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a3OUSEHOLD.
The Rome.
If called upon to give the most significant
monosyllable incur language, it is not
doullted but that by unanimous vole° it
would be Home, Its mention invariably
*term in the mind the old homestead, bo
it a cottage in a i•illoge etreot, or a ntaneion
in the midst of ample grounds and costly
environments.
Who dens no; revere the home of his
childhood, and all the *aeon') things that
clustered about the family roof "in the
days of auld lane spec," even to thepieturee
on the well, the old arm choir and the great
overgrown family bible thus rested with
folded covers in are allotted place. There,
too, was the little flower garden, with its
neatly kept beds of merrigolds, pinks,
pansies aha bachelor butrona, with hese and
there A flowering rose bush then defied the
winter mom:, We mein to see them now,
as we saw them years arc, and to realize
more than ever that we shall never cease to
love the picture, for it steals upon the mem.
cry with the freshness of Spring days hat
renew the verdure of the fields tad 1111 the
world with rejoicing,
"Be it ever so humble there's no place
like home" --no place that in the Bame de-
gree rewards the care that is bestowed
upan it, for the home is the nursery of the
noble and great among the ranee of ,men,
We cannot do too much for our homes.
Every well chosen ornament within doors
and every shrub or flower that lends
its beauty to the garden or the
lawn, is an educator and sheds upon
the whole household a refining influence
which is felt in all the years to come. Who
has not read " Picciola," and shared with
the unfortunate captive his solicitude, for
the companionship of the humble little
plant that pushed as way above the rocky
pavement of his prison yard, and who has
not felt at comeP ert'
od of kis life
lif a like in.
tereat in some frail charge committed to his
care and upon whose well befog some dear
hope wan entertained ?
We have known parsimonious men in esti.
mating the cost of living to reckon the
interest on the money value of the family
homestead, as if this sacred spot was capable
of being figured out in dollars and cents.
Ae well might a sum be set upon a wite-a
devotion or the love of children. There
has been erected in the park of a n dmeriorn
city a statue of Howard Paine. Other
statutes have been erected there in boner of
men of greater renown, but of none whose
single achievement has found such affection-
ate rooting in the bosoms of the young.
To the little ones that gather about it, all
that need to be told them is that this is the
image of the man who wrote the song of
"Home, Sweet Home."
It is because the home is always sacred,
and forma an ineffaceable picture in the
mind, that we urge its sanctification by
every available means. Nothing which adds
to its comfort in a material sense, or to its
adornment in a purely mabhetio relation,
should be neglected. A single iaexpeneive
but graceful picture in the living room, a
stand of hardy flowers in a window are not
without their educational as well as inspita-
tionaI value. Stich too are the harbingers
of health, the warders of disease and often-
times the forerunners of refinements whioh
spiritualize the hamblest lives andopen the
way to higher levels of thought and action.
There is much truth i the homely aphor-
ism, "All work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy." Children should be provided
with the means of amusing thamsolvea in
suitable ways, and almost any innocent way
is suitable. You cannot begin thio too
early, nor 0000i000 it too late, Playing
cards are often objected to us implements of
gambling, but so are wheat and flour and
homes, and even men in tests of endurance
sometimes coarse and brutalizing. tut
aaide from cards there aro various indoor
amusements to which no reasonable objec-
tion eau be made. By all means encourage
seasonable outdoor exeroites, and do not he
alarmed a' a little boieteroutnese. A hearty
ringing lauen indicates a healthy condition.
You will never hear it from the pale and
sickly offspring of Dame Propriety who
stands ready to check the least naturalness
in her little old men and women. There is
indeed nothing on earth so near heaven
as a little child who has been eufli.rtd to re-
tain its simplicity and naturalness. Pet an.
imals are a great delight to the young. The
care bestowed upon then is never without
its reward,as the oft told tales of their filet,
ity and inetiact that seems akin to reason -
amply testify, Only the violoue or natur-
ally cruel would indulge in their abuse, ane
to suoh, their companionship should bd
denied.
In a word, to the inmates of whatever age
or station, the horns should be made the
dearest, sweeteet place on earth. It is
indeed the shield of honor and the sanctuary
of love. Think not that Anything which adds
to its enjoyment is wasted. No investment
yields such precious returns, since neither
the love and gratitude of the young, nor the
peace and contentment of the old, are cam
able of being estimated by the eordid values
that obtain in the market plasma.
"Bow beautiful is home 1 The wanderer seen,
Returning from afar, the village spire,
And the ancestral roof, whose aged trees
Shelter perchance, wife,mother, child and sire,
Not
The mpty bauble, vainly called Iich foolS Lencwn ;
They ate eentent to light the evening are,
To Least on simple cheer, and lay them down
In joyous rest, to dream, u °fearing fortune's frown."
Collected Recipes.
CRteps,-One oup of melamine, one and
one•half teaspoonful of saleratus; emooth all
lumps out of this soda, then beat with the
molasses until all of a foam; now add one.
half teacupful of melted lard or butter, one.
half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of
ginger and one cup of sifted flour, beat
well together; then add one cup of sour
milk (buttermilk is better if obtainable) and
more flour until it is very hard, roll out as
thin as possible and out, and tinen bake in
a quick oven until brown.
DELP:none CHOCOLATE CAKE, -Ono cup
white sugar, one-half cup of butter, two pups
of flour, one•half oup of sweet milk. Whitee
of three eggo beaten to a froth, one-half tea-
spoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of Dream
tartar ; whites of eggs added last. Bake in
two long tins, with fillings between and on
top.
billing, -Three-fourths cup of grated oho.
calate, one cep of white sugar, yolks of three
e s
tableap o o n
gt3 c two fele of sweet milk;
mix in a basin and set in hot water to:mold
(while cake is {taking), stir often, flavor with
vanilla, let cool until think enough to spread
good.
CREAM Pte. -On and one-half oupe pow.
dared auger, two eggs, pleas butter awe of a
walnut, one oup sweet milk, two teaspoons
cream tartar, one teaspoon salivates, three
cups sifted flour. Cream, butter and sugar ;
add the oggoand boat thoroughly, Put in the
milk except two largo epoontuls, and stir in
bur, in which you have sifted the cream .
tartar. Dissolve the soda in the rest of the 1
milk and add the last thing, Bake in two b
la�no, deep, round tine. When wanted, g
split one of the oaken and Moyer the lower t
half with Sloes of banana epriukled with
powdered sugar, Have tomo whippedoream
prepared ao for shortcake, and spread a few
epoonfula over the fruit, On this place the
other portion of the mica, which must be
oversee with banana and auger; pour the
remainder of the creast over the top and
aides, and servo immediately. Use n aflver
knife to elite the basauae. Tbie reoipo
Milken two pies, oe the ornate are thick
enough to meat, and will keep for several
days if not filled,
MOCK CREAM PIE. -Bake two ernes on
one plate by putting flour between, eo that
they will reparate wham done; you can keep
theee several days. When you want a pie
make a pint of meek cream, with one pint
of milk, one egg, two tablespoonfuls of ecru
starch, a little sats, ]amen or nutmeg for
spice, Cook well. When told all the°rusts
just before you eel ve it. Lay rho top piece
on over the under evenly, as you will fled it
elmoet irepceeihle to mono it after it i8
filled,
MEI.IS-A's Si nlrrcAKR,-One quart of pre!
pared flour, halt a cupful of cutter, one
even teaspoonful of salt, two cups of milk.
Sift the salt with the flour, °hop fn the but-
ter until you have yellow duet, wet with the
milk and roll out with. as little haadling as
possible hell en inch thick, Bake inbreed,
shallow pate well greased, When done out
into squares, split and butter while hot and
send at Duce to the table.
The Work Basket.
Loons FOR Tootle,—Serviceable loops
may bemade by taking cotton tape half aniuoh
lu width, double it, turn in the end and sew
over and over, or run it all around ; the
loop ebould be about two Euchre and a half
lone, and the ends should be reourely stitch-
ed to the uuder side of the top hem of the
towel.
A Now TABLE $PRBAn,- A large spread
recently executed was of unbleached Canton
flannel, used with the twilled side upper.
tomb, The design was a rayed olematia,
leaves and tendrils, and th 't • em
a stitch employed
was buttonhole '
P
Y
a stitch, his stitch h e
, T telt ache n
discovered
to be vary useful in covering
large surfaces, the stitches being placed only
aloes enough together to preserve the color
of the embroidery against the ground,
Flax thread is alae recommended for this
work. The ordinary rule by which the new
buttonhole stitch is worked is titan the die.
tanoe between them must very neatly equal
the depth of the stitches,
DOBTERS.-Pieces of cheese cloth make
the very best of dusters. Hem the edges
and have a large supply. More e°On0n11001
sod just as useful dusters may he made of
old soft print ; pieces torn into equals shape
and hemmed ; then they will not get mislaid
and torn,
GLOVES. -The Brat rip in a glove should
be mended atone, using a very fine needle
and sewing silk for this purpose. A tear
is not so easily repaired. First work around
the edges in button hole stitch, then draw
these stitches together in the centre, working
over and over. 1f this es done neatly the ,
teem will hardly be noticed,
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TRE THIRST FOR GOLD.;
I2nrmr,n0t3'a A'emulfar Promote 'Mete, `,
Values Wealth Above ZOapn,Inesa.
I can see 9. lovely valley where Nature
bad gathered into her lap e11 her wealth of
scenery and sell ; all her rivers of jewels and
purple-eiad mountains, where the castlre of
the noblra above and the homesteads of the
peasants below and abroad presided over'1
peace at d plenty amid eternal Spring.
One day while digging a ditch a lump of
gold was turned up ; purauing the search, a
mine was revealed. The news of the dfa-
eovery overran the valley like an epidemic.
Reale and poor were soon employed dlgging
up the soil, Teo noble allowed his castle to
fall into ruin and hie park to run into a
wilderness. The peasant left his fallow to
dig in the mountain aide. Rivera ran dry,
for the waters were diverted into flames to
wash the golden dirt. Woods were out down
to furnish sheds to aupport the undermined
earth. The fields were mottled with great
molehills and holes, and the speckled face of
THE BRUSSELS PAST.
HEALTH.
CAUSES OF SUDDEN DEATH.
111 la Usually hue to tat/cease or tele ilea
Greet Vemel0 ar Brain.
\Yliy the audden 000urrcuco of de
should be deemed an evil of great megnit
is a my0tery, The oppoeire—the long•o
timed sfoknoss, ending in complete exile
Sou and gradual wearing away of eve
energy—seems mach rather to be dopier
end the fever of the inlay implored in t
way of promotion.
The different methods by whioh /ifs m
be auddenly brought to a close may coca
our attention for a few momenta, petite
with profit—for if it bo no great dieadv
tage for one to die auddenly ; it may
decidedly of advantage to regulate to eo
degree the age at which this may bo p
milted to take place.
Life begins in the heart and its last sig
are to bo observed in that organ. That
to say, the visible, the tangible signs
life to the eye or to the senses generally
evinced by some movement's or appearat
about the heart.
In order that the heart shall continue
action many conditions must be fulfi le
The nervous supply meet be in good ord
its blood must be furnished in a regular a
systematic manner, its valves must op
and shut with a fair degree of oompleti
and certainty, Alla its muscular we
must preserve their healthy condition. Co
sidering the mauy oiroumstanoes that ne
interfere with the proper working of t
great farce -pump it is really surprising th
there should be so little disease affecting
and bringing life to a sudden close. Spa
is lacking to give a complete sketth of
conequences of valvular disease of t
hoot, but ane result must be pointed ou
The heart having more work to do St
normally grows -hypertrophies -in ori
to keep
u with lt. So len as ill 0
C grow
l'
gg
increases mproportion
to the work there
th o
to do it is all right, but when the work b
coulee too great and the blood aocumulat
until the heart muscle stretches and beoom
thinner, then dilatation has taken pia
and a condition of great danger threaten
A Iittle uuuaual exertion sends an extr
amount of blood to the thinned and we
ened heart, whioh becomes suddenly par
It zed and sudden death results.
DISEASE OF THE GREAT VESSELS.
But sadden deaths in diseases of tate hero
are usually due to something different fro
the valvular diseases jet0 noticed. In ref
die and advanced life the heart and arteri
are subjected to a condition of degeneratio
in whioh the valves °hrink and the bloo
tubes become rigid, while there is a depos
of chalky material which makes them ve
brittle. The varves between the loft veutr
ale of the heart and the entrance of tit
aorta -tile first and greatest artery-ar
1' it
the brain, life may be prolonged for years,
but rho efleate ep0n the powers of voluntary
movement and upon the intellect tore very
sure to be deohledly deleterious, Sudden
death may net result, but the condition of
paralysis, and perbaps of impaired mind
drat is Apt to bo left behind, is after some-
thing more to be deplored than would
nth have been the most sudden of fatal ee•
tide sults.
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oL'DDEI+I.v' FATAL PN1100400110.
Pneumonia may proem suddenly fatal, but
this le in a roundabout way. lu thisdioeaee
the blood undergoes a curious change, be.
coming much nano disposed to coagulate
(clot) than in health. Iteontstitnes happens
that from debility the hearb is unable to
drive the vital fluid through the lungs with
100 uanal farce and velocity. The easily
coagulated blood, moving lazily through the
mo groat eavitieu of the heart, finds time and
opportunity to form a Glob, which fills the
great artery going to the lungs, The nese
tie guano of this is, no blood goes to the lunge
ie to be eubmitted to the action of the air -
'of breathing is ueoleee-and the sufferer per -
ere ishas us if shut up in an apurtut0ub from
ccs whioh the air bas been exhausted, Aooi•
dents of this kind are very rare but aro not
its alway�e fatal when they ocour, The " heart
a, clog may be but small and fill but one of
er, the arteries going to the lunge, The other
lid lung being free to perform its duty, the
en clot deposited le taken up by absorption
on after a rime, and ell is again well, But if
lie , the great artery should become clogged
n• completely at some point before it divideo
ay
into one each for the right and left lung,
&til thenvery death must nea°saarily be sudden and
it There is another way in which pneumonia
°e may prove maidenly fatal. This is by pare
the lysis of the heart. When a large peeper -
tion of a lung is filled with the product(' of
O iaflemmation it is about the contiltenm of
en liver substance. The blood finds dillleulty
ar in finding its way through thitoousolidated-
atruot 'hick
tiro ii to eo different r front the
th
h
• spongy,�normaI [ n u
u substance. Under
ng
e
e• thane circumstances, if the blood is present
es fn the body in large amount, and is cont
es around the circulation with considerable
ce force, there is, occasionally, a condition of
danger developed from an accumulation of
e an overplua in the right side of the heart,
ak• which oannotbe sent through the lungs to
a- the left side fast enough, because of the in-
tense oongestion of the lungs. This denser
lof paralysis front overdistension is ono
that must be continually guarded againstiu
the treatment of this most formidable ells
rt ease. it is here that the nee of alcohol be-
e°omen of such surpaesiug value.
00 A CONSUMPTIVE 000DE10 PUPIL
n Consumption of the lenge sometimes
d'oomes to a very sudden and unexpeoted ter -
it urination fn the following manner. Rather
ver late in the dieaase the upper portions of
i- both lenge are occupied by a dense deposit
e of tubercle, together with inflammatory pro -
e ducts that render the organs ueelees for
•!breathing purposee for one-third or one-half
t their extout. The extent of lung that is.
r still available for breathing beoemes more
a and more Limited with each day's deposit of
'tuberole. If now the cavity of rho pleura
• (pleura sae), in whioh the lung lies, and ex.
e panda, and contracts in the movements of
o breathing, should become connected with a
n cavity in the diseased lung, so that air oar
'penetrate and fill the pleural sae, then, of
o' course, all movements of expansion or ecu
f traction of that lung must cease, for there
e fs uo room left for the movements of breath-
e ing. The opposite lung being already half
, uselese, or even more disable(], the auflcrer
e auddenly finds himself deprived of moat of
t his breathing space, and must perish within
s a very short time, dying actually and liter.
e Illy of suffocation,
e. There are one or two rare and unusual
f modes by which valvular disease of the
r. heart may prove suddenly fatal. Ono of
these is the formation of the °lot or ooncre.
tion from the blood upon one of the valves ;
i this being washed away into the °iroulation,
travels along in the blood current, until
lit reaches a plane too narrow for it to pass,
,where it lodges. This plug -called an
embolus -shute off all blood from the
parts beyond, and, ff there to no other way
for the circulation to reach that region it
becomes et rued and decomposes -1n the
brain it soften. Softening is the common
result of embolism of an artery in the brain;
but, if it should bo a largo vowel that hen
become plugged and the parts thus cut off
from nourishment of great importation, death
, may result almost instantly. Such casae are
rare; still, they have been known to ocour.
111/ART RUPTURE,
t In fatty degeneration of the heart, or as n
result of chronic inflammation of the muscle
lar• substance of the organ, the heart tray
rupture -actually " breaking," not from any
sentimental affection of the emotions, but
from some sudden and violent excitement of
the feelntgs or a violent exertion of the mus-
cular system,
I There are authentic instances of sudden
death occurring fn eoneequence of powerful
mental emotions. The mechanism of these
seems w be a rapid dilatation of the b.00d
vessels, °specielly theme of the abdominal
cavity, and a flow of blood away from the
bruin, producing a bloodlees condition of
the brain like that which is present during
fainting. It is the same condition present
in surgical " shook" when the latter io not
due to hemorrhage.
In conclusion
Sudden death is due usually to acme die.
ease of the heart, great vessels or brain.
Itis not so common art ie generally suppos.
ed,
It is not to be feared so muoh en long and
lingering illness,
It is not generally preventable.
err
eepeolally apt to become shrunken and un
able to keep the blood in the artery after i
had boon sett there by the commotion 1
the heart. ddouoe, more or leas of it drop
back foto the heart as soon as the latter re
lames after its contraction. The blood in
stead of going to the heed to nourish th
brain, fails backward and leaves the brat
bloodless-autemic-in the condition of a
individual who feints.
When this happens to an old parson wh
is unable to help himself and place himeel
in a proper position to avail himself of th
force of gravity to embers the blood to th
lead, the results may he extremely grave
Large numbers of casae of sudden death ar
thus brought about and referred to hoar
diseases without any clear uuderetaudin<-' a
to bow they were produced or may hat
been prevented. It is for toe reason her
indicated -the euddenly applied force 0
gravity -that it is extremely dangerous fo
thin class of patients suddenly to assume the
ereetposturofront the reclining position, and
that mach patients should not be left entire-
ly alone at any time.
It is in thieve= class that are to be Been
tltoeo casae of soeallod augiva•oeetorls,
filth euddenly removes its victime in the
nidal of great agooy There is undoubtedly
ere than one variety of this formidable
affliction. One seems to be duo to the end.
en shutting off of blood from the muscular
elle of the heart, due to closure of the en.
trances of the two coronary arteries whioh
supply it. Tho sudden starvation eeema to
oauso the intense neuralgic pain.
ANEURISMAL DAN0ER8.
But the heart is not the only organ that
suffers from the degeneration jus, referred
to. The lenge and median sized arteries
also become softened first, thou hardened
and brittle. In the softened • condition
(fatty degeneration or atheroma), the great
veseloe are prone to dilate and form Simon
containing blood, whioh go on enlarging as
long aa there is room for them to incr°ase in
Blau, finally bursting and causing death by
hemorrhage, Should the blood -tumor or
aneurism buret into one of the great cavities
of the body, as that whioh contains the
heart, one of the lungs, or into the atufoco
f the abdomen, or $pea the eurfaoe, the
mount of blood that man be discharged
nosh at moo is enormous, and death re -c
Its almost instantaneously. This is the
ay many oaees of remarkable sudden death
o brought about. These aro all called'
deaths from hour* disease," of °aurae. In1
true that the aneurism may bo located eO f
to involve the heart itself, but this is un.
sual. The great artery, the aorta is the ,
oat frequent seat of the trouble, and it is
t a very uncommon one.
When aneurisms ebur in the °hoot or,
domen they frequently attain a large
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Nature revealed where the goldpox had left m
its fi.thy trace. The Soh became poor and
the poor reveled in their haile. Vulgarity d
and pretense ruled in the castle, while the w
noble begged at lata own gate. The idiot sat
in the magiste•la/ chair and the vile women,
espousing the buffoon, mounted the throne,
and they received the homage due to genius.
Daring Engineering Feat—Renewing
the Niagara Suspension Bridge,
The Niagara Falls railway suspension
bridge carried snecesefolly a heavy traffic
for 26 years ; it was then found that some
repairs to the cable were required at the
anchorage. These repairs were made, and
the r.nohorage was aubotantially reinforced.
At the same limo it was found that the Wood-
en suspended euperatrueture was in bad
condition, and this was entirely removed and
replaced by a structure of iron, built and ad•
lusted in such a manner as to 'secure the best 0
possible moults, For some time it had
bean noticed that the scone towers whioh mh
supported the greet cables of the bridge
showed evideaoes of disintegration at the to
surface, and a careful engineering exam. ar
ination in 1885 showed that those towers cr
were in a really dangerous condition, is
The reason for this was that the saddles
over WIIIOn the ea es pass on the top of
the towers had not the freedom of me
Son which was required for the motion of
the cables, caused by differences of tem
perature and by paining loads.
A most interesting and Bumeseful feat
was accomplished in the substitution of
iron towers for these atone towers, with.
out interrupting the traffic across the
bridge, This has been accomplished
very recently by building a skeleton iron n
tower outside of the stone tower, and no
transferring the cables from the stone to go
the iron tower by a most ingoeioue ar- °
rangement of hydraulic jacks. The stone not
towers were then removed. Thus, by wh
the renewal of its enopended retractor
and the replacing of its towers, the bridge Un
has been given a new lease of life And is in nn
excellent condition today,
Thio Niagara railway suop000ion bridge to
hes been eo long in eucceseful operation that th
it ie di
ffloulti now to appreciate the general tO
disbelief 10 the possibility of its success as a T°h
railway bridge, when it was undertaken.
It was projected and executed by the late rood
John A. Reebling, Before it WAS flnielied, s°'0
Robert Stephenson said to him, "If your ,1101
bridge ouooeeds, mine [the Vintorda tubulat nu
bridge at Montreal] is a magnificent blue. he
dor. The Niagara bridge did ousneed.— lam
Scribner's Magazine.
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Ho who does not help u0 at the needful esu
moment, never helps'; he wholdoes not noun. hva
eel at the needful moment, never console, r
If there is anything in the world that will abr
mspiro a woman with a determined desire to the
earn shorthand, it le to find among her bus. the
d's pnpere a sheet full of nayetorfone wig. trot
ly marks, interspersed here and there with not
Inc initiate of the woman she doesn't love, int
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m
ao
ab
e, because of the density of the atruoturea
volved and the size of the arteries which
ve them origin, In the smaller voseele,
in those at the base of tine brain, they
ever attain a large ciao, but this does
t prevent them from being of the very
eatesb importance. Not only may they
a use hopeless disablement when they do
kill, but they may lead to death, 1
ioh may come on as suddenly ea if it 1
re broughtabout by the lighaing's stroke. I
der tee influemoe of fatty, or calcareous,
generation, the mate of too arteries grad•
lly give way in places, permitting them
form small, pouch-like dilatations upon'
em, varying in else from that of a peal
a millet seed, or smaller -many of them
t being visible to the unaided eye. 'tl
eco are points of very little resistance, 0
when the cirouiation is excited b t
n exertion y
xor on or powerful emotion, these. e
lee acs are likely to give way. If a'
tabor of them buret they produce a
morrhage whose preeonoe producer pros.
o upon the brain, anti when in sufficient
ount fa capable of bringing all monta1
erabione to a abundstili, This is the
al mechanism of apoplexy or oerebrod
fnmorrhage. Of course,apoplexy of this
fety does not always ill, But if the
odfng takos plaoo into the important
uotures at the bate of the brain, where
contrite Ilton control the movements of
heart and lungs are located, the effect
ebbe fatal almost without exception, and
delayed long at that, If the bleeding is
0 the large masses of the hemispheres of pu
Food of The Stone Age.
What food the pre.historio people of the
Stone Age io Europa ate in their day, sev-
eral thousand years ago, has been ascertain.
ed in a novel way, An Englishman took
the teeth of a buman beinuof that age, whioh
lad been found in recent years, and exaat-
ued what he found imprisoned in the den-
tal tartar. After using dilute hydrochloric
acid, he examined the sediment, and found
portions of the harks of corn, hairs from the
outside of the husks, spiral, vessels from
vegetables, husks and starch, the point of a
fish's tooth, a conglomeration of oval cells,
probably of fruit, barblete of feathers, por.
'ons of wool, epithelial scales, fragments of
artilage and other organio remain. That
hese partioles of food of a remote age
hould be preserved for several thousand
yeare and at last recognized, comes very
near the marvelous.
.forethought,
" Darrfnger, I have come to ask you to
do me a great favor."
" What f0 it, young man 1•'
You've been married a good many years,
haven't you 1"
et Yes ,'
',And three times, 0 1 mistake not ?"
wYea,°
" Well, 1 am on the point of marrying,
and I want you to dissuade me from my
rpo00,0
Tho Prince of Wales' Portion.
Tho wound ohild of the Queen is the Primo
of Wales who Caine of age in 1003. As seen
ua he WAS born he became Prince of nates
mad Duke of Cornwall and entitled to the
revenues of the Duchy of Onruwall, The
Duchy lands oumpriee 74,113 mares, and the
rentals trod royalties exceed $410,000
per annum. Cord, tin and load nines are
worked upon the property, Daring his
minority the revenue of the catchy autumn,.
luted to $2,008,605, and when he name of
age in 1863 Inc crone into potaoaeion of tliie
aunt, About $1,I00,000 of this unmet was
anent in the purchase of the Sendriogham
carate In Norfolk, and portions of the ro,
reminder wore expended on building the
mansion there end an outfit for the Prince
and his household. The nee rem:ipto of the
Prime from the duchy from 1804 to 1506
averaged 3300 160 yearly, and up to the
latter date he bud drawn therefrom 36,041,-
05, The nation paye $$1,084 a year to
the duchy as oompenatttioa for the abolition
of certain auelent dues on tin mina
that parliament at one tinto gave auth
rity to bo imposed. Tao iuvestect
oath balances of the duchy on Doe
bee 31, 1886, amounted to ahout$702,500,
authority of a vote in parliament the Prin
tools possession in 1869 of Marlborea
House, to hold the same until his death
that of his mother. Tne public expenditt
upon this residence since then and up
1886 bas been $223,255.
At the age of seventeen Inc became a o
onol in the army, at twenty one a full•blo
general, and at thirty five a field menthe
He holds several military sinecures, wi
big pay, and yet If he wanted to go in
battle with the army he [couldn't, as the la
makes it out that
1110 BODY IS T00 PRECIOUS
a
o- and will also take time to Welt before ho
olid mots; but, having made up his mind, T,
m- should expect him to stick to it. What -
By over he bo, 11e i0 not a weak Wren.
ee and he needs a atrong will to stand
gh where he does, Of course, our conversation
or was largely about America, what had
ire brow ht un to it, end what we had soon of
to it, Il° etroagly recommended mu to go
west, at least as far me St, Paul's and Mien°•
el. amnia. There, Inc said, I mould see the
ivn intensity and energy of life hero fur better
1. than in rosy eastern State; but Inc thought
th they wore going just a little too fast, Mr.
to Cleveland has not Lincoln's homely humour,
w and yet there was n tench of fun in his
eomewhot heavy foo° when he told me
that, though there ie only the breadth
of the river between then, St. Paul's
vexes Minneapelis, and Minnoapelis on.
vies St, Paul's. When the minister of the
latter town chose to preach at hlinueapolia
from one of Se, Paul',, E latles his hearers
P ,
rose from m th it ° i '
e pews nd'nannat he
t t idea of
St. Paul's sending letters' to them ; and, on
the other hand, when Minnesota built a
house for its " Exhibition " in sixty days,
St. Paul's next year resolved to erect a big-
ger one still, and did it in forty days, I
expressed my regret that my time would
not allow me to visit either of theoe w eatern
cities, but that if 1 over was them I would
be careful to avoid "St. Paul's $puttee."
Altogether our visit to the White Hesse
was very agreeable, very informal, and pro-
bably quite as edifying as a presentation at
St. Jams, Mrs. Clevebool had enc to
virile a friend in the country, 70 a were
sorry not to tee her, as by all accounts she
is a moat charming lady : and some of hie
opponents go eo far ma to say that if Inc is
re-elected to the Presidency it will be lenge-
ly owing to her. Whether there he tiny
likelihood of his re•°leotion, no one 1 have
met seems to have any idea yet,"
A Question of Double Pdreona'ity.
The fact of sleep may of itself hove al-
ready �uggested the idea of two dialect
11000000, fur we cortafnly are not the same
sleeping and walling. Yet, in alecp, we
have r000llectione from the waking state,
and we can remember front oleep when
awake. There is, therefore, an essential
connection between the two states. Thera
are in natural somnambulism at the same
time more and rest of analogy with the
wakeful condition. In one respect it more
resembles wukoialn°se ; for wane, in natnr-
aI sleep, the dream is absolutely incoherent,
the eomnambuUst• plays out his dreams •
that is, he executes asystem of oo•ordinatod
movements having a beg/ming, a middle,
and an end, or a certain uoherence. On tho
other hand, eomnambulieut is further separ-
ated frau wakefulness in the fact that the
man awake wholly loans tho recollection of
what rho sleeping man has done, while the
somnambulist can remember what he Etas
done in a previous sleep. Thera are, then, in
some foehion, two lives, and the hypothesis
dreamed of byy Pascal is very near to being
realized ; "If we dreamed every night the
r same things, it would affect us as muoh as
objects that we the every day ; and if an
rt arttaao were aura to dream during tho
twelve home of every night that he was a
king, I believe then he would bo almost as
happy as a king who should dream for
twelve hours than he woe au artisan,"
Pascal speaks here only of dreaming, but it
moat not Inc forgotten than somnambulism is
composed both of dream and reality. The
somnambulist performs actions that take
plate in the real world; he walks, he writes,
he docs nearly everything that he does
while awake, end is even able to epeak and
reply. Henna we have only to repreeent to
ourselves somnambulism gaining more and
more upon the waking condition, encroach.
ing upon it, and at Mat becoming a emend
waking alternating with the other, and re-
taining only one feature of eo nnambuliom-
the lots of recollection on waking.
Jura' 20, 1888,
A Picture of Mr. Cleveland,
The Bev, Dr, Walter Smith in , distin-
guished preacher of the Free Church of
Sootland, :3e Is rot present having A short
holiday in the States and may very likely
Ilnielt off, like Inctmost of rid country vie.
here, by spending the half of an afternoon
in Canada, Ho is writlug his impressione in
the Sootoh papers and this is how he tc•110 cf
hie experiences in an interview with Neel.
dont Cieveland :-
Tho President received n0 most kindly,
and gnus us full ten minutes of that time
whioh is the most precious of all things to
men in his position, At first hie appearance
is not prepossessing, ib0 in of hooey make,
and his foutnres do not relieve hie bulky
form, being, like the rent of him, largo end
oommou•1ike, I eh0uld fancy, too, that his
mind moves alnwly an his body would, whioh
distinge)ehee him from other American
etatoomon, At least such of them as I have
mot are brisk and nimble, and also voluble,
Mr, Cleveland seems to me a man who will
only speak when Inc hae something to say
to be planed where thele is any risk of being
riddled by an enemy's bullets.
Until 1863 he was heir to the Dukedom of
'ax° bbl
b Coburg, but in that yearresigned
t,.
Y
his heirship in favour of his brother, the
Duk o t
Duke f 1. -hob trgh. In the Barna year the
Prince was married end he was voted $117,•
275 of public moneys to pay hie wedding
expenses. He eva8 et the same time given
an auuuily of $_00,000 and hie wife ono of
$50,000, to be raised to $ 150,000 if she be-
came a widow, In 1875 he went to India
and to defray expenses parliament voted
him 3710,000, and of this sum 3300,000 ivas
specially named " fur pocket money and the
exercise of generosity."
On the death of his father ho inherited
14,580 norm of land in Norfolk and Aber.
deenshiro, bringing in a rental of 548,635 ;
but this is to private property.
His income from pnblio resources up to
the time of his mother's jubilee was :-From
Duchy of Cornwall, 510,258,500 ; repairs
and alterations at MarlborougHouse,
5223,250 ; coloneloy of the Tenth Hussars,
$102,000; wedding expenses, $117,250;
$200,000 annuity to bfmself, 34,800,000;
$50,000 annuity to his wife, $1,200,000 ;
visit to India (pocket money only), $300,.
000; total, 317,061,000.
RECEIPTS 005111 .R1•LEu,
The names of the ret11110018 of public
money* before mentioned, their respective
relationship to the Qaean, end the amounts
received by each up to the time of her
Majesty's jubilee last year, are given in the
following table :-
\-enw. Am um/. Relation.
1-Prhmsss Augusta 31,55,0 a Aunt
'-Landgrnviee , r (lease 2,(75,100 Aunt
0 -Duke of Sussex 17'e ('10 1.1,410
4 -Princess Sophia of Gloster., 1, 0:0,000 Cowin
5 -Princes Sophia 2,010,000 Aunt
0 -Quern Adelaide 000Q0u) Aunt
7 -Duke of Cambridge 1,570,010 Uncle
8 -Ring of Hanover 0,800 000 Coale
0 -Goobers et (5louceater...., 2,275,000 Aunt
10 --Duke of Mecklenburg.
Stroh)? 554 2G) Cousin
11-Doehoas of Tient 1,400 000 Mother
12 -Bing of Belgians 1107,000 Uncle
19-Pricoo Consort 91151,000 !Imbued
14-Prioroes Anee 007,000 Daughter
15 -Duke of Albany (and
widow) 040,000 Son
10 -Prince of Wales (and
wife 17 081,000 Sap
17 -Empress of Germany, 1,905,000 Daughter
1S -Dutra cf Ildlnbornh 1,900,415 Son
10 -Princess Melena 780,000 Daughte
20 -Princess Louise 080,000 Dauahte
21 -Duke of Connaught,,.., 1,070 000 Sou
2$-Pdneoee Boatrlce 010,000 Daughte
20- Duchess of Cambridge 1,110,000 Aunt
24-Daeheas of Mecklenburg
Strelita 000,0,0 Cousin
20 - Duke sf Cambridge 0,120,000 Cousin
20 -Princess Mary of Tork 785 000 Cousin
07 -The Queen 140,400,000 -
Total $820,702,105
000T ADOUT FIVE MILLIONS A PEAR.
Fifteen of the above list of royal person-
ages have sine died since Victoria became
Qom, and each death WAS a "windfall"
to the burdened taxpayers of the United
Kingdom. Making every necessary allow-
ance from tho above table of the monies
drawn by those of the blood royal before
Viotoria ascended the throne in 1837, et le
cloar that tho Qaoen and her relations had,
when she celebrated her jubilee last year,
drawn during her 50 years' reign public
monies to the amount of over $200,000,000.
If but a few of the items spent on the
palaces, excluded from the above oaloula-
tton, and of the payment to military and
naval more and aidos•de•camp, also omitted
from the above reckoning, wore added it
would be easy to inoreaee the actual betel to
$250,000,000, or $5,000,000 per year,
Pariner'o Wives.
The tired, sad look of very many Cana.
dian fanners' wives has often boon remark-
ed. As a class, they are overworked, and
their dull, continuous employment without
break or rest or holiday sonde many of them
to the lunatic asylum and to en early graven.
One writer lately pub the case well in the
following terms ;
X remember several years ago a farmer
took mo home from an institute to dinner,
He bad added farm to farm till he was
worth $100,000. We had a good dinner,
but the tired•looking wife at the head of the
table spoiled it for me, As I was leaving
the house, I said to her, " Can you nob get
out to our meeting this afternoon 7" Rho
said, " I do not see he w, as I have not been
asked," Her husband then said " Oh,
Mary does not oars much about getting
out," and hurried nee off. I had a subjeot
that afternoon which gave moa oham°, and
some strong words weto Bald for his benefit
that were not In the prepared paper, but
whioh I could not keep butt. It makes :no
angry now just to think of it. I have seen
him 51ne0 ; but/ pray to heaven that he
may have stopped the mere accumulation
of dollars, angiven
Mary the rest and
some of the enjoyment he oculi so well af-
ford, If he hoe not, rho has probably gone
to her long rest ere now, or else her mind
has given way from the endless monotony of
her work, and she is one of those numerous
examples of overworked fermer't wives who
people our insane asylums.
Almost every body could tell Of such cases
within the range of personal knowledge.
It is the dull, monotonotie grind late and
early throe kills, and yon many husbands
don't seen to Deo ft,
A bill "to prevent the gathering of wild
flowers" has, for some unknown reason,
been introduced into Parliament by Mr.
Shaw Lefevre,
The Bell That "Tolle the Knell of Parting
Day."
The curfew is said to have been introdun.
ed into England by William the Conqueror.
By that monarch it wan ordained, under se•
yore ponaltiee, when the curfew bell rant+ at
$ o'clock in the evening all lights and fires
should be extinguished. There are those
who hold that this was merely the enforcing
of an existing and very common polios rep•
illation to that affect. The absolute prohr•
bition of lights after the ringing of the cur-
few boll was aboliehod by Henry L, in the
year 1100 but the practice of tolling a bell
at a fixed hour in the evening was continued
and this, which is still extant iso coma places,
is a survival of tho curfew of medieval
times. At first the oommon ]tour was 7
o'clock, then it was gradually advanced to
8, and in eotne plums to 0 o'clock ; indeed,
in Sootland, 10 o'clock Was not an unusual
hour, The curfew was a regulation moat
useful in those early days, when it was the
custom to plump the fire in a hole in the
middle of the floor, under An opening in the
roof, to allow the escape of smoke, When
the funnily retired for the night, the fire
was extinguished by covering it up ; hence
the tsmn oouvre£eu, or endow. The regu-
lation( was also aervioeablo in obliging the
women to keep in their houses, and thus
preventing night brawls in the e; root. 1t is
believed there is no historical authority for
the popular tradition that the severity ex.
hfbited by the Conqueror, in enforcing obe-
dience to the curfew, was most pertioularly
designed to prevent the English from mom -
bring in seoret to plan sohomos of rebellion
against their Norman lords.
Light Verse,
" Mr, Blank, do you know 131ifl1 the
pont ?"
" Yee, I know Blifil," said the editor.
" What's his epeoialty-light verse ?"
"I fanny it le Indeed, I nover•saw any
ofilli$)'s verse that wasn't almost too light
Not $o Bad As It Might Bo.
Customer (getting hie hair ant) -Didn't
you nip off a piece of the ear then ?
Barber (reassuringly) -Yea, sail, a small
piece, but not 'hough to affect de hearin',
salt,