aw POETKT. Before the Day. Look forth upon the eight, it ia so dark ; No star illumes the shadowed vault of boaren And do heart-thrilling not of ""g lark rreludea the cUt ; but ometime then it driven A fitful gleam of harried meteor light. And tweet, strange voices ateal upon mine CUB, All in a molten murmur tinging in the night. Like memory's toft whiapere after many Tears. ,8o ia it with pa in the sight of life. We have no etars to see, nor aonga to hear I'nretled of the weariness of strife, . Yet sometime, with the turning of the rear. Mare we tweet viaiona and strange dreama to know; Then, strong with lore, the spirit hath no fear. And on the wild tempestuous seaa of hfe doth go. Knowing what thing may be, like an enrap tured seer. STELLA JT. The Mammoth Elrptiat primiyntiu.) An. elephant of hogs size, with enor mous tasks, ranch more enrved than those of existing species. The remains ot this animal, which became extinct in Earope at so early period that not the slightest tradition ol its former ex istence has snrvived, are fonnd in the Old World lrom the northernmost parts of Siberia to the extreme west of Knrope ; it ranged' aa far southward as the north of Italy, bnt does not seem to have existed south of the Pyrenees. ISones of the mammoth also oocnr in North America, from Behring Strait to Honth Carolina. These elephants abounded in Siberia, where their car caftses repeatedly have been fonnd im bedded in ioe, the flesh and akin still well preserved. Toward the beginning of tlus century a Tangnsian hunter dis covered one inclosed by ioe near the month of the river Lena. He waited until the animal bad become exposed by the melting of its icy shroud, and then cut off its tusks, which he sold for fifty rubles. The flesh of the body afforded for some time food to the dogs kept by the people of the neighbor hood, and to white bears, wolves, foxes and other wild beasts, until finally Mr. Adams, a member of the Academy of tSt, Petersburg, who traveled in that direction, put a stop to these ravages, and touk pains to save the remains from farther destruction. The skele ton was almost complete, excepting fore-leg which the animals of prey had carried off. "According to the asser tion of the Tungnsisn discoverer, ' says Professor Owen, "the animal was so fat that its belly hung down below the joints of the knees. This mammoth was a male, with a long mane on the neck ; the tail was much mutilated, : only eight out of the twenty-eight caudal vertebra) remaining ; the pro boscis was gone, but the places of the insertion of the muscles were visible on the skull ; the skin, of which about three-fourths were saved, was of a dark gray color, covered with a reddish wool and coarse long black hairs. The dampness of the spot where the animal had lain so long had in some degree destroyed the hair, lue entire skele ton, from the fore part of the skull to the end of the mutilated tail, measured . sixteen feet four inches ; its height was nine feet four inches. The tusks meas ured along the curve nine feet six inches, and in a straight line from the base to the point three feet seven inches. Mr. Adams detached the skin on the side on which the animal had lain, which was well preserved ; the weight of the skin was such that ten persona fonnd great difficulty in trans porting it to the shore. After this the ground was dug in different places to ascertain whether any of its bones were buried, but principally to collect all the hairs which the white. bears had trod into the ground while devouring the flesh, and more than thirty-six pounds' weight of hair was thus recov ered. The tusks were purchased at Yakutsk, and the whole then expedited to St. Petersburg . the skeleton is now mounted in the Museum of the Petro- poliUn Academy." Mammoth bones are found in great number in Siberia, and the tusks form valuable article of commerce furnish ing the so-called fossil ivory. Thou sands of tasks have been collected and used in torn ing, yet others are still procured and sold in great plenty, The mammoth roamed hr large herds over the plains of Siberia, where it fed on the leaves of spruce and fir, and even or ashed twigs of considerable aize between its powerful molars. ' This . animal, it is believed by some, existed for a long time in Northern Asia be fore it found its wsy to Europe, in which continent it does not seem to have lived prior to the drift. Other species of elephants, among the Ele phat antiquu, existed during the drift time, but their remains occur less frequently than those of the monarch. Ha rpt r't Magazine. What an Army ol Toad-Stools IMd. Did ever you think how strong the growing plants must be to force their way up through the earth ? Even the green daisy tips and the tiny blades of grass, that bow before a breath, have to exert a force in coming through. that, in proportion to their size, is greater than you would exert in rising from tinder a mound of eobole stones. And think of tosd-stools -whet soft, tender things they are,' breaking at a touch." Yet, I can tell you, they're quite mighty ia their way. ' Charles ' Kingnley, the celebrated English priest and novelist, was a very close observer of nature. One evening he noticed particularly a square flat stone, that, I should ssy, was about as long and as broad as the length of three big burdock leaves. He thought it would require quite a strong man to lift a stone like that. In the morning he looked again, and lo 1 the stone was raised so that he could see the light under it. What was his surprise to find, on closer examination, that a crop of toad-stools had sprung up under the stone in the night and raised it np on their little round shoulders as they came ! Tm told that Canon Kingsley gives an account of this in his book called "Christmas in the West Indies," but it was in England that he saw it. Knowing that be was to elose an ob server, 1 shouldn't be one bit surprised if he went still farther and found out that one secret of the toad-stools being able to lift the stone was that they didn't waste time and strength in urging each other to the work, but each one did his very best without quarrel ing about whose turn it was, or whether Pink Shoulder or Brown Button was shirking his share. But then the toad stools most have been atrong too. St, Sichola. The English I nlvenlllea. The revenues of the two great Eng lish universities are enormous. They are among the largest land-owners in the United Kingdom, owning between them 319,713 acres scattered through England and Wales, the land being generally of an admirable description. Their revenue from tithes is &i 0,225, and from stocks and shares 106,690. The combined revenues in the year 1871 amounted to $3,722,025 of which a large portion goes to the head of houses, fellows and exhibitioners. The chapels absorb twenty times aa much as the libraries. To those whose God is honor disgrace lose is sin. Anecdote of President Lincoln. Aa the President was psssingth rough the wards of a hospital near Washing ton upon one occasion he observed in one of the beds a young soldier whose pallid eoontenanoe and expressionless glassy eyes betokened great physical and mental prostration, and he inquired of the attending surgeon if there was any prospect of his ultimate recovery. "Not the slightest," replied the doe tor. "His vital powers are rapidly ebbing away, and will soon be ex hausted."- t ; " 1 am neartily sorry lor the poor boy, said Mr. Lincoln, "and I should like to do something to make his last boors pass as comfortably as possible. Would there be any barm in my speak' ing to him? added be. Ana upon being assured there would not, he sat down by the bedside, and taking the young man s hand, in the kindest pos sible tone of voice said, "My young friend. I am the President of the United States, and am informed by the doctor that you can not possibly live but for a short time. Now if there is any request yon would like to make in regard to your family, it will afford me very great satisfaction to comply with The youth turned his dim eyes to ward the 1 resident, but made no re sponse until the question was repeated, when, with great effort, he succeeded in giving articulation to his thanks, and expressed an earnest desire to see his aged grandmother, who, he said, was then living in Bangor, Maine. The President, after assuring him that every effort should be made to gratify his wishes, bid him a kind adieu and calling the medical officer aside, asked if there was any prospect of the young man's surviving until the old lady could be telegraphed to and come to Washington, and he seemed a good deal perplexed on being told there was no hope of this ; but after a moment'a redaction, he said the onlj expedient that occurred to him under the circum stances was the exercise of a little of that harmless strategy which was al- wsvs allowable in war times : that if he could only find some old woman who would consent to personate the grand mother, the boy was in such a state of lethargy that he would not probably detect the deception, and would die with the consoling belief that he had received the parting beneciction of his aged relative. . f "That would certainly be a perfectly justifiable device, replied the surgeon; "but where will yon hnd the elderrv female to enact the part of the grand mother ? "Let me see." soliloquized Mr. Lin coln, holding up his left hand while he enumerated with the index finger of the right hand ; "there is old Mrs. B r, old Mrs. S k. and old Mrs. M s they are all most benevolent ladies, but I am apprehensive thev could not be prevailed upon to undertake any thing which involved the faintest shadow of deception. - No, no," continued he, "there is no hope from that direction but if I could only induce my venerable friend Qideon Welles to personate the old lady, in suitable costume, the ob ject weuid be attained, and nobody harmed. "But," remarked the doctor, "Mr. Welles' long white beard would at once expose the artifice. "That can all be obviated by his wearing a night-cap, tied down so as to cover np the beard, said the t resi dent. Accordingly he sat down at once and addressed a note to the secretary of the Navy, begging him, as a special favor, to comply with the request at as early a moment as practicable, as the boys hours were numbered. - . Now it so happened when the Secre tary received this communication he was busily engaged in official transac tions, which, in his opinion, were of so much consequence that they could not be DOstDoned for anvthinsr else, and he replied that he entertained a high ap preciation of the honor conferred upon him by the President's selecting him to perform the chief rule in the sad little drama indicated, but unfortunately he was at that very moment deeply ab sorbed in the solution of the difficult problem as to whether Noah's ark er the new model gun boat was beet adapted to the purposes of modern warfare. Harper' Magazine. A Kaffir Anerdole. 1 heard (writes Mrs. Jj. 1'sget) an antdote of Kaffirland to-day. which though perfectly irrevalent to our ad ventures here, is so amusing that I must record it, particularly as my in formant vouched for its truth. At an outpost, far up the country, resided an officer and his wife. The latter was warmed by her husband not to venture alone far from the house ; but one day imprudently going beyond her usual limits, she encountered a wild-looking Kaffir, who took her by the hand, and would be moved by no entreaties to suffer her to depart. He made her sit down, and untying her bonnet, let down her long fair hair, at which he expressed rapturous admiration. He next took off her gloves, and appeared enchanted with her white hands ; and then proceeded to divest her of shoes and stockings, and wondered at her lit tle white feet. How much further he would have carried his investigations, it is impossible to say, had not the poor lady been rescued by a party of squsws, who with jealousy in their looks and gestures, rushed upon the Kaffir, thus giving her the opportunity of escaping to her home. The next morning the lady and her husband were awakened at an early hour by a great chattering under the window ; and, on inquiring the cause of the disturbance, the gentleman was informed by the hero of the previous day, who had been so impressed by the charms of our fair countrywoman, that he had come with twelve squaws, to make the liberal of fer of exchanging them for the gentle man's wife, and was not a little sur prised when his generous terms were refused. Ferns alone the French Broad. Is there anything in the vegetable kingdom more beautiful than the plumy green grace, of ferns 1 Like moonlight to the noonday sunshine, like Shnbert's Serenade on the violoncello to Rubin stein's Russian Hymn played by a full orchestra, like Undine to one of the French stage heroines of the day, so are the forest ferns to the ranks of the garden flowers. Robed ever in green, wild, shy, and beautiful, they nestle behind the rocks, wsve by the brook sides, and hide in the still dark glens, and the lovers of ferns are bound to gether the world over by that very tie that they do love them, needing no other introduction reason sufficient for friendship between strangers. between the working gardener, and the millionaire. Although a beginner with unskilled eyes, I collected along the French Broad twelve different kinds the polypody, the maiden-hair, the braken. the Cheilanthes, the cliff-brake. the dainty little ebony Asplenium, the lady-fern, the Filix-mas, the beech fern, the Cystopteris, the martial Vy- ttichum acrxtttichoide. and the Mvaterv. so ealled because it Dositivelv refused to show me any seeds, so that I could not analyse it. Climbing on, half-way up the gorge I found a plateau of ferns so luxuriant, so beautiful, that I wished I might turn into tiny Tom melise, of the old fairy tale, and live down in the miniature tropic forest Harper' Magazine. Man is the weeping govern all the rest. animal born tc AfintCt! ITT EAJU Growth of Puma. A dent of the Massachusetts Ploughman tells how he saved his plants from the cureulio and the black knot by plant ins; in the hen vard. We can see how the presence of hens may hava kept off the cureulio, out cannot sea now toey prevented the black knot. He says : "A boat twenty years ago I under took to raise plums : my trees grew well and produced a rood amount of fruit. After a few prosperous years, the trees became covered with the black wart, and the cureulio destroyed the fruit, so that ere long my trees were worthless. Six or seven years since I purchased twelve plum trees and set them in my hen yard, where from one to four hundred fowls rang ; five of the twelve : I succeeded in making grow. These commenced bearing fruit four years ago ; since then, every year, the large quantity as well as the supe rior quality of the fruit, has been" a theme of surprise to every one who has seen it, so much so that a nurseryman remarked, "that in all his experience he never saw so much fruit on any trees of their size." These trees have always been free from warts, and the fruit never injured by the cureulio. I can attribute this saeseso to no other source than my hens, and this belief is confirmed, for I have some other plum trees that are outside of where my hens roam, which generally blossom well, and when the fruit is about half grown it begins to wither and fall to the ground." A Potato that Resists thw Colorado Bud. A. Jackson, of Frederick county Md.. communicates the following in teresting facta to the Baltimore Ameri can Farmer, which he says can be at tested by the sworn testimony ol two of his laborers. About five years ago he received from New Jersey a pecu liar kind of a red potato, under the name ot Siberian red. It proved to be a very prolific bearer, and of a mon strous size ; very mealy and wholesome for the table, though some purple streaks would occasionally run through the tubers. Last summer he planted them in hills, four feet apart, between young grape vines, which stood eight feet by eight feet, and raised on one acre a little better than one hundred bushels of magnificent potatoes. He fertilized the hills by mixing lime with ten per cent, of said lime and salt com pound. He used a good shovelful of it in every hill, and embodied it with the ground (clay soil) by digging. The roe alt, he says, was astonishing. When the potato bag (which had appeared in myriads) had eaten off a vine, pres ently two or more vines would shoot up, keeping on growing until tne November frost killed them. Most curious of all, they bore here ana there small potatoes (not seed balls) on the vines. One remarkable bill yielded forty-five average-sized potatoes. All his other kinds, as Early Rose, Peach Blow, Early Goodrich, though treated in the same manner, were an utter failure. PotXTBT. Poultry breeding has now come to be regarded as important a branch of farm industry as tne raising of swine and sheep. In one sense it is of more importance, in that it is not every farmer who can keep sheep or swine with advantage, but every one who owns or rents a plot of land, if only the size of a city lot, can keep a few head of poultry with both pleasure and profit. When taken into consid eration the vast number of eggs annu ally consumed m the United States the city of New York alone using during the vear 1872 upwards of 340,000,000 costing at wholesale about S6.292.000 and when we note the immense number of tons of poultry sold in all the large cities of the Union, we can not call the poultry interest one of minor importance. let it is but a few years since the name of poultry-breed' ers Beem to convey the idea of insig nificance. Now, however, the proprie tors of large stock farms have their flocks of pure bred fowls, which get their share of attention and study as well as the horned cattle and horses ; and the net income from a well man aged poultry yard is no small addition to the farm receipts. j'ouurv necora. A Boot-Rack. One of the greatest troubles of the neat housewife in the country results from muddy boots of those members of the family who have to work in the fields, the stables snd the barn-yard. The wet boots must be dried and are generally left under the kitchen stove, where their presence is verv disagreeable. Now. to have neat kitchen, there should be a boot- rack placed behind the stove, in which the damp boots may be placed to dry. Such a contrivance has been found I great convenience. It has three shelves about four feet long, ten inches wide and placed a foot apart. At one end a book jack is fixed by hinges so that. when not in use, it is folded against one end of the rack and secured by button. There is also a stand for cleaning boots at the front, which also folds up when not in use, ana tne blacking brushes are placed on the shelves behind the stand, and are out of sight, and when folded they bang down out of the way. The rack should made of dressed pine boards, and stained some dark, durable color. Which Breed or Focxtbt Eats Most. An Ohio poultry dealer took ten pullets of each of the breeds mentioned below, about two months old, and gave them a yard forty feet son are. with a comfortable nouse, ana kept exact account of eggs and feed follows : The dark Brahmas ate 369 1-2 quarts of corn, oats, and wheat screening, laid boo eggs, ana weignea 0 pounds. Ihe Bun cochins ate sue quarts, laid 691 eggs, and weighed 73 pounds. The Gray Dorkings ate 309 2 quaats. laid 524 eggs, and weigbed 59 1-4 pounds. The Houdans ate 214 1-4 quarts, laid 763 eggs, and weignea 3 4 pounds. The Leghorns ate S2l 1-5 quarts, laid 807 eggs, and weighed 36 1-2 pounds, How to Estimate Chops Pan A cm. Frame together four light sticks. measuring exactly a foot square inside, and with this in hand walk into the field and select a spot of fair average yield, and lower the frame square over as many beads as it will inclose, and shell out the heads thus inclosed care fully, and weigh the grain. It is fair to presume that the proportion will be 43,560th part of an acre's produce. To prove it, go through the neia ana mace ten or twenty similar calculations, and estimate by the means of the whole number of results. It will certainly enable a farmer to make a closer calcu lation of what a field will produce than by guessing. Sizs of Basrbxs. A president of an agricultural society calls attention to the fact that there are in a standard legal barrel only one hundred quarts, while the ordinary flour barrel, most in use amon? farmers in the sale of potatoes and apples, containing nearly one eight-more. . Farmers sell their produce in flour barrels, and merchants transfer the same to standard barrels, making a profit on quantity aa well as on the price. In the sales of one hundred barrels of potatoes from a farm, the proprietor loses one hundred barrels, for which he might as well be paid. The middleman, not. the con sumer, profits bj this. It kkvbb pays a farmer, or any one else, to raise poorly-bred stock, and stint them in food ; do not overfeed, but give enough. atiuiiriu. hsncTi ajtp Furwrsa. In the ninth of a series of valuable papers, commu nicated by Hermann Mueller, on the fertilization of flowers try insects, to Nature, he shows that butterflies effect the cross -farti I i r tti on of Alpine orchids. It seems that from twelve to fifteen per eenv ox the orenias oi the lowlands are fertilized bv Lepidoptara, while from sixty to eighty per eent. of Alpine orchids are fertilized by the same kind of ins wets. This corroborates, he says. his view that the predominant fre quency of butterflies in the Alpine region must have influenced the adapta tions oi Alpine flowers. Mueller has also shown the wonderful modification brought about in the legs and mouth parts of bees by their efforts in fertilizing flowers. Lubbock's charming little book on British Wild Flower considered in Relation to Insect, has just appeared. He says that while from time imme morial we have known that flowers are of great importance to insects, it is only comparatively late that we have realized how important insects are to flowers. "For it is not too much to say that if, on the one hand, flowers are in many eases necessary to the ex istenee of insects, insects, on the other hand, are still more indispensable to the very existence of flowers There has thus been an interaction of insects upon flowers and of flowers upon in sects, resulting in the gradual modifi cation of both." In another place he adopts the start ling and probably correct view that to bees and other insects "we owe the beauty of our gardens, the sweetness of our fields. To them flowers are in debted for their scent and color nay, for their very existence, in its present form. Not only have the present shape and outlines, the brilliant colors, the sweet scent, and the honey of flowers been gradually developed through the unconscious selection exercised by in sects, but the very arrangement of the colors, the circular bands and radiating lines, the form, size, and position of the petals, the relative situations of the stamens and pistil,, are all arranged with reference to the visits of insects. and in such a manner as to insure the grand object which these visits are des tined to effect." Lubbock has also continued his ob servations on the intelligence of insects. tie confirms his conclusions presented last year to the Linn nan Society that bees can distinguish colors. He then recounts some experiments on the sense of smell possessed by bees, on the power of recognizing their own companions, and on the different occupations of different bees, mentioning observations which seem to show that the Dees act as nurses during the first few weeks of their life, and only subsequently take to collecting honey and pollen. He also records a number of experiments on ants, which certainly seemed to show that whatever may be the case with bees, ants do possess the power of communicating detailed facts to one another. Harper' Magazine. Thb Apoplectic Stbokk. A middle- aged physician said one day to the writer : "As I was walking down the street after dinner I felt a shock in the back of my head, as if some one had struck me ; I have not felt well since. I fear I shall die, just as all my ances tors have, of paralysis. What shall I do V The answer was, "Diminish the tension on the blood-vessels, and there need be no fear of tearing them in a weak place." Now, this expresses in plain terms the exact cause of apoplexy in the great majority of instances ; and it is one, too, which every one has it in his power to prevent. A blood-vessel of the brain, has lost some of its elastic strength ; food is abundant, digestion is good ; blood is made in abundance, bnt little is worked off by exercise ; the tension on every artery and vein is at a maximum rate ; the even, circuitous flow is temporarily impeded at some point, throwing a dangerous pressure on another ; the vessel which has lost its elastic strength gives way, blood is poured out, a dot is formed, which, by its pressure on the brain, produces complete unconsciousness. This is the apoplectic stroke. It will be peroeived that there are two leading conditions upon which the production of the stroke depends; a lessened strength in the vessel, and an increased tension on it. Popular Science MottUtlu. o Y Application or Armatures to Mao- rrrs. M. J. Jamin states that, if single armature is placed at the northern end of a magnet, U in no wise modifies the magnetic condition of the southern end, which remains bare. If the effect produced on the south side by the ap plication of an armature is considered. it will be found that it takes magnetism which the steel loses, but that this new distribution is no wise modified by putting an armature on the opposite side, or by removing one. Hence, as regards armatures, there is aa absolute independence between the two halves of the magnet. This independence proves a capital fact ; that the application of an armature to one of the ends of the magnet occasions a new distribution there, but neither decreases nor aug ments the sum total of the magnetism there present ; the steel loses what the armature gains. This points out a method of determining the magnetism of steel as compared with that of soft iron. To Cut Glass with a Pixel or Ibok. Draw with a pencil on paper a pattern to which you would have the glass eon- form: place the pattern under the glass, holding both together in the left band, for the glass must not rest on any plain aurfaoe ; then take a common spike, heat the point of it to redness, and apply it to the edge of the glass. draw the iron slowly forward, and the edges of the glass will immediately crack : still move the iron slowly .over the glass, tracing the pattern, and the dink in the glass will follow at the dis tance of about half an inch, in every direction, according to the motion of the iron. It may be found requisite. especially in forming corners, to apply a wet finger to the opposite side of the glass. The iron must be reheated as often as the ere rice in the glass ceases to flow. Elxctboplatwo ox Che? a. M. Han sen has recently patented in France the following process for electroplating on a non-eonducting mateiial : Sulphur is dissolved in the oil of Lavandula tpica to a sirnpy consistence. Sesqui- chloride of gold or sesquichloride of platmnm is then dissolved In sulphuric ether, and the two solutions are mingled under a gentle heat. The compound is next evaporated wotil of the. thickness of ordinary paint, when it is applied with the brush to such portions ot the china, glass, etc, as are desired to be covered with the electro-metallic de posit. The objects are baked in the usual way before immersion in the bath. Ix auxnro a rubber joint, take a piece of chalk and rub it on the side of the rubber and flange where the joint is to open ; and when required, they will come apart easily, and not break the rubber, although the latter may be burnt and hard, xtepeat the chalking before screwing, up, and you will have as good a joint as ever, and the rubber can be used a great number of times. Sulphats of Coppxjt Optics. If we receive the solar light reflected by a large crystal of sulphate of copper upon a sheet of platinum or tin plate, placed at a small distance from the crystal, the sheet assumes the color of metallic copper upon the part which receives the reflected light. omtxtic ABiors Soups. For oyster soup, open pen the oysteis and strain their liquor. put it into a sauce-pan with 'some butter rolled in flour, and when this is melted add the oysters and a little cream ; directly it is upon the boil, serve with the addition of some lemon juice. Beaten mace and white pepper may be introduced, if approved of. French cooks also employ a little shred parsley and lemon peel. For pigeon soup, take eight pigeons, cut np two of the worst, and put them on the fire with aa much water as will make a large tureen of soup, adding the pinions, necks, arizzards. and livers of the others; boil well, and strain. Season the whole pigeons within with mixed spices and salt, and truss them with their legs into their belly. Take a large handful of parsley, young onions and spinach: pick and wash them clean, and shred small : then take a handful of grated bread, put a lump of butter about the size of a pen s egg in a frying-pan, and when it boils, throw in the bread, stir ring well until it becomes a fine brown color. ' Pat on the stock to boil, and the whole pigeons, herbs, snd fried bread, and, when the pigeons are done enough, dish np with the soup. For giblet soup, the giblets should be well washed in warm water two or three times, the bones broken, the neck and gizzards cut into convenient pieces ; the head, also, ahould be split in two. If goose-giblets, are used, a couple of sets should be 'dressed ; but if duck giblets are cooked, four sets will be wanted ; a pint of water is to be al lowed to each set. Pat them into cold water, let them boil up gradually, take off the scum, and, when tbey boil, add some sweet herbs, pepper and salt, mace, and an onion. Let the whole stew an hour and a half, or two hours, until the gizzards are tender ; take out the giblets, strain the soup, and thicken it with a hi tie flour and a bit of butter, and flour it with a tables poonful of catsup, or Harvey's or Reading sauce. Serve np the giblets and soup together. How to Aluviati a Cough. The London J.ancct, which ought to be good authority, says : Anodynes, nar cotics, cough mixtures and lozenges, are practically of no good, and bat too often increase the debility and hasten the fatal end. . The best method of easing cough is to resist it with all the force of will possible, until the accumu lation of phlegm becomes greater, then there is something to cough against, and it comes np very much easier, and with hall the coughing. A great deal of hacking and hemming and coughing in invalids is nervous, purely nervous, or from the foroe of habit, as is shown by the frequency when thinking about it, and the comparative rarity when the person is so much engaged that there is no time to think about it, and the at tention is compelled in another direction. Staib Carpets. To prevent the pile from separating at the edge of the stair and wearing off, pads are used. These are made of a low grade of cotton, covered with the cheapest muslin. A quilt or comfort that has seen service will answer the purpose of stair pads. In addition to increasing the lease of usefulness of the carpet, the pads pre vent noisy clattering of feet, and in case the baby should fall down stairs the injury would be materially lessened. W hen fust laid down the carpet should be several inches longer than is needed, that it may be disposed after each shaking so that a fiesh place may come to all the edges. A wisp or small dust ing broom is the best for sweeping stair carpets. After thorough sweep ing, a wet cloth may be used to good advantage in removing all dust. Cars of thb Hair. Brushing the hair every day, the more the better, is recommended to those who crave a luxuriant and handsome growth. If it is very oily wash it occasionally, with a lotion made by mixing one drachm of soda with half a pint of water and add ing the well-beaten yolks of two egg. A teaspoonfnl of ammonia in a quart of rainwater makes a good lotion for the hair ; wash it in this frequently, dry it well, and brush it a long time : if the i ammonia is too strong it will bleach the hair and injure it. Ihe use of a lead comb will darken flaxen and red hair, and so, it is said on good authority, will water in which potatoes have been boiled. Hair oils and pomades are an abomination, and are, as they should ever be, entirely out of fashion. Do not on any account take meat teas, or allow any in yonr household to indulge in this pernicious practice. All authorities agree that tea, whatever virtues it may possess, interferes with the digestion of meat, and hence the meat-tea eater, if he suffers from dys pepsia, has only himself to thank. People who have been out all day and have not taken a regular dinner, fancy that a cup of tea with their meat when they go home will prove refreshing. This is worse than a delusion ; the digestive organs are impaired, and the food passes out of the body without having given to the system scarcely any nourishment. Economy in ths U or Tba. The supenntendant of a work house, at Wolverhampton, England, according to the Pall Malt Gazette, has discovered a method of making more . than the usual quantity of tea from any given quantity of the leaf. It has been satis factorily investigated by a numcer oi persons. The whole system consists in steaming the leaf before steeping. By this process fourteen pints of a good quality may be brewed from one ounce of the tea. The method of steaming is pot described, bat any smart housewife can devise one for herself, and n tne result is a good one it will be a psying experiment. A WoR3t Screw. The American Builder says : Very often a screw hole gets so worn that the screw will not stay in. " Where glue is handy, the regular carpenter makes the hole larger and glues in a large plug, making a nest for an entirely new hole. 15 ut this is not always the case, and people without tools and in an emergency, often have to fix the thing at once. Generally leather is used, but this is so hard that it does sot hold well. The best of all things is to cut narrow-strips of cork and fill the hole completely. Then force the screw in. This will make as tight a job as if driven into an entirely new hole. What to Do. "Simple, cheap, and sure, is toe verdict of one who has tried the following remedy for a sore throat : lue necessary drugs are an ounce of camphorated oil and fire cents' worth of chlorate of potash. When ever any soreness appears in the throat, put the potash in half a tumbler of water, and with it gargle the throat thoroughly, then rub the neck thor oughly with tbe camphorated oil at night before going to bed, and also pin around the throat a small strip of woolen flannel. Puddiso Sauce. Four large spoon fuls of white sugar, two of butter, and one of flour : stir them together to s cream in an earthen dish : beat tbe white of an egg to a stiff froth and add it. Then pour in a gill of boiling water. stirring the mixture very fast. Add essence of lemon or nutmeg. Straw xattbto should be washed with a cloth dampened in salt water. Indian meal sprinkled over it and thor oughly swept out will also cleanse it finely. Most or us dig our graves with our own knives and forks ; an overloaded stomach is s continual foe to health. arntOBvCS. Snow Baixnto Farmers. "Snow bailing farmers," said Bijah, as he kaiulul nut a small boT. "Bab," said the Court, after a long look over the desk, "suppose you had killed aa honest, hard-working farmer by hitting him with a snow ball 1" "I won't never do it again I" sobbed the boy.. . - Suppose, my son, yon had killed him and him bodv had been taken to the morgue, and word of the terrible affliction sent to his family, imagine, hnh th trrihl Brief to his gray- haired partner, the tears and sobs of hi nhildmn I Pietnre the scene to yourself. It is dark ; a happy family has gathered around a cheerful stove hearth. They are waiting for husband and father to arrive with four pounds of brown susar. half a pound ol si ratus. five cents worth of ntolasaes mndv- and three crash towels. sleigh drives up. They rush to the windows and doors, crying : 'Father has comer but a strance voice is heard. - The door ia opened, the n asks if Mr. Miller lives there, and then in a aad voiaa oea on to sav that Mr. Miller is no more, a Detroit boy named Patsey Hern having murdered him with a snow ball ! Uase on the picture, m. son ; imagine the sorrow, and woe, an desolation I" ' "Oh I boo-hoo-woo !" wailed ths boy. "You see, my son, this world ia be coming crowded for room, and if each one of us goes through life kicking and striking and throwing, some one will get hurt. Let your mind dwell on these things, my boy, and see if you can't get alone after this without trou ble. You mav run home now. and if vour father ever buys von a hatchet and you cut a cherry tree, don't lie out of it when he asks who's been hacking at his standing timber. - AxRcnoTB or Fcnr the Actor. Finn was once a witness for the prosecution in a case before the Court of Common Pleas, in Boston, and his testimony was so direct and conclusive, that tbe coun sel for the defense thought it necessary to discredit him. The following dia logue ensued : "Mr. Finn, you live in Street ; do you not T "Yes, I do." ;You have lived there s great while f "Several years." "Does not a female live there under your protection ?" "There does." "Does she bear vour name?" "She is certainly known in the neigh borhood by the name of Mrs. r inn. . "Is she your wife V "No, we were never legally married. "That will do. sir : I have no more to ask." "But I have something more to an awer, sir, replied i inn with spirit. "The Mrs. Finn of whom you have been pleased to speak with such levity, is my mother ; and I know but one man base enough to breathe aught against her. I on, sir, can guess who he is. True, she is under my protection. She protected me through my infancy and childhood, and it is paying but a small part 1 owe her, to do as much for her old age." The baffled lawyer had not another word to ssy. A Grand Purr. The puff indirect has been given for a celebrated jeweller, a short time since, in a French journal, in the following words : "The fashion of the day is to have imitations of in sects, in colored enamel, upon jewellery. M. Moreau so thoroughly succeeded in imitating a fly, for some studs, that a spider, the other day, descended from its web and caught the fly-stud up, taking it into its domicile, and trying to get something succulent out of it. Happily, it was seen by a servant, or there would have been a second edition of the maid and the magpie when the master of the house returned home.' max adklkb says : "i see in some of the papers that Prince Demetrius Tschawtschawadze has been arrested in Moscow for swindling. I feel no par ticular interest in the Prince, and am indifferent to bis antecedents, but as matter of mere cariosity 1 really would like to know whether he marked that name on his shirts by beginning at the lower end and working up to the collar, or whether he ran it cat-a-cornered across the back. Imagine such a name on an umbrella handle. It would hang over the ferule. Givrxa Happixess. To give hsppi , it is said, is Uod-like ; but there are different ways of giving it. We presume few would choose it as it is said once to have been administered by a captain in the navy, who, on meeting a friend as he landed, boasted that he had left his whole ship a company the happiest fellows in the world. "How so ?" asked his friend. "Why, I have just flogged seventeen, and they are nappy it is over ; and all the rest are happy that they have escaped ? an rrriko husband, who had ex hausted all explanation of late hours, and had no apology ready, recently supped into tne house about one o'clock, very softly, undressed himself gently, and began rocking tbe cradle by the bedside, as if he had been awakened out of a bound sleep by infantile cries. He had rocked away for five minntes. when Mary Jane, who had observed tbe whole manueavre, said, "Come to bed, you fool, you ! the baby ain't there !" Bicharpsoh, the painter used to speak of an open, honest, country gen tleman who one day asked him to come to his house, adding : "I wish very much to see you. for I have just pur chased a picture of Kabens. It is a rare good one. Brown saw it, and says it is a copy. A copy ! If any man living dares to ssy it is a copy, I will break every bone in his skin I Pray call on me, and give me your opinion. Sats a wife to her husband, as the curtain descends on the prostrate form of Juliet : "Ah, when we were married. you vowed that were I taken from you, you would kill yourself on my tomb, as Juliet did on Borneo's. You wouldn't do so now." Only kill yourself, my dear, only kill yourself," replies the husband, "and see whether I wouldn't keep my vow." "You know, madam, that you can not make a purse out of a sow's ear." ' '"Oh, sir, please fan me. 1 have inti mations of a swoon. When you use that odious specimen of Tuhzaritv again, clothe it in refined phraseology 1 l'ou should say it is impossible to fabricate a pecuniary receptacle from the auricular organ of the genus hog." Ax Iowa station agent, who wanted to use a red lantern, but had no red globes, wrote to the superintendent to send him a gallon of red signal oiL The latter, however, sent him his dis charge. A doctor gave a man a box of pills with directions to "take one pill five times a day." An economical pill that was. Thb lady who advertised a lecture on the subject of "Moods," was disgusted at not having the "first person present." "Hold your heads still I" exclaimed our school marm. "Its hard enough to count still heads when they are so thick. " A HOTomorjs humbug says thai his crooked dealings are often caused by straitened eircumstanoes. Evex the laziest boy can sometimes catch a whipping. LoaUllof ntnvnrfsw . . - nnt forret TeT8ation for several days in ine Ui"thyof tie best horses should be j i . Th fiTooms fed . witn oast thought he was preparing for .7" . . -i ' atM-m ha had a in tne mias oi -" ... little tower built a forest, with a gsllery, where, on a certain day he . . . wind lnstru- ments. He himself ascended the sum mit of his observatory, around which he ordered the horses to be led. in "cornfields he had scattered here and there drums, kettles, snd some . .. :.u 1AA nth nowder. soldiers wim K""- . ,. , What could be the meaning of this? An order bad been given tnat should remain in his place in perfect ailenoe. The affair was beginning to be tiresome, when suddenly the Iking, from the top of his tower, made a sign which was expected by the leader of the orchestra, by the drums, trumpets, and soldiers. An infernal hubbub burst forth, rolling of great drums, powder explosions, thnU whistles, horse bowlings. Seized with mad ter ror, the horses started, burst their fastenings, leaped up, wildly running here aad there, tails and mane floating in the wind,- they reared, zigzagged, whirled in cucles, fleeing the upror which bellowed from all the bushes, and seemed to pursue them. At last one after the other, the distracted and maddened animals disappeared from the horizon. In the evening, the next day, and tbe day after, they were picked np enfeebled, still wild and fajghteaed. Some had fled to the mountains, others to the wood snd marshes. The peasants had collected several. We know not if any were missing. But no matter, hie Majesty had been well amused. The Galaxy fur April. Strange Been In Theatre. at French The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Standard writes: "The news paper reporters of Paris have risen in arms to defend the honor of their pro fession. The event was brought about by a piece which is being played at the theatre of Montmartre, and in which the French penny-a-liner was repre sented in a most odious light.- The re porters forthwith consulted together and marched to the theatre. As soon as the objectionable passages came on for delivery the reporters rose in a body and protested. The public took the part of the author and the actors, and a pitched battle ensued. The curtain dropped and the police were sent for. By this time a few heads had been broken, and the reporters then calmed down on the understanding that the author would revise his piece in ac cordance with the wounded feelings." Flaxseed and tallow are used in Germany as a stuffing for cushions. One part of tallow to ten parts of flax seed are employed, the mobility ef the greased seed rendering the cushion very soft and pliable. leealiac Irons Lbd(, Catarrh. Hmnehltls, Cnnaninpttwn. A Wonnerlnl tare. Ric it ester, X. Y., Jan. I.ith, 171, R. V. Pierce, M. !., HiiltUlo, X. Y-: Dear fir 1 had suffered from Ca tarrh in an aggravated forni for about twelve years and for several years from Bronchial trouble. Trinl many doc tors and tliinirs with no huding benefit. In May, T3, becoming nearly worn out with excessive Editorial labors on a paper in New York City. I was attacked with Bronchitis in a severe form, suf fering almost a total loxe of voice. 1 returned home bere.biit had been home only two weeks when 1 was completely prostrated with Ilemorrliaire from the Lungs, harimj four nrvere bleetlinii smils nit hi tiro icerl, ami Ji rut thrtr iimiilr of nine itay. In trie ix-ptemlH-r followm I improved sufficiently to be able to In about, though in a very feeble state. My Bronchial trouble remained and the Catarrh was tenfold vorw than be fore. Every effort for relief seeiut-d fruitless. I seemed to be liming jrronutl daily. I continued in this feeble state, raising blood almost daily until about the first of March, '73, when I became so bail as to be entirely confined to the house. A friend suggested your reme dies. But 1 was extremely skeptical that they would do me good, as I had lost all heart in remedies, and began to look upon medicine and doctors with disgust. However, I obtained one of your circulars, and read it carefully, from which I came to the conclusion that you understood yonr business, at least. 1 finally obtained a quantity of Dr. Sage's Catarrh firmed v. Tour ;!- den Medical Discovery and Pellets, and commenced their vigorous uce ac cording to directions. To my surprise. 1 soon began to improve. 1 lie 1 iscv- ery and 1'ellets.in a short tiuie.briniglil out a severe ernption, which con tinned for several weeks. 1 felt much better, my apiietite imprvred. aud I trained in strength and flesh. In three mouths every vest lire of the Catarrh was mtnr. the Bronchitis hail nearly disappeared, had no Cough whatever, and 1 had en tirely ceased to raise blood ; and, con trary to the expectation of some of my friends, the cure has remained perma nent. I have had no more lleruor rhages from the Lungsnd am entirely free from Catarrh, from which I had suffered so much and so lonir. The debt of gratitude I owe for the blessing I have received at yonr hands, knows no bounds, I am thoroughly satisfied, from mv experience, that vonr medi cines will master the worst forms of that odious disease. Catarrh, a well as Throat and Lung Diseases. I have re commended them to very many and snail ever speak: in their praise, lirate fnllv yours, WM. II. UPENCEK. P. 0. Box .507, Jtochnter, X. 1'. 10 K. r. Knnkel's Bitter Win at has atTtr beta knows ! fall ia ths cure of weakness, a Handed with symptoms ; indis. posit oa to exertion ; lost of memory ; diffi culty of breathing ; general weakness; hor ror of diaeaso ; wt ik, aervous trembling ; dreadful horror of deals : aiht nnu cold fast; weakness; dimness of vision ; languor ; universal lassitude of tbt musou larayttea; enormous appetite, with dyt- pvpuo ijapwai; aoiaanos; Dunning or the body; dryness of ths skin ; pallid eoun utnaae aad rmntinn. ab th .,:.:.. the blood ; pain ia the back ; heaviness of vreuoa; nwqaenx dime spots flying be fore ins oiea with iMumn ,.rnuM low of tight; want of aUcatioa, ete. These symptoms all arise from a weakness, and to remedy that, aw . t. Kosebl's Bitter Wins of Iron. It never fkila. Tlmimnita art bow enjoying health wko have need it. iae on:y n. r. adhiil i. Beware of counterfeits and taaa imita. boas. 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