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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Merchant's: OF GENERAL INTEREST. Origin and Isolation of French Heels. The French heel has been blamed for much that it does not deserve because its object is not understood and hence, is improperly used. The wearer of a French heel should bear in mind the fact that such heels are only intended a slight assistance in walking on tiptoe and to make the carriage more steady and uniform than walking on tiptoe ordinarily is, instead of supposing that they are to bear the weight of the body as flat heels are.

The square heel and toe walk of the pedestrian should never be attempted on French heels. The force with which the wearers strike their heels is shown by the fact that they are generally iron clad or shod with brass, and that on old boots they are invariably worn off or run over." This should never be. A lady that would walk gracefully on French heels should be ace gathering together of much that la finest in painting, sculpture, niture in a word, in every element of all that is most remarkable and recher-i che in the history of bric-a-brac. The sales of the collections" wo have named created great sensation when they took place, but none caused the stir and animation among the purchasers of curiosities or objects of art, whether in Great Britain or on the continent, which the sale now going on has excited. Many have expressed regret on the several occasions of the breaking up of great collections, forgetting that while they existed they were generally almost exclusively enjoyed by their possessors and perhaps a few of their friends.

No doubt inspection of them was attainable by appreciative persons under regulations sometimes annoying, and upon permission not always easy to obtain, or as favors ungraciously accorded, all rather tending to show "that the treasures were gathered together under tho dog-in-the-manger principle, as a delight for the few to the exclusion of the many, During these later years, however, the love of objects of art has been so disseminated among all classes of people that thousand are now anxious to itudy and appreciate them in place of tho few who had formerly had any de A Chili squash, raised as an exper." Imentby a Monticello, farmer, weighs nearly two hundred pounds. Sheep are excellent agents for rid-dingland of thistles, as they crop them off as fast as they shoot out of the ground. To Cure a Felon, take a table-spoonful each of red lead and castile soap, and mix with as much weak lye will make soft enough to spread like salve. Apply it on the appearance of the felon. Rural New Yorker.

A Rural New Yorker correspondent has a new method of keeping his beef steaks and mutton chops for three or four days, or even longer, in the warmest of weather, by strewing each piece thickly with Indian meal, and rolling up, and then burying it in meal. It is said to be the custom in Spain for every one who eats a fruit to dig a little hole in the ground, and plant the seed. In consequence, the roads of that country are lined with trees, the fruits of which are free to all. There is a hint here which might well be acted on in this country. N.

Y. Examiner. To raise sixty bushels of oats to the acre, plough the ground in November; be particular to turn it all over; then winter give a light coat of manure, spread evenly, from five to ten loads per acre, according to fertility of land. Early in spring, as soon as the ground dry enough, sow the oats and work them in with a cultivator, going over and then across; level the ground by going over once with a harrow, and roll, if desired, thus getting them in early. A late snowstorm will not hurt them.

If not put in the ground early the ground frets hard. Husbandman. Blue Holland Shades, with insertion and edge of antique lace, make a pleasing change from the red ones which are and have been so popular. These shades are especially adapted for windows in doors, and for bed-room windows. Like the scarlet ones, they do not show dust, and wear as white or cream -coloi-ed ones do.

Under white muslin curtains in abed-room, curtains of common turkey-red calico not only answer well for a lining, and give a softened light to the room, but are dur able also, as they can be washed without fading. N. Y. Post. Care of Table Knives.

The chief cause of the destruction of knives is their treatment, or rather want of treatment, as soon as they are removed after the different meals. Instead of being attended to first, they are left anywhere and everywhere, scattered about, while the china and silver are washed and dried, and then they come in last, but not least, to be washed in the greasy water, handles and all, and then only half wiped; and so they lie until to-morrow, if there are plenty of others "to take to;" if not, they are hurriedly cleaned up just as tne next meal is going up. Now, the knives are of the very first importance in "washing up." Better far leave cups, and plates and silver waiting their turn than delicate steel. I like better than anything a pewter can to wash knives in, the height of which should be the length of a large table knife. First, they should be wiped on a knife-rag, and then wash them in warm water in this can, and then not only quickly dried, but taken out singly and separately out of the water, and well and thoroughly dried.

1 wonder servants do not like aud wish to get their knives out of the way first; and if they would ouly use soap and water, and dry thoroughly, I can assure them that their knives would look almost fit to come to the table without any more cleaning, and if they would only adopt this method daily the labor of the knife-board would be far less. There ought to be a japanned knife-box for the knives that have been washed and not- cleaned, and a japann- 1 1 i eu uox or xray wun a nanaie ana a division for those that have been cleaned, and well dusted after the cleaning. As to the keeping of the handles of table knives, I have one very simple recipe which I apply to all ivory articles, and that is whitening. Take a soft piece of flannel, put it tightly on your finger, dip it in whitening, moisten with water, and with this rub the handle of the knife the way of the grain as hard as you can. Continue rubbing for some time, and then polish with dry whitening.

Clean ivory brushes, work-boxes, paper knives, or any other article of ivory in this way, and you will see the immense improvement. Quite a skin seems to come off the ivory as you rub, and the ivory loses the yellow ness of neglect in proportion to its de- gree. A clean brush will remove all particles of whitening from the nooks and crevices. Fann and Fireside, Johnny thought it would be nice to be a girafie; for then he could stand on the ground and eat the apples, pears and cherries that grew on Farmer Jones trees, beyond the danger of dogs and bear traps, and could also taste the good things all the way down his neck. But Johnnv had a sore throat the other day, and as he laid his head on the pillow upon retiring he confiden tially remarked to his mother that he 1 was glad he wasn't a girafie, after all.

A girafie with two or three yards of sore throat dwarfed his own affliction inxo notnmgness oy comparison. u'os-ton Transcript. If Egypt wants any more Colonels -however, it none of our business. A Colonel is a ColoneL in Georgia 01 in F.ypt. Atlanta Constitution.

it as a Married At Cleveland, Ohio, Mr, Means, three feet and a half high, to Mlsa Harrison, three feet high. The wonder in Denver is who threw adnaraite bomb into the Rev. Charles Marshall's house, and why? Knute Knutson, noted in Northern Wisconsin for the great size of his feet, utilized them to kick a wolf to death. No fewer than two German expeditions willome to this country to observe the transit of Venus next December. Chicago Journal.

The top of a fence in an inundated tract in Illinois reached just above the water, and for days every post and board was piled high with snakes, endeavoring to save their lives. Some caterers say that people at hotels eat more beef since the price oi it became so high than they ever did before. There is a good deal of human nature in this. K. Y.

Mail. Absurd and ridiculous names are given to soups nowadays on hotel bills of fare, when the stock in nearly every case is the same. Modern cookery is closely allied with a great deal of hum-buggery, Chicago Times. A modest request was made the other day by a little daughter of a well-known St. Francis Xavier Street, Mon- treal, stock broker Fa, will you give my birthday me a corner in stock: present?" for There is a great hue and cry over spurious sardines, which Hood the market and deceive the ignorant and unsophisticated.

It is claimed that the brands of the best-known firms are cleverly imitated. The Hartford (Con.) Courant says that the grand residence of the late Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, on Vanderbilt Hill, Hartford, was never occupied by Its owner. It looks deserted, and the entrances of the two roadways are placarded "No admittance." Owing to the high price of beef the people of Tavans, says the Boston Post, have taken to eating alligator steaks, and pronounce them delicious. As long as a man has got to eat a thing he'll pronounce it delicious, whethei he likes it or not, unless he gets it at a boarding house, and then he'll growl anj'waj.

A lady in the Cleveland Leader inquires whether "the day will ever come when a lady can go through the streets of that city on Sunday unmolested by Sunday saloon patrons?" To which the Detroit Free Press responds: "Don't wait for it. Come to Detroit, where they get so drunk that they can't bother anybody." Dr. Nicholas N. De Menil was one of the oldest and most successful medical men in St. Louis.

Yet, when taken ill, he said he would die on July 10, as he was convinced that he could not survive a change of the moon. The physicians in attendance wondered at his superstition, and wondered again when he died the 10th. X. Y. Sun.

A physician is responsible for the statement that a large majority of natural deaths, especially in the cases of children, occur "on the turn of day," as the ruralists say, i. from 12 to 3 o'clock either dav or nisrht. and that there is no explainable reason for this. It is one of the mysteries attending death. Of 100 persons dying by natural causes, eighty die within the named hours.

Chicago Herald. Among the provisions for the reg-llation of the liquor traffic in Copenhagen, just reported by the special commission appointed for the purpose, are these: The number of licenses shall be reduced from 1,350 to three hundred; no landlord shall be under 35 3-ears of age; female service, except that of the hostess, is forbidden; drink cannot be served to any person under 18. years of age, male or female, or to one who is already drunk; a drunken person is to be conveyed to his own dwelling in a cab, or covered carriage, at the expense of the landlord in whose house he took his last glass. Among the sacred writings of El Islam is found the following prophecy: On the lirst month of Moharrem, in the year of the Hegira 1300 (November 12, 18S2), will appear the El Mehdi, or Messiah. He will be exactly forty years of age, and of noble bearing.

One. arm will be longer than the other; his father's name will be Mohammed, his mother's Fatima, and he will be hidden for a time prior to Ifis manifestation." When dignified old Justices of tha peace and staid old farmers of the peaceful State of Vermont will turnout I en masse to lynch a man there must be I substantial reason for their belief in that man's guilt. And that is what the citizens of Rutland did. They dragged the accused man half a mile over a rough road and then strung him up. He confessed, and the tender-hearted, though well-intentioned, sons of the everlasting hills relented and let the culprit off with a coat of tar and feath ers.

N. Y. Herald. An Indiana young man loved a lass of the same town, and was engaged unto her. Said lass oes visiting to -a neighboring town, loung man meets and adores a new girl.

Lass aforesaid hears about it and writes young man a Scorcher fans young man's spark of love for new girl into big bright flame. Lass discarded. New girl jilts young man. Young man makes up with lass. Wedding day set.

Lass meets young man at door, takes him into the kitchen and says: "Fletch, I am going to be married to-morrow, not to-day, to new young man." Curtain, blue fire, slow music. Chicago herald. as a it in is for miciaa, fowl and aaJrna! flesh, tras first prepared and introduced hv Dr. Geo. W.

Merchant, iu Ixx'kport, 2s. U. S. 1S53, since which time it has steadily prown in public favor, and is now acknowledged aad admitted by the trade to bo tho standard liniment of the country. When wo make this announcement wo do so without ear of contra.

ditOon, liotwitnstanainsr wo are aware there are- many who are more or less prejudiced agrainst proprietary remedies especially ou account of the many hum-bu'js on' tho market; however, we are pleased to state that such prejudice does not exist iwainst A ltb i.irsr cuLt. uo not claim wonders or miracles for our liniment, but we do claim it is without an equal. It is put UP in tattles of three, sizes and 5Ss all wo ask it that you Rive it a fair trial, reniemlwrinjr that HfejSS the Oil put up with white (small) is for human and flesh, and that with yellow wrapper (three sizes) for ani malflosh. Try bottle. As these cuts indicate, tho Oil used snecfsfully for all disoHsc of tb human, out aiui animal flesh.

Shake well leforo S2fW Cannot bo Disputed Ono of tho principal reasons ot tho worxkfful Mx-vea of Mer- chant? Garfriiupr Oil lj that it ia i ct 1 ired strictly on honor. t'ijX ta proprietors do not, as is the cae with too many, after making for their medicine a name, diminish its curative pro)ertH3 by inferior compounds, but use tho very best gwxls to bo bought in the mar- ket, regranuess of cwt. For half a -4 century Merchant's Gargling Oil teon a synonym lor nouesty, si'iir? and will continue, to be so. lomriii rfpS-i- time endures. For sUe br all re- dealers throughout Uia United State and other countries.

fTL Our testimonial date from 1S32 to tho present. Try Merchant a Garbling Oil liniment for inter -Tfr-K ns! and external ui. and tell out iarhbr what good it has done. Don't fail to follow directions. Keep tho bottle veM corked.

Oil net Hum and Fprain? and Utilises. StrinprhaU, Wi 1 idirails. Foot Hot in Sheep, Foundered Feet, lump in Poultry, Sore Nipples, Curb, Yaeked II eels. Old Sores, KpizttU, iAme Hack, Hemorrhoids or Files, liUJlLO Scald, Chilblains, Frost llites. Scratches or Grease, Chapped Hands External Poisons, Sand Cracks, Poll Evil, Galls of all kinds, Swellinurs, Tumors.

Flesh Wounds. rSitfat, Tooth.wht, Klmimatism. Kinsrbone, Foul Ficer-s Spavins, Sweeney, Uariret in (Tows, Farcy, Corns Whitlows. Cracked Vats. Callous, I.ameneas, Horn Distemper.

Crownscab, CJuittor, Ahevw of the Udder, SI. 000 UK WARD for Vyaknes of the Joints, Contraction of Muscles, (Vamps Swellt-d I-cirs, Fistula. Mange, Thrush, Caked Breasts, iloils proof of the exHfenco of abetter liniment than "Merchant's Oil, or a better worm medicine than Merchants worm Tablets. Manufactured by JOHl HODGE, Scc-y DH. JQIIi BUI FOR THE CURE OF FEVERand AGUE- Or CHILLS and FEVER.

The proprietor of this celebrated medicitia justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever offered to the public for the SAFE, CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT cure of Ague and Fever, or Ciills and Fever, whether of short or long stand in 2. He refers to the entire Western and Southern country to bear hira testimony to the truth ef the assertion thatiu no case whatever will it fail to cure if the directions are strictly followed and carried out. In a great many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole families have been cured by a singls bottle, with a perfect restoration cf the general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difficult and loug-standing Usually thi3 medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine.after having taken three or four doses of the Tonic, a single dose of ETJLL'S VEGETABLE FAMILY PILL3 will be sufficient.

The genuine SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP must have DR. JOHN BULL'S private stamp on each bottle. DR. JOHN BULL only has the right to manufacture and sell the original JOHN J. SMITH'S? TONIC SYRUP, of Louisville, Ky.

Examine xrell the label on each bottle. If nyr private stamp 13 not on each bottle do not purchase, or you will be deceived. BTJTiTi, Manufacturer and Vender of SMITH'S T02IC SYRUP, BULL'S SARSAPARILLA, BULL'S WORM DESTROYER The Popular Remedies of the Day. Principal OClee, 831 Slain LOUISVILLE, KT. Stomach Bitters extirpate dyspepsia wit great cr certafaty and promptitude than, any known remedy, aivlla most genial iavfgorant, appetizer and aid to secretion.

These arc not empty assertions, as thousands of our countrymen and women who Lave experienced its efforts are awarf. but are beked up by proofs. The Bitters also give a h'-atthful stimulus to th urinary organs. For sate bv all Imisjrtets and Dealer generally. t.

ctUBBATtO 1 PARSOHS' PUHSflTIVE PILLS Biood. and will eomDltelT chan the blood in the en tire system in thrre monUiS.vSVny person who win tales 1 pill each nich: from 1 to 1 tf weeks may be restored to sound faeahh. If such a thing be possible. Sold er-srywhere, or sent by mail for 8 letter stamp. I.

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Apenis nrl in evry Srti for virx-ji tmis and sirvney to Amrrlrn Publishing Hartford. Bowo, CLicaso. cr -U A.ouia. 1 lifts Tone Syrup Hi.nnn able to walk as well on glass heels as on iron or wooden ones. Worn in this way real French heels (not the base imitations sold as such in this country) would develop the calf and improve the shape of the leg instead of injuring it as high heels now have the reputation of doing, and the serious charge that surgeons make of their throwing the whole weight of the body on the arch of the foot would vanish at once.

Ladies (and gentlemen, too) if they wish to walk gracefully on French heels may practice indoors by taking a pair of slippers or lace boots xcithout heels, and fastening to each, at the point where the heel should be, a small rubber ball with a whistle in it that makes noise when it is squeezed, lue size of the ball should correspond to the height of heel to be worn. WThen the wearer gets so she, or he, can walk without pressing on the balls hard enough to make them squeal, they will be able to walk lightly and gracefully on French heels without any danger to the arch of the foot, and without any need of brass heel plates. It is evident that pointed toed boots are not so well adapted to use with French heels as square toed ones, for in all tiptoe walking the toes must have plenty of room. Short steps are also preferable to long strides. It is not the part of science to discuss the realative beauty of high and low heels, but merelj' to state the underlying principles of mathematics and anatomy, and to show how they may be made conducive to health instead of as now the reverse.

Hitherto scientific observers have held themselves aloof from all matters of fashion, treating her with contempt. Hygienic reformers content" themselves with abusing fashion, which goes on totally indifferent to all they" say. No one has ever attempted to study the science of fashion, and yet Herbert Spencer says that wherever there are facts which "can be collated and compared, we have the basis for forming a science. If there is a science of history there must be a science of fashion, absurd as this may sound. Facts are abundant, and we have every reason to believe that the principles of evolution and de- velopment will be found to hold good there as elsewhere.

The above sketch of the origin of French heels will serve to show that, when properly inter preted, some of the most absurd fashions teach a useful lesson, and if properly directed they may lead to benefit instead of injury. It is safe to assume that twenty-five per cent, of our people are bound by the chains of fashion. Is not a subject so intimately associated with the welfare of humanity worthy the study of scientific men. 'Scientific American. Brioa-Brac What is bric-a-brac? our readers may well ask us.

Of this combined word the popular interpretation we believe to be, in auctioneer's parlance and that of curiosity dealers, in fact, Wardour street language, objects of art" every vendible article, indeed, of ancient or modern manufacture which can be dubbed as such, whether it be a tin trumpet once belonging to, and played upon by, some crowned and afterward dethroned monarch of any past age, from Tarquin the Superb down to Napoleon III. the pipe on which Hamlet vainly desired Guildenstern to try his skill some armless, headless, or otherwise dilapidated group of old Dresden china yclept Corydon and Phyllis some old suit of engraved armor worn by a nameless knight, perchance a crusader and companion of Richard the Lion-hearted a damascened cimeter which was yielded by Saladin in the Holy Wars. Coming down to. later periods we meet with strange Japanese strous looking animals in bronze, of i Eastern invention, but which never came out of Noah's Ark elegant Jap-! anese vases splendid clocks of. the Louis Quatorze period by Robin i buhl cabinets and marqueterie writing- tables and other furniture by Reisener, exquisitely ornamented with orniuln gilding chiseled by Gonthierie, once the property of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, and sold the other day' for the fabulous sum of 15,000 guineas in that great dispersion of bric-a-brac and objects of art which formed the Hamilton collection, the sale of which is the wonder of the season, and is in process of consummation by the little ivory 5 hammer which, suspended in the fin gers of either Christie or Manson, keeps an audience of connoisseurs on the tip toe of excited expectation till tne rap comes on to the desk at the last bid ding of some well-known and popular tmrchaser.

The great sale of the Fonthill Beck-ford collection, that of Bernal, followed bv the omnium ratherum formed bv Horace Walpole, the treasures of Stowe are all eclipsed by the present regret sire or would take the trouble to arrive at the means of seeing them. The South Kensington Museum and many of the provincial exhibitions of similar character have done so much to educate the public that a vast change has taken place in these matters, and the regrets of some at the dispersion of great collections is replaced by the pleasure of the hundreds who feel that now they are enabled to indulge a taste which was so long believed to be the sole perquisit of a small and narrow-minded set of admirers. Time and circumstances have changed all this. This impecuniosity of many of the aristocratic and higher classes, and the increase of wealth among the middle and trading members of the connmmi-ty have caused a remarkable transfer of art treasures from the great mansions of the one to the more humble, and those things which were consider-ed caviare to the million have become in their more modest dwellings a daily source of enjoyment, "a joy and a beauty forever." We cannot leave this subject without the reflection that all is not gold that glitters that many of the curios that come from Wardour street and other mines of bric-a-brac at home and abroad are nothing but plausible and cleverly manufactured forgeries, copies or imitations of things their venders pretend them tc be, foisted on the inexperience of the self-sufficient vanity of credulous purchasers, and which could not for a mo-stand the test or deceive the probably dearly bought knowledge of any one who has suffered from the tricks of the trade a trade that is thriving successfully wherever confiding fiies are to be caught by the honeed words or impudent assertions of the curiosity-dealer. We have only to add that should any of our readers fall victims to the epidemic and be seized with a bric-a- brac mania we give this advice "Caveat "Let the buyer bewaro!" Continental Times.

Treatment of Water-Brash Burn. or Hear! The means most commonly employed by the ignorant is the use of some alkali to neutralize the acid. A little soda, for instance, relieves the auffering at once. But this chemical remedy is not a good one. Strange to say, the opposite course is more successful, viz: the employment of small doses of acids.

I have known persons who have suffered long from water-brash, to cure themselves by the daily use of a little vinegar or a few drops of lemon juice after each meal. Mr. a college student, consulted me during his junior year for a most distressing heartburn. It seemed to me a case in which a cure might be effected on the Homoeopathic law, and I prescribed twenty drops of lemon juice to be taken at the close of each meal. He called upon me several months after to say, that it not only had cured him, but that he had resolved himself into a doctor among his fellow students, and that lemon juice was known as a good remedy throughout the whole institu tion.

He had, in prescribing the lemon juice for water-brash, been careful to urge the omission of drmKs at ana im mediately after meals, and likewise the avoidance of soups. In fact, suffer ers from the malady under consideration may obtain relief by a dry diet. In speaking of the employment alkalies in aciditv of the stomach, I for got to say that the saliva, which is alkaline, gives great relief. I have, for a o-ood many years, been in the habit of advising: my patients, who might be temporarily afflicted with heart-burn, to chew spruce gum and swallow all the saliva. It affords the most grateful relief, and is not obnoxious to the same objection which be urged against and other strong alkalies.

Of course, the cure of this affection is to be sought in the discontinuance of the table error which produced it. It is not easy, in round terms, to soy what this error is. But the discontinuance of drinks at meal time and of liquid foods will generally give relief. It may be necessary to discontinue pastry, fat meats and butter. It would be a rare case that did not give way at ouce under a beef and bread only water, and that, so far as practicable, on rising in the morning and lying down at night.

I have prescribed this'with success in hundreds of cases. G. TF Lewis, tn Golden Pule ted breaking up cf the Hamilton Pal-.