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i always nna in ine oooa oi me
Some lessons I have to learn.
I must take my turn at the mill;
I must grind out the golden grain;
I must work at my task with a resolute will
Over and over again.
"We cannot measure the need
Of even the tiniest flower,
Nor check the flow of the golden sands
That run through a single hour
But the morning dews must fall;
And the sun and the summer rain
Must do their part, and perform it all
Over and over again.
Oyer and over again
The brook through the meadow flows,
All over and over again
The ponder ous mill wheel goes;
Once doing-will not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain; ^
And a biesslng failing us once or twice,
May come if we try again.
The path that has once been trod,
S. Is never so rough for the feet;
\ And the lesson we once have learned
Is never so hard to repeat.
Though sorrowful tears must fall.
And the heart to its depths be riven
With the storm and tempest, we need them all
To render us meet for heaven.
Josie's New Hat.
BY ELSIE SXOWE.
The question of a new hat is a serious
one to all girls, even those who have
rich papas and full purses.
To JosieHerne it had, alas! always
been a serious question, but on a certain
momentous occasion, about to be
described,its seriousness was beginning
to assume appalling proportions.
This was the way of it :
The New come girls had gotten up a ;
lawn-party, led on to do so by the ex-!
ample of some friends who had but recently
returned from a prolonged resi- j
dence abroad, and who declared that
life in the country was not to be en- '
dured without lawn-parties now
and then to relieve its tedious monotony.
The Newcomes were the great people
of Centreville. There were a half
dozen girls of them, and they were
very nice girls,too,in their way; rather
showy, a little loud, a little slangy,and :
somewhat disposed "to put on airs," as |
they said in Centreville. But, on the J
whole, good-natured and kind-hearted
girls; and little Josie Heme, who was
the daughter of their music master,had
often fouM^them so. They were con
stoutly iiMting her to the house when!
her father V&me to give them lessons;
they often invited her to tea?more often
than Josie could accept, for she had
so few dresses, and such as she had
were not in a very fine state of preservation,
notwithstanding the care she
took of them. And in summer, especially,
she had often to refuse invitations
to tea, when she would very
clftdlv have accented them, because her
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A11 Centreville would be there, of
course; theXewcomes had the finest
lawn in the neighborhood, and everybody
would be charmingly dressed.
Such an opportunity for the display of
summer toilettes did not occur everyday,
and when it did, of course everyone
would take advantage of it.
Josie was not a vain girl, and only
moderately fond of dress, but for a
lawn-party a hat was an absolute necessity,
and what in the world was she
going to do? for she had been Wearing
her dark straw, trimmed with a brightwinged
little bird, all the spring and so
far into the summer that only a naturally
brunette complexion could have
stood such close acquaintance with the
sun. But that hat with a light muslin
dress would never do for a lawn-party.
Consequently,poor Josie was in despair,
at least as nearly so as a bright, hope
summer wardrobe consisted of two
cheap muslin gowns, made by her own
skillful little hands; each time she
went out anywhere it wa? necessary to
appear in one or the other of thesegowns,
carefully laundried by Josie herself.
And how fresh and pretty they looked,
too; and no one ever dreamed how
flushed and tired Josie had been after
the ironing, or what economy she had
practiced to enable her to buy the extra
half pound of starch.
But she didn't mind that, not a bit,
after the task was accomplished. She
was just as happy, and enjoyed herself
probably much more than any one
of those girls whose dresses were so
many that they would have been puzzled
to number them as a mere matter
of memory.
But sometimes even the strictest
economy failed to bring in the extra
. starch ; and as Josie was her father's
housekeeper, and did all the laundrv
work as well as her own dresses.
and the cooking,house-cleaning, everything,
in short,and kept the tiny cottage
as neat and trimasa flower-garden,
it happened, occasionally, that she
couldn't even afford the time to go up
to the Newcome's grand house to enjoy
the hospitality that was proffered with
such hearty good will
However, a lawn-party?that was
something that could not be refused.
Therefore it was accepted, and gladly
too, for Josit Herne liked the society
of young people of her own age, and
^ enjoyed "a good time" quite as much
as any young, bright happy girl could.
But oh! the hours of anxiety that beset
Josie after the too tempting invitaQAPorvtoH
ful, light-hearted girl of her age could
be.
"I must overhaul my wardrobe!"
she thought, the day after accepting
the invitation ; and with a comical
little grimace she added, ' being so extensive
of course I may have forgotten
many things?no doubt I shall find
just what I want in it."
Next day, accordingly, as soon as her
morning's work was over, and after
the one hour's practice on the little cottage
piano, which she never omitted,
Josie proceeded to overhaul her wardrobe
as she had said, and greatly to her
surprise, notwithstanding its limited
proportions, she actually found two articles
of which she had been uncon
I scious. These were, first, a leghorn
i hat, very old, very yellow, and having
} a very wide brim ; and second, a dress
of fine India muslin, time-stained and
antiquated in style, but so long and
wide in the skirt that Josie's quick eye
j instantly saw it, in the mirror of her
| mind, ripped, bleached, and re-niade
j into an elegant dress of the present day.
Both articles had belonged to the
| pretty young mother dead so many
i years ago, that even the memory of her
| was like the fleeting mist-like dream
to Josie Heme. But the warm tears
dropped from her eyes, and she kissed
the hat and dress as she took them up
reverently in her hands.
"Dear little mother !" she murmured,
and thought, perhaps, that mother's
spirit hovered near, anxious that her
little girl should enjoy her day of innocent
pleasure while she was young and
happy.
The hat was broken and worn round
the outer edge, but so wide that it oould
bear with improvement, a couple of
inches taken from the brim, and then,
when pressed into shape on the post of
the old-fashioned bedstead, it looked,
as Josie laughingly assured herself,
like a "brand new gipsy of the latest
style.'
What to trim it with became the
next momentous question; and after
thinking the matter overWll dajT while
engaged in her other duties, Josie was
obliged to give it up, leaving the hat
still poised on the end-of the bed-post,
consoling herself with the hopeful reflection
:
"Well, I'll manage it somenow?
something will be sure to turn up in
time for the lawn-party."
Meantime the yellow, time-stained
India muslin was ripped, and washed,
and bleached like the new-fallen a^w,
and then made into a charming costume
.with ruffles and knife-pleatings
in the newest style; and indeed it
made a drees handsome enough for
any occasion. But, alas! nothing in
the shape of trimming for Josie's hat
had yet been found, and in despair she
had almost decided on a wreath of wild
flowers and grasses. They would be
appropriate and lovely?for an hour,
perhaps; but after that they would be
faded and withered, and terribly suggestive
of a genteel makeshift. But a
kind fate, who surely waits on poor
young girls, came to the rescue.
On the day before that fixed for the
lawn-party, Josie was hanging out her
few little laces to dry on the rosebush
in front of the house; and while she
did so, her clear,fresh young voice sang
gaily:
"Gin a body meet a body
Comin' thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?"
"No, indeed," thought a good-looking
youth, who was just passing; "for
my own part I'd be more likely to
smile," and he stopped and looked long
and admiringly at the pretty girl
? ?D ?
ive than her brilliantly trimmed hat,
"By Jove!" thought Arthur Moor
land, "it's the pretty little girl whc
wanted to know if being kissed was ?
' thing to cry about. Upon my word ]
spreading her little bits of laces to dry ;
then as she turned toward him he
dodged quickly out of sight, and at the
same moment a wandering breeze
caught the loose silk handkerchief
carelessly knotted about his throat,
bore it straight toward J osie anddropped
it at her feet, while the owner, laugh|
ing to himself, passed on unconscious
| of his loss.
With a cry of delight Josie caught
; up the soft, brilliant square of silk,
with its border of Roman colors, and
I in her grateful joy pressed it to her
lips.
"Wherecould it have come from?"
she asked, aloud. "Surely some good
fairy must have dropped it!"
And then, without a thought of look'
ing for an owner for it, she fiew into
the house, up stairs to her little room,
and snatched her hat from the bed-post
j where it still hung, being pressed into
shape.
Josie's costume for the lawn-party
' ? IVia aftft
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white India muslin was the prettiest
I dress there, and the old-fashioned legt
horn hat, with its trimmings of two
half handkerchiefs of brilliant silk
wound scarf-wise about it and'tied in a
; t*>w on the side, was declared to be
| quite the most becoming headgear
that had ever been seen in Centreville.
There was one young gentleman
there who scarcely took his eyes from
Josie's hat for the first half hour after
| her appearance on the lawn ; then h<
1 seemed to discover that her bright,
rtnrk vnnnir face waseven more attract
I
j would like to make a practical demonsj
tration of her feelings on the subject,
i And that's where I lost my silk handJ
kerchief.?Poor, pretty child! how
glad I am she found it?perhaps she
I wouldn't have been here but for that
j lucky puff of wind that blew it away,
i The girls say she's as poor as she's
j charming; and if that be true she must
| be poor indeed."
Arthur Moorland was a rich half
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I was in "the right place," as even his
detractors were obliged to admit. So
when he asked for an introduction to
Josie, and devoted himself to her
for the rest of the day, Kate Newcome
said to her sister Bessie, "Leave Arthur
alone?none of us want him; he's
too elegant and fine, but he's a splendid
fellow. And if he is really smitten
with that dear little Josie, what a magnificent
thing it will be for her."
So the course of true love was permitted
to glide on with almost provoking
smoothness; and one day Arthur
told Josie that he couldn't live any
longer without her and didn't intend
to try.
"Oh, Arthur!" faltered Josie, blushing
like a June rose, "what's to be done
then ? for you know I'm the victim of
a rash vow, and I'm afraid it would be
wicked to break it."
"A vow! what vow?" questioned
Arthur, turning pale.
"Well, the truth is, Arthur, the day
before I met you I found a lovely silk
handkerchief, and it waa such an absolute
god-send and rescued me from
such a quandary,that I rowed to myself
that I would marry none other than the
owner of that handkerchief, if I could
ever meet him, and he shuold ask
me "
"And you shall keep the vow, y
darling?I am, or was, the owner of
that handkerchief," and he caught the
blushing girl in both arms.
" Feu?well. I half suspected it,from
the way you looked at my hat that first
day?you know you just stared, Arthur
; and after that you took to looking
at me, you know!"
"Yes, I know!" laughed Arthur;
and then he made a practical effort to
find out Josie's opinion on the subject
of being kissed, and that young maiden
did net cry.
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The Fashions.
Babies.?There is never much that
is new to write about concerning infants
and their belongings. Still, very
great changes have taken place since
they were tightly swathed, bound and
bandaged on coming into the world,
and kept so tied and braced that it was
a wonder they could ever grow; and
in fact this treatment is no doubt responsible
for malformations, and much
that has been dwarfish and only half
developed.
Babies, like other people, fail to appreciate
their blessings, and never will
know from how much they are saved,
and how much they gain in being allowed
freedom to writhe, to twist, to
wriggle, to taKe an sorts 01 snapes, ana
grow all over at once. Dress, for them
atleastis not now a matter of fashion,but
one of comfort and health, and fashion
has naught to do with it?save assist in
devising pretty methods of cutting and
ornamenting the material for the babies'
clothing, which is always to be as
fine and soft as means will admit of
It was rather curious that while the old
baby fashions enclosed the baby's body
in such cruel bandages, the feeble arms
and delicate neck were left wholly exposed,
while the limbs were weakened
by an oppressive weight of long clothing.
This is partially remedied nowadays,
and has been for some time, by a
reduction in the length of baby clothes
and the coveringof the neck and arms.
1 The modern slip, cut in one piece,
ehaneri hut, easilv adiusted. and of soft.
line, washable, white material, is an
almost perfect dress.
No starch should ever be suffered to
come in contact with baby clothes, and
nothing coarse or harsh in the way of
material or embroidery. It is better
not to have trimming than not
to have it fine anddelicate. Of
course, only white fabrics should
be used for infants, aud there
need be no trouble about these if they
are properly washed. Do not intrust
white woolens of any kind to one
whom you cannot trust as you would
yourself. The best way is to wash
them yourself. It is not disagreable.
Use soft, slightly tepid (not warm)
water, in which put powdered borax?
about a teaspoonful to a gallon of water.
Make a lather with white castile
' soap, and in this wash your woollen
garments thoroughly. Rinse in cold
1 water, without blueing.
The most wonderful embroidery is
> now put on baby shawls and blankets.
! Instead of following stiff, rectangular,
' patterns, artists in such matters follow
nature, and design as they work?
l flowers, leaves, sprays, fibres, insects,
i stems, weeds and whatever they find
that will lend itself to the purpose of
1 1 TKa Artl.T pnAnircniont
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is that there shall be harmony in the
carrying out of the idea. For example,
if the lotus flower is selected the figures
must be Egyptian; if the primrose,
) the surrounding objects must possess
i an English rural character. French
[ ideas are always conventionalized ; the
art worker draws from all sources, but
is not guilty of incongruity by mixing
opposites, or such things as belong to
different ages, eras and peoples.
The round ci3ak is a necessity for a
baby, because it can be cut longer than
a sacque; but care should be taken not
to make it too heavy. The most useful
and convenient cloaks are made
with a round, soft, silk-lined hood, instead
of large^cape, which can be
drawn over the pretty little cap now
fashionable, and forms a sufficient protection.
Twenty-five years ago it would have
been considered dangerous for a newly
born baby to go without its cap until
it had acouired a covering of hair for
its head, and t Augh the abandonment
of hats has been recommended as a
sanitary measure, still we cannot imagine
it to be a very imperative oie,
for babies liv^f and grew in those
days, and were Messed with abundant
hair. It does not seem very much a
matter for regret, therefore, that fashion
has lately restored the tiny, round
cap, which covers the baby's small,
round, bald heafi and dresses it lightly,
softly, yet effectively, and without
any prejudice to its temperature or
circulation, for the fabric of which it
is made is the lightest and finest of lace
or muslin.
Phylla CostMade in ivorywhite
French bunting, combined with
satin de Lyon having chintz figures on
an ivory ground, this makes a lovely
costume for a miss. It comprises a
tight-fitting basque, coat-shaped at the
back, arranged like a deep vest in
front; a gracefuEy draped overekirt,
and a skirt bordered with a fine plaiting
and trimm^Uin front and at the
sides with panels. The dress is mad%
of the bunting, the satin de Lyon being
used for the vest, collar, cutis and
panels on the skirt. The plaiting at
the bottom is lined with red satin, and
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match. Cascade* of red and creamcolored
satin ribbon loops ornament
the sines; frill and jabot of India muslin
trimmed with Breton lace.
New Styles or Polonaises.?The
long polonaise, which promises still to
be retained, and is always so graceful,
is perhaps longer tlian ever, very much
drawn up, elaborately wrinkled in the
front breadths, and with long, artistically-draped
folds in the back, and so
numerous to dfi??ay with any need
of a bustle, even with the flattest figure.
It appears to be a resolve with
all ladies that bustles, if worn again at
all, shall not be until it becomes very
cold again. Pockets are by no means
discarded, nor likely to be, and fall
styles will retain the fichu ends, long
in front, and drawn into either a sailor's
knot or a simple bow knot. On
some styles of polonaise the basque is
still outlined, and of these the set is
always good. Surplice folds reappear,
terminating in a dressy bow.
Notes.?Large hats have been literally
a great feature of the summer watering
place toilets.
At Saratoga and Richfield Springs,
where pond lilies are found, they have
been the chief ornament of the lady
visitors, who rarely appear without a
bunch at their belt. Field daisies are
used when pond lilies are not obtainable.
Children's hose are now solid above
and below the calf of the leg. Around
this part of the leg there is usually a
band of clustered 9tripes, inclosed in a
border, above and below, of embroidery.
Sometimes the border has pendants,
sometimes it consists of tiny
stare or daisies set at brief intervals.
Women of Ancient and Modern
Times.
The assertion that man is becoming
larger minded and larger hearted finds
a significant illustration in the present
condition of woman. At no one place
can we better see tfc radical changes
for the better in theaife of humanity
than at the standpoint of the modern
j woman. When we look into the face
| of our mother or wife, or daughter, or
cultivated friends, in this half of the
intellectual world, we cannot but wonder
in amazement if these are the beings
who had no souls in some lands,
and who were mere slaves in the classic
lands, and who in all the barbarous
tribes have done all the work in field
and house, and which all through the
middle ages of Christendom were a
kind of miserable appendage to the noble
army of men. Why, even in the
Mosaic age, out of which came Christianity,
but came like morning out of
night, a woman could not bring any
kind of lawsuit against a man, and a
man might divorce a wife if he would
only take the pains to give her a piece
of writing to that effect. She must
leave the house like a servant girl to
whom one may give a certificate, not
of good service, but of service. And
you remember that in Solomon's magnificent
temple there was an outer
court into which the heathen could
come, an inner court into which women
could come, but into the grand
interior, where the wealth and art of
the period had done their best work,
and where God himself could be found,
only the men were worthy to enter.
The first definition of man was so narrow
that only the king or royal families
were included in it. By degrees it
was enlarged until many adult men
could enjoy its honors; but little children
and women and slaves were not
admitted into its environs. Infants
were slain readily. Wives were
whipped, bought and sold, divorced at
pleasure, or killed; in some countries
dead slaves were not buried. There
were ravines or sink-holes into which
dead slaves were thrown. You could
find the places by watching the carrion
birds in their circling flight. Cicero,
in the four or five hundred letters he
left Written to friends, mentions often
his father, but never his mother; he
Hivnrnwl twn wIvm lnvpH his riamrh
ter, indeed, but was reproved by Roman
statesmen for weeping for her
when she died. Nero killed his mother,
and Seneca, his moral guide, made no
complaint. It thus seems to have taken
the human race a long time to expand
the word man to such a proportion,
that into its nobleness, and security,
and peace, the woman and the little
child could take refuge; but at last
into this gigantic ark the weakest and J
humblest gather themselves, and are
quite safe as the storms of life come
and the floods climb higher.?Prof.
David Swing.
Her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs, xxxi. 10.
Earth's noblest thing?a woman perfected.?F.
JR. Lowell: 11 Irene.11
The woman is the glory of the manSt.
Paul: 1 Cor. ii. 7.
She behaved like an angel ?why
do I say an aagel ??a woman.?Life of
E. Burke.
Grace was in her steps, heaven in her eye
In every gesture dignity and love.?M Cro>*.
Cain?Then leave me.
Adah?Never, though thy God left
thee! Byron.
Woman is like the reed, which
bends to every breeze, but breaks not
in the tempest. Whateley.
Most of their faults women owe to
us, whilst we are indebted to them for
most of our better qualities.
The world was sad! the garden was a wild! |
And man, the hermit, sigh'd?till woman j
smiled!
Campbell: "Pleasures of Hope11 part
II, line 37.
Nature is in earnest when sh*.- makes
a woman.?0. W. Holmee: "Autocrat \
of the Breakfast Table.11
And Jacob served seven years for
Rachel, and they seemed unto him tnit
a few days for the love he had to her.?
Genesis xxix. 20.
Her office there to rear, to teach,
Becoming as is meet and fit
A link among the days to knit
The generations each with each.
Tennyson.
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still and bright,
With something of an angel light.
Wordsworth: "She was a Phantom of
Delight."
Ghe openeth her mouth with wisdom;
and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
She looketh well to the ways of
her household, and eateth not the
bread of idleness.
Proverbs, xxxi. 26, 27.
0 fairest of creation, last and best
Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
Milton: "Par. Lost," ix. 896.
Women in the course of action describe
a smaller circle than men ; but
the perfection of a circle consists not
in its dimensions, but in its correctness.
Hannah Moore.
Withoute women were al our Joye lose;
Wherefore_we ought alle women to obeye
In al goodnesse; I can no more say.
Chancer: "A Praise of Women."
There is in every true woman's heart
a spark of heavenly fire, which lies
dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity,
but which kindles up and
beams and blazes in the dark hour of
adversity.?Irving.
No man ever lived a right Jite wno
had not been chastened by a woman's
love, strengthened by her courage,and
guided by her discretion.-John Rushin.
She is the most delightful of God's
creatures?heaven's best gift, man's
joy and pride in prosperity, man's support
and comforter in affliction.?
Shelly.
More human, more divine than we?
In truth, half human, half divineIs
woman, when good stars agree
To temper with their beams benign
The hour of her nativity.
F. G. Holland.
Not she with tralt'rous kiss herSaviour stung,
Not she denied him with unholy tongue;
She, while apostles shrank, could danger
brave.
Last at bis croas, and earliest at his grave.
E. Browr.ing.
Blessing she is?God made her so;
And deeds of week-day holiness
Fall from her, noiseless as the snow;
Nor hath she ever chanced to know
That ought were easier than to bless.
F. R. Lowell.
Honored be woman! she beams on the sight
Graceful and fair, like a being of light
Scatters aroung her, wherever she strays,
Roses of bliss o'er our thorn-covered ways;
Roses of paradise, sent from above,
To be gathered and twined in a garland of
love.
Sehiller.
There are no men at the present
(lay who are making such improvements
as the dairymen. They are improving
the quality of their lands, the
quality of their production, the quality
of their cows and the manner in which
they are cared for; they are improving
the quality of their milk, and, with
improved utensils and manipulation,
they are making great improvements
in butter and cheese.
Because of the Sinking of a
Bath House.
There is a floating bath house on the
Severn River at Bridgnorth, England,
owned by the rowing club, the members
of which allowed its use on two
days a week by ladies. Wednesday
was one of those days, and some thirty
ladies had availed them-elves of the
privilege. There had been much rain
and the river was swollen. Soon after
the ladies entered the bath gave a sudden
lurch and began to sink. The ladies
were greatly alarmed, and resolved
on abandoning their clothes and making
for the otiier bank of the river. !
Their retreat was not performed a min- i
ute too soon, for before they had well |
! reached the opposite bank the bath j
j sank. The poor ladies sought refuge i
in a cattle shed, and the surrounding j
villagers did their best to supply clothing,
some of which was of a rather gro!
tesque character, bnt most of them had j
to make their way home under the i
j friendly shelter of an old blanket, !
I which they regarded as better than go- '
! ing to the bottom of the river.
Scientific Economy.
To drill a small hole in glass use
! turpentine, and take care when the
j drill is about to break its way through
! the glass as the hole is finished.
After careful examination Dr. TTeu:
mann arrives at the conclusion that
no process hitherto invented will keep j
iron effectively and durably from rust, j
Sulphide of mercury, whether black j
and amorphous or red and crystalline, I
is attacked by chlorine according to |
the temperature and concentration of j
the acid employed.
That Germany consumes an enor- I
mous quantity of tobacco is a well- j
Known iaci; uui 11 is prooamy not so
well known that the harbor of Bremen
alone receives more tobacco than of
English and French ports together.
The number of telegrams received
and sent by French officers rose from
3,600,000 in 1868 to over 11,000,000 in |
1878, and last year it must have cer- !
tainly exceeded 12,000,000. TheFrench
telegraphic network had in I860 an extent
of 113,609 kilometres, and at the
end of December last year its extent
was 171,500 kilometres.
Tholozan, in a paper read before the
French Academy of.Science on "The f
i Plague in Modern Tinies," "Concluded^
that like other evils whose secret is un- j
known, it appears at one or several j
1 points, reaches its height, diminishes i
and ceases, and all this apparently !
quite, or nearly quite, uncontrollable j
by any sanitary measures.
Prof. Pollacci, in the Italian Chemical
Gazette, says that plaster of paris
is added to wines to such a degree that
conneisserrs should be made aware of
j the fact that under the name of wine
they might possibly be drinking a saturated
salutian of plaster of paris. This
had also aspecial interest for pharma:
cists, seeing that it might account for
I some of the impurities in cream of
i tartar.
It has been found by M. Ducretet
that toughened glass opposes much
greater resistance to the passage of
eletricity than ordinary glass, and he
has employed it in a construction of
Leyden jars, which may be charged
much more than the common kind,
j As M. Becquerel remarked, this may j
[ be a fact of great value, as leading to I
| the construction ef extremely thin
J condensers capable of giving great ef- j
i fecte.
j To make a cheap black stain for pine !
j or white wood take one gallon of water, j
j one pound of logwood chips, one-half [
; pound of copperas, one-half pound of
j extract logwood, one-half pound of in- j
| digo blue and two ounces of lamp|
black. Put these into an iron pot and
J boil them over a small fire. When the
! mixture is cool, strain it through a
j cloth and add one-quarter ounce of!
i nutgall. It is then ready for use. This
! is a good black for all kinds of cheap
j work.
M. G. Carlet, of France, has been
j studying the locomotion of insects and
i arachnids, and reports as the result of |
! his observations that the walking of
! * - 4-J t xl- .x
j insect9 may De represented Dy mat ui ,
| three men in indian file the foremost
i and hindmost of whom keep step with
: each other, while the middle one walks
| in the alternate step. The walking of |
i arachnids is represented by four men
J in file, the even numbered ones walki
ing in one step, while the odd-numj
bered ones walk in the alternate step. ;
Professor Levi Stockbridge, at Am- J
j herst, Mass., has published a pamphlet I
| containing an account of investigations j
which have been conducted at the Agricultural
College Experiment Station
at Amhurst, on the rainfall, the pereo
lation, and evaporation of water from
the soil, the temperature of the soil }
and air, and the deposition of the dew j
on the soil and the plant. The exper- I
iments were conducted with apparatus
of various designs devised with refer-1
j ence to the special objects sought in
1 each and under a variety of conditions, :
and were made to bear on the question
, whether the moisture that is found in
j the morning on the surface of the soil
I and on plants Is mostly derived from
: the air directly or from the soil,
j The projected ship canal from the
i Bay of Kiel to Brunsbuttel, in the esJ
tuary of the Elb, will, it is estimated,
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Liberal contracts made with those wishing
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cost about $20,000,000. It will have a
uniform depth of 20 feet 9 inches. Its
width at the surface of the water will
be 160 feet, and at the bottom 64 feet;
and there will thus be no danger of
the banks falling in. In such emergencies
as will necessitate the transfer
of iron-clads from the Baltic to the
German Ocean without sailing round
Denmark, it will be possible by means
of a peculiar system of locks and reservoirs
to increase the depth of the canal
to 24 feet, and so permit the passage of
the largest vessel at present in the German
navy. It Is thought that this
great engineering work, which must
be of as much political as commercial
importance, will be finished in six
years.
Death by lightning has been sometimes
represented as so rare as to irive
little concern. Thus Kaemtz says, in
his " Treatise on Meteorology" At
Gottingen, in the space of a century,
only three persons have been struck
by lightning, and at Halle only two.
Thus the fear of lightning is no way
excusable." On the other hand, M.
Lancaster,of the Brussels Royal Observatory
has lately called attention to the
fact of fourteen instances being known
to him to have occurred in 1878, between
April and July, in different
parts of Belgium, and the number is
thought to be below the actual truth.
Arago states that in France sixty-nine
persons die annually by lightning.
According to recent statistics the number
for England and Germany are respectively
23 (considered too small)
and 102. In towns, indeed, persons
are rarely struck b- lightning, but it
is quite otherwise in the country.
Household Economy.
Green Corn Griddle Cakes.?
One pint of grated sweet corn, one tea
spoonful of salt, one beaten egg, one
large spoonful of sweet milk, two
large spoonfuls of flour, and a little
black pepper. Add a large spoonful of
melted butter, ahd mix well with a
spoon. Drop on a hot, buttered griddle,
and fry until of a rich brown color
on both sides. Shape the oakes soas to
resemble oysters, which they are like
in taste. Nice with meats for dinner,
if served very hot.
Canned Peaches op Pll ?-Take^^^JH
: lay in 7preserve
kettle; add in the proportion of
one-quarter of a pound of granulated
sugar and a cupful of water to a pound
of fruit. Boil slowly until the fruit is
tender enough to be pierced by a straw.
Remove the fruit with a ladle carefully;
put into jars; boil the syrup until
quite rich, and cover the fruit while
hot. Immediately screw down the
covers of the jars. When cool screw
as tight as possible.
Chocolate Jelly a la Creme.?
Soak a box of gelatine in a half pint of
cold water. Heat a pint of rich milk
on the range; then to one pint of cold
milk put four large tablespoonfuls of %
powdered chocolate and three-quarters
of a pound of white sugar; make this
mixture smooth, then add to it the hot
milk when it has boiled up once.
Flavor to taste with vanilla, and add
to the gelatine, stirring briskly to mix
it well. Dip a mould in cold water and
pour in the jelly to set. Served with
whipped cream.
Stewed Cucumbers with Onions.Pare
and slice about half a dozen cucumbers
; take out the seeds, and cut
three good-sized onions into thin slices.
Put both these into a stew-pan, with
not quite a pint of white stock, and let
them boil for fifteen or twenty minutes.
Beat up the yelks of two eggs,
stir thes^into tbe sauce. Add cayenne
and salt to taste, and a little grated
nutmeg. Bring these to the boiling
point, and serve. Don't let the sauce
boil, or it will curdle. This is a
favorite dish with chops and steak.
Dish Wiping.?I recently saw a
new way of wiping dishes that saves
half the risk, while the dishes look
nicer and brighter. The only outlay
required is a half-bushel basket. Wash
the dishes as usual and put them in a
tin pan or pail; pour boiling water
over them thoroughly, then set them
edgeways in the basket so as to drain.
The heat will dry them perfectly, and
not a streak or particle of lint is to be
seen. No one who tries it once will be
likely to go back to the old way.
To Stew Tomatoes.?Take ten large
tomatoes, put them into a pan, and
pour scalding water over them to remove
the skins easily; peel them and
cut out all the hard or unripe portion ;
then cut through and take out the
seeds. Boil an onion and mash it fine;
add to it the tomatoes, with pepper
and salt to your taste, and a piece of
butter as large as a hen's egg. Put
them on stew in an earthen pipkin,
and let them simmer for two hours. A
quarter of an hour before dinner is
ready add four or five tablespoonfuls of
grated bread, and lei it stew till ready
to serve.
There is a girl in Frank ford, Ky.,
who has invented a way to utilize the
movement of a woman's chin so as to
make it run a sewing machine, and
she will be looked upon as greater than
Edison.
Dr. Glenn, the great land owner of
California, ovns 60,000 acres of growing
wheat.
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