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Conversation. —One of the fine ways in which women can contribute to the culture of society and continue their own, is by making their home the centre ot intellectual influence and lit erary conversation. A lady in Detroit has opened her house for conversation of the highest order, and the best peo ple in the city have filled her parlors to hear Emerson, Alcot and Mrs. Howe and other celebrated talkers; and now a distinguished scholar of Ann Arbor is reading a course of literary lectures to such as will come to hear, supple menting the reading with criticisms, suggestions and inquiries of their own. We hear of similar circles in Chicargo, Dubuque, Bloomington and other pla ces and hope the plan will be carried out in all our cities and large towns. Surely there are people enough in all our cities who are prepared for some thing better than the usual receptions and parties of fashionable society; and it only needs for such people to throw their influence into a common centre to creatg the beginnings of anew order of things. Let every cultivated woman do what she can to add anew intellect ual and literary quality to the society she moves in, and we shall soon have a purer and more invigorating atmos phere, and customs that are elevating, and a fashion that is refining:. “ Sally,” said a fellow to a girl who had red hair, “ keep away from me, or you’ll set me on fire.” “No danger of that,” replied the girl, “ you are too green to burn!” W noLEsoMK Law,- —The sympathy expressed for the “ poor drunkard” has been differently expressed by a recent act of the Wisconsin Legislature, which provides, among other things, that “ it shall be unlawful within this State tor any person to become intoxicated.” The punishment of violators of the law is imprisonment from one day to two months certain, with a further contin gent imprisonment at the discretion of the court until the costs of conviction are defrayed. Further still, any per son foil ltd drunk may be taken in charge by any person so disposed, and held until sober, when the expense of his keeping, together with a fee of two dollars per diem, must be paid. This is a move in the right direction, but it should be improved upon by classing drunkenness with insanity, and taking the person to au asylum. A person who will get drunk is only fit to live in an asylum. Don't forget that the Mutual Aid Job Office is in the comer building, up stairs, Alabama St., opposite Atlanta National Bank. Hints on Health. —Coarse bread is better for children than fine. Child ren should sleep in separate beds, and should not wear night caps. • Children under seven years of age should not be confined over six or seven hours-in the house, and that time should be* broken by frequent recesses. Children and young people must be made to hold their heads up and their shoulders back, while sitting, standing, or walk ing. The best beds for children are of hair and cotton. From one to one pound and a half of solid food is suffi cient for a person in the*9frdinary voca tions of business. Persons in seden tar}’ employments should drop one third of their food, and they will es cape indigestion. Young persons should exercise at least two hours a day in the open air. Young ladies should be prevented from bandaging the chest. We have known the worst disease, ter minating in death, which began in this practice. Reading aloud is conducive to health. The more clothing we wear, other things being equal, the less food we need. Sleeping-rooms should have a fire-place, or some mode of ventila tion besides the windows. Young peo ple and others cannot study much by lamplight witli impunity. The best remedy for eyes weakened by night use, is a fine stream of water frequent ly applied to then? B *' Remedy for Painful Wounds.— This remedy for the pain attendant upon burns or wounds is said to be ex cellent : “ Take a pan or shovel with burning coals and sprinkle upon them common brown sugar, and hold the wounded part in the smoke. In a few minutes the pain will be allayed and recovery proceeds rapidly. In my own case a rusty nail made a bad wound in the bottom of my foot. The pain and nervous irritation was severe. This w T as all removed by holding it in the smoke for ten minutes, and I was able to resume my reading in comfort. We have often recommended it to oth ers with like results. Recently one of my men had a finger mtSl torn out by a pair of ice tongs. It became very painful, as was to have been expected. Held in sugar smoke for twenty min utes the pain ceased, and it promises speedy recovery.” Olive Logan commenced one of her lectures at Newark recently, with the remark, ‘Whenever I see a pretty girl, I want to clasp her in my arms.’ So do we,’ shouted the boys in the gallery. For a moment Olive w T as nonplussed, but recovering her self-possession, she replied, ‘Well, boys, 1 don’t blame you.’ * Artificial Milk. —From the reports in circulation it would seem as if science were about to make cows superfluous. Artificial miik has been prepared by a French chemist from sugar, dried whites of eggs, carbonate of soda, olive oil and water. By substituting gelatine for the whites of eggs, and with less admix ture of water, cream is obtained. An other chemist, Gaudin, in discussing the preceding suggestion, gives his tes timony as to depriving fats of all un pleasant odor by mere subjection to an appropriate temperature, lie also states that very good artificial milk can be prepared 1 from bones rich in fat, by pu trifying this fat by means of super-heat ed steam, and combining the fat thus obtained with gelatine. This milk is, he says, almost like that of a cow; and when kept, acquires first the odor of sour milk, then that of cheese. The gelatine in it represents the casein ; the fat, the butter; the sugar, the sugar of milk. It serves for the preparation of coffee and chocolate, of soups, and and creams of excellent flavor, and its cost is trifling. It is related of a clergyman from Northern Vermont, who years ago paid a visit to New York, and was in vited to fill a city pulpit during the time of dog day pastoral vacations, that he had never had thej privilege of lis tening to a church organ, and was to tally unacquainted with the fashion of hiring a few vocalists to do the singing for the congregation. Giving out the first hymn, the organist played a fancy prelude, and in the highest style of art the choir rendered the four verses Ad dressing the Throne of Grace in a fer vent invocation which stamped him as a man of intellect and power with his audience, he coolly re-opened the hymn book, and turning to a page, exclaim ed— “ The audience will now join*with me in singing a good old Methodist hymn, and those persons running that bag of wind in the gallery will please not interrupt.” Old Roger.— Old Roger was visit ing a friend who had a remarkably fine little girl, about three years old, famous for smart sayings. As usual she was showing off before our esteemed friend. “What is papa?” said the “parent/’ in order to draw* out the precocious re ply- “ Papa’s a humbug,'’ said the juve nile, “ I declare,” said old Roger, “ I nev er in my life saw so young a child with so mature a judgment.” jgUr 9 “Mutual Aid Job Office” is up stairs, in the Corner Building, Ala bama St., below James’ Bank.