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The Family Doctor. For toothache, where a cavity ex ists, there are many remedies in com mon use, but, says an exchange, none seem to relieve as equal parts of hy drate of chloral and gum camphor rubbed together. Saturate a piece of cotton with the mixture and put it into the 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 burn ing. An exchange says: “Let any one who has an attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on the wound, no matter wherd the wound is, and relief will follow in less than a minute. Noth ing better can be applied to a severe cut or bruise tl.au cold turpentine ; it will give certain relief almost in stantly. Turpentine is also a sover eign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it and place the flannel on the throat and chest, and in every case three or four drops on a lump of sugar may be taken in wardly.” l)r. Efrard, of Nimes, states that he has for many years treated all his cases of sciatic and neuralgic pains with an improvised apparatus, con sisting merely of a flat-iron and vine gar, two things that wiil be lound in every house. The iron is heated until sufficiently 'hot to vaporize the vine gar, and is then covered with some woolen fabric which is moistened with vinegar, and the apparatus is ap plied at once to the painful spot. The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Efrard states that, as a rule, the pain disappears in twenty-four hours, and recovery en sues at once. The Labor Question. LABOR’S DEMANDS. .triking Painters Suoceed, while Marble Cutters Surrender. Salt in Diphtheria. In a paper read at the Medical Soci ety of Victoria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having for many years re garded diphtheria, in its early stage, as a purely local affeetion, character ized by a marked tendency to take on putrefactive decomposition, he has trusted most to the free and constant application of antiseptics, and, when their employment hss been adopted from the first, and been combined with judicious alimentation, he has seldom seen blood poisoning ensue. In consequence of the great power which salt possesses in preventing the pretrefacti ve decomposition of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has often prescribed for diphtheritic patients living far away from medical aid the frequent use of a gargle composed of a teaspoouful or more of salt dissolved in a tumbler of water, giving children who cannot gargle a teaspoonful or two to drink occasionally. Adults to use the gargle as a prophylactic or pre ventive three or four times a day." New York.—The painters through out the city made a demand on their employers for an increase of fifty cents a day, oe >6 50 for a day’s work. The demand was in nearly every case ac ceded to, and only some of the smaller shops refused it. In these the men struck to about the number of fifty, and are confident that they will shortly be re-employed at the increased rates. The marble cutters’ and marble pol ishers' strike was virtually ended by the return of all but the employes of two shops to their work. Some were given a slight increase in their wages but the majority went back at the old rates. The men say that the failure of their strike was due to the want of funds to continue it. They say they will strike again when their finances will allow of it. The trackmen of the Hudson River Railroad who went on a strike for an increase in wages from $1 20 to $1.50 a day were granted an increase of 15 cents. Some went to work and others are determined to hold out for $1.50. The Belgian pavers in 'the employ of Contractor Cunningham, who is la} ing pipes in the city through which the wires of the Edison Electric Light Company are to run, notified him that they would require after to-mor row $4 for a day’s work, an increase of $1. Their demand will probable be acceded to, and if not the men will go on strike. The striking painters who were de manding an increase of 50 cents a day in their wages are meeting with suc cess, and the indications are that the men will be all back to work at the increased rates. A large number of the striking men of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad resumed work. A compromise was effected by the offi cials granting an increase of 15 cents a day over the former pay, $1.25. the Hud-4 How Voltaire Cured the Decay of His Stomaoh. 1200 Railroad Brakemen out on son River Road. New York—About 1200 men em ployed by the Hudson River Railroad as trackmen have been on a strike for an increase of wages. The strike ex tends from the Thirtieth street depot to Albany, and along the line but few men are employed. They are paid $1.20 and $1.37£ a day. The city men are not on a strike, but may join the others if an advance is not obtained. at Marsh bank & Son’s foundery struck for an increase of wages from $1.70 to $2 per day. The laborers employed on the Northern Central Railroad tunnel on the west side of the river algo struck for an increase in their pay. Pittsburg, Pa. — The Amalga mated Association of Iron and Steel Workers at a district meeting decided to auvance the puddlers’ seale, to $6 per ton. The present scale which ex pires on June 1, is $5.50, and the pud dlers have been working at that rate for the past three years. Everything else on the scale has been advanced in proportion, and a scale for engineers, fixing their wages at $3.25 per day on the 2 5-10 card, was also adopted. Fall River, Mass.—Recently the masons, bricklayers and plasterers here asked for an advance from $2.75 to $3 per day. Only one or two of the employers granted the increase. The Union met and after a long discussion voted to strike. Lawrence, Mass.—The affairs at the Pacific Mills assumed a new phase, it being announced that, unless the strikers voted to return, the upper mill would be shut down for six mouths. The treasurer now orders the upper mill to be closed for six months. This includes the entire cot ton manufacturing department of the Pacific Mills and one-third of the worsted department, and will throw 2500 hands out of work. A thousand looms are in operation at the Central Pacific Mills, with 342 weavers, a gain of 20. The entire spinning at the Tower Mill can be operated, as sufficient help has been engaged. 100 additional cards and four more raping frames were started, and there appears to be no doubt that the entirt Central Mill will be in full operation shortly. Cleveland, O.—The Mineral Ridge district miners, who have been work ing at 10 cents reduction, came out of the mines, and will await the ac tion of to-morrow’s State Convention at Columbus. The Churchill miners gave notice that an advance of 10 cents will be asked after next Mon day. Cambridge, Ohio.—The striking miners resumed work, accepting 62J cents per ton. Wilmington, Del.—The Kaolin laborers at Hockessiu who struck for $1,50 per day have resumed work. Interesting Lumber Statistics. Timber Growing and Timber in the ing Interests, est. In 1880 there were standing in Mich igan 35,000,000,000 feet of timber. Dur ing the previous year nearly 4,500,000,- 000 feet were cut. In Wisconsin there were 41,000,000,000 feet standing, and the twelve months’ cutting amounted to nearly 3,000,000,000 feet. At this rate of destruction it cannot be many years before the supply in these two States will be exhausted. The CoarBer Varieties of Timber. In the “ Memoirs of Count Segur ” there is the following anecdote : “ My mother, the Countess de Segur, being asked by Voltaire respecting her health” told him that the most painful feeling she had arose Irom the decay in her stomach and the difficulty of finding any 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 restored him. It consisted in tak ing no other nourishment than yelks of eggs beaten up with the flour of po tatoes and water.” Through this cir cumstance contained so extraordi nary a pesson as Voltaire, it is aston- ishing how little it is known and how rarely the remedy has been practiced. Its effleacy, however, in cases of dlbil- ity, cannot be questioned, and the fol lowing is the mode of preparing this valuable article of food as recom mended by Sir John SinclairBeat 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 pota toes ; let it be mixed thoroughly with the liquid in the bowl; then pour in as much boiling water as will convert the whole thing into a jelly, and mix it well. It may be taken alone or with the addition of a little milk in case of stomachic debility or consump tive disorders.— Scientific American. The stair-builders’ strike has ended succissfully for the men. Tlie bakers are organizing, and it is thought will make a demand for in creased wages. The painters decided to demand from their employers $3,50 a day. Forty-nine employers have signified their willingness to pay the increased rate. At a secret meeting the Harmony Mills spinners decided not to accept the ten per cent, reduction. „ Their ac- will cause a complete cessation of work. • Scraps. In one of the timber growing States, there is now wealth of $87,500,000 in growing pine timber, estimated at an average value of $2.50 per thousand feet for the standing tree. As a vast source of wealth to the Btate in which it is growing, yet unhonored and most lightly esteemed, even to such an ex tent that its wanton destruction passes unnociced, are to be found fully 7,000,- 000,000 feet of hemlock, which, in the near future, will be sought for at a price scarcely below the preseut value of the pine, for which it will be util ized as a most excellent substitute in many of the coarser uses of lumber. This hemlock is to-day utilized only in the'production of bark for tanning purposes, and it bears to the timber wealth of the State only about the same relation that the hordes of buffalo upon our Western plains bear to the meat supply of our nation, as they are slaughtered by the thousands and stripped of their pelts for the use of the civilized world, while the carcass is left to the vulture, regardless of the fact that a race is being exterminated which can never again be propagated. The hemlock tree of the Northwest, like the buffalo of the plains, possesses a value, the extent of which will be realized only after the process of waste ful extermination has done its worst and no more remains to be utilized. The hemlock in one State, if placed at a value which it will bear before the expiration ol five years from this date, would bring to its owners not less than $14,000,000; at the value which is placed upon it to-day it is worth not lese than $2,000,000, and, in the en deavor to utilize the bark, the trunk of the tree, which might also add to the wealth of its owner, is left to rot upon the ground or to leed the forest fires which sweep away so much of our wealth every year. The Lumber of the Future. Closing of a Cotton Mill at Reading— Troubles Elsewhere It is the right day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walk ing.— Shakespeare. The fire-fly only shines when on the wing; and so it is with the mind; Readino.—The Reading Cotton Mill, the largest establishment of its kind in this territory, owned and operated by the Garner estate of New York, shut down, owing to a strike among the employes, the cause of which was a notice posted up some days ago that a reduction of 10 per cent, would be made in wages. There are about 250 hands employed in this mill, the greater part of whom are boys and girls. The wages paid are considered very low, and the strikers say a reduc tion of 10 per cen# would not leave them sufficient to purchase the oommon necessaries of life, some of the boys receiving as low as 25 cents per day, while others receive from $5 to $7 per week. The Superintendent of the mill says the order for a reduction came from New York, and was made in order to have the wages conform to those paid at the Cohoes and Wappinger Falls Mills, New York, operated by the same estate. About two hundred and fifty employes are thus thrown out of employment, whose wages aggregate about $5000 per month. Reading, Pa.—At the Reading Cotton Mill sixty boys employed in the spinning and curding departments and ninety girls in the weaving de partment quit work on aceountof a 10 per cent, reduction In their wages, to take effect on the 20th instant. The mill is still running. Harrisburg,, Pa.—The moulder* Influenza—Out flew comfort. “Him!” said the disgusted politi cian of his opponent—“he couldn't beat a carpet.” Wisdom for April.—Never, never go out without your umbrella—or some other person’s. “I die content,” said the fiy in the baker’s dough ; “somebody will take me for a currant.” The ancient Egyptians did not use tobacco, and, mark you, the ancient Egyptians are dead. The difference between a dandy and a tramp is only a difference iu degree. One has his trousers tored, and the other 1ms his trousers t’order. % Did it ever occur to you why a lawyer who is conducting a disputed will case is like a trapeze performer in atircus? Didn’t? Well, it’s because he flies through the heir with the greatest ot fees. An Irish priest once a.'ked a milk man, who admitted that he filled his pail occasionally from the pump, “How do you know, Michael, when to stop watering ?” “Begorra, your rev erence, we go on watering till the customers cry out against it.” An elderly Scotchwoman went one day to an apothecary’s shop with a prescription for two grains of calomel for a child. Seeing the druggist weigh the medicine with scrupulous exact ness, and not thinking he did this from anxiety not to get an overdose, but from his* penuriousness or desire to give as little as possible for the money, she said : “Dinua be sae mean wi’ it, man. It’s for a puir faitherless bairu.” Father and son were driving along in the neighborhood of Niagara Falls, when the child’s face suddenly bright ened and he exclaimed: “What a lovely place, pt.pa! Whose is it?” “That is the country residence ot a well-known haekman, my dear,” said the old man. “And what a big ice house lie’s got, papa!” “That isn’t'an ice-house; it’s the vault where he keeps his diamonds.” Then thefllad settled down with a tired look as lrhe had heard something like that before, and resisted all temptation to talk further. The increase of population causes the denuding of land which may be cultivated, and while it augments the demand for building material it re duces the supply. A proper system of arboriculture may to some extent mitigate the inconvenience of a want of timber, but it Das long been appa rent that other material must eventu ally be introduced to take the place of wood. Scientific discoveries and mechanical contrivances have brought many things into use whose value was formerly unknown. It has been shown that the most durable car wheels may be made of any one who has strong and substantial articles which are made of “paper-mache, ’ will readily perceive that light materials may be converted into very dense substances. A scientific contemporary declares that in future years timber will be made of straw, and the article below gives the results of some experiments which have been made to test its value. It is as follows : “The lumber of the future is to be made of straw. It is to compete with that of the better class, as there seems to be no necessity of introducing knots and shakes into the artificial material. int,roduce*a;ccmplete'cbange in build ing materials. These will include paper for doors and window frames, floors, mouldings and roofs, glass for porches and pillars, cornicek ami walls iron for beams, joints and rafters, with not a splinter of wood in the whole construction, which will l e replaced with straw lumber, if meded.” The Logging Interests. Owing to the open winter the logging interests of Minnesota and Wisconsin aie suffering greatly. At Moose Lake camp one party, who could get in 800,000 logs if there was snow, does^,not expect to have 300,000 feet; another has 3,000,000 feet cut but is unable to handle it; while a third, after abandoning a section where it expected to gather 1,000,000 feet if the snow held out, will be lucky to secure 200,000 feet. In the camps on the main Chippewa, Flambeau and their tributaries, the open winter has re duced the cut of logs one-third the estimated amount of 600,000,000 feet. At Menomonee, Wis., thirty-five camps expect to bank 100,000,000 feet, and the loggers of La Crosse,if the mild weather continues in the end, will have but 100,000,000 feet for their sea son’s work. The estimated cut on the Black River was over 200,000,000 feet, of which probably not more than three-fourths will be secured. It is confidently predicted that a large number of small and new’contractors will be ruined through the want of It is manufactured into any desired lengtliH from 12 feet upwanl, and as much as 32 inches in width, ih e cost is such as to compete with bUbr or finishing grades of pine, auaVthe locality of competition cannot va much, for straw is usually cheap where lumber is cheap Some samples re cently exhibited held a nail as well as wood, are susceptible of high finish, and can be polished to any extent de sirably It is waterproof, and therefore must bkdurable as pine or oak, while it is as* well adapted for roofing pur poses as for fine interior work. It is susceptible of being worked by the ordinary tools of the carpenter, and once fitted for its place it will not be apt to shrink or swell. Samples re semble hard wood, about as dark as with snow. Importance of the Lumber Interests of one Shipping Tort, Pensacola, Florida. There were 86 vessels entered with an aggregate tonnage of 49,116. There were 59 vessels cleared for various ports in Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Jamaica, Cuba, Central America, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, and the Northern ports of America, with an aggregate tonnage of 85,098, The total exports during the^month sum up as follows : Hewn timber, 490,129 cubic feet; sawn timber, 654,059 cubic feet; lumber, 8,165,000 superficial feet. This is a fair pretty exhibit of business for one month, to say nothing of several cargoes of shingles, and one of 1,850 bales cotton for Boston. Timber Growing. Soft maple seeds must be gathered as soon as rip*^ which will be with the ripening of strawberries—late in May or early in June. Plant imme diately without drying, and they will come up in a short time and make about as large a g'rowth as locust. Ca- talpa seed is very delicate,lighter than parsnip seed, and on clay land if there comes a heavy rain it cannot come up through the crust. They bear trans planting as well as cabbages, and I would recommend sowing thickly in a prepared seed bed, anj then trans plant to nursery rows six inches apa letting them stand one year. The will, with good care. j?rqff_^^?e fe high the first I think it better to give c #ipas t li tie more room, and_ y kKv onJ v* liuudrcd plant^gll^bquare r and red, as I recomni ! or locusts and maples. The earl the trees can be planted in the sprin the better, but the ground must work, dry and tine. Plow and harrow ti, in good order, and mark out with the two-horse plow, rnakiug a furrow as deep as the land is plowed. Three hands are needed in planting, but a boy will %o for one. One holds the tree upright, and the others with light ’■hwo shovels throw IToll on the roots and press it with. {} air feet. J^Muk 1000 can plarited weIMn"a half ur.y by two men and a boy. The Majesty lof the Law. Mitchell Messenger’s livery stable, at De* Moines, Iowa, was burned, to gether with twelve horse*. oak. hut more dense in texture a specific gravity of one-flft than thoroughly seasoned bla nut. For finishing it will no quired to bjfA^hic her There is a Justice of the Peac in Crosby County. \Y he found a man guilty o bull that did not belon fined him $75. “Why, Jedge,” said the doo man, “I haven’t got no $75^; I ©a y no such fine.” VThe State of Texas puts me in (this offlcVto find a way to make men pay their fines. You will cut cedar poles until you have cut enough to satisfy the majesty of the law,” replied the Justice. “But, Jedge, .v hat use lias the State of Texas got for cedar poles ?” “The State of Texas hnan’tK use for cedar poles. It’s j who needs them cedar pole* fence. I’ll take the poles] with the State of Texas fti 4