It is true, that, considering various habits of American people, also the little accidents which the best-kept sidewalks are liable to, a lady who has swept a mile of them is not exactly in such a condition that one would care to be her neighbor. But confound the make-believe women we have turned loose in our streets! Where do they come from? Not out of our parlors, I trust. Why, there is'nt a beast or a bird that would drag its tail through the dirt in the way these creatures do their dresses.

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Because a queen or a duchess wears long robes on certain occasions, a maid of all work or a factory girl thinks she must make herself a nuisance by trailing about with her-pah! that's what I call getting vulgarity into your bones and marrow. Making believe what you are not is the essence of vulgar people. If any man can walk behind one of these women and see what she rakes as she goes, and not feel squeamish, he has got a tough stomach. I wouldn't let one of 'em into my room without serving them as David served Saul at the cave in the wilderness-cut off his skirts, sir; cut off his skirts.

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Don't tell me that a true lady ever sacrifices the duty of keeping all about her sweet and clean to the wish of making a vulgar show. I won't believe it of a lady. There are some things that no fashion has a right to touch, and cleanliness is one of those things. If a woman wishes to show that her husband or father has got money which she wants and means to spend, but does n't know

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how, let her buy a yard or two of silk and pin it to her dress when she goes out to walk, but let her unpin it before she goes into the house.

Medicine to the Dogs.-Many years ago, when cholera was rife in Ireland, it seemed to defy the skill of the faculty to such a degree that the panic-stricken people believed the doctors poisoned the patients; and in some instances, they threatened to pull down the hospitals. During the while, a physician was applied to very urgently by the brother of a cholera patient to make a visit at the dead hour of the night, and at considerable distance from his residence. Being unable to attend, he carefully prepared and gave the messenger medicines suited to the emergency, and dispatched him, with the injunction to inform him if his brother was not relieved by morning, and he would call.

A few days afterward, he met the brothermessenger in the street, and the following conversation occurred

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"Well, John, how is Pat?"

"Long life to your honor, he's finely!"

"I'm very glad to hear it, John; it's an ugly complaint, that cholera."

Throth, and your honor, it is; and poor Pat had a hard time of it, but praised be the Lord, he's well again; and plase your honor, the dog's dead."

"What dog?"

"Oh! your honor, it's for sartin the dog's dead."

"What dog are you talking about, my good fellow ?"

"Plase your honor, I gave the medicines the doctor sent, to the dog, and he's dead; but Pat's finely, your honor."

Items for Tobacco-Users.-The New York Dutchman, which certainly should be posted, speaks as follows: "The tobacco crop, for the year 1850, amounted to nearly 200,000,000 of pounds; of this 200,000,000, $8,000,000 worth was consumed at home. The census also informs us that our 'chewing' is on the increase. In 1840, the consumption per head, in the United States, amounted to 2 lbs. and 1-2 oz.; in 1850, to 3 lbs. 8 oz.; which shows that our taste for filth increased 70 per cent. in the short period of ten years. The spittle made per year by our smokers and chewers, would, it is estimated, fill a reservoir as long, wide, and deep as the Erie Canal, while the amount of short-cut annually masticated by our people would, if thrust down the throat of Vesuvius, keep the crater vomiting for the next two centuries. Why is there not a society for the suppression of this abuse of the salivary glands?"

ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES.

THE injuries resulting from accidents usually demand instantaneous action. A little delay or confusion, or misdirected effort, in a case of severe burning, drowning, or hemorrhage, will often sacrifice a human life. The following simple directions should be carefully studied so that they can readily be made available at any moment:

Drowning and Suffocation. The chief remedy to be used in all cases is artificial respiration. There are several methods which are very serviceable. The following, which is the most approved method for restoring drowned persons, we copy from a publication issued by the Michigan State Board of Health, the Secretary of which, Dr. H. B. Baker, has kindly furnished us with cuts for illustration :

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TREATMENT OF THE DROWNED.-" Two things to be done: 1. Restore breathing; 2. Restore animal heat.

"RULE 1.-Remove all obstructions to breathing. Instantly loosen or cut apart all neck and waist bands; turn the patient on his face, with the head down hill; stand astride the hips with your face toward his head, and, locking your fingers together under his belly, raise the body as high as you can without lifting the forehead.

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off the ground (Fig. 1), and give the body a smart jerk to remove mucus from the throat and water from the windpipe; hold the body suspended long enough to slowly count one, two, three, four, five, repeating the jerk more gently two or three times.

"RULE 2.-Place the patient on the ground, face downward, and maintaining all the while your position astride the body, grasp the points of the shoulders by the clothing, or, if the body is naked, thrust your fingers into the armpits, clasping your thumbs over the points of the shoulders, and raise the chest as high as you can (Fig. 2) without lifting the head quite off the ground, and hold it long enough to slowly count one, two, three. Replace him on the ground, with his forehead on his flexed arm, the neck straightened out, and the mouth and nose free. Place your elbows against your knees, and your