Sr
Culinary.
——
Te keep pudding sauce warm if pre-
pared too long before dinner is served
set the basin containing it in a pan or
pail of boiling water ; do not let the
water boil after the sauce-dish is set in
it, but keep it hot. :
In place of any known preparation
sold under the name of ‘baby powder,’
use some fine starch, Put a few lumps
in a eup and pour over it enough cool
water to dissolve it. After you are
sure it is dissolved let it stand until the
starch has all settled and the water is
clear ; then turn the water off. Let
the starch dry, and then powder it and
put it in a soft muslin bag, through
which it will sift out. This is very
healing, and answers admirably any
purpose the powder is supposed to do.
An Indian pudding made after this
recipe, although unlike the Indian pud-
ding of our fathers, is delicious: Take
four eggs, and the weight of three of
them in meal, half a pound of sugar
and a quarter of a pound of butter,
and the juice and grated rind of one
lemon. Beat the sugar and butter to-
gether till light, then break the eggs in
the dish with them and beat briskly ;
then stir in the meal. Bake in a quick
oven; serve in saucers, and pour over
it some thin jelly or jam or wine sauce.
BARKED SArLmMoN Trour.—Clean
thoroughly, wipe carefully and lay in a
dripping-pan with hot water enough to
prevent scorching ; bake slowly, bast-
ing often with butter and water. When
done, have ready a cupful of sweet
cream, into which a few spoonfuls of
hot water have been poured; stir in
two tablespoonfuls of melted butter
and a little chopped paisley and heat in
a vessel of boiling water; add the
gravy from the dish, and boil up once.
Place the fish in a hot dish and pour
over the sauce,
Exerisa CArRroT PUDDING.— One
pound of grated carrots, three-fourths
of a pound of chopped suet, a half-
pound each of raisins and currants,
four tablespoonfuls of sugar, eight
tablespoonfuls of flour, and spices ‘to
suit the taste, Boil four hours, place
in the oven for twenty minutes and
serve with wine sauce.
PoTATO0 SALAD.—Two tablespoon-
fuls of mustard, four of vinegar, four
of salad oil or melted butter, a little
salt and pepper. Mix the oil and
mustard and then add the vinegar,
Add a small onion chopped fine and
half a dozen cold potatoes chopped ;
also a hard boiled egg. Mix all well to-
gether. It is an excellent relish for
oold meats,
BRAISED Riss or BEEF wIiTH
MAcArONI.— Bone and roll the ribs of
beef, and braise with white wine :
when cooked remove the beef, pass the
sauce through a tammy, skim off all
fat, pour into a sauceboat, and add the
remaining half to some boiled maca-
roni ; season with salt, pepper, a lump
of fresh butter, and grated Parmesan
or gruyere cheese ; place on a dish and
lay the ribs of beef on it.
HARICOT BEANS A LA BRETONNE.
— Mince half a pound of onions, blanch
and drain. Brown in five ounces of
butter, and when a good color add an
ounce of flour, some salt and pepper :
leave on the fire for five minutes:
moisten with a pint and a half of stock,
and cook for twenty minutes, stirring
all the time ; then add a pint of haricot
beans, which have been well boiled, and
an ounce of butter ; warm and serve,
Scarrorep Havmsur or Cop,—
Take cold flakes of halibut or cod, the
day after they are boiled, and place a
layer of them in a yellow nappy or a
pudding-dish, seasoned well with salt
and pepper, and a very little chopped
onion or parsley. Place over them a
layer of breadcrumbs and add bits of
butter to them. Fill up the dish in this
manner, having the upp layer of
bread-crumbs and butter. At one side
of the dish turn in four or five table-
spoonfuls of new milk, and bake until
well browned in a hot oven. Thirty
minutes will usually cook it suffs
ciently.
Ruauveare Pres.—A rhubarb pie is
not a work of art, but it should be a
work of time, for it is much better if
baked slowly, unless the rhubarb is
stewed before filling the plates. Great
care should be used in pressing the
crusts together, but in truth rhubarb
pies, like all others, are better if the
lower crust be baked separately. Very
nice tarts may be made by mixing a
pint of stewed rhubarb with a mixture
of four ounces of sugar, a pint of
cream, two ounces of powdered eracker
and three eggs. Beat these together
and mix them with the rhubarb just be-
fore filling the plate in which the crust
has been baked. Cover with crosswise
strips of paste and bake slowly,
George J. Romanes, in a recent lec-
ture in Manchester, told of the benevo-
lence of a cat. A hungry and misera-
bly thin stranger cat came into his gar-
den, and Tabby was observed
some of her own meal to the wanderer,
Soon, seeing that the hungry cat was not
yet satisfied, Tabby went and brought
out a new supply of meat, which the
stranger seemed to accept with every
evidence of gratitude,
Domestic Economy.
San
MiNvuTE Biscuir.—One pint of sour
or buttermilk, one teaspoonful soda,
two teaspoonfuls melted butter. Flour
to make soft dough—just stiff enough
to handle—mix, roll and cut rapidly,
with as little handling as may be, and
bake in & quick oven,
BAKED WHeAT. Cracked wheat is
a very nice dish if baked with plenty of
water added from time to time as it is
needed, to allow the wheat to expand.
It should bake slowly for from five to
six hours, and it will then be found to
be remarkably sweet and wholesome,
It is delicious if baked with milk in-
stead of water, but will then need more
attention when in the oven to prevent
scorching.
BAkeDp Eaas.— Ire: 1 tit or seven
eggs into a buttered dish, taking care
that each is whole and does not encroach
upon the others so much as to mix or
disturb the yelks. Sprinkle with pepper
and salt, and put a bit of butter upon
each, Put into an oven and bake until
the whites are well set. Serve very hot,
with rounds of, buttered toast or sand-
wiches.
FreExca Purrs.—A pint of sweet
milk,six ounces of flour, four eggs, half
a saltspoon of salt ; scald the milk and
pour over the flour, beat until smooth,
whisk the eggs to a froth and add to the
flour and milk when sufficiently cool.
Have ready a kettle of boiling lard, and
drop one teaspoonful of batter at a time
into the lard, and fry a light brown:
sift white sugar over them, or eat with
syrup.
DEsserT.—Make a batter as if for
waflles ; to one pint of milk allow two
eggs and enough flour to thicken ; one
teaspoonful of baking powder should be
stirred into the flour. Fill a sufficient
number of teacups with this and fruit
in layers. Then set the cups in the
steamer and let the water boil under-
neath it for a full hour, Serve while
hot with sugar and cream. Any jam
is nice for this, or raw apples chopped
fine,
VEAL CUTLETS A LA MILARAIRE,
— Brown some veal' cutlets quickly in
hot lard ; then take them out the pan
and thicken the hot lard with flour:
stir until the flour browns; then pour
in sufficient water to make the gravy
the consistency of cream. Fry some
finely minced onion in butter ; then add
it to the gravy. Putin the veal cutlets
and place round them about six sliced
tomatoes. Season to taste, Simmer gent-
ly about two hours or until the cutlets
are tender,
CoCOANUT Pie. —Open the eyes of a
cocoanut with a pointed knife or gimlet,
and pour out the milk into a cup ; then
break the shell and take out the meat
and grate it fine, Take the same weight
of sugar and the grated nut and stir to-
gether ; beat four eggs, the whites and
yolks separately, to a stiff foam ;: mix
one cup of cream, and the milk of the
cocoanut with the sugar and nut, ther
add the eggs and a few drops of orange
or lemon extract. Line deep pie tins
with a nice crust, fill them with the
custard, and bake carefully half an
hour.
CrEAM PUurrs.—Melt half a cup of
butter in one cup of hot water, and,
while boiling, beat in one eup of flour :
then take off the steve and cool ; when
cool, stir in three eggs, one at a time,
without beating ; drop on tins quickly
and bake about twenty-five minutes in
a moderate oven. For the cream :
Half pint of milk, one egg, three table-
spoons of sugar, two large tablespoons
of flour ; boil same as any mock cream
and flavor with lemon. When baked,
open the side of each puff and fill with
cream,
Tie CoMMODORE'S CHOWDER.
Take four tablespoons of chopped onions
that have been fried with slices of salt
pork, two pilot biscuits broken up, one
fablespoonful minced sweet marjoram
and one of sweet basil, one-fourth bot-
tle of catsup, half a bottle of port wine,
half a grated nutmeg, a few cloves and
peppercorns, six pounds ef fresh cod
and sea-bass cut in slices ; put all in a
pot, with water enough to cover it
about an inch ; boil it steadily for an
hour ; stirring it carefully, Serve hot in
a large, deep dish,
I ——
Origin of Popular Phrases,
“Devil take the hindmost."’— This
far more expressive than elegant say-
ing occurs originally in Beaumont and
Fletcher's play of “Bonduca.” It
also occurs in Butler's “Hudibras,”
Prior's “Ode on Taking Nemur,”
Pope's “Dunciad,”” and in the poem
“To a Haggis,” by Robert Burns,
‘“Enough is as good as a feast,’ —
One of the oldest of all the popular say-
ings in use, It has been traced as far
back as 1433 occurring in a book enti-
tled ‘Dives and Pauper,’ published in
that year. It is also found in Gas
coigne’s ‘‘ Memories, ” 1578, Ray's
“Proverbs,” Gielding’s “Covert Garden
Tragedy,’ and Bickerstafl’s “Love ina
Village.”
&
“As good as a play.”’—An exclama-
tion of Charles 11. when in Parliament
attending the discussion of Lord Ross’
divorce bill, Macaulay, in his review
of the lifeand writings of Sir William
Temple, refers to the saying as follows :
“The King remained in the House of
Peers while his speech was taken into
consideration —a commen practice with
him ; for the debates amused his sated
mind, and were sometimes, he used to
say, as good as a comedy, ”’
“*Rebellion to tyrants is obedience te
God.”— From an inscription on the
cannon near which the ashes of Presi-
dent John Bradshaw were lodged, on
the top of a hill near Martha Bay, in
Jamaica, Randall, in his ‘Life of
Jefferson,” has this to say of the quota
tion in question: *““This suppositious
epitaph was found among the papers of
Mr. Jefferson, in his handwriting.
It was supposed to be one of Dr. Frank-
lin’s spirit stirring inspirations. *’
“Blessings on Him who Invented
sleep,’ Miguel de Cervantes, 1547,
died 1616, originated this well-known
saying, It occurs in a passage in Don
Quixote, as follows :
““‘Blessings on Him who invented
sleep, the mantle that covers all human
theughts, the food that appeases hunger,
the drink that quenches thirst, the fire
that warms cold, the cold that
ates heat, and, lastly, the general coin
that purchases all things, the balance
and weight that equals the shepherd
with the King and the simple with the
wise,’
**Dies Irie, —The name generally given
(from the opening words) to the famous
medieval hymn on the Last Judgment.
On account of the solemn grandeur of
the ideas which it brings to the mind,
a8 well as the deep and trembling eme-
tions it is fitted to excite, it soon found
its way into the liturgy of the Church.
The authorship of the hymn hs
been ascribed to Gregory the Great : 8
Bernard, of Clairvanx ; Umbertus, a1 d
Frangipani, the last two of whom were
noted as Church hymnists; bat in all
probability it proceeded from the pen of
the Franciscan, Thomas of Celano. a
native of the Abrazzi, in the Kingdom
of Naples, who died about the year 1257,
When the Church adopted it, and made
it a portion of the service of the mass
eannot be entertained with any exact-
ness, but it must have been in any case
before 1385, Several alterations were
then made in the text ; that, however,
is believed to be the original which is
engraved on marble tablet in
Church of St. Francis at Mantua. Ger-
many has produced many translations
of the hymn, such as those of Schlege!
Fichte and Runsen. It was translated
into English by Richard Cranshaw. in
the seventeenth century, and by Lord
Macaulay, Lord Lindsay, the
Isaac Williams, of Woodford,
others in our own day.
Scott has introduced two or three of the
opening verses into his **
Minstrel,"
moder-
a the
Rev,
Nr
Lay of the Last
About Women.
At a wedding in a fashionable churel
recently, the bride fook a hairpin from
her head and fastened her glove button
wed
during the ceremony.
A young woman of Troy, who has
been crossed in love, has gone into a
boiler shop to work, She says the din
of the hammers is the only thing that
keeps her from thinking and insanity,
The majority of the better class of
New York shop girls are said to remain
single “because the men they may
marry are not refined enough for them.
and the men they would MAITY never
ask them, ''
When ground was broken for the new
Methodist church at Youngstown, O.,
the young ladies of the congregation
asked to be allowed to begin the exca-
vation. One hundred of them went to
work with new spades,
Fifty stalwart men stood on the bank
of the river at Saginaw looking at a
boy who had been upset from a boat,
and doing nothing to aid him. Lillie
Pomeroy, a girl fourteen years of age,
came along and without hesitation
jumped into the water and rescued the
boy.
Considering that so miny more men
than women are in a position to display
their abilities, the number of successful
women is by comparison scarcely to be
counted small. As to the question of
abiliity to manage a newspaper, Miss
Booth, who is both managing editor
and leading editorial writer of Harper's
Bazaar, and who has made that journal
the brilliant success which it is, has
clearly demonstrated that it is not a
matter of sex. Very few men are capa-
ble of managing a great newspaper,
most journalists admitting that it is one
of the most difficult positions which an
editer can fill, a post which requires
tact, talent and training in the bighest
degree.— Philadelphia Press.
.
Long silk gloves are finished around
the edge by two deep rufiles of lace the
eolor of the glove, Sometimes the rib.
bon of the same shade is tied about the
end of the glove in a small or large bow,
nit
MISPRONOUNCED WORDS.
Gamin-—gi ming’, not gim’in nor
gi/-min,
This word, though becoming common,
is not yet fully naturalized, and the
French pronunciation is alone proper.
Gape—giipe, not giipe nor gip.
Gaseous--giiz-e-us, not gass'-e-us,
Worcester allows gi’-ze-us,
Genealogy—jén-e-al'o-jy, not jé-ne-
al’-0-jy nor jé-ne-ol'-o-jy.
Generic—jé-nér'-ik, not jén’-er-ik nor
je-né’-rik,
Gerund—jér'-und, not jé’-rund,
Giaour— jowr, not gi’-06r, ji-our’ nor
joor,
This is not strictly a common word
yet readers of Eastern romance, and of
Byron, would hardly class it otherwise ;
but whether or not, it is so universally
mispronounced as to claim admission
in this catalogue,
(ribbet—jib'-bet, not (g hard) gib’-bet,
A constant remembrance of the
elementary rule, g (and ¢) hard before
a, 0 and u; soft before e, i andy, will
tide us over the danger of mispronuncia-
tion here and in similar cases,
Glamour——gla’-moor, not glim-mer,
Worcester justifies gli’-mer, but the
former is conceived to be the more ele-
gant,
Gneiss—-nis, not nés nor gnés,
Gondola-——gon'-do-la, not gon-dd'-la.
Gourmand — goor- mand, not gor’
mand,
Gout—gowt, not goat.
Government — giv'-ern-ment,
guver-ment,
Gramercy-—gri-mer-sy,
er-8y.
This word was formerly in more fre-
quent use to express thankfulness with
surprise,
not
not grim’-
Granary—grin’-a-ry, not gri’-nfi-ry.
Gratis—gri'-tis, not grit’ is,
Grenade gré-nade’, not grin’ ide,
gar-dé-an,
Guerilla
Guerdon--gér'-don, not gwer'-don nor
jér-don,
Guild—gild, not gild.
ge-pur, not gwi-pure,
This
word is sometimes and not improperly
ge-ril-la, not glir-ril-la,
Guipure
Gunwale—giin'-nel, nautical
spelled gunnel,
Gutta Percha--giit'-t
gut'-ta per'-ka.
jer -faw-kn,
not
Gyrfaleon-
kun,
“gon
Jottings.
Ture business outlook this week,
while not particularly cheerful, affords
grounds for
Trade is dull generally
tending downward, but money is easy
and in limited request,
great apprehension.
and prices
Legitimate bus-
iness is favored by the banks, but loans
little favor,
Y ork,
our great commercial centre,
O00 000 for called
but little if at all feared. Imports are
less,
Railroad earn-
ings are satisfactory and speculation
only isdull. The possibility of a panic is
average of past seasons,
a sporadic case of bankruptey and ruin
appears, but general business on the
whole is prosperous and promising. In
finance, as in other things, **it is the un-
expected that happens,’ and panics that
are predicted are apt always to be pre-
pared for, and for that reason very seldom
seen under such circumstances,
-~Martin Chattin of Chester Valley,
Pennsylvania, recently set a hen with
the usual nomber of eggs, all of
which but one had been laid by her hen-
ship. In due course of time the eggs
hatched out, the happy mother bestow-
ing all her motherly affection on the
chicks hatching from the eggs she had
laid, but utterly repudiating the product
of the one alien egg. A two-months
old rooster or biddy, taking compassion
on the helpless little outcast, adopted it
and became a virtual mother to it,
scratching for it and sheltering it under
its diminutive wings in true hen style,
I am sorry to add that a duck has since
killed the little biddy,
GAME LAW. ~The following is a list
of periods during which the game laws
prescribe that the game mentioned may
be shot: Woodcock, July 4 to Janu-
ary 1. Plover, July 15 to January 1.
Rail bird, September 1 to December 1.
Reed bird, September 1 to December 1.
Squirrel, September 1 to January 1.
Wild fowl, September 1 to May 15,
Ruffled grouse, October 1 to January 1.
Pinnated grouse, October 1 to January
LL. Quail, October 15 to January 1.
Rabbit, October 15 to January 1.
Wild tuskey, October 15 to January 1.
Deer, September 1 to January 1.
D. I. Moopy will conduct a non-
sectarian convention of Christian work-
ers, clerical and lay, in Chicago, on
September 18, 19 and 20. Mr, Sankey
will be present, and will lead the musical
exercises, At the close of the conven-
tion the two evangelists will return to
the East, and about October 1 they
will sail for Ireland,
Since January 1 the dividends de-
clared by the various mining
aggregate $6,916,412, as compared
——y
months of 1882 and $10,288,849 for the
corresponding period of 1881, showing
a falling off of $3,033,972 as compared
with 1882, and $3,371,037 compared
with 1881,
TAarioca Cur Pupping,—This is
very light and delicate for invalids,
An even tablespoonful of best tapioca
soaked for two hours in nearly a cup
of new milk ; stir into this the yelk of
a fresh egg, a little sugar, a grain of
salt, and bake it in a cup for fifteen
minutes, A little jelly may be eaten
with it.
~-Mulch your raspberries if you want
them to bear well, Do this all winter
and in the spring till the fruit be
gathered—rough straw or wilted green
weeds will answer,
It is said that the smell of fresh paint
in a room may be effectually gotten
rid of by placing therein a pail of water
in which a few onions have been sliced.
By
son the Chinese ten year law does not |
apply to Chinamen from Hong Kong |
that Island being a British possession,
—Half the
imported there, notwithstanding
country has immense beds-—want
transportation facilities is the cause,
a recent decision of Judge Nel-
used in Russia is
the
of i
coal
~ Lancaster is proud in the possession
| of two big sunflowers measuring
spectively forty-two and forty-nine
inches in circomference,
re-
IT has been stated that the increase |
| of the orthodox wing of the Society of
{ a ii
{ Friends in America has been 13,000
| from 1872 to 1882,
| UNHAPPY PHILADELPHIA, —ACCOT-
| ding to the Record, 116 cases of divorce
| are pow upon the records of the courts
i of that city.
| Baroness Burdett Coutts single
| ornament the last ball of the Lon-
| don season was worth
| $£140_000,
| —Dried or wilted leaves of the wild
| eherry The
green
Tne August
crop makes a badshowing, except
Florida, Ark
Water-melon rinds preserved with
al
a solitaire
are
leaves are not poisonous,
poisonous to cattle,
Report of the cotion
ing in
ansas and Tennessees,
green
| sweetineat.
ginger and lines make a delicate
There are 6,000,000 miles of fenc-
ing in the United States,
~The peanut crop in this country is
valued at $3,000 000,
—th
Scraps.
Young man, know thyself. A twelve
look well on some
Gould, for
CANNOL say we
lar silk hat may
| d
| Persons. Jay mstance ;
think it
yw whose salary is
but we really
| becomes a young fell
dollar a
| too weak to stand up to one
day.
Wife of his bosom “Well, this isa
And
brute.
§
| pretty time of night to come home,
| you're drunk, as usual,
{| Brute:
| There's nothing left for me now-—but
'
| grave.”
you
‘yr | rl + «sd ¢
Yes, m’ love, that's qui-right,
| the Blue Ribbon or the (hi
i
| Married men have nothing to say in
| disapproval of the bang.”
! As a rule, a married man doesn’t care
| what his wife does to her own hair so
| long as rhe keeps her fingers out of his
[ forets Pp.
“Yes,” said Col. J. 1.. Whelan, de-
scribing a duel with another railroad
man, “*he gave me a worse slur after we
goton the field than he did in provoking
the quarrel, He said he should shoot at
my heart and deliberately fired at my
boots.”
We are willing to bet a picayune that
it is much pleasanter for General Grant
to read his own obituary notice than it
is for Lotta to read of her marriage that
has not taken place,
A MA AO
“shingled
Older Than He Looked,
Colonel George I.. Perkins, of Nor-
wich, Conn., who celebrated his 96th
birthday last Sunday, and is as hale and
hearty as most men at 50 years, was a
witness in the Tilton-Beecher trial in
1875, When his name was called the
erowd in the court-room saw a good-
looking, dignified gentleman, apparently
about 60 years 8a, step briskly to the
stand, Having answered the usual
questions as to his name and residence,
Mr. Evarts propounded the succeeding
question : “How long have you lived
in Norwich, Colonel Perkins!”
“Eighty-seven years,” responded the
Colonel with the utmost gravity. The
lawyers dropped their pens, the spec.
tators stared, the Judge looked pizzied,
The Tobacco Crop.
Be
While there will be some fine tobacco
this year, it is useless to disguise the
fact that much of the tobacco from
present indications will not come up to
the expectations of the growers ; especi-
ally is this the case where it was plant-
ed on low land. Bome farmers have
very fine crops with large leaves and
report it equal to any they have ever
raised, but while this is the case in a
number of instances, there are many
others whose plants are small and have
not made that rapid growth that was
anticipated, We noticed a day or two
since, while passing through a portion
of Lancaster county that about the
same state of affairs existed in that
county, and ‘besides this considerable
was damaged by hail in that section.
When we consider that there is a
smaller acreage in tobacco this season -
that some of it is foxy and will be of
no value, and others
only a medium to fair quality, it is
Or Of
may expect a good price for the weed
of this year’s growth,
what we have seen of the Lancaster;
We believe from
tobacco, especially that along the rail.
that of York county can
» of the
We advise our growers
we
selling this year’s tobacco, where they
It will pay to hold
(Pa.) Despatch
have a fine quality.
it for a while, — York
A Chicago tobacco dealer, when ask-
ed the other day what cheap cigars are
“Well there you have Ask
what does not enter into their composi-
ne,
But am
They may be part of the nick-
are too bulky. perhaps 1
i cut one OPE, the
In it I found a rusty tack
two long straws, a piece of cotton cloth,
some mud, and the balance of the filling
I conjecture was tobacco. It smelled
like it, but it was dirtier and more
broken up than any t
that
stub a man throws away as worthless *
‘*Are stubs collected 77
“Of course they are.
dition. It’s an
and,
ohac A 1 ever ha Ve
seen, except which exists in the
It's
practice
walch the
vou will see small by
no tra-
open in the
Fast, if you streets
closely, ws gathe:
3 i Ma
up the | or
ing-away cigars from the -
3 K r i i =
mg. It
trade,
yy
ter, is too str
Competition
forces adulteration into
Y ou mas put it down as a fact
nickel cigar. which
the
that the
is wholesaled for
about one-fifth of that price, is a fraud
Often the cover is nothing more thai
paper. Seldom is it better than cheap
Connecticut or Wisconsin waste leaves
And the Blling—go in to the shops and
see the rubbish and dirt that is piled in
heaps, mixed with
waste cuttings of
weak leaves, the fragments and odds
and ends collected from every scource,
the gutter, see
rapidly rolled in cylinders, and
put on the market, and you'll wonder,
as 1 do, that there are many human
constitutions strong enough to stand
them,
» 3 RE
including this mess
these
Hr —————"
Shedding Tobacco.
A general mistake in hanging tobacco
is in the neglect to carefully examine
each plant as it is passed up, for green
worms ; but then there is not a stage in
tobacco culture that this care is not
equally necessary.
Cigar leaf is to be hung but two or
three tiers high, and so that when wilted
there will be free circulation of air
around each plant. In wet seasons like
that of 1882, this is especially necessary
to induce regular and free evaporation
of sap with which stems and stalk were
80 fully charged. It is best that in
hanging Seed Leaf and Domestic Ha-
vana not to split the stalks, as the dry
out will be too rapid. This may be
more objectionable in dry seasons, The
more experienced growers of Domestic
Havana recommend lath or poles with
eight penny nails driven in about eight
inches apart on which to hang the to-
bacco, the lath or lighter poles to set
about the same distance apart, thus giv-
ing plenty of air tocarry off the moisture,
curing up the large, juicy stems, as well
as the fat green stems and any unripe
Jeaf that may have been cut, and checks
the tendency of the heavier stems to
soften and rot. If desirable, the lath
may be placed closer together afetr the
curing is well under way. Edgerton
Tobacco Reporter,
It is stated at the Treasury Depart.
and the jury were in evident doubt
whether there was a lunatic loose or a
new liar bad arrived. A ripple of
merriment succeeded as Mr. Evarts,
with great seriousness, inquired a
sioment later : ‘Colonel Perkins, may
I ask where you have spent the rest of
your life ?’
MA
The fires in the woods at South Mil.
lord, Mass, have burned over hundreds
ment that, by reason of the vigorous
action of the Government in prose.
cuting opium smugglers on the Pacific
Coast, the duties collected at the port
of San Francisco on opium during the
past fiscal year were more than $1,000,
000 in excess of the collections from that
source the previous year,
Key West bas 81 cigar factories em-
ploying nearly five thousand and
of acres, The drought in that section |
has become very serious, a
seventy-five million