h'-r mother was a woman of Hjetcm, the young housekeeper already La* much of what she want* bred in her bone, aa one may aay. Hut if her mother wa an invalid, or waa ahiftlca* and tbriftlea*, was over whelmed with trouble* and bathe*, then the daughter ha* to atrikc out a path for heraelf. The Booner, then, that *he remember* that there, are but seven day* in the week, und that that period of t me constitute* one revolution of the household, wash ing day being the central *nn, and bak ing day and sweeping day being, a* it were, planetary affairs, but exerting tidal influence*, the sooner she will come into her kingdom and reign undis turbed by her people. Custom, for tunately, fixe* one day of the *even for washing day in tbia land, although in Home laud a acres* the sea that fearfn epoch arrives, with a flftytimes-roulti plied power, but once or twice a year, with an importation of while-capped women into the family to celebrate its rite* through an unnamed period till all ia over. And washing day being fixed, of course ironing day is its moat imme diate satellite. If, for the rent, the voting housekeeper make* up her mind that one day shall never iufringe upon the orbit of another, that baking day shall be a fixed feast and sweeping day an immovable fast, and that the silver and the closets ahall now and forever lie cleaned upon their own day and no other, there will lie a code established that will keep thing* straight a* long as ahe live* and rule* her house. Her work will roll off her handa, if she doea it heraelf, with half the wear of body and aoul that it usually takes; and if ahe baa servants, ahe may fall aick, ahe may go away, ahe- may have a score of dis tractions or of other occupation*—the house will never show it; and whether, like the good woman of the Proverbs, strength and honor are her clothing er not, ahe will certainly "rejoice in time to come." Wanted to Purchase. The bella had juat struck three o'clock in the morning wb