Ii HOUSNIElâ€"Hâ€"OLIDTM Marking the Linen. ‘d'hile it may in some cases be necessary to mark linen by stamping or writing with an indelible ink, this is oply to be tolerat. ed for ordinary articles under circumstances forbidding the employment of more im- proved methods. An embroidered letter or letters is the proper way of marking, and the current fashion gives neat and plain, though artistic lettering in place of the highly ornamental, involved and illeg- Ihie letters and monograms which were recently so much in fashion. For an ordinary set ofplainhandkerchiefs, for instance, what could be more apprO‘ priate marking than a single plain initial neatly wrought in the corner? Plain every‘ of frequent sweeping. The soft, long- hsndle-l brush will remove most of the daily accumulation cf dust. Mortality From Various Diseases. According to the census of 1860 of every 10,000 deaths in the United States 1 is of calculus, 35 of Bright’s disease, ~10 of fevers other than typhoid, 59 of rheumatism, 70 of scrofula, 130 of cancer, 150 of apoplexy, 145 of whooping cough, 160 of dysentery, 190_of meningitis, 2‘20 of scarlatins, ‘240 cf ague, L50 of convulsions, 310 of typhoid fever, 350 ofheart trouble, ~i800fdiph:her a, 880 of diarrhu‘a, and 1,420 of phthisis. WORKMEN UNDER HYPNOTIC 1N- FLUENCE. Their {strength 1-. Nearly Doubled, and They no Much More Work. A foreman in one of the Pittsburg shops day sheets and pillowslips would receive has always been able to get considerably like or even simpler treatment. The‘ nap- kins in ordinary use should have a slightly ornate lettering, while the richest of table spreads and the “ guest-chamber linen †should have the most elaborate treatment, preserving always such a. degree of fittness for the designs and figures to which the marking is to be complementary as will make it blend in pleasing harmony rather than attract by startling effect. According to authoritative statements given in the New York Press,the French or \raised satin stitch is now considered the right thing in marking linen. In most cases, pure white is to be used, though in toweling a tinge of red may be employed, and where colored articles are to be marked such shades are allowable as will blend liar moniously with the main colors. The tendency now is to quit large letters. It is understood that the proper place to put the. mark on a handkerchief is in one corner. Tablecloths are to be marked at the middle of the end. If with small letters these are placed near the hem; iflarger,at a corresponding distance from the edge. In any case, there should be not less than the height of the letters between their lower edge and the hem of the cloth. Nap kins are marked diagonally across the cor- ner; towels at the middle of one end, just above the hem; sheets on the middle fold two inches from the top hem: long pillow- cases at the end, an inch or two from the hem, and square cases at the middle of the hop. Household Hints. Moths dislike newspaper as much as the prepared tar paper. Rugs when shaken should be handled by the middle and not the ends. Cauliflower used for pickles should be prepared by first boiling the vegetable. A teaspoonful of powdered borax added to cold starch will tend to give the linen an extra stillness. Pole rings can be made to run easily by rubbing the pole with kerosene until thor- oughly smooth. Rainwater and white eastile soap in a lukewarm suds are the best mixture in which to wash embroiderics. Leather chair bottoms, when the worse for wear, may them thoroughly with kerosene. \Vatercress is the latest complexion spe- cific. Itis said to work wonders with the skin and hair, because there is so much sulphur in it. Sulphur matches dipped in water, and rubbed on ink or fruit stains on the hands will remove the (liscolorutions. A lighted match run rapidly around the top of an ob- stinate fountain pen which has “stuck â€~ will loosen it immediately. Light gloves wear longer than dark ones, because the coloring process necessary to produce a dark color rots the kid, says an exchange. To clean light kid gloves, put them on and rub them with a clean cloth dampened, but not really wet, with gaso- line. Do not do this in the neighborhood of a lighted lamp, gas or fire. A sewing-machine rug is the latest addi- tion to domestic appliances. It is a sheet of denim, about the size of an ordinary bed shoot, in the middle of which the machine stands. All the clippings and threads fall on the rug, and the latter may be shaken off at the close of the day's work without the bother of sweeping and dusting the room. A thick-lipped oyster-shell is a kitchen convenience of a high order. It is a better put and kettle scraper than the iron dish- cloths. The chain arrangements called by l that name are abominations, which succeed in collecting all the scraps of burned potato, fried onion, cabbage. and the like, and which can he kept clean only by frequent baths in concentrated lye. An oystenshell, on the other hand, can b) kept perfectly clean. Powdered borox is considered the most effectual substance to get rid of cockroaches. Mixed with a little powdered sugar, it may Signed by Sir \Villiam Chambers. greater results in the way bf work accom- plished by his men than any other boss in the place with a like number of men. The difference in the amount of work turned out was so great that it caused one of the other bosses to investigate the cause. This inquisi- tive man knew he was doing all in his power to keep his men at their machines, and even went so far as to keep continually trying to hurry them up. But despite his efforts his fellow foreman always outdid him. Finally, when his attempts to discover the cause had failed, he went to the success- ful foreman and asked how he obtained such an extraordinary output. The man turned to him and said : “ I haven’t studied hyp- notisin for ï¬ve years for nothing. I have all my men hypnotized, so that their strength is almost doubled. Do you see that fellow carrying that rod of iron? Well, watch me make him drop it.†The foreman had no sooner spoken the words than the workman dropped the iron as if it were red hot, and then stood as if transfixed or dazed. Continuing the fore- man said: “I have all these men under my control, and they all know it. I have only to threaten them when anything goes wrong, and you can be assured things soon right themselves. As I said, there is a great ad- vantage in keeping the_meu under hypnotic power. I never permit them to tire but al- ways make them labor under the impression that they are modern Samsons. It is peculiar what a. great increase of strength can be given a man by hypnotizing him. I have taken a man who was naturally weak and sickly, and after pnttinghim under hypnotic influence, he turned upon a muscular, well- built man and completely overpowered him by sheer brute force. So you can appreciate how I value my hypnotic power. The record of my output will show that. there is, at least, one advantage in being alliypnotist. Then, we frequently have accidents about the shops. It is not necessary to go for a doc~ tor, for I can stop bleeding and ease or ban- ish pain by simply bypnotizing the portion of the body injured. Now, today 1 had an accident at the piano over there which took oï¬'a portion of this ï¬rst ï¬nger. It started to pain me frightfnlly, but 1 merely auto- hypnofized the member, and it has not pained me since." The foreman who was less gifted with phychic powers looked on in amazement at be freshened by rubbing I the hypnotist’s recital, and with a “well, I never," went back to his work with a sigh. THE 00EEN‘S siï¬s COACH. The Host Superb Coach liver Builtâ€" Beauurully Painted and Trimmed. Her Majesty’s State coach has taken part in almost every State ceremony for over a century. It has been styled the most superb coach ever built, and was de- the paintings on the panels are by Cypriani. On the front panel is to be seen Britannia seated on a throne holding in her hand a staff of Liberty, attended by Religion, Jus- tice, \Visdom, Valour, Fortitude Com- merce, Plenty, and Victory presenting her with a garland of laurel ; in the background a view of St. Paul‘s cathedral and the Thames. On the right door will be found Industry and Ingenuity givingu cornucopia to the genius of England ; while the panels on each side of the right door have History recording the reports of Fame, and Peace burning the implements of War. On the back panel Neptune and Amphitrite are depicted as issuing from their palace in a triumphal car, while on the upper part are the Royal arms, ornamented with the Order of St. George, the rose, shamrock. and thistle entwined. The left door has Mars, ' Minerva, and Mercury supporting the Im- erial crown. On the panels on either side are the Liberal Arts and Sciences. The carriage of the coach is composed of four large tritons. The inside of the body is lined with scarlet embossed velvet, superb- lyrlaccd and embroidered with gold and surmounted with the Imperial crown. The hind lozenge and seat contain the badges of he sprinkled freely about the pipes, tubs I the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and other infected places in a kitchen. A woolen rug, saturated \vifh boiled lin- seed oil, is recommended for removinglajso m- emfle, velvet. scratches from a highly polished surface which may afterward he varnished with shellac. dissolved in alcohol. Lighten Home Work. Have astool of the right height so that l ,_ . you can sit down when doing the family 1 ‘ ‘Cmna' ironing, you will be able to get through al lof the Order of the Bath, of St. Andrew, and of St. Patrick. The liammercloth is After the battle of l\\'a'.crloo the coach was decorated with ’ trophies of war. The original lining of the inside still remains, though much worn The at Fort Smith, on the Great Slave river, or coach was ï¬nally completed in 1761, and » Fort Vermilion, on the Peace river, but a ‘ SESSION AT OTTAWA. THE DOMINION HOUSE. SEVENTH PARLIAMENT -â€" FOURTH .- TIIE SPEAKER LIBEIJJID. Sir John Thompson desired to call the attention of the House to a matter which he thought affected the privileges of the House, and he would ï¬rst. call attention to a portion of the proceedings of Monday last. The hon.mernber for Grey (Mr. Lan- derkin) had been speaking. and was once or twice called to order. A motion to ad journ was made for the desired purpose of putting him in order, but this being out of order the motion was not put. Comment had been made yesterday in the Ottawa Free Press upon those proceedings. It im- puted to the Speaker of the House the grossest partisanship in connection with his rulings of Monday evening. He therefore moved, “ That the article is 3. scandalous, false, and malicious libel upon the honour, character, and integrity of the Speaker of this House, and an attack upon the privi- leges and constitutional authority of this House." Mr. Laurier agreed to a large extent; as to the necessity of upholding the honoured head of the House, and he believed that the character of the individual members should be maintained when attacked in the press. The motion was carried on a division. swsaura’o \vrrxnsses. Sir Charles H. Tripper moved “That this House, having evinced a desire that the law and practice of Parliament respecting ex- amination of witnesses before committees should be amended, in order to give power to committees of this House to examine witnesses under oath, therefore the Stand- ing Committee of Public Accounts be authorized to» examine under oath Mr. Joseph Pope and other witnesses respect- ing Behring Sea arbitration accounts.†The motion was carried. FAST ATLANTIC SERVICE. Sir John Thompson, in answer to Mr. Laurier, said negotiations for a fast service between a Canadian and an English port are being made with Mr. Huddart, 'of Aus- tralia. A provisional agreement might be considered to have been entered into, which would be produced when the bill on the subject was brought before the House. MES}! FOR GILL NETS. Sir Charles H. Topper, in answer to Mr. Lister, said the mesh of the gill net for Whiteï¬sh and salmon was 4.1. inches in ex- tent ; for herring, 3 inches ; and for stur- geon, 12 inches. Those regulations would continue in force during the present sea- son. RED RIY ER NAVIGATION. Mr. Martin, in moving for a return re- specting the improvement of St. Andrew’s rapids on the Red river, said that the con- struction of a lock to complete the navigaâ€" tion bettveen W'iunipeg and Luke \Vinnipcg would be a great boon to the people. Mr. Ouimet said that the Chief Engineer estimated it would cost $922,000 to carry out the improvement. The motion was carried. TIMBER L151 IT‘S. Mr. Charlton moved for information regarding the sales of timber limits since 1888.? 5He contended that timber limits should be sold by public auction, and that at least three or four months’ notice should be given. The motion was carried. PROTECTION or BUFFALO. Mr. Ouimet, in answer to MrsDavin, said it was not. the intention of the Govern- ment to establish a buffalo breeding ranch bill would be introduced containing a pro- vision for the protection of buffalo and other fur-bearing animals in the North-VVost. The bill would legislate to prevent the kill- ng of buffalo for five years. CATTLE SCHEDULE. Sir Richard Cartwright asked whether the Government had received. any com- munication from the British Government with respect to Canadian cattle. Mr. Foster said Mr. Gardner had under- taken to have the lungs of Canadian cattle examined for an experiment, and when he was convinced by the examination and from the reports upon them by his officers that the cattle were healthy, he would then make known his final decision. If these specimens were healthy the schedule would be raised. MEDAL TO N.\‘v'. 31.1’. Mr. Ives, in answer to Mr. Davin, said the Government had issued 170 medals to the officers and men of the North-West of an order-in-Council authorizing the giv- ing of medals to such members of the force as had been actually under fire. THIRD READING. Mr. Musson's bill to incorporate the I Duluth, Nepigon, and James’ Bay Railway Company Was read a third time. NORTH-WEST sorrows. mounted police force under the provisions ! Mr. Ilrodeur, resuming the adjourned de- ‘ away, owing to the brushing it has received hate on the motion of the hon. member for lduring 130 years. It cost £7,061 16?. 11d. ’ It was used at the coronations of George 111.. George I\'., William I\'., and Queen When the Queen made use of the coach it was found necessary to raise big basket of clothes much more candy. 1 and thicken the seats, and put footstools especially if you have the board in a cool room, say the dining-room. The exertion ‘ of rising to change the irons Will not be great. Even the washing can be done very, comfortably by awomau not ever strong' physically, if she will not fret about it, but will go to work the right way. The ' white clothes should, of course, be placed in warm water and soap at night, and by morning they \vill easii rub clean. Into . the boiling water shouh be poured a tca- l spoonful or a trifle more of kerosene, which 3 will whiten the clothes. And then carpets! There are still a for her feet. The great drawback is the ext-essch strength of the springs, which causes an unpleasant motion apt to produce giddiness. Indeed, it is reported that the Queen never came back from driving in the State coach without suffering from severe headache. Postal Card Birthday. The postal card had a. birthday not long ago. Its twenty-fifth anniversary was cele- brated at Vienna. Dr. Emanuel Herman. an Austrian. first invented the card. It was used first in Austria-Hungary. 1373 it was used in Germany. and in 1550 i great many carpets used in modest homes, i it was adopted by the International Postal where the care of them is wearing out the Union. 1 L’Islet (Mr. Torre), said he regretted that the hon. member for Assiniboia had not shown a desire to deal with the ques- tion for the benefit of the country. Sir John Thompson, said it was due to the House that he should express himself upon the points under discussion. He then entered into a statement of the course pur- matter. Mr. Laurier said the question before the House did not involve any censure or at- tack upon the Govcrnment with reference to the decision it had reached regarding the North-\Vest school question. It was simply a request for papers. The moticn was adopted. The House went into Committee of Ways and Means for the consideration of the In a tariff in detail. This .sx‘n coi‘rrzits. .\1r. Foster explained that the effect of 1“ "83rd 3° l“ useI he“ “"3 “me the changes in the duty would allow the houscII'ifv. E To soft pine floors can be interesting figures: In Austria 1m),0'm.0520 l free entry of 1m and come imported direct, prettily stained and varnished, after the , are in use every year: in langhsh post offices or in bond. from the 0mmâ€). of production- cm'fh have been ï¬lled “1 “‘l‘l‘ P‘llzl'o "‘d i 253-0‘“l'cm' and m the “To†world “"01†This would allow the free admission of teas the pretty. cleanly method of laying :u-gs' 1,003,000.003, abcut will give the room the wholesome-l ness of our grandmother's days and do cleaning time, to say nothing of the labor w...â€- sued by the Government with regard to the 1 from England held and blended in bond,but it was proposed to discriminate against teas i llr. Olaf Stephenson. an Icelandic nitysi' that were declared by the British inspectors awav with the principal l:o:her cf house- ‘ clan, is seeking iii-cute to practice in ‘~\ inni‘ unfit for home consumption. Peg- The item passed. PARIS GREEN. Sir Richard Cartwright protested against the duty of 10 per cent. on Paris green. mination of the potato bugs. The item passed. me'. Mr. Denison pointed out that putty, when used for polishing granite, was free, but when used for polishing giass it was taxed Qflper cent. He thought this re- quired explanation. ' The item passed. ‘ 1 LA)! I‘ CIIIMNBYS. Mr. Mulock objected to the duty of 30 per cent. on lamp chimneys. Mr. Fraser said the trade was controlled bya combine which had closed factories. He held stock in afactory which had been closed down by the combine. The item was carried. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time and passed :â€" Respecting the Ottawa Gas Company. To incorporate the Dominion Women's Christian Temperance Union. lespecting the Ontario Mutual Life As- surance Company. The House went into committee of \Vays and Means for the consideration of the tariff in detail. ERIE SIIII' CANAL. The House went into committee on a bill to incorporate the St. Clair Erie and Ship Canal Company. The bill was partly passed through com‘ mittee. MARBLE. Mr. Foster moved to rearrange the duties on marble as follows :-â€"-In blocks from the quarry, free ; sawn on not more than two sides, 10 per cent.; on more than two sides, 20 per cent. The item was allowed to stand. RUBBER SHOES. Mr. Mulock objected to the duty of 30 per cent. on rubber boots and shoes with cloth uppers or tops. dThe item passed and the House adjourn- e . W Some Tunnel Stories. “ I recall an occasion,†said a railway man to me, “ when a man made a bet that he would walk without a light through a tunnel. “ He got upon the line when the officials were not looking, and his friends went on by train to the next station to wait for him; and when they had waited for him a couple of hours or more, they ventured to tell the stationmaster, who sent offs. couple of plate-layers like a shot. " The man was found, strange to say, not more than three hundred yards from the point where he had started; He was huddled up against, the wall, and looked, more like a spectre than a human being. “ The darkness had completely terrified him. In his utter panic he fell down at last against the wall, and lay there afraid to moxe a limb, and so eaten‘up with ter- ror that he fainted dead away when they brought him to the light. “ In an ordinary way we keep a sharp lookout, but on two or three occasions we’ve had u. tunnel full of people. One morning I remember a ' local ’ breaking down in this very tunnel, and all the peo- ple, men and women, turned out just as though they were guests at a picnic. “ Directly they got. into the darkness, fog there was only the gnard’s lamp to lighr them, the women fell to screaming and shouting and running all over the place like a. pack of sheep, and if a train had come thirty or forty of them would have been cut to pieces. Of course, the guard went on to the signal-box as quickly as he could, and blocked both lines ; but it was anarrow shave, I must say. “ " I heard a story the othor day, where a ride in a tunnel nearly killed a substantial merchant iir middle life. He was going down to the city in the morning, and made one of those idiotic rushes at a moving train which city men Will make. ' “ He got on to the footboard of a carriage and hung there by the handles of the door, but for the life of him he could not get the door Open. It turned out that that particu- lareompurtment had been locked, and the man had no nerve to walk along the foot- board and enter the next. He just hung where he was, hawling with fear, and un- able to do anything but crouch down and bluober. “ You would think that he would have been killed ten times over, but he managed to reach the next station, where he rolled on to the platform in a fit, and was not soon outside his house for six weeks again.â€â€" [London Paper. _â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"1 Tricky Lions. Some of the most dangerous tricks of animals are those simdlating kindness. Charles Montague, in “ Tales of a Nomad,†says that hyenas often follow lions and ï¬nish a carcass the moment the lions have left it. Sometimes, however, the hyenas are too eager, and steal bits of meat while the lions are still at their meal. I have been told that the lion rids him- self of the nuisance in the following way: He throws a piece of meat aside. When the lion is looking the other way the hycna dodges in and rushes off with the meat. Presently the lion throws another piece of meat, this time a little nearer. The hycna takes that also. At last the lion throws a piece very near indeed. The hyena, having become reckless, makes a dash at this also: but the lion wheels round and lays him low with a put of his paw and a growl of an- noyance. I remember at the Usutu on one ocvnsion hearing at night the cries of a hyena in pain, mingled with an occasional short growl from a lion. This went on for about twenty minutes. The next morning we found the carcass of a hyena bitten across the neck. and markedhy the claws of lions. They had evidently caught it and played with it some time before killing it. I sup- pose this Was done in revenge for the air- noyance they had sustained from the hycnas. ' â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-.â€"-â€"â€"-â€"_ Thos. Goldsmith, who was often seen preaching on the street corners of Hamilton with the Salvation Army, has been senten. sad to twelve months in.jail for improper conduct. WHAT Brits SAM Is AT. That article was necessary for the extcr- ITEMS OF INTEREST LABOUT ,THE BUSY YANKEE. Neighborly Interest In Ills Doingsâ€"Ma! ters of Moment old .‘Ill‘lll Gathered Prom Ills Daily Record. PortLHuron has twenty miles of so were. Chicago’s post office has 2,543 employ... Ohio sweating shops employ abom. 35,000 women. . The Southern States boast 20,000 negro T teachers. Syracuse students have human bone cane handles. Over 00 per cent. of Tennessee labor is native born. Maryland tramps are to be set. to work on the roads. Galveston handles every year 300,000 l bales of cotton. Hartford is the insurance city, from its leading business. Over 65 per cent. of America's school teachers are women. Lowell, Mass, is the spindle city, from its leading industry. There are 1,000,000 unclaimed letters in the Chicago post office. Some of the consuls lately appointed by President Cleveland, are dissatisfied at the lowncss of their salaries. A lOO-horse power electric loOnmottvc iii being built in Philadelphia. A factory at Richmond, Va., produces 600,000,000 cigarettes a year. I In Tacoma all tramps are made to take a bath in the free lodging house. It is an offence to throw waste paper in the streets at Spokane, Wash. The women of Rochester pays taxes on $29,000,000 worth of property. Three million 3 cent nicklo pieces are scattered over the United States. There are 1,289,728 negro members of the Methodist church in this country. Phil Scheig, teller of a Minneapolis bank, has confessed to a larceny of $123,000. The largest opal in the world has just been found in the opal mines of Idaho. Prison labor is being employed in making good roads in parts of New '1 ork State. One hundred and fourteen tramps were killed on the Union Pacific Railroad last year. The aggregate membership of the Young Men’s Christian Associations in America is 246,000. It will take $22,000,000 to build the in- ternational railroad through Mexico to South America. Some of the western railroads are carry- ing coal free to Lscctions where people are destitute. The vote of the school children of \Vis- cousin for a State tree resulted in the choice of the maple. New Orleans society is shocked because the mayor’s daughter married his worship’s bookkeeper. The bituminous or soft coal output in the United States now aggregates 100,000,000 tons annually. The Philadelphia Board of Health has refused to declare consumption to be a contagious disease. Philip D. Armour, of Chicago, employs 12,000 people, and pays nearly $7,000,000 annually in wages. The monster water wheel at the Calumet and Hecla copper mine, Lake Superior region, weighs 200 tons. Governmentengineerssay that the volume of water in the Missouri river has shrunk ‘20 per cent. in ï¬fteen years. Wm. Ludlum, who had his two legs cut off by a Michigan Central train in Detroit, received a verdict of $0,500. It is claimed smugglers at Tacoma, Wash. , have imported large quantities of opium and landed hundreds of celestials. A status of Horace Greeley is to be erect- ed in New York at the junction of Broad- way, Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street. A Vermont paper mill has just closed a contract with the Government for 600,000,- 000 postal cards, which will amount to 11,000 tons. A lady in New York has presented to Bishop John F. Hurst for the American University at \Vashington, I).C., $100,750 in cash. A transcontinental railway is to be built from Montana to Portland, opening up rich farming country, coal ï¬elds, silver and lead mines. Forty per cent. of the Congregational ministers in Massachusetts are withouta charge. In other words, 342 out of 318 are practically idle. What is claimed to be the biggest sawmill in the United States has just been sold at Tripper Lake, NY. It contains $150,000 worth of machinery. New Hampshire cotton mills have u. capi- tal of over S:';0,C00,000 and pay $13,000,000 annually in wages. Over 300,000 yards of cotton cloth are produced daily. The richest young woman in her own right, ing‘nshingtonï¬s Helen Carroll. She inherited .540,000 a year from her grand- father, ’.oya1 I’helps, of New Yor‘k. Miss Frances Crosby, author of †Safe iii the Arms of Jesus†and other widely sung gospel hymns is sixty one years of age, and has been blind since she was six weeks old. A ticket sold twenty-one years ago was recently honored for passage on a Pennsyl- vania train. It had been mislaid, but. was as good for passage as one bought to-day. Winnie Jefferson, who claims to be 107 years old, and who was a slave in the family of Thomas Jefferson when he was President of the United States, is still living in New York. Wm. Newcomh, of Stafford Springs, Conn., is the only American who ever mar- ried his motlrer-in-law. He was divorced from her daughter. He has children from both marriages. The for. Mr. White of Brooklyn, known to fame as the " marrying minister,†who never turned away a loving couple, isdead. In his life he made 14,000 people more tr less happy. Contributions to all benevolent purposes by Protestant Iiiiistiaus of the United States amount to about .‘jh5,000.000 annually. Only one-seventh of this is given to foreign missions. o... wwwn .. .. . vâ€"o ., mm W . M""“‘“-~mm WW». "n... W m...- ~.._.~.