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«V" ' water was W K O $-• $%&***< liu comma pma, . Tw*> mtnbtVM hoab are seat- : if wojsriokw oiv the trampled nborM TSat death flow* black between. One marohes to ih* drum-boat's roll, . '/"THa vhie-montVicd barton's bray, 4qd bears upon ji crimson aeroB, " Onr clovy Ia'lo slay." ' One moves in silence by th> t i* * WKtoWrt jefcwatchful eyes. Calm an the patient p'snot's glaMft' That walk* the clouded skies. • •V * ',«* f .1 1 i n£ 1 NAlotiifn Ifront 1*3 taber* shine. No blood-rod pennons wave; It« banner bear* a Mngla lino, "put duty in to nave." C ' < ,*f* . • . 4 ; «. * For these no de»th-l>cd*s Hn^ri&g iWI At honor's trump** call, ,, Witl) JtniUe<i brew and lifted blade, ' ^ T« R^oryV arms they fall ' J, For these no flashing falchions brUllI, '. No stirring battle cry; .1 ... • . The blood lese slabber calls by nicfcl answers, " Here aim 1JH '.,i . ^ For tlx; sculptor's laureled bust,. The brtltder's marble piles, TJbe anthem's pealing o'er their dost 1 • tfctwiKh 3«rt|f < ath«dral aisles. Fqt Jheae t^e hloeeom-sprinkled turf ' Ttiat fkvWTg the lonely graves Whtn spring roljs in her'sea-green surf In flowery foaming taVet. ' . ' ' " T w o l e a d u p w a r d ' f r o m b e W A i ' " ' 1 ; Ariwa»»<t«)n watt abnve, , ti r , Wbo oonnt each burning life-drop's flow, * Each falling tear ol lore. Thgnsh from the hero's Meeting breaM • ,fftr ptll*<>s freetom drew, a Tbct^b-tb* white lUies in baroCMt* . £ S|*-aB£-fri:ju that scarlet dew-*- - While v*3oi "* fcanglit* oh*itapion» W»ll . Tie all Uk*ir oc»m are shown, "tovewalks unchgllerged throngh the gata „ To sit beside the throne! much in •ogue a century ago. One of the moat remarltAMie c/f Bh- gliah celebrated cases was that of Sir Theotlosins Bougbtoti, ttt»o waapokoned > by kin brot her-in-l*w by a draught of laurel water. In 1782 a certain t)r. Price, of Guil- ford, professed to be able to convert mercury into gold, and offered bo repeat bis experiments l>efore a Ootupetent tri­ bunal, but he put a period to hi* exist­ ence before the day appointed for liis exhibition by swallowing laurel water. Of lute years, strychnine has betett frequently used in or i initial poisoning. Its effects are not instantinoons. like those of pmssic acid, tint its' actiou is nevertheless velry rapid. H"'rt person (fc survives two hours after swallowing this poison he usually recovers. The small-' est fatal dose on record is half a grain. ' So many plants and leaves of trees are poisonous, especially in tropical Coun­ tries, that it is a wonder that decoctions from them can ever be used in an in- mxMions quantity. There is a tree m , the island of Cuba which the natives say is fatal to sleep under, especially to fat*, full-blooded people. The deadly upas (or poison tree) of Java is well known, j. It is said that merely sitting under its umbrageous foliage a few minutes causes an eternal sleep. • A strong liquid poison is brewed from its leates, into which arrows are dipped. i t*f Criminals are wounded by these arrows, and death ensues immediately, Tictmas is an extract obtained from i-various plants by the- Indians of South America. Woorari is a poison with which the Indians of Guiana as*m the. points of their arrows. The Inditiha of the Amazon prepare a similar poison, and cm are is the war poison of the In­ dians on the banks of the Orinoco. Strychnine forms the basis of all these' poisons. The poison employed by the natives near Caraocas, in South America, is analagous. It is not known to civilized people from what plant this poison is prepared, but it produces death - In eleven minutes after its insertion under the skin. Esmeralda, on the Orinoco, is where curare is prepared. The Indians strip off the bark of the two, for in it is con­ tained this terrible poison. The venom­ ous juice is pressed out by bruising the bark with a stone. This juice being yellow, the whole fibrous mass takefe this color. It is then thrown into a funnel made of the leaf of a plantain tree. A cold infusion is first prepared "by pouring water on the fibrous matter, and a yellowish water filters, drop by drop, for several hours, through the leafy funnel. This water is the deadly liquor, but it acquires strength on}y when concentrated by evaporation, like molasses, in a large earthen pot. The Indians taste the liquor from timfe tii time, and the taste, more or less bitter, decides when concentration hat. been carried sufficiently far. The curate is deleterious only when brought into contact witli the i>ToocL It is inert when taken into the stomach.' The juice is thickened with a gintmoui substance to make it stick to the darts, which it renders mortal. . • , There is no known antidote to curare poison. ' Hellebore was used by the Ancients to poison their arrows. Cerbera tanghin grows in Madagas­ car. The kernel is poisonous. It is not larger than an almond, yet when divided is sufficient to kill twenty per­ sons. The King of Madagascar sus­ pected some of his servants of attempt­ ing to poison him. One kernel waa pounded fine, and every one was made to swallow a small portion of it. It be­ gan to act in half an hour, throwing the ; '*"... THE FARM. 1 CHAPTER OH POISONS. J*- i : •• WlMt is a poison ? would seem a ques­ tion easy of definition, yet it has been the subject of much debate among med- joo-ieqal afnthorities. tthv ancients considered everything as pdUkmotn -that produced malignant symptoms, and attacked directly the vi­ tal principle. The moderns believe that jxfifon is a substance which, being ap­ plied in one way or the other to the hu­ man body, is capable of destroying the action of the vital functions, or of plac- ing the solids and fluids in a situation wffieh prevents the continuance of life. Dftfitm i&' ft poison with which the American public are best acquainted, fint,fr<>ni its widespread employment tc superinduce agreeable sensations by/ its use in small doses, internally or hypo- ddMsncally, or by smoking, and second by the fcequent deaths which occui anftttig infante and children who are ac­ cidentally given too much ol this most- pernicious drug. jere are two kinds of bpium, the soft ^ whiph comes from China and Tur- kev. It is principally used for smoking; it lis cheap, and not greatly in demand. It is brought to this country by way oi San Franqiapo, though, since the intro- djaotion of <»* many Chinese into this c4y, some opium is brought directly to tins port. tThe other kind of opium is brought bMn Smyrtia, and is hard. It is this latter which is employed in medical treatment. It is high in price, and fluctuates in value according to demand. itif. feax agri, O'fring to rains in the hill crantry where it is grown,, the price oi opiHm in this country ran up to eight cu tfft times its former cost 0^>iun is the- juice of the common ^Mfite poppy, obtained by incision into its capsules when they have arrived at *»fhtnty. The red peppy of England sM America contains a narcotic prin­ ciple in very much smaller quantities and of much less value than the white Por this reason, and that neither country j victims into a state of insensibility, in •* * "» * n: *.1 * • ' whioli r»nr»^ifir>n tKnTr tmt>n -- itouUpted foivits cultivation, opium is an imported drug. It yields over thirty distinct principles, the best known ol which, and most generally employed in ttodifcd science, is morphine. Another, whitis <hap only lately bo^n brought ftMninsntly into iwe, is ca .ed cadeiue. Hie-symptoms of poisoning by opium Be too well kno%vn to need description. I Tore familiar with the devices resorted tbtiokifep people suffering from its effects frottilhc in d^fth. ng in that sleep which ends Ke antidote to opium is coffee, es of persons who have died cbM& pass rtrpidly into pntre- "^pWim entered largely into the pois­ ons of ajicjenta, beiqg at that time <hftici|it to obtain,' and its effects and |yruptonie little known among Euro- peanf:. " It has loft}* been abandoned by tlie secret poisoner. The l«at p^lel«ated case of opium poi- jWOiuig^vtts by a French physician named iBaifiipjd Castaiug. He was of a very respectable family ii» France, and while quite young obtained an excellent prac- •«»Mriong the higher classes. Among his patients were two yout g gentlemen ^^orttine named flyppolyte and August L Hytrpolyte was in >poor health *nd ConBuitecl Oftetaftig. 'The three young qflH J>ec$me fast friends. Hypjiolyte was in a consumption, which was pursu- ing its usual slow cotiraw, when he was •suddenly seized with severe symptoms, •! !W^i<*h eutled his life in four days. He i#xpir*:<liuCVkilUtiug'a ^rc^s, after having mnd@>ai{w^l 40 bis, favor, in which his r s was not even inen- Qe^CTWi<jle«s, Auguste and the ycrang' doctor remained a9 intimate as ever. Tim cause of this was afterward shown pi th^ trial, ^,ein3 that Hyppolvte had made a inn devising his property to his sister W hiisband. Auguste entered in­ to a compact with C.tstaing to destioy -ithfe will, snb-ititote a talwj one in fpvor the' doctor, and then couverr the H^rop^rbT;«to their joint use. All hap- ; ,:PBI?e<i a»pltoned, with the exception of the death of Anguste, which occurred ! suddenly one year after the death of his j r brother, and willi" exactly the same f r#y^ptouia. Suspicions of foul play I wei-e aroused, the bodies of the brothers j Potatoes should be du^ in dry fcnd be stored at once in a eopl, dark place. They are injur* d by exposure U r light, F,(nr late keeping a oool tem­ perature is indispensable, and even < temperature below forty degrees ! anc above freezing is beat t It 13 a c *nmon e^cor that the roots o. trees extend only as far from the trnnkf as the length of the branches ; the trutl . is tiiat thuy are usually longer on eacl t-ide than the entire height of the tree. A tree iliirty feet high forms a circle ov roots more than sfxiy f^4t in diameter. WHiiiC among ; old. breeders tliaw are many men of rpany minds concerning the superiority of different breeds o' i sheep, there are iione who ViH not say that ai\v of the l^re^dsr or their grades, are superior to the common scrub stocfc in such geti^ral use in all sections of the country. Thoroughbred sheep are cheap, but scrubs. ai;e always dear. Mrs, a little sulphur witii salt and feed occasionally to sheep. It 4ill effWtuafly destroy sheep tidks. The srtne remedy applied to cattle troubled with lice will soon rid them of the yirmin. The sul­ phur with salt repays the trouble ol keeping ft supply for cattle and sheep. If a mixture of mao part of sulphur With seven, of salt be applied, t)i^e wiU be fto trouble with vermin. . TBB following trees are named as the best for-plantaig arti&nal. forests j»|th% ^Vesteru States: Yellow cottonwood, making a saw log or rail cut sooner than any other tree; osage orangje, giving qtroug and lasting timber, ami not trouWed by insects ; the hardy catgJpa, of quick growth and lasting" timoer ; white elm And Western plane tree ; black Walnut, one of the most valuable of trees; soft maple, furnishing in a short time a great amount of tiro wood; and the fast-growing willows, the silver poplar, the ootto® wpod, - &ntf the Lom- b a r d y p o p l a r ; , - , , 1 * 1 ! ? . , A mouhuvtH px*»iag,. ,or S^qrteuing back of <jywgreepQ may be given late in summer after , ine terminal buds have formed, the pruned branches thickening and becoming hardened by flight growth. If dono .mu^h later the trees will be rendered s,Qm»what mbre tender and not- endufe wiiiter so Well.' fteavy phiuing, when reqftifed, is pertc^toed to best ad­ vantage in -spring, just as growth is fcommenoing. Any. tim«,in the growing season the shoots may be pinched back for securing a compact and symmetrical form. These rules arjtply to hardy,* growing evergreens. . > / (j , .. COSJMO^ AS "MANUB?, ' ' ' ' ~ Bothamsted, •ivrican Cul' subject that is now attracting cottsidewable attention: Common salt, equal in quantity to 331. pounds per, acr^, aiter. Ueing <iissol\^d in water and poured upon a sample of the ordinary arable soil of'tine farm, was allowed to remain iu contact for a week. The column of soil was then placed in contact with an air-pump at its base," and water was poured: in from above. It was then found that a comparatively small quantity of water was sufficient to « remove the whole of the atlt from the; soil. In our drain gauges, at Roth am-' stpd, whet e the soil has been kept with­ out vegetation and washed by the ordi-! nary raftifall for t0n years, we find that all the salt originally contained in the soil has been lost, and the amount which now passes through in the drainage waters is only about iMjaivaleut to what would be contained in the natural rain­ fall, that is about twenty-four pounds. The following table shows the average ' amount of chlorine in the drainage water "passing thrbugli twenty, forty, atld sixty inches of tiie sail of'Mie'Jarm : ' u>' It this mm there where the 300 palt were used pounds per acre, be mentioned that in large increase of mm- wiitr orduMUQr arable ilorine ks I OKJorine pfir 343$ u per anuain 1% Drain4c;ofiuBcherf.l7 '18 ,!> •" m which condition they were thrust into a large hole and the earth thrown rrpoh them, so that they were buried alive. They were supposed to be guilty. Tw<b persons of the suspected party recov­ ered, their stomachs having immediately* rejected the poisoned substance. This seldom happens, but when it does the poison does not act. These' fortunate Madagascans were believed innoceht, having safely passed- thvoutfh the test. The nerium oleander abounds in Africa. A small detachment of- the. French army of Algiers halted under a tree of this kind. The cook of the party stirred be bar­ ley he was preparing fdr their meal with a branch of it All who partook of thq fogd were seized with the symptoms o£ ppisoqing, but recovered. , . , , Some fish are poisonous, particularly in the West Indies. The yellow-billed sprat is the most dangerous." Whites and negroes have been known to expire with the sprats in their mouths, un- swallowpd. This is said to be the only fish which produces immediate death. even in the tropics. Some of the fish taken on the coast of .England possess poisonous properties, particularly the mussel. , In June, 1827, nearly the whole town of Leith 'Was poisoned, and many 4ied, from bat mussels. j liberally Used', not more than -four The physalist is a molluscous animal, j pounds of soda were takext up; it is quite inhabiting the tropical seas. It is ijalled , evident, theiVfofjfe, that, in tlr© absence by sailors the Portuguese man-of-war. j of any of thp inore important ingreddents Handling if. poisons tne skin. j of ltiaut/todil. soda is useless. *- • i• • Tlie partri tge bf Pennsylvania is said ,,, Iu thfe^experimeiit to which I am about to lie l>oi.-oiious during the>, winter rio ceier^ the production 'of sttgar Was months, ca.ised by its feeding on tiie i/ncailv eciual. being in oiie case 5,174 buds of the laurel, wliieh presepvM its j pounds, and the othrfr -4,925 pounds verdure throughout the cold season. j^er aerpj Jjti No. 1 tlie maiiure used Some beehives were once pia-<-d where [ was potash,, common Mt, phosphates, the laurel was the principal floWrfriu» j and niiaiate pf soda. Bio. 2 received only shrub. The l>ees, increa ed prod gious- ; phospliate»and.nitrate of soda,, the c6m- At Bothamsted, therefore, it tnay be said, thatuabout iw¥Hty-fow. pounds of Common salt is deposited upon an acre of land, every year, and if not taken up by vegetation is entirely removed by drainage^ in an unchanged form. With regard to tive influence of salt on vegetation, or of soda generally, although I anj in possession 01 a great dea' o! evidence upon the subject, my mind is fey no means made up. That soda can­ not perfcaom the function of potash is perfectly evidw^t; at the same time there' & np reason why it may not perform' some of the minor funtionaTof Vegetation; if it banfiot decompose carbonic acid, it may, at any rate, perform the menitd oflica oi carrying, aaay the decomposec! products, ajid thus leave the" potash more time to execute its more important idutiesl .in 1 1 vai V« r . , .. . .J:. V) Ih tha iuh ot tka juice of oae'.df our exjieriments on sugar beefr we fouiid, on an average of three years, as much soda ^>er u~re as would be eontaiued in 200 >und0 of cbnimoh salt) In other ex,- sriments Where ' common salt wap iberally Used', ash, contained 73 pounds of - • • { J ^ y j t e r r e d a n d e x a m i n e d , a n d both Were believed to have been pois- O^fctui^ig, bu^ tliere being doubt, about Hyppol^te's svmptOms, he was ax'ijuitted of the poisoning of the latter Cliw ^<3xeeutedlor <»using the death y,1%f t>te forme*. II, ^ * ^avorite poison with in- ^ lending suieidfes. • a,\d.i9 one °t the swiftest in ^'aRreeable to the smell, S • <M^or bitter almonds. A », vlff0^8801" of Chemistry once left by acci- *<>• .dfeQt on a table a flask containing alclio- '1 hoi saturated with prussic acid. The ,t „ |«rvwt girl, attracted by the odor, **i#waUowei a small glass of it. In two she fell dead, as if struck with « uiafopiexy, * Ttis ^*8 acts directly upon A few drops tlirown by way eye of a cat caused ttallfat death. A rod dipped into the wag |4Boed on the tongue of, a door before the rod could be with­ drawn. One singular thing about this j»ison is that it cannot be detected in the body after eight days. ^ Prussic acid is found in minute quan­ tities in kernels of fruits, a«in that of the peach and apricot. egkin, producing a similar effect j soda: while in No. 2 th« The bite of almost all reptiles if* pyi- *i 87 pound? of , potash and sonous ; likewise that of insects, sucti as1 »*»da ; it is evident, ,ther^fore, that in No. the scorpion, tarantula and centipede,'2 more sugar l*aa been luodnced for a and unless remedial agents are speedily I f?iven **sight of potaih contained in the employed, the result is fatal. , I i"*8® h wiU, l'e , nature of tiie olearlyfoliowmg table: i lPobaHb/to *ach 100 lbs of MUK&r. - 12 As to the venomous toad, contradictory opinions exist, at \ - r--_ , the present day. though formo'rlv it' was' the acetate of morphine. J Ijeiieved in. King John Tlie murder of August - wiis traced di- j supposed to have phocptrnfoiMrid m the juice, which may- have had Some influence on the produc­ tion. ^ On the whole,' I am disposed to think "that,, while there 1* same evidence of a besiefitxial uiflinmcp from the application of soda, it is tolerably certain that little or no effect is ^dfltieeil unless all the other elements of plant food are present in abundance; and it would further ap­ pear that its power, of entering into veg- ! etatiou depended chiefly upon the pre-- j/ence of nitrogen, either as ammonia or nitric acid, but more especially in this, latter form. Under these eitcumstancos, we cannot be surprised at the conflict­ ing results arrived at lrv different exper­ iments upon the application of salt'/ In Great Britain the use of salt.^s ,a manure, which at one time was very large--more in consequence of the exer­ tions of those who had that substance to sell than from any Upnetit derived from its application-~-has now ialmo.st entirely ceased, fand it would appear that, a^. all events aa far as this country is concerned, the tain water in competent to furnish all that is required .by vogota- tion» •• X- : '"'% -IFDTJSLITOTII ̂ • t }} ' k* cbtifai vtiau. :i ft •*}»!, DetrMtP*»e>Pr»)*4 " BouMhoId.**! r . Purchase those which we fresh,, the fresher the better. The white kinds are the least nutritious, and the oily the most difficult 01 digestioh. When fish are fresh and in season, the muscles are •firm and they boil white; when put ,9^ season they boil bluish and flabby. Most kinds of fish are best in cold weather. Mackeral are best m August, September and October, halibut in May and June; Oysters are good from Sep­ tember to April. Lobsters are best at the season when oysters are not good. ' As soon as possible after the fiish sire caught, rettiove the scales and entrails, and"scrape out every particle of blood and the white skin that lies along tlie baqkstpn,e, being careful not to crueih the, fish. Binse thoroughly in c61d' water, using only what is necehsary for perfect cleanliness; drftin, wipe dry and place on ice nntil ready to cook. To re­ move the earthy taste from fresh-water fish, sprinkle with salt and let it stand over night, or at least a few hours before cooking; rinse "-"off, wipe dry, and, to completely tAke up all moisture, w*ap in a dry napkin. Fresh-water fish should never be soaked in water except, when frozen, and ,then should be cooked im­ mediately. Salt fish may be soaked over night, changing the water once or twice if vei-y salt. To freshed fish, place it with the fleshy side down, so that ,the salt -may go to the ; botyotm :yher? it) ,1^-1 turallv settles. , Fish should always be well done baked or fried, it w most palatable, though some prefer it boiled. When one has no fish loefctle (made purposely to boil the fish,) wrap it in a cloth, lay iu a circle on a plate and set in the kettle. When done the fish may be lifted entire out of the kettle without breaking, and can then be re:moved to the platters In boiling fish allow five to ten minutea to tlie pound, according to thiokness, after putting it in the water. To test, pass a knife along a bone, and if dcftie the flesh will separate easily. The addition of salt ana vinegar to water in which fish is boiled seasons the fish and at the same time hardens the water, thus much im­ proving the t|pl*. Iu boiling fish always plunge it into boiling water and then let it simmer gently until ddne. In case of salmon, put into tepid water instead of hot, to preserve the rich oelor. To fry fish dip in egg and bread crumbs, and use lard, not butter. Gftrnish with parsley, celery tops' or lemon. Halibut fs best cut in slices! and fried or boiled. Rasa are good any way. < Skit shad and mackerel must be soared over night for broiling, Sturgeons are beet fried. Black and white fish are best broiled or fried. A broiled ftsh is done when the eyeB turn white. Along the Atlantic coast there is a great variety of fish. The blue fi^h is excellent, boiled or baked, with a dress­ ing of bread, butter and onions. Sea bass are boiled with egg saitce' i and garnished with parsley. Salmon are baked, boiled and broiled, and sineits are^cook^d by dropping into boiling fat. One of the most essential things in serving tish is to have everything hot and quickly dished, so that all may:go to the table at once. Serve freeh with with squash and green peas; salt fish with beets and carrots, salt pork and potatoes, and parsnips with either. • BfeooK Tboot. --The trout is a peculiar fish; it requires great nicely in cooking or its flavor is lost. The flavor of the brook trout is exceedingly delicate aiid must be dealt with in a gentle manner. Brook trout should be placed in boiliug water but over steam; boiliug it in water soddens it and takes away its' flavor. "When steaming it put' into the water some peppercorns and a, very little salt A sauce fen: trout may be mad? of Ulplted butter and parsley, or capete' or tomatoes, or even mushrooms. Trout deserves a delicate flavoring. A second wtrr of cooking trout is to melt a piece of Iresh better, stir into it some water, and place the trout into it, adding peppercorns and a little skit. Place round several slices of lemon tod cover up very close. Stew like this twenty minutes. Take out and strain •thfe gravy over the trout. , , If you wjfih the gravy thickened, one aspoonfnl of flour stiired into the1 btrt- ir will be sufficient. . , , v Cover the trout with a piece of- greasy paper and let it gently female in th^£)^n or put pieces of bacon under .it aud^>v^r it ^nd let it frizzle. ' Make a fine salad to this dish. *'• 'l •" Sb?am a trout and ponrxrver it some oil mixed with vinegar, pepper and salt, and a little tomato catsup. bit inside a lit and choppliA' iaaJMUKl 4ntkViii(f pep­ per and Mtft'tafcTft "Mfli fmb 4)fttter. Fennel rtauce, iiendeyiaodibatter^ ; y BAitur* W;mEVissL>*4£!leM^ riuse and wipe dry a whitofehi,pr My fish )hat weigli#, tl»ree pounds, ri^b me ftsh inside and out with salt and pepper ; fill ^lth a stuffing made like that for poultry, but drier; sew it up and put In a hot pan with noi^o'drippinga aild a lu«np.<af wt- er tn< bastiiig od^iontAI^." V$ojiiED Codfish.--Soak ove# rtig4tt ; put ill i 'parf of coM Writer a»d shitmfer two or three hbnffi; .serve "with djt^wn batter with hard boiled1,eggs sliced on- it. , , BroiijEd Codfish---After soaking suf­ ficiently ^rea^e tjie bars of the gridiron, broil and serve 'witli bit^Bf ttrtter drop- lied Ovef if. ' Tllis iii a V«ry nice dish, for tea. " . , , Canns^b Sa^^o^- --Thj* is nice served cold .yith vinegar, Jjepper anS ^saft, or fenuces.J Fyr a breftafaist dish', ft may be heated^ sfeason^d' witJh li»Pt and • jiepper aud srr^d on plicas of toact, with milk thickened with flour butter, and. »s»ured over it , , . Stewed Fish.--Cat a fish4 a(T<^ iiti slices tin' inch ihfl a" haHf tWick, %nd- sprinkle With salt; boil two shoed onions 'tw* wall-papers, like should uway ways be regajrded with tionery, shoul grave suspicion. SMAiii<-Box is infectious till the last t«eab has fallen off, and scarlatina till th^ last bit of skin has peeled. Fket c >nstantly cold ate relieved by brief immersions in cold water, muI fh» active friction with a rough towel. TciVPENTiNE is a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with 4t, and place the fltinnel on tlie chest and severe cases three to lump of sugar may be _. Every family nhould have a botyle jpf turpentine on hand. BIOP Tea fob Stbanguby.--Dr. W. B. Jones, of *Summerville, Ark., writes to the Medical Brief: " About twenty years ago I read m 'Tlie Medical Ad­ viser'--a medical work written by Beasin Thompson--that, .in his hands, bee tea was almost a never-failing remedy in strangury. Since that time I have treated quite a number of cases of strangury, from different causes, with bee tea, and it has never yet disappoint­ ed, me, where there was no actual nie- chanical obstruction." • ' Tn the Siok. Room. --Under fell eif- ctimsttinces keep the refreshments in­ tended for the use of the invalid covered. Milk is a ready absorbent. Then there ^re cooling drinks, jellies, blancmanges fit* r"#v t. A / w «• - .Thl* eneraTinjf srep»*e6t» t6*kti*i In a hi ^ln K STUDUD BEKEDT IN MANY HOMC9. 1'ft *t ftf OMisha. C«ldh_Crau, BronekUta ana Ml IK COKSUMPTIVE CASES It approaches ao near a apeclflo that " Wlnety-flTe" em oent ate pormanontly cured, where the d.rsoUon* 35 •tric t!? complied with. Thsre ia no chemical MsredienU to harm the yoanif or old. ' f 'Hi 1 until dcae. pour off water, season vrifch a.variety of liquids usually seen at pepper, add two teacups of liot water the invalid's bedsidle. which are all more and a httle parsley and in this stimmet r n,r Ia** u„ fish until the ley thoroughly dome. Serve hot Good method for anyifreah 4 vho had her bedside table supplied with v ' " "Mij. »m vfi. •. ,ao array of glasses, cups, tumblers, etcv, ' 1 " 1' •>! :»• the contents of not one of which could What ?»lgbt Sot aJBcetlo See? . ^ave you ever paused fc6 Consider hQW mucli man loses ' fdr for a nxonjeijt drinking water which f of England,' is , j^pprim/Pot Ho. t**'"*.*'.. » been )x>isoned by lvxpefiueitt 82. 2. . .9X".*... At ich a living toad had ' ' It was itlsO quite Evident that t the soda rendered impure.--New York Dispatch..^ j^ as takea up in the plan^as nitrate of . j. j,soda, that salt ha having been found in the Ecstatic Airs. i luce. In thk expepment where jiotasli1 r i.J«~ • ' . \ , was noi nstfd (No. 2) the juice'contained, and Kinrrwr« tn pWers : oousideraWv more' phosphoric' aCid and o v r t ^ i . f • T g ° S i n i o r e n i t r o g e n . ' ' over th'.'ir instruments and song books 1 ' • •' that I wanted to laugh at tlieyi. Where did our friends pick up all these fine ec- stat'c airs? 1 would say to myself. Bujj one day I bought me a canary bird, and w'ant of th,at microscopic eye, upon the absence of wlifch' Pope was apparently inoliiiied ritfiet to congrKtulate his fel- low-beings >-flia« .'Otherwise? •,• What » wonrlerf«l world we should all I}ye in. u, ohly w^coukl see j^as this little beetle! here ^ees it, half-buried, as lie^ik,' ltt«b migliiy forest of 1MB" jgreea-' moss. Jtist fancy how grand and straight and majestic those slender , sprays musMftoJi 4o, Uitpw,>v^h ^heir waving, feathery branches spreading on etvery side, a thousand tinies more grabe- fully than tlie Mng bought*of th<e loteli- «st tropical palm-trees ! On4 bohjg wild Jamaciah hill»de: How quaint the tall, capswls must apppai; ^p his t --great. 'yellow seed ••'WW)? nearly as|"big as h^m-' !Self^ with a comical, pink-edged hood, which po2>s off suddenly with' a bang, and showt^rs down monstrous nuts upon his bead wlien he passes beneath. Gazg closely into the moss foment as it grows here? beside this- smooth, rpund stone where we are sitting, and imagine you can view It as the beetle views it. Put' yourself in his place, frtid look uj» at) it towering three hundred feet above your head, while you vainly strive to,, find your way among its matted underbrush and l ensp labyrinths of. closd grown trunks. Then just look «tt the flighty monsters tliat people it. ,That little red spider, magnified to tlie of a sheep, must be a gorgeous and str^nge-lookipg creature indeed, with his, vivid crimson, body and his mailed and -jointed legs. Yonder neighbor beetle, regarded as an elephant, woirid seem a terrible wild beast in all seriousness, with his solid coat of bronze burnished armor, his huge hook-ringed antennae, and his fearful hranched horn, ten times more terrible than that of a furious rhinoceros charg­ ing madly trough the African jungles. Wny, if you will oply throw yourself honestly into the situation, and realise that awful life and death smuggle going on between an aat and a Mav-ny before our very eyes, you will see uiaj Living­ ston, Serpa Pinfo and Gordon Cuuj- ming are simply nowhere beside you; that even Jules Verne's Avildest story is comparatively tame and commonplace in the light Of thnt warrcfonw miniature forest. Such et- pufzle mon­ keys, and bamboos, and palms, and ban­ yan trees and crags, and roots, and rivers, and precipices was never seen; inhabited by fcuch a terrible and beauti­ ful phantasmagoria of dragons, hippo- griffs, unicorns, rocs, qhim»era^, serpents and wyverns as po medieval fancy ever invented, no Greak mythologist ever dreamed of, and no Arabian story-teller ever fabled.; Aiid J*et after' aD, to our clumsy big eyes, it is bot a litWe j>atch of familiar English grass and mosses, crawled oyer by half a doz^Q. qleepy slugs apd, long-legged . spiders, ana slimy earthworms. ' 1" ! • \ # t " A ' • H f . -.'t ' HwbltH «f the (^ndM'. > , , The cottdor is peculiar to' the* New World, but it approaches very closely to the vultures of tlie Old Coiitinfiitf.. The immense mountaip-chain t>i the Andes, whicli runs down the continent of South America, is the native stronghold where these birds dwell securely. There, in the regions of perpetual snow, and of terrific atorsas* fifteen thouaand/eet, aboye the level of. the sea, on, some isolated pinnacle or crag, tne condor rears its brood, and looks down oh the plains be- rteftth, yet far away for - food. , Though here1 these i»irds find -their liome, tltey build no .neat, but deposit Uipir ^ggs ,op the naked rocks, without surrounding them either with straw or leaves. Of all birds the Coiidor numrits hi^ft^st krtb the atmosphere. Humboldt dtedcribes the flight of i)t in the Andes to be at least twenty thousand feet above the level of the, sea. He says it is a remarkable cir­ cumstance that this bird, which continues to fly about in region^ where the air is so ratified, descendn all at once to the odj^e of the sea, and tftius in a few min­ utes passes through all tlier variations of ql^mate, Wheji dr;ve®i by bugger, tjhe condor descends into the lilains but leaves them :1s soon risits appetite is sfet- isfied. Uik?e the rest of itM' specie.*,' it subsists bn carrion, and often ^gorges it- Kelfcso as to become incap tblu. of ilight, ,« - -- ™h? .re,i ,W<W*iated A brook trout must have no elaborate j this effect of voracity, turn it to ac- .. .. euough flaforing tc ^unlfhe thf19 P"lK»e p . p , they expose the dead body of a horse or or less absorbent These should be kept covered. I once visited an invalid In another experiment,' Where salti of ammonia were employed, furhishing' an equivalent atttonnt of nitrogen to that contained in. the nitrate of soda, the* amount of soda: taken up p#r 'hivre did _ t not fex<?eed twenty-two jjyuuds, ai^4 no By and by he fouiid himself at home ; more was-taken up where 30!) pounds of and began to pipe his little tunes, and j common salt were applied in addition, there lie was sure enough, swinging an;l Uuuer all eiEcmn4ta.p91n.the production waving about, with all the droopings , of feUfsar by the upit of nitrogen in the and liftings and languishing side turn,- form pf ammonia was very'much lef s ings of the head, that I had laughed at ; than it's production by the unit of nitro cooking but enhance its nalive aroma Fish Pie.--Take ti few pieces of bacon and place at the Ixtttom of a pie dish. Cut up fseshr cod or fresh haddock and place over it in layeirs, finishing with a couple pf slices of bacon. Sprinkle in •between a small finely chopped onion and parsley.' "Flavor with pepjief ahd ; salt. Make brown gravy bv henting a r piece of bnttor, 'stirring in a little flour, a cow. Some of the cotxlotf, which are ' generally hoVerin 2; iu the t<4r in search i of food, are speedily attracted. As soon j as thejy have glutted themselves on tile ! carcass, the iildiaris rriako thefr api>ear- ! ailed armed with the lasso, and the cott- ! dors being unable to escape by flight, 1 ace pursued :uud caught bv, tbfs^ipgular j weapon.-- [Hojne Words. hung him up in a cage at my window. And now I should like to ask who tan..,,it him all this? And me, through him, i tha,t the foolish head was not the one i swinging itself from side to side, and bowing and nodding over the music, but that other, which was passing its shal­ low and self-satisfied judgment on a character made of finer clay than the frame which carried that same head up* on its shoulders.--(O. W. Holmes. gen 111 tiie form of nitric acid! In an- oth/br experimept, whqre the hltrogen of t'uq wits of ammonia Was dbnbled by, the addition of ripe cake, considerable amounts ot soaa appear to nave been tsken up from the common salt, as we find in the juide: Potash. Soda, lba. lba. After salt* of ammonia and r*p« cake. 154 65 After salts of ammonia alone 158 86 when brown adding, some wartp water t i'fcnty Mr»re ih * S»te«tk)n Ftoik and flavoring with a spoonful of sauce 01 . * . .. „ . u . , V>rown catsup. Pour over fisli. Now 1 . of-the ^nwil Mit&¥ i^kttes make crust, for pot-pie, and piece ; ^n1l^"ne ^ cb#*Re over. Bake gently and quickly, so as - ^ „ ^.y ch^oun not to dry out the goodnew of the fish. Prepare potatoes plain* steamed, or with jVtrsley sauce. ,, I Boit.kd MackkreIi --Put them on with, cold water and salt. When tlie kettle bofls, set it aside but watch it closely; and takeup tlio moment the eyes begin to start and the tail.to split. Sauce, parsley and butter. Garnish, fennel and slices of lemon. Broiled Mackerel.---Cut a slit in the bock that it maybe thoroughly done. Lay them on a clean gridiron, having greased the bars, over a clear but rather slow fire. Spriutle pepper and salt ovei ter and a fall hackly1' reinforcement, bright young Irish soldier was"found .„ have a rebel flag' eaptnrefl frOnTthe'loe" Approaching him ho said : • , * I'll send that to the rear as one of our trophies; give me the flag," " Sure, I'll pot £ive it ye"7 ^aid' Pat; if ye are wauting oM, tlife's plinty av em behind that ridge over beyaiit where I got this, sure ye oan go and iret one for yerself." Taxmaoe says that what ails the min­ istry is the fact that when a boy isn't good for anything else they try to a preacher of hint" we see, fill being covered with a most I Amusing variety of glass and porcelain. I lids. The invalid liked to forget the j contents of each, and Was amused to lift j 1 one or another of the tiny covcrs and j select a refreshment which presented J itself to iler taste. And to keep invalids amused and ready to relish what is provided for them are important duties in nursing. Such slight attentions cost | little trouble, while they prove to the sufferer that he or she, is tenderly pared for. , 1 , r, CKXOBOTB *OB .Bbonchitis, AND CA- tarbbe.--When going from Switzerland to Italy via Mont Cenis, some years ago, the writer contracted a • severe oold, which, in the chill air of Turin, soon brought on a severe attack of bronchitis. "We hastened -over to the genial air oi Genoa, but it afforded little relief, and the advice of Dr. Paccioti, professor in the noted Italian Medical College there, was called , in. He prescribed a very simple remedy, which was at once felfdctive^ as it had been with many oth­ ers to whom We have since recommend­ ed it. Pat into a pint or large boty!e about three gills of water, and add two drojjp oi good wood creosote. Shake very thoroughly, take a mouthful, gargling it awhile in the throat, and swallow it. Bepeat this frequently, ao as to use up the mixture in the first twenty-five hours, always shaking well before taking. After the first day use three drops of creosote and the same amount of water during twenty-four hours, so long as it is needed. The same mixture has often proved very useful in catarrh. In this case a hand­ ful or two of well-shaken creosote and water is snuffed up through the nostrils until it reaches the throat and is spit out. A table-spoonful or more is also gargled in the throat and swallowed. As catarrh is an inflammation of the nasal passages, accompanied with a mucous deposit, the creosote, which is largely carbolic acid, would seem to be useful liere just as diluted carbolio acid ia- 1 effective in cleansing any putrid sores. Catarrh is the result of weakness and is promoted by a cold. Atoning-up of the system and any simple remedy like the above is effective, unless the catarrh is severe and of long continuance as to have permanently disorganized the nasal cavities. It is folly to spend money for the much-fMlvertised catarrh remedies, which are usually the sheerest medical qu&ckery. --American Agriculturist. Odd Companion*. , [Nashville, American^ it ia said that the greatest difference between Vnaa and brute ia shown by the love and friendship existing in the human family, which is never seen in the lowest orders of the animal creation. But it sometimes occurs that a community of. feeling is exhibited in a marked degree by the brute as can be found among hu­ man beings. A gentleman living neafr Nashville, Tenn., owned':an Old blind horse. A flock of geese occupied the ' pasture jointly with him. An old gan­ der seeing the difficulty the horse had to go around, attached himself to the horse, leaving his fellows for that pur-' pese. All day long the gander could be ' seen going in front of the horse giving/ signs of his presence by a constant Aackle, the horse following the sound. The gander carried the horse to the best pasture and to water. A perfect understanding was had between them, and they seemed to know what each other wanted. At night the gander ao- companic d the horse to the stall, aat under the trough, and the horse would occasionally bite off a mouthful of corii and drop it on the ground for his feath­ ered friend, and thus they would share each other's meals, Finally, on oqe Sunday, the old horse died. The gan?, der seemed utterly lost, wa.ndered about disconsolately, looking everywhere for his old comrade, refusing all food, and at the end of the week he; itoo, died, al­ though bis life was just begun, for a goo&e will live forty or fifty years. This is a true story, and cau be verified by' numbers pf persons who often saw the- sttaiige tiartieS matching 'around, and displftysrthe wonderful affection which sometimes springy up amo^g the lower^ ord«i'.-»,, t _ * 'Nhe Didn't €are to itfove. :, Parson' BleSdo -of 'the Ahstftt Blue Light Tabernacle, paid * a pastoral visit last week to old Aunt Sukey who has been confined to her bed for a long time, and is not expected to get well. Parison Blesdo found Sister Sukey in an un- amiable frame of mind, so he tried to | chefer Iter up by saying, "You should be filled wid joy and blissfulness, Sister Sukey, dat soon yer j wilt be. called away from dis heah vale j ob tears to climb de golden stairs." " "Ef I has geft ter climb up stairs wid dis heah pain in de small ob my back, I would jess as lief stay right whar I is," .responded Aunt Sukey. Parson Blesdo told her she might go to the devil as far as he was concerned, and indignantly took his departure-- [Texas Sittings. 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