.fireproof Textile Fabrics.— The con stantly recurring disasters which may trace, their origin to some accidental firing of tex tile fabrics has caused a great deal of at tention to be devoted to the discovery of some effectual means of making them incom bustible. The great objection raised against such chemical agents as have at various times been suggested, has been that while some of them destroy bright colors, others render the stuff materials both stiff and heavy. Neither of these objections can be applied to the use of phosphate of ammonia, and it is very desirable that this fact become generally known. Articles of dress or of furniture, bed or window curtains, etc., should be pipped in a solution composed of 1 part of the salt to 9 parts of water, wrung out and dried in the air. Thus treated, they will be found totally unaltered, except in the fact of their utter incombustibilitv Mrs. Fifty (who thinks she appears youthful) : “ You may be surprised to hear that that tall young man is my son.” Mr. Gauche: “Yes, indeed! I thought he was your grandson.”

FEMINTER; OR, THE AURORA LAND OF THE SOUTH.
