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"GitfcM* «?€Keiited Charlie, fresh frota OoJiaee, arul skeptical on any sub­ ject wfcMflghtbe broachod, " Really, moiter, If ' your hearing is so acute, pleiBte eonrit the steps of thai half-frOMD ny 0b the ceiling." "Jfonsease, Charlie/' replied Ms moth- «r, *rith a smile. " But I am sure I heard some one rap. There it is again ! You must have heara thai Nettie, dear, rim to the door." The knock this time, though modest and apologetic in tone, -was not to be diftpnted. Nettie reached out her hand to take the candle, but was anticipated by her inoonrigible brother, who rudely Mew oat the taper, exclaiming r " Nsw, then, mother, for a teal oI your ibgemiity; who is this caller, and whaitislusoF her emndf Listen 1 Can you analyze.that knock?" "Nonsense!" exclaimed his mother again. "Some tramp, I suppoee, who has seen the light Cram one window, •nd " But she was interrupted by Chaise's burst of merriment " A tramp! And at this season of the year! No, no, mother ; try again. A tramp's knock would reverberate through the house like thunder," "C«ne, Charles,*9 Interposed I, "this Is Idle. Ton may be keeping a neighbor waiting, or a child." "A little child!" cried Nettie, "and on a night like this! No, brother, yon •hall not detain me another moment." And, after a slight scuffle, Nettie emerged in triumph, bearing the dis­ puted candle. As she paused on the threshold to re­ light the candle, I may as well make public my secret conviction that a being nearer akin to the angels than our Not- tie did not exist. She opens the outer door, her friendly face beaming a wel­ come to whoever might be standing in the darkness, while her gentle voice in­ quires ; " Who is there ? ' We all listened intently for the reply, thai, quite iu keeping with the tap, was delivered in a low, strained voioe. ** I an hungry,'cold and sick. I saw the light from yomr window, and----" "Yon are welcome, sir," interrupted Nettie, gravely. "And," she added, glaaoing aaareh look at her mother-- *2 stranger, as he entered, directed «r enquiring glanoe toward Nettie, as if not comprehending the import of her last Worth, nor tne smile that passed .from lip to lip of the family circle. •uilgiy, oold and sick! There are many such in the world, but few who bear such genuine marks of distress. His clothing, worn and torn by long ser­ vice, hung in limp folds about his shrinking, shivering form; while his face, pale and contracted by physical (or was it mental ?) suftering, might have been takes for that #f a corpse, were it not for the dark, brilliant eyes that burned deep in their sockets. Nettie had conducted hiw> into the kitchen adjoining, and by a clever strat- ageKi beguiled her brother out of his eugr-chair, which, before he could in- teneepi her, she had dragged into the next room and placed at the disposal of • her visitor. "You are too good," murmured the young m&xi thankfully, as he sank wear- uythto the inviting chair. *A model tramp!" sneered Charlie, th#loss of whose easy-chair might have tempted Mm into whispering in a loud key. The stranger probably overheard him, •site shielded nis face with his white, blqpdiess hands, and spoke no more. ifcetti® flitted busily from room to rooBQ, from pantry to cellar, on hospit­ able thought intent, apparently uncon­ scious of her mother's slight coughs and other efforts to attract her attention when the stock of preserves was invad- •cDjiHhoiigh a close observer would have noticed by the tell-tale dimples in her cheek and the sparkle in her eye that •he was quite cognizant of her mother's UJdBasinet>s. O these children 1 how they do wheedle and cajole their parents I If :*as characteristic of Nettie that when she gave she gave with both hands full. She gave the cake and withheld the crust. And so it was that when the yojngman, letting his hands fall from before his face, beheld the glittering tea-table, with its goodly array of sul>- stantials and delicacies, he stared at his fair benefactress in such a mute, help- ^aytluU it waa half-amusing, half. ffAnd yon have prepared this for ma! bw 1 And you do not know who or wh&tlam." , ti^Our guest," responded Nettie, gen- " Not but that the light "--glancing dunlawfully «t hi* shabby coat--"re- Teals my wretchedness too plainly." ««K ^on me«" Eaid Nettie, bravely: out it is the poor we are commanded to .assist; nor do I know of any duty thkt yields half the pleasure." --„ - * e warm^ the room betraved me into a nap, continued the stranger, •^tnd I dreamed--alas ! it was but a dfeam--that I should go forth from this ho^M free from* the burden of remorse that Tias weighed me down these many yeare. But, no; such a miracle could not, happen. I have waked once more to 4»isaiy ^and to the fact that I am •notttcaet r Itfiudi 1" esdained Ni-ttte. "We wrfll speak that later. You must not bitterif ; for, whatever your at- timwour address is that of a gentle- flTeflit new resumed her place with us. «ni Hm rtl--fciwiaas left to his repast. OlgrtU yiadtoucda highly -colored meer- •cM|nL without rogardiog his anc»Se% emlNating looks, proceeded to piit. •Ohailie," she oould not for- m *em- ^ .1 tm *« i.- _ „ *?*_«» j at last; " it is not often that IMI lil aeeriiee anything Ior roe, but r do wish you would give up smok­ ing." "No use,mother; I should think yon would know better than to make such a " Obey I" thundered a voioe from the yours lm The deep, tragic tones in which these Jwords were uttered, the erect, dignified form standing Upon the threshold 4rath threatening forefinger pointing directly at the object of his attack, the flashing, magnetic eye that oompelled attention and obedience--ail involuntarily re- mindiHl me of an evening some forty Jears before when I had seen the elder Lean advance to the footlights, and, with rapid, unexpected apeecb, electrify tlie audience. So, too. I had seen a re­ ligious revivalist single out some stiff- necked sinner in the crowd, »nd with 4arting forefinger pour out the vials of ticriptoral vengeance en the un baptised head. . " Tho man must be mad, or a strolling actor playing a part 1" eried Charlie, who w» the first to Meorer from the general amazement. . The effect of this remttrh on the man was magical; the extended hand dropped; his figure shrank and drooped into its former listless attitude ; the lire died out in his eyes, and his coat once more revealed its rents, while his voice, low and hoarse, muttered an apology: " Jt'orgive me. I forgot where 1 was and who I am. No, I can never forget that. I cannot escape myself." Nettie's sympathetic soul was touched, " Perhaps you would like to tell us about yourself. That is, you might like to feel that there, were those who pitied your misfortunes. My brother is some­ times hasty, but Always kind-hearted. We would all be glad to assist you if we can." " My tale is one of horror, and could gain me only your detestation ; yet why should I shrink from the recital when the pain I thereby inflict on myself is the only penalty I can pay for my crime ? "1 am," he continued, "or ruttier was, an actor, and so was my father before me. As a child, I mimicked the set phrases and gestures of the actors about me, and early learned to look upon the play-house as my home and the field wherein I should develop whatever tal­ ents I might possess. Mv father occu­ pied the position of leading man at the B-- Theater, and was the most popu­ lar actor in town. He basked in the glare of the theater, exerted, nay, ex­ hausted, himself m the effort to please a fickle public, and possibly looked upon his home only as a retreat where he might recuperate his exhausted ener­ gies and equip himself for fresh conquests. My.. mother naturally looked upon the theater as a rival, and a successful one, to the home. Yet, for all that, she never re­ laxed her efforts to make that home a Eleasant and attractive one. Whatever er sufferings and despair might have been, she never voiced them. Only 1 remember on one occasion she had play­ fully asked me what I intended to be when I grew up to manhood, and I re­ plied : ' Au actor, mamma, an actor, by all means.' She pressed me closer in her arm*, and I felt her warm tears on my face as she cried out: 4 Oh, not that, my son! Anything but that. Choose again, just to please your mother.' But I obdurately insisted that I would be an actor and nothing else. From that mo­ ment my mother seemed to regard me with great apprehension, and I am afraid would have secretly rejoiced if my first appearance had been such an utter failure as to deter me from taking any further steps in that direction. But my father aided and encouraged me. Himself a careful, conscientious student, he would quench my too-ardent enthu­ siasm by an immersion in the ocean of work that lies between every artist and his goal; and anon, lifting me up to his own lookout, he would point out some new and undiscovered country where fresh glory awaited the first comer. Alternately stimulated and held in check, 1 rapidly grew in popular favor, and divided almost equally with my father the smiles and tears of the town. Oh! he alone who has commanded them can testify to the sweetness of the power. '"About this time there appeared on the scene one wiiommy lather nervously feared as a possible rival. He played parts that my father considered pecul­ iarly his own by right of repeated rep­ resentation, and, being young, hand­ some and of good address, secured a large following of friends. The misun­ derstanding between this stranger and my father was of so serious a character that they only spoke to each other when the demands of their profession forced some courtesy from one or the other, and it required all the firmness of the stage manager to keep them to their duties. One night, late in the season, when all the new plays had been Worn thread­ bare, an old melodrama was revived, and to my father and this new-comer the principal parts were assigned. Each now started out in the race to enlist the applause of the audience. My fath­ er watched the house nervously, both off and on the stage, to see to which side its favor might incline. He seemed to feel the laurels plucked from his own and bound on a younger brow. Near the close of the play my father was to shoot his opponent, who was to fall dead at his feet. You have already apprehend­ ed the sequel. The gun, an old, unused one, supposed to be loaded with a small charge of powdtr, went off in my fath­ er's hands, and the rival, whom he had so lately feared and hated, lay dead be­ fore him. " I have related this incident to show you the cloud of misfortune that over our family, and shortly afterward enveloped me in its folds. by almost immediate proinotion, and (he imiufls ieshii to--m purls which my father had rendered taxaoxis. Many of my friends WMe anxious to see me attempt the higher walks ol my art, and partly to please them, m well as to as­ certain theories and innovations of my own, I gave out that I would shortly es­ say the role of Othello. For weeks and months I studied this creation of the great dramatist, and succeeded in thoroughly identifying myself with the part. On the night before my debut as a tragedian was to take place' I retired early, but my sleep was disturbed by dreams. By turns I was the fond an«i tender lover, the proud and powerful General, the crazed* relentless mur­ derer. " The morning dawned and developed in my own home a more horrible tragedy than was ever conceived by dramatist, for while I slept and dreamed a dastard­ ly assassin had crept into my mother's chamber and strangled the life from her sweet body. Upon her fair white throut was the cruel imprint of the murderous hand, and, oh, Chad! while I slept, un­ conscious of her agony, she was strug­ gling with her slayer. '"Weeks and months passed, bat no clew to the murderer could be discovered, nor the object of the crime imagined. My life, robbed of its truest friend, seemed dull and melancholy. There was but one thing left for me to do, and that was to recall and act upon her ad­ monitions, so that, if haply her spirit, looked down on mo, she might bless my efforts. I left the State and sought in a Western State to give a new direction to my life. But even iiere my reputation as au actor li&d preceded me, and I was waited upon one evening by the man­ ager of the local theater with the re­ quest that I would take the place of his leading man on the following evening, he being incapacitated by sickness from appearing. The piece was to be " Othel­ lo. I accepted the proposal, pleased that my name had not been entirely forgotten by the public. The hotel at whioli 1 stopped was overcrowded, and the land­ lord informed me that I would have to share my room with a stranger. But the 'stranger,' when he came in, proved to be an old friend, and we talked far into the n£|rht of old times, mutual acquaintance, but especially of my forthcoming appearance as Othello on the next night. I slept, and dreamed once again that I was the veritable Mow of Venice, breathing into Desdemopa's ear my vengeful, cruel purpose. I waa suddenly awakened by a terrific pull at my hair, and found myself standing out in the middle of the floor engaged in a struggle with my friend. My hands were fastened in a vise-like grip on his throat, and, even as I waked, his hold on my hair loosed, and he sank helpless­ ly to the floor. There are moments in hfe when, like an electric flash, nil that has been and much that is to be stands out clearly revealed, and, awe-struck, we gaze at the fearful prospect. The mys­ tery of my mother s taking-off was no longer a mystery ; it was these accursed hands that had done the deed, and con­ demned me, like Ahasueras, to wander over the world, seeking relief and find­ ing none." With these words the young man con­ cluded his tragio story, and, seizifSjjj hi* hat, opened the outer door and disap­ peared in the darkness. Nettie, with white faoe, but moistened eyes, hastened to the door with her purpose so clearly expressed In her manner that Charles cried out: " Have a care what you are doing! Ton surely can't meau to offer that sleep-walker a bed here t Ugh ! I choke at the thought of it!" Nettie shuddered, hesitated for a mo­ ment only, then, leaving the door ajar, stepped out. We could hear her voioe, but could not distinguish the words, but his reply was distinctly audible: " You are right. To me it seems as if my mother's voice spoke through you, bidding me cast off this burden of re­ morse and rtturn to my art, with the resolve to win the name the future sure­ ly has in store for me." * * * * • • • * Several years later oax family were surprised by the receipt of a note, in- dosing passes, from the manager of the E Theater, inviting us to be present on the following evening, when Ameri­ ca's greatest tragedian would open a week's engagement. The play was to be "Othello." We were punctual.yon hand, and were politely conducted to a side box, whence shortly afterward we had no difficulty in recognizing, in the swarthy Moor who strode the stage, Nettie's quondam acquaintance. Between the acts the actor entered our box and claimed the privilege of re­ newing an acquaintance so inauspicious- ly begun. " I shall invite myself once more to your home," said he, " new will you find me the objectionable guest that I for­ merly was. Before fame and fortune the dark specters that haunted my brain have dissolved like the mists of morning and left me light-hearted and clear-visioned." Since then the actor has often been our honored guest; and idle rumor has it--is the rumor idle ? What, then, do Nettie's blushes mean, as, bending over my shoulder as I w*ite, she asks the question: " Father, don't you think it would sound better if you were to christen your story * The Tale of a Tragedian ?' " - .'*.i a •Vs JUfWn# " Although probably no one actually believed that this tragedy was other than a sad accident, yet some there were who, recalling tlio enmity between the two men, were malicious enough to whis­ per that the shooting was premeditated under cover of the play. These rumors coming to my father's cars cut short his stage career. He secluded himself close­ ly at home and would see no one. One night, I recollect, ho called me into his room, and said : ' My son, it would have l)*en far better for ineif I had purposely killed that man, for in that case my pun­ ishment would be deserved and sure. This distrust, the averted eyes of those who were once proud to call themselves my friends, is lulling me.' Ho must have spoken in a spirit of prophecy, for on the following morning he cued. " Soon after this event I was the re­ cipient of some flattering offers from theatrical managers, and I determined to return to the stage, although my mother bitterly opposed it. Oh ! tliat I had listened to her gentle pleadings, liut youth is proud ana headstrong, and unwilling to heed words of caution. Was I not desirous of providing for all her present and future heeds ? Had I, although acting contrary to her wishes, any other object tlian her ultimate hap­ piness in view ? Would she not. sooner or later, come round to look at things in my way ? yMj return-to the triage was followed AM interesting phenomenon in pho­ tography has been announced by M. Jaussen in a note to the French Academy of sciences. While obtaining social images at Mendon, he has observed that when the exposure is prolonged beyond a certain period in which a good nega­ tive is got, this image loses its distinc­ tion, and the plate passes into a neutral state--i. «., no appreciable change ap­ pears on use of a developer. Bnt if the exposure be continued still further, the negative image gives place to a posi­ tive, in which the distribution of light and shade is exactly the opposite, and this image, if the luminous action be well regulated, presents all the details and fineness of the one it has supplanted. With further exposure a second neutral state is reached, opposite to the first, in­ asmuch as if the latter showed the image uniformly dark, the former shows it uniformly light For solar negatives taken at Mendon the time of exposure has rarely exceeded 1-1,000 of a second, if the photospheric granulations were to be obtained, and with plates prepared by the gelatino-bromide process, the time may be reduced to 1-20,000th of a second, or less. Now, if one of these dry plates be exposed half a second a distinct posi­ tive image is produced, the body of the sun appearing white and spots black, as they do to the eye. M. Janssen lias sim­ ilarly obtained positive images of land­ scapes appearing transparently as the scenes is viewed naturally; also a view of the park at Mendon, showing a wliite solar disk on the dark background of the sky and corner types, which are of the same sight as the original types--i. e., positive if the type be positive, and neg­ ative if it be negative. In these photo- graphs it is the same spectral rays that have given the negative image, and then effected its transformation into a positive. S0U8EH0LD HELPH. v-/4 • * ••• •• A. eux shell is more conwmbmt tot scraping kettles and frying pans than • knife. It does the work in less timet FBBCKUB LOTION.--Muriate ammonia, one dram; cologne water, two drams; distilled water, seven ounces; mix and use as a wash. It contains nothing in­ jurious. WHEN washing fine laoes do not use starch at all; in the last water in which they are rinsed put a little fine white sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the re­ sult will be pleading. PUFFS.--Two cups milk, two cups flour, two eggs, a little salt. Beat tne whites separately, and add the last thing. Bake in muffin rings or cups. This is sufficient for eight cups. A LUNCHEON DISH.--Beat two eggs, mixing with them a tablespoonful of cream. Put them into a saucepan, ad­ ding some anchovies and some minced tongue. Spread on toast and serve im­ mediately. CORN CAKES.---One cup of sweet milk, tablespoonful of white sugar, one egg, one table spoonful of butter, one tea- spoonful of soda and two of cream-tar- tar; make as stiff as batter. They are delicious for breakfast. A SPONGE dipped in wine and placed in a saucer whose bottom is covered with a small quantity of water, will not color the water for a quarter or half an hoqr, unless the wine is adulterated, when it will begin to color &t once. IF a, rat or mouse gets into your pantry, stuff into the hole a rag saturated with a solution of cayenne pepper, and no rat or mouse will touch the rag for the pur­ pose of opening a communication with a depot of supplies. These recipes are worth trying. WINE WHEY.--Let a pint of fresh, pure milk come to the full boil, and pour into it a gill of sherry wine; stir it on the fire for ten minutes until the milk ,s thoroughly curdled and the whey clear; strain through muslin or flanneL Let the whey get cold, and serve with or without sugar. APPLE CBOUTBB.--This simple and dainty little dessert is one taught by Miss Corson: Peel and core the apples and halve them; take half slices of bread, spread thickly with butter and sprinkle with sugar, then lay apple on bread, core side down; sprinkle on mora sugar and any kind of spice to taste. Bake. SNAPS.--Take one cup of molasses, three-quarters of a cup of sugar, one tablespoon of ginger, and a teaspoon each of powdered doves, cinnamon and alspice. Add these to one-half cup of melted butter, and beat in two teaspoons soda, and flour enoagh to roll, Boll very thin, cut out with a tin cutter, and bake in a hot oven. Eoo AND TOAST.--For this a perfectly fresh egg is necessary; put a pan half full of hot water on the stove, with a little salt in it, let it come to a full boil, break your egg carefully in it, cover, and put back on the stove till the white is firm. Take out of the pan with a skimmer, and slide into a bowl of hot water while you make and butter your toast Take up the egg carefully on a perforated skim­ mer, shake dry, trim off any ragged edges, and serve immediately on the toast. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper on the egg. If this is well and neatly done it is appetizing for a sick person. BEEF TEA FOB INVALIDS.--Take a pound of lean Rteak from the round and cut very small; press it into a small saucepan, porcelain-lined or tin, one which the meat will half fill; cover with cold water, and put on the. back of the stove, close covered, where it will keep hot, but not simmer; let it stay there four hours, strain, and let it get perfectly oold, so as to remove all fat from it For a very ill person this should be used with no seasoning but salt, to the taste, either hot or cola For a con­ valescent, this tea may be used as stock for soup, seasoned in any way to suit the taste, or as directed by the physician. CHICKEN BBOTH.--Take a chicken weighing two pounds after it is dressed, break all the bones, cut in small pieoes, and put in a porcelain-lined stewpan with a quart of ctold water and two tea- spoonfuls of salt; let it come very slowly to a boil; put aside on the stove closely covered and let it simmer, say three hours, or till all the meat drops from the bones, then strain and skim. There should be a pint of soup when it is done, so if it boils down too much a little hot water should be added while it is cooking. If the patient is strong enough to bear it, a little rice, tapioca, or barley can be added an hour before serving; two table- spoonfuls of rice are sufficient. NEPAUII CCRBY OF COND BOAST FOWL. --Take two large onions, two apples, two ounces of butter, a dessert-spoonful of curry powder and one teaspoouful of flour or two teaspoonfuls of curry paste without flour, half a pint of gravy, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, and two tomatoes--fresh or preserved--cream, and rice. Fry the fowl and the onions to a light brown in two ounces of butter, then put them into a stewing-pan and add to it the gravy, tomatoes, apple­ sauce and cream. Let it simmer about thirty minutes, then put in a tablespoon­ ful of lemon juice and serve with bo iled rice. If curry paste is used instead of curry powder, only a teaspoonful of lemon juice is required. Nothing can beat this; this was the Rajah's own recipe. , A Fat Take. The Lexington Local Leader relates a curious incident: John Whitney, who lives on the old McDougal place, near the Livingston County, Kentucky, line, being out of wood, took his ax and felled an old dead oak tree, which stood in the road in front of the house. The tree, which was hollow to the fork, fell with a tremendous crash, and from out the top rolled a closely knotted ball of snakes, of all colors and sizes, and all in a somatose state. But tlii3 was the least remarkable thing which was discovered by the fall­ ing of the tree. Mr. Whitney, in re­ moving the trunk, discovered a white lead can, the top of which was closed with a piece of sheet iron. He at once forced off the cover and found the can to be filled with spocie--some gold pieces, but mostly silver. Taking his "find" to the house he counted the contents of the can and found that it amounted to $115. Of course it is not definitely known how ovens that it is proposed to put up at the foot of the lull. A4arge part of the ore yields from 70 to 80 per cent pura metal, and is easily worked and con­ verted into steel. Wood for fuel in un­ limited abundance is to be had near by, and good water is likewise accessible. Altogether, there seems to be no reason why Durango should not be a Pittsburgh or Birmingham in the near future, or even cast those cities of iron and flame entirely into the shade, rs - 'wm*** M in.1 ; . " Tipping.* One of the chief characteristics of the average American citizen, when travel­ ing especially, is the lavishness with which he disburses his loose change, so long as the purse remains plethoric, and even when that generally-convenient article has become attenuated and long drawn out, and the pieces it contains are as scarce as pawnbrokers' friends, the typical native of the home of the free will toss his last quarter to a sleeping- car porter with as careless an air as though he owned stock in the Interna­ tional Electrical Company of Chicago. This trait of the universal Yankee was long ago discovered and turned to profit­ able account by foreigners of every na­ tionality, creed and color, until now the nrrival of a denizen of the land of Uncle Sam is regarded as but the coming of a pigeon to be plucked. It is observable, however, of late years that the desire to take advantage of this weakness of the nomadic American is no longer confined to countries beyond the water, but has become firmly implanted in his native soil, and the custom of fleecing travelers in every available way is growing rapidly. In the Eastern cities, and more particu­ larly at the popular watering-places dur­ ing the fashionable season, it is next to an impossibility for the transient guest to obtain the attention for which he is charged an enormous price without sub­ mitting to an additional tax in the shape of fees to waiters, porters, chamber­ maids, check-boys and bell-boys. The " tip" may not be, and generally is not, demanded openly; but in various ways, and by devices born of experience, the underling soon brings the victim to a re­ alizing sense of the situation. His meals are half served and his coffee cold; some of his baggage is liable to be carried to a wrong room ; his quarters will not be put in order until late in the day; undue quantities of dust will remain on his outer garments, and he can wager heav­ ily on the bell-boy drinking half his ma­ tutinal cocktail and filling the glass with water from the convenient pitcher. In particularly obdurate cases, where either the exchequer will not admit, or the idea has become fixed that $6 or $8 per day should be ample to secure all accommo­ dations, it has been found convenient to have the arm jostled by a brother waiter at the proper moment, with the result of depositing some portion of a plate of soup upon the offender's raiment But, as a general thing, a resort to this heroic treatment is not rendered necessary, the petty annoyances generally causing an unconditional surrender before the ex­ piration of twenty-four hours. The itch­ ing palms are crossed with silver, and all is lovely for a season, when he notes to liis astonishment that his wants are being looked after by a new set of at­ tendants, and the lubricating process has to be repeated.--Chicago Timet* How To Xake Money. To make money is the height of every­ body's ambition. Nobody works for love neither do they work for fun. But they want to make money, and make it hon­ estly. How are we to do this ? Some people have better facilities and better locationsfor making money than we have. That may be very true, but let it be im­ pressed upon your minds the necessity of making your store attractive, buy as close as possible, and be cordial and po­ lite in manner. People will notice the former and latter of theBe requisites more than anything eke. What is more pleas­ ing to a customer than a neat, clean store, and, above all, a polite and accommodating storekeeper? It is, of course, very necessary to spend enough money to meet your actual requirements, but never go in debt, and see that you do not spend more than you make. It is again necessary to carry on the credit system to a certain extent When you know a customer to be honest, reliable and trustworthy, credit him, but credit­ ing Tom, Dick and Harry will never pay, and in the long run you will find it so. Somebody that you do not know well enough to trust, might ask you to credit him for twenty-five cents' worth of this or fifty cents' worth of that, and will set­ tle up with you regularly for a short time, but he, knowing that he can get credit from you, will keep on increasing the account until you get anxious and present the bill, and in three cases out of four, you will get nothing from him. It is better to sell ten dollars' worth of goods for cash than twenty-five dollar^ for credit Anybody that has been carrying on a credit business will tell you the same thing. Above all things, be honest If a customer wanto a pound of this or a pound that, do notgive him a pound and a quarter or seven-eights of a pound but give him just one pound, for by giving him too much, you are cheating your­ self, which is just as sinful as if you cheated him. Devote your whole time in pursuit of your business. If yon have any time to spare, devote it either to arranging the goods in your show cases or upon the shelves, or read something that will benefit you and your business, find out where you can buy yo*r goods the cheapest for oash and go there, no matter how long you have been buying from the other man. By doing these things, your business will prosper.-- New York Grocer. Not So Green After All. A chap from the rural districts stepped into a music store in the city of Provi­ dence, and, after taking a fifteen min­ utes' survey of the contents, he stepped up to the counter and asked the clerk if he had any new music--"bran new, just out?" The clerk measured him with his eye for a moment, and, thinking he was ig­ norant as to music, and that anything would be fresh to his customer that had been issued since the days of " Rosin the Bow," decided to palm off some old pieoes which had become a drug on the counter. So he took up "The Last Rose of Summer," and said : SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. draw a tolerably accurate conclusion. In the bottom of the can was found a folded page of the Chicago Times bearing date 1861. Old McDougal, now dead, is kuown to have been an ardent sympa­ thizer with the "Lost Cause," and his neighbors made it warm for the old gen­ tleman in those troublous times. Believ­ ing that he would be run off or his house sacked, McDougal, no doubt, secreted this ready money for an emergency. The Future Iron City. The city of Duraneo, in Mexico, hta a hill in its vicinity that is almost pure iron. It is tifro miles long, one mile wide, and 700 feet high. On its surface, uncovered and visible, ore, according to estimate, 200,000,000 of tons of iron ready to be placed in the smelting Mix a little saltpetre or carbonate of soda with water, and it will preserve flowers for two weeks. EBNEBT BEN AN, writing from the ret gion of the Nile, claims to have disocm erwl a little model of a sewiijg machine, supposed to have been made over six thousand years ago, by an Egyptian, named Zynger. PBUSSIC acid remains for a consider! able time in the bodies of animals pois­ oned with it, and arrests their decay, M. Brame killed a rabbit and a cat by administering to each a gramme of this acid. A month afterward the bodies were found perfectly preserved, the dose being sufficient to permeate the tissues and to become intimately incorporated with those of the stomach. THE subsoil of Paris contains abund­ ance of sulphur, now in course of forma­ tion, as was recently proved in making excavations in the Place de la Repub- lique. M. Daubree says that this na­ tive sulphur has nothing to do with the escape of gas from the mains, but that its origin is due to the simultaneous presence of various kinds of organic sub­ stances and of gypsum in the soil. PROF. CABNEHLY, of Sheffield, has shown that liquids can be reduced to a solid, or frozen state, and still retain their heat. In order to convert a solid into a liquid the pressure must be above a certain point. As long, therefore, as the necessary pressure is maintained, no amount of heat will liquify it By ob­ serving this law, Prof. Carnelly suc­ ceeded in freezing some water in a glass vessel which remained so hot as to burn his hand. ACCORDING to Prof. Tyndall's defini­ tion, the brain is the organized register of infinitely numerous experiences re­ ceived during the evolution of life, of rather during the evolution of that serial of organism through which the human organism has been reached; the effect of the most uniform and frequent of these experiences has been successfully be­ queathed, principal and interest, and have slowly mounted to that high intelli­ gence which lies latent in the brain of the infant MANY readers may know the experi­ ment in which a lighted match or candle being moved about near the side of one of the eyes in a dark room, reveals the network of blood vessels in the retina. A curious phenomenon of the same order has been lately observed by M. Charpentier. Looking at a sky uniform­ ly illuminated with diffuse white light, he made the two fingers of his right hand (separate about 0.1 to 0.2 m.), to pass rapidly to an fro before his eyes, and in about half a minute the uniform aspect of the sky was greatly changed. On a white background appeared a mo­ saic composed of hexagons of violet pur­ ple color, separated by white lines. Other persons, he says, have repeated the experiment with success. He gives reasons for thinking that the hexagonal images correspond to the cones ill the fovea and yellow spot, which cones, pressed together, form a sort of hexa­ gonal mosaic. The white lines probably correspond to filaments charged with crystals of pigment, which descend from the chorodian cells. DB. LE BON continues his researches regarding the products of tobacco. The new alkaloid found in tobacco smoke (with other aromatic principles, and prussic acid as well as nicotine) is a liquid of very agreeable and very penetrating color, and as poisonous as nicotine, the twentieth part of one drop sufficing to paralyze and kill a frog. It is the prussio acid and the various aromatic principles that cause headache, giddiness, and nausea, in smoking certain tobaccos that contain little nicotine. Other tobaccos, rich in nicotine, have no such effects. Ulie tobaccos containing most prussio acid and collidine are those of Havana and the Levant The dark, semi-liquid matter which condenses in pipes and cigar-holders contains all the substances mentioned, as well as carbonate of am­ monia, tarry and coloring matter, etc. It is very poisonous. Two or three drops of it will kill a small animal. The com­ bustion of the tobacco destroys but & small part of the nicotine, and most of this appears in the smoke. The propor ­ tion absorbed by smokers varies accord­ ing to circumstances, but hardly ever falls below fifty centigrammes for every 100 grammes of tobacco burned. About the same quantity of ammonia is ab­ sorbed at the same time. Naturally, more of the poisonous principles are absorbed when the smoked is breathed, as in a room; less in the open air. A frog placed in a receiver containing a solution of nicotine, with about a drop of that substance to a little water, succumbs in a few hours. Tobacco smoke contains about eight millilitres of carbonic oxide per 100 grammes of tobacco burned. The poisonous properties of tobacco smoke are not due to this gas, as been maintained in Germany. A660BFAMftYBM8Y.^> BTKIOTI,! PURE. H Yes, here is a piece that goee with a the money c&me to bo deposited in the j perfect rush, and here is ' The Old Arm tree, but we may from ciicumstanoes | Chair,' another favorite. There is When this Cruel War is Over,' which is all the rage all over the city." " That will dew," replied Jonathan. "How much do you ask for the lot?" " One dollar," returned the clerk. " Waal, you may dew 'em up in a piece of paper and lay 'em on the shell." The clerk obeyed, but Jonathan did not pay for the music. "I'm going down town a piece," he said, and if 1 come back I will pay for that music and take it; but if I don't come back you may light your pipe with • The Last Rose of'Summer,' sit down in ' The Old Arm Chair' and wait till ' This Cruel War is Over.' " Jonathan slid out of the door, and the olerk looked a* though he had been sold. Suicide and Its Causes. A scientific person in Switzerland, «ho has written a book on suicide, its causes, peculiarities and significauce, denies the point which Richard Grant White makes, that the inclination to self-destruction increases with education,and refinement, and claims that moral conditions influ­ ence suicide more than social or econom­ ical conditions. As for religion, Protest­ ants seem as yet to kill themselves oftener than Roman Catholics, and still more frequently than Jews, in the countries where the three religions are repre­ sented in proportions of any importance. Density of population is without any appreciable effect; but suicide is more frequent in cities than in the country. So far as individual influences are con­ cerned, women kill themselves three or four times less frequently than do men; suicide increases with age to the extreme limit of life; marriage exerts a very marked preventive effect, while celibacy and widowhood favor suicide. In­ quiries into the motives of suicide have not brought satisfactory answers, for it is hard to get at the truth told about them, and official reports must bo accepted with reserve. In France, higher, more generous motives are at­ tributed to women than to men. -- New York Commercial. 'V . . i t*- . tTM«T»yln« wpimnta Uwtogh a h--lUiy«to*»J WHAT THE DOCTORS SAT I DR. 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