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Planning Her Own Reuse.
There are comparatively few women
who plan their own houses. The ma¬
jority live are content and must be content
to as the hermit crab does, in a hab¬
itation made by another, adapting her¬
self as best she may to its shape, and
abandoning it when she finds another
more commodious. There are women,
however, who have the privilege of plan¬
ning their own houses, and at the sug¬
gestion following and request of some of these the
hints are given.
The first question to be considered,
and we speak particularly of country
houses, is the site, and this divides it¬
self naturally into healthfulness of loca¬
tion and beauty of view. The perfect
drainage provided of the house should be first
fog, and it should be so placed
with respect to outhouses and barns that
they inate can not by any possibility contam¬
the air of the dwelling. During
the months when the temperature will”
in dooi-s is higher than that without, by
natural consequence the ground air is
■drawn into the house. If there are
swamps dwelling, or stagnant the pools contiguous to
■a inmates may be kept
sick all the year round. All such
nuisances should be shunned or abated.
On derdrain clay soils it may be necessary to un¬
to secure dryness and heaith
fulness in the site. But it is better to
pay money for tiles than for drugs.
Much of the healthfulness of the house
•depends on its position with respect to
the points of the compass. If so located
that the sun pours into the rooms where
the family pass most of their waking
made. and sleeping Sunshine hours is a transmuted great gain will by the be
body virtue into and health happiness. and cheerfulness, Shelter into
from the
included prevailing cold this winds is of also properly subject.
in part the
However it is carefully wind the house find is built, its if
of wood, the will way
in, and that means coughs, colds, sore
throats, rheumatism. The air must of
course be freely admitted, but it should
be compelled to come in at the proper
inlets, aud not “like a thief, to steal, to
bill and to destroy.” A row of rapidly
growing trees may be set out as a pro¬
tection against wind, if that is desirable
or necessary.
These points secured, beauty of view
is next in order. And here it may be
remarked that the windows of many a
barn command lovelier landscape views
than do those of the house to which the
barn belongs. Perhaps horses and cows
And sheep appreciate fine landscapes but as
.well as human beings do; we can
think, however, that the latter should
have first choice. There is money in
these days in fine views. Many an old
Sarm-house has been enriched during
the past year because it afforded lovely
landscape views from its windows, and
thereby attracted city boarders.
As to the planning of the house, that
•depends entirely live on the A kind of family old
that is to in it. house for
ipeople should be planned with special
reference for their needs; one for a
growing family must be planned accord¬
ingly. If servants are to form a part of
tthe household, suitable provision must
®>e made for their accommodation. A
bouse mav be planned so as to meet all
(these needs.
The usual way of drawing a house
.plan is to decide first upon its dimen¬
sions, and then proceed to cut it up citiesj, into.
XOOms to tbe best advantage. Tn
where land is sold by the square inch,
this mode of procedure is necessary, have but
tin the country where a man can
fhalf an acre, if need be, for his house,
there is no need of scrimping land. In
cities we must build into the sky as the far
as safety will permit, on account of
xjostliness of land, but in the country
(What sense is there in having a house
tover two stories in height? The first
[room to and be planned other is the family should living be
iroom, the rooms
Arranged with reference to this. This
^central room should pommand the finest
iview on the site, and in this northern
•climate should have a southern ex¬
posure. It should have a bay-window
Tor plants, a corner for the sofa where
■no drafts may come, and ample closet
Toom for containing things that would
otherwise be aroun a. When the plan ts
icomplete according to the housewife’s
iwishes, she can submit it to an archi¬
tect and have it modified to meet the
limitations.
» The kitchen should be planned with
(reference to the use that is to be made
jOf it. If it is to serve for laundry and
flitting-room as well as for kitchen, cor¬
responding provision must be made. A
Ivery separate room for laundry another purposes fire, is
desirable. It costs
ibut it takes all the steam and heat of
(washing and ironing out; of the kitchen,
it gives a place where clothes may b >.
aired without absorbing the smells ot
the kitchen, and where they may be
dried in wet, frosty and windy weather. fabrio
This last is a great saving of not been esti¬
alone but health, for it has
mated that more injury to the health of
farmers’ wives results from hanging out
clothes in cold weather than from any
other ono cause. The pantry opening window
from the kitchen should have a
in it, and a place for everything re¬
quired in getting up a meal, or doing cook “a is
baking,” so that when once the
in the pantry she can put her hand on
whatever she needs without any run¬
ning around to eet things things together. and
This getting ready to the do task is done
cleaning up again after
is often the most fatiguing part of the
work, and should be avoided as much
as possible. should be planned
Sleeping windows rooms and doors so the
that with open
bed will not stand in a draft, and that
the eyes on first opening from sleep will
not encounter direct light from the win¬
dows. In most rooms expressly set
apart as sleeping rooms both these re¬
quisites are far “more Honored m tne
breach than in the observance.” It is
verv desirable to have a room on the
first floor that may be used as a sleep¬
ing room or as a nursery the or quietest as a sjck side
room. It should be on
of the houre and with a sunny exposure.
Water may be introduced into the
second story of most houses by the or¬
dinary suction 'pump. A reservoir in
the second storv thus filled will save a
great deal of labor, and a waste-pipe wili
opening outside the building If save de¬
carrying slops over the stairs.
sirable, a reservoir in the top of tbe
bouse may be filled by distributed a forcing pump
and water in be thence of tire water at hand to every and
room, ca-e
easily got at is of first importance. recently
We saw the other day in a
built house a slide about a foot square
inclosed on ell deles with an opening,
on every, floor, and leading froth the top
story Into to a receptacle in tne basement.
this was tnnnvn all sweepings and
similar waste, thus saving its carriage
wer the stiairs. In some houses such
a slide would be a great saving of steps
N. Y. Tribune.
Snebbery la New York.
The politest peoplt? in New York ars
tlje beggars. They are not, however,
the best people. The average business¬
man has not time to be polite. He is
too much engrossed in the pursuit of
money. So are the lawyers, and the
bankers, and the merchants, and all but
the beggars before mentioned. But for
them, gracious eonrtesy to strangers
would be one of the “ lost arts ” in New
York.
in Snobbery increases wealth in the accumulates. metropolis
Money proportion as
commands respect — manhood
none. Money is king; and, like all po¬
tentates, it is somewhat of a despot. It
is the sovereign before whom all bow.
The rich man draws to himself power in
proportion to his wealth. The power he
aeqaires is derived from those who have
not wealth. Hence, insolent supercil¬
iousness on the one hand, and cringing
servility and crawling obsequiousness than on
the other, are more apparent here
in any other American city in which I
have ever had the opportunity of observ¬
ation. Wealth is the goal which all
strivo to attain—without much regard to
the means employed.
New York is the center of wealth and
the cradle of the achievement of tho Na¬
tion. It is the mother of all gigantic en¬
terprises, anil at least the uncle of all
lesser ones. It is connected by ties of
consanguinity, more or less remote, with
all important undertakings. Sleepless
energy and tireless activity, combined
with boldness of purpose, stalwart
strength and courage, small and conscience monumental and
self-conceit, with
less compassion, make of the successful
Nexv Yorker a modern Goliath, whom no
David with a smooth pebble can slay.
There is a sense of might, and power,
and bigness associated with everything
one meets here. Here are found the
ablest financiers, the wiliest politicians,
the cstutess lawyers and the most elo¬
quent clergymen, as well as the most no¬
torious scoundrels the Nation has ever
produced. The devil himself was un¬
doubtedly born on Manhattan Island;
and there is abundant evidence that he
has always manifested a deep concern
about the difference place of his nativity. the people There of is
a vast between
the South and West and the people of
New York, which one accustomed to the
ways of the former readily impudence perceives.
There is an uublushing and a
tranquil assumption of is superiority excessively about
the people here which ex¬
asperating to a Western man .—New
York Letter.
Food and Digestion.
Professor Hawkes, in a lecture before
the Woman’s Physiological Institute of
Chicago, gave different some palpable instances
of widely results attending the
disposition of brain nutriment in differ
persons. John Sherman, for instance,
after assimilating the truths of finance,
evolved the scheme of specie resumption,
while Gen. Weaver, with access to the
same sort of brain food, evolved the idea
of Similarly, greenbacks, and plenty of Republic¬ them.
one man became a
an, while another was known as a Dem¬
ocrat, and still voted for Andrew Jackson.
Mental digestion was involuntary, aud
dyspepsia and diarrhea were not un¬
familiar attendants of indigestion of both
sorts—mental and physical, The think
ers were affected with mental dyspepsia,
and those who do not think, but uliowed
others to think for them, with mental
diarrhea, exhibiting itself wherever they
were afflicted with a rush of words. The
Professor enumerated as the chief cause
of indigestion vice the hurried peculiarly American
stomachic of eating. Good,
perfect digestion might be said to be al¬
most unknown to the average American.
What with rapid eating, lack of sufficient
sleep, and want of rest, nature had no
adequate provision for such extraordinary
expenditure swallowed of fiervous force. Ordinarily
some men as much in ten
minutes as it would require three-fourths
of an hour to eat, and the result was not
only which that they they ate took too into much, their but the
food stomachs
was and
the stomach given a duty to perform
which properly belonged to the organs
or mastication. These unnatural drafts
on nature’s forces must, unless checked,
tell sooner or later on the general health.
The bolting of food was almost universal
in this country, and second to no other
cause in producing indigestion. The
use of liquids the during a meal was all
wrong, for reason that it tended to a
disuse of the organs of mastication,
meal while plenty of liquid before and after
Nothing, was not however, only proper, but l>eneficial.
should be taken
into the stomach that was either
hotter than the blood or colder
than the atmosphere. Unnecessary
dessert, eaten when the appetite was al¬
ready sated, was another evil, while a
still further cause of indigestion lay in
the growing practice of indulging in
hearty admitted, 6 o’clock dinners. The Professor
however, that for certain
classes of business men, such as bankers,
board of trade people, etc., a noonday
dinner would practically amount to
suicide; but for people wh o could eat a
hearty dinner in the middle of the day,
and who were in the habit of retiring
early, an evening dinner was wholly
inadvisable, for the reason that it al¬
lowed too little time for digestion.
Coffee drinking was duly deprecated as
both needless and injurious to health,
and a reform to the directions indicated
was urged as the only remedy for the
great American evil—indigestion.
The Happiest Moment.
Perhaps life, the happiest Oil moment of a
man’s says the City Derrick , is
when he wakes up from a life-and-death
struggle with a collar that won’t stay
buttoned behind, to find that it is only a
dream, and remembers that he kicked
the collar under the b<-d when he retired.
>ew Bars.
When they told the liars Secretary hail been of the
Navy that four new dis¬
covered off the Maine coast, the tarry old
son of anor’wester shook the briny crystals
from his salty beard, and said he always
told Neal Dow that he couldn’t enforce
his absurdly impracticable laws against
the liquor traffic.
Long Telephonic Circuits.
distances The difficulty of conversing telephone, over long
by means of the
which is not an insuperable one, even at
the present stage of development of the
instrument, arises from the peculiar
surroundings of the lines in actual use.
In Persia speaking has been done be¬
tween Tabrees and Tiilis, 300 miles
apartj in Austria over 300 miles; in
America over 410 miles; in India over
500. In all these cares, however, it. was
done either at night or under excep¬
tional circumstances, and the wires
were over ground. Could and we Cincinnati construct
a line between Baltimore
on poles, lofty, separate and di-binct
from all other wires, there would be no
difficulty in conversing between'the two
cities. It would be d ffereut if the line
were underground or submarine. Speech
has been had through the submarine
wires connecting Dover and Calais,
Dartmouth and Guornrey, and Holyhead
and Dublin, but there is no care on re¬
cord, it is believed, where c inversat.ion
has been held through more than one
hundred miles of marine cable. The
minute quality of electricity employed
for telephonic messages is lost in any
great length of submarine wire. A cable
must be charged with electricity from
end to end, and if it had imparted to it
a charge insufficient for this purpose, no
signal anoears at the receiving end. Mr.
W. 11. Pierce, F. B. S„ quot.d in the
Scientific American, is authority f >r the
statement that the newspancr report of
the hearing: of the b unbardment of
Alexandria at Malta is not correct. “In
the first place,” he says, “the experi¬
ment was not tried, and even if it. had
been tried.itcould not have succeeded.”
According to tho same electrician,
twenty miles is the limit of distance over
wh ch with our present apparatus and
present knowledge, we can readily
speak. The neighborhood of other wires
is. as has been already intima’ol, prej¬
udicial. When two or more telephone
wires run parallel heard the message tho traversing The
one can bo on rest.
vicinity of a telegraph wire is still worse
Every current on tho telegraph producing wire is
repeated in irritating, tho telephone, hissing, bubbling, a
peculiarly drowns This
frying sound that speech.
effect,due to the induction or leakage, is
sometimes pleasant or diverting,as telephone when wire,
music, passing on one and
is heard on all the others, conversa¬
tions meant for loving ears reach un¬
sympathetic listeners. tho telephone wire
The worst enemy
has, however, is the electric light cable.
The powerful alternative and intermit¬
tent currents used in certain systems of
lighting are death to telephones, pro¬
ducing an incessant roar that renders
speech impossible. Various devices
have been employed to euro these inter¬
ferences. The only effective one is to
use a complete metallic circuit, the two
wires of which are very close together,
twisted, in fact, the ono around tho oth¬
er, so as to maintain a mean average
distance between themselves and tho
disturbing wires. Whatever be the
strength of the influence of the disturb¬
ing cause on the current in one of the
telephone wires it is the same upon the
other and in an opposite direction, so
that its power of interference is reduced
to zero. This plan was the invention of
Mr. Brookes, a Philadelphian, and has
been adopted post-office. with perfect !t success by of
the English costs,
course, more than the single-wire sys
tem, but its absolute freedom from opor
heating, its privacy, and tho absence of
crackling, makes it worth the extra cost,
Its success, whether underground or
overground, the in the of streets the future. of cities Sub
makes it system
marine wires are invariably made with
a twist, so that they do not suffer the in
terference with which single lines are
troubled. Manchester, miles England, has
over four hundred of underground
double wire twisted on this plan work
ing thoroughly, and there in the midst
of the multitude of busily-occupied be wires had
of a great city conversation can
over a distance of seventy-six miles. Mr.
Pierce pronounces the venerable theory
that the earttHs' a great reservoir of
electricity, from which oither positive or
negative will, exploded. electricity could be extracted
at Currents arc travers¬
ing it. The return currents of grounded, telegraph
lines, one wire of which is
can be picked up as it traverses the soil.
Telephones and placed in the the attic of hand a
building with the gas-pipes connected and on the other one with
on
a wire coming up from the ground floor,
have been found to steal the messages
sent from a telegraph office 250 yards
away. Several cases are known
where telephones have picked up
messages from telegraph desira- lines
miles away, It is therefore
ble that the earth should not enter the
telephone grounded, circuit. When electric light
wires are this is seen to bo
not only desirable but essential, expediency and in
case of a thunder-storm the
of cutting the earth out Is shown to be
of tbe highest order. Every flash of
lightning no matter how far off, is indi¬
cated when the earth forms part of the
telegraphic circuit. There are “earth
currents” which are at times so strong
that when taken up by the telephone brains
they make a noise “as if your
were boiling.” These are, however, so
weak ordinarily, that the telephonist
has little to fear from them.— Baltimore
Sun.
Railroad Across the Isthmus of Te¬
huantepec.
There is now in process of construc¬
tion a railroad across the Isthmus of Te¬
huantepec, Mexico. The width of this
isthmus from Ocean to Gulf is about one
hundred and twenty miles, bnt the pro¬
jected route of the railroad, being some¬
what circuitous, will be nearly thirty
miles longer. The eastern terminus of
the road is the mouth of the river Coat
zalcoalcoe, and from this point the rail¬
road has already been completed for a
distance of about ten miles, and the
grading of another section of nearly
twenty miles is finished. The terms of
the concessions from the Mexican Gov
eminent demand that the entire road
shall lie completed by January, 1883.
The route between New Orleans and Ban
Francisco will be shortened about two
thousand three hundred miles by the
railroad across this isthmus, as compared
with Darien or Panama, thus making an
important saving of time and money to
commerce. 1
Art.
Our town hois been very lively this
winter. First we had two circuses, and
then we had the small-pox, and now
we’ve got a course of lectures. A
course of lectures is six men, and yon
can go to sleep while they’re talking,
if you want to, and you’d better do it
unless they are missionaries with real
idols or a magic lantern. I always go
to sleep hoard before the lectures are through,
but 1 a good deal of one of them
that was ail about art.
Art is almost as useful as history or
arithmetic, and we ought all to learn
it, so that we can make beautiful things
and elevate our minds. Art is done
with mud in the lirst place. The art
man takes it a until large it chunk is like of mud beautiful and
squeezes a
man or woman, or wild bull, and then
he takes a marble grave-stone and cuts
it with a chisel until it is exactly like
the piece of mud. If you want a solid
marble, photograph the o? yourself Made out of
art man covers your face
with mud, and when it gets hard he
takes it oil’, and the inside of it is just
like a mold, so that he can till it full
of melted marble which will be an ex¬
act photograph cool. of you as soon as it
gets This what of the
was one men
who belong to the course of lectures
told us. lie said he would have shown
us exactly how to do art, and would
have made a beautiful portrait of a
friend of his, named Vee Nuss, right
on the stage before our eyes, only he
couldn’t get the right kind of mud. I
believed him then, but 1 don’t believe
him now. A man who will contrive to
get an innocent boy telling into what a terrible
scrape isn’t above isn’t
true. He couid have got mud if he’d
wanted it, for there was moriiamillion
tons of it in the street, and it’s my be¬
lief that he couldn’t havo made any¬
thing beautiful if he’d had mud a foot
deep on the stage.
As I said, I believed everything the
man said, and when the lecture was
over, and father said: “1 do hope Jim¬
my you’ve got some benelit from tho
lecture this time;” and Sue said: "A
great deal of benefit that boy will ever
get unless he gets it with a good big
switch don’t I wish I was his father O!
I’d let him know,” 1 made up my mind
that I would do some art the very next
day, and show people I wanted that I could get
lots of benelit if (o.
1 have qioken It’s about good our baby anybody, a good
many times. no to
and I call it a failure. It’s a year and
three mouths old now, and it can’t talk
or walk, and as for reading or writing,
you might as well expect it to play base¬
ball. 1 always knew how to read and
write, and there must be something tho
matter with this baby, or it would know
more.
l.ast Monday mother and Sue went
out to make calls, and left me to take
care of the baby. They had done fnto that
before, an i the baby had got me a
scrape, so I didn’t want (o be exposed
to its temptations; but tho more I
begged them not to leave me, the more
they would doit, and mother said: “1
know you’ll stay and be a good boy
while we go and make those horrid
calls,” and .Sue said, “I’d better or I’d
get what I wouldn’t like.”
After they’d gone l tried to think
what I could do to please them, and
make everybo ly around me better and
happier. would be After a while thing 1 thought that
it just tho to do some
!U t and make a rnarblej photograph of
the baby, for that would show ovory
body that I had got some benefit from
the lectures, and the photograph of the
baby would delight mother and Sue.
1 took mother's fruit basket and tilled
it with mud out mud, “f tho and back would yard. It
was nice thick it stay
in any shape that you squeezed it do into,
so that it was just the thinrr to art
with. I laid covered tho baby on its back on tho
bed, and its face all over with
the mud about two inches thick. A
fellow who didn’t know anything about
art might havo baby’s killed mouth the and baby, for with if
you cover a nose
mud it can’t breathe, which is very un¬
healthy, but I left its nose so it could
brea'ho, and intended to put, an extra
piece of mud over that part of the mouth
after howled it all was dry. Of course would the baby have
it could, ami it
kickeil dreadfully, only I fastened its
arms and legs with a shawl strap so that
it couldn’t do itself anylm.m.
The mud wasn’t half dry when mother
and Suo and father came in, for he mot
them at the front gate. They all came
upstairs, and the moment they saw the
baby they said the most, dreadful things
to me without waiting for me to explain.
I did manage to explain a little through
the closet door while father was looking
for his i attan cane, but it didn't do tho
least good.
I don't want to hear any more about
art or to see any more lectures. There
is nothing so ungrateful as people, and
it I did do what wasn’t just remembered what peoplo
wanted, they might have
fhat I meant well, and only wanted to
plea c them and elevate their minds.—
Jimmy Brown, in Harper's Young Pco
nlc.
An Unreliable Man.
“ Look out for him,” said Hostetler
McGinnis, referring to a prominent Aus¬ and
tin gentleman, “he is a hypocrite, day, just
will play you a bad trick some
like he did me.”
“ What did he do doP to you?” borrowed
“What did he I ten
dollars of him, and the double-dyed back,
scoundrel tried to make me pay it
look out for him. I tell you, you can’t
rely on him.”— Texas Sittings.
—Mrs. Keltie, a prominent singer of
Hamilton, Ont, wasawakened the other
night by the crying of her child. Bhe
quieted it, and both awakened, were soon this asleep,
but she was again time
by a sharp pain in the ear, when she
screamed, and by the low burning gas
she saw a rat run away. It had bitten
Mrs. Keltic's ear so as to make it bleed.
Examining her fiabe, she found upon its
ear tfie imprints of the rat’s teeth.
George Mitchell, an Ohio wife mnr
derer, declared that his condemnation to
death was just, and that he would not
have it changed if he could. He spent
the night before the day appointed for he
the hanging in loud rejoicings that
wa8 about to go to heaven ; but, when a
reprieve came, he shouted ; “Blessed
be God; didn’t I always tell you that
the Lord was on the side of a Christian
man?”
RE LltJIOlJS AND EDUCATIONAL.
—The Baptist churches of Germany
lost 1,897 members by emigration last
year.
- The Minutes of the Presbyterian
Church show that it has 1,578 ministers
Interior. in this country that are not^astors.—
—The Maryland Agricultural College
wants more students, and has sent out
word that the demand for graduates in
agriculture supply, and that is much there greater than the
are filled many only paying
situations that can be by
graduates of agricultural colleges,
—The Missionary Herald for Novem¬
ber contains interesting narratives of
the celebration, golden wedding during ihe of past l)r. season, Klias
of tne
Riggs and his wife at Constantinople,
and of the close of the fiftieth year of
missionary service of Rev. Lorenzo
Lyons, of the Sandwich Islands mission.
—In the sixteen Southern States and
the District of Columbia the white
school colore d population 1,803,257. is 3,899,961 There and 16,669 tho
are
colored public schools, 44 normal
schools, 36 colored institutions of sec¬
ondary instruction, 15 colored universi¬
ties and colleges, 92 colored schools of
theology, 3 colored law schools, 2 col¬
ored medical schools and 2 colored deaf
and dumb and blind institutions.
—A Fhiladelphia school-boy failed to
put on the final “g" while spelling the
word “skating.” For this with heinous anil of¬
fense the teacher “did force
arms make a violent assault upon him,”
bruising him and beating him, and
called him a lying whelp. The teacher
was put under $600 bonds to appear for
trial. Tho boys of Philadelphia arc to
bo taught how to spell if it fractures
every bone in their bodies .—Detroit
Free Press.
—A Rhode Island clergyman, not
having had time during the week to
write a new sermon, was compelled he to
fall back upon an old one, which
rigged up with a new toxt and applica¬
tion and knocked out part of “fourthly”
and remarked “fifthly.” On his announcing hearers: “1 his havo text
he to
an old sermon for you to-dav; but it
has new collar and wristbands, and I
don’t believe you can toll where the
stitches are set in.” Tho congregation
listened to the discourse as patiently week as
if it was now for them that
narcolepsy,
A very strange case of a little girl,
the patient Is liable to go off into a
sound sleep at any moment, which may
cont.nue for se\ eral hours, and at times,
even two or three days.
A few weeks ago Dr. Robert H. Tor
ter was call to see the child in question
at her homo, on lorlland avenue. She
first developed symptoms about a year
ago a ter an attack of typhoid fever
I he first indication that the mother had
of the the child, trouble which was the would restlessness often have of
“nodding spells. lhese attacks of
sleep gradually increased in seventy
and frequency until she used to have at
least twenty six a day, tho and table often while as many
as five or at eating.
I ho attacks busted for about a minute,
but they were very profound, and it was
impossible to wake her until the spell
passed away. \Y hen she recovered the
child immediately resumed whatever she
had been doing, that perfectly had taken innocent piaco. of
the intermission
\\ hen the attacks would come on she
would toll forward on her face, and a
large tumor was produced on her lore
head from the frequent contusions. A
few months addition ago she the began narcolepsy, to have
spasms in to
ami became very destructive, hav¬
ing a desire to kill and everything
she came in contact with, it re¬
quired great care to restrain her.
The case is a very remarkable one,
from the development of the disease so
early in life, as with children the usual
tendency in such cases is to idiocy in¬
stead of insanity, as it is atery rare oc¬
currence for a child not over five years
to become insane. Tho little girl was
put under treatment lor tho disease,
and is now perfectly recovered, not
having had an attack for two weeks.
The freaks that have been produced curious and in
cases of this kind are very
sometimes there amusing. man A couple afflicted of ye with ars
ago was a
narcolepsy in tho city, whose attacks of
sleep used to last from two to three
days, and canio on once or twice a
month. Some time ago a well-known
sporting man, who was a narcoleptic,
lived here aud was a source of much
curiosity. < Occasionally ho would as¬
tonish iiis friends taking by going drink to sleep and at
the bar while a re¬
main perfectly unconscious for a few
moments, when ho would wake up and
take his drink, perfectly unconscious of
anv interruption. created considerable excitement
He
one night at a gentleman s house,by
falling sound asleep while just in tho
act or receiving an introduction to a
young lady, much to her discomfiture
and his friend’s amusement. It is im¬
possible to arouse the patient out of
these sleeps, and the attacks are liable
to come on at any moment, no matter
how the victim may be situated. This
mysterious and unacconntable disease
was first described ten years ago and
since then it has received much atten¬
tion from neurologists, but its classifica¬
tion has not yet been definitely settled.
From tbe spasmodic character of the
disease and its frequent association with
epilepsy, physicians believe it one of
the Oram hes of this disease, and ere
long, no doubt, it will be given its ap¬
propriate position with the epileptic
class. — Louism'Jt (,'ourier-Joumal.
—Ar interesting affair in Boston re¬
cently was the testimonial benelit given
to Mr. William Warren of the Boston
Museum, to commemorate the fiftieth
year of his servico on the stage of that
city. Matinee and evening Mr. perform¬ War¬
ances were given, in which
ren took part, assisted by many cele¬
brated members of fiis profession. Mr.
Warren Is an ae omplisl.ed scholar and
gentleman o: the old school, and is ono
of tho bort read men on the American
•t:igo. — (Jhrid iau I'niott.
The manufacture oi agricultural im¬
plements has doubled -within the last ten
years. In 1850 this industry this gave em¬ it
ployment to 5,361 hands ; year
gives employment to 10.680.
USEFUL AND 8DG6JBSTIYR
—Tlfe C'liti.ttandhga Times ntys large
numbers of farmers Trots Ohio, Indian*
and Illinois are settling ib. the section
contiguous to CbattonoogAi ,
. Boston —An order for was fifty recently of given to a
dealer cans skim mil 6
to bo used in the manufacture of awasb
for the externy'nation df insects on th#
orange trees in Florida.
and —The giving fashion private of holding dinner parties receptions
at
hotels rat-hen than in one’s own house is
becoming prevalent.—A£ well said that ¥■ HeratrL farmer's
—It hire been a
success is as much, due to selling at the
price. right time as in buying at and the right
Reasonable profits prompt
returns should be the rule of the
farmer, who, just as surely as a mer¬
chant, will find it not well to keep any
kind of salable material Coo long on
hand.— N. ¥. Examiner.
—It is well suggested under foot that is keeping im¬
stock sheep dry more
portant than covering them with roofs. 1
Hence undulating or “good hilly land is every¬
where said to be for sheep.”
The and fact dainty is, the animal, sheep is and rather avoids a deli¬ mud
cate
and tilth, whenever possible; and no
animal more provides quickly appropriate responds to food the
care which it
and shelter from the blasts and storms
of winter.
—Prof. Shelton advises Kansas farm¬
ers to plant small, early-maturing, in eight
rowed sorts of co'-n preference to
larger varieties. Had such corn been
uniformly could planted, been ho says, made a during good
crop have
almost every one of the past eight
yearn. The present season tho small
sorts, Philip, like Compton’s before Karly September and King
and long were before ripe the drought had been 1.
seriously felt.
—Bean Soup: Soak a quart of navy
them beans overnight. the fire In in the three morning put of
over quarts
water, with three onions fried in a little
butter, one small carrot, two partly
cooked potatoes, a small piece of salt
pork and salt Boil slowly five or six
hours. Then pass the through tire. Season a colander with,
and return to
salt and pepper. Bits of bread fried
brown in butter and make a pleasant ad¬
dition; celery cloves are sometimes
added; n cupful of cream mixed with
the soup makes a pleasant change.— N»
Y. Tribune.
The Distribution of Asphalts.
ftp rtS as to E IS of
Xr nidad> and rocks, at 0 , serving h ers impregnating
ca ] car( , ou8 or as a cement
to hold the particles together, *» as at Val
d@ Trftvenj K ^ cl
Fof 8everaI ro on8 tho asphalt lake
j n Xr j n j dad ; possesses special the interest southern- for
The isl nd wh ich is
mo(lt of the Ix . 8ser Antilles, lies off the
norlhern coa , t o{ 8outh America, and is
ea8i | £ y acce8sii)le from any of our sca¬
Here, afaid the most luxuriant
yei^tation, £ is a lake three miles in cir
cu lferenco on the sur f ac0 0 f which
, iM a cni8t of a8p i m it„m of such tenacity
that in the rainy f season Hnder a tho person influence can
WH , k w<ro8 , it . )Ut>
tko j, ot sun> j t go itons to a thick tar.
'j cru8 t receives accessions from be
nealh , lnd lormer i y J it wou ld overflow
aud run into tho gefti mon , than
two mileJ) awa a. similar sub-
8tance( known a3 considerable ...Jew s pilch,” quanti- is
wlud)od ashore in
around the borders of the Dead Sea.
]n Texag> guuth of Shreveport, there is
gaid t0 be a ltch lake conlarninf , l ar g a
tities of bitumen, but little is vet
known a bnut it. In Southern Cafifor
niathere arc accumulations of asphalton
the coast at Santa Barbara, San l.uis
Obispo, etc. which resembles, when
pure, that from Trinidad. It promises
to supply the wants of the western
coast, as Trinidad will that of the east¬
ern part of this country.
Jn Kentucky there is a considerable
quantity of asphaltic mineral which
ma y some time be utilized for road
ma An king. interesting and valuable asphaltio
mineral, known as Albertite, is found
to New Brunswick; and a similar one,
called Grahamitc, occurs in West Vir¬
ginia and other parts of the country.
In the mountains west of Denver, in
Colorado, is a vertical bed of hard and
brittle asphalt, not unlike Graliamite,
while Albertite is found in small quanti¬
ties in Lorain < ounty, Ohio, and Casey
County, Kentucky. found in Cuba,
Bitumen is likewise
and is brought into commerce under I he
name of rhapopote, or Mexican chiefly asphalt. in
limestone, In Europe which asphalt for mi, occurs when crushed
and packed, an excellent pavement.
The principal points at which It is found
are the following: Val de Travers, in
tho Swiss Canton of fieitfchatel, four¬
teen miles from Neufchatel, and sixteen
or seventeen miles by rail from the
French borders; Seyssel. on the Rhone,
in the French department of the Ain,
about thirty-three miles from Geneva;
Lobsann, a small town in Northern Al¬
sace; Vorwohle, in Braunschweig; and
Limmer, near the city of Hanover. The
Italian prov inceof Caserta, in the neigh¬
borhood of Naples, supplies Rome with
an asphalt much used for terraces and
flat roofa—A’. J. Hallock, in Popular
Science Monlluv.
esteemed —The Rev. Methodist Thomas pastor Guard, of a highly Balti¬
more, wrote to one of two sisters who
had gone to California. He meant to
address the younger, but made a mistake
in the name and so sent the letter to tha
elder. After considerable correspond
ence he made an offer of marriage.
and was accepted—by the wrong
woman. He got released, but was never
successful in the other quarter.— Chicago
News.
A reward of 81,000 is offered to tha
utr*itenr fisherman who shall omit from
his correspondence this summer all ref¬
erence to the “speckled beauties”—
meaning, of course, tbe fish, and not
the maidens that make glad the sylvan
•olitiules. __________
A cat, carelessly snut np in a room in
Rouseville, N. Y., while the family wera
away for the summer holiday, was found
alive after thirty days. In the agonies
of starvation it had tom down the cur¬
tains and mutilated the wallas high a*
tt could reach.