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 FOBEIGN ECHOES. An indignant writer in a German paper calla attention to the fact that a town in which two thooaand workmen were employ- ed in the macnfactore of harmonkaa now sees them idle, aa the American demand for these instmmenta having ceased, the factory is closed. The writer assigna aa a cause the cessation of the pork trade, the cDtting off of which baa necessitated the closing of the reciprocal branches of the ex- change. One of the most signiiicant facta in the expaunon of Italy is the recent increase in the number of its newspapers. There are now published in that country 1,378 joom- alfi and other periodicals. Of the newspa- pers the oldeet is the Genoa Gazette, which dates from 1797. Another saw light in 1814, five came into being between 1320 and 1830, six frcm 1830 to 1850, nineteen from 1840 to 1850, fifty- two bet ween 1850 and 1860, while 833 uew ones appeared in 1882, and thirty- four were started Jau. 1, 1883. Horses have seldom found kinder friends, says the Pall Mall Gazette, than the late or- ganist of All Hallows' church, Barking, and his wife. The organist left a bequest amountins; to more than £100 a year for strewing gravel in slippery weather along the steep iiiclines of Tower Hill, Nightin- gale land, and the Minories. On his death his widow supervised the operations in per- son every morning. The work is still car- ried on, but the horses miss the energy and superintendence of their old friends. A party of Persian pilgrims once started for Mecca. They were, however, forbidden to leave the steamer on which they took pas- sage, it being reported that cholera prevail- ed in Persia. They were carried unwilling- ly from port to port, and finally deposited almost friendless in London. There fortune favored them, and, alter seeing the sights and making money, one married an actress and settled in Biy water, two others went to Paris, and the rest returned home with much worldly wisdom, though a lessened in- terest in' the prophet. The London correspondent of the Free- man's Journal says I learn on good author- ity, that the will of Mrs. Stapleton Bather- ton, who recently bequeathed a sum of £400,000 to the pope, is likely to become the subject of litigation. Some of the relatives have already taken the initial step toward contesting the validity of the instrument, on the ground of want of testamentary capa- city. The legality of the bequast will be further disputed as being madeto analien,but this does not appear to afford a very strong ground of objection, if, indeed, it is admiss- ible at all. The Roman correspondent of the London Morning Post telegraphs A letter from Nice states that last week a rich foreign gentleman shot himself at the Hotel de Paris at Monte Carlo, after having lost a considerable sum the previous night. A merchant shot himself on Friday evening at 10 o'clock at the Place des Phooeens. On the same day the dead body of a man had been found hanging behind the Hotel de IvDcdres. On Thursday night a gentleman who had won 7, COO francs at roulette was murdered when returning home. The authorities of Monte Carlo have, a3 usual, hushed up the affair and pretend to know nothing. As a new part in the equipment of a Rus- sian soldier, the St. Petersburg Gazette de- scribes a military handkerchief, designed by a Russian olfioer, and manufactured in a large factory at St. Petersburg. The cot- ton handkerchief has a border representing the most lively battle scenes, with full de- scriptions of each picture, while from the middle the soldier may take a lesson in the mechanism of all kinds of rifles and guns, of which clear and accurate drawings and min- ute explanations are given. It is said that these handkerchiefs are becoming very pop- ular among tbe soldiers, which is not as- tonishing, if the eager desire of the Russian for information of all kinds of machinery is considered. This information has, however, to be irrpart3d to their childlike nature in the simplet possible form, and therefore the idea tf imparting it by pocket-handker- chieia, absurd as it may appear, is not ill adapted to the requirements of those for whom it was intended. Statistics are being collected in France for the purpose of forming an estirriate as to whether the total number of the inhabitantf in the country will be greater or less than it is now at the close of the century. Thus far the figures tend to show that there is likely to be a decrease rither than an in- crease in the population. There are not up- on an average more than two children now to each family in France, and, though there has always been an increase in population since 1807, the rate of tbe increase has been constantly declining from 38 per 10,000 yearly to 26 per 10,000, Returns also state that out of every 100 inhabitants in Paris only 36 are born in the department, 57 com- ing from the provinces and 7 from abroad. Moreover, while the number oi births re- mains nearly stationary in Prance, the rate of infant mortality is enormous, being as much as 27 per cent, in Normandy, and 15 per cent, for the whole of France. At a recent meeting of Paris rag-gather- ers a resolution was passed protesting against the order of the prefect of the Seine as to depositing rubbish henceforth in boxes. The master rag-gatherer, who pre- sided, said there were thirty thousand per- sons in Paris who lived by rag-gathering, and that the.prefect of the Seine in choosing a time of commercial crisis for his measure had chosen a time when such a measure fell hardest on them, which, indeed, seems ad- mitted to he true. Another speaker said that long ago a eimilar measure had been adopted and withdrawn. The paper and rags collected by his fellow-workers were employed in different industries, the rags thus collected forming 70 per cent of the composition of certain cheap textiles, and if not collected within twenty-fotirs both pa- per and rags through decomposition lost their utility. The experiment of opening Sjuth Ken- sington and Bethnal Green masenms to the public three evenings in the week has been 80 successful that a resolution will be moved in the hoTise of commona daring the present session in favor of keepins; the British mnse- urns and the National giUlery open till 10 o'clock at night. At the Bethnal Greea moseum, sitnAted in a district wluoh is densely populated by peiq;ila «f tim^laboring classes, out of a total of 447,722 visitocs in 1881 217,914 went between he hooxs of six and 10 p.m., on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays (twelve hours) in each week, and 239,838 (between the hours of 10 a.m., and 4, 5, or 6 p.m. (thirty -six, or forty -eight boors) on six days per week. On Faiiitiiig. It is snrprisint; how everybody rushes at a fainting person and strives %6 raise bim up, and especially to keep his head erect. There must be an instinctive apprehension that if a person seized with a fainting or other fit fell into a recumbent position, death is more imminent. I must have driven a mile to-day while a lady f aintin g was held upright. I found her pulseless, white, and apparently dj ing, and I believe if I had delayed ten minutes longer she would have really died. I laid her htai down on a lower level than her body, and immediate- ly color returned to her lips and cheeks, and she became conscious. To the excited group of friends I said â€" Always remember this lact, namely â€"Fainting is caused by a waut of blood in the brain the heart ceases to act with sufficient force to send the usual amount of blood to the brain, and hence the person loses concciousoess because the func- tion of the brain ceases. Restore the blood to the brain, and instantly the peraon re- covers. Now, though the blood is propelled to all parts of the body by the action of the heart, yet it is still under the influence of the laws of gravitation. In the erect posi- tion the blood ascends to the head against gravitation, and the supply to the brain is diminished, as compared with the recum- bent position, the heait's pulsation being equal. If, then, you place a person sitting Whose heart has nearly ceased to beat, his brain will fail to receive blood, while if you lay him down, with the head lower than the heart, blood will run into the biain by the mere force of gravity and in fainting, in sufficient quantity to restore consciousness. Indeed, lature teaches us how to manage the fainting persons, for they alwavs fall, and frequently are at once restored by the recumbent position into which they are thrown. Dosing Infants With Drugs. There is far too much of "physicking" practised, with good ci evil intentions, at t^ cost of the young. Many mothers and nurses, especially the inexperienced, re- marks the Lancet, seem never to feel satis- fied as to the health and well-doing of their little ones unless they have them "under treatment." They are perpetually "purg- ing" or "cooling," or "soothing" or "strengthening" the helpless victims of their solicitude. This is the more to be de- precated because the great majority of the so-called ailments with which very young children are troubled are the direct effects of bad feeding or ill-management of some sort, or are in themselves efforts of nature to get rid of the stomach-hardening or irri- tating masses with which children are fed or physicked. The practiceof administering sedatives to infants is particularly reprehen- sible, and ought to be strongly denounced. There is no sedative which can be used with safety in the case of infants, except by medi- cal men versed in the action ot drugs and familiar with the indicative phenomena of health and disease. The use of cordials and drams is simply a reckless *play with poisons. If mother and nurses who mean well to those under their care could only know one half of the pain they inflict aad the mis- chief they do under the guise of solicitous domestic doctoring, they â- Â« ould not readily forgive the Jist Ives. No inconsiderable pro- portion of the maladies of very young chil- dren are made, and therefori are needless. There are faults of a fussy endeavour to treat diseases which have no existence, and to preserve health which is only jeopardised by the measures taken to render it doubly assured. A Snake's Philosopliy. In Senora, Mex., they have lots of snakes. Among the rest is a handsome specimen, mixed red and black, called the coral tnake. It 13 singular that in that country every- thing, instead of having longitudinal stripas, as with U3, has crosswise stripes or rings. The snakes are ringed, and it is said that all ringed snakes are poisonous. The doves ara ringed around crosswise instead of lengthwise, and the trees are checkered around their trunks. In one corner of the blacksnake's cage is a little hole l::lcnging to some industrious rat. A good fat toad hal crawled into this hole, and the snake darted in his head after him and speedily swallowed him. Bat with this incumbrance he found he could not withdraw himself. Then he at once dis- gorged the toad, which, fiading himself free, began to move off, This was too much for snake philosophy, anl the snake again swal- lowed him, and a second time was compell- ed to disgorge him, fcr he could not gei his head out. Bat he reflected. He had learn- ed something. He reached out a third time, and grabbing the toad by the leg backed one with ease. "They Xeyer Come Singly." Landsmen seem to think the weird stories and what are termed the "superstitions of sailors" fit subjects for ridicule and,laughter. The fact is wnile some of these stories and peculiar notions may be wholly fictitious yet the majority of them are undoubtedly based upon scientific facts. For instance the writer has heard the statement that "three heavy seas are invariably followed "by three lighter ones" laughed at a score of time and yet surfmen know from actual experience that it is true and by taking advantage of this peculiarity of the seas have saved many lives. So the statement that one calamity is almost invariably followed by another of similiar character may be called a foolish superstition, yet it is a statement which has been corroborated in numerous instances both on the land and on t!ie sea. The re- cent murders in the Town of Oyster Bay may be cited as an illustratioD. It may be said that one murder or suicide suggests to the vicious or weak minded a deaiie to dup- licate it, or tiiat atmospheric conditions which cause thewraok of one vessel are likely to wreck others. â€" J. H. O. â- â- ' â-  »e»» I â-  Because choreh bells cometimea have wedding s^ig^ ft dMi«it f(^PkBr.tt«* tik^ are married. â- jn^ FASHION NOTES. Condor brown is a very fashionable cokr. New towels have elaborate Roman bor ders. Shot and shell are again among the new importations. The new name for ashes of roses is Isard colar. Champignon mushroom? is a new shade of soft pinkish drab. Pink shades in gray or cafe au lait velvets are much in favor. Belts and side-bags will appear with the new spring costumes. The favorite paletot for pet dogs is of velvet trimmed with fox fur. The waistcoat ending in panniers is revived on new demi-saison dresses. Among pronounced novelties in bonnets are some with very high crowns. Large plaids and small checks will be equally fashionable in the early spring. Pet dogs wear buttonhole bouquets pinned on their gorgets with a jeweled clasp. Colored straw bnnnets form the bulk of the first importations of spring millinery. Blue and gold colors are combined in lovely gradations of shades in the new spring batistes and zephyrs. Pretty bedroom curtains are made of a single width of crimson Ottoman cloth over a second pair of antique lace. Evening drosses of great taste and ele- gance are made of th^ new ecru batistes nearly covered by gold or silver figures that make sham look like cloths of gold or silver, but this stuff comes among millinery goods only. The costliest dog-collars, generally worn by pugs, are of gold and silver set with diamonds, opals, rubies, emeralds, and other jewels, the initial letters of which spell out the name of the wearer of its fair owner. Brilliant-hued arabeeques, leaf designs, small flowers and vines, heialdic figures, and small fruits are now exhibited in new dress and cloak garnitures of plush and chenille. These are displayed on the fronts of the Louis XIV. waistcoats, the edges of the panels, cutaway jutkets, deep collar and cuffi. Medium-sized buttons to correspond accompany these effective and elegant trim- mings. Serge, cashmere, and finest Australian wool dresses in pin check patterns, with stripes of colored satin altemaling, will be very fashionably worn this spring on the promenade. Many of these costumes will be formed entirely of the striped material, while others will be made up in conjunction with one-colored fabrics, the polonaise or waistcoat end panels being made of the latter material. Narrow bands of fur, despite their inap- propriateness, are still used to trim both house and evening dresses. One magnifi- cent trained roba of velvet, recently made was further ecrlched with sable trimmings a tea gown of snowdrop cash- mere was simply bordered down the front, around the bottom, and at the throat and waist with narrow bauds of lon^-haired, dark brown fur, while a stylish matinee oi pink Indian cashmere had its wide lace ruffles headed by wide hands of swansdown. Among the newest imported jerseys are those which are nearly covered with an ela- borately beaded embroidery, either in black or with those iridescent hues, in odd Indian designs, which give them a very Oriental appearance. One very handsome style shows a black silk stockinet jersey embroid- ered with small stars in brilliant cut- jet beads. A chenille drop and jet fringe finish the lower end of the bodice. Some- times, and generally where there is co braiding or embroidery on the jersey collars, cuffs of velvet are now added to relieve the usual plain appearance. These are invari- ably of the same colcr as the jersey. Though plain fabrics are just now less in request than plaids, pin checks, and brocad- ed and shot materials, the former are always popular and ladylike, and do not weary the eye as pateorns must do when constantly before it. Seal brown, laurel or bottle green, telegraph or royal blue, and other self- colors look very pretty trimmed with several rows of very narrow gold or silver braid. There is a great improvement in the manu- facture of this kind of trimming. Good qualities do not readily tarnish, and are guaranteed to stand the action of a salty atmosphere, which will be a thing much in its favor as a commendable garniture for seaside costumes the coming season. Snubbing. This is a serious business in any view that can be taken of it. And it is certainly a most disagreeable one. Those who are snubbed are generally taken off their guard, and this constitutes their main annoyance. They are given a sudden blow when they are careless and at ease in the security of social intercourse, and thus they are placed at a great disadvatitage. A snub, says one, is a check, a blank it is a curtain suddenly drawn down it is pulling up against a dead wall ifais cold obstruction and recoil. Either the snubber ba3 authority on his side, and we have laid ourselves open by some inadvertence, by a misplaced trust in his condscension, and we have seen parents painfully snub their child- ren in this sort, firjt allow them liberties, then stop them with a harsh check in mid- career of spirits and in the presence of strangers, or perhaps we have given way to enthusiasm and are met by ridicule. Or we have made a confidence which we think ten- der, and it is received with indifference. Or we tell a story, and are asked for the point of it. Or we are given to understand that we are mistaken were we have assumed our- selves well informed. Or our taste is oooly set at naught or we talk, and are remind- ed that we are prosy or we are brought face to face with our ignorance in a way to make us feel it most keenly. The strength of a snub lies in the sudden apprehension that we have committed ourselves, and a consequent painful sense of insignificaDoe. that tncra is somebody quite close to nS) re« gardless of our feelings, looking down on us, and oatentationsly nasympathi^ng. Bsware of snubbing any one. It makea a awst painful and permanent impression. It "•y. " *»? "» » moment* and yet is not ^*^ J?« *»«•"« *« f«w. if not for an eatirs lifetime. i EXCELLENT HINTS FOR THBIFTY HOUSEKEEPERS. CuKAM Gems (with fruit).â€" Mix one pint of whole meal with cream enough to make a stiff batter. Then stir ir one cup of cur- rants or seedless raUins, well oredged with a portion of tbe flour; the currants sfaonld be picked, washed, and dried, before dredg- ing. Bake in a brisk bnteqen oven, and be careful not to scotch in finishing. CoBN Griddls cakis,â€" Two cups coarse oatmeal, two cups sour milk, or buttermilk, one egg, one tablespoonful Graham flour, one teaspoonful soca, dissolved in boibng water. Make a batter of the meal, milk, eggs, acd flour if it is too thick, add a little milk. Then stir in the dissolved soda, beat well, snd bake immediately on a hot griddle do not scorch the cakes. Potato ajid Cork Muffins.â€" One cup of cold mashed potato, one cup of sweet milk, cue egg, well beaten, one cup commeal â€" or enough for gem-batter. Timeâ€" Twenty to thirty minutes. Soften the potato with the milk, workiog out all the lumps then stir in oornmeal till the latter is just thick enough to drop easily from the spoon add the whipped egg, and beat tard. Drop into hot gem-pans, oiled, and bake in an even oven twenty to thirty min- utes. Crumb Geiddle- cakes. â€" Two cups sour milk, or buttermilk, two cups sla'e bread- crumbs, one- half cup sifted Graham flour, one egg, well beaten, one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in boiling water. Scak the crumbs in the milk till soft then work till smooth, and add enough flour to bind the mixture together. Stir in the beaten egg and dissolved soda, beat very hard, and bake to a good brown tbe griddle should be well oiled. If prefered, use part sour cream, and leave out the egg. Graham and Corn Muffins. â€" Two full cups commeal, one cup Graham flour, one cup sweet milk, two caps boiling water, one egg. Time â€" twenty minutes. Pour the boUing water into the meal, and stir well let the mixture, stand till lukewarm. Then add the cup of milk, or enough to form a batter about as stiff as will drop from the spoon, and beat well. Set this in a warm place two hours then break in tbe egg, and beat hard. Sift into hot gem- pans, well oiled, and bake twenty minutes in a brisk oven. Corn Custard. â€" One pint (heaping corn- meal, two teaspoonsful white flour, one quart sour milk, or buttermilk, three eggs â€" yolks and whites separate, two teaspoons- ful soda, dissolved in boiling water. Time â€" twenty minutes. See that the oven is just right then stir together the meal, flour, milk, and beaten yolks. When these are well mixed, add the dissolved soda, and the whites cut to a stiff froth, and beat hard. Pour into two pans, well oiled, and bake immediately. The custard should not be more than an inch in thickness when done it should bake in about twenty minutes. Rice Griddle cakes. â€" One cup cold boiled ,tice, one cup sour milk, or butter- milk, one cup sifted Graham flour, one egg, well beaten, one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in boiling m ater. Moisten the rice with the milk, and mix them well together if there are lumps re- maining mash fine with a spoon â€" or a fork, which is better. S Lir ia the^Graham flour and beaten egg, forming a thin fritter batter then the dissolved soda and beat well. Bake in small, thin cakes to a good brown the griddle must be cleaned and well oiled. Cold srap (fine homing mixed in the same way, is excellent. Bachelors Johnny Cake. â€" Three cups commeal, one cup Graham flour, three cups new milk, one tablespoonful sugar, one te a spoonful soda, dissolved in boiling water. Time â€" twenty to thirty minutes. Mix the meal, flour, and milk over night, and set the batter where it will keep moder- ately warm, but will not sour. In the morning add the sugar uad the dissolved soda, and beat hard. Pour into two pans, well oiled, and bake for breakfast; the cakes should not be more than an inch thick when done. They will require a hot oven and twenty to thirty minutes. Kentucky Corn Cake. â€" Take, say two cups of commeal, and half scald by stirring into it a cup of boiling water then add cold water or cold sweet milk, to form a batter as stiff as can be stirred with a spoon; beat very thoroughly. Spread it two-thirds of an inch thick on an oiled 'griddle, and bake ten to i fifteen minutes, or till the bot- tom is well browned then remove the grid- dle from the top of the stove, place it in a moderate oven, on the topmost grate, and let it bake from thirty to forty minutes longe r if mixed with water. If more con- venient, you can dispense with the griddle, pour the batter into a bread-pan, and bake iu the oven forty to fifty minutes. Rice and Corn Bread. â€" On» and «fc« half cups cold rice, two cups sour milk, one egg, well beaten, one teaspoonful soda dis- solved in boiling water, three cups coarse commeal â€" or enough lo make a tolerably soft gem-batter. Time â€" thirty minutes. Soften the rice with the milk, and mash all the lumps add the beaten egg, and enough of the commeal to form a thin bat- ter. Stir well then add more meal â€" enough to make the batter stiff enough to mould with the hands aid also the dis- solved soda, and beat hard. Form into small oval cakes, say three inches long and an inch and half in thickness, and bake in a hot oven thirty minutes. Irish Potato Pib.â€" Oae quart of sweet milkâ€" or part cream, one and one-half cups mashed potato, dry and mealy, one-half cup (nearly) sugar, three eggs, yolks and whites separate, juice of one lemon. Mix the potato well with the milk, and nut through a colander, to remove lumps. Then beat the yolks, lemon, and sugar to- gether, and stir them in; add the whites out to a stiff froth, and stir well. Line three pie pans with a good cream paste mix- ed stiff. Pill with the batter, and bake in an even oven till the pies are done see that the crust is well browned. Strre cold the same day. "All thb Gabdsn" Soup â€"Six quarts cold water, four potatoes, medium sisa, four tomatoes, medium dze, two onions, medi- um size, Ltwo tableipoonafnl ohdpped ttea- ley, two staiks oelcry. If yoa hkve it obe oup green psM^ ahelledâ€" if yoa haTS^tiMa, one oup chopped oabbage one small p^' snip; ten cent soupbone. Timeâ€"tW hours and a half. Crack the soup-bone without compleui crushing it, cove r with the cold w»t«r J» when it omnes to a boil, skim. Then psri the vegetebles, slicing and choppi^ all-HBave the peasâ€" till they are fine j^ as soon as the meat is skimmed add tW (except the peas and ptr.ley), and gfe, moderately two honri and a half, Tw St ram the soup through a coarse colandet and «kim off an^ fat that rises retura it t^ the kettle, put in the cup of green peas, anj psrdley, finely chopped, ten minutes before finishing. Later in the season, substitute for greeg peas either a pint of canned ones, or a cn of shelled beans fresh from the garden pQ( the beans into the pot with the potatoes turnips, and other vegatables. If canned peas are used, add them half an hour before the soup is done. Breakfast, (spring or summer).â€" 5ur.. day, â€" Ripe ruits, as apples, peaches grapet. Hard Graham rolls Graham loaf brea'), or dry toast. Commeal, rr farina mush. Hiked potatoes, peeled or unpeeled. Stewed sweet currants or canned pears. Compio. mue.â€" Soft boiled eggs. Monday. â€" Ripe fruit. Hard Graham. rolls cream biscuits. Oatmeal mush, Boiled or mashed potatoes. Stewed or can- ned apples, or stewed dried apples. Tuesday,â€" 'B.3lxA Graham rolls mush big. cuits, or mush rolls. Graham or oatmed mush. Browned potatoes. Strawberries or raspberries these ripe, stewed, or ear- ned. Compromise â€" Eggs and toast. Wednesday, â€" Ripe fruit. Hard Graham rolls leavened Graham bread. Oatmeal or farina mush. Mashed or baked potatoes, Stewed dried peaches (peeled), baked apples, or canned plums. Thursday.â€" 'Rv^ fruit. Hard Graham rolls currant gems, or dry toast. Oatmeal mush, or steamed rice. Boiled or baked potatoes. Stewed apples, canned peaches or stewed cherries. Compromise. â€" Com cake or leavened Graham bread (half white flour) with tresh butter. Friday. â€" Ripe fruit. Hard Graham roUsj; leavened Graham break Graham or oat- meal mush. Browned or mashed potatoes. Raspberries and currants (mixed) these stewed or canned â€" or blackberries or cheiries, stewed or canned, Saturda^ -Hard Gr.iham rolls corn gems, or hoc-water rolls. Oatmeal mush. Boiled or baked potatoes. Stewed or can- ned plums, strawberries, or baked apples. Compromise. â€" Green com, griddle- cakes, or milk toast. The Greatest of All. Mercy, how the fellows ate, how per- emptory they were in order, how eager in contemplation, how earnest in cutting up, how vigorous in putting down. They hurried through the operation as though they were having a tooth pulled, and the quicker it was over the better, I was p:\r- ticularly struck by one man who finishes a pork pie, a cup of custard, some cold cotiee. and fifteen or twenty pieees of cheese ia less time, I was going to say, than it takes me to tell it, who asked, while the tumbler was still resting in his mouth and the milk was gurgling dOwn his throat "Check, please," and, snatching out the other hand for the ticket as he moved away, presiint; his fingers into his side pocket for change with which to pay. No wonder liver-pills are sold by the billions, no wonder stomachic regulators of various sort.s and kinds finl quick and ready sale, no wonder doctors retire rich, no wonder, indeed, that our graveyards grow and our cemeteries extend their boundaries year by year. It apparent- ly makes no difference what time of year it is, the icy breath of winter, the sweltering of dog-day August, the lassitude-breeding fogs 01 spricg, and the plea ant atmosphere of autumn, each in its way inspires appe- tite and drives the human race pell-mell in- to the modem restaurant. Xew York is a great place for restaurants. We have them from the humble doughnut-stand on the sidewalk, or, for that matter, a lower grade still, a hot corn man who sells his fragrant cobs from the curb of the pavement, through many, many styles and ranks until we reach those gilded palaces where luxury is the normal condition and extravagance the customary rule. The great physical sin to- day is against the human stomach. Sins against the ten commandments, we are told, can be forgiven, sins against human laws can be expiated, sins against individu- als may be condoned, but sins against the stomach remain uncanceled and unforgiven. A disordered stomach breeds hisease of every sort and kind it unmans the nerves, it uu- balances the brain it dims the eye, it par- alyzes the ear, and makes life so wretched that the conundrum of ten arises "Is it worth while to go through so much to gain so little in the end " E very body has his nostram. All the way from hot-water baths inside to red flannel band- ages outside theie can be found doctors, nurses, patent- medicine men, old women, to prescribe this, that and the other. 1 pity the maa whose stomach is out of order. John Gilbert, whose stomach is a long one, looks as though he had never been troubled, I envy such as he. I envy Gen. Grant, who smokes from moming until night, and drinks from night to moming. I envy B.n Butler, whose stomach capacity is simply eminent. People talk about Bsecher and Beecher's brain, but what gave him one or the other? Without doubt Beecher's stomach. Next time you see him on the platform, in the pulpi^ or bowling down th? street like a tremendous lightning ex- press under full headway, take him in. Look at his magnificent head thickly thatch- ed with whitening hair, see his furrowless forehead, mark the keen glitter of his full blue eye, see the raddy hot glow rushing through his rosy cheeks, mark the leonine aspeot of his entirety. What is it Brain, muscle, nerve, disposition Nonsense, it's stomach 1 Sdentutsnow assert that the earth was peopled fifty million years before Adam lo- mted the garden of Eden aa a tree claim. However, they can adranoe no clinching •^nment In support of the daim. Fashion- ptetea oaanot be traced beymd the period whwi Adam and Eve were the leaders of their aet in society. â- "â- *" ' ' iaii^ffl^fev.- -T..',.^:ik«ritiiiW.-.^.iiji.«i:^ ..'..!riii.