Ua
Mummy Plants.
One of the strongest arguments,
ot. bear too close an ex-
amination, ght
is the fact that, in the
mied Egyptians dating from more than
three thoasand years ago are found
leaves, flowers and seeds of plants ex-
actly similar to species now existing.
The mummy wheat is a well-known ex-
ample, but, to judge from various writ-
ers, including Dr. Schweinfurth, the list
larged by the late discoveries, the results
of which are in the Museum of Boolak.
Thus, in the coffins ol Aahines I. who
reigned about 1800 B. C., and of those
of other Kings, were found, forming
part of the funeral wreaths, petals of
the blue water-lily ( Nymphaea coerulea),
of an’ acheia (A.nilotica), of a malow
(Alcea ficifolia), of the watermelon, and
of the Egyptian willow. The two first
and last still grow wild in Egypt and
tropical Africa, and the others, as well
as a larkspur (Delphinium orientale), and
a dye plant (Carthamus tinctoria), both
of which occur also in the coffins, are
still cultivated. None of these species
appear to have changed greatly during
the thirty-six centuries or thereabouts,
Surely this is a fact against evolution.
Why s0? No evolutionist expects
change unless the conditions change.
The conditions of soil, climate, etc., in
the valley of the Nile are probably
pretty much the same as they were
when those wreaths were fresh. Man
and the change has not been for the
better. That species placed in changed
conditions change rapidly to suit them,
when not annihilated by their too great
suddenness, has been proved by ao
almost endless series of data.
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Curb The Temper.
It was 4 strange Scene. A passionate,
high-tempered boy had spoken, in heat
of temper, words it was painful to hear,
unfeeling, insolent, angry words, They
were said to his father ; a man who, in
earlier days, would have responded with
a blow. His hair was white now, and
his blood had cooled somewhat. He
looked at his son sadly.
“I had rather have given a thousand
dollars than to see you give way
your temper like this.”
““You are one to say that!’ the boy
cried, passionately, alk his lifelong fear
of his father swept away by his anger.
And then the boy stopped, half ex-
pecting some punishment. He was not
prepared for his father's reply :
“1am the very one to say it,” the
old man answered. “If I had not suf
fered so. much from my own
should not be so anxious to spare
similar pain. Do you think I like
know that my own son has always been
afraid of me; that I am dreaded and
not welcome in my home ; that my old
age will be embittered because I have
been an unlovely, though not an un
loving man ? .
“If I had been gentle and patient and
gelf controlled, I should have been
happy and beloved, instead of unhappy
and avoided. Do you think I want you
to sow what I have sown, and reap as I
I have reaped ?”’
Things could never be the same be
tween that father and son, as if all their
life together had been one of kindness
and jostite and self-restraint on the
father’s side, and loving obedience on
the son's; but that mutual acknowl-
edgment of the truth brought them
nearer together than they had ever been
brought before,
§;
wi
temper I
you
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Health Hints.
When one has had a fever, and the
hair 1s falling off, take a teacup of sage,
steep it ina quart of water, strain it
off into a tight bettle. Sponge the
head with this tea frequently, wetting
the roots of the hair.
An attack of indigestion caused by
eating nuts, will be immediately re-
lieved and cured by the simple remedy,
salt. Medical men recommend that
salt should be used with nuts, especie
ally when eaten at night.
Cure ror Ivy PoisoNimNa.—Hall's
Journal of Health says: *‘ Bathe the
parts affected with spirits of nitre. If
18. blisters are broken so that the nitre
owed to penetrate’ the euticle,
than a single applidation is rarely
necessary, and even where it is only
applied to the surface of the skin three
or four times a day there is rarely a
trace of the poison left next morning.”
Dru: Beckiamt consders that henduche
for some unexplained cause had been
abandoned by their mothers, were fed
on ‘‘pewdered blood’ with the most
gratifying results. The lambs increased
in size in the most marvelous fashion
and attained unusual proportions for
their age. The coats of wool also be-
came double in thickness, Encouraged
by his success with the lambs, M. Reg-
pard is now feeding some calves on
blood,
cape i
Varieties.
The late Prince Gortschakoff always
wore a ring given to him by Queen
Hortense in 1210, when she was com-
pelled, at the instance of the Tuscan
government, to make a rapid retreat
from Florence, and he, acting as Prince
Felsen for Marie Antoinette, mounted
the box and drove her carriage horses.
One day recently Meissonier called
at Detaille’s house, and, finding him
out, went into the billiard-room to have
some practice, In making a difficult
stroke he cut a hole in the cleth, and
being unable to repair it, pasted a bit
of paper over it and made thereon an
exquisite little sketch. An art collec-
or has offered $200 for that patch, but
Detaille will not part with it.
The Berkleyan Society of the Uni-
versity of California recently published
a volume of verses by the students.
Just before the book went to the bind-
ery an astute proof-reader digcovered
that one of the sonnets by an under
graduate damsel was stolen bodily from
Coleridge. Later, when the sheets of
300 copies had been struck off, another
sonnet from a well-known English poet
was found, The sheets were destroyed
and the disgusted printer was forced a
third time to make up the book. That
time it went when an editor
cruelly tore mask from another
young Berkleyan.
anisms ARIA ri
10 press,
the
In connection with the prevention of
the dangerous tendency in locomotive
wheels to slip, M. Poisot recently com-
municated to the Societe de 1'Industrie
Minerale de Saint-Etienne some valus-
ble results gained in the Mazenay
Mines, no more fuel is now em-
ployed for hauling out one hundred
tons than was employed for eighty for-
merly, It appears that the ventilation
is effected by diffusion, and that there
is constantly in the rolling-way a toler-
thick which, with con-
densed steam from the engine and the
dampness of the workings, causes the
rails to be slippery. The consequence
is that every time they tried to ascend
the gradient of one in sixty-six with a
full train they could only get up half of
it without the wheels beginning to
spin, and during the rest of the ride so
much difficulty was experienced and so
much that they were
obliged to make steam. This |
caused great consumption of fuel, ex-
cessive wear of the werking parts of
the engine and a rapid destruction of
the rails, It so happened that a month
or two ago the joint of one of the cylin-
der cocks leaked, and the jet of steam
escaping from it was directed on to the
rail, when the engine took the gradient
withont once slipping. For two days
they worked without repairing it, and
the locomotive drew all the trains with-
out the slightest stoppage. In conse-
quence of this experience they altered
the cylinder cocks so as to make them
discharge directly on to the rails, and
when they got to the gradient the
cocks were slightly opened, so that
they ascended without difficulty. This
new use of steam is a simpler modifica
on of the old idea of washing the rails
with a jet of water,
where
ably smoke
pressure lost
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A ADSI
A Pickled Baby.
How a Mother in Australia Perserv-
ed the Body of Her Child,
A lady writes from Australia to the
London Truth : I constantly see in the
papers sent me from England accounts
of strange inquiries put by servants to
their employers, While arranging with
a cook some time ago I had a most ex-
traordinary request made to me, The
woman asked if she might bring her
baby, which she added hastily, would
be no trouble as it was pickled. It
turned out that the peor little scrap
was born and had died while his father
was absent on a voyage from which he
never returned. The mother, anxious
to preserve the remains, and being ig-
norant of any other method, pickled
the infant. She became so attached to
the child in this state, that she objected
to be without it. I confess I felt a sym.
pathy for her, and granted her request,
I have never regretted it; she is a capi-
tal servant, and her poor little relic is
quite unobjectionable, I feel sure your
readers will view with horror the idea
of such an inmate yet when rich people
incur vast expense to embalm and even
ings have her beloved dead, Was it
her fault that the way ot aving i wan |
Hacomagly cep 4nd ovigioat
The Brook.
m———
It started up the mountains, this little
brook. Shaded by the beautiful ferns,
going out into the wide world, What
overheard, the wild flowers grew upon
its banks, the birds sang sweetly to it.
Surely, a prettier home could nowhere
be found. So thought our little brook,
as it bubbled out its shallow content.
little lark to bathe in the clear water,
He sang a
wonderful song of the great world, He
sang of the cities, filled with busy life ;
the streets, where the hum of many
voices and the tread of many feet were
heard. He sang of ships, with tall
masts and creaking cordage, sailing
over the ocean. He sang of the country,
with its peace and quiet, and its fields
of yellow grain, which swayed gently to
and fro in the wind. He sang of the
great rivers, in their wide, deep chan-
nels, bearing upon their calm bosoms
the commerce of a nation, Then shak-
ing the drops from off his wings, he
mounted up until his form was lost to
view, and only a faint refrain of his
song came floating down. That, too,
soon died away, and the little brook was
again alone, But a mighty impulse
was stirring down in its heart, which
should one day bring forth powerful
results, The little brook was going to
seek its fortune, It would not waste
any more time in idle dreaming ; the
world was before it ; up from the world
came faintly an alluring voice. *‘I
must go,’ said the little brook.
‘Ah, murmured the green
ferns. ‘“‘Your mountain home is bright
and fair.”
“Yes, but my visions of the world are
1"
stay I’
‘“Ah, do not go!” sald the wild
flowers, “We are sweet,”
“Yes, but sweeter
greet me if I flow in
duty.”
“The world is too wide
sang the birds. ‘‘If you go out into the
world you must work as the world
works. Stay, and we will sing you rest.
ful, lulling songs.”
“I must work as the world
Too long have I rested while
waited,” said the brook,
So it bade the old friends a tearful
good-bye, and sped away down the
mountain. Rippling over mossy stones,
under leaning ferns and brakes, it went
its way. It lingered still in the
no longer the tiny rill it first had been,
but, swelled by the rains a little
stream. And gay pleasure-seekers
came and encamped on its banks, and
wove themselves garlands from the flow-
ers and ferns that grew there, or drank
of A little child could
Still on it
from the
channel growing
will
of
flowers
the path
and busy,’
works,
its cool waters,
wandered, making
roughest stone, its
wider each day, till it came (© the coun-
try the little bird had sung about.
There it loved to stay, winding in and
out among the fields, It was
spanned by bridges now, and the little
village boys sat there and fished While
the younger ones made mud pies upon
the banks, or sailed their little wooden
boats, and fond lovers came at twilight
to pluck the blue forget-me-nots, This
was pleasant, ah, very pleasant, and yet
it could not linger there, It had work
to do. So it hastened on, and other
streams flowed into it, and it grew
strong and deep. At last it reached a
mill. There stood the great wheel,
waiting for the force that was 0 move
it, and the little brook, tHat once
could scarcely have turned a child's
plaything, now laughed in glee as it
whirled the wheel around, and merrily
dashed in clouds of spray against it.
That was its last dance, It must move
calmly on now, for it had become a
mighty river. On its proud bosom the
great ships sailed, and cities were built
apo its banks, Still on it flowed, in
slow majestic sweep, till it reached the
boundless ocean. And into that it
poured its wealth of water, *‘Useless ?
Lost 9' Nay, little brook. You have
seen the world, and you still fulfill your
mission.
music
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Japanese Vegetables,
Among the plants utilized by the
Japanese are several of the lily tribe,
The bulbs of Lilium callosum are eaten
roasted, boiled, and preserved, while a
white farina is also derived from them,
A similar farina is also derived from
thebulbs of Engthronivmgrandifiorim, a
near relative of our own dog's-tooth
violet (which has nothing of the violet
but the name), This latter farina is
called Katakwri, The dried flowers of
Hemerocallis graminea are also used by
the Japanese and are a favorite dish of
the Chinese.
AI
Mme, Johanna Wagner, a niece of
the great composer, has been appointed
Conservatoire, This is the first time
such a professorship has been granted
A8 Germany %0 a lady,
|
Cullis.
Nearly all the post-offices in Texas
are in charge of females, It works so
The poet Street spoke of ‘“‘the un-
This is nousense,
The eagle is always a wingking.
Professor of Rhetoric, What im-
portant change came over Burns in the
latter part of his life 7’ Senior—*‘‘He
died.”
Sioux squaws do not wear striped
stockings, Three streaks of green paint
are cooler and cheaper,
At a church entertainment in Cali-
fornia rumpunch was smuggled in as
cold tea. The desire for tea became
great,
No matter how hard the times may
be, bees always cell all the honey they
make,
A man who ran against Time sustained
a serious concussion.
A good place for match-makers—The
School of Design,
It is proposed to send an amateur’
brass band to Montana to make the |
Indians go West,
Terry's key-note--Do, The Cen
tennial key note—5ee. The Stewart
heirs’ key-note—soul. The key-note of |
Sol-- Ray.
Said Mr. Tapley, of
ing softly of his nose. “I don’t want |
to be too hopeful or sanguine, but I
believe 1'm going to have a boil,”
A newsboy says of the
spangled handkerchiefs :
aims a blow at the
him on the snoot.
Danbury, feel-
new
“If any
American flag,
star-
man
the it was probably
cause he had a mental reservation of his
own to resort to.
reservation,
There is a Chicago
thinks she
girl
is going to be
who,
in a fit over the last hoop.
The Virginia peanut crop,
has rotted on the vines,
it is said,
The German journals announce that
the Duke of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, broth- |
land, has written a history of the years |
1548 and 1849, which will be published |
801.
When a Louisville girl comes to the |
conclusion to have nothing to do with
her beau, she figures up the amount he
has expended on her for ice cream and |
candy and buggy riding, and sends him
a certified check for the sum total,
The judge the other morning asked a
prisoner charged with
what intended to do.
frankly, that he *
this morning.”
drunkenness
He replied,
wasn't his own boss
he
a washerwoman of
Leadville, and the first female who |
dared to set foot in the place, has |
amassed a fortune of $1,000,000 by in.
vesting her earnings in mining shares,
Mrs, Sarah Ray,
The weather is so damp at Coney |
Island that they have begun to put cork |
soles into their ¢lam chowder,
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The Miseries of a Mean Man.
—
Sometimes [| wonder what a mean
man thinks about when he goes to bed.
When he turns out the light and lies
down. When the darkness closes all |
about him and he is alone, and com- |
pelled to be honest with himself. And
not a bright thought, not a generous
impulse, not a manly act, not a word of |
blessing, not a grateful look comes to |
bless him again. Not a penny dropped
into the outstretched palm of poverty.
Not the balm of a loving word dropped
into an aching heart. Ne sunbeam of
encouragement cast upon a struggling
life : the strong right hand of fellowship
reached out to help some fallen man
to his feet—when none of these things
come to him as the "God bless you
of the departed day, how he must hate
himself, How he must try to roll
away from himself and sleep on the
other side of the bed, When the only
victory lie can think of is some mean
victory, in which he has wronged a
neighbor. No wonder he always sneers
when he tries to smile, How pure and
fair and good all the rest of the world
must look to him, and how cheerless
and dusty and dreary must his own
path appear. Why, even one lone,
fsolated act of meanness is enough to
scatter cracker crumbs in the bed of
the average ordinary man, and what
must be the feelings of a man whose
whole life is given up to mean acts?
When there is 80 much suffering and
heartache and misery in the world any-
how, why should you add one pound of
wickedness or sadness to the general
burden ? Don’t be mean, my boy.
Suffer injustice a thousand times rather.
than commit it once.— Burdette, a
Last year over 255,000 pounds of os-
years ago.
Domestic Caterer.
osm
black beans over night in clear, cold
water ;
ing, and put them on to boll five or six
hours before dinner, with a small slice
of pork (minced and fried), three large
onions, minced and fried in the pork
fat or in butter, a carrol and three po-
tatoes; cut into small pieces, a pod of
red pepper, salt, a gallon of clear, cold
water. Let it come slowly to a boil,
then set it where it may simmer gently
and steadily ; keep it well skimmed.
Just before dinner is served, strain and
return it to the pot, add pepper and salt
if necessary, and thicken with a table-
spoonful each of butter and flour,
worked together to a cream. Jet it
boil up once, and serve, either with
sliced lemon or flavored with Worces-
tershire sauce or plain.
Puoudprkin Musn.—Use equal parts
of yellow Indian meal and pumpkin,
boiled tender, and rubbed through a
sieve with a potato-masher ; put a quart
of boiling water over the fire in a thick
kettle, add to it a level tablespoonful of
salt, and stir the meal and pumpkin
into the water until
then
: boil
When the mush is cooked serve
it hot, with plenty of cold milk.
Porators axp Ecos, — Remove
perfectly cold cut up in
pieces about the size of a grain 0
, and season with salt and pepper
(0 a quart of potatoes thus prepared
take yolks of six eggs and the whites of
three, beat them well together. Have
and when
it is melted put in the potatoes. When
corn
continue stirring so as mix them well
with the potat es, and until the eggs
Season and serve hot,
BoiLEp ArrLE DUMPLING.— Peel
- and chop fine tart apples, make a crust
of one cup of rich buttermilk, one tea-
spoonful soda, and flour enough to roll ;
apple, sprinkle well with sugar and
cut in strips two inches
| wide, roll up like jelly cake, set up the
rolls {en end)
put in a moderate oven, and baste them
often with the juice, Use the juice for
the sauce,
Spinacu with Creax.—DBoil the
When soaked drain
through a collander and finely mince.
Put a tablespoonful of butter, a tea-
spoon of flour ; blend together and boil
season with pepper and salt: add
a cup of heated cream ; mix well to-
gether ; pour over spinach | simmer a
few minutes. Serve hot with crutons
Ep I
Fat Food Necessary.
Every full grown man and woman,
| portion of his or her diet, and if not
it has to be as medicine, to simply pro-
long—it may be for 4 year or two-a
miserable existence with consumption
monly the first admonitions,
Anyone who long neglects to take a
due proportion of fatty food to main-
{ tain bodily temperature will soon find
himself growing lean, his system will
live upon its interstitial fat—that
which is distributed throughout the
bodily tissues of healthy persons—and
he will shortly begin to have dyspeptic
symptoms on account of the deficiency
in his food to maintain healthy nutri-
tion. And for this condition, it is un-
fortunately too often the case, medicine
or moonshine is given in promotion of
the danger. Many persons whe, from
the cultivation of a vitiated taste for
delicacies, or under the inflnenee of bad
advice, have lost the power of assimilat-
ing the fat of meats, may do much to-
wards regaining the lost power by the
use of well-made ** shortened ** bread
bread made of dough to which lard or
tions of ground wheat or Indian meal.
To Preserve SMALL FRUITS WITH-
ovr CooxiNg, — Strawberries, rasp.
berries, blackberries, cherries and
peaches can be preserved in this man-
ner : Lay the ripe fruit on broad ishes,
and sprinkle over it the same quantity
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How Girls Study,
{ Did you ever see two girls get to-
gether to study of an evening ? I have,
‘ and it generally goes like this :
“In 1673 Marquette discovered the
Mississippl. In 1673 Marquette dis—
What did you say, Ide? You had ever
so much rather see the hair eolled than
braided ¥ Yes, so had 1. It's so muck
more stylish, and then it looks classical,
too ; but how do you like—0, hear! I
can never learn this lesson I
“In 1863 Lafayette discovered the
Wisconsin, In 1863 Lafayette discov
ered the—well | what's the matter with
with me, anyhow !| In sixteen seventy-
three Marquette discovered the Missis-
gippi. 1 don’t care if he did. I sup-
pose the Mississippi would have gotten
along just as well if Marquette had
never looked at it, Now, see here, ide,
is there anything about my looks that
would give you to understand that 1
know when Columbus founded James
town, and how George Washington
won the battle of Shiloh? Of course
there isn’t. Histozy’s a horrible study
anyhow. No use neither, Now, French
is much nicer. 1 can introduce French
phrases very often and one must know
I have studied the language. What is
the lesson for to-morrow ¥ O, yes; con-
jugation of parler. Let's see: how
does it commence ¥ Fe parle, tu parle
| il, par—il pa—il——well, il then !
* Conjugations don’t amount to any-
| thing, 1 know some phrases that are
| appropriate here and there, and in most
| every and how’s anybody go-
locali Ly
| gations all by beart 7
* Have 1 got my geometry * No, I'm
just going to study it. Thirty-ninth,
it not ?
“Let the triangle A B C, triangle
A B-say, Ide, have you read about
the Jersey Lilly and Freddie ? I think
it is too utterly utter, and Freddie is
simply gorgeous, I'm completely crush
ed on him
“ Oh, theorem |!
im
“Jet the triangle A B © be right
angled at B. On the side B C, erect
the square A, I. On the side-—did I
tell you Sister Carracciola gave me a
new piece to-day, a sonata? It is really
intense. The tones fairly stir my soul.
I am never going to take anything but
sonatas after this, 1 got another new
piece, too, Its name is Etudes. Isn't
it funny? 1 asked Tom this noon
what it means, and he says it is Greek
for nothing. It is quite apropos, for
there is really nothing in it—the same
thing over and over.
“Where was 1? O, yes, side A C,
the square A E. Draw the line —come
no, let's go at our astrone It
Are the planets inhabited ?
“Now, Ide, I think they are, and I
have thought about it a great deal. I
bonged my hair Jast night. I wanted a
Langtry bang just too bad for any use,
but pa raved, and J had to give in. Yes,
I think they are inhabited. I should
like to visit some of them, but you
would not catch me living in Venus,
Eight seasons! Just think how often
we would have to have new outfits to
keep up with the styles.
“What! you are not going ? I am.
80 sorry, but 1 suppose you are tired. I
am, It always makes me most sick to
study a whole evening like this. I
think sister ought to give us a picture.”
And they go to school next morning
and tell the other girls how awfully
hard they have studied. — Belle Mc Don
ald, in Chicago Tribune,
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LER SOND
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Steam as a Preventive of Fire.
The direct application of steam for
the extinction of fires has very often
been proposed and written about, but,
so far as we know, the system has, in
this country, at least, never been put to
anything beyond experimental proof.
In Berlin lately it hes shown its value by
extinguishing at its commencement
what would probably have been a large
conflagration, and this, too, was accom-
plished automatically. The sceme of
this arrested disaster is a steel pen man-
ufactory, where also are made myriads
of wooden penhoiders. In the drying-
rooms for these last the owner, in sons
sequence of their inflammable nature,
had taken certain precautions. Into
each room a small steam-pipe is carried
from the main boiler of the establish.
ment. At the termination of each of
hese is fixed a metal cap, made of an
easily fusible alloy, which will quickly
melt if exposed to the heat of a fire.
The first intimation which the
the result that the half-burnt penhold-
ors, walls, ceiling and every combusti-.
ie ting i the place wer ound str