rOETRT. rUAKIIl. bv Elizabeth b. mrmx The pilgrim stranger who through the day Holds over the desert his trackless way Where the terrible sands no shsde hsve known No sound of life save his camel's moan. Hears, at but, through the mercy of Allah to all. From bis tent-door at evening the Bedouin call: "WhoeTer thoa art wiioae need is great, In the name of God, the Compassionate And Mercif n! One, for thee I wait '." For gifts in His name of food and rest The tents of Islam of God are blest. Thoa who hast faith in the Christ above. Shall the Koran teach thee the Law of Love? Cbruitian I open the heart and door, ry East and West to the wanderiug poor : Whoever thoa art whose need is great, i the name of Christ, the CompasMonate Aitd Merciful One. for thee I wait !" Tbe Muds-rn School Girl. Everybody ia aware that sentiment ality, slate pencils, and pickles go band in Land with tbe modern school girl Hhe ia as completely saturated with the first as David Copperlicld was with love for Dora ; Rue believes that friendship is a plant of immortal verdure, though her own limited experience ought to teach her that it is of deciduous growth ; she keeps a volume of autographs of persons remarkable for nothing but their insignificance and bad handwrit ing; her scrap-book is a mosaic of moral maxims, comic songs, love-sick rhymes, and decalcomanie ; her diary is not so much a record of ber individual emotions as a reflection from the inner life of her favorite heroines in romance; she eats sweetmeats, and digests sensa tional novels ; her ideal is a black browed lover at whom society shakes its head, after the manner of ltochester; while Lucy Snow's I'aul Emanuel seems to her a very apology for a hero, at whom she would not vouchsafe a second glance. In composition she is prone to indulge in the melancholic style, and if sentimentality is her god, Mrs. ilemans and L. E. L., are the prophets whom she most affects, llead her letters to her comrades and those she writes borne, and you would hardly guess that tbe same mind had framed them both ; the one is all extravagance and poetry, while the other is apt to be a meagre statement of progress, a financial com plaint, with suggestions toward a dress reform ; for our young girl has her practical side as well as ber sentimental and puts no faith in beauty unadorned. She pours out ber soul to her bosom friend ; but entertaining an idea that older folk have no sympathy with tbe longings and aspirations of youth, and are wholly absorlied in the sordid cares of life, with small interest in tbe play of the finer emotions, her nearest kin are often left in utter ignorance of her peculiar faculty for gushing. And per haps this is not as unnatural as it seems, Bince confidences must be invited by confidences ; the bosom friend gives measure for measure, but are there not often gulfs of reserve existing between the school girl and her mother or grown-up friends in the matter of the emotions ? 1'erhaps we would not have our school girl other than she is, with the excep tion of tbe pickles and slate pencils, the too early lessons in flirtation which she practices, and the respect for dress which she develops. Only few gene rations back onr mothers sent ns to school in cool ginghams yes, and in warm linsey-woolseys fashioned in all simplicity ; the jeweller did not bore our ears, nor bang chains about our small necks ; nor did the mantua maker shape onr figures to her patterns a generation ago. But to-day -we bear inquiries for corsets for children of ten years, and we begin to reflect that the school girl may not be altogether to blame for her weaknesses and morbid tastes. She wears finer clothes at her recitations now than ber grandmother donned on holidays clothes more elaborately designed, and in such sick ening mimicry of adult fashions that it would seem, after all, as if her preco cious fondness for adornment might be reasonably charged to tbe vanity of ber guardians. However, our school girl will doubtless work clear of her weak n esses in time. Her sentimentalities will get winnowed in the process of living, and the chaff separated. Tbe girl who weeps over "Tlie Children of the Abbey" and "The Mysteries of Lidolpho at sixteen will be convulsed with laughter on a second reading at twenty ; and she will one day discover that the safest ear m.a which she can pour her confidence is the maternal ; while even the inordinate love of dress and of masouline admiration that has been ingrafted on the tender sapling may be subordinated to higher im pulses in proportion as tbe original stock is healthy and vigorons. Oelirate I'eople. There is constant sympathy expressed by robust people for those of slight physical constitution. We think the sympathy ought to turn in the opposite direction. It is the delicate people who escape the most fearful disorders, and in three rases out of four, live the longest. These gigantic structures are almost always reckless of health. They say "nothing hurts me, and so they stand in draughts, and go out into the night air to cool oil, and eat crabs at midnight, and doff their flannels in April, and get their feet wet. But delicate people are shy of teril. they know that disease has been fishing for them for twenty years and they keep away from the hook. No trout can be caught if he sees tbe shadow of tbe sportsmen on the brook. These people whom everybody expects to die, live on most tenaciously. We know of a young lady who evi dently married a wealthy man of eighty-five years, on tho ground that he was very delicate and with reference to her one-third. But tbe aged invalid is so careful of his health, and tbe young wife is so careless of her's that it ia now uncertain whether she will in herit his storehouses, or he inherit her wedding-imps. Health and longevity depend more npon careful and intelligent manage ment of one's self than npon original physical outfit. Paul's advice to the sheriff is appropriate to people in all occupations, "Do thyself no harm !" Hawing; The? Rock ofAges. The good peopla of the town of E were talking of moving their meeting bouse to a more agreeable locality. Among the advocates of tbe movement none were more earnest than old Dea con A., who, by the way, has an un controllable habit of sleeping in church. No matter how interesting the dis course, the old deacon was sore to drop off about such a time. On the Sabbath preceding the day appointed for mov ing the house, the pastor preached an interesting sermon on "The Bock of Ages." Growing eloquent in his re marks, the minister finally added with great emphasis : "Who can move it ?" The deacon having been asleep as usual, woke up just in time to catch the query, thinking the pastor referred to the meeting house, rose up in his eat and exclaimed : "111 bring over my yoke of steers, and they'll jerk it along the whole dis tance, if youH keep plenty of hard wood rolline under it.' The deacon never slept in meeting afUr that. Wedding ! in Gal Pent the iBkstaasl. The Gold Ten wooed tbe Inkxtaud. The Inkstand wa of crystal, with a carved silver top. It evidently came of an aristocratic family, and was there fore a fitting match for the Gold Pen, wlneh al was an aristocrat ana car ried itwlf hanelitilr towards the Goose-quill and the Steel Pens, its nonr relations. The wedding was a splendid affair. All the inhabitants ot the 1 able were invited, and the trreat Unabridired IHrtinnarv the true autocrat of the Writing Talile gave awav the bride, while the fat Pen-Wiper, in scarlet and Mark ranhniere. sobbed audiblv. (Not that there was anything to sob alMiut, but she had heard that it was cus tomary to crv at weddinirs.) After the ceremony, the happy pair received the congratulations of their larire and distinguished circle of acquaintances, as the newspaper re iMtrlers sav. "Many happy returns," blundered the Goose-quill, claiming his privilege as a relation of kissine the bride. The Goose-quill hail trot itself anew nib for the occasion, and quite plumed itself on its aticaninec. "Wish you joy !' said the Steel Pen. a brisk business-like sort of fellow, leading furwaid the Pen-Wiier. "Joy !" echoed the Pen-Wilier, with a fresh burst of sol is. "May life's cares rest lightly uiieu you !" said the PajHT-Weight. "Siiek to each other through thick and thin!"' said the Mucilajre-Bottle. "May the impress of the beloved imae lie indelible in each heart!" exclaimed the phial of Marking-Fluid. "I congratulate vou, iiiadame,' said tlie quire f Lcjral-Cap. "The bride groom is a distinguished fellow 'Stylus potentior qnaiu gladiii!' Par don the Latin; but we lawyers, yon know . He! her And he retired with a smirk, quite satisfied with his display of erudition. "Live ever in a Fool's Paradise!"' growled the Foolscap, who was a dis appointed old bachelor. "May the Star of I-aive never set in the heaven of your happiness !" sim pered the rose-tinted Note-paper, who was always fearfully sentimental, and was rumored to lie herself in love with the Violet Ink. - X tv mm ynr tit-ail avert liixawfti! wrath. And .homer bli-wuiK ou yMir future lata ! sighed the Violet Ink, who was said to have actually written inn-try ! (At this the Note-Paper turned a shade rosier aud murmured, "How sweet.") "Come right up to the mark of dnty," said the old Black-walnut Killer, "and your hue of lite will never go crooked." "May love be never erased from your heart.'"1 said the India-Htililicr. "And may nothing ever divide you P said the Ivory Paper-Cutter. "Let all your actions bear the right stamp; and aliove all, 'never tell a lie!' said the Postatre-Stamp (which liore the iMirtrait of George aslnntrton, and must therefore lie excused for intro ducing the latter remark). "Hon t let the little rubs ol Itle wear out your mutual kindness, my deals!" said the matronly old Eraser. ilech. lad : ' cried the little cotcli- plaid Index, which came tumbling out of a volume of Burns, "A lang life an" a happy one to you au' your lionny bride: "Slav von alwavs lie nraiincd tin in each otlierP said the package of r-nveuqies, who came up in a body. "Tliouirh the Gordian Knot was cut.' saiil the Penknife (a sharp chap), mav tins 1 rue-Lover s Knot never lie scven-d !" "I hone you'll ni ike your mark in life," said the blunt old Lead-Pencil. "Look closclv." said a Pocket- Microscope; "but for virtues not for taints. ' "May the remembrance of each unkind word or deed lie quickly blotted out !" exclaimed the Blotting- ad. "Bless ye, my children, bless ye ! le hannv!" said the llii? IHctionarv. in the (theatrically) paternal manner. i lie liold 1'en ana the Inkstand did not make a w edding tour, but went to live immediately in a tieantitul bronze stand dish, in the centre of the ri ting-Table. And there thev are at this very moment. St. Nicholas. Love And The "German)." It is interesting to watch girl and her lover when they dance the German It affords them a splendid opportunity to indulge in little affectionate ways that delicacy forbids should be public. The girl rests her head so confidingly on tbe shoulder of her lover, while he clasps her close to his heart, as though it was ecstasy to have her there. They can dance longer and more frequently than any otber couple, and never seem to tire. From 8 :30 to 1 :30 is a long em brace, but they did it, and at the end of the last German declared they were not a bit tired. I have seen many Germans begun, but the conclusion never. To me they seem like the stories which Sherezade used to tell every night to her liege lord, and got him so interested that she kept up her serial for a thousand and one nights. In this way she saved her own head from being cut off, and put a stop to tbe pleasant little pastime of the Caliph in marrying a wife one day and cutting her head off the next. I feel quite cu rious to know how the dance winds up, and often beg that they will begin at the end and go backwards, just for my edification, as I am tired of first figures. Tbe Ilonr of Depart ore. The hour is coming, and it is a fear ful and solemn hour, even to the wisest and best the hour is coming when we must bid adieu to the scenes which please us, to the families we love, to the friends we esteem. Whether we think, or whether we think not, this body, which is now warm and active with life shall be cold and motionless in death. The countenance' will be pale, the eye must be closed, the voice must be silenced, the senses must be destroyed, the whole appearance must be changed by the remorseless hand of our last enemy. We may banish the remembrance of the last weakness of our human nature ; but our attempts to drive it from our recollection, are in vain. We know we are sentenced to die, and though we sometimes succeed in casting off for a season the convic tions of this unwelcome truth, we can uever entirely remove it The reflec tion haunts ns still ; it baunis us in solicitude, it follows us in society, it lies down with us at night, it awakens with us in the morning. The irrevoca ble doom has passed upon us, and too well do we know it "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return." flair More thaa the Whole. The man of true genius must never allow his fancy to sparkle too brightly or too long. An overfulness of any thing is as bad as its too frequent repe tition. So much is this the case, as to have given rise to the apparent paradox, that "the half is more than the whole." The truth of this saying we shall illus trate by a little story : An Indian, who had a quantity of rich emeralds, showed one for sale to a skillful jeweler, who gave him a price far beyond hi expec tation. The Indian took out second, which was still more beautiful than the first ; the jeweler, however, valued it at one-half less ; and he did the same in proportion with the third and fourth. Upon this, the Indian, greatly sur prised to find that the more exquisite the aualitv of the stones which he pro duced, the smaller a sum was offered for them, inquired the causa. "It is," said the jeweler, "because an abund ance of even the most precious things lessen their value ; the esteem for them ceasing along with their rarity. Tt ia better to be alone in the world than to bring up a boy to play on tbe aceordeon. ACtHXMTsUk Milch Fbtbb r Cows. This rtisetM is to be feared amongst cows, over four years old that are well bred and good milkers, and should receive mora than ordinary attention. The system in a vigorous condition, filled with rich blood, and not having the elasticity of that of a younger and growing animal, is suddenly subjected after calving to a reflux of the blood which has been cir culating through the system of the calf. The drain upon the mother's system consequent upon the support of the calf's life ia stopped and a great reac tion occurs. The parts of the body which have been excited during the birth of the calf suffer from the reac tion, and the womb and udder, and frequently the bowels beeoma inflamed. Sudden changes in the weather also in crease the difficulty, and after a fit of shivering, which may occur from the first to the third day, a fever sets in, the appetite fails, rumination is stopped weakness across the loins causes a stag gering gait or an inability to rise, the udder is hard, hot and swollen, the animal groans, looks wild, and fre quently falls into convulsions, or be comes frantic and dashes her head about violently. When these last symp toms occur, rapidly following the first, recovery is very doubtful. To prevent an attack of this disorder, the cow's feed should be reduced some time before calving, and only hay and bran gruel be given to her. The bowls should be kept loose by a few handfuls of linseed meal and plenty of salt should be given. If the cow is good in - flesh she should have one pound of Epsom salts with half an ounce of ginger, a week before her time is up, and as soon as she shows signs of calving in the relaxation or looseness of the binder parts, she should be kept in a quiet and well-sheltered part of the stable ; a loose box or stall being the safest place, in which she need not be tied up. If there is a flow of milk it should be drawn from under. If the cow has had this fever previously, or her symptoms cause an attack to be expected, she should be given twenty five drops of tincture of aconite three or four hours after calving, repeating the dose every six hours until six doses have been given. If, in spite of all precautions, the aconite, as previously mentioned, should be given along with two drams of powdered opium in a bot tle of thin gruel immediately. A pound of Epsom salts, with half a pound of common salt dissolved in water, with some sugar or molasses to flavor it, should be given soon after. Cloths dipped in hot water should be placed across the loins, and the cow should be covered with blankets. All tbe cold water she will drink should be given as frequently as may be needed, and she should be kept as quiet as possible. The milk should be drawn every few hours. Pure, fresh air is also indispen sible.' Bee Industry. In comparison with many other branches of business, this, at the first blush, might be considered of small account, but when it is taken into consideration that now. more than ever, provision is to be made for the suitable empleyment of a large class of our population, particularly females, who are thrown upon their own per sonsl exertions for a support, and to none can there be a more interesting and appropriate business than that of bee culture and poultry raising, par ticularly at the South, and we would wish to see its extension more diffused than at present, As it is, the product is of no small proportions, and can be increased to an almost unlimited ex tent The President of the North American Beekeepers' Association at Pittsburg, in his remarks before that body, says that for ages past organiza tions have been effected by our best men to develop the various agricultu ral resources of the land ; and during the same period the most industrious bees of our Continent have been con signed to the ignomy of a death by fire and brimstone. If apiarians had given the time and attention in selecting the males and females of the lanrest and most indus trious, prolific and docile colonies to breed from, with the same care, shrewd ness and attention that has been prac ticed with horses, cattle, sheep, nogs and poultry, we would not be under the necessity of importing queens from Italy, but would have a race of bees much superior to the Italians. Man cannot obtain labor from any other source as cheap as from the honey bee. They work for nothing and board them selves, only requiring house rent free. Possessing, as we do in America, a genial climate and a fertile soil, sus ceptible of the production of richly varied honey producing plants and flowers, with a due degree of knowledge and enterprise, the bees could be in creased to an extent that the profit ari sing therefrom would pay all our taxes and supply our tables daily with one of the choicest luxuries of life. Bee keeping, althongh not so popu lar a pursuit as many others, is none less edifying and profitable. The honey bee ia almost the only insect that has been domesticated by man. and aside from its giving us wealth and de licious luxury, it possesses many charms and is a study for the naturalist. This is only the fourth session of a conti nental society in our land for the pur pose of investigating and learning of the wonders of this little insect. Pinching Basi-berkies. A corres pondent writes : The past season I pinched off the top end of my rasp berry bushes when they were about three feet high, for the purpose of making them grow slowly, and to spare the trouble of setting poles to tie them to. Those canes ttinched off threw out side branches, and the yield of fruit is about double this season what the bushes which were shortened in last season in comparison with those which were left to grow naturally. As the currant worm has destroyed nearly all our currant bushes, we can easily sup ply their place in our garden with other small fruits, such as strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, which as yet have few insect enemies. The beet dressing I find for raspberry bushes is decayed chips or rotten wood from the forest and ashes. In my berrying days of childhood I always found the largest raspberries and most thrifty bushes growing round rotten logs and decayed stumps in the pastures. Raisixo Currants. Some writer states that he has had excellent success in the culture of currants by pursuing tha following plan : After planting in the usual manner, I take particular pains to cultivate them weU. Every spring the ground is top dressea pro fusely with ashes, leached and un leashed, well incorporated into the soil under and around the bushes, and kept clear of grass and weeds. After the ground has received the top-dressing it is mulched with barn-yard or chip ma nure. The result has been, I hava never failed of a bountiful crop of tha finest and largest fruit, free from the worm. About airtaen rods distant I have a lot of currant bushes left to take eareof themselves. These are nearly destroyed by tha worm. My own opinion is that the larva? of the currant worm lie dormant during tha winter in the ground near the buah they intend to attack the next season, and that mix ing wood-ashes with the soil destroys them. Switzerland has a cremation society. When the first meeting is held all the members will doubtless be ready to go to Bern. I IK'IUTU'IC. Professor G crania- has recently made researches into the freezing of various aline solutions, and has published the result in the Philomphusal Magazine. He finds that when ordinary brine is sufficiently reduced in temperature, ice ia separated, while the brine becomes richer in salt. But if the solution be saturated, crystals of a bihydrate of chloride of sodium are formed, and their separation necessanlT impover ishes the brine. When this impoverished brine is further cooled, by contact with solid carbonic acid and ether, the whole solidifies, the water and salt forming a homogeneous crystalline mass of den nit composition, which is probably a hydrate, containing ten molecules of water. The term urvohydrates is pro visionally proposed for the newly dis covered class of bodies, of which this compound is a type ; a class of bodies, in fact, which contain water combined with various salts, and which solidify below the freezing point of water. In tha freezing of sea-water, ice is first formed ; but it is probable that the re maining brine may be so enriched as to throw out, on continued cooling, some of these eryohydratea. Prof. Guthrie concludes that the degree of sal tn ess of an ice-floe will depend, not only on its aire, as Dr. Kae had already observed. but also on the rapidity with which it is first formed, and on tha lowest tem perature to which it has afterward been submitted. ' An axatktjb naturalist, writing of the fondness of cruelty, for its own sake, observable in the human species, says : "To refer to the striking similarity of this passion in man to that which is manifested by monkeys, is not of course to explain its origin; but I am quite sure that it u u the monkey that this ex planation is to be sought. Every one knows that these animals show the keenest delight in wantonly torturing others, but everyone does not know how much trouble an average monkey will put himself to in order that he may gratify this taste. One example will suffice. A friend who has lived a long time in India tells me that he has not unfrequently seen monkeys feigning death for an hour or two at a time, for the express purpose of inducing crows, and other carnivorous birds, to ap proach within grasping distance ; and when one of the latter was caught, tbe delighted monkey would put it to all kinds of ' agonies, of which plucking alive seemed to be the favorite. As I am not aware that any other animal ex hibits this instinct of inflicting pain for its own sake (the case of the cat with a mouse belonging, I think, to another category) I believe, if its origin is ever to receive a scientific explanation, it will be found in some wsy connected with monkey life." AsorsnNO with Cocoa Bctteb fob Scarlet Frvkr. Upon the recommen dation of Schneeman, the anointing of the body with fat has been extensively practiced in Germany during the past ten years, with the view of lowering the temperature and hastening the desqua mation. Dr. Bayles suggests, in this connection, the employment of cocoa butter, as producing a more cooling and refreshing effect upon the patient, and emitting a more agreeable odor in the sick chamber. This agent, on ac count of its solid consistence, is more readily applied than either fat or oil, and is more easily absorbed by the akin. Furthermore, it is thought to afford the system a certain amount of nourishment. In severe fevers, the entire surface of the body should be rubbed with this substance every hour, or at least once every four hours. Its application is also recommended in typhoid fever, in eases where the patients manifest a dread of water, or where the application of water is impossible ; likewise in other inflammatory diseases, especially the severer forms of inflammatory rheu matism and tuberculosis. Herald oj Health. Experiments recently made in one of the most important mining districts in England are reported as affording a very satisfactory illustration of the ex plosive foroe of dynamite. The powder was first tested in a shaft. Charges of sixteen ounces were inserted in five holes, varying in depth from two to three feet, the total amount of dyna mite thus brought into requisition representing the explosive power of six pounds of No. 2 blasting powder. The result is said to have far exceeded that which could have been produced by a proportionate amount of the material ordinarily used, and the miners seemed to be highly pleased with the experi ment, especially in view of the almost entire absence of smoke after the ex plosion. Indeed, the rapidity with which the gases evolved from this sub stance evaporate constitutes one of its primary advantages, the man being thus enabled to resume work imme diately. Its advantages, too, on the score of economy and of convenient handling, are universally admitted. Accidental Discoveries nt Sctencr. Accident has had much to do with chemical disooveries, more, perhaps in former times than now, when researches are undertaken with some definite end in view ; but how many of the discov ies which have led to the most brilliant and important results may net be called accidental ? We may question if Davy expected to find potassium when acting on potaesa with a voltaic battery, al though, having already observed the decomposition of other oxides, be may have had an inkling of the fact. Bun sen did not expect to find two new metals when examining the residue from the Durckheim waters. Crooks, when looking for selenium, accidentally found thallium. Perkins, when he found that annilin, when acted on by chromic acid, gave a fine color, could scarcely have expected the enormous manufacture of those analogous dyes which is carried on at the present day. The process of skin-grafting promises to receive a fresh impetus from the labors of Mr. Anger, a French surgeon. The main feature of these discoveries is that pieces of skin taken from ampu tated limbs may be used to obtain cicatrization on the bodies of other subjects. Hitherto the desired por tions of skin were taken from one part of a patient's body and applied to an other part. It is stated, that in one case the surgeon cut pieces of skin from tha palmer surfaoe of an amputated finger and applied them to the ulcerated leg of another person. In three days the bandages were removed and the grafted parts were found intimately united to tha surface and evidently vascularized. It seems essential to the success of the process that the graft be made immediately after amputation. The name given to this operation is "heteroplasty." Varxish for Whits Woods. Dis solve three pounds of bleached shellac in one gallon of spirit of wine ; strain, and add one and one half more gallons of spirit. If the shellac is pure and white, this will make a beautifully clear covering for white wooden articles. Cocoa nnt hoak is better than cotton waste and turpentine for taking tem porary rust from iron or steeL aeeeaa. Two elements of real success in any undertaking are a comprehensive view of its nature and intents, and a faithful attention to its practical details. Thought and action are inseparably and equally indispensable. If we would thoroughly perform onr task, we must grasp it mentally and do it patiently. mitotic. How to Preparr BtrcKWHRAT Caxes. Buckwheat cakes make a quick and hot breakfast for cold mornings. Any size will do that is hot, sweet, light and brown. Th-y are ant to be more crisp in families where the grid die surface is proportioned to the number of plates at table, and some self-sacrificing per son holds to the baking like a martyr. The mixture of syrup and sugar in the batter to bring out a spurious and superficial brown color should be de nounced as a swindle. Some cooks brown but one side a fraud that mostly disturbs those who do not meekly accept things as they find them. To be safe from disappointment in this particular, gash your pile of cakes and introduce the butter and sugar from the top, instead of sprawling the cakes around to cool and show every defect in the baking. Gravitation and a few love pats with knife and fork will dis tribute butter and syrup through the laminated strata of a pile of hot cakes most unctuously. If a little time be lost so in eating, whole cakes merely folded are not so likely to produoea disagreeable sensation in the stomach, and the person sweating over the cook stove may have to get ahead a little. As for pimples along with buckwheat don't you believe it. It's an ignorant slander of one of the best grains, and comes from eating it "pound for pound" with sugar and shortening. Put the pimples on a diet of buckwheat cakes and milk toast skim milk for ag gravated cases. To Indoor Gardeners, A corres pondent of an exchange says : Plants kept in a sitting room where frequent sweeping has to be done should be covered until the dust has settled, as dust upon the foliage injures the plant by retarding its growth and bloom, as leaves are to plant life what lungs are to animal life. Where scale or red spider have ac cumulated, as they will in a warm, dry atmosphere or in dark situations, whale oil soap suds showered over the leaves and sponged off on the under side, or turning the bottom up and dipping the whole down into the decoction, will re move the pests. Where plants are crowded into too small space, they will generate tbe aphis or green fly, and the thrip and mealy bug. Smoking or washing the plants thoroughly will de stroy these also. Above all, give your plants plenty of fresh air and all the sunshine possible. But few plants will grow in the shade, and this class is mostly confined to the begonia family and a few varieties of vines ; among them are the smilax and common ivy. What I Know of Hocsekeepinq. A lady correspondent gives the following valuable bints to housekeekers : If you wish short biscuit without much shortening, do not knead them. Do your husband's and brother's boots let water through them t Then apply tar and oil after being thoroughly mixed, and you will have no further tronble. Patent not applied for. One cup of sugar, one of buttermilk, one egg, one-fouith of a nutmeg, one and one-half teaspoonful of saleratus, three table-spoonfuls of melted lard, will make just as good doughnuts as any editor ought to eat. Some cooks are invariably troubled with "saleratus biscuit." By allowing just one even teaspoonful of saleratus the trouble will be obviated. If brimstone is offensive, use strips of paper one inch wide, rolled into a lengthy cylinder, for lighters. If you wish to save your papers, a bit of split pine will answer better, and when stacked in a lava vase, make a very con spicuous ornament. Is.sn.T8. It is always better to pass a dozen intended insults without recog nition, than to take offence at a single unintentional neglect or reflection. Misunderstandings are fruitful of more unkindly feelings in society than ever result from deliberate ill-nature. Hundreds of friendships have been sundered by that egotistical sensitive ness which is ever looking for offence. We can all point to certain persons who are thus morbidly sensitive to a painful degree. They are disagreeable companions. We need not spend our precious time in pointing to tiiem, how ever. We have each something to guard in our own character. We are each inclined to take offence too easily. If we could remove this ever-jealous watchfulness, society would gain a new charm, or rather it would be relieved of a very disagreeable feature. Pass neglect, then, and personal reflections, as gracefully as possible, instead of taking the risk of being offended when no offence is intended. How to Cure a Sorr Throat. "One who has tried it" communicates the following seasonable item about curing sore throat , Let each one of your half million readers buy at any drug store one ounce of camphorated oil and five cents worth of chloride of potash. Whenever any soreness appears in the throat, put the potash in half a tumbler of water and with it gargle the throat thoroughly, then rub tbe neck thor oughly with the camphorated oil at night before going to bed, and also pin around the throat a small strip of woolen fknneL This is a simple, cheap and sure remedy. To Keep Earth Worms from Pots. To keep earth worms from pots, a correspondent of Tick, gives the follow ing remedy : "I put ten drops of car bolic acid in a pint of water.and poured that on the earth in the pots, and it acted like a charm, killed all the worms and tbe plants improved at once. It has been three weeks since it was ap plied, and they are all in a nice grow ing condition, and I think that is time enough to show what it will do." The London Lancet suggests the following simple treatment for felons : "As soon as the disease is felt, put directly over the spot a fly blister, about the size of the thumb nail, and let it remain for six hours, at the ex piration of which time directly under the surface of tbe blister may be seen the felon, which can instantly be taken out with the point of a needle or a lancet." A piece of adhesive plaster will keep the blister in place. We notice the following in one of our exchanges, which itwillnotcost much to try : "if the cellar is liable to freeze, obtain large sheets of building paper and paste them all around the stones of the cellar, letting them hang loosely, or else paste them at the top and bottom of tbe underpinning. Such a sheathing will make any cellar frost proof, and also contribute to the warmth of the house. The TJnpcnctcaii. If you desire to enjoy life, avoid unpunctaal persons ; they impede business and poison pleasure. Make it your own rule not only to be punctual, but a little before hand. Such a habit secures a com posure which is essential to happiness. For want of it many persons live in a constant fever, and put all about them in a constant fever, too. A brown paper lining will make an ordinary coat as serviceable as an over coat ; and an under waistcoat of tha same material is equal to a flannel shirt. Tor; will gain a good reputation if you avoid those actions which yon censure and blame in others. The essence of true nobility is abne gation of self. meters. The Tanxer Octwttted. A Yankee and a Frenchman owned a pig " o partnerahip. When kiUing time came they wished to divide the meat The Yankee was very anxious to divide so that he would get both hind quarters, and persuaded tha Frenchman that the proper way to divide was to cut it across the back. Tha Frenchman agreed to it on condition that the Yankee would turn his back and take choice of the r -J. Mit in two. The Yankee turned his back, and the Frenchman asked : v;v, nut will won have se piece wid za tail on him, or se piece vat ain't got no tail? - .... "The piece with the tail," replied the Yankee. , , . "Den, by gar, you can take him along, and I take se oder one," said the pleased Frenchman. Upon turning around, the Yankee found that the Frenchman had cut off the tail, and stuck it into the pig's mouth. The incongruities of hymns and the mtn.a, nf min vino- them bv the awkward division of repetition lines, are thus noticed Dy uev. ur. ombu ; For instance, "Love the better than before" was divided "Love thee bet-;" "My poor polluted heart" became "My poor pol- ;f" "We'll catch the fleeting hourwas sung "Well catch the flee- f "And take thy pilgrim home" became "And take thy pd-;" "And in the pious he delights" was sung "And in the pi and in the pi-;" and "Send down salva tion from on high" became "Send down sal-. " A soprano in one case sang "Oh for a man," and the chorus responded "Oh for a mansion in the skies." In another case the soprano modestly sang "Teach me to kiss, the alto took up the strain, "Teach me to kiss," while the bass rendered it quite prosaic by singing "Teach ma to kiss the rod." During the great collapse of 1357, a gentleman of color kept a bank in a western city. His institution was ap parently in a sound condition, but to be in fashion with the white folks he concluded to faiL Next morning a man came and shook the door, but a voice inside responded that "de bank is closed." But the man replied that he had left a new pair of boots there the day before and wanted them. The sable financier opened the door softly, and throwing out one boot remarked, "We ia only paying fifty cents on de dollar." A one-legged Yankee orator, named Jones, was pretty successful in banter ing an Irishman, when the latter asked him : "How did you come to lose your leg?" "Well," said Jones, "on ex amining my pedigree, and looking up my descent, I found there was some Irish in me, and having beeoma con vinced that it had settled in that left leg, I had it cut off at once." "Be the powers," said Pat, "it would have been a better thing if it had settled in your head." Herb is a good thing on the "tater bug." Three men comparing notes : One says, "there are two bugs to every stalk." A second says, "they have cut down my early crop and are sitting on the fence waiting for my late crop to coma up " "Pshaw !" said the third, "you know nothing about it, I passed a seed store the other day and saw the bugs looking over the books to see who had purchased seed potatoes." A Degree of Latitude. There was a most accommodating man who was captain of a steamship. One day a soldier lost his cap overboard, and went to the captain about it. The old gen tleman said it was impossible to stop the vessel to recover it, but he kindly offered to make a mark on the rail where it went overboard and get it when he came back. Dumb Animals' Fair Pretty Assist ant ; "Won't yon please make a small purchase for the benefit of dumb ani mals, sir?" Young man (with big ears) : "No, thank yer. I'm not in terested in dumb brutes myself. Pretty Assistant : "Oh, but you must sym pathize with the poor donkeys, sir." Young man keeps dumb. A youngster, while warming his hands over a kitchen fire, was remon strated with by his father, who said, "Oo 'way from the stove ; the weather is not cold." The little fellow, looking up at his stern parent demurely, re plied, "I ain't heating the weather; I'm wanning my hands." A man one hundred years old went to have a pair of shoes made. The shop keeper suggested that he might not live to wear them out, when the old man retorted that he commenced this one hundred years a good deal stronger than he did the last one. Sentiment is nothing but sentiment. An ex-army captain in Colorado, when dying, asked the boys to wrap tbe old flag around him. They had no flag, and so they wrapped him in a coffee sack, and he exclaimed : "Ah ! may you all die as proudly I" A man went into a drug store, and, says he : "I wish you would give me some Nancy Soda. "Don't you mean Sal Soda?' says the clerk. "Wall, now, I don't know but you're right ; I knew 'twas a girl's name," said the searcher for SaL A Dubuque boy was rather troubled for fear that he would not know his father when they both reached heaven, but his mother eased him by remark ing : "All you have to do is to look for an angel with a red nose on him." Bows and Beaux. Frenchwomen are divided in opinion as to tha revival of bonnet strings, one party wishing to have bows under their chins, while the others are contented with keeping their beaux under their thumbs. When a foreigner finds that plague ia a word of one syllable, and ague, a part of the plague, is a word of two, he wishes that the plague might take one half the English language and ague the other. An English word artist is to give us a book on the "Mothers-in Law of Great Men." The first and only chap ter will be condensed into these words. "Great men never have mothers-in-law." Unkind. Some thoughtless person says : "It ia unkind to ridicule those items in the papers about centenarians. It is no easy thing to become a centena rian ; several have failed." Choice Lickrrs. A facetious grocer announces on a placard at the door, "a fresh invoice of choice licker," when he receives a fresh lot of smoked tongues. Qrn.p wishes he were a poodle dog when he sees one all cuddled up nice under the arm of a pulchritudinous female. A mah in danger of being hanged said that of all games of his childhood, kipping the rone would be moat agreeable. The gentleman whose hat blew off oa the way to church thtf-other day caught it in time to hear tbe doxology. . A dressmaker's apprentice speaks of her cross-eyed lover as the fellow whose looks are cut bias. Tee best way to get rich is to live on your father in-law. - Frmlts d riaweraar r.r.-. They poaaeta. indeed, many ne berries, and fthV ehestnut and eork trees , w?". far behind tha Oannana m uTo.H Creuq'badTul SSwr that tha beat orange in many S countries grow within reach of the sea breeses. . The olives oi r unu---r ant food af the people tbd riper thmBP-V and are amau sou . - -Prob.blymorewholete,tand, in my opinion, ia " , olives of any other country ; so good, .1 ri'Z this' country in p of the hard, half-npe. d expensive otrve. oil maae rrom u B". .- - made, bnt when purified it ia probably quite as good, though by no means as salable, aa the fine oila of Italy. The climate oi ronugu f - be identical in many respects with that of Japan ; and many and flowers which dwindle and fall in : cMnA mnA Knsrland. ine open mu - . growmcenUyinPortu Chief among mem m mo - -- -, i m am from it is saui, iwrai j j- -o , t Japan, and often seen in Portugal of the size oi a run grown py" The camellia seems to require a rather damp climate, and perhaps a granite :i s i. wMklino? in tha dry air of Lisbon, but thrive close by J . .-,1 i Oma at untra, ana awu taswm where many new and beautiful wane tie are grown among others the sweet scented kind, of whose existence no English gardener or botanist to whom I have spoken seem to be aware. Lovely aa the flowers of the camellia are singly, the tree itself, in full bloom is by no means an attractive sight. A caiuiuua, nw on it might be supposed, with ite com pact growin, iia away wito - green, to be an exquisitely beautiful object, but it ia nothing of the sort. m. A a m aa thaw haarin to fade. a?et iin ivwww, m- r, w to be of a dingy brown, and hang a long . - i ii.- ;n time on uie nee, uu ranwin w full blossom has by far the largest pro portion of its flower withered ugly. As a flowering shrub the camellia ia not comparable to the pointaettia, which blossoms to perfection in the Algarve ifa vnaaa Af intanaa ?IU,iutD, . u i - scarlet bloom looking like a richly- eoiorea si i sen axmpeiy sung vu us branches of the tree, or to the white datura. A datura shrub in full bloom, with its thousands of pennant flowers bells reflected in a pool of water, ia a thing not soon to be forgotton. The Aeiv Quarterly Magazine. Geniality Maasier. It is curious with what avidity we form impressions of others ; how frequeatly wo treat others coldly by reasoa of hastily fonsed and arbitrary opinions originally conceived of them ; how our imperfect knowledge of partial acquaintances causes as otten to misunderstand and fail to appre ciate them. Primary opinions formed of others are seldom abandoned, never entire'y obliterated. Some people always produce a favorable impression; others invariably leaTS something to be desired in them. The manners of some are easy and affable ; they bow courteously, smile pleasantly, speak cheerily ; a warmth aad glow pervades I hem which extends to others, and they throw a life and vigor into their words and acta that never fail to attract. They enter warmly into our projects, speak of topics of interest to as, adapt themselves immediately to every object of discussion, and render themselves uniformly agreeable. This geniality of manner and bearing renders life enjoyable, and adds leal to every social enjoyment ; it makes the household, as well as the ball room, resouud with hearty laughter and en joyment ; makes happy many a home, and fragrant witn pleasant memories many aa otherwise dreary hour. It cools the heated brow of thought, dries up the turbid stream of melancholy, washes away hundreds of daily aggravations, and furnishes relief to the wearied sou1. This spontaneity ia found everywhere among the rich aad poor, old and young, thoughtful and otherwise. It creates the urbanity of the statesman, the plausibility of the popular leader, the suavity of the diplomat, the inspiration of the author and the courtesy of the true gen tleman. It is the most positive adornment of domestic life, and surest guarantee of a pleasant home. In women-it is the most remarkable, rendering their manners charming, their devotion spontaneous, aad their conversation rapid, brilliant and viva cious. It has the most potent influence in rendering them ever welcome and beloved. Could all but estimate so valuable an acqui sition, none would disregard it, and our enjoyments would be greatly augmented and increased thereby. Poor busini house. Keeping an alms- The Raad to Health. Cleanse the stomach, bowels and blood from all the acrid, corrupt and oflensive ac cumulations which produce functional de rangement, and yoa remove the cans of most diseases which afflict the human family and thus save large doctors' bills. The most effectual and reliable remedy for this purpose ia found in Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. No cheap wood or paper boxes, but kept fresh and reliable in vials. High livers, those indulging ia ease snd pleasure, and those of sedentary habits, can prevent Boils, Carbnncles, Gout, Red Skin, Eruptions, Pimples, Constipation, Piles, Drowsiness, Biliousness, and other conditions induced by such habits, by tak ing from four to six of Dr. Pierce's Pleas ant Purgs'ive Pellets once a week, or. better still, one or two each night. They are sold by dealers in medicines. 6 E. r. Kaakel'e Bitter Wlae ai raa. This truly valuable tonic has been so tho rough!? tented by all classes of tha commu nity that it is now deemed indispensable as a Ionic medicine. It costs but little, puri fies the blood and gives tone to the stomach, renovates the system aad prolongs life. Everybody should have it. For the care of Weak Stomachs, General Debility, Indigestion, Diseases of. the Stom ach, and for all eases requiring a tonic. This wine includes the most agreeable and efficient Salt of Iron we possess Citrate of Magnetic Oxide, combined with tbe moat energetic of vegetable tonics Yellow Peru vian Bark. Do yoa want something to strengthen you? Do yoa want a good appetite ? Do you want to get rid of nervousness ? Do you want energy T Do you want to sleep well T Do yoa want to build np your eonatita tion? Do yoa want to feel well ? Do ya want a brisk and vigorons feeling? If yoa do, try KCXKEL'S BITTER WISE OF IRON. I only ask a trial of this v,ju,bl. Beware of counterfeits, a, Kunkd's Bit ter W.ne of Iron is the only ror. .Bj tWtt. tnal remedy in the known worW for tB. manent cure of by-pepai, 4 DebiUty, and I-m br f uniutioas offered to tbe publie, I would enntion the commu nity to purchase none but the genuine arti ele, manufactured by E. F. Kunkel. and having hi. stamp . ,,e e.,k of every bot tle. The very fact that others are attempt ing to imitate this valuable remedy, proves its .worth, and speak, volume, in its favors. 8oldonlymI bottles. Sold by Drug gist, and dealer, everywhere. Tarswoaa Ttsnovso A lit a. Head and all complete, ia two hoars. No fee till head passes. Beat, Pin and 8lomach Worm, re moved by Da. Kcsesl, 2i Noain Nina speoimens aad be convinced. He aercr fails. Taa HArrixrr Discovibt or tbi Asi ANAKESI3, aa infallible cure for PiUs'T scientific combination of poultice iastro. meat aad medicine, endorsed by phTtieias of all schools, discovered by Da. Silsb,, . regular physician, and used successfully j. thousands of eases. Sufferers who k,, triad everything else ia vain will fad slant relief and permanent core. It j. garded by medical men as the great tf modern disooveries, and pronounced infalli ble. Price it. Sent free by mail on eeipt of price, Depot, 4b walker St., Ne. Torn. 5 LOOK! 75,000 Jtoolittle Easpbeny Pb-ts! $6 per l.OOO. Address, C. HOPKINS, BMi-tt Mnmaa, muwtB, THE CUKES RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA. Tfcls Qiul laDMulT, Bntil raraatly, wa, sniw, Ika AaMTfcaa p"Vl. awl ia gina tt a am ara aat plat Mn lb aoblie, wa k mA cUia, m 4, May otbar axalM raamliai, that tt will can aaaaa, k wktca kaaatait m Ml4ct, talnti daa. aaS hava tba aTiiiaaca ta arova. that tt will nriuwt esas Rasnunaa an Nsraauia. uilr raaraiu, .1 . Onl.1 K- IWn- .r. ,, aaai ma -" -j - -j ni .M,uy. Principal Depot M. ELEVENTH ST., Puiluups. FAXON. CLARKE & CO. 1H 1; SHOW CASES! SHOW CASES! AB series, BUver Moaatml and Walnut, new a anadiud. Hacnral packed rue anlpoinff. OOOaXRKaV tUUttsJ BHaXVlMt. SIUaR ril HOC8R AND OrFK'lt rUKNlTUKS all ktui The lareeat and beat assort eil etuca. saw aal aaad-oand m tba City. LKW1H Sc HIttK. Ill, lan. lwts. to aa lost ait.i ivl. nue. VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE FOR 1875. Pnhliahail muarterlv. The Jannarv am. Km ia aaar vaa.lv. It enntaiu4 uer 1 tat pages, 500 illustrations, aad a descriptija or JtfSJ OI tae nnesa jumen ana cyjs ; giving also directions how to cultivate theav a mIam,! nt. la ia aililed la the Pliis.l Go'DB. It is the most useful and moat handsomely brought out work or this kiad. Only Cents per annum. Is published ia JAMES TICK, Rochester, N. I. mm HAH WHO OWB-. A 11 U ha rautiae e as HILL'S rTSrt Kixaaa 00 Kiaga par luo-iue.au. TeaaaaeHaldare, Il ia, af Mail, part-pala. keali by Hardware Oealara. Qrralare fraa. H. W. 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