A Good Cleaning Preparation

A lady called for this mixture ut a drug store: One quari of deoaorlzed benzine, one drachm of sulplíorlc ether, oiie (r.ielini :i,' chlorofotin, two drachms oí alcohol, ;nnl just. enougb cokmnv to make tí pleasant. When she had goïie, the elerk remarked to a spectator: '"Do yon know vtfiat she wanted that preparátion for? Vou woulil nol be l.i r mu oí tlie way if yon gneaeed she was gping to waeh gome solled gíoves. Thá1 Ís one of the best .-nul cheapesi preparations for c!oMiisiii.u: th.at I knáw oí. Yon pour a littli' oí the mixture into a clean bowl, and wash tlii' gïpves in it as you would wash anytbJtnffc wlth Boap and watí'i-. lí tke glovts are of a cheap kind, il is Ix-st to dry them on the hand, but a ílne clotli, after liaving l)een rnblied to smootii out the wrtnkles, may be hung on the Une to dry like an ordinary garment. The preparatlón is an exeellenl thing to h.ive hanily, not only for vejuvenatin.ií gloves, but for removlng n'rease s])ots trom clothing and carpeta, and íor spOBglTig coit-i-o lars and telt hats. The ladics In this town could save considerable money by followlng that onc's example." - Chrlstlan Dnlon. Rev. Hugh Prlce Hnghee bas ju.sf arrived in New York, delégate to the thinl Methodist Ecuménica] conference, from Lomion, England. The conference -11 be held in the city ï Washington from Octobèr 7th to 20th. The Rpv. Mr. Hnghes holde the high positiön of superintendent ol the London Mission of the Wessleyan Methodist churc-h, and is editor of the "Methodist Timos," iis leading organ pi tli "foi-Avard movement." He is an eloquent and powerfnl orator, and it ík aaid that he has lafluenced public sentiment to guch a degree, that Parnell eould no longer Ixold a seat in parliament aa n leader ol the Irisii party. He wages war against the sweating system and the mcrcrowilinjj,- or the popr, and these reforme hare been bermed by the Methodlsta, soi-ial Chrlstlanlty. in the conference Rev. Iliirfii's u i'l read an essay on "The Religious Press and the Rellgidüa Üsea of the Secular I'n-ss."