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THE SOUTHERN PINE. The Southern pine is a forest kinz Through seasons bright or drear— He reigns in summer, he reigns in spring, And the old age of the year! The Southern pine has a minstrel’s voice And a proud, coni man ling mien— Ar.d he sings the songs of the winds that smite His musical boughs of green! The Southern pine is a forest king Through seasons bright or drear— He reigns in summer, he reigns in spring, And the old age of the year! Ah' was it decreed at some ancient hour Of twilight lone and dim, That the soul of a monarch, the soul of a bard, Should be given in trust to him? —W. H. Hayne, in Youth's Companion. TWO WAYSOF ASKING, “Tears! idle tears! Niobe dissolved! Sly dear ch.ld, what on earth is the matter?” Time: 4 of a summer afternoon. Place: a pretty* boudoir, furnished in the fashion of to-day, modeled on the style of Louis Quinze, with a dash of “Libe ty” thrown in, and modern acces-ories, such as crystal flower Vases, three-volume novels, and photograph stand, juxtaposed with Queen Anne silver and knick knacks ancient and modern. Dramatis Persons: a. graceful figure in white, flung on the floor with an air of desolation by the sofa, her charming neck visible beneath delicious little rows of golden curls, her frame shaken by sobs: an older woman standing a few yards distant, dark, beautifully dressed, “good-looking enough for anything” without being distinct y handsome, aged somewhere within the right side of thirty, and wearing an expression half compas sionate, half amused. There is a sus picion of raillery in her voice, which is felt and deeply resented by the fair sor rower. Anger is often akin to sorrow, as p.ty is to love, and the yoice which re sponds to the question when reiterated is decidedly petulant. “I wish you would go away and leave me alone.” “I shall do nothing of the sort.” re turns the other. “I am going to talk to you, and I do not care in the least whether you are angry or not, although I had much rather you would take my remarks in good part.” “Oh,” responded the voice, still smothered in the sofa cushions, but los ing nothing of its resentful quality. “1 know how clever you are, and that, you think that you can manage every one’s aflairsa great deal better than them-I selves.” She intends this to be a “nasty one,” and as a matter of fact it does not fall v ery pleasantly on the ears of her inter locutor; but she sits down on the sofa aud replies with good humor: “Well, my love, I may confidently say that I could I manage your affairs a great deal better j than you manage them yourself, and that if I were you i would have Mr. Clement Lascelles at my feet in a very short time.” “Perhaps you ha e him there now,” says the prostrate one, ceasing to sob and trying to sneer instead. “VV ell, Dolly, dear, to tell you the truth, I fail myself to recognize in that young man the charm which I observe he has ,for —for some people; indeed, 1 consider him a poseur, with anexaspera tinglv good opinion of hmself, aud, if you ask my candid opinion, I think that he would be all the better for beino 1 kre-—” 5 J orothy flounces up in a moment. “I will trouble you not to insult my friends,” she cries, with flaming cheeks. “And it is not very easy to believe your sincerity when he was sitting in your pocket all last night, and you were out walking with him for two hours this morning.” . “Iu nnv ca-e,” replies Mrs. Dalton coolly, “your remarks prove that I have had time and opportunity to form an opinion of his qualities. I don’t deny that he is good looking, but it is intoler able that he should be so conscious of it. I admit that he is not without a certain amount of cleverness, and has been fairly veil educated; but I violently object to his thinking himself able to sit in judg ment on people a good deal older and cleve-er than himself.” “On you, for instance!” cries Dolly. “No, I was not thinking of myself, ! though I admit the soft impeachment (the one regarding my age, at least); aud ! what 1 dislike most of a l is his placing himself on a pedestal to be looked at and longed lor by—by pretty, silly little gir.s, who ought to know better.” Dolly stiiiens her back, and says, with an assumption of dignity which sits in differently well upon her. “If you will excuse me I should prefer not discussing Mr. Lascel.es with you. You are per fectly welcome to your opinion of him, and I claim the liberty of retaining unine. ” Then, her majesty toppling over, she says, \ indictively, in quite a differ ent tone of voice. “Perhaps you think I m such a fool that I don't see through your mean abuse of him:” ‘•That I may win and wear him my- ! selfsuggests Mrs. i altori. quite good- j humoredly. “No, my dear and acute child, believe me, you have not fathomed I and unmasked my baseness this time. I know your dear and sensitive little heart | is set upon this fascinating young man. ! I don’t think there is really any harm in him, and I am magnanimous enough to •° ready to show you how to obtain his affections, and to make h ; m suppliant in- ' stead of you.” “Suppliant!” cries Dolly, with fresh flames from her burning heart ascending to her cheeks “Yes. suppl ant. Every one, my love, can see—he most of all—how you hang upon his smiles, and despair when he is indifferent or capricious.” Wrath makes Dolly absolutely speech less. If looks, &c., Ac., Mrs. Dalton would, Ac., Ac. “Don’t be a Dolly.” resumes 1 r friend, not having suffered any visi e injury from the lightning glances to nich she has been subjected. “Keep >ur temper, and reap the advantages of my superior age and experience.” “Xeep them to yourself,” retorts Dolly tartly. “The first I must, whether or no, but the latter shall be yours. Come, dear child, you know I am fond of you; be lieve me when I say I vvmid not have your enchanter as a gift, and also that I am desirous to see h ; m subjugated by you. He be yours, I premise, and I will only make one condition.” Dolly seats herself on the sofa, and allows Mrs. Dalton to take her hand, though she look# rather sulky. Still, she does, poor little girl, regard Mr. Clement Lascellcs as the first prize in the marriage lottery, aud she is willing to take upon herself her part of ibe con tract; to worship him with her mind, and endow him with all her wordly goods. For in a smail way she is an heiress, though he is not destitute of money, and has an excellent position, 'Truth to tell, the young man is not what is called “a bad sort;” he has good looks, good brains, and good manners, when he is not egged on to taking liberties by the silly flatteries of the other sex. Poor Dolly loves him madly, and has innocently shown her sufferings at his neglect. Mrs. Dalton having paused to give due effect to her words, Dolly, after a moment, is con strained to say rather sulkily: “Well?” “You must take ihe vow first.” “What vow?” with latent irritation. “The vow never to tell any human be- ing—Mr. Lascelle least of all, that 1, or, j for the matter of that, any one, advised you how to act toward him.” “Oh, of course, I promise.” Mrs. Dalton takes up her parable, j “Clement is really fond of you—he ! would be exceedingly fond of you if you only allowed him.” •‘lf I allowed him !” gasps Dolly. “Yes,” repeats her adviser. “By al lowing him, I don’t mean throwing your self at his head, and showing him that you adore him; but by making him doubt your love and his own capacity for pleasing you. Different men want different treatment. There is nothing so delightful to some as to see aud know that a woman cares for them—it adds tenfold to their devotion for her; but I am bound to say that these men are in the minority. Most of them are far more stimulated by doubts and fears—the woman becomes more dear as she seems more distant, and, as a rule, when a man is literally crazy about one of our sex, it is because she has worried and tormented and kept him upon a perpetual balance between hope and fear. Now, you, and others like you, have so hung upon Clement l.ascelles’s looks and words,have so positively shown him that he is a great being, a lofty intellect, a rival to Apollo, that it is not likely he is coming off his pedestal to won-hip his worship ers. Your only chance, my dear, is to abandon your worship" to counterfeit in difference as best you may, and to let a gradual and startling conviction come over him that you were not really in earnest after all.” “It is very easy to talk,” pouts Dolly. “It is very'easy to act, too,” returns Marian, “if you are positively certain that your plan of campaign is going to be successful.” ‘ How do I know that it will be?” “Try it for twenty four hours, aud see how it works.” “But I don’t know what I am to do.” “You mu 4 be absolutely guided by me, anti not act oire moment on your oxvn responsibility.” “I dare say it will turn out all wrong,” says Dolly, ungraciously, ‘.‘and that I shall lose him altogether.'' . “All right,” replies Mrs. Dalton, los ing patience and fis ng from her seat. “Do as you like. After all, what ou earth does it matter to me whether you are happy or miserable? Go your own way.” Dolly springs up and cutups her by the arm. “No, no, Marian, don't go; don't be angry. I will do whatever you tell me.” “Then hearken and obey. Dick Wyndham is coining You know he is rather fond of vox!- Talk to him. and to him only, all the evening. Do not glance iu Mr. 1 ascelles’s direc tion. I will keep my eye on him and re port to you ho whe takes it. If he ap proaches you in the e etring, look bored and distraite, and reply to him by mono syllables.” “I shall never be able to do it,” groans Dolly. “Not with such a big stake to win?” (a little sarcastically.) “Ah! you don't knoxv what it is to lovt?” cries Dolly. “Not as you do, certainly,” retorts MariaD, with an inflection of voice which Dolly is not acute enough to catch. Dick Wyndham arrives in time for dinner. He is rather tond of Dolly— j he is exceedingly hard up, and wants her money even more than her sweet self. He is bright and amusing, has a considerable fund of small talk, is de voted to sport, and has not Mr. Lascel- j . les’s aesthetic taste or lofty manner of showing superiority, lie has a genuine I contempt for a man who talks art and : plays classical music, as Mr. l ascelles I has for one who thinks of nothing but I hunting, lawn tennis and polo, though he rides fairly straight aud is an average ! shot himself. Not a little disgusted is Lascelles, therefore, when Dolly, whose sorrowful ness and its cause bas e greatly soothed his complacency for the last twenty-four hours, seems to have eyes and ears for no one but this half-witted soldier at dinner. Sh ■ is looking charming in a dress of a delicious apricot tint, which he has not seen before he is a great connoisseur of die 8); if he couid only catch her eye he would beam on her one of those glances which would have intoxicated her maiden | soul. But, whereas it has been his wont T to meet her tender, pleading glances every two minutes heretofore, to-night he nbght be Bauquo’s ghost, atid she one of Macbeth’s guests, for all she seems to see him. His memory serves him up various sneering and savage quotations on the theme of souvent femme vane. He is so little congenial to his neighbor at dinner that she expresses the most un favorable sentiments regarding him in the drawing room later on,causing Dolly to halt between the desire to defend him hotly and a sense of pleasure that some one besides herself has suffered from his coldness. Mrs. 1 alton makes a pretext for calling Dolly aside. “Excellent, my love!” she cries, in high good humor, pressing the girl’s arm. “He is enraged beyond measure. He scarcely took his eyes off you. Go on and prosper!” Thus stimulated. Dolly does go on, and prospers ex eediugly. When Mr. I Lascellcs and Dick approach simul taneously she devotes her whole atten tion to the latter, and has scarcely a word for the former, who presently re tires in tragic dudgeon,and leans against the wall looking like Hamlet, Lord Byron, or any other blighted being in the sulks. Up to this moment Clement Lasceiies has not seen any necessity for putting his fate to the touch, because he has been absolutely certain of winning; but now that for the first time he has a rival, a rival who is progressing by leaps and bounds in his lady’s favor, he sees that something must be done. He cannot have been befooled. With gloomy brow and stately step he retires from the smoking room and seeks the solitude of his chamber, but not of his couch. The dawn has long broken ere ho courts repose. “Marian!” cries Dolly, a few haurs later, bursting into her friend’s room while that lady—no early riser at the best of times—still nestles among her pillows, “read this!” aud she seats her self on the bed in a state of great excite ment, while Mrs. Dalton languidly peruses the letter thrust into her hands. “I call it great impertinence!” she re marks, returning it to Doiiy. “Impertinence!” with wide-open eyes. “Certainly!” and Mrs. Dalton, taking it back, quotes from it: “Though I cannot pretend to offer you the ! one great passion of a life—sad passages be i vond the ken of other mortals have tarnished the pure lustre which once surrounded my soul as with a halo—yet, if you will take a heart weary with the sorrows of the ages, dimmed by the darkling doubts with which an intimate knowledge of humanity clouds the spirit, take me to your tender breast and let me find shelter there from life's griefsand disappointments. What recompense a heart blighted as mine has been can bestow I will strive to make to your angelic sympathy and goo Ine-s.” “Is it not beautiful?” cries Dolly in an ecstasy, “I wonder wliat he means? I suppose some woman threw him over once “I think it is exceedingly impertinent, and I hope you will resent it.” “Resent it!” almost shrieks Dolly. “Why, it is a declaration!” “Get me my blotting book off that table,” commands Mrs. Dalton resolutely. “Now,” she says, beginning to write, “you will answer it in this way or I wash my hands of you, and to-morrow he will have reduced you to abject misery again.” She writes hurriedly for a few minutes, and then with heightened color reads the draft aloud: Dear Mr. Lascptles: I have received your melancholy letter, and am truly sorry for all you seem to have suffered. But, for my part, I look upon the world as a very pleasant place, and have made up my mind to enjoy myself as much as possible: so, as I could not console you, and you, with the ideas you express, would make me miserable, I think you had much better look for somebody whose temperament is more like your own. I suppose you mean me to understand that you have been much more in love with some one else than you are with me, which, to say the least, is not very flattering. No! I must have an un divided heart or none at all. . Your sincere friend. D. 8. There is a desperate fight between Airs. Dalton and Dolly before the latter can be persuaded to copy aud forward what she considers a heartless and flip pant missive. In the end Marian tri umphs. Mr. Lascelles does not appear at breakfast, and Dolly, though her soul quakes within her, laugh# and talks to Dick. Later in the evening, when they are playing lawn tennis, Clement Lascelles, feelirg much smaller than he has ever done in his life, seeks counsel from Mrs. Dalton. With an angelic smile she al ternately pricks him with daggers and makes him gulp down bowls of poison; but she does him an excellent turn by taking a good deal of the nonsense out him, He confesses that he adores Dolly. How, oh, how, is he to win her? Has he a ghost of a chance? Mrs. Dalton, looking solemn, declares her inability to reply to this. She hints at 1# ly’s youth and love of amusement.*.she hints, too, at Dick’s unflagging good spirits ami temper. And the upshot of it is, that when Dick returns, crestfallen, from his afternoon ride with Dolly, having spoken and re ceived his answer, Clement Lascelles carries off the young lady to her boudoir on pretence of wanting to be shown some thing, and, replacing the melancholy of Hamlet by the conquering airs of young Lovelace, takes her in his arms, swears he has been a fool, and has really never loved any one but her sweet self, and that if she'accepts him her life shall be one sweet round of pleasure. Twenty minutes later Dolly has passed on all his embraces, and more, to Mariai. “How clever you are darling!” s(ie says, admiringly. To which Mrs. Dalton replies: “NoV you know how to mamige him, make gool( use of your knowledge.” —London Worl(u The Aftermath of Death. A gentleman, who was a citizen of Marietta at the time of the fighting around that point by the armies in 18(54, was talking to us about the Federal bombardment of the Confederate bat - teries on the summit of lx ennesaw Moun tain. He said that after the,war an immense amount of lead and iron was picked up on the north side of the mountain where the Federal missiles had struck. He remarked that for two or three years after the war, in the fall, when the ground was covered with dead leaves, parties used to set these on fire, so as to keep the undergrowth down. The flames would creep up the mountain side, and at night would present a grand sight, there appearing to be long lines of lire in the sky. But one of the most striking features of these fires on the mountain was the explosion of some of the Federal shells. He said that even in Marietta they could be distinctly heard, and on the first oc casion or two of burning the woods on the mountain side there were scores of those which exploded, and the reports | called back to the citizens of Marietta in a very emphatic manner the Federal bombardments which had ensued in 1804. There is, however, no danger of this kind now. as We have not heard of any simiiar occurrences in a numberof years, j —Kenne aw Gazette. Singular Cause of Inattentiveaess. Aprysexie is the name Dr. Guye, of Amsterdam, chooses for inattentiveness, and he quite singularly finds that the nose is a cause of it. A dull boy became quick to learn after certain tumors had been taken from the nose, and a man who had been troubled with vertigo and buzzing in the ears for twelve years found mental labor easy after a like operation. In a third case a medical student was similarly relieved. Dr. Guye supposes that these nasal troubles affect the brain by preventing the cerebral lymph from' circulating freely. A HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS. THE UNIQUE PROJECT OF MR BERG-HS SOCIETY. A Building to Care for Sick or Crippled Domestic Animals Ambulances and Doctors. Concerning the new hospital for do mestic animals which the New York So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals proposes to build at once. Mr. Henry Bergh, Jr., President of the so ciety, said to a Sun reporter: “For a number of years 1 have been impressed with the importance of having a hospital for the care and treatment, especially the surgical treatment, of animals, and to provide for unfortunate animals such care and attention as is now given to human beings. “When we get our hospital we shall have our ambulances ready, with trained horses, like those of the Fire Department, ready to rush out at the sound of a bell, aba go to the relief of the suffering ani mals in the streets. This will avoid the delays which at present are nut only vexatious but demoralizing to those who witness the suffering of animals dying in the streets. At present, when animals are past saving, it becomes Decessarv of ten to destroy them in the street. This is a horrid sight at best, and a very dangerous example to unthinking youths, as some boys are apt to imitate the pro cess with dogs or cats in the back yard. “We expect to have some novel ap pliances in our new hospital. One of these will be a truck to rescue animals from excavations. At present when a horse tumbles down a sewer or a cellar it is difficult to lift him up. We have a derrick now, but it is cumbersome and difficult to move and slow of operation. Our new life-saving truck will be quick of movement, strong and adaptable. We shall be able to hoist out ahorse and start him off to the hospital in a jiffy. If we have to kill him it will be done out-of sight of the Jpublic, and expedi tiously. jgfcl have already received a letter from Mr. Edison, who says the idea of killing by electricity is practical, and I have also a letter from .Mayor Hewitt, in which he promises to give w’hat aid he can to expedite the substiution of some more prompt and less torturing method of killing dogs in the dog pound. “It isa common thing now for dogs caught late iu the season to be al most frozen to death in the drowning process at the dog pound. When our new hospital is finished we can kill the dogs quickly, and keep them out of sight, and put them to no unnecessary pain. It has been proposed to kill dogs by an apparatus which asphyxiates them with carbonic oxid gas. I am satisfied that that would be an expeditious and destructive agent. “The main work of our soc ety has hitherto been done in the direction of punishing those who have inflicted pain upon dumb animals. This will be some what of a new departure iu the way of doing something for the animals them selves. We had in mind the establish ment of some more painless method of catching dogs in the public streets. At present the dogcatchers set a terrible ex ample of brutality in the heartless way in which they seize dogs and huddle them into a cart aud off to the pound. Such doings aie bad examples for chil dren. It would be better to have a ve hicle with separate compartments for the dogs, and the dogcatcher, instead of seizing a dog by the leg and throwing him in a heap, could be provided with a net, so as to seize his prey with unneces sary pain. “ The lower floor of our new hospital will probably be devoted to the storage of the ambulances, with stalls for the necessary horses to draw them, and stor age for the life-saving truck. In the rear might be placed* the apparatus for killing the animals that are to be killed. On the upper floor we might have stalls for dogs, cats, or other domestic animals requiring temporary .homes or surgical treatment. It is intended to make the hospital free, except in such cases as are obviously not proper for free treatment. Many persons who are able and willing to pay will use the new hospital. Most of the c ases treated will be surgical. No contagious diseases will be received. Horses with scarlet fever or the glanders cannot be treated in our hospital. The danger from contagion -would be too great. “It is not intended to have the hospital take the place of the establishments of a similar kind already in the hands of veterinary surgeons. It will be an emergency hospital, and useful for many aiimals who may be treated elsewhere aierward, or whose treatment may be pad for by owners who are able to pay. Sane idea of the necessity for such an hospital may be gathered from the fact th;s during the past year there were deskoyed by this society 2546 animals whae recovery was not beiieved to be possDle. There were 1202 animals chloroformed who were disabled past recovW. There were 522 disabled horses rernoxtd from the streets. Many of these cases xould have been taken to such a hospitf as we propose to have now. There k not at present in existence any hospita such as we propose to build. They lave in connection with our Philadelphia branch what they call a dog | shelter.^ Shorthand Talking. A wrier in Chamber*'. s Journal says that the expressions used by some boys and girl if written as pronounced, would s*nd like a foreign language. Specimen are given of what is called “shorthafl talking;” “Warelgo last night?” “Haddr skate.” “Jerfinithe ice hard’n good?” “Yes, llvd’nough.” “.Ter g<j-lone?” “No; 111 ’n Joe wenterlong.” “Howl* jer stay?” “Pasta:#’ Commening on this, the Christian Advocate sis: “Such specimens might be multiplill indefinitely. It i 9 enough to make 4e dear grandmothers and aunts sighlr the days when they were young Its too often the case that a civil questln will bring from a child ‘Yep’ and law’ as a reply, for these seem to be |ie nineteenth century sub stitutes for |e quaiut ‘Yes, ma’am,’ or ‘No, ma’amif our forefathers.” Peel was ilparliament at twenty-one, and Palmersln wa 3 lord of the admiral ity at rwentjlhree. SELECT SIFTINGS. There are 172 species of creatures that are blind. A Jersey cow that eats cats on sight is reported from Ohio. The expression “almighty dollar” was original with Washington Irving. The first eclipse upon record was a lunar one, and was observed at Babylon 721 B. C. The first lighthouse on this continent was built at the entrance to Boston harbor on Little Brewster Island, in 1715. A member of Congress while it is in session cannot be arrested for a debt, but lie may be arrested at any tune for a felony. The first steamer to cross the ocean, the .'■avanuah. was of 650 tons burden, and sailed from Savannah, Ga., to Liver pool id. July, 1819. The two-year-old son of a Missoun farmer committed suicide because his brother got a new suit of clothes and ho had to wear the old ones. The largest tree in the country cast of California is a gnarled old sycamore that stands in Upper Sandusky, in Ohio. It is forty feet in circumferrence. The population of London, England, according to the last census, was 4,776, 661. It has never yet exceeded 5,000,- 000, but must be in that neighborhood at the present time. A gold watch which a Missouri farmer lost last fall, and for the theft of which he sought to send his hired man to prison, was found in the stomach of one of his cows which died the other day. Dr. B. L. Boss, of Fort Valley, Ga., has a small piece of metal which was once a part of the cannon which James Oglethorpe bronght with him when he came from England to plant a colony in the American wilderness. A young white elephant recently cap tured has been sent from Mandalay to Rangoon. As white elephants are held by the Burmese to be sacred and are re garded as emblems of Burmese royalty, it was considered inadvisable to keep the elephant at Mandalay. The latest Maine romance comes from Biddeford, where an honest, awkward farmer, who had been pestered for years w r ith a suit for sending indecent letters to the girl he loved, has just been able to prove that their author was none other than her rase ally brother, who hoped, by preventing her marriage, to keep un divided their joint estate. Captain Calhoun, an old resident of St. Joseph County, Mich., died in Flor ence Township recently, and his four sons, who had been separated for eight een years, came home to attend the funeral. They rode in the same car un known to each other from Chicago to White Pigeon, two of them occupying the same seat, and it was not until they all tried to get the same conveyance to take them to the old homestead that their identity was disclosed to each other. In the early days of English law, it was a custom for the clients to send a present of a pail of gloves to the counsel who undertook their causes, and even to the judges who were to try them. These gloves were generally only a cloak for an absolute bribe —Mrs. Croker, for ex ample, presenting Sir Thomas More with a pair lined xvith £4O, which he re turned. A bribe given in such circum stances continued to be called “glove money” long after gloves had ceased to hold a place in the transaction. Jack Tar's Jledicine Chest. One of the principal afflictions of sea men on long voyages used to be sea scurvy. This was particularly the case on sailing vessels, or those bound on -voyages in the polar seas. As a general rule the malady is to be attributed to the deprivation of fresh vegetables any con siderable length of time. The exclusive use of salt meat in lieu of fresh also con duces to the disease. Under existing marine laws relating to the general com fort of poor Jack it is not nearly so prevalent as in former years. Every vessel sailing under the United States flag, bound from any port in this country to any foreign port, is bound by law to have a well stocked medicine chest aboard. • The same rule holds good if the vessel be bound from a port on the the Atlantic to one on the Pacific, or vice versa. lii the medicine chest there must be a sufficient quantity of lime or lemon juice, sugar and vinegar for the use of the crew. As soon as the fresh provisions and vegetables give out and salt food has to be" regularly used the anti-scorbutics must be given to the men. Ten days after the salt provisions have to be used exclusively is the time when the master of the vessel is required to resort to these remedies. The lime or lemon juice and sugar is served out at the rate of half an ounce per day each man, and a half pint of vinegar for each, weekly. If the vessel should sail without these things in her medicine chest, the master is liable to a line of SSOO. Should he not use them at the time required he may be fined SIOO, but if it can be shown that the owners of the vessel are either by neglect or otherwise in fault for its not being on board, then the master may legally recover from them the fines and costs which had been inflicted on him. Vessels leaving a port on the Atlantic for one on the Pacific side, or a vessel crossing the Atlantic, is obliged to carry in a secure place under deck sixty gallons of water, 100 pounds of salted flesh meat and 100 pounds of wholesale ship bread for each person on board. If Jack Tar’s stipulated allowance has been reduced during the voyage, without sufficient cause, he may recover damages amounting from fifty cents to $1 per day for the time he suffered such deprivation and according to the amount and quality of the food withheld from him.— Neu> York Press. A Love-Lorn Cataleptic. In the Lancaster ( Penn. > Insane asylum there is a patient who puzzles all doctors. He cannot speak, but can hear and walk after a shambling fashion. But he can not move hand or head or eyelid. Just as others place them, so they must remain—open or shut, straight or bent. His name is John Koechel, and his sad condition, it is said, was brought abcut by a disappointment in love—after which he ran wild in the woods till attacked with catalepsy, from which he now suffers. Commercial Adcertmr. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Preserving Eggs. Any method which will keep the ait from the inside of the shell will preserve eggs for a certain length of time. Eggs lor packing should not be more than one day laid, and packed in fine weather, the best season being from April to September. One method of packing is to immerse them in lime water and set away in a cool cellar, this, though u-u --aiiy successful fitr some weeks, often de stroys the eggs by keeping them in too long. A better way is to back them in salt in a stone jar. Put a layer of salt two inches thick in first, and alternate layers of eggs and salt to fill the jar, the eggs standing on the larger end; a thick layer of salt should be put on last. Cover with a stone cover and set in a cool, dry place. —Detroit Free P.e s. A New Coverlet. Cheese-cloth quilts are the new cover lets, and commend themselves, being warm aud inexpensive. The materials needed are ten yards of the cheese-cloth and five one-pound rolls of cotton. The cheese-cloth when cut into lengths of two and a half yards is placed on a bed or table. Over this is laid a layer of cotton batting, which has previously been placed before a hot tire or register, unrolling it from the bundle over a chair or clothes-horse. This causes the cotton to expand to twice its first thickness. A second layer goes crosswise, and so on until all the cotton has been utilized. Over the last layer is placed the second cover of cheese-cloth, and the whole tied with worsted, in bedquilt fashion. A feather stitching completes the edge.— Comm. rcial Adcertiser. Teach the Girls to Sew. Who can say that the inventions of the nineteenth century do not show us to be going ahead, pushing onward to perfec tion? Not only is this the case in scien tific matters, but in all branches pertain ing to household work. In one particu lar, however, we are losing ground. Our daughters are not taught the use of the needle, as were our grandmothers in the good old times of “long ago,” for did they not fashion dainty, beautiful gar ments, without the aid of the sewing machine, with its numerous attachments, hemmer, rubier, tucker, corder and binder? In ‘-grandma’s day” every ruffle xvas hemmed, rolled, whipped and sewed on by band. In undergarments every seam was neatly felled, every yard of flannel xvas (after being run together) nicely aud evenly “catsteppea,” and without this pretty finish was considered a bungling, unsightly piece of work. In many cases too much time and eye sight were spent in beautifying and< adorning ladies' underwear. Particu larly was this the case when days, weeks and even months were spent in elabo rately embroidering the chemise and nightgown yokes so much in vogue twenty and thirty years ago. This I consider a wanton waste of time, and now that Hamburg embroidery and woven trimmings are so cheap and pretty there is no excuse for it. Neither do I condemn the use of the sewing machine, but I contend that td*, do good machine work it is almost necessary for dne to understand how to do plain sewing. I think all mothers should begin by the time their daugh ters are ten years of age to teach them the rudiments of this branch of house hold work. lam fully aware of the ob jections urged by most mothers, mainly, want of time, if not want of time on the part of the mother, want of time on the part of the child; many times it is a want of inclination on the part of one or both. Do not let your child commence too soon on fancy and decorative work, but give her a good foundation by a thor ough drill in plain sewing wriiile yet young enough to be guided by your in struction. With this foundation all branches of ornamental work will be comparatively easy. —Good Housekeeping. Recipes. Rice Entree.—Stew a cup of rice un til well done, add a small cup of milk, two well beaten eggs, pepper and salt to taste, pour into a shallow pan, sprinkle grated cheese thickly over the top and bake until the top is nicely browned. Potato Turnovers. —Mix about a pint of hot mashed potato with one egg, season to taste, and roll it in flour. Make it into balls and press or roll it out thin, put a tablespoonful of meat, minced and seasoned, on one half, fold over and press the edges together and brow T n on each side in drippings. Beef Smothered in Tomato. —Cut an onion tine and fry it slowly in one tablespoonful of butter in a stew pan. Add one pint of tomatoes cooked and strained, one teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper and one pound of beef cooked or uncooked, cut in small pieces. Simmer very slowly until the meat is tender. Oranged Strawberries. —Place a layer of strawberries in a deep dish, cover thickly with pulverized sugar; then a layer of berries, and so on, until all are nsed. Pour over them orange juice, in the proportion of three oranges to a quart of berries; let stand for an hour and just before serving sprinkle with pounded ice. Rice and Asparagus Soup. —Wash well half a pound of rice and parboil it in water, cool in cold water, drain, and *tien cook it with a quart of beef broth for twenty minutes; then pour in two quarts more of beef broth. Put in at the last moment a pint of small cooked green asparagus tops, boil a minute and pour into the soup tureen and serve, Ebcai.loped Tomato. —One quart to matoes, add one teaspoonful salt, one saltspoonful pepper, a few drops of onion juice and one tablespoonful sugar; butter a dish and sprinkle with crumbs, pour in the tomatoes; cover with one cup cracker crumbs moistened with butter. Bake until brown. Fresh or canned tomatoes may be used for the above. Use plain crumbs. Crecy Soup. —The materials needed for this soup are one quart of rich brown stock, one pint of carrot, one ful of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper and one smali onion sliced. Wash and scrape the carrot. Shave oil in thin slices a pint of the outer part, l'o not use the yellow centre. Cook the carrot with the onioo in Coiling salted water until tender: Rub the carrot through a colander, add the stock and heat again. Add the sugar, salt and pepper, and when hot serve immediately with croutons.