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UltMS HP TIMiltellT.
Arr: 'Vati <• is certain <p-f -rooty.
A jyiv.-.i.r t'i 1 is w* v,- ail rank.
Yiuuo.i wtfliunt feeling is rant.
T’ r save the poor f < I for the prior
\ i mu? to-taiga to the most pr*'.' rT
in*'.
VfiT to faopiienc® in the appreoiatiou
of .t.
A MKiTfoN in hut the evil shadow of .mil'
pITHtltKI.
-List uh r^^tX graj haire—o 4 poem! iy
<j»ir own.
Tub uvuv f h**e uf men the letter I
tliutk of enifiiain.
The, ft ret fnr*-at work U that yourself
may to youm if lx* true.
Commun aens** in an uneomraon degr *«
in wiiat Uie world calh ww lom.
TnBftflD of the j»a^.t hnd e nvi cious,
while w«* fnfKinrim h iV*^ only opinion*.
Bn noni.ft! *i.«l I ■* ru.Ui*-n' *» th t l»»y«
in ulltff wen, tlo* ' l»’»l ip r r and,
Will Die in III liifet liii.E
Death i xpe teth thee everywhere ; lie
wise, therefore, and ex je-ct death cvery
»h- ro.
To hr exempt from the pMMtcmx whi>*h
torment others is the only pleasing soti
tu-le.
Who would v-citure on tli • journey
uf life, if comp: bed to tsigin at tin
end.
Lovr s like the measles, all the worse
when it com cm late in lif-* Dottf/lo*
J< rroUL
How far Hint little candle throws its
beams, so ahi iC* a goo-i do- d in a naughty
world.
A iiM iMirr, how blunt urn ail the ar¬
rows -if thy quiver in comparison with
thoi-c of guilt)
He win* cherishes his old knowledge,
•o teacher as coiilinUHlly of others. to acquire now, may be
•
Tunis is no rule more invariable than
that we are paid for our auspicious by
finding what we atis|s-ct.
What novelty is worth the sweet mo
Botony where everything is known, and
loved tiecaiise it is known?
The law forbids you to revenge : when
st ti s up the hands of some, it ought to
restrain the tongues of others.
The mind profits hy the wreck of every
passion, and we may measure one mud
to wisdom by thcsorrowH we have under¬
gone.
Tub oliseur st sayings of tho truly
great are often those which contain the
germ of the profmiudest and most useful
truths.
Tubs* are four varieties in society
the lovers ; the ambitious ; observers and
tm >ls. The fisils are the happiest.
J’ltinn.
Tiik talent ot success is nothing more
than doing what you can well ; ami do¬
ing well whatever you do, without a
thought of fame.
Thkkk is less misery in lining cheated
thau in that kind of wisdom which per
«ives, or thinks it perceives, that all
inaukiud arc clients.
It is with dittem* a of the mind as with
din-uses of the to-dy ; wo aio half deoil
before we understand our disorder, and
half cured when we do.
lriiKdoes really think that there is
no distinction between virtue and vice,
whv, sir, when he leaves our houses let us
emirt our spo m . Jo/iutnn.
I’ovkhty is hs-d, but d» lit is horrible.
A man might as well have a smok y house
and a scolding wife, which are Nittd to 1-e
the two wor-l evils of our life.
Ann the knowledge we morbils can ac¬
quire is not knowledge possb lo, but
kimwkwigt) comp irative, and subject to
tin- errors and jnia-mns of hnmauity.
Wk walk in the mi-lst of secrets ; we
are otieompasaed with mysteries. Wo
know not what makes the atmosphere
that surrounds ns; we know not what
relations it has u ith our minds.
Tin as are moments when our i>as
sions speak and delude f* -r us. and wo
a- s*m to stand by ond wonder. They
carry in them an inspiration of crime,
that in one instant does the work of
long premeditation.
Wearing Mourning.
No male muni can appreciate the great
responsibility None of being a widow iu crape.
but widows wear crape lavishly,
for even wnen mourning is assumed tor
• foi father other or mother single bands of crape while
l on goods arc sufficient,
Sonic persons arc satisfied with unob¬
trusive self trimmings. Entire ooetuin -s
vd crape over silk u -ed to bo common
for all degrees of bereavement, but the
highest usage is now against it for all
ex-vpl widows. Grave is the easiest to
rumple, the quickest to show dust, and
altogether the liar,lest of fabrics to wear
neatly. When d el in it you never feet
quite sate, and euiiuot hope nt ativ time
to experience the sweet consolation of
knowing beyond a doubt that you nre
really and truly welldrrosivl. As to e\
peuse, mourning brill n sorrow to the
uoekt't lasik, to cause common material
in black I «> tray a itself at a glance. Cot¬
ton can not by any ait now known to the
dyer to- made to lake on a |Hvrfect luster
lesK black. Therefore, satisfactory
mourning goods must bo flue been or
•ilk. B mbar.tue, cashmere, Henrietta
cloth, the now Irish {Kiplin, crape doth,
•ergo, elm, 1 - 1.1 cloth, serge 1 fsc-al satin,
dull brocade, grenadine, tulle, crepe du
clo ne and tissues those are all fashion
•Id. . and afford considerable variety, ex¬
cept m colors They aroused m com¬
binations, and with tin 1 addition of uu
polislied quantities and out jet beads, which are
pu‘ in on mourning toilets for
full dress. A mixture of black and
white is considered second mourning.
Tin" atoc.it to discard black may with
propriety asotme st I gtay, purple in
various heliotrope altades, and pearl.—
A’tu- i'orlc hotter.
Omaha is the dog g -nest city in
let. Throe thousand of the beasts
•t wdt tbrougli tin- streets and
f. rtfi th ir hid"-us s.-egs of prai-e
•omethmg tiHmote-'tod through the the
•iu! -il at watch-.* f in ' ’
Bewni-c I'-" ” b
w: i • - ...
«p.'ii hundreds 11 {.itvwsys, pli.'cd
that he wh® reads may run.
of neighboring cites affirm that
can always toll an Omaha man by
|Mich ou tlie equator of his
wlueh marks the spot where the
purp has reached for dry goods
proud flush. It is indeed s cur sed
— bbiift' Detroit
Rejected Maiirw-ripts.
T’-r.-ous con-plaining published iA slusnd the gnat autn
to-i» of tniib pause to
• .use; r that the numb r of w<«k» aunu
iiy printed i:, tuaali in comparison With
1HM' written, re toy for ;h- pr ««, but
.-j- v i by publishers. Ad of lie- la; .
| :iii ,ip-- i.;- have a “ r--A-1--- '
IUAH whop ru.v s a!.m. in j .it Owed,
:id eitiav accepts or r.j* tst. • in. i-i m
I. s «i .isiih tlnre is no ~p|*uri. Aiaoi
tioi*. young author cm.pl n ; that it is
nujtist to lie coinp- il d to abide by the
.foridon of a aing't- (e r-on ; to have to
-ubmit So one oj>ii>i hi, when an ap. <a 1
to tin* public is what the anxious writ t
deso. , to I* enaliled to make. That
■an not be made without the type-, and
the : sir re n honors oi type can taj at
t ,i i only by tin* consent of the
•' re .r|er,” who, as a rule, is accurate in
his judgments. will Intuitively he can tell
what be acceptable to the reading
ptiblic. T. Fields, while
The lute Janies ti“
was mi active partner in the tirmof Tick
nor A Fiekls, was waited upon by a young
• ugar merchant who had jss-tic aqnra
tiuns. The mer--anti e man had complained
that his manuscript poems been re
j-etei by the firm, and he wanted to
know the reason why, as ail of his friends
liad heard tun veises re* 1 and unani¬
mously declared them to Ire an invalu¬
able acctadou to American litoralnre.
“Our ‘reader' decides that," said Mr.
Fields, in hia blandest torn s. “ Then I
would like to se - the “ reader.” Always
Hie jssrsmnfication of amiability himself,
the publisher took That the merchant upstairs
to the reader. mighty personage sat
at a desk heaped high with manuscripts;
he carefully rend a few pages of each
package, thou dropped it he into became a basket at
tiis sale. Occasionally interested more
than ordinarily ; in that caso
lot placed the package through’em inside his desk. I
“Why, ho goes exclaimed the just would-lie as
sample sugar,'' That’s because
jHiet, in amazement. “ he
is us tnmiliar witii literary wares as you
are with sugsrs,” rejoined Mr. Fields.
“ 1 am salistiod," said the merchant, “lot
us go. ” They went, and the disappointed
bard gave np verso-making, tmt lie made
a large fortune in sugar.
,Since “readers” are not infallible, be¬
ing mortals, they “Bin-lab commit niistpkea. rejected Miss
Evan's novel of ” was
by hall a dozen hoosez. At Inst Carlo
ton’s “ reader ” saw its merits, and on
delay, his judgment $J,o00 it was published the putilisliers wilhont
making for
ami as much more for the author. No
leas famous a work than the “Hketoh
(look ” of Waahingtou of Irving Loudon, was re
jected by John Murray, One
of the to st “readers" this country ever
prislncisl was Henry “D'a-ler” J. Haymorul, Har¬ tlm
editor, who was for tlie
pers to-fore he starUsi the N. Y. linux.
His judgment was invarintily correct.
Sometimes there is a diff reuce between
“ roielers ” and puhlisUers. Applo
ton’s “reader" having first Lotliair,” ilecid d in
favor of an issue of “ the
brothers limiied the edition to 2,000;
they s-iUl tll.iKK) copies of the work.
"Readers" for magazines and story
papers have a hard and endless task.
Oliv-r I >y or, who has written n goodd »1
himself, is the “reader” for Bonner’s
New York l.ntyrr, and lias filled the
place acceptably reader’ 1 for a l/ur/xrH number of d/i-ii//,/// year-.
Th- “ for
pernacs, on an average, fifteen original
eisitribiiti.nis a day, and, on single an average,
rej- nt twelve of them. In a twelve
mouth th* Harpers have rejected th
mimiiHcriiits of one ihous.iml novels. Is
th'-ri- any necessity for stating that the
ton hundred long stories were not read
through ? aspiring
In consolation to young au¬
thors remains the fact that money r-ci¬
ders them entirely independent of the
terrilile “reader. 1 If they have the
mentis to pay for the printing, pacer
binding and stereotyping, them any publish¬ cot!?
ing house will publish for cash needed on
mission. Without tho foi
those outlays, all unknow n readers mils'
abide by the decision of tho “ readers.’
rinnfore Revived.
La-4 week a strapping negro woman
« a- up before an Austin justice, charged
with unmercifully colored beating her boy. a
saddle iron.
“ I don’t understand how yon can have
the heart to treat your own child so
cruelly. ”
“ Jed go, has yon been a parent of
a wildest* yaller boy lik’ dat. nr cub of
wine?”
“ Never, no never,” ejaculated the
judge the with fae»>. great vehemence, getting red
m ,
“ IHmdon’t, talk.”
There was such a sensation in court
that the judge had to call “next. ”
four or five times, and to fine a man
who said “hardly ever” fifty dollar-,
before order was restored. — Texas AV -
in </■>.
“In the Ingnidi,’ says M. Leiiez, in
ft mv iit t'ommnnication to the French
Geographical Soch-ty. “a region of
sand dimes very difficult to cross, I ob
served a phenomenon which was as rare
as it was interesting—resonant or musi¬
cal sand. All at once one hears in the
-lesuit, issuing from a sand dune, a pro
lougvd. smothered sound quite like the
noise of a tnimjvt. It last for some
seconds, and then direction. stops, to The resume it¬
self in another phenom¬
enon renders the traveler anxious. 1
suppose it proceeds from the friction
against one another of tlie burning hot
gmiua of quartz, which are simply laid
one over the other and are always in
motion.”
Advice 3,500 Years Old.
Oneof the oldest books in existence
la a collection of proverbs by Ptuhbotou
an ttis Egyptian, who lived somewhere about
time of Abraham. Among his i -
juictious is the following, which w,
commend to the writers on woman's
emancipation, domestic eoonomv, und
otiier topi s, who may think that tho
aubjccts which they discuss are fresh and
suggested l-v the increased intelligenct °
of modern civilization :
“If thou be wise, famish thy '
well with , her; woo nourish thy wife aud her; do deck lun'qnariel heroin,
for fine dress is her greatest delight
Purjxne to moke her glad as long as
thou livest She is a blessing which her
iKisiooior should treat as tonxmiee his
own This standing. Be not unkind to her.”
contiSA'I is none the less useful st
Ife have present elapsed day, because 3,500 years *
since it was given.
The Prince ef Tramp*.
The very romance of trump lift* was
exemplified only by a di!ai dated individual
iotered with one leg, who-e name was reg
at trie station house as W. H.
Cardw.-lL He and is k!v«t,t» l>v*-d many persons
a r. p rter, has a m<*t varie
g»%l li'.e. His full its.Ill'- 1 « \VVatt
Henry. Cardwell. His father was the
eminent I)r. Cardw-U, of Richmond,
Va., and his moth r was the eldest
daughter of the world-renowned ora
tor, Patrick Henry. Cardwell is said
to he a graduate of YVa-l.iagton
Univervitv, and has withsl a polish
e<l education. He lias the rem arkable
gift of repe said sting long poems from mem
ary. It is he can troll out “ Childe
Harold, Don Juanyt' and such poems
from iieginning to end. At the age of
15 he joined the Confederate army and
was shot at Manassas, losing his leg.
He watt taken to the Richmond hospital,
where he excited the attention of promi
neat ladies and gentlemen by Lis ureco
city. Aftowards he became private see
r-tafv doted to Senator Foote. He has wan
all over the^pMjj^gmfbeiiig now
beard of m New" York, now iu Cincin
nati, now in Louisville and now in Wash
ingtoii. At the present time he is heard
of in Memphis. He has done consider
able newspaper work in his time, was
connected with the ANational -Star at
Goodman, Miss., KosciussartSp^micte. in 1877, and afterward
was oil the Wlier
ever whisky. h<* has It has been, made lie hujiati him a pursuer* 1 -
the United Stab and tramp all
s, h.as
caused him to be arrested. He has
extensive aequo tSL a. with t he
men of this country.lum KaSnow in 1
Stephens possfision congratulating a letter from him Alexander H.
on his re
forin. He ii a man of good address and
has reduced begging to a fine art. For
instnnoe, in approaehiaggg. stranger, he
will sa.v : “Will yon pardon the per
fect ingenuousness of Uie.roquest, but
could nights you lodgings?” fi nd m*4Jl half Should a dollar the to get
a person
tlms will approached be indiffcnt deny the request, he
not the (yWrers or insulting, but
will change itioii to national
politics, the ethics of journalism, the
traits of great meu^r similar topics. He
is an accomplish* all hVbod performer on the
lianjo. With habits he is said
to be honest. It is the one remnant of
the Virginia gentleman. A more re¬
markable career could hardly lie im¬
agined. From a tine family to the |>ro
feesion of n common tramp, and ho is
only aliout 35 years of age. There was
a time when he would force his way into
the families of respectable people, but
he docs so no longer, anolt is only too
palpable that he lost caste witii himself.
—Memphis Appeal.
Monotony of City Life.
Tlie monotony of lifff^ft the central
streets of any great* modem city, where
every emotion intondid to l» derived by
men from the forbidden sight of nature, or leaves the
sornte of art, is forever,
th© craving of the heart for a sincere,
yet thankful, interest, to Vie fell from
one source only. Under natural condi
tifiiis the degree of men fill excitement
neons-ary the to of boddy the health is ond provided the vari- by
course seasons,
ous ek'U and fortune of agriculture.
Iu the country every mining of tho
year brings Willi it • of
Hpringitig or -ii {S '---w duty
to be fulfilled tqKin - arfh, and anew
promise or warning in heaven. No day
is without its innocent hope, and its special
prudence, it< kindly gift, its sublime wise
danger ; and iu every process of
husbandry, and every effort of contend
ing or remedial courage, the wholesome
passions, tborer pride, and bodily exerted power luippi- of the
I are excited and in
est unison. The oenqianionship serviceable, animsls. of do
nn stic, the care of
sot ten and enlarge his life, with lowly
charities, and discipline him iu familiar
wisdoms and uuboastful fortitudes; while
the divine laws of seed-time which can
not 1st recalled, harvest which cannot be
hastened, and winter in which no mail
can work, com,, 1 the .mna ,cnees and
coveting ol Ins heart into labor too sub
missive to be anxious, and net too sweet
\\ bat thou Hit can enough comprehend that
the contrast to tween such life, and
iu streets where summer and winter tiro
only altenmlt >ns ot heat a.ul cold,
where snow n v, r fell white nor sun
slnuc clear ; where the ground » only a
pavement, and the sky no more than the
glass naif i.l an arcade; whore the nt
most power of a storm is to choke the
p.tfi rs. and toe tmest magic of spring
to change mud in to dust; where-chief
and most fatal difference m state-therc
is no interest of occnpation tor any o
the inhabitants but the routine of
•-muter or desk within diwrs ami the
- fiort to pass each other without colli
j ' : so that (««“ morning to
| .veiling the onlv , pos-uble variation of
the monotony of the hours, and lighten
mg of the lienalty of existence, must be
*ouie Kind of mischief, limited, unless
by more than fail ordinary godsend of slitting fatal
itv, to the of ahorse, or the
of a pocket.— Ituakin.
I’retty Girls In St, Petersburg.
There is much good, I do believe, in
the Russian character. They are a
Saborious, long-suffering and eaaily-eon
tented people. But they are, on the
whole, and with rare exceptions ia the
low ranks of life, an ill-favored race,
small and puny, with remarkably plain
| features Very strict ami orthodox, dingy, sallow complexion.
| I dare say, but
I uglj^Christian withal; ugly men’ uglier
women ! One may walk about these
! streets day after day and never meet
with what'in other countries would be
! ca * ie< i. in a SR pretty Petersburg, face. where And it the was the
! splendid me type of girl I only
met was at the
railw ay terminus when on the point of
storting for M--cow, and even she,
faultless as she was in face and figure,
’ h»d a milk-white complexion without a
shade of that pink which would sonat
urady have become her early youth.—
7 •'<a < limes.
Aditoctre is an oilv, wsxv substance,
f<>rn.ed from the soft parts of animal
bodies buried in damp soils or
water. It is the substance that
I bodies sometimes change into,
rise to the idea that thev petrify.
1 —--
i ! Two hundred and forty-two mirn ra
1 epecios have toen found in tlie Unite)
States, of which oidy one-third are ol
any use to the practical man.
Adulteration.
There seem to be very good reasons
why the pessimists should call a halt
upon the genius of invention until some
force can be made available to regulate
U* movements. It is very generally
acknowledge;! that the world is growing
better as it grows older, and no donbt it
is, hnt the progress of invention and ilis
covety, although in the main beneficial
to mankind, is bringing forth things that
must of necessity evert an injurious m
fluence. Charles Resile, in one of his
now Is, speaks of some old solid silver
plate, made in the ancient days when
things were made honestly. “ Not,” he
sa;,s, “because the workmen were more
honest than they are to-day, but because
they didn’t know how to cheat” As the
world grows older, people learn more and
more how to cheat, and tae people who
don't want to be cheated have to study
closer and closer to learn how to ciscuur
vent it. It is a good deal like the
inventions of armorers. Every few years
a gun is produced, the projectile from
which will pierce any known obstruction,
and then other armorers exert themselves
to And get up an armor that it cannot pierce,
so it goes on, and the wonder is
where it is all to end. It is so with in
ven ti on and discovery in other direct! ions,
Chemists are finding out more apd more
how to adulterate food and its ingredients
until it is almost dangerous to eatany
tyring but primary substances. Ever and
!l ' '#» accounts appear ill the papers of a
family jxii-oned by eating or drinking
this, that or the other, until one hardly
knows what indulgence of appetite may
be considered safe. There is a standing
appeal evils, hut to legislation legislation, although to corn ct these
it may
have mitigated the danger, lias not, as
yet, entirely removed it. It would seem
to be an easy matter to treat this subject
>u they a way to and assure the people that what
eat drink need not pr-ive in¬
jurions on account of impurity or
adulteration. If there is an offence in
the calendar calling for the most condign
punishment, it is that of adulteration,
Let ns have laws, and an enforcement of
them, that will make it safe to eat and
drink what purjiorls to be healthful and
nutritious .—Boston Budaet.
A Drop of AVntcr.
We read frequently :&sS£p“; of the drowning
ritrkrss P
a?*»“ Th. mmnoo Mphi»tion a rf »och
”"'”1
f
swim from tbo vessel to the sin,re every
evening, having their clothes sent in a
to who would get to the bTad^ftalt!
- rhe writ( . r in the course of a sharp
struggle for the lead opened his mouth'
t o breathe, and some of the spray flying
the wind got into his throat and took
the passage down the trachea. “I could
neither,” he says, and’l “get any breath iu,
nor any out, soon began to feel
that 1 was dying on top of the water.
q'j )ere have been a dozen men close
p, me _ y,ut I could not speak, much less
ca ][ shore, them. iu I about kept thirty swimming on for
the seconds mv
senses Irngan to leavo tne. I ceased to
swim, a nl my legs touched went down, when
luckily violent for me they helped the bottom;
a jump me to cough up
q Je drop of water, I staggered on shore
fell quite exhausted on the bench,
to the surprise of all the men with
me.” It is the opinion of this gentleman
that many fatal accidents to swimmers
are diie simply to a drop of w ater in tho
wind-pipe. A conclusive proof that they
are not due to cramp is a fact that a man
rescued within two minutes of sinking in
this mysterious manner is beyond all
hope of resuscitation.
“ ~~
Home Life for the Blind,
r nu ad<lregs before the College for
Blkld fa Uper Postimwter Xoiwocxl, Henry
F ,’ Wind General
<){ E , an)] 8akl that> speaking of his
own the greatest service that
could be rendered to the blind was to
pmbl( , th ,. m tolive M(ta - M possible tho
same lifl , 1W y thev h ad not leet then
8i M -fhev should not bn imprisoned
institutions or separated from their
frien<K Few who had not experienced
H wuW imagin ^ ^ the iudescribatde joy to
thpm of ho e We . Some persons hesi
tetad to 8 ak to the blind about out
warf 1 jhcre could he no greats
pr T1)e p ] easanteBt nn ,j happiest ”
honrg of llig life were tho8e when h wa9
wHh ^ friendll wbo talkw l about everv
thin lh ^ „ j ust M if he was not
pre8ent . vho in a room talked about
^ pictures, when walking described
the #nd wllo theT were the passing through,
blind, people they met
when %vith tht , people should
, a , fc them ab< , n t aud describe every
thing thev faug saw. The speaker concluded
^ )V remar that there was plenty of
w j]j to assist the blind, bnt wliat
was required was lietter organization,
A True Fish Mory
A country hotel’s guest went forth to
fish. He splashed clothing himself with brook
mud, tore his and hair in un
derbrush, and at the close looked like a
volunteer at the close of Bull Run. At
night lie strode up to the hotel and ex
hibiteJ thirteen trout to the veranda’s
occupants, and related how easy the
troll, came to grief, unhitch how lie climl-cd
fourteen trees to the line, and
how inferior the r stilt was compared
with what he usually accomplished,
At that moment a boy came up, well
out of breath, and exclaimed; “Mis
ter, masays I can't sell yer them fish;
thev’s promised to another man ; here’s
yer money_____
, r ,. Mirfnl Sp ‘ t of Folk'.
^ The Lepchas, . of India, ,. are Buddhists, .
short in stature, bulky and of fair com
plexion the Mongouon their features type. bemg I hey distinctly
of are gross
feeders, {gorging themselves constantly
to elephant, repletion, rhinoceros and eating I the flesh of I hem the
an. monwey.
habits are nomaoic. mey do not usu
mlylive longer man uiree yeare m one
V‘ ac< > hhev huy tuemwives tor pncea
rarving xom It to OUU rupees, and,
u “ e T T e n0 rc< ? ne y: ' wul B f rTe tiieir
fathers- -law as bondsmen m reoom
Dense.
Ou> men’s eyes are like old men’s
memories ; they off." are strongest " for things
a long wwy _
USEFUL IU>T8.
To Drz Ha ib Black.—T ake sifted
lime, sixteen ounces, wliite lead, two
ounces; Mix ... litharge well together in fine . and powder, keep , dry. one
ounce.
When required for use, mix a little pow
ikr with water to the consistence of
cream and apply with asponge.
Cheap Paint.— Three hundred parts
of washed and sieved white sand, forty
pans of precipitated chalk, fifty parts of
resin an 1 four parts of linseed oil are
mixed and boile-t in an iron kettle, and
tiien one part of oxide of copier and
one part of snip! uric acid are added.
Die mass is ai p’ie.i with an ordmary
[mint brush white warm. If too thick,
it is diluted with linseed off Tlii* paint
dries rapidly and gets very bard, but
protects wood-work excellently.
Eauem Ftai Tussl—W e copy from the
(JluiutiUt and J)rvggi»Us Mary for
187& the following formula for a cement
to make pajicr stick to tin: 1, Add to or
duiary wash paste a little honey or glycerine ;
2, the surface of the tin vith muri
atic acid before affixing tlu-laliel; 3, add
muriatic acid to the gum—this is apt to
cause the metal to rust under and around
the label; 4, arid a little ammonia; or,
5, tartaric acid to the starch paste or
mucilage; 6, add uinminittm sulphate
(not alum) to the mucilage. 7. The
best plan is said to be to add 20 drops
liq, autim. chlor. to 8 ounces of paste or
mn<-ilage.
To Kemgvk I.n-x Stains.—T he Jour¬
nal de l‘harmaci i d’A nv< r<s recommends
of pyrophosphate ink This of soda salt for does the removrd injure
stains. not
vegetable fiber and yields colorless com¬
pounds with the ferr c oxide of the ink.
it is last to first apply to the ink
spot, then wash in a solution of pyro¬
phosphate utvtil both tallow and ink
ink liave disappeared. Stains ol red anilino
may be removed by moistening tho
spot with strong aloohol acidulated with
nitric acid. Unless the stain is pro
aueed d dieulty. by eosine, it disappears without
the Paper is is hardly always altected by
process; still it advisable
to make a blank experiment first.
An Easily Made Chaie.—T he Scien¬
tific American gives aa engraving of a
very cheap yet strong and comfortable
bv made as elegant as
fcapkiBJSfjLJsa b “j ! ’p’S
“ * 7* 0 s ;^"*‘ ” “ '-™
Atassr
sfirdft-aisfar!;
w /’ h Me care shmdd
^ ham-1 di the upholstermg much to disgiuse
form as as [xissihle.
Measuring Buildino Material.— We
ia Hn exchange the following fig
u,os 111 ^gard to building materials ; A
of stone, three bushels of lime and
cubic yard of sand will lay 100 cu. ft.
Five courses of brick will lay 1
“ height wm in a make chimney. flue Nine bricks
a coure » a 8 in. -wide
’‘ 20 in - lon g, and eight bricks in a
will make a fluc8 in. wide and 16
' lou K- Eight bvah. of good lime, 16
l,u 2 k «und jind I hush, of hair will
moke en-ltighvhortar toplasta’T lfX) gq.
Vlls - One-fifth more siding and flooring
De ™ed than the number of square
oi suiface to be covered, because of
the lap in the siding and matching of
hie floor. One thousand laths will
cover lath nails 70 yds. of nail surface, them and 11 lbs. of
will on. One thou¬
sand shingles laid 4 in. to the weather
cover over 100 sq. ft. of surface,
und 5 lbs. of shingle nails will fasten
them on.
Eloquent Passage.
Tlie following is an extract from the
Gen. Garfield’s tribute to llie mem¬
of Senator Ferry, of Representatives Michigan, de¬
in tlie House of
“Before Washington ; let
closing, howevor, me re¬
iso the crowning glory religious of his element life. Mr.
had n strong in
character. This was with him a
controlling force, and not senti¬
No cl-uid obscured the efful¬
e.t his hope or dimmed his vision.
and high bis intellect and Iris faith
above all storms and darkness, and
him in sweet companionship
the unrevealed mysteries of pain,
his end drew near he came
after a brief absence. There,
his own roof, with the an¬
of his household about him, ho
to his rest. Thinking do, of the tri¬
and knowing, as we liow well
wrought for the future, trusting in
merits of his dear Lord, he could
the. sweet lines of Boner ;
Beyond the parting ami the meeting,
I shall t e soon;
Beyond the farewell and the ftreeting.
Beyond the ptvi.eV 8hall be fever l<outiog,.
I shod.
l-ove, reft 8Bti homo !
Sweet hope! but
X/ortlf tarry not, come.
Beyond the frofftrehain aud the fever,
I f hail be soon;
Beyond the rock-waste and the river,
Beyond the never aud the ever,
I shall be aeon!
Love, rest aud hoc* I
Sweet hope!
Lord, tarry not, but come,
“ Ay, the sweeter word of inspiration
tlie volume of the book is written ;
Lo 1 I come quickly. Eve.i so. conic,
Jesus.’ ”
A Plea for Tobacco.
Here is an eloquent plea for the use
tobacco: “It composes the mind,
the thoughts, it attracts all out
objects to the mind’s view, it set
and retents tho senses, it cheers tlie
strengthens the j udg
> s P ies out errors > il exasperates
it heats ambition, it comforts
it abates passion, it excites to
actions, knowledge, it digests conception, it
it elevates, im-gina
it creates fancy, it quickens writ,
it makes reason pleader and truth
judge in all disputes and and controversies
right wrong.” So wrote
Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, some
2t)0 years ago, and probably many a wife
indorsed her statements since, for it
does work wonders with an irritable
man. we all know.
Ip a bar ot steel be carefully
on a point and then magnetized by
it bing w ith a magnet, remain or any other
will no longer in equilibro
trill form an angle to the horizon.
“Pru'rian Ladder.”
[Sew Orleans Time*,]
If there is a merchant in New Orleans
who can sell goods them,RubeHoffenstein. at any price he
choneaetofixon
wfao keeM a cJothlC g and shoe store on
h the man.
One dav a customer entered his estab
Ushment "and inquired:
“Have -mi any low quarter Ihafanysdyla gaiters?”
“Certainly, mv frent. vas*
v(yn W ;-h, rid someding dot neat,
jf 0 w here vas a pair uf gaiters vat is
made uf Prussian ledder, de pest kind
vfl » ; s known, und I dinks dey vill suit
to1j J Suppose replied*the von dry deni on.”
* 'All right," customer,
*
“Vmt. ’ in.' m ’fr»-nt, and I’ll put Ah, a lee-.Ua vat
how der \ow dry dein.
p, ttcr shoe you vant dan dot? It vits
ehnst as if somebody takes your meas
nr.:.’’ instep,” said
“It’s too right across the
th customer, nibbing the spot with his
fingers, dear sir,” replied
“It vill sdi jiersnisively, etch, my “dot ledder
Hoffenstein
vas made expressly for stlreteliing.” also.”
“Bnt the shoa pir. liesmy vill toes, de first
“Dot is i.oding; it go vay
time it gets vet. You don’ vroit to buy
a pair uf shoos mere as dree sizes too
big, nnd go around de ladies mit your
feet looking like a gouple of railroad
scrapers. It vonld be a shame, you
know.”
“What do you ask for the shoes?”
“Only secx dollars,”
‘•Jerusalem! That's too much.”
“Veil, my dear sir, you must recollect
dat dem shoes vas made of Prussian led¬
der, and ledder dere vas scarce. My
uncle vat lifs dere write me last reek,
und said dat ledder vas so scarce dey
don’t make harness mit it any longer.
All de harness dere is new made of
wool. ”
“I tell you what I’ll do,” said the “I’ll cus¬
tomer, examining dollars.” the shoe closely,
give you g-r-raeious! four A Prussian ledder
shoe “My dollars it
for four ven costs me more
as five dollars and fifty cents laid at the
depot down, und the profit on dem don’t
pay for the gas. My g-i'-r-aoiouu, vat’s
de matter mit de people?”
“Well, I’m not going to give moving $6 for
those shoes,” said the customer,
toward the door, “they are not worth
it.”
“Veil, my frent, take them along for
84, nnd call around again some odder
day.” paid for the shoes and
Tlie customer
taking his parcel, left the store.
“Herman,” inquired Hoffenstein of
his clerk, “vat vas de cost lirice of dem
split ledder shoes I shust sold de gentle¬
man?”
“Von dollar und a half, sir.”
small ‘ ‘My de g-r-r-acions, profit Herman, If pisness, dink how
vas. you
know, Herman, don’t get petter it vill
preak all de store up.
Possibilities of Cotton Prodnetion.
It may be well to remark at the out¬
set that the practically production of cotton in the
South is without limit. It
was 1830 before the American crop
reached 1,000,000 reached bales, and the highest
point ever in the days of slav¬
ery was a trifle over 4,500,000 bales.
The crop of 1880-81 is about 2,000,000
in excess of tiiis, and there are those
who believe that a crop of 8,000,000 *
bales ts umotig tlie certdfiit ics of the
next few years. Tlie heavy increase in
tlie cotton crop is due entirely to the
increase of cotton acreage brought
about by the use of fertilizers. Mill¬
ions of acres of land, formerly thought
to be beyond the possible limit of the
cotton belt, hove been made the best of
cotton lands by being artificially en¬
riched. Ill North Carolina alone the
limit of cotton production has been
moved twenty miles northward and
twenty miles westward, and the half of
Georgia ou which no cotton was grown
twenty years ago now produces fully
half the crop of the State. The “area
of low production” brought aa the Atlantio
States arc to the front by arti¬
ficial stimulation is moving westward,
and is now central in Alabama and
Florida. But the increase in acreage, as
large as it is, will bo but a small factor
in tlie increase of production, compared
to the Under intensifying of the land now in
use. the present loose system of
planting, the average yie.d is only one
bale to three acres. This could be easi¬
ly increased to a bale an acre. In
Georgia five and bales have been raised i *ii
one the acre, is credited a yield of three bales to
acre to several localities.
President Morehead, of the Mississippi
Valley that Cotton the entire Planters’ Association,
says cotton crop of the
present raised in year fourteen might have been easily
counties along the
Mississippi therefore, river. It will be seen,
that the capacity of the
South to produce cotton is practically
limitless, and, when we consider the
enormous demand for cotton goods now
ples, opening up from new climes and peo¬
we may conclude that the near
future will see crops compared to which
the crop of the past year, worth $300,
000,000, will seem small .—Henry IF.
Grady, in Harper’s Man mine.
Specifle Against I'yphoid.
Hr. GniUasse, of the French navy, In
a paper benefit on typhoid fever, speaks of the
great which has been derived
from the nse of coffee. He has found
that no sooner have the patients a few
table-spoonfuls become of it than then-features
relaxed and they come to their
senses. The next day the improvement
is such as to leave no doubt that the
article is just th- specific needed. Under
the influence the stupor is dispelled
and the patient rouses from the state of
somnolency tl** invasion in which he has been since
of tho disease ; soon till the
functions take their natural course, and
he enters upon eonvaleeeenee. Hr
Gmllasse gives to an adult i wo or three
table-spoonfuls of strong black coffee
every two hours, alternated with one of
two teaspoonfuls oi claret or Btirgnnvd
wine—a little lemonade or citrate or
magnesia to be taken daily, and after a
while quinine.—Dr. Foote’s Health
Monthly.
The worst of ingratitude lies not in
the ossified heart of him who commits it;
but we find it in the effect it produces
on him against whom it was committed.
As water containing stony particles in
orusts with them the ferns and mosses
it drops on, so the human breast hard¬
ens under ingratitude in proportion to
its openness and softness, and ita apt¬
itude to receive impressions.