A wealthy Pittsbnrg merchant is re
ported as having said : "I always feel
happy when I am advertising, for then
I know, that waking or sleeping, I have
a strong, though silent orator working
for me ; one who never tires, never
sleeps, never makes mistakes and who
ia certain to enter the households from
which, if at all, my trade must come."
A standing antidote for poisou by
oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of
quick-lime, dissolve it in water, let it
stand half an hour, then paint the
poisoned parts with it. Three or four
applications will never fail to cure the
most aggravated case. Poison from
bees, hornets, spider bites, Ac, is in
stantly arrested by the application of
equal parts of common salt and bi
carbonate of soda, well rubbed in on
the plaoe bitten or stung.
Animals are not slaughtered scienti
fically in Paris and Vienna. The in
strument used is simply a very conve-"
nient form of ax, with a hollow cylin
der (like a gun-wad pnnch)abont six
inches long and one inch in diameter,
with its edge ground sharp on the end
opposite the blade. A single blow with
this end cuts a round hole in the fore
head, and produces instant death. Un
der the old method it required ten or
more blows to produce death.
There are 723,000,000 gallons of beer
consumed annually in England. In
Germany the number of gallons is 1 (,
000,000 of beer and 121.500.0(H) of wiue.
Frenchmen drink every year 51,800,000
gallons of beer and 600,000,000 of wine.
