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who enjoyed reasonably good health? All fact that the nose is the only channel through medicines debilitate, and that drawback must which air should pass during ordinary acts of be duly considered before taking them. breathing, the mouth being intended only as Think of the quantities of pills that are used. an accessory breathing agent when, on cerMost of these are taken to relieve constipation. tain occasions-as, for instance, running-the Unfortunately the relief is only temporary, lungs demand a rapid supply. Air, in passand the doses must be repeated often, thus ing through the nostrils, is warmed and sifted weakening the stomach and incapacitating it of its harmful ingredients, and thus prepared or its natural work. If medicine is used for for its reception into the delicate structures the relief of constipation it is better to employ below. If it passes directly into the mouth it in suppositories, but a better plan than ei- without the above preparation, it will frether is to cure the trouble by means of a quently cause irritation and inflammation of proper diet and regular and active exercise or the mucous membrane, lining the mouth and work in the open air. Thousands of drunk-throat, by being, in the first place, too cold, ards, with their legacies of sorrow and crime and broken hearts, are made through dramdrinking, commenced at first for the relief of dyspepsia or colic, and continued through excuses and subterfuges that a depraved appetite strives to make plausible.

The little household remedies have their uses, and they have also their abuses. There are occasions when such remedies as camphor, brandy, paregoric, laudanum, ginger, and pills and powders, may be of great service. The important point is to know when to use them; that would be perhaps once where they are ordinarily employed ten times. The best of all remedies---and every person should have a little constantly on hand-is common

sense.

If one experiences inconvenience in eating, nature will bring relief sooner and more effectively if left to herself, than by efforts to aid her with liquors and tinctures that benumb the stomach and retard healthy action. Rest, warmth and abstinence are the proper remedies for all ordinary ailments. Wholesome and nutritious food, the comforts of a good home, vigorous and regular exercise, seasonable clothing, fresh air constantly, and eight hours of sound sleep out of every twenty four, and you may "throw physic to the dogs."-Hall's Journal of Health.

BREATHE THROUGH THE NOSE.

DR. WARD, physician to the Metropolitan Throat hospital, in an article on singers' throat troubles, in the Musical Critic, treats of the causes of catarrhal troubles experienced by public singers, and repeats the well-known

and, in the second place, by containing irritating particles of dust and other matter. -Selected.

FORKS.

SOME of our readers may be surprised to learn that the use of forks at the table was not introduced into England earlier than the reign of James I., and that this piece of refinement was derived from the Italians. The fact appears from the following curious extract from a book entitled, "Coryat's Crudities, hastily gobbled up in five months-travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhotia, Helvetia, (Switzerland,) some parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands. The book was first published in 1611. "Here I will mention," says the traveler, "a thing that might have been spoken of before in discourse of the first Italian towne. I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and townes through which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels; neither do I think that any other nation of christendom doth use but only Italy. The Italian and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, do alwaies at their meales use a little fork when they cut their meate. For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand they cut the meat out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in their other hand, upon the same dish. So that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at meale, should unadvisedly touch the dish of meate with his fingers from which all doe cut, he will give occasion of

offense unto the company, as having transgressed the laws of good manners; insomuch that for his error he shall be at least browbeaten, if not reprehended in words. This forme of feeding, I understand, is generally used in all places in Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of yron or steele, and some of silver; but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means endure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane. Hereupon I myself thought good to initiate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home; being once quipped for that frequent using of my forke by a certain learned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one master Laurence Whitaker, who in his merry humor doubted not at table to call me Purcifer,* only for using a fork at feeding, but for no other cause.

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The use of forks was much ridiculed in England, as an effeminate piece of finery; in one of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, "your fork carving traveler" is spoken of with much contempt; and Ben Jonson has joined in the laugh against them in his "Devil's an Ass." Meercraft says to Gilthead and Sledge,

"Have I deserved this from you two for all

My pains at court to get you such a patent-
Gilthead-For what?

Meercraft-Upon my project of the forkes.
Sledge-Forks? What be they?
Meercraft-The laudable use of forks,

Brought into custom here as they are in Italy.
To the sparing o' napkins."

*Purcifer literally meant a slave, who for punishment of some fault, was made to carry a fork or gallows upon his neck through the city, with his hands tied to it, hence it came to signify generally a rogue; a villain.-Chicago Eye.

Books and Papers.

PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL and SCIENCE of HEALTH. October. Contents: The Candidates of reform: B. F. Butler and J. B. St. John, with Portraits: The Christian Church The Cranial Affini ties of Men and Apes: Organic Cerebration: Two

Eminent British Scientists, with Portraits: The Ineffaceable Record of our Lives: Rather Strange: Delia and Blanche: True Love and Blind Passion: The Function of Taste: Cholera and Uncleanness : Poetry, Editorial, etc. etc. Fowler & Wells Co. Pub. 753 Broadway, N. Y.

JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co. of Boston, publish in neat and convenient form, the address of Robert P. Porter to the Arkwright Club of New England, on "Protection and Free Trade To-day." Mr. Porter graphically presents exactly what voters in both political parties want to know, the facts showing how free trade and protection works at home and abroad. in the field and the workshop. He shows how agriculture, commerce and manufacturing in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Holland have been affected by these two economic policies. Mr. Porter's work will be appreciated by business men,

farmers and artisans who have no time to read a volume on the subject, but who want a clear exposition of the condition of labor here and in European

countries.

He takes decided Protective ground but makes a fair use of the official figures, which are, at times, handled with dramatic effect. Few are better equipped, by training, to discuss this question than Mr. Porter. For several years a student of the industrial progress of the West, and author of one of the most useful works on that section; for three years in charge of an important division of the census, next a member of the Tariff commission; and then sent abroad for eighteen months, by the New York Tribune, to investigate the condition of labor in Great Britain and the Continent. The words of the author of the address on the Tariff will carry weight with those anxious for a practical view of the Tariff question. Price 10 cents.

HALL'S JOURNAL OF HEALTH. October, Contents; Bright's Disease; Constipation; Entire wheat flour; Vermin vastness; Beef tea vs. true food; Mineral Waters; Parasites; Among the Lepers; Poisons: Taking Medicine, etc. etc.

E. H. Gibbs, M. D. 21 Clinton Place, 8th St. N. Y. $1 a year.

WHEN the seed of faith becomes rooted in an honest understanding heart, the effects will flow from thence into the outward conduct, and produce those conditions which are best adapted to manifest the Christ life.

Duty to the material part, like the care of a servant, will come in secondary, merely as an aid in the practical work of righteousness.

"For which of you having a servant plowing and feeding cattle, will say to him when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat; and will not rather say, Make ready wherewith I may sup; gird thyself and serve me until I have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink."—A. G. H.

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Deaths.

George Runyon, May 24, at Pleasant Hill' Ky. Age 88 yrs. 5 mo. and 11 days.

Thus another bright luminary has disappeared from our hemisphere to shine with brighter effulgence in the higher spheres.

His noble soul,-a pattern of charity love and humanity, wholly devoted to the great and important work of Christ's Kingdom; has reared a lasting monument, more durable and sublime than the Egyptian's Pyramids. He came to the society when fourteen years of age, and officiated as an Elder in the Junior Order for more than forty years.

N. L. R. Irene Richardson, Sep. 9, at South Union, Ky. Age, 71 yrs.

Anna Hurd, Sept. 28, at New Gloucester. Me. Age 92 yrs. She was so alive in spirit, so Anna was the last of those that moved from loving and cheerful that we mourn her loss. Gorham, when that Society was transferred to Poland.-J.B. V.

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THE second phase, is manifested in countries called free; said countries bringing forth millionaires, paupers and criminals. The land-the prime element of existence, being in the hands of a few; the masses are compelled to submit to the outrage of having no land, and of being servants to those who have. Forced to pay interest on enormous debts which they never contracted, and to support governments instituted to oppress them, and priesthoods for which they have no reverence.

No. 12.

This order was represented by the Pentecostal Church; and is now by the people called "Shakers." With them there is neither millionaire, pauper nor penitentiary; slave nor dependent and where he who is the greatest is the most of a servant.

The mission of Moses was to establish the just order. And to effect that he required that the propensities (which all have in common with the lower animals) should be subject to the following laws. The dietetic, the procreative, the agrarian, the agricultural, the moral, the financial and the Sabbatical-of days, rest to the body. Sabbath of years-rest to the land and a cancelling The organic law of the Divine order of debts; and every fiftieth year, all of human society, is love to God su- who had lost their land took possession premely, and neighbor more than self- of it again. These laws were more "in honor preferring one another." sweeping in their practical operation "Let the greatest be the servant.

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