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“ Beer me countâ€" one tn 6, three, tourâ€" llour whole weeks. In three duo more: Thirty-one deye, end ouch will creep A: the Ihedow crewie over yonder Ikep ; Thirt ’-one nighte. end i ehell lie Wetc ing the store climb up the sky. llow our [wait till 3 month in o‘er I" “ But I you is 00 long i" he enid, Uplinlmr his bright youn heed. " All the 00mm must come on 20 Over the hllle with lootetepe slow-â€" Autumn end winter, eummer and spring; 0h, (or A bridge of gold to fling Over the chum deep end wide. That I might croee to the other side Where she is walilngâ€"my love, my bride 1” “ Ten veer! mey be long i" he aid, Slowly rid-g his stetely heed. " But there 3 much to win, there‘s much to lose '. A nun must lebour, 1 man must choose. And he mud be etrongto wait i The years may be long, but who would wear The crown oi honor must do end dereâ€" 80 time he: he to toy with late Who would climb to mmhood'e hieh eetete." “ Ah l lite ie not long ?' he mid. Bowin hie grand white heed. “One. two. roe, four. five. eix. seven-â€" Seventy yam ! As swift their flight A: Iwnlloue cleaving the morning light, 0r golden gleuns at even. Lite is short as a summer nightâ€" How long, 0 God. is eternity ?" “ an a rock ll 00] I“ In aid. Wflb . allot hhcuv 3! had. ' One. No. “no (out. an. nu. uvcn :_ Bonn whole Ayn! Why. in six you Imow (You know it youmflâ€"~you told me no) l'lufimt 0011 up In Haven Ado all the earth And the nu and the skin. 11» mu And flu buds and the humeral“. How cm I “it tot my needs to grow 1" “ But n month 99 go_long _!"_he and. Tm: CHEAPEST ANIMAL Foon. Few persons, even among medical men, we fancy, are aware of the real value of milk in comparison with other articles of food. Housekeepers frequently find it diflicult to make as great a variety in arti- cles of diet as is desirable, and by keeping the one under consideration in view, they may find that it will often stand them in good service by way of a change. It would ‘ appear that the nutritive value of milk, as ‘ compared with other articles of animal food, is not generally appreciated. There is less ‘ difference between the economical Value of milk, beefsteak, eggs or fish, than is com- monly supposed. The quantity of water in good milk is 86 to 87 per cent., in round steak 75 per cent., in fatter steak 60 per cent., in eggs about 68 per cent. From an- alyses made, it is estimated that sirloin steak (reckoning the loss from bone) at 35 cents a pound is as dear as milk at ‘24 cents a quart; and corned beef at 17 cents as dear as milk at 15 cents. The deduction seems tobe that milk at even 12 cents a quart is the cheapest that can he used. 01 “ But u month ll .0 lon !" he as WM) a droop 0! his boy sh had. nu Inn mnnt- mm. In 0. ”IMO. "I vvu-nv- w-.- “-_--' guns, remaining digestive power "can be ex- pended on more easily digested food, and thus enable the cow to yield a larger flow of milk If the hey used is early out or “ dried grass," it willbe permissibleto feed it more freely than late cut hayâ€"Massa- chusclls I’Ioughman. Some thrifty dairyman has found out how to water butter as well as milk. He puts gelstine in it, and gelstine absorbs ten times its weight of water, while the water thus taken up does not impair the solidity of the butter. . The prevalence of leuro- incumonia among English cattle wil proba ly engage the attention of the Canadian De artment of Agriculture, with a view to tak ng steps to prevent contagion in this country from imported animals. . .u. :- If you have a horse that is in the habit of kicking, put him in a narrow stall that has both sides thickly padded. Suspend a sack filled with hay or straw so that it will strike his heels, and let horse and sack fight it out. Be sure to have things {ti-rang. e3 30 that the horse can not her? himself. The sack will be victorious every time. and in the end the horse will absolutely refuse to kick the seek or anything else. Mr. l‘hilbrick gives in the Amrrican Cul- tivator an interesting article on rhubarb- culture this week. He insists that this plant will thrive upon any good, well-drain- ed land that can he worked deeply. A deep loam with sandy bottom units it best; a shallow soil with hard or stony bottom is not good, for the roots strike very deep when not obstructed, and they thrive better in a doe} soil in time of drought. The alanting is heat done in October or Novem- er, or early in sprin : but when more con- venient it can he p antcd at almost any time in the summer. The land is prepared hyploughing under a heavy dressin of manure. then rolling the land and stri ing out rows four feet apart with a plough. The sets or pieces of the old roots, which should not have more than W0 -huds each, are placed along the furrow at distances of three feet, and covered with the hoe about iwo incheh. Lifoiq on Lung. FARM. Nous. The Amer-icon Bell Telephone Com ny’e nnnnel direceon' meeiiu was he a in Boston, Men. on March 3. 1887. It was celled to order by William H. Forbee,‘ President, at ll A. M. The following are the principal fi urea. interesting to the public, contain in the report read at the meeting. In the year 1886, 9,318 new sub. ecribere were enrolled, as against. 2,968 in 11885. The company's wires have n mile- ‘nge of 14,185; of these, 2.6l3 miles nre underground. The average connections (or your are 312,605,910. Among the improve- ments promised for the ensuing year ‘ ‘ ‘ A} .A._J ________ _,‘ ..... .. run..-" -h , ,, .. . are further extension of underground wires, and terminal facilities between New York and Boston and Philadelphia. The Philadelphia line will soon be 0 n to the public, and the Boston line wil be com- pleted during the present year. The Can sdisn company's earnings have increased from $158,000 in 1885 to $196,565 in 1886. Teleahones .............. S 597,649.84 Stoc ................... 22,605,925,03 Merchandise, machinery. . 14,159.71 Cash, deposits, etc ....... 1,891,499.30 Capital stock ............ 9,802,100.00 Patent account .......... 9,373,836.07 Profit and loss ........... 3,352,445.72 Reserves ................ 251,227. ‘25 Surplus ................. 1,49 l ,380. 18 Giving a total of $24,909,333 08. The gross earnings for 1886 were $3,097,000, against $2,765,884 in 1835; net earnings for same riods, 31.947383 and $1,793,196. The ividends paid in 1886 came to $1,176,252 re lar, and $392,084 extra dividends. he above remarkable array of figures is a good illustration of what a patent may be worth. This immense business is built upon w v. on. .. --... ---._-. V a single claim of the single 1876 patent of Alexander G. Bell. All others in the present aspect of things, such as his later atenta, and the many other patents ownet by the company. are of secondary importance. Eventually, their value will appear. A striking item is the patent account of over nine millions of dollars, an amount very nearly equal to the capital stock. The company has acquired such financial strength that whatever the decision of the Supreme Court may be, it can view the limitation or even extinction of the Bell patent with equanimity. The Bell Telephone Company. A Deceptive Drink. “Patrick O'lIallomn,” called Magistrate O'Brien. “ That’s me name,” responded a pleasant. faced “son of the sod," as he plucked his foretop in deference to the majesty of the court. wr‘.'vl“hey say you were drunk last night, Patrick.” - ....... dent. intireiy." “ Didn’t you mean to get drunk 2” “ I did not, soor. I was decayved. I was comin’ home frum me wnrk whin I met Tim Mnhoney and Mike Sullivan on the strate. As we were talkin', the quistion of dhriuk kem up, whin Mike ses till me, ‘Did ye ever dhrink eggsnog 1" ‘ Phnt’s that I" ses I. ‘ Come, and we’ll show ye,’ 593 he. \Vid that we \vint till Jim 0’ Hooley’s saloon be- yaut, auanik? tmted. . ... ,,, J 3L -_._.. Ll ...... J “ We all took cgguog, and it was the nay- test dhrink I'd iver put intil me mouth. I tmted and Tim trated, and thin Jim trated, and I started till me supper, but whin I ruched the strata me head was whirling loike a top. I tuk hould of a. lamp-post to stiddy mesel’, and the nixt thing 1 found mesel’ in the cell beynnt.” Two pairs of sparrows were watched by an observant naturalist feeding their young in their nestsI in only one half hour with the larva‘ of the bluebottlc fly from a dead cut. They fetched these in all 101 times, and one of the birds also caught H flies on the wing. Now the common house fly is computed to produce in one season, so prolific is its pro- geny‘and progeny: no less than 20,900,000 nu nan Ann .0”) ‘1“... ova-J .«u‘- I" 'D'fii , say, in round numbers 21,000,000, and thus were prevented by these two pair of birds no fewer than 280,000,000 by the capture of 14 flies, and 2,800,000 by the destruction l of the 104 larvw. Again there figured in the parish accounts of one parish in Glouces- tershire a charge for 1? dozen of (so-called) tomtits’ heads; in another parish, Mel- bourne, in Derbyshire, a sparrow club des- troyed in one year, 4,577 small birds, and yet in another 3,500. Take the smaller of these two last numbers and multiply it by the number of flieejust calculated as pre- vented by the two pair of s arrows and it gives what we may verv we] call a grand total of 7,280,000,000,000.â€"â€"Lomlon Timcs. The Bell Telephone company requires se~ rious attention, and it is getting it in several States. It furnishes, perhaps, the most glaring example of cor rative covetoueness to be found on the ace of the civilized globe. \Vith earnings, or extortions, last year amounting to over $3,000,000, its run- ning expenses were something less than $300,000! In the face of this startlin ex- hibit it has not made a move in the girec- tion of reducing tolls or improving its aer~ IVVI The legislature of New York will probably out the rentals of telephone instruments down to about $l0 per annum. Even at that rate the Boston captalists who control thggonopoly will still have a rich yield. What Four Sparrows Can Do. vice. A London police constable, who sudden I‘y became possessed of £2,000, drunk himsc f to death in twenty-four hours. Tun Witnmxn or Mar/us nr ELI-2cm!- ern'.â€"â€"Among the latest developments of the uses and power of electricity is that of welding metals by its sgenc . An explana- tion and demonstration ef this was recently iven at the Boston Institute of Technology, gy ’roiessor Thom on, being the first time that the processâ€" u use at the Professor's works at Lynn, Messâ€"mes been made known. By this novel mode of welding, n broken bar of metal can he rendil reunited, or bars of difl'erent metals welder together a while those mnterinls which previously re sisted welding most obstilmtely are now joined with ease, and those previously easily welded remain the same. The roperties in metals, which are the most tron )lesome, are their differences in s eeific electrical and heat conductivity. Tlie method of welding consists in simply pressin tightly to other the ends to be united, an then pessng an adequate current of electricity through the point of junction. - The Telephone Extortion. "633344. 67 9,373,836.07 3.351441}- 7,? How 70 C001; Eons. The “viability oi oookiu more eggs and lean meat as the warm went pf approaches l0” “Iv-b â€"â€" ‘uv n in well understood by most housekeepe but. the manner of cooking varies too lit Do not nlwoye boil or fr an egg: try omelet even at the rink of” making a {lulu of the first one. Serve eggs, however coo ed. in the prettiest dish you can atl‘ord and let. no trace of their presence linger about the table from one meal to another. The following directions may be of profit to some of our readers: ' BAKED Em:s.â€"Break the eggs carefully into a buttered pie plate. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper over them and also add a few bits of butter. Bake in a nick oven. Remove an soon as the white 0 the egg is cooked and serve in the aama dish. CURDLED Eucs.-â€"Pour boiling water on to the eggs and set the dish containing them on the back part of the stove or where the water will keep warm. Let them stand ten minutes. The white end yolk will be cool:- ed alike and will be more digestible, than when boiled in the ordinary way. DROPPED Ramâ€"Fill a pan with boiling water slightly salted. Lay in mufl‘m rings and into each turn an egg. As soon as the white is not take the egg and rin up with a skimmer. Cooked in this way t 6y are not broken or irregularly shaped as when drop- ped into the water without the rings. CUDFISH Osmanâ€"Shred very finely a. pint bowl of codfish, cover with cold water and cook half an hour in a covered sauce- Egn. When tender. drain off the water ; at three eggs end stir them into a pint of milk and pour over the fish. Rub a piece of butter the size of an egg into a. heapiu tablespoonful of flour ; stir Into the fish an milk. Cook until it thickens and serve in a covered dish. Powmzo Enosâ€"Five eggs, one table- spoonful of butter, one level tenspoonful of salt, one quarter on of milk and a very lit- tle pepper. Beat 1: 9 eggs well, add salt, pepper and milk. Melt the butter in a small bright tin and ur in the eggs ; set the pen in another of iling water and stir constantly until the egg becomes a creamy mass when it is done and should be served at once. PLAIN 0m:1.1-;'r.â€"Two eggs, four table- spoonfuls of milk, one-quarter Ieaspoonful of salt, one-half tablespoonful of butter. Beat the yolks until creamy, add the milk and salt, and last the whites beaten to a. stiff froth. Melt the butter in a smash, smooth frying fin and pour in the mixture ; it should gin to bubble at once. Cook about four minutes, slipping the knife under it now then to prevent burning. \thu the top begins to set, fold it over and turn it on to a small hot platter. NOTES. Boil raspberries six minutes ; eight ounces of sugar to the quart. Bo‘i’l plums tel; minutes ; eight ounces of sugar to the quart is needed. Boil blacklierries six minutes, with six ounces of sugar to the quart. Boil cherries five minutes ; the amount of sugar to the quart is six ounces. Boil ripe curl-ants six minutes ; amount of sugar to a quart, eight ounces. Boil peachés, Whole, fifteen minutes, us- ing six ounces of sugar to aquart. 3111'.) your stove pipe with linseed oil, keep it in a dry place, and it will not rust. Keep begoniis' where the temperature is not too dry, and tbey will not drop their leaves. Boil whortleberries five minutes; the amount of sugar to a quart jar should be four ounces. Boil Siberians, or crab apples, whole, twenty~five minutes ; eight ounces of sugar to a quart. Ho‘t dry Runnels applied to the face and neck are an effective remedy for a " jump- ing toothache. " lf your [lat-irons are rough or rusty, place a. little fine salt upon a flat surface, and rub them over it, Plants in a dormant state re uire very little water during the w inter, an e\cess in this will cause the roots to decay. Boil pears from twenty to thirty minutes â€"twenty for halves and thirty for whole pearsiusing six ounces of sugar to a. quart Ban of fruit: r Of all the geraniums, be sure and have some of the scented-leafed ones. They are thrifty growers and are never bothered by insects of any description. At no period in its history has horticul- ture attracted so much earnest thought from women as now ; they are beginning to see the possibilities that exist in a proper work~ ing opt of the ‘pi‘oiession ; the turn to fruit- ,1 ____..l- .. -AISAB tâ€"nm ing out of the profession ; me turn (0 Iran- growing and kindred work or relief from the pressing weight of household cares, from the irkeome routine of commercial life, and find in the field among fruits and flow- ere that panacea for which they longed. When a man becomes s. widower he soon learns what the financial worth of his wife was to him. When he is compelled to hire the food cooked, the rments made, the washing and ironing one, he finds that about one-half of his income is required to meet these outgoes. _ Who saved this ex- meet these outfits. Who saved tms ex- \ pence before? t the cold fingers and the silent lips in the grave nrd bear testimony. The family urse shonl be as accessible to a faithful will: as to the husband. What man would consent to become a. partner in a company in which his brother partner should alone have control of the company’s funds? There is no one thin more degrad- ing and depressing to u her -working wife than to feel that she must beg like a tram for every cent she spends beyond her foo , which as truly belongs to her as though she earned it as a domestic or a shop girl.â€"-Ncw England Farmer. Saturday night. at l2 o’clock every liquor license in Fall River, Mass, expired, and rohibition under the license law took ef- cct. There were about three hundred li- censed liquor dealers in the city, which will lose $60,000 in revenue annually derived from licenses. An Australian girl has sued a man for breach of romise and laid her damages at halt a million dollars Ho won the on! marriageallle man for eighty miles “out! and she can ’t hope to ever secure ano filer chance. The Value of a nelpmeet.‘ HOUSEHOLD. Brownâ€"“ What was it that Fogg will to you about me 3" Bo â€"“ lie said you were no better than you I ould {be.” Brownâ€" “ Well. I hope you told him that I was." Philadelphia paper naked : “ ls ihero a in the cit to-day who makes her hue- ’s shirts?’ The followiu answer was eceived by return mail: “% do, but he won’t wearv’em. ” Postage is pretty deer in the interior of Africa. Stanley had to pay a runner six- teen cents in beads to carry a letter 280 miles. He ought to kick to the government and have a star route. Only a. girl who has run a typewriter at $4 per week and finally married her employ- er can enter a dry goods store and pared 16 a ladv clerk receivmg $6 per week. t's a lady clerk receifing $6 per week. It's no use for a millionaire'a wife to try it. A Pinto Indian was offered a pound of Eowder if he could out five pounds of boiled eef at one sittin , and he smiled and wag- ged his jaws an devoured eight pounds. 1I11: {wanted more, bue it was a poor day for e . An Faglishman who boasted of having shot seven tigers, five lions and nine ole hunts was ut to flight by a Washington ackdnver t 0 other day, and he didn't am running for a mile. He had never met sue an animal before. Wall street men are great on notations. When a. reporter remarked to a. ig man in the street, “ They say so and so is 301113 up," he got this for an answer: “Youn man, beware of the expression, ‘.They say. It is the catchword of gossips and the ahibboleth of liars." One of the hardest sort of eople was ask- ed to subscribe to some worth object. “ I can’t,” he replied ; “ I must e just before I am generous." “ \Vell.” said the one who had made the request, “ let me know just before you are generous, and I’ll try you again.” A an r-refined young lady entered aSt. Louis ry- oods store the other day and ask- ed to be s own some “ dignifiers." The floor-walker started up the centre aisle in a complete state of bewilderment as to what she wanted. At length he lucked u cour- age enough to request the air dumse to be a little more explicit, as he was ignorant of what she meant by “dignifiers.” \Vith a. look of scorn she replied : “ Bustles, sir.” When James Gordon Bennett was in Pan the other day a talkative nuisance at the club was boasting to him of his wonderful shooting experience. Seein no other way to escape a tragic fate, Mr. ennett yewued and said : “ I myself had a remarkable ad~ venture the other day. I shot at a boar the other day, and, missing him. killed my dog. The boar at once turned and brought back the body of my dog, laying it at my feet.” The story~teller retired. A Buffalo man says that when he and his wife were on their wedding tour, and com- ing from Cleveland on a first train, she dropped her diamond ring through the open~ ing in the bottom of the bowl as she was washing her hand. The conductor wouldn’t stop, and so the pair, got off at the next sti~ tion, and the groom, wal n back three miles to a farm house the noticed just before the ring disa closfe Isegrch.1 After twa ‘ 7 d 1 he oun it yin against M isten- ing in the snnliglgxt. 8 A traveller in Kansas, while crossing a prairie, came upon a party of friends who seemed to be preparinfi the land for agricul‘ tural purposes. “ y friend," said the traveller, addressing one of the men, “ you are laying off your corn rows quite. a distance apart.” “ Corn rows 1” the man gasped. “ Yes, those rows over there.” “ My stars, stranger !" exclaimed the Kansas man, “ is it possible you aint heard of it 2” “ Heard of what I" “ 0f the boom. Man alive, them aint corn rows over thar. they are streets, an' this here is a city. You air now on the corner of Commercial and Emporium Streets, an’ not in the check of a corn row, as you mout suppose.” A Californian has been telling how lively Tombstone, Arizona, was a few years ago. “ I hired out as a barkeeper,” he says, “ in the principal saloon of Tombstone. It was the biggest saloon I ever saw. The bar was sixty feet ion and every known gambling} game was in all blast. Ever day or two‘ there was a shooting scrape and somebody 01: killed or wounded. Every time a row egan I would drop a quarter on the floor and pretend that it had rolled behind the 3 whiskey barrels and then I Would crawl in after it. Iwas huntin for money behind those barrels about hal of the time. \Vhis- key straight was the regular drink, and if a stranger came in and ordered a fancy drink the proprietor would pass out whiskey straight ; and if the customer obiected some- body would hit him over the lead with a revolver and drag him into the street. You see, the ple of Tombstone believed in havén‘g things after the Arcadian simplicity mo e ." Mention was made in this papers. short time since abouts cow in Montgomer coun- ty eating several bars of soap, and a so the fact that the cow died and that the owner of the animal had sued for damages. Rev. E. W. Lawhon, of New Richmond, while on his way to on appointment at Jamestown, purchased some soap and placed it in a sleigh owned by George Deihl, who was to deliver the soap at the minister‘s house Afterwards Deihl met a man named Howard Dewy ; i they exchanged horses, and Delhi went :home in Dewy’s bug y, while Dewy went to lsee a girl at the residence of George Saxe, with tfie soap under the seat, not knowing it was in the sleigh. The cow of Sue ate the soap and died, of course. An examin- ation was held and soap was found in the cow’s stomach. Mr. Sam has sued al_l three Persons, sons to be sure of gettin damages rom somebody. The cow be on e( to Saxe, the aoapto Lowbon, the eleig containing the soap to Delhl, the home hitched to the elelgh to Dewy, and Dewy was the person who went to see the girl of the man whose cow ate _the soap. If the men hexl included the young lady whome Dewy went to see as a party to the suit. then it might be easier to tellwho (lame es could he recovered from, for surely the (grlhad as much to do with the death of the cow as some of the parties. It is said that on his recent birthday Prince Bismarck received a barrel of beer Eer nearly every brewer in Germnny. Fate of a flow That Ate Soap. BURIOROITS. A Lively Town. How 7001'“ \VARTS. Q Place the thumb upon the wart, and fixes it a aiust the bone. Move the were ‘i: auxlilorth upon the bone until the roots be. come irrimted or sore, when the wart will disappear. l have had quite a. number upon my hands, and have got rid of all of them in the above manner. This operation, such a novel afiw yesrs ego. is coming quite in vogue. \» erylsnfi doctor employs the method ver ax vely in some cues of dye epsia. 'l‘he ft wing is the modus operam i: A soft red rubber tube is psseed ently down into the stomach, quite to the pyllorus ; with this is connected about 0. yard of common flexible tubingm a glass funnel, which is held on a level with the tient’s breast, and tepid water is pour- ed s owly into the funnel until a sensation of fuiness is experienced. The funnel is then do ressed to the level of the waist. and ithe tini allowed to siphon out. The pro- cess is repeated until the water returns quite clean clear. Would not a liberal dose of Subelia fol. lowed with copious drafts of warm water be equally or more effective? A writer in the Sciuuific American of the 9th inst. advances the theory that the ex- posures of army life are conducive to health. An ex erience of five years leads me to differ with him. Before the war I spent a. ear on the plains, and during the service Â¥ spent three years in the Northern army. Later I ,,-A-_:_.... A“; “nil in n‘l III-"UV Juan-z nu vuv -.-_ -__-_ spent another year cam ing out, and in all that time I have never nown a man bene- fitted by exposures such as your correspond. ent mentions, viz., sleeping in wet clot ing, in the rain, or on the frozen ground. Now, the facts in the case are that plenty of phy. sical exercise in the open air, with coarse, lain food, and not too much of it, is health. Fol. and a man endures the exposure because he has strength. He kee s wellbecause he has a reserve force of vita ity. This is shown when the exposure is too long continued and the man breaks dOWu. Then the illness will he of great severity, often lasting a lifetime. I knew a young man in the army who, for a year, was never sick a day and was the pic. ture of manly vigor. Three da s of constant ex ure broke him down, an though he is stil living, he has never been a well man since. Fresh air, plain food, plenty of ex- , erciseâ€"these are God‘s own appointed paths 1 to good health. ‘ Ausom'rxvr. Power; or “’ATER. It is a great mistake that the whole house, particularly sleeping rooms and the dining rooms, receives little ventilating and purifying the air, when it can be done with so little trouble and no expense. A pitcher of cold water placed on a table or bureau will absorb all the gasses with which the room is filled from the respiration of those eating or sleeping in the apartment. Very few realize how important such purification is for the health oi the family, or, indeed, understand or realize that there can be any impurity in the rooms, yet in a few hours a pitcher or pail of water~the colder the more eti‘ectiveâ€"-â€"will make the air of the room pure, but the water will be entirely unfit for use. In bed-rooms a pail or itcher of water should be always kept, am changed often if any one stays in the room during the day ; certainly be put in fresh when the inmates retire. Such water should never be ‘ drank, but either a covered itcher or glass bottle with stopper should e used for rinking water, and always be kept closely covered. Impure water causes more sick- ness than even impure air, and for that rea- son, before using water from a pump or res- ervoir for drinking or cookin , one should pump or draw out enough to 0 car the pipes efore using it, particularly in the morning, after the water has been standing in the pipes all night. SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BIRDS Some Bring Good Luck, Some Budâ€"Look out for the owl. In France the handsome white owl, with its plumage, is accepted everywhere as a forerunner of death. As if that were not enough to draw upon it the animadversion of all, this bird is often accused of sacrilege, for in Provence and Lan uedoc it is charged with drinking the oil 0 the church lamps. In the south of Germany the crow bespeaks good luck, but in France anything but that if seen in the morning, The same with the magpieâ€"ill luck if it flies on your left ; if, on the contrary, on the right, you may be assured that the day will be a fortunate one. In England the influence of the ap- pearance of this saucy bird upon current ‘ events is governed by the numbers in which he appears, and is thus summed up : One for sorrow, Two {or mirth ; Three for a wedding ', Four for a birth. Among the negroes of the Southern States the moanin dove means to save a man’s soul. To hi 1 one of these doves is a sign of death, but more frequently the _death of a child. A buzzard or a crow upon‘the house- top is believed by these same people to be an invariable sign of death or disaster; a visit at the door from a rooster, the ap- proaching visit of a friefil ; the notes cf.the screeching owl, or “ shiverin " owl, are a had omen of many interpretat ons, while, if the common owl boots on your ri ht ood luck will follow, but bad Inc? s ouh he take up his position on your eft side and hoot therefrom. The reputation of all ni ht birds, great or small, is no better; at Southern imagination has discovered a remedy for all their spells. ~19 onsists of 1 throwing a pinch of salt into- c fire as ‘ soon as the sound is heard. Expost'mr. su'l‘ Coxnvcrvx TO HEALTH. If e chafiinch perches on your window sill, beware of treachery. It Was the wren which aided Prometheus in atealin the sacred fire of knowledge from beneath govo’s throne in heaven. Accordingly, he who kills a wren will have his home destroyed. If you have money in your pocket when you hear the cuckoo for the first time, it is a good omen, end you will have your ckets Well lined during the year ; if, on t re cou- trury, you,hnve no money, cultivate your friends, for you will he in need of their ea- eietence before long. The blackbird which crosses your road brings you good luck. N0 physician should fail to procure 11 bed of partridg: feathers. A patient laid upon such a d, no matter what his disease, will never die of it, although he will not neces- sarily get well. Wumsu oc'r 'rna S'ronucu. llBAL'l‘ll.