FOR THE FAIR HEX. ruhltn Rottl. Jet is more worn in Pitris than ever. Basques nre made witli long talis at the back. Hunting suits are more fashionable than ever. Silk and lisle thread gloves are in all he latest shades. Short black satin skirts are shown t wear with grenadines. Chenille is seen in nearly all of the latest galloons and fringes. The breast of sea gull is used to orna ment tin* English round hat. A ruehed garniture for the neck is called the Sara Bernhardt collar. Parasol linings nre sometimes of gay J Scotch plaids or bandana goods. New stationery is in Queen Anne pat ern wi th letters in old English text. Overdresses for evening and dinner \ wear are made of the new Breton lace material. The cut-away basque is cutting away very fast, and will ere long lie out of fashion. Bonnets are of less importance now than those jaunty round hats alleged to be English. Handsome half shawls arc of black chenille, netted and fringed with deep fluffy fringe. The fern leaf carpets in Persian colors, witli lighter borders to match, are the latest designs. A new trimming material is the Tur key satin, which is almost lustcrless, but very handsome. Beaded lace is in style still. On light dresses under the blaze of gaslight it looks very showy. Stockings of lilac and of mauve take the place of silver-gray and light-blue hose wom last year. Pretty fichus arc formed of silk braid, netted in large tneshes anil finished witr. very deep Huffy fringe. Handsome parasols are in light shades of satin with deep soutaehe embroideries in the favorite wood colors. The new bright shade of crimson is called " peony, and the shade of red in crepe poppies is carmine brune. Some of the new sashes are finished with handsome painted ends instead of embroidered ends as formerly. An odd and pretty fan is of broeaded velvet, in palm-leaf design, and is fin ished witli the tips of peaeoek feathers. Slippers are more fashionable for house wear than sandals. They are trimmed with satin bows set with crystal buckles. Molierc shoes are low shoes with four buttons and a wide, flat double bow , and square buckle which set on the in step. Decorative art has got into the hair and all manner of things in the alleged Egyptians, and other lines are stuck in as ornaments. The latest Parisian novelty in bonnets j is cut away at the back, and has several I large roses placed in the opening. The j face trimming is bunches of smaller roses. The narrow scarfs used for trim ming skirts are a Parisian whim in toilet garniture; the eflect is graceful, producing a correct outline and giving an easy waving flow to the drapery of the overskirt. Importance of t'lranclna fled* and Pillow*. Two little children were simultane ously attacked with canker rash in it* worst form. There had been no eases in the vicinity for years, and they had been kept entirely at home for the whole winter, so there was no possibility of their having taken the disease from any outside exposure to contagion. It was a mysterious Providence, the clergyman said when he was called to perform the burial service. Afterward it was ascer tained that the mother bait bought a feather lied of a peddler a few weeks before and used it on the trundlo-l>cd for her little ones to make them a comforta ble nest for the cold weather. Upon further investigation it was discovered that the peddler hail bought it at a house some twenty-five miles away, and that two children had been sick and died of scarlatina upon the same bed the year before. The bed had been laid away in an open chamber till the family sold out their place to move away, and they sold the bed to a traveling peddler for a trifling sum. thus distributing sickness and death through a distant town, for the disease spread in every direction and became a regular epidemic. Had that fwd, immediately after the death of the first children, been washed thoroughly and soaked in water with cither a little carbolic acid or spirit* of ammonia added to it and then dried in the sunshine, it would have been safe to be used by any one; but as it was It carried grief and desolation into many households. Of course it was not a premeditated wrong —it was a case of ignorance or careless ness. Diphtheria ha* been conveyed by using l>ed* in the same manner: and if indi vidual* would only consider for a min ute how much suffering might be pre vented they would be more careful. There is nev.. .n effect without a cause, but perhaps the cause may not lie dis covered till too late to prevent the evil. It is very little labor to cleanse pillows rind beds, if done in a proper manner, and common sense will show tlint it is advisable to have it done often, even if no sick person lia* lain upon tlirm. A day's exposure to the hot sun—turning over and shaking them up often—is a great benefit and make* them sweeter a* well a* lighter. An occasional wash ing is a sure purifier. Carbolic acid is a powerful disinfectant and it sweetens ncds, which will accumulate a disagree able odor if not thoroughly cleansed and aired. Pillows can be washed without ripping so that they will be delightfully renovated. Use scalding suds in a wash tub to soak them well, and then pass through rinsing waters till the water is not colored at ail. This is all that is required unless they really smell badly. In that ease either carbolic acid or spirits of ammonia should be added to the rins ing water. Let them drain well and then hang them where they will get air and sunshine.— A Farmer'* W\fe, in Country (lenUemnn. During the year 1876 there were 2,708 medical students graduated from the fifty-nine colleges of the United States. As the statistics show that in this coun try an average of 600 people support one physician, there must be a constant sup ply of over 13.000 patients, who must pay the handsome sum of 91,076,000 a year, in order to allow each doctor only two dollars a day. Historical Hun Rarkenlngs. In 536. 667 and 626 we find mention of long periods of diminished sunlight. Schnurrer records that in 733, a year after the SaracenH hail l>ecn driven hack beyond the Pyrenees, consequent on their defeat at Tours," the sun darkened in an alarming manner on August 10; there appeared to las no eclipse by the moon, hut rather an interruption from some meteoric substance." There WHS an eclipse of the sun, annular, hut nearly total, on the morning of August 14; it is mentioned in the "Saxon Chronicle," which tells us that " the sun's disc was like a hlack shield." The near coinci dence of date suggests, in tllis case, a connection between the darkness and 1 the eclipse. In 031, according to a Port uguese historian, the sun lost Its ordi nary light for several months; and this is followed hy the doubtful statement that an opening in the sky seemed to take place, with many flashes of light ning, and the full blaze of sunshine was suddenly restored. In 1001, on Septem ber 20--not 21, as given in some of the translations of Humboldt's "Cosmos"— Schnurrer relates that there was a dark ening of the sun which lasted three hours, after which it had a peculiar color, which occasioned great alarm. A century later (or in June, 1101, accord ing to Schnurrer) the sun was again darkened, with certain attendant effects upon nature. Here the cause is easily found—on June 2.7 there was a total eclipse, in which the moon's shadow j traversed the continent of Europe from Holland to the Crimea; the eclipse was ! total in this country between the coasts j of Cumberland and Yorkshire. Ermaa I refers to a sun darkening on February | 12, 1100, which was aceompanii-d hy me- ; teors, and we read in the cotneto graphics that on the 4th—or, according j to others, on the 6th—of February, in j this year, a star was sis-n from thetnird j to the ninth hour of the day, which was j distant from the sun "only a foot and a half." Matthew Paris and Matthew of ' Westminster term this star a comet, and we may take it to have been the same which, later in the rfanie month, was observed in China under the sign ! Pisces, and which, at one time, was supposed to have been identical with the great comet of 1680; this body, however, would not appear to have ' been sufficiently near the earth, as, 1 even on the assumption of a denser ] constitution than usual with comets, | to account for a diminution of the so- j lar rays hy its intervention. On the j last day of February, 1206. according to a Spanish writer, there was com plete darkness for six hours. In 1241, " five months after the Mongol battle of Is-ignitz," the sun was so obscured and the darkness became so ijreat, that the stars were seen at the ninth hour about Michaelmas. In this case, again, the darkness referred to was undoubtedly due to the total eclipse of I October 6, of which Professor fiehia parelli has collect#*! a full account from the Italian writers. Ijuttlv, in P*l7, from April 23-25, Kepler relates, on the authority of (lemma, "the sun appeared as though suffused with blood, and many stars were visible at noonday." Schnurrer thought this phenomenon was what the Hermans call a " Hohenrnueh," notwithstanding the visibility of stars. From the above brief summary of what have Is-cn con sidered sun dark<-ning, we see tliat in several cases the diminution of light j has been !ue to the ordinary effects of a total eclipse, while it is riear that there are no grounds in the historical evidence for IUIV prediction of a period of darkness. The nervous in these matters, and It woultl really appear that such exist, may take consolation therefrom.— J. H. Mrvi, tin Nature. A Virginia Ire Mountain. The ice mountain of Preston county, says n correspondent, is a groat natural curiosity. Wo passed over tne Baltimore and Ohio road to Kowleshurg, then by. steam three mile.* up Cheat river, past ( Vieksburg, and caine out upon the Northwestern Pike. Following it two I mile* west, wo came to the ice mountain, situated on the right l#ank of Flag Hun, one-half mile from the pike. After re freshing ourselv#* with a very cold drink of wnter from the Twin Springs, we ascended the mountain for some dis- 1 tance and arrived at the ice-field, where ) wo found I>m. West, Shaferand Sehooley contemplating the wonder; also a now*- j paper man or two taking in the situa tion. It is claimed that the ice mountain ; was discovered hy some soldier* in the spring of IHfil. Its discovery was after ward report#*! again, hut person* sup posed the discoverer was only trjing to ! lioav some one into making n fruitless trip into the mountains. No credence was given to the story until lately, when responsible parties visit#*! the designated locality of its existence, and reported it* actual discovery. On the north side of the mountain, al>out a quarter of an acre is covered with a mass of loose, un- j stratified rocks, none of which are of any considerable size. All was covered witli a heavy mass of moss, which now is all torn off. No trees grow upon it. only here and there, a few small hushes. Re moving the loose rock ice is discovered in small quantities, A thermometer stood ninety degrees in the sun. eighty degrees in the shade and forty eight de crees when placed in the rocks on the ice in their crevices. A cold nir is pre sentjln the crevices, hut no strong freez ing currents as reported. Hundreds have visited it. The rocks are torn Up and the ice is only obtained now by go ing down some little depth in the risks. We would suppose from ObMTVUtKM that the mountain is mostly a vast heap of rock, a portion of whose west 4idc is more broken and loose than the rest. The pOTOIH nature of this portion would admit through its moss covering a con siderable amount of water, which, infil trating lattween the stone, would form ice in Just the manner we find it. The ice thus formed would be protected from all external temperature by the non-conducting properties of the vast surrounding mas* of rock. The ice mountain, we would suppose, is noth ing hut a huge natural stone refrigerator. The Children of Ram Drinkers. Dr. Martin, of the Halpetriere Hos pital, Paris, has made a series of inter esting-observations on nervous affections among the offspring of alcoholic parents. His results may he summed up as fol lows: In eighty-three fnmilie* in which one or more members showed nervous excitability with a history of alcoholic origin, there were 410 children. Of these, 106—more than a quarter—had convul sions, and in the year 1674, 162 were dead; 241 were still alive, hut eighty tliree.. more than one-third of tun survivors, were epileptic. A Lecturer's KrmlnlH , rgff. Ann* Dickinson has written a book of reminiscences of her lecturing tours, calling it "The Rugged Register." Among other mousing stories slie tells one of the rampnnt president of a certain lecture association who wanted her to lecture him his town. She could not do i t'.and meet her other engagements, and she told him so quite plainly. Hut he would ntbe put off. 11c told her tliat by taking the three o'clock train she could do it. After a hard night's work a three ; o'clock train is not a pleasing prospect, ' and she declined the honor. " I 11 be un i •ler your window at 3.30 sharp," replied ! he, notwithstanding her expressed de termination. And ho wits as good as his word. It was pouring ruin, but lie came and banged away as though the front door was a fort and lie a battering ram. Wlijle he was bunging an indignant family servant carao into .Miss T)ick inson s room with a bucket of wa ter in her hand, and opened the window above the man's bono. " Why do you waste the water, Maria," said Miss Dick inson; " he is wet to the skin already." Hut Maria knew what she was nbout, and Standing the books! on the sill, emptied the contents down over the be sieger. A howl, a muttered exclama tion more vigorous than elegant, ami ids feet were heard 'splashing down the walk. "I thought tl.at kitchen tire would never burn," Maria said, as she passed out of the loom. " and that there tea kettle never would bile, but it did." Miss Dickinson tells of one man who took a seat by her in tbo oars and tried to make her talk by plying her with questions, to ail of winch she gave mono syllabic replies. Hecoming discouraged, he dragged some greasy hills and cur rency from his pocket and said : " Well, now, look here,; you'll never lecture in ourtown. It's too small. Hut I'd like 0 hear what you can do when your steam's up. I thou gilt I'd get a free blow-out. but I reckon you weren't t*>rn yesterday—got your eye-teeth cut. There's a dollar, 'll that pay you for a good square talk and all the tixins'?" Miss Dickinson tells some of Uie ad venture she has had in keeping her lec ture engagements. One night she was drawn across a river on a sled by two men—the ice was too thin for horses and a sleigh—in a driving storm. The jour ney took three hours. She arrived at the " institute, teeth chattering, stomach chattering (no nourishment for thirteen hours), fingers stiff, feet like wooden clogs, winter cold through and through nic." Miss Dickinson has heard that somebody once asked .Mr. Beccher whether a man would have gone through that to have kept a lecture en gagement, and that he answered, " No; no man would have Is-cn such a fooi." And lie was "justified in the saying," nays she; "only he should remeinls-r that the world, in reasonable fashion, de-- tnnnds of a woman that site do twice as much as a man to prove that she can equal him." Western scenery is Miss Dickinson's delight. Out there she met a man whom she describes as a "horrid little scrub," who was l>ound on a lengthy tour of the I'is itic slope, his wife lecturing, he man aging and an adopt**) daughter singing, the witole made to "go " by a gift en terprise. To make herself agreeable. Miss Dickinson said something about the marvelous Montana region. " A beastly country!" lie cried, "a beastly country! we did not take SSOO in it." In traveling through this country, if in stag"*, site rode on the scat with the driver; if by railroad, on the locomotive with the engineer. Her dress for cross ing the mountains on horseback consist ed of a soft felt hat. loose coat, skirt to the knees, Turkish trousers, woolen sbs kings and stout sho*. Thusarrayi-d. she bestrode her horse like a man, not withstanding the sneers of a lady who joined their party, and in an audible i whisper told her companion to " look at that vulgar creature." The " vulgar j erenlurc,' from her comfortable and se- • cure sent, looked at the long skirts and ' twisted tx sties of the other ladies, and. ! thinking of the twelve hours'ride over i the mountains, said to herself, " at j those idiots!" Sitting on the platform alone Mias j Dickinson lias often had hard work to keep from laughing at the manner of her introduction by pompous chairmen of a lecture committee. One presiding ; officer in New Kngland. instead ol intro ducing her, offered up a prayer of I twenty minutes' duration, in which he i interceded with the throne of gra*e in j Miss Dickinson's behalf. A Western j chairman,with an eye toward Congress. , spoke of her reputation as a lecturer, i "In fact," sain he, "wherever the F.nglish language is spoken, wherever the stars and stripes wave, her name is like household words. I.isten to her. 1 then, and I know—yes, fcllow-eitixens. 1 know you will listen to her, since she always addresM-sherself to the ignorant, the ff hy a Japanese student. At the distribution of prizes at St. Thomas' Hospital, the gold medal—aa honor coveted and striven for hy every student wiio hopes to occupy a worthy position among medical men—waa awarded to Konchiro Takaki, of Japan. Not satis tb-d with tliis honor, tlie young for eigner also carried riff tlie (Jhiscldcn ni'-dal for surgery and anatomy. The king and queen of the Sandwich Islands had a swimming race while on a recent excursion. James G. Fair, the Nevada millionaire, who was then vis iting tlie royal lainily, say* that the party could not land from their steamer for reason of the breakers. The king said that all ought to swim to the shore. The queen assented, and tlie pair jumped overUmrd together. They buffeted the waves with skill and soon reached land, j They not only went whin no boat could go, hut braved at th'-r danger, for the place was alive with sharks. This is an age of adulteration, and the practice i* carried so far that articles used for adulteration are themselves adulterated. Coffee suffer* as much a any other single art irk from this con temptible deception. Almost every kino of seed large enough to roast Is ! used for tliis purjiose. ami various root*. ' from parsnip* to dandelions, are calks! ; into the serviie. Ground eoffie will ] float on cold water, and not soon ivilor tlie liquid; tlie adulteration* will sink > and discolor the water at once. It i Is-st to buy the coffee in the " berry," and s grind it at home,or see that it is proper]? done. Kven then one may be defrauded, as there are machine* for making artifi cial green coffee. In the neighborhood of Houdan. : France—the home of this popular French : brei-d of hens, which has never obtained (treat favor in tliis country, however— immense establishment* are in operation for supplying eggs and poultry to tlie Paris mantels. main object in (•reeding is to keen an early-maturing breed, so that chicks arc saleable at j three month* old. Hatching and paring , are carried on artificially, and the work ! 1 o far proves that chicks thus hatched ' are found to be inore lively and stronger i than those from eggs incubated by liens, 1 and also Ui grow and fatten quicker. | For young chick* the food consists of milk, buttermilk, barley, or oatmeal and rice. One of tlie most important features in ' I recent studies of the soil, especially by | lex peri m enters abroad, relates to lis physical characteristics; and the fact is ! being more generally reeogni-d that 1 tlie influence of the soil upon tlie life and growth of tlie plant is determined quite a* much, possinly more, hy its physical qualities—its relations to water and heat—which have hitherto been slnuwt wholly overlooked, as by its chemical , j character, which lias been (riven the more attention. Tlie investigations so far made indicate n most intcreting , field for inquiry, and the results that are j lo come from this new phase of agricul tural study must he lioUi novel nnd val : uable. I The large machinery hall of the Phil ' adelphia exhibition lias been torn j away. It was bought hy a speculative , Ann for #3l,uno. and they will multiply their money. The stone was used to build extensive oil works at Point | Breeze. The rougher lumber was worked into oil shed* at tVimmunipaw, ; and tlie immense quontitvof yellow pine and other valuable wood* waa sold to a | railroad car company. Sixteen tlioti i sand pounds of cast and wrought iron were rold to a foundry, and 70,000 panes j of glass were as good aa new for the j market. Tlie tin roofing realized nearly the entire purchase money. The specu lator* gave the two cupolas to the Phil ! adelphia Old Ijulies' Home for summer houses. A curious plant ha* been discovered in Wisconsin which product* a kind of cotton and (lax front the same stalk. It has already been woven into fabric, and. as any article that will make as gtntd elotli as can be made from this plant will make good paper, it has been railed the paper plant. It can be planted In the spring and cut In the fall and winter. It bleaches itself white as it stands, ami will yield at least three or four ton* to the acre. From a single root that was transplanted at AppTeton last spring Kw twenty large stalks, with 350 JXMI ntaining the cotton), with at 'east sixty seed* in each. From this root were obtained seven ounces of purs cot ton and over half a pound of flax. It is a very heavy plant, and grows from six to seven feet high. There is no stronger temptation to a boy than to crack the kernel after he has eaten the peach. Therefor* it la im portant that the hoys should understand the poisonous nature of ksraels. A timely case comes from Paris to serve ** a wart ing. It appears that a five-year old little one ate the kernels from peach stones, under the Impression tiist the peach was a nut. When found he waa nearly dead from the effects of the pros aic a* id contained in the kernels, and aid arrived too late to save him. Writers on toxicology state that an ounce of the k> mela contains nbout one grain of pure hydro -cyanic acid, and it Is known that one grain of the poison will almost to a certainty kill any adult persi it. Should sickness occur from eating kernel* It is well to re iin iuiier th.it ammonia Is one of the be*l iiitidotcs. 'flic lotnl value of stamps, stamped en- | velopes and postal cards issued by the I United .States during the past fiscal year ' was $20,530 000, an increase of #671,868 ! over the year previous. There is a big 1 difference iietwccn this showing and Un fit-si year of the existence ofd.be Host- ' office Department. The whole revenue in 171*1 was only #37,935, and it tvns not until 1815 that tin- husimws reached a mil lion dollar*. It was not until 1860 that the business reached ten millions. In tlie lust twenty years the business lias trebled. \\ hen the j>oHloffice branch went into operation in 17!*), the postage on a letter, eoniposed of a single piece of paper, was eight cents under forty miles; under ninety miles, ten cents; under 150 miles, 134 cents; under 300 miles, sev enteen cents; under 500 miles, twenty 1 cents; over 500 miles, twenty-live cents. It was not until l**ls that the mileage system was practically abolished by making the postage on a single letter of one-half ounce, under 3,(**i miles, pre- 1 paid, three cents; if not prepaid, five cents. In 1803 the mileage system was entirely abolished and the present sys- j tern adopted. Oriental Kxtratagance. The recent exodus i>l the Khedive and j ids family from Kgypt has directed at tention to the domestic arrangement* of tliis most prodigal of Oriental princes, j who was deposed bv the Sultan of Tur key at the contmaud of Kngland and France for attempting to oust the Kng lisli and French memlM-rs of the Kgypt tian cabinet. Bv the Koran all true be- | llevers are perm it I**l to have four wire*, and I .nail Pasha ha* availed himself of ! this privilege to the fulJ extent. A! | though only threw of the liulic* whom j he has successively taken to wife, and wlio are known a* "the first," "the. second" and " tlte third" princess, enjoy ! local rank, the fourth, the mother of Prince Tcwfik. the present viceroy, hy virtue of that circumstance alone is entitled to consider herself a* equal to the rest of Ismail's wives. Of the posi tion of t lm*c royal favorite* one may judge from the fa-t that last year the ' united income of the three princesses amounted to #536,930* year. File value of their jewelry may be imagined from the fart that in the recent crisis it was in contemplation t*> raise five million j dollar* on tliis security alone. Ib-side* i these ladies there are others too nuttier- j ou* to mention. The harem which ac companied liis highness into exile eon-| sistisi, beside* tbr three princswse* (the niotlier of Prinee Tcwfik remaining behind), of sixty women altngrt lMT. including twenty female slaves. It took sixty of tlie viceregal carriages i to convey tie- party from the palace of j Alsiin to tl.c railway station, and ten men-of-war's Ismts to embark the fait ! traveler* at Alexandria. The harem i luggage formed a small pyramid, com- , pletely filling a lighter of 150 ton* hur d< n, and oe. uph-d over two hour* in shipment. Tie above, however, was but a small portion of the female belong ings of the late Khedive, over ftoo of whom remain Is-hind in Cairo, and are maintained bv the present viceroy at a cost for feeding alone of #15.000 a month. . Terrible Famine and t anniballsm. Hussion merchant* recently returned front the interior of China to St. Peters burg have furnished terrible details re specting the famine whicii ha* for some • time prevailed throughout certain prov ince* of the Celestial Kmpirr. They dc- Jiose to liavine seen people die in tlie streets of many towns and villages from timer starvation, and state not oniythat antliroponhagy i* practiced upon the bodies of the dead, but that famished men attack the living and prey upor tlietn with all the ferocity and greedi nes* of the fiercest rarnivora. One oi them allejp-* that he was present at tie examination of a mendicant, who iiad liecn arrested for some petty theft, and in whoM professional wallet the man gled n mains of an infant were discov ered. This man confessed to the magis trate that for some time previous to his seizure he had lived exclusively upon tlie fresh flesh ol human Iwings, as he 1 could not surmount his antipathy to that of dead bodies. Another appalling case which came under tlie notice of a Rus sian merchant was that of a young man who had jiersuaded hi* father to a**i*t him in murdering and subsequently eat ing a girl to whom he was betrothed Men have been executed for killing and eating their own children, and son* nave slain their father* in order to appease the pang* of hunger. Iln some of the northern district* whole village* stand ■ nipty, their inhabitant* having one and all perished for want of food. Some of the incidents recounted hy these com i men ial travelers and published in the j ffolo* are too horrible for reproduction; but tlie above detail* will convey some idea of the awful sufferings by which the population lias lately lieen. and in -1 deed still is afflicted. Betrayed by a Hear. About six month* ago a young Bra zilian, aged twenty-eight, arrived in Pari* from Rio Jaaerio. lie called hint- I self Ferdinand Co*tales, and gave him self out as a doctor rich enough not to practice. Of a pleasing exterior, and provided with authentic papers and let ten of credit and Introduction. the young Hraxilian penetrated the salons of the noble faubourg. He was an indefa tigable dancer, an agreeable talker and always welcome. Alter theae soirees he used to go the boulevard restaurants and carry on the gayety through the night. Tlie Hraxilian always wore his hair parted over Ills forehead and temples at all hour* of the day and the night. Mr. Co*tale* was supping in company with two girl* and a fourth person at one of tlu>boulevard restaurants. The fourth person, feignlrg drunkenness, put Ills lingers through the hair of Costalcs. The latter rose furious and very soon left the room. The next morning he wo* arrested at his house. The fourth person was a detective, who had sus pected Coetalea to be a certain Morin. who had escaped from New Caledonia. The cicatrice discovered under the hair was conclusive. Kffert sf Aitltade la Leadrllle. A letter from Leadville. Col., the great mining town. *y*; I taw but very Few cave* of intoxication in the streets, though the 300 saloons in the city held out their bet inducemmtf. I wan sur p r iwf) at tli in, M one of the notable effect* of tiie (treat altitude of the place (10,300 feet above the level of the aca) in that all fermented liquors intoxicate much more quickly than at lower eleva tion*. The boiling point, owing to the deereaae oilin(( point of water here is about 15*0 degree*. instead of UIU degrees, the effect of which in lioiling leans, eggs, potatoes, etc ~ is that it requires a longer time to cook tliern in an open Vessel, and it is necessary to Keen the pot well covered or the. water will va lorize and escape tK'fore being raised to tiie requisite decree of heat for thorough cooking. At this elevation inuc'h more air is required fo fill and satisfy the lungs, and breathing must ire quicker in order to properly oxygenize the blood. It is said, too, liiat after one has been here for some time the coloring matter of the blood becomes d*rkc*r, being changed irom the peroxide to the sesquloxide of iron. With a person suf fering under any difficulty or disease of the heart, the effect of any severe or long-continued exertion is to cause a dangerous degree of palpitation, and even witii persons entirely well the pulse runs extremely high. There are other and notable facts con nected with tliis altitude. Time are very few birds seen here—perhaps for the reason that flying is difficult in the light air. The common house fly, the summer pest of our Kastem housekeep ers, is unknown here. There are some of tin- out-door bluebottle variety, hut they see m languid and tired. It is said, also, that cats cannot live here. This is probably owing to their delicate organi zation being unable to resist tlie rigor of the night air. So the "voice* of the night' are not heard be really and truly independent i* to support ourselves by our own exertion*. Success lis* a great tendency to oon <-eal and throw a roil over the' deeds of men. The love that has naught but beauty , to keep it in good condition is short | lived. • An ahle man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute action*; he i* neither hot nor timid. Nature knows no pause in program and development, and attaches her curve to all inaction. In the treatment of nervous cases. be is the best physician who is tiie most in genious inspiter of hope. . In talking everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any other portion of the company. IVmiestie rule is founded upon truth snd love. If it ha* not both of theee It Is nothing better than a despotism. There is no knowledge so thorough a* '.list which is gained at last, after yean of baffled and wondering inquiry. Kasii words are scarcely more danger ous. and are generally much less un wholesome. thsn capricious silence. llave nothing to do with any Iran in a passion, for men are not like iron, t