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3! THE HOl‘i E. Kidding a Room of Flies. Flies are the pest and worry of all tidy housekeepers, and how to rid a room of the-n is an unsolved problem to many. This is quite easily accomplished by taking ad- vantage of the flies' habit of flying to the window or place from whichlight is admit- ted, and to accomplish this, darken all the AX EFFECX'IVE WIXDOW FLY TRAP. windows with a heavy shade, or any mate- rial, cutting a hole in one of the shades, over which is firmly pinned a sheet of the common transparent fly paper, and, if pos- sible, have this located at one of the east, south or west windows,from which the most light may be obtained. It will be but a short time are the flies in the room will be sticking to this paper in their effort to be near the light. This is far easier and more cleanly than placing paper about the room for them to accidentally light upon, or killing them with pOisoned liquid. or pyre- thrum powder. Ways of Preparing Strawberries. Strawberry Shortcakeâ€"Into one pint of flour put a large teaspoonfui of baking powder and one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt. Sift thoroughly. Rub into the flour four large tablespoonfuls of butter. Wet with a teacupful of sweet milk. Bake quickly in a hot oven. When well browned spread with butter and berries, whole or mashed, cover heavily with sugar and serve hot, passing a pitcher of whipped cream with the shortcake cut in cubes. Russian Cream of Strawberries.â€"-This is a favorite dish late in the season when the fruit becomes very ripe : Soak two table- spoonfuls of gelatine in one-quarter of a cup of cold water. Mash one quart strawberries to a pulp with one and one-half cups sugar: let this stand half an hour. Pour over the gelatine three-quarters of a cup hot water, L Jr until dissolved, and add to the berries and press them through a sieve. Mix with one pint of cream whipped to a stiff froth. Turn into a freezer antifreeze until it begins to thicken. Then remove the dasher and stir with a spoon. Put the mass into molds and set them in ice and salt for two hours. Strawberry Meringue.â€"-Make a good puff paste and cut it large and round as a dinner plate. Bake it a light brown in a very quick oven. Draw it forward to the oven door and cover with berries rolled in sugar. Over the berries spread an inch deep mer- ingue made of the whites of four eggs whisked stiff, with three tablespoonfnis of sugar. Bake a golden brown. It is good cold or hot, and delicious for a small com. pany, served picnic fashion, on the piazza or lawn, when the sunny days grow hot. Virginia Shortcake.â€"-This confection is a favorite in the country homes where butter- milk abounds. One quart flour, one tea. spoonful of soda and one teaspoonfui salt, sifted three times through the flour, two tablespoonfuls lard and two tablespoonfuis butter chopped into the flour , yolks of two eggs, two and a half cups of buttermilk. Roll in two layers. Cover the bottom crust with berries and sprinkle with sugar. Put on the upper crust and bake about twenty- five minutes. Cut into squares,pile them on flat dish, and send to the table to be eaten with butter and sugar. This is very simple and good for children; light and delicate. Strawberry Trifleâ€"Fill a glass dish witlr sponge cake cut thin. Wet it with sweet cream. Cover it with firm, fresh berries. S riukle heavily with sugar. Add layers of) cake, cream and berries. Over all pour a rich golden custard. The whites of the eggs used for the custard beat stiff; add sugar and strawberry juice. Heap this on top. Lay rows of whole berries upon the meringue, and wind the platter or the stem of the crystal dish with strawberry leaves Umbrella Holder. ' ~‘i srr ‘ - ~e=r This is an idea for an umbrella stand l until no appearance, which is made of fo n : boar s and some pieces of ordinary box l strap iron. This stand looks well in antique ‘ oak and black iron, but if too expensive of oak make it of pine and give it several coats of point.â€"{ reroute May Ladia' Joni-vial. Remove Your Freckles. It is said that one of the most frequent canm of freckles is a defective digestion. and that a proper diet will often cam them to diuppcar. Brown broad and all coarse foods, also vegetables, are men»: mended. Tea and coffee must be abstained ; from, using milk as a substitute. Turkish baths, if not indulged in too freely, are good. A well-known lotion that will not injure the most sensitive skin consists of . s cm that way when a fellow has only about ounce of grated horseradish. Let it stand from six to twelve hours and wash the face several times a day. This simple remedy ON THE SLAVESHIP CORA. bunny effective. W‘shing we {we ,3 Hundreds of Wren-hrs racked s‘o That a saturated solution of borax in rose water is a very pleasant treatment and equally beneficial. câ€"câ€"s Keep the Children “ Young" The modern practice of sending children to dancing school, where they are taught skirt dancing and brought out every year to show themselves in fancy dresses, has its disadvantages, and there are ones which always will cause a careful mother to think twice before sending her little ones to learn these unnecessary mannerisms. The tote pick up an affected manner soon enough, and if a child is to be kept sweet and simple through the years of childhood, it is best to defer the dancing lessons, or patronize a private school, where public exhibitions are not given.â€"[Pittsburg Post. ..._..__â€"-â€"-â€"-I|-â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-.â€"â€"â€"_- BELGIUM'S WORKING DOGS. Spectacle in Brussels. A Curious It is a very curious spectacle to astranged who visits the city of Brussels for the first time to see in the morning innumerable small vehicles loaded with fruit and vege- tables arriving at the market drawn by dogs, whose good~natured barking proves not only that they experience no fatigue, but, on the contrary, a genuine enjoyment. It is not only the kitchen gardeners and the peasants coming to the city that make use of this sort of haulage, for the butchers, the bakers, the coal dealers, and the milk- men have no other means of carriage in order to serve their customers. As a genera1 thing each cart isdrawn by but one dog, but there may be several. The dog thus employed in Brussels and its vicinity for the traction of small vehicles is a strong and broad-backed mastifi', more squat than a large Dane or German mastifl'a generally of a dull fawn color, or more _or less black spotted with white, and a some what short-haired and rough coat. However the Brabant peasants do not appear to stick to one type of breed with fixed conforma' tion, color, and length of hair ; provided he is strong and energetic, that is all that they require of their steed with claws and fangs. Good specimens are sold from $20 to $25. In the course of service these dogs are fed upon bread and horse meat, and their maintenance costs about a cent a day. The dead weight they haul is, on an average, 650 pounds. Bull-dogs haul a much great- er weight. These dogs are very zealous and perform their duty . with as much pleasure as hunting dogs do in following the trail of game. An exercise which well exhibits their qualities and shows the degree of emulation with which they are endowed is that of the races that frequently take place as a consequence of challenges made by their owners. The race course is a highway, and the goal is at a distance of one or two miles. All passers-by can enjoy the spectacle gratis. The competitors place them- selves in line, and the impatience of the coursers, which is manifested by voice and action, can be moderated only by vigorous applications of the whip. Finally the signal is given, and they start off at full speed with loud barkings. Falls are frequent, and the drivers literally bite the dust. But the automatons in short blouses are quickly picked up and put back in their carts, exciting anew their vigorous steeds, and those that have the oftenest fallen are not1 for that reason the last to reach the ca . g The swiftness of a team of dogs is such that bets on speed have been made on a good horse harnessed to a cab against one of these teams and been won by the latter. The Belgians say that a good draught dog costs less to keep and sells at a lower price than an ordinary ass, while at the same time doing as much work. It is quite curious to find that among civilized coun- tries Belgium is the only one that exhibits to us the common spectacle of dogs in harn- ess. GREAT FIRE IN BERMUDA. Over $500,000 Damage at the Dockyard on Ireland Island. Bermuda advices by the steamer Alpha give the following particulars of a terrible fire at the dockyard there : The store be- longing to the ordnance store departmant to the north of the dockyard on Ireland Island was discovered on fire about 8 p. m. on Wednesday. Two manual engines from the victuailing yard, manned by royal marines, and three steam fire engines, manned by dockyard employees, were hurried to the scene. Meanwhile the officers and men of her Majesty’s ships in the harbor rendered valuable assistance. Capt. Hamilton of H. M. S. Blake took command of o rations until the arrival of Ca t. Carr, aval Superintendent. he proximity of the fire to the magazine, where a large quantity of powder was stor- ed, caused the utmost apprehension, and there was great excitement, especially when it was reported that an order had been given for the people to flee for their lives. Women with their babes wrapped in blankets and children clinging to their parents fled to Booze and Somerset, but the efforts of the firemen and the fortunate direction of the wind averted the threatened catastrophe. Sailors and mariners from the Blake and other wu- ships in ports and all the garrison men fought bravely until midnight. They removed all the powder and shells they could from the magazine to the pond near b . Hundreds of Gatling, Hotchkiss, and Nirdenfeld guns were destroyed ; also 1,600 magazine rifles, 8,000 swords, 8C0 beyonets, and hundreds of cases of Shrap. noll shells. The massive stone walls of the l nrmorv did not stand the terrible heat, and they {Eu amid the ruins of cannon, shot, and shell, The loss will be over $500,0(.0, __.._._.-â€"-â€"â€"â€" Time is infinitely long. but it doesu’ one-half pins 4 near milk and a lall an . two minutes and a half tccatch his train They Could s’u sur. “'hen I had divided my small crew into watches and had put- a man at the helm, I had a moment‘s time to look into the cabin which was to be my home, writes Lieuten~ ant Hall. There were two cabins adjoining each other, with four state rooms in the forward one and two in the after. Here, in each of these ror ms, I found one or two negro maidens, while several hovered in the corners and crouched upon the sofa and on the floor. Like the rest of the slaves they were as nude as when born. They looked terribly frightened and evidently consider- ed me a sort of “lord high executioner. " “’hen daylight appeared they were taken to the quarters of the other negress- es. The next morning found us rolling in a “10 cu!" 0' a dead calm, and as the day drew on the ntense heat and glare made the slave ship a den of indescribable horror. The slaves, of course, were brought on deck or they would have sufiocated and diedâ€"a course which was followed every day from early light till sunset so long as I had them with me. .They filled the waist and gangways in a fearful jam, for there were over seven huu- dred men, women,boys andyoung girls. Not even a. waist cloth can be permitted among slaves on board ship, since clothing even so light would breed disease. To ward off death, ever at work on a slave ship, I order- ed that at daybreak the negroes should be taken in squads of twenty or more and giv- en a salt water bath by the hose pipe of the pumps. This brought renewed life after their fearful nights on the slave deck. After their first bath under my charge Mr. Fairfax came aboard bringing carpenters, boatswain's mates and sail-makers, for the ship’s rigging, sails and and spars had been badly injured aloft by our fire. That broil- ing day and the next these gangs were at work repairing damages, while the Con- stellation remained rolling near at hand. In the meantime I had been busily en- gaged in having an open lattice bulkhead put upon the slave deck, close enough to l I WONDERFUL Results or Surgical Experiments on Live Animals. Experiments have been made by Dr. Abbe or. animals, and the results ‘obtained are of great interest. After cutting across the femorais in a dog be inserted smooth sterilized glass tubes, slightly constricted to an hour-glass shape, tied each end of the vessel over the tube by fine silk thread, and then brought the thread ends together. Primary union took place and the limb was as well nourished as ever ; but in order to determine whether this was not due to cells- teral circulation Dr. Abbe cut out one of the tubes and found the lower end of the vessel occluded by slow endarteritis. To elimin- ate the element of collateral circulation be tied into the aorta of a cat an inch of very thin glass tube sterilized by boiling and filled with water before inserting to pre~ vent air emboli. This animal also recover- ed perfectly. A still more radical procedure was then practiced. After dissecting out the brachiai artery and vein near the axilla of a dog’s fore limb, and holding these apart, he amputated the limb through the shoulder muScles and sawed through the bone, leaving the limb attached only by the ves- sels. He then sutured the bone with silver wire, the nerves with fine silk, and each muscle by itself, making a separate series of continuous suturing of,the fascia lata and skin. Perfect union and restoration of function also took place in this instance. This experiment deino‘nstrates that a limb will survive division of all its structures if an artery be left, and further the author points out that if an arterial supply can be restored to a completely amputated limb, that limb also may be grafted back to its original, or a corresponding stump. Should Dr. Abbe’s investigationsâ€"as yet incom- pleteâ€"show that it is impossible to do this in animals, an important contribution will have been made to the subject of reparative surgery. The tissues of animals, however, possess so much hEgher reparative power than those of‘human beings, that it is diffi- cult to predict the possibilities of this fina do siecle method of grafting. The Labrador Exploring Party. A letter has just been received at Ottawa from Mr. A. P. Low, leader of the Govern- ment exploring party that left Lake St. prevent passing, and yet suficiently open to 1 John in June last to endeavor to reach give what ventilation could be obtained. The object was to make a complete separa- tion of the sexes, which were about equal in numbers. Windsails were provided for ventilation, but with all this, no one who has never seen a slave deck can form an idea of its horrors. imagine a deck about 20 feet wide, and perhaps 120 feet long and 5 feet high. Imagine this to be the place of abode and sleep during long, hot, breath- less nights of 720 human beings ! At sun- down, when they were carried below, train- ed slaves received the poor wretches one by one, and laying each creature on his side 1 in the wings, packed the next against him. I and the next, and the next, and so on, till, like so many spoons packed away they fitted into each other, a living mass. Just as they were packed, so must they ramain, for the pressure prevented any movement, or the turning of hand or foot, until the next morning when from their terrible night of horror they were bought on deck once more, weak and worn and sick. Then, after all had come up and received the bath mentioned, there‘was the invariable horror of bringing up the bodies of those 'who had died during the night. One by one they were cast overboardâ€"a splash the only ceremony. For thirty odd fearful nights and days this routine was endured before I finally landed these creatures. At the time I write of, I was a slave-owner but I had only known happy, well-fed and carefully attended people, who were as a part of a large family. Since that service on the Cora, I have known how much it cost to Uhristianize the negroes, on see in reverie the rigid forms an Lin J day by day, into the tropic waters. .),~ W The Condition of Women. “ In the growth and progress of the past ten years nothing has been more notable than the changeâ€"revolution it might be called, that has taken place in the condition of woman both as a social and political factor. It has opened up so many avenues of advancement that she no longer acknow- ledges her dependence upon the “lords of creation,” and regards herself as she has a right to do, as adistinct and independent individualism. The subservient and shrink- ing woman of past generations has been re. legated to obscurity and into her place has come the brisk business woman who is as brainy as the man, and much more lively in her movements. She is new found to be, if not so strong or so rugged as her masculine rival, more cleanly, more docile and more 0 on to improvement. Man is largely fix- ed in his ideas, and not so amenable to the exigencies of changing life as awoman. He is not so “bidable” either, so to speak, and will not listen to suggestions in the interest of improvement and advancement, while the woman is ready to accept every intim- ation in that direction and act upon it with alacrity. Women show a disposition to rely upon their own resources in this contest, in the field of industry and intelli‘ gent labor, that is significant of the serious spirit in which they enter it. “Without fear, favor or affection” is the motto of their new departure and he would be a churl among men who would not be willing to give them “a clear course and no favor. ’ â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"+â€"-â€"â€" Horrlble Crime in France. Dalziel reports from Meta that a horrible crime has been discovered at a village near Fauiqnemont. A H iCll l l Ungava bay by traversing the entire Labra- dor peninsula from south to north. Mr. Low wrote from Hamilton Inlet, where his party were forced to go through scarcity of pro- visions. The report that more than two hundred Indians in the vicinity of Ungava bay had died of starvation during the pre- ceding winter is also fully corroborated. It took nearly five months for the letter to ar- rive,but it gives amostgraphicand interest- ing descriptiouof the perilous journey of the expedition through the interior of Labrador, and of the magnificent canyons of the Caniapscow river,and other natural wonders encountered on the way. During the pre- sent summer Mr. Low and his party will attempt to cross Labrador from east to west, 8. much harder trip than that from south to north, but he speaks hopefully of his prospects of success. A Month of w Prayer. In Persia a certain month of the year, called Ramazan, is set aside by the natives for fasting and prayer. During this sacred month all persons except travelers, the sick, the aged,young mothers and children, must fast from daylight to sunset. Those who can afford to do so turn nightinto day, and by going to bed at dawn and getting up late in the afternoon escape the greater part of the inconvenience of the fast. Just before daybreak a light breakfast is hastily swallowed, followed by a deep draught of water and the gulping down of a small pill of pure opium, after which all those who are not prevented by the nature of their employment, compose themselves to sleep. All business is at a stand-still. Most of the shops are closed altogether or are open only for a few hours during the day. The Government offices are shut and all business that can be put off is postponed till after sunset. As evening approaches the streets are thronged and cookshops are surrounded by a hungry crowd. The slices of meat are almost scrambled for and the sweetmeat seller does a lively buisness. War’s Modern Horrors Will Kill War. Various experiments with the new rifle which have recently taken place in Germany have demonstrated in a very conclusive manner that another war would practically be one of annihilation. A well-known French writer, in an article which be de. votes to the subject, to-day say ‘ the battlefield would at the- terminatim the engagement be covered with two or three hundred thousand corpses all crushed and broken, and would be nothing but a vast charnel house. No one would be left to bury the dead, and pestilence would in its turn sweep away the country people. Pointing the moral he adds that the manâ€"- Emperor, King or President of a republic â€"â€"who, underthose conditions, would expose the human race to such a fate would be the greatest criminal that the world had ever seem, It is tolerably plain that the horrors and the hatchery which a war would entail are becoming more and more recognized, and that the terrible vista thus opened out is exercising a sobering effect on those who were formerly wont to’ discuss various eventualities with a light heart. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"1-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Small-pox Precautions. The Provincial Board of Health is some. young woman named ' what disturbed over the fact that for the Boulan or killed her husband with a chop- past three weeks Chicago has not been r, an then,with the assistance of, her l sending in any rcturnsofthe small.pox cases over, she cut thebody n and boiled the rc~ l which have been reported within its limits. mains. She afterwards nrned most of the i This is contrary to the agreement entered bones in the fireplace, the remainder being i into by the medical men of the various concealed under a heap of stones in an ad- ‘ States and Provinces, and it is thought that ‘ joining forest, ered by accident. The crime was only discov. the neglect has a very suspicious look. An A woodcutter happened 2 emergency meeting of the International to disturb the stones. underneath which he ' (‘nm‘..rvrir:e of Medical Slate officers met found a pack containing a number of xcueotlyinChica oto discuss the mians partially burned human bones and a head, l necessary for (its. ing with the case. Dr. ,which was sable neatly identified as that Bryce is sending out to the local boards of Boulunger. T e woman, when brought {and the medical health officers circulars before the mag and said she had been driven to it by the cruel treatment she received from her 'husband, who was constantly drunk and aclose watch. i had many times beaten her. istrate, admitted the crime, : embodying the resolutions s | paued rccentl by the Provincial Board of Health, and asking medical men on the border to keep If the danger increases train inspectors will be appointed. * HEALTH. \WMW Contagion of Ringworm. Ringworm is a not uncommon parasitic, contagious skin disease, occurring generally in children attending public schooia. It may appear on the scalp or on the non-hairy parts of the body. It is caused by a vegetable. parasite. It appears as a scaly stch which approaches the form of a ring. Vhen two or moye patches are close to- gether they often coalesce and form a large patch. ‘The disease is easily carried from one child to another, or the child, by scratchin . may spread the disease to other parts of t e body. \Vhen it occurs on the scalp the hairs have a whitish appearance and break 05 easily and a bald spot is the result. Oats and dogs sometimes have it, and it is conveyed, like the itch, from animals to human beings, and vice-versa. A common cause of ringworm among boys > at school is the bad habit of exchanging hats and caps, and thus transferring the disease from one head to another. The routine treatment is to wash the parts with soft soap and water, and then to rub in well sulphur Ointment, or paint with tincture of iodine. Some cases will not get well under this treatment, and may even baflie the skill of the best physicians. The hair should be cut short at the site of the trouble, and even in a circle around the spot. The remedies should be continued once or twice a day for a period of three or four days to a week, and at night the child should wear a linen night cap and the hair be kept well greased to prevent the scales from flying and infecting other children. The infected child must be kept from school and away from other children. The Body Needs Water. Some one has asked, “ What would be the cause of death of a person who drank no water ‘3" This subject has been studied considerably; and animals have been ex- perimented upon and it is found that with- out water, they lose their power to elimin- ate ' the natural poisons; they must have water in order to eliminate them, otherwise the secretions become too dense. Without water, the amount of urea which should be secreted becomes diminished,and so with the other secretions. We need water, not only to dissolve the food and carry it along, but we need it to dissolve and carry out of the system the poisonous and the worn-out material of the body, after it has served its purpose. \Vatcr forms a circulatin niedo into for carrying substances back and forth in the system, conveying nourishment to the various parts of the body, and bringing back the used-up material and carrying it out by way of the excretory ducts. ' Removal of the Tonsils Many persons have a prejudice against the removal of the tonsils, for the reason that they think them a protection to the lungs ; but a tonsil is not a protection to the lungs ; it is merely a secreting gland, and helps to make saliva. Tonsils should never be removed so long as they perform their proper functions ; but when a tonsil nets to be a deformity,â€"â€"an abnormal ‘ growth or tiimor,â€"and has lost its function, it. should be removed. After it has become diseased and full of little pockets, ready to flu rbor germs (there are thousands of persons wholiave sore threats from this cause), the tonsil is no longer of any possible use to the body, any more than is a wart on the end of the nose, and the sooner it is removed, the better ; indeed, in this condition the tonsil is a source of great danger, and the only safe cure is entire removal. How to Walk. It would seem sometimes that the art of graceful walking might be numbered among the lost sciences, so few women master the accomplishment, or even acquire any ap- proach to perfection in this exercise, which is the foundation of all others. Every one succeeds in propelling himself along by means of his feet, but that is not true walk- ing. An En lish authority says: “ The body should e held erect, the shoulders down, chestexpanded, and the leg moved from the hip, the whole figure above being immovable. The movement from the knee is said to be the secret of bad walking, com- bined with the discomfort of tight shoes and high heels,’which turn the figure in a most ungraceful manner. A short, brisk walk is beneficial. while a tramp for miles results in utter wcai'iuess." The Symptoms of Consumption. We are frequently asked the question : What are the first symptoms of consump- tion zâ€"The patient has a slightly feverish condition, chilly sensations about the spine, aslight bronchial irritation, a very slight cough, perhaps, a very slight loss of energy and strength, and a slight tendency to loss of flesh. However, not one person in a hundred who has these symptoms is going to have consumption, but these are the premonitory symptoms of that dread dis- ease. Consumption does not begin with a. healthyperson. If it did, there would be univorsai consumption. for one cannot pass through the streets of a city without tak- ing in the germs of tuberculosis. They are to be found in the dust of the street, in hotel parlors, in the drawin ~rooni car... perhaps in the very bedding 0 the sleeping car. hese places Always have these germs in abundance, and the consequence is that we are continually exposed to this danger; and the reason we do not all get con-um - tion is that we are not all in a suaceptib 0 condition. But when we conform to tho laws of health, We shall become susceptible to the attacks of tubercnlar as well as other germs. â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"+â€"-â€"â€".â€" Sheep in Australia. Some idea of the extent at the sheep in- dustry in Australia may be gathered from the fact that in New South Wales alone there are 42,000 shee runs. The area comprised in these hol logo is not far from 190,000,000 acres. This would make the average run of about 4,500 acres. Over eighty per cent. of these holdings are leased from the Colonial Government . All, or nearly all, of the best sheep coon-- try in the Australian colonies in new occu- pied, and any additional increase in the number of sheep which the country can be made to carry must be effected by improve. ments in the way of irrigation and the character of the herlngc.