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Altskan Widows. I' wa^ diffi mk to ascei i ain the exact law of.sue :ession among t he Thlinkits, but the chiefsbip seenn- o follow the direct line, though, as in all other savage nation-*, this is s arcely a rule, for the lineal lie'r may he set aside in favor of a more acceptable man. In the inheritance of personal property the collateral is preferred to the lineal relationship. The wives, or more properly the widows, being personal property, pass to the collateral next of kin of their husband’s totem, for the marriage of t vo people of the same totem is considered a kind of incest. The w i .low, in any event, takes with her such possessions as have always been peculiarly her own. She also takes her own infant children ; natur ally, then, she would take to her new husband, the children’s inheritance, "Which may account for the habit of regarding the male collaterally next of kin hs proper heir. If there be no male survivor competent, to receive the widow, or if he purchases freedom with goods, she then passes into the open matrimonial market, with her pecuniary attractions. Sometimes the heir rtbels and refuses to accept his former sister in-law, cousin, aunt, or whatever she may be. Then her totemic or family relatives wage war on the insuiter and such of his totem as he can rally around him, the obj -ct being either to enforce her righi or ex tort a proper recompense. Among theAsonques, further to the north and west, I saw a young fellow of about eighteen years of age who had just fallen tnir to his uncle’s widow. As I looked upon her mummy-like propor tions I thought that here was reasona- • ble cause for war. Sometimes a hus band already liberally provided for will come into a misfortune in the shape of one or more widows. The only e9t;;.pe is by purchasing freedom. In fact, there seems to be no hurt to a Thliukit’s honor that money or goods will not heal. The scorning of a widow, the betrayal of a maiden, and murder, all demand blood or pecuniary eomijensation. If in a feuc^all negoti ations fail, and Ktnukh (symbolized in the wolf), the God of war, be un- propitio is, and sen 1 private war, then the principal antagonists, with their totemtc adherents, don their helmets and coats of paint, and stand facing each <> her in two lines, each line holdi ng to a rope with the left hiud, and wielding heavy knives with the right. They advance, and hack and hew, with more yells than bloodshed, until one sule or the other cries the Thliukit for Peocavi. In this duel, any warrior violates the code who lets go the rope with the left hand, unless he be wounded or torn from it; when he has 1 -t go. he is then out of the fight aud must retire. Valuable Suggestions. What la To Be Dene 1 1. Child two years old has an attack of croup at night. Doctor at a distance. What to be done? The child should be immediately un dressed. and put in a warm bath. Then give an emetic, composed of one part ot antimony wine to two of ipe cac. Trie dose is a teaspoonful, If the i p imony is not at hand, give warm water, mustard and water, or any other simple emetic; dry the child, and wrap it carefully in a warm blank*'! 2. Hi-ed girl sprains her ankle vio lently. First bathe in cold water, then put the white of an egg in a saucer, stir with a piece of alum, the size of a waluut, until it is a thick jelly ; place m of it on a piece ot lint or tow ugh to cover the spraiu, it as often as it feels warm or jliuib is to be kept in a hori- /osition by placing it on a swarm, and the man who n gets severely stung in the rust off anything, mix with warm water, and give in large draughts fre quently. Never give large draughts of fl lid until those given before have been vomited, because the stomach will not contract properly if tilled, and the object is to get rid of the poison as quickly as possible. 6. Young lady sits in a draught and comes home with a bad sorr throat. Wrap flannel around the throat, keep out of draughts aud sudden changes of atmosphere, and every hall hour take a pinch of chloride of potash, place it on the tongue, and al low it to dissolve in the mouth. 7. Nurse suffers from a whitlow on her finger. Place the whitlow in water as hot as can be borne, then poultice with linseed meal, taking care to mix a little grease with the poultice, to pre vent it from growing hard. Bathe and poultice every evening. 8. C iild falls backwards against a tub of boiling water, and is much scalded. Carefully undress the child, lay it on a bed, on its breast, as the back is scalded, be sure all draughts are ex cluded, then dust over the parts scald ed bi-carbonate of soda,lay muslin over it, then make a tent, by placing two boxes with a board over them in the bed, to prevent the covering from pressing on the scald; cover up warmly. 9. Mower cuts driver’s leg as he is thrown from seat. Put a tight bandage around the limb, above the cu^, 3 ip a c >rk under it, in the direction of a line drawn from the inner part of the kuee to a little outside of the groin. Draw the edges of the cut together with sticking plaster. 10. Child has a bad earache. < Dip a plug of cotton wool in olive oil, warm it, and place in the ear. W rap up the head and keep out of draughts. 11. Youth goes to skate; falls through the ice ; brought home insen sible. S rip the body, and rub it dry ; then rub it with a warm blanket and place it in a warm bed, in, a warm room. Cleanse away froth and mucus from the nose and mouth. Apply watm bot tles, bticks, &c., to the arm-pits, be tween the thighs, aud to the soles of the feet. R ib the surface of the body with the band encased in a warm dry worsted seek. To restore breathing, clo8etne nostrils and breathe steadily into the mouth; inflate the lungs till the breast be raised a little, then set the nostrils free, and prtss gently on the chest until signs of life appear. Then give a waim drink, and put to bed Do not give up hope for at least three hours after the accident. 12. Child gets sand in hii eye. Place your forefinger on the cheek bone having the child before you. Then draw up your Anger, and you will probably be able to remove it; but it you cannot get at the sand this way, repeat the operation while you have a knitting needle laid against the eyelids, this will turn the lid in side out, aud then the sand may he removed with a silk handkerchief Bathe in cold water, and exc.ude the light for a day. A Curious Disease. It has been observed that the manu facture of bichromate of potash has a singular effect upon the nose, mani festing itself in a curious manner. A little hole is formed on the septum or partition of theuose dividing the nos trils, and increases gra luully until the partition entirely disappears, with the exception of its lower part, so that to a superficial observer there is nothing the matter with the nose, except a little outward depression. As soon as the partition is destroyed the process appears to stop there, neither the lungs, air-tubes nor throat being in the least degree affected. S ime work men at the chrome factory iu Russia, where the disease lias been chiefly watched, have been employed for ten years and remained unaffected, while with others the hole in the nose begins to be formed after one month’s work. But that the disease is something more than an individual peculiarity is evi dent Iron the fact that an inspection of all the hands proved that more than 60 per cent, of the men had diseased noses. The early symptoms are a slight tickling of the part affected, followed by bleeding, but with no un comfortable feelings, aud, In fact, the destructive process Is painless. The Dispensary. Worry.—The Nineteenth Century says: Tne cause, or condition, which most commonly exposes the reserve of mental eneriry to loss and inj try is worry. The tone and strength of mind are seriously impaired oy its wearing influence, and, if it continue long enough, they will be destroyed. The whole machinery is thrown mt of gear, and exercise, which would otherwise be plea.->urable aud innoc uous, becomes painful and even des tructive. The victim of worry is ever on the verge of a catastrophe ; if he es capes, the marvel is not at his strength of intellect somuch as his good fortune. Worry is disorder, however induced, and diso^ red work is abhorred by the laws of nature, which leave it wholly without rerntdy. The energy em ployed in industry carried on under this condition is exhausted. The reserve comes into play early in the task, and the faculty of recuperation is speedily arrested. Sometimes loss of appetite announces the cessation of nutrition; otherwise the sense of hunger, present in the system, is for a time preternaturally acute, and marks the fact that the demand is occasioned by loss of power to appropriate, in itead of any diminution of supply. The effort to work becomes daily more la borious, the task of fixing the attention grows increasingly difficult, thoughts wander, the memory fails, the reason ing power is enfeebled; prejudice — the shade of defunct emotion or some past persuasion—takes the place of iudgmeut; physical nerve or brain disturbance may supervene, and the crash will then come suddenly, unex pected by onlookers, perhaps, unper ceived by the sufferer himself. This is the history of “worry,” or disorder produced by mental disquietude and distraction, occasionally by physical disease. Treatment of Delirium Tre mens.—Dr. G. W. Balfour, in a cli nical lecture on delirium tremens, printed in the Lancet, calls attention to an opinion very widespread, not only among the public but e /e i among the profession, that delirium tremens does notarise from drinking, but from cea ing to driuk. This idea he pro nounces fallacious in the extreme. We are often told that so long as the patient is kept drinking, so long will he keep from an attack of delirium, while the very reverse is the case. So long as he keeps driuking he usually keeps from a bad attack, because a serious attack, as a rule, is associated with a loathing of drink ; but he al ways keeps coming nearer to it, and the sooner his drinking bout can be arrested the le^s risk he runs of having an attack at all. So long as the patient is permitted to obtain drink, just so long will his case prove intractable to treatment; while when the treatment is continued, minus the drink, the cure is rapidly obtaiued. Hs con cludes that the administration of al cohol in any form during the course of delirium tremens is necessary only in very rare cases, where exhaustion is great, and even iu these cases it delays the cure. Uuder the treatment recom mended by him ( which, for the benefit of professional readers, we may state is chloral), so rapid in i:s action, he believes it possible that alcohol may never be required iu such cases, and that ordinary tonics may supply its place. Practical Methods of Cutting and Boring Glass. There frequently appear in the pa pers what purport to be simple and effective methods for cuttiug glass, such as applying a hot iron, or ignit ing a string saturated with some burn ing fluid, placed upon the line of de sired separation, etc., none of which methods are certain or satisfactory in their results. The following directions, however, if carefully observed, will require but little practice for any one to become most skilful in working glass with simple and inexpensive tools. It would not be a hard matter to trace out on a flat piece ot glass a line of separation that would be extremely difficult, aud even impossible, to cut with a diamond, but the method about to be described will muke it an easy thing to do. The necessary tools are, for glass up to about one-eighth of an inch thick, a three cornered file and a piece of quarter-inch round iron with a suita ble handle on one end, the other *nd squared off', which is to be heated in a lamp flume or by any other conveni ent means. After marking out on the glass the line of separation desired, tile a notch at the beginning, which we will sup- posqf o ne on one edge of the gia-s. ! Then heat the iron to a tempera'ure according to the thickness of the glass to be cut; if very thick it will need to approach redness, but for thin glass a much lower degree of heat will do. Now apply the end of the heated iron to the gla e s at the filed notch when in a short time the glass will separate wiili a slight snap at that point, when the iron must be slowly moved in the direction of the line marked out. The glass will be observed to split in the t direction the iron is moved, care being taken to hold the iron so as to make a very small angle with the surface of the glass, aud kept about an eighth of an inch In advance of the fracture. If the separation at any time ceases it is probably because the glass has become too much heated or from want of suf ficient heat in the iron. Allow the glass to cool before applying the iron again after being reheated. By carefully following these direc tions and taking pains to acquire the proper angle for holding the iron to the glass, as well as the proper temper ature for the iron, any shape may be cut with an accuracy depending upon the steadiness with which the end of the iron is drawn over the glass. Perhaps the most generally useful application of this principle will be found in cuttiug bottles or large glass tubing, either transversely or any irregular shape. Suppose we wish to cut off the neck of a large bottle so as to use the neck of it for a battery cell or other purpose. At any point on the line of separation file a notch for the starting point. Apply the heated iron ut one end of the notch (which is to he filed in the direction of separation) for about four seconds, then carry it around and apply to the other end for the same length of time, then back again to the first position, when, if the iron is at the proper temperature, aud held at the proper angle, iu a short time there will appear a splitting of the glass, which fracture should be carried along a very short distance by moving the iron just in advance of it. Now carry the iron to the other end of the fracture and start it in that direc for about half an inch, then back to the end, when the separation may be completed, giving a clear, sharp line of division with great exactness. It is necessary to take the precaution to start both ends of the fracture in ord»-T to acquire control of it. If con tinued on one side a’one the splitting might start in the other direction, darting off from the desiied course. If we wish to cut an irregular shaped section from a bottle or large glass tube, file a notch in any straight por tion of the desired section iu the direc tion of the straight part. Apply the iron as before, so as to get the fracture under control, when it may be con ducted wherever desired by drawing the iron accordingly. A round, square, or even triangular hole may thus be made in a bottle or other glass vessel. For very thick glass a larger piece of glass and higher tem perature will be necessary, as well as a deeper notch filed for the starting *poiut. A crack, by accident or spontane ously, frequently starts in large plate glass, nnd from the centre of the glass wheels of electrical machines, which, if not stopped, would in time be very apt to extend clear across the plate or wheel. This may be prevented by causing the fracture to change its course aud return in the directio t from w lich it started, by applying the heated iron and guid ing it in the desired direction. Such fractures may also be prevented from farther extension by boring a small hole at their extremity. The ability to bore holes in glass of any size and with certainty, is readily acquired and is certainly often desirable. Tha best tool for this purpose is a round file, the size of which depeuds upon the siz 1 of hole to be bored. It should be somewhat smaller than the hole to be bored and have a blunt end. It should be well supplied at the dril ling point with a solution of gum cam phor In turpentine, which may be prepared by putting as much gum camphor In a given quantity of tur pentine as it will dissolve. By taking the file near the end be tween the thumb and forefinger, and giving it a twisting motion, using con siderable pressure at the point where the hole is to be bored, it will soon penetrate the glass and cut a clean hole, without danger of flaking around the edge. Care should be taken to prevent too much pressure just before the hole is through, otherwise it will flake off on the other side. I is safer to start on both sides before the final penetration. Exceptional Weather. A season of unusual character is sure to call forth, even from persons of much experience, the observation that they remember nothing like it before. In truth, the power of accu rately recalling past weather is exces sively rare; and, In the absence of precise records, the memories of even the oldest inhabitants must be re ceived with douot. The weather Nvhich is fine we accept as a matter of course, and forget it is as soon as it is over ; while that which is the reverse of fine scarcely produces a more per manent impression. It is said by those who have studied such subjects that no eff ort of memory can recall a vivid impression of past pain, and there is probably much truth in the statement. The power of appealing eonectly to experience, which super ficial people regard as an elementary gift of nature, is, in fact, a product of the highest intellectual cultivation, and is simply impossible to the illiter ate or the untaught. There may be no iatention to dejeive, but there is an incapacity to observe or record with accuracy. Astronomers tell us that the regions of the earth which now enjoy a temperate climate will at some remote future pass once more through a glacial epoch ; but it is a favorite as sertion with the aged that the climate of these islands is manifestly dimin ishing in severity. There are no such winters now, we hear, as those of the “good old times,” when scarcely a D ecember passed in which the squire’* horses were not requisitioned in order to assist in dragging the mail coach out of the snowdrifts, or the able- bodied meu of the parish to cut a pas sage for it with their picks aud spades. Two years ago the suow iu Oxford street might have rivalled, even if It did not surpass, the best achieve ments of S disbury Plain io the days of our grandfathers; and the tyc.th probably is that the seasons move very much in cycles, the cause of which we may hope that meteorology wills otns day unravel.— London Times. Honesty the Best Policy. The spirit of Pope’s lines : “And more true |oy Marcellim exile t feels Than Ciewr with a senate at his heels,” was illustrated by the joyfulaess with which a country gentleman received the news of his some loss of a clerk ship : The gentleman had placed the son with a merchant, and for a season all went on well. But, at length, the youug man sold a dress to a lady, aud as he was folding it up, he observed a flaw in the silk, aud remarked, “Madame, I deem it my duty to tell you there is a fracture in the silk.” This spoiled the bargain. The merchant overheard the remark. Had he reflected a moment, ^ might have reasoned thu9 with himself: “Now I am safe, while my affairs are committed to the hands of an honest clerk.” But he was not pleased, and so he wrote to the father to come and take the boy home; for, said he, l> he will never make a merchant.’ ” The father, who had brought up his son with the strictest care, was not a little surprised and grieved, and hast ening to the city, Baid, “And why will he not make a merchant?” “Because he has no tact. O-ily a day or two Unce, he voluntarily told a lady who was buying silk, that the goods were damaged, aud so I lost the bargain. Purchasers must look out for themselves. If they cannot dis cover flaws, it will be foolishness in me to tell them of their existence.” “And is this all the fault?” “Yes; he is very well in other respects.” “Then I love my sou better than ever, and I thank you for telling me of the matter ; I would not have him in your store another day for the world.” Daniel Web3ter to His Son. Daniel Webster wrote to his son Fletcher, who was about to be gradua ated at Harvard, in 1833 : “I have sel dom felt so much concern about any thing of the kind as I do upon your success upou that occasion. I pray you spare no pains. l»o your best and you will do well enough. I earnestly remind you of the necessity of acting with great caution in regard to all festivities. You remember what I said to you ou that head, and I pray you to forget no part of it.” The inconsistent lives of professing Christians do more to retard the victo ries of the cross than all the works of unbelievers. •