Dr. Wiley is right in his contention that people die too young. Human life should be prolonged, and it can be by higher education on matters of hygiene. The average expectation of life in the United States is only about 44 years. It should be much higher, and probably will be hereafter, for people are learning more and more concerning the prevention of disease. As a matter of fact, the most valuable study in our schools is hygiene, says the Boston Globe. If the young folks are taught the value of food and moderate exercise they will grow up strong and possess a knowledge of how to take care of their bodies. There is too much ignorance among young and old concerning the proper care of the health. How few there are who know even how to eat; that is, to consume only those things which will create a sufficient supply of vitality with which to ward off disease. The sooner more attention is paid in all our institutions of learning to hygiene and kindred topics the better it will be for the students. None but the strong and healthy can enjoy life or engage successfully in its battles.

A thoughtful man who was "roughing it" in the mountains, whose attire there consisted only of a flannel shirt, a pair of pantaloons, a hat, and shoes and stockings, who, on arising in the morning was "up and dressed" within three minutes, thus reflected regarding the shackles of male dress imposed upon him in the city by custom and fashion: "How many bandages will commence at the feet. Tight shoes, stockings, trousers, drawers, undershirt, shirt, vest, coast, collar and necktie, shirt bosom and color starched as stiff as a board, and about as comfortable. How many bandages in all? Ten. Do they add to my comfort, especially in warm weather? Assuredly, they do not. My first move on a warm morning on getting to the office is to remove my coat, and sometimes my collar and necktie. Why should I wear at all garments which are so uncomfortable? Again, Do these ten bandages in which custom says I must daily envelop myself conduce my health and strength? I think not. Because, dressing as I do now in loose trousers, loose shirt, with neck and throat uncollared. I do certainly experience vigor and freedom of motion unknown in my city garb. Perspiration passes off quickly and does not oblige me to wear all day a sodden, wet piece of linen in the shape of a shirt. I think my skin has a better chance to act, and as I am told there are thousands upon thousands of minute lungs in the skin which both absorb live elements and throw off dead matter, it strikes me that the garb prescribed by custom is not at all calculated to assist nature in the machinery of the cuticle.

"Regarding my feet, I find them far more comfortable in a pair of canvas slippers, and if you please without stockings, than in my city gaiters. I can now easily wash them as many times a day as I do my hands, and I find they need washing as many times. It strikes me that these feet of mine have all their lives, or rather during all my life, been too much swaddled and cramped. Look at them now! They are sore and out of shape with corns and bunions. What has done this? Shoe shackles, leather fashion and the shoemaker. What long barbarous treatment of two such useful members of society! I believe now that our modern swathed up, bandaged, tight fitting style of male attire is a fruitful cause of bodily weakness, which diseases doctors dignify and render the origin more obscure by giving the learned and Latin names. I do not, through one or another bodily discomforts, heed the demands of nature. When I am overheated, feverish, and out of sorts generally, it is in many cases a call from the body that I take off the bandages and wear less of them. Do I obey? No. Usually I take a glass of beer and then another. So the needless wear, tear and abuse of my fearful and wonderful anatomy goes on from day to day, from week to week, from summer to summer. And at least the wear and tear and weakness attacks some particular organ; maybe the head, the bladder, the kidneys, the lungs, the stomach, and the doctor comes after the damage is irreparable and tries to boister me up; saddled as I am wit h my worn out internal machinery by his advice and his drugs. And at las t I am dead, and an autopsy is held on me and he finds the part that gave way and writes about it, partly in English, partly in Latin, and feels wiser than ever. But I died partly of ignorant dressing, partly of ignorant eating, partly of persistent breathing of bad house air, partly of other simple evils not as yet recognized as belligerent powers laying constant siege to our health citadels."

Such were the thinkings of the man in the red flannel shirt and trousers.

Why are girls so injudicious in their toleration of dissipated young men? It is very often the case that a thoroughly good girl will deliberately marry a man who makes no secret of his bad habits. What can she expect but misery to ensue. A life partnership should not be entered into without at least as much caution as men display in making business combinations for limited periods. No man selects his business partner from among men who drink much liquor or have other bad habits. As for mere manners and the ability to make oneself agreeable, they have not of themselves influence enough among men to secure a pound's worth of credit, or justify any one in believing their possessor on oath. A girl who is not old enough or shrewd enough to have learned what are the standards by which men are tested, would be far surer of a happy life if she were to let her parents select a husband in the prosiest manner possible, than if she were to make her own selection in the manner peculiar to girls. A life partnership is not easily dissolved.

A scientist who has made a study of the planet declares that there is snow on the moon.

There are 28 pounds of blood in the body of an average grown up person, and at each pulsation the heart moves 10 pounds.

While cyclones and tornadoes are different phenomena, the former appear to give rise to the latter. Tornadoes almost always break out, if at all, on the southeasterly outskirts of a cyclone.

A period of 5 seconds between a flash of lightning and thunder means that the flash is a mile distant fro the observer. Thunder has never been heard over 15 mile from the flash, though artillery has been heard 120 miles.

Sir Robert Ball asserted that every 100 years the sun loses 5 miles of its diameter. The allay anxiety, however, he mentioned that the diameter of the sun is 860,000 miles and that 40,000 years hence the diameter would still be 858,000 miles.

There can be no doubt about the ability of any man to cultivate his senses. Hunters learn to see with accuracy great distances; so do sailors; and musicians bring the sense of hearing up to the first degree of perfection. Blind men often become so proficient that they can tell the color of a garment by simply feeling of it, while men employed in the business of buying and selling great varieties of makes of butter, learn not only to grade and tell the maker of each lot, but in some instances they can tell almost to a day the exact age of each lot. This is very simply and efficiently done by cultivation the sense of taste. We once heard of an instance where a wine taster, a man who was very proficient in this art, being called in to pass judgment on a hogshead of wine, decided there was a slight, very slight, taste of iron in the wine. This was not believed by the owner of the wine until the case was empty, when he found a small iron key in the bottom of it. We do not expect every butter maker to reach this height of perfection in the art of tasting but there is one thing he should do, and that is study the subject. To do this, let him taste all the fine butter he can get hold of; and not with the set notion in his head that his is finer, but with an honest effort to find wherein this lot differs from his own make. Has it a stronger butter taste, or has it as it probably has to him a more insipid taste—a little too fine perhaps for his tobacco tongue? If so, he should get his wife to do the tasting. When you hear of a man taking a premium at a fair or dairy convention this winter, ride over, if it is ten miles away, and examine his butter. Taste it over an over again until you catch its peculiarities. Take some home, if you can get it for love or money, and taste and talk it over with the members of your family. Some of them will be able to point out correct the essence of mirit in it, and ten ot one you will be able to catch the hang of the thing and be able to do it yourself.

In cultivation the taste for testing butter, one thing must be born in mind. Do not choose as the best article that which is most liked by your own family. They may have their peculiar notions. What you want to do is the study the tastes of your customers, and make your butter come up their requirements, no matter what opinion you may have of their judgment on the subject. it is far easier to adapt yourself to them than force customers to take your butter against their will. They will not do it.

According to reports a professor in Germany proposes to open a school wherein to teach love making. Bless the dear professor, what can he be thinking about? What does he suppose love making is that he presumes it is something to be taught after the manner of algebra, geography and cooking? Love making doesn't have to be taught, says the Philadelphia Press. From the palmy days in the Garden of Eden it has been going on all over the world among all peoples. It has its different methods, grading from barbarism to civilization, but it is love making all the same. To the end of time, if there is to be any end of time, it will go on just as the habits and inclinations of the people direct it. It is one of those diversions, or features, or essentials of human life which no government has yet attempted to regulate, as attempts have been made to regulate so many other things, and it had never occurred to anybody that teaching it was necessary. Teaching boys to saw wood and girls to make their own clothes is feasible enough, but teaching the how to make love isn't. Besides, it's perfectly useless. They all know how already; the knowledge was born with them.

While there is a measure of truth in the assertion that fat babies are not necessarily healthy, the following much quoted extract from a physician's letter to a Boston paper is likely to do mischief by its extravagant condemnation of fat. Speaking of fatty degeneration the physician says:—

"Most infants do become thus diseased before they are three months old: This stops the growth and leaves the poor deceived parents nothing but increased in weight to boast of; and when the poor little victim to his own greed an his parents; folly gets to the end of this tether he melts away like butter in a hot oven, and then it is seen how poor (in flesh) he has been all the time. Few comprehend the broad difference between flesh and fat. The first is lean meat—muscle—the result is growth; while fat—I don't care how hard and solid it may be—is the product or accumulation of unexcretial excess. This is why no one bets a dollar on a fat horse or a fat man—they are 'soft' and 'can't stay'. It is every whit as true of a fat baby. The only wonder is that any infant lives days from birth. Fed before birth but three times a day, he is after birth subjected to 10 or 20 meals in the 24 hours. Before birth he grows at the rate of about 10 pounds per year, after birth he is permitted to fat at the rate of 50 pounds per year until chronic dyspepsia or some acute disease interferes. Feel of a kitten, calf, colt, or a young robin—they are and remain while growing but little more than skin and bones and fur or feathers, because, unable to get enough to fatten them, and they never die—rarely have any sort of disease. Children are never fairly 'out of the woods' until they reach the lean age and have pipe-stem legs and arms, with no rolls of fatty tissue anywhere about them. Could they be kept so from birth and not permitted to over-indulge, so that their appetites would always be reliable for plain food, the would have not infantile disease to enrich our pockets."

Why would the kitten, the colt or the young robin be taken as a model of infantile health, rather than the puppy, the bear cub, the pig or the young pigeon? It is the nature of some animals to be lean and healthy; of others to be fat and healthy; and there is as marked a difference in the natural tendency of young children. Infants of the same parentage and fed at the same breast will differ in this respect—and both be healthy. Fat laid on at the rate of "50 pounds a year" is quite another matter, and one not reliable, we take it, to be a common cause of anxiety. Injudicious feeding is more apt to show itself in a lack of fat, and lack of proper muscular tissues as well. That sort of leanness is much too common in young humanity.