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Treatment of Frozen Persons.

Medical men have always differed as
to whether the best medical treatment
of frozen persons was by gradual or
rapid application Of heat. "To settle
the matter" says Knoo0ledge, "Lapt-
chinski has made series of very care
full experiments upon dogs, with the
following results: Of twenty animals
treated by the method of gradual re-
suscitation in a cold room, fourteen
perished; of twenty placed at once in
"a warm apartment, eight died; while
of twenty Immediately put into hot
bath, all recovered" These expert
ments will probably influence the prac-
tice of medical men in Russia and
Northern Europe, where the ques-
tion of the best means of restoring ami
nation in persons suffering from eX-
,cessive cold is Of frequent occurrence
every winter.
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Preserving Eggs.

About a year ago I put down a
quantity OF fresh eggs in various ways
for the purpose of testing the merits
of each particular method. The lime
and mixture, consisting of one pint of
lime, newly sla!ied, and one pound of
salt, well stirred with ten-Quart pail
OF water, kept the eggs very we'll for
six months, when the whites began to
become clouded and the yolks dark
and too tough to beat up. The mix
ture of beeSwaX, melted with twice as
much olive oil, smeared, While warm,
over the eggs, kept the eggs well for a
year, and some Of the eggs, yet un-
used, are still good. Those eggs which
were thus prepared and packed in air
slaked line kept better than others
packed in oats ; the latter tasted con-
sidcrably Of the rancid oil, which
seemed to be absorbed. The eggs
covered with melted parailine kept the
best cf all, and those of them that
were put down in weak brine, in
which they sank to the bottom, kept
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lump sugar, one pound Of -four well
dried, eight eggs (yolks and whites
beaten separately, and caraway seeds
to taste. Mix the ingredients and beat
all well together for an hour. Put the
batter into a tin shape lined with
paper and buttered. Bake in mod
crate oven.
BEEFsTEAK AND ONIoNs.-Choose
large white onions and peal and slice u
dozen while the steak is cooking. A
round, sirloin or porter-house steak,
with very little bone should be used.
in weight about two pounds. Put a
large frying-pan over the fire and let it
get so hot that a bit of butter dropped
into it will hiss as soon as it touches
the pan; then put the steak into the
pan and quickly brown the under side;
turn it over, season it with salt and
pepper, put the onions around it so
that they touch the pan, and turn over
the pan a dish or cover that just fits
it. Let the steak and onions cook
until they are brown and then serve
them hot, both on the same dish.
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Saving Vegetable Seed.

If there are many varieties of the
same vegetable in garden it is i'm
possible to save the seeds of some in an
unmiXed state. Sweet corn and all
of the squash family are quite sure to
"mix." On the other hand, peas and
beans rarely cross. If one saves seeds
of any vegetable let it be of the best.
Instead Of leaving the last peas on the
vines for seed set apart portion of a
row for seed, and let none be picked
from it. BY proper care the quality
of vegetable may be improved. In
saving lima beans we have for several
years selected only those with four
beans in the pod; as a consequence,
the greater number of pods in the
whole crop now have four beans.
The selection of the first ripened and
best formed tomatoes for seed will
have marked effect upon future
crops, and this is the case with all
other vegetables. If one has choice
melon he would preserve in it's purity,
the surest method is to ferti)ize few
female flowers. Take a male flower
Of the same kind that is shedding it's
pollen, remove the corollo, to expose
the stamens. Select a female flower
that is just ready to open, but has not
been visited by insects; open it and
apply the stamens to the pistil of that
flower. Cover the flowers thus oper-
ated upon by a bit of muslin until the
fruit begins to grow.
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How He Slew the Bear.
little.

On Tuesday evening last when Mr..
George Trevors, who had been work
ing in the steamship Coban. then lying
at Mr.. Sergeut's mill wharf, Nelson,
was done his days work, he had occa-
sion to go up to the store of Mr.. Dan
iel Baldwin to purchase few articles.
1t was then dark, and when he started
for his home in the Douglasfield he
took the short cut across the woods.
He had gone about a mile and half
when he was attacked by very large
bear. Being unarmed, and having no
other weapon than bottle of parai1ine
oil, he struck the bear and broke the
bottle Of oil over him. The bear then
sprang on him and commenced hug
ging him, when George had the pres
ence of mind to light match and set
fire to him. In an instant old bruiD
was all in a blaze and let go of him,
and in less than five minutes she was
all consumed but the head and should
ers. George then commenced to carry
water in his hat to quench the fire to
save the snout. so as to get the bounty.
Chatham ( ". D. World.
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better than others packed in dry salt
or in plaster. Since then I have be-
come acquainted with German pre-
paration of salt, saltpeter and boraX,
which, however, is patented in Amer
lea. I have some eggs put down in
this for five months, and they are
equal to fresh eggs, even when boiled
for eating, very delicate test, as eggs
very soon exhibit any staleness when
so cooked. An omelette made Of eggs
put down in this solution was very
good, and so was one made of eggs a
year old kept in paraffine, as was also
a sponge cake made of beaten eggs.
Parahine is easily removed from the
shells by holding them in hot water
for short a time. The salt and lime
mixture and the German salt both
keep the shells in perfect condition,
and simple rinsing only is required to
cleanse them. I think the German
salt promises to be the best, but it is
outrageously dear.-American Dairy
man.
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Rev. DR.. Chamberlain says: There
Is tremendous upheaval going on all
through India at the present time, and
fear that Hindooism is going to fall
TO pieces before the church of Christ
is ready to seize the fragments of the
ruins and build up the temple of the
Lord.
The census commissioners in thei1
recent publication of the statistics of
county Antrim and the borough of
Belfast, north of Ireland, thus classify
the religious denominations: Presby-
terians, 1876; Epicopalians, 25.3; other
Protestant denominations, 10.4; Ro-
man Catholics, 22.7.
A famous North Carolina clergy
man, while preaching few Sundays
ago from the text, "He giveth His be-
loved Sleep" stopped in the middle of
the discourse, gazed upon his slumber-
ing congregation and said: Brethren,
it is hard to realize the unbounded love
which the Lord appears to have for a
large portion of my auditory"
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MORAL AND RELIGIOUS
The Evidence of Faith.

Real faith, by its very nature, Is a
standing rebuke of religion of mere
feeling. Genuine spiritual emotion is
the effect of Scriptural knowledge and
conviction of the truth, under the in
f1uences of the Holy Spirit. But when
feeling gets the control of the judg-
ment, when conscience is overpowered
by wild fancies and excitements, when
reason is misled by a morbid magma
tion, then come strong delusions, self
deceptions, zeal without knowledge,
and fiery intolerance. Fanaticism
quickly burns out, but faith endures.
and, in their periodical conflicts, faith
has been and always will be victorious,
because it is reasonable, calm, founded
upon competent knowledge, and tri-
umphs over ignorance, passion and
self.-ChriStian Intelligeacer.
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LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
A Frenh Idea.

A letter from Peris gives an in
stance of the thrift OIL French women,
as follows: French women, often stig-
matized as the most frivolous of their
kind, are in reality the most thrifty
a virtue that frequently degenerates
into absolute parsimony. I saw a
striking instance of making the best
of unregarded trifes the other day
when dining with one who certainly
has reputation for prudence. A cherry
pie had been on the table, and the mis-
tress gave strict injunctions that all
the stones were to be scraped from the
plates and placed in her storeroom. I
ventured to ask the reason, and was
told that not only cherry, but plum,
peach and all manner of stone, whether
cooked or raw, were invariably saved,
gently dried in the oven and kept in a
great jar. "Then," said madame, I" in
the winter, when the fire burns clear
and bright in the evening, 1 fetch a
handful and throw them among the
glowing Goals. They crack and splut-
ter for q moment, send up a brilliant
flame, and the whole room is filed with
a delicious odor.
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Corn Fodder.

Mr.. Ansel w. Putnam says that
whatever theorists may argue his
COWS prove to him by the milk that
corn fodder is at it's best before the
stalk hardening begins, and as soon as
all the leaves of the heavy part of the
stems are fully grown. The second
growth as he calls it-of topstocks and
husks-he thinks as good milk making
material as the first, but not any bet
ter. His policy is to plant very thickly
and cut when the first growth is fully
developed, which is in six to seven
weeks after planting, in good growing
weather; and in this way he can raise
two crops in one season. Thick plant
ing is adverse to the second or top
growth, unless with varieties of sweet
cOrn.-South and Vest.
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Recipes.

LEMON PREsERyE.--Cut the rind of
the lemons as thick as you can without
cutting the pulp; put the fruit in cold
water, and boil it in three different
waters until quite soft. Make syrup
of refined sugar, and put three-quar-
tiers of a pound of sugar to each
lemon. Boil the syrup, and then put
the lemons into it., and boil them some
time. Put them all into a basin, and
turn them every day for four or five
days. Then boil the syrup again, ant
put the lemons into separate pots, with
enough syrup to cover them.
SUCCoTAsH.-Shave off your corn
two or three times so that it will be
cut up in small pieces. Put corn and
lima beans on and stew them well to-
gether, adding little water and a slice
of bacon. When done add a little
milk, a small lump of butter, one ta-
blcspoon of flour and salt and pepper
to the taste.
FRIEDELLU.-Take any bits of cold
meat, chop fine with a little fresh meat
Gf conveniently, salt, pepper, dry
bread soaked and squeezed, and a little
meat broth or gravy should be added
to moisten the mixture; form with the
hands into balls and fry quickly in hot
butter.
SEED CAKE.-One pound of butter
beaten to cream, one pound of sifted
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A Rage for Flowers.

A new flower rage has broken out
in New York. The Telegram says :
Never before have flowers occupied
such a prominent place in society
events as at present. They form no
inconsiderable share in the decorations
of the prominent houses uptown.
Many drawing-rooms have one or
more jardinieres containing growing
plant, placed in some convenient cor
ner. The plant Isl changed four or five
times during the year. Sometimes it
is a brilliant scarlet geranium which
rears it's bright blossoms above the
bric-a-brac and gilding-the one thing
of nature among the many articles of
the manufacturer again snowy
Gala or ascension lily, or perhaps a
fuchsia, its dropping buds of purple
and scarlet harmonizing with its rich
surroundings. Autumn leaves will be
used extensively this fall for decora-
tive purposes. A bride this month is
to have the drawing-rooms and church
on her wedding day entirely decorated
with autumn leaves and golden rod.
This will give color and background
to the bridal party in white, and be a
relief from the pretty but monotonous
and tiresome smilax and white roses.
Necklaces, composed of natural moss
rosebuds, small violets and similar
flowers, will again be fashionable this
season.
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Household Hints,

To give glass great brilliancy, wash
with damp sponge dipped in spirits,
then dust with powdered blue or whit
ing (tied in a muslin bag), and polish
with chamois skin.
When carpets are well cleaned
sprinkle with salt and fold. When
laid, strew with slightly moistened bran
before sweeping. This, with salt, will
freshen up wonderfully.
A paste made of whiting and benzoin
will clean marble; and one made of
whiting and chloride Of soda, spread
and left to dry (in the sun if possible)
on the marble, will remove spots.
Pitch-paper, the same as that used
in covering roofs, when cut into slips
and placed in convenient situations
under carpets and behind sofas and
chairs in room will effectually repel
the moth miller from depositing it's
eggs. If similar strips are placed in.
side the backs and seats of parlor suits
they will render the furniture moth
proof.
One can have the hands in soapsuds
with soft soap without injury to the
skin if the hands are dipped in vinegar
or lemon juice Immediately after. The
acid destroys the corrosive effects of
the alkali, and makes the hands soft
and white. Indian meal and vinegar
or lemon juice used on the hands when
roughened by cold or labor will heal
and soften them. Rub the hands in
this, then wash off thoroughly and rub
IN glycerine. Those who suffer from
chapped hands in winter will find this
comforting.
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News and Note. for Women.

Eight ladies have clerkships in the
Oregon legislature.
Mrs. Loretta Brownlow, of East
Paw Paw, ILL.,, has patented simple
and convenient means of crushing and
straining fruit in making jellies, etc.
There is published in Calcutta a
small monthly magazine called the
Krtstiya Mohati, or Christian Woman.
The writer's are all native converted
Christian women.
Mrs. Garrett Anderson, NJ. D., of
London, has accepted the vice-presi-
dency of the South Lambeth Tricycle.
club. Women can now be seen in
all parts of England riding tricycles.
The agricultural college at Hanover,
N. H., will admit women pupils at its
next term, who will be given a special
course of study, including butter and
cheese making and dairying in all its
branches.
Miss Sanders, a lady sent South by
the American board of missions, has
established home for destitute colored
girls in New Orleans, and has organized
fourishing Chinese Sunday-school in
the same place.
Mrs. Charles Turner, widow OF
Liverpool, has given 100000 for the
erection of a home for incurables in
that city, and will make ample arrange
ments in the shape of endowment for
the maintenance of the institution.
If the newspaper stories are true
there is an invalid widow in Tennessee
who deserves something more than
honorable mention. She has not been
able to stand or walk for twenty years,
but some years ago she began to make
shoes with Z set Of tools her husband
left her at his death. She has pcrse-
vered so that now, while sitting in bed
with her tools beside her, she plies her
trade successfully and has very nearly
paid off the mortgage on her little
farm.
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FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Wash for Borcrs.

Professor Cook says that a carbolic
soap wash has with him proved a very
effectual preventive of radish maggots
and apple tree bore1s. His formula is
as follows: To two quarts of soft soap
1 added two gallons of water; this was
then heated to boiling temperature,
when one pint of carbclic acid (in a
crude state) was added. This mixture
is then set away in barrel, or other
vessel, and is ready for use as occasion
may require. One part of this liquid
is then mixed with fifty parts of water
and the plants sprinkled or trees
washed with it. This is worth remem-
bering.
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Death in Electric Wires.

A prominent naval surgeon alluding
to the death of a telegraph ineman in
New York city, caused by his taking
hold of the disconnected ends of an
electric light wire, stated that a num-
ber of similar accidents occurred upon
British ironclads during the lombard
ment of Alexandria. He said the
facts have been known among the
medical fraternity Of this country for
some time also the fact that the Eng
lish authorities concealed the occur
rences to prevent prejudicing the Eng
lish people against Wolseley's pet
electric light scheme. The surgeon
named two men who were killed on
board one of the English gunboats
while handling wires, etc., during a
night illumination. In the same con-
nection is the following from the New
York Eoeuipg Post, which is interest
ing information for fremen:
"Parke Benjamin, the scientific e1-
pert, has directed attention to the fact
that if a stream of water from a fire.
nozzle to the roof of building should
come into contact with a broken arc
light wire, the fireman who held the
nozzle would be killed, just as certainly
as the poor fellow whose slip while at
work cost him bis life. Mr.. Edison
agrees with this somewhat startling
statment, and says that a stream OF
Wi ter from hose nozzle makes just
as good a conductor as a copper wire.
Moreover, when the roof of a burning
building falls in, the wires attached to
it would probably be entangled, so that
it would be impossible to distinguish
harmless wires from deadly ones, and
in cutting an electric light wire the
wooden handle of an ak, if wet, would
offer an excellent conductor for the
current from the wire to the man."
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RELIGIOUS News and Notes.

There are $4,000 Methodists in Mis-
souri,.
There are three Lutheran churches
In Florida.
The Methodist churches in England
gained 22,713 members last year.
The Episcopal church of Scotland
has 229 churches with 67,3S3 men,
bers.
There are on Manhattan Island sew
enty-nine Episcopal churches, with a
total of 25,275 communicates.
The Presbyterian church of Canada
is raising 100000 to build churches
for the emigrants who are pouring
into Manitoba.
There are G10 names Of Cinnamon
on the rolls of Sabbath-schools in New
York and Brooklyn and the average
attendance is 331.
The United Presbyterian foreign
mission board has directed it's mission,
aries who fled to England to return at
once to their work in Egypt.
The Churchnaan proposes that the
coming centennial year of the Episco-
pal church in this country be observed
by removing all debt froml 5000 par
ishes.
At Rheinfelden, Germany, the Cath:
lies offered the use of their old church
TO the Protestants for the installation
of a new pastor, and many of them
attended the service. -....-.
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A Pleasant Experiment With Salt.

Doyou want to grow salt, and at the
same time have an interesting, hand
some ornament? The proceeding is a
novel chemical experiment that may
be tried by any one. Put in a goblet
one tablespoonful of salt and one spoon
full of bluing. Fill the goblet two
thirds full Of water and set it in a
position where it will have plenty of
warmth and sunlight. In a little
while sparkling crystals will commence
forming on the outside of the glass,
and it is both novel and interesting
sight to watch it gradually growing
day by day until the outside Of the
goblet is entirely covered over with
beautiful white crystals. Another
variation of this beautiful experiment
would be to take goblet with the
base broken off and fasten it in the
center of a thin piece of board, which
may be round, square or oblong
After the crystals have formed on the
glass set it on a tiny wall-bracket and
place bright holiday or birthday card
in front of 1t this will hide the base,
on which no crystals will form. After
this is done fill the goblet with flowers
or dried grasses, and you will have
vase which will cost comparatively
little.
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The Highest House in Europe.

An astronomical observatory has
lately been erected by the Italian gov
ernment on Mount Etna, above
Catania, which is the highest inhabit-
ed building in Europe, as it beats the
st. Bernard hospice by over 1000 feet.
1t has two stories, with spacious bal
comics, and has been built on cone
near the summit of the mountain. The
observatory will not be touched by any
eruptions, as the lava always flows
down on the farther side of the VOL
cano.
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nsIiiOn Notes.

Velvet ornaments for dresses and
cloaIis are in vogue.
The Dolly Warden designs are Icing
revived in all-wool goods.
The sale of plain black velvet this
autumn is greater than it has been for
several years.
Flowers are scarcely seen on the
street, but are still used upon opera
bonnets and hats.
Heavy rcpped silks have taken the
place Of satin to great extent, both
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Lumeness Of Horses.


D. D. Slade, professor of agricultural
zoology, Harvard university, gives in
the american AgriculturiSt a very
full account of the symptoms that will
enable owners of horses to detect diff
ferent varieties of lameness and their
treatment.
He says: Shoulder lameness is fire.
quently due to a. strain or to direct
violence, and is shown in repose by
the hanging of the limb, from disincli-
nation to move the muscles, and dur
ing motion by the dragging and diff
ficlllty to bling forward the limb,
which is done by rotary movement.
1t is also shown by the finching
when the foot is lifted and carried
forward or backward. If the elbow is
affected there will be singular
changing of the limb, and excessive
nodding of the head in motion.
In splint, lameness is usually
much increased by exercise. Pressure
on the limb shows tenderness, and
there is increased heat with more or
less swelling. A small splint, in de-
veloping, may give mnch more pain,
shown by lameness, than one fully
formed. Ringbone and ossifed side
cartilages in their early stages may be
recognized as causes Of a peculiar
stiffened gait, with the weight thrown
upon the heels. The lameness nearly
or entirely disappears before the bony
deposit appears about the middle or
lower pastern. .f .,
Strains Of posterior and other liga-
ments and tendons of the lower limb
evidence themssl YES Nv Shsleeas sEaR-
toms and alienation in gait. But
there are cases of temporary lameness,
from very obscure causes, attributable
only to sudden strain of some iga-
ment whose exact situation can only
be surmised.
The short, quick step of the horses
with that Inflammation of the feet
known as chronic laminitis, in which
the weight is thrown upon the heels
of the fore limbs, is easily recognized.
In the less frequent affection, naticu-
lar disease, the weight is thrown upon
the toes, the gait is short, and the
lameness, slight at first, is increased
by exercise.
Corns are discovered by rapping
and pinching the sole at the space be-
tween the bars and the quarters in the
fore feet. Disease of the frog is self
evident by the peculiar odor. A sand
crack sufficient to produce lameness
cannot escape observation. Accidental
injuries to the feet will generally be
known by the history of the case
Lameness in and about the hip joint is
to be recognized by the peculiar want
of movement of the hind quarter, and,
if not long standing, by the wasting of
the muscles of that region.