before washing a small quantity of glycerine, which should be allowed to dry or become absorbed to a partial extent. When chilblains do manifest themselves, the best remedy for not only preventing them ulcerating, but overcoming the tingling, itching pain, and stimulating the circulation of the part to healthy within a house to be unattainable, is to remain near some prominent object, such as a tree, but on the side opposite to that from which the storm is proceeding, and at a distance sufficient (say 20 to 30 yards) to avoid the risk of the electricity being attracted from the tree to the person. Under any circumstances, the recumbent is undoubt-action, is the liniment of belladonna, edly safer than the erect position; elevated and prominent situations being, of course, carefully avoided. Additional security may also be obtained by depositing watch and chain, money, or other metallic substances which attract electricity, at a safe distance. Wet clothes are not without a compensating advantage they are all the better conductors of electricity; and, if they do not convey safely the whole of the current, they will transmit a much larger proportion of it, so that there will be all the less risk of personal injury. It is unwise to walk along an exposed road under an umbrella, especially.one with metallic stem and framework. two drachms; the liniment of aconite, one drachm; carbolic acid, two drops; and collodion flexible, one ounce, painted with a camel-hair pencil over their surface. When the chilblains vesicate, ulcerate, or slough, it is better to omit the aconite and apply the other components of the liniment without it. The collodion flexible forms a coating or protecting film, which excludes the air, whilst the sedative liniments allay the irritation, generally of no trivial character. For CHAPPED HANDS e advise the free use of glycerine and good olive oil, in proportion to two parts of the former to four of the latter; after this has been Statistics of Life.-Half of all who well rubbed into the hands, and allowed live die before 17. Only one person to remain for a little time, and the hands in 10,000 lives to be 100 years old, and subsequently washed with Castile soap but one in a hundred reaches 60. The and tepid water, we recommend the married live longer than the single; belladonna and collodion flexible to be and out of every 1,000 born, only 95 painted, and the protecting film allowed weddings take place. Of 1,000 persons to permanently remain. These comwho have reached 70, there are of cler-plaints not unfrequently invade persons gymen, orators, and public speakers, 43; farmers, 40; workmen, 33; soldiers, 32; lawyers, 29; professors, 27; doctors, 24. Farmers and workmen do not arrive at a good old age as often as clergymen and others, who perform no manual labour; but this is owing to the neglect of the laws of health, inattention to proper habits of life in eating, drinking, sleeping, dress, and the proper care of themselves after the work of the day is done. Chilblains. To those especially liable to these tiresome and painful affections we recommend, as a preventive, wearing kid-skin gloves lined with wool, which not only keep out the cold, but absorb any moisture that may be upon the hands; and to rub over the hands of languid circulation and relaxed habit, who should be put on a generous regimen and treated with ferruginous tonics. Chapped lips are also benefited by the stimulating form of application here advocated, but the aconite must not be allowed to get on the lips, or a disagreeable tingling results. Process of Enamelling the Face. All the materials for the operation being at hand, the operator begins to overlay the skin of his patient with a skin of his own composing. He applies the enamel to her face, and then to her bust. This enamel consists chiefly of white lead or arsenic, made into a semiliquid paste. It requires a good deal of skill to lay it on, so that it shall be smooth, and not wrinkled ; and two or three hours, and sometimes a much longer time, are consumed in making a good job of it. This being done, there yet remains the finishing touches and adjuncts of head and cheek-gear! So down she sits again, and he, with his pigment of Indian ink and pencil of camel-hair, paints her eyebrows divinely. Then her cheeks are inlaid with " plumpers," which she brings with her, and which cost her £5. They are made into pads, and composed of a hard substance, which combines various chemical materials. After the cheeks are thus made to look like a girl's cheek, they are carmined with a vegetable liquid rouge, laid on with a hare's foot. The finale of the make-up is the adjustment of the teeth, which, when properly set, give the mouth a lustre as of opals. The lady then goes away with a chuckle of deep satisfaction as she thinks of the conquests she will make in the evening, in the glare of the lamps, wax candles, and gas. She has a bust as white as alabaster, with shoulders and arms to match, and warranted to stand for six months. away in the very coolest part of the house. Facts from the Marriage Law.— Persons under the age of twenty-one may not marry without the consent of their parents or guardians; but a marriage without such consent is good, and the issue of it will be legitimate, unless the publication of the banns was rendered void by the parent or guardian openly dissenting, or unless the regis trar's certificate was issued in spite of its being forbidden by one whose con sent is necessary; but minors marrying without the required assent are liable to certain penalties, such as being in dicted for perjury, where the licence was procured by a false oath, or forfeiting all property which would otherwise accrue from the marriage. A marriage cannot be set aside on the ground that the parties had not resided in the parish or district a certain number of days prescribed by law, or that the marriage did not take place between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon. The marriage is absolutely null and void, if the parents were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity, that is, persons in the ascending and descending line ad infinitum, and collaterals to the third degree Strange facts these, but such fantastic tricks, thank Heaven! are not at all common in England, however they may obtain amongst the ladies of America. At the same time we fear that our wo-inclusive. men are not wholly sans reproche in the matter. To Preserve Milk.-A teaspoonful of fine salt or of horse-radish in a pan of milk will keep it sweet for several days. Milk can be kept a year or more as sweet as when taken from the cow, by the following method:-Procure bottles, and as they are filled immediately cork them well, and fasten the cord with packthread or wire. Th spread a little straw in the bottom of boiler, on which place the bottles with straw between them until the boiler contains a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with cold water, and as soon as it begins to boil draw the fire and let the whole gradually cool. When quite cold take out the bottles and pack them in sawdust in hampers, and stow them The marriage is void where one or both of the parties are already married: but if one of the parties has been ab sent, and not heard of for seven years, and is still living, though the second marriage of the other party is void, yet there can be no prosecution for bigamy in such a case. And, with reference to bigamy, if the first marriage is valid, it is bigamy to marry again, though the marriage be void on another ground ides that of its being bigamous; but the converse of this is not law, so that if the first marriage is void, a second marriage may be contracted without fear of a prosecution. Although it is unlawful for a person under age to marry without the consent of parent or guardian, where he or she has any; and though no person can be married (unless by special licence), except within the parish or chapelry where one of the parties has resided fifteen days; and though the guilty parties, and the minister who colludes with him or them, are subject to certain penalties for disobedience to this law, yet, when in either of these cases the marriage has been once celebrated, it remains a valid marriage, and not only is no evidence of consent, or of residence necessary to prove the validity of the marriage, if disputed, but the party disputing the marriage will not even be allowed to show that there was no residence, or no parental sanction. chemists unite in telling us that a pound of it, eaten by man, adds much less to his own body than a pound of eggs, or peas, or beans, or even good bread would have done Fatty or oily food is only fit for stomachs possessing very strong digestive powers. Acidulous and saccharine food are not only nourishing, but are naturally adapted to, and furnished at the right time for, allaying man's thirst. Millions of labouring peo ple enjoy excellent health and vigour, and live very long, who never eat any flesh food, nor does any strong working animal eat it. No animal willingly eats the flesh of a flesh-eating animal. They The Voice. It may be vastly im-like flesh made from vegetables best. proved in its tone and modulations by the practice of reading aloud. Confi dence gives the voice fulness and clearness; and trepidation is generally accompanied with a huskiness of utterance that has a most unpleasing effect. The modulation and proper management of the voice should be made a great point of by young ladies, for a fine and melodious voice is a 66 joy forever." This can only be done by a certain degree of confidence and a total absence of affectation; for uncertainty, agitation, and striving for effect, are always ruinous to the voice of the speaker, which is constantly running against breakers or getting upon flats. Temper and disposition are more perfectly marked by voice and manner of speaking than we are willing to allow. Relative Nutriment of Different Food. The time taken to digest any kind of food does not show the propor. tion of nutriment it gives to the body. A pound of rice would give far less strength to the body than a pound of raw eggs, though both digest in about an hour. Farinaceous food is the most nutritive, and forms the substantial aliment of mankind. Cheese-like and mucilaginous food are also very nutritious when they agree well with the stomach, as are also albuminous and gelatinous food, only they stimulate as well as nourish the body. Fibrinous food is the most stimulating; but the best To Preserve Eggs.-The following experiments with pure oil will show their value:-Ten eggs were rubbed with the finger dipped in flax-seed oil, just lightly covered with the oil, which dried in a few days; ten other eggs were oiled in the same manner with the oil of the French poppy, to ascertain the comparative effect of the two oils; ten eggs were not oiled, and received no preparation: the thirty eggs were placed side by side, but not in contact, in a vessel, the bottom of which was covered with sand enough to keep them standing upright, three-fourths of each egg being exposed; they remained thus for six months; they were weighed when first put into the tub, and weighed in six months after. The following will show the result:-First, the eggs not prepared lost 18 per cent. of the primitive weight, were half empty, and exhaled an odour of corruption; the eggs rubbed with oil of poppy lost 4 per cent., were full, without odour or bad taste; the eggs rubbed with flax-seed oil lost 3 per cent. of their primitive weight, and had the odour and taste of an egg perfectly fresh. Hence, flax-seed oil may be deemed preferable for preserving eggs. There are several other modes for preserving eggs, but there can be no doubt now that flax-seed oil will be the popular method, since it is proved to be. the most reliable. |