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HEALTH.
The Digestive Fluids.
The [several digestive fluids prawns pro
Fortin and uses other than thoeo of which
we have already learned In 'studying their
action upon the venom' food nubatanooa.
These we will now oonefder.
Tho saliva nob only moistens and softens
the food, digoats starch, and dianolvea eomo
of the salts of the Iood, but it also nerves an
important purpose ea a natural otlmalant to
the stomach, oauafng the peptic glands to
pour out the gaotrio juice in abundant quan.
i ity,
The gaotrio juice not only digest's albumen,
diem:lveo oertotn mite, and aoogulatoe milk,
but also penmen a moat remarkable
antiseptic influence, Carbolic acid, Dorn.
mon salt, and numerous abhor eubstanoee are
called antiseptics, because they prevent ter-
mentation or decay. Tho gaettle juice
ponseasee the same remarkable property. A
dog was fed with putrid meat, On being
killed an hour after, the meat, whish had
been exaeedingly offonelve, was apparently
perfeobly fresh. Thio property of the gas-
trin juice le exceedingly important, ea with.
out Ito influence the food would always
ferment or decay in the etoinaoh before
digootion could take plana.
The bile pommels a longer variety of uses
and properties than does any other fluid In
the body, It has six important Haas. 1. It
digests fate. 2. It neutralizes the aoid
gastric juice. (The bile aloe precipitates or
renders inert the pepsin of the gaetria juice,
which would othorwioe digest the motive
principles of the pancreatic juice and in-
testinal fluid, and ao prevent intestinal
digestion. It will thus be seen that the
anion of the gaotrio jean ceases when the
food leaves the etomaah, or very Doan atter. )
3. Ib aids absorption, 4- Ib etimalates the
movements', and le thus a natural laxative,
(This explains the woll•enown foot that
inactivity of the liver is likely to result in a
similar condition of the bowels) 5. It is an
antiseptic, preventing the decomposition of
the contents of the bewails, when present in
nulfioienb quantities. 6. The bile is an
excretory field, oontalteng a ooneiderable
amount of waste matt', r.
The panoreabio 'sod intestinal juices
peones no special properties aside from
those already desoribed.
Tight Laojne and Gall -Stones.
Prof. Lawson Tait, of Birmingham, Eng.,
who doubtless removed more gall -atones
than any other living man, states that near•
ly all hie patients of this clan are women.
It is very seldom, indeed, that he is called
to operate upon men for this condition.
Why do women have a monopoly of gall-
stones ? This ie surely an intereating
question. It le not too muoh bile that oe-
ersions gall -atones bub too little. Ib la no
wonder that the average woman hae too
little bile and bile that to eo thiok that the
small tubes through which it flows in the
liver readily become choked. Doubtless.
thie is in part dna to her aedenbary habits
But to add to evils growing out of this con•
dition of the bile, the poor liver is subjected
to the presouro of otaya, corsets, wain bands
swinging heavy ekirbe, and perbape a tight
belt outside of all. Under these drown -
stances, 11 is only.by a tighb-aqueeze " that the
thick bile con get through the narrow
channels in which ib flows, and doubtless
many of the minute bile ducts become stop-
ped altogether by the pressure to which
they are onbjested. The bile oolleoted in
these obstructed tnbos noon hardens, and
the nuoleuo of a gall•etone is formed. The
bile aooumuletee behind until the atone is
forded down into the gallbladder, where lb
receives further additions of hardened bile,
and so grown, in some oases, to a consider•
able eine,
The number of stones which may thus
accumulate in the gallbladder is limited
only by the size of the latter, The writer
has counted more than forty atones, each as
large as a bean, in several cameo. By and
by, a gall -atone, by some sudden jolt or
other circumstance, finds its way into the
duct whioh conveys the bile to the ioteetine.
if it happens to be too largo to pass readily
through, the individual has an attack of
" biliary colic," suffers great pain for a few
hours, becomes yellow as oeffrom, and to
afflicted by an intolerable itching of the skin.
If the atone gets through, tho patienb soon
recovers, and le as well as usual until another
atone gets jostled into the dnot. And Bo the
progress goes on, unlimited by anything bub
the end of the stock of milestones or of the
patient's life. -EJ. H. Kellogg M. D., in
"Good Health."
A Remedy for Diarrhoea.
On the authority of Dr. Benjamin Clarke,
hot milk le given as a remedy fort diaarhon,
and is largely used in the West Indies. The
milk need nob be boiled, but should be taken
hot as possible withoub discomfort, Many
pereono are unaware of the virtues' of hot
milk, but 1t is a moat excellent remedy in
many oases of dyspepsia, aiding in no way
to make a person "bilious," as some aro apb
to think, and can often be taken hobby those
who are unable to take it in any other way.
When need as a dietetic remedy, milk should
be made the ohiof article of diet, using grain
preparations, and avoiding vegetables, fruite
and meats. Hot milk is alio, as we have of.
ten maid, an exaellent food for ooneumptivea.
Business Morality.
Franklin (Ky.) " Favorite :" Among the
rubbish in the ebore•room of the late William
I. Hilton a little old faded note -book con.
Mining some odd onggesbione to hie boys as
to how they should proceed in lite after he
had passed to his record was picked up by a
"Favorite" reporter a few days minae,
and is now, for the first time, given to the
public,
Search the bible to find the bottom of the
deceitful human heart and say your prayers
ab night. Think over every day's business
at night.
Never marry until yon are 30 years old.
Think three 'ranee before yon speak once.
Never court any girl unless you intend to
marry her. There le danger in fooling
young girls. Never give them any advent,
age in a letter,
Never buy a small place with a fine build.
ing on ib.
Never bay white, aprouty, arawfishy land
ab any prioe expecting to make money by
oaltivatiog it.
Never sell the produabe of the farm you
work to any man, on time, at any price.
There le nothing do thio wobid bub death
that is certain
Never loan money to your neighbors, for
if you should have to sus bhom they would
be no longer neighbors.
Never lab any men know anything about
your business, exoepb when you may have
some difference and tined toadviee with a law.
yen our mono
Never keep ally r y In ono ohen-
nal.
Watch all men, as there aro but few who
aro honest ; in faob, thorn is none honest from
the heart in everything,
If you over sell goods or grooerios bo sure
THE BRUSSELS POST.
to get a house on rho square, and op the In
side corner if you can, and live on the mime
lot and in the building that you do bushman
in. Be certain never to eleop away from the
store house. lb is boat to have yourself and
family live upstairs with kttohen below.
Never employ a Mork ab any prion; be
content with wbab Madness you can do your-
self, Trust no man further than you are
compelled to. Smart thieves always steal
about the home of 15, 11, 12, and 1 o'olook,
Weigh all you buy and all you sell, If pos-
sibly convenient,
If you over loan money to any person
take security if you can get lb, 11 you loan
money to u firm ba cure to take each of the
firm namoe bo bhe note, then no one of the
firm San slip out and nay that tho money
never cams into the firm.
Yon may sell to irrospow:1ble man any•
thing that you have, but never buy claims,
notate etc„ from men thab are nob reopen -
ibis, nolose you luveatigate and find that
the partite have no ofisote against them,
Nevar buy any kind of etooke, ib doeen'
matter how low or how high they are
Nevar, never, never, never, from the fame
that stooks are too uncertain ; the risk is boo
great ; rluga are formed and they can raise
or lower the price just es they see fit, eo
they can make money.
Never deposit money unless you take a
receipt for it.
Under the present law when you loan
money to any person take a mortgage on
the real estate and inolude both man and
wife.
If you have a surplus of money never,
never loan 1t out to the people ab any per
cent, but pub ib in good bonds; bub the
United States bonds are preferable, from the
fact that the whole United States is bound
for it.
Four per sent when certain is butter than
8 per cent when uneertate.
Never buy inferior articles of any kind to
make money on,
If you live in town never Invite any nom•
pany and you will always hove plenty of
money.
Buy geode on time only in small quanta•
ties, whether wholesale or retail.
If you have land for sale have it fenced
to the oardinal pointe, eo ib will take the
fewest rails possible to fence the ground.
That keepe your land in square thane,
Never work In wells or at any other work
that endangers your life, it mabtere not
how much you can make, Never endanger
your life for money.
Never stay in a hone confined to' business
closeexcept you work in the morning and
evening,
Never buy property adjoining either a
church ora school -house if you can avoid it.
Be certain to give your children an Eng-
lish education at any cosb if you can,
Never be persuaded beyond your own
judgment.
Australia's Coal Mines,
A reward has been offered by the Govern-
ment of South Australia for the discovery
of a payable coal field in the colony, but, so
fa;•, the reward 'mains unclaimed. Al
most all the coal need in Auebralla acmes
from Newcastle, in New South Wales.
where very rich mama of coal aro found
quite near the sea. The proprietors of the
Newcastle coal mines work upon a eyetem
which was explained to me by one of them,
as follows : The colliery owners meet to-
gether and fix upon a certain output for
each colliery per quarter. If a colliery /ships
mere than its allotted amount of coal in any
quarter it has to pay 72o for every ton in
excess. The money thee acquired is die.
tributes among the colliery owners who
have 'shipped lees than the prescribed
amount, The colliery which ehips in any
quarter lose than the allotted number of
sone of coal hes to ship during the next
quarter one-third of the amount less than
its proper quantity.
Expenses for repairs to mines and for
new machinery aro charged to expense,
and not to capital aceounb, any unneual ex-
penditure being spread over two or throe
months, Peyeheets are made oub every
two weeks, This system checks all under•
selling of one colliery by another and makes
it to the interest of each colliery to ship its
allotted proportion of coal and no more.
The system has been in operation for nix
years, and is said by ono of the oolliory
owners to be eatisfaotory in every way,
Newcastle, the centre of the Ansbrallan
coal trado, is bnilb on the Hunter River
en the aide of a hill. The town has ex-
tended along the eau, where the shorn is
flab. On the hill is plooSd the hospital,
which aommande a fine view of the ocean.
The principal tenet, Hunter street, le a fine
one, but the water anpply and the 'sanitary
arrangements are bad. Tho miners of
Newcastle are said to be very temperate as
compared with their brothers inthe crowded
coal districts of England. As in many
other parte of Australia, the Chinaman is
found hero in considerable numbers, and in
the neighborhood of Newcastle is chiefly
engaged in raising vegetables and green
stuff for the market.
To See by Telephone.
This is an age of invention. A French.
men, M. Ccurtonno, snncunoeo that he will
shortly make public a discovery he has
made which will enable people to use their
eyes In the tame way that the telephone adds
to the ordinary powers of the ear-thab is,
as the telephone enables un to hear sounds
from a long distance, the telephoto will en-
able tie to tee far-off objeoba, M, Conrtonne
maintains that his invention will permit of
the trrutemieeion on a wire of luminous
vibrations, through any kind of obstacle,
for thousands of miles. The user of the
telophote, ib is assumed, can see whatever
is vielble from the inetrument at the other'
end of the wire as easily as if be were on the
'spot. There is nothing improbable in this.
If sound waves can be branemibted over a
wire, there la no reason, exetpt the want of
knowledge, why light waves cannot also bo
transmitted. The Latter vibrations are very
mach shorter than the former, but in one
este, as in the other, ib le merely Vibration
which has to be treated. Possibly the time
will eomo when, go far as seeing objeote it
concerned, we shall be able to make a tour
of Europe without going out of our own
houses.
The white wool veiling gowns with broohe
borders or stripes in white eilk are almost
as effective as white eilkones-broohe w ith
von.
Stammering bas hitherto been supposed to
be purely a nervous defeat, Some experieno•
es rooently re gaited by the surgeons connect•
ad with the Ear Hospital, Soho Square, tend
to pall tide view Moro ratlines in question. In
carrying out oortein operations to cure
ohlidren of deafnees, 11 wise found that in
several suooessfal oaeen bhe operators had also
simnitaneonely cured the patients of slam•
meting. This faun attracted epeolal atteom,
tion and study ; and the outcome bias been
the firm conviction that stammering, in the
majority of ones, dens nob proceed from a
norvaue malady, but from seine obstruction
or defeat connected with the organa of hear.
ing. Ina number of eaeee otboebed purpose
ly from the public, sohools tills fan has, it
le said, been abundantly demonstrated.
They Borrow, but Never Return My Books.
Ob, the Ole of this life aro many,
And the heart breekinge not a few,
Pura sympathy 000100 not from any,
It matters not much what you do.
T can sometimes trust my umbrella,
Nor over its lingering yearn,
Bub the books I lend to a fellow,
They never, no, never return.
The barveob may wait for the reapers,
The tailor may sleep o'er your clothes,
Bub the earth is plagued with book keepers,
And no ono a ouro,for lb knows
The sueshino that goes from the meadowe,
Comps hack when the frodto shall adjourn,
And rho leaves play again with their shoe
dowe,
But my hooka will never return.
I one bad the wisdom of ages
Shut up in my glass nee for use,
Now 'cis gone, by invisible etavis
From Murray to old Mother Goose,
My Euslld, I still can remember,
Like the odor from some eminent urn
Went out, to nomo beak in December,
That December will not return.
Lend your friend, your dog, yea, your els.
ter,
You will find each some day, no doubt;
Rub a book gone down the long vista,
And ten to one never comes oub.
Do I know whom I made the loan to?
No, but my brains I need not ohurn,
What matters it where they have gine to t
I know they will never return,
Why They Twitkle,
When Eve bad led )tor lord astray
And Cain had killed b1a brother,
The stars and flowers, the poets say,
Agreed with one another
To cheat the sunning tempter's art
And teach the rano lbs duty
By keeping on its wicked heart
Their eyes of light and beauty.
A million eleeplees lids, they any,
Will be ab least a warning ;
And so the flowers would watch by day,
And stare from eve to morning.
On hill and prairie, field and lawn.
Their dewy eyes upturning,
The flowers atilt watch from reddening dawn
Till weetern skies are burning.
Alae I each hour of daylight tells
A tale of shame so crushing
That some tuna white as eea•bleaohed shells,
And some are always blushing.
Bub when the patient stars looked down
On all their light discovers,
The traitor's smiles, bhe murderer's frown,
The lips of lying lovora,
They try to shut their eaddening eyes,
And in the vain endeavor
We sea them twinkling in the skies,
And so they wink forever.
-{Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Emu and the Beasts.
tie sot among the woods ; be heard
The sylvao merriment ; he caw
The humors of the bean and bird,
The pranks Of donkey and of saw ;
And in the lion and bhe frog,
In all the tribes of swamp and den,
In deer and hare, in stork and log,
Marked the similitudes' of men.
"From these, of there," he cried, "we come ;
Oar hearts and brains descend from these,"
And lo I the beside no more were dumb,
Bnb answered out of brakes and tree's.
And thue, perchance, their saying ran :
" Nay, nob from nu your folly springs,
Ob, deeply fallen race of man,
Bewildered about empty things.
For we have neither hope nor dread ;
We look not forward nor behind ;
We lead the life our father's led ;
Wo live like clouds, or etreemo or wind.
" For we have neither doubt nor faith ;
For we are neither bond nor free,
We hear the word that nature eaith,
And nigh to nature's heart are we.
" Behold I we neither laugh not weep ;
Are well cement with everything.
Bub ye would fly that scarce can creep,
And yo would rpeak that Donee can sing.
Nay, were there cause for moan or mirth,
'Tis we, not you, should eigb or scorn.
Oh, 'Moab ohildron of the earth,
Most ohildieh children earth hath born."
They spoke, but that misehapen slave,
Told never of the thing he heard
And unto men their portraits gave,
In likenesses of beast and bird.
'l.WO POUNDS OF WOOD,
An Alabama Wonsan Loses Her Llfe from
a Strange Canso.
Mrs, J. J. Murphy, of Birmingham, Ala„
died a few days ago from a disease which
had been puzzling physlcians for eight years.
About eight years ago the woman began to
complain of pain in the etomaah. She
slowly tint gradually grew worse until the
died. A dean phyoiomos had treated her
but wine of them were, able to say what was
the matter. For two years paeb she has
constantly suffered the mesh intense pain,
and she said she felt something growing in
in her Morena. The doctors could feel a
bard substance in her stomaoh, but could
not determine what ib was. The woman
was too weak for an operation.
When Mrs. Murphy died an autopsy was
made, and in her otomaoh the dootore found
two pounds of wood. For twenty years
Mrs. Murphy had been addicted to the hobib
of dipping snuff. Sha used small wooded
brushes for snnff•dippirg, and would often
bite off and swallow small pieces of the
brush. The amall petioles of wood bad
formed a Bolid mace in her stomach, sad the
blook weighed just two ponnde. The ploy -
'deism say this wee the cause of her death.
It it the only ease of the kind on record.
High Speed on Railroads.
Thera are many tbingo connoted with
high speeds on railways which tax the in-
gonnity of loeemotive engineers to the nt.
most. The lines have to be made strong
enough to withstand the heavy blows of the
louomobive, or the other portions of the run,
ning plant are light in oomparieon. A rail-
way traits at sixty miles an hour may be
compared to a huge projectile and enbjeob bo
the eamolaws, The momentum is the pro-
duct of the weighb'of the train, multiplied
by the rquaro of the velootty in feet per
'seooud ; and if wo allow a train of 123 bone,
travelling at a speed of sixty miles an boar,
then the work required to bring It to a
etandotill would bo 14,400 foot tone exerted
through one minute, or nearly 1,000 horse
power, which gives some idea of its deetre°,
five force if, unhappily, ib [should come into
notion ; and yet this terrific power is so en.
tirely under command that the strength of a
child turning the smell handle of the vacuum
brake can bring the traln to a stand in a few
seconds, -Chambers' Journal.
HOUSEHOLD.
The Tear-lserohief,
It is only a trifling thing to show
Just a kerchief, white as the driven now,
Yet many a tender anti loving thoughb
Ie into its delnby Mini -tory wrought ;
For the mother wove it frcm Oix that grew
And ensiled in the field with its bloseom
blc o ;
She spun the thread whereof it was made,
And watched it oarofully where 'twee laid,
That day'swarm kisses and night's soft
dew
Might bleach the web to ire whiteeb hue ;
And then it was lovingly laid away
For the daughter's hand on her bridal day.
Oh I few are the tears by the maiden shed
On the day her bridal vows are acid.
They may Dales she meets her father's kiss,
Yet her heart is glad with her nuptial bliss
She may fondly cling to her mother's side,
Yeb har lover claims her, hie happy bride.
She fears not to give up her fair young life
To the eaarod duties and name of wife ;
And there le no grlat in the bears thab flow
O'er the soft round cheek with its blushing
glow,
And she smiles as she wipes them all away
With the kerchief white sou her bridal day.
Daintily folded with tenderest oars,
The young wife baketh the kerchief fair,
With scented rose -leaves and lavender
sra
Scarce dri d�from her tears, ib is laid away.
There. in its fragrant and perfumed nub.
For many Iong years may the kerchief rest.
They will bring in their brain both joy and
woe
As Time goes on in his ceaseless flew.
Bub Love still maketh each burden light,
And the home where he dwells irlisver bright,
Anil the wife still emilee as she emll'd the
day
She laid her kerchief with smiles away.
But time will pnee an years go on,
And each day fiodeth some duby done,
And the kerchief lies in its scented fold,
But snow has sprinkled the hair of gold ;
For the fair young bride Is matron now,
And wrinkles furrow the once smooth brow,
And her step is no longer free and light,
And the hair is a crown of silv'ry white.
And her children arise and call her blase,
And her husband's heart in her doth reeb
;-
And the kerchief lies as 'twin laid away
By the maiden's hands on the bridal day.
Bnb there coma a day when, in peaoeful
rest',
Those hands lie crossed on a quleb breast,
When the tender eyes are forever shut',
And the loving lips are forever mute.
Then, ere the face that they loved is hid
From mortal sight 'math coffin -lid,
The kerchief stained with the young bride's
Mare,
So carefully guarded for many years,
Is gently laid o'er the features pale ;
Ab Death's cold bridal,'a bridal veil 1
And the kerchief, laid for co long away,
Hides the calm, still face on the burial day.
Goon HOIIoEocEERLSO,
The Oars of Furniture.
There is nothing that shows so quickly the
oars of a good housekeeper or the neglect of
a poor one as furniture. Good hard -wood
furniture should last one or Iwo generations,
and be all the handsomer for its years. Yob
how seldom is this the case ? No furniture
should bo allowed to grow shabby, dente
should be removed, the scratches token off
as soon as they occur. A little polish should
be applied regularly, and oars taken to re-
move duet regularly, All largo pieces of
furniture which cannot be removed from the
room when sweeping soy comes, should be
covered with dusting -sheets of old oalioo or
heavier muslin, which are kept for the pur-
pose and regularly
LAIINDEnED WREN SOILED.
Into a large pan of water and cook the fruit
in this way, It will need stirring frequently
and to he cooked longer than by the first
method.
Quinces require a quarter of a pound lees
sugar to a pint) of juice than other fruite,
while green grapes, which make almost
delicious [splay jolly to oat with poultry and
game, need ono and a half pounds of sugar
for the same quantity of jutoe. Barberriee
require that their juice and the sugar be
booed together ten minutes before pouring
Into the gluones,
Bags to ebrain the juice through, are
often made of Hansel and are good, but
those of coarse yet firm crash ate bettor.
In either case two loops of tape should be
sewed on each side of the bag, so that a
piece of a broom or a mop -handle or the
time•honored family yard•atick can be run
through them and the bag impended.
A porcelain or granite ware kettle, a
wooden spoon, tumblers ready to roll in
hot water just before filling, and towels
to wipe them golokly all being at hand
jellymoking can begin withoub delay.
The Flower Garden.
It la nob yet too late to sow many of the
finest biennials and perennials, in order to
raise blooming planta for nexb season. The
following may Inseam, and the young planta
being perfectly hardy can remain in the
seedbed until spring, then planed where
they are wanted to bloom.
Iberia gibralterioa, hollyhock, linum per•
sane, Linaria alpfna, Arable, alpine, Leah.
His haageana, pansy, bedding violas, Ver-
baecum olympioum, pinks and oarnatione,
Melva mosohats, Agroetruma ooronaria and
A. floe jovie, perennial oenbeurea, sweet
William, 'sweet rocket, papsven in variety,
Tunica saxifrage, gaillardia, pyrethrum and
that grand biennial, Silene orientalis, Others
might be recommended, but these oan al-
ways be depended upon. Many persona
are kept from sowing seeds of picks and
carnations because these flowers aredeoorib-
ed in most seedemen'e oataloguee as half
hardy perennials, plants that will not en-
dure the winter without protection. We
have grown them in exposed eituatiore
without the least protection, year after
year, and do not know of ever Toeing a sing•
le plant from the effects of frost. Even the
Pioatee pink, which is said to be the most
delicate of the carnation family, bas proved
be be perfectly hardy in our garden. We
would say, therefore, if you wish for a bed
of pinks and oarnatione, procure the seeds
and sow them at onoe, and they will bloom
for you next season, Sow the ends in the
bed whore you wish the plants to bloom,
and never mind protecting them in the
autumn. The young planes are vigorous
and hardy, and never fail to come one safe.
ly in bhe spring. If, however, you think
best bo afford them shelter, simply place a
few evergreen boughs over them late in the
autumn, after the ground freezes up, and
remove them in the spring. Few flowers
are more charming in form, color and frogr.
anon than the pinks and carnattone, and it
is hoped thsb those who read these lines
will not hereafter bo deterred from their
culture by bhe false statement that they are
not hardy. -[Homo Companion.
DOWN IT GOES AGAIN.
Tho Getty of Paris Cute Her own Record
Nearly Four (tours.
NEW YORK, Sep. 5. -The steamship City
of Paris has broken the record again, beating
her own time from Queenstown by 3 hours
and 49 minutes. Her actual time (reckon-
ing by Greenwich time (from Qaeenstown
to Sandy Hook light ship wen 5 days 19
hours and eighteen minutes. She left
Queenstown at 2 09 (Greenwich time) on
Friday of last week. There was a fresh
breeze, but bhe weather was cloudy. Her
run for the first day was 432 miles. Satur•
day there was afresh breeze with a heavy
swell and 493 miles ware covered. The
'
Furniture kind of weather was eaoountered
ure that has once stood where the Monday, bub the ateamer inoreaaed her
duet Was allowed to grind into ha eerie:es
and npholotery can never be restored except
with hard labor. To remove finger marks
from fine furniture use a little meets oil,
turpentine and vinegar in equal parts. Dente
that are alight in a piece of fine wood may
sometimes be removed, it le said, by dampen-
ing the spot, laying brown paper web and
folded in several folds over it, and laying a
warm iron over it until it Is dry. Of comae
bbis would make a white mark on a varnish-
ed surface, and would not do for varnished
furniture, No damp towel or cloth and no
article nonstaining any liquid should be set
for an instant on hard, polished wood. A
few tiles, which cosh anywhere from ten
Dente npwsrd,
Anx VERY IISa14L
on which to eob phonon of ice -water, and
small mate should always be on band to hold
bottles of perfume or any articles necessary
to use on the toilet table. A piece of white
enamelled cloth is almost a necessity under
the embroidered or fanay washstand oover
used over waahstnde with hard, polished
wood tops. A heavy double cotton flannel
underolobh or table protector is now univers-
ally used over dining•tablea with polished
wood tope, and eats of mats are made of
white cotton yarn, which comes from Ger.
many for this purpose, that are beautiful
and a neoessity under dishes of hot meat and
some ether articles, • A flat abraw mat its
often put over the table protaotor under the
table cloth, and over this a square or oblong
oarving•oloth ie laid, This io saffioionb pro.
nation, and does away with the nabs whish
is sometimes an enhoyanoe to the carver, no
platter setting so firmly on a oroohetod mob
as on a flatter oarving•oloth.
A Travellin Trunk.
A trunk, to be serviceable, should be full
of trays, and the female buyer [should look
well to this, for it savors more time, trouble
and temper than any device heretofore
known. Light dreams should go in the
bottom of the trunk ; it is bhe safest plane
for them, and they will only bo wanted after
the other garments are on. The firsb tray
above them should contain lingeries, the
next all the small appurtenances of the
toilet, gloves, shoes, etookinge, handker-
chief') and laces, and the tray that shute up
ieoto rho top of the trunk can bo used to store
the hate and parasols. Another convenient
piece of luggage is a valise made of gray
naves, which is as light to a recepbaole two
feet long, a foot and a half deep and a foot
wide, oan be made. Ib will hold a deal of
impedimenta, as any one will find by experi-
ment, arid takes tho plane to a woman that
the convenient flat dreeo-suit Baso does to a
man.
Jelly -Making.
The moat Bart fruits will make bhe firmest
jelly, although fruit's of all kinds can be
used, But in the ease of peaches, quinces,
apples and orab•apples, a little water mush
be added to them for the first cloaking,
They aro not sufficiently juicy and would
burn before any juice could be obtained,
A more laborious method, however, which
will avoid adding the water, ie to improvise
Speed to 506 miles. Tuesday the breeze
freshened sad 509 miles were covered. The
run from 2 09 p.m. (Greenwich time) Tues-
day afternoon to 9.27 a.m, (same time) to
Sandy Hook light ship was 346 m ilea.
The total distance travelled was 2 788 millets.
Wanted the Fnil Effect
I notioo, Jennie," said one young lady to
another, " that you never lace tigbt now,"
"No," "What's the reason t" "Well,
I've gob a beau now, and when he's squeezing
mo I want to enjoy its full effect."
Couldn't Preach Against Stealing.
Gov. Hoard of Wisconsin, in an address
to the clergy at Monona last Friday, illus•
trabed one of his points in favor of practical
preaching by the following story :
"In the old elasery days a plantar aocost
ed one of his hands one morning and the
following colloquy ensued:
"'Hello, Uncle Pete ; I hear you are
getting to be a great preacher among the
darkies.'
"'Yes, massa, de Lord open my mouf 'aa•
sion'ly.'
'49011, Pete, wbab do you preach en?'
"'Da sine ob de people, massa,'
"'That's a good subject, Pete, and by the
way, you can be of some 'service to ate, for
you darkiee are cleaning out my hon•rooet
and ham -house at a great rate and I wane
you to preach against steeling,'
"The old darky shook his head and said :
'Can't do it, masa. If I'd 00 to preaohin'
on dem'ar subjects dab 'ad froom a °eldnenn
ober de meetiu'. "-(Chioago Times.
Aocordingito bhe New York Sun, the
AmerioanPoebmaeber•Gaoeral recently pre•
eenbed a number of Western merchant's with
free tickets from Caioage to Philadelphia
and return, with the object: of vetting them
to buy from his big Pbilade,phia store.
They made parohasee to a considerable
amount, enough to leave a goodly margin of
profit over the prion of the tiokebs, bub on
their return they stopped ab New York and
spenbbhree times as much as they had spent
in Philadelphia, which Was not exaobl y the
idea the groab merchant had in his head
when he gave away the tickets .
Clover of toncontaieo too much sap for safe
ebaoking when the leaves and outsides of the
stems have been browned and made orisp by
hot eunshino. The simple tomb applied by
experienced haymakers however is almost
always a sufficient safeguard. If no drops
of sap can be squeezed out of a handful of
olover by twisting the stems with moderate
force it is fib to be Darted. Ib is a good plan
to wait two or throe days after putting up
the greater part of a stack before bopping ib
up, eoveriug ib with a cloth If there is any
danger of rain. This allows the fodder to
settle and some of the heat to escape.
Another nodal precaution is bo make
chimney in the middle of a stack by
drawing a amok filled with bay or straw up
as the stook beoomes higher and higher, 00
that there will be a venbilieing shaft from
bottom to top, It is partly benne those
familiar safeguards are aegleoted in fine hay
hervosts that large quantites of hay are
usually spoilt when the sun shines day after
la double•boilerby setting rho kettle of fruit day,
BIG GOLD NUGGETS,
The Largest rhea et Cold Tel Found Wah
Worth Nearly 5100,050.
Inorder t000rreobmany misstatements that;
are going the rounds of the preen In regard to.
the largest nuggets of gold ever foupd, the
editor of the Silver Dollar desires to publish.
the following foots, which he obtained while,
oomrnlosioner to the great mining expositioe
held in Denver, Col„ in 1882 These facto
were obtained from the gentleman having
obarge of the Auetralian exhibit, wbio1
inn udea models of the large nuggets dila,
covered in bhab great gold field.
The largest pion of gold in the world)
was taken from Byer & Hultomun's gait
mining claim, Hill End, New South Wales"
May 10. 1872, Its weight wee 640 pounds,.
beight 4 teat, 9 inches ; width, 3 feet; 2
inches ; average thickness, 4 inches ; worth
$148,000. Lb was found imbedded in a thiole
wall of blue slate, at a depth of 250 fasts
from the surface. The owners of the mina,
were living on charity when they found.
it,
Welcome Stranger nugget was found ons
Mt, lfoliagel, Feb. 9, 1809, weighed 1913
pouoi s, and woe worth 545,800. This nug-
get wan ruffled for $46,100 et $5 a chancee
and was wonby a man driving a baker's
cart. It was sold to the bank for its bruin
value and molted.
Tee Weloome nugget was tonna ab mate-•
try Hfil, Jane the 9, 1858 ; 16 weighed 184
pounds 9 ounces 16 pennyweights, and won
worth $44 356 ; was milled for 550,000, at
55 a ohenoe, and wee won by a small boy in
a barber shop,
Lady Hotham nnggeb-named in:honer et
the wife of the Governor of New Sone
Wales- was found in Canadian Gulley,
$23.557Septi, 9,.1854, It weighed 98 pounds 14
ounces 12 pennyweights, and sold. fur
Uncle Jack, nugget, found at Banlagorg
Feb. 28, 1875, weighed 23 pounds 5 ounces,,
and was sold for $5 620. 1t was found by a.
runaway miler who sold it for the sum,
named and epenb the money in just four.
weeks. •
Nonamenuggeba,round at Eureka, Dour
on's Flat, Feb. 7, 1874, 50 feet below the,
surface, weighed 52 pounds 1 ounce, anal;
was sold for $12,500.
The Log of Mutton nuggets was found an
Ballarat, Jan. 31, 1853, at a depth of 617
feat. It weighed 134 pounds 11 ounces, and.
was sold to the bank for $'12.380. This nug-
get was shaped like a leg of mutton, henna,:
its name.
No -name nugget, found at Bakery Hill:„
Ballarat, Menet 6, 1855, near the enrfaoe
weighed 47 pounds 7 ounces, and was solo
for 811.420.
No name nugget, found in Canadian Gully,
Ballarat, Jan. 22, 1853, at adepth of 25 feet,,
weighed 84 pounds 3ounoee 15pennyweightee
and was sold for $20,235.
The Kohlnoor nugget, sound ab Ballast„
July 27, 1860, at a depth of 160 feet from.
!holed eurfforaoe,$16,680. weighed 69 pounds, and was,
s
Sir Dominic Dalynngget, found Feb. 271
1862, weighed 26 pounds, and sold for $G,,
240.
No•name nugget. found at Ballareb,
Feb. 28, 1855. only 16feet below the surface..
The discovery was made by a small boy;
The nugget weighed 30 pounds 11 ounces 2;
pennyweights, and sold for $7 365.
No name nugget, found at Weebville. Au
1, 1869, weighed 12 ponds, worth $2,290.
No name nnggeb, found at Ballarat, Feb. a,.
1853, just 12 feet below the surface, weighedt
30 pounds, and sold for $7,360.
No -name nugget, found In Canadian Gnllye
Jan. 20, 1853, at 18 feet below the surface,,
weighed 93 pounds, 1 ounce and 11 penny-
weights, and sold for $23,350.
No -name nugget, found at Bakery Hill,,
March 6. 1855, weighed 40 pounds and was
worth $9 600.
Nil Desperandam nugget, found at Black
Hills, Nov. 29,1359, weighed 45 pounds, and;
Bold for $10,800. Oates & Deleon nugget,,
found ab lemolly gold field in 1880, at the,
roots of a tree, weighed 189 pounds, and sol&
for $50,000.
In addition to the above were the Herons
nugget, worth $20,000, and the Empresa nug-
get, worth $27 661.
Gold in the drift deposits bas been fount
in larger mausee in Australia than in any -
other country. Many large nuggets were,
found in California during the era of placer-
mining,
lacermining, but we have no record of any to.
compare with those we have described is
Australia,
England First.
In bis address at the opening of the French:
Exposition President Carnot stated that the,
first Industrial exhibition ever held war' in.
Paris in 1798, and it was strictly oonBned to.
native produote. In fact, the only golds
medal offered was ono for the manufacturer -
who should " strike the deadliest blow at.
English industry." The sante principle was:
1 sllewed at another French exhibition
1847, a proposal to admit foreign competitors.
being 'summarily rejected. It remained for
England to give the first int rnationel exhi-
bition in 1851, and there have since been sir
others. exclusive of the one now in progress.
The New York " Post" has collected the,
following interesting etath:rice with regard.
to them :
Number Number Days.
City. Year. of of
Exhibitors. Vfeftoro0pen,,
London....1851 13 917 6,039,195 141
Paris 1855 23,954 5,162,330 209•
London1862 28,653 6 211,103 171
Poria 1867 50,220 13200,000 210
Vienna.. 1873 42,584 7,254,678 185
Philadel'a, ,1876 42 000 9,857,625 159
Paris 1878 60,000 16,226,742 194
Mr. Finerby, the Ohioago gentleman who.
used to twist the bail of the Britieh lion with
mush artistic' effect:, is calling oub for the.
blood of another oontroveroialieb of the Barna
calibre tie himself. Mr. Finerty's friends
are said to be reebraining him from ruching
precipitately into the atreob and shooting his.
antagonist ab sight, and from whet the
public know of Mr. Finorty the friends will
be quite able to restrain him.
No Chance to Tell Yet,
"Well, what do you think of the now
neighbors who have moved in nexb door,
Mrs. Pryer 7" "e haven't had a ohanae to
form an opinion. They baven'b had a
washing day yet."
No Place to Judge.
Mr, Bultitudo-" Young Mr, Dawdle
wants me to give him a position in bhe taco,
Flora. You're acquainted with him. Is ho
a mon of brains?"
Flora -"Really, papa, T. don't know. I've.
never met hint exoepe in aooiety,"
Robby Sees the Opening.
Bobby -Mamma, will you give me five-,
cants if I am good all to-dat2
Mobhor-Bub don't you think it would bo
Hiner to ba good of your own aocard?
Bobby -I guess not, because the teacher
said it woe batter to be good for even n,
little than to bo good for nothing.