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Lila Suave-cod by now loran WI PWnd up on the East Cunt of Butt-ml, Ann 1 Storm. >To_-:_:lght page in In atom at in; A woman on a street car, for the benefit of the other inmates, told her little girl to look out of the window and see if she could see her dear papa. “ Why, mamma,” said the child, “ is you dot done bein’ mad with him '2” It is taking an unfair advantage of 5 Pole or a Russian to ask him his name when he has been drinking. A young man advertised for a wife, his sister answered the advertisement, and now the young people think there is no balm in advertisements, while the old f lka think it’s hard to have two fools in the family. “ Confound these stamps 1” exclaimed Whopper. “ There ain’t any muciluge on em, or else there’s something on my tongue that eats it off.” “ Maybe it’s lye,” said Jones, tryin to be facetious, and it has al- ways puzzle him since why Whopper treats him so cooly. “Iwill add,” concluded the young man who was applyin for a situation, “that I ma. college gm uate.” “ Oh, that won’t make any difference,” was the reassuring ro- pl , “if you stick to your work; and be- si es, we want; somebody about the ylwe who is strong enough to carry in coal.’ “ Yes,” said Hendricks to the minister, “ I am proud of that dog. \Vh , he knows the different days of the week.’ Just then the dog began to run to a. gun which stood in the corner, then back to his master, and Wag his tail. “ He’s made a mistake this time, pa,” said young Bobby. “ He thinks it’l Sunday. ” A minister in the country had some cloth ing repaired by a. local taller, and, in con- versing with him, said incautiously : “ When I want a good coat, I go to Toronto. That’s the place. By the way,” he added, “ do you ever go to church?’ “ Yes, air, when I want to hear a. good sermon, I go to Toronto. That’s the place,” “ You should have a thermometer to as- oertain the pro or temperature of the WI» ter," said a £011 mother to the colored nurse who was ivin the bah a bath. “ VVhaf- for Y” “ o te 1 when t e water is too hot or too cold.” “ Don’t use no such a docker- ment. Ef der chile turns blue de water am too cold, an' ef hit turns red den hit am too hot.” And now the colored lady is open to an offer. “ One of the secrets of muscular recuper- ation” says an'eminent authority, “ is in stoppin when fatigue begins from exercise” One of t e most singular facts in connection with this is, that a small boy can put in a good da. ’s work dragging a gun through the bus without being fatigued. Put him to cut a stick of wood, however, and he is completely exhausted before he gets half through with it. ‘ According to 3 Berlin despatch to the London Daily News Emperor William of Germany recently shot 28 head of large game in the Blunkenbur forest. This is quoted as ” good proof” 0 the old gentle- man’s “ keenness of hand and eye.” As the game was driven along lanes of netting ri ht up to the “ hunters,” as they are plane to call themselves, it does not require any special'skill or keenness to kill thehalf tame Watches are never entirely reliable, but have their caprices. For instance, some time about the beginning of last summer, when there had been a succession of fine dis- plays of aurora borealis, it was estimated that in a single night in the City of New York the mainsprings of no less than three thousand watches broke. This estimate is based on actual inquiries. Fine, sensitive watches are particularly liable to be affected by electrical atmospheric disturbances. During the months of June, July and Au- gust, when these phenomena are most fre- quent, there are more mainsprings broken than during all the remaining months of the year. They break in a variety of ways, sometimes snapping into as many as twenty- seven pieces. It is a fact that since the in- troduction of the electric light has become so general a large number of watches, some of them very fine ones, have become magne» tized. While in this condition they are useless as time-kee ers. This defect used to be incurable, an because of it thousands of watches have been thrown away after much money has been spent on them in vain attempts to persuade them to keep good time. “ It is strange,” said United States Sena.- toraEvarts few days ago, “that, in adminis- tering justice, the Wisdom for this world for 6,000 years has discovered no other way than for both sides to hire a. man to exag- gerate their sides, and then try to find out what is the truth between them.” I hear the breaker: rur; There comes scrum fihe [any 13. The thunder of the Ihore, Ana pity bur-I within my will _>F9r‘tho_u uEpnAtho gasp. For thou u n the doc . Kind Saviour mt, do on control The wuss, and bid them Iloep 1 A week ago, ona wtlked Alon. Across yon undy bench, And close beside a rocky 050110, Out of the billOWI' ruck, He found, washed up ’mid weeds and whens, These letters, shined And wornâ€" Snd records of somc hurt that dwells All lonely and forlorn. Home sad-eyed womhn dwells remote From tho ‘ompestuous sen, And months ago tho-e letten wroteâ€" An aching heart had Ihe; Her sailor-husband far sway Bore in his inithtul breast Those lines of her- which upenk today _ 0! home. And love, and rash Alas ! a schooner on our short, By stormy billowu toned, Went down amid the tempost’s roar, And every soul \ua lost E So still, a woman, bony-eyed, May wait In hope at home For him whom neither wind nor tide Shall help across the foam. Ah, me I the wind blows loud to-night. Christ save poor soul: at lea. 1 Burn brightly every beacon-light Wherever ship: may be. She tells him of her lonely life, And how she gran um: he le not forget is lovlng wile While on the stormy sen; And how she uh thlt God would keep His vessel from all ill And, as of old, make winds to sleep, And furious wavel be still. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Peculiaritles of Watches. Washed Ashore. Cnmsmo Honsss. The habit of cribbing is considered by the best moder- suthoritiel a. symptom of in- digestion or diseased condition of the ato- msch. Horses addicted to this Vice are generally thin in flesh, but this condition is probably the result of the disordered state of the di estive organs rather than of the act of fire hing and pressing upon the men- er or some other object with the teeth. horse in which this habit has long exist- ed can readily be recognized by the worn and rounded appearance of the edges of his front teeth, also by the enlarged appearenee of the muscles which de- press the jaw. The habit can be pre- vented in several ways, but is liable to return again when the preventing conditions are removed. By taking away the manger and feeding from the ground the animal will have nothing to rest his teeth upon, hence, as a rule, cannot gratify his propen- sity in this direction, except in some very obstinnte cases, when he will seize one of his knees and use it for cribbing purposes. By nailing a strip of sheep-skin about eight inches in width the entire length of the crib, selecting a skin covered with long wool and sprinkling it freely with cayenne Tmer SUGGESTIONS. There arethree ways of dis osing of sheep, in seeking for a profit, outsi e of what may be obtained for wool. The first is breeding for fat lambs and selling direct from the mother, feeding IS largely as possible on succulent and milk-promoting food, so that the growth of the young animal will be quick and without check. Another is the breeding of sheep to be sold in store condi- tion either as lambs or at a more mature age to men whose sole business is to fatten. This is in most places the poorest policy of all. The third is in feeding off full-grown muttons for the butcher, a business which n a term of years is retty sure to pay. The utter plan has the a ditional advantage of adding largely to the fertility of the farm. Sheep-raising in a manyiided industry. A writer in on exchange says : I discover- ed man yesrs ego that wood could be made to last onger than {ten in the ground, but thought the process so simple that it was not well to make a stir about it. I would as soon have plarI basswood, or ssh as my other kin of timber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts after havin been set seven years that were as sound when taken out as when first put in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect upon them. ‘The posts can be prepared {for less than two cents apiece. his is the recipe : Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverized charcoal to the con- sistency of paint. Put ocost of this over the timber and there is not a man that will live to see it rot. Tho corn-crib should be thoroughly clean‘ ed of all rubbish, an well as of old corn, be' fore new is put in. The object of this is to destroy rats and i, m ce, which harbor under such protection, and getting in a well-filled cribwould increase enormously before spring, with no chance for destroying them. If we have not mt or mice roof cribs, it is at least an advantage toiegin the year with cribs free from this kind of vermin. pe er, refiewing i? occusiofially, the 'worst 9ri_ _ r can ba persuaded to desist from this habit. It is not by any means the largest pump- kins that are worththe moat money. There are qluite a number of varieties, and some amal , fine- mined sorta are among the most valuable. omething also deyendn upon the richness of the ground and the season. Pumpkins grown by themselveeiin a patch are richer and more solid than those shaded all the summer by rowing corn. Usuall , if the corn is a. goo crop, the pum kinl (lo not amount to much, and in really good corn the best will enerally be found around the edge of the fie d. What is Wanted in a. forest for timber is tall, upright growth free from knots. Where side limbs appear they not only waste the vigor of the tree but make knots in the wood which merit for many pu oses. If planted closely enough nature wi 1 thin out the side branches by depriving them of li ht and air thus causing them to rot and falofl‘. But a clean cut does this more effectually and without waste of force. If trees in woods were kept trimmed up their growth would be much greater and more valuable. The trimmings will often be worth enough for wood to pay the expenses if done when other work is not pressing. rl'he report of the Bureau of Industries shows that zâ€"Wheat, barley, oats, rye nd peas, were reaped and housed in fair condi- tion, and the final report of yield difi‘ers but slightly from the August estimate. The wheat crop is about 3,000,000 less than the avera e of five years; barley is only 50,000, bushe s less, and oats is 3,300,000 more. Rye is diminished in breadth and yield. The area in peas is steadily enlargin , being this year nearly 100,000 acres more t an the average of five years, while the produce is 3,000,000 in excess of the average; the pea- bug has vanished from almost every section of the Province. Thefcorn area is 20,000 acres less than the average, and its yield is less by 1,000,000 bushels, while the bean crop is about the same as in previous years ; the autumn weather was generally very favorable for the ripening of both crops. The area in‘ potatoes is 19,000 acres less than the average, and in the eastern eoun ties of the Province the crop has rotted bad 1 ; the total yield is nearly 4,000,000 bush- els less than the average of five years. Car- rots, mangels and turnips vary but slightly from the average of area, but the yield of turnips exceeds the average of five years by 7,500,000 bushels. Fruit of all kinds has been fairly abundant, and in many sections there is a large surplus of apples damaged to some extent, however, by the great gale of 14th and 15th October. Live stock are in good and healthy condition, and the dairy ; industry is brightening with the improved j prices'for butter and cheese. Mabe1â€"“ VVon‘t you come in, Charlie ‘2” Charlie (gloomily)â€"“ You forget that your father injured my tenderest feelings last evening when I was leaving.” Mabelâ€" “Yes, darling; but he wore his carpet slippers at the time, and now his foot is done up in a. bandage, and he goes on a. crutch. Come in, darling ?” FIGURES FOB. FARMERS. mez Pos'rs. FARM. An Old Deteeflve's Story. A: an old detective who has landed his full share of criminals on the gallown and behind the bars. I have had some rousing adventures and queer experiences. One of the latter has been called to mind within a day or two by reading of the death of a. man in a. neighboring city. For convenience sake I will call him Charles Lennox. I was attached to the force of a certain Canadian city, and we had been running along for many weeks without any break on the part of evil-doors when a. murder occur- red. The janitor of a. bank was found dead in the business oflice of the bank, with the outside doors open. The man had been struck on the side of the head with some heavy weight and his skull crushed. Noth- ing had been taken from the bank, and so we reasoned in this way : The robber had called ,the janitor to the door on some pre. text or other, and as soon as he opened it they rushed in and dealt him the blow. It was the night before a local election, and the approach of people who were carousing or electioneering had rattled the robbers and they had fled. In these days a bank robber would have coolly shut the door and one to work on the safe, but they were a ifierent class of men then. If they had not been, we should have probably argued dif- ferently. . .. ... u. q THAT NIGHT T0 TWO STRANGERS. whom he accurately described, and whom he believed to be two brothers. They had told him they were going to Amesbury, but I traced them straight to Blankville, which was the place where the murder occurred. The town where they hired the horse was Rossburg, and they had come there by train in the afternoon. They could have come down to Blenkvillo by the some train, and that they did not I argued was a sharp trick on their part. They had driven away at half past 7 o’clock. The body of the janitor was found about 10. The horse had been returned just before midnight. About 10 o’clock, as I had forgotten to tell you, there was an alarm of fire in Blankville, and the fire department was called out to quench a fire which had been set in one corner of a large tannery. The flames had not got much of a. start and were speedily drowned out, and the case was reported as the work oil’s)”.- . An inquest was held, a. verdict rendered that John Shields came to his death at the hands of parties unknown, and he was bur- ied. The robbers had not left the slightest clue behind them, but as I was ambitions to make a name I was allowed to be in work on the case. In a town twelve mi es away I found, after a long hunt, a. livery stable man who had let a. horse and buggy I had, then, after two weeks’ work, a. clue. Two bank robbers, doubtless from Buflalo or some other American city, had come over to Blankville to do up a bank, but had been frightened away after committing a murder. I knew just how they reached Blankville and just how they left it, and I had descriptions of both. You may say I had but little to work on, as the man had come one hundred miles and might not then be within a thou- sand, or if the were, they had changed their identity ;hut even the smallest points will who has his heart in his work. In describing the men, the stable keeper, who was natural- ly observing and had a good memo , remem- bered that the oldenone carried a op shoule der, had gold filling in his front teeth, and there was a tremulous motion of the eyelids. You have observed this in people. Those who do it would stammer if they did not wink. There were no points in the descrip- tion of the other which would serve to iden- tify him on the street. He simply “looked enough like the other to be his brother.” I spent two weeks in Bulfan looking for my man, and, Ilthough I was well wasted by the detectives, my search was vain. N 0 one could remember acrook bearing that deacri tion. I was at the depot ready to take t a train for home, when I ran across a Grand Trunk detective whom I had not seen for several months. As we talked about the Blankville murder I gave him a description of my men, and I had hardly dope so when he replied : I know them botfi, or at least where they can be found. I saw them in Kâ€"â€"-â€" yester- (lag! and they are oftgn on th‘e rogd.’ The town he named was about seventy- five miles from Blankville, on a cross-line railroad, and I had not been in it two hours when I located my men. They were broth- ers, and one kept a bakery and the other a saloon. Both had the reputation of bein eaceful, law-abiding men, and they ha amilies. It therefore behooved me to go slow, and the arrests were not made until they were positively identified by the livery man and I had positive evidence that the were away from home at the time. In eac case, when making the arrest, Iwas asked concernin the nature of the offence or crime, an I replied that it was for the murder at Rossburg. The prisoners WEBB STRANGELY SILENT, and, though seemingly anxious about the future, they refused to talk of the case. I took themto Rossburg, put them in jail, and in two or three days they were ar- raigned. They had sent to Montreal for counsel, but he had not arrived. Tempor- ary counsel appeared for them, they plead- ed not guilty, and in an hour or two were returned to jail. You may now ask yourself what case I had a ainst the brothers. As I looked it over come to the conclusion that my work had just begun. They had left home Without noise, if not secretly; had hired a. horse and buggy under false pretences ; had driven secretly across the countr under cover of darkness. They were 0 jects of suspicion, but I had no proofs. It was my duty to hunt for proofs. I went to the bank to have some questions answered. It was insummer, and the front door stood open. A new janitor had been employed, and as I entered the cashier was saying to him: “ John, get a. paper and wrap around that brick which holds the door back. It is no ornament as it is.” Naturally enough I glanced down at the r Ivamufi "‘3 "1"” brick. As the janitor lifted it up I took it ‘ “ Take hold of my collar, will you 27” in- from his hand, and next instant I had ; nired a half-drunken man to one of the of- made a discovery. There was a clot of ; cers in the patrol wagon which was taking dried blood on the brick, and in the clot him to the station the other day. were sticking several hairs which I knew “ What for ?” V had come from the dead janitor’s head. 1 “ Because that’s my house dowu on the had made an important discovery, but had ‘ corner.” at the same time ruined my case. The “ Well ?” brick had been in the office a year or more. ‘ “ Well, my wife will see us, and if she The blood and the hairs were evidence that thinks I’m taking you two fellows down it was the weapon used to strike the janitor : she’ll feel so stuck up over it that she won’t with. Then followed the queries : “ Would 3' speak to one of her neighbors for a month.” A MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY. ENCOURAGE A DETECTIVE men come to rob the bank without weapons? Was it likely that the brick was used 1" I replied to these in the negative, and I walk- ed straight over to the jail and into the presence of the prisoners. and said : " Neither of you is guilty of the murder of the janitor.” “ We are not," they answered. “ You were not near the bank that night.” “ We were not." ” But yet you had a. secret purpose in coming here that night.” “We had.” “ What was it 2" “ W'e will not tell." That ended the interview. Mind you, every man in the community believed them guilty of murder, and I was the recipient of praise on every hand for what was termed a clever capture. You may think it strange that I went away from the jail as fully de- termined to clear them as I had been to convict them. The drawback to good do- tective work is the hesitancy to drop a false scent, orto admit that a pet theor is wrong. I returned to the bank and as ed for the average health of the dead janitor. He had been heard to complain of pains around his heart, but otherwise nothing could be said. “ Gentleman,” I said to the bank 031- cials, “ your janitor had gone to his cot for the night. A sudden illness seized him, and in is alarm he made his Way to the door to call for help. He had got the door open, when he fell to the floor, probably dead, and in his fall his head came in contact with the brick.” “ That is theory,” they answered. ” But I will furnish the proofs. I want a goat-inortem examination of the body.” _ “ I caused your arrest, but I have also brought about your liberation. Now tell me what brought you to Blankville that night. ” " And you will keep it a secret !” U Yes. n “ To burn that tannery. It belongs to an estate in which we should have shared, but we were defrauded of our rights. In re- venge we sought to burn up $15,000 worth of property.” I kept the secret until both were dead. An English writer, Mr. Hodden Weat- ropp, recently traced the singular supersti- tion of the Evil Eye hack to the Ayron race. This will account for the almost universal belief in it in the poorest closes, even of no. tions now widely separated. The ignorant, not only in all European countries, but the Arabs, the Hindoos, the Maori: in Austra- lia, the Romandy, all African tribes, and our own Indians hold this absurd supersti- tion. I had hard work to get it, but the result was that three reputable doctors found that the man came to his death from heart trouble. They mixed in some professional terms and some Latin, but that was the substance of it. The day the two prisoners View discharged from custody I said to t em: In many cases, too, the belief that the eye has power to cast a. malignant s ell is an - plemented by faith in some unp eassnt o - ject to ward it off. Usually this is the sign of a bloody hand. In Turkey, Arabia, Hindostan and Malabar, children are de- corated with some brilliant jeWel to attract the eye of the spectator, and so to divert its possible influence. In Egypt, even when they belong to wealthy people, they are sent upon the street in rugged and filthy gar- ments for the same purpose. Lord Lytton says : “Ab Naples the superstition works well for the jeweller, so many costly charms do they sell to ward ofl' the ominous power of the 9:01 occlu’o. A coral ornament among the ancient Greeks, as now in modern Italy. was a favorite averter of flhis evil influence. " This malignant power, according to the Italians. may belong to a person of cod, even holy, character. Pope Pius If, al- though revered by his people, was popular- ly believed toheve the mod cookie, and it is stated that the more ignorant of Romans, while receiving his benediction for their soul’s health, would hold up a cross, lest his glance might accidentally fell upon them and wither their bodies. There is a basis of truth in the most gro- velling superstition. and the germ of this one was probably the perception among the earliest dwellers on the globe of the strong personal magnetism possessed by many men of evil nature. It was natural for i norant men to attribute this to some physica. power of the eye. While no educated Canadian believes in the power of an man to shrivel his limbs, or infuse & dead y poison into his blood by the mere glance of his eye, it is nevertheless true that a man of strong will and magnetic manner can and does exercise a, strong in- fluence over every person who comes near him. In every community, church, or school this power is possessed by one or more persons. They are the leaders ; the others follow. Sometimes this influence is as msli n to the soul as the mat ocdu'o was believe to be to the body. A rapid writer can pen thirt words in a minute. To do this he must raw his en through the space of a rod, 16‘} feet. In forty minutes his pen might travel a fur- long. In a, little more than five hours the small instrument may have gone a mile. In a year of three hundred such working days the pen would have traced a mark on paper three hundred miles long. Each letter of the ordinary alphabet requires from three to seven turns of the penâ€"~01: an average of three and a half to four. Writing thirty words in a. minute, at least 480 such curves must be made ; in an hour, 28,800 ; in a day of five hours, 14,400 ; in a year of 300 days, 43,200,000. The man who makes a million strokes with his pen ina. month is not at all remarkable. Many persons, newspaper writers for instance, make four times that number. How the Pen Travels. Pleasing His Wife. “ The Evil Eye.” It is a good sign of the times that many of the girls of today, the very young girls who are just coming up to womanhood, have very little to unlearn in the way of the proper sort of underclothing to wear for the best freedom and comfort and grace. Elder women, especially the mothers of the present generation, were so badly dressed when they were girls, so perfectly untaught in regard to all {hygienic necessities of dress, that there is little wonder that so many of them are broken down, worn out before their time, with the burden of many hands and heavy skirts and tight garters and thin stockings, with too much clothing on the body in Summer and absolutely too little on the limbs in winter. The making of simple and healthful un- dergarments was a. good deal of a problem, but the dress reform women, have solved it, and a woman may be dressed very sen- sibly, very comfortably and very prettin in the clothin without bonds, which can now be pure osed so reasonably. It isa mistake to suppose that “ reformed” under- clothing is ugly, for it is not. The French have taken it up and their touch alone would straighten out the harshness, which for sake of courtesy, one may grant that the pioneers in dress reform put into the garments they introduced. Some of the most dainty union arments possible come now in woven goo s of wool or silk or cot- ton, or of combinations of these, and many of them may be trimmed as delicately and funcifully as one may desire. It is harder to emancipste womank'md from heavy skirts than from corsets. Hun- dreds of women have left ofi' their corsets with a great deal of hygienic srdor, and then have gone on hanging heavy skirts on their long suffering waists, with nothing to relieve the dead weight from the hips, until even a dress reformer at the sight would call for the return of the corset. The only sensible way is to wear the made waists, which are fitted to the form, and which have buttons on them and serve both for corset and kirt-supporter. With one of these and a good stiff mohair petticoat but- toned to it over her union undergarment, a woman is ready to put on a. walking dress and walk three times as far with one-fourth the fatiguefelt in the ordinary dress. There is one point on which dress reform- ers are usually too silent, and that is that it is very hard indeed at first to dress sensi- bly if one has been accustomed to corsets and three or four petticoats. It is harder than learning to ride horseback or to play tennis or ride a tricycle. But it is an ac- compliehment worth ainin , and a woman who has once earned %y a gortnight’s effort the use of her own muscles and the delight of carrying around the weight of two or three or four pounds of clothing, instead of eight or ten pounds, will never go back to tight and heavy garments. At a meeting of the Counseil d' Hy iene last week a. committee was ap inte , inâ€" cluding Professors Trelat and must, and Dr. Dujardin-Beanmetz, who were charged tomake researches to see what could be done to top the development of pulmonary phthieis, the following resolutions were “9W9: 1 Care must be taken not to allow- this expeotoration to be thrown on the ound nor on linen, where it may be trans ormed into dangeroul dust. 1.. The most active agent in the tran& wig-i011 of this diPeaap feaidegip t1}? Splétg. 4. Any room which has been occupied by a phthisical person should, after his death, he disinfected with sulphur before it is again occupied, and all linen must be steamed. 8. We recommend, therefora, that pa- tients be instructed to spit into utensils containing sawdust, and that these are to be emptied and washed once a day, and their contents are to be burnt. To be satisfied, or at all events reconciled with our occupation, whatever it may be, is the essential of mental health. It is of the utmost importance for a man to (-hoose such a profession or occupation as his edu. cation and mental qualities best fit him to pursue, and having made his choice to recog- nize the fact that he is working for some fixed and definite urpose. Let a man so school and discip ine himself that when misfortune or disaster comes it shall find him with sufficient reserve force, with enough mental or nervous stamina, to make the best of what remains and not to be over- come by an unlocked for and unexpected stroke of misfortune. The habit of doing one thin st s time and doing it well ; the power 0 concentration, which is the out- growth of this habit, and a resolution to make the best of life and the work one has chosen, are the surest defence against mis- fortune and the best safeguard against dis- ease. M. Zulinsky has recently published, says the British {Medical Journal, in a Polish medical paper the result of a. long series of experiments on men and animals, made for the purpose of ascertaining the physiological action of tobacco smoke, when not inhaled too freely, is deleterious only to a limited extent. M. Zulinsky declares that the poisonous character of the smoke is not entirely due to the nicotine which it con- tains. Tobacco smoke rendered free from nicotine remains poisonous, though not to so great a degree as before. The second oisonous principal is an alkaloid~collidine. Iéarbonic oxide, hydrocyanic, acid, and other noxious principles. are also contained in tobacco smoke. There can be little doubt that many of the li ht-coloured to- baccos have been partially b eached in order to give them that pale tint which moderate smokers believe to be an infallible indi- cation of mildness. The decolorizing agenE. is suspected to be in many cases a, deleter- ious chemical compound. Some of the light tobaccos smoke exceedingly hot, owing to the quantity of woody fibre which they contain. Dark tobaccos are readily adult- erated ; but when pure. they are probably the most wholesome for pipe smoking. There is a sweet pleasure in contempla- tion ; and when a. man hath run through a, set of vanities in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself if he. cannot think.-â€"â€"[Blount. Fmsw EssmzmAL or MENTAL HEALTH. CONTAGXOUS CONSUXI’TION. CLOTHIXG FOR \VOMEN. That Pipe of Yours. HEALTH.