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and the bottle is immediately filled with the air. Then pour into the bottle a spoonful of clear lime water and shake it.

If the air is sufficiently pure, the lime water will remain clear; but if there is too much carbonic acid in the air, the lime water will become clouded or milky. A few trials of this kind in different rooms will give the experimenter a good knowledge of the purity or the impurity of the air of the rooms. A convenient way is to fill the bottle with water over night, carry it into the bedroom, empty it out the first thing when you get up in the morning, cork the bottle tight, and try the lime water in broad daylight.

If the lime water remains clear, a single breath of air blown into it through any tube or straw will quickly show the chalk in the water, and indicate how readily the air is vitiated by breathing. It is worth while to try the experiment with lime water in a crowded school room, after being occupied several hours, to see if the scholars are not fed with poisoned air, giving them the headache, and rendering it impossible for them to study; or on the other hand chilling them with needless cold currents.

EDITH THOMAS'S BLINDNESS.

From a report of the Superintendent of the Perkins Institute for the Blind, we learn that until recently Edith Thomas has seemed unconscious of her blindness, and although it was freely spoken of in her presence, while her hearing still remained she has from the beginning insisted that she could see. Before she was able to leave her bed her mother went down and asked her child if she could see her. Edith stretching out her little hands and passing them over her mother's head, answered in happy tones of childhood. "Course I can see you !" And a little later, when she began to run about the house, and the children remarked that she was blind, she indignantly denied it, insisted that she could see every thing, and appealed to her mother, saying, “I aint blind, is I, mamma ?" She would put on some favorable article of dress, which she had worn before she lost her sight, go to the mirror, and turning from side to side, survey herself with childish delight. Thenceforward she continued this apparent use of the eyes with seemingly the same degree of satisfaction as if physical vision remained. If she had a new hair ribbon she would go to the glass to try it on and would even hold a hand glass, looking into it all the while her hair was being combed.

CHILDREN.

If you would see a woman or a child graceful, beautiful, and charming, you must find one that is loved. The child that dreads to be corrected or criticised for every word or movement never has a manner of elegance or an expression of charm. Fill your child's soul with an ideal of good manners, of benevolence and beauty; teach it to dislike vulgarity, selfishness, rudeness, and to feel that you love and adore it, and expect of it charming manners, and the work is accomplished. It is impossible for a slave to have any style. If you would have your child dignified, you must treat it with dignity. It is wrong to correct a child in public. Any proud child feels degraded by it. It should be a case of dire necessity when you find fault with a child before strangers; to destroy a child's pride is to do him an irreparable injury. Take advantage of some intimate hour when parent and child are alone together, and then let the parent tenderly explain how the child has behaved ill the day before or that morning, and why its conduct was wrong, and how it should have behaved; it shows that the parent respects it and loves it, and believes in its capacity to do all good things. This will have ten times the effect of punishment, when the child is in a state of excitement and the parent usually angry. Get in the habit of explaining the reason of things to your child. Let there be as little confusion in its mind as possible. Above all, keep the fact of your love uppermost in the child's mind, and let it understand that you have no wish to domineer over it, only that, being older and wiser, and loving the child so much, you would save it from its inexperience, that this is your duty, that you are teaching it to be its own master. If your child is cross, do not punish him, but distract his mind from the subject that annoys him. If he continues to be cross, suspect his stomach, and assure yourself that this is in perfect order; a troubled digestion is the root of bad temper.

SECOND SIGHT.

Some forty years ago, in North-eastern Ohio, before the time of railroads and hotels, says a writer in the Globe-Democrat, a woman and her husband came through that section, travelling to the West. They stopped at my father's farm and stayed over night, and in the course of the evening's conversation it came out that the wife, a fresh faced country woman, possessed the gift called by the Scotch second sight, and which is now generally called clairvoyance.

She did not go into a trance to see things. "I just put my hand before my eyes and look through my head," said she. "I cannot explain it any other way. My eyes are shut, but they seem to see right through my forehead. I see them not as I see with my eyes open, but as if I looked through a narrow opening and could only see one object at a time, but that very plainly."

Her gift was destined to be of profit to my father's family, for before the evening was over my mother begged her to give us a test.

"Look and try to see something that concerns us," she said.

The woman covered her eyes, bent her head forward, and finally said: "I see an old gentleman, very old and very feeble, dressed in blue broadcloth with brass buttons and wearing a ruffled shirt. On his arm is an old lady in a yellow chintz gown, with brown figures in it. Something ails her throat; it is muffled up."

And so she continued, giving an accurate description of my grandparents, one of whom had died three years before and the other within a few months, and describing the dress they most commonly wore down to the minutest details, which could not have been given her by the neighbors, for they had even been forgotten by the family, and were only remembered when she mentioned them.

"Can you find things that are lost?" asked my mother. "May be you can tell us who stole Simon's $100."

The woman drew a long, quiet breath, and still with covered eyes, said: "It was not stolen, I think."

"I'm sure it was," said father; "I know right where I put it, and when I looked for it it was gone."

The woman continued, however, saying: "You leave this house by a south door. You go down a path more than fifty steps, then you come to the barn. No, you do not stop there. Oh, here it is, you stop. I think it is a chicken house. Here is a nest, and in the straw lies the money."

Father had been lighting his lantern as she spoke, and had it ready as she finished, and hurried down to the hen-house-we children racing after him. Sure enough, there in a deserted nest, among broken and addled eggs, lay the roll of bills.

"I had it in my pocket when I was trying to set that pesky yellow hen," said father, "and she struggled and fought so that I must have dropped it out in the melee."

When we got back to the house the woman was chatting pleasantly

with mother. She would take nothing for her services, saying that the gift was from God, and if she were paid for making use of it, it would leave her. However, we prevailed on her to spend a week with us, and many old persons now living who then lived in that section, still remember her and some of the wonderful tests she gave in finding lost articles and telling the whereabouts of those absent.

COMPARATIVE NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOODS.

By taking for basis the tables of Pavy, Letheby, Smith, and other recognized authorities on food, and comparing the amount of salts with the total nutritive value of various food substances, the following will be found to be the percentage of each one of the several classes.

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EFFECT OF CLIMATIC CHANGES.

The changes of the seasons are wonderfully advantageous. In the summer, Nature slows down all the vital fires. It is necessary to run the vital machinery slower, in order to preserve life. We become more sluggish, and lose our energy and ambition. This is noticeable in all

warm countries. It takes a larger force of men a greater length of time to do a piece of work in the south than it does in the north, and if a northern man goes south and attempts to work as he formerly did, he will either die or learn to submit to the inevitable laziness of the climate. The people of warm countries never put on a winter constitution, and naturally fall into this slow summer rut.

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Here in the north, we get the tonic of cold weather. little more rapidly; we think faster; we are more energetic; we are lifted to a higher plane of existence. Thus many of those who run away to the south at the first approach of cold weather, suffer great loss. It is well enough for those who are so weakened that they cannot put on a winter constitution; but to those who are able to tone themselves up to freedom of out of door exercise, it is the greatest possible blessing to remain in the more invigorating climate of the north. The most energetic peoples in the world are those who live in the temperate zones, and are inured to climate changes. They embrace also the largest and the finest specimens of humanity.

REMARKABLE PSYCHIC TRANSFORMATION OF MARY

VENNUM,

The case of Mary Vennum, is a strange story. Mary is a young girl, a real flesh and blood heroine, living to-day with her parents in Rollins county, Kan. But in her fourteen years she has lived two lives, two separate, individual existences,

For almost a year this girl lived and talked and ate as an entirely distinct personality. It cannot be said that she thought she was this other girl into whose individuality her own had been transferred-she was that other girl. The Mary Roff whom she became and remained for nearly twelve months had died several years before. Yet where her life had been broken by death Mary Vennum took it up, continued its interrupted duties, went to live in her own home and could not be dragged away.

She strongly resembled the dead girl, and in pity they let her live in the Roff household, hoping, too, that she would be cured in time, for they thought that she was suffering from a disease.

Her story finally got abroad, and it has puzzled no end of students of such phenomena. Finally Dr. Hodgson, who is the secretary of the English Psychical society, had his attention called to the girl. He has

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