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Wandering Needles. The vagaries of needles which have been introduced in the body, and Lave escaped immediate removal, have in all ages attracted the attention ot collect ors of the marvelous in medicine. Hil- dancs related an instance of a woman who swallowed several pins and passed them six years afterward; but a more remarkable instance of prolonged de tention was recorded by Stephenson, of Detroit last year—that of a lady, aged seventy-five, who passed by tbe uretha, after some months’ symptoms of vesical irritation, a pin which she had swallowed while picking her teeth with it in the year year 1835—forty-two years previously. Occasional pain in the throat was the immediate symptom, but in 18-15 she was seized with severe gastric pain, which passed away, and she had no symptoms until luematuria in 1876. This curious tolerance of such foreign bodies exhibited by tis sues is often observed in lunatic asy lums. 11. Siivy recorded some years ago the case of a woman who had a her daily diet, and after her death 1400 or 1500 were removed from vari ous parts of the body. Another case almost as striking, has been recorded by Dr. Gillette—that of a girl, in whom from time to time, needles were found beneath the skin, which they perforat ed, and were removed by the fingers or forceps. Concerning the way in which they got into her system, no informa tion could bo extracted from her. Si.e was carefully watched and in the course of eighten months no less than three hundred and twenty needles were extracted all being the same size. Host were black and oxidized, but some 1 ad retained their polish. The majority were unbroken. They pass ed out of various parts of the body above the diaphrain at regular inter vals, but in a sort of series and always in the same directioa. The largest number which escaped in a single day was sixty-one. A curious phenome non preceded the escape of each needle For some hours the pain was severe, and there was considerable fever. She then felt a sharp pain, like lightning in the tissues, and on looking at the place at which this pain had been felt, the head of Ihe needle was generally found projecting. The needles invari ably came out head formost. No bleed ing was occasioned, and not the least trace of inhumation followed. The doctor in attendance extracted three hundred and eighteen. They were sometimes held firmly, and seemed to be contained in asortof indurated can al. It was conjectured that they had been swallowed with suicidal inten tions; but on the other hand, tbe way in which the needles escaped in series and their direction with the head out wards suggested that they had been in troduced through the skin. That little weight is to be attached to the pace at which the needles as proof of their mode of introduction is evident, from a case recorded by Villars of a girl who swallowed a large number of pins and needles, and two years afterward, dur ing a period of nine months, two hun dred passed out of the hand, arm.axilla side of throax, abdomen and thigh, all on the left side. The pins, curiously, escaped more readily and with less pain than the needles. Many years ago a cus'c wss reaorded by Dr. V' 1 o, of Copenhagen, in which four hundred and ninety-five needles passed through the skin of a hysterical girl, who had probably swallowed them during an hvsterical paroxysm, below the level of the diaphram, and were collected in groups, which gave rise to inflamma tory swellings of some size. One of these contained one hundred needles. Quite recently, Dr. Bigger described before the Society ot Surgery of Dub lin, a case in which more than three hundred needles were removed from the body of a w oman who died in con sequence of their presence. It is very remarkable in how few' cases the needles were the cause of death, and how slight an interference with func tion, their presence and movement cause. From time to time their detec tion by a magnetic needle is proposed as a novelty; but, as Dr. Gillette re minds us, this method was employed by Smee nearly forty years ago, and has often been adopted since. AGRICULTURE. The South sends the most concentrated and nutritious of feeding materials, cot ton-seed cake, to foreign countries, and sends North for a portion of her needed meat; and what is worse, allow a large part of the immense supply of cotton seed to go to waste, for the oil is useless as a fertilizer, and the feeding of cake to animals, with large quantities of less nutritious materials, would double the value of seed as manpre, besides mak ing the cotton States a cattle exporting region. The waste of rural wealth in this one article represents a sum that would astonish the best informed farm ers of the country. It is a waste—one of a numerous class—that “has m ’lions DOMESTIC. P0130NOCS Gases in Houses.—Ty phus fever, diphtheria, and other fatal diseases, are often caused by sewer eas which forces its way through the water closet and open fixed basins into the bouse. Another dangerom_ gas is that emanating from stoves. Unless there is a free circulation and an adequate supply of pure air in a bedroom occu pied by one or more persons, the vol ume of air enclosed becomes very rap idly exhausted ot its life-preserving properties,and proportionately charged with gasses of an opposite character. The mere breathing of the air takes HUMOROUS. The New Jersey Lawyer.—lie was a pretty rough-looking customer to own the name of Emanuel St. Cleave, but he took a solemn vow that the name was his alone. His debut occurred at the Central Market One of the pie women sat shivering and wishing ard hoping for eu....omer- , when along car Emanuel with a radiant smile covering his face. He introduced himself as a lawyer to hunt up a woman ot her name who had been left a fortune of $50,000 by some one in Mexico. “There is no doubt in my mind,” he added as he took a chair, “that you are A -Motion Withdrawn. A few years ago the following inci dent took place in Washington County Texas. The j urv of a Circuit Court, be fore whom a miserable wretch had been tried, returned a verdict of “guilty,” and contemptously suggested the “•whippingpost.” The Court then ad journed for dinner. Immediately af ter dinner the' defendant’s counsel, without consulting his unfortunate cli ent moved for a new trial, and com menced reading the motion. in it.” The use of cotton-seed cake is :jy assumes an undue proportion to the rapidly increasing in England; the re- : former and reu( i e rs the atmosphere ceiptswere 344,000 bags in 1878 and absolutely dangerous to life. But there 267,000 in 1877. The value per ton are q;j,r sources of danger that too there now is £6, 15s., representing a f re q Uent i y fa.iL to be recognized, even decline on account of the abundance of | b _ g enera n y careful housekeepers, hay and low price of maize. The best ; Tb ese are the pipes leading from cargoes have averaged 18 per cent of j wa t e r-closets. sinks, and fixed wash- oil and 42 of flesh forming materials.: 9tand basins, to the house drain, and The Agricultural Gazette, London, calls ! whic h often serve as the inlets by this “the most valuable feeding stufl w bj c h that most deadly of poiso: imported,” and claims that by a liberal sewer <, aSj enter9 dwellings. It dot s use of it the English graziers can sue- not mat[er ver y much whether the p. from it the oxygen, and returns a vol- the person into whose tap this comfort- ume of carbonic acid gas, which speed- ; able fortune is to fall, but there are cer tain formalities to be gone through with.” One of the formalities was taking a big mince pie in his fingers and biting out a good sixth part of it at a bite. His teeth closing on a second bite when the heiress closed her fingers on his neck and held him against a post,mouth full of crust and meat and seasonings, until an officer could be had. “Mr. St. Cleave, is this the wav you maintain ti e dignity of the New Jersey bar?” inquired the court. cost me ’leven cents!” added the heiress. “May it please your Honor ” be gan the prisoner. “But it don’t please us one bit,” ii terrupted the pie woman. “That p e would have sold for e’ghteen cents!" “Your Honor, I emue here to hunt up an heiress by the name of Binder, and .” And then how could I be the heiress cessfully compete with the American. son enters the hall-way from a water-‘ “And the dignity of a mince pie that penchant for pins and needles so strorg Cotton-seed cake is gradually displac- c i oset tbe kitchen from a sink, or the enstme ’leven cents!” n>hi«i rh. heir*., that she made them, in effect, part of ing linseed in that country. As the bed-room from a fixed wash-stand ' seed of cotton weighs twice as much as basin, it will attack the sleeper in his the lint, the utilization of 1,000 pound- bedroom. Thousands of fatal cases ot for every bale, or about 2,300,000 tour, diseases that are believed to be the re- per annum, would suffice to build . .. sult 0 f contagion, are really due to Mississippi levees, pay for the jetties, 1 sewer ga9 p0 ison brought directly into and make other demanded internal im- bedrooms by the ways we have sugges- provements in less time than would be , ^ Another dangerous gas that l ' - required to get the money from the ma- be guarded against in bedrooms is i -- ternal Government. In cotton seed,cow emanating from stoves. During cold | when my name is something else en peas, various native grasses and several wea ther these stoves are much used as tirely?” she demanded. “Ah! judge, other products of luxuriant growth in beaters in sleeping apartment, and he’s an old beat! See the way his ears that climate, the South has facilities lor through ignorance of the principles of are set on his head! Take a look at the productions of b.ef and pork to which conl b U stio:i and ventilation, the car- way that nose is put on his face!” other sections o-. the country are stran- b onic acid gas given otf fills the air “W.tness, please keep stiii. Now, gers. In this d reetion cotton may yet w ; t h its poison. It is a hundred times Mr. St. Cleave, you say you came here aid in repairing the injury which, as : sa f er ; 0 sleep in a cold bedroom than in , to search for an heiress named Pin- an imperial monopolist, it has inflict, d one heated by a badly regulated stove, der?” on the agriculture of the South. Open fire-places obviate all danger,and “Yes, your Honor. j serve as the best means ot ventilation. “And she lias fifty thousand dollars Buy Small Trees — Nurserymen: awaiting her!” usually describe trees in their cata- Simple Sopobofics. — In the New “She has.” logues as “second class,” “medium,” | York State Inebriate Asylum, a glass “And you are reai anxious to find “first class” and “extra.” The differ- of milk is frequently taken at bed time to her ?” ence in these classes is principally, if produce sleep, and the result is often “I a m.” not wholly, in the size and height of satisfactory without the use of medi- “Then what was he doing eatin„ the trees; and as most farmers desire cine. Medicine, there, is sometimes a pie which would have sold in any the best they suppose that the large prescribed in milk. It has been re- market for eighteen cents!” exclaimed “extra” trees merit that description, cently stated in the medical journals the witness. “If we have no laws ii and hence order them. The fact is, that lactic acid has the effect of proinot- this country to protect our eighteen however, that a small tree will grow ing sleep by acting as a sedative. As cent pies, then I shall pay no more rent faster and (if a fru „ tree) come into ; this acid may be produced in the alii- in the market.” bearing condition sooner than a lar^e mentary £anal after the ingestion of “Mr. St. Cleave, I was going to say one; and, as the A'em EnglandIlomestu i milk on the nervous svstem when it is that I knew where the heiress is." “Ah!” “She is in the baking department at the House of Correction. You shall carry her the joyful tidings.” “I had rather send for her to come down to a hotel. “But that wouldn’t be regular, you see. You’ll have sixty days in which to break the news. Break it gently joy sometimes kills.” The man called for three lawyers and a jury, appealed the ease and demanded The Way German Army Horses Are Fed. The horses of the German army are now fed with biscuit. These consist of thirty parts of oat flour, thirty parts of dextrinated pea flour, and ten parts of linseed flour; sometimes of twenty parts of pea flour, twenty parts of wheat flour, twenty parts of corn meal, twenty parts of rye flour, ten parts of grated bread, and ten parts of linseed flour. 'Ihe ingredients are made into biscuits. The first named mixture is the best. These biscuits are made with a hole in the middle of each, so they can be strung on a string, and hung to the saddle-bow, or be carried by the trooper around his waist. Each biscuit weighs, when baked dry and hard, about two ounces. Seven biscuits are broken up and given to the horse in the morning, moistened with water if con venient, otherwise dry—twelve at noon, and seven at night. After careful ex periment in camp, on the march, and campaigning, they are reported by all the cavalry and artillery officers better than oats. A trooper can easily carry thirty pounds of these biscuits, which will furnish his hoise with full rations for eigii t day s; or will serve with forage for twelve day’s hard marching. A New process with Coffee. A German had just discovered a pro cess which he has patented, and by which he claims to be able to preserve coffee in all its perfection, and at the same time render it more portable and unalterable, for a length of time. To effect this object he subjects the fresbly-roastid and ground coffee to a pressure of from forty to seventy atmo spheres (thirty-three pounds to the square inch each) in suitable cast iron molds. The coffee is thus made into cakes and comes into the market in a form resembling chocolate, divided like the latter by lines, to facilitate breaking into pieces of suitable size for use. The interior surface of the mold is highly polished, by which means the outer crust of the compressed coffee is made sufficiently smooth and hard to prevent the tendency of the ethereal oil of the berrv to escape from the interior of the cakes. The volume of coffee thus prepared is reduced to less than one- third of the original. The inventor claims that the operation does not in the least affect the good qualities of the ar ticle, and that it can be packed and transported in tin-foil, or otherwise, preserving its aroma indefinitely. states, in half a cizen years the tree “shaky” after a long-continued ex- that was small when planted will be , eessivc use of alcoholic drink ? Sugar, larger and finer than the other.—The j also, is capable of being converted in larger the tree, the larger the roots the the stomach, in certain morbid condi- less fibres there will be upon them. A tions, into lactic acid, and a lump ot tree that has plenty of fibrous roots 1 sugar allowed to dissolve in the mouth will grow readily if proper care is used on going to bed will frequently soothe in transportation; but no amount of arestlessbodytorepo.se. skill can coax a tree to live and flour- » ish which is destitute of these little Cigars.— Rapid seasoning of a cigar fibres. -The roots of large trees are al- is undesirable, as a high temperature is ways more or less mutilated in the pro- injurious. A dry atmosphere, with a cess of taking up, while small trees temperature of about sixty or seventy a change'of venue, but Bijali gathered sustain little injury from this source, degrees Fahrenheit, is best, the box be- hj m j ust the same. Dealers in trees assert that experienced ing opened, and bundles untied. Some “And who’s to pay for my pie ?” de men bHy small, thrifty trees, while connoisseurs remove the cigars from manded the woman,' as the case closed, those who are just starting are anxious the box, and place them loosely, in “Madam, law is law.” for the largest to be had. Those who single rows, in a cabinet which is kept “i t may be sir, but law isn’t pie.’ are to set trees the coming season wiM warm by the burning of a spirit-lamp. “The pie is sacrificed to justice and do well to learn from the experience o ’ Unless caution and judgment will be principles.” those who, at considerable losstothem- used, the cigars will loose flavor under “Then I’ll wait at the door and sac- selves, have demonstrated that small such treatment. A cigar, after being r ifi c e that lawyer till he can’t smell a trees are the ones to buy. - well-seasoned,should always be kept ;u bone-yard !” was her determined reply, a dry place, as it will rapidly absorb aa she went out to take up her position. dark evergreens may be used with ef- ; moisture and spoil. At sea, or by the , led ill extreme, and, it possible, north- seaside, a well-stoppered glass jar, or ,, west corner of the lot. They will pro- ; metal block with well-fitting I d,is best * 0 “ e „ ^ tect and give character to the place, | for the storage of cigars. charging a double-bar ous t h ree S s h A strikfng contrast may be Brain Fritters.—Halt pint oi milk, aiming at some crevice or open- obtaTnedbv'intersnefsing a few white quarter of a pound of flour, two eggs! >»g the rocks which lay in great pro- ffirches among and in front of these half light teaspoonful of salt, a salt- fusion around. Firmly convinced that evergreens They will serve in this spoonful of white pepper aDd a tea- he was a lunatic, the travelers deter- prefer noi to mix evergreen ."^decld- feffnd empeT ibejlbi tbeTsnbT The sssrwssiwSB xsk ssspaai. -»«- ™- sssnsfe? careful studv and even nerhans a nat- from the braius, b.eak them up around Here, 1 s pose? bull, no an- ural gift. For instance, P it is better to thoroughly with a fork, and then put j swer. ‘Why, what do you nu^ to kill introduce briirht colors in well- them in the b tter, beating them well [ there? was asked, ns the mail let ofl iudsed nroDo’rtioiis A few bright in. Fry them by the tablespoonful in another shot. “Kill be darned,” said colors of deep red, blue or yellow, will boiling drippings or a mixture of lard the man . “ I m plantin’ wheat. Don’t have a better effect disDersed here and and butter. With an expenditure ot you see that all the soil in this darned there about the lawns than in one great 65 cents, you have three dishes, snfB- section is between the cracks of the there about the lawns than in one great cieni for ’ t J wo u ay > s dinner for six puo- ! rocks,and I have to shoot in the seeds?” pie. travelers, a Colo- loading and dis- double-barrelled gun mass. Introduce them, so that by means of their different natures there will be always during the season a few gay points in the picture. Light and Plants.—Some successful experiments to determine the precise nature of the light which is indispen sable to growing plants have lately been made in France. They show the plants which are covered by red glass will continue to grow, though not so well as when exposed to common sun light; but plants which are kept under shades of green glass cease to giow and Loon die. Working oxen are olten more usetul than horses, and of late have been too much neglected. It should not be for gotten that oxen require more time to feed than horses, and ample opportu nity for rumination L 7, ould be given. During winter oxen that work upon the road ought to be shod. The cost will be saved in the extra work done, and freedom from injury by slipping. If hens are kept warm, and fed well with warm feed once a day, been laying may become broody, and may be set if a glazed coop ia provided and placed in a sunny spot before a window in a warm poultry house. Ore One Loaf of Corn Bread—Two Too Enthusiastic. — “ Why don’t tablespoonsful of Indian meal, two you go and see Judge Blank about it?” tablespoonsful of molasses, one tea- asked a citizen of an anxious-looking spoonful of saleratus, one and a half man who asked advice about collecting teacups of buttermilk, the whole to be from a tough debtor. “ Judge Blank!” thickened with rye flour of the consis- cried the anxious one, “ Blank Judge tencyof thick paste,and then bake about Blank! I don’t want him for my half an hour. Of course cream and lawyer. I had a case once in the Jus- eggs improve the mixture, if one’s pal- tice’s Court and had him for my lawyer, ate is educated for such delicacies. He lost it an’ appealed to the District • Court, and he got hot there an’ called Escalloppkd Oysters. — Butter a the Judge a bat-bottomed ijit and went pudding dish well aiid sprinkle the to jail for it. I wanted the fool to carry bottom with rolled cracker. Then put it to the Supreme Court, in the hope in a layer of oysters, seasoned with that he’d get himself hung, an’ he was pepper, salt and butter; then another afraid he would, an’ I couldn’t get him layer of pulverized cracker; then oys-* to stir a peg. I’ll collect with a shot- ters again, and so on, the oysters and crackers in alternate layers until the dish is full, with a layer of crackers on top. Moisten well with milk, and bake until nicely browned. The Upper Bertli. gun afore 1 bother with Blank. 7 Two ladies, both of them a little dull in the hearing, were in chur day, when the minister had for his text, “Except you repent ye shall all likewise perish.” They listened patiently enough, but when they got out the one said to the other: “ Jenet, All the way from Burlington to Hop kins, I peacefully snored in an upper bertli. I never get any other. I always reach the wasna yon an awfu’ text the minister and provided with clean nests, eggs con( i uc tor just in time to learn that he’ll had the day ?— 11 Except we pay our rent will soon be plentiful. Hens that have “have to <dve me an upper berth.” All we’re a’to be putten out o’the parish.”’ this winter I have lived on the road, and never got a lower berth but once. That! This is the season wnen the languid in market during summer as much as two or three later ones. i its Causes. show-cases, without exhausting her self in the least. was on the St. Louis sleeper of the C. B. & lady who finds the Sunday morning winaow in a warm poultry ^ wh ich has no upper berths. And promenade to church,two blocks away, early chicken thus raised will be worth ^ henI ’ wclU t t into my lowly couch excessively fatiguing, takes in on a, that night, I was so accustomed to climb- average ten “Spring Openings” every ing into my lofty berth from step-ladders day, ascends and descends probably j and porters* boxes, that I didn't know how three miles of staircase, and walks \ to get into a low one, and the porter boosted around several thousand coul ters and Faintness consists in a temporary failure ; me up to the curtain rod, which I scrambled of the activity of the heart: the blood, in ; over, and tumbled down inside. Why, consequence, is not properl}* circulated. It about one-fifth of my life this winter, has does not reach tliehead,and the patient los- been spent dangling between heaven and t<T „„ . .... ,, a „ i(1 t ■ es clearness of vision and color, and, if not ; earth, clinging to the edge of an upper chare e “Uonento aU l,fen-tc tlte D^ prevented, falls on the floor, where, how- berth, feeling for the floor with my feet. ^ well’as therich.” “So is the Lon- ever, or even before reaching it, he recov- There is some mistake about this. Nature don Tavern ” added Horne To-jk ers. There is no convulsion, and, though, never intended me to sleep in an upper was present. he can scarcely be said to be conscious, he berth, else she had given me legs with tu- - • is not profoundly unconscions, so as not to bular joints, that would slide in and out, t - , oll be be ably to be aroused, as happens in epi- like a spy-glass. I am glad I am not fat, * a c . lepsy. There are all degrees of faintness, tince this relentless fate has assigned me Wlt " ordinary soap, can bt done ii from merely feeling faint and looking forever to the doom of the upper berths. If three hours with Dobbins’ Electric slightly pale, to the state we have des- there is anything that would make a snake soRp,(madebyCragin&Co.,Ihiladel- cribed; and in some cases the state of faint- laugh, it would be the spectacle of a fat phia,) and it cannot injure tbe finest ing is hardly recovered from well before it man, a little along in years, with a head fabric. Trv it. recurs again and again, for hours and days rather of the bald baldy, and wide suspen- ' ^ The man lacks moral couragS who A dromedary is a camel “ got his back up ” tw*ice^—— together. We need hardly say that such ders flapping and dangling down his legs, cases as the latter areAltogether beyond the puffing, squirming and kicking over the tr ^when lle^houlTretreat!" reach of domestic medicine. hat are the edge of an upper berth, trying to get in, I causes of faintness ? It is not very difficult grabbing at the yielding unhelpful pillows, to describe these. Some people are so ea- alanbeing himself on his stomach while Ue sily effected that they faint if they cut their ears liis bed to pieces with frantic snatches, finger, or even if they only see the cut and at the same time kicks the immortal finger of another person. All one can say breath out of the man in the opposite berth, of such persons is that their muscular and at last, with a hollow groan, come slid- fibre is not strong, and that their nerves are ing down, landing astride of the neck of the sensitive. The heart, which goes on for man who is sitting On the edge of the lower years circulating the blood, is essentially a berth unbuttoning his shoes. It usually muscle. It is weak in some people, stronger As about thirty hundred-weight of slag are made for every ton of pig-iron, the importance of utilizing tills waste product is very obvious. In England, slag has been turned to accou.it in the winds up by his giving some man a dollar formation of breakwaters, suci as that and fifty cents to trade berths with him. ; at the mouth of the Tees. Bi ifiks, pav- It is unnecessary to say that the old fat man | i U g-set3, concrete and other ar.icles are is’very sensitive on this subject and doesn't also made of it. Three milllots of slag like to be joked about it. One night, after bricks, most of which go to London, I had laughed myself blind at just such a are manufactured annually Glass scene as I have described, I heard the fat works are in operation at the hast-fur- man ask, with great sadnoss of voice, if any naces in Northamptonshire, vjbere the nervous system, such as bad news or the body wouldn’t like to exchange berths with slag is run direct from the ^on fur- disagreeable, him. Moved with pity I said “I would.” , naces into the glass-furnacei mixed others. As a rule, it is w T eaker in women and stronger in men. Hence women faint more rapidly than men. Whatever Weak ens the heart and muscles generally acts as a cause of faintness. Close, foul air is a common cause of faintness or of languid ness. Anything which greatly affects the sight of something horrible or will sometimes cause fainting. But of all causes of faintness, none is so serious as the “mine’s upper five, but you’ll have to get “All right,” said the perspiring fat man, with other mater.als and converted into loss of blood. The muscles, in order to act well, must be supplied with blood; and if the blood of the body is lost—if it escapes, either from a vein opened purposely, or from piles, or from any other cause in excessive quantity, then faintness will happen. The degree of it will depend on the constitution, and on the amount of blood lost. A loss oj blood that would scarcely be felt by one person will be a serious cause of faintness to another. Sometimes frequent faintness arises from becoming very fat, the muscu lar system of the heart being Impaired by fatty deposit. the porter to make it up again before you get it. It’s kind of tore all to pieces,” he added, rather apologetically. And he was correct, for I could see it ly ing all over the floor of the car. “Which is your berth?' 7 he asked, as with a grateful glow on his face he pre pared to drop into it. “Upper seven,” I said, “next one to yours.” And I don’t think I was ever called quite glass for botlies, &c. A German physiologist state? that the hearing of the earth by the sun causes magnetic currents from the equator to each pole. Such being the case, per sons who suffer from sleeplessness should pay attention to their position at night, and lie in the direction^ these currents. Restlessness and vant of sleep result from lying acro|s them. The head to the north is the frst posi- A11U 1 UUI1 b lllilliv A V> CVC1 UV11CU UUUC .. . . ’ „ • so manv names in five minutes, all different tlon J° we * f } l t ” , . • ,, cians in cnarge of hospitals attend to and none compliment^' m aU my life, as the dire ctions in which the beds are I was then. I will never again try to be , d Q |th the ^ results . accommodating in a alceping-car. 1 * pened. “Ah,” said the artist Antonio Luigi, “and you will trample upon it?” “I must.” “Then I will see that you have the right kind. Be brave, pretty one, and we will win applause again. W'ait.” That evening, when the favorite danseuse had acquitted herself grandly, a huge bouquet was thrown upon the stage—a broad field of strange flowers, the colors yellow and black—the imperial standard of Austria! There could be no mistaking it. “Bestiac- cia!” (great ugly beast), said the actress, loud enough to be heard over the house : and then she jumped upon the yellow and black symbol, and trampled it heartily. For a time it seemed as though the applause •Hold on, for God’s sake,” whisper- _ ed the client, pulling at the counsel’s would shatter the building. The police I took flip hint, and did not venture to inter- coat tail. “Dont read that!” Let me alone,” muttered the law took the hint, and did not venture to inter fere further with the bouquets of the bold and favorite danseuse. ometliing About Insecta. yer, irritably: “I’ll attend to you when I’ve read the motion.” But I don’t wan’t you to read the motion,” whined the agitated culprit, i An ol( , {riend of min(1< an enthusiaatic “Don’t want me to read it? Why j philoapiarian, told me that being at a not? What in thunder’s the matter? friend's house one dry summer, when all I’m going to get you a new trial!” the field flowers were nearly scorched up, But I don’t want a new trial,” ex- he saw thousands of bees busy in a field of Cato. A family in Callander, Scotland, had in their possession a favorite Tom-cat which had on several occasions exhib ited more than ordinary sagacity. One day Tom made off with a piece of beef, ma am - and the servant followed him cautious ly, with the intention of catching and administering a little wholesale correc tion. To her amazement she saw the cat go into the corner of the yard in which she know a rat-hole existed, and Mrs. Walker in a rage. “My first grandchild a monkey, indeed! “I’m not sure ma’am,” says Mrs Willoughby, “ that the dear boy is any more your grandchild than mine, I’m his father’s mother ma’am,*' •ays Mrs. Walker. “And I am its mother’s mother, a much nearer relation,” say9 Mrs. Wil loughby. But you must confess that the pater- lay the beef down by the side of it.; claimed the wretch. Don’t want one! Why not?” re turned the other heatedly, frowning from under his eyeglasses. ’Cause it’s too late,” urged the cli ent. “While you were all out to din- clover then in bloom. “I wish my bees were here,” said my friend. “Probably they are,*’ replied the gentle man. “What, at forty miles distance?” “Yes,’’said his friend. “Onyourretum ner the darned sheriff took ine out. and home dredge the backs of your bees with »’s whipped the very hide off of me.” flour as they issue from the hives in the The motion was summarily with- morning, and we shall see.” drawn. This was done, and his friend wrote to J him directly: Th© Spectroscope in steel Making. “There are plenty of your white-jacket bee| here in the clover.” There is a difference between the old But whatever is the fact with bees, ants way of making what is known as “blistered” follow their noses much more than their steel, by imbedding bars of wrought iron in eyes. In my garden I saw a train of ants powdered charcoal placed in sand furnaces ascending an apple tree: go up by one which exclude the air—a process which track, and descend by another. As in as- produces steel in a week or ten days—and cending they passed between two small the new or “Bessemer” mode. The grc.- . shoots tlfat sprung from the pole, I stopped advantage of the new way is the time saved, their passage with a piece of bark. The In the first place the operation requiresonly ants did not see this obstruction with their about twenty minutes, and the iron is con- eyes, but ran bump against it, and stood verted into steel without having been pre- still, astonished. Soon a crowd of them viously cast into what are called “pigs.” had thus been suddenly stopped, and were Large geg-shaped vessels called “convert- anxiously searching about for a passage, ers” are provided, into which the melted By various successive starts forward they iron is run from the furnace. Immediately eventually got around the obstruction and the molten mass is subjected to an intense reached the track on the other side. The blast of compressed air from the blowing line of scent was renewed, and thencefor- maehines provided for the purpose.. The ward,, on arriving at the barricade, they carbon and silicon are burned away from went without a moment's hesitation, by the the iron by oxygen of the atmosphere, so circular track. I then took my penknife that at the mouth of the converter the lib- and pared away a piece of the outer bark erated gases may be seen rising in flame, on the open pole where the ants were de- For some time the great difficulty experi- scending. The effect was the same. Th® enced was to detect the precise moment scent being taken away, the ants c:une to a when the carbon and silicon were exhausted dead stand, and there was the same con- as the blast of air must then be stopped, founded crowd, and the same spasmodic In a majority of cases a practiced observer attempts to regain the road, which being could detect the proper moment ; hut a effected the same way, the scent was car- variance, which frequently occurred, of ten ried over the shaven part of the bark, and or fifteen seconds, in stopping the blast, the train ran on as freely as before, spoiled the whole mass. The use of an in strument called the spectroscope 1ms entire ly removed this difficulty, and made it pos sible to ascertain the exact moment when when the mass becomes steel. This spec troscope, which is of so much importance in the operation, is frequently shaped much like a telescope. It is used for the obser vation of the spectrum of any object, natur al or artificial, it is desired to observe. The light, either of the sun, or caused by the burning of any substance or gas enteis at the end opposite the eye, and falls upon a narrow slit with extremely accurate edges. Through this slit u ray of light is thrown upon a prism, dissected, and its spectrum refracted to the eye by which it is observed through a strong magnifying glass. Differ ent substances show lines of different color and width, as for instance the substance sodium, shows a single yellow line. Thus the component parts of any substance can be at once and infallibly determined by the color of the lines cast by the flame. Tiie Magic WhUtle. “You have heard,” said a youth to a maiden, who stood beside him as he sat on a corn-sheaf one evening aboutquit- ting time; “you have heard, I dare say, of the Danish boy’s whistle of wood? I would give two dollars if that Danish boy’s whittle were mine.” The maiden had heard of the wonder ful things that could be accomplished by means of the magic whistle, and col oring slightly, said: “And what would you do with it pray?” and a smile played over her, beautiful face, extending clear around to her ears. “I would blow it,” he answered, Y i “and then my fair maid would fly to blood stain on a piece of cloth can be de- mjr side and sit down on the same corn- tected by this means after it has remained j sheaf with me, which would make me for fifty years and becomes totally indis- supremely happy and make It a matter cemible through the strongest microscope, of supreme indifference to me whether The use of th^s invaluable instrument in the gc hool Went in er r>*t, or how much Bessemer propess of steel making may be eorn , )e in ‘ a bu5iie l.” readily perceived. A spectroscope is placed . r . „ „ . , t . r at the mouth of the converter, where the , Is t , haC * 11 -™ u wl,h 11 for? « x ' light from the flame caused by the burning claimed the inaid with a laugh that carbon and silicon is caught and the spectra j startled a sovey of birds in the next of the gases presented to the eye of the ob- j row. “That may be yours without any server. The instant the absence of the magic, Charlie. A favor so slight ono color of the gases shows them to have been j coultl not find jr j n one’s heart to deny, you know,” ai . she playfully seated nal relations arc more strongly united Leaving the beef there, puss hid "him” W the bonds of consanguinity than the s If a short distance off, and watched maternal,” says Grandfather Walker until a rat made its appearance. Tom’s ‘‘She won’t, nor 1 e.ther says Grand- tail then began to wag; and just as the ^her Willoughby “All the long rat was moving away with the bait, he word, out o. the dictionary wont i i-?11n i it a lofiw rp make truth out of nonsense and absur- sprang upon and killed it. A lauy re- siding in Glasgow had a handsome cat aityjike that, sent to her from Edinburg; it was con veyed to her in a closed basket in a carriage. The animal was carefully watched for two months; but having a pair of young ones at the end of that time, she was left to her own dis cretion which she very soon employed in disappearing with both her kittens. The lady in Glasgow wrote to her friend in Edinburg deploring her loss, and the cat was supposed to have found a new home. About a fortnight however, after her disappearance from Glasgow, her well-known mew was heard at the street door of her Edinburg mistress; and there she was with both her kittens; they very fat she very thin. It is clear that she could carry only one kitten at a time. The distance from Glasgow to Edinburgh is forty-four miles; so that if she brought one kitten part of the way and then went back for the other, and thus conveyed them alternately, she must have traveled one hundred and twenty miles at least. She also must probably have journeyed only during the night, ar.d must have resorted to many other precautions for the safety of her young. To lead ‘cat-and-dog- life’means a good deal of scratching and biting; but cats and dogs have frequently known to get on very amiably. For instance there was a cat which had formed a warm attachment for a New Foundland dog; she caressed him continually—advanced in all haste with her tail erect when he came home, and rubbed her head against him, pur ring with delight. When her shaj friend lay before the kitchen fire, puss used him as a bed, pulling up and set tling his hair with her claws to make it comfortable. Her couch arranged to her liking,she composed herself quietly to sleep. The dog bore all this with patient placidity, turning towards her during the operation and some- You haven’t had tl • advantage of a thorough education »lr f and I won’t stoop to argue with you,” says Grand father Walker. “Don’t minu him pa,” said Miss Willoughby. “He know s the mother’s relations are the nearest, and it morti fies him into saying such things.” “Thank you, Miss Willoughby, I feel myself twice as much the baby’s as you are—and my dear sister feels it too ” “By this time baby was screeming and I told ’em it was time to take it to its ma. And glad enough he was to go. He was a fine healthy child, and might have got on well enough if it hadn’t been for its relations—but amongst them they almost finished him. Grandma Walker had great no tions about cold bathing and fresh air and light olothing; and Grandma Wil loughby believed in Soothing Syrup and Paregoric, and never would * let him be taken cut of the room except in a double blanket shawl. Greataunt Jones was a honyepathist, and had a box of little bottles; and Miss Walker had an electric machine, which she said was better than any medicine in the world. “The consequence was that whenev er baby sneezed Grandma Walker stripped off all his cloths and ducked him in ice water ard shower-bathed him through a cullender, and wrapped him in a wet sheet, and put him in what she called a “pack.” Regular water cure practice she declared. Then Grandma Willoughby would come screaming into the room, strip off the wet sheet, rub him with fiannei, thaw him at tho fire, wrap hid up in furs and blankets, and give him a hot drink of some kind; and ’he quarrel would arouse Grandaunt Jones, who would rush in with her book and box, and cram him with pellets, and Miss time gently licking her. Instances ot „ , - . ,, ^ , .. , , , , , Walker, who was very fat, would fol- attachmenc between animals ot dissimi-1, , ’ , . lew the others into the nursery with her electric machine, and give the poor child a shock; and poor little Mrs. lar habits are endless, and those be tween puss and various creatures are certainly both curious and interesting. The Book of Cats (an interesting work,) from which most of the foregoing gossip has been taken, concludes by remarking upon an absurb idea pre valent among old-fashioned Scotch peo ple, namely, that cats suffocate infants by sucking their breath. This is de clared to be unfounded and untrue, no baby having ever been so suffocated. It is impossible for a cat to suck a child’s breath, as the anatomical forma tion of the cat's mouth would prevent it. No doubt in some remote country places, among the ignorant, a popular superstition to that effect may exist; but when a child has been found dead Walker could only cry and say to me when they were gone, “Oh, nurse, it I knew which is~right?” How could I tell her when I knew they were all entirely consumed, the signal is given for the draft to be withdrawn and the steel is made. Houses in Havana. The houses, which are nearly all one or two stories high, stand so squarely up to the edge of the sidewalk that they seem to be trying to rub themselves against you; and they are continually inviting you to look into their open windows, which have strong iron bars, and always curtains, with an in side shutter, sometimes glass sash and sometimes wood, but always open. This peculiar arrangement gives an insight into the family arrangements in Havana that could be had by a stranger in no Northern city. The people live in public, and nobody in the street pays ary attention to them. The interior arrangement of the front part herself by his siue and drummed with her little heels in the furrow. “I would blow it again,” said the youth, who began to see how matters were drifting. “I would blow on the thing again, and the one fair woman under the sun could not resist the charm, and would lay her fair arm upon my shoulder.” “She smiled—and laid her fair arm around his neck. The young man was completely taken by surprise, but managed to bear up under it, although, as he afterwards confessed to the writer, it was by all odds the greatest efforts of h l s life. A young man of his age is never sat isfied, but is always reaching out and •tL a house in Havana is utterly different from that of any establishment in this coun try, and, 1 think far more comfortable, grasping after the unattainable, and af- The floor, in hall and parlor, is always of ter drinking in for a few moments the stone. Sometimes this is very rough, some- \ times highly polished The parlor walls 1 are decorated with several handsome mir- 1 “Yet once more I would blow it. rors, and a fine glass chandelier invariably This time 1 would give it the awfulest hangs from the middle of the ceiling. In > blast that was ever heard this side cf some of the finest rooms the floor is covered , the crack of doom> and t |, e m u8 i c divine with carpet, and over this is a rug, in the wou j d bring me the third time an un- center of the room. But, whether there is ... , ot , , , . a carpet or not, there is always a large rug, 9 P eakab le pleasure She would lay her about four feet wide, and eight or ten feet a * r cheek to this brown one of mine, long, generally of bright colors. This is and her lips stealing past mine would laid with the end toward the front. Exactly j give me a kiss, I’m sure; at least I hope in the middle of the floor on each side of it 80 .” are from three to five chairs, set in line, facing each other, as if the children were about to play church. The chairs must lie in exact line and must not be disturbed, or t le housekeeper considers things “all up side down.” When the people sit down to talk, they face each other in these chairs. If the “people'’ are a pair of lovers, I imagine the arrangement is changed. The Tbe mai len laughed out in her inno cent glee, just as any other young lady would do under the same circumstances; and said: “What a fool of yourself with your whistle you’d make, to be sure! Now- just consider for a moment how silly it _ would be to sit on a corn-sheaf, like a sleeping rooms are by all means the ftncf knot p n a log, and crack your cheeks part of a Cuban establishment. The bed- . . ,f. , ° . , c t i sl. , . j i whistling for—what vou might take . steads are all of metal, the handsome ones, • - of polished brass, the cheaper ones of iron, ! 4 1 his almost took the young man s and very light, airy and graceful. Four: breath. He immediately reached for arched pieces form a sort of dome over the the lovely creature, but, strange to re- whole, which is covered with lace or some i a te, did not find her. She had antici- gauzy material to keep out the insects. A j p a ted him, and was already breaking snowy quilt covers the bed, and everything ; thr h the corn .talk3 for home, while “ 28 w , h , ue and C “L“ST , 2% her laughter floated back upon hi.ear. no mattresses on the beds, and, although . , , , hard, they are very cool and comfortable, reminding him that he had an engage- A soft lied in this climate would be much u»«nt at home to gnaw a file. too warm. Leather or woolen straps sup- ■ port the bed, which consists principally of shopping with Her Maid, a sort of cotton blanket. • Outwitting a Tyrant. i In Paris the other day a young lady went into one of the great drapery It was in the year 1848 that the leading houses to shop with her maid. They citizens of the chief towns of the Lombardo- k watchers there; and one of these, Venetian kingdom avowed openly their de- , sure he had geen somcthin testation of Austria, and awaited only ° a favorable opportunity to throw off the presently tapped le young < yoke. At one of the theatres of Venice, on the shoulder and asked her to follow certain evening, a magnificent bouquet! him to the searching-room. “\ou have is thrown upon the stage at the feet of a just put a pair of new gloves in your beautiful danseuse. It was a rare piece of pocket, mademoiselle; don’t deny it.” workmanship, and its three colors of red, | know I have,” said the young lady white and green were so arranged that the * - eth . .< aud if vou wiU be good symbol of Italian independence could not 1 - 7 , . - r. . ^ ..... be mistaken. The danseuse picked it up ,““»»*>* t0 look inside them you will and kissed it repeatedly and pressed it rap- i see that, as they were bought at another turously to her bosom, while the vast audi- house, they could hardly have been ence applauded vociferously. On the fol- j stolen from this.” “That was so,” as lowing morning the actress was summoned our cousins say. The watchers had before the police authorities, and sharply sim p|y ma de a mistake; and he and the questioned touching the absurd treatment wh(de of marchers began to grov- of the bouquet which had been thrown to . . ® ° ,, . , . her on the previous evening. She trem- j el ln excuses. “Now, said the lady, blingly answered that she had done only as i turning to her maid, “goto the nearest she always did when such beautiful tribute® Commissary of Police and tell him that rere given her. “Very well,” said the the daughter of Prince Orloff requires Austrian chief; “hereafter, when a bouquet hig protection.” It was the verv awk- is thrown to you thus publicly, you will ]egt of blunders; her father was SS2£3r Russian Ambassador. The con- was suffered to depart. She went to some trite drapery compan} is offering thou- of her friends and told them what had hap- j sands to hush it up. cousins pinching p#or little baby, putt ing peas into its ears, taking it out of bed and dragging it about, if one left the room a minute; and the little girl cousins who would kiss it whenevci they ?nw It; and its Grandpa Walker, who tossed it In the air; and its Grand pa Willoughby who would always hit against something when he handled It; and all it’sanuts and uncles, who gave It candy and choked it, and tried from suffocation, in ui.iny cases the cat whether it could drink coffee or- liked may have lain on the infant’s mouth t lobster salad; and its no wonder that for the sake of warmth, but with no poor baby was finally taken ill—dan- murderous intent. It is best, therefore j gerously so. Then my spirits rose. I to exclude puss from sleeping apart- ! called ’em together, and made ’em a ments. There is a well-known hos- speech. I told them how misguided pital in London for do^s; and a lady of the lyirne of Deen has established a sort of asylum for lost cat? at Rottingdean, near Brighton, in consequence of the large number she saw lying dead on the beach. But such kind friends are they was, and 1 asked 'em to go and give me a chance to sava tfoe child’s life. So, though they w ere as mad as hops, I got rid of them, and the baby lived and did well. He’s quite a big boy now, and I scarce, and pussy in her journey suppose he’d like to be made a fuss through life will continue to find many dangers on the road ;* not the least of which is when the poor creaiure is left to ‘find for itself’ when her thoughtless owners leave home fer summer quar ters. The First tSabj. The first baby is a great event, j can tell you,” said old Mrs. Floss, as with, and coddled, and stuffed and pet ted ; but, bless you ! not one of the lot more than remembers his advent. There’s a new baby in the family, and they’ve turned their attention to that.” Colors in Leaves and Flowers. All common leaves contain pigment known to chemists as chlorophyl, from she knitted away at wonderful little which they derive their ordinary color, white hood. “There’s the Walkers, The cells of the leaf are stored with this . , , . , , , I t ,| pi<rment, while their transparent walls mve now; they had their first only a little tlmt superficial sheen which we notice while ago, and to hear them talk you d ^ distinctly in the gloss}* foliage of the have thought there was to be no more ] aure l and the bright frends of the hart's babies. From that minute Dr. Jalep said. “It’s a fine boy,” the whole of that family became e’en a’ most too proud to to live. They had the event put in the daily papers, to be copied every where; and they wrote to all their ac- tongue fern. But very slight chemical changes in the composition of leaves suffice to give them a different color, which is not surprising when w*e recollect that color is nothing more than light, reflected in greater or less proportions of its constituent waves. The fashionable pelargoniums, coleuses, and begonias, or the dark sedumns which are quaintances and telegraphed to all employed to form the quaint carpet gardens their relations. so much in vogue, show us how easily the “All the members of both sides of green coloring matter can be replaced by the family that could co ne up to be various shades of purple, red, and brown. , , , . . ., , . ... These changes seem on the whole to be introduced to the new baby, did come. . . °... „ _ , . . . ... - ’ , connected with some deficient nutrition of There was Mr. Walker « pa and ma, the foliage. It would appear that the nor and Mrs. WalkerV pa and ma Mr. ni ai and healthy pigment is a rich green; and Mrs. Willoughby—and Aunt Jane but that as the leaf fades and dies, it passes and Uncle Samuel, Grand-aunt Foci- through successive stages of orange, pink, gers, and Aunt Maria, and Aunt Sarah a °d russet. The autumn tints of the forest, and her husband, Mr. Brown, and five the crimson hues of the Virginia creeper, little Browns. ;,nd Grand-aunt Jones a "d the transitory colors of a dying plant, all show us these passing nuances. If a and old Mrs. I u.lle that was Mr. s j ng ] e j ea f^ or even a particular spot upon a Walker® nurse when he was a baby, leaf is insufficiently supplied with nutri- Tbe house was like a tavern at fair time ment, its first symptom of ill-health is a “I can remember bow they looked tendency to paleness or jaundiced yellow- when I walked into the parlor w ith ? e8S * ^„ an msect turns some portion of it the baby in mv arms. It was very intoanUnut °r ahli^t, fte tips«M«e a ii j , . • . , , , beautiful pink hue. In short, any consti- small and red, but it’s dress was long tutioMd weaknes8 in th( , i ea f brings about enough for me, and it s cap was real changes in its contained pigments which lace. ‘Oh,’ Bay®, one. ‘Ah,’ says result in an altered mode of reflecting light, another. It was like rockets on the Or, to put the same fact in another way, Fourth of July: ani first I handed any change in the composition of the pig- baby to its Grand-pa Walker, who put . nien,s . is a P l to ^ accompanied by a change , , . ii. , , - , , .in their color. Now the ends of Ions back its cap, looked at his head, and .i , . 5 , , , branches are naturally the least nurtured said, ‘What a development of benevo- portions of a plant, and the young leaves lence! This child will be a philan- formed at such spots have a great tendency thropist.’ Then Grand-wa Walker to assume a brown or pinky hue. Furthcr- took him, and she says. * What a beauty ! more, these spots are exactly the places His pa over again, not a bit like his "here flowers are formed; flowers being, as ma , we saw* above, mere collections of aborted “Then Grand-ma Willoughby took It leaTes ’ destined to fulfill the functions of and said: “Very handsome, but not f or ^ generations at the point J ,, . . "here the vigorous growth of the onmnal what it s ma was Pt it s age. And plant is beginning to fail they all kissed and hugged it until Un- Ho, Ahrad. cle Sairu®l’s turn came. He was a bacbelo and not used to babie®, and ^ 9011 Maine who went west in early he took it in his arms, kind of gingerly J 0111 ^ and has there attained wealth and and ga vs he : an h .°. nora,)Ie position, returned last summer , . to visit his old home. At the villaire store “ ‘I don’t know what you mean by i, Q _ , . , w . * - he saw an old man whom he had known in illlng it handsome. He s as red as a his younger days. He accosted him, but lobster and all o!rive!lrd like h raisin: was not recognized. “Soyoudon'tremem- and he hasn’t any eyebrow a, nor teeth ler me,” he said: “I’m John R .'* nor hair. I say* what I think. I den’t ‘*^ ou - exclaimed the old man, “you don't see how thii child is ever to look like “Jf 811 to me 7, ou are R '• folks, it’s more like a monkey only ug- ^ am .’ ‘ he visitor - shaking .. ,, J 6 him by the hand, “and I m very glad to see “I think it is a monkey.” says one of j ™ ^ T . , m ao, i never did. To think that this is the youngest Brown,. “Why don’t you. They tell me youve grown awful it have an organ ?” rich, John.” John admitted that he had “Oh, how cunning!” says Mrs. “saved something. ” “And they say you’re Brown. “No; Tommy, dear, it's note President of a railroad, and get ”a big monkey. Jt’s Auntie Walker’s dear 8a ^ ar y ” Again John had to admit that pretty little baby.” ‘, T ? ^ of il > John - y ,,-r , . 4 . , , ,, I m glad of it my boy! It beats all what “Y.n might bring your children up circum9tances / nd iheek wi „ do ™ • little better, ma’am,” said the old man.”