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 «r-- r« I hi r ,y M ^M HOUSEHOLD. TTnkle Josh's Advice to Faients- If a child commences a doeein and a dnke- in its bed, and tbrowin its uttel hans and arms np over its face, in self protexnn as iC wer, whenever yn make a efiort ta smntfae its hare, yn may be i^in that the parents nv that child are in fiie habet uv nockin it over the bed, and uv boxln it over its ears, fnr a child has the facelty nv telling a grate many things without ayin anything by the wurd uv mouth. If you want a child tu grow up smart, yu shood begin erely tn nock It over the bed, and box it over the ears, as any wun can see bow much smarter a child will naterly grow, if it has its soft and ten- der brane jarred up in that way. It dont make any particular difference what part nv the bed yu begin on, nor which ear yu box first, as the brane is as soft and tender in wun place as anuther, and the ear drum is as easy busted on the right side as the left. The mane thing is tu nock it hard ennff tu make it see stars a flashing befonr its ize. Tbe practis uv nockin the children on the bed is anshent, almost sny wun can remem- ber how tha ejnoyed bein nocked on the hed when tha wus littel, and how tha longed fnr the da tu cum when tha cood du likewise tu sum other childs hed. Judge in from the number nv parents a practisin it, it must be a pleasant amoos- ment, and it ought In be encuraged, as it helps amazinly tu keep the insain asylums full, and gives Stedy employment tu the docters. If yore child shood cri in the nite with the ear ake, accordin tu the homa- patha rule uv like cures like, it would be a good idee tu give it anuther' box over the ear. And then if wun uv yore littel fellers di uv brane fever, it wood be such a conso- lashun tu visit its grave every Sonda, and while a ruttin flours onto it, think over how many hundred times yu had nocked the deer littel departed on the hed, there is snmthin very consolin in such thots. Helps in the Eitchen. The head of the family has all kinds 6f labor-saving machinery in his field of action, bat too often it is the case that the woman of the house has to get along, without the as- sistance of such labor-saving devices as are appropriate to her sphere, and the work she has to do. This is not as it should be. The man who seeks to save labor in the field by the use of machinery, ought to have in mind the fact that hb wife has to work quite as hard in the kitchen as he has ' been in the habit of doing out of doors and that it is his duty to procure for her such helps as will lighten her toil and do away, as much as possible, with the drudgery cf houae-work. In buying machinery for him- self and not for her he is guilty of that form of selfishness which is almost, if not quite, a crime. Husband and wife are partners in the work of life, each having charge of a special department, and what each does in that de- partment contributes to the general welfare and benefit of the "firm. Neither has the moral right to consult his or her inter- ests alone. The interests of both should be regarded, and the kind and thoughtful hus- band will not care to monopolize all the benefits resulting from the labor of both. For every machine that he buys for himself to save labor, or make work easier and more effective, he will buy one for his wife. He will furnish her a good washing-machine, and a wringer. There will be a good churn, and the stove will be one with all the "modern improvements," There will be a cistern, and ihe cistern will have a pump, and, of course, there will be a sewing ma- chine, and, perhaps, a knitting machine. Why not knitting by hand is something like going through a corn-field with the old hoe. If be has a cultivator to do that work with, why should she not have a machine to do the family knitting with She can knit evenings, do you say What will you be doing then Reading the newspaper, or magazine, eh? Well, perhaps she would like to read some, rather than be obliged to spend the hours until bed-time in knitting. Ihink of it. " Put yourself in her place," and â€" do as you would be done by. at all aeaaona, for it will cnre bowel disturb- ances withont medicine. In a stout muslin bag tie up a large coffee cupful of flour, leav- ing a little room for it to swelL Drop Into a pot of cold water, place on the fire and let it boil atMidily four hours. Turn oat the flower ball and let it dry all day in the -hot sun. Grate a taUespoonful^of tlus wet with a little cold water, and mix in a cup of buling milk and water, seasoned with salt. It is very nice food. Geoboia Botleu Rick. â€" ^The boiling of rice is not always well done, and yet it ia the simplest of matters that it should be dry is doubly important when the intention is to serve it as an addition to another vege- table dish with a savory sauce. After washing the rice, put it over the fire in plenty of actually boiling, salted water, and boil it fast for twelve minutes then drain off all the water, place the saucepan containing the rice either in the oven with the door open, or on a brick upon the back of the stove, and let it steam for ten min- utes longer, or until it is as tender as desir- able every grain will be distinct and the rice quite free from moisture. Rice boiled too long is watery and saggy. When It is tender, it may be seasoned with salt, pepper and butter, or served plain. GiNGEB Cookies. â€" Two teacnpfnls molas- ses, a teacupful each of butter and sugar, two teaspoonfuls each of ginger and cinna- mon, three teaspoonfuls soda, half cup boil- ing water, and alum the size of half a hazel- nut. Dissolve the alum and soda in the hot water, then add the other ingredients and sufiScient flour to roll out without sticking They should be somewhat thicker than ginger snaps. Bake in a hot oven. -^ OLD SLAV£ET DATS. Tested Beceipts. Cake Fbittebs.â€" Cut some stale cakes into rounds or squares, and lightly fry in lard to a nice brown dip each slice when fried in boiling milk, drain, spread with fffeserve, and pile on a hot dish, serve with cream sauce. Beef a la Mode. â€" Take about four or five pounds of the round of beef or rolled ribs, Sut it into a saucepan with a sliced onion, a ttle whole allspice, three or four bay leaves, pepper, salt, a teacup full of raspings, and sufficient vinegar dilluted with water to cover it steW gently for from three to four hours, according to the weight of the meat. This dish is excellent cold. Rump-steak may be stewed in the same way. Teifle. â€" BoQ in three gills of milk half the rind of an orange and half the rind of a lemon, two inches of cinnamon stick, a laurel-leaf, and three cloves. Afterwards take out all these ingredients, and mix into the milk sufficient sugar to sweeten, six tablespoonfula of well-boiled sago â€" it should be jellied â€" the yelks of three eggs, and twice the weigltt of cream. Boil up agadn just once, and stir well the whole time When it has cooled, place in the centre of the dish you intend serving in some stewed pears or damsons, or any nit preferred. Four over them the trifle, then surmoimt the whole with well froth^ cream, and or- nament with simUar fruit to that inside. Frozen Pudding. â€" Steep six bitter al- monds bruised, and the peel of a lemon (pared very thin) in a pint of milk on the stove, at almost boiling point, until the flavor is well drawn out add one ounce of gelatine and a pinch of salt; stir till gelatine is dissolved strain and return to the saucepan add h^f a pint of thick cream and five ounces of sugar let it all just boil stir in quickly the yelks of six eggs well beaten set the saucepan in boiling water and stir till thick, but be careful not to let the eggs curdle pour it out and stir till nearly cold then mix two and a half ounces of candied cherries, and two ounces of cit- ron cut small, or three ounces of preserved ginger, and one ounce of pistache nuts blinched pour the pudding into an oiled mould and pack in ice. If ginger is used, serve the ginger syrup as a sauce, if cherriei use cherry syrup or currant jelly mixed with syrup for sauce boil together half a cup of water and a cup of sugar to make the syrup. Boiled Floub. â€" The bailed bowl of flour â- heuld be in eyery housewife's store closet On a neat brick house in Detroit is a framed legend which announces to the pub- lic that "funeral wreaths and crosses are preserved here." But this floral undertaking does not ac- count for the frequent visits of cultivated men and women from all parts of the coun- try, who make pilgrimages here as to a shrine of interest. The house is the home of Lewis G. Clark, whose name is on the silver door-plate, who bears the historic dis- tinction of being the first slave who, dis- guised as a white man, succeeded in making his escapefrom slavery to freedom, and who is the origina' George Harris of Uncle Tom's Cabin. He is a well-preserved relic of a strange and romantic past which can never again have a parallel in the world's history, and his 70 silver years must be read by the light of other days to give them that equal bal- ance of sun and shadow, which is theirs by right. In himself Mr. Clark unites some of the best qualities of both races, mentally and physically. Seeing his color would not determine to which race he belonged, but "his speech betrayeth him" â€" he has the col- loquial dialect of his people whenever he lapses into stories of the past, but his shrewdness and versatility would become a Yankee born. Asked to tell something of his early life, the old man gave a simple recital of such points as occurred to him at the moment. " T was given to a Mr. Sam Campbell in Madison County, Kentucky, the fust time wAen I was 5 yeahs old." Then he diverged to give an account of Ills " goin' ter meetin'" an event which next to his "escape" seems to -have dwelt in his memory. " I was 7 yeahs old en' I never had been to meetin' Master's folks was away and Aunt Sakey fixed me. She put on master's white shirt an' th.; collah came up to my ears â€" the shirt was made of old-fashioned loom cotton. A strip was torn off the lower half to make a necktie. I wore mittens fixed outen an old slave woman's stocking- legs. My las' yeah's shoes had been soaked into shape and laced with green cotton strings. I wore old Mas'hrs white bell- crowned beaver hat, and my socks were a pa'ar of Aunt Sukey's stockin'-lega. An' I carried a cane -made of a cherry saplin' Afore I went, Aunt Chloe tole me wat I was to do." " 'Fust yo' sweep up de yard, den fill dat bar'l from de spring, and drive de gooses an' goshlins to de goose pastnr' an' wash yo'self in de crik, afo' yo' go to de meetin'" " Aunt Chloe also give me some lessons about how I was to behave. " ' You must keep your mouth to yoseff, an' ca-arry yob manners wid yoh,' was what she told me. So I done took my hat off, but kept on my mittens. " *It was a blind preacher I remember his name was Bartlett and he was mounted high up on a rough box. Aunt Chloe told me to tell ' How'dy' to them all, so I went and shook hands with everybody. When I kim to the preacher I fell down and hurt myself, so I cried, and I could hear the other beys as they crowded up " ' Look at dat shirt ' "'Know he done stole dat shut from Mash Campbell?" " • Is dat ar a white boy wot sort Is he ' " The fust time I was sold was on a mort- gage at Lincoln County Court House, Ken tucky, by the Sheriff, Ben Duncan. I was a young boy at that time. " The next time was at Tom Kennedy's plsntation in Garrett County, Ky., after his death. " The third time was at Lancaster, Gar- ret Co., at the county seat. I was part of the estate, and was drove in with a lot of horses, cattie and other things. But the titles was In such a fix they couldn't make any public sale. It was right after that I run away. I started off on a horse and was disguised as a white man. I never could havelescaped but for that. I was dreadful ignorant and couldn't read the sign-posts. It was then that I was George Harris. When I got North to Boston and Cambridge- port I stopped at Mrs. Stafford's. She was a great friend to me, and taught me more than anyone else. There I met Mrs. Stowe and told her all my story. You know she madeGeorge Harris able to handle flax and machinery and quick at such things. Ihats what I was â€" " Here Mr. Clark diverged again, and pro- duced a little spinning-wheel, with a distafi of flax, from which he deftiy spun a thread or two while he talked. " Did Mrs. Stowe ever pay yon anything ^t^ing for the character of George "All my life. That's the way I found oat I could mn away. I remember when I was a little fellow my missis had a boy same ageâ€" looked like meâ€" an' In summer he wore one garment like me. One day^ a nef^ibor irom where they used to live kim In. ThVKlve him gin â€" so glad to see him; they give aim mm â€" so glad to see- him â€" tiiflii he askad, ' Why, Betsy, am them boys twins? I never knowed you had twins 1' Then oh, wasn't missis mad 1 She said when he was gone The old fool to drink himself blind, so he conldn't tell a nigger from a white child 1' Then she took off that gar- ment and made me work in de sugar bush all day in a blazin' hot sun. It most kill me an' aU my sktn peel off after a whfle an' then I was whiter than ever, he-he i" It is like the page of a romance to hear him tell how he wert back to steal hb brothers and bring them North.^ He suc- ceeded, too, and they shared in hu prosper- ity. He has a grat^ul word to say for wo- men everywhere, but particularly for the women of Ohio. " The men were afraid of polittcs," he said, "bnt the women are afraid of notiiing. They got me clothes till I had so many I could send chests of them to the uolored folks in Canada." At times thb representative of a famous character in fiction speaks id the softly slipped syllables ot his people. This u es- pecially noticeable when he telb stories of the old days. But as soon as he becomes eloquent he uses the language of an educat- ed man, with a touch of pulpit oratory. "Do you sing any of the songs of slavery!" was asked, with a romantic echo of Long- fellow in memory " Loud he sang: the songs of David. He a ne^ro and enslaved." " Lord bless yoh, no. I never sing any songs in my life. I wasn't a plantation ban' I was raised in de house an' never worked in de field." The Comforts of life. Leok Oahbetta b reported to have said, "There are no questions but social ques- tions," by which he meant, no doubt, that the only propositions worthy of prolonged argument are those oouceming the welfare of mankind at large. In all ages and coun- tries there has been contention between those who possessed a full share of thb world's goods and those who hoA little. The demands of modem Socialbts for a more equal dbtribution of the comforts of life are the same in principle as were made in the earliest ages the machinery propos- ed for enforcing them alone fiffen from their predecessors. Requests for higher wages are still met with indignation by men â€" and women abo â€" once wage earners them- selves or the children of wage earners. Asia- tic despots or feudal barons could hardly display more entire contempt for the bien- atre of their serfs than do many employers in Democratic America. They renise to take into consideration the poor food, the insufficient clothing, the wretched shelter of the labourer, hb dread of starvation, or Its alternative, alms seeking. They treat these erib as allotted by Providence to a particular class. Even the benevolent who spend their days and nights In efforts to re- lieve dbtress will not tolerate the idea that workingmen or women have a right to im- prove their condition by bringing pressure upon their employers. They regard the " lower classes" to have been appointed by Providence as media for displaying their own beneficence, and look with alarm at the growth of trades societies, which seek higher wages by means of strikes. Few in- deed of the Influential classes undertake an enquiry into the justice ot the demands of the workingmen or the cost of satisfying them. Employers pay what they cannot help, and workingmen and their families live from hand to mouth, anxiously looking for a time when they will enjoy a greater measure of mental and physical comforts. A man child is born he grows to be a lad, exhibits a fondness for accumulation, saves hb pennies, puts by dollar after dollar, shows business faculty, becomes a master builder, employs many workmen, undertakes large contracts, and grows rich. Hb brother is a good workman, a thinker and reader, a good husband, father, citizsn, but b with- out high ambition, business talents, or taste for accumulating money he lives sparely, and if he suffers mbhaps from sickness or has a large family, must eat the bread of carelessness all hb life, and may neverthe- less die dependent on charity. It b true that the qualities of the first of these indi- viduabare rare and therefore bring a higher reward; but they are not in themselves. their followers. Bnt experience shows that wherever trades onions exist wages are higher and strikes fewer, and that working- men are shrewd enough to guard against the self seeking of their laaderi. A strike aiKf not accomplbh its faunedUte purpose. The object aimed at may beilnreaMnable and Impoarible at attainment yet it may show the stnngth of Vob onion, and j^ve ir- resistible emphasis to a vaxsie reasonable de- mand at antfthw time. Certein it is that the great emfdoyers of labour in Britain have learned to respect strikers and to dread strikes, and readily submit to arbitration differences between themselves and their workmen. They do not now say, "Take what we offer, or storve." Tliey pay due consideration :to the cost of living, as well as the condition of trade and the profits which they are making, and the results are beneficial both to employer and employee. In Ajnerica also employers will learn in time to adopt tlib wbe expedient, and find profit In it. Co-operative societies are by no means of recent orighi, and their progress has been slow but they have secured a firm foot- hold in Britain, and the prospects of devel- opment b good. They are, in brief, com- binations of workingmen, who onite their money and laboor to carry on manufacoir- Ing enterprises. It is no doubt a gain that the workman should have an inter- est in profits, but the single proprietor, with hb faculties sharpened by the prospect of large gains, is apt to excel in trade the head of an asso ciation who has only a small share, and b controlled by men probably less intelligent and enterprising than him- self. Nevertheless co-operation exbts, and may fractify to the benefit of workingmen who have patience to pursue an objeot dur- ing a course of years amidst trials and £ight Hundred DoaMaT^ AtMr.J.C. Steven., "fift. Kma street, Covent g»d.« " ««*. • number of ornitholortto i^""'Vii' ness tiie sale of an Srf S^"»*«I^i^ Before offering ^^t^^^i^ marked that in 1880 iwl f"' 'Hi^ both«f which h.SberK!^"^!?^ by him. and that the^^fe '^J guineas respectively, Of tK. '^*^1 twenty-five were ii eightin'^.to forty one in nineieen "»S forty-three sut of the^S^ft' Great Bntam "y-«tt jj^j^^ â- J'he first bid of 20 guineas ». well-known omitholoEigt T^^'^eby. followed by 60gui„e/"t„"'f wi whom the egg was eventnaUv b^ C"^*. to at 160 guineas. " "'"»keddo,j HeHadSuchaLovelyHa,, quirK\Xfri»r""^«*r.. "Mr. Huggins." "Huggins?" "Yes; isn't it juata lov«l„ mnch like husging " ' "Oe-m " That's BO I'm Boini? *«_, 4 away from yon if iSIJ^ *° *^*°»l«»llai» As t tohe other remedies for the inequality of condition of mankind, it b only necessary to mention briefly the Socialbm of France and Germany and tlie land theories of Mr. Heniy George. The idea of regula* Ing by law the amount of money or food which e^h individul or family shall expend In a given time has not yet commended itself to the good sense of mankind at large. It would withdraw the stimulus to exertion which men believe to be beneficial to the world. Within bounds, competition, rivalry, and even strife, are eminently beneficial. The civilized world pities the feeble who fall out by the way, and provides for them but it does not encourage them to be feeble. All the great blessings of life come from exer- tion, and those who work hardest are, as a rule, the happiest. The desire to acquire wealth b not to be numbered among the higher emotions, and is often the motive of very bad actions. But how many of the great inventions which have benefited man- kind have proceeded from the desire of ac- cumulation Great fortunes should not be allowed to descend to sliu;le individnab, bnt the man who labors hard^with skill and eu- ers7 shonld have his reward in hb own life, and be able to provide a moderate portion for his descendants. Mr. Henry George's proposition to tax land heavily in order to compel the proprietors to sell at a low price, and so benefit the poor, has recently been submitted to the people of the great State of New York, and while it met some favour in the towns, it b al- most unanimously rejected by the farming community. Obviously what Ubraeli called the "territorial democracy " of America is not willing to be deprived of its property by force of law, and as they form an irresbtiple phalanx. It b not likely that we shall hear much more of Mr. Henry George in practi- cal politics. The wage earner has some consolations in hb poverty. Given the qualities which -nake him useful to an employer, he is toler- ably certain of work, and b free from cares which sit heavily on the wage payer. That, barrmg mbfortune, he is able in Canada by steady working and saving to acquire a slight provision fot old age, and educate and put out hb children in life, is proved by thousands of examples. Hb employer must alio be parsimonious and industrious to ac- complbh his end. But the self-denial is much greater in one case than the other, and the temptatioa to let the money go as it comes infinitely more pressing. No man who loves his kind and looks at this matter with an unselfish eye can help desuring XhoX the comforts of life were more equally dis- tributed among all sorts and conditions of «»«»»• J. Gordon Bkown. Doctoring Under Difficultieg. Mbtress (to cook)â€" Whv V.m^ In the world are you dS ""^et, wk« Bridget-Shure it's the docther thor f „ naeOi must takeoironfer mebK,'^?!* tiiryin' to melt down the ^^^^^l ca?rdSrof^eltfdrn"V«"^«^'.y«.- Biidget-Thin Oi'll lave it till itooola. Hot Sick a Day. Physician-" Patrick, don't yon kno. Seto,tT' """'P' Pen.ocl«e: Patrickâ€"" An' phy shud oi not. sir '" "It's unhealthy." ' ' "Be rtway wid yer nongeuBe. Sure the pig has niver bee" sick a day in hb loif," Taking a Mean Advantage of the Oiu Han. A K street man met his daughter's "hope" in the ball and materially hastened big de- partnre in the usual manner. Then he re- turned limping to the parlor and aat down. " I hope you didn't hurt Harry, ppa'" sobbed the daughter. " No," fiercely replied the old man, pick- ing his foot up and nursuig it " No, I didn't hurt him but if he ever comes here again with bricks in hb coat-tiil pocket 111 kill.him " and the girl smiled softly through her tears. /\ Never Heard of Such Bapid Advancement. ^, ^, T A Dutchman, whose son had been em- more praiseworthy than the other's, nor ne-' ployed in an insurance company's offiae was for Harris " " Never," answered Mr. dark, solemnly. " A good many folks writ to her about It, but she never paid any attention to them, but she used to send for me to come Into the sitting-room and talk wlthme for hours, an'I told her all that I had ever seen or done in slavery over and over. =* "Bxn you often been taken for a white man " cessarily more useful to the community. The population would be housed as well and cheaply if the millionaire had not possessed so eminent a faculty for malting gain. If some of hb great profits had been dbtribut- ed among hb workmen they would have lived better, they and their families would not have been a burden to the community and the sum of human happiness wonld have been greater. It b moch easier to prove the accuracy of these statements than to show how a remedy 18 to be provided. The employer acts after the manner of hb kind. He has to compete With his nvab he boys hb laboor in the cheapest ma^atAodthinks he has discharged his auty if he pays what he prombes the workman, on tke other hand, b forced to find work day Iry day to provide for hb fam- ily, the civibzed wwrld b fast becoming ovei- populated, and if there are any lands where day's labour b amply paid they are far away and travelling expenses heavy. Rarely u he able to impose terms on hb employer as a rule he most take what b offered, in gen- eral not more than the bare cost of living Seeking a remedy, the wage earner has hitiierto adopted only two remedies for hb condition, the most effective of which b combination to raise wages, by means of unions bound to refose work at lower wages than agreed upon by tiie majority. Ihese^ societies are very numerous and powerful m Britain, and have nndoobtedly achieved socoess In Improving the condi- tion of workingmen and their families. All authorities agree that the Englbh waee earner b now beti»r lodged, fed, and cloth- ed than he was thirty years ago. In spite of mcreasmg competition in the foreign and home .markets, and to the trade iinions the improvement b largely owing. In North America abo these societies are very Influ- ential, and tiiey are increasing in number and power throoghoot continental Europe. It M easy to nse an octory agaiut these associations, to denoonce strikes which fail to secnze an morease in wane m inioriou to trade and to the striken themselves, to deacnbe'tiie officers of the societies as asita- tors making a Uving of the weakHMs of ^who inquired b Hans getting met by an acquaintance, " Well, Mr. Schider, how jlong in his new place ' " Shoost splendid he vas von off dem di- rectors already." ".A director I never heard ot such rapid advancement That young man most be a genius." u "f^t " ' ^^ shoost write a splendid handt. "ph. yes, plenty of people write good hands but you said Hans was a director." " So be vas (indignantly) he direct dem circulars ten hours efery day already." A Well-Posted Child. " P*f won t you give me a new dress I want one so much." umI!" »?e^ to your mother about it." Tbe child 8 wutful expression was turning into disappointment. "Surely mammaT wUl know if it's necessary.^' "Yes," replied the child demurely "i eupMse so. But when you speak to her f^r ti^lL •*"^* "^^^ " " '°*8»' '^•^t •"« AsFaraa They Usoally Get in Grammar. "It b a pecuiiar thing now to note the simihinty of customs in aU countries." said a pedantic old gentleman to a young travel- ing man on the cars. •• Yes, sir," said the yonng traveling man. who could think of notiSng^^ tS " Now look at our grammar. You will notice that tiie first verb we learn to Col- gate is ^e verb to love. It b the same in nearly all languages " ^^ " Yea," responded the traveler, " and did yon ever notice, too, tiiat tiiat b about M far as a good many of os ever get in grammar "-|;Merchaiit Traveler. It Depended on the Amount. fi^*2^l/'^^« linker Jones, for the '"j'oS!i»'^^ar-^'^-^-.-»" note!" Emily â€" " Ask her to give uasome moreof her sacred music, George." George (a lin- gubt) â€" " Oh, mademoiselle, donnez nons encore de votresacree muaiqaee." " Pa, what does a wooden weddiu mean " Pa (looking over hb paper)â€" "ft means, my son, that if the wedded partiei were free they " wooden" get married again. That's all." Impassioned Lover (quoting Moore in a whbper)â€" "Our couch shall be rosee, be- spangled with dew." Practical Girl-" It would give me rheumatics, and so it wonld you." There b a fad for bags of all sorts. Shoe bags, stocking bags, shc^ping bags, lorgnette bags, and all these are made aa dainty with decorations of one kind or another u possible. The land-crab of the West Indies once every year leaves hb inland home in multi- tudes, and in regular order marches down to the sea, passing over and not around any obstacle th \Xi may come in the way. San Francisco has the reputation of being "a man's city," and of having fewer hoaes and fewer children in it, in proportion to population, than any city in the United States. In Italy turkeys are always fattened with walnuts. Thirty days before a turkey ii to be killed, one walnut is stuffed down hie throat. Each day he b given an additional walnut, and on the twenty-ninth day he ha* twenty -nine walnuts. He is then immense- ly fat. In Cromwell's time the gates of Hyd« Park were closed against the " maBses" and " the classes " except on payment of an en- trance-fee. The gates were guarded by p^ tors carrying long staves, who prevent any one from passing in without paying nu reckeningâ€" a shilling per head and sixpence for a horse^-and who enforced strictly de- corous behaviour. The sad wailing cry of the curlew whfle on the wing in vhe dark still nights of win- ter b believed In some parts of England 10 be a deatih-waraing, and u called the " «7 of the seven whbtlers." This term is al» applied to the red wing, the wild goose, and the plover. In Shropshire and '°"'*l'**' shire the seven whistlers are conaid red » be " seven birds, and the six fly about coa- tinnally t )gether, looking for the seventn, and when they find him the world will come to Ka end." Sake, or rice-beer, b the principi] and «J- most the only alcoholic beverage of Japan- The production is estimated at about ow hundred and fifty million gallons annuauy, equal to about four and a half gaUonaper head. Until the last two or three centun* sake was not manufactured on a larpe scaje, but each household made its own supply- Now there are very large breweries w ferenfrparte of the country. The V^X]fZ of alcohol in sake varies from five to wwea per cent. The sake of Japan is "-f ?^„, ing and heavy, and appears t" be as n in qoality and strength as European aw beer. It b flavoured with honey or sugar- The fact that an extradition trea^ be- tween Great Britain and the United StM« b still pending before the senate »' 'T^ ington, has been brought to mind by i" presentation of a petition from, a comPrJ which furnbhes bonds for persons holding amonnt of the places of tmst, praying that the treaty ratified. One of the exhibits accomp8ay!»8 the petition shows that there are now owe I:.- Canada, American defaulters whose tBM^ amount to very nearly e4,C03,000- -if tainly b a reproach to the civilization » the United States and Great Britain tna wich brazen defiance of law " '"le^^^ There b no room to argue upon the que»» of the desirablHty of protectbg the pn» of bothcoontries against «»»«» 'jf !««. body concedes with one accord ^°f^^ nr«B to that end are a self-evident dn^ wobcKrs how it can be that so tnucn cial Indifference b manifested. « .«Mn the paralleU of J^^ty-eeverdegroes » •^i^nominally embrace ♦***lSias of the Argentine R yxlS^iiQTanCh^ (Gre. "T^fcb probably, at pre« «^^nofiW»«eonth **^*tor ie it » *«»*" '**' *^t2fi»* oonjeoture. but â- ^ «U watered, remarkal SKi natural resources. «*«f£;^ broad an extent of STJ not less than three bun •* W^efttavel b due m j eSfilndiw tribes that. •'^iU indicative of the clima JJSMoftheregion.it IS. £fthe Indians of the Ch, iSwiqne, WtfUke, wad remar rStv. Thus far these â- r^Zrers wid traveUers. "grKisbeUeyedtob* «me and of wild honey, f S ito floweryjgladei^ Deei ^_, nnd peccaries abound, SK* wad. cattle, wild ho Sr. The reptile family II 'n^MOted. as b shown by the P^SSS^lated by Mr. VVill young gentleman who months last season exploring the River P»1«'°»*V*" ... • Mr Marin b an enthusiae thefutoreoftheChaawhicl V predicts, b destined not lo ime the Garden State of S His exploration was effected gnall "team launch which gonth America in sections, an nnoioa, on tne Paraguay Riv fiaence with the Pilcon-^; Piloomayo and the Ver ^ver^not leas than eight thousand miles In length, wl oat of the Chaco and unite nay and the Parana to fora 'lata. The Stanley, as Mr. Marin iteamer. in honor of the grc plorer whose deeds he wouid South American continent, pointed littie craft, but onl feet in length by eight feet b as a defence if attacked, ai dormitory by night, an awnii sheet-iron and whitewashed the entire length of the de itack alone rising throuj â- hatters of white iron closed that the entire deck could be a single, long room, at will. By night tills sufficed adti rat iMth wild beasteâ€" when was moored to the bank â€" a tives. Nothing could get al hi^ at the smiJl, hinged â- k two of which were general!] Tut^tion. Thb odd deck house worki tiie voyagers did not often f to do guard doty by night that the noise of an attacl iron shield would rouse thei p(d the assailants. The engine was constructc faiBtoftd of coal. The part; listed of Mr. Marin and a J Ur, C. P. Loth, an Americaii b Buenos Ayres. whose na^ oook called Lugar, and tv cowboy stamp, natives of B gentine coonti^. These la cntters, firemen, and men theparty. The lannch left Asuncioij of December, which, in the vphere. corresponds to Jn the day before Chrbtmas, periences, the party reac| what Mr. Marin terms the the Pilcomayo, which, ho^ bdng slaok, the little craf J uoont, by aid of a line ai windlass,. for a few hundrej tsj^ current. The day before Ghrbt ployed and late that evel In the shadow of some lof tKes. to the bank above 1 bsmBoh fatigued from tl ^The night was warm, night moon, the silver "d»fch fell through the foil n the giant tree which "«w»tee. No Indiana •slves daring the day l "â- â- â€¢l* the tued explorer^ •"»•, as usual, bein? â- â- â€¢ bpth fore and aft. " We soon fell sound a^ •«*tes. "into that. over! I heavy r I embrace fJ Bat not lol -^--byan indei f*^Mi„ «biught[ .^*i iietMiIllg a l»ranch « our iron cover ' I was about doi eonaideumabniBp^ a Jay companions di Jr~v^p»Mlriaal-that A owt of the TsrancJ â- Â»â€¢ hoat." and so li.v 1 set SUt.l lay wmemoifiente, thlnkinJ gWstmai' eve it wasi ^anytiiing I bad ^^if^^itfter, I he f«*«t made and stir 2*» »uld notJie due JJSi " though J ,j»WBPt :W«e «wa 1. â-  -^flf^HlBB-' lUDd r^5*^.half back. 5^ distingnbh n^tl u* '~^^lj' takJ â€" â€" t 'San there r lo^r^^iM the ;2», and atw tooJ ^^£P«iP«ceptibJ H* "ieavy jMrn i-J lilfeS^i^t, g^fa on sheet