Show preparation P OR OF WHITEWASH whitewash ia Is one of the most valuable articles in ln the world when properly applied i it ilot only prevents the tho decay of wood but conduces greatly to the healthfulness of all buildings wb whether ether of wood or stone out dut buildings and fences when not painted should be supplied with a coat of whitewash once or twice a year which should be prepared in the tho following way taken hakea take a water tight barrel or suitable cask and put into it half a bushel of lime ilme me slake it by pouring water over it boiling hot and in sufficient quantity to cover it five inches deep and stir it briskly until it is thoroughly slaked when the slaking has been thoroughly effected dissolve it in water and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc inc and one of common salt these will cause the wash to harden and prevents it cracking which gives an unseemly appearance to the work if desirable a beautiful cream co lorcan lorean be added to the above wash bys b y adding three pounds of yellow achre ochre or a good pearl or lead co color or by the thel addition of lamprine lamp vine or ivory hiack black for fawn color add four pounds of umber turkish or american the latter is the cheapest one pound of indian red led one pound of common lampblack lor loc eor soi common stone color add four pounds of raw umber and two pounds of lampblack this wash may be applied with a common whitewash brush brusa and will be found much superior both in appearance and durability to the common whitewash minis man is a wonderful creature butia but if he equalled equal led the beasts birds and insects in their own peculiar powers how much more wonderful he would be if for instance he could swim like a fish run lidean like ilke an antelope glide gilde like ilke a serpent g gallop 0 it like ilke ea a horse orse climb like a monkey monkeys bp ang ing it e a tiger and tit fIT lIke ilke an eagle or if he e could uld roar like ilke a lion ilon I 1 ion lon sing like a nightingale scent ascent like calhound a hound hear hean like a rabbit hold on like a leach ferse persevere like an ant see as far as a bird guide himself like a bee jump like a grasshopper sleep like a toad and diet like an anaconda what a marvel oberea of creation would he be bu but t taking his shortcomings into consideration he is hot so much after all think of I 1 it ta if a mails malls mans voice bore the same bame proportion to his hia weight that a canary bird does his lightest word could be heard beard at a distance of eight hundred miles and if at the same time he ile had ielati relatively vely to his bulk the same jumping power as the tiniest flea he could spring from new york city to china at a single bound ahl ah that would be something like hearth and bome li in the early days a brides marriage portion consisted of a feather bed alx six chairs a cherry bureau and table six hix cups arid annd saucers six sli teaspoons and anti a quantity of sand band for sanding the floora floors nowadays the groom does not demand the sand even evem if the brides father will only Ilbe libe liberally fally faily come down with the dust prof see seb of paris in a recent lecture on pOy pointed out that the proportion nicotine varies according to the kind of tobacco toli ako amo thus that pro i deuced in germany and alsace contains from three to seven peu oer percent per cent of nico tine while that from havana and maryland has only two pen per per pen cent iii in smail small doses nicotine aids respiration and does not affect the heart but hut 11 in larger arger quantities the professor showed t hat that it produces convulsion of the respiratory p pir muscles an accelerated and intermitting ter pulse and a tremulous condition of the muscles I 1 everybody has heard of the term morganatic marriages and many keople end eople suppose that marriages of this ind are a species of concubinage in which the kings and princes of europe are fond of indulging this is not the t e case however A morganatic mai max Is just as binding upon the parties aa as that of any other marriage the terna tennas is derived from the german mon imor mor gengaro gen gaho gabo e 1 I 1 which literally liter ilter alJy means a dowry it likewise signifies a matrimonial colira contract bt in which one of the parties is greatly superior in rank to the other others if it be the bride that is of inferior rank she agrees that she and her children shall be e entitled neither to the rank nor to the estate of her husband and that the dowry which is settled upon her at the time of the marriage shall shail beabe be accepted in lieu of all other privileges it the man be the inferior he gives conbene to similar conditions in the bridal ceremony the party of superior rank gives the left hand band instead of the right other whence the mar sometimes called left handed |