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H i Itemical. One hundred and sixty thousand Europeans in Algiers. A Cincinnatti physician says that diarrhtea and summer complaint can be cured by exposing water in a blue hot tie to the sun for a half hour or upward, and then giving one or two teaspoon fuls each hour until symptons change. Water thus affected by the sun he de- Clares to be a great nervine and re frigerant as well as an astringent. The right of a woman past the age of 21 years to marry whom she p eases has just been vindicated in Missouri. The father of Laura Robbs, aged 27 years, attempted to hold her to contin ued service in the parental home by locking her up in a room when she had made a verbal contract to become the wife of George W. Bishop. A writ of habeas corpus unlocked the door, and the marriage took place in spite of the father’s objections. Denying a report that the Queen “usually sits up reading dispatches and writinsr till one in the morning, resum ing again at eight a. m., her routine of the day’s duties,” London Truth says : “The Queen invariably transacts her public business between breakfast and uncheon, and hardly once in a month does her Majesty concern herself with what Lord Beaconsfield termed ‘affairs’ at any other time.” The marriage bill under considera tion by the British Parliament pro vides thst marriages may be solem nized at any time between eight o’clock in the morning and six in the evening, with the proviso that no clergyman of the Church of England shall be un der any obligation to perform the cere mony after noonday. The law has always been that such rites must be peiformed in the forenoon, but the reason of this limitation has never been explained. It may have been a tradition received from the Church of Rome, but the older Church, if it eve; made the noon limit regulation, aba n doned the notion years ago. A number of Prussian officers have enteieil the Turkish army under a contract that is to run for a term of three years, with provisions for a re newal. One of the offi ‘*rs is a Colonel who takes the rank of Brigadier Gen eral with a salary of 30,000 francs. The others are to be Colonels in the O toman service, and will receive a salary oi 23,000 francs. In addition to this, all are to get the usual rations and other allowances given to Turkish officers of like r ank. In case of disa bility for service a pension of one third of the active salary is to be given, and in case of death a pension of one- half the salary is to go to his widow andchildien. The officers, moreover, though obliged to wear the Turkish military uniform, will not be required to renounce their allegiance to Prm sia. They are to continue subjects of the Prussian G ivernmcnt and mem bers of the Prussian army. Both the Turkish and Prussian Governments assent to this. The salaries and pen sions are to be paid in gold by the Ot toman Bank. Experiments with Disinfec tants. A series of experiments have been made by Herren Wolffhugel and Von Knorre with a vie w to explaining a fact observed by Koch, viz , that oil solutions of carbolic aoid are far in ferior to aqueous solutions, of the same concentration, in disinfectant action. For a disinfectant to have full action, it must be able to fully penetrate the object treated; and water, by virtue of its greater capillarity, has doubtless the advantage over oil in this respect. Again it was observed that carbolic acid was more freely given up by car bolic oil in water than by carbolic water in oil. This may be accounted for by the greater solubility of the acid in oil. How far this peculiarity of oil, and its less tendency to penetrate porous solid bodies and to mix with liquids, is to be regarded as the cause of the inactivity of carbolic acid in oil solution oannot yet be measured, since one cannot tell bow oil and water behave with regard to giving up carbolio sold to minute organisms. The author considers, however, that oil should not, in general, be used as a solvent for carbolio acid where one aims at killing, within twenty-four hours, fungi adhering to water con taining bodies, solid and liquid, whether as spores or bacilli. # The raspberry is a native of moun tains or cool northern climates. Hot, dry soil is its abomination, and it Is always ou the alert to “run out” in these siiuations. Our Better Halves. God’s Last and Best Gift to Van. Miss Helen Gladstone has become the vice-principal of Newnham col lege- The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.— Ba>zac. The wisdom of women comes to them by inspiration ; their folly by premeditation.—Dumas. Woman is a delightful instrument, of which love is the bow and man the artiBt.—Stendhal. Miss M*3y has just executed a fine portrait of her aunt, Maria Mitchell, tne astronomer. Every woman is in the wrong till she cries, and then she is in the right instantly.—Habib ur ton. Women do not often have it In their power to give like men, but they for give like angels.—Necknr. Nothing is of so much importance to a youDg man as to be well criticized by a woman.—Beaconsfietd. Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything.— Shakespeare. A student of f.tces says that the most die-con ten fed looking women are those he sees riding in carriages. There are now employed in the pub lic schools of Massachusetts, 8861 teach ers, of whom 7727 are women. The city gov* rnment of Portland is considering the advisabilty of appoint ing a woman city physician. Tbeie are three women doctors in that city. Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, mother of the late Bayar.i Taylor, has presented to a dry goods house in Philadelphia a handsome skein of silk, reeled and spun with her own hands, in the eighty-third year of her age. In California there are four women lawyers, of wrom the widest known are Mrs. Laura De Force G >rdon, who also edits a paper in Almeda county, and Mrs. C ara S. Foltz, who devotes herself somewhat to public speaking. “How is it, my dear, that you have never kindled a flame in the bosom of any man?” said an old lady to her niece. To which the young lady re plied, “the reason, dear aunt, is, as you well know, that I am not a good match ” F >r the first time in the history of the Unitarian denomination, a ser mon was preached by a woman. At the Western Unitarian Conference,sucres - fully held at C eveland, Ohio, in May, Miss Mary F. Eistman delivered the Sunday afternoon discourse on “im mortality,” to a crowned house. Seals. The seal, as affixed to letters, has a claim for consideration in the fact of its historic interest. The seals of Sen nacherib and Cheops are yet extant, together with a multitude of ancient signets both of the East and West, and our letter seals are probably their lineal descendants and relatives of the official legal and royal seals still af fixed to documents. As symbols of power they were, no doubt, affixed upon a missive to f >rbid its opening by an unauthoriz- d person, and their sig- nirtcance would be generally regarded. The early Christians used the sacred devices of the dove, the fish, the an chor and the lyre; and the monks of Durham, becoming possessed of a seal on which was figured the head of Jupiter Tonaus, had engraven beneath it the name of good King Oswald, thus sanctifying it to the uses of the Church. In England, before watches were worn, the seal was attached to the wrist, forming, in fact, a pendant to a bracelet. Shakespeare’s signet has his initials, “W. S.,” and a true lover’s knot—a device which haseled to the supposition that it was given to him by Anne Hathaway. Mary Queen of Scots had a seal with the arms of the three kingdoms upon it, and the use of this formed a count of the indict ment against her. Another ring of interest which may possibly have been used as a signet, is the cameo ring in the possession of the Thynne family, which is said to be the identi cal one given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex. This is only one of a thousand sig nets of historic interest that are still preserved. The “biggest thing” among these belongs, as a matter of course, to America, and was presented to Presi dent Pierce by some citizens of Han Francisco. Upon tills was represented a kind of summary of Californian history and a number of devices, such a* a grizzly bear and an enraged boa, Without it was eugraveii the Presi dent's name, and In its interior pans were small cases eontainlug specimens of various naiive ores. The weight of this precious gift was something like a pound 1 The materials impressed h.vve uetn nearly as varied as the shapes of the Bi^net-i impressing them. Gold, silver and other metals were anciently in use, and even prepared earths or clays. C immoQ wax was, of course, most prevalent before ihe introduction ni scaling wax, a compound of lac and other materials invented in the six teenth century. White wax was used by Oiho I. ol Germany and by many of our monarebs. Rufus, however, very appropriately adopted red. Blue ii the rarest oi tints ; green was favored by the emperors and patriaro 1 s of the East. At. present, vermilion wax is most common, but should the method of sealing letters be revived, we may expect, with the resources of modern chemistry and the diversity of modern tastes, a polychromatic rante of hues unknown to former ages. — London Olobe. Drying Plants. Mr. Leo. H Giiudon give" pome timely hints for preserving specimens for the herbarium. Plants, he says, dry very variously. 8 >me require not a moment’s trouble, others demand patience. Now and then the case is hopeless, and we are constrained t<> fall back upon the pencil, and prefer drawings, colored ones if possible. Grasses and their allies, most kinds of ferns, plants that resemble heather, “everlastings,” the mature leaves of shrubs and irees, call for only che min Imum, Those which try the patience, and can be managed only after consid erable experience with easy ones, are plauts like the hyacinth. To secure the best results, obtain first half ad(z*-n pieces of stout mill- board, cut to about eighteen inches by twelve, then gather together a huu- dred old newspapers, and fold them square to about the dimensions of the millboards. Four or five yards of common white cotton wadding, a score of sheets of tissue paper, and as many of blotting paper, all cut the same size, complete the apparatus. One of tne boards serves for the foundation ; on this lay a newspaper, then a pieoe of wadding, and upon this place the spec imen intended to be dried. The cotton being soft and retentive, every portion can be laid in a proper and natural way, including the petals of the fl >w- ers. A newspaper above, two or three if the specimens have thick stems, and so on, till all shall be deposited in the way of the first. If the specimens are sticky or hairy, or of a kind that the wadding seems likely to adhere to, then, before depositing them on it, in troduce a half sheet of the tissue paper. A heavy weight must be puff on the top of all, sufficient to embed the speci mens in the wadding ; then leave the whole to re-*t for twenty-four hours. All the papers must then be changed, dry ones being put in their place; and if the plant seems to throw off a very considerable amount of moisture, such as will render the wadding quite damp, change the wadding also. A second and even a third change is desirable, at the end of two or three days or a week, and when this is made iiftro duce the blotting paper, pressing again until everything is flat, and the speci mens are absolutely dry. Such is the simple process by which Mr Grindon has succeeded in the art of preserving the colors and forms, not only of robust and tractable plants, but of the most delicate, and very many of the obdurate. Every petal every leaflet, retains the form it had in life, and nine specimens out of ten keep their colors excellently. To in sure the keeping of color, it is well, if time can he spared, to change the blotting paper many times, ai d to dry it thoroughly before the fire, but this need not he done till after the third uay from the beginning. Impiety in Prison. Every Sunday a clergyman of some .denomination goes out to the State prison at Oarson and treats the prison ers to a sermon. Yesterday the rever end gentleman who had been taking his turn at the theological wheel ac costed an intelligent-looking conviot in the yard with : “I never see you at Divine service.” “No,” answered the prisoner (in for an unsuccessful stock transaction). “No: my work out here in the yard makes it impossible forme to attend.” “Ah, sorry to hear it. We've just had a very pleasant time— services and choir-singing an# every thing precisely the same as in our church. The only d ff-rence (this quizzloally) was in Ihe congregation.” “Yes,” returned the conviot, calmly ; “thir congregation has been caught.” His reverence gazes far afield and si lently admires the beau tits of nature. The English Sparrow. In I860 a dozen English sparrows were imported by Mr Eugene S^hief- feiin, ot New York. He set them free near Madison Square, and this he did for several succe-<Bive years. A num ber of others followed his example, among them the Park Commissioners of New York. In 1868 the City Gov- ernrn* nt of Boston imported about 2<)0. These all died, and the next year more were brought over, of which but ten lived. The City Government of Phila adelp da imported 1,000 in 1869 and about the same time two dcz-idwere let 1* o -e in Monumental Square, Charleston, S. C. A history of North American birds says: At ihe time of their introduction the shade trees iu the parks and r-q rares of New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Newark and other places were greatly infe ted with larvae of the measure worms teat destroyed their foliage; since then these worms have almost entirely disappeared. A doubt ha been expressed wbeiher the sparrows destroy these insects. That ihey eai them in the larvae form I do not know, but to i h sir destruction of the chrysalis, the moth and the eggs, I can testify, having been eye-witness to the act. Now that the sparrow is a familiar ob ject to u ail, many can testify to the same fact. Th)Uj.h the sparrow was introduced here about 1871, the worms continued to be a nuisance for several years until the increased the sparrows insured the extinction of toe worm. During those years, at a certain part of the summer, t eair was full of small, light yellow moths. The writer has watched the sparrows mauy an hour and admired their dixterily in snap- ding up the moths. It was by des troying theso moths, each of which was good for numberless eggs, that the sparrow earned our gratitude. He did not invade the castle of silk which the worm had erected on every bough and entangle his short liil in its stiff >cating web, but he devoured the fly n its season and picked off the eggs at his lelsu e. H- is the tree preserver. He should be an honorary member of the Forestry C nvention. A Distinguished Man of Science. A clear bright face, a keen thought ful eye, hearing both his years and bis learning ‘ lightly as a flower,” S*r John Lubbock hardly strikes you as a man who has invaded nearly every province of human knowledge and swept the scientific world of its honors and decorations. He is one of the greatest of London bankers, but he is also much more. Hi) combines in a more extraordinary way than any person living what is scientific and speculative with what is practical and political. In very different directions he has made his mark and achieved solid success. The basis of his charac ter and work no doubt lies in its scien tific side. In the method, sagacity and patience of his observations he evidences the true spirit of the Bacon ian induction. He cannot, as Bacon did in his day, take ail human knowl edge for his province, but no man bet ter understands the relationships be tween various departments of knowl edge or has made himself a specialist in a larger number of them. On one side of his character he is a country gentleman a patient thinker, a plod ding investigator of minute pheno mens. Men of action and politics, who would scorn to watch ants and wasps and study flint instruments, have rarely achieved such brilliant and remarkable suoceBS. He is one of the best known members of Parliament, holding one of the most honorable of seats by the firmest of tenures. Few men have such a spotless, honorable and disinterested character in public and private life. First of all, Sir John is a hanker, as was his father before him. In several respects he illustrates the doctrine of heredity, as set forth by his late friend and neighbor, Mr. Darwin. Sir John William Lubbock was, in his day, a very remarkable astronomer, not so much, as his famous son explained to me, on the popular and “observatory side” as on the high mathematical side. He had also a celebrated relative, Dr. Lubbock, of Norfolk, who wrote on the fauna of his country. He had thus an ancestral fame to sustain, both scl- entiflcally and socially. I need hardly say that he is a thorough man of busi ness. Nowhei e has Sir John made his great powers more felt than in the region of hanking. They say “every man is a debtor to his profession,” and Sir John has acquitted this debt very fully. He has made two great land marks in the history of hanking which will always he associated with his name. One of these is the bank holi day ; the other, the institution of the cleaiing-house of country banks, by which the benefits long known in the city of London were extended to all parts of the country. All the honors that the banking world could confer upon him have been liberally be- stowed. He is the president of the Institute of Bankers, with its two thousand members, and holds the peculiar and remarkable position of honorary secretary of the London Association of Bankers. He is thus the medium between the banks and the Government and the chosen ex ponent of the views of bankers in re lation to Government. Then, he has instituted a system of examination for bankers, clerks corresponding to the Civil Service examinations. Sir John was a member of the International Coinage Committee appointed by Gov ernment, and he is the author of a great variety of papers in financial literature. Domestic Economy. Sherry Biscuits.—Take one pound of lump sugar, eight eggs, and a suffi cient quantity of sherry wine, beat them well together, and then add a pound of floor and a half an ounce of coriaudei seeds. Pour the paste into buttered tins, and bake them at a gen tle heat for half an hour; then turn them, and cover their surfaces with some more eggs and sugar, and replace them in the oven for another quarter of an hour. How to Treat Bites and Stings. — Apply insiamly, with a soft rag, most ireely, spirits of hartshorn. The venom of stings being tm acid the alkali nullifies it. Fresh irood ashes, moistened with water ancTmade into a poultice, fnquently renewed, is an excellent substitute, or soda or sala- ratus, all being alkalies. To be on the safe side in the case of snake or mad- dog bites, drink brandy, whisky, rum or other spirits as free as water, a tea cupful or a pint or more, according to the aggravation of the circumstances. Many persons are not aware that glass can be cut under water with great evse to almost any shape by simply using a pair of scissors. In order to insure success the points must be kept quite level in the water while the scis sors are applied; and, secondly, to avoid risk, is is better to begin cutting by taking off small pieces at the cor ners and along the edges, and so re duce the shape gradually to that required. Wnen the operation goes on well the glass breaks away from tue scissors in small pieces in a straight liue with the blades. Tne tw) hints given above, if strictly followed, will always insure success. Savoy Biscuits.—Beat up twelve eggs with three spoonfuls of water, adding gradually a pound of finely- powdered loaf sugar. When the mix ture becomes of the consistency of thick cream mix with it a pound of fine fl >ur previously dried and mould it into long cakes, which are to be baked in a slow oven. Savoy biscuits may also be prepared in the f dlowiug way : Tans about six eggs and wei^h them and afterward beat them into froth, and mix them with some fresh- grated lemon peel beaten with a little sugar in a mortar into powder. Then beat up with them the same weight of sugar as of the eggs employed, aud also the same quantity of flour. When the materials are made into a paste mould it into biscuits, sprinkle white sugar on them and bake them on pa per at a moderate heat. Pickled Walnuts.—Select full- grown green walnuts or butternuts when they are soft enough to be easily pierced through with a needle. They are usually in fit condition in July.' Prick one hundred nuts well through, and lay them into a brine made of four pounds of salt to each gallon of vine gar; let them remain nine days, aud at the end of the third and sixth days change the brine for fresh. On the ninth day lay them in the sun. After they are well drained place them in t le sun till they turn black ; they will need to remain several days. Boil one gallon of vinegar, two ounces of black pepper, half an ounce of cloves; one ouuce of mace, one ounce of allspice and one ounce of root ginger sliced, »n minutes, and pour it over the wal nuts, which have been packed in jars three quarters full. When the vinegar cools cover them up tight. They will >e ready to use iu a month, but they are better in a year, aud will keep eu y ears - This pickle is an excellent aocompanimeut of fl,h. The small percentage of nitrogen iu ertlliz rs generally comes from dried lood, flesh-scraps from tanneries, old leather and fish refuse.