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- Prof. Robertson, of Canada, claims that cream raised by the deep cold process pro- ducea a butter that is less highly flavored when first made, and is, in fact, often in- sipid at that time, but in flavor increases with age, and is 3!: ita beet when several weeks old. It is well to repeat that a. box kept well supplied with ashes in which charcoal is found should be within reach of hogs all the time at this season of the year. Like all grass feeders they are Apt to be troubled wilh acidity of the stomach, and the coal and ashes correct this. The carrot has more fattening qualities than other roots, and for this reason is par- ticularly adapted to sheep, youn cattle and all animals intended for meat. garrots will help to fatten animals quickly and with less cost than other roots. and quick fattening produces juicy and tender meatâ€"Exchange. A correspendent of the Country Gentleman says : “ I hold that the intelligent farmer, who has lived for years on his farm and knows its soil and capabilities, and who has settled on a. plan of farming which is suc- cessful, is more likely to know what is best for him to do than some one who has lived on a. different soil and surrounded by differ- ent circumstances.” The hog is the only animal kept on the farm without some provision for a regular supply of pure water. And when this is considered it seems strange that there is not more disease among hogs than there , is. A drink of clear water has the efie‘c'tgto cleanse the system of many impurities and pass them cfl‘in the secretions, and if the hog is deprived of water entirely, or limited ‘to what he can extract from the slope, The fruit-grower who sorts and barrels with care can afford to print or stamp his name on every barrel, and even to adopt a‘ trade mark, and if his sorting be honestly made, and his barrelljng skilfully done, his name will go far to sell the fruit at top prices. There is a. great shortage in the timothy need crop on account of the general drouth in the Noxthwest early in the season. They will use and appreciate a sheep in the pas- ture. Grapes, it is said by one speaking with authority, may be cured by the use of a teaspooniui of turpentine to one and a. half pints of cornmeal, mixed with Warm water and fed to the fowls. The necessity of keeping the sheep on dry footing should not be forgotten. A yard in which sheep are kept should be one where there is plenty of drainage. Wet; footing is one thing that sheep will not; stand. Many farmers who think it a great waste to stack hay or fodder of any kind out: doors for the winter, will lot coatl machines and carriages stand exposed no t e weather from the time they are baught till they are thrown into the rubbish. If the ground is kept well occupied with other crops weeds will give much lees trouble. Keep meadows sud roadsidea well needed and plow-land cultivated, except when shaded by crops. NOTES AND SUGst'rons. Itispoor economy to use old and dirty Iectiona for oomb honey. Aremarkable variety of asparagus, dis- covered in Rustin, is described as having stalks as thick as a man's wrist, with a height of six feet. Save the wood rushes to act as a. fertilizer. It: is more profitable than to sell them to the soap-makers. Wood ashes never come amiss on the farm or in the garden. 01d leather contains a. considerable per centage of ammonia. compounds, which, are very slowly soluble. A good way to dis- se of old boots, therefore, is to bury them at the foot 9f an old apple tree. A successful poultry-raiser feeds wheat in the morning. barley at noon, and whey in the evening. In addition to the barley he gives the slope from the kitchen, often boil- ing it. The wheat gives a. rich yellow color to the )elks, which is so much desired in the city, where eggs are sold in retail mar- kets. He says one great mistake many chickenAmises make is in feeding chickens too much, and this accounts for their becom- ing diseased. Some farmers attribute the disease known as weak loiné hogs to lying in but horse manure. It is a; rheumatic trouble ‘whicb may be cured by active and continued rub- bin . It may also be cured by exercise and fres air. No man should milk a cow urftil the stable has been cleaned, the cows well card~ ed and brushed, and, if necessary wiped ofl’ with a wet cloth and dried and everything that could possibly foul the milk is removed. Nor should he go to milking without; pre- viously washing his hands. A cowis natur- ally a clean animal, but when tied up in a badly arranged stable, where she cannot help but lie in filth, the owner is to blame and not the cow. Henry Stewart thinks there is no reason why a farmer should not combine dairying and beéf raisingâ€"keeping gooa native cows, crossing them with a good Shorthorn bull, raising the heifer calves for cows and the male calves for beef. KILLING VVERDS. The autumn is a. good time to kill all biennial herbaceous plants. A broad chisel fixed on a. long handle is excellent to cut the Plants just below thé’ surfaceâ€"one to three nches. 'uccordving to the nature of the plant. Dr. George Vasey, botanist, gives the follow- ing hints on weed killing : It is often stated that cutting wéas while in flower will kill them. This is only relia- ble with biennials. and with them only when done so late that much of the need will grow. Give every'part of the farm clean pultivs- tion every few years, either with a hoed crop or with a. fallow. " Plants cannot live indefinitely deprived of their leaves. Hence preventing their ap- pearance above the surmce will kill them sooner or later. Plants have greater need for their leaves, and can be more easily killed in the grow- ing season than when partially dormant. Cultivation in a dry time is most injuri- ous to weeds and beneficial to crops. After a summer crop nae ripened, instead of allowing the land to grow up to weeds it. in often well to sow rye or some other crop to (lover the ground and keep them down. Avoid the introduction of weeds in ma nure or litter or from weedy surroundings. FARM. Perhaps the most elaborate and costly inkstand in the country is the one now in the possession of Robert: T. Lincoln. of Chi- cago, and which stood for a. time on the pri- vate desk of his father when the latter was the occupant of the “’hite House. It seems that one of the delegates from Arizona, in Congress in 1865, had be:ome so fond of The completion of the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad by the switch- back over the Cascades is said tobe the most marvelous piece of railroad engineering in the country. Its extent is but thirteen miles, and the cost$350,000. Thevcostof the Cascadedivision will reach $8,000,000. The maximum grade on the “ amt/:hback " is two hundred and ninety-six feet to the mile. Twoimmense decspod engines, weigh- ing one 'hundred and twenty-five tons each, are used on each train, one on each end of six cars. One of these is ample to draw the train, but two are used for fear of an accident by the uncoupling of the train or otherwise. It is estimated that from thirty-five to fifty freight cars can be handled each way over the “switchbsck” in twenty-four hours. At this rate, each car holding ten tone, from three hundred and fifty thousand to five hundred thousand’ bushels ' of wheat can be sent over the Cascades. President Lincoln that he Wished to give him some memento of his friendship. He sent to Arizona. tor 400 ounces of silver, which were molded by Tiffany & Co. into a handsome and uniquely decorated inkstand. The material itself cost 35' 0. and the bill for the work upnn i was $862. It had not been on the Presi ent’s desk 3. month before the assassination occurred, and fer the twenty-two years since then it has lain in a. vault. Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Roc'k, liven Alone in the light-house, her parents being dead and her brother gone to follow the we. Miss Lewis saved thirteen liven between 1869 and 1881. She does her own housework. keeps the light trimmed and burning, and finds time to raise a few flowers in the crevices of the rocks. A A well-known poet of Spain, deservedly famous for his work, was at the same time a man of most advanced radical opinions, and WE ged such bitter and open War against the regency that he was at last arrested, tried and exiled. He was but scantily endowed with this world's goods, and the wife and children he left behind soon fell i to abso- lute poverty. The poet petitione Queen Christina lor pardon on their behalf. and was at once permitted by her to return to Spain and tohis family. He obtained an audience and went in person to tender his thanks to the sovereign and ofl'er the ex- pressions of his gratitude and homage. He was graciously treated, less as the enemy that was than the future friend. Most men like modest girls best, says a Writer in the San Francisco Chronicle. Mod- esty is discretion ; that's all. The modest girl won’t let you hold her hand when there's anybody likely to see, but she's whole-souled when there's nobody looking, and gives you both her hands. I have known young ladies who would squeeae your hand tenderly, look into your eyes, and do every- thing thad’wal agreeable in the most shame- less manner before other people, but when they were alone with you they’d sit half a. mile off and talk primly about the weather. I don't think these girls would make good wives. At all events, they don’t make good sweethearts. which are already aatrumted with filth, and obliged to wallow in filth and sleep in dust, how can his syaberp be healthv or his flesh fit for food? The comfort of an animal should not be overlooked. find no animal is comfortable that is suffering with thirst; and sour milk, and greasy dishwater, and salt slops are not drink. Twenty thousand woman Knights of La- bor are organized, 1n the city of New York alone, for mutual protection. (“I have six children, your majesty." “ Six,” continued the queen ; “then there argthreefor you apd three for me. ” ' The Women of the country should give more time to met and relaxation and less to .routine housework; They should make fewer pies and less cake and do more sitting down in the rocking-chair on the porch; They would be. Lag more uSeful in their families as the years go by. The woman who stays at home everv day but’when she "goes to meeting’iaan Sunday, who is al- Ways J“ doing for ‘the family,” ‘will soon have no idea beyond the family circle, but none there to its advantage. She will be vforn out physically and mentally early in life, $1111 her children will begin to ignore her’ before they are gone. Victor Hugo said, “The Nineteenth Century belongs to woman. In the twen- tieth century, war, the lcnfl'old, hatred, royalty and dogma will have died out. : but man will live. " wrS‘n‘irdrer‘nrly the Queen said :-â€"“ You are not rich, senor; literary men’ of merit. seldom are, fund you have a. large family, have you not m From tfiAi aaythe poet's three daughters were cared for End educated at the queen's expense, who considers them her specml and personal charge. - Mrs. Gladstone never fails to accompany her husband to the House of Commons. He is so' absent-minded and careless that he does not know how to take care of himself. Mrs. A. M. Holloway has been awarded the contract to clean the streets of Bufl‘alo, New York, for five years, for $447,000. Dr. Elizabeth Bestty, of Indore, sent out by the Presbyterian Church in Canada, as a medical missionary, has treated over 8,000 patients in the past twelve months, and thinks a. hospital and training-school for Hindoo women, would make thousands of converts to Christianity. V Queen Victoria. has a dress, presented by the Empress of Brazil, and woven from the webs of the large South American spider. The alderme; of Brooklyn. N. Y., have appointed fifteen women as police matrons, with salaries of $600 each. A Railroad Over Mountains. ,n What Women Are Doing. Good Advice to Women. A Kostly Ink Stand. Two Kinds of Girls. Queen Chrlsiina. THE FLOUR BAImBL should rest upon two cleats or a rack so as to raise it two or three inches ofl‘ from the floor. This prevents the barrel from being wet when the flog: is cleaned and also allows a. circulation 01 air under it. To ’WASII ALL MOURNIKG CALIOOES and ginghams, throw them dry into hot suds and boil hard for five or ten minutes ; then take Out and rub the soiled parts, rinse. and you will find that the goods will look fresh, and colors will not run. TO KEEP BLACK ANTS OUT OF THE SUGAR BARRELâ€"Draw a big mark with common chalk, around the barrel, and the work is done. The small red ants (a. real pest) are easily banished by a free use of cayenne pepper placed and blown into their re- sorts. DECORATIVE TRIPLES. Nothing is more painful to a girl with artistic tastes than to live in square, bare rooms without the zesthetic. and to possess, alas, a shallow purse, unable to~ stand the strain of “art furnishing.” But one may do a. good deal without calling upon that consumptive pocketbook. If one is doing anything in the line of re-furnishing, there is not the slightest reason for buying ugly things, merely because they must be inex- pensive. Furniture,draperiesand nick-necks, in comparatively cheap materials, may be purchased designed after the best models ; they only require taste on the part of the purchaser. When all the wood-work is light, some decoration on the door adds much to the furnished look of a room. An aesthetic fan; and some of the ubiquitous cat-tails will come in for this use. The leaves and stems of the cat-tails should be gilded; this contrasts beautifully with the rich brown of the seed, and three or four of these reeds may be very gracefully grouped on the door by the slanted fan. Gilded cat- tails and peacock feathers are always our standbys for wall decorations. 'One may do a good deal with a large mirror even if it is old~fashioned. Put it on one side of the room, about three feet from the floor. Drape the top and one side with some oriental- looking stuff, such as one buys for curtains ; arrange a roup of dried palm leaves and catails on t e other, Just straying on to the glass here and there. Below the mirror put a shelf covered with bronze green velvet, and on this place a palm in a gilded pot, or any trifles of brie-a brac. Push your sofa up in front of the mirror, throw some pret- ty drapery over it, and the effect will be ex- tremely good. When about to purchase a. carpet a dia- gram should be made of the floor to be covered, locating all the jogs, doors and windows and giving the length and depth of the room. The measure should be given in feet and inches, and any preferences as to the running of the breadths and the fig- ures should be added. Such s. diagram will he a. very great aid In making a. sstisfsctorv purchase and prevent loss by the waste of a yard or so not actually needed. \Vhen laying a carpet it should be spread entire upon the floor. Then two persons taking each an opposite corner should turn back a portion to allow for spreading the lining upon one-half the room. When the lining is in place lay the carpet back upon it and proceed the same with the other half. This is a better way than to cover the floor with lining first and then carry in the carpet which it is about impossible to spread smoothly upon the floor without dissrrsnging the lining. . To CLEAN LOOKING-GLASSS. ~ Sponge down the glass wifh gum and water, equal parts; then duet down with Whiting and finish with an old, soft silk handkerchief. KEEP THE Tans FILLED.â€"A medical cor- respondent, writing to the daily press, calls attention to the risks to householders result- ing from the evaporation of water from traps, occurring during a. period when the house is unoccupied, and states that it has fallen to his lot to see more than one out break of sore throat, which he believes is caused by this circumstance .How TO FIT KEYS INTO Leannâ€"When it is not convenient to take locks apart in the event of keys being lost, stolen or missing, when you wish to fit a. new key, take a. lighted match or candle and smoke the new key in the flame, introduce it carefully into the keyhole, press it firmly against the op- posing wards of the lock, withdraw it, and the indentations in the smoked part of the key will show you exactly where to file. ADULTERATION 0F FLOUR by means of po- tato flour may be detected by means of acids. Take a spoonful and pour upon it a» little nitric acid ; if the flour be of wheat, it will be changed to an orange yellow; if wholly of potato flour, the colour Would not be changed,’but the flour formed in a tena- cious jelly ; if therefore the flour be adult- erated with potato flour, it will not be dif- ficult to decide. Again, take a spoonful of the flour, and pour upon it a. little muriatic acid ; if the flour be of pure wheat, is will be changed to sideepgyiolet cdlbr,?tvilghout odor-i ibwifpotatqflqur be mixed‘in sun will then have an odor like that of rushes. COLD WATER should be added to softnsoap while hot, and as soon as it will thicken. If stirred well then it will not separate. Comm‘énce to tackvdown a. carpet upon the straight side of a. room and fit it about jogs and recesses last. If laid smooth and tight a. carpet; will wear much longer than if allowed to wrinkle and rub upon the cor. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. GRAPE JELLY Ihould be made from fruit; before it is quite ripe, if wanted firm. WHITE SPECKS or floats in butter are caused by the milk standing in 5 draft of air either from a. window or hot stove. Some farrhers’ wives understand the mat- ter judging from the care with which they save the soapsuds for their flowers. Such an application has a. Wonderful influence in romoting a. healthy and vigorous growth. fsuch substances can be so applied as to beautify the home, all is accomplished that could be desired ; but where such is not the case, they should be saved for the vegetable garden. There is no den 'er of exercising too great care in saving al the fertilizing substances which the farm afl‘ords. A COAL FIRE near the milk-room is much better than wood in the fall, as it gives an even heat day and night. HOUSE SLOPS. If all the soap-suds and waste water from the house was a. plied to the soil it would receive a considxzamble amount of fertility that in many instances is thrown to waste. HOUSEHOLD. LAYING CABPETS. And he put his arms around us both, but Fanny gave a. little scream. “Oh! Gregory, what are you about? This is Mrs. Switzer, who is making my dress. At 1e Lst, I have thought so all day.” For you see I had burst: out laughing, and had kissed Gregory back, and then kissed her. “ My dear, said I, “ I’ve played a little trick on you, or rather, let you play one on yourself, but you've turned out as good as gold. I could not get you to say a word against the old lady I am Gregory’s mother, my dear, and your'a too, if you’ll call me so.” 'When my son Gregory married Miss Mor- rison, I gave him a. piece of my mind, and told him I didn’t, care if I never saw him again. Why ‘3 Oh, well, I didn‘t like her ; she wasn’t the sort of a. girl I’d have chosen. I had never seen her, but 1 knew she wasn’t. A flighty young thing, just from boarding sehool. who couldn't make a shift, or bake a. loaf of bread; but there was Miss Fish, 3 plain girl, to be sure, but so good, a splen- did housekeeper, and all that. I always liked Almlra. Fish ; and Gregory to 36 and marry Fanny Morrison ! Well, as I said, I told him what I thought of him and her, and the boy showed his temper, and for six months I never saw him. “I am sure it does you credit, and the 014 lady ogght to be ashgmgd of hqrself.” I wanted to get: up and kiss my daughter- in law then and there, but than would have spoiled my fun, so after that I sewed hard and didn’t say much, and together we finish- ed the pretty silk dress, and had just finish- edit when a key in the door caught both our ears. “ That is my husband,” said my daugh- ter-in-law ; and I knew it was Gregory. Up stairs he came, two steps at a. time, opened the door and looked at us with a bright smile on his face. “ You haven't heard the truth then.” said my (laughter-in-law. “My husband’s mother is a. very tine woman in every re- spect. But when my husband told her sud- denly that he was going to marry a girl she never saw, she was naturally startled, and said some things about me, knowing I was tresh from boardin school and no house- keeper, that offend Gregory, and so there has been an estrangement. 1 think my dear husband a. little to blame, and 1 have urged him a dozen times to go and see her. He is very fond of her and thinks no one like her in many things; but his temper is up, and it will take time to owl it ; meanwhile, I feel quite sure if she knew me she would like me better. Perhaps that is a. piece of vanity, but I-should try to make her, you know, and I won't fall into absurd super- stitions that a women must hate her mother- in-lsw. I can't rcmember my own mother, and Gregory’s certainly would seem to come next to her. Now you have the story, Mrs. Switzer." ‘7This is as it should be,” said he “Fanny, I shall kiss mother first, this time.” I bore it as long as I could, but A mother must he a fool about her only boy ; so one day, as he wouldn‘t come to me, I went to him, as the rascal knew I would. I went up to the office and walked up to the desk, and I was going to scold him, but something came over me that made me choke to keep the tears back, and before I knew it we had kissed and made friends. “ And now you’ll go and see Fanny,” said he ; “ and I‘ll find you there when 1 come home at night ;” and after a. little coaxin I said I would goâ€"and more than that, went.‘ I rané the bell, it shone as it ought to, and before itstopped tinkling some one open- ed the door. It was a pretty young woman in a blue chintz wra par, and when I asked her if Mrs. Gregory ray was at home, she answered : The house WAS a. cunning little place mile or two out of town, and I must say, wag very peat} ogpslde. “Yes, that is my name. I’ve been ex- pecting you an age, but better late than never.” “ How did you know I was coming 1’" I asked, puzzled to know how she knew me, for we had never met before. “ Oh, I didn‘t know," said she. “ Indead, I had made up my mind you wouldn’t; ; but it is a. long way out here, I know. Come right up stairs. Miss Jones was here yes- terday bocut and haste, but we will find as much as we can do to do the trimming be- tween us.” “ Cool,” I thought. ThenI said, “ l sup pose you gm; hayjnga. drggs lu‘mde ‘2" L “A suit," said She; “skirt, basque and dolman. I do hope nice button holes." “ Oh, then, I have been misinformed," said I. “ I was told that Mr. Gregory Bray was the son of Mrs. Bray who lives onâ€" street.” “How singular 1” said I, “I've heard she fists a_very quepr ol_d lgdy.” Now, I began to understand. My daugh- ter-in-law took me for a. seamstress she ex- pected, and if ever a. woman had a. chance, I had one now. Nota. word did 1 say, only I wondered if seamstresses generally came to work in gros grain silk and a. cashmere shawl ; and I sat down in the rocking chair she gave me and went to work with a. will. I can sew with anyone, and as for the but- ton-holesâ€"bub this is not my 'story. ” I sup one young people are selfish when they are rat in love,” said she, “and for- get old people's feelin s." It was an answer I id not expect. “ It is plain you are friendly with your motlier-in-law," said I. h “‘I am sure'I should be if I had ever seen er. ’ “ That is perfectly true, but still we have Hover met." “ She was a. pretty girl, that daughter-in- law of mine, and very chatty and sociable. I talked of this and I talked of that, but not a word did she say of her mother-in-law. I spoke of eople I had known”who had quar- relled wit their relations, but she did not tell me that her husband’s mother had quar- relled with him. At last I spoke right out about mothers- in-law. I said : “ A5 a rule, mothers-in-Iaw and daughters- in-law don’t agree.” “She said, “That's a very wrong state of things.” “ \V’Ell," said I, “ I suppose it is; but hoy7_do you account for it_?” “Indeed I will,” said the dear girl; MY DATGHTER-I N-LA‘V. overskirt, you make A watch having but one wheel is still in. existence in France, though manufactured“ in Paris more thsna hundred years ago- This watch was presented to the National Institute in 1790, being then in a. deplorable state; but under the skillful treatment of an expert, harmony between the various organs was successfully reestablished, so tnst it is even now in going order. The great wheel, which gives the watch its name, occupies the bottom of the case and the centre of the plate ; it has sixty teeth and is thirty-three mm. in diameter; its axis carries two pinions, one of which receives the motive force from a barrel, and the other carries the minute work. The func- tion of this great wheel is quadruple. First, it acts on a. lift, then on a lever oper- ating on another, destined to lov’ver the axis of the watch, and lastly on a. third lever, the latter serving to return power to the great wheel at the moment when the action relents by the rise of the axis. “ We've been all the more sociable for that, my dexr,” I said ; “and I’m glad it happened; I've been very foolish all the while, and Gregory has chosen a better wife for himself than I could have done.” The height above the valley is nearly 400' feet and the walls in several places nearly perpendicular. There are two means of as- cending, one by a flight of steps out in the face of the wall and risingat an angle of forty- five degrees, and the other by a fissure in the rocks leading up into the heart of the moun- tain. Both ways have been trodden by huâ€" man feet until the steps are hollowed out like shallow troughs. Either one is exceed- ingly difficult and neither is tolerably safe. This stairway is a precarious footing along the sides of a. gash in a rugged mountain. With all the danger and fatigue, it is a laughable sight to see a person make the as- cent. One has to stride over the fissure, one foot on the right-hand side and the other on the left, and at the same time press the hand alternately against the rocks for sup- port. An Indian will throw a live sheep 81' round his neck and go up quite rs idly with out touching either hand to the ocks. An accident occurred on the stairway a few generations ago. Several men started up, each with a. sheep on his back. When near- ly to the top the sheep carried by'the foreâ€" most man became restless, and the shepherd in trying to hold it fast lost his footing, and in falling swept his companions over the precipice, and they all fell on the rocks at the foot in a lifeless heap. The Indians have carved a representation of the accident on a rock near where it occurred, which scarcely serves to steady the nerves of those. who go by that route. And so I think 50-day, for I believe there never was a. better woman than Gregory’s wife, Fanny. The pueblo of Acoma, situated 90 miles west of Albuquelque, is one of the most re- markable communities in New Mexico or the United States. in the middle of a val- ley, six miles in width, stands a butte, and on the top of this is Acoma. Eight hundred people are living there, and they and their ancestors have gathered there the sum of their possessions for nearly three centuries. This butts is one of many that are the remnants of a. mesa that has'been worn away by the erosion of the ages and survives only in flat topped mountains here and there. The valleys between are fertile, and untold generations of men have seen them covered with grain and flocks of sheep. Sometime in the seventeenth century the Laguno, or valley Indians, made war upon the Acomas for the possession of the country and the latter being the weaker occupied this butte as a defensive position believed to be in» pregnable, Their judgment has been abund- antly indicated. it has proved a Gibraltar of strength and safety. “ but I have kept you sewing hard all day; Your see, I expected a Mrs. Switzer, and The etiquette or rules to be observed in royal palaces is necessary for keeping order at court. In Spain it was carried to such lengths as to make martyrs of their kings. Here is an instance at which, in spite of the fatal consequences it produced, one cannot. refrain from smiling: Tue palace was once on fire {"3 soldier who knew the king’s sister was in her apartment, and must have been consumed in a few moments by the flames, at a. risk of his life rushed in and borught her highnesa safe out; in his arms! but the Spanish eti- quette was here wofully broken into ! The loyal soldier was brought to trial: and age it was impossible to deny that he had enter- ed her apertment. the judges condemned, him to die: The Spanish princess, however- condescended, in consideration of the cir‘ cumstances, to pardon the soldier, and very benevolently saved his life. Philip the III. was gravely seated by the fireside ; the firemaker of the court had: kindled so great a. quantity of wood that the monarch was nearly suffocated with heat, and his grandeur would not suffer h:m to: rise from the chair ; the domestics could: not presume to enter the apartment because it was against the etiquette. At length the Marquis de Potat appeared, and the king ordered him to damp the fire; but he ex- cused himself, alleging that he was forbid- den by the etiquette to perform such a. function, for which the Duke d’Usseda. ought to be called upon, as it was his business. The duke was out ; the fire burned fiercer ; and the king endured it rather thzm derogate from his dignity. But his blood was heated to such a. degree that erysipelas of the head; appeared the n°xt day, which succeeded by a violent fever, carried him OR in 1621, in the twenty fourth year of hi} reign. A Watch With One Wheel. October is the month that seems All woren with midsummer dreams ; She brings for us the golden days That fill the air with smoky haze, She brings for us the lisping breeze And wakes the gossips 1n the trees, \Vho whispers near the vacant nest Forsaken by its feathered guest. Now half the birds forget to sing, And hall of them have taken wing. Before their pathway shall be lost Beneath the gossamer of frost ; Now one by one the gay leaves fly Zigzag across the yellow sky ; They rustle here and flutter there, Until the bough hangs chill and bare. What joy for usâ€"what happiness Shall cheer the day, the niwht shall bless 7 "tie Hallow e‘en. the very last Shall. keep for us remembrance test, When every child shall duck the head To find the precious pippin red ! [Etiquette in Spain. A City in the Au‘. October.