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If the cows get to pasture before they drop their cslves, it will often stimulate the milk glands to such an extent as to fill the udder with milk several days before calving. In such cases the milk should be drawn out at once. Serious injury may result from the long-continued distention of the udder, which becomes painful, or from the absorp- tion at the milk back into the system. pois- onin the blood by the fever it taken with it. he better the animal as a milk pro- ducer the greater the danger from this cause. which is one reason why so many of our fancy animals die from milk fever. These causes enfeeble more constitutions than had breeding or high feeding with stimulating food. Peas and beans should be left on the vines until the pads are well wrinkled, when they should be picked and spread until they are quite dry. Small quantities may be shelled by hand, large crops are threshed with a. flail. Keep them in a. dry place. If it is intended to raise any of the calves it may be well to allow them to suck the cow for the first two or three days, but not lon er. Then for a short time give them mil directly from the cow, not quite as much as they will drink, as it is desirable to keep their appetite good all the time. Dur- ing the first week it is better to feed three times a day rather than twice. After the first week they may be put upon one-haff skimmed milk, which may be changed to all skimmed milk. Cream is of no value to the calf for building up the frame. All the ele- ments for making bone or muscle are in the skimmed milk. Melon, cucumber, squash and pumpkin seeds should be taken only from ripe, per- fect-shaped specimens. In a small way the needs may be simply taken out, spread on lites or tins, and dried. Large quantities ave to be Washed before drying, to remove the slime that adheres to them. “'hen, the seeds are thoroughly dried, tie them in bags, and keep in a. dry place secure from mice and rats. Beets. parsnips, turnips, carrots, onions, cauliflower and cabbage will not produce seed until the second year. Set out in early May strong, well-matured plants of last sea.- spn’s crop. When the seed is ripe, cut the stalks and put under cover to dry; then beat out the seeds, and tie in paper bags. Seeds of all kinds should be fully ripe when gathered, but it is also important to harvest them as soon as they are ripe. For The man who believes that a herd of dairy cows can be run on mathematical principles will find himself mistaken, and he will dis- cover thet the old cow has as much senti- ment about her as any young girl. She will not do her best unless the surroundings are such as please her. Try the experiment of washing the cream for making the butter come easy and in fine form. It is done by pouring water in the cream and allowing it to stand for several hours. Clover pasture increases the milk yield of cows and makes yellow butter. If you are troubled with streaky and mot- tled butter, take two precautions, first roll the salt very carefully so as to get all the lumps out of It and then incorporate it thoroughly in the butter. SsLscrxNe A FAMILY HORSE. Among the good points to be noticed in the selection of the family horse, docility and gentleness must be kept well in front. If the women and children are to share in thc use and care of the horse. nothing vi- cious should be tolerated. If sound and previously well cared for, a horse ei ht, ten, and twelve years old, may be boug t with no fear of disability on account of old age. Mr. John Russell. who recently delivered a series of lectures in Boston, on the care of the horse said that “ old wine, old friends and old horses ” and by that meaning those from eight to fourteenâ€"“ should always be preferred to young ones.” The horse does not come to maturity as early as some think, as the record of the trotting horse of America shows. A horse ten years old, that has no defect of body or limb, is prac- tically safe from the ordinary horse diseases. So far as outward appearance, color, etc., are concerned, no general directions can be given, but if the buyer is inexperienced, it is better to go to some reliable dealer, stat- ing what is desired, and the amount of money to be given. An honest horse jockey in some people's minds is an anomaly, but many such may be found. A man lately thoroughly cured a. bulky horse by simply hitching him in the fiell and letting him stay where the load was un- til he got hungry enough to pull it home. The horse held out thirty-six hours. “'hen hogs have the run of a field, it is rarely the case that they will get so fever- ish as to be foundered all over, but they will often get quite stifl'. The corn should be mixed with bran or oats, and only half of the bulk of the food should be of the corn or carbonaceous sort. Such fevered pork is not the thing to eat. When hogs are fed all the corn meal they will eat, onethird of it is wasted. If farmers do not believe this get a microscope and examine the excreta, and see the corn meal in it undigested. It can also be seen with the simple magnifier of common sense. â€"F. D. Curtis. Oil meal is the best substitute for roots for sheep in winter. When a sheep gets a. gill a day of oil meal in will not have the stretches, which is an indication of dryness of the bowels or constipation. \Vhest bran should always be mixed with grain fed to sheep. _ _ ‘_ n n Add a little to the rations of each horse during severe cold weather. The animal heat must be kept up, and this requires fuel in the shape of food. Look for parasites when your young chicks or turkeys begin all at once to droop. They are probably troubled with lice. A slight application of lard and carbolic acidâ€" no more than five drops of acid in a. table- apoonful of lardâ€"touching the neck, head and vent, will probably rout the enemy. But, of course, the coops and motbeis must, be cleaned also. POULTRY NOTES. The Poultry Yand advocates quick fatten- ing for fowls when they are intended for table use, and recommends milk in any state, from fresh to thick. This should be fed in connection with a. grain diet. How To SAVE GARDEN SEEDS. DAIRY NOTES. STOCK NOTES. ls should be fully ripe bit is also important to n as they are ripe. For FARM. I have often read of the wonderful feats performed by skilled workmen with tools, such as engravin the Lord’s prayer on the back of a silver t ree-cent piece, or making a steam engine that would stand on a silver quarter, but I saw some wonders performed the other night that surpassed them all. All the minute articles manufactured here- tofore have been made with email tools, and in some cases with the aid of a microscope, but there is a man in the Sea Beach Palace Exposition on Coney Island who works out the most delicate articles with a band-saw nineteen feet long and revolving at the rate of over a mile a minute. Upon this im- mense machine the skilled operator in my presence sawed out four chairs, all complete, with legs and backs, but so small that the four were placed on the end of a lead pencil at one time. Then a dozen knives and forks of the most diminutive size were made and placed around the lead pencil. So small were they that although the entire dozen were placed round the pencil not one of them touched the other. Then the operator trimmed his finger-nails on the huge saw as cleverly and easily as one could do it With a penknife. “'etting his thumb, he pressed the balls of it into some sawdust and then sawed the sawdust ofi' his thumb without scratclll"g the skin, yet a single nervous twitch of the arm Would have cost him a hand. All sorts of curious puzzles are turn- ed out with astonishing rapidity from all sorts of misshapen blocks of wood. Even articles of clothing, as thin and flexible as cloth, are worked out by this magician from little pieces of wood with his big saw. The cup he works in was sawed out of over 1,0“0 pieces of wood, no two of which are the same in size or shape. The most remarkable strike threatened is that of the employes of the Reading rail- road. It has recently~been found that rail- way men are liable to colour~blindness, an afiiiction which prevents them from discern- ing the colours of night signals. The rail- way company is testing its employees with a View to weeding out those whose inability to judge colours correctly may lead to ac- cidents. The men resent the examination, and threaten to strike in a. body if it is pro- ceeded with. There are some strikes in which the strikers secure the sympathy of the public, but the Reading strike, should the threat be carried into execution, Will not be one of that kind. These same women of France did some- thing grander than this. It was they who redeemed tbei: beloved country, and paid 011' the Prussian sixteen years 3.30. Let me give you an example of her frugalâ€" ity, and allow me to take it from a personal recollection. My mother has a housemaid who has been with her 25 years. Not long ago, while in France, I took aside this old servant. “I know how devoted you have been to my mother,” I said to her. “ S on are not strong, and I dare say you will wish to go into service again ; but make yourself easy about this. If anything should hap- pen to my mother, I shall see that you are comfortable for the rest of your life. But,” I said inquiringly, “I have no doubt you have something of your own by this time ?" Imagine my surprise when I heard her tell me she had saved over 10,000 francs (be- tween 32,000 and $2,500), all well invested, including one share in the Suez Canal com- pany. You must bear in mind that the Suez canal was not made by big capitalists. It was made by the savings banks of France â€"by the “ old stockings ;” that is to say, by the small bourgeois, the working people and servants. \Vhen we reflect that the riches of France are derived from the economy im- posed upon every French household by the women, 1 might even say that the Suez Canal is the work of the French women. This good, hard-working thrifty woman is the back bone of the country. The amount of work she can get through is simply pro- digious. You will always see her busy, either working in the field, selling the pro- duce of her little farm in the market-place of the nearest town. or engaged about her little household. Whether she takes the cow to the field, or is on her way to town, whether she is sitting behind her wares waiting for customers. or in a railway sta- tion waiting for her train, look at her fin- gers busy on a pair of stockings. She does 3 not know what it is to be idle for a single moment. She trusts her savings to nobody. Bankers, she thinks, company directors, and stock-brokers may be very respectable per- sons, but when the old stocking is swollen with fiveJranc pieces, she rounds off bel‘ little family domain and buysa new fieldâ€" something she is quite sure to find in its place when she wakes up in the morning. Her daughter goes into service and makes a capital servant. Like her mother, she thinks of but one thingâ€"saving her wages. She does not get a new hat every month to get photographed in it. She puts her money in the savings bank. Wonder-ml Feats With a Saw. Doctorinz Horses- In Winter, colds are quite common among horses throughout the Eastern and Middle States. If difficulty of breathing is noticed, with running at the nose, see, first of all, that there are no droughts of cold aie strik- ing him ; put on an extra blanket ; give a warm bran mesh, and ten drops of tincture aconite, once in two hours. lfthe cold take the form of a. cough, there is nothing better than 9. teblespoonfull of ground lobelia. and ginger, mixed in equal parts, put in the bran mash. and it will be taken without-- trouble. \Vhere the horse becomes sudden 1y lame, the first step is to ascertain whether or not it is the fault of the shoeing, as it very often is. In such a. case, pull off the shoe, give the foot 9. rest of a. day, and then put it on rightly. If it be due to n. sprain, bathe in hot water, and rub dry. The various liniments are not efficacious as a rule, and generally result in taking 06' the hair. It is better to call a well-known vetâ€" erinary physician, than to risk the loss of a valuable animal. The horse may die, of course, in spite of all that is done, but it will be a. satisfaction in case of his death to feel that all has been done that was pos- sibleâ€"American Agnadtun'st. keeping sm v.11 quantities of seeds, paper bags are preferable to cloth, as they afford better protection against moisture and in- sects. Always mark each package with the name of the seed contained in it, and the year in which it grew. Cold does not: injure the vitality of seeds, but moisture is detri- mental to all Madeâ€"American Agricultu- TM Peasant Women of France. A Remarkable Strike The Pleasures of Hanging. If those are to be believed who, having been more or less hanged, have been resusci- tated and have narrated their experience, the much-commiserated victim of the law’s extreme penalty is not Wholly miserable. It would seem that even death “sus. per coll.” has its ameliorating conditions or circumstances. One sufferer in the religious cause in France is said to have “ complain- ed” because he was called back to con- sciousness from an experience of surpassing belights, in which he enjoyed the pleasure of gazing upon the most beautiful scenery. The immediate sensation of pain is momen- tary; and it would appear not unlikely that, in our anexiety for the avoidance of needless annoyance to those we put to death judicially, we may be actually in- creasing their suflerings and diminishing their pleasure. The instantaneous deaths have all the pain and little or none of the pleasure. Slowly induced congestion of the brain may be the least painful ; and if only the blood pressure he effectually raised at the centre that sees, the beautiiul light and charming Scenery are enjoyed in the highest perfection. The subject is a grim one and we are not sure that the new view of hang- ing experience tends to make the death penaltyincreasingly deterrent ; but it isright that both sides of a question which the late Mr. “'halley once excited the merriment of the House of Commons by describing as “ a. poor man’s question” should be carefully considered at all costs. l The Egyptian mummies are the remains of persons of small or medium statue, as are also the Peruvian Mexican mummies and the mummies and bones found in the ancient monuments of India and Persia. And even the most ancient relies we possess of indi- viduals of the human species, the bones of men who lived in the T niary period, an epoch the remote mtiquity of which goes back for hundreds of centuries, do not show any important difference in the sizes of the primitive and of the modern menâ€"Popular Science Monthly. Isris. Have nothing gigantic about them. ‘he armour, the cuirmel and the cazquel of the warriors of the middle ages can be worn by modern soldiers, and many of» the kuighta’ suits would be too small for the cuiraesiers of the European armies; yet they were worn by the selected men, who were better fed. stronger end more robust than the rest of the population. The bones of the ancient Gauls. which are uncovered in the excavations of tumuli, while they are of large dimensions, are comparable with those of the existing populations of many plunges i3 Frnuce. _ H The «impinint about the degeneracy of the human race is not new, but dates as far back as the time of Homer. at least : for the men of his day were not like the heroes of whom he sang. It is not confirmed, but is consrndicted, by all the tangible facts, and these no not few. Human remains that are exhumed, after having reposed in the eve for mnny centuries, as in the Ca‘tacom i of to a. bare 61} feet. The communication, it in said, Wu received with enthusiasm and was regarded. at the time, as a. “ wonderful disooravy" and a “ sublime vision." The Days of Giants. An opinion was current, in the last ce n- tury, that our ancestors, at some time in the past, were the equals or superiors in size of the largest men now to be found. M. Hen- rion presented to the Academic des Inscrip- tions, in 1718, a memoir on the variations in the size of man from the beginning of the world till the Christian era, in which Adam was given 123 feet 9 inches and Eve118 feet 92 inches. But after the first pair the human race, in his imagination, suffered a. regular decrease so that Noah was only a 100 feet high, while Abraham shrank down to 28 feet. Moses to 13 fret, the mighty Hercules to 10 feet 8% inches and Alexander the Great or fruit. OUT or FASHION. The huge, clumsy caster, with its six or seven cruets which are always being upset on the table cloth, especially if the cloth was a. fresh one, and which for years occupiâ€" ed the best place on the dining table, en- tirely shutting off the via a vis View, has been abolished from most tables and remov- ed to the side board or banished altogether, and the more convenient fist-bottomed bottles orjug for vine ar, all and other fix- ings are grouped wi in arm‘s length of each person, and pepper and salt placed at each plate. A few flowers are pretty in the centre of the table, or a. flat dish of berries A very pretty cover for an invalid’s tray, or to place under the tea service at table, is made from a very large napkin, damask or momie cloth, fringed all around. On the upper left hand corner was embroidered in outline stitch in antique letters “ Some‘ times counsel take," and in the lower right- hand corner the remainder of the motto, “ and sometimes tea." The latest sweet thing in aprons is made from a. towel. Choose either a towel with a. fringe and a colored border, or one of those made of momie cloth. These last have a. handsome knotted fringe. Turn one end over at the top so that both borders and fringe will show. Stitch it about a third of an inch from the top. In this space run a simple white cord with tasselled ends which serve for a. belt or band. Any design may be stamped on one corner, or across the bottom, and worked on in outline stitch. For cleaning coat collars, add a gill to a pint of water ; apply with a clean rag, and rub well with a second rug. To wash woolen dress goods, put a. teacup- ful in a. pail of warm water. shake the goods well in this, rubbing it lightly between the hands ; rinse well, and iron while damp on thgqung s_ide. .. -n . Fou: onnces each of “bite castile soap uld ammonia ; and two each of alcohol. glycerine and ether. Cut the soap fine and dissolve in one quart of water ova a. slow fire; add one gallon of water, and when nearly cold the other ingredients. It Will make nearly two gallons, must be kept in a lightly~corked demi-john, and will keep for any length of time‘ Fill a. small bottle for convenience for daily use. CLEANSING FLUID. A bottle of really good cleaning fluid is an almost indispensable article in the houseâ€" hold. The following is Lxcelleut for re- moving spots from the boys' jackets, clean- ing dirty coat-collars. and dresses, and for washing any kind of woolen goods, camel‘s hair and alapaca. ; for taking grease and dirt spots out of carpets and rugs, and re- moving spots from furniture. ll0lISEll0LD. MAKING APRONR “ Mrs. Bowser, this must never happen againâ€"never ! You are my wife, but don’t drive me too tar-too far !” “ Didn’t I tell yo'u the worm had turned 1" be interrupted as he waved his hand in an imperious way. “I have got to go down town in this fashion. People will remark in and of course they will understand how it He was gone about twenty minutes, and then sneaked back, slipped softly up stairs and changed his clothes and skipped out. Next day I heard that he actually took the car to go down in his safetvâ€"pin suit. He had scarcely got seated when he heard a passenger whisper ; . “ “'hy look ‘at that fat, bald-headed old coon over there! Is he a. trump or an es~ capefl_luna.§i_c_?” A negro cook on board of a Scotch schoo er is the author of a. novel way of killing shark. He heated a fire-brick red h( wrapped it up in a. greasy cloth and thrc it; overboard, when the voracious slm darted after it and swallowed it. T shark’s fury was soon subdued and he floz ed to the surface dead. is.” 2‘That‘, feller ‘P” was the reply. “Why that’s old Bowser ! I‘ll bet he’s rigged out that way _t9 spifie his wife !” \Vhexi Mr.’ Bowser came up to dinner neither of us mentioned buttons. It; was not until he was ready to leave the house that he said : “ Mr. Bowser, I want to beg your for- giveness. I knew there were over 200 but- tons off your clothes, but I was shiftless and slack. This will be a great moral lesson to me, and 1 promise youâ€"” Next mornln he put on one of the vests he had strippeg of buttons and fastened it with five safety-pins. He put on a. cost from which he had cut two buttons, and those were also replaced by the pins. He came down and paraded around to attract my notice, and I finally said a 7‘ No, you won't ! Don’t you dare to touch any of my clothing 1 The worm has finally turned, and he proposes to take care of himself after this 1" . ” Well, I’ll see to the rest in the mom lngf” It was 10 o'clock before he came down stairs. He had given up the job with the one button. “ Well_ have you got through ?” I asked. “ Got through I Do you expect: I can sew on 284 buttons in two hours?" When he had cut the buttons off, as de- scribed, he lighted the gas and got out his needles and thread. Mr. Boweer is a. near- sighted man, and our gas fixtures are hung pretty high. Between the two he got into trouble. It didn’t seem to make any differ- ence to him which end of the needle he threaded. Instead of jabbing the thread at the needle he jabbed the needle atthe thread. After about twenty jabs he'd get discour- aged and select another needle. or break the thread off at a new spot. He finally got the thread into the eye, doubled it up and tied a great knot at the and, and after twenty minutes of hard work he got the missing button back on his pntaloons. In his nervousness he put on a brass blouse- button with a. shank, and he used just three yards of doubled thread to make it secure. When he had locked the door again he got out every coat and vest and pair of pants from the closet and sat down to his buttons. I am telling you the solemn truth when I say that I looked through the key-hole and saw him deliberately out every button ofl~ of two vests and a pair of pants, and he took one of his new shirts and coolly ripped it clear down the back to the bottom hem. And I will further make a. solemn affidavit that the button he lost when he got off the car was the only missing button he had ever complained of. “Never! It is too late! I may get through in time for breakfast, but you can clear off the supper table. I have been losing buttons for the last five years, and now I propose to sew them all on." He came out. locked the door afnd started off, and in half an hour he came back with a dozen varieties of buttons, running from a. pearl to an overcoat button. He also had three papers of needles and five spools of thread, and to these he had added two dozen aafgtyâ€"pinl. ” VVon’t'yéu eat supper and let me sew on that button, Mr. Bowner Y" I asked as he returned. ‘ He wouldn‘t even permit me to give him the needle and thread. He hunted around and found a. darnlug-needle and some coarse thread, and went ofi‘ up to his room and locked the door with a great bang. I went up after supper and looked through the key- hole. He hadn’t got the button on yet. As the needle was larger than the eyes he had tried to enlarge the latter with a bodkin, and thereby broken them all into one. He was bothered to know how to proceed, when I called : “ Mr. Bowser, won’t you let me in T" “ No, ma’eml Your lace is in the par lor, reading the 13st g‘rench love story, while your husband sews on his buttons 1” “ But sheu't I get you another button 1" “ No l There are no other buttons in the house, or if there was you wouldn't know it l I shill go down town and buy some.” I“ Go and eat it, than I I have no time. I have got 200 or 300 butt-nu to sew on.” Q I had needle and thread and thimble at hand, but he turned away. Supper was all ready, and when I mentioned the fact he replied : “ No, I won’t X It has been plain to me for the last year that sooner or later I’d have to do my own sewing, and now the climax has arrived.” “ Just one minute, Mr. Bowser.” “Not one second! lshall hereafter sew on my own buttons, and I might as well be- gin now! 1" A7“ “'uy, there's only one button gone, and I‘ll have that fixed in two jiflys. Len me get my needle andâ€"" BY M RS. BOW'SER. The other evening, when Mr. Bowser stepped off the street car at our corner, one of his suspender buttons flew off. This may or may not have been the first time in his life that be 105‘: a. suspendenbucton, but he took it so much to heart, that 1 guess it was the first. He came into the house with the look of a. man who had been deeply in- jured, and shouted a‘.t the : “ Do you know Whether I’ve 0t ' button left on any of my garmeits 2’8; smgle “ VVhac is it, dear '3“ “ Don‘t: what-is-it-dqar me, Mrs. Bowser ' If you were half a wife you’d look over my. clothes once in five or ten years and catch up the loose buttons 1" MR. AND MRS. BOWSER Hunting Turtles. Along in the night, when they come out of the gulf to lay their eggs or gambol on the sand, or flirt, you start out, armed with j a stout pole or young tree, said a Southern- er, describing to a New York Star reporter how to hunt turtles on the Gulf of Mexico. When the turtle hears you coming he makes a start for the sea, and you have to do some tall hustling to get there. A turtle is a. sharpeyed and fineeared fish, and if he gets a good start of you the chances are strrng against his being caught. As a rule there are more than one hunter, as one man would have a great deal of difficulty in man- aging one of the big fellows. \Vhen you get up to the turtle just shove your sapling under him and turn him over on his back. Then he is hers de rombat. A turtle is knocked completely out when he is lying on his back and is unable to do anything but paw the air and kick. Some of them Weigh 800 and 900 pounds, so, you see, one man couldn't very well handle Slluh a mountain. Even with two or three the hunters have to possess considerable dexterity in order to throw the monster. If the turtle kept still until you adjusted your pole and let on tug away at him it would be all right; ut he keeps on the run and makes quick and warm work for the hunters. An 800 pound turtle can get over sand at an amazing rate, and when you take into consideration the fact that this 800 pounds of solid matter is going at a Tremont gait you can readily perceive that it requires a practised hand to capture him. It’s as easy as a turtle’s tumble ofl'a log when you know how; but when you don't know how it’s a different thing. As I said before, it’s warm work, and it is made warmer by the way you have to dress. Down in that chepparal are billions and billions of mosquitoes. They are these giant, grey-backed fellows, with beaks on them like sharp-pointed darning needles. They come in clouds and can run their stingers through tanned rhinocerous hide. If the turtles are plentiful and you do a. good deal of work the mosquitos are around for miles, and you can hear them coming up to the fight with their fifes and drums an whistling and beating just like a. body of holiday soldiers on a parade. But it’s no holiday business permit me to suggest. Or- dinary clothing is no protection against them. The hunter has to take the very thickest canvas, old sails, or something like that, and coat it thickly with coal tar 01‘ coal oil. Mosquitoes don’t like coal oil much, but if they are hungry their appe- tite doesn’t stand on ceremony or epicurean taste. ()0le tar is the best, because it is thicker. Turtle-hunting down on the gulf middle of the placé prea talking about. If he tak‘ suit of mail he’ll think it a. taste. thicke involv myth To STRENGTHEN THE EYESIGHT. The Paris Figaro gives the following as an infallible remedy for tortifying the eye- sight :â€"Ruh with the fingers, night and morning, the temples and the nape of the neck with spirits of lavender. REMEDY FOR BURNS. A remedy for burns, proposed by M. Dubois (Jour. ([2 Med. de Nantes), consists. in allowing the contents of a siphon of seltzer water to flow slowly over the affected parts. It quiets the pain almost instantly, and the wricer believes it hastens the final cure. He ascribes the goods effects to the carbonic acid gas and to the local lowering of the temperature. A Goon DISINFECTANT. A good dilinfectant is made by dissolving half a arachm of nitrate of lead in a pint of boiling water, then dissolve two drachms of common salt in eight or ten quarts of water. When both are thoroughly dissolved, pour the two mixtures together, and when the sediment has settled you have a. pail of clear fluid, which is the saturated solution of the chloride of lead. A cloth saturated with the liquid and hung up in a room will at once sweeten a fetid atmosphere. Poured down a sink, water-closet, or drain, or on any decaying or offensive object, it will pro- duce the same result. The nitrate of lead is very cheap, and apound of it would make several barrels of the disinfectant. To CURE WAR'rs. It is now fairly established, says a writer in The Medical Press. that the common wart, which is so unsightly and often so proliferous on the hands and face, can be easily removed by small doses of sulphate of ‘magnesia taken internally. M. Colrat, of Lyons, has drawn attention to this extra.- ordinary fact. Several children treated with three-grain doses of Epsom salts morn- ing and evening were promptly cured. M. Aubert cites the case of awomsn whose face was disfigured by these excresences and who was cured in a month by a. drachm and a. half of magnesia taken daily. Another medical man reports a case of very large warts which disappeared in a fortnight from the daily administration of ten grains of the salts. ed by the myrieids of minute nerve terminals that bristle over the surface of the human body, transmitted to the centers and no back again to mucous membrane, the peculiar seat of this special irritation. Let us then so train these sensitive fibres that they will pass by, unnoticed, changes of atmosrheric condition, and the matter is accomplished. â€"- [American Magazine. And as this is exactly the season to com- mence such a system of pellar education, as it has proved effective in many instances within my own knowledge, and as it; is within easy reach of every one to try, I write it here. The theory is that no skin that has been exposed freely for half an hour at the beginning of a. day to a temperature lower than it will encounter through the day, will note small changes or be atfected thereby: No NEED OF CATCIIING C(ILDS. Speaking of Colds, I have a theory that; no one need everhave one unless he chooses; in other words, that it, is quite possible so to train the skin, that wonderful organ which is generally looked upon as the paper wrapper to our human bundle, as to render it non susceptible to sudden changes of emperature or atmospheric moisture, whence colds come. ‘nlig co'ld is simply a. nenvous shock, receiv- from 100 to 108 3. Then with a likely to think HEALTH. it}: Ihe ten 31; over the face, think he is in the achexs are always :es 011' any of his on the pemtur eal more es, am teased BJTGC