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“ For one but“ of snap use time table- Ipoonfuls of coal oil. such as you use in the lamp. For a family of live or six, put enough water in the lmilcr to boil tl-ej clothes, add two tlblespoonfuls of coal oil and .two-thlrds of a bar of soap. or its equivalent of soft soap, let it wine to a boil, wot your cleanest clothes in cold water or warmed enough for comfort. It wristtmuls are very dirty, a little soap may be rubbed on them ; put them in the boiling water and boil fifteen or twenty minutes. While they are boiling, wet the next. boilerful, and it very dirty, add another spoonful of oil and more amp. The last boiler will not need any more oil or soap. It takes about as much soap as the ordinary way. but it is all put in the boiler. After boiling suds, rinse at usual. Two things rememberâ€" have plenty of soap in boiling water, and have it boiling when the clothes are put in. If you fail the first time, try. try again; you will be sure to like it. “'e have wash- ed this way nearly a yearâ€"long enough to test itâ€"and our clothes look nice and whi'e, Scanmmm EoGs.â€".\lelt a piece of butter in a. frying pan, when it is hot drop in the eggs which have been well beaten, season With pepper and salt; stir constantly three minutes. CRULLERS.-â€"On8 cup of sugar, one cup of sour milk, two eggs, three tablespoons of melted butter, one tens n of soda, one- quarter of a teaspoon 0 salt; fry in very hot lard. POTATO CAKES â€"‘.\luke cold mashed pota- toes into flat cakes, flour them and fry 3 light brown. VFIsu Suvaâ€"Heat a cup of vinegar. stir into it a. half cup of butter, 3 teaspoouful of made mustard and a. little pepper. PUDDIXG SAl' Ga. â€"â€"0ne cup of sugar, one- holf cup of butter beaten to a cream, two tablespoons of flour, one cup of hot water . let come to a boil t-hcn add the juice and grated rind of one lemon. CLOVE Guamâ€"One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one and one-half cups of milk, four cups of flour, four eggs, one-half pound of raisins seeded, one teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and soda. .nd we say let thom rub who want to. Please try 3nd report.’ BEAR SOULâ€"Soak one quart of beans over night. In tht} mornjng gdd one quart of co‘lad water and set where it. will kec'p warm one hour ; add two chopped onions and one pound of salt pork. Cook until the beans are tender ; strain and season. LS 310:: Hum CAKE.-â€"Y01ks of tWo eggs, one cup of sugar, butter size of an egg, one and one-half cups of flour ;two teaspoons of baking powder. _Bake in three layers. Fil- lingâ€"One cup of sugar, two-thirds of a. cup of hot water, one tablespoonful of flour mix- ed in a little cold water. grated rind and juice of two lemons, yolks of two beaten '1 AZII L‘_:_‘_ , _-,I JUICD 01 [W0 lcnluua, ’Ulna u- uuu u...u.... eggs. Stir all together ; boil till thick ; cool he ore spreading. Com-mun Pvnmsu.â€"-One egg. one table- spoonful of melted butter, oue‘half cup of milk, one-half cup of sugar, one-half of a teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, flour enough to make a cake batter. DRIED BEEF l.\' BULKâ€"Shave the desired quantity of dried beef, add a piece of butter half the size of an egg, and three cups of milk; let, it come to a. boil slowly. “'hen it boils stir in a tublespoonful of flour mixed with a little cold water, let it ball up, then remove from the stove. G ELATINH Pl‘nmNn.-â€"Make n custard with the yolks of four eggs, one pint of milk, and sugar to taste; soak one-third of a box of eletine in a little cold water, then dissolve it in three-fourths of a. cup of hot water, add this and the whites of four eggs well beaten to the cold custard. Pour into a mold and serve cold. To clean steel, apply with a flannel cloth a paste of emery powder and sweet-oil. To polish hard-wood furniture use raw linseed-oil or n mixture of tw0‘thirds tur- pentine and one third sweet-oil. Apply with a flannel, and polish with flannel, can- ton flannel, or Chamois-skin. Mirrors may be cleaned with cold water and a sponge, or rubbed with a. damp cloth dipped into powdered bluing, and then polished. Clean brass with a solution made by dis. solving one tea-spoonful of oxalic acid and two tea-spoonfuls of tripoli in half a pint of soft water. Apply with a woolen mg, and after a few minutes wipe dry, and polish. A very complete filling for open cracks in floors may be made by thoroughly soaking newspapers in a paste made of one pound of flour, three quarts of water, and a table- spoonful of alum, thoroughly boiled and mixed. Make the final mixture about as thick as putty, and it. will harden like pa- pier-macho. A correspondent desires information as to how to destroy roaches, moths, and bed- bugs. The following method will generally be found effectual for ridding beds of bugs : Take the bedstead apart, carry out of doors and give it a thorough washing with gaso- line. Use plenty of the gasoline, and make sure that every crack and crevice is thor. oughly saturated. Kerosene ma be used instead of gasoline, but needs to re washed off with soap and water after a few hours, while gasoline is volatile and‘very soon evap- orates. The bedding should be thoroughly and carefully examined, cleaned, aired, and if need he, the seams and corners spungcd with gasoline. Care must. of course, be taken to allow all the gasoline to eva orate before returning the bedding to the house. The beds must be carefully watched, and the process repeated whenever any signs of the csts are discovered. Remember that gasoiine and its vapor are as explosive as égofine and its vapor gunpowder. For the past two weeks, a hen has been in the Imhit of flying at the windowsof the box factory of the Ontario Bolt Co.’s Works near the llnmher River, and on being mlmitted at once. makes for n certain circular saw, underneath the frame of which she crawls into a box of sawdust and (lepmits her egg. After sitting it while she comes forth, chicks a few times and then tries to get out. The eggs laid are of n large size and perfectly white. Him-s rm: HOUSECLEANING. Wasulxu MAD» EASY. A (‘nrlous Incident. IIOI'SEIIOIJ). USEFUL REC 11-13. A MUUNTAIN or Sm. One day lost work, while conversing with a friend, a colored preacher undertook to describe the utter and unappronchublo Bill‘ fuluess of the beat nwn in the world. and in doing this he he had recourse to the follow. iug vigorous language : “Ef all do waters what am under do fnrmuincnt and on do top of do furmamont was changed in do twinkling 0b on eye inter do hlackest ob ink, an’ do skies was ho changed inter letter-paper, and obbery blade 01) grass war a pen, an' of all do folks who has ohhor libbed was tor write day an night. until doy was a million times older den Mothnaalom. doy wouldn‘t hab time, nor ink, nor pens, nor paper onnlf tor write up do sinfulneas of do boat man in do hull world, Bah." “Yo' lxab not yet called to see me at do house," said a colored \Vest End belle to her Adonis film roth_e;' night. “ De trouble is. I 11337101: got de acquaint- ance of your fambly," he replied. “ Come up, den, and he introduc-u ." “ [a your fodder at. home 1'" “ Dat am jist whur he am." ” Am (hr :1 dog about de premises 2" “ DAr am not." “What sizo boot does your {adder w’ar 3" “ Number l3." “ I guess den I will defer gwine up to de parental mansion dis evenin’. Thirteen am an unlucky number.” To pick up a horseshoe is a sign of good luckâ€"there is no doubt about it. Maud S. can pick up a horseshoe quicker than any trotter in the world. and see what luck she has. But it isn’t always lucky to pick up a horseshoe with a horse nailed to it. A man down in Texas did that the other day, and he was made to decorate it telegraph pole, just for luck. It is not generally known that a horseshoe will cure dyspepsia. A horse planted one in the pit‘ of a man‘s stomach who was suffering from that pain- ful disorder, and he never complained after- ward. The time to plant them is in the Spring. A red~hot horseshoe carried in the hand has been known to cure a boy of pick- ing up things. He had been courting her for six months without coming to the point, “hen she turned on him one evening )Vith : “ Charles, isn't it awful for a girl like me to have to worry over how I shall invest .75.000?" He thought it was, and three months later_they were married. V “ I' 11 im est that $7 5, 000 for you, my dear," he obsen ed a. day or two after mar- riage. - n a. 'ILI,,,A “ Oh, I was afraid some one might love me for my money, and I gave it to papa,” was the artless reply. The religious press of the United States have treated the fisheries dispute with con- siderable moderation, and many have left it entirely in the hands of politicians and political journals. These are not the best qualified judges in an international dispute of any character, especially when the popu- lar vote has the power that it wields in the United States, and we are glad to see our contemporary, The Baptist li'eekly, giving favorable introduction to a brief and truth- ful resume of the affair from the Montreal ll'itness : The “fisheries question" which has given rise to a good deal of unwise newspaper discussion, and in regard to which Senator Ingalls used such violent words, leads the Montreal ll'ilness to make the following calm statement. which it will be well for some of our belligerent politicians to read : “ The Canadians are under a treaty with the Americans, and fulfilled their part of the treaty faithfully, which the Americans did not do. The Americans terminated the treaty. They have ever since refused, though constantly asked, to take any steps towards a new treaty or agreement, and still refuse. By this action the relations between the two countries rest upon an antiquated treaty, the provisions of which it was necessary for our government to en- force, if they were to have an control of the national fisheries at all. he manner in which they have done this has been in the highest degree generous. The treaty term- inated in the middle of the fishing season of 1885. At the request of the United States Government, which promised that steps; would immediately be taken to arrange a new treaty, the American fishermen were allowed, without any return, to continue fishing for that season. The American Government took no steps to arrange a new treaty, because, at the instance of the New En land fishermen, Congress flatly refused to ( 0 so. The law was enforced during the season of 1886, in the most gentle manner compatible with firmness. Secretary Man- ning, misinformed doubtless by people on the coast, called this ”brutal, a word which had no foundation in fact, and which in the month of a diplomat of any other country would be considered an internation- al outrage. This is the whole story." Mr. Sanderson, superintendent of govern- ment, Kheddshs, succeeded recently in cep- tnrlng an immense herd of elephants. num- bering no fewer than 140. This is the largest capture on record, and represents. it is es- timated, about 3 lakh of rupees. The scene of the ca tnre is only six miles from the Turn he ( uarters station at the (lam hills. The stocknhe in which the elephants are in- closed is immensely strong, but is being fur- 1 ther strengthened n ninst pressure of so many powerful anims s by being backed up with powerful timber supports, while an ex. trn stocknde is being prepared into which some of the elephants may he admitted be- fore the tying-up process with tame ele- phants commences. The main stocknde is itemlly tightly packed with elephants of all sizes. ('ol. (irnhnm Smith, connnissnry general. \\ ho is pnyingan otiieinl visit to the ; Kheddnhs. “us, with Mrs. Graham Smith, i fortnnmte enonuh to be present at this most lexciting earptnre. nnd to witness A scene. un- ‘eqnallvd in Khmldnh operations. Unfortu- snntely during the drive. one eleplmnt, {breaking Inn-k, camped, nnd in doing so killed one of the hunters.-~("nlrul(a Ifngliwh- man. Great Capture of Elephants. The Fisheries Question. spam: smuas.‘ AN Uxu'mu NUMBER. Nor Isvss'rzn. Fun LI‘CK. To (mow Srnmvmznkws. The nmin point. involved in the successful culture of this fruit, as recowlizctl by our but cultivatora are as follows : I. l'reparo the ground by deep plowing and subsoiling; apply a dressing ot rotten manure equal to twenty cords per acre; spread it over the ground and mix with the surface soil by repeated and thorough disiu~ tegralion with a harrow. The best crops are produced on strong, loalny soils; if somewhat. clayey it will be all the better, provided it is drained. ‘2. Give the plants plenty of space. Tho rows should not he lvsa than thirty inches apart, and the pluntz‘ about hall that distance between each other in the rowa. 3. Remove all runners as they appear: and keep the surface well pulverized and clean during summer after the crop has been gathered in the old plantationâ€"the same cleanly treatment applying to newly set out plants. If young plants are wanted, i keep a portion of the plantation for the pur- pose. 4. Cover the plants in winter, after the freczing Weather sets in, with straw, leaves, or other similar nmterial, as a. partial pro. tection from injury by frost. 5. Do not distfirb the roots by any pm- cess of cultivation from the month of Sep- tember until after the crops have: been gathered. â€" 6. Make a new plantation every year, and destroy the old plants after they have produced a second crop. There has been not a little discussion or late among English stock and dairy men over Shorthorns. A few years ago it was asserted that the milking pro erties of this breed were not what they ha been in the last century. This was probably correct, but it is not‘as true to-day, if true at all, as it was then. When the declension of Short- horn milking value was discovered, a systematic etfort was made to bring it up, and with success. A writer in the Weekly Messenger remarks : “There are two sides to this milk question. It enormous powers in that direction are required, some of the beef must be sacrificed to the demand for more milk. If more l-eef is wanted, some of the milk must go. In either direction, the powers of the Shorthoru may be drawn out. In both directions, they may be im- proved until the point is reached where milking saps the muscular system, or the development of muscle and tat dry the sources of milk. To keep the balance is al- ways diflicult, and not always desirable." “’hen some strips through'a grain field are left unfertilized with phosphate or other coneentrated manure. they often appear as if actually stunted by the larger growth on either side. This is often probably the fact. The fertilizer in close contact with the seed gives it such a vigorous start that its roots encroach on the unmanured soil, from which they drain part of the too scanty supply. The small amount of these concentrated fer- tilizers used show that it does not need a great quantity of manure to give a crop a good send-off when it is applied in contact with the seed. The same amount of fertil- izers spread over the entire surface would make much less show, though before the sea. son was over the roots might, and probably would, reach most of it. There are 365 days in a year, and of that number we must deduct 100 days as the melting period, as it usually requires about three months for a hen to shed her feathers and put on new ones. \Ve then have 265 days left. As no hen can lay an egg every day, it is apparent that the hen that lays 200 eggs in a year cannot stop to do much work in hatching; she must not become sick, and she cannot afford to lose any time. If a hen lays ten dozen eggs a year (120) she very nearly lays one every other day, and if she does that. and raises a brood. she is per- forming good work. For a flock, where good layers and inferior iayers are together, we should not be disappointed if the hens averaged 100 eggs each and raised broods. There are many times in butter dairies where the most profitable use of skimmed milk is to feed it again to the cow which has given it. The- milk, after the cream has won taken from it. retains the elements that most cows find deficient in their food. \Vith plenty of grain the cow can easily supply the carbon of fat-forming elements of her milk, provided she can get the caseline and albuminous portions which the skim-milk furnishes. It is the drain of these that hurts cows most, and they should he su plied, if not in skim-milk. then in some ot er food equally nutritious. Clusmse Hossrs' Cons. While horses are shedding their coats they should be well fed and not overlooked. It is important to have the new coat on be- fore active farm work begins, as the chang- ing process is debilitating. Thorough grooming at this time is very important, and there should at all times be work enough to prevent the muscles from becoming weak- ened by disuse. Unless horses have some work in winter the fatthey then put on _will (lg-thehllfitlc igibhillhesizlea thé certainty that the shoulders will gall when the horses are put go hard pulling. FARM Norms. Thin ont instead of shortening in a tree when von transplant it. It is a mistaken notion that it is the proper way to cut 013‘ the ends of all the limbs. Not only does the linden tree produce honey in cat abundance, but its quality is regarded? many as equal, if not superior, to that yie (led by white clover. When you wash youn trees use a cloth. On old ones a still scrub. rush is better, as it will dislodge insects that have taken up quarters beneath the scales of bark. . n There is no doubt hut hardwood floors should he used in creemories when atone flagging. carefully cemented, cannot. be had. Blotonghly seasoned maple is one of the ‘st. One thing seems to have been quite well (icinonstrntc«i~tllnt n largorqnnntity of po- tatoes, as weil M potatoes of n hotter quai- ity. can he mint-«l with chemical fertilizers than with ‘mnnure. (ircen ryo is growing in favor among NOTICEABLE Ernzcrs OF PHOSPHATE. THE AVERAGE NUMBER or EGGS. SKI)! MILK r03 Cows. Goon MILKERS. FA ll 3|. a little discussion of dairy men an a forage crop for mi'ch cown. It not onlv causes an increase in the quan- tity of milk. but the quality of cream and butter is said to be improved by its use. Vick guys a spot for pansics shuuhl he se- lected where it. is a little shad . at lean in tho middle of the «lay. A p ace entirely shady is not «loairahle. A light 54!“ made rich with Weill-cued stable manure is a pro- per place for them. Analysis has provcu that tho pcrm ntugc of flesh furniing constituents of the heat. quality 0f linseed cake is about (qual to that contained in pew and beans, and equal to those also for muscular development. For the production of fut it is claimed to be an- pevinr to corn, out or barley meal. One way to improve the market for truck and smell fruits in to diminish the quantity and improve the quality of the produce taken to msrket. Would it not pay better in the end to assert and cull closely. keep all in ferior stuff at home to feed the stock, and send only the choicest to market 3 Meal will fatten old sheep better than whole grain, as they cannot municnta the min well with their poor tenth. Sheep ialike to eat. meal, as it flies nr into their nostrils. This trouble can eaai y be reme- diml by wetting it slightly, or what is bet- ter, cut the hay, wet it and sprinkle the meal over it. A Frenchman supplies prepared and warm food to the milch cows of Paris. The feed is delivered twice a (lay in covered barrels hot. from steam vats. It consists of chaired fodder, roots, pea, bean, or linseed meal. rye, barley, maize A cow can thus be fed on fourteen cents daily, and the rations are free to be always analyzed at the contract- or’s expense. As a rule fattening cattle will require twelve pounds of dry food for every one hundred pounds of live weight. and this un- der favorable conditions will make one ound of gain. The food to do this must Be nutritious and contain thirtv-three per cent. of grain. So says Mr. Lawes. Store cattle will do on eight or ten pounds, and keep thriftv. Every new spring seems a. new creation, only less wonderful than the first, and a fresh royelation of_ beauty and dijinity to man. Nature makes one more tfl‘ovt,'and surely this time she will attain the ideal, »- the perfectneas to which all things tend. The seeming failures of the past are as no- thing to her, the autumn and winter are forgotten ; here and now at last is a new beginning, and an infinite possibility. And so it. is that heaven lies about. us in spring no less than in our infancy, and in this new world, we, ourselves, are again as gods, knowing good and evil, capable of the great- es: things. Though spring speaks thus in the air and the sunshine, in the running streams, and the budding trees, yet the inspiration and the poetry of the season have their fullest expressions in birds and wild flowers. '1‘0 the soul in sympathy with Nature even the cawing of the crows is sweet music when first it breaks the dreary silence that filled the air and the woods all the winter. But the voice of the crow is not significant of the spring, since many of these birds remain with us during the winter, in the shelter of our thickest woods and cedar swamps. The robin is the real harbinger of springâ€" 1 the first bird-herald of the new era. Throughâ€" ‘ out the whole country every body awaits his coming. School boys and school-girls watch for the first robin. All the country papers announce his arrival. and the great city journals join in the welcome. No one sees him on the way ; yet some morning, as if he had just flown down from the skies, there he sits on the topmost spray of a bare tree, and the glad news goes from mouth to mouth that spring has come. The earth is bleak and bare ; there is no sign anywhere that Nature will ever wake again from that dead sleep; yet the robin sings as cheerily and hopefully as if all the glory and joyousness of spring were already here, and his song- bursts are to us both an inspiration and a prophecy. Even with the snow a foot deep, as it was last year in the first week of April, this brave bird showed no loss of courage. There was an old and empty nest on the bough near himâ€"last year's nest lâ€"bnt he cared not for that; he would build an- other, and this new hope filled him with ingodious joys. .. -‘n o This year the robins reached Canada at an unusually early date. They were seen in the trees on the grounds of the Universi- ty in Tcronto on the 8th and 9th of March. An enthusiastic bird~lover, writing to the Globe from Sault Ste. Marie a few days at- terwards. reported these birds in his vicini- ty early in February, both this year and But this fact does not warrant the assump- 1 tion of a warmer climate for the Sault dis-1 triet. Such early arrivals so far to the north must be phenomenal; and the later appearance of birds in the lower parts of the Province may be partly accounted for in an- other we . It has lately been made known by (Jana ian omithologists that the smaller birds in their migrations to the north are averse to crossing the great lakes. Their stren th of wing does not seem to be suffi- cient§or so long a continuous flight. Some that attempted it have been seen to alight on early passin vessels, in a much exhaust. ed condition. he probability is that by far the greater number come to a stop when they reach the reat lakes on their north- ward flight. I ere they remain, perhaps for several days, and are seen flittin along from tree to tree on the shore, until they reach the ends of the lakes ; then they cross the river, and continue their flight to the north. The absence of any such obstruction On that meridian may partl explain the comparatively early arriva e at the Sault. It is certain that extraordinary numbers of birds are observed for a few days during the migration season at such points as ‘ the Mackinac Straits and the Niagara River. last. But we return from this digression. It is in the nest-building season that the robin sings his sweetest songs. Long before sun- rise he pours forth his melody tom the tree tops, and this is the first sound of morning that greets the ell-night watcher. Then, in the evening, after he has been hard at Work all day, plastering his house in the orchard, he sings his cvensong, and the dusk thrills with his ruptures. After a rain- shower, too, he will be seen on the top of his favorite tree warhling hopefully to his timid mate, of brighter skies and happier days. Even in the intervals of n storm, when the clouds nre yet dripping, he sings courageously, until the heavy pelting drops ; of the fresh shower drive him to shelter. Ii’rbcta and writers of all kinds have united In the Spring. ju glor‘iiyjug. thg qiphtingaly and tlge ayy- in gloritvilng the nightingale and the any- lurk of 'England, but no strong voice has ever sung the praise of many of our Ameri- can birds. Yet there in a lure sweetness in Ilw robin'u atrnin, and if it could be trans- lated into words tlurc nouhl lu- a em of l-inl-Iong put}: us not. own Shel «y has written. It is liut as simple homely air, not n fine or vnriml melody; yet it .i‘ rich and deep, and full of unutteruble afiection llull lcmlcrness. The brown lhlllbil and the wood thrush reach us from thu south shortiy after their cousin, the robin; but they are shy birds, and are not often even except by those tht are lr oking after them. They love to hi" their nests in thickets on the sides of streams in quiet ravines. The ‘ more familiar in his habits; but U these nor any others of the thrush fan: are nearly so numerous as the cabins. Yet the cat-bird, the brown thrfih, and the wood thrush. are even sweeter singers than the robin. The wood thrush is, without doubt, the best singer among our northern birds. lts note is finer, more varied, and more continuous than the robin’s; and it is, moreover, entirely free from aeertain harsh- ness which breaks the robin's strain. At times the wood thrush abandons himself to a wild ecttasy of melody that entirely transcends description. On such occasions his song is scarcely excelled by that of his more famous relative, the mockingbird of the South. The blue-bird is also one of our earliest and most Welcome sp ing comers. Though not a singing bird, it is much to be admired for its grace of form, its rich coloring, and its_quiet, gentle ways. - .0... n ‘- Liennwloxile our 'homely little Canadian gray-bird has arrived, and soon afterwards we mark the coat of ellow and black, and the long, undulating ight of the goldfinch. As May advances we greet the martens, the swallows, and the little yellow bird or Wild canary, _as it is sometimes called. ‘N‘ew, too, in the meadows the gay bobolink flut- ters in the air, his head quivering “ith sweet, tremulous ruptures, till he drops down quietly beside his soberly dressed mate on the nest among the dandelion blooms. The golden oriole and the scarlet tanager reach us next, and seem like bits of the tropics that have, by some chance, been caught on the south wind, and blown to us here. The tanager is the most brilliantly colored bird that visits the North. “’hen it settles on a tree after its meteoric flight the branches seem all allame. With the coming of these two birds summer may be considered to have fairly set in. Itis interesting to notice the unsettled air of our song birds for the first few days after their arrival. The crews have the business-like ways of old residents ; but the smaller birds tly hither and thither in an aimless, uncertain fashion, like a dazed new- comer in a large city. The country seems strange to them yet. It is all so different from the summer glow and the breezes of balm in the land they have just left. At times they seem quite bewildered. But they become more composed presently, and set; vigorously to work to build their little dwellings. A It must not be forgotten that pure air and sunshine are among the most potent of na- ture’s disinfectants. To PREVEXT Sums Anna Burmaâ€"It very often happens that great disfigurement is occasioned by the contraction of the scars produced by deep burns. To a great degree this may be prevented by daily manipulation of the parts with oil, The scar should be well rubbed, stretched, nndipnlled, and by this treatment it may be kept soft and flex- ible. The burning of sulphur is an excellent menus for disinfecting musty rooms, cellars, fruit houses, or any apartment which has acquired a. stale or musty odor, as it destroys vegetable spores and germs of all sorts. If any room in a house has a musty odor which cannot be removed by ordinary scrub- bing and disinfecting, then shut it up and burn a quantity of sulphur in it as already directed. DEATH ansn TUE Horseâ€"Death lurks under the house in early spring, in the she of decaying and moldy ,vegetables in t e cellar, and the decomposing remains of weeds and fungi which developed the pre- ceding season in the damp, dark, unventi- lated space beneath that portion of the house not; included in the ‘cellar. Killed by the winter’s frost, this deccmposable matter is ready to send forth the pcstiferous gases and disease-producing germs which cause some of the common maladies incident to spring. Clear away the filth from these oft neglected places, and save suffering and doc- tors’ bills Srmquows. â€"\Iany persons take cold more frequently in the s ring. than at any other season of the year. his Is occasioned by neglect of the iact that the grass and walks in early spring are still damp when appearing to be dry, by reason of the slow- ness with which the ground thaws out after it has b'en frozen during the winter months In the spring also, the meltin snow and rains keep the soil saturated thh moisture for weeks, so that much e‘poration takes place from the surface._ Sensitive persons, rticularly invalids, should proteét their eet with rubbers when walking out in early spring, and should resist the te tion to sit or recline on a grass or covered bank without first spreading upoflthe ground a thick rubber cloth as a protection. A I’ngd'r Sour or Mhmcmmâ€"The native doctors of Porn nny have a very agreeable way of dosing their patients. Ac- cording to Dr. Memersay, the payes, or na- tive doctors of the ngum, administer to their patients nothing but water and fruit. The only other remedies em loyed are vari- oussu erstitious rites, am‘t eshnking of a gourm filled with stones m the ears of the gonred filled with atones'in the ears 3f the patient. The result of this variety of “ mind- cure” is not given; but the water-drinking and fruit diet must exercise a salutary influ- ence upon the class of maladies most preva- lent among these people. SAND Purimâ€"Sand paper in at resent f made with powdered gloss instead o and. > Glass is readily pulverized by heating it red hot and throwing it into water, and finish- ' ing thepowdoring in on iron mortar. 11 the use of cloves of different sizes of meal: 1 the powder can be separated into various 1 grades. from the fines dust. to very conrso, 3‘ and there should he kept. separate. A stron paper is tucked down and covered wit n strong glue, and the surface covered with powdered glass of the desired finenossg‘f Whom the glueis dry the nut lun glass is: shaken or brushed off. Mus in is hotter than paper, and lasts much longer in use. ll BALTH.