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A Tale of Horror. “And if a man has been hanged, doctor, can he, too, be restored by heat? '’ asked the most inquisitive among them, upon whom the new method for resuscitating the drowned had an impression. The doctor, who had never looked bet ter in his life, answered mildly: “Why not?” “But what if his neck is broken?” asked a muscular reporter. “Hanging doesn’t break a man’s neck.” “Did you ever see a man hanged?” de manded the youth with an intonation of a person who had devoted a century or so to sight-seeing of that sort. “Several times,” answered the man slow- ly. “What does a hanged man hang his head over on one side for, then—so?” “Not because his neck is dislocated. The ligature of the neck is stronger than any rope. Hanging never yet broke a neck. It’s the shock that tends to kill a man—the shock, and then the suffocation. You kno\? how it shocks your brain to make a misstep when going down stairs. Well, there are fifty thousand springs that your head rests on from the neck to the feet. But w hen you jerk a man up by his necK the shock comes without an intervention of springs.” “I’ve heard doctors say that a man’s neck was broken by hanging,” persisted the muscular man: “So have I—young doctors. But surgi cal science does not report such a cast.” “O, well, now you’re on science. I’ll give in, ” and the modest muscular reporter withdrew a step and filled his pipe. His forte is facts straight. “Did you ever see a hanged man come to life, doctor?” asked a doubting Thomas. “Yes, I have.” All ears bent perceptibly toward the speaker, and there was silence as in death. “A youth,” began the doctor, “w T as con demned to be executed. During his incar ceration he promised his body to the prison physician in return for the tobacco he used. When he was dead the physician determined to try an electric machine on him, but never having handled one, called me in to help him. I went. We applied electricity to various parts of the body, and wherever it was applied the body moved. At length we sent a current along the spine from end to end. The fellow' was lymg'on a long table—as long as—well (looking around the room) rather longer than you’ve got here. He sat up; opened his eyes slow ly ; shut them; then opened them wide. The physician who owned the body, and two young men who were helping him, started affrighted for the door. ” “Did he come round all right?” inquired the Thomas reporter, earnestly. “He didn’t lie down again. In half an hour he spoke—asked w T here he w'as and what we were doing with him. In a couple of hours he was on his way out of the villa as fast as his legs could carry him.” “Did they catch him again?” “No. The inhabitants to this day think that he w-as dissected. ” “Ought he to have been hanged if he had been caught?” “Well, there’s a difference of opinion about that. Certainly the physician owned him—had bought and paid for him.” “Would it have been wrong, doctor, for the physician to kill him when he saw him coming to life and robbing him of his pro perty.” The reporter who asked the questions is one of the most bloodthirsty persons in his line. The doctor wisely replied by saying that the answer belonged to the department of morals, in which he was not a professor. constructed as to last without alteration for two years instead of as many months. She should also have house and evening gowns made in the same durable manner, and of the same durable material, constructed in a different style however. At present our gowns are like our houses—not made to last. The walking dress should stop above the top of the boot. High boots and an inch or two of dark silk embroidered hose showing above them, would be considered quite unobjectionable after a short period of usage, any great length of dress below the knee impedes motion. Then it should be full enough to allow ease of movement, no tie-backs for me. Hose, and in fact, every tiling worn under skirts made short enough to combine ease and grace, should, in my opinion, be made of similar material to the The Wild Beasts* Rendezvous. Sallie’s Sentiments Popular Subject When water becomes scarce In these thirsty plains, the whole of the wild animals that Inhabit them congregate around any pool that may be left, for with very few exceptions all have to drink once in twenty-four hours. The lions, which follow the game, are thus led to these drinking places, not only to assuage their thirst, but to satisfy their hunger. To watch one of these pools at night, as I did in the northern Massara country, is a grand sight, and one not to be forgotten. The naturalist and the sportsman can here see sights that will astonish them, and cause them to marvel at the wonderful in stincts possessed by the animal king dom. That the Creator has ordered all things well, we know, but the minute details to which they have been re duced is seldom noted except by those who live not the life of the busy trading world, but such as wander into those portions of the earth undisturbed by the presence of man. At such places the small antelope generally drink first, the larger later on, and with them the zebras and buffaloes. After these come the giraffe’s, closely followed by the rhinoceros, and next the elephant which never attempts to hide his ap proach—conscious of his strength, he trumpets lorth a warning to all whom it may concern that he is about to sat isfy his thirst. The only animal that does not give place to the elephant is the rhinoceros; obstinate, headstrong and pig-like, he may not not court dan ger, but assuredly he does not avoid it. The elephant may drink by his side, but he must not interfere with him, for he is quick to resent an insult, and I am assured that when one of these battles takes place the rhinoceros is invariably the victor. The elephant is lar f gigantic power, but the other far more active, while the formidable horn that terminates his nose is dreadful when used with the force he has the power to apply to it. I have been told on trustworthy authority that a rhinocer os in one of those blind fits of fury to which they are so subject, attacked a large wagon, inserted his horn be tween the spokes of the wheel, and in stantly overturned it, scattering the contents far and wide, and afterward njuriug it to such an extent as to ren der it useless. The lion is not tied to time in drinking. After it feeds it comes to water, but it would never dare to interfere with the rhinoceros or elephant. Where the buffalo exists numbers it is the principal prey of the lion; in other localities antelope and chiefly zebra are its food, strange circumstance connected with the lion is, that it is almost impossible to tell where he is when you hear his voice. Wheu roaring loudly he places his head to the ground, gradually raising it as he diminishes the power of his Mr. Kroeger was transquilly eating his voice. Although I cannot say that 1 dress, or of something in keeping with its trimmings. They might be made beauti ful and costly if desired, or plain. These arrangements with graceful basques., I think, would, to some extent, embody my idea ©f a jaunty and comfortable walking dress.” “Dr. Walker! Dr. Walker! “No, for Madam Walker’s is not my idea of grace. Turkish trowsers are too long and loose—almost as bad as long skirts—be sides, we should cultivate the graceful and artistic, not the stiff and mannish styles.” “But that costume would make us look like pages stepped out of ancient plays.” “And what more pretty dress than that of the pages would you require? It is, however, more of the peasant dress that I propose.” “But think of the big ugly feet some of us have! ” “Think of the pinched meagre figures, round shoulders and prominent shoulder blades, that might be avoided if our women had more vigorous exercise in the open air and what prevents their going out so much as the elaborate dressing and the anticipa tion of tugging their toggery about?” “And how should we attire ourselves while indoors, most learned professoress ?” “Our practical housewife will doubtless fly about in the morning in her short dress. (I should). And when in her parlor “re ceiving,” or in any of her “hours of ease ’ when she can sweep over soft carpets or smooth marble let her wear her graceful train. There is a place for the train. It isn’t in the street or in the kitchen, neither is it tne dress to dance in. But on the stage, and in many places where outline is observable, a train is graceful. Even ball dresses might be made easily adjustable were a little skill displayed.” “O, don’t stop short of full analysis Sal- lie, what is your idea of a ball dress ?” “Overskirt might form the train—skill ful loopings gather it into festoons over the underskirt by means of ribbon straps fas tened to a belt, which might be drawn through a buckle, and secured in an instant at pleasure.” Verily, Sal lie, you are one of the refor matory spirits of the age. When do you expect your idea will be realized ?” ‘Alas, if ever, when you and I are in graves, my sisters. Would that it could be accomplished before I have beaten myself against ti2-backs and other prison bars into an untimely resting place. Y"ou may advocate and enjoy, if possible, your very prim and proper person of stereotyped female swathing clothes—‘but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ’ ” The Greeueyed Monster. SCIENTIFIC. “Oh,” groaned Sallie Wilber as she en sconced herself before the fire with her skirt over her knee a la David Copperfield’s aunt Trot wood, and prepared to “sew her self together” as she expressed it. Sallie was as lively as a grasshopper, and long dresses and tie-backs were her chief afflic tions. The “oh” was a prolonged and de spairing one. A plump, lazy young lady sat rocking serenely by the window, with a novel in her lap, and asked Sallie with an easy, indifferent smile “What is the matter now?” There is something outrageously aggravating in this expression that invaria bly includes an affirmation of your being in a chronic state of ailment. “What’s the matter*?” responded Sallie ungraciously, “don’t you see? I tumbled up stairs over my dress again, having only my parasol, satchel, fan and six small and large parcels with which to_ employ my hands and arms, besides the* necessity of holding up my gow T n, which I grappled with my elbows, (as you see unsuccessfully). I wish I could wear what I’d like.” “What would you like, Sallie? Poor girl, you always seem to be in a hurry,” and another comfortable young lady came up and smoothed Sallie’s hair. Now’, if there is anything a little more provoking than to lx* asked “what is the matter now t , ” it is to have some one speak and act re markably sweet and affectionate when you feel remarkably sour. But, my faith, we are none of us perfect. “What would I like?” snapped Sallie. “Well, I’d like to wear pantaloons!” “Oh !” in horrified duet from comfortable young ladies. “O, yes; look shocked and prim, now- do. It isn’t so bad for you two, you like to take things easily and more slowly. I don’t. I like rapid motion and don’t care to be all day getting a piece of cambric lining. Think of the waste of flesh, blood and muscle, besides temper, that these pet ticoats entail! It’s cling, clog, every step, and our gait with the shuffle and trip move ment makes us about as graceful as crabs. O, yes, 1 know- you w-ould say that the short walking dress is not so bad but it is only a little better than a train, because we don’t have to carry it in our hands. ” “But, my dear, what would you have? You don’t mean to come out as Madam •Walker, do you?” “I don't say I mean to come out as any thing different from the rest of the geese. How can I ? No true-born lady likes to appear over prominent or ridiculous, and if she looks markedly different from others, she does. That’s just it, w-e can’t do any thing hut grin and bear it, and hear the men make fun of us, when, after all, they are the first to laugh at anything the least bit outre in a woman. There is where they are inconsistent. There is just as much scope for taste in dress in another style of costume as in our present, if all could adopt it at once. No one lady can come out alone in it without making herself a spec tacle. Were I a person of experience, po sition and influence (ahem!) I would insti tute secret societies, beginning with my im mediate circle of acquaintance, for a grand reformation in diess, and very soon it could be brought about, if our best ladies adopted it at the same time. ” “Sallie, its enough to frighten any one to be with you sometimes, you are such a rav ing, tearing radical! if you ever come out in company with any of these tornado speeches, Kitty and I won’t own you.” “Well, I shouldn’t wonder if I do some times, so you’ better take w-arning at once. I could turn it all into a good joke, but I didn’t mean to. Its time sensible women took the thing into earnest consideration if they are ever going to bring all this female education to account. Think of the stitches —the stitch, stitch stitching—goihg on ad finitum. That alone is enough to make a woman wish she had never been bom. ” “But Sallie, my dear, if we had a differ ent gear it w-ould have to be put together, if it weren't stitched it would have to be glued—even the fig-leaves had to be fas tened.” “Yes, but think of the difference with a different style of gow-n! ” “Well, Sallie, isn't your invention patent ed? Can’t you divulge to such sympathetic bosom friends as Kitt and I the secret of this ideal raiment in which we females should be clothed ?” “Yes, I’ll tell you just for the fun of seeing your proper faces. Every lady then ought to have two or three gowns for the street, made of rich, durable material, so A Wonderful Testing Machine.—The great machine designed by $£r. Albert Emery, for the United States Commis sion for testing iron and steel which has been in process of construction for three years past at Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, is now completed. Some ex perimental test made with it in the presence of the commissioners are thus described in The Boston Traveler: The merit of this new testing machine is its great power united with its mathemat ical accuracy. A five inch bar of iron pulled apart, and the strain regis tered in doing it was 722,000 pounds. To attest its minute exact ness, a horse hair w-as next submitted to the strain, and it yielded to a regis tered force of two pounds. Agaiu, a pine bloek of four inches thickness and two feet in length was taken and press ed into a board of two inches thickness. Then to ascertain its refinement of ac curacy, a hen’s egg was taken and in- c'osed in plaster of Paris, w-ith two small holes at each end, and, the.press ure being applied, the couteuis were forced out of these small apertures at a strain of thirty-two pounds, and such is the command over the action of the machine that the pressure w-as stopped in an instant, and the yolk ceasad to be expelled, and the shell of the remain ing unbaekan. A nut was also cracked by the machine without crushing the kernel. No such nicety of regulated pressure, combined with such an enor mous range of power and absolutely exact registration of the exerted, has ever before been attained. Tne cost of the machine to the Government, under the contract, is $31,000, but Mr. Emery has expended over $100,000 in perfect ing it. A Powerful Spectroscope.—A new spec troscope of remarkable power has just been brought to the notice of the French Academy by M. Thollon. Its chief feature is the use ol sulphide ot carbon prisms, which are closed later ally, not by plates with parallel faces but by prisms having curved sides meeting at an angle. Two of these compound prisms are used in the spec troscope, and in this way an enormous dispersion is obtained; with a magni- lying power of fifteen to twenty times, the spectrum has a length of fifteen metres. This instrument should throw considerable light on the structure ol the spectrum, and M. Thollon has al ready noticed some interesting facts. The Hues cf sodium and magnesium present a dark nucleus passing into nebulosity, which becomes gradually merged into the continuous spectrum. Many lines have been split up, and all that have been thus resolved have been found to belong to two different sub stances. One of the hydrogen lines presents a nebulosity without a nu cleus. The spectrum of carbon from the electric arc observed with the new instrument is said to be very tine. The spectra of iron, copper and magnesium in the same arc are also seen with great clearness and brilliancy. recognize anything terrible in a lion’s voice, many people do and I have been in the company of persons com pletely demoralized while it lasted. That this animal’s voice makes the air vibrate is a fact. AGRICULTURE. Stables and Houses.—We frequent ly see articles ag; inst keeping harness in stables, the reason given being that the ammonia prevalent there rots the leather and soon destroys the harness. Now- this is beginning at the wrong end to remedy the evil. We may talk and advise, “year in and year out.” about the matter, but harness w ill be kept in the stable in spite of all. Where else can the majority of people who keep horses hang these trappings! A rich man may have a closet in which the harness may hang safely from fear of ammonia and all other dangers; but the average horse owner w-11 have his prgs beiiind the team, because he can have no other way of disposing of the harness. * But the trouble would end if the production of ammonia were pre vented. Enter an ordinary stable at any period, but especially in the wili ter, when every cranny through which the wind can come in is carefully stop ped, and what an offensive odor offends the nostrils and irritates the eyes. Is this ordor of ammonia, strongly alka line and irritant, injurious only to the harness? W^et of the horses, and the tender membranes of the eye, the throat and the nasal passages? Do you think they are less sensitive than oak- tanned harness leather, well greased and preserved as it is? By no means, If the prevalent odors injuriously affeci the leather, you may be sure the eyes suffer, the throat and lungs are irritat ed and the nasal passages become in flamed. Then occur the frequent uioonblindness, opthalmia, weeping ol the eyes, followed by inflammation, white specks, then follow cough bronchitis, iieaves, catarrh, nasal gleet; and by-and-by, when the blood has be come poisoned by the absorption of di seased matter from inflamed and sup purated membranes, larcy and glanders dreadful and latal to man and beast, too—results. And while we think of saving the harness and removing it to a purer place, the beast which is worth a dozen sets of it, is left to rot from these pungent gases without auy help. Cleau the stables, and the harness may hang in them in safety; and be sure if the stable is not a fit place for the harness, it is no place for the horse. A barrel of plaster can be procured for about one dollar. It is worth that as a fertil izer. It is worth ten dollars as ail ab sorbent of ammonia, and a hundred, as a health preserver to the horses, not counting the saving to the harness. Sprinkle it every .vhere, be liberal with DOMESTIC. HUMOROUS. Cistern and Filter.— Pure water: A Worthy Object .—He was a small, for domestic use is of great importance. ‘ innocent-looking boy, yet there was In most wells the water is more or less something about him which denoted impregnated with lime, or oilier min- : deep thought and philosophy. He went eral or earthly substance, so ihat it; up to & leading politician whom he met not so pure as rainwater. Wells are ' ” *’ ’ A often so deep that it is hard drawing the water. For family use I recom mend the cistern. Most places where a w-ell can be dug, and where it is not sandy so as to cave, a cistern can be plastered with cement without walling with brick or stone. When 1 built my at the City Hall a week or two ago,and, after saying good morning and asking him how he felt, he continued: “ I’d like you to contribute about $5.” “ Five dollars,” mused the politician. “ Yes, sir; it ain’t much;” persisted the boy. What do you want to do with it, house, four years ago, 1 dug my cistern j get your mother a barrel of flour?” back of the house before I built the miner kitchen, so a3 to have it in the kitchen. The fiiterer is a small cistern, j club?” No, sir; I don’t.” Are you getting up a base ball one or two feet from the other cistern, with a tile for a spout in connect them. The end of this pipe in the fiiterer is enclosed by a small circular brick wall. “ No, sir.” “Well, what do you want with $5 then?” The boy removed his hat and replied or a double wall'of two inches each, with becoming dignity: with a space of two inches between, “lam collecting money for a fund wnich is filled with pulverized charcoal.; to erect a monument over the last r st- The surface of this filtering wall is j ing place of the man who struck Billy scarcely a square yard, and that part of • Paiterson.” the rouf discharging into the cistern is j *• Were you acquainted with the twenty-four feet by forty. Yet it is j striker of the late Wm.Patterson?” in- only the most violent thunder shower j quired the Alderman. that gives more than enough water .to pass readily through the fiiterer. main cistern is six feet in diameter ah' twenty-four feet deep. This gives us c<*ol water %11 summer—as cool as well water. We draw with a chain pump, which keeps the air and water circu lated, so that it is pure. I prefer to have the filrerer outside the main cis tern, and being shallow-, it is easily cleaned. Both cisterns are covered with a brick arch. In the cistern ot six feet in diameter, the arch is started with a grove cut In the earth for the bottom of the arch. The earth holds it sufficiently from where the cistern is plastered. The arch rises three feet, leaving three feet of earth over it. lu Tnotnas’s book, “ Farm Implements.” I lound the following rule for measur ing cisterns: Five feet in diameter, each foot in depth will contain four and two-thirds barrels of thirty-two gallons; six feet in diameter, six and three-fourths; seven feet, nine and one- twelfth barrels; eight feet, nearly twelve barrels. Vegetable isinglass, which has hith erto been derived Irom Eastern Asia, is now extracted from French sea weed and made useful in French fae- lones. It is, iu its crude state, a yel lowish gelaiiue. but which, alter re peated experiments under the auspices of the Industrial Society ot Rouen, has been successiully converted into what bids fair to prove the best sizing for cotton cloth known. The Kitten's Dinner. breakfast a morning or so ago, when his boy broke the silence by asking him for fifty cents to go to the minstrels with-that night. Mr. Kroeger promptly refused on the ground of hard times. Mr. Kroeger’s boy is more than a boy, and when he sets his heart on having any thing he generally succeeds in getting it; so, when his father refused to comply w-ith his request, he moved over by his mother, and said: ‘ I guess I’ll tell ma what the cook said to you last night. ’ Mrs. Kroeger’s eyes flashed like balls of fire. ‘You’re a nice man,’ she said sarcastical ly, ‘to come home and pet me, and kiss me, and call me your little dew-gemmed tulip, and theo go and receive the caresses | anim-tl from some for- : u,u t0 flow through the pipes for ten or of the cook, you miserable, trog-eyed | had been a rare animal irom -ome lor j tttteon m i nut ee. The inside of the pipes The French Academy has received a number oi letter giving details of a re markable rain, which froze as it fell, for several day in some parts of France, — ; and did great damage. The drops had Two little girls, the elder not yd j exidently been brought to a state of five years of age, had a present ol a j suriusion in their passage through cold kitten the other day. i air and solidified on meeting solid bod- It was the first time in all their little j lives that a cat of any age had ever; whm , fiad pipe " become trusted been in the house, and they were asdc- j witll su i p hide of lead, they may be lighied as possible, and as full of won- cleaned in this way : Allow a hot eon- iler over all its w-ays and doings as if it | centraled solution of sulphide of sodi- runt, for two pins I’d go over there and rake the *»v#»s out of vou!’ ‘I; m! ’ stammered the lord of the manor when ins w lie uruAc in— ‘Oh, yes, I’ll I am, you!’ and turning to the boy she demanded an explanation of the whole affair?’ “Will y< u give me 50 cents?’ ‘Yes, she responded, ‘what did she say?’ ‘Give me 50 cents first?’ said the young hopeful. ‘I’m opening the year on the C. O. D. principle.* He soon had the money, and relieved his mother by telling her: ‘Last night the cook came up to pop and got pretty close to him and— ‘Oh, you wretch,’ hissed Mrs. Kroeger. And when she got beside him she smiled very sw-eetly, and said: The boy moved cautiously toward the door, and his mother yelled: ‘Come, out with it!” ‘And when the cook get pretty close to him, she whispered: ‘Mr. Kroeger, the potatoes are getting pretty low, and you had better get another barrel in a day or two.’ And then the boy got outside as fast as possible, while his mother sank into a chair. Mr. Kroeger lifted the morning paper before his face to vail the smile which made it look like a calcium light. Female Jealousy. eign land. I will then appear as if coated witbagray The Dos and tbe Wasp. ‘ What shall kitty have for her dm- j gi aze> ami water; may then be passseil ner, mamma?” asked Lulu, climbing : through them free of any lead, down from her high-chair when the j —— dinner was over. “Oh. you can fix her up something on a plate,’’replied mama hastily,as she went into the sitting-room; for she was very bLsy with some sewing, and for got that lier little girls knew nothing about feeding kittens. Five minutes later Bridget poked her head in at the door. “Plaze, mem, jist do come out and ee thim childer.” Mamma dropped her sewing and fol lowed Bridget. On the floor behind the kitchen stove sat Lulu and Ella, either side of a large dinner-plate, by by which stood the kitten, as if puzzled what to do*about it. And what do you suppose these two little dunces had put on the plate lor that kitten to eat? Well, there was a large slice of wheat bread and butter. Spading a Garden.—The spading fork, when used iu digging unoccupied soil, should always be inserted nearly perpendicular the depth of eight or nine inches, the slices not being more than five or six inches wide; if much wider the soil cannot be sufficiently pulverized, and il the fork is not insert ed to a sufficient depth the roots of the plants w ill not penetrate deep enough to enable them to withstand any drought. The operation of trenching, or digging the soil two or m^re spades deep, is generally wrongly performed, as the bottom soil is brought to the sur face. and the topsoil buried below. In such cases the soil brought to the sur face is almost a 1 ways poor and of a hun gry nature, totally unfit for young plant life. The proper way of doing it is to open a trench two or more feet wide and a spade deep, throwing the top soil to one side, then spr« 2a onie manure in the bottom of the rcnch, and spade it into the bottom ?oii; on this throw the top soil of the next trench, incorporating with it some manure, and so on, trench after trench, until the plot is finished, filling up the las trench with the top soil taken from tiie first trench. What to Eat.—In a lecture before the Workingmen’s Lyceum. Dr. Seguin spoke as follows of food: An ordinary meal is generally copiposed of five in gredients—animal or nitrogeneous food, starchy or sweet iood, watery vegeta bles, beverages and condiments. This food, w hen digested, is taken into the system by blood vessels. For persons, and (.‘specially for workingmen, in this climate, meats are the most easily di gested, and at the same lime are the most nourishing food. Tripe is the easiest and pork the hardest to digest. Among vegetables, rice and boiled cab bage are the extremes. Anything that is fried in fat is extremely indigestibl . Milk contains the live ingredients above referred to, and is really ‘ all-sufficient,' The whasp is wheeling airily about the room, singing in low, soft tones, the songs of other golden sum mer days. How peaceful and sum mer-like the picture. The dog! Ah, yes! Was there, then, a dog in the scene? Memory, memory, open thy golden gates. Ah,yes; there was a dog, not long ago. Yes, I re member now. He was here. But there is no dog in this immediate vicinity now. He has moved. How like a silent benison the radient sunlight falls upon the street. Yes, 1 think, now, 1 saw him move. I heard him, too, for my recollection is that he moved as much with his tongue as he Death from Corn Fodder.—There nave been many cases throughout the country of sudden death among cattle that have caused great alarm. At first mut was supposed 10 be the cause ol the trouble, but analysis has proved that smut is not injurious, and a post mortem examination has shown in many instances a hard iiia.-s of husks in 1 lie stomach. If it should be proved that it is unsafe to let cattle loose in a field of corn stalks it would be a serious matter to stock raisers. ‘ No, sir.” “ Then what do you care about get- ng him a monument?” “ Nothing at all, except that my mother thinks he ought to have one; she thinks he must have been a good man, and I am going to do my best to carry ner wishes out. You see in this iittle drama my mother is acting the part of Dean Stanley; the man tuat struck Bliv Patterson is Major Andre, and I “Well, who are you?” asked the Alderman. “ I—why, 1 am Cyrus W. Field. Now, then, are you going to let me have the shekels towards the carrying out of the enterprise?” “ Getaway from me or I’ll kick you,” said the politician. Then the boy left to find some one who could be induced to subscribe. The fair sex in Guernsey are not to be trifled with. At a fancy dress ball given there recently by the subalterns of an infamry regiment, a lady noted for originality and wit was brought by chance to the side of one of the chief military authorities of the place, baid she 10 Col. Z , “May 1 ask, Colo nel, what you are?” “Oh.” answered the Colonel, who was evidently not in one of his happy moods, “ I am noth ing! What are you?” “I am next to nothing,” was the prompt rejoinder. A lady was entertaining at dinner a stranger who had brought a letter of introduction to her husband, and at the end of the meal coffee was served. The lady had asked her guest if he took sugar with his coffee; he replied, “Oh, never, ma'lam; that is to say, hardly ever, unless the coffee is very poor.” A few minutes later he said: “Will Mothers make a great mistake in trying you please give me a little sugar ?” What Is soda^Water? It Is simply water strongly impregnated with car bonic acid gas. The gas is obtained by pouring sulphuric acid upon-carbonate of lime as it exists tU-marWe dust chips in a powderful metal cylinder termed a “generator.” Copper generators were formerly in vogue, but frequent explosions, leakages, and Inevitable corrosion, even where the interior has been lined with tin, has led to the sub stitution of steel. The contact of the sulphuric acid with the carbonate of lime produces a tremendous efferves cence. The vitriol, |iaving a stronger affinity for lime than the carbonated acid gas has, liberates the latter, and a sulphate of lime is formed. The gits thus obtained is then passed through a washer, you can wash gas as perfect ly as you can a handkerchief—to re move any trace of sulphuric acid, and then it is pumped under enormous pressure into the fountain, already charged with water. This constitutes in brief, the whole process of carbon ating. Imitations of Vichy, Kisaingen, Seltzer and other mineral waters are made by dissolving in the water in the fountains the requisite amount of salts Ginger ale, root beer and draught cham pagne are made the same way, except that the aerated water is passed through a closed vessel holding the essences and extracts in solution, wfifch impart to these drinks,their characteristic flavors. The machinery required is intricate and costly. The generators used in large establishments cost about $3,000 each, and ocher appliances are very ex pensive. Very few druggists in cities make their own soda water as they can buy it more cheaply from wholesale “chargers.” The fountains vary from one draught tube and five syrups, to six tubes and twenty-two syrups, ranging in form ft \ simple square marble box to an -ate gothic tem ple of the most exc 1 * ,ce workmanship and in cost from to $4,000. On no other beverage is there such an extray- agant outlay of money, and a well managed concern seldom fails to be very profitable. With good syrups, an attractive fountain aud attendant, and strict cleanliness, the soda water stand will pay the rent. It is upon the syrups that the trades turn generally. Conscientious dealers make their own syrups, some even making genuine fruit syrups; but essences are general ly preferred. An Interesting Rain. 10 induce children under two years 01 j age to eat starchy food, for there is no j A citizen went into a Norwich alkaline fluid in the stomach of an in-j hardware srore the other day and fant by which the starch can be changed ! quired : “ How much do you ask for a to sugar, and so ini used into Hie system, j bathtub for a child?” “Three dollars It has been estimated that a man work- an ,i seventy-five cents,” was the reply. w in the open air daily needs fifteen j ounces of meat, eighteen of bread, whistled the customer, ’ll have to keep on washing three and one-half of butter or fat, aud j t i, e baby in the coal scuttle till prices fifty-one of water. I agree with many j come down.” Feed for Cows.—A mixture of hay bran and meal is an economical feed for milch cows. The hay should be cul and moistened and the bran and meal -priukled over it. Let the morning iced be a bushel of cut hay with two and a half quarts of corn meal and bran mixed iu equal quantities. Give the same at night, and at noon about eight pounds ot dry hay with a few roots. eminent chemists who have proved that alcoholic drinks are an aid to the sys tem in retarding the waste of tissues. 5io, too, for the same reason, I regard tea and coffee as nourishing. An excess of starchy food is to be caretully avoided. Men who handle lead ought to abstain trom alcohol, for if too much is taken, the kidneys, which throw off the poison of the lead, are likely to be come diseased. Short-Cake.—Short-cakes, as made fifty years ago by an aunt of mine, were made by adding one-haif pound of butter to one quart of lepid or warm water, with flour to make the dough just right to knead a long time—from one to two hours—as therein lay- secret of lightness. About one-tifih of the blitter should be reserved to roil in just before pettin_ which was done by placing the pie-lins against a long stick of wood lying on the hearth before the kitchen fire. The cakes were made three-fourths of an inch in thickness, or les3. o»* about Stout Chairman (who ftels the fire close at his back rather oppressive): •* Waiter, 1 asked you to bring me a screen.” Waiter: “Master’s very sorry, sir, but we ain’t got no screen!” Stout Chairman: “Then, for good ness’ sake, tell the cook to send up the diipping pan, and put it under me, quick!” Look not upon the strawberry when it is red, when it giveth its color in the short-cake; for at last it biteth like a serpent, and is indigestible like unto a Welsh-rarebit eaten at midnight. did with his feet. I gaze upon the can- generous I vas of the pas', and memory limns for poonful ot cider apple-sauce, a pickle, | me the details of his moving. But noth- and a huge pile of plum-pudding fair ly drowned in sour sauce. Mamma laughed, kitty ran under ing limns auything tor the dog. He doesn’t need it. He limned it all that was necessary the stove, and the little girls both cried ; f or his own unaided self. “Meet me, love, at the old place to night.” The gentleman was aroused from his slumbers next morning by the pent up fury of a shriek which resembled the scream of a locomotive. He sprung out of bed, his hair bristling with terror, to encounter his wife rigid with indignation—her face pale, and her entire expression of countenance an interrogation point of the hugest propor tions. When she spoke her words were in italics, and were as frosty as a piece of ice. “ Can you explain this note?” “Wliat note?” asked the bewildered merchant. “The one that wretch wrote you last night—the note from the party ‘ you met at the old place’ yesterday evening “Upon my soul I don’t know what you mean?” “Perhaps this will refresh your memory” and the note was thrust into his hands with an energy which made his blood tingle with apprehension. A single glance re vealed its contents. He knew the hour was big with fate for him and he struggled bravely- for composure. A mistake would leave him desparate. His tone was there fore calm and collected as he replied: “I suppose it is some scribble bv one of the clerks. I know nothing about it.” The exquisite scream that fevered upon that woman’s lips at the answer would have reflected credit upon a Massachusetts repub lican when asked for pecuniary- aid for the refugees. “And you expect me to believe this?” “Confound it, Madame, I didn’t expect you to believe anything. But what the mischief are you prowling through my pockets for any r way?” “I haven’t been prowling through your pockets!” “Where did you find that thing?” “I—I—picked it upon the floor,’’.was the confused reply. Here was daylight at last. The man fixed his eyes on her in indignant scorn. There was the ring of victory in the accent with which he reversed the tables I Upon the cloudless, pale, unshadowed | blue of the April sky above me, storm because kitiy would not eat the nice dinner they had fixed for her. But Bridget went and got her a saucer j w ,n come, and the fierce white glare ol of warm milk, and tbe children forgot | the lightning will frighten the radieni all their trouble in seeing her lap it, g U11 g]nne and the meilow starlight. up * , . There will be drifting clouds across the summer days, and the smile ol the springtime will be quenched in bitter How to Become Graceful. The best grace is perfect naturalness. : lears . Still, you must study yourself, and form your manners by a rule of that art which is but a carrying out of the laws of nature, j Oh, icy sheen of winter, and the hol low sound of the man upon the treacn- How all these things will come and ;o. The changing seasons, flecked But if it is y-our nature to be forever assum- erous cellar grating! ing some unpicturesque, ungraceful attitude, j pray, help nature with a little art. If you | _ are stout, avoid the smallest chair in the ; gtorm and calm; the still, deep, starry room, and be sure you sit on it, not to lean j 8U mmer nights; the restless tide, and back in it with your hands folded in front j lhi of the niillds in t he voice- of you just below the line of your waist, 1 a especially while the present fashion lasts, j‘« sa fore8t i laughing childhood, ra- If you are thin, do not carry yourself with | 11 ^ youth and reverened age; the your chin protruding and your spinal col-1 bridal wreaili and the snowy crown umn curving like the bowl of a spoon. Do upon the casket lid. not wear flimsy materials made up without a ruffle, or puff, or flounce, to fill up the hard out lines of your bad figure, so cruelly defined by the tightly pulled back draperies. Study the art of dress. We once knew a very- plain woman who dressed so tastefully Ho.» all these things will come and go- But the dog will never come back here again. Never. At least, not until he has heard that that it was really a pleasure to look at her. ! the wasp is dead. Dead. Dead and If you have been moping until you are sick j buried. with the thought of your own hopeless ugli ness, be up and doing. Forget y-our dis appointments, forget the past and the sneers of your own family over the mistakes that you have made. Pumpej’i Pillar. Don’t Judge. | During the campaign in Egypt, some | sailors in harbor took it into their heads I that they would go and drink a bowl of punch on the top of Pompey'spillar Don’t judge a man by the clothes he i How to get there was, however, a oiat- wears for God made one and the tailor | «*r of difficulty, but not too great for a sailor to surmount. A paper kite made to fly directly over the pillar. A two-inch rope was then tied to one end of the string and drawn over the The Drains.—One of the things de manding attention D the making of new drains and the cleaning out of old ones, especially 7 those about farm yards, so as to give the surplus water ail out let. The health and comfort of the animals are thus secured. The Teacock. Bonnets are not worn in heathen he Jands Hence churches are not popu lar there. It requires a new spring bonnet to develop the latent Chris- the cake to bake, j tianity in a woman. These are the days when you put your foot down on tacks, and when the painter, the kalsominer and the carpet- beater, unmolested, hold high carnival eight ir elies in diameter, and placed on among your household goods. the tins lacing the bright fire, which would soon roast one side a nice brown, when they w^ere turned and roasted 011 the other side. The slashing an inch apart which these cakes received before baking, made them break easily without mangling, when they were put 011 the table. If we now must have short cake, w-e can do no better than to mix with cream not too old. Why is it that the umbrella mail al ways comes around on a wet dav, and begs the privilege of carrying off vour only hope of shelter to be repaired? What is the difference between the solargraph and the detective? The one shadows the lime to serve men, and the other shadows men to serve time. Brown Thickening for Gravies.— Take half a pound of flour and silt after drying it thoroughly on a new. . paper before the fire. Melt half a! pound ot butter in a porcelain sauce- j the other. Don’t judge him by his family con nection, for Cain belonged to a very S °Donh7t!dge him bv his speech, for I P” lar b >' tbe e “ d to which tbe k [ te " a? the parrot talks, aud the tongue is but I B y tbls r0 P e one of 4he f a ’ 1 men ascended to the top and in less than an hour a kind of shroud was con- an instrument of sound. Don’t judge him by- hislikeof di«plav Then some one must have sent it to I for tiie long eared beast is the humblest of animals, but wheu aroused is terrible to behold. Don’t take it for granted because he carries the contribution he is liberal; he often pays the Lord in that way and keeps the currency. Dou’t judge him for his activity in church, for that is not unfrequentl/ill- spired by hypocritical and selfish mo tives. you; and see—see—it’s in a man’s hand writing. Cecelia, is it possible?'’ His pa thos would have found its way to a heart of stone. His wife cast upon him a sacred and frightened look, and then turning, fled the room. He master of the situation. —The amount of timber rafted to market this year i? estimated at just double the amount sent last year. The prices are only fair. structed by which the whole company went up and drank their punch, amid the shouts of the astonished multitude who had collected around the spot. The sailors, eight in number, left the initials of their names inscribed on the pillar. They discovered what was not before known—that there had for merly been a statue on the pillar, the foot and ankle of which are still re maining. There are four species of the peacock known. Two of these are found Asia, one in Africa and one in China. The domesticated which are found in Eu rope and America, came originally from Asia. They are all birds of large size and great, beauty. The crested peacock measures about five feet, in cluding body and train. The body is only a foot and a half, while the train is three feet aud a half long—more ••sail than ballast.” Common prudence would require that this animal should keep near the harbor in stormy weather. Its head is very small, but plumed and crested, the neck is long and small, ta pering most gracefully from the breast upward; the wings are short and rounde-J, w-ith the sixth quill the long est; the tail is composed of eighteen feathers, long and rounded, which in the males are concealed by the greatly lengthened coverts. This magnificent bird is elegant in form, graceful in movement, and its plumage resplen dent, with tints of green, golden, bronze and blue; the long tail coverts, which the male can spread like a fan, are beautiful beyond description, with 1 heir metalic iridescent hue3, white shafts, velvet-black centre, and bril liant terminal eye spots. Every one must have seen it display itself in pub lic or private parks. And the wild peacock is said to be even more brilliant than the domesticated. Griffith says of these birds : “We find in their incom parable robe all that glitters in the rainbow, and sparkles in the mine— the azure tints of lieayen and emerald of the fields.” Some are more or less variegated, and occasionally one is found entirely white They are about the size of the turkey, their flight is low and heavy; and they lay from 12 to 20 eggs, and raise only one brood per annum. But the peacock has de fects as well as attractive beauties. Whan we have seen his elegant plu mage, we are disappointed to hear nothing but the unpleasant and even shocking scream of his voice, His legs are black and so homely that he is said to be disgusted with them himself. He is a voracious eater, and devours plants seeds and insects without distinction. I11 the neighborhood of gardens and planted fields, he is an intolerable nui- -ance. So disgusting are his h&bits and bad his conduct, that he finds but one companion, the turkey, in the farm yard. Gallows executions may be called : suspensions of public judgment. It's all right to goto Paris for polish, luiii • skim the top and pour off all that 1 hut for perfect Finnish one must go to is as clear as good salad-oil. Wash out ’ the shores of the Baltic, the saucepan and pour in the melted j butter and flour; stir over a quick fire with a wooden spoon. The stirring must be continued until the whole mass 1 begins to change color. As soon as of i Calls of distress reach us from every direction, and charity begins to hum. Pistols and Prayers. three pounds of butter at a time. Trusting Futurity At four hundred and something Jones street is a fortuneteller, who has made a new departure in the astrologi cal profession by causing her custom ers horoscopes to appear on a slate ly ing upon the table. She enjoys the large patronage due to a soothsayer, who serves up at the very least a rich uucle in India, and the undying secret love ot a dark eyed person of the other sex, according to the circumstances, to each cash client. The other day as ng Guffey and a half dozen boon companions were going home from the club in a state of owlish complacency, they came to where Signora Clementi na’s sign invited the passer-by to peer into futurity. They accordingly- tiled solemnly in, and sitting around the Signora’s table, had whole hunks of coming events dealt out to each. When they arose to depart, Guffey waited until the party had got safely into the street, and then putting his hand into his vest pocket, inquired the amouut of the bill. “Seven revelations at $2.50,” replied ths sorceress, sweetly, “just$17.50; call it seventeen dollars even.” “Are you sure everything on that slate will come all right?” “Oh, It’s certain, sure.” “Then put the bill on the slate, too,” and the wicked young man had just time to escape before that educational adjunct was shivered ju.-t where bis head had been. „ . 131 agination goes a long distance a light lawn color, take trom the fire,; willl a ji ve cent cigar, throw in a large onion—this will give i *^*«^^* die thickening a nice flavor—and keep j ~ stirring until it stops bubbling; take j out the onion and turn into an earthen | pot. When cold It has the appearance } Some time ago a Deputy SheriflT and of light-colored chocolate, and very j t jj ree other citizens ol Evath County, gravie*'/“lfVigluIy'*n!ade°it ‘wilHceep j ^ were charged with a warrant good for weeks, and as brown thicken- for the ariest of Rusk Holloway, fug is almost a necessity where gravies ; and reached the house in the midst ami sauces are properly maoe, I have u f a prayer-meeting. Rusk Hollo- tound it convenient to piepare two or 1 wav refused to surrender his arm3, and in a moment the officers were sur rounded by enemies. Rusk commenced shooting, and Robertson fell dying af ter escaping from the house. Tne fight now amounted to a regular battle. The voice of prayer was hushed in the whiz 01 bullets and the bang, bang, ban guns and pistols. In the meantime the smoke of gun-powder and the groans of the wounded and dying ascended to gether. Keith and Ross, in the midst of a shower of bullets, ran quickly around the opposite side 01 the house Just as he reached a small tree Ross tell pierced by a ball. But with his six- shooter still in his hand the doomed vic tim rose to his knees, clung to the tree with one band and tried to shoot with the other. At this moment old man Holloway and his daughter appeared on die scene of carnage, and hastening to where Ross lay clinging to the tree de manded ihe surrender of his six-shooter Ross replied that he might have it pro vided he would let him take out the one remaining cartridge. Hoilowayand his daughter, the eyes of the girl flaming and her long hair floating on the south wind, which blew away the smoke of the fight, then seized the pisiol of the wounded man, and by main force wrenched it from his hands, enfeebled as they were through loss of blood The old man then like a veritable fiend placed the muzzle of Ross’ own pistol against the side of the wounded man and fired. Ross with u groan fell over dead, his murderer cooly extending his 1 feless body on the ground, all be smeared in blood. King and Keith es caped, and the bodies of Robertson and Ross were shortly afterward found where they fell by a posse of citizens “ By’m-by.”—“ John ” had bought a watch at our jeweler’s, but as it ran too slow, he took it back, saying, “ Watchee no good.” “What is the matter with it asked the jeweler. “ Oh.” said John, “ watchee too much by’m-fry.” A ruin, accidentally discovered by A. D. Wilson, of the Hayden Survey, sev eral years ago while pursuing his labors as chief ©f the topographical corps in Southern Colorado, is described as a stone building about the size of the Patent Office. It stood upon the bank of the Animas, in the San Juan cour- try, and contained perhaps five hun dred rooms. The roof and part of the walls had fallen, but what of it that was standing indicated a height of *oar stories. A number of the rooms were fairly preserved, had small loop-hole windows, but no outer doors. The building had doubtless been entered originally by means of ladders resting on niches, and drawn in after the occu pants. The floors were-of cedar, each og as large around as a man’s head, the spaces filled neatly by smaller poles and twigs covered by a carpet ot cedar bark. The ends of the timbers were bruised and frayed, as if severed by a dull instrument. In the vicinity were stone hatchets, and saws made of sand stone slivers about two feet long worn to a smooth edge. A few hundred yards from this building was another large house in ruins, and between them rows of small dwellings, built of cobble-stones laid in adobe, and arrang ed along streets, after the style of the village of to-day. The smaller houses were in a more advanced state of ruin, on account of the round stones being more easily disintegrated by the ele ments than the heavy masonry. The streets and houses of this deserted town arc overgrown by juniper and pinon— the latter a dwarf, wide-spreading pine, which bears beneath the scales of its cones delicious and nutritious nuts. From the size of the dead as well a9 the living trees, and from their position on the heaps of crumbling stone. Mr. Wil son concludes that a long time has elapsed since the buildings fell. The Almost Forgotten Employment* Darning and Mending. —The Pen nsy 1 vania Railroad, during the mouth of April, averaged daily about five car loads of emigrants forth© West. It is possible that in olden times too much stress was laid on the importance of training girls to mend and darn so exquisitely that it would be difficult, almost impossible, to discover that there had been any necessity for the la bor; buj if there were any error in teaching and exacting such perfect work it was a fault “that leaned to vir tue’s side,” and beyond all comparison better than the wretched “botching” to be found on the raiment of 9ome—of many—of the girls of the present day. Laundresses that wash for school girls could make strange revelations of ne glect of garments and careless repairs were not their lips sealed through fear of losing good customers. When a broken stitch is allowed to go ©n un cared for until it has become so large that the stocking cannot be worn with out some repairs, and is then drawn up into an ugly bunch—hard enough to blister the feet—instead of being nicely darned; or when a tear or rip on a dress or under-garment is pulled to gether with thread coarse enough to in jure the fabric, who is to blame—the motner or the daughter? What instruc tion has ever been given the young girl about looking out lor the beginning of evil in her wardrobe? Has she been taught to darn or to mend every rent or rip the first possible instant after it was discovered, and to do it neatly ? Oo, no! Her music or drawing lessons, her French and German and dancing, are apparently of more importance than such useful w-ork as mending and darning. If a young lady has what in these days is the rare skill of compel ling her needle to assist her in carry ing out all the requisitions which will enable her, with scant materials, to keep herself neatly and genteelly clad; if she can turn, remodel, piece neatly, cover tbe lack of material by some sim ple appropriate trimming until she makes an old dilapidated garment look “amaist as weel’s the new,” she will have cause all the days of her life to thank the mother who led her In the way she should go; and whatever changes or vicissitudes may be sent she has far less than those who, in prosper ous days, are only fanciful ornaments of their homes, but when the evil days come, will through their ignorance be come oppressive burdens upon those whe Must provide for their support.