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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 that the sword by whici martyrs were slain, was On the right side of the. ber ofJ a riv§ left refined ladj the illm this city, describ-j Neighbor wju ible-sai iristians are bef jerhaps (he ^very evidei Christlai flock, audj i to be. oth the uillotlne, re an unt ried into On the illotine is [es with his ge iron im, ie 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