POETKT. BT JOHS HAT. On Tabor's height a glory came, and, shrined in clouds of lambent flame, The awe-struck, hashed disciples saw Christ and the prophets of the law; Hoses, whose grand and awful face Of Sinai's thunder bore the trace. And wise Eliaa, in his eyes The shade of Israel's prophecies. Stood in that Test mysterious light Than Syrian moons mors purely bright. One on each hand and high between Shone forth the Ood-Uke N'azarene. They bowed their heads in holy fright. No mortal eyes could bear the sight. And when they looked again, behold! The fiery clouds had backward rolled. And borne aloft, in grandeur lonely. Nothing was left "Bare Jesus only," Resplendent type of thiogs to be! We read its mystery to-day With clearer eyes than even they. The fisher saints of Galilee. We see the Ckrwt stand out between The ancient law and faith serene. Spirit and letter but above Spirit and letter both was Lore: Led by the band of Jacob's God Through waste of old a path was trod By which the savage world could move I'pward through law and faith to lore. And there in Tabor's harmless flame The crowning revelation came. The old world knelt in homage due. The prophets near in reverence drew. Law ceased its nunsion to fulfil And lore was lord on Tabor hilL So now, while creeds perplex the mind And wrangling load the weary win I, When all the air is filled with words And texts that ring Uke clashing eworda. Still, as for refuge, we may turn Where Tabor's shrining glories burn The soul of antique Israel gone And nothing left but Christ alone. SrrPmer. JIM ELLA5T. Facta ! Fancies. WOMAN S WORK. To hear some iieople talk one would uppose there was a tlivitlinp line as diHtinct as that drawn between the two sexes separating the different pursuits and kinds of employment settinp the sheep's portion on the one hand and the goats on the other. Which of the sexes is designated by the resjective animals in the above simile I will not preteud to state, since the comparison is not original, though its application is, but the idea suggests itself that as goats only have Wards If there really is, or chnultl le, such a dividing line, I have yet to stumble across the need or existence of it. That such a line has been marked out by the imagination of man, we have as correct evidence as of certain geographical lines and circles, which pass with us as realities, which, at the same time, are universally acknowledged to be strictly imaginary. It is ou such groundsman holds his tenure on certain provinces of lalior and professional skill. It would seem that in the beginning there had liecn a grand masculine caucus, and all the most profitable and honorable callings had leeu selected and personally appro priated, leaving only the more unde sirable means of earning her livelihood, at the disposal of lets favored woman kind. Of the justice of this so-called divid ing line, there has licen much question during the hist few years, and public opinion, through much agitation of the subject, has liecome coiresjMuidingly lilicralized women of intellect and capacity have aspired to, and achieved distinction in high places. Commoner ami less ambitious women have found indulgence, and lettered Ixtth their conditions andtheir purses; yet, though men are commonly quick to resent any encroachment ujmiii their considered rights, it is an undeniable fact that women are often their own greatest enemies in obtaining advancement in those channels where there iscouiieti tion lietwecu the sexes. Take, for example, many of our lady clerks. You enter a large mercantile house and take your place at a counter. After a little waiting, a stylish, be donnced, liefrizzled young lady comes sauntering languidly forward, eyeing you superciliously as she advances. She takes a lull inventory of your wardrolef from generalities to minutia-, her estimate of your ratio of importance (or nohodyism) showing itself visible in her countenance and demeanor. The better vour cloth the moid attention you will receive. If you are jxorly dressed, make tip your mind to be snublied. She shows von plainly that it is a sublime condescension on her part to wait upon you at all, and that if she obliges you in this, yon w ill, at least, have to accommodate yourself to her convenience. Perhaps she has a side flirtation on the tapis, with one of the gentlemen clerks, ami in that case you may be thankful to get halt my lady's attention. A gentleman, under the same circumstances, would have licen at least attentive and resicctful. It is owing to the frequency of such Ietty annoyances that the class of lady clerks have otten been in clislavor with those of their own sex. Another and opposite class of ene mies to woman's advancement consists of those who yet cling steadfastly to the dd traditional landmarks, seeing in all innovations of these, impropriety, and the nnsexing of her sex. "Why, th idea is perfectly dreadful I" exclaimed one of these to a bright little friend of mine who was going to learn typesetting a regular man's business, "if you must apprentice yourself, why don t you learn some genteel woman s trade, millinery or dressmak ing some thing respectable and ladvlike P "There are enough poor sewing girls starving in this big city, without my adding to the number," answered this f'rl, who had a mind of her own. "If am smart enough to learn a man's business, and earn a man's wages I propose to do it, and so long as I be have like a lady, 1 don't fear but I shall be respected as oue." "But this throwing away your oppor tunities, untitling yourself for the duties of a wife and mother!" persisted the marplot. "Why, 1 have seven girls of my own, and not one of them has a trade. If they should ever have to earn their own living I would rather pot them all into the kitchen than see them apprenticed to such a business." "Anybody's welcome to stay in the kitchen who wants to! I've got all that from' A to Izzard, and now I'm going to learn something else. My chiet object in life is not to tit myself to be anybody's wife or mother, but to take care of number one; and that I mean to do, well and honorably, too!" was the spunky reply ; and she's bound to do it. too, as sure as she lives. "Unfitted for a wife and mother!' she said afterward, repeating the con versation to one. "Look at all these male cooks, laundry-men, sewing machine operators, and I've heard of two or three men milliners. I wonder that women's business don't unlit them for husbands and fathers ! But nobody think of that.' And she was abont right There are two obvious sides of this oft-recurring subject of woman's work the sentiment and the reality of it ; and in the generality of people s opin ions, we are sorry to say, sentiment holds the lion's share. It is like the sugar-coating with which a skilful physician covers nauseous doses, mak ing them seem confections in the place of physic Sentiment is usually a honied covering, improvised to hide some bitter, unpalatable truths. In this connection wi iters and speakers harp chiefly upon the Ix-auty of a domestic life, and touchingly locate "woman's sphere" anywhere lietween the front-room andirons and the area door. Paragraphs of sentiment are wasted on the model housekeeper, whose domain is always the perfection of shining purity and spotlessness; and who, despite a'll the scrubbing and dusting, dishwashing and diurnal reno ration.which of necessity lead up to this state of beati6c immaculateness, never smirches hernose with coal -smut, never gets a grease-spot on her dress, never soils her lily-white hands with kettle crock or stove-blacking. Take away this clamor of sentiment and look at the absurdity of it: Notice how a man goes to work. He means to accomplish something. No fiddle-faddle here atxiut outward ap pearances. You don't fiudhiin handling things with gloves on. He rolls up his sleeves and buckles to his task, feeling a conscious pride in the sweat of honest labor, and nowise ashamed of the coat of real estate sandwichedover it. You don't catch him living up to what he preaches to his women folks not he! So in his own behalf he turns the tables upon sentiment in his favor, aud eulogizes the sweat, diit and all. Now sweat and dirt are in and of themselves not the pleasantest things in the known world to contemplate, but sentiment has so idealized and deodor ized them, one might say that they have gotten to lie commoniy lauded as homely virtues iu Isith prose and song. "Verily, Consistency, thou ait a jewel !'' Taking the world right through here comes the reality of it women have as much of the dirty work iu it to do as men have! This thing, senti ment, won't wash aud do tip! It's all very well to talk about the easy life a woman leads, '"calm and wenre in the protective Isisom of her family!" In the lest of families, with the kindest of husbands woman has her full meed of trials and grievances how is it, then, in the worst f What if the "Imsum" le a drunkard or a loafer! It is my con fident belief, backed up by what ex perience goes to show, that as many wives habitually support their husbands as are tx-injr supported by them ; yes, and a big family of children besides. Examine statistics and count lip the names of married women who are carrying on a business, employed in trades and manufactories or acting as canvassers, sales-women, copyists look-kecvrs, etc. Add to the number the host of nameless ones who make a precarious living as best they may, lieggars tag-pickers counties unfor tunates who subsist niton what others have thrown away. Where are the restful 'bosoms' who should and are supposed to le their rightful support and stav t Echo answers 'where i' A foolish 'inquiry! Sentiment, as usual, binding us to reality. We come at least to one conclusion woman's work amounts to a grtit deal more than even a candid public are willing to acknowledge. Thank Heaven, wider fields are oj-euiiig to her, where her lalxirs, in no resjiect more arduous w'iH at least be better appreciated. 'leaf. Would it not be wims to substitute more eggs fur meat in onr daily diet? Abont one third of the weight of an egq is solid nutriment. This is more than can be said of meat. There are no bones and tough pieces that have to be laid aside. An egg is made up of ten parts shell, sixty parts white, and thirty parts yolk. The white of an egg contains eighty-six per cent water ; the yolk 52 per cent. The average weight of an egg is about two onncts. Prac tically an egg is animal food, and yet there is none of the disagreeable work of the butcher necessary to obtain it. The vegetarians of England use eggs freely, and many of these men are eighty and ninety years old, and have been remarkably free from illness. A good egg is alive. The shell is porons, the oxygen of the air gos throngh the shell and keeps np a sort of respiration. An egg sixm becomes stale in bad air ; or in dry air charged with carbouh; acid. Eg8 may be dried and made to retain their goodness for a loDg time, or the shell may be varnished, which excludes the air, when, if kept at a proper temperature, they may be kept for years. The French people produce more eggs than any other, ana snip millions of them to England annually. Fresh epfs are more transparent at the center, old ones at the top. Very old ones are not transpaient either place. In water in which one-tenth salt has leen dissolved, good eggs sink and in different ones swim. Hail eggs float in pure water. The best eggs are laid by young, healthy hens. If they are properly fed, the eggs are better ttan if they are allowed to eat all sorts of food. Eigs are best when cooked about four minutes This takes away animal taste that is offensive tc some, but does not so harden the white or yolk as to make them hard to dige. An egg if cooked very hard is difficult of digestion, except by those with stout stomachs ; such eggs shonld be eaten with bread and masticated very finely, An excellent sandwich can bo made with eggs aud brown bread. An egg spread on toast is fit for a king, if kings deserve any muter focal than anybodv else, which is doubtful. Fried eggs are less wholesome than boiled ones An egg dropped into hot water is not only a clean aud handsome but a deli cious morsel. Most people spoil the taste of their epgi by adding salt and pepper. A bttle sweet butter is the best dressing. Eggs contain much phosphorus, which is supposed to be useful to those who use their brains much. "Kicks! ns on the Hoy. Blessings on the boys. Not the yonng, healthy, rosy-cheeked male savages of thirteen or sixteen years. They cannot help being boys, and de serve no special credit or condemnation for it. But blessing on those hale old boys of forty, or forty-five, or even of sixty years, who bend their broad sh oulders to the burdens of life, but who do not let those burdens crush their hearts ; whose eyes are quick to catch the light of merriment over droll story, and qnicker to fill with tears of sympathy for a friend's dis tress ; who retain boyish love and rev erence for all that is womsnly ; whose boyish confidence in humanity as a whole, though often shocked, never dies ; who watch eagerly for tiie bright spots of sunshine ou life's carpet, and seat themselves wuere it falls brightest and warmest. They rarely grov very rich, for their boyish generosity is too careless for that ; they may not com mand the awe of admiring crowds, they are n it always systematic enough to be safely trusted with important office ; but "the nimble feet of childhood spriDgs to meet them, manhood trust ingly extends to them a wide open hand, woman greets them with confin ing smile, and all through life they give aud receive great treasures of pure love. God himself is very tender to these bovs. Daylight Keflerlorn. By means of reflection much addi tional light may be thrown into a wiu dow, esjHt-ially in narrow streets where no direct skylight can fall upon the windows ' I 1,'liow ever, the surrounding walls are kept of a light color, almost as much light can he admitted as if there were no obstructions and the windows were open to the sky. The law of the reflection of light is that the incident ray w liii-li falls upon any bright surface makes with the perpendicular to the surface at the point of incident the same angle that the reflected ray makes. If, then, we place a plane re flector outside a window at an angle of 5 degrees to the horizon, so as to allow the light from the sky to fall upon it, the rays will enter the window horizon tally; or, if placed at CO degrees with t he horizon, the reflected rays will enter the window at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizon ; so that by regulating the position of the reflector, the light may be thrown into the window in any direction that may le required, and as much light can thereby 1 brought into a dark room as would be obtained from a small skylight. The art of i rinting in oil colors was invented 1110. ACKICTLTTBIL. Hints About Work. Marketing crops has gone on bnt slowly this sea son. Prices are low not only here, bat in all parts of the world. The promise of higher prices is uncertain. The far mer has an unquestionable right to hold or sell his grain, as he pleases, but it is well to consider the wisdom of holding it in a spirit of opposition to the absnrd demands of those, who question this right. There is a more sensible way of looking at this matter than that, which is to regard the simple profit or loss in holding or selling, in view of the condition and prospects of the markets. Economy, in everything, npon the farm and in the household, will be needed. We are passing ont of a cycle of high prices, and probably entering one of low prices. If profits are to be kept np, expenses must be reduced. Tools must be carefully nsed and pre served. Little things most be watched as carefully as large ones. The boys and girls mast not be ashamed to ride in the farm wagon rather than go in debt for a carriage. Debt mast in most cases be religiously avoided. A year or two of hard times may prove a blessing, if they lead to a system of bnying only for cash. J.otk Out Fur Fire. At this season much work is done in the barn by the light of a lantern, and the greatest caution should be observed. The lamp should not be trimmed, or filled, or lighted, in the barn or stables, nor near them ; do not keep matches in any of the farm buildings, and take every precaution to pre ventv fires. If there is an insurance npon tne building, it should not be allowed to expire with out renewal, and if there is none pro cure one without delay. Snow should be removed from weak or fl it roofs after every storm, lest the weight should be too much for them. It should also be removed from door ways and yards as soon as it stops snowing. IZoad and Ptth. Clear after every snow-fall. Cows and ewes may be seri ously injured by wading throngh deep snow or mud, and heavy in-lamb ewes, falling in the deep snow, are sometimes nnable to extricate themselves. It is well to throw down some of the fences, or opaa gates, in places where drifts may gather, to save the labor of re moving the snow, which would accu mulate. Care of S!u-k. Liberal feeding will be found of benefit to all kinds of stock. Observe such caution with cows in high condition ; as they near the period of calving, let their feed be gently laxa tive, and not stimulating. No corn meal should be given to such cows. Bran is safe feed, and if there is any sign of fever, a pint of linseed oil, or a dose of salts, should be given, as a pre caution agaitst milk-fever. Pure air is of vital conseqnence to stock confined in stables Animals will maintain their natural heat better in pare cold air, than in a warm foal one. Feeding Straw. Straw is too valua ble to be used for bedding, whenever other other absorbents, such as sand. swamp mack, leaves, or sawdust can be procured. Horses working moderately may be kept in good condition npon clean, bright straw, cat and mixed with six quarts of meal daily. A feed of long hay and oats may be given on Sundays, to save labor, and as a wel come change. Common sheep will do well on straw, with a piut of corn, or quart of bran daily; the heavier bodied breeds will require a pound of oil cuke meal, or some roots, and at least one feed of hay daily in addition, Slieep are not early feeders, and love to lie late. They need not be fed un til after breakfast. Other stock should be feed before breakfast. For cows straw is very poor feed. Ab:ct Sick Animals. Nearly all sick animals become so by improper feed ing in the first place. Nine cases out of ten the digestion is wrong. Char coal is the most tfticcnt and rapid cor rective. It will cure in a majority of cases if projH'rly administered. An ex ample of its use : The third man came in with the intelligence that one of the Quest cows was very sick, and a kind neighbor proposed the usual drngs and poisous The owner being ill and nn uble to examine the cow, concluded that the trouble came from overeating, and ordered a teacupful of pulverized churcoal given in water. It was mixed, placed in a junk bottle, the head held upward, and the water and charcoal poured downward. In fife minutes im provement was visible, and in a few hours the animal was in the pasture quietly eating grass Another instant of qnal success occured with a young heifer which had become badly bloated by eating green apples after a hard wind. The bloat was so severe that the sides were almost as hard as a bar rel. The old remedy, saleratas, was tried for correcting the acidity. But the attempt to put it down always caused coughing, and it did little good. Half a teacupful of fresh powdered charcoal was given. In six hours all appearance of the bloat had gone and the heifer was welL Maize. Maize is getting into exten sive consumption for feeding cattle. The price was for a long time below its actual value for feeding purposes, bat the grazers Lave discovered its valuable properties, and maiz9 is no longer ne glected on the msrket at 28s or 20s per qnnrter. We have an idea, too that the millers have fonnd that they can use a portion of it, especially of the white corn, without any material in jury to the flour. Be this as it may, the demand for maize increases, and the price has risen to 38s per quarter for the white and 36s for the yellow, la America the darker is preferred for domestic purposes, in which in various ways, it is largely consumed by families. The amount imported during the first nine mouths of the year 1873 was 15, (30,531 cwt., against lo.iol, 792 cwt., iu the Bame period of the p reseat year, being an increase of 421,208 cwt. The stocks of this grain are not large, and the demand is regular and increasing. Mark Lane Fjrpres. Wood ashes as a Fekttlizer. Every farmer knows the value of wood ashes as a fertilizer, and it is generally sap posed that it is owing to the potash they contain. Bnt the fertilizing prop erties alone, for if all the potash is leached out of the ashes, it is still a good fertilizer, bnt not as good as be fore leaching. What then remains in the ashes after the potash is extracted ? Nine out of the ten minerals that all plants take from the ground, and re quire for their support, viz : Sjda mag anese, phosphorus, lime. Leached wood ashes, therefore, simply require a supply of nitrogen (ammonia), and the potash extracted returned to them again to make it one of the very best of concentrated lime. Asparagus. Beds of asparagus if covered with two inches of manure, will be protected from the cold, and the liquid from the manure will work into the soil by rains and melting snows, and give the plants fine start next spring. If new beds are set oat in autumn, this covering will serve to shield the yonng plants from the effects of winter, bnt the bed mast have a good bottom drainage, or the plants will be likely to be killed even with this protection. How to Aftlt Mastk. If poor soil is to be brought np, the manure shonld be buried until the soil is suffi ciently enriched to the depth it is to be worked. Afterward, if it and the climate are naturally moist, top-dress, ing is best. SCICSTlliC Th Nmw Laboratort it Oxford. The building consists principally of three floors, and is surmounted by a tower of fifty-nine feet in night, and contains twenty-six large rooms and numerous apartments, each specially adapted and devoted to experiments in certain departments of physical sci ence. In the magnetic room is placed the great electro-dynamometer of the British Association. The room nsed for the experiments in heat at present contains an apparatus devised by Pro fessor Maxwell for determining the vis cosity of air. The galvanic battery is connected by properly insulated wires with the lecture room and other por tions of the building. The battery which will be employed is, of coarse, confined in a room fitted expressly thereto, and is of the style known as Sir William Thomson's tray battery. The lecture room will afford accommo dation for abont one hundred -and eighty students, the seats for the class rising at an angle of abont thirty de grees, and three doors providing suffi cient means of egress for the audience. In the room allotted to experiments in electricity of high tension, an apparatus contrived by Mr. Latimer Clark has been introduced, for the purpose of keeping the air of the room dry. This consists of a heated copper roller, over which passes an endless band of flannel. The roller is heated by means of gas lights within it, by which, being con stantly burning, every part of the flan nel becomes hot. The vapor which arises from the heated flannel is carried off by the current of air which supplies the burners inside the roller. The flannel, when thus dried and cooled, passes into the open air of the room, where it again absorbs moisture, and thus the air of the room becomes so dry that the electrical instruments are preserved in a highly insulating condi tion. The electricity passes from the electrical machine to the table in the lecture room by insulated wires con nected with the prime conductor of the machine. The highest room in the bailding occupies the upper portion of the tower. In this room will be placed a Bnnsen's water-pnmp, the water from which will thus have a vertical fall of considerably more than fifty feet. This pump will be nsed to exhaust a large receiver, from which pipes will com municate with the different rooms ; so that, if it be desired to exhaust the air from any vessel, it will only be neces sary to connect it with one of these pipes, and turn on a vacuum. For more perfect exhaustion, the Sprengel or other air pump can be employed. On the top of the tower will be fixed a wooden mast, carrying a pointed metal rod, for the purpose of collecting at mospheric electricity. Electric Rah. way Whistles. The French have lately introduced a system by which a stationary electric battery is made subservient to blow the whistle of an approaching locomotive, in case the road is not clear, without the engineer having to give any attention to it. Such an arrangement is, of course, ex ceedingly valuable at night, and spe cially daring a fog, when signals cannot be seen at a distance. It is the reverse of the system introduced on the Hudson river railroad, by which every approach ing locomotive sets a stationary electro magnetic alarm bell at the depot in motion. In the French system referred to, the obstruction at the depot starts the steam whistle on every approaching locomotive when the train is still tar enongh away to slacken speed and atop. It has now been in uninterrupted oper ation on the line of the Northern Com pany of France for some time, and has been fonnd practically successful in use, regularly informing the engineer whether the way is clear or not. The signal tender turns a disk and sends an electric current in the direction of the coming train to a bar placed between the rails ; when the engine reaches the spot, a metal brush, placed between the wheels, sweeps the bar, the current passes to the engine, and. by means of an electro-magnet, presses npon a lever which opens the steam whistle, thus making it blow automatically. The rapidity with which the danger signal can be sent appears to be mnch in its favor. A Kemf.dt fob Necraloia. A remedy named "aqua puncture" has been in troduced in France for the treatment of neuralgia. It may be described as a force-pump which can be carried about and placed on a table, with a small flexible tube about two feet long, so constructed as to deliver a thread of water from its extremity with such force as to pierce leather. In operating on a patient afflicted with neuralgia the piston is worked a few times to expel the air from the tube ; the point is then held about half an inch from the pain ful spot, the pump is worked, and the thread of water plays on the skin. Presently a white vesicle appears on the spot where the water strikes ; and any number of punctures may be made at the discretion of the operator and in proportion to the extent of the pain. At first the skin aronnd the vesicles becomes red ; but after a few hoars the vesicles and the redness disappear, leaving only a small black point, which is the crust formed by the drying of a drop of blood in the puncture. The operation is described as painful ; bnt the relief it produces is so great that patients always call for a repetition whenever their neuralgic pains return. FAisnua on Zinc without Faist. M. Puscher, of Nuremberg, has lately invented a simple process for coloring sheet zinc, based on the employment of acetate of lead. On applying this sub stance, mixed with a minium prepara tion, a reddish brown tinge is obtained. The cupola of the synagogue at Nurem berg was thus colored as an experiment over a year ago, and, to all appearance, is yet unaffected by the weather. By adding other bases, lighter or darker tints of gray and yellow may be ob tained, giving the zine work the ap pearance of carved stone. With a solution of chlorate of copper, the preparation tarns the sheets of zino black. Straw Paper. In manufacturing straw paper, the machinery needed is one steam boiler, one bleach -tab ten by twelve feet, with a false bottom ; one rotary straw-washer, two engines six by sixteen feet ; one machine not less than forty-eight inches wide. The straw is first packed in the bleach-tnb and satu rated with lime-water at the rate of about a barrel to a ton ; then boiled for abont twelve hoars, or until it becomes soft and pliable. It then passes throngh the washer, which is well supplied with water, to cleanse it from lime and dirt. Then it passes to the engines where it is beaten to palp, suitable for the ma chine in which the paper is made. AccoBsrso to Kepesy, the surgeon to the Austrian Polar Expedition, chocolate, as a beverage, proved most valuable of all ; the preserved meat and vegetables in tins being also of the greatest service in sustaining the strength and spirits. The lambent blue flame from a coal fire f carbonic oxyde gas) has a tempe rature of 5,5XP Fahrenheit The flame of hydrogen of nearly 6,000, and of oxy -hydro gen, a.ow-'. ine tempera tare of the electric spark is unknown. bat is supposed to be abont 22,000 Fahrenheit. jFA newspaper writer observes that when ladies snbscriDe tor papers, mey oak for "bock" numbers BOIEST1C Household Hcrra. Old paper collars cat in strips quarter inch wide make an excellent taper lor lighting lamps. It is said that the unpleasant squeak of boots and shoes may be prevented by simply driving a row of pegs through the sole from the toe toward the heeL The noise is caused by the friction of the layer in the center. This method stiffens the sole somewhat, bat is pre ferable to the intolerable sole agony. It does not seem to be generally understood that the amalgam of tin foil with mercury, which is spread on glass plates to make looking glasses, is very readily crystallized by the action of solar rays A mirror hong where the son can shine on it is usually spoiled ; it takes a granulated appearance familiar to bouse-keepers, though they may not be acquainted with, the cause of the change. In such a state the article is nearly worthless, ine continuity oi mo surface is destroyed, and it will not re flect lines with any approach to precision. A correspondent of the London Fancier' Gazette writes that "a drop of linseed oil put on the ends of perches in the cage of canaries, where the red mites sometimes breed by thousands, will instantly kill them, sod, if applied occasionally, with keep others away. They can be easily kept out of the nests by dredging the box or basket with quicklime inside, and then making a nice nest with clean moss" Another correspondent, "Fringilla, writing npon the same subject, says : "I paint my cages with carbolic acid, pure or mixed writh water ; to dip the edge in a solution is simpler. Don't let the birds enter till the cage is dry. Six months have elapsed since I doctored my cages, and I have not seen a mite since. My birds are allowed to bathe frequently. Edward Smith, in his new work on "Foods" gives the following simple formula for making vinegar : One gallon of water, one and a qnarter pounds of raw sugar, and a quarter of a pint of yeast. At a temperature oi eighty degress it will be sufficient acid in three or four days to be drawn off, when an ounce of cat raisins and the same weight of cream of tartar shonld be added, and after a few weeks the sweet taste will entirely disappear, when it may be bottled. A new industry for women has been commenced in England by four ladies of standing in London. It is that of home decorative artists They under take the whole furnishing, upholster ing, furniture, and all that tends to embellish the interior of a dwelling. They are said to be remarkably clever and very suocesslul. mey have served a regular apprenticeship, and acquired a thorough knowledge of the business. It would seem to be a business pecu liarly fitted to the taste for and love of the beautiful inherent in women. Bora ix Bed. Whoever has lifted the curtains of boys' alcoves, soon after their inmates have gone to bed, and has looked lovingly in, has seen a pretty sight. Generally their faces are lying most reetf uliy, with hands under cheek, aud in many cases look strangely younger than when awake, and often very infantile, as if some trick of older expression, which tbey had been taught to wear by day, had been dropped the moment the yonng ambitious will had lost control. The lids lie shut over bright, busy eyes ; the air is gently fanned by coming and going breaths ; there is a little crooked mound in the bed ; along the bed's foot or on a chair beside, are the day elothea sometimes neatly folded, sometimes huddled off in a hurry ; bulging with balls, or, in the lesser fellows, marbles ; stained with the earth of many fields were wood chucks have been trapped, or perhaps torn with the roughness of trees on which squirrels have been sought ; per haps wet and mired with the smooth black or gray mad from marshes, or the oozy banks of steamers, where muskrats have been tracked. Under the bed's foot lies the shoes one on its side with the gray and white socks, now creased and soiled, thrown across them ; and there in their little cells, squared in the great moss of night, heedless how the earth whirls away with them or how the world goes, who is thinking of them or what is doing st home, the Dusiest people in the world are resting for the morrow. To Con: Beef. Pack the beef, cut into pieces weighing not over six or eight ponnds into a cask, using J pounds of salt to 100 pounds of beef. In from two to four days the meat will be nearly covered with a brine com posed principally of the blood which was in themeat, and which was drawn ont by the action of the dry salt. Then take ont the beef, rinse it well to re move all the blood, and repack, using 4 pounds of salt to the 100 pounds of beef. Then take for each 100 pounds of meat, 3 pounds of salt, 2 ounces of saltpetre, 2 ounces of cloves, 1 ounce of Cayenne pepper, and 3 pounds of clean light sugar or 3 pints of molasses. If the beef is not from a young animal add to the above 2 ounoes of saleratas. Dissolve the ingredients, in water, boil and skim, then cool and pour over the meat, adding water enongh to cover all well. A stone should be laid on the meat to keep it beneath the brine. The "drying" beef and tongues must be taken out in four weeks, washed and hung np to dry. Beef oared in this way will keep into hot weather. If the brine is drawn off in May and new put on, with 5 to 6 ponnds of salt to the 100 pounds, adding also pound of black pepper, the beef can be kept all through hot weather, though it will not be so tender after the second brine is put on. Eating Eoos. An English paper very consistently recommends an in creased consumption of eggs as food. It says : "excellent sandwiches may be made of hard-boiled eggs and brown bread and butter ; eggs spread on toast are fit food for kings ; a poached egg that is, one dropped from the shell into hot water is not only clean and hand some, but a delicious morsel ; eggs are better flavored without salt or pepper, a little sweet batter being the best dressing ; persons who eat eggs freely may live to the age of 80 or 90 ; and lastly, eggs contain much phosphorus and are the best food for those persons who are deficient in brains This last idea is of the Qtmost importance of many persons Boiled Turkey. Hen turkeys are preferable for boiling, on account of their whiteness and tenderness and one of moderate size shonld be selected, as a large one is not suitable for boiling. After having dressed, trussed and stnffdd the bird, put it into sufficient boiling water to cover it. Let it come to a boil, then carefully remove all the scam. Let it simmer very gently from one and a-half to two boars, according to size. Serve with melted batter, as with oysters In the latter case the tnrkey should be staffed with oysters, and the sauce be made according to recipe for boiled chicken with oysters. Frosted Bice-Boil one teacup of rice in milk till very tender ; salt and season it. Beat yolks of three eggs with this in a deep dish. Beat three whites to a stiff froth with a little sugar and a little lemon ; spread over rioe and brown in the oven. Put on ice and serve cold. This may be made also of tapioca er corn starch in the same way. A ;oop paste for cleaning brass may be made by rotten-stone, two ounces ; oxalic acid, half an ounce ; aweet-oi, three-quarters of an ounce ;' turpentine, enongh to make paste. Apply it with a bttle water. FIOBOtn. A Close Fit. The following instance of youthful exactness comes to us from a mend in uingnam, juasaaennseiia, where it reoently occurred : An exhibition was given here some two months since by Tom Thumb, at whieh the pnoes were twenty-nve cents for those over ten yean of age and twelve and a half cents for those under. It was Johnny tenth birthday, and his cousin May. aged thirteen, thought it to be her duty to celebrate it by taking him in the afternoon to see the dwarf. Arriving at the door, she put down thirty eight cents, and asked lor two tickets. "How old is the boy ? asked the t i c fit scTlfir. WeH," replied Miss Msy, "this is his tenth birthday ; but he vol not born until late in the afternoon." The vendor of tickets accepted the accuracy of the averment, and handed her the proper certificates for admis sion. But it was a elose fit. Harper' Magazine for February. Cct His Haik. Id the barber shop of the Metropolitan Hotel, in Louis ville, a tall, rough-looking man was leaning against the wall. A dandy came in, took off his bat and coat, and coolly handed them to the stranger, whom he mistook for the barber. When the dandy said "Trim my hair, he pointed to a chair and when he felt the hair being cropped close to the scalp, he leaped from the chair and ran to the mirror. "What have you done?" he shouted. "Well," replied the stranger, "you said cut it, and I wasn't going to refuse a little favor like that, nor make a half way job of it, neither." "Wall, strahger, said a back woodsman to a man whom the landlord of the hotel both were stopping at had detailed to sleep with him "Wall stranger, I've no objection to you sleep ing with me, none in the least ; bnt it seems to me the bed is rather narrow for you to sleep comfortable consider ing now 1 dream. Xou see I am an old trapper, and generally dream of shootin' and scaipm Injuns Where 1 stopped night before last thry charged me five dollars extra, 'cause I happened to whittle np the head-board in the night. But you can come, stranger if you Uke, I feel kinder peaceable now." An editor relates how colored bar ber made a dead-head of him. He offered him the usual dime for shaving, when the fellow drew himself np with considerable pomposity and said : "I understand dat yon is an editor." "Well, what of it?" says he. "We neber charge editors nuffin." "But, my worthy friend, we continued, "there are a good many editors traveling now-a-days, and such liberality on your part would prove a ruinous business" "Oh! never mind," remarked the barber, "we make it np off the gemmen. An eminent doctor of divinity, resid ing not a hundred miles from New York and famous for the originality of his phraseology, was asleep the other eve ning in his chamber, while his wife wss mending a rent in one of his garments He awoke and asked the lady if she knew why she was like Satan. "I do not." was her answer. "Do yon give it up?" "I do, certainly." "Because," said the doctor, "while man slept the enemy sowed tare." "No, madam," said an affable Chicago landlord, who was showing a possible tenant over his bouse on Kobey street, "I cannot say that as yet the street is drained. Bat, then, do but reflect for a moment upon the advantages the situation offers Yonr children can skate all day long on the gutters ; it's as convenient as a skating rink, doesn't cost yon a penny, and there they are under your eye all the time," A 8TTDK3T was reprimanded by the Professor for his lateness at morning prayers, and excused himself on the plea that the prayer took place too late. "How," said the Professor, "is six o'clock too late ?" "Yes, sir," replied the student. "If you had them abont four. I could attend, but no man could be expected to stay up to six." Poktrt is spoiled by the addition of a single word. A yonng lady, after listening to her lover's description of the setting son, exclaimed, "Oh, Al phonse ! Alphonse ! what a soul you have for art 1 Yon were meant for great painter I" Her father, unex pectedly behind, added, "aud glazier." A suroeoh who lodges over a butcher shop in Paris feels mnch aggrieved at the announcement on the shop window that "Killing takes place daily in thia establishment." The doctor considers that his professional skill is impugned by the notice, and resents it sufficiently to go to law abont it. Two Ton.vo men out riding were pass ing a farm house where a farmer was trying to harness an obstinate mule. "Won't he draw ?" said one of the men. "Of coarse," said the farmer, "he'll draw the attention of every fool that passes this wsy." The young men drove on." A singer, applying for an engagement wrote to an impreasario as follows : "I am a good mnsihan. I pla all music at furst site." "Well." remarked the im preasario to a friend, "she may play by note, bat she certainly spells by ear." With a Poxer "Did the defendant go at the plaintiffs teriatim f" inquired an attorney the other day, of a witness in a case of assault and battery. "No ; he went at 'em with a poker, was the emphatic reply. Novel Mcsectl A fashionable but illiterate lady, traveling on the Conti nent, writes a friend that she has seen the "Museum of Iniquities" in Genoa, and she does think it "perfectly splen- did" Op ooursr, a woman doesn't want her plants to freeze, bnt still one can't blame a man for raising a row when he hops ont of bed in the morning, and finds a geranium plant in each trousers leg It was "darling George" when a bridal party left Omaha ; it was "dear George" at Chicago ; at Detroit it was "George." and when they reached Niagara Falls it was "Say, you." A Daxbubt man, who bought new pair of boots Saturday, says a ship may stand on one tack all night if it wants to, bnt he finds an hour and a half an elegant sufficiency. "What station do you call this," said a man as he crawled out of the debrU of a railroad smash-up. "Devastation." replied the urbane conductor. He had been there before. If a pretty poulteress marries a piU mooger why may she be said to make a bad bargain of it. Because she lets him have a "dock," and gets nothing but a quack in return. Nothxso recalls to the mind of the married man the joys of his single life so vividly as to find that the baby has been eating crackers in bed. Hobss racing is sinful and I know it," said Tennessean deacon ; but I believe I've got a hoes what can outran anything in these diggins Marx Tiast says the Sandwich Islanders are generally as unlettered as the back-side of a tombstone. Cawaarelsl Lies. There is a specie0' I'"" which scizee npon certain classes of trades men during certain seasons of the year, : k . n,an..r anil form that it may be called an epidemic. I t liable to break out at any time and in any place, when and where trade is dull ; but it is usually seen ana leu i if u " u: lent form in the fall of the year aud particularly about the holidays Should we be asked to name this dis ease in good old Anglo-Saxon, we should say it was lying. This dutease generally attacks small tradesmen, dealers in fancy good and small wares who, in order to effect a reduc tion of an overstock, purchased, per haps at high prices resort to a specie of deception, falsehood and fraud that are in every way detrimental to g"d morals and common honesty. The evidences of this disease can be seen about the doors and in the show win dows upon every street in this city where there are places devoted to the sale of goods At one place can seen huge placards announcing "a great reduction in prices." when the fact is that no reduction has been made, and the goods for sale in that store are in reality held higher than at the more modest establishment across the street or around the corner. At another place can lie seen a large sign, by which the proprietor informs the passing crowd that he has an im mense stock of goods just purchased from a bankrupt sale, and which he will sell at half price, while the truth is tliat the goods are purchased regu larly frem the city jobbers aud at regular prices and they can le pur chased anywhere else for the same money, and in many cases for even less At another place we are informed that goods are "given away,' while the truth is that the proprietor of that store is too penurious to give even a few pennies to the suffering and unfor tunate, devote any of hi time to the works of charity, or even sell hi goods at the market price, if by any means he could obtain more. Another clsuw of this kind of vampires and frauds upon the public are those who advertise to sell their good "regardless of cost. The words npon the sign and placards are honest enough, and tell the truth in regard to the rules and practice of the establishment; but woe to the poor nnfortnnate who ventures therein, for he will rind out to his sorrow, if he makes any purchases that the alluring sign at the front was only the device of a roblier by which to allure the un suspecting victim to his den. These remarks are true of nearly every city and town in the country where there is competition in the sale of goods. 1 he practice is also, in a greater or less degree, indulged in by all classes of dealers not always iu the exact form as mentioned above, bnt in a thousand and one other ways which are intended to deceive, if not to defraud. The country merchant practise a specie of lying and fraud when he advertises immense stocks of good on hand stocks that would do credit to a jobbing house. The consequence is that his customers know that he lies alMuit the quantity, and are ready to suspect him of untruths in regard to the quality. Many jobliers and manufacturers lie about the state of trade and their busi ness when the truth well and fitly spoken would be far better for all par ties They cannot excuse themselves like the toy whistling through the woods and say they do it to kttep their courage up. They are supposed to know better and to be able to face the truth with an honest countenance, aud give truthful statement for the bene fit and guidance of their fellows. The species of commercial lying so briefly noticed ha become prevalent among all classes in commerce aud manufac turing, and i working positive and irreparable injury, and ought to lie stopped. Were we a jobU r, we would no more sell good without the rash down to a retailer who resorted to the schemes and tricks referred to than we would to the veriest thief or bummer ever seut to jail. We would look with suspicion upon the jobber who would make statements in regard to business which all others know to be false, and avoid him aud hi house. In conclu sion, we assert it as a fact that a dealer who will lie in the matter and quantity of bis wares will deceive in the manner and quality of his transactions and that the well-being aud future success of merchandizing as an honorable busi ness demands that deception and fraud, in whatever guise it may appear, shall have no place or right therein, and will not be lightly looked upon bv the honest and honorable portion of the fraternity. Taking fold. One way is to "bundle np" in furs. or mntH -rs, tight about the m ck, take a brisk walk, go into a warm room church, lecture room or concert set with your things all on, get warm, per spire freely, breathe vitiated air for an hour or two, and when thoroughly re laxed, the pores of the skin all open, go out into the cold, damp air, and yon will soon begin to shiver. After having a chill, send for the doctor, and he will dose you with something hot ; then go to bed ; then, if left alone long enongh, you may get np in a day or two, and in a fortnight or so you may repeat the imprudence. There are several other ways to take cold. We will mention bnt one, and that is to "over-eat. Stuff the stomach with improper food more than it can digest, and you will soon find yourself well "clogged up" with a cold. Yon will cough and sneeze, blow yonr nose, and wonder how in the world yon took such a cold." Soienco uj Hralth. How many days has the year of its own ? Three-hundred and tweutj-five, because forty are lent. K. F. Kamkla Bitter Wine er Iran has never been known to fail in the cure of weakness attended with symptoms ; indi poaition to exert ion ; loss of memory ; diffi culty of breathing; general weaknesi; hor ror of disease ; we k, nervons trembling : dreadful horror of ileal n ; night sweats; cold feet ; weakness; dimness of vision; languor ; universal lassitude of the muscu lar syitem ; enormous appetite, with dys peptic lymptoms ; hot hands; flushing of the body; dryneas of the skin ; pallid coun tenance and eruptions on the face.purifying the blood ; pain in the back ; heaviness of the eyelids; frequent black spots flying be fore the eyes with temporary suffusion and loss of sight; want of attention, etc. These symptom all arise from a weakness and to remedy that, use . F. Kcxeel's Bitter nine or iron. It never fails Thousands are now enjoying health who have used it. Take on'y E. F. Kcxkel's lie ware of counterfeits and base imita tions Aa Kunkel's Bitter Win of Iron ia to well known all over t " country, drug gists themselves make an imitation ami try to palm it off on their customers, when they all it Konkel'l Bitter Wine of Iron. Kunkaj's Bi ter Wine of Iron is nut up only ia $1 bottles and hu a yellow wrap per nicely put on the outn.Ie, with the pro prietor'a photograph on the wrapper of each bottle. Always look for the photograph on the outside, and you will always be sure to get the genuine article. Bold by all Drnggiats and dealers every, whers Tapiwoaa Removed Alive. Heal and all complete, in two hours No fee till head posses Seat, Pin and Stomach Worms re moved by Dr. KtrscEL, 2-j9 North Nuth Steeet. Advice free. Come, see over 1,000 specimens and be convinced. Us never SHOW CASES! SHOW CASES! AO Hylea, Surer Mounted and Walnut, new ad aaoooa-nano. twvuraj p-aea ror atupouw. oucsizaa, aK. shlviho. Sioux nx House aud orricB rrjuxiTtrRE ail kinds Tba laneiat and teat aaaoctad atocS new and aaoand-haad m the City. LKW1H Jfe BRO, -10-lj urn. lets. w and ios ridb ite ruiia. THE O IT. EAT RUSSIAN SPECIFIC CURES RHEUMATISM AND HSURALGU, This irrmt Frni-rl. sntil ncfnttlv. mm anksyr lb Aiuncili pw-H- " o K!iti ii m rmZ beat pUr Ufcrt- lh puMn-, J., cUn-. aumt iribt-r -ni!fJ irtHiif. inf it r , nn. ii'-jr"- to wtii.h buiuamly i jrt hat kt era Knit Ti! a Niuw.it, i.u;t, Tlih,tf them rotn iu sjtteta. boJ t- Uruvt-. -o-njj.0 ItoDTipftl Drp.4 M X. ELEVENTH ST. Pdiusn, FAXON. CLARKE & CO. VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE FOR 1875. Published qntiTtrrly. The J ir.airy XuB. ber is now rady. It cuntnins oer qq pajf-s. SIX) UluttraUous, aud a Jrripit0 of 500 of ihe finest furtrs and r.j.rj!,;a. eiTin al.o direction how to cu!tiTtiF thta. A colore J plate is added to the Flueu OrinK. It is the mot nseful n. ffi, handMomi-W broiiRht out work of this kiD Only 23 Cents per annum. N fuV.i,'UP, lt Eng Lh and German. Address JAMES VIl'K, Rochester, N. T. THAT COUGH! BY TAKING SINES' COMrOUXD SYHCP OF TAR, WILD CHERRY AND hohehotjnd. For the Cure of Cottyh. Who-yin? Cujh Croup, Sore Throat, Ilvarsm'ts, .4niu, Inflammation of the Lunt, lttn m the Si'e and Bruit', llnmrlntii and all dieeaete trndmj to MM1MY EHSIIfll! Do not neglect that, which to you miy ap pear to be a tridinz roM. or you too mv be added to the NINE XY THlASl humus beinr who die annu:tl!y in the I'MTEl) STATES who are hurried to premature gTaves, by that dreaiiul scuurg , ri Lu- AV COSSI'MPTIOM. The specified infrredients. vit: T ir. Wild Cherry and II irehound, are so well known, and so highly recommended. Ihu the pre paration must come into fenerul ue for af fections of the breast an 1 luns. It is re markably pleasant to take, containing no thing to cause nauseating sensations which is a very important consideration as it is extremely d.tficult to preail upon children to take a sufficient quan'ity of most medi cines in use to have the desired effect. lias been soi l by Druggists and Store, keepers for thirty years. Prlca 23 ai 53 cents p:r tciils. Prepared only bj CHARLES NEHER, JR., rillLADRI.rillA. USE M. B. ROBERT'S EMHKOCATION, FOB ALL IXTKRXAL DISEASES OF MAX OH BEAST. Price 35 Cents per Cuttle. FREDERICK SPIECKER, wnnr.it u.E PfAirn 1 Leaf Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, OF TIIE LEST ''.RANKS. iTo. 132 fai::u::i ays::-2, IUILADIIU'UI.V. Only Agent for V. S. Solid Top Cigar Mould, Cigar Stores can be supplie'L nimV n4 wim ow a I If I IJ can tnviit it from nilinf hy I I n I "-"- Hill.." PTr.T Kion LI Lll I ll.lio Knt, per I' ernU; Twizor II'tM-r. 25, bj 3!a.l, M,t-.4il. Far Sai hy lianlwarv Cirrular Irn. AtllilM, II. AV. II1LL CO.. !9-t-ow Uccitar, III. THE WEEKLY SUNJK t mnl lenrk-m ii.-w-(mit. of i l.nwl cttltimti.. W ai to nuke the Weklr th trt fiumlv &-; pr ia tb world. Trjr u. $ l.io ynr. p. .!' 'L Allrr .V CllJ. aoOi-3m STATIONARY, PORTABLE AND AGRlCULfUUAL STEAM ENGINES. Gtaaral AftnU rot BUSSILL k CO.' Massillon Separators HORSE POWERS. nh HOUSE RAKES. Br HAY CUTTERS AND OTHER FIRST-CLASS FARM MACHINERY. HARBERT & RAYMOND. 1835 Market Street. PH! LA DELPHI a. J03 PR.NTIf.C WTATLT nSCCTaD AT THIS Of Til B, . 15 re K ,r j ,.-jr n hi
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