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Fashion. Magnolia white is a charming tint for the rich silks and satins of even ing dre.-ses. Large foulard fans used instead of parasols and matching the costume are the latest Parisian novelty. The striped cadet blue ginghams, with plaitings showing the darkest stripe on top of each pleat, ars pretty for morning dresses in the country. The princesse pelisse, a long over garment of india pongee is useful as a traveling cloak. It is bordered with a chicoree ruche. The sash panier terminating behind with a long looped bow is more popu lar than the festooned drapery that curvi s upward in the froufc. A gray linen dress with sweet-peas painted upon it, with the same flowers on hat and parasol, was the toilet worn by a French Marquise at the Grand Prix. Ivory white surah dresses for sum mer evening parties have the skirt covered with flounces of Venetian em broidery, imitating the designs of old point lace. Lace mitts reappear. Black mitts for ladies and dark red for children are .most fashionable. The MarguerUe mitts of closely woven silk are most serviceable. The Derby costume is the new Eng lish dress for ladies. It is made of dark blue muslin with a white pique or linen vest, and a masculine blue jacket fastened by a single button at the throat. A new bow for the garniture of dresses has three colors of ribbon in it, such as blue, red, and bronze when dark shades are used, while for lighter bows tilleul green, and sky blue are combined. The new colored veils of chenille dotted tulle add a gay touch to the cos tume, but they require the flowers or feather g.mature of the small bonnet and are not becoming to the face in warm weather. Light-colored grenadine dresses are again in fashion for midsummer. Tur quoise blue, Nile green, and lavender shades aio chosen for young ladies. They are trimmed with silk laces, and worn with many natural flowers. An elegant dress for a brunette is made of copper-red tulle over faille of the same shade, with a border aud panels of darker red roses clustered to gether without foliage. Another also for a brunette is of yellow satin with a lace overdress and cor dons of yellow roses with foliage of dark-brown leaves. The design for a pretty fan, for which a prize was awarded to a young Japanese aitist, shows four different views, representing the foliage of the different seasons. Held in one way the fresh green leaves of spiing are seen ; snother view of this side shows the rosy blush of summer blossoms. On the opposite side are drifting red autumn leaves, while in another view there is seen a lone bird on a bare bough aMid the falling snow. Origin of the British Races. ' Mr. Grant Allen thus sums up his articles lu Knowledge on the ethnologi cal composition of modern Britain. First, he says, there is a sub stratum or oldest stage of dak, nou-Aryan people, called Euskarians tor conveni ence, who are tbe descendants of the very earliest aboriginal inhabitants in recent times, the Neolithic folk. These Euskarians now nowhere exits in very great purity, but tfiey are still found in a fairly unmixed form among the black Celts of Ireland and Scotland, where one or two little com munities yet remain almost uualtered in the wilds of Connaught or the highlands of the central Scotch hills. They are also more spaisely recogniza ble in many parts of England itself, especially in' the Yorkshire plain, in Lincolnshire and aldng the Severn vallej. And they are fairly frequent In Wild Wales. All over the country, too, persons or families of this dark early type occur here and there spo radically. Next, there is a substratum or later stage of light Aryan people, who have broken over the islands in three dis tinct waves—Celtifc, English aud Scandinavian—and have everywhere mixed more or less with oue another, aud with the old Euskarian race. Ireland is, perhaps, mainly peopled by Euskarians, intermixed, in most parts, with Celts (but least so in Con nemara and Kerry), while round its 9 east coast there is much Scandinavian blood; and in Ulster there are many Scots, who are really Stratholyde Celt-Euskariaus from the western lowlands. So-called English settlers, many of them Welsh or Lancastrian, and others Norman, are scattered throughout the Pale. But, as a whole, Ireland is probably more Eu skarian aud less Aryan than any other part of Britain. In Scotland, the north and the Isles are Celt Eu- skarian, with a large Scandinavian admixture ; the Central Highlands are Euskarian with a ve y small Celtic clement intermixed ; the eastern Low lands are mainly English ; and the western Lowlands are peopled by Strathclyde Welshmen—that is to say Celt-Euskariaus, probably with a larger dash irf Aryau Celtic and Kug lish blood than elsewhere, Wales is Euskarian at bottom,slightly Celticized and with a little English and Norse blood. England itself is mainly Eng lish (or Low-Dutch) in the south-east; English and Danish, with a little Celt- Euskarian admixture, in Ihe eastern counties tbe north and the midlands ; English and Celt-Easkarian in the west country and ttie Severn valley ; aud Norse and Celt Euskarian in Lan cashire and tbe lake dntrict. Corn wall remains almost wholly Euska rian in type. All these statements, however, must be accepted merely in the rough, and they apply especially to the agricul- mral classes and the mass of the people. Eat Your Breakfast First. Dr. Hall is authority for the follow ing thoughts upon breakfasting before much exercise in the open air, partic ularly iu districts where fever and ague are abundant: Breakfast should be eateu in the morning before leav ing the bouse for exercise, or labor of any description ; those who do it will be able to perform more work, and with greater alacrity, than those who work an hour or two before break fast. Besides this, the average duration of life of those who take breakfast before exercise or work, will be a number of years greater than those wno do other wise. Most persons begin to feel weak after having been engaged five or six hours iu their ordinary avocations ; a good meal reiuvigorates, but from the last meal of the day until next morn ing there is an interval of some twelve hours; hence the body, in a sense, is weak, and in proportion cannot re sist deleterious agencies,whether of the tierce cold of midwinter or of poison ous miasm which rests upon the surface of the earth wherever the sun shines on a blade of vegetation or a heap of offal. This miasm is more solid, more con centrated, and heuce more malignant, about sunrise aud sunset thau any other hour of the twenty*four, because tbe cold of the night condenses it, and it is on tire first few inches above the soil iu its most solid form ; but as the sun rises it warms and expands and ascends to a point high enough to be breathed, and being taken into the lungs with the air and swallowed with the saliva into the stomach, all weak and empty as it is, it is greedily drunk in, thrown immediately into tbe circulation of the blood, and car ried to every part of the body, deposit ing its poisonous influence at the very fountain-head of life. If early break fast were taken in regions where chills and fever and ague prevail, and if, iu addition, a brisk fire were kindled in the family room for an hour, inclu ding sunrise aud'sunset, these trouble some maladies would diminish iu any one year, not ten-fold, but a thousand fold, because the heat of the fire would rarefy the miasmatic air instantly, and send it above the breathing point. But it is “troublesome” to be building fires night and morning all summer. It being no “trouble,” requiring no effort to shiver aud shake by the hour, weeks and months together. The Faculty. The Paris Faculty of Medicine has just collected some statistics relative to the medical profession. According to those statistics there are in the world 182,000 physicians with proper degrees. France possesses most doc tors in proportion to her population, and there are few countries in which the profession takes such part in poli tics. In the Chamber of Deputies alone there are forty medical men, in cluding the well-known M. Ulemen- ceau. Then the number of tlio doctors who are Senators. Couneillors-Gen- eral, and Municipal Councillors amounts to tlie enormous figure of 6,700. In Paris alone two hundred and flfty-six physicians contribute regu'ariy to the newspapers or to uiedioai journals. —• — ■ >O» - “ I never preteud to know a thing that I do not,” remarked Brown. “When I don’t know a thing, I say at once, ‘I don’t know.’” “A very proper course,” said Fogg, “but how monotonous your conversation must be, Brown.” Milk for Bright’s Disease. Tbe efficacy of milk in the promo tion of heahh aud the cure of disease in the human body lias been much written about by medical men, and its administration practiced by many of them. Still we doubt if the vast benefits its use may bestow are half as well understood r,s they should be. Sweet milk, warm from the cow, skimmed milk, boiled milk, sour milk, butter milk, limed milk, each finds special recommendation for special dise >ses aud each year adds to tue favorable developments of the uses of all. Of late years, especially in the United States, the prevalence known as “Bright’s Disease of the Kidueys” h is fright ully increased. Hardly a daily paper can lie picked up but it chronicles deaths by this disease. It seems to attack all classes aud both sexes, youth, mid dle age and old age, alike indis- criminately. The curative powers of much advertised mineral springs are invoked by tbe wealthy, but the grave seems to open the same, sooner or l iter, for the victims of a well de fined case of Bright’s disease. The papers teem with advertisements of patent medicines warranted to cure, and perhaps they do sometimes cure, but we fear too often fail in thousands of cases that do not reach the public. But as the Medical aud (Surgical Re porter, from which we take the fol lowing, says it becomes a medical question of paramount interest that we should discover some potent method of combating it : “Some years Biuce Carel first called attention to the treatment of Bright’s disease by using milk as a diet, and since then Duncan, as well as many other prominent physicians, have written upon the subject. We have c urselves seen some remarkable re sults follow this treatment, while Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of New York, is now’quite an enthusiast on this sub ject. This method of treating a for midable disease has received a suffi ciently distinguished indorsement to recommend it seriously to our notice. We would, therefore, ask all phy. i- ciaus who lead this article to try this method of treatment, aud to furnish us with their experience, which we will publish. Tbe milk is used thor oughly skimmed and entirely freed from butter. To procure the best re sults it has bem advised that the patient shall restrict himself absolutely to milk and continue the treatment for a long time. If it disagrees with the st imach (as it will in some cases), Dr. Mitchell advises that the patient be put to bed and the treatment com menced with tablespoonful doses, to which lime water is added, until the stomlch tolerates the milk, when from eight to ten pints daily ah mid be taken, and absolutely nothing else. The sanction of such a distinguished physician as Dr. Mitchell forces us to ■eriously consider the merits of this treatment, and we trust to receive the experience of all readers of this jour nal who may have ca:-es of Bright’s disease to treat.” In a late Baltimore paper, The Day, we find the following regarding the *case of Gen. Robert C. Schenck, as given by a correspondent, which seems to point to the tflicacy of the milk treatment. The correspondent says: “Instead of finding a very decrepit, worn out, pn his last legs old mao, as he had been pictured iu the news paper, I found an aged man it’s true— he is over seventy years old—but one whose physical appearance gives as surance of some years yeltoeujoy this life. He said he had been about given up some months ago as incura ble with Bright’s disease of the kid neys, when some one told him to use skimmed milk as his only diet. He says: ‘I tackled the skim milk, stuck to it, and here I am almost a new man. I believe tbe skimmed milk is a spe cific for Bright’s disease.’ ” In any event the remedy is simple and harmless. It is inexpensive and at the hands of all. , A Japanese laborer lives in a house of not me re thau four rooms; one for eating, sleeping, and sitting ; one for cooking, one for baching, and one to spare. He never wears boots or brings mud into the house. He and his fam ily sit on the floor when they eat and take their meals at a low table. The floor of their dining and sitting-room is covered with soft mats, upon which at night cotton comforters are spread to fleep under. Such a house can be built aud furnished for $100, aud though cheap and small, is comfort able. The bath, found in almost al laborer’s houses, is iu daily use. . Pious Gems. Our busy hands from evil stay; Lord! help us still to tasks divine- still keep us lu the heavenly way. Eirtlily joy cau take but a bat-like flight, always checked,always limited, in dusk aud darkness. But tbe love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads vis up iBto the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawiug us “still up ward” to the influite heights of glory. Make channels for the streams of love, Where they may broadly \ un ; Aud love hath ovei flowing streams To fill them every oue. But If at any time we cease Such channels to provide. The very founts of love lor us Will soou be parched and dried. I thought that the course of the pilgrim to heaven Would be bright as the sun and as glad as the morn : Thou show’dst me the path,—it was dark and uneven, All rugged with rocks and all tangled with thorn. O most grateful burden, which com forts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them ; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us. Our field is the world; whether sowing or reaping, Or gleaning the handfuls that others have parsed, Or waiting the growth of the seed that with weeping , On rocky and desolate plains we have cast; Yet eac l for his toiling and each for his mourning, Shall sometime rejoice when the harvest is won, And know, in the flush of eternity’s mo nlng That tbe toil, the reward, and the glory are one. Mrs. Douglas’ Tea Cups. An Inii-une of Her Wonderful Taot and Winmne W&ys The legend-lovers of Washington have always reme i bered the pretty and graceful ways of Mrs. Douglas, and never ceased to hold her up as the model of a statesmans wife. Her tact and amiability were boundless, and although when site married the Little Giant she was very young and much his junior, she adapted herself to the position from the start so thoroughly that no wite of twenty years’ experi ence in public life could equal lier. At oue of her receptions in Washing ton, a great, Bhy, awkward constituent from the most rustic region of Illinois presented himself in Mis. Douglas’ d orway, sent up there from the Capi tol by the Senator, who assured him that his wife would be delighted to see him. The visitor was anything but a parlor ornament, a rude, unpol ished son of the prairie, unused to the w ys of society, but a power in the politics of his home, and a man whose influence could be of vast assistance to Mr. Dougla®. Eutei iug the room gave him a nervous chill, Mrs. Douglas’ pretty greeting threw him into a fever, and her inviting him out to the refreshment room completed a case of palsy. Iguoring his trepidation, she chatted away to him herself, paid no attention to his stammering refusals, and poured out the tea iu some mirac ulous littte cups of eggshell Sevre 3 . Grasping the fairy calyx in his Augers for the first sip, the delicate bit of Sevres was ciushed to pieces and the the hot tea poured in a hot stream over Mrs. Douglas’silken train. With a gay laugh the lady said: “ How brittle they are! just look at mine,” and with a mighty effort she broke another cup between her lingers. Re assured, tiie constituent drew his breath and fouud himself at ease, while that incomparable hostess talked to him, asked about his mother, his wife aud his children, all of whom she remembered so well and called by name. That mau went home to work for, vote for and swear by Stephen A. Douglas, aud way back of his political convictions lay the pieces of those two brokeu*te:i-cu ps. Some ladies were discussing the in cident at a lunch party the other day, aud, said one pretty woman: “ 1 wouldn’t break my best teacups for any constituent iu my husband’s dis trict.” Out of tbe group there was only one who courageously said : “I’d break my whole dinner set if it would send nay husband to the Sei ale, and buy new ones when I got to Washing- ton,” she shrewdly added. Domestic Economy. Banana Pie.—Slice raw bananas, add bulter, sugar, allspice aud vine- gar, or boiled cider, or diluted jelly; bake with, two crusts. In the South they use cold boiled sweet potatoes in this way, and regard the pie as choice. < Pook Man’s Fruit Oake.—This cake is excellent as well as economi cal. Take oue and a half cups of brown sugar, two cups of fl mr, one of butter aud oue of chopped raisins, three eggs, three tablespoons of sour milk, half a teaspoon of soda, half a cup of blackberry jam. Mix the sugar, butter and eggs together first, then the flour aud milk and fruit. Bake iu a moderate oven. Cherry Pie —Line a pie-tin with rich crust; nearly ftli with the care fully seeded fruit, sweeten to taste, aud sprinkle evenly wi.h a teaspoon ful of corn starch, or tablespoouful of flour; add a tablespoouful of butter cut into small bits aud scattered over the top; wet the edge of the crust, put on upper crust, aud press the edges closely together, taking care to pro vide holes in the centre for the escape of the air. Pies from blackberries, raspberries, etc., are all made in the same way, regulaling the quantity of sugar by the tartness of the fruit. Maoar ini Soup. —Six pounds of beef put into four quarts of water with oue large onion, one carrot, one tur nip, and a head of celery, and boiled three or four hours slowly. Next day take off the grease, strain out the vegetables and pour into soup-kettle. Season with salt to taste. Boil one- half pound of macaroni until quite tender and place in the soup tureen. Pour soup over it—the last thing—and serve. Fried Tomatoes.—Cut the toma toes in slices without skinning, pep per and salt them ; then sprinkle a little flour over them and fry in butter until brown. Put them on a hot platter, and p«ur a little cieam into the butter and juice. When boiling hot pour over the tomatoes. This dish is very nice served with birds. Boned Chicken.—Boil a chicken in as little water as possible until the meat will fall from the bones ; remove all of the skin, chop together the light and dark parts; season with pepper and salt. Boil down the liquid in which the chicken was ooiltd, then pour it on the meat ; place iu a tin, wrap tightly in a cloth, press with a heavy weight for several hours. W’lien served cut in thin slioes. This is delicious for sandwiches at a picnic. Facts About the Comet. Statement Concerning its Composition—An Interesting Visitor. A communication iu the Biooklyn Union says:— This’ Wells comet proves the most important ever observed for another reason. Every comet thus far ex amined by the spectroscope has given hydro-carbon lines, showiug its chief constituents to be hydrogen'and car bon. This visitor has been very un favorably situated for spectroscopic observations in this country, but recently tiiere were received at the Dudley Observatory from Lord Craw - ord’s observatory, iu Scotland, the i Rowing despatch, dated May 29th :— ‘The spectrum of the nucleus of Comet Wells deserves the closest attention, as it shows a sharp, bright line coinci dent with D, as well as strong traces of other bright lines, resembling in appearance those seen in tbs spectra of Gamma Cassiopeia and allied s f ars.” The D line proves that sodium is a chief element among the const itutents of thiscomet, and the other lines indicate the presence also of iron and chit rine. No such spectrum of a comet has ever before been since the spectroscope has been iu use. Now it is known why this wanderer did not became a brilliant object. 8 >dium is twenty-three times less vol atile than the hydro carbons found in all other comets. Had the constituents of this visitor been those ordina rily observed, the tail of 4° or 5°, seen only by the help of a telescope of some power, would have been a magnificent brilliant train of 80° or 106°, visible distinctly to the naked eye in broad daylight, the prediction of M. Flam- marion, the famous French astrono mer, namely, “Just before perihelion we shall see an immense column of light rising obliquely in the sky at the northeast,” would have been real ized. Will we see the comet again? Will it be brilliant? It is hazardous to venture an answer. If visible to us it will be low down, near the horizon. The people south of the equator will have the best view of it. The hard materials of which it is composed may cool rapidly, and on the other hand they may retain heat longef than the ordinary constituents of comets. As during the past few months, we can only wait aud see what lu to occur. But those who saw this visitor with an opera glass or telescope have the satis faction of knowing that they have seen tiie most remarkable cornet thus far obs^-ved, and which has now be- oorne to astronomers the most interest ing objoot at present in the heavens.