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SOW© OF TH* SCHOOL OOtt* , With heavy aa<l achlnsr head %'•< t With weary bnt sleepless brain, 4 ?*> A school girl sat In her room at i And thn* tnve voice to her pain: V It's study by day and by night, jp •I? Vj And it's Htuily by night and by dajjj W* *7 Till • blur cotnos ov>r my sight, f , And my brain S.'CMA OIW.«K away. ;.>>•; < | *"* ' . " • I; The studies are riled so high ^ ̂ #/i . 4k That the weight i* breaking ; _ i, • - I wish I had winft*, and c >ula fly " , r- Away from tae school and the towpr * ̂ It s study and study at school. s A d it's study and study np her®, ® t And Ishu'Jder imieath the rum That awaits the failure I fear. A I day and all night Is my head With figures and facts oppressed, lit ^ And at last when I crawl into bed r i ?? They haant me and rob me of reafc It's oh, for a romp and a run, A game with a hoop or a ball! And it's oh, to be out in the *an, Away from percentage and alL A r Perhaps I may marry some day, ' If 1 ever gat through with my 1118 ̂ . And what will my husband sajr To a nervous and fidgety wife? It's study by day and by night, And it s study by night and by Mfi Oh, surely it cannot be tight To study and never to plaifc: York Sun. ^ MRS. WARDEN'S CLUB, Young and beautiful Mrs. Warden .'^•llis back on her visit to her far Eastern home. For eighteen long months she lived or existed, as she phrased it, in the small Western town to which as a bride she had pone. Her friends all pitied her and she pitied herself that so much yonth, beauty and accomplish­ ments were wasted on the unappreciat- jye air of Jonesville, on the line of the A. Z. railroad. Yet it could not well be helped. Her husband was a promi­ nent railroad official, and, as the super­ intendent of a new branch of a great railroad, he was obliged to be stationed at one of the termini of his division, Wid Jonesville was the place. When Mrs. Warden opened her trunks and shook out her almost un­ touched wedding dresses, she discov­ ered that they were somewhat out of fashion. "It's utter folly for any one going to lire in the far West to take such a Wardrobe as this there," she said. "Fancy my going calling in Jonesville with these dresses on! Imagine how I caught these laces and ruffles and fringes on the jimson weeds and snaggy sidewalks of the place." / "How do you ever manage to exist?" was the sympathetic inquiry of one of her friends. "is there any society there at all?" "There are some really nice and in­ telligent people there, I believe, but I know very little of them. They gener­ ally live in a very small way; many of the women do their own work, and, be-, •ond returning the calls made when I first went there, I know very little about them. We have our suite of rooms at the hotel, and are very comfortable ourselves, but I spend my time mostly in reading and drawing or with my mu­ sic, and I can assure you it gets very monotonous and lonesome." » "Mary, I think you, perhaps, make a great mistake, both for your own hap­ piness and that of others, by living in that way." It was kind-hearted and philanthropic Aunt Mary, for whom Mrs. Warden was named and to whose ways held that those who work for a living are just as good M those who do nothing. I rather fancy my position is such that I can do as I please socially," and Mrs. Warden straightened herself np a little and looked proudly at her husband. At one Bgint in their Journey a con­ necting tram brought quite an accession of passengers, among them a gentleman with whom Mr. Warden seemed to be well acquainted and on most friendly terms. He was accompanied by his newly-made wife, a pleasant-looking, neatly-dressed lady, and they were re­ turning from their wedding trip. Mr. Warden introduced Mr. and Mrs. Har­ mon to his wife and then he and his friend betook themselves to the smok­ ing-car. Observing that the lady had in her hand a volume of Schiller's poems in the original, Mrs. Warden asked her if she read German, and learned that the lady was a German by birth, al­ though she spoke without the slightest accent. Their conversation turned upon German literature and poetry, and when at the end of an hour Mr.' Warden returned his wife told him what a pleasant acquaintance she had formed, and what a valuable member of the club Mrs. Harmon would make. "I am glad to hear you are pleased with Mrs. Harmon," said Mr. Warden. "I understand there was a great deal of talk in Jonesville about Mr. Harmon marrying her. It lias all become pub­ lic sir.ee y -u went East. Mr. H irmon is very wealthy, von know, and one 'of the most influential men in Jonesville, but has been considered a most con­ firmed bachelor. This lady came to Jonesville about a year ago with the family of Mr. Harmon's brother, as a sort of nursery governess for tlieir children. The brother's wife died, and for some time afterward the whole care pf the family was given over to Marie Bergelman, now Mrs. Harmon. Nobody, it seems, hail ever noticed her much and she had no associates in the town. wh?n it suddenly became known th it Mr. James Harmon was goini" to marry his brother's housekeeper. Since then it has been the town's talk, and great indignation is expressed, as I learn, by the g od matrons and young Women of the place over the fact. How do you think you'll manage that matter in your club ?" Mrs. Warden aid not at once reply. In fact, she was a little taken aback herself. -However, she determined to take further opportunity to judge Mrs. Harmon from personal ' observation, and during the long western ride she had several conversations with the lady, held with a special view to dis­ covering the real qualities of her mind and heart. Her decision, as announced to Mr. Warden, was that Mrs. Harmon WH extremely sensible, very intelligent and well-read, and that, let folks talk as they would, Mrs. Harmon should be invited to join the club. Great was the sunrise of a good many of the ladies of Jonesville that Mrs. Warden, on her return from her long visit in the Eastt did not wait for any formal Calls, but ran in sociably of an evening to see them. She seemed quite changed, quite full of pleasant interest in people and things in general, and since she had been of all the ladies in the place the most looked up to, and considered the most exclusive, much . . _. / m- , i self-congratulation was indulged in on «cten6ive property Mrs. Warden was her friendfy ̂ hem that spoke. j Bv the time the fall season had fairly Mrs. Warden and her one or two girl | ^ Mrs Warden had her list madJe companions turned with surprise toward * the speaker. J "Why, Aunt Mary, what would you ' ! ' have me do? You know I am not the least bit in the world inclined to be pious or a missionary. What sugges­ tion have you to make as to my mode .of life?" • "You ought to mingle with and take . . l •an interest in the people of the town. ** Ton have means and leisure. Doubt­ less there are many young people, v many busy and careworn women, in that little town to whom you could be a con- ;r -stant messenger of good if you tried." "How? In what way?" "Well, you sing anl play beautifully. . J)p you give any of those people the JS Opportunity of hearing you?" never." * ' fYou read beautifully; your mind is . Cultivated and stored with knowledge. Do you ever try to share these acquire­ ments with your young neighbors, per- u h»ps less favored than you ?" , ! * "I never thought of such a thing." Would your husband object?" *No; he would only be too delighted to have me take an interest in anything 3 ? -"ifa Jonesville. It is a constant grief to ! him th .t I am so isolated and have no , Amusements." j / . "Well, now, my deai*, when you go j > hack, take my advice and associate j yourself more with the people; try *o do them good; try to interest yourself aod them in some kind of social enjoy- ; ' ment and life. My. word for it, you soon learn to enjoy it." - ' Aunt Mary' words made an impres- sion on Mrs. Warden's m nd, although her • ideas were very vague as to how she could carry out her aunt's --ugge i- tions. Nevertheless, in all the social pleasures which she so richly enjoyed during her visit, she kept asking her­ self whether any of these could be in- : . troduced in Jonesville. She felt sure that "kettle drums" and soirees rausi- calett and other entertainments would be impracticable on account of sm ill « houses and lack of sufficient musical - \ cultivation among the people. But when one afternoon she went with one of her friends to the meeting of a Woman's literary club, and the next week 1 attended an evening reception v given by the club to which gentlemen were invited; when she saw a social institution which had for a basii Intellectual companionship only, in . ,, which neither fashionable dress nor Mostly and elaborate refreshments were |#ssential--sho began to wonder whether •5, |<|r no such a social institution could be »>, -;, , Introduced in Jonesvdle, thereby break- jug the monotony of life and giving • , people something to think, about. , / The idea grew upon her as she •s ;•' • -Ihought over it, and she was surprised f , 4o find when the time came for her to > ,; , * felurn tha her plan of organizing a » ji i «0lub so filled her fancy that she was (S /fven eager to start. On the way she • . '• ,-jtold her husband of her plan, and,'as is Hot unusual with husbands when wives ^present projects, he saw a good many <<liHie.ilties in the way which, without " ' . anean ng particularly to discourage her, • <, i i laughingly enumerated. -'•t'.ir. ',T y°« mean to enlist the bright f omen and leave out the stupid ones, o i'll have the whole town about your u «0ars, for that would require you to in- ** * < elude Miss Phelps, the milliner, and • '• fcxclnde Mrs. Haller, the banker's wife." up of those whom she intended to invite to join with her in forming a literary and social club for the purpose of mil4 tual improvement and pleasure. En­ gaging the use of the hotel parlor for the afternoon and arranging with the proprietor for handing light refresh­ ments to the guests before they sepa­ rated, she issued notes of invitation to some thirty ladies of the place, request­ ing them to meet her at the place desig­ nated, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the organization of a woman's literarv and social club. known , through the town that Mrs. Warden was going to stand by Mrs. Harmon. It was also known that Miss Phelps, the milliner, and Miss May, the telegraph operator, and MHH Wood, the saleswoman in the principal store of the town, had been invited. "Suoh an outrageous and high-handed attempt to foroe the acquaintance of those people on U9 I never heard," was Mrs. Jones' comment to her husband that evening; "but I suppose Mrs. Warden thinks she can do anything be­ cause her husband is rich and holds such a high position on the railroad. If I had my way we would all combine and put her down. I'd show her if she could force the society of such people on me.n The next day a strange thing hap­ pened. Mrs Harmon had more than a dozen calls. The ladies who called generally came singly and seemed sur­ prised and confused at meeting other callers. All were profuse in their apol­ ogies for not having called before. Mrs. Harmon had the good sense not to ap- pevr at all surprised nor could she sur­ mise what had started this sudden stream of social attention. The ladies all spoke of expecting to meet her at Mrs. Warden's parlors the next after­ noon and hoped to know her better. But the surprise of the ladies of Jonesville was only complete when, aft r the meeting had been called to order and its objects explained, Mrs. Warden said that as a part of thei enter­ tainment of the afternoon a paper on the life of Schiller would be read by Mrs. Harmon. Before the paper was concluded the majority of the listeners were wondering who in the company could'write another paper as good. They seemed to realize that a new standard had been set up among them, and when in the organization of the club Mrs. Harmon was chosen Vice President and Miss Phelps was made Secretary, all joined with a hearty good will in accept­ ing the fact that brains, intelligence, and good sense were to be the basis of distinction in Mrs. Warden's club. It is more than thr< e years now since •Mrs. Warden organize^ h r club and it has been, ever since, the great social in- stit tion and educator of the people of Jonesville. By the terms of adm-ssion any 1 dy whose intelligence would en­ able her to ad I something to the intel­ lectual resources of the c ub was eligi­ ble to election as a member. Many a young girl was simulated to intellect ml culture or to the study of music or to extensive and careful reading in order that she might be able to present some claims for admiss on. The m mbers of the club were divided into special com­ mittees on music, literature, rea lifl.g, am.isements, etc., and each commit tee vied with the rest in providing for the interest and progress of th J club. Mrs. Warden's plendid musical gifts were ^brought into requisition and her committee, which was the one on music, was the means of elevating the musical taste of the whole town.' The evening receptions given by the club once a month brought together ̂ the rich and poor, the employers and the employed, on the one common basis of intelli­ gence and good manners. To these evening receptions gentlemen, both married and single, were invited, the club being made up of both married women and young girls. The only line drawn in regard to invitations to young gentlemen was that no one who was known to be fast or profane or intem­ perate could come within the charmed circle, white honesty and -intelligence were ever Weicome. Music, the reading of essays, discussions, readings and recitations were among the entertain­ ments provided. And now as Mrs. ' Warden once more contemplates mak­ ing a long visit to her far Eastern home, one of the pleasures she antici­ pates is that of telling Aunt Mary of all the delightful times they have and all the pleasant things they have accom­ plished in her literary and social club at Jonesville.--Western Magazine. • " I shan't exclude Mrs. Haller but I shall include Miss Phelps. She is one of the most intelligent and best-vnan- jnered ladies in Jonesville. I am going 4to put in practice the theory I have al- . There was no small flutter of excite­ ment among the recipients of the invita­ tions, and much comparison of notes and many wondering surmises as to who all were invited, what Mrs. Warden meant to propose when she got them together, whether they would be ex­ pected to go in their best clothes, and similar questions. Two days before the time named in the invitations, Mrs. Warden received a joint call from Mrs. Haller, the bank­ er's wife, and the wife of one of the principal building contractors of the town. Mrs. Haller was a large, over­ dressed woman, who never, for one in­ stant, forgot that her husband was a banker, and Mrs. Jones, the contractor's wife, was a little, thin, fidgety woman, whose one sole anxiety was to get her family into the best society, and conceal the fact that her husband had once been a carpenter. Both of these la­ dies had been included by Mrs. War­ den in her invitations inasmuch as they represented families andintere ts which she would not wish to ignore. Both ladies, however, seemed somewhat em­ barrassed, as they stated that they had called on a particular errand, and that they hoped Mrs. Warden would excuse them if they seemed to meddle, but really they thought she ought to know some things which, perhaps, she did not. Mrs. Warden was all attention. "We heard that you had invited Mrs. | Harmon to the meeting to-morrow. I Perhaps it isn't true." | "It is true. I have invited Mrs. Har­ mon. Why should I not?" "Didyou know that none of the ladies of the town have ever called on her?" "I have called on her. Pray why do they not call?" " Why, didn't you know ? She was nothing but a hired housekeeper at Mr. Harmon's brother's. We all consider it perfectly outrageous the way she in- veic,leil him into marrying her. We are sure that if it was really known that j Mrs. Harmon was invited, many of the ladies would not come." Mrs. Warden's color was crimson in a moment. "Ladies," she said, "I formed Mrs. Harmon's acquaintance on my way back from the East, I knew nothing of her before, but I found her to be an in­ telligent, well-bred lady. It makes no difference to me what her occupation has been, so long as it was a,n honest one. I shall certainly show her the courtesy and 'kindness due to intelli­ gence and good sen;e everywhere, and always accorded by honorable people. In my plans for a social and literary club, I have included intelligence wher­ ever I have been able to find it. If any ladies whom I have invited see fit to ob­ ject, that is their privilege." It was observed that Mrs. Haller and Mrs. Jones made several calls after leaving the parlors of Mrs. Warden that afternoon. The intended errand of the ladies had been known to a good many who were very anxious to know the result. By evening it was generally RUSSIA'S CAPITAL. Plants and Animals. The connection between these two departments of life is closer than is generally thought. The plant is the bridge between the mineral and the an­ imal world. It digests and assimilates mineral matter, and then yields its own substance as food for bird, beast and man. Plants, like human beings, have a ca­ pacity for culture and for w hat might be called civilization, which gives come­ liness at the expense of vigor, and often of fertility. The favorites of our gar­ dens are monstrosities, with little pow­ er to propagate their kind. The plant and man equally vdepend on sunlight for health. Each will alike starve without its proper food. Analo­ gous diseases, to some extent, affect each. In both cases, life and health often fail berfore influences too subtle even for modern science to explain or detect. Plants, like blood-suckers, fre­ quently draw their entire life from' their fellows. AR men are often poisoned by the bite or sting of insects, so are plants. Nut galls and other galls are merely tumors, morbid or diseased growth, due to such stings. Says the Medical Record: "There are hundreds of varieties of such galls easi­ ly distinguishable, and each one owes its existence to a different agent"--a different kind of poison from the insect that bites it. It is now known that a large portion of human diseases result from micro­ scopic plants which find their way into the system, multiply with inconceivable rapidity, and draw their support from the most vital parts of our bodies. Savs the al>ove authority: "The num­ ber of parasites which infect plants is enormous. There is hardly a flowering plant which is not injuriously affected by one or more fungi which prey upon it. The grapevine alone is attacked by at least thirty species. The morbid changes which these parasites induce are manifold; the rust on wheat, the scab on apples, the rot in potatoes and in fruits, all represent the activity of these foreign intruders." All forms of mildew have the same origin. , : Swan's Skin and English Complexions. An English statistician sivs that no less than 7,000 swans' skins are an­ nually imported into Loudon alone for the exclusive manufacture of "puffs" used for the purpose of laying powder on the face. Every swan's skin makes about sixty puff-, which would make an annual consumption of 420,000 puffs. Is, then, the natural whiteness of the English skin a myth ? The same En- glish statistician says that tons of' rice and wheat powder are consumed an­ nually in Engl nd, ,aftd he/regrets the waste of so much rice and'wheat, which miurht be better' u • ed to feed the starv- . -- . " •* mg- • ' , ; i ^ THE only way to oonvinoe the' in­ ventor of a patent car-ooupler that he won't make a million dollars out of it is to send him to a railroad man. PnbUo Bondings--Agrloultaiw and ftaCMfc- •yat a Low Ebb. [St. Petersburg Cor. Iowa State Register.] The Bnssian capital will surprise all American visitors. Aait has a popula­ tion of over 700,000 it w6uld be expect­ ed to cover a great surfaoe, but its wide streets, its mammoth squares, and nu­ merous central parks, combine to make it the city of magnificent distances. ^ The public buildings and palaces, in number, architectural beauty, and pro­ portion and fabulous cost, mark it plainly as the seat of a despotic power, which has no modern equal. In many instances the collonade supports, etc., fail to excite admiration or respect, as they too evidently have no economic use, and can be regarded only as exhib­ its of a great central power. The 112 monoliths nominally supporting the peristyles of St. Isaac's Cathedral, are of this character. Each support is seven feet in diameter and sixty feet long, one solid piece of polished gran­ ite, brought hither from Finland. Even far up, the oupala is in like manner sur­ rounded by granite pillars of similar proportions. I happen to think of St. Isaac as its musical bells are chiming, and thousands of people are standing in the streets below the hotel window, making the sign of the cross and bow­ ing to the dust as the crowned Bishops step forth from the morning service just over. The Greek service at these great cathedrals is interesting. No massive images of the Savior or saints are to be seen as in the Catholic cathe­ drals, but the pictures, mosaics, and bas-reliefs «®ppear at every point of view, which are the production of the most famous European artists of the last century. Thousands of candles are burning, and the vast audience m&ke the responses by signs of the cross and prostrations. Some pf the specially devout kneel down at inter­ vals and kiss the stone floor of the sa­ cred place. While' the services are in no sense instructive, as with us, they are well calculated to impress the mul­ titude with a feeling of veneration for all that pertains to the church! How well this takes the place of the philo­ sophic Christian I will not attempt to decide. / The people here have a good-natured, honest expression, and, upon the whole, are good-looking, but they are wholly unlike our Yankee people in character. Each Yankee is constitutionally sort of a primary planet around which he ex­ pects all things to revolve. Here the idea of leaders of men and events ,has been impressed for ages until it has be­ come a part of the nationality. With, the peasants this habit was broken in liberating the surfs too suddenly. The final consequences are not easy to fore­ see. Agriculture is at a low ebb, and just now seems to be progressing backward. A change will come, but in what way I am not certain, nor would it be best to speculate. Horticulture, also, is not where it was fifty years ago. Trees have been cut down and but relativelv few have been planted. The Imperial Forestry school--over in the edge of Finland--has now 250 students, who seem intelligent and enthusiastic. In all respects the institution is well man­ aged and ably supported by the Gov­ ernment. The buildings are larger and better than we have seen in Europe. The specimen grounds are on better land thtui is found this side of the Neva, and contain1 gRIK) "trees of more species • than the average Americas weald ex­ pect to find in this high, and in all re- spectssj trying latitude. So far the same mistake is being made that we noticed in Austria and Prussia. The govern­ ment plantations are almost exclusive­ ly of Riga pine and White birch. Rus­ sia at present has no timber for the manufacture of agricultural imple­ ments, and plantations of the ash should be started. Our American White Ash grows fully as well here as with us. Couldn't Fit Him. A newspaper humorist considers big feet fair game for caricature, and rarely spoils a story to . jve a shop-keeper's reputation for politeness. The Pica­ yune perpetrates the following: A negro, with nothing but a ragged look and a pair of big shoes to distin­ guish him, entered Rube Hoffenstein's store at New Orleans and asked to look at some shoes. "Vat number do you vear?" inquired Hoffenstein. "I don't 'zactly 'member," replied the negro, "but it 'pears to me de numl>er is somewhar 'round fourteen," and he held up a broad, flat-looking foot, which shut out the light from the door like a screen. "I nefer!" exclaimed Hoffenstein, as he gazed at the dimensions of the ne­ gro's pedal extremity; "ef your feet vas a gouple uf inches longer, my frent, dey would be a bair uf vings, *un' all you vould haf to do is to vork your feet und you flys shust so good as a little mocking bird." "Look liyar," said the negro, indig­ nantly, "I didn't come to dis store to be 'suited. I nebber talk Trout anybody, and I ain't gwine to 'low anybody to talk 'bout me. God made dem feet and 'pinted me to tote 'em frew dis world! and you ain't got no right to find fault wid dem. Folks have mighty 'spisable ways dese times, 'pears to me." "Veil, my frent, you don't must get mad, you know. If you see my broth­ er's feet vot vas in New Jersey, you don't dink you vas nobody. Vy, if my broder vas in New Orleans, und valk on his hands in de summer dime, he nefer get sdruck on de head mit de sun. His feet vould be dwice as much petter as an umbrella. He vas broud uf his feet, my frent, und everybody vot has been anyvere near him say dot dey vas his sdrongest point." "I did'nt come hyar to talk T)out feet," said the negro; "Icome fur'spress purpose ob gettin' er pair ob shoes; if you ain't got any, say so, an, I'm gwine somewhar else." "Vait, my frent. Herman, com^ und dake a look at de shentleman's feet und see if dere vas anything in de sdore vot vill vit him." The clerk did as he was bidden, and said there was not a pair of shoes in the house that was large enough. "If you is all gwine to keep a shoe store," said the negro, in disgust, "why don't you hab shoes on hand dat will fit fokes ?" "Veil, my frent," replied Hoffenstein, "ve don't can afford to keep shoes in de stock vat vill vit your feet. It vould pay better, you know, to put a lid und a gouple uf handles to dese kind of shoes und sell dem for ledder trunks," and with a bland smile Hoffenstein bowed the negro out. Where Ephralm's Money Went. A characteristic story of Daniel Web­ ster is told by an acquaintance of his residing in this city. Webster's father was a great lover of musters. One day when he was going to training he gave Daniel and his brother Ephraim a quarter apiece to spend as they' pleaded. At night he called the two boys to him and asked them what they had done with their money. Daniel was very ready to tell; he had bought cakes, cider, etc., etc., and had a good time. But Ephraim refused to tell how he had disposed of his wealth. His father insisted, and at last he reluctant­ ly confessed that he had lent it to ban. ieL--rPhiladelphia Press. ^ ^ THE FAMILY DOCTOR* ^ SELV-OAKE WHILE NURSING THE SICK. To those who are called upon to nurse the sick through a long and severe ill­ ness it is of the utmost importance, not only to themselves but to their patients, that their own health should be preserv­ ed and their strength maintained not only throughout the critical stage, but during the period of convalescence, oftentimes so tediously prolonged. To alLamch we submit the following simple precautions to aid them in preserving their own health while nursing the sick: "If the madadyof the patient be such as to cause any marked odor of the breath or noticeablo exhalations from the skin, take care always to sit on that side of the bed or sick person which is opposite to or away from the direction which the effluvia takes toward the win­ dows or draught of a fire-place. Sit so that their breath, etc*, is carried away from you. Do not sit too close to them, or take their breath if you can avoid it." To keep one's own strength in a ease of prolonged care, and particularly if obliged to sit up all night for many nights in succession, great benefit will be derived from taking a warm bath early in the morning, and putting on fresh undergarments every second morn­ ing; o$/if the disease be particularly infectious in its nature, it is best to change the underclothing every morn­ ing. It will be found that the warm bath, followed by brisk rubbing of the whole body with a coarse Turkish towel or flesh brush, will refresh the wearied body almost as much as sleep. At the same time keep up the" appetite and strength by small doses of quinine, two to five grains three times a day, and nourishing diet, with perhaps a little wine and water occasionally. DRINK FOR THE SICK. An agreeable draught is made by ad­ ding to a tumbler of water a teaspoon- ful of goocl vinegar and the same of orange wate^^y For those who are weak wand have a cough, beat a fresh-laid egg and mix with it one gill of new milk and a tea- spoonfull each of rose water and orange water and a little nutmeg. Water added to tamarinds, currants or cranberries, fresh or in jelley, makes excellent beverages, with a little sugar or not, as may be agreeable. Barley water is a nutritious drink, and is one of the best known for inva­ lids. Take one ounce of Barley, half an ounce of sugar, the rinds of a lemon, and pour on one quart of water. After it has stood eight hours pour off the liquor and add the juice of one lemon. To make apple water cut the apple in small pieces and pour on boiling water. Strain in three hours and sweeten. For those troubled with the gout- Beat two ounces of almonds with a tea- spoonful of rose water and then pour on one quart of milk and water and sweeten to taste. Beef tea--Cut raw beef into small pieces; to a half pound of meat pour on a pint oi coid \» uiijf, set cii the- SiCVo and let it simmer until all the juice is extracted from the meat. When want­ ed for use, skim and let it boil just two minutes. To make panada, soak stale bread in cold water for an hour; mash and place on the fire, with a little salt, butter and sugar; cook slowly an hour, and when ready to serve add the yolks of two eggs, well beaten, and two tablespoon- fuls of milk. For a cough make flax-seed tea as fol­ lows: One-half pound each of flax seed and rock candy, three lemons pared and sliced; pour over this two quarts of boiling water; when cold, strain. Toast water--Toast stale bread until very brown, pour over it boiling water; let it stand for an hour, then strain and put in a piece of ice before drinking. Milk porridge--Make a thin batter of flour and milk, or corn starch and milk; stir into boiling milk, with a little salt; let it boil a few minutes, stirring con­ stantly. Cod Fish Bait. The bait used for cod fishing is the squid. It is, says a Newfoundland cor­ respondent. a smaller edition of the huge devil fish, or octopus, wonderful specimens of which haw of late years been found on the Newfoundland Coast. The squid, take him concretely, is a revolting looking creature. But a sec­ tion, say ten inches long, from a com­ mon eel, transform its flesh into a tough jelly, give it a cruciform tail at one end and eight short sucker-armed feelers at the other, conceive the suckers, each armed w ith a circle of small teeth, and the feelers converging to a cruel, hawk­ like beak--then we shall have a weak likeness of the squid. The creature's mode of progression is original. It has within its body an elastic suction tube by drawing water through holes in its mantle, the squid, by a sudden squirt, drives itself backward as fast as a fish can swim, and by inverting its tube can move with equal velocity in an opposite direction. Jigging for these squids in a rare spectacle. The "jigger" is a red stick of wood, circled with sharp but barbies hooks. The hook is let down, the squid, which enters the Newfoundland bays by myriads for food, is attracted by the red color, clasps its arms over the hooks, and is drawn up to its death. But as it reaches the surface the novice must be on guard, for the squid shoots straight at its cap­ tor his charge of water, followed by an­ other squirt of an inky fluid, which on light garments is almost indelible. The fishermen know the creature's trick, and by a skillful movement iuduce the squid to deliver his charges upon one side, then by- a quick in vert ion of the hook drop the squid in the boat. A squid fishing fleet of boats, closely grouped, so as to keep the schools of young oetopi collected, is an animated sight. EPCII man tends three or four lines, and has all he can do when squid are around. The bustle of the fishers, the thumping of the squid in the boats, and the incessant squirts of water to a higlit of several feet in all directions through the fleet, make up a most picturesque soa spectacle. The flesh of the squid has some poisonous quality that makes even the tough skins of the fishermen sore by long handling. On the codfish hook its flesh grows white and tough, making very alluring bait. THK reasons that aesthetes so admire the stork is that he can stand for hours on one leg, and look as though he didn't know anything and didn't want to. 181 STABS. . The A*tW>n«n|f Veloeltr with Shoot Thiw|h Space. rFrom the New Orleans Times-Demi The movement of all celestial bodies, although varying, it is true, is charac­ terized by a general velocity which staggers human imagination. No can- ! non-ball has a muzzle velocity compara­ ble to the speed with which the laziest planet traveres space or with which the corpse of the oldest moon whirls about its centre. There are one hundred mil­ lions of suns known to astronomers from stars of the first magnitude like Vega or Sirius, compared with which our sun is like a mere farthii^ candle besides the most powerful electric arc, down to those lilipntian solar centers which are hardly as large as some planets of our celestial family. All of these are rushing through the eternities with electrical speed--passing, crossing, interchanging places in that enormous ragged belt of worlds and suns whereof we form but one invisable grain of mat­ ter--that astral ring so huge that we behold one side of it only as an arch of white mist spanning our sky upon lucid nights. There is really no such thing as a fixed star--the fire-ships of heaven never anchor; no vessel of those in­ numerable astral navies enters any port and even the fragments of the wrecks of them drift restlessly forover through the shoreless ocean of space. Still they do not seem to our eyes to move. Sirius is rushing away from us at the rate of 22 miles a second; alpha Corona at the awful speed of 48 miles a second; five lights of the Great Bear (Ursa Major) are moving from us into unknown regions at. the speed of 19 miles a second; while Vega, that ter­ rific ocean of white lightning, is rushing toward us at the rate of 44 miles a second, and Alpha of the Great Bear at the rate of 46. We cannot even imagine such motion! Nevertheless that astral universe, to all save astronomers, seems immutable as destiny, changeless as God. Why is this? It is because of the vast distances and the last lights. The as­ tounding courses of the stars are per­ ceived by man only as almost imper­ ceptible changes of position-- deplace- ments So small that they are measured by fractions of seconds of the celestial arc. Now a second is the 60tli part of a minute, which is the 60tli part of a de­ gree. which is the 360th part of the huge celestial circle. (Flammarioli treats this fact very impressively in his grand Jstronomie Populrtire.) The BUU'S disk appears to us to have a diam­ eter of 1,8{>0-seconds. Suppose that the visible movement of a star should be exactly one astronomical second a year, that movement would only appear to us as the 1,860th part of the diameter of the sun's visible disk. Consequently it would be 1,860 years before that star would seem to us to have mo ved even a distance equal to the diameter of the sun's apparent disk. But there are very few stars which can travel even one second a year; therefore, since the time of Jesus Christ few have visibly moved a distance equal to the visible diameter of the sun. Arc- turus is one exception; travelling at the rate of 5,400,#00 miles a day--a verita­ ble leviathan among suns--he would still require 800 years to change his po­ sition even by the tiny distanco equal to the apparent diameter of the inoon's disk. His speed is three seconds a year nevertheless a fine thread would cover with its breadth the distance traversed by him in the field of vision during twelve long months. \ There is one star even swirter--a star which has no name and is marked No.. 1,830 in Groombridge's catalogue. Its deplacement is seven seconds a year; its speed is nearly fifty million miles a day;--thus it requires only 255 years to visibly change position by 1,860 seconds of the arc, or the distance equal to the ajjparent diameter of the sun's disk. Well might Job exclaim: "Behold the height of the stars." We know, however, that the heaven /which the eye of the first Pharaohs be­ held was not as the heaven of to-day, and that the star-gazers of Babylon saw constellations now invisible to those Arabs who haunt the banks of the Euphrates. The time will come when men shall behold the Southern cross in these latitudes, although it shall have ceased to illuminate the pampas of South America. The polar star is bid ding us farewell; while Vega, snpposed by some to be a sun twelve thousand times larger than our own, and infinitely brighter, shall take his place in the northern heaven. For there shall be new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be in remem­ brance. Standing Firm For Their Rights. An amusing story, supposed to illus­ trate Alsatian character, is told in one of the London papers. Two peasants, farmers who had been staying late at "Kircliweih," started for lioine at the same time, and both were a little mel­ low. One who had his team with him offered the other a seat in his wagon, which offer of course was accepted. The sky was intensely clear, and the two men sat silent for some time gazing at the stars, and apparently absorbed in their contemplation of tho splendor of nature. At last one gave the other a thrust and observed: "Sepp, I will tell thee all I want--just one matt (mead­ ow) as big as the firmament over yon­ der." "And I," returned Sepp, "will tell thee all I want--just as many cows and sheep as there are blinking stars up there." "Thou dummer teui'el," ob­ served liis friend, "what could a man do with so many cows and sheep ? The world would never grow fodder enough for them all." "Aye, that may bo," said the other, with a shrewd look, "but I should drive them into thy big meadow." "That thou should'st never do, Sepp; not a hoof of anybody else's cattle should tread upon it." Sepp declared he should contest tho dog-in-the-manger claims of his neighbor, asserting that heaven belonged to everybody, and that a pasture as big as heaven would be a gigantic common. The two men, who were usually the best of friends, passed from words to blows in their absurd vin­ dication of the rights of property on one side and the privilege of trespass on the other. The conflict ended by the owner of the wagon being knocked out of his own vehicle. This led to a com­ plaint before a local court, and the ri­ diculous conversation in the cart at midnight was solemnly reproduced as part of the evidence. Indian Burial. It was the custom of the Mandan In­ dians of the Upper Missouri to expose their dead, wrapped in- skins, upon scaffolds until nothing but the skeleton was left, when the nearest relatives buried the bones and placed the skulls in a sacred circle, with the faces all looking inward. In the center of the circle they placed a medicine pole, hung with many articles consecrated by 5 L__ •_!. JW: mysterious rites. The Flathead Indi­ ans of Oregon and Washington Territo­ ry formerly wrapped the bodies of their friends in robes and suspended them in the forks of trees. Several other tribes had similar customs. The practice of burying the dead is now almost uni­ versal among the Indians. M - " * • " •: •• •.*" :--** U My * . MTH AND POINT* A TALE of the sea--A sea serpent's taiL THE latest thing in cradles---The new baby. HACKNEYED expression--"Have a car­ riage, sir?" , IT may be set down as an axiom thkt when a person grows fat he grows waistful. « A WISCONSIN man says that, although a Northerner, he has lived ever since his marriage in the State of Jaw-jaw. THERE are three things that the .wis­ dom of the most learned men cannot determine--which way a singed cat will jump, how a petit jury will give its verdict, and what kind of a man a clever woman will take a fancy to.--Chicago Inter Ocean. PERHAPS the casual reader has never eat dqwn on a buzz saw and felt him­ self gradually fading away. If so, he doesn't know what it is to form the acquaintance of a somnambulistic bull­ dog in the prime of life.--Laramie Boomerang. A HOTEL-KEEPER announces that he lias added "a celebrated gas-stewing machine" to his establishment. We shouldn't think it would iinprova the gas to stew it; but there may be some persons who like it that"way. -Norris- toxen Herald. IT is not safe to speak of a Western ' lady as a large-souled woman. She colors up, flounces out of, the room, and soliloquizes in the sacred fastness of her boudoir 1 "I'll never speak to that hateful old thing agaiii--so there! Large-soled, indeed!"--Boston Trans- script. A YOUNG woman recently engaged as a domestic in one of the new Rouses on Beacon street left when she learned that she was expected to use the rear en­ trance on Charles River. "Why," said she, "I could never receive my friends or wear my brocade silk through a back door!" Fact.--Boston Co-mmtrcial Bul­ letin. * ONE day toward nightfall, and in un­ certain light, a man bought an overcoat of pretended - plum colors The next morning it proved to be of a quite too unmistakeable green. Returning it to the shopkeeper, that worthy regarded the buyer calmly and said: "You must have a little patience with it, my dear sir; it isn't ripe yet.*' "HAVE you ever before been punished by the law ?" asked an Austin justice of a colored culprit. "Yes, I called a man aliar, and I had to pay a fine." "Is that the only time you have comein conflict with the law ?" "Now dan yer speaks ob hit, jedge, I bleeves I was in de penitentiary for ten yeahs, ef I disremembers myself."-- Texas Siftings. "Do YOU keep a full supply of base­ ball requirements her© ?" asked a gloomy-browed young man, as he en­ tered a Market-street hardware store. "Yes, sir. Everything in that line." "Then you may wrap me up a bottle of arnica, a paper of court-plaster, and a green eyeshade. I'm going to catch for the Knickerbocker nine this afternoon." --San Francisco Post. "CAN you tell me where Mose Schaumburg's store is?" asked a stran­ ger of an Austin darkey, who is one of these would-be funny negroes. "You has done passed hit, boss, by a block." "Then I suppose I'll have to walk back a block." "You needn't walk back unless yer wants ter. You kin turn around and walk to de store jess as you is walking now. If you walks back, you may run agin a lamp-post and bust your brains out."--Texas Siftings. "Do YOU mix anything with your candies ?" he asked, as he laid his "money" down and picked up the package of gum-drops. "Well--ahem--a little glu­ cose, perhaps." "Anything else ?" "Per- hays a little.clay." "Any chalk?" "Only a very little. Not enough to speak of." "It's of no interest to me, you know," continued the stranger; "but I was wondering why you didn't have your candies made at "a regular brick-yard, of the regular material, and have some­ thing you could warrant to purchasers." A Glimpse of the Franklins. I was greatly struck with the contrast between Sir John Franklin and his wife. Sir John had already acquired fame as an Arctic explorer, and on this account I, a .youth of 18, regarded him with much greater interest than I should have done had lie been merely the Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania. He wa3 a tall, portly, florid-complex- ioned man, with a head slightly bald, of very commanding presence, and with a cheerful, benevolent expression, of countenance. _ ^ Lady Franklin looked like a fairy by his side. She was a slight, delicate- looking woman, with gentle, interesting features, and a soft, low voice. Rather below the ordinary female stature, she seemed still less standing by the side of her stalwart husband. They remained about an hour, and then left the ship, a salute being fired on their departure. I had, however, an opportunity of be­ coming better acquainted with them than I could have possibly become dur­ ing their brief visit to tho ship; for, be­ fore he left the vessel, Sir John invited the naval surgeon, the captain and my self to dine at his residence, "the Penns," the next day. Sir John seemed never to be happier than when speaking of his former voy­ ages ; and he encouraged mo to con­ verse freely with him as we strolled over the grounds together or rode about the country. He had 'a complete and most perfect and elaborate set of charts of the Arctic regions, so far as they had been explored, upon which his own ex­ plorations, and those of Captains Perry and Ross, and other Artie explorers, were distinctly marked out; and it was his greatest pleasure of an evening to display these charts and point out tho spots he had visited; also tracing the courses lie would endeavor to pursue, if it should ever be his "good fortune," as he expressed himself, again to be em­ ployed in what w as the great hobby of his life." There was not a point he had discovered, nor a spot that he had vis­ ited, respecting which he had not some anecdote to tell or some narrow escape to relate.--Chamber's Journal. THEY were eating dinner and she asked him how he liked tho blano mange. "It tastes of the chimney," he said. "Then it ought to soot you," was her answer. "I will try to swallow it," he rejoined, having the last word^ i* usual. ,