nor power to do, Ireland would show by her laws, tranquillity, and prosperity how unfairly she had been treated in the past and how unjust was the assertion that the Irish were not law-abiding people. [Cheers.]

P. McDonald, Nationalist, member for North Sligo, seconded the amendment.

Mr. R. W. Hanbury, Conservative, member for Preston, suggested the establishment of a sliding scale of rents. He appealed to the government to deal with Ireland with clean hands and a clear conscience, and endeavor to encourage the revival of Irish industries which England had destroyed. The speech elicited cheers from the Irish benches.

Hon. Hugh Holmes, attorney-general for Ireland, said the government was unable to accept a single proposition contained in the amendment. There had been fewer evictions and the rents had been more promptly paid this winter than for seven years previous. These facts clearly proved that the recent disputes between landlord and tenant were not due to the rejection of Mr. Parnell's bill, but to the plan of campaign, which had been adopted with the view of driving landlords out of the country. Referring to the Dillon case Mr. Holmes said that, if any alteration of the law was needed to deal with the state of affairs in Ireland, it would be directed, not against political, but against criminal, action. [Derisive Parnellite cheers.] The government would not be deterred from asking additional powers by the honorable member's threats of dynamite from America.

Mr. Parnell rose to protest against the language of Mr. Holmes.

The speaker said he heard nothing personal in Mr. Holmes' remarks.

Mr. Holmes put the sentence in a more general sense. He added that the government, at the proper time, would submit remedial legislation, which would give the utmost benefit to Ireland consistent with the preservation of the union and the enforcement of law and order.

Mr. Dillon said he thought the diatribe which they had just heard came very ill from a Queen's advisor, it being an attempt to prejudice the jury which he intended to pack. It would better have been reserved for the day of the trial. Irelandļhated English law because while minor offences in the south and west of

Ireland were severely punished, Orangemen in the north could commit outrage and murder with impunity. The fewness of evictions was due to the joint effect of government pressure and the plan of campaign. If the evictions continued, the time would come when England's conscience would become awakened to the crime the country had committed in allowing its forces to assist at such scenes in behalf of men who were deaf to

every sense of Christian charity and public duty.

Mr. John Morley moved the adjournment of the debate, which was agreed to.

LONDON, February 8.- John Morley this evening resumed in the House of Commons the debate on Mr. Parnell's amendment to the address in reply to the Queen's speech. He said he agreed with that part of the amendment which affirmed that the remedy for the existing crisis in Irish affairs was to be found in such reform of the law and system of government as would satisfy the needs and secure the confidence of the Irish people. There was, in fact, Morley declared, no remedy short of granting the Irish self-gov

ernment.

Jacob Bright, Liberal, said it was no discredit to England that she had failed to gov ern Ireland. The discredit was in refusing to abandon an impossible task. The attempt to govern by force had failed in America and Canada, and wou'd fail in Ireland. Ireland must be treated the same as Canada. The relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland were a far greater scandal than was the plan of campaign. He would have been surprised if the Irish leaders had not adopted some such method.

Mr. Gibson, solicitor-general of Ireland, in defending the government's action at Sligo, said that it was the duty of the crown to ensure the selection of jurors of independent mind. The Gladstone administration had pursued the same course. It was a fact that the packed juries had in many cases given verdicts of acquittal.

T. P. O'Connor, Nationalist, called attention to the fact that the government had frankly admitted the charge of jury-packing. He said that Dillon would doubtless be tried and convicted by a packed jury. He felt compelled to denounce such a state of things as a foul and dishonest administration of the law.

Mr. Gladstone promises to support the Parnell amendment.

CHOCOLATE CARAMELS. - Three cups brown sugar, one cup milk, one-half cake chocolate, one piece butter (size of an egg). Boil until thick ; pour in a buttered pan, and when cool cut in squares.

TO SIFT CINDERS, cover your sifter with an old apron or rag. Seize it thus covered, and shake without lifting the edge of the rag. In case of wind tread on the edges to keep them down. A few stones applied at the corners will do as well.

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CLEANING WALL-PAPER. - Cut into eight portions a loaf of bread two days old; must neither be newer nor staler. With one of those pieces, after having blown off all the dust from the paper to be cleaned, by means of a good pair of bellows, begin at the top of the room, holding the crust in the hand, and wiping lightly downward with the crumb, about half a yard at each stroke, till the upper part of the paper is completely cleaned all round. Then go round again, with the like sweeping stroke downward, always commencing each successive stroke a little higher than the upper stroke had extended, till the bottom be finished. This operation, if carefully performed, will frequently make very old paper look almost equal to new. Greatc aution must be used not by any means to rub the paper hard, nor to attempt cleaning it the cross or horizontal way. The dirty part of the bread, too, must be continually cut away, and the pieces renewed as soon as may become necessary. To take grease stains out of wall-paper, mix pipeclay with water to the consistency of cream, laying it on the spot, and letting it remain till the following day, when it may be easily removed with a penknife or brush.

FUMIGATE THE CELLARS.-This is the time of year to look after your cellar. All vegetables should be removed, the walls brushed down, shelves cleaned, and closets washed; the windows should be opened during the middle of the day and the fresh air allowed to come in. After everything has been removed and the cellar cleaned, close the windows and doors, put a little sulphur in an old saucer or tin cover, set fire to it and let it burn. This will destroy whatever fungus growth may have formed, as some always will in a cellar, especially if it be the least bit

damp, and is a good preventive of disease. If the fumes steal through the house it won't hurt anything, only be sure to have your silver well protected, so that it may not be tarnished by the sulphur smoke. After the sulphur has all burned out, leave the cellar closed for perhaps an hour, then open the windows on all sides and let the fresh air through. It would be conducive to general health if this was done two or three times during the year. It would destroy disease germs, and act at once as purifier and disinfectant. Many a day's illness is caused bythe malarial airs that steal up through the house from neglected cellars.

THE POTATO AS FOOD AND DRINK.Economically considered, says an agricultural journal, the potato is of great interest. It supplies an agreeable article of food, acceptable upon every table in the land at least twice a day, year in and year out. Were it not so common it would be considered as a delicacy. Besides its use as food, it enters into a great number of industrial uses. For the manufacture of starch millions of bushels are used every year, and the starch is of the best quality, so good, indeed, that much of it is sold as an acceptable substitute for arrowroot, and as farina for the choicer articles of cookery. Immense quantities of it are also used in the manufacture of all kinds of sweets; few of the lovers of these ever imagine that the most tempting ones are composed chiefly of potato-starch. Both Germany and France grow immense quantities of potatoes for the purpose of extracting brandy, large quantities of which are imported into England and other countries; but whether it is of the celebrated "three star" brand, we are unable to say. A large quantity is worked up as size and stiffening in the manufacture of cotton goods, and for filling in calicoes; gum and dextrine are manufactured from it, for the use of calico printers; alcohol is another of its products; and the stalks are used in dyeing goods. There are few farm products, if, indeed, there is another, that we should miss more than this, for if we were deprived of bread we could substitute potatoes; and the very fact that the abundance of bread does not displace the potato from our tables shows how great a necessity it has become for us.

"How are you to-day, my dear?" asked the high school girl of her friend as they met one morning. "Oh, I feel under the weather to-day, Mildred," was the reply. "Had you not better say "subordinated to meteorological conditions of the atmosphere' instead of under the weather?'' gently corrected Mildred.

SHE was a crank on the subject of music. A gentleman knocked at her door and asked: "Does Mr. Smith live here? "No, sir, his room is an octave higherin the next flat," she replied, in a pianissimo andante tone of voice.

"DID they perform with credit?" asked the advance agent of the proprietor of the hall, alluding to the comic opera troupe that had performed there the previous week. "They did indeed," said the hall man, very emphatically. They got credit at every store they could, the hotel had to board them on credit, and my hall rent was credited, too. They performed with credit all round."

Housewife: Why does your milk look so blue these days, Mr. Schalk? It never has been quite as bad as now." Milkman (apologetically): "Well, you see, mum, our cow has lost its calf. She nat'rally feels rather blue over it, and I s'pose it affects the milk."

"SOME things," said an excited orator recently, "can be foreseen and foretold; and I now foresee and I will now foretell that the day will soon come when our liberties will be no more. This is as certain, my fellow-citizens, and it is as sure, as that Romeo founded Rome."

"WHAT is your favorite reading, the daily papers?" asked the Widow Flapjack of the new boarder, Judge Pennybunker. "No." "The magazines?" "No." "Novels?" "No." "What, then, do you prefer to read?" "Before I came to this boarding-house I preferred to read the bill of fare."

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COLONEL YERGER and his wife are always quarrelling. Yesterday she asked him: Why are you looking at me so intently?" "I was just wondering what there was about you that made me want to marry you so badly."

"DID you take me for a fool when you married me?" cried an angry husband in the midst of a domestic quarrel, to which the wife meekly replied: "No, James, I did not; but then you always said I was no judge of character."

"You may say what you like, mother; George no longer loves me." "But, child, how did you get that silly notion into your head?" "Oh, very simply and only too quickly! When he takes me home nowdays he always chooses the shortest

road."

JOSH BILLINGS remarks:- "After several years uv reflection, I have come to the konklusion that the three most difficult things in life are Ist. Carryin' an armful of live eels up a steep hill without spillin' an eel; 2d. Aktin' as a referee at a dog-fight without gettin' mad; 3d. Editin' a n newspaper, and the last is harder than the fust."

A MAN applied for aid. "You should go to work and earn a living," was the indignant reply. "Go to work! It isn't bad enough that I am so poor that I have to beg, but here you want me to work, besides."

"OF what use would archives have been to Noah?" asked a lecturer who was "bearing" everything ancient. He was taken back when an auditor exclaimed

"He could have kept his bees in Arkhives."

AN editor who started a little paper five years ago is now a millionnaire. Nothing is impossible where industry and economy are combined with good looks. He married a rich wife.