= i A Br SO Domestic Economies. Polish oilcloth with kerosene. Wash matting with salted water. Clean grained wood with cold tea. whole house, If you dip your broom in clean, hot suds once a week, then shake it and it would without this operation. A simple and easy way to ornament a common pillow-case for the baby’s pil low is to feather-stitch it all with scarlet marking cotton. Choose fade. There is danger, as many people have found to their sorrow, of a gossamer waterproof cracking when stiffened by cold ; so before putting it on, in severe weather, warm it before the fire, both outside and in, this danger averted. and is Tue Dinner Tare: Weare often asked for information in regard to the ble. The following hints are, we believe, the correct thing : Aboveall things have your linen spotless and ironed properly, and your silver and glass shining. Ar- range your plates upon the table side up. A knife and fork supplied for each course, and a spoon for soup. Place the k the spoon between, upon the right hand, the forks, with the tines down, upon tle left. All the dishes be heated. The napkin should be folded with a piece of bread or roll in- side and placed al the right-hand side, A china bowl full of ferus or obtainable, should always he upon the be TL should 3 (IESE Ves with should A neatly giving a dinner party, a large block o ice placed upon a silver and cover with moss apd flowers will pleasing ornament whicly, “as the ice melts away, usually served first, the servant han make a the air, Soul COOLS ing the plates at the left hand to the guest, potato cake or rolls; or patties and served after the before the roast appears, finger over the top of the “Excuse me, please.” have’ been removed and the brushed from the cloth. pastry are served first, then jellies, and cakes fruits. should be placed at each plate when and fruits and ices are served, with a dainty napkin for drying the fingers, Tobacco items. LP Opaers have got their troubles just now are flowing in freely at the full redac- tion, for an increase of wages : certainly not to us will require careful handling in order to bring about harmonious action, The opinion is general, that for the balance of the year a large substantial satisfactory business can be claimed. Manufacturers fine having a steady, healthful, improving demand, while medium and low grades receive full attention for May delivery, SNUFF.— Largely booked for next month, while for the past week increase orders for immediate use were received, SEED LEAFY. Packers and dealers of cigar leaf claim trade very quiet, but admit manufacturers call daily and inspect the various grades of wrapper leaf, which they acknowledge they must buy before long, for heretofore they have been working on stock ex- clusively in factory; dealers, knowing tthe stock will be needed after awhile, d not show any anxiety to force sales, but abide their time; théir stocks are wel selected and can be sold at fair therefore they feel confident iL is only a question of time when their labor will be fully rewarded, Binders and fillers ag usual find buy- ers at full figures, Sumatra has been largely handled and shows 4 de¢ided adyunee fromm 10 to 15 cents. A great number of new inquirers are to be seen daily on the market. HAvANA-—DBegins to show newilife, especially first-class} Vuelta Abajo. Prices rule steady, and favor the holder of stock of extra quality, Havana wrap- pers are fast being taken off the market by manufacturers, The rains lately fallen at Remedios have done much good to the plank and imparted great hopes to growers in that locality. According to our Vuelta Abajo ex of grades are firtires, beneficial to the plant at Guane and few other localities where some sales have been lately effected at advantageous prices fcr growers, say $4.50 gold per carrot for 1sts to Gths ; $3.50 do do for 7ths and 8ths ; quebrado de 1ra at $1.75; oths and quebrado de 2a at $1; 10ths at 24 rs, and 11ths and 12ths at 2 rs. The last rains have had for result a decided improvement in the quality of | the leaf in several localities of the Vuelta | Abajo; the tardio leaf has turned out such an excellent class that some grewers | sustain it is as good as the temprano, { Repor's from Hato Quemado, Pilotos and other celebrated districts are cheer ing; but though au certain number of purchasers are now visiting those locali- | ties, transactions have heretofore been unimportant, owing to the pretensions of growers who have taken advantage of the smallness of the crop to enhance prices to a further extent, According to recent advices the totali- ty of last year's crop at Remedios, though of good class, remains usold as yet, from want of buyers at prices pretended by holders, The following new cigar brands have La Cata- tC. Alvarez" been recently incorporated : lina” by Mr. M. Garcia! by Mr. Gonealez; ‘Flor de Gareia’’ by Mr. Ocegulra, and **Mi Odalisea’’ by Mr. Gonzalez. — Spencer's Price Current, THE FRENCH REGIE CONTRACT. Mr. Alex, tobacco Through the courtesy of Harthill, the well kn broker of Louisville, Ky., abled to give the following offic the contract for the present year: wh we are en- ial par- ticnlays regarding Freneh Regie ADJUDI Oth, SANK G00 ATION, PARIS, JUNE kilogrammes (about hogsheads) Maryland ; 2,000,000 k ADJUDICATION, PARIS, APRIL Tih. 5,600,000 Kilogrammes (about =000 hogsheads) Kentucky, light types, nt. **A" 2,000,000) Kilogrammes{about Cin- posed of 25 per ce and 75 per cent. B 2700 hogsheads) Virginia. Conditions All 0 be of 1531 and 1882 Crops, Kentueky verable One before are as usual. in followin October 1, 1883, Lh March soentueky Ken ¢ urd before {= 3 } iotk) hogshem Or 185 abou Regarding the requirements of Italian Regie, it is said that they ) call for-bat 11,000 hogsheads, w 16.000 last year, ¢ ANADA'S NEY The Cwmadian G LT ranged a new excise i8 anpounced by the Minister 1883, tobacco and snoff Canadian leaf, 2 cents per leaf, ents per pound. Until July per pound will be levi 1 from Canadian ured d 30 cents per pound on all no t manufact pay a 18svyepue we made from import usand, Kitchen Conceits. CELERY SAUCE. —Stew one pint of cut celery slowly in one pint of water, till perfectly tender, skim it out care- fully, make a drawn butter sauce with the water, add the celery, and serve, SALAD half a dozen of sour oranges; OF SOUR ORANGE. — Slice remove the seeds without breaking the slices; arrange them neatly on a salad dish or salad them lightly with pour over them three tablespoonfuls of salad oil and serve the bowl : dust CAYENLe pepper ; salad with game or poultry. When, as is often the case, it is found impossible to mash turnips so that they are free from lumps and are smooth, do not attempt to serve them in this way ; it is much better to acknowledge des feat, and send them to the table in slices, if the turnips are large, and in halves or quarters if small. Put a lump of butter and a little pepper and salt on each plece, Granam Propine Mix well to- gether one-half, a coffee cup of mo- lasses, one<juidrter of a cup of butter, one egg, one-half a cup of milk, one- half a teaspoon of pure soda, one and a half cups of good graham flour, one small teacup of raisins, spices to taste, Steam four hours and serve with any sauce that may be preferred. This makes a showy as well as light and wholesome dessert, and has the merit of simplicity and cheapness, Grazep TUurNIps.— Peel a quart of small, even-sized turnips, boil them just drain them on dry towel; put into a frying pan just large enough to hold them, a teaspoonful each of butter and sugar, and let.them meli together ; then put in the turnips, set the pan over the are light brown ; keep them hot with. out burning, to serve on the dish with tenderloin, What isin Writing only Admis- : sible. A real estate suit was last month de. cided which illustrates the necessity of having every every detail of a real estate or other bargain fully set forth in the written contract, A piece of prop erty was ordered cold for $72,176, The buyer asked that the $175 be thrown off, The agent complied with his request, and sold the property for $72,000, but the $175 was to have come out of his commission, and not out of the seller, This the seller understood, and, conse. quently, a8 far as she was concerned, the sale was made at 872175. But in consequence of a heavy dednetion asked for by the buyer for a right to the use of an alley which the seller errone- thought her lot possessed, and some complications of a State title, the seller refused to complete the sale, The buyer then sued her, but was beaten, because the courts held that the agent exceeded his power in selling for £372.- Bee ously GOO, when his order from the seller $72,175. WHS Testimony to show that the seller was notified and that it was not a the agent's commission, was not allowed to The alone were admitted, deduction from her price but from be introduced, written contracts apparently censured for doing what far as the seller's pocket was concerned he did not do at all—selling for a lowes price than she ordered the property sold the the The court also sald that the to pay and that, though they were then ide agent) had no right No matt agent bound seller in Octobery he to bind tO explanations this {the sale was mu her of allowed, them, other ers were What will they were not in the contract. is in writing in such cases only i8¢ HnonYy. The Site of Rome. ens » these ore than seven. q % gyda y of tween looking toward the \Mediterra are the waters of the nto ¢ y 4 equal parts, Travellers who 4 ‘3 af +ha Roma at the visit the Camipag de present dave | 3 ¥ Wie exien * ALGILY, i % gt » ’ ine bean Ve HTS iit of a fertile earth, and in wild flowers which are natural to tha 1 region. At whatever eT HOM per 1 year the expl sees much of the of vicinity of Rome, ret productions LE In he hangeful effects atmosph the immediate which had there its The rial and system centre, fortaken gods, and the gigantic aque- ducts which carried water to the city start out of the marshes, or the nnenclosed fields, like the bones of a Iuxuriont vegetation of a the embrace of nature, in others they scene elsewhere; no scene at once 80 grand, so mournful, so full of varied so pregnant with profound so dowered with weight interest, morals, continuity of life, in it has been well remarked that, are provincial, uniformly and permanently great: so great both in the ancient and modern world: so great in arms, in intellect, and in far reaching authority. history of Rome is for many ages the which mainly excites the interest of intelligent and thoughtful men. A Pomological Monstrosity. nature is exhibited in an apple brought to our office by a friend some weeks since. It is a perfectly formed apple, a belilower. po a The Government work nnder General Ransom, on the Trent river, ii North ‘Caroling, has enabled large steamers to go 85 miles up the stream. AA SNL. SAB ARB bc Misers. Se Some Interesting Facts Concerning Them. Thomas Guy was at once a miser and philanthropist. He was a bookseller, and began life in London with a capital of £200, By speculations in South Sea stock in the year 1729 he amassed an immense fortune, Almost everyone else wis rained by the memorable “ South Sea Bubble,” He was a pitinble miser, denying himself the necessary comforts of fire. He always dined alone, with a newspaper for a table cloth, Une alone without fire or winter evening he light was sitting in order to candle. The visitor was a Mr, Hopkins, another celébrated miser. who had called in order to be taught a lesson in frugality. If that is all you have come about,”’ said Gay, ** we can as well talk he dark,’ and blew out the light. Struck with this my, Hopkins took his in of instance leave, whi Strangely enough, § : ' fF all himself of all that able, Cruy Wis erecting At his death he i charitable plirposes, i harital tho other charitabl tions beside Guy's, principally hospitals, Altogether Thomas Guy was 1 rular compound One of the fil was where 18 shook Ihe ground at { bouly he foot many misfortunes coming together un- hinged for a time the daughter's reason charity, by founded a Mary Overs, of expration, Mie famous church called St. The church was afterward converted into a college for priests, some of whom London Bridge, across the Thames, Another trazie death was that of Mr, of the eigh- teenth century. He had amassed fabu- lous wealth by grinding the poor. He was ordered by government to raise a Foscue, a French mise: wine cellar. He used to descend into by a spring lock. One day Foscue was missing, and all search for him proved unavailing, At last his house was sold, midst of almost countless gold and piles He had died of hunger; after The door had aceidentily closed and shut him in, to diea slow death in sight of his precious hoards of treasure, San MD OA SS. The cigat manufacturers of Cinein- nati proposed to the strikers to pay 90 cents per thousand adyance and give the remaining - 10 cents to “packers and others,” “The strikers “‘epophatically’ refused, and made an additional demand miser, per month for extra gas burned during the winter be abolished. One factory demand, | For the Young. The Stiver Lining. It was a dull, eloudy day, but Lill put on her hat, “Where are you going 7" asked her mother, “1 am going to find the silver lining at the clouds,” said she, “You will have to travel far, child ; you will get wet to the skin?’ But Lill thought she could run bes tween the drops, ut a pinch ; and away she went over hills and through the woods and across little rivalets, without | finding it. Once she thought she saw it | gleaming in the distance, but when she only a mud puddle, “ave of had been so fortu- reached it, it f every one the but fow Was mhe asked o she met | vou Seer giver lining the clouds?” | nate ; many had never even heard of it: ome thought she onghit halin dfally "if of DEA Ain, ii Be Va i BEY, k* 5 after it, and others advised | quire of the man in the moon. “*I have scen it often,” murmare that tumbled. over a rocky suminer time, after waters dare often too scaut mill wheel, and the mil no grain, and the litt £3 riery AHL Y comes up and “We have nit, 00.” whi the trees together, when our root were i iirsty and our leaves withered,’ Over Yonaer, el me tel wizaws, but away in my mek.” “Are the | asked Lill, “I've got a *« And the sil {oo ¥’ 11 id the to-morrows.”’ i of the clouds, ver lining “Plenty of it : only find out the name ‘of that wicked girl who dared to moek | af old Father Time, and then you shall | see it." Lill went on more quickly than be. fore: the mountain and reached the valley, but she met with no girlz ; only an old woman gathering fagots, and a wood-chopper felling trees, | “*“Hallo!” said he, and somebody ans- wered., *‘ Hallo!’ bat it was not Lill, and vet there was nobody else in sight. “Have vou seen the girl who mocks at the people in this valley ¥° asked { TALL | “Fave I seen her?” repeated the ! wood-choppers, The oldest inhabitant | has never seen so much as her shadow. | She's nothing but a voice, only.” “What a4 queer person!” said Lil. “ Where does she live | “Tn a castle in the air, perhaps. | “It's growing dark ; they'll be look- {ing for me at home.” said Lill, “I came oul to fited the silver lining of the { cloud.” “You'll be just as likely to find it’ at home as anywhere,’ returned the wood chopper, And sure enough, when Lill opened her eyes the next mornkmg, there it waa, shining on the hedges, spackling on the meadows, and hanging onjthe branches of the plum trees fh great white garlands of snow, : The Purseof Rupees. : A merchant put two thousand ru. pees into a purse! and, having clésed the mouth thereof with a shal, he gave it in charge to a Cazy, and then. went on a journey, When ‘he réturned, he | received it from the Cazy, sealed up in i the TIRE aft Wika he had deliv. (ered it; bu upon opening it, he saw copper coin instead of his iver, Ie began disputing with the Cazy, who de- { nied that he haa shown him the rupees; she climbed and said that he had received hack the bug, sealed up just as it was delivered. The Cazy’s people drove him away, The man went to the King, and pre- sented his grievance, The Sultan after pausing a little, said to him “Go for the present, leave the purse with me, and I will do you justice,” “The next day he made a small rent in the vew musnud (cloth) of the throne, and then went a hunting. A Ferash, whose turn it was to be that day in waiting, when he saw the musnud torn, was so frightened that his He and remarked body was all in a tremor, showed it to another Ferash, “1f the King kill The other should see it, he would me,’ asked whether had heard of the t¥ses [8 § 1 any one else had seen the accident, or musnud, and he answered in negative, “Be of good cheer, then,” replied he, “for there is in this city a Ruffoogur {or darner) who is a perfect master of his busing oe. carry the musnud to hin, and he will fine-draw it in such a way will discover it." The Ferash went to the shop of the did should have The Ruf- dinar, but he + dinar, and was mended and returned The next i the throne, musnud asked the The Ferash 2 Ki ng told a “ |S £0 him, : had darned at year, and it, he should HY os? 1 your inter I promoted did not came you who ord. The King re 3% then produced say 80,” he +, and showed The Cazy mbled. The nd he com- unded, purse to tale i ane the Cazy, The Cary paid it. ordered the Curiosities of the Railway Census. {£ tific American for March Was a par be- railways for trans- 3. under the above heading, agraph relating fo the difference £3} £ of passengers and freights, in which the resulis were rendered rather absurd by the of mighty dollar marks instead humble The paragraph should read as follows : use of cents, The freight carried in 1880 was two hundred and ninety-one millions of tons, for which the railways charged 1.29 cents per ton per mile, and made a profit of 0.58 of a cent per ten per mile, The of passengers carried was two hundred and seventy millions, for which they each paid an average of 2.33 cents per mile, and the companies made a profit of 0.62 of a cent per mile. If the passengers are counted by weight, allowing 14 passengers to the ton, then the receipts of the companies for their two-legged freight was $3.26 per ton per mile, and their profit was 86.8 cents per ton per mile, By the ton, then, passengers yield sixteen times more profit to the railways than ordinary freight. Weirenéw the suggestion that there seems to be an opportunity here for the exercise of genius by railway man. agers in the development of new and better inducemants for travel. Various suggestions, doubtless, will rise in the minds of readers, such as the adoption of improved means for safety, smooth- ing and better balasting of roadbeds, faster time, easier and more commodins cars. But without going through the number help travel, we will name one subject that to passenger traffic, namely, the inaug- tration dn every city, town and vil- lage of a’ thoroughly good and cheap their flofnes and the stations. = At pres- entiihe vompanies leave their patrons to eral ace the inccnveniences that exist Tot hundied tickets are bought where A thousand would be purchased if a first-rate service, such as we have indi
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