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This contrivance will be found very useful for various purposes.  It will do to put books upon, to write upon, to iron clothes upon, and for any other purpose where it is considered desirable to support household objects at a distance from the floor.  One of its chief advantages is to serve as a receptacle for the food of a family during meals.  If on such occasions it be covered with a white linen or cotton cloth, its appearance will be much improved, and in time it can not fail to become a favorite article of furniture.

The next hint will please the ladies.  Take two pieces of cotton or woolen cloth, of any size from two inches to a foot square, and sew them together at the edges, leaving, however, a small place unsewed at one corner.  You will now find that you have something like a square bag.  This is to be tightly filled with wool, bran, mowings, clippings of human hair, or something of the kind, and the open corner is then to be sewed up.  When finished, the affair will assume this appearance and will be found very useful for the preservation of pins.  The manner of using it is as follows:  you take the pin in the hand and firmly press it into the bag, when it will be found that the body of the pin will easily enter, but that the head will prevent its entire disappearance.  The stuffing of the bag will retain the pin in its position until a slight degree of force is used to withdraw it.  With the use of this ingenious little contrivance, pins can be kept in safety with the points always hidden and their heads exposed to view.  It will be found much more economical and convenient than the plan of carrying pins loose in the pocket, and eventually will be generally adopted, we think.  The top and corners can be ornamented a discretion.

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Hint the third is especially addressed to country families.  Take one of the ordinary toilet-tables that are to be found in so many rural habitations, and, on removing the white cover, you will probably find that the table is formed of an empty flour-barrel with a board nailed on top of it.  Remove this board; get a head from another barrel of the same size; place it properly upon the top; put some good hoops around the ends, nail it all up tightly, and you will find that you will have a very good barrel.

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Founded upon Fact.

Why is BRENTANO like a hardware man?

Because he keeps Tomahawks for sale.

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Definition by an Envious Wood-Engraver.

ZINCALI—­Artists who draw on zinc plates.

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[Illustration:  AN AGGRAVATED CASE.

Man with Muffler.  “IT ISN’T THE FACT OF THE SORE THROAT I MIND SO MUCH AS THE SUSPICION THAT I CAUGHT IT FROM THAT BEASTLY SNOB, BURLAPS, WHO OCCUPIES THE ROOMS OPPOSITE.”]

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