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*v* : f£mm' w««a •****, [ "*%• • Hi i <viK tfimrntkm <P»M»ffllll' «MM INw Mud to build the all eMu*** An' I Ttev done my slsars * To feed Its prwclttr emy ym* An' k«ep « In repair. _ I've took eny place eaek Sabbatk flgjf . Cont«tad es could b«, ' An* I few shrus found my asat */. ™ f"*' »*V" Wusoft enough far saa. Pre oTn found myself obleafad • To ft*e my boy* a shake * i To make 'em mind the preacher'* An* keep thun--Itwe awako; •nt wb« they *wt tb* carpets dam in each pew WeH all o' us begin to snot* Afom the wrmos'i through. The •teveell eoon be pitehed To bar a furniss Are; They'll rota to her a veatytiBla, b in' orgtn lk In the choir; Bnt when they (It the fixln'Bta^ An' gewgaws on the (loft I^Densr fed to home apk ' I hay* felt afore. a** " IN THE FIRE-ROOM. s ^ 8*< -4_ w "It's hotter*n tophet down in th« room. And it's pretty dirty, too. Bat you can go down there if you want." The speaker was «n assistant engineer on the New Orleans steamship Louisi­ ana. He stood on the iron grating oi the top engine room, looking down at a be­ wildering labyrinth of glistening steel beams, shafts and rods. From some unknown region of darkness below came the sound of shovels scraping against oo&i, for it was Saturday afternoon and the Louisiana was getting up steam pre­ paratory to leaving port. "Look out for grease," said the engineer as the visitor descended an iron ladder. Here another tier of machinery, the "work­ ing platform," was reached, On one side was a dark hole in which appeared a second ladder, running almost perpen­ dicularly down. This led to the " lower engine room." All around the strange shapes of the powerful machinery stood outlined in the semi-twilight. Massive arms of steel reached across overhead or were stretched up from below ; steel fin­ gers were thrust out, and jaws of metal gaped as though to seize the incautious visitor in their remorseless grasp. Every­ thing ifcas quiet, a quiet suggesting ter­ rible power, for the muscles and sinew* of the imprisoned giant waited the life- giving breath of steam to waken into resistless action. "You are looking at the new oiler, are you?" said the engineer. don't think much of it myself. " Where is the fire-room? " "TO show yon. Here, Jack, give US a lamp. Take this packing in your handft, sir, and look out for your clotliea." Then he disappeared, apparently into a coal-bunker, through a little iron door at the foot of the ladder. The visitor followed, scrambling over a heap of coal, and found himself in the fire-room. A line of fiery eyes on each side shone into the darkness. The furnace doors were closed, but a bright light came from un­ der the grates. As the eye became ac­ customed to the gloom it could be seen that the walls, perpendicular at the bot­ tom, slanted toward each other on each side, meeting above like the pitch of a roof. In the center it was possible to stand upright--approaching the sides it was necessary to stoop. The hot stifling air increased the feeling of compression; one seemed imprisoned in a scorching tomb. A speck of blue sky seen through the ventilating shaft overhead was only an aggravation, for no fresh air entered. In the middle of this dungeon, which was perhaps thirty feet long, was piled a heap of ashes. Coal and ashes were •eattared over the wet and slippery iron A»r. Something stirred in a corner, and a pallid man, stripped to ids shirt and trousers, came forward. Stooping, with the perspiration streaming down his face, he threw open a furnace door, •nd a blinding glare of light shone out. It scorched the very eyeballs of one try­ ing to peer in, and nearing the open door one's flesh seemed burning. But the fireman, bending almost double, un­ protected from the blaze, continued rak­ ing the fire, regardless of the sparks and sheets of flame that leaped out to­ ward him. Then he brought shovel­ ful alter shovelful of coai and fed the fire anew. Closing the door, he drew his grimy hand across his forehead and then literally wrung the water from the sleeve of his shirt. "Tisn't hot at. all heee now," re­ marked the engineer, much to the writ <**• surprise. " They're only making j op the fires here to-day, and this is Tithing to what it is-when we're out. There are eight boilers here, four on a side, and the large furnace under each has two doors. Above the boilers," pointing to the sloping sheet-iron sides, "the hot water circulates around sets of tabes." "Then th© sides of this little room ace all of heated iron, and there is fire, boiling water or hot air ou every side," remarked the visitor. • "Oil! yes, except on the bottom. This iron floor is about four feet above * "Ktar years of intense phyaieal Htrain. Itaa was a dull, weary look in his snnken eves. His hair was flecked with gray, and a white stubble appeared on his cheeks and ohin. *' Perhaps yow*w» 50 ?" said the visitor. " I'm 85," replied the fireman, with a .bitter laugh, " but I've basn at sea in the fire-room for sixteen yearn," ; Then he want on : " You see they want young, strong men just in theur prime. If tney re too youug or too o»a they can't stand the work. As soon as I» man's strength begins to fail he's thrown aside. They have no use for bim. And the average life of a fireman Is forty years. We don't expect people to lUnderstiintl what the work is. Tney go to sea and sit on deck under an awning, fanning themselves and complaining of the heat. But under their feet in the fire-room, with the thermometer some­ times up to \ 75 degrees, we are shovel­ ing coal and raking the fires for very life. There isn't a minute to stop." " That's so," broke in another t " I've •eena man wait for a chance to fill his ipe and get the fireman next him to and his furnace just for the minute it took to jam the tobacco in and strike a Snatch. And a man's pretty busy when lie can't find time to fill a pipe," * After the men have signed papers," resumed the first speaker, "say for a moi,tli's voyage to Mexico and back, there's no such thing as letting np. When a fresh gang comes in, the en­ gineer who goes on watch with them is bound to get as many turns of the shaft, yei trii perhaps sixty a minute, as the engineer before him did, and if there's any failing off the firemen hear from him right away. The fires have to be 'raked' and 'sliced* and coal shoveled in every minute. The steam has to be kept up to the mark, and the water-gauge wa tched. There's no time to think, sad men have hardly breath to speak." "A man's got to go in for all he's worth," said another. "Every vein and muscle and bone has to jump its best." "Don't men break down under the strain ?" " Break down," with a grim laugh. "Why, young fellow, in the sixteen ars I've been at sea I don't know of a p when I haven't seen men fall flat and half dead in the fire-room, and there are few trips when I haven't seen a fire­ man die. Think of the heavy work a man's doing with the mercury up to 130 or 150 degrees, and no fresh air! Men get overheated. Their faces will grow pale as a corpse, they'll stagger and drop their shovels and tumble over on the coal. Then they're hoisted out on deck and perhaps water dashed over them. But in the tropics there'll be no air stir­ ring on deck. They'll be put into their bunks in the steerage, and the doctor comes and they get medicine by law, for every fireman pays 40 cents a month to­ ward keeping up the medicine chest. I've seen men get cramps and fevers tlironerh drinking so much water. A man will often drink four quarts in four hours and sweat it all right out When lie goes out he can wring streams of water from his clothes. On some steamers they have ice water and oatmeal for the fire­ men. But sometimes they don't have the ice. I've often hoisted a bucket up in the ventilating shaft to try to cool it, and then drank the water lukewarm. When a man's sick, or dies from over­ heating or cramps or fever, it's all the worse for the others. They have to do his work and theirs, and may be work six hours on a stretch. Often a man is so tired that he can't eat or sleep when he comes out. What wages do we get for this work ? We've been getting §30 a month for coal-passers and $40 for fire­ men, and we struck lately for a beggarly advance of $5. A man has to go in as a coal-passer shoveling from the shoots first, and learn the fireman's trade, for a fireman lias to learn about the steam and managing the fires. "There's never a day off from the time he leaves till he comes back. It's a steady jump all the time. In port he has to rub ui and work around the ma­ chinery. If he dies his family gets $60 from our Charitable Union, but the steamship owners never make any pro­ vision for firemen. Perhaps he has half a dozen children, and out of his $40 he has to pay $10 just for rent, to. say nothing of food or clothes, when single men nav about $5 per week, or 820 a month, for board. How much do they have left? " You must know that the pitching of the vessel makes a fireman's work much narder. Men are thrown backward and forward and badly bruised and burned, coal is flying around, and sometimes they have to stretch life-lines across. Nobody has any consideration for fire­ men. It's only an order, a curse and sometimes a blow. When men come out from their four hours' work, perhaps the engineer will throw them some over­ alls and tell them to wash them. The idea is to get the most work they can out of the firemen m iae shortest time, and the work has to be done. There's no such thing as shirking. Sometimes they get reasonably good food on board ship, and sometimes they don't. Fire- • ' •;* fARlNOfKSa ^ fir fctrmnootis with sngw^lwwtR/ a German agriculturist has found that the application of phosphoric acid in the spring materially increases the yield of sugar. FAT MAKBS Hun LAT.--There is much refuse fat from the kitchen that can be turned to good account by feed­ ing it to the hens. Of course when soap is made it will be used np in that way, but it is a question whether it is not much easier and more profitable to buy soap and make hens lay by feeding them with fat Everything that is not wanted for drippings for cooking pur­ poses should be boiled up with the veg­ etables for the fowls. THE tanners of the country, if the}' would act iudividually or organize them­ selves into forestry clubs, could, in a very little while, awaken a widespread interest in tree planting. The advan­ tages of such clubs are highly appre­ ciated in the treeless regions of the West and Northwest Many of them have been organized, and through their sihle. efforts millions of trees have been set out, with an already manifest effect upon the water courses and the humidity of the atmosphere.--Cincinnati Commer­ cial. FERTILISING ORCHARDS.-- When an orchard requires fertilizing, it is best to do this all over the ground, and not ap- | ply manure only near the trees. This f produces large growth of roots, close to the trees, for roots grow where the soil is richest, and prevents the growth at a distance from the tree. Manure tends to encourage the growth of wood rather than fruit Instead of manure, it is better to cultivate the soil and leave it fallow, or to seed it to clover and plow in the clover, giving a liberal sprinkling of lime or wood ashes. The clover is then plowed under. Orchards need lime and ashes more than manure, and these soon produce healthy, smooth bark. Pfflmtswos OF HQQ OROXIBBA.--- A correspondent of the New York Tribune writes on tikis subject as fo'lows : Pre­ vention is better than cure for hog chol­ era in about the ratio of fifty to one, and to this end there should be a sheltered place of rest wit+i plenty of dry absorb­ ent earth to lie on, abundance* of good air, sheds sweetened by whitewashing once in three months, clean water to drink, and salt, sulphur and sulphurous soft coal or charcoal always accessible. An entire change of food from corn to potatoes, mangolds and carrots, cooked and raw, often as once a week. The ex­ clusive use of corn failing to excite cer­ tain digestive activities may result in a weakness favorably to the progress of cholera. Separation also into small herds is well. Boars also of strong con­ stitution should be carefully selected, untainted by cholera, or the progeny may be taiuted by a, choleraic diathesis so that the disease will develop on slight causes. How TO MAKK FAKMBBS OP THE Born --A New Jersey letter to the Examiner lays the blame at the door of shiftless farmers for so many farmers' sons leav­ ing agriculture for other pursuits. He says: " That the fault of this lies with the parents themselves, is plain from the fact that with the thrifty farmers the number of sons who leave home and for­ feit their birthright is very small indeed. By the sale of an acre of ground, a pair of horses which they can call their own, rhaps the entire charge of the they become interested, and the made to have attractions for them. Let good agricultural papers and books be furnished them, and their edu­ cation encouraged in every proper way, the waste places on the farm be planted and made fruitful, and crooked fences made straight. Let everything in and about the garden be done decently, and the front yard kept in order, *an'd long before the sons of these farmers become of age they will learn that agriculture is the most certain source of strength, wealth and independence." CEMENT CONCBETE FiiOOBs.--The de­ sirability of obtaining a good floor of this description is patent to all. There are so many who still adhere to the old method that a cheap and practical plan would seem to be of interest to them. The New York Timen gives the follow­ ing directions for making a cement con­ crete floor for a stable: Mix drv and thoroughly one bushel of fresh hydrau­ lic cement with two bushels of' clean sharp sand. Have prepared near by a quantity of coaise gravel or broken stone, thoroughly wetted with water; make a basin of the mixed sand and cement, and pour water on to it and stir well, making a thin mortar; immediately add to it five bushels of the gravel, and shovel it over and over until the mortar and gravel are intimately mixed; lay this on the leveled earth floor, beginning at one corner, and beat it down well with a broad rammer made of a piece oi plank twelve inches square fixed to a handle. While this bath is being laid another should be prepared by an assistant and laid as soon as it is ready, as soon as ijt Pfeturn the manure JfafroiB.--A Tennessee corre- spoodent aaka if we tou him where 8®'* for grinding up man­ ure. He mpcgd to «sk for such a machine beoasaa laraooiden tally ex peri- enced wondarf^figiaijflt from scattering the fine litter 'Wade under his barn. We are glad Hurt our correspondent has learned tb» *kfcM of fine manure, and thing besides tba aoil had made my vines and potatoea to flourish. They were far better than the doctor's, while his soil was new and richaad mine was bleached and worn. I expeoted my excessive cul­ tivation must hav» the credit, I said nothing to my friend until after the po­ tato crop was put in the barn, ready for market. They brought me S360, after leaving enough at home for a winter supply. My friend, the doctor, reported a failure--not enough to pay for the dig­ ging. He concluded the difference in making it up into a aquare-built pile, be ing careful too keep it level on top, and the sides as nearly perpendicular as pos- If this is turned again during the summer, it will be in fine condition for top-dressing wheat at the time of seed­ ing. Where land is laid down 'to grass in the fall and top-dressed with manure thus fined, we think our Tennessee friend will find he gets better results than from the common method of hand­ ling manure. Again, we find that the manure can be turned as directed above, and hauled and spread on the land at less cost ©f time and labor than in the old way of, hauling long, chunky manure direct from the yard to the field. The secret of turning is it reduces the bulk so that it can be hauled in about three- fifths us many loads, and can be handled with half the labor and spread evenly. Then above all this well-fined manure is ready to supply plant food, and the crop gets its benefit the first season, and there is neither time, nor manure, nor labor lost It is doubtful if barnyard manure can be put into better shape, even by machinery, as suggested by the Tennessee correspondent. -- dmoirmati Commercial. . ,, HOUSEHOLD HELPS. [From the Detroit Free Pros* Household. 1 At the ConfVetloner*. COCOANCT CARAMELS.--Two cups of grated cocoanut, one cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of flour, the whites of three eggs beaten stiff; bake on a but­ tered paper in a quick oven. LEMON DROPS.--Upon half a pound of finely powdered sugar pour just enough lemon juice to dissolve it and boil to the consistency of thick syrup; drop this on plates and put iu a warm place to harden. CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.--One cup of sweet milk, one cup of molasses, half a cup of sugar, half a cup of grated choc­ olate, a piece of butter the size of a walnut; stir constantly, and let it boil until it is thick; then turn it out on to buttered plates and when it begins to stiffen mark it in squares, so that it will break iqadily when cold. COCOANUT CANDY.--Four cups of water, two and a half cups fine white sugar, four spoonfuls of vinegar, a piece of butter as large as an egg; boil till thick about three-quarters of an hour. Just before removing stir in one cup desic­ cated cocoanut and lay in small flat cakes on buttered plates to cool and harden. BOSTON CARAMELS. --One pint bowl of Baker's grated chocolate, two bowls of yellow sugar, one bowl of New Orleans molasses, one-half cup of milk, a piece of butter the size of a small egg and vanilla flavor; boil about twenty-five minutes ; this should not be so brittle as other candies. Pour in buttered tins and mark deeply wigi a knife. ECEBTON TAFFY.--In a shallow vessel melt together one pound of brown sugar and one-quarter pound of butter; stir together for fifteen minutes, or until the mixture becomes brittle when dropped m cold water. Lemon car vanilla flavor­ ing should be added before the cooking is complete. Butter a flat plate and pour the taffy upon it to cooL When partly cold mark in squares with a knife. CHOCOLATE CREAM DROPS. --Mix one- half cup of cream with two of white sugar, boil and stir full five minutes; set the dish into another of cold water and stir until it becomes hard. Then make into small balls about the size ol marbles and with a fork roll each one separately in the chocolate, which has in the meantime been put in a bowl over the boiling tea kettle and melted; put on brown paper to cool; flavor with vanilla if desired. This amount makes about fifty drops. men used to have rations of rum to keep j gets and hardens. The cement should them up to their work, but they gave that up about six years ago, and now a man can't get any kind of stimulant | Men die like sheep, and no notice is j taken of them, except to make the oth­ ers work harder. And if they begin to }'• '• the keelson. There is room enough for ' steamship owners won't a man to pass underneath. How hot "aTe them."--New Yvrk Tribune. does it get here ? underneath. How hot Oh! 130 deg. to 160 <teg. when we're down by Florida or in the gulf. Pretty rough on the firemen ? Yes,! >ut you see the firemen ain't much account on board ship. The hardest- worked men get the fewest thanks and the moat abuse. Yes, they play out once in a while, get used up by their work and drop down by the furnaces. Then they hoist them up and lav thein out on deck. If they come to they have to go back to work. If they don't some other fireman has got to do double work They go on for four hours, off for eight, then back for four, and so on day in "»d out There are four in a watch here--a coal-passer who shovels from the shoots, and three firemen. Boats that have twelve or sixteen boilers of course carry mote man. One of the thirteen firemen has to look oat for the steam and keep an eve on the water. They've got to be on the jump every minute. "Imh the air pretty bad* Well, I AgjJdsay it was." with an air of candid rettecUon. •• Iou see ibe venauar shafts don't do any good unless the ia just right, and tnen this hot air is filled with dust and ashes, which proba- "V t exactly healthy aa a regular thing." Then a bell rang overhead and the ggin r̂ started back. "Look out lliere, as the ̂ visitor stumbled over a heap of ashes in the darkness ; "you'll baas bad off as the firemen are when tbmy are thrown against the red-hot forw Pitching of the ship iu fen minutes later the visitor to the IXRHsiaiia was seated in a little back room m Albanv street among a emu© of firemen. " How old would you think I am ?" asked one of them. He was a tall, powerfully-built man, but his stoop­ ing shoulders and a certain heaviness m hi* movements told of vitality exhaust­ ed by overwork. His face was seamed with deep, strongly-marked lines, such 'somotameashow Hiaple Remedies tor Emergencies. Very few young mothers are able to control their nerves so completely as to keep from being startled when confront­ ed with a cut linger with dripping blood and the loud cries which announce a ca­ tastrophe. Sometimes she cannot col­ lect her thoughts sufficiently to recall any of the good remedies with which she is acquainted. One way to avoid this is to write out a list of help in trouble, and tack it upon the door of your room, after the manner of hotel regulations. There is nothing better for a cut than powdered resin. Get a few cents' worth of resin, pound it until it is fine, and put it in an empty, clean pepper or spice >x)x with perforated top; then you can easily sift it out on the cut; put a soft cloth around the member and wet with water once in a while. It will be rammed down until the top is quite wet and soft, when sand and fine gravel may be scattered over it, and the surface again beaten. The whole floor may be soaked when finished and dry with hot i gas tar. ! vines stand up." He concluded his land was new and strong, and two or three | workings would do. We had no potato bugs then, but weeds and dry weather, much the same as now. My potatoes did not seem to check growth in the dry weather, and I concluded my soil was not so thin and impoverished as had been supposed. But when I looked across the fence at the doctor's potatoes and grape vines, I felt sure that some- FREQrENT AND THOROT?«'+H TILI.AOB. Jetliro Tull, the famous English agri­ culturist, who believed that manure was not essential in growing crops, as finely pulverized earth and moisture were suf­ ficient for the best growth of plants, was somewhat mistaken; but the following account, given in an exchange, of the results of this system on a crop of pota­ toes shows that he was not so far out of the way as many have supposed. The writer said to his neighbor, the Doctor, who had the same variety of potatoes to . , , x , , --- cotton are not at liaud take a cloth and spread dry flour over it and wrap the burned part in it It is always well to have some simple remedies in the house where you can get them without a moment's loss of time; a little bottle of peppermint iu case of colic, chlorate of potash for sore throat, pepsin for indigestion, and a bot- t'e Tandy. Have them arranged so that you can go to them in the dark and reach the right remedy, but be sure you never do it, even if you know they have not been distributed. Always light a lamp or the gas, and make sure you have what you are pfter. Remember that pistols are always loaded, and that poi- so^aiay be placed in place of pepper* yonr Mid the tiuef to the workuigmnn when he lifted ciH his pocket and slopped out with my potatoes once a week, m long as the crops could not be in the soil, nor seed, nor planting. There was only one way to account for it The regular weekly cultivating of my potatoes gave me a big crop of extra smooth potatoes, while the doctor and others who gave little at-| tention to the crop made a failure. Cul-; tivate potatoes early and often. records his testimony in its favor. There are thousands of farmers who hold that it makes no difference whether the man­ ure is applied fine or coarse. They be­ lieve in manure, but have not so closely observed its defects as to know how to make the most of it Our English cou­ sins lay great stress on having the " dung well fined." We doubt the necessity, Pipping Off a Miner. During one of his intermittent visits to the Oomstock Mr. Mackay accom­ panied a party of Eastern tourists to the lower levels of the California mine, one df which carefully selected collection of Massachusetts blue blood being a young lady from Boston who was refined to the top notch of culture. On arriving at one of the lower levels the gasping perspir­ ing, wilted crew paused, and Mr. Mackay called the young girl's attention to a speaking tube which connected with the level above.' " Is this hollow metal cylinder a con­ duit of sound ?" asked the well-educated Bostonienne. "Yes'm," said Mackay; "try it" The young lady applied her mouth to its opening and piped out a tremulous "Hillo-a-a." "Aye, aye," shouted a hearty miner a hundred feet above. "What shall 1 ask him?" said the girl to Mr. Mackay. ? "Ask him how he is gettingVlong. '•How are you getting aloiig, sir?" whistled the maiden. "Aw-w--pretty well," rumbled the reply. "And now what shall I say," continued the girl. "Ask him if it's hot." " Is it hot up there ?" "Hotter'n li--1" vraa the Alain answer. The damsel gasped, but continued : " What else shall I aay ?" " Oh, ask him how his family are," replied Mr. Mackay, who began to tire of the "pipping-off" interview. " How are all your family ?" asked the gvl- "To h--1 wid ye ; what are ye givin* us, thundered the miner, who thought sotofe one was " joshing " him. Collapse and a call for ioe water.-- Virginia (Ncv.) Chronicle. Arctic Explorers. Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, who was a mem Sf °, £,Pr* Ka*"'s party, reached, in May, 1861, a point, latitude 81 deg. 30 nun., beyond which it was impossible to go. Although a number of expeditions nave gone to the polar regions since then, that land reached by Hayes is the most northerly ever trod by any ex­ plorer up to this time. It is, of course, impossible to tell how far .-- ..uvm. it v ...v/ Muwvun.tj t i .• . . -- --" -- north the however, of running barnyard through a ; •' eannette and her party pene- mill to grind it up. We got our Dest re­ sults by turning the manure once, if made from feeding hay or straw, and twice if made from feeding corn fodder, <!» ft# isr *km"Ckis* trated, but Hayes is at far. the head thus HENCEFORTH the telegraph offices of France are to record in detail all thun­ derstorms which may be observed. THE FAX1LY DOCTOR. SIR ISAAC NBWTOK ipote to a medical friend, who inquired how he managed to retain health, in these wofds : " Ah, my dear doctor, you hate a better opin­ ion of your lazy friend than he had of himself. Morpheus is my best com­ panion, without eight or «wi« hours' sleep your correspondent is not worth a scavenger's puree." FOR dyspepsia--One-half pound car­ bonate soda, one ounce bismuth, one ounce pepsin, one-half ounce Jamaica ginger. Add one quart of water, cork tight Shake well before using. Dose one table-spoonful after eating. Be care­ ful about diet, eating no grease or rich sauce till the stomach regains its strength. An exchange says a lady who had suf­ fered many years was given up to die, by what three physicians pronounced cancer of the stomach, and thin prescrip­ tion cured her. WHOOPING COUOH.--We have received from an estimable gentleman, who has tried it successfully with two of his children who had whooping cough very badly, a recipe recommended by a lady which acts like a charm. In the case of his own children they were relieved of their troublesome companion complete­ ly in nine days, and, since it can do no harm, mothers may try the remedy with impunity. The following is the recipe: Five teaspoonfuls tincture asafoetida, five teaspoonfuls sweet oil, twelve tea- spoonfuls table sirup; should be ad­ ministered in doses of one teaspoonful each, three or four times & day. TREATMENT OF BUBNS.--The best ap­ plication for a burn is a liniment made of lime-water and oil, beaten together until it looks like butter melted to dress vegetables for the table. It matters not whether common lime or the chloride of lime is used, and either sweet or linseed oil will answer. Wrap the burned part in fine lipen covered with this mixture, and cover thickly on the outside with raw cotton to exclude the air. Open it but once iu twenty-four hours, and then carefully soap off the rag with lime- water and oil, so as not to injure the tender skin that may be forming on the wound. Bathe well with the liniment, and put on a clean dressing of rags wet with the liniment, and cover with cotton as at first. Where lime cannot be had, the next-best dressing we know of is soot mixed with lard, well melted and strained to get out the particles of soot. In this case you may first use strong alum water to assuage the pain, and then put on a plaster of the above. In any case, over the rags put raw cotton, to exclude the air and keep the part from being rubbed. THE WANT OF THE LUNGS.--While the ordinary lungs of an adult may hold about six quarts, it does not follow that each breath contains that amount, but about one pint This arrangement im­ plies the constant action of the air in purification of the blood, the primary object of breathing. Each contraction of the heart forces two or three ounces of blood to the lungs for the purpose, the refuse, after the combustion of the waste, being in part carbonic gas, a deadly poison to the lungs but safe for the stomach. By estimate the amount absolutely needed that the blood may be well purified is from seven to ten ten cubic feet each minute for an adult And since this gas is heavier than air and is diffusial, it is needful to have open doors that it may pass into the cellar, like water, there to be absorbed by a tub of' water and the like. Do we secure this supply in all of our sleeping rooms ? An estimate of the capacity of such a room divided by 4,000 cubio feet, or the amount needed by an adult for the night, will determine, the matter. If two occupy the room, 8,000 is the divisor. How large a room will hold 8,000 cubic feet? Not less than one twenty feet in its dimensions.--Dr. J. H. Hanaford. WHILST no British monarch has died by the assassin's hand, Prime Ministers have been less fortunate. Mr. Spencer Perceval was shot, in the lobby of the House of Commons, by one Birming­ ham, who had claims against the Treas­ ury, and had worked himself into a frenzy under a sense of supposed injus­ tice. The man was undoubtedly more or less mad, but was tried, condemned and executed while popular indignation was red-hot. The killing of the Prime Minister gave rise to apprehension that a widespread conspiracy was afloat, and the mails were all stopped that night, pending the preparation of dispatches to the authorities throughout the coun­ try. Sir Robert Peel, also, would have fallen but for .his secretary (a near rela­ tive of the present secretary of the Brit­ ish Legation at Washington) having been murdered by mistake for bim. Af­ ter a miscreant struck at Queen Vic­ toria, some twenty years ago, an act was passed rendering any kind of assault on the Sovereign punishable by severe whippings. Since then only one such offence has been committed, and that by a youth whose clearly proved weak in­ tellect saved him from stripes. Oxford, who shot at the Queen early in her car­ eer, got off on a plea of insanity, though the genuineness of the plea was very much, and with good reason, question­ ed. He was, consequently, relegated to Bedlam, and, greatly to his disgust, kept there for life. This probably exercised a deterrent effect on many others of that miserable order of being who will do anything for notoriety. --N. Y. Tribune. Abstinence of Camels. The watering of camels is of great im­ portance, and is not generally under­ stood. Surgeon C. Steel states that " the store of water the animal is sup­ posed to be capable of carrying is much exaggerated." I am quite of this opin­ ion, for I could not help observing in the recent Afghan campaign how little at­ tention was paid to the watering of cam­ els, because the idea entertained was that camels coald go forever without drinking. Such a false impression was fatal to the poor animals. Camels of the Arabian species can take in five or six gallons of water, which is sufficient for their use for about six days. The Bac- trian species can take in only about half that quantity. To insure this supply camelmen, traveling with their own cam­ els, pour water down the camels' throats, which the camels understand by instinct to lie a necessary precaution, and take in the water willingly. It is misleading to say that a camel can go without water longer than any other animal, for he re­ quires drink daily, like other beasts, if a supply has not been previously admin­ istered. Camels have, moreover, a great dislike to drinking cold running water in cold weather, and should be watered from holes or tanks containing still wa­ ter.' The "Old Society" of Washington. One will see on a bright afternoon a carriage drawn by a pair of fine bays. On the box are two aristocratic negroes; inside is the aristocratic owner--an old lady with the traces of youthful beauty still about her. She represents what thinks itself at the very topmost round of the ladder, the old Washington and Georgetown society, mainly composed of the descendants of old Virginia and -Marj land families. Once in ewj Ave years this old lady throws open her mansion and gives a formal reception. No one is invi^d in whom any of the present generation has any iutisBest, or who has any interest in it. Qttn old men who were dandies in Jackson's days, and the very old ladies who recollect "Dolly" Madison, sit around the old rooms, which are astonished, probably, at the admission of air and sunshine into their dusty old precincts, and at the in­ trusion oi men and women who used to come there often enough in their younger days, but who might easily Mave been ghosts many years ago. They have the courtly elegance of an older day, and to listen to them one would think one'a self WW* by-gone age. rr ? s \ A Classic Drunkard. > ̂ If the Providence Journal states'the fact correctl»/f the barkeeper was about to close up. His had said so several times, and had put out all the lights but one. The old fixtures had shook the sawdust from their feet and reluctantly directed their footsteps homeward. Only a stranger appeared, a dark, sad­ dened man, who sat demurely on a stool and kept his thumbs revolving around each other like white mice turn­ ing a wheel. When the C9ast was clear he stepped up to the bar and said softly: "May I whisper a word in your ear?'* "You miy, mister, if you will be quick about it," replied the cbrink-maker, with his hand on the lamp-screw. "I want you to fill me a flask of your best whisky for family sickness," said the stranger, drawing out an ancient wallet, with twenty fathoms of leather string wound around it,--a well-worn wallet that looked as if all the waves and billows of bad luck had beat upon it, and gone over it and through it, and flattened it and washed it out clean. The barman filled him up a pint, shoved down the cork until it squeaked, wiped the bottle dry and sat it upon the counter. "The autumnal air is getting a trifle tartisli." sbliloquized the Btranger. " Would you have any objection to my taking a little liver padder from mv bot­ tle?" He filled the .tumbler quite full, took it as he did paragoric in the days of his infancy, and then remarked : "Perhaps, on the whole, as the night has far waned, and my family are on their spiral springs and in their trundles, you had better put my bottle away on the upper shelf, and" when Phoebus Apollo begins to canter his golden prancers along the avenues of the pur­ pling east, I will call for it, and you may then assess me the appropriate amount of ducats." The barkeeper sprang over the bar and began to kick him. "What!" he said sweetly, "you kick me after I have drank ? Don't you know better than that ? Kick me with both feet--I cannot feel you even then. Be­ fore I took that glass, if you had but shook your fist at me you would have wounded me--hurt me; but now I scorn the physical punishment. Good-night," he said, as he stood on the doorstep. "I see by the shadow on the sidewalk that you have kicked me again. You should remember, my irascible publican, what the dear old poet said : ' Fate cannot harm me now, I have dined to-day.' So say L I have drunk to-night. Good­ night, taverner! , How much the spark­ ling firmament looks like a far-off city, lit up for a festal night! Farewell! I shall see you later." Lord Bacon. Francis Bacon was born at London, Jan. 22. 1561. His father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Elizabeth. Soon after com­ pleting his twelfth year, he went to Cambridge, where he distinguished him­ self. He traveled on the continent, and returned to England in 1579 on account of his father's death. In 1582 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1589 became a member of Parliament, and in 1590 Counsel Extraordinary to the Queen, a distinction almost without example for one so young. In 1606 he married Alice Barnham, the daughter of a rich Lon­ don merchant, and the succeeding year was made Solicitor General, and in 1613 became Attorney General and a member of the Privy Council; in 1617 he became Keeper of the Great Seal, and the fol­ lowing January was made Lord High Chancellor, the highest civil office to which any subject could then attain. .In the following July he was created Baron Verulam, and admitted to the House of Peers, and in 1619 became Viscount Saint Albans. In 1620 he published his greatest work, the "Novum Organum." He was accused of accepting bribes, and, though at first strongly asserted his innocence, yet he afterward confessed his guilt, and was sentenced May 3, 1621, to pay a fine of £40,000 and to be imprisoned at the King's pleasure. He was shown every indulgence, being sent to the Tower but released two days after, and the fine was remitted. He was al­ lowed an income of £1,500, a sum equal to five times that amount at the present day. He died April 9, 1862. His works are numerous, the best known being his "Essays," the "NovumOrganum," " On the Wisdom of the Ancients," etc. He is described as one of the most illustri­ ous of modern philosophers. Quite a number of able thinkers and writers attribute to him the authorship of some of the great plays of Shakespeare. Lord Baipoi^Ieft no children. / The Discipline of Drudgery. * A "liberail education" is a capital thing, and the thousands of young men who are now honored with the title of A. B. are to be congratulated upon the good fortune that has permitted them to acquire the mental discipline resulting .from a four years' course of academic study. But these young men must not make the mistake of supposing that this discipline is an all-sufficient preparation for the higher callings of life. That is, the young men who purpose to enter any of the branches of professional life, for instance, must not imagine that the fact of their having a college education will permit them to leap to the top rung of the ladder at once. The discipline they have is valuable, but chiefly so as the basis for the acquirement of practical knowledge, without which success is im­ possible. By practical knowledge we mean acquaintance with the minutue or little details that go to make up all oc­ cupations. Such knowledge a college education cannot give and is not intended to give. It is only to be acquired by patient application. The discipline of the college curriculum must be supple­ mented by another kind of discipline, namely, the discipline of drudgery. No one, however largely endowed with mental power, can lie exempted from the necessity of acquiring this discipline. 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