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} Nous AND Scoemxoxs. Heat is a. great purifier u well \8 Iweet‘ ener of food and drink. Soda kept moist and vnrm by the love afl‘ords 1 good mm: of telling the vitality of garden seeds. IIIine-months-old pigs are the mont profit- able and may wei h ‘200 w 30. pounds easily with good fee ing. Be'fore frgst closes ttie ground fill aeveml barrels with fine road dust, that {owls may enjoy a. bath in mid-winter. Tile Wisconsin experiment station is well satisfied that dehoruiug bulls and steers is a. valuable operation and productive of much good. ‘ r{he regular and proper use of the curry- comb and brush are wonderfully potent agents in adding to the market value of a horse. It is a. gratifying sign of improvement in a. most important direction to witness the evidences of a revival of interest. in sheep husbandry. As the winter is the time when alarge quantity of ashes are made, some place would be provided for keeping them dry untfl spring. A sick horse is as unfit for work as in a sick man, and animals that are kept; housed most of the time are easily injured by ex- posure to storms. Push on the little pigs. These ought to grow at least five pounds a week from four weeks old, and seven pounds a. week from three months old. At present prices of grain and oatmeal, one or both may be fed In connection with straw, the latter giving bulk and all the nutriment of which it is capable. All young animals need room for exercise. Calves should not. be too closely confined when being fed by hand. Coltl require even more room, as they are fond of gallop- ing around an inclosnre. The change to a horse, blanketed in a. stable, when taken out in cold or stormy weather, makes the animal especially liable to take cold. In a barn the natural cover- ing of hair over a. horse is aufiicient. Ferrets for New Zealand. and Rabbits ior British Columbia. For ordinary purposes, the beat mares to breed from are those wlth short legs, deep roomy cheats, and wide hips. They should be neither too nervous nor too sluggish. and the general muscular structure should be strong and wood. The head of the brood mare is a very im- portant point, as a mare that has a large head, with a dull, stupid countenance, will not breed a. good foal, tor it has repeatedly been observed that: the colt is more apt to resemble its mother in the head and neck, than in any other part. Mr. Cross, the well-known naturaIi-t of Liverpool, who is up in London looking utter the gorilla that he has just told in the “ Zoo,” pgid a call to Nortbumberland street the other day to report on the animul king dom of whom he is undisputed lord. “ The last new thing," said Mr. Gross, “ is the sailing of the tenets; 1‘20 of them havejust gone off, and with them750 pigeons, ten sacks of biscuits and 375 tins of Nestle‘s milkâ€"I bought the milk for them myself." “ But what are the pigeons for 1” “ That I will explain to you. The ferrets are for the rabbits and the pigeons are for l the ferrets. They will eat 11 the T50 pi- geons on their voyage to ew Zeelsnd. ‘ They will also consume the biscuits and the milk. Then, I have sent lacks upon ncks of hay to make bedding for the ferrets, and plenty of Indian corn to feed up the pigeons It was quite a sightâ€"four big carts and two whole railway trucks were taken up with this consignment. Two men accompsnied the ferrets, and very hard work they have looking after both them and the pigeons. But, then. as I told then, the further they gotfrom England the fewer pigeons there will be. “ And what are the ferrets selling for?" " They are a. consignment to a lar e wool farmer in New Zealand. The rabbit pest, as you know, has now broken out very bed there. The Australians, I see, are going tohove s. rabbitâ€"pest conference ; but this New Zealst wool merchant thought he had better send to Mr. Cross, end Mr. Crossis goinv to send to him 120 ferrets. They won’t make much headway, you say, against the rabbits. But then they breed so fest, and if none of them ere lost on the voyage, in a few months' time my client ought to have 600 or 70: of them at least. “ Don’t spare the expense," he said to me. The rabbits are eeting up :11 the pasture on which his sheep ought to he feeding. and unless be con get them under he will be a ruined man. By the next mail I am going to send the some customer a con- signment of shoots and weuels. They are wonderfully tough customers, are nous ; they will bleed me rabbits to desth in no me . “ Criously enough,” ndded Mr. Gross. “ at the very same time the! I received these orders for means of destroying the rsbbitts in New Zenlnnd, I received also a large order for rabbits, and I em new hard at work getting together two thousand of them as quickly as 1 can. They are going to British Columbia, where they have not got any rabbits. 1 am sending tw’o thousand of themâ€"fifteen hundred does and five hun- dred bucks. This is a pretty large business also. They will want one hundred sacks of oats at least for the voyage, besides plenty of hay, straw and sa-wdnsuflj “ Now, how much should you think,’ asked Mr. Cross, “ I am paying for thos' rabbits ‘2" Our reporter hazzrded a guess, but it was below the mark. “ Five shillings a pair," said Mr. Cross, “ is what I have to pay. I am having them from a. large landlord not far from Liverpool, who has raised the price owing so the large number of men he finds it necessary to em- ploy in order to catch them. It will take sixty men, he says, to catch these two thou:â€" aud rabbits for me in time for the non mail.” A young bride signing herself Clem-int. makes a. proposal in Longman's Magazine, London, for the establishment of a bureau tor the exchange of superfluous wedding presents. She says no complaints onn be made of any increase of the number or value of such presents, but of their annoying lameness, She was surprised on her wed~ din: day by the display of twelve dozens of tabla-spoons, sixteen travelling “when, thirteen bout-tongs, eleven gong-gong; oio. FARM. Modern Extravagances. BY HRS. HIKE-Y WARD BIRCHER. The failure of business men and the ruin in “ mind, body and estate" by loss of pro- perty is often attributed to the reckless ex- penditures of their iashion-loving wives. Doubtless in multitudes of cases this is all too true. But is it also true that the ex travsganoe that brings such impoverishment is not altogether confined to the “ weaker sex"? There are two sides to every story, and two ways by which the cause of most domestic trouble can be justly explained and estimated. If so, should not the blame in most cases be more equally divided be- tween the joint heads of the house, instead of laying allon one? Were the true cause of many financial troubles honestly investi- gated and judged, perhaps “ the woman which thou gavest me” might not so often be accused of having wrought the ruin. Are there not cases enough on recordâ€"and some not very remoteâ€"to show that often the husband’s profuse outlays for his own ‘ selfish gratification and pleasure were unU doubtly the chief cause of his loss of pro- perty, and could not be attributable to his wife’s thoughtless expenditures 1' Are not the faults and mistakes in such troublrs on ‘ either side about equally dividedâ€"ms they sooften shouldbe in most disputes? Un~ questionably, there is woeful prodigality in she dress of many. How much ofjewellery, velvets, lacesâ€"all of the first qualityâ€"is bought at very high prices, and, being soon tired of, is cast aside for newer and more fanciful styles ! Even for those who can boast a princely income this is a wicked, needless waste, when perhaps all around these splendid mansions many are really sufiering for a morsel of bread. Seeing such thoughtless appropriations of the abundant blessings committed to their stewardship, one naturally asks, “ Where rests the chief blame 2" Too often, we fear, with those parentsâ€"particularly the mothersâ€"who have toiled early and late and suffered many hardships to work their way up from a very low financial state to competency, and at last to affluence. This done, they resolve that their children shall never experience the cares and hard- ships that they knew in their youth, neVer have any wish nngratified that money and their love can satisfy, and never soil their hands with labor. Havlng thus settled in their minds how their children shall he helped up to maturity, they never reflect that God expects them to teach them to become useful members of society. [‘0 arrange so that, so far as money and indulgence can do it their children’s plea- sures shall be the one supreme idea. Not one care shall cross their path, not a thought of what others are suffering, or how much by a. little self-denial or a thought they can alleviate the afflicted, is allowed to come near them. If a girl never hears a word about economy from her birth, and is only conscious that to secure the means to gratify her slightest wish she needs but to stretch out her hands and they will be abundantly filled. how can one expect after marriage that she can have the faintest knowledge of the duties that must belong to her in the Cure of her house- hold? She has never been called upon to know anything about her own expenses. What she fmclld she wanted she bought without a thought that it might be well to learn if she ought to afiord the money. ‘ How moneylcamejxow it was always ready for her when she asked, were questions she had never been taught that she ought to ask, and to understand the answer. As far as any teaching she has ever received, she might imagine that money grew in the woods, and her father had it gathered for her as wantedâ€"and of course her husband would do the same. No education before marriage ever taught her anything more rational. With such a girlhood, free from every thought but her own personal grati- fication, what reason can there be for sur~ prise if she makes any mistakesâ€"well for her if they are not irremedisble. Duty was something never mentioned to her when a. girl. After marriage her husband gives her no insight into his business afl'airs, no can- tions as to expenses, never talks to her of or consults or advises with her about their mutual expenditures. The same cruel love and indulgenceâ€"or it may be indiflerence â€"surrounds her in her new home, and thus she continues to be left in utter ignorance of all practical knowledge, simply a toy, a butterfly seeking only sunshine and personal enjwyment. And yet under proper training what a specimen of wcmanhood she perhaps was capable of being made! Had she been uensihly trained, how much more of 'rue noble enjoyment she would hnve found, when all the Lalents God gnve her had been turned into their natnrnl channels! How and to think what might have been, when talents may have been folded “my and buried ! Defrauded in early youth of such know- ledge as every girl, however rich, ought to have. why should so much blune rent on tie {u ionsble women even th rug}: har lavish expenses cripple. and at luv destroys her husband’s financial operations? “’33 the fuult wholly hers, or, rather, was in not. more a. misfortune than a fault? Is she not more to be pitied than bl‘n‘meq‘.’ pl This, however, is not ell. SuppOSe after the early months of married life gradually her husband begins to hint at less lavish use of money, and then to urge upon her some little attention to economy, assuring her his business willnot allow such thought- less and wasteful purchases. Economy is a word she has seldom heard and has no defin- ite meaning. But love for her husband (for it is but charitable to suppose that their union came through genuine love) may lead her to make an effort to follow his wishes in so far as she is able to understand them. Yet the way is dark ; no one oflers to lead her through the gloom into the true light. Where shall she begin. how take the first step toward reform? She presses forward to gain higher ideas and to understand how to make them practical, but steps back to the old place and tries again. She cannot yet lay hold of and follow the thread that will guide her out of this labyrinth of trouble. Now, suppose that while thus groping in the dark, earnestly but inetikct~ uslly seeking the right way and grieving thet she makes so little progress, she ob- toms in some accidental ways slight insight Into her husband’s mode of practising that which he would fain teach his wife. Ber mind isbeginning to wake up, her vision grows clearer. Perhaps because she has had her thoughts so intent on correcting her own shortcomings she has been led also to see her husband's proceedings in a somewhat difi‘erent light. Hitherto she thought of his way as what was sbeolutely necessary for gentlemen Who desired to move in the best society. She has always known that he kept fast horses, was con- stant at races, now and then “ enters " a horse or bets on some favorite in the “ course.” He belongs to a. clubâ€"in sever- al, perhapsâ€"is often absent at club dinners or excursionsâ€"well, why not 2 He smokes the most expensive cigars, has a. costly ool: Iection of mcerschanms, and his smoking- room is most gorgeously furnished. He spends large sums in the gratification of all his soecslled cultivated tastes, and seldom stints himself in any of the qentlemanly pleasures which seem to him as reasonable indulgencesz _ .. .. n -. e Hitherto his wifeâ€"if, indeed, she ever gave a. thought to this part of her husband‘- daily lifeâ€"supposed it perfectly comistent with hits position in good societyâ€"was not she also having her full share of all the plea- sures and luxuries money could procure 2 â€" and NO THOUGHT 01' (SUTICISLIG IIXS DAILY COURSE has ever entered her mind until he began to urge some retrenchment, which she was very willing to attempt. She has turned to him for advice ; she gets only vague, uncer- taiu responses and she begins to see that her husband knows no better than herself haw to begin this reduction of expenses. Unfortunately for her peace, it begins to dawn upon her that he lays a heavy burden upon his wife’s shoulders, but takes no share of it upon his own. She sees in his life no signs of the retrenchment in his luxuries and pleasures he has urged on her ; and yet, should the day come when money is not as easily obtained for either as in their earlier life, and the husband sees trouble and danger ahead, it is t: be feared that he will see his wife‘s extravagance through magnifying glasses before he will realize his own. Her eyes have not yet, perhaps, been opened so far as to enable her to draw a just comparison so as to realise to the full the true situntion on either side, but how can she help feeling that she has been somewhat unjustly censured? A mifil’s extravagance oanbe mare skillully concealed than a womsn’l for he" is usually in matters of dren spd person-.1 pdorning. So if trouble and loan falls heavilyqby- Ind-by, any yard of velvet, silk. rich lace w'd every gem will be appraised n the highest value, and chsrged more no the ex- trnvugsnce of the wife than miejudgment of the hulband. But we think GENTLIHIN MAXI THEIR FIRST HISTAIIS in being too proudly reticent on business matters with their wives. Often if there were perfect confidence, and the first warn. ing oi danger was freely talked over between them, their united counsel, made clear- sighted by loving confidence, might avert the disaster they feared, or so for bring it under control as to cause no serious damage. If every wife could be so for taken into her husband’s business confidence that they could freely talk over their several expenses and see where retrenchment was needed, and together plan the best way of effecting all that was needed, they would strengthen each other’s hands, encourage their hearts, and by such counsel secure that strength most to be coveted, and ward of? much pain and loss. No one can fail to see the mischief that must follow the thoughtless extravagance, which is said to be on the increase. One feels despondent and hear‘sick at the sight of sorrow and want which they have not the power to relieve, while at the same time the stores are crowded with the multi- tude spending their money needlessly, just for the pleasurable excitement of “shop- ping,” to use the time hanging heavy on their hands while waiting for the ball, party orgpers. . . . t. ‘1 If: just for an experiment, they would now and then take that wasted time and money to help the worthy poor, to see what; money can do to bring light; to eyes faded with weeping, hope to the despairing hearts, they would soon learn how infinitely better it, is to receive the blessings of those ready to perish who they have relieved than any- thing possible to be found in their usual rt und of pleasures and amusements. The Osage: are the aristoernte of the Indian population of the United States. They have an indefensible title to the re servation upon which they live. and about $7,000,010 in the hands of the Government bearing five per cent. interest. They are paid $250,000 annually in cash, and as they are only 1,600 in number they constitute the wealthiest community in the country. A writer in the Kansas City Time: thus de- scribes them : “ The Osages have all the attributes of an aristocracy. They own the land, do abso- lutely no work, have plenty of money, know nothing of barter and sale, and therefore not much of the meanness which characterizes all commercial classes. They envy nobody, ard are satisfied with themselves and their customs. With the virtues of aristocracy they have its vices. With generosity they have shiltlessness and laziness in perfection. Though magnificent postures lie before them for miles, few of them take the trouble to own cattle, the majority preferring to buy beef already slaughtered and cut up from the traders. They are not even hunters end fishers. Their lives are spent in lying around under tents and shanties, eating to repletion and filling their blood with impurities which they do not take exercise enough to get rid of. Bad habits have brought on bronchial and scrofulous diseases, which are helping to still further reduce their number. They have no faith in White physicians, and their own medicine men have as much influence as o-e hundred years ago." “ Are you still tugging awny at those gloves of yours ?” “ Yes, dear.” “ You know it disgusts me to see you walking‘ through the street making your toilet." “ Does it, dear '2" “ Why, do you know that I would just as soon see you pulling on yourâ€"stockings in the street as your glpges 2” “ Most men} would,” was all ah. laid, md he had nothing else to say.” Princess Beatrice is a woman of remark.- ble versatility. She is artist, author, poet and composer. She has just published “ The Sunny Month of May,” a pretty tenor song. The words are by Hoino. The death of Lord Lyons, who ha: been seriously ill for some time, in monnood at the age of seventy. An Indian Aristocracy. Heard on the Street. How Duns Am Muninm Cous'rsD. It is not generally known that the United States Mint, on Fifth street, says the San Francisco Chronicle, is the largest institu- tion of the kind in .‘the world, yet it is a fact. Just at the prisent time there is a lively demand for silverldirnes, and hun- dreds of thousands of dollars of them are be- ing shipped to New York, Chicago, Cincin- nati, St. Louis, and other Eastern cities. Two of the money presses have been for some time running exclusively on this coin. The demand is so great that these machines are not even stopped on Sundays and will be run on that day throughout the p-esent month. The process of dime making is an interesting one. The silver bullion is first melted and run into two-pound bars. These in turn are run through immense rollers and flattened out to the thickness of the coin. These silver strips are then passed through a machine which cuts them into the proper size for the presses, the strips first having been treated with a kind of tallow to pre- vent their being scratched in their passage through the cutters. The silver pieces are then put into the feeder of the printing presses, and are fed to the die by automatic machinery at the rate of 100 per minute, 48,000 dimes being turned out in a regular working day of eight hours. As the smooth ‘pieces are pressed between the ponderous printing dies they receive the lettered and figured impression in a manner similar to that of a paper pressed upon a form of type; at the same time the piece is expanded in a slight degree, and the small corrugations are cut into its rim. The machine drops the completed coin into a recsiver, and it is ready for the counter’s hand. The instru ment used by the counter is not acomplicat- ed machine by any means, as one might suppose. It is a simple, copper-coloured tray, having raised ridges running across its surface at a distance apart the exact width of a dime. From the receiver the money is dumped on to this board or tray, and as it is shaken rapidly by the counter the pieces settle down into the spaces be- tween the ridges. All these spaces being filled the surplus coin is brushed back into the receiver and the counter has exactly 1,250 silver dimes, or 8125, on his tray, which number is required to fill the spaces. The tray io then emptied into boxes, and the money In ready for shipment. The dime does not pas: through the weigher’s hands as does the coin of a larger denomination. One and one-half grains is allowed for varia- tion or “ tolerance,” in all silver coins from a. dollar down, and the deviation from the standard in the case of the ten cent pieces is so trifling that the trouble and expense of weighing coins of this denomination is dis- pensed with. At a meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, Mr. Edward , Stallibrass read a paper on deep-sea sound- ing in connection with submarine tele- graphy. Mr. Stallibrass said the work of surveying with a View to ascertaining the configuration of the ocean bed previous; 0 laying a submarine cable was of vital import- ance. Between Cadiz an'l Tenerilfe alone, a distance of about 700 miles, 673 soundings‘ were taken on one expedition, resulting in the discovery of two banks, two coral patches and four other shoal spots. Some of the inclines near these banks were re- markable for their steepness. On the east side of one of these the bottom fell precipit- ously for 450 feet. and on a sounding taken by the Dacia during her survey of Seine bank a precipice of 1,800 feet was found. A map of the mouth of the Congo showed a most remarkable submarine gully, the contour lines of which were drawn from 202 sound- ings, many of these having been taken at in- tervals of less than one mile. In the mouth of this remakable river a depth of no less than 1,452 feet was found, the Thames in a similar locality giving only abJut 40 feet. The gully: was distinctly traced 100 miles out at sea. It seemed almost incredible that probably one-half of the cables now lying at ‘the bottom of the ocean, amounting to a value represented by several milions sterl- ‘ ing, had been placed on their on their ocean ‘ bed, whiles those carrying out the work were almost totally ignorant of the bottom on which the cables were destined to lie.â€" [Pall Mall Gazette.~ A FOUNTAIN or NAPHTHA. A Russian newspaper gives details of an outburst of naphtha in the Baku region. The naphtha, ow1ng to the pressure of the gases which acompeny it, rises to a height of from “280 feet to 4‘20 feet, and is carried by the wind to a great distance, falling like fine rain at the more distant parts of the district, but near the fountain coming down in torrents that formed rivers and stream- lets. Further on it fails like Ileet, and set- tles in a. layer on a building in the neighbor- hood. These naphtha. rivers flow for a dis~ tunes of more than a. half mile, end pass through wells, works, reservoirs And inhabit- ed houses, etc. Unfortnnetely all the reeer~ voirs in the neighborhood were full when the fountain broke out, and the oil use thus wasted. It is conceded that the stars are some dis- tance off, so far that the human mind fails to get evxn:s faint comprehension of the distance, but the astronomers are always giving us new figures. In one of the Eng» lish magazines speaking of the star Alpha. Centauri, it is said to be in round numbers t“ enty billions of miles off from the earth. Now, a billion means a million of millions, so that the distance of Alpha Centauri may be stated to be twenty millions of millions of miles. The Astronomer supposes a train to leave the earth, travelling day and night at the rate 0! 50 miles an hour without stoppages. In six months it would reach the moon, in 200 years it would reach the sun, and in 6,000 years it would reach the planet Neptune, the orbit of which forms the extreme known limit of the planetary system. The same train, however, would not reach the star Alpha Centauri in less than 41,000,000 years. One more illustra- tion may ,be useful. Comets. in general, revolve in very eccentric orbits. When a comet is in the perihelion of its orbit it is comparatively near to the earth ; on the other hand, when it is at the aphslion it is remoteâ€"in many instances very remote from the earth. For instance, the celebrat- ed comet 371858, known as Donati‘s comet, one of the greatest comets of modern times, At the time of its pouage of the periheyou Ra'sâ€"Iiiihi from ‘the inn 50,000,000 miles, but when it bu Attained the Aphelion of its orbit «which '11.! occur! in shout 1,000 THE BOTTOM or THE DEEP In .0]: r3! 11151131.] DIMAIIOEI. SCIENTIFIC. BLUE SEA. yearn hereafter), its diltsnce from the earth will not be less than: 30,000,000000 miles. Now our ty ical railway min starting from the earl: would not reach the nphelion of the orbit of Donati‘a comet in lens than 60.000 yearn. and yst the aphelion distance of Donati‘l comet is only ono~aeveu-hundred- th put of the distance frcm the earth to Alpha Cent-um, the nearest of the fixed stars, Beefâ€"Among all civilized people beef is regarded as the principal animal food. By common consent we admit that beef is more nutritious than any o.her kind of flesh. This universal opinion is supported by the investigations of science. There is n larger proportion of nutritious material in beef than in the flesh of the sheep or hog. Beef is of closer texture, and is fuller ofred‘blood juices. It is richer in flavor than the flesh of any other domestic animal, and a smaller amount of it will satisfy hunger. Veal is not nearly so nutritious as beef, and is much more difficult of digestion. Some persons are wholly unable to digest veal, and when they eat of it, it acts as A foreign body in the intestines, and causes griping and diarrhoea. It is more easy of di~ gesrion when wellroastedorbroiledthan when boiled. The time required for the digestion of veal is five hours or more, while beef is digested in from two-and-a-half to three hours. Mut(o1z.â€"â€"This is more easily digested than beef, though in a healthy man no marked difference would be observed, since in the stomach of such a. man there arises no in. convenience from the digestion of beef. However, mutton will he found to tax the stomach of the dyspeptic less tnan beef does, and mutton broth is both acceptable and. valuable toa. person suffering from dysen- tery or kindred affections of the bowels. But mutton is not so nutritious an beef. Lamb.â€"This is not nearly so nutritious as mutton. The tissue is soft, gelatinous, and rich in water. It is used principally on account of its delicacy of flavor. which, how- ever, is very variable, depending upon the breed and nourishment. Lamb should not Bé selected for those whose digestive organg are weak. Poa'k, Bacon and Ham.â€"As a rule, dried meats are more difiicult of digestion than} the same meats in the fresh state. Bacon and ham are, however, exceptions to this rule, for When well cured they are digested with more ease than fresh pork. In cold; weather, nice bacon is especially suited for furnishing a. large amount of best by its, oxidation in the body. The inhabitants of cold countries find fatty food necessaxy to their existence. Fawl.â€"There is no bird that may not be eaten in case of necessity. in other words, the flesh of no bird is in itself poisonous. The same is true of the eggs of all birds. It is true that cases of poisoning from eating quails during spring have occurred ; but the poisoning was due to the buds of the mountain laurel, upon which the birds fed. The flesh of carnivorous birds is strong in odor and in taste, and would not form a tempting dish. save to one threatened with starvation. The light meats of birds are more easily digested, less rich in nitrogen and in flavor than dark meats. Chicken broth is more nutritious than th at made from either mutton or beef, and often of great value to the sick. Where Jet Comes From. Jet is the commonest substance in use for personal ornaments, sud yet not one out of 1,000 persons knows where it comes from or What it is composed of. The English jet, which is the mast popular, is dug on the coast of Yorkshire, near \Vhitby and Scarâ€" borough. The trade from Whitby dates back to the latter part of the sixteenth cen- tury, ‘_a.nd jet is known to have been used for ornaments by the early Britons and their Roman conquerors. The price of the raw materialis Irom 10 to 18 shillings a. pound. It is worked altogether by hand. Pieces are sawed to the proper size and then the pattern is scratched upon the jet with a sharp pointed instrument. Then a work- man takes a knife and commences to Whittle the jet just as you might a stick of wood, the miterial working easily. With this knife and with small chisels he works out the pattern. after which the piece is taken to the grindstone and the rough parts are ‘ground off. Swift-whirling wheels do the polishing, except where there are deep in- cisions in the ornament, in which case boys finish the polishing with thin strips of list. Brillianéy is given to the ornament by sprinkling on [9. little rouge and polisbin lightly with a rubber. Jet was once useg almost entirely in the way of pins, brace- lets, etc.. but now the larger part of the output is made up into dress trimmings. Bocaccio was thirty years of age when he commenced his studies in light literature ; yet he became one of the greatest masters of the Tuscan dialect, Dante and Plumrch being the other two. Sir Henry Spellmnn neglected the sciences in his youth, but commenced the study of them when he was between fifty and sixty years of age. After this time he became a. most learned mtiquary and lawyer. Dr. Johnson npphed himself to the Dutch language but a few days before his death. Ludovico Monaldeach, at the great age of one hundred and fifteen, wrote the memories of his owu time. Ogilby, the translator of Homer and Virgil, was unacquainted with Latin and Greek till he was past fifty. Dryden, in his sixty-eighth year, com- commenced the translation of the Eneic‘, his most pleasing production. Cato, at eighty years of age began to study the Greek language. Franklin did not commence his philoso- phical researches till he reached his fiftieth year. A Southern clergyman, who is an amateur naturalist, announces that when a sparrow hawk pounoea on a guinea. he lets the guineu fly, but the hawk, sitting on the back of the fowl, uses his own tail to guide the guinea. He always steers his victim to his nest in the forest. Socrates, at an extreme old age, lea.de to play on musical instruments. VALUE or DIFIIRENT MEAL: AS FooD. Plfitarch, when between seventy and eighty, commenced to study Latin. Nevei‘ Too Late to Learn. HEALTH.