Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Disoovery ot the sammoth. The banks% of that, great Northern isiberian River, the Lena, 'are quit* penoular. Those on the western side or# generally low and marshf, while those on the eastern are often from sixty to one hupdrod feet high. In the extxeme north, tis high elevation is out into numerous pyramidal-shaped mounds, which are formed of layers of earth and ice-sometimes a olear stratum of the latter many foot in thickness. It was before such a mound that a filaherman stopped, dumb with asten ishment, one spring morning, many years ago. About thirty feet him,- half way up the face of the mound, appeared the section of & great ice-layer, from which the watcr was flowing in numb erless streams; while protruding from it, and partly hanging over, was an ani mal of such huge proportions that the simple fisherman could hardly believe his eyes. Two gignatic horns or tusks were visible, -and a great woolly body was faintly outlined in the blue, tey mass: In the fall, ho related the story to his comrades up tuo river, and in the ensuing spring, with a party ot his follow fisherman, lie again visited the spot. A year had worked wonders. The great mass had thawed out sufil ciently to show its nature, and on aloe. or inspectoin proved to be a well-pre served specimon of one of those giganutAc extinct hairy clopalints that roam over the northern part of Europe and Amer loa in the earlier part of the worla. The body was still too firm.y attached and frozen to permit removal. For four successive years the fisherman visited it, until finally, in March, 1804, fivo years after its original discovery, it broke away from its ley bod and coio thundering down upon the sands below. The discoverere first detached the tusks, that were nine feet six inches in length, and togother weighed three hundred and sixty pounds. The hide, covered with wool and hair, was more than twenty men could lift. Part of this, with the tusk, were taken to Jakutak and sold for fifty rubles. wilo the ret of the unimal was left where it fell. and cut up at various times by the J-%koutca, -ho fed their dogs with its ileah. A strange feest this, truly-meat that had been frozen solid ii the ice. house of Naluro perhaps fifty thousand years, more or less; but so well was it preserved that, when the brain was afterward compared with that of a recently killed ainim i, no diflerone in the tissues could to detectod. Two y _ars atter the auimial -- I fallen from the clif, Oie news reached Ht. Potoraburg, and the Museum of Nat. ural ilistory sent a scientist to secure the specimen and purhalse it for the Emperor, He found the massive skel oton entire. with the oxception of on fore leg. Thme tusks w e repurchased in .Jakutsk, and the great frame wans taken to St. Petersbuirg, an1 thoro mounted. I'. OG'e Miakui asl ii I t Art. Cotfee las no fellow, and to miix it with anything else is to de~piave the noble berry. Trhe amiateur, to be safe, must, buy his coffee& whole, taking care even thin that he has the true artieo for the ingenuity of wied mion has gone so far as to fabricate imitation cof fee terries. Those who affect to be real connoisseurs buy their coffee usov oral years before they use it ago being held to mellow and ripecn the berry. The nextenre is the roasting which, of course, should be done at home. Dean Swift always reasted his coifr.c with his own illustrious hiand(s, "'in an engine for the purpo -e,'' so i'og'o told Dr. Arbuthnot. Whlat that engine was we should like to know, for, strange as it may scom, and a proof of the gioss ignorance which surrond~s this part of thme subject, there is not now extant any simple coffee roasting apparatus such as the baehelor of moderate means and small appliances can use with his own hands. There are several patent machines of elaborate construction, of which thme best is a cylinder. which goes round by clock work ; but their fault, is that, they roast more than is necessam y for one man's uise, au.d et fl e to bo good should he I resh reasted the (lay it is made. The volatile elkments in which so much of the valne as well as the flavor of coiteo resides sp~eedily evaporate after they have once been developed by the action of fire. The next step is the grinding, or rather pounding ; for cofeo, for the due erolution of its ethereal essences, should be Lrumsed into a unrr or less fine powder-inot cut, as it is in all the grinding machmnes of commerce. The Easterns, who are the best of coffee makers, lay gt eat bttess on this point. * , They bruise their coffee with a pestle and mort ar, so as to preserve the oily particle in greatest p)erfecton, and re duce it sto a flue powdea', which is cooked In water like soup and wholly consumed. This last, however, is a detail which the amateur need not follow unless his taste has beeni so far Orientahzed as to prefer the thick muddy decoetion of the east to the mnore artlcial product of the west. The coffee being grounid, and no more ground than is needed I )r iimme-1 diate use, now comes the all importimt process of making. The simplest way of making coffee is the beat, alway's bearing in mind that the object is to secute the union of the coffee with the water at the exact point of boiling, neither before nor after-a pr~ocess which is a moment ary and delicate some thing between iniusion and decoetion. There are two wvays by which it can be accompillihed. 'Iho first is to pour the water on the coffee, which is the more common practice ; the other is to throw the coffee into thme water, which Is fair bettor ar.d more simple. All that Is needed 1W a saucepan norrower at the top than at thme bottom, with a long wooden handle. Iuto this measure the exact .quantity of water required, the proportion of which to coffee is a mat :or of taste. Setting the sauoepan over k brisk re, and with your measures of i.fEe ready to hand, watch. for the arge bubbles to appear. Then take he saouepan off and throw in the ooffee, md with a shake or two put It back on he fire for a couple of seconds. Take ,t off and let it rest for two or three ninutes before pouring off into the cup )r coffee-pot, By this process, the licety of which depends upon catching he exact moment of boiling, and in not >Verdoilg the second'.tine, of boiling, rou will have coffee ii its fullest devel )pment of flavor and aroma. If the prnoess is properly carried out, there vi1 be no need of a strainer, for atter two or three minutes the grounds will lettle to the bottom of the saucepan, mud there will be a pleasant froth at the Lop, such as is never seen in coileo made Dn any other plan. Coffee should be 1runk as soon as it is made, which sug gests the reason why it is never good in clubs and hotels-where even if all other provisions eaist for good coffee, it is made too long before it is used and in too largo quantities. Uenem Fences are built, not for the purpose of fencing rn crops, but for fencing out other people's cattle. For the lack of proper legislation, or the lax admini stration of laws already prowded, ten mon must be subjected to a heavy Dxpenso to protect themselves from the lopiedations of one man's cow. In 0-Ao and some other States the sensible view Is taken that a field of corn is not likely to stray over into a neigh bor's promises and commit any overt aot of violence; that it is not nc'cees. sary for the well being of society that a man should place himself and family in a prison-like enclosure or disfigure the beauty of his grounds by high fen ces. It is the duty of every man own ing cattle to take care of them. They are not allowed t > run at large to be fed and cared for at the public expense. Wherever these sensiblo laws exist and are strictly enforced the results are highly satisfactory. Some of the nost boaut; residence in Ohio are without a fence of any description, and the ef feet is very pleas ng. Flowers are cul tixated in the yards and statuary adorn the grounds, but they are as safe as if they were bohind high walls-probably more so when we conhider the fact that oows have a street education, learn that rences have their weak places and gates ire not impregnable. Fences for pro teotion are offended to good taste, and t lax public sentiment which makes 'hem neccossary is wrong. Moreover it is a gross injustice, for it loads far mers down with expenses which is not right they should boar. If a poor mau buys a farm, before he can plant his iropP, he must use mionov which ho man illy spare to build fences which perhape cost more than the land. Hie nay have no cattle of his own, but lais wvll to-do neighibors have, and for the ?invi lege of allowing them to live on ,be pubic domain he must fence in his nuocent crops, If we adopt the same >lan in society, we would p~lace all the awabiding peole in the pomitentiary ms a measure for p~roteetion, and let nalefactors run at large Whlo wanits to xy his experiments. 16 h Fm mer's Wate. T1here are several leading departments which, by common consent, are role gated to the Bphere of the wife. Ein braced in her special department is the inanagement of the household expenses, and, unless dairying is made the chief business of the farm, she has usually the entire care of the dairy. A story is told of one of the early pioneers in a newv country who, with his wife, coin nonced farming on a tract of 100 acres of wvild hind, only partially paid for. Year if ter year they p~rosperedl, the 100 acres were paid for, in large part, by the hard-earned money which the wife had tcoured through the sales of butter and ilieeso. Again and again the question was asked by the husband : 'MShall I buy another hundred acres ?" and the imnswer by his good wife was always ready and always the same : "Qit mce 15 more cows and you may safely buy thme land." When in their old age a aine farm of 500 acres was fully pmaid for, the wife could righmtfully boast that t was her labor quito ams much as that >f her husband, which had paid for heir broad acres. Tiho power ivhihei a ~arzgier's wife may exercise in the farm tarries with it many responsibilities, It a her duty in every way to fit herself o become a judicious helpmiet and ounsollor. Thme farmer's club mneeting heuld be apen to the wife and the laughter as well as to the farmer and on. Not infrequently the little im >rovemonts made at trilling expense, brough the influence of the wife's taatee bnd tact, add more to the value and ttractiveness of the home than nmany mics the money cost invested under ho husband's management. Ini all the inggestions as to nmaking farm life at ,rative to young men there is none metter than to enlist a hearty coopera mon of their mothers andi sisters. They wil point out to the youth the ideal mud mthetic side of the farmer's work, while If he learns farming wvholly from his father he is apt to learn it only as a bid of prosy and poorly-paid toil The last inventIon t or the protection of theatre audienres is a "penetrable sfety wall," which has just been patented by an engineer at Kottabus, Germany. Tihec plan Is to make the Interior wall in all parts of the theatre of papier macbe, made alter a cerin method. fiuch a wall -will have the appearamnce of masve stone, but, by pressure upon certain parts where the words are to be painted mi luminous letters "To be broken open In case of fire',"aeccess to the exterior oofridors as to be obtained, whenne eapen to te ..t.. ai.. Ub AGRIOULTUBE, BABED UP.-if a 02mmon oow bas the marks of a good reter it is wisdom to breed from her. Whether or not her calf will)nherit her good qualities tune alone can.tell. It is right here that the value of improved stock is greatest. Its character istics are fixed and will be reproduced. It Is hdre, too, where the value of a register ed pedigree is apparent. The fact that a book contains a brief statement of the an cestois of an animal is nothing~ of it'elf. But the fact that it tells that an animal has certainly come from a long line of ances tors which have regularly transmitted their characteristics is everything,for It not only shows that the animal itself possesses the family charac'eristics to a gicater or less aegree, but that it in turn will be able to transnit them. The cominon cow may re produce herself, and she may not. The purely-bred cow will reproduce herself. with possibly slight variation, under pro per breeding. It is too often the ease that the owners of common cows get an erro neous impression when their attention has been called to the desirability of improving their herds. They are convinced, perhaps, that it would be to their interest to breed up, or rather to impiove the character of their herds; but, thinking that the only way to do this Is to purchase outright, they may not feel like going to the expense. 8ome of the best cows in the country are crosses of our commcu stock with the im proved breeds, and if a man owns a com mon cow that has proved herself a valuable dairy animal he has excellent encourage ment to use her for crossing. It Is every man's duty to breed up. It is throwing away money to keep an inferior animal when we can just as well have a better one. SAND FOR PACaING FRvI.-The Rural Ncw Yorker has the lol!owing: The cit rai itnen oi Los Angelos, Cal., have made a discovery of great value to Florida. Dry sand is the beat packing for oranges and lemons. It must be quite dry, and no pa per must be used. Tae fruit must touch the sand. Expcrience watrante keeping Jor five n.onths at least. The dry sand has abtorbing power that apparently takes up all exuiations subject to decomposition,the rind being very porous. Naturally the thoughtful mina suggests that, cn the same principle,dry sand must have asimllvr pre servative effect on other fruits, such as pears, 'olunis, nectarines, apple i and other smooth-skined varieties. JN relation to linseed meal for stock It may be stated, in answer to an inquiry, that the ouantity usually given for one fteding depends on the quality of the hay or other feed allowed, straw requiring more linseed meal than clover hay. it is fed sparingly at the neginning, gradually incteasing ti c allowance until a suileiency is given with the coarser material to keep the cattle in good condition, as it can be used too laviably. The only difference between the cake and meal is in the piepa. ration, as the oil is generally extracted and the residium solo as cake or ground to a line condition. IF A horse is shy and hard to catch, take finely grated castor, oils of rhodium and ummmin. Keep thon in separate bottles, well corked. tut some of the oil of cum. uin on yuur hand, and approach the horse on the windy ute. lie will then move toward )-on. As soon as you can reach him rub one of the cumnmin on his nose, give him a little of the castor or anything lie likes, and. get a few drops of the oil o1 rhodiumn on his tongue. After this you can make himn do nearly eve rythinug you want. Ta eat himit ktndly, ed well, handle gently and j our victory is certain. IN tne cattle department of the Chicaigo Union stocac yards-the beef factory, as it wezre-operations proceedo with surprising rapidity, consider tng tue bulk of the ma teriul hatnoled. The cattle are shiot down wIth Winchester ritics, the shooter stand ing in a gallery lubt over the kiling pen, where lie cin bring the muzzle of his gun within a yard of his victima's head. hin stanatly on lalling the steer tumbles into a sort ot dresming-aom, wvhre he is bled, cleaned, 115ayeu and halved with amazing celerity. Then the separated halves trav el off to ant imnnse storerooIm,whiero they haug a day or two before cuttiuag up. WITH delicate mecans of measuremecnt Herr Krautss has recently proved the ex is. tence of a phenomenon in all plant organs which is connected with their vairiable wa ier-contents and consists in a periodical swelling anid contracaion in the twenty-four hours. Leaves, etc.,decreaae in thicknees fromi the early mornling till the afternoon, whein they begin to swell again, attalning a greater size by night than by day. '1 h'e samie is true with buds, flowers, green Qones, fruits, etc. and~ with sterus and branches. lierr Kaiser hind before proved such a period itn trunks of trees, and lierr Krause shows that both wcod and bark share sin it, independently or unitedly. Pour~o flour, or the dried pulp of the potato, Is attaining great inportance to the arts. It is said that in Lancashire, Enaglando, twenty thiouiaind tona of it arc sold annually, at d it brings ai, present ini Livempool about double as much in the niait t as wheat flour. It Is used for slz img and other iianufactuirzng ourposea,and when precipitated with acid is tumnedl into starch. Wiaa i calciAi it is eniployed as a dressing for silk. TVnh absorption 01 a specr. in the eye o a horse, 1s risuhting from inflamnmation, may olten be hastened by blowing some burned alum throigh a goose quillhito the ey'e. A good cool ng dlressmg is tour grains of sugar of lead, dissolved in cnj ounce of rainwater; or sulphate of zinc may be used instead of the leadi. A rag saturated with the solution should be hung over the eye and the amimal kept in ii 'lark stable for some dfave. IN contrast with the common pract~Ice ot lotting deiny cows go dry four months or so every ycar, a recent writer says thant he has a cow that has completed her fourth farrow year and has averaged during the past, 6 months a t raction over flve Pounds of butter per week of at-rate quality. lie cItes also, the ease of a cow in in IBerk ahire, Enbgland. whieh ten years ago drop. pedl awins, and has given a good mess or millk daily ever since. IN Irelandl the toid cut on boggy ground Is piled up In heaps nti l dry, then liurned into a species oh charcoal. TIhis is then pulverized and miixedl with well-iotteod statble or hen-house nianuire, or night-soil In equial proportions. Paced in drills. where tumnips or carrots are to be planted, it is satid to makte themt attain a monstrous size. The experiment Is certainly wortny of a trial by farmers who can get the bok mold without too much labor or expense. POTAToES, 'ahen dug in an unripe state, may be at tilhes waters', and not fit to eat, but if spread as thinly as possible ini a dry, airy place they will In time beconie as mealy as if left to ripen ia the ground. Wml-rwarnxe the bark ot uit or shade trees prevents proper respIration and re tards the growth of the tree. sloshea Aroa. -"No, Sir," coitinued the early sett ler. "I con here 'fore the woods was burned. I like the freedom of the'fron tier, an' I know X would not feel at home in the streets or a city. I was born within sight of Stone Mountain, in Georgia, when the Indians were thar same as they are on the frontier now. See that sear?" The eariy settler took off his hat and showed us a heavy sear running from the top of his lfead almost to his left eye. brow, "That thar is what 1 got from an Indian tomahawk wben I was 'bout three years old. My oldest brother was killed, and my father was runnin' to hide in a corn-field, with me in his arms, when I got that. The old man had, an axe in his hand and he split the red skin's head clear to the teeth. Not much civilization 'bout them diggins; no sir. "Not much style about those early Georgian pioneers, I reckon ?" said the reporter, Stylel Why, I was 12 years old whon I got my first pair of boots. Don't I remember them yaller topel Folks in them parts mostly tanned their own leather, but them was genuine store boots. They got me into two fights. I had to fit with two other boys the first day I put 'em on, and I was the under dog in bcth fights. The boys didn't ap. prove of style in those days. I -was man growed, 'fore ever I saw an earthenware plate. We had nothin' but powter plates to eat off, and wooden noggins to drink out ot; but, bless you, we never wanted for somethin' to put in them. We had lots of b-ar meat and oords of all sorts of game. No, we didn't know nothin' of flour bread-corn bread was the staple. Whiskyi I should say sol Most every. body made their own, but if you was'nt fixed to make it yourself, you had only to carry a bushel of cora to a neighbor's still and come back with a demijohn,'of pure juice. When we had a corn-shue kiu,' a log-rollin" a house-reisin', or any such frolic, the whisky just sloshed round like water, We only got coffee ou Sundays, but we had whisky all the time, and it was whisky-neLt the adul terated pizen they oall by that name now. You could have got fullernagoose on it, and it wouldn't hurt you." As the early settler said this he sighed, wiped his mouth on his shirt sleeve, and shook his head in a regret ful sort of way, indicating his belief that these good old days when whisky actually, "sloshed around" were gone. WInuor Cutaising, The housekeeper should not forget that cold enervates more than want of food, A person starves by cold as much as by want of food, and it is perfectly correct when one says he is starved with cold. Food warms the body, and more food is required in cold weather than in warm,.' because there is a greater waste of heat from the body in winter, and this consumes the food. If, then, oun" is exposed to great cold the hedy be coins situated and starved. This is the reason why animals do not grow in the winter, and children and persona are quite as subject to these iniluences as any other animals. Tho lower limbs, the stomach, and the back between the shouldeis are the parts most easily and ibjuriousaly affected by cold. Young chikdren should have tight fighting gar meuts and a double tliickness ot flannel stitcbed into th~e back of the upper gar ment of either Old or young wilt pr'otect the lungs and save a great loss of heat, Tiho feet and ankles should be kept warm and dry, Ttioee who are required to go out inbo the snow should have their boots made water-proof, and wear a thick and dry woollen knitted stocking. iSocks ate an uortunate lashion. The long stoking ii much bet ter protection, and if the drawera of chuldren tie 0or button closely below the knee they will be well protected from theocold. Uuder clothing is better than extra ovet cloth ing. The warmth is required at the skn, and the skin is better and moro regularly andt constantly warmed by undlerclothing than by outer garment., which are sometimes thrown off wnen they should be kept ot. This is par ticularly w'orth nothing by women who are no often required to go out fronm a warm room into the cold outer air when " keen wind is blowing, and who will btrfO .acket. eiumpies ? ives. According to one of the natives, now a professor in an English college, the Icelanders live vdry simply. "We ame a spare folk,'' lhe says. "I was always thin and pale in my youth. And, after all, food is not everything'; the Eniglish, perhaps, make too much of their dinner. Dinners are good, but there is better enjoyment in health of body and a con tented mind." He goes on to say that in his young dlays, his people lived spar ingly and healthily. He never tasted wine until lie was twenty-two, or beer before lie was grow'n up. "Milk and whey, or water, were alwvays to be had, and we did not wish for more," lie says. On luis father's faum, in his youth, wvere two Ounagi, or poor people, who had been allotedl to the farm in accordance with the Icolandic custom of treating the poor. One of them wvas an old woman, the other a young girl of his own age, who became a kind of fobter sister to him "We drank of tuo same cup)," he writes, "and eat of the same dish, wore clad in the same stuff, were made to do all manner of errand-work now to fetch iin a pony, now a sheep, or a pitcher of waiter from the brook, or to carry food to thej farm folks out on the land; in short, we went to and fro like a weaver's shuttle; in Wmnter we would gather Iceland moss together, or sit at home capping verses and ditties a fewv of which aro just to appear for the first time in a volume of Icelandic poems. Not one member of the- household ever let the child feel, by word or deed, that she was a pauper.'' Tie Montlhs, It was a belief a mnong the Poles that each month of the year was tinder the influence of a precious stone. Th us: J anuairy was represeuted by a garnet i emblem of constimoy and fidlity; Feb ruary, the amtohyst, sin'eoritoy; March, bloodstwie, courage, and presence of mind; April diamond, inniocenco; May, emeral, suess in love; June agate, health, and long life: July, co'nelian, contented mirnd, Atugust, sardonyx, coii jugal felicity; S9,ptemlber, chirysolita, antidote against madness; 0 itober, the opal, hope; Nomber, topaz, fidelity; and December, turquoise. These sev oval atones were sot in ringa and' other triokets, as presents. - To neglect at any time prep~aration for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege, but to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack tVOMEH1'I0. IbMow firma quito an impktant feaktt ure in needle-work 4o.4ay. Raised ef. fects are prodneed by gathering riobon about an inoh wide at intervals and then forming into the shape of a bud or flow er and laying it with a few invisible stitches in the centre of a round of plush or velvet. Very pretty scraps for the piano are made in ordinary muslin with such raised work in ribbon carried out at the ends. The French knot, which is used for the centres of flowers or for stamens, pistils, etc., in art embroidery, is very eabily made and needs only a lit tle care to be very effective. In making it the thread is brought through to the front of the work and held in the left band four or five inches from the work, while the needle is kept In the right hand. The thread thus held in the left hand must be twisted two or three times. round the needle as close to the work as possible, then the point is turned down into the material nearly, but not exactly, where the thread came up, the needle is pulled through to the other side, and the thread carefully drawn till the knot is flem. A little praotice will result in a perfect French knot.. Darn. ing stitch is very much in use now. Designs are worked upon Java canvat in arasone, and the background is simp. ly darned over quite evenly in any neu tral-tinted crewel that may be preferred. This method line entirely superseded the old-fashioned cross-stitch. The imitations of tapestries and tapestried effects are more fashionable than ever. A great deal of this is obtained by what is known a% inland applique, which con sists in tracing the sane pattern on two materials and then carefully cutting both out, and in laying one onto tile other by sowing the upper portion onto the under with thread and covering the stitches with flino cord or windings of floss silk. Sometimes narrow ribbon or braid is stitched over the edge to keep thom lit, PnEPAnlNG SKELETON LEAVES.-A corrospondenkt gives these directions for preparing skeleton leaves: Take a large sauOt pan of cold water, and a piece of scrubbing soap about four inches square cut Into small slices. Gather mature ltaves, seed-vessels, etc.; put some soap nto the water, then a layer of leaves one by one, then more soap, then leaves, and so on. Put on a lid, set the pan by the side ot the fire and let it simmer. After an hour take out a few leaves, and try them between the thum b and finger; it the pulp separates readily from the fibre, remove tasm from the lire; if not, let the pan, remain. Some loaves, such as ivy, orange, etc., are done in an hour or two; othera of at tougher fibre take half a day. Seed vessels of mallow or campinutia take a short time. Large poppy or stramonium takes perhaps two days. Now lay a leaf upon at plate, uu der a tail) of running water, aad beat it with sharp strokes with a hard brush say a tooth brush; the green matter wil run ol with the water. When to skeleton is quitO ek an, try it upon blct ting paper. To bleach the specimens put a quarter of a pound of chloride of inue into a largo bottle of water, cork it, and mix witiu more water in a basin; immerse the leakves, etc, Again care fully watch and remove them as soon as they are white, fur the lime soon ren diers tiim brittle and r-otten. Washi again in puro water, and dry as before, A~s thle stemi nually come awvay from most leaves, it is well to boil several stuclks seitrately, uind after bleaching to inount tile leaves by xummmnng ioni to .thu stems. To wash lace make a soapsuds of white castilo coap anid solt water, and, whine cold, dip thie laice in and piut on Lino steve to boil. Let it rt:1uain uutil tio lace loons clean, Do not rub). AL ter boling suallicientay rinse tiiorouighly ini cear, cold water', and theni uy When porfectly dry, wet it in milk andl let it ury agaim; Lien damapen and stitch it on a 11annel cloth, and put over it a pice of camp) Ilaunl. Steam dry itih a hot flat-iron, and then pull out. PREBIT and odd chiairbas arc imade of squaa of lincen anid of sattu in, lli seemus at first a stn anigo comnbinationa, but the eet, is exeulent. Where the atquares are joined, cover the seauns with hlncy btitciei. Tn'ie sat1 i suares mnay be li without ornamentation, u.nd nia hIodery, or painting, or einig au o tue faivogito mietnods employed. Fon ERUIsES On SiPAIs.-lBathe the part in cold water until you get ready a dlecoctiont 01 wormwood anid vinegar, WVhen the herb is freshi gathered, poundc the leaiv's, wet with Vinegar, and bind on, and when the herb is dry puit it in the vinegar and let it boil a short limo; then bathe the bruises with the de(,oc ion and bind on thce herb. QUEEN's drops atro cxcellent for lunch eon. Tiaiko a qliuarter of a pound of bmut ter, a quartetr of a pound of sitted 51u gar, three eggs, six ounces ohflour, and a quairter ofia pound of currants. Drop them out a jittle larger than nutmegs on paper, placeed in at lin, fand biako in a very hot oven. SWaET APPLE ICKLEs, -Take asweot appldes, peel and quarter them, and bouil until tender in vinegar and water: to one pound of viflegar adid two poundsc of sugar; heat the vinegar and dissolve the sugar in it; add cloves and cinna mon, and pour it over the apple while hot. ORAncOAL forms an unriv'alod poul tice for wvounds and old sores. It is al so invaluable for what is called proud flesh. It is a great disinfectant, It sweetens the air if placed in shallow dishes atround the apartmonit, and water is also purified by its use. SILvEn shiouht never be washed with soap IL you wish it to retain its original lustre. When it requires polishing use a piece of soft loather and whiting, and rub hard. AN excellent polish for zino or tin is made of three pints of water, one ounce of nitric acid, two onces of emery, and eight ounsos of pumicestono shaken well together. FOR chapped lips mix twvo tallespoon fuls of claritll hamey, with a few drops of lavender waiter or any other perlume, and anoint the lips frequently. KrroEnW tables may be made as white as siowv if washed with hard soap and wood ashes. Floors look best scrubbed with cold water, soap'and weod ashes. Sratos of wintergrcen or ground ivy will drive away red ants; branches of wormwood will serve the same purpose for blaok ants DON'T 5lOep i'a a dhraught; don't go to bed with cold feet, and don't eat what you do not need just, to save it. I washing mushina and lawnls put a little pulverisedi borax in the water, and a but liette saa Voeeration of the Monkey. Victor Jacquemont estimates that the Bengal Presidency alone contains sixteen hundred monkey asylums, supported chiefly by the very poorest class of the popn!ation. In the rural district of Ne paul t*e hanumans have their sacred groves, and keep together in troops of fifty or sixty adults, and, in spite or hard times, these asssociations multiply like the mon as:l orders of mediesval Europe; but they inust all be provided for, though the na tives should have to eke out their croos with the wild rice of the Jimna swamp jungles. The strangest part of the superstition is that this charity results by no means from a feeling of benevolence toward animals in general, but from the exclusive venera tion of a special subdlvisiou of the monkey tribe. An orthodox Hindoo must not willingly take the life of the humblest fel low creature, but he would not move a finger to save a starving dog, and has no hesitation in stimulating a beast of burden with a dagger-like goad and otber contri vances that would invoke the . avenging powers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Nor would lie shrink from extreme measures In defend ing his fields from the ravages of low-caste monkeys. Dr. Allen Mackenzie once saw a swarm of excited natives runnaing to ward an orchard where the shaking of the branches betrayed th presence of arboreal marauders. Sonie of them carried lings, others clubs and cane spears. But soon they came back crestfallen. "What's the matter?" inquired the doctor; "did they get away from you?" "Kapa-Mum," was the laconic reply, sacred monkeys." Holy baboons that must not be interrupted in their little pas times. They had expected to find a troop of combon makaques, wanderoos, or other profane four handers, and returned on tip. toe, like Marryat's *ergeant who went to arrett an obstreperous drunkard and rec ognized his commanding officer. Unarm ed Europeans cannot afford to brave these pre judices. Captain Elphinstone's gar. derer nearly lost his life for shooting-a thievish hanuman. a mob of raging bigots chased him trom street to street till ht. gave them the slip in a Mohammedan suburb, where a sympathizing Unitarian helped bimi to escape through the back alleys. The interference of his country men would hardly have saved him, for the crowd increased from minute to minute, and even women joined in the chase and threatened to cure his impiety with a tur nip-masher. Pure Foods. It Is manifest that al constituents of food must be derived from the vegetable world, and that when such elements enter into the animal body, they are ncither new nor in a purer state. Indeed, for purkty and genuineness of food we need not look beyond the grains. the general products of the vegetable world, these containing all the elements ever found in ai orgauzed form. These same constituents, reproduc ed in the animal body, receive no valuable additions, only modifications; these repro ductions-1"second-hand" food-contain ing, as the human and all other bodies do a certain amount of refuse.waste,:decaved, or decaying matter. In the grains, vastly improved in quality and methods of prepa ration of late, we are furnished with a sub staullal food, c-mpact, containlog the pre cise elements of nourishment found in the huinan body. Of they, the wheat is the prince of gri-nns, containiug this nutrition in a marked degree, aind is able, accordrg to high authority, if need be, "to sustain humnan life influitely." 1t Is estimated that the human boidy, we-ighing 154 pounds, containa of ox.ygen, Il1 pounrds, hydrogen, 14; nitrogen, 8 1-2; carbon, 21: -hiosphiorus, 1, 3 4; calcium, for bones, 2 pounds; with saalor amounts of Iluerine, sulphur, chlorina, sodium), iron-to give color t.o the blood, potassium, magnesium and silicon, foundi in the hair, teeth andt nails-all of which are in wheat, at d more nearly in the same propor tion as in the body than in any other grain. It is certain, therefore, that wheat, the fruits and pure water, if needful or desirable, woui well sustain human life, affording more thin the average degree of health and vigor. The pure water is a matter of hnfport ance, witna that found in fruits and veg etables, since the human body ls compostid of about six-sevenths of the elements of air and w~ait-r. The other two articles more nearly resembling wheat, In con taining the needled elements of food, are mlk,iu whii, the young ulay live wholty, and the egg, which sustains the chick, produtcing bones, muscles, claws, beak, feathere. all, from two simple substances by no ineans resembling the products. It may be stated that the albumen of the egg is practically the same as that in the hui man body, while the fibrin of the beaf is the chemical equivalent of the gluten of the wheat, either of wvhich may be used alike to make muscle or food strength. An oia n~atIa, The okibathi at richinopoly, Madras, India, in which Bichop Hobr lost hi life, suffers from neglect, and steps have been tnken by the English Government bo securo its preservation, 1t hazs been directed that the bath shall be protected by an ornamental iron railing placed at a sulleciont dibtanico to prevent interfer once with the water. The bath will re tain its origmmal chmaracter and is to be kept filled with wvater. On a side wall is to be set up a slab bearing the follow img inscrip'ion: "In memory of the de Vo'ted, accomplished, belovtid, and uni versmaly honored servant of God, Regi - nald Robher, D). D., third, Bishop of (Jal cuitta, and~ one of Indtia's truest and~ most loving bonefactors, this atone wvas erec ted in the year 1882, at the expense of the Government, on the margin of the bath im which he was drowned while bathing on the 3d of April, 1826, His body was laid unde~lr the chancol of the Church of St. John, T1richmnopoly, ini the hope of the resurrection of the just to eternal lie through Jesus Chnist." An ?nhportanut n~iaeovery. At the point whore the River Euph ratos bursts through the Taurue range an importaint arehimalogical discovery has been r~cently made by a Bavarian gentleman. In a wild, rorttantic dis trict lie f, und a line of megalithic mon uments averaging between 16 and 18 metres anm height, bearing inscriptions, end in a quito remnarkaolo state of pre servattioni. Herr Lester, thie discoverer's name, ha~s no0 doublt that they formed part of some great national sanctuary, dating back some 3000 years or more. It is knowni that theore form rly existed at this place a neeropohia oh the old Oonmmage-no Kings, 0 o lihat, it is argued, it seems reasonablo to) attribute those colosaus monuments to this ancient peo ple, the hereditary foes of the Aesyrians. E is esetimated that the a;.nual Iron pro diucuoa of the worhil Is 19,487,610 tons, and of this Great Britain,t~he United States Germany and Fraiice contribute 88.4 per at.--the first two 84.8 per cnt BiU Arp and swees Potatoes. For some time past 1 have been aatiot pating a big frollo for me and the childreD, for my sweet potatoes were very fine, and so the other day we got an early breakfast and set in for the day. It took the plow bcy an hour or so to clean off the vines for a start, and I helped him with a four prong hoe when the plow got tco full to carry. 'Ahen me and the three little boys undertook to pick up as fast as the plow turned 'em out. I was to give a quarter t the chap who found the buggest potato, which I soon found was bad policy for it made 'em run over and skip a good many little ones and it kept me busy picking up what they had left. The frollo was spleo. did for half a day and I enjoyed seemg the big ones roll up to the surface almost as much as I did when a boy, but after din. n r I didn't feel much like going back, but I had to go, and I went and stuck to it until night and we bunched 'em in little piles and covered 'em up with the vines, and the next day we went at it again, but I didn't go with the same aiacrity, and the boys got tired of hunting for the biggest one and one of 'em took the headache and laid down in the shade, and L thought he might have overworked himself and sent him to the house to rest, and in fifteen minutes he was setting the dog on a cat up a tree and having a buihy ie. We only counted )n a day and a halt to close out the job, and we worked hard and faith ful, and it took us three whole clays, and I never saw the lilce of potatoes on an acre of ground, and towards the heel of the last day, which was yesterday, I wa so tired of seeing 'em roll out and picking 'cm up I wouldn't have dug another patch if anybody had give it to- me. The last day's digging was among the yarns, and the milky glue tbht run out of 'em got so thick on my hands I had to soak and rub and scrape 'em for an hour to getlit off, and it ain't all off yet, and my fingers looked like they used to %hen I had been hulling walnuts all dtay Saturday. But 1 believe In potatoes and take comfort in having plenty of 'em during the winter, and I have always felt a feeling of pride and cntidence in our sunny south, be cause we could rise to perfectin four things that the Yankees can't, and these are ctton and cowpeas and liernuda grass and 'Dotatoes. When our Iarmees learn how to raise these thinge to perfection, we can defy the world and the flesh, an mighty nigh keep the old devil at % re petable distance. The Quaker's Hat. The first occaslon when itcane pub'icly came into trouble was in. the year 1056, before no less a personage than Chief Jus tice Glynn, in connection with which a writer quotes thO following, partly in Fox's own words: "When we were brought Into the court we stood a pretty while with our hats on, and all wa~gciuiet, and I was mov ed to say, "Peace be aiongst you." "Why do you not put off your hat.?" said the j'ide to us. We said nothing. ' Put ott your hats," aid the judge again. Still we said nothing. Then said the judge, "The court eom. Mands you to put off your hats.n George fox then asked for some rcriptu ral instance of any imagistrate command Ing prisoners to put off their hats. H next asked to be nown. 'either written or printed, any law of England that did command tuchi a thing."'I'bTen the judge grew very angry and said: "I do not carry iry law books on amy back." "lint," said F~ox. "tell me where it Is. printd in any statute book, that I may react it." Thec chief justice cried out, "Prevarica tori" and ordered the Quakers to be taken away. When they were brought bo'oro him again, the chief justice asked whether / hat. are mientionedi at all :n the Biblel "Yes." said the Qutaker, "in the third of. Vaniei, where thou mayest read that the three children were cast Into the tiery fir naces by Nebuchneczzar's command,with their coats, their hose, and their hats on," [lere was a proof that even a heathen king allowed men to wear lhats in his presernce. "This plain inst ance stopped h'im," said Fox, "se he cried again, "Take them away jaulor." Accordingly, we were taken away and thrust, in auiong thileves. where we were kept a great whale.' " Fox's last declara- A tion on the sublject of the hat was made in 1677. "The very Turks,"he Days, 'mock ent te Conmn is their proverb, sayr'tg: -"The Christians spend much of their time in puittng off their lasts and showing thci. bare necks to one anol her. A Georgia correspondent says; my neigh bor Odum wars in the habit of leav ing his large cotton baskets in the field at night. These baskets were at the end of the rows and near tho public readt. QOe night ho 'oft seven of these baskets in the field, Next miorningtwvo or three of them wore missing. It had rained the night before, and it was not difficult to follow the track of a one horse wagon that had evidently carried away the baskets. Mr. Ocdum, with a trusty negro, whio was also interested in the cotton, pursued, fo'lowing the track without diflity till it brought them to the humble reskdence of George Wash ington, a colored citison, where they found cotton spread out upon the floor, and wet-evidently but recently i laceci there. The mau and his wife denied that it lhad b.en stolen; said it was their own cotton, and so far is seemed not possible to identify the cotton. Hlow..( ever, they secured George and then con tinued to follow the wagoir track to be yond the house about half a mile, in the woods, whle re thogy hound the wagon and empty baskets. I'his was too muoh for the namesake of the immoital patriot, ft owned up, and said: "'Gentlemen, I cannot tell a lie-i stoled dat cotton, * eouidn't help, it. It wasn't my fault. It was Mr. Odumn's faunlt. Hie had no bust. ness to put dat cotton so fair to be took. I can't tell no lie 'bout it. I took dat cotton, sad the only thing dat troubled me a t the time was dat any waggin wasn't big enough to take all dema baskeis. I'd a tuck all seven if I had been had room in dat onr.-horse waggin. It was Mr. Ddum's fault. h~g Noses. Nap:>lecan was not the first person to leclaro a preference for mon with big aoses. A century before his birth, an la author, in response to his own ques bions pronounced 'the biggest nose the best nose," instancing the ease of the Roman emperors. Numau's nose was half a foot long, and earned for him the ticnorable suir-name of Pompilius. Accordmng to Plutarch, Lycurgus and Boloni ran to the nose, and so did all the Roman kings, excepting Tarquinse md ho was doethroned1 Homer's nlohs was seven inches long. A French wra ter says, "Large noses aee held in honor vwy where in the world, except amog ho Okine e ad the Tartara,'