WHIT MIGHT BS D0N1 st minim maceat. What might b dooe if man wan What glsriovs deeds, my eufferuif. brother. Would the; unite In lore and right, And enaae their scorn of one another? Oppression' heart might be imbued With kindling drops of kmng kindness ; And knowledge poor From shore to shore, tight on the ere of nenial blind wsi All slavery, warfare, lies snd wrongs, AH rioe snd crime might die together ; And wine and corn. To each man born. Be tree as warmth in summer weather. The meanest wretch that erer bod. The deepest souk in guilt and sorrow, Might stand erect In self-respect, And share the laeiniin world to-morrow. What might be done? This might be done. And more than this, my suffering brother. More than the tongue E'er said or snog. If men were wise and loved each other. A Visit t the knot Salt Lake. We drove for an hour alone the southern hank of Salt Lake.- fanned by the breath of it sea air, and looking over it waste of waters dowa with mountain islands. It required but little imagination to transport ouraelven to the shores of the Atlantic, for extending as it does ninety miles to the north, no land could be seen beyond the line of the elearly defined horizon, borne years ago a Fteatnttoat of three hundred tons was built for freight and passenger tralhc, in connection with the L mon and Central Pacitic roads; but her fair pros ieets were ruined by the construction of the I'tah Central, and she now lies at the wharf, her only value being her aid in making our imaginary ocean seem more real. How this great basin of salt water came to be deposited in the inte rior of the continent has been a study for eeoffraiihcrs and naturalist. The water is so densely saline that it is im possible for a body to find the bottom. It is a capital place to acquire the art of swimming with perfect salety. in former times three barrels of water left to evaporate would produce one barrel of salt; but the freshening within the last twenty years has so weakened it that now four barrels of it are required to obtain that quantity. It has become frenli, therefore, in a proportion of some what more than one per cent, yearly. Hence it follows that in less than one hundred years the name of Great Salt Lake should lie changed; for by this time it will, like MormonUm, be cleared of all its impurities. I have previously noticed the regular water lines, called benches, which are so distinctly denned on all the mountain ranges surrounding these various valleys, and which aflord Mich unmistakable evidence that in former days they enclosed vast inland seas. The deep alkaline soil of the bottoms has led to the supitosition that these seas were of salt water, and that all of them excepting this have been completely evaKrated, Salt Lake being t lie sole survivor, and that being des tined to dwindle to a puddle and then to dry up for ever. But the last part of tins theory is negatived by the evident intention of the lake to assume some what of its original proportions; while it is becoming frei-hcr, it is growing larger. W ithin the twenty-seven years that the country around it has been settled, it has euroachcd all along its low banks nearly a mile upon the land and deepened live feet. Several fine farms are now permanently under water, and the road on which we traveled has been moved far inward to accommodate its aggressiveness. At the same time that tiiis change is going on, atmosphe ric causes for a jiart of it are apparent I he climate is becoming more mud, al though it is still excessively dry. But each succeeding season brings a greater rainiall. llns lias doubled witliln twelve years. OnUun. A Model Blag. Colonel Long, in the service of the Khedive of J-.gvpt, an American raised to the rank of 1'ailia, has been traveling oDk-ially in the savage country south of L Plier Kgvpt. He gives an amusing description of the Wailia Kingdom, of hose inhabitants he has brought sev eral sitccimens to 1 arts, with the pur pose of taking them to the United States as curiosities. Although they are not "Anthroophagi and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders. they are men that "do each other eat." llieir King is hedged In with a pecu liar African divinity. His mother must lie of the blood roval. He must himself be immaculate, and free from all defect of lovely or mind. He must eat and drink in solitary grandeur, and never touch beer, of wliich his subjects are very loud, lie must abide by his word at ail cost. If, in his wrath, he says he will butcher and eat one of his 5I0 wives, he must fulfil his oath. His drinking water is brought by women under guard, from wells covered with cloth, to prevent the effects of malig nant magic. He carries the Koran in his hand, wears a crown and has an umbrella of ostrich feathers spread over him. His courtiers crawl on all fours when they approach him. When he dies his eldest son succeeds, but the eyes of all the other sous are put out. His army of 40,(HIO Infantry and 6,li00 cavalry neces sitates heavy taxes. The King gets eight out of ten of all fish caught. He gets every three years 20,(Mio pounds of ivory, 10,(KKl cattle 0,000 camels, 4,000 slaves, all the horses not needed for breeding, and any quan tity of skins, honey, rice, feathers, but ter, salt, mats, etc. Murder is punishable with death, unless the murderer is aide to pay a tine of a hundred horses, and a hundred camels. Theft is punishable with fine, but the third offence with death, when the culprit is executed in the favorite Mus sulman manner by strangling, or is initialed on a sharp pole. The nobility have the privilege of being shot for crime. Only 1,000 of the King's troops know how to use muskets, of which he has 4,000. The King goes to battle with the two wings of ids army on either side, and when defeated, instead of re tiring he sits down upon the ground and waits to lie killed bv Ins enemy. In pursuit of commerce, and with the help of a railroad now in process of construction, it is to be hoped that the Egyptians may conquer and tame the King or Y adai and his savage people. Italiaa Sables. Except in the maritime republics the army, idle and unwarlike as it was in most cases, continued to be one of the three careers open to the younger sons of good fannlv; the civil service and the church were the other two. In Genoa, nobles had engaged in commerce with equal honor and profit; nearly every argosy that sailed to or from the port "of ' en ice belonged to some lordly speculator; but in Milan a noble who descendedMo trade lost his nobility by a law not abrogated till the time of Charles IV. The nobles had, therefore nothing to do. They could not go into business; if they eutered the army it was not to fight ; the civil service, was of course, actually performed by subor dinates, there were not cures for half the priests, and there grew np that old, polite rabble of abbati, priests without cures, sometimes attached to noble fam ilies as chaplains, sometimes devoting themselves to literature or science, sometimes leading lives of mere leisure and fashion ; they were mostly of ple beian origin when they did anything at all besides paying court to the ladies. In Milan the nobles were exempt from many taxes paid by the plebeians ; they had separate courts of law, with judges of their own order, before whom a plainun appeared with what hone of justice can be imagined. Yet they were not oppressive ; they were at worst only insolent to their inferiors, and they commonly ased them with the gentleness which an Italian can hardly fail in. There were many ties of kind ness between the classes, the memory of favors and services between master and servant, and landlord and tenant, In relations which then lasted a lifetime and even for generations. In Venice, where it was one of the high privileges of the patrician to spit from his box in the theatre upon the heads of the peo ple in the pit, the familiar bond of patron and client so endeared the old republican nobles to the populace that the Venetian poor of this day, who know them only by tradition, still la ment them. But, on the whole, men have found it at Venice, as elsewhere, better not to be spit upon, even by an affectionate nobility. The patricians were luxurious every where. In Rome they built splendid palaces; in Milan they gave gorgeous dinners. Goldoni, in his charming me moirs, tells ns that the Milanese of his time never met anywhere without talk ing of eating, and they did eat upon an possible occasions public, domestic and religious. Throughout Italy they have yet the nickname 01 lupi lomrarui (Lombard wolves) which their good ap petites won them. The nobles of that irav old Milan were very hospitable, easy of access and full of invitations for the stranger. A French writer found their cooking delicate and estimable as that of his own nation, but be adds that many of these friendly, well-dining aristocrats had not good ton. One can tlnuk of them at our distance 01 ume and nlace with a kindness which Ital ian critics, especially those of the bitter period of struggle about the middle of this century, do not affect, tmiliani- Giudici. for example, does not, when he calls them and their order, through out Italy an aristocratic leprosy. He assures ns that the time of that long peace, "the moral degradation of what the French call the great world was the inveterate habit ot centuries ;the nobles wallowed in their filth untouched by remorse: the eye or a decent, man. De- holding the ridiculous and immoral scenes of their daily life, must turn away in horror;" and he presently speaks of them as "gikled swine, vain of the glories of their blazons which they dragged through the mire of the! vices." trom the Atlantic. Ctnua Artars a ad Actresses. Many German actors are meu of deep and sound knowledge, who love their profession, honor and are an honor to it. Actresses are not unlreqnentlv wonien of recognized character and worth. It is no uncommon thing for favorite actress to remain twenty, thirty, or forty years faithful to one stage, "Our irau iluller, "our good Mul lerinn," and other similar terms of affectionate proprietorship sound plea. sant in our ears when applied to these faithful, patient friends of the public. It is almost a matter of course, on going ii to a sliop where vou are well known, the day after any important piece has been played, that the shop-keepers will ask, "Well, what did the gnadi'ie Fniu think of the Gretchen or the Clitrchen of our Meyer last night?" And "the smooth-faced, snub-nosed rogue will soon let you know (without any pert- nessor undue familiarity, be it observed) that whosoever else may be ignorant. he knows lus "tauet, and his "hg- niont, and Ins "Jlina on Jiarnlieini down to the ground. Actresses of good character are invited to the better-class bourgeois tables, where they are boit ored guests ; they mix freely with the unmarried daughters of the famuy, and are as solier in their attire and demeanor as the tamest of the respectabilities they irequent. t rater Magazine. Carlaas Kaaaerieal ntelattows. The length of a solar year is 3G5.2-I: days. Singularly enough, the length of a degree of longitude at the equator as taken from tue printed geodetical tables or tne uritlsii ordnance survey is 3U5.234 feet ; so that, if the length of a degree at the equator be divided by the number of days In the year, It will give one thousand feet, or, more ex actly, SW9.977, which would give the foot within one thousandth part of an inch, a quantity which cannot be seen or distinguished by the ordinary means, Again, the length of a degree of lati tude at the central point of the British Islands, is singularly enough found to be 305.242 feet, and the length of a degree of latitude, measured on that parallel, divided by the number of days n the year, gives exactly one thousand leet. There is, of course, no possible con. nection between the number of days in a year and the number of feet in a de gree of latitude or longitude. Never theless, after a lapse of a few thousand years, the scientific traveler from New Zealand may nay the British the same compliment, 111 turn, which some Kug hsh sctPiiUuc travelers have paid the Egyptians, and attribute to scientific refinement that which is simply a curl otts accidental agreement in numbers. nyriaa KalatatlaBS. The Arabic idioms and customs must alwavs apiiear very iieculiar to strati gers. When a Syrian gentleman meets Irtend tliev strike the toiis of their fingers together, then with a waive to wards the ground touch them to breast and forehead; one asks the other, "How is your honor s caser" His honor re sponds "May your life be preserved!" or "May God preserve you! ' 1 hen follow questions as to the health of the family, "How is your house?" If the question is to an inferior the answer is, "Ihev kiss your honor a hands." , If to an equal the same as to the inquiry after one's health. If one person wishes to inquire after the health of another's wife, he must speak of her as "the daughter of your uncle," it being 1 shame to make use of the word wife. To welcome a stranger to their house the people say "they count you as one of their kindred and hoi your path may be smooth." At leaving a house the host says. "You have honored us. and the guest replies, "We have been honored, I." When the house is Jewish the host remarks at intervals during the call, "The blessing has come down !" llie expression of thanks is always, ".May your riches increase: ' Two Saasels la Oae Day. One of the finest sights Professor Stiner, the a-ronaut, bays that the best he ever saw, was the view he had of two sunsets, while on Ins balloon trip from Milwaukee. He was at a certain alti tude the first time when he saw the sun go down on Lake Michigan, and then descended to the waters of the lake. Afterward he commenced rising very rapidly, and soon reached such an altitude that the fiery orb again began to rise, apiiarently upon the w estern waters, and ere long he was once more in sunlight, men, as ne descended again, the sun sunk beneath the waters a second time, thus affording two sun set views in a single day. The profes sor says, as the sun appeared to rise a second time, it was one of the finest visions he ever witnessed, and the spec tacle was one of the most magnificent description. Keel a far a BtuM a-la Made. First procure a large-sized shape; then butter it well, so as to adhere firmly to the extreme back of the head. Cover it with silk or some light mate rial, and kick it for a mile, taking care to keep it clean during this process. Then take of flowers, feathers, and ribbon each a quarter of a pound, and mix all well together. Add birds, in sects, fern-leaves, or grass, according to taste. (If the butter be not sufficiently adhesive, try tulle strings and cobbler's wax.) A Flood insurance company is talked of out West. AGalCTLTTaML. One Crop or Man. We have again and again urged upon the farmers the necessity of a more diversified agricul ture, says , the San Francisco Sural Prut. It seems hardly necessary to re turn to the subject, and most of our friends have doubtless, at one time or another, suffered from depending upon the returns of a single crop, which may have fallen short or failed altogether; yet the matter still' appears to need urging. It is not always convenient to practice a system of division. An or chardist or small fruit raiser cannot well attempt at the same time to raise wheat or to graze; and the situation which enables him to successfully cul tivate fruit and market vegetables would hardly be suited to the more extended operations of grain growing. Our Oregon friends who cultivate cranberry marshes cannot be also general farmers, and those who are most successful in raising hops, tobacco and grapes, are those who devote their energies exclu sively to the one definite purpose. H ben it happens to be a good year for a par ticular crop, that is, a year of good yield ana also strong demand, tne spe cialbt profits largely ; but, as it more often happens, something adverse turns up. and the general farmer has the best of it. In California farms are gen erally much larger, as yet, than in the Eastern States, and each farmer is more dependent on his individual resources. So much the greater, then, is the neces sity for a division in culture So far as practicable, every farmer should be per fectly indetiendent of outside aid. For a fanner to buy fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs, etc.. which he could as well raise himself, simply argues a want of thrift. I he advantages of a diversity or pro ducts have thus been summed up: The general system enables the farmer to more economically make use of his own or hired labor work can be better dis tributed throughout the year, it is, as a rule, lietter adapted to retaining or increasing the fertility of the soil, and it secures the fanner from the evils fol lowing the fluctuations in price in all specialties." To go into detail would call for a much longer article than we have room for. But it is at least worth while to repeat that every fanner should have his own vegetable garden. Tlie Value of r.iMid Dust. During the dry season of late summer, every coun try resident should secure several bar rels of road dust, it la worth many times its cost as an absorbent. Those who keep poultry may secure by its use a valuable fertilizer, nearly as strong as guano,with none of its disagreeable odor, i'lace an men or two or road dust in the bottom of a barrel ; then, as the poultry house is regularly cleaned, deposit a layer an inch thick of the cleanings, and so on alternately, layers of each till the barrel is full. 'The thinner each layer is, the more erfect will be the intermixture of the ingre dients. If the soil of wliich the road dust is made is clayey the layers of each may be of equal thickness ; if sandy tlte dust should be at least twice as thick as the layer of droppings. Old barrels of any kind may be used for this pur pose, but if previously soaked with crude petroleum or coated with gas-tar they will last many year. If the con tents are pounded on a floor into tine powder before applying, the fertilizer may be sown from a drill. Koad dust is one of the most perfect deodorizers of vaults, converting their contents also into rich manure. I'lace a barrel or box of it iu the closet, with a small dip per, and throw down a pint into the vault each time it is occupied, and there win ne 110 ollcnsive odor whatever. This is simpler, cheaper and better than a water-closet, and never freezes or gets out of order. Mixing the road dust with an equal bulk of coal ashes U an improvement, making the fertilizer more friable. Xtw Tui on Old Pear Tree. That the pear is a long-lived tree, the famous Emlicott and Stuyvesant pear trees, going back two hundred years and more, attest. Yet we frequently find trees that look old at fifty years and less, witn dead limbs, mossy trunks. and fruitless boughs. These old trees are often seedlings, or poor varieties mat nave onered 110 particular induce ment to their owners to care for them A crop of astringent or sour pears is not much missed when it fails. These old trees sometimes occupy lawns or fields near the house, and will repay abundantly the little care that is needed to give them a new startand to graft uiein wun standard varieties. rue secret of success with these old trees is to stir the soil all around them as far as the roots extend, to manure liberally to cut out all the dead wood, and about the second season, when the tree has got a good start, to commence grafting e take tnree seasons to nut 011 a new top, beginning with the highest limbs and working down. In renewing the vigor of the tree almost any kind of manure or compost is available. Woo. ashes is one of the lest fertilizers. Ol bones, well buried, will pay a large in teresi on ineir cost, xhe contents o! ine privy vault and the cessfxiol, com posted, are exceedingly valuable iu ren ovating these old trees. In stirring the soil, care should be taken not to break the roots with the plough. We attach about equal imjiorluiice to the stirring 11 tue son ami 10 tne fertilizing, in the process 01 renovation. , Tern Ruin fur Farmer. Take g.Hid patiers and read llieiu. 2. Keep an ac count of farm tuicratious. 3. 1H not leave im piemen U scattered over the fann, exposed to snow, rain and heat. Keiiair tools and buildings at proiier tune, and do not sutler sulise- quently three-fold expenditure of time and money. 5. Use money judiciously ami uo not attend auction sales to pur- cnase ail Kinds 01 trumpery because it is cheap. C. See that feuces are- well repaired and cattle not grazing in the meadows or grain fields or orchards 7. Do not refuse to make correct exper iments, in a sman way, 01 many new things. 8. riant fruit trees well, care for them, and of course get good crops. 9. Practice economy by giving stock shelter during the winter; also good food, taking out all that is unsound, nail rotten, or moid v. 10. io not keen tribes of cats and snarling dogs around the premises, who eat more in a month than they are worth in a lifetime. Cr o a Jmt or lined. Jn some breeds of animals, color is as well fixed as any other characteristic ; in others, there is considerable variation. In horses, no breed is confined to any one color, although certain colors are very rare in some breeds. In cattle, Devons are invariably red ; Herefords have now well denned color red. with white faca; Galloways are black; Short-horns are either white, red, or any coinbma tion of the color; Jerseys vary conside rably in color. Mieep are supposed to be white. Several of the lHwn breeds have black faces and legs. In swine. Chester Whites, Cheshires, Suffolks and Lancashire are white; Essex are black; iiercstiires, black, with white markings, preferably white on feet, nose and tail ; t oiand-Lliinas are spotted, ranging irom nearly mack to nearly white: In some cases a sandy tinge is really seen. .itl Stone in the Highways. The law of the state of Vermont, according to the Vermont Farmer, requires highway surveyors to remove the loose stones from the streets as often as once a month, and the neglect to perform this duty is punishable by a fine. Tlds is a good law, and we wish it were put iu force in every state in New England. If there is anything particularly annoy ing to the traveller, it is to be obliged to go jolting along over a rough road cov ered by loose rolling stones. They in jure carriages, endanger horses, and are complete annoyance in every respect. while the cost of removing them would be ve-y slight indeed compared to the comfort gained by being able to travel over smooth roads. -Ytte England Farmer. t'lXJTlf IC . JV w Form of Concrete Foundations. At Glasgow harbor, the foundations for a ou tun crane nave been pox down on a new principle by Mr. Deaa, en gineer to the Glasgow Harbor and Clyde Navigation. The quay wall itself is carried on triple groan of 13 feet cylinders. The crane seat rests on twelve concrete cylinders, 3 feet 4 indies thick and 13 feet external diameter, in three rows of four each. The four front cylinders were made in pairs, and the middle and the back rows singly, the last two rows being joined together Dy tongues ot brickwork. The cylinders were made in wooden frames, in rings about 30 inches deep. They are composed 01 a mix ture of five of travel to one ot fortiana cement, and were ready to lift and set in position after being made about three weeks. The cylinders sit each on a cast iron shoe, on which, after being set in the trench, brickwork in cement was built to a height of 5 feet. On the top of this the concrete nngs were placed, and jointed together with strong Portland cement mortar. The bottom of the trench in which the shoes were placed close together was about 3 feet above water level. After the building of the cylinders on shoes was completed, they were sank, by means of Milroy's patent excavators, until the bottom of the shoes reached the depth of 33 feet below low water level, or about 53 feet below quay level, about 100 tuns of cast iron nngs, of the same shape as the concrete rings, being required to force each cylinder down. The cylin ders were then cleaned oat by the ex cavators to the level of the bottoms of the shoes, and filled with Portland ce ment concrete, the lower 9 feet of the front cylinders being composed of five of gravel to one of cement, all the other concrete used in filling being nine to one. The diamond spaces between the cylinders were also cleaned out to the same level, and filled to the top of their cylinders with concrete, five to one. A dm nee is Photography. In a re view of recent discoveries in photogra phy, Meldola states that since the year lH42,when Becquerel photographed the whole solar spectrum, and Dr. Draper the violet, blue, and ultra red, no suc cessful attempts have been made to photograph the red end of the spectrum. Becquerel 'e result was obtained by a film of silver iodide first exposed to diffused light, and then to the action of the spectrum, by which processes he was able to photograph the entire spec trum from the ultra violet to the ultra red. During the past year Dr. Yogel has demonstrated tiiat, by varnishing the ordinary bromide of silver plates with a dye of coraline.we get the maxi mum of photographic action intbeindi- go and the yellow ; and by using ani line green the maximum of activity in the iudigo and red. Becquerel baa also dissolved coranne in me louizea collo dion film, and obtained similar results. I he most remarkable action was ob served in the case of chlorophyll, by cue use 01 which a spectrum image 01 great length was obtained trom the ul tra violet to the green, with a weaker impression from the green to the red Continuing these observations in con nection with what has more recently been published by Lockyer. we find every reason to announce, as a proba ble law, that the optical observation of the bands of any chemical show the ac tive rays for that chemical ; and that, therefore, by a proper selection of dyes a sensitive plate may be prepared es pecially adapted to any or to all opera tions on the spectrum. Imnrorement in Anaesthetics. T)r. Hichardson describes, in the London Jjancet, two interesting surgical cases, involving the successful employment of an antcsthetic which prevents pain without destroying consciousness, thus supplying a most important desidera tum in medical practice. The cases in question were twoopc rations performed by Dr. Ii. for the removal of cancerous tumors of the breast, both patients be ing ladies. A spray of common ether was directed on the tumor until it was thoroughly chilled. A lighter fluid, a compound of ether with hydride of amyl, specific gravity 0.?J0 degrees, was then applied nntil the whole of the breast was frozen like a small ball. In stead of with a scalpel, the incisions and removal were affected by means of small, strong, sharp, carved scissors the use of this latter instrument be ing considered essential to the proper management ot tne case. Lfr. liich ardson states that the operations were successful and the healing speedy. without discharge or trouble of any kind. CerttitH animals possess the power of changing tneir color at will, or accord ing to the circumstances in which they are placed. This is convincingly shown in some recent experiments made by Mr. Poacliet, a French investigator. He close as bis subject the PaUrmon terrain, a species of a prawn or crab. These prawns, when brought ashore by the fisherman, have a rose or dark lily color ; but it they are put into porcelain vessels with black or white bottoms they will assume colors wholly unlike. Those in the white dish In-come yel lowish, almost colorless, as if they had just shed their skin ; those in the dark colored dish assume a brownish red hue. If they are changed, the pale in to the black vessel, rice rcrsri they again alter tneir color in correspon dence with their surroundings. The change of a pale one to a dark tint was more rapid than the reverse. Thus, under lavorahie circumstances, a yet low, red or blue Pulamim can be treated. Anitnalcnlw and JHeae.The theory that disease is onginateu and propa gated by independent organic genus, appears to receive additional coulirma mation by the experiments recently made by a uermau professor. 111 refer ence to hay fever. The investigator has, it appears, been subject himself to the malady in question, and has pur sued his researches for a number of years. On examining the nasal secre tions with a powerful immersion lens, he found tne organisms to be alisent. except where the disease attacked him during Spring. Then the parasitical bodies were chiefly seen in motion, vi brating on the slide, and increasing in size after several days. By using a neutral solution of sulphate of quinine. appnea Dy ine nasal uoucne, the ani malcule? were found to be completely destroyed, and subseauent examina tion also failed to show their existence n the secretions. - A yew Cement. A French chemist re cently succeeded innrenarinea mineral compouud, which is to be superior to nyarauiic ume tor uniting stone and resisting the action of water. It be comes as hard as stone, is nncbangable by the air, and is proof against the ac tion of acids. It is made by mixing to gether in lbs. sulphur and 43 lbs. pul verized stoneware and glass : this mix ture is exposed to a gentle heat, which melts the sulphur, ond then the mass is stirred until it becomes thoroughly homogenous, when it is run into molds allowed to cool. It melts at about 244 deg. Fah., and may be re employed without loss of any its qual ities, whenever it is desirable to change the form of the apparatus, by melting at a gentle heat, and operating as with asphlate. At 2J0 deg. Fah., it becomes as hard as stone.and preserves its solid ity in boiling water. Untnfiamnmhle Product. It is well known that certain substances, notably phosphate of ammonia, incorporated in the fibres ef tissues render the same in combustible, or. rather, admit of their burning very slowly and carbonizing with the production of name. M. L' Ab be Maaran. says La Mature, has re cently discovered that a mixture of bo rax, sulphate of soda, and boracic acid, in suitable proportions, while render ing cloth uninflammable, will also pre vent any alteration of color, flexibilty, or lasting Qualities through the effect of combustion. Robert Dale Owen's health is im proving. There Is, however, no im provement in his mental condition. aoRanc. ab Clothes. A very elaborate and expensive wardrobe, says an exchange. w un eseeuusi to me growin ana com fort of the baby (though it may delight the taste and gratify the pride ot the mother). If the nainsook slips are snowy and soft, the flannel tine, the linen clean, and the number of changes sufficient, it matters little whether or not there are embroideries or laces to adorn the child withaL Indeed, both child and mother are quite as well off without them. The slips should be high in the neck and long in the sleeve, and in number not less than half a dozen. There should be of flannel night wraps three, and muslin three. Of flannel skirts and foot-blankets, three of each will suffice for common use. A half dozen linen shirts and three zephyr knit will serve for summer, and winter wear. Let the flannel be fine. soft, all wool. and washed before it comes in coutact with the sensitive skin of the little one. To the uneducated eye washing it may spoil its beauty, but that is a small matter when compared with the com tort of the wee thine, that bv a verv sugni neglect can be made to saner. New flannel almost always produces irritation of the skin when worn before it baa been thoroughly washed, and babies are often suDDoeed to err from colic when their complaints are caused in reaiiry oy me pneanng sensations which the new flannel thev wear pro duces. The garments worn next the body should be of hue softeambne. ex cept the band, which must be of flannel. Uunng this warm weather care should be taken not to overload the baby with clothes; a little shirt, a foot blanket, a flannel shirt, and a little slip of cross barred muslin or nainsook is enonsrh. The object of loo clothes is to keep the baby's feet warm, " but skirts half a yard long accomplish this suthciently for a very young infant at any time, and are vastly more convenient than those which sweep the floor when the child lies in its mother's arms. Besides, when a child s feet are weighed down with so many dry goods it does not learn the use of tliem at so early an age as when they are left free. There must be a cloak for baby to take its airimrs in, and flannel shawls to throw around it when needed for additional warmth. A basket neatly lined with cambric and furnished with inside Dockets where soap, towels, pin-ciisliiou, and all other toilet necessaries may be placed, is a great convenience. In this the garments worn during the day may be laid at night, aud all the little baby lielong ings find a permanent place. Patterns for baby clothes can be found in any of the pattern books; these come with full directions as to quantity of materials anu styie 01 making, as a rule, trie more simply a baby is dressed the prettier it is. A deep hem in the skirt of the dress with a dainty edge around the neck and at the wrists, it the quality of the dress is tine, makes a far more attractive toilet than cheap fabrics heavily trimmed. Healthful Pette. Germany excels any country with which I am familiar in the cleanliness of its beds. It seems as much a part of yearly house cleaning with them to have the hair removed from the mattresses, to have it well beaten and sunned, and the cover washed, as it is with us to have carpets whipped and freed from this disease begetting dust. I Brant that it would be a difficult and expensive undertaking for an American housekeeper, for skilled laborers are rare, aud when found must be well paid, as they should be. Knowing the obstacle then, in the way of a thorough renovation of our beds, we should take all the more care to protect and air them. Every lied should have especially made for it, the size of a tick, a white, tacked com forter, not too thick, so as to be un manageble in washing; over this the sheet is spread. Every bed in dailv use should be subjected to the purifying rays of the sun at least once a week, and should be left open for the recep tion of air and light sometime before being made np. Beds not frequently used are often fouud very musty and disagreeable to guests. The parlor beds. that swallow their own contents by a magic touch, are fair without, but in time, for the lack of proper airing, they become foul within. Science vf Health. Boffina Carrot. Brush them verv clean (a process not always performed with sufficient nicety), or pare them if at all old ; divide them, and cut the thick part into quarters should they be very large : throw them into well-salted boiling water. Old carrots require from an hour and a half to two hours ; yonng ones are tender in from twenty to thirty minutes. A tureen of melted butter should be served with them. Carrots form a good accompaniment to boiled lieef, and it is usual to boil them in the water with the meat; the color is however, better if they are prepared separately. Carrot Soup. Take 1 lb. of carrots wliich have been first brtmned very clean : then iioiled. until tender, iu slightly-salted water: mash them to a smooth paste, or rub tin-in through a sieve; mix the paste with 2 quarts of boiling soup (strong beef broth will do); season this with pepper and salt, and add, before being finally boiled up, a small lump of sugar and a piece of butter. Serve with a dish of bread rut into small dice and fried in butter. jour (hrn Moh.- Small holes in white walls ran be easily repaired with out sending for the mason. Equal parts of plaster of Paris and white sand such as is used in ino.t families for scouring purposes mixed with water to a paste, applied immediately and smoothed witn a knife or flat piece of wood, will make the broken place as good as new. As the mixture hardens very quickly, it is best to picpare but a small quantity at a time. Steireil Wa ter-Crexse. W 11 te r-cresses are very delicious stewed. They should lie placed in strong salt and water to free them from insects, after which they should lie carefully picked over, the water drained off. and then put into a stewpan with a lump of butter and a little salt and pepper; a few minutes will suffice to render the cress quite tender. A little vinegar mav be added just before serving, but this must be according to taste. The following is a simple mode of rendering water almost as cold as ice. without the use of ice : Let the jar. pitcher, or vessel used for water be surrounded with one or more folds of coarse cotten kept constantly wet. The evaporation of the water will carrv oil the heat trom the inside, and reduce it to a freezing point. In India and other tropical regions where ice cannot be produced, this method of proceeding is common. Ilotne-ilade Crackers. Half teacun- ful shortening, three teacopfuls cold water, one teaspoonful soda, two tea- spoonfuls cream-tartar, nearly five quarts flour; rub the shortening, soda. cream-tartar and salt well into the flour, and wet up with the water the dough will be very stiff, needs no pound ing nor extra aneauing; cut out, punc ture, and bake in a quick oven. Celery Sauce. Cut ud a large bunch of celery into small pieces, use only that which is blanched. Put it into a pint of water and boil until it is tender; then add a teaspoonful of flour and a lump of butter the size of an egg. mixed well together: season with salt and pepper, and stir constantly until taken from the fire. It is very nice with boiled poultry. Graham Gems. Take one pint of new milk ; stir in Graham flour to make a batter as thick as for griddle-cakes: add one egg well beaten. Have gem cans hot. and bake in a omck oven. No soda or baking powder. Corn meal gems are made the same nr. onlv vilrf ami cool the meal before adding to the other ingreaienis. To Remote Flv-SnerLi. Koil some onion skins, and use the water in which they are boiled to wash off the n v- s pecks. It will save more than half the labor, particularly on moldings and other uneven surfaces. I alTMieVsV Matked Potatoes. Besting over night at a pretentious hotel, and break fasting very heartily there in the morn ing, was an aged stranger, whose un speakably seedy attire, while it had been ' unnoticed in the dark hours of his arrival, excited the dire distrust of the officials of the house, as revealed by light. Sorely suspicions was the superb clerk of the establishment, that the latter was to be wronged of its dues by some trick or plea of this venerable, shabby guest ; when the latter having dispatched his meal, presented himself with an admonitory cough, his doubts became a certainty. I "1 have had my breakfast," began the aged man. deliberately, "and candor comnels me to savn nana over your money, yoa 01a . ( . . , rascal," interrupted the clerk, in a rage. "As . I was saying," resumed the stranger placidly, "candor compels me to inform vou" "Call a policeman P roared the clerk to a bell-boy. "We'll have our twelve shillings, or you go to the lock-up." The boy started on his errand with oat apparent notice from him of the seedy costume, who. taking his own time to draw forth, from some obscure pocket, a vast and greasy wallet, quietly repeated: . "As 1 was saying I have had my breakfast there'syonrtwelveshillings; but candor compels me to inform yon that them mashed potatoes was lovely perfectly lovely, sir; and I don't mind thmvtnii m ahillino avlM f . . 'Am rt A Ji'etc Question in Antronomy. He lives on West Adams street, and, like most little boys, is given to asking a great many Questions. Wandering with his mother in the door-yard the other evening he drew her attention to one of the bright luminaries of the sky, and said : "Ma, what star is that the pretty, nice one, there T" "That, my sou," said the mother, "is wars." The next evening a boarding school miss from over the- way came in, as the family was en hiving- the out-door air. and our little ast ronomer at the favoro lile moment, pointing to the celestial body named, inquired : "1 )o yon know' what that star is !" "No what is it f said the vounir lady. "That's Mars." nroinllv rei.lied the little five-year old. "la that sot" remarked tiie accom plished miss, innocently "Jtt'sf Then mere u pa si" And the youthful star-razer. be wildered by the unexpected boarding school conundrum, had to give it up. uceiyu evening ooumai. Grammar and Clean Corner. A female servant in the family of a gentle man in the Department of the Interior, Washington, is allowed to make a yearly visit to her old home in Rich mond, Virginia. Last summer, when she left; a substitute was employed, a mulatto girl, who bad been unite well educated. She performed the duties in rather indifferent manner. When the regular servant returned, she liegan her tour of investiKit.on tn nsiH-rtu.ii. how her work had been done, and was disgusted at the evident want of neat ness manifested every where. Her in dignation finally found vent in the fol lowing, to her mistress: "111 tell you what it is. Miss , you can't ge: gram mar and clean corners out of the K.nne nigger!" Which, if true, oilers a knotty problem in reference to the ednc.it ion of the race. Harpers Magazine. A Matter of Truth. Dibbs was rp- markiug on tombstone inscriptions, and said: "Whou I'm gone from down here. I'd Just want nothin' more on my slab than tne inscription. -l know that my He deemer liveth.' "Yes." said old Turn nennv. who stood by, "that would be as big a lie as if you were to write it on the hack of them notes o' yourn that I've been holdin' for seven years back !" It didu't suggest itself to Dibbs to contiuue his tombstone remarks anv further just then. The late Dr. Youtll?- of ltirniinirlnitn having one day forgotten to burv the corpse of a dissenter, was accused of neglecting the funeral, in conseonence of the creed professed by the departed. "I have heard," said a Quaker to the reverend gentlemen. "I have heard, friend Young, that thou would'st not burr because he was of the dis senters." 1 ou re misinformed," re plied the other, "I should be happy to uury tnem ail." Keen your name and address aliout you during this season of sunstrokes. .V lorli Commercial AdrertixerA 1 ins is very cueertul advice, to lie sure. , . . . . . On the same liriucinle. a fond wile might say to her husband, as he leaves her for a few hours, "My dear, please leave a couple of hundred dollars to pay your funeral expenses with. There is no u iiiiig wnat may Happen to you j 1 a small cniirrn in r.ngland re cently, upon the reverend gentleman announcing his text a resnectablv at tired female entered the church, causing the hearers to look round to see who the latest amval was, whereupon the reverend gentleman said : "Now, my friends, just look at me; let me have your attention, for those who come in late are not worth looking at. he little daughter of a clergyman in New Haven, after liavinir had i harire of the baby all day a hile the folks were renovating the house, asked at liiulit H she miKht pray for w hat she wished. The re.iuest be ine irrauted. she said her usual prayer, supplementing it with ami please, l.onl, don t let us have any more house cleaning." ' Tim countrymen went iuto a hatter's to buy one ot them a hat. They were delighted with the sample, inside the crown of which was a lookiiig-jrlass. "What is that forf said one of the men. The other, impatient at such a display of ignorance, exclaimed," What forf why for the man who buys the hat to see how it lits him. A srhool mistress once asked a pupil to U ll what word the letter S double spell. The child was hut dull, and so mistress cries, hat is it, you dunce, I do with my eyes!"1 "Uh yes!" savs the child, quickly taking the hint; I know the word now, ma'am IS double E, squint P1 Gire a boy a market-basket of gro ceries to carry borne and be will swing it across his spine, bend bait way to the ground and groan with agony, but give him that weight of base ball bats and he will skip along as merry as a potato bug in a ten-acre lot. "If Jones undertakes to pull my ears," said a loud-mouthed fellow on a street corner, "he will just have his hands full, now." The crowd looked at the man's ears and thought so. too. "Sacral to the memory of our 'steamed friend Vanderburger," is the epitaph of a Western paper on a man recently killed by a boiler explosion. Boarding school miss : "0, Charlie ! I expect to graduate at next commence ment." "Graduate? what will you grad uate in T "Why, in white tulle!" It ha been found that in nearly everv civilized country the tree that bears the most fruit for market is the axle-tree. never kna a man vet who lived bi bis wits but what svent bis old aire at some body else'sexpense. oA Billings. An old toper says if there is anvthinc which will make his mouth water, he doea not wish to see it. Josh Bollinas says. The slowest time on rekord ii skule time, and the fastest iz sparkin time. A loolina-ala. like a wise man. savs nothing bat retlects a great deal. What portions of the bodr are the best travellers The two wrists. The wedding trio is now srjoken of aa the "honey-lunar" journey. a. t-.-. ny ilar. in the streets r.r men "who" look damaged Men. too. of good original matenal who started out in life with generous aspirations. Once it was said tliev were bright i.romising lads: once they looked h. ,?..ii. i,,ti th faces of mothers, whose daily breath was a prayer tor their purity and peace. Ah 1 what If some of them have vowed their souls away to con fiding wives, who silently wonder what can le tne meaning 01 uus of .i.i iwjnilnr shadow that is coming over the house and heart. i.i,. to the bad! The spell of CVI comiKitnonship.; the willingness to hold and use money not honestly gained , tw Moalthr. seductive, piansiiue au- nun of the aniieite for strong drink ; the treacherous fascination of the gam ing table; the gradual loss ol interest in business and doings wliich build a man up; the rapid weakening or an noble purposes: the decay of manliness; the recklessness and blasphemy against fate; the sullen desjiair of ever break ing the chains of evil habit. What vic tories of shame and contempt, w nai harvests of hell, have grown from such a in I as this! Sueer. if you will like a fool, at the suggestion ot reform, morals, religion. Every man knows. in his better moods, that all there is of tnie life is personal virtue : and recti tude of character. Going to the bad! But there is hone. Earth and heaven are full of hands ever reaching to help the lost man back to the better way, All the irood there is in the universe is in yniathy with that little goodness which inwardly reproves aud protst. Haw Tkssder gnawers 'aaae l. In order to couvey a more definite idea of our theory, we will choose a cer tain locality which may serve the pur pose of a diagram to our demonstration ; and this locality shall he the region ot Westtield Kiver. This river takes its rise anions the forests near the summit of the Green Mountains, at a height of some 2,1 Nm feet above the level ol' the sea, anil flowing southeasterly forty or fifty miles, empties into the 4. 'ounectictit lliver about ten miles from the southern boundary of the tnte. During a hot summer day llie sides 01 the deep valley of this river till with intense heat, and cause a flow of moist air upward tow ards the summit of the mountain ridge, from the valley of the Connecticut, ami also from the sea. This moist air, mi-etiug with the general cur rent from the southwest, piles up an immense niass of ciimiiloiis cloud, of many square miles in extent. So long as this great heat lasts thee loud increasi in size; grows black and blacker with its dense vapor, and casts a gloomy, lurid glare over the face of nature, darker than that of any ecliiise. The vapor, pushed up by the ascending cur rents of heated air, attains to a great height above the sea, where the temer- ature is very low. But finally, at that hour of the afternoou when the heat be gins to decline, the accumulated yaisrs no longer augmented or sustained by heated air from the valleys below, fall in rain. Popular Science Monthly. Advertistaa; by la Aarieat. The Komans largely advertised pri vate as well as puhiic matters, and by writing as well as by word of mouth They had their prtreone or criers, who not only had their public duties, but announced the time, place and condi tions of sules, and cried things lost. Hawkers cried their own goods. 1 bus, Cicero siteaks 01 one who cried hrs ('iimwti clamitalmt (he cried out figs!) Hut the Komans also advertised, in stricter sense ot the term, by writing. 1 ne nins were caneu htx iti, aud were used for advertising sales of estates of absconding debtors, and for things lost or found. The advertisement were often written on tablets, which were alhxed to pillars. On the walls of Pom peii have been discovered various ad vertisements. There will be a dedica tion, or formal openingof certain baths. The oniHiny attending are promised siaiignterot wild beasts, athletic games, iertumei sprinkling, and awnings to keep off the sun. One other mode of public announcement employed by the komans should be mentioned, and that was by signs suspended or painted 011 the wall, thus, a suspended sine! served as the sign of a tavern; and nuisances were prohibited by a paint ing or two serpents. Aa laceaiaas DceratiaaL sanerant relates tne lotion in anec dote of Schwartz, a famous l.erinan painter: "I laving been engaged to paint the ceiling or the town hall at .Munich by the day, his love of lissiatioii ir- uuced him to neglect his duties, and the magistrates and overseers of the work were frequently obliged to hunt him out of the tavern. As he could no longer drink in quiet, he stuffed an image of himself, left the legs hanging down be tween ine staging w here he was accu touted to work, and sent one of his boon companions to move the image a little two or three times a day, and to take it away at noon and night. Jly means of tms deception lie ilrank without the least disturbance for a whole fortnight together, the imi-keccr lieing aware of the plot. 1 he othcers came round twice a day to look after him, and seeing the well-known stockings which he was accustomed to wear, susected nothing wrong and went 011 their way. great I v extolling their new convert as the most industrious and conscientious painter in me worm. The. Common Council of Butl'al has passed a resolution instructing the xiperiniemieiii or relocation in that city not to employ any more married women as teachers. Dyspepsia t atjspepnla! Djapepwla! Dyspepsia is the most perplexing of all human ailments. Its symptoms are almost infinite in their variety, and the forlorn and despondent victims of the disease often fancy themselves the prev, in turn, of every known malady. This is due, in part, to the close sym pathy which exists between the stom ach and the brain, and in part also to the fact that any disturbance of the digestive function necessarily disorders the liver, the bowels and the nervous system, and effects, to some extent, the quality of the blood. . F. Knnkel's Bitter Wine of Iron a sure cure. This is not a new prepar ation, to be tried and found wanting; it has been prescribed daily for many years in the practice of eminent physi cians with unparalleled sncccss ; it is not expected or intended to cure all the diseases to which the human family is subject, but is warranted to cure Dyspepsia in its most obstinate form. Knnkel's Bitter Wine of Iron never fails to enre Symptoms of Dyspepsia or loss of appetite, wind and rising of the food, dryness of the mouth, heartburn, distension of the stomach and bowels, constipation, headache, dizziness, sleep lessness and low spirits. Try the great remedy and be convinced of its merits. Get the genuine. 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