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I-ItiALT Never melte up a been h, use until the
+ da it is needed, awl then be sure the bed
itself es well as the ohms told blankets, are
m ell aired and dried.
11 everybody improve.l the minutes with
the zeal that a hen puts into her work while
Of all the agencies in tho spread of whet making a s[llteptitietls five Minute cell in
are callederm diseases," dust is orha 1a a flower garden, what n world this lv old
the most potent, The peculiar daupj.',ere of be, g
the month of Metolt aro duo not merely to Gysters roasted In the shell aro very good,
the high winds then prevalent, but to the end eau bo digested by is very weak stomach,
dust with which the wiud pollutes the air lie intro they aro fresh, lay then on the grata
at that season. or 0 hot oven and they will open themselves,
Inorganic dust, that is, dust composed of An extraordinary fallacy 10 the dread of
nothing but pulverised earth, is not of itself night air, What air eau we breathe at
very harmful. Thus coal -miners aro not night but night air, and it is surely butter
especially prone to lung diseases, though to breath pure air front without, than ins.
working in coal -dust constantly, Dnst, pure air from within the room.
however, as found in the streets of our cities
and towue, is largely made up of organio
matter. Such dust, if not of itself largely
composed of germs, still furnishes en excel-
lent lurking -place for them.
Not all germs are harmful or generative
of inflammation ; but on the other hand,
some of the germs most harmful to human
life are constantly to be found where street
dust is abundant. When we inhale dust,
therefore, we undoubtedly inhale many
germs, or bacteria, which nay or may not
find a lodging place within ns.
Some germs thus inhaled in dust do not at
all alieot the health ; but on the other band
others, should they find lodging -place in the
body, world manifest their presence by pro-
nounced symptoms.
It is almost needless to say that the
mucous membraue of the nose is a much her length, and having a maximum thick -
safer plane for the reception of dust than nese of 18 -inch ar'inour. This belt is ter -
that of the lungs, and wo should therefore
Eery the mouth closed whet we aro forced
to inhale dust.
Germs coming in contact with a part of
the mucous membrane which is already in-
flamed are especially liable to multiply, as
they then have oculirly favorable eotdi•
Dust.
It Is better to begin life on Indian men
pudding and snit eodtlsh, and Hee to roast
beef and mince pie, than to begin on roast
heel and mince pie, and get down to Indian
meal pudding o.nd salt codfish.
The Strongest Armour -Glad,
Great Britain possesses rho stronuest sea
going eremite -clad in tine Royal Soo: reign,
which was named by the Queen at Ports-
mouth last year, and which marks a notable
point in theseieneo ofwar•ehip design. She
i.+730 feet between perpendiculars, with 75 in.
beam, and 27 fret' in drnC ht, and has
been
tleolt`ned to surpass all existing fighting
ship: in speed and auxila'y armament. At
the water -line she is protected by e, belt,
S.( feet broad, extending over two-thirds of
urinated at cuboe end by transverse armour-
ed bulk -heads, with above a 3 -inch steel
deck, while a strong under -water deck com-
pletes the protection before and abaft the
belt. The broadside about the belt is pro-
tected, to a height of Oe feet above water
p over two-thirds of the vessel's length, by 5 -
tons of boat and moisture. Hence the spe. latch armour, with semen bulk-iteatis,
tial importance of avoiding dust as much as similarly arnionr'ed, inclosing the central
possible when one is sutiering from troy battery. The armour on the barbettos is 17
acute or chronic catarrhal conditions of the, Welles thick, while the protection of their
respiratory organs.
It is woll to remember that dust -cloths
slightly moistened, and afterward shaken
out of doors, aro much more sanitary than
feather -dusters, the use of which drives the
dust from one location only to settle upon
another.
Milk for Babes.
The cloy is fast approaching when an in.
fant's chances of life will far outweigh those
of death ; and as this particular branch of
knowledge spreads, its influence will be
felt in a marked degree upon the health of
the children of the poor in large cities,
:wows and guns in the auxiliary batteries,
as well as the ammunition supply in all the
stages of its passage from the magazines,
has been specially arranged in view of the
development of high explosives and quick-
tirin g gnus. Tho principal armour of the ship
throughout is backed with teak 1.8 to 20
inches thick, behind which is an inner metal
skin 2 inches thick. The total weight of
armour in the Royal ewer: len amounts to
4,550 tons. Italy has two very powerful
armour -clads in tho 1)uflio and J)aaciclo,
which although superior to the British ves-
sel the egdcrih;. (the next strongest to the
Eton/ So.•o,,,;p,) to armament and speed,
yet are not cuito so strongly protected.
Tho walls of tee b;lt".old: are 41 inches
those who now have to struggle as best they , thick, and consist of armour plates, the
can against sour milk, heat, dust, tenement- I total thiclatese of which varies from 10
life, and all the evils and diseerafcrts that ; in0110; to 21 inches, with strong teak back -
attend the very poor, absence of cleauliness i
being generally the greatest evil.
Milk is gradually heating appreciated for Makinga Wjutlow Garden.
its hygienic value, and contains all the h
elements necessary for the formation of A wlmlow flooded with sunshine alwes's
blood, bone, and muscle. It is frequently su, tteste the possibilities of an amateur hot
louse.
The necessary arrangement for such an
annex, which is to gladden your sight, con-
sists of an oblong, zinc -lined, wooden box
about nine inches deep. This is furnished
with a movable glass top.
Place a layer of small pebbles in the bot-
tom to assist in drainage and fill the box
nearly to the tap with rioh loam. On this
sprinklethiekly violet, mignonette or any
other dainty flower sends. Those seeds
which produce sweet smelling blooms are
the most satisfactory, particularly violets,
as their presence is almost always notice-
able.
Keep the earth very damp, as this causes
the moist atmosphere so valuable in a hot
horse. While tho seeds are sprouting it is
well to keep the box covered with the glass,
raising It only fur a few moments during
the noon hour. Aua after the plants have
made their appearance the top may be left
off at little longer, until, by the time the
buds are forming, the plants may be cepos-
ed during all the warmest hours of the day.
prescribed by physicians as It remedy in
various forms of illness. When pure, it is
of infinite service ; when tainted, it is posi-
tively dangerous. In one instance, in a
wealthy family, where a baby was slowly
wasting away, a well-paid milkman provided
milk according to the once popular fallacy,
" from one cow." 4 sample was ata
lyzed, and each teaspoonful was found
to contain, in routed numbers, half a million
bacteria. Immediately the rile was laid
down that all milk given should be sterilized.
Since then the child has become plump and
healthy. If such trouble can arise among
the wealthy, how much more probable is its
occurrence among the very poor,wheee ignor-
ance reigns supreme ! Those engaged in
visiting the poor in cities reveal pitiful oases
of poverty, carelessness, and ignorance.
Baby's milk is left tuteove•od all day long
in the stifling atmosphere of one living -room,
placed with other food in a sink which be-
comes the refrigerator for those who cannot
afford ice, and here absorbs germs by the
millions,
Condensed milk is, fortunately, a favorite I Two weeks from their first appearance
food for infants among the poor. 'Though above ground is the time for thinning out
not a perfect food, it is sweet and clean, ' and transplanting, .About every third plant
needs to 00 removed in order to provide
more room for the now rapidly spreading
leaves,
With such treatment your flowers will be
larger and more numerous, and prove a
scarce of endless enjoyment to you and your
friends, A. home-grown flower seems much
more friendly than one from any florist.
and will remove so if given a little Dare for
a sufficient length of time.
Sterilized milk in bottles, one for each
feeding, can be procured in almost all large
cities,but it is generally beyond the reach
of the reetly poor. One of the greatest dif-
ficulties, however, to be encountered 01 es-
. tablishing the general use of this milk will
lie in the effort to aonvinee mothers of its
desirability, ---
Dr. Lemon.
Squeeze him into a glass of water every
morning and drink him with very little
sugar. Ho will keep your stomach in the best
of order andnever let Mr. Dyspepsia, whom
he hates cordially, get into it, 11 you have
dark hair and it seems to be felling out out
off e, slice of the doctor and rub him on your
scalp. He will stop that little trouble
promptly. Squeeze him into a quart of milk
and be will give you a mixture to rub on
your faoe night and morning and got it
complexion like a princess. Pour him into
an equal quantity of glycerine and rub your
hands with the mixture beforogoing to bet.
If you don't mind sleeping with gloves on,
that is better still and helpe the uootor con.
siderably in his tack of whitening your
hands. In the morning wash your hands
thoroughly in warm water and apply the
doctor again pure, but only a few drops of
him this time. Yot must not keep this up
too long or your hands will show such a
dazzling whiteness as to make all the other
young ladies in the vicinity jealous. If you
have a bad headache out Dr. Lemon into
slices, and rub these along your temples,
The pain will not be long in disappearing—
at least in growing easier to bear, If a bee
or an insect stings you clap a few drops of
the dootor on the spot and you will find
yourself the better for it. If you havo a
troublesome corn the doctor can be again
pub to goocl account by rubbing him on the
toe after you have taken a hat bath and
out away as much as possible of the trouble-
some intruder. Besides all this, tbo doctor
in always roady to sacrifice himself in the
cause of Russian tet—slico in without sugar
—or in the preparation of old-fashioned
lemonade, than which no drink is more
wholesome. Altogether Dr. Letson is an in-
dividual few people can afford to get along
without.
Heald' and Manners
Many are orphans because their mothers
went with bare arms to ilallg tent the clone,
ee after washing.
Be plgasatt and kind in Qom. about yon.
The man who stirs hi (1011 With en 1!11010
spoile the tea and chill.:, i.i:, , all fingers.
Tile world will be improvtd when it lean
hoe learned to laugh it littlo leas et hes
neighbor's troubles, and it little more at hire
own.
"Hew can I beat trait n.p my boy in the
'way be should go 1" asl•i.., rt f.. l'inr, " Gy
-sing that way yourself,"replic i hie friend,
An ingenious Thief.
An Irishman living in Glasgow on one
occasion passed a grocer's shop, and 58eimg
a pile of cheeses on etre counter, and notic-
ing elle shopman in the back roost partak-
ing of breakfitat, thought he saw his oppor-
tunity to get a cheese for nothing.
He therefore stopped lightly into the
shop, and taking a couple of cheeses, placed
ono at each side of the scales.
The ehopman, hearing the noise, carne
from the beck shop, and demanded to know
what Paddy wanted.
" Och 1" said Pat, "don't annoy your.
self ; I only wish to know if your cheese or
mine is the heaviest,"
" Like your confounded cheek," said the
shopnnan angrily ; " if you don't take your
t heeae out of this at woe I'll set the police
on you."
Pat lifted up bhe cheese, and, smiling ab
the trick ho had done, bade bhe shopman a
espeetful good morning.
Pat's Arrangement.
Iwo Irishmen, Patrick O'Connor and Tim
O'Grady, were on a walking tour from.Lim-
oriok to Londonderry ; as night mane 011
they began to loop for a night's lodging.
At length they came to a small house, and
ou inquirin • for a bed they were informed
by the landlady that site could accommo-
date one of then, but could tell the other
where be could get lodgings. This arrange.
meet they consented to, and tried to ar-
range as to how they should know if the
outer were up, and also as to meeting each
other,
" Well," said Pat, " if I om up first I will
put chalk mark of your garden wall, and
wait for you at the bettotn of the street."
"flood," replied 'l im ; "and if l am up
first I will rub it cit,"
Our Modern Homes,
hIt•s. Linorueta Walton—" I like the do
sign of this wail paper very well ; but 1 can
not take it."
Saloeman—" Why not?"
Mrs, Linorneto—" It is too think, It is
my flat I nen going to paler, ante nave to
oco/omize space as much, as possible."
A Gamel's Stomaoh•
A eatnol of the largest size has been ]mown
to drink from thirty to fifty gallons and
thea travel without water for twenty days,
:Tho water remains pure, and numerous in.
stances are on record in which human life
has been raved in the desert by killing a
camel awl using the water from itaetomaah.
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STOBLk7 OF '1tH$ WBOYS THS SILO AND O0I1N k1NEIILAGN, may be nnudo of ,'rmt'ut orhard•pacttel ()lay
well drained, aid oho ild be made level of
Sone or the 1.1)110 aeeenlrteli ltd 0r Wee
lame, of the t"pllne,
n little higher in the eontro. Upon the
By u, u, ,t.t1ttid, .1'tu:T /ttv oNrante Unit- it, m spread a little mit straw before putting
see or 1:,10*00110. 111 corn, No rough stone should be loft few
The first cowbeye I ever saw greatly dio' '.Pins Kett, 4,01/ lTd l'laxl'.ttt.vt'to.—Light pod, hut" illy fouudatimn above the floor
appointed me by 11,011 tt 1petl•altee, All that stele afro preferred, much es sandy to anis ,it• ,P,°",1,toultl tame bt' 00X010,1 with shooting, TheI have aeon sines that titue have disepi,oitt• ''lay 1u,uns s•01l drained. Heavy, elnysshmtl,l Walla should be lol t hallow, The doorway is
1,, uvaidod. '.l'he prcpar,ttiou 10 con1NUM made by mating down from plate to mil be.
tartly by. the nattu•o of rho prteeedieg crop,
ed me equally. It 1 Were to wren n. al. .y et
which there wile a toe boy rl.uraetem, I
would dress hint up int fringed leather
and rd a heeksktu twat., a big drab
Spanish hat as etitf 00 a beard and as big as
the top of it wash•tutu
l,, in dainty boots, and
bead -worked gloves ; his p101010 should ho.
of mother-of•pearl, and nuns but the hest
Cheyonuo saddle shield he sit our --for of
such ie the cowboy of the flash literature
which Inas immortalized hint ; and if the trite
cowboy does not ]snow enough to live up to
his own china, 1twould ignore the fact, And
yet these first eowbnye 1 saw in Montane
were a very ordinary -looking lot of young
depot -loungers, pecnlier only because they
wore big flat -brimmed hats, end because
they had a long line of broncos fettered to a
hitalting•rnil neer by, 1 would have been
laity team host motets by plowing tender
tweet) the 111'o studs, loft 18 it, apart, hang-
luti close•litLing doors oft the euIshii) 10 elnee
that opening, (Atli door being about, 4 ft,
elnverot• grace god, turd applying manure in „ng.4s the silo IN 1111011 the lune Wall is
spring ; others prefer to turn 0000 stubble
in fall, apply manure id winter, and give
boarded`betwoeu ht, the dnoreolosod, aur, the
shallow but thorough enitivotiot In the e; til l with wdnat, If ilio
spring. The nuafu petu4s, l,ovovor, cutpha, doors
thou or fetor lige iunllugtan allre ot couvon
sired by all aro, to have a ootuparatively i y i 1 tilling, door will
llghc soil, well drained, thotougltly well he necessary situated to:cording to requiro-
cultivatod tall richly teamed, moots, 'Ventilate either by roof or gable,
1f the silo is more than LO ft, long it is ad.
Ydw nTlttS OF COM. --Tho corns most visable to divide by removable plank petal.
frequently mentioned 11.8 burnt;