rOB THE FAIR REX. CliMDlDrMcii. The problem is not to dress upon nothing; but given a small allowance, how to utilize it to the best advantage. Thus, supposing that a girl lias hut ten dollars to spend upon her summer out tit. her wisest plan would be not to buy five dresses and a hat as she does in one of our exchanges, hut to get, a smaller number ahd have them better. Let us see then what she may do with her funds in hand, doing her own dro s uinking. as a matter of course. There are very few women who are so improvident as to have nothing left over from season to season. A practi cal economist buys every dress with a view to its appearance afterward in a new form, and it is unwise for any but a wealthy woman to pur chase an expensive dress which cannot be made over. Ami in this sense the word expensive must lie taken comparatively. For our girl it would mean a su inner silk, a cash mere, or a French bunting. One of these, then, she has on hand from last year, and this is to be made as good as new. The dress must lie ripped and pressed, and it ttie bunting or cashmere is black it may hesponged with water, to which spirits of hartshorn has been added in the proportion of a teaspoonful of ammonia to a quart of water. The best of the goods must be kept for ttie laxly and the iront of the skirt unless the old body is not too much worn to serve the purpose again, which will be a great point in her favor. Clever contriving will hide spots and thin places, and put the worst parts where they will show least. Shir- j ring covers a multitude of faults, and i narrow plaitings may be pieced again ) and'aeain. If the old skirt lining will do. she should use it by all means, as i very cent counts. Three yards ol satin at eighty cents a yard will trim the dros-, witli pipings, revers, collar and cutis, put a band lour inches wide down one side and make a wide belt." Three yards of riblxm to match, at twenty cents a yard, will furnish a bow for the belt and two for the side opposite the satin band; jet buttons, at twenty-five cents a dozen, will be good enough, and a dozen will sutlice, or plain crochet buttons at torty cents may be beaded at home with five cents worth of beads. Sewing silk, buttonhole twist, skirt braid and a yard cf wiggin to line the satin will tie needed and will cost sixty eight cents, viz. two quartcr-ouncc spools of silk, forty cents; one ounce biack cotton, five cents; two of button- Hole twist, five rents; skirt braid, six cents, and wiggin, twelve cents; making $4.13 as the cost of our young lady's best dress. There is a turore this season for ging hams. and neat American makes aiuy be had for twelve and one-half ce tsa yaid. There are two qualities at this price one thick and heavy for hard wear; the other, the zephyr gingbnin, which is of lighter weight and much more dressy in appearance—this is what she must buy. Twelve yards will be $1.50; a dozen pisin smoked pearl buttons, ten cents, and fifteen yards of white Hamburg edging, for trimming, at two cents a yard, brings the cost to $1.90, and two spools of cotton, for sewing, rounds out the $2. This may he made with the bariy waist—t. e., with yoke and plaits —if the wearer is slender, or a coat basque, if stoat, and the trimmings arc to be ruffles edged with Hamburg, which is very narrow—merely a tiny scallop and eyelet, but which looks very well. Or, if she prefers a lawn to aging ham, that may be had at the same price, and trimmed with Italian lace at htteen cents, the price of two yards. Three doi.ars must buy another dress, and in this she has quite a wide choice, Victoria lawn, at twenty cents, trimme. with tucked ruffles of the same, tlutedd is very pretty. Dotted Swiss, made with ruffles also, is much more dressy, and costs five cents more a yard, but since white muslin can be worn always in the evening, this last will be prob ably her wisest choice. Her hat may he a Fayal, lined and trimmed with white muslin, and a twenty-five cent bouquet, a rougli straw, at thirty-three cents, with a band and large bow ol satin lib bon, or an embroidered reed hat, at twenty-five cents, with brim faced with bright foulard and a scarf ot the same twisted around the crown, either of which will come within the compass o tiie eighty-seven cents left from her dresses. Very pretty and indeed handsome overdresses for wear with satin or vel vet skirts arc made of the cream-tinted linen canvas which comes for curtains. This is woven in small, square meshes of twisted thread, is forty-eight inches wide and sells for twenty-five cents a yard. Five yards are enough for a full overdress and creamy I.anguedoc lacc at $3 for a piece of ten yards is the trim ming. An embroidered vine done in crewels or silk adds much to the beauty of the gnrment, which, indeed, is hand some enough for wear in a fashionable ballroom. Cream-tinted buntings and bareges are other inexpensive over dresses for wear with such underskirts. As fashions go this summer so they will probably be this winter. A black vel vet skirt is among the most useful gar ments which a lady can possess, since it may be worn the year round and is styl ish with almost any overdress. The velvet used for the handsomest skirts costs five dollars a yard, but very good quality may be had for $3.60. Such velvets are all silk. Trimming velvet, silk-faocd and cotton-backed, is the next choice, while ladies who must consult first cost rather than true economy buy velveteen at $1.60. Walking skirts are very narrow, two yards ana a quarter being tf.e average width, while ladies who are lielow medium height wear them even narrower. The quantity of velvet required depends upon the style of overdress. A surtout with open seams calls for an all-velvet skirt, while a long, round overskirt, draped by shlr ring, may be worn with a skirt merely faced to the knee. Such underskirts are frequently made plain, but • favorite trimming for them is a box-plaiting two inches wide, set in. not on. the skirt at ;iic tower edge. Satin skirts are also much worn, nnd are trimmed in the same manner. Corduroy skirts are for wear oniyfln cool weather. Thin, loosely-woven flannels, flannel finished beiges, as they are called, make cheap and useful suits for seaside and mountain wear. Buch a one may b made with a short, round skirt, with a six-inch box-plaiting at the foot and two scantily box-phuted ruffles half as wide above it on the front breadths. The bodice L a round waist in front, with a wide belt, and baa a coat basque at the back, on to which two full, straight breadths are joined by n wide cluster of shirring, banging plainly in fall Jolds at the bark to form the drapery. These breadths mast be lined with thin foulard, besides which 4> suit is trimmed only with machine, stitching in several straight rows. Such tlnnnels cost twenty-five cents per yard, nnd ten yards are a grent plenty for the suit. They arc soft and fine-looking and the dress is a pleasant one to wear on damp cool days. " If I could have hut one dress," once said a practical economist, who went out a st:cat deal. •• it should be a black silk, with a calico wrapper for morn ing." A long, half-fitting sack, with a round skirt trimmed with Spanish llounce, cails fo- about two yards more material and is a much more serviceable dress than the wrapper, since it can be worn in the country all day long, while a wrapper is suitable only for morning. White and black calico—that is to say, a white ground, with a tiny black figure is excellent for such dresses. It washes better even than white cloth and always looks neat. After the dress has seen its best davs the body will do for a dressing sack, and an apron or two may be mude from the skirt. People who are clever with their fin gers may do much with small capital. Fen yards of white sewing silk feather fringe, such as is sold in the shops for a dollar a yard, was once made at home for $1.50, the only expense being the silk of which it was composed, and being made on the garment, was accordingly handsomer than if bought and sewed on. Ginghams and pongee sunshades are fashionable, and these, too, may be made at home at small cost if one lias an old frame to cover, as most people have. Kip the old cover oil" carefully and cutout the new exactly by it, taking care that the threads run straight. Join the gores with a French fell, taking great pains to have your tensions just right, and fasten on strongly to the frame through the holes made for the purpose. Silk um brellas may be covered in thegame man ner; it is only a question of great pains taking not to stretch the cover. Lovely gants de Snede have been made at home from chamois skin, using an old glove ripped apart for pattern, and numberless such economies m: y be and are practiced by ladies who have leisure and ingenuity. The white tics so universally worn cost next to nothing when made at home. A yard of nainsook or Victoria lawn will make eight or nine, and they may be all different—tucked, hem stiched or embroidered, and more or less elaborately. Lacc mitts arc excellent gloves for poor people, costing no more than kid and outlasting them two or three times. Lisle thread should he bought a size larger than kid, as they cling closely and adapt themselves to the size of the hand, while if tight they soon wear out. As a question of economy poor girls cannot afford to wear cheap laces, or even crepe lisse ruffles. A few real laces are far cheaper in the end, since they last indefinitely, nnd arc always nice looking if clean. Linen collars must be worn for morning, and luckily, are styl ish with any dress. But after all itiis the way in which clothes are cared for which tel.'s most in the long run. Rib bons, etc., tossed pell-mell into a draw er, and |"rooted through" when one is needed, cannot long retain their fresh ness. Therefore ribbons should be rolled up smoothly after wearing: ties should be smoothed out and wound over pasteboard, and ruffles and flowers ten derly picked out when they are crushed, and laid carefully away in a box ; while a dress should never, when taken off. he toscd down on a chair, but brushed or at least shaken, and hung up wrong side out. Fashion Notes, Parasol costumes are the last freak of fashion. Pearl hats are fashionable; the brims are very narrow. Iridescent head embroideries on jet continue in high fashion. Rod halayeuses are worn by girls and women of the period. Boqueta are worn to match upon the corsage and in the hair. Red makes a better accessory than a component part cf a costume. Black parasols are made very dressy with iridescent bead embroideries. The full sleeve gathered into a wide cuff at the wrist is Revived for house dresses. New overskirts are short apron fronts with long plain hacks without drap ery. Ribbons aie very wide; the sash widths are often used for trimming round hats. Handkerchief suit*, with umbrellas to match, are pretty, effective and luxuri ous novelties. Embroidery is preferred to lace for trimming young girls' white muslin dresses this summer. Calico and percale suits, with um brellas to match, are sold under the name of parasol costumes. The new colors in silks, ribbons and flowers aro Indian red. Antwerp blue, bronze, citron and biscuit. Rows of small daisies are use to head the Breton and iiangurdou laces which trim evening dresses. Light and white undressed kid gloves having six and eight buttons are worn fashionably this season for full dress. Some silly old women are wearing pretty white muslin parasol hats, such as young girls affect for garden and lawn parties. Gentlemen favor the leopard pattern, dots on hose, handkerchiefs scarfs, col lars and cuffs, and even dotted under ware is fashionable. In cambrics may be found a hand some variety of picturesque effects. Some of the bordered patterns are re markably showy, the colors being the brightest that fashion ever massed to gether. All gloves are less expensive than for many years. Cotton gloves come as elaborately made In open-work and silk stitching as the Lisle thread and are fre quently imposed upon the ignoract by careless salesmen. Lisle thread gloves are much more elastic, thinner, and when planed beside the cotton the difference is discernible. They are embroidered and plain, some of them are open-worked nearly to the elbow; others have elastic bands at the wrist. Wasklaa, Insist. MS Mrsdlng. Whether to soak the clothes overnlgh t or not is a much-disputed question with housewives. Where pure eistera water can be bad. it is doubtless an advan tage, but to soak clothes in bard water seta the stains rather than removes them, and river water, unless Altered when drawn off in quantities, as a rule contains so much mud that it is apt to stain the clothes soaked in it for any considerable time. Wringers are % blessed invention, on the whole, al though hard on buttons. But linn nels should not be passed through them, ns they rub the wool up into little hard naps. Clothes should, if possible, be dried in the sun and in the open air, and " never yet did housewife notable greet with a smile a rainy washing day." But when Monday is rainy, it is not always convenient to postpone the weekly wash. In that case, sheets and any other large white pieces which arc not to be starched may be hung out in the rain, which will bleach rather than injure them. If possible, hung the smaller pieces in an unused room up stairs, when the rest may be usually disposed of by hanging at night on lines stretched across the kitchen, where the heat of the fire will dry them before morning. Blankets ought never to be washed in rainy weather. Select a bright summer day for the work, and let it he done and through with. Have two people to wring them, and stretch and pull them carefully when putting on the lines. Then pull and fold when dry, and put under press instead of ironing. Unless care is taken to see that the clothespins and clothesline are kept clean, ugly spots and streaks will result. The lines should never lie left out over night, unless it is necessary in order to dry them alter being caught in a shower. In such wise they should be wiped with a cloth before the clothes arc again hung on them. A shirt-board for ironing is a necessity in every well regulated family. This should be cov ered with at least two thicknesses of blanket, and have the ironing-sheet, also double, smoothly pinned over it. so that it cannot slip, Keep wax tied up in a rug to rub on the irons. The IKilish on collars, etc., done up at large aundries is given by means of a polish ing iron and by dint of much rubbing. It may be done by any good laundress, hut takes much time and is fearfully hard on the linen. Spermaceti added in small quantities to the starch gives a prettv gloss. If the clothes are not aired in the laundry before bringing them up stairs it should he thoroughly done before they are put away. Flannels should never he worn within the week after they are washed. The seeds of many a iatal consumption or attack of pneumonia have been sown by wearing damp clothing. Every garment should be mended before it is put away. But tons and strings may lie sewed on at once, and the sinple stitch, which taken in time saves nine, may also he set as the clothes are sorted. I-arger jobs of mending should be placed in a drawer or basket by themselves, and the work done as soon as possible. If allowed to accumulate, the weekly mending will soon assume formidable proportions; whereas, if done regularly every week it will rarely be more than the task of a forenoon. roarUklplM (.rrtnlaml. There is something exceedingly mel ancholy in the accounts which are given of the customs of courtship iu Green land. Generally women enter upon the blessed estate with more willingness and less solicitude than men. The women of Greenland are an exception to the rule. A Green lander having fixed his affections upon some female, acquaints Ins parents with the state of liis heart. They apply to the parents of the girl, and if the parents are thus far agreed.thc next proceeding is to appoint two female negotiators whose duty is to broach the subject to the young ladv. This is a matter of great tact and deli cacy. The lady ambassadors do not shock the young lady to whom they are sent, by any sudden or abrupt avowal of the awful subject ot their mission. Instead of doing this, they launch out in praises of the gentleman who seeks her hand. They speak of the splendor of his house, the sumptuousness of his furniture, of his courage and skill in catching seals, and oilier accomplish ments. The lady, pretending to he affronted even at these remote hints, runs away, tearing the ringlets of her hair ns she retires, while the ambassadresses, hav ing got the consent of her parents, pursue her, take her to the house of her des tined husband, and there leave her. Compelled to remain there, she sits for days with disheveled hair, silent and dejected, refusing every kind of susten ance, till at last, if kind entreaties do not prevail, she is comDelled by force, and even by blows, to submit to the detested union. In some cases the Greenland women faint at the proposals of marriage; in others they fly to the mountains, and only return when compelled to do so by the hunger and cold. If one cuts on her hair it is a sign that she is deter mined to resist to death. The Green land wife is the slave of her husband, doomed to a life of toil, drudgery ami privation. A Viking's War Ship. An interesting discovery has just been made at Randeherred, in Norway, of a Scandinavian war vessel. Buried un der a hillock a sailing vessel has been found, which is thought to have be longed to those terrible highwaymen ol the ocean, the Vikings, or Norwegian pirates. It measures about seventy-five [ret in length, nnd in in an almost per fect state ol preservation. It is armed nnd equipped ns though it had been nbandoneo where found wb- u on the point of sailing on some ■ venturous expedition. All the ap irtus used by nautical Norsemen sr met with in this ancient craft, the most of which it still pretty well intact There are frag ments of sails and cordage remaining, as well as many specimens either perfect or incomplete of utensils and instru ments, which have been eagerly exam ined by antiquaries. Among other things are a number of pieces of oak wood, peculiarly shaped, wrought with a certain elegance, and hollowed out in the center, to admit of ropes being passed through them. Spades ana shields, or bucklers, have also been lound, or rather the iron portion of the bucklers, tor the wooden part is en tirely gone. Near the rudder the skele tons of three horses were discovered. The form of the shields and also the manner in wtiich they are suspended round the interior of the ship is abso lutely the same as one sees represented in the beautiful tapestry of Bayeux, in Normandy, which dates back to the eleventh century. The ship Is not yet completely dug out of its present prison near the sea shore. When this has been accomplished the ship—which is thought to be still seaworthy—will be launched and brought to Christiania to be deposited in the University Museum. Charles Bands, it seems, has made •46,000 out of "Drink." Just what many n man has lost. TIMELY TOPICS There is at Brussels a curious case of chronic drowsiness. A man about forty-five years ol age, apparently in Ker/ect health, has lately been attacked y an irresistible tendency to sleep. As soon as ho stops walking or seats himself even to eat he falls Into a deep slumber. All the remedies prescribed by the leading Belgian physicians have tailed to produce any effect upon him. This is said to be the first case of the kind in Europe, nlthough suo.h cases are by no moans rare among the natives of Guinea, who call them Nelavan. As M. Cabiot was tisliing in the Seine, near Suresnes, lie noticed a boat float ing down tbe stream without any one apparently on board to gxide its move ments. On proceeding to it in his punt, lie found it was tenanted by a couple of young children, a girl and Ixjy, aged about fifteen months and two and a half years respectively, who were sleeping peacefully in two cradles covered over with a piece of sailcloth. Both were carefully wrapped up, but their cloth ing bore no marks by which they could t>e identified. Attached to one of the cradles was a paper bearing the follow ing words in pencil: "I have aban doned you because I am unabh to sup port you, and as I cannot live without jou, I am about to drown inyselt to rejoin your dead father. May someoody Bave and take care of you. The twocbil dren have been sent to the Hospice des Entants Assistes. where several oilers to adopt them have already been re ceived. The only States that .have responded to the invitation of ffongress to contri bute two statues, to be placed in Statu ary hali, House of Representatives, says a Washington paper, arc Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Maine and Vermont, and the only States known to lie having statues made arc Pennsylvania and New Jersey. These State* (except Maine and Ver mont) being among the original thirteem of course have a !arg< r assortment ol departed statesmen and soldiors trom which to select their subjects than the new States. New York has contributed statues of George Clinton and Robert R. Livingston, both in bronze: Rhode Island, marble statues of General Greene and Roger Williams; Vermont has con tributed Ethan Allen in marble; Con necticut, Sherman and Trumbull in marble; Maine, William King in mar ble. and Massachusetts, Samuel Adams and John Winthrop in marble. A Philadelphia grand jury recom mends the revival of the whipping post for criminals. •• While," says the jurors, " incarceration to a sensitive na ture may be painful and humiliating enough to accomplish all the objects sought to be attained by punishment of any kind, yet in the case of a very large proportion of the dangerous classes of society—the professional thief, the well dressed pickpocket, the adroit swindler and confidence man, together with those of a more brutal nature—a short term of imprisonment in comfortable quarters, with wholesome food is not adequate to ohtain the end required. Criminal pun isbm>nt* should be severe, shcrt, nnd decisive. Then the prison would be sufficient to meet the requirements." Judge Riddle, who was presiding when the communication was read, said that it would not be for the welfare of the community to revive brutal mode* of punishment. He had great faith in the efficacy of hard labor and solitary con finement. The marvelous rate at which history is made nowadays is forcibly brought to mind by the death of General Sutter, in whose mill-race gold was first found in California, only thirty-two years ago. General Sutter (originally Suter) was born at Kandern, Baden, tebruary 15, 1803. He was educated in Switzer land. and emigrated to this country in 1834. After many adventures in the far West and along the Pacific const, en - gnged in the fur trade, he settled on a grant of land which included the present site of Sacramento. Cal., calling Ids fort New Helvetia. The Mexican authori ties appointed him governor ol the northern frontier country; and, subse quently, undrr the American authori ties, he was justice of the peace and Indian agent. He acquired great in fluence and wealth, but was ruined in 1848, when gold was discovered on his property, near Coioma, El Dorado county, in February. Hia laborers de serted him, and his lands were overrun by the gold diggers. During recent years he has received an annual allow ance ol $3,000 from the State of Cali fornia. In 1873 he removed to Litz, I-ae.caster county, Pa. Many Americans think that the to mato, now in season, originated in this country because it is so freely used here and that it has become quite recently an article of food. The origin of the vege table, or fruit, as some claim that it is. is not positively ascertained, though there is reason to believe that it was first found in South America, nnd that it was cultivated centuries ago in Mex ico and Peru. Several varieties were known in England toward tne closo of tbe sixteenth century, and Gerard, the surgeon and botanist, spcakt of it. we think, in his " History of Plants," hav ing himself introduced it into the king dom as an exotic. Dodoens. the Nether land herbalist, mentions the tomato ns early as 1683 as a vegetable to be eaten witli pepper, salt ana oil. It belongs to the nightshade family, and was used in cooking by the Malays more than a century and a hali since. It is exten sively raised in Southern Italy, and em ployed there as an accompaniment to nearly every dish, particularly to maca roni. Rut neither there nor anywhere else in Europe is it commonly eaten, as it is here, separately and in quantities. In England it is sparingly produced, requiring a hot-bed in the epnng, and is in consequence high priced. The Ital ians formerly called it golden apple, and now call it love apple, as it was once designated in this oountry. The ap pearance of tbe tomato on the table has greatly increased in Europe within s few years; but in no land is it s regular dish—much ns it is used for a sauce abroad—as in the United States, where it is also pickled, preserved and con tacted. ______________ When a dog eat* grass It is said to be a sign of rain. It certainly is an omen of something when the brute gets a long spear stack in bis throat, and tber. crawls ander the table when the family hnve company at sapper, and heaves hit shoulders and howls and kicks with his hind legs and screams horribly In a foreign language, and Is lifted oat of tbe r> urn by his tail by tbe hind girl. It U the sign ola storm. — MocJUami Courier. KELIUIOUH NEWS AND NOT EM. There arc now sixty Protestant churches in Spain, wiiose congrega tions aggregate 90,000, and are rapidlv growing. The Northern Methodist church lias seventeen churches in New Orleans, with 3,600 members and church property valued at $131,000. The Methodist church is making steady progress in Denmark. Ten years ago there were hut two churches of that faith, now there are five. The American Baptist missionary union will begin mission work in Li beria this year, with the object of cstab ishing ultimately a mission in the ntcrior. The Presbyterian church of England has 268 churches organized into 10 pres byteries. Its ministers number 249, and its communicants 64,259. It has 350 Sunday-shools, with 67,148 scholars. The Primitive Methodist missionary society of England lias 79 mission sta tions in the United Kingdom, and in Canada,9oin Australia, and 3 in Africa, with 318 missionaries and oolonial ministers. I.uis, Mr. Moody averaged from ten to twelve sermons every week. The meetings were a success; to what de gree eternity alone will reveal. It has been estimated that the number of pro fessed conversions reached 8,400. The additions to the various churches from November 1, 1879, to May I, 1880, were about 700. Mr. E. Payson Porter, of Philadel phia, has collected with great labor statistic* of Sunday-schools of the Uni ted States. He finds that there are 82,261 schools, 886,388 teachers, and 6,683,124 scholars, making a total of 7,509,452. In Canada there are 5,400 Schrxilg, 41.719 teachers, and 340,170 scholars. These figures include of course only Protestant evangelical de nominations. There are in the world 1.460.881 teachers, and 19,340,316 schol ars. ____________ Re Thai of Snfclde. It has been remarked that a signal revival of suicide has occurred during the last hundred years. Its rate, calcu lated as an average on the entire popu lation ol Europe, without distinction of nationality or local variations, seems to hnve more than quintupled since the middle of last century. Exact returns are not obtainable from every country, but the information is suffi cient h? complete to enable us to perceive that Europeans are now killing them selves at an annual average rate of one in 5.060; and, that consequently, a total of somewhere about6o,ooo persons are dyine by their own hand each year on the continent and in the British isles. One-fourth of them, in round figure*, are mad, the rest act know ingly, with a view to some presumed advantage. And it must not be forgot ten tbat tbe numbers are constantly and regularly increasing, and also that they include only the suicides which are officially known and those which suc ceed: neither those which are concealed by families nor the unsuccessful at tempts are counted anywhere. Conse quently, if we wish to correctly value the force ofthe present distinctly marked reawakening of tbe suicidal tendency, we must add a good deal for undetected cases and for failures. Ineffectual ven tures especially would seem, from private information, to be considerably more abundant than is commonly im agined. It would probably be quite safe to suppose tbat these two unap pended elements increase the European annual total by one-half, so carry ing it to about • 90.000. The rates vary, however, very largely in different countries, with local conditions, with rac®. with latitude, with education' Tht figures are immensely higher, as a general rule, in the North (excepting only Russia) than in the South, and in towns than in the country. It is not easy to collect absolutely reliable ;e --turns from each separate land; but if we may trust M. Maurice Block, who is the safest statistician of our time, the Danes kill themselves the most, andthc Portuguese the least, the difference be tween the two extremes reaching the scarcely creditable proportion of thirty five to one. Baxony, Prussia, Prance and Norway follow next to Denmark, and after these come successively Ba aria. England, Belgium, Austria, Rus sia, Italy and Spain. Throughout tbe continent, with few exceptions, the rate of suicide diminishes with latitude, 'lbe causes of this unconformity have been keenly discussed, and their inaib out lines have been approximately traced; but the subject is so full of complications, of details, and of intermixing and coun teracting agencies, that we are still far from a complete general view of the laws which guide it. Wa do know pos itively that climate has nothing what ever to do with it, but that ia only a discovery. No author has yet collected data as 'o tbe comparative influence on the suicidal disposition of the special conditions of lile, of health, of character in each district of Europe, so as to en able bim to point with certainty to tbe precis* reasons why a good many of the Inhabitants of one province should elect to kill themselves, while almost all those of another province should pre fer natural deaths.-- Blackwood 1 1 Maga ttne. Lady Mary Wortley Montagus intro duced inoculation into England, from Turkey, about the year 1718. It was tried first upon criminals, until its suc cess was carefully tested. Reporting by Telephone. The London Timet gives an account of a method of reporting late debates in the house of oommona by telephone lately adopted in the office of that jour nnl. A type-setting machine has for some time been used in the office, to which, it iM staled, a fair workman can attain an average Hpeed of one hundred lines an hour, even when composing from manuscript which he has to read for himself; and this speed can be doubled, or nearly so, when the oper ator is assisted by a reader, and thus composes from dictation. The mode in which the telephone has been brought into use in connection with this ma chine is thus described: The conductors of this journal, having obtained permis sion from the metropolitan board of works to lay down the necessary wire* in the subway of the embankment, formed a new connection between the house of commons and the office, and placed one of Edition's loud-speak ing telephones at either end. The immediate result of this arrangement has been to bring the compositor at the machine into direct communication with the parliamentary reporter at the house ana to enable the debates to be reported and printed from half to three quarters of an hour later than had pre viously been possible. The notes made by the reporter can be read direct.y into the telephone-receiver in a room adjoin ing the gallery either by the reporter himself when relieved or by another person employed for the purpose, and the compositor at the machine in the of fice sits with his ears in juxtaposition with the other terminal of the instru ment. The plan which has been found the most efficacious for the purpose of shutting out distracting sounds ofother kinds is to place the disc of the telephone above and behind the compositor and then to arrange two tubes, each with two trumpet-shaped extremities, in such a manner that these extremities are applied at one end to the two sides of the telephone disc and at the other end to the two ears of the compos itor. The compositor is also furnished with a speaking instrument, with a key for ringing a bell, and a bell which is rung from the house —a simple code of bell signals, consisting of one, two or three strokes, sufficing for the ordinary requirements of each message. The compositor announces by the bell that lie is ready, receives a sentence, strikes the bell to indicate that he understands it, sets up the type with his machine, strikes the bell again for the reader to continue his dictation, and so on until the work is carried as far as time will allow. If there is any doubt or diffi culty abont the words, a bell signal will cause them to be repeated, or explana tions can be sought and received by direct vocal oommunic&tion. In this power, indeed, resides one of the chief advantages of the method, and one which ought to lead to greater accur acy than has ever previously been at tainable. The names of people, places, etc., can be spelled out letter oy letter if there is any doubt about tnem. Courtesy: Courtesy is not merely an observance of the conventionalities of society; it is a reality founded on common sense and manly leeling. An unoourteous man is one of the greatest bores in the world. He offends everybody, and instead of being treated with kindness and con sideration by his neighbor, he is gener ally intensely disliked, and no language is sufficiently strong enough to express his demerits. To be courteous is simply to pay a proper deference to the feelings of others. A well educated man is generally courteous. The fact of his mind being liberalised teaches him the necessity of exercising this virtue. Benevolent men are always courteous; the desire to give pleasure to others is sufficient induce mcnt for them to cultivate this great quality. It is just as easy to be cour teous as the reverie. The time has gone by when bluntness is taken as a sign of honesty. It lias been found that dis honest men can be blunt and rude as well as honest men; and compliments or deference to the feelings of others has ceased to be considered a mark of insin cerity. A person who is habitually discourteous, generally possesses but little sensibility, and he cares nothing about wounding the feelings of others, excusing himself by saying that he only speaks what he thinks. No mm is bound by ant law to speak what he thinks; uiat is. to put forth his own private opinion whatever it may be, no matter whether it wounds the feeling of his dearest friend. Of oourse, if a per son's opinion is requested, he must tell the truth; but even that can be done in courteous language which will wound no one. If courtesy were more generally practiced, it would be eonducive of the best results. Mutual civility among nil classes of society would be found a potent remedy tor more than half the social evils that now oppress us. Pat LUe late Tear Werk. A young man's interest and duty both dictate that he should make himself in dispensable to his employer*. lie should be so industrious, prompt and careful that the accident of his trmpor .ary absence should be noticed by his being missed. A young man should make his employer his friend, by doing faithfully and minutely all that is in trusted to him. It is s great mistake to be over nice and fastidious about work. Pitch in readily and your willingness will be appreciated, while the "high toned" young man who quibbles about what it is snd whst it Is not hisjplaoe to do, will get the eold shoulder. There is a story that George Washington onoe helped to roil a log that one of his cor porals would not handle, and the great est emperor of Russia worked at a ship wright in England—to learn the bon nes*. That's just what you want to do. Be energetic, look and act with alacrity, take an interest in yoor employer's suc cess. work as though tbs business wo your own and let your employer know that be may place absolute reliance in your word and on your act. Be mind ful ; have your mind on your business, because It is that which is going to help you, not those outside attractions which some of the " boys" are thinking about. Take a pleasure in work; do not go about it in a listless, formal manner, but with alacrity and cheerfulness, and remember that while working thus tor others you are laying the foundation of your own sueoess In life- There isn't quite as much reading matter oo a promissory note as there k on a theater programme, but a man will ponder over it much longer.— Faffee lmn?f|lC*C. ( The politeness of tbs man who Is not kind at heart is like the brill.ant veneer which ooTsts a piece of rough nod perhaps knotty pine.