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an Aetoeiwreaeker. Obarler Parsoss, who was forty years agg6 fisia6 ;o6or ia LouiVaille, Ky., tde' k-vig*16us and handsome young man, and the promise of his genius was then as bright as Forrest's or Dooth's. After a few -years of active stage life a change came oVer the spirit of Parsons' dreams and at one jump he bounded'to the extreme of social limits -from an actor td a preacher. At that date a Methodist church was situated on Fourth street in Louisville, andy. theatre was Just around the corner on Jefferson street, and an announcement for one night was Richard Il., with Parsons as the humpback tyrant. The audience had assembled at the theatre, and there was a crowded house. The first act was called, when it was reported that Parsons was not on hand. Ii those days It was not an unusual thing for prominent actors to be missing at the time for the performances to cow. mence, and several jokes are told of managers having to take their prinol. pal actors out of pawn before the curtain could be rung up. So she a bsence of Parsons was not a surprise. The mystery was, "Where is he ?" No one could answer the question, and all the attaches of the theatre were sent out to search for him, No one ever thought of looking in a church for a missing actor, but It was there that Parsons was found. The stage carpen ter stated the case to the sexton of the church, and learning that the missing man was on the inside, went in, The carpenter spied his man near the front seat, and, walking rapidly up the aisle, touched hin on the arm and said$ "First act's called, sir." Parsons looked around in utter sur prise; Ii his devotion the theatre had gotten clear out of his thoughts. "What's the play ?" lie asked. "Why, 'Richard', sir," was the an swer. And the reply came: "Tell them that Richard plays another part to-night." The carpenter hurried to the theatre with the report that Parsons was at the church and gone crazy. The theatre people at once Invaded the church and, after much talk and argument, 1arsolis played Richard for the last time. Soon afterwards he left the theatre for good, and though many years fron that was one of the most prominent nilnistersof Louisville. At times he was rather hard In speaking of the theatre, but through all the days of his life he eler Ished friendships that had their begin. 1ning at the old "City Theatre." Par sons played a wide r tuge of characters during his career upon the stage. A Pilte for tie Stranger. Amid the wear and tear of life, the monotonous round of washing pains and pails, of skimmilug milk and working butter, the farmer's wife sometimes seems to lose her social character, and fInd her hospitality stranded high and dry upon the sandbar of weariness. Not that she really wants no company ; nor that she does enjoy a chat with her neighbor; but the question ever pre ace is, "How am I to get the meals P' ilappily, however the old-fashioned idea that broken plates, cracked cups, black knives and forks, or almost any thing, are good enough for the family,'' is passing away, and a woman who has a dining room can easily plait things to enjoy company. When a smnall girl, I heard an aunt say, n1 always set my table in such a manner that .1 am not ashamned to have anry one come in." There is the secret. Hlave on your table a whole clean cloth and whole dishes, and if rooin at the table permit, place a plate, knife and fork, spoon and napkin for the stranger. You will be surprised to see what a load of care will be lifted from your mind. You will look upon your handsomely sot table with pardonable pride, and think, "I am now ready for any body,"especially if y ou have in the * house, what every farmer's wife cnn have, eggs, buitter, milk, cream, bread and some kind of cake. If. you do not make cake for every-day cating, do not make cheap cake to keepi for company, as you will find it far from being cheap. Make fruit, or some hard gm-. ger bread or cookies thtat will keep well any length of time. If your table Is well set, and you have plenty of good, wholesome foed, and show by every look and action that your visitor is welcome, you need made no apology. Musk. Mulsk is a concrete substance found in an animnal having a near atilnity to the deer tribe, a native of Thibet, (Ch ina and Siberia. The Musk deer is a timnid animal, anid rarely appears during the day ; consequtently the musk collectors watch and surprise it at night. The best mnusk comes from Ch ina, and to be genuine it should be purchased in the natural pod or bag, as it is very often, adulterated. Tihe lBengal musk is in ferier, and that from Russia the worst. of all. The hair on the pod of the best ntm is a fawn color; that on the in ferior a dirty white. A variety of mutsk is found in thme muskrat of Canada, an animnal about thte size of a small rabbit. Musk is efta bitter taste, and of an odor more powerfull than any thing known; substances in its neighborhood become strongly infected by it, and when once pe'ftumed with it, long retain the scent. it has been known to aff'ect cheats of tea placed at a considerable distance. even thiought both had been packed up in leaden boxes, for which reason the East India company gave ant order not to import musk and tea in the same ships. Many persons dislike the odor. It has the property, when employed in very small quanities, of augmenting the acenmt of other substances, without imparting its own. T'he endeavor to explaIn why thme So mitte nations wrote from right to left has led to many curious speculations. Erlenmayer, for instance, accounts for their mode of writinug by assum ing that they were left-handed. Butt this is. a hypothesis contrary to known fact. One of the most ancient of the books of the :01ble'mentions ieftbhandedniess as physleal peculiarIty. .. 4 AGRIOULTURN. AIS'PING AQO8 FRK5s.-VOr whet, ever purpose eggs are intended,if they are kept any length of, titne, they should be set up on end while fresh. Some prefer setting up on the small end and others on tie big end. I pre fer the latter. There is a difference in eggs. Some will retain their freshness and even hatch at the end of weeks, kept in a careless manner, lying upon their sides; while others will 'settle' in three days, in warm weather. The keeping qualities of the egg are pro portionate to the health and condition of the lien that drops it. Egge from overfat liens are never so perfect as those laid by liens in medium condi tion. A disposition to take on fat sel don appeara the first year; hence the reason why pullets' eggs keep better than others. The eggs fro-n young hens have stronger shells. After fowls have passed their prime there Is a gra dual decrease in vital strength, and many weaknesses set in whe it we are powerless to relieve. Fresh laid eggs somethnen have dark spots in them, whilh way be visible through the shell whenit examined against a strong light, Open the egg, and there will be found on the yolk-sometimes detached, but ofteto fastened to it-a spot as large as a pea of dark crimson blood. These eggs will sureley spoil. The lion may have received an injury. At any rate the blood Is making an effort to carry ol the trouble, and will do so with the assistance of good foad and healthful drink. In the course of time such eggs will turn black; sometimes fill witi a lungus like matter, solid in texture, and, though not actually put rid or rotten, will have a disagreeable odor or smeli like fungi. The shells will be found imporiect, with soft, porous spots. I have known this to occur with live or six eggs of one hen in succession, after which they would conie good. 'the lien was old and had been a remarkable layer when a pullet. It Is important that eggs for hatching have good shells, and, to secure this, the fowls nuat be young and liathy. ENulonINO OnCHARD.-Any farmer who has been accustomed to raising apples and has been uniformly success ful, will doubtless say that it he ex pt8 to get good crops lie treats the orchard as he does for any other crop -lie manures it, and lie finds that a manure thatt will do for most other crolp will do for the crop of apples. it is tho neglect to manure orciards at all that causes them to bear so poorly atia the trees to look in bad (odtiltioni. There is nothing better than wood ash es lor orchards, if we had the ashes - but nearly everybody burns coal ex cept in certain out-of-the-way see tions, and we intist therefore resort to sonethiig else. Next to woo(l-ashies there is no other fertilizer better than, barnyard manure. A liberal applica. tiol of' this,i only once in three years, with careti prining and scraping of the trees, and forretlaig-otit the bor era and all other , insects which lay concetled under the bark, will soonl make a change in the productiveiess of the orchard. Oesober and Noveum ber itre the best months to apply the manure atd to give the trunks of the trees a good scraping oihaf all old bark. It tihe triuinks were washed with whale oil sotp, say one6 pound to ait Ordinary sized bucket of water, there would not be inany Insects leftallve after theope ration. W rA n.--lf pure water does ntot flow at tihe barn, look inito means for secour lng it. Blarn-y'ard wells are conveni emit, bitt ofttn danigerouts to t:se health, it not of animalis, certainly of imen,wvho' may drin~k at them. If the wtiter fronm some spr ing enn be led to the house anid barn, by all means bring it down --use plain ironi p)11)s or etnamelled ones-ntot "gailvemized'' pipes. Zinc Is a slow poison bitt not so bad as lead. A well ont high ground ill often fur nish flowing water, conducted by a s11phon1, at tine level of the buIldings. No well should be dug ata less distance than 300 f eet from a barn3 aid, cess 1)o01 or privy vault. Su.uc OF PoULin Y ARID.--A yardl of moderate size is as good as a large one, for as fowls aire constanitly on the move, it affords themi sufilelent opplor tunilty for excercise, and siupphes all ihe other p~urposes of a "run," siun and air. As for forage, the size of the poultry yard is not so Important as that oh a pasture; for grass ill not thrive, but must be cut outside atnd thrown im. Insect food is also very liniltod, as all larvae are dlevouired with out having a chance to tmature. Imu~o plowing of stiff' clays ia often of great beneflt. It is done by turn Ing the furrows two and two together, so as to leave the land uniformly rldg edi. The ridges must run up and down the slopes ; otherwise, ini heavy rains, water wvill be held by thme ridges until IL breaks through somewhere, when there will be danger of a "washout." T'his system of wiinter fallowing in volves lplowintg again ini the sptling, butt shows its good cil'eets In the eropus. Thme Caribbean Sea Bottom.-Some in,. terestitng facts respecting the depth of the western portion of the Caribbean Sea have been recently brought to light. Amongst other researches a line of soudings was run by the United States Coast Survey steamner Blake, front St. .Jago de Cuba to the east end of Jamaica, when a depth of 3,000 fathoms was found twenty-five miles south of Cuba. Subsequent soundIngs proved thIs deep spot to be thme eas tet n end of an immen sely deep valley extending from be tweeni Cnba and JamaIca to the west. ward, south to the cayman lslands, and up to the flay of' Ionduras. Thte Cay mant islands and thme Mlsterlosa Bank were found to be summits of mountains belonging to a submiarine extension (very steel) ott its sou thern slope)of the range running along the southeastern side of Cuba. 'Te valley is narrow at its eastern cnd, bitt widens between the western end of Jamaica and Cape Cruz, whlen the soundings were 3,000 fathoms wvithiin ifteen miles of Cuba, anid 2,800 fathiomts iIthmin twentty-fivye miles of Jamaica. Taking it altogethter It was foud that this submarine valley extends for 700 mIles between Jamaica and Cuba, with ait average breadth of eighty miles. It covers amn area of over 85,000 square miles, having a depth nowhere less thant 2,000 fathoms, ex cept at two or three pints, which are the summit~s of subm fIne mountaitns, antd with theo greaI it depth of 3,428 fathoms. Th le low-Island of Orand Cayman, which stands scarcely twenty feet out of the sea,, is really the sumnmit ot a mountain 20,568 feet above the bet tent of this submarine valley, an alti tune exceeding thbat of any mountain on the North American contintent. Cai culating the height of Blue Mountain In Jamaica from the bottom of this valley, It would gIve an altitude of *lnearly 29,000 feet, exceedIng any of the Himalaya range. It is propoed to call this great valley the "Bartlett Deep, " In honor of its discoveer DOM0STIO. rURTLE Sovu.--Three or four green onions, a bunch of seasouing herbs, a sprig of basil, Cayenne pe r and sait, one quart very strOng ve broth, one und of buttert, fior,lemonjqIce, and Madeira wine; eItt up th6 entr Is and lot the bo'nes and other parts in tended for the soup stew six hours with the onions and seasoning', chop. pod small; pepper, salt. and tayenne (not too hot) to tasteand water enough. The liquor in which the fins are boiled tender can go in too; add the liquor to the veal broth put in the butter, rubbed down with as much flour ao will sufficiently thicken the qoup; stir It over the fire for ten minutes,and add lemon Juice and Kedeira according to qiuantity. The coarse white parts will require cooking two hours. The green fat should be out into pieces an inch and a half square and simmered In the soup one hour. Force-meat balls and the eggs are to be served in the sotp; make these of the vealy part of the tur tle minced fine with one half a beaten anchovy, a piece of celery boiled ten ler, the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, mix them well up with two tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, season with Ckyenne papper, more, salt, and white pepper; inoisten with a little oyhter liquor, a lump of butter warmed, and well-beat on egg; roll them into balls and fry in butter. In case there are no eggs in the turtle, make them; take three volks of hard-bo.led eggs, make them Into paste with the yolk of an uncook 3d egg, and throw thew into boiling water for afew minutes to harden. BLOWING OUT A KiERosENic LAMP. A very common method of extinguish Ing a kerosene lamp Is to turn down the wick until only a minute fnane is risible and then blown down t e chlm icy. This is most dangerous prac tice, being very frequently the cause of explosion. People who use kero sene Iamps should make it an absolute rule never to attempt to extinguish a lighted lamp, in that way. It is just is easy to blow into the lower end of the chimney at the tdp, except that the person blowing is required to stoop a little todo it. But the best way to ex inguisih the light Is this; Turn the light up to full height. Then with your mouth upon a level with the top of the chimney, and about a foot or more from it, blow horizontally over the top and the light wivi go out -in itantly. The blowing draws the air rroin the chimney, and without air omnbustiou cannot he sustained ; hence the light goes out. MIXKn YELLOW PICK L.-TWO cab bages, green tomatoes and cucimbers, alther pickled or from the brine, in equal quantities, herse-radish to taste, ieveral pols of green peppers and two )r three ears of corn; these ingredints inust be minced line and mixed togeth ar; pour bolling vinegar over the pickle and let it stand fifteen minutes, then strain oil the vinegar; let the plkle get cold and then pour the fol lowing mixture over it: One box of mustard, one pint olive oil, one-half pound each of white and black mus tard seed, one and a half pounds tur meric, two ten-cups of sugar, one table Ppoonful of celery seed; salt and black popper to taste; mix mustard and oil together, add sugar and turmeric; mix all well and add cold vinegar to cover theni; set away for a week. A PINK BEDROObi.--4f you are tired of white walls, it IS easy to put another shade in the wvhitewashi. Take two ounces of cochineal and1( steel) it In warmi water two hours, when adid to It one-half ounce of cream tartar. Put as much or as little of this -decoetlon in your whitewvash as wvill make the die sirable shiadle. A cheaper end hand momner pink may be had from mnadder, T'ake One pound of madder and soak over nigh t in a brass or copper kettle ; set it on the lire anid let it come to a boil, then use the same as above. IK.eDr PEAcntis TnAT WuxL Kuurxc. -F'our pounds sugar, one pint vinegar to twelve pounds of fruit; put sugar and vinegar togethecr and boil; the Liext dlay drain off the liquor and bol mgaiii; do this three times and your pickles are delicious; addh cinnamon to the liquor and stick two or three cloves in each peach. To Kxzr IEAD MosT.-flave the .lougsh stiff'when it Is set for the last rising. The larger the prop~ortiotn of liour to that of moisture in the dough he longer it will keep moist. After the bread is baked and cold put it in a tin box or an earthen jar with close oover and keep it covered tightly. Bread thus made and kept cool always from the air will last andi be moist for 1 week. A NOTED cure for neuralgia is hot viniegar vaporized. Iheat a flat-iron suflciently hot to vaporize the vine gar, cover this with some woolen ma terial, wicih Is moistened with vine gar, and the apparatus is at bnoe ap. plied to the painful spot. The applica lion may be repeated until the pain dlisappears. A raw sweet herbs should have a pla5ce in every garden. Every cook and housekeeper knows the valueit of the little patch of herbs upon which she makes such daily drafts In summier and which furnithes her with nice col lection for wvintter seasoning, w ithiout which the Than ksgiving turkey would lose all flavor, while stronig kinds aire Dxcllent as medicine. Tlo remove stains from ivory, make a paste of prepared chalk and a smnall quantity of sweet oil and sal volatile. Apply it moist with a piece of wash leather, and let it remaim till dry. If discohoredi yellow place them in alum water p~reviously boiled and cooled. Take out and brush well and wvrap them In a ltien cloth wet in cold water, and dry gradually. If dried too rapidly out of the alum wvator they will be in lured. WHEN it is dest rable to filter water qunickly, for Immediate usce, employ the following method : Puat a quart of olean water over the fire and just bring it to a boil; remove It and strain it three or four times through a flannel; cool it and keep it for use in a covered jar or pitcher. A TEAsiOroNUL, or more of powvdered borax thrown into the bath tub while bathing will cemmuniceate a velvety softness to the water and at the same time invigorate and rest the bather. Persons troubled with nervousness or wakeful night ni ill find this kind of a bath a great benefit. APPLU RIAM.-Peei and core five large apples; boil them in a little wva ter till soft enough to press through a sieve, sweeten, and beat with them the whties of five eggs. Serve with cream around thom, A waix solution of sulphate of iron sprinkled on the soil of plants will ei featuanyitry inseotn.. NaVXR make fun of an body who 1 slok or iervousd a thu or ft is not Co ardloe bu4 a tm sult 6t the infiUenbe su tinod1 b nerves from the electricity In the air. A woman who is spoken of as "one of the most dauntless ever known" was sick in bed for hours after 'the great storm at Springfield, Mass., last year. She had received a sh'ook of lightning ears before, and never since tails to be ill in a thunder storm. A DANBURY Man tells q good story of his aunt, who is a model housekeeper and a scrupulous skIoier for a good table. The olergymaf1called near the dinner hour and was pressed to stay to the meal. At the table there was a good suply of well prepared foodbut the lady felt compelledto make many apologies for imaginary deficiencies. In the grace the clergyman asked our Heavenly Father to "bess the frugal meal." This made the lady very mad. Hs was saying,'As hb pcratched a lucifer on the side of a house, "I like these houses with sanded paint; nice when u want to strike a match, you know. * 46Is that so?" she asked, de murely; "I wish I lived in a house with sanded - paint"-and then she looked things unutterable. If lie had asked, "what for ?" she would have hated him. But he didn't; he took the hint and the matelt was struck then and there. A FRMAL! applicant for aid appeared at the office o the director of the poor in Detroit the other day, with a sad and anxious look, and on being asked what she wanted, replied, "I'rd like some money." HlOw much ?'' "Well, I can't say, exactly." How much do you generally give out to a person who wants to buy a bead belt?'L - .61AnIAos a la moae: Old Gunny. bags-"So ymu want to marry my daughter, oli 9 Well, sir, what are your expectations, sir?'' You ng Sharpe --" Well, I expect that you'll do the handsome thing in the way of a marriage gift, and that will IAst us un til you drop off, and then of course,you will make yohor will in our favor." "MA, has sister Floy ever traveled any 7" "No child-no." "Then,when I was a-'iyin'under the sofy, Sunday night, and Mr. John came In from church, and was a-slttli' in - the big rockin'-holair, how came she to say that the nicest land she was over in was l aapland ?" "An I my darling wife," said George the week after his marriage, "if your husbaid were to die, what would you do?" "I don't know, I'm sure, George," said the wife, reflectively, "I never thought of that. I must look in my book of etiquete, and read the rules for young widows I" WHENa lIair of lovers are sitting alone in the parlor conversing about love and other sentimental things, the suddenness with which the young man changes the subject to domestic economy when the lady's paternal parent unexpectedly enters the room almost makes the young man's collar button fly ofl. AN up town young man of baronial tendencies invested in a new coat the other day, which the tailor unfortun ately cut wvithi the sleeves much too long. After vain attemrpts to dispose of the garment at a reduced .price, ho conchluded to hang it up in his ancest ral chamber as a coat of arms. Nrrryx to stranger : "We~r have al wvays an east wvind in Galveston." "But I see the wind right now is from the wvest." "Oh, that's the cast wind comning back, you knowv." "Ah I" A orar who is rod-headed and cross eyed and wears number eleyen brogans can be advertised all over the country as a beautiful creature by committing seine crime. Who ever heard of a fe male horseihief or a murderess who wasn't just lovely ? Tun Ndassachusetts papers are dis-. ocussing the question, "May cousin s marry 7" We should hope so. We don't see why a cousin hasn't as good a right to marry as a'brother, or an uncle, or a son, orsister. A scucoo. teacher recently electrified her pupils1, who were annoying her wilth questions, by saying, "Children, 1 am engaged." Seeing the general look of astonishment, she added, "but not to any fool of a man," and the ex citement died away. WHEN Dr. H, and Lawyer A. were walking arm, in arny, a wag said to a friend-"These ti#o are Just, equial to one highw ay man." " Why ?" asked his friend. "Because," rejoined the wag, "it is a lawer and a doctor-your money or your life!1" "Wigy don't you come in out of the rain?" said a good natured dominic to a ragged Irishman. "Sure it's av no consequence, yer riverence," returned Pat : "me clothes is so full of 1ho103 they won't hold wather." WHNa man's wife comes in and sees him with rszor in hand and his face all lather, and asks him, "Are you shaving?" it's a provoking thing in himi to answer, "No, I 'm blacking the stove." PU'raINo it neatly.-Said -the little pet of the household on her last birth dlay : "It's a lovely (loll, dear gran dpa and grandma; butt-i've been hoping it would be twins." Tus'H paragraphmer who labers six hours and a halt grinding out five or1 g Inal Jokes and then labels them "Idle Moments" has a keen appreciation of humor. A ScOTen MA x was :old that measures wer~e wanted, not men. "My candi (late's a stoot mon and measures enough," said he. MAX loves and runs away. WVoman b~rings action for breach of promise,and gets danmges. Woman lues, and she r ides awav. Man brmngs his acal on, a nd gets faooted out of court. IN making soup of any kind, first catch what you inte .d to put in. A v'oluiteer Ingredient, that jumpis in, is not thue pi oper caper. To isanlan: A stitch in time saves nine, but a stitch in the side loses time race. A CALIPORIA bard addresses a poem to the gas men. Even gas meni are the victims of revenge. Ta demand for chairs that Wash ington once sat in is keeping the furni ture makers very busy. "AILL work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Very few Jacks will be ceme dull boys if left to themselve. The 0hrotos tk;-Th6esrence Obsere pb1itebos I a lofg --desdription of a nd jahd -simple instrument -avented by 8 C b Chandler, jr, ot Boston, for findi Ithe time by qpUtl altitudes of the sun Itconsists of a swinging bar, suspende( at itls 'upper n- on a pivot in such I way as to jrA t the -bar to assum4 freely a vertical position without an3 torsional revolution. To the bar is at fixed a small telescope, the object-glas near the bottom, the eye-leas at the toj of the bar. Below the object-glass i frame is fixed to the bar, carrying i plane mirror swinging on a horizonta axis and provided with a clamp for fix ing the mirror at any desired inclina -tion. Below this is a metal bob. Th whole instrument thus forms a Pendu luVP w lob is suopended ineide a larg( tuie, a b We 6f whlch are approxi mete levellipg sorews. A snaller tab as the1 'krries a dark-glaba directl3 over the eye-lens of the inclosed tele. scope without touching it. From thi description of its construction, it is evi dehti tht,if the instrunieit to tfrned that th mirror is toward tte dun, 214 the mirror is revolved on its horizonta axis until the rays from the sun ar( refleoted-directly up the telescope tube an eye looking into the instrumen from the top will see an image of thi sun in the field of view. As the sui rises og falls i% the hesvepq,,this imag< will rise or fall in the fild of view ,an its passage may be 6bserved over a ho rizontal bar or wire placed in the com mon focus of the eye and object glassot ,and so adjusted in direction that it re presents a section 9f a small circle ih the heavens parallel to the horizon This explanation will indicate the modi of using the instrument in getting the time by equal altitudes of the sun. The instruments thus far constructed ar< very compact and are portable in the coat pocket. They have object-glabsei tof six incl focus m ggifhin power liein; seven dr The Whole ionodeli abbit one an three-quarters inches in diameter an stands about nine inches high. Witi instruments of this size and construe tion, says Mr. Chandler, the probabl error of a single determination of the clock time with one instrument ma3 'be definitely stated to be within one second of time. Indeed, the actual re sults of an extended series of experi ments with several instruments shom the probable error of a determinatior with one instrument to be eight-tenthi of a second. The Observer also publish es tables to be used with the instru ment, and gives practical illustratiori of its usefulness. Mrs. rartineton says Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the human cistern; put your trust In Hop Bitters, which will cure general dilapidation, costive habits and all comiq diseases They saved Isaac from a severe ex. tract of tripod fever. They are the n plus unum of medicine.-Boson Globe. Neto Snbstitute for Rubber.--This arti ficial composition, which answers the purpose of genuine caoutchouc or gutti percha, can be employed, according t< Dankworth and Sandeis, of St. Peters burg, either alone or in connectiov with other resinous substances. Ac. cordIng to Ackermann 's Gewoerbezeitung this new product affords an Inexpen sive means for a perfect isolation o wires for electrical purposes. The com position is elastic, tough, not so sensil tive' to external influences as caout chrouc or gutta percha, and is not in jured by high pressure or high temper ature. It is prepared-in-the -following manner: A q'.tantity of coal tar oil which is to constitute a third part o1 the whole mixture, is poured into s large kettle, together with an equa quantity of hemp oil, and is heated fo, several hours, either over steam or ar open fIre, to a temperature which 11cm between 252 degr. anid 288 degr. Fah (it should not exceed the latter), unti the mass becomes so ductile that it car be drawn in long threads, and the re maining third, consisting of a quantit3 of linsued oil, which has been thickenec by boiling, is then added. With thiu composition from five to ten per ceni of ozokerite and some spermacoti shoult be mixed, The mass is then heated again for some hours at the same temn perature as above, and finally from seven to twelve per cnt of .sulphui are added. The mixture thus obtainec is cast into forms and tireated the samn as caout.houc. Thaepk'opor'tions of thi three oils may, be slightly variled ac cording to the practical pttrposes fo; which tihe composition is to be used, Sirnme fSwpe lionmi.'' is muel s weeter\ Wike Daibbinms'diectric Soap (made by O.iagin & Co., Phiiladelphia Pa..) is uised; labor, clothes and tempei are preserved -by it's use.. Trial showi its merit. I~vy j grocei' get it. A school for the education of idiot has been in operntion in Holland fo: twenty-five years, with encouraginj results. Of tire- total of 417 pupils en tered upon its register since 1855, 4~ have gone directly into service o: adopted a trade, while 25 others hav been discharged in a greatly improve< condition. TrouL-e's electrical polyscopo was re cernly placed In the stomach or a fisi swimming in a Parisian aquarium Without producing any sign..of incon venience, the body of the nash was the: illutninated by the apparatus, whici caused it to radrale into the aquarium light equal to thrat ot a commnon candle Twinkling of the Stars.-TIhiggener ally concedeg to be dlue to mnoisture 1i the upper air. hi. 1,toitmgny holds tha very pronounced twinkling of the star, indicates either commotion in ti upper regions of the atmosphere or sudden fall of temperature there, thu, denoting the conditions of aai eara appearanceoof bad weather. Thme deepest well in the world ha j ust been completed near Budr'. Pesth at a depth of 3,200 feet. tihe wate coming from it being nearly 165 de grees F.ahr. intemlperature. 10 is fouhm that the mud taken from it incorease< in heat until a depth of some 2,800 t< 2,700 was resehmed below which depti it was not so noticeable.. ".As now improved and perfected, No oil was ere so clean, Diseases of the skin nd scalp, Are cured by (Jannotai,.' ' Professor Curtius, dlelivering tire tisna speech on the occasion of the birthdara of the Emperor of Germany, In th' University of Beirlin, said that owinj to the liberality ci the Emperor, thb excavations at Olympia canl now bi hroughut to a wortahy end. Thie Em: peror of Germany las gtanted 80,00! marks out of his private purse to comn plete the enterprise. To coughi and it the shine time b entertaining is impossible. Dr. B3ull' Cogh Syup wii each your case N0 1 Wa lIM) gi to 9ty( yo p ow." fdrgiveness;'Vo your opponent tojer. an0I toa end1 y r t; fre yon Oit ; con wiila hertoud of yoq't4 yo s9f; all a n b, t, Ian to NO i , , mmons oLier Regu tor. "For Derangement of the Liver, for Dyspepsia, Diarrhcea, Piles, etc., Dr. Simmons' Liver Regulator certainly hair no sulperior. It acts like a charm without debilitAting the system. I have tiled it thoroughly; and speak what I know. I I "Ray. S. GARDNER, Atapulgusi Ga." "Having tested personally and in my practice your Simmons' Liver Regula trr, I have found it just the medicine needed as a family remedy, by persons livingin a warm cilmate, and especially those inhabiting the more malarial dstricts of Florida. "4J. F. 31cKINSTRY M.D., : . Gainesville, Fla." An Englh -traveler reports the dis covery t two peculiar vairietles of tea In Wstern Ohing . 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