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Dwelling Houses.
Mr. W. ^^ttieu Williams suggests
Knowledge that the problem of do-
estic ventilation might perhaps be
lved by taking a lesson from the
al pits, and extending the applica-
of coal pit venlilation to modern
residences. In a pit the fresh air de
scend, by one shaft, passes through all
the workings and escapes through the
upcast shaft. In a house,says Mr. Wil
liams, no downcast shaft is required,
the pressure of the surrounding air
taking its place. But the model house
must have an upcast shaft, placed as
nearly in the middle of the building
as possible, and communicating with
every room, either by a direct open
ing or through a lateral shaft. An or
dinary chimney built in the usual
manner is all that is required.
There must be neither stoves nor
fire-places in any room excepting
the kitchen. All the windows must
be made to fit closely, as nearly air
tight as possible. Outside of the house,
or on the ground-floor, on the north
side, if possible, should be a chamber
hea ed by flues, hot air, strain or water
pipes, and with one opening commu
nicating with the outer fresh air, and
another on the opposite side connect
ed by a suitable shaft or airway with
the hall of the ground-floor and the
'general stair-case. Each room to have
an opening at its upper part ioto the
I chimney, like an Arnott’s ventilator,
'and capable of adjustment as regards
area of aperture, and other openings of
eorrtsponding or excessive combined
area leading from the ball or staircase
to the lower part of the room. These
should be covered with perforated
zinc or wire gauze, so that the air may
enter in a gentle, broken stream.
All the outer house doors must be
double, i. e., with a porch or vestibule,
and only one of each pair of doors open
ed at once. These should be well fitted,
and the staircase air-tight. Thekitchen
k to communicate with the rest of the
louse by similar double doors, and
the kitchen Are to communicate with
>e up^"t shaft or chimney by as
3mall a stove-pipe as practicable. The
|kitchen fire will thus start the upcast
»nd commence the draught of air from
warm chamber through the house
tard the several openings into the
Ift. In cold weather, this upcast
Stion will be greatly reinforced and
laintained by the general warmth of
ill the air in the house, which itself
dll bodily become an upcast shaft im
mediately the inner temperature ex
pends that of the air out side. But the
ipcast of warm air can only take
ilace by the admission of fresh air
fhrough the heating chamber, thence
r) hall and staircase and through the
rooms into the final shaft or chim-
|ney.
In summer, the kitchen fire would
jrobably be insufficient to secure a
ifflciently active upcast. To help
ffs tljpre should be in one of the
aer rooms—say an attic—an open-
(into the chimney secured by a
11 well-fitting door, and altogether
plosed within the chimney, a small.
)uaatic slow combustion stove or a
Fge gas-burner. The heating cham
fer below must now be converted into
Pooling-chamber by an arrangement
Iwet cloths or by the use of ice, so
(at all the air entering the house
[hall he reduced in temperature.
is a probable relative of the lady
w o complained of “a terrible Nashua
in the stomach.”
An Austin young man was seen
coming hurriedly out of a business
house, which he had entered to solicit
employment as a salesman. “Did the
boss engage you as a salesman ?” “No;
he wanted me to travel,” was the am
biguous reply.
A Brooklyn man has been sent to
jail for “kissing his girl good night.”
This should teach Brooklyn young
men a lesson. They will probably
hereafter imitate the example of young
men in other cities—i. e., remain a
couple of hours longer and kiss her
good-morning.
A young curate having preached be
fore his vicar for the first time, asked
that worthy at the close of the service
which passage in his sermon he
thought the best, to which the vicar
made reply, “Your passage from the
vestry to the pulpit was very fine;
but commend me to that from the
pulpit to the vestry for downright,
heart-relieving effect.”
A certain young lady wrote to a
popular young clergyman of Toronto
that he had converted her soul to
grace, that she was ready to place her
fortune at his feet, that’she loved
him deeply, passionately, and that
her hand was his if he would take it.
To which the clergyman replied, “My
Dear Mis3—give your soul to God,
your fortune to the poor,and keep your
hand until some man asks you for it.”
“LITE HATH ITS BARREN YEARS.”
Life hath its bar ran years,
When Wossoms fall untimely down,
When ripened fruitage falls to crown
The summer toll, when nature’s frown
Looks only on our tears.
Life hath its faithless days,
The golden promise of the morn,
That seemed for light and gladness horn,
Meant only noontide wreck and soorn,
Hushed harp instead «f praise.
Life hath Us valleys, too,
Where we must talk with vain regret,
With mouralng clothed, with wild rain wet
Toward sunlight hopes that soon must set,
All quenobed In pitying dew.
Life bath its harvest moons,
Its tasseled oorn and purple-weighted vine;
Its gathered sheaves of grain, the blessed sign
Of plenteous ripening bread and pure rich
wine,
Full hearts for harvest tunes.
Life hath Its hopes fulfilled ;
Its glad fruitions, Its blest answered prayer,
Sweeter for waiting long, whose holy air,
Indrawn to silent souls, breathes lorth Us
rare,
Grand speech by Joy distilled.
The Omnibu$.
^11 make you dance,” cried an
Cte other, pursuing her erring son,
slipper in hand. “Then,” remarked
|the juvenile, “we shall have a bawl.”
Mrs. Smith (emphatically)—“Poor
Mrs. Siren! they say she has been
ordered to a warmer climate. Do you
think she will go?” Mrs. Brown
Jmly)—“No, not while she lives.”
[The Chinaman who thought he was
Imericanized enough t« squeeze a
■tas girl’s hand on the sly has de
parted for some quiet place in the
[ hills where he can pick sixty bird-
shot out ot Ins legs.
The following notice is to be put
upon the beach at Brighton the ensu
ing season : “In case of ladies in dan-
v of drowning, they should be siezed
\he clothing instead of the by hair,
comes off'.”
that Wesleyan Col-
je’Wm send a four-oared crew to
^ake George for the regatta about the
lrst week in July. The college boys
^may be backward in their studies, but
sy are “four-oared” in the regatta
finess.
Alboni and Rossini.
Although the posieesor of the finest
contralto voice heard in this century,
with a wonderful style of singing, and
having achieved the greatest success
immediatly after her first appearance
in public, Alboni went to Rossini and
asked him, “Maintenant maltre, mon-
trc-z moi, comment 11 faut chanter!”
And he did show her: and she is cer
tainly the only living singer, in full
possession of her vaice, although very
nearly sixth, who can really sing
Rossini’s music. Who would believe
that, when she sang the “Quis est
homo” with Mademoiselle Patti at
Rossini’s funeral, after having crushed
everybody round her with the incom
parable superiority of her voice and
method, she came down into the
church and asked: “Has my voice
been heard?”
To ascribe this merely to her modesty
would be a mistake. Without being
conceited she felt and knew her value
perfectly well, but first of a 1, she was
deeply moved by the ceremony, hav
ing been sincerely attached to her old
friend Rossini, ana then she some
times suffered from nervousness,
which suddenly seized her, and which
she had great difficulty in controlling,
At one of Rossini’s Saturdays, the mo
ment she went into the salon to sing
a solo he had written for her, entitled
“Cantata,” she was so trightened that
she said to him, ‘ Maitre, j’ai trop
peur,” whereupon he took her by the
hand, saying, “Eh bien, nous aurous
peur ensemble,” lad her out, sat down
at the piano, and accompanied her (
himself—and how he accompanied,
with his thick old Augers ! He pro
duced a violin legato on the piano.
A Medieval Guillotine.
It is popularly supposed that the de
capitating machiae which goes by the
name of the guillotine was the inven
tion of Dr. Guillotiu in 1789. It has
been proved,however, that a huge fail
ing axe of the very same construction
was in use in Europe in the middle
ages. If any one should doubt this
fact, he has only to study the wonder
ful series of early paintings. It is
rather a severe discipline for the most
devoted studentB of early oil painting
to examine these pictures for long to
gether, a9 they are all “skied,” und
are half hidden by the deep shadow of
the triangular roof.
Four lines of German verse under
neath the picture state that “Hirtacus’ 1
the Roman Governor, sought to extir
pate the Christians with fire and sword
and that the “noble Urs and Mic-
tors coiafessed God bravely in death.’ 1
What p remarkable in the picture as
a contribution to “culture-history,” is
A Lecturing Experience.
It is bad enough to realize that you
are a failure; but it is quite too har
rowing to be told so to your face, and
all the more harrowing when your
informant does not know whom he is
addressing. Once, long ago, I gave
an isolated lecture in Manchester, on
the Carlist war in Spain, from which
bad recently returned. It was a
poor subject, it was a bad lecture, and
it was a worse lecturer. I felt rather
miserable as I stood in the auditorium,
tryiug to converse with the secretary
while the fag end of the audience
slowly dispeised. A young gentlemen
sauntered up, and, not recegniaiug me
as the lecturer, addressed the secre
tary. “Infernally poor lecture,” this
friendly creature observed. “Don’t
you think so ?” he asked of the secre
tary. That official remained dumb in
embarrassment. “Don’t you think
so, sir?” said he, addressing me. “I
quite agree with you,” was my reply,
made in sad truth. “Of course it
is,” he continued. “We all know
the fellow can write first-rate; but he
ought to stick to his pen, and not try
to lecture, for he can’t lecture worth a
blank! Isn’t that so, sir?” again ad
dressing me, as a previous syrups,
thizer.
Again I expressed agreement with
him, and he was proceeding with de
tailed criticism of an emphatic char
acter, when the secretary, in a cold
perspiration, clutched hold of him,
dragged him to one side, and whis
pered something to him. The next
thing I saw of the frank and Ingeni
ous critic was bis fluttering coat-tails,
as he dashed headlong from the hall.
He could not rally himself even to
apologize ; and, besides, what had he
to apologize for?
utes, and then add three pints of
water, Let it simmer for about two
hours.
Italian Cheese.—Boil a knuckle
of veal ; when perfectly cooked strain
the liquor, remove the fat, take out
the bones, chop the meat fine, add one
grated nutmeg, one-half ounce each of
cloves, allspice 2nd pepper. Put the
entire mixture on the fire to simmer
gently, and when the liquor becomes
jelly pour into a mould and let it
remain until the next day. You may
line the bowi with hard boiled egg,
cut in slices. Thi^ is very nice for a
light meal.
Sago Pudding.—One quart of rich,
sweet milk, four tablespoonfuls of
sago, four eggs, one cup of sugar, and
flavoring; soak sago over night in
water; then beat yelks of eggs, sugar
and sago together; add milk and fla
voring ; set a bowl in the steamer,
pour in the mixture and steam one
hour; beat whites with one table
spoonful of sugar to a stiff froth; spread
over pudding and brown in oven five
minutes; stir while steaming or the
sago will settle to the bottom.
Apple and Quince Tart.—Lay a
di c of puff paste on a round tin, and
place a strip of paste all around it, as
for an ordinary jam tart. Spread on
the inside a layer of qi ince marma
lade, a quarter of an inch thick. Peel
and core some apples; cut them in
slices a quarter of an inch thick, trim
all the slices to the same shape, dispose
these slices over the marmalade, over
lapping each other, and in some kind
of pattern ; strew plenty of sugar over,
and bake in a quick oven till the
apples are a good color.
Sweet Potato Pudding. — One
pound of sweet potatoes boiled in a
little water; when done take them
out, peel them and mash very smooth;
beat eight eggs very light, add to them
half a pound ot butter (creamed), half
a pound of sugar (granulated), half a
teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, a
very little nutmeg, one wineglass of
rose water, one gill of swt et cream;
stir all well, then add the sweet potato
a little at a time; mix all together stir
ring very hard ; then butter a deep
dish, put in the pudding and bake
three-quarters of an hour, or line pie
plates with puff paste, put in the pud
ding, and bake twenty minutes
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Culinary Art.
Bread Sauce.—Put into a half pint
of cold milk one small onion, three or
four cloves, a small blade of mace, a
few pepper-corns and a little saP. Set
the whole to boil, then strain the milk
over a teacupful of fine bread crumbs.
Stir well on the fire for a few minutes,
adding at the time of serving either a
small pat of butter or a tablespoonful
of cream.
Orange Cake.—Two cups of flour,
two of sugar, a half-cup of water, yelks
of five eggs, whites of three, pinch of
salt, a half-teaspoonful of soda, one of
cream of tartar, juice and grated rind
of one orange. Bake in jelly-cake
pans. Beat the whites of two eggs
stiff', and two tablespoonfuls of soft
sugar; the juice and grated rind of an
orange spread over each cake, then
place one on the other ; let the top be
iced.
Whipped Potatoes.—Whip boiled
potatoes to creamy lightness with
fork ; beat in batter, milk, pepper and
salt; at last, the frothed white of an
egg ; toss irregularly upon a dish, set
in the oven two minutes to reheat, but
do not let it color.
Broiled Oysters.—If you have a
wire gridiron with the wires close
enough together to prevent the oysters
from dropping through, small ones
can be broiled without much trouble.
They do not need to be turned over.
When done lay them on slices of but
tered toast, pepper and salt and butter
them.
To Stew Fresh Pork.—Cut about
two pounds into a dozen pieces; put
ii%> a saucepan with one and a-half tea
spoonfuls of salt, one of sugar, a half-
teaspoonful of pepper, two medium
sized onions, sliced, and a half-pint of
water. Set on ](fie fire for ten minutes,
lick vraMi- formed. Add
Inful of
He Meant the Same Thing, But
Put it Different,
It had taken him some time to bring
his tongue in full accord with his
mind, but he finally stammered out:
“Will you—will you wander down
life’s path, your hand in mine, while
the goddess of love sings siren songs
to us? Oh, will you be my own, my
angel ?”
“Well, well, wouldn’t I look well as
an angel ? See here. If you want
me to marry you to make life happy
and home pleasant for you, to keep
the house slicked lip nice, to cook your
relishable meals, to preside at your
table and at the piano with equal abil
ity, to care for the children and bring
tnem up bright and smart, and help
you to make the moat of yourself in
this world, I’ll jine hands with you.”
“Thai’s just the practical sort «f an
angel I thought you was. ‘Jine.’ ”
—^ ■—
Lady Lytton’s Sharp Tongue.
The late Lady Lytton had the
sharpest and wittiest tongue in Lon
don. Much too sharp to live in peace
with Lord Lytton. She ohanced one
evening to be in a box at the opera
with a lady whose husband was about
commencing a suit for divorce, alleg
ing as excuse some scandalous charge.
The ladies had not been there long
when the box door opened and the
husband entered. Lady Bulwer turned
and gazed at him intently. He looked
sheepish and tried to withdraw into
the shade. But Lady Bui ver was in
exorable, and following him with her
eye, exclaimed in a voice expressive
of the greatest astonishment: “What
is the matter. Mr. N—? What on
earth have you been doing with your
self? I did not know you at first.
You are so altered since I saw you a
day or two ago riding in the park!”
“Well, then,” returned the poor, dis-
comfltted visitor, “the fact is I have
hud my whiskers dyed—net for my
self ; 1 only wished to please my wife.”
“Pshaw!” returned the lady, as she
turned away: “if you had wished to
please your wife you would long ago
have died yourself.”
“What do you think of my new
bonnet?” asked Mrs. Denton. “Too
much poke for a shilling,” said Har
vey ; but he will o^Mttge his mh
Scientific Economy.
There are only six charcoal furnaces
in Great Britain, and they all belong
to one firm. The annual yield of char
coal iron is about 3000 tons.
False ipecacuanha is distinguishable
from the pure drug by being mere
branched, by its dirty white color, and
by the absence of the annular rings
present in the genuine article.
Wood piled in a tank and covered
with quicklime, which is gradually
slacked with water, is said to acquire
great hardness and consistency, after
the lime has acted upou it for a week
or more.
The Kezanlik Valley, in Roumania,
is entirely given up to the cultivation
of roses. The essence is sold whole
sale in Paris at from £30 to £40 per
pound, while it is retailed at £100 or
more per pound.
An exchange says a bee-keeper In
Los Angeles, Cal.,has received an order
from Australia for several colonies of
bumble bees. They are wanted to dis
tribute the pollen of the clover fields,
so as to fertilize the seeds.
De Fosseb of Paris, has introduced a
paper covering for furniture. It is
made in imitation of Cordova leather,
and is said to be so effective iu its pur
poses as to promise competition with
textile fabrics for upholstery work.
In Switzerland small coins are now
made from pure metallic nickel rolled
by the Fleitmanu process. r i hese coins
are said to be much superior to the
alloy of 25 per cent, of niefeel and 1 75
per cent, of copper heretofore used
there.
* This cheap and simple remedy is
recommended by somebody fer the
nose-bleed: Move the jaws rapidly,
as in the act of chewing. A waa of
paper, or gum, or tobacco, or a piece of
boarding-house beef, will answer for
the experiment.
Lard butter aeems to have obtained
a toierabiy firm hold on the New
York market. A Boston firm has
shipped to New York this wruter over
1,000,000 pounds of leaf lard, to be sold
for making butter, for which cents
more was received than for rendered
lard.
The uses to which paper is applicable
are almost unlimited. Paper pulp,
treated with chloride of zinc and sub
jected to j ressure, forms a substance
resembling both leather and wood.
Steam packing is made by incorpora
ting plumbago into paper while in its
pulpy state.
The average life of an English gold
sovereign is about eighteen years—
that is, the coin loses three quarters of
a grain in weight in about that length
of time. It then ceases to be legal
tender. It is said that of the £100,-
000,000 of British gold coinage, 40 per
cent is worn down below the legal
weight.
Dr. Finzelberg reports excellent buo-
ce3s from the use of pep3iue and hy
drochloric acid as preventive of sea
sickness. As much pepsine as will
lay on the point of a knife Is mixed
with five drops of hydrochloric acid,
and em ugh water added to give it a
pleasant acid taste like lemonade. It
is taken after the meal or at other
times.
Mr Muybridge has been exhrbitiDg
some remarkable rapid process photo
graphs in Paris, one of which is said
to have been taken in one hundredth,
of a second. He has obtained a eerie
of six photopraphs during the leap
a clown, which when projected on
screen by a zeotrope exhibit the clown
as in motion, with all his changes of
position.
According to Le» Mondea MM.
8carpo and Baldo, with an induced
coil, arranged in two blocks, placed
on the poles of the magnetic nucleus
and communicating with each other
so that their poles of junction may be^
at equal distances from the neucl
have obtained effects of much gref
power than is possible with the us
arrangement of the Ruhmkorff coj
It is discovered that perfumes
a healthy influence on the atmospl
converting its oxygen into oz|
Cherry, laurel, clover, lavender,
juniper, fenuel and bergamot dei
the largest quantity of ozone, Flo\
without perfume do not develoi
but the flowers of narcissus, ml
nette, heliotrope and lily of the \\
develop it in close vessels. Ode
flowers, cultivated in marshy pli
would be valuable in purifying
air.
A well-known lawyer deols
day at ^ dinner that the bigge^
he hadta^rdone was to cross-ei
a man^^^^^did not know