The Merry Spring. 1 need must sing, my heart is light; If thine be dull and aching, Look up, look up, the sky is bright, And stormy clouds are breaking. What ho, what ha, the merry Spring ! See, Winter vexed and vanishing; Who robbed the tyrant of his sting ? Who but the merry, merry Spring. To life and love awaking. Away with tears; there be but fow That do not speak of sorrow; Unless, like sunshine on the dew, A beam of hope they borrow, Lo, on the lawn, so newly cropped, The diamonds that Spring has drooped, What time the morning star o’er-topped The eastern hills, and lingering stooped To bid the day good-morrow, A —— The Dead Child and the Mocking. Bird. {The following poem is in RO sense A Mon fancy. On the contrary, the strange, incident it memoratos actually not long ago in the neighborhood of Jackson ville, Florida.) nathotie pw oom ON Onee, in a land of balm and flowers, Of rich § ne bowers Where the wild Trail oer Floridian s« wreak AN, We marked our Jeann Athwart the twin She scomed a Hebe d A Dryad in the shade And all day long her winsome song, Her trebles and soft iridls Wonld wave-like tk Die down the whisper [ils ng 3 i One morn midmost the & A dark gray pinks And hark ! along the © diage dim What strange voice blends with It blends with hers, which soon is 1s » ¥ we hind ¥ ta Braver the mock-hind's note Than all the strains that ever fille ian throat | n ninety Font Phas we The queaniiost han loved As Jeannie heard, Aud sought thenceforth to share With her new favorite, dawn by ¢ Har daintiost morning hi his Buatah! a From so ae eras wild, 3 va iol # x fav | i ¥ i] Brought that dark Shadow feared of me Across the fated ehil l It chilled her dx It dimmed he And. like an aw! All pulsaless, pale, The sole The a3 adi SWHee GG) fluttering bax Ol a8 Chasiened Whose rhythmi Above our darling’ y The fancy passad When, stolen fix 1 found ourn The five of His } And, merge Maiden and bird ! Their weddex While the lo WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS. There's no doubt abont it that Robin- son was a good fellow at heart, and meant well; but it's astonishing what an amount of trouble a man may bring upon himself by undertaking too much for Lis fellow-creatures. 1 don't sup pose there was another man in our store that took the interest Robinson did in the different wardrobes of his fellow clerks. If a man got a new hat Robin- son noticed it right away; wanted to kuow where it was bought, when and why, and generally concluded by say- ing that if the purchaser had consulted him he might have made a better bar- gain. And I've no doubt he would. Robinson would have made it a point to favor him with his influence and expe- rience, both of which were considerable. The same way with coats, or pants, or boots, or anything! Bat, notwithstand- ing all this, very few of our boys con- sulted Robinson in these matters: they generally bought their articles with a reckless indiscrimination that was pain- ful to a man constituted as Robinson was. It seemed hard, when a man took the interest in his fellow-creatures that Robinson did, that his motives should be misconstrued and unappreciated. I remember when I bought that new ul- ster of mine, 1 disliked, for some reason or other, to see Robinson. I had a ridiculous aversion to telling him just where I got it, and when, and how much it cost, and what I did with the other one. It was a kindly sympathy on Robinson’s part, there's no doubt about that; but it was wasted, so far as our boys were concerned. * Why don’t the fellow mind his own business ?” they said. ““ What does he want to manage other people's concerns for?" SoIwasglad when hetold me, confiden- tially, that he was about to be married. 1 felt then that his interest would be so absorbed in the one object that it would be impossible to diffuse it all over the universe, Robinson seemed to have found a treasure. Of course eversbody thinks 80; but I knew that Robinson would know more, and see more, and be less likely to be deceived, than other men, aud he had, as I supposed, gained the confidence of the family into which he proposed to marry. I was afrdid his projected mother-in-law might objeet to some of Robinson's ways, but he told me he got on with her splendidly. I thonght she was a remarkable woman, not altogether because she got on so well with Robinson, but from Robin- son’s conversation I imagined she must be very clever. “The fact is,” gaid Robinson, ¢ we are mutually interested in the same topics. We sit and talk about domestic matters for hours together, while Annie thums over her new piece on the piano, and Mrs. Page has told me, time and again, if there's one thing more than another she admires in my character it’s | the interest I take in little domestic details that most men despise or hold in | riage is a sacred obligation.” “Undoubtedly, Robinson.” “And requires study, Smith. I wouldn't have been a successful buyer if I hadn’t inquired into all the little intricacies of our line of business.” “ You certainly can judge of a good article, Robinson.” “ Ab, Smith, the one I've secured now is beyond price. kind of goods a man wants to rest his eyes upon when he's tired of shams and shoddies. Annie isn’t brought up to dazzle and deceive. Her mother has faken great pains to inculcate in her daughter qualifications of mind and character that will make her a good wife and mother. Mrs, Page is an excellent woman, Smith,” 3 . And I suppose her daughter is like er “Well, no, Smith. She can’t con- verse and reason as her mother can, nor has she her mother’s appreciative quali- ties. Annie's mind is less astute.” “ Well, she’s young yet.” “She's as simple and pliable as a lit- tle child. I'm a happy man, Smith.” I was delighted to hear him say so, and told him so, and at the wedding I expressed it as my opinion that his hap- riness would last. I was charmed with bis wife. She seemed such a nice, jolly - FRED K VOLUME XI1V. loditor and C HALL, 00. PA., TH 26 URSDAY, MAY XX r 'ERMS: 82.00 a 1881, in NUMBER 20. little creature, so unaffected and simple in her manner, and had a wonderful MAGNE h She was as plump und as a little partridge, with big black melting eves and a pretty little mouth, 1 can't say 1 was so much drawn to her mother a fine woman, with a deep voice, and thing very firm about the contour her Jaw. Mrs. Page had shey call character in her face than her danghter would ever have: but 1 haven't the admiration for a face with ch that some men have. Robinsor aid | 1d of this « BIN carta i Robinson ; stism about her, 1 i Ag and She was woking SOO of more of what racior y alwavs Na spent } hour talking with 1 was chatting with away convinced that a very pleasant thi like Robin ors be ‘ wife and my bachelor gua: \ : Ing gy 3 wd + must Littl with ¢ io son's, looked excoad forlorn I took linary interest in Robinson's it was, but was sorry to see a cloud S1X and matrimonial horizon before months were over, “We've gone to housekeeping, you know,” said Robinson, “1 afraid y world want + Was al her, but Mrs. Page agreed was better t ild a little y took the kindest nd wanted to go A : : ith Annie an Le ham dome L: } + I ef mos hn it ie 1% nest of our own. terest in evervthi hunting w nek out the furn already hot 2 sedured a the furniture of frien i 2d mine in business, who would favor me in prices. As to bed-linen, carpets and things of I got ¢ in the In h name, ds of y A here store eaven's is own rniture ne “unless it may be privilege.’ ith. Annie said tle woman in my arm Ps and felt my heart ligh that she was g took and tened somehow had i the dear litt 3 kisse d her of a very heavy load rested th my last interview with her But Mrs. Page's manner 1s very unpleasant, Smith—very. I don't want to say that she accuses me {f robbing Annie of » hap- mt she conveys some such im- on to my and it feel like a malefactor. I'm fond of my wife that the thought of depriving her of the smallest joy is mistry to me.” “Well, these little trifles will all come Robinson. It n-law lived with 10's only round the corne I thought when I house, that it would be so comfo for Annie t ive near her old and have the attention and advice of } mother. Asheavenismy j ¥: ere since mother, . mina, 3 makes me 80 Isnt as if vour you." : ol that ol 1 I have i¢ d 0 take every bur my wi I've opened accounts the neighboring grocer, butcher, bake and hired an excellent servant. I leave for sundries, which I at the first of every e with the other ac- in again with a elear n certainly ought 10 De happy to do but enjoy h I've even persuaded her to put all ber little expenses down ia my book, so th knows where every penny of her money goes; and, as I said before, I take care of the house- bold expenses myself. The servant comes to me every morning for orders before I go t so that Annie r knows what she's going to have r ne Could a man do more than $ ‘ fe. be MI 1 ne has not g erseil. Al 8hie ™ o business, { 3 ghtdo less, Robinson, I'm only a miserable bachelor myself, and know nothing about women ; but 1¢ question is, if you're not erring on 1e@ generous side—if you're not taking oo much upon yourself.” “A man can't do too for the woman he adores.” Just then a customer came was glad to get away. dently had the best intentions world. He loved his wife. He even esteemed his mother-in-law. I never saw a man work so hard in what he con- sidered his line of duty, and so utterly fail to recommend it to others, as poor Robinson. Bat he began to be brighter and apparently happier. The anniver- sary of his wedding was close at hand, and he was interested in a gift to his wife. “I was puzzled what to get,” said Robinson. *“ Yon see she's got almost everything, Smith; her wedding pres- é embraced many little adorn- ments and knickknacks. At last I hit upon a black silk dress—a woman can't too many, and I can get a bargain down in the store just now. Sle said she'd rather have the money and buy it outside; but I persuaded would be foolish. So she's to chocse the trimmings thi and if she comes while I take care of her, won't you?” “ With pleasure,” aid. happened Robinson away, and seemed bring all sunshine with her. I told her that her husband had left her in my care, and begged her to use me in any way that suggested itself to her; that it would be my happiness to serve her. I suppose there was an honest fervor about this dgclaration that impressed Mrs. Robinson. It had so happened that I was able to show her some little “ Perhaps he mi ng v } i wroh Smith nuen, Smita, ms in, and I R ybinson evi- in the + Nis 80 i y 3 have that she was the for the many that her husband had done for me. I bad told her I was under obli- gations to Robinson. Of course I didn’t explain that it was in his desir ing to help me select my hat and coats and boots; it wasn't necessary to enter into these little deta; mt she under stood *hat a natural gratitude on my part led me to send her in return a few little trifles, like bouquets, or new books, or music, or opera tickets, once ls, l of mine that day at the store, that I would be happy to serve her, came straight from my heart. “You are so good and kind,” she | said. Then all at once an eager wist- | fulness leaped into her eyes. I could | Mr. | said. “Do,” I replied. your generosity.” { “Oh! I wonder if it will be right ?” | she said, clasping her little gloved hands, and looking up in my face with | a charming air of indecision. “I won- | der if I ought to do such a thing ?” | ** The fact that you desire to do it is | a proof that it is blameless,” I replied. dare ask you to do me a favor, Smith—a very great favor,” she i“ I | said; ““and it is perfectly blameless. { I've set my heart on giving my husband | a present upon our marriage anniver- ys 1? BAT) w- ‘Is that all, Mrs. Robinson.” i | with her parasol, with an air of vexation. | Bhe was looking upon the floor now, | and a warm color burned in her cheek. | “It's so hard to explain to you,” she said. “TI don’t like to borrow money of | mamma, because she don’t understand my husband, and makes so many un- | pleasant remarks, and it’s quite a large | sum I want for the present. I'm afraid {it will cost ten dollars.” 1 hesitated, and her color grew more and more vivid, “Ten dollars isn't a very larg 1 said i had den tide d wanted to ask me to lend her the but didn't know he y about | 1 was at loss how to help h two onisp fi bills pocket, but how to get them | was a problen In th me was flying and Robins now that s Ww to g Yt dolla han ti back, “You understand my husband, Mi Smith, ] i 3 You know how kind And good 0 mae, He has told me hi confides in you wm must i & O he is w he Know he 1s th earest, best “Of course 1 do y brother . fer hate Ar. Smit War but 1 want to s I wouldn't care to it wasn't a surprise “Of course you wouldn't, Mrs son. Any | way would dram an place. jast how you feel about 1.” “And houghtfu 13 80 anxious to relieve me of that he knows just Gunny goes | and, oh dear, it's Big tears gathered in her beautiful eyes; it was too much for me “1 understand it all, Mrs, Robinson,” “Don't fret over su e as this,” and I thrust the two Har bills in her hand. was on her feet in an in White now to her lips, and an awful ex it il vol even to moment, h tell hin i prise i 1 aller Hn anything if \ iy il gi i QLher d common: my husband is so t he A care, where every 4 RL p too bad i stant. pression in her eves of reproach, rage, regret, heaven knows whatand all, five-dollar bills had droppe i on al “ Good-morning, sir,” she have been mistaken in husband I could n Was i seamed about ten ont of our depar SOI YOu, "ry @ foreign oases screened us from observation. some time before I conld pick up bills, I felt stunned, bewilde: exceedingly humiliated and n I had made an of i and innocently outraged th s of this excellent little woman I was most desirous to serv When Robinson came back h it 0 strange that his wife hadn't for him. He wanted to know when si ne, how 1 he staid rw hether she down or stood up, or said she'd come in again, and if so, when. At last I wa desperate, and went out into the Before I knew what I was I was uptown, and ringing the bell of brown-stown house that Robinson hi: The sorvant he had sel door, and showed me had furnished. His down to me, and the mo: the parlor I saw that and kind heart had gained again. “* Not another word, Mr. Smith,’ said, when I began pouring out gies and explanations. ‘1 was to blame {i I wanted sell something of mine for money h t oil aNs Way, in ong 8 n a MK oF Al Al their own wr it all. elp me to There, now, t If 1 had only tol the at cost. f it. ead of at way | ge ha pit 15% 5 ir beating about tl But I've given up that idea, because he'd be sure to know if 1 part ed with anyt ; he'd know if a silver thimble was gone, But I've hit upon another plan, and I'll tell you all about it, if hear." “ Of course I'd like to claimed. “ You are an a woman to forgive that stup mine, 1 was misers offended youn; and your hus added, for I thought I noticed a gro ing rigidi in her manner from the word * ble,” ““ we are like broth ers, Mrs. i : ' hing, he's so interested ul you’ ty RO r ad ty TR You kn YW - s + 3 ' Drotaers | “ Well, I'll tell yon to do, Mr. Sm st bh mith. av amar Ri Vy conn lone it : wonldn' ] have ny dressmaker, Lu twenty dol make it ourselves, and take That will be really my own money, because I shall earn it my very own. Isn't it a capital idea?” “Splendid I" I said; and shortly after I took my leave, thinking all the way down to the store what an amount of trouble Robinson innocently gave that dear little wife of his. > We settled upon a dressing-case for Robinson before I left that day, and Mrs. Robinson and I had to go together ¢ at the different varietic and I dadn’t want ing in a hurry, and then afterward; and present, ner ng y of these to choose be sorry altogether it was aston absorbed 1 that dressing-case, of nothing else. became in the mrehase of 1 s thio t zh Che anniversary of Robinson’ ling came upon a Baturday and the next morning I was walking in the park, thinking it all how happy Robinson must have been when she surprised him with the dressing. case, and what a eonfoundedly lucky fellow he was anyway. I fell into quite a sen timental mood. 1 suppose the scene around me had somethmg to do with it. It was one of those delightful mornings in May, when happy ripple: ran throngh the grass, and young shrubs burst suddenly into bloom and verdure. Birds sang gayly in the hedges and the air was full of a vague perfume. Some white-winged butterflies flitted by. 1 took off my hat. Though a little bald, I enjoyed the soft radiance of the sun shine. 1 began to understand how at certain seasons a man might slip into rhyme, or matrimony. All at once this celestial silence broken by an advancing figure. It was Robinson—and alone. His head was bowed, his hat jammed over his eves ; the only part of his face that was at { first visible was of an ashen hue. His whole aspect was one of unntterable misery and despair. “ Good heavens, wed { evening, over was {obinson,” I eried, rushing up to him and seizing his arm, ‘has anything happened to your wife?” “Tomy wife? Yes,” he said ; and 1 sank into one of the iron benches, 1 thought she was dead, and was relieved | to hear the next sentence. Relieved, | though startled, { “My wife has left me, Smith. | gone home to her mother.” | “Left yon? Gone home to her | mother? Why, wasn't last night your | anniversary ?" | “Yes; that was how it came about; { that was the way I found her out, { Smith. She's deceived me-—-shamefully | and persistently deceived me, and yef, | miserable wretch that I am,” added { Robinson, sinking into the seat beside { me, and covering his face with his | hands, ““I love her still.” | “Yon have deceived yourself in some | way,” I cried, naturally indignant and { incrednlous, “It is some miserable | mistake of your own. Iknow that your | wife is the soul of integrity and honor.” { “God bless yon, Smith!” he eried, grasping my hand fervently. * Would to heaven I could believe what you say! Up She's I was the happiest man in i went home « arly, oppod at Mrs ra 8 dressmaker, to see if | and His black Y Way sb Jones’, y 3 Wile 1 silk was done,” “ What “* Her black vobiinson “the ¢ about that it I guve pay for In On MY Way be no disap } DALUral, she said Yas At Mrs y gost twenty dol hiad ii 1 was it 1 ut why was 1 so ertad, , just stopped You » a violent She into tally shamefully. g is painful 4 “lic ti : § woman waiting ere Lhe AE The First, on lows now Spapers i si newspaper 1600, st p litical paper 1733. First religious paper the, Ohio, 1814. First agricultural paper “armer, Baltimore, IKI, First commercial paper ent, Now Orleans, 1822. First penny j New York, 15833. First Ney y Mornin aper independent Herald, York, 1830. illustrated paper paper Years, Boston daily Vitness, Now illustrated religious paper ly, New York, 1871, "Si paper wast of the Mississippi Republican, St, Louis, 1808, First illustrated daily in {s aphic, Now York, 1873. First Woman's Rights Seneca Falls, N. Y., 15847. The Lily was started by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, now an honored res it ol Council Bluffs, The Lily flourished sis yeurs, [own is the fifth State in the Union in the total namber of publications : New York leading with 1,289 ; Pennsyl vania, 830 ; Illinois, 832: Ohio, 603; and Towa, 510. In the matter of sub. scriptions, about 200 Iowa papers charge £2.00 per annum ; 200, §1.60 ; and the ys A $1.20 and the world Lily. paper he rest divide up between $1.00, R170 The total number of publications in the United States is placed at 9,723, representing polities, religion, science, commerce, the trades, finance, £43, Amuse. ments in short, avery interest, OCCU tion and profession has its organ. The oldest paper now extant in the United Stat is the Mercury, of Newport, BR. I., which was established in 1758. The number of newspapers in the world is over twenty-three thousand. 55150 Beaconsfield, Many anecdotes of the late Earl of Bea- consfield are told around the firesides of High Wycombe by his peasant neigh- bors, “How is the old man to-day?" said a laborer to the earl's coachman, not knowing that his lordship was in- side the carriage. “I'm quite well, thank youn,” said he, with a merry twinkle in his eye as he popped his head through the carriage window. Overtaken in his own grounds by two intrusive women who did not him, and who asked whether this was “ Dizzie's place,” swered their inquiry and directed them to a place from which they might get a The women were considerably non plussed to learn afterward that they had been addressing the earl himself. An exchange chronicles the fact that la New York policeman has been pro- | moted for eatching a cold. THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD, —— Making Trees Frulttiul, often don't question is asked thrifty-l and a de he ooking trees bear fruit, had from them, Oftentimes there much hurry for fruit in such cases have known owners of trees discon Our opinion, there had A tree hn ured in its ented, when, is been no time lost bearing 1s growth thereby, proceed so rapidly fruit-bearing is gon But lesimble to have fruit nse of growth as growth does not when g on, y OF & red soil as to keep up a wo long, and in such withheld from the When no other Way $ Open, root pruning sometimes resorted to supply of food is ned in that shonld be d that no should bx the stability of way, soo in he shorts WAY, Care GX areis large roots Pattening Fowls, What a different taste a fine, nicely and q vckly fatted fowl has when serve a the table, compared with one which i forced to for all its and then consigned to the spit in anything but a fit conditic food! the of 4 Of ig hias been scratch living, bi it Farmers realize fattening importanee when feedi § beeves for the | ier, yot many do no. seem to realize the fact that what holds good with that kind of meat is equally hen applied to fowls, Tender iness are results of fattening Ary flavor and from letting sg fatten s absolutely food as will aces , and to this end liz kl § 183K ) § f nere ordin result intl wanted for ne 10 fowls neces. HL» st recommend plenty fr thick. with a eracts the other and { d H ¢ i Wi in n any state from fresh to be fed in one count Ha darks i pha t n muk, with gran {« u will i connection for Figs wy 240 Wil tha 8 $1 i : YU BONO 14 fF vis sift Tv th harrow he rows ; t (he start yy 1 3 ap All mnd for gr the 3 1 good dre asing I wired it will be before wr we field aft olaloes are nu § B YOY ¢ariy oro necessary to spro ' planting. Wiatoos into 8 pieces piace In a taloes nd r to six weeks 1 Lie open : room from i for plantu & Lime rd VIROrous, they will sen rapidly than e ordinary way. An ince the sets v fn wore they are wanted, 11 ‘ § n fr ily a tO } at as in ots will 80 thal as { ont those treat r method bed and then hh eat will cause 1 If the Colorado j its appearance t 1a t3 with shi roots in th othe in Bot {Wo nut « 8 irse 3 Hy §1 11k hat th m "0 whos he nated mixed with about eighty parts of plas wl is better, mix paris in water, two tablespoonfuls to a apply with a small brush or Take care to mix mixture » paris green will settle Two or three applica vill usually su y boeotles, tato beetle 1 i viles must be d Aris green al the green I¢ pail, and 1 ysl iy i broom. ae Hg the se 1 » 11 O clear off all Farm and Garden Notes, and pond 4 Keep goslings AWAY from the fledg od. Wheat chaff, and bran and a little salt makes for sheep. * White clover is better for sheep than the re d, as it is shorter ter grazing. young ducks until they are mixed with 0 good fe { d wot, and makes bet- A wash of carbolic soapsuds occa sionally will prevent insects to cattle, he annovance of The value of agricultural salt asa fertilizer, it would appear, is becoming widely recognized, judging from the steadily increasing demand, Guinea fowls will keep all bugs and insects of every description off garden vines, They will not scratch like other fowls or harm the most delicate plants, A nes lected, poorly fi dd, stinted lamb however well fed after. ward, so as to make as good and as large wep as it would had it had proper care early. Feed the ewes so that they can supply the lambs th plenty of th milk. ROVEr recovers, i sl @ wi The best place for turnips is a spot on which brush has recently been burn. ed. The soil is fresh, and moist and the ashes aid not as a ferti] izers for the very Jdements that turnips require, but it Keeps he fle, D i onnl only wwav i LOL sow nn dry tia, : Clover a nitrogeneons and al«o a potas] lL , lovey containing lanents than the t althou:h the former will not sell for pear as winch as the 1dter, consequently elover hay should be sold ofl the Rancid tter mav be recovered sweetened by washing well first in new n and afterward in cold spring water, butyric acid, on which the ranecidity depends, being freely soluble in new milk. The above recipe has been found to answer perfectly, Strawberry plants cannot be multi plied from the seed, a= there is nothing cortain about it. Acres might be sowed with the seed, and not a berry be obtained worth cultivating, bat in good rich soil a plant will put out run. ners so that fifty good thrifty plants may be obtained the first season after inv tore of these + Ios Fingli<h har, ! neva farm. and ik, second Year, A writer in the Fruit Recorder cireums- vents the ravaging currant worm by al- lowing no sprouts to grow. He allows hut three main stems to a bush, and rubs off all root sprouts when about six inches long. new growth first; hence, he says, no sprouts, nc worms. The fruit also is far finer on plants thus treated, the common red Dutch being nearly as large as the Cherry currant, and a better bearer. In nearly all soils ashes are beneficial. Their action is manifold; they supply to plants inorganic elements, which they require; they nentralize acids; they act chemically as solvents upon other salts in the soil. They are more beneficial on For plants that contain a large amount | of "potash and phosphoric acid, as car- | rots, turnips, potatoes and cabbage, ashes are an essential manure. Recipes, Banpixe Toasr,— Place them with some of the oil out of the box between two in a hot oven; when thor | oughly hot through place on toast eut {in long slices the length of the sardine; { shake a little cayenne and salt mixed them, with proantle of lemon, ntes uver i Bue Le Rion Bona Cake, verized loaf ol One pound of pul sugar, mixed with three { quarts rs | beaten whites of fourteen CRER and two of eream of tartar s with a pound of flour, and lastly, | spoonful of soda upful of liately, | tenspoonfuls ¥, & tea lissolved in half & tea sweet milk and strained ; bake Melt as mueh butter 2 milk as will make it Mix in flour enough to Curpeaym Cans of 31 Cronin, rich form a dough quart), and } i to add a pinch of salt. { ns Roll out rapidly on your board several times, { small squares, and bake on a griddle, i These { able ad companiment to oyster soup. Fanyens' Prurr Cage —Soak three { cupfuls of dried apples over night in { warm water ; chop slightly in the morn. and then simmer two hours in two cupfuls of molasses. Add two eggs, one cupful of i milk, three ut cakes are considered to be s suit- ng, 1 to make rather a stiff bat. quart ; to : bake in ag oven, flonr enon ter, say one spice suit taste QICK A Goon Pram Caxe of a pound of butter, ten Ges, pound of flour, pound of sugar. Cream the butter, beat the sugar and yolks of the eggs together, then add the well-beaten whites, and lastly stir in the flour. Flavor with the grated rind and JBI08 of one lemon, Bake i a mold, having previously greased it and fitted a paper to the | Bake in a slow, | regular iy heated one one in ottom Cuppse-Caxes. Turn a quart of milk with a spoonful of vinegar over the fire ; drain the whey from the eurd ; rub the latter dry add ten eggs, well + Wild a cloth ; of sugar: and rose paste in puff t lerated oven, For needed * Yeast nn good bread three good flor X good I 0 make Bix d iy + id FETeil Ore. A Portuguese Bull-Fight, A Portuguese bull-fight is a very dif | ferent affair from the disgusting and | brutal national sport of Spain, The | Portuguese are a humane people ; and { though the spectacle was originally con- | ducted in Spanish style, it was not long | popular, and now neither bulls nor run very little risk, as eylinders ending { in wooden cover the animals horns, and it can only inflict a knock- { down blow, instead of piercing and tear ing, The honor of this reform is due to Pombal, who interceded with King | Joseph [, and induced him to discon tinue the sport in the murderous : panish sivie, the oceasion of the | death of the Pount d’Arcos in an amas. | teur bull-fight., It is related that when | the father of the young count, the aged Marquis Mirialva, grand chamberlain of the king, saw his son fall, he threw | himself into the arena and killed the bull with his dress sword ; snd that | Pombal remarked to the king that the life of a bull was not, after all, a fair equivalent for that of the Count 4’Arcos. Pombal's administration was sowed thick with reforms, which have blos- somed since, though received coldly at the time. The limiting the power of the Inquisition, theabolition of slavery, | and the expulsion of the Jesuits are all Few ministers canshow To | an amateur of the combats of the Bpan- | ish sceld ima the Portuguese exhibition knobs on { due to Pombal. | & more energetic record than this, { must seem remarkably tame and in. | sipid, while, looked at from a rational, | common-sense standpoint, they are in- | deed ** singular exhibitions of imbecility on the part of all concerned.” Dut the Lisbonese revel in the sport : the risks | blood, and the display, especially when | the performance is an amateur one, and | the young men taking part belong to the { nobility,is very brilliant, Then the arena is handsomely decorated, the costumes | of the performers are of velvet and | satin, the horses are the finest in the | kingdom, and the fests of horse | manship displayed rival those of ! Rovalty honors the scene by attendance, and the beauty and fash- ) shine in full opera dress richly embroidered silk which drape the front of the raceful folds. The compan: resting of shawls | boxes in if salt, 5 pour 1 then two quarts water, in which a large handful of hops have been boiled, stir ring well; set away till next mo when it can be put away in airtight I use fruit cans Hp sugar, one-n cup i ul ginger ver or ng, rnd CRIS | Iiisn Poraro Pe or Puppixe pound mashed potato, rubbed through { colander; half pound butter with the sugar; six eggs, yolks separately; one lemon squeesad into the potato while hot; ¢ of mace; two cups white as sweat potato pudding; To be one teaspoon nutmeg, sa par. Mix take In m shells of paste eaten cold. Gunex Pra Sovr.—Wash half a peck green pea hulls, put them in a gal i ered unworthy the most elegant and ac- complished Portuguese noble, The Princess Rattazzi, in her recent pub. lished and greatly censured * Portogal i i i i i i i i worth of shin-bone, ard boil three hours; then rub through colander, then put back in the pot ltspoonful of white pepper, a oonful of salt, a quart of milk and despoonful each of butter and flour creamed together; let it Leil quickly, nd serve immediately with small squares of fried bread. cents’ id a Household Hints. i Woolen hose should be soaked all i night, and washed in hot suds with beef's I, a tablespoonful to half a pail af water. Iron on the wrong side, To take iron stains out of marble an equal quantity of fresh spirit of vitriol { and lemon juice being mixed in a bot tle, shake well, wet the spots and in a { few minutes rub with soft linen till they disappear. gad resin, melted together and applied to the soles of #5 the leather will their wear. Workwork | tungstate of { by treatment of these salts uninflammable. To wash a fine cambrie handkerchief, embroidered in colored silks, so tha the eolors do not run, the secret is to {wash in a soap lather very quickly, absorb, will double strongly impregnated with soda or silicate of soda- in strong aqueous solution will be found to be quite There should be no embroidered corner it dries at soaking, and Ones, the A little alum in the water will make the process more sure. na possible, Canses of War, kin i g seni A certain KR gAYIng “Send me a blue pig with ablack tail, or else The other one immediately replied : “1 have not got such an one, and 1f 1 { had " On this weighty cause they went to war. After they had exhausted their armies and resources, und laid waste their kingdoms, but before this could it was necessary that the in. suiting language that led to the trouble shionkd be explained, “ What could vou mean,” asked the king of the first, by saving: “ Bend me a blue pig with a black tail, or els ” “ Why, 1 to make jp woe | be don He cond “1 meant a Id you mean got such an aid the other, bine color But what con by saying: *‘I have not one, and if 1 had " “ Why, cf course if I had I should have sent it.” peace was sccordingly concluded He Most of the serve as a lesson to nsall, with the black tail. ——— Rice as Food, | The value of rice ax food is set forth by the Sanilarin: Rico is almost the only diet of the people in China, India and all Eastern countries, In those countries it is used a substitute for potatoes. At present low price of domestic rice it is | the cheapest food obtainable. Potatoes contain about eighty per { cent. of water, and do not gain much in {the process of cooking. Rice has no | waste whatever, contains only twenty- | two per cent. of water, and in boiling | gains three times its original bulk. | Hence, one pound of rice at six and one- | fourth cents per pound makes three | times as much as when cooked; equal | to three pounds of potatoes at two and | one-half cents per pound, or seven and { one-half cents, | Rice properly prepared should come | upon the the table dry, each grain un- | broken, and served with ihe condiments | used on potatoes; and be partaken of as | a vegetable with meats and not as a | dessert, as an ancient family, and after praising his refinement and cultivation, remarks: “In the bull-fights organized by ama- eurs he shone in the first rank as iorseman, and inserted the farpos with art and a dexterity which awaken- od frantic applause and secured him great populanty. This circumstance added to the regrets caused by his death. It was not only a loss to ele- ant society, it was felt by the people themselves.” — Lizzie W. Champney, in Ha pe ‘s M gan fe. m———————— What Yanderbilt Could do With His Income, bilt's his fifty-one million four per cent. govern- ment bonds five thousand dollars. This nets him two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents per hour, or three income rom ute, or five cents per second, without counting fractions. Assuming that he is paid by the second, he cannot pos- i i select his purchases and lay down the prices fast enough. He couldn't even throw it away—to pick up, cast, re- cover, pick up and cast again, would take him two seconds, and if he worked throughout the twenty-four hours with- out rest he could only dispose of one- half his income. If it were his design a machine operated by steam. This would involve the employment of a fireman, a engineer and two feeders, and, as the machine must work day and or twelve men, would be neces- sary. As pone but skilled workmen could do such work, the daily expense thirty-six dollars per day. To pay these hands it would only be necessary pay off, and enough money would aceu- i mulate, There is a possibility that Mr. Van- derbilt does not intend to throw his money away by steam, and it might be worth while to look into varions ways in which he might amuse himself with it. By living economically, saving up { for four years, he could, by placing his five-cant pieces side by side, make § nickel belt around the earth; or, by con- | yerting his savings into one-cent pieces, | and mounting them in a pile, he would, {in twenty years, erect a road to the moon, and have five hundred dollars to invest when he got there. Should his amusement take a charitable twist, he | could, out of a year's receipts, donate to | avery man, woman and child in the | United States, twenty cents, and have money left over, In one day, he could | (if he could get round) go to eight thonsand different circuses, eat ten { thousand pints of peanuts, drink five | thousand « ‘asses of lemonade, and have money left to get his boots blacked. { Ho can afford to have five thousand | shirts washed in one day, and on the dav of his death his income will buy ten first-class funerals. It must be | clear that Mr. Vanderbilt is making | money, for while we were making these | computations he took in one hundred and four dollars and ten cents.— Apple ton’s Railway Guide, I ——— Educating Oysters Although it has been doubted that an ovster had been so far subjugated as to “follow its master np and downstairs,” | a consummation which might be ae- | cepted as positive progressive steps in { the rise toward ultimate civilization, at | loast according to ‘Lewes Sea-side | Studies,” oysters are susceptible of | being educated to a small extent. In | the great establishments on the coast of { Calvados the merchants teach oysters | to keep their shells closed when out of the water, by which means the liquor | retained keeps their gills moist, and they arrive lively in far distant Paris. The process may be worthy of extensive publicity; it is this: No sooner is an oyster taken from the sea than it eloses its shells, and opens them after a cer- tain time—from fatigue, it is said, but more probably because the shock it re- ceived by removal into the air causing its muscles to contract has passed away. The Calvados men take advantage o them accustomed to be out of the water by leaving them daily in the atmosphere for longer and longer periods. This has the desired effect; the well educated mollusk keeps its door closed at least for many consecutive hours, and so long as the shell is closed its gills are kept moist.—AU the Year Round. High-Priced Beans, | Tom Watrous, commercial traveler, stopped off at the Marshall, Mich., eat- | ing house several years ago. | He was not very hungry, and called for | & plate of beans, which he received, He inquired the price, and was informed that it was seventy-five cents, That's & thundering price for beans,” | said Tom, . “ That's the price,” said the proprie- tor. The train was just starting; Tom paid the bill, and the conches bore him and his indignation on toward Detroit. This was on Ssturdsy. On Monday, Gilmore, the esting house man, received a telegram, collect on delivery, $1.25, whieh he paid, and read on opening it: “A thundering price for beans.” Thirty days from that date a neat express package was handed in to Gil more, (1. O. D., who paid ninety cents for the privilege of opening it to dis cover a lot of sawdust, on the top of which lay a slip of paper with the-caba- listic symbols : “A thundering price for beans I" ! i i summoned to Chicago to meet & former handed him a letter conveying t pleasant information: “A thundering § price for beans | gram from Gilmore's mining s sctual damage to Gilmore of $1,500, A vear rolled away. troit. and a shingle met his syes marked with a blue lead pencil: “A thundering price for beans!” Trouble arose be- | tween Gilmore and the Detroit fish | house, and they went to law, Gilmore | winning the suit, $25 damages, and all | at a cost for the sttorney’s services of | S86, 90, : Gilmore grew dejected. gloomy. Letters poured in on every | one of his family at regular intervals | unpleasant information that thundering price for beans.” At last Gilmore sold the Marshall | eating-house and moved to Chicago. i carried his deep affliction along with | him, gnawing The persecuilon never ceased. Gilmore | drooped, faded and finally died. The his last resting-place, and the widow, | As you upon your pillowswhite Sloop, pretty one sleep | Sloop, happy one, sleep! Why shosld you wake or weep ? Your sins you shake off in your prayers; Your cares— you have no thought of cares | Sleep, happy one, sleep | Sleep, preaions one, sleep! Nor earth nor hell shall work him harm Bleep, precious one, sleep | Hisep, cherished one, sloop! 1 hear his breathing deep Behind sleep’s curtain as it shifts, Asn older baby, when it lifts To-morrow, forth will creep! — Mrs. C. M. Harrie HUMOR OF THE DAY. A drum is quite an instrument for oducing noise, but a drummer can J; it al hollow. oy In some instances man must yield the palm of superiority to wo For instance, a man cannot wear a hat all winter. “ I haven't tasted as drop in the Son Jeary, a4 Sia tratip said when serving-maid him a glass water,—81t. Louis Spirit, A cloud about the size of aone-doliar note has ‘risen upon the brow of th young man, indicative of coming ice cream. — Indianapolis Herald. soon, but then he has just married a widow. — New York The old st Mvle Dloed their change, sty : ir po however, is in favor of lile.— Picayune, Frog ber paren pr Erutwhile the hen sppeareth. Toscrateh, snd seratch and serateh, - Wit and Wisdom, The Steubenville Herald thinks that eT ahevgE you Jos a Woman straight at a man beginning her head and keep time to it with upraised index for somebody to ing » spinster what kind of tes he id: “1 have loved Oo— H—————————— A Curious Care for Car Sickness, Many ladies, are Re of nausea sickness. VOYage to jority of {ravelers. y eo br phon sn chop Lowell road—and she never sick as who from the expenses of bogus telegrams | and express packages, erected a : marble slab to the memory of the tor- tured Gilmore. : The following Sabbath the mourning | family went out to the cemetery to plant | some violets on Gilmore's grave. Ar- riving on the ground they observed in silent horror that another legend ap- | peared above the name of Gilmore, on | the tombstone. It was chalked on a | small blackboard and read: i . A THUNDERING PRICE FOR BEANS. i — Central City Item, Industrial Secrets, i A century ago what a man discovered in the arts he concealed. Workmen were put upon an oath never lo reveal the process used by their employers. | Doors were ke i e prescription seemed like a “ charm "—a horse prin flee in at the nose. But it was &im- Pp could at least do no harm. For 4 - * - without that had for It was so like a ition, or & happy accident, however, that the lady ot it as real until sab. “alleged ™ sleeping-car. ously excluded from admission, and | false operations blinded the workmen themselves. The mysteries of every craft were hedged in by thick-set fences of empirical pretensions and judicial af. firmation. The roval manufactories of poroelain, for example, were carried on in Europe with a spirit of jealous ex- | clusivencss. His majesty of Saxony was | especially circumspect. Not content | with the oath of secrecy imposed upon | his workpeople, he would not abate his | kingly suspicion in favor of a brother | Neither king nor king's del- | egate might enter the tabooed walls of | Missen. What is erroneously called the | Dresden porcelain—that exquisite pot- | tery hundred years by a process so that neither the bribery of princes nor | the garrulity of the operatives revealed | it. Other discoveries have been less successfully guarded, fortunately for the world. The manufacture of tinware | in England originated in a stolen secret. | by being dipped into the molten metal, jousney The lady writes : “The da 3 do. op ” worked. in dining-car soundly all might, and dressed with level s head and as steady a hand »s though I had been in my own room. Read until breakfast-time—a thing I have never before done on the cars—and was hungry for ay morning meal. Itis really wonderful, almost too good to be . For the first time inm He] have uctor to be thanked. I wish also that I knew pame. I would like to call the Lord's icnlar attention to his case, and have the blessing wrong man." — Boston Herald. a ——IIID WO ODDITIES The body of the young octopus blushes now with one color and now with experienced the * discovered in Holland, and guarded from | publicity with the utmost vigilance for | more than half a century. England tried | James Sherman, a Cornish miner, in- sinuated himself master of the secret, | and brought it home. manufacturing cast steel was also | stealthily obtained, and is now within | The Card Collecting Craze, ; The “rage” or “craze” began in Paris about fifteen years ago; from Paris throughout Germany. it reached to Italy, and may be said, to shores it found the American people | well prepared for its brilliant advent. Boston was the first place the ** craze” | “struck.” About a year ago the mad- ness began. To-day it prevails more than when it commenced. One of the | leading Boston papers, ip a récent issue, published one column and a half | tablishments devoted to the trade in illuminated cards as a specialty. From the “Hub” the * mania” extended throughout Massachusetts, and from the Bay State it spread over Yankeedom in general. At last, about six months ago, the rage reached New York. Many | persons of taste and leisure have be- | come inveterate card collectors. Some | of the collections are quite costly. One | in New York city is valued at over $1,000. | Other collections range from $200 to | $800 in pecuniary value. Itis calculated | by “experts” (for there are experts in | this line as in all others) that there are | at present about five thousand card de- | signs in the market. From fifty to a | hundred new styles or designs are in- | troduced weekly—keeping the lithogra- | phers, dealers, stationers and collectors ly busy.— New York Herald. a ————— Miss Eva C. Kinney has assumed edi- | torial control of the Ellis (Kansas) | Headlight, and announces in her first | number that she is “a girl, with all a | girl's love for fun, frolic and romance.” | If editing doesn't take that love for fun, | ete., out of her we shall be mistaken. | Tt has a more sobering effect than a hus- band could have,— Troy Times. The featherlike starfish is tumed upside down, and walks around on its back, which is provided with clawe. It is said that the ostrich is able to discover when an egg becomes addled, and that it immediately cjects it from the nest. 1t is curious that the least noise will stop a tiger, as it will a cat. A “hish I" ora single knock on a tree with an ax, or even a leaf dropped before him from a tree-top is quite enough to turn him Algiers possesses a river of veritable ink. Two streams, one starting from a ion where the soil is ferruginous, the the river, whose inky consistency is due to the mixing of the iron and gallicacid which the two tributary streams re- spectively contain. The dogs eaten by the Chinese are of a pale yellow color, and sre about the size of a spaniel. They have black s and blue tongues. The Chinese them no meat, but pen them up, as is done with pigs, od feed them with rice meal and farinaceous food. Dr. Landerer states that in Greece porcupines largely frequent the vine- thieves; they are caught sud sold to butchers, their flesh being gnite in de- mand as an article of food. Asan es teemed remedy for headuche, especiall 7 in children, the dried poreupine gal command high prices ; they possess a striking musk-like odor. Silent Influence ‘We are touching our fellow-beings on all sides. They are affected for good or for evil by what we are, BY What we Suny and do, even by what we thinkand May-flowers Jus the patiar breathe their fragrance throu atmosphere. a ail sat- urating the atmosphere about us with the sabtile aroma of our charac- ter, Iz She family eixelo, besides wd : be; 4 e hing, daily % a parent and child mysteriously modifies the life of every person in the household. The same process on & wider scale is going on through the community. No man liveth to Bimselt and no man dieth to himself. Others are built up and straighten-d by omr unconscious influence.— Congregational- st. :
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