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" • ' v . - V :t" »*"?"• ,<k I# •'4£ A Joy of Ufe, a fraufe delight, «" A moderate dertre: % And if you fait to And a Iii|U^ ' At least--a trusty Squire. £<& • • -V?-.: r:A Si. $ 0.:- SE­ EPING CHA.HBEB. Ortenlaa A strange story was once told me by a Levantine lady of my acquaintance, which I shall endeavor to relate--as far as I am able with the necessary abridg­ ments--in her own words. The circum­ stances under which she told it were peculiar. The family had just been dis­ turbed by the visit of a ghost--a real ghost, visible, ii not palpable ! She was net what may be called superstitious, and, though following with more or less assiduity the practice of her religion, was afflicted now and then with a tit of perfect materialism. I was surprised, therefore, to hear her relate, with every appearance of profound faith, the fol­ lowing incidents: There is an old house in Beyrout which, for many successive years, was inhabited by a Christian family. It is of great extent, and was of yore fitted for the dwelling of a Prince. The family bad, indeed, in early times been very nob; and almost fabulous* 'aoeounts are current of its founder, Fadlallah Dahim. He was a m^phant--the owner of ships, the fitter oat of e/iravaus. The regions of the East and the Westliad been visited by him; and, after undergoing as many dangers and adventures as Sinbad, he had returned to spend the latter days of Ids life in Ms native city. He built, ac­ cordingly, & magnificent dwelling, the courts of which he adorned with marble fountains, and the chambers with silk divaa; and he was envied on aooount off his prosperity. But, is the restlessness off his early years, he had omitted to marry, andnow found himself near the close of his ca­ reer without an heir to inherit his wealth and to perpetuate Ms name. This re­ flection often disturbed hini; yet he was unwilling to take a wife because he was old. Every now and then, it is troe, he saw men older than he, with fewer teeth and whiter beards, taking to their bosoms maidens that bloomed Tike peaches just beginning to ripen against a wall, and 14s Mends, who kaew he would give a magnificent marriage-least, urged nim to do likewise. Once he looked with pleasure on a young person of not too tender years, whose parents purposely presented her to him; out, having asked her in a whisper whether she would like to marry a with­ ered old gentleman like himself, she frankly confessed a preference for his handsome young clerk, Harma, who earned a hundred piasters a month. Fadlallah laughed philosophically, and took care that the young ©cupls should be married under happy auspices. One day he was proceeding along the •beet, gravely and slowly--surrounded by a number of merchants proud to walk by his side, and followed by two or three young, men, who pressed near in order to be thought of the company, and thus establish their credit--when an bid woman, espying him, began to cry out, *' Teh ! yen ! this is the man who has no wife and no child--this is the man who is going to die and leave his fortune to be robbed by his servants, or confis­ cated by the Governor 1 And yet, he has a sagacious nose"--(the Orientals have observed that there is wisdom in a nose)--"and a beacd as long as my • back. Teh I yah I what a wondetful • sight to see!" - Fadlallah Dahan stopped, and retort- . od, smiling: "Yeh ! yehl this is the woman that blames an old man for not marrying a young wife. Teh! yeh l* what a wonderful sight to see !" •Then the old woman replied : "Oh, my lord, every pig's tail curls not in the same direction, nor doe? every maiden admire the passing quality of youth. H thou wilt, 1 will bestow on thee a - wifei who will love thee as thoa lovest thyself, and serve thee as the angels serve Allah. She is more beautiful than " any of the daughters of Beyrout, and her nam® 14 Selima, « name of good aajgury/p .. •» "^The friends of Fadlallah laughed, ss did the young men who followed iu their Wftke, and urged l»'m to go and see this peerless beauty, if it were only for a - joke. Accordingly, he told the woman to lead the way. But she said he must mount his mule, for they had to go some .k d®tanee into the country. He mounted and, with a single servant, went forth from the gates--the woman preceding-- •M rode until he reached a village in the mountains. Here, in a poor little , Jpomse, he found Selima, clothed in the yery commonest style, engaged in mak­ ing divan cushions. She was a marvel- OUKIY beautiful girl, and the heart of the merchant, at once began to yearn toward hsr; yet he endeavored to restrain him­ self, and said, e' This beautiful thing is not for me." " ' " - - glad intelligence to the town* msyettfij be imagined. Selima and Fadlallah re­ solved.to devote themselves to his edu­ cation, and determined that he should be the most accomplished youth of Bar­ er-Sham. But a long succession of ehildren followed, each more beautiful than the former -some boys, some girls; and everv new comer was received with additional delight and still grander oere- monies: so that the people began to say, " Is this a race of sovereigns?" Now, Halil grew up to the age of 12 --still a charming lad ; bnt the parents, always fully occupied by the last arrival* had not carried out their project of edu­ cation. He was as wild and untamed as a colt, and spent more of his time in the street than in the company of his moth­ er ; who, by degrees, began to look upon him with a kind of calm friendship due to strangers. Hadlallah, as he took his accustomed walk with his merchant friends, used from time to time to en­ counter a ragged boy fighting in the street with the son of the Jew batcher; but, his eyes beginning to grow dim, he often passed without reoognising him. One day, however, Hniil, breathless and bleeding, ran up and took refuge behind the skirts of his mant'e from a crowd of savage urchins. Fadlallah was amazed, and said, "Oh, my son--for I think thou surrounded a st£D whiter Usee, and as he eeme sear his wife 1M head his hand toward her with an uncertain gesture •a if the room had been dark. This world appeared to him bnt dimW. "Selima," eaid he, " the Oiver haih taken. We, too, must 0b in onr turn. Weep, my lote; bnt weep with my moderation, for those little ones have f̂ bne to sing in the golden oagea cf paradise. There is a heavier sorrow in my heart. Since my first-born, Halil. departed for Bassora. 11 have only written onoe to learn intelli- I genee of nim. He was then well, and j had been received with favor by bis I uncle. We have never done our duty j by that boy." His wife replied, " Do j not reproach me; for I reproach myself more bitterly than thou canst do. j Write, then, to thy brother to obtain tidings of the beloved one. I will make i of this ohamber a weeping chamber. It j has resounded with merriment enough. All my children learned to laugh and to talk here. 1 will hang it with black, and erect a tomb in the midst, and every day I will come and spend two hours, j and weep for those who are gone and jfor him who is absent." Fadlallah ap- ] proved her design, &n4 they made a | weeping dhomher, and lamented to- ! gether every day therein. But their letters to Bassora remained unanswered, AUU OIIIU, VA,MJ I, ^UIXUW LUOU T , .. ' . , .. , , , , 5 art my son--what evil hath befallen thee. 'began to believe that fate had &ad wherefore do I see thee in this , °b03an a solitary tomb for IMiL state?" The boy, whose voioe was! One day o woman, dressed m the garb choked with sobs; looked up into his 0tftme the house of Fad- face and said, "Father, I am the son of ! w*th a hoyabont twelve years old. the richest merchant cf Bevrout, rvftd j £ th® merchant saw them he was bohoU. the*, i. no on. «> lit«k editor asL' Fadlallah's conscience smote him, and he wiped the boy's bleeding face with the corner of his silk caftan, and blessed him; and, taking him by the hand, led him away. The merchants smiled be­ nignly one to the other, and, pointing with their thumbs, said. " We have seen the model youth! " While they laughed and sneered, Fad- the boy the likeness of his son Halil and he called aloud to Selima, who, when she came, shrieked with amaze­ ment. The woman told her story, and it appeared that it was Miriam. Having spent some months in prison she had es­ caped and taken refuge in a forest in the house of her nurse. Sere she had given birth to a son, whom she called by his father* a name. When her strength re­ turned she set out as a beggar to travel lallah, humbled, yet resolved, returned j over the world in search of her lost hus- to his home, leading the ragged Halil, and entered his wife's chaml>er. Selima was playing with his seventh child, and teaching it to lisp the word " Baba "-- about the amount of education which she had found time to bestow on each of her offspring. When she saw the plight of her eldest son she frowned, and was about to scold him; but Fadlallah interposed, and said : " Wife, speak no more harsh words. We have not done our duty by this boy. May God forgive us; but we have looked upon those children that have bloomed from thee, more as playthings than as deposits for which we are responsible. 'Halil has band. Marvelous were the adventures she underwent, God protecting her throughout, until she came to the land of Persia, where she found Halil work­ ing as a slave in the garden of the Gov ornor of Fars. After a few stolen inter­ views, she had again resumed her wan­ derings to seek for Fadlallah, that he might redeem his son with wealth ; but i had passed several years upon the road. Fortune, however, now smiled upon j this unhappy family, and, in spite of his i age, Fadlallah set out for Fars. Heaven i made the desert easy and the road short ! for him. On a fine oalrn evening he 1 entered the gardens of the Governor. become a wild out-of-doors lad, doubt- j iotind his son gayly singing as he ing with some reason of our love. It is too late-to"'bring him back to the destiny we had dreamt of; bnt he must not be left to grow up thus uncaredfor. I have a brother established in Bassora; to him trimmed an orange tree. After a vain attempt to preserve an incognito, the good old man lifted up his hands, and shouting, " Haii), my first-born!" fell upon the breast of the astonished slave. will I send the lad to learn the art of ' Sweet was the interview in the orange commerce, and to exercise himself in ad­ venture, as his father did before him. Bestow thy blessings upon him, Selima (here the good old man's voice trembled), and may God in His mercy forgive both thee and mfe the neglect which has made this parting necessarv. I shall know that I am for give a >f, before I go down into the tomb, my son returns a wise and sober man; not unmindful that we gave him life, and forgetting that, until now, we have given him little else." Selima laid her seventh child in its cradle of carved wood, and drew H«.li1 to her bosom ; aad FadlaMah knew that she loved him still, because she kissed his face, regardless of the blood and dirt that stained it. She then washed him and dressed him, and gave him a purse of gold, and handed him over to his fa­ ther; who had resolved to send him off by the caravan that started that vary afternoon. Halil, surprised and made happy by unwonted caresses, was yet delighted at the idea of beginning an adventurous life ; and went away, man­ fully stifling his sobs, and endeavoring to assume the grave deportment of a merchant. Selima shed a few tears, and then, attended by a crew and a chuckle from the cradle, began to tickle the in­ fant's soft double chin, and went on with her interrupted lesson, "Baba, Baba!" Halil started on his journey, and, hav­ ing patsed through the Valley of Bob­ bers, the Valley of Lions and the Valley of Devils--this is the way in which Ori­ entals localize the supposed dangers of traveling--arrived at the good city of. Bassora, where his uncle received him well, and promised to send him as su­ percargo on board the first vessel he dis­ patched to the Indian seas. What time was spent by the caravan upon the road the narrative does not state. Traveling is slow work in the East, but almost im­ mediately upon his arrival in Bassora Halil was engaged in a love adventure. If traveling is slow, the approaches of manhood are rapid. The youth's curi­ osity was excited by the extraordinary care taken to conceal his cousin Miriam from his sight; and, having introduced himself into her garden, beheld «"d, struck by her wonderful beauty, loved her. With an Oriental fondness he con­ fessed the truth to his uncle, who list­ ened with anger and dismay, and told him that Miriam was betrothed to the Sultan. Halil perceived the danger of indidging his passion, and promised to suppress it; but, while he played a pru­ dent part, Miriam's curiosity was also excited, and she, too, beheld and loved her cousin. Bolts and bars cannot keep two such affections asunder. They met and plighted their troth, and were mar­ ried secretly and were happy. But in­ evitable discovery came. Miriam was thrown into a dungeon, and the unhap­ py Halil, loaded with chains, was put on board a vessel, not as supercargo but ail prisoner, with orders that he should be left in some distant country. Meanwhile a dreadful pestilence fell upon Beyrout, and among the first suf­ ferers was an eighth little one, that had just learned to say " Baba!" Selima was almost too astonished to be grieved. It seemed to her impossible that death grove, sweet tne murmured conversation between the strong young man and the trembling patriarch, until the perfumed dew of evening fell upon their heads. Halil's liberty was easily obtained, and father and son returned in safety to Beyrout. Then the weeping chamber was closed, and the door walled up; and Fadlallah and SeMma lived happily until age gently did its work at their appoint- ed times; and Halil and Miriam inher­ ited the house and the wealth that had been gathered for them. The supernatural part of the story re­ mains to be told. The weeping cham­ ber waa never again opened; but every time that a death was.about to occur in the family, a shower, and heavy tear­ drops was heard to fall upon its marble floor and low waitings came through the walled doorway. Years, centuries, passed away, and the mystery repeated itself with unvarying uniformity. The family fell into poverty, and only occupied a portion of the house, but invariably be­ fore one of its members sickened unto death a shower of heavy drops, as from a tliuuder cloud, pattered on the pave­ ment at the weeping chamber, and was heard distinctly at night through the whole house. At length the family quitted the country in search of better fortune elsewhere, and the house re­ mained for a long time uninhabited. The lady who narrated the story went to live in the house and passed some years without being disturbed ; but one night she was lying awake, and distinct­ ly heard the warning shower dripping heavily in the weeping chamber. Next day the news came of her mother's death, and she hastened to remove to another dwelling. The house has since been utterly abandoned to rats, mioe, beetles and an occasional ghost seen sometimes streaming along the rain- pierced terraces. No one has ever at­ tempted to violate the solitude of the sanctuary where Selima wept for the seven little ones taken to the grave, and fear the absent one whom she had treated with unmotheriy negieot. HISTORICAL? A" • * it *< awhile, and then folding her hands •cross her bosom said. " Yes, for there J? Roodoess in his countenance." Fad- laHah wept with joy; and, returning to tttB city, announce^ his approaching marriage to his friends. According to ••Htom, they expressed civil surprise to his face; but, when his back was turned, they whispered that he was an , 'o:"» aQd had been the dupe of a she- adventurer. * ^The marriage took place with cere­ monies of royal magnificence; and penma, who passed unmoved from ex- ^Mne poverty to abundant riches, *pepiwl to merit the position of the great- lady m Beyrout. Never was woman i»ore prudent than she. No one ever *»ew her previous history, nor that of her mother. Some said a life of misery, perhaps of shame, was before them, when »W»is unexpected marriage took place fkshma s gratitude to Fadlallah' was un­ bounded ; and out of gratitude grew love. The merchant daily offered up thanks for the bright diamond which had come to shine in bin house. In due time a child was born ; a boy mely as his mother; and they named PASOAII invented the wheelbarrow. " Tax Bank of England was established in 1695. BAOFKPES were invented in Norway, and thence imported into Scotland, when a portion of the country fell into Scandi- vaoian hands. C-ESAR, describing the customs of the Britons, says: "Ten or twelve men, usually brothers or fathers and sons, have wives in common." AMONG no nations of civilized antiquity did carpentry attain so high a develop­ ment as ameng the Persians, Hebrews and Phoenicians. DEERFOOT, a Cherokee Indian, who was carried to England in 1758, was able to outrun the swiftest horse in a' race­ course of two-thirds of a mile. THE Spanish poet Calderon was chap­ lain to Philip IV., .and ,so fanatical were his sentiirents that he has been styled the "poet of the Inquisition." EMANUEL SWKDENBOBG, before he be- the peculiar sect name, was a distin- love. When they came to take away j g'lLsl,^lJ, «"£i»eer and assessor of the the little form which she had so often I m College of Mines. fondled, her indignation burst forth, and | P»>WOTT says that the discovery of a she smote the first old woman who I new au<i shorter route to the Indies is JOt for me." But the woman cried out, i ,, 8ef?ied to .hf '^possible that death eamr t .rieadHr of ••fcelimo, wilt thou consent to have thi« 1 8^ould come.into her house, and meddle , ,ier of old man ?" The girl gazed in his face ! the fruits of so much suffering and j - ^ , a r s . n n t":1 ' When they came to take away ",,,s ,ro sti etc tied out her rough, unsympathetic hand. But a shriek from her waiting- woman announced th.it another victim was singled out; and the frantic mother rushed like a tigress to defend the young that yet remained to her. But the ene-. the true key to the maritime movements of the fifteenth aud the iixst half of the sixteenth centuries. * In 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned to death at Rome for upholding the teachings of modern astronomy, and es- mv was invisible ; and (so the story i pecially maintaining the immensity of goes) all her little ones dropped one by i the universe and the plurality of workls. one and died; so that on the seventh • „ day Selima sat in her nursery gazdng j TH*BE seems to be a rage just now about with stony eyes, and counting her ! ftmong pe0ple who are Jith dys_ 5TVSI^vJlX^kenier'wh' ! peps * to drink a glass of hot water be- t r ' HrU±'. .D~ 'ore breakfast. Astonishing cures are nerali^&erge^-seven in all. Then sae reported; but, on the whole, it seems remembered Halil, and her neglect of tw ti.« dvsuQDties who are loudest in* him ; aad, uiuug up ner voice, slie wept 1 u ^ i loudest in aloud; and, as the tears rushed fast aAd I I' fuf1*68 °fv tbt? bo^aie\ hot down her cheeks, her heart yearned ' J1® «^Tho ^ve not yet tried it. for her, absent boy, and she would have !lhey- are-about e1uall.v divided with the parted with worlds to have fallen on his breast--would have given up her life in return for one word of pardon and of love. Fadlallah came in to her, and he was now very old and feeble. His back was bent, and his transparent hand trembled •> it clutched a cane. A white beard people who praise the juice of oranges in the morning. The man who praise* the juice of apples before breakfast and all the time lives numerously in New Jersey. A HSKBnro yields over 80,000 eggs, myriads of which an devoured by vari- FAB1 lOTBS. Htnroa hm a gieat absorbent p»ww for ammonia, • TUKKIPS eabtein i&ore sulphur than other farm crops. THE yield of ®*ple sugar in Vermont for 1881 was abitei 12,000,000 pounds. THE intellgeut-stock raiser keeps a young auixbal growing from birth to ma­ turity. CX-OVEB is developed by the applica­ tion of manures supplying potash and lime, and by pasturing instead of snow­ ing. B A BXEY possesses a considerable de­ velopment of root near the surface, and is apparently more capable of ob­ taining nitrogen from the soil than wheat. THE Maine Board of Agriculture in re- eent session unanimously advised " the farmer" of the State " to await the re­ sults of experiments now in progress on the ensilage of corn and other forage crops before adopting the system on a scale involving any considerable expense. C&OCKINO is the noise which a hen makes when she is broody and in calling her chickens together. If not wanted for incubating purposes, any hen begin-* ning to " cluck shoald at once be given a change of scene, which will divert her notions and prevent a tedious spell for broody idleness, MANOELS have far deeper roots than turnips, and also a larger period cf growth. They have a gleat capacity for drawing food from the soil, including both nitrogen, potash and phosphoric aoid. When removed from the land, mangels are one of the most exhaustive crops that a farmer can grow. THE latest official returns show the production of wheat in Australia to amount to about 32,000,000 bushels, distributed among the colonies as fol­ lows: Victoria, 9,719,049 bushels; South Australia, 8,606,510; New Zealand, 8,147,705; New South Wales, 3,702,737; Tasmania, 750,040; West Australia, 413,- 611, and Queensland, 223,243 bushels. MOST of the so-called " cat-gut" of oommerce is formed from the twisted intestines of pheep. In Italy there is a small native breed of sheep from which the best strings are made--though very likely the skill of the manufacturer has quite as much to do with the merit of the article as the particular animal from which the material is procured. Great skill is required for producing the best article in musical instruments. FOTJB ducks are ample to one drake. Ducks may be bred in a small pen, where there is merely a tank of water four feet by two, and two feet deep. Many of the eggs, however, will be un­ fertile. For success on a large scale a good-sized pool of water is essential. The birds should have the run of a field. Care should be taken not to overfeed breeding ducks; and if early eggs be re­ quired, meat diet must be given and warm quarters,at night. BY TILLAGE the surface soil is kept in an open, porous condition, favorable for the distribution of roots. By this means, also, capillary attraction is dimi­ nished, and the land consequently suf­ fers less from drouth. The water-hold­ ing power of the surface soil is also in­ creased, A still more important result of tillage is that the soil is thoroughly exposed to the influenoe of tbte air. Soils containing humus or clay will absorb ammonia from the atmosphere and thus increase their store of nitrogen. ANT putrid odor about the skin-drain or privy, should be regarded as a menace to the health and life of ail living in the neighborhood. Both these places should be often and thoroughly cleaned out, and the privy-vault should admit of constant ventilation. It should be cemented so as to be water-light, and both it and the sink-drain should be far from the well. If after each use a scoopful of dry earth or coal asfcer- (not wood ashes) be thrown into the vault, all unpleasant odor is .prevented. POTJLTBY are truly domestic and love their homes. If eggs are an object, it is most important that birds should not be moved from pen to pen, as it will delay egg production, and diminish it greatly. Pullets for early laying should, if possi­ ble, be brought up in or within sight of their future laying run, pen, or paddock; if, on the other hand, it is wished to delay the laying of a pullet and to encourage growth for prize pur­ poses, her home must be changed often. A sitting or broody hen may be best cured by removing her to a new scene with fresh companions-- a more reasona­ ble and humane way of checking her maternal instincts than that of half- drowning her, or shutting her up in dark­ ness and dirt. FARMYARD manure rapidly undergoes fermentation. If placed in "a heap, the mass gets sensibly hot and a large quan­ tity of carbonic acid is given off. When the fermentation occurs in a place pro­ tected from rain, carbonaceous matter is destroyed, but little loss of nitrogen takes place. Rotten manure, when well made, is more concentrated than fresh, having diminished in weight during fer­ mentation, with but little loss of valua­ ble constituents. Some of the constitu­ ents have also become more soluble. Farmyard manure supplies all the essen­ tial elements of plant food. The imme­ diate return from its application is much less than from the same amount of plant food applied in artificial manures. The effect of farmyard manure is spread over a considerable number of years, its ni­ trogen being chiefly present, not as am­ monia, but in the form of carbonaceous com?x>unds, which decompose but slowly in the soil. WM. W. PERKINS, O* Newbury, Mass., who received a premium from the county society for a crop of grass grown on one acre of land, gives the following account of its cultivation: "The first crop of hay from this acre of. land was cut the second week in July, and weighed 6.700 pounds. The second crop cut the last of September weighed 2,110 pounds. Thirty-five years ago the land was cleared up, being covered with a growth of alders and huckleberry bushes ; at, that time it was seeded down with herdsgntss aud redtop; for the first few years the crop was a fine one; since then it is quite small, hardly paying for harvest­ ing. The land waa plowed in August, 1880, rolled, and ten cords of manure carted on from barn cellar, spread and harrowed in with a disc harrow and brush harrow until it is made fine. One peck of herdsgrass and one-half bushel of red-top seed was sown. The whole cost of manure and labor was about $75. I have knuwn some farmers to use more seed, even as much as one bushel of herdsgrass seed to the acre. My expe­ rience for upwards of fifty years is that one peck of herdsgrass ana from one- half to one bushel of red-top is quite enough to the acre, if the ground is in suitable order. The oo»t of a ton of hay, of course, depends mnoh on the quality of the soil." ' mix soft with flour; cut and fry in HOUSEHOLD HELPS* [Contributed to the Detroit Fre* Preiw M by Hotutftkeepers, ud the result* of actual experiment*.] CBTJXIZJEUS.--Three eggs, three table- spoonfuls melted butter, six tablespoon- fills sugar, a pieoe of soda the size of ft "I ' i --Copt--Beattw° eggs in aoop; fill this with thiok cream ; iuid one cup' of sugar, one teaspoonful cream, tartar, ofte-half teaapooium soda, one-half cup of flour; flavor to taste. BROWN BBBAO.--One cup sour milk, two cups sweet milk, three cups corn meal, one oup flour, one-half cup molas­ ses, two teaspoonfuls soda; steam two hours and bake half an hour. WESTERN COOKIES.--One eup of sour milk, one cup of powdered sugar, a little salt, one teaspoonful of soda; mix as soft as possible; roll thin; sprinkle with sugar; slightly roll out and bake in af quiok oven. _ '/ WEE PobDiwd.--Quarter afJ a pound of flour, quarter of a pound! of butter, quarter of a pound of sugar, two eggs) rind of a lemon; beat for twenty minutes'; half fill teacups and bake for twenty minutes. . , POULET A I.A CREME.--This is a dainty fish for an invalid. Boil a chicken, chop or pound the flesh to a paste, rub ft through a wire sieve, mix with a little cream and two or three eggs. Season with pepper and salt, put in a mold, s^eatn. and serve hot. FRIED CAKES.--Take two quarts sifted flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix dry and add three table- spoonfuls of lard, melted; two <n»ps of sugar, two eggs, two cups of oold, sweet milk; flavor to the taste. These When rolled in sugar are very nice. GRAHAM BREAD.--One quart of sour milk, half cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, a little salt, and Graham flour to make a stiff batter; stir thoroughly, turn into baking dish and let it stand for an hour. Bake forty minutes in a mo­ derate oven. Gems oan be made in the same way and baked in gem irons. CREAM PIE.--Beat three eggs and one tablespoonful of flour to a froth; add a teacup heaping full of sugar, and thick, sweet cream sufficient to fill two oom- mon-sized, round, deep pie platters or plates; flavor with nutmeg or lemon. Line the plate with common pie-crust; bake in a moderate oven until done. s CRULLERS.--One teacupftd of sugar, 1 three well-beaten eggs, a piece Of butter the size of an egg and a little salt; knead in flour to make a stiff dough; roll out about half an inch thick, out in strips one inch wide and six inches long ; slit one edge half through once every half inch; join the ends together, fry in hot lard till a nice brown. They will keep a long time. * BAKED INDIAN MEAL PUDDING.--Into one quart of boilhig milk stir one tea- cupful fine sifted ludian meal, add one quart of cold milk, three well beaten eggs, one cup of sugar, a small tea­ spoonful of salt, a piece of butter as large as a small hen egg. Flavor with nutmeg or common spice; turn into a buttered pudding dish and bake two hours. Sterve wfth butter. To MAKE STEAK TENDER.--Put three tablef.poonfuls of Balad oil and one table- spoonful of vinegar, well mixed together, on a large flat dish, and on this lay the steak. Salt must now be put on the Is teak before it is cooked. The steak must lie on the tender-making mixture for at least half an hour to a side; the toughest steak will succumb to this and be perfectly tender when oooked. CUTLETS OF COLD MUTTON.--The re­ mains of cold loin or neck of mutton, .one egg, bread crumbs, brown gravy or tomato sauce. Cut the remains of cold loin or neck of mutton into cutlets, trim the)n and take away a portion of the fat; Sold there be too much, dip them in a ten egg, sprinkle with bread crumbs, fry them a nice brown in hot drip­ ping. Arrange them on a dish, and pour around them either a good gravy or hot tomato sauce. SPICED BEEP.--Take the bones, out of a six-pound salt flank of beef, and slit the meat into a long thin pieoe; sprin­ kle with a pinch of each of the following spices, mixed together : Mace, nutmeg, ginger, pepper, allspice, and a handful of chopped parsley ; roll it up tightly, and place in a cloth closely tied ; put into a stewpan; add one small onion, one carrot, a piece of celery and a small* bunch of sweet herbs. Cover with cold water, let boil and simmer gently five hours; when oooked tie the cloth up tighter and press between two boards; let it get cold. This can be served either plain or glazed. GOOD COFFEE.--The rule for good coffee is two ounces of coffee to a quart of water--making about five cups. Old government Java is commonly considered the best kind; a mixture of Java and Bio the most serviceable. Rio coffee is the cheapest, strongest and by many prefer­ red to the other kinds. French dripped coffee is never boiled, but boiling water is poured ower the coarse ground coffee in a perforated vessel set in the top of the coffee-pot. Double the quantity of coffee is required to make it that way. French dripped coffee has no eggs or other articles added to clear it, neither has Turkish coffee. They are not neces­ sary. If let alone I use no eggs for such a purpose, but the oustom to the con­ trary is prevalent, and it is not worth oontending against. Have the coffee fresh roasted and fresh ground, pour cold water to it in a bowl just enough to wet it, put in the white of an egg and stir up, then pour it into hot water in the coffee pot. When it has boiled a minute take it off and either pour the whole contents into the strainer in the urn or else put in half a cup of eold water and let it settle in the pot. Burglars and Savings Banks* , ' "The fact is," said old Mrs. PHipps, who is down to 'Frisco on a visit, "the fact is, my dear Mrs. Skidmore, I had the narrowest escape from being ruined the other day you ever heard of." "Oh, how'nice," said Mrs. S., pour­ ing out another eup. '• How was it ?" " Why, you know I sold our bouse and lot last month, Age and use only improve it, and id of new ones eommaading ̂the highest prices, as is the case with other instruments, it is the violins of the few Italian makers of thelast three eentdries that oommaad fabuioua pri0ee. It is impossible to handle an ofci violin with­ out a feeling of veneration, when one re­ flects on the number of people who have probably played on it, the weary hours it has beguiled, the source of enjoyment it h <s been, and how well it has been loved. - -V'n* . HEALTH IBTTELLI6E9CK. Wmcmnf rag«Mt the UMHUrjr « between the tunkan s, the use of hot water thrown fey **"> ranqosrtionaHj an a agate* "" '--' Uli. ftct Lu bam Ukos tdr»i££<ipf taphr- sici&ris who, when all othdr agendo® fin; pre- [From Dr. Foot*'* Baattk Monthly.? IT SEEMS singular that professional men will oontinue to use chlorofwm when ether is as efficient and so much safer. Ik coTwmmvit and inflammatory eye diseases. the han by Dr. X<eartas Connor as the beat remedy. THE Health Officer of Protideuoe, R. I., reports that in that city typhoid and intermittent fever do not oocur dnr- ing the same seasons, and appear to be antagonistic. THE method of routing insects or mag­ gots from the ear ov the use of anesthetics (ether or cl4oroform held on a sponge over the ear) is said to hive originated with Dr. J. E. Blake, of New York City, in 1862. ^ THE Chinese exhibit almost every known form of skin dispose, attd ate also much subject to dyspepsia and lung af­ fections; but their '^favorite" disease^ if it may be so called because of its preva­ lence, is rheumatism. i ... THE Baltimore Gazette relates that a lady who had been vaccinated borrowed a pair of earings from a lady friend for a j day. The owner, on resuming their use, was astonished to find that she was . thoroughly vaccinated in the earn . IN ACUTE sickness when milk and beef tea disagree, the French hospitals give a preparation called Albumen water, made by dissolving the white of an egg in' a pint of water, and adding glycerine to sweeten, and lemon j nice to flavor., THE editor of the Medical Call says he has often been called to children in spasms or suffering from vomitiug or diarrhoea, the whole trouble being due to nursing from the breasts of a mother 01 nurse that had had a "fit of anger." FOBTY thousand dollars' "worth of chewing-gum is gathered every year in Maine, most of which is for school children and factory girls; but even this delicacy is subject to adulteration, pine gum being sometimes worked into the spruce gum. EXPERIMENTS made to test the muscu­ lar power of insects prove that the smaller the inseet the greater propor­ tionate muscular power. A- bee is for its weight thirty times stronger than a horse, for a bee harnessed to a: wagon can pull twenty times its own weight THE Cook County Hospital, of Chicago, IU. , is to be placed in part under manage­ ment of Homeopathic physicians, and in part under 'regulars." It remains to be seen whether bv this arrangement familiarity will breed more contempt, or better acquaintance beal the breaeh be­ tween the two schools. THOUGH consumption is very prevalent in-St .Petersburg, Russia, it is said that professional singers never die of that disease there. It is therefore inferred that the exercise involved in singing and the deep respirations which it neces­ sitates have mu<jil*to do with maintaining a healthy condition of the Kings. ONCE more a^ • regular" physician ahtibnuces in the Jdedieal Tlecorri His preference for the Eclectic Code of Ethics which simply calls for the adop­ tion of the golden rule and good manners amongst medical men. The acceptance of a letter inaking such an avowal in so prominent an organ of the old school shows that some leaven of progress is leavening the whole lump. ' AN editorial in the Boston Journal 0$ Chemistry about "Boston water," attrib­ utes its unpleasant "fishy, cucumber taste and smell' to a diseased condition of fish which become coatedWitli a slimy membrane when the water supply be­ comes diminished by drought, this slime sloughing off when a fresh supply of water is afforded them. A mere flake of this slime will contaminate a barrel of water Pillar Saints, Among the freaks that have possessed men of a rigid order of faith in tines past, notliing is so remarkable as that of anchorites who, with a view to separat­ ing themselves more completely from earth and fellow men, took up their abode on the tops of pillars, where they stood for years without coming down, exposed to all the variations of climate and weather. This happened chiefly in Syria, and tbey Were known as Pi lar Saints. The earliest and most celebrated of them was a monk who lived in the beginning of the fifth century, known as Simon of Stylite, from stilos, a column. He had lived secluded in a monastery nine years, without leaving his narrow cell, when it appeared to him that he was enjoying too much luxury for one of bis pious profession, and that his example was therefore bad. So he built a pillar, on the top of which, only three feet in di­ ameter, he took up his position. But this didn't suit him, owing perhaps to the ease with^ which he could stand there after getting a little accustomed to it, and he removed from pillar to post, each pillar a little higher than its predeces­ sor, until finally he attained an altitude of about sixty feet, On a pillar, where he spent thirty-seven years of his life. To increase the severity of the ordeal, he wore an iron chain around his neck all this while, and during the recitation of Hnman AMWfr MeatUle^llf OtoStf tfcft fcost «* modern aoieaee akmgthe ttae of liaman ne«w sity is the National Weather Bona* at WadT ingtQii. Exptrieato has ikfiHtlht 86 par eat of the piudieWo--ef tin ELGMEL imim MI ?«»»», the B-gricaJtarfcrt and tfce entire commer- f etal world. The eervioe has provea iUneoertl ty by itc usefulness, for in MM thnes the fadl- ities far foreteffinic atmonpheric ehatogoa were meager indeed. The' Only inAioatiozu our fa­ thera had of coming c&wges in (hp 'Weather were acliing limbs, twluging tointwl, <jr pafAfnl corns. These " indication*," though emele, were usually correct, and hence. nafco- •rally suggest Uw UMHUrjr as , to ...the ab­ lation between the tnukau svKtem •cribe a change of air, thai hoping the bog; •lay find an atmospheric condition better mitsa to its needs. And yet the real relation between the body and the wepther, hap never been fully understood, nor has there ever been, • nbtQ'tfow, a oorrect explanation of what rheu­ matism (which seems in league with the atmos­ phere) realty is. It wae originally ! hcra^ftt by many te-be a trouble in the jojnt^ ^ud as unon was treated in the most etrange, hot to saj ridiculous, manner. Tiiii theory. becanx 1 db- polled whop the same tremble attacked tlie mus­ cles, and the feeling then prevailed thit it was Ripely a mnacnlar disorder. Bnt this idea was zonnd to be too narrow, and now it is universally conceded that rhemnatiMQ is a blood disease. Ana what a tersjble disease it is. It c!!$ea eomas without warning and prostratef, the system with agony, Again Its beginning to gwthial, and fts growth slow. In its acute form it manifests It­ self In tovery conceivable saape and ahvay* ac­ companied by intense pain. At one time ib is inflammatory, at another neuralgic. Sometinjee it assumes the form of gont, and again that Of pleurisy or lumbago; but in whatever m&nnar it appears it is terribly painful and always te be dreaded. The pain and Annoyance of jhsu- instism are increased by its great danger, forJt to llable to attack the taraih or heart at my 'moment, thereby oausmg instant death. 1&- deed, nearly every case or heart disease with all ite dreadful suddenness which has ever 66- OTrred can b© traced more or less directly to rheumatic causes. la its chronic form it stiff­ ens the joints, contracts the muscles, under­ lines the health and ruins the life. It fre­ quently attacks men and women who are ap­ parently in perfect health. Indeed, it is .fS greatly to be dreaded as any possible form of physioal woe. ' < ' But, howeve# severe its effects may he, ih* exact cause of thi<* Mood trouble has been an undecided question, and it in only within past year that any decision upon the suhjsfct has been reached. In order to fully determine what .the cause of rheumatic disorders realty was, certain authorities sent letters of inquiry from Washington to the leading practionig physicians of the land, and these iiujuuiss- •were responded to quite generally, thus for- nishing data of great value to science and . .mankind. The views held by the doctors.aie of a varied nature, but so overwhelming a proportion hold to one belief as1 to leave bat little doubt that it is the correct one. This belief, briefly stated, is that nrio acid hi the blood oauses rheumatism, and that it is only by removing thiis poisonous acid that rheumatic or neuralgia troubles in all their terrible forms oan be This being true, the Important question arises: "How does this poisonous uno add get into the blood, and how ean it best lM Mmfeved?" Uric acid is a waste material of the body whieh the kidneys shoald carry out, but because thqy are weakened they cannot throw' it from the tem. Restore the kidneys and yon restore the power that will fores the nrio acid from the system and thus banish the rheumatic agenifs which it Cannes. This is reason; It is scieno^ Mo one whose kidneys are in a perfect con­ dition was ever troubled with uhentaatixm, aqt no rheumatic sufferer, however, slight the pain may be, has perfect kidneys, l&e conclusion Of this truth in inevitable; perfect kidneys mean freedom from rheumatism. When rheumatism has manifested itself fei any special part of the body, attempt* have usually been made to treat that part of the body. Asa result, the pain has departed bat the disease has remamed, lying subtly COM- oealed and ready to break out at some unex­ pected moment, Checking the pain in em single locality only scatters the disease through the system, when, if the seat of tha^isorf ' whfBn are the kidneys, were reached, iw&ti cure would be the result. .The way, there? to expel this rank and poisonous aoid before I aesumea an inflammatory, or ehronio form is by teepiiif the Luln' -'s if . absolute health. This is no easy thug to do, aud no mesns has, untO within tbe past few years, been known whiph would successfully reach and affect these great organs. At -last, however, scien- . fcists have discovered that the leaves of a tropical plant, ' previously bnt little known to science and unknown to medi­ cine, possessed marvelous qualities adapted for the kidneys. These leaves have been skilll'ully combined in the remedy now known as War­ ner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. It is, up to the present time, the only known preparation that acts so directly upon the kidneys as to of- fecttaally cure the various dangerous forms of kidney disease, and hence to remove all wfo acul from the blood. As a result, the cures it has been the means of performing are reaQy Wry remarkable. Indeed, there are thonsaiMS j ,©f persona in America to-day who owe tl*ir restoration to health and entire freedom from rheumatism to this siiupte yet powerful rem* edy, which is known miivoi-sally, manufactured in Rochester, N. Y., ahd sola in every •drug . store in the land. • From the doctors in the various cities of the United States who have certified over their own . signatures to the- sdentifle statement that nUe acid in the blood is the cause «^f rheumatism, are a large number of Ohicag6 fcnd St. Louis physicians, among them being Dr. Adolph ®hl- emewr, Dr. Wm. Webb, Dr. John M. Frank, Dr. Edwin T. Webster, Dr. Benjamin P. Whit- . more. Dr. William T. Richardson,. Dr. Robert T. Atkinson,, Dr. Thoa. F. Humbold, Dr. WiM- iaui M. McPheeters, Dr. William Johnson, Dr. Is&^e N. Love, Dr. Clark Whither, Dr. J. T. Hodgen, Dr. Thomas F. Dunigan, Dr. Nicholas Guhmen, Dr. Antonio Prietts, Dr. Oharies flL Goodmijis, Dr. Darnel Kuhn, Br. Honry New- Ian,, Dr. William 8. Wortman, Dr. George T. Pitaer, Dr. Ilenrjr F. Ahlbrsndt, Dr. Elifsh 1 Frazier, Dr. Call Sptnsig, Dr. Dawd B. Martin, Dr. Benjamin R. . Tayl<*, Dr. James L. Logan, Dr. K, HSMOOB, Dr. Henry Kirohner, Dr. John J. Kan* Dr. Henrv F. W. Kruse. Dr. William C. ttlae- cow, Dr. Jeremiah &. B» AHeyne, Dr. ThomSS j§. Comstock, Dr. Oharies H. Homes, Dr. Ff#4» erick Kolbenheyer, Dr. Joseph HeiMiig, Dr. Hi- ward A. Do Catliol, Dr. Bernard Boemer, Dr. James M. Clopten, Dr. Charles V. Ware, Dr. Alnhonso Jaminet, Dr. James L Kent,' Dfc William 8, Barker, Dr. Solomon C. Martin, Dr. Rudolph Ktudhatter, Dr. Louis P. EhrmtnS, t Dr. John A. King, I>r. Simeon -E. Oarlock, Dr. Theodore Fov, Dr. Jdhn E. Faber, Dr. Ernest F. Hoffman,'Dr. Herman Nagie, Dr. Adohft* Winlisenue, Dr. Jafnes L. Piftte, Dr. EdwHja ltose, Dr. William H. Orajrson, Dr. Hugo IL Htarklolf, Dr. Robert M. SWander, Dr. William N. Breuuan, Dr. Temple & Hoyne, Dr. Lyman Ware, Dr. Charles W. Hemstead, ^ William J. Hawbee, Dr. T. C. Dnncaa, Dr. William B. 'Griswnid, Dr. Lyman Bedford, Dr. A. B. Wes- his prayers bent his body so that his Cott, Dr. J. B. Bel|»J>r. Charias JL jCJark, forehead touched his feet. It is . said ~ ~' that on account of an ulcer that had , and had tbe mouev all - ready to deposit in the savings ban£ the ! formed on one of his legs, he was cam- next morning, which was tho very day i P6^0^ during the last year of his life to of its failure'." stand on one foot, and that in this poei r»T* A UJ. TJf 1. _ _J buij,': n. Dr. Hiatt, M. Fitch and "Good gracious!" "I slept with my money under my pillow, and the, next morning when I got ready to start for the bank the money was gone. Some burglars had taken it during the night. An hour afterward the bank burst. Did you ever hear of such a piece of good luck ?" "Luck ? Why, you lost your ooin all the same." \ "Yes, but don't you see they caught •the burglars, and, on condition of my not prosecuting them, they returned me fifty cents on the dollar. The bank panned out only twenty-two. There's no use talking, Haunali, between savings tion he died, uged 72 years. How lie got his nourishment up there is a mystery to us if it wasn't to him. So great was his fame that crowds of people flocked to see him, even from foreign countries. It is rarely that a man maintains suoh a prominent position for so manjr years without toy let down. Disc Scissors. A novelpair of scissors has been de­ vised by Herr Sievert, of Dresden. The blades are represented by two circular steel knives, which slightly overlap at the edges an^ are pressed together by ( two spiral springs. The knives are banks and robbers, I'll'take my chances f'^ened to a pair of wo^en roll«rs,_with with the burglars every time."--San JFrancieoo Po»L Herman Hii'hn, Dr. Calvin JKIHI D. M. Carr. • The theory of the doctors ss above explained' finds its confirmation in the fact that when the kidneys have been cured, rheumatism is com­ pletely removed. This Is not, of course, al­ ways accomplished instantly, for, in a din as-- so subtle, the cure is often very slow, but uadar BO other plan can any hope of permanent relief ever be found. There are hundreds of caste on record during the present winter of persopi a filiated with rheumatic troubles of the worpt order who have been entirely cured by follow­ ing the theory above stated and using tbe remedy mentioned. Many of theso ner- sons had the very worst po^ri'rfe symp­ toms. Vague aches in different portions of the body were followed by agonies tbe mest intense in some particular spot. Acute aud throbbing paius succeeded each other and the coursing poisonous acid inflamed all the veins. Troubles which began with slight di«o£> ders increased to derangements the most serious. It is sad to think that all this suffer­ ing was endured when it could have been sa India rubber rims, which grip and guide ! i?Ac.til̂ "P™ the theory add •1IA „i„fi, or it r»n»sps between i ,§ ,the ab°vo mentioned the kidneys the cloth or it parses tx-tween coukS havo lx)<;n rCt,tored t|ieir a(jUft, • the knives, so that the latter may cut, ttu* aric poison expelled from the system ttaj> straight. These cutters are carried by j inflammation removed aad the p»»n entire^ «, The Ylolia. Of all the musical instruments the violin is the most enduring. Pianos wear out j wind instruments get battered and old-fashioned ; the pipes of organs become scattered, and the original con- - - - - I dwelling houses valued at •4,013,000] I . ,, novelties are introduced iqto flutes, Lu j There are, beside, fS hotels $ad 147 1 - H *?8 -Ia 016 *** two iiandles or levers, which are held in I , Vian/1 an/1 ^nttincr in hv i % S0IBe utid scientific faefc* the hand, ana tne cutting is euectea Dy , regarding rheumatism, attested bv the highest pushing the scissors forward SO as to authority, and they are, bevoad question the cause tbe rollers to revolve. | only correct ones ever brought forth. We ai* „ „• .. ^ . _--; J f »*re they are advanced ideas, but tenfve#<S* - -- . THB 'Sltĵ of Boston contains 41,926 ; ,ieuc<? lht'y wlU be the accepted btmef' and straction is lost sight of. All kinds oi* dwelling nouses Valued at S4.013 000 p.ra€tice.of tho l"r.orid- Ir p-*«ple su*er froaa novelties are introduced iQto flutes, Lu (There are, beside, TS " J ~ ~ ' r lfeUmat,c tronblBa ,n th" theJsturdyMolin 'stands on its own mer- family hotels in the oily. these plain truths before tnem, the* ean blame no one but themselves,