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HEALTH HINTS.

A good liniment for cuts, bruises,
ETC., can be made by soaking common
haywood leaves in alcohol
As soon as q felon is telt, put q fly
blister over it, and in six hours it can
be picked out with a needle.
An exchange says an ounce of cream
OF tartar in a pint of water, drank at in
t~ervals, is O certain cure for smallpox.
But an ounce of preventive by vaccine
ton is better.
A wash made from the spotted alder
is recommended for ivy poisoning.
Also the shop water Of a blacksmith's
trough as a sure cure for poison ivy, and
dogwood and strong salt and water as
an antidote for the poisoning OF sumach.
Contagion is largely propagated by
means of the clothing, and clothing Is
best disinfected by heat. No form OF
contagion can withstand a dry heat Of
22O degrees. The clothing should be
placed in a box or a closet maintained
at that temperature for perhaps an
hour. Carbolic acid will not destroy
the effect of vaccine virus but for the
time being.
Nine times out of ten the III OF
sick headache is in the fact hat the
stomach is not able to digest the 1000
last introduced into it, either from It's
having been unsuitable or excessive In
quality. A diet of bread and butter,
with ripe fruit or berries, with moderate,
continuous exercise in the open ar
sufficient to keep up a gentle perspira-
ton, will often cure in q short Time;
| One teaspoonful of powdered charcoal
in half a glass of water, and dranh,
sometimes gives relief. And YET Inc
above remedy will not avail in all cases
4 sovereign remedy for this disease Is
not easily found. A correspondent con-
tributes the following: Sick headache
is periodical, and is the signal of dis
tress which the stomach puts up to In
form us that there is an over-alka!lne
condition of its fluids ; that it needs q
natural acid to resto.e the battery. TO
it's normal working condition. When
the first symptoms of q headache appear
take a teaspoonful of lemon-julce clear,
fifteen minutes before each meal, and
the same dose at bedtime. Follow ms
up until all symptoms are past taxing
no other remedies, and you will soon be
able to 60 free from your unwelcome
nuisance. Many will object to this oe-
cause the remedy is too simple, but 1
have made many cures in this way-DT.
Hare.
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PIeCt5 VI aUH0 PHoVO1 WIZ "os :
the courtdecided agains1
pistol cannot ht
1 saythat carry
|!!1! liiliiiiiiiii

made useful, It IS q weapon
The courts continue to take the ut
most pains to discourage the pernicious
practice of brandishing pistols or point
ing guns, whether loaded or unloaded.
In Mississippi two ren "~loafng" in q
country store were drawn into q petty
quarrel arising from the rudeness of
one, who was eating nuts, in scattering
the shells about SC that they hit the
other. When the quarrel grew some
what serious, the other ran forth from
the store into the street. The she'll
thrower followed, and in the race dis
charged a pistol. 1t was quite plain
from all circumstances that he did not
intend to hurt the runaway, or even hit
him !; but meant only to alarm him, or
demonstrate his own proves. There
fore his lawyers argued that there was
no criminal assault, for, they said,
an intent to hurt is part of the very idea
of an assault. The judges said that this
is q difficult question: shall shooting in
sport be Judged by the intention of the
"shootist" or by the apprehension of
the "shootce?" The true rule is that
no assault is committed when the per
son at whom the gun or pistol is aimed
knows that is empty, and that the
assailant does not intend to injure him,
but is acting only in fun. But when he
does not know these facts-when the
circumstances are such as may reason
ably lead him to believe that he is in
danger his rights are just as truly VIC.
lated rs if the intent were serious and
the danger actual. Also the effect OF
such conduct to disturb the public
peace is equally Objectionable. There
fore they pronounced the makc-believe
shooter guilty.
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or white.
Porcupine straws are trimmed with
satin ribbon and silk tufts, smooth de-
corations apparently meant to neutral-
ize their rough effect.
The favorite finish of borders this
summer is to cut them into long vandykes
supported underneath by plaitings OF
the materials Of the dress.
Lambrequins are made of the Algerian
striped goods, fringed at both ends and
hung by large rungs attached to the
ends of the curtain poles.
The brocade grenadine is only used
for mantles now by the best dressmakers.
Gowns are made of the plain grena-
dine, almost covered with Spanish lace.
The new Scotch ginghams are very
brilliant in coloring, and the fabric Is
unusually fine. They ere as handsome
in appearance as the plaided silks Of last
season.
Bishop sleeves, with shoulder cap and
cuffs of jetted black lace and collars to
match, are seen in many of the black
lace and black %grenadine dresses lately
imported.
White cashmere, nuns yelling or
%vigogne, trimmed with lace and white
satin, are ~fayorite materials for gradual
ing dresses. Broad sashes of the white
satin fastened with buckles of cut steel
are very effectively worn over these cos
tunes.
White petticoats are little worn ex-
cept with long evening dresses, surah
being the most fashionable material for
day wear, black surah with narrow
founces edged with lace, and headed by
two or three lace insertions over colored
ribbon, being excessively fashionable.
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FOR THE LADIES.
Turkish Wives.


First among the Turkish social topics
is that of the harem. The Koran al
lows a Mussulman to have four wives;
and manypersons haYe consequently i'm
agined that polygamy is q rule in Tur-
key, whereas it is the exception. A
Mussulman may only have as many
wives as he can keep in comfort; and it
is only the very rich who can afford
four. The middle-class Turks have
only one wife apiece; the men Of the
lowest class are often obliged to remain
single from not having. the means to
support a consort in the style which the
Moslem law e%njoins. Nothing can be
more un-Turkish than the Mormon idea
of accommodating q number of women to-
live under one roof, quarreling in the.
kitchen and parlor and acting as house
hold drudges for their husband. The
Turkish wife is not o slave; the chief
fault to find with her is that she.has too
lofty a sense of her own dignity. An
advocate of female lights would have
some difficulty in p~ersuading her that
her lot was pitiable; she has never n
We'd the emancipation of Christian
women, whose free ways shock her; while
she has noticed that they get much less
respect from the men of their faith than
that which is invariably vouchsafed to
herself. She wells her face with no more
regret hal a Western lady unveils her
shoulders. Turkish women are not shut
up. They go out when they please,
attended by their odaliks if rich, OF
holding their children by the hand; and
their magpie voices fill the bazaars, TOR
they are noisy takers. Whenever they
pass, men of all creeds stand aside defer
entially. If a husband meets q wife IN
the street he makes no sign of recog-
milton; if he perceives her hating before
a Diapers stall and gazing significantly
at a silk dearer than he can afford he
must possess his soul in resignation,
muttering "Masshallah." This respect
for women prevails also in the home
circle, and it comes naturally to the
Mussulman, who has been taught from
his boyhood to behave courteously TO
the softer sex. The Western conjugal
expression about 'wearing the breeches"
has it's Turkish.counterpart in the phrase
to "live under the slipper" and it is to
be feared that not o few Turks know the
taste of this implement of uxorial per-
suasion. A hamal (~street porter) once
came before o cadi to complain that his
wife troupced him too frequently. "See
what mine does" answered the magls-
trate, opening his gown and showing
some weals on his neck and shoulders.
$50 thy way, my son, and thank Allah
thou art luckier than l."
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Harvest FirurpS.

A good many curious calculations
hav been made in connection with the
enormous crop of wheat produced by
the Dalrymple farm in Dakota. A cor.
respondent of the Chicago Inter- Ocean
has been indu)ging in some new oncs
relative to the last harvest. From the
speed of the harvester and the length
of the cutting-bar he calculated that
there would be 800 bundles to the acre,
or seventy-fve shocks of twelve bun
dies each. AS there were $4,000 acres
in the field the shocks numbered 1850.
600, and tho bundles lG, 200, GOO. Allow
ing thirty inches Of wire to the bundle.
over 1910 miles Of wire were needed
for binding the crop-almost enough tc
! reach through the earth.
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ADhOriSms by Josh Billings.

Some of Josh Billings aphorisms
done into English spelling:
The man who gets bit twice by the
same dog is better adapted for that kind
of business than any other.
There is a great deal Of religion in
this world that is like a life. preserver,
only put IN at the moment of Immediate
danger and then half the time put on
hind side before.
Experience is a school where a man
learns what a big fool he has been.
The mar who doesn't believe in any
hereafter has got a dreadfully mean
opinion Of himself aud his chances,
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4 June Day.
And what is go are ass day i'll June?

And what is =" rare ass day i'll June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries the Garth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether We look. or VIII, ther we listen,
We hear life murmnr, OF see it ~glistcl;
Every clod feels a stir Of might,
An instinct within it that reaches and tower:
And, cropping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to a soul i'll grass and flowers;
The flush of life may we'll be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys;
The coYslip ~startlcs in meadows green,
The buttcrcUp catches the sun in its chalicc,
And there's never Il leaf nor a blade 700 mean
To be some happy creatures palace;
The little bird sits at his door in the sun,
!Atilt like Il blossom among tho leaves,
and lets his illumincd being o'crrun
With tie dclugc Of summer it receives;
His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings,
And the heart in her dumb breast iiuttcrs and
sings; ~
He sings to the wide world, and she to hcl
nest
In the nice ear of Nature which soEs is tho
best?
Now is the high tide Of tic year,
And whatever of life hath cbbcd away
Comes flooding back, with a ripplv cheer,
Into every bare inlet and creek and bay;
Now the heart is 20 full that a drop o~vcriills it,
We are ~happyrow because God wills it;
No matter how barren the past may have been
IT is enough for us now that the leaves arc
green;
We sit in the warm shade and feel right well
How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell
We may shat our eyes, but We cannot help
knowing
That skies are clear and grass is growing;
The breeze comes whispering III our car,
That ~dandclions are blossominS near,
That maize has sproutcd, that streams are
flowing,
That the river is bluer than the sky,
That the robin is plasterinS his house hard by;
And if the breeze kept the good news back,
For other c~ouricrs We should not lack;
We could guess it all by yon hcifer's lowing
And bark how clear bold chanticlccr,
Warmed with the new wine of the year,
Tells all in his lusty growing.
james RuSSeN LOrcN.
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stretcher, in the
tables, in scattered indfs1da
floor, in a large pile of shells and REM
G through the open door, and in an
ox-cartload of the same refuse, farther
of, which is being taken away for use
as q fertilizer.
The boiled lobster is separated, on
long tables, into his constituent parts.
The meat of the many.iointed tail is
thrust out with q punch. Afunctionary
called a cracker" frees that of the
claws by a couple Of deft cuts with a
c~leayer, and the connecting arms are
passed on to be picked out with q fork
by the girls. In another department
the meat is placed in the The
first girl puts in roughly a suitable
selection of the several parts. The next
weighs it, and adds or subtracts enough
to complete the exact amount desired
Zone or two pounds). The next forces
down the contents with q stamp in
vented especially for the purpose. The
next puts in O tin cover with blows of a
little hammer. Then q tray is rapidly
filled with the cans, and they are
carried 20 the solderers. who seal them
tight except for minute openings in the
covers, and put them in another tray,
which, by means of q pulley:tackle, is
then plunged in bath caldrons, in order
hat the cans may be boiled till the air
is expelled from their contents through
the minute openings. Then they ore
sealed upand are boiled again for several
hours, when the process of cooking is
complete.
In the packing-room the cans arc
cleaned with acid, painted a thin coat
of green to keep them from rusting,
pasted with labels displaying a highly
ornamental ~scarlet lobster rampant
against n blue sea, and placed by the
gross in pine boxes to await the arrival
Of the company's vessel, which cruises
regularly from factory to factory, col
Letting the product. Nine-tenths Of the
supply at present goes to the foreign
market. On "loaf-days," the hands &C.
cupy themselves with making the neat
cans which it is their ordinary business
to fll.-SGibner.
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1t is only fair, We suppose, and ID
keeping with the eternal fitness OF
things, that the lady who has put her
house plants ont into the garden should
now lay for the hen that has been lay
ing for her all winter and SUMMER
sS~omeruiAls Journal
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Since 1871 the grain crops of the
United States have been valued at the
enormous sum of $40, 000, 900, 600, or
an average of $1,000, O0O, 900 per an
mum. OF this total about one-half, or
IS, 900, 900, 600, has been the value of
the corn crop, while the wheat crop
during the same period has aggregated
Il value of So, 500, 600, 900.
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Colonel John A. Suffer, the discov
erer of gold, is to have splendid monu
minent San Francisco.
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Lobster Factories.

The lobster factories are very numer-
Gus, and can hardly escape the notice
even of the fashionable visitor to
Maine. He is confronted by one,, for
instance, at the landing of Harpswell,
the principal island OF Casco Bay, an
other at the historic old town of Cas-
tine, another at Southwest Harbor,
Mount Desert, besides the one at
Green's Landing. Deer Island has fac
tories ut Oceanville and Burnt Cove,
forming part of a series twenty-three in
number, which belong to n firm, and
stretch all the way down to the Bay of
Fundy. They cannot be called intrin-
sically inviting, owing to their wholly
utilitarian character, although they
are apt to have ~redeeming features in
all occasional touch Of the picturesque.
The factory opens at n end on the
wharf, close to the water. Two men
bring in the squirming loads on a
stretcher and dump the mass into cop
pers for boiling. At intervals the COW
ers are hoisted by ropes and pulleys,
md dense clouds of steam arise, through
which we we catch vistas of men, women
and children at work. Two men ap-
7 Soach the coppers with stretcher and
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A colored man, George Il. Williams,
has just fallen heir to $4,000. He is
the only negro in the Ohio Legislature,
and proposes now to retire from tusi-
ness and politics, and devote himself to
a history he is writing, entitled, Negroes
as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens.
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Scott living in New Mexico had a
friend who wanted another man MUIR
dered, and being of an obliging dispo-
sition, Scott agreed to do the favor. He
rode fifty miles to accomplish it and
found Donovan, who was the victim, in
o saloon. So Scott sat down and played
cards with him. Donovan observing
that Scott was a gooddeal excited about
something, drew his revolver, cooked
it, and put it in his lap, without SCOTS
noticing it. So what was SCOTS SUI
prise on crying out: "Im going to kill
you,"t to find himself, instead of Dono-
yan. falling dead on the floor,
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1t is related of the late Colonel
Thomas Scott that once, about ten years
ago, when making one of the swift trips
which he was in The habit of making
wei the lines under his control, his
train was stopped by the wreck Of a
freight train. There were a dozen
heavily loaded box cars piled up on the
road, and it would take o long time to
get succor from the nearest accessible
point, and probably hours more to get
the track cleared by mere force Of
labor. He surveyed the difficulty, made
q rough calculation of the cost OF q
total destruction of the freight, and
promptly made up his mind to burn the
road clear. Blythe time the relief train
came the flames had done their work
and nothing remained but to patch up
a few injuries done to the track SO as to
enable him to pursue his way.
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Fashion Notes.

Chenille flowers are embroidered on
grenadine gowns.
The mitt will continue in fashion this
summer in all colors.
Steel stitching appears on some
slippers of new designs.
Stockings shaded from the toe up ara
the newest folly in hosiery.
Spanish lace is used to trim cloth
mantles as well as those Of silk.
Flowers are not used on coarse straw
hats by good milliners this year.
The striped silks in shaded colors
have seventeen tints in n stripe.
The white lace frill basted in the
skirts Of gowns isnot worn in the street.
The draperies Of muslin dresses are
not hemmed, but turned under ana,g
Topped.
After all there IS no. wrap more ben4SS8
.tiful nor more generally becomtnGth14sSs
iSht Chuddah shawl.
Abonnets are worn with white
and ~ ID toilets, and vice versa :
white ones isck or dark costumes.
Pretty and ineSrSgive dresses are
made Of challies in japanese deslens,
on grounds of pale blue, rose,
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%ADurcciatcl Her.

A young lady who recently arrived at
a Rocky mountain mining camp proved
SO popular, that within a few hours
after her appearance the delighted
miners, many of whom had not seen SO
young and charming q person for years,
fiockcd around her and gave her 4 bag
of gold dust, q dog, a town lot, a years
subscription to the country newspaper,
four tons of coal, q box in the postot1lce
and six bottles of soothing syrup. Tile
soothing syrup will for two or three
years to come he the most valuable
rrocnnt of thnm all
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During the year ending March 80,
1874 railroads in the United States con
structed G, lib miles of road, which was
1913 miles less than was built in the pre-.
ceding year. The miles of road con-
structed in these two years was never
but once exceeded in any two consecu-
tive years in the history of the govern
ment. That was in 1870 and 1871.
The miles of road constructed in 1880
and 1881 was nearly equal to one-seventh
of all the roads in this country in 1879,
and at the rate in which railroad build
ing is now progressing, the construc.
ton of this year promises to exceed
that of last, if not that Of any other
year.
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and swine were D.
ports in Canada and Ia
Of the animals originally shff
were thrown overheard in the
the voyage, $40 were landed dead,
3S4 were so much injured or exhausted
that they were killed at the place of
landing. Humanity certainly ought to
devise some plan to prevent this suffer
ing and loss.
The Scotch fasting girl Christina
Marshall, continues to live on q tea
spoonful of water two or three times
o day. She is thirteen years old and
lives at Chapelton, q small village near
Strathaven. Her illness dates from
August or September last, when she
was treated for pulmonary cold. She
gradually got better, but instead of
reaching complete convalescence, fell
into a thoughtful mood and betook her
self to bed. She expressed the greatest
disinclination for all kinds of food, and
it was only by the most urgent entreat-
les that she could ever be persuaded to
take wine OF grapes. At the New Year,
however, she expressed herself unable
to take any kind of food at all, and her
parents, seeing that their e~ntreaties
only caused her pain and sorrow, fore
bore to ask her any longer, and since
then she has subsisted solely on q few
teaspoonfuls of water per day. A thor
ough examination of the patient failed
to discover any trace of internal disease.
The girl is, of course, growing grad
ually weaker, but SO slowly that the
change is almost imperceptible. At
first she did not care for any n sitting
up with her, but latterly she has insist
ed on having either her father or
mother by her bedside all night long.
Although not caring to enter into con-
versation, she answers all questions put,
and appears to be fully aware OF what
ever takes place in the house, either by
night Or day.
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On smooth ice the velocity Of wind is
only ten miles per hour; the best ice
boats sail sixty miles per hour, or six
times faster than their wind.
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The figures of the report Of the veter-
mary departmental the privy council
office recently sSdedsetie graphic tale
of the sufferings whiChsnimals undergo
the aurage from America to
bring also in striking
better accommo.
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1ul 1luenc OF incompetence.
In times past the captain had been
an excellent and accomplished officer.
Such he was, in Mr.. Herbcrt's expert
ence and belief; and it was owing to his
~unwavering trust in his seamanship that
he had not only engaged him a COM
mander Of his ship, but yielded to him
the entire selection Of the crew.
Had the unfortunate captain secured
al able and reliable assistant officer,
his. own faiings might have been con-
cealed, or, at least, productive of no
absolute evil; but he vas entirely ruled
by his nephew, who had contrived to
establish a strange influence over him;
and Malcolm Sherwood was, as We
have seen, a man Of narrow mind and
brutal passions.
"You look pale and appear nervous,
Helen," said her father, observing hcl
uneasily. els anything wrong Where
is Doctor Conroy, child? I do wish
you would be more agreeable to that
young man. He is Of infinite service
to me, and I can't get on without his at.
tentions. It would make it so much
pleasanter if you were friends and
seemed at ease with each other"
Mr.. Herbert, like all sick people, was
at times fretful and impatient.
Such was his tone on this occasion;
but his daughter was a loving, unseltish
being, who thought far more of him
than of any petty annoyance OF her own
1t was impossible to explain what she
could not quite understand-namely,
the coldness of Percy Conroy's manner,
and secret devotion Of his acts.
1t made her heart beat to ~suiTocation
to hear his name, and then to be re-
preached for want Of courtesy to him.
She tried to smile and murmur some
reassuring reply; but presently he ap'
peared, and her father called to him,
Then, as was her habit, she slipped
quietly away.
Il X K
There was an ominous hush on the
ship all day. Helen felt, she knew not
| why, as if some fearful storm was brew