POETET. She Hbt Racks the 4 radle Kales the World." Dew ocuui m the dream of life Adorned with erery innlng ait ; An mother, daughter, aiater, wife. She melto Uie tool, she cbarme the heart. Without bar what were lord); men ? A rainleee cload a fruitlem tree A world without a ami a plan That eTer incomplete must be. Ilex foat'riug care, devotion, love, Seem inspiration from above. In childhood'! hour, beside the chair. She calls each fragile form ; She claapa oar tiny hands in prayer, Safe-eheltered from the storm. Vet man, nngratefol man. the dart Of falsehood Moris with skill ; And when he woe a woman" heart He seek ite love to kilL Her lot is to be tried ; though pore, To sigh, to sudor and enduo. i li. mothers of a race nnborn. Tim toots to siali those grand decrees That herald in the Promised Horn. The waiting world's Hesperidea. Ye are the mold of heroes strong Who guard and glonfy oar biles : The sea in song shall roll along Ileneath the apienlor of your amilea The beautiful and good shaft rain. And sinless Eden blom again. 1S4ELI.15T. Old Amslfrdam. We take the following description of Amsterdam from CoL Waring's first article of his apnea, "A Farmer's Vaca tion." whicb begins in S'-ritner for April : It is one of the peculiarities of Hoi land that we go down into it from the no, and the farther in we go the deeper down we get. 1 he metropolis lies on river or est nary called (for short) the IJ. Into this we entered through ponderous granite-built lock one of an assorted series, ol vanoua sizes. adjusted to vessels of larger or smaller dimensions. After we had been shnt into our compartment the Yalves were opened, and we followed the declining water until it reached the level of the IJ. when the gates were swung back and we steamed on to the city. And here we were is Amsterdam the mother of the "Xieuw Amsterdam'' of I'eter Stnwesant and Wouter Van Twiller. The guide-books (to which the reader is respectfully referred) are fond of calling this town "the Venice of the North," which misleads the ima gi nation. Like v emce, it is built on piles. Kraxmns speaks of its people living like birds perched on the tops of trees and some ol its obscurer narrow alleys are only canals. Beyond this, the resemblances are only differences. The canals twnetrate many of the pnn cipal streets, it is true, bnt these are wide thoroughfares, with broad, well paved roadway and sidewalk, and often with four rows of trees the waterway being between the center rows. Car riages and heavy drays are moving in every direction, and the canals are but little used for internal trarhc. uanal- boats, lighters, and in some parts even square-rigged ships are floated oppo site to the warehouses which are to receive or to deliver their cargoes ; bnt the city has a roar and hum that would at once destroy the dreamy charm of tenice. Ihere is much in Amsterdam that is magnificent, and in which we were greatly interested, bnt my present pur pose is mainly connected with those of its features which seldom engage the attention of travelers, l.ismg at day break, I strolled out to Bee the street life of the early morning. JIarket men and market women from the country. near and far, dressed in their widely varying local costumes, were plying their traffic in the streets and on the canals ; and housemaids were scrubbing steps and sidewvlks, and sweeping to the middle of the carriage way, or cur rying home with prayer-book or market basket. The town was alive with population .which a few hours later would make way for those who are only knows to the broader day. Canal-boats were arriving and de parting ; moving out from their berths through a crowd of other craft, with that mysterions kind of silent help that moving canal-boat always gets from the crews of its neighbors at rest, its sides are prodded with boat-hooks from here and from there, and it slowly floats out from the crowd and starts on its way "sans mot dire turf boats were floating into the Dam Rak, furling their sails and lowering their masts ; cargoes of cabbages were being tossed, one by one, from men in boats to men on Bliore ; here the clatter of knives and forks was heard through low back win dow and cabin-hatch, and here the vrouw was washing np the breakfast things in a slat-floored kitchen sink hanging from the taffr&il ; strange- looking people were doing strange- looking things throughout all the strange-looking fleet, and all with the air of its being in no wise unusual or peculiar. On shore, a street vender was attracting custom with a watch' man's rattle ; men were hoisting baskets of turf to the cellar, at the top of high house gable ; women and children were going from a basement with the sign "water en vnnr te koop." with neatly painted iron buckets each having a kettle of boiling water at the top, and a lump of burning turf at the bottom. going home to make the morning tea ; at every quarter-hour, the carillon jingled from all the steeples. The gin- shops were already well patronized, for it seems a universal habit, in this moiit northern climate, to take "een sneenw ballet je" of gin and sugar as a frequent prophylactic At this early hour, and almnt the canals, the gilded heads and odd bonnets of the peasant women are more frequent than elsewhere, or later in the day. True Kerrration. It has Wen said that half the wisdom of a nation into w found in its pro veil s: and most of ns have thought in ur mIdniIImiv daysthat the seven sage ol iiivore iiniM'tl as mentis in council could iH-vcr have written a more 'ii Kilile line tlinn the I ami liar nursery axiom that "all work and no play make's Ja-k a dull 1mv." Not loss true is this of the man than of the boy. The bow of Aeliilleg was not aluas Ix-nt, and relaxation from labor is a human necessity. The ilitliciilty is how to tiud the requisite relaxation; for if the pleasure chosen lie too like the daily lalxir, verv little lienetit will result therefrom. How few of us really study the philosophy of amusement- There is a well-known storvofa waiter w ho took a holiday for the first time for twenty years, and spent the day in assisting a brother of the napkin to lav the tables for a great dinner to Like place the following evening. We have heard of London and country siinreons wishing a holiday to arrange to look aftT each other's practices for a fortnight or three wivkn. Many literarv men, after a hard day's work, wiil sit down for the evening overs ehess-lioard. An actor "out ol the bill" for a niht is almost sure to visit a rival theatre; au artist will visit a friend's studio ; and a clergyman away from home is certain to olliciate in every pulnit within a reasonable dis tance of the place lie has selected for his holiday sojourn. Now, all these men are guilty of the grossest folly. It is very well, as a change of labor, and to pit-vent the mind running too much in one groove, to vary the scene of the work, but tliis is.distinctly not amusement ; and even though the zest of novelty may cause it to be a genuine enjoyment, it is by no means relaxa tion: for it docs not. give rest, which sltould lie the one object of all relaxation. Tate Trcavtaaeat of Faeaaawaria. The recent deaths from pneumonia hare created a feeling of - apprehension on the part of the public that the dis ease has assumed the form ot an epi demic, or that it has assumed propor tions beyond the reach of skillful phy sicians. This is regarded as a false im pression by physicians, who aver tha , simple pneumonia will pursue steady and brief course for a week or ten days, when it will terminate favorably with out any further treatment than good nursing ; and in the more severe forms whicb it assumes it only requires the addition of supporting treatment, espe cially the use of quinine and mild stim ulation. There was a time when vig orous depletion was considered the duty of every phvsician at the outset of pneumonia, often with the view of completely checking it, and in its earlier stages, for the purpose of short ening its duration and limiting the ex tent of lung involved, and the prolon gation of the disease. Blood-letting as method of routine treatment, has been abandoned, not only in pneumo nia, but in all inflammatory diseases. At the same time there is a growing opinion among many physicians that the utter abandonment of bleeding is a natural reaction from its former abuse and that there may occur in the experi ence of any physician cases of extreme congestion or incipient inflammation in which the withdrawal of blood will be indicated as a sure and immediate means of relief. As, however, cases of inflammatory disease are seldom seen until the process has been in a measure established, if there is a withdrawal of blood it lowers the vitality of the system, which will be required to pass through the natural period of the disease and insure a successful removal of the inflammatory deposit And all the blood withdrawn must be restored by subsequent vigorous supporting treatment. Following the method of depletion, various remedies supposed to lit ve a sedative influence upon the nervous system, and to lessen the plas ticity of the blood, were extensively used. Such treatment is still in a measure employed, with view of di minishing the extent of inflammatory action, but. as a rule, combined with tonics and liberal diet. It would be impossible to enumerate the various articles which are employed or the numerous class of remedies used but the diversity of remedies does not argue any essential difference in the mode of treatment, the particular arti cles employed individually by different physicians having substantially the same effect. With a view of diminish ing the action of the heat and lessen ing the local congestion, elevated tern peratnre,and rapid pulse.one physician wonld use aconite, while another wonld prescribe veratrum viride, or digitalis, all of which would subserve the same purpose. There is, however a general recognition of a few simple principles in the treatment of pneumonia : to re lieve the extreme exhaustive pain in the side ; to reduce the temperature of the body, or at least control the de structive febrile action of which the elevated temperature is the exponent and by regulating the action of the heart and the violence and rapidity of the cir culation, to restrict the inflammatory process to as limited an amount of lung tissues as possible. From this stage of the disease one general method of treatment is pursued ; that is to so thoroughly restrain the patient by rich concentrated food and tonics, espe cially cslisaya bark or quinine, and when necessary the administration 01 alcoholic stimulants, thns enabling the patient to convalesce rapidly with a complete restoration of the lungs to a healthy state. A well known New York physician says the disease is to a certain extent subject to atmospheric influences, and has a verv close connection with those affecting diphtheria and cerebrospinal meningitis. It was more fatal among people between the ages of twenty and forty, and those who had passed the age of sixty years. Persons between the ages of forty and sixty were seldom attacked by it The nature of the disease, he said, was inflammation of the lungs, and the exciting causes were exposure of the body to extreme cold or prolonged chills. The predisposing causes, he said, were malaria, the un due use of alcoholic stimulants, and un known atmospheric changes such as are present when certain malarial diseases are prevalent The disease might also be developed by the inhalation of sewer gases. The symptoms manifested themselves in the patient by a distinct chill, lasting from half an hour to two or three hours, followed by a pain in the side of several hours' duration, ac companied by a high fever, hacking cough, and rapid respiration, and hem orrhage. The possible danger of death was to be apprehended between the hfth and ninth days. Celebrated Kabberiew. Jehan Valter. a French journalist. relates, ro; of the robliery of the Dudley diamonds, several anecdotes atwmt jewel robberies. lie tells how a pecnlator presented a report to the Directory, making out that the cele brated Church of Loretto contained JL10,(mo.fN worth in diamonds, etc liarrns and Camot informed llonaparte of the fact; but the young general re fused to march on the place, because he would have to expose a corns of MMKiO. and would probably find nothing when he got there. In time he did manage to seize on the church, and found that all he diamonds had been replaced by glass. M. alter also tells how the mother of the late French Emperor, the (ueen Hortense, when she was leaving r i a nee alter uie invasion oy uie allies, was stopped on the highroad by the Man i ins tie Mauhreml, who searched it carriage and took away i.20.HX worth of diamonds which have never since tieen heard ol. j his story is all the more remarkable as there was a great fuss made about this Marquis de Manbrenil toward the close of the sec ond empire. He had a lawsuit witji his wite, and an outcry was raised against the M am u is continuing a memlier of the legion of Honor. It then came out hat he was oueot Uie rovalists who had aided the I'riissians to pull down the statue of Napoleon from the ton of the column of Vendomc, and that while en gaged in this act lie had tied an order of the Legion of Honor to the tail of is horse and dragged it in the mud. fet toward the end of the reign of the third Napoleon he wore the red riblton and was in receipt of a government pension. Tae Traaalt sr Yeans The bits of news that come to us front Kerguelen's Island are tantaliz- njr. x ul there was the l.erman tele gram, stating that the party of that na tionality had met good success. Then came the Astronomer Royal's telegram. stating that the weather was cloudy, but three English observers had seen the ingress, anil one hail "a good ob servation of the egress." Last I v, a tel- grani received here savs that the Americans were eminently successful. and that the Kuglisli and French were also, but gives no particulars. 1 he al (mints at issue are left almost as indefinite as ever. If the Eugiish got good observations of. the ingress, they nave wnat tuey most want from Ker guelen's Island, to compare with their Hawaiian observations. ltiiout that hey have no long base line obtainable by the comparison of any pair of their stations. If the Americans did well at Kcrgnclcn, we have the most southerly oliservatious attainable to compare ith those taken at l'eking. and have reason to lie supremely satistii-d; while our Kcrgnclcn observations, if coupled iiinuiose ol uie nussiaus ai ,en hinsk, will be one-seventh Im-IUT than e best that is possible in InnJ. Art is about the only occupation in taicta people do what they please without consulting their neighbors. ICEKTLTTKIL. CCLTJYATKW OF EOOTS, GsaTS AXD Grass. When farming, years ago, on the banks of the upper part, of the Niagara river, I found the cool, moist onucers and heavy, loamy, clay soil better fitted for growing roots than Indian corn, and as we were then breed ing trotting horses,8hort-horn cattle and other improved 8 took, in consid erable numbers, which required some thing in winter in addition to bay to keep them np to the proper mark, I devoted a good deal of attention to growing field root crops, which at that early period were rather a novelty in American husbandry. Our farmers too often think that the larger the size of their roots the greater the amount of nutriment they obtain for their stock per acre, while the contrary may be the fact X have raised sugar beets, mangel wurzels and rutabagas weighing as high as 17 to 32 lbs. each, which did not contain more, if as much nutriment as thcie not over one-fourth to one-third their size. The small were juicy, sweet and solid throughout and were eaten, either cooked or raw, with avidity. whereas the larger were more or less hollow, pithy and dry. and would be rejected by our animals, unless very hungry. In the cool, moist summers of ureat Britain and some other portions of Europe, roots of a larger size may be grown of a superior quality to those nere ; but even then the chemical anal' ysis published in the RuraV article re ferred to above, shows that the smaller roots contain an average of about 50 per cent more of nutriment (feeding value) than the larger roots. Thus, we get 100 bushels of the former from the same area of land as 130 of the lat ter, we have as much solid nutriment from the one as from the other, and we save the additional cost of handling. storing and feeding the larger quantity, flow, as to growing root crops in larger quantities for stock feeding. would reooimend it in any part of our country where soil and climate were suitable for Indian corn, except so far South that the seed can be planted in late summer or early autumn and be insured a fair growth during the mild winters there. The roots can be fed on in the held to sheep and pigs during winter, the same as is done in the south of England, and thus save the trouble and expense of harvesting ana storing. On the few acres that I now cultivate near the Jersey sea-shore, the soil is so much lighter and the growing season so much longer and warmer than on the banks of the Niagara River, I find that rye, wheat, oats and corn are more reliable and profitable to grow for for age than roots. My rye is fit to cut green for soiling early in May, and as this is fed out, the winter wheat, then spriBg wheat, oats and corn follow in succession. In the meanwhile as much of these different sorts of grain as is wanted to ripen for threshing or shel ling is left to do so. I also cut more or less of the above when in blossoms. and cure it as we do grass for winter forage. When one is short in hay there are excellent substitutes, thus cut and cured, and may be as easily and as cheaply grown as grass by the system which I follow in their cnltiva tiou in our light soil and mild climate. In other parts of New Jersey, where the soil is a good clay loam, it is easier and cheaper generally to crow grass in stead of the above green grain crops for winter stock forage : but even in this case I would recommend, always a certain portion of these to be grown for summer soiling, in case of a drouth greatly lessening the grass crop, 1 plant field roots in rows three feet apart This gives sufficient space be tween to work them with the cultiva tor. 1 thin out from 7 to 9 inches in the row. I do not want my beets to grow in this climate heavier than 4 to 7 lbs. each as a general rule, for if they ge beyond this the quality is not so good, and I don't think anything is gained by it L'ural Xew Yorker. Sice AxntALS. Nearly all sick ani mals become so by improper feeding in the first place. Nine cases out of ten the digestion is wrong. Charcoal is the most enective and rapid correc tive. It will cure in a majority of cases, li properly administered. An example of its use the hired man came in with the intelligence that one of the finest cows was very sick. and a kind neighbor proposed the usual drugs and poisons. The owner being ill and unable to examine the cow, concluded that the trouble came from over eating, and ordered a tea cupful of pulverized charcoal given in water. It was mixed, and placed in a junk bottle, the head held upward, and the water and the "harooal poured downward. In five minutes improve ment was visible, and in a few hours the animal was in the pasture quietly eating grass. Another instance of equal success occurred with a young heifer which had become badly bloated by eating green apples after a hard wind. The bloat was so severe that the sides were almost as hard as a bar rel. The old remedy salaratus was tried for correcting the acidity, but the attempt to put it down always caused coughing, and did utile good. Half a teacupful of fresh powdered charcoal was given. In six hours all appearance of the bloat had gone, and the heifer was well. The eollek is a more valuable farm implement than formerly. Our im proved farm machinery demands smooth surfaces on the fields. Then farmers have learned that better plow ing can be done with a smooth surface than an uneven one, and good plowing means easy after-tillage and clean crops. The rollers are needed on the new meadow in the spring on the fields of spring grain after sowing, and quite likely on the planting ground. Rolling is so simple an operation that the com mon log roller is abont as good as the more costly tool made of iron and plank. On the fields that are pretty free of stone, a clod crusher made of plank fastened to scantling and over lapping each other like clap-boards on a house answers an excellent purpose. It should be about three feet wide and nine long. Fbctt Trees. Fruit trees affected by fungi, either on the limbs or roots, may be effectually cured by close pru ning the roots and by adding small quantities of well rotted manure around the roots. This treatment for the roots when all the diseased parts of roots are cut off and the bead of the tree pruned pretty severe always to be careful when cutting off a branch not to leave a snag of three or four inches. In cutting off branches they should be cut close to the main stem or branch. These cuts should be neatly smoothed with a sharp knife. Clean culture is one of the great secrets in fruit culture : and from several years' observation in various localities in the South, fungus has only affected dis eased and uncultivated trees. As a feed for titty lowls, the follow ing is recommended. "Four quarts of shorts, mixed with warm water, fed in the morning ; in the a f ternoon, four or five quarts of cracked or whole corn, keep warm water by them through the day, and give one peck of oats once a week ; also give some hay, straw or chaff once a week, or keep ashes, sand or gravel by them." Is BOTLrso potatoes for pigs, they should be strained, as the water from them is injurious to a less or greater degree, as it contains the poittonous alkaloid called solanine : which, it should be noted, is more abundant when the tubers begin to chimp or bud out StlESTiriC I hi Causa- or Jasthuitakes aid VoliCAXoes. The various relations and points of connection between volcanie phenomena, earthquakes, and lines of mountain elevation imply that they are the results of the play of one set of oosmical forces which have been brought into operation by the gradual cooling of the earth from an incandescent sun like state to its present condition. The argumeat is as follows : As the cooling of the earth proceeded, the crust gradu ally thickened and contracted less and less as the temperature became lowered. The hotter nucleus, on the other hand, contracted more, being at a higher temperature than the crust and having a higher co-efficient of contraction for equal loss of heat By this process, which is still going on. the crust of the earth would shrink at one rate, and the vastly hotter central portion at another and greater rate ; and cavities wonld be formed between the crust and the nucleus, cavities which would be ine vitably filled by the crushing down of the Bolid crust on the more swiftly con tracting nucleus, by the force of gravi tation, which is sufficient to crush the hardest rocks ; and as the solid crust follows the shrinking nucleus, 'the force expended in mutual crushing and dislocation of its parts is transformed into heat" by which, at the points of crushing, the rocks are heated even to fusion. The access of water to such points determines volcanie eruption. These points of crushing may occur at various depths in the solid crust He then proceeds to measure the amount of actual contraction by the annual amount of heat lost by radiation into space, which is sufficient to liquefy 777 cubic miles of ice into water at 32, and comes to the conclusion that less than one fourth of total annual loss of beat would suffice to prodnoe the contrac tion necessary for his hypothesis. The actual amount of annual contraction is estimated at a reduction of three fifths of an inch, an amount too small to be measured by any astronomical method, and yet more than enough to produce all the volcanic phenomena now to be observed on the surface of the earth. A Cuke fob Lock-jaw. In the course of the Cantor lectures, recently deliv ered before the British Society of Arts by Dr. Benjamin Richardson, the fol lowing deeply important remarks were made upon nitrite of amyl : One of these specimens, I mean the nitrite of amyl, has within the last few years ob tained a remarkable importance, owing to its extraordinary action upon the body. A distinguished chemist. Prof. Guthrie, while distilling over nitrite of amyl from smylio alcohol, observed that the vapor, when inhaled, quick ened his circulation, and made him feel as if he bad been running. There was flushing of his face, rapid action of his heart, and breathlessness. In IKGl-fii, I made a careful and prolonged study of the action of this singular body, and discovered that it produced its effect by causing an extreme relaxation, first of the blood vessels, and afterward of the muscular fibers of the body. To such an extent did this agent thns re lax, I found it would even overcome the tetanio spasm produced by strych nia ; and having thus discovered its action, I ventured to propose its use for removing the spasm in some of the extremest spasmodic diseases. The results have more than realized my ex pectations. Under the influence of this agent, one of the most agonizing of known hnman maladies, called angina pectoris, has been brought under such control that the paroxysms have been regularly prevented, and in one in stance, at least, altogether removed. Even tetanus, or lock-jaw, has been subdued by it, and in two instances, of an extreme kind, so effectively as to warrant the credit of what may be truly called a cure. r I bnTBESSIXO LXCRBTION-S OF TUB Sew. Experiments have been tried by Soooleff as to the effect of suppressing the excretions of the skin, by shaving rabbits and painting the skin over with some material impervious to the pas sage of vapor. It was found that this always, sooner or later, produced fatal results, the animals a few hours before death exhibiting intermittent cramps and convulsions, while the temperature in the rectum fell to a considerable ex tent Even wrapping the animals in cotton failed to produce any material increase of the temperature of the in testines or. to delay death. The inhala tion of oxygen was equally powerless in preserving life. Ulcers, arising from deep-seated eitravatious, were found in the stomach. Albumen made its appearance in the urine shortly after the animal had been varnished. What ever the substance used for coating the animal, whether simply a gelatin, gum. or regular varnish, inflammation of the kidneys was the result sometimes ac companied by enlargement of the cell elements, and sometimes by their fatty degeneration. Animal Electricity. George M. Mobray, the manufacturer who fur nishes all the nitro-glycerine at Hoosae tunnel, has recently published a pam phlet on "Tri-nitro-glycerine at the Hoosae Tunnel, in which appears the following statement which will be found of eqnal interest to both engin eers and physiologists. After defend ing his pet explosive from unjust charges, as to its dangerous qualities. be cautions the workman as follows : "The blaster, not aware that he is a walking charge of electricity, proceeds to his work, inserting cartridge after cartridge of nitro-glycerine, until he comes to the last, which is armed with the electric fuse. The moment his hand touches one of the electric wires, the current passes through the priming and follows. Let a blaster, before he han dles these wires, invariably grasp. some metal in moistened contact with the earth, or place both his hands against the moist walls of the tunnel." A Bostok man is said to have in vented a plan by which horse-cars may be started with much less power than now employed. Over each wheel is a box containing three rollers, upon which a projection from the body of the car touches and rolls either way about six inches. Thus the body of the car obtains a momentum which starts the trucks of itself. When the car is on level ground, with the brakes up, it is in position to start ; when go ing down hill the nso of the rollers is not needed, and when going up the hill the rollers run back to a proper posi tion. The South PoBton street railway has made arrangements to have the contrivance placed on the cars of its road. For Drawing os Glass. Melt to gether equal quantities of asphaltura and yellow wax ; add lamp black, and pour the the mixture into moulds for crayons. The glass should be well wiped with leather, and in drawing be careful not to soil the glass with the fingers. In trimming these crayons, if the edge be bevelled, like scissors, the point may easily be rendered very fine. Bbombtdric Acid. It is stated that much simpler way of making this acid than that now employed, and which besides ensures a more copious supply, consists in passing a current of sulphydric acid into a small flask con taining bromine. Bromide of snlphnr is formed and bromhydric acid disen gaged. Oe all metals known, silver is the best electrical conductor. Lifo is a malady in whicb sleep soothes us every sixteen hours ; it is a palliation ; death is the remedy. - MITOTIC Savdto tsx Coftkb Gbooxds. As commonly made, the infusion of coffee which we drink contains not more than twenty per cent, of the substance which compose the berry. Of the remaining eighty parts which we throw away as "grounds," about thirty-four are woody matter without nutritive value. Th ? rest or forty-six parts ont of the hundred, contain in large proportions nitrogenous matters, fats and mineral salts, demonstrably useful for the nourishment of nerves, muscles, and bones. In other words, by onr mode of making coffee, we lose more than half its available and valuable con stituents. Considering the tons of coffee imported every year, this whole sale wastefulness becomes a matter of considerable magnitude, this, of course. only on condition that the rejected matter can be used with pleasure and profit Thst it can be so nsed is shown by the practice of the Turks, who make eonee as we do chocolate. The ootfee. finely powdered, is drunk with the in fusion. In this way all the stimulating qualities of the infusion are secured. with the full aroma and all the nutri tious elements of the berry. It is, per haps, needless to add that, for use in this way, the coffee must be reduced to an impalpable powder, lo those unac customed to use Oriental cofloe, the limpid infusion may seem to be pre ferred. As a stimulating drink, it is undoubtedly preferable, but the good qualities of coffee are not exhausted with the infusion ; and, as a matter of economy, it may be worth while to sacrifice limpidity for nutrition. Be sides, as one becomes accustomed to thick chocolate, and learns to like it more than the clear infusion of the cocoa bean, so, it is claimed, the taste for cafe a C Orientate may be acquired, with a corresponding improvement in the beverage. Fish Chowdkr. Place a large iron pot on top of the stove. Then cut Ave or six shoes of fat salt pork and put them into the kettle, allowing the fat gently to fry out Then cut your fish in thick slices across it Have your onins (abont six large ones) peeled and cut into slices ready ; also about the same number of potatoes. Then place a layer of potatoes, next one ef fish, next of onions in tha kettle, adding a little pepper and salt to each layer, lie very sparing of the salt as the pork usually makes it nearly salt enough for most tastes. Lastly, 'add just water enongh to half fill the kettle. Let the wbolo boil half an hour then add a little milk and butter, slightly thickened with flour. While the chowder is cook ing, skim it at first About three min utes before you remove the chowder from the fire, split a dozen genuine hard crackers in halves and place them in the chowder. Serve in a tureen. ToornAcirB. For the benefit of those who may need a little consolation, we publish the following : "If any reader suffers from tooth ache, or neuralgia affections, arising from teeth in any state of decay, they may experience relief, instantaneous and permanent by saturating a small bit of clean cotton or wool with a strong solution of ammonia, and applying it immediately to the affected tooth. The pleasing contrast instantaneously pro duces, in some cases, a fat of langhter. although a moment before extreme suffering and anguish prevailed. I have nsed the remedy for over ono year, and have obtained sufficient proof to warrant publication." THE I'RlMERVATIOX OF SMOKED MEAT. Professor Nessler says that the keep ing qualities of smoked meat do not depend upon the amonnt of smoking, but upon the uniform and proper dry ing of the meat It is of considerab'e advantage also to roll the meat on its removal from the salt before smoking, in sawdust or bran. By this taeans the crust formed in smoking will not be so thick ; and if moisture condenses npon the meat it remains in the bran. the brown coloring matter of the smoke not penetrating. The best place to keep the meat is in a smoke house in which it remains dry, without drying ont en tirely as it does when hnngin a chimney. Apple rrs Pare and quarter enongh tart apples to lay loosely in the pre pared paste : the quarters should not touch one another. Fill the paste two thirds full of thin, sweet cream, then sprinkle over one spoonful of flonr ; butter as large as a walnut cut in bits. Sugar (if a common pie-tin is used) two-thirds teacnpfuL Grate a nutmeg over the whole, as no flavoring gives the peculiarly excellent taste. Bake slow ; if a brown crust forms over the top before the apples cook, stir it under with a knife. If it is not pronounced splendid the fault will be with the ap ples or not following the directions. Since golden hair is so much in favor, it is well for mothers to know that tuey can preserve the golden color of their children's locks by a persistent and careful washing with castile soap and water. The hair should be braided and dipped repeatedly into the suds, and then wiped with a towel, and this opera tion should be performed once in four or five days. If persevered in, the roots of the hair may darken, as the child grows older, but the mass will keep its sunny tints as long as the owner wishes. How to Cook Cobsed Beef. The IimUm Journal of Chemittry says : Don't 'boil it for corned beef should never be boiled. It should only simmer, being placed on a part of the range or stove where this process may go on uninterruptedly from four to six honrs. according to the size of the piece. If it is to be served, let the meat remain in the liquor nntil cold. Tough meat can be made tender by letting it remain in the liquor nntil the next day, and then bring it to the boiling point just before serving. A Good asp Inexpensive Sorr. The following is a good soup for the family dinner-table, aud one which does not cost much : Three pounds of the neck of beef, one cowbeel, a penny wortn oi carrots and turnips, hall a head of celery, one bunch of tied np sweet herbs, four onions browned, one pint of peas, all together in three quarts of water, and after boiling some hours, well strained. The best part of the cowbeel may be cut in sqnare pieces and served np in the soup. Wild Drcsa. After they are cleaned and ready for c.ioking. wrap them in a clean cloth and bury twelve hours in the earth to remove the strong flavor of this bird. They are usually cooked without s tn fling. Throe-quarters of au hour will be sufficient to cook them. When you dish them draw a sharp knife three times through the breast, and ponr over a gravy of a little hot bntter, the juice of a lemon, a sprink ling of Cayenne pepper. This is poured over as they go on to the table. To make glue for resisting fire pro ceed as follows : Mix a handful of quicklime in four ounces of linseed oil. boil to a good thickness, then spread on plates in the shade, and it will be come exceedingly hard, but may be easily dissolved over the fire, and nsed as ordinary glue. It resists lire after having been used for glueing substances together. Feeding canaries on Cayenne pepper and hard-boiled eggs, in the proportion of a teaspoonfu! of pepper to one egg a diet which the birds seem thoroughly to enjoy is said to increase grettly the brilliancy of their plumage. Bitter will remove tar spots. Soap and water will afterward take ont the grease stain. motors. A IMraaant tliaage. A preftr little ftri I know. . . a " rftT m call be : I Imv the nttlr darting so. And sne u fond of tue. Ifnl nae thing ir.il-- me dly Her name', unpleasant Jjne" d--u t m-aiid o hadij But I cant lanr "June.' I tn'd her my dinliTcin atnuure hue laiwlM-d a Ut?le laoftrh. And said AtleM often Wlnued to eitaoffe Tbe both onVudlu naif. Beeolt : ' -ue nniter i-auiy A a-oirten rtrrlet owns "Jane" d, leant a, nud ao bvllr uw we'Te fot nd of Jinea." A Serenade Spoiled. Max Adder Over at New Hope, a Mr. DunkeL who had just returned from Europe, brought with him a "narmonicon. it is an instrument constructed a good deal like a hand organ, but it is larger and abont ten times more powerful. When it is turned on suddenly in a quiet place it affects the nerves of unsuspecting people very mnch as if a cannon were tired close to their ears. A lot of young fellows who had never heard it played got Dnnkel to lend it to tbem one night for the purpose of serenading Miss Brown. They put tbe concern in wagon, and, with the help, an urbane mule, they hauled it around in front of Brown's house about eleven o'clock at night Tbere they halted, and the suave mule went calmly to sleep, while they made the machine ready for ac tion. The first tune for which tbe barrel was set was "Thou 'It never cease to love." Young Mclutosh took bold of the handle and gave it a few pre liminary grinds, in order to fill the bellows ; and still that mild-mannered mule slumbered. No one ever knew what be was dreaming of ; bnt the next minute Mcintosh gave the crank an other turn, and a fearful B-flat came screeching out on the night wind with the vehemence of a locomotive whistle. A second later that mule was proceeding down the street at the rate of forty knots an hour, with the harmonieon at his heels ; and, before he could be checked, he went over the wharf into the river. Old Brown, meanwhile, bad his head out of the window calling for the police, under the impression that he had heard a blood-curdling cry of "Murder I and in a few moments the whoJo population of the village was in the btreet They fished out the sere naders, and then they angled for the mule and the harmonieon, and the serenade was postpone 1 for that even ing. Ihe next strains that break upon the ear of Miss Brown while she is slnuliering will probably come from an accordeon. Mules have not enongh sentimeut for nocturnal music. English T a tout in one Lesson. At many of the New York restaurants, a very heavy "French style" is pnt on ; the waiters are mostly Fn nchmeu, aud the bill of fare is often printed in French. A correspondent writes that. ventnring out early one morning in New xork, be dropped into the first restanrant ho came to, which happened to ne oue ol Uie kind spoKoo of hIhivo. L-arciessly giving an order, the waiter, bringing his shoulders up nnder uin ears, renponaea : "Jeni: parle pas Anglais. M'sinnr." And the hungry man had to point out nis wants on mo nni r-i tare, witu which alter considerable delay, he was served. Just here entered another customer, a tall, powerful man. evidently fresh from the western prairies, who, sitting mmseu m a coair, ordered : "Beefsteak, fried potatoes, hot bread n cap o eo-lee. To him the grinning Frenchman re peated the same formula : "Jene parle pas Anglais, M'sienr." Ihe western man looked at him for a moment, and then, rising from his seat like the opening of a big jack-knife wnn a sun spnng, he slowly ejaculated, as ne cieucned a wicked Dst : "Beefsteak fned potatoes hot prea i enp of coffee and ouick too ! The effect on tbe waiter was magical. mere never was a man served with more promptitude with just what he wanted for breakfast than the hungry it eafcuruer. He evidently knew the way of pnt- iiuk uib .cugusu so tnat there was no mistaking it So Natural. An American lately in ixindon, who was badgered by the bnglisn on almost every tonic at last. as he said, determined to go in on the Mississippi steamboat style, and brag down everything that came in his way. His first chance occurred at an exhibi tion of painting, where a picture of a suow-Biorm attracted general admit tiou. "Is not that fine ? ' asked a John Bull ; "could you show anything as natural as ma. in America 7 I'uoh I' auswered the free-born American "that is no comparison to a snow-storm picture painted by a cousin of mine, a lew years since : tnat painting was so natural, sir, that a mother, who iucaa uuusij ten ner pane Bleeping in a cradle near it. on returning to the room. found her child frozm to death .'" t torn that time onward, the American was left alone. Mb, Maoffftn braced himself against the boarding house table and tried once more to cut the steak. The edge of the knife turned, but the meat showed no mark. I ben be called the waiter. 'Thomas, haa the cook nsed the axe much lately to chop kindling-wood on the cellar steps ?" "I don t know," said Thomas. Why, sir?" "Because." said Mr. Masrnffin. "if it ain't too dull I'd like to trv it on tin. steak." 'A merciful man " tenderly re marked a Ninth street man not long since, "is merciful to bis beast" and he called the dog in out of the snow, gave him his breakfast in a soup plate, and laid a piece of carpet down behind the kitchen stove for him to snooze on. Then the man went down town, and the neighbors watched his wife shovel snow paths to the wood shed, cistern, stable. and front gate, and then do an hour's work cleaning off the sidewalk. A Tocno fellow in San Francisco suddenly snatched a kiss from a lady friend, and excused his conduct bv saying that it was a sort of temporary insanity that now and then came upon him. When he arose to take his leave, the pitying damsel said to him: "If you feel any more such fits coming oo, you ha 1 lietter come right here, where your infirmity is known, and we will take care of you. . "What is vour name?" asked a census-taker. "John Corcoran " Your age?" "Twenty-one." "What nativity T "Well, that's what bothers me. I'll tell yon, and maybe yon cau make it ont My father was Irish, but is now a natnrabzed American citizon ; my mother English, aud I was liom on a Dutch frigate in Turkish waters." Near Rochester there is an eccentric old follow who lives alongside of a graveyant He was asked if it was uot an unpleasatit locatioi. "No," said ho ; "1 never j'ined places in all my life with a set of neighbors that minded their own basincss so stiddy as they do." J "Julius, why didn't you oblong vour stay at the Springs?" "Kase, "Mr. Snow, dey charge too mn-jh." "How so, Julius?" "Why, de landlord charged dis individual wid stealing de spoons." " "What ailment can yon find on an oak ?" asked the chairman. "A corn," was Uio triumphant reply. A ounce of wit that is bong'ut is worth a pound that is tangtit jumlM Hp ' In a recent .number of the Hor- ticie AL Barulet uwiw" Solofttecommon jasmine 0? ZinaV, ..Consople for PnJP lonV straight branches. For this purpose the plants are grown timtj-jj . - h , . v... K;n. ormwn in a snei- :-ki in a nen son. little access at the sides, but only at the top. FinchiDg is resorted to. and durinitne second TefB.T end of a thread is attached to the top of the jasmine stem. Thty thread ' . llw attached to the -TvL !,;., thA iasmine is trained. and from it is suspended a weight, the effect of which is to keep .ne . . .artinal direction. hen the jasmine stem is about to centime Le. Iut inehi in diameter, a elota is wrapped around it to prevent access .in.i .nd of the sun's rays. Twice . tu, in th wear the stem is washed VI aua aw r . - . , .itmn nitnr laude citron), wnicn ia said to give the clear (clairr) mn mnh esteemed. When the koa annirnd a leUffth of Some 13 feet it is cut down and perforated by k. kmi and fitted with a terra rotta bowl and an amber mouth piece. The length of the tchibouk stems vanes nn in flva meters t'S feet to 16 feet about) ; in the latter case as much as $100 is demanded for tneir purcuaae. Foisva by Artiflciart Mower. One branch of the industry in which children are employed is technically known as grass work. It consists 1 fiuteninir small flrlass beads or de' drops" to the artificial grass, and so simple 11 the work , that mere infants can help t it. The master of ft ragged a densely populated district of London found that when a particular kind of artificial flower was in fashion tbe young children neglected to attend school. He told James Greenwood. who wrote an article which appeared in the London "Ttfr graph" some time ago : "Ion may always suow a (trans hn.l if ha has been at work any time. from the appearance of bis hair. You will find the front part of it that which is mtt exposed, as the head is bent over the work to he of a diflereut color from the rest If the child a hair is light-colored, the patch iu front, just where the DartinaT commences, will be changed to a dull yellow ; if the hair is naturally dark tbe patch will be rusty, almost of the color called carroty. If they work long and hard at the grass the hair will fall out" The threading of the beads on blades and leaves of crass, and the subsequent shaking to see that all is right dislodge particles of the arsencical green, which poisons the air and tells its tale upon the poor children. Ocrtltner MouJhi. A Btaby landlinxa Snake. man aud wmau of Lehigh Couuty California, weut to the hay-field the other day, and took their baby along and placed it in the shade. Some time after the mother noticed tiie child play ing with a Mack strap, which the little one would every now and teen let fall ont of the wagon ami then crawl ont after it, seemingly being very bnsy with the object it had in possession to amuse itse'f. I pon drawing near, it was discovered that the child was act nallv fondlia-r a black snake, at least fourfeet in length, now wrapped around vhe little one's body, then again entwin- ng itself abont its neck and going through all kinds of frightful move ments, its red tongue darting ont cf its moutti with lighting-like rapidity, and the child all the while stroking it, joy- fnlly laughing until the tears rolled down its cheeks. The suake was killed to the grief of the child. Kopersiilion nl Ihe TjroIee. A correspondent writes from the Tyrol that "had Paul lived in these lays he would certainly have leen able to address the inhabitants of this country the remark made by him to the Athenians, 'I perceive that in all things yon are too snperstitious.' Tbe roads are lined with evidences of the super stition of the Tyrolese. At one miunte yon piss a little chapel with a fearfnl representation within, in wood, of the erucifix'on : the chapel itself of cement tbe open front crost-ed with an iron gateway, rreseutly you see a post who a nat woooeu plate at the top, on men is a picture or a pious sentence. Next is a stone cross, then an iron one, then another rhapeL Every house has a picture of a sacred subject, generally of the saint to whose protection it is dedicated, or a verse from Scripture, or a rude rhyme." No rsE or any longer taking the irire, repulsive, trripinir. drastic ami nauseous pills, couiHMed of crude and bulky ingredients, and put up in cheap wood or paste-board boxes, when we an, by a careful application of chemi cal scieuce, extract all the cathartic and other medicinal properties from the most valuable roots and herlis. ami concentrate them into a minute Gran ule, scarcely larger than a mustard seed, that can lie readily s-vallowed by those of the most sensitive stom.-tclis anil fastidions tates. Each of Dr. 'ierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets re presents, in a most concentrated form. as much cathartic power as isenilmdicd in any oi the large pills found for sale in the tlrng stores, t roni their won- lerful cathartic power, in proportion to their size, peonle who have not tried them are apt to suppose that they are harsh or drastic in effect, but such in not at all the case, the different active medicinal principles of which tliev are comixmed being so harmonized, one by the others, as to produce a most seatch- tig and thorough, yet gently and kindly iIM-r.-itinir c.tthartic. The Pellets nri. sold by dealers in medicines. 0 e. r. KaoUefa Rltter Win el Irani has never heeo known tn fail in the cure of weakness, attended with symptoms : indis position to exertion ; loss of memory ; diifi- ulty of brealhinc; reneral weakness: hor ror of disenne ; we .k, nervous trembling ; dreadful horror of death : niffht sweaia eoldfeet; weaknnn; dimness of vision ; languor ; universal lassitude of the musea lar system : enormous appetite, with dys peptic symptoms; hot hands; flushing of the body; dryness of tbe akin ; pallid coun tenance and eruptions on the faee.purifying the blood ; pain in the back ; heaviness of the eyelids; frequent black spots flying be fore the eyes with temporary suffusion and lowi of sight; want of attention, eta. Thet-e ejmpioiu, all irise from a we.-iknesa, and to remedy that, use E. F. Kiixkkl's Bitter Wine of Iron. It never fail. Thousands are now enjoySijr health who have nsed it. Take on'y E. t. KcskiV. Beware of counterfeits and bass imita tions. As Kunkel's Hitter Wine of Iron is so we!l known all over the country, drag gist themselves make an imitation and try lo plm it off on their eiKomers, when they call it Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron. Kunkel'p Bi'terWineof Iroa is pat np only in $1 houles, and has a yellow wrap per nicety f,t on tne oul!,;,e wita the pro prietor'n photograph on the wraper of each bottle. Always look for the phototrnph on the outside, and you will alwayn bo sure to get the genuine article. Sol 1 by all liruggiots and dealers every where. TtFEwnajt Radovan Alivc Head and all complete, in two honrs. No fee till head passes. Sent, Pin an-1 rltomach Worms re moved by Dr. Kcskkl. Sf.a Noam Nisth Stmt. Advice free. Come, see over l.um snevimens and be eouvinced. He never fails. Qt M K M Klur i x es. We never pntr. but ANAKKS1S, Ihf rjrtl wmtm, I'h.k rrmnlif. Ii is cured thousand, after lo tions, ointments and all maimer of nm triinis have failed. It is the di-. i.veiy j of Hk. 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