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if you HOUSEHOLD. The Sitting-Emu Window. A's“ 833KB L. JACK. The days are gradually lengthening, we see it in the sunrise and in the prolonged evening. The lamps are a little later in lighting, there is often a pleasant glow in the sunset skies, and we hesitate to draw down the blinds. Our winter evenings in this climate are only half appreciated and yet they are a valuable recreation after the daily life if we can " stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,” and enjoy the luxury of warmth and light, good reading, and good fellowship, shut out the world and its trials, “ so let us welcome peaceful evening in. H A friend writing to me lately, from a hotel in Boston gave me her idea of enjoy- ment.â€"“ I can sit by the fire in this little parlor and feel happy to know I am not ob- liged to go out, or to get ready for anything or anywhere.” This was the result of a sur' feit of going somewhere in that city of cul- ture when people seem to live at the lectures or in the street cars going to and from them. But these long winter evenings when the sitting room blinds are closed, and the World is far away, it is always a comfort not to have to go anywhere- ‘Young people especially, however, are not satisfied with this quiet. They feel that they lose from the isolation and do not often realize that they can have around them the best thought of the best thinkers, can read and study and improve the best of men’s ideas, and learn how to live and do their life work to the best advantage. Give a family a typewriter, a sewing- machine, a piano, and admission to the Chautauqua circle, and advantages are found for self-improvement if books abound. Let the winter evenings be spent in pleasant re- creation too, and mixed in with the labor of study let their be the cheering relaxation of of the home. Better a home-keeper than a street-keeper, and the sitting-room window never looks upon a more pleasant sight than when the home circle meet around the evening lamp, intent on some occupation, full of bright thoughts,of happy inspiration- of unspoken hopes for the future, of am- bition and courage. Let nothing between them, let the evenings come and go, and find the march still upward and onward till we come once more to the bright sunshine of a future J unc. Some Tested Recipes. Aran Flurrnns.â€"Slice apple into a bat- ter made of one pint of milk, two teacup- fuls of flour, three eggs beaten still‘, two teaspoonfuls of bakinl: powder, and half a teaspoouful of salt. Drop in hot lard. Eat with maple syrup. RICE WAl'rLlls.â€"Bcat three eggs sepa- rately. Add to the yolks a tcacupful of boiled rice, a lump of butter. Sift in one andallalf pints of flour, add apint of sweet milk, a little salt, and lastly whites of eggs. Bake in walllc irons. COFFEE CAKE.â€"One cup sugar, one cup melted butter, one cup New Orleans molasses, one cup strong coffee, one egg, one teaspoonful baking powder, one tea- spoonful ground cloves, one tablespoon ground cinnamon, one-half pound each of raisins and currants, four cups sifted flour. Cnsssn Cannonsâ€"Cut slices of bread half an inch thick, then with a large round cutter out in circles ; then out these in half ; take a tablespoonful of butter, put in a small saucepanâ€"more if you have much bread ; fry your pieces a light brown ; when done take them 11 and set on tin or on your stove pans ant heap them with grated cheese and sprinkle on tllema little pepper and salt ; set aside until ready for serving, md then put in the stove a few minutes lutilnicely browned.‘ Armour BLAxc lllANOE.-â€"Cllt one and a calf dozen apricots in two and take out the ltoncs ; boil them in’a syrup made of half sugar and half water, let them cook till they ire very tender, then rub them through a sieve. Put three cupfuls of fresh milk and half a cu ) of en 'or, to boil, in a farina kettle. 1 cat we 1 the 'olks of eight eggs and add them to the mi k when it just comes to the boilill point. Stir this faithfully till it thickens, ut do not let it boil. Have one ounce of gclatine dissolved ill a little ‘ water, strain the custard, add the gelatino and stir till nearly cold. Mix the apricots with the custard and pour it into a buttered mold. Solve when it is stiff and very cold with or without whipped cream. Soul MILK l’ln.~â€"l§cups sour milk, or buttermilk, 1 heaping cu sugar, 1 cup chop- pod raisins, 1 tab espoon ul strong vinegar, eggs, 15 teaspoonfuls flour or corn starch, gteas uful, each, cinnamon, clove, nilt- meg. he in two crusts, which should be very rich and flaky. This will make two ' pies. GERMAN CREAM Permâ€"Make a batter for aspongo cake, and bake itin round, gem pans. While they are hot cut off the tops and take out all you can of the soft inside, then re lace the cover and set them where the ' wi l dry. Just before tea time fill them wi whipped cream and a little jelly. Ovs'rxa Suvaâ€"Put one quart of o ters and their liquor with half a pint 0 cold water in a fimhin bottle, or a bright tine ve nothing better; iron spoils the flavor. Add what salt they require, and beat them scalding hot. The scum will rise as soon as they begin to heat, and must be removed. J not as theyaro about to boil, skim out all the oysters into your soup~tureen, add to their liquor one half-pint of cream or rich milk, cah piece of buttelrikthe 8318 if a: egg,asmu pepper-cyan e, an a 't finely-rolled cracker crumbs. When this is boiling hot, pour itonto the oyster-sand serve. The crackers to be eaten with use soup should be heated, as it makes them more brittle. Porsroas Ann Caressaâ€"Pare and slice eight potatoes and one-half as many onions; put in stew kettle withtwo tablespooufulaof butter or lard, and a little water, salt and pe ,andletitstewtflltheyaroeoftsnd we mixed together, stirring often to pre- vent homing. Fam‘r Canâ€"3 eggs,wellheaten, lg cups sugar, leup rich sour cream,l a ground cinnamon, § teaspoon cloves, i tea~ spoon lemon extract, 1-5 teaspoon grated nutmeg, l and raisins, stoned and chop- ped. Stir a 1 well together, then add two level t nspulverized soda and iwo cups flour. Ba e in a moderate oven. For Tâ€"lgTable. BREAST or Lana A LA Minixslsnâ€" Breast of lamb, quarter of a pound of maca. roni, one lemon, half a int of water ; place a layer of thin slices of on in a braisin pan ; lay the breast of lamb on them ; pee the lemon and cut in thin slices and place the slices on the meat ; cover these with a few more slices of bacon, add an onion cut fine and half a pint of water; also salt and a little pepper; cover closely and let it sim- mer slowly about two hours : prepare the macaroni and place it on a platter and the breast of lamb on it; makea rich gravy from the drippings and pour on the whole. Memos Riemannâ€"Remove all the fat from a loin of mutton, and the outside also, if too fat ; remove the skin ; joint it at every bone ; mix half a small nutmeg with a little pepper, salt and bread crumbs ; dip the stakes into the yolks of three well beaten eggs, and sprinkle the crumb mixture all over them ; then place them together as they were before cut apart; tie them and fasten on a small spit; place them on a plate in a deep baking pan ; haste well with butter and the drippin sin the pan ; when done place on a hot dis ;add half a pint of water or gravy to that in the pan, one tablespoonful of tomato ketchup, one tablespoonful of dropped capers; thicken with flour; after skimming off the fat, let it boil up at once after the thickening is added, and pour over the meat ; serve very hot. To FRY BEEF Kmxrv.â€"Take a beef kid- ney ; cut it into thin slices and let them soak in warm water two hours, changing the water twice ; drain them well from the water; season with pepper and salt and dredge with flour ; fry in hot fat until nice- ly browned ; arrange the slices in a circle on aplatter ; make about a half pint of gravy in the spider ; add one t-ablespoonful of piquante sauce and one small lump of sugar ; pour this gravy into the centre of the dish; serve with fried sweet potatoes and stewed tomatoes. PISII-PASH.-â€"Pllt half a fowl into a stew- pan with one quart of water; let it cook until it falls to pieces; then drain off the meat, and to the liquor add the other half of the fowl, cut into joints, with half of a small cupful of rice, 3. little mace, pepper and salt to suit taste; let this stew until the fowl is tender and the gravy nearly all absorbed, add the rest of the meat and serve. LEMON PA'l'rlEs.â€"â€"-To one quart bowl of bread crumbs add half a pint of boiling milk ; let it become cold, and then add the grated rind of two lemons, one-quarter of a pcund of butter beaten toa cream, three eggs well beaten, and one cupful of sugar ; butter some cups well and pour ill the mix- ture and bake about 20 minutes; when done turn them out and serve with mint sauce. HUNTING Noraâ€"One pound of flour, half a pound of brown sugar, one large cupful of molasses, two tablespoonfuls .of butter, and a desertspoonful of ginger ; mix these ingredients well together; make the dough into small nuts, and bake in abutter- ed baking till. STEAMED' Annownoor PUDDING.â€"â€"-Mix- two tablespoonfuls of arrowroot smooth in a few spoonfuls of cold milk, and then stir ‘ it into one pint of milk; add four well beaten eggs ; add flavoring and sugar to suit taste; pour this into a. buttered pail, and steam one hour ; serve with cream. A Hindu Girl. A Hindu baby girl is an unwelcome ad- dition to the family ;her birth is supposed to be no blessing, but a curse and a sign of divine wrath. Rukllmabai says that when the new-born baby is 'l. girl “ the father gnashes his teeth and stamps his feet. The mother is sorely disappointed, and although her tenderness may bring its sure wealth of love, she curses both herself and the child. There is, moreover, a notion that women who hear only girls are sinful, and this in- tensifies the grief.” Another Hindu woman gives the same testimony. Ramabai (high caste Hindu widow) says that in no country in the world is a mother so laden with care and anxiety in anticipation of the birth of a child as in India. All her hope of happiness depends upon the sex of the unborn child. A wife who bears daughters and no sons is frequently put away by her husband ; hus- bands sometimes threaten their wives that, if the coming child is a daughter, the offend- illg lnother will be henceforth banished from the societyof her lord and master :a newwife will be installed in her place and the offend- ing wife will be made into the servant and drudgc of the household. Ramabai does not merely make generalstatements to this effect, but gives several special instances that have come within her own knowledge, among her own friendsandacquaintances, of this punish- ment having been meted out to mothers who ve birth to girls. Mothers try to avert the 1d luck of having a daughter by supersti- tilous ceremonies previous to the birth of the c lild. Maintaining the Fertility of the Farm. In an address before one of the institutes Secretary \Voodwnrd had the following to say on maintaining fertility of the soil: “ Rotation will not save land. It puts off the calamity of exhaustion. It simply equalizes the ratio of exhaustion. It is said 'tlllage is manure.’ Tillage does not add any manure. It works it out faster. \Veeds are better than here land. Summer fallow- ing is a very expensive process. I had rather row weeds and plow them under. It won d be better for the land. Bare land loses its ammonia. Sow c in the corn to conserve the fertilit . shod earth is a losing earth. How is we make fertility T We can do it by the purchase cf commercial fertilisers ; but this system is too costly, un- less for ' l crops. hither way is by means 0 stable manure. “ I have,” Mr. Woodward said, “ banished the word barn- yard from m vocabulary. A barnyard is a nuisance. y stable manure ' me last winter, by fading stock, over In load pro- fit over and above all it cost. Ibuy cotton- seed and linseed meal, middlings' and bran, and my manure comes from these foods fed to animals. Ely this system the farm is getting richer the tint" “Pluck Prom thylfalporya BootedSor rev. All! can we forget the rankllng Of a loved one's lsen dart! Can tune o‘er h the aching Of a sad and broken heart! Yap) can witther up the heart's cog-.6. proven free ringin N You can pluck of? s‘bprrow‘s ndrils, But there still remains the root. ‘ The'hcart that once so willingly T“ as tattered in lovo’s chain, 1*. ever .nevefigains its freedom, The link w' still remain. The chain which now a broken one. . Makes it allnk' of woe, And cvc . si h the bosom heaves it site 1 ea to and fro. For the heart iscold and desolate “‘hen false vows have been sucked, The sad flowers only can he leaned. The root can not be plucke . N. Lacquers Nicknames. BY. 11. C. DODGE. Whenever a name for the baby you pick, Chose one with npretty, melo ions ‘ nick Elizalfiatp is Lizzie, Lize, Bess, Bessiel Betty, 0 ! n . Liz, Lida, Lizaâ€"Charlotte’s Lottieâ€"Chester’s Chet ; Elijah will as Ligo be known and Isaac will be Ike, Cornelia-Neal or N ccley, and Michael surely Mike. Louise will change to Woezie or to Wocian, ‘che or Lou ; Deborah will be Debby, and Susan Suso or Sue, Matilda will be Tilda, or else Tillie, Matie or Mate. I And Lucy will be Lulu and Catharine, Kitty or hate. Sweet Margaret claims Maggie, Madge,Margo Ma y or plain Mag. . And Davil , Dave or Davy; Charles Wlll be as Charlie drag: . , Maryâ€"-Mamo, Moll or Mollie; Helen, Nelllo or Nell ; Nathaniel, Nat or Nattio, and Isabella, Belle. J 8.11103 “Sill bo Jim or J anlic, and Zachariah, Soc 1, . Robertâ€"Rob, Bob, or Bobby; J ohnâ€"J ollnnlo or just Jack; ' Bangleâ€"Iago; Augustonâ€"Gus, Alfredâ€"Al- le or , And Mosesâ€"Mose ; and Henryâ€"Hen or Harry, Hank or Hall. Samulglhip Sam or Sammy; Philipâ€"Flip, Pip or 1 . William i’s Wil or Willie, and also Billy or Bill ; Lawrence will turn to Larry; Joseph to Joey or Joe; Jacob to Jake, Reuben to Rube, and Florence to Flossic or F10. , Edward is Eddie. Noddy, Teddy, Ed. or Ned Peter is Pete and Joshua Josh, and Frederick Freddie or Fred ; And J crcmiah’s Jerry and Nicholas is Nick, And Obadiah is Obie, and Richardâ€"Rich, Dicky or Dick. Rosalind's Linda or Rosie ; Gertrude is Gertie or Gert: Theodore is The, Emma is Em and Albert's Al or Bert : Steven will Stove or Stcvy be; Claraâ€"Clare Caddie or Cad ; Augustaâ€"Aggie or Gussic, and Thaddeus; Taddio or Tad. Thomas is Tom, Tim, Tonllny; Benjamin’s Ben- ny or Ben; Cnrolinc‘s Carrie or Lina, and Jane is Jennie or Jon; Sarah’s Sal; Sally or Sadie: Frances is Fannie or Fall ; Andrew is Andv. Amanda is Mandy, and An- tionottc's Nettie or Nan. Amelia’s Melo or Amy; Christopher‘s Chrissy or Chris; Each boy is Bub or Bubby ; each girl is Sissy or Sis ; And Anthony is Tony, and Matthew soon is Mat. And Adelaide is Addie, and Patrick’s Paddy or Pat. And there are Polly and Peggy and Pussy and Patty and Pet, _ And lpts mp1 lots of others that we Just now orge ; And Papa is Popsic-Wopsic, Dad, Daddy, Pop- pie 01‘ Pop. . . And Baby is Tootsw-WootSle and ought to be on top. We Met to Part no More. Llewellyn A. Morrison to EJ. L. Music :â€" “ Thy Bright Snlilc.”l On a fair October evo \Vllcn the bloom was on the hills, And the day seemed 10th to leave The love-songs of the mills,-â€"-‘ In a home, where holy son Hath a thrill of the sun-ht shore therc thc ransomcd llarpcrs throng,â€" lVe met to part no more. Though the hills may rise between And the parting rivers roll, No landscapes intervene In the province of the soul ; Tllere the laws that bear and bind Hath eternal touch in store For the nlind in bond with mind,â€" lVe met to part no more. On the golden, sun-kiss‘d hills W’herc saved immortals roam. And the breeze-borne music trills With the pure, gladdoy of Home,â€" Thcrc, our spirits mid tho bloomsâ€" Will repeat, when earth is o'er, And the fadcless light illumes :â€" TVc met, to pad no more. “ Tho Elms," Toronto. An Old Letter. Darkened and stained is the paperâ€" Stalncd as by many a tear ; Faded and dim ls the writing Traced in a lon past year. Yet oh ! how viv d and vital. How bright with love's purest ray Is cvcry pagopf thqlotter We read wlth moxst oycs to-day! As the sun-ripened fruit of the vintage Lives in the sparan wine, So the soul of the vanis ed writer Glows in cachploquent line. His noble and kindly emotions. His sentiments tender and true Are here, like remembered music That thrilled us whcn life was now. How sweet are the fond recollections These faded leaflets incloso! Sweet as the llngerin fragrance That clings to a wit. crir. rose. Yet sweet with a tender not: That tells of summer gone by, Of lo 5 that bloomed but to perish Au hopes that dawned but to die. Dear record of days do rtedl We read you o’eran o'er : You are now like a voice of greeting From some fair suullt shore. Over the surges of sorrowâ€"- Over a sea of gloom This voice saysâ€"“ Love is immortal And lives beyond the tomb.” His Father's 8011. Mr. Greyneckâ€"“Well, Johnny, I hear you have been over to my old friend Edgely's, plying with his little boy. ” o hnny--" Yes, sir. ” Mr. Greyneckâ€"" Did you see Mr.’ Edge- ly I" Johan â€"-"Yes, a.» Mr. reyneckâ€"" What did he say to you t" Johnnyâ€"“He said ho’ness'd I was a chip of the old blocth A Tribute From a Jealous Rival. The SanFl-ancisco Call is continually di. recting attention to our trade progress on the Pacific with the hope of inducing the \Vashington government to do somethin more than it is doing to encoura Unit States trade in that direction. he Gail’s latest diatribe is so splendid a tribute to Canadian ente rise and energy, that we cannot refrain rom quoting it. ss-s our contemporary : “The Pacific Mail Steam. ship Company and the Occidental and Oriental Company had better look to their laurels. The three new steamships which the Canadian Pacific Company has built for the Asiatic trade are nearly com- pleted, and will go to sea, at intervals of a month, in January February and March next. They will be magnificent vessels, each 5,700 tons gross, 485 feet long and 51 feet beam. Of course, thev do not compare between Liverpool and New York. be long and 57 feet beam. But they surpass the largest vessel sailing out 3 of this port, the tons gross, 408 ect long and 47 feet beam. The contract under which they were built rc- from Vancouver to Yokohama, sailing in days. Under the pressure of competition the steamers which now sail out of this port for Asia will make better time than they do. But they will not strive as they may, cross the ocean in as short a number of days and hours as the Canadian steamers, which follow the shorter sailing circles; and if merchandise and travellers do not take the shorter voyage in preference to the longer, it will be the first instance on record in which they have not done so. The danger that these new steamers will seriousl interfere with the Asiatic trade of t is port is real and imminent. The energy with which the Canadians are stretching forth a long arm to grasp that trade is as noteworthy as the supineness with which their efforts are wit- nessed on this side of the line. Ten years ago it did not seem possible that British Col- umbia and its chief city (Victoria) could ever compete with California and San Fran- cisco for the commerce of the Pacific ocean. The British colony possessed none _of the prerequisites for foreign trade. It had no surplus products to export, and no popula- tion that could consume foreign imports. It had no money, no banking facilities, hardly any people, and no connection with the Atlantic coast. But all these drawbacks have been overcome. British Columbia. has a railroad which carries passengers and tea as swiftly from the Pacific coast to New York as they can be conveyed over our own lines. It is gaining population, and great English banks have established agencies and corresponding banks at Victoria. Now it is going to have a line of steamers faster and larger than those which sail out of this port. The struggle for traffic is going to be no child’s play. Words to Mothers. It is hardly half a century ago that child- ren all over the world were little better than slaves. They were beaten for their faults or the llumors of their parents or governors ; they did not speak ill the pre- sence of their elders, and they could escape their misery only by growing into maturity. To-day these things are somewhat better. The rod is banished from the schools ; all heating of children is relegated to the lower classes, where the children find much liberty ill the street ; p and it is considering ill shock- ing taste, ill fact very vulgar indeed, for any wall-bred person to beat a child. A great many children to-day live in charm- ing intimacy with their parents, and one sees it in the lovely, trusting expression of their eyes, in the inspired joy that breaks over their faces, chasing away that momentary gravity that is not .sadness in a thoughtful child. A celebrated French artist said that if you would find the expression of liberty and courage ill a child’s face, you must not go to seek it among the “gamins” of the street, but amongthe children of the well-to-do. If you would see a woman or a child grace- ful, beautiful, and charming, you must find one that is loved. The child that dreads to be corrected or criticised for every word or movement never has a manner of elegance or an expression of charm. Fill your child’s soul with an ideal of good manners, of be- nevolence and beauty; teach it abstractly to dislike vulgarity, selfishness, rudeness, and to feel that you love and admire it, and ex- pect of it charming manners, and the work is accomplished. It is impossible for a slave to have any style. If you would have your child digni- fied, you must treat it with di nity. It is wron torcorrect 0. Chi (l in public. Any proud elild feels degraded b it. It should be a case of dire necessity w len you find fault with a child before strangers, and to destroy a child’s ride is to do him an ir- reparablc injury. ake advantage of some intimate hour when arent and child are alone together, and t len let the arent ten- derly ex lain how the child has )ehaved ill the day efore or that morning, and why the child’s conduct was wrong, and how lt should have behaved, and show the child that the parent lespects it and loves it, and believes in its capacity to do all good things. This will have 10 times the effect of punish- ment, when the child is in a state of excite- ment and the parent usually angry. Get in the habit of explaining the reason of things to your child. Let there be as ‘ little confusion in its mind as possible. Above all, keep the fact of your love upper- most in the child’s mind, and let it under- stand that you havc no wish to dominecr over it, only that being older and wiser, and loving the child so much, ou would save it from its inexperience, t at this is your duty, that you are teaching it to be its own master. Children should feel a sense of freedom, a sense of ownershi in their parents' posses’ slons, understan ing that all restrictions are only for expediency; they should feel that their parents’ guests are their guests, and have an interest and pride in pleasing and not disturbing them. A Moravian missionary named Letzen, with his wife, certainly is to be written with those who love their fellowmen. For thirty years he has been reach‘ and working at a station in the ibetan oun- tains, Without the of ht of a European face, and with the fmtoo thoe fgrtienmgys dis- tant, so 1; in em t 0 passes of the and dangerous streams. with the monster steamships which ly Teutonic is 9,685 tons gross, 582 feet American built City of Peklll , which is only 5,000 quires them to make 19 knots in a smooth sea, which is considerably more than any captain would get out of tho Peking. It is reckoned that they will make the voyage the circle of the forties, ill something like 12 PERSONALS. Oneof the humble bemoan! the age 1: Johann Soholz, a North German carpenter, who, seeing an iron bar lying across the railroad track at Spandau, in such a way as to menace an incoming train crowded with engers, ran forward, and snatched the m from beneath the very wheels of the locomotive, saving the train, but losing his own life. W. Clark Russell, whose sea stories have such remarkable dash, breeziness, and out- of:door freedom, has lon been a hopeless and wellnigh helpless inva id, chained to an ill-door existence in an inland town. ' The Empress Eugenie is-said to have been a heavy investor ill South American securi- ties, and to have lost largely by the recent depreciation ill them. Rudyard Kipling’s description of his hunting expedition ill British Columbia and in this country will be published two or three months hence ; and he will hunt again in those regions in the spring preparator to his journey to India. next summer wit his parents. It is reported that he is now overworking himself at the rate of ten hours a day. Queen Victoria, when at Windsor, takes a daily drive in the open air, her health hav- ing improved with the advent of cold weath- er. Her Ma'esty’s favorite headgear is said to be a mus lroom straw but, occasionally adorned with a white feather. Neither hat nor feather has a particle of style, but the Queen prefers comfort to‘fashion except on occasions of ceremony. Among the best patrons of the second- hand bookstorcs in London is Mr. Gladstone. He is fond of buyill books concernin Shake- speare’s life or wor ‘s, and although 10 buys largely, is said to always insist upon a (11s- count for the cash payments he usually makes. The greatest philanthropist ill Europe is said to be Baron Hirsch. He had given 82,- 000,000 to the causc of education ill Galicia, and has had his offer of $10,000,000 to the schools of Russia declined, because he coupl~ ed with it the condition that in its use no distinction of race or religion should be ob- served. His latest plan is to transport half a million Russian Jews to tllc River Platte. An attempt was recently made by the Prince of W'ales to introduce the Baron to the Nobles’ Club at Buda-Pesth, but the Hun- garian aristocracy are said to have been deep’ .ly offended by the suggestion. The remains of Sir John Bocllm, the eminent English sculptor, who died suddenly the other day, are, by the Queen’s s ocial command, to rest in the crypt of St. aul’s Church. Ill the last twenty years only ei llteen burials have taken place there, w1ile at \Vostminstcr Abbey in the last twenty-seven years they have arranged one ayear. From 1600 to 1800 one thousand and thirty-nine intermcnts took place at \Vestminstcr Abbey, and since then they have numbered only one hundred and thirty. Sitting Bull was one of ll. few Sioux Indians who could write ill English, but autograph hunters had to pay a round sum for his signature. From Bergen, Norway, comes the news of a practical charity contemplating relief to a deserving class. which, however. ill our changing domestic conditions does not make so ready 1!. call upon our sylllpathics as in older lands. Mrs. C. Soudt has given two houses and 50,000 kr. to establish a home for aged women servants no longer able to work for their own support. Ill health has not prevented Fraulein Von Chauvin, a German lady, from making for herself a more than national reputation as a naturalist, Her collection of butterflies is the most perfect ill Germany; she has an aviary in which birds and animals of the most opposite natures live ' together in peace ; and by observation and experiments, she has made valuable discoveries in animal and plant life, and has written several treat: ises that have attracted much attention. Father Kncipp, the parish priest of a little villa cin Bavaria, has a new “Kur,” to whic princes, prelatos, and Rothschilds throng. The “cure” seems to consult of plain food, the wearing of the coarsest linen next the skill, abundant bathing, lnucll ox- ercise, and runnin about barofootcd on wet or snowy grass. ‘0 fee is charged for ad- vice, and only fifty cents a day for board, and many chronic sufferers from rheuma- tism, neuralgia, (lye 0 sin, nervous diseases, toothache, and chilbains have been dis- charged cured. Thomas A. Edison is said to regard his deafness as a blessing in disguise. It enables him to think and plan in perfect quiet, and he can have his children about hlnl at all times without being disturbed by their noisy prattlc. He also misses the comments passed on his appearance wllcrcvcrllo goes. Miss Kate Dl'cxel will endow with eight million dollars the new reli ions order show is founding, to be called “ '1‘ lo Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament,” whose work is to be the amelioration of the condition of Indians and llcgrocs. She herself will be domiciled in the order, living like the humblcst sister, with no exemptions from the hurdslli of her lot, though she will probably locome Mother Superior. The Empress Haralto of Japan is an en. lightened and scholar] woman, who has done much to further t 0 social revolution, of the last twenty-five years. 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