The youth sent a letter to a large clothing concern in New York to ask "What is the proper dress for a room?" Now it seems that the clerk who opened the mail referred to this inquiry to the livery department, and that the head thereof dictated a brief reply: "Mottle? Green coat, fawn-colored trousers, with top boots silk hat with cockade. We can quote you prices as follows."

In a shot time came this particular letter from the young man in tattle back: "I always knew it was expensive to be tried, but can't you suggest something less elaborate?" - Youth's Companion.

"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how d'ye your garden grow? Lots of weeds from flower seeds that I was led to sow."

Health talks, by Dr. Wm. Brady, "The Stiffly of Canned Food. Long Inferior were discovered the preservation of food by canning; was widely utilized. Apples, of Paris, discovered in Paris that meat and other foods would keep in solution. After being sealed in jars, they were kept an hour in boiling water. With the exception that the cans, given a second heating, after an interval of twenty-four hours, to destroy any spores which may have escaped."  The first fractional sterilisation, this is the method used by chemists today. If the food is not completely sterilized, it will decompose. This decomposition will produce apparent changes in appearance, odor, and taste which instinctively prevent the consumption of the food. The process is given in sufficient quantity to burst, the case. 