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.cswwNWv-,,S.m: .4... sun- “m.‘*,‘p w I ‘ ‘r F I “um!” i» wt 15:“) ‘., 4-)"; ' washing days ; and she says how she does A HOUSEHOLD. I IWonldn’t be Cross- ‘ BY MARGARET I. SANGSTER. 1 woulgq‘t be cross, dear, it's never worth w l e : Disarm the vexation by wearimza smile, Let bap a disaster. a trouble. 3 loss. Just meet the thing boldly and never be cross. I wouldn‘t be cross. dear, with people at homcv They love you so fondly. whatever, may come: You mggonnt en the kinsfolk around you to s . Oh, leyally true in a brotherly band 2 So. since the fine gold for excecdetli the dross, I wouldn't be cross, dear. I wouldn't be cram. I wouldn't be cross with a stranger, ah, no! To the pilgrims we meet on the life path we owa This kindness to give them goodchecr as they pass- To clear out the flint stones and plant the soft grass, No, dear. with a stranger in trial or loss. V I pcrchance might be silent, I wenldn t be cross. No bjttei’ncss sweetens, no sharpness may we The WOllilld which the soul is too proud to re- vca . No envy hath peace; by a fret and ajar The beautiful work oiour hands we may mar. Let hpppcn what may, dear, of trouble and 08‘s. I wouldn't be cross, dear. I wouldn't be cross. Hanging out Clothes- Il‘x' KATE THORN. ' If you are a good husband, of course you have helped your wife to hang out clothes, and you knowhow it is yourself. ' ‘ It always blows furiously when anybody is washing. It is an old saying that “ wash- ing raises the wind,” and there is truth in it. And in the winter washing day is always fearfnlly cold. Your wife is tiredâ€"women always are on dread hanging out those clothes, and re- membering that at the altar you so solemnly promised tolove, cherish, and protect her, you generously offer to help her hang them out. Thermometer’at zero, and wind blowing at the rate of ninety miles an hour. The clothes line is always stretched on the north side of the house, with special reference, we suppose, to just such an occasion as this. our wife takes one handle of the basket, and you take the other. Some designing person has emptied water on the door step, it has frozen, and you are not so cautious as you should be to see to it that you stand firm. The first thing you know, you are down on the ice, and away goes the clothes-basket down over the hill, with your wife hanging to it like the tail to a kite. . You recover yourself, and start after. the fugitives, and bring them back. _ , You think you will begin with hanging out a sheet. A sheet will be plain work. You take one up gingerly by the corner, and drag it to the line, with the other corners trailing. , “ Oh, John 1” cries your wife, in a tone of dismay, “ do be more careful ! See what a dreadful smntch you have got on that sheet 1” You seize the other corner, and flap it over the line, and it freezes stiff as a board the instant it touches there, and is as un- manageable as a sheet of zinc. You give it a savage pull and a twist to get it out straight, and the line is loose and springs before you, and then, when you let it go, springs back again, and takes your hat amid- sliips, and away it goes, and the wind pounces on it and whirls it array to a fence corner, where you possess yourself of it, well filled with snow, and in good condition to obey a well-known medical prescription: “Keep the head cool.” You return to the charge, blowinT fingers, and your pantaloon lcgs full of snow. Your wife tells you you should have put on mittens. “ Mittens be-con- founded !” you tell her, in an emphatic vpice. You fly at the sheet again, and your who tells you to let that shoot alone, and hang out something you can manage. She recommends you to try a shirt. So you try a shirt, and you hang it over the line, with the neck part up. just as itis worn, but your wife tells you to hang that shirt as it ought to be. The other extrem- ity belongs up. She takes an inverted view of things. You try to obey, .biit the thing has froxcn fast to the line, and in attempt- ing to break the unfortunate attachment, you tear oh" the collar-band, and split two clothes-pins, and knock a piece of skin off the back of your hand. Oh, the unuttcrable contempt which is ex- pressed on the countenance of your wife! She calmly reminds you of the fact, which women are so found of cuuiiciatiug, that men are a nuisance, and requests you to go into the house about your business. But you persist in your benevolent efforts, and seize upon a miscellaneous pile of mill- ed things, which are worn only by tho gent- ler sex, and you hear them in a wrinkled wad to the line, and fling them on. The wind whirls half of them away in a petrified condition, and you cling to the others in such a way that the line cannot bear the pressure. It snaps in two, and down comes the whole concern into the snow and (lift of that back yard, and freezes there in less than ii ininntc. It will take gallons of boiling water to thaw those clothes up from the ground, and they must go back to the rinse again, and your fingers 1ch like icicles, and your wife is-â€"excited, and we draw a curtain over the scene. lint we want to say that the man who, under such circumstances, can keep his temper, and not lapse into profanity, is ready for the millennium, and may expect to be translated any day, after the manner of Enoch. Receipts Worth Trying. Wasuixorox (tunaâ€"Ono cup of sugar, one cup of flour, fonreggs, a rounding table- spoonful of butter, and one and one half tablespoonfuls of baking powder. Rake in sprinkle stale bread crume over the top and bake in a moderate oven thirty min- k j. , . Balsam Drainâ€"Chop finely any small pieces of beef steak or roast meat, add bread crumbs in the proportion of one tablespoon- ful to a coffee cup of meag. Season with per and salt, moisten With an egg and a little milk. Butter small tty pans and fill them two-thirds full. ke until they are browned, then break an egg over each one and cook from three to five minutes. Remove from the pans carefully that they may keep in shape. If the pans are well but- tered they will brown well. Her Shaunâ€"Shave the cabbage fine then put it on with just enough water to cook it ; when it is done put a little milk in, salt and pepper; then rub a little flour and butter together and stir in ; or use an egg instead of the flour. , BOILED Hamâ€"Soak the ham over night then wash in two waters and scrub with a brush. Boil slowly allowing twenty min- utes to the pound. When it has cooled take off the skin and rub it over with beaten egg, then spread over powdered cracker wet With milk and let it brown in the oven. BEAN SOUP.-â€"SO&k one quart of beans over night then put them into four quarts of water and boil two hours. Shred a few pieces of salt pork in the soup, then boil another hour. Strain through a. colander, pressing through all but the skins. Season to taste. Toast some thin slices of bread and break into the tureen. SPICE CAKEâ€"One cup of sour cream, one and three quarters cups of flour, one cup of sugar, one half teaspoonful of cloves, two eggs, one half teas oonful of cinnamon, one half teaspoonful 0 salt, one even teaspoon- fnl of soda. This makes a thin batter but baked in a quick oven is a very nice cake. WIFE on DAUGHTER? . A Romance of the Nineteenth Century- A Pennsylvanian Believes lle llas Married Ills Long-lost Daughter. A Chicago despatch says zâ€"Counsel was retained the other day in one of the strang- est cases over brought to the notice of the nblic. The facts outdo those of any of Rider Haggard’s novels, and verify the old axiom that “Truth is stronger than fiction.” The lawyer in question is Jas. \V. Drouil- lard, who has an office in the Chamber of Commerce building, and the client is ‘Sam- nel Clinton VVillets. who asks the lawyer to decide for him .whether a woman whom he married about two years ago is- his wife or his daughter. About 45 'years ago, according to the stor told the lawyer, Mr. Willets was married to Miss Mamie E.’ Evans at Erie, Pa. He was only 17 years of age, while she was just turning 16. They went to live' with Mr. \Villets’ parents, and for a 'ear they were happy. At the end of that time a baby girl was born, and the joy of the. young couple knew no bounds. As Itimefpassed, however, dis- scnsions arose, 'and quarrels were fre- nent. A crisis‘ was at last reached.» One night when young Mr. Willets re- turned from his work his wife and little child were gone. Shortly afterwards he heard that his wife had died. Six years after his wife deserted him, Mr. Willets marriedCaroline Stevens, a young girl whose parents resided at a small town adjoining Erie. In less than two years a son was given to them, but his wife was taken away. He named the child George. It grew and prospered in health, and when 17 years old he entered the employ of the firm of Hard- ing, Davis ii: Company, wholesale hardware dealers in Pittsburg, Pa. In a few years he was sent on the road by the firm. .In a few years the father moved to Pittsburg, and took up his residence with his son. On Christmas night, in 1860, Mr. \lillets sat waiting in his apartments for the return of his son, who had been on the road for three months. Finally the door opened and the welcome visitor came in. He was not alone. With him he broughta young and beautiful wife. She was a Miss Helen \V’right, and young Willets had met and won her in Cleve- land, Ohio, while traveling for the firm. Both herparents had rccentlydied. Mr. Wil- lets took a strange fancy to his son’s bride, and as time passed it was difficult to say which loved her the more, father or son. For 25 years the couple lived happily to- gsther, and old Mr. \Villets seemed content- s . On December 8, 1888, George \Villets died after a painful illness of six months. A few months after his son’s death, Mr. \Villets and his danghter-in-law went abroad. A singular attachment had sprung up between them, and on January 18, 1800, they were married in West Kensington, London, Eng, by Rev. \Vaye McLeonard, an Episcopal minister. Shortly afterward they returned to America and travelled. Much of their time they spent in Chicago. as they intended to eventually make this city their home. A few months ago the pos- sibility that heliud married his own daugh- ter began to dawn upon the mind of Mr. Willets and he was forced to believe that ‘ I l SCHEDULED CATTLE. A Scotch Agricultural Paper Says There saying : ‘ Monsieur, you have, by inciting these foolish girls to fight about your Worth- less self, sullied the honor of the women of 1. so rum-o i. “nunâ€"swung 3.1. France. In their name I challenge you to lantyne‘s Opinions. Speaker Ballantyne, of the Legislative Assembly, wasin Toronto the other day, and in conversation with a reporter said that while he always was in favour of Can- adians fattening their cattle at home rather than shipping them lean, he regretted that Canadian cattle had been scheduled by the British Government. It was all very well for people to say that all farmers should feed their cattle here. This system might work well with well-tovdo farmers, but the moderately well~to-do and poor farmers would suffer much by the scheduling. Though it was his own opinion that stock- ers should be fed here, yet- freedom should be allowed, and in the end what was best would prevail. He was sure by what he saw in the Old Country last summer that the trade in stockers was a good one, and was on the increase. At the markets in Scotland he saw that Canadian stockers of a good grade sold much more readily than Irish or any other stockers. Pleuro~pneu- monia was a terrible disease, but he could not say what influenced the British Gov- ernment to schedule the Canadian cattle. SCOTTISH OPIXION. The following regarding the pleuro scare in Great Britain is taken from the North British Agriculturist, Edinburgh :-â€"“For agood many months back a great many agriculturists and even some veterinary ex- perts, have been considering that the ‘ \Var of the Titans,’ which raged so fiercely last winter and spring between Prof. McFad- ycan and Principal Williams over the ‘Deptford lung,’ was an academic rather than a useful discussion. An event of the first importance has now occurred, however which shows that this view of the discus- sion wasan altogethermistaken one. Mr. iuild, farmer, Lindores, Fifeshire, pur- chased some Canadian cattle at Dundee on on the 6th inst., and on Monday one of them, a cow, was observed to be unwell. ‘Mr. Reid,V. S., Auchtermnchty, the local inspector for the Board of Agriculture, sus» pected thatitwasacase of contagious pleura, and the cow was at once slaughtered by Order of the Board of Agriculture. A por- tion of the lungs was sent to Prof. Brown, who alone is empowered to state whether any diseased lung tissue indicates the pres- ence of pleuro or not, and~this infallible Pope of the Board of Agriculture decided that it was a‘case of contagious pleura, and ordered the immediate slaughter of all the 105 cattle on the same farm. Now there is, to say the least‘ of it, grave reason to doubt whether this can possibly baa. case of contagious‘pleuro. For one thing, the animal was a Canadian, and there has been no case of pleuro in Canada for years? For another thing, the animal had'come direct from Canada, and could not have been in contact with contagious pleuro on its way to this country; and even though there had been any pleuro to come in contract with at Dundeeâ€"which there was notâ€"the disease had not time for I incubation since the time of landing. There is every reason to believe, therefore, that this is not a case of contagious pleuro at all, but is simplya case similar to that of the ‘Dcptford lung,’ which Prof. Brown de- clared to be affected with pleuro, but which Principal Williams conclusively proved to be affected with only bronchoâ€"pneumonia, or cornstalk disease, and the principal’s contention was emphatically endorsed not only by M. Nocard, the leading veterin- arian in France, but also by Dr. Billings, who first investigated the disease in Ameri- ca. The agriculturists in the Dundee and Fifeshire districts are all perfectly convinc- ed that Principal Williams is right in his contention, and that Prof. Brown is wrong. If Mr. Gardner, therefore, is to become the Scotch representative on the Board of Agriculture as he recently declared his wish to be, he must at once take steps to ensure that the intelligence of the country is no longer over-ridden by this infallible Pope of the Board of Agriculture.” GIRLS BOUGHT WITH RAPIERS. Using Them Like Broomsiicks While the Heartless Lover Laughed. “Speaking of prize fights reminds me of one I once witnessed in Marseilles, France, I between two as handsome young women as ever looked out upon the blue Mediterran- ean,” said Otto Gottsingcr. mortal combat.’ But the rover, while will~ ing that others should spill their blood. had none to lose, declined the combat and sneaked out of the port.” An Eider Duck Farm- A recent visitor to Iceland thus describes the manner in which the cider duck is there protected for the sake of the cider down of commerce, which is so highly esteemed:â€" “One of the larger cider duck forms is situ- ated on a small island in the buy at Revk~ javik, and, with the permission of the own- er, can be visited by strangers. Not much agricultural labor or ingenuity is expended by the cider duck farmer upon his property. It consists for the most part of a large field of stunted grass, which has been blown by the wind and worked by the action of the weather into round liummocks such as may be frequently met with all over the barren and devastated country of Iceland. In the recesses and cavities between the hunimocks the eider ducks may be seen sitting on their nests. Of these there are several scores, and the birds themselves when sitting are perfectly tame, some of them even allowing a stranger to stroke them with the hand. They are not all hatched at the same time, and many are still in the egg when the others are hatched and swimming about in the sea. The drake is a handsome, showy creature, with much white plumage. He is excessively shy and wary, while the duck, whose plumage is brown and glossy, is, on the contrary, tame and confiding. The lai- tcr lays from five to six eggs at the begin- ning of June, and it is no unusual thing to find from ten to sixteen eggs in one nest, together with two ducks, which sit either at intervals or, if necessary, side by side, and, strange to .say, they seem to agree remarkably well. The period of laying lasts six or seven weeks. and the birds are in the habit of laying three times in different places. From the first and second of these nests both the down and the eggs are taken away, but frein the last it is very seldom that the farmer removes either. Should he do so with any degree of persistency, the birds would desert the locality. In some cases the owner resides on or near the farm. In this particular instance he visited the island from the mainland once or twice a week at the least. So soon as he and his men arrive at a nest they carefully remove the sitting female, and take away the superfluous down and eggs. The duck immediately begins to lay afresh, and covers her eggs with new down which she plucks from her own breast. » If the supply is inadequate, the male comes to her assistance and helps to cover the eggs with his down. This, being white, is easily distinguished from the brown covering which the duck supplies, and is not so good in quality. The nest is now, as a. general rule, left until the young ones are hatched. There is not much cal- lowness and helplessness about these yO'tng- sters. About an hour after they are out of the shell they quit the nest together, when it is once more plundered. The best down andthc greatest- nuinber of eggs are obtained during the first three weeks of the laying period, and it has in general been observed that the birds lay the great- est niimbcr of eggs in rainy weather. The eider duck is a close and persistent sitter, and, so long as she is sitting, the drake, with commendable constancy, remains on the watch hard by, but as soon as the young are hatched he considers his responsibility atan end,andleavestliemlotlicirown devices and the care of their mother. Itisa curious and pretty sight to see how the latter looks after her brood. She leads them out of the nest so soon as they creep out of the eggs, and precedes them to the water, while they toddle after her. When she reaches the waterside she takes them on her back and swims with them for a few yards ; she then dives, and the little ones are then left float- ing on the water like yellow corks, and henceforth are obliged to look after themâ€" selves. Iudeed, the farmer seldom sees his flock again until the next breeding season. for they become comparatively wild, and live out among the damp rocks in the sea, where they feed upon insects and small crustacea and mollusca. Some idea of the value of the crop may be be gleaned from the fact that one female during the whole time of laying generally gives lialf-a-pouod of down, which is, however, reduced one- liztlf after itis cleaned. The down is divided “The prize was nothing more nor less into thang-ounn, or sea-weed down, and than the heart and hand of a gay young sea Captain who might have posed for the statue of Apollo, and who, rumor said, had praco tised piracy on the Barbary coast. It was no soft-glove affair, let me tell you. In fact, it. was a duel to the death, and the weapons used were rapiers with points like canibric needles. It appears that the roving swain was another Don Juan, and made mad love to every pretty woman he met. Two pretty l Marseilles lace makers were the recipients of marked attentions from him and grew in- sanely jealous of each other. They met one his wife was the little girl who had been 5 day in his presence and engaged in a very born to him many years before in Erie, Pa. ; undignificd scratching match, and he sug- Sincc then he has learned that his first! gested that they settle the difficulty a la wife after dcserting him. went to Cleveland, i mode, promising to marry the survivor. where in less thanseveii years she married a l-They agreed, and the next morning’s sun- nian named John Wright. She brought» her rise saw them in awooded suburb of the city little girl up under the name of Wright. with their attendants ready for the fray! Sliortlv after the marriage her new fou d Through a friend of the mischief-loving. husbaiid deserted her. She was left alone with her daughter, and iii a short time died. Miss Wright, left alone, sought cm- ploynicnt, and earned her own living un- l l young Captain I learned of the affair, and, l in company with a Parisian journalist, was] present. I “Your French maid is nothing if not til she met George “'illcis in a house where ‘ dramatic, and both stripped to the waist, she was boarding, and fell in leve with him. Mr. \Villets and his wife, or his daughter, as he now calls her, are living on the North sidc. Mr. Willcis has sent a private de- l wearing only spiked shoes, stockings, and short skirts. At least- tiiat was the only clothing visible. The Captain acted as. master of ceremonies and privately cncour- l l gras-dunii, or grass-down. The latter is generally considered to be the best in qual- ity. The down is very valuable, and fetches from 153 to 303a pound. The three takes of down vary considerably in quality, the first being superior to the second. and the second to the third. The birds themselves, apart from their down-giving capacities, are of little value. The down taken from a dead cider is valucless, as it has lost all its mar- vellous elasticity. ” â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€".â€"-â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€" ODDS AND ENDS. Moscow has a $10,000,000 church. England makes 50,000,030 pins :1 day. Parrots cost a dime in central America. A meteor containing gold foil recently in Iowa. Calico was made in Calcutta, India, as early as 1403. The telephone has been known in India for generations. It is claimed that an electric plant has been discovered in India which will influ- ence a magnetic needle twenty-five feet dis- taut. When a child dies in Greenland the na- tective to Cleveland to trace the career of aged each to go in and win. I thought of five parents how a living dog with it, the his first wife. M i scene. the contest. on Mount Ida as I looked on the Here was Paris, Venus, and Juno, Major Allat, of the British army, thinks l but Minerva, dear Goddess of Wisdom, was dog to be used by the child as a guide to the other world. The most liighlv valued gift at the Queen I that ducks would be preferable to pigeonsi I for carrying naval despatches over the sea, because they would drop down and sit on, the water when tired, and resume their' lilight after resting. Moreover ducks can jelly tins. For the filling grate one apple and one half the yellow rind of a lemon. Mix and set on the stove until it just comes to a boil. Spread between the layers while it is warm. conspicuous by her absence» The mmbat' of Denmark‘s golden wedding was a crown an“ faced “Ch other 0" “8’35” P139. 9"" loi' golden wheat ears and clover, bought Tmmfle‘l by “"9 trees: iii“ “3 the 5"“ 5110‘?" I with the pennies of l0,000 school children. ed h” “m “hove the wave; and they “lent ’he highest priced piano in the United 3" weir work With a wm' Neither knew States belongs to the Marquand family, of Basso Ct's‘mRt).â€"-Scald but not bail one i quart of milk; add by degrees to the "aimed for message bearing. beaten yolks of four eggs, mixed with five fly by night, while pigeons'csnnot, Major Allat also suggests that set. gulls might be In Tokio, Japan, surgical operations are teblcspoonfuls of sugar and when We“ mixed very successful, and the healing p1 0,3933 stir in the whites. Flavor with nutmeg and vaniila and pour into a deep dish or custard cups. Grate untihcg .on- the topic! each, set them in a n of hot whine and bake until firm. To b: eaten cold. Hxsnsn POTATOES “'mi Camu.'â€"Chop rapid, owing to the abstinence of the people from alcohol, and their not being flesh eaters. The mortality is only twenty per one thousandjn spite of tlielarge infant mor- tality due to lackpf‘esrer ‘12. is notnn’usual to see a week-old baby strapped on the cold boiled petat is: into pieces about the 3 back of a child about eight, and sent out to size of dice, but in a bakingpan. dust with be jumbled about afitsmtant nnrsedisporis “it and pepper, cover wizh tliisk :reaui, itself wnh other children in the streets. 2 l anything about fencing, but each was hungry for the othcr’s gore, and reckless in consequence.‘ Their temper soon get the better of their judgment, however, and they began to helabor each otherwviih their wen-r pons as tlioirglnntbcy were breonisticks, This proving unsatisfactory,. they‘ dropped their rapiers and.th to pullsl‘iaig, w ile the barbarous Captath rolled on The grass and shriekedawi " fl _ _ . soon got’éhbdgbifiafi’ , desgig c dialysis? protestations, separated them. " lie then picked up the rapists and handed one to the author of the exhibition, . New York city. It was designed and paint- ed by Alma Tadema, and cost H. G. .‘Jar- quand $i6,000. It is a fact worth noting, says “ Scrib- ner's,” that the signs used by ,the Indians of North America are identical in many instances with .those employed by the (leaf mates of to-day. ‘ I Tippernsalcm is the name of a new town in’ Oklahoma. One piomoter uniutcl it named Tipperary and the other desired to call it Jerusalem, so Tippczusalcm was the happy compromise. The Heat of the Body. Of the warni~blooded animals, man has the most remarkable owor of sustaining life in climates widely 'fforing in tempera- ture, the average being 98 de recs, Fahreno heit, in all parts of the ho itablo globe. There is but a slight difference in this re- spect whether man lives at the equator or in thsscctions contiguous to the les, or as near as t is possible for human iciugs to exist. This is well illustrated by the fact that Capt. Parry, who wintered in the arc- iic region, the thermometer rangin from forty degrees below zero to seventy egress found the animal heat to be almost precisely the same as at the equator. while Ca t. Scoresby found the temperature of t 0 Whale, one of the few warm blooded inhab- itants of the ocean, to be one hundred and four degrees above zero, very nearly agree- ing with that of the equatorial whale, though, in the former case the whole was surrounded by ice, at a temperature below the freezing point of fresh water, the water in which he spent his life being at about the same temperature. Aside from this pow- er of the body to equalize and control the temperature, We might expect that the blood and other fluids of the body would be- come so congealed in the polar sections that they could not circulate or perform their natural functions, resulting in certain death while, on the contrary, in the equatorial regions the fatty portions and the softer matters might become liquefied, This power to conform to existing circumstances, and resist the natural effects of the heat in its action on the fats, is the most remark ably illustrated when the human body is subjected to unusual temperature, as when an eminent man entered a room in which the temperature was raised to two hundred and sixty degrees, but it was still more re- markable when the “ fire-king,” Chaubert, entered an oven, heated to six hundred de- grees, a temperature twice as high as is necessary to cook meats and bread, such a heat not changing the form of his body, not cooking his flesh. To enable the bedy_to conform to these varying conditions, to live and thrive in such widely differing tem- peratures, it is necessary to have regard to the food eaten as to the clothing worn. The inhabitants of the highest latitudeâ€"where no mortal need ever live-find it necessary to live on the “blubber” of the whole, or they would soon freeze, while the inhabitants of the tropics live very generally on‘the juicy fruits and vegetables, wrtli butlittle solid food. Should these two classes by them, death would soon follow, the one freezing in a few days, at most, while the other would contract the yellow fever in the same time. The acids and the juice of the of the most prominent means of effecting the escape of the surplus heat of the body, while the thirst of such regions encourage free water-drinking, promotive of perspira- tion. To sustain the body at the necessary oint of temperature, there are three classes of the “lieaters”â€"the sweets, the starches and the fate, the latter being, relatively, very diflicult of digestion, so much so as not to be encouraged, to any great extent, under ordinary circumstances, and is partic- ularly unfavorable to those having impair- ed digestive powers, while in our climate they are never absolutely necessary, the sweets and starcliing being all that we really need, the former being particularly palat- able, while the latter are very abundant in our grains, in the potato, etc. Physical Training; in Schools- In cities, more than in smaller towns and in the country, the value of some regular pxical drill is evident. In respect ‘to wholesome surroundings, the country boy or girl is much the more fortunate. The greater purity of the air, though valuable, is perhaps not so much responsible for the better average of health found in the country as are the varied oc- cupations, which give rise to robust and symmetrical physical development. Coming from an examination of the crowded conditions of many city schools, one ceases to wonder at the necessity for the city’s recruiting its ranks from a rural population. Boys with imperfectly develop- ed bones resulting in deformed figures, girls with steeping shoulders or curving spine are anything but rate. For such children something must be done. It seems absurd to overburden the brains of children who have so little physi- cal strength. Such a course favors disease of both mind and body. For some of the mental training imposed upon such children physical drill should be substituted. ()nchourâ€"two hours, if nec- essaryâ€"ought be taken from the school hours and devoted to muscle-building cx- creiscs. Under a competent trainer and leadcrsuchcxcrciscs develop the greatest amount of result in the shape of enlarged 'musclcs, and what is equally important, they lessen nervous development, as is evi- dcnccd by less craving for excitement. Many schools are already equipped with such arrangements, and the results; have been most gratifying. Every public school in every large city should be provided with appointments for regular physical exercise and drills. The time spent in cxermscs of this kind shows more inusclc-lniildiug result than the same amount of time spent in some laborious oc- cupation demanding the use of_ certain muscles 0 ly : in fact, these exercises cor- rect errors of unsymmetrical development that exclusive occupations induce. For girls especially such exercin are valuable. Girls are as capable of develop- ing muscle as are their brothers, and they are no less womanly for being possessor: of muscle or for knowing how to use-it. American analyses show that the oyster’s flesh and liquids contain from 84.8 to 9L5 per cent. of water combined wuli the nutri- ents which vary from 8.5 to 18.3 per cent. The average of thirty-four analyses gave 87.3 per cent. of water with l2? per cent of nutrients. The liquids in the oyster are chiefly water and sea-salts. Public executions in Paris prove vcr profitable to theowuers of houses common - ing the scene. Windows are lot out for the occasion, the" landlords watching for the first rign of the execution, and than at once sending word to the none who have hired the room. If an on inary criminal in exp- cuted the charge is usually about if)“. pe'l place 'but should the offender have commit- ted any remarkable crime the price runs up to £0. 1.? abruptly exchange the foods safely adopted . tropical fruits and vegetablesâ€"largely com- ‘ posed of waterâ€"promote perspiration, one: A. r