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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