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.vmzny trades. For‘ Example. (inâ€"e who cm was well the common wood-working toolsâ€"â€" the hammer. saw, plane, auger, chisel and My aquareâ€"isread y to enter several difi'erent under: with immediate advantage to himself, ulthough he may not yet have learned the Ipeoial details 0t any. one of them. ,,__.A.L L- L-I:-_A M} hope us that a public free school on the plan of the school of mechanic arts may be established in Boston. The place for it in our system in side by side with the high school. This can be done as eoan as the taxpayers and their repneentatives at the City Hall see the wxadom of it. Let it not be aupposed that the manual training proposed as a. part of general education con- ‘Iists in learning this trade or that trade, nor ,yet in learning the tragumentary beginnings of adcnen trades; but rather that it con- -sieta in developing manual skill and master- ing the fundamental processes applicable in , AL; -___ Years of study and observation have forc- ed me to the concluusion that the disease which manifests the symptoms popularly supposed to indicate that a. eild has been caught is to all intents and purposes a filth disease, arises largely from indigestion, and forms the basis, so as to ssvy‘or is in fact the first stage of all the so-called filth diseases. Whatever interferes with digestion or de- puration, or‘depraves the vital organism in any manner, pxoduoes an impure condition of the bodyâ€"7a condition of the disease ; and a. continuance of diseasevproducing habits must inevitably result in periodical or occasional "eruptions," the severity of which will depend upon the degree of one’s transgression. Among the causes of this impure bodily condition are (l) impure food, (2) excess in diet, (3) impure air. Our homes, oflices, shops, halls, court houses, churches, and, with rare exceptions, all living roomsI private or public, are insuffi aiently or not at all ventilated; and, except while in open air, a very large proportion of our people, in all the walks of life, habitually breathe an atmosphere vitiated by being breathed over and over again; they are starving for the want or oxygen, and are being poisoned by carbonic acid. In default of sufficient oxygen the best food can not be transformed into pure bloodâ€"there will always be a corresponding indigestion ; nor can the carbonic acid be eliminated freely in on impure atmosphere, We have, then, serious “interferences withthe digestion and depuration," whenever we remain even for a single hour of the twenty-four in an “ in- door" atmosphere, 6.6., an atmosphere that is not intolerably free communication with the great body of air without. The only oflset for restriction in oxygen is restriction in diet and exercise ; but a. combination of this character would produce enieeblement oi the system, though if a proper balance were maintained there would arise no febrile symptoms such as we are considering. We have plenty of people living in unventilated rooms who, so far as exerciee is concerned, live a. well-balance life 1 but seldom do these, any more than the robust and active, practise any sort of voluntary restriction as to quality or quantity of foodâ€"nausea. and lack of appetite being the only sfeguards. Per- sons of this class are grea sufierers from colds. Supt. Sever, of the Boston public schools, asys : Education through apprenticeship to trades has disappeared, and the time has been filled up With larger amounts of school- buok instruct. -, and the consequence is that through 1 M. of opportunity. the native eptitute of many boys for handcraft is thus igfiored. There doubtless is in our city boys nu amp 1e fund of latent mechanical ingenuity, which on! awaits proper treatment to bring it out an lead its pnssessors to the right ocgupaitions for. using it. ‘u. . ‘ . "Now‘. I am sanguine enough to believe that the introduction of the manual training element into school Work would promote still more a salutary reform which seeks to abolish mere nominal teaching and replace it by real teaching, that is, a. teaching that trains ‘ental power rather than loads the memory that fills the mind with solid merchandise of knowledge and not with'its empty packing cases. The one branch of our present school instruction, most largely to be improved by joining it with manual training, is drnwmg. Not many years ago drawing was made obligatory by statute. The reason was that drawing was important as a. branch of industrial education, and industrial education was much needed by the eopleâ€"especiallythe people of cities. Well, growing has been introduced at greattrouble and expense, and in spite of no little passive opposition. Is this expenditure of money and elfort justified 1' Yes I think so. And the l‘tmilfl satisfactory? No. not yet, And why I B‘scause industrial education, through drawn»: alone, is work only half done. The other calf, modelling, carvmg, anything having in it the constructive element, has hitheiw been wanting Delineation and construction are two parts of one whole ; neltuei‘ has full educational value without the other. As work in the chemical labor- atoi y is needed really to possess cne's self of the chemical knowledge which is only symbol’zed. in the formulas of the books, so work at modelling and construction is need- ed to give preciion and endurance to that knowledge of forms which drawings merely symbolize. ' In Morocco, about the middle of Novemter a gummy juice exudes spontaneously from the trunk and branches of the acacia. It gradually thickens in the furrow down which it runs, assumes the form of an oval or round drop the size of a. pigeon’a egg, of different colors. as it comes from the red and white gum trees. About the middle of December the Moors encamp on the border as the forest and harvest lasts a. full month. The gum is then packed in large leather sacks, and transported on the backs of camels and bullocke to the seaports {or ship- ment. This is the gum arabic of commerc. “I met X on the avenue with his: bride. They had just returned trom their wedding tour.” “ Where are they going to live 2 ” " I don’t know. He told me he had been house-hunting since yesterday morning, and intended to take a flat.” “ Ah x indeed 1 He has decided to follow his wife'sexample.“ Manual Training in Public Schools. How We Take Cold. He Hit Him Hard. Gum Arabic. A monotonous duty which sometimes comes to the searchers is to sit on the roof of the long shed over the mail dock for hours or on the elevated “ bridge " of a. steamer, to see that no opium is thrown on the shed roof frOm the _ship. While the Peking lay at the dock, one attempt to smuggle the drug ashore in this way was detected. But if the searcher who sits on the “bridge’ has a weary time, much more monotonous is the lot of the men who stand at the foot of the gsngplanks, hour after hour, to search every one who comes from the ship, paying attention especially to the Chinese. Ibis monotonous‘ watch is maintained from the time the vessel first touches the dock until it sails again. To prevent any smuggling by water another searcher is compelled to sit, with relays, in a boat moored efi' the steamer some rods. Persistence cannot be better exemplified than by the Chinese nt- tempts to smuggle fabrics ashore. How the traders wearseveral coats of silk, ‘One out- side of the other, over the gsngplank, has often been alluded to of late. One or more, of these costs is invariably taken from the “ trader " 3y the searchers and a protest is always ma. e, but about every trader tries his luckâ€"San Francisco Gall. Ingenious Devices forfmuding the wt Custom notification. ’ The Custom House 's‘oarohing force de- tailed for duty on the China. steamers is an interesting“ study. Their suspicions are awakened by the most trifling circumstance. They'have'fo‘nnd opiun: in the soles of Chinese shoes, in pails which had false bottoms and hollow stoves, in logs of wood, hollow broom handles and other unexpected places. The water-pail plan for a while was a favorite with Celestial smugglers. The pail 'was used for washing off the out- side of the vessel or the decks, and ' filled with dirty water it did not look much like an opium receptacle. After being used it was allowed to stand on the mail dock until it was, as the result of an apparent accident, placed on some waggcn and carted away. Then the Chinese tackled the chocking logs or blocks usually placed under the freight gangplank. One day the and of one of these blocks attracted a. searcher’a attention. It had been sown off and smeared with grime, and looked like any other log which might naturally find its way to a ship, be used in rqu h service and then tumbled about, the doc . But the peculiarity which attracted the attention of the searcher was a bright screw-head in the end of a. log. Several blocks or logs of similar shape were at once taken -in charge by the Custom House officials. The happy thought resulted in the discovery of a. wooden 'box filled with opium fitted into the middle of each of the logs and held in place with a. screw. The broom trick was near to that. A cargo of brooms went to Honolula and wore thrown on the wharf. The consignee, a. China mer- chant, came down and saw them on the wharf. A charge for freight was made on them which the consignee refused to ay. There in where he made a mistake. he brooms lay on the wharf over night. Some one stepped on the pile and broke one. That revealed the trick. The lower end had been hollowed out and filled with opium and then the brush part was mode over it. The Governor of New York State has just sent his annual message to the legislative. The Sun publishes the following statistics of the State, gleaned from" the message 'dâ€"The figures tell the story. For education the State Government received last year $13,- 000,000 and spent nearly $12,000,000. In the 115 active savings banks in the State a million depositors have accounts aggregat- ing $420,831,000. There is the sum of 8114,- 000,000 on deposit in the 84 State banks of discount. The increase during the year in the deposits in the 200 banks coming under the supervision of the State authorities has been more than $50,000,000. Two hundred insurance companies, fire, marine, life and‘ casualty, have assets amouutlng to 3646; 000,000, of which $134,500,000 belongs to the respective surplus accounts. In its Na- tional Guard the State has an eificient army of nearly 12,000 men. There are 2,828 con- victs in our prisons, less than for several years past, while the total population of all the State penal, reformatory. and protec- tive institutions is about 15,003. There are 11,000 insane. The various charitable in- stitutions own property amounting to $42,- 935,000, and they expended $10 291,000 last year in the relief of the unfortunate. During a season more than a month shorter than usual 5,778,631 tons of freight passed through the free canals. At Castle Garden, the chief gateway to the continent, there arrived last year 390,000 immigrants. In taxes from corporations, the Treasurer re- ceived $1,935,000 The, debt of the State, less the amount on the sinking fund, is only $5,978 301, nearly all of which is on the old canal construction account. The tax rate last year was three mills and a quarter ; this year. with economical management, it can be made smaller than at any time for a quarter of a century past. The assessed valuation of personal property and real es. tate in New York is almost three thousand m‘llicn o‘ollars. ' Thom is much difficulty experienced by sweets in judging oleomargorme from but- ter. We hare give two methods for so doing and vm are sure they will be welcomed. Prooure a! vial of oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) which will cost about. five cents. Use a. glass rod, and put one drop on the article to be tested. Pure, fresh yellow butter will turn almost white, while tallow turns to a crimson red. Lind gives diversified colors, showing all the colors of the rainbow. Here is another. and a, very simple test: Melt a very small quantity in ashallow dish, which should be only large enough to hold the uantit-y, and put a piece of wick in the aid. Now light tho protruding end of the wick above the surface of the liquid, and after it burns a. few minutes extinguish the flame. By inhaling the ascending smoke from the W’le the odor of fried butter will designate pure butter, but if the odor is similar to that of a smoking candlestick you may rest assured it is olesmargaiine.â€"Phil- adelphia Grocer. The man who married a. gir} because she “struck his fancy,” says she strikes him anywhere that comes handy now. How to Detect Oleomargm'ine. ‘ CHINESE sweating? New York State Statistics. He expressed himself convinced that England was athe best friend of Egypt, and said that personally he never could forget the comidmtion‘ shown for his great,- difli- culties. As for the present situation, it would have been good but for the mehdi’s sudden successes: ‘ It was a gratifying fact that the peo were prosper-lug and content- ed. I make “that his highness thought of the character of the mehdi. The khedive de- clared him mahvious impostorm /All Muss- ulm us did indeed expect a leader or reform- er toward. the; end of the world, but the Koran said thetrue mehdi would appear at Mecca. or in acme city of the east, and that at first he would not be recognized. but finally met with universal acoeptatien. Ac- cording to the teachers of Islam, he would not be of negroid extraction, nor a destroy- er of moslems ; but this false mehdi imposes upon the ignorant by specious gifts and per- sonal marks and excuses, cruel massacres of the faithful; by pretending that the Turks are in reality Christians, and declaring that the Egyptian power has ended. His highness confeseed ignorance at resent of the mehdi’s movements. The Mu irs, however, he told me, of Lenaar, Khartoum, and Barber have dispatched many spies, and the news re- ceived is that they are unable to trace the march of the main army. Detached bodies of about 10,000 have certainly been sent in various directions. and they may possibly have gone from Oheid to Dal-fur, or might be advancing‘direct on Dongolavby the land route. “ If," said the khedive, “such a force should reach the first, or even only the second cataract, it would become easier for Egypt to strike a decisive blow." His high- ness has received no message directly from the mehdi, and does not know what projects the pretender harbors. He has certainly been sending emissaries to every quarter and no doubt the revolt of the tribes to the eastward of the Nile, which were previousy loyal and contented, is due to this propa- ganda. “If they have risen," said the khe- diveâ€"“the tribes and sheiksâ€"it is because they have been afraid and distracted be- tween the mehdi and myself, and have been obliged to obey whichever authority seemed uppermost." Regarding .the future policy of the governmentof Egypt, his highness re- marked that they never could or never would withdraw from the Soudau. It had bccome the “back-gate of our house; a great portal by which the wealth of equatorial Africa would eventuallyflenter." T _ ,Cxiro-Zgggmreapondent of the Londbn Telegraph ts an interview with the khe‘dive at t ' fikbdin palace. His highness was, as evafifitfiable and courteous, and ,1 spoke Enin "A531: his bwn desire, very flu enshn ‘ .Vi , v Apropos of Sir Samuel Baker's suggestion, he himself was anxious to treat with Abys- sinia in a friendly spirit, and would make largerooncessions with a view to rectify the frontier, but he would certainly not yield Missowah ; it was a harbor essential to Egypt. 0n the west he had personally wished to restrict his country to her natural limits, and as a prince he had disapproved herein of his father's schemes of annexation. He was even now willing to make Dar-four a. tributary pro‘i'rince under a. native ruler, bu_t must undoubtedly keep Kordofan. Immediate operations w‘ould neoessarilly be limitea, continued his highness. to hold- ing the chief positions along the Nile. flé felt confident that before very long Baker Pasha would be be' able to clear the road from Saukin o Berber. What might after- word be I _ined upon it was at pregnant impossible to ee, but While holding she channels of theNilo stroneg he and his sup- pogters ooqld afi'ogd to wait. This, said the knedive, still quietly con- versing. is mainly a religious revolt, but one fomented by the principal slave-dealers and by Sundanese traders who desire to no- polize the ivory traffic now so profi ble. These unscrupulous people have fanned the flame of superstition, and to surrender terr- itory to the mehdi would he to pla. their evil game. The khedive said he he greet- ly coveted the glory of giving its death blow to slavery, but that I was probably aware it formed a most profitable business in Central Africa, and that for its sake many degraded speculators retarded all progress. “God knowe,” his highness went on, “ I am anxious to spare my subjects the cost and misery of war and to leave the fellaheen in quiet to till our soil. The were with Abye~ sinia and Darfour have cost us seven millions! How much better if they had been spent for the development of Egypt I Our country is not rich ; nevertheless, with all these troubles, it is very well able to pay the in- terest on ite debt, and that, too, with £180,- 000 sterling of surplus to devote as a. sink- ing fund. I have the highest desire, not- withstanding, to reduce the debt, and to re- lieve our fellaheen of their load of taxation and usury. "_ The khedive expressed no opinion as to probable necessity of help frem England, but professed himself assured. of her good will. I hear from another source that. frequent messages are passing between the khedive and Mr. Gladstona’s government. Cheshire Undergron Salt Fields. The activity in the salt trade of Cheshire, Eng., for some time past has produced its inevxtable consequence. Throughout the district, houses and public buildings have been sinking, water pipes bursting and gas- mains constantly snapping. Christ Church, W insfcrd, was badly cracked, and then be- gun to sink; Immediately steps had to be taken to save it from utter destruction. Gangs of men with huge jacks were engaged end have lifted the west end quite a. foot ; and the east end having a tendency to bow down, had to be got into perpendicular at once. The displacement taking place under- ground may be imagined when it is stated that in September snflieient brine was pump- ed to manufacture 108,000 tons of salt. The returns issued for October show an increas- ingly active demand has kept the stocks of Cheshire salt very low. Many works which had shut down pans in consequence of the brine being quit-e pumped out, have since made temporary arrangements to take their supply from deeper brine shafts belonging to other proprietors. The United States pur- chased during October 25.850 tons, against 19,719 for the corresponding month last year; the East Indies, 31,418, against 25,- 336 : British North America, 5,087, against 2 959 ; Africa, 3,256, against 2,823 ; and Belgium. 2838, against 5,438. Total ex- ports from Cheshire to all parts of the world during October amounted to 96, 706 tons, against 68,853 tons last year. If} ‘e Says. Khartoum is naturally marked out by its situation as the capital of the Soudan. Built in the angle formed by the junction of the Blue and White Niles, the meeting point of the roads from Dongola and Egypt on the northwast and north from Suekim and Ber- ber on the northeast, irom“Darfur on the west, from »Kordofan, Seminar, and the equatorial provinces on the south, it is .the commercial centre of the whole region, and has ever since the conquest of the country by Egypt been the chief seat of the Egyp- tian power, and the residence of the gover- noruenerel of the Soudun. The town, near which are some ruins of the time of the Pharaohs, is built along the left bank of the Bee Nile, with the White Nile in its rear, in a wide, barren, and stoneless plain, and protected by dikes against inundation from the two rivers. It is 1,400 feet above the sea, and has some 50,000 inhabitants, of whom about two-thirds are slaves, for Khartoum 'was at one time the headquarters of that iniquitous traffic, which, after the subjugation of the country by Egypt,rapidly supplanted the legitimate trade in ivory and other natural products of the Soudan, and is the fans et origo mat/Ti in all the were which have constantly disturbed the coun- t‘X: _ Agra, Bangalore, Umsitsur, Cawnpore, Lahore, Allahabad, Jeynore, RangooJ’oonav, Ahmedabed. Bareill‘y, Surat, Home, and Baroda. We give them in order of popula- tion ; but, properly speaking in the English way of counting, Howra, the Southwark of Calcutta. should be included in the capital, which with it contains above 866,000 souls, and it is the greatest, as it is by for the wealthiest, city in the Empire. Below the limit of 50,000 the towns become much more numerous. and there are hundreds with pop- ulations above 20,000. The majority of the latter are quite unknown to Europeans. an active magistrate or two excepted ; and, so far as we are aware, there is no book in English which gives the slightest account of their organization, or of the life and people in them. Yet many of them have histories of 2,000 years, and in all flourish families which think themselves noble, and harve long pedigrees and stirring tales to narrate. We hear every now and than much of Indian princes who, in India, are hardly mentioned, and of “educated natives,” a scarcely per- ceptible class, but of the true “British India” as little is known at home as of the eastern provinces of Peru.-â€"-London Specta- tor. Some of the Marvel: or the Magnitude r of India. 0 The English ‘are beginning in a vague why to realize the magnitude of India. and to comprehend that it contains some 50, 000,000 more people than all Europe west of the Vistnle. Few, however, are quite aware of the number of its cities, or believe that it includes sixty-two with more than 50,000 people, and twanty-two with more than 100,000, namel , B )mbay, Calcutta, Madras, Hyderabad, LEEknow-LBenm-ea, Delhi, Patna, Khartoum is, from a. military point of view, aposition of great strength. It is protected by five ditched earthwork forts, but these are said to be weakly armed. and its most efficient protection are the broad rivers on either side of it. A force coming from the west would find it a. matter of great difficulty to cross the White Nile in the face of an enemy; and, even if the movement were effected, the approach to the town across a. plain which afi'ords no shelter whatever to an attacking force, would be a very difficult operation in face 0‘ defenders armed With weapons of precision. The gar- rison of Khartoum is estimated at 4,000 men, all thus armed. It is true that the medhi, since the capture of Obeid, must have a. good many weapons of precision him- self, but his troops are said, whether from fanaticism or ignorance, to be averse to using them. Col. Stewart, writing from Khar- toum on Feb. 20, soon after the fall of El Obeid, declared that it “was “very improb- able the mehdi should venture” to Khar- toum. In the course of the spring,however, the mchdi did venture, but was easily re- pulsed. It is likely, therefore, that after so great a success he will make another attempt on the capital, but it is not likely that he will do so without loss of time. The pres- ent season indeed is favorable to military operations, whereas the summer, and espe- cially the months from June to September â€"the time of the rains and floods-greatly interfere with them. " ' But; his movements hitherto have been characterized byanything but rapidity. It was two months after his victory over Yua- sui ‘l’acha in the spring of last year before he'appeared at El Obeid, and seven months before he took it. One circumstance may cause him to hasten his movements. Accorâ€" ding to one of the mehdi’s prophecies he would be proclaimed at Khartoum prophet and rulorof the Sunday: on the 12th of this month, which was the beginning of the new Mussnlman century of 1300 after Hegira. He may not wish to let this brophecyremain long unfulfilled. You probably think, if you_ look very sharply at; an old shoe when you throw it: away, you will know it again if it: ever comes back to you. But that doesn’t fol- low. One of these days you may button your dress with an old pair of slippers you once owned, comb your hair with a boot, or grasp a cast-elf goiter While at your dinner. This is not romance, for old shoas are turn- ed to account by manufacturers in the fol- lowing mailman-They are out into very small pieces and kept; for a couple of days in chloride of sulphur. The effect of this is to make the leather hard and brittle. Next the material is withdrawn from the action of the chloride of sulphur, washed with water and dried. When thoroughly dry it is ground to powder and mixed with some substance like glue or gum that causes it to adhere together. It is then pressed into molds and then shaped into buttons. combs, knife handles. etc. A European who was about to start to America was asked by an acquaintance: “And do you think fried pigeons will fly into your month over there I” “ Oh, no. I don’t believe that; but if one should fly there I’ll have the privilege of eating him myself. 1’11 not have to give two-thirds of the pigeon to chi; nobility and gentry, and the rest to the robbers.” The Defense of . Khartoum. LITTLE, KNOWN CITIES. 01d Shoe Leather. The herring used for making sardines are about four inches long, and are taken in great quantities along the Maine and New Brunswick coast. They can be bought of the fishermen for about $5 a hogshead, al- though when the fish are scarce, as they often are in the spring, they bring as much as $15 a hogahead. To catch the fish small trees or bush are thrown into the sandy bottom of the sea, arranged in a line running out from the shore some seventy-five or one hundred, feet, and then curved back like a. horseshoe. Inside this trap is a. net. When the tide is fa|ling the net is raised, and the fish are taken _out with hugh scoop nets. The catch is always very uncertain; someâ€" times only a bushel or two will be taken, and often so many are caught as to endanger the net. no’w Smell Herring are Made to ne- lemble the Famous Little French F 1811. ' Nine-tenths oi the sardines consumed in the United States come from Maine. Very few of the real French fish are imported now. These Yankee sardines are nothing but small herring put up in boxes with gaudy lables and French inscriptons. In Esstport there are ninteen places where they turn out sardines, besides three at Lubes, two at J onesport, and one each at Milibrid‘ge. Lamoine, and Robinston. In 1876 a New York firm did a. lucrative business packing “ Russian sardines” in Eastport. These were little herring packed in small wooden kegs and preservad with spices of different kinds. It occured to one member of the firm that these little fish might be utlized to better advantage by cooking them and ack- ing them in olive oil, like the French snr ines. The experiment had been tried several years before without success. The difficulty was to eradicate the taste of the herring. This gave rise to the couplet: You may spice and and may call it sardine if you will, but the taste of the herring_will clingto it still. There is another way of capturing the fish. Herring, like mackerel. go in schools, and, for some reason, always follow a light. Two or three fishermen provide themselves with torches made of cotton batting saturated with kerosene, and on dark nights row along the shores with a. torch in the bow of the boat. When a. school is found the herring dart after the boat, coming so close that they are dipped up in note attached to short poles. .. . ~.. A: .u It was easy ta 005k the herring, pack them in olive oil in tin cans, and seal them air tight, but when they were opened they had not the rich, spicy flzsvot of the regular French sardines. After a great many exâ€" periments, one of the manufacturers succeedâ€" edgin producing a. mix ture of oils and spices which removed the difficulpy. ‘ After being ciptured the fish are taken immediately to the factory and laid in heaps upon long tables, The lint thing is to de- capitate and clean the fish. The dexterity with which this operation is performed by the children who are employed, is remark- able. On rn average seventy-five fish are cleaned and decapitated every minute by each child. Both operations are performed with one stroke of a sharp knife. A box holding about a bushel lies at the feet of each operator, and as the cleaning is com- pleted the fish slides into this box. The pay for this work is ten cents a box, and some children make $1.50 a_ day. _ After being washed, the/herring are pick- led for half an hour, and are then laid upon trays and placed in a large drying-room heated by steam. _A.£ter,the fish are dry they are thrown into large, shallow pans of boiling oil and thoroughly cooked. They are then peeked in tin boxes by girls and women, and in each box is poured a quantity of the patent mixture of oils and spices. Covers are then fitted to the boxes and sealed on by men. As air must be excluded, the cans, when eealed, are placed in a tank of boiling water where they remain half an hour and are then removed and placed on an inclined plane so that the air inside rushes to one corner of the box. This corner is punctured with an ewl, the hot air escapes, and the can is made air-Light by a drop of solder. The boxes are then ornamented with at- tractive French lables, so ing that the in- closed are Sardines a la ancao‘se ;" some are labelled “as l’huille d’ofive." The oil used is cotton-seed oil, such as is made in South Carolina. It is not alwa s the best quality of oil. The best oil is use , however, mr fish sold as “pri_me.”_ There are prepared at these factories other vanties of fish known as “mustards,” “mata- neea,” and “ sea. trout.” The mustard are prepared like the sardines until they are put in the cans. They are packed in a pre- paration made of mustard, vinegar, and oil, with 9. 80142501; of spice. The mustards are larger fish than the sardines. The maraneea are packed in a. sauce made of vinegar, spices, lemon, and sugar, and the sea trout are large herring put up in oval boxes with still another sauce. Aimost the entire nrorluct of these factories is shipped to New YorkI whence it 13 sold to retailers all through the country. One of the Lubec houses prepares about 4,200 boxes 3. day. The actual cost per box, including all expenses. is about 5 cents, The profit; made bv the packets is from 5 to 7 cents. The difference between these prices and what the consumer pays for the fish at the grocery goes into the pockets of the grocery man.â€" New York Sun. Tne Industrial Census 011mlan British journals bring interesting deter s of the census of India. in 1881. The total population of the country is 253,891,821, and of this enormous number only 85,514 persons are British-born subj acts, and 56,646 are 12,088 females. Practically less than 17.000 male civilians, wielding an army of 57,000 men control the vast empire. The whole number of Europeans returned is only 146,- 612. The occupations of 102,629,000 per- sons are defined,-and of these 71,199,000 are engaged in agriculture or the cure of animals In industrial occupations 21,041,000 persons are engaged, 12,859,000 males and 8,182,000 females. The workers in cotton and flax number 5,485,452; in clothing. 2,815,280; in vegetable iood, 3,165,429 ; in stone, clay and earthenware, 1,830,974; in houses and builéings, 835,453 ; in guns and resins, 672,- 526 3 in bamboo, cane, rush, straw and leaves, 680,732 ; in gold, silver and precious stones, 472.956, and in iron and steel only 473,361. Engaged in work of government} national, local and municipal, are 1,843,000 persons, of whom 315,000 are clasaed as be- longing ‘to the army. The professional classes embrace 1,451,000 persons. YANKEE SARDINESC}