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 '., Gnelph,! I to b« had ri I the ComliilaB. I W Sf»it"«»'d in»n «• womui P^d**" M h« leea no me' on Iw**- 7!.ff de meMore when ha 15" ""rt of bed WM good 'nnff fur i7»»^f took the biggest pleoe ot K«",^%^ate mo' Uke ahogdui Kif^X' If he had sympathr It wm i^»*^L.ta»d of hU fam'ly. Da r«^« in«*«»f !„ attendant at '"i'°bnt he worked hU hired k»" hour, cut of twenty-fonr just KaWvefive^naie-^to^ehnx^^^^ tiitbi« tn eit op ao uut"-a- â€" .tt, ,%Wr are«B,an' mos' of his â-º'"'iS npan' went away from k» ° «fd UP an' weni a way iioui r Ca reckoleokshunof a doztn W'aihnnd man had twoVeolpes r*"' â- ?,« bfiin'B. Defast was hard ^/i' wS boneset tea. He had '• V l. In recard to boys. Da fust r'*°"Sk an'a leetle .choolln' de """'i ta o' iSekins and no holidayp. He if^Trideahfl in regard to Wznesf Da F!ft»llTe kin;de nei' was keep â-º"'i He aremd dat a liar could "%« de kingdom of Heaben, but l«?um' ""k* -«k ox to death ttar about his hearafter. He UiSly dat de Lawd wc«ld increase Km but he kept his hired hands down Keitpo^lble figgw. He made a tiw of lubmittin' to de will of Proii- f tat if 500 pounds of hay got wet in ^^SlmBome^fdechiU'ncomeln for liiiii' befo' night. !S;oie.f».hnn'd flian an' weman hev de- Lj „â-  de world hasn't lost a cent hy PV-M a eoed depart. Wicked as some LS de world to be, I feel dat I kin .llfltBdeaiverrge crowd an' pick mo „tv hnmanity, rellgun, sympathy an LjUtt dn could be found in a ten- acre [of Bid fwhun'd men. Let us now prc- "litobizn^ss." I CAST EECaSSIDER. l-le lecretaty announced the following â- 'aiafflcatlon from Point Pleasant, W. V».: Iitbei Gardner I ueSib-I see by the proceedings of a « meeting that you are net an admirer of c doctors. Being a corn doctor and toe yjiger nail trimmer I most earnestly ItBt, and hope that the late action ef |c"'cmb" ooEcernirgBuoh doctors will ijie nsiiored. I am also the inventor of iCiz.y'a corn and bnnion exterminator, UwUl forward free a trial bottle to any uobtiiniDg your certifi3ate that he is a mbei in good standing in the Lime-Kiln Jib, Yours, Phlegm McCaset. "D3co'n dectafa," said the President, fiaitpas^on who makes, a bizness of re- ' cons ai' chargin' fifty cents apiece. Iiibcat fo' reeks de removed co'ns turn gmlUn' agir, while de co'n doctah has ion to greener fields, A bunion ex- ater, as I understan' it, am a salve to tenifaute bunions. In a couple of weeks rthe bnnion am 'sterminated you look iityerheelau' you dlskiver dat she iretsmed from her trip to de sea- she' an' luas'lBbent on doin' a rushin' bizness Ihf de fall an' winter. Dis club has an- Ixniiced to de world de fack dat it has lost liiitliinde co'n dootah an' his remedies, an' Inite't fiwlne to take it back. We kin Itir, bat we can't tultif y ourselves. " BRO JOSES -WILI, GD, J Ibe folbving letter, fram Carlisle, Ky,, Ini then presented to the meeting Carlisle, Ky., March 23, 1 886. Ilo Prei, Girdner and the L. C. 1 iueied to this enterprising little town lithe village of Henry vlUe, a town of about l^ngls all belonging te the colored race. iMCHitly a society was formed composed of lintty of HenryviUe's best citizens and l»Oedthe Hsnryville Gardner Club. The |h«of the society is to e'.evate and educate ls;« colored peopla to a higher standard, I md we find we caanot be sncces^ful witbout InUdeaid or without connentien with a iBotgerorgsnizition, the L C. being the I Wud meat icfliential society of the kind fttiie United States. Je pray for admission into your ranks, |w would be phased to have yen or IxothetGiveidam Jones come down at onoe I «a properly initiate us and deliver the I W lecture before our society. Humbly, Harrison Pip£r, Secretary. 0: motion of Likadoshul Burrows the I jfJTille band was accepted as a branch l«p, empowered to work to the 3 1st de- W, and anthorizad to use the picture of l!L. ^*^ Chicken on its banners for I wet parade, I il?^"" ""*«* ^*° prepar' hisself to go J»ndar widout delay," said the President, i, ^? g'lne 80 fur away from home it wiU I "wea iM him to remember Ll"?* "«'«d kyars won't git dar' any Tn"y P°*t'"' yer head outer de windee. I • uathree-keered monte man may look f °" as de real church deakun. k,^^'""P'"ty am a pumpkin wid holler ii*^n^*^ "'""^y ^^" yo oao't lend it l'«««pulUn'offyerbutei: Uemeetin' " ' Uemeetin' will now disrupt and '^«»mble to our homes." we "I'ay Your BUls." iiyjjj""'â„¢ business man haUed us to- itw^^^' ^aotto interview yon." ^,^WM Of a merchant interviewing a ««w«!|L®^ '" '0 odd that the oaU was aaumade you put that article in the ^beaded, 'Pay Your BUls?'" he ^te'r!'"*!'.* "P"«^' "" »PP»« to "Wft^tl'fa'gtodo." •^Pnmi; t- '**'*• " y°° "e 'Jght it was M l^ *»• Now let mo teU I **n,«^^' ^^ business hero for S mu^x- "^, **f°™ •» other plaoaa, Sal ^t^"" ^«" »hat I em taS! !NdDt,^ v„,^ »y that if everylMdy " *â„¢*y dayi, or apon pnwat*. tlMM wrald b« T«7 lima aC oOl'hMidilmm,' Tkm.mm ' dcOw Md hMfal II tew, bnt vnvanti tha pafBflife afk fiaak I Tha jaomsf duft » dallar temali lS waak ef Hbm â- Mâ- li^ aad Ham It M wa mmy ny whan w* talk of noa woald nuptin tiha nua who aanr gatad. I markad » dollar anca aad kwpk tnok of U a fow daja, reqveilfag aaoh maa ta kaop a raootd of whom It waa raoaivadby him, aiid to wlmn pavod. Befora it dtaap- peared, aboat the end of the fint week of tkt month, it had paid iMtwoan twenty-fiTO and thirty dollara in dobta. Not 1^^ ago I preaented a bill of abont forty dollaia to a man abundantly able te pay It. I knew he had tiie money. Bat he looked nwed and â- aid, I can't ooUeot my bills, yea Inow wait awhUe.' New that forty delkn be- longed to me, but he Iiad it in liia ponesaleB, and of coorao I oooldn't take it away from him. If he liad paid It to me, as he ought to have dene, I should have paid It oat al- most Immediately, and the chances are tliat it wonid have l)een kept going, and by thia time have paid ten times its valne in debts. ** Yon see," he went on, " money Is valu- able when it is in circulation. Like blood in a man's body, when stagnant It ia of no use. There are too many cowards. A man whe gets scared and grips his dollars when he eught to pay his debts with them, does the public a positive injury. His money woald certainly return to him through ore- ditors. The fiianoial coward does more to bring on bard times than any other cause. He is a stumbling block and a naisanoe. We talk ef the timidity of capital It ia not the monev, bat the men who handle it, who are timid. " Yon were right," he contfnued, "when you said that if everybody will pay hia bills next week, in three monttia' time baaineH will be good and money plenty. We can make courage and confidence if we wilL Some men who are chronic dead-bmta put on a great deal of style. I could point yon out a man who dashes up and down Dele- ware street behind a hired fast horse, and his creditors are thicker than bees. He stands them efif and rides, while they have to take wind for money and walk. He is ' kiting' now, but he is sure to come down in dishonor and disgrace. Let every hon- est man who can do it, square up with his neighbars to whom he owes a few dollars, and times will ease up at onoe. There it plenty of money, plenty of produce, and plenty of everytiiltag except honesty and courage. Honesty and courage will restore confidence. The croaker, whether It be a newspaper or business man, will soon quit his crpaking, and nobody will rcmUn with a woeful tale about hard times except the professional dead-beat, who is always look- big for an excnse for dishonesty. The Eaithas a Timekeepei» A problem which is attracting to its study astronomers, relates to the earth as a time- keeper. We measure time by dividing either the period during which the earth revolves around the sun, or that in which It turns on Its own axis By the first method we mea sure a year by the second a day. The earth, according to soma astronomers, is losing time. Through two causes, the sun's attraction, and the frioUen, so to speak ef the tides, the earth each year revolves more slowly en its^axis. The speonlative ques- tion which these astronomers are disonssing is whether In the end the earth will stop Its revolution upon Its axis, and will present always the same face te the sun. When the event occurs, there will be perpetual day in one part of the earth, and perpetual night In another. But there is no oaoasion for inmiediate alarm. The rate at which the earth is supposed to lose time, only shortens the year by half a second in a cen- tury. There are mare than thirty-one and a half million seconds in a year. Therefore, if the earth overdoes cease to revolve en its axis, it will be more than six thousand million years before it will stop. She Had Missed Eer Man* A teacher in one of the Indian schools re- lates the following incident of an Indian boy 'a quick thought. He had asked the meaning of the word miss. " To miss," I told him, " is the same as to fail. You shoot at a bird or at a mark and de not hit It you miss it. You go to a tailor's for a coat, and your coat fits badly, it is a miss- fit. Yon hope to enter the middle class next year, but you cannot pass the exami- naticn, and so you miss the promotion." His face wore a puzzled air and he shook his bead. " Then," said I, "there is another mean- ing of mhs. We call a married woman madam, but an unmarried woman, min." His face brightened. He smiled and nod- ded. " Ah, I t-ee,^' said he, " she haa miss- ed her man." Too Pond of Medioine- " I ree yon have got tliat blaok oottie filled again ' remarked Mrs, Splatterby, the oliher day, as Splatterby waa hunting around for tho sugar. " Yes, ' replied Splatterby. " a littie aome- thing U good to have about the honse in case of aioknesa," 'I don'f think whiskey a good madidne," â- aid Mrs, Splatterby. ' And why isn't ir, I would like te know " asked Sp^a^terby, with some degree ef feel- ing. " Many of the most eminent physi- oiacB recommend it." "Well," said Mrs. Splatterby, with a compoied oast of coantenanor, " If It Is a good medldne. It don't agree with your sy- stem. I notice that yon are never well while there is a drop of the atuff in the henae." » The Sobbing Wren* There Is a bird in aoathweitem Tezaa known aa the aobbing wren Its note b^ina in a liigh silvery key, descending from one â- weet note to another, each mere delightfol- ly clear than the other, until it barata Into a aobbing ory, ending in a gasp like that of a aofferlog child. The effect of this atraage â- one ia startling aad diatresdagas It la borne on'tne early morning air, or at vwilight. Tbe bird la f««»«n, with a plamp browa breaat, â- peokled with abrade of blaok. lea twe iaeaea tiOek wOl aanport a No wander thaa Ika* ioe-dealen, iriwatere Meiff hoaaea witii lo) tram tea te tweaty iaehat thioogh* •» Ur^la lazarj. snne balad. «adâ€" Arlwfaa walk. Iha EdjiPMi iwaOawâ€"'M VBf tmHi UL* Iha anginal bay Ave katta beeaaiather Aaaaaawhaft aakedwhat waatta aattsr wilkhb eeaC r^Uad, "InKBudafilhaantlMdaania taayaan." Aa Uahaian, moaiafaif hia wife, tacifally^ exolainied *• Faith, aa* ahe waa a geed wemaa^ alie alwayahlt ma wid de aoft aad o' the mop." •• It la alwaya the begiaabg of Laat at oar hooae." "I don't naderataad yea." Don't you know we have haah Wedaeaday all the year ronsd." There la aald to be a tort of aympafty betweea extremee. To iUoatrate â€" ^maay a homely man's head haa been toned fay a pretty womaa'a foot, A lady waiter aaka ** Why doa't baohe- lors marry?' That's boâ€" why doa't tiiey Come to tliink abont it, we have never vet â- eon a bachelor who waa married. It'a lamentable, too, Wlten the faahlonable yonag lady makea a dive and grab at her dress skirt, a fellow feela very mnoh like dodging, for die acta for all the world like die waa going for a brick. Now oomes the seaaon when the fasliion- able belle, who lias been ehooked all Winter at the opera ballet, goea to the seaside aad diaplaya the laat new atyle la bathing dreasea. " Now, leek'er yer, Charlie, Jim moat be aa hoaeat aigger and then, again, he mon- tea't bat if I waa a ohloken and know'd he was abont tiie yard, I tell ye wot, nigger, I'd roost highâ€" that I would." Yioar'a daughterâ€"" Well, Tommy, how are yea all getting on t" Tommy â€" " Nice- ly, thmk yon, iniss. Oi get a gumboil, mother she's get the rheamatios, and father e've get a month in jail " First small boyâ€" " Say, Johnnie, where are you in Sundajr-achoel I" Second small boyâ€"" Oh, we're in the middle of original sin." First small boyâ€"" That ain't much were's paat redemption." 'Ib there any plural to deer?" asked Professor Snore of hia class in grammar. " I think there must be, for thtre is a plural to beer. Yon can say two beers ' I've often heard it," replied Tom Anjerry. A Toronto man by feeding a tramp found a long lose brother ef his wife. We suppose this ought to be taken, as a solemn warning against something or other, because he haa had to keep on feeding him ever sites. Husbanci (desperately) â€" " Life has no longer any charms for me. I'll kill myself. I'll take poison." Wife (calmly)â€"" Well, if you do take poison, my dear, get the kind thaf a advertised Don't die in the house.' " It takes a very atrong-minded young Romeo to talk nonsense to a gentle Julies at 11 F. M., when tho screams of a oolllcky baby across the street are splitting the stilly stillness of the night from tbe cialle to the carbstone. A Gnelph lady reoentiy married, seeing her husband coming into the house, slipped quietly behind him and gave him a hewty kiss. The husband tild her that she offend- ed all propriety. ** Pardon 1 pardon " said she, naively. " I did not know it was yon." " Say, Mrs. Smith," complained an irate boarder at a Bond atreet boarding houjo the other day, pointing to a dbh In front of him, " yon shouldn't put such staff as that before hogs." " That's so," the eld lady snappishly remarked " here, Jane, bring that dish to thia end of tiie table." In Corea, so we are informed by a re- turned traveler, both men and women wear bate in and out of doors, varying in width from three to six feet. Under these circum- stances we are not surprised when we are told that there haa net been a tneatnoal performance in Corea for the last four years. A clergyman who was consoling a young widow on tLe death of her husband spoke in a very serious tone, remarking that he was " one of the few. Such a jewel of a Chris- tian â€" you cannot find his equal, you well luiow." To which the sobbing fair one re- plied, with an almost broken heart, " I'll betlwUL" Pompey taok littie Ethel to see the lait batch of chickens making their first appear- ance in the world. " I wonder they've got the strength to break their way out of the shell" " Why, ze sae, M{s Ethel," said Pempey, sagasieualy, " dey makes a mighty big effort at last 'oase dey'a afeard o' bein' biled if dey%iiay longers." An elderly lady who, with her daughter, has but recsntiy returned from a rapid journey through England, France, partef Germany and Italy, was asked the other day if they had visited Rrime, a^ she re- plied in the negative. ** La I ms, yea we did," said ;he daughter, " that waa the place, don't yon know, where we bought the bad steokings 7" A skeptio who was trying to eonfoae a Christiaa oelored man by contradiotory passages la ttie Bible, aaked how It conid be tha« we are in the Spirit aad the Spirit in US he received the foilowlag reply " Oi, dar's no pnzste bent dat ita like dac poker. Iputa it In de fire til It gets red hot. Now, de poker's la de fire, aad de fire's in depeker." The height of mai^lficsnce ia Protestan weddioga is undoubtedly one ia Westt minster Abbey. When a cosmopolite Anurioaawlio waa bstrotlied to aa Eaglbh girl said " What do you tliink of my being married fat the Abbey 1" " Uadonbt edly,"waa theanawer, ** since there isn't the goblla of a ohaaoe of your Iwing bnried in Weatminlater, tiie next beat thiag is to be married there." Yonag playwrightâ€" " Wen, Mr. Bun- oomb. have yoa read my oonady ' bun oombâ€" " Yee. aad I find I shall be nnalls to nae it. It haa aeme good poiats, my dear liey, liat ita orada â€" very erode.* Yeang playwtVttâ€" " Thto yoa ooalda't ^iiifc of pattog it ea 11m stage 1" Baaoomb â€" *«Weil, IdUnt aiaaa to aay liial. I eoald have it gi a aa d apaad asa It tea HMwstofm, if yea wmdd eava taittva it pat on ttwumy." (Bdfc ffl»ywi4;htat*B|ttly.) caiubaubk n eai^cl XkaialleviiV ia a â-  68. M FWt-M-PilBMk Hayti :â€" *• faadlOtocd, eemmawdiag tta â- saA ei Otaad OoaTo, aeoompaaiad by fta peHaa, pvaeeeded laatwaak «a anaat Mb er twelra ;parMH of both lazei who wen ouryiag oa a t«ade ef killing people ttierdar to aeU their flesh te tbe aMakat-plMe at Graaul Goava. The oitiasa who liaa rt^ofrt- edthiafaette as ia in every way wnrtiiy ef belief. When tlieae people were behg oea- daoted to the t6wn, a woman iHio had taken the oommunlon bat a few wecka lielme, overcome by lemMi^ diedea ttie way, aad her liedywu bnried by the eaoerl Aaotiier, named Sophia (oarraoted Fraaoolae) arrived at the town tied oa a donkey, was reoog- niaed by tiie neighbors and by the wife ef onr iaformaat, who spoke to her thna; How Ii it, Sister Sophia (Fcanooiae,) yoa who liave Iraen oook^to Padre Frehel, yon who have taken the Communion soaroely fifteen days ago, yon feaat ea human fieeh 1 Yoa dionld have oommitted aniolde rather thaa liave permitted yonraelf to be breaght here In tills atate« .^ucriviDg at the' pdIoe offioe, situated abont twenty paces from the house of this lady, the said Sophia (Fran- coiae) waa taken from tlie donkey qolte dead, and Immediately the priaonera liaid to dig a grave in wliioh she waa. buried. The other anthropophagi have declared that for some time they Iiave sold human fleah for pork in the market of Grand Geave. They have made revelationa of great importanoe, bnt Inoredlble if it were net oerti^ ef the facts, seeing them praotised or exeonted be- fore us." The correapondent who forwarda the above to tiie Daily Newa aaya â€" ' It ia an Important correbraation of the statements ooataiaed in Sir Spenoer St. John's, Haytl, or the Blaok Repabllo,' as well aa ef Cap- tain Kennedy's notioea ef hia aojanrn In the West Indies. The anthoritiea atPort-an- Prlnce were very angry at thia publbrntion, and tiireatened to proaeoute the editor, Mr. J. J. Audln, for having had the oonrage to bring before hia conntrymen what la pass- ing daily in their midst. The women who are supposed to have died of remorse no doubt fell victims to the clabi of the po- lice, who never spare a prisoner, whetner innOoent or guilty. I tiust none of your readers will confound Hayti with its progres- sing neig^bar, Sim Damingo. A HoTelty in Sanceiy* An electric light inside the hip bone of a man is an unusual spectacle, and yet It waa witnessed receutly at the Postgraduate Med- ical School, in New York olty. The light was u^d In an operation to cure hip disease. A student, twenty-two years old, in the col- lage of Burlington, Vt., slipped on the pave- ment about two montha ago and strained his thigh. He soon lost the use of his left leg and suffered excruciating pain. He came to New York, was placed in a cot in the Postgraduate Hospital and Doctor J. MUton Roberts, a' pnlessor in the Instltn- tton, performed on him a remarkable oper- ation. The young man was put under the influ- ence ot ether, and Dr. Roberts, ^th a scal- pel, laid bare a portion of the hip-bone about three inchea mde. Then he called into play a bone-cutting maohlne. Invented by himself, and called the electro-osteetome. It b worked by an electric battery, and oan revolve surgical initmments 12,()00 revola- tiono. If necessary, in a minute. The doctor attached a email drill to the Instrnment and cut out portions of the hip- bone up to Ita head, a distance of four inches These pieces of bone under the miorosoope showed disease. The doctor then used still larger drills until there waa a space large enough to adnut the entrance of a man's fin- ger. He now wanted to aee the exact con- dition of affairs inside of the bone. To do so he used a novelty for this class of work â€"a tiny Incandescent electric light, about as large as a pea. This Dr. Roberts intro- duced inside of the passage in the bane, and the several flashes of light enabled him te see just wherd the diseased lione waa. Then he took up his drill again and oat out the diseased bene wherever it was necessary as easily as if the bone were open before him en an operating table. Dr. Roberts put in a drainage tube to take off diseased matter that might form, sewed up the wound, and applied antiseptic bandages. A hypoder- mic faijection of morphine waa given to the patient, and when he recovered from the ef- fects of the ether he wai in a satisfactory condition, and It is conjectured that he wiU in a comparatively short time be able to nae hia disabled limb. A Pathetic Trae;edT iaBealLife- The evidence of littie Frankie Ganghan in court In Soranton, Pa., against John MoAndrews and wife for the death of his thirteen year old sister (whom they had adopted) was another proof that truth Is atranger thaa fiction, and told a atery of real life whose narration Dickens might have en- vied. The oliild, clad in a oalloo dress and withont ahoea and atoslunga all Winter,- beaten and starved, lay at laat on a bed of straw In the garret in the early morning of a raw March day, dying. There were no bedclothes there, and she was shivering with cild when hr hi • here llttl boy of nine, oame to Jsee her at live o'clock 'Fraakie," cried the dying girl to her brother, as he drew near, " it is so darV and BO cold hereâ€" so very cold. Uft me » little, please." Tenderly the bey ndaed ilia fragile riiter to a Bitting posture and moistened her parched lipe with water. For aa iaataat the girl re^vM, bat aeea relapsed latooaooa- sdonaneaa. The boy thought her dead and started to anmmon a neigbbjr, bntapW tive vrfoe oaased liim te halt. Hia â- !.. v waa apeaking f dntiy. **I jiistsaw a beaatiful aagel," alie aud. 'It waa mother, aad ahe were aorown, too. Yer,"â€" bnt here her mind wandered for a moment. " Oh, I'm ao oold 1 Frank- ie, bring Priaoe (the family iog) aad place him on my fleet to keep tiieni warm." ' Thelwydidso. •• Water 1 Water I" wUapered the littie inSner. **Aageia are oemingl Oh, aee tlMB. FraaklOb see^-eh, motherâ€"" Bat that waa all, for tiM litlia giri wai d«A UBEFUL AIB 8naeE8TIV ttai wttt ii rMBt iii ri y Min «ii»d «lih jaioa. M rpm eia d frem .tiiMpvlaegar. Te raoova paiat n^adMa ea wiadew glaaa molitaa the BpstB wftii a atnog lolatlea of aeda. T^mJBOihmL Thai liagiAit lUntt in Vir^nia ea which aiakeptiome 000 geaae. The maia ob- ject ia th« ptedaetiea ei dewa. By wadiiu a piaw floor wiMh aadlntieaef one pouad otoopparaa la enecaHea of etroag lye, the a|^^earaace of oak flMilag may be prodaoad. The (ellowiag is a good remedy for buras Mix four eonoes of the yellca of eggt with five tuabea of pare glyoerlae. Tiiia forma a kiad ef vamlslu " I wiU give any man $100,000 who will produce anything that wiU prevent a wall ef presaedbrlok from tomiag white," saya a prominent architect. â-  Empty spools are iiioe to use to Iiai^ tow- di and clothing oi. Drive naili tdhreugh them ao tiie head will sink in t^e end o! tbe â- pool, No danger of rust in naing them. Boota and shoes may be rendered water- proof by soaking them for some hours In tiiiok soap water. The compound forms a fatty acid irithin the leather, and makes It Impervioaa to water. A very conventent rule tor determining the apeed ef circular saws is to divide the number 36 000 by the diameter of the saw In Inchea. x'he quotient is the proper nam- ber of revoIutiouB per minute. BoBAX Soap.â€" Cut an ordinary bar of ao^^ In small pieces put it in one quart of boiUng water, and add one ounce of borax. I«t It all melt, but not boil. When cold, out in piecea, and use like oenrmon soap. It is computed that a twelve-Inch wall of hard bnmed bricks and (looi lim? and asnd mortar could be built 1,600 feet high belore the bottom layers would be oiushed. If Portland cement were added to the mortar, the height might reach 5. 700 feet. Some physicians are prescribing nitro- glycerine as a stimulant tn place of brandy. It is said that two drjps of one per cent, solution sra the equivalent of an ounse of brandy, and that this dose creates no unna- tural craving. Lime cartridges are coming' into use for blasting purposes. ' A hole is bored, the lime cutridge inserted, and water is poured over It. The increase in volame of tho slacked lime splits aad craoks the substance which it is dedred to blast. For turning and drilling wronght-Iron and Bteel, one ounce ef a mixture of soft soap, with half its wei;;htof pearl-ash in about one gallon ef boiling water. Is la everyday use in most eng^eerirg shops. !nie work, though constantly mout, doea not rust. Copper-Hned tanks are o*ten known te give trouble by leaking, after a few years, mnch of which arises from the manner of Bolderiog. Moat plumbers nie common sol- der, maoe of le id and tin. For this kind of work pure tin shotli be used, and the laps thorenghly sweated through. The naila ahonld ahn be of cop ^r. A geed anthority says that a first-class cement, witii wliioh to fasten stene to stone, or bon to iron, ia made by mixing a paste of pure oxide of lead, litharge and glycer- ine- This mixture hardens rapidly, is ia- coiuble In acids, and is not afieoted by heat. It has been nsed to fasten the different por- tions of a fiy-wbeel with success, while, itlaced between stones and onoe hardened, t is eader to break the stone than the joint. {f It b deeirable to set np an anvil so that its UBO will make the least potalble noise, set the aavU on a block of lead or make a putty bdge aronnl the anvil upon the woodm block, one-half inch clear all round, one inch liigh. K»ise the anvil clear of the block one-half inch, by any meaas available, pour in the lead until it rises above the bot- tom of the anvil or set the anvil en a good bed of sand held in a box To etch your name on stael tools, proceed aa follows Cieioi thoroughly of grease, and then spread a thin coat of beeswax, or par- affin, en it, the li --o where the name b to be. Thb my a as thin ac passible. Then, with a uharp needle point write through the wax to the steel. Pa:n thb over with a mixture of nitiio and mnrbtio acid, in the proportion of six to one respec- tively, and, when bubbles cease to rise, the work b done. Wa«h in strong sofa water. v; ^^er to take away ink spots from u^Sper is t£ customary to use a blotter, which ireely soaks up the liquid, and if, by tlita means, all traces of the ink do not dbap* pear, recourse b had to a s,2i or some sub- atajce having the property of bleaching paper, for instance, cxaUte rf potassium, etc., to attain thb end. 4l simple modifica- tion of thb renders stiU betser servioea. Take a thick blotting paper or board, steep it several times In a ^Intion of oxaUc aoid or oxalate of potasdano. rhen dry it. It there b a spot to bs taken away, apply the blotter, which has been prepared intlib faaiiion, to the same. In procaeding thna, the Ink ta entirely rmoved. The blttter drinks up the ink, and whitens the paper at tiie same time. How Boy'i Marbles aieMade Almeat all the marbles with whteh boyi everywhere amuse UieBuelves, aayj the Sdentifio Monthly, In seaaon and out of aeaacn, on ddewalks and on aandy speta. are made In Oberstein, Garmacy. There are large agate qoarrlea aad mills la that nei^borheed and the refuse b turned to eod acoount fai providing tiie amall atana U for ezperta ta •• knnokle " wittL Tho atone b broken into amall oabea by blowa of a light hamiaar. These luaall Uooka of atene are threwa by the ahevelfeb late tho hopper of a amall ndU, formed of a bed* atone, having a bvcl face en Its lower anr- faoa. Tlie npper Vlodk b made to ravedvo ,; rapidly, water being deUvered apea thfK gieovoB of Ao bedatoae, iriiero die marliUh are being renndel. It takea abaat flfteea Btiantea to fialBh a half baslMl of good mar- bka, all ready for tiMbeva'kaaoMai. Oae mOl wUl timoat 163.000 onrbka per week. Tho hardeat •• acaduta," aa jHio bofa oaU thorn, aio made by a aioawr praoaw aoaio* wliat aosiagoaa to tti !r i M 'â- .fi'i^Lf:^mc.' -Tc'iirw.i* â- Â»*»•â-  iMmmm :i: 3j^ ::^2^