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V to w his he How Much Should We Eat ? How, asks Dr. Nicholls in The Food Reform Magazine, sire we to get at the proper quantity of food ? Ani mals living in a sta ! e of nature do over-eat themselves. They stop eat ing when they have got enough. There are no prize cattle on the prairies. It is the stalled ox, and the pig in his pen, deprived of exercise, that can be fattened into a diseased obesity. Horsts escape this process, because men do not to any great ex tent knowingly devour them. The hunter and racer are not over-fed. All animals expected to do their work are carefully fed as to quality and quan tity. If human beings were fed as wisely, they would be as healthy. There are some good rules for feed ing as to quantity. When our food is simple and natural iu kind and qual ity and mode of preparation, there is ttle danger of eating too much, here is little danger, for example, of ting too man^grapea, apples, peavs hanapua; sWt, sugar, spices and luxurious cookery tempt to excess. With men, as with auimals, a natural diet is self limiting, and we are dis posed to stop vhen we have got enough. The more artificifil the food, the more elaborate and luxurious the feast, the more the liability to overload the stomach, overtask tlie digestive power, and overweight tht' forces of life. Simplicity of food is a condition of health, and promotes longevity. The quantity of food which enables a man to do his daily work without loss of weight is precisely what he re quires. H i supplies the daily wastes —no more and no less. This quail til y may vary a little with each ind vid- ual, but everyone can easily ascertain his own measure of require ner^ h y reducing the quantity of daily food until he finds a balance of force and weight. It is my opinion that the average quantity of water-free aliment required, say by buBine^ and literary men, is twelve ounces. Men of great muscular activity may require sixteen ito twenty ounces. I have found my- ^iTn-TOiy good condition for seden- .y work oh eight or ten ounces. When anyone Is in good condition for his work and keeps his normal weight, he has food enough. Dr. Nicholls’s advice is, find this quantity by exp< ri ment, and then habitually keep to it. Humorous. The Providence Transcript asserts that Western cats commit suicide. Let’s import that kind. The fact that the comet hrfs already gone to pieces is a startling’ warning against the habit of early rlsjing. Aithoug^ Patti is not a tenor, she Is now on the high sea. (Thej family of ^grapher are he , hist Fempted to it Kansas City. Dun’t Inted to suicide. She lavn^pTpretty good time.—Bos ton Post “O Mr. S nith,” exclaimed Gertie, “ may I go with you and see your nice little puppies? ” “What do you mean, Gertie?” exclaimed her father in astonishment. “Why, papa,” said Gertie, “didn’t you say Mr. Smith was going to the dogs ? ” — Boston Tr am script. • We never had the experience, but we should ihink it would ri’ean editor fearfully altar he hud worked the most of the day, getting up an editorial de claiming that a man is better < fl for being married, to go home and be jawed all the evening because he for got to bring home two dozen clothes pins, or soma such thing.—Somerville Journal. “Where’s Snoggleton? ” asked the proprietor of an Arkansas newspaper, entering the * fllce and inquiring for the editor. “ He hasn’t come down this mornirg,” replied a reporter. What’s the matter?” “Well, begot into a dispute last night and a fellow shot his head off.” “ Did lie leave any copy?” “No, sir.” “How in thunder did he expect this paper to to run without copy? Blamed if I go to his funeral.”—Arkamaw Traveler. Several of our exchanges are devot ing considerable space to the import ance of “cookihg girls.” It’s no use. We don’t want them cooked. The raw damsel Is good enough for us.— Hartford limes. When a woman comes to the door and oalls after her husband, “Hen-R IrE 1” flulshin j the last syllable with itaUgtters, you may know she is Scientific. Last year Great B itain made nearly 2,71.0,(00 tons of puddled iron, and imported 99,000 tons besides. Grapes exposed to sunlight contain 3| per cent, less acid than those which have remained in darkness. The Engineering Fews fays there are over 1400 bridges in the Illinois Division of the Wabash Railroad. To remove ink from tv ktograplis, moisten the pad with water acidula ted with muriatic acid (10 per cent.), and rinse well. Chemically regarded, mica is made of silica, alumina and potash. Silica is one of the hardest substances in na ture, known in its purest and most beautiful form as rock crystal. The Washington Monument now exceeds 300 feet in height, and is rising at the rate of about a foot a day. The workmen are protected by a strong netting which surrounds the top of the monument. Dr. Andries and M Faye both agree that cyclones, toraadoes and trombes are one and the same mechanical phenomenon, and that their powerful action is due to the force in upper cur rent p. Of all the men-of-war in Europe, Italy has the most hoavily iron-plated and possessed with the most formida ble guns. The Duilio and the Dandolo have armor twenty-two inchea thick, and they (a ‘h carry 100-ton guns. A tree called the traveler’s tree of Madagascar yiel s a copkm supply of fresh water from its leaves, very grateful to the traveler. It grows in ti e most arid countries, and is a good proof of the wonderful provision of na ture. ,Teactersin the public schools of France are very seldom paid more than $5 a week, and as the expense for salaries is cow a little over $15,000,000 the Minister of .Public Instruction re fuses to add to this amount and so increase taxation. It has been noticed that copper when melted with salt and subse quently cooled is much tougher than ordinary copper, this being due, in all probability, to the removal of the cuprous oxide, which is generally pres ent in greater or less quantities. The persistence of the magnetic property observed in certain trees is attributed by M. Larroque to the transportation by lightning of small particles c f iron held in suspension with other matter, which makes up what is known as the d ust of the air. When it is necessary to bring up a child on cows’ or nurses’ milk it has been proved preferable to use the milk of a_cow, unless the nurse is well fed pt from doing hard work. Hu man milk is quickly impoverished by severe mental or physical labor. There is eminent medical authority, says the Baston Journal of Chemistry, for the statement that unripe or very old potatoes contain a certain quantity of solan iue. This may produce serious results if the potatoes are boiled with their skins on, and if they are eaten in large quantities. The following is a celebrated Lon don “ anti-asthmatic powder Potas- sii nitiatis and pulv. anisi, each one- half ounce; pulv. stramon. foi., cue ounce. A thimbleful of the powder, placed on a plate, is pinched into a conical shape and lighted at the top. It is then placed near the patient, who inhales the fumes. A new building material has been discovered at Bewa, one of the Celebes islands. It is known as fossil coral, and when cut from a mass is soft, but on exposure to the air becomes hard like brick. Tt is thus far satisfactorily stood the tests that have been applied to it, and large quantities have been ordered for budding purposes. One by one the more precious metals are found deposited in this country, and iu some cases, as in nickel, the unsuspected supplies prove greater in volume than the previous yield of all other couutries combined. The latest of these discoveries is that of vana dium, which has been taken from an Arizona mine in larger paying quan tities than ever before known. F. J. Faraday is inclined to the be lief that the breathing of air devoid of the usual quantity of oxygen is apt to develop germs otherwise harmless into those which produce consumption. As giving support to his hypothesis, he oites the deorease of consumption in well ventilated barracks, and the relief afforded to patients by sea voy ages, the air of pine woods and.the i halation of Scraps. D ;es the night mail go by the bed post ? A bunion is spoken of as a nobby thiug in low cut shoes. “Are you afraid of the dark?” asked a mother of her little daughter. “I was once, mamma, when I went into the dark closet to take a tart.” A lady who says she is the homeliest woman in Kentucky, advertises for a husband. “He must be middle-aged, good-natured, but not beautiful, a3 I want to love him all to myself.” “Pa,” said a child thirsting after knowledge, “they say that beavers are the most indu trious of animals. What do they make?’’ “Hats, my child—hats,” said the puzzled father. A Dilemma.—An old bachelor re marked that he never would marry any woman that he didn’t respect, and he certainly couldn’t respect any woman who was willing to marry him. Gentelman (calling at the house of a friend) 1 “Is your mistress in ?” Mary : *3he is, sur.” Gentleman: “Is she engaged?” Mary : “Faith, she’s more than that—die’s married.” Whenever you see a woman talking straight at a man, and beginning to nod her head, and keep time to it with her upraised Index finger, it is about time for somebody to climb a tree. Smoking tobacco is said to color the bones. We do not see why people should want their bones colored but if they do, smoking is probably the cheapest and* pleasantest way to do it. An American says, from his late ex perience of English weather, he should imagine that “Rain Britannia!” ought to be as popular in Euglarid as “Hail, Columbia!” is In the States. “I can’t get up early,” said a poor victim to his doctor. ‘ Oh, yes, you can,” was the reply, “if you will fol low my advice. What is your hour of rising?” “Nine o’clock.” “Well, get up half an hour later every day, and In the course of a month you will flud yourself up at four o’clock in the morning.” Human Hair. Not less than ninety per cent, of the women and five per cent, of the men of this country wear more or less false hair. The enormous consumption o f the artificial and natural product sug gests the fact, fearful but true, that nine women out of every ten about the street, life the church or in the cars, charming or ugly to a line, have on a wig or a weft, a bandeau or a prepared net, bangs or waves, arranged at the hairdressei’s. Some people think that a blonde never grows grey-headed. The fact is, one-third of white shreds may be mingled with such hair, and few would notice it. The same pro portion of blond headed people turn gray as those with any other colored hair. The proportion of people who dye*their hair is also surprising. Some twenty per cent, are said to do this. 0” course the greater proportion of these people are whitehaired people. A white head is often, though not always, a sign ( f a life of trouble. The dresser is more than often amused by requests from the country for “ cold water frzzes.” These, of course, com prise an article which will curl easily by application of water, and are easily supplied. Curly hair has been the fashion for a year or more. Of the iw o human hair is the most called for. “Hair-raising” is assort of Industry In Europe. The peasant girls, who are much in the open air, get their heads cropped once a year, and thus furnish a proportion of the supply. They are satisfied with a sUpend so small that an American wo touch six times i terial imported the trade and E divide the rest finds its way h and is made lan would scorn to lvalue. Of the ma- •ance supplies half land and Germany The raw material m great quantities, on this side of the water. The this country. Isiness is young yet in Fiousand Suggestive. It is not worth while to live to accu mulate a little money at the expense of a shrunken soul. God is better served In resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. Every man is responsible for all the good w^y^n th^ scope of his abilities, :form it he oui to be held strictly responsible for his ; failure. j Lord Bacon, towards the latter end of his life, said that a little smattering of philosophy would laid a man to atheism ; but that a thorough knowl edge of it would lead a mau oack again to a fivst cause, aud that the first prin ciple of right reason is religion. A Beautiful Landscape. Beautiful world wherein we live, Beautiful all that God d )th give ; Beautiful birds, and trees, aau flowers, Beautiful shades and leafy bowers. Beautiful fields, all clad In green, Beautiful streams that glide between; Beautiful bai.ks, with primrose sweet, Gnarled old trees, and mo3s-grown seat. Beautiful ferns In their mossy bed, Beautiful blue-bells overhead ; Dear little birds, all wild with glee, Trilling their song on the hawthorne tree. Beautiful trees lu their budding green, Beautllul sunshine streaming between ; Beautiful light Irom heaven above, Beautiful emblem of God’s own love. Beautiful sunset, crimson and gold, Soft,dim twilight, gray and cold; Night puts on her mantle of gray, Beautiful daylight passes away. Beautiful moonlight overhead, Beautllul stars their soft light shed; Breathe from their spangled home above, Beautiful thoughts of God’s changeless love. Beautiful rest lrom a day of care, Beautiful hour of sacred prayer; Beautllul thoughts will our last ones be, Sleeping or waking, If safe lu thee. The Lord means that His children should be happy. It is ^ery easy to charge our t illictious upou Him, but it is invariably unjust. There is a right aud a wroug way of living ; there is a bright sloe to the saddest experi ence. Sometimes the Chrutiau real izes this, bows to the will of God, acknowledges his sin, and makes the best of his experience. And we say, what a lovely character! Again, one stubbornly resists the manifest will of God, attempts to stay omnipotence, and falling, rails at God. And we say, How hard he takes this providence ! But God meant it lor good to him, as much as to the other. When we are tempted to accuse God, it is we our selves who are at fault, not God. He does no man wrong. Snuffing. A lucky capture of Spanish gkl- leons, laden with choice snuffs from Havana, had inauguarted the reign of Queen Anne, and been the means of introducing into England the Conti nental fashion of snuff-taking. Wagon loads of the “titillating dust” thus im ported being publicly sold at 3J. and 4i, a pound, the box soon rivaled and at length eclipsed the pipe. Sir Plume, “of amber snuff justly vain,” became a character, and was kept in countenance as well by “tbe fair” at the drawing room as the Chairman in the streets. To parody a well known line. “Snuffruled the Court, the camp, the grove.” Snuff-taking was eleva ted to the rank of a passion by the wits and beaux of society. To offer a box gracefully became an educational requirement, aud a general flourish of snuff-boxes took place, if not “all over the land,” as Cowper said, at least from Pall Mall to the ’Change. A pinch to conciliate, a pinch to con temn ; a pinch gave pungency to the jest, a relish to the sarcasm, and f qually served to cover embarrrssment and chagrin. Tallyrand used to say— and he was a priseur—that the snuff box was essential to all great politici ans, as time for thought In answering awkward questions was gained in taking, or pretending to take, a pinch. Cdrtainly Prince Metternich was de voted to the box, and diplomatists generally appeared to have viewed it with favor, as well, indeed, they might, when some £8000 or £9000 were expended in the purchase of boxes for presentation to foreign Ministers at the coronation of George IV. Sanitary Legislation. Sanitary legislation in England dates from a very early period. Ed ward II. decreed that a butcher who sold measled pork should be fined for the first offence, pilloried for the second, imprisoned and fined for the third, and expelled from the town for the fourth. Richard II. took measures against the pollution of rivers. Henry VI. prohibited cattle slaying within walled towns with three exceptions. Elizabeth enacted that only one family might dwell in a cottage. The plague in the time of Charles II. led to many health enact ments. Hussar-blue cloth dresses are made with a plain skirt, bordered with vel vet, above which is military braid, and a plain redlngote with braided ’heels down the front and pleated behind. Swiss Cheese. Some F<!ots About its Manufacture in Switzerland. Tbe manufacture of cheese in Switzerland, says Consul Adam of Geneva, is one of the most aucien t industries of the country, instruments for this purpose having been found in different parts among the ruins of the lake dwellings. In the fouiteenth and fifteenth centuries the produc tion had grown large enough to become the subject of legislation, as appears from some curious decrees o f Berne, Glaris, Appenz a ll and other countries, prescribing the size and weight of the cheeses, and forbidding the manufacture of certain sorts, or any exportation to foreign countries. The modern manufacture dates from the introduction, eighty or ninety years ago, of the cultivation of artifi cial fooder and the system of stabling cattle, now universal in the lower valleys and the plains. The several varieties are classifi ed either according to consistency of material, as “ hard,” “firm,” or ‘soft,” or according to the proportion of fatty matter, and ‘‘ rich,” “medium,” or according to the coagu lation, whether by rennet (a presure) or by sour mflk (a lait aigre). The best is the Emmeuthal, a rouud cheese, eighty to one hundred centi meters in diameter, ten to fifteen cen timeters thick, aud weighing fom fifty to one hundred kilogrammes, and like all the rich cheeses (fiomages gras) which retain nearly all the elements of the milk, its nutritive value's high. Next in importance is the Gruyere, called after the village of Fribourg, a cheese about ^-tventy cen timeters in diameter, and weighing about forty-five kilogrammes. It has come into great repute withiu the last ten years, since the formation of a wealthy society for its mam facture in Fribourg. It is manufactured in much the same way as the Emmcnthal, except that a third or more of t he cream is removed, whence it is classed as “ migras,” or medium. TheSpalen, so called from the manner of packing* for shipment, is a medium cheese, about fifty centimeters in diameter, and weighing twenty kilogrammes, and made in a much ruder Nmanner than the Emmenthal and Gruyere. It comes from Unterwalden, Uri, Schwyz, Lucerne, and ie sent to Italy, where it is used grated with maccaroni, rice, polenta, etc. The cheese of the canton of Appen- zell, long famous for its fine cattle and excellent fodder, differs in certain qualities from all the other Swiss varieties. In making it the curd is triturated in a bassoir, moulded with out pressure or salting, and finally treated with a brine of water, wine le c s, or white wine, pepper and salt, which gives it a pungent odor and flavor, something between the Swed ish and Italian cheeses. The exact formula for the brine ?s a secret, and as with most of the Swiss cheese, the process of manufacture is only to be learned in Its own country, where the traditional method has been handed down for generations. The size of this cheese is generally about thirty centimeters thick, and it weighs about eight kilogrammes. A very remark able cheese, also, is the Schnabzlger, or green cheese, and which seme writers hesitate to class as a cheese. The peculiarity of the Schnabzlger is due chiefly to the method of coagula tion, by azi instead of rennet, and partly to treatment by the zigeries (melilotus ecerulea), a plant grown for the purpose in Schwyz. The Gessenay is made in the high pastures about the village of that name in Berne and else where in the Oberland. It iH a cream cheese of fine and aromatic flavor, very hard and keeping well for years. Its nutritive qualities are high, and it is largely used, like the Spalen, grated with soup, maccaroni, etc. A similar choese is made in the canton of the Valais. This Is, perhaps, the richest of all the Swiss varieties and has a peculiar flavor of its own. The pro cess of manufacture has greatly im proved since 1872. Loss durable but equally nutritious and palatable, and of the same general character is the Cristalina, made In the valley of the Models Grisons. The Vacherin is the only soft cheese of large size made in Switzerland, and there are two kinds —one made near Gruyere and in ap pearance resembling the cheese of that name; the other is made in the valley of the Jura. The latter kind is about thirty oentiraetera in diameter, six centimmera thick and weighs five kilogrammes. It is sold in drunuu and if perfectly matured has an vor.