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“ Hetty,” again began the smooth-tongued Tory, “ you are a. nice child. Everybody knows you are a girl of truth. What did your cousin say when you told him you couldn’t tell a. falsehood ‘2” Tier tdrmentors did not stay longer to soothe or question her. They had got, as they supposed, the information which they killed for it ‘2” “ Yes, sir.” " That was a- brave speech ; and so I sup- pose he thanked you for it and ran down the road as quickly as possible.” / ‘.‘ Oh yes, I forgot. Well tell us his last worqiangi we won’}; trouble ygl} any more_.” Now Hetny Wm, “ma, whit dnaewed by this smooth speech, but she was willing to tell as much of the truth as would consist with his safety, and she wisely judged that her frankness would serve her kinsman bet ter than her silence. So she answered her quesfion canglidly: _ “ He said he shouldn’t think I’d betray him to his death.” “ His last words were : ‘ Its my only chance, child, and I’ll get downas you say.” And overcome by fright and a. sense of her kinsmzm’s danger, should they rigidly inv terpret the language which she had report- ed, she sobbed aloud and hid her face from “ And you then promised that you would pg} which way he went even if you were - “ My cousin said he was oing down this way to the river, where he ad a boat ; and he wanted me to tell the men that were chasing him that he had gone the other way to catch the mail wagon.”_ “ I couldn’t tell a lie, sir," was the tear. ful answer. siglfix Angry that their intended prey had es- calle from the house where they had hoped 14} _secure him, the six mounted tories, head- ’{Nl by a British officer, dashed along the road in quick pursuit. At sight of the girl in the meadow, the leader of the party pausgd. _ _ “ Why didn’t you 30 as he bid you then, when I asked you where he had gone ?” thugderegifilge officegfiercplyf “ Just so, Hetty; that was very true. I hope he won’t have far to fly. Where was he going to hide? You see, I could help him f I knew his plans.” “ Yes, sir.” “And this man that ran by you a. few minutes ago, was your mother’s cousin, wasn’t he '1” “ Yes, sir, he was.” “ Well, we are friends of hiss‘what did he say to you when he came along ‘3” “ Heâ€"Ee-told me that he wag flying for his life.” ” Let me speak to her,” said his Tory guide; “ I know the child, I believe. Isn’t your name Hetty Marvin?” he asked plea- santly. “ I’ll have if out of lxer,” exclaimed the furiogls officer, wltll anpatly “ Child,” he said stemly, “ have you seen a man running hereabouts?” “ Yes, sir,” replied Hetty, trembling and flushing. ” Which way did he go?” “ I promised not to tell, sir.” “ But you must, or taketheconsequences.” “ I said I wouldn’t tell, if you kill me,” sobbed the frightened girl. “ Heaven never blesses those who speak falsely, cousin ! 13% I will tell them which Way you go, even if they kill me ; so run as quickly as possible.” “ Cousin, cousin, hide under my web of cloth ; they’d never think of looking here for you. Come, get down as swifbas you can, and I’ll cover you and stand sprinkling my linen.” “ Hetty, dear child, you certainly would not betray me to my death ! Hark ! they are comingil hear the click of their horses’ feet. 011, Hetty, tell them I have gone up the road instead of down, and Heaven will bless you.” “It’s of no use ; unless I can deceive them, I am a dead man.” “ It’s my only chance, child ; I’ll get down as you say.” And suiting the action to the word, the governor was soon hidden under the folds of the cloth. “ Oh, cousin I” said the littlé girl, in an agony of distress. “ I cannot tell a lie, in- deed I cannot. \‘Vhyndid you tell me which Tier wise forétliollght arrested the gov- ernor’s notice, and suggested ascheme to delude his pursuers. “Hetty,” he said, earnestly, “ I am flying for my life ; and unless I can reach my boat before I am over- taken, I am a (lead mm. But you must tell those who are chasing me, that I have gone up the road to catch the mail wagon, which will soon come along, you know. They will turn off the other way.” way you were going '.’ \Vheu the British and Tories attacked [New London, Comm, in 17â€", and seta. price on the head of Gov. Griswold, the litter fled to the town of L., where his cousin, Mrs. Marvin, hid him for some days in a secluded farm-1141139. But at last the subtle focuiscovered his letrcat, and one sunny afternoon in May he was routed from rh's hidinngIche by the tidings that a band of horsemen were approaching to capture him. Thus sat Hetty Marvin, the young daugh- ter of Governor Griswold’s cousin, when her hunted friend sprang past her into the road, to escape from 11‘s pursuers. Hetty was a timid child of about twelve years ; yet thoughtful and wise beyond any of her elders. She was frightened by the headlong haste with which the governor rushed across the meadow. But she quick- ly comprehended the scene, and instantly quieted her faithful ll‘o'vscr, who, though a friend of the family guest, thought it becom- ing to bark loudly at his hurried steps. Just where the nnrrnw path from the orchard opened into the road, Hetty Mar- vin sat, with her dog Towser, tending the blee :hing of the family linen. The roll was taken by the farmer or his stout “ help,” to a, grasay plot, beeide a spring or meadow brook. There it was thorougth wetted and spread upon the green turf, to take the best heat of the sun by day and the dew by night. The little mtiden who tended it would sit near it. Thus sat Betty Marvin, the young daugh- His only chance of esenpe was to reach the mouth of a little creek which emptied itself into the Connecticut river, just above the entrance to the Long Island Sound. Th/“e he had a, boat stationed with two mi; “111 attendants hidden beneath the high banks of the creek. The distance from the fer-house to the boat was two miles by the usual travel road. But a little path across the farmers’ orchards would bring him to the road only a mile from the boat, and saveaqnm‘ter’s length of his fearful run for life. “__I prbmisea nofi to tell where he went, HETTY MARVIN. .p; On the Devonsllire coast there is a sea- gx‘sts (Perphyra laciniata) that is boiled, chopped, mixed with a small proportion of oatmeal, and made into bread which keeps from four to eight days and is much used by the poor W'elsh people, most of it being sent: to Swansea. True Recreation and Those Who Enjoy it. It is the woman who devotes the hours of work most assiduously to employment who will most thoroughly enjoy an evening of social recreation. It is the man who has spent a, Winter in patient and energetic ac- tivity who will best prize and best use his two weeks or two months of summer vaca- tion. It is to him who submits sweetly and cheerfully to the monotony of daily life, with its petty trials, vexations, disappoint ments, and fatigues, that refreshing changes will come with most delight and bring th° truest recreation. saw a snapping turtle. “One,” he replied, in ashow.” Said she : “ It’s very funny ; but do you know, you sort of remind me of that bird.” “ \Vhy ?” he asked. “ Oh ! you hang on so.” He looked Out of the‘ Window into the darkness, said it looked like min, and he had better be going. He Concluded to Go. It was getting well along into the night. She ymvnedl and thgn asked him'if he ever On the way back to Herrnals he threw the Woman into a pit and killed her by beat- ing her skull in with sharp stones. He then robbed her, pulling off her stockings to get the money, which women of the lower class- es often conceal there, and finally tore off her clothes in a further search. He was afterward, as early as half past eight o’clock, seen with, for him, considerable money in his possession. After leaving a. shirt to be washed at ten e’clock he went to his lodgings,{,slept until after six, Visited a friend in the suburbs, Where he remained until noon, and for some time afterward eluded the search of the police. Panec was finally arrested at Nekelshury. Horrible Mutilation of n Woman for her; Money by 3 Pole. Another horrible murder has been dis- ’ covered in Vienna. On a. recent \Vednes- day morning, when a man was passirg through some waste land used partly for brick kilns, on the edge of Herrnols, one of i the most populous suburban quarters of 5 Vienna, he disoovered the body of 9. WO- 3 man lying in a. pit. It turned out to be the ’3 corpse of Rosalia Mildner, a small dealer in wood and coal. The police have found that the murder was committed by 3 Pole named v Joseph Panee, a former soldier, aged twenty eight, 3. smith by trade. He had made over- tures to buy the business of Mildner, and f on Tuesday afternoon persuaded her to go 3 with him to Gersthog to receive the first in- E stalment of the money which he alleged he would receive there from his sister. They went about six o’clock to a. tavern and ‘ drank some wine. 3 Lord Hastinvgé promoted the officer on the spot, for his courage and calmness. But the snap of the tiger’s teeth in recatching him as he fell, inflicted so severe a. Wound upon the sinews of the thigh that he was Iamed for life. The cool, self controlled officer, though" suffering agony, drew another pistol, intro- : (luced its muzzle into the tiger’s ear, and pulled the trigger. The brute fell dead, wifhout a struggle. This ofiieer rashly approached the stretch ed-out beast, when suddenly coming to it- self, it sprang upon the man. He fired a pistol but missed. The next moment he was in the tiger’s jawa, with his right arm pinned down across his breast, utterly powerless, and being carried into the jungle. ‘ In a. minute or W70, the tiger, in orde; to carry its burden with greater ease, chucked the officer up into the air and caught him bymthe thigh as he fell. There had been a. hunt to afford the Mar- quis of Hastings, the Governor-General, some sport. The tiger had been found and shot. As he lay motionless on the ground, everybody supposed him to be dead. Buta tiger is not; always as it seems. He has been known to charge a hundred yards with a. ball in his heart. in A Tiger’s Jaws. Dr. Livingstone, who was severely bitten by a lion, said that when the beast struck him with its paw he lost consciousness and knew nothing until after his rescue. The doctor thought the lion’s blow a. merciful provision of nature, whereby the prey was freed from pain while being torn to pieces. An English oifiuer, serving in Indizi, had a different experience from Livingstone’s while being carried off by a tiger. :40 far from losing consciousness, he was never more alive. The signal recalled the boat, which after twilight had ventured in sight of the shore and the farm home, and the governor quiet- ly made his way to the river in safety \Vhen he rejoined his father in a secure home. he named his infant daughter, which had been born in his absence, “ Hutty Mur- vin,” that he might be daily reminded of the little cousin whose truth and shrewd- ness saved his life. Meanwhile the huntericlim lay safe and quiet where the simple shrewdness of the cousin had hidden him, until the time came for her to return to her supper. Then he bade her go as usual to herhome, telling her to ask her mother to place the signal lump, as soon as it grew (lurk, in the Window for the boatmen, and to send him there some supper, with his valise, which, in the hurry of departure, he left behind. Now the governor had arranged a signal with his hoatman that a. white cloth by day or a red light by night, displayed from the attic window of his hiding-place, which was just visible at the mouth of the river, should inform them if he were 1 l trouble and to put them on the alert to help him. As soon, therefore, as he started from his cousins the signal floated from the window to warn them ; and when they saw the pursuing party rush madly down the road to the river and recognized the British uniform of the leader, they pulled swiftly out to sea. The horsemen reached the shore only to see the boat with two men in it nearly out of sight, and supposing their destined prey had es- caped, relinquished the pursuit. wanted, and pushed rapidly on down to the river. KILLED AND ROBBED. DETAILS OF THE CRIME The alarm little girl informed her teacher another day that there was going to be “ something the matter” with her big sister Bella. “ No, maTafn; its only going to be my birihday, mqfarp.” A _ “ I suppose it’s going to be her birthday, too, is it ‘2” asked the teacher laughingly. “ N0, ma’am ; it’s worse than that,” was the reply ; “ she’s going to get married.” HatLtié {ms lamellting begause her baby sister was not; a. little boy ; but one day she , came to her with a most hopeful face, and l said chegrily : “ Well, filamma, like as not baby sister will be a. boy when he grows up ; don’t you think so ‘3” Three Children Stories. “ Sa-a-y, teacher, there’s goin’ to be some thing the matter of me to-morrow,” drawled out a. quaint little miss of 5 years to her teacher. “ Indeed,” said the teacher ; “ nothing sezjiogs I hope, Nannie ?_” 10. When engaged in prolonged study, if the eyes become’painful, rest them frequent- ly by looking at distant objects. i \VEAK Nnnvns IN THE YOUNG. Nervous prostration has become one of the prct‘aiiing diseases of the day. Especi- ally are young girls, who ought not to know that they have any nerves, the helpless Vic- tims of it. \Vliy is this? It used not so to be. Before the piano supplanted the spinning wheel young ladies did not need to be sent away from home to recuperate their nervous energies. Have they less physical stamina than their grandmothers? Or is there something in the busy, hurrying life of to-day which wears disastrously upon the nerves, exhausting them long before their time. \Vhen we think what is expected of school girls now it does not seem so strange that many droop by the way. Read the list of studies pursued in our best schools, which it is expected will be mastered, or rather “gone through with” in a specified time. History, Literature, Art, Science, Langu- ages, Music, Painting, Dancing, ctc.,â€"the sum is appalling. A recitation required 'in ' nearly every division of the school hours, i I -girls should attempt to * ologies. making necessary either practice or study nearly every how at home. No wonder the poor girl's nerves are prostrated before she leaves the school room. She cannot think, she has no time for it; she cannot sleep, the Whirl of the tired brain will not stop long enough. It is not necessary that master all the A thorough knowledge of a few - things is better than a mere snnttering of all the siences. A vast amount of money and of nerve power is wasted in trying to gain a knowledge of music, when nature has not bestowed an ear for it, and the fashion- able craze for painting, embroidery, crochet work, and hammered brass, which has filled our houses with so called ornaments unlike anything in heaven above or earth beneath, is responsible for many exhausted nerve centres, and faces fun-owed, but not by age. A few such cases, or cases Occurring only among mature woman who are worn by in- cessant cares need not excite alarm. But such premature old age among the young, and of such frequent occurrence that two or ; three hospitals near Boston receive no other patients than those suffering from it, may well give us pause. INl-‘LAMMATION or THE JOINTS. Arthritis means inflammation of the joints; rheumatoid, resembling rheumatism. Flint thinks the disease is not of the nature of rheumatism. It is that form of inflammao tion which, in extreme cases and in its later ‘ effects, distorts the limbs, renders more or 1 less of the joints immovable, and shrivels the , neighborin muscles. There are few more pitiable sights than some such patients. It ; is sometimes called arthritis deformans (dis- ; figuring). \Vc condense the views on the} subject of an eminent writer in the Lancet. 1 9. Do not read small print in street or railroad cars While in motion. V7. Never read nor Write before breakfast, by candle-light nor gas-light to weariness, 8. Never play tricks with the eyes, as squinting or rolling them. 6. Hold the book from Which you read from 12 to 15 inches from your eyes, and keep the page perpendicular to the line of sight. In the front rank among internal remedies is cod-liver oil, with pancreative, begun in small quantities, and rapidly increased to half a pint a. week, and continued for months, perhaps for years. It should be omitted in the middle of the summer. The advice of an experienced physician should be sought at the beginning of the disease. To PRESERVE THE SIGHT. ‘ 1. Do not read or sew with insufficient light. ‘2. Never read nor study with light com- ing directly from the front. 3. Never read or sew in the twilight. 4. Never read nor work in a steeping postureâ€"sit erect. 5. Never read when lying downâ€"this is very trying to the eyes. A joint once diseased is incurable. The only hope of arresting the disease is in treatâ€" ing it early. And this hope is e good'one, if the surroundings are favorable, and friends and nurses intelligently cooperative with the physician. The local treatment consists mainly in the wise use of counter-irritants. These should not be of the violent, but of the slow and quiet, kind. The joints most used in one’s occupation are generally the ones attacked first. Since the joints are numerous, the disease, if driven from one point, may retreat to an- other not far away. Among the best counter-irritants is lxot water, immersing the body in it, or shower- ing the affected part with it. Shampooing, stroking the joints, and kneading the neigh- boring musolcs, are also of great value. ,1:,, The first thing noticed, generally, is a pain in the wrist ; the hand looks thicker when held sideways, and cannot be easily closed ; or there is tenderness and tightness in the palm ; or there is pain in the hollow of the foot, or in the instep, when going up or down stairs, followed by a swelling of the ankle and increasing difficulty in walking. There is pufiiness above and around the ankle, with growing lameness and weakness in the limb. The disease may then change to an upper limb, crippling successively fingers, wrists and elbows. It is always preceded by a period of de- fective nerve tone. In many cases the family history shows traces of tubercular disease. Excessive anxiety and exhaustion are among exciting causes. The early symptoms are subtle, and easily confounded with other diseases. HEALTH. First Farmerâ€"“ You say you can’t take forty dollars for that cow?” Second Farmer~“ Can’t do it.” “ But yesterday you told me you’d sell her for forty dollars.” “I know I did, but I’ll have to back out.” “ VVhat’s the matter ‘2” “You see that cow belongs to my wife, and she says she will sob herself into hyâ€" sterics if I sell her. It would break her heart.” . “ All rightâ€"it’s no trade.” (I I say.” “ Well, what is it '2” “ Make it forty-five dollars, and we’ll let her sob.” The curious and little understood cere- monies of the duk-duk are extensively per- formed in New Britain and the neighboring Duke of York group. One thing about them is certain, and that is, that those who are initiated into the mysteries obtain consider- able influence over the rest of their tribes- men. There is another very remarkable custom, about which I was given information by the Rev. Mr. Rooney, of the Wesleyan Mission, which labors in this part of Mel- anesia. It may be described as follows : IfAinjures B, B burns down C’s hut, or makes a hole in his canoe, or sticks a spear in the pathway so that C is nearly sure to run against it. B lets C know that he has injured him, and the reason of it, when 0 is expected to settle the account with A, the first aggressor. On the Whole, the New Britain people are the least attractive of all Melanesians whom I know. They are very dirty, and do not possess the skill in fashion- ing pottery, or carving wooden bowls, of their neighbors in the Solomons and the Admiralty Island. New Britain is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. The contours of the lofty mountains are very graceful, and the variety of tints of the rich tropical verdure is as attractive as it is unusual. The dense foliage is interspersed with patches of grass of an emerald hue. At Matupl in Blanche Bay there is an active volcano, a curious volcanic island, and a. region of hot springs. I traveled by land once from Nodup to Blanche Bay, and the heat and fatigue were more than compensated by the beauty and varied character of the scenery travers- ed. .The New Britain people go entirely naked. They are not a line race, and want the activity and vigor of the Solomon-Islan- ders. Foreigners have introduced a good many fire-arms among the inhabitants of Blanche Bay and Kambeirah, but as a rule the spear, usually adorned with brightly colored feathers is their Weapon. They build good houses and make excellent nets and ingenious fishing-baskets. They are the only cannibals I know who are not ashamed of their fondness for human flesh. A German settler told me that overtures were made to him to arrange the purchase of the body of a man who had been acciden- tally killed by a neighboring tribe with whom the would-be buyers were not friend- ly. The reason given wasadesire to eat what otherwise might be wasted in a com- mon place interment. ARE EXHAUSTLESS IN SUPPLY. The coal is estimated at five to nine millions of tons underlying each square mile, and specimens taken from all parts of the mea- sures show 4-0 to 56 p-r ant. and often more of fixed carbon. '1 hese seams have been carefully examined, however, only in the districts mentioned, and are known to extend farther northward along the bases of the Rockies, but how far has not yet been accu- rately ascertained. \Vithin the rookies there are also extensive coal measures, working having already begun at Banif. This, with the valuable deposits of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, has already been fully described. It will be seen that this exten- sive region, no matter how populous it may hereafter become, will not lack an ample supply of fuel. Correspondence of Lon on Times. on the Peace River, analyzing 71 per cent. fixed carbon; also at Edmonton. 200 miles north of the railway, analyzing 55 per cent ; and on the Arthabaska river, 51 to 54 per cent. The most extensive coal measures however, are on the BOW and Belly rivers, which unite to form the South Saskatche- wan, and it is in the latter that the well known Galt coals are produced at Leth- bridge. The coal seam is seen on the banks of both rivers at varying heights for many miles. The outcrop is known to extend from St. Mary river to the south westward of Lethbridge, for fully 70 miles across and along both the other rivers, and appears on the line of the Canadian Pacific near the Blackfeet Indian reservation. These are the most valuable Canadian coal deposits of the Northwest and those of the Snatz Teplitz basin of Bohemia. These lignite deposits also extend to the region of the Cypress Hills to the westward. The Canadian Pacific railway crosses the South Saskatchewan river at hiedieine Hat, 660 miles west. of \Vinnipeg. Above this at every bend of the river for some 30 miles a coal seam is exposed, and at several openings abettcr lignite than that of the Souris region is obtained, which produces 48!; to 50 per cent. of fixed carbon, and has come into considerable use. As we go west towards the bases of the mountains, the character of the deposits improves. There are extensive and Abundance, of Fuel for the Seltlcr nnd the Manufacturer. A necessary adjunct to successful settle- m 11: inn mw country is limp 1 e1. At present, wood burningr is gencially the haLit of the new country, lut, as l have from time to time indicated, those sectirtns re- cently opened by the railway are e :tcusive~ ly umlerlaid by good coals, of which the Gait coals, from lACthlJYillgC, N. V'. T., are now mainly used in the prairie region, and the Nanaimo coals, from Vancouver island, on the Pacific coast. I am indel 1: xi to Pro‘ fessor George M. Dawson, of the Dominion z‘cological Survey, for some notes on this subject, from which is extracted a brief summary, suilicicnt for the present purpose. Gilliable lignite deposits are found on the Souris River, which empties into the As- siniboine river in Manitoba, and also in the Turtle Mountain country on the border. Analyses give about. 41per cent. of fixed carbon, and these fuels, while inferior to the coals found nearer the Rockies, have a local value, and COAL IN THE NORTHWEST. New Britain and Its People. ARE SAN) T0 CLOSELY RESEMBLE AS YET USVVORKED DEPOSITS Let Her Sob. Thomas Quinn, an employee of the Erie Railway, lived with his family in a. house that stood a few rods from the track of the Jefferson Branch of the Erie, near Carbon- dale. The track is laid on a heavy grade at that portion of the road. The other day a. train of empty coal cars broke in two while going up the grade. The detached portion ran swiftly back down the incline. \Vhile going at a high rate of speed the cars jump. ed the track near Quinn’s house, and dash- ed directly towards it. Mrs. Quinn was at. work in the kitchen. Her three children were playing in a. room on the floor above. The runaway cars struck the house near the centre and went straight through it, missing Mrs. Quinn by but a few inches and luring- ing the house in ruins about her. Her three children tumbled down from the upper story to the ground floor with the debris and with their mother was held fast in the ruins. The strangely imprisioned family was soon extricated from the wreck and not one of them had received as much as a. scratch. The runaway cars kept on their course for a hundred yards or more, demo- lishing three outhouses, till they brought up against a. high bank and piled up on one an. other in a. most complete wreck. An anti-comfortable crusade might well be started, by some woman who loves her kind, and who knows, like the writer, What instruments of disease and death they may become. Even if this extremity be not reached, they are never tolerable after the first season, and it is far better to begin with a determination that blankets shall be sub- stituted for them. Even a dirty blanket is far more tolerable than a. dirty comfortable, for blankets are porous and allow the air to penetrate. Every wearer of \VOOll n cloth, in whatc‘ er fl r11, km w; that the l )osely woven fabrics are the warmest, this arising from the fact that air is held in the meshes and becomes a, medium of warmth. One blanket of pure wool, no matter how coarse its quality, has more warmth producing power than a. four-pound comfortable, yet, because the feeling of weight is lacking, there is immediate outcry that it is cold. Two blankets and a light comfortable will furnish a bed amply, and the lessened weight will mean quieter sleep of a. far more refresh- ing quality than any to l e had under ten or tWelve pounds of cotton. Blankets can be washed or steam-cleansed, and if children’s beds are in question, soft gray or blue blankets may well replace white, which is soiled in aweek of such experiments as most children indulge in with the bedclothes, which are often tents by day as well as cov- ering by night. Gilanvtcdrut once, that the first expense per bed will be far greater ; but having ad- mitted this fact, offset it by the remembrance that health, as well as comfort, is in question. A third of our lives is given to sleep, yet very few people understand What constitutes a. healthful as well as a comfortable bed, or how essential it is to secure both. Blankets have never been so reasonable in price as now. They are quite within the means of even those of very limited incomes, and if not, a little investigation will disclose the fact that enough money has been spent on cheap bric-a-brac, to have bought certainly one pair, and probably half a dozen, at present prices. Have the comfortables if you must, but, I pray you, let blankets have chief place, and tell me, when a year has passed, if you are not a thorough con- vert to their superior comfort, as well as the fact that weight and warmth never have been and nevercan be one and the same. The fact is, that no civilized hedrooxn should contain an article of bedding which cannot he washed or otherwise thoroughly cleansed, and herein lies the chief objection to either comfortable 01' quilt in which the cotton is firmly fastened down. Cotton abn sorbs and holds the lmdily exhalations, but unhappily, when washed, loses its lightness, and becomes a. species of let made up of knots and strings; The economiele house~ keeper, therefore, uses henzinc to remove any soil on that portion drawn about the neck, or, if matters are too serious for such method, re covers the whole, finding this prefe ‘ahle to cutting the numberless knots of a. tied comfortable. The outside of the platter is fair to View, but what is there within? Concentrated uncleanliness, im- prisoned disease, portable malaria, warrant- ed to add its quote. to the contributions from sewer-pipes or imperfect drainage, and to insure necessity for a doctor’s visit at least once during the season. 1 .v. n VVINTER BEDDISG. There is one popular delusionâ€"popular, in so far as it is common to all womankindâ€" that weight and warmth are synonynous, and that bed-covering which lacks weight must necessarily luck comfort. The house keeper, as winter approaches, turns over her stock of comfortables, which have either been in a. dark closetall summer, or, it may he, remained between two mattresses ; either method insuring the musty fustiuess that is the characteristic of most comfort- ables. The dark closut method is distinctly preferable, if the comfortable has been thoroughly sunned before it was laid away, and is thoroughly sunned again before its winter’s mission hegins. But the whole question of winter bedding, as it stands in the housekeepers mind, requires reconstruc- tion, beginning with the fallacy already mentioned, that weight means warmth. A well-made comfortable, where the best quality of both cotton and covering have been used, has its rightful place in the house~ hold economy. Such a comfortable should be two yards and a quarter in length, or even two yards and a third, that a generous por~ tion may be tucked in at the bottom, nor should it be less than two yards in width for the culinary bed. Three pounds of the best cotton may fill it; five are often used, but, three are ample, and this cotton, evenly and lightly laid on one surface of the covering, is caught in securely Vi hen the upper cover is laid on, either by hand or by machine quilting, or by ” tying ” at fixed intervals with worsted or yarn of contrasting colors. Such a. comfortable, for the ordinary double bed, requires thirteen and a half yards of common calico, or twelve and a half of yard- wide material. Calico may he had for five cents a yard, and the best cotton at twenty cents a pound, the article, exclusive of labor, being thus worth $1.40. Anything but the best cotton is filled with cotton-seed, and has thus, necessarily, the strong smell of cottonseed oil. Add this defect of natural constitution to the acquired unpleasantness of an unaired mom, or longr use, and it is, small wonder that a sensith e nose sullers, and that housekeepers wonder why bedrooms; seem stuffy. Freaks of :1 Runaway Train. HOUSEHOLD.