Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FOB THE FAIR SEX. Baby, the King. My country's very small-(Tis just a room p.uilt by the fore9l edge. Watched by the moon; Only two persons in it, I'm one, and sin;;; ^ Baby the other one ? { Baby, the King. Hi* crown is golden liair. Measuring an inch; His scopter, chubby arms, Tempting to pinch; Eis robe a snowy one; And I will sing Of all the gems that deckBaby, the King. Two very drowsy eyes, One lunny nose, Two little leet that kick, Ten pinky toes; His law, a cry; but he Crows while I sing. Now you know all about Baby, the King. Fashion Facta. Short costumes will prevail. The revival of old colors is a marked feature. Street toilets for spring wear are very effective. Chudda shawls make 'pretty spring overdresses. Leg of mutton sleeve are made with small, flat cuffs. Crape strings are now never used on mourning bonnets. It appears that rich colors on dark grounds will lead in satteen goods. Pin-head dots on a white ground form the pattern of sorue of the new muslins. Serges are still fashionable. The new shades of blue and brown are rich in tone. Collars and cuffs of white organdy muslin are worn with mourning costumes. Mummy cloths are handsome and make up effectively. The threads are crinkled in the warp and woof. Sevres blue is a new dye, something like the turquoise shade, but of a deeper, more durable appearing color. Beads figure extensively in garnitures, and fancy buttons run over a vast space in this section of dress adorning. Percales show patterns of flowers, squares, dots, and leaves, all small, and sometimes so disposed as to give ban danna enects. The gold pins used to fasten laces, frills and ribbons are often so arranged as to seem to pass through initial letters or monograms. The Prince Albert basque is a pretty pattern for spring suits. It has side draperies and may be worn with perfectly plain skirts. Surah siik is much liked for evening dresses, on account of the facility with *f hn mn/ln ?r>fn rnnltoo nnr? >YliltU IV Vuil i;v uitiuv iuvw i uviivs i?um feather trimmings. Bran instead of soap must be used in washing the bright-colored cotton crapes, mummy cloths and fancy tissues shown for summer gowns. Polonaises trimmed with bands laid straight down the front and shirred at wide intervals appeared in the patterns prepared for spring dresses. Small figures hold sway in French, English and American prints; the majority of the grounds are dark-navy blue, bronze, or Pompein red. lurbans, wide-brimmed round hats and bonnets of medium size, are all to be worn this summer if one can judge from the early importations. The tur bans look like inverted bowls. The evening dresses intended for watering-place wear have no longer the decollete expression. The rule is high bodices, the square shape, and the shawl design?styles not at all conspicuous. Jeddo ci'ape, a cotton stuff figured in light colors arranged in Chinese patterns, and Yokohama crape which eomes in dress patterns bordered with wide stripes, are two tew materials for summer dresses. Damasks, satins and brocades of light shades will form "ton" toilets for young married ladies and single ladies of middle age, while the more youthful beauties will wear tulle, gauze and grena dine, elaborately embellished with lace. There is no prevailing color in summer dress goods. All the soft pinks and blues seen in China, the red and olive and green of Japanese ware, and the deep brown of pompadour stuffs are all used for grounds and thg figures are o all the rainbow tints. Three classes of dresses are worn at present, street costumes which are short and masculine looking with plain skirts and coats; demi-toilets, worn in the house, of very gay colors and artistic make, and full dress toilettes for balls and receptions, which are as elaborate as possible, with long, flowing trains. Striped goods (Pekines) will form the chief garniture in costumes of the waistcoat mode; the plastrons, cuffs and collar are made of Pekine. Pekines come in a large variety, including velvet, satin, corduroy, and cotton goods. The early spring costumes show a handsome assortment of this favorite material, always used as a trimming. Necktiesare worn larger than ever before. They are to be seen twenty inches broad. These neckties are of plain surah, and have the lower part trimmed with insertions and Russian lace, and arc bordered with a plaited surah ruffle trimmed with lace. Russian lace is extensively employed. Fichus are of imitation old point lace and old guipure, which are perfectly yellow. They are very Ion? and doubled over, being I round and broad in the cen'er, becoming I narrow toward the end. I Colo ml straw bonnets are hein g mad j for summer wear. They arc in such colors as garnet, pium, orange and hlue, ami the trimmings are velvet, hvoehe, galloon, and beads. Tliey are generally in " boule" shape, with tufts of feathers or a large bow on the top. The strings are seldom of ribbon; they are generally of the materials with which the bonnets are trimmed. They are fringed on the border, or trimmed with a piece of plaited lace. If, for instance, the hat is trimmed with a broche drapery, this same drapery is taken down to form the strings. It is generally folded double. How the IlairlH I>rcnne<l. Although it is the fashion for ladies not to wear false hair, there are many who, simple as the style may be, cannot arrange their own satisfactorily. Very young ladies can well dress their hair perfectly flat on the top, but this style is not becoming, to all. The hair is generally dressed low, and sometimes in crimped bandeaux; it is also cut olmH mirlori in frnnt TIlP flair I 344V/A l?J l*UV4 VM4JVVI A U A.w..w. may be dressed tor evening wear with the part on one side and carelessly taken back. There is very little hair cut short in front. The hair is dressed loose in the back, with sprays ot flowers down the back. Another style is to have the hair, parted in the center of the head crimped, and curled in front over the forehead. A very thick braid is taken around the back with a white satin bow in the middle. Low on the side is a large rose. A very simple and pretty style is to have the hair banged in front and taken back, perfectly plain, but rather loose. It is taken up very high in the back, with a few loose crimp falling carelessly on the neck. On one side, placed flat against the head.are three large roses. Pearl beads are very much worn in the hair, as also different colored beads. The large, carelesslytwisted loops?the favorite way of arranging the back hair?have these bead 3 as ornaments, or ribbon loops, golden combs, and flowers. Flowers are mostly placed near the ear. The back hair i:3 sometimes quite covered with small flowers, all placed close against the hair, without any falling below in sprays. Fashions In Collars, etc. Double and triple collars are not only used for confections, but for suits also. Tliey are most becoming to slender ligures. Sometimes the upper part of the waist consists of a kind of inserted pufling of faille or satin, which trims the square opening in the neck, and the double collar is placed around this open ing, producing a very good effect. Collars hold a very prominent part in the present fashions, and there are man}' kinds to be seen. There are jet collars. "Mazarin" collars made of plaited black and white lace, the large. "Anne d1 Atrtriehe" Collar, of hanefsome guipure or*" point a i'aiguille'' lace, and many other styles of baptiste and muslin trimmed with lace. Babies' - collars fall below the shoulders, and are made of very handsome laces. Babies' suits are also much trimmed with guipere and . T* ? 1 ~ ^UZ1 I melon ljtue. jcui vwjf jruuu^ tjundrcn, white cachemire and " aruiure" are generally adopted for dresses. They are cut in English shape, then a little above the border is a plaited drapery bordered with Breton lace and fastened in the jniddlc by loops of white satin ribbon. For little boys, many suits are made of garnet-colored, blue and green velvet, with satin pipings and large lace collars and cuffs. The cravats worn with these are of bright-colored surah. For a little boy from five to six years of age the suit is generally made in ajacket and a plaited vest, trimmed with lace placed on plain. Little girls continue to wear Directoire capotes of gray or white felt, lined with white satin and trimmed with ribbon. The large hat raised on the side and the "toque" are worn both by little girls and boys. The Latest Feminine Frenk. A rather curious fancy has taken possession of women all over the country, but seems to have taken the strongest hold in New York. Married and middle-aged women between the ages of thirty and fifty have commenced the study of foreign languages. Hundreds of classes have been formed, which last a few hours, and then all go home and chat with their families?or try to?in their newly acquired language. Women must have something to do, and as the pottery fever is dying out, hand-painting an old story, homes decorated until there isn't space fo put an inch painting, lace cheaper than the material can be bought. Berlin wool out of fashion, a new tougue has given them an aim and something to occupy their many sp:ire minutes. Thcv all confidently expect to go to Europe to make one grand tour; and how can they shop unless they understand French, ami chat German unless they know the language? " Let me look at a revolver," said a man who walked into a store at Sandstone, Mo,, and a weapon was shown to him. " Show me the cartridge," he added, and he carelessly loaded one of the chambers. "Excuse nic for using this a minute," he further remarked, and shot himself through the brain. At a printers' festival lately the following ln:LSt. wns fifli'i'oH ? " Wmiuin? Second only to the press in the dissemination of the news.v The ladies are yet undecided whether to regard'this as a compliment or otherwise.?New York Graphic. In former times offenders against the iaw were put into the stocks; nowadays it is first stocks and then law-breaking. ?Boston Transcript. A TEIlBllii'jE TiiAliEDV. I Five Member* of a Family Uutchered by a llelntive?Coolnec* of the Jl?r? tlerer. Tlje inhabitants of Stuttgart, the beautiful capital of Wurtemburg, Germany, have been thrilled with horror by the fiendish deed of a monster who butchered the family of his brother, | consisting of five persons?father, ( mother and three small children. The crime was committed in cold blood, for ] purposes of robbery. The murdered \ man was his brother's host and bene- , footer lmvinir wnlonmed him to his j house and treated him generously. When the full extent of the crime and the hideous cruelty and ingratitude of its perpetrator became known, the fury of the populace knew no bounds. Threats of summary vengeance were heard on every side, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the police could protect their prisoner from death at the hands of the mob. John Waibel, the murderer, is a millwright, thirty-seven years of age. Like every able-bodied German, he served his time in the army. His military record was of the very worst kind. He was reported for conduct unbecoming a soldier, for violating the rules and neglect of duty about 200 times, and' was fined in each instance. In 1861 he served in the Third Cavalry regiment, and during the campaign in 1866 he was transferred to the Chasseurs. At the . expiration of his term of service he enlisted again in the Third Cavalry regi ment, ana tootc part in me war wiui France in 1870-1. He was a brave,, 1 soldier, and for courage in battle was < decorated with the Iron Cross. At the close ol the war he was mus- ^ tered out, and returned to his place of 1 nativity, Kupferzell, where he resumed his trade. Toward the end of December ( last he visited his married brother? < who lived with his wife and four chil- ? dren in Weber street, Stuttgart. The < brother was employed as carpenter, he 1 was a hard-working man, and took good < care of his family, and was well liked 1 by his neighbors. He received Ms way- 1 ward brother, some years his junior, i very kindly. Mrs. Waibel sacjifieed 1 her own comfort in many ways for her 1 guest; she surrendered her room to her J brother-in-law, while she was content 1 to sleep on a lounge in the 9itting-room i beside which she placed the cradle with 1 her baby, three months old. John Wai- ' bel knew that his brother had 400 marks ? /oKniif ?innl in liia nnaa<vaair,n and lirtrad ( VWWVWW V-VV, ? ?.V- ?ftVM him to give him the money. The latter ' refused to part with the hard-earned ' savings which he had laid up for a rainv i day. Determined to get his little trsa sure, John Waibel conceived the murder < of his brother's family, and in the dead ] of night perpetrated it in cold blood. He provided himself with a hammer i and an axe, and stealing upon the slumbering members of the family, strewed i the floor with their crushed and mim-. ; gled corpses.- Then lie Imrst open the -1 bureau drawers, ransacked the place till ] he found the treasure and fled. > He had uot been gone long when the ' neighbors discovered the wholesale mur- ' der and notified the police The sight 1 that met the gaze of the officers when ! iKntr ontnm^ WuiKol'a Hwhllinc tjtoc m I ghastly one. Mrs. Waibel had been ' 9lain on the lounge in the sitting-room; * her head was beaten and cut into in un- J recognizable oulpy mass. There were thirty-eight wounds on her skull re- ' presenting so many blows from the axe. The innocent babe had not been spared; ] it was dead in its cradle?its skull 'rue ' tured by a blow of the hammer. On the threshold leading to the sleening-room lay the bent body of the husband, whose skull was split open by two tremendous blows of the axe. Blood marks on the wall indicated the struggle between the murderer and his victim, and blood pools were everywhere. The corpse of a child three years of age was found, hi. f Kr, Willi iui aitun iiivnui uu, ill luu aiuujjuigroom; a third child, about six years old, was breathing yet, but t.'s injuries were such that death ensued in the course of a few hours. The oldest child, a girl of thirteen years, was left to tell in part the bloody tale. She had been wounded, but not fatally. She said that her uncle was the murderer of the family. Police-Inspector Kern learned that nt nine o'clock in the morning a man, answering to the description of Waibel, had bought a pair of stockings and suspenders in Bender's store in Koenigsstrasse. An expressman named Zahner told him that the man on leaving the store entered an eating-house inWeinstrasse, where the fare did not suit him He inquired of Zahner for a better place where he could get all he ordered. Zahner recommended him to Bardill's restaurant in Tuebinger street. Thither repaired Inspectoi Kern, accompanied by Zahner, and found a man enjoying a good breakfast. He was cleanly shaved and had a slight abrasion of the skin on the right cheek. He looked just like the man the inspector was alter. On being questioned he gave the name of Kurz, and pretended to be a business man from Hall. The inspector said: "That% not so; your name is Waibel, ! not Kurz, and you are wanted for five-1 fold mur3 >r. You are my prisoner." Waibel threatened and bullied, but j the inspector put the handcuffs on him ' and paid no attention to his protest. He was dressed in a suit belonging to his murdered brother, and his under-1 drag Iiim out, but a strong guard 01 i police protected bimlfrom- personal vio- | * garments and ms naKea ieet were spotted with blood. He was taken in a coach to the house in which the butchery occurred, after he had* been dressed | in the striped garb of a prisoner. An excited crowd tilled the street. As the murderer appeared they became furious and threats of lynching were made. They rushed at the vehicle and tried to ? iVfrTIWi - . knee. When be alight 3d from the coach he laughed sneeringly at the spectators. Even the coolest among them could no longer control themselves; the outburst of indignation was terrific. The crowd shouted, "No mercy to the brute!" "Kill him!" "Tear him to pieces!" WMinr* fho rvricAnm* TrinnrA/l A**.,I ?? iiwu wuv VI<*VYI*U tiiu uiiiu bodies in the presence of police and court officials he expressed no regret, but looked with a repulsive smile at the bodies of the three infants and denied tiis guilt. Then he turned on his heel, snapped his fingers, and said with a sneer, "Pshaw, I have seen such sights often before." When lie was placed in the coach again he grinned once more at the infuriated crowd. It was with the greatest .ifficulty that the police succeeded in taking their prisoner safely to jail. A Glacial Period Predicted. In a lecture at Lake View, 111., Professor Paige developed, among many other theories, the rapid-grOwing belief that the great ice period that ground the rocks into soil had been attributed to a time too remote in the earth's history. He said it had been the quite universally accepted opinion that the great ice caps were formed by i climate rendered cold by reason of changed cosmic relations. It was snown that the eccentricity of the earth's path around the sun was sub ect, at long perioas, to consiaeraoie jhange, resulting in carrying the earth DUt from the sun some 15,000,000 of miles further at times than now. The earth's great aphelion, together with ihanged conditions attributable to the precession of the equinox, was believed to have produced the great periods of ice in the past. From this standpoint of reckoning Clifford claims man to have been on ;arth 2,000.000 years. The. professor said he believed the modern tendency af thought was in favor of a different new. During the winter in our northern hemisphere, we are 25,000,000 miles aearer to the sun than in summer. This lielps to equalize our climate, rendering the winters much more mild, and ;he summer's heat far less than it would oe if the conditions were reversed. In :lie southern hemisphere the exact reverse state of conditions exists. They ire nearer the sun in summer and further off in winter. They have cold winters and hot summers. At the south pole there is a vast excess of ice Dverthatof the north pole. The vast accumulation of ice at the south pole attracts the waters of the ocean, changing the equilibrium of the earth's center, moving the equator to the south, irawing off the waters of the north pol?toward the south pole. This accounts for the clearly noticeable subsidence of waters in the north, and for the lactthat there is but little dry land in the southern hemisphere. If the ages of.ice can be charv^ ?r Lh^se causes, a glacial period is approaching in the southern hemisphere, ind will be at its greatest height in 3,500 years. The last period of ice in the northern hemisphere is also of rqually recent date, occurring probably about 6,000 years ago. The lecturer was of opinion that, if these recent views proved correct, there would be a re mrrcnce of the ice period in about 16,300 years in the northern hemisphere, riiis view would also shorten the time af man's existence on the globe. It was probably safe to say that man had not existed more than 50,000 or a 100,300 years. A Remarkable Operation. Some weeks ago Thomas Coulter, of New York, had a nose put on him by killing a middle finger, taking out the bono and affixing it to the bridge of his nose. A detailed account of the operation was published at the time. About three weeks ago, says the New York Herald, the plaster of paris bandage was removed from his face, and a careful examination showed that the finger had grown fast to the site of the former nose. Ul'm onuiiit; ill unci; ucuiucu tu scvui iuc hand from the two joints which were thereafter to serve as a nose. Tommy wa3 rendered partially unconscious by the use of anesthetics, and the amputation was performed without much trouble. During the two months in which the finger had been growing to the face the blood had retreated from the hand and arm because of its peculiar position, leaving them as white as snow. Shortly after the operation the tube through which Tommy bieathed was removed from its position in the larynx. The patient at present is in a peculiar position. It order to have a shapely nasal organ the second joint of the amputated finger was crooked so that the elbow forms the top of the nose. The end of the finger was stitched to the upp:r lip in a neat manner. The next step in the process was to remove pieces of skin from the cheeks and forehead, and allow them to grow on the lacerated and stitched portions of the new nose. The consequenee is that there are no nostrils at present and Tommy breathes through his mouth and ears. Jn order to avoid this inconvenient mode ot inhaling and exhaling an operation is shortly to be performed witli a view of providing that new organ with nostrils. Coulter's articulation is good, but his voice sounds as though he were speaking through a ram's horn. The surgeons in charge of the ease are ?onfident that they will be able to remove this impediment very easily. The wonderful patience which Tommy displayed during his trying orwith mnro ll'.'Ui t'UiU/iVVl mvui 1,1/ I/^?MW ??... M.v. v success than in ordinary cases. It is proposed to remove all scars from his face by the process of skin-grafting. San Francisco has a beautiful park transformed from a dreary waste of desert and sea breezes. FA mi, U A III) EN AM) HOUSEHOLD. , (irnu lit Orchard*. | An opinion is very generally enterI tained that ti rf in orchards is not only ' not injurious So fruit trees, Imt is ac- : iu:iiiy an advantage, as forming a cover which prevents the too rapiti drying of tl:e soil. Both of these views, says the Berlin Prcsse, arc erroneous. As regards the first, it has been actually proved that ' tuifed ground gives out far more moisture than unturfed. Practical experiments have shown that during five months in the summer a morgen of turf land gives off, on the average, 800 cubic eet of water a day; unturfed ground, though dry on its surface, is not able to withdraw so much moisture from the subsoil; the evaporation which goes on through the leaves of the grass is far greater. Turf presents a fresher appear- j acne, because the roots which attract | the moisture permeate the dry superficial layer of soil. The importance of the amount of water supply is evident if we reflect that the quantity evaporated from the turf in the course of these five months would, if collected, form a stratum of 1.5 meters in depth. Theproportion of this, which is due directly to rain, is only about 0.4 meter, so that at least a meter must be made up from other sources if the ground is to be kept moist. On good soils this necessary compensation is complete, at all events in parts. Coarse sandy lands, however, and some others do not belong to this category; the plaats growi ng on them are referred to | the subsoil, and thus, in case of prolonged droug lit, are very liable to inury. That turfs and trees together consume more moisture than either alone is self-evident. If there be plenty ; of moisture in the subsoil, tree-growing , and grass-growing can be carried on together, especially if the situation be protected from drying winds. Both growths, however, make their demands r\r\ fhn ftf tlio anil Wlioro vu UUV *Vi V illw? V* VUV> evil! v T UVAW there is much underground water, and consequently plenty of moisture, no ill effect may ensue, but if young trees are planted in ordinary turfed soil the disadvantages soon beoome manifest. Often such trees will stand for years be-> fore they make any appreciable headway. And the reason of this is obvious, for in their earlier years the roots of the young trees are lying near the surface of the soil, where the little moisture and nutriment that may be piesent. i are absorbed by the roots ot the grass. It is only when the roots have got down deep that the trees begin to make way. In this manner not only is turf injurious to fruit trees, but any other kind of plant with thick or matted roots. Lucerne, for instance, planted under young trees will soon kill them, and the same holds good of carrots, endives, caraways, and many other varieties. Value of Aflhes. 1 L Ji (k nohta many years, both leached and unleached, I consider them a valuable fertilizer for grass or grain. I have used larce quantities of leached ashes, generally applying them to land to be seeded down. I first prepare the ground for sowing; then spread 100 or 150 bushels of leached ashes to the acre, then sow wheat, barley or oats, as the case may be, and seed down, harrowing thoroughly, and when the crop matures I am always pleased with the result. I use fifty bushels of unleached ashes to the acre. Ashes, whether leached or unleached, makes a very fine top dressing for meadows and pastures, and in every case where I have used them the result for grain or grass has been very satisfactory, there being a large increase in both quantity and quality of grain or grass. My mode of using ashes for corn is to apply them to the top of the hill before the corn comes up. As soon as the corn is planted I put about a gill of unleached ashes on the top of each hill, always preferring to get my corn ashed before a rain, so that the first shower will carry the potash from the ashes down into the hill for the corn roots to feed upon. I apply in the same wajf for potatoes. It takes, as I apply them, from fifteen to twenty bushels to the acre, and I think the ashes thus used are worth half a dollar per bushel. I am satisfied that ashes, either leached or unleached, are me best lertlJlzers me larmwr can use. For immediate effects I know of nothing that is equal to them, and they are also lasting. They do not leach through the soil like manure, but after an application is made to grass or grain the following crops for many years will show the results. I should judge that the relative value of leached ashes would be about onehalf that of unleached. While the leaching of ashes extracts most of the potash from the ashes, it leaves them rich in nitre, which, as a fertilizer, is very valuable. It is claimed that to mix ashes and plaster together makes the mixture worthless, the one neutralizing the fertilizing qualities of the other. If any one doubts it he can try it and satisfy himself.?.4. A. M., in Country Gentleman. How Butter may be Spoiled. Good butter may be spoiled in churning. Over-churning ruins the texture and changes the proper waxiness to a disagreeable, sticky greasiness. This is the more easily done in the churns with revolving dashers, which will press the butter against the side of the churn and soueeze and rub it until it is spoiled. Too long churning spoils the quality by the oxidation of the butter and the pre,?ntnro formation of strong-flavored acids in it, the fail preserving presence of which we call rancidity. It may be spoiled by churning at too high a temperature, by which it is made soft and oily, and of a greasy texture and flavor. No subsequ-nt treatment can remedy this error. It may be spoiled before the crenin reaches the churn by keeping this loo long, or what is practically the 3nme, by keeping it in too warm a place; fifty degrees is about the right tcmperature'if cream is kept a week; if it is kept at sixty-two degrees, three days are long enough. White specs are produced in knftni* ai? Kv "WfckiKfj ui kjj inniug the cream too sour. Either of these faults produces curd ir. the milk and the small flakes q! this cannot be washed out of the butter. Milk from a cow in ill health, and that is acid when drawn, will produce specky butter. So will the use of salt containing particles of lime, which unite with the butter r.nd form insoluble lime soap. White specs are covered up to a large extent by using good coloring, which is made of oil as the solvent. But this use of a coloring, being to disguise a fault and to add an undeserved virtue, is worthy of the denunciation of even the Farmers' club.? Rural Neio Yorker. Strange Tastes In the Butter. The principal causes why butter is found to be badly " off" flavor" are, first, browse and weeds in the pastures, or in the hay, or coarse roots and other unsuitable food iji the stable; second, bad water or too little of it; third, heating the cow's blood by running or abuse; fourth, uncleanly milking; fifth, setting the milk in open pans which are exposed to the fumes of cooking or to stove smoke or tobacco smoke, or to cold victuals set near; sixth, to keeping the cream in uncleansed vessels, or too long before churnirg; seventh, the use of impure sa.., eighth, putting down the butter in unsuitable or ill-prepared tubs or other packages; ninth, storing it in dirty cellars, or beside kerosene, salt or smoked meat, or fish, or any other strong odored thing. Butter is the most susceptible of taint of any article of food, and when tainted, even slightly, has lost half its value. A person may have every other qualification for the business that can be thought of, yet, if lacking in scrupulous neatness, is utterly unfit to be employed in butter making. A farmer, whose wife is a slattern, may succeed in sheep or hogs, but never as a dairyman. Yet let every man remember that at least half of our bad butter was made before the milk left the stable.?Examvier. Health Hint*. For a fever patient, break ice into very small pieces and mix witk the same quantity of lemon jelly, also cut up small. It is refreshing. A enrrpsnnndent. writes to the Rr.ie.ntffin American that the worst toothache or neuralgia coming from the teeth maybe speedily cured by the application to the defective tooth of a bit of cotton saturated with ammonia. Phares' method of treating colic consists iD inversion?simply in turning the patient upside down. Colic of several days' duration has been relieved by this minnlBB ? A teaspoonful of finely powdered charcoal drank in half a tumbler of water will, says an exchange, often give relief to the sick headache, when caused, as it is in most cases, by a superabundance of. acid on tbe stomach. It is an important household economy just now to save the cotton and linen rags, and old newspapers, as they are in demand at good prices. The advance in printing paper (fully fifty-five per cent.) has stimulated inquiries for all "Innprts r\f r\onoi* afAnl* Thn frnflinnnflp tlilOOCO Ui pivpv.1 uivva* AAV of rags and old paper in a family may be made to realize various sums for pin money.?American Machinist. Houacboh! Bints. Parsley eaten wirn vinegar will remove the unpleasant effects oi eating onions. Cold boiled potatoes used as soap will clean the hands and keep the skin soft and healthy. Those not over-boiled are the best. Char -oal powder is good for polishing knives without destroying the blades. It is also a good tooth powder when finely pulverized. The earthy mold should never be washed from potatoes, carrots or other roots until immediately before they are to be cooked. Straw matting may be cleaned with a large coarse cloth, dipped in salt and water, and then wiped dry. The salt prevents the straw from turning yellow. Potato water in which potatoes have been scraped, the water being allowed to settle, and afterward strained, is good for sponging dirt out of silk. Words of Wisdom. Too many men are like the woman who, when asked if sue had religion, replied that she had slight touches of it occasionally. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are alv/ays repulsed by the anvil. Acts, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. When a man is wrong, and won't admit it, he always gets angry. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; tor he must be Jorced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell and not by his own judgment and discretion? To do an evil action is base; to do a good one without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything. mt.- i ~~i irr~ i ? j.lie ii?ipp lilies ui juui iiiu ut'ptrnuu upon tho quality of your thoughts; therelorc guard accordingly, and taks car.; that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.