Volume 26 (1873) (431 pages)

MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS. 231 Transition Sigas. This style of sign is not very common, bnt lt makes a very neat and showy advertisement for sll branches of baosiness, if made in good atyle. The way to make them is, first pet the sign board made the dimensions required, with a projecting hand or monldiug around it, say abont one and a balf icches deep from the face of the board to the ontside edge of the band or moulding; then cnt into the band or moulding arcund the hoard, from the top to the hottom ed jes, grooves the width of a handsaw, one inch eprrt; then insert strips of tin nne Inch wids, and long enough to resxoh from the top to the hottom ot the sign hosrd, includiug the band; thns covering the face of the board. When all are nently fitted, take them all ont, laving them down flat, with the edges olose together, and pulnt on them any work, figure, or design reqnired. Let them remain uolil perfectly dry, then turn thein all over, keeping thea in the same ord-r as before, tnrnlng them over from rivht to Ieft. Paint the sarface of the hourd with any letters, picture, or dexizns required. Then paint on the strips of tin, on the reverse eide from that previously paiuted, still another word, or design, and when dry, slide the strips of tin in the same erder in which they lay, into the grooves on the sigu. The sign is uow completed, and has a very magical effect to those pnesing hy, ehsnging from one werd or design to another, and makes the very best, cheapest, and wost atiractive sign that oan he got np. It is not expensive, sud only requires a Little ingeunity to construct one.—Cubinet Muker. A Curap Parnt.—We have not munch faith in any vf the so-called cheap paints recommended for outhuildings, Common whitewa-h with ellow oobre, or some other mineral sihstance or giving the required color, may in some instances prevent ihe decay of wood, and ndd sowrtbing to the upaearanee of the huildiags npon which itisused; hut white lesd and linseed-oil muke the cheapest und best puint ip the ead. although costing a little more at the beziuning. But us wsubscriher asks for a recipe for making u cheap paint for oathuildiogs, we comply with bis request hy giviug one that has ovnsilerable popularity amoug gardeners: Palverize charcoal in uny quintity desired, add n little litharze us a drier, mix with raw linseed-otl, ud ling « little boiled oi] when applied. This will make a black paint, but hy adding yell »w ochre, a pee iliar shade of preen muy he produce!. Other miueral substances muy be added i! desirable. Testixo Goin Usen tx Getntno.—P. Gayot proposes for this purpose the nevof n solntion vf chloride of poli! or a sulution of nitrate ot silver. Neither affects st nll the ganuiae gikling, but imitations, when tonched with the former solntivn, show u brown epot, and with the litter, a yray spot. The gilt designs of wall papers arg examined hy Gnyot with chloridy of sulphur. Oue drop of this sult. placed on imitstivn gold paper, produces a dark vrown rim, whi-h dozs nut eppear when g sld bas been nied. Thin gold lenves, if placed with chloride nof sulphur in closed hottles and well shiken, show no chinge, bat alloys of hase Inetals gradually hlackeu, Ifthe gold is placed in hermetioally closed huttles under a slight Qrrvetulic pressnre, ib will dissppe tr in a short time and combine with the chluiice to form chloride of gold. An Uspieasant Sucorstion—A Possreur Cauamrty.—The New York orld asks: In Ouse of a fire stretching suddenly across Manhattan Island, und then sweeping rapidly toward the Buttery, what would b-cone of the people sonth of where the conflagration origiHated? Where wonld they po? How wontd they g-taway? Could n sufficient unmber of steum-bouats approuch near enough to such a fire to resoue them all? If not, the tragedy of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, fearfal as it was, woul ! be but u feeble illustration of a speotacle which the most distant paits of the civilized world es not cease for centuries to remember with orror. A Roog Crrsran Watca.—Oune of the curiosfiles of the Vieunu Extibition will he a wutch Made entirely of rock crystal. Muny years sluce, a workwun ina French manutactory decided to muke a wutch, every part of which, the mainspring alone excepted, should he of Tock crystal, und after thirty years labor accomplished bis tusk. All the pieces of the Watch ure tustened hy rock crystal screws, and the escupement is most intricate. His widow would uever part with it; bat when she died, the trexsure fell into the hauds of a French watchmuker, who intends to exhibit it as a sample of French workmanship, pricing it at $2,0U0. To Devay tHE "Sxtrino" oF Pxraster oF Panrs.—[u many cases the rapid cousolidwtion ot plaster of Parisisu serious incouveuieuce, hut itis suid im a French journal that this dificulty ‘in its employment may he vemedied hy thenddition ot frumt otv four per cent. of the rvot of mursh mullow, finely powdered. With this treatment the pluster, it is stated, will not set for an hour at least. Canper Slaxcractuan in Patrapetraia.— The curpet interest iu Philadelphia has reached enornious proportione, and is still rapidly increasing. ‘There are ahont 250 mannfactories, which employ, on an average, ahont 50 operatives esch. ‘he numher of looms isa estimated at 8.000, from which 800,000 yards of ingrain, damaek, Venetian, two and three-ply carpets areturned out weekly. The number of ysrds mannfacinred annuxlly has averaged 41,600.000. ‘The amount of capital invested is $3,000,000. ‘Che carpets niade here have gnined the wildest and Aichewt celebrity for Ane, wearuble texture and handsome designs. A Harry Txovont.— Willis Williams, of Islesboro, Me., was recently oat on the ice bnoting seagnlls, when an accidental diecharge ot hia fowling piece wounded him so badly in the thigh thst be conld net wsik, He emeared the dog’s face with blool and told him to go home, which the sagacious auimal did, and by sigus and the blood alsrmed the family, who fullowed him to the place where the youcg man was lying. The hint may be worth remembering by our friends of the Nimrod persnasion. Maztxo Parra Stiok fo WaHtTewasaen Watts.—Making a sizing of common glue und water, of the coneistencyof linseed oil, and apply with whitewash or other hrush to the wall, tukiug care to go over every part, and especially top and bottom. Apply the paper in the ordinary wuy. Stanrorn Ecurpsen.—-[t is estimated that nearly one-third of the railroace of the United States are undcr the oontrol of a few individuals in one corporation, culled the Peunsylvania Railroad Company, of which Thomas Scott is kiny. Goopo Hearth, Hints in Regard to the Eye, The senlptor Crawford was accnstome all his lite time to vead lying down. ‘Lo this, very largely, the physician: attribute the loss of his eye. Very soon n caucer formed in tbe other, which caused his death. The great histurinu Prescott lost his cye--ight when a student by « bitot hread thrown insport hy nu fellow-student at the tuble. A puirof scissuis or u fork thrown in sport or nuger, has caused the loss vf un eye, whiok the wealth of the world cuu not replace. A friend who was very umbitions tv Hnish a set of liven fur ber brothers, speut almust u winter in the oti ching, sitting up often late nt nigbt over the work, in which eue tuok great delight. The resuit was. the u-rve of theeye was su inj ired that she wis ov.iged wholly to give up sewiny, kuittiug pnd ae uuder penalty of becoming porfectly bliud. A young Indy, who lived bnt ten miles hy train from schovl, used to sprnl the time in stndying a certuin lessun while she was riding downin the morning. ‘Ube reanlt was a severe nffcotiou of the eyes, which disabled her trom study fors long time, It is always hurtful to the eyes ty read in the train, though we may not suv the effect so pliinly when it hsppens only vecasisually. A steady pructice like thts, young ludyx, msy pruduce even worse results when the s)8tem is 1n u bad state. Never read by twilysht, nor before eating in the mo ning. ‘Ths little you gin in time will be doubly lost hetore Jite’s suudown. I know a young clergyman who ia a remarkably weil-bred min, hut whose eyesnre vu perfect deformity. He said be ruined them by reuding at night, long and intently, when be wns geitings tis educution. He seems to have nv control ot the li ts, which twitch and move iu u most protesque Wanuer. Don't fancy you can do what you pleuse with your eyex, und yet buve them serve you faithfully. Take pood gare of them us you would of gold, for gold cnn never replace lost eyesight. A Remedy for Croup. We have been interested in reading the following etatement mude to ns hy an intelligent mother, We give unr readers the heneht of it, or ut least give them the opportunity to test whether it has any henefit, A remedy for cronp wus given me hy a sister wh» heard it trom Prof. Bronson, u physiologios! lecturer siuce deceased. “Let u henlthy persou fill hislongs with pure air, then slowly hreathe npon the patient’s throut and ohest, commencing at the pine of the chin, und moving slowly down to the hottom of the wiud-pipe. Repext for a few miuutes and it wiil give relief in cuses when all otber means fuil.”’ My hoy was ulways subject to cronp; came near dying with ther ittliny uoisy kind, at about eleven monthsold. Isivedt bim with wouter nud ever ufter preveuted a serions attuck by watchfulness aud water. But wheu three years old, Ilet him play in the hrovuk ove warw ruiay day, nud he tvok a severe cold and bad a stul kind of cronp, the first and lust time he ever hud it. In spite of sll I could do he grew constuutly worse uutil be conld ouly gasp and breathe with his bead torown hack. We tioughthis last moments hud come, when I thonght of, aud tried Briusou's remedy fora) minute. When I stopped be look d up und said: Do sv again, muther, do."’ though he could not apeak when [ teguu. You may be assnred thut I did so again, and I believe it saved hia life.—ZLaws of Life. A New axp Daxornots Potsox —A Baltimore mecca sayn thit the new inecicul comp: uid, nown 86 '*xylol,"’ is now heing lurgely nied in that city asa means to fucililate robbery and murder. H+ says theta person may be rendered powerless hy ite nse so tbat the hurglar can go throngh the bonse and take sll he wants, Lf necessity require it, the bnrglar can xylol his victim out of this world inlo the apirit land in an iacredibly shortrpace of time. The mode of application is by mixing it with the feathers iu a pillow, and when ihe warmth of the hend is spplied to it, itgivea off vapors similar in effect to the fumes of charcoal, sud the person using itisfonnd dead iu the morning, which gives the mnnsters who apply the drng ample opportunity to possees themselves of the property of their victims, and to dispose of their remaius. He saysthe drug wastried npon himself some time ago hy a German Jew, who invited him to sleep in his hoaxe. He escrped his foul deslgns, hy obtuinining knowledge of his intentions and manner of proceeding, by trifling cirenmstances, the details of which are not given. He thinks that many of the lute cases of ''mysterione disappearance’ may reasonably be attributable to the canse. Fat axp Lran.—Meat eaters snd vegetarians show in their persons the effects of the diet. The first has the most hrain force and nervuas energy. A mixed focd of animal and vegetnhle rations develops the highest iutellectual powers. A strictly vegetuble living ordinarily sives a fair complexion, and antiahility aud extreme pngnicity when the vegetarian’s views in regard to thst one eagrossing thouzht of his life are discussed. They are oannal meeting reformers, withont ever setting the river ou tire, Aruhs sre a suber, frngal race, rather slender, not tull,conscientions and contentious on religions subjects. They largely subsist on rice, pnise, milk and keimac, something similur to whipped cream, through a vast regiun of an arid country wheve they are indigenons, ~. Th-y are not destitnte of mutton, goats, cumels snd gume; hut they mauifest no d'sposition to feed upon meats, us is necessary in temperate zones or in high northern latitudes, An intellectnal man, one of their kindred, who rises to distinction by the grandness<«f hia mental status, is exceedingly rare. The beer and ale dsinkers expsud and grow fat, but they are not mnch giveu to profound researches in science. ARBANOEMENT oF Hovses.—AMuch in the way of good heulth dependa on the pioper arratgement of onr houses—The American Builder aiys: *‘Do not urrange yonr honse s0 as to violate God's first command. Give it many windows, and then, O housewife, keep your bliuds open during the day and your curtsins drawn uside. Ifyou let the aun in freely, it may fale your cnrpets, hut if you do not it will be sure to oimse ill health to the mother and chillren. The sun isa gvod pbysicisn. He has uever had dane credit for his curative qualities —for the b-ight eyes and rosy cheeks that come fron his healing bath. Do you know how pnuy isthe growth of a p:tato vine along the darkened cellar wall? Suchis the health of humau beings living where the sno is intercepted by the window’s drapery. So dark woll-paper is not only gloomy, hnt it ia physically unwholesome, Let iu the enn, for with it ¢>mes cheerfulness and strength! A dirk room ig an enemy of good health, guod temper and gvod moral:,”’ Is InesareTy on THE Inoneasy ?—In a Jate number of the Contemporary Review, Herbert Spencer comhate the idea that inehriety is on the iucreass. H» de:crihes the time whea men took drugs to increase their desire fur wiue; when glasses were so shaped that they had to be held until emptied; when a man was reckoned us a ** two-hotile man,’ a '' Ihree-hottte mun,’’ ele.; and when (Mr. Spencer might have added) oue of the first of Scottish nobles employed _s domestic whose sole duty it was to sit under the table and loosen the neck-cloths of the guests aathry fell from tbeir chairs, in order that they might uot suffucste in their drnuken sleep. Intoxication used to beu mark of hosor. lt is now a disgrace. Education has driven the evil from one cluse after nnother, It is now almost exclusively confiued to the lowest. As Mr, Spencer says, the remedy for it in England is nota ** Maine-law,"’ hut the introduction of the education that has banned it elsewhere. Berrer rHan Menteine.—Dr. Hall ssys the best medicine in the world, more efficent inthe cure of disexse thin all the potencies of the materia medica, are warmth, reet, cleanliness aud pure nic. Some persous make it a virtue to bruve disense, ‘‘to keep np" ss long as they cau move a foot or crook a tinger, and it sometimes suczeeds; hut in others, the powers of life are therehy so completely exhansted that the system bus lost uhility to reenperate, and typhoid fever sets in ond _carriea the patient to A premuture grave. Whenever walking, or work is au effort, a warm bed and cool room are the very tirst indispensalles toa sure and speedy recovery. Iustinct lends all heasts and birds to quirtude and rest the very moment dis@we or wounds assail the system. Topacco-Smox1xo.—-A German physiologist has discovered that tobacco-smoking by the boys “interferes with the molecular changes e ucident with the development of tissues, aud makes the blood corpuscl-s oval and irregular at the edge '" Any parent can thus ascertain if his hoy smokes by merely tukiug out a hundfnl of his blood corpuscles and observing their edges. Miscecaneous, German Prejudice Against Potatoes. There exists in Germany a decided prejndice against potatoes, becanse they are composed of tbree-fonrths water, with hut ten to fifteen per cent. stsrch contained in indigestible cells, The French, who make a perfect science of the whole business of nourishment and cookery, rarely eat potatoea except occasionly fried for the second breakfast. They consume hesns more than any otber vegetahles and with reason, for dried besns contain twenty-two per cent. alhumen and hfty of starch, and the comnion leutile twenty-six per cent. of albnmen and fifty-six of starch. In the monasteries of France and Italy great quantities of beans are used, especiully during the Lenten season, German natnruliets are now searching all over the world fora substitute for potatoes, and this is helieved to have been found ia China in Ihe “'dioscorea japonica,” which endnres the greatest cold and is more nourishing and helter flavored than the potsto. In the Museum of Natnral History at Paris, a specimen three feet long and weighing three pounds was exhibited. Several German writers upon races, predict that nations, far from improving, will deteriorate hoth iu physical and iweutalcharacteristics, if potatoer hecoiue a principsl urticle of diet. The ce’edrated Carl Voi¢hbt says ‘tbat the nourishing potatoe does not restore the wasted tissnes, hut makes our proletariats physically and mentally weak!’ The Holland physiologict Mulder pivea the same judgment, when he declarea '‘that the excessive use of potatoea amoug ‘he poorer classes, an coffee and tea by the hivher ranks, is the cunse of the indolenoe of nations."’ Leideufrost maintains thst the reso'ntions of the last three oenturics have been caused hy the changed nourishmeut, Informer days, the lowest workmen ate more flesh tban now, when the chesp potnto forms his principal subsistence, but gives him uo musonlar or nervous strength. Roast Turkey. Select a fine, plump, yellow skinned turkey, weighing from ten totwelve ponnds. Exsmine it thorongbly to see that all the pin festhers are taken out; hold it over a hlaze to singe any fine bairs that may remain; wssh it thoronghly inside and ont, solrub itover with salt. Take the gizzard, heart, aud liver, put them in cold watcr, aud let (hem boil until tender, When dine, chop them very tinue. Tuke stale bread, or the large Boston ernckers, and grate or cho them. Ad sult, pepper, aud eome sweet her if liked. to the bread crumbs; after whioh bent two eggs with which tv moisten the crumbs; add uud mix thoroughly with this the chopped ‘inward,’ not forgetting to put in salt and butter. Fill the inside of the turkey with the dressing, tuking cure that the ueck or crop is made to look plump, and sew the openings, drawing the sides tightly together. Thon rub a little butier over your turkey, and lay it npon the grute of your pau. Cover the hottom of the pan with hoiling water. After» bilf hour hinte the turkey hy ponring over it the gravy that hss begun toform in the pan. Repeat the basting once iu ahout fifteen minutes. In an oven of nverage temperature a twelve-pnouud turkey will reqireat leust three honrs; but every oven has ils own why of baking, and the cook must he guverned by it. Roast goose is tobe prepared inthe same manner as the turkey. The dressing should he mude of mashed potutoes, seasoned with salt, pepper and sage, or ontons, if according to the taste of the family. Make giblet sance by hoiling the “inwards” until very tender, chopping them fine, aud adding them to a gravy made hy using the liquor in which they were hoiled thickened with flonr, and to which hus been added one ounce of butter, and pepper and sult to suit the taste. Danogerous Diets.—The frequent failure of the putato crop in England and Ivelund is likely to hring ahout an epidemic of scurvy, unless the public can be hetter iuformed of the requirements of an autiscorbutio diet. The fact therefore, cannot be too widely made kuown, in fact, whether we are suffering under the failure of this important crop or not, that peas, pudding, harricot heangy and hoiled rice, which have heen sugzested as suhs‘itntes for potatoes, will not prevent the occurrence of scurvy. In the shsence of the potato, un excellent antisco-bntie, fresh green §vegetables or fruite wiil he requisite, or the health will fail, even though fresh meat betaken. Amongst the vegetahle material which may he nsed, are the various forms of cabhnge, Jettuce, oranges, lemons, onions, mustard, cress, dandelion and sorrel. The experience of the crews of veseels on long voyages has shown, over and over apain, the uselessness of the pea and bean tribe in preventing scurvy. To Maxz Por Coun Barts.—While popping your corn put sowe syrup ou the stove, the vicer the hetter, and boil it down quite thick. Put your com while hot iu a dish pan, or any lurge vessel convenient, pour the syrnp over it and stir it well with a speon. It ouly needa enungh to make the corn stick together. Butter your fingers and make up the balls quickly any size yon ,wish. Lay on a plate nntil cool, nnd they are nice. ‘

MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS. 231 Transition Sigas. This style of sign is not very common, bnt lt makes a very neat and showy advertisement for sll branches of baosiness, if made in good atyle. The way to make them is, first pet the sign board made the dimensions required, with a projecting hand or monldiug around it, say abont one and a balf icches deep from the face of the board to the ontside edge of the band or moulding; then cnt into the band or moulding arcund the hoard, from the top to the hottom ed jes, grooves the width of a handsaw, one inch eprrt; then insert strips of tin nne Inch wids, and long enough to resxoh from the top to the hottom ot the sign hosrd, includiug the band; thns covering the face of the board. When all are nently fitted, take them all ont, laving them down flat, with the edges olose together, and pulnt on them any work, figure, or design reqnired. Let them remain uolil perfectly dry, then turn thein all over, keeping thea in the same ord-r as before, tnrnlng them over from rivht to Ieft. Paint the sarface of the hourd with any letters, picture, or dexizns required. Then paint on the strips of tin, on the reverse eide from that previously paiuted, still another word, or design, and when dry, slide the strips of tin in the same erder in which they lay, into the grooves on the sigu. The sign is uow completed, and has a very magical effect to those pnesing hy, ehsnging from one werd or design to another, and makes the very best, cheapest, and wost atiractive sign that oan he got np. It is not expensive, sud only requires a Little ingeunity to construct one.—Cubinet Muker. A Curap Parnt.—We have not munch faith in any vf the so-called cheap paints recommended for outhuildings, Common whitewa-h with ellow oobre, or some other mineral sihstance or giving the required color, may in some instances prevent ihe decay of wood, and ndd sowrtbing to the upaearanee of the huildiags npon which itisused; hut white lesd and linseed-oil muke the cheapest und best puint ip the ead. although costing a little more at the beziuning. But us wsubscriher asks for a recipe for making u cheap paint for oathuildiogs, we comply with bis request hy giviug one that has ovnsilerable popularity amoug gardeners: Palverize charcoal in uny quintity desired, add n little litharze us a drier, mix with raw linseed-otl, ud ling « little boiled oi] when applied. This will make a black paint, but hy adding yell »w ochre, a pee iliar shade of preen muy he produce!. Other miueral substances muy be added i! desirable. Testixo Goin Usen tx Getntno.—P. Gayot proposes for this purpose the nevof n solntion vf chloride of poli! or a sulution of nitrate ot silver. Neither affects st nll the ganuiae gikling, but imitations, when tonched with the former solntivn, show u brown epot, and with the litter, a yray spot. The gilt designs of wall papers arg examined hy Gnyot with chloridy of sulphur. Oue drop of this sult. placed on imitstivn gold paper, produces a dark vrown rim, whi-h dozs nut eppear when g sld bas been nied. Thin gold lenves, if placed with chloride nof sulphur in closed hottles and well shiken, show no chinge, bat alloys of hase Inetals gradually hlackeu, Ifthe gold is placed in hermetioally closed huttles under a slight Qrrvetulic pressnre, ib will dissppe tr in a short time and combine with the chluiice to form chloride of gold. An Uspieasant Sucorstion—A Possreur Cauamrty.—The New York orld asks: In Ouse of a fire stretching suddenly across Manhattan Island, und then sweeping rapidly toward the Buttery, what would b-cone of the people sonth of where the conflagration origiHated? Where wonld they po? How wontd they g-taway? Could n sufficient unmber of steum-bouats approuch near enough to such a fire to resoue them all? If not, the tragedy of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, fearfal as it was, woul ! be but u feeble illustration of a speotacle which the most distant paits of the civilized world es not cease for centuries to remember with orror. A Roog Crrsran Watca.—Oune of the curiosfiles of the Vieunu Extibition will he a wutch Made entirely of rock crystal. Muny years sluce, a workwun ina French manutactory decided to muke a wutch, every part of which, the mainspring alone excepted, should he of Tock crystal, und after thirty years labor accomplished bis tusk. All the pieces of the Watch ure tustened hy rock crystal screws, and the escupement is most intricate. His widow would uever part with it; bat when she died, the trexsure fell into the hauds of a French watchmuker, who intends to exhibit it as a sample of French workmanship, pricing it at $2,0U0. To Devay tHE "Sxtrino" oF Pxraster oF Panrs.—[u many cases the rapid cousolidwtion ot plaster of Parisisu serious incouveuieuce, hut itis suid im a French journal that this dificulty ‘in its employment may he vemedied hy thenddition ot frumt otv four per cent. of the rvot of mursh mullow, finely powdered. With this treatment the pluster, it is stated, will not set for an hour at least. Canper Slaxcractuan in Patrapetraia.— The curpet interest iu Philadelphia has reached enornious proportione, and is still rapidly increasing. ‘There are ahont 250 mannfactories, which employ, on an average, ahont 50 operatives esch. ‘he numher of looms isa estimated at 8.000, from which 800,000 yards of ingrain, damaek, Venetian, two and three-ply carpets areturned out weekly. The number of ysrds mannfacinred annuxlly has averaged 41,600.000. ‘The amount of capital invested is $3,000,000. ‘Che carpets niade here have gnined the wildest and Aichewt celebrity for Ane, wearuble texture and handsome designs. A Harry Txovont.— Willis Williams, of Islesboro, Me., was recently oat on the ice bnoting seagnlls, when an accidental diecharge ot hia fowling piece wounded him so badly in the thigh thst be conld net wsik, He emeared the dog’s face with blool and told him to go home, which the sagacious auimal did, and by sigus and the blood alsrmed the family, who fullowed him to the place where the youcg man was lying. The hint may be worth remembering by our friends of the Nimrod persnasion. Maztxo Parra Stiok fo WaHtTewasaen Watts.—Making a sizing of common glue und water, of the coneistencyof linseed oil, and apply with whitewash or other hrush to the wall, tukiug care to go over every part, and especially top and bottom. Apply the paper in the ordinary wuy. Stanrorn Ecurpsen.—-[t is estimated that nearly one-third of the railroace of the United States are undcr the oontrol of a few individuals in one corporation, culled the Peunsylvania Railroad Company, of which Thomas Scott is kiny. Goopo Hearth, Hints in Regard to the Eye, The senlptor Crawford was accnstome all his lite time to vead lying down. ‘Lo this, very largely, the physician: attribute the loss of his eye. Very soon n caucer formed in tbe other, which caused his death. The great histurinu Prescott lost his cye--ight when a student by « bitot hread thrown insport hy nu fellow-student at the tuble. A puirof scissuis or u fork thrown in sport or nuger, has caused the loss vf un eye, whiok the wealth of the world cuu not replace. A friend who was very umbitions tv Hnish a set of liven fur ber brothers, speut almust u winter in the oti ching, sitting up often late nt nigbt over the work, in which eue tuok great delight. The resuit was. the u-rve of theeye was su inj ired that she wis ov.iged wholly to give up sewiny, kuittiug pnd ae uuder penalty of becoming porfectly bliud. A young Indy, who lived bnt ten miles hy train from schovl, used to sprnl the time in stndying a certuin lessun while she was riding downin the morning. ‘Ube reanlt was a severe nffcotiou of the eyes, which disabled her trom study fors long time, It is always hurtful to the eyes ty read in the train, though we may not suv the effect so pliinly when it hsppens only vecasisually. A steady pructice like thts, young ludyx, msy pruduce even worse results when the s)8tem is 1n u bad state. Never read by twilysht, nor before eating in the mo ning. ‘Ths little you gin in time will be doubly lost hetore Jite’s suudown. I know a young clergyman who ia a remarkably weil-bred min, hut whose eyesnre vu perfect deformity. He said be ruined them by reuding at night, long and intently, when be wns geitings tis educution. He seems to have nv control ot the li ts, which twitch and move iu u most protesque Wanuer. Don't fancy you can do what you pleuse with your eyex, und yet buve them serve you faithfully. Take pood gare of them us you would of gold, for gold cnn never replace lost eyesight. A Remedy for Croup. We have been interested in reading the following etatement mude to ns hy an intelligent mother, We give unr readers the heneht of it, or ut least give them the opportunity to test whether it has any henefit, A remedy for cronp wus given me hy a sister wh» heard it trom Prof. Bronson, u physiologios! lecturer siuce deceased. “Let u henlthy persou fill hislongs with pure air, then slowly hreathe npon the patient’s throut and ohest, commencing at the pine of the chin, und moving slowly down to the hottom of the wiud-pipe. Repext for a few miuutes and it wiil give relief in cuses when all otber means fuil.”’ My hoy was ulways subject to cronp; came near dying with ther ittliny uoisy kind, at about eleven monthsold. Isivedt bim with wouter nud ever ufter preveuted a serions attuck by watchfulness aud water. But wheu three years old, Ilet him play in the hrovuk ove warw ruiay day, nud he tvok a severe cold and bad a stul kind of cronp, the first and lust time he ever hud it. In spite of sll I could do he grew constuutly worse uutil be conld ouly gasp and breathe with his bead torown hack. We tioughthis last moments hud come, when I thonght of, aud tried Briusou's remedy fora) minute. When I stopped be look d up und said: Do sv again, muther, do."’ though he could not apeak when [ teguu. You may be assnred thut I did so again, and I believe it saved hia life.—ZLaws of Life. A New axp Daxornots Potsox —A Baltimore mecca sayn thit the new inecicul comp: uid, nown 86 '*xylol,"’ is now heing lurgely nied in that city asa means to fucililate robbery and murder. H+ says theta person may be rendered powerless hy ite nse so tbat the hurglar can go throngh the bonse and take sll he wants, Lf necessity require it, the bnrglar can xylol his victim out of this world inlo the apirit land in an iacredibly shortrpace of time. The mode of application is by mixing it with the feathers iu a pillow, and when ihe warmth of the hend is spplied to it, itgivea off vapors similar in

effect to the fumes of charcoal, sud the person using itisfonnd dead iu the morning, which gives the mnnsters who apply the drng ample opportunity to possees themselves of the property of their victims, and to dispose of their remaius. He saysthe drug wastried npon himself some time ago hy a German Jew, who invited him to sleep in his hoaxe. He escrped his foul deslgns, hy obtuinining knowledge of his intentions and manner of proceeding, by trifling cirenmstances, the details of which are not given. He thinks that many of the lute cases of ''mysterione disappearance’ may reasonably be attributable to the canse. Fat axp Lran.—Meat eaters snd vegetarians show in their persons the effects of the diet. The first has the most hrain force and nervuas energy. A mixed focd of animal and vegetnhle rations develops the highest iutellectual powers. A strictly vegetuble living ordinarily sives a fair complexion, and antiahility aud extreme pngnicity when the vegetarian’s views in regard to thst one eagrossing thouzht of his life are discussed. They are oannal meeting reformers, withont ever setting the river ou tire, Aruhs sre a suber, frngal race, rather slender, not tull,conscientions and contentious on religions subjects. They largely subsist on rice, pnise, milk and keimac, something similur to whipped cream, through a vast regiun of an arid country wheve they are indigenons, ~. Th-y are not destitnte of mutton, goats, cumels snd gume; hut they mauifest no d'sposition to feed upon meats, us is necessary in temperate zones or in high northern latitudes, An intellectnal man, one of their kindred, who rises to distinction by the grandness<«f hia mental status, is exceedingly rare. The beer and ale dsinkers expsud and grow fat, but they are not mnch giveu to profound researches in science. ARBANOEMENT oF Hovses.—AMuch in the way of good heulth dependa on the pioper arratgement of onr houses—The American Builder aiys: *‘Do not urrange yonr honse s0 as to violate God's first command. Give it many windows, and then, O housewife, keep your bliuds open during the day and your curtsins drawn uside. Ifyou let the aun in freely, it may fale your cnrpets, hut if you do not it will be sure to oimse ill health to the mother and chillren. The sun isa gvod pbysicisn. He has uever had dane credit for his curative qualities —for the b-ight eyes and rosy cheeks that come fron his healing bath. Do you know how pnuy isthe growth of a p:tato vine along the darkened cellar wall? Suchis the health of humau beings living where the sno is intercepted by the window’s drapery. So dark woll-paper is not only gloomy, hnt it ia physically unwholesome, Let iu the enn, for with it ¢>mes cheerfulness and strength! A dirk room ig an enemy of good health, guod temper and gvod moral:,”’ Is InesareTy on THE Inoneasy ?—In a Jate number of the Contemporary Review, Herbert Spencer comhate the idea that inehriety is on the iucreass. H» de:crihes the time whea men took drugs to increase their desire fur wiue; when glasses were so shaped that they had to be held until emptied; when a man was reckoned us a ** two-hotile man,’ a '' Ihree-hottte mun,’’ ele.; and when (Mr. Spencer might have added) oue of the first of Scottish nobles employed _s domestic whose sole duty it was to sit under the table and loosen the neck-cloths of the guests aathry fell from tbeir chairs, in order that they might uot suffucste in their drnuken sleep. Intoxication used to beu mark of hosor. lt is now a disgrace. Education has driven the evil from one cluse after nnother, It is now almost exclusively confiued to the lowest. As Mr, Spencer says, the remedy for it in England is nota ** Maine-law,"’ hut the introduction of the education that has banned it elsewhere. Berrer rHan Menteine.—Dr. Hall ssys the best medicine in the world, more efficent inthe cure of disexse thin all the potencies of the materia medica, are warmth, reet, cleanliness aud pure nic. Some persous make it a virtue to bruve disense, ‘‘to keep np" ss long as they cau move a foot or crook a tinger, and it sometimes suczeeds; hut in others, the powers of life are therehy so completely exhansted that the system bus lost uhility to reenperate, and typhoid fever sets in ond _carriea the patient to A premuture grave. Whenever walking, or work is au effort, a warm bed and cool room are the very tirst indispensalles toa sure and speedy recovery. Iustinct lends all heasts and birds to quirtude and rest the very moment dis@we or wounds assail the system. Topacco-Smox1xo.—-A German physiologist has discovered that tobacco-smoking by the boys “interferes with the molecular changes e ucident with the development of tissues, aud makes the blood corpuscl-s oval and irregular at the edge '" Any parent can thus ascertain if his hoy smokes by merely tukiug out a hundfnl of his blood corpuscles and observing their edges. Miscecaneous, German Prejudice Against Potatoes. There exists in Germany a decided prejndice against potatoes, becanse they are composed of tbree-fonrths water, with hut ten to fifteen per cent. stsrch contained in indigestible cells, The French, who make a perfect science of the whole business of nourishment and cookery, rarely eat potatoea except occasionly fried for the second breakfast. They consume hesns more than any otber vegetahles and with reason, for dried besns contain twenty-two per cent. alhumen and hfty of starch, and the comnion leutile twenty-six per cent. of albnmen and fifty-six of starch. In the monasteries of France and Italy great quantities of beans are used, especiully during the Lenten season, German natnruliets are now searching all over the world fora substitute for potatoes, and this is helieved to have been found ia China in Ihe “'dioscorea japonica,” which endnres the greatest cold and is more nourishing and helter flavored than the potsto. In the Museum of Natnral History at Paris, a specimen three feet long and weighing three pounds was exhibited. Several German writers upon races, predict that nations, far from improving, will deteriorate hoth iu physical and iweutalcharacteristics, if potatoer hecoiue a principsl urticle of diet. The ce’edrated Carl Voi¢hbt says ‘tbat the nourishing potatoe does not restore the wasted tissnes, hut makes our proletariats physically and mentally weak!’ The Holland physiologict Mulder pivea the same judgment, when he declarea '‘that the excessive use of potatoea amoug ‘he poorer classes, an coffee and tea by the hivher ranks, is the cunse of the indolenoe of nations."’ Leideufrost maintains thst the reso'ntions of the last three oenturics have been caused hy the changed nourishmeut, Informer days, the lowest workmen ate more flesh tban now, when the chesp potnto forms his principal subsistence, but gives him uo musonlar or nervous strength. Roast Turkey. Select a fine, plump, yellow skinned turkey, weighing from ten totwelve ponnds. Exsmine it thorongbly to see that all the pin festhers are taken out; hold it over a hlaze to singe any fine bairs that may remain; wssh it thoronghly inside and ont, solrub itover with salt. Take the gizzard, heart, aud liver, put them in cold watcr, aud let (hem boil until tender, When dine, chop them very tinue. Tuke stale bread, or the large Boston ernckers, and grate or cho them. Ad sult, pepper, aud eome sweet her if liked. to the bread crumbs; after whioh bent two eggs with which tv moisten the crumbs; add uud mix thoroughly with this the chopped ‘inward,’ not forgetting to put in salt and butter. Fill the inside of the turkey with the dressing, tuking cure that the ueck or crop is made to look plump, and sew the openings, drawing the sides tightly together. Thon rub a little butier over your turkey, and lay it npon the grute of your pau. Cover the hottom of the pan with hoiling water. After» bilf hour hinte the turkey hy ponring over it the gravy that hss begun toform in the pan. Repeat the basting once iu ahout fifteen minutes. In an oven of nverage temperature a twelve-pnouud turkey will reqireat leust three honrs; but every oven has ils own why of baking, and the cook must he guverned by it. Roast goose is tobe prepared inthe same manner as the turkey. The dressing should he mude of mashed potutoes, seasoned with salt, pepper and sage, or ontons, if according to the taste of the family. Make giblet sance by hoiling the “inwards” until very tender, chopping them fine, aud adding them to a gravy made hy using the liquor in which they were hoiled thickened with flonr, and to which hus been added one ounce of butter, and pepper and sult to suit the taste. Danogerous Diets.—The frequent failure of the putato crop in England and Ivelund is likely to hring ahout an epidemic of scurvy, unless the public can be hetter iuformed of the requirements of an autiscorbutio diet. The fact therefore, cannot be too widely made kuown, in fact, whether we are suffering under the failure of this important crop or not, that peas, pudding, harricot heangy and hoiled rice, which have heen sugzested as suhs‘itntes for potatoes, will not prevent the occurrence of scurvy. In the shsence of the potato, un excellent antisco-bntie, fresh green §vegetables or fruite wiil he requisite, or the health will fail, even though fresh meat betaken. Amongst the vegetahle material which may he nsed, are the various forms of cabhnge, Jettuce, oranges, lemons, onions, mustard, cress, dandelion and sorrel. The experience of the crews of veseels on long voyages has shown, over and over apain, the uselessness of the pea and bean tribe in preventing scurvy. To Maxz Por Coun Barts.—While popping your corn put sowe syrup ou the stove, the vicer the hetter, and boil it down quite thick. Put your com while hot iu a dish pan, or any lurge vessel convenient, pour the syrnp over it and stir it well with a speon. It ouly needa enungh to make the corn stick together. Butter your fingers and make up the balls quickly any size yon ,wish. Lay on a plate nntil cool, nnd they are nice. ‘