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GREEN CORN PU1tha.â€"Gmte the corn from the ears (about one dozen if good sized), VEAL DIARRLE.â€"B0i1 abeef tongue the day before it is used, and the like number of pounds of veal. Chop each separately, season the tongue with pepper and sweet herbs, a teaspoonful of made mustard ; the veal in like manner with the addition of salt. Pack in alternate spoonfuls,as irregular as possible, in a. dish which is well buttered. Press as com~ pact as you can, set aside and have it thor- oughly cold and when wanted for use turn out; of the dish ; cut in sclices for tea. To KEEP GRASS FROM GROWING IN WALKS. â€"Mnke a weak brine and sprinkle the walks by means of a water sprinkler as often as the grass appears. A few pounds of salt used in this way saves a vast amount of labor and at the same time keeps the walks free from weeds and grass. 1 FLOWER GARDENâ€"Continue to keep the surface of beds mellow and smooth and every part of the ground in a neat condition. Con- tinue the pinching back process ; it gives a neat form to shrubs and plants and more blossoms. STINGS OF INSECTS are accompanied by an acid poison. One of the best remedies, as has been fully proved, is a paste made of sal- eratus or carbonate of soda and flour and water. A paste of fresh wood ashes would also have the same effect. It neutralizes the poison. Do not seek for novelty in making upa muslin dress. The prettiest way is the simplest. A belted basque apron with round overgkirt, with a single ruflie on it, and one 01- t§v0 ruffles 0L1 tfie underskirt ié the most stylish and satisfactory cut. Useful Recipes for the Household by Ann! [{nle. Colored foulzml waists are much worn with trimmed White waste skirts. This silk waist is merely a belted round waist, plain on the shoulders and slightly full in the belt. The latesthat trimming seen at Falcon- wood is a gaycolored 511k handkerchief simply tied about the brim. The fashion comes from New York, \Vhere ribbons are the sole ornament of the muslin afternoon dress, it is suggested that they be fresh and clean. White dotted Swiss muslin over colored silk vary the muslin toilets tiesâ€"a good way to utilize a soiled silk. A child is put to school without the slight- est inquiry on the part of the parent, and ,lllllchnlesi on the _ part of the teacher. whether it has the normal amount of sight ; whether it sees objects sharply and well-de- fined, or indistinctly and distorted ; whether it be near-sighted or far-sighted ; whether it sees with one or two eyes ; or, finally, if it does see clearly and distinctly, whether it is not using a. quantity of nervous force suffi- cient after a time not only to exhaust the energy of the visual organ. but of the nervous system at large. \Vlmt about our Kitchen ? Professor Youmans says our kitchens, as is perfectly notorlous, are the fortified entrenchâ€" ments of ignorance, prejudice, irrational habits, rule-ofâ€"thumb, and mental vanity ; and the result is that the Americans are liable to the reproach of sufiering beyond any other people for wasteful, unpalatable, unhealthful and monotonous cookery. We abound in female seminaries and female colleges, high schools and normal schools, supported by burdensome taxes, in which everything under heaven is studied except that practical art which is a daily and Vital necessity in all the houseâ€" holds of the land. g lVqulsunnncr Fashion Funcies. Chemlscttes are to replace vests. Not a touch of color in the toilets. White ribbons, belt and sash, and Leg- horn trimmed with white. The lower skirt is almost invariably shgrt, tq show the {got above the instep. Low shoes-not slippersâ€"are worn 6n the mtg-gt vyith gqy rred >and_ blue silk stogkings. “Baby” waists are quite the thing. They are only becoming to a pretty figure, however. There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days ! No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise I Fame 151316 scentless flower, with gaudy crown of R“ i But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. There is no love like the old, that we courted in our pride; Though our leaves are falling, falling, and we’re fa (ling side by side ; There are blossoms all around us with the colors of the dawn. And we live in borrowed sunshine when the light of day is gone. There are no times like the old timesâ€"they shall never be forgot I There is no place like the old placeâ€" keep green the dear old spot ! There are no friends like the 01d friendsâ€"may heaven rolong their lives I There are no oves like the old lovesâ€"God bless our loving wives lâ€"Oliver Wendell Holmes. Fine Arts offlousewllel'y. (Rose Terry Cook in Sunday Afternoon.) 1 shall never forget my own childish tears and sulks over my sewing. My mother was a perfect fairy at her needle. and her rule was relentless. Every long stitch was picked out and done over again, and neither tears nor enâ€" treaties availed to rid me of my task until it was properly done; every corner of a hem turned by the thread ; stitching measured by two threads to a stitch; felling of absolutely regular width, and patching done invisibly; while fine darnng was a sort of embroidery. I listed it then, but I have lived to bless that mother’s patient persistence, and I am prouder today of the six patches in my small girl’s dress, which cannot be seen with- out searching, than of any other handiworkâ€" except, perhaps, my bread. Neglect ol the Eye. Whatever an ounce of prevention may be to other members of the body, it certainly is worth many pounds of cure to the eye. Like a chronometer watch, this delicate organ will stand any amount of use, not to say abuse, but hen once thrown off its balance, itvery rare y can be brought back to its original per- fection of action, or, if it is, it becomes ever after liable to a return of disability of function or the scat of actual disease. One would have supposed from this fact, and from the fact that modern civilization has imposed upon the eye an ever-increasing amount of strain, both as to the actual quantity of work done and the constantly increasing brilliancy and duration of the illumination under which it is performed, that the greatest pains would have been exercised in maintaining the organ in a condition of health, and the greatest care and solicitude used in its treatment when diseased. And yet it is safe to say that there is no organ in the body the welfare of which is so per- sistently neglected as the eye. No Tilne Like lhe old Time. There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young. When the buds of April blossomed and the birds of springtime sung! The gurden’s brightest glories by summer sun are nursed ; But, Oh I the sweet, sweet violets,the flowers that opened first! There is no place like the 01d place, where you ' and I were born, Where we lifted up our eyelids on the splendors of the morn ! From the milk-white breast that warmed us, from the clinging arms that bore, Where the deer eyes glistened o’er us that will look on us no more. I have known fond and doting mothers take their children of 4 and 5 years of age to have their first teeth filled, instead of having them extracted, so that the jaw might not suffer in its due development, and become in later years contracted, 'while the eye, the most intellectual, the most apprehensive, and the most discriminating of all our organs, re- ceives not even a passing thought, much less an examination. It never seems to occur to the parents that the principal agent in a child’s education is the eye ; that through it it gains not only its sense of the methods and ways of existence of others, but even the means for the maintenance of its own ; nor does it occur to the parents for an instant that many of the mental as well as bodily at- tributes of a growing child are fashioned, even it they are not created, by the condition of the eye alone. THE FAMILY CIRCLE slips of for par- evening Therefore, the marriage of two such people is the worst means of escape from the imper- tinent gossip of meddlesome acquaintances. Let no one seek it. Better part, if one has 1101; the courage to go _011 in the friendly path and defy all busybodies. But surely friends They marry, and are almost inevitably un- happy ; chiefly, as it appears, because of their great suitability for each other. Suit- able people always make each other wretched in matrimony. Born friends cannot become lovers. Yes. it is sad, but it is by no means the saddest thing that can happen. These friends, who like each other so well, and find such difficulties in the way of their friend- ship, are occasionally driven by jokes and questions and interference generally into the desperate measure of marrying each other. They do not want to say goodâ€"by, and they see no other alternative. And so,though it is not a. thng to cry or sigh about, for it was never a love affair, it is really very sad. It is especially sad for the woman, for almost at any age it is much easier for a woman to make a man her lover than it is to make him her friend. Girls and boys must dream pleasant dreams of the future. Their fancies may change perpetually, but in every new object of admiration they see a future wife or hus- band, and this is only natural. But in later life, to people who have no desire to flirt, and no wish to marry, comes a period when delightful friendships with the oppo- site sex are possible, and it comes often before they are either old, or faded or unattractive. Such friendships are amongst the pleasantest interludes of social life. and they are often very rudely broken by those anxious inquirers, who will see a. wedding ring in the dim distance if two people walk home from church together, and to whom the fact that they have been singing a duet is a prophecy of a wedding. The poor victims know noth- ing of this for a While, but at last it burst upon them. Then she says to herself : “ It will not do. I shall soon have the reputation of being a jilt, or of having been jilted, or trying to catch a. husband or of leading aman on to a refusal.” And he says to himself : “Ishall spoil ‘her prospects if I dangle after her, though we both know we are only friends." And the pleasant meetings end. “Are you going to marry her ‘2" “Did you mean to have him '2” “When is it to come off ?” To what perpetual ques- tioning and suggestions unhappy persons of the opposite sex, who dare to be friends, are always subjected. It is this which mars the pleasant little interludes of society. It seems strange that otherwise sensible people cannot let others alone ; that they can never under- stand that a women may like her indepen- dence. and feel even averse to marriage and yet enjoy the society and polite atten- tions of pleasant men ;or that a man may find a women extremely agreeable without falling in love with her, and that she may be glad to know it. add to the corn one quart of cold milk, three eggs, two tablespoons of sugar, one teaspoon of salt; pour into buttered pans and bake. This will be found a. delicious dish for tea. \Nomen do the work of ’longshoresmen on the Wharves of St. John’s, Newfoundland. When the time arrives for vessels from South- ern Europe, Brazil, West Indies and else- where to take aboard their cargoes of salt cod, herring,etc., files of iemales with tucked- up gowns, bared arms and course brogans, may be seen along the wharves, carrying flat barrows 01 fish-to and fro. 'Each bin-10W has four handles and is borne by two women. They perform the same labor as men at this business, but their pay is inferior. Women else go on the “summer voyage” to Labrador, and act severally in the capacities of “split- ers.” “salters” and “headers.” Grace Greenwood writes : “ Never unsex yourself for greatness. The worship of one true heart is better than the wonder of the world. Don’t trample on the flowers while longing on the stairs. Live up to the full measure of life ; give way to your impulses, loves and enthusiasms ; sing, smile. labor and be happy. Adore poetry for its own sake ; yearn for, strive after, exzellence ; rejoice when others attain it ; feel for your contem- poaries a loving envy; steal into your counâ€" try’s heart; glory in its greatness, exult in its power, honor its gallant men, immortalize its matchless women.” A favorite way of wearing the broad sash so popular at present is to place it around the waist to form a. belt, and to tie it careless- ly on the left side in a large loose knot. The Eondon School Board has appointed at a. large salary a lady superintendent of phyeical education in the girls’ school. How To COOK BACON.~â€"AS few people know how bacon ought to be cooked, we give the recipe for doing it properly. Cut the bacon into thin slices, put it in the oven on a plate, and just before it is sent to table frizzle the slices before the fire. They require very little cooking after being in the oven. The most novel shade hats are in small straw braid, like that used for mats, with brims embroidered in crewels, then faced with silk of one of the prominent shades, and trimmed with ascarf of bunting of soft silk. The English Society for Promoting the Em- ployment of \Vomen has an income of £320 a year, and finds employment for 235 women annually. ' The London Society for Obtaining Homes for Working Girls has opened its second home. The girls have to pay but a small sum for board and have also no do their own washing. It cannot be made self-supporting, but is obliged to ask contributions of the charitably- inclined people of London. Queen VViétoria has $9,000,000 worth of royal plate in her castle at Windsor, but this dogg not keep her awake nights. There are .450 lady dentists in the United States, and three times as many studying degfiistgy. FLY Tansâ€"As the flies are appearing in swarms, the housewife is wondering how to keep them away. It is very nice if one can screen the doors and windows, but all cannot do that. For myself, I find that keeping everything which flies relish covered or put away in cupboards, is of use, as they are not called in so rapidly ; then as soon as a dozen make their appearance, if a trap is set to catch them they will not multiply nearly so fast ; and if the trap, or traps, stand all sum- mer, the flies are sure not to be very trouble- some. This at least is my experience. These I use are tumblers. two-thirds full of strong soapsuds, covered with a round of pasteboard â€"a hole cut in the center, and smeared under- neath with molasses, honey or jelly. They need changing every second, or at most every third day; the water thrown out, glasses rinsed and re-filled, and fresh sweets rubbed on the covering. The \Vomcn of'l‘o-dny. In France it is not considered proper to display young mm'riageable girls at wed- dings. Feathers are more generally worn on huts this season than flowers. The Rembrandt hat, laden with feathers, and forming an aureole of velvet round the face, \vitha feather or two falling over the aureole, is most becoming to blonde heads, particularly when the feathers are black. Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Louisi- ana. are the only States now left in which the male teachers outnumber the female. In New Hampshire there are five women teachers to one man, and in Massachusetts eight to one. 'fhe dark-colored pin stripped silks are being much used this summer for traveling drejsesr.’ Theyrarer inexpensive. The English bathing costume, worn at all the fashionable watering places. is all in one piece, has no sleeves, and hardly reaches below the knee. Countess Danner, of Sweden, left property to the amount of $2,000,000 to found an in- stitution to protect young girls and to train them for household work. The institution will accommodate 600 inmates. ‘IIE RlGll'l‘H 0F FRIENDS. in the most direct line from the highest points to the moist earth. Theoreticzmlly copper is six times better as a conductor than iron, but practically, for a lightningâ€"rod, iron is nearly as "code conductor as copper. It makes very little difference what shape or form the metal is worked into, provided it is strong and substantial. Sir W. Snow Harris is perhaps the best authority on lightningâ€" rods, but, probably to be on the safe side. he recommends :1 large rod. He advises the use of a rod three-quarters of an inch in diam- eter, although he admits that probably never A correspondent of the Boston Traveller gives in brief form these useful facts about lightning rods : 1. The course of lightning is constant or prearranged, and if a building should be struck twice in the same place the course would be the same both times, no matter how crooked its path, providing every- thing was in precisely the same position throughout the house; hence its path can be supplied by a proper arrangement of metal. 2. A very small amount of connected metal, no larger than a telegraph wire, will conduct an ordinary lightning stroke. 3. Lightning seldom if ever goes below the top floor of a house provided with gas or water pipe, or be- low the uppermost floor that contains them. In a wooden house not provided with pipes. it is more difficult to state its course before- hand, although it will generally strike the chimney and end at the Well or drain if near the house ; its course through the house being governed by the amount of moisture in the different timbers, plaster, etc. in the absence of any metal conductor. A lightning rod does not attract lightning, strictly speak- ing ; it simply conducts it like any other metal. A great many people will put zinc flashings, copper gutters, iron cresting and metal of all forms on their buildings, and never fear lightning, but make that same metal in the form of a lightning rod, and they would not stay inside the building during a thunder shower. Atin roof connected with the earth by water spouts, or metal in any form, makes an excellent lightning rod; there is no need of separating your tin roof from the wood with glass; the electricity will never leave metal for wood if the metal continues to moist earth. All metals conduct sufficiently well for a lightning-rod. The principal re quisition is a perfectly contiguous rod going (From the Chicago Times.) The arrival of over two hundred Icelanders on Wednesday evening was a most welcome visitation at this season of the year. The temperature has been entirely comfortable ever since they struck the town. In counter» action of the summer solstice they beat the Manitoba wave out of sight. They were a cool-looking crowd. This party went by sail- ing vessel from Iceland to Glasgow, where they took the steamship Waldensian for Quebec, where they arrived on July 13th. Their destination was originally Manitoba, but, being captivated by the oily speech of an emlssary of the Chicago and North-Western Railway. the party were induced to change their programme, and instead of going to the Canadian province, they proposed locating at Minneola, a border settlement on the Winona and St. Peter Railway. Not a soul among thesetwo hundred emigrants from the frozen zone understood a word of English. 01' l course an interpreter accompanied the party. But for him they would have been obliged to lay over at some ‘ station until they could pick up a little Eng- lish education. The children, of Whom there was a good-sized grist, were sleek-looking kids, with blue eyes and “tow” heads. The men and women all had white hair. There wasn’t a black eye among the whole four hundred. A few of the women were quite handsome, and all were passably good-look- ingâ€"in appearance away ahead of most foreign immigrants. They appear to have succeeded in raising children in Iceland if nothing else, for one middle-aged woman wastrying to take care of thirteen youngsters, the oldest being only sixteen years of age. The men wore sheepskin over-coats, or cloaks, with a head- gear, or hood, attached, the garments being sewn together by the sinews of the reindeer. The lower extremities were encased in sheep- skin leggings. Ther feet were dressed in wooden clogs. Some of the overcoats had sleeves and some had not. These people carry an enormous bulk of baggage. One old fellow, who hobbled around on two‘ canes, was growling because he couldn’t find his seven trunks. In one respect they re- sembled tourists more than immigrants. The party had more money than the returning Californians in 1849 and 1850. The cash carried along averaged $4,000 to each family. One man seemed rather vain of exhibiting his seven hundred pounds sterling in English sovereigns. The women carried their lucre in pockets on the inside of their leggings. while the men had their funds secured in belts which they were about their waists. They do their cooking on the cars, and do their sleeping on the seats, a few of the more toney travellers indulging in the luxury of feather beds. The party filled two, ordinary coaches of the Chicago and Nortl)»l western Railway. If these people find‘ everything at Minnesota as represented, they will influence an immigration of seven hun- dred families from the same section of Ice land next year. They purpose engaging in wheat-raising and general agriculture. have their rights as well as lovers, and should claim them. Messrs. E. A. Sothern and Wm. J. Flor- ence, the well known comedians, returned to New York recently from a long jaunt to the salmon fishing grounds of Lower Labrador. Both show the effect of the trip in their sun- browned features and healthy action and both express themselves as well pleased with their experience. The party when it left New York consisted of the above named gentlemen and two Engligh noblemen, the Duke of Beau- fort and. Sir John Reid, with their respective attendants. Every preparation for comfort and success that could bethought of was made and the expedition was carefully fitted out. Its objective point was the salmon stream of Natashquan, in LowerLabrador, the privilege of fishing in which had been previously se- cured by Mr. Sothern. The start was made about the first of June. Nearly two weeks were consumed in reaching the spot, the only means of communication being by steamer and sailing vessel from Quebec. Several days elapsed after the arrival of the party before any one had a sympton of a bite, the Indian guides reporting the river as unprecedentedly high and the water as unfavorable for the game. It was not until the 23rd of June that the luck changed and “Colonel Bardwell Slote," after a four and aâ€"half hours’ task, landed the first salmon. Its weight was twentysix pounds. Thereupon he commenced to keep a diary, which shows the following re- sults :â€"From June 23 to 30, five salmon, weight 70 pounds; from July 1 to 5, nine salmon, weight 115 pounds; July 5 and 6, fourteen salmon, weight 245 pounds ; July 8 and 10, thirty five salmon, weight 268% pounds; and from the 11th to the 16th, twenty salmon and grilse, making an aggre~ gate of ninety-eight fine fish caught by Mr. Florence, Weighing 1,328 pounds. During this period Mr. Sothcrn states that his “catch” amounted to but forty-seven salmon. The weather during the greater part of the time was cold, the thermometer ranging from 50 degrees to 62 degrees. The English gentle. men, disheartened by the poor prospects ap» parent in the early part of their sport, deter- mined to try a more promising locality on the river Restigouche and its neighborhood, and, taking their tents and servants, went thither about the 27th of June. They have not since reported any extraordinary good fortune, and, like their confreres, have quietly folded their tackle and come away. 'l‘wo Hundred Icelandura Destined for Manitoba Seduced by the oily’l‘ongue 0! an American Railroad Drummrr. ll" PORTANCE 0F LIGHTNING RODS. STOLEN l< CANADA. SEIhBJlEN’S l. MARY KYLE DALLAS â€"Nothing is lost in France. The orange blossoms and grass in the public gardens of Paris are sold to the highest bidder, and at a country railroad station a. visitor lately saw a. sale of grass on the embankments. The pur- chasers were peasants’ wives. â€"A brand of chewing tobacco, known as “ Hope,” is in the market. When you hand a man your box, you hope he won’t take it all. He leaves the box. The continued concentration of large bodies of troops in the north of Italy, and especially toward the Austrian frontier, is beginning to be viewed with some suspicion in Austria, and to be much commented upon by the Austrian newspapers. From a table lately published in Vienna it appears that, while Austria has only 9,500 infantry, 940 cavalry, 1,400 field artillery, 700 garrison artillery and 200 engineers, or altogether a force of 12,740 men, quartered in the neighborhood of her Italian frontier, Italy, on the other hand has now assembled 49,700 infantry, 10,400 cavalry 7,200 field artillery, 2,700 garrison artillery and 3,700 engineers, or a total force of 73,710 men of all arms of the service near the Aus- trian frontier, the four fortresses forming the famous quadrilateral being especially strong- ly garrisoned. It is also Well known that much attention has been lately given by the italian military authorities to perfecting the organization of the so-called Alpine troopsâ€" the force which, permanently quartered in the mountains on the northern frontier of Italy, would, in the event of the latter country be coming involved in hostilities with either of her neighbors on the north, be called upon to cover the mobilization and concentration of the Italian forces or act as an advanced guard to any forward movement made by them in the prosecution of an offensive campaign. All the units of this Alpine force are always kept on a war footing, and arrangements have been lately made which are designed to in- sure that the several battalions and batteries shall be ready to take the field at the shortest possible noticm As the Italia Irredenta party in Italy is daily becoming more clamorous, it is not surprising that the strength of the armed forces in the north of Italy should ex- cite some uneasiness in Austria, although it is generally believed in the latter country that, unless aided by allies, the Italian army would be altogether unable to cope with that of Austria. The closing feature of the day was a mile padding race for canoes. There were ten en- tries. Of the newest and most approved styles were the canoes, and gorgeous in gold lace and brass buttons were the occupants. Almost every canoe furnished something new and costly in the matter of steering gear or patent puddles. At the extreme end of the line, as the boats got into position for the start, the Argus eyes of the referee discovered a strange-looking craft. She had the grace- fullines of a small canal boat and there was something unmistakably home-made about her appearance. “Are you in the race ?” sang out Mr. Curtis to the Occupant of this ungainly “dug-out,” in a tone that but half- concealed the irony of the remark. “ I would like to be,” replied a meek voice, at which there was a roar of laughter from the proud captains of the more jaunty craft. “All right,” said Mr. Curtis. “I wish yorluck,” and then fired the pistol. There was a graceful flourish of the paddles and away went the fleet, Mr. Doremieux and Mr. Whitlock taking the lead. In the excitement of the mommf mdy thought of looking at the home-made canoe on the left. Presently, however, we all be- came aware of a great commotion out towards the middle of the lake. Seen from the corners of our eyes it was as if a windmill had got adrift and was going down with the tide. Regarded more attentively we discov- ered that it was no windmill at all, but the despised canoe of the meek‘voiced stranger. Faster than the wings of the albatross flew the blades of a huge paddle, describing great circles and sending the waters of the lake, white with foam, high up into the air. In less than three minutes the rest of the fleet were hopelessly behind. The good steamer could with difficulty keep up. “ Who is it ?” cried everybody. “ I‘ll see if I know him," replied the captain of the tug, as he turned a pair of glasses on the foam-covered canoe. “ Well, I swow,” bringing the glasses down with a rap on his knee, “ if it ain't thei parson.” And a person it proved to beâ€"noi other than the Rev. Charles A. Cressy, of New Hampshire, who has long been in the habit of spending his summer vacations at Lake George, and who cruises the lake, a veritable sportsman, in acanoe of his own manufacture. To say that the clergyman was congratulated upon his victory is but feebly to describe the scene that followed the race. The Rev. Mr. Cressy was, however, in nowise disconcerted, and waving the paddle above his head he exclaimed : “ You see now, young gentlemen, what Methodism can do.” in the experience of mankind has a red one- half inch in diameter been melted, and in every case where a rod a-quarter inch in diameter has been melted it has been in the form of a chain, this, of course, giving small connecting points between the links, offers great resistance, consequently great heat and explosions at every link. There is little doubt that a. solid iron Wire, one‘quarter of an inch in diameter, will conduct any or- dinary charge of lightning in safety, observ- ing the necessary arrangements, the most important of which is the ground connection. One naturally cannot help making inquiries about the Queen when staying in the neighborâ€" hood. It is a neighborhood in which she goes about ina more free and spontaneous way than anywhere else. She could hardly go about at Windsor and Osborne as she does at Balmoral. The Queen is always dressed in a very plain and quiet fashion, which is itself a rebuke to the extravagant “dressiness” of the present day. She will enter very humble shops in order to make very small purchases. These purchases are mainly intended as gift to the poor, chiefly the poor in her own ser- vice. Slie selects the articles, but never asks the price. The prices charged are exactly the the same as to any one else. Besides this, the Queen regularly visits the houses of the cottagers. Some touching instances of this are given in the Highland Journal. “Really,” she naively remarks, I‘the affection of these good people, who are so very hearty and so happy to see you, taking interest in everything, is so very touching and interest- ing.” I heard a very pleasing anecdote of the Queen one day on the coach-top as I went from Braemar to Blairgowrie. We passed a house which had belonged to a. deceased gen- eral officer, a baronet, who had seen good ser- vice in the Napoleonic wars. He had built a house, an exact representation of Logwood, where Napoleon died. On a mound close by the gate he had erected a stand where waved flags commemorative of all the different bat- tles in which he had been engaged, and in the center the flag of Waterloo. The Queen passed by, and amid all the details of her triumphal progress she omitted to notice this peculiar array of flags. The old General was sorely hurt by this omission and bemoamed it greatly. He, however, had friends at court, and one of them ventured to speak to her on the subject. The Queen,in the most prompt and gracious way, was anxious to gratifiy the soldier and relieve his mind. When she was next about to pass that road she caused an intimation to be given to him that the flags should be displayed as before, and that then he should fall into her cavalcade and ride before her as one of her body-guard to Balmoral.â€"â€"London Spectator. A Hi (-lluotiinl Preacher in an old Dug-0m. Benn- nll the Fancy (XI-an at n lit-g gnua. The New Yén-k World, in its repor} of the Lake George regatta, says : QUEEN VICTORIA’S AFFABLE WAYS. A NIUHL‘UL K CLEEKG l‘i'lAN EUROPE’H NEXT \VAR (From the Pall Mall Gazette.) Lawton was sitting in his office one day. when an oddâ€"looking elderly man came in and asked for “Mr. Lawton.” An introduc- tion took place, and after the usual prelimin‘ aries the stranger said he was a lawyer from San Francisco. He then asked Lawton if he would tell him his father’s name and where he had been born. Although surprised at the questions. Lawton complied. and the stranger then explained his errand. “You have heard your father speak, I suppose, of a brother who went to California a good many years ago, and who did not write home of his doings. Well, I am his representative, and I was his friend to the hour he died. Years ago he went to (mentioning the town where Lawton was born), and there he heard of the manner in which your little sister disappeared and of your father’s de- ‘ parture. He tried to find him for awhile, but did not succeed. and then he went home again. He made up his mind to find your sister, if it was possible. He employed several skilful detectives and spent a great deal of i money in the search. A year ago he died. and in his will he directed that you should be his heir unless your sister was discovered. In_ that event she was to have half of his pro- perty. I saw your name in a paper some weeks ago, and on making inquiriesI became convinced that you were the nephew of the man who was my friend and who intrusted me with the care of his afi’airs. And now”â€"-h( re the speaker paused an instantâ€"“now I have something still more strange to tell you. We have found a trace of your sister. She was stolen by a party of vagrants for the clothes and trinkets she wore, and was taken to Eastern Ohio. She was taken very ill, and was left with a good-hearted lady, who adopted her as her daughter. After her recovery she could not remember her name or where she had lived. When this lady died Mabel taught school for several years, and then she went East to study music. After she left school I think she went to New York, but I cannot say. We have no trace of her for six years. She was named after the lady who adopted her, and was known as Mabel Letcher." ! Michael Lawton came back to this country, entered a college in the East, and graduated with honor. He studied law in the olfice of a famous New York lawyer, and after being admitted to the Bar he went West and made his home in a newly-settled State, where he soon built up a good practice. One winter Lawton went to New York to visit a college chum, Marchmont, who was married and gone into business. Marchmont had several young sisters, and one afternoon Lawton was introduced to Miss Mabel Letcher, a. young lady who was a. music teacher. She was ex- ceedingly pretty, and a lady in manner and mind, and Lawton fell violently in love With her, and before he left the city he asked her to marry him, and she accepted him. They were married the following spring and went to Lawton’s Western home, where they lived happily for six years, during whrch§time two children were born to them. Miss Letcher told Lawton after their engagement that she was an orphan, that her parents had died when she was a child, and she could not remember them at all. She had been named by a kind-hearted lady in Eastern Ohio. She had taught school and made sufficient money to enter a school in the East, where she studied music, and after she had graduated she got a class of girls for pupils, and while thus engaged she met Lawton. One day Mabel went into her mother‘s room and told her she wanted to go and play with some other little girls who lived on the next street. Mrs. Lawton gave her consent, but told her to be sure to come home to dinner. Mabel promised, kissed her mother gayly, and ran out of the roomâ€"out of the world as far as the poor mother was con- cerned, for she never saw her again. Mabel did not come home to dinner, and at supper time Michael was sent after her. He soon returned, with a pale, frightened face, and told his father that his sister had started for home at noon, and no one knew Where she was. Search was he Te for her in every direc- tion, but without avail. No trace of the lost one could be discovered. A month afterward, the mother died heartbroken, and the father sold his property and became a homeless wanderer, with but one object in lifeâ€"tho finding of his lost one. Taking his son with him he traveled from State to State, visiting public institutions where children were cared for, and going through cities making inquir- ies which he thought might lead to the de- sired result. From the United States the search extended to Europe, and finally in a Spanish city Mr. Lawton caught alocal fever. and died in a few days, leaving his son, then aboyof 19, all of his fortune. Mr. Lawton told his boy that he had no near relative, except a brother, who had gone to California in the first flush of the gold fever, and had never been heard of afterward. Years ago a. family, consisting of father, mother and two children, lived in a small town in Western Ohio. The head of the family, Mr. Lawton, was a lawyer and specu- letor, and had been a merchant. He had grown rich, very rich for those days, and was noted for his keen business sagacity and his honesty and kindly heart. His wife had been a delicate, pretty girl when he married her, and after her second child was born her health broke down and she became a confirmed in valid. The couple had two childrenâ€"a boy named Michael, who was at the time referred to about 8 years old, and Mabel, who was then “baby,” and was about 5 years old. Mabel was a, pretty child, and her parents petted her and dressed her in a style that made her the envy of all the mothers in the neighborhood. Not long ago a quiet, unobtrusive farmer, who for the purpose of this present sketch will be called Michael Lawton. died in Garrett county, Maryland. Garrett county is the westernmost county of the State, and is a wild mountaineous region, in which there are a number of exceedingly fertile valleys, called glades, which are famous for the natural grass which grows on them and makes them superb pasture fields for cattle. The glades, when broken up by the plow, make exceeding- ly fertile farms, and they are being rapidly cultivated by people who do not wish to set tle in the Far West. Lawton was laid to rest under a huge oak tree on a little knoll on his farm. He had selected his own burial ground and in compliance with his wishes the small white marble slab at his head merely bears his initals and the two datesâ€"those of his birth and death. His neighbors knew but little of the manner of his life or his position in society before he came among them. He bought a small farm, and came to live on it one fall some ten or twelve years ago, and on it he died. He seemed to have enough ready money to satisfy his needs and to pay for his land, and occasionally, in conversation, he would say something which showed that he had been unusually well educated and had traveled extensively, both in this country and in foreign lands. He never spoke of friends or relatives, and after some abortive attempts to discover his past his- tory, the neighbors'gave it up in disgust and acCepted him for what he was. When he died a distant relative came into possession of the little farm and the few household ar- ticles he left behind, and then all trace of the career and almost all recollection of the ex- istence of Michael Lawton passed away. The writer knew the man well, and once when on a fishing expedition with him, he related the pathetic and remarkable story of his life, part of which was published some years ago and attracted a great deal of attention at the time. The outline of the story is vouched for, but the names of places and persons are changed for evident reasons. A Story in Which Fact Fairly Distances Fiction. [low ’l‘wo Long Separated Children 01 the. Name Family filet, Loved Each Other and Alter Six Years Blade II Ter- rible Discovery. MARRYING HIS OWN SISTER. (From the Reading (P&.) Eagle.) (Shanghai Courier. The Japanese method of keeping meat in hot weather is just now attracting a good deal of attention in European circles. It consists in placing the raw flesh in porcelain vessels and pourng on it boiling water, whereby the albumen on the surface is quickly coagulated and forms a protection against the further action of the water. Oil is then poured on the water so as to prevent the access of air and consequent putrefaction of the meat. The system of protecting animal substances by securing coagulations of their albumen and the exclusion of air is no novelty ; and it can hardly be supposed that we are indebted to the Japanese for its original adoption. But undoubtedly their method of applying it is far preferable to that practiced by ourselves in the process of preserving tinned me ats, which appears to consist in boiling them for After the usual prayers and singing, Mrs. Lathrop, of Michigan, made an address. She said that she loved Ocean Grove, but that the curse of the social evil of intemperance was in Ocean Grove and Asbury Park. (Sensa- tion.) “We do not see it in the form of reel- ing drunkenness," she continued, “but itis in the bottom of traveling trunks and in satchels. Some call it hitters, some call it medicine. but it is here. It is not easy for me to stand here and say this. But the Lord sent me out to do His work. Last summer a minister living here told me that in the cottage where he was boarding. in Ocean Grove, a lady took her wine every day at dinner in the presence of all, and in defiance of the flag of holiness that is floating over us. There are many things in the trunks in cottages and hotels be- sides wardrobes. The doctors tell you that brandy is a good thing to take after bathing, and some of you do not dare to go away from home without taking some of it with you for fear you may be ill upon the road ; but you can live entirely without it. The Women‘s Temperance Union has become so numerous that they can touch fingers across the continent, and they are asking the women here to pledge themselves never to touch liquor. There is work to be done right here, but the hands must be clean hat bear the Ark of God. You may blame us women as fanatics for talking to you so plainly, but you have no critics so severe as the little children of your households. You cannot teach temperance to them if you use liquor yourself. There is another kindred vice I want to speak of, that of tobacco. We women have only a few days to stay here and we want to get the sea air just as God made it. Now, gentlemen smokers, wont you give us women a chance for a breath of pure air ?: You may say : ‘Why don’t you go to the boys and tell them to stop it ?’ How can we do it when the ministers of the Gospel smoke their cigars after they leave the pulpit and again before they go to sleep at night, and when you, brethren, smoke here in Ocean Grove? (Sensation) Can you ask the young men of the country to be clean when you are spitting out your life and decency into a spittoon. (Cries of “N01 N01”) No minister can use tobacco without sometimes feeling a terrible condemnation of himself before God. These are plain words, but this is a place for plain, honest words and work. The curse of this country is self indulgence; the last citadel to be taken is the hearts of the proud artisto- cratic women of the first classes of society." â€"New York World. J APANEBEI E'l‘lllil) 0F PREBEKV ING NIEA'I‘H. Tippliug and Smoking Denounced by a Female .Orntor. The first session of the three days’ cenveu- tion of the VVomen’s National Christian Tem pemnce Union was held at Ocean Grove, N. J ., on the 22nd. Several meetings were held in the morning before 10.30 o’clock, when be tween 5,000 and 7,000 persons assembled in the great auditorium. Yesterday, July 7th, the second day of the French fete, the Albert Hall was even more crowded than on the first day. The counters were replenished with fresh goods, and Mlle. Bernhardt’s portraits, sold by herself, ruled at a guinea. Her returns fortho day amounted to £180. (London Correspondent of New York Times.) The gross receipts for admission amount to over $13,500, the cash taken at the stalls $17,500, and it is calculated that the French charity, after the payment of all expenses, will receive a contribution from the fair of over $20,000. ' The Prince stopped to give champagne cup and tea to his friends at Mr. Ronald’s stall. at which noble and gallant gentlemen assisted, attil ed in bib and tucker, and Lady Charles Beresford and Mrs. Oppenheim helped to sell the strawberrries sent by Mr. Alfred de Roths- child. Their Royal Highnesses drove away after signing in the visitors’ book, “Albert Edward P.” and “Alfred.” The page imme- diately preceding these signatures bore the sign-manual of Mlle. Bernhardt, the market value of which, as the fete in the afternoon showed, ranges from 108 to £10. “ Known as what ?" screamed Lawton. “ Mabel Letcher." “ Great God, now she has been my wife for six years." It wat so indeed. Further ex- amination showed beyond question that Mabel Lawton and Mrs. Michael Lawton were one and the same person. The agony of the two people can be imagined. In their eyes they had sinned beyond hope of redemption. They separated. Mrs. Lawton is still living in a town in Massachusetts, where she has been for many years. The children are at school, and Michael Lawton is in his grave. He gave up all his business, grew frightfully dissipated, and after spending nearly all the money he had reserved for himself, he wan- dered to the lovely little Maryland farm, where he strove to bury the past and where he lived a-life of toil. The clover blossoms are as sweet about his grave and the wild flowers bloom as sweetly there as though he who sleeps in that quiet nook was at last at rest. Mrs. Cornwallis West was selling cigars and giving but little change. Even more in- exorable on this point was Sarah Bernhardt, who for a purchase of 83 gav: no change from a £5 note. Paper knives varied in price from 16s to £10, and roses were sold, a handful as a makeweight to a shilling cigar, or for a guinea each. This was the price which Mlle. Reichemberg received for each of two which the Duchess of Edinburg bought of Suzel, and this was the price paid to Miss Stonor for a rose by a Spanish grandee. A 0A1" P-NIEE'I‘ IN‘G A S’I‘ONISIIED‘ The Princess of Wales bought two little white kittens with blue eyes from Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt. The Prince of Wales bought a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt in oil, and u see painting, and the party lingered a long time at the stall at which, aided by Miles. Martin, Blanche, Barretta and Thenard, Mlle. Bern- hardt labored indefatigany all the afternoon, haranguing, writing, raising the price upon her admirers, till she had taken at the end the largest earnings of any stallâ€"£256. Her smaller photographs were soon exhausted. The fans painted by her own hand went early in the afternoon, and an American enthusi- ast bought a fan at a neighboring stall and paid her a £10 note for signing it. The Princess of Wales’s kittens cost her Royal Highness £10, and the Prince of Wales threw down a handful of notes to settle his accounts as he left. The Duke of Uonnaught and Prince Leopold bought photographs of Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt, and tickets for the tombola. and the Duke of Connaught obtained one of the fans by the artist‘s own hand. Protessiounl Beauties on Exhibiliouâ€" 'l‘heil' .Exlorlioua for Chill-1'3"!) Sake. (From the London Times.) Two tall policemen aided the 00th (1e Montebello to divide the throng before the royal party at the French festival in Albert Hall on Saturday. The Prince of Wales was thus enabled to purchase a box of bon- bons from Mrs. Lengtry, who stood in a. flat yellow bonnet and wearing a. brocaded dress at the stall of the Countess de Bulow. A LONDflN FA Y FAIR. â€"Five young men were playing poker at Ashville, N. C. One was detected hidng an extra card in his breast. pocket. The dirk of another was instantly driven through the card and into the cheat’s heart. â€"â€"Jolm Bottomly, a wealthy paper manu- facturer at Lee, Muss” has for many years been noted for violent outbreaks of temper. Ordinarily he was dignified in deportmont, but whenever he got angry he committed some breach of decorum. A short time ago an old man offended him, and he used ‘a chance weapon so recklessly that his victim was nearly killed. He now goes to prison for five years. “ NOT FOR JosmPn."â€"Wayfarer : “ Can I get through this way to the Agricultural Show, my man ?" Farm servant : “ 011 ’eesâ€"nicely, sur ; straight on till yer comes ter the medder where Stiles’s bull’s kep what killed a. man last week ; g0 acrost there through the plantation. on’y take keer of the mantraps an’ spring guns ; than yer comes to a field where they are aburnin’ rubble and siftin’ cinders ; t‘other side yer’ll find a rick- yzu'd, on’y mind the blood’ound wot‘s kep theer. ’cos 111.1 bites ; then yer’ll see yer way quite easy.”â€"Fun. Mark Twain tells a story of a man who, while conducting some mining operations, had the misfortune to be blown into midair. He did not appear to suffer much bodily in- convenience, but his peace of mind suffered considerably. This unhappy result was not a consequence of his violent passage towards the stars, but it was induced by the mean conduct of the directors of the mine, who, regarding him as absent Without leave. stopâ€" ped his pay. Those American directors were mean, but there are some folks over this side who could give them points. The news. papers report a case which had just occurred at Mistley,near Harwich, which is instmctlve. An auctioneer and farmer, named John Fenn, of Ardleigh, summoned one of his laborers named Ambrose Pentney, for absenting him self an hour and a half from work on Thurs- day, June the 19th, whereby prosecutor sus~ tamed 5S. damages. The defendant pleaded that while at work on the farm he heard cries of murder from a cottage hard by, and upon going there found a madman in a state ‘ of nudity struggling with and overpowering a man who had charge of him. The relieving officer of the district ordered defendant to stay and paid him £1 for his trouble ; but the magistrates, whilst admitting that it was a humane act on his part to go to the man’s aid, decided that he had committed a breach of the law in not first obtaining the sanction of his master, and although the defendant urged that unless he had gone the poor fellow would in all probability have been murdered. the Bench ordered him to pay a fine oi 5s. Ambrose Pentney opinos that. when hears “ murder” shouted again, he. will go around the town looking for his master, and if he happens to get permission he will go back. If the victim is in fair health on his return. Ambrose will do what he can towards lending him a helping hand, but as some folks die so hurriedly when as- saulted, he can’t undertake to be responsible for the consequences. It will be useful for poor people, and these in the country. away from drug stores and doctors, to know, on the authority of Mr. Beach. the noted botanic doctor. that a strong infusion of Yarrow (white tansy) and lmneset is 9. good substitute for quinlne in fever and argue, or other malarious complaints. The plants should be gathered when in flower, and a. double handful of each steeped in one quart, of boiling water and drnuk freely three or {our times a day. The prescription was given by Dominie Van Saxon, swell-known missmnnry to China for thirty years, who studied medi- cine and the properties of herbs before going out, as most valuable for usefulness among the poor.â€"N. Y. Sun. The tortures which babies have to undergo, are so many and so pitiful and visited impartially on all about them in travel and at home ; so many ailing, miserable little creatures are to be seen taken out by their distracted mothers for a change of air, that I feel it will be giving general relief to tell the advxee a hospital physician, which proved an entire success in my own family. The pain of teethingmay be almost done away with, and the health of the child benefited, by giving it fine splinters of ice, picked off with a pin, to limit in its mouth. The fragment is so small that it is but a drop of warm water before it can be swallowed, and the child has all the coolness for its fevered gums. without the slightest injury. The avidity with which the little thing taste the cooling morsel. the instant quiet which succeeds hours of fretfnl- ness, and the sleep which follows the relief, are the best witness to the magic remedy. Ice may be fed to a three months ,child this way, each splinter being no larger than a com. mon pin, for five or ten minutes, the result being that it has swallowed in that time a teespoonful of warm water, which so far from being a harmI is good for it, and the process may be repeated hourly, or as often as the fretting fits from teething begin. It is now the season when boys and girls in the country give their mothers sad nights by coming home in the miseries of poisoning by ivy. The irritation by this poison is acute, as I have reason to know, but the speedy cure for it is a wash of oxalic acid. a teaspoonful of the salt to a pint of the water, with which the poisoned spots are bathed as often as they grow troublesome. The lotion smarts severely for a. few minutes, but is Tollowed by cessation of the poisonlpain, which itches as if one could tear the part to pieces. The above may need reducing for young children. Make it week at first, and add grains of the salt until it is strong enough to give relief. A dessert spoon- ful of sweet oil taken daily is said to drive the poison out of the blood, but three severe cases were cured without it, to my knowledge, by the acid alone. It should not be put in tin, or anything metallic, as it corrodes, and may form poisonous compounds. A few simple, well-prover: receipts will add much to general comfort during the next six weeks. A wash of 15 to 20 drops of common car- bolic acid in a-half pint of water will imme- diately relieve the smart of mosquito bites, hives, prickly heat and all irritations of the skin common in summer. As the strength of cm'bolic acid commonly sold varies, the dilution should be tested before using by wetting a small spot of skin. If it causes any burning in a moment or so, it is too strong, and more water must be added. The lotion was recommended by a, city physician as in use at Bellevue Hospital, and years of experience prove its benefit. Many restless nights and much suffering of children might be avoided by this simple cure. which has been safely used on very young infants. such a. length of time that almost all their flavor is destroyed, and the ultimate re- sult is a. mass of tasteless shreds of muscqu fibre. Mosquitoes can be driven away from rooms by the smoke of insect powder, burnt 011 a, hot shovel. When it is not easy to get tire, put a. bit of gum oamphor in a. shovel, light, and the gum will catch as quickly as alcohol ; then sprinkle a teblespoonful of insect pow- der (pyrethrum) on the flame, let it take fire. and blow out the blaze, close the windows, and let the smoke rise for five minutes. It will not injure walls or furniture, and does not harm human beings, though obnoxious to insects. Hanging a. cloth on which a tea- spoonful of catholic acidis poured, at the head of the bed, will keep mosquitoes away, and the writer has repeatedly gained a good night’s sleep by this means when others failed. Take care to place the cloth or sponge so that there is no danger of touching it with the face or hands in the night, as the acid burns like caustic. It is not generally known, as it ought to be, that the remedy for burns by carbolic acid is Canada fir balsam, spread on the part; at- tacked. PRACTICAL lllN'l‘S F0“ SULVIIYIER. EXTRAORDINARY I UISIIDN. ilE‘:Al4 DI‘T-