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A Truly English Idea.

In our anxiety to find remunerative en-
ployment for women, we seem to lose sight
OF the fact that we are injuring the pros
poets OF Englands young sons, who, after
all, are the legitimate supporters of the
national prosperity. Surely there are suf-
ticient occupations to employ our surplus
population of women. without entering
them in the labor market as the rivals in
stead of the helpers of men. On every
side we hear of the scarcity of domestic
servants. Would it not be well if women.
who have the time at their disposal to de-
velop this industry, would use their eff
forts to persuade their sisters of the work
ing class to send their daughters to service
instead of into factories? Many would
gladly do this if they only knew how to
obtain the situations, and would welcome
warmly ladies who would find good COM
Portable homes for their girls. There are
thousands of good situations in England.
and in Canada girl is, without doubt, at
premium, either as servant or wife.
For women of the educated classes there is
hospital nursing (which should be under
taken entirely by them, taking charge of
charitable institutions, various kinds of
parochial and philanthropic work, teach
ing in families middle and upper class
schools, national and board schools: and
for the lower middle class there is dress
making, mantle-making, millinery, and
many other light occupations, unsuited to
men.
Amongst women workers teaching has
not hitherto taken the position which is its
due. A lady will undertake the life of a
governess in private family at stipend
which cook or house maid would hout
with scorn but she has, as rule, consid-
cred teaching in anational or board school,
with a comfortable stipend, as quite be-
meath her dignity. Therefore, this most
important factor in our national life is rel
egated to the working classes who are the
least fit for the work. If the girls of the
the educated classes who are obliged, from
adverse circumstances, to earn living for
themselves, would go into training to fit
them for teaching in church or board
schools, they would receive remuneration
which would make them independent of
their friends, and confer an incalculable
boon on the nation. The refinement and
culture of their life and manners would do
more to raise and refine the life of the
masses than any other agency which could
be employed.-The Womdn's World.
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for tomorrow we may die" became great
truth, while the words of apostles and
martyrs, yes, and of the divine Christ, be-
came empty sounds and delusive theories
Pleasure and intelligent self-indulgence be-
came the greatest blessings
Immortality, as q belief, is necessary to
the proper ordering of this present life !;
necessary as hope and comfort; necessary
that the world should be governable, happy
in all our ideas Of order and Justice, good
ness and God The grand conviction that
there is retribution and compensation here
after Is the moral cement that holds this
lower social fabric together! The convic-
ton that the darkness will be made light,
and the crooked places straight, is the
hope and encouragement of every weary
burdened life.
Faith and hope are the beacon-lights
that flash, and leave us to grope our way
through gloom and darkness, without in
spiration, comfort, hope or God. Immor-
tality is the cap-stone of that mental
moral and spiritual fabric which we realize
has only begun in life 1t makes man more
than the rotting corn-husks of a last years
growth. 1t makes him great and noble, a
cnilu Oh eternlly ana OF Nod. eS, my
friends, when that faith and hope, that
tenderness and love, which God has
planted in the human breast, spread sail to
coast the dim and shadowy shores Of that
other life beyond-and those mysterious
powers and influences prompt and lead us
on-when, as we journey, low and pleading
voices tall upon our inner ears, and lights
and shadows fit before our inner spiritual
eyes, we will trust in them, for, like the
stars in the heavens above, to which the
sea-toSsed mariner looks, and deter .aines
his course, so, too, they are the stars set in
the souls horizon by loving God, not to
deceive, but to shine down upon this lower
life to lead and guide us to our eternal and
celestial port
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A Temperance Lecture.

One of the most telling and effective
temperance lectures we have read for wears
was that delivered in New York city by an
Irish woman who had long endured a
drunken husband who was acknowledged
to be the champion drunkard of his ward.
One morning he was bothering his heart
broken wife for the price of drink, when,
making no reply, she took a good sized
moments she returned with the bucket full
to the brim Of whisky, and turning to her
three children, who looked on with open
eyed establishment, said:
"Childer, yer father is determined to
bring ruination on us all and death on
himself, and there's no use in tryin' to stop
him. Let him have his way, and maybe
when he's gone we can have some comfort.
Here's plenty of whisky for him now. He
won't want any more, for there is enough
in the bucket to lay him out. So childer,
go and fix up the place, get clane sheets
ready, and we'll have foine wake"
Then handing dipper to her husband
she babe him drink his fill The poor man
dropped the dipper and went hastily out
of the room. He returned later, acknowl-
edged his faults and vowed never to drink
again, which pledge he has kept for twenty
years. The former drunkard is now a re-
spected and honored member of society.
What tears and entreaties had failed to
do; what the prayers and influence OF
friends could not avail, the acts and words
of wife had accomplished. Here was a
practical way of putting the matter that
struck home.-Mdnchester Union.
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Cayenne pepper may be selected rs typ
ical example of condiment properly
called Mustard is food and condiment
combined this is the case with some 9TH
ers. Curry powders are mixtures of very
potent condiments with more or less fari-
naceous materials and sulphur compounds,
which, like the oil Of mustard, onions, gar
lie, etc, may have Il certain amount of nu-
tritive value. The mere continent is a
stimulating drug that does it work directly
upon the inner lining of the stomach, by
exciting it to increased and abnormal actiy-
ity. A dyspeptic may obtain immediate
relief by using cayenne pepper, Among
the advertised patent medicines is pill
the active constituent of which is CAYENNE
Great relief and temporary comfort are
commonly obtained BY using it as " din
ner pill" If thus used only as a tempo
rary remedy for an acute, and temporary,
or exceptional attack of indigestion, all is
well; but the cayenne whether taken in
pills or busted over the food or stewed
with it in curries or otherwise, is one of
the most cruel of slow poisons when taken
habitually. Thousands of poor wretches
are crawling miserably towards their
graves, the victims of the multitude of
maladies of both mind and body that are
connected with chronic incurable dyspep-
STA, all brought about by the habitual use
of cayenne and continental cousins. The
usual history of these victims is that they
began by overlooking, took the condiment
to force the stomach to do more than its
healthful amount of work, using but lit
tie at first The stomach became tolerant
of this little and demanded more and more,
until at last the inflammation, liberation,
and torpidity, and finally the death of the
digestive powers, accompanied with all the
long train of miseries to which | have re-
ferred. -kaowledqe
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Family Marks.

From the most remote times, the bene-
ficent springs that jet from the interior of
the earth have excited the gratitude and
admiration of men. Like the sea and
rivers, they have been deified by the
peoples of the Indo-European family; and
the worship that has been given to them,
and the fables with which superstition has
invested them, express the degree to which
popular Imagination has been struck by
their mysterious origin, their inexhausti-
bic flow, and their secret properties. The
Greeks attributed to the fountain of
Dodona, in Epirus, the faculty of discover
ing hidden truths and uttering oracles
The fountain of Egeria was supposed
to possess the same power, and was in
trusted to the guardianship of the Vestal
Virgins. The fountains of Castalia, on the
flank of Parnassus, and of Hippocrene, near
Helicon, were believe to communicate the
poetic spirit.
The Gauls had special generation for the
springs to which they went in search of
health. The old romances of chivalry in
their fancies of a fountain of YOUTH where
spent forces and lost charms could be re-
covered, were only reproducing a myth Of
old Greece.
The perennial nature of springs, which
was for long time regarded as a sacred
mystery, was also their most striking char
acteristic to those who sought TO explain
it without reference to religion and poetry
According to Aristotle's idea, which was
adopted by Seneca and prevailed till the
sixteenth century, ''the interior of the
earth contains deep cavities and much
air, which must necessarily be cooled
there. Motionless and stagnant, it is not
long in being converted into water, by a
metamorphosiS like that which, in the at
mosphere, produces rain-drops. That thick
shadow, that eternal cold, that condensa-
tion which is disturbed by no movement,
are always subsisting and incessantly act
ing causes of the transmutation of air.
Popular Science Monthly.
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MEDICINAL QUALITIES OF BUTTER
milk.-For summers beverage there can
be nothing more healthful and strengthen
ing than buttermilk IG is excellent for
weak or delicate stomachs, and far better
as dinner drink than coffee tea or water,
and, unlike them, does not retard, but
rather aids digestion. A celebrated ply
stefan once said that if everyone knew the
value of buttermilk as a drink it would be
more freely partaken of by persons who
drink so excessively of other beverages;
and further compared its effects upon the
system to the cleaning out of cook stove
that has been clogged up with ashes that
have sifted through, filling up every crew
ice and crack, saying that the human sys-
ten is like thestove, and collects and gathers
refuse matter that can in no way be EXTERN
mated from the system so efiectually as
by drinking buttermilk. 1t is also a
specific remedy for indigestion, soothes
and quiets the nerves, and is very somno-
lent to those who are troubled with sleep
lessness.
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WHERE GOOD COFFEE GROWS.
Some Varieties Cost seventy Cents a
Pound on the Plantations.

At the Coffee Exchange the other day
several well-known spectators were dis
cussing the new boom in that market,
when the subject of the Mexican product
came up. Said one broker: Probably
the best coffee in the world is raised about
Jalapa, but it never reaches the markets of
the United States, for the reason that it
is bought up seasons in advance by resi-
dent English buyers for the English mar
ket. The resident German BUYERS contract
for three or four years in advance for the
crops raised in the States of Vera Cruz,
Tobasco, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero.
The little State of Colima has probably
exported more rich Coffee beans than
all the other Mexican States put together,
and at the astounding price of seventy
cents per pound. A friend of mine went
down to try to secure some of this deli
cious product, even at the price mentioned,
but he found himself forestalled by the
English, French and German resident
buyers, who watch with hawk-like glance
that the letter and spirit of their contracts
with the Mexican planters are carried out
even TO the extent of a single pound of the
bean.
" Jalapa is connected with Vera Cruz
by steel railroad sixty miles long. and
this country he describes as an Eden. The
coffee plantations are interesting and al
ways slope towards the east. When the
plants are one year old they are trans
planted into squares ten feet apart, with
banana plants in between, so as to protect
the coffee shrubs from the fierce rays of
the sun. At this age they are about two
DOT hIf i
attain growth of over six feet. The
plant bears from the age of three years.
and, unless blighted, continues to yield up
to its fifteenth year, when it is usually up-
rooted and supplanted by one-year-old
sprig.
1.-The leaf is olive-green in color, the
blossom white and the berry itself a pea
green. Each berry contains two beans,
which when ripe for picking turn car
mine. The average earnings of six-year-
old coffee shrubs are 40 cents, and plant
between twelve and fifteen years of age
yields from 81 to 81 % worth of beans
yearly. Coffee is picked much as cotton or
hops, and the poems earn about % cents
per diem during the season. Upon the
coffee plantations bananas and castor oil
berries raised between the coffee to shelter
it are sold at absurdly low prices. Last
year the value of coffee exported from
Vera Cruz was $l,900,000; Colima, $780,
600; Chiapas, $4,000; Guerrero, $4,000;
Michoacan, $4,000; Morelos, $4,000
Tobasco, 100000, and Oaxaca, SSS,000.
No; we don't know in New York what
really good coffee is. Coffee at 20 cents a
pound on the plantation would cost
pretty penny here, even if we could get
it"-Neg York World.
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Uses of the B.rnboo.

The bamboo of the East are associated
in our recollections of the geography, but it
is little surprising to read that the plant
serves at least five hundred different pur-
poses in China, according to the American
Consul-General at Shanghai. 1t frequently
answers for both iron and steel. The roots
are carved into images, lantern handles,
and canes; the tapering culms are used
for every conceivable place where poles
and ribs can be put; the leaves are worked
into matches, umbrellas and screens cut
into splints, the wood is woven into baskets,
plated into awnings, and twisted into
cables; the shav1ngs stuff pillows; other
parts supply chop-sticks for eat
ing, beds for sleeping, brooms for
sweeping, pipes for smoking, fuel
for cooking, skewers for the hair, paper for
writing, rods for whipping, tables to eat
on, buckets for water drawing, and the ten
der shoots are highly esteemed as vege-
table to be eaten. In the Chinese Empire
south of the Yang-tze about sixty varie-
ties of bamboo are said to grow, although
five or six furnish the principal materials
used. At Foochow and Swallow, the large
size grows 40 to so feet high and six or
seven inches in diameter; ON the island of
Formosa it is found even larger The
Consul sends these particulars in the hope
that so useful a plant-it might almost be
called tree-may be naturalized in the
Southern States Ct this country. The
farmer who had grove of it could
resort to it whenever he had occasion
for small timber; he would need only to
select the right size, cut off the required
length, and it would be ready for use,
while the following year would find its
place made good by at least two more.
Roofing it is the only difficulty, and after
that is accomplished the plant takes care
of itself. Just before writing, the Consul
adds, he sent twenty boxes of bamboo for
transplanting by vessel which cleared for
a port in Oregon. He also sent by the
same vessel, for Eastern Oregon, where the
climate is suitable for them, sixteen Pang
Sac, or hat-peach trees, and seventy large
Shanghai pheasants, Monaghan sand
grouse and Chefoo partridges, the birds to
be turned loose in Oregon and Washing
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flight material guns could be made. The
Office of War at st. Petersburg has great
faith that the new explosive will be of
great use in time of war. Transportation
will not be hindered by the heavy guns
which it has been necessary to carry here
tofore; and then, again, the new guns can
be carried to places where the other guns
could not be carried. 1t is proposed to
make the new guns of aluminium If this
new invention will do all that is claimed
for it, complete revolution will be created
in the science of war. 1t will be far more
preferable than dynamite, as it will not be
as dangerous to transport.
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A New Gunno,vder

A gunpowder has been invented by a
Russian chemist which, if it is as success
full in actual war as it has been during the
experiments, will do away entirely with
heavy artillery. The explosive is called
"Sleetover," and the inventor has solved
the problem of using heavy shells without
the aid of weighty guns. Where ordinary
powder expands in all directions, this new
compound is said to expand in only one
direction. \ projectile can be sent as far
by the use of the new explosive as by the
use of heavy gun, gunpowder and gun
cotton. In a description of the expert
ment it is said that the missile was shot
from a tube made OF cardboard by the use
of the Sleetover without damage to the
tube. This was done to illustrate of what
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OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH.
The Ability to Meet Great Responsible
ties and Their Results.

tiSs oh'A IAtsuilss
Andrew Carnegie, in the North american
Reciew for March, says:
What magnificent example the Repub-
lie was setting to the nations only three
months ago! How changed all is to-day.
Her enemies were grievonsly disap-
pointed when she proved that She could
and would fight in the defense of the
Union. That fact having been settled,
their hope and prediction then was that
the vast armies that had been created
would remain menace to the civil power;
that danger being averted, there remained
for them but the consolation that she must
fail to stand the supreme test of the virtue
of popular government. True, Democracy
had fought; but, said they, it would never
pay The debts incurred in period of
enthusiasm would certainly be repudiated
The Republic set about dispelling this last
aspersion, and nothing in her history has
ever created the profound impression
abroad as the manner in which she has,
from month to month, reduced the vast
load of debt with which she was burdened
at the end of her struggle for national ex-
istence. What the capitalist of the world
now thinks of the government of the
people, for the people and by the people"
and the capitalist is the shrewdest and
most calculating of mems found in this
fact: That the public debt of the United
States ranks the highest in the world"
From her great motherland, hitherto the
first in public credit, she has wrested the
golden round of sovereignty. The consols
of Great Britain, perpetual in duration,
rani- SonOpH in, tho aSti Of ha I'll
to the bonds of the Republic, which are
Republic government of the people
similar to those of Great Britain, would
rank much higher than those of the mon
archy, the government Of class.
| shall never forget when a Cabinet
Minister of Great Britain of the first rank
asked me if there was not grave danger to
the existence of republican institutions
when the dispute between Tilden and
Hayes arose in regard to the Presidency.
| said to him, Have you noticed what
American 3-per-cents. are this morning."
NO" he said, "What are they?" Higher
than yours" was the reply. There ensued
silence that could be felt The Amer
lean citizen, travelling abroad, as he picked
up newspaper in the cafe which told him
that the debt of his country had been re-
duced during the previous month ten mill
ions of dollars, looked around that cafe
with the air of q man that belonged to
something. He called his English, Ger
man, Italian or French acquaintance to
his side, pointed to the paper and said,
\ es, that is how are do it; the country
we fought for we are paying for. And we
mean to keep on paying until our republic
has not dollar of debt"
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Driving a Needle Through a COIN.

The feat of driving a needle through
coin with blow of the hammer, says the
Manufacturer and Builder, difficult or i'm
possible as it may seem at first thought,
the trick by which it may be accomplished
is extremely simple when it is explained.
1t is hardly necessary to say that the at
tempt to pierce coin of copper or silver
with needle, by striking upon the latter
with hammer, will infallibly result in
breaking the needle This is because the
resistance offered to sudden penetration
by the particles of the coin is so great that
the extremely slender and flexible needle,
though much harder, yields to the force of
the blow and breaks.
If it were possible by any artifice to sup
port the needle in vertical position along
its entire length while the blow is being
delivered, so that it cannot bend, the I'M
pact of the blow will be expended in driv
ing the needle downward and through the
coin, instead of breaking it.
1t will be understood on reading the
following description Force the needle
through the long diameter of a sound cork.
so that the eye of the needle shall lust
appear at the upper end, and its point
shall Just touch the coin at the lower end.
Place the coin on two supports, having a
small space between them, or, what is bet
ter still, on nut or other hollow object.
Place the cork, with the needle prepared,
on the coin, and with heavy hammer
strike the cork sharp, strong blow, striv-
ing that 1t shall fail as nearly as possible
in the axis of the needle If the condi-
lions here described have been fulfilled,
the needle will penetrate through the coin
and will be so firmly fixed that it cannot
be withdrawn.
The success of the trick will depend on
the manner of giving the blow Failure
viii be due either to the fact that the ex-
perimenter does not strike hard enough or
to the fact that the blow is not delivered
directly in the axis of the needle. With
the experience gained in few trials, how
ever, the experiment may be performed
with tolerable certainty The trick is both
ingenious and scientific
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EXCAVATIONS AT PoSIPEu.-The exca-
vations at Pompeii, says the London Daily
Necs, are giving most interesting results.
\ wooden case was recently dug up, con-
tanning complete set of surgical instru-
ments, many of which are similar to those
used in the present day. \ few days later
four beautiful silver urns of considerable
hight were found, together with four
smaller cups, eight open vases, four dishes
ornamented with foliage and the figures of
animals, and beautiful statue of Jupiter
seated on his throne. Besides these silver
objects several gold ornaments were also
found, such as earrings and rings. The
excavations are being rapidly pushed for
ward.
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THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY. - The
stonework of three of the picturesque one
story buildings of the Leland Stanford Jr.
University is now all completed The
ground plan of the building is in the form
of an E, facing north, and the completed
buildings are known as Nos. 4, and 6 on
the east side of the group. Work on three
more buildings is in progress. The ma
terial is yellow sandstone, from the quarries
near San Jose. The roofs of the buildings
will be of red tile, and similarly rooted,
connecting all the buildings, will be long
corridor supported by stone columns with
arches like the courtyard corridor of some
of the old missions. The archite, is des-
ignate the style as mission architecture,
being an adaptation of old Moorish or
Spanish architecture, many features of
which were made use of in the construc-
ton of the mission churches of California