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WORDS ;OF CHEER.
weary mother, round whose evening
chair
Brigut taces cluster, to be washed and kissed
You're most too tired now to hear the prayer
By bahy voices in the twilight lisped :
You searce can read your daily page aright,
You simply voice a longing ery for rest.
But, weary mother, cheer thee up, to night
I bring thee greetings, we are truly blest !
Ah!
Yes, truly blest, that we can work and pray
For those we lo.e owever hard the task.
Sufficient strength is promised day by day ;
No better gift my grateful heart can ask.
How many children creep to beds to-night,
By mother hearts nnloved and uncaressed;
Ah ! weary mothers, clasp vour treasures tight,
Thank God, be bappy, kro that you are
blessed.
MOTHER'S CORNER.
Backward and forward the rocker goes,
Waftivg the baby to sweet repose ;
Close to the cradle the mother eroons
Lullaby, rock -a bys nursery tunes:
Dreamily singing she patiently tries
Sleep to bring to the Do eyes.
Minute by minute the evening flits,
Still in tlie chair she drowsilv si s
Soothing and rnbbing the aching gums,
Longing for slumber that never comes;
Rocking the baby that fretful lies,
¥illing the room with its nervous cries.
Weary with watching the mother sings,
Wooing the God with the leaden wings :
Softer and softer the ditty grows,
Now the little one’s eyelids close ;
Sinking at last into dreamland deep,
Mother and baby are fast asleep.
THE FIRST BREATH OF THANKS-
GIVING.
Let winds blow cold, let winds blow high,
Let days be dark and drear,
Who cares ? Thanksgiving’s drawing nigh,
A time of mirth and cheer!
What though we burn wood by the cord
And weather prophets croak ?
Soon on the groaning, festal board
The turky, stuffed, will smoke.
Then something to the poor we'll spare—
Who're always with us here—
And we'll forget all grief and care
In sweet Thanksgiving cheer.
reree————————————
A MENAGERIE LOO:E.
1 was acting as shipping clerk in the
office of the Liverpool and Calcutta
Steamship line at Cape Town, and
among the helpers in the big ware-
house were two or three fellows called
“Half-Hots,” they being a mixture of
white and black, but not mulattoes.
The color was more like that of the
Chinaman, and their vernacular was a
queer mixture of English and Dutch.
These fellows were as servile as slaves
to one’s face, but as revengeful as fiends
behind his back. The old clerk had
been in fear of them and had put up
with their faults, but I walked around
them pretty lively from the first day,
and at the end of the first month had
plenty of cause to discharge them. I
had the power to hire and discharge
my own help having at times as many
as twenty-five men in the sheds, and
$0 nothing was said about these three
going away. They made no protest to
rae, but a Boer who was acting as iny
assistant warned me that I had best
look out for myself for the next few
weeks, as he had overheard them
threatening vengeance.
Two days after the discharge of the
men an English ship, which had been
around to the east coast and up the
Bay of Bengal collecting wild animals
for the Royal Museum at London, put
into Cape Town in distress. She was
leaking so badly that she had to go in-
to dry dock, and she had to be light-
ened of almost everything before she
could pass over the gate sill of the only
dock at her disposal. The animals
were stored in one end of our big ware-
house, which was a building 200 feet
long by 100 feet wide. There was one
big African elephant and two medium
sized ones from India, together with
two male lions, three tigers, four or
five hyenas, several wolves, a couple of
bears, half a dozen snakes, a couple of
panthers, and a large number of monk-
eys. All but the elephants were in
cages, and these were placed in a row
at one end of the building, and the ele-
phants far enough away so that they
could not reach the cages or each other.
They seemed peacefully inclined, al-
though strangers to each other, and
the beasts and serpents had been so
shaken up at sea that they were glad
to secure rest and sleep.
It was in summer and the weather
was very hot. The warehouse was on-
ly one story high, built of brick, and
many windows in it-were doubly gnard-
ed to keep out robbers. Stout iron
bars ran up and down, and outside of
them were heavy wire screens. This
enabled us to leave all windows raised
day and night and kept the building
ventilated. In the centre of the build-
ing was a cupola, furnishing further
light and ventilation, and at the east
end a little room had been partitioned
off for my office. This room contained
a sleeping bunk and a hammock, and
I slept here and took my meals at a
hotel. There was no watchman inside
the house, but one was stationed on
the wharf outside. At midvight of the
nicht of which I am now going to
write, there was a full moon, and the
interior of the big warehouse was al-
most as light as day. I had been
asleep for an hour and a half when 1
was suddenly awakened by a trumpet
blast {rom the big elephant. He was
chained by one foot to a ring bolt in
the tloor, and stood broadside to one of
the windows and about ten feet away.
He trumpeted as if highly angered, and
as I dropped out of the hammock I[
heard him tugging to break his chain.
Ou that side of my office was a large
window, and I had no need to open the
door toosee what was going on. Isaw
the big fellow tugging and straining,
and he made the building shake with
his trumpeting. I don’t think I had
been on my feet half a minute when his
chain snapped and he was free, and
then it struck me that the situation was
an unpleasant one.
My office was opposite one of the
Liz doors of the warehouse, but ninety
foot away. To reach it I must cross
the hailding. My first idea was to go
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1 help to secure the elephant, but he
had scarcelv broken ioose wnen pande-
monium reigned supreme. The other
elephants began to trumpet and to
strain at their chains, and every wild
beast set up an outery. The big fellow
came straight to my end of the ware:
house, swinging his trunk right and
left, and within ten feet of my door he
began work on fifty sacks of corn gord-
ed upin a row. He picked up the
sacks,one after another,and flung them
about, and he grew more angry with
each effort. He wasn’t through with
the sacks when the smaller elephants
broke loose, and then I knew what I
must prepare for. The watchman out-
sice had caught the alarm, and he came
to the nearest window and shouted to
me. I dared not to answer him, as
the elephant was now close by, and I
was fearful that the sound of my voice
would cause him to attack my frail
shelter.
Having tossed the last sack high in
the air, the big fellow made a rush
down the warehouse for the smaller
ones, who were trumpeting at each
other and preparing for a row. He
knocked one of them over with his
rush, and then pursued the otheras he
fled amon : the piles of freight. We
had been pretty well cleaned out by
the last ship, bnt we had considerable
machinery, 200 barrels of salt, 300
bags of sugar, 500 barrels of floor,
about a thousand American smoked
hams, with perhaps fifty boxes, large
and small, containing dry goods, gro-
ceries, boots and shoes,and other stuff.
When the small elephant who was
knocked down went over, he smashed
the lion's cage, and I plainly saw both
of them leap over him and spring upon
the cage holding the monkeys. ~ Such
a growling, and snarling and howl
ing and roaring no one ever heard be
fore, and the rumpus drew the atten
tion of the elephants directly to the ca-
ges. Dropping their own differences
for a moment, they drove at the cages,
and in two minutes the entire collec
tion, except one wolf, killed in hiscage,
was let loose and flying around
the big room. By this time the watch-
man had aroused a number of people,
but they dared not open the door. I
stood no show to reach the door and
let mvselfout, and at once decided that
my safest plan was to keep quiet. I
was in the darkest corner of the build
ine. and unless one of the elephants
took it into his head to investigate, I
miglit hope to escape injury. My room
was not as high as the ceiling of the
warehouse, but only about nine feet,
and the top of it was ceiled over. This
made a big platform about 9x14, and 1
knew that some of the animals would
seek this shelter if driven that way.
All did fly to my end of the building as
they got out of their cages, and the
very first move made by one of the
panthers was to leap upon the platform.
1 he other was seized by one of the tig-
ers right before my door, and the fight
lasted until the elephant came to in-
vestigate.
Then for about five minutes every-
thing was as quiet as you please. The
animals seemed 10 be sizing {each oth-
er up and taking in the situation. I
could hear the people outside moving
about and talking in excited tones, but
when they hailed me I dare not reply,
for the big elephant stood within four
feet of my window, and was growing
restless for further destruction. The
lions stood side by side on the barrels
of flour, which were piled up about
eight feet high, while the tigers were
further down on the other side and
weil on top of the bags of sugar. Ove
panther was above me, as I have said,
while the other had skulked among the
machinery. The wolves I could not
see, but a big serpent was over by the
door, and the monkeys were aloft
among the rafters. One of the bears
was crowded into a corner, evidently
wishing to keep out of the row, while
the other I could not see. The hyenas
had been skulking among the hams,
and what started the row anew was
one of them trotting down a wide aisle
toward my office to find safer shelter.
The patter of his feet aroused the big
elephant, and he made a break for the
lions, who were waving their tails and
defying him to come on. He hit the
pile of floor barrels about in the centre,
and knocked a lot of them down, but
before he had reached them both lions
had leaped to his back, and from
thence to the floor behind him. This
was the signal for a terrible battle, a
sort of free-for-all-fight. I could see the
entire length of an aisle thirty feet wide,
and it was in this aisle that the lions,
tigers, hyenas, and wolves fell upon
each other with such ferocity that my
hair stood on end, and the scores of
people now at the windows fell back in
terror. While the wild beasts were
having it out,the two smaller elephants
began a row, and the big fellow came
swinging up the aisle in which the
hams were scattered in search of some-
thing to vent his spite on. I drew back
from the window, afraid he would see
me through the glass. He reached out
his trunk and felt all over the glass
which was a new substance to him,
and he might perhaps have pulled the
room down over my head had not the
panther above me betrayed his presence
by a growl. He had better have kept
quiet. The elephant uttered a shrill
cry and reached for him, and although
the panther bit and tore at the Jtrunk
feeling for him, he was seized, held
aloft for a moment, and then dashed
to the floor with such force as to break
every bone in his body.
If ever a man was scared out of his
boots by an adventure, he was no more
alarmed than I was as that elephant
went swinging down one aisle and up
another, clearing everything before
him. He knocked the other two down
among the tlour barrels, and then pur-
sued the wild beasts as they ceased
their fight and fled before him. He
picked np ham after ham and flung
them the length of the building, and a
large cogwheel belonging to an engine
was flung against my bulkhead with |
<nch force astoshater four of the boards
Irom the time the second row hegan
to its close was thirty-tive minutes, and
all this time each beast and animal
was uttering his own peculiar war cry.
The row was brought to a close in a
peculiar manner. The bears had kept
clear of the fight as long as. possible,
but when finally forced into it both
tackled the big elephant as the party
responsible for the sitnation. As they
did he rushed full tilt at one ot the doors
and carried it with him, and took him-
self up the wharf to the main street
with one of the hears fastened to a hind
leg. Such of the wild beasts as were
not to badly injured at once broke for
the door. One of the tizers and both
of the panthers were dead in the ware-
house. The other tigers escaped
through the town, and were killed
miles away a day or two subsequently.
One of the lions was dead, and the oth-
er, instead of bolting up the street as
he went out, ran along the wharf and
leaped aboard of a coasting schooner a
hundred yards away. One of the hatch-
es was open, and he leaped down, and
next day was shot in his hiding place.
T'wo of the five hyenas got out alive,
and were killed next day while secret
ed under a barn. Not a wolf was left
alive, but the monkeys and serpents
had climbed aloft by the supports, and
kept themselves out of the row.
Of the two small elephants, one had
a leg broken and the other haa been so
severely injured internally that he died
before morning. The big one, togeth-
er with the two bears, kept right
on through the town and beyond,
where they separated. The bears were
shot by the men who went in pursuit,
while the elephant was captured and
brought back, so generally knocked
out that he was three months getting
over it.
It was six months after the adven-
ture before we learned what bronght it
about. Then we ascertained that one of
the discharged “Half Hots” took this
way to be revenged on me and the com-
pany. Standing at the window oppo-
site the big elephant, he bad used a
hollow reed to blow little darts at him,
and one of these had struck the mon-
ster in the right eye and made him
furious.
The warehouse wasn sight to beheld
the next morning. Over 500 barrels
of flour had been smashed, the sugar
was scattered from end to end, dry
goods and groceries littered the ffoor,
and the corn could never be separated
from the sugar. The hams were about
the only things saved, and these had
been tossed to every point of the com-
pass. The all around damage was es-
timated at $100,000 and the man re-
sponsible for it died before he could be
brought to trial.—New York Sun.
A Chinese Poker Game.
A Veritable Ah Sin Takes in a Big Pot
on Four Aces and a King.
“You likee play Melican man pokee ?”’
asked Doc Sing of his new friend, J.
Gon,who came to New York from Port-
land, Ore., several days ago. J. Gon’s
Mott street friends had already intro-
duced him to fantan, and the game was
the winner. Gon had a large wad in
another pocket of his blue blouse, how-
ever, and he answered innocently : ,
«Well I don no, me belly bad Iuckee.
Where ?”’
“Go my loom, top side,” whispered
Doc, kindly. In less than half an hour,
in a small dingy back room in one of
the big Chinese tenement houses not
far from Chatham square, six well-to-do
heathens were engaged in a lively came
of “Christian poker.” J. Gon of Port-
land was in the game. Doc Sing had
nearly $1,400 in cash in his pockets, be-
sides being the owner of a little Chinese
“mill” in Mott street that constantly
ground out dollars for him while he was
away trying to earn an honest dollar or
two by “Melican man poker.” Opposite
Doc sat J. Gon. The ante was raised
from a quarter to a half-dollar and the
game became interesting.
J. Gon of Portland, Ore., devoted his
attention to a packaze of Melican man
cigarettes, and was already a loser of
about $100. Then Doc Sing caught on
to three seven spots and two queens, and
bet $10. The heathen at Doc's right,
having only two pairs raised him $10
better, and it passed until it came J.
Gon’s turn to make his bet. e quietly
laid down his cigarette stump, and after
looking intently at his hand went $50
better. Doe Sing thought he had caught
J. Gon of Portland in a bluff, so he met
the $50 with a raise of $500,and informed
his friend that the game bad reached its
limit. J. Gon put up the $500. To
the great astonishment of Doc Sing he
quietly laid down four aces and a king
and scooped the pot, which amounted to
over a thousand dollars in cash.
After this J. Gon never lost a single
hand except when the pot was small.
Tt took exactly four hours for J. Gon of
Portland, Ore, to clean out the whole
gang of civilized heathens. Doc Sing
had 25 cents” left te go to the nearest
Chinese eating house to get a bowl of
rice. He couldn’t afford his usual dish
shark fins. Mr. J. Gon of Portland,
Ore., faded away. It is now claimed by
some of the fleeced ones that he bad one
of those peculiar Chicago “duplicators”
up his sleeve, or else he was Bret Harte's
original Ah Sin in disguise
CE —————
To PrESErRVE BurTeEr.—There are
two very good ways of keeping butter
for winter use. I will give you both,
and after trial you can decide for your-
self which you prefer. In both cases
the butter without additional salt must
be packed smoothly and tightly into
stone jars, using an ordinary wooden
potato masher for pressing it down. For
one jar cut a piece of new muslin sufli-
ciently large to entirly cover the butter
Make a solution of salt and water, dip
the muslin in this brine, cover it ove:
the butter, and sprinkle on top of it sal
to the thickness of one inch. Cover the
top of the jar with two thicknesses of
tissue paper neatly pasted down, and
keep over this a tin or wooden cover
For the second jar stir enough salt int.
two quarts of water to make a saturated
solution ; that is, until the water has d«
solved all the salt it can possibly tal
up; add a quarter teaspoonful saltpetie
and a quarter pound granulated sugar
| strain this over the butter, and cover th
jar the sume as directed above.—Tubic
Talk.
Hope for the Hairless Millions.
Indiana Science Too Much for the Dev-
astating Bacillus Crinovoraz
Humanus.
Bald-keaded men, who have had to
suffer the slings und arrows of outrageous
fortune in the shape of the gibes of those
who sit behind them at the opera and
catch the glory of the ballet reflect from
their shining nobs, will be pleased to
learn that an Indiana chemist has paved
the way for their deliverance. This
is not an advertisement, and the individ-
ual who speaks of chestnuts or who
mutters “Rats,” without farther in-
clining his ear to wisdom and his heart |
to understanding, may have ozcasion to
regret his hasty judgment.
It seems some German scientist, find-
ing his forehead reaching further back
than was strictly demanded by the
laws of beauty, began to investigate the |
subject closely, and found that the da- |
mage was caused by a microbe, which,
for the sake of brevity and to distin- |
guish 1t from other parasites, he called |
the Bacillus Crinovorax Humanus.
"This microbe we are told. is shaped like
the point of a needle and has a power of
rotary motion like a steam driil, which
it uses to bore into the scalp of the vie-
tim, loosening the fastenings of his
thatch, and finally unroofing him
as complete!f as. the Kansas cy-
clone uaroofs the humble habitation of
the hardy settler.
It might be supposed that with these
powerful qualities of destructiveness the
B. C. H. could pursue its infamous
career of desolation unobstructed, but
the Indiana man has devised a prepar-
ation which promptly reduces it to a
condition of innocuous desuetude. The
first dose causes it to abandon its nefa-
rious occupation and remark on the rap-
idly growing unhealthfulness of the
neighborhood, and the next application
causes it either to vacate the premises
or give up a troublesome and misspent
life. Not only does it rid the settle-
ment of the unwelcome intruder, but it
deters others of like ilk from coming in
to take up the abandoned claim, and
the owner of the poll, who formerly
went about with a cranium as bare as a
billiard ball, thereafter rejoices like
Absalomin the beauty and luxuriance of
his locks.—From the Indianapolis
Journal.
Funny Interruptions.
Witty interruptions by the audience,
continued Mr. Perkins, in a Dartmonth
College lecture, often produces more
laughter than the speak.r's words.
When President Garfield was running
for Congress in war times, he made a
speech in Asthabula. “Gentlemen,
we have taken Atlanta, wehave taken
Savannah, Columbia and Charleston,
and now at last we have captured Pe-
tersburg and occupy Richmond ; and
what remains for us to take?
“Take a drink !” shouted aun Irish-
man. (Laoghter.)
“What we want,” said Sam Cox, in
a great low tariff speech in Tammany
Hall, “what we want is plain common
sense—plain common sense—
“That's just what you do want, Sam!”
interrupted a wicked Rerpublican.
(Laughter.)
An anti-temperance man arose in the
temperance convention at Des Moines’
He looked so good and benevolent that
every one took him for a reformer, but
they soon found out their mistake.
“Speaking of temperance, gentlemen
of the convention,” he said, “speaking
of temperance, I wish there was but
one saloon in the United States, and—"
“And that [owned it I"” But the wick-
ed man’s voice was crowned amid hiss-
es and langhter.
Law as Sue Is.--Lawyer—“You
say you saw the prisoner, my client,
commit murder? Remember, you are
on your oath. How do you know you
saw him?”
Witness—*T saw him with
eyes.”
“Did you have on your spectgcles?”’
“T never wear spectacles.”
“You don’t? How do you know you
don’t need them? How do you know
my own
.you don’t see incorrectly ? Answer that,
Did you ever have your eyes examined?”
“Only once. TI applied for a position
on a railroad and was refused because I
couid not tell an olive-green zephyr
{from a sea-green one.”’
“Ah, ha! Gentlemen of the jury, the
witness admits that he is color blind,
and vet he has stood up here and per-
jured his soul to injure my client, when
his own testimony shows he can’t tell a
white man from a negro.”’— New York
Weekly.
RoLrep JELLLY CAKE.—Separate
four eges Beat theyelks until creamy,
adding gradually one cup of powdered
sugar. Beat the whites to a stiff froth,
add them care ully to the yelks and sug-
ar. Add a level teaspoonful of baking
powder to onejcup of lightly sifted flour.
This must be sifted before measuring;
“add it slowly to the batter, mixing very
carefully, add two tablespoonfuls of
warm water. Line a long baking-pan
with greased paper; pourin the mixture
to the depth of a quarter inch. Bake
about eight or ten minutes in a moderate
oven. It must be thoroughly cooked,
but lightly baked. As soonas it is done
turn it quickly from the pan, remove
the paper, turn the cake, and spread it
with jelly. With a knife quickly crush
the crust around the edge and rell up
the cake.—Table Talk.
Way He KNEW — After the wedding
ceremony a friend of the family took
the father of the bride aside and whisp-
ared to hiri: “1 observe that you do
not seem to be aware that your son-in-
law is over head and ears in debt.”
“Are vou sure ?”’
“Certain; and IT am convinced he has
mly married your daughter with the
hie object of paying off his creditors with
ne dowry.”
“Why did you not mention this be-
tore?’ .
“le owes me $5,000.”
AND THE BELLS ARE TOLLING.
hay <tood on the banks of the sounding sea,
fahone, Foraker and Harrison, he,
een,
Violets and Pansies,
They Can be Raised in Winter Qut-
side of a Greenhouse.
To grow violets or pansies outside
a greenhouse 1s considered ty pracucal
gardeners one of the casiest tunings
perform. Many florists keep tien in
cold frames exclusively, tor, as a rule,
they have not room for thea: in then
greenhouses, unless uote 15 butit on
purpose for them. They mo be wows,
in pots, as window pliu.-, privided
lenty of air can be gi en cnsunny du. -
and a steady temperature Lepween
and 55 degrees can be kept up di Kept
in too high an artificial temperatuie
they will not flower much, but wiil
| make up in red spider what they luck
in blossom. A geranium, carnation
and a monthly rose may wintered
and flowered at a low ten perature it
¢ plenty of sunlight prevails.
The violet wants to be kept cool at all
times if it is expected that iv will fulfill
| its mission. All this does not imply
{ that the temperature of a violet house or
frame should never be allowed to run
up to 60 degrees, because sometimes
the heat in the day time i= not alway
under control. The sun may some-
times make the atmosphere under glass
warmer than the gardener would hke to
have it,but to raise the sab only one
inch would let the frost in and do more
damage than the heat. In such a case
a little too high temperature is the
least evil.
A good place to grow violets or pan-
sies may be #onstructed at the south side
of a dwelling. Dig a pit 2 feet deep
along the house. Into this put a stout
frame to receive common hot-bed susa,
the sash to lean aguinst the building.
Tear down the wall that separates the
frame from the cellar under the house,
and puta row of windows in 1ts place.
The idea of this ig, that the natural heat
in the cellar shall keep your fiame at a
steady temperature. At the same time
you may work over your flowers, no
matter what the outside weather may be
and when no air can be given from the
outside, it may be dene indirectly inside.
‘When the outside sash is open the in-
side may be shut. Thus the sun will
warm up the cellar, and perhaps store
a little heat for the night.
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Bringing Up a Child.
James P. Root Tells How His Mother
Leaded Him.
Janies P. Root, late of Hyde Park, be-
lieves in bringing up children in the
way they should go. “I know how it
is myself,” he said the other day, as he
spoke of this matter.
“When I was a boy,” he continued,
“I had a most ravenous appetite, like
all other healthy boys. My dear mother
was great on training and etiquette, and
she had me at the afternoon teas. Now,
tea was a little light for me then, and
she knew it, so just before the tea she
would quietly lead me back to the pan-
try and fill me up with milk pudding
until I couldn't wink. Then 1 would
participate in the afternoon tea. Of
course, loaded as I was, I could find no
room for anything else, and when the
tea and cake came around I said: “No,
I thank you’ The ladies present wouid
regard me with amazement, and say :
‘What a well behaved boy!” They
didn’t know that I had been stuffed be-
forehand. It was a great scheme of my
mother’s, And, say, I don’t mind tell-
ing you, I've had it in politics. They
stuffed me with pudding and I had no
relish for thegood things when they were
passed around.:’—S?¢. Louis Republic.
Few Women Dress Well,
Well-dressed women wear appropriate
clothing. Well-dressed people are few ;
the overdressed are more numerous.
Some women robe themselves in
such marvelous gowns that they over-
shadow their natural charms. Dress
should supplement or bring out a
women’s good points, not cast them into
the shade.
A few carefully-selected, well-made,
appropriate garments are more satisfac-
tory than a great number of incongruous
and more pretentious but inappropriate
clothes.
Women of refinement never
startling or con:picnous clothes.
Above all, a woman should be neat,
keep buttons on and rents sewed up.
I passed a woman on Fifth avenue
last week, says the New York Press,
whose expensive gown had no less than
five orsix ragged bits of flounce and
facing dragging after her in the mud.
Her sealskin coat was ripped in the back,
-her three-carrat diamond ear-rings hung
from a pair of dirty ears, and one glove
was minus a button. This woman is
worth millions, but she is seldom well
dressed.
wear
a —————
Had Him There.
“See this coat?” he queried as he en-
tered a Michigan avenue clothing store.
“Yes. I see dot coat. Vhas some-
dhings wrong ?”’
«I should remark! See how it is all
shrunk up!”
«I see. How did she come ?”
“] got caught out in the rain.”
“Oxactly. Did IT sell you dot coat
for waterproof 7”
“No, but it hadn't ought to shrink up
like this.”
“Dot may be, but suppose dot coat
swell out und vhas so big dot she vhas
« orth $2 more—would you pay me ex-
tru?’
“Of course not.”
“Oxactly. She vhas even. If she
shrinks you doan’ blame me; if she
swells you doaun’ pay any more. Please
doan’ block cop der shtore, my frendt--
dis vhas my busy day."--Detroit Free
Press.
BALTIMORE APPLE BREAD. —
Make a nice dough for sweet rusks, as
they are known in New England, or
buns, as they are known elsewhere.
When this dough is very light, roll it
out into two good sized cakes about half
an inch thick, and spread one with stew-
Vhen atidal wave eae and gobbled the three, |
vith non left to monrn them but Baby
MeKee—
And the bells in the Whit: Honse are
tolling.— New York Herald.
ed apples, place the other over it, and
let it rise for half an hour, then bake it
in a good oven. As soon as it is done
spread some stewed apples over the top,
add plenty ot sugar, bits of butter and
nutmeg, and set the cake back in the
oven for the sugar to form a coating.
Serve hot or cold.
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MERE
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
—At Atchison, Kan., potatoes sell for
16 cents per bushel.
—A steel bridee aeross the knelish
Channel is proposed.
—Anelectric engineer says 200 miles
per henr will le nade by electric
trains,
—A pair of candelabra once owned
by Lafavette bought $450 at a New
York auction sale two days aco.
—It 1s propised in New York to set
up nickel-in-the-slot machines to-receive
World's Fair contributions,
-—-Last month 351 applicants were re-
fused adniission to the pubihe schools of
Jersey City for want of roorn.
— Ed Lansing of Troy, recently iall-
ed a buck that weighed over 320 pounds.
This was the largest deer shot in the
Adirondacks this season.
—The jury in a breach-of-promise
case at Champaign, Tl. awarded 1 cent
damages, and “advised the plaintiff to
beware of the book agents.”
—A Bridgton, Me., man believes in
the honesty of postal clerks. He got a
letter the other dav, one end of which
was burst open, disclosing a $10 bill
—A muchine that cuts matchsticks
makes 10.000,000 a day They are ar-
ranged over a vat, and have the heads
put on at the rate of 8,000,000 per day
; by one man.
{ —Something was thought to be
wrong with a hydrant in an Indiana,
public house. An investigation showed
that a d ad snake four feet long was in
the water pipe.
— Bees that for seven vears made a
home of an unused chimney near
Knightville, Me., were recently routed,
the building being torn down, and
more than a tub f honey found.
—An intelligent canine that spends
much of its time around a railroad cross-
ing in Boston takes a position near the
safety cates when a train approaches
and refuses to allow persons to pass un -
til danger is over.
— West Main street, Gainesville, Ga.,
in the vicinity of J. S. Twomey’s store,
is known to some by tte startling name
of “Dead Man’s Row.” Tn the past 17
years fur men have beer. killed in al-
most the same spot.
—W. A. Rice exhibited 20 onions at
the Arrovo Grande, Cal, fair that
weighed 100 pounds. Mr. Young show-
ed a44-pound carrot, while Mr. Bercel-
los took the cake’ with a beet five
feet long that sealed 154 pounds.
—At Seymour, Ind., James Gallion,
aced 19 years, engaged with other boys
in a persimmon-eating contest Sunday
afternoon. He won, but early Monday
morning he died in convulsions, the
result of congestion of his stomach.
—A New Castle, Del, woman im-
plored the State Women’s Christian
Temperanee Union to advance $95 for
the purpose of starting a conscience-
stricken saloonkeeper in the soap busi-
ness. The money was not contributed.
A gambler was buricd in Montana
a week or two ago, and next morning
an anchor formed of playing cards was
found on his grave. Somebody seems to
have thought the most appropriate way
to deck his grave was to eucher deck it.
— Africa requires 2,000,000 blankets
to supply the native population alone.
Besides this there is a demand for wool-
en clothing for the ever-increasing
white population. This has to be im-
ported, although the Cape wool is of the
best quality in the world.
—John Garnett, a British sailor, died
in the Seattle hospital last week. He
told his attendants that there was a
cache on Apple island lying between
Vanconver Island and the mainland
that contained $16,0000 in gold dust
that came from Fraser river.
—An animal supposed to be a bear
prowling around Tauton, Mass. A
night or two ago it raided a dairyman’s
farm, upset his milk cans and had a
fight with his dog. He fired a shot at
the intruder, but didn’t shoot straight,
and the brute made oif unharmed.
—A sturgeon 14 feetjlong was eaught
in the Sacramento river, near Chico,
last ‘week. Instead of killing it the
fisherman fastened arope tothe body
and turned it loote in the river to get
fat. They feed it on the entrails of sal-
mon, and the captive likes the treat-
ment.
—Experiments are now being made
in Italy upon this year’s vintage in the
electrification of wine. Fifty differ:nt
sorts of wine have already been experi-
mented upon, and the results have been
satisfactory. The win» is clarified, ac-
quires a “boquet,” and is said to stand
equally well transport by land or long
journeys by sea.
—A London firm has a contract with
the French Government, under which
they annually supply France with
thousands of tons of dried fruits. The
French Government requires this large
supply of dried fruitto make the wine
which they supply to the French army.
—At Leighton Buzzard, England,
the other day, a chapel was burned
down in which it had previously been
arranged to celebrate a wedding. The
destruction of the sacred edifice had no
effect in postponing the ceremony, and
the man and woman were wade one
amid the smoking ruins.
—A correspondent of a New York
paper writes that there are probably 10,-
000 head of deer in Maine. This state-
ment was shown to Hon. H. O.Stanley,
game commissioner, in Portland. - He
shook his head. Too small, too small,”
he said, “there are nearer 20,000 ; they
are everywhere.”
—In Naples there exists a race of
cats which live in churches. They are
kept and fed by the authorities on pur-
pose to eat mice which infest the old
buildings there. The animals may of-
ten be seen walking about among the
congregation, or sitting gravely before
the altar during the time of mass.
—A Saco, Me., blacksmith is the lat-
est convert to the belief that early ris-
ing is not always in practice what it is
in theory. He got up dark and early,
the other morning, and had his fire
blazing by 4 o'clock. The next thing he
knew the Saco fire department had the
hose turned on his blaze and the neigh-
bors were screaming “fire” at the top of
i their voices.