LET If TRY TO BE I1APPT. It oa try to be harry ! We may. if we will. Find some pleasures in life to overbalance the ill; There never tu an evil, if well understood, lint what, rightly nuuiaged, would tnrn to a good. If we were bu'. as ready to look to the light As we are to ait moping because it is uiht. We should own it a truth, both in word and in deed. That who tries to be harry ia "ore to succeed. Let ns try to be happy ! (Some shades of re gret Are sure to hang round, which we cannot for get; There are times when the lightest of spirits must bow. And the sunniest face wear a cloud on iU brow We most ne ver bid feelings, the purest and best. Lie blunted and cold in our bosom at rest; Hut the deeicr our own griefs the greater our need To try to be happy, text other hearts bleed. Let ns try to be happy ! It is not for Ions We shall cheer on each other with couiwcl or song; If we make the best of our time that we may. There is ranch we can do to enliven the way; Let us only in earnestness each do our best. lie fore God and our conscience, and trust for the rest ; Still taking this truth, both in word and in deed. That who tries to be happy is sure to succeed. The Common Ilainmrr. The hammer seems a simple instru ment enough, but Mr. J. llichards in a book on mechanical topics, lately pub lished in England, finds in it much that is curions and interesting, as the fol lowing extract will show : Few people in witnessing the use of a hammer, or in using one themselves, ever think of it as an engine giving out tons of force, concentrating and apply ing power by functions which, if per formed by other mechanism, would involve trains of gearing, levers, or screws ; and that such mechanism if employed instead of hammers, must lack that important function of apply ing force in any direction that the will may direct. A simple band-hammer is, in the ab stract one of the most intricate of mechanical agents ; that is, its action is more difficult to analyze than that of many complex machines involving trains of mechanism ; but familiarity with hammers makes us overlook this fact, and the hammer has even been denied a place among those mechanical contrivances to which there has been applied the mistaken name of mechan ical powers. Let the reader compare a hammer with a wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw, or lever, as an agent for concen trating and applying power, noting the principles of its action first, and then considering its universal use, and he will conclude that if there is a mechan ical device that comprehends distinct principles, that device is the common hammer ; it seems, indeed, to be one of those things provided to meet a hn man necessity, withont which mechani cal industry could not be carried on. In the manipulation of nearly every kind of material, the hammer is continually necessary in order to exert a force be yond what the hands command, un aided by mechanism to multiply their force. A carpenter in driving a spike requires a force of from one to two tons ; a blacksmith requires a force of from five pounds to five tonB to meet the requirements of his work ; a stone mason applies a force of from one hun dred to one thousand ponnds in driving the edge of his tools ; chipping, calk ing, in fact nearly all mechanical opera tions, consists more or less in blows, and blows are bnt the application of an accumulated force expended through out a limited distance. Considered as a mechanical agent, the hammer concentrates the power of the arms and applies it in a manner that meets the requirements of the work. If great force is needed, a long swing and slow blows accomplish tons ; if but little force required, a short swing and rapid blows will serve, the degree of force leing not only continu ally at coutrol, but the direction at which it is applied also. Other me chanism, if used instead of hammers to perform the same duly, would from its nature require to be a complicated machine, and act but in one direction or in one plane. "Help." There is a promise that the vexations servant-al problem may 1m solved by an Knjrlisli lady of wealth, Mrs. Crawshay. who lias made herself known to the public in other exix-rinimtal Holts to revolutionise the world lor the iH-tter. Out of the nine hundred thousand superfluous females in Great liritain she has sureeeded in rn(rafrinjr live young gentle-women who are wil ling to earn a living in her castle as domestic servants. Tliev art as rook. lady s maid, kitchen-maid, dairy-maid and npKr house-maid. They are pai! no larger wages than the former iiMtini ttents of these positions. Hut Mrs. C'rawshav treats them as equals while thev are "oil' dutv, permits them to mingle in the drawing-room among the guests of the castle, and takes them by turns riding with her in her carriage. And the exiieriment so far has leen highly successful. The voung ladies have proved to be admirable servants. 1 hey have hail no rows with the mis tress. They have been neither drunk nor thievish, and breakages and canet tearing and dirt and disorder under their regime have been almost un known. In short, Mrs. Crawshay thinks that she has found a way to lift the domestic nightmare from the ltosoms of hoiisekeeers, and afford means of livelihood to many thousands of well lorn and intelligent girls, who now nave to struggle so hard to obtain places as governesses, companions, iK'hool-tearhers and clerks. If this lady reformer Micoeeds in t-tttaldialiiiia? her new system there is hope that relict may ultimately come to mistresses in mis coiiptrv. i here is a very law el ass of American eirls who olttaiu a scanty and miserable living as workers in lactones and shops in the cities who are too proud to do house service, thoiiirh the wages for the latter, all things con sidered, are four-fold. I'roperlv trained they would make U'tter "help than the majority of imported domestics, who alter all come lroni the txasant rondi tion of society in Kurotm and know little of house service until thev reach these shores. Any thing that promises relief front the present chief trouble of Housekeeping will lie hailed with de light by mistresses; and it is needless to say that Mrs. Crawshay's forth coming pamphlet, iu which she will give the details and relate the results of her experiment, will bo looked for wit 11 much interest. The Explosion or Boiler. Kitchen TOiy is it that kitchen-boilers ex plode T is a question now asked, which is of vital importance to all households in which these boilers are used. Is defective work, or inferior quality of material the cause, or is it the result of ignoranoe and carelessness iu the kitchen people ? Within a short time several severe "accidents" as they are called have occurred from the burst ing of the "water backs" in the kitchen ranges, some of them resulting fatally. In ranges with which hot water boilers are connected, there are cast iron com partments containing water, located in the rear of the grateof the range, and these furnish the boilers with the sup ply of hot water. These "water backs," as they are technically termed, are really the boilers, the boiler at the side of the range being merely the hot water reservoir. When the fire in the range is allowed to go ont at night, it generally happens, daring Bach serere weather as we have recently had, that the water in the pipe connecting the water back with the boiler, freeze, in which case all escape of hot water or steam from the water back ia cut off. Of course when this ia the ease, as toon as the range fire ia lighted in the morn ing, the steam is generated faster than the ice in the pipe can melt, and the result is an explosion of the water back. Under this condition of things it would seem necessary, in order to avoid such explosions; First, to keep the range fire in all night in serere weather; secondly, when this is not done, to see that the connecting pipe ia free from obstruction before lighting the fire ; and lastly, to hare an extra safety pipe attached to the water back, having a cut-off, this latter to be opened when the fire is lighted, and kept open until the connecting pipe with the boiler is freed from its icy obstruction. Appar ently ignorance and carelessness are the most fruitful sources of these kitchen boiler explosions. A Discouraged Boy. Crabapplc's lxy had read that touch ing Thanksgiving story about the chap whiirciii hwhv from home when a boy and went to sea, and was not heard of for years and years; and how on every Thanksgiving day the mother sat a plate for the wanderer, and kept a seat lor him at tlie iaiie,anu now uie gmy- I 1 I 1 I . .. ...I. ...... I n 1 .1 ...... .. r liaireil ll", vt 111 11 in: iin-i,- im ui,nniiifi. praved for his wayward son prayed that he might return in safety to the paternal roof. And then one Thanksgiving day, when they had alwmt given him up for dead, although the plate and vacant chair told the story of a mother's un dying lioiies, just as the family had sat down to the '1 hanksgiving dinner, there came a rap at the door. "Come in!" cried the hire, and in hoiiiircu the lioy iu a sailor jacket and a tarpaulin hat just home from a whaliug voyage. Such reioH-ini? as l here was in mat nouse. How Ins father shook both his hands, and how his mother wept over him and embraced him. and how ail the brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins hung around Ins neck aim luggeu ai ins KAilor hu-kct. It was worth braving the dangers of the wa to meet with such a welcome on his return. He sat at the feast tu the chair that a mother's deathless love. and hope and recollection had always placed for him, and never was there a happier 1 hanksgiving since that cher ished anniversary was invented. ( 'raliannle's boy wept over that story every time he read it, and ho got to wondering whether such a lass would le made over him should he run away from home ami then turn up again some Thanksgiving day. He thought alsitit it so much that he finally determined to test the business, anvhow. He would see how the people would act when he played the prodigal's return. Soahouta week lietore lliaitks irivinc he ran awav from home. He didn't go to sea, liecanse the sea was too far on, and he couuin t make mucn of a voyage in a week, anyhow. He got a job in a tan yard, grinding bark, which answered all thepurjioses, for he could imagine his 'bark was on the sea,' as lie rode the old horse around the circle. He called the mill the world, and iinairined himself sailing around the world at everv revolution. With a beating heart he approached the paternal mansion. He looked in at the window and savr the folks just sitting down to the Thanksgiving slimier. A chill of disappointment crept over him as he saw there was no vacant chair and there wasn't an idle plate on the table. He listened at the door as the blessing was asked, bnt although several prophets were honored with a flattering notice, his name wasn't men tioned. 1 his was a little hard on the boy w ho had run away from home and was liable to turn up on that or any succeeding 1 hanksgiving day. Kecollections of him didn't seem to cluster around the hearthstone to any very great extent. Kepressing a chilling forcltoding that arose in his breast, he flung oien the door, rushed into their midst and ex claimed "Father! mother! 'tis I, 'Sammy Crabapple ! home again home!' home!" and then threw him self on his father's breast, sobbing convulsively. What did that father do? Did he ling him and sob tears over him, and call him his long "lost bo-lo-lMiy t V..4- . 1. EI.. 1.:... 1. .aim mill ll. lit' iiR'n nun tj inr iwimit led him into the woodshed and worked over him more than an hour with a barrel stave, his brothers and sisters dancing around on the back stoop in an testacy of delight, while his mother screamed, "That's right. Ambus; give it to him! Learn him licttcrn to run awav from home strain ! Then he was sent to lied without any Thanksgiving supper at all, and threat cned with licing deprived of Imth Christmas and New Years' dinners. Hand Kpnn Kilns, The frequent disappointments which ladies experience in the wear of black silks are partly attributed to the use of loaded chemical dyes (which cause the fabric to cut) instead of pure vegetable dyes, and partly to the increasing ten dency of late years to produce silk goods in factories by means of power looms. Every effort, however has been attended with but doubtful success, and it has been found almost impossi ble to produce them free from that crisp harsh touch so common to the ordinary make of silks. Moreover, it is foreign to the character of the French weaver to work in factories, and all at tempts of manufacturers to induce the best workmen to do so have proved un availing. This accounts for the supe rior excellence of the hand-spun cache mire silks, each piece of which is made in the good old-fashioned way by skilled weavers on looms at their own homes, thus fulfilling the true conditions un der which fine silks can alone be pro duced, insuring more reliable wear, rendering them less apt to wear shiny. and giving them that soft, mellow, satin finish so sought after by all consumers. Translated from the Pari Journal, Decline 1st Trades t'aions. If we may believe the statements which are from lime to time put forth there is a visible decline in trades unions throughout the country. In New Vork alone it is estimated that since 1S73 no less than seven thousand mechanics and two thousand laborers have left these societies, being about twenty per cent, of the strength of the organizations in that city. Various causes are assigned for this decline, but the one most generally accepted is that it finds its justification in the sufferings from the strikes which the unions are alleged to have precipitated. Employ ers, too, it is argued, have manifested a preference for non-society men, and the rule in that city seems to be that in most cases where skilled me chanics have withdrawn from unions they have experienced no ditliculty in obtaining situations. Wagging Another Bone. A New Hampshire school teacher lately was questioning one of his classes upon the anatomy of the human body, and, standing upon one foot, and swinging the other foot and limb, he inquired how many bones he was moV' ing. beveral incorrect answers were given at first, but after it had been an swered correctly, the question was asked if any of the scholars thought differently. A little fellow, not yet in bis teens, raised his hand immediately. signifying that he disagreed with his schoolmates, and the teacher, repeating the question, "How many bones was I moving?" was astonished to hear the little chap increase the proper number by one, in the same breath giving as his reason, "Too were moving your jaw-bone, too." ICIimiTaML. Savs Tocb Ows Seed. Every intel ligent tiller of the soil will admit that "whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." If one sows or plants inferior seed, he cannot expect a boun tiful crop of either roots or grain. Small and half-manured kernels of wheat, oats, rye and corn cannot be expected to yield panicles and ears filled with plump and heavy kernels. If one plants the seeds of carrots, pars nips, turnips and cabbage which grew in the small pods and the half-manured panicles on the slender stems, he can not produce large roots, even if the soil has been brought to an excellent state of fertility. This suggests the great importance of raising seed of the choicest quality. It will cost no more to raise one tnou sand bushels of beets or turnips, per acre, than three hundred, if plump and heavy seed has been properly saved. In order to produce large, heavy seea of garden vegetables, select a few large carrots, a few turnips, parsnips and beets, and plant them in rich toil early in the growing season. They should be planted about thirty inches apart, that the tops may have ample room to spread. W hen the blossoms begin to appear, clip off all the small side branches, leaving only four or five cen tral stocks, which will yield seed of a much better quality than one can usu ally purchase. Every kernel of such seed, when planted, will produce a large root. Turnips and carrots may grow in close proximity : but turnips and carrots designed for seed should be transplanted several rods apart. One cabbage will yield as much seed as one family will care to plant, unless a crop is grown for market, A superb head should be transplanted as it grew. The top of the head should be cut open, so that sprouts or seed-stalk may readily spring up through the center. As soon as the panicles of carrots and parsnips begin to turn brown, and when the pods of cabbage and turnips begin to lose their green color, let the stalks be cut off close to the ground and hung up in some out-building. When the leaves and stems are quite ury, iei mem he unread on a clean floor, or on a large blanket, and the seed thrashed off either with a flail or by crushing tne pods with one s feet. In order to have large and early to matoes, the first ripe fruit should be allowed to hang to the vines until the seeds are fully matured. By selecting see n this manner lor a lew years to matoes will come to maturity much earlier than in the ordinary way, and every stalk will be loaded with fruit. The melon, squash, cucumber and pumpkin that ripen first should be al lowed to hang to the vines until the stems are quite dry ; then, wnen tney begin to decay, remove tne seeds. spread them on a board or a canvas to dry. The vitality of such seeds is fre quently destroyed by too much solar heat, or by being scorched beneath the kitchen stove. Flowers will be maturing their seed at different periods through the entire growing season. The seeds of some flowers will ripen in Jane, while others will not ripen till September or October. It will reouire'but a few minutes to at tend to the cultivation and gathering of all the seeds one may need, if he will attend to the little matter at the proper time. C. ah Lime. Gas lime, that is lime that has been nsed in purifying gas, is thought by many farmers to lie worth as much or more as a fertilizer, as it was before its use as a gas purifier. It is a substance often neglected about here, but we have known of its some what extensive use in the neignborhood of New Haven, Conn., and there it was quite satisfactory as applied in the way of a top dressing on rough pasture. As it comes out of the gas works it is in a powdered condition, and ia usually very highly cuargeu wun ammonia, iu this condition it is quite different from the caustic or fresh slacked lime, such as we find it in casks, bnt is perhaps eonal in efficiency to that. It ia use ful to mix in a coarse compost heap made of weeds, leaves, straw, road scrapings, jrc. It is also valuable on stiff clay soils, where it may be simply spread over the surface and left there or plowed or harrowed in. we wouiu spread it freely on cold mossy pastures. Gas lime retains a portion of its orig inal character as a hydrate of lime, but it has acquired, in addition to that, a large amount of sulphur, a portion of which is in a free state, and if exposed it will unite with the oxygen of the at mosphere. bnt if there comes in con tact with it any ammoniacal substance, or fresh manure, it will unite and form sulphate of ammonia, and this is vain able for the crop. It may be applied alone with barnyard manure if imme diately covered up with soil. Jlasta chwtctl Plottghman. Fixe avd Coarhi Hat. Producers are sometimes puzzled to know why city buyers generally ask for coarse well-matured hay in preference to the more tender and in reality more nutri tions kinds. The Live Stock Journal thus enlightens them : City men feed hay for a different purpose than the farmer. The farmer feeds it lor its nutriment and as a principal food. while the city man regards grain the cheapest food and only gives sufficient hay to make bulk in the stomach and for the purpose oi health. Coarse well matured timothy serves the purpose better than the early-cut and fine grasses. They do not desire such hay as will tempt the horses to eat too much of it Straw would answer this pur pose if cut and mixed with the grain about as well. Do Not Cheat Yora Houses. Most domestic animals are as keenly alive to their own interests as a man of busi ness. They can make bargains, stick to them, and make you stick to them also. I have a little mare who nsed to require six men to catch her in the pasture, but I carried corn to her for a long time without trying to take her, leaving the oorn on the ground. Next, I induced her to eat the corn whilst I held it. still leaving her free. Finally I persuaded her to follow me, and now she 11 come trotting ball a mile at my whistle, leaping ditches, fording brooks in the darkness and rain, or in impene trable fog. She follows me like a dog to the stable and 1 administer the corn there. But it is a bargain. How to Make Hens Lay. An ex change mentions a very successful pro ducer of poultry and eggs whose hens lay regularly the year round. The hens are of various breeds, and their profit is credited to the manner of feed ing, as follows. Not one particle of meat or scraps is given, and but the veriest trine of vegetable food is fed in the shape of new boiled potatoes. about once week. Abundance of grain is allowed, of various sorts, ground or unground, but never cooked, and plenty of unburnt oyster shell pounded, are at all times accessible. They have a pailful of skimmed milk every day, so that they can help them selves to all they want, no other drink being provided. HABn-MajOMO Cows. A dairymen says the milking, easy or hard of cows is transmitted from mother to offspring. and even through the bull to heifers of his stock ; for they will be easy or hard milkers as his dam was, unless coun teracted by the cow he mates with : in short, this is hereditary, just the same as good milking qualities, or in respect to quantity and quality of milk. Is the woods of Kansas wild hops grow in the greatest profusion, said to be of as good quality as any that are produced by cultivation. sciHTinc. The Supposed Cause op Smallpox ass Xiphoid Fetbb. For many years, in fact since it was understood by men of science that the changes which we call "fermentation" were due to the growth of very lowly organized fungi in the fermenting liquids, medical men and physiologists have had the notion that certain diseases, those of the rymotio class, such as scarlet and tvohoid fevara and small-Dox. may be due also to the growth and activity within the blood and tissues of (he human body, of lowly organized fungi. Many times individuals have fancied that they really had found the fungus belonging to a particular disease. Thus it was with the so-called cholera fungus and again with other contagions dis eases. More recently it has become a demonstrated scientific fact, that all putrefaction is due to the life of minute organisms known as iiacteria ; ana it has been shown that there is a series ot varieties of putrefaction, each of which has its special and appropriate itacte rium as the cause, and that in the ab sence of Bacteria or allied organism. putrescible substances remain perfectly sweet Thus, in some putrefactions. one kind of smell and corresponding foetid chemical substances are pro duced ; in other putrefactions other such foetid substances of a distinct kind. Moreover, in some cases, the special kind of Bacterium at work pro duces a vivid coloring matter, red, r green, or blue, according to the spe cies. Now these discoveries have helped on considerably the acceptance of the theory that many diseases are due to the presence in the human body oi minute organisms. Just as there are color-producing Bacteria, that is to say, Bacteria, the effect of whose life and multiplication in the blood or other fluids of the tissues is to produce poi sonous chemical conditions in those fluids. There are certain diseases in which Bacteria have been detected in great quantity in the blood, and to which we are justified theoretically in attributing the disease. In the lower animals, among silk-worms and other very humble creatures, such diseases have been very clearly traced to the presence of enormous numbers of ex cessively minute and simple corpuscles, which are of a similar nature to that of the minute fungus-like organisms known as Bacteria. In man, there is no doubt that the terribly fatal disease, known as malignant pustule, is accompanied by, and probably caused by, enormous numbers of a minute Bacterium. This fact has been established within the last two or three years, as also the fact that pyaemia the putrefaction of the blood which follows after pntrefac- tion of wounds is equally connected with the presence of swarms of Bacteria in the blood. Again, the swiftly fatal and little known pytomie condition which so recently took from us a most able physician. Dr. Anstie. was in all probability another of these Bacterious diseases. Now these facts stand upon much snrer and more numerous obser vations than any of the "fungoid theo ries of disease which have before engaged the attention of medical men. We are really beginning to see light in this matter. But must important of all, and claiming really the very closest attention at this moment, are the re cently published discoveries of i'rof. Kline, of the Brown Institution in London, an observer whose character for accuracy and acuteness is so well known, that his statements may be accepted with full reliance. Dr. Kline has shown, and can still show by means oi his prepared microscopic sections. that in the small-pox of the sheep the lymphatic vessels in the loose tissues beneath the skin and elsewhere are occupied by the branching filaments of a fungus-like organism. In the pustules wnicu lorm on the surface these nla- ments give rise to minute rounded spores, and it is these spores which have been seen by other observers and recognized as special "corpuscles" of the diseases small-pox and vaccinia. Dr. Kline's account of this organism is published by the lioyal Society. Fur ther, Dr. Kline has extended his re searches to other zymotic diseases, and has published this month his results as to typhoid fever. He has made the most careful microscopic study of the intestines, which become ulcerated, and are the chief seat of mischief in typhoid. Dr. Kline finds that minute round yellowish-green colored organisms are present in immense quantities, both in the tissues of intestinal wall and in the villi on the surface. At present. Dr. Kline has not published figures of eitner ot these organisms the fungus of small-pox or the micrococci of ty phoid but we may have sufficient con fidence in his accuracy as an observer, and his entire freedom from theoretical prepossession, to accept the resnlt of these researches as dehnitely establish ing the parasitic, origin of some, at any rate, oi the zymotic diseases. Ath nreutn. rHOTOO R AP HT AS A M EDIC A L A W ISTA XT. Our papers make mention of a new application of the camera that has leen accidentally discovered by a photo grapher in Berlin. A young lady whose blooming cheeks denoted apparently perfect health, went to have her photo graph taken, and was placed before the instrument in the usnal manner. On examining the negative, the operator discovered that the face was disfigured witn numberless very nne black spots. A new plate having been prepared, the same phenomenon occurred, which completely mystified the operator, as he had prepared the plates with the greatest care, and he could detect nothing in the face of the young lady to account for the disturbance. Two more trials producing the same result. he contented himself by hoping a re touching of the plates would remove the tacit. The third day after the litis band of the lady informed the operator mat nis wile was stricken with small pox. Berlin Cor. Cincinnati (azette. Japanese Bronze. A curious bronze is produced in Japan, which, when made in thin plates, resembles slate. and is covered with designs in silver. M. Monn has lately analysed and ex amined the properties of the alloy, and finds that it contains, in addition to copper, from 4 to 5 per cent of tin. and on an average 10 per cent of lead. The combination is easily moulded into thin plates. These are varnished, and through the covering the designs are scratched with a burin. The plate is then plunged in a silver bath, when the surer is deposited on the unprotected portions. Lastly, the plate is' placed in a muffle furnace, when the copper blackens and the silver remains bright Dr. D. E. Bkllksvk, in India, has been trying some experiments with the poison of the scorpion, which he ob tained by irritating the animaL The experiments were conducted upon dogs, pigeons and frogs. The nine-thousandth part of a grain of fresh venom, injected into the thigh of a frog, caused the skin to become violently inflamed and the animal to die in fifty-seven minutes, on examining the blood microscopically under the influence of the poison, it was found that the cor puscles were strangely deformed, and they rapidly became agglomerated into vioous masses, running into each other. The function of the blood is thus de stroyed, and death in one of the most agonizing forms must ensue. To true a corundum wheel, adjust it in the lathe and revolve it very fast, holding a piece of oornndam stone against the surface. It is said the piece will melt and unite with the wheel, making the periphery perfectly true. I Bonsnc Caxr-Sbated Chairs. When these chairs begin to wear ont, says a lady. the canes split apart, and their appear ance is anything but oramental, while the comfort of the chair is also de stroyed. Now. if we live where they can be reseated at the cabinetmaker's and have the money to pay for the work, we can soon have the chairs again as "good as new." But all who do not live in such localities, and all have not the money to replace their seats ; yet a bttle time and ingenuity will settle ine matter rieht and make the chairs, in my opinion, better than new, for I do not take mucn fancy to cane-seaiea chairs in general. Take any pieces ot bagging or burlaps no matter how coarse and fit them to the chairs, cutting them large enough to wrap about the rounds that hold the splints or canes. ow sew it on with a darning needle and twine twice doubled, and turn up a hem, as you sew, on the burlaps. When ball htted, stuil it with "excelsior" shaving of poplar wood ; or, if yon have them, cut off layers from old quilts, and spread them smoothly over the chairs, under the burlaps. The layers of cotton can be tacked together before they are put, in, and then they can be laid more smoothly upon the old canes. Fine hay will also answer lor stalling, when nothing better can be procured. Now sew down the other two sides, and take piecesof carpeting.or enameled cloth, or colored rep, or all wool dress goods, and tack them closely down with large silvered or brass-headed nails which come for that purpose, and be hold I your chairs are far handsomer and more comfortable than before. The materials have possibly cost you but little, for many an attio would furnish them all, but the nails, which must be procured at the upholsterers. (jimp to match the ground color of the cushion, or even worsted braid, is de sirable to place along the edges of the covering, and drive the nails directly threngh it. This makes a handsome finish to the cushion. Many a woman possesses as much in gennity as a carpenter or cabinetmaker. and a little practice will teach her the upholsterers trade, so that with nails. hammer, and the needful material, she will not only make as good a chair cushion as he, but will be able to cover a lounge respectably, and also an arm chair. Rocking-chairs have often been made far more comfortable than when first purchased by the exercise of this art In many families there are dis abled chairs which have been thrown aside as useless, and yet, with but little expenditure, they could be made not only usefnl, bnt ornamental, and their presence would be a great addition to the sitting-room. Aptle Charlotte. This very excel lent and healthy dish is seldom seen. but it has only to be tried once to learn its excellence. The recipe is very simple. 1'ut in a tolerably small bread pan a piece of butter the size of a walnut, and set it where it will melt ; then pare, quarter and core a few ap ples ; half the qnarters ; if they are large make them in thirds. Now place in the buttered pan as many slices or pieces of bread as will cover the bottom. then a layer of apples, a little sngar and fonr or live little chips of butter; another layer of bread, another of ap ples, etc., and so on till there is enough for dinner or until the pan is full. Butter the uptier layer of bread. If the oven is too hot and browns the top too fast, before the center bakes, with a spoon dnp a little hot water over it serve hot. with or withont sauce. A Simple Tlan op Ventilation. The following simple method for venti lating ordinary sleeping and dwelling rooms is recommended by Mr. Hinton in his "Physiology for Practical Use :" "A piece of wood, three inches high. and exactly as long as the breadth of the window, is to be prepared. Let the sasb be now raised, the slip of wood placed on the sill, and the sash drawn closely upon it If the sup has been well fitted, there will be no draft in conseqnence of this displacement of the sash at its lower part ; bnt the top of the lower fash will overlay the bottom of the upper one, and between the two bars perpendicular currents of air, not felt as drangbt, will enter and leave the room. Driigijixt t ircular. Tub most rapid growth takes place immediately after birth, the growth of an infant during the first year of its ex istence being about eight inches. The ratio of increase gradually decreases until the age of three years, at which time the size attained is half that which it is to lieconie when full grown. After five years the succeeding increase is very regnlir till the sixteenth year. being at the rate for an average man of two inches a year. Beyond sixteen the growth is feeble, lieiug for the follow ing two years about six-tents of an inch a year, while from eighteen to twenty the increase in height is seldom over an inch. At the age of twenty-five the growth creases, save in exceptional cases. The making of Kgyptinu air-castles, cut circular by compass, and folded in eight creases to from a globe, furnishes employment for fashionable young ladies of an industrious turn of mind. They are composed of paier of various bright colors, and when formed into globe-shape, are strung upon a cord, live or six different colors together, and hung in a portion of the room where a gentle current of air will set them in motion. They get "excited" at length, and go whirling around windmill fash ion, eventually all tangled np in a pretty httle snarl forming but oue globe in appearance. Whoever can understand this should try the amusement by all means. Otsters Roasted. Wash the shells perfectly clean, wipe them dry, and lay them on a gridiron, the largest side to the fire ; set it over a bright bed of coals. When the shells open wide and the oyster looks white, thev are done ; fold a napkin on a large dish to tray, lay the oysters on in their shells, taking care not to lose the juice ; serve hot When oysters are served roasted at supperthere must be a small tnb between each two chairs to receive the shells, and large, coarse napkins, called oyster napkins. Serve cold butter and rolls of crackers with roasted oysters. To Make Rice Prpprxo wtth Fbcit. Swell the rice with a very little milk over the Are ; then mix fruit of any kind with it, currants, gooseberries scalded, pared and quartered apples, raisins, or black currants, and still better, red currant jelly, with one egg to bind the nee ; boil it well, and serve with powdered cinnamon and sugur. m Oyster Omelet. Whisk four eggs to a thick froth, then add by degrees one gill of cream, beat them well to gether ; season the eggs with pepper and salt to taste. Have ready one dozen fine oysters, cut them in half : pour the eggs into a pan of hot butter and drop the oysters over it as equally as yon can. Cocoanct Ctstard. One quart of new milk thickened with four table- spoonsful of corn starch ; one-fonrth pound of butter ; three eggs, beaten separately : one crated cocoannt Sugar and spice to the taste. . Bake in puff paste. Apple rrDDiso Eight apples grated ; about the pame quantity of stale bread ; a eggs ; l pints of milk, sugar and cinnamon to txste. Bake in a slow oyen one honr. To be eaten with cream. Tns following incident is said to have occurred in a restaurant : A man re cently entered the place and ordered a elaborate dinner. He lingered long at the table, and finally wound up with a bottle of wine. Then, lighting a cigar he had ordered, he leisurely sauntered up to the counter and said to the proprietor, "Very fine dinner, land lord. Just charge it to me ; i naven got a sou." "But I don't know you," said the proprietor, indignantly. "Of course you don't If you had, yon wouldn't have let me had the dinner." "Pay me for the dinner, I say !" "And I say I can't" "111 see about that," said the pro prietor, who snatched a pistol out of a drawer, leaped over the eounter and collared the man, exclaiming, as be took aim at his head, "now see if you'll get away with that dinner withont pay ing for it, you scoundrel !" "What is that you hold in your hand ?" said the impecunious customer, drawing back. "That, Sir, is a pistol, Sir." "Oh, that's a pistol, is it ? I don't care a fig for a pistol ; I thought it was a stomach-pump." A Torso Parisian of wealth, who had been playing heavily at his club, where he had lost his last son, while strolling homeward early the other morning was accustomed by a beggar : "A little charity, if yon please." "I have no money," was the reply. "Give me only a small piece of money." "I haven't a farthing," said our yonng friend. The beggar still persecuted him, and he lost his temper. "Listen." said he to the beggwr ; "you can feel my pockets, provided yon agree to take what I have and let me take what money yon have with yon." The beggar did not dare to take up the offer, and hobbled off. A wob-beoonr specimen of the Celtic race accosted an officer attached to the New York Tombs Court, the other morning, and anxiously inquired : "Ploze, zur, when will Mariar enm down?'' "Come down from where?" said the officer, thinking Maria was a friend of the questioner, who had got into some legal difficulty. "Cum down to take the prisoners np," was the re sponse. "I want to see her and ask her to be kind to me wife Biddy, who is goin' up on the Island for three months." The man thought the Maria was a female jailor. Mr. Ccrran was once engaged in a legal argument Behind him stood his colleague, a gentleman whose person was remarkably tall and slender, and who had originally intended to take orders. The judge observed that the case nnder discussion involved a point of ecclesiastical law. "Then," said Cnrran, "I can refer your lordship to a high authority behind me, who was once intended for the church, though in my opinion, he was fitter for the steeple." Delicate Compliment. Qneen Eli zabeth, admiring the elegance of the Marquis of Medina, a Spanish noble man, complimented him on it, begging, at the same time, to know who 'pos sessed the heart of so accomplished a cavalier. "Madame," said he, "a lover risks too much on such an occasion ; but your Majesty's will is law. Excuse me, however, if I fear to name her, but reqnest yonr Majesty's acceptance of her portrait" He sent her a looking glass. On Scxpat morning, just as the min ister had got to "We have done those things which we ought not to have done," etc, Mr. Jones sncceeded in getting off his overshoe, with which he had been wrestling manfully for ten minutes, and it took hymn books and an ear in its passage down the pew, causing considerable emotion in the congregation, and fetched np in the center of the aisle. Jones says it is odd what elastic things these rubber shoes are. An old farmer purchased some sweet oil in a drug store yesterday, and, being asked if there was "nothing else," he laid several packages on the counter, held up a hand with several strings tied on the fingers, and said : "Let's see ! That red string is for the bar-soap ; that rag is for a broom ; that bine cord is for a calico dress ; that dress braid means four pounds of sugar, and this other string is for sweet oik No nothing more." Ihiroit Frte Ire. Here is a description of a mean church, which has a moral in it : "After the old pastor died, the deacon went alniut for a two hnndred and fifty dollar minister, and you can get about as good a minister for that price as you can get psalm tunes out of a file." A eorjmtY newspaper tells this story of a new boy in ono of the Sunday schools : "The precious yonth was asked who made the beautiful hills about them, and replied that he did not know, as his parents only moved into town the day before." Durino a trial the Judge called a witness. No one answered, and an elderly man arose and solemnly said "he was gone." "Where has he gone ?" asked the Judge, in no tender tone "I don't know, but he is dead," was tlie guarded answer. "Wht, Ichabod, I thought yon got married more'n a year ago?" "Well, Aunt Jernsha, it was talked of, but 1 fonnd ont that the girl and all her folks were opposed to it, and so I just give 'em all the mitten and let the thing drop." A wicked boy, upon whose shoulders his mother was expressing her resent ment with Inith slippers, felt too proud to cry, and kept np his courage by re peating to himself : "Two soles that beat as one. ilnxiklyn Argn. A MRTnopisT minister in Kansas received only fifty cents for Lis first quarter's salary. And, strange to say, he did not wait for his next quarter's allowance, bnt fled to some spot where the laborer is worthy of higher. The mewl (wrote a school boy ) is' a larger bird than the gnse or turkey. It has two legs to walk with, and 2 more to kick with ; and it wears its wings on the side of its head. It is stubbonly backward about going forward. "How charminolt naive she is," said a young beau to a crusty old gentleman. "Knave 1" exclaimed the latter, gazing through his spectacles toward the co quettish beauty indicated, "I should say more of a fooL" A California preacher is preaching on the best way to raise boys. We have always found a number 14 boot about as effective as anything for raising them. Voltaire said of his sweetheart : "She was so beautiful that I raised my long, thin body and stood before her like a point of admiration. The milkmen of Sin Francisco have formed a mntual aid association. One holds the can, while the other pumps. New York World. TTmiVzrVT Twna ihuiahII. l..u 11 . - . uwonvMwM gcireiwij mvo tiieir water tax unpaid until it becomes dew. Mr. Wiglitman and Miss Blackman were recently married in Brooklyn. - "The smallest fevers e-ratefnllv . eeived," Akit PenrW. The pearl ia a very beautiful as well an costly ornament and is as much - , . ;l f iAwnlrv. There ave been several theories advanced in regard to the formation oi me pe"", . n,'t aatiafactorv. This is one of the mysteries that nature has . . w a Tli A AAAO n BaTTI 41 kept bidden irom ua. - r wnrlr ahnnaL The mountains ra ' -r -- latter men have excavated and tunneled until they have discovered many mingu l.. ihAiilit Af hnt she returns securely in the deep blue sea. .Many 1 aaaf J i .. ih w Kl A treasures are storeu - ir uuj ..i .tu Vin'ne " but few are grow fs J , venturesome enough to fathom the depths and bear away ine ncn spoiu i. .. j.nuFfini work, for although we have now the diving bell, making it possible for men to stay unaer mo wkti ... timA thev suffer if they go down very often or stay long. But some enterprises are attended with dancer and not all as profitable as the pearl fishery. The divers are proviueu wim u;K t nnt aholln taken from tlie . UILU V ,, bottom of the ocean. These are then broken up and the pearls drilled ana ntuv nonnlA are eencrallv employed for this purpose, as they are very expert ; oui, aiuiougu mcj 'c fn)I. wntxlia.1 thev sometimes succeed in secreting a valnble pearl. ine best nsnery in iue imui i ubu tl,o Tol nf rVvln. where the season commences in February and lasts until April. A gun is nreu aa a siguiu the boats. All go out and come back together. .... Twenty men go in eacn ooai, ieu oi whom are divers ; the remainder row i.l aaaiut their nimnanions in re as cending. They go ont at sunrise, re main bnsily engageu unin noon, wucu they return, and are relieved of their precions cargo, and are ready for another trip. This is the way that the pearls which the people highly prizs are obtained. Pearls possess an advautage oyer pre cious stones taken from rocks in that they are found with that appearance i : -i- : . i. lA; ..In. rri,Av W 11 1CL1 f, 1 cn bur-ill luru .' - ' J are perfectly polished and finished be fore they are taken from their ocean home, while stones obtained from the .IifTuvatift a-inila rt rrwk-a need enttiiifr and polishing before they are fit for the nse of the jeweler. Mature gives mem their rotiffli fo.m. and leaves it to art to give it the finishing touches. White pearls are most pnzeu, ai- lwn vl aftmA lUtsniM Ytrtffer lliAAA ll 1 1 - UU.I U V .i. II , - - cately tinted. The Oriental pearls are , - M! X . ..t 1 1 uio nuesi u acuuuu w igcurBB auu beauty. They are of a silvery white. Pearls have been used as ornaments from the earliest ages, and among all natinn. fven IIia Tnilinn eftteemetl them before the discovery of America, ior wnen me apaniarus nrst came over tlkaw fnnnil n Tl ar ti f lo fit tliem fttoWAll away ; but they were inferior, being of ,1 - i v 1 i - I. T.. .1: a yenowisu buuuh, uecauno mo luuiaun n.a.1 (!m 4a .An tllA B 1 H 1 ) U rt describes Montezuma, the Mexican Emperor, at their first interview (1577) as wearing garments embroidered with pearls, and the natives also wore neck laces and bracelets of them. i . ( servor. IIIpine. It is a false opinion that happiness is not now to be realized, bnt only to come hereafter. It is in contradiction to Ood's holy word, as we believe we are blessed now with all things that are really good for us. Yet there are per sons who think that when some par ticular grievance is removed they shall be happy. No I you will be as far from happiness as vou are now. This is the folly and weakness of the mind, which vainly anticipates happiness from earthly changes. Bnt, on the other hand, as time passes by and under all circumstances, supppsing that we have the knowledge ot the truth and are living in holiness and in the love of God, we may have days of heaven npon the earth. Lady Eiizalieth Hastings said to the Countess of Huntingdon, "Since I have known the gospel 1 have been as happy as an angel." That oue sentence was the means of the conver sion of Lady Huntingdon, afterward the friend of WhiteUeld and the founder of chapels all over England. Wb i c iu ' estimate the number and importance I of the effects which followed lh.it j change of heart and life ?" ! A Singularly Fatal Ore u pit tion. Tho statement has been made 1-y a Sheffield, England, physician, tbat thi fork grinders' employment is probaMy more fatal to hniuan life than any other pnrsnit in England. According to this authority, there are generally from 8 to 10 individuals at work in the room in which this indnstry ia carried on, and the dust which is created, com posed of fine particles of stone and metal the grinding beiug always per formed on a dry stone rises in clouds and pervades the atmosphere to which the operators are confined. The dust, which is thns every moment inhaled, gradually nndermines the vigor of the constitution, and prod noes permanent disease of the Inngs, accompanied by difficulty of breathing, cough, and a wasting of the animal frame, often at the early age of 25, and the average longevity of fork-grinders is fonud not to exceed ,'JO years. Tiir kuge, drnatie, griping, aickening pills, constructed ef crude, coarse and bulky ingredients, arc taat being superseded by Dr. I'ieree's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, or Sugar- Co ited, Concent rated Koot and Herbal Juice, Anti-Bilious Granules the "Little Giant" Cathartic or Multum in Farro Physic. Modern Chemical Science enables Dr. Pierce to extract from the juices of the most valuable roots and herb their active medicinal principles, which, when worked into little Pellets or Granules, trarcrl, lir.jrr than mutlarj ittj, render each little Pellet a active and powerful aa a large pill, while I hey are much more palatable and pleasant in effect. Dr. Ira A. Taaraa, of Baeeagburg, Ohio, writes: "I regard your Pellets as the bast remedy for the conditions for which you prescribe them of anything I have ever ose.1 so mild and certain in effect, an leaving the bowels in an excellent condition. It seems lo me they must take the place of all other cathartic pills and medicines." Ltos A M acokbiir, druggists, Vermillion, D. T., say: "We think they are going lo sell like hot rakes as soon as people get ac quainted with them and will spoil the pill trade, as those that have used them like them much better than large pills." 3 iMrncTAXT to SrrrKRSRs. 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