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Scotch Plaid Dress. The pretty little mm who carries a ball in her hand, wean a blouse-dress of Scotch plaid, which i* eminently nttej to her ten- der yean. Thu little gown tUre* imartly at the bottom, and enow* the fashionable sleevs topped with the unfailing stiffened mine. The gaiUn are made in the meet ombre hue visible in the plaid a rich unify brown. Thu gown ha* a strap in the back where the falncM u gathered in at the wain-line. Toronto Ladies Jour- Careful Housekeeping "How I* it you keep everything o bright and *hining!"a*kfd Mr*. Ru*ty of her neighbor, who wai uoted for her thrift ani neatness. " Your stoves look like new ; yoar lamp* thine, and yoor silver a ae bright a* though it bad just coire from the tore. Do tell me how you manage.for husband u disturbed because things at our I.OUM do not look a* well as they do at yuan." So chatted Mr*. Riuty. whoee dreM and houeehold arrangement accorded well with her name. It Mem* no trouble at ail," replied the neighbor, "to keep thinge, a* you My, bripht and (himng.' I only Jo every day, or every week perhaps, the ame MB* only do at longer interval*. Once a week I Rive my hotue a thor- ough (weeping with a broom, removing or covering everything in the room before weeping. I then l>ru*h an 1 rub thoroughly With a toft cloth all my furniture, picture* and bric-a-brac before putting them lu place again. Furniture i* much improved many timee by waihing it in clear, tepid water with a *oft cloth, only one mu*t be ptrticular to wipe it dry at once.an.lpoh.ih thoroughly with a dry, toft cloth. A chamois skin it much better. On other day* during the week, I only ' brush up ' or UM the sweeper. "My cook-stove i* kept nice by thor- oughly blacking it once a week and by a daily brushing, not forgetting to rub the nickel-plating with an old woolen cloth. "All my washable tidiee, Joilie*, and tray clothe* are waehed eeparate from my regular waehing. I u*e fine *oap; do not boil them, and rince thoroughly. I then spread ttiecn imoothly over a towel or heei, roll tightly, and iron at once, on the wrong ilde, with a good hot iron. Ironingsuch thing* while perfectly damp give* them . now look, an effect which u not possible in any other way. "My lamp* are attended to every day. I hey an trimmed, filled, and rubbed dry with a aoft cloth. Once a week they are thoroughly washed inagood warm suds, rin- sedand rubbed dry with asoltdnth. (.'him ney and lamp* both reotive the same treat- ment. "For washing iry windows, I o*e cold water, putting tea*poon of coal oil in a quart of water. When dried and rubbed with a soft cloth they will take on a polish like fine china. "And now for my *ilv*r. I am particular about that, and would much rather not have it washed at all. than not washed right. It should be washed in good ht s ad* mad* with fine sop. Then pour over it boiling hot water be particular that the water come* to tne boiling point and i dry with a soft cloth." Mi*. Knsty wa* very much edified with the information received and went home with the determination to make thingiat her house *hin* like be' neighbor'*. Coburg Padding. Heat three cups of milk in a doable boiler. Cook half a cup of well-washed rice in one cup ot billing water five minute* or until the water i* all absorbed. Turn it into the hot milk uid cook unti. very tender. Stir in one tsa- poonful of *alt and one teaspoonful of butter. IJeit on* egg very light, add two lableepoi.ufuls sugar, ani stir this into the hot rice jut as yju take it from the firs. When well mixed and the egg im *calded, mm it into a dish for serving. Mix two tablcepoonfals of sugar and one t ;aspoon ful of cinnamon, sprmkla tnis evenly over the top, dot with one heaping tableepoonful of butter in little bit*. Do this juat before you are ready for dinner, and by the time the pudding should be *erved the sugar. spice and butter will have formed a deli -ions sauce over the surface of the pudding. Lemon Short Cake. Mix thoroughly one pint of floor, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of salt and one leaapoonful of sugar. Ruli in one table- spoonful of batter. Mix with new milk jut stiff enough to roll oat. Divide into three part* and roll oat thin, the sus of a ayer oake pan. Floor the pan, which hould be qatte deep, an inch or more. Put in one cake, pour two tableapoonfuls of melted batter evenly over it, pat on another cake, batter a* before, and then the third cake. Bake in a hot oven from IS to 80 minutes. Hav* ready a lemon tilling made a* follow* : Mix one cap of sugar, three evel tableepoonful* of com starch and a aaltepoonful of salt. Stir this qoickly into one cop of boiling water, .ook on til smooth, then place it over boiling water for ten minutes. Add the juice of one lemon and a little of the yellow feel shaved thin, and one heaping tableepoonful of batter. Tlien add one well- beaten egg, removing th' starch from the tire at the same time, and stir until well irixed. When the cake* are done, separate them and lay the under one <>n a dish for serving, cover with naif of the lemon mixture: add the second c*>ks, then the remainder of the lemon and the top cake. Serve hot. Malabar Rice. Cook one tableepoonfu of fine chopped onion in two tablespoon foil of hot butter in a granite stewpan. Let it cook slowly, and when you have a itronj Syphoning: Liquids From Barrels. Tne acwropinying illuitration uhowi a ready msana of drawing o f liquid* fro-n . barrel having no faucet. A rubber tube a couple of yards ui length ha* one eul pawed thrmgn a bit ot p.ne wood and glued lightly into poiitiuu. A hole is now bored doL Uirough the top of the piece of wood int.) this tube and a short p ece of rubber tube inserted and tightly glued into position. Plaoj the o:ner enl of th* long tub* in the barrel, pinch the lower end with the lingers and draw oat the air rom the ta>> by applying the mouth to Useful Recipe*. Reliable Sponge Cake. Nine fresh egg*. The weight of *ix of them in powdered sugar and one heaping tableepoonful of granulated sugar . The weight of four of the largest egg* in oread flour, that ha* been dried, one fourth t-mpooafnl of salt lifted into the flour, lue grated yello' peel and juice of one small lemon. Beat th* yolk* until very light, tarn in the sugar a little at a time and beat thor- oughly. Add the lemon. Beat the white* until stiff and dry. with a large Dover tag beater, and then beat them into the yolk mixture with deep vigorous stroke", using a woven wire spoon or beater. Stir in the flour carefully, ju*t enough to mix it. Crease two large, deep, brick nan* slight- IT ; pour in the oak* batter and place at once : n a moderate oven. After half an hour, quicken th* fir* and bake another half hour. Invert th* pan* upon rest* un- til cool. Then remove the cake, wrsp it in paraffine paper, replace it in the pan* and set it in the oak* box. This will keep it Mioist and prevent it from absorbing odor*. This cake will keep in good con- dition 10 or U dsys. odor of cooked onion add one cup of rioe which has been waehed and dried. .Stir it often until slightly brown. Mix one quart of strong beef soup stock and one pint strained tomato. Season highly with salt and cayenne. Add it to the rioe and 1st it cuok slowly on the back of th* *tov* until the rice is very tender and th* broth is eb- sorhe 1. Just before serving add more aalt if needed, and pour ovr it two tablespoon- ful* of butter, melted; add two large card amon seeds split, and torn out into a hot iish. DKVIC*. FOR DKAWIMi -i, T I.UjClDI. the upright pieu of tubm<. V len .h long tub* will fill with the iiqu.d wniun will flow steadily througn u when the lower end of the ubej is released, always pro- viding that the end of the tube outside of the barrel is lower than the end which is within the barrel, as this is the principle on which the syphon works a iong arm and a short arm. Care shoul 1 be taken in drawing '.he airat of the tube not to pro- ceed so far that the liquid will rise to the mouth in the upright tube. This miKht very well be of glass, a* glaat tubing can be had at any druggist's. Your Duty In Feeding Next to the cows the moet important point is to feed them well. Provide some bran, or if yon have inferior wheat, not marketable, grind this and UM it along with corn as feed for the cows. A little oil meal can be uwd to good advantage also, and be sure that you have a good quality of hay or fodder. Feed judiciously a as not to c;oy th* appetite, nor, on th* other hand, give them lea* than they will eat up clean. As a rule the more the cow eats tb* more milk she give*. Remember that it take* a given amount of teed to maintwn life aud keep up tho vital forces, and your profit must com* from erts over and above this strained through a close sieve at onoe. ! milk wa* cooled to a very low temperature mmediately after it was taken from the w, it would ktap very much longer. The Deal position for a dairy is aiguarter under ground, out of the way of odon of gas arising from the cow-house and the decom- position of manure. The win lows looking to the north should be covered with perfor- ated 7.inc, and the floor paved with digs, which should be kepi dry. It is a great mistake to think, with a damp flr. the milk will keep better ; because the damp tends to the development of the organic (erms which attack the milk. Nothing having an offensive odor shoald be kept in the dairy, such a* onions and parsiiin oil, which was sometimes the case If. in churning, the butter oomee too quickly, it will be well to add a little water to it. The cutter should never come under twenty- ive minutes. Cream shoald never be completely covered over. Not Awed By His Grace- When the Duke of Marlborough visited America he stepped at one of New York's swell hotels. On entering the dining-room one evening he wa* Mated at a table op- posite one occupied by half a dozen Harvard student*. Calling the waiter the duke asked for * menu card, and ex claimed, on looking it over: " Is that all Vile simply vrle ! Wine list, waiter. After scanning the wine list he made the same remark in louder tunes attract- ing the attention of the student*), on* ol whom immediately called: " V% alter, menu," and on glancing at the card remark ed "Is that all' Vile simply vile"'Another called 'or the wine list, looked it over and with disgust in every word, mimic- 'la that air Vile simply vile!" 1'he ked: duke turned angrily in his cnair, and, ad dreising the students in haughty tone*. Mid: "Are you aware, gentlemen, you are mocking the Duke of MarlborougQ? The six Harvard students looked at each other in undisguised disappointment, exclaiming in chorus: "is that all? Vile (imply vile! while the room rang with laughter. WRESTLING WITH A PYTHON. t u I .. ..I . ii In the nr. l a ii . - t,, , n AlSMetCaase te mm KaUearlr Kae. The strength of a python, or any of the large boa-constrictors, i* often underesti- mated. My* Mr. Carl Hagenbeck. It i* put forth u unexpectedly, and in a manner so unlike that of mammals, that tb* amateur trainer is sometimes caught napping. In this respect Mr. Hagenbeck himself wa* once very disagreeably surprised, and, but for the prompt aid of two of nis assutaiits, hi* career a* a showman might have come to an untimely end. He thus relates the adventure: I as dealing in wild beasta.at Hsmburg, importing them from th* southern coon trie* and making -ale* te, showmen and public ptrka. A well- known German menaiterie pro- prietor had order- ed eight pythons, and one morning I Mt about trans- ferring theai from the large cage, or houM, in which they were kept, tea hug* box for transportation. They were all large, ranging, I should think, from twelve te eighteen feet in length. With the first six python* I had no diffi- culty. My way of handling them wa* to step quietly into the large cage, and witch- what she ce ration Authoress of "Annie Laurie." It will surprite many te learn that the composer of the. air ot "Annie Laurie," and ot the word* of the long as now sung, is till living ID SjotUnd.and that she is Lady .luiiii Scott, an aunt by marriage ot the present Duke ot Buciieuch. Tho original ong was written by Mr. Douglas, of King- land, in praise of a daughter of the first ba-onet of Maxwelten. These facts were Another point of importance is to stable stated in a paper read the other day before the oews warmly. It is self-evident that the Dumfries Antiquarian cows which are compelled either te run out in the cold aud wet or te tend in a pierce- inpdraft cannot do their beet at the pail. If you attend to these thing* your cow* will do their duty by you. Warmth in the Winter Dairy. Warmth i* a* nee unary in a dairy in the winter M cold i* in th* summer. There is no better winter dairy for the farmer than a dry, well-lighted cellar half abov* th* ground, having double windows, a sub*tan tial ttone or brick wall, and a plastered ceiling overhead. With ventilator pe.se- ing into .1 chimney, and some simple mee>ns for warming it, such a cellar is unsurpass- able for this use. It may be heated ui the simplest manner. A sheet- iron pail half full of wood coal* from a fire, a boiler of hot water, a small oil stove, or a very small charcoal *tov, will b* sufficient to keep the right temperature during th ooldeet weather. A few red hot bricks or blocks of iron, Mt on a flat stone may be sufficient under some circums'-anoe*. Society, by Sir Kmiliu* Laurie, of Maxweltoo. Lady J hn Scott ws, it seems, about 1*34. on a visit te her enter at Mar-hmont House, and earn* across Allan Cuningham's version of (belong. She disliked the words, deleved one verse, altered others, and added the third verse, one of the most beautiful in the whole range of Scottish son). "Like dew on the gowan lying, is the fa' of her fairy feet, 'etc., an i supplied a new tune. Thirty- five years ago Lady John Scott published the song with others for the benefit of thi widows and the cmldren of soldiers killed in th* Crimea. Best Temperature of Water for Stock. There i* nothing better tor ll farm animals than pure well water. The tern- j perstur* of it is the beet possible. Warm water is nuseoui to n animal, as te a person: t to re'reihing effect of a cool , draught of water we all know, -lost th* I same we know how ice-cold water makes the teen _-he t> 1 the whole body shiver, M it takes the heat from the blood to be- come w.irtu itself. A temperature of 55 or The Philosopher. The web of human fortune* is woven for eternity. The art of life is tot know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. The race of mankind would perish did they cea*H te aid each other. . It is good te have the brain packed full of imsgis from the healthy past. It i* to live twice when you can enjoy the recollection of your former life. Never do anything concerning the recti- tude of whicuyou have a doubt. Doubt* are not overcome with violence, but with reason and understanding. Love i* th* only thing that ha* a perennial root and that death cannot touch. The two most precious thing* on this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. The time spent in brooding over trouble*, if properly employed, would enable you te surmount them. RHEUMATISM AND DYSPEPSIA A Combination of Troubles Which Made Life Miserable. wr. Ell Jever Belaiem Hl ExswrOnre Wim Ttwe Triable. <!.! >.,i M (aln foxl sad Wa* Tneaihl I* * >"d >* r farr Bel Mrii.-r ., sad Me U Sew a Well Man. From the Coaticook. <Jue , Observer The reaiiers of the Observer have hnems familiar with th* nmarkabl* core* effected by the UM of Dr. Williams' Pink PilU for Pal* People through their recital in these column*, a* taken from other reputable newspaper*. It is now our purpose to tell them of a cure, hardly short of miraculous, which wa* ejected on a person with wnom many ot our readen are acquainted. We refer te Mr. Eh Joyce, formerly of Diz- viile, but now living at Averil, Vt. A fee- days ago we saw Mr. Joyce and asked him about his recovery. He stated that for four or five years he had been afflicted with rhenmatism and dyspepsia. He WM laid up ana unable te do anything on an average four months in a year, snd wa* constantly growing worse, although treated by good physician* and trying numerous remedies recommended. A year ago iast August he was taken seci- juslv ill while at his sister's, Mrs. Dolloff of Dtx vule. He could not retain any- thing on his stomach and tne phyaicians who attended him were powerless in im- proving his condition. One of them stated that h* had canoer of the stomach and could not live long. It WM while in this precarious condition that he deter- , mined te try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and before long was able to retain food on his stomach. Hi* pain gradually be- .me IOM and in six weeks time be wa* back te hi* home in Averil, feeling that tie had obtained a new leas* of life. He continued taking the Pink ''ill* for some lime longer and gained so much in health and strength that he is now able to do the hardest kind of a day'* work, and be frankly give* Dr. William*' Pink Pills all fe credit for his rejuvenated .m.iiuon, \nd say* he believes) their timely use saved his lite. The < >beerv*r has verified bis story through several of his neighbors, who say that it WM thought that be was at the point of death when b* began the use of Pink Pill* ; in fact wbtn we mentioned his case to one of the docton who liaii attended him he aid be supposed he wa* dead long ago. When such strong tributes M the* b* had te the wonderful men', of fills it is little wonder that their reach such enormous proportion*, that they an the tavonte re'neiiy all claesee. Dr. Williams' Pin* 1'ilis lain the elements neceteary to give new life and richness te the blood snd restore shattered nerves. 1 hey an an unfailing ipecinc for locoototer ataxia, partial para- lysis, St. Vitun dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the alter itfects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, nervous prostration, all diseases depending upon vitiated humor* in the blood, each M scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for trou bles peculiar to female*, such a* sup- preMiona, irngulantiee and ail forms of knee*. In men they effect a radical our* in all trouble* arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of any natuie. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills an manufac lured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Com- pany, Brock vill*, Oct., and Schenectady, N. Y., sold in boxes (never in looee form by the dtten or hundred and th* public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold m thi* shape) at 5Oc. a box or six boxes for 12.30, and may be had of all druggists <>r direct by mail from Dr. Willums' Medicine Company, at either address. Coins of Enormous Size. When the area and square inches of sur in the winter, and water from any good well will be somewhere near enough to this. Ths water should be pumped in'o the trough* for u*, and the troughs drained ing for my chance, Mice them, one at a { , n j immediately covered as soon M theitock time, by the neck, just below the he*d,and i Dart ^ runt ; t eo that *now or ice will not lifting them by main strength, carry them I gaihtr in them. te the box and plump them into it. when I went 60 degrees i* the very beet for the animal* foe aretak*n inte consideration the largest But theievenih python, when I went to fetch him, proved te be very wide awake. As 1 approached ha darted at m* with open jaws. I had banly time te match off my felt hat and present it, when the snake truck and fastened his teeth in the art. Tni* gave m an opportunity to collar him, and I did so, securing a food grip on hi* neck with my right hand. As 1 at- temp'ed to drag him out, however, the big fellow threw hi* thick, heavy body for- ward, and almost before I realised my danger, managed to secure a turn of hi* coil about my Tegs and body. I shall not soon forget my sensations. Th* coil was tense M an iron cable, and drew itself irresistibly around me. There wa* an awful rigidity about it, M I felt it tighten. It wa* like being caught in the turnof some big hawser with which a steam- ship is moved. There wa* the grip of death in it ! I knew that in a moment more my hip bone* would b* cracking; but turning both my feet outward, so M not to b* thrown, I Mixed the uake's neck in both hand*. ind exerting all my strength, triel te throw the reptile's head back te my right a* to cast off his fold. At the same time I shouted lustily for help. Three timM I *nrged with all my atnngth to turn that coil off, but I might as well have twisted at a cage bar ! In a minute I should have been thrown and crushed ; but meantime two of my men, who were at wore only a few yard* distant, rushed into the cage, and laying hold of tb* python'* tail, wore able to turn th* coil Aoh ! but that was an ugly adventure. Notes. Premium parents give character to their offspring in moit cases, with th* help of proper feeding and sanitary care. Keep the sheep out of the rain. A wet fleece i* a breeder of discomfort and disease. Take good can of the colt* at thi tims and hereafter. When grown they will surely be worth all that the pains ha* cost. Feed them well. 1> not expose them te i barbed wire fences, and do not neglect to train well and often. Feed wheat properly and carefully to the hog* when it is worth loss than sixty I cents per busnel. This mean* te mix it with corn and oata, the three kinds of grain in like ' proportion. It is best te soak tb* mixture a few hour* if it cannot be "coarse ground." Milk the Cows Clean. Divide the milking a* done into four equal portions, say* C. R. Vslentioe, and then will be ten per osnt. of onam in the 6nt part, and f >rty par cent, in the last. Cows should be milked regularly and clean, toe stripping* being the nohet milk of all. The milk should not be kept any time in the cow house. It would be better to put it outside at once. if it can uot betaken into th* dairy immediately. Tb* cream, upon being taken into th* dairy, should be coins ever issued by any government on the globe were those put intj circulation by Sweden during the sixteenth century These mammoth pieces are neither round, square, oval nor octagonal in shape, hut re great irregular slabeof copper deocribed a* "resembling piece* of a boiler after an explosion." The smallest piece issued under the law which authorised this gigantic coinage wa* an irregular rectangular slab of about twelve *quar* inches of surface and about half an inch thick. It WM worth about SO cent*. Th* largest of the same series WM about a foot square snd value of $4. Each of these copper slab* an stemped in several (laces on the face, the various inscriptions giving th* date, denomination, ate. The $4 piece mentioned last above is nearly an inch in thickness and weighs four pounds, lacking a fraction. Queen Victoria's Fire Brigade. Queen Victoria has a great horror of fire and has arranged quite a complete fire brigade among her servant*, M that it U at hand whersvei she is in residence. They had a *ry lucceuful "faUe alarm" the other day at U*boi ue, and everyone wa* at hi* poet according to order, M if on board hip. Prinoe Henry amoo^ hi* other use- ul ilo.nsstio roles, is chief of the little biigade. The V^ueen has taken the great est interest in th* whole concern and free quently amuses herself by watching th* drill. Nothing- to Say. Mrs. Ray How does yoar husband ex- press himself when he come* home late from the olub ? Mrs Kay He doesn't ex press himself at all. Th*y Mnd him bom* in SB ambu- I i can Pink ale* and with con- Fort v five Years of His Life Gone. About forty-five yean ago Clem Wallis, then a boy I j yesrs of age, went ont te hi* father'* pasture to catch a frisky colt A* he was about to place a halter around its neck the colt kicked him m the bead, mat r>K a ragged wound. The wound heal- ed, but it soon beoan-e apparent that the boy wa* slightly domemed. Hi* halluci- nation took peculiar forms. He would trav- el up and down the bay on the steamboats, claiming proprietorship and refusing to pay fare. The steamboat men humored him, as he was considered daft. He wa* the butt of the imall boy'* joke* and banter. He ha* lived in the village since and is now 60 years of age. About six wee*;* ago the local physioans determined to experiment on hi* case. They found that a portion of his skull had been f >rced into contact with the brain by the blow, and by a skillful operation they removed the pressure. The man recovered his reason, and the first question he asked when be recovered from the operation was, "Did the colt net away' He i* perfectly sane now, but forty-five year* of his 1-fe are a blank te him. Klectrio welding ha* been used to remedy blowhole* in defective castings by tint drilling out the defect* and then beating ih* casting snd introducing scrap* of steels, which are melted by electricity, making a perfect joint without a team or flaw of any kind. Eyesight Saved After Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria, Pneumonll and other prostrating diseases. Hood's Sana parlUa Is unequalled to thoroughly purify the blued and give needed snsngth. Bead thi*: "My boy had Starlet Fever when 4 yean ol J, leaving him vei-y weak and with blood *!. se~ wlite tanker. His eyes became In- fliynrd, his sufferings won Intense, and for T weeks he could not even open his eye*. I took him to the Ky and Kr Infirmary, hut their remedies did him no good. I began giving him Hood's Sarsaparilla which soon cured him. I know It esived ass inks. If not his vpry III*." AHRIB K. BLACK- xi . 3*M Washington St. Boston. Mass. HOOO'C PlLLC are UMbMiarter-dlniKr nils. CU/ford Black