, 1872-05-02
Diet end hsSit

habit, etc, will be found quite as valuable
as any: Quiuina should NOS bs eaten after
a hearty meal of India rubber; he sperm
aeeli contained in the former will unite
with the oxalic acid of the latter, and
wagon grease will be evolved with disas-
trous results. Before taking bath the
entire body should be carefully washed.
Then lay on a coating Oftar and get into
the water. II can Z touch you anywhere.
A splendid anIidote for pork sausage is
made by twisting together rattlrsnake
and a common iueh rope. B ing .ubjeoted
TO a heat of $50 degrees, they will blend
so as to be undistinguishabIs. Stir before
taking, if you would stir at all. II is not
so fashionable as it was to chop cord of.
wood before breakfast none but very old
men, who cling to the traditions of you
like lean leech to stuffed frog. ever do
it, and they commonly perish at it.' Get
ting out Of bed in perspiraiion is to be
avoided-always lie in bed as long as you
can lind any excuse for it., Nothing is
more injurious than the ordinary method
of going up stairs it caases the alkali in
the blood to settle in the cores, producing
Arianism and strangulation The proper
way is to lie down on your stomach and
go up feet first. Never sleep with your
eyes, shut; it is a degenerate habit. AL,
ways pay three dqllars-in advance WHEN
you subscribe for the ARGUS; when your
timris up you have your moneys worth.
Bathing, as iniimated above, is conducted
on wrong principle. 1t is probable that
the custom might be adrantageously abol
ished altogether. Bath-houses and bath,
ing-rooms in dwellings arc a thing of
recent growth. Our grandfathers seldom
OF never bAthed, and il is conceded that
they lived to be several lupdTed years old.
They we're very dirty. but one Of them
cou d stand more hard. square drinking
thnn a dozen. Of us. In your morning
walk (And every one should walk at least
ten miIts before breakIasf) always 20 round
eorRlfrld; oat-frlds aRds barley y>6elds
wo n'ta do. Sir Isaac Newton alNays
walked round a cornsfeld, and was q much
greater man than St. Paul, who arc ased
his appetite by simply journeying to- DAs =
mascns. Potatoes shoah, always be eatrn
with the skins on ; skins contain bicAr>
Donate Of muciIagr, which is just what the
liver .rrquirrs. When the custom of Civ
ing the skins 10 the poor originated. sci
ence was almost wholly unknown. There
are more things it would be well to know,
but a strict compliance with ihr rules al
ready given will enable you to live ss long
as you will wish to. y. HI, 1 .+-
HoME. WIFE AND SkTCKDAY NI0Hr.-
Happy is the man who has little homo
and little angel in it Of Saturday night
"a house, no matter how little, provided
it will hold two or so; no matter how
humhly furnished, provided there is hope
in it. Let the winds blow close the
curtains. What if they are plain calico,
without border, iassel or any such thing
Let thu rain come down-heap up the
fire. No matter if you baven't candle
10 bless yourself with, tir what beautiful
light glowing coal makes, rendering cloud
less, sh-dding a sunset through the room
just light enough TO talk by, not loud,
ar in the highways, no, rapid, as in the
hurrying world, but softly, slowly, whisp-
eiipgly, with, PAuses between for the
storm without and the thoughts within to
fill up with. Then ,whe 1.-THE sofa around
by the fire no matter il the sofa is settse,
uucushioned at that, if 80 be il is Just
long tnou- foF two and a half in il. How
sweo,ly the music of silver bells. from Che
time to come falls on the listening heart
then. How painfully swell the chimes
of the days tina, are no more Under
such circumstances, and at such a. time.
one can get at least sixty nine and bali
miles nearer "kingdom come" that at any
other point in this world laid dawn in
"Malte Brup." Maybe you may smile
al this picture; but there is a secret be-
tween us-yiz., it is . copy Of picture
Iudely done, but true as the. Pentateuch oi
an original in every heart.
TnE testimony elicited byE the Fa French
military commission on capitulatiousS il
said 10 bear unfavorably upon marshal
Bazsine in his surrender Of MerzS andtba,
a court-martial, to be composed Of the
highest officers of the French army to try
him, has been proposed. :.
The French Minister Of War asks ar
appropriation of $40, 900 TO build forti6.
cations around Paris and in towns t,es,
that city. The Prussians naeahWhiIe ar,
extending tho iorsiicatioBs Of Metz Snl
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