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NO MORE. In life wo more !—the leaves fell fast, And all the heaven was overcast; We looked into each other's eyes— We kissed one kiss between our sighs— It was the first kiss and the last. In vain we wait with souls aghast— No more across the silence vast Come protests faint, come faint replies— In life, no more ! No more in dalliance or in haste, In April airs or autumn blast, Wo meet—and every heartache flies ; We kiss and all division dies; No more!—the moment came, and passed— In life, no more! -r • ♦ • ♦ Sanitary. It the arnica with which bruised limbs are bathed is heated its good ef fects are perceptible much earlier than if it is applied while cold. If arnica is to be taken as a remedy, as so many physicians recommend in cases of severe sprains, it should be prepared with water in this proportion : A teaspoon- ul of arnica in a goblet two-thirds full of water, and of this a teaspoonful is to be taken once an hour or once in two hours, as the severity of the case deter mines. When •’doctors disagree ”—and as the opinions of no two nurses agree as to whether it is safe or not to quiet the baby’s colic with peppermint or with the mild and fragrant anis—it is cheer ing to be told that a little warm water, with nothing in it, will do the work as effectively and with no danger of injury to the stomach of the smallest child. A small bag containing some hops will, if heated and applied to the stomach, give relief. Do not wet the hops, for the dry heat is just as efficacious and much less inconvenient. Look to Health.- The liver is the assistant of the stomach, and, like that organ, that it may be in its best possible condition, it demands simple food, nu tritious and easy of disgestion, taken at proper times and in moderate quantities, thoroughly chewed, and as thoroughly insalivated, that the starches may be chemically changed. While the excess ive use. of fats and sweets tax and irri tate. acids are in special demand in the warm weather as a means of purifica tion and cooling, this being particularly true In the early hot weather. In my own experience I find no acid so well adapted to the waints of the stomach and liver as the acid phos phate, as an aid to digestion. Indeed, the pure fruit acids I consider far su perior to vinegar, which, at best, is the product of putrefaction. To secure the best effects from all acids—if acids cool and sweets heat—they should he used without sugar. I confluence the use of this acid in the spring as a table drink, adding just enough of it to water to make it agree able, and continue it during the warm weather, at any time in the day when a drink is demanded, depending on it at any season when an acid to the stomach or liver seems in demand. We are well satisfied* with its use, and feel that it is of service to us in the matter of the sustenance of the brain and nerves. The female drinker of tea, and the consequent victim of neuralgia—if the tea is strong—cannot do better than to discard her neuralgia-producer, and substitute this highly agreeable and valuable drink, since her nerves need nutrition far more than a fruitless attempt to quiet and restrain them by opiates! Let her heed the cry of the nerves for food, take an abundance of such, with a glasfP^kthis water on retiring,, and the neuralgia will soon abate. u How can I whitten and soften my hands ?” is a question that is asked by a correspondent. Doubtless one way to do this is to avoid doing the work which has made your hands rough and dark, but often this work can bo done with such care that the hands will not lie injured. If one is obliged to sweep her house, to empty the aslie from grate or stove, and to wasli dishes she cannot expect to keep her hands as white as idle hands are; hut if she takes tiie precaution to put on a pair of old gloves or mittens when she sweeps and is doing dusty work one cause of rough skin will be removed. Then there are preparations which one may use; powdered borax is excellent to soften the skin. A mixture which is said to he a sure cure for undue perspiration of the hands is made of quarter of an ounce of jiowdered alum, the white of one egg and enough bran to make a thick paste ; after washing your hands apply this; let it remain on your hands for two or three minutes, and then wasli off with a soft, dry towel. Luke warm water is better than hot or cold if the skin is inclined to he tender or to Commercial Law. Brief Digests of Late Decisions. Promissory Note and Tender.— An action was brought to recover the value of certain bonds which had been pledged with a hanker for the payment of a note, and which the holder of the note had converted to liis own use. The maker of the note tendered the princi pal and interest on the note on the day when, by its express terms, it was pay able, and’demanded the bonds pledged. The holder refused to take the amount and give up the bonds because lie claimed the right to hold the bonds as security for the payment of another claim he had against the maker of the note. The defence set up was that the tender of the principal and interest of the note could not he legally made be fore the note was due, and that as it carried grace it did not fall due until three days after the tender v as made The court said: 1. The parties having treated the note as due on the day when bv its terms it was payable, the rights of third persons not having intervened, the days of grace must he considered as waived. 2. A hanker or broker has no lien upon securities pledged with him for the payment of a particular debt for a general balance due him, or for the payment of any other claim whatever. Wycoff vs. Anthony, New York Court of Appeals. SitbscripTion Liability. —Certain persons subscribed to build a cheese factory and the subscriptions were made payable to the building committee, who were named in the subscription paper and who were also subscribers. One of the subscribers refusing to pay after some of the subscriptions had been paid in, the building committee sued him. The defendant pleaded that the com mittee had no authority to sue and also that, as the subscription was voluntary only, he was under no legal obligation to pay it. The court gave judgment against the defendant and said : The' undertaking, while it was inchoate and incomplete, was not binding on the de fendant. It was without a considera tion. Tt was not a sufficient considera tion that others joined in the same promise relying on his promise. The defendant might then have withdrawn from the project, or he could continue in it until it was completed and sub scriptions paid, as in this case, and then he would he hound. The building com mittee were competent parties to sue for the subscription. Under the agreement they were to he paid and, being sub scribers themselves, they represented the association.—Carr vs. Bartlett, Supreme Court of Maine. Married Woman’s Note.—A mar ried woman gave her husband an or dinary promissory note which lie had discounted. When she was sued upon it by the hank she set up the defence that she was not bound to pay it. The hank claimed that the law would im ply that her estate was benefited by the discount. The court decided fo.i the defendant, and said: “A married woman cannot bind herself by contract unless the obligation is created by her for the benefit of her separate estate or in the transactions of a trade or business carried on by her. If a note is given by her for property purchased, she will bound by it. But no impli cation, presumption or impression will he raised by the making of a promis sory note that the money received by it will benefit her business or estate. To give an ordinary note force and effect against her, evidence outside of it must he given to show that it was made for the benefit of her separate estate, or in the course of her separate business.” —The Saratoga County Band vs. Prayn, New York Court of Appeals. New Prmise.—To take a debt out of a statute of limitations, the new promise must he definite and show the nature and amount of the debtor must distinctly refer to some writing or to some other means by which the nature and amount of it can he ascertained. Or there must he an acknowledgement of a present subsisting debt from which a promise to pay such debt may he im plied. But a more distinct promise is required to deprive a bankrupt of the exemption secured by liis certificate, and it lias hen held that even a payment of interest or principal indorsed on the note by the debtor himself is sufficient to warrant a jury in referring a new promise to pay the rest due of the debt. —Riggs vs. Roberts, Supreme Court of North Carolina. Mortgage.—A grantee of a mort gage or who merely purchases the equity of redemption is not liable to the mort gagee for any part of themortgage de not satisfied \v sale on foreclosure. But if he purchases the property of the mortgagee and as a pan of the contract of purchase assumes and agrees to pay the mortgage indebtedness, he becomes personally liable and an appropriate action may he obtained against him to enforce liis liability under the contract. Where a party receives a warranty deed containing a clause that it is made sub ject to a mortgage given upon the land by the grantor to a third person, this of itself will create no<personal liability on the part of the/ grantee to pay the outstanding incumbrance. — Rapp vs. Stoner, Supreme Court of Illinois. Patents.—The life of an American patent granted for a foreign invention must he limited to the end of the term of the foreign patent. A subsequent extension of the foreign patent can not he invoked to extend the term of the domestic patent. — Bate Refrigerator Company vs. Gillett, United States Circuit Court, District of New Jersey. A patent for a result must he limited to the mechanical devices shown in the patent whereby that result is secured- A mere mode of manipulating or work, ing a printing press whereby it is made to perform a new kind of work, without any substantial change in its mechan ism, is not patentable. When a patent is for a combination there is no in fringement unless all the'parts of the combination shown in the patent, or known substitutes therefor, are used.— Goss et al. vs. Gameron et al., United States Circuit Court, Northern Circuit of Illinois. English, Irish and Scotch. Looking at the population of the three kingdoms it may easily he perceived that there is a considerable difference among them with regard to tempera ment. The Irish are gay, ardent; the Scotch are comparatively cool, steady and cautious; the English are, perhaps, a fair average between the two. We remember it was not inelegantly oh served by a friend that an Englishman thinks and speaks; a Scotchman thinks twice before lie speaks, and an Irishman peaks before he thinks. A lady presen- added: “A Scotchman thinks with his head, an Irishman with his heart.” This allusion to impulse operating more rapidly than deliberation is akin to Miss Edgeworth’s remark that an Irishman may err with his head, never with his heart; the truth, however, being that he obeys liis heart, not always waiting for the dictates of his head. Some years ago there was a caricature very graphi cally portraying these grades of differ ence in the ardor of the three nations. A* Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotchman were represented as looking through a confectioner’s window at the beautiful young women serving in the shop. “Oh!” exclaims Mr. Patrick, B klo let us he spending a half crown with the dear crayture, that we may look at her convanientlv and have a hit of chat with her. ” “You extravagant dog!” said Mr. George; “I’m sure half the money would do quite as well. But let us go in by all means; she is a charm ing girl.” “Ah! wait a wee!” inter posed Mr. Andrew, “dinna ye ken it’ll serve our purpose equally weel just to ask the bonnie lassie to gie us twa six pences for a shilling, and inquire where’s Mr. Thompson’s house, and sic like? We’re no hungry, and may as well save the siller.” AnOld Servant Indeed. Those who have noticed the corres pondence in your columns on the sub ject of long and faithful service will be interested in the following case which T think has rarely been paralleled : When C. E. was six years old (one year be fore lie could legally he hound appren tice) he entered tlie employ of Farmer R. This was in the year 1790. From that time until the year 1870—for eighty years—he continued in the service of the same family, outliving two em ployers (father and son) and seeing a third (who is grandson of the first) well advanced in years. This faithful ser vant and liis wife are now alive, though somewhat burdened with the infirmities of old age. I know this worthy old couple well and am able to say that they are tenderly cared for in their old age. r The tendency of modern practice in manuring with commercial fertilizers is to use readily soluablo manures, The Dominical Letter. As an explanation of the meaning and use of the Dominical letter is sel dom found in any hook or paper, per haps an article respecting it may not he unin cresting to many rural readers. The writer heard it explained by one of his teachers some years since, but has never seen an explanation in print, though some old arithmetic is said to contain it. The first seven letters of the alphabet are to be used for the purpose of deter mining the day of the week, or month, without referring to the calender or almanac, Let us observe, in the first place, how these letters are applied to the days of the year. The first day ol the year is designated by the letter A, the second B, the third by C, and so on repeating the letter for every seven days. Now, by continuing thus through the year and noting the letters which fall on the first day of the months we shall find that they occur in the follow ing order, A, D, D, G, B, E, G, C, F, A, I), F. These twelve (seven differ ent) letters constitute the basis of reck oning for any year. A always designat ing the first day of January, D the first of February, D the first of March, and so on. The following couplet will as sist in remembering their order. At Dover Dwells George Brown Esquire, Good Carlos Fynch And David Fryer. Let us now consider how the seven letters are applied to the day of the week. Since A always designates the first day of the year, it necessarily des ignates the day of the week an which it occurs; also, B the day following, and so oil If the first of January occurs on Friday, then A will designate Fri day, B Saturday, &c.; if on Tuesday, then A will designate Tuesday, B Wed nesday, &c: We see, then that the same letter designates different days of the week in different years, but the same day of the week throughout the same year. By knowing the letter designating a particular day of the week, we know at once the letters for the other days of the week. The letter designating Sunday is the one fixed on from which to reckon. It is generally given in the almanac, and is called (dies Domini), Lord’s day, or Sunday letter. Since that day of the week on which the first of January occurs is designated by A, the day following is B, etc., we readily ascertain the Dominical letter, as it is the one falling on Sunday. Thus, when the first of January occurs on Wednesday, the letter falling on Sunday is E, which is the Sunday or Dominical letter for the year. The first of Janu ary this year occurred on Saturday, and the Sunday or Dominical letter is B. Now, on what day of the week will the 4th of July occur ? By the couplet, the first of July is G. Then the 4th isC, or Monday. On what day will Christmas occur ? The 1st of December is F ; then the 22d is F and the 25tli B, or Sunday. Again, it is the second Wed nesday of May, what day of the month is it ? The 1st of May is B, or Sunday, then Wednesday is the 4th, and the sec ond Wednesday the 11th. It is the third Friday in October,what day of the month is it ? The first of October is A, or Saturday, then Friday is the 7th, and the third Friday is the 21st. The Sunday or Dominical of 1857 was D, Then the first of July being G, the 4th was C, or Saturday. The 1st of May being B, was Friday. Then the firs Wednesday was the fitli, and the second the 13th. There are two Dom inica! letters for leap year. The first letter is used for the first two months and the second, which is the letter pre ceding the first in order of the alphabet, is used for the remaining ten months and compensates for the additional day in February. The Dominical letter of any year is the letter preceding, in the orfer of the alphabet, the Dominica letter of the preceding year. Business Law in Daily Use. The following brief law points wil not he had for “the hoys” to paste in their hats when they start out on their tall*s: A note by a minor is void. It is fraud to conceal a fraud. A note made on Sunday is void. Ignorance of the law excuses no one. A contract made with a lunatic is void. Notes hear interest only stated. The acts of An Signatures made with a lead pencil are good in law. Principals are responsible for the acts of their agents. No consideration is sufficient in law if it he illegal in its nature. Checks nr drafts must he presented for payment without unreasonable delay. A note obtained by fraud, or from a person in a state of intoxication, cannot he collected. Notice of protest may lie sent either to the place of business or residence of the party notified. An indorsee has a right of action against all whose names were on the bill when lie received it. An indorser may prevent liis own lia bility to he sued hv writing “without recourse” or similar words. If two or more persons as parties are jointly liable on a note or bill, due no tice to one ol them is sufficient. If the letter containing a protest of non-payment he put into the postoflice, any miscarriage does not affect the party giving notice. Each individual in a partnership is responsible for the-whole amount of llie debts of the firm, except in cases of a special partnership. If a note is lost or stolen it does not release the maker ; lie must pay it if the considerat’on for which it was given and the amount can he proven. Part payment of debt yvhicli has passed the time of statutory limitation revives the whole debt, and the claim holds good for another period from the date of such partial payment. “Value received” is usually written in a note, and should he, hut it is not necessary, if not written, it is pre sumed by the law, or may he supplied by proof. If when the debt, is due the debtor is out of the State, the limitation does not begin to run until he returns. If he afterward leaves the State, the time for ward counts the same as if he remained in the State. The maker of an “accommodation” hill or note (one for which he had re ceived no consideration), having let liis name or credit for the benefit of tlie holder, is bound to all parties, precisely as if there was a good consideration. The holder of a note may give notice of protest either to all the previous in dorsers,or only to one of them ; in case of the latter, he must select the last in dorser, and the last must give notice to the last before him, and so on. Each indorser must send notice the same eay or the following day. Neither Sunday nor legal holidays are to he counted in reckoning the time in which notice is to be given. When in a suit on a promissory note it is adjudged to he void because it had been altered in a material part, the holder of the note can recover on the oirignal consideration paid for the note without returning or offering to return the note. Woman’s Hair in the Heart of Trees. The Tribune recently copied from tlie London Telegraph a paragraph about a lock of hair found in the centre of an oak, placed there, the writer thought, by a “too secretive lover. ” A subscriber, Mrs. A. B. Tomlinson, of Knox, Pa., does not accept that explanation. “In olden times,” she writes, “there was. a superstitious belief (and some believe in it at the present time) that certain dis eases could he cured by the following method: Place the patient with her hack toward and close to an oak tree. Lay an auger on top of her head with the point toward the tree. Then bore a hole deep into the tree, remove the au ger, and cut of the lock of hair directly beneath it. Wrap the lock of hair in a verse taken from the Bible. Then take a wooden plug, place the hair and verse at the end of it. and, while mut tering something akin to ‘I do this in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.’ drive it far into the heart of the tree. I have a girl working for me at the present time who is quite positr that she had the phthisic cured in way, and I suppose some time future her loufeuf hair.Ai.lso discovered there wil .bo'