Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — Page 4

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

' JlO for this paper ahoold be >uM by the name of the author; not neoaeatrily torn ! but aaan evidence of rood faith on the part it tba writer. Write only on one aide of the paper. Se i perttoolady eanfol. In rtrinr names and dalea, to haea , <t» iettara and Brnrea plain and distinct

[ The World’s Fair will bo a tiling of (beauty, even after dark, according to the plans devised by Electrician fearrett. I, A good many American ladies are hot going to Europe this season. The novelty of smuggling things home is porn off, and there is no longer any fun in it and therefore nothing to go for.

1 A new Boston law extends to all cittzens the proud privilege of getting idrunh twice a year. This provides for Fourth of July and Christmas Day, but leaves no margin to cover the glorious days when Sullivan wins a battle.

I It seems at this distance a little severe for English justice to doom a man to five years’ imprisonment for merely stealing a bundle of canes, but it must be taken into consideration that no real Englishman is oomplete without his walking-stick. A PCLI/-QBOWN crocodile from Florida escaped from its cage somewhere in New York a few days ago and nearly killed a man before it could be persuaded to go back. It takes some Southerners a long time to learn that the war is over. Now that the esteemed Judges of the Federal Court of Appeals have been tricked out in Mother Hubbard gowns, let all good citizens who can keep from snickering endeavor to emulate the laudable example of the lawyer who said: “No, your honor, lam not trying to show contempt for your court; I am trying to conceal it.” The signatures of the worthies who affixed their names to the Declaration of Independence have just been sold in England for $4,250, If any one could have delivered their bodies into the bands of the English about six months after the instrument was signed he would have made a larger sum than this—if he had convinced the authorities that he held the original set. They have suspended a school principal in Chicago because he would not sign a diploma for a son of a member of the book trust—thus certifying that he had completed a high-school course —when, as a matter of faot, the boy had refused to take up one study altogether. The action of the Superintendent and School Board is on a par with that of the fashionable lady who sends the servant to the door to say to a visitor that she is not in.

A Chicago doctor was horsewhipped by a woman because he presented a bill for attendance upon a patient whose case, it is claimed, he did not understand and whom he did not relieve. If this course, under similar circumstances, is followed with doctors generally, the profession, it is to be feared, will be diminished greatly in numbers. To ask a deqtor to understand every case he treats would be a new departure. It would be what they call “unprofessional.”

He was a wise man who, at a recent meeting of the Chicago Trade and Labor Assembly, opposed sending a representative to the coming international labor congress at Brussels. “We got a sufficient dose of suoh European labor leaders as will probably attend that congress at the Haymarket riots of *B6. As an American citizen I object to the introduction of such ideas as are likely to be promulgated at Brussels.” The majority was against him, but he had the right in the matter, as his associates will be ready to admit some day.

A ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE-TON gun is planned at the Watervliet Arsenal, which has just turned out a 12-inch 52-ton gun. If there is one thing more certain than another in modern ordnance it is that the 100-ton guns are all failures, dangerous, shortlived and useless. A 60-ton gun is big enough to smash in any iron-clad now afloat. To build a 125-ton gun—fifteen tons heavier than any now founded—is a ridiculous waste of money, and it is unwise for iho Ordnance Office to begin one with scant appropriations certain next winter.

Since we are in a monument-building era. and oar Irish-American fellowcitizens have caught the fever, why should they not signalize their admiration for Christopher by putting up a shaft in San DoWngo to the Irishman who accompanied Columbus there and wa3 left by him in the colony that remained when h 9 returned to Spain? His name was “Guillermo Ires, natural de Gainey, en Irlanda;” that is, William the lii-liman, of Galway. A Celtic cross of native Irish marble would be a picturesque incident on the shores of the creole republic. Electricity, by which such horrible sufferings were inflicted upon Kemmler, the murderer who was executed at Auburn, appears to have been emjJtoyei with complete auoeess in the execution of the four murderers at Sing Sing. None of the frightful scenes which rendered the taking of the former’s life so horrible were .repeated, and their deaths were punless and instantaneous. It was only necessary to de 1 oistrate that death can be produced instantly and without fin with electricity to do away with

' - - • the gallows. This appears to have been done, and that barbaric relic is certain to disappear, except perhaps for executions ia lawless communities where the methods of Judge Lynoh prevail. Some of the writers who are boasting of their Southern blood will be string-halted by the following cutting remarks of the St. Louis Republic: “When journalists who write the Chicago dialect attempt to write Eentncky English, they will oonfer a great favor upon a suffering public by never making a Kentuoky Colonel say ‘sah’ for ‘sir.’ He never says ‘sah’ under any circumstances whatever. What he does say is ‘sur,’ or, if you like, ‘sih’ or ‘sub.’ As a matter of fact, no one ever pronounces the Tin ‘sir.’ The ‘i’ sonnd coalesces completely with the liquid ‘r’ to make a vowel sound for which there is no letter in the English alphabet.”

According to the St. Louis OlobeDemocrat a fiend in human guise has invented an eleotrioal alarm that will run for two hours after getting started unless its victim gets out of bed and turns it off. The old-fashioned alarm clock would run for five miuutes or so and then a man could turn over and go to sleep again. It allowed its owner to set it at nigbt and then to change his mind in the morning. But the new device is inexorable. The man who sets it must get up at the hour specified, unless he has previously died in his sleep. A well-known principle of ancient justice should be applied to its inventbr. He should be compelled to have one of his own clocks setting at his bedside every night, set for 4 o’clock in the morning.

Mb. John W. Bookw alter, of Springfield, Ohio, Owns about 60,000 acres of land in lowa and Nebraska, and he proposes to inaugurate a reform which will keep young people on the farm. Mr. Bookwalter spent his early life on a farm and believes that the principal cause of disoontent among farmers, young and old, is isolation and loneliness. He suggests that farm-houses be built iu small villages or settlements, not more than a third of a mile apart, with lands surrounding them and conveniently near for practical farming. The idea is not a new one. The farmers of Russia live in villages, but the plan ha 3 not obtained to any extent in this country where the farmer owns his land. Mr. Bookwalter has started such a plan iu Nebraska and he hopes to make the farmer’s life agreeable as well as profitable. His village in Nebraska will have a circulating library, a town hall, a school and a church or two. Mr. Bookwalter’s plan could be followed profitably by other farming communities.

The Universal Postal Congress which has closed its labors at Vienna, Austria, agreed upon a schedule of low and uniform rates of postage among nearly all nations. There have been three preceding congresses, the first session being held at Berne, Switzerland, in 1874, where the original was formed, and meetings have sinoe been held at Paris and Berlin. The last congress at Vienna contained 120 members, every civilized and semioivilized country with the exception of China being new represented in the postal union. The next congress will meet in Washington, D. C., in 1897. Under the operation of this international alliance the promptness and cheapness with which mail is dispatched to every country in the globe is one of the marvelous achievements of modern civilization. Previous to the organization of the union, there existed 1,200 different postal taxes, but these have been reduced to an insignificant number with uniform and moderate tariff. The countries adopting the postal union have a population of 915,000,000, or more than threefifths of the total inhabitants of the globe. An idea of the inorease of the postal business of the world Bince the adoption of the union schedule may be gathered from the fact that in 1871 the. total number of postal pieces carried was 3,300,000,000, while in 1888 il reached 14,760,000,000.

Whatever else may be said of the marriage of Mr. Parnell and Mrs. O’Shea, nee Wood, it was an honorable and courageous act, though the relations of the two were such that no other course remained open to a highminded man. She had sacrificed herself for him, and he has eacrificed much for her. As they were partners in distress, it is well for them to fa'ce the world together, and if there be any marital comfort left for them to share it together. Mrs. O’Shea stands infinitely higher than her late husband and comes of a better family, as socia standing is measured ia that country. At the time of their divorce it wa3 said that he had not lived with her on the

average a month in the year. The rest of his time he spent among the dissipations of the clubs and pursuing pleasure on the continent. Under such circumstances it was but natural that they should cease to have any respect for each other. They pulled apart, and when the divorce was obtained both were satisfied. The legal time has elapsed since the divorce, and both Mr. Parnell and herself being free, they married. Their previous relations have weakened Mr. Parnell’s position as leader to such an extent that it is doubtful if he can recover it, for offenses such as were against him are not easily oondoned. But so far a 3 his domestic relations are concerned gossip mast now bf closed and the whole matter dropped

QUEEN OP FRESH WATER SEAS.

Hw Virginia Is the Best Equipped Vessel that Evfr Sailed Into Chicago. Perhaps the handsomest, costliest |nd best equipped steamship that ever] tailed into Chicago is the Goodrich Transportation Company’s Virginia,! which arrived recently direct from the; hands of her Cleveland builders. 1 Massive in outline and construction, and yet molded on lines as graceful as a yacht’s, and combining speed and Weatherly qualities, she was the pride of every fresh water sailor who boarded her for inspection. Such a sweep of deck room, such' a diap’ay of novelty and ingenuity, that was everywhere apparent, and such thoroughness in the minor de-| tails of outfitting were never seen before on the lakes. The Virginia is! essentially a perfected edition, though ou a smaller scale, of the ocean greyhounds, whose running is one of the marvels of the times. Equipped with twin screws that are turned by power-; ful triple expansion engines, she will; doubtless be able to show her heels to anything that floats on the lakes. Her interior fittings and arrangements are rich and artistic, and include a number of novelties, among which folding berths will probably prove the most popular. The dining saloon is located in the forward hold space, and Is reaohed by a solid mahogany staircase leading from the forward end of

THE VIRGINIA.

the main cabin. The first stairway extends from the cabin to a hallway on the main deck. This hallway is finished in mahogany, and from it the stairway continues to the saloon,which is richly furnished. The ceiling is divided into panels filled with Liacrusta walton, and in the center of each panel is an eleotrio light pendant. 1 In addition to these lights three electrotiers are hung from the central beam running fore and aft through the saloon. With the exception of mahogany the entire saloon is finished in! the tasteful and fashionable stvle of deooration known as ivory and gold, j The dimensions of the hull are 278, feet overall, 260 feet keel, 88 feet; beam, and 25 feet deep. The water bottom is divided into Bix seotions, 1 three on either side, and contains a! tank that will hold 45,000 gallons of fresh water. The hull has six water-i tight bulkheads in addition to collision! and stuffing-box bulkheads, bo that if! the boat should be cut squarely in two both ends would float.

What Was Wanted.

The ability to state a case so clearly, as to render misunderstanding impossible is a valuable gift, but, unfortu-j nately, all persons do not possess it. A. political convention was being held! for the purpose of nominating a candi-i late for an important office. The district was a close one, and the] necessity of selecting a popular man! was thoroughly reoognized. A speaker' bad just nominated a personal friend tor the position, and in an elaborate 1 mlogy had presented in glowiiig terms lis manifold merits, especially empha-! lizing his great service upon tne field >f battle, as well as in the pursuits of peace. After he had finished, a voice was beard in the rear of the room. “Well, what we want is a man that will run the best." In an instant the orator was again apon his feet. “If you think this convention can find anybody who can run better than the gentleman I have nominated, I point you once more to his well-known war record.”

A Wide-Awake Dominte.

One of the best double puns we have, sver heard was perpetrated by a min-, later who had just united in marriage t couple whose Christian names were respectively Benjamin and Ann. “How did they appear during the seremony?” ho was asked. “They appeared both Anni-mated »nd Bennie-sited was the clever reply. No man does anything well who does lot feel the unknown surrounding and pressing upon the known, and who is not therefore aware all the time that what he does has deeper sources and more distant issues than he can com-] prohend. It is not only a pleasing sentiment, it is a necessary element of power —this reverence which veils its! eyes before something which it may not! know. Irreverence everywhere is’ blindness and not sight. It is the stare, which is bold because it believes ih its heart that there is nothing which its Insolent intelligence may not fathom,! »nd so which finds only whaf it looks for, and makes the world as shallow as it ignorantly dreams the world to be.— Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. DJ

Isaac N. Seligman, the New York banker, is regarded in financial circles is the ablest of what may be termed the second generation of the family whose name he bears, and it is an »pen secret that he is one of the prime faotors in the immense banking business and railroad interests they control. As the young man has made a thorough study of railroad engineering, »nd supplemented it by practical exEerience on a Western railroad system, e has an equipment which few finan;iers possess.

The number of arrests for drunkenness in Massachusetts for the year 1890 was 52,814, of whom only 5,882 were women. Forty-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-two arrests were piade in the twenty-five cities, and nnly 6,591 in all the rest of the State, the city population is 1,327,164; the! town population 911,779. The numberi Of arrests has increased since 1885 from (5,480 to 52,824 in 18fW, whatever the Bgures may mean. A Hindoo journalist declares that *manv crowned heads are trembling in' their shoes.” _ i

POINTERS ON COLLARS.

Ittm* and Trouble Saving Device* tor Bhlrt 1 1 and Collar Wearer*. 1 Millions of good linen collars ara rnin&J annually by the handling they; receive in laundries. The acids used; i in washing are baneful enough, but the greatest harm occurs in the iron*

Ing. Perhaps the most popular of collars just at present is the familiar pbent-edge” style. This is the one [that suffers most at the hands of the laundress. The points are turned over, and the hot iron presses down on the 'peam, stretching the fiber at that point so that the oofiar rarely is fable after two or three washings. Here |is shown a little device that will effect 'a great saving if put into practice, while being simple in operation. : First, instructions should be given ,that your collars are to be returned j“ironea flat,” the ends not bent in any {wise. Tnen take the collar in hand, ’as shown in Fig. 1. j Run the tongue along the under of the seam for folding, moistening it, not so that it will penetrate to [the upper surface of the collar, but yet sufficiently so to loosen the fibers |of the linen aronnd the seam. Then jreverse the collar and hold it against some flat, clean surface, as shown in Fig. 9. j With a lead pencil or the thumb pail in play it is readily and neatly pressed down to the proper angle. Treated thus a good collar will last

twice or three times as long in use as the ironed-down affair. Some difficulty may be experienced at first in having the collars returned as requested, but a card attached to the package containing instructions will be effective.

This Road Was Up on Stilts.

Probably the most unique railroad ever built in this country was the old Bradford & Foster Brook. It connected Bradford with Derrick City and was only four miles long, but did an immense business during the boom days in the oil regions. It wa3 built in 1877 and two years later went down ii a smash that killed a number of people. The road was appropriately nicknamed the “Peg Leg” from its peculiar construction, for it was built on stilts, and passengers entered the cars from the second stories of the stations. Frank Campbell, the Traveling Auditor of the Pittsburg & Western, was one of the officials of the old “Peg Leg,” and gives the following interesting account of its construction and how it was operated: “There was but one main rail, which was of iron, but there were two auxiliary wooden rails. The main rail rested on strong wooden beams supported by massive stanchions strongly braced. About two feet below the top beam were two wooden rails about eight inches in width, which were securely nailed to the supporting stanchions. The wooden rails were mainly for balancing purposes. The height of the odd little road varied from twelve to twenty-five feet, according to the lay of the land in the valley through which it was built. Without this elevation the scheme of the inventor would have been impossible. The cars fitted on the rail like saddle-bags, hanging down on each side, and were really two-story cars, the upper portion being used for passenger and the lower story for freight. The grotesque-look-ing train was headed by two engines connected with each other other, one on eaoh side of the man rail, the two balancing like the cars. When the fireman put on more coal he was obliged to desoend to the furnace by a ladder. The engines and cars ran on a set of central wheels which pro- ; truded through the floors into wooden hoods pat on to prevent their damaging passengers. The cars were narrow and the main rails were broad. Whenever the oar tilted side wheels caught the wooden rails and aided to preserve the equilibrium of tbo train.

Self-Sacrifice.

It is useless to t alk of sacrificing self to others unless there is something in self that others need. It is the full and rich life, not the poor and empty one, that can fill and enrich others. " True benevolence, then, must obtain that which it would give. To acquire honorably money or leisare or power, to cultivate health and happiness, to gain wisdom and knowledge, to develop in-' jterest in human affairs, to cherish just principle? and generous impulses— j .these things are essential if we would •pour out blessings and benefits upon» pur fellow-men, while at the same time they ennoble and gladden our own lives. We are all influencing others in thef direction in which we ourselves are tending. The standard of illuminating effi-! cienoy known as the candle power means the light of a sperm candle, seven-eighths of an inch in diameter,' burning at the rate of 120 grains per hour. i Edward Bellamy has developed into a , full-fledged “practical” politician. It won't be a great while now until Edward Bellamy will be looking backward to see his future.

NINA MARRIES AN ITALIAN.

Sin* Zandt-Spies’ Second Romantic i Alliance—A Feature or the Path Nina Van Zandt-Spies was recently married in Chicago to Stefano S. Mala to, and thereby hangs a romantic story. j It will be remembered that Nina, .then a girl in her teens, married by •proxy August Spies, the anarchist, After he had been sentenced to death ,for his share in inciting the anarchist iriot. After Spies’ death, his widow, { almost distracted with the excitemenn attending her lover’s trial and subsequent execution, turned her attention |fc° the study of langnages in the hope that it would keep her from dwelling on the terrible ordeal she had passed 'through. She became an accomplished linguist. About six months .ago she became acquainted with Stefano Malato, an Italian journallist. Malato could not speak a word o English, and was naturally attracted ;by the beautiful young woman who ‘talked his own language so well. Mrs. Spies became interested in Malato, and to help him learn English

NINA VAN ZANDT-SPIES.

and at the same time perfect herself in Malato’s native tongne. The sequel Las had its conclusion in the wedding. [Mrs. Spies gives a version of her marriage to the anarchist that has not been published before. At the time it was generally supposed that she was desperately in love with Spies. She says now, however, that the marriage was made under pressure from her parents and the advioe of Spies’ attorneys. They thought that the wedding would throw an atmosphere of romance about the condemned man and secure executive clemency for him and save his life. The girl was then but 17 years old. As every one knows, the sacrifice was made hi vain.

The City of Morocco.

The streets are narrow, without names, and crooked, and the houses without numbers, like all those of Morocco towns. The population is estimated at 60,000. The city is divided into two parts, each with its walla and gates. One quarter is exclusively for Jews and the other for The Jews are kept strictly within their own division at night, and none of them can walk by {their gates into the Mohammedan quarter without taking off their slipipers, and some of the more fanatioal r°f the people place hot coals in their path, so as to burn their feet as they {walk along. There is no regular police to keep order, yet we have never Geen brawls in the streets, nor have we .heard that the people do much serious damage to one another. The climate of Morocco is considered particularly salubrious. The summer heat is tempered by the snowcapped Atlas, which raises its high summit just behind, while the abundant supply of exoellent water, which passes through the city, contributes much to the health of the people. As it rained nearly every day during our sojourn in this oountry, we found .Morocco at this time of the year particularly dirty, the rains having made the streets so muddy that they all seemed like running sewers. However, during our stay we visited ■the principal bazars and shops, which we found well stocked with Manchester and native products. Some of the people were gathering up the mud and storing it in their shops to mend their houses with. We passed through several markets full of people, and wq examined every kind of work which they were pleased to show us. Here there are markets for all sorts of industry. There is the slave market, which is held every Friday; also the skin, oil, grain and other markets. Here we have a street where old shoes are mended and new ones made and exposed for sale, there a street for old clothes, and others for saddlery, ironmongery, grinding mills, gunsmiths, daggers and swords. The pottery is truly Moorish in character. Fruit, charcoal, cooscosoo have markets of their own. Bread and meat have their peculiar quarteis Carriers goj about with skins supplying the thirsty with drink.— Blackwood’s Macjazinel

What Are the Dog Days?

The dog days last from the beginning of July to August 11. The popular theory is that they are so called be-, cause dogs then go mad; but the notion is etymologically false, besides being untrue in fact. Bogs, strange to sav, 1 are rather less liable to rabies then than at other times. “Bog days” is really a tran 3 la'ion of the Latin" “dies caniculares” —the twenty days before and the twenty days after the heliacal rising (that is, appearance in the mom-1 ing just before the sun) of the 6tar Sirius, whom the Romttm called “Canicula,” or “little dog.” The ancients attributed a most marvelous influence to this star—our “dog star”—and sac-j rificed a brown dog to it to appease its rage. If this were not done they thought that the sea would boil, the wine turn sour and the dogs begin to grow mad, the bile increase and animals grow languid. It is unnecessary to say that, in the course of some ages, Sirius will rise at midwinter ins stead of at midsummer. Perhaps soma wiseacres, like (ho e who arc ready to believe in dog days and new changing the weather and similar impossibilities, will then give him credit for the host and enow. — Brooklyn Eagle. ;

FOR OUR LITILE FOLKS.

t ; A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN* TEREBT TO THEM. i ________ Whet Ch'ldren Her* D*ne, What They . Are Doing, and What They Should Do to Pass Their Chlldhool Days. Jack** Re sol tt ion. “Oh, dear, dear! Was there ever such a boy before, I wonder?” sighed Mrs. Brown, as she unpacked the market-basket one waun 1 morning is. July. ! “What's the matter, mother?" asked Sally, who was woiking with her in the kitchen; “has Jimmy forgotten anything ?” “Yes; he has gone an<} forgotten the baking-powder again, and this is the third time he has been to the village this week, and your father can’t spare the horse now in haying time to go again, and Parson Dermot’s donation party is to come off to-morrow after* noon, and I can’t make anything unless I have that powder.” And Mrs. Brown sunk in an exhausted fashion into a chair, after her unusually long speech. “Well, mother, I don’t see what yon can do, unless you let Jack take the colt and go up to Dr. Gray’s and have Mrs. Gray send yon some in payment for the eggs you let her have last week, and, besides, he can get that new patterh of lace that I want, and that will be doing two errands in one trip.” Jack’s bine eyes brightened as he thought of the trust that his mother and Rister had in his not forgetting anything, and a four-mile ride on his father’s handsome young colt Cseßar had not the last place in his thoughts. “Now, Jack,” said his mother, as ha was all ready to start, “be sure and go straight there and back. It is a pretty long ride for a little chaD like you, so do be careful.” “Little chap, indeed,” thought Jack; “I am thirteen years old, and I can remember what I am sent for, anyhow, and that’s what Jim can’t, if he is sixteen.” But alas! for boyish'resolutions. As he was passing Mr. Randall’s house he wondered if he should, see Rex. Rex was his chosen friend and oompanion. “Won’t he stare, though, when he see 3 me on Caesar ?” he said to himself. He had gone Almost out of sight of the house when a. voice called: “Jack! I say, Jaok, wait a minute, I want to see you,” and Rex jumped over the fence and came panting up. i “Hurry up and fasten your horse toa tree, and come with me, Jip has found a woodchuck’s burrow, and f want you to help me catch him. lam all alone; mv folks have all gone away.' We will sell his skin, and I will give you half of what I get.” Jack’s interest was ronsed immediately at the promise of money, for he was saving all that he could get tobuyi a second-hand bicycle that he had seen! advertised at the village about a month, aefore. Before he could think of his! resolution to go straight, he was off of Ceesar and had him tied and was over in the field with Rex. It took the , x>ys longer than they thought to get the woodchuck, and to Jack’s surprise three hours had elapsed since he had i est Caesar tied to the tree, and the horse gave an impatient neigh when he saw the boys. Jack being in as much of a hurry as Caesar, bade Rex good-by and was off like the wind for Dr. Gray’s, which was still two miles distant. When he reached Mrs. Gray’s! she would have him stay and have him' eat some of her nice ginger cookies, of which ho was very fond, and kept asking him innumerable questions {about home and his mother. When at! last she let him go, and he rushed out/ .to get Caesar and go home, he saw a! ! arge black cloud coming up from the {northwest. “Oh, dear!” thought Jack, “there is an awful shower com:ng, and I have Jim’s new saddle, and it will be spoilt.” When he did reach home the horse,' joy, saddle and everything presented a sorry-looking spectacle. They had >gun to get worried about him, and his father was just going out to look for him. After he had changed his wet clothes for dry ones, there was an indignation meeting, and Jim said that Jack should give him all of his bioycle money to help him get a new saddle. Jack’s father and mother decided that whit Jim asked was but just and right, as nothing would have happened if he had obeyed orders. So poor Jaok reluctantly handed over his precious five dollars and mentally said good-by to his bicycle, and came to the conclusion that resolutions were a good deal easier made than kept.—. New York Tribune.

Care of the Teeth.

Nothing is more conducive to sweetness of breath, and consequently of general health mouth, than to brush the teeth regularly shortly before retiling, that all particles of food, as well as the natural secretions, may be removed. Castile soap is the best which can be used for cleansing the mouth, with which a little magnesia may be employed. A solution of oil of peppermint in water makes an agreeabte and useful mouth wash, while a silken thread may be employed to cleanse the spaces between the teeth which can be effectively reached in no other way. A fine tooth powder can be made of six ounces of prepared chalk, ca sia powder half an ounce, and an ounce ol orris root. These are to be well mixed and may be colored with red lake or any othor innocent substance, according to the fancy. Cleanly habits should be a part of every child’s education, and if they have been neglected in that formative period of life, let them be taken upj and studied and practiced later on; for in this respect we are surely “never too old to learn.” It should*also bei understood that merely external and; visible treatment is not all- that is* neoessary. liet parents impress this; lesson earnestly, in the interest of health, decency and morality.— Good Housekeeping. , A chewing gcm concern in Brooklyn has become a stock company with a capital of $1,000,000. *