The Latest lu Soap Babbles.
Make a fluid in this way: Get a
cake of palm oil soap, shavo its par
ings as thin as possible and drop in a
big bottle filled with distilled water.
Shake the mixture very vigorously,
then filter through gray filtering
paper and mix the remaining fluid
with one-third of its bulk of pure
glycerine. Before using shake well.
Get a small glass funnel about two
inches in diameter, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, connect it with a
tube of India rubber, and you can
blow bubbles with this apparatus that
will surpass the rainbow itself in
brilliancy and beauty. Yes, thero is a
lot of trouble in getting your scientific
pipe and liquid ready, but think of
the sport in the end. Just imagine
a bubble twelve inches aoross t You
can blow them in this way by putting
them upon a big iron ring—very care
fully, of course—whilo the metal is
wet with the prepared solution. Get
a ring that is quite rusty—that as
sures a good result. A string of bub
bles two or three inches in diameter
can b8 kept intact for ten or twelve
hours.
M. Izern has communicated to the
Academy of Sciences a new method for
obtaining soap bubbles lasting a much
longer time than those obtainod from
the soap water generally used. He
has recourso to a resinous soap made
by the following formula: Pulverize
together ton grammes of pure resin
and ten parts of carbonato of potash;
add 100 parts of water and boil until
comploto solution; wo obtain in this
way a thick solution, which may bo
kept in stock to be diluted for uso
with from four to five times its volume
of water. It can be kept indefinitely,
even when exposed to the air. Tho
bubbles produced are vory persistent,
and, consequently, can be made use
ful in the study of the phenomena re
lating to thin laminae and in making
photographs in which soap bubbles
play a part.
Superstition lu Bicycling.
A cycling paper recently told of a
man who selected a wheel but after
ward, without any apparent reason,
refused to take it. Ho wanted another
one, and was satisfied with a machine
that was an exact duplicuto of the one
he had rejected. The agent puzzled
his mind to discover what tho objec
tion was to the first wheol. The two
were alike in every particular except
the number. This gave tho clew. Tho
number of the first wheel was 340,051,
and the total of these individual fig
ures was thirteen. That was tho ex
planation, as tho customer admitted.
There is a sequel, howover, and now
the superstitious man asserts that he
hns been fully vindicated. On his
thirteenth mile ho picked up a pin
and got a puncture. If ho had been
riding No. 340,051 ho believes ho
would have had his wheel smashed or
a limb broken. Thereforo ho con
gratulates himself on his shrewdness.
—New York Tribune.
Suicides in Paris.
The official statistics of tho number
of suicides in Paris during 1893 has
just been issued. Tho total number
of self-murders was 953. Of tho total
231 drowned themselves, 113 used
guns and revolvers, 98 of the shots
being in the heads, 71 stabbed them
selves to death, f>2 used poisons, 4
asphyxiated and 77 threw themselves
from high buildings, monuments, etc.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
Dr. Kilmer's BWAMP-KOOT cures
all Kidney nnd Madder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation froo.
Laboratory ISiiiKliumton, N. Y.
John Burns, the labor leader, has been ro
olected to the English Parliament.
Tobacco-Weakened liesolutioim.
Nerves irritated by tobacco, always crav
ing for stimulants, explains why it is so hard
to swear off. No-To-Bac is the only guaran
teed tobacco habit eure because it acts di
rectly on affected nerve centers, destroys ir
ritation, promotes digestion and healthy, re
freshing sleep. Many gain 10 pounds in 10
days. You run no risk. No-To-Bac is sold
and guaranteed by Druggists everywhere.
Book free. Ad. Sterling itemedy Co., New
York. City or Chicago.
Due Given llelief.
It is so ensy to be mistaken about indiges
tion, and think there is s >me other trouble.
The cure is Hipans Tubules. One tabule gives
relief. Ask any druggist.
W. H. OrilTlu, Jackson, Michigan, writes:
" Suffered with Catarrh for lifteeii years,
Hall's Catarrh Cure cured me." Sjld by Drug
gists, 7oc.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. Jsc. a bottle
I cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure for
Consumption.—Mrs. KKANK MODUS, 215 W. Sid
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DWARF ZJIMAS.
All the varieties of dwarf lima beans
are valuable, since they are from two
weeks to a month earlier than the pole
varieties. They are so productive that
it is possible to secure a greater total
yield per aero from them than from
tho other kinds, as tho plants require
less room. Henderson's is tho earliest
of theso beans, tho most productive
and continues longest in bearing. The
pods also escape the mildew, which is
often serious upon the late thick-pod
ded sorts. Its white beans are infer
ior in quality to the true lima.
Tho Cornell Staf ion found the Thor
burn, Ku merle or Dreer Dwarf only
moderately produ stive and rather
late. Its white beans have tho excel
lent qualities of tho potato lima.
Jackson's Wonder differs from Hen
derson's in having tho beans brown
speckled. Tho Burpee has a flat seed
as largo as those of the pole lima. It
is two or three weeks later than tho
Henderson. Tho Dreer is the best
bean in quality, but tho pods grow so
closely togothor and so near the
ground that there is danger of rotting
and soiling before tho beans are fit to
use.—New York World.
FEEDING SOFT FOOD TO HENS.
To keep a hen in good condition for
laying, she should never have a full
crop during tho day. It is not wrong
to give a light meal of mixed food,
worm in the morning, in tho trough,
but suoh meal should be only one
fourth the quantity tho hens require.
They should go away from the trough
unsatisfied, and should then seek their
food, deriving it graiu by grain, en
gaging in healthy exercise in order
to obtain it, and in such circumstances
the food will be passed into the giz
zard slowly and bo better digested.
Gradually the hen will accumulate suf
ficient food to provide for tho night,
going on the roost with a full crop,
where she can leisurely forward it
from the crop to the gizzard. Feeding
soft food leads to many errors on the
part of tho beginner, causing him to
overfeed and pamper his hens, and by
it thoy will reach a condition that is
entirely antagonistic to laying. It is
much better to feed hard grains only
than to feed from n trough, unless the
soft food is carefully measured. A
quart of mixed, ground grain, moist
ened nnd in a crumbly condition,
should be sufficient for forty hens as a
"starter" for tho morning, but two
quarts of whole grain should then be
scattered in litter for them to seek
nnd secure for themselves. —Farm and
Fireside.
CELEItY.
Celery is one of tho neglectod vege
tables that should find a placo in every
garden great or small. It comes so
late that it may bo grewn as an aftsr
crop where early potatoes or swiet
corn hns been grown. The seeds
should be sown in seod bed, that has
been made perfectly fine and tho seeds
must be very lightly covered. Tho
best way to sow them is to mako very
shallow furrows in the bed and cover the
seeds after they have been drilled in
tho furrow, by sifting fine soil over
them. When the plants have giown
to be an inch high it is a pretty good
plan to clip the tops off as this makes
the plants stocky aud vigorous.
Celery delights in a moist soil and
to do well it must be watered if the
weather is at all dry. The common
custom is to sot tho plants in trenches
six or eight inches deep. These
trenches should be deeply dug and
thoroughly fined in tho bottom and
mado very rich with fertilizers of
some kind, as it is a rank feeder and
mnst bo furnished abundant plant
food within a short ilistanoe as the
roots are 6hort. Set the plants dur
ing damp weather if possible, and as
they grow draw tho earth into tho
trenches, gradually filling them as the
plants grow higher, taking caro to
keep the soil lrom getting into the
centre of tho bunch. This can be
prevented by holding the tops with
one hand and drawing tho soil around
them with a hoe, or preferably, with
the other hand. When tho trenches
are filled the banking up begins and
at every working the soil should be
banked a little higher until the plants
stand in a ridge reaching as high as the
stem of tho plants. This makes thom
white nnd crisp. At tho last working
tho ridges should bo patted into firm
ness with a spado so they will retain
their shade.
A new plan that has been tried with
some success is to set the plants only
a foot apart each way and let them
grow iu this shape; they will be so
thick that they will half blanch them
selves, aud when they are fully grown
they can bo taken up and putin a
dark cellar in boxes with a little soil
around the roots to finish the blanch
ing process, or reset in trenches and
left there to blanch.
The old plan we think is best for
beginners, and we should have a lot
of them in this country, for there is
nothing that is bettor for nervousness
than to eat liberally of celery.—At
lanta Journal.
CUBING MAY.
So much depends upon olimate, sun
shine and wind that no definite rules
can be laid down for cutting and cur
ing hay. If possible, hay should be
housed on the day of cutting, but this
will only answer if tho mow is large
and the amount to be stored limited.
Those who grow the crop on a laige
scale adopt the plan of cutting it late
in the afternoou. There is no mois
ture on the grass at this time, and it
is so late that it does not wilt at all
that night, and therefore is not in
jured by the dew. The next day after
the dew is off it should bo tossed twice
by the tedder, and, after it is thor
oughly wilted, it should be raked up
and put into good sized shocks, cov
ered with waterproof hay caps to pro
tect it from ilew or rain, and left' to
cure. ' Exposure to the sun for a few
hours just before drawing to the barn
will complete tho process,
The common mistake Ho making hay
is usually allowing it to lie in the hot
sun too long. The best hay is mado
by air curing rather than by the sun
drying. As far as possible hay should
be oured in the bunch. It may be
oocked up much greener than form
erly believed, provided it is fairly
wiltod and contains no extraneous
moisture. If allowed to sweat before
drawing it will rarely heat in the mow.
Whea hay is first cut it should be
long enough in the sunlight to dry it
sufficiently to allow it to be readily
raked together into windrows. The
hay tedder is of great assistance in
curing the hay by tossing it in the air,
thus exposing it so that all moisture
is rapidly dried out. When oured by
tho wind rather than the sun hay pre
serves not only its green oolor, but the
aroma which renders it so palatable
to stock. As the nutritivo properties
of grass are all soluble in rain or dew,
care must bo taken to protect the hay
from all moisture. If exposed to a
long rain it becomes almost as worth
less as straw, so greatly is its feeding
value impaired.
In no direction have farmers pro
gressed more than in their methods o(
curing bay. If is no longer consid
ered necessary to get every particle of
moisture out of tho grass. Excessivo
dryness is avoided. They have learned
tho difference between curing and
pver curing, and that while hay when
twisted should not show moisture,
neither should it be so dried as to
show brittleness.—New York World.
DIRECTIONS FOR HOME CHEESE MAKING.
Strain the milk into a vat aud add
halt a pint of rennet to 100 gallons of
milk, which should bring the curd in
one hour when the temporaturo is at
about eighty degree s. Stir tho ren
net and milk thoroughly. Many of
the unknown troubles of the amateur
cheeso maker arise from the use of ill
conditioned rennet; if doubts as to
its purity exist, it should be filtered
through a flannel or cotton fibre. As
the condition of rennet, quantity of
milk and temperaturo vary at nearly
every cheese making, the prepared
rennet tablets sold I y dairy supply
houses are undoubtedly more certain
in results. To tho beginner, a ther
mometer accurately graduated is es
sential to success. Tho curd is cat
into one inoh squares immediately
after it has formed, to hasten tho sep
aration of whey and curd. Tho'out
ting is repoated two or three times at
half hour intervals, and then dipped
carefully into a basket in which a
strainer has been placed. Arrange the
basket on a ladder over tho whey re
ceiver and cut tho curd occasionally to
hasten draining. When compact and
fairly free from whey, tio the strainer
ends by opposite corners and hang iu
a cool placo until the morning ruu is
made. Proceed with tho morning's
milk precisely in tho samo way uutil
ready to hang. This curd requires a
little more draining that it may be
firm and decidedly free from whey.
Cut the night and morning curds in
slices, place in a bowl and chop into
pieces a half inch in diameter. Pour
over the enrds a gallon of hot whey or
water and stir until a squeaking sound
is made. Drain off the scalding wator,
add salt to taste, and thoroughly mix
in the curd. Place a dry strainer in
the hoop, carefully introduce the curd,
fold tho strainer neatly over the top,
put the follower on and consign to the
press. Only enough woight should bo
used to nicely consolidate the cheese
and press out tho small remaining por
tions of whey. If placed in the press in
tho morning, at night turn the cheese,
substitute a fresh straiuer, the next
day remove from the press, butter tho
sides, top and bottom, aud placo on an
odorless board in a cool, airy place to
cure. Four weeks for curing is neces
sary, and during this time the cheese
should be turned daily and buttered if
inclined to adhere to the board. As
cheese is liable to expand, a baud of
strong oloth should bo drawn and
sewed tightly around it to obviate
cracking. —American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Every piece of ground put into ear
ly vegetables should produce at least
two crops a year.
In France, cbiokens are not raised
for the market; eggs and young fatted
fowls arc the ends kept in view.
See that the hens have plenty ol
sand or gravel. They have no teeth,
and must have gravel to grind the food
in the gizzard.
As the peas, radishes and early po
tatoes are taken off, do not let the
land lie idle and grow a crop of weeds.
Set out cabbages, celery, or BOW tur
nips.
In the precise meaning of the term,
there is no poultry farming in Franoe.
But there is "poultry keeping, ,J and
very generally followed by peasanti
and small farmers.
As hay is made when the the sun
shines, so is money increased to thai
dairyman who manages so that hit
cows yield milk abundantly whec
dairy prices are high.
Space, air, sun and pure water arc
essentials to sucoess in poultry rais
ing. In yards where trees cannot b«
raised, a few shrubs will repay plant
ing; in summer these will form s
shade, and in the event of sudden rain
a shelter.
To preserve oggs it is not absolutely
esontial to to paok them in anything,
if you have a cool place and can, plaoe
them on shelves where they can b«
turned three or four times a week.
Eggs from hens not with males will
keep where fertile eggs will not.
Many amateur growers plant trees
with enthusiasm and then grow dis
couraged over borers and rabbits;
over spraying and prunning; over
curculio and knots, and iioe and mioe
and grubs. They are the growers (?)
who will never glut the markets.
They are a great help to the nurseriei
and give the progressive orohardist t
cimnoa to Mil his superior products.
HOUSEHOLD IfTAIBS.
CCBII TOUR OWM FRATKHM.
There »re few things that give a hat
a more rnmpled and shabby appear
anoe than an ostrieh feather limp and
dejected, looking almost as forlorn as
when it and its fellows arrived here
fresh from ostriehland. Any one see
ing an ostrioh feather then wonld
think it only fit for the ragbag, bat a
series of brisk sornbbings in warm
soapsuds on a washboard, a judicious
patohing together and elimination of
ragged places where Sir Ostrich has
preened himself too vigorously, a
curling and combing, soon make of
the ostrich feather a thing of beauty
and joy forever—until it gets wet
when the prooessof rejuvenation again
becomes neoeasary.
If taken to my lady milliner or the
less pretentions feather renovator
every time this dnty beoomes impera
tive, the ostrioh plume becomes meta
morphosed into something of au ele
phant to ono who bears not Fortu
natus's purse; but the restorative
process is EO simple, when one knows
just how, that every woman can readily
become her own "feather artist."
Have A teakettle full of boiling
water; shake the feather vigorously
through the escaping steam, taking
care that it does not get too damp.
This livens up'the plume and restores
brilliancy if it has become dull and
dusty. Next take a silver fruit kuife,
and, beginning with the feathers near
est the quill, take a small bunch be
tween thumb and forefinger and draw
gently over the blade of the knife un
til they curl as closely as desired. Fol
low this process up eaoh side of the
tip; then take a very coarso comb,
comb out carefully, and you have
your plume as good as ever. —New
York Times.
LOVELY HOMEMADE RIMS.
A rug for the parlor can be made by
stamping or tracing a pattern upon a
material in tan. This looks like the
common oats and bran sacks, only it
is more closely woven and substantial.
It is called sacking, I believe. Work
in cross-stitch with bright-oolored
worsteds, lining the same with cotton
flannel to keep from slipping if placed
upon a carpeted floor. Sew together
all but one side, turn right side out,
and catoh the open end by hand.
Finish the edge by raveling out a
brigh-colored shawl, or buy a fringo
which costs but little.
A very pretty and warm rug may
be made as follows: Gather together
all pieces of cotton and woolen goods,
having an equal quantity of bright and
dark colors. If same pieces are faced
and dirty, wash and dry them. Then
select your favorite colors to dye, fol
lowing tho directions carefully, using
woolen dye for somo and cotton dye
for tho cotton scraps. Old rose and
black, gray and pink or blue, cardinal
and seal brown,palo green or olive aud
pink, are pretty combinations. Still,
all depends on the color of the pieces
used, as in dyeing a shade darker must
be used. When all is roady, cut up
strips three inches wide, if tho goods
will allow. Gather the strips through
the middle, or fold togethor and
gather, leaving tho folded edge, to bo
up when sewed on the foundation. A
very good and substantial foundation
can bo made of old ticking, or even
oat sacks. If something very nice is
wanted, it can bo lined with any col
ored material in contrast with the pre
vailing oolor on top. Sew alternately
the bright and dark colors. You will
bo surprised at tho beauty.
Somo lovely dosigus can be made to
represent a pond lily, using dark
green for the leaves, oream for the
petals, with a littlo dash of pink un
der the potals, aud a little yellow or
raveled worsted to form the pollen.
Roses and pansies in their own colors
aro grand and quite easily mnde.--
New England Homestead.
RECITES.
Minced Veal Sandwiches—Chop up
tho cold veal loft from dinner, season
well, add one tablespoonful of butter
and juice of ono lemon, rub to a
smooth paste. Spread between home
made raised biscuits.
Potato Omelet—Throo eggs beaten
separately, one cup of mashed pota
toes, one-half cup of milk, ono tea
spoonful of flour, a little salt and some
chopped parsley; mix and pour into a
hot puttered pan, brown it lightly
and serve hot.
Wilted Lettuce—Fry apiece of ham
or bacon until brown. Cut into
small pieces and add one cup of vine
gar. When boiling pour over two
heads of lettuce Kid in a deep dish.
Cover until wilted. Garnish with
slices of cola boiled eggs.
Potato Fritters--Boat up very light
some oold mashed potatoes, add a little
salt, two eggs, half a cup of milk and
flour enough to mako it the consistency
of pancake batter. Beat very smooth,
then drop by spoonfuls into hot lard
and fry to a light brown.
Ginger Drop Cakes—One cup of
molasses, one-half cup of brown sugar,
one-half cupful of butter, one tea
spoonful each of extract of ginger and
extraet of cinnamon, two toaspoon
fuls of soda in one oup of hot water,
two eggs and three cups of flour.
Mock Oyster Stew—One oup of
shredded oodfisli. Let simmer fifteen
minutes. One pint of milk thiokened
with one tablespoonful of butter. Add
a little pepper. Cook over hot water
until thiok. Put two cups of oyster
crackers into a dish, add the fish and
pour the thickened milk over it.
Salsify Fritters—Scrape and put
into cold water to prevent discolora
tion. Cot into pieces and boil thirty
minutes. Drain and put through n
colander. Add two well-beaten eggs,
one tablespoonful of flour, one tea
spoonful of salt, pepper to taste; mix;
drop a teaspoonful into hot butter and
fry on both sides.
Stuffed Cucumbers—Select good
sized, fresh oucumbers, pare them and
cut them into halves. With a spoou
scoop out the oenter or seed part, put
one cupful of fine breadcrumbs into a
bowl, add one tablespoonful of melted
butter, a tablespoonful of grated
onion, a teaspoonful of salt, and, if it
can be bad, a green pepper chopped
fine. Put this mixture into the cu
cumber, stand in a baking-pan. Put
into the bottom of the baking-pan a
tablespoonful of butter and halt a cup
ful of water. Cook in a quick oven
thirty minutes, basting soveral times,
ttarve very hot.
PgMBMEH
No Italian girl can marry without a
dowry.
Scarlet is mourning color for un
married women in Brazil.
Kansas has twenty-fivo newspapers
which are edited by women.
The Empress Elizabeth of Russia
was one of the stoutest women of her
time.
Mrs. Siddons was large, with very
striking features, and an air of great
personal dignity.
Eight ladies hold commissions as
colonels in the German army. They
are all queens or prinoesses.
Queen Victoria has signed but ono 1
death warrant, and that was for an
execution in the Isle of Man.
Embroidered eyelets are seen in
some satin ribbons, the embroidery
contrasting in color with the grounds.
The British matron is nettled by
Daudot's caustio observations on her
lack of physical charms and of taste of
dress.
Princess do Polignac, formerly Win
naretta Singer, daughter of the great
sewing machine man, is said to be tho
best amateur musician in Paris.
The Empress of Austria says she will
never wear anything but black here
after, and is distributing her court
dresses among her intimate friends.
A movement is on foot to eiect a
memorial to the late Christina Rosetti
in Christ Church, Woburn Square,
London, wliero she worshiped for
twenty years.
A number of girl students in tho
University of Michigan decided to
wear knickerbockers hereafter. They
expect that all the girls in the uni
versity will follow their example.
Miss Carrie Liebig, who has just
been appointed a division surgeon of
the Northern Pacific Railroad at Hope,
Idaho, is tho first woman physician to
bo appointed in the railway service.
A number of women are making a
good incomo in Philadelphia design
ing and drawing pictures for illustra
ting the newspaper advertisements of
the big retail mercantile advertise
ments.
It is tho suggestion of a thrifty wo
man that pieces of children's dresses
of wash materials should be included
in soveral launderings to secure tho
requisite change of color that will
mako patches unnoticcablo.
"Mine. La Presidente," as Mine.
Faure is called in Paris, is described as
tho highest typo of French womanly
character. She abhors scandal, disap
proves of flirtation, loves her home
and frowns upon all risque tendencies
in Parisian society.
Miss Uoswell, the only woman dele
gate in the Republican Convention at
Cleveland, is decidedly handsome,
though of delicate physique. She has
what is described as "warm colored"
hair, transparent complexion and ex
pressive brown eyes.
The up-to-date ladies of tho Trinity
Protestant Episoopal Church in Tow
son, Md., are raising monoy with
which to buy a bicycle for tho rector
of the church, which he is to uso in
making pastoral visits and in attend
ing to other parish duties.
The college at Benzonia, Mich., is
thirty-two years old, but had its first
graduation this term. The scholar is
a girl who took an eightyears' course,
carried off all the class honors because
she was the wholo class, was honored
with Ph. P., and is a new woman.
Marie Corolli, the novelist, who Ins
been much talked of recently in Eng
land, is in private life Miss Minnie
Mackay, daughter of the late Charles
Mackay. Her first book, "A Romance
of Two Worlds," was published in
188G, when sho was twenty-two years
old.
Tho old homestead of Jane Grey
Swissheliu in Swissvale, Penn.. is the
Meoea of many visitors to Pittsburg.
Mrs. Swisshelm was the first woman
engaged to report Washington news
for a daily newspaper. She was em
ployed for that purpose by Horace
Greeley.
A woman angler, Miss E. T. Cros
by, caught thirty-one trout, averag
ing three-quarters of a pound each,
in thirty minutes at Bangeley Lake,
Mo., a few days ago. She is noted in
that region for her skill with the rod,
having earnod the sobriquet of "Fly
Rod" by her achievements.
It is said that Queen Victoria has
had a chair constructed which will
support her in a standing position
while receiving visitors. The chair is
cunningly arranged, so that its form
is coverod with regal draperies, and
report says it would deceive any ono
who didn't know it was there.
Lady Randolph Churchill, formerly
Miss Jerome of New York, widow of
Lord Randolph Churchill, is now to
bo seen in Paris in the smartest oycling
version of mourning. It is added thai,
she wears a black alpaca suit edged
with black leather knickerbockers,
concealed by a short skirt and a black
straw hat.
Suburban women may bo seen
boarding the trains these days for a
town shopping expedition carrying
flat wicker baskets in lieu of bags or
satchels for their small pick-ups.
These aro in the basket-fawn ana
light-brown shades or of dull red, and
are both lighter and prettier than the
leather bag.
There is a very evident intention
on the part of designers to modify the
Dutch bonnet that had suoh a sudden
boom early in the season. The style
is becoming to but very few, and the
shape is not at all easy to keep on tho
head. The bonnet with a round
crown is every way more desirable,
and may be trimmed at tho sides and
arranged so that it is broa.l without
being hard to manage.
A woman drummer tor a St. Louis
vinegar manufactory is touring the
Northwest on a biojrole and in stun
ning Parisian bloomers. She started
from St. Louis last Jauuary and had
reached Seattle a week or so ago. She
sends postal oards ahead of her to the
grooers saying she will "wheel her
into town about next week," and ask
ing them to save their orders for her.
She is creating a aonsutiou, and sell*
tug lota of vinegar.
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Sleep and Insomnia.
Sleep is a greater mystery than in
somnia. We hear much of the latter
Btate in these days. Bat it is more
'wonderful that we deep so well than
that we are occasionally wakeful. We
hear more of sleeplessness than oar
forefathers did. It is a remarkable
fact that in scarcely any of the older
text-books of practice of phytio is
there any formal notice of insomnia
per sc. In later works, and especially
in those devoted to treatment, the
subject of insomnia does not receive
considerable attention. And every
now and again the sleeplessness of a
great man in the world of soience or
in that of politics reminds ns that
eminence has its troubles, and of a
sort which seldom affects the poor
man.it is probable that this evil of
wakefulness is more common than it
used to be. The excitements and es
pecially the worries of life multiply.
Many of the arrangements of society
are of a nature to drive away sleep.
Even the pleasures of life are so taken
by many as to rob them of one of the
greatest pleasuren of all—an eight
hours' sound sleep; for we maintain
that this is what everybody should aim
at. It may seem a long time to spend
a third of one's life in sleep. But if
the other two-thirds are used well,
there is little cause for blame. No
rule for all can bo laid down; but it
would be well for most people in the
intensive days in whish we live to de
vote eight hours to the cultivation of
the mood and act of sleep, and to
resist the domination of habits and
fashions that are inconsistent with this
purpose.—Home and F&im.
It is likely that a macadamized road,
100 feet wide, running along the lake
shore from Ohicago to Milwaukee,
Wis., will bo begun soon.
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ited one of them, the Lund Sane,
foand everything arranged contrary
to nature, according to Western no
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athwart ship, the anchor hung over
the stern, the rudder had a large num
ber of diamond-shaped holes in it,
and the batwing-like sail was hoisted
with an nnoouth windlass, though it
would be quicker and easier to give
the halyards a few pulls. Then the
ribs oame up a few inches above the
deck and the side planking ran beyond
the stern, as if the ship carpenter had
forgotten to come back with a saw
and fiuish his job. Nevertheless, the
captain of the Lund Sune regards her
as a clipper, and wants to enter in tho
regatta.—New Orleans Picayune.
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