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He entered the service some 15 years after Mr. Midshipman Easy and Peter Simple, yet his experiences were very simi- lar to theirs. He should have had the countenance of an aristocratic cousin who gave him a lift to their ship on the box of a travelling chariot. But, once aboard, he was hustled down the gangway tea dark and noisomc den, where half a dozen “mates” were washng down mouldy bis- cuits with rum and water. There was no room even for the small snpernnmary in “the heastly hole,” so he had tea, with hreadand butter, on a chest outside. He met his emptain on the deck next morning, who ordered his boat’s crew to he put in irons, as a preliminary to being flogged all round, because the delay of one of the hands had kept him waitngr for a couple of minutes. The boy’s strongr sympathy with the sufferers took a personal turn very speedily. “I helieve I cried, or got into somebody’s way, or did something to vex the tyrant.” At any ‘ate he was summarily ordered to the masthead. There 'as a heavy sz-a running; the ship washeeling over. He was so -siel< and in mortal terror when he had to climb for the first time. He never reached the dizzy iiiastlieadâ€".t friendly sailor was flogged for giving:r him a liftâ€"hemamrgcd toget a little above the maintop, where terror seemed to give him preseneeofinind to hold on; and when at last he received permission to come down he fainted and forgot his miseries till he woke up in his hammock. He gives sundry examples of the eaprices and tyranny of captains who were backed by powerful conâ€" nexions ; and it is characteristic of his in- dependence that when the ship was paid off he declined the offer of a return-seat in his master’s t‘avelling carriage. “I re- plied that I would rather crawl home on my hands and knees, and so ended our acquaintance. ”â€"London Times. A few oyster shells, mixed with the coal usedfu' a furnace or large stow, will of- fectually prevent the accumulation of clink- Usea cement; made of ashes, salt and water for cracks in stoves. Fora polish to clean up and brighten old furniture, pianos.I ete., dissolve four onuces orange shellac in one quart of 95 per cent. alcohol ; to this add oncquart of linseed oil, and one pint turpentine ; when mixed add four ounces of sulphuric ether, and four ounces aqua ammonia ; mix thoroughly and and well before using. Apply with a cloth or sponge and rub the snrlaee to which it is applied until the polish appears. Hobart Pasha’s Apprenticeship. Small families often complain that they cannot have good roast beef because they are obliged to buy such small pieces, and it come: upon the table dry and overdone. To prevent this the smaller the piece to be roasted the higher the temperature to which its surface should be exposotl. It should be crusted, or browned, as quickly as possi- ble, so that the juices within shall be held there under high pressure, and only be al- lowed to escape by bursts and sputters rather than by steady evaporation. No more fuel need be consumed, since it would take a. shorter time to cook. Glass. Clean with a. qua t of water mix- ed with a. tablespoon of ammonia. Rice. Select large, with a. clear, fresh look ; old rice may have insects. It may not be generally known that if the saucepan in which milk is to be boiled be first moistened with water, it will prevent the milk from burning. The human system consists of fifteen ele- ments, all of which are found in common Wheat. But the flour of commerce is depriv- ed in a large degree of twelve of these ele- ments. An improvement in making flour is evidently needed. Always hang a broom up when not in use. Put an ordinary, small-sized screw- eye in the end of the handle if no better way suggests itself. A few drops of ammonia in hard water will not only soften it but will remove dirt better than soap. It is always a good article to use when bathing the person, and the water in which it is diluted makes an excel- lent stimulant to house and other plants. Cranberries. Keep under water in the cellar ; change water monthly. Dish of hot water set in oven prevents ctkes. etc., from scorching. Flour. Keep cool, dry, and scarcely cov~ ered. . Herbs. Gather when beginning to blos 30111, and keep in paper sucks. Ink Stands. \Vet with spirits of turpen- tine ; after three hours, rub well. Nutmegs. Prick with apin, and if good, oil will run out. Orange and lemon peel, dry, pound and keep in cracked bottlcs‘ Parsnips, Keep in g round until spring. Quicksilver and white of an egg destroys bedbuqs. \Vatch ybur back yard; keep it clear from dirt and bones. Xantippe was a scold. Don’t imitate her. Youth is best preserved by a cheernt tunper. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. It may not be generally known that cold food is more easily kept on a sensitive stomach than hot ; so in cases where it is rejected in the ordinary warm or hot form, it had better be tried as nearly frozen as can be taken. In many fevers this would be a. (chided advantage. The prejudice against cold food is, perhaps, natural, but we carry it too far. Milk may be administered in a frozen state, olten with positive advantage. Apples. Keep in a. dry place, as cool as possible without freezing, Jars. To prevent, coax husband to subâ€" scribe for this paper. Keep an account of all supplies, with cost and date when purchased. Love lightens labor. Money, Count carefully when you re- ceive change. Tea. Equal parts of Japan and Green are as good as English Breakfast. Economize time, health and means, and you Wilx never beg. Brooms. Hang in the cellar-way to keep soft and pliant. Zinc-lined sinks are better than wooden ones. Sggar. For genaml funily use, granulat- ed 15 the best. HOUSEKEEPER’S ALPHABET. HOUSEHOLD ”‘ Ifcavy Tragedian at hotel: PRITIIEE, LANDLORD, DWELLS THERE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THIS IIAMLET A MACHINXS’I‘? ,Lmzdlord: A MACHINIST? YES, SIR. ng.: THEN TAKE T0 IIIM THIS BIRD 0F MANY SPRINGS. BID HIM WRENCH ASITNDER THESE IRON LIMBS, AND THEN, EOIC'OUR REGALEMENT, To CHISEL SLICES FROM ITS UNYIELDING BOSOM, FOR WE WOULD DINE ANON.~AND, PRAY, YOU, DO IT;QUICKLY. YON PEASE YOU NEED NOT CARRY; FOR. THOSE, WITH DEXT‘EOUS MANAGEMENT, WE CAN SWALLOW WIIOLE.‘”AWAY ! For twenty years Josiah Brineard of Spring City, Pa", who was 2L private in the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania. volunteers, has been flying to secure a pension. He needed it, for he has been totally blind since the war, and for fifteen yeM's his legs have been pmmlyzed. Now, through the efforts of neighbors, his pension hm; been allowed, and Within a. few days the veteran will re- ceive nearly $10,000. George W. Carley of Detroit has ocea- sionally severe pains in his stomach, with curious swellings and bunches. He insists that they are caused by a. lizard which he swallowed in some water from the Chat- tahooehee River in Georgia when his regi- ment, the nineteenth Ohio, crossed it in 1864:. A tremendous; appetite and constant thirst are among the symptoms which Carley thinks are due to the lizard. The doctors think that imagination hws more to do with the case than anything else. At a recent tern: of court at Pulaski, Gm, John Stripling, a white man was tried for shooting a, colored man. When the jury went out Stripling, who was under bond, became frightened lest he should be con- victed, and so jumped on his horse and fled. The verdict was “not guilty.” The next day the Sheriff received a letter from Strip- ling, saying that if he was acquitted it was all right; if he was convicted it made no difference, for he had the start. During the war William Knapp deserted from the first United States (szalry and was never captured. In due time he set- tled with his family at Grovetown, Ind, Frank Grove, hunting deer on Blue filmm- tain, CaL, saw one pass over a ridge. He hurried up, and looking down the slope and seeing what he thought was a. deer, fired, and put a bullet through the leg of a miner who was stooping over, shovelling. Henry Gualtney dug into amouud. new: \Vakullzi, Fla, recently, and found :5 skull that must have belonged to a. giant. The under jaw was particularly large, being twice the size of an ordinary man’s, and none of the teeth was missing from either jaw, and but one showed any signs of decay. A young man of 20, one of a. party of hunâ€" tors in Colorado, left camp to go out to set a bear trap. He did not return in due time and search was made for him. It was six days before he was found, and then it was seen that in setting the trap both hands had been caught in It, and thus he had been held until he was frozen to death. \Vhile Bertha Cook was attending to an old woman who had long been bedridden with paralysis, her clothes caught fire from the stove. The invalid seeing that Bertha was too scared to help herself, jumped out of bed, wrapped the girl in a blanket, sub» dued the fire, and fainted away. Since then the sick woman has been very much better. A Chicago policeman reports that the other night, while he was chasing a. burglar the fellow suddenly fell as though he had been shut, and lay unconscious bleeding from a. wound on the head made by an icicle that had fallen on him as he Hm. lie was carried to the police station, where his first words were : “ Vthnt do you want to shoot a. follow for ?” He did not know what hit llilll. Mrs. Charles Newton 0f Fergus Falls, Minn., has just added to the population of hat growing State by giving birth to three healthy daughters. Each little girl weighed five pounds and a half. Last summer Roswell Brawn of Mystic, Conn, put: some watermelons in their cellar and one of them was (town-ad u p and forgotten. Just before Christmas; it was discovered in good, condition, and the Brewm ate it on Christmas Day, and enjoyed it. An Iowa railroad conductor who found a. pocketbook containing $250 and hunted up the owner, who proved to be an ancient grunger and his wife, was met with this re- mark from the old lady : “ It was a go yd thing someone seen you pick it up or we never would have got it again.” Ed Avery of Synhzwen, Va., shot a (leer the other day and was steeping over cutting its throat when another (leer, a, big buck, rushed at him from behind. striking him with great force, and knocking him heels over head down a. hill. The buck followed up the attack, and for half an hour mam and deer fought with desperation. Avery succeeded in breaking the buck’s leg, and shortly after his brother came up with a gun and killed the plucky animal. The coming illusion will be the antipodes 0f the Vanishing Lady. Out; of a small egg, which grows gradually larger and larger before the 0sz of the specbat-ors, will be produced a living girl. Within the last twenty years Mr. George \Vashington Childs, A. 181., of Philadelphia, has presented over two hundred big and valuable Bibles to churches, schools, and societies. LATE AMERICAN NEWS. EACH T0 HIS TRADE. lwhere it recently occurred to him to see if he couldn't get some back pay somehow or .other. He wrote to Washington, giving 3 the circumstances of his desertion, and was linformed that he could get no back pay 'until the thiutof dosertion was removed. )Ho accordingly decided to go to Chicago mud surrender himself, believing that he ]would he released without much trouble Iowing to the length of time which had {elapsed sinw his descrtion. He is now in the county jail awaiting the action of the l “'ar Department. A marriage will take place between Mlle. MacMahon, the only (laughter of the ex» President Marshal, Duke of Magenta, and the Count de l’iennes, whose father was in the ex-imperial household. The younglady has been bred in ruml life, in a. lurg ‘ ' 11d happy family circle. ‘ As before remarked, the ventilation of the tunnel is little short of perfr'ct. During the construction of the work a fen LS‘ feet in (li- zmietor, dim-hanging 60,000 ouhie feet of air per minute, was used. This has now been replaced by a. fun 40 foot in (liameter and l2 feet wide, made on the same principle as those used at the Mersey and a portion of the Metropolitan tunnels. The tunnel is ‘26 feet wide and ‘20 feet high from the double line of mils to the crown of the arch inside the brickwork. Tho rails are l:vill on long,- itndinal sleepers. The tunnel has been lin- ed throughout with vitrified bricks set in cement, and no less than 75,000,000 bricks have been used in this work. This vitrified brick wall has a. thickness of 3 feet in the crown of the arch beneath the “ shoots," but as the tunnel rises from this lowest point on a gradient one in 90 one way and one in 100 toward the Gloucestershire side, this thickness is gradually reduced to 2 feet 3 inches. The total length of the Severn Tunnel is 4 miles 624 yards. The St. (lothard Tun» nel is 9!; miles, Mont Uenis Tunnel 7; miles, Arlberg Tunnel (Austria) 6% miles ; there is a, tunnel in Massachusetts 44% miles ; the Staxulege Tunnel, on the London and North- western, is 3 miles long, and the Box Tun- nel rather less. But the special feature of the Severn Tunnel lies in the fact that 2;} miles of it have been constructed from 45 feet to 100 feet below the bed of a rapidly- flowing tidal estuary, offering engineering difficulties which make it the most remark~ able tunnel in the world. A Boston small (log whose lines had in- deed fallen in pleasant places has just died. He wore delicate napkins at his meals with his name embroidered in the centre. He was put to sleep in a crib, with neatly furs for his bed and r. covcrlet oi the finest Wool wrapped him about. Over his sleeping prison was drawn a cmmterpane of figured silk. \Vhen he took an airing it was always from the seat 0? a. carriage, and the caach~ man has (lriven him out alone when by Chance no members of the le‘llily were ready to accompany him. It in said that since his death his former home h'LS h ‘en in mourning. Visiting,V friends of the fzunily have been given in understand that the family would prefer that all calls should be omitted for the present. Any allusion to the dog in the presei'me of his mistress 0c- czisiona a. flood of tears, and the attending physician has rigidly prohibited any men- tion of the name or fate of the pet. A suit- able memorial will soon be erected to his memory. The First Train dines Through she Severn Tunnel, 2 1-»! Miles [utter the 00mm. The first passenger trains passed through the gigantic tube linking the shores of Mon- mouthshire and Gloucestershire the other morning. Before those on board quite know where they were a. shrill whistle, a sudden darkeningâ€"for it was now nearly broad daylightiand “ \Ve are in 1” told them they were “ in” and rushingr down a. clearly per- ceptible decline toward a point a hundred feet below the bed of the broad estuary. In a trice watches were out and windows down, the first to keep time, the other to test the ventilation. The inrnsh of the icy cold air, as clear and pure as the trip across was being made in the old wayâ€"over in- stead of under the Channelâ€"«honed thelat- tor was all right. The submarine journey â€"â€"if such it may be calledâ€"proved to be more like a run through a pretty deep cut- ting than through a tunnel four and a. quar- ter miles long. Four about three minutes and a half after entering there was no mis- taking the fact that a. sharp gradient was being descended, then a. momentary rumble as the train passed over the curve of the arc ~for the tube dips in the centreâ€"and then the locomotive, at an ever-decreasing speed, climbed the opposite gradient, to emerge once more into daylight in 8 minutes 49 seconds. BAILEOAkBNG WEBER THE SEA. VENTILATION OF THE TUNNEL. OTHER GREAT TUNNELS. The early Friends refused to bow or to take ()if their hats to anyone, justifying this by the plea that it would he an acknow- ledgment of superiority, whereas God had made all men equal. In this there was con- siderable reason. As a matter of fact, the sect by no means neglected to give honor where honor was due, only they showed it by tangible actions rather than lip service. Thus, when Fox called on Cromwell, he scrupulously kept his hth on his head, though both by word and not he showed the Protector that he respected his office. In stead of being offended Cromwell remarked: “ Now I know there is a people risen that I cannot buy either with gifts, honors, ofliees, or place, but all other sects and people I can.” Nor was bharles 11., with all his faults, offended when Edward Borrough, with scant courtesy, went to him to com- plain of the persecution the Quakers were undergoing in New England. Mrs. Malcolm who (lied recently in her eighty-seventh year, was one of the last links with the old society of the reigns of George IV. and \Vllliam IV., in which she was a popular and prominent personage. She was a favorite daughter of Archbishop Vernon Harcourt, a. very clever woman and a great favorite with Sydney Smith, and be came one of his principal correspondents. Many of his letters to “ Dear Georgiana” are published in his correspondence, and there is ample proof in them of the high re- gard which he entertained for her. The last letter he ever wrote was addressed to her. The lady who writes under the name of John Strange. Winter, author of Iioutle’s Baby, is :L Mrs. SLannard. She is said to be a direct dewemhmt of the celebrated Han- nth Prichurd, whose monument is in West- minster Abbey, dose to that of Shakespeare. Mrs. Jared Crandall, one of the three women who have charge of Government light-houses, is stationed at \Vateh Hill, R. I. Her husband formerly kept the light- house. Her husband is connected with the tower. She cleans the immense lenses of the light during the day ; at sundown she lights the lamp ; at sunrise she mounts the spiral steps and puts it out. She receives $600 a. year salary, and lives rent free. Mme. Boueieant, of the Bon Marehe, Paris, has given her employes, outright, a pension fund of over $00,000,000. This fund is available to all who have been in her service twenty years, provided the men are at least fifty and the women forty-five years old, and not among the shareholders of the establishment. Mine. Boucieant has in addition paid the fee which the state charges on legacies, amounting to nearly $140,000. Madame Anderson, of Stockholm, has been granted by the King the freedom of the railways of that, country, in recognition of her finpm‘mnt missionary labors in the cause of temperance and social purity. The PIX-Empress Eugenie has succeeded her intention of building at Furnborough a superb monument to serve as a memorial of her husband and son. A magnificent; church now crowns the heights of Furnborough. Prof. Thurston says when a drop of oil is placed upon the surface of water it first rapidly spreads in all directions, forming a film of exceeding tenunity, and affecting the waves as ifa. sheet or carpet of thin, flexible, elastic and yet tenacious substance, like rub- ber, had been spread over the waves} {NE Princess Theres- , daughter of the Prince Regent 0' Bavaria, has published a volumin- ous work about; Russia and its people, and the autlmress is about to write u similar work concerning England. Queen Victoria has created a. new naval and military order for “ rewarding individ- ual instances of meritorious and distinguishâ€" ed services in war.” It is to be called the “ Uisti:i.{uished Service Order,” and to con- sist of the sovereign and such members as she shall appoint. News is received of the decease after a painful illnens, of Mr. Bramley Moore who lived at Rio .lunerio in 1828 and entertained at his home there many of Fitzroy’s officers of the “ Beagle and OAdventuror” expedi- tion on their return from the Straits of Mes- gellan. In l835 he returned to England, settled at Liverpool, and established that city's great system of docks. The great glacier of Alaska is moving at rate of one-fourth of a mile per annum toâ€" ward the sea. The front presents a wall of ice five hundred feet thick Almost every quarter of an hour hundreds of tons of ice, in large bleeks, fall into the sea, which they agitate in a violent manner. California has the youngest telegraph operator, it is believed, in this country. She is Miss Nellie \Velch, eleven Wars of age, and she has full charge of the office at Point Arena. MEN AND W'OMEN. Fox um! Cromwell. The Love and Respect of Chil- dren. If mothers could only realize what a criti cal period their children are passing through from the third to the sixth year, they would exercise more than ordinary care during that time. Not only physically, but men- tally and morally they are undergoing a change for better or worse, according to the care and attention they receive from their mothers and fathers. A father is no more exempt from certain duties toward his offâ€" spring than a mother. llc should always hear in mind that his assistance in the con- trol of the children is of more value to his tired wife than the presentation to her of a. costly gilt. lt is at this time that children begin to no cc p'ipa's and mamma’s hearing towards one another ; let this always be one of perfect courtesy and respect. Nothing so quickly destroys rmpect for parents as constant bickering in the presence of their children. The first thing,r a child should he taught is respect for his parents and elders; all‘cction comes naturally with most children, and is the: most Valuable aid in gaining e011â€" trol of their actions ; next to that is respect, without it Very little can be accomplished for the child‘s welfare. l’arcnts should hear this in mind that children lose respect very soon upon hearing them disagree ; using hitter, cutting words to each other. This is inflicting the first actual pain these baby hearts have been called upon to hear. In the presence of this the child experiences conflicting emotions, which ends in pity for one parent and contempt for the other. 0 parent, pause, consider before you lose this hold on the little being who has heretofore considered you perfect. Let there be unan- imity of purpose in act; word and deed be- fore these little creatures, who are so suscep» tible to every new impression if you would preserve their love and respect. He says, “For this hint I am indebted to the intelligence of a patient. I had, as usual, forbidden fish, and explained my reasons. I was told that fish steamed, as was done in that house, was tender, and never disagreed with the patient, but was partaken of with re 1in and benefit. I got a steamer for myself, have since recommend- ed this plan of cookery to my patients, and have had satisfactory results. Dieting is the half, and sometimes the best half, of inedica’. treatment ; and perhaps, a little to my chagrin, 1 iind that this system of pre- paring Lth has been specially recommended by various schools of cookery,” LET IN This Goon Doerons. The time is now here when people will try to economize fuel at the expense of their bodies. The cracks in the domsand win- (lows will be carefully sto} pod up, and every whiff of the free air of Heaven will come in uhder protest. \Ve pay some attention to thopurity of the food \veeat, although we take it but three times a day, but wegivebut little attention to the quality of the air we are constantly taking into our system every minute of the day and night. It is a un- doubted fact that more disease is engendered by breathing polluLcd air than by eating unwholesome food. Either through ignorr once or false notions, sleeping apartments are so arranged as to shut out air and sun- light, and the consequence is, the occupants take into their lungs vitiated air which im- poverishcs the blood and debilitasz the sys» tem. Every bednoen s'i'mld have the purify- ing influences of the sun and air, and when a sleeping room has a bad ov'lor in the morn- ing, it is a ccmain indication that some- thing is wrong. Knock out a pane of glass if necessary, and punch a hole through the roof to cst'tblish a circulaiion. You cannot afford to breathe bad air any more than you can aflord to eat tainted food. It may be cheaper, just as decayed vegetables may be cheaper, but it won't pay when you take into consideration the bills of the doctor, druggist and undertaker. Don’t hermetical- ly seal your rooms so that no breath oi air nor ray of sunshine can penetrate it, and don’t go to the other extreme by turning your house into a sawnnill, but have it warm, comfoi table and wholesome. The Rmnn soldiers, who built such won» derful 1‘ mils and can 10d a Weight of armor and luggage that would crush the. average farm hand, lived on coarse brown bread and sour wine. They wele temperate in diet, nd regular and constant in exercise. The panish peasant works every day and dances half the night, yet eats only his black bread, onion and watermelon. The Smyr- na porter eths only a little fruit and some olives, yet he walks ofl" with his load of 800 pounds. The uoolie, fed on rice, is more active and can endure more than the negro fed on th: meat. The heavy work of the world is not (lone by men who eat the great- est quantity. Moderation in diet seems to be the prerequisite of endurance. 1 Fish is cheap. It furnishes to most pcople an agreeable change with meat. Salted and dried, it is in season at any time of the year, and can be exported to regions when: fresh fish is unknown, or rare. But, in the matter of diet, we need always to plan for weak stomachs. There is a. difâ€" ference of digestibility in fish. Some con- tain a la) ge pruportion of oil, and are there» fore of mm e Ya; no to such as cam digest them. Others are cmupzu‘zitivcly f1 m: from oil. There is much difference also in the muscular fibre of fish, which in some is shurt and tender. Salt fish is more diilicult of diges- tion than fresh. It is acommon beiief that fish is a very good dish for the sick, when convulescing. But a Writer in the Lunret has found cases frequently occurring in his practice in which a. dish of it had been followed by dangerous, and chu fatal, rchipses, and he had become accusbumed to restrain ivs use. He after- wards, however, concluded that the sole difficulty was in the cooking. Fish has always, within historical times, been an important article of diet. in some parts of the world it is the staple article of food. The huge shell-heaps in Europe and Americawthe remains of tribal feasts in periods long anterior to written records‘ show how greatly shellfish entered into the diet of aboriginal races. It is held by. some authorities that fish contain elements of special value as food for thg brain, nerves and bones. The manner of cooking fish makes a difâ€" ference in digesnbility. Fish fried in but- ter is e'zrsier of digestion than fish fried in ordinary fat; boiled it is still easier, and steamed it is easier still. hue DIET OF STRONG M FISH AS FOOD. HEALTH.