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Self-On vermnrnt. Education is St-lf-government. When Horace says, "Sapiens sibi qui im/tiri* osus ' —“ lie who in imperious over him self i* the wise man," ho perfectly de fines the educated man, the man who has learned to govern himself, who has energy, faculty, and propensity of nit nature under his control. This includes the acquired habit of concentration, the power over one's self to keep the mind fixed, at will, on one subject, and to ex clude all thoughts ot other subjects. This is the power to t tudy that wo have already '!escril>ed ns a moral as well as an intellectual virtue. When Cffwar said, “Übi intendrri* ingemum valet ” When you intend your mind it is strong. And wliou Newton •aid he made his scientific discoveries by always intending his mind, they both described the prodigious strength added to the sound mind by this power over one's self to c.mcoutrato the facul ties. This constitute! the power to learn ; the power to acquire knowledge. Your business at school is to acquire this power to get knowledge; to learn how to learn. There is knowledge in tbo objects of nature around you. There is knowledge in books. All the knowledge acquired by man, worth preserving, is preserved in books—in books of astronomy, in books of chemostry, in 1 looks on the mechanical arts, in books of agriculture, in hooka of law, in hooks of medicine. Books will teach the man who has ac quired power to study and get from them the knowledge they are always reiuly to impart. The indulgent idleness st school, has not ac quired tliisjpower to study, learnn l>ut little from books when iie reads them. To him tbo “ Viy inti atinoroum lucu f/ratloncs" nvail uotiiiug. Ho may ac quire from his own personal olxervution and failures knowledge sufficient to make money by his profession, but because his knowledge is restricted to tlio result of his personal observation, he can never attain eminence. " Knowledge to bin eyon b*>r tinpln png*, Rich with tin Hpoiln of tiuuo did ue’ev unroll- M Bucli a man will never have that fond ness for scieutiflo research connected with his profession, nor that taste for tlio pursuits of tlio cultured man that Hoixl nays kept him from the dog pit, the ring, and the pool and billiard saloon. The young man who is too self-indulgent to force himself to study at school will never study anywhere sufficiently to ac quire more tliau a superllcial knowledge of any profession. Acquisitiveness. In the introduction to his pamphlet on “ Ilew to Gioiv Rich,” Dr. Dhtml gives the following definition and analysis of this organ : “ The faculty or acquisi tiveness is common to brute and man. It is not an intellectual faculty, but a sol fish instinct. Its office is to desire, covet, long for, grasp, appropriate any thing, everything that can in any way minister to the physical nature. It is a legitimate organ, whose I unctions are necessary to the continued existence alike of the insect, the animal and the human being. It is devoid of mural sense, as well as intellectual perception, hence it has no recognition of the rights of pro|s rty, nor any knowledge of Low to get what it desires, nor yet any idea of tlio le ative value of things. It is simply the instiuct of acquisitiveness. It is the controlling faculty in each. The insect and the brute having no other than a sensuous t xistenoe, their w.-uta are limited to hx.) ami shelter. Man, while alned to the animal kingdom, on the sensuous plane, is lifted infinitely above it by tlm fact of his being endowed with reason, nnd crowned with moral senso and spiritual aspirations. Dy means of his superior intellect, man Is able to subjugate the curth and all its forces, compel lug it to yield its fruits and treasures in rich and varied abund ance to supply his needs and gratify liis desires. Through the guiding wisdom of his moral faculties ho recognizes the brotherhood of lnun and tlio equality of the rasa*, tbo foundation of the princi ples of justice.” Acccptingthe.se propo sitions as correct, it is clear that the man whoso life is spent in the service of no quisitivein ss is simply an intellectual brute.— Phrenological Journal. A London Dinner, A la.ly well known in London literary circles lias givou u Mliakspearean dinner anil reception at her elegant and uriistio hoime iu Chelsea. The fair hostess ap peared ki Portia, and all lior guests re sponded to her request and donned ap propriate costumes. The effect of these correct and artistic Sliokspcareau dresses was very charuiiug. Nearly a hundred guests sat down to dinner, and this was the bill of fare : Salmon with Aiayonaist Sauce: " I’nu saininii’s tail.”—Othello, j., 1. Boar's //rad: ■‘Tbs Boar's Head."- Homy IV., ii., 4. Sirloins (Oul Beef o la mode: "A piece of bei'f and mustard. ” —l aming of the Shrew. Pore Quarter of l.ambt "Poor, innocent lamb. ' -klaobeth, iv., 1. RihiU Veal: 1 Brutal to kill soeajnul a calf.”- Hamlet, iit, 8. Ham : “I pray yon, is not tin* pig great '/"—Titus Au dronlcue, iv.. 8. Mayomute of Chickens: "Here's a foal without a feather." —Comedy of Knurs, iii., 1. Fenf and Horn Patties: lacj ua ooiu uiutcu in a pie. —i'ltus Au drouicus, v., 3. Pin’xm Pies : “Borne pigeons, l)avy."—Henry IV., v., 1. /xdistrrs: " 111-shaped fish.”—Borneo and Juliet, v., X, Alayonaiee Salad: "There is ssnee for it."—Henry IV., v., X. Puddings and Sweets ; “flwoets to the sweet."— liam.et. Dessert: “ Taato the fruit."— Pericles, i., L M ines : “ Good wine needs no bush."—As lon Like It. The Prosaic Age. We are becoming dreadfully prosaic ; even the fashions lor weddings show it. It is no longi r essential to conjugal bliss to have the knot tied iu the presence of a doeen bridesmaids in diaphanous rai ment, the bride herself being pcrfoiee in pure white mid docked in orange blos soms. Then* is a growing tendency to being married in w alking costume; lit aiy velvets and plash replace the i lumot -of tarlatan and luoe, and uowaduy* a bride, dressed in rich velv< t and sat in, pr< -ce. ds up the aiales on the ai m of her jianre, and in a few moments r< turns a w ife 1 There is an element of coldnesa in these nuptials which was not found in the old fashioned regulations.— Sew York Mail and Express. Let no one suppose that by acting a good part through life he will escu|>e scandal. There will be those even who hate him ipr the very qualities that ought to procure esteem. There are some folks in the world who are not willing that others should be better than tbemsetvea, Thxrs is but one thing to do when an adverse fate is driving you against your will: take the bit in your teeth and turn around and face your foes. Onr Republic* Wo rejoice that our land has become the hope of the poor throughout the world. Hero in our heaven-favored re pin.he pauperism, with our laboring mil lions, is tlio exception to the general rule. But abroad, among those earning their living by the sweat of their brow, ixiverty is, alas, too often the common lot. And hence, wherever you may go, you will find the hearts and tho hopes of the laboring poor turned towards America. Go with me to tli* banks of the Shan non or the It.’line, t< the Thames or the Neva, to the Seine or the Danube, the Baltic or the Adriatic, and whenever you find a jioor roan, longing to better his condition, ask him to what country he wishes to emigrate. Does ho answer that he wishes to go to any of the nations of Europe, with all their ancient and historical renown? Oh, no ! All around the world, as from realm to realm and from continent to continent you ask this question, tin- answer from those of every creed and clime, from heart and lip, is that their hopes and prayers are turned towards tins great country where the people rule and all are sovereigns in their own right. Let them come. If they will join us to fortify and preserve the civil and re ligious liberty of which we are so justly proud—if they come to truly American ize themselves and their families in heart and soul,- —to forgot all other lands in their lifelong devotion to the Nation that welcomes them, let them come, and with ns |H)okcsb and develop this goodly land. Stretching from tlio Atlantic to the V II 1 fiu las 4.1-- 4-—. -•• "kw XSZllv, Vtllioll embraces nearly all the governing na tions of the world, with its shores washed by these two great oceans of the globe; with a mineral area of nearly a million square miles, Ix ing larger than all tho mineral area of all the world besides; with the Mississippi Valley and our new Northwest, unparalelled m their fertility by any other laud beneath tho sun, and able to become, if neces sary, the granary of the earth ; with our commercial and manufacturing as well as our agricultural and mining re sources who can forecast, who can limit the future of our Nation, to whose open gates tho scores of thousands are flock ing to-day? —Schuyler Colfax. The Golden Jjxlilcr of Uharlfy. There are eight degrees of steps, says Miiimouidts, iu the duty of charity. The Hist and lowest degree is to give, but with reluctance or regret. Tins is the gift of tlio baud but not of the heart. The secoud is to give cheerfully, but not proportionately to the distress of the sufferer. The third is to givo cheerfully and pro portionutely, but not until we are solic ited. The fourth in to give proportionately, cheerfully, and ovai unsolicited ; but to put, it in the poor man’s baud, thereby inciting in him the painful emotion of shame. Toe fifth is to givo charity in such a way ilmt the distressed may receive the bounty and know their benefactor with out tiieir being known to him. Such was the couuuct of some of our ances t. rs who used to convey their charitable gifts into pi sir people's dwellings, taking care that their own persons and names slum and remain unknown. T e seventh is still more meritorious, namely, to bestow charity in sucli a way that the benefactor may not know the relieved objects, nor they the name of their benefactor; as was done by our charitable forefathers during the exist ence of the temple. For there was in that holy building a place called the Chamber of Silence or Inostontation, wherein the good deposited seoretly whatever their generous hearts sug gesti and, and from which the most respec table poor families were maintained with equal Hecrecy. Lastly, the eighth and the most meri torious of all is to anticipate charity, by preventing poverty; namely, to assist tile reduced brother either by a consid erable gift or u loan of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to tlio dreadful alternative of hold ing up his baud for charity. —After the lalmud. Hlmt I.luidin Sn Ul to Josh ua Speed. Joshua F. Speed was one of Lincoln’s oldest mid most confidential friends iu liis younger days, and their friendship Continued through all trials. At cr the capitulation of General Lee's army, Speed came from his homo iu lambville, Kv,, to visit Mr. Lincoln, and while iu Washington was invited to an informal meeting of the Cabinet. L’he question of the disposition of Jef ferson Davis and other prominent Con federates, after they should be captured, was discussed, each member of tile Cab inet giving his opinion, most of them for hanging the traitors, or some severe punishment. Lincoln said nothing. Finally, Mr. Speed, addressing the Pres ident. said: “Now, Mr. Lincoln, you have invited me here, and this seems to ■*e u free fight. I have heard the opin ion of your ministers, and would like to hear yours." " Well, Jacob," replied Lincoln, •• Unit reminds ' n -* -a otory. when l w-as a ooy, in Indiana, I went to a neighbor's house one morning aud found a boy, of my sire, holding a coon bv n string. 1 asked him what he had and what he was i.oing. Ho says: 'lt is a coon. Dad onteh six last night, and killed all but this poor little cuss. Dad told me to hold him until he camo back, and I'm iifraui he’s going to kill this one, too. A J, oh, Abe ! 1 do wish he would get away.' ‘Well, why don't you let him loose?’ ‘That would not be right, and if 1 I t him go, dad would give me hell; i ui ii he would get sway himself, it would be all right.’ Now,” said Mr. Lincoln, "if Jiff. Davis and those other t< 11 iws will only get away, it will be all* r.ph , but if we should catch them, aud 1 should let them go, dad would give uie hell.’’ Xnmberof Kcbel Troops. It baa been irnpoa We to obtain what could be ea led < x n't statistic.-, of the r.dvel force, except as giv ti in McPher son'* "History of the Rebellion," as follows : Alston* 40.000 I Teiss 29.600 Ki0ni5........ 4,000 j Teunessoo .... 84,'X)9 Georgia M.OU6 , Virginia UiS.txiO Rouvsians 5t.,000 1 Arkwiet 28.(100 Miesiwppi .... 40,000 j Ken tacky 20.000 Nortii Carolina. 25.000 j Maryland 20,000 (South Carolina. 96,000 ! Missouri 88,000 | Total 498.000 It is stated by the same authority that “ the estimate of Maryland um.-t be excessive.” General li* detra soys in his “ Military History of Ulysits S. Grant” (volume iii, page 689), that May 96, the last organised ret >el four disappeared from the territory of the United States. Every man who had borne arms against the Government was n prisoner. One hundred and seventy four thousand two hundred and twenty-thr.. e rsliel prison ers were paroled." Chicago J liter- Ooaan. Little Things. Life is made up of a great variety of things that call for our attention, as we pass along, nnd it is not strange amid the hurry, bustle, and misconception of life that many things are wholly neg lected ; but while we see this neglect on every side, if we study tile matt- r closely we will find th.it the Tittle things of life are more ircquently left undone than the greater tlmigß. While many are willing to grasp large opportunities which seeur to off. r great Inducements to riches, how few are making us* of the common opportuni ties that present themselves at every step of life. If wo could always see re sults before we act, how different gen erally would be our line of action; for the smallest opportunity, richly im proved, often results in great aud lasting good aud can not fail of some degree of success. How often we see the little things of life ignored in tbo home circle, while every wish may be gratified as far as physical comfort is concerned, though it may have cost groat labor; how often wo see those things that go to make homo happy grudgingly given. Kind words are little things, but how often do harsh, unkind ones take their place. It is strange that we so often hear harsh, thoughtless words at home from those who are always kind and considerate to strangers, but that this is true is an evi dent tact. Home, though filled with little things, is a place of grand opportunities, and ihat one who is conscientiously trying to improve thorn, is doing an unending work for good. Hearts are receiving im wroßtnca.u o/vl or bad—are being made happier or eadder, cacti oay, by tho ac tion of those at home. Parents, worried and absorbed with the business of life, too often make home unattractive to their children by making them feel that they represent simply burdens in the household. The hearts of children are sensitive, and older ones should always he considerate in their actions toward them. They should be made to feel that they are of some im portance at home, in order that they may become so attached to it that it will be to them a safeguard and refuge from the many pitfalls that beset their youthful steps. Tho opportunity of parents in this direction is of vast and immeasura ble importance, aud if rightly improved will more than repay in years yet to come. The children of the home circle, as they grow to years'of accountability, are not left without responsibility in this direction. How often is the joy and comfort of homo blighted by the unkind and disobedient ucts of children who wholly disregard their great opportuni ties for good and heap dishonor on their parents. But there are those who shed light and joy wherever they go by their uniformly kind words and ucts, whose chief aim it seems to be to make others happy ; and what centers of joy they are in the home circle. Tho little things that they have observed have resulted in a grand aggregate of good that is crowning their parents with honor and making their own hearts hap pier and better. There are always men and women raised up for the grander and greater achievements of life, and while there is much succe-s in this direction, it can never accomplish the whole work for life, for life is made up mainly of little things, and it ia those that are most likely to be neglected. Wo may not all have equal opportuni ties of doing good at home, but we have something to do to make that homo hap pier, and if we are doing it to the best of our ability wo uro meeting ah that is required. If in the daily walk of life we would pay more attention to the little things there would be fewer great things demanding our consideration.— Marjorie. The Heroine of Matagorda. The tempest lasted thirty hours, and thirty-four rneu out of 140 hid fallen. The fort was not more than 100 yards square; and “ here,’’says Napier, “be it recorded au action of which it is diffi cult to say whetlier it was most feminine or heroic.” The action referred to, as detailed in “ The Eventful Life of a Foldier,” won the woman for long after the sobriquet of “The Heroine of Matagorda.” She was the wife of Sergeant Heston, of tlio Scots brigade. Under lire she tore up her linen to form bandages for the wound! and; anil water being wanted, a drummer hoy was ordered to draw some from a well, but the scared child did not loom much inclined to the task, and lingered ftt the door of a hut with the bucket in ins bund. ‘' Why don’t yon go for tho water ?’’ ask od the Surgeon angrily. “ The puir bairn is frightened,” said Mrs. Kenton, “ and no wonder; gio the bucket toiue.” And under all that dreadful storm she proceeded coolly to the w ell, procuring water for the wounded. General Napier Bays a shot out the bucket rope iu her hand, but she recovered it and fulfilled her mission. "Her attention to the wounded was beyond all praise,” says Sorgcaut Oou of ilie y 4th; she carried sand bags for the repair of the batteries, and handed ammunition, wine, aud water to men at the gnus. “ l think I see her yet," lie adds, “while the shot and shell were flying thick around her, bonding her body to sheild her child from danger by tho exjxwure of her own person.” She died at an early ago, in Glasgow, without other token to her merit than that accord, and by the humble book of her husband’s comrade. —British Hat ties. M. Roman, a French engineer, states that tho cultivation of tho interesting plait', the Soja or Sofia has been largely developed ill Hungary and in various parts of France. He thinks that it na\ iu the future beconio as in pm taut an article of fixxi ft-- the potato. It grows in any soil, even the driest ; and tho plant is an . xoe lent fodder for eit I*. The si-eJs are \i rv nnt itio.tx. an I have the form of small kidney lie ms. An agreeable soup may he male of them. The Chinese ti-e th m for various kinds of cheese, to make n condiment with oil, etc. In Franco, the Mid* have been roasted like coffee, aud M. Roman says the decoction ot the Soja la au is \\rv similar to that of average coffee. A Fragment of Life. When one breaks cutup in the morning he turns baok again and again to see what he has left. Surely he feels that he has forgotten something. What is it ? It is only his own thoughts aud musings he has left, the fragment of his life he has lived there. Where he hung his coat on a tree, where he slept on the boughs, where he made his coffee or broiled his trout over the coals, whore be drank at the little brown pool in the spring run, where he looked long and long into the whistiering branches overhead ; ho has left what he cannot bring away with him —the flame and the ashes of himself. Originality in Style. Charlee Lamb speaks somewhere of a friend of his who protested that there was too much reading done and that many people were too busy con.-idcring the thoughts of others to think for them selves. Jle even went so far, Lamb Says, as to quit reading altogether, “ much to the improvement of his or igiualitv.” i have often thought of tliis; tfiat is to say the blighting of one’s power of original thought by much read ing. '1 he otnnivofous reader mistakenly believes that he is only acquiring a store of fact and theories. He does not reim-rober that his mind is sure to be tinted by every particular thing which he reads, and that by aud by the natural hue of it will be quite effaced. I have often noticed with amusement and morti fication that everything I read had an immediate effect on manner of expres sion both in writing and talking. It haa been very humiliating to me to see how little individuality I possess. 1 humbly owu that I am mentally like the chame leon, or whatever animal it is that takes straightway the color of whatever it eats. I remember in the English litera : ture class at school, I have seen myself skip lightly from Addison to Macauley, from Macauley to Dickens, only to for get him and find myself on Monday tied i down to the limited verbiage and pom pous sentences of the preacher to whom 1 I had listened the day before. I don t i mean, of course, that style could , ever in the remotest degree, approach in j excellence toward any of the writers ' whom I read. T only mean that every mannerism that I could catch and wrap around my own thoughts, I instantly | made mv own Rut once did I actually . come near reproduction. Then I had to ; write a criticism of Pepy’s Diary, and j discovered only when my paper was finished and copied, that it was written in a very fair imitation of the worthy Samuel’s style. Of course, if this always held true, the path <4 the writer would bo smooth, indeed. He would only have to sit at home and diligently read liis Shakes peare, to become a master of literary composition. But unfortunately it doesn't. You have heard the stage mimic at cheap shows imitate the pig; and then “a pig under agate.” It has al ways seemed to mo that my Addison, for instance was an Addison ‘ ‘ under a gate.” After all, Ia . iiol -uro that an orig inal style in writing is to be desired. I am quite sure it should not be striven for; How, indeed, can a man be sure that he has got liis own natural style? How docs he know that he is not cramp ing his own powers by affectation ? Peo ple who try to walk differently from everybody else generally are lived out sooner. A gnarled, warped, crauk-sided manner of expression may be perhaps forgiven if it brings a line thought on its shoulders, hut it is none the less re pulsive. Perhaps I am prejudiced, but I can not get over a feeling that a writer who has thoughts worth expressing does an undignified thing when lie brings them out iu eccentrio garb. And the more elevated that the subject which lie treats may he, the more should he strive for clearness and simplicity.— Clarissa, in Indianapolis Herald, Whipping Children. It is a significant sign of the improve ment) of our racb, that the general feeling to-day is against flogging as a means of reformation or ] unislimeut. It lias been abandoned, in a great measure, all over the world in the armies, and it no longer forms a part of the discipline of our prisons. In tho schools it is fast going out of favor, in fact, lias almost disap peared. Ami ns regards parents aud their chil dren, flogging is fast becoming obsolete. In spile of all attempts to palliate paren tal brutality, the fact remains that itis bet ter to rule by love than fear and that the person who cannot succeed through love is not fit to rule. There is no sentiment alism iu this conclusion, for the accuracy' of the principle lias been proved count less times by experience, with beings of far lower grade than children ever are and of meaner quality of affection. One phase of love explains the regal'd of the masses for a political leader, a feeling somewhat similar attaches a sol dier to his favorite general, and the same sentiment, though of far coarser quality, makes a out*throat the faithful slave of a pirate chief. To say that the child, which is the only auimnl except the dog that will kiss the hand which strikes it. cannot be con trolled through the feeling that keeps turbulent men iu order is worse than untrue —it is idiotic. The parent who confesses to inability to control a child without reeourso to force merely admits lack of affection enough to enable patience to have its perfect work, for some one—often a person of no particular intelligence or character—is sure not only to find the child a heart, but to find it healthy and of full size. Motnt Ararat. Ararat is divided into two peaks, Great Ararat on tho northwest and Little Ara rat on the southwest, whoso liases blend while their summits are seven miles apart, The summit of Great Ararat is 17,323 feet above tho level of the sea, and 14,320 above its base; and for more than 8,000 feet below the summit it is always covered with ioe and snow. Little Ararat is 13,000 above the sea level. The apex of Great Ararat was visited by Par rot October 9, 1829. Dr. Scliaff, iu com mon with Smith, says that Ararat in Scripture ri fors to the lofty plateau or mountain—highlands which overlook the plain of the Araxos. The same author ity states that the mountains of Ararat (Gen. viii., 4) more properly refer to the eut re range of elevated tableland in that portion of Armenia, and upon some loner part of this rauge, rather than upon the high peaks, the ark more prob ably rested; and the following reasons are given in support of this view : This plateau or range is about 6,000 or 7,000 fei t high ; it is equally distant from the Euxine and the Caspian Seas, aud be tween the Persian Gulf and the Medi terranean, and nence a central point for the dispersion of tlio race ; the region is volcano) iu its origin, does not ri.-e into sharp crest-, but has broad'plains sepa rate and by subordinate ranges of moun tains; and the climate is temperate, gra-s and grain are abundant, and the harvests are quick to mature. These facts, he believes, illustrate the Bible narrative. Tkaustatfo from The Omnibat.— The Little Emma—“ The dead must it very good have, dear mamma ;” Mother, much struck “ And why so. dear child?" Emma "Because the fleas them not more bite !" Lady—" Marie, go and see if the butcher calv sf. et has.” Marie, back coming-—“Madam, I know not. 1 have them not seo could." Lady-—" What?” Marie—"lf lie calves has. He has boots on.” Visitress— “ Thon appearest vexed, dear Emma.” House Ymmg Lady—"Oh, jus, tlr. k oi it! Onr girl ha- suddenly out of the service gone. Xow must my old mother, with tne lheutnaUsw, the whole work do.” THE FAMILY DOCTOR- Fob toothache, where a cavity exists, there are many remedies in common use, hut, savs an exchange, none seem to re lieve as equal parts of hydrate of chloral and gum camphor rubbed together. Saturate a piece of cotton with the mixt ure and put it into tile cavity of the tooth covering it with dry cotton. Care must be taken not to allow the remedy to come in contact with the inside of the mouth, as it may produce severe hern ingi An exchange says : “ I*t anyone who has an attack of lockjaw taae a " quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on till: wotted, no matter where the wound is, and reliet will follow in less than a minute. Nothing better con he applied to a severe cut or bruise t.ian cold turpentine ;it will give certain re lief almost instantly. Turpentine is also a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it and place the flannel on the throat and chest, and in evc-ry eas t hree or four drops on a lump of sugar may tie taken inwardly, Db. Ebrabd, of Nimes, states tha£ Eh has for many years treated all his cases of sciatic and neuralgic pains with an improvised apparatus, consisting merely 0 f flat-iron and vinegar, two things that will he found in every house. The iron is heated until sufficients hot to \ aporize the vinegar, and is then cov ered with some woolen fabric, which is moistened with vinegar, and the appar atus is applied at once *o the painful spot. The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard states that, as a rule, the pain disappears in twenty-four hours, and recovery en sues at once. Balt in Diphthbria. —ln a paper read at the Medical Society of "Victoria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having for many years regarded diphtheria, in its early stage* as a purely local affec tion, characterized by a marked tenden cy to take on putrefactive decomposi tion, he has trusted most to the free and constant application of antiseptics, and, when their employment has been adopt ed from the first, and been combined with judicious alimentation, he has sel dom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In consequence of tho great power which salt possesses in preventing the pretre factive decomposition of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has olten pi in scribed for diphtheritic patients living far away from medical aid the frequent use of a gargle composed of a teaspoon ful or more of salt dissolved in a tumbler bf water, giving children who cannot gargie a teaspoonful or two to drink occasionally. Adults to use the gargle as a prophylactic or preventive, three or four times a day. How Voltaire Cubed the Decay ot 1 His Stomach. —ln the “Memoirs of Count Segur ” there is the following anecdote t “My mother, the Countess de Segur, being asked by Voltaire re specting her health, told him that the most painful feeling she had arose from the decay in her stomach and the diffi culty of finding nay kind of aliment that it could bear. Voltaire, by way of con solation, assured her that he was once for nearly a year in the same state, and believed to be incurable, but that, nevertheless, a very simple remedy had rostored him. It consisted in taking no other nourishment than yelks of eggs beaten up with the flour of potatoes and water.” Though this circumstance concerned so extraordinary a person as Voltaire, it is astonishing how little it is known and how rarely the remedy has been practiced. Its efficacy, however, in cases of debility, cannot be ques tioned, and the following is the mode of preparing this valuable article of food as recommended by Sir John Sinclair : Beat up an egg in a bowl, and then add six table-spoonfuls of cold water, mixing the whole well together ; then add two table spoonfuls of farina of potatoes ; let it be mixed thoroughly with the liquid in the bowi; then pour iu as much boiling water as will convert the whole thing into a jelly, and mix it well. It may he taken alone or with the addi tion of a little milk in case of stomachic debility or consumptive disorders.—<S’ci cntific American. Self-Denial. Who can look upon an intelligent and well-ordered household without being struck by the happy faces that surround the family table or the fireside? Of course there is much consciouus self denial practiced by all, bat by far the larger proportion of the right actions performed aro pleasant to both doer and receiver. In au enlightened community, the numberless little acts which seem to imply some slight sacrifices are really the natural outcome of a gracious and pleasant frame of mind, finding its own happiness largely in that ot others. In a good-natured crowd this may often be seen. Instead of a selfish pushing and elbowing, which would soon put the strong in the front and the weak iu the rear, tliere will be a mutual giving way and waiting, with an occasional pleasant word or helpful motion, implying sym pathy aud good-will. To many persons it would be truly painful to be rude or unkind, and this is certainly a far higher condition than that of one where every act of politeness or suavity costs a self denying pang. Not for a moment would we underrate self-denial. It has a noble mission to perform—that of leading us gradually from regarding duty as a hard and pain ful task to considering it our highest joy. Whenever any action is at once right for us to do and yet unpleasant, there self-' deninl should reign supreme. Yet we cannot afford to overlook or ignore tho large proportion of pleasant right-doing. It is the flower of the plant we call duty, the final result to which we may look forward with hope and joy in all our ef forts.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. It is said that those who wish to do any painting on or about their mills, will find the following au excellent and cheap recipe, which will last much longer than any ordinary whitewash: Tliree hun dred parts washed and sieved white sand, forty parts of precipitated chalk, fifty parts of iesin and four parts of linseed oil are mixed aud boiled in an iron ket tle. and then one part of oxide of copper aud one part of sulphuric acid are ad ded. This mass is applied with an ordi nary paint 1 Hindi while warm. If it is too thick it is diluted with linseed oil. This pa nt dries very rapidly aud gets very hard, but protects the wood excel lently. How She Snow fie Has Married. First young lady—“Oh, who is that vouug man going down the aisle ? Isn't he handsome? Stranger, isn't he? Do tell me who hois?’ Second young lady— “l do not know who he is; but he's married.” “Oh, pshaw! How do you know that ?" “ Why, don’t you observe how sub dued and apologetic he looks r “Yea. I noticed that, but perhaps has lost a friend.” “No. he’s married.” And then the conversation turned on the fact that the minister had got on a ■tasd-up collar. The Wooden Shoe. Woo( }en shoe, as we all know, is quite a national institution of France, 2nd in Brittany more in any othe part of that country | its “ heard everywhere ;peoplewea>>t alums habitually there who would fight ol it elsewhere, save on high days, holidayf and en grande tenue, when there is nothiug like leather. Hence follows Uie necessity for a sufficiently large brotherhood of sabotiers who, as they Could not possibly live in towns or large villages by reason of the cost of transport of the rough materia! exceeding the price of the manufactured goods, aie forced to reside in woods and forests or other places where suitable timber may oilier lnaceo wucio ... be available. Of the sabotier s house, sr.cb as it is, the state takes no notice ; the tax-gatllerev never comes near it; the owner can shift it to another locality when ho likes; the wood he has Pr> phased in this spot worked up and ex hausted, awe.y he goes to another, lie buys a certain number of trees or the requisite kind, sometimes m rore.it, sometimes by the sides of fields, which is Brittany are surrounded by loity wood growth, id protect the crops from the violent gales which there prevail, ihe purchase, or rather the agreement to purchase, concluded at some village notary’s bureau, and the timber marked, the sabotier comes to the place with his donkey-halt loaded with the few poor fittings and furnituie of his ancient and much-soiled bedding, his rough sou made cradles and cots, some well-worn culinary utensils, and the tools of ins . 1 * _*A . .ivnU OTV ll atIAVS t t uiuay tnououo, * : trade, to wit • felling-axes and saws, I large-sized gouges, spoke-slntves and knives. These arc his only movables. For the rest the site on which he squats provides him. At dawn lie comes ; all day he is laboring with the sweat of his : brow at his foof-tree; by night it is finished, garnished and occupied. He beats even a Loudon contractor ot scamped suburban villas in rapidity of construction. Then, if the material be abundant, he may remain on the chosen site for a year or two; if otherwise, a few months’ location, and he seeks another clearing. Ho is a regular Bedouin, tins sabotier, and, like that nomad, can say : “The rope which holds my tent has seen all cities perish.” The never altering end and aim of a Bretoh wooden shoe-maker’s being is to fabricate sabots, and out of this grove he and fiis never run. Such os the father is such is the son, and, for the matter of that, the daughter also. Children, so to speak, are to the manner born ot making sabots, and at bo tender an age as five or six vears they may be seen smoothing, blackening, varnishing, stringing to gether in lots the coverings which their parents and other relations have cut, shaped and hollowed out into c/taussures for the human foot. When a sufficient load of sabots has been completed at a cer tain fixing, the sabotier goes with it to the nearest village or town where his whole sale dealer ri sides, and to whom he dis poses of the lot. With the money thus obtained, he replaces a few articles absolutely necessary for his wants, and with the residue pays for timber already bought, felled and utilized. Money is put into the purses of tree owner and notary, but little finding its place in that of the workman. Hiving no as sociation with neighbors, abhorred by farmers, disdained by townsfolk, these Selkirks, in the midst of high civilization around, live without further contact or intercourse with society than that which lias been told of, vi/.., to buy wood, and to sell their handicraft. — London Globe. American and European Girls. In Europe every girl learns cooking as au art, and that part of her education is as essential as that of reading or writing. Every restaurant and hotel lias a number of these volunteers, who pay for the privilege of learning under the tuition of a chef, in addition to which they -do work around the kitchen. No matter how rich a man is, liis daughters must learn in this manner, so that they can supervise the household and learn to cook well and economically. This custom has been imported to this coun try in a different form, and is now per meating the East in the shape of schools of cookery. In Europe the girls are also taught cookery in the schools, and the consequence is that they are wives in fact as well as in name. When girls in this country stop looking down on housewifery as dishonorable, and begin to learn cooking as an art, they will all pass out of the state of single blessed ness, but until that time the crop of old maids will continue to increase alarm ingly. The oft-heard remark that two can live as cheaply as one, is rank non sense. Any young man can live like a fighting cock, dress well aud smoke the best cigars on SI,OOO per year. He can not marry on $1,500 and do the same.” —Kansas Citj / Times. A Chapter on Balil Heads. A bald-headed man is refined, and he always shows his skull, sure. What does n bald-headed man say to his comb ? We meet to part no move. Motto for a bald head : Bare aud fore bare. However high a position a bald-headed man holds, he will never comb down in the world. A bald-headed man never dyes. Advice to bald-headers: Join the Indians, who are tho only successful hair raisers. You never saw a bald-head man with a low forehead. Shakespeare says : There is a divinity that shapes our ends. Bald men are the coolest-headed men in the world. Women have a good time in Japan. Gentlemen approach them with the greate t cerem ny and veneration, while the indies are not obliged to acknowledge the courtesy offi-red them by so much is a low bow or a smile, if they do not ahoo-e. It is their due, and so much a matter of course that the deepest rever ence is scarcely observed by them. They have the place of honor upon all occa sions of ceremony, aud iu all grades of society are treated with uniform respect as socially superior. And now and then, when an American woman accepts a scat in a crowded horse-car, she shows Japan ese proclivities. The Prince of Gerol stein was hunting a boar. At a critical moment, the courtiers were surprised to find his Highness perched in a tree. The bold est of them testifying a little surprise at this: "Ah!” cried the Prince with a fierce air, “had it been a iion, now !” Then iu the most contemptuous tone : “ But onlv a pig I ” A famous scientist says there is often a marked personal resemblance between husband and wife after they have been married awhile. We have noticed that fact. Some time ago a gallant man, whose eyes were bine, married a jealous black-eyed woman, and in less than a year he bad black eves himself. Ida Lbwis has saved two members at a brass band from drowning. Ida's pop ularity is rapidly decreasing since tins itusli auk pith and point. A night- gown is nothing but a nap sack. Fbitz says he can’t eat oleomargarine because it disagrease with him. Aesthetes, speaking of asses, say tlieir bi>YS are abrasions on the surface of melody. A Leadville journalist has shot so manv men that he is how spoken of as “the local leaditor.” Out West the agents take care of the Indians, and the Indians reciprocally take hair of the agents. To start a clock you wind it up, And then it goes tip-top; jßat when you wind your bußinei* up, lt’e always sure to atop. The man who stops his paper io econ omize ought to cut his nose oS to keep from buying handkerchiefs. An esthete recently paid $6OO for a couple of blue-china ginger-pots, and the gentleman who owns a $350 dog thinks the esthete an ass. A ballet-dancer died recently at Naples, leaving a large fortune. This show's bow easy it is to accumulate wealth when one dresses economically. Bridget (who hail discovered tho 'Carpet-sweeper) —“Luk at the music box, now, wid the long handle ! I wan der how they plays on the insthrumeut!’' The SB are three prominent phases of a woman’s life ail visibly connected : As a baby, she’s lugged; as a young woman, she’s hugged; as a wife, slies hum bugged. The New Haven Register wants a gospel-car attached to all railroad trains. Y es just imagine the interior of such a ear with the train two horns behind time. —lfetroii Free Press. Some recent exhumations in Egypt have brought to light the supposed statue of Potipliar’s wife, and competent judges say that if the thing of marble was true to life, Joseph was justified in having his coat torn. — The Judge. “Mv dear, yon really do smoke too much,” says Madam B. to her husband. “See you have just finished another package of tobacco !’’ “ Excuse me, my love, but do you happen to -know when I begun this package? ’ ‘No. Well, then?” A small girl, who had been ponder ing upon the question of the sunrise aud sunset gun, which she heard daily in the city, startled her father recently with the inquiry : “ Does God shoot the sun up in the morning and shoot it down at night?” “Don’t weep, my friend,” said the pastor to the sorrowing widower, as he stood beside his wife's coffin. “ Don t weep, she has gone to heaven.’ “ Yes, I know she has gone there, sobbed the afflicted man, “and that is what makes it so hard to bear. I know 111 ne'ver see her again.” The grand scramble for appointments' under the municipal officers has just begun, and one of them has already hung up this sign in his office : “ Lady applicants for clerkships will please weep in the ante-room, as the Recorder suffers greatly from damp feet.”— San Fran cisco Post. Two little girls, aged 4 and 0, bail just had new dresses, and were on their way to Sunday school. Said Etta, the elder: “Oh, I have forgotten my ters A ” “1 haven’t forgotten mine,” replied the other, “it is, Blessed are the dressmakers,” —Boston Transcript. A well-known' public character had iust passed through the initiatory cere monies of a secret society, and while the sublime moral teachings and ineffable grandeur of the fitmunery were fresh upon him, a friend whispered m hia ear, “I say, , you are aa J>ig a f°°l as any of us now, ain t you? Hiram Green was lugging up coal, when he stubbed bis toe and fell, caus ing him to accidentally let slip a cuss word. “Hain’tyou ’shamed of vohr self ! Where do you expect you’ll go tor when you die?” asked his wife. “To a place where I shan’t have to lug coal, by thunder!” and he continued on.— Whitehall Times. Contempt of Dfiugcr. If dynamite balls were planted under a Washington street crossing, at first no onq knowing the fact would go over the ground ; but should they remain there for a week, the old way would be re sumed by the people. Familiarity not only breeds contempt in the social world, but people living constantly on the verge of danger, in time, come to regard it with carelessness. The human race lias always fought shy of the destructive forces of nature and art at first, but familiarity with them has reduced the fears. Tlie New York Sun says: “ When kerosene was introduced, there were many fears in regard to its use, on ac count of its liability to explode under certain conditions, aud particularly when a considerable quantity of it ignited through the medium of its vapor brought into contact with fire. Yet in a few years thousands of people were using this feared agent even for kindling fires, and every day there is a fresh story of 0 house or a woman or a child burned up from this careless practice. Precisely s<s it has been with dynamite, which at first was regarded with terror from its destruc tive power. Yet the other day, in New York, a house was blown to pieces by dynamite cartridges hung on a stovepipe to warm, and in Pemufjivama a miner put a can of dynamite St his nook stove to dry, and only fragments of himself, his wife, aud four children,'and splinters of his house remained to hold an inquest over. It is the old case of contempt of danger bred by familiarity with it; but since the lives and possessions of a great many people are imperiled by the habit which a near neighbor may have of keep ing dynamite cartridges in his house and warming them on his stove, the laws relating to this and similar explosives seem to need revision." A California writer says that the redwood which is in demand there for underground use is what is known by the lumbermen as black-heart redwood. It shows a dark color when cut with a knife, the outer layer only becoming seasoned. This species of redwood is ex ceedingly heavy—too heavy to float. One who has observed schooners loading at chutes along the coast assures the writer that a post of this wood which plunges overboard never rises, and a board lingers on the surface a moment and then slowly slides down into its depths. This is'the sort which is nought for in the foundation of buildings, and under brick walls is believed to be im perishable. In this connection it is in teresting to mention a fact concerning the second growth of redwood. Shoots from old stumps liave grown to three and four feet in ‘diameter in forty years. This would indicate reiterative powers iu redwood forests which would insure a future supply of the timber. At fashionable weddings in Englanfl a youthful relative of the bride be.*rs her tram. He is fancifully dressed in the styie of the old Venetian or Charles L period.