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SEASONABLE Dorms or FARMERs.â€"Those who have families of children should inter- est themselves in the district school, and see that it is well taught and sustained. No faxmer who is a parent can afford to neglect his uty in this matter, and should manifest a l vely interest in the school where his own and neighbors’ children receive their rudi- mentary, if not principal, education. Able chvol trusfeea and commissioners, with cap- able and (fiicient teachers, are important requisites, a. d it is the incumbent duty of every 17.. rent to aid in 'ecuring these desir- a“ le auxiliarieslto public and home education. To this end, attend the school meeting, vote for tne best men for school trustees, and aid in making liberal provision for a firtclass school in your district. And do not fail to visit the same occasionally, and encourage the teacher. In thi and othtr ways you can do much to improve the school, and every judicious effort in that direction will redound to the benefit of all interested~pam ents, pupils and teachers. Good officers and teachers can best_be s' cured through the perâ€" sonal attention and influence of parents who manifest lively interest in their selection and management. Furthermore, provide your family with pure and useful books and periodicals. Money invested in reading matter of the right quality pays large div- idends. The iuie should be to “ get the best,” â€"only such publications as are in- structive, useful, and elevating. , Avoid all trashy story papers, and other reading of a senseless and sensational characterâ€"of the nickel novel and love-andvmurder general. They are demoralizing, and worse than poi- son for young people. Instead of such use- less trash, secure standard works pertain- ing to rural and domestic affairs, as well as history, science, and literature. BEST Moon 0F STORING Ice-Ii one will need ice next summer, he must prepare for it now. The first thing to be done is to gather a. few wagon loads of sawdustâ€"about seven hundred bushels will be required for a house twelve feet square, and ten feet high, to give an ample supply. If sawdust cannot be procured. dry swamp muck, forest leaves, out straw chaff, or chaff from the thrashing machine, are all very good substitutes ; but an open air space is only forty per cent. as effective as any one of these substances. A house twelve feet square will hold a mass of ice ten feet square, which will give about five thousand pounds for each foot in height, yielding a supply of 100 pounds for each foot daily, for about two months. One hun- dred pounds of ice will cool one hundred pounds of water from one hundred and seven- ty-four degrees, down to thirty-two degrees, absorbing one hundred and fortyvtwo de- grees otheat from the water, in the slow process of liquefaction alone. l‘hese figures will enable any person to calculate how much ice may be required for any specified effect. Thus as one hundred pounds of ice, absorbs fourteen thousand and two hundred units of heat, and we want to cool seven hundred and ten pounds of milk from sixty- five to to .uy-five degrees, we shall find that the ice will just do it, because seven hun- dred and ten pounds cooled twenty degrees, equals fourteen thousand and two hundred units. In the use of ice, it is therefore seen to be a great economy to cool the milk down to just as low a point as possible, by means of cold well or spring water, before it is set in the ice water pool. For a three hundred quart dairy, or for twenty-five cows, then, BUTCHERING UPON THE Emitâ€"Every farmer should pr'zduce his own meat. It is a great mistake for him to suppose that he can profitably buy things which he con pro- duce. He should not generally buy meat, or flour, butter, and in some cases he might very well go back to the old fashion, and a good one, when the women of the family spent part of their time in spinning wool or linen for the use of their households. Every farmer should be an expert butchâ€" er. In many small towns and villages, especially in the West and South, good meet is e. raricy,' because those few farmers who do rear some stock, do not know how to slaugh- ter and dress it. A farmer could often take home with him fifty dollars in cash. after an occasional visit to the village with a lot of good, well butchered moat, when he would otherwise sell the living animals at half the price. SAVE BONES FOR ORCHARD AND GAR- DEN.â€"Bones are the most valuable fertiliz- lng material that the cultivator can procure. There is no waste in them. They contain more than one half their weight, when dry, of phosphate lime, and nearly half of gela- tine, of which one-sixth is nitrogen. A large quanity of bones can be saved during the year, if care is taken not to waste them. They may be utilized in several ways. A bushel of them may be buried around a fruit- tree, at a distance from the trunk, or be- tween the rows in en asparagus bed. They may be packed in a box oricask with the wood-ashes made in the house fires, and he moist with water. This mixture ma es 9. complete andrperfect fertilizer, be- ing rich in potash, phosphoric acid and nit- rogen, the three principal elements of plant food, and may be used in the orchard, the vegetable and fruit gardens, as well as on the farm crops. It is an excellent substitute for superphosphate, so beneficial upon near- ly all crops, Our gardeners would find it to their advantage to use these fertilizers more than they do. SCALDING PIGS IN A HCGSHEAD â€"A hogsâ€" head or a big barrel. is often tre handlest thing a farmer has to scald his pigs in. When it is inclined to one si- e, and the igs are slid inteit from a wood sled, used or a scraping table, it: Works very well. but the small quantity of water it will hold when in thisposition soon gets cold , or to cool, and long delays are often caused if many pigs are to be scal‘ded.‘ ‘ To avoid this delay, J1; 2.! 21an use the hogshmd in upright position, a lever may be rigged like a. well sweep, using a crntched stich for the post, and a. strong pole for the swesp, a white oak stick â€"â€"such as every farmer who can do so, should hfivelaid to season. IThe iron rorl on which-ins sweep moves must be strong and stiff. A trace chain is attached to the upper end, and if the end of the chain has a rim: instead of a hook it will be quite convenient. In use, a table is improvised, unless a rtrong one for the purpose is at hand, ind this is set user the barrel. A noose is made with the chain about the leg of the pig, and he is snused in, going entirely under, lifted out when the bristles start easily, and laid upon the table, while another is made ready. FARM. one hundred pounds of ice will be required daily, and for the season of eight months, when ice may be necessary, the ten feet square of ice should be ruised eight feet, Which will allow for waste, which is usually about forty or fifty per cent t n the average. BEEF OR VEAL STEW.â€"Cut two pounds of cold or raw meat into emall pieces and put into just enough cold Water to cover; add one pint canned or fresh tomato, and one onion chopped fine, with salt and pepper to the taste. Mix a lump of butter the size of a walnut with very little flour, just enough to make a. nice gravy, and pour over slices of evenly browned toast. OYSTER STEW â€"Put one quart of oysters in their own iqnor over the fire, and when the edges begin to curl skim out the oysters and add one-half pint of hot cream with salt, pepper and butter to the taste; skim, put back the oysters and serve wit-1 toast or crackers. To BAKE Funâ€"Wash clean and w'pe dry. Do not remove the had or tall. Stufl with seasoned bread crumbs, and sew or wind 3 string t’gbtly around the fish, lay- ing thin slices of salt pork over the top; sprinkle with pepper. Islt and bread crumbs snda little water. Pour some hot water in the pan, and haste often while baking. Serve with drawn butter sauce. A writer on table etiquette says : “ Let the soup be served by the mistress and eat- en with no accompaniment except a. piece of dry bread held in the hand." There is a. big chunk of common-sense in that sugges- tion. To hold a. piece of dry bread in the month while eating soup is not only a vio- lent branch of etiquette, but is blamed in- convenient. we should sav. If it were not for the wise hints promulgated bv writers on table manners some persons would hold the soup in the hand while eating a. dry piece of bread. SALMON Sumoâ€"One can of sllmon, four bunches of celery, both chopped as fine as for chicken salad. Pour over the following dressing : The yolks of two eggs beaten light, one teaspoonful mustard, salt and epper to the taste, and three tablespoon- fuls of table oil. added val-y gradually, and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar. One never hears of “an old maid" in Mexi- co, and to remain forever unmarried entails upon the luckiess spinsterno such stigma of reproach as the epithet so common in our country, but if her lonely condition is allud- ed to at all, they good-naturedly say of her that she is “ hard to please," writes a cor- respondent of the San Francisco Chronicle. The aged are universally treated with the greatest respect and every mark of defer- ence. It is considered more courteous to address even elderly married ladies as Ser or- ita (Miss) instead of Senora (Mrs ) and the lady of the house is always affectionately called by her servants la m'na (the little girl) though she may have attained the mature age of eighty. Beggars upon the streets and vendors in the market places address all ladies. young and old, as m'mzsâ€" children : or, when particulary importunate, by the more respectable and endearing term m‘m‘ta â€"dear little girl. SUUTHEBN BATTER Baumâ€"Two cups of white com me A, one cup cold, boiled rice. three eggs well beaten, one tableapooniul of meltd butter. two and one-half cups of milk or enough for a soft batter, one tea- spoonful of salt and a. teespoonful of soda. Be:th well for three minutes and bake quick- ly in shallow pans. Very nice for break- fast. SNAKES 0N SCARLET STOCKINGS. “ The latest wrinkle in silk stockings,” says the Baltimore Sim, “ is to have snakes on them. The snake’s tall begins below the knee and the reptile wrigglcs down the leg. His neck stretches-along the Ir lddle of the foot, and his head points to the toe. A scarlet stocking has the snake in white." Before this fashion is universally adopted, ladies Will have to acquire new nerves and free themselves of the ebhorrence of the serpent inherited from Eve. VIENNA Emmaâ€"Two pounds of sifted flour banked around your pan, one-half pint milk, one-half pint water ; mix a thin better and quickly add one half pint of milk in which has been dissolved one half ounce of salt and seven-elghts of an ounce of com- pressed yeast ; leave the remainder of the flour against the side of the pen, cover from the air forty-five minutes, then mix in the rest of the flour until the dough leaves the sides and bottom of the pan. Let it stand f0: two and one-half hours; divide into one pound pieces and subdivide into twelve pieces. Fold the corner of each piece to the centre and turn over to rise for thirty min- utes. Bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. CREAM PIE â€"Three cups milk, three table- spoonfuls corn starch, cup sugar, grated rind of lemon, 3 pinch of salt. Put all over the fire and stir unti. thicken. Bake the crust ; spread on the custard and use whites for frosting. Brown slightly. ROLY-POLY PUDDING.â€"Mix a nice paste as for a pie ; roll it out thin, and spread with jam of any sort, leaving an inch all around or the jam will run out. Roll it up in the shape of a bolster; tie it in a. floured cloth and boil or steam one and ahalf hours. Eat with hard or liquid sauce. ORANGE Punâ€"Take the juice and grated rind of one large orange, one cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch, one tea- cupful of hot water in which one half a box of gelatine has been dissolved. Mix all thoroughly and add to a. good pievcrust. This makes two plan without covers. To be eaten cold. ' BREAD PUDDI)G.â€"0ne quart rich milk, four eggs beaten separately and the whims to be saved for the meringue ; two cups of fine, dry bread crumbs, one tehlesponnful of melted luziter, a pinch of salt, one tea- cupfal of sugar, and the j nice and grated peel of one lemon. Beat the eggs and but- ter together. Soak the crumbs in the milk, and mix all thoraughiy. Season and bake ins buttered dish or pen. When almost (lone. cover with the meringue made of the whites of the eggs and powdered sugar enough to made it spread nicely. Eat cold with cream. How SOUP SHOULD BE EATEN. No OLD MAIDS IN MEXICO. HOUSEHOLD. COOKING RECIPES only the organ of the mind, but that it fur- nmhes, so to speak, the motor power for all the organs of the bodyâ€"the heart, the lungs and the stomach. Like other sources of power, a steam engine ore. galvanic battery for instance, it requires fuel in order that force may be produced, and it gets it from its own substance. With every perception, with every thought, with every emotion, with every act of the will, a certain amount of the brain substance is destroyed and new brain takes its place, just as for the produc- tion of steam, wood or coal is consumed. If the mind is exercised to too great an an extent there is not enough force left to carry on properly the other functions of the body, and the heart, lungs, stomach and the rest of them suffer. Nervous dyspepsia has in this abuse of the brain its main source; palpitations and other irregulari- ties of the heart are also the consequence. The following facts on thi+ subject are taken from alecture recently delivered by Dr. Wm. A. Hammond :â€"[‘he brain‘is not: But the chief derangementa are in the ac- tion of the brain itself. Thought of all kinds becomes irksome, the disposition in feverish and fretful. Slight circumstances cause great annoyance, and above all that great result of an overworked brain, insom- nia, makes its appearance. The Medical and Surgical Reporter says that Dr George R. Elliott, the microscopi~ cal expert in Gen. Grant’s case, has had the specimens upon which the diagnosis of epithelial cancer was based carefully pre- pared for permanent keeping. There are eighteen slides, which are arranged in “a mahogany cahiuet upon which stands a bronze bust of the Genera ,” and two silver plates bear the names of the physician and an account of the nitnre of the specimens. Dr. Hammond-dwelt at length on t‘. is di- vision of his subject, He thought no one should give more than eight hours of the twentyvfonr to hard mental work, eight be- lug devoted to mental and physical recrea- tion, eating etc., and eight to sleep. Dur- ing sleep t 8 brain recuperates, and is ready for work again on awaking. If there has been insufficient sleep the person is burn‘ ing his candle at both ends, and organic dis- ease is almost the certain result if the pro- cess belong continued. The eifects of strong emotions, anxiety especially, are even more decided than is mental work in breaking down the healthy action of the brain. Dirty streets, unclean water, neglected sewers, and untilâ€"vaccination ideas are said to be the causes of the visitation of small- pox in Montreal. states, itis'more taken than any other remedy. The application of the white of an egg to a snake bite wound saved the life of a little girl in St. John’s county, Fla. She was bit- ten twice on the foot by a. ground rattle- snake. A writer in the Eastern Medical Journal says that the medical idea of a. teaspoonful is one fluid drachm, This is, in fact, about the measurement of that article as used by our grandmothers. But this and the des- sert spom are now made so much larger than formerly that they hold nearly two drachms, and people who measure medicine by them overdose themselves. The table- spoon remains as in the old days. We all read with interest accounts of the first impressions felt by those whose sight had been suddenly restored. In this cue the sensations were quite peculiar. The first was one of profound horror. When she first became conscious of sight and s see, her feeling was like that of one who ooke over a. precipice, and she seemed to regret that she had consented to be taken out of her life-long darkness 1 Time corrected the misapprehension. She learned her letters in a day, and to reed in a. week. A writer in the Russlcaia Medilz says that he has had great success in the cure of over 300 cases of acute and chronic catsrrh, or cold in the head, by the use of ice cold water. The legs, from the knee downward, are washed with it in the morning and at night, and rubbed vigorously wish a coarse towel. It is necessary to do this for two days only, and many patients are said to have been cured in one day. Science has made great progress in treat- ing_dlne&ags _of the gays. . Cataract in most cases can be relieved, and good workln vision restored, even in the very aged. %he disease consists in the crystalline lens becoming opaque, and its treatment, in removing the lens and supply- ingjts place Wish glasses. There is another still more prevaient dis- ease of the eye, in which the iris becomes adherent to the transparent protecting co:- nea before it, and the later becomes of a, mi1k~white opacity. This disease has been loqkedyn as needy hr pelesa. _ What seems surprising in the case, is that the retina had retained its sensitiveness, and the muscles of the iris their Sensibility and full power of action, through the disease of twenty years, it being a- generai law that a disused muscle or organ in time loses its iunctionei power. The hot-water cure retains its popularity 1;: flartfpxzd, whereÂ¥ {aha Times of that gity By several operations, extending through nearly two months, the adhesions were severed. Contrary to expectation, the lens was found to be transparent and otherwise in good condition, though the long tension had resulted in producing myopia. (short- sighter’ ness). There was also a good-sized pupil though temporwily ragged on two sides from the cuts, and the minute much a of the iris had retained in full their sensibili- ty and contractiiity._. Glasses remedied the myopia, 9nd in less than two months the girl was able, with some diffimlty, to read ordinary print, and coarser print with ease. Meanwhile the vision became clearer. But last year the surgeon to the St. Paul's Eye ar-d Ear Hospital, England, treated a case of the kind with a success which fairly astonished him, and which leads him to an- ticipate in the future as favorable results as In other grave diseases of the eye. The girl was in her twentieth year, and had always been blind. One eye was plain- ly beyond relief. But the iris of the left eye did not everywhere adhere to the cor- nea. It seemed to the girl, however, as blind as the other eye, as she could not die- timzuieh her fingtrs held closely before it. Still, there was a trifling perception of light. USE AND ABUSE OF THE BRAIN. RESTORED T0 SIGHT. HEALTH. N one. The Paris correspondent of the filedical Times says that “the doctrine of premoni- tcry diarrhoea in cholera is quite knocked on the head by the clinical observation of facts, It must now be allowed fihnt an at- tack of cholera may be as sudden as a. flash of lightning, however unpalatable the plain trutn may be." Tao cause of the unpalata- bllity of the truth seems to be what such facts tend to upset the germ theory, which so many scientists considered fairly proved. A new system of drying lumber by aur. rounding it with common salt is just may at. trenching attention. The peculiar pom x- of salt for absorbing moisture is well know, ~, Dr. Mazzotti tells of t man‘ Who had a soorbutic affection, which he net about to cure with whiskey. He got Well of this trouble, but became a hard drinker, and soon found himself the victim of a. rare dis- tase called opiathoporia. This curious af- fection consists in inability to walk forward. Wher. the patient was told to advance, he used every etfort to do so, but could only succeed in going backwaxd, and he 00min“. ed to do so until he died. It has been estimated that the value «f the natural gas used in the United States in 1884 was $1,460,000, as against $475,000 in 1883. In each instance she value of coal superseded by this kind of gas is taken as the basis of the calculation. Watches may be sent for testing to the Kew Obaarvatory in London, and certificate of excellence will be given, but so extreme is the accuracy required that no watch can be marked first- class which varies as much as one tick in 43,000. The other day the old men invited a few miners from Crested Butte to visit his tun- nel,'telling them that he had the biggest thing in Colorado. At the end of the tunnel a. body of ore 5 feet 6 inches in thickness was disclosed to view. The ore is a rich sil- ver glance, sulphuret and galena. It runs from $600 to up in the thousands to the ton, and is the most important strike ever made in the Elk Mountains. The old man has almost gone crazy over the immensity of his sudden wealth. “ Beéésh ! I knew a painter who iell off a. church steeple, and got well again,” said thggrpsmeyefi man. _ “ I know'ed I man ahotabu‘l I; through his heart, and lived ten years," said the man who looked like a farmer. The exceptional good luck of a. min- or known as old man Meagher is the talk; ofglthe community of Gunnison, Co'. Mengher was looked upon as a hermit whose mind had been turned in hunting visionary fortunes in the mining regions of the West. For the past five years he has been driving a. blind tunnel into a mountain at a point about half way between Crested Butte and Irwin. Summer and Winter he has work ed continually and alone, living on the most meagre food. There were no appearances of mineral veins on the surface, and people looked on the project of driving a. tunnel in such a. place with the hope oi striking min- eral as laughable nonsense. Even at night people passing could hear the click, click of the drill of the solitary_miner._ Among the long-haired fun: to be pur- chased at a moderate price may be mention- ed lynx and black martin, or, as it in also called, Alaska. sable. The mannfactuxe of mallmble nickle, as the result of M. Garnier’s experiment, has been realiz-d by the addition of 0-3 per cent. of phosphorous or manganese. and others have found that by addin 110 to 1 3 per cent. of magnesium it is pr etioable to weld the nickel thus obtained to iron and steel, roll it out in sheets and shape it into tubes, pipes, etc. “There was a man in Salem, where I come from, that had four ton of rock [311 on him, and he’s alive yet," said the one- armed man “Y-n-a a," said the red-headed man. “Lemme 986. Where was 1‘! Ohâ€"‘fell In front of the car, which passed diagonally across his body, and lived but a. few mo- ments.’ " “How little it takes sometimes to kill a. man, and then, again, what wonderful ten- acity to life some men have," said the red- headed man, who was reading the paper. “ That’s so," said the others. “ Just listcn.” said the red-headed mu. “ Here's a. brakeman on the Nibkel Plate road. The paper says: ‘ He fell in front of the car, which passed diagonally across his body, 9nd _llvedâ€"’ ” , Experiments have been made in Middles- borongh with liquid fuel for ships. One of the most successful has been with the steam- ship Emanuel, which was fitted with tanks to hold the oilâ€"e waste product, from the Middlesborough Chemical W orks. ‘The steamer has just returned from 9. trip on the Mediterranean, and the engineer reports most favorable results The new style of {naming blocks, as describ- ed in the American Manufacturer, in com- posed of a hollow iron shell filled with any desired concrete, the hell being arc hed un- derneath, and for street paving are four in- ches wide and frcm ten to twelve inches long. The blocks or filled shells, are laid against each other upon the prepared road- bed, and the form of the bottom compacts the sand underneath, ‘ making the whole structure very firm and solid. The surface of a street paved with these blocks would be about as smooth as if paved with asphalt It la reported that an air balloon railway in about to be constructed on the Gaisb erg, near Salzburg, amountaln of no great height, but offering a. magnificent View over the beautiful neighborhood of the town. The balloon, which will have grooved wheels on one side of its car, will ascend eperpendlou- lar line of rails, constructed on the prinolv ple of the wire-rope railway proposed years 8.20 for the Righi, but never carried into efl'ect. There is a. qualitative test for butter so simple that any housewife can put it into successful practice. A clean piece of White paper is smeared with a little of the surpect- ed butter. The paper is then rolled up and set on fire. If the butter is pure the smell of the burning paper is rather pleasant ; but the odor is distinctly tallowy is the “but- ter” is made wholly or in part of animal fat. SCIENTIFI Q) AN 1) USEFUL. Wealth Rewards Pa“ iencc. Singular Tenacity of Life. To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idlerom from himself. He that is a. good man, is three quad-ser- If his way towards the being a gcod Chrlas tian, whereaoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called. You may depend upon it that he is a. good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemses are characters decidedly bad. Deferenoe is the most delicate, the moat indirect, and the most galeth of all com~ plimenta. It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it ; and therefore he that can perceive It hath it not. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable ; however, those who aim at it, and persevere, will ca me much nearer to it, than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. The lucky young B‘rencn sportsman who has won the Cesarewitch and Cambridge- shire with Plaisanterie repeating Foxhall’s triumphs, is said to have netted $70,000 by the double event. This may seem good, but there have been occasions within the last twenty years when the owner of the Cesar-switch alone has landed $300,000 upon his champion. Mr. Merry and Lord Hast- ings were each credited with that sum as the amount of their gains by belting when Lioness and Lecturer were successful in 1863 and 1866 ; the late Baron Mayer de Roths- child drew $150,000 admit‘edly out of the the ring when Corisande won in 1871 ; and rumor put the stake netted by the owner of Rosebery in 1879 at $500,000. It is only on ahandicap, and on not more than four in the yearâ€"namely, the Lincolnshire handicap, theCity and Suburban, and Cesarewitch, and Cambridgeshireâ€"that a great stake can be won. Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man : it efi‘aots noâ€" thing it goes about and hurts the man who in possessed by it more than any other against Wham it is directed. The following is the pretty story of the betrothal of Prince Waldemar of Denmark and the Princess Marie d Orleans : The pre- liminaries of the betrothal were ‘concluded and yet the young people had never met, so ameeting was arrenged and Prince Waldemar went to call upon the Princess accompanied by the Danish ambar sador, Count de Moltke. As they approached the residence of the Duke and Duchess de Chartres they noticed a group of young girls at one of the upper windows. “ That young lady in blue,” quoth the Prince, looking up, “ has a very sweet countenance. I hope the Princess Marie will resemble her.” It was his be- trothed herself, who had yielded to an un- royal but most natural desire to take as ear- ly a glance as possible at her future hus- band. The Shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what We would 8: pear to be; and If we observe, W8 3118-“ fin 9 that all‘human v'rtuesincreue ‘and strengthen themselves, by ch? practice and experiencn. uf them. Men ta‘-k in raphxrea of youth and beauty, wit and sprightllnen ; but after seven years of union, not one of them in to be compared to good family man ement; which is seen at every meal, and to t: every hour in the has band’s purse. ' MLJsmes French,Torc nto, who a couple of years ago so tspresent of two barrels of Canadian apples to the Queen, is now send- ing a. barrel to ear-Premier Gladstone. The shaves of the barrel are of polished ash and other hardwoods. He will later on sand to Mr. Gladstone the primest roast of Can adian beef that can be found and two turkeys, one for himself and another for the Prince of Wales. A strange occurrence is reported from Birkdale, near Southport. A retired sea captain named Clarke, was seized with a fit and apparently expired. A doctor was call- ed, who examined the man, and pronounced lite to be extinct. He could rot give a cer- tificate, but the friend referred to the police. Two officers were called in, and full parti- culars taken for the information of the cor- oner when something caused a doubt in the mind of one of the constables, and he tried to restore animation. For some time it was inefi’ectual, but ultimately the man was brought round, and is now very little worse for his experience, though he narrowly escaped death through want of attention. In Mr. Walter Rye‘s “ History of N or- fo k,” just published, it is stated that: the Bulwer family gets its name from a. progeni- tor who was a hord:man or “ bull-ward." In a like manner the illustrious Howard: come from a awlneherd or “ hog-ward” and the Townshends from one “J ohd ate Town’s- end," a. small tenant-farmer. Ve.ily, the claims of a long descent and Norman blood are pretty poor stufl‘. Louis Philllppo, one: King of the French, is now declared to have been the son of a. French sailor. His reputed lather and mother had a daughter born to them. Want- ing ason, fearing a. failure, they changed chxldren with a fisherman. Ferdinand Ward, according to the Boston Transcript, received h‘sfinancinl education at, church fairs, where returns of two or hree thousand per cent. on the original invest- ments are not thought at all remarkable. Mme, Patti has been ordered by her phy- sicians to take a. month‘s complete rest. This will cause the collapse of her projected tour through Belgium and Holltmd. Ruskin and Kate Greenaway an at won. together on a Chriatmas book which in to bear tire title, “ Dame Wiggins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful Cats.” The Duke of Westminster parchued to: his daughter-inlmv, the Countess of firm- venor, the hone lately occupied by Sh Moses Montefinre. More than $18,000 is already in hand of the) $20,000 wanfied to build a. Y. M. O. A. bulldin g at Bournemouth, Eughmd, in mem- ory of the late Earl Cairns. The ago of President Grevy is a much dia- cussed question in France. It is commonly said to be 71, but there is good ground for believing that he was born in 1807. GEMS 0F THOUGHT. PERSONAL.