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WOMAN'S WOULD. TONCS OF INTF^tST IN THE HOMS AND DOMESTIC CIRCLE. “It*# Always •«.” Arm** tha meadow with clover sweet. 1 wandered eue evening with weary feet. For my heart was heavy with satold woe, For everything seemed te go wrong, you know. Twaa one of thoee days whose cares and strife Dull* overshadowed the good In life, Bo, lone and aad, ’nestb the twilight stars 1 wsndc.ed u*» to the pasturs bars. Toths js*ture bars, Wtk the,hillside steep. Where patiently waited a fleck of sheep Fot ti e happy boy with whistle and shout Who was even now coming to tufa them out. « “Good evening!" said hs with boyish grace. And a smile lit np his handsome face, lie let down the bars; then we both stepped hack, And eald, "Ton have more white sheep than black." "Why, yes," he replied, “and didn’t you know? More white than black; why, ’tie always so.” He passed on with his flock ronnd the bill; But down on the pasture I lingered still, Pondering well on the w rds of tha lari. “ More white t’ -in black," more good than had, More joy th -o sorrow, more bliss than woe; "More white -..ao black," and “’tis always so." And since that hour, when trouble* rife Gather and th, *t*o to shroud my life — <lr 1 se« some soul on the downward track— 1 cry there are n.ore white sheep than black. And I lbank my liod that I learned u> know 'ihe blessed fuel Is al. ay* so. - flood Housekeeping. Fashions for Children. Wo are all aware h w pretty and at¬ tractive children’s toilets ran he. Then* two daintr l.ttlecreatures are very taste¬ fully and c.mimingly clad, the one on the left wearing a combination dress of figured white batiste and plain whit# batiste. Tim skirt is made up on a foundation of white silk and is lined with muslin half way up. Tho waist, which passes under the skirt, is closed with hooks invalid# at tile back. There is a it fw *. tj r, double melting, as represented, at the neck and yoke, and the sleeves are puffed ut the wrist and aLo ornamented with ruching. The litte lady on the right is dressed in white crepe, the skirt be¬ ing made up on a silk foundation lined with muslin. All tho edge of the ma¬ terial, which is cut on tho bias, is trimmed with embroidojy sewed on tho wrong side. The corsage is also trimmed in the same manner, and there is a bouffant sleeve over an ordinary one. The eeinture must ho made np on stiff material and have a rosette of ribbon. Tite right hand figure of the tiny cou¬ ple represented in the other illustration is dressed in gray linen witli a band of blue embroidery forming a square yoke, with ribbon# on tho shoulders. A baud * of th# embroidery also servos for a licit. The garment is buttoned at the back, Tlie figure to the left wears a figured white batiste, with a band of embroidery nt the bottom of the skirt surmounted liy three narrow pleats. The waist is mad#'of two insertions of embroidery scalloped on an edge and run with rib¬ bon on the other. They cross at the back and are buttoned to tlie licit. * 1'mIc* an Air Hath# Every woman 1ms evil hours when slio Ih too restless to keep still and too dull and heavy to do anything. She says shs is nervous. Her color loses its freshness, her eyes their brightness, her expression all its delicacy. She looks a coarser and less intelligent individual. Now the lat¬ est remedy proposed for this distemper is tlie air bath. Lock your doors if you would test it the next time tho blues de¬ clare themselves, and disrobe entirely, taking an air bath, in the sunshine If pos¬ sible, for five or ten minutes. This will act as a total alterative to the oppressed, restless state of the nervous system. It does better than a water bath, which, if one has already lx>en taken in the morn- iug, can not be always repeated with per¬ fect safety, After the air bath dress again slowly, donning completely fresh linen and some crisp aud rather new gown. Tlie freshness of external attire is infallibly soothing. Where Crinoline Wna Useful. Mrs. Lucinda B. Crane, who died re¬ cently in Boston, received the medal of the II umane Society a number of years ago for rescuing from drowuiug a young son of Professor Phelps, of Andover, aud an¬ other boy. They were overturned in a boat near the shore at Nahant, in full view of Mrs. Crane, who sprang into tho water to save them. It was in tlie days of full crinoliue, ami her outspread skirts sustained Mrs. Crane, who could not swim, and enabled her to support tlie boys until other aid came. Mrs. Crano was extremely patriotic and did much for the aid aud equipment of troops during the war. tlVIYVO* AMD 9 Unit./ at i>«p«l>Uta MavUg Tsar at A the Higher Ktflaaa. Th# Census Bureau ha* issued a bulle¬ tin on the distribution of population in accordance with altitude. It appears that in the area below GOO feat is included nearly all that part of the population which is engaged in manufacturing and in tii# foreign commerce of the country and most of that engaged in the culture of cotton, rice, and sugar. The interval between 500 feet and 1,606 feet comprint* the greater part of the prairie State# and grain producing States of the North¬ west. East of the 98th meridian 1,500 feet is practically the upper limit of pop¬ ulation, all the country lying above that rievation being mountainous. The pop¬ ulation between 2,000 and 6,000 feet is found mainly on the slope of the great "Western plains. Above 8,000 feet irriga¬ tion is almost universally necessary for success in agricultural operations. Between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, and more mnkedly between 6,000 and 6,000 feet, the population is decidedly in excess of tlie grade or grad.es below it This is mainly due to the fact that the densest settlement at high altitudes In the Cor- dilleran region is at tite eastern base of the Rocky Mountains and in the valleys about Great Salt Lake, which regions lie between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. Of these the extensive settlements at the base of the mountains in Colorado are mainly be¬ tween 6,000 and 0,000 feet. Above 6,000 feet the population, which Is confined, of course, to the Cordilleran region, is almost entirely engaged in tho pursuit of mining, and the greater part of it is located in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and California. While the imputation is increasing nu¬ merically in all altitudes, its relative movement is decidedly toward the region of greater altitudes, and is most marked between the country lying between 1,000 and 0,000 feet above the s*a. The density of jmpulation is greatest near sea level in that narrow strip along the seaboard which contains our great seaports. The density diminishes grad¬ ually and rather uniformly up to 2,000 feet, when the jxipulation becomes quite Sparse. The average elevation of the country, excluding Alaska, is about 2,500 feet, 'i'lie averugo elovution at which the in¬ habitants lived, taking cognizance of their distribution, was 687 feet in 1870; In 1880 it had increased to 739 feet, and in 1890 to 788 feet. The Atmosphere and Mainsprings. “Your mainspring i* broke," was th# positive declaration of a jeweler to a young man as he entered and walked up to the counter, meanwhile probing for his watch. The young man hadn’t said a word, “llow did you guess it,” lie asked, when he recovered from his amazement. “Didn’t guess it; I knew it, " was the jeweler’s reply. “That is, 1 could almost have sworn to it when I saw you feeling for your watch. 1 guessed then that something was the matter with that article, ft«d, having guessed that, I was ready to bet $35 to $1 that it was th# mainspring that was broken. And I’ll toll you why: There’s a certain time of the year - and this happens to bo it this year—when, if I have two or three per¬ sons come to mo with broken main- springs, I can make Up my mind that I’ll have 20 or 30 more of the same kind of customers within a vory short time. Now its just a week and a day ago that a man came to have a job of this kind done, and up to to-day I’ve had no less than 20 mainsprings to put in. They break voluntarily; atmospheric condi¬ tion has something to do with it. Now, I'll put a new spring in your watch which I guarantee for a year. It may last two or three years, and, again, it may not last two days, one day, or an hour. You can’t tell; they’re liable to break any time, no matter of how good quality they are. I’ve had new springs break right after 1 have put them in. "—Buffalo Courier, Moor Beth*. The moor baths, of which much is now heard, and which are provided at many Austrian and German health resorts, were first used at Frazsusbad. In 1823 Doctor Posohmann, a physician there, believed that he had found in them a now curative medium, and they have since become popular. Some phywbians still question their efficacy, while others in Austria and Germany rely upon them to render good service in many maladies. Though tite bath is composed of peal or moor earth to which enough water has boon added to make a thick paste of the mass, yet the peat is different from that which is extracted from a bog in Ireland and Scotland. Iu both Ireland and Scotland the peat is used as fuel; at Frazensbad tlie mineralized peat will not serve such a purpose. Tlie bog from which it is extracted has been saturated throughout countless ages with mineral water, and the product is a strong chem¬ ical compound. Thus a moor bath is a mineral bath in a concentrated form, aud effects are produced upon the system by taking a course of these baths which can not be produced, according to experts, by any mineral water. A Maine Tom Sawyer. A disciple of Tom Sawyer lives on Middle street; hois a professional gen¬ tleman, and his sign swings to the breeze on Main street. Last week he noticed the grass around his house needed cut¬ ting, so, investing in a scythe, he ap¬ proached tlie job and prepared to con¬ quer or die. In about three minutes his back gave out, and he sat down to pon¬ der. Tom Sawyer and the whitewash job came to his mind. “I’ll do it,” he exclaimed, under his breath.* And from that time onward lie sat there, and every man or lx>y that came along was invited to try his new scythe and “see how easy it works." Inside of two hours, says the Rockland Courier , the job was finished, and our friend hadn’t removed his coat tails from his easy perch. Brains nr# what most people need; muscle doesn't amount to much in the battle for su- premacy. If you would please a woman, praise her children; if you would please a man, k> ais# him.—Atchison Globe. pnoMUMY Droy?.». Ex-Senator Spoon* has shorn hi* iosf Bad wavy locks. Chief Justice LueSf, of West Virgin la, w four feet in height. Ex Governor Ri twd J. Oglesby, at Illinois, is said to resemble Denman Thompson in appea.ance. Senator Morrill, Vermont, designed and directed the building of the house in which he lives at Strafford. Father Molling.r, whose miraculous cures at Troy Hill shrine have made him famous, is said to have accumulated a fortune of $8,000,000. Idle Duke of Cambridge, commander In chief of her majesty's army, is known as “Umbrella George." Perhaps this designation arises from a disposition ou his part to get in out of the wet on all occasions. President Harrison and Secretary No¬ ble were not only fast friends and school¬ mates when young, but they were rivals for tiie hand of the same girl. Carrie Scott somehow or other preferred Mr. Harrison. Frederick B. McGinnis, a well known colored man of B hi more, has received from Mrs. Jefferson Davis a handsome osage orange wood cane, which is tlie ix> quest from the late president of the Con¬ federate -States. Bteplien A. Douglas, prosecuting at¬ torney for tlie city of Chicago, and son of tlie famous Democrat of that name, never visits Springfield, III., without go¬ ing to the tomb of his father’s old polit¬ ical ojtpouent and friend, Abraham Lin¬ coln. The youngest man to sit in the next Congress will be a Texan named Bailey. He is under 30. When he took the stump in Texas last year the farmers used to go from town to town in their covered wagons a d camp out so t hat they might hear Bailey speak again and again. “ Mother Stewart," of Ohio, tho orig¬ inator of the famous woman’s temper¬ ance crusade of 15 years ago, has returned from a trip to Europe. Her temperance addresses in Paris are said to have been the first delivered by a woman in that city. Ex-Secretary Bayard is growing fleshy as he advances in years, and his fine height is now balanced by a fair breadth of body. His face has become set in severe lines and his hair has whitened rapidly since death robbed him of his wife and his favorite daughter. Cardinal Manning, who has just en¬ tered upon his 84th year, observed in a recent note to Mrs. Gladstone: “ Vou know how nearly I have agreed in Will¬ iam’s political career, especially in his Irish policy of die last 20 years,” and “ how few of our o.d friends and ions survive." compan¬ now George Wuahin, ton’s nearest living kin is Washington, Mrs. Fanny \ asliington Finch, of D. < a great grandniece of the Father <t>f llis Country. Hite is a tall, majestic woman, and in features re¬ sembles tlie portraits of her distinguished relative. She is the youngest and tho only survivor of 12 children. William Morris, the English poet, art¬ ist, and Socialist, affects a singularly shabby and unpicturesque attire, llo may be seen on Oxford street, in London, wearing an old black slouch hat, an an- cient sackcoat, baggy trousers, and a lilu# flannel shirt. The necktie is usually missing and sometimes lie wears no col¬ lar. Hut, his flowing white hair and beard make him an object of interest to ovary passer by. WIT OF TUB EDITORS. Consistency is a jewel. It is not fash¬ ionable to wear much jewelry.—Dallas News. Most of the enterprising journals in tlie country report all hangings as a mat¬ ter of noose.—Texas Siftings. When a woman refuses to pocket an insult it isn’t always due to the fact that site can’t find her pocket.—Rochester Post. There is a native savagery in every breast that loves to sit. in the dry itself and watch those who are caught out iu tlie rain.—Rani's Horn. "1 should think she would put on fall mourning for her brother, instead of half mourning, ns she does. ’’ “ He w as only her half brother. "—Brooklyn Life. She—So she reached Paris yesterday 1 How wonderful it is that the nows can be sent so safely over the ocean cable through so many miles of salt water. He—Yes; and be so fresh.—Life. Tite New York Herald's idea of a good wife: Th# Pastor—Of course you believe that you will go to h aven when you die? Tite Wife (with resignation)—* No, I suppose 1 will l e to go whore my husband dims. ” “Did any man ev 4 - kiss you before, darling?" “Before— to-day? No, Ed¬ ward, you are the first. ” And tho re¬ cording angel didn’t need to drop a tear to blot out the fib, for he was tlie first that had kissed her that day.—Buffalo Express. There was a fire in a store in a small town in Now Jersey—or it may have Ixten in Oonneof'cut—-and a New York reporter was • nt to write it up. Ho asked a prominent citizen of the place if tlie fire was the work of an ineendia^t “ 1 tuuno, ” said tho prominent citizen^ “it might be, but my opinion is it wa# eot. "—Men's Outfitter. Woman Dress Reformer—We have woF ed hard in the great movement to /niaucipate women from the tyranny of dress, and we are on the eve of » glorious victory. There is only one drop of bitterness in our cup of joy. Friend—What is it? “The fact that Hie women of th# country won t accept our ideas. ’’—New York Tribune. “H« told his son to milk the cows, feed the horses, slop the pigs, hunt the eggs, feed the calves, catch the colt and put htm iu tho stable, cut plenty of wood, split kindlings, stir the milk, put fresh water in the creamery after supper, and to be sure and study his lessons before he went to bed. Then he hurried off to the club to take a loading part in th# questio*. ‘How to keep boys on the farm.’ "—Covington (Da.) Enterprise. BITS OH> I SI FORMATION. There are 1,100,000 people in Liberia. Pittsburg was named after William Pitt in 1758. Slavery was abolished in the British colonies in 1833. “Modern History” begins with the 16tb century, - There are 1,000,000 French Canadians in the United States. The Vatican contains 208 staircases and 1,100 different rooms. The true meaning of the word Illinois is now said to lie “the plains.” An English statistician estimates the world’s indebtedness at $150,000,000,000, Plante grow faster betwen 4 and 6 a, m. than at any other time during the day. Frogs, toads, mnd serpents never take food but that which they are satisfied is alive. The largest railway depot in the world is at Birmingham, England. It covers 11 acres. In all their wars, the British have won the splendid average of 82 per cent of tha battles. The great telescope of Lord Rouse has a speculum six feet in diameter and 55 feet focus. There are known to be 209 cities in the world with populations of over 100,000 persons each. According to unofficial figures there were 144,300 Irish in the Federal armies, and 176,800 Germans. There are 41,050 names in New York city beginning with the letter S, while tlie tetter Z lays claim to only nine. New York has a copper house. Scien¬ tists believe the time not distant when houses will be built of aluminum. There are 720 women ordained or li¬ censed to preach in this country. It is not many years since there was not one. It is estimated that at least $50,000,000 of tlie Government’s paper money sup¬ posed to lye in circulation has been lost or destroyed. The catacombs of Rome contain the remains of about 6,000,000 human beings, and those of Paris about .3,000,000, The latter were formerly stone quarries. The first railroad to carry passengers was the Stockton, England, and Darling¬ ton Company, in 1825. The first railroad in tho United States was in operation tlie following year. Some land in Paris has been sold at the rate of $2,000,000 per acre; some in London for what w ould not $5,000,000 per acre, and some in New York for a sum equal to $8,000,000 per acre. Montana is larger than the empire of Turkey. Texas is larger than the whole Austrian empire by 30,000 square miles, and Now Mexico is larger than Great Britain and Ireland together. The number of English words which have no rhyme in the language is large. Among them are month, silver, liquid, spirit, chimney, warmth, gulf, sylph, music, breadth, width, depth, honor, iron, and echo. The estimate of the world's population in 1890 is ns follows: Europe, 380,200,- 000; Asia, 850,000,000; Africa, 127,000,- 000; Australasia, 4,730,000; North Amer¬ ica, 89,250,000; South America, 36,420,- 000. Total—1,487,600,000, Although whales grow to enormous size, sometimes 80 feet and even 90 feet long, the throat is so small that it can not swallow a bite as large as a tea bis¬ cuit. This applies to the common whale; the spermaceti has a mouth large enough to swallow Jonah. INTERK.STUVO NOTES. The W. C. T. TJ. temperance hospital in Chicago has been very successful in treating patients without any alcohol be¬ ing taken, and is to erect a $100,000 hos¬ pital. A philological statistician- calculates that in the year 2,000 there will be 1,700,- 000,000 people who speak English, and that the other European languages will be spoken by only 500,000,000 people. ft is announced that the members of the leprosy commission, who are now pursuing their researches in Simla, have made the important discovery that the leprosy bacillus can be isolated and cul¬ tivated artifieally. A rabbit was inocu¬ lated and killed after some days, and dis¬ tinct leprous nodules were found in tho body. It is stated that the bacillus ha# never before grown outside the human body.—London Public Opinion. To the great regrot of tlie friends of the late Dr. Schliemann, many of the inter¬ esting relics dug up by the great ex- plorer in Troy have been stolen and de¬ spoiled by the miserable inhabitants of Asia Minor. Turks aud Arabians in the neighborhood of tho excavations use tlie valuable stones to build their huts. After Schliemann’s death a man was employed to guard the ruins. His salary was dis¬ continued recently, however, and the watchman ceased to guard the excava¬ tions. Tlie Standout, of Constantinople, calls upon all scientific societies of Europe and America “ to put an end to the icon- oclasm and vandalism of the somi barbar¬ ous inhabitants” and to continue the work of the great Schliemann.—New York Tribune. Dr. Baudin, of the French Academy, furnishes some very interesting statistics with regar d to deaf mutes. The number thus afflicted from birth increases in pro¬ portion to the degree of blood relation¬ ship existing between the parents. In Berlin there are six deaf mutes among every 10,000 Protestants, 27 among 10,0o0 Jews, and 31 among 10,000 Catholics, In other words the number of deaf mutes is larger where the religion allows consau- guinous marriages. The number also in¬ creases in countries where there are nat¬ ural obstacles to marriages between those not thus related. In France the propor¬ tion is six to 10,000 inhabitants, in Cor¬ sica 14, in the Higher Alps 23, in Ireland 11, and in the Canton of Berne 88, Tho danger of such offspring from marriages tail ween cousins is 18 times greater, be¬ tween uncles aud nieces 37, aad between aunts and nephews 70 times greater than %etweon persons where no such rotation- *hip exists.— B#lletristtach«s Journal. <j FOR YOUTHFUL FOLK. HI M-rM-VM. 8*1(3 little brown Bee to bl*brown Bee: “Oh! harry here &od eee and see The loveliest rose—the loveliest rose That (d the garden grows, grows, grows. H um-um-oA—(pUo-nm-uin." Said little brown Bee to big brown Bee. Said little brown Bee to big brown Bee: ■'Much honey most be here, and we Should beg a portion while we may. For soon more beee will comu thia way, H um-nm-nm—hum-um-nm. ” Said little brown Bee to big brown Bee. Said big brown Bee to little brown Bee: "The rose is not for me. for me, Though she 1» lovelier by far Than many other (lowers aro. Hum-uio-um-hum-um-um." Said big brown Be# to little brown Bee. Said big brown Bee to little brown Bee: “No honey cap has she, has she. But ninny cups, all brimming over. Has yonder little purple elover. And that's the flower for me, for me. Hum-uin-nm—hom-am-um." Said big brown Bee to little brown Bee. —St. Nicholas, * Unfortunate but True. Minerva, the little daughter of Clerk Cunningham of the Palmer House, sat on the desk for a moment this morning. Tile little tot had a bad cold in her head and a sneeze brought tsftn to her eyes. “ Papa, ” she cried. Clerk Cunningham looked up from his work, “ Papa, ” she repeated, after striving to breathe through her olfactory organ. “ I wants to tell oo zat my eyes leak an’ zat one of my noses doesn’t work. ”—Chicago Post. * Has* Hurt’s Party, Rosa Burt and her little cousin Annie wished very much to have a {tarty, and Rosa’s mother said that they might have oueou die very next Saturday afternoon, Sr 1 * 3 Wka vfk, r §M m* TOf f) r WRITING THE INVITATIONS. Rosa didn't caro for a large party, as she would rather have it “selected,” she said, so no one but Ralph Harlow and his brother Jimmy were invited. It. took many days for Rosa to prepare for Saturday, and she had to go to market many times to “buy things. ’’ i -IT f t Si 13 % GOING TO MARKET. It. is true she came home very often with Iter basket empty, but she always said it was because there was nothing nice to buy. •HeCy. f 0) J err:: Yi ,e x—— “COOKTNG. ” Every morning Rosa and Annie spent an hour in the kitchen cooking. They made sugar water and peppermint water and little biscuits and other things But nothing seemed quite nice enough Sor them. Cook finally agreed to attend to the feast, so the girls gave themselves no further trouble about that. • /'' (•) V' 1“ r . * r- ; COMPANY ARRIVES. Saturday afternoon, promptly at 3 • o’clock, a ring wa# heard at the door, and upon opening it there stco 1 Huipn and .Jimmy, the latter carrying in his hand a nice bouquet. After talking about the weather and other things, Roea said thst she thought tlie supper must be ready by $ Vh / i ■vC MARCHING IN TO DINNER. that time, so she took Ralph's arm. while Jimmy offered his arm to Annie, and out into the nursery they marched and seated themselves at the table. Cook had pro¬ vided a nice oyster stew and plenty of cookies; candy came later. m ,V‘ t A n II * 4 rfi THE SUPPER A GRAND SUCCESS. Tommy, the cat, sat at Annie’s side all through the supper, and meowed very often for a piece of cookie, which h« always got. Tlie supper was a grand success, and when it was all over the children spent the time until dark in play¬ ing games and looking at pictures. Rosa told her mamma that night that sha thought parties were very nice, and she would like to have one every day. Pnjne** Daughters. In an old book written by a Western Congressman, a contemporary of Web¬ ster and Clay, containing reminiscences of Ids times, a story is told of one of his friends, a farmer in Kentucky named Payne, who had six daughters, none of whom was blessed wuh beauty. The Congressman knew them in their homely youth, and when he returned a few years later found them all married to good, influential men. So great was his surprise that he ventured to ask their father why they all had been so soughs when other girls remained neglected. The old farmer chuckled. “Yes, and you may say when they had neither dower nor good hoiks. Well, I’ll toll you. When I want my cattle to oat buckwheat stubble instead of grass, t don't drive them into that field ; 1 fence it off from them! They are so contrary that they always want the tiling they can’t got. They break down the fence; I drive them out aud put, it up. By tho time they fight for it once or twice they think they like the ktubble. “ Well, 1 saw my girls wern't the most attractive “You kind, and I fenced them in. never found them in hotels dancin’ or keepin’ stalls at county fairs. Young men to know them hod to como to their father's house. When tho neighbors saw how the Piyne girls were kept apart from tlie crowd, they thought their value must he high. Young men came to break down the fence. They like to break down fences. ” “ Tin's story was coarsely told, perhaps, ” adds the narrator. “But there is more in it than meets the eye. ” He was rigid. Ev ry young girl wishes, if it he God’s will, that she shall live a woman’s full life as wife and mother; that some mao who is worthy shall some day seek her to make her his own. The desire is natural and right. But if she hopes for this, let her keep up the fences. The girl who tramps up and down tho village street, who runs to the shop or postoffice where the men congregate, who tries to coax them to her side, is only making herself common and cheap in their eyes. Let her remember the Kentucky farm¬ er’s maxim, and bo sure that men, aseat- tb‘, like to break d >wn the fence, and view with contempt that which is ex- fxrsed upon the open highway.—Youth’s tonipauion. Three AceompIUhinenta. Here are three accomplishments which tlie late Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, said every girl should have: 1. She should be able to ride a horse gracefully and fearlessly, 2. She should Ixs able to read aloud well. 3. She should know how to write an entertaining letter. An Important Bit of Advice. Those of our readers who have no sys¬ tem of sewerage wdiere they live should 1x3 warned to be scrupulously careful about the manner in which they dispose of dish water, washing suds, and the like. Never have one place to empty these, but distribute them at the roots of various trees and shrubs and away from the well or cistern. Washing suds should never he allowed to stand. Throw them away as soon as the washing is finished. Above all things avoid a barrel sunk in ’lie ground as a means of drainage. , For Invalids# Hot clam juice is highly recommended as nourishing and palatable, and is very acceptable to an invalid, particularly if troubled with nausea. Oyster broth is also a good diet for a weak stomach. After the “goodness” has been cooked out of tlie oysters, strain the broth into a liowl and crumble into it soma crack¬ ers or bite of bread, and season to taste