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HOME HINTS. '
A simple but delicious dish for dessert is ■
made by cutting up oranges in small pieces
and then pouring over them some rich
boiled custard. Serve with cake.
Silt fish are quickest and best freshened i
by soaking in sour milk.
i h'toFs M boiled .„d nd A ...
makes a dainty dish for a lu ich or tea.
Fish be scaled i
may much easier by first
dipping them into scalding water for a
moment.
Milk which has bien changed may be ;
sweetened or rendered fit for use * bv stirring
in a little soda.
Fresh meat beginning to soar, will sweet
en if placed out of doors in the cool air over
night.
Kerosene will softeu boots and shoes
hardened by water, rendering them as soft
and pliable as new.
A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with
your white clothes will greatly aid the
whitening process.
Paste for labels is made by soaking glue
in strong vmegar, then heating it to boiling
temperature and adding flour.
Boiled starch is much improved by the
adding of sperm or salt, or both, or a tittle
gum arable, dissolved.
When cooking a large fowl or joint ot
meat it may be covered with a buttered
paper to prevent its being scorched.
Clear boiling water will remove tea stains,
pour the water through the stain, and thus
prevent its spreading over the labrie.
Kerosene will burn clearer if the burners
are boiled for five minutes twice or three
times a year in wood ashes aud water.
When boiling cabbage put a slice of salt
pork in the water, and an agreeable flavor,
with no objectionable grease or tat, will be
given to the cabbage.
Kerosene will make your teakettle as
bright as new. Saturate a woolen rag and
rub with it. It will also remove stains from
the clean varnished furniture.
If a little vinegar or soma c : der is mixed
with stove polish it will not lose much rub¬
bing to make the stove bright , aud the
blacking is not likely to fly off in line dust.
For one who can afford to use it in that
way, whipped cream, highly flavored with
vanilla, rose water or wine, makes the
richest and moBt agreeable pudding sauce.
The addition of a little mace to a veal
soup will give an agreeable flavor to it. Do
not put enough to rnuke it a distinct flavor,
hut put it in with the herbs and pepper aud
salt.
Pies made of canned whortleberries
should have un uudeicrust ouly ; then over
the top pul strips ot puff paste. Too much
cruBt with the hemes makes an almost
tasteless pie.
If before you put rolls in the tin to bake
them you rub the edgts with a little melted
butter, you will uot be troubled by their
sticking together when baked, and the edges
will be sgiooth.
To keep pudding sauce warm if prepared
too long before dinner is served, set the
basin containing it in a pan or pad of boil¬
ing water; do not let the water boil alter
the sauce-dish is set in it, hut keep it hot.
Sweet potatoes which are almost without
taste are much improved it the tough out¬
side skin is removed, and they are put un¬
der a toast of beef to cook. They will brown
over nicely and receive an agreeable
flavor.
Beeswax aud salt will make your flatirons
clean and smooth as glass Tie a lump ot
wax in a rag, and keep it tor that purpose.
When the irons are hot. rub them first with
the rag, then scour them with a paper rag
sprinkled with sat
Do not throw away woolen stockings,
even if the feet are entirely worn out, or
are so thin as to warrant no more wearing;
the legs make the best kind of stockings for
a child of two years old. Cut a pattern
irom a little “boughten” pair, and uinke
with small-soft seems.
Ladies who do their own work will find
that, in addition to a long apron, a pair oi
calico sleeves, with a rubber cord in the top,
is a dispenser of happainess. One can slip
them on over cuffs and nice dress sleeves,
get tea, and even wash tbe tea dishes, with
ont injuring the dress
When yon have the woodwork iu a room
painted, it is a gained plan to have about
two inches of tbe floor painted also; have
the paint the same color as that of the
baseboard ; then if, when changing cspetB,
the carpet will uot.come close to the wall,
the little space left will not be so unsightly.
Moonstruck.
"The sun shall not smite tbee by day nor
the moon by night." This bfautilul verse
expresses the belief,,common in ancient
days, that the moon exercii-es a baleful in
tlueuce upon those exposed to her direct
ray if In modern times tbe pernicious
influence has beeu doubted andeveudiu ed.
But whatever the influence of the moon in
temperate zones, within tbe tropicsit is very
injurious to sleepers exposed to its rays, es
pecially when at the full. On a voyage to
the antipodes, when near the line, a Maltese
sailor, who was a most comical lellow, slept
tor some hours on the boom wilh his lace
toward’the full moon. On waking iu the
morning the muscles en tbe right side ot
liis face were so contracted that every
attempt to speak was attended with the
most ludicurous contortions. Feeling sure
'hat something was serii usly wrong he
spoke to another sailor, who supposing that
as usual he was at his odd nicks, burst out
uto laughter. Off he wentto anortur, wit"
■xactly the same result. The pocr feit, w
zot into a rage, thereby adding not a little
■ o the ludierousuess of the scene After a
• bile the truth gradual’y dawuei upon the
aptain and officers of the vessel The
doctor gave him Borne medicine, the tiaarffes
radualiy relaxed, and in tbs course of a
■» eek T our Maltese * ““““ friend was “ well k n, f
J>eme , five or .. six years ago, when . ,hng ..
. .
from Tahitii to Mangia, a little hoy of nine,
in perfect health, was thoughtlessly placed
by bis nurse inbisberth, the slanting beams
ot the moon falling on his face. Next
morning he was feverii h ani ill, and it was
two or three days before be was himself
again. On the island of Aitutaki a native
woman was watching night after night for
the return of her husband from the island of
A , u WM|> , o „„ „ iBhl , be m
asleep, the moon’s rays pouring upon her.
0n awakening she feit ill, and her eyes
were drawn on one side. Considarable
,merest Eventually^ was felt by the islanders in her
case. however, her eyes
were f restored. These facts illustrate
i n tl uence -of the moon in the
tropics. Yet I never heard of insanity
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well known, however, in tropical countries
that the moon’s rays occasion the
deeomposition of liesh arid fi-h. A number
of honitas having been caught one evening
near the line of a friend of mine, the spoil
was hung up in the ngging of the ship, and
Next morning ,t was cooked for breakfast.
Symptoms of poisoning were soon exhibited
by all w,o partook of it, then-heads
to a great size, etc. Emetics were promptly
administered and. happ.lv, no one died
lhe natives of the South Pacific are carefu
never to expose fish (a constant article
diet , . islands) ... to the nfcon » , , by
in many s rays
any chance. i „ J , hey otten ... sleep ,1 on the ,
shore alter fashing, but with . , x the . ,
never
uncovered. , 1 he aboriginals ... , of , Australia . . j
the , same as well ,, as they , can with
fishing ... nets, etc. A fare the l
answers
May not , the , . . . .
purpose. f injurious
of the moon i in addition to her beauty and j
utility) ... , account for , the l • .almost i . . ,
worship ... of that orb < throughout ..... the heathen
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An Electrical Experiment.
A French journal gives the following
experiment:—A small pasteboard box is
provided wilh a glass lid, which is coated
on the upper suifaee with one or more lay
ers of collodion, but not enough to render
itoppaque. A number of figures r-pre-ent
ing insects and the like, and made of cotton
or sponge, are placed within the box. When
now the collodion surface is rubbed with dry
lingers in dry weather, the insects are
made to move about iu an interesting
manner, aH they become electrified.
A Western exchange describes the same
experiment somewhat more minutely
ihus :—
A shopkeeper wiping off boxes that had
glass lids, discovered that particles of lint,
bits of thread, paper and the like, Hew up
from the bottom of the box and attached
themselves to the glass, moving about as
though they wore alive. Further experi¬
ment showed him that the same thing took
place in the show-cases, when the glass ol
the tops was rubbed with a handkerchief,
hut on a lar. er scale. He made butterflies
and other insects, some three inches long
aud two inches wide, of colored paper, also
little balloons and a great many other
things, which, being placed in a show-case,
performed in a really comical manner when
the glass was briskly rubbed. The air here
being dry and light, no collodion coating is
required. The show cases used were about
eight or ten inches in depth, yet the arti¬
ficial insects would readily hop from the
bottom up against the glass, and dart about
trom place to place.
Often an iusect would be seen to leave
its place, swoop down almost to the bottom
of the ease, then from one to two feet away
from where it hail its first hold. Sometimes
two or more ot the ins5cts would be seen
suddenly dart at oue another, cling togeth
er, and fall to the bottom of the case, as
though fighting; and on touebiug the bot¬
tom of the case they would separate, and
dartiug back, take new places on the glass
When a lot of small insects made of
artificially-colored masses imported from
Europe are used, the effect is very fine, and
those who see the experiment for the first
time cau hardly be made to believe that the
bugs, worms, butteitlits and moths are not
alivo. The etieet may be produced (in thie
climate) by laying a pane of glass upon the
lid of any ordinary paper box. The
ure almost ns many and curious as those
seen in a kaleidoscope.
Mixed Metaphors.
A bombastic lawyer was making an ar
gumeut before a jury, in the course ofwhich
he delivered himselt ol the following
men of mock eloquence:—
“But, gentlemen, the whole subject is in
the dark entirely, til! we come to the teati
mony of Mr B-; then it is that the cloud
of doubt begins, to crack aud the cat is lei
out of the hag !”
A waggish brother sitting by, aud
was good at sketching, took his pencil aud
a blip of paper, and with an eye to
rules of testing the co. redness of
figure by painting it, drew the picture, "
bibiting a cloud, a crack in the cloud
moutb of a bag hanging dowu out of
crac k, a cat's tail hanging out of the bm
aud to complete the picture, the said
krasp i ng the cat’s rail and holding on • tin n
be slyly passed the picture along the
to the next table, who seut it around till
made finishing work of oversetting
bu j e Rrav ; ty bad beeu left arnoug j) u . mel!)
o) - tbe bftr by j,j r B 0Iu ba S ti<-’8
: oP b j s moM e | c q uent sentence.
: '
. Tsssyson i - one of ihe finest looking
iu the world A great shock of
j dusty, massive datk hair, aq'ueline blight, face, laughing,
eyes, most massive
jet most de'ica'e, o' sallow brown complex
ion, a most lndiaii'ookiug? clothes
lj' loose—tree and easy; smokes
tobacco. His voice is musical, metallic, tit
lor loud laughter, piercing wail, and al
that may lie b. t veeii; speech aud specula
lion free and plenteous ; I do not meet, iu
these late decades s-ich company over a
pipe -Letter of Carlyle tu 1844.
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Tie stock inspector of New South Wales
i, authority for the statement that the pest
of rabbits had al---.dy cost the colony ot
Vic’oria ° * between “ ,Wce * ff 000 OtK* T° m,d SO*, * 2a 000 tint)
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000 and that u sail spreading,
Marriage -Rev. Dr.' Grenell’s Advice to \
the Young People,
The word "marria^’ suggests nearly as
many varied thoughts as there are persons
who give it attention, in one, it awakens a
sense of delicacy as if it were too tender a
theme to admit of any but the most careful
treat me,,t - In another, it causes mirth, as .
if a of - humor. I.
another, tenderness. In another, contempt.
la "“o' 1161 - sadness. In another, reverence;
and 60 on > according to the age, the exp“ri
«ce, .he observa,ion, the knowledge
-timents of the person It has been
^ ld op as a target for rid dle, and many
the feathered shafts of wit and pleasan
try that have burred their points in it. It
JiT •” , * h * ,p “ d
e \
, ,. ,
arriage, o ering as r oea pcc a
dis in '; f ,8p ,lJ8 0 ® w ‘ a “I
tues of men and women, affecting as it does,
\ deep f 'affelions o^f’the heart,
id d theme an d
^ , ook wbeu the topic i 8 brought
. Hn<1 also wh y, on every occasion
wfjell thft „ ]arri (;erem0Dy take8 plaC e,
^ ^ ^ ^ f<> a
Vilriet of exprefl8 ; 01is , raDgil)s; a]1 the way
^ (;llriou , i to sober apf)rfih ension ;
J
frem sunny smiles to streaming . eyes, a bays
reproachfully, , , ,, ,, flow rT can you weep at .
one,
such . a time . as this/ and the otner answers,
How can you do , anything .. , but weep /
"Isnt , it . jolly? . , exclaims , . one young man,
anti friend . , responds, , with • , a sigh, . , „. jolly ,, . !
a
1 fee! if I at a tujnerat. ... , ,,
as were
... H good , . to out of , . it .. is .
is come marriage,
only , by the , utmost , forbearance, .. .
to come
patience . and , fidelity; ., by the , existence, ex
. and , preservation . of , deep , and , true .
ercise a
aflection. Marriage has perils as well as
pleasures, and if anyone is led to discern
more clearely the perils flmu the pleasures,
it is not strange that such an one should weep
instead of smile when a marriage is witness¬
ed. The first compact made between two
human brings was matrimony, and the
history of our first parents shows how much
that compact had to do wi(.Mixing the des¬
tiny of both thcuiselves and their decend
anls. Divine law guarded with special care
the relation of husband and wife. Mono¬
gamy was the or iained state. All the
inspired regulations considered marriage as
a bond between one man and one woman.
Polygamy is a perversions of man and not
an ordinance of God.
I!ut there are some things preliminary to
the marriage and most necessary o!
these is love, There is attraction in love >
there is admiration in love; there is passion
in love, but neither of these, nor all together,
make true and abiding love. All true love
is grounded in esteem. It must be so, or it
will not last. Love cannot live on round
cheeks and bright and winsome manners.
It must be based on something that remains
unchanged when the face is wrinkled, and
the eye is dull, and the form is bowed ; and
that stable something is character. It has
been truly said,” "It is to be feared that
they who marry where they do not love, will
love where they do not marry.”
A second preliminary to marriage is the
betrothal. It is one ot the marks of the in¬
creasing lightness with which marriage is
regarded that engagements are so easily and
hastily made, as is often the case. In pro¬
portion as matrimony is held in high
respect, betrothals are made with great
caution and are regarded as having great
hiuding force. Among us marriage en¬
gagements are too often foimed and dis
solved with a precipitancy which reduces
the whole affair of making to a matter of
uncertainty, and certainly injures the rep
uta’on of those concerned in it; unless just
cause can be showed. Parlies who have
agreed to he roarrii d should regard the
agreement as sarcedly hiuding, should guard
its sanctity, and seek to carry it out. Mar¬
riage engagements should be made known.
Honorable young men will not inveigle
young ladies into secret promise of mar¬
riage. Discreet young ladies will suspect
lhe motives of men who propose such a
procedure.
With a true love, and a eeason of engage¬
ment in which lovo aud discretion have
ruled, the marriage teduces itself to a very
simple thing indei d. It follows as natur
ally as. the fruit follows the blossom. How
may the wedded realize all they have hoped
tor in each others society? Simply by
continuing to be to each other, only in a
teller measure, what they have been during
courtship—faithful lovers; loving from
esteem, and expressing love unselfishly.
Do not imag’ne that it is in any sense un¬
becoming for a man to pay his wife the same
tender attentions and give her the same
compliments he bestowed upon her when he
was courting her, or for a wife to manifest
the same pleasure in the society of her
husband as in the pre-marital days.
Deafness trom Tobacco Smoking.
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Chewing is much less liable to cause
** lese troubles than smokhig, because iobuc
cu smoke come ® in contact with a much
‘ ,ir H er surface thau the saliva impregnated
Witb toDacco - Cigarette smoking is the
m03t '"i arlous because the smoke is so
oltfin blown through the nose, and at the
5!ime time enters the eustachian tube T&e
,0 “ acc0 smoke is laden with fine pa tides,
which gain access to lhe middle ear ami
m ' tale lini “k membrane. While this
ioe8 not admit of actual demonstration, it
j ■> reudered highly probable by the fact that
, disturb \nces oftaste and smell are unques,
I ti mably observed in habitual smokers. The
log continuance of such an irritation gives
rve to a chronic inflammation of the middle
ear
The characteristic want of sensibility in
the muejos membrane of the throat and
nose ot stinkers who saffrr trom efaronic
angina is due to the benumbing influence
of tobacco.
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Retired Fire Horses.
0|)Ce a fire-horsTTlwavs a w-uatlteMd fi b ,
animals mar ha?e their ‘
b h , f ■ h . theo'd ,
has as clearly marked habit, as war I
steed. * No end of amusing
occurrences
have illustrated this. Ex-AJ d Morris tells
.
°‘ o a horse oi I'k* Uuei ( Btesuau vt s. when l the , , lat-1
ter was foreman of No. 33 engine, which,!
becoming aged, was taken to an auctioneer
and disposed of. The old nag passe
W^man',
wbo . c hance went to the engine hr use !
onP dav t 0 cart.off the garbage. Cart aud
a „ had been backed up to the pit in the rear
^ tbe building, when suddenly the gong j
^ P0Unded an alarm. At once all the old Th,j in
, 6 „ d h him
worQ oot hack felt the fire of years before, j
^ ftway he da3hed carr j. ing with him a
gect j ou of the stairway and all but smashing
* en(£irje whicb was in bis way.
Williamsburg milkman bought one »f |
department J horses and found him a j
very d le ar ,d well behaved animal. <>ne j
day he was 8er ving fi0 me customers at the. j
«-»«« b-w ■»'* “■>
when an alarm from Twenty-second street
brought the engines thundering along near
where the old horse stood, i he peaceable
and ged a te brnt eheard the rumble and could
not contain himself Jhe first ghmpse he
cau « ht of aD en?me set hl ' l
L
i “ llk can-clattering behind hum Itwas a
81 « ht of ^ tbe ™ the naw ° WD »J * 1,11 'll he ^ rLched Zfire
| and M saw the of horse the conflagration, ^ew Xork
g ate
Hlirala '
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Topaoody.
Mr, Topnoody come home early Ji’Vednes
day evening, and his wife had not beguu
supper arrangements, he sat down near her
and said:
"My dear, I had a minute for reflection
in my office to-day, and thought I d write
some poetry on home.’’
"Drinking again, I suppose.” she answer
ed significantly.
"You should not talk that way, my d- ar
for home is a word that touches the hardest
hearts and brings back memories as sweet
as heavenly music. But listen, imy dear:
“Cling to thy home! If there the meanest
shed
Yield tnee a hearth aud shelter for thy head,
And some poor plot with vegetables stored—”
"Tobnoody,” interrupted his wife, ‘‘did
you see that man about spading up the gar
den?"
"No, dear, I—but hear the rest of
this:
•‘Be all tliat heaven allots thee for thy board,
Unsavory bread and lierbs tliat- scattered
grow mountain
Wild on the river bank or
brow;—”
“IJid you nail paling on I told you to this
morning?” again interrupted Mrs. T.
“No, my dear, I—but let me finish:
“Yete’ou this cheerless mansion shall provide
More bean repose than all tne world beside.”
"Is that all?” she asked.
"Yes, my dear. , ’
, back
“Well, I’m glad of it. And now go
down town and seethat man about the gar
den, and get some meat for supper, and
hurry back and nail on that paiiug, and get
me a bucket of water, and carry in the
coal and kindling, and grind the coffee, and
not sit around and see your poor wife wear
herself out trying to make home something
like. I think when a man has nothing else
to do but write poetry, he had better hire
out to maul rails, and let somebody lake
his place as the head of the family, who
k ows what its duties are and will attend
to them instead of wasting his time trying
to be a poet. I don’t believe you wrote
that, anyhow, and I—” but Topnoody was
gone, and the poor woman went out into
the kitchen to make home "shinething
like."
Simplify the Work.
Whet) one pair of hands are expected to
do the work of a househole, it should be cut
down and simplified as much as possible;
no extra tucks on the pillow-shams or cases
fewer ruffles to flute, tables painted to avoid
scouring, etc. Ruffles, tucks and fancy
work may be well, hut not half so well as a
happy, eentented mother, whose face is not
marked with lines o! care and weariness.
Little the babies care how many tucks
were in their tiny dresses, when they be¬
come men and women. Better a thousand
fold wi 1 be the sight of a bright mothers
(ace than one wearied and fretful, grown
cross and morjse, or, it may De, gone forev
er with quiet, folded hands resting at last.
Too many women who have been bright,
merry maidens, sink into dull, stupid, fault
finding wives and mothers. Why is it?
Some may fancy because their duties arc
beyond their weak bodies. And so they
are. Sometimes the husband is responsible
in driving his business and work, and pay¬
ing no heed to his wife's help and conve¬
niences ; but in a large number of cases the
wife herself is really at fault. In nearly
every household the work can be cut down
and simplified ; that is, can be, if we but
overcome some of the old housewives’ no¬
tions in regard to work.
The two Virtues—A Fable and a Poem.
° „ ! ' e da Y occurred , to the good , God to
give a party in his palace of azure. All the
virtues were invited, but the virtues only,
and, in consequence, there were no gentle
men among the guests,
Very many virtues, both great and little,
accepted the invitation. The little virtues
proved to be rcc-rc agreeable and more ecur
teous than the great ones. However, they
ail seemed thoroughly happy, aud
ed pleasamly with one another, as people
■ who are well acquainted., and'indeed some
| what related, ought to do.
But suddenly the good God noticed two
f a ; r ladjes who appeared not to know each
i otber <j 0 he took one ot the ladies by the
hand and led her toward? the other.
: "Benevolence’ and he indicating the
i first, "Gratitude, ’ turning to the other.
The two virtues were unutterably aston
i sbe d For since the world began, and
s great white ago they had never tne?
before_Ivan Tourgtoeff.
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j Tb - Philadelphia Zoological gardens now !
contain 30(1 mammals 338 birds and 43
*ept»k and batraCiiants, the collection
h®'"* ,%,Ued ** W4,711, The society is j
barely able to pay expenses, and has dis
fh^Ue^n^ seems wte fafflag 1st.'when offTml j 1
>n fact was less tu June and July
musi< ; was " iTerfd - lhan u was ,n same
months in 1881 without , music, lhe soct
et ha , no (ura lor the i mpro vement ot ex
tension oflhecoUec-Uou. j
Down in a Coal Mine.
The deepest CO al-m :ne itl America is the
PottsviUe, Pennsylvania. The shaft is one
five hundred an seventy-six eet
ee P From its bottom a most a nr 1 . °
a mile down two hundred cars, o mg
° jr ,0DS eac 1 are 1 * e e ^ , 7
a! r-un up > u a p ai or ,
md iT.S.iX ’ S
. ^ a | u cai v • * orlv 0 J a little wore
. . .
1 9n a
of men ^ onTv . . _„_]„ tpd id b v ol law
and SLSJ ten can oTa a
pUtfom M on-e under pena^ beavv
* i™
™»-ed and - P
»f ™.k „™,,” ordeal by
pondeDt "ghouid not brave the
decCt , n( ji n g the Pottsville shaft. This ma
^ hj J k smoothly / as a hotel eleva
t th d * a< terrific that oue
^ ^ ^ ^ knee8
after a few seconds become weak and trem
^ ^ fcy {he air pie8
the ' but involuntarily as the
beams of the shaft seem to dash upward
^ a foot 0r tW0 aw ^ As ° ne ,eaveS the
^ ^ uppw day the transition to
darkness is fantastic. The light does not
pass into gloom in the same fashion as our
day merges into night, but there is a kind
of phosphorescent glow, gradually becoming
dimmer and dimmer. Half way down you
pass, with a roar and sudden crash, the as¬
cending car; and at last, after what seems
several minutes, but is only a fraction of
that time, the plattorm begins to slow us,
halts at a gate, and through it you step into
a crowd of creatures in the shape of men,
but with blackened faces, the glaring eyes
and wild physiognomies of fiends.’’
Frankly Acknowledged.
At ft recent trial in the I.enawee county
court room, a young Adrian lawyer was de¬
fending a client charged with larceny A
female relative was on the stand, and, on
direct examination, had sworn to a state¬
ment direct'y opposite to one she had made
the young lawyer in his office. Theyou h
started in on the cross-examination with
grea' vigor and an extended for>-finger. The
following was about the way the matter
eventuated:— Lawyer.—^
I understood you to swear so
and-so on your direct examination.’’
WitnesB.—"Yes, sir.”
L—"Did you not say to me so-aud-so in
j my office?
j \Y —“Yh>s, sir.”
K ‘ Well, and now you come upon t e
stand and swear directly opposite?”
W .„--y tS , sir."
j L.-"Theu you must lie in one or the
o!b er statement?’’
W.—“Yes, sir.”
L—"And which is tbe truth?
W.—“Which t have just sworn tv.”
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young limb ot the law. We are net equal 'o
that sort of thing.
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A Modern Song ot Home.
I talk about home because I am rarely
there—aud men like to talk most, of what
they know least ab( ut "There is no place
iike home." Even those who live in board¬
ing houses touchingly warmhle that song.
Home is more to a woman than to a man
A man who has no home is a social tramp
With a woman it is different ; she wants a
home, but does not always have a chance to
get it. Woman feeds upon affection. She
is never happy till she gets her ideal man;
and then she is east dowu to find another
woman’s photograph and love-letter in his
overcoat pocket.
But a man gets his home—lot, house
mortgaged, mechanic’s lien and all. He
has all but the mortgage, end the mortgage
has him. All of a man’s life, except what
he spends at the store, club, caucus, lodge
or prayer meeting, is spent in his home.
Man is great in his own house; if he is not
a king, he is at least a prince consort. Many
are like the man who, on being nominate
for lieutenant-governor, said:
"You have nominated the right man for
the right p’ace, I have been a lieutenant
governor ever since I was married.”—II, J
Burdette in Hawkeye.
A Man Who is His Own Grandfather.
A young fellow out West with plenty of
time and genius, has figured out how a man
can become his own grandfather, and this
is the way he does it:
“I married a widow who had a growD up
daughter. My father visited our home very
often, fell in love with my daughter and
marrird her. So my father became my son
in-law, and my step daughter my mother,
because she married my father. Some time
afte ward my wife had a son. He is my
father's brother-in-law and my uncle, for be
is the brother of my stepmeftbe'r. My fath¬
er’s wife, namely my stepmother, had a son.
He is my brother, and at the same time my
grandeDiid, for he is the son of my daugh
ter. My wife, is my grandmother, because
she is my mother's mother, 1 am my wife’s
husband and grandchild at the same time :
and as tbe husband of a person’d grand- !
mother is his grandfather. 1 an mi own j
grandfather.” ' !
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It is generally supposed that our vital ;
act ' v ' l ’ es are sometime* either to be res
trained or let alone. When they run to -
excess and destroy the balance of our
n ** urf ' ever T v oiee proclaims the duty of
S 0VerQin (! a “d curbing them, oi her wise we
are con,ent 10 * et what we suppose to be .
"well enough : alone. Life, however, is
positive, not uegaive. It is the perform-;
of every duty and the exercise of;
every fuuctton iu tbe fullest manner that ;
constitutes a happy and valuable fife I
Duty requires us to carry on all decay, our vita- j
actiTilles J t non e languish or j
Salt will curdle milk; hence, in pre- 1
new
^ paring milk porridge * **.. gravies * etc, * tbe salt
should not be added ^ untii the dish . . is pre
pared. 1
Beep-Sea Lighthouses.
The proposal of Mr Chris Anderson, ot I
of establishing" deep sea lighthouses.
be viewed with greet interest. The
is ing' nlous, but it appears perfect¬
ly practicable. It is proposed to construct
such lighthouses of hollow riveted ironwork |
the form of a large cylinder, about 3G
feet in dyameter, and 21)0 tect in. length
consisting of three essential parts. The up¬
per portion, rising MO feet out of lhe water,
is to be similar, so far as shape, arrangement
and internal fittings are concerned, to '.he
tower of an ordinary lighthouse. The cen
tra! portion about water-line, is to be packed
with a material much lighter than water,
such as corkwood and capable of forming a
durable and unsinkable floating power.
The lower portion, extending to 150 feet
below water-line, is intended to resist the
force of wind and weather acting upon the
tower and as a ballast to lower the centre o
gravity of the wiiole structure to any desirel
extent. But to rentier the light-tower still
safer it is proposed to admit water and if
neees-ary to employ a quantity of iron as
ballast. The lighthouse would be erected
compUte in tne shipyard, launched aud
towed out to its intended site, where it
would readily be made to assume its erect
position by admitting water to the
compartment. Having been properly float¬
ed and ballasted it is next to be securely at¬
tached by steel wire ropes two inches in
diameter to anchor blocks, weighing about
200 tons each, sunk in suitable positions, so
that, in water one mile deep fach rope would
be from two to three miles long. The pro¬
posed displacement would be about 2 000
tons, for which, it, is thought, there would
be no difficulty in providing ad quate moor¬
ings. As the structure would be entirely
dependent, for its floating power upon the
light material contained in the central divi¬
sit n it wou'd be nnsinkable, even if struck
by a ship or iceberg. Its peculiar form and
arrangement would give it grtat stability,
so that if forced from the perpendicular it
would instantly right itself with great pow¬
er. But it has been calculated that even a
hurricane moving with a velocity of 100
miles per hour, equivalent 10 a pressure of
fifty pounds per square foo:, will only cause
a diviation of ten degrees from the perpen¬
dicular. Against this it is to be noticed
that the sag, or sinking toward the middle,
of the mooring ropes will form a most effec¬
tive spring to control any tendency to oscil
lation. As the whole mass of the structure
is c-ompa- atively great, and thearea exposed
to tbe filling ioree of waves viry small, it
is thought that the rising and falling motion
caused by passing waives will be almost in
i j appreciable, it is proposed at the same
t - me tQ rolinec t those floating lighthouses
. tab i e with the mainland, an 1 thus lhe
; desirabilily and increasing neces
j . }f)r lijihth(U18e8 atjd telegraphic
; stations in midocean would he
: fully met, and various important objects
] might be attained by their construction
I A storm warning from the AtDntic, for iu
, a j ance cou ( d b e sent tbirly-six hours in
advaDCe * a,ld a ^ savin 8. of wanT
lion pounds worth of maratime property
ai'd what is of far more importance, ol
hundreds of valuable human lives thereby
effected. On the other hand, shipowners
could be apprisid of the paa,-a,;e and con¬
trition of their vessels, and could forward
assistance or instruct ons to the same en
route. Moreover, those deep-sea lighthouses
would form good rendezvous for vessels in
distress or shipwrecked crews. As it is also
proposed to employ similar lighthouses on
a smaller scale for coast service, the great
saving of life and property which would
result around the shores of the United
Kingdom alone would be sufficient to
speedily cover the first cost of tbe light
towers.
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Pauper Labor is England.
Tuere is no more wretchedly remunerate ')
employment in the kingdom than nail
making, or one that, in consequence of the
starvation prices paid, is more frequently
Interrupted by strikes. It spares nobody;
mites of children, out of their school hours,
can, in tbeir small way, assist, and the
poverty of their parents makes them gald
to avail themselves of even (heir puny help,
delicate girls, mothers who are nursing their
babes, aged women, bent and feeble, and
who have all their lives been, in a manner
speaking, chained to the forge of drudgery
ot the anvil, iu the midst of smut and smoke
shey still go on, hammering, aud filing, and
tugging at the bellows, until their strength
utterly fails them. Thea they retire, for a
brief spell, to the work house, and thence
to the church yard. It is a marvel hew, on
the scanty wages they are enabled to earn,
they contrive to ex ; st at all. I remember
a poor soul at Cradlev, a widow woman,
who, with the assistance of ler eldest
daughter, a girl of thirteen, maintained, by
her chain making, the entire family, seven
iu number. The hovel in which her forge
was fixed adjoined the squalid little two
roomed cottage where she was supposed to
reside; but, to use her own words, she
“might, except for sleeping purposes, as
wei! almost be without it, since it was only
on Sundays that she did not live, with the
children, in the smithy." And never did 1
set eyes on more deplorable little objects
than the latter were Not one of them,
including the girl who tended the fire and
bellows, wore shoes or stockings, though no
shoe leather could have beeu blacker than
tbeir feet; the remaindtr of their bodies
being but a lew shades lighter in complex
ion. It was a mere waste of soap, their
mother averred, even if the had money to
spare for its purchase, to attempt to keep
them clean. Being next to naked, they
cou j d no t j nt0 tbe street, and their only
p i ay p | aee was among the coal, slack and
a3 ties. On Sunday, however, she
; b -m “a reglar go.d scrubbing,’' and on
tbe same day of rest she washed their rags,
while they remained in bed, and dried them,
somebow . so that they might wear them
again on .Monday morning. She told me
lbat working at the forge from six in ’he
_
morning until ten or eleven o’clock at
a jght, and with her daughter’s assistance,
she was enabled to earn about five farthings j
an honr ’ or one and e.ghtpance or mne
p J n ? e a da F T en shillings a week exeeed
the average, ana out ot this she has to
two aud niuepenee rent for the cottage i ;
house.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Knowledge is the r„“r h ,w
,be " ‘
o f man.—Wiijj
Penn.
Labor rids us of three IPeat evils—i
someness, vice and poverty.—Voltaire.
Those who schoo
themselves—Shakespeare.
to tbe ant, thou
And by her busy ways refortnthyVwn
—Srutti
Man is unjust, but God is just; but 6i
ly justice triumphs.—Longfellow.
The man who cannot blush, and h
leelings of fear, has a a
impudence.—Menander. reached the acuai
No hop t so bright but is the beginning
its own fulfillment.—Emerson.
God hath yoked to guilther pale tonne
or, misery.—Bryant.
After his blood that which a man
next give of himself c
out is a tear.—Lami
line.
When a man resists sin on human
lives only, he will m
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Bishop Wilson,
Scarce Dissentions, they I ikesraalt streams, at first be J
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