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Feed turkeys daily enough to induce them to return home regularly at might. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says his experience'in plowing for corn he: been exactly. that of‘Dr.’ Stnrtevan't, given a' few years ago in his prize essay on corn cul- ture. He said: “ My experience has been that rather shallow plowing has never failed to give 9.: good results, nevar poorer, and of- ten better, than deep plowing.” Leg weakness in fowls is the result; of rapid growth, and is best met with animal food and tonics. A little meat or worms should be added to the food every day, and a little tincture of iron dropped in the drink- iugiwaper. ‘Fowls are easily rid of lice by dusting them with Persian insect powder, or dry‘ air slake‘d lime strongly flavored with kero- sene oil. But. if the house is kept, clean, well washed with hot lime wale 91nd. the perches thoroughly soaked with kerosene oil, the fowls will then keep themselves free from all kinds of vermin. Pears left to ripen on theStree are without that delicious, vinous flavor, that rich melt- ing butgno t enjoyable sweetness that be- longe , , t e really well-ripened' pear. If plucked osoon, although they may not be hard, there isa certain greenness of taste and harshness about them entirely different from wall-ripened fruit. , ~ ' Prof, Halstead,of the Iowa agficqlhn'ral, college, tried last reason éome interesting experiments resulting from excluding the llen from squash "and wcueumber flower-3,", 1; had been stated that 'V'various speqie‘s .of, the melon family will 'mnt’lire fruit‘fivhe'fi the female flowers‘dd not reeeh're pollen. Prof. Halstead covered many female floWers before they opened with cloth sacks. The ovaries soon dried up and dropped lofi. ‘ _ An eagerienced‘pOultry-raiser‘advises peo- ple to ‘re’ uce the stock of fowls as ' soon as the year‘s batch is Well provided for, but hold' on to old turkeys and old geese ; they get used to the ways of the farm and are Worth much more as breeders than young ones. Ducks are also good until three years old. A turkey is in her prime at five, a. goose at twenty years of age. Has the farm yielded ‘you any profit with- in the past year? You know it has at least furnished you a. good living~which is more than some other kinds of business have done for their operatorsâ€"but has it not in that time, despite discouragements of season and circumstances, yielded you a return besides? Can you tell, in fact, whether you have made or lost money in the last twelve months? And if you are in doubt about it, is there Bore a. holein a ‘plum tfee, fit a. [plug of hard flood into the hole neatly, .agnd you will have a. good thing to pound with 9. mal- let when you want to knock off curculios; and if you have a. large sheet spread below on the ground, you can catch them as they fall. The farmer often fails of a market be- cause he (1995 not. get his product in proper shafie fo'r “Selling. . He may sometimes com- binermanufa‘cturin‘g with agricultural pro- ducfi‘on to, his advantage, ‘ Feed modera'bely in the mormimg or be- fore work. Parthians and Arabs prepare their horses for hard drives by fasting rather than feasting. More horses are in- jured "‘y hard driving on a full stomach than b. any o‘thw process. fNever let a horse 594: pr drink much when he is hot from wiérk. Study your horse, treat him accor ' to hrs nature, make him your frie 7,~ and he will do better and. aafer wor I Reasonable care should be taken to save all the fruit that cannot be marketed to a good>‘a.dva.ntage. It should be dried qr eva- porabed, made intovcider or vinegar o'r fed out to stock. 3., GARDEN Nous. Cut away flower stalks as soon as they begin to fade, unless seeds are wanted. Use tobacco water for plant lice. At this season of the year they often become trouble- sogne 91nd the best remedy ls ex_termina_tion. We have seen a. pretty rustic seat for a. lawn made of an old stump hauled from the woods, its large roots sawed off even for feet” its tops leVel for, a. seat; ’ ' To give a. horse medicine take a long- necked bottle, raise the horse’s head, thrust the bottle into its mouth, and while the li- quid is running into the throat u‘ub the nose of the bottle vigorously against the roof of the mouth, pretty well back. This done most horses will swallow nicely. Ituis within the reach of. every farmer be breed gooa horses. In fact not many can afford to bmed poor ones. The more poor horses 8. man raises the worse off he is, and there ‘are few who have the capital to run them any length of time. A good, strong, reliable pair of horses .on afarm are worth a. dozen broken-down or crippled plugs. It does not pay to keep a horse that is not able to do a. full day’s Wonk every day -of the week. Don‘t keep a calf tied or shut up in some damp, dark corner, with hardly room enough to lie down. He needs the sunshine as «much as hens orvthevplants in the garden. In England the horns have been bred off of several breeds of sheep by crossing with Sonbhdowns. and thegradea are more satis- iactory in every way (than the original stack. Scocx N 0125. Cattle chew homes because fixhe system needs lime. Good care is hbe farmer's best uhorse and cow doctor. a - Kerosene excaia for softening and clean- ing out the gummed and hardenedvoil in the boxer. of mowers, ureapers and other farm machinery. :Sbeep will 'eat more, be more contented and thrive better on a. new than on an old range. Frequent change of range for them in important at this aeason of the year. 'RAINFALL. I heard an oldinrmer talk one dun; Telling his {listeners how In the great. new countries far away The rainmllztollowa the plow. “ A: fast as they break it up, youoee, And turn thefllasrt to the sunâ€" As they open the furrows. deep andifree, And me tillage is begunâ€"â€" “ The earth grovvs mellow ; and more and more It hoids. and {ends to the sky A moisture it never had before. When its Iaeeawas hard and dry. " And so wherever the plowshares run. The clouds run overhead ; . ‘ And the son-that works, and lets 111 fine sun, With water malways fed." POULTRY. FARM. Speaking of wom‘en's labor, Mr. Pow- derly defined the position of the Order in favor of absolute equality between the sexes, the same pay for the same work, Whether done by m‘an or woman. ' The messengers despatched to inform Emin Pasha. of Stanley’s expedition arrived at Mlisa, on the east shore of Albert Nysnza. at the beginning of May, after hmiing been detained by King Kassiki and King Mings. If they were unable to cross Albert Nyanza it is thought’ ’they must have reached Emin about now. It is stated at Miisa that Emin Pasha. was in the Unijaro district at the beginning of May, being en route for Lake Mutanzige, by way of the Kakibbi River. He was in good health. Mrs. Annie M. Taylor, President of the VVlchiha (Kan‘JYW. C. T. U., has published a. statement showing that the good women who voted at the recent elction in what much slandered town outnumbered the bed women ten to one. She says in conclusion : “ The daughters of the nation have gazed long and sadly at Uncle Sam in his earnest endeavor to keep house with only the help of his sons. The national basket of socks, the laws,‘ are ,much in need of feminine handiwork. daming and refooting, and the women of Kansas have at length secured the bit of yarn which we shall keep unravel- ling till eVery weak and improper law is put in proper shape.” John R. Benson, of \Vinnipeg, Man, has in his possession a. colt with two legs, the forelegs being absent. It has merely scapu- lss, or shoulder blades, in a. rudimentary state. The sternum, or breast bone, is Well developed and prominent. The inferior ex- tremity of the scapulas terminates in a. blunt protuberance, having no cavity in it to re- ceive the head of humerus or other bone. It is very strong on its legs, and williwalk by supporting its chin on your hand. It was fooled in Springfield, about eight miles from Winnipeg, on April 10, and is fat and healthy, with a good appetite. The Nova. Scotia. farmer is as unfortunate as his brother of Ontario this year. Grain in the Eastern province has yielded fairly, but the area under crop is small. The fruit crop is smaller than last year, and the hay crop, which was twenty per cent, below the average last year, is even poorer this year. As a. result of the poor pasturage there is also a marked falling 013‘ in dairy produce. Up west the insufficient return to the agriculturist has been the result of the unfavourable weather: but in Nova Scotia, according to the Secretary of the Agricultural Bureau, the poor crop is at- tributable entirely to the imperfect system of agriculture. Everything is taken off the land, he says, and nothing is returned. V I believe if pgreful and systematic experi- ments were qarried on in tree planting, the fall would be found a better season to plant than in spring; the ground is warm and moist, in the best condition for the forma- tion of roots, the air is moist and there is not the fierce drying winds of early spring, or the liability of a. June or July drouth soon after the tree is plantecL The question when to plant, is an impor- tant one. Some will not plant anything in the fall, others firefer the fall to all other seasons; the majority of planters will, per- haps, elaim that spring is the best season, l for the Largest amount of planting is done at that time, and failure is not attributed so much to the season. Fall planting, how- ever, has strong advocates among experi- enced tree planters, and where a. planter has given that season a. fair trial, his favor- able testimony is, as a. rule secured. How- ever, there is a prejudice against fall plant- ing, and a single failure at that season counts more against it than a dozen in the spring. Trees and shrubs planted early in autumn will push roots before winter, for it is not necessary that the top grow to force root growth, all can prove this by observa- tion. Take up a shrub or tree in November that was planted in August or September, and you will be surprised to see the amount of new and grovirin roots. A fall-planted tree becomes esta lished by this means, and naturally 'is in a. better condition to grow the conning spring. Pommm‘ MAxrm‘..â€"â€"Farmers do not se( m to realize how important it is to save and properly apply poultry droppings. When carefullyv saved, twenty-five pounds Win furnish sixflicient to manure an acre of corn ; producing an effect equal to that of the best commercial fertilizer. Poultry manure is identical «in action with guano, both being very rida-inlammonia, and therefore, power. ful plant stimulants. For this reason it is not safe to«use the droppings without first mixing them with other substances, such as pulverized clay, dry loam, or land plaster. The plan for saving them commonly adopted in New England is a good one. It is to have a platform of boards under the roof, on which they collect, and from which they are gathered daily or weekly and preserved dry in barrels, or bins, until desired for use. The platform should be sprinkled with dry earth each time the droppings are removed. In order to prepare them for use they may be passed through a sieve of quarter-inch mesh, and mixed with two parts of dry earth, or if plaster is used, mix with equal parts of plaster. A handful of this home i made fertilizer applied to a hill of corn or potatoes will giwe it such a send-ofl‘ that the effect will be visible throughout the season. It may be dropped directly on potatoes, but for corn we think it best to spread it on the hill after planting. It is good also for all garden truck, especially for such crops as are to be forced [for early market. Let farmers think of this and see if they cannot reduce their bill for artificial fertilizers, and at the same time obtain a much more reliable article than that which they have been accustomed to buy. any good reason for your uncertainty? Ought you not rather, positivelymo know whether you have advanced or retrograded in the matter of business success?! If you do not know is not your management open to at least severe criticism? Is there any moretcnabie ground for your ignorance of what you have done in the year than for a. similar .ignorance -on the part of rbhe mer- chant or manufacturer respecting mhe out- come of his business? If you do not know how your work has turned out, and are con- vinoeai that you have been losing, you are satisfied that the loss is wholly attributed to dull (Ii-mes and adverse financial conditions? Are these» sufficient explanations for a fail- ure to gain on the Work of the preceding year ? ' The Stanley, Expedition. Crops in Nova Scotia. WHEN T0 TRANSPLANT TREES. Book-Making Belore the Age of Printing. Of course the Chinese wereaheed of Europe. Their chronieles record printing upon silk. or cotton in the century before Christ, paper being attributed to the first century after Christ, It is certain that many hundred years ago they had begun to put writing on trans- l fer-paper, ley this face downward on Wood or stone, rub off the impression or paste on the transparent-paper, cut away the wood or stone, and take an impression in ink which duplicated the orginal. First, probably, they cut the letters into the block, leaving whitelletters on black ground, which method Didot thinks, was known tothe Romans and was the process referred to by Pliny ; afterward they cut away the block, leaving the letters raised, to print black on white. This last process’is attributed to'Foong-Taou, Chinese minister of state in the tenth cen- tury, who was driven to the invention by the necessity of getting exact copies of his oflicial documents. Indeed, there is a detailed tradition of a Chinese Gutenbu'rg, one‘ Pi-' Ching, who in 1041 carved cubes 'of porcelain sste with Chinese characters, hfterward flaking them, and literally “setting the porcelain types by help of paralled wires on a. plate of iron in a bed of heated resinous cement. These types he ‘ hammered or planed even, and pressed close together, so that when the cement hardened they were practically a. solid block, which could be taken to pieces a‘gain by melting the ce- ment. But Pi-Ching was born out of time, in the wrong country, and to the wrong language. The Chinese Word-alphabet con- tains at least 80,000, possibly 240,000, characters (the National Printing-ofiice at Paris made types for 43,000) and for the lesser number the Chinese compositor Would require a. large room for himself, where he could wander among five hundred cases “looking for a. Sign," while Chinese wood- engravers will cut on pear-wood, or on the hard waxen composition used for that oldest of existing dailies, the l’ckin Gauttc, an octave page of characters for forty or fifty cents-a hundredth part of the cast of course work, a thousandth of the cost of the finest work, here. The Chinese printer, Without a press, but with a double brush like a, canoe paddle, inking the block with one end, and pressing the paper laid on the block with the dry brush at the other end, prints two thousand sheets a. day, on one side only, which are then bound int; a book by making the fold at the front of the sheet, and stitching through the cut edges at the back. A fair-sized book is sold for eight or ten cents, and there is little inducement for improvement. Playingcards, invented A species of water-plant which grows on the backs of living turtles has been des cribed by Mr. M. C. Potter, of the Liunsau- Society of London. It enters the cracks of the shell, but is nourished from the water, and not from the animal juices. Norwegian fishermen, according to M. Armauer Hansen, poison their primitive harpoons from gangrened wounds produced in a. small whale. It; is acurious fact that this peculiar use of bacteria. and blood- poisoning should have been known for hun- dreds of years. Max Von Pettenkofi'er, a. German medical authority. considers that cholera is not con- tagious in the sense of being communicable directly from person to person, but that it; belongs to the malarial group of epide- mice, the germs of which find their way from the soil into the air, sud thence through the lungs into the system. He regards good drainage and pure water as the' most effi- cient safeguards against an outbreak. There are no valves, eccentrics, steam chests, cut-off devices, or many of the other delicate and intricate working parts requir~ ed. Everything is simple and cheap in con- struction, and a. saving in fuel over the most economical type of engine of from 75 to 80 per cent., and a saving of boiler room of three-quarters. The counterbalanceis so arranged that instantaneously on passing the centre (or at the dead stroke), as to be automaticallv transferred from one to the other, causing thereby an alternate work- ing of one set, while the other returns (while it’s returning it is driving the steam back into the boiler) and vice versa. Before the Association for the Advance' ment of Science at Columbia. College will be ' read a paper describing the greatest inven- tion that Thomas A. Edison, the electrical wizard, has yet given to the world. At Mr. Edison’s house in Orange, N. J., a re- porter was shown an ordinary stove sur- rounded hy a black cast iron box. A blast of air made the stove roar like a black‘ smith’s furnace, and the heat seemed to have a remarkable effect on the box. There was every indication that the affair Was manufacturing the most approved kind of lightning at a rapid rate. What the re- porter supposed were volts and ohms, a sort of cubic foot of electricity, were coming oil of the wires. and the whole affair was acting like a well behaved storage battery. Mr. Edison said 'â€"-“ That is my new pyro- magnetio dynamo. It is a machine design- ed to transform the combustion of coal di- rectly into electricity. The machine is one that I have been working on for a long time, and I have just got some of the idea. I do not claim that the machine is perfect- ed. It is far from that, but the germ of my greatest invention is in that iron box. Electrical energy is power,: and it is the power that will be universal in the world before many years. All that we need isa cheap method of producing it. \Ve have a machine, the electrical motor, that will con- vert this power into motion, and the motor is a perfect machineâ€"so perfect that it is as far ahead of the best steam engine as that same engine is in advance of the rude wheel of the country water mill.” . It is perhaps stran e, and to some people it may look like the ream of a dreamer, to say that a steam engine can ever be built that will drive back the steam into its own boiler to be used again for the next stroke. However, a Cincinnatian has invented a “ non-exhaustable steam engine that does that very thing 1 The inventor is now in New York, and has had several meetings with W. H. Haworth and other New York mechanical experts, who pro- nounced it a practicable and revolutionary invention. This non-exhaust steam engine consists of four single-acting cylinders, each connected with a common load. Two pis- tons of same are constantly at work, while the other two are so completely balanced by its peculiar mechanism after the completion of their stroke that but the friction only (which is supplied by the fly wheel) has to be overcome to restore to the boiler the force (or steam) that drove them forward. SCIENTI FIG. The Late Henry Ward Beecher. once chanced to stray into a village church where one of his own sermons was being delivered. After the congregation had dis- pcrsed he approached the rural divine, -to whom he was personally unknown, and l‘e-" marked, “That: was a. good sermo’n you preached." ' 1 A u n ‘ ‘7 “0h,”wa.s the modest reply, “ only a. little thing I threw off in about fifteen min- utes.” ' Affer a. mo-meEt’s silénc’e his sang froid returnesland in. a. defiagtpone he,_said ;, " Wei], I am not; aghamed' t6 preach any; thfug Henry W’ard Be‘echér Wi‘ote. ” The meanest fellow in all creation is the fellow that entered the Presbyterian church through a. window one night last week and stole all the oil out of the lamps. That fellow must be a. partner to the man who stole the shortening out of the biscuit dur- ing the late civil war. r “Indeed ! Why, it took me several hours t029m99§°it:”2 - « ' ~ 3 M n .u... .a,_ . The The Sydney Morning Heralct of May 26 says : “ The report of the Select Com- mittee on the Rabbit Nuisnnce Act is not pleasant reading. The evidence goes to show that the present system for the des- truction of rabbits has beena complete fail- ure. There has been £361,492 spent and Lax-33,781 rabbitshave. been killed,‘ That is, ever}? rabbit‘ h'as’cost' nearly a shilling to kill, while the lamentable fact remains that the rabbits have not decreased in numbers, but have rather increased.” 7 TKé’fiihe identityof his interlacutbr (lafivv‘n2 ed upon the plagiajrizigg min§s_ter. Lady Roberts, wife of the Commander-in- Chief, has put the British army in India. un- der 3. great obligation by taking up vigorous- ly the question of providing lady nurses [1 1‘ military hospitals. She has pointed out that there, isa, heavy mortalit , especially among young officers and so diers, from typhoid and other diseases, in which nurs- ing is perhaps, more. important than mecjii cel xskill ; and. as trained nurses me almost unknown outside the Presidency towns, she proposes to get a. stafl" of them from England for the Rewul-Plndi and Umballe military hospitals. It is part of the scheme that summer homes should be provided at Murree and Kussowlee, whither the nurses can re- pair in turn for change of air and‘rest. Home, in his quaint old “ Table-Book,” gives an account of a. curious old kissing festival held in Ireland :~Eastar Monday several hundred young persons of the town and neighborhood of Potsferry, County Down, resort, dressed in their best, to a. pleasant walk near the town called “The Waller}? The avowed object of each per- son is to see the fun, which consists in the men kissing the females without; reserve, whether married or single. This mode of salutstion is quite a. matter of course; ibis never taken amiss, nor with much show‘ of coyness. The female must be ordinary in- deed who returns home without having re- ceived at, least a. dozen hearty busses.” In Russia the Easter sslutation is a. kiss. Each member of the family salutes the other; chance acquaintances on meeting kiss; principals kiss their employees; the General kisses his ofiicers ; the officers kiss their soldiers; the Czar kisses his family, retinue, court, and, attendants, and even his oflicers on parade, the sentinels at the palace gates, and a. select party of private soldiersâ€"probsbly elaborately piepsred for this “royal salute.” In other parts the poorest serf, meeting a. high-born dame in the street, has bntto say, “ Christ is risen,” and hevwill receive a. kiss and the reply, “ He is risen truly." In Iceland kissing had deterred penalties of great severity. For kissing another man's wife, with or Without her consent, the pun- ishment of seclusion or its pecuniaryequiva- lent was awarded. A man rendered himself liable for kissing an unmarried womanunder legal guardianship without her consent, and, even if the lady consented, the law re- quired that every kiss should be wiped out by a. fine of three marksâ€"equivalent to I40 ells of wadmaIâ€"s. quantity suflicient to furnish a whole ship's crew with pilot jackets. ' The Code of Justinian says “ thatifa man betrothed a. Woman by a. kiss and either party died before marriage the heirs were entitled to half the donations of the surviv- or to the other half; but if the contract was made without the solemn kiss the whole of the espousul must be restored to the donors and their heirs-at-law. The Mohammedans, on their pious pil- grimage to M ca, kiss the sacred black stone and the our corners of the kaaba. The Romish priest kisses the aspergillum, uni Palm Sunday the palm. Kissing the Pope's toe was a fashion introduced by one of the Leos, Who, it: is said, had mutilated his right hand and was too vain to expose the stump. - In VVesley’s journal, dated June 16, 1758, is given the following description of a. duel between tWO officers at Limerick :â€"” Mr. B. proposed firing at twelve yards, Mr. J. said, ‘- No six is enough.” So they kissed one another ,(poor farce !) and before they were five paces asunder both fired at the inatan b. " In Finland, according to Bayard Taylor, the women resent as an insult a. salute up0n the lips. A Finnish matron, hearing of our English custom of kissing. deulami that did her husband attempt such a. liberty she would treat him with sucha. boxon the ears that he should not readily forget. The beautiful Lady Gordon, when the ranks of the Scottish regiments had been sadly thinned by cruel Badajos and Salam ancu, turned recruiting sergeant, and, te tempt the gallantlads, placed the recruiting shilling in her lips, whence each who would might take it with his own. In the cenemonial of betrothal a, kiss has played 3n important part in several nation. A nuptial kiss in Church, at the conclusion of the marriage service, is solemnly enjoined by the York Missal and the Sarum Manual. When Fox Was contestin the hard- seat at Westminster the begautiful BUCKLE: of Devonshire offered to kiss all who voted for the great statesman, There 77945.31: old belief that unless a. mad-den was klaaed under the mistletoe at Chnstmas she would not be married during the ensuing year. probably in Hindustan as a modification of chess, and then engraved on ivory, were made in China. and in Hindustan centuries ago, and thence they seem to have made their way into Europe, probably through Saracens or Jews before 1400. The Kiss in History. The young man who knowsyhow to lay off corn and potato? rows, and to regulate the distance of the same so as to get the crops, is worth a, co w-pen full of nice, kid- gloved, fancy overcoated fellows who know how to lead a. fashion waltz. Setting the plowjust right and adjusting the gears so that the backs and shoulders of the horses will never hurt, are worth a. thousandfold more to the country: than“ knowing how to pose in a. parlor. Yes, and a. girl that can bake a. loaf of bread and make a. sweet roll of butter is worth a. whaleâ€"seminary 01 those soft-hand'augels who sit in the “ pal:th " and let their “ mas” do the kitchen work. At the Lillagore bathing grounds, near Ocean Grove, the other day two young men swam nearly. avmi‘le, out, frightening several ladies ‘whb Were Watching them nea’rly into a, igenz . The excitement finally became genera , men shouting and women‘ crying, until the lifeboat was sent out‘ afterthemui This the boys refused to enter, saying they were all right and were enjoying their s'wim. “'hen they reached the beach they were ar- rested and marched ofl“ in their wet bathing suits for'trial, at the instance of the indig- nant women. When it was discovered that neither swimming 8. long distance nor har- rowing the feelings of nervous women was a. punishable ofi‘ence the odious youths were 11‘4Lnu , x The Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria has contributed some chapters to her hus~ band's great work ” The AustroAHungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture.” The edi- torial‘ committee insisted upon paying her by. making-s handsome depoit in a savings bank in; the name of Stephanie’s baby daugh- tei', the Archduchess Elizabeth. Hischarged. In a. letter to Science Mr. Wm. Glenn, of Baltimore propounds a. conundrum which has puzzled him in regard to the effects of the sewage of that city. The principal out~ let for this is the sluggish stream known as Jones’ Fall, which runs through the heart of the city, though now walled u into a. canal, and empties into the Back sin, a. sluggish pond about four hundred feet wide by one thousand long, and connected with the tideâ€"water only by 9. narrow canal. The deposit of sewage in this place grows so of~ fensive that it is necessary to keep dredging gangs at work constantly removing it. The strange part of it is that, as Mr. Glenn re~ ports, these men find the occupation s sing~ ulsrly healthy one. They experience no trouble whatever which can be traced to the sewage gases, except an occasional slight and temporary attack of nouses. Mr. Glenn further says'that' he has not heard of a. sin» gle case of zymotio disease within the past three years among the hundred inen engag- id in dredging «the sewage deposits from the sun. . LEMONS CURE MALARIA. Dr. Tommasi Crudeli, an Italian physician of high authority in reference to malaria, has found that a, lemon decoction has a de- cided anti-malarial efficacy, besides being a. tonic. He says : “ Take a. fresh lemon, cut it in thin slices, rind and all, boil it in three: tumblerfuls of wgter, in a. pot which has not previously been used for culinary purposes; prolong the boiling till the liquid contents of the pot have been reduced to one-thirdâ€" that is, the contents of one tumbler. Pass the decoction through mustin, squeezing out the residue of the lemon, and let it cool for several hours. Let the whole be taken in the early morning, fasting.” The drink is bitter, but is said to ogree even with deli- cate persons. It'has been asserted by physiologists of repute that the nutritive value of mush~ rooms was equal to that of butcher’s meat. This view, however, is not sustained by the investigations recently made in Vienna. by Dr. Stromer, who declares that fresh mush~ rooms do not possess very valuable nutritive properties, and are difficult of digestion; that dry mushrooms are only slightly pre- ferable, and thst both correspond most nearly to cabbage in usefulness as food. The affection known as hay-fever appears to be a result of local irritations of unduly sensitive areas in the nose and in the respir~ atory passages below. The pollen of some- plant is usually supposed to be the irritant, but this is not always the case. The late Dr. Flint was troubled only when lying on feathers, and in other persons the attacks- ere brought on by emanations from animals. â€"such as the horse, the rabbit, the cat, etc. The electric cautery and various other remedies have been applied with more or less success, but as yet there seems to be no specific to be recommended, and the best treatmentâ€"when available~is removal to a. pollen-free atmosphere, or to one from which at least grass-pollen is absent. A correspondent of the English Mechanic vouchea for the efficacy of the following. simple remedy :â€"One quart of milk, quite hos, into which stir one ounce of alum; this makes curds and whey. Bathe the part af~ {acted with the whey until too cold. In the meantime keep the curds hot, and after bathing, put them on as a poultice, wrap in flannel, andâ€"go to sleep (you can). Three applications should be a perfect; cute, even in aggravated cases. Coarse brown paper soaked in vineg and placed on the forehead is good for sick headache. If the eyelids are gent bathed in cool water the pain in the head generally allayed. abandon theory of Wdity of comsump- tion, andin its stead p ace the theory of infection. "One considers that the most: frequent manner of contracting this malady is from a. diseased person through - the sputa, and also through the glands, exfolia- tions of the skin, or any way in which the poison may appear on the surface and be transported by means of pocket handker- chiefs, washing, etc. The fact that the at~ tendants in hospitals who have the care of consumptives are seldom attacked with the disease is convincing that it is not the air through which the germs are carried, but that it is Communicated in another mode ;. in fact, the way in which the members of a. family kiss and fondle the patient and handle his linen. From one member of the family the special poison which excites the disease go’es to another. ‘ THE Emmy? or Cossvuenox. Sorpe alpinqnt. obeeyyers think we should' A SIMPLE CURE FOR HEALTH AMONG SCAVENGERS. YUTRIMENT IN MUSHROOMS. CAUSES OF HAY-FEVER. HEALTH. RHEUMATISM. in vinegar good for a. afre‘geqtlry