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t or the Industrious of the Fq^ir Sex. The Field of Science. French Lace. Cast on 16 stitehes. 1st row : Knit 3, over, narrow, knit 3, over, knit 1, over, knit 6. 2d row : Knit 6, over, knil 3, over, narrow, knit 3, over, narrow, knit 1. 3d row : Knit 3, over, narrow, nar row again, over, knit 5, over, knit G. 4th row : Cast off 4, knit 1, over, narrow, kDit ' , narrow, over, narrow, knit 1, over, narrow, knit 1. 5th row : Knit 3, over, narrow, knit 1, over, narrow', knit 1, narrow, over, knit 3. 6th row : Knit 3, over, knit 1, over, slip 2, knit 1, pass the slipped stitches over the knitted one, over, knit 4, over, narrow, knit 1. Begin 1st row. / Emma Estelle Wetsel sends}, this lace, also a sample. \yethuhK it very pretty. / Smyrn/Lace Tie. For the body Lf the tie cast on 28 pitches. / Kitfit plain. Up 1, narrow, knit 1, over, tnit 1, over, narrow, knit 13, Prow, knit 1, over, knit 3. Blip 1, knit 9, over, narrow, [>ver, narrow, knit 13. Like second. klip 1, knit 11, over, nar- Tit 1, over, narrow, knit 11. |row: Like second, row : Blip 1, knit 13, over, nar- fnit 1, over, narrow, knit 9. Like second. Slip 1, knit 15, over, nar- kpver nairow, knit 7. Tiletes the pattern. _ Re- Jrst row as long as wished. Id of the t ie cast on or pick 3S. |Knifc 18, over twice, purl 2 lit 2. Slip 1, knit 1, over twice, Aether, knit 12, over, narrow, 'r, knit 8. Slip 1, knit 0, over, narrow, T, over, narrow, knit 4, over twice, together, knit 2. row : Slip 1, knit 1, over twice, 2 together, knit 13, over, narrow, over, knit 3. tow: Slip 1, knit 11, over, nar- kiit 1, over, narrow, knit 8, over lurl 2 together, knit 2. [)W : Slip 1, knitl, over twice, [together, knjt 14, over, narrow, [over, knit 8. lit 13, over, nar- jw, knit 2, over it 2. rer twice, narrow, gr, nar- .over ce, as. m it 2. 12th row : Slip 1, knit lj purl 2 together, knit. 3, ovj knit 1, over, narrow, knit 1! 13th row : Slip 1, narro\<*pBt 1, over, narrow, knit 1, over, wa#nw, knit 12, over twice, purl 2 togdker, knit 2. 14th row : Slip 1, knit 1, over twice, purl 2 together, knit 4, over, narrow, knit 1, pver, narrow, knit 11. v —46tfcrtow », Slip 1, narrow, knit 1, over, narrow, knit 1, over, narrow, knit 11, over, twice, purl 2 together, knit 2. 16th row : Slip 1, knit 1, over twice, juul 2 together, knit 5, over, narrow, knit 1, over, narrow, knit 9. 17th row Slip 1, narrow, knit 1, over, narrow, knit 1, over, narrow, knit 10, over twice, purl 2 together, knit 2. 18th row : Slip 1, knit 1, over twice, purl 2 together, knit G, over, narrow, .knit 1, over, narrow, knit 7. Repeat four times for each end. This pattern is klnd'y sent by Mrs. 1. B. G., Iowa. kctecTtG Death by an Ostrich. Ostrich-farming is not without its hangers, as many a man has learned |o his cost when sauniering among a lock of these birds without taking the [necessary precautions against a sudden |onslaught from a vicious member of iie herd, but it is not often that we [hear of a man being actually kicked to leath by an ostrich. Such a fatality co* jurredTecently in the district of Victo ria West, Cape Colony. The bird had Strayed on to the public highway, and [isputcd tlit‘progress of tho : uufortu- , man to such purpose that he k led and tr»mp[5fcf to deat^ The United States have seventy- three papers devoted to science and median ics. Linseed oil added to the mortar is said to prevent tie saltpetiing or streaking of buildings. According tfri Professor Simoni, the greatest depth ot the Lake of Con stance is 27G metrts, and" that of Lake Leman 309 metres. A womai. J o insti ute of technical design has been started in New York. It is intended to give ample training in sudi of the industrial arts as women can follow to advantage. Mexican mustang liniment is aaid to crvnsist of petroleum, ammoma and brandy in the following proportions : Petroleum, one quart; water of am monia, one pint; brandy, one pint. A German patent has been Issued for a bottle made of twelve per cent, silicon, which is said to resist the strongest acid. It is also recom mended for the iron plates of zinc and iron galvanic batteries. Ammonium picrate produces in solutions of gallic acid a red colora tion, which in a few seconds passes into a flue green. Pyrogallic acid and tannin also gives a red, but it remains unchanged. A recent English patent is for the selvedges of cotton velvets. “ Silk threads are woiked into the selvedges of the cloth after dyeing, by sewing machines, to produce an effect re- sembli g the selvedge of silk velvet.” The presence of chiccory, dandelion, &c , in coffee may be ascertained by boiling with sodium carbonate, and then treating with dilute bleachiug- powder solution, when the chiccory and dandelion are bleached, the coffee being unacted on. India-ink drawings that are to be colored or washed over with tints should have a little bichromate of pot ash added to the ink. After the draw ing has been exposed to light for an hour or so the lines can be gone over without washing them up. The Java process of shaving the bark of the cinchona, which was in troduced into Darjeeling by Dr. King, has provc-d a decided success. The bark renews itself perfectly within about a year, and the trees do not ap pear to have suffered the least check. Dr. Ritthausen has obtained crystal line albumen from the press cake of hemp seed. Under the microscope it appears in well developed forms be longing to the regular system. Simi lar albumens were obtained from the press cakes of castor oil and sesame. Sanitary lectures in Glasgow, Scot land, are stripped of all technicalities, and deal with sanitary matters in a plain, common-sense way. When a lecture is delivered it is printed and sold to the audience attending the next lecture at the low price of two cents. The following is a German formula for eau de cologne soap : White soap, 2000 parts; oil of lemon, eight parts; oil of neroli, four parts; oil of sweet orange, six parts ; cil of rosemary, one part; oil of thyme, one part; oil of petit grain, two parts ; essence of eivet (thirty grains of civit to one liter of alcohol), four parts. Large iron-ore deposits of good qual ity have been discovered in Westpha lia at no great depth beneath the sur face, and a considerable force of work men is engaged in removing the ore. But what is of equal importance is the discovery also of extensive coal veins of from eight to fourteen feet in thick ness. Sewer gas is disinfected in the Hos pital de la Pitie, at Paris, by nitrous oxide. The gas passes into an earthen cylinder four feet high, tilled with charcoal and sprinkled with nitro- sulphuric acid, the moisture in the gas condenser setting free the niH’ous oxide contained in the acid, which destroys the sulphuretted hydrogen and all harmful matter. A new safety-lamp lias been con structed by Dr. Schroudroff, which can only be opened witli the help of a strong magnet. A lever presses against a toothed wheel, which al lows or prevents the movement of the screw fastening the glass door-holder to the socket. The lever must be moved in order to open the lamp, and tills is done by means of a strong mag net. thousand years on the carcasses of ox, pig, sheep, deer, goose, hare and other game and fish in fine variety. We are meat-eaters because our fathers had little else to eat. The plains and green hills of the cold North were dotted with wild-grazing animals, as an English park is now dotted with deer, or a Western prairie with ante lope and bison. There was no green meat worth eating. A few genera tions only have passed since our now commonest vegetables came from the Continent. We are adding to their number every day, and thus by the aid of cultivation we are winning back our way to fe simpler, healthier food, and one more like in kind that on which man subsisted in the tropi cal or sub-tropical regions whence he originally came. But the education of the cook bars the way to progress. Even when he gives us French beaus they swim in butter. The French cooks, suppored to be the best, syste matically make the natural flavor of the many delicate vegetables of their markets secondary to that of butter— now, alas! often only cart grease or hardened oil. In our restaurants the best fish and meat are always procurable. The vegetable kingdom is usually repre- aented by a mess of ill-smelling cab b*ge and a boiled potato. Under the circumstances one wonders why any body has the courage to advocate vegetarianism ; but at the very time that this may be witnessed in the res taurants our gardens are full of tender vegetables. No doubt we may have much to do to improve them, and we ought to grow more than we do. Nevertheless, it will all be almost useless until there is a revolu tion in oar modes of cookery, in the sense of cooking and serving for their own sakes, and in most cases without the aid of the animal kingdom, the more delicate green vege‘ ables that ai e and may be grown in our gardens. Old or inferior vegetables require the art of the cook, and must be saturated with grease and spices to make them edjble. The true art of cookery is only to deal with the best and tender- eet of each kind, and jealously pre serve its flavor ; but this art is in any general sense yet unborn. Those who know our markets best can also verify that no one connected witli hotels or restaurants ever takes the same trouble to purchase the best vegetables, that they do with meat, fish or game. They do not know or inquire after the nest quality, much less pay for it. Our garden products should not be judged by a visit to any restaurant, however good. Talking Birds. “The Man with the Iron Mask.” The Identity of the “The Iron Mask,” or “The Man With the Iron Mask,” has never been satisfactorily established. About the year 1679 he was carried with the utmost secrecy to the Castle of Piguerol, and wore dur ing the journey a black mask, which was not of iron, but of black velvet, strengthened with whalebone, and secured behind with steel springs, or by means of a lock, as some say. The Parrots, starlings, and jackdaws are not the only birds that “talk.” Birds not possessed of native powers of mel ody are usually gifted with very va ried abilities of articulation. hooded crow, for instance, can produce an astonishing variety of complex noises from his throat, and his talents only lack cultivation to enable him to give utterance to words ; but his natural language is the very reverse of melo dious, and cannot in any sense be con sidered as a “song.” I have known a hooded crow to say “Papa!” with great correctness, and what is more remarkable, he invariably applied the name to its proper owner—not the hoodie’s papa, but his master’s. The starling talks very roughly, indeed, to his fellows, but he is one of the best mimics we have, imitating the notes of other birds, and even the human voice, with great accuracy. Magpies also can be taught to articulate with a tolerable degree of accuracy. The mocking-bird, too, so well known in some parts of the United States, has no natural melody of his own, but he contrives to copy in a most faithful manner the songs of nearly all his feathered neighbors. But it is a little surprising to find that the canary, so superbly endowed by nature with musical taste and skill, will condescend on occasion to imitate the unmelodious tones of the human voice,although the fact that he does so is beyond dispute. A correspon dent of “Land and Water” mentions a canary owned by a lady residing in Saltford, near Bath, which was able to pronounce several words with re markable distinctness. At the con clusion of its song the bird nearly always said, “Kiss, kiss, Miss Lizzie, kiss, kiss!”—Miss Lizzie being the daughter of its owner; and, after re peating the words niGre than once* a new song was begun. It seems that these words were acquired several years ago, when the bird was quite young, and duriug the moulting sea son, when its natural song would be discontinued. Curiously enough, the only cases I have known of talking canaries have occurred in the West of England, but I am not able to draw any conclusion I of value from that circumstance. It may be a mere coincidence, or there may possibly be a certain family of canaries settled in the west country whose peculiar gift it is to imitate, with a fair amount of accuracy, the various intonations of the human voice. A canary which was owned by a lady in Weston-super-Mare was ac customed to hear its mistress, an invalid, say, on conclusion of its song, “Oh, beauty, beauty! Sing that again!” These words the bird picked up, and was soon able to repeat, but its education made no further progress, and no additional words were ac quired. The short sentence, as in the case of the Saltford bird, was never uttered save after a brilliant burst of song. It is wholly incorrect to suppose French Princess style of fine inser tions and edgings of Valenciennes lace or of India muslin and Irish point lace, or the sheer embroidery, which is made in the patterns of lace. The most popular style for cambric or gingham dresses is a combination of the French guimpe and the Mother Hubbard fashions. The yoke and sleeves of this dress are of sheer white uaiusook trimmed with embroidery. The rest of the dress is of cambric, shirred on to the yoke in Mother Hub bard fashiom Quaint little puffs deco rate the shoulders. Dresses of soft Cheviot wool or flan nel are used for early spring and cool days throughout the summer. These are in Princess style, in a variety of designs. Army blue, in Cayenne pep per mixtures, cool stone grays or drabs, with an under surface of gay coloi are a pretty choice. Picturesque frocks in old English style are of olive, dark terra cotta red, peacock or seal brown flannei. A Story of Early Steam Travel ing. It is related that an old country dame committed herself for the first time to a railway carriage, and by a misadventure the train on arrival that very day was run too quickly into the station, so that a van or two became smashed, and the passengers were much thrown about. The old lady in particular was jerked under the seat upon the top of her bandboxes, where she was found by the guard, meekly and patiently awaiting the opening of the door. Upon his exclaiming, “For goodness sake, ma’am, come out, there’s been an accident,” she gently replied, “Oh, sir, I thought you al ways stopped like this.” that no meaning is ever attached by orders were that if he revealed himselfco talking birds to such words or short Why Englishmen Eat Meat. The true reason why we seem to the visitors of our restaurants to have no vegetables is that the cooks of Europe have served au appreuPceshlp of a he was to be killed. He was conveyed in 1686 to the Isle of Sainte Margurite, and duriug the passage the strictest watch was kept, that he might not allow himself to be discovered. The unknown prisoner was in 1698 trans ferred to the Bastile, and was, as be fore, hidden behind the mask. In that prison the captive remained until his death, in 1703. On November 20th, the day after his death, lie was buried iu the oemetrey of St. Paul, under the name of Machioti. The unknown was treated with the utmost respect, but so closely was he watched that he was not permitted to take off his mask, even in the presence of the physician who attended him. Many conjectures have been haz arded as to who “The Man With the Iron Mask” could have been, the one generally received at the present day by those who have carefully investi gated the subject being the following : It is conjectured that lie was Hie Count Matthioli, a Minister of Charles III , Duke of Mantua. This Minister had been largely bribed by Louis XIV., and had pledged himself to urge the Duke, to give up to the French the fortress of Casaale, which gave access to the whole of Lombardy. Louis found that Matthioli was playing him false, and lured him to the French frontier, and then had him secretly arrested and imprisoned. As he was Minister Plenipotentiary at the time, liis seizure was a flagrant violation of. International law, which it was safe^ to be able to deny than justify, and when the denial was made once, the “liquor” of France was involved in upholding it. sentences as they may he able to pro nounce. The well-known tfie Edinburgh parrot, M«fl!^ffngular accomplishments have been already noticed in more than one periodical, has settled this question once and for ever. So far was this clever bird above “mere parrot-talk” that he rarely spoke a word which had not direct relation to surrounding objects or events. A strange dog introduced into the room was greeted with loud ories of “Put him out! Put him out! I’m so frightened!” Clergymen at tending his numerous levees were po litely requested to “Gle oot the Psalm !” and, as this by itself would savor somewhat of habitual irrever ence ou Poll’s part, It is only fair to add that he was very particular at meal-times iu telling the assembled family to “Say grace first!”—L^ure Hour*. GOWNS FOR LITTLE GIRLS. Pretty Designs in Various Fabrios and Any Number of Shades. The openings of the principal houses exhibit the most elaborate dresses for children. An exquisite dress of shell pink faille and brocade in thistle ^ittern is made for a child tiw of ten with*full paniers and ruflb s on skirt. Cinnamon, terra cotta^and olive is one of the odd aesthetic tom- biuatiouH of color used this season. Rich collars and cuffs of lace fluish these dresses. Nainsook dresses are made in Mother Hubbard style. They are shirred at the neck, at the bottom of the yoke and below the waist, where a deep ruffle of embroidery joins the waist. The lace lresses are mi MINISTER HURLBUT’S DEATH. Talk of Poison—A Post-Mortem Examina tion and the Result. Panama.—The last steamer from the south coast brought the news of the sudden death, on the morning of M irch 27th, of General Stephen A. Hurlburt, United States Minister Resident in Peru. The Lima correspondent of the Star and Herald, says that up to the morn ing of his death the deceased gentle man had been in the enjoyment of the best of health, and, while washiug his face was suddenly seized with such intense pain in the region of the heart as compelled him to give vent to loud and agonizing cries. He was raised from the floor and placed upon a bed when he momentarily recovered con sciousness, his first exclamation being: “God bless you all! I am dying ! Oh my heart!” A few more disjointed phrases were all he uttered. A sharp convulsive shock ran through his body and iu less than twenty minutes from the first attack he had ceased to exist. The suddenness of the death of Gen eral Hurlbut gave rise to numerous rumors. It was asserted that he died from the effects of poison istered by a political faction or] or covert enemies of the lint he had adopted, such an considered recommend that a post-mortem exaiy ination should be held. The family were strongly oppos^'' to any examination tiking place, since 1 all were thoroughly satisfied as to the cause of death, but public reasons were urged upon them by their friends and finally Mrs. Hurlbut reluctantly gave her consent. The examination took place yesterday iu the presence of ten surgeons of different nationalities. Drs. Schofield and Baldwin, of the Pensacola, performed the operation, being assisted by the others. It was most carefully executed, and almost all present agreed in declaring that death had arisen fiom aneurism of the heart. Cue or two, however, express ed a wish that the contents of the stomach should be analyzed, and as this request could not be refused, al though believed it unuecssary, if"Ca? etermined to transmit a portion c fnkcontents to Doctor Roimonde f aniS^sis. When this determinate was 3Wved at Doctors Schofield a; Baldwii^^nnsidered it their dut adopt a lik^^recaution, jdthouglft fectly satis t tmL-d^jlAad ar\ from natural a sealed jar leave! to-morrow’s steaml Satire and lampoons on par people circulate more by giving > in confidence to the friends of the parties than by priming them.—Sher idan. / — Five i}u.hdre<jl and forly-seven Chl- ueee 4 borers from Hong Kong arrived *ria, B. G.