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How TO CLEAN Sonsuns.â€"â€"Housekeepors who are limited in their supply of good'wash- ing water can make it do double duty by dissolving alum in hot water. and throw it into the tub of soapsuds. In a moment the soap will curdle, and accompanied by muddy particles will sink to the bottom leaving the water perfectly clear and devoid 011‘ the smell of soap. This water can beused for washing a second time if poured off the sediment. Where water is scarce, this fact is invaluable. To RENOVATE SILKs.~â€"Sponge faded silks with warm water and soap ; then rub them with a dry cloth on a flat board ; afterwards iron them on the inside with a smoothing iron. Old black silks may be improved by sponging them with spirits. In this case the ironing may be done on the right wide, thin paper being spread‘over to prevent glnz ing- _ - N, STAINS FROM Dawnsâ€"Stains from fabrics may be removed by moistening the spot with a. solution of Epsom salts in a few drops of hot water. Rub it in well the first time, and then moisten again. Next filla tin vessel with boiling water, and set it on the stained place for a. few minutes, and afterwards wash out in soft water. It is advisable to have articles thus treated washed immediately. SCOURING BALLS TO REMOVE GREASE FROM CLOTH.â€"Soft soup and fuller’s earth, of each half a. pound ; beat them well together in a mortar, and form into cakes. The spot. first moistened with water, is rubbed. with a cake and allowed to dry, 'when it is well rubbed with a litlle warm water, and alter- wards rinsed or mbbed off clean. IRON RUST FROM LINEN.â€"TO remove iron rust from linen, apply lemon juice and salt ; expose to the sun. Make two applications if necessary. Then, when perfectly dry, time in clear cold water. Lemon juice can only be used on white goods. as it takes out printed colors as well as stains. One of the first and easiest lessons for a child is orderliness, and if rightly taught soon becomes a. confirmed habit as well as a source of pleasure. But, if We would make our children orderly‘ we must see that the}7 have a place in which to put everything, or all our teaching will be thrown away. Then having allotted a proper niche to all their childish belongings. require that they return each one to its place when not in use, and you will save yourself manyrwea‘ry steps, be- sides laying the foundation stone of method- ical habits, which, once formed, will never be forgotten. Of course, there is a decided difference in childrenâ€"one is naturally care- less and requires constant admonition, while another develops orderliness in the very be~ ginningâ€"but still. much may be done by precept (well weighted with example), and the charm and comfort of an orderly home is the most potent of all lessons. “ Handsome is as handsome does,” an article in childhood's creed, is taught admon- ishinnly to the wayward beauty, encouraging- ly to the ill-favored little girl, who is happy in spite of her ugliness, until years broaden the vision and obsmvution teaches that the preference and favoritism which are beauty’s prerogatives are something to be prized and coveted. \thn a young girl finds herself forsaken for fairer friends ; when even her own glass tells her she may wait in vain for one admiring glance, disappointment must needs follow and sometimes envy, ill-nature, sarcasm and jealousy fill up the measure of an unlovely life, and a discontented, unhap- py soul marks its lasting impress on the un- interesting countenance of an ill-tempered wo- man. Even Beauty‘s Self Will lose her charm unless beautified by a loving, kindly heart, while the outshining of a noble soul will glorify the » plainest countenance. Nature may have dealt niggardly by many of us so far as personal graces are concerned, but she has forbidden none to seek for themselves the ornaments of meekness and charity, a lofty purpose and a noble life. Care or the Complexion. Cleanliness is a necessity to a clear skin, but may sometimes be observed as religiously as by ancient Jews and Mohammedans with- out producing the desirable result, and re- course must be had to medical treatment or external applications. Even suclia condition of affairs does not warrant the indiscriminate use of drugs and lotions. If one must employ any but simple remedies it is best to use them understandingly and with a physician’s advice. Barley-water, oatmeal, bran, etc., will not injure the softest skin ; sweet cream has been found very soothing to blistered noses, and mutton-snot and castile soap excel- lent for chaps and excoriations. In the latter case fuller’s earth made into a paste with water is a painless application and possesses Wonderful healing properties. A mixture of lemon-juice and borax is as good a ” tan and freckle lotion” as can be found, but even it should not be used to excess lest it injure the texture of the skin. If one must use powderâ€"and there are many who consider it indispensable to both comfort and corneliness â€"-the ordinary laundry-starch so far from proving harmful, will produce the most sstisfaetcry results if used in the following manner : Wash the face invariably previous to powdering it, then rub it vigorously with a coarse towel. Put some of the powdered starch into a coarse cloth, rubbing it well over the surface, ahd apply to the face as rapidly and persistently as time and muscle will permit ; this treatment may ecem severe, but. it is sensible and efficacious too, and that is more than can be said in favor of applica- tions that clog and close the pores of the skln, even if they do no greater harm. Table Etiquette. There are some vegetables and pastry which it requires some management to eat graceful- ly. Let us mention a few things concerning the eating of which there is sometimes doubt. A cream cake and anything of similar nature should be eaten with knife and fork, never bitten. Asparagusâ€"which should always be served on bread or toast, so as to absorb sup- erfluous moisture, may be taken from the finger or thumb, ; if it is fit to set before you the whole of it may be eaten. I‘eas, and beans, as we all know, require the fork only. Potatoes, if mashed, should be mashed with the fork. Green corn should be eaten from the cob, but it must be held with a single hand. Celery, radishes, cresses, and all that sort of thing are, of course, to be eaten from the fingers ; the salt should be laid upon one’s plate, not upon the ‘ cloth. Fish is to be eaten with the fork, without the assistance of the knife ; a bit of bread in the left hand sometimesihelps one to master‘s. refractory m or- sel. Berries of course should always be eat- en with a spoon. A handsome hand is a charming object in itself, and seems to indicate refineman in its owner. To be perfect, the hand should be delicate and somewhat long. The back should be just plump enough to prevent the veins from being too prominent. The fingers must be long and tapering, forming little graduated columns of perfect proportion. When the hand is open there should be little dimples at the knuckles, which ought to be slightly prominent when the hand is closed. Much of the beauty of the fingers and hand depends upon the proper care of the nails. Those. if cut too close, deform the finger ends, render- ing them stubby. The upper and free border of the nail should always be left projecting a line or so beyond the extremity of the fingers. and should be pared only to a slight curve, without encroaching too much on the angles. Soap and the finger-brush are all that is necessary for cleaning and polishing the nails. The habit of bitmg the nails is as ueg as it is fatal to them. When the skin of the hands is hard and rough, they should be kept almost constantly gloved, and washed fre- quently (but not too often) with lukewarm water and fine soap, to which may he added a little bran. A little cold cream before going to bed is a common and useful application. The skin of the hands should always be soft and flexible. flnbils of Ordn- in Children l‘lmrms and Ilulel’clifli‘ififl THE HOUSEHOLD ‘nx'e ol [he [lands Uselul Recipes flow to Q‘voxylnu‘ a Balkyllonuu I would prepare myself with a good strepâ€"- I Want no whip ; perhaps he has got it taste of that already, and still he is master. But some fine day when I was at peace with myâ€" self and all around, I would hitch him to the buggy, turning his head to the village. He goes half the way Very well indeed ; then he begins to consider he has gone far enough in that direction and Stops. I step down ; he expects me to use the Whip ; he is mistaken. As a criminal I treat him on the silent system. I push him back a, little out of the way. . I show .himathe strap putting .it up tol‘his nose. I go to the off side and buckle it to his off fore leg. close up to the breast, throwing the other end over his shoulder; I then misc his near foot and fix it with the hoof neallv touching the belly. This done, I say to him, “New, Old chap, youl'ste‘nd there." I don‘t smoke, so I‘ take a paper from my pocket, and finding it place where I can sit down and he see me, I begin to read. This is something he did not bargain for, and the novelty of standing on three legs somewhat diverts his mind from the cause that stopped him. ‘I think this is the chief point to be' grained and the most humane. He now shows signs of a. wish to go. but that does not suit at the time, as I have yet to look over “John Caldigatc.” When the strap is taken off I show it to him, caress him a. little, and we move on without irritation. The strap will now become a part of the harness for a month or two, till at last the sight of it will act as a, talisman. It is poor economy to let a hive full of comb remain all summer with only a cor- poml’s guard of bees; better put back all swarms but the first, after cutting: out queen cells ; if this cannot be done, putin some new swarm. We know of a. bee-keeper who hives his after-swarms in small boxes and piles them on such a hive to mark the location. and when he has leisure, empties them be- fore the hive, \\ hiuh they will enter pmceably â€"5u1miim(ts putting in as high as seven after-swarms. CHILI SAUCE No. 2.â€"Four quarts tomatoes four lm‘ge onions, six peppers, six cups of vinegar, six tablespoons of sugar, than a table- Spoon ofsalt, one tablespoon each of cinna- mon, nutmeg cloves and ginger. First take the skins from the tomatoes, peel the onions and thou chop fine, add all other ingredients and boil about twenty minutes, and bottle while hot. Dhiniécllng Stables. . Disinfection of stables, drains, sheds, cess- pools and outhouses should now be attended to, says a writer. The value of disinfection is no longer a subject of discussion. All malignant maladies have been stayed in their ravages by a free and constant use of the potent agents of disinfection. The walls of stables should now be whitewashed. In every livery stable there should be a bucket of sul» phate of iron (copperas). Take a handful every morning, dissolve in a, bucket of water and throw into the drain. It is cheap and effective. So is the chloride of Zinc (butter of zinc) ; dissolve an ounce in two gallons of water. Where there are sick animals the sheds and stables should always be fumigated with sulphur at least every other day. If mixed with tar the gases generated are very active disinfectants. Take flower of sulphur half a pound, wood tar one quart ; mix with tow; burn at one or two spots and this will disinfect a large stable. Carbolic acid is a powerful disinfectant and should be applied to doors, walls and troughs. It is disagreeable to flies. Blankets should be wet with a weak solution of it to destroy all disease germs. Chloride of lime is another popular disin- fectant. Disinfecting powders, preparations of carbolic acid, are sprinkled daily through- out the stablcs of London and Liverpool at an annual cost of only $31 for each horse. They keep the flies away and the atmosphere pureâ€"Mirror and Farnwr. lVlilkiug. The faster and more gently a cow is miiked, the greater will the amount be given. Slow milkers gradually dry up a cow, and for the reason that if the milk be not drawn about us last as it is given down it will subsequently be withheld, and that withheld is as a matter of course what is known as the strippings, in fact, the upper-surface of milk in the udder. This should never be allowed ; it irritates the cow, and often injures the bag. Fill the teat and with a firm pressure of the last three fingers empty it, drawing slightly on the. test and udder at the’ same time ; so proceed al- ternately with each hand until the milk supplied is exhausted. Many milkers get the habit of slow milking because steady, firm quick milking tires the fingers and wrists, until by practice the muscles get used to the work. Until this use comes naturally the individual should only milk such a number as they can without severe crum- ping of the hand ; what are milked should be milked fast, increasing the number until at last there is no tiring whatever. Five minutes is about the limit that should be al- lowed for milking a cow. There is another thing well worthy of being remembered. Cows should be milked as nearly at 0. given hour morning and evening as possible, undue distention of the udder is always in. jurious. WALNUT CATSUP.-Choose young walnuts tender enough to be pierced with a pin. Prick them in several places and lay in a. pan with a handful of salt to every twentyfive and water enough to cover them, break then by taking a potato masher or any hard piece of wood. Let them lie in this pickle about one week stirring them evory (lay. Drain off the liquor into a. snumlpon lor after use and cover the shells with boiling vinegar to extract what juice remains in them. Crush to a pulp and strain through a. cullender. . Allow for every quart, one ounce of black pepper and one of ginger. half and ounce of cloves. half an ounce of nutmeg. Take a half a tea.- spoon of cayene pepper, ono spoonfulof celery seed, one shallot, or onion, tie in thim mus- lin and throw in, boil together for one hourâ€"- let cool before bottling. Tender butternnts can be used in the some way. There will undoubtedly be a large area. of wheat sown this fall. It is foreshadowed by letters we are constantly receiving, and pc- tent from the fact that the full crops of last year, and especially the extraordinary yield both in quantity and quality of this season’s crop will set many farmers “agog” on wheat sowing. We do not advise farmers to rush headlong: into wheat. \Vhile it is an un- doubted fact that Europe will require year by year large drafts of wheat from the United States, yet we may not expect that succeeding years will show successive failures there nor extraordinary yields here. That the present crop, large as it is, will be taken at good prices there is no doubt ; the wheat produc- ing countries have not given anything like their normal yield, and in some of them the shortage has become a. very serious matter. Yet succeeding good weather may very ma.- terially influence the state of the crops in England and France, our two greatest buyers. What We set out to say was this. No person can expect to succeed year by year in getting large or even fair crops of wheat by slack cul- tivation, and especially where the crop is sewn wheat after wheat. except in those 10- calities where the soil is not only virgin but especially adapted to the cropâ€"Chicago Prairie Farmer. . l’xCKLING BEANSâ€"Boil the beans until half done for table use; pack in small jars and cover with salted Vinegar. I prefer the wax or butter beam for pickling. MOGK OYSTER8.â€"Gratef1‘0m the col) about six cars of green corn ; beat two eggs, stirring into it flour and milk, each one tublespoonfui; season with a little salt and pepper. Have your spider ready and hot, with a. little butter 0t drippings, drop in your mixture of corn one spoonful in a plaee, turning them so as to fry brown on both sides and serve hot. If it were any season but the month of July, you could easily pass your corn cakes 01‘1" for fried oysters. SEASGNI‘I‘IIE lNFORfilATIlIN FOE: ’i‘lLLERS F 'l‘llE 50]!“ FARM AND GARDEN. Sowing “'inler ‘Vlu-nt Abel" Beet: â€"A petite, blueeyed maiden, who was nursing her fifth Christmas doll, and listen- ing toher mother and some female friends taliiugzibout domestic broilc and divorces, created ratherâ€"1x pleasant sensation by remark- ing, “ \Vell, ma, I’m never going to marry. I’m going to 110 a, widow.” â€"The katydids are surenad‘mg, so we shall have frost in six weeks. James Ryan of lhushton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., was awakened by the cries of his little daughter, aged six years. who sleeps near him. He went immediately to her bed, when he found her in great agony. Her face, lips and tongue were so badly swollen that she could not speak. Calling Mrs. Ryan, Mr. Ryan made an examination as to the cause, and found under the lower lip, lying along be“- tween the lip and the gum a. large thousand- legged worm which ’had in some” mysterious manner found its Way thu‘e during the night. Dr. Wardner was called in. The child con. tinned in great agony and pain. Vomiting and spasms commenced soon after and contin- ued so violent that the doctor thought she would die. He remained with her till he succccdul in checking them, when the child appeared better, and is now thought to be out‘ of danger. Her face is a frightful looking‘ sight yet.â€"â€"Bwflhlo Empress. (Winnipeg Times.) ~ In April Inst, six young men, John Beer. James Schneider, Adam Thompson, Mgtthew Thompson’;».Arthur Lawrence and W alter Lewâ€" rence left Greensville, a village about eight miles northwest of Hamilton, for the purpose of taking up land in Manitoba, or in some other portion of the Northwest. The result of their search for homesteads was that they selected the vicinity of Shoal Lake, about 20 miles east of Bird Tail Creek, as the most desirable location which they (-rnild find. Mr. Beer is now in town, having come to meet his father, Frederick Baer, of Greensville, who will proceed with him to his new home. Messrs. G. M. Carpenter and R. Thompson, from the \icinity of Hamilton, are likewise on their way to Shoal Lake. Mr. Beer, ,jr., re. ports that he and his companions erel in all respects, well satisfied with their faims, and would on no account return to‘ Ontario. They; have been actively employed during the past three months, in erecting houses, breaking up the prairie, etc. The breaking which they have done amounts to an average of twenty acres each. Mr. Beer sowed 40 acres of grain and planted 21 bags of potatoes, on shares, upon land which had been broken up by a prcvmus settler, last fall. . When he and his companions first went to Shoal Lake, they found but three settlers in the vicinity ; they estimate the present number as over forty. They describe the soil as a sandy loam with a clay subsoil, and pronounce it to be of excel- lent quality. The water in the lake is pure, and the creeks furnish spring water or a. good quality. Fish abounds, and pike weighing from 4 to 20 pounds are caught. The settlers thus far have enjoyed good health, and have been able to endure without injury an un- wonted degree of exposure. The majority of the present inhnbitunts me from the counties of Bruce and Huron. Farming does pay, and pays! well on the capital actually investul, with such general intelligent management as is uucosmi‘y in any other business. There is no other busi- ness which offers as good security for the in- vestment ; there is no other business which brings more contentment and less wearyng anxiety of mmd. The man who owns his farm and has three or four per cent. at the end of the year on the paid up capitnl, after supporting his family, is actually in better condition than nino~tenths of the men in any other calling. Mr. liar: i~: Emu. is ~11; .' lie. pz'v'fcn'od thoroughâ€" bl‘ml cmvs «.l‘ tll mess family to any other 01' all others for L110 dairy. He concluded with a. sum wary of the good qualities the slimthorns, saying they have good teats and bags; are quiet and docile; utilize all food consumed; aSSume flesh when not milking; can be readily and cheaply turned into beef ', yield a large quantity of milk well fitted for butter and cheese, and they are good looking. fl Dr. Schmucker undertook to convince her that it was her religious duty to eat and not kill herself ; that instead of it being her re- ligious duty to fast, shej was slowly commit- ting the great crime of suicide. She paid no attention to this. Basin after basin of water was used in bathing her hands. First, she would fill a basin with pure water and wash her hands ; then she would empty it, get an- other basin full and again wash her hands. She would continue this washing for half an hour. She has been known to have spent five hours on her knees, reading the Bible and praying. She has a, desire to ,fast 40 days and 40 nights, “the same as Christ did in the wilderness,” she said. All efforts of mother and sister failed to induce her to eat and drink. Finally Dr. Sel‘unucker says he stopped calling on her, because he could do nothing for her. Dr. Martin Luther was next called in. Miss Root was very weak, but still able to be about. She persistently refused to eat or drink, and her people thought she was dying. It was finally resolved to resort to force in the matter and a. spoon was in- serted in her month between her teeth. Nothing could be done because she would not swallow. Finally Dry Luther inserted a silver tube through her nostrils and injected gruel and milk into the gullet and thence to the stomach. Only a small quantity was in- jected. The membranous lining of the stomach was greatly inflamed, and too much food administered would have killed her in- stantly. The young woman is now being kept alive by forcing food through her nostrils into her stomach. She is laboring under a roligibus hallucination, and fears are entertained that she cannot live long. She is said to be quite intelligent and she has no fears, saying that she guesses it will end all right. To-day she made no resistance to the tube being inserted in her nose, but she positively refused to take any food or water. A [leading Girl Obeyiug a Desire to 1mi- tnlc Christ in Ilse “'ildcrnrssâ€"A Strange Case. READING, Aug. 8.â€"The strange fasting of Miss Sarah Root, {1ng 2B, of No. 314 South Sixth street, this city, is attracting unusual attention, not only among the medical frater- nity, but among tne citizens in general. She is a tall young lady, with dark hair and dark eyes, and of excellent character. Herself and sisters are respectable dress-makers, serving some of the-best people in Reading. A few years ago Miss Root was an acknowledged belle. She dressed in exceedingly good taste, and always made a very fashionable appear;. ance. Suddenly she became very devout and pious. Her attendance at Rev. Dr. Schmuck- cr’s St. James’ Lutheran congregation was almost constant. She became deeply inter- ested in Sunday-school afiairs, and up to last 4th of July was in good health. She then discontinued eating, and commenced a long period of fasting. From July 4 to 11 she ate but a few berries. Then she stopped eating altogether. On the 14th of July Dr. F. R. Schmucker was called in. Miss Root turned her back and said she was not in need of his professional attention. She persistently refused to take any nourishw ment. and throughout all the hot spell she drank no water at all. Finally she was threatened that food would be administered by force. She was growing pale, thin and emaciated. Her former rosy cheeks had faded, the sparkle had left her eyes and she b80111“ .~ moody, thoughtful and silent. She became [l'iglltoned at the doctor’s threat, and taking an ordinary cracker she held it under the hydrant and thoroughly washed it. On the 18th of July she ate that cracker, but took no other nourishment. SKIiIEQ. LAICE SE'I‘TLEJIEN ‘ A PE) 3 H15Nfl UN .h'; V RIAI’OD. FASTING FORTY DAYS. F-‘wnisu' I" “ A HIGH-TONED TniEF.”â€"This is what the Chicago Times calls John McCrank, who is wanted in Ridgetown. Ont., for forgery, and who is believed to he in Chicago. Our con- temporary [goes on to say, ” The arrest of this man has become almost a. question of inter- national importance and the Provincial au- thorities are unremitting in their inquiries and directions relative to his apprehension. It seems that he was agent for some very large estates belonging to Macdonuld, ox- Premier of the Dominion, and deliberately despoiled his employer throngha series of years. Being an expert accountant and skilled bookkeeper he managed by a. unique and ingenious system to steal over £10,000 inth course of half a decade. This large amount of money he did not invest but saved up in his own house, waiting for theday when the crush would come. Security made him too bold, and about a fortnight ago he pro-l secutcd his peculation with less than ordinary cautiom The “ error” in his books was dis-i covered and his attention called thereto. He promised to explain it, but instead skipped out in the night time, and made his way across the border and to this city. His Land save us.” she gasped as she waited for the bundlc; “but, who knows that they won’t fix ’em so ’fore long that they’ll raise a mortgage off the farm ?”â€"Detroit Free Press. “It certainly is all right, ma’am. and since he was here yesterday we have discovered that the duster is a. grant conductor of sound a preventative of sunstroke, and that no man with one on his back ever dropped dead of heart disease.” 11 EN Inu‘k on the. Erma Hlnsnun. [Paris LetterJ Before the debate on article seven of the, Ferry Bill closed, M. Baudry D‘Asson made (1 ‘ violent attack on tthrcc Masons. It may be that the Frenczi Masons are different from their brethren in other countries, and there is no doubt that they have always inspired jealousy on the part of the Jesuits, who cor- dially detest all secret societies save their own. In 1875, when the educational question was brought before the Chamber under the protection and guidance of Monsignor Dupan- 3 loop, the Freemasons were attached in thel most violent manner; and a Liberal writer called attention to the feet that among some devout books sold by hundreds of thousands, md approved by crehbishops and bishops, he had come caress a work entitled “The Free Masonsâ€"What are They?” In this book the faithful were informed that the Free Masons had established “the devil’s mass,” which is thus described :â€"“On an altar lighted by the ‘ black candles a ciborium is placed. Each per- son, after having spot on the crucifix, brings and places in the ciborium the holy water which he has received at some church in the morning, or has purchased from a beggar for so many pieces of silver, like Judas. Then commences a diabolical ceremony, which ter- minates by an order given to every one to draw a dagger, to mount on the alter, and to stab the holy sacrament. The mass finished, all the lights are extinguished," Further on the author assures us that there exists a company of female Free Masons, and that there are banquets at which Masons and Mesoncsses attend, where the greatest order prevails. What most irritates him, howeVer, is that there is a secret which he has bren unable to penetrate ; and this fact reminds one of the bull of Benedict XlV., called by Macaulay the best and the wisest of the two hundred successors of St. Peter, who declared that there exhisted an impenetra- ble secret, and that it was immoral. That s Bonapartist should have attacked the Free Masons was very rash, considering that Napoleon I. and his three brothers, Joseph (who was Grand Master), Louis and Jerome, were all Masons ; also Nopoleon [IL and the following Marshals : Junot, K ller- menu, Davoust, Lefevre, Lanriston, i mllt, Massens, Macdonald, Oudinot, Seruier, Mon- cey, Mortier, Mngnnn, Canrobert. In oddi- tion to the above were Murat and iiluber. Pius XL was also a Mason, and so was Car- dinal Maury, Frederick the Great. Lmis. XIV., George 111., and George the IV. of England, Charles X., Louis Philippe. Leo- pold I. of Belgium, Princes of Rohcn and (lends also belonged to thebrotherhood in the last century. l‘toycl and other Dukes, men of such high character as Berryer and of such renown as Marshall Saxe. “Did you tell my son that this duster could be worn either to a picnic, funeral, bridal party or a quarterly meeting ?” ‘ “I did madam, and so it can.” “Did you tell him it made a good fly blan- ket when not otherwise needed ?” “I did.” “That it could be used for n boat-sail, stretcher, a straw-bed and a~bed-spread ?" “Yes ma’am. I did.” . “And many people use them as table covers ‘2” ' “I did.” “And that they would last for years and then make excellent stulf for a. rag carpet?" “I did." “And you only charged a dollar ?” “Only a dollar, ma’am." “Well, when John came home last night and brought the duster and told me all you said I made up my mind that he must have been drunk, and I was a leetle afraid he stole the garment. I am glad it’s all right." A day or two ago a. motherly-looking woman of 45 (entered 13, Woodward avenue clothing store having aman’s linen duster on her arm, and when approached by a. sales- man she said : The following particulars we get from Mr. George 0. Watson, living near the subject of the sketch. A Lady of the Seventh District of Worth county has become insane on the subject of religion. Her dementation was first noticed about a month ago, soon after the closa of a protracted meeting at the Union Baptist church. near her home. She attend- ed the different services very regularly, and seemed deeply impressed and troubled from their first commencement. A short time beâ€" fore the meeting closed she joined the church. Going back home her incoherent, maddened and rambling conduct was noticed by her husband and children, and they became ter- ribly excited and wrought up about it. She went raving about the house and yard with a bucket of water baptising everything in her pathway. She baptised her husband and each one of her children, and while doing this song the most beautiful songsâ€"songs that she had heard but once or twice. Although an uulettered woman (her husband will swear this), she reads any chapter in the Bible read- ily, pronouncing directly and distinctly, pay- ing attention to punctuation points, etc. She preaches nearly all the While, and our infor- mant says uses the choicest words, and, dis- plays great wisdom and knowledge in the handling of different subjects. Although not a Mason, she knows all the mysteries of that mysterious craft by heart. Dozens of Masons have gone to see her, and they all come away dumbfounded. Her husband has come to the conclusion that she is a witch. She has attempted acts of violence, but has yet done no harm. Be, Without assistance, at one time tried to incarcerate her in one of the rooms of the house, but the doors became un- manageable and wouldn't stay locked. She hasn’t slept in eighteen days and nights, and during that time has taken but a few morsels of food. “Some one in here sold this duster to my son yesterday.” “Yes, ma’zim, I 20111 it myself,” replied the clerlj gs he lookgd at the garment: V This is one of the strangest cases we have ever heard of. Hundreds are flocking to see the frenzied woman. INSPll{A’l‘l0N 'l‘llRo UGll. INSAN ITY. \‘Vondertul Transition fi-om Ignorance no \Visdom. “ THE: “EVIL”? From the AlbanyY (GIL) News.) AN HONEST SALE ~Bismnrck loses no time in turning to ‘account the increased revenues provided by lthe new tariff. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard (London) states that the long meditated raising of those regiments which ‘are numerically defective to the numbers re- quired on :1 pence footing will not be further delayed. To furnish the requisite numbers, giving each battalion the minimum strength prescribed â€"namely, 664â€"9. further levy of 35,401 men is necessary. Besides this, about one hundred regiments require more work- men, nnd other additions, making a. totnll accession to the army of 37,325 men. This l will involve an augmentation of army expen- ses of about 28,000,000 marks annually. The Government is also seriously considering the proposal for the formation of fifteen new bat- teries of four guns. [le Olllrnges :1 Child and is Shot for the Crime. Fnsnnmcron, N. B., Aug. 10.â€"A most daring outrage is reported from Caribou. On Wednesday morning, a girl named Kearney, aged ten years, was picking berries about a mile from Caribou village, when she was approached and outraged by a. French- man in the employ of Collins At Porters. named Jerry Bouillier. Her father, getting a description of Bouillier, immediately set off to the place where he was employed, and re- cognized in him the perpetrator of the deed. ‘Before he had proceeded for word was sent thit Bouillie had escaped to the woods. Sheriff Barker and an assistant at once started in persuit, and soon come up with the fugitive, but were un- able to capture him. Meanwhile, the whole neighborhood became aroused and a band of fifty men scoured the woods inevery direc- tion. A sentry consisting of three young men named Clarke, Collins and Irvine was posted near Bouillier‘s house. About 5 pm. he was seen to emerge from the forest and run to- wards the house. His body was covered by the revolvers of the sentry, and he turned to run from them, at the same time telling them that they dare not shoot. Clarke levelled his revolver and fired at him. the bullet striking him in the lower part of the abdomen. The wounded man remained standing for a moment and then dropped, apparently dead. He was carried to the Car- ibou House, and his wounds were dressed. The bullet was found to have lodged in the groin, and cauld not be extracted. He now lies in a most precarious condition and is not expected to recover. When-11101111: 2m so nearly 11mm 11 that. if is quite prnimhle Lhafi 110 will be arrested this morning. It is believed that he has must of the money stolen with him in Canadian bills and golc ." On the following day Bigus was arrested near Wigston. At first he resisted and denied his guilt ; but afterwards when brought to the police station, said, “ It’s all right ; I am the man. I did it.” He also said if he had not been taken he would have put his head on the line before night. A woman‘s apron was found in his pocket. The prisoner said, “ That is Polly’s. I loved her.” In his pockets two documents were also found. The first ran thus : John Biggs. 29 Thomas street, Leicester. Dear Mother : I bid you and all farewell, and I hOpe that this will be a lesson to all of my brouthrene and sisters, and I hope that ‘none of them will take my steps, and Harry be rule with me and never go into a publick case and never go with any girls a tall for you may be the some as me if you do. God bless you all and farewell and I hope that mother will bury me and Polly together, for I loved her, or else I should not have done what I have to her ; and she lays on the new road as goes oif of the Unilwrstone road in the dits. God bless you all, and I hope you will have this bit of poetry put on Polly’ seard : Like a lily fair and green, Soon cut down and no more seen. Beloved she was, in pece she dide, Her life was craved but God denied. Weep not for me but pray repent ; She was not yours, but only lent. Dry up your tears and weep no more, I am not lost, but gone before. God bless yo l all. uncle, harnt, mother, sis- ters. brother and father.” The second was as follows : “ My portrate is at Randell’s, and fetch Polly home as soon as you can. If not found she is in the Dyke along that new road as goes to Eventon rite down the Kimberstone road. and do berry her with me if you please. God bless all of you. "Field in my (pocket) for the other paper, “J. Biggs, 29 Thomas street, Leicester.” The prisoner acknowledged the documents as his own, and signed the first at the request of the police, He afterwards said that he had cut the girl‘s throat with one of his uncle’s razors, which he had put back in its place. For the defense the chaplain of the jail was called to prove that the prisoner had no idea. of the nature of the offense he had com- mitted, and that his thoughts seemed to be entirely occuyied with the question whether he should see the deceased in a future state. he generally occupied himself with writing on a slate the linesi which he wished to be printed on her funeral card. His manner was strange, and he was in the habit of smil- ing even talking of the most serious sub- His lordship told the jury that every form of insanity would show that the man who committed crime was ignorant of the nature of the act. The moral powers of the man mentally affected might be left untouched. so that he might know that he was doing wrong. But if the mental condition of a man at the time he committed a crime was such that be either did not know the nature of the act he was committing, or know- ingly was not conscious that it was wrong, then according to the existing state of the law, hetwould be entitled to acquittal on the ground of in unity. His lordship then pointed out the concurrence of several kinds of evidence in favor of the view that the prisoner’s mind was unsound; saying at the same time if they believed he knew the nature of his not they had no choice but to find him guilty. jetfl Thejury, after a long deliberation, found the prisoner guilty, with a strong recom- mgyglatjootomercy on account of _hi_s youth. His lordship paésed sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner was removed, exclaiming. “Ain’t I happy now 1” How a Young English Girl Met Death at the Hand): of “or Lover After ile Ilnd Written llvr obituary Versr. At the Crown Court, Leicester, before Lord Justice Thesiger, Jchn Biggs, aged 18, mill- wright, was charged with the murder of Mary Ann Bromwich, at Evington, on the 19th of June, 1879. The deceased, a mill hand, was in her 22nd year, and had been keeping com- pany with the prisoner. Both seemed to have been much attached to each other. Elizabeth Matthews, a factory hand, de- pOSed that in the morning shehem‘d the pris- oner asking the deceased t0 “have half a day with him.” Slm refused, and a, slight alterca- tion occurred. It ended by the prisoner giv- ing the deceased. a. slight slap in the face and saying she would have to go. Then the wit. ness at her request got her a half holiclay,and the prisoner and deceased started for a walk togethez. _ Ann Peberdy saw them the same afternoon on the road. She thought the prisoner seemed much agitated. The deceased. was smiling and cheerful and had a. bunch of white haw- thorn blossoms in her hand, and Mrs. Peberdy had some talk with her about the beauty of the fields and the landscape, thinking, as she said. to “pass off” the young man’s agi- tation. George Smalley saw the prisoner and the deceased together about 4 o’clock. About 6 o’clock he passed along the road again, going home from his work, and saw a woman lying in the ditch ; thinking her drunk, he passed on. Later he came back with Peberdy, the brother of the former witness, and found the same woman still lying in the ditch. They took her up. and she proved to be the de‘ ceased, quite dead, with her throat cut. ’P‘EIE POETRY 0F lVlUltnflfl. A VILLAHN’! FATE A Story That is Calculated to Make (DIN shich- Even in Ho! \Venu-er. (Layfayette, Indi, Courier.) For some time past the shoes worn by a young medical student of this city have been a source of constant curiosity, and no little comment among his friends. It was certainly something unusual that created this atten- tion, for they were neither particularly large nor peculiarly small. and yet were they in neither so good or bad repair asto excite more than a passing glance. They were simply a pair of ordinary low shoes, but it was their texture and the strange material of which they were constructed that made them at once curious and remarked. The leather is light- brown in color and streaked with parallel vein» ings of a darker shade, the whole as soft as silk. Among his friends the doctor in embryo makes no secret of the mystery of his foot- gear. “They are made from the skin of a belle of Cincinnati,” he says, giving the name of one of the leading families of that city, and while the hair of his listeners begins to assume a perpendicular position, he goes on to tell how, during his term at college he was one night sought out by a resurrectionist famous among the medical men, who offered to sell him a subject just “ snatched” from a city cemetery. How the corpse (that of a ‘ beautiful young gill, Whose white flesh and the costly ring on her smooth, soft hand showed her to be of no poor family} was bought by several of the students, and how, when the body, slashed by the knife ot the dissector, lay upon the table. he crept in and cut the skin from the round limbs. The ghastly bundle, securely Wrapped and tied, was packed in an old gripsack and. sent, with an explanatory letter, to a well-known shoe- 1 maker of this city. The skin was then tanned and polished, and finally placed in the hands of a. skilful workman, and under his manipu- lations transformed into a. pair of low summer John Knm‘ns, Omugevillu, owns a pear tree which (1011") knuw any better thm Lu bios,qu at this time ot’ the year. The Mechanics’ Institute of Mount Forest will add $300 worth of books to 11:3 library, and will give an art exhibition. Some genuine Indian \vampum beads have been found in a cave near Elom. A portion of the find is on exhibition at the 111115wmn. Mr. S. S. Cluttnm Mr. J. J. Clutton and several others loft Aylmor last week for Dakota on a ymspectiug excursion. They intend to locate there, shnuld they be pleased with the country. A farmer W115 is well ofi was fined $30 at Farmersville by a bench of magistrates for watering his milk before taking it to a facâ€" In an interesting and eloquent paper on "The Sun a Source of Power,” just published in the Scientific American, Prof. Langley takes the following method of giving some idea of the work performed by the sun’s heat on our earth, which receives only a small fraction of the enormous quantity sent out yearly from the center of our system. Assumâ€" ing the area of Manhattan Island to be twenty miles and the annual rain fell thirty inches, he shows by a simple calculation that this small portion of the earth receives 1,393,- 920,000 cubic feet, or 38,781,600 tons, of rain in a year. “The amount of this,” he says, “may be better appreciated by comparison. Thus. the Pyramid of Oheops contains less than 100,000,000 cubic feet and Weighs less than 7,000,000 tons; and this water, then, in the form of ice. would many times replace the largest pyramid of Egypt. ll we had to cart it away it would require 3,231,800 cars carry- ing 12 tons each to remove it and these, at an average length of 30 feet to the car, wculd make six trains, each reaching in one con- tinuous line of cars across the continent. so that the leading locomotive of each train would be at San Francisco before the rear had left New York‘" A day’s rain-fall of one- tenth of an inch spread over the United States represents ten thousand millions of tons. and would take, he states, more than all the pumpingengines which supply Philadelphia, Chicago and other largecities depending more or less on steam for potable water, working day and night for a century, to put it back to the height to which it was raised by the sun before it fell. It has been found by careful experiment that the efiect of the heat of a vertical sun in the month of March, acting: on a square foot of the earth’s surface, aftrr having lost a portion of its energy through absorption by our atmosphere, is equivalent to 0.131 horse-power, and other problems with equally startling results can be readily framed from this and other accessible data. tory. Omngeville hum a new newspaper. It is a neatly got up paper of 32 columns, is called the Gazette, and is published by Allen & Cuttell. In politics it will give “ an inde- pendent yet cordial support to the Conserva- tive party.” James Gardiner and Joseph Bales were brought before the Mayor of Ingersoll on Thursday, for being drunk and disorderly on Sunday last, and fined two dollars and costs. Mary Ann Gardiner and Mary Mom-e were up for being inmates of adisorderly house on Queen street east, owned by James Gardi- ner abovemer: finned, and fined four dollars and costs. Conshz .u Capron deserves credit {or his promptuuss in rooting out these pests of society. The friends of the Seaforth Mechanics’ In- stitute are endeavoring to get up an excursion in aid of that institution. The Council have cut down the grant from 3100 to $60 this year on account of there being billiard tables in connection with the Institute, and to make matters worse the billiard tables. are not pay- ing running expenses, so the Institute is in need of our excursion, or something else, to replenish its exhausted treasury. The house of Mrs. Henry Toll. Buckhom, Kent, was burned to ashes on Friday night. about 11 o’clock. The house and contents were insured for about $280 in the Mutual, represented by Stephen White, Chiming Cross. Mr. Toll is in California. The farmers in the vicinity of Seaforth are complaining considerably of the ravages of the weevil amongst the spring wheat, butnotwith- standing this we think the crops as a whole will show a fair average. ~ William Barker, merchant, Ayr, shipped 60,0001bs.,about 30 tons, of butter this season through thv port of Paris for the old country market A young employee of 0. Chandler, Spring- field, was taken suddenly ill, and after apply- ing several packages of patent medicines without effect, a consultation of the medical gentlemen of the town was held, and on a careful investigation it was discovered that the boy had taken his first clnm of tobacco. While playing wi‘h anotherlittle girl,in the yard of Mr. Daniel Showers. Paris, on Tuesâ€" day last, a fiveryear-old granddaughter of Mr. Elias Conklin fell off the fence ani broke her wrist in two places. The Mount Forest street inspector knows when hisjurisdiction is free from growing thistles. He does the mowing himself in- specting as he gges. .7... .. 1. Mr. George Séott, of Peierboro’, township of Smith, went to Dundalk last spring, pur- chased 175 acres of land, making- 3 deposit on it, and returned home, to come back again in July. He returned last week with his father. and paid for his land; then went on to see some friends near Mount Forest. 011 the way thither the old man noticed strange actions on the part of his son. He im- mediately got out of the buggy and began shouting and jumping, and fell over in a fit which lasted for over ten hours. When con- sciousness was restored he became a- revmg maniac, in which state he still remains. The; Belmont Literary Society is to be re. organized. and a public entertainment to be held on Friday evening, “Au_g‘. 229d. Mr. “Sheppard, of Tlmmesford. has fallen heir m the sum of 317.000, left him by a de- ceased relnalve in Egglad: Mr. Jas. Benttie, of Westminster. has: just threshed his full wheat, having the large yield of L) bushels to the acre. It was the Egyptian variety. SHOES Fflt A BELLE“! SIfilN THE sun's P0 wgs ONTARIQ NOT JS The richest woman f'r England, Lady Bur- dett~00utts, has nul 12: a-u much cf 4; traveler, and nmnyymrs have Int-Ted since she crossed the Chamu I. meaily, hmxxwm', she went to Amsterdam 11) hrr mm swam-omwh, the Wal- rus. It is it large swam ve-sm-l built for the passenger trade, but at prosmt fitted up as a. private yacht and mzmm (r with a picked crew. After her return to London she expects to visit Cheabourg, ano then. if not tired of the sea, she contemplates: making a tour in the Mediterranean. Shv intends to go to Con- stantinople, Hm city (u which she sent from her own purse newly HUM 0 during the re- cent war. “ The harvest is our' tlm crops are safe, and I’ve licked a man all I want to for fifty years to come !"â€"â€" Dctroit Free Press. About two hours later a horse and buggy obstructed the car truck near Twelfth street, and when the conductor got down he found the young farmer lying around loose at the bottom of the buggy, feet and hands sprawled every which way. His face was so badly pounded no that it was first thought he was dead, but after being lifted out and straight- ened around he opened his eyes and called out : The majority of the wealthy men of bus- iness in England have either made their own fortunes or sprung from some poor, clever, industrious man who, like Richard Crawsh ny, has laid the foundation of the house. Here are a. few examples : Ripley, the member of Parliament from Bradford, who owns hzilf a town, is self-made. The father of Bass,the brewer, was in a very small way of business. and his mother sold yeast ina. little shop. The First Lord of the Admiralty’s father kept a smell newsmgent’s store in London. Mr. W'altor, number and chief proprietor of the Times, dates back, I believe, to his father’s humble printing oflice in this city. Mr. Johnston. who left behind him the Standard, worth $150,000 a year, besides real estate, was an Officer in the old Bankruptcy Court. The late Herbert Ingram. member of Parlia- ment and founder of the Illustrated News, kept a little drug store at Nottingham. Mr. Lawson, the chief proprietor of the Tale- graph, from which he draws for his half share quite 0150.000 a. year, was the commercial representative of an ink house. He is now one of the rich commoners of England. Report has it that his income is over $600,000ayear. This, of course, does not begin to approach the incomes of the wealthy men of England who have inherited as well as made fortunes. Robert Crawshaw had at least $35,000,000 left him by his father. How much more he made or lost, I don’t know. He gave his dnughters wedding gifts that would buys. German Duliedom. Just before sundown the other ovening a young farmer came in on the Grand River road with horse and buggy, and meeting 0. policeman near Twentieth street asked him to drink. The officer explained that it could not be done and the former continued : “ All rightâ€" no harm done. The harvestis over, the crops are safe, and I’ve come totown to get drunk 31nd liqk a mat} 7” shut: Tim1‘('111{I.i11d(:1' of 112:: (pinned skin now lms in iho shop, and in issaid nme readily be pi'mhmvd in Va fy the story. Tho body l-f Lhrspoor dth girl, hacked and mutilated foundunamoloss. grave, while the mound roared in 1101' 111011101“); in the cemetery of the city is: draped with flowers and vines planted by lovinghnnds above the empty collln. The shoes fashioned from her flesh trend our streets every day. Their story, in all its hideous grotesqueness, is vouched for as strictly and absolutely true, and certainly furnishes no mean loafin the history of the dissectingâ€"room. «41911: are some sensible words from the Boston Traveller which many of our young ladies would do well to ponder over : The laslnonahle slang which pollutes the lips of young girlsâ€"“Awlully jolly,” “ Immense," “ Ain’t he a tumbler ‘2" “ He has a great deal of dog on today,” " Good form,” “ Awfully first-rate,” “ Give me a mount, won’t you ?" â€"rnenning “ Will you lend 1110 your pony ?” â€"“ Jonnie’s having a circus to-night," “ She dances true,” “ didn’t we have a stationary fling, though,”-â€"â€"menning, let us suppose, a stupid evening"‘ Thanks,” “ Quite too aw- fully handsome,” “ Pitch on you hat andlet’s go for a. picturesque.”â€"all these, and, alas! many more expressions borrowed from Eng- land und invented here, drop from the lips which should never condescond to drop any- thing but pearls and diamonds. ‘ These phrases are not wittyâ€"they mean nothing. Neither are these phrases at all funny which crop out of popular songs. “ Plnafore" hue bucome a terrible nuisance in this way. The ‘-‘ Whoa. Emma.” “Walker” and other catch- words which arise in English slums are not the least numerous. Why so common ? -â€"â€"Mosb of the distingulshed Parisian ladies are said to have some special taste, literary or artistic. The Duchess do Chartres paints birds; Mme. Blanche de Nemours works in a, studio ; the Comic-530 de Paris selects rare books ; the ladies of the De Brogh’e family prepare material for a future history of their time. â€"VVOmerr. members of the Church of Scot- land have equal voting power with the men. They have a majority over the men in the organization of nearly 79‘000, so that the management of the Church of Scotland is, as far as suffrage goes, in the hands of wo- men. -â€"At the Harvard Astronomical Observa- tory Miss R. G. Saunders regularly makes the mathematical calculations of observations made with the merdian circle. Prof. Marin. Mitchell is still director of the Vassar College observatory, and she and hergirls photograph sun spots every fine day. Besides that, ob- servations of Saturn were taken during fifty evenings in the past year. â€"â€"A fashionable woman, sufi'ering from a complication of disorders, recently sought the advice of an eminent New York physician. Having related her symptoms, which were of a. character to cause serious alarm, she was surprised to hear him say simply, “ Let me look at your shoes.” 0n seeing them he added: “ I cannot treat a patient who wears shoes with such heels as those,” and politely bowed her out. ENGIJHII nlll‘ll",NAlRES AND T EIR BEGINNINGS. â€"Ou1y three women in Springfield. Mass., have indicated their desire to exercise their right of suffrage in the choice of the School Board. â€"-One of theEnglishwomen now pamticulmr~ 1y admired in society is Lady de Clifford, who is not yet 16. and who was married last spring. â€"Of the three greatest heiresses in Eng- land of late years, Baroness Uoutts is unmar- ried, and 1.110 otll\x‘s.â€"Viscountess Holmes- dale, heiress of the last Lord Cornwallis, and the Hon. Mrs. Loyd-Lindsay, only child of Lord Overstone â€"are childless. »â€"At the recent meeting of tho Algerian Shooting (rifle) Society, twenty<seven prizes went to ladies. â€"â€"One hundred and seventy‘eight women, mostly from South and East Boston, have asked to be assessed for a. poll-tax in Boston as a qualification for voting next December. â€"M1‘s. Guinness recently gave a. ball in London at a. cosh of £4,000. Mantle pieces of stephamtis, banks of gardenia, and blocks of ice into which flowers were frozen were among the decorations. â€"'\Iiss Edmonia Lewis, a colored lady, has placed on exhibition in Syracuse a. statue called “ The Bride of Spring.” Itis remarkable mainly forthe excullence of its posing and the exquisiteness with which it is veiled. LA “Y HUHDE'I‘TIMJU I'S. CIIANGE 0F 'l‘li'lE ABHU’I‘ ‘1 EN. ( London Letter.)