Mini. mourn. That it a ainrpla littls word Oh, ne'er in ebanas destroy! Threagboot Um nniTerae tie heard. And nowhere bat with Joy ; There's music in iU meagreflow. Wherever waaiay roan. Tba dearest, awaataat Bound below That littla word ia Bona ? I eara not where stay be it aita. Or roofad with atraw or tile. So that tha baarth fira borne aura bright 'Naath woman'e radiant amila ; Affection on bar fondaat wing Will to iU portal fly. And hope will far mora awaetly eiag When that bleat place ia nigh. It may be fancy it Bay be Honwthing far nobler far ; ot Lore la my divinity. And Boma ia my polar atar. Oh, eever not Home aacrad ti"a ! They are not thing of air ; Tha great and learned, and tba wiae All had their teaching! there. IffiCELLAXV. The CI 17 af acuta. In Seribner Monthly for April, Edward KiDg bad an illustrated sketch of Baltimore, which he ca.il a "The Liverpool of America." We quote the following passages about Baltimore's famous monuments: Baltimore merits the title which it so proudly bears, of The Monumental City." The stately shaft which rises from a massive pedestal in Mount Ver non Square is dedicated to the memory of Geonre Washington. It shames into dreary insiirnincaiice the nneoath and inartistic pile of stones which has long stood incomplete on the mud flats near the Potomac Baltimore's Doric column is crowned with a statue representing Washington resigning his commission, and on the four sides of the pedestal is the following inscrip tion: "To George Washington, by the State of Maryland. Born February 22, 132. Commander-in-chief of the American Army, June 15, 17T5. Tren ton, December 25, 1776. Vorktown, October 19, 1781. Commission resigned at Annapolis, Itecember 23, 173. President of the United States, March 4, 17Xi. Retired to Mount Vernon, March 4, 175(7. Died December 14, ITS." From the top of the column, which is two hundred and eighty feet above title water, you may have a view of the sloping streets, and the bury avenues along the water-side ; may look across to Federal Hill, where the fortifications made during the war still remain, and down the harbor to the wide, blue waters of the Chesapeake. From the four sides of the monu ment's pedestal radiate outward an equal number of little parks, surrounded by neat railings. All the streets lead tug up to the square are lined with flegant mansions, and on bright days, during the season, carriages tilled with lovely women crowd the way. The "Battle Monument, in Monu ment Square, stands on the site originally chosen for the Washington Memorial. The invasion by the Eng lish, and the battle of North Point, which resulted in preserving Baltimore from destruction at the bands of British soldiers, moved the impulsive people of the city to erect at once a testimonial of gratitude to the brave men who had died for them. The Committee of Safety of those days circulated a peti tion for subscriptions, which were readily given, and on September 12, 1815, was laid the corner-stone of the monument to the memory of the citi zens who fell in defense of the city at the battle of .North 1'oint and the bom bardment of Fort Mcllenry. The structure comprises a marble shaft in the form of a fasces, surmounted by a statue representing the city of Balti more. Although the whole is but fifty- two feet high, it produces a very imposing effect. The corner-stone of the Washington Monument was laid in July, 1815. but the statue was not placed in position for fourteen years thereafter. Prominent among the monuments of lesser tame in Baltimore is that Qedi cated to Thomas Wilder, the founder of the Order of Odd-Fellows in Ame rica. It was erected in 18C5. and merely a Grecian Doric column spring- and amply decorated with the emblems olthe Order. Thomas Wilder was an Englishman, who. in 1819. established a Lodge of Odd-r ellows in Baltimore, and who gave his entire means and energies to the Order until 1861. The inscription upon his tomb records the fact, that before his death four hundred and twenty-seven thousand members had been initiated, thirty-eight thous and bereaved families administered to, and in Maryland alone, three thousand orphans educated by the Order. The Hill and McComas Monument. in Ashland Square, to the memory of the youths supposed to have slain Gen. Boss, the British commander, during the invasion which culminated in the battle of North Point; and the McDonougb statue in Greenniont Ceme tery, a memorial to a philanthropic merchant who gave the whole of his immense fortune to New Orleans and Baltimore, to be devoted to the educa tiou of poor children, are among the other most interesting monuments in the city. The Merchants' Shot Tower, nearly two hundred and hfty feet high, is now the only one remaining of three. from each of which the prospect was singularly beantilul. Cattchlag Tardea. A South American traveler tells how the Conibos capture turtles, which are an important article of diet with them. In the night the turtles come out of the nrer in large numbers to lay their eggs. The Conibos, squatting, or kneeling under their leafy sheds, and keeping profound silence, await the moment for action. 1 he tartles, who separate them elves into detachments on leaving the water, dig rapidly with their fore feet a trenon olten two hundred yards long, and always four feet broad by two deep. Tbey apply themselves to their work with such seal that the sand flies about them and envelops them as in a fog. As soon as they are satisfied that their trench ia large enough they deposit in it their soft-shelled eggs to the number of from forty to seventy, and with their hind feet quickly fill up the trench. In this contest of paddling feet more than one turtle, tumbled over by his com panions, rolls into the trench and is buned alive. Half an hour is enough for the accomplishment of this task. The turtles then make a disorderly rush for the nver. Aow the moment has ar rived for which the Conibos have anxiously waited. At a given signal the whole band suddenly rue from their lurking-places and daah off in pars nit of the amphibia, not to cut off their retreat for tbey would them selves be trampled under foot by the resistless squadrons bnt to rush upon tneir nanks, seise them by their tails, and throw them over on their backs. Before the tartles have disappeared, a thousand prisoners often remain in the hands of tha assailants. A letter writer in Constantinople says : "One of the perplexing things is the computation of time. The Turks reckon from the flight of the prophet from Mecca, and it takes 537 Turkish years to make 621 of our years. At unset of each day watches and clocks are Bet to mark 12 o'clock, and until the twelfth hour after unset the hands on the dial indicate the time that has elapsed since sunset After that hour they indicate the number of hour that will intervene before sunset of the next day pins or minus the daily variation in the length of the days. Oh conscience I conscience ! man's most faithful friend. The Calreraal Cental. BT THE REV. SAXTXL W. DCTFIELD. It was a tall, spare man who stood crying it to all passers-by. In spite of myself, I heard what be said, though be addressed vacancy and 1 was in haste. He propounded it as a candi date for public favor and styled it the "only true and Universal Cement." But be had very little to show for his stork in trade. Usually when one ventures upon this line of business he has a cracked tea pot, or a soup-tureen, or a couple of pieces of stick roughly fastened together. One smashes the crockery, and shows that the old fractures are broken across by the new, as though they had not ever existed. Or one whacks the sticks with a mallet, and meanwhile vociferates the merit of the composition which secures them. This man did nothing of the sort. In a deep, monotonous voice I heard him saying: "This is the only true, real and gentiine Universal Cement. Here you see it done up in this small pack age. Easily carried in the vest pocket such a cent, gentlemen and ladies, as the world has never known. The secret of its manufacture belongs en tirely to myself. 1 have no agents and I want none. Here's your true, real, genuine Universal Cement, warranted to mend broken hearts so they'll be as good as new. I mended a man's bead with it the other day. They said be was cracked, but I cured him. It's good even for broken banks. It can be used for public outbreaks or for family jars. It is guaranteed to heal any breach between partners in busi ness for life. Here's your true, real, genuine Universal Cement the thing the world's been looking for and sought but hasn't found." Bv this time I was leaning against a doorway, listening. The crowd passed along, but the spare man, holding up some small white boxes in his hand, kept on addressing the moving throng. Strangely enough, he never seemed to repeat anything except the announce ment that this was the 'true, real, genuine Universal Cement." All else that he uttered was new. As I listened, be proceeded : "This is the finest thing in the world when one has lieen cut by an acquaint ance. It will heal the wound instantly and leave no scar. People who live in glass houses will find it to their advan tage to have some of this true, real, genuine Universal Cement. It will mend a man's life right away, without half trying, just as easily as it will stop a leak in the household expenses. It has been known to fasten two enemies together like the Siamese twins. Where's the man who would be without this true, real, genuine Universal Cement f It's the greatest thing on earth for making firm the fabric of society. It will mend a damaged repu tation : and that is more than most cements will do. "Ladies and gentlemen, try my true, real, genuine Universal Cement. It is splendid for hurt feelings. It will make the honorable gentlemen in Con gress stick to their principles. It has drawn together opposite interests and held them firm. I don't know anything it can't do. It's the only true, real, genuine Universal Cement. If you want a box to take home and " "What's it worth V said I, stepping forward. "Take it at your own price, sir. Make me an offer." "A quarter ought to buy it," said I. "Yes. it's cheap at that dog cheap, said the thin man. "But I must know what you want to mend." "Ob-borsaid I. "I thought that was mi business entirely. I guess 1 don't care for any, and I was moving oil. Wait a minute, cried the spare man. "Here s a box tor nothing. 1'nt it in your pocket. Are you the father of a family f Yes, 1 see it in vour face. Well, sir, I know you need my cement. Yon look as if things were not going right with you. Let me leconi mend this in the case of family govern ment. Just take the contents of this ox and put it on your child's forehead before you strike Iiim. This is the real, genuine Universal Cement, and it has a reroarkame value in case ot disci pline " "Man alive, what are you talking about 7 ' 1 exclaimed. "1 want to buv your box. I don't want it as a gift. If it will mend china, thats all I ask of it. My wife scolded me because I broke a nice tea-cup at breakfast, and if it makes that all right, 1 don't grudge the quarter. Here, give me that box. Good-bye." So saving. I nut the little white Dack- age in my pocket, tossed a bit of Uncle Sam s currency to the dealer, and nor ried on, leaving him addressing nobody in particular, in much the same strain as beiore. 1 confess the incident affected me strangely. The man's appearance and language were aliove his calling. He looked like a broken-down minister. and he evidently met with the poorest kind ot patronage. 1 carried the box in ray pocket all day, getting vexed at it because it was an obstacle to the ready capture of pencil or knife. At night, when I was returning from busi ness, I had like to have lost it in feeling ror my commutation ticket. I was late for supper. My wife had been annoyed by the servants, and transfetred part of her annoyance to my innocent head at once. For my own part, 1 leit personally aggrieved because I was to drink my eonVe from iron-stone, instead of china. We were in precisely the state of mind to be unpleasant to each other. And, as the children bad finished their meal and the servant was in the room, the lowenng clouds commenced to bristle with lightning. It was that tea-cnp Annt Dorothea's present, with my monogram upon it wnicn made the trouble. 1 growled at the iron-stone, and was twitted with clumsiness. All at once it occurred to me that I had the box of 1 niversal Cement in my pocket. HaDDV thouirht! I would eftect a diversion and escai? the hot snot now tailing tluek and fast, therefore took it out. 1 opened it. found, to my disirnst. onlv a small piece of paper. On it was printed the single wo rd LOVE. I could not understand it. Neither could my wife. e forgot about the tea-cup in our discussion of the Uni versal Cement. The next morning I read in the Darter that a harmless lunatic had been recao- tured in the city the previous afternoon. He had escaped from the asylum, and when found was engaged in peddling some paiem preparation on a certain corner in a perfectly inoff ensive way. He went willingly with the officers, but persisted in declaring that he ought to be allowed to remain, as the article he was selling had no superior in the market. Said my wife: "That ninst have been your man. 1 felt auite certain of it. And reallv it is the best cement I ever saw. A Hare Helper. How often we say. in great anxiety. who ahall roll away the stone 7" and when we look again, behold "the stone is rolled away," though it was very great Every time Uod helps ns out of a difficulty, we should return and give glory to Him, and then go on onr way with joy and fresh courage. We should often review the circumstances and see how Ood was at work for ns, maybe in distant places at the very time of onr trouble ; how He was or dering events and disposing of men's wills, so aa to bring ns just the help we needed. It is un Christian to call all these occurrences chance of good luck. "All our steps are numbered." Let ns learn to see God's hand in all that befalls aa. An old man who had been long engaged in business said. "I have had my nps and downs, but as I re view my life, those things which I thought at the time, most against me. have proved the best for me even tem porally, besides teaching me submis sion to Him who rale the world." AfiSKCZiZTBAL Sun Haxaswmxst. A eorreepon dent writes : First, as to breading bows. They should, aa a general rale, be kept by themselves, and where they oan have a good range. Soffioent exaroise seems essential to their progeny. Matured sows have have t- Uer and stronger pigs than gilts, and should be separated from young sows. And for this reason a yearling past or a two year-old sow can eat a great deal faster than the gilts. Therefore, if the two kinds are kept together for breading purposes, the matured sow will become too fat to do well, and the gilt, or young sow, will lack the food so easential to her growth and perfect development Every farmer should have a hog house for hogs. They should be pnt into it about the 1st of December, and taken out the last of March or 1st of ApriL The hog-house should be well ventilated, and have a right roof by all means ; for, with it and a good floor, it would be worse than no house at all for the reason that they should sleep dry and be free from dust or wet And having a good floor to sleep on, they will smother each other. In cold weather, for the purpose of warmth, they should be bedded with good wheat straw. But as often aa ence in three or four weeks the old bedding should be removed, scattering it on the field, or putting it on the manure pile. This use of wheat straw will make it pay largely for the cost of bedding. Fif teen or twenty stock hogs are enough to bed together. A hog-house may be twenty feet long, and eight feet wide, and divided in the middle. If possi ble it should always face the south, placing the doors, one on the east and the other in the middle, adjoining the partition. Such a house will comfort ably accommodate forty shoats ; and if their house be kept clean, they will naturally occupy both apartments. Leached Ashes. After the farmer's family have made soap (as is a common practice in a timbered country), there remains a hopper full of leached ashes which have a higher value as manure than is generally believed. A writer in the Country Gentleman tells his readers that he has used an average of 2,000 bushels yearly, for the past seven years ; at a cost of 25 cents per bushel at the railroad station, about two miles distant This he says may seem a high price to many of your readers. Yet we have found their use profitable. Our hud is what would be termed hard-weed soil the higher portion gravel, the lower clay loam, inclined to be coarse and lumpy. We have made and saved all the yard manure we could and have taken pains to increase onr snpply. We plow and dress liberally with this. After harrowing, apply 150 bushels of ashes to the acre, working them well into the soil with the har row. Then sow to grass. Where the land is too high to sow grass seeds alone, we sow in spring with oats, and cut them in the milk for fodder, which when well cured, makes excellent feed, and leaves a good stand of grass. We get from one and one-half to two tons to the acre, for seven or eight years. The first two or three or four years, two crops are cut in a season. There is great good sense in the above named practice. In New England farmers pay fifty cents a bushel for hard ashes that have not been dipped. Grease th Natls. One of the tech nical journals says : Every farmer who has had occasion to drive a nail into seasoned oak posts knows its liability to bend and break. If the point be moistened in the mouth it will usually drive more kindly. Oil is still better, bnt then it is inconvenient to dip each nail separately into it Another point observed is that boards become loose eventually from the rusting of the nails, which, communicating to the wood, causes not only an enlargement of the nail hole, bnt the wearing away of the nail itself, rendering the fence shaky and insecure. This may be pre vented by heating any rough grease until it smokes, and then pouring it over the nails to be used. The grease will penetrate the pores of the iron, and cause the nails to last without rusting, an indefinite period. Besides this, no trouble will then be experi enced in driving them into the hardest wood. The reason is that the coating of grease prevents contact of the air, and, consequently, oxidation. Oxygen is the great destroyer of iron, and moisture is the inducting canse. A Lrrrut Advice to Farmers. Help yonr wives in every way yon can, tri vial though it may seem to yon. For instance, keep an extra pair ot shoes or slippers in the hall or entry, and al ways remember to change yonr dirty boots before entering ner clean rooms. Then yon may be sure of a smile of welcome, as no dirt will be left after yon for her to clean np. In the even ing comb yonr hair as carefully as yon ever did in yonr courting days. Put on a clean coat or dressing-gown, and when yon take your paper to read, do not read to yourself and leave her to lonesome thoughts while sewing and mending, bnt remember that she. too. has been working hard all day, and is still working. Read to her whatever interests you, so that her interests and opinions may grow with yours, and that she may comprehend something besides love stones, which too many have read more than they should. Yon will both be happier, and being a far mer's or mechanic's wife will not be such a dreadful tiresome and lonely life as many girls have every reason to uunk it is. Bars ob Gates. Bars at the en trances to the fields are far from being as cheap as gates, although gates cost more than bars. The time lost in tak ing down and putting np bars in a year would pay fer several gates. Bnt gates need to be well constructed, and of such a kind that they cannot swing open of themselves or be opened by cattle rubbing against them. The safest gate is one that slides upon roll' era at the bottom of the poets npon a plank laid upon the grounds in the wsy that barn doors are sometimes made to do. Running between double posts at each end, it may be made to open either way, and if made of light strips of wood, fastened with light carriage bolts, is easily handled and cheaply made. Start the Plants Early. Almost everybody now-a-days sows seeds of early vegetables either in hotbeds or in pots or boxes witnin doors, long before it can be done in the open ground. The crop, or period of use and ripen ing, oan be hastened one or two months by this forcing process, and this is worth striving for in a cold climate where the seasons are none too long for producing a satisfactory crop of annual fruits, and vegetables. But while we are making preparations to satisfy the stomach, it is well to re member the organs of sight And pnt in a few flower seeds at the same time. Moore' RuraL To Crnjc Roup rs Fowls. Wash the eye, month, and nostrils, with a solu tion of chloride of sine, 1 ounce in a ?int of water, by means of a feather, 'he canse is frequently cold, inflama tion resulting from feeding too much grain, foul nnventilated quarters, or over crowding. One of the symptoms of roup is infl animation of the eye, with swelling and discharge of fetid matter. Unless some remedy ia ap plied, the eye is destroyed or the bird Mill 10 K 1 Kit Bros. Professor Wilder says, in tha Popular Science Monthly for April: "Strolling through the woods near Ithaca, N. I., one October afternoon, I saw, upon a lesfleai hem lock branch, what looked like a piece of the net of some goometrioal spider. StilL there was a regularity in this triangular net which did not accord with the idea of its being a fragment A closer examination showed that its form and structure were perfect and unbroken ; and moreover that instead of hanging loosely from the twigs, it was upon the stretch, aa if constantly drawn by a power at one or the other end. On touching the net to determine its degree of tension, what was my amazement to see it suddenly loosened with a snap, as if let go at one end J Nor was my wonder diminished when, a moment afterward, the net slowly regained its original condition, by a steady pulling npon a short Una con nected with the apex. And now I saw the puller a little dull -colored spider, about one-eighth of an inch long hanging from the nnder side of the apex-line and hauling it in, not '"hand over hand as it first appeared, and as one would suppose by analogy with sailors' operations, but "foot over foot;" in short 'with its hinder legs moved alternately so as to gradually take in that part of the line which in tervened between its body and the twig to which it was attached. When this line was all taken in the spider was close against the twig, and its legs were drawn together, bo that the whole formed a compact brown mass about the sise and shape of a raisin seed, and differing so little in appearance from the projections of the dried hemlock twigs among which the net was built that I felt in part excused for not having noticed the little crea ture before. lUtasiTT or Htdbookn nr Combina tion. The avidity with which certain metals, aa palladium, sodium, and iron, absorb hydrogen is well known. The hydrogen thus absorbed forms a proper alloy with the metal absorbing it Since, according to Graham, the ele mentary metals in alloys preserve the densities belonging to them when nn eombined, it follows that by comparing the ascertained density of any given metal with that of the same metal alloyed with hydrogen, it is possible to deduce the density of hydrogen itself in the solid state a state to which it is impossible to reduce it by pressure or by redaction of temperature, or by both combined. This method has been applied by Messrs. L. T roost and P. Bautefeuille in the case of alloys of hydrogen with palladium and sodium ; and the results are briefly stated in a recent number of Let Monde. These experimenters found the density of palladium saturated with hydrogen to be 11.06, while that of the palladium itself, previously to the experiment, was 12.0. From these data, combined with the increase of weight consequent upon the absorption of the gas, they deduced a density for hydrogen in the solid state of 0.62. A similar expert' ment made with sodium having an original density of 0.9 10, and a density, when alloyed with hydrogen, of 0 959, gave, for the hydrogen in combination. a computed density of 0.630. The two determinations very nearly agree, and the mean of them, viz., 0.625, may be taken as the probable density, which would give to hydrogen in the solid form a specific, gravity somewhat above that of lithium, which is 0.50. The Electric Lioht. It has long been known that the carbon electric light is not due to a direct luminous efiect of the electric current bnt merely to the property which this current pos sesses of heating the conductors which it traverses, and that with the greater intensity the more resistance they oppose to its passage. The intensity of the ordinary electric light (with car bon points) arises from the circumfer ence that the stratum of air, a bad conductor, whioh is found between the two charcoal points, is heated to an excessive degree by the passage of the electric current and thus produces indirectly the combustion of the coke or charcoal eleutrodes heated to wnite ness. It has also long been known that solid bodies may also be heated to whiteness without the presence of gaseous matter. Thus, slender plati num wires hsve often been heated by the current The light from this source is more fixed and constant than that of the luminous are between the carbon points ; but it is too feeble and too costly. M. Ladeguin replaces the wire by slender rods of carbon (coke), her metically sealed . in a glass receiver, from which the oxygen has been re moved. Eftect of Htdbookn in Impairing thx Tzxacttt or Isosr. Iron or steel wire which has been acted on super ficially by sulphuric acid is usually found to be altered in its properties. Its weight is increased, its tenacity is injured, so that though originally soft and flexible, it easily breaks ; and when a freshly-broken end is moistened by the tongue it effervesces as if acted on by a mineral acid. These effects after a time disappear. Prof. Osborne Rev nolds, of Manchester, hss ascertained that they are owing to the absorption of hydrogen generated during the chemical reaction which takes place when the wire is immersed in the acid. He found that, if an iron tube, closed at one end, be immersed in a dilute solution of sulphuric acid, hydrogen passes through the walls of the tube into the Interior, and may be collected by attaching an india-rubber tube to the open end of the iron one, and pass ing it nnder a gas-holder. Professor Reynolds concludes that, whenever iron undergoes oxidation nnder water, it becomes saturated with hydrogen. and thus loses tenacity an important consideration in the case of iron steam' boilers or iron ships. Asilutk Inks. The majority of ani line colors soluble in water furnish inks of excellent quality. Dingler's PolytcchnUche Journal of recent date gives the following practical recipes for their preparation, by which any one can make the fluids very easily ; V lolet ink ia obtained by dissolving one part of aniline violet blue in 300 parts of water. This ink is quite limpid, dries quickly, and gives a remarkably dark color. It is necessary that new pens should be employed in using it, as the smallest quantity of ordinary ink mixed with it causes its alteration. Blue ink is made by dissolving one part of soluble Paris blue in 250 parts of boiling water : red ink, by dissolving one part of soluble fnehsin in 200 parts of boiling water, While ordinary inks are decomposed by numerous substances, and notably by hydrochloric acid, aniline inks are completely ineffaceable from the paper on which they are used. They resist the action of acids and even of chlorine. To varxish plaster figures, take half an ounce of tin, half an ounce of bis muth; melt in a crucible, then add half an ounce of mercury. When per fectly combined remove the mixture from the fire and let it eooL Mix with the white of an egg and it forms a beautiful varnish. The figure to be dipped in and polished when dry. Is HASDKKTjfa and tempering steel, a clean charcoal, anthracite, or coked bituminous coal fire ia required ; such as is fit for taking a welding heat on iron ia entirely unfit for hardening pur poses. Tha sulphur contained in the coal combines with the steel to form ulphnret of iron, and ruins its texture. Tasti n Dsns. Many who have tba cares of a hoaaehold on their mind think, with Catharine of Arragon, that "dressing time is wasting time,1 And where tha spare momenta are so few and far between aa with those house keeper! who not only have tha super intendence of affairs but find it neces sary to perform the actual labor with their own hands, the temptation to coincide fully with such authority is reat But if a woman has no natural taste in dress, delight in the combina tion of colore, or love of harmony in these things, she must be a Little defi cient in her appreciation of the beauti ful. Aa a work of art, a well dressed woman ia a study. A certain harmony in the general effect ia the best criterion for judgment in that respect which does not in tha least necessitate a close copy of the prevailing fashions, for one must cull and choose, rejecting those nnsuited to her form and general style. Even when a love of dress is natural it does not follow that it should engross every other taste, it may exist happily with an appreciation of the best there is in literature, with a fondness and successful faculty for household duties. and certainly should never be con sidered apart from a love of neatness and order in all things. Dress can be so adapted as to hide natural defects, and heighten the charms possessed by the wearer. Fiom the days of Annie Bolero, who varied her dress every day, and always wore a small kerchief around ber neck to con ceal a mark, and a falling sleeve to hide her doubly-tipped little finger, many have made use of the advantages in this respect with success, and every woman should habitually make the best of her self and circumstances Indifference, and consequent inattention, to dress. often shows pedantry, self-righteousness, or indolence, and whilst extolled by the severe utilitarian as a virtue may frequently be noted as a defect Goldfish. Great care should be taken of goldfish, as they are very sus ceptible; and hence a loud noise. strong smelL violent or even slight shaking of the vessel will ofttunes de stroy them. Small worms, such as are common to the water, suffice for their food in general ; but the Chinese, who bring goldfish to great perfection, thro- small balls of paste into the water, of which tbey are very fond. They give them also lean pork, dried in the sun, and reduce to a very fine and delicate powder. Freeh river water must be given them every day. Care must be taken to collect the spawn when seen floating on the water, as otherwise it will be destroyed by the fish them selves. This spawn is pnt into a vessel, and exposed to the sun, until vivified by the heat Goldfish, however.seldom deposit spawn when kept in vases. In order to procure a supply, they must be put into reservoirs of a considerable depth.in some parts at least, well shaded at intervals with water lilies, and con stantly supplied with fresh water. At a certain time of the year, numerous barks are seen in the great river of Yangtse-Kiang, which go thither to purchase the spawn of goldfish. This is obtained with no small care, for to ward the month of May, the inhabitants close tne nver in several places with mats and hurdles, which extend nine or ten leagues, and leave only a space in the middle sufficient for the passage of boats. The spawn is stopped by these hnrdlea, and the water being afterward drawn up and put into large vessels, is sold to merchants, who send it to all parts. Hints in Cahvinci. To carve fowls, which should always be laid with the breast uppermost place the fork in the breast and tske off the wings and legs, without turning the fowl ; then cut out the merry-thought : cut slices from the breast cut out the collar-bone ; cnt off the side pieces, and then out the carcass in two. Divide the joints in the leg of a turkey. In carving a sirloin, eut tbin slices from the side next to yon (it must be put on the dish, the tenderloin underneath), then turn it Help the guests to both kinds. In carving a leg of mutton or ham, begin by cutting across the middle to the bone. Cnt a tongue across, and not lengthwise, and help from the middle. Carve a fore-quarter of lamb by separat ing the shonlder from the ribs, and then divide the ribs. To carve a loin of veal, begin at the smaller end and separate the ribs. Help each one to a piece of kidney and its fat Carve pork and mutton in the same way. To carve a fillet of veal, begin at the top and help to the stuffing with each slice. In a breast of veal, separate the breast and brisket and then cut up, asking which part is preferred. In carving a pig. it is customary to divide it and take off the head before it comes to the table, aa to many persons the head is revolting. Cut off the limbs and divide the ribs. Mottoes in Spatteb Work. Cut out large letters from pasteboard of stiff paper, (which may be of aa fanciful a pattern as one pleases, according to the taste,) to form the words for the motto chosen. Place the letters in shape of words in the center of a piece of bristol board, and with a fine brush dipped in ink, spatter all around them. This must be done evenly, with ink enough to make it quite dark around the letters, and less used until it is shaded out gradually towards the edge, which should be left white. When dry, take off the letters, and there we have the motto. These are very pretty for any thing so easily made, and quite an or nament for the sitting room. As will be seen, the beauty of them consists in having the letters placed aright and nicely cut out ; having no ragged edges. To get the letters, it would be well to cut printed ones from any paper, the size and style desired, and paste them on thin pasteboard, then cnt out The mottoes can be hung by a worsted card or braid, held at each upper corner on the wrong side, by strips of paper wet in glue, paste, or any mucilage. For all such purposes, the writer keeps on hand a bottle of gum-arabic dissolved in water, with a few drops of vinegar, to keep it from souring. It keeps good for months. God Loves Beauty. I do not think we fully realise, any of us, how much worship there ia in the mere act of creating beauty ; not only the beauty of loving looks and deeds, but beauty of form and color and proportion. God loves beauty. Every star that shines, every flower that blooms, every dew drow that glistens in the sun, proves this ; and i believe that every woman who strives to make her own home and her own life beautiful, serves God in this as truly as she serves him npon bended knees or in the holy services of the sanctuary. And in just so far as she fails of making that home and that life as beautiful as ahe can, in just so far does she fail of her duty to God and Fhicaseed OT8TEBS.-Drain the liquor from a quart of oysters, heat and steam the liquor, thicken to the consistency of thick drawn butter with corn starch, and after it has boiled up once add the oysters ; let them eook for about three minutes, then take from the fire and add the juice of half a lemon, a little nutmeg, a lump of butter half the size of an egg, and the yolk of an egg stirred in the last of all. This is an admirable way of cooking oysters, and is a dish rarely met with except at Delmonico's. A fepooNFtrc, Pcdoino. A spoonful of milk, a little nutmeg, ginger and salt spoonful of flour, an egg ; mix it well all together, and boil it in a pud ding dish. i Elaine, Says tha Boston Sunday Time: But one day, two Boston women with "tieas stood before the picture, and regarded it long and steadily. "I don't know," said one of them, re flectively (she waa a gushing creature of forty summers, with eurls), "I don't know if I regard Elaine'a course as altogether womanly or proper. To announce her love to Lancelot and the whole world in that public way no, no, it was not consistent with the high est feminine delicacy. " "I dont know about that" said her companion, who snapped her words very short, and whose dress and hair were short, and whose figure looked like an exclamation point "but one thing I do know 1 If the girl had worn her elotnes suspended from the shoulders, taken off her corsets, worn flannel drawers and broad -soled shoes, she'd never have pined away in that sickly fashion for any man ! ' Surilt an Artist. -'-Can yon draw at all, young man V asked Uncle Raphael of an applicant for private instruction. "Oh, yes, considerable I" replied the candidate. "At ten years of age I could draw beer, cider, or a sleigh up the hill ; at twelve, a truck loaded with cabbage ; at fifteen, a prise in a lottery ; at seventeen an inference; and at twenty, a bill of exchange. If I were an actor, I reckon I could draw the largest kind of a house ; but I'm going to be a teacher, and shall have to be content with drawing a salary the bigger the better." "Well, yon may draw up your chair and sit down," said Uncle Raphael ; "you'll do for a beginner." A Brooklyn boy takes the medal for smartness. A girl against whom he bad a spite arranged for a party the other evening. The boy called upon each girl invited, and offered himself as her escort To each he said : "Do not tell that 1 am going to the party with you. for I have a reason I will tell you when I can." The girls had new dresses made, and their heads were dressed by hair dressers. Each one waited in vain for her escort, who did not call for any, so that the party was minus girls ; and he actually had the audacitv to attend the parry, that he might enjoy the discomfiture of the young hostess, who perpetually won dered why so many staid away. And that boy still lives. "Waiter, is this a spring chicken ? Most remarkable fowl I ever attempted an assault upon." "Yes, sir, nice spring chicken ; nothing else at this establishment Don't you see, sir, it springs every time you try to put a knife into it ?" Customer realizee the sad fact ; and after half an hour's futile exercise of the knife and fork, calls for a plate of hash. At a railway station, an old lady said to a very pompous-looking gentleman, who waa talking about steam commu nications, "Pray, air, what ia steam ?" "Steam, ma'am, is ah steam is ah an steam is steam ! "I knew that chap couldn't tell ye," said a rough-looking fellow standing by. "Steam is a bucket of water in a tre mendous perspiration." The Troy (X. Y.) Time tells an amusing story of one of Gov. Tilden's staff. It ia said that when the indi vidual referred to first presented him self en tnilitaire to bis wife and little daughter, the latter, after gaaing at him in wonder for a few minutes, turned to her mother and exclaimed, "Why, ma, that's not a real soldier, it's pa 1" "It's a wonnerfn' place, is Australia," said a Scotchman the other day to a friend ; "it's thirteen times as big as Europe." How can that be, man," asked the other, "since Europe's one of the quarter's of the globe T" "I'll toll ye how it is ; it waana discovered till after the globe was quartered, and so it's made a fifth quarter." Max Adeler says : "A coroner of ours seised an Egyptian mummy that was brought into town, summoned a jury, beld an inquest on the mummy, brought in a verdict of 'Death from causes unknown,' and charged the county with the usual fee, with com pound interest from the time of Moses.' At one of our schools recently, in answer to the question "What is the difference between an island and a con tinent and npon whieh do we live ?' a bright little shaver replied : "The difference is that a continent is much larger than an island, and we live on bread and meat and other things. A sot stood with his hands in his pockets one cold morning, watching the burning of the schoolhouse, and after the novelty of the thing ceased. he ran home, saying : "I'm glad the old thing ia burned down, for I didn't git my jografy lesson no how. A man lately made application for insurance on a building situated in a village where there was no fire-engine. He was asked, "What are the facilities in your village for extinguishing fire ?" "Well, it rains sometimes," he re plied, with great simplicity. A gentleman, not satisfied with the grooming of hia horse, thought to re buke his groom by currying the animal himself, and received a violent kick. "It's no use trying to curry favor with that horse," said the gentleman, as he laid down the comb. "Why did you leave your last place ?" inquired a young housekeeper about to engage a new servant "Why, you see. ma am, replied the applicant I was too good-looking, and when I opened the door folks took me for the missus. A New York lady, traveling out West said to a ferry-man on the upper Mis sissippi, "Are passengers ever lost in this river T" "Lord bless you, mum, no; we al'ays find 'em, if it takes a week, was the consoling reply. A good many people were recently deluded into an apothecary's shop in s village on the Hudson, to see a red bat which had been captured and was on exhibition. They saw it, and it was red, as a brickbat usually is. Speaktno of the traveling of sound, a lecturer said : "The voice of a woman can be heard further than that of man." Yes. and oftener." said a disgusted looking man, who was not happily fixed at home. Two rival eel fishermen in Maine. recently set fire to each other's huts, whereupon a local paper mentions it under the head of "A Paris Commune in America The two-eeleriee again in a blaze." Mb. Spinks ia not going to do any more in conundrums. He asked his wife why he waa like a donke. and she said because he was horn so ; and he says tha answer is very different from mat. Old Mrs. Smith left her patent churn open last Saturday to dismiss a book agent from the door. The eat that was taken out after an hour's churning, was not aa lively as when it jumped in. A client ia never certain about a lawyer, and generally takes him on trial A pair of rubbers A washerwoman's " A f CaXteefral. The' Seville correspondent i of r T.r.wnnA write : 1 the my fortune on Shrove Tuesday to be hold the performance of an eacuela de baile of a thoroughly exceptional and of a most surprising nature. -1 never in my life aaw such a sight before ; nor I suppose, am likely ever to see it it ... in the cathedral. The sun waa setting in the national Spanish colors, bright orange and deep red, as we paased tnrougn ine nooio gateway it dates from the twelth en- tury called tne ruena aw .n,4 OTinff the Patio de las Xarangas, a forecourt full of orange trees hun dreds of years old. entered the cathe dral by the portal dose o tne uinuu When from day or even twibght you lift the leathern veil of the doorway and pass into this tremendoua fane you can at first perceive nothing what soever. The best you can do is to shut your eyes, and allow yourself to be guided onward fer a time. Then lift your eyelids cautiously, and turn your head to either aide, and you will begin gradually to discern the enor mous columns and the vastly bays around you. By degrees, I found that the traacoro and the central nave were full of people, nearly all ladies, who were not kneeling, bnt sitting on the pavement in Oriental fashion, as ia customary in Spanish churches when something extraneous to the ordinary ecolesisstical ritual is being performed. Carefully picking my way through the lecumbant groups, I earnest list within view of the sanctuary and the high altar, which were all ablaze with lights. Bat there were no celebrants on the altar steps, ' no acolytes, and not so much aa a single minor canon in the stalls, which I thought strange. The fuwrlon was evidently not vespers. What waa it t 'Wait,' whispered Bar low. Rourd the great lectern of the eoro, with its huge illuminated music- books, every nvnim and crotcnet as tall as drumsticks, were gathered a dozen of the youngest choristers, sing ing away like so many dying swans. But it was no ordinary chant these children, with their sweet and clear ad silvery voices, sang. It waa some thing quicker, livelier, more jubilant and, as it seemed to me, more secular than anything I had hearl before in a Catholic place of worship, and the singing whs accompanied by music quite as gleesome from a hand of wind and string instruments. Thechant cul minated in a ringing exulting ran of joy ; and then, to my utter amazement and bewilderment, the twelve young choristers began to dance around the lectern and before the high altar ab solutely, literally, and operatically to dance. It was the ewula de baile without girl performers, and under the highest ecclesiastical auspices. At the close of the proceedings the choristers ranged themselves in line, and a regu lar and most harmonious fantaxir. on the castanets was performed. Again, and once again, did the band strike up and the merry chant ending with the exulting yt in was sung, and twice and thrice did the sound of the castanets click through the huge expanse of the mighty Cathedral of Seville. The Cas tanet dance before the altar was, 1 was told, a privilege enjoyed solely by the Cathedral of Seville, and was indalged in only thrice a year on the anniver sary of the capture of the city by the Christians, on the festival of Saint FerJinand, and on the last day of the Carnival." Dea't Hack, llack.Coa.k, t'a-agk! Cough is a symptom by whieh vari ous diseased conditions of the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs manifest themselves. 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