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Paiatingu a Buqob graps. The most truly artistio efforts of the Japanese artists are those which display the simplest modes o1 delineations, and ar. generally executed in indian ink only. Many descriptions have been given by those who have had the op Portunity of watching the natives at work, and all bear witness to the re. markable quickness of imagination and execution they display. :A traveler in the country relates how on one occa sion he had the pleasure of observing a screen-painter at work in his studio, which consisted of a portion of the house screened off from the rest by his gnished productions, but open to the street. Being struck with his great freedom of hand, he requested him to draw a bunch of grapes. This was given as a difficult task and test of skill, for the traveler had in his mind the labored works of his own country, and naturally expected that, from the time required to depict the fruit, the artist would laugh and shake his head. Judge of his surprise when the artist seled a piece of sereen-paper and, dip ping the point of his thumb into a dish of Indian ink, proceeded to make a number of softly-shaded, cresent-like forms close together. Thinking he must have been misunderstood, but saying nothing, he watched with grow Ing Interest the rapid movements of his artistic friend. The crescent forms being finished, his first finger and thumb were together dipped into the ink and transferred to the paper, and with a few rapid movements produced two shaded forms of Irregular outline. With his thumb-nail he added three dark lines and sundry other trifling touches, and politely handed the finish ed sketch, which displayed a bunch of plump round grapes, with leaves and stalks complete. This was by no means a bad illustration of the ready methods resorted to by the Japanese artists in representing simple objects, for which they are justly celebrated. We have one illustration in a Japanese book which shows an artist eated on a stool opposite a screen, which he Is painting with no fewer than five brushes, one held in eath foot, one in each hand, and one in his mouth. This Is doubtless an exaggeration. Another humorous sketch on the same page shows the artists to be of such a transcendent genius, and the horse he had been painting proved so lifelike, that it be came endowed with vitality and ran away from the paper. The amazemeut of the artist Is cleverly expressed. How to Eat. The notion that appetite is a low de gree of hunger, and hunger an intens I fled form of appetite, does not seem to be borne out by facts. The two desires or longings are different in their na. ture. Appetite is the craving of the apparatus of.taste.and sometimes of the digestive organs; while hunger is the demand of organism as a whole or of some of its parts of lood. Use the words appetite and hunger how you may, there are actually two needs o be expressed,and much mb e ikiI arises from confounding them. The one cry for food which we call appe. time Is an affair of habit or caprice, and may, for a time at least, be stimulated by appealing to the sense of taste, or promoted by certain cordials and stimu lants; but, looking at the matter from a physIological point of vie w, it is difil cult to see what we can gain by ex citing the organs of digestion to take food unless the system is in a condition to receive it. The rational mode of procedure woull seem to be to wait the expression of a need in the system -in short, to look to hunger rather than appetite as an incentive to the set of feeding, instead of exciting the palate and sense organs to take food when we have no organic reason to suppose that there is an inner ned of iti There are certain evil consequences of the civilized mode of feeding by ap petite on the basis -of habit, which It may be useful to point out. First, separating appetite from hunger, and developing it as an independent sense or function, there naturally sprIngs up a fashion of life which may be disoribed as "living to feed." The purveyor of food trades on the tastes and cultivated longings of the consum er, and the consideration what to eat .and what to drink comes to occupy 5a place in the self-consciousnuess wh ich it was probably not intenaded to fill, and in so far as this is tne case man is more animal, and less spiritual and in. telleotual, than lie ought to be; al though it may be conceded that the re fined taste of cultivated nature is less offensive than the simple voracity of the savage. There are some who con tend that man is thme gainer by the de velopments of his appetite. 11 this be so, the gain is a good not unmixed with evil. Another drawback is that by severing appetite from hunger we lose the indication of quantity which nature gives with her orders for food. TIhie man who eats a regulated number of meals daily, with a duly stimulated and organized habit, probably eats much more in the twenty-four hours than his system requir es, or the organ. ism ais a whole is constituted to dpal with. An Extraorinuar Freak of Nature. A singular and beautiful freak of na ture was shown in a marble mantel at the Cincinnati Exhibition. In one of the onyx pilasters was seen the out lines of a woman's form produced ages ago, when the marble first assumed its grow th and consistence. The portrait was clearly defined and traced in the native-graining of the stone. Its dis covery was the result of an accident. One of the workmen turned the pilas ter upside down,and thesatrange beauty aof the features of the face at once at tracted his attention. Ills employers were summoned and the pilaster re versed is now the chief ornament of the mantel. The attitude, with the arms stretched above the head, closely resembles that of the Greek caryatides, which adorned so many of the old classic temples. The figur6 is grace ful and delicate, with limbs of the jnost exq uisite conintr AGRIOULTURB. Tan Mexican persimmon is a naall tree presenting no appearance What. f ever of our common species. L size of and general appet rance of trunk and t limbs it looks almost exactly like the PO crape myrtle growing In our yards or on our'lawns; and it inclines to grow C in olumps like the orape myrtle. But 91 here the resemblance ceases. The 0t leaves are small and look very much PI like those of the parkleberry (sparkle- rc berry) or winter huckleberry of our m eastern Gulf coast-a little darker P8 green,perhaps,and not quite so glossy. CI They shed in winter. The fruit resem- ie bles that of the common species very In much with two exceptions: It iS at- PC ways perfectly smooth, never wrink- bi fruit of the common species does when it thoroughly ripe, and it is almost jet oI black. The pulp is of a very dark, E .browa color, and.of an agreeable sweet taste, not quite so sugary as the other w kind, and the seeds, though somewhat at resembling those of the common spe- tv cies, are much smaller. The fruit is ci not much "astringent" or "puckery" OF when green. The people of Texas Of where the Mexican persimmon grows 04 make about the same account of it that ta we do of the common speoies-seme e1 like it and some don't. For our own 01 part we like it very much-we think it decidedly a better fruit than that of the common species, and entirely more b wholesome. No efiort has yet been N made to improve it-so far as we know h it has never yet been seen growing in- i side a cultivated field. It usually tN grows in the rocky soils along the base o and a short distance up the sides of the b mountains. il al BuX HIrToRY,-According to a po- rt pular writer it has never been ascer- a( tained when fowls were first domesti- b cated. There are but few allusions to b them In the Old TfAtameet, We have f( abundant evidence of their being quite tf common in the days of Aristotle, who b wrote three hundred years before st Christ. Hie speaks of them as famit- 11 tarly as a naturalist of the present day ; W Atnu many beautihul allusions are made f' to the towl in the New Testament. The a( wild origin of the domestic fowls Is not it certainly known. Domestic fowls are c3 numerous in all temperate climates,but P become less numerous as you go north. n I'hey were found in abundance on the iWlands of the 'aciflc Ocean, by their earliest discoverers. Uaptain Cook ci found fowls on island@ that iad never h been viblted by civilized Lnan; and toe P vory wide range over which they were 04 distributed, piecludes the supposition l of their liaving been introduced by I Tesmuan or any earlier Voyagers. Tun SUPPLY OF CATTL.-It seems to m be tue opinion of those who have ex- o amined this matter pretty thoroughly that a considerable decrease will be ' found in the stock of the United States P and territories, after this year's ship- a mentEs are over. We are of opinion that t thie mAy be the case In regard to such t as are sulliolent well bred for shipment 1e to foreign markets, but as to inferior c stock, we question as to whether much 01 ir any ieticaenoy -will be found. Yet 0 in any event there will unquestionably a be a considerable advance in the price of cattle in another year, as well as in stieep and swine. There are two rea. nons why this may be so; the first of r which is the greatly increased tide of a immigrants to our country this season a who will be consumers instead of pro d ducers for a twelvenonth to come, and the second reason Is, so numerous al e the losses sustained In Great Britan a and Ireland tiuring the past eighteena months, and domestIc animals, thatP their wants for this year wvilt, doubt-.s less, be larger than the past has been. CLEArrszNG FRUIT Tnuxe.-Autumn d Is the best time to cleanse fruit-trees, o and indeed all plants, from scales andi n other Iaseots. Now the fruit trees can ir be handled with less liability of break- ti lng buds and spurs than in the spring c] ati~or the buds have begun to swell,and the work will be as effective now as then. Une strong soapsuds of whale-d oil soap. Apply ft with a stiff brush; d and do not coufine the washing to the trunk, but go over all the small branch es and every where on the tree whare i scales arc louud. CUTTING ConN.-When the corn ~ grains are glazed, the crop may be cut, a Delay al ter that Only hardens the fod- f der and deteriorates it. Topping the e corn, that is, cutting off the stalks o above the ears and Quring these, which ii are the best part of the fodder, ia a goodh practice where the closest economy is not necessary. Sometimes labor costs more than the product of the labor;- b then it is best to let the work go undone. h Yet,as a rule, economy in the smallest ii thitigs on a farm is profitable, a WHEN the shrewd small boy who is a left ale ue in the house during the even- y ing makes such a mess of his raid on hi the pie-closet that it Is bound to be no- o| ticed when his parents return, he hies ii him to hia room, puts a pillow in his bed to represent himself extinguishes the gas and gets under the bed. A nd 54 when the old moan comes up stairs, ec madder than a wet cat and wIthout e. stopping to light the gas, lathers that ti pillow with a trunk strap, the boy tI yells as though he was getting it, and b the old man goes off satisfied. That's 'A the sort of boy who will grow up to 0 run ward caucuses and be a Senator. A wzFE who had been lecturing her 0 husband for COming home intoxicated 'A became incensed at his Indifference, P and exclaimed, "Oh, that I could wring ti tears of anguish from your eyes!" Tlo l0 wuich the hardened wretch le-cough- a ed, 'Tai 'tain't no use, old woman, to 0 bo-bore~for water here." r< THEn young man wilo pretends to have been "one of the boys," abd de- n~ lights to tell his young lady friends of his mad freaks, would be disgusted U with the fair one who should match " his reminiscences by similar excerpts e from her own biography. Why asthilas so? IN speaking of a clerical friend who a' po0sesses a very rubicund countenance, some one saId, the other day, "I don't tninak he drinks; in (act, I know he does not,- for ho told me so; but he u probably sleeps in a bed with very redu curtains." g MoTHER, newly bereaved of a baby, to surviving child, agedl 6; "Tommy's an angel ntow, Mary." "Like th~e y angels in my picture book, mamma?"p Ye d " "With white wings, ci to' "Yes, dear." "Has he got 'A fleas in them, like my pigeons ?" b WHEN a Denver deacon forgets him- t self and remarks to the man who doesn't notice the contribution-box, "Are you going to chip 7" the folks In' a the congregation wink at each other ti and tihe clergyman tries to look as n Iihough lie doesn't see where the fun 0i comes in. A DOG frequently worries a cat, bat man, who ls nobler than the dog, wor- li ries himself. i DOMESTIC. HaRn are some ambrosial pancakes for the gods; Put four eggs, a pinch salt, and one of sugar and three blespoontuis offiour in an- earthen In, beat It all up with one quart of ilk until very ight. Make the pan kes in a frying omelet pan thickly ,read with butter, then turp them -er on a board, put more stewed ap es or other stewed frtit on one side, 11 them, powder them with sugar, udy them with a hot poker. These 6neakes come secondary to somei veal itlets-not the tasteless dry veal out.. to, innutritious and indigestible, ill g the father of the family with hy ochondriacal and ghastly sensations, at take a stew or sauce pan and put in one ounce of beef tiripping, one-half ince-of butter, tour or live cloves of trlic filely chopped, and a little salt. 'hen brown, minee up the heart of a hite cabbage well washed and dried, I ir repeatedly and leave it to stew for ro and a half hours. Cut some thin 4 itlets of veal, cover then with a I ioonful of chopped parsley, the same 4 onion and conserve of tomatoes, a lit- 4 e cayenne pepper a.d salt, and a blespoonful of vinegar -nixed togeth Fry in oil or butter, lay on the 6bbage mixture and serve. )ATMEALontains three times as much I ain-feedingelement and more food i r musole than wheat. Of the "pin- I iadIed oatmeal" take eight ounces, ix thoroughly in cold water, stir into yo quarts of boiling water, add half a aspoonful of salt, stir occasionally ll from one hour to an hour and half a farina kettle. Serve hot with veet milk, sirup or butter, If prefer id, meat gravy. A meat gravy for iding piquancy to something hot for reakiast if prepared in this way will ) found exceedingly useful. Take >ur onions and fry them brown in but ir (not to be burned), toast a slice of read hard and brown, place these In a ewpan with some bones, pieces of eat and sweet herbs, add sufficient ater and stew until a thick gravy is >rnied emitting an agreeable odor; Id pepper and salt, strain it and keep in a cold place till needed. A dell ite appetite will find this deliciously Dured over well cooked rice or toasted iuffins. Dx8sHs should always be rinsed in ear water after having been washed soap-suds. Nothing is more un leasant at the table than to notice a rtain stickiness that soap is likely to ave. It Is necessary also from a san ary point of view; the caustic alkali corrosive and unwholesome, and the rease Is often impure. It Is a simple atter to make hard soap which is not ily agreeable to use but which has ke great merit of cleanliness. To iven pounds of tallow use three Dunds of rosin, two pounds of potash ad six gallons of water; boll for iree hours, or better still for five; irn from the kettle into a washtub; it it stand all night. In the morning it into bars and lay them on a table board in the sun to harden for two three days. This quantity will last family of four persons a year if used r ordinary household purposes. How TO BAKE HMs LAY.-A cor spondent informs us that, while on visit in the fall to a friend, he was irprised to see the nnmber of eggs he illy obtained. He had but sixteen ens, and the product per diem aver led thirteen eggs. lie was in the ibit of giving on every alternate day, teaspoonlul and a quarter of cayenne ipper, mixed wi .h a Eoft food, and' ok cairo that each lien obtained her iare. The experiment of omittingi ie pepper was tried, when It was aund that the number of eggs was re-1 iced each trial froma live to six daily. ur correspondent belIeves that the oderate use of this stimulant not only creases the naumber of eggs, but ef' etual wards off diseases to which tickens are subje~ct.4 APPLE FRUIT CAKE.-SOak two cups ried apples over ught; In the morn g drain ane chop ine in chopping w1; add one cup o1 molasses andi let boil slowly on back of stove three or ur hours, until the molas ios has mickened; let it cool; and one and a tlf cuips of brown sugar, one cup soul' lik, one teaspoonful each of cloves, iapice and cInnamon, one teaspoon :1 soda, three eggs, three and one-half 3ps of fionr;i bake in two square tins one large five quairt basin; if baked the latter bake slowly two and a af f hours. This will keep six months. IEMON SYRUP.-Tlhe lemon syrup ought at the stores can be made at ame much cheaper. Take a pound of avana sugar, boil it in water down to quart, drop in the white of an egg to larlfy It, strain it, add one quarter of Li ounce of tartaric or citric acid. If au do not find it sour enough after it is stood two or three 'days, add more the acid. A few drops of ollof lemon aprovo it. RicE (iAacis.-Boil rice until it is aft, and while warm make it into ikes. Dip tshe cakes into a beaten tg, and then roll them In Indian meal Ii thorough ly coated. Th'iis done,fry iem in bacon fat, which is bettor than atter for this purpose. Serve them ith sauce, or with butter, or with teamn and sugar. BA RLEY PUDDING.-Wash half a pint pearl barley, put it into a stew pan itti three pints of milk, a quarter of a aund of sugar and a little nutmeg at io corner of the stove;t when propier swelled take it out, flavor to taste, Id four eggs and boil in a basin for to hour; servo with black cherry ar >wroot sauce. PATIJRNIA PUDJANG.--iOe quart of ilik ; five eggs; five tablespoonfuls of our; bring the milk toa boil, reserv ig enough to wet the flour; then stir the wet ilour while hot; whent cool ir in the beaten eggs, reserving the hites of two;. bake one-halie or,and hen cooL spread over an icing made om the beaten whites and powdered gar. TiOMATO IBUTTJ.-Sixteen pounds ice tomatoes, quart of vinegar eigh en pounds oi sugar. Boil altogether nil Snick. When half done add two *rgspciifuls of cinnamon, one of round mace, and a teaspoonful of eves or allspice. A GOon DnINK FoiR TH11 LUNs. rnsh clean a few pieces of Irish mess; ist it in a pitcher, andI pour over It two ips of boiling water. Set where it til keep at the boiling pointi but not 3iI, for two hours. Straini and iqueezee to it the juice of one lemon. Sweeten h aste. Prof. Jhenry Dreper has stated facts hicha seem to point to tihe conclusion at it Is net imnprobable that the pla at Jupiter Is stil hot enough to give it lighat. In Stoedren nearly two thousand schooL gardens'" hale been estab shed as Instruments of useful scoen fin edaunation _ HUMOROUS. A GALVESTON map Met a gentleman rom northern Texas and asked how a ertain mutual friend was coming on. He Is doing very well " was the re. 0ly. "What business is he at?" "9H* las got the softestthing in the world f it. He bought a lot of Mexican lonkeys at sani Antonio for three dol ars apiece and having taken thim up o his ranche, he clears twenty-seven lollars a head on them." "Do they Pring such high prices?" "No, buthe ote the railroad trains run over them, md the company has to pap him thirty lollars apiece foi 'em." A yaw facts not so generally known is they should' be: A watch Utted with a second-hand need not necessari. y be a pecond-hand watch. Doctors ienerally agree about bleeding their ,atlents. Steam Isa servant that some imes blows up its master. An un ;rammatical judge is apt to pass an in orrect sentence. Poachers who get nto preserves very often find them elves in pickles. Any tool can make woman talk, but it's hard to make me listen. A thorn in the bush is vorth two in the hand. A LITTL3 fellow of five going along ;he street with a dinner pail is stopped >y a kind-hearted gentleman, who ays: "Where are you going, my -lit le man?" "Toschool." '.'And what do you do at school? Do rou learn to read ?" "No."n To write?" ''No." "To count?" "9No."y "What do you do?" "I wait for school to let out." Guty of Wrong. Some people have a fashion of con fusing excellent remedioi with the large mass of "patent medicies," and in this they are guilty of a wrong. There are some advertised remedies fully worth all that .a asked for them. and ono at lenast ire 'know of-Hop Bitters. The writter has had occasion to use the Bitters in just such a climate as we have muost of the year in Bay City, and has always found them to be first-class and reliable, doing all that is claimed for them.-Tribune. WHEN Quin was at a certain dinner )arty there was a pudding on the table >f a peculiarly attractive character. )ne of the guests helped himself to a iuge piece, when the host wishing to iave Quin's opinion, pushed the dish oward him and invited him to "taste he pudding." "Pray," said Quin, ooking first at the gentleman's plate," Lnd then at the dish, "which is the )udding?" SAID Angelina, suddenly breaking he oppressive silence, "Don't you feel ifrald of the army worms, Theodore, .hat are coming so rapidly this way?" ['he question was suct a strange one hat Theodore's surprise caused him to ook right at Angelina for the first lime in his life. Why did she ask that Luestion, he wanted to know. "Oh, iothing, ' she replied, as she toyed vith her fan; "only the papers say they iat every green thing wherever they NOTHING is so admirable as logie. A lernan traveller hurried out of the mar, tired and dusty, and setting him elf at a restaurant table cried out. 'Waiter, bring me a beefsteaki" 'The vaiter replied that lhe wouldl be charm id to do so, but that it took twenty 'inutes to cook a steak, while the rain only waited ten minutes. The cindly and sweet-tempered traveller etrm'er. "Well, then, bring me half a e'steak." "WE~ don't want all this, we don't want it," sald an attorney over in the ~ourt house the other day to a voluble >1d lady on the witness stand, "it is rrelevant." But the witness paid no iced, and talked on, finishing with, "There, you've got it, whether you mant it or not, and it isn't irreverent, tither. BRANIE is a philanthropist. Lying >n the sofa the other'morning, .It was soticed that he was very partIcular to brush off every fly that alighted on his waistcoat, but did net seem to mind those that rested on his face. lie ex plained that lhe hadn't been to break. rast, and he presumed it would be bad for even a fly to walk about on an smpty stomach. With all the competition in soap, Dobblns' EleIctric so: p, (made by Cragin & Uo., Philadelphia Pa.,) is first in popularity, because it is pure, uniform and honest. Ihave your gro cer get it and then try it at once. A DUTCnMAN who married his sec ond wIfe soon nafter the funeral of the first was visited with a two hours' serenade in token of disapproval. He ex postulated pathetically thus: "I may, poys, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to be making all dish noise von dere vas a funeral here so soon1." A DnOLL fellow fished a rich old gen tleman out of a mIllpond, and refused the offer of twenty-five cents from the rescued miser. "Oh, that's too much I" exclaimedhe' "taln'r. worth it!" and be handed back twenty-one cents, say ing calmly, ashe pcketed four cents, That's about righit.". A FFKOTIONATE mnother (to her son) "Why do you cry, Johnny ? What has hurt you?" Johnny (crying more Lustily than before)-"Because 1 fell dlown andh hurt myself yesterday." Miother-"Yesterda1 I Then why do you cry to-day ?" Joh nny (bawling at the top3 of his volce)-"Oh, 'cause you weren't home yesterday." AN exchange gives "a recipe for preserving the hair." But what is the use of wasting sugar on such stuff? Nobody would eat such preserves. A man who relishes tripe, might find a pickled ch ignon palatable,' but we don't believe he would take kindly to preserved hair. "Lo0 you want to kill the chill I" ex uilaineud a gentle*man as lhe saw a boy tip the baby out of its carrIage on the walk. "No not quite," replied tihe boy ; "but iI i can get him to bawl loudl enough, mother will take ciare of him while I go and wade in the dItch with Johnny [tracer?" QUEN VIQTORlIA is a poor speaker. Bhe wvouldn't draw worth a cent. as a lecturer, Her last speechs had the ef reet of dispersing Parliament, to which it was add ressedl. A YOUNG man married a deaf and dubgrbtsoon afterward she re Doee ohspeech and hearing, and lie has applied for a divorce. lie says it is an outrageous swindle. The season s entertaInmentS have been notably fre'e from annoyance by coughing. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup does this. Price 25 cents a bottle. aEADAcuU Is so common tbat some member of nearly every family is af fected with it. The cause in most Oases is a torpid action of the LiVe0, brou'ght .on by debilitating infiuenore and Im. urities.of the stomach. The habitual lick Headache peculldI' to some o Is permanently cured by takig im mons' Liver Regulator; ordinary H cad ache, which is only a symptom of do aMnged Stomach and Liver Is readily cured by a fiw doses. And let all who suffer from Headaches renember thpt they can be prevented by taking a large dose of the Regulator so soon as their symptoms indicate the coming of an attack. '" used a bottle of Sim~ions' Liver Regulator when troubled seriously with Headache caused by Constipation. It produced a favorable result without hindering my regular pursuits in busl ness. "W. W. WirMan, Des Moines, Iowa." Les Monde# publishes a method of ma king a fire and water proof paper, which, suitably modified, may be tur ned to a great variety of useful iappli cations In the hands of ingenious per sons. One-third of ground asbestos fibre Is mixed with two-thirds of paper paste in a solution of common salt and alum. The mixture is then passed into a'machine, and the paper there made is plunged into a bath of dissolved gum lau, and then sent through the finishing rolls, when it may be out into sheets. The salt and alum serve to impart strength to the paper, and to impart fire-resisting properties; the lac renders it impervious to moisture without affecting Its property of re ceiving ink. A little less vagueness would be desirable in this description, but there Is, perhaps, enough told to stimulate inventors to make some valu able experiments. Thefollowing,is a simple method of making and unmaking-tracing paper; The di awing paper to be made trans parent Is well moistened with a sponge wet with a solution of castor oil In two or three times its volume of absolute alcohol, according to the thickness of the paper. After a few minutes the al cohol evaporates and leaves the paper ready or use. The drawing may now be made updn it in crayon or india Ink. After this the paper is restored to its original epaolty by immersing it for a given length of time in absolute alcohol, which dissolves and removes the oil. The alcohol so used serves well for making a new solution. No more Hard Times. If you will stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich food and style buy good, healthy food, cheaper and better clothing: get more real and sub stantial things of life every way, and especially stop the foolish habit of em ploying expensive, quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in that simple, pure remedy. 11op Bitters; thatcures always at ., trilling cost, and you will sec good times umid have good health.-Chronicle f. Bust welds cast steel at a tempe rature between the yellow red and the white by using a flux composed of 4.5 parts of boric acid, thirty-five parts of chloride of sodium or common salt, 15.5 to twenty-six parts of ferrocyanide of potassium, 7.6 parts of colophoniun, and three to five parts of dry carbonate of soda. The film of oxidized Iron on tho surfaces to be united is made quite fluid by the boric acid, and the objee t of the ferroeyannide is to restore to the steel the carbon and nitrogen of whIch it was deprived during the process of heating. ______ Ammronaia, so useful to agriculture and the arts, is a compound o1 nitroge~n and hydrogen ; and for a long time some method of utilizing the nitrogen of the air in its production has been sought. The desired result has at last boeen at tained by two European chemists, who cause hydrogen to unite wvith atmos p herie nitrogen in suitable apparatus by the aid of elect raily. The icuaonmy oi this process has yet to be shown. The Connecticut btate Board of Health has, wisely decided that, in the optical tests ef rail way men, old emplcos, who cannot pass all the tests prescribed by the experts employed in the exami nations, may be tested by flags and lanterns of the size and colors used by the railroadts at a distanoe of 80 rods. Of the 1,085 persons thus far examined, 56 have failed to meet the require jStatlttcs of English mortality show that during the last tiarty years nmore women have reached the age of seven ty-five or eighty yeafs thana men. The latter stiffer more from lung, heart and kidney diseases, which have of late been on the increase ini England. "She'll taatow away her switches, F'also curls and borrowed sheen. And shake upon her shoulders plump, The wealth of CAnnotries4. Dr. Carter says the entire absence of sunlight on the dee p sea bottom seems to have the same elleoct as the darkness of caves in reducing to a rudimentsry condition the eys.s of such of their in habitants as fish and orustacea which ordinarIly enjoy visual power; and many of these are provided with enor mously long and delicate feelers or hairs, with which they feel their way about, just as a blind man does with his stick. VEox'INE.-TIht*~ great success of the Vegotine as a cleanser and purifies el the blood is shown beyond a doubt by She great numbers who have taken it and received immediate relief, with suoh remarkable cures. The Japan papers state that the Rus sian Government has determined to diispatc~h a man-of-war to make a hy drographical survey of the Japanese seas anid the Sea of Okhof sk. The Geo graphical Society of Sr.. Petersburg has been invited to send a reproientative with the expedition, and it Is believed that Prol essor Amantevitch will be se lected on account of his knowledge of the Japanese language and tho dialects spoken on tihe coasst of Siberia. A vouxo ladv of New York, who is partly deaf, ls in the habit of answer Ing'yos" to everything when a gan. tieman is talking to her for 14car i.e might propose to' h*er anti she not hea. it. ______ **Nowv Wel aind 5troug."m . 1ftPMaN, Illinois. Dr. IR. V. Pierce, Battialo, N. Y.: Dear Sir--I wish to state that my daughter, age 18, was pronounced I curable a nd was fast failing, as the doctors thought, with consumption, I obtained a halif dozeg., bottles of your Discovery for her'and she commenced improving at once, and Is. now well and strong. She took the~ Disqovery last fail. Very truly yourd, Ray. Jasec M.,Aurnr. As a rule a pretty daughter will give her father more trouble than her m4 ther did. Buit, as a rule, she will not keep -him out of bed so late at night. oetfre Maay oftagre as to the beat methods and temedi'e. for the: Cure tf cont-ptiat and - disordered liver ani kidneys. But these that have' ued Ki-lney Wort agree that it in by far the best m -dioine known. Its action is prompt, thorough and lasting.--Haaw V egetine. ore to Me than Gold. W LOL, Mass., MaM T, 1M. Ka. s.U t3YrH5: I 12is to Inform you what Vegetine ba do*4 Vum'.'" f re er -0tae n eylmbn et hr part of my and havet bee a grat sufferr. I oommfteed taking Vegetine gas0 ear ago last usr and can trutv.sl y itnas 100114 more for me Ihan any other medicine. I seem to 0e p rertl free from this hujuor a can recommeond it to every one. Would notinD With*ut this meicine-is " more * me than i1-and I feelitwjll prove a blessing toothe Is It has to me. 'Yne otrespeetfultv Yours, most rSLA , A, BENTLEY, M.TD., says: .26 ban done more good Obana all ='edge, eal treatsOen. NEZWKARIUZO.P,. 74b. 9, low Mr. H R. R. sTa boston, . b., 1 8ir-1 have 601a durieoig the past years aeon* siderable quantity of your Vegetine, and I ba. heve, In sil cases ias given 'tistaoton. Cue casee, a delicateo younog l&Ay of aboutI Y arb was tnuch benefited bylta Use. Her pa. real i nfotmed me that It had done her more good than all the medical treatment to which sho had Previously ben subjected. Tours. respectflly, JBENTLEY, ). D. Loudly in its Praise. TOo11o, Ont., March 8,1. e EL. R. St-vura Boston: Dear ibir--Considerinm the sbort time that Vegetlne has been be ore the p bilo here, it tells well as a blood purifier, and for t roubit a arising from a sluggish or torpid lirer It is a rat-class medicine. Our customers spealt loudty in Its praise.'I RGT&0 Cor. Queen and Elimabethstreets. VegetIne. PREPARED BY J. B. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. T T gT~g CELEBRATED The accumulated eviateh of nearly thirty 3'eaa i Ia t.Bittersti atin aiiedy * M t t e r a ds e a e a s w e l a t u e t p o erct r tedenc to gout, rheumatism. urinar te eble and cheers the ind while' t invigo. For sale by all Druggists and Deakcte generally. of bsl$iaesw- mn o let-e ened by 1 e ai of ertolngovern no itr. wse use b np e dif yo are oug and uorn from an deetn or dia t's i i ae . Wltoever you re Thousands die an. wheneveryo ol nul fron some incd ora u atinn- ha benprovend tak e Ho pn b HoBittes Sitters. pepal, J4,ICV . I. 0. orurlarcotten proe un-ss sa aiesterx. ded e.aolea a rosselon $777ourE fo ioufe vii be uo d ser and opu e B r d pt es pabid.)o If a sni . nit h y dria ywfjsad ha eR utyclertdM b h rs 3'o1'sa stor., aed whea enota orie resritie Al expnes an egtiteg *De E.Ew36P- rEe AdMes o NP ds ansergn f eribnene la ctfe o ara pon Aders asn theo Pulse atatlnat dy thp ave ea,. peaee.e a, 1s4ss and wees tieran thrng tq yaid ai~ a ma..... Tne... Onir M.!!2!!LO That Acts at the $Sao'A'16ee Tk i.Unrth o* ns th K~ih *Tbts great orfaa are the a at6 @la Th e fe# Bs th de r~ th1iee. 4red,.%eafus . o ro0.*.' 'T RRIBLE SUFFERINa. Bitioemness, Headaehe, Dyspepsla, Jams. diet, Constipation aind Ples, or Kide ate Coeplaintd, Gravel, Diabetes - or Rheumatic Palos and Aelhes, ae develoted because the lood poisoned With the umo es that 4ollveben expelled naturall. EIDPNflY-WORT Witl rsore the hialthi stio id all tlje des roy evi I tie banshed negle them ad yo w6'iil live aut tp a e Thousanda havebeeneured. 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