I-*"' 1 ril '!â- m I If i ' I fc. -I '^i^.i' II-' ilS;:; ]::1. lv"i^ â- ^h]^ A 5" 'tII -1 il HOUSEHOLD. EtigftTSgant EcoBomieB. ^^ Many tvmn who ace eztre^ly franliin rection awritar giv€« a few exampta t "Do yon i|»t knew many hoaaw where the supply « cookiag mteiuus ia m nnn^ces aarily limited that a good deal of tiiAe w daily wasted and mnch extra labor expend- ed in prepuring the meals, by having to wash one saucepan in which to cook a se- cond dish that could as well have been cook-, ed with the same fire, and watched at the same time as the first Or a towel must do duty as strainer or colander, no account being made of thtime required to wash the towel nor of its becoming worn or stained Or a silver spoon is used to stir or lift food for the lack of iron -or wooden oae» Why not afford such kettles and pans as are really needed for advantageous cooking, and ' save' in some other department " Have yon ever seen some busy house- wife hanging out clothes on a cold, windy day, taking off a clothes-pin each time a garment is added to the line, trying to make the pin hold two and sometimes three arti- cles? Since good clothes-pins can be had for five cents per dozen, it seems rather far- fetched saving to stand on the icy ^ound double Hie time really required to shake out and hang the clothes, and run the risk of taking cold while so doing. "Could any arithmetisian compute the number of half -hours spent in rearing a fam- ily of half a dozen children, in untying •hard knots' in shoe-strings that are too short or are so worn as to require tying m more than one place, and must again be un- tied before the little shoes can be ti-kenofl? Shoe-strings cost, it may be, ten centa^er dozen pairs. Could the hours which some mothers spend, diiring one year -alone, in managing worn out shoe-lacing in order to save a few cents, not better be utilized in doing some sewing or other work, by which enough could be earned to stock the family with shoe-strings for life " Minor Details in the House- Trifles make the sum of life, it is said certainly they do of life in the kitchen and dining room. And the wife who by her skill and knowledge of detail knows how to save any fraction of the sum allowed her for house-keeping is really one who brings more happiness into the dwelling than the wife whose income doubles her i husband's. This skill and knowledge are the portion of every wife whose mother has taught her to observe the seemingly trivial things cf good house-keeping, the minor details of daily living. And whoever has these little things at command will find them a more integral part of family happiness thanfamiliarity with the differential calculus is. And although Greek and Anglo-Saxon and high philosophy and natural science may be requisite and delightful acquisitions, yet it is evident that they are. incomplete without the pre- vious requisites of bodily comfort and men- tal quiet. be hot let Poor it over conrtaroh podding, w pat be- tween layen of cake. JoHBjnrcAM.â€" One cup of commeil, two cups of floor, one cup of milk, one^auj^ each of butter and mgar^^ree eg la of b»kmg poimr. of i«al Kid IMK pontd of tfglei c nickei^ thiee battten iggs, /with^ mit .•â- â- AjfR*' â- ufBcient to •eMOB fty ilowly m lii^JMW. Vkal MA8BLB;.-^Take a cold boiled tongue or a like number of pounds of cold veal, chop »«ch separately very fine season with pepper, a teaspoonfnl of '°°^* *^j;_* pindi-of uu tniq; and gronnd cloveej-^aofc- !•â- «, m alternate spoonfuls in buttered jwrs miUi( press firmly and cover the top with melted butter when cool close the tops of the jars and keep in a cool place. When ready to serve cut in slices. one tea- TSDJA.'B IHffABlTABTS. And That Eeminds Meâ€" When the burners of kerosene lamps come clogged, put them in a basin of water, containing washing soda, and them boil for a few minutes. This will make them perfectly clean, and almost as bright as new. Coarse brown paper soaked in vinegar and placed on the forehead is good for a sick headache. If the eyelids are gently bathed in cool water the pain in the head is generally allayed. When there is a rat hole through plaster- ing. Or between the stones of a cellar wall, the most effectual way to stop it is to fill it with plaster of Paris mixed with broken glass. Holes in wood are best stopped by nailing tin over them. The cleanest and most perfectly polished floors have no water used on them. They are simply rubbed off everj morning with a large flannel cloth, which is soaked in kero- sene oil oi)ce in two or three weeks. Take the cloth, and with a rubbing brush or stubby broom go raf.idly up and down the planks (not across them). After a few rnb bings the floor will assume a polbhed ap- pearance that is not easily defaced. If you want a pleasing and interesting ob- ject on your mantle shelf, try growing an oak tree in a bulb glass. Si and an acorn by a thread within half an inca of some rain, water contained in a hyacinth glass, and permit it to remain undisturbed a few months, when it will burst and throw down a root into the water and shoot upward its straight and tapering stem with beautiful freen leaves. These miniature trees live ut a few months, but during that time af- ford considerable interest. A little ammonia or borax in the water you wash your hands xrith, and that water just luke-warm, will keep the skin clean and soft. A littJe oatmeal mixed with the water will whiten the hands. Many people u!e glycerine on their hands when they go tu bed, wearing gloves to keep the bedding clean but dycerine makes some skin harsh and red. These people should rub their hands with diy oatmeal ai\d wear (rloves in bed. The brat preparation for tne hands is the white of an egg, with a grain of alum dissolved in it. "' Roman toilet paste" is merely the white ot an ^g, barley flour and honey. They say it was used by the Rom- ana in the olden time any way it is a firstrate thing, but it is a mean, sucky stuff to use, and does not do the work any better than oatmeal. The roughest and hardest hands can be made soft and white in a month's time by doctoring them a little at bedtime all the tools you need are s nail bnuh, a bottle of ammonia, a box of pow- dered borax and a little fine white sand to rub the stain o£^ or a cut of lemon, which will do even better, for the add of the lemon will clean anything. Manicnrea use acids in tiie shop, but the lemon is quite as good and isn't poisonous, while the tMuda are. Pie Cbust. â€" One quart of flourj^ cup of Urd two tea-spoons of baking pow- der, a pinch of salt, cold water enough to nuke a dough not too stiff. Rice. â€" Boil one cup of rice in water until well done, stir in two beaten ejtgs^half cup of sugar, one and a half cups of mUk. Pour into a dish and grate nutmeg over the top. Hot Slaw.â€" Cut half head of cabbage up fine, pour salt, pepper and vinegar over it, take one cup of milk, two eggs, small piece of butter, one cup of hot vinegar and pour over the whole. CoBNED Beef.â€" Boil until soft enough to remove the bones place in an earthen dish and pour over it the water it was boiled in. Place a plate on it and a heavy weight have sufficient watei, so that when the weight is on it will come to the top of the meat; let it stand until cold then cut in slic68a Cup CrsTABDS.â€" Beat five eggs with three-quarters of a cup of white sugar, add flavoring and one quart of sweet milk pour into cups and place in a baking pan of wat- er. Bi^e in a slow oven. Potato Ccstabd. â€" Grate six large pota- toes and add to them one quart of boUing milk stir in three beaten eggs and one- quarter of a pound of sugar; boil seven min- utes, taking care not to let it bum, then add one- half cup of butter. This will make three good-sized custards. Lemon Ceeam. â€" Beat together one quart of cream and the yolks of five eggs grad- ually beat in one-half pound of white sugar and the grated rind of four lemons pour into a porclain kettle and let it come to a boil remove from the fire, and stir until nearly cold, squeeze the jilice of the lemons into a dish and pour the cream upon it, stir- ring until cold. Geeen Tomato Chutnee. â€" Peel and slice two gallons of green tomatoes and three tablespoonfuls of ground mustard, three gills of mustard seed, two tablespoonfuls of ground pepper, two tablespoonfuls of ground cinnamon, one tableapoonful of cloves. One pound of brown sugar, three quarts of best vinegar. Boil all together until quite done. If you choose you may put one spoonful of ground and a portion of cinnamon bark. Celery tops improve the flavor and some odd cloves of garlic, mind Spanish garlic. If more convenient peaches just turning ripe, sliced, can be used instead of green tomatoes. Ripe Tomato Chutnee. â€" Take seven pounds of ripe tomatoes, with the outside skins taken off, put them in a stone jar with three pounds of brown sugar, one pound of stoned raisins and some cloves of good gar- lic. Place the jar in a vessel of boiling wa- ter and let the tomatoes boil until the sugar penetrates them, then add one p^nt of good vinegar, one ounce of cloves, one ounce of ground cinnamon. Boil thirty minutes. Then ppt up. They will keep any length of time. Am â- atcrcatlBS Rev. K. C. Ohatterjee,a caste Hinds and a cnltnred, present in Hub conntcy. JW| retet " Miadon work in V^" h«-M|id iHIl first of all describe tt^ nligioiu and aocial life in India and ^e^ fiidicatA how. ihe work of the miasionjftfi^don^ittvie- ciM and its fntnre. The nitne India is not dNiative oruin. It w»s given to the land W the Greeks, who corrupted the native term Hind. The country is 1,900 mUes !, -and-4,«)» m it e e w»d» .-0Mi tsiBia g ^.^ion and a half of square mfles. It con- tains more territory tfian all Europe outside of Russia and nearly half as mnch as the United States. It has a ^pnlation of 252, OQO.OOQL-moretfaaBiDur times-greater than the poptilatibn of the United States. ^-.^J- BTAILEY AS AH AFRIGAH TBAYEL- IiEB. Oookmg Becipes. Black Puddino. â€" One-half cup each of sugar, butter and milk, one cup of atoned rainns, one teaspoon of ground doves, two and-half copa of fkmr, one teainoon of bak- imr powder ateam one hour. Sance Mix aUtde floor, oom atareh and water tMcether let it bdl two minntea add » amaO piece of butter, nigar and natuflig. Chooolatb JUXT.â€" Tike aeven spoonfals of grated chocolate, tlie nae of white nigar, one eap of eweet oieam mix together and Mt over tiie fire and let oome to a ben. Stealinfi; Knowledge. Mr. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was annoyed by infringements upon his patent, the defence cf which entailed costly lawsuits. He advised inventors to keep their processes and machines secret, if they could, and work them themselves, or sell them to a powerful company, rich enough to indulge in suits at lati for the protection of their rights. Huntsman, the inventor of steel ingots, anticipated Mr Morse's advice as to secrecy by a hundred years. He was an English watchmaker, and his temper had been so tried by defective watch-aprings, that he determined to make his own steel and his own springs. He discovered, after several experiments, that a piece of steel if melted and cast into an ingot, would be uniform throughout. He offered steel ingots for sale, and such was the demand for them that he built a factory to produce them. The process was kept a secret, and his workmen werepaidhigh wages and swcm not to reveal the method. One snowy night a stranger rang the bell of the factory gate, and appealed piteously to be admitted, to shelter himself from the storm. He was dressed as a farm laborer, and the foreman, not suspecting any deceit, allowed him to stretch himself upon the floor near the furnace. The man apparently sank off to sleep. The workman cut the bars of steel into small pieces, and threw bits into crucibles, which were thrust into the furnace until their contents were mdted. Then they drew forth the glowing crucibles, poured the liquid contents into moulds, and set them apart to cooL Then the stranger awoke, got up, bade the workmen good -ni^ht, and went away, taking the secret of making cast steeL He waa an iron manufacturer in disguise, but was, nevertheless, a thief. The Fewer of Tmaginstion. At a ball in Berlin a lady with very deli- cate nerves told her friend that she dreaded roses more than anything. " The odor of theee flowers," she remarkad, " always makes me dizzy." Soon afterwards a lady appeared, wearing, nnfortnnatdy, aredroae in ner hair. The nervous sufferer at once turned pale, her arms dropped at her side, and she sank into a chair. Thev ran to her assistance. "What remarkable nervous irritability I" " What a delicate and sen- sitive oonatitntionf exdaimed the by- â- tenders. " Pray, madam, wonld yon lundly atep aside, aa yon are tiM innocent India has an nverage of 215 persons -to the square mile and the most populous part of the coun- try, as in Bengal and Bombay, as many as 800 persons to the square mile. baces A^D religions. India contains three races of men one in Central India supposed to be the race ot the aborigines, which worship ibe evil spirits another in southern India, and the descend- ants of the immigrant Aryan race, the same stock from which you have descended. Two hundred millions of the people are under British rule and 50,000,000 under feudal native rule. The religionqare divided as follows 170,000.000 Hindus, 70,000,000 Mohammedans and 32 000,000 who accept the lesser rel^ions, including Christians. Hinduism is a mixture of pantheism and polytheism. The ptindples of the religion are announced by the naitve philosophers thns There is one existence and no second, all that exists is God I am God or a part of (jod. Hindu conversation consists in re- cognizing the fact that one's self b a part of God. The Hindus do not believe that the universe came from nothing, but that it is an emanation from the supreme spirits. Salvation consists in absorption into the divine soul. This doctrine has been wrought out into two philosophies, each having its priesthood and rites. There is another *way of salvation among the common people, known as the way of work. THEIB self-inflicted PUNISHMENTS. In the following out the belief we may see all through India persons inflicting upon their bodies the severebt perance in the at- tempt to make the soul independent of the body. Buring the hot months persons will stand within drcles of fire with the sun above doing penance. In cold weather they may be seen standing in a river day and night for 15 or 20 days. A man who lives near me has erected a stone pillar, and every morning mounts it and looks directly into the face of the sun until it sets. He has done this for seven years, and now his face is withered, burned up and his sight almost wholly destroyed. Other men lay themselves upon beds of spikes, or sit with the r arms continually raised t heaven until their arms literally wither to the bone. OTHEB beliefs. Another way of salvation is the way of faith. The believer in this instance puts his trust in some object. Everything is pregnant with divine life and is worthy of worship. This doctrine opens the way for polytheism, and there is no object in heaven above or in earth beneath, which is not worshipped by the Hindu. Sun, moon and stars, human beings and brute beasts, are all made ob- jects of worship. The cow and the monkey especially are sacred animals and. images of cows and monkeys may be found in every temple. A special day is set apart for the worship of serpents. The Himalaya moun- tains and the River Ganges are also sacred. A drop of Ganges water in a man's bath cleanses him from all sins, no matter how heinous. The ashes or bones of any man cast on the river float directly to heaven. All persons dying upon its banks are also sure to go to heaven sooner or later. The 250,000,000 of people have 333,000,000 of gods. The Benares are 2,000 temples, con- taining 500,000 images, ministered to by 20,000 priests or Bra!^ mins. The Mohammedan religion in India is so much influenced by the polytheistic Hindu beliefs that one-tenth of the prophet's fol- lowers are strictly faithful to him. Mission- ary work in India dates from 1813. Efforts were made before, but were fruitless. There are now 28 missionary societies work- ing in India, employing 600 ordained mis- sionaries. The work is accomplished main- ly through the dialect preaching of the word of God in the bazars, the chapels and at the great festivals education of the younger classes and the printing press. There are 10,000 pupils in tne mission schools at pre- sent, and two printing presses are used to print scriptures, tracts, etc., in the various languages existing in India. Two news- papers are published. Mnch influence is gained by the practice of medicine. Lady physicians do a great work among the Hindu women. There are now 600,000 baptized converts in India. Tobacco* eanae of this lady fainting tiirongh the nnell of the roaebad wiilchyen have stock in your hair." " ReaUy, if Oat is Ae case. I will rea dily deliver np to yon tlie gnilty flower bntfirrt exaniine itbetpre panting' judgment. " The flower waa handed round amons thb. group than Mudety wu at an end, jBAoea of BorpriaewereexdfaBondâ€" the mSwrnt- bad waa not tiie ehUd of nature, bat an ex- odlant artifloial imitatfan. Tobacco was first introduced into Western Europe in 1560 by Francesco Hernandez, who imported some tobacco-plants from North America into Spain. The tube, or pipe, in which the Spaniards smoked the imported weed was called tabaco and hence came the name which ia now so familiar to civilization all over the world. In Spain it is still called, tabaco; in Germany, Holland, and Russia, tabak; in France, tabac; and in England and the United Stetes, " tobacco." Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from one of his vojra^s to yirginia, wap th* firat to make smoking fashionable in this country, and even went so far aa to induce Queen Elizabeth " to try a few whifib of the bewitching vegetable." "The Queen," aaya Colond Bired, the founder of Ridhmond, in Virginia, " graciously accepted of it; ba^ finding her stomach sicken, it waa prbsently wliiapered by the Earl of Leioester'a faction that Sir Walter had certainly poisoned her Majesty. Soon reiBOTeitiig fromher ditorder, tne Qaeen obliged the Connteas tiS Nottingluun and all her ^naida of honoar to aaooke out a whole pipe amongst them. WluU tke i;^;|^enfl9||u«l*n Skews to^ -^fca qu^tfes th4^1iii«« ti ^i^^n r y'M. I i^a^«otu««ifeasfiaMi^'Afri|i tracer have lifleaTery con^ieoMB in h g. irfw •s'Wr^R '•'•a ..itiiilprise hahas comlacfed. Bftlus adeem* plidied the feat of Iradini; '750 men, most of them heavily laden with ammnnition and other stores intended for Emin Pasha, through 350 miles of famine-stricken^conn- *^'try. "He requiri^ five steamers' to carry his expedition tp the .^'i^^^i"^*' ^°' ^^ found only three steamb6ats available and with ttaeae inadequate resources he mtmaged, by taking a lot of barges in tow, to transport nieirly fonr-fifths of his pjirty SCO miles up the river, atriying.at.the Aruwimi a da^ or two before .he expected to reach that point. The sufferings of liis expedition may be in- ferred from the fact that the collapse of a number of his men, who were unable to proceed, waa due soldy to weakness result- ing from their scanty rations. When hun- ger drove his hundreds of carriers to the verge of r«volt, between Stanley Pole and Bolobo, Stanley put the rebellious ring- Itaders in irons, uid his prompt severity restored discipline and savml his expedition from the ruin that threatened it. Stanley has not been very popular with most of the men he has introduced on the Congo. With rare exceptions he haa not taken them into his confidence or mingled with them on terms of personal intimacy. One of them, who served for three years under him in important positions wrote that he rarely consulted his subordinates, never confided his plans to them, and that he had lived for years with Stanley and still felt that he did not know the man. " If Mr. Stanley told me," said Lieut. Braconnier," to pack my baggage and be ready to start in an hour, I would not dream of asking him where we were going. He would simply tell me my own duties required all my attention." 'These very men, who have not admired Stanley in his personal relations with his subordinates cave had great confidence in his good judg- ment and ability as a leader and some of them have expressed their admiration of his handling of the expedition now in his charge. During the sea vovage to the Congo the Zanzibar porters got into troub le with the sixty Soudanese, whom they outnumbered ten to one. There was a terrible row and the overpowering Zanzibar! mob, with clubs and firewood, were driving the Soudanese down into a stifling place between decks, when Stanley appeared on the scene with his stick, belabored all. the frantic porters within reach, drove them back, and quieted the tumult. One secret of his success is the mastery Stanley has always possessed over the hundreds of ignorant natives who have helped him in his enterprises. More than onfe African expedition, like Lieut. Giraud's has been ruined because its commander lacked the quality of leadership and insu- bordinate attaches got the upper hand. On J;his occasion StaiUey assigned the poor Soudanese to one part of the vessel, within which he forbade the Zanzibaris to intrude, and thereafter there was perfect peace among the different elements of the party. Before the big expedition debarked on the lower Congo to begin its land march the party had been divided into companies of about seventy men, each of which was put in charge of one o^ Stanley's European as- sistants. Each Captain had his distinc- tive flag and received every morning the orders for the day. The chiefs of several of the Congo stations have expressed their admiration of the perfect order and system with which every movement of the party was conducted. Officers at Leopoldville have said that when a steamer is about to leave that port one would think a huge Atlantic liner was taking her departure. Stanley's command, however, marched in detachments to the waiting fleec, took t^e positions assigned them in the most per- fect order, and were on their way up the river before half of LeopoldAdlle knew they had broken camp. "The departure of the steamers," writes a member of the Sanford expedition, "was quite a sight. Every- thing went with the smooth exactitude of a machine, and not a' hitch of any kind oc- curred." The surprise to which Stanley treated Leopoldville upon his arrival at that place was quite characteristic of the man. The sleepy settlement had hardly woke up one day when it was astonished to see that some distance below the town a score of tents had been rear^, and hundreds of men were hard at work clearing a space, for their camp. Stanley had arrived and had his camp half pitched before anybody in Leopoldville knew th^t he was within milesof theplace. The characteristic prompt- ness, also, with which he cuts Gordian knots that he cannot untie was well illus- trated by the alacrity with which he de- spatched a force of soldiers and seized the steamer Henry Reed after the missionaries had formally declined to let him have the services of that vessel. A few hours after he reached Stanley Pool he had four parties of hunters on the waters of that broad ex- panse shooting hippopotami, and the meat these hunters suppued was all that saved liis expedition from dire distress. None but a remarkable man could do the work that Heniy M. Stanley has. achieved in the Dark Continent; and from all the reports that have oome back from the Congo, his qualities aa a leader of expeditions in Africa have never sfaone^Jmore brilliantly than in the enterprise which he is now leading through an unknown region to the relief of Emin Pasha. poniahing their chUdren a^ ears. It u not improbablr enquiries ton pnrsnes his find oi ' foUo' improbable a^^ .^i^tiu^ ^r ,, IfEEKOOTEUAY .test an diffiontt T*e "Bwa* Mineral Besea,,^^ -^ -r -A lovely c^^*»il Z. Jacoby has been on a tri^. enay country; British (hr2}H ceeded to Golden City,^HV* Dnchesa was submerged »» made to run up the river bj^ current was too strong. Ug„ to horses and Mr Jacobv wpm as Cranbrook, Col. Bakerl "?*â- ranohe. He describes the Jl? versed south of Canal Plat wh!??' enay Lake district is ent^ *• ing an English park. For tw^J more there are gentle undfi. covered with a rich carpet of iT^ the timber being distributed^^^ I »n gallop through at any pojT!! Horse creek 85^hinamenaKi' ChmesecompMiy purchased the nJSI mining ditch for tfve or six thT?' lars from white men, and arTnoT out $10 per day to the man ' creek, twenty miles from iWJI company of enterprising men aKaSr' ing to master the obstacles to mining.on that creek. ;THE QUICKSANDS AND SLm have heretofore prevented bedtoAi reached, but it is thought that the i means adopted will overcome tiiii. i ever it was possible to mine on the L rich returns have been secured, ajj present attempt will be pushed to»| ful issue if it is at all possible todoao, i Jacoby saw much to convince him H richness of Kootenay district from Bid, to the boundary line. The creeki i ing from the Selkirks on thewett, those flowing from the Rockies on the* ifll carry large quantities of gold, aodL safe to assume that in placer miiuinl ground is comparatively untouche^J in quartz the district yet remaiu hi virgin state. That all this is on then change is without doubt, and Koa will soon be teeming with active, men, who will extract from its golden riches. While at Eevt Mr. Jacoby wais shown some Bamplsl quartz which was thickly interli)(«d i) fine gold. The men whoareworidiigi claim have got down eight feet, ud^ character of ore still continues thea The Big Bend country is oneofereup mise, and reports are to the elect li miners on the various creeks are good pay. The main portion of the on ed police are now at the upper croaiii|l the Columbia, while some have gonei the affected district. The Indians hAveqi ed down since the advent of the i and there will likely be no more troobk I Geminced Thkt he Was a J[obIeman. 8he-^"Whnt do yoa think of Signer Handotganif* B9r-"li atn eeiiviaca4 h^ i^ n nnnuM ItaUfA-n^dMuvi."^, " BO " Ilim (0kd yoA fblak' Us Bat what g^ea yoa andi-eadb When he iraa aaked to ]day laat nk^t he fait an aioaad Oe ^iaao for tiM enaikr" Sad Effect of Or Boxing. Science publishes some valaable reeords collected by Dr Samud Sexton on the ob- served effects of boxing the ears. Dr Sex- ton has fifty-one eases i^n Us records in which the ear haa been injured by Uows of the open hand or fist, llie nature of the lajntics â-¼aried considerably. One. had in- flammation of the ear, with sospidon of intracraidal trouble, and a mnniiw of the ear for twdw yean following a blow upon that organ. This patient snbaequently died of brun diseaae. In another caae the ear became inflamed and the hearing very mneh impaired. Jn anotiier oase^me pa-; tient was slapped by^iis Uiai upon the lot '" •adinUDadiato'paitt'aind somI witih a bloody diaohMMLfrtnn vhidi he was airae months In reeoiwi ai ig. The dangers to ^frh Jl^rFSmctoa ealls attsntfam are so gsave that psraits 'and all otiMcashoalddMosesofMofisr matiiod « Skeletons of the Great Auk' A St. John's, Nfld., despatch up^ News has just been received here I cruise of the United States Fish Comni schooner Grampus on the Newfooi coast has been highly satisfactnr; iiij results. One of the main objecte ol i expedition was to obtain skeletoni of i great auk, a seabird larger than a which was once found in myriade oi il| low rocky islands off the Eastern co«t,« even out as far as the banks. Fori' than half a century no specimen hu I seen of thi? remarkable bird, and it is "« ed " badly for scientific purposes, as iij the museums of the world only nine ir tons are found. Prof. .Baird dematd the Grampus to search Funk Island, »1 three skeletons were found many yeanj! Funk Island lies 30 miles from then exposed to the svtell of the Atlantic is no harbor or cove, and it is only p to land on it from a boat in very weather by leaping on one of the i ledges of rocks. It is about half » niiH 1 length, bare, rocky, and without waW,- certain places are guano deposits fon»»j bygone ages, and the hope was that m" in these heaps were skeletons of thej auk, still well preserved. A safe I*" was effected by the scientific V^ spent two days on the island. Capt lins forwards the intelligence that i came away entirely satisfied with tw lection made. They believe they f^ specimens of everything on the animal, mineral and vegetable. It » |. evident the Smithsonian Institution »"â- 1 enriched by rare prizes. The resear the Grampus will continue nortiiwsrfl «J as Labrador. In addition todredgu" collecting natural history specimeM Collins is charged with the duty on ing reports of the appearance of mwl the north-eastern shoreti. ikenil He Agreed With Har- old Colond Bloke and Mrs. Bl*«-«^ have been man and wife for fortyj*!^ probably figure in the next DuW« Ust of divorce cases. It came about »y following conversation " Yes, Lemud Bloke, yoi " *Ji regular brute, not fit for decent ^, life with. You couldn't get «? °"t s" man in the world to live with yon »» • J "Well, if I am what yOT »?- J and I dare say you are right, i H» .^1 withy»u. Idon^ think I «»'JJ*,4| After a moments' reflection sue point. Buffalo BUI intends to give »J*L|rfl in Paris and a winter season mtw^| inRome. HisEnropeanengageine" over three years. Emperor William hw(= ?«»»*«* Pope a mitre of exquisite w« adorned with brilliants, "«' and emeralds in honour of the rir The Kaiser also wrote a letter. ^liiifcw " â€" "•* -^_^rfate.'«T»are air, su |S^»**S^bSdy is fargr y'^c^iA, ahtoating o J2»0t wdl bo overra ZLlIeutry, ^th repubiiv* l^^-JSg an atmosphere of cir^SsUntly expectmg son L!2w1ooW for oalamit fe*Siawfal change inth "^STnotnission in the sick 5^er*«»ve in any decen ^ho oonstantly look on the Pi. Savorable changes. Kiting «e history of sm 'ifSuVand sufferinga, ca !TBornicious influent, seno ?^d more doubtful the long. L !- frft The boisterous an tSe h-»d. «i the cnnning f*vn.urmisiftg.on.theo«er i-Uy excluded from the a S^rly when the patient ffiSve. indeed, no intel C!r when the case is re CSui If there is whispering rJatient wUl wish to know « liWhUe careful listening wil â- '^aTundesirable fatigue. Su [attempts to conceal import ^yiiturally appear to th Jdly exdte curiosity if not ieat suspecting worse result Bated Vy the attendants. fSVd should ever be allowed 1 Pleasant, cheerful tonei 'demanding much conside rm. witn smiling faces, cordia ntonanoes expressive of hope e_as much so as the circums ribly admitâ€" will legitimatelj â- i« the rigors of the syniptom t the sufferings. Shall visi ned? Tc exclude all will c lent that the case is serious, r -ably. If admitted, it shou Bml restrictions. If I were d r I should wish the compan; ti loved friends, taking m Era with one on my brow, wh pwdtted to listen to chaerii iSon, not being expected ty questions, nor to have tl ^nso contiisjpd as to produ |eed the simple presence of 8u Ih conversation for only a few |ht be sufficient. To exclude mce me that my friends desj making me feel keenly that 'ed in my tame of need, by lid sympathize with and â- presence of judicious friei k will effect more good than 1 Cigarettes. Whether or not young Mr. K unoking cigarettes, it is per Iwn to physicians that a mai a carrying that practice to that excessive dguette sm i grsat deal of harm. In the pie who smoke cigarettes do i |than those who use cigars an 1 is .going to leave his oi I the street for a minute, or he comer to take a horse cai, it a cigar he knows it must ay immediately, and a sense ains him. But if he is in t cigarettes, he may ta,ke ' time, and is pretty 'sure to ngit The result is that wl ^ker has the benefit of some i I Inngs whenever h^ is out of urette smoker takes in air ch Dtbe. Imokers of cigars and pipes d inhale smoke, but cigaret Why this should be, it is |, but it is an acknowledged It is thus easy to see why _iratte smoking should be air in reaching the lungs an 1 through the windpipe anc 1 tubes. Between the windi I iie bronchial i ubes keep d This incessant snbdivisi 1 ultimately to great finene Uk ^^ *** " '^^^ wider i |me end of each bronchial ti T» IS called a pneumonic glo us globule that the air and 1 I here that the blood becomes ^genized. In the case of i J*e smoke of cigarettes, th« " of recdving fresh air, I with nicotine. In ord •^twt'to which the lungs â- ^«d air it is only necessary r uiat the area of these pneu •"•some 1,200 square feet. ^J? Populsi notion tha of cigarettes do tk ' porhaps does burn ,!*WWi of some Turkisl ;â„¢l«5^ted with opium, a L?. ?*""' hut that is not Tl»e trouble witl ' jrill smoke cigarei 'Will not smoke ciga ,Bfl.'"*k«rs thus use m l£j!;P«*lo, and that cigi ^^S*"***" take in 'With nicotine. Electridty has entered fgjkjslfl For die angler who wishes to «^t float gently with the «*«»%« ele'.i trouble of watdung it. ».]^Vh«^J arrangement has been ^^^^^^* pull upon the line closes tne ringsabelL „aB»»*i;' Rosda's wealth of horses i» «»r^rf* iMssia-sweaitn oi •""?~, f-Mpe «i.| sarpassing what the reBtofX^^M canmost^. Itissddtoa^o^I^I nry ^tnO.O^T^A ^^5o»^J fS e^laiAs how the B««r^ *] giments can be mounted on .--^ j i oniform color. Bun-Stroke. ^*P««S* falls with sui «J:'^^*»k«»tothe. l«5r«-5?' ^^^»^ should r«^2?»*^ body from h«K!?2!f^. to tie spL "' aeasore then ^•at of the sun; bo *j[« the caae of 1 ^y, ttmsisting oi mgJjWif fastened a^ES "?â- ? rf advantac ^*1hshead S J8at«. â- "â- object soidi a oo awint cBrt. ol ti sad, •ir, kM