JUST IS OF OLD. I saw my lor in dreams laat night Fan up the limping moon-lit lands. Hi lore-beams in bar dew ejes bright, A rosebud in her mas leaf hands. - And round me, as J nearer stepped, I felt her eoft ana ateal and fold. While close against mj heart she crept, Joat as of old. The gay. dawn broke, my lore was gone. The golden dream was past and dead ; I got me to the churchyard lone Wherein my lore lay buried. I found a headstone gray with years, I bowed me to the morn miste cold, I wept and knew aba saw my tears, Jost as of old, Bat ever while I lire alone This comfort comes and soothes my care We two may meet, when all ia done. Far off in heaven garden fair ; And by the light abore, beyond. Chastened, each other's face behold. Stainless, more pore, bat true and fond, Jost as of old. A LADY TOURIST'S Three Months in Europe with Professor Loomis. Cologne, July 14, 1875. "Forty Ameri-ansl only look at tlieui!" And how the good people of Antwerp (Oared when thirty-eight American women landed on Monday morning "aeVt verf," and proceeded to fill an immense black omnibus and two small carriages with themselves and their baggage. From the quai to the hotel there seemed to be two continuous rows of smiling Belgians, who welcomed our merry party of lady ctudenta with cries of "English! American! how do! God bless you J" Who did the most staring it would be diflicult to say, for to many of us every thing was new and quaint, from the tiles on the house roofs to the collide stone side walks. The fresh clean ap- iM-arance of a city so old, the wonderful economy of every inch of ground, made at once useful and ornamental, rows and rows of handsome stone buildings and dwellings, intersjiflrsed here and there with old churches whose crumb ling towers and weather worn portals alone reminded us of the ancient date of the foundation of Antwerp, fascinated the most experienced of our party, and comiiensated the most timid venturers for the ordeal of our descent from the omnibus amidst a crowd of spectators at the entrance to the hotel de la PcU. Travelers are privileged to talk about what they eat as well as what they see. I would not like to risk the iurredulity of my reailers, by stating exactly how much forty travelers con sumed of Belgian beef and iHultry, fish, vegetables and pudding, after nearly two weeks' sea voyage with most un certain appetites and more uncertain digestion. It would be very unfair, however, to attribute our eiijoyment of the first dinner in Antwerp to anything bjit the incomparable cuisine. We had not only the best the market could afford, but such cooking as one rarely finds in America, unless it be in some of the Pennsylvania Dutch farm-houses. I may be pardoned for introducing at this point an explanatory paragraph for the benefit of lady friends who have read "A Woman's Experieiu-es in Ku- roiie," written for the Philadelphia JMhlin, and published afterwards by D. Appletou & Co., in book form. Those letters were to inform ladies especially of the methods by which they might travel with the most comfort and security .without the aid of a male escort where it was impossible to have it. Hie present scries is designed to assure them that, after all, the association of arties of intelligent women for European travel, under competent leadership, will afford unlimited enjoyments with almost Incredibly limited exiense. With a jarty of one gentleman, three ladies and one servant, the wriU'r was subjected to more delays, misun derstandings with hotel proprietors, mud trouble with cnstoin-house officers in one day, than our party has experi enced from Xew York to Lucerne with the wonderful management of our leader. . Imagine forty trunks, forty hand bags, forty shawl bundles, forty um brellas, forty opera glasses, forty guide- hooks, forty pass-ports, forty pocket- books for one gentleman and his only son, a youth of fifteen summers, to keep an eye on ! Yet, there are no grumblers among us. Coming up the Rhine, we encount ered a party of English people under Cook's leadership. We mingled, I had almost said dissolved, into one party almost immediately, and at the point of separation, there was but one sentiment regret that we might not be together through the entire tour. "These Ame ricans are wonderfully posted on the literature, art and natural characteris tics of our country," was the remark of an Englishman who was unsuspicious of eaves' -droppers. Prof. Loomis deserved the honor ol much of that compliment for his prepa ratory lectures on the steamer, when rain and heavy seas confined us to the saloon. Antwerp received from ns the first "welcome," and however our imagina tions may be distracted by 'the niany scenes, so varied and so equally inter esting, as we journey on, the impression of the old Belgian city and its cheerful inhabitants will never be effaced from our remembrance. The Cathedra, Church of St. Paul, the Museum, Church of St. Jacques, Hotel de Ville, the Bourse, and Zoolo gical Gardens were all duly visited, and a most intimate acquaintance with the life, works and death of.Ruliens acquired in one single day. The people of Ant werp worshipped their great artist, and it is a matter of wonderment that he was not canonized and called Saint Rubens by the church that reaps such harvests of franc, Urns and mark, from the pilgrimages to the great artist's house, tomb, and master-pieces of paint ing in the Cathedral and glorious old church of St. Jacques. The old carved wood pulpit in St. Augustine's, a life size representation of Christ's calling of the disciples, "Follow me, and I will make you Fishers of men," suggested pages of interesting reflections. The wood has become so hard and highly "pol ished, and age has given it such a green ish tint that deceives one at a first glance, and many are unwilling to be convinced that it is not bronze. The grace, dignity, and earnestness of the attitude and countenance of "the Christ" form beautiful contrast to the eager wonder d anxious inquiry in the disturbed fisherman's features and pose. The oars are dropped, and listlessly swinging In the gunwale, the net just laid on the broken branch of a tree on the bank falls back into the waters, "the other disciple site petrified with amazement at a request to give op the employment of a lite time to preach an unknown gospel to other men. Yet, over all is the wonderful power of inspiration ex pressed in the total absence of any ex pression of opposition to the Muter' will ! Conviction, surprise, and "Loru show us the way !" are depicted in every lineament of the fishermen's faces, figures, attitude and gesture, and blend in one harmonious design. Some of our young travelers stood with very pensive countenances by tliis carved group, and were emotion, conviction, their conver sion to Roman Catholic object worship, might have been an easv task. From Antwerp we took the train for Brussels, by way of Maligney. ind and weather favored us. The rural scenes of that day, in Belgium, are not likely to be forgotten by any of us. The grand estates of wealthy old families, with hedges of gigantic Lombardy pop lars, under which nestled Uie gardens of tenants, crowded with vegetables and fruits, and yet in most perfect order. The cheerfulness and industry of the women and girls in field or garden, are very striking, and agreeably so, in dis tricts where nature seemed to smile on the richest harvests one could imagine. It was only when we came to crowded impoverished cities, that we found wo men, girls and dogs, bearing the bur dens God intended for men and horses. Our thirty-eight American women have resolved to ask for no more rights. Wo men's rights in Europe have quite satis fied them ; they will henceforth claim the right of being part of "the weaker sex." At Mechlin a treat was in store for us. Forty thousand people from Brus sels had come up to celebrate "All Fools' Day," as it falls in their calendar but once in a century. The concourse of people at the station was the most interesting imaginable. Forty thou sand eople, good natured enough to celebrate a blunder of their ancestors, in mistaking the moonlight on a gilded dome for a fire, and playing water on it half the night, was something for us Americans to witness But the amuse ment oT our liarty was increased very unexpectedly, when the doors of the rail way carri:igcs were unceremoniously pulled open, and in bundled the revel lers, regardless of consequences and our cries of "pas dc place," "complet," and a half dozen other remonstrauces. At least two passengers for every seat oc cupied the cars to Brussels, and arriving in the gay old cit v at sunset, we found the streets thronged with its own inlialt itants and jeasar.try in every costume and style of vehicle that could 1h named,hiugliiiig,daiicing, blowing their whistles and horns, and imitating all the' sounds that r attire and art ever pro duced. But the "forty Americans' created a "stir" even in that whirl of excitement. And it was a sight to lc iiold the crowd that Mucked our entrance to the hotel, as we tiled out of the car riages two and two, and laughed in spite of weariness and alarm, when stu dents and soldiers lifted their hats as we passed, and blew a tremendous blast of horns aud truuilcls after us when we were inside the jre eorhere. Wherever we go our hotel arrange ments are made in advan-e, so we are the terror of small parties. The mo ment the Iioomis party enters a station, there is a grand rush for the telegraph ollice, to secure rooms at the hotels ou the route, but our leader smiles quietly at this, for our telegrams are always two days in advance of us. The city of Brussels is a mixture of German neatness and solidity, aud French taste ami gaiety. The hotel de Ville was the grand attraction for many of us, and we faithfully trudged up something less than a thousand stone steps to the pyramidal tower, from which we viewed the field of Waterloo, aud the quaint old city itself with its grand boulevards aud gardens and parks. The tapestries, four hundred years old, that decorate the walls of the reception halls and civil marriage hall, attracted considerable attention, but we had been prisoners in doors too long on the steamer to be weaned from the out-door attractions that a string of carriages invited us to see. Our pro cession moved all over the city, halting only when the third best orchestra in the world, began their evening couccrt in the palace garden. Moonlight, music, beer and flowers we enjoyed till mid night, then hurried home to sleep till we were called for an early start for Cologne the next morning. E. D. Wallace. Change of Ceiiorlsi lae filar. In reference to the variable colors of stars we note that in the Vrauometria, composed in the middle of the tenth century by the Persian astronomer Al Sufi, and which has been recently pul lislied by the Imperial Academy of Sci ence at St. Petersburg, under the edi torship of Schjcllerup, it is stated that at the time of his observations the star Algol was reddisii an ep ithet applied also by him to the stars An tares, Aldcbaran, and a few others. Most of these exhibit a reddish aspect in at the present day. Algol, however ap pears at present as a white star, without any tinge of color. This change of color is of great interest, aim, indeed, highly significant, when taken in con nection with the fact that the apparent brightness of Algol is subject to a peri odical fluctuation of remarkable and, in fact, inexplicable character. Sec troscopic analysis has most plausibly suggested that in many cases the estalv lished variability in brightness of stars is due to such internal changes in the liody of the star as bring a different class of chemicals to the surface, giving rise thereby to a variation in intensity of the light, a variation in its color and a change in the spectrum lines and bands. The observed changes in the color of Algol, therefore are quite in accordance with this theory. Jinrjfr's Magazine. Termites. A few weeks ago we gave mute space to an account of the termites, or "white ants." Since then the following wonder ful incident illustrating the extent and method of their ravages lias come under oar notice. It is related by Forbes in his "Oriental Memoirs." Un opening an apartment that had lieen some weeks unused the author dis covered a number of the well-known covered galleries of the termites lead ing to some enirravings hanging on the wall. On inspecting the pictures closely they looked peculiarly dull, while the frames were covered with dust. "On attempting," says Mr. Forbes, "to wipe it off. I was astonished to find the glasses fixed to t he wall, not suspended in frames as I left them, but completely surrounded by an incrustation cemented by the white ants, who had actnally eaten up the deal frames and back boards, and the greater part of the paper, and left the glasses upheld by the incrustation or covered way whicn they had formed during their depreda tions." Six inch alligators are worth fifty cents apiece in ew Orleans. A "faney business : picturesque re porting. AGBICTLTTftAL. Fredinn ITtrse uith Bits ia their Mouths. Mr. ,E. B. Hiddlebrook, veterinary surgeon, in reply to a communication from the president of the society, says : "Put a string on a bit of wire, in your own mouth, and after securing it there attempt to cut even the most simple food. It will interfere with the proper flow of saliva, which acts on the food during the process of chewing; it will interfere with the proper separation of the food before it enters the stomach ; the constant friction ot the bit while the animal is feeding ai ts slowly but surely on the enamel of the teeth, and Uius cause the horse to lose the use of his teeth long before nature fixes the limit, and makes him old before bis time, and man loses bis valuable ser vices years before there is any neces sity for it. You are aware that men or animals die when deprived of the use of the tongue ; now a horse with the bit in bis mouth, while feeding, is like an ani mal with only a piece of his tongue. It is true he can chew anil feed but this is only done partially, imperfectly and inefficiently. It is therefore cruel, in human, aud should be stopped by the strong arm of the law of your society. If the bridle is short, the bit comes in contact with the bicuspids and not only destroys mastication, but eventually the enamel of the teeth, if long, the bit may pass between the incisors and the molars, and allows mastication, but only of an impersect nature. I may be told that spirited animals, are frightened by removing the bridle while innarness the remedy is very simple, unbuckle the bridle on one side, and drop the bit; the bridle, nose piece and blinds are thus partially detached, but can be at tached in a minute. Indiijrttinn in Cattle and lionet. M. Pety, a French veterinary surgeon, draws attention to the liability of horses and cattle suffering from indigestion from the consumption of forage iu a humid or musty state. It is from over feeding this complaint is ordinarily pro duced, or to the too rapid transition from dry to unlimited green food. Another very common cause is, the putting of animals to work immediately after their feed. The giving of chaff and tiie refuse of the threshing machine is also another principal source, as well as excessively cold water, and above all, allowing the animal to drink the water of marshes. A little salt or handful of meal is excel lent in the drinks. Old animals ought never, to be given too much food at once aud It should ever be mixed with a lit tle straw. When the horse shows symp toms of indigestion, restlessness, sud denly refusing food, resting on one leg, then on another, the head drooping and seeking the left flank, its excrements either hard or liquid, etc., an excitant, as three ounces of kitchen salt oraglass of gin in a bottle of water will afford re lief; or an infusion of chamomile and sage. In case pain exists two simonsful of laudanum will prove excellent. Of course, soap injection, frictiou and ru migation, are not to be overlooked. Bleeding in case of grain indigestion be comes mortal. To ir Ari'li', Vmrt, and other Fruit. Have a frame made in the following manner: Two strips of board 7 fet long, 2 or 2"a inches wide two strips 3 feet long 1'4 inc hes wble, the whole 'jOlan Inch thick; nail the long strips across the ends of the short ones, and it makes a frame 7 by 3 feet, which is a convenient size for all purioses. On one of the long strips, nails are driven 3 inches apart, extending from one end to the other. After the apples are pared, they are quartered and cored, and with needle and twine, or stout thread, strung into leugt lis long enough to reach twice across the frame. The apples will so soon dry that the string can be doublet on the nails and fresh ones put on, or the hole of them removed and others put in their place. As fast as the apples Itecomc sufficiently dry they can be taken from the strings and the same strings used to dry more on. If large aiinlcs are used to drv, they can be cut in smaller pieces. Pears aud quinces and other fruits that can tie strung may lie dried in this way. In pleasant weather the frames can be set out of doors against the side of the building, or any other supiiort, and at night, or cloudy and stormy days, thev can be brought into the house and set agaiust the side of the room near the stove or lire-place. To St'-p Urns from Srttiny. The desire to set is but natural to row 1.3, tint when we wish for eggs rather than chickens, it is of importance to us aot on ly to stop them mini setting, but to do it with a little loss of time as is ia our power. Consequently we divert the attention of the sitting hen as much as possible from carrying out her propensity, and it should always be doue with reason and humanity. Io not half drown the poor creature by dipping her in water, nor confine her to a small box with narrow lioards set on edge for the bot tom, so that she must always roost, nor yet scare her oil' the nest, for she is in her right place, but "take her up tenderly, lilt her with care," and place her iu a strange place of confinement, with a supply of food and water con stantly by her, where she will probably soon forget her brooding proclivities, aud return with renewed vigor to the egg business. If, however, she is an inveterate setter who does not know an egg from a brickbat when the fever is on, and she persists in setting on the hare floor, as is the case occasionally with Asiatics, confine a cock in the same apartment with her, and the cure may be warranted. Fertilize r fur Full Soring. The A ner- irtnt Agrteuttunst says : "In the rail we need an active fertilizer, one that will push forward the young plants ami en able tliem to necome well estauiisnea before winter. Phosphates are not generally required by a young plant, it is only when the seed is to be formed that the plant needs to store up this material. If superphosphates are ap plied in the fall upon the soil contain ing lime, the excess of soluble phos phoric acid combines with the lime and makes an insoluble (or slowly sol uble) phosphate which has no appreci able etlect upon the crop. It is for this reason, and not for any fault or defect of the fertilizer, that it so often seems to be useless. Guano, on the contrary, i immediately active and much more suitable for fall use than any other ar tificial manure. Superphosphate of lime should lie applied in the spring, which is the season when it will be most use ful to the plant. -1 CanJiria county I'enna. farmer ex erimented upon a new method of grow, iug wheat, which he has just harvested with the most satisfactory result, lie planted a half teaciipful of wheat in hills about eight inches apart, three grains to the hill. From ttach hill an average of dlty four stalks grew, the headiugof thoM stalks ranging front five to eight inches. From the half te:u-up-ful a peck of the cereals was threshed. To urerent horses feet from scaling or cracking in summer, and enable the shoes to be carried a longer time with out injury, the French practice is to coat the hoofs once a week with an ointment composed of equal proportions of soft fat, yellow wax, linseed oil, Venice turpentine and Aorway tar; the wax is melted separately before mix- Fumigating poultry-houses with sul phur thrown upon glowing coals in an earthen vessel, and keeping the house close for a few hours, is said to be a per fect remedy for insects of all kinds. I he poultry must be removed before the experiment. A pound of copperas dissolved in a pailful of soft soap, and, when thinned with water applied to onions, is good to keep off the maggot and to promote the growth of the onions. KCIUT17IC The Mtxlern House. The nineteenth centary house, however, has no special provision for the admission of fresh air, and, except in warm weather, iu en trance is jealously prevented. Venti lation is change of air, and, unless sci entifically arranged, and especially warmed in cold, weather, such change of atmosphere means cold currents, with their attendant train of colds, ca tarrhs, bronchitis, neuralgia, rheuma tism, and the evils that spring from them. Again, perfect ventilation means the realization, in a great mea sure, of the condition of air ont-of-doors ; and few persons, probably, have estimated the enormous flow of air re quisite to etlect this. The ordinary no tion is, that the proper renewal of the air in a room ought to be measured by the quantity passed through the lungs of an individual in any given time. But an ounce of poison may vitiate a gallon of water ; and nothing short of the re moval and renovation of the whole of the tainted portions fast as it becomes tainted, can insure perfect salubrity. Dr. Dalton estimated the average re spiration of a man to he 24 cubic inches and the average number per minute to be 30 : consequently, 400 cubic feet pass through the lungs of an ordinary man in twenty-four hours; while the falla cy to which we have alluded assumes that a supply of 400 cubic feet in the room. in twenty-four hours,insures suf ficient ventilation. Certainly, if anyone would draw breath out of one bag, and discharge the tainted air from his lungs into another, he won Id always breathe good air. But it is calculated that a man will taint and render unwholesome by mixture 17,500 cubic feet of air in the twenty-four hoars ; for every re spiration not only robs the imbibed 24 cubic iuches of a certain portion of its oxygen, but it has mixed with it a quan tity of carbonic-acid gas and some va por : and theoretically, at least, the second respiration, drawn from a room in which the air is stagnant, begins the process of blood-poisoning. Popular Science Monthly. The A nt-Eater Family. The ant-eater is a remarkable animal of the old genus myromecophaga&nA of the eden tate or toothless order. The hind feet are plantigrade, and armed with large claws bent inward, so that the animal walks on the extreme edge of the foot. This arrangement is a wise provision of Nature for preserving the claws from damage, they being used for tearing down the ant hills and unearthing the insects on which the animal chiefly feeds. The South American variety is a hairy creature, sometimes called the ant bear (myroinecophaga jubata) ; it is about four ieet long, and has a bushy tail of two aud half feet more, and its height at the shoulder is about three feet three inches. The tongue of the ant-eater is remarkable ; it can be dar ted from the mouth to a length of eigh teen inches, and is thus very effective in picking np Us food, resembling in this respect the tongue of the chame leon. Sir Emerson Tenncnt while in Cey lon, kept two of these creatures alive at one time, and says : "One was a gen tle and affectionate creature, which af ter wandering over the house in search of ants, would attract attention to its wants by climbing up my knee, and laying hold of my leg by its tail. It seized ants by extending its long, glu tinous tongue along their track." Still another kind is found in Africa, it is called the phatagin. In the hot countries where all these species have their habitat, theanUare very trouble some, and destroy much property, and animals that are capable of getting rid of them in such numbers ate viewed by some eastern races with supcrsti tious awe. - A Xeie Textile Industry. The govern ment of India has lieen encouraging of late the culture of China grass (tsclm ma)or inner bark of the Jiokmeria nirea, which yield. a very beautiful fiber, some three times as strong as hemp, and as soft as llax, while possessing a luster equal to that of silk. Although the properties of this fiber have long lieen known there has lieen an absence of proper machinery for its preparation and until quite lately it has been sup posed that only the green stem could tie operated upon. Since it has lieen discovered that the dry stems may lie treated by ordinary flax and hemp ma chinery, producing a filter but little in ferior to that obtained from the green plant, their utilization bids fair to con stitute an important addition to exis ting textile industries. Although the vegetable is indigenous to China, India, Japan, and has been successfully cultivated in Martinique, Jamaica, Trinidad,, Algeria, Queens land, and Mauritius, aud to a limited extent on some portions of our conti nent, we are not aware of any extended efforts being made towards its acclima tization in the United States. It is said that the plant adapts itself to climatic conditions with considerable facility, and hence it may inferred that syste matic culture in the Southern States would be attended with favorable re sults. To Color Copper Alloy ami Silrer an Intense Mack. Paul V ieskoff. of Mor genstern, recommends the chloride of Dlatinum which has deliquesced in the airfor givinga permanent black colerto copper alloys, like brass, pinchbeck, hell metal, gun metal, etc., as also to silver alloyed with copper. The me chanical manipulations are most easily performed in this way : The work man moistens the ball of the thumb slightly with the liquid and rubs the article to be blackened with it strongly. The article at once becomes covered with a black film, which can afterward be washed and polished with a polish ing leather and oil. So little of the chloride of platinum is consumed that, notwithstanding its high price, the pro cess is a comparatively economical one especially on account of the simplicity and rapidity with which it can be ap plied. This same property which pla tinum has of precipitating itself as a black tilm on the surface of other me tals, notably silver, causes it to be quite extensively employed in photo graphy for blackening the silver de posits on negatives and transparen cies. Progress of Engineering. At the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which took place at Bristol on the 2-lth ult. Sir John Harkshaw delivered the ad dress, devoting himself especially to the history and progress ot engineering. "Inventions," he said, "were lost and found again. The art of casting bronze over iron was known to the Assyrians, though it has only lately been intro duced into modem metallurgy; patents were granted in 1U tor processes con nected with the manufacture of glass which had been practised centuries lie fore. An inventor in the reign of Ti berius devised a method of producing flexible glass, bnt the manufactory of the artist was totally destroyed in or der to prevent the manufacture of eop per.silver and gold from becoming de preciated. Boiler Erjdosum. Mr. R. Xickerson, of Harlem, Ua., informs us that a lmi ler at Sawdust. Oa. exploded on Au gust 7, It was in a sawmill, and the building was torn to pieces. Parts of the boiler were thrown to a distance of several hundred yards. One man was blown to nieces, and two seriouslv in jured. Mr. Xickerson states the pres sure gage showed 4- loa. ; but the gage was defective, as the practice (indulged in by the person in charge) of hanging car couplings on to the safety valve did not appear to form any increased pressure in the boiler. The solvent power of glycerin upon several substances commonly nsed in medicine and the arts is as follows : 1 part of sulphur requires 2,000 parts of glycerin ; iodide, 100 parts ; red iodide of mercury. 340 parts ; corrosive subli limate, 14 parts; sulphate of quinine, 48 parts ; tannin, 6 parts ; veratria, WJ parts ; atropia, 50 parts : hydrochlorate of morphia, 19 parts ; tartar emetic, 50 Sarts ; iodide of snlphur, 60 parts ; io ide of potassium, 3 parts ; sulphide of potassium, 10 parts. mitotic. Keep Ammonia in the House. housekeeper should be without a bottle of spirits of ammonia, for besides its medical value, it is in valuable for house hold purposes. It is nearly as useful as soap, and its cheapness brings it within reach of all. Put a teaspoonf ul of ammonia to a quart of warm soap suds, dip in a flannel cloth, and wipe off the oust ai.d fly-specks, and see for yourself bow mnch labor it will save. No scrubbing will be needful. It will cleanse and brighten silver wonder fully ; to a pint of suds mix a teaspoon ful of spirits, dip in your silver spoons, forks, etc., rub with a brush and polish with chamois skin. For washing mirrors and windows it is very desirable ; put a few drops of ammonia on a piece of paper and it will readily take on every spot or hnger mark on the glass. It will take out grease spots from every fabric ; put on the ammonia nearly clear, lay blotting paper over the place and place a hot flat iron on it for a few moments. A few drops in water will clean laces and whiten them as well, also muslins. Then it is a most refreshing agent at the toilet table ; a few drops in a basin of water will make a better bath than pure water, and if the skin is oily, it will remove all glossiness and disagree able odors. Added to a foot bath it entirely absorbs all noxious smell, so often arising from the feet in warm weather, aud nothing is better for cleaning the hair from dandruff and dust. For cleaning hairbrushes it is equally good. Put a tablespoouful of ammonia into one pint of water, and shake the brushes through the water. When they look white rinse them iu water aud put them in the sunshine, or in a warm place to dry. The dirtiest brushes will come out of this bath white and clean. For medical purposes it is unrivaled. For the headache it is a desirable stimu lant, a frequent inhaliug of its pungent odors will often entirely remove ca tarrhal colds. There is no better remedy for heartburn and dyspepsia, and the aromatic spirits of ammonia is especially prepared for these troubles. Ten drops of it in a wine-glass are often a great relief. The spirits of ammonia can be taken ia the same way, but it is not as palatable. In addition to all these uses, the effect of ammonia on vegetation is beneficial. If you desire roses, geraniums, fuchsias, etc., to become more nourishing, you can try it upon them by adding five or six drops to every pint of warm water yon give them, bnt dou't repeat the dose oftener than five or six davs. lest you stimulate too highly. So lie sure and keep a large buttle of it in the house, and have a glass stopper for it, as it is very evanescent and also in jurious to corks. Daisy Tuly.A very delicate ami pretty tidy may be made in the follow ing manner, the materials required con sisting of three rolls of fine white tape and a few knots of yellow worsted : Cut your tape into pieces fifteen aud one-half inches long. With the. aid of your tape-measure aud pencil, mark off uimiu one edge of the tape, dots one inch apart ; mark the other edge in the same way, these dots alternating with the first, and place a third row of dots midway lie t ween these two, along the centre of the tape ; joiu the ends, and with Btning, white thread gather the tape by taking a short stitch where oach dot apiiears, and carrying the thread from one to the next. If done rightly the gathering thread will form a series of Miiiita. Draw the thread and fasten it. thus forming a Hat ring of quilled taie with a small oMuing in its center. For the center of the daisy, wind a thread of the worsted around yonr linger fifteen or twenty times, slip oil and tie a bit of thread tightly around the little cluster of loops ; cut oien at each end, shear it oil smoothly with the scissois and you will have a llat fuzzy tuft one inch across; fasten this over the centre of your daisy and the flower is complete. Make twenty-tiveof these, fasten together in diamond form, aud finish the tidy with a cord and tassel of worsted looped and fastened from the three lower points. How to Cool a liooiu. A writer in Public Health recommends that a dish or basin large enough to present a good surface of water be placed iu rooms where the heat Is oppressive, aud the water lie changed once or twice in very hot days, to secure a general lowering of the temperature. The hot air of the room takes up the water in the form of atmospheric vapor and diffuses the greater coolness of the water through out the room, until air and water be come of the same temperature. When this takes place fresh water should be put in the dish. He says he has found a tumblerful of waterptential'eiiough when he lias lieen sitting in a small study, but the greater the surface of the water in contact with the air the more effectual will lie the diffusion of atmospheric vapor. The writer does not say whether the doors and windows are to lie kept open or closed, a condition that might have an impoi taut bearing on the success of the experiment. The thing is rather doubtful as to its feasi bility, is easy enough to try, with the doors or windows either shut or open, and with a vessel containing any quan tity of water, from a tumblerful to a tubful. Fruit Vale. 2 pounds of eggs, 2 pounds of bntter, 2i pounds of sugar, 'H pouuds of flour. 1 pound of almonds, 3 pounds of iaisins, 6 pounds of cur rants, 1 pounds of citron, 3 glasses of brandy, 0 nutmegs, 3 tablespoon fuls of mace, 3 tablespoon fuls of cloves. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs sepa rately. Blanch the almonds, aud beat them fine. Grate the nutmegs. Stone :he raisins. Hub them iu a little of the flonr. Wash the currants. Dry them. Roll them in a small quantity of the flour. Cut the citron in slices. Rub the butter and an gar to a cream. Add the eggs, almonds, brandy, spice, flour, currants, and raisins. Butter the bakingpan. Pour a small quantity of the mixture in it. Place a layer of citron on it, another layer of cake on that, citron again, and so ou, until the pan is sufficiently filled. Ihying- Corn. Corn, when at its liest for eating, will shrink little when boiled, and when cold will shell easily with the hand. Boil fifteen minutes; cool or nearly cool it ; shell it f nun the cob; mingle a large quantity of fine salt the moisture from the corn will dissolve it place in a shallow pan ; the salt extracts the water from the corn, it shrinks, and a short time iu the sun finishes it. Hang it in paper bags. When used, wash off the salt and let it stand on a hot stove all night; then change the water and heat again. Corn treated in this way is as sweet as if fresh from the Held. levers of sweet coin, try it, and you will never bay the slop they call "canned corn." Coltsfoot Ijozengrs. To one pint of spring water add one handful of colts foot leaves ; boil this down to a gill and let it stand till cold. Then strain it through a line woolen cloth (without pressing) and add half a pound of sugar. Boil to a syrup. Strain it again through a woolen cloth, aud put to it as much common black licorice as may lie found necessary to give it consistency. Then form it into any shape or form you may fancy. Light Rye Tea Cake. One pint of sweet milk, two eggs, a tablespoon ful of brown sugar and a largo pinch of salt. Add enough rye flour to make it as stiff as common griddle cake batter. Bake half an hour in "gem pans." Serve hot or cold, as desired. All sorts ot vessels and ntensils may be purified from long-retained smells of every kind in the easiest and most perfect manner, by rinsing them ont well with charcoal powder, after the grosser impurities have been scoured off' with sand and potash. Apple Cohhler. Pare, core and slice twelve large tart apples, add to them the juice of two lemons, grated peel of one, and sweeten to taste ; stew very slowly for two hours, and then turn into a mould. hen cold, serve with cream. ClOKOCTf. A Thoi'g htftx HrsBAXD. If he had confined himself to his legitimate dull driving duties there would have been no occasion for him to be strutting around with his left band in a sling, a patch on his nose and an absurd old gum shoe on one foot. He was, however, only another victim to that egotistical opinion of all man that they can do any thing better than a woman. He went home, yesterday, and found his wife putting up peaches In thoseold-fashioned tiu cans that are closed with sealing wax. She haI an old apron on, ami two or three little splotches of sealing-wax ornamented the floor, while the cat under the table was licking a piece the size of a postage stamp, on her back, with great assiduity. "See here, Maria," said he, "you'll cripple yourself with that hot wax di rectly," but as she made no answer, he continued oracularly, "Women never have any mechanical genius, any way. If there's a way of doing anything wrong, they're sure to try it." "1H you think you can do it any better?" sheobserved.with some acidity. "Why, of course I can." "Well, here, just distinguish yourself then." So he sat down. She handed him a fresh can, just out of the hot water. He took it iu his hand, aud droped it as though it had been a streak of lightning, while he stuck his fingers in his mouth and looked sudden death to her because he could not swear. She gave him a towel to hold the next one with and tie took it on his knee, lighted the sealing wax stick and commenced prodding around the top, but the bottom burnt his knee and he jerked, bringing the burning wax stick across the hack of his left hand. Then he juuiied up and howled, dropping the can which emptied a spoonful of boiling preserves into his slipper. This made him frantic and he went dancing about the kitchen like an inebriated dervish, waving the burning wax until a drop took him on the noe. In his agony he kicked the offending can through the window, scattering its contents over the dog, who rushed into the street howling and raised an alarm of mad dog that occupied the attention or all the people within three squares. Then he submitted to be laid umii the sofa and plastered with flour and sweet oil until he looked like a badly repaired scare crow. He is now willing to take an affidavit the size of a barn door that he will hereafter let the women be just as awkward as they choose. The Aict of Conversation. First Party (opening conversation) "'Ave you 'earti as Jim Bates's father says he'll give Mm the sack :" Second Ditto (after pause) "Whose father?" First Ditto "Why, Jim Bates's." Second Ditto (after pause) "Jim Bates's who?" First Ditto "Why, Jim Bates's father!" Second Ditto (after pause) "Jim Bates's father ! Well, what does he say ?" First Ditto "Savs he'll give "un' the sack!" Second Ditto (after pause) "tiive "im the what?" First Ditto "(Jive 'im the Kick." Second Ditto (after kiiisc) "filve who the sack?" First Ditto "Why, Jim Bates!" Second Ditto (after long pause) "Ah ! I 'card that the day In-fore yesterday !" Tiik following advertisement, almost, we fear, bio good to lie true, is said to have been actually cut from a Dublin paper: "Ijwt, where it was dropped, an empty bag with a cheese in it, the hag marked L. (., but the letters are quite worn out ; the erson ho lost it never missed it till it was gone, so, it' any mtsoii will bring it to him, he shall receive a reward of 5s on paving for this advertisement." Surely this lig must have lielonl to the Irish orator who informed his audience that, "all having been said that could be said, he had got up to say the rest." Now, Voi-Mi max, listen while we tell you how to Mp the question. I let yo'ir jiinebug well cornered where no one can overhear you, ami then jioke this con undrum at her: When will there lie only tweiitv-five letters in the alphaliet? Answer When you and I are made one. After that it is plain sailing. Our charge for this is a box of cigars in each case of successful application the charge to lie ami remain a debt of honor until satisfied and discharged. DAxm-RY has the cnampion patient boy. He comes from a chronically bor rowing family. The other day he went to a neighlKir's for a cup of sour milk. "I haven't got anything but sweet milk." said the woman pettishly. "I'll wait till it sours," said the obliging youth, sinking into a chair. Ani.ary .Vetr. Ax estimate has been made of the niimoer oi iersous uiai ine greai cathe drals of the world will hold, with the loiiuwin rreuiLs; zn. t eier s iM,iHni -Milan, ot.ooo; ri. i am s, ignition, i.i, HM; St. Sophia, Constantinople, 2H.INNI; Notre Dame, Paris, 21,0mi; Pia,2:t,Kio; L .11.11 It 9, , t. II II , A mc.H school boy has written his name high up on the scroll ol fame this time. His teacher wanted to know the number of zones. "Four," was the reply; "the horrid, the frigid, the tenqierate, and the intemperate." He will enter the lee tine field this Fall. "Whfx are you going to settle this l)ill r" "neve had a settlement al ready." "When" "The hist time you ca led." "How so?" "Didn't I tell you I meant to settle the bill V "Yes." "Very well, then ; wasn't that a settle IKWMfV" Tue xkwspapkks state that a well known banker of Paris has absconded, leaving a deficit behind. -M rs. Parting ton thinks that it was very good of the poor man to leave it, when he might have got off clear with everything. Mention U made of a young clergy man at the West who was easily flustered, and being so on one occasion, he preached from the text: "Ami im mediately the cock wept, and Peter went out and crew bitterly." AfXT Tabitiia is worried by frequent changi-s in the French ministry. She says: "1 never bad much opinion of them trench jieopleany way. Nothing can save them but good, stated, regular preaching." ATii'KOMAX,se.irchiugforhis father's pig, aevG-tod an Irishman as follows: "Have you seen astray pig about here" To which Pat responded, "Faix, and how could I tell a stray pig from any other?" A wag, seeing a door nearly off its hinges, in which condition it had been some time, observed that when it had fallen ami killed some one it would probably be hung. A MilwaI'KKE paper says of the air, in its relations to men, "it kisses ami blesses him, but will not obey him." Rlobhs says that that description suits his wife exactly, A YXKEE REAGRKR dUrtillrSeJ I, Off) the text, "How old art thou ?" and the next day about one-third of the congre gation called to tell hint it was none of bis business. There is Scotch looking-glass maker who heads bis advertisements with a quotation from Burns: "The giftie gie us, to see ourselves as ithers see us." There was a lady in church, last Sunday morning, whodidn't look around to see who had ou Fall hats. She was blind. Qi-kexs of 'Arts female grail nates. -Baalaieaa lw. The following brief com ft" business law is worth urefu,ii P1' vation, as it contains the essence of a large amount of legal verbiage: It Is not legally necessary to say on a note "for value received." . Contracts made on Sunday cannot tie enforced. , A note bv a minor is voui. ; A contract made with a minor is also TA contract made with a lunatic is also void. , , A note obtained by fraud, or from a person Jn a state of intoxication, cannot be collected. . , If a note is lost or stolen, it does not i A .1... ..i-Lnr. Iia must nav It. 1 1 ir d3C llt7 111.. . v , i the consideration for which it was given and the amount, can oe pru.cu. 4 - 1..- . nnt U exeiimt from .-an ciii,Fi - - - - - liability if not served with notice of dis honor within tweniy-iour n"o uoii-pavmeiit. . . Notes bear interest only when it is so stated. I'rincinals are responsible for trie acts of their agents. ... Each individual in a partnership is responsible for the whole amount of debts of the firm. Ignorance of the law exencs no one. It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. The law conuiels no one to do impos sibilities. An agreement without consideration is void. Signatures made with a lead pencil are good in law. A receipt for money is not always conclusive. One iKirtner binds all the rest. The first Vrt. The First Continental Congress met at Philadelphia, Septembers, l.(4. Its first measures were not military, but renewed the commercial war which the polonies hail tried before, which was believed in long afterward, but which ilvnreoninlished harm to the enemy at the expense of tenfold harm at home in local and class bickerings. Trade was thrown away just when wise policy dictated to keep" it, and even tight for it. After Deeemlier. 1 1 . nothing was to be imported from any part of the British empire ; and after September, 1775, nothing was to be exported to the same. English goods were needed for the army and came by way ot ine European contiueut and the West Indies ; and lumber and tobacco the same way, The Second Congress. May 10. 1775, set alioiit making war, bnt it had no power to tax, and therefore no power to borrow. .New l ork proposed puis of credit of the old kind, to be redeemed by taxes, and this plan was adopted. The first issue was ordered June "it, ls7.'i promises to pay 2.0UO,X)0 Spanish dollars. The issues were apportioned among the colonies on an estimate of population, and they were called upon to redeem the quota assigned them by taxes. Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire alone did this en tirely : New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia did so in part. 1 he issues went on, however, and in January, 17.,, the depreciation began, although it was not admitted by Congress until Septeiulier. The cost of the war for American iudeiendeiice was estimated by Jefferson at ? U,i.), ooo. and a statement by the Treasury department fixed it at ffVr,il,i specie. When the new Passenger Railway in ( allow hill Caml part of Second St.) was projected, the projectors relied in their calculations to a large extent on the great popularity of the stores in Second Street, reached most conveniently by their road, to draw custom to it. Anil they did not miscalculate. f 'nrwen Stoddart fc Bro's., great Dry floods Enqiorium, No. 450, 452 and 4'A North Scond Street, has alone, by the multitude of its owu customers, been of very great advantage to the fallow hill Street, or People's Road. That old es tablished firm is just as much a favorite with the people in the adjoining North ern Counties, as with l'biladelphians, and especially is that the case with the old and new (o rni.iii stock of the people of Berks, Rucks, Montgomery and other counties. Most of them, while visiting Philadelphia, arrive at the Callowhill Street liepot of the Reading R. II'., and the Callowhill Street Passenger R. R., brings them from that denit directly to the doors of the magnificent Combina tion of stores of t urwen Stoddart it Bro. The assortment of choice and of cheap dress goods, house furnishing shawls, blankets, silks, cloths, cassi meres, lieavers,etc, is really wonderful. The firm follows yet strictly the pol icy, which has made it from humble beginnings one of the largest retail houses not only in Philadelphia, but in the I'nited States. It purchases most advantageously at auctions, from manu facturers ami inqiorters also miiutrs is satisfied with small profits, and al ways keeps the largest supply and vari ety of Dry Goods. They enjoy the fur ther advantage, that their business ex penses are less than those of stores in "fashionable" parts of the city, lint above all, it is their strict probity and fair and equal dealing with their cus tomers, which has made their stores, Nos. 4511, 452 and 454 North Second St., so highly and so deservedly popular. In addition to the above establishment, North Second Street, from Fairmount Avenue, (formerly Coatcs Street,) to Vine Street, is attractive for its large and varied Trade, comprising: Whole sale and Retail Druggists, Extensive Hardware Stores, Large Furniture Stores, Bedding and Feather Ware houses, Retail Dry Goods Stores, Trim ming Stores, Indies' Furnishing Goods Stores, Gents' Furnishing Goods Stores, Clothing Stores, Boot and Shoe Stores, Flotir and Feed Stores, Wholesale and Retail Grocery Stores, Confectionery Stores, Eating Saloons, Stove, Heater and Range Establishments, Watch and Jewelry Mores, Wholesale and Retail Tobacconists, Saddlery and Harness Es tablishment, Carpet Stores, Brush Stores, Hat and Cap Stores, Millinery Stores, The .' Lion Market, The I'uion M-nkd, the Black Horse Market, w here farmer from all the neighboring coun ties ilistoe of their stock, Produce Stores of various kinds, scattered along the strift, and now all accessible by means of the poi bi.e track railway on CAt.lowiin.L ST., which exchanges with all Roads, running North and South. The low rents, and small expenses for conducting business, have rendered this locality proverbial for low prices iu all descriptions of stock. E. r. KMkrl-s Bluer Wiariraa. E. F. Konkel's celebrated Bitter Win of Iron will effectually cure liver eomplsint, jaundice, dyspepsia, chronic or nervous de bility, chronic diarrhtea, disease of the kid neys, and all diseases arising from a disor dered liver, stomach or intestines, soch as constipation, flatulence, inward piles, full ness of blood to the h. aJ, acidity of the stomach, nausea, heartburn, disgust for food, fullne-s of weight in the stomach, sour eructations, sinking or fluttering at the pit of the stomach, swimming of the head, hur ried or difficult breathing, fluttering at the heart, choking or suffocating sensations when in a lying posture, dimnris of vision, dots or webs before the sight, dull pain iu the head, deficiency of perspiration, yel lowness of the akin and eyes, pain in the side, back, head, chest, limbs, etc., sudden flushes of heat, burning in the flesh, con stant imaginings of eviU ami great depres sion of spirits. Pries $1 per bottle. Be ware of counterfeits. Do not let jonr drug gist palm off some other preparation of iron he may say is as good, but ask for Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron. Take no other. Kun kel's Bitter Wine of Iron it not sold in hnlk only in $1 bottles. . f. KunkeL pro prietor. Ho. orth Xinth St., Phila , Pa. Sold by all Druggists and dealers every where. Tafswobm Ribiovio Alitb. Head sail all complete, in two hours. Mo fee till head passes. Seat, Pin and Stomach Worms re moved by Da. KtJBKiL, 259 Notra Nisth Stbbst. Advice free. Come, see over 1,000 specimens and be convinced. He sever taiia. Tb Hawiut Dlscovbbt Of THI An. ANAKESIS, an infallible cure for PuM) , scientific combination of poultice, instru ment aad medicine, endorsed ky physicists of all schools, discovered f-y Db. Siuiix, a regular physician, and used successfully ia thousands of eases. Sufferers who have tried everything else ia vain will find ia. slant relief and permanent cure. It is re garded by medical men as the greatest sf modern discoveries, and pronounced infU. Uble. Price $1. Sent free by mail oa re. eeipt of price. P. Neuatsjdter & Co., 4j Walker SL, New Tork. tt SCICSTIflC DISCOYEBT. For til will send directions bow to produce a IKrht without Ore: sate, simple and costs sue. a year to llifht a room. By mail to M. DkLasuj. Boxt73, Sew YorB. W I IRST GRASD EXPOFITI05 of tb rkAMsmC lDCraiAL I.TTiTtrnE, Pilliho-sh. Pa.. opn tt -,, dM &- AtMrsM, A. J. S ELLIS, Fim. T. I 3 ej im CO J o O O O o m 7) I r r a o o So2 22 H5 Ml 121 : G aw f R x 2 W n z x52 Si "a a a 2 pi is V 2 583 m, ' O b 'FREDERICK SPIECKER, WnOLBtALB SALSB IB Leaf Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, OF THE BEST BRANDS. PHILADELPHIA. Ony Ageai far U. B. Solid Tea Clje hWuid. Cicar Btoras aaa h sasplioa. BROOMS! BROOMS! JOH i. RElBKR A fO., 353 Washington B& Sew Tork. Principal Drpnt in !frw Turk fur the beat Brooa Mannfiktura ia tlx United State. Brooms from 12.00 per doxen and apirard. The lowest prices aaj rn-ateftt nrierr to be fared anywhere. Aim u entire sew rtock ef WOOD and WTLLOW WARM, nek ee Peib. Tuba, Bankete. Nate. Twwee. CnriUtr. Wick. c,tiKethr wick fall line of Apule, Brwr wood end cw tnpem, rency mmpe. Yankee no tions. Cutlery, Ac Began from tli la $nU per miu. A full line ot the best quality ofTlXWARK. P. S. Weeetl oar roods at prices that do not require euy drumming on the road. Orders by Basil will re Mm promot OmUm. KstaJiliebed laou. 3-M-lv offOfl Pr V al some. Terwa rroe. Aidrae 4)3 3Ja. tn-issos A Co., Foitlaad, Me. MU-ly HORSEMEN ! OWNERS OF STOCK! Sate Tour Horses and Cattle 1 CTJRK THEM 07 CISEASB AND KXKP THEM IU A EIALTHT CONDITIO" ST QinSQ THEM M. 8. ROBERTS' CELEBIiATED KArUC HORSE POWDERS. Ef CSB 0TE FORTY YEARS! TBI OSLt roWDBBS OOBTaiBUia) TCNIC, LAZA7I73 aUTD PUTUTI. Ufa ssa7Z3.Tiss . ' SOB1ISSD, TBEBIBT BAB IBB TBBBJ TBA BEST CONDITION MEDICINE IN THE WORLD. They are made af Para Malarial nnl-v. om tablespoonful foinf as far as aaa Beand erdlaarj eattle pow tiers. Buy eae pack if e aai after wing Ike will aeyer get aoae praiaiag them, far aaia all storekeepers. USX M. . ROBERTS' Vegetable Embrocation FOB- ALL EXTERNAL DISEASES Biff 111 MAN Oil ME AST. SHOW OASES! SHOW CASES! All styles. Bireep MnnnteA and Walnut. Bens ajl COtJilitUd, BAlUs AiTltLVlMU, ttlOKsI fix eeOBd-narut- Hmini, ii-imI fne Blilunin l llHEHi C. BOC8B AUD OFPIOK FCKNITDRK all kinds Toe larweM and best assorted stank- sees aad asosaVfeaad la toe Cut. LKWIH fc BKUh t-M) tan. ist. law aad matm .. pan. I ..s X a k - BLANKS ntm ranrrio at hts awwum.
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