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AQKIOCJLT CJRAL. Take Comfort- The period of necessary privation in the life of thu farmer is ended, except, perhaps, in isolated case*. In every neighborhood there are some who force themselves and their families to live on the least food possi- ble to sustain life, to do without the com- forts of easy chairs, and carpet*, who dress shabbily, use a rickety old vehicle a* a family wag-m, aud thu* bring themselves into a premature grave, merely to add a few hundred dollar* more to the bank account. If the prime mover in this accumulation could witness the final use of this money he would, if possible, turn over iu his iv.tlin at the senseless squandering of hard earned dollars, and if in his power, would cry a'oud in thunder tones, to those who are yet toil- ing and wearing life away, to halt and take more ease, comfort, recreation and pleasure in t his world. The desire aud aim to secure a competency is commendable, but when it entails heavy sacrifice* of needed eomfor'. and rest, driving one to bed each night, tired and weary in body and mind, it i* time to consider if the result* are worth a sufficient amount of consideration to com- pensate for all these weary hours and years uf toil, of suffering, and of privation* which materially shorten life, obscure thought, aud antagonue all higher aim. Hie Jaw or Actinomycoii*. This disease has become so prevalent among beef cattle as to eall for legal inter- ference wilh the sale of the mea* of diseased animal*. It is known to be caused by the growth in the bone of the jaw, of a vegetable germ that increase* rapidly and feeds upon the degrade J tissue of the bone, which is en- tirely decomposed and changed in -xt an acrid pus that destroy* the *kin around the puru- lent tumor. In tins condition it is hopelessly incurable. The animal in lime lose* the jaw, and perishes miserably. But in new cases and before suppuration is produced, a cure is possible. The treatment recommended is to give iodide of potassium in Iwo dram doses three times a day for a few days. A cure has been affected by the daily u*e of an ounce of hyposulphite of soda, which is a safer remedy in the bonds of inexper- ienced persons. Point for the Dairy. Before you start the creamery be sure that enough cow* are pledged to make it* operations profitable. A frequent cause of failure is the attempt to run with a scant supply of milk. 10 that the expense* are un- duly large for the products turned out. Winter dairy products sell at from fifty to one hundred per cent, advance in prwe over summer product*. With proper prep- aration the cost of feeding i* but Tittle greater. Thi* indicate* where the best profit is. With a creamery in successful operation, less grain will be grown for shipment, and farmer* will feed out their crop* to a great- er extent, besides buying much coucentrat- *d food. A* a result the land become* richer and pay* a constantly better return. The dairy farmer has two problems al- way* before him; one i* ui lesseu the cost of production, the other to increase the ra'.ue of the product. The solution of tbe fint lies very largely in the feeding : of the second, in more careful handling and in more exhaustive creaming aud churning uaan have been commonly practised. In recent dairy meetin*;* reports were re- ceived from one dairyman whose herd averaged 3O4 pound* of butter per cow : front another whose herd of thirty-four cows averaged .'(JG pound* : and from twenty-three other dairies which averaged from '225 to !.'!.' pounds per cow. This i* dairying that pay*, and any man can do it who will work intelligently and system- atically towards that end. It may well be questioned whether the average dairy cow i* a profiuble institution. She produces little if any -nor* than 150 pounds of butter, and at th* average selling price of that article not a very large margin is left after paying for her feed. V ery often tbe owner of the average cow would be a richer man if he should send her to the butcher. If the patron* of the co-operative creamery would arrange to supply milk so that it could be run through the wiuu>* they would be surprised to find how muc.i more profitable the business was, than when only operated m lummer. Try il and see. Milk Sicknees. It has been proved that milk sickness i* either -nore or less than poisoning by un- wholesome germ* which are produced m amazing number* in the decaying vegeta- tion of rich moist land. As this disease i* easily communicated to persons, and at 'Ins time of the year is exceedingly dangerous, the poison being communicated lx>ih by the milk and butter, the utmost care should be exercised not only to keep the cows from such spots, but to boil the milk before it is used, and to refuse the butler wherever Ihe danger exist*. It is a peculiarity of this disease that those who do not die of it never recover completely, but are always ailing, and fall victims to any other disease by reason of their weakened condition. Ks- pecially in the South every precaution should be lakii" until the winter sets in. Warb'es of Cattle. This disease, which i* caused by the pres- ence of the larva of the oattle bot fly, has only recently been fully understood. It is now known that '.he Hy lays it* egg* on the legs and Hanks of the cattle, much in the same way as it does on horses. Its habits are thus much the same as those of horse bot fly, exc pt that instead of going direct- ly into the itomach, a* this does, and re- maining there, it is licked off by the cow's tongue, ami swallowed, and the young larva bores it* way through Uio ti.viue until it reaches the loins, where it encyst* itself and forms tho well known swelling* that appear on the cattle. When the history of the pest is known the remody is more clear. And this is to look out for the eggs (on the horses as well) aud wash thorn off with a sponge dipped in kerniunc oil, not permit- ting tin oil to reach the skin under tho hair, h all would tako those precautions the pouts would soon becoino scarce. Poultry Topic* A "key Dote " to success in poultry keep- ing ia to mako hen* lay when eggs are dear- est. You can do H by proper feeding. The Bullets will bo worth more for winter layer* than you nan get for them in the Christmas market. Keep every one for Make the young cockerels and the old hens fat, and let them go as early as pos- sible. They will earn you no more money, and it ,'OHIS something to feed them. If you mike a business of growing poultry for markel, use the breeds I hat are the best flesh formers. There is a difference, a* you will discover if you investigate. Oo you think you can handla a hundred fowls sucoesi.'-jlly if you hav not first learned to bundle ten. Il i* a business in which on i must start small. There is uo other way to succeed. Don't fool yourself about tbe profit*. Keep aceonrt of the cxpenies and the receipt*. If you fail to do this the fowls will tike advantage of you and "eat their heads off. ' ' Musings. The duller a borer the worse he lres. A war horse i* not to be ci mpare 1 to a peace donkey. A sluggard is a fellow whc takes the baldest way to have an easy time. Some people impart information very much as a hedge-hog sheds his quills. One of the devil's beat means of keeping a woman from earnest living is tittle-tattle. A liomnrr is a man who has lota more en ihnriosin than he has anything to keep it on. The water that makes the foam under the mill dam, is not the water that turns the wheel of i nc mill. The mosquito might have been highly pri/ed a* a singing bird, if it bad only tuck to that business alone. A mouse has a right to judge the cat, but the minute it opens its mouth it invites the cat's judgment on it. A brass band can put more lift! into an old nag, in a minute, tliun a ten acre oat- finlil in a week of Sundays. Theraisn I anything that sweeten* sleep like waking up and seeing the band* of the clock within U.-n minutes of the getting up time. If you have to believe all that other peo- ple say in their own favor, you would noun be obliged to .lo some lying on your own ac- count, or else fall behind in trie procession. You needn't lake a man s word for il that he ha* dropped frnm the clouds, liecause there is no dust on his shoes. May be his w ife blacked them before he wo* up in the moining. III l !:* Ml Kill A ftrlFBlIm w -''- IB HiiBBiain Hell MI.II-. BWIslBc '|>|BB Machine*. For years Bernard ( 'ressler has livwl alone away up towards the source of the beauti- { ful Cheat. He is known as as a scientist ' and astronomer of no mean note m thai ! locality, and of late uncanny report* have ! crepl down the mountains of the strange doings m the vicinity of In* liltie cabin. In the midst of the wildest scenes -.lie ci-ntist, astronomer and hermit was found. Of all the hobbies this man ride*, one i* paramount, and ha* been tlte cause of hi* leaving civih/jttion that he might study and experiment alone with nature. That hobby is a flying machine. Cressler has (pent years in this study, and believes the only perfect machine is that devised and controlled by the Divine builder, and tins he has taken as his model. Cressler's model i* the enormous hawk of these mountains, which is capable with im- movable winga to soar for hours, not com- bating the winds, but utilising such air cur- rents as power to lift it higher. This hawk be compare* to a skilful skater, who lias ao- quired his momentum artificially, aud then by merely throwing hi* body this way and that by force of gravity continues a* be pleases, hi* cleverly poised body on the keen skate* being an assistance instead of a hindrance to grace aud (need. ( 'renter'* contrivance is not a innchine, nor h it built to antagonize, but rather to utilize, ibe forces of nature. He says the school-boy'* kite come* nearer to the nleal Hying machine than any intricate and labor- ed effort of a million fond experiments. Being a taxidermist, with a weoderful eye for nature, he hat) si-ore* of hawk* in bin cabin poised in all positions assumed for flying. .Some of these altitude* to a lay- man's eye appear extremely awkward, but the scientist explanations are plausible and his proofs convincing. Kor instance, he ho* gone so far into the science of the hawk flying that he ha* dis- sected the muscles of a score, made draughts of each particular *et, and noted on the drawing their peculiar uses when t In. bird i* flying. Hn ha* also c lowly eitimated ihe strength exerted by each muscle or set of muscle*, and applying them to the whole declares positively lhal man possesses each muscle necessary, and besides that has t*n- luld tbe requisite strength. His machine is made to be worn like an ordinary suit, but when donned it unfolds marvellous possibilities. Il lit* like a glove and is manipulated instinctively as a part of the body, each muscle of arm leg aud body exerting iUelf al the proper time. Tbe wearer rises perpendicularly in the air Mid then throwing out the bat-shaped wings float* or rather soars at ease, MtOMOMtdaag, as one would naturally suppose : but if a wind is blowing he rather rises with it, making no effort to combal the air currenl, but. adapting his flight to its strength and tilting his wings, which are enurmuux but light as possible, lo L'uid" his flight. In fct ('ressler doe* not fly, ho rather SO.IIH. To tins one end he has bent all hi* energies of mind and body for years, an,i it, only remains for practice to bring more intelligent flight couple I with absolute certainty o* direc- tion. TNI hM.INKXB 44iru:IM 1 Hill I.IIT. Did llVakra Criminal of Bis Srwly Horn MMf A^roupof lecntnoliveenginoer>at around a table in a pleasant and secluded St. Paul resort a few uvenings since, quietly sipping boer from the large ntone mugs that have Iwcouic so popular in recent years, and re- lated some of their peculiar experiences when in charge of the throttles of the great iron iniinsUTH traversing the region between here aud the coast. Some of the tales were exciting, some of them weir i and ghostly, and occasionally a bright little episode crept into the conversation. Finally a tall, line- looking engineer, whose countenance be- trayed the battle of perhaps fifty years or more, removed his unlighled cigar stump from his mouth and related a story that produced a profound impression on all who were sealed about that primitive Ucrman baiiqunt Imard. " I was running No. 4 on a Western rail- road twenty years ago," ho said, when some- thing lianpened that has kept me guessing ever .since. You fellows may not believe it, nut it is the .-.oleum truth as mire a* 1 am a foot high. I had lieni laying off for a week on account of tho illnesi of my wife, and did not take my run until satisfied that she was doing well and had the assurance of the doctor to that effect Tho night I left I was feeling rather depressed in spirits, and somehow was not a hit surprised when fifty miles out thu conductor handed me a u-.ltvntm from my little girl which read 'i 'nun back. Mamma is worse. She iici n MM;. Hastily 1 replied, 'Send me word of her actual condition at C l>ou t delay. If absolutely necessary for me to return, I will do so. Well, all the way to ( ' I was in an agony of suspense. I found no telegram, and Homehow felt re- lieved on the idea that no news wax jjuiwi ne<rs. lint I could not shako off that feel- mg of depression, and it scorned to intensi- fy. 1 looked in my pocket for that tele- gram in order to see if I had read it correct- i ly. I couldn't rind it. I looked on the floor of tin: cab. I could find it nowhere. | It was gone, and the fact worried aud not- I tied me a good dital. I soon forgot it, how- 1 ever, in attending to my work. The night j was clear and we were, running at a good rale uf speed. I sat in the cab looking ahead and half in a dream. Suddenly something shot acrou th* track like a flash of li^inniiiL'. What it was I never did know, but instantly my thought* went back to tho telegram and my sick wife at home. Whether that object that crossed the track was responsible or not, I don t know, but I all at once grew nervous and shaky. The tin-man noticed it and asked me what the matter was, but I put him aside with S'ime evasive answer. All the while he kept looking at me, however, and it finally work- I i-d me up toauch a pilch that I turned uu d cri which jeu have sufficient rooa I i.lri.n.iu I I I|.;M r- I. ' b..iin.l. The \Kcrdecn shipOronts, a well-known trading clipper between London and Aus- tralia, ho* just arrived out at Sydney, New South Wales, after having been surrounded by icebergs. The report of this vessel and those of other clippers show that immense quantities of ice ami icebergs are now met with on the voyage to Australia one vessel, the barque Alice, passing no tea* than over 400. The Orontes, on the 7th August, be- came almost icebound with bergs ami float- ing ice. She was surrounded on all side*) and il took the vessel thirteen hours t-o got clear of them. The vessel had to be n avi- galed with the greatest care. Tho work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Do not let either discourse or action pise unobserved ; attend to Iho sense and * igni- lieation oi the ouo, and to tho teudeno y of the other. him and cried, above the roar of the train, "keep your d .1 eyes off me or I'll kill you.' He shrank back halt frightened and told me afterwards t-hat 1 was temporarily j insane al that time. " I looked out. \V were going at a fright- ; till rate of speed. L'neonicioiisly I had pulled ihe lever nut further and increased I the speed of the tram to about sixty milea i an hour aheaioi schedule. An instant later | the bell rang and I reversed the lever. The 'train oame to a standstill. The conductor ' i-aineforword with a wbitefa>:c and inquired, ' l''.<rOod's*ake,.loe, what* thcmatu-r with you ?' A little while longer and we would | have plunged into the west -bound tram. W | ran a little ahead to a side track, and with- in a minute No. '.! thundered post. Il was a narrow esoape. Slid I closed my eye when thinking of what mrc;ht have been. I got down with th: oil-con and walked to the side of the engmo. When about to till the ' cups 1 noticed a piece of paper flattering on ' one of the wheels. I reached .nit. took hold ' of il and wo* about to .-rumple and throw it away, but something arrested my attention j and I opened il up. I tinned perfeully while i when I saw il was addressed to me and 1 read ; ' Come back. M unn. v i* worwe. Shu ! needs you.' It w\s the last straw. My feel- ings made me weak as a child, and when I clambered into the cab again it was wilh diHi ulty that I was able to start the engine. Well, to in tkc a long story short, I .-ailed the conductor and told him 1 would go a* far as the next nation. I related the circum- stances, and instead of laughing he only looked grave and said nothing. At the Slop to my surprise he camo forward and said : ' Joe, you had lietter stop here and take No. (I back. I telegraphed for a man to finish the run.' Da/ed, and hardly knowing what I did, I waited one hour lor No. >i. and al- most In-fore I knew it I had reached home. Almost running, I hurried to the houee. Il was nearly morning, but lighu Hashed be- fore my eyes its I came MJ>. Kverything sqemtd astir. 1 staggered against the gate- post, for I wo* weak with nervous dread, l-'inally, musteriug all my courage I opened the door and went in." The silence wait oppressive, when Joe it oppcil and gulped down bin beer. Kvery body around th* table waited eagerly tor the continuation of the story. Delitarately wiping his mouth, Joe continued What did I Hud when 1 went in '' you are all asking yourielvns? Well, not whal you expected. My wife was not dead, but hail just given birth to a* handsome a little follow a* yon ever laid eyes on. My, but I was proud, and I stooped down and kissed them both with more emotion than I hail shown in years. Well, I am not as happy now ai I was then. When th* boy grew up he exhibited tendencies of wildnem. U'httu nineteen years of age he ran away. I have never seen him since. I never can see him again." " Oh, you don't know ; he will come bock again some day, ' said one. " Never," said Old Joe, almost fiercely ; "hccan't." "Why not?" asked one, a little more nervy than the rest. " Because," replied th* old man sadly, " h* wo* hanged in Montana three months for horse stealing. I knew something would mar his life. The murderous feoliugs I experienced that night on the engine made a criminal of him.'' The Ooining Man- At a little village church in the West of Rutland, thu service is never commnnaed on Sunday morning* until the squire ho* taken his seat. Ono Sunday morning this gentleman hap- pened to be late, and a neighbouring clergy- man, not acquainted with the way* of the place, was doing duty. So ha commenced, as usual, with " When the wicked man " Ho had proceeded no further, when up jumped the olerk, bawling out, "Stop 1 r>, he Isn't ooine in yet," !* Kl I Pnlsrullr n.i. All m. n M*s .n.i I ..!!- f.nl mil - (n ~|i. mlthrlll . Misers are not confined lo one class of ill.. '001111111111 v. but hate buen, at least, u "iMiiion to the higher iMiksos to the lower. John Churchill, tirei Duke of Marlboroui;li, was tho greatest soldier m Kurope. Yet, when he won an old man, in ordci to save sixpence from carriage hire, he would walk from the public- rooms in Bath to his holel in all kind* of weatliei. He died worth Cl.OOtSOOO, whicn reverted lo his bitterest enemy, his grandson, I/ird Trevors. -; Harvey Klws of Stoke, in Suffolk, iii-st to hoarding money, tumid his priucipa pleasure in netting partridge*. Hu and bis household, consisting of one man and two in. 11. is, lived upon these. In cold or wet weather Sir Harvoy would walk up and down hi* hall to save tire. Hi* clothe* cost bun nothing, for ho ransacked old cheat* and wardrobes and wore those of his ances- tors. When he died the only tear shexl was by his servant, to whom ho left a farm, value M per annum. The whole of hi* property was left to hu nephew, John Mag- gott, wliu thus inherited real and personal estate worth f'jfio.ixxi, on condition that he should assume the name and arms of Klwea. Of this man, who i* better known as John Klwes, the miser, the following story i* told : His nephew. Col. I'limno, visited him at Moruham, and after reining to rest found himiuilf wet through. Finding thai the rain was dripping through eiling he moved the bed. He had nut the lain lont: "efore thesameinconvemenceagaiii occurred. Again lie rose, and again the rain came down. After pinning the lied quite round the room he found a corner wl'ere Ihe ceiling was better secured and slept until morning. When he met his uncle at breakfast he told him what had happen ad. 11 Aye, aye," Miid Mr. Klwes, " I don't mind it myself, but to those who do that's a uice corner in the rain. " Mr. and Miss Dancer are reputed the most notorious misers of the eighteenth century. The manner in which t t>is couple were found, after death, to have disputed of their wealth was even more nt range than could have been their method of a.qnirint it. ihe total value was DJO.iKJO, which was thu* disposed of l'-J.."i<Kl were found under a dunghill ; t'.Vi'P m an old coat attached to the manger in the itable : dtU in notes were hidden away in an old teapot ; the chimney yielded f-VKJO, Htuwed in iiineleen separate crevices. Sev- eral jngs filled with com were tecreted in the stable loft The Kov. Mr. Jones, f Blewbury, with a nsst egg of I'l'i HI and a stipend amount im,- to t.'iO per annum, left at death the sum of 10,000. He had been rector of hi* parish for forty years and during all that Ume only one person had been knowu to sit at hi* festal table. No tin; was ever lighted in his house, nor was a nervMit kept. In winter he would visit hi* parishioners to keep him- self from starving of cold, rather than light a tire at the rectory. As Mke affects like, so it i* with miser* : and gold will go where old is. This i* strikingly illustrated by the act of a celebrated (ireek, one Dicnn-us Diclio'iiue, a descendant of the Byzantine , emperors. This maa, by the exercise of ox- | trcMic niggardliness, managed to amass th* | -inn of t! 10,000 an immense fortune in thusa days. Than came the question, to whom should he leave it ? Une day a dis- tant relative nenl him a letter wrilUn upon a sqnsn- inch 01 paper : tins was suffi- oieut. In th* titnna ol tlungx th* parsi- monious correspondent became t he miser's heir. It ha* sometimes happened that persons little deserving, and even ruler* have reaped the harvests which Miners have painfully sown. The life of Yandille is a proof of this. This man lived upon bread tint milk wall I hi: addition or a small glass of sour wine on Saturday*. At hi* death he left L'SOO.OOO lo the king of I'Vauce. Audley, this commonwealth miser, saved 0400,000. nil of which reverted to the t'overnment. A nioreliant died at Ispahan, in the earlier part of this oentury, who had for many years dented himself and his son every sup- port uxcept a crust sf coarse bread. On a certain occasion he was ovcrtemplod to liny a piece of lieese ; but reproaching himself with extravagance, he put the cheese into a bottle, olid >n United himself, and obliged the boy to do the same with rubbing the crust against the Imiilr, enjoying the cheese in imagination. One day, returning home later than iiitial, the merchant found Ins son eating his crust, which he constantly i uiihed against t bo door. "What are you about, you fool 7'' was his exclamation. "It is dinner time, fat bur ; you have the key, 90, as I could not open the door, I was rubbing my broad against it, as I could not get to the bottle." "Cannot you go without oheose one day, von luxurious little rascal ' Ymi'll never bo rich." And the angry miser kicked t.lie poor boy for not having been nblo to deny hiimelf tho ideal gratification. 'I NABD i IM-.K IN .t >. II I Tho pmbseugci M liv tho Cunard Liner I'a- vonia roport tin: weather as being mo*t tor rilic. On the .'trd and 4th insU a fearful gala from the north-west and north-north- west, with' a mountainous sea tunning, burst over them. Huge waves Inapt over the ship's bulwarks and Hooded the docks. All Ibo iioseuiigors were kept below for safety, whilst the various .i|>ertures were closed up to prevent the water rushing down to the oabin and state-rooms. Two life- boats wpr smashed, one of them being a collapsable lioat, and a portion of the star- board raU aft was carried away. The gale raged for two days with unabated fury, but on tho 4Ui it was worse than on the previous day. All the travellers, mosl luckily, escaped without injnry, with the nxrcption of one elderly gentleman, a saloon passenger, who was knocked down and received some rnjnrie*. On thu Ath the gale abated some what, on which day they sighted in the aiigrv sea, in lat. M.'.'l, long. !2n.2r>, the wreck of a Norwegian barque, of about 600 tons burthen. She appeared to hn water- fcged and abandoned, as them was no sign of life on her or in tli* vicinity. The ill- faled vessel did not appear to have hern long abandoned, but what has Income of her rew remains to Ira told. Her sailn wore hanging from the yards in shred* except the jib, which appoared to be intact. Tho hull was painted black outside, and tho veesel't name waa painted in white loiters on her .(uarter on bin* ground, but unfortunately the letter* were almost obliterated and so indistinct tlial the name could not be made out. The wreck was tossing about, in tho sea right in toe track of Transatlantic Hteamihips, and in conscqr.on.-n most dan- gerous to navigation, particularly in foggy weather and at night-time. i:i ! ALL !*. IUkl**. KuttlM. l.ri-rl, i.rr ' hm. . in. I l.in> ASBertrait. As tile Kskimo sleeps an moss aud kius, oven weal'-hy ancient Roman* were content to repose on leaves and straw. Kre long they improved on hints taken fronixwuqt.i-r ed nations, tilled beds with delicate down, or stuffed them with the tint-si wool, till they obtained the highest pitch of luxury-/ in the appointment of their couches. Rich- ly carved wooden frames inlaid with ivory or silver, and finally with gold, siutau.eJ. cushion*, pillows and counterpane* of gold* " and purple a striking contrast U the flock-filled trusses of tneir plebeian breth- ren. The old Greeks used beds supported ! on iron frames : while the Kgyptians had 1 couches shaped more like ousv chairs wiUi hollow bock* and seat*. Climatic considerations must be taken into account by different nations in their tied making arrangements. The Russian dsy and night hugs sheepskin* around him; and thu Cactflc Iilandsr rinds in pal in leaver a sutHcient coverlet. In the tropics, mate of gross answer the same purpose. The | Kast Indian unroll* hit portable mattress, ! and m the mornint; literally take* up hi* ! bed and walks off with it. Tho Chinese use low bedsteads, often well carved ; while tbe Jap, with an uncomfortable wooden reel for hi* neck, xtre'.chcs himself on a mat- ting, and ho* * lighted paper lantern for company. German bed* are furnished with a huge pillow or upper mattress, which answers the purpose of ordinary bed clothing. Trav- elers agree that there is not enough to Uie Continental bed that, in tact, it unds too quickly. Kuropeans living in the ISast won become acquainted w-Ui ihe slender iron bedstetd* j with tall iron rod*, designed to support the mosquito netting which seldom really an- I iwen its purpose. On view in one of th* early Lrmitui Ex- hibitions was a Chinese bed ornamented I with all sort* of curious and elaborate cabi- net work, the greater part oi which consist- ed of inlaid mother of- pearl. How useless and extravagant ornament* may be heaped upon a single domestic artioie was proved by the grand bedstead exhibited in the Aus- trian department. The enormity of its bed- posts, of which there appeared to be at least t dozen, riling m spires of different bi>ight with the high relief of the carving, and the massive magnificence of the whole doeign, and the tinuh of the carving in ail its part*, ' made 'hi* bed appear not unlike a greal ; model of a <<oth:c uaihearal. Sonio of onr vary wealthy American cous- in* appear lo be pux/iml in what new form to lavish their money. A brass b.ditead inlaid with real pearls was recently made for a lady in New York. On the brass rail win. -ii run*- across the top the owners'* name is wrought in pearl*. Still more of a curios- ity i* the "Silent Alarum H-dalvad, Lo turn anyone out of bed at a given hour," the prod'.ictinn of an inventive genius lu London some years ago, [Chamliem's Journal. ALM1BM* t.10 *!*. il K\|wrl In Hair Hrrllirr, Ibal IB* rp lar lBU|rrin I* Knilai IH. " Hair aud brain* never grow on tin- same head, ' tm-y wed lu tell me when 1 was young, and by this and other wise old saw* I was early taught to reverence the outward iinue as a symbol of mental peiiah. But ia too light of science, hirsntones* aad intel- lectual capacity do not seem so antagonist ic I to ech other. In fact, a well know* hair specialist, whose aoouaintance 1 made re- cently, told me, ana with some show of reason, that the hair is a sure index of onefc mental staying power. " I always look on a bald-neaJed man," she said, " a* deficient, not only in liair, but in actual brain power. Your knew each ! hair is mine. 'ted with the brain by a tiny 1 nerve and the loss uf all these nerves moans loss of powers. Indeed, though the effects may not be at first so apparent, a man may a* well lose his hand or hi* foot as hi* hair. " Yon don't think so ' The next time you hear of a man who lias all his life been clear- headed and practinal suddenly doing ">iu foolish and inexplicable thing or breakmi down in a orisis which demand* all hi* energies inst look at bis beau. In nine I time* out of ten he i* bald. Half the men ! who drop dead suddenly arc bald. Kcally. ; I don t think that ualdheadod men are fit to hold positions of trust or responsibility, for no one knows just when the overtaxed brain is going f> break down." But she does not leave the poor wretch absolutely without one ray of hope. In- deed, she *ys that mosl oases of baldness are curable, though it may be slow work ; and the cure she proposes is so pleasant and luxurious that one could almost wish to be Iwld in order lo try it. Il has the .iiiv.ni- tage, too, of beini: .isily tried it one. ha* a com plaisant wife, siHtui or swnetheart that .s, if bald-headed men ever do have sweethearts. The cure consists simply in having one's head gently and soothingly "scratched" for about an hour every evening. Thi* gentle and continuous friction aided occasionally by ionic pr|>aration or *aap containing tar, stimulate* the root*, and will, in course of time, cause a new growth of hair to appear, aud it is about, tho only thing that ever will. Doesn't il sound nice ? Rut just fancy A man with a head as smooth and destitute of covering as Bill Nye's i* said to Iw presenting that head as a subject for feminine fingers. i-iui.li in. Fail A fall, (is n rule, injures a drunken man uu. h less than asoberoue because, the con- trolling (rawer of i.h mind being rendered ml tln-oii^ii intoxication, tho Iwdy fall* as au inert mass, and thus the chances of injury are lessened, for, strange though it may ap- pear, it is uo less a fact, thai tho must numerous coses of injury arising from a fall are caused by the effort, voluntary or other- wise, to avert the consequences, thu* (train- ing the muscles and tendons. Very rarely are injurious effects from a fall known in a lunatic asylum for the same simple reason tho mind has no influence over the action of the body. And it is a remarkable ami well-known fact to Umsu who have to deo.1 with *uoh cases that whatever injuries are no aausuil hual much more rapidly than in tho case of sane people, the mind having more to do with retarding or assisting nature's efforts than is generally known or realized. If you arc so unhappy a* to have a foolish friend, bo yourself wise. It i* easy to tell when n man in Haltering your neighbor, hut it nn't *o easy to decide wean be it flattering you.