A Mosquito Conundrum, Why am 1 like mosquitoes, dear, That you have killed 7” he sighed, Because you won't go hum, 1 fear,” The sleepy maid replied, That isn't it< please try once more,” “ Well, then, vou're like,” said she, } * Mosquitoes, for they always bore,” “You're wrong again,” said he, Because thoy come ‘round every night, And are a nuisance, too?" ‘Oh, no, my love; the reason right 1s that I'm mashed on y - What does that mean Explained she gently ¢ he asked Whik h¢ had, Oh, now I understand,” laughed she "You're mashed because you're soft.” A Sermon in Rhyme, If von have a friend worth loving, Love him, Yes, and let him know That you Jove him, ere life's evening Linge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend—-till he is dead ? If you hear a song that thrills you, Sung by any ohild of song, Praise it. Do not lot the singer Wait deserved praise long, Why should one who thrills your heart, Lack the joy you may impart a . i 1f you hear a prayer that moves you By its humble, pleading tone, in it. Do not let the seeker If a silvery langh goes rippling ‘hrough the sunshine on his face, 8 the wise man's saving and joy a place, re's health and good "AN OLD NUISANCE." nd, I quote those three words They are none of mine. Only, thinki three or four equally appropria titles, I chose the one I use as bel the oddest, and Ialways had a faney for And now for my st On what my aunt (by marriage) and her family founded their claims to aris- 1 never could discover. My had been a werchant, it is true, ne of considerable prominence in his day, I had been told, and so had his father before him, and his father before that. That his his most prosperous time imately connected with Chin ¥ mind {I became an se when I was about X Ygars of consequence of the death of bot y parents within a week of each other, leaving me with no means of support, and no other relative) by the fact that every first of J SAW bright new mattings laid on our floors, tn remain there until cold weather came n, and tha mantels and what- or oS @ or = odd things, 1o0Tracy Loan . oars SINOSS In a 18 : Yo eof is iv age une wil VOLUME X1V. I.ditor and LOY. HALL, CENT RE. CO., PA, TH URSDAY, AUGUST 11, 188l. car, in Advance. NUMBER 31. 1 gantly fond of good worsted articles she making so artisticall soll them to ployer, i was about to Rav, when upted by a shrill shriek “Work for # store ! ’ she of starve first.” “You wretched girl IVs w dare you even Ett 3 Lil niary nlery s 1d, grandh t never work." 1 the ug ¥ } . . : x neither, except poo fagging at a des Nversati Was Our « he fashion youth, a loose « } being { ng . 1 COoeR-DONG, “and she has seemed sadly « among my children. She working race, and her ideas all smack of trade Naiarycesem ive abba yg discoverad in after ve 5 IHARCO somes of a l * and taste of ¢ dainty little porcelain cups, thin as egg- shells—rarities in those days, but in these plenty and cheap enough. Now, according to all I have learned on the subject, real Simon Pure aristo- crats look down apen trade even on the grandest scale, and never have anything to do with it farther than once in a while » of its sons or daughters & into possession of mil- et the honor. I venture to in- ny cousins being 7) assumed all the airs of the old country. wr, our second, wore a look of ion for several days after good-looking fellow, her old school- rable income, bu of a firm keep- Sixth avenue, pro- au Td OOS Of aw I" " = A341 1 of the m she ising her arched eyebrows hment, and curling her full red y in scorn; *‘to imagine for a at because I honored him company to the opera two or ps, I would marry him! If his had been wholesale, it would ough; but fancy a per- and needles by the the yard! Never! I rOr-8 bookkeeper whom her e bad introduced ~& rare thing brother Lau- into the family wr one of her ~p 186 as my limited experience goes, they hought their companions to be good enough to be the compan- jons of their sisters—when he ventured to express his admiration for her. The young man soon after succeeded to a very handsome property, aud became a great swell —“ a perfect too-too,” as 1 believe the fashionable way of express- ing it now is—a kind of being after Mi nerva's own heart; but she was never invited to ride behind his fast horses, and what was much worse, never again asked to take the head of his table. And in like manner the graceful and enthu iy in iron-works (* wholesale and retail”) on the next block, the young artist, who has since risen t sundry others, all falling short of the aristocratic standard up by our family, were snubbed by my lady cousins, aided by their brothers, and not wholly 2 od Bey being then in my eighteenth year,achance to gnub any one; for, lacking the personal attractions of my relatives, as well as their “high-toned” natures—truth to tell, having decidedly democratic ten- dencies—1 was kept in the background on all occasions. Let it be remarked in passing that business— very wholesale, however—the father of four children. At the same time Minerva, a few years younger, elderly bachelor, something or other in a shoe manufactory. But they held their uncle having failed for the second time —through no fault of his own, dearold wedding. That their *‘sacrifice” was for the good of the family I don’t deny; but there still were left at home to be taken care of after their departure three old maids, a young one, and two helpless young men, who, having been bronght up to do nothing, did it to perfection. After the failure uncle got a situation as superintendent of one of the many departments in the large establishment of the gentleman who sold “pins and needles by the paper and lace by the yard” (he was now head of the firm, and had a pretty, lady-like wife and two pretty children), and we dismissed one of our servants and moved into a much smaller house, But in spite of all our efforts at econ- omy our income proved vastly inade- quate to our expenses, and this was the cause of so much bewailing and bemoan- ing that our house seemed to be bereft of all gladness and sunshine. And one evening after Ethel, our youngest daughter, had burst into tears because aunt had declared it would be impossible to have ice cream, meringues, jellies and similar dainties every day for des- gert, for the two sufficient reasons that we couldn’t afford them and our present cook couldn't make them, I ventured to suggest to the weeping damsel that if she found life positively unbearable without the above-named luxuries (all the Egberts, by-the-bye, were extrava- “It will 1 “What is saved thereby will no more tha id me in society man can do without. “Pear! dear!” aunt took burden again, “cor that your father woul in this way { never would have hix I really don’t know wh done, ur emigrate to y place where we are unknown an where it don’t matter how we live.” “The country?” screamed the chil dren in chorus. * Better once.” I can’t imagine where I got the cour- age fo do so after my late sharp rebuffs, but at this moment I blurted out son thing that had been in my several weeks: * Why conld hea and Ethel room togethe hea's room, which is the pleasant he house, be let to a lodger?—one would" Bat here I paused abruptly, had fainted in the arms of who, glancing at me over thetop o | eldest danghter’s head, command . y ir ) in ner + exh not ui s au " 3 y 1ie41 + R I the little exis no h } 1 AUS we L t t » deep &t tone bass voice) “ log stantly.” jut In a | thin had gett Worse i worse, and we had been redueed to rice puddings f week days and { apple tarts on Sun , I was allowed to prepare an the morning's paper, in which was offered to “an elderly gent!®man, who must have excellent references, a fine room in the house of a lady of refinement, | who had never before taken a lodger, for the privilege of ocenpying which he would be expected to pay a liberal equivalent.” I disapproved highly of the wordi of this call for help, but my aunt a cousins insisted upon ils being cone in these very terms, and so I was com- pelled to yield, inwardly convinced that it would bring no reply. But it did. The very afternoon of the morning it appeared, a carriage with a trunk strapped on behind drove up to our door. An old gentleman got out, hobbled up our steps and rang our door-bell. “ You must see him, Dorothea,” said { my aunt, leaving the parlor, followed by a train of her children. ‘It is your i affair altogether. to do with it.” “ We none of us will have anything to do with it,” chimed in my cousins, “We | were not born with the souls of lodging- house keepers ;” and away they sailed as | I opened the docrto the second—a little | louder than the first—ring ot the caller. | « He was a short, slightly-formed old gentleman, with big, bright black eyes, bushy white eyebrows, and a long white | mustache and beard. “You have a room to let?” he asked. “1 have,” I answered, ushering him into the parlor, where he glanced keenly | around, and then as keenly into my face, | while he announced in a decisive tone: “1 have come to take it. My luggage Jo 80 kind as to tell me »” 8 1 + Or dessers on advertisement for 1g and hed He | is at the door, | where to direct the man to carry it. { “But”—1I began, in a hesitating way, utterly confused by the stranger's | brusque, not to say high-handed man- | ner. “ ‘But me no buts,”” quoted the old { gentleman, “1 am Amos Griffin, | lately from England, where I have been living for the past twenty years. Since I landed in New York, a month ago to- day, I have been boarding at the St. Nicholas. But where's your mother?” I hasten«d to assure him that I was empowered to negotiate with him. “Ah, indeed! Well, then, I'll go on, though it strikes me that you are rather young for the business. You ‘ have never taken a lodger before.’ Iam glad of it, for reasons which is not necessary to explain. You want a ‘liberal equiva- lent’ for your fine room; I am prepared to give it. That leaves only one thing to be arranged. If should like my break- fast at eight precisely every morning.” “But we did not propose to give breakfast.” “I know you didn’t; but I'll give yon another ‘liberal equivalent’ for it. You can’t be very well off, or you wouldn't take a lodger; and the more liberal equivalents you can get from him the better. show me to my room?” pletely snccimbing to the big black eyes and strong will-power of the frail- to ask for the “reference” in the advertisement. to the man ontside, who, taking the trunk upon his back, followed him, as he followed me, to the second » rOOm, 1 i IVY growing Yat iy ¥ APR AY UAC ot 11 Ol gLOraer, sn} : py » make the room deed Mr. Griffin two Hn wl been d " nt IP TINIe nrty i} yg» AOTEN YORMS, ring FePRIN how disagree: I don't want ried a young la tune, and out of usly proposed to ms iberal yearly allowane {ts 11 take all the extra from his sickness upon 1 shall be ann After living ber ro vears and contributi r to our comforts glare at me, Cleanthe; juite certain 1 paid us so liberally-——it basest ingratitude, not nd him among strang » most needs care and “Are you quite throu nolds?” asked my 8 ‘I had no idea you were s never having heard you preach Bat of one thing I amd 1 shall not call in our doctor patient. He is perfect aristocrat, and | no idea we keep a lodger, and 1 do not wish him to know it.” “ There's saw-bones a few ors below,” drawled gentieman cousin, who ented my waiting Any but himself ; | “he'll do for your fine old— nuis n That very evening bad , an saw-bones hha te, EE no one eter 0 1 ww ae my youngest ros upon ono al “young a few elow™ in’ He proved to be a Dr. Rie frank-looking, brown-haired, gray broad-browed An, with gentle voice and quick, light step. And the old gentleman, takin creat fancy to him, decided on re g him—a deci- sion that relieved me great in mind as I did my aant's embargo in regard to our family physician, young ly ly, bearing And from that time for three months, | although very seldom confined to his | bed, our lodger never had a well dav. At the end of the three months, how- ever, he began to mend slowly, and at the end of two more was on his feet again. And then he told me he had made up his mind to return to England. “Iam sorry, very sorry, to part with you,” I replied. “But it is right that you should go.” “Well said, Little Honesty. now let's begin to pack,” said he. Dr. Rice and I went with the old gentleman to the steamer that was to carry him away, and waved a last fare well to him—in the midst of a crowd | also waving last farewells—from the pier, a8 the vessel slowly moved out into the stream; and the n we returned to our respective homes to read the letters he had placed in our respective hands with his final good-bye. Mine I read in the privacy of my own room at first; and when I had partly re covered from my astonishment and delight I flew downstairs, called the family together, and read it to them. It | was as follows: “Dean urrrue Hoxesty—Had I died which I didn’t, thanks unto God to von and Dr. Rice—I should have left each of my dear young friends ten thousand dollars in my will. But having lived, I am going to do a much pleasanter thing—1I am going to give them the ten My lawyer will see | you both to-morrow, €( And “ Amos Grivriy, | “P. 8.—1 have also left a slight bequest to Miss Ethel Ilgbert. She wil | in the room I occupied when I was her | Ethel for once forgot her graceful, the stairs, but her youngest brother was before her, and she was fain to turn back again as he slid down the balunster, It was a large framed photograph of Amos Griffin, with a card attached bear- I married Dr. Rice.— Harper's Weekly. er ——— He who refuses justice to the defence- less will make every concession to the powerful, FOR THE LADIES, Hoop Skivis Again in Fashion, shops in New York i p skirts, and AL one Haclorios were 1 Are again dis report a good time the hoop Hinerous d in the went out ot ories have nearly all dis + capital has gone into A hoop skirt n oportoer WAS CHERE« \ x the 1] kit the hoop skirt anu » when em and our product That was dur about 18068 the fashion and th 3 5 4 transient wo wls, a day, hoop o trad revival ple who liked it bee Now, however, £4 if few week Bradley, fron i Mr. ' slay Circling lool shion of the old style of skirt, | » new skirt will wear four : si» hat iid times Fashlon Notes, striped skirts are worn under id olive-green flannel, i are worn upon the public p in the ' A008 Fangler as Seen From a House Top, it was Sanday, and the Christian is own. It was Bunday; we to the purpose, it was also a warket I had caught the town in one of Between these Alseawsn are not or no fele 18 going on, the place is said to be as dull and silent | as a plagne-smitten city. It being my last as Africa, I did hadji to call me that me | bird, ustir t worm of a breakfast was prao Having completed my toilet 1 ndered out on ti } y front of ervening the Jow USINessS, %, and when the | over-ruuning it, for the 1 before wall Hing. | day in 1¢ An early aven sorbitan staircase mounted n the roof of stone the had all its i illuminated by the daybreak, + town lay in cool stretohe y Kasha on the height {a con ro-cit white houses, edge on ono side he slant of a { snow that had by flake from n several hot All the erfectly flat, and most of inded by low battlements, ing negress in sulphur © girdle . MATIN 1 1 hood A AN BT SHAKING a ad loo) et, and looking {in terrace Waslier'woman dered in woul he nnprots ge immer boarder who had bedchaml ry was mbbing his 8le pt there alls ise top summer roofs was s at gard and dwarf in £11 Orin. St ist of his SUATes, he resembled a se litary I could look directly down smooth, bareskall, which seemed cast of gilt bronge or bell metal. He wore nothing but a breech-cloth., Ti Moorish empl Isewhere, sanding in the mi on his 4 very ¥v ” ¢ ¥ 8 Are ren n, and of creamy eather of Ta yellow of Son Weighing a Hog. | exciiem fw 4 § 3 iropnt of | Mg in AIONE 1 EUNAOwn He OF, here ¥ driving a h Ww Lie go over 200." r is vacated on the mstant. the hi grooting he guitler, nd every Hatters if that he can bn the porke: § hog will pull down jist exactly 3. #F \ s 4 ns save the black guess within a ait} w mith, after “He won't go an onnee over 185." “I've got a £2 bil 1 bsnl ‘ " will kick at 210, man. “You mt | that says that hog says the hardware 1st be wild,” growls the t poke ‘bonnets show r the proportions of the tow- | ops of 1795, i A new “Jersey” is imported made of chenille network, with a fine rubber in the meshing, causing it to fit the figure | as the silk webbing used to | last winter, | Immense Watean made of cre | now exhibited, and are made | mate lors and designs the bright cretonnes, foulards, Pompadour cambries and other g summer dress fabrics, Igns 1 a8 clos ey fans tonne are h in ay The jersey glove is in high favor for traveling. It can be bought in old gold, gray and tan, so that it is easy to | find a pair to harmonize with any gown. enough to reach the elbow and have no buttons, Pretty hats for the country are made in the “ Niniche ” shape—slanting down in front over the face. They are fash- ionably made of the coarse porcupine straw in cardinal or gold, and are trimmed with au Alsatian bow of surah placed on the erown toward the front of the hat. shirred trimming to match. A stylish hat in the modified Marie Stuart shape is made of marroon straw, a fine English braid, lined with shirred satin a darker color, and bordered with a tiny gold passementerie. The of flesh tint. The costliness and variety of ladies’ The very last thing in this direction is foot and a contrasting one on the other for instance a black silk stocking on the right foot and a eardinal one on the left, or one of pale ble with another of gold color. This fashion seems to be more suggestive of a gaudy clown at circus performance than anything else, With high podices this season tulle ruches or mull puffs are more fashion- able than crepe lisse ruflles. If slightly open the bodice is accompanied by a deep Btuart collar edged with lace, and cufls to match put on over the sleeve. If eut Pompadour the open square is filled up with a finely-shirred chemisette of French mull finished with a full ruche. A great deal of lace is worn about the throat and wrists, and the corsage bouquet.is still the favorite ad- junct of all summer toilets, however simple, —— RII orm The drains leading from the Phila- delphia mint yielded about $1,000 worth of gold and silver at the last annual scouring. The recovery of metal by that operation has amounted to $21,000 in nineteen years, ment there” Twenty men and look take a walk around the their owner unt and shake wise, and tl Ke r, it ic he don't go over 220 I shall feel that I am no guesser,” “Over 2207 If that hog weighs 200 the owner of the "bus line. “1 dunno ’ : hp} squire, who is o1 "bout mu the 1s way to the grocery ““ Some hogs weigh more What breed that, £8 some less, is this " Barkshire.” “Well, I've seen some o' them Berk. shoers that weighed like a load o' sand were all skin and bone. Has anybody guessed that this hog will weigh 600?" “No.” “ Well, that's a lectle steep, but I've kinder sot my idea on 250." 3y this time the crowd has increased to a hundred and the excitement is in- tense, The ’'squire lays half a dollar on 250, and the owner of the hog rakes in several bets on “between 220 and reales, and the silence is almost painful as the weighing takes place. “Two hundred and twenty-three!” calls the weigher. Girowls and lamentations smite the evening air, and stakeholders pass over of whom is the owner of the hog. ‘squire. “I felt dead sure he would “Oh, 1 knew you were all way off," | explains the guileless owner, * When | we weighed him here at noon he tipped | at exactly 223, and 1 knew he couldn't | have picked up or lost over a pound!” w= Detroit Free Press. Touching Evidence of Instinet, | One of the most touching incidents | on record, illustrative of animal instinet | and affection, ocenrred during a recent bear hunt in this vicinity. The parties are all known in Santa Barbara. One of them shot a small enb through the Something called the attention of the hunters away from the spot, and when they returned a half hour afterward they found the mother bear standing over her lifeless cub, apparently engaged in licking and caressing its head, A couple of well-directed shots soon stretched the she bear by the side of her dead offspring and the hunters approached to secure their game. To their surprise they found the bullet wound to the cub’s head partly filled with finely chewed grass and leaves, The mother had evi- and had endeavored to do what she could toward stanching ils flow.— Santa Barbara (Cal) Press. Toe Much Hay, Filling a horse's rack with hay, as some persons «do, and permitting & con stant supply to remain before the ani mal, ia one of the most probable means of producing disease, and most positive in rendering animals unfit for fast work. Large supplies of hay have the effect of making the stomach large and weak, {the belly in course of time becoming pendulous, Not only does the stomach inerease in capacity, but the large intes- tines become enlarged. Feeding Pigs, Pigs that are to be marketed this Yoal shonld be pushed hard from the If allowed to stand still for a day there will be a loss, Ground oats and corn mixed, or ground corn with { veginning. for the pigs; soaked corn will also be highly relished, and will be found well adapted to keeping the pigs in high flesh ; but as soon as the new corn is fairly in milk that will be found the best of all fatte ning foods, On the other hand, if pigs are to be kept over the winter there should be no stimulating or forcing. Give them the run of a fleld the first summer, with a ¥ ma small allowance of grain, ) Ciover Saving Manure, A young man, eighteen years of age, who has been his father's main help in cultivating an eighty-acre farm, said : “Qur principal business this summer been the saving of manure, one item of which has been to supply bed. ng for eight calves that were kept nr.- ghed during the entire summer in the season sawdust was used , in sufficient quantities to absorb quids and keep the calves dry, and later, dry earth, leaves or anything that could be obtained most readily. Inthe fall thirty-one horse-cart loads of manure were drawn from shed, Binee manure is the ope article most needed on Aa farm, tl farmer never shonld cease laying plans for making it, and, if successful, he may look for large re- turns in produce.” — Erol A Hint fer Orchardists, One of the worst enemies the apple orchard bas to contend with is the cod- ling moth, which, unless dealt with ina vigorous manner, is very apt to destroy the fruit of the orchard. The pasturing sheep inthe orchard, when the fruit ap- proaches the ripening stage, appropriate to themselves the early decayed fruitithat falls, and thus keep in check the worm which does all the damage. A. BR. Whit- ney, of Franklin Grove, Lee county, 1lls., the largest orchardist in the United States, having 45,000 bearing trees, re marked at the recent meeting of the American Nurserymen's Association at Dayton, that he conld not get along at all in his orchard without sheep. While the fruit of his neighbors, who do not keep sheep, suffers badly, his apples are smooth, sound and uninjured by his mode of preserving them from enemy. has this 16 ™ mae, Mistake in Milking. “We have frequent communications,” says the American Cultivator, ‘from our subscribers concerning the fact of their giving bloody milk. No one mld be surprised at cows giving ody milk if they were fully aware of at a network of blood vessels the ler of a cow is composed. No person sould ever make an attempt to milk a cow till they have obtained some know- Ie dge of its structure ; then we perhaps should dispense with a large number of those double-fisted men who do not seein murposes or anatomy of a cow's bag, ex- t for them to squeere and drag it as 3 ugh it were a piece of dead hide. ‘here is no objection to the strong- wmnded man as a milker, the stronger i oep th 1 1 the better, but it should be accompanied by a touch as delicate as a woman's. Whenever the cow manifests the slight. ost sensitiveness the udder should be thoronghly examined. Milking is a pleasure to the cow when everything is all right, and whenever it ceases to afford gratification to the cow there is evidently something wrong. Never fail to wash with warm water the bag of a young heifer, both before and after milking.” salt for the Threat, In these throat are so universally prevalent, and in 80 many cases fatal, we feel it our duty to say a word in behalf of a most effectual, if not positive, cure for sore throat. For many years past, indeed, we may say during the whole of a life of more than forty years, we have been subject to sore throat, and more particularly to a dry hacking cough, which is not only distressing to ourselves, but to our friends and those with whom we are | brought into business contact, Last fall we were induced to try what | virtne there was in common salt. We commenced by using it three times a day—morning, noon and night, We dissolved a large tablespoonful of pure table salt in about a half small tumbler full of water. With this we gargle the throat most thoroughly just before meal time. The result has been that during | the entire winter we were not only free from coughs and colds, but the dry, | hacking congh has entirely disappeared. Wa attribute these satisfactory results solely to the use of salt gargie, and most cordially recommend a trial of it to those who are subject to diseases of the throat. Many persons who have never tried | the salt gargle have the impression that | it is unpleasant. Such is not the case | On the contrary, it is pleasant, and after a few days’ nse no person who loves a nice elean month and a first-rate sharp- | ener of the appetite will abandon it. Ex, How te Raise Tarkeys, | Two to four hens and one gobbler are | sufficient, and two to three-year-old | fowls better than younger or older ones, When they begin to lay watch them and find their nests, which are generally made in some obscure place. Remove | the eggs as fast as they are deposited in | the nest, and put a chicken hen's egg | in for a nest egg. When she lays ont her number, which is usually from fif- | teen to twenty, and begins to set remove | her at night to a point near the dwell. | ing, having prepared a setting-place in | a barrel turned down on the side and straw therein, Fasten the mouth np | for a day and night, so she cannot get out. The following day remove the fastening, and if she goes back to her old nest, take her at night and fasten 1 basket every fow days, Last year I had | forty-nine out of fifty eggs to hatch raised forty-three of them. When the eggs are all hatched, fasten the hen up in a shelterad pen so the little things can get in and out at pleasure, and where the wind and min cannot reach them on the west and north sides, Keep them in this way until they are three or four weeks old, and then they ean shift for themselves and will be as hardy as any fowl. Until they are about a month old they are the tenderest of all domestic birds. Feed them on enrds and let them have plenty of buttermilk corn bread, with a little salt and some cayenne pepper added before cooking, and give them wheat screenings ocen- sionally, Feed them rogularly night and morning, and they will always come home to roost, after feeding in the fields for a quarter of a mile around the honse all day. When one-third grown, noth- ing is better to feed them than whole grains of corn ; but generally this is not necessary, as grasshoppers and other insects are their choice food.— Corre spondence Farmer's Home Journal, Heclpeos, Peacn Borren.—Pare ripe peaches and put them in a preserving kettle, with sufficient water to boil them soft ; then sift through a cullendar, removing the stones To each quart of peach mt one and one-half pound sugar, and Boil very slowly one hour, Btir often, and do not let them burn. Putin stone or glass jars and keep in a cool place. Rasenerny Jam.—To every quart of ripe raspberries, allow a pound of the best loaf sugar, Put sugar and berries into a pan, and let them stand two or three hours. Then boil them in a por- celain kettle, taking off the scum care fully. When no more scum rises, mash them and boil them to smooth marmalade. When cold, put them in glass tumblers, Srewep Creosnens.—Cut the cucum- bers fully half an inch thick right through ; put them in a sauce-pan, just covering them with hot water, and let them boil slowly for a quarter of an hour, or until tender, but not soas to break them; then drain them; you want now a pint of good cream, and put your cream, with a teaspoonful of but- ter, in a sance-pan, and when it is warm pop in the cucumbers; season with a little salt and white pepper, cook five minutes, shaking the saucepan all the time, and serve hot. It is just as deli. cate as asparagus, and a very nice dish indeed. Tomato Mear Pre—Take the remains of roast meats, (roast beef or other meats will answer,) chop as for hash, and chop three times as much bread. Have peeled some tomatoes. Take a broad | quarters and yon will not suffer from the depredations of crows or egg thieves, Never put more than seventeen turkey twelve turkey eggs with a chicken hen. Some poultry raisers prefer to have all mother. lating keep them in a box or basket in a dark place with an old woolen cloth under and over them. Handle them ceed to make your pie. First puta layer of crumbs, then a thin layer of the meat, slice a layer of tomatoes over the meat, season with salt and pepper, then add other layers as before, and lastly, cover the top with the bread, and press all down smoothly to form the upper crust. If you have the gravy, pour it over the pie to moisten the bread, but avoid using too much fat; or melt a piece of butter in two cups of water and a little salt, if you have no gravy. Bake until the crust is brown and the tomatoes cooked, in a moderately hot oven, and let it stand to cool awhile before turning tout. If ightly done you will be surprised to have so nice a dish from remnants. The canned tomatoes are good in winter, How the Chinese Leave Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, writes a corre- spondent, I accepted the invitation of Consul Mosby to visit the steamship “Gaelic” and see how Chinamen are shipped to the United States. There were 408 men and one woman. The Chivamen were all on deck with a rope stretched around them. Af adesk near by were threo officers, the doctor, the harbor master and the United States consul. These Chinumen had bought their tickets, but unless they could pass the doctor's inspection the harbor master would not stamp their ticket, and if the United States consul did not stamp their ticket, and if the con- | sul did not stamp their ticket the Mail company would not take it. These Chinamen had their clothes unbuttoned and laid off down to their waists, The doctor examined every one, honestly | and faithfully, and did not object to a | single one. Every one was in good state and health. On the doctor's cer- tificate the harbor master stamps the ticket and on his certificate the Ameri- can consul also stamps the ticket, and on this stamp the captain takes it. | Before a woman can be shipped she has to go down to the To-Wah hospital | and have stamped on her arm a certifi- cate that she was a proper person to All the precautions that laws have fixed, as far as regards the examination of Chinamen, are hon- estly carried out under the present ad- ministration, or were on that trip. I was anxious of seeing some evidence of a careless manner of doing it. 1 must say they did it carefully. While these Chinamen were all in a string, I came in and looked at them. One of them said, “Hallo, mister. I sabbe your bludder. He marry up in Slaclamento.” I said, “John, what you know? He said: “I live in Slaclamento eight vear: I make 83,000; I come home; I! catchee two wives; I lost all; now Igo back again.” 1 said: “Kearney will catch you and hang you” He said: «Oh, no; me go and do Kearney's Most of them were Chinese | returning to the United States. They understood the agitation of the San Francisco sand lot, and they hugely en- | ——— Found His Way Home, To test the faculty which dogs possess of returning to their homes by a nearly direct course after being carried a great distance by a circuitous route, an Ohio physician made a dog insensible with either at Cincinnati, put him into a wicker basket, took a train of the Cin- | cinnati Southern railroad, first south- | west to Danville Junction, thence to Crab Orchard, and finally northeast to a hunting rendezvous near Berea. The dog was shut up all night and fed. The next morning he was taken ont to a clearing on the top of a grassy knoll and let loose. Without any preliminary survey he slunk off into a ravine, scrambled up the opposite bank and | struck firat into a trot and then a swift | gallop, not toward Orab Orchard, but in He ran not like an animal that had lost its way, but | “like a horse on a tramway,” straight ahead, with his nose well up, as if he | He made a short detour to the left to avoid a lateral ravine, but | further up he resumed his original | | ahead into a coppice of cedar bushes, | where they finally lost sight of him, | The report of the experimenters was | forwarded to the owner by rail, and on | the afternoon of the next day, after re- | ceiving this report, the owner met the dog on the street in Cincinnati, * wet, full of burrs and remorse, ard appar- SCTENTIFIC NOTES, Leaves of trees absorb no water, but they throw off daily hundreds of mil- lions of gallons which are taken up by the roots, It has been proved beyond a doula, popular opinion to the contrary not- withstanding, that the rays of the moon are not entirely devoid of heat, Over twenty years ago more than 120 tons of steel were used every year in the manufacture of pens. Bome houses produce 50,000 daily throughout the Year, The food, air and water which a man receives amount in the aggregate to more than 3,000 pounds a year, that is, to ore and a half tons, twenty times his own weight, A suggestion to employ artificial lights for the capture and destrnetion of noxions insects bas found consider able favor. A medal was awardod at the last exhibition of agrienlture and in- sectology at Paris for a lamp especially adapted for catching ivsects, The electric light bas been found to be a very effective insect trap, and its event. ual coming into use for this purpose in bug-infected gardens and orchards may Wan it not said by wine great sage That life is an unwritten ied age ¥ We write our fate; and when old age Or death comes on, : We drop the yon, For good or ill, trom day to day, Fach deed we do, each word we cay, Makes its impress upon the clay Which molds the minds Of other men, And all our acts snd words are soeds Sown o'er the past, whence fatore deeds Bpring np, to form or wheat or woods; And ss wo've sown Bo resp p we then, HUMOR OF THE DAY, “All things come to him who wails,” but a quarter judiciously bestowed on a Walter will hurry the up a little. —P #, The Policeman is the name of & new don . We will wager a ten dollar (counterfeit of course) that it never when want it,— Witliamsport Breakfast A circus proprietor in Canada has plied for the admission of his elephan i iy I Sou » Wo their Saiitain no valoables.— Norristown Her- “Mabel, why you dear little gi, ex- claimed her grandps, seeing little granddaughter her head tied up, “have you got the headache?” " she answered sweetly, “I'se trl” A cireas acrobat who ean tie himself in a knot and hide away in a corner of his vest pocket receives only $30 per week salary. This should discourage a large class of politicians, but probably won't, “Why is it your loaves are so much smaller than they used to be?” asked & Galveston man of his baker, “J don’t know, unless it is because 1 use less Jongh than formerly,” responded the great many young men's clothes didn’t fit them till they pay the tailor, we would see lots of noble young bloods Ifa be regarded as among the things that wre possible, A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun | thus describes a filter, which he says he | uses with perfect success for all the | water his family requires. It isa gal- | lon-glass funnel with a small piece of | sponge in the bottom, snd on whieh | rests half a dozen slender sticks to facil | itate the percolation, then placed st in- | tervals all around a piece of muslin a | foot or so Equare, The muslin is filled | with say a pint of closely powdered | chareoal. Throngh this he filters the | water. Af first a little of the charcoal | passes throngh, but it soon becomes a | perfect filter. i Human remains, evidently of great | antiquity, says the London Academy, | were found a (few months ago at Cara | bacel, near Nice, and have been re i ported by a local scientific committee as | well as examined by M. de Quatrefages, | The bones had not been artificially in- | terred, but were found imbedded ins | deposit of ealeareous clay at a depth of | about nine feet from the surface. This | deposit was irregularly stratefied, and | contained a mixture of Pliocene and | Eocene shells, showing that it had been | formed by the reconstruction of the | pre-existing strata, Of the bones the | most remarkable is the lower jaw. This | is sufficiently characterized to ensble | De Qnatrefages to refer it to the Cro- | Magnon type. The fossil man of Nice, | therefore, belongs to the same race as | M. Riviere's skeleton from Mentone, | both being probably of Palmolithic age. | eer———— i Toy Pistols and Lockjaw, i On summing up the casualties of our | explosive holiday, the Fourth of July, | the numbers of the killed and maimed | rival those of some battles which have | decided the fate of empires, | The majority of the injuries were in- | flicted by the toy pistol, using blank | cartridges, the introduction of which | has been followed by a general epi- | demic of lockjaw, particularly in our larger towns and cities, i The toy is a cheap contrivance of cast- | iron, with a barrel about two inches! long. It is a breech-loader, intended ! for blank cartridges, the powder being | held in a metallic case either by a paper | wad or by folding inward the slashed | end of the cartridge-case. There is no | half-cock; the trigger catch is roughly made, and there is always danger of an barrel is being returned to place after the insertion of the cartridge. At such times the barrel is held in the left hand, and the discharge inflicts un ngly wonnd in the palm. Other wounds are inflict- ed by the paper wad or by fragments of the cut end of the copper cartridge-case, which are shot off with considerable force. In other cases buck-shot, gravel, barrel by heedless or malicious nrchins, juries. The more serious wounds however, are usually caused by acei- dental discharges. the powder, wad or copper fragments entering the lacerated palm and so injuring the nerves that lockjaw is the result. There were sev- enteen fatal cases of this sort in Balti- more on the Fourth, Fifty cases were bronght in for treatment in three hos- deaths; and there is no telling how many more cases were under private treatment, Other towns arjear to have suffered proportionally except Philadelphia, where, in consequence of fifteen fatalitios from toy-pistol wounds last year, the use ot the weapon this year was suppressed by the city author ities, Other towns will do well to follow the example of Philadelphia. Parents are often ignorant or careless, and a five or ten-cent pistol offers irresistible at- tractions to many boys, In anticipation of next year's celebration some means should be adopted to prevent the man. ufacture, sale and use of such murder ous playthings. Even the use of the pistol shaped device for snapping paper caps should be stopped. No harm can resuit from them directly, but the habit which children acquire of pointing such ducive to care or caution in handling real pistols,.—Scientific American. Odd Ways of Making a Living. For that matter, though, there seems to be money in all sorts of things in New York. There, for instance is the second-hand furniture trade, which has grown to enormous proportions, and is now one of the leading lines of business in the city, It is hardly worth while to mention the fashionable second-hand clothing trade which every one knows everything about that is worth knowing. Aside from these there are dozens of different kinds of second-hand business going on all to the dealers. iron, another in old brass, another in old building material of all sorts, an- other in broken glass, and so on through a long list of things that seem to have served their only purpose and to be no longer of any use to any one. Gather- ing old rags and old papers is, of course, a large business in itself, and a profitable one, too. The latest industry 18 that of collecting the small tin cans that are thrown out after their contents of preserved fruit, meat or vegetables, is of scarcely any value, but it pays to melt down the cans for their solder, and this is now done as regularly as sending rags to a paper mill. Gathering up cigar stumps around the hotels is an old business. The chewed and nicotine- soaked ends are dried, broken up and utilized either for fillers in making new cigars, or worked in with the cheaper kinds of smoking tobacco. There are thousands of men in New York who make a living by merely gathering np the refuse of trade and of the house- hold, and putting it in shape to be not only making a living, but getting ahead m the world, too.—New York Letter, goi around like a loaded ¢ line ing in the idle breeze of a sum- After a Michigan farmer bad com. mitted suicide because there was no show for his corn, a soaking shower started every kernel into life and guar- anteed 8 big crop. Somes folks are always a day toe late Probably the meavest man on record keeps a boarding house in San Last winter an ear hquake turned edifice clear upside down, and the very next morning he began charging the garret lodgers first floor prices. “At Bordeaux,” said one, “if you let a match fall to the ground the next vear there will grow a forest.” *At Mar. eight days you will have a pair of pan- They wore a sunflower ai the side, ir bangs were in & Sutfer, And as 1 docked on them { cried, “Those maidens are too utter.” And that was so. For that same night These fair young Vassar scholars Caught victims twain-—each bill was quite For cake and cresm, $4, — Williamaport Breakfast Table, WISE WORDS, They despise riches that despair of them. iothing is 80 good as it seems before- A grain of produce is worth a pound of craft, If you are slandered never mind i; it will all come off when it is dry. Base natures joy to see hard hap hap- pen to them they deem phird lp Happy are they who work. Then, the task finished, each one sleeps the same sleep. Providence has wa honest in the event their design. The chains which cramp us most are those that weigh on us least. Many preserve themselves by hum- bling themselves; the bullet flies over him that stoops. Chimners are not swept until the fire is out. When the passions are ex- tinguished man purifies his heart. True bravery is shown by performing | without witness what one might be ca- pable of doing before all the world. A person who is too nice an observer | of the business of the crowd, like one | who is too curious in © the | labor bees, will often be stang by curi- | osity. i Cunning has effect from the credulity | of others, rather than from the ability | of those who are cunning. It Jouites de- i re —— | no extraordinary talents to lie | ceive. : Burdette to the Young Man. Remember, my son, shat the world is | older than you are, by several years; | that for thousands of years it has been | so full of smarter and better Foug men | than yourself, that their feet out | of the dormerwindows; that when they | died the old globe went hiding oi | and not one man out of ten mi | went to the funeral, or even heard of the | death. | Beas smart as yon can, of course. | Know as much as you can, without | blowing the packiog out of your eylin- | der hends; shed the light of your wis- | dom abroad in the world, but don't | dazzle people with it, and don't imagine | a thing is so simple because you say it lis. Don’t be too sorry for your ! because he knows so much less than you | do. Remember the reply of Dr. Way- | land to the student of wn univer sity, who said it was an easy enough | thing to make proverbssuch as Solomon wrote. “Make a few,” tersely replied | the old man. We never heard that the | young man e auy; not more than i two or three, anyhow. The world bas | great need of young men, but no greater ‘need than young men have of it. Your | clothes fit you better than your father's ! fit him; they cost more money, they are | more stylish; your m is neuter, the cut of your hair is better, and you | are prettier, oh, far prettier than * pa.” | But, young man, the old gentleman gets { the bi salary, and his homely, | scrambling signature onthe business | end of a check will draw more money | out of the bank in five minutes than you | could get out with a ream of paper and | a copper plate signature in six months, | Young men are useful, ‘and they are ! ornamental, and we all love them, and | we couldn't engineer a picnic suceess- i fully without them. But they are no | novelties, my son. Oh, no, nothing of | the kind. They have been here before. | Do not be so modest as to shut yourself | clear out; but don’t bo so fresh that you will have to be put away to keep from | spoiling. Don't be afraid that your merits will not be discovered. People all over the world are hunting for you, and if you are worth finding they will find you. A diamond is not so easily found as a quartz pebble, but some peo- ple search for it all the more intently, of making thoss are not so in > Burlington Hawkeye.2 2 cil} 3 i American Farming. - Dr. Lawes, in his recen work on fertility, says, under the head of “The United States”: “ Fist of all, and this is an important point, the United States farmer himself is usually well edncated and intelliger t; he is both owner ard occupier of ‘he soil, and does as much as iis «1 the Jou Eat the i, employing for the purpose most improved labor-s - ving machinery, he is lightly taxed, has cheap modes of transit, and above all is in po ssion of an almost unlimited extent of un- touched fertility. These circumstances all combined reduce the cost of growing corn almost to a minimum, and the re- sult enables him to deliver his wheat at the doors of the owner of the land iu some parts of Great Britain cheaper than it can be raised in the adjoining fields. In a word, they enable to regulate the price of grain throughout the world.” These are certainlyadva.- tages over which the American farm » nay rejoice.— American Agriculturist.
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