WHO 18 THY TRIKXD.
Who la thy MtndT The man tbt hre tor
In bPD"ulhn or beauty' witching bow
er Be that will daoe with tbe to folly'.
And make no reckoning of the quandered
noun-. , ...
To whom the revel nod the m l allT
Tneieateth Irlendi that belp men to their
toll.
Who It thy friendt The man that aharei thy
Thine hour of flory, or hy day of ga'n;
Who itandi In every triumph by thy lde,
And never flndi that triumph false or vain,
Fut thapen hl doctloe an thy bumor goet
Tbets are the frlendi mlifortune turns to loea.
Wboli thy friend? The man that for bli win-
To oower or place hath need of thine or theej
WOO Will UW U v.
D'n"' suit! i -I.......
Whoie praUe U large, whote promise larger
These are the friend that fall n and forget
Who I thy friendt The man of truth and
In gladne near, In torrow nearer tllli
To thy fault generous, t- thy merl' lust,
Whose love for the world' bale might make
Ala for It! this life bath such few friends.
Who I thy friend? The best, the least re
tarded,
Through all the changeful years, though 111
rewaruea, ,
Give Him thy heart, so long and far e
stringed;
And from the broken reed of earth ascend,
To seek In heaven tby everlasting Friend.
Francei Brvwnt.
ACCIDENTALLY IS&0CEKT.
No lawyer likes going into court
with a thoroughly bad caeo, yet how
can he help it sometimes ?
I should have more patienco with
the question, "Do you ever think it
right to dofend a man whom you be
lieve to be guilty?" were it less fre-
Juently put by poople who spend six
ays of tho week seeking to got the
upper hand of their neighbors, and
the seventh trying to circumvent
their Maker. To the honest inquirer,
I commend tho answer Dr. Johnson
once gave to Boswell, "Sir, tho law
yer is not the judge"
Was it my place when George Gil
bert's littlo care-worn wife came with
toars glistoning in her oyes, to bo.
seech me to do what I could for her
imprisoned husband, virtually to turn
my back and loavo her tired, troubled
heart to break or not as it might? I
was neither a priest nor a Levito to
find a ready excuse for passing by on
tho other sido. Yet what could I do?
George Gilbert bad been sent on a
collecting tour and had gambled away
money received for his employers. It
was a plain case of embezzlement,
and the penalty was a term of years
in tho State's prison.
"I am suro ho novor meant to be
dishonest,'' pleaded tho loyal littlo
woman; "ho was tomptcd by a crafty
and dosigning man, but instead of
running away, as others would have
done, ho came back and confessed
Iub fault, offoring to lot his wholo
salary go toward making up the
lost money till every cont was paid.
Mr. Meok, the junior purtnor, was
willing to bo merciful, but Mr. Man
glo, the head of the house, who just
returned then after a year's absonco,
insistod that the law should tako its
course."
I gavo her what poor consolation I
could; for lawyers, like doctors, must
keep their patients' courage up at
times.
"In tho first place, I'll see Messrs.
Mangle & Meek, I said. "Mr. Mangle
may bo brought to hear rotiBon alter
all if he can only bo made to seo his
interest in it."
Tho pale, dosnondont faco cboorod
up a little. My words seemed to
have inspired a sort of undefined
hope that I was far from fooling my
self. Mr. Mangle rocoived mo with stony
politonoss.
"Young man," his manner said,
"don't waste time in appeals to senti
ment; you won't if you'll only look
at mo.
I took tho hint and came at once
to business, rcpoatod Gilbert's offer,
and put it as strongly as possible
that nioro was to be gained by
leniency than harshness all of which
Mr. Manglo listoucd to with a con
scientious scowl.
"I cannot be a party to compound
ing a felony," ho answered with a
solemn intonation.
"Nor have I asked you," I replied,
not a little nettled. "I havo merely
mentioned a plan of paying back
your own, leaving it to your gener
osity to press or not to press this
prosecution."
"Ob, its all the same," was tho
contemptuous rcioindcr "anvbodv
but a lawyer, with his head lull of
quits and quiblots, could see that.
Besides, there is something rather
cool in the proposal to retain your
friend in our employ under pretence
of working out the money he has
stolen, with the opportunity of filch
inir twice as much in the meantiniA.'
1 felt my temper rising, and not
caring to imperil my client's intorest
by an outright quarrel, I took a hasty
leave.
Had I been in the prisoner's place
on the morning fixed for the trial, I
could hardly have ascended the
court-house steps with more reluct
ance than I did. And when 1 entered
the court-room, and found Gilbert
and his wife alrealv there, and noted
the hopeful look with which the lat
ter greeted my coming, my heart
ickened at the thought of the bitter
disappointment cominc.
"The Teople vs Gilbert," called out
the judge, alter disposing of some
lormal matters.
A jury was immediately impaneled
and the case opened by the District
Attorney.
Mr. Meek was the first witness.
The nervous, hesitating manner in
which he gave his evidonco would
havo greatly damaged its effect had
it not evidoutlv arisen from a dispo
sition to do the prisoner as littlo hurt1
as possible, Uut no soitening couiu
break the terrible force of facte he
was compelled to relate.
In his partner's absence he had
employed Georgo Gilbert as a clerk;
had found him competent and, trust
worthy; had sent him on a trip to
make collections; after receiving a
considerable sum, bo was induced by
a respectable looking gentleman,
with whom he had casually fallen in,
to join a social game of cards; at first
they played for amusement, then for
money, and alter losing an jus own,
in hope of retrieving his loss, with
tho fatal infatuation of that dreadful
vieo whoso end is swift destruction,
he had hazarded and lost the last
dollar of money he hud in trust for
his employers.
Mr. Mcek's voice faltered as ho
closed his narrative. He was about
to volunteer somotbing about the
prisoner's good character when a
disapproving glance from Mr. Man
gle brought him to a halt.
Just then the prisoner chanced to
turn bis head, and catching a glimpse
of tho senior partner, who naa just
entered and was standing among the
crowd, he started quickly, then whis
porod hurriedly in my ear.
"Turn aside your face," I whis
pered back. And tho caso for tho
prosecution was closod.
"Have you any witness for the de
fence?" inquired tho judgo.
"I will call Hczokiah Manglo," I
replied.
A buzz of surpriso greeting tho
announcement, in tho midst of which
Mr. Manglo stepped forward and was
sworn.
"You havo boon absont for the past
year, Mr. Manglo?" I began.
"1 have.
"Traveling in different parts?"
"Yob, sir."
"Tho prisoner was employed by
your partnor in your absence, and
was arrested about tho timo of your
roturn?"
"Such was the case."
"Havo you ever soon him?"
"Not to my knowledge."
"Or mot him in your travels?"
"If he will turn his head this way
I can toll bettor."
At my bidding Gilbert turnod and
fucod tho witnesss.
Tho effect was electrical. Mr. Man
glo turned red and pale by turns.
"Ono othor question, Mr. Manglo,'
I rosumod. "Do you recognizo in tho
prisoner a young man from whom
you won a thousand dollars at 'poker'
whilo on your travels f and 1 named
tho timo and place at which the pris
oner had mot with his misfortune
Tho man of iron nerve hesitated
worso than his amiablo partner had
dono. Ho was halting between a
point blank lie, which might entail
tho ponalties of porjury, and tho
truth, which would cost him money.
Cowardico performed tho oflico of
scionco, and tho truth camo out. Tho
firm's money, which Georgo Gibert
had lost, had been woo by tho senior
partnor; and tho court instructed tho
jury thut, as tho sum in question had
actually boon delivered to one of tho
joint owners, who wus bound to ac
count to his associato, tho prisoner
could not be convicted.
" God bless you, Mr Parker I " fal-
torod the happy littlo wife. "I know
you would bring us out all right."
It wus evident the truthtul wo
man's nature gave mo all tho credit
of a mult in whoso achievement my
sharo hud been next to nothing.
The lesson wus not lost on Georgo
Gilbert. His first fulso step wus his
lust, and tho richest foo 1 evor ro
coived was the heartfelt gratitudo of
of his noblo, tuithtul wife.
Instinct or Reason.
A small English terrier, belonging to a
friend has been taught to ring fur the ser
vant. To text if the dog knew why it
rang the bell, he was lot J to do so while
the girl was in the room. The little fel
low looked up in the most intelligent
man net at the person giving the order
(his master or mistress.! forget whieh),
then at the servant, and refused to obey,
although the order was repealed more
than once. The servant lull the room,
and a few minutes afterward the dog
rang the bell immediately on being told
to do so. I give the following as told by
my wife, now dead, who personally wit
nessed tha transaction on various oc
casions. At her sister' house in Kent, a
donkey which, when not employed by
the children, grazed in afield with some
cows, was in the regular habit of acting as
follow : At the usual hour for the cow to
come home to be milked the donkey
lift d tha latch of the field gate, opened
and held back the gate (which otherwise
would Lave swung close again) till all the
cows posed out. then allowed the gate to
shut, and went home with the cows. UI
course no one taught the donkey to do
this, but the quadruped gave the biped a
practical lesson, from which I am not
aware that they drew the abstract
verbally formulated the conclusion
that reason may be exercised without
rhetoric. Aaturt.
Rubber hose is made by wrapping rub
ber cloth around a tube of the required
iie, the number of piles depending upon
the required strength. The tube is then
placed in a heater and subjected for a
sufficient time to steam presume of eighty
pound to the square inch, equal to 2S0
degrees Fahrenheit, which melt the
sulphur and vulcanite the gum. The
tube is then withdrawn from the boe.
One of the latest use proposed for steel
lain the nuking of tin-plate, and some
prominent manufacturer, it is said, are
about to adopt it in the place of iron.
Come and hsMione.
The Detroit brlgude of bootblacks was
increased by one recently. A passenger
train from the East carried one more pas
senger than the conductor knew of, be
cause the said passenger was concenlod on
the trunks and looked more like a hunk
of mud than a live boy 14 years old. He
came across the river with the others, and
after a brief look around the depot he
walked up to a hackman and said :
"Old boy, I'm right from Jersey City,
with nothing to eat for two hull days and
not a red cent in my pocket. I'm game, I
am. Lend me a quarter and I'll make it
a dollar before noon."
"I don't know you," replied the hack
man. ,, . ,
"Nor I you, but that's all right. A mau
who won't lend a live boy a quarter to get
a start in life is no man at all. Come
what d'ye say ?"
He got the money and walked up to a
bootblack who stood shivering in therool
air, he said:
"Boy, you'll never mnke a shiner in the
world. Your forte is landscape painting
or counting bank notes. I'll gin yoa
quarter foryer kit, and if yer ever want
money for a pint of peanuts call on me."
It was a trade. There was a new box
of blacking and a pretty fair brash, and
the new boy no sooner had the box under
his arm than he cried out in a wonder
fully shrill voice:
"Come and see me! Come and be
shone by a chaD who can make yer butes
lookuicerin two minits than a slouch
could in four days. Hold out your feet
an' gin me a chance to lay the corner
stone of a fortune and don't you for
get it."
. 111. 1 II r . 1 liA
Uesocureu nve uiocks as ihm
could work and in twenty minutes he had
paid back the quarter. In half an hour
he was fifteen cents ahead, and then he
rubbed his aching arms und said :
"I've got to drop suthin' down for my
stomach to lav hold on.and then I'll come
out and make" the fur fly. It'll take two
hours to get limbered up and feel like a
buzz-saw run by chain lightuing, but
ml, or. r An nnt in UTirlf In Plirilfirlt I Shall
use up a brush in nine minits all day
long."
Aft., l.n nrnxni-ad a rlipnn break-
nilGI HW 1 1 1 VA iiuvutvi. " -
fast at a restaurant he found himself con
fronted by four or five bootblacks, who
looked as if thevhad planned to give him
the bounce.
"Morning genu," said the newooy as
he looked from one to the other. ' No
use giving me any copperas, my beauties,
for I've struck this town to stay. I'm right
on the black. I'd rather black butes, but
I kin black eyes if I'm forced to. I'm a
If anion ri.ntr pr.nl V morn SO. I Strike.
kick, bite and pull hair all at one motion,
and it takes three policeman to pull me
me awav irom me uiaug.eu iciuumo v
my victim."
The boys consulted together and con
cluded not to tackle him. and in five
minutes more thev were giving him their
friendship. He led them back to the de-
not. stood them in a line unu sain :
'Vrur alr.nr.linB vnll Htiflt llV D16 SIIU
I'll stick by you. ' This town hain't never
kin I... If n Arln.l fl.ni! I know it. Down
East we all thought you used dishwater
and etove-blackiug Instead of shoe-polish.
Kani-usa vur amotion u few minutes and
see me tear myself to flinders."
The new noy nioveu arounu nan iuy,
talked like a
candidate, and made twenty cents in
about ten minutes. Tutting the "chink"
down into his vest pocket, he swung his
box over his shoulder and remark :
"Sixty cents afore ten oelocit oi tne
I 'niifT nw I want to
go up town, see the streets, study archi
tecture, steal a uog, aim mis unci noun
ini c..,l on If I uuu hni-ii hnrn nml had
been in jail a dozen times. Ta ta, child-
ren; clou t spend your money ior muy
wniioi m goner-
II e Wauttd Some "scenery."
On a train coming east over the Central
Road the other day was a Californian
bound for Now Jersey, and the train had
scarcely left Chicago behind when he
stopped the conductor and said:
Oil wnicn sine oi wie car oau i uetn see
the mountains? "
Tho conductor told him that there
were no mountains along the route, and
the man indignantly replied:
"What in blazes did you build the road
for? What do you suppose I'm traveling
for? This must be a ono-horse road if it
dont take in at least one mountain ! "
He cooled down after a whilo, but in
half an hour he tackled the brakemen
with the query :
"Docs tins mad puss by any old ruins of
interest?"
The hrukeman couldn't romember any
ruins except an old log house here and
there, and tho Californian was man in a
minute.
"Do you think I shipped on this road as
freight or live stock?" He called out.
"If you don't run past any old ruins why
don t you say so on tho time-cards, and
not be deceiving tuo people t
When the conductor next came along,
tho Californian was looking from tho
window to catch sight of the bridges, and
he turned and said :
'If we come to any bridges over eight
hundred leet long just give mo the world.
I don't care about seeing any shorter
ones.''
The conductor had to admit that the
road was trying to get along with a few
short bridges, and the passenger bobbed
around in his scat and replied :
"What did you wan't to build your old
road for? If you haven't any long bridges
on tho line why don't you hunt for a new
one?"
About thirty miles west of Detroit the
Californian caught sight of a Iske afar otr,
aud going out on the platform he asked
the brakeman :
"Don't we run along the shore of that
lake( over there? "
"No; we are as near as we shall go."
"You are, eh? Then that settles this
road with mn! When I como back I'll
ride in a lumber wagon! You can take
your confounded railroad and eat it, but
you can't fool me again. Look to tue as
If the folks who built it simply wanted to
connect Detroit and Chicago, and don't
care a cent for scenery. I'll gel off at the
next station and walk.''
Physicians and dentists who use small
mirrors to explore the throat and teeth,
astronomers employing large mirrors out
of doors, all who have occasion to use spy
glasses in foggy weather, and especially
those near-sighted persons who cannot
shave themselves without bringing their
noses almost in contact with the looking
glass, are doubtless aware that the lustre
of mirrors becomes soon dimmed bv the
breath, by dew, and generally by water in
a vaporous state. The way to prevent
this troublesome fog is simply to wipe
the surface of the mirror before using,
with a rag, moistened with glycerine. By
this subkUuc watery vspor is completely
taken op.
tWicrftlfle Votes.
Ivorv is rendered flexible by steeping
in a solution f hydrochloric acid.
For attaching labels to glass or porce
lain, gum tragacanth is generally cm
ployed. Zinc white does not possess the body of
white lead, requiring more to cover a
given surface.
Dr. Otis Johnson of the University of
Michigan, gives the following new test of
arsenic: Place the mixture containing
areenious or arsenic compounds in a
Marsh apparatus, with a concentrated so
lution of potassic hydrate and a little
aluminium wire. Upon warming, arseni
ureted hydrogen will be evolved, which
may be subjected to the usual teste. If,
however, the gas blackens argenic nitrate,
the proof is quite conclusive, since anti
mony by this process is not converted in
to antimoniureted hydrogen.
Boudet, of Paris, secures an electrical
inscription of speech in this way: A very
sensitive microphone, in which the car
bons are held together by a piece of paper
folded in the shape of a V, is used as a
transmitter. The receiving telephone has
the diaphraghni and cover removed, and a
string fixed at one end on the wood, and
at the other end to a small piece of soft
iron resting on the magnet. A light
bamboo, with whalebone point, is attach
ed to the spring, and makes represents
ive traces of tha words received on de
calcoinanie paper.
In a recently-published work of M.
GaMon Plante, Kecliercliet ur Eltclrkitit,
the author suggests that the electric cur
rent, under certain conditions, might be
substituted for diamonds la the operation
of drilling rocks. He states that elec
trodes of platinum would not he neces
sary, for here it is not the metal of the
electrode that is a saline solution. Metallic
points to projections suitably located at
the extrcmety of the drill, isolated on a
part of its length and actuated by a
rotary movement, would lead the electric
current to the surface of the rock to be
pulverized, and would thus replace those
numerous and expensive diamonds which
are set in the head of the drills employed
in the present system of rock boaring.
Fisn Brkudino. The Wisconsin State
Fish Commission this year have had
hatched at the Milwaukee and Madison
hatcheries, and distributed, $10,000,000
Lake Michigan whitefish. These have
been planted at various points in the lake.
Some 4,000,000 Mackinaw trout have been
planted this season in large inland lakes
and favorable spots in Lake Michigan.
Five hundred thousand Lake Mendota
whitefish have been distributed in the
larger lakes of Eastern Wisconsin. There
is a very large demand for these fish this
year. The Commission have 50,000 Macki
naw trout at Nine Springs for distribution
to private parties who desire them as
breeders. Mr. Welch is corresponding
with Seth Green with a view of obtaining
100,000 eels from Hudson river. These
will be replanted in the small inland
lakes. It is the intention of the Commis
sion to take large quantities of black bass
early in June from the inland hikes,
where they are running in large shoals,
and transplant them to waters where
there are none. Mr. Welch says he is
constantly receiving letters from all por
tions of the State reporting that the young
fish planted by the Commissioners are
appearing in great numbers, especially
the Mackinaw trout and speckled trout of
the first distribution, while whitefish
have appeared by millions upon the
spawning-beds along the shores of Lake
Michigan that for a dozen years have been
barren.
An Arctic Relic.
The old Arctic ship Jietolutr, which
formed part of Captain Austin's expedi
tion in search of John Franklin in 1850,
is about to be broken up at the Chatham
dock yard. Ornaments and handsome
pieces of furniture are to be made from
the best timbers, which the Admirality
intends to present to the President of the
United States as a souvenir of
the occasion when the ship was
found by American whalers abandoned
in the ice, and the government of the
United States had her repaired and re
fitted, and presented her to the British
Admirality. This ship was sent to Eng
land in charge of Commander ilenryl.
Hartstein, who received the Queen and
Prince Albert on board, and was in turn
entertaired at the palace, dining with
the royal family. Before her abandon
ment in the ice the ship received on
board Castain McClure and his companion
from the Invettigator. The last named
vessel had entered the Arctic regions
from Behring's Straits, but had become
beset in the ice, and her company had
deserted her and were traveling over the
ide in hope of escape to the eastward
when they met a portion of Captain
Austin's crew. Hence McClure and his
companions may be said to be the only
persons who ever went through the north
west passage.
Use tiood Language.
We advise all young people to acquire
in early life the habit of using good lan
guage, both in speaking and writing, and
also to abandon the use of slang words
and phrases. The longer they live the
more ditlicult the acquisition of good lan
guage will be ; and if the golden age of
youth, the proper time for the acquisition
of language, be passed in abuse, the un
fortunate victim or neglected education is
very probably doomed to talk slang for
life. Money is not necessary to procure
this education. Every person Las it in
his power. He has to uso the language
which he reads instead of the slang which
he hears; to form taste from the best
speakers and poets of the country ; to
treasure up choice phrases in his memory,
and habituate himself to their use, avoid
ing at the same time that pedantic preci
sion and bombast which show rather the
weakness of wasted ambition than the
polish of an educated mind.
store's Remedy.
Fcoplo who. without knowimr that
they were applying nature's remedy,
have drawn in their breath hard when
they have cut a finger or barked a shin
on a coal scuttle, will be pleased to learn
that they have employed respiratory
analgesia in its simplest form. If any
man will draw breath deeply and quickly
for the space of three minutes or less, he
will thereby lose acute sensibility to
pain, ao that he can endure a minor
surgical operation without inconven
ience. Eminent surgeons have found the
process of great advantage when nsed
alone, not only, but when anaesthetics
also were employed, in which latter case
the quantity of the drug to be nsed is
grgt 7rUuuni&hed.
iOElClLTCBiL.
The Chbysanthm.-Unlike many
other beautiful plants, the chrysanthe
mum is very easily Vf! e
slipped from the parent stool in April or
May , before they become inconveniently
long, strike freely when planted in pots
or under a hand glass in the open bor
der; or two or three inches of the ex
tremity of a shoot, taken off at this time
and planted in a small pot in light, rich
earth, and placed in a cold, c bse frame
or even in the open air, will put forth
roots. By shifting it into a pot of larger
size, filled with very rich soil, and pinch
ing off the extreme point as soon as it
begins to grow, beautiful, low, well
furnished and fine flowering plants will
be obtained. They require abundance
of water, and if this is once neglected,
the lower leaves fall off, and the plant
loses much of ite beauty. Liquid ma
nure may be applied once a week. Hand
some drawf plants may be procured as
follows: In August, take a sucker, it
matters not how long, and having put
inmttnuf Inti a small lint nvor
DUU1U A 11 11 l-Ullljua. -vw
a piece of broken tile, spread the roots
of the sucker on n ana con iiio aww
,.! 4l,A Jnu:,1n rf tlm rinf an that, nnlv
a couple of inches of the extremity shall
1 XV : ill A .mtiTn
appear anove ui cmui m i-cuwi.
Tha unmo ruii It mriv ha ohtained hv lav
dwmj "r v V
ering the extremity of the shoots into
small pots; tney soon lane root anu may
be separated from the parent plant.
Fall Ciieese. It is often remarked
by cheese dealers from abroad that the
niinntit.v of fine fall American cheese is
comparatively small. This is accounted
for by the fact tnat ho many lactones re
sort to skimming, for as soon as the hot
anaunn in nvAr. ami natrons can send
their milk in good condition, the spirit
of greed prompts sKimming, anu me
reputation of the factory is spoiled at
tlm vrv timo when there is a chance to
enhance it. The September and October
cheese are those which are required to
pnrrv over for Hnrintr use. and. when
these are rich and solid, there is a
good chance to get an oruer ior
them from abroad for next sea
Ron. Hnt skimminor prevents this.
Moreover, makers seldom fully realize
the effect of skimming, it alters ine
condition of the milk which they have to
work rfitardini? the desired chance, and
this, in connection with the colder
weather, delays the development of acid.
The maker tires of ' waiting and watch
ing, so the curd is dipped too soon, anu
the result is poor, open textured cheese.
Full cream October milk, properly made
intji clipcsfi and well cured, should be
the very finest of the season, such as
would be rich, mellow ana nne navoreu
in April or May. Makers must see to it
that, t.lifl mill, clnmmv October make is
superseded by a solid, firm, rich, well
cured cheese. I'atrons will assuredly
find it to their interest to send only pure,
sweet, full milk to the factories.
Robert Me Adam.
Garden Culture of Cranberries.
Prepare the ground by deep plowing or
spading, and enrich it well in tho usual
way, or with a compost of two parts
swamp muck and one part wood ashes.
Bone duBt is an excellent application
say, one pound to the square yard. In
April, May or June, or in October and
November, set the plants four inches
apart, in rows six inches asunder, in
beds four feet wide. Two square rods
will yield four or five bushels, and re
quire 20(H) plants. The vines will soon
cover tho ground and require no re
newal, as the plant is a perennial Bhrub.
The cranberry is one of the best plants
for garden edgings, or for broad belts or
bordors for the principal walks. It is
easily trimmed and kept in order, and is
always attractive in bloom or in fruit,
and, being an evergreen, in winter. For
edgings, plant six inches apart in double
rows four inches asunder. For belts
and borders, which may be one-half to
two feet wide, plant as above directed
for bed. As soon as it is known how
easily every family may grow its own
cranberries, tho cultivation of this
wholesome fruit will bo introduced in
every garden. It is in eating from Sep
tember to June.
Remedy for Roup. To cure the roup,
when a bird is attacked with the charac
teristic cough of the malady, or has tena
cious mucus about the beak, with
diflicuy of breathing, I place it in a
wicker coop in a quiet shed, and put be
fore it a drinking fountain containing
about a gill of water, with which I have
mixed one drop of solution of aconite,
third potency may be had of any home
opathic physician. In every instance
during three years this treatment has
had an effect almost marvelous, for, upon
visiting the patient an hour or two after
wards, I have found that the symptoms
have vanished. The attack for a day or
two is liable to return, yet each time in a
lighter form; but continuing the applica
tion has in no instance with us failed
completely to remove the ailment in
about forty-eight hours. In case the dis
ease should have made so much progress
before it is observed, that the sufferer is
unablo to drink, it will be necessary to
give the dose. This is easily accom
plished by pouring into the throat about
a teaspoonful of water every hour.
A calf will draw milk in three minutes,
and the nearer a milker can come to that
time the better. A slow milker makes a
cow impatient, and often causes her to
hold up her milk. Tho " stripping "
are the richest part, and if a cow is milked
quietly as well as quickly there will be
more as well as richer milk because of
these " strippings."
A Holstein cow at Elgin gave 12,f10;
pounds of milk from the 12th of May,
1873, to the 5th of March, 1879293 days.
The largest amount in any one day was
71 pounds ; the most in any one week,
! i'Ofi pounds. The milk was weighed as
: soon as drawn from the cow.
A man at Madison lost a cow the other
day from the effects of eating oleander
buds. Persons in cutting this shrub, the
oleander, should be very careful not to
throw the cuttings into the streets or al
leys, for they are sure death to the cow
or horse that eats them.
Horn i colored by boiling it in infu
sions of colors. Imitations of tortoise shell
are mads by applying hot a solution of
pearlaah, quicklime, litharge and dragon's
uiuuu. inn is uiu io nmisiDU uiuu uc
to imitate the shell, and the second ap
plication gives tot darker spots.
Queer Contents or Letter Boxes,
A Boston paper says that the carriers
who collect the mail from street boxes
sometimes find queer deposits therein
Loose silver coins and loose postage
stamps are among the principal discov
eries, while a carrier the other day
brought in a bank-book containing
in bills, whieh he had taken from a lamp
post box. The most remarkable instanceM
of absentmindedness in this direction
was the case, not long since, of a young
man who daily carries two leathern bags
one for mail and one for money, etc.
He deliberately, in a fit of abstraction
walked up to a box in the Boston post
office, and emptied the contents of one
bag, containing several bank books and
bills and checks amounting to thousands
of dollars, in the mail box, and did not
discover his blunder until he went into
the bank and handed the receiving teller
a bunch of letters. That young man's
face, it is said, grew so pale as to frighten
every one who saw him rushing through
tho streets, eyes distended and heart
thumping loudly in his wretched lwsora.
He was made a happier and a wiser man
on receiving at the business office the
bank books and money, in place of which
he gladly tentered his bundle of mail
matter.
Remarkable Incident.
A circumstance of somewhat remarka
ble character, says the Petersburg (Va.)
Index-Appeal of May 27th, is reported to
have occurred Sunday during the baptiz
ing at the basin. Among the 54 candi
dates who received the ordinance at the
hands of their pastor, Rev. Henry Wil
liams, Jr., was a colored man named Bur
well Lancaster, a deaf-mute since infancy.
When be was raised from the water, after
immersion, according to the testimony of
those who stood around him, he suddenly
recovered his voice, and, in clear and dis
tinct tones, cried out: "Thank God!
Thank God!" To those who had never
heard him speak a word, and who had re
garded him as dumb, these words of
thanks came with startling effect, and
among many of the colored people, taken
in connection with the occasion, the cir
cumstance is regarded as akin to a mira
cle. The occurrence created a great deal
of comment. What is equally as remark
able, is the fact that the man, after utter
ing these words, returned agaiu to his
mute condition, and has beeu unable
since to say anything further.
Spring rerlls.
The first sunshine of spring is deceitful,
and the draughts of air pernicious. One
needs to be as carefully swathed in flannel
during the spring thaw as under the per
meating influence of an autumn freeze.
Changes of temperature are insidious as
they are sudden at this season, and it be
hooves people with lungs susceptible to
atmospheric alternations to be most care
ful indoors and out; to wear garments
appropriate for all seasons, never trusting
to chance. A heedless person may throw
upon overtaxed shoulders a burden griev
ous to be borne by inattention to things
which only a perpetual consciousness of
facts could spare them. I know an es
timable lady who, after three years of
constant care on the part of friends, ter
minated her frail life oy a willful deter
mination to tako a sleigh ride of a few
blocks. Her lungs despito the muffling
in rich fur, could not resist the influx of
strong air ; congestion ensued, and the
home was broken. Life is too brief and
too precious for such experiments ; it is a
God-given treasure, which no one but a
coward and an idiot will recklessly risk
or throw away. Hence, it btdiooves usto
make the most of the immunities of art
science which tend to prolong, to pre
serve or embelish it, to garnish the tem
ple in which the Creator has put His soul
to dwell, as to render it acceptable here or
hereafter. Neuvrk Advertiser.
A Silveb Commission Wanted. The
New York World hopes we have a silver
commission: What should le done at
once by tho Government at Washington
as soon as Congress adjourns, is to ap
point a new diplomatic commission to
negotiate respecting silver coinage with
the great powers of Europo, and to in
vito European co-operation. The com
mission should be so composed as to
command respect and confidence in Ber
lin, Paris and London, which is as much
as to say that it should fairly represent
all portions of the country and all
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serious opinions on uie buujoci., mm m
the interests in the country. Its mem
bers should be men competent and will
ing to take up the coinage question anu
examine it anew and from the bottom.
They should be men capable of orally
discussing the subject in tne language oi
European diplomacy, and men who ap
preciate what international diplomacy
means. A commission mado up by
F.varts. and comorisinor such eminent
citizens as Fish, Seymour, Adams and
Belmont from the Eastern States, and
representative men of equal standing
from the Western and Southern States,
could not fail to do much towards bring
ing about an understanding between
Washington, London, Berlin and Paris.
A little of the industry and good sense
shown in the Alabama negotiations
would accomplish all that is needed
about silver. Such negotiations would
be much more useful for silver than any
amount of declamation to approving or
disapproving audiences in Ohio, under
the hot sun of July or August, about the
"dollar of our daddies.
A 'pw FtnE Cistern. A new fire cis
tern, by Mr. R. T. Scowden, city engineer,
laioiv touto.i at thH comer of Thir
teenth and Magazine streets, Louisville,
Ky., and proved to be entirely sausim
tory. This cistern is different fromany fire
.latum near niuri hofnrn. It is constructed
to hold three hundreds barrels of water;
the body of the cistern inj ead or amy
perpendicular is horixontui. lying parallel
witn the course of the street, cylindrical
in form, the walls being of brick and
cement, thirteen inches in diameter, with
the crown twenty-four inches below the
surface of the atreet, the outlets being
near the ends, me iaea oiua vMU VI
cistern is to obtain more than one outlet,
which is impossible in those now in use,
so that a great number of engines can be
operated from one receptacle. Another
advantage claimed for it is that the cistern
from the nature of its ci nstruction, can
not be crushed in from the street above.
Everyone who saw the test were much
pleased, and were ready to acknowledge
the superiority of this cistern over those
now io nee. It is likely that they will be
extensively adopt 1 in the future.
Chloride of sine i u aOiuir.ble disin
fectant for foul liq lid (one part ia 200 ot
sr). This ia used by order in the
Uerman navy for bilge water.