THE FOREST REPUBLICAN ti published srsry Wsflnetesr, ky J. E. WENK. Ohio In Bmearbaugn Ac Co.' Building -ILK ITRKBT, TIONK8TA, Pa, Terms, tl. BO par Year. No nhwriptlont ree.lred for a shorter period than thrrs months. Oormpcndonr solicited from (II Mrts of the RATES Or APVEttTISlNO. On Sqvare, on 1nh, on Insertion,. ...I 1 On Sqtmre, on Inch, on month. One Square, one inch, three month. i One Square, one inch, on year.... . . r 0 Two Square, one year U Off tfnfirer Column, one yet.. M) no Half ( olumn, one jcr M ft 'One Colo mn, one jear ... 1M I. real ndrertlaemenU ten cent per tine ch In eertton. Marriage and dVath notice ffratlfc Alt blllf for yearly trlrertlMment eoTtoted qnar trrlr. Temporary adreuit eat But paia hi a dr ante. Jo work out 44 inrv. Forest Republican. VOL. XX. NO. 17. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24, 1887. S1.50 PEIl ANNUM. rnuntry. No nolle will D Ukoa of i sncmjmoiii ftnamunlcslioiu). 9 jrra"0 The Intcst theory regarding tlio origin of natural gas il not thnt the gng Is a pro duct of petroleum deposits, but just the reverse, nnmcly, tlint the petroleum sup ply is n product of residuum of the na tural gas. The Suet Canal cost less than t 100,000,. 000. Two hundred and soventy-flvo millions of dollars have been expended upon the, Panama Canal, and tho pros pect is that tho project will have to bo abandoned. Many persons do not know that Jeffer son Davis is blind of an eye; and more do not know how hn was thus afflicted. When ho was about fourteen years old ho and his couslu, Joseph L. Davis, were shooting with rrossbows at a mark on a ;e stump. One. of tho bolts fired by ung JulTcrson flew back and struck squarely in tho cyo, putting it com .efy out. An official report to tho British Govern ment states that tho yearly cotton crop of Japan is about 1U 1,000, 000 Hniids. The manufacture of the staple is of tho most primitive description. It is almost entirely a domestic industry, gin, spindle and loom being found in tho house of the farmer on whose land the plant is grown, the female members of the house . doing tho spinning and weaving. A lutcly dead woman of Racine, Wis., must have been a very popular person! After her death recently, the bereaved widower invited oil who had been kind to her in her last Illness to attend a litttlc banquet in her honor, and it is estimated that 8,000 persons congregated to take Vn active part in tho feast. The guests celebrated with such enthusiasm that tho tcJwu became a very bright red before morning. Tho Virginia (Ncv.) Enterprine says that "about three thousand head of sheep are now finding abundant pasturage in tho vicinity of this city, where twenty years ngo a whippoorwill could not fly over tho country without carrying a sack . of provisions. Gradually the summer season hero has changed. We now have considerable showers and grass where but two decades ngo all was drought and lairrcnncss." Occidental statisticians have long been accustomed for some reason to regard with doubt tho periodical reports con cerning tho population of China, but in """'asinueh as the Chinese law requires every householder to hang at his front door a fist of tho inmates of his house, it seems as though it ought to bo cosy to make an accurate census. By one which the offi cials of the Empire have recently afford ed, tho population is 450,000,000. Dainty wreaths of flowers, tho work of hands that lost their cunning 3,000 years ago, have lately lccn found in a sub terranean gallery near Thebes, where, with the royal mummies they adorned, they had remained undisturbed during half the whole period of historic time. They partially returned their fragrance, and even their color had not entirely dis apcared. They must have been a costly luxury in the country described by tho prophet Zachariah as a region where there The relative increase in population in Canada is much less than in tho United . States, Indeed, it could not be other .wisc while so many of those immigrants who seek Canada as a place of settle niont move from that country to tho United States every year. It is a fact that the number who leave Canada to settle in tho United States exceeds the Dumber of those who, emigrating from other countries, settle, in Canada. "Tho ' United States," says tho Culticator, "of fers better facilities for tho improvement of the condition of tli intelligent and industrious immigrant than Canada affords." The Farmers' Alliance of Texas, with a membership of S.'iO.OOO, and perhaps an available capital of not less than $50, 000, 000, have formed the project of establish ing extensive manufactoiies at Marble Falls, having purchased the water power there, and it is now understood aro pre paring plans and making arrangements to utilize their purchase. Their movc- ment in this enterprise, the Galveston fteat thinks, deserves success, and is a commentary upon the want of enterprise of the merchant class, tho capital class, and all classes that usually claim a monopoly of foresight, enterprise, energy, and activity. Americans are not much given to sui cide. Tho avcrage.Ainerican appears to prefer working himself to death or dying of dysjiepsia. Only Spain, Itussiu and Scot land show fewer eases of self destruction than the United States. Tho number of suicides each year per 1,000 inhabitants has been computed with tolerable ac curacy, as follows : 8ain Russia United States. Italy England Helgium Bcunilinavitt... ria ... H ... 'J5 ... 3.! ... 1IT ... Art ... 71 ... Ml ... V, ...WO ...153 ...308 ...200 fciwelij-" liim to . laud. ark' THE HEART, The heart hath chambers twain Wherein do dwell Twin brothers, Joy and Tain. When waketh Joy In one, Htill calmly Tain slumbers in his own. Oh Joy, thy bliss restrain, Speak softly, Lest thou shnuld'st waken Tain. From (hn (lerman. MOSE STUJiBb"S BOY. II Y F.MII.IK TOI.MAN. "Geu'ral! O-o-o Gen'ral!'' A stout negro woman, after uttering this cry several times, turned slowly back to her cabin, muttering to herself, ' What's dat good-fur-nuflin' chap at now f" Just then a bundle of rags, with a pair of black feet at one end, and a woolly head, surrounded by tho fragments of n ftrnw hat, at the other, came slowly up the yard. " Here I is, ma," drawled the lad. An' lucky fur yer, too," answered tlio woman, with nn air that hinted at dire ful consequences in case he had failed to appear nt that exact minute. "Now, Gen'ral, I want yer to tote dis yer basket ob clo'es ober to do P'int( to Miss Men son's; an' don' yer be long 'bout it, nuther. " General placed the basket on his head, and, with his hands in his pockets, walked composedly down the alley. General was born soonaftcrhis parents were pronounced "contraband of war" by General Butler; and, out of gratitude for his protection, they named their son General Uutler Stubbs, and General he was always called. His father, Moses Stubbs, managed by oysteringand doing odd jobs that fell ill his way to keep his large family from starving, but could do little more than that. The cabin which they calle 1 home was a little, one-story shanty, leaning discon solately ugimist a mud chimney which looked scarcely able to support itself, not to mention holding up the house beside. It consisted of one room, and thnt not large; but it managed to contain at night Moses St ill ibs, his wife, and seven chil dren, of whom General, now a lad of thirteen, was the oldest. I say nt night, for it would hardly accommodate so many people awake and moving about. If it ever chanced that they were all at home during tho day some ol them would sit out in the yard. One of those numer ous inlets from the sea which intersect the eastern part of Virginia came up close to their back door. This was. on some accounts, a great convenience, for at low tide they dug out of the mud many a good meal of clams and oysters. General hod once leen to school a few weeks, nod had leared to read easy words in large print, nn accomplishment of which his mother was very proud ; but now ho was old enough to help at home, ho was not allowed to continue the pur suit of learning, lie still kept in a chink between the boards or tire cabin, with a broken knife-blade and a piece of col ored glass, a few leaves of a book, which he had a vague idea would some day prove the "open sesame" of knowedge and riches. Tho young lady for wdiom Mrs. Stubbs washed smiled kindly at the queer, tat tered figure, as she took tho basket of clothes. "What is your name?" she inquired. "General Butler Stubbs." "What arc you going to do to earn such a name, General!" "Don't know, Miss," said General, with a puzzled expression, for he had no idea his name was moro peculiar than Tom or Dick. "The business of a general is to fight and conquer tho enemy,'1 continued the lady. "What enemy 'are you going to conquer t" "Dey done fit do wall, Miss. Ma she heard do guns wlin dey fit at Big Bethel." "Hut, General, there arc other battles to le fought. Perhaps you are the one who is going to light ngainst sin an ig nainnce." "I reckon I is, Miss," said the lad, with a growing feeling of importance, though with but a vague idea of tho meaning of her words. "Dis yer General should orter fight 'gainst sin V ignorance," ho said to him self on his way home. "Old Father Parker say 'tis a sin to play marbles," he thought, o ho saw a group of boys in dulging in that amuscuient, aim recalled a powerful discourse he had heard a few Sundays previous on the text: "Mnrblq j not, brel heron." Ilcniiickencd his space, with the idea of beginning the fight ngainst sin then and there, by pitching into those bad boys at once; but it suddenly occurred toliim that he himself had been guilty of playing marbles only the day be I ore, and even now was in possession, of two of those wicked, fascinating toys. He tried to forget them, but could not. They seemed to burn in his pocket, and at last, as he crossed tho bridge, ho held them behind him, so that he could not seo them, and dropped them into the water. I....... f.u.li.O itrnnri.tit t .I'lll'ral ! Hot. WUI, .WW..-.., perhaps this hard-won victory was not in vain; it may have made him stronger to fight the real enemy. A few davs after tl';- '' ere came a very high tf- ' " I' family was obligit--'tfrfeir little cabin, and liirnTUalaceiiuiiiodations they could among their neighbors. " Dar's right smart ob us," said tho General to himself, "an' it's a pretty night; so I'se just gwine to stay out," and he etiollcd aira.essly along toward "do P int." He passed tho hotel, ami csme out upon the sandy beach which lies in front of Fortress Monroe. On ono side were the high ramparts, bristling with guns, and on the other the broad expanse of the Chesapeake. When darkness came on, he stretched himself on the sand close to the water battery, and fell asleep. He awoke after a short nap, feeling uncomfortably cool, and began to consider what he could do to letter his situation. On the Itcoch, a shortdistance from the water-baltery, was a inon-ter gun, which was lying there ready for ship meut. Into this hn crawled, fitt fore most, and found to his saisfartiou that it ilforded protection from the wind, and was, therefore, warmer than his bed on the sand. To be sure, it was rather hard, tnd there not isuch room in which to more about; but neither was there at home with flvo in a bed. lie felt rather lonely, and would willingly have ex changed the sound of the surf for the sociable snoring to which he wns accus tomed ; but none of these considerations kept, him awake long. It was nearly midnight when he was startled out of a sound sleep by a strange noiso close to his head, as if someone were pounding on the gun. His heart beat furiously, and he turned cold with fear. The sound ceased after a time, and he heard footsteps on the sand. General, like most of his race wns a firm believer in ghosts, and ns he peered cau tiously forth from the mouth of the gun, he more than half expected to behold some unearthly visitant. Ho was not a little relieved, therefore, to sec nil object looking very much like a mortal man walking along the shore. When the man turned toward the gan again, General drew back his head tortoise-like and slid down into the cavernous depths. He heard the foot steps coming nearer and nearer. Now he wns sure the man was leaning ngainst the gun. Again there was that strange sound, but this time General rightly gucscd it to be only the tapping of lingers on the iron. Soon he heard other steps on the sand, and a voice said, "3'ou, Jim?" "Yes," was tho reply ; "and no fun git tin' here, neither.". Then followed a conversation, most of which was too low for General's ears. "I tell you 'taint safe," nt last he heard, in louder tones. "There's nllus a gyuard on there," General's interest increased, and ho forgot the desire to cough which had tor mented him a moment previous. The murmur of voices continued; but, though ho listened with all nttention, it was long before he distinguished any other words. He judged from the sound of the voicia that tho two men disagreed on some point. At last he was sure one of them said: "Well, we'll try t'other house. There's quite a parcel of people there, and likely we'll git something for our trouble." "Are yovi sure there aint no dog? asked the other. "Yes, dead sure," was the reply. Then the men walked away, and General was left alone once more. As soon as he dared move, he put out his hend, and looked up and down tho beach. All was quiet. The neighboring beacon made a broad, shining pathway on the water; the lights on the ships in the harbor glimmered faintly. General tried to compose himself for another nap, but he could not help think ing alMiut w hat he had heard. Ho be lieved that the men were planning to break into some house, but where and when ho knew not. '" 'Taint snfe; dar's alius a gyuard on,'" he repented. "Dat might mean do hotel. 'T'other place quite a parcel ob people no dog.' " (.cneral siidueuiy scramiiieu out oi the gun upon the sand. It had occurred to him that "t'other place" must mean Miss Benson's, where tho pretty lady lived whoso words had so impressed him a few davs before. "Dar'll be a gyuard on dar, too, to night, ho said, as he started olt down the beach, "lleckon dey didn't think a eun had ears." The street was deserted, and all was perfectly still as General crept noiselessly along on his bare feet past tlie hotel to ward Miss Benson's. It wns a long, low building, lying near the shore, and not Inr from tlio main road. At first he thought he would ring the bell and give warning; but when he reached the door he changed his mind. ThU might not. after all, bo the house the men were talking about; and, even if it were, who would believe his story? No, he must watch and wait for further developments. He withdrew, and snt down on the ground behind some shrub bery. As time passed on and nothing happened to break tho monotony of his vigal, his excitement subsided, and he began to feel sleepy. General was just thinking it wns all foolishness on his part, and that he might as well lie down under the shrubbery and take a nap, when a dark form glided through the yard, and disappeared round the corner of the hoiwe. It looked like a man with a pack on his back. General crept out of the shrubbery, and stole softly after him, keeping closo to the wall of the house. His plan wns to ring the door bell loud and long, as soon as he discovered anything amiss; but he would not do that till he was sure there was cause for alarm. General followed him quietly at a safe distance. Once the man stopped sud denly and looked back ns if he heard something. With beating heiwt, General pressed close against tho wall and stood motionless until the stranger jNissed on again. He turned another comer which brought him on the side toward the water, laid down his mysterious burden, and walked toward tho shore, where there was a small wharf to which two or three rowloats were fastened. Here another man joined him. He, too, carried something, which the first took from him, and, after a few whispered words, brought to tho same place where he had left his own bundle. General's interest was now much greater tlian his alarm. He could not see that tho men were doiug any harm. Why did they not try a door or window, if they wished to commit robbery I Yet there was something about their conduct that he did not understand. They evidently did not wish to Ih; seen or heard, and General had his suspicions that it would go hard with him were ho discovered. There was a large treo a few yards dis tant, which he thought would afford a safo retreat; but he dared not cross the open space between, lest one of the men should see him. So he lay fiat on the ground close to the house, where he could peer around the corner to seo what was going on. "He's gwine ter hab a smoke," said General to himself, as he saw the man next to the house shading a lighted match with his hand. The next minute lurid flames were shooting up from a pile of material piled against the house. The incendiary turned and ran swiftly toward the shore; but not before he had disclosed a frightful, masked face. General was bia'echless with horror. i but only for an instant; the uextuio I ment his loud cry of " Fire! fire!" rang out upon the startled air. There was a sound of opening windows, ! of confused and frightened voices, and of hurrying feet. General ran for an old tin bucket which lie saw lying on the ground, and wns just starting with it toward the well when he was rudely shaken by the collar, and heard a voice say: "What are you doing here. I'll tench you to set fires to burn up folks in their beds, you black rascal!" "I I I never d-d-done it," snid Gen eral, his teeth chattering with the shak ing and terror. " lj-1-let mo go!" He tried in vain to tenr himself from the powerful grasp of his accuser. "I'll let you go to jail, as soon ns there's a chance," replied the man, as he pushed General into a small shed, and closed the door. There was but one window to the shed, nud that was near the roof, too J higli for him to think of reaching. Jle flung himself against the door again and ngain ; but it had been securely fastened on the outside. "Sin an' ignorance done conquer dis time, sho' nulT," soliliquizcd General, mournfully. He felt that there was small chance of his Rtory being believed. The pretty lady wdiom he had meant to serve would think that he set the tire. As the sound of the hurry and con fusion without increased, a new fear came to him. Perhaps the house would burn down, and the shed would catch fire, and he would be left to perish in the flames. Ho shouted several times; but his voice, if heard, wns not heeded. At last,, the more subdued tones and slower movements indicated that all danger was over. Day was beginning to dawn when the shed door was opened, and General was summoned forth, to confront the crowd of men and boys who had assembled at the alarm. Perhaps he ought to havclooked-noblv heroic and confident in the consciousness of innocence; but candor compels the admission that, as he stood there in "his ragged coat, the discouragement and misery in his face and attitude might have been mistaken for the evidence of guilt. "Why, it's Mose Stubbs's boy!" ex claimed a bystander. "I alius knew they was n low-down fam'ly; but, I didn't s'posc none of 'cm would do such a thing." "You all avoided a mighty narrer escapc," said nnothcr, in tones which (ieneral fancied had n familiar harshness. "If I hadn't 'a' seen the fire jest as I did, nothing wouldn't 'a' saved yer." "Why, General, is th s you?" ex claimed a surprised voice. It was the pretty lady, who with others had just j advanced to look nt the supposed in-: cendiary. "Yes, miss, that's the boy that set the . fire," replied the former speaker. "No, miss, please miss, I never done it," pleaded the lad, ns he met the dis tressed, pitying eyes of the lady. "I was trying to 'stingiiish it." "How came you here at that time of night?" demanded one of the men. General looked nt his accuser in a con fused, timid manner and made no reply. Tho pretty lady saw that he was frightened, and stepping closer to Lira, said, kindly: "I don't believe you did it, General. You'll tell me the whole truth, will you not?" Thus encouraged, aud aided by many questions. General related the whole story of the night. When tho narrative was finished, the man who had been so loud in his accusations was missing. He had said something about being in a hurry to get to his work, and had hur ried away. General's tale was not at first received with confidence by all his hearers. Sonio of them even doubted the possibility of his getting into the gun; but that objec tion was easily removed by his repeating the mnna'uvro in tho presence of wit nesses. Tho sudden disappearance of his accuser, who was never seen ngaiu in thai region, was another point in Ids favor, and when the last suspicion wns cleared awny, General found himself the hero of the occasion. He was provided with a new suit of clothes, and sent to school, where he was a dilligent and faithful pupil. The Stubbs family have long ago moved from their leaning cabin on the shore to a neat and commodious cottage on higher ground; and General, as farmer, teacher aud preacher, with spade, spelling book and sermon, is battling manfully against sin and ignorance among his people. Youth't Comjmnion. The Pugnacious Crab. From the beginning of,his life, or at least very soonaftcrhis introduction to the watery world, the crab is addicted to warfare, and though by no means averse to obtaining food without hghting, is al- ways ready for a fray. The younger ! members of the race, after being them ; selves in the mud near the water's edge, , mid thus hid, await the species of a land crab known to fame as tiddlers, who ; periodically go down to the water to 1 drink, and it is rarely the case that one of his humble cousins fails to fall a vic i tim to the bold bushwacker's appetite as he sallies out from his hiding place with the ferocity of a tiger. Internecine war , fare is also common, since the crab's cannibalistic propensities are very strong and his pugnacity well developed: but, unless there is great disproportion in tho size of the antagonists, these combats are rarely fatal, though they may cost the t duellists a limb or two. ,Vi Orlrnnt ! Timet-lkinorntt. i Writing a Muscular Kxerclse. An Albany physician has mado c MiiLMilar discoverv. He savs he has no ticed a failing hi the muscular power of many business men, and on inquiry found that'they had been using typewriters or (Stenographers lustcad ot writing their own letters. This, strange as it may ap pear, has deprived, the physician says, business men of a little very desirable muscular exercise of the right arm, and has to some extent affected their general health. The observation of the physician seems to have lieen very extraordinarily acute. AUxtny Journal. The Wild Waves' Warble. "What are the wild wavet saving Sister, the whole day longf'1 Come wheretliHsurf is spraying, List to their loud, gay song: "A HH Spluhh, Dash, 'rash. With a rumble, A grumble And roar, We splutter, And flutter, And mutter, There always is room for on more:' " Hottl Mail. AMAZONIAN "PIT-BROWS.' MASCULINE-CLAD WOMEN WORK AT COAL MINES. WHC A Delegation of Twenty-Five Women Marching to the Parliament Iliiildings A Life of Drudgery. Among the thousand and one strange, unique mid interesting sights thnt may be seen in the streets of the metropolis of the Knglish Kinpirc from time to time none has attracted more universal atten tion than that of the curiously-clad dele gation of "Pit-Brow women" that passed up the fashionable promenades to Parlia ment buildings a short time since, bent, not on sentiment nor sensation, but on bread and business an everyday strug gle for an honest existence, of which their almost masculine costume is only illustrative and a component part grow ing outof the exigencies of their toil, for which they are thankful and by no means responsible, writes Charles K. Kincaid from Lancashire, England, to the Louis ville Time. These women, married or single, to the number of ten thousand, work at the overground openings of the coal mines, and hence their designation of "pit brow." They are mostly seen in the "black district" or coal region of Eng land, and Lancashire claims tlio largest share. The occasion of the pilgrimage of these wonderfully garbed "girls" to the Parlimcntary side of Westminster was a bill introduced in tho House of Commons prohibiting their employment at the open-air mouths of the immense conl mines that honeycomb many counties of England and South Wales. When the "pit-brow women" got wind of this merciless measure pending before Parliament, which wns to throw them upon the cold charity of the world, they organized an intelligent, good-looking committee among themselves, two dozen strong, and marched straightway to the House of Commons to argue their plain cause, nevertheless one involving head raiment and roof for perhaps thirty thou sand human beings. Their duties nrc to screen the coal, push the trucks from the over-earth openings of the deep pits, and the shifting and direction of the great baskets. Their work is not dainty nor free from dirt, but it is claimed, and truthfully no doubt, that it is far health ier and more agreeable than the starving tasks in the close confines of the cheap paying manufactories of the cities. The Government officer in charge of the bill denominated their costume as "more Bulgarian than British,"nnd it is certainly not designed for the "Queen's drawing-room " receptions. It was in vented out of the necessities of the situa tion, where trains and bustles and even long skirts would be "all vanity nud vexation of spirit." As it is, the dress they have adopted, and to which they have for years, if not generations, been accustomed, is cleanlier, less in the way and more comfortable than any they could don, unless it would be the mascu line attire altogether a la Dr. Mary Walker. The wages of these women run from thirty-six to sixty cents a day in Ameri can money, while in mills they only re ceived from $1.25 to J per week. In the mills some of the girls walked B,000 miles a year at the rate of $2.20 per week. One girl interviewed said: "I must work. Father was ill for two and a half years, and I kept him, and mother and nn orphan girl and myself, and but for me the old folks would have had to go on the parish!" Another snid : "I am thirty-six, and have been working nt ono colliery for twenty-one years. I kept mother ten years alter lather died and have not had a bottle of medicine nil tho time. 1 have a house of my own bc- sides." I A girl of twenty-two said she had been ' in the pit-brow for seven years and had I supported a father, mother and two sis ters for twelve months "while her father I was out of work. A married woman snid : "I have four I children and have been nt work five I years; but tho last six months before , baby was born I knocked oil work and remained at home until he was throe I months old, nnd I've never felt a bit worse. I am now looking out for a job along the pit-brow for my fifteen-year- old girl ; I'd liefer she was there than in a mill." It is unnecessary to ndd that these hard-working, honest women were suc cessful in their mission, and legislation on this subject has been "staved olt" for some years to come perhaps permanent ly- The wage-women of America, who think they hnvo a hard life, may ponder with profit this feature of their sisters' struggles on the other side of the Atlan tic labor in which they are exposed most of the time to the elements, to say nothing of its severity and begriming effects. The "Flower-Pot." "There is a curious island In McKay's harbor on the north shore of Lake Superior," said Captain Johnson of the schooner Undine. "It is called the Flower-pot, and is a giant rock rising out of the water. The rock is covered with moss, which partially hides the many large anil dangerous crevices run ning across the island. If a man falls in to one of these he cannot get out with out assistance. Several Indians have gone to the island and never returned, they , pro. 'amy perishing in this way, and now j the Indians will not go near it. It swarms . with rabbits ami partridges, and when I , "r.uigni some pariruiges over 10 iue main land, Mr. McKay said he had lived ten years at the haibor and had never set foot n the island." Toronto lllnl. The Chinese Wall. An American engineer, who has made the subject a special study on the spot, has calculated that the Chinese wall con tains IN, 000,000 cubic metres (H.UAO, OiiO.ODO cubic feet). The cubic con tents of the (treat Pyramid is only 2 1 1, 200 metres. The material used iu the construction of the ChimtMS wall would be snllii ient to build a wall round the globe l.H metres (six feet) high, and Mi metre (two feet) thick. The tame aulhority estimates the cost of the Chines.- w all to be equal to the railwuy ini!i.i,e of the I nited States (128,0li0 niilesi. The stupendous work was ccrn stnn ted in the comparatively short pe rio l of twenty years. Iron. HOUSF.nOLD MATTERS. A Laundry Hint. A housekeeper writes to the C'nngregn tionalitt to df) your washing by this plan : "Fill the boiler two-thirds full of water, and shnve n bar of soap in it. When the water boils and the soap is disolved, add two tablcspoonfuls and n half of kerosene oil. It will immediately unite with the soap, and, if you have been exact with tho amount of each, there will be no oil on the top of the water. Now put. the cleanest pieces, like table cloths and nap kins, without previous soaking or wet ting, loosely into the wnter. Do not put too many pieces in at a time. Boil hard for ten minutes, then rinse through two waters and hang out to dry. Put more pieces in the same boiler. Examine the articles of clothing after they arc taken out, nnd, if not too roughly cleansed, put them back in the boiler for another ten minutes, or else rub lightly. If the washing is very large, there should be a renewal of the soap and oil, but for an ordinary washing once is enough. In nn hour and a half the work is nil done for a family of six persons. The clothes nrc white ns snow, and there is not the wear and tear of clothing by rubbing; above all, there is not the wear and tear of nerves." Hcoripoti. i Ciikam S.ifc i:. Melt three ounces of j butter; add flour to thicken with half a i pint of cream ! season with pepper and suit; let it boil and serve with chicken, j veal or sweet bread. Baki-.d Bkkts. Wash a half dozen smooth beets and bake them in a moder ate oven for ono hour; rub oil the skins, baste them with butter nnd lemon juice, return to the oven for five minutes. Haiucot Mutton. Makea good gravy by boiling the trimmings, seasoning with pepper anil salt. Strain, ndd carrots, ! ' ... . : ...,.,.:n.w i.n;i..rl tender. Slice them in, then pepper nnd salt the mutton.boil it brown, put it into . the gravy along with the vegetables and j stew nil together. j Gimikii Snaps. Mix one pound ol flour and three-quarters of a pound ot white sugar. Bub into it half a pound , of butter, two eggs well beaten, and an ' ounce of ginger ground fine. Beat web together, roll out the dough to the third of nn inch thick, cut out the cakes anu bake them. Theso are far superior tc ordinary ginger snaps. A Pin for Dyspki'tics. Four tablc spoonfuls of oatmeal to ono pint of water; let it stand for a few bonis until the meal is swelled. Then add two larg apples pared and sliced,onc cup ol sugar, i and one tauiespooniui ui iium n little salt. Mis nil well together and bake in a ouucreu uisu. in.o immv . verv fine dish, which may be eaten safe- I ly by the sick or well. Pukssep Corned Beep. After serv ing corned beef at dinner, while yet warm chop up fat and lean together, not very fine, only so the fat and lean may be evenly mixed; stir in enough dry mustard to flavor it nnd put it in an ob long tapering baking pan. Place on it another pan of the same size nnd in the pan set two or three flat-irons as I weight nnd let it stand over night. The next day it will turn out a good loal from which slices may be cut. Useful Hints. Baking powder should always be mixed with tho flour dry. A brush-broom is just the thing to clean horse-radish gr.itersand silver. Whitincror ammonia in the water is preferable"to soap for cleaning windows Salt sprinkled over anything that is burning on the stove will prevent nny disagreeable odor. A vegetable acid, such ns lemon juice or cider, is said to be specific lor most cases of scarlet fever. Ebony cabinets - y be washed with soft warm water nnd Castile soap, rubbed dry nnd polished with flannel dipped in linseed oil. Clean brasses on mahogany furniture by rubbing with chamois-skin dipped in cither powdered whiting.or rottoii-stone mixed with sweet oil. Never scratch the cars with anything but the tiiiL'er if they itch. Do not uso the hi nd of a pin, hairpius, pencil tips or nilVt l Il!f Of that nature. ' i f..,fr, Wl,.. mavbnmado of the following good and harmless cosmet .V K'llWII 4H-v..v j ics: (1) Boiax, three grains; rose water, five drams; orange (lower water, live drams. (2) Orange flower water, one pint ; glycerine, one ounce; borax, one dram. Any gold jewelry that an immersion n water will not injure can be bcuiitiiuuy cleaned by shaking it Well in a bottle ncarlv half full of warm soapsuds, to which a little prepared chalk has been added, and aftciward rinsing in clear, cool water aud wiping it dry. A handful of salt in the water is useful to set the colors of light cambrics and dotted lawns; and a little beef's gall will not only set, but brighten, yellow and purple tints, and has a good elici t upon green, o soon or anj w.im ( pound should be used in washing delicate colored goods. I Fatigue of the Eye by Certain Colors. It has been laid down by M. Chcvreul ( that the human eye "cannot be long em- , ployed in the percept ion of a giien color ' without tending to become inseiisiblo . and to arouse all impression similar to j that ordinarily produced by the pcreep- lion of white light. Dr. Ueclard hasalso ; not iced that when the eve is directed for ; I .! I.I .1 ll...- a time upon a coioicm m i.., .n ... .. ..: I.' . ...I II .1,.....,. wl.i.di was ol.en is in turn closed and the other opened, a : specter of the complimentary color will' be perceived; thus, if the right has ob- served a red disk, the left being shut, a, reversal of the state of things would re- iult iu the perception of a green disk by the freshly opened left eye. In virtue of, the same property of the eye, when two tints are placed beside each other, thu nearest edge of the ono will appear as though deprived of all the colored rays ' which it may have iu common with the ! jthcr. An analogous elici t is produced , with grays noii-coloied, that is to say, j formed simply of white and black. The Senate of Pennsylvania has passed j bill providing for the infliction of the Jea'h penalty by electricity. DREAM ISLANDS. They tell of a refilon, long fabled in story, Where the clouds never hide the sun and iU glory, AVliere the fruits are of gold, And the earth, never old, In perpetual spring ever laughs at age hoary. Of the men who have followed the sun to its dying, To discover that land which still westward is lying. None have come from the quest With gi-pen laurel on crest But still west, like the breezes, our wishes go sighing. Have they found that land with Its myriad flowers, And there linger, enthralled in its rose-coverrf bowers) Or by lotus fringed brook Novcr care for, nor look To the east where lies home with its troubles, its showers? With the breath of the lotus they banish all sorrow And they joy in the present; no trouble thoy borrow; Does the sky's brightest blue Or the fragrance of dew Augur anght, in those isles, but the glndde.st to morrow! Chicago Current. IllMOU OF THE DAY. The idea of laughing in your sleeve originated with the funny bone. " The man who had rather be right than be President never lacks opportunities. lhtton Traveller. "There is plenty of room at tho top," said the hotel clerk as ho ordered the porter to put up another cot on the roof. Hold Miil. No man can renlizo how easy it Is to P"ss the contribution box around and for- B :.y " " "." tille Democrat. A man takes pride in saying he has a mind of his own, and yet when he is angry he takcpleasuc in giving somelwdy else a piece of it. Boston Courier. When I was young, nnd all was well, I used to live on tick; As merry as a marriage bell, Until my wile took sick. Then 1 was broke: my darling wife From day to day grew sicker. And I wos'foreed, to save her lite, Tolivo upon my "ticker." Detroit Free V.tess. An enterprising physician in Aus tralia advertises: "I w ill pay one half of the funeral expenses in cases whero I am not 8,K.C(.ssf.i' Uatli IjJiia Call. Father of fair one "AVo closo up here at ten o'clock." Brass-headed beau ..That's a "ood idea ..'"Vl'V' f"' It keeps fellows out who don't know enough to get inside earlier." Tid-Uitt. It is said that the trout are "rising': 1 very freely in Mooselucmegimtic lake ' this season. They evidently prefer to die in a frying-pan than livo in a lake ! with such name. Harper' Bazar. The days aro glad with balmy airs, The skiiw no longer frown, In meads the dandelion wears A'aiu its golden crown; In pools we near the gleeful shout, V here merry bovs have met, And at the Imach the signs are out Of: "bathing suits to let." Boston Courier. A lady on Woodward avenue has a lit tle boy who is inclined to irecKi been told-o hecirp r Hilt when out in the sun. Last week sho engaged a servant whoso face is quite roughened with smallpox. Bobbie looked at her very closely and then said to his mother: "It's too bad. Ain't it, mama?" "What's too bad; said his mother. "That her didn't keep on her bat." His mother was puzzled nud said: "Why should Mary keep on her hut?" "Causo the sun's jammed all her freckles in." Detroit Tribune. n.--- Way Down Upon the S'wanee River Once over tho bnr at its entrance from the Gulf, the Suwanee Kiver holds its way with a deep current, in places of forty feet, far up through tho forests ot the best hard pine in the State. It is the Penobscot of Florida. It has some good land upon it, where plantations havn heretofore been mado, but after uwhilo generally abandoned. The mosquitoes ( aud malaria guard in the main entrance I omei unm ii.moi.ioii.-u, angina i.m. iu.il its. '1 his dark river has, too, river has, too, its ro mance, ns being tho place which gave rise to a melody which, like "Home, Sweet Home," tho affections of the heart will never let go. For it was here that a French family in the time of Louis XIV. came over and settled upon the Suwaneu i i .. ..I......,.:.... Ac..- ...i.;i.. th(j fatlier im'(1 m0(m,r ftnd M (,k,a Mve one daughter, who, disheartened and desolated, returned to France, and there wrote, adopting in part that negro dia lect which she had been familiar with on the plantation in her girlhood, a feeling tribute ti "the -Id folks at home" in their graves iu tho far-oil country. Dujfalo Courier. A Novel Cane. "Would you take an umbrella or n walking stick?" said a sea captain visa ing a Call man the other evening, when the two were iireKiring for a walk. "I don't think it'll rain, but since you have an umbrella and want to carry something you'll have to carry that." "Oh, no" re sponded the captain; and calmly un screwing the shad.) end of the umbrella he withdrew the central stick, and held up a cane with a silver head. The news paper man was surprised, but still more so when the captain " unscrewed again and drew a pipe from the top of the cam', I the handle of the latter constituting the . , , ' "owlol lilt pipi "Isn't that a tine travel ing cane?" milled he. And wit n ine -'t man still admiring they walked dowu thu st net. 1'h Had, Ij.h in Call. Too Much For the Conjurer. A Turkish paper says that Professor Herrman, the conjurer, who recently died at Carlsbad, was a great favoiile with t'.'elale Sultan Abdul Aziz, ami used to get a thousand pounds (Turkish) for eaidi performance. Once, after cxhibit in" two pigeons, a white one and a black on", he managed to put the black head on the white bird, and vice versa, which so pleased the Saltan' that he ordered black slave and a white slave to he, brought in, and requested that the trick be repeated with them. llcrnuaii w as forced to acknowledge that he could not. j do it. Epoch, DeuB-' 4
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