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CONTENT A PLEASURE. - There are no ills but wbat we make By Riving shapes and names to things; Which is the dangerous mistake That causes all our sufferings. O fruitful grief, the world’* disease* And vainer man, to make it so, Who gives his miseries increase, By cultivating his own woe! - Wo call that sickness which is health, That persecution which is grace, That poverty which Is true wealth, And that dishonor which is praise. Alas! our time is here so short, That in what so e’er ’is spent, Of joy or woe, doos not impart, Provided It be innocent. But we may make it pleasant, too. If We will take our measures right, And not what heaven has done undo By an unruly appetite. The world is full of beaten roads, But yet so slippery withal, That where one walks secure ’ts odds A hundred and a hundred fall. Untrodden paths are then the best, Where the frequented are unsure; And he comes soonest to his rest Whose journey has been most secure. It is content alone that makes Our pilgrimage a pleasure here; And who buys sorrow cheapest takes Au ill commodity too dear. —Charles Cotton. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. THE STORY OF A TELEPHONE. Persons represented: Miss Eyphen-Smitb, Mr. Paget. Scene: A drawing-room in Miss Smith’s house, near New York. In the room, on a stand against the wall, is a telephone. <ai r* LSS S. (putting down her book f«o 0°'j and glancing at c clock). “Nearly 3, and he said I/e that at 3 o’clock % % he would tele¬ >: phone to me from V New York. What m m can to he me? want I—I to say think—I am near¬ ly sure it must be a proposal. He has been so attentive of late. I am sure no one can be leas vain than I am, but there has been a look in his eye, a tone in his voice, that is quite unmis¬ takable. (Looks fondly at telephone.) What a comfort it is to have a tele¬ phone in one’s house! I really don’t know how I ever existed without it. If a visitor drops in unexpectedly to dinner, and I want a nice little dish of cutlets, I ring up the butcher. If I feel a little low, and only a fried sole can tempt my failing appetite, I ring up the fishmonger. The grocer, the butcher, the egg merchant, the livery stables—they are all on the telephone. (VJiock strikes.) Ah, there’s the bell! (Rushes to telephone and speaks.) “Yes, are you there? Is that vou, Captain Vavasour? Yes; are you there?” no one there, and yet I hear some one speaking in the distance, a faint buzz- ing like a bee in a bottle. (Rings off and glances at clock.) Just three. It was the clock striking, and I thought it was the telephone bell. (Sits—ring at the bell—she jumps up.) There it is again ! Oh, no; it’s the door bell this time (goes to window), and there’s Mr. Paget coming in—provoking! 1 should have said. “Not at home;” too late now,and he must come in here; I can’t leave the telephone ! Not that I don’t like Mr. Paget; I like him very much. I might have preferred him to Captain Vavasour; but I havo never seen any tendency in Lira to propose tome. Dear me, it’s very awkward to have a visitor in the room when I’m expecting a telephonic proposal, and mean, to accept it, at the top of my •j^p.Vays (Enter Mr. Paget.) pearin{y ei y do, nervous Miss and Smith?—beg flurried). r tn , ou 1 rom S, Hvpheu-Smith. Er—er louenKtreq-isn’t it?” Mis 3 S. (shaking hands with effu- sion). “So glad to see you; here is your favorite chair. Let me put your bat down in its accustomed corner.” Mr. P. (aside). “She is really a most charming woman. I wonder if she’ll be surprised when I ask her to marry me* It’s a little difficult to lead up to, but I like to get these awkward things over quick.” (Aloud, ner- vous.) “Alieui—my dear Miss Smith wha^ le “t-—Smith—I—” (Telephonebell rushes to it.) “Confound it that? what’s doing?” iss S. (at telephone). “l T es are * there? What? Is that Captain —— Mr. who? 1 can’t hear; speak louder. What? what? Six gross of „ we o don’t keep screws. Who do vou ^ want? No, I’m forty-six.” Mr P “Impossible!” MissS- “What? what? Well, an- ther time when vou want sixty-four don’t ring up forty-six.” (Rings off in disgust and sits down.) Mr. P. “My dear Miss Smith, may I ask what that instrument of torture - g *Miss an( i -why * you are shouting at it?” S. “Why, havo you never “Ver shall again.” (Aloud.) “I don’t Z ire tor "fashioned these new-fangled things; I’m o fellow. Don’t you 11 Hn 1 it a confounded nuisanee?” Mies S. “No, indeed! It’s the Ses ,rrp*test comfort I possess.” (Clock ’ she jUmns up, then sitsA P. “Don’t vou find it a little ris. a Bad for the nerves, eh?” 8 “Not * in the least; most r ^Ir j^i P" w (nervous). “Mv dear Miss c/th Hvohen-Smith—you—you will besurprised u nmrised tonea to hear what brought « me bC Miss°S. " (absently, looking at tele- phone]. i ni "Cab IsapDOse.” ^ r ««Yrm will be surprised to * hear- • > Miss S. (absently). “Oh, not at all.” Mr. P. “Eh? I had no idea yon had guessed my secret.” MissS. “Secret? what secret? Oh, I beg yonr pardon, I didn’t quite catch what you were saying. I —I was listening for the telephone.” Mr. P. (aside). “Confound the telephone.” Miss S. (aside, glancing anxiously at clock). “He said about three, and now it’s nearly twenty minutes past; surely he must ring me up soon.’l Mr. P. “Well, as I was going to say when the telephone interrupted me, you will hardly have guessed why I came here to-day.” MissS. (archly). “Wasn’t it to see me?” Mr. P. “It was, my dear Miss Smith, and—” Miss S. (lauching). “And to hear the telephone?” Mr. P. “Apparently. But as I was going to say, it was to tell you—to— to—” (telephone bell rings. Miss S. rushes to it). “Curse the bell!” MissS. (at telephone). “Yes; are you there? What? is that you? Cap¬ tain Vavasour? What? Fish? what fish? I said salmon. What? Yes, salmon cutlets. What? No, I didn’t! I never said sausages! sausages in July ! What? I can’t hear. Salmon cutlets —S-a-l-m-o-n. Do you hear? Next time you take my orders, please send someone who isn’t deaf! (RiDgs off and sits down, fuming.) Mr. P. (dryly). “You must find that telephone a great comfort, I am sure. No drawing room should bo without it.” Miss P. “I hope not, for the sake of your nerves and yonr—visitors.” MissS. “Oh, I am so sorry; of course it must be very provoking for you, but it isn’t my fault, is it? Now sit down and begin again; you were going to tell me something very inter- esting, I am sure.” Mr. P. (aside). “I’ll make one more attempt, but if I can’t get my proposal out before that confounded telephone goes off again—I’ll give it up, once and for all.” (Aloud.) “My dear Miss Smith—Hyphen-Smith, I am a man of few words.” MissS. “Indeed?” (She listens with perfunctory attention, and every sign of impatience, her eyes on the telephone, half starting from her chair at every sound that can suggest a bell.) Mr. P. “I don’t wear my heart upon my sleeve, I keep it in it’s right place (aside) though it’s in my mouth I at this moment! (Aloud.) I am, as j said before, a man of few words -re- j ticent, taciturn.” ! MissS. “Yes?” I Mr. P. “Feeling a great deal, but j never saying so—modest, retiring—| perhaps you may think me too re- tiring;' MissS. “Oh, no ! not at all!’’ Mr. P. “But a man cannot change his nature.” MissS. “Of course not!” Mr. P. “I am sure I have kept my secret, that I have never given you . think—to __ reason to imagine—that— sel^clear?” a word,^ that I—I do I make my- Miss S. “ Oh, perfectly!” (Aside.) “What is he^ talking about? Why doesn't he go?” ^ ev en ir ^ o y e ex ~ j pHcit.” (Telephone bell rings . faintly ; she starts up.) “Don’t go—it was the clock. In one word, Miss Smith, the feeling I have for you is not friend- ; ship. ” J Miss S. (her eyes on the ^ telephone), “Oh dear, I am sorry to hear that! ' v ^7 ” ! Mr. P. “It is _ more ! I ask ^ you to m .Y—” (Bell rings loudly; she : rushes to telephone.) ^‘Confound the bed- That’s all over!” Miss S. (at telephone). “Yes? ^ Are |; Y ou there? Are you Captain—what? j £>peak up, I can’t hear ! Four wheeler? | ^°* a Victoria. What? Got a fit? j The horse? What? Not fit? Then ; why do you keep a Victoria that’s not ; fit to use!” (Rings off violently aud j sits down.) { Mr. P. “This _ is too bad, Miss Smith. Let me tell you, this is too ; much of a good joke!” (Bell rings j again ; she rushes to the telephone.) i MissS. (at telephone). “Yes? What? J Still on? Ring off? W hy did you ever rf Q g on?” (She rings off viciously.) ; “Ah!” (She falls into a chair and fans herself.) Mr. P. (furiously). “Where’s my h & t? I’m going !” i MissS. “Going? Why?” Mr. P. ‘‘Because I can’t stand it any longer! Miss S. “I ^ m sure I’ve done au ^ tne ^ standing!” Mr. P. “Don’t ^ joke ! it’s beyond a j°^ e - Do you know what I was going to say to you? ’ MissS. “The telephone didn’t give me a chance. ’ ! Mr. P. (with venom). “No, it’s lost J ou a chance ! I was going to ask you to marry me—to marry me, do you hear?’ Mi=s S. (starting up with out- stretched hands). To marry me ! Oh, Mr. Paget!” ssSillS Mr. P. fool enough to domesticate a tame telephone in her drawingroom ! Good- j bve-I shall not call again.” (He ; takes up his hat and departs, smiling sardonically.) MissS. (sinking into a chair). “Oh i dear, oh dear, I’ve lost him! Why didn’t I guess what he wanted to say, ; but I conldu’! tbiuk of anything with that dreadful bell always going. Oh, ; my head! I feel quite dazed! I be- gin to think a telephone is a qualified : blessing. (Telephone bell rings.) Ah! this time it mast be he! (She rushes to the telephone.) Yes? are you there? Is that Captain Vavasour? Yes—yes. You are very unpunc- tual. What? can’t hear—what? she was very unpunctual? I don’t under- stand. I can’t speafc any loader, I’m shouting. Yes—oh, yes! what? yea, oh, yes! I have always felt a deep interest in your happiness. (Aside.) Now it’s coming. What? What? I can’t hear you. What do yon say? oh, yes, now I do! What? who? Mies who did you say? (her face falls.) No. I never met her. Does she live in New York? what? (she becomes vaguely alarmed.) What? Very what? oh! I’m not a judge of pretty girls. (Disgusted, and more and more alarmed.) What? what say? Ah ! glad you are in such good spirits. Yes? yes? something to tell me? (her face brightens.) Oh, yes; do! Yes? yes? oh, yes What? what? accepted you? what do you mean? what? what? did you say marry her? Ah! (she shrieks and drops re¬ ceiver). I have lost both ! both! Oh, why did I ever have that abominable tele¬ phone? (She drops, weeping storm- iiy into chair. Curtain descends upon her sobs.)—Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. _ Alaskan Curiosities. Professor L. L. Dycbe, of tho Uni¬ versity of Kansas, returned from Alaska on the City of Topeka, and left last night by way of California for his home. Professor Dyche went to Cook’s Inlet especially in search of natural history specimens. He as- cended to the source of the Kuik River with - an organized expedition, which was a success although the obstacles to be overcome were appalling. The native boatmen stripped and with ropes pulled the boat up the turbulent river. Professor Dyche obtained specimens of a new mountain sheep, twelveammense mooseheads, caribou, sea otter, birds and other small am- mals. On July 17 Professor Dyche saw eight inches of snow fall, and on August 11 six inches fell. He saw three smoking mountains, and experi- enced an earthquake. Ho found large coal ledges, but the coal was so soft that it could be whittled with a knife, Professor Dyche said: “The country is one-half made. It will be a good country when it is finished. The glaciers are slowly doing their work; the mountains are smoking and the rivers are vomitting out quantities of quicksand. It is a new country. Let it alone, and some day it will be a good country.” Professor Dyche met Princess Tom, a famous l 7 akutat Princess, wealthy beyond all other Alaska Indians. She has $15,000 in gold twenties! On her right arm she wears five bracelets, each hammered out of a gold twenty, and on her left arm she wears ten bracelets, each made from a $10 gold piece. She has hundreds of blankets, sea otter skin?, etc., and owns a schooner and two sloops. She is sixty-live years old and has just oo- tained her fifth husband, a man twenty years old for whom she paid 500 blankets. TheThlinginwomen manage the households and hold the purse. The relationships are traced back through the mother’s side. It is, in fact, almost a savage realization of Lytton’s “Coming Race.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Something of a Voice. Tbe greatest voice of which there is any record or tradition about Congress was possessed by George G. Symes, of Colorado. Symes, who was a good deal of a character, finally committed suicide. He was an Ohioan by birth, but served in the Union Army through tbe war iu a Wisconsin regiment, en- tering as a private and coming out as a colonel. Most of hfcs life after the war W as spent in the West in the Rocky Mountain region. From 1874 b e made his home in Denver, Col. He t or n 0 t e d for his great voice, Com- pared with it the bellow of “the Bull Q f Bas’nan” was a gentle murmur. It wss a deep, heavy bass, x )rosee ^i a g seemingly from cavernous depths. Asked one day about the reputation bis voice hacf given him, he replied: “Well, I’ll tell you about it,” and the words roiled out in his deepest, heaviest bass. “You see I was out ca mpaigntng. I was addressing a Ra¬ publican audience at Silverton. Over at Oroville, twenty miles distant, the Democrats were holding a meeting, Along about nine o’clock there came up one of the awlnl storms which oc- cur j n that mountain country. The w i n( t howled like a million imps. It was especially bad at Oroville. The people showed signs of alarm, and acted as if they wanted to break up the meeting and leave the hall. The chairman, becoming anxious, rose to assure them. ‘Ladies andgentlemen,’ he said, ‘do no be alarmed. Thera is aRepublican meeting over at Silverton, an q George Symes is addressing it. tie has just come to that portion of his soeech where he denounces the Mills*Tariff bill, aDd the noise you hear is the indistinct rumbling of his voice.”’—Washington Post, The Needs ol* Indians Few. The Government nas shown an ex ill!—SI dians or more on the Yuma reserve- tion. The economy of the Indians in the matter of food is proverbial, and therefore it is quite likely that 3000 of them can feast comfortably on $2000 worth of provisions until next cron " time. ^ ®“‘ »»™* ----U* Pvenmally. John Elliott’s coal mine, at New Straitsville, Ohio, was set afire by strikers twelve years ago and was af- terward abandoned. It is still burn- ing. It has been discovered that nn- less the fire is extinguished it will reach other mines, and will also le> many houses drop into the faery hole, the roof of which has been nearly turned away. S' IN ! / 'a T&L W' M SETTTSG MILK. A bulletin of tho Perdue (Ind.) ex- periment station contains some useful information in regard to the setting of milk. The poorest method is consid- ered to be the setting of it in shallow tin pans or crocks on pantry shelves, or in cellar, the reason being that milk thus set is exposed to a greater air contact, and is, therefore, more liable to be afiected by injurious odors, by disease transmitted through the atmos- phere, and by heat and cold. Milk so set often sours rapidly and in cold weather may freeze. If it sours rap- idly in summer curds get into the cream and remain more or less in the butter, forming white spots and affect- ing the quality; or if the milk or cream freezes an inferior grade of butter will be made from it. Where cream is to be secured by setting, the best plan is to set tho milk m round tin cans about eighteen inches deep and eight inches in cliaine- ter. The separation of the cream is greatlv improved if such can is placed m ice water or in cold spring water to the height of the milk in the can. Ibis keeps the milk in a uniform tern- peratuie and enables the cream to rise to the best advantage. This is what is oommonlv known as the shotgun can, which is sold by dairy supply houses, or can be made by any tinner, The deep cans are skimmed either with a conical skimmer from tue sur- face, or by means of a faucet or valve at the bottom through which the skim milk is drawn off. Experiments show that the latter is much the better method, the loss of butter fat being only about one-half that which takes place when the skimmmg is on the top. m Tin . vessels , should , be used for setting milk. and they should be made of tin plate of good quality, as cheap tin is so thinly washed that it really cor- rodes and the under metal of this gives a ruinous flavor to the but.er if there is any souring in the vessels at all. SUGGESTIONS FOR TRUCK GROWERS. The following suggestions from the T,myis!flno Louisiana P'vnnrimoiit Experiment station iv*ion a A e <o to the point for the farmer, trucker or 0I1 one Who tnvminc! oLnts « familv intcnsiVc warden • Tru'b IxUivk farming means ir pans intensive high hinb farming. Lands dedicated to truck must be heavily fertilized, not with commercial fertilizers only, l but with such home-made manures will insure large supplies of organic matter. The m.A.. frequent incorporation of vegetable matter by the glowing n .rnwin ( v«nd and tnrm'n.v turning nn un- der of some legumiuous crop-prefer- ably cow peas (clover at the North —suuulemented bTmSrmaTwM will in a few rears render these soils to + v» 1 ,rvL* ^vnxxtirto- If Jt -tabie tahlp manures mamups bensed be used, tnev they should first be thoroughly composted and several times piled and cut down, in order to bring them into a most available condition as plant food, A compost of stable manure, cotton seed, acid phosphate and kainit, mixed in such proportions as will suit the crop to be grown, will be found a very ef¬ fective fertilizer, perhaps superior to any other mixture. When the supply of home manures is inadequate for the demands of your crop, these may be supplemented by cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and kainit, mixed to suit the kind of vege¬ table grown. Proper rotation must be observed in truck growing as in general farming, if the fertility of the soil be maintained and maximum results desired. A slight knowledge of botany, yea, even offhe character of vegetables grown, rr adopted, Melons, encumbers and squashes be- long to one other* family, and should Eot succeed each Egg plants, to- ™the°r! 8 and beans and°peas another. Always follow a crop Expressed by another of a different family. in a simpler manner, roots should not fol- low roots. A tap-rooted plant will follow well a fibrous-rooted one. Af- ter a heavy manuring, cabbages, onions, Irish potatoes and egg plants j should be planted, since these require ! excessive fertility for best results. I Follow these crops with tomatoes, I squash, etc., aud these in turn by ! beans, peas, etc. A farmer will soon i i have a suitable rotation of both crops and fertilizers. NEW POTATOES IN WINTER. tbe e s’oU n as 1 ‘in coosid'ered W Jalv at or e ' August, doubtless be a remarkable j commission men here. “If you want to inspect really new potatoes, drop in and see us.” was the j cousin request office which Yesterday floated into the the Wis- tele-I j over phone wire from a well-known com- * mission house on lower Broadway. Taking ^ the sender of this message ~ at : ^ the potato e(Jitor of lhis investigate/ g rea t family jouriml He did was sent and out found to j so, several barrels of new potatoes of the Early Rose variety, witn every appear- B nce of being fresh from their native BoiI . That they were as youthful as they looked was soon demonstrated, aa( j the assurance of to-commission ninn that the visitor could have ali the cew Marpuies he might want at the rate of S3 per bushel rather staggered the potato editor, who has long been accustomed to meeting, interviewing a nd writing up freaks in the potato family. There they were, a large supply of fresh young, potatoes, tender and new every sense, on the last day of the year, when “old” potatoes are usually | j found insipid to be somewhat decrepit and from age and the general wear since potato-digging time in the fall, Those who had partaken of the novelty pronounce them just as de¬ licious as any July product, Inquiry brought out the fact that these new potatoes are now being pro¬ duc8d by means, it is said, of some secret process, by Frank Dalzell, an extensive potato grower at Genesee, Wis., where he has a farm of 160 acres. On the farm is a large building which do one but Dalzell himself enters, and heie, it is said, he is producing the early summer potato in all its glory, He has made the Milwaukee commis- sion firm of Thomas Sz Shaus his agents for Wisconsin, and they positivelv state that they are daily in receipt of a sufficient quantity of these new pota- toes to supply an average market for such a vegetable novelty m midwinter. They are also assured by the grower, Mr. Da.zell, that by another winter he expects to be able to supply the en- tire Milwaukee market with the winter grown article, ms intention being to put genuine new potatoes on the mar- ket here months before the Southern growers can have any of their very earliest potatoes ready for the North, which is during the latter part of Feu- ruary or in Marco First, he guaran- tees to furnish fresh, new potatoes dunng any and every winter month, and to nave tuem in suflicient quanti- ties for all by another seaeon. It has been suggested that this . new potato wonder is the result of the dis- | covery of Borne process for preserving new potatoes ,rom early summer until midwinter, in such a manner as to keep hem absolutely fresh, plump and ‘ new iu every sense. But this is clared to be an erroneous idea, and, on | j 1 the contrary ?g" Mr TT*. Dalzell’s ? u 8 most 1 inti-! in “ | * ; ma x te mends insist - . , that he produces m 1 the natural na.uiaiway, wav without witnout hothouse nobiiouse aid aid ’ . the 77 °^ secret aer ySbcial 4l process, means, c.iscovered except bv him- that ( sel "eHon f ls US frimftosh in their '^ Itiselaim^, -rowih and pro- j aho, th°t he can «row new* potatoes ground lovmod in lar^e quanUties with the with snow and things frozen up gen- erally J iu«t u L as easily 1 J as b at 1119 the present pre.Hu i time, when the weather nas been much mil der than the season calls for. What- ever is thesecretofthisuewmove.it “ Mnw^e" qU /*° ce '“* anTttot in thftt “ the^are n ,® w " or '’,****” Juiiwaujtee, anti mat tuey^are ddteious aenciout and 1U e ' er -^ uay ab as tilosy | taken from the average garden when ; the robins and the early summer j zephyrs are singing carols to contented j nature.—Milwaukee Wisconsin, j FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. 'j I If your hens are too fat to lay, put them on short rations for a few days. ■ Give the hens lime and grit. Pound , up old crockery and see how soon they will put it out of sight. Sunlight is a great tonic and health- giver. No stable should be without a window on the sunny side. Feed vour whole grain in the morn- j no ° . among litter. It will make the 1 be s work for it. The warm mash j should be fed in the afternoon, as it J will, help keep them warm and com* tor fable through pot’sh° the ni^ht. Th “j German ® <=aits are not „ otash h nce th (!o not dis . ^ when •»««*»<* applied >>y 1“’“^ to manure In- stead, they form a compound with the ™?' tS nftKol To^VtZ formed is the most powerful fertilizer P lie ‘ l to .^ 1“ kmd of cron cro P o * rul ene L ' The American Saeep Breeder says: j Ke ep the sheep’s feet dry and cleaD ! while they are in the stable. It is quite j unnecessary to distuib the manure on | td e hoor it it is kept ary and wed Jit- j te red. The packing ot it unuer the ; fe et will prevent decomposition, anc } keep the floor better in every wav for ; the sheep than it it were cleaned every j c ‘ a T- Plenty of common land plaster ^ should be sprinkled or scattered over j the litter. This will prevent ail bad! odor. ‘beVS: are ! «oo large for rue intense and careful, <**7 in interviewing their crops ana ■ their live stock scat-ered over ueir . of br°ad 60 much »««. account To them as quantity. quality was not. j stlpated If a cow increase has a tendency the production to oe of con-j oil meal in her ration. If her bowels be- j l j come to loose decrease the oil mea | , aDd iccrea5s the bran. If the cows ; have decrease a tendency the to cornmeal put on too discard much] fiesh or it altogether. If she gets too thin give her more cornmeal and less of the other foods. If straw and fodder are high limit the feed to eight or ten pounds a day. If these rough foods are cheap give twenty to twenty-fava pounds a day to each cow, and use what is uneaten for bedding. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. SAND-BATH FOR POTATOES. Sir Francis Cruise strongly recora- mends the use of the sand-bath or the common oven for potatoes as prefer¬ able to either boiling or steaming, on the ground that a much higher tem¬ perature can be used by the lirst method and a more thorough cooking of the starch grains brought about. Many delicate patients can use baked potatoes who cannot touch them vhen boiled.—New Y’ork Post, - TO BROIL ROUND KTEAE. Have a slice two inches thick cut across the part of the round or rump of the beef. Lay the meat in a deep earthen dish and pour over it a gill ot* the finest olive oil. Let it lay in this dish with the oil for twelve hours. Turn the beef over frequently m the oil and be sure it stands iu a cool place. At the end of the oil bath take the steak out and Jay it on a meat board. Take a heavy meat knife and with the back of the blade strike tho beef the entire length in light furrows across these, so tho entire surface of the meat is in small checks. Turn the beef over and repeat tho process of corrugating on the other side, Thou lay tho steak on a broiler and broil quickly over a hot coal fire or under a hot gas broiler fiame. Sprinkle salt on each side as it browns.—New York J ournal. CLEARING WINDOWS. E practical housekeeper seem, to have a different method of cleaning windows which she considers su. orior to ))lan adhered to bv nei< , bbor9 and frjeucls _ B , lt after asI!i „ le triaI of this melhoiJ it 13 (lo . jbtful if OIie wi „ care to make a ch no mat tcr how sfttis [ actory were the operations * i iec | ttie agt j£ ave readv a muslin 1-^ti/rs ba^ full of J. w hitin" £ and two wash r>nsfc then gh mbit thicklv off thoroughly with the whitiig, J with a damp, not - lwet leather or cUamojs> nad flnal , polish it „„ witb a clean d onc workmen This is the metho(1 y„ rsue d b‘v when cleaning the windows 0 * a new house, and gives polish a un- known to the glass washed iu the or- binary 'Another -wav. ‘ini excellent method of qivin~ ra" br a ncy to /'lass, is to dampen a elighUy with spirits of wine, rub thS lass well with this, and then polish as befor0 with a c] dry leather. New5Dapcr3 „ a admirable as polishers W P an s ae ? ’ a eatLie ai, n r , or chamois - is not convenient, or for anv nthpr ' ? r s /7~ tuat U-ecl 113P j fnr lor looa or ’ beve , a ges. The newspaper should be crushed and softened in the hands be f ? r ? Ucin f’ _ aud OT1 j the l 3rl ^ lcr 8 laK 18 ; a P “^““^i't/obfsined 0 - * 1 - ^ s .° T a, ckiy o j.amecl. “ “ ® “ ? E * he -,^1!^ o b 50 ' e p ^ orient and shmin b ni Ir tne.y 0 . have i , Decome dull or creasy loOKing, ^ l n a^d f • nT .. lc] . dld^d e“-e^ in “d~f to a‘ first, simply wash them with little auddilnted ammonia, anl t ’ aen i h (alter thorough rinsing) po ls with the chamois or crumnled news- ^ ! v c npen-snrv to h the rt vo frames and all the hi . about the windows perfectly clean before beginning to clean the glass; and if convenient choose a dull day for tho window cleaning, or at least a time when the sun is not shining on the fi ia£S * don’t BE WASTEFUL. Don’t throw away the dingy lamp burners that seem to have outlived their usefulness; but boil them in plenty of water with a quart or two of potato parings, and they will bo as g° od as new. Don’t throw away the emab quantity sweet potato or winter squasti tout is left from dinner, for a very little of cither wUi make a nice pie, if pie- pared in tlic same manner ns punip- Don't throw away the yeast when it begins ^ to soar; instead add two tea- 6 n f n , 8 of sngar to each cup of tho ^ ^ ^ Don’t throw awayeoiled and mus3ed ribbons nnless ,h °y Rre mach worI1 ' There are many preparations for cleansing these fabrics that are not -washable, or they may be dyed ; and, although they will not bo like new, they will prove satisfactory for many purposes. Don’t throw away grease of any sort, besides the drippings that can be used f or frying purposes; put the seeming- ] y unless grease int<j a pail, and when nea rly fall add some water and a pound c f potash, and only a little boiling AV j]j b e required to make it into nice soap. Don’t throw away o'd rag carpet worn oat. but tha..the»gs «re «tlH good the rags will usually wear twice as long as ..e_^ ar P* Don t throw away the salt , bags , ader . emp.jiLg, or lake an « seT7 several togeeuwr lor fnr cu ; u ° “J® “l 1 ^^ nfil cen use v. l all ln fW ~*"“£!£ _ P U J D ° ° 7 y Bar 1 c.otus. , _ ______ _ c , °o Chin T w!m’has''itherto''ou- tbo v j Ceroy 0 r » lnna ’ ^Hanko - ™ k J"® the » mainfactunner China' - industrv in ’ o n ?rates an immeui- ... - ,