esi Recent Legal Dicisions. TRADE-MARK—EXPIRED PATENT. Sewing machines were manufactured in Germany and sent to London for sale. They were made under the Singer patent after ite expiration, and were sold as Singer machines. The Singer Manufacturing Company sued for an infringement of its trade-markon the ground that it had always designat- od ite machines by a brass plate on the machine having the word ‘‘Singer’’ on it. In this case—Singer Manufactur ing Company vs. Loog—it appeared that the machines were made under the Singer patent, and thal they had the brass plate with ‘‘Singer’ on it placed on them. The case was carried to the House of Lords, where the Lord Chan- cellor gave the following as his judg- ment: ‘1. After the expiration of a patent the right to manufacture under it is common to all, and the production may be designated so as show the former invention, and the owner of the patent cannot complain that his trade- mark is appropriated. 2. But the busi- ness name and reputation of a manu- facturer in producing work under patent is his own, and no one can use his name fraudulently to mislead and de- ceive purchasers.” DerecTIVE HIGHWAY Patn—CustroMm.—An action brought against the town ol Litchfield, Connecticut, to for injuries suffered by reason of a defective side- walk. The defect was a snow-drift; but it was shown that, according to the custom. the roads were broken by the neighbors after the storm. There was a drift, but a large part of the road-bed was clear. In this case—Seeley Litchfield — the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut decided in favor of the town. Judge Carpenter, in the opin- jon said): “The duty of towns with reference to snow in the highways isa very limited Obstructions or defects from usually temporary. “They are caused and would in due time be removed by the elements. But to avoid temporary inconvenience il 1s customary, especially in the rural dis- tricts, for the people to assemble and ‘break out’ the roads, without expense to the town. In doing so they aim al practical convenience, and frequently, as in this ease, depart somewhat from the traveled path. People do not expect the roads to be as commaodious and safe in the winter as in the summer. It case when the public authorities are called upon to act. The method adopted in this case was reasonable, and sanctioned by long a AN OW we was recover VE, one, that cause are 18 only in an exceptional and immemorial usage, by which the plaintiff here must be bound.” ACCIDENT INSURANCE —PoOLICY TAKING POISON, by an accident policy, died from taking a liquid which was poisonous, 1 was not considered by him as In an action on the policy the United States Mutual Ac Association the Supreme {( ourl Pennsylvania decided in favor company. The Chief Justice, Mercur, in the opinion, said: ‘The certificate of membership expressly declares that the benefits shall not extend to any case of death or personal injury, ur less caused by external violence and accidental means : and it is expressly declared that there shall be no liability from death by taking poison. If the poison be inno- cently taken the effect of it may be said to be accidental, but against such an acci- ent there is an express provision. To hold the association liable would be contrary to the whole purpose of its formation, as expressed in the agreement, ”’ WitL—OF WOoMAN—E¥¥ECT OF Her MAapniAce.—It was contended— Webb ve. Jones—in the New Jersey Court of Chancery, that the marriage of a woman who had made a will voked by the marriage, The €hancellor, in sustaining the will, said : *°I P. who was insured ut which cident of £ th i ue WAS re- am of the will. not prevaii in this State, By our law a wife loses no power to make a will by her marriage, except so far as the in- terest which the law gives ber husband in her real property isconcerned. That her will cannot affect. But as to her personal properly, too {subject to her husband's rights therein), she has as full power to make a will as she had when she was unmarried, In other words, her right to make a will continues as before, notwithstanding her marriage. The reason, therefore (ber disability), for holding marriage to be a revocation no longer exists, and therefore the rule should no longer exist.'’ Home Delights. Jerry Cake Frirrens, Cat stale sponge or very plain eup cake into rounds with a cake cutter ; fry to nice brown in sweet lard ; dip each found in boiling milk to soften it and get rid of {hs grease; lay upon a hot dish and spread with sweet jelly or jam; pile neatly one upon another and send around hot sweetened cream to peur over them. - BaxEp Coprisii,—Piek up the fish and freshen a little a8 for cooking, then into & dish put a layer of oe crumbs, then one of fish, over each ! layer sprinkle pepper and butter, con- tinue until you have two layers of fish and three of crackers ; lastly, beat two eggs with milk enough to cover the whole and bake about three-quarters of of an hour. PoTATO STRIPS. — Pare, cut in long strips, lay in cold water for an hour, dry by spreading them on a towel and pressing another upon them ; fry toa light brown in salted lard ; shake off the fat in a hot colander ; line a deep dish with a napkin and put in the strips. They should not be crowded in frying, but each should be distinet and free from the rest, MACARONI with EaGs.— Break half a pound of “macaroni into short bits, cook tender in boiling salted water, drain well, put into a deep dish and pour over it a cupful of drawn butter in which have been stirred two beaten | eggs and two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese. with salt and pepper ; loesen the : macaroni to allow the sauce to penetrate | the mass, and pass more grated cheese with it. Coun SLAW. —Beat the yolks of four | | i i oes to a very light cream ; then sir | gradually into them five tablespoonfuls | of cider vinegar, add two or three tea- | i i i | spoonfuls of sugar and stir the mixture | over the fire until it begins to thicken like boiled custard ; then move and add | a teaspoonful of butter and nearly a lea- Set the and | spoonful of anchovy mustard, sauce upon to pour it over the sliced cabbage just be- fore often mixed with the cabbage for this salad. A VERY APPETIZING SAUCE sarve with broiled mackerel is made by melting a little butter adding the juice | of ome lemon, and a teaspoonful of | ice become cold, serving. Celery is oi chopped parsley. This may be poured | over the fish, or served in a bowl and | added by each one at the table to his or her portion of fish. An authority on | cooking recommends letting mackerel | lie in enough milk to cover it for an hour before broiling : this to be done, of course, after the fish has been freshened over night in cold water. CooxinGg OYSTERS, A dish of oysters prepared in this way is very Toast some slices of bread are well browned on both butter them on both sides. put the slices around the sides of a pudding dish seasoned with butter, pepper and salt, nice for tea. until sides ; the) then put a layer of oysters, well in the bottom and cover it with bread | crumbs. and so on until the dish is full ; | pour over all a coffee-cupful of hot water, enough to moisten the bread and o1 toast. Bake for three-quarters of an i 173 iil a hot oven, ATE [CR UREAN hour : Crnocol Chocolate | del is made by taking two quaris of sweet | half } enough to sweeter ite cream. wil his perfectly WIous, "yp 4 inl } CIrealn BOL IRIIK J, SUZAT and about one-third of a cake of choeo- Tat the late with | {ila before stirring in grated ; flavor Cream the chocolate ; | $3 os 4% £1 {¢ ia ¥ % the cream until it is stiff, and + the other ingredients, Freeze is 50 hard you can do 80 | 1 34 Ig until i no longer; the more rapidly you stir it the finer grained the cream will be, Ramses Pre.—Raisen pie, which is preferred by many people to grape pie, is made of one cup of crackers, rolled : one cup of cold water, the juice and rind of one lemon, one cup of raisins, stoned and chopped very fine, and ome heaping teacupful of sugar. Beat these thoroughly together and add one egg the last thing. Bake with a thin upper and under crust ; rub the top crust with the white of an egg or with a little milk with sugar dissolved in it ; bake in a moderate oven, but brown the pie by setting it on the shelf in the oven. very fine “he A Lovely Legend. A century since in the North of Eu- | rope stood an old cathedral, upon one of the arches of which was a sculptured face of wondrous beauty. It was long striking through a slanting window revealed its matchless features, And ever after, year by year, upon the days when for a brief hour it was thus illu. minated, crowds came and waited eag- erly to catch but a glimpse of that face. It had a strange history. When the sathedra Iwas being built an old man, broken with the weight of years and care, came and besought the architect to let him work upon it. Out of pity for his age, but fearful lest his failing sight and trembling touch might mar some fair design, the master set him to work in the shadows of the vaulted roof. One day they {ound the old man asleep in death, the tools of his craft laid in order beside him, the cunning of his right hand gone, his face upturned to this other marvellous face, which he bad wrought there—the face of one whom he had loved and lost in early manhood, And when the artists and sculptors and workmen from all parts of the cathedral came and looked upon this fuce they said, “This is the grand- est work of all ; love wrought this,’ In the great cathedral of the ages the temple being builded for an habita- tion of God—we shall all learn sometime that love's work is the grandest of all. A RUSSIAN POEM. dmire the viow before us; that sorry row of huts, Behind them a long level descent of black earth, And above them one thick layer of grayish clouds. shady woods? Where the river 7 In the court there by the fence. Shoot up two beggarly trees to glad the eye, of them Has long been shorn by Autumn rains of every beauty, While the sparse leaves on the other are whthered and yellow, Awaiting the first breeze to full and foul the sluggish pond below. No other sign of life: not even a stray to be seen ; But stay. there's Ivan, and behind him two old women. ; With head uncovered he is carrying the coffin of his child, And from afar shouts to the drowsy sexton And bids him summon the priest and open the church door. Quick! I have no time to lose; the brat should have been buried an hour ago! dog emer Agricultural. —— One school district in Maine, contain- ing eighteen farms, received over $10,- 000 for apples sold in a single year. Experiments in draining roads with tile. it is said, will solve the problem of securing good wagon roads for the Western prairies, Californis is becoming a cotlon-grow- ing State, county vielded last season 40,000 pounds One plantation in Sonoma {rom 20K) acres, Reeds buried too deeply receive a ae- As a le ply i pro ficient supply of alr, rule, seeds require to be sown more portion to their size and the lightness of the soil, It cent that ) bushel in the hall guthering saving of 18 suid @ Lit of nearly uarters of a million dollars, three “Ten acres properly cultivated are was wisely said by the retiring the York State Agricultural Society at the last annual meeting. New resident of The woody fibres which go lo make up the bulk of a timber tree are nothing hut cells of a particular form thickened . the deposit of woody matter in their interior way. Many Connecticut farmers have been and aggregated in a special successful in raising early amber cane, and getting a good quality of both sirup “he yield has ranged per per and sugar from it. sirup a cost of My cenis «a } y# artwint An excellent vegelabie is salsify or vegetable ovster.”” IL is not grown as hard to obtain. 1t should be own early be suffered to dispute the ground with it A correspondent of the Country fren yan gives it a8 his opinion that in i e- boiling. or steaming. an experience of five years with steamed compelled to take his choice and pay for it he would pay more for the exemption than the adoption. He that cutting the long forage pays better than any other preparation in & well- managed dairy. is convinesd In applying fertilizers of a soluble character it is economical to manure the plant rather than the soil, The practice is especially applied to crops sown in drills, where the plants are a considerable distance apart in the rows, The manure is deposited by the drill along (he line of each plant row and immediately covered in. Manures which best effect when intimately mixed with the soil, Tomatoes raised in poorish light soil will ripen ten days earlier than those raised in rich soil. ‘We know this from the actual test during the present sea- If large, showy tomatoes are wanted, regardless of flavor or time of ripening, then the rich soil and the rank growth are needed, Cutting off all but one or two fruits of the clusters while they are small and green will also cause those remaining to grow to a larger size. So says ihe Rural New Yorker. It is marvelous how sheep and wool growing have increased in this country within the last fifteen or twenty years, In 1860 there were only about 23,000, 000 sheep in the United States. We now have nearly 50,000,000, In 1860 the wool clip amounted to only 60,000, 000 pounds ; to-day it is nearly 300,000, 000 pounds—an increase within this of over two-fold of sheep and five-fold in the production of wool, giving unmistakable evidence of our advance in this industry. The commonly received advice to orchardists to scrape the rough bark from old apple trees has been contra- dicted, some having tried it and con- cluded that the practice did more harm than good. The rough bark is a pro- tection to the trees frou sudden changes of temperature. The benefit often claimed from scraping the trees comes from the greater attention paid to them BOL. | in other respects by men who take this | trouble. Whitewashing apple trees is | equally ineffectual for good. The conveyance of pollen from one flower to another in cross-fertilization is effected naturally by the wind or by the agency of insects and other crea- tures. Flowers that require the aid of insects usually offer some attraction to their visitors in the shape of bright color. fragrance or sweet juices, The color and markings of a flower often serve to guide the insects to the honey, in the obtaining of which they are com- pelled eitherto remove or to deposit poi- len. American Cultivator, cote AI The Old Man was Not Esthetic Why, you superlative pal’ she exclaim- ed, ‘1 am utterly glad to see you.” The old gentleman was somewhat un- nerved by the greeting, but he recognized the sealskin cloak in his grip as the identical piece of property he had paid for with his bay mare, and he of squat it up in his arms and planted & kiss where it would with a report that noise of thedepot. In a brief space of time the trunk and its attendant bag- gage were loaded into the wagon, which was soon bumping over the hubbles to- sort do the most good, sounded above the ward home, ‘Pa, surveyl the team with a critical dear,’ said YOUng miss, ng t he aye, ‘do you consider this quite excessively bevond ¥7' ““ Hey 7"! returned the old man with a puzzled air vond what ? “Quite excessively be Bevend Warren ? 1 con- sider it about ten miles beyond Warren, eountin’ from the Bath way, if that's what you mean.” “* Oh. no, the enn this horse and Wagon, think they ao they could be studied apart in the papa. vou don’t understand me," daughter explained, “l Do yeu think light or even a simple poem, are soulful? vou of a symphony, and appear as intensely utter lo one on returning home as one could express ! twisted in his he be nsed for an express- {6 pork in, but the conversation appeared uneasily The old mar seat. and muttered something about believe it used to wagon before he bought it deliver to be traveling in lonesome di- SUCH a rection that he fetched the horse a re sounding crack on the rotunda, and severe jolting over the from prevented further remarks “Oh. there is that lovely and summate ma | 1 OO screamed the returned fIALe, AS thev drove up t and presently she was 1m. brace of a motherly womas SHO ~ tucles “ Well, Maria,” said the old the supper-table, man at wl & piece of s own knife, as he nipp« butter off the lump with h an’ how a you Re vour schoo 7 Wel i nel there, , BOW You ai s F l consider it TAr Lo past weeks mony.’ ‘Ia'pose 80, 1 s'pose 80,”’ nervously assented the old man as he reached for his third cup half full. * But about vour books—readin’, writtin’, grammar, rule three—~how abont them ?"’ “ Pa, don’t.” exclaimed the daughter reproachfully ; ‘‘the rule of three! grammar! It is Freneh, and music, and painting, and the divine in art that has made mv school life the bos—1 mean that have rendered it one unbroken flow of rhythmic bliss—the incomparably and exquisitely al! but.” The grocery man and his wife looked hopelessly each the table, After a lonesome pause the old lady said: “How do you like the bis cuit, Mary ¥*’ “ They are too uiter for anything,’ gushed the accomplished young lady, “and this plum preserve is simply a poem in itself.”’ The old man abruptly rose froin the table and went out of the room, rubbing his head in a dazed and benumbed man- ner, and the mass-convention was dis. solved, That night he and his wife sat alone by the stove until a late hour, and at the breakfast table the next morning he rapped smartly on the table with the handle of his knife, and remarked “ Maria, me an’ your mother have been talking the thing over, an’ we've come to the conclusion thal this boardin’ school business (8 too utterly all but too much nonsense, Me an’ her consider that we haven't lived sixty odd cousum mate years for the purpose of raising a curiosity, an’ there's going to be a stop put to this unquenchable foolishness, Now after you've finished eating that poem of fried sausage an’ that symph- ony of twisted doughnut, you take and dust upstairs in Jess than two seconds and peel off that fancy gown an’ put on a calliker, an’ then come down here and help your mother wash dishes. I want t distinetly understood that there ain't going to be no more rhymthmie foolish. ness in this house 80 long’s your mperla- tive pa an’ your lovely an’ consuminate ma’s ranning the ranch. You hear me, Maria? Maria was listening, — Ez. now i al other across Making loe by Machinery. We have visited the establishment of the Georgia Ice Company, where the manufacture of ice was certainly as in- teresting as anything we have seen, On the ground floor is a boiler fifty feet ong and four and a half feet in diame- ter, containing one hundred and fifty feet of three and a half-inch pipe. The boiler is kept filled with aqua ammonia, which is separated by the steam into ain- monia gas and water, The gas leaving the water in the boiler forces its way through a six-inch pipe outside the building to the roof, four stories up, where it passes into 15,000 feet of coiled pipes, in which it is converted into fountain jets. ‘The liguid passes into fifteen thousand feet of two-inch pipe arranged in vertical sections thirty feet high and and three feet apart, and its sudden liberation into these pipes tarns and the sudden expansion makes the pipes intensely cold. Now, above these hundreds of vertical pipes are innumer- able little fountain jets throwing spray gradually, forming an icicle of pure ice around each pipe. The gas next ten thousand feet goes into of absorbing ning on the pipes, it is met by water back into which into a big boiler and is used over again — there i8 agna aminonia, ROES waste, the same ammonia being used and reabsorbed any number of times, no the premises, and the large blocks of ice {which are loosened from the pipes by little and chopped off by negroes who st and upon deep on a hot steam, a pulley staging with their feet wrap ped up in thick swabs of cotien sacking for warmth) pure and entirely free from any odor or came out and ciear., ob ectionabie laste, After the about five weeks are required for a new jot of form. But never all stripped at ice being in all The factory bas a capacity of thirty-five lons but with the demand pipes have been # the requisite thickness to of course the the stages of formation. pipes are same time, the per day. twenty lons and cut every day as it is delivered, and per the but sells at from ten to twelve dollars tit Wd, As we picked our way among gleaming and uneven pillars, with water dripping and splashing Gown and the only the Upon us, light comi ng = 1 through smallest of windows al if we were In The ling and its apparatus would cause # | of | the top, it seemed as some underground joe cave whole buile strangers to wonder what in the world it was des Letter gned for. Atlanta (Ga. Odd Stories About Animals. A Toronto n Esquesing, near a pure white AL Milton squirrel, Canada, shot A colley pup belonging to a shepherd of San Antonio, Texas, will put between 1600 and 1700 sheep in a pen without chasing or crowding any of them. When penning the sheep he has to work them down a Jong hill that slopes to a flat upon which the pep is built, A Saginaw horse fell sick one night recently, and, breaking out of its stable, made its way to the stable of a vetern- nary surgeon who bad before treated him for sickness, The surgeon's stable wae closed and the sick horse, after standing at the dom died there, A rooster recently deserted his native baruyard near Warrenton, Va., and went to live in the woods with a flock of wild turkeys. He crows as usual every morning, and thus his master learns where the wild turkeys are, and 80 is able to have roast turkey as often as he wants it. A dog owned in Portland, Me., has quite a fancy for traveling. When the freak takes him he goes aboard the Boston boat and makes a quiet trip of 150 miles by sea. When the boat reaches Boston he disappears in the crowd, but never fails to return and make the home- ward trip at night. No ome knows where he spends the day after leaving the boat, nor how he manages to keep posted on the boat's departure, which is two hours earlier in winter than in sum- mer. but he never gets left. Drowning a bear was the feat accom plished by James Humphrey, of Cohoes, While rowing on Long Lake he saw a bear on u small island in the middle of the lake. He thus describes what fol- lowed: **1 jumped ashore and loaded up with a let of stones. 1 had just got back to the boat, when Fred shouted ‘here he comes.’ 1 gave the bear a fu. silade of rocks, but he paid no attention to them, but started for the shore. We followed, and I peppered him pretty lively with the rocks, and finally drove him back again to the island. He again started for the other side. We beaded for hours, — | water until he was dead. The bear weighed 200 pound, The Cologne journals tell a cunous story of canine sagacity. Two dogs | were caught stealing rabbits, One was a large dog of the neighborhood, a cross between a St. Bernard and a large | woolly colley, feared by all other dogs’ the second was a stranger, a small ter rier, just slender enough to get thysughy the hole into the rabbit The big dog, who on other occasions never noticed his comrades, had evidently to an understanding with his little friend about the noctur- nal rendezvous, The big dog scratched away all the grass and stones, dragged up the board covering the entrance tor the rabbit house, and let jump through the hole. turned in # few minutes with a rabbit in his mouth { house, smaller Come the Lerrier The latter el which he presented 10 his great friend, and both proceeded to de { your their supper undisturbed. While looking for cattle in the timber hills at the head of the Matilija, Ven- tura county, Cal., Senor Ramon Ortega and his little son were attacked by three large bears, Ortega jumped from bis ran off about a hundred Ortega killed the biggest bear at the first shot and quickly took went i horse which | yards and stopped, silenced another, while the third | to the woods, then foot bn { before Lie reached overtook him. Oriega’s boy on {0 ug back the horse, bat the anmnal a Dear As soon as the bear saw the boy be rushed at him, and the boy | was too frightened to do anything bul stand still and call to his father 10 save him. Ortega seized his rifle and fired i just as the bear had risen on his hunches i to strike the boy; the it he bullet knocked { the bear down, hn rose again and | rushed at the blood i { from a bullet hole in his side, and this the boy, streaming the i time he rushed at | with bloodshot WwW i} h father!’ the fear-paralyzed boy eves and foaming, open “He's friodite i ingen i mouth. y despeiring ery. | got me sank to t | father | repeating rifle crashing | With an almost | the savage rolled down the hill, *ry he ground, and the desperate sent a sscond buliet in his into the hear § 1 human Cry AZOUY brute fell backward and iit at Stories of Flowers Napoleon, Princess Marie of Baden, and a Spray of Forget-me-nots The “ soft Mouse-ear Soot cerulean hue” of the pion Grass would never have won poets SOE one POCORNION 1s had not christes Who stood godfather histo § 1 3 i { corded, bu ’ knigh anda Changing swe of the Danubx { caught i i other A £ =% 4 3 . { OLOET se i i VET 3 riohitiy hinge { Vu i Ld : brignil’ iL siginl { that she oon POSSESSION | hint sufficed to send ber lover He enough plunging secured ihe but nto the stream, lowers easily swimming back with them proved a more difficult matter. him, and as it bore hum past his despair- ing mistress, he flung the fatal flowers on the bank, exclaiming as he wa: swept to his doom, * Forget-me-not!" The current was too strong for And the lady fair of the knight so true Aye remember his hopeless lot; And she chorished the flower of hue ; And braided hiue And she called it Forget me-not. brilliant her hair with the blossoms The story of the ongin of the forgel- me-not’s sentimental designation may have been: in the mind of the I'rinoess Marie of Baden that winter day, when, strolling along the banks of the Rhine with her cousin, Louis Napoleon, she inveighed against the degeneracy of modern gallants, vowing they were in- capable of emulating the devotion to beauty that characterized the cavaliers of older time. As they lingered on the cause-way dykes, where the Necker joins the Hbine, a sudden gust of wind carried away a flower from th hair of the princess and east it Jute te rushing walers, “There!” she exciaimed, “that would be an opportunity for a cavalier of the old davs to show his devotion.” “That's a challenge, cousin’ torted Louis Napoleon, and in 8 second’ he was battling with the rough water. He disappeared and reappeared, todisa pear again and again, but at length resiched the shore safe and sound, with his cousin’s flower in his hand. * Take it, Maurie,” said be, as he shook himself “hut never again talk to me of youn cavalier of the olden time,” AEA Ir “Jueper,” said a lawyer (0 “his honor,” during a nll in a case on trial, “what do you considler the best illustrated paper?” “A thousand pound bank note” growled the Julger: 7 oe Tux want of the present is an irom
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