Dressing Windows

Window-dressers should bear. in mind the different duration of daya, ind the consequent dirainution or ïncrease of' the employment of artificial ight. There is an eminent practical and very short rule applicable to these changing cireumstances. Warm colors, such as red or orange, and their affluitiis, are naturally allied to light and cool colors - that is to sav. Duróle. blue and their kindred shades- are allied to shade. For elïect these colors should, then, in summer days be reversed in their presentation to the public, the cool colora in front, the warm at the back. The artificial light enlivens warm colora and deadena cool ones1, so that in winter, when window have moat value during the long, daik eveninga, when gas is in full swing, the warm colora should be placed in front and the cool ones betiind, so that they would be under full light. - Warehouseman and Draper. . "Here's Webster on a bridge," said Mrs. Partington, as she handed to Ike a new unabridged dictionary. "Study it contentively. and you will gain a deal of inflammation." It has long been known that coal which ia burned while wet will not make as much steam as dry coal. The difference in favor of the latter appears, oy reoent experimenta in England, to be f uly fourteen per cent.