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M A Br Cnaisrux Rein, ix can remain, “Liri-ixcorr’s Mariszn's.” ' 7 CHAPTER XVI. The next few days were full of varied plea- sure for the relief expedition as DerWent still laughingly called the, party that had come so far to seek him. Though he had spoken . lightly, he was in reality very teful to Halbert, as Well as to Sibyl Tritox, and he was detennined to spare no effort to reward them for their kindness. Consequently, he worked energetically in arranging expeditions of sight-seeing, in or- ganizing all the details which make such ex- peditions pleasant, and in providing them with many glowing memories of the )eaiiti- ful Mexicim capital to carry“ ‘away With them. ~ ' V ‘. ' ‘ . , Even Mrs. Derwent enjoyed the novel and brilliant sights,- the picturesque life, and the marvellous ,:charm. of the climate, notwithstanding ,lier pereimialvvésurprise at the highly-civilized aspect of most things around her. “Why, this is like Paris 2" she exclaimed, in her amazement, when she first saw the l’aseo at the fashionable hour, â€"tlic roadway throngcd with handsome equipagcs, which rolled down the wide avenue, fit for the triumphal progress of an emperor, with flashing wheels, gleaming har- ness, high-stepping horses, and all the out- ward paraphernalia. of.luxui'y and wealth, or paused for a few minutes in the superb circle, where a band was filling the air with melody, just as the long, level rays of part- ing sunlight flooded the atmosphere and the surrounding scene with amber splendor. “ Like l’aris !” repeated Sibyl. “ Oh, no ! Paris is tame, [compared to this. The social part of the display may remind one Some~ what of the ChuiiipsoEly'sees and the llois de Boulogne, but Where'clse in the world will one find suehaa‘setting forsocial display as ishcrc '5” a .5 ‘ . “ If it.exists,; I certainly do not know where to lllfll’d'," said Halbert, looking around at a scene which is indeed almost without parallel in its beauty,â€"tlie splendid avenue, with its level straightiiess broken at intervals by magnificent circles embellished with heroic groups of statuary, and its long, leafy vista. ending in the superb mass of the Castle of Chapultepec, the lovely outspread l valley crossedby the gray arches of an aque- duct that dates from the Conquest, the pic- turesque mass of the city’s towers and domes, and against the eastern sky the wonderful mountain-ranges, wearing such divinely lucid tints of color as no pen or brush can ever describe or reproduce, with the majes- tic summits of the two great volcanoes towerin" above, clad in the dazzling white- ness of their eternal snow. Again and again Sibyl thanked Derivcnt for having provided the cause which drew them to this fascinating land. In the brill. iant sunshine of days filled with color and fragrance, with loiterin s in rich, dim church- iand lovely old-worl Cloisters, in plazas filled with the life of the dark, gentle, Courte- one people, and no marble terraces below which spread the most beautiful of earthly views, all things painful and disagreeable seemed to fade into insignificance. Yet, so~ licitous as he was for the pleasure of the others, Derwent could not himself have enjoyed the picturesque scenes amid which they wandered had he not possessed one underlying consciousness, one constant thought, ever with him : “I shall see her again I” lint for that, everything would have been a wcariiiess which was now a de- light. Only day by day the longing for her presence grew more insistent. Non'aud then it startled him. Now and then he roused himself from his dream of expecta- tion to ask what he should ,do when the meeting to which he looked forward so eagerly was over, when there was no longer anything to sustain him in the hopeless pain of separation. "I shall not- blow ont my brains,’ only thing of which I am certain. I shall live, I shall work. and perhaps after a while I shall grow used to it, as one docs grow' used to all forms of suffering: but beyond that I cannot look. Nor will I look. She is coming. I shall see her, I shall touch her hand and meet her eyes again, and that is enough." But before she came there was a surprise, amounting to a shock, in store for him. It occurred one evening when, Mrs. Dex-went d Sibyl having retired early, wcaricd by aday of sight-seeing, Halbert and himself were, smoking together in the sitting-room of the former. The door was open, partly for tho balmy air, partly that they might en- joy thc fairy-like scene which the hotel and its gardcii always present at- night,â€"thc graceful encircling galleries lighted briliantly with incandescent. electric lights, and the rich tropical foliage of ,the garden fully re- vealed in the white radiance. “I have never been in a place that charm- ed me so much as this,” said Hulbcrt, after a pause of some length. “I do not think it is the peculiar circumstances that make every- thing seem so Olljllilllllllg. And. by the bye, Geoffrey, I feel that l ought to tell you Something about those circumstances. It hardly seems fair to keep you in ignorance. Sibyl insists that it makes no difference; but I am not sure â€"â€"â€"â€"~â€"â€"" “Sibyl 1" rcpcatcd Derweut, staring at the other. He had never known Halbri‘l so familiar bcforc, for Miss Lenox, though a rclativc of Mrs. Derweut, was not at- all rc- latcd to the young man, who was Dcrwcnt‘s cousin on his father's side. “\Vhai are you talking about?" he asked. "\‘i'hat circum- stances have occurred which Sibyl thinks do not conccrn inc?" ," l'inlbcrt smoked for a moment silently be~ fore he answered. Then he turned and faced his companion directly. “She has promised to marry me," be said. “and, al- though shc assures me positively to the con- tniry, lfcar the news will not be pleasant to you." There was more than a moment's silence now. Dcrwcut fclt indeed as if he had been most nncxiwctcdly knockcd down. This was an event on which he had not reckoned in calculating the possibilitv of atoning for his father‘s wrong-doing. In all his consid- erations he had never considered the proba- bility that Sybil might marry before she attained licr majority, and thus anticipate the time of sctticment : in fact, there can be little doubt, that the general opinion of every one about them had led him to fancy that he might marry her himself, if he chose to do so. The blow to his vanity (which really had been very little concernch was noi, however, the cause of his silence. lie was overwhelmed bv the terrible llt‘v‘f:.‘lll:~' of telling Hulbert how matters stood ' he would think, “and that is the . But nothin was more natural than, that l Halbert sliou d have misunderstood his siIâ€" g ence. He said at length, in a low ltone, “Geoff, I am more sorry for this than I can say. I feared it would be so, butSibylwas l, sure that I was mistaken. She insisted i that you never were in love with her, but I i knew you could not have been associated with her so closely and fail to be.” “Sibyl is right,” said Derweut, rousing himself with an effort. “ I suppose it is because we have been associath so closely â€"alniOstlikebrother and sisterâ€"éthat I never was in love with her, though I know of no girl “more altogether worthy of aiman’s love. As farJ-‘as that is concerned; 'ydu have nin heartiést congratulations ; indeed, you hare them in any case. But ’yourneWs has been‘ a, shock" to me for an_ altogether different. reason. I am‘ in terrible tr'ou 16 about Sibylfs fortune.” ‘ . . a. V v . j “Geoffrey!” “Yes : that is wlinam here. “'hen I looked into my father’s after, his death, I found, to my horror, that he had used Sibyl’s money in an unjustifiable manner. Of course he intended to replace it,â€"it happened, unfortunately, to be'sin a. temptiiigly convenient form, +biit death overtook him, as it has overtaken many another man, before he could repair what had done. You may not have known that | he was concerned in several unlucky specu- lations during the last years of his life.” “I suspected it,” said Halbert. “In fact, it was whispered once or twice that lie was very hard hit. But, when nothing seemed to come of it, Iforgot the rumors'Gcoff, my poor follow, this ‘ is awful! How does his own fortune“ stand ‘2” , . . “Very much impared,â€"â€"so much that when I make good the loss on Sib'yl’s fertuiie my mother will be Very straitened in means. It was to save her ~ from this, and also to save my father's honor, that I intended try ing to replace what had been lost durin" the time that remains of Sibyl’s minority. I de- cided that my best chance to make money quickly was here: so .I came,â€"â€"-with what result, thus far, you know.” “You have not been here very long,” ’ said Halbert. “One failure signifies nothing How have you been impressed by the pos- sible chances?” ,_ ' '- , “I have been very well impressed. There is no place in the world,’I am sure, where" it is possible for theinve stment of alittle capital to produce such large results. But- time is needed to accomplish these results.”~ “That is the case everywhere. Only in dreams are fortunes realized in a day. “'ell, my dear fellow, as far as I am concerned,â€" aud I know I can answer for Sibyl,â€"â€"â€"tlie time is yours. Neither she nor I will de- mand what has been lost, because we are well assured that you will repay it to the last fartiiing as soon as you are able. Only take care that you do not risk more than you can afford in the pursuit of it.” “I shall take care,” said Derweut, “for I cannot afford to lose anything, and nothing is so near my heart as the payment of this debt. Frank, you are a true friend : I can never forget how you have taken this ! I have no words with which to thank you, but I feel it more deeply than I can say.” “You have no reason to thank me,”re- plied the other. “Merely as man to man could I do less when I have the utmost con? fldciicc in your honor and know that you are anxious to repair what is no fault of yours? Besides this, my uncle‘s good name is almost as dear to me as if it is to you. I can never ‘ fail to remember that he put me on my feet when I was young and struggling. For the rest, itis not Sibyl's fortune that I have sought in seeking her, though-of course it j will be my duty to see that it is not thrown away. If it were legitimately lost, however, , I S’l’IOllltl. not mourn. “'e can do without ' it. | “You shall not need to do without it,” I said Derwent. “Your faith and confidence give me fresh courage. There are many more ‘ mines in Mexico besides the Bucna Esper- anza, and, ’(‘lod helping me, 'one of them l shall yicld back all that has been lost of Sibyl’s fortune." , “And something for yourself too, Iliope,” said Halbert, smiling. Not for a long time had sleep been so ’ sweet to Derwcnt as it was that night. The l consciousness of his cousin's friendshipâ€"so quiet, so undemonstrative, but so sincere, ' when tried by the test most difficult to man â€"â€"seemcd to revive his whole nature like , strong wine. The faith that believed so ’ firmly in his honor, and the sympathy that felt with him in his trouble, gave him that ! comfort which even the strongest nature . stand in need of. He knew not what a strain I it had been to hear his burden alone, and he j said to himself that, helped by such friend- ship, his strength would be “as the strength iof ten” to redeem his father’s honor and ‘ justify the confidence placed in his own. Morning in Mexico is almost always what. ' morning must have been in the primal Para- , disc. Nowhere else, surely. Could the world ' have seemed so entirely as if it \vcrc freshly ' created and rejoicing in its creation. \Vliat floods of sunshine, what lucid skies, what enchanting atmosphere, what buoyant fresh- ness of air. these mornings bring to the l awakening earth 3 M -rely to be alive seems 3 joy enough, but. if other joy is added, then i the fresh gladncss of nature is like the ‘spccial touch of an exquisite sympathy. , So it seemed to Dcrwent when he opened 3 his eyes to the joyous brightness of another ‘day in the land of sunshine; and all the brightness was tenfold 'cnliaiiced when the ,tirst news that hc heard on emerging from This i'llk'll‘llllt‘lll-â€"â€"l\l‘0uglll by the messenger I whom he had employed to call at the house i every d:iyâ€"â€"was that Don Maurizio and his ‘ household had arrived. (To in»: roxrixrno.) The Size of Royal Heads. The Prince of \Vales wears bell-shaped i silk hats. He pays 25 shillings each for them. life has a remarkably even-aha d head. the l batters sav, and his size is 7%,; rince Albert ‘ Victor only takes 6}. . The briins of his hats are enormously arch- 3 ed, to take otl‘the effect of his long face. His l brother Prince George, takes a 62. The Eni- ! ror of (,ierniaiiy. who has a very uneven E lizadnnkcs n6§. does the duke of Teck. l M “Aw, vou make me tired,” as the wagon i wheel said to the blacksmith. ; There is no easy path leudiu out of life, and few are the easy ones the lie within it. 0 hos a rag» M . .p I? i i 12.4. - 1% . -â€"~ t. as: w M W V; r . ' so RIDE SUCH AS WAS NEVER TAKEN- rrofi niaggvjeéhensk to St. Pelersbnrg, 5,400 lines, '01 the Same Horse. It is a matter bf astonishment to many that in this age of feats of endurance so little has been heard of equestrian feats of the Captain Burnaby o'rder. Since the famous ride to Khiva, perhaps the most notable achievement of the kind was that last year of Comet Asayefi’, who, it will be remembered, rode from Lubeen (in Poland) to Paris. Few are aware, however, that both Burnaby's and Asayefi’s feats are now being surpassed. A Siberian Cossack, Dmetree Pjeshkoff by name, is now on a ride from Blagovjechensk, in Eastern Siberia, to St. Petersburg. Bla- govjechensk is a Cossack station on the "Amourfin latitude 50 3 N., longitude 1:27 3 E., and the distance Pjeshkotf will have to cover before he, reaches, his distination is about 8,000‘ v'ersts,:or 6,3100 English; “miles: ,The'iiitre‘pid rider set "(flit on the Who! Nod 've'mbcr last, and on the 27th of February; 113 days afterward, at ‘2 p’clock in,tlie after- ‘ndou, arrived at Omsk/(55?. NC, 74: t° E): having accomplishe‘dfefioo versts, or nearly 3,300 miles of his journey. On the third of last month he resumed his task, and has now arrived in St. Petersburg. The hero of this remarkable feat, a man of some education, is commander of a bun- dred in one of tlieCossack regiments station- ed on the Amour, and has had, therefore, to obtain leave of absence from his duties to enable him to carry out his project. The ride is remarkable enough on account of the distance to be 'covered, the many dangers and ditficulties'of‘the road, and the trying nature of the climateof the districts through which the road lies. But more remarkable than any other circumstance is the fact that the same horse carried Pjeshkofi' from one end of his'journey to the other; This anim- al, which on its arrival in St. Petersburg was ’as‘ much an object Of admiration as its rider, is of the ordinary Cossack breed. It was born in Siberia, and was purchased by Capt. Pjeshkoff for 150 roubles, or £15. It is 13 years old, and of a lightI gray color. In height it :is only 1 arshme 15 versaks, and is therefore much under the average size. At Omsk it underWent an ex- amination at the hands of Gen. Taube and various officers of the staff, and was reported to be in excellent condition, save that the hair on its back had been worn away by the constant friction of the saddle. In the per- sou of Capt. chshkoff' it has only a light Wei lit to carry, that officer weighing only 3 poo s 22 pounds, but saddle, saddle-bags, and accoutreinents, &c., brin up'the total‘ weight to be carried to 4 poor 3 38 pounds. This weight in English measure, taking the pood as being equal to 36 pounds avoirdu~ pois, would be about 11% stone. The food of the horse conSisted of oats and hay. Capt. Pjeslikof‘f noted in the diary which .he keeps the weight of these consumed per diem, and has observed that the appetite of of oats and ten pounds of hay per day were sufficient to satisfy it, but by the time Omsk was reached thirty pounds of the former commodity and fourteen pounds of the latter were required. As for drink, for the great- er portion of the journey the horse I drank no‘ water in the liquid forni,being obliged to be content to quench its thirst by eating snow snatched up on the road. An English horse reduced to such necessity would not survive the ordeal, but most Cos- sack horses are used to it, and receive no harm whatever. The line route from Blagovjechensk to Omsk lay through Strejtensk, Verchnevo- dinsk, Irkutsk, Atehensk, and Tomsk, and at each of these places stoppages were made, amounting in all to 25%; (lays. To obtain the exact time occupied in the saddle be- tween Nov. Tand Feb. ‘27, it will be necess- ary, therefore, to deduct this number of days from the 113 days comprised in that period. Throughout tli’eWholejoriiiiey to Omsk, Capt. l *Pjeshkofi' states that he met with no unto- ward or unpleasant circumstances until he reached Tomsk, where lieliad themisfortune to excite the suspicious of the police, and to be obliged for one night to put up with such accommodation as is usually accorded to suspected people. He was treated at first very rudely by his official captors, and was only released on furnishing sufficient evi- dence that he had no designs on the life or the property of the citizens. 'Tapt. Pjeslikofl’s dress consists of a short wadded coat, a fur cap, long fur boots, and fur gloves, &c. As an extra protection from the cold he wore also a short fur overcoat, and a baslialik or cowl, which is drawn over his cap whenever it is windy. His arms are a sword, a revolver, and a “Reenshal” or two-edged dagger. His saddle, which is of Moscow make, contains all the necessary conveniences for carrying fodder for his horse, his own changes of linen, horseshoe nails, and other such necessaries. He car- ried no provisions, buyin v whatever he re- quired in the shape of fom at the different stations and villages on the road. As maybe expected, this daring rider was the recipient of many ovations at the towns at which he stayed on route. ()n the eve of his departure from Omsk the officers of the Siberian Cossack regiments stationed in that city gave a grand banquet in his honor. The Summer Months. They come! the merry summer months of beauty, song, and flowers ; They come ! the gladsoinc months that bring thick leafincss to bowers. Up, up, my heart 2 and walk abroad ; fling cark and care aside ; Seek silent bills. or rest thyself where peace- ful waters "lide : Or, underneath the shadow vast of patri. archal tree, l Scar. through its leaves the cloudless sky in rapt tranrpiillity. 1 â€"\\"ii.i.is.\i .\Iorm:iiwsi.i.. After Her. She ("enthusiastically)â€"Oh, George I don't ‘ you think the 'reatcst joy in life is the pur- suit of the gem , the true and the beauti- ful ? lieâ€"You bet ! that's why I'm here to- night. A Thoughtful Spouse. m W0 marrow: US. ., Ice I‘ield'stfoi‘iiths x .10 New Discoveries of Great luff-rest. "' Everybody must have noticed how Mars adorns the sky in these summer evenings. The beautiful planet, in which so high a de rce of interest has been awakened by- Sc iaparelli’s wonderful discoveries, can be seen just invthe south‘ between 9 and 10 o’clock. It appears in the constellation Scorpio, sometimes ‘of a rich yellow or orange color, and sometimes decidedly red. The various conditions of the atmosphere and the differences in the eyes of observeis all have their part in determining the de- scription of its color. Not far away among the stars that are now grouped about the planet of war is Antares, one of the first magnitude, whose name some think was ven to it on account of its resemblance to ' ars in color. To most eyes Antares willpro- hany appear of zaideeper .. and livelier red than Mars. It is interesting to obser' e how completely the planet eclipses in qdendbr so bright a star as Antares. It may also iii- terest the reader to know that while the distance of Mars from the earth is nowI some fifty millions of miles, that of Antares is so great that astronomers have not suc- x ceedcd in measuring it.~ They are only able to say that it cannot be less than fifty million times as far away as Mars is. There is nothing more certain than that if that red star which appears so faint by, compari- son with. the ruddy' planet,"i\’ei'e'. Suddenly brought it to the place that Mars‘occupies, night- wou d vanish in an _ . . INCOMPARABLY onANDEn _ sunrise than this terrestrial ball” has 'ev r l witnessed. In'truth, it is more than prob“ able that in the fiery blaze of the nionsterl sun, thus brought so near, all living things Would be destroyed upon the earth. The oceans would boil. away in vapor, ' and the very ground would smoke. Yet at its actual l distance Antares appears to us to pale in the presence of the reflected light of a planet muc'i smaller than the earth. Some highly interesting and significant re- sults have recently been obtained by photo- graphing Mars. A series of photographs made in April by Mr. .lVilson, and Ibriefly described by Prof. Pickering intlie lS'i'derizal - illessengerhsuggest th'e'possibility that the southern temperate regions of Mars have just experienced an irruption of polar'ice no less remarkable than that which still adds the zest of danger to the navigation of our own North Atlantic.‘ 'I‘hattour readers may know just ‘ivhat the observed phenomena - are, we reproduce Prof. Pickering’s descrip-‘ tion of the photographs: “Seven views were taken April 9, be- tween 22h. 56m. and 23h. 41m., Greenwich v mean time. Seven more were taken April 10, between ‘23h. ‘20m. and 23h. 32m. Thus the same face of the planet was presented in both markin s are well shown in all the pictures, but in t iose taken on the latter date a con- siderable accession is shown to the white spot surrounding the south pole. It has been known for years that the size of these polar ‘ his steed increases as the distance travelled . cases. Distinct and identifiable spots and becomes greater. At-the start eight pounds spots varied gradually from time to time, apparently diminisliingin the Siimineiiand increasing in the winter‘ of their resnectiVe hemispheres. But believe that this is the first time that the precise 'date and approxi- mate extent of one of these accessions has been observed. The area affected stretches from the terminator, which at this time was in longitude 70 3 , along parallelâ€"â€" 30° to longitude 110° , thence to longitude 145 ° , latitude ~45 ° ; thence to the limb, which was in latitudeâ€"85 c , and the 120 ° meridian, and thence back to the point of starting. It may thus extend also over an un- known area. on what was at the time Tm: vaisniLi-z nmusrnsni: of the planet. The visible area included is surprisingly large, amounting to about 2,500,000 square miles, or somewhat less than the area of the United States. Being near the limb, however, it is not as con- spicuous as might at first sight be supposed. “ On the morning of April 9 the area was faintly marked out as if pervaded by haze, or by small separated bodies, too small and far apart, or too faint, to be recognized iii- dividually. But on April 10 the whole re- gion was brilliant, fully equalling that sur- rounding the north pole. In the mean time a much smaller area on the limb, which on the 9th was very bright, had either vanis'icd or joined the main mass by moving cast- wardly, considering Mars as a globe. “ The date of these events corresponds to the end of the winter season on the southern hemisphere of Mars, or what would-be with usabout the middle of February. “ As to \\ 11 ll tllCSBLl) 5| rvationsnieanmight most naturally be explained by terrestrial analogies, but be that- as it may, the facts are that these appearances are wnspicuous upon each of the fourteen photographs, and so distinctly so that no one who had once seen them would hesitate an instant in deciding on which day any particular plate was taken.” . It is quite clear that the appearances pre- sented in the photographs as described by Prof. Pickering might lit-produced .by the drifting of vast ice fields from the St uthern polar regions of Mars in the direction of the equator. It seems practically impossible, however, that the driftingice could cover so immense an area in the course of a single day, and a little reflection shows that it is! not necessary to assume so rapid a spread of thc ice. It will be observed that, as shown by the photograph taken on April 9, the region in question presented a hazy or per- haps mottled api‘icarancc. The next day this had all changed to a brilliant white. The phenomenon of the first day may not iniprobai-ly have bcen due to ' Tm: l’ltl‘.<l2.\’t,7l'. or iii}; Hivqu of great extent that had gradually accunnr lated under the influence of polar cuircnts' resembling the Labrador current that brings down our icebergs. The fogs and mists that commonly hang over large field-t of ice that. have drifted into warmer latitudes would assist in producing the hazy appearanm: re- corded by the photograph. 'l'lwii an inflow of warm moist air from the southward over the ice fields would suffice to account for the :udd n blanching of the whole region the next day through the formation of a vast sheet of cloud, such as not infrequently, un- der somewhat similar circunutanccs, covers extensive areas on the earth: It is well known that the upper surfaces of clouds re- “ \l'hy do you have that great pitcher ofl fleet the surshine as brilliantly as new-fallen water on the window sillâ€"to keep it cool, I suppose Y" “ No, to have it handy to throw on my husband when he comes iome late at night. “'hy, don't you know, hecould never find the keyhole if I didn’t." a low. It is a pity that photographs were not taken for several days in suicession, in order that it might lihv'e been detennined whether the white MM underwent such on looking at a map of Mass it seen that such a waterway as would . ed to convey vasr quantities of ice from the ,, south polar region into temperate latitudes exists on that planet just at the place where the strange phenomena describe 1 were observed. The drifting ice, if end: there was, must- have covered fl 0 larger part of what has been called the De Cottignez Sea, and extending thence toward the equator, passed through a broad strait into the southern end of the De La Rue Ocean. Unfortunately, no photographs were taken showing the condition of things on the other side of the planet, but it is probable that a similar extension of the ice and cloud region occurred there also. There are four principal straits connecting the southern polar sea of Mars with the equatorial oceans; first, Tll E BROAD WATERWAY already mentioned, and then the Zollner Sea, the Newton Sea,“ and the Lambert Sea. * By any of these passages. it would appear, the polar ice flees could make their way to- ward the equator. 'If it could be proved that Mars has really just experienced an extraordinary visitation of ice in its oceans, the fact would not be without its weight in determining the ques- tion of extra-terrestrial influences in meter- olo vy. The truth is, we are just beginnin" to ( iscm‘er the points of resemblance as wel as of divergence among the various members of the solar system, and the many ways in _ which they are linked together. The planets can never again be regarded, as they have sometimes been, as mere globes of matter, "furnisliin by their motions beautiful prac~ lical probmins for the mathematician, but possessing in themselves no clOser interest for us. In place of the strange dreams of Sivedenborg, the stately iiiiaginings of Dr. Chalmers, or the fanciful notions of Kepler and Huygens, about the inhabitants of flu other planets, we are gctting from day to day views of the actual condition of thir [-3 on the surfaces of those globes wliiili, pun: - ing as they often appear, nevertheless give us a substantial ground upon which to base opinions as to their fitness to be inhabited. Man's intellectual possessions and sympathii s are widened by every discovery of this kind. He finds himself dwelling not merely on the crust of a. planet, but in the centre of a fiunily of worlds. Home I Matters. Whole cloves, it is said, will exterminate the moth. ‘Powdered chalk and vinegar are good for album. I : ‘ - After eggs are broken they should be ' Covered. until used. _ Brass work can be kept beautifully bright by occasionally rubbing with salt and vine- gar. ‘ \Vashiug floors and shelves with strong pepper tea, or hot alum or borax water, wil destroy ants and roaches. Fine shavings from soft pine wood make a pleasant pillow. They have special cura- tive virtues for coughs, asthmatic or lung troubles. ’ ' \Vhen acid of any kind gets on clothing, spirits of ammonia will kill it. Apply chloro- form to restore the color. .A little bornx putin the waterbefore wash- ing red or red-bordered table cloths and napkins will prevent their fading. Salt as a tomb powder is better than nl- mostanytliing that can bebought. It keeps the teeth brilliantly white and the gums hard and rosy. If a cellar has a damp smell and cannot be thoroughly ventilated a few trays of charcoal set around on the floor, slit lvcs and ledges will make the air pure and sweet. Broken and crooked carpet tacks clean bottles very nicely. They are better than shot, for the shaip edges clean off all the stains. Keep them in a box for use in cleansing bottles. ' Take bhick court plaster, moisten enough to make it stick, and mend the small cracks and holes in your silk umbrella by pressing it on the wrong side with a warm iron over a thin paper. The simplest way to fllllllglllc a room is to heat an iron shovel very hot and then pour vinegar up )ll it, drop by drop. The steam arising from this is a disinfectant. lloors or windows should be opened that it may escape. Hair brushes should be washed in soda. and warm water or animoniaand cold water, dipping the bristles frequently downward into the waterybut keeping the backs on. dry as jmssiblc. When the bristch look clean rinse the brush in cold water, shake it without wiping the bristles and set itin the air to dry. Soap should not be used", for it softens the bristles. Cm.“ Cnowomi.â€"~l~‘.oil a peck of clams in a quart of water. When the shells open take out the meat, strain the water and boil in it six potatoes, sliced. Slice an onion and fry in pork. When the potatoes are nearly done add the onion, a few crackers soaked in milk, salt, pepper, a spoonful of butter, and last the clams. Add milk as needed to thin it. foil fiftccii iiiintucs and then serve. BANANA {\‘nom‘ (1.im‘..~â€"()iie cup cm}. of sugar and flour, one-half cup of sweet milk, three eggs, one tcaspoonful of baking powder. Bike in two or three layers. Filling. »~»~()nc pint of milk. one egg, one tablcspoonfnl of corn starch : flavor with vanilla. \l'hcn cold spread \vith sliced bananas on each lavcr of filling. ' Ir THE Fizizr .\l’.E Tiiiiin oi: Pam l‘l. ni’icr longstanding grin! relief can be bad I v bathing them in salt v..xlvi'. A handful of Milt to a gallon of water is the right propor- tion. ll1|\'4.' the Water as hot as can lie (mm. {oi-tably borne. Immerse the ft't'l and thiow watt-rover the legs as far as the knees with the bands. \\'ln~n the water becomes, for, cool rub briskly with a flesh towel. This method. if ule night and morning, will can: neuralgia of the feet. T‘NATH llisol'i‘..~-liito two quarts of any kind of soup stock put one quart of ripe tomatoes, boil up 10 minutes, strain through a fine strainer, replace in the kettle or szcw pan and add one quart of cream or rich milk and bring to a boil, when add a large tablespoonful of corn starch Mull smmthcd in milk, stir until mnooth and creamy. and just before serving add half a teaijmnful of soda. Sc: ;on to taste. Scive with large crackers that have been split and browned in the m'cu. Servo.- one on each plate. M We never feel so great a degrrc of on changes as would in: 'cate that -louds were a pugnance in divulging what is really crimi- principa‘ c..use of the phenomenon. nal, what is meijcly ridiculous.