fOB THE PAIR HEX. Klehua. The fichu Is a very conspicuous fea ture in summer toilets, nnd appear* in various ways. Sometimes it is mafic of the firess material, nnfi forms the drapery on the Ixtnoni; when made of white muslin, anfi verv small, it takes the place of ft collar or frill; again, the large shawl-shaped fichus of white lace ami mull are used to complete watcr inat-piace toilets; anfi the fichu-man tle of black lftce. Surah,or onmel's-hair is the fashionable wrap for city streets or drives. The fichu as part of the firess trimming is especially pretty on thin muslin, grenadine, or light silk dresses. For such purposes it is made of four folds of the material cut bias, anfi edged at the top and bottom with ft narrow plaiting, or else a ruflle of the goods taken double. This passes arounrt the hack of the neck, and extends down the fronts as far as the top of the darts, where it is rounded off, or else it may be lengthened so that the ends will be con cealed under the belt. A ruffle of lace or a linen collar is worn around the neck. Very small fichus of white soft mull are made with a point behind, are turned over at the top, and rounded in front; they are then edged with lace two inch es wide, and this lace is also put on the upper part, which is turned down, thus making two rows in the back. When completed tiiis fichu is scarcely larger than a lady's pocket- hand kerchief folded triangularly, and is worn close and high alKrtit the throat, dispensing with the warm linen coilaror tiie full rutfof lace. It is cool and pleasant for summer wear, and is very dressy. Ladies who make braid laces, and who do fanciful pat terns of tatting, make this small hohu without muslin, and entirely o! the tat ting or lace. The shawl-shaped muslin fichus are large enough to reach nearly to the elbows, are quite straight and closc-titting across the back, and liavn ends oojely tied in front. They are shaped by a seam in the hack, where a slo' ed piece is set in The upper part of the fichu is turned down very broad ly and when trimmed with wide lace it meets the row of ln:-e on the lower edge. This is the prettiest wrap lor wearing with white dresses and the white gypsy iiats that are now trimmed with muslin and lace. White silk-muslin fichus are made to use instead of laces with dressy toilets, and are trimmed with embroidery of white silk done on the muslin. New black fichus, to be worn in the same way, are of transparent square meshes, like those of grenadine, and are bright ened by being elaborately wrought with iridescent beads and golo threads. The Spanish hire fichus are popularly worn both in black and white laces and in tiie small sizes like mere collarettes, as well the large mantillas. — iiawr. Faatilon Nolfi. £ Danish late is very much worn. Head collars increase in popularity. Japanese pongee is a summer nov elty. Children continue to wear singl&piece < leases. &>ft silk sashes are finished at the ends with tassels. Cheese cloth dresses are worn again this summer. Parisian dressmakers combine cotton goods with silk. lb avy box-plait jd flounces to the knee are much worn. Kagusa lace is a machine made imita tion of antique point- Trousers under the skirt ate univer sally worn by equestriennes. White foulards with black polka dots make very sty lish toilets. Silk fans with long ivory handles and flat borders of feathers are cheap this summer. Grenadine dresses often have the front breadths entirely covered with flounces of French lace. Cheap satin is the best materia! for trimming cheap woolen suits. It is not so likely to fade as silk. Bend embroidery on black net is used to trim kid waists, or else satin pipings and cascades of lace. The Black Forest bows of black silk, which supersede the Aisntian, are espe cially becoming to fair-haired girls. Shirring is more used than at any prevh.ua season for the front of dress skirts, but is now shirred horizontally in wide clusters instead of lengthwise, as it was formerly. Shirring u zuore used than at any pre vioua season tor the front of dress skirts. An w style is shirred horizontally in wh'.c clusters instead of lengthwise, as was formerly,the fashion. Panels at the sides of skirts are now more often plaited than plain. The plaits are lengthwise side plaits, and sometimes one large round knot is tied on these plaits about half way down the skirt. Shirred panels are also used. Panels at the sides of skirts are now more often plaited than plain. The plaits are lengthwise side plaits, and sometimes one Drge round knot is tied on the;e plaits about half way down the skirt. Shirred panels are also used • Th Mirrlam r .r.m Men. Shakespeare loved and wedded a farmer's daughter. Humboldt married a poor girl be cause he loved her. Of course they were happy. Robert Bums married a poor farm girl, with whom he fell in love while they worked on a farm together, Peter the Great, of Rossi •, married a peisnnt. She made him an excellent wileni.d n sagacious empress. John Adams married a daughter of a Presbytvrian clergyman. Her father objected on account of John being a lawyer. Andrew Jackson married a woman whose husbund was still living. She wa an amiable woman, and was most devotedly attached to the old warrior anil statesman. Washington married a widow with two el ildren. It is enough to say she was worthy of him; and they lived as married people should live, in perfect harmony with each other. Prince Albert and Queen Victoria were cousins, a rare example In the long fine of English monarch*, wherein the marital vows were sacredly o l >scrvody, hut may occur in almost any locality. The principal varieties are lumbago and crick in tbe neck, and we shall now speak of the treatment of lumbago. This is a rheumatic affecfion of the muscles of the loins, those on one or i>otli sides being involved. It is frequently very sudden in its mode of onset, the pain seizing the patient "all of a moment." The pain is usually increased by every movement of the lower part ot the spine, and by pressure upon the muscles of the affrcted part. It is not uncommon to sec patients with lumbago leaning forward and walking almost double. If Uiey are told to "touch their tots" they generally express their inability to do so, although in many cases it appears on investigation that the pain is caused not so much by bending down as by the effort to get up nirain. Sometimes, how ever, the mere effort of stooping is very painful. The remedies for lumbago are, as might be supposed, chiefly local. There are. however, other methods ot treat ment which are often attended with satisfactory results. When the pain is very severe, relief may. in the majority of cases, be obtained almost immediately by an injection of morphia under the skin. This is fact which has been known to medical men and extensively employed for many yenrs. The only objection that can be urged against it is, that in many people morphia gives rise to headache, giddiness and other un pleasant symptoms. Quite recently a French physician ma/lea somewhat curious discovery. He had a patient whom lie had frequently treated with hypodermic injections of morphia for acute attacks of iumbago, but aiways with the production of a train of un pleasant constitutional symptoms. One dav the patient called to say how glad lie was to find lie had made some alter ation in the medicine, for the last in jection had relieved the pain an usual, but had not produced any headache or giddiness. The doctor at once declared tit at lie bad u*d the same morphia solution as usual, and in order to con vince the patient, sent for the bottle to show him On examination the bottle was found to contain nothing but water, and on inquiry being instituted the ser vant confessed that some days before she had accidently upset the bottle end spilled the contents, and that fearing detection she hod filled it with water. The doctor at once saw that the fact was of value, and iiastened to publish the discoverv to the world. It then ap peared from the testimony of numerous trustworthy observers that even the water was not essential, that it was the puncture with the needle which did good, and that equal benefit might be obtained witiiout the injection of any substance at all. t:.SK OE THE NEEDLE. The treatment of lumbago by" acu puncture," as it is called, is attended witli tiic most favorable resu.ts. We have seen cases in which tbe relief lias been Instantaneous. The mode of pro cedure is very simple. The patient stands upright, holding iiis shirt behind so as to expose tbe loins. The only ap paratus required is a good, strong, sharp needle, such as is ordinarily used as a shawl-pin. The person who is about to perform the friendly office for the patient grasps the needle firmly in his iiand, and suddenly thrusts it for the distance of an inch or two into the loins over the painful part. The pain of the puncture is but momentary, and tbe needle, instead of being withdrawn, may be advantageously left sticking in or a few minutes. When tbe iumbago s double, the operation should be per formed on both sides of the loins. W have rured many cases of lumbago by this method, and have never known ft to be followed with any unpleasant consequences. Most instrument makers keep nfodles fitted in bone bandies tor the pcrformamw of this operation, hut the domestic substitute to which we have referred will answer equally well. The Turkish hath, which is such a valuable remedy for nearly all com plaints of a rheumatic nature, may be used with advantage in lumbago, when a Turkish bath is not obtainable the ordinary domestic linseed poultice may prove of service. In acute lumbago, poulticing often brings spedy relief, the severest cases being greatly benefited in a few hours, and generally cured in one or two days. The poultice must be very hot and le.rge enough to cover the whole loins or the part affected, and thick enough to remain quite hot for at least half an hour, when it must be changed. Should no benefit bo obtained, this treatment should be continued for tliree hours or longer, then the skin must lie covered with a piece of flannel, which in its turn is covered with oil 5 i*™ like that of poultices, promotes tree perspiration, upon which mainly depends the efficacy of this plan. A diamctrica'lytopposcd of treatment, that of freezing the painful part, may sometimes be adopted with advantage. Two parts of finely powdered ice, witli one of common •alt, are put in a gauze bag and placed in contact with the skin until the sen sntion is abolished and it has a leathery feel and a shrunken, tallowy appear ance. The application should not bo continued for more than live or six minutes or it may cnuse a blister. One of the bostnndmoHt convenient methods of freezing the part is by spraying upon it with ether, the evaporation of which produces intense cold. A single applica tion of the ether spray will in many aur-safford speedy relief in lumbago. OAI.VANISM. The uee of galvanism is not uncom monly attended with the most satisfac tory results, the passage of what is know as the " interrupted current" effecting a speedy cure. When electricity, the needle, or poultices fail to give more than slight temporary relieT, it will often be found that the lumbago i s ac companied by high fever, and tfiat it is in reality the first symptom of an attack of acute rheumatism or some other febrile disease. The application of a good strong plaster over the loins will, by affording support to the parts, often give relief. Either the chalybeate plus* ter or the pitch plaster may be em ployed. It is desirable to have ij. spread on leather or some equally durable and substantial substance. In summer it is a good plan to have it punched all over with a number of little holes, to admit of the evaporation of the perspiration set as u> avoid the troublesome itching which would l>e caused by its retention. Care should be taken to see that the plaster is smoothly and equally applied. An attack of lumbago, affecting perhaps the whole loins, often leaves oehind it one painful spot which may cause dis tress only when the body is moved in onedirection. Remains of a lumbago like this generally resists the usual methods of treatment, the pain being driven from one spot on ly to reappear at another. A large belladonna plaster will generally mitigate the complaint, shoula it fail to remove it altogether. Of the internal remedies,iodideofpotassium and nitrate of potash (nitre) may prove useful under the conditions and in the doses referred to while speaking of chronic rheuma tism. The former salt, however, not unfrequcntly fails to effect lumbago, even when the complaint is distinctly worse at night. It has been claimed for net te racemose (cimicifugn) that it subdued lumbago more effectually than any other remedy. It is well worth trying in obstinnte cases, but it must be admitted that it often fails. The dose is five drops of the tincture every two hours. CBICK IN THE NECK. Crick in the neck, itiff neck, or, to use the technical term, torticollis, is usually the result of a cold or of ex posure of the affected part to a current of cold nir. The pain is sometimes in the hack of the neck, but more fre quently it affects only one side, the pa tient being in tlie latter case compelled to hold his head awry in order to reiax his muscles. A patient suffering from a stiff reck not uncommonly presents a somewhat comical appearance, and is often marie the subject of much ridicule and joking, but for all that the complaint is a very painful one, and is sometimes very intracta ble to treatment. A stiff neck in children is not uncommonly the cause of a considerable elevation of tempera ture, the fever lasting three or four days or more. When the pain of acute tor ticollis is very great It may be neces sary to endeavor to obtain relict by the administration of a hypodermic injec tion of morphia. Ixxuil applications, however, not unfrequcntly prove suc cessful. Ho. fomentations are very valuable, as. for example, a piece of spongiopiline wrung out of hot water and appliid either alone or sprinkled with laudanum, or belladonna lini ment, or a combination of the two. Turpentine often proves useful in these cases. Over a flanr el wrung out of hot water a little turpentine should In sprinkled and applied till it produces redness, tingling and smarting. It is well to bear in mind that as the smart ing arising from the turpentine goes on augmenting for some time after its re moval, the application should he kept on omyjust sufficiently long to excite a moderate degree of pain. THE KENT REMEDIES. Undoubtedly one of the best remedies for a stiff" neck is an infusion of capsi cum. red pepper or chillies, as it is sometimes called. The mode of prep .-nation and application is sufficiently simple. You infuse a Mrge handful of crushed capsicum pods in a pint of hot or cold water for tliirty-six hours. You then soak a piece of lint in this infusion and apply it to the affected part, cover ing it all over with a thin piece of guttn perchaoroil alls to prevent evapora tion. It never blisters or causes any inconvenience, and is so prompt in its action that it will often completely cure a bad case in ten minutes. Respecting the internal remedies for this complaint we have not much to say. Benefit some times arises from the use of salines whieh acton the skin and kidneys, and alter the state of the blood. The fol lowing mixture may be taken witli ad vantage: Solution of acetate ot ammo nia, tliree ounces: spirit of nitrous of ether, two ami a half drachms; iodideof potassium, twenty-four grains; water to eight ounces. Two table spoonfuls every four hours. In cases in which the patient is of a gouty habi. colchieum should, of course, be em ployed. Wben the patient is much be low par the use of ood-liver oil, iron and more especially quinine, will have to be resorted to. When the lever runs high aconite is indicated; when the complaint has in all probability arisen from* exposure to damp, dulcamara should be tried; and when it is attended with tearing, lancinating pains, be 11a dona is the remedy In tlie majority of cases we should put our trust in local applications, and above all in the capsi cum treatment. The Turkish bath oiten proves useful as an adjunct.—Philadel phia Time*. A number of Philadelphia experts In coal raining and the manufacture ot iron and steel have been granted a valuable concession by the issr for tbo purpose ol developing the resources of a large tract of country in Southern Russia. The giant extends for eighty years and promises to be immensely pro (liable. About $8,000,000 lias been subicrilied by Amorics*) capitalists to put the en terprise on Its feet. Dr. Guttnan, who for ten yearn has, for his health, frequented ail the im portant watering places of Germany. Austria and Switaerland, says that whon Americans are asked for payment at oafes it is their not unusunl habit to hand their poeketbooka to the wait**#, so that they may take out the required EARN, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Tsrnlp Osltan. It seems strange that when tbe feed ing qualities of turnips have been so long recognized in foreign countries, that they have been so long in estab lishing themselves here for a like pur pose, and as the product of an acre is so large, and aside from its feeding qualities, tiieir sanitary effect upon stock so beneficial, it seems as if the farmers—not only stock raisers, but dairymen—would more generally adopt the prt etice of rui-ing this crop, and using them judicially as a w.nier feed, to vary the monotony of unchanging hay and cornmeal. The turnip is not n very discriminat ing plant, and any good soil free from weeds, and kept so, will produce tur nips, though a loamy or well fertilized sandy_ soil will best succeed. If the crop is drilled in, the rows should be about fifteen incites apart, and after the crop has established itself it should be thinned down to two or three plants to the foot. It the crop is for table use new land should be selected, as land that has been cropped long is liable to impart a strong, unpalatable taste. The crop may be sown at anytime after the weather becomes settled in the spring, but for stock feeding the first half of July will Is: best suied, both for the convenience of gathering and be cause the turnip favors cool, moist weather, which the late fall months fur nish. The ways that turnips can be sown and yet not require a special prepara tion of the land are many. I know a farmer who, after the last hoeing f his potatoes, scatters the seed thinly along the rows, and when the potatoes are dug the dirt is pulled back into the last hill, and the turnips are not disturbed. The fine soil that works down about them rather helps than injures tiieni, and a big crop of turnips usually results. Sow ing among the corn is another not ob jectionable method, for the turnips will not draw very much upon the soil until after the corn is cut up, and the after crop will prove a far more profitab'p one than planting pumpkins among the corn and far less injurious to the de velopment of the ears. Among root crops rutabagas hold a favorable position, but cannot be sown broadcast with any certainty; and if labor is to be taken into account, the turnip is the crop requiring the least labor. With increased attention to its cultivation there has come into notice a score of new varieties, and in addition to the old familiar names, we boar of the White Egg. Golden Bail, etc.. each excellent, but will be a long while in superseding the Eariy Dutch, i'urple Top, Stop Leaf, and for more southern latitudes, the Long Whip holds a con spicuous place, with no real rival. If the turnip is to be fed to stock it is not nir—ry to cut •IT the tops, | pec in Ily if you have a root cellar where a low, even temperature can be kept, ami the green relish of the leaves to gether with the bulb will cause them to tie eagerly devour clover again. Rough new land should he subdued by the use of large clover. Nothing so effectually rots out stumps and kills weeds and sprouts, and prepares the land for the plow and good paying crops. Wild, new lands should always have it sown on the first grain crop down. It saves a vast amount of labor, for in a few years it so tarnr* the ground and clears it of enemies to the plow that it works like old ground, and is good for fail crops. One great error is often fallen into, and that is following the old tra dition that a bushel of clover seed will do for eight a/ res. That may have been enough to clover land partially when it was new. but_ whoever aims at getting up his land in a speedy and profitable way should sow a bushel on tour acres so that his land may be thoroughly shaded. Kill Yoar fVhp WhlltVoM> There are few animals kept on the farm which, when they are in their prime, pay as well as sheep, and there are very few. if any others, upon which old age has such a damaging effect. As sheep are much shorter lived than any other of our domestic animals, it is not strange that m iny farmers attempt to keep them too long. At ten years of age the horse is just in his prime, and the cow is as good as ever, with the roe pert of remaining so several years onger. Rut ths sheep is very old when it reaches ten. the limit of the term of its life. After reaching this age sheep are very likely to be injured by the slight exposure which do younger animals no harm. They are more liable to be attacked by disease, and i f they live they will be likely to pro duce less wool and smaller lambs than they have done previously. We do not think it pays, except, perhaps, in special instances, to keep sheep after the/ are six years old. HanSl* l'ir Br Carcftatlr. A Western beekeeper states from ex perience that it is an entirely mistakea idea that bees will not sting when irri tated. When hives are rich with honey and the bees have all they can eat. s war .us may he handled with impunity, while those taken from hives contain ing littt other deficiencies by being usu ally active collectors of honey. He rei-omniends to all who handle bees as a protection to the head, face and neck, a screen made of fine wire. Buckskin gloves as a rover ins for the hands, fast eoedat ths wrist with an india rubber band, will be a sure protect! n. Al though some claim to ba able to handle bees without any protection whatever to face or hands, it is a dangerous and unnecessary exposure.