THE IMME DOCTOR. Sunlight has an important beating upon health. Introduce it freely into tho house, and particularly into your sleeping rooms. Never omit regular bathing; for un less tho skin is iu an activo condition tho cold will oloso the poros and favor congestion and other diseases.— Dr. Foote'e Health Monthly, Tannic acid will stop bleeding at tho nose. Take a pinch of tho powder and snuff it up the nostril. It is an astrin gent, and,a* it lodges in tho throat, will provont blooding from the baok of tho nose. Broad cf nnboltod whoat flour is, for making superior bono and musel© to tho growing child, far preferable to bolted flour, and oatmeal is fully equal, if not superior to it. The New Fork Elevated Roads. But few persons who have not been in New York since tho construction of the elevated roads and witnessed their equipments and operations can have any adequate idea of theextentof them, and of the people, machinery and ap purtenances required in working them. A recent inventory discloses the fact that there aro 2t miles of roadway, 161 stations, 203 engines and 012 ears, while 3,480 trains a day are run. There are 3,274 men employed on these roads, 309 of whom are engineers, 258 ticket agents, 231 conductors, 308 firemen, 395 guards or brakomen, 347 gatemen, % road inspectors, 106 porters, 33 carpenters, 27 painters, 69 car-inspectors, 140 car-cleaners, lOlamp men, and 470 blacksmiths, boiler makers and other mechanics employed on the structure and iu the shops. Most of tho ticket-agents are telegraph opera tors, thero are 13 other operators employed. There are four.double-track lines in operation. The aggregate daily receipts vary from 814,000 to 818,- 000 ; and as mauy as 274,623 passengers have been carried in one day.f Engineers are paid from 83 to 83.50 per day ; ticket-agents 81.75 to 82.25; conductors, 31.1K> to 82.50; firemen, 8190 to 82; guards or brakomen, 81.50 to 81-65 ; and gatemen, $1.20 to 81.50. Tho above items do not include machinists and other employes in the workshops, or the general officers, clerks, etc. One of the elevated railroad companies owns a curiosity shop of articles lost or left on their trains. There aro 1,000 umbrellas and half as many canes ; shelves filled with shop parcels ; children's school books; laborers' tools and dinner pails; novels; a handsome new Bible; lnneh baskets; black bottles; twp large !>askets full of pocket-books, mostly women's on their way home from shopping, and consequently little in them; bushels of traveling bags; a big bass drum; a rab bit and a poodle clofl. Oae woman who recovered a casket of jewels not only did not give any reward, but did not even say " thank you " on recovering them. Umbrellas are generally left behind in the latter part of a day that began raining and cleared up in the afternoon. Two Love Letters. A middle-aged lady, who lives in Chicago, has two love letters, faded but ardent, which are not without a certain interest of their own. The strong man's hand that penned these tender effusions does not now support the gentle being who has preserved them all these years. But whether he was a rejected suitor, or whether her whit ening ringlets rest upon the bosom of one more favored, or whether she be maid or widow, is not disclosed by the brief paragraph which tells of the existence of the letters in question. Perhaps the lovers quar reled, as lovers will, and parted to meet no more until one or both had made other arrangements. Perhaps there was a stem papa, a heart less mamma, a maneuvering elder sister, a blundering big brother, poverty, separation, hopeless ill health. Who knows ? Perhaps the lady has often regTetted. Perhaps the gentleman yet goes to sleep dreaming of the lady, On the other hand, when she saw him driven from a little place he had earned by hard, and not very edify ing work, as nnfit to hold it—when she heard him described as a bad man by friends and foes—she may have blessed her stars that she made so lucky an escape. Much things do hap pen; or mayhap when his fortunes were darkest she yearned most to be by his side, to strengthen and to cheer his heart, to show what a true and loving woman can do when a man is down. Heigh-ho I It is certain this lady has the letters and that the values them. And well she may, dear heart I for the name at the bottom of them ia no less than that of Gbcator A. Arthur, Presi dent of the United Htates snd com mander-in-chief of the armies and navies thereof \—Lo"intlU Courier-Jour nal. __________ It is ealcolated tho daily papers of the United States iasno 1,091,200,000 copies yearly, and the other periodicals bring the total np to 2,000,000,000 copies per annum. LA 111 EM' DEPARTMENT, IIPAIU. Aft, r birds, head* are the mania of the hoar. Not only jet bogles and beads, nets and fringes, appear as per (•intently as if they were never seen I before, bnt beads of garnets, sapphire, omormld and topaz of iridosoent sheen, j are used with prodigal extravagance. Garlands of flowers worked in beads representing their natural colors are a costly novelty for adorning satin and velvet surfaces. At the opera, one sees low bodices completely covered with sparkling black or white beads, and a sleeveless jersey of pale-colored irides cent beads haR also been exhibited, i Belts covered with beads are being superseded by belts set with jewels liko the famous one Eugonio wore at the i oourt balls daring the second empire, and that recently asanmod by the ! queen of Italy at Vienna. For dancing, ' this stylo of belt or corselet suggests | manifold objections and in general I effect there is always an association with the glories of spectacular drama. Hodrigues, who bus made a specialty of ; bodice, covered with multi-colored beads to wi ar with any toilet, demands a thousand francs for one of her glitter ing cuirasses. Forty and fifty dollars a yard aro prices commonly uHked in Broadway shops for passementeries in colored beads reproducing old Roman, Byzantine and Coltio traceries. All this we have but to imagine cheaply imitatod, as even now it begins to be, and the downfall of these extravagant fancies will not bo slow to follow.— New ! York Art Amateur. | —— Nrw nntl Noir* for U'omrn. A Boston lady stuffs dead pet cats, and is making money at it. A Kentucky married woman is only fifteen years old and measures six feet five inches in height. Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was i 380 years old when she got married. 1 Take courage, ladios. At least three influential Mexican statesmen have American wives—Ro mero, Mariscal and Trevino. The widow of General Caster has been painting plaques for a living. Some of her friends are moving to se cure some national relief for her neces sities. In 187U in Boston 989 women reg istered and 934 voted ; in 1880, 772 women registered and 083 voted ; in 1881, 748 women registered and 640 voted. The Macon (Oa.) Toint Aurillac lace. Good grades of carpeting are com posed largely of jute. Greek and medieval costumes aro appearing at reoeptions. Embroidered black-net fichus are ex hibited with new neok-wear. Sarlet worn in large masses, it is said, tends to hide wrinkles. Turbans composed of beetles' wings are among novelties in millinery, The newest paper lamp-shades are hoxagonal and aro made up on a frame. Popular stones in jewelry are the (at's-eye, olive tourmalines ana white epsts. A favorite corsage with young ladies is the Marguerite, with round, half low neck. Funcifnl evening wraps are furnished with perfumed powder inside the lining. Three piece-suits are talked about for gingham and cambric dresses this summer, Berving green tea clear, with] lump augur and slicos of lemon, has become fashionable. Bridal veils are of Kpanish lace or Duchess lace in many instances, in stead of illusion. Among now patterns appear w'aists {minted in front, round at the back and long on the hips. The most decorative stone, as well as the most fashionable at the present time, is the ruby. Neckerchiefs of gray orcream-oolorod washing silk, embroiderod all over in tiny silk polka dots, and finished with a flvo-inch rufllo of Oriental lace, are novel and dainty. Bhort velvet skirts, with bodice and panniers of some soft self-colored Eng lish woolen textile, with pelerine and deep cuffs of velvet, will bo a fashion able spring walking costume. " Looking-glass " beads are seen upon somo of Worth's latest creations, both in fringes and embroideries, especially on white toilets, lending that touch of color or oontrast rather that purely white drosses are apt to lack. Indian, Paisley and other handsome shawls are made into Portia and Mother Hubbard cloaks and visiles for spring wear. They are lined inside with colored satin or surah silk, and finished with a bordering of chsnille fringe in deep oriental colors. The Editor and Ills Work. The following is from the Rev. Henry W. Foote's remarks at the fune ral of Editor Goddard, of the Boston AJvrrtitcr: Think for a moment what it is which is demanded of him who stands in such a post of dutyl Like the pilot, his hand always on the helm, he watches the atmospheric current of opinion and feeling and the tides of events as tbey all affect the public good. An unrest ing fidelity holds him constant to the most exacting form of professional duty, with little respite for health, and none for pleasure. It is for him to gusrd against the schemers who seek to gain the public ear, to protect the ignorant and the innocent, to lift journalism from tho function of a mere gatherer of news, which tends to make the world a vast whispering gallery, in \ which the monstrous and distorted echoes of countless matters which had licst sleep in oblivion reverberate, to that of a wise snd just organ of public opinion, giving clearness and balance to the genefel mind, on the one hand, and on the other, speak ing the general mind of the weightiest I part of the community with a force and j character that make it heard and heeded j in the councils of the nation. To do such a work at all demands rare gifts rf : intellect and culture, of courage and tact. To do it worthily demands how much of truth and of wisdom, bravery to flght a wrong, insight to sen the path of practicable dnty, gentleness in dew ing with opponents, magnanimity in judging motives, the absolute elimina tion of personal and selfish considera tions ; alwive all, a self-abnegation— a merging of self in the truth and duty 1 which is the very spirit of the disciple | of Him who is truth itself, who hath said: "ne that loseth his life for my i sake shall And it." It is his to see men i of less gifts, less training, less expon once, less capacity for public service, rise to eminence by his help, while he remains unseen, a power rather than a , person, pouring his life into tho olian ! ncls of pnblic service ami losing it nt -1 terly, to find it again, donbtleas, as the Master promised, in the know bilge which must surely come some day, somewhere, that the world is the better i thereby. Frightened Into Lunacy. A recent occurrence in Yonngetown, Ohio, has given a fearfnl warning to tho pestilent trilie of practical jokers. A young man named Ilenrv Waters, somewhat prone to superstition, and of a rather timorous nature, had boon in the habit of keeping a pistol at the head of hia bed where he conld reach it npon the slightest warning. For the purpose of enjoying an exhibition of his terror a party of young men secret ly drew the bnllets from the cartridges, leaving the powder nndistnrlied, and one of them, wrapped in a sheet, en tered his room at midnight, while the rest waited near by. He awoke in great alarm and, after a warning, fired at the figure. The bullet was thrown back against the headboard of the bod. This operation was repeated until the cartridges had all been discharged, and then the victim of a practical joke fell back upon his piUow with a scream. When the lighta were brought the mis erable fools found their friend n raving maniac, and he is likely to remain one for the reet of hia life. MOKAI. AM) RELIUIOLH. True (irfiiitirM. Ignoring or quickly forgetting per sonal injuries is characteristic of true greatness, when meaner natures would bo kept in unrest by them. The loss of a man a person is, the more he makes of an injury or an insult. The more of a man he Is, the loss he is disturbed by what others say or do against him without cause. " The sea remembers not the vessel's rending keel, but rushes joyously the ravage to conceal." It is the tiny streamlet which is kept in a sputter by a stick thrust into its waters by a willful boy. Nlnrrllr. Whatever limit sinoerity imposes upon our words, lot us obey, oven if it bo to silence. But, that its bound* be not so narrow as this, let ns cherish an honest interest in peoplo and things ontsideof our immediate sphere. This is the great want of all our intercourse, the only thing that can rescue onr con versation from the stigma'which at taches to " small talk." Onr talk is small because it comes, only from the lips; it is frothy because it is on the snr face; it is commonplace, because we do not care about the things we say—they are not realities to us. It is not the sub ject upon which we speak, but the ink-r --est we take in it which gives flavor to our words. Hrllitan* VCMI nn<4 Not**. A Scotch Baptist church has been or ganized in Patagonia. Of the .141 Unitarian churches in this country, 252 are without pastors or Rtatod supply. The Lutherans in this country built 1 11 churches last year, and 605 in the last four years. The Presbyterians in Ireland are thus early making arrangements for the Pan Presbyterian council which meets in Belfast in IKB4. Of the $1,000,000 left the American board by Deacon Otis, one-quarter has already been invested in buildings at their various mission stations. The total indebtedness reported by the Methodist churches at the confer ence of lWtl was 1542,967. It hat since been reduced to perhaps 8600,000. There are but ten churches free from debt. The population of Toronto, Canada, numWrs *6,445. The churches can accommodate 49,860 persons, and the attendance on a recent Sunday showed 38,796, or a percentage of worshipers of 44 92. It is reported in Japan that the gov ernment is al>ont to re-establish Hhin toism as the religion of the state, and to combat by all possible means Bud dhism and the progress made by Chris tianity. The English Congregational Year Book for I*B2 state* that there are 4,397 churches of the order in Great Britain and *99 mission stations. Be sides these, there are numerous church*-* under the care of the London Missionary society in heathen lands, where there are 92,474 members and 843,708 adherents. The number of churches in London is 250, besidm 127 mission rooms. A Relic Hunter Caught. Inferring to mistaken idea* about relic* recall* the story in a German ! paper al>ont a certain profossor, which ; is a parallel of the Bill Htump* adven. tnroof Pickwick. A German antiquary made the delightful discovery that a stone placed ore? a stable door bore the , inscription 1081. "1 mnat hare this in my collection,coat what it may," thought the savant. Calling a tenant farmer, who waa the proprietor, the profm sor aaid to him eagerly : " Did you not obtain this atone from the castle ruin on the hill yonder f "It may be that :ny grandfather fetched it tbenoe when he built the statin," was the reply. The antiquary then asked what he would take for the stone. " Mince you ap pear to have a fancy for it," said the farmer, "give me forty guilders and I will bring it to your house." " Rather a large sum," said the professor; " but bring it to my residence and you shall lure the money." When in due course the farmer brought the stone upon a truck, the rcalons antiqnarr turned it orer to re fresh his eyea with the sight of its ven erable chronological inscription, not without anxiety that it might hare been damaged in its removal. "Why," he exclaimed, " what is this 1 This is not the right stone. On the stone I bought from you was the dale 1081, while this bears the very modern date 1801, which proves that the other waa exactly 730 yean older than this." "Do not trou ble about that," said the peasant. "The masons, yon see, sir, turned the stone upside down when they est it in the doorway, because it fitted better that way. You can turn it whichever way you like, but, of oourse, I must have the money agreed upon." The pro fessor, it is said, at once paid the whole sum, and gave the man a present besides to take away the stone and aay no more about the matter.— Chambers' Journal. MAKING MILLION*. A I nfill ill Ills Hurrnu of frtnlluff *n4 t'.n* • liHilui-Wbrrv Ike Monrj | I'llmrd. 0n of the sight* of Washington is the bureau of engraving and printing of the treasury department, where govern ment bonds, greenbacks and national bank notes are made. This bnrean, formerly located in the treasury build ing itself, has now a home of its own which ranks among the most expensive, if not the most irajmsing structures in the capital. Here every process neces sary to the production of the bonds or notes may be si en except the manufac ture of the paper. The; bureau is in charge of Mr. O. H. Irish. The first step noedful to the production of a note or bond after the paper has been made is to engrave the design on a steel plate. For this purj>ose the govern ment employs the moat skillful engrav ers to be obtained. The plate must be prop: rly tempered neither too hard nor too soft. It is thou covered with a thin coating of black* ned wax, aft'-r which the engraver begin* his work on it The vignettes and the lettering are invariably engraved by hand, but the borders and medallion* containing the nurnlx-r of the denomination are produced by delicate machines, which rnle the lines in the fanciful curves wj see in the finished note. Borne of these machine* arc very expensive, and re quire even greater care in their con htruction than the finest watch. Generally four or more notes are printed from one plate at th- same time, and in order to do this four impressions of the die on the roller are transferred side by side at proper Intervals on the plate. The printing is all done by hand, the ink being rubbed into the sunken lines by the printer, and the paj>er placed on the plate by an assist ant—generally a girL. The printer then forces the plate with the sheet of pa per on it between two rollers, a soft woolen blanket being put between the i sheet and tic- upper roller. As a rule the vignettes, the lettering. ' the medallions and the borders are en graved on separate plates and then when the steel lias been hardened they are press* d in their proper positions on the surface of a soft steel roller, which is next hard* nod. The impression on this roller Is of course the reverse of that on the piste-, the engraved por tions risiDg above the surface, instead of being sunk in it. The plates from which the notes are printed are pro duced by placing another sheet of soft ened steel under the roller and forcing the raised portions down into the plate. This produces the engravings in their original form again. This pro cess is known an " transferring," and from the plates to which the roller has transferred the impression it reoeived from the original engraved plates the printing is done. The sheet containing the front aide of four or more notes being printed goes through the hands of an examiner, who must see that it is perfect in every way. It then goes elsewhere to hsve the back printed, after which it 'is ex amined again. Then it is cut into four part* by a machine having three exceed ingly fine and sharp knives placed in a row. Next the separate bills are num bered consecutively by a most intricate piece of mechanism. Being nnm tiered they have to bo finally counted and put up in package* ready for delivery. When treasury or lwnk notes are worn out they are cat into small bits and worn into pulp, which is afterward cast into varions shapes, such shapes representing—or said to represent—so many thousand dollars' worth of old notes. Three things are Ironght as souv enirs by visitors, and quite a large trade is done in them. A New Narcotic. A considerable sensation has beun produced in Austrian mediesl circles by the recent appearance in the drug market of a new narcotic, hailing from (Queensland, and at present only known to the trade by its quaint native name of " pitchery-bidgery." It is indige nous to Northern Australia s sort of stunted shrub, from three to four inches in height when full grown, and bearing blossoms of s waxy texture, white in color and flecked with pink spots. The flowers are picked in the month of August, dried, packed tightly in can vas begs, and then subjected to a high degree of pressure, which imparta to them the consistency of cake tobacco. By chewing a small plog of this sub atanoe relief is speedily obtained from bodily fatigue, hunger and thirst, A larger dose of pitchery-bidgery pro duces* absolute insensibility to pain. Pitchery-bidgery, administered in mi nute doses, acts as sstimulant; in larger quantities, as a powerful sedative. But it has the peculiar property of enabling those who take it habitually to with stand fatigue and undergo physical exertion upon a low diet. An entire edition of the Vienna Atme AVeie Pre- wea recently confioceted by order of the eathoritica beoenae it contained acrerel paeaegee from Ed tnnnd Itarke'a '• Thought* on theOnnee of the Preeent Discontent." ATLANTIH. \ II m Myik ?-Or Wat If OM'ry| | n (irrtl tnyaltttn of !Viar V-Ar At iewt i• Hkow All CItIIImiIm Hra^ Frana If. Mr. Ignatius Donnelly lie* set ont to prove a very large ease, and if in every instsnce be does not succeed in con vincing bin revler, be at leant interest* and amuses him. He baa pnbliabed a book in whiob he endeavora to rehabili tate the Atlantia of Plato, to trace the beginning of all arta and acieneea, to explain the civilization of the Central American and Bonth American State* found by the Koropeana on their arrival on thia hemiaphere; to follow the history of the mound builders; to explain the civilization of old Egypt, and to show from whom the Irish peo ple really sprang. The voyage of the British ship Chal lenger, he maintains, demonstrate that there is a sunken island In the Atlantia off the entrance to the Mediterranean, which the soundings of the Challenger's explorera show to have possessed the salient features described by Plato. The Azore Islands are all that remain of thia lost country, and they, ho thinka, undoubtedly prove to be the precipitous rocks on the north referred to by Plato which guarded the Atlan tcan plains below from the sea. Thia, the island of Atlantia, was destroyed in a grand cataclysm between 9,oooand 10,000 years ago, and the enormous powers which wrought this unparalleled destruction yet manifest themselves to the terror of the world. The awful earthquake in Lisbon m 1775, in which 60,000 persons peril bed in six minutes, was caused by a power that darted from the same center from which that that engulfed Atlantis ages before, emerged. The author ahows by the events of the last two centuries that nature is ca]able of such a work of destruction aa that upon which he founds his theory, and that Atlantis was peculiarly exposed to gigantic forces that are not yet exhausted. He assumes that this island was situ ated between the continents of Europe and America, and that it was the center of the life and activity of its time. From its people all that has resulted in our present civilization radiated. When ;>opnlation increased, colonists went to the West and fonnded the empires in Central and South America, whose grandeur and magnificence astonished the Euroj>ean conquerors who followed Columbus across the sea. Others as cended the Mississippi valley, and spread into the Valley of the Ohio. These did not reach the high culture found in the South, and must have been forced to leave what is now the United States. What that reason was the author seeks to explain. In the mounds of these Americans are found the only specimens of the copper age. In Europe speen something synonymons with that we enjoy to-day, the great convulsion came, and in one day and a night the island sank beneath the waves, aa Plato described. Thst the legends of the deluge had one source Mr. Donnelly ia convinced. The Noahian and Chaldean aoeennta, as interpreted by the late (Teorge Smith from the cuneiform inscriptions now in the British Museum, agree in all sal ient particulars. Mr. Donnelly arguea that acme few persons escaped from At lantis, and carried the dreadful news east and west (for the legend ia one known to all people), and the manner in which they all agree he regards a* conclusive of the strength of hia argu ment. To build up his theory he has collected a great maw of curious and interesting knowledge, which be in tersperses with some pretty violent as sumption*. When lie desires, as he occasionally does, to clinch an argu ment, but has not the necessary evi dence available at the moment, be simply takes for granted what he should have proved. Id the main, however, he brings facta together with great in genuity and builds up bis cams with abilty and industry.—,Vew T'ork Cbw merciai. !tctlnr on Hl* Ear*. Two editors in Illinois got into a warm controversy over a proposed local improvement. One of them on • certain day had an imperative engage ment to meet before he could see UM* proof of a scorching article, in which he defied his esteemed contemporary to make any truthful reply, concluding with the isolated sentence : "Unti then we rest on our oara." What was hia horror some hours later to discover t hat the whole edition had gone ont to the public with the sentence "Until then wo rest upon our earn." How to make a barrel of flour go a great way—Ship it to Australia.