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Courting In Mexicc,
Com
Courting, from all accounts, is a
change itself ; for otherwise, even the
change becomes wearisome and mono-
speak, but they always gaze at each |
other as they pass, When the lady
does not make her appearance on the
plaza the young man will repair to the
street fronting the house and walk up
and down in front of it for several
hours. He will always gaze earnestly
at the window as he passes, The young
lady and her female friends are inside,
and she will return his glance. After
10 o’clock the young man will go home,
This performance is continued for a
couple of months, and at last the young
man will knock boldly at the door and
ask for the lady of the house. He will
tell he that her daughter is an angel
from the Paradise valley of Heaven;
that she is beautiful beyond compare ;
that she is better than she is beautiful ;
that he is wildly in love with her, and
that life has no possible interest for
him unless he can win her. He will
then tell of his prospects in life ; what
he is possessed of and hopes to be pos-
sessed of. If this latter part is satis-
factory to the mamma she will com-
miserate with him, tell him that she has
noticed his attention to her daughter,
and finally conclude by inviting him to
the inner circle and introducing him to
the young lady in the presence of the
assembled family. The grandma (if
there is a grandma in the family), will
sit between the young people and wit-
ness their cooing. All the rest of the
family remain in the room also, unless
they are otherwise engaged, but dnder
no circumstances must the young
people be left alone for asecond. This,
you will admis, is pretty tough, but that
is not half what the young man must
suffer before the padre closes the bare
gain and gives him a proprietary in-
terest in his lady-love. If, perchance,
the young lady has a pair of big
brothers—arnd such is generally the case
—the unfortunate swain is expected to
treat them to mescal and cigarettes every
time they meet. If a circus oratheatre
company visit the town it is the prero-
gative of the young lady to ask all her
female relatives to accompany herto the
show, and the young man, of course, is
expected and required to foot the bill; ;
But the worst part of the business for
she lovesick young man remainsto be
told. He cannot walk by the side of
his affianced on the way to ar from the
theatre, She will start off ahead in
company with some female friends;
while the young man will bring up the
rear on the arm of his grandmamma or
some equally venefable dame., This is
the recognized and inviolable custom
of the country, snd while it exists the
American young man will not be a
soclal success in Mexico. He cannot
stand the racket. If the young couple
mre very spoony they can be married in
six months, though well-regulated
society demands a twelve months
eourtship.
The True Holiday.
Why It is Wise to Diversify One's
Usual Work Rather than be Idle,
It is quite a mistake to suppose that
nothing of the nature of work should
be allowed to haunt the mind on a holi-
day. The only result of that is that
holiday-making itself is very apt to be-
come a laborious piece of pleasure-seek-
ing. It is quite true, of course, that
you should not, if you can help it, take
task work on a holiday. Bat it Is quite
as true that if there is anything requir-
ing some effort and method and care,
in which, nevertheless, the mind finds
a fresh spring of buoyancy—such as
many men, for instance, who are not
musicians by profession, find in music,
and many more find in art—the holiday
will be twice as enjoyable il some dis-
tinot and recognisable progress can be
made in that province. It isnot pains,
effort and care which fatigue the mind,
but pains effort and care expended on
the same class of subjects on which
they are day by day regularly expended.
Devote a moderate portion of pains,
effort and care to other than the regular
subjects—to subjects with which no
sense of worry, routine and fag is asso-
ciated—and you will find that the pains,
effort and care so directed increase the
The man of business who has -a turn
for literature or art should be a literary
man or an artist in his holiday, while
the literary man or artist should
his attention to natural science or
tiquarian research, or, at least, to some
outlying province of his own
the prosecution of which may be coms
patible with the ardor of a generally re- | ©
pressed and restrained interest, No
doubt such a course would involve some
change of plan in relation to holidays,
some considerable breaks in the cou-
stant rush of travel, some conirivande
for interleaving at least frequent morn-
ings of quiet with the whirl of exhaust.
Travel con-
tinued and prolonged, without intervals
of close attention concentrated on coher-
ent subjects, becomes a mere moving
kaleidoscope of scenes, in which, though
the variation of order is infinite, the
elements seem too much the same to
command your interest. But when
travel is diversified by some steady pur-
suit in which you exert your trained
powers, though with a sense of freedom
and enjoyment belonging to a new line
of direction, you renew enough of the
tension of purpose belonging to daily
life to renovate constantly the delight in
leisure,’ without renewing any of the
aniexty and responsibility of profession-
al undertakings,
DA ———
Culinary Conceits.
AMBER Sovp.—Take two pounds of
soup bone, a chicken, a small slice of
ham, an onion, a sprig of parsley, half
a small carrot, half a small parsnip,
half a stick of celery, three cloves, pep-
per, salt, a gallon of cold water. Let
the beef, chicken and ham boil slowly
for five hours ; add the vegetables and
cloves to cook the last hour, having
fried the onion in a little hot fat, and
then in it stick the cloves, Strain the
soup into an earthen bowl, and let it
remain over night. Next day remove
the cake of fat ou the top ; take out the
jelly, avoiding the settings, and mix
into it the beaten whites of two eggs
with the shells, Boil quick for half a
minute, then, placing the kettle on the
hearth, skim &ff carefully all the skum
and white of the eggs from the top, not
stirring the soup itself. Pass this
through the jelly bag, when it should
be quite clear. The soup may then be
put aside, and reheated just before serv-
fing. Add then a large spoonful of
caramel, as it gives it a richer color and
also a slight flavoring,
Caraner.—To make caramel, put
.bto a porcelain saucepan say half a
pound of sugar and a tablespoonful of
water. Stir it constantly over the fire
until it has a bright, dark brown color,
being careful not to let it bum or
blacken. Then add a teacupful of
water and a little salt ; let it boil a few
moments longer, cool and strain it.
Put it away in a close-corked bottle,
and it is always ready for coloring
soups,
Scorn Scones. —Mix theroughly a
pound and a half of flour, a pinch of
salt, a teaspoouful of soda, and the
same of cream tartar. Mix to a light
paste with a pint of sour milk, knead
the dough a little, roll it out till about
a third of an inch thick and cut it into
three-cornered pieces, each side being
about four inches long. Put the scones
on a floured tin and bake in a quick
oven.
ArrLeE DuMrLiNGS, either baked or
boiled, are nicest and healthiest if the
crust is made of cream. Pare and core
an apple, cover it with crust put several
such : dumplings in a baking dish
(earthen is much better than tin) add
sugar between them, and a little water.
Eat with the same sauce given for
bread pudding, if preferred, use sugar
and butter beaten together.
Sweet Poraro PuppiNag, — Take
cold (or hot), boiled sweet potatees and
mash as fine as possible ; add one tea-
cup of sirup, on® cup sugar, one gg,
{or more if plenty,) one cup sweet milk,
ene teaspoonful ground spice, one table-
spoonful butter, four tablespoonsful
of flour. Bake seal brown on top and
bottom, and turn on a dish, Slice,
when cold, and serve,
Frater CAxe. Half cup of but.
ter, three of flour, two of sugar, one of
milk, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls bak-
ing powder,
Crow’s Nest Puppine, — Pare
some nice mellow apples, and slice
them in a deep buttered tin. Then for
the batter, take one cup of butter, one
cup of milk, one cup of sour eream, one
egg, one teaspoonful of soda. Add
flour enough to make a good batter,
This is eaten with cream and suger,
CorTAce PUuppiNg, — Three pints
of milk, four to six eggs, sugar to taste,
two thick slices of bread, erumbed very
fine. Any kind of fruit.
Bmmp’s Nest Pupping is made with
apples pared and cored ; put these in a
pudding dish, and having filled the
hollow in each with sugar, pour a cus.
tard over all, and bake slowly until
done.
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An Observation of Life.
How much more ome. qravelal, elegant
and superior does the man on the bicycle
Jodie the man with the wheelbar-
But wait until they come into
CONTENTMENT.
I'd rather dwell in my humble cot,
With peace of mind to bless me,
Than own the lordliest hall o'er wrought,
With cares to oft distress me.
It's not in riches peace is had,
It's not in rank or station;
The heart of him may oft beat sad,
Tho' ruler of a nation.
The miser counts with pleased grin
His hoarded treasures nightly;
But think not that he's blest within,
His riches sit not lightly.
The rabble’s shout may satisfy
Political ambition ;
Could you the statesman’s thoughts but spy,
You'd pity his condition,
I have my limbs and perfect health,
1 know not money's bother;
And these with peace, makeup my wealth,
I wish, my friend, none other
BY A. ABHMUN KELLY,
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Facts and Fancles.
18 a baby-carriage a cry-cycle ?
— Philadelphia has a negro letter
carrier.
~The cranberry crop this year will
be small,
~—Mackerel will be scarce and high
this season.
—The potatoes this year have stolen
a march on the potato-bug.
—Hot water is becoming popular
as a remedy for dyspepsia.
— There are 213,500 farms in Pennsyl-
vania averaging 134 acres each.
— Can any one tell why eggs are so
high? The occupation of the old hen
has become eminently respectable,
— Never leave your horse untied af-
ter he is hitched up. He may stand
ninety-nine times, but the hundredth,
smash things.
A dry autumn is the precuser of a
cold winter, Some of our meteorologi-
cal friends will furnish you the electri-
eal philosophy for this,
The inventor of barbed wire fences
should be expatiated, those who
them should be compelled to take ti
down, or sit moonlight nights on
top rail—wire we mean,
The Post Office Department hb
selected as the color for the new four
cent or double rate stamp a shade of |
green, somewhat darker than that in
which the present three-cent stamp
pr inted.
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Common Words Mispro-
nounced,
Harass—hir'-ass, not hi-rass’,
Haunt hint, not bint,
Hearth--hirth, not berth.
Heinous—hi-nus, not hé
hén’-yus, nor hin’-yus,
Herbaceous—her-bit-shus,
ba -shus,
Herbage— erb'-¢j,
hér'-bige,
Heroine — hér'-o-in,
nor hé'-ro-in,
Hemage-—-him'-aje, not om'-aje,
Homeopathy — hb-me-op-a-thy,
hi ~me-o-path-y
Homeopathist—ho-mé op’-a-thist, not
ho’ -me-o-path-ist,
Horizon—bo-rl-zon not hir'-i-zon.
Horse-radish — horse riid’-ish, © not
horse-réd’-ish,
Hough—hok’, not buff,
Houri--howr'-y, not our’-y
Hovel—hov'-el, not hiv'-el ‘
Hydropathy— hi-drop/-a-thy, not hi's
dri -pith-y. '
Hygiene—hi'-ji-éne, not hi-geen’ nor
hi'-geen.
~IIus,
not
or herbie),
not be-ro-in
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Emperor Selim Il.
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His Excess In Eating and Drinking
and His Disorderiy Life.
In person he was said to have resem-
bled in early life his Russian mother,
the famous Roxalana, whose imperious
temper he had inherited without her
vigorous understanding. His disor-
derly life had, however, long ago ef-
faced all traces of her transmitted
beauty. Excess both in eating and
drinking (for he was said to remain
sometimes for whole days and nights at
table, and to drink a bottle of spirits
every morning by way of aiding his
digestion), had bloated his cheek and
dulled his eye. He was, however, not
a little proud of his crimson complex.
jon, and dyed his hands and face ‘to a
bleod color.
To the Western stranger, who was
led through the wide courts of the
Seraglio, between long ranks of janis.
saries, terrible and silent as death, to
the barbaric pomp of his presence
chamber, or who bebeld him riding at
noon to mosque, glittering with gems,
among his gilded and jewelled cavaliers,
‘beard dyed jet, his blackened eyelids,
add hishuge turban must have appeated
gold of the slothiul Turk,
Chili's Prosperity.
Some Reason Why That South
American Republic Excels the
Others.
as compared with the
country, but
government,
colony of Spain into a flourishing re-
publie of brave, hard-working, law-
abiding citizens. While her
bors have wasted their life blood in
domestic feuds, Chili, imitative as she is,
has never ceased to show the political
and social spirit of foreign
in her government, laws and institu-
tions. The existence of an aristocracy
of wealth, while it may have hindered
the material advancement of the masses,
has, at all events, secured
fully centralized and
working government. The semi: feudal
system of land tenure subjects almost
two-thirds of the people to the will of
the hacendados, or landed proprie-
tors, The foreigner has supplied what
the Chilian lacks in commercial enter-
prise,
Valparaiso is almost a European city.
Foreign ships and shipping, for foreign
mechanics and engineers, and English
French apd German mercantile
control the business
place, So it is at the
South. Wherever skill, enterprise and
intelligence is demanded, there
will find the foreigner. In his dealings
the native he has to meet with a count-
eracting spirit of conservatism, and a
slowness to receive or act upon an idea,
but there however,
what he accomplish, from the
very oneness of the people with whom
he has to deal,
of conflicting elements, as in other re-
publics. There is but the white race
of pure Spanish blood, or mixed with
other European ; and the crecoled, with
a nise-tenths mixed of Araucanian
blood. Our general opinion of the
Chilian character is quite misplaced.
There are no people more peaceful,
mere patriotic, more averse to anything
that disturbs their political or social
union. The rapid development of the
country is largely due to these national
chs wracteristics.
a power-
harmoniously
houses
activity of the
you
is a security,
does
lp
Poker in Thom Mpson Street.
It was a poker party in Thompson
street, and a big jack-pot had been
opened, There were evidently big
hands out, and bets and excitement ran
high. “Looker hyer, Gus, whuffer yo’
risedat ‘pot 77 exclaimed Mr, Tooter
Williamb, ‘‘Nebber yo'mind-—¥yo' call,
all |” retorfed-Gus, sullenly. “I won't
gall ! [rise yo’ bagk,” mid Mr. Wil-
ams, whose vertebrm was ascending.
“i rise wo’ ag’in’’ retorted Gus.
And so they went at each other until
then Williams concluded to call
“What yo' got, niggah, dat yo' do all
dat risin* on ¥ What yo' got, nobow ¥
Gus laid down his hand-—ace, king,
queen, jack and ten of clubs. “Is dat
good ¥"’ he inquired, beginning to seize
up the pot. “No, dav’s not good!”
said Mr. Williams, reaching down in
his bootleg. “What yo’ got, den?”
inquired Gus. Mr. Williams looked
at him fixedly.
an’ a ragzer.’’
Gus,
“Dat’s good,” said
Am AIR ss
The Hired Boy.
a kind word for the hired boy.
all that, be kind.
High Speed in Rallways.
struction, general excellence of bridges,
tary and inefficient, and render fast
traveling a matter of considerable difii-
culty, if not danger. It is impossible
to run a really fast express train if the
signals are ambiguous and if every level
crossing is made a compulsory stopping-
place. The saving in time by fast
trains can only be fully felt in a great
country where very long journeys are
not only possible but are frequently
undertaken ; but hitherto this fact has
been little appreciated, and people have
been content to travel at a slow speed
and put up with frequent stoppages,
beeause the rail ways are new, the rails
roughly laid and many bridges unsafe
at a high speed, But of late years these
conditions © have been materially
changed. The widespread use of steel
rails, the greater care bestowed on the
road-bed and the introduction of iron
bridges of first-class workmanship have
made high speed perfectly safe and easy
on most parts of good roads in. the
Eastern and Middle States; but it is
rendered unsafe where switches are so
arranged that they may be left open to
an approaching train without any sig-
nal warning the engineer, or the sig-
nals so formed that the difference tp
the eye between a clear or allright sig-
nal, and a danger or stop signal is slight
in snowy weather or under atmospherie
conditions which render the difference
between colors impreceptiable, though
a difference in form may be perceived.
The real gain of time to a business
man obtained by a difference of a few
miles an hour in the speed of a long-
journey train is illustrated by an actual
case, A man in New York wishes to
do a day’s work in Chicago. He takes
one of the fastest and best appointed
trains he can find —the Chicago limited.
It leaves New York at 9 A. Mm. and
{ lands him at Chicago at 11 the next
i morning, having accomplished 914 miles
| in 20 hours 55 minutes, allowing for the
difference in time between the two ¢it-
ies. This makes an average speed of
1.58 miles per hour, including all stop-
pages. But assume, what is surely pot
extravagant, that as high a speed can
be attained on the Pennsylvania or any
other first-class American roads as on
an English main line, and what shape
does the problem assume? On
English road, the Great Northern, the
distance between Leeds and London
{1864 miles) is done in 3 hours 45 min-
utes, including five stoppages; on an-
other, the Great Western, the 120§ miles
between Birmingham and London isrun
in 2 hours and 45 minutes, including
two stoppages ; and as neither of these
routes is particularly level or straight
and as both pass through numerous
junctions with a perfect maze of switch-
es and frogs, they give a fair idea of
what is possible in speed on the rail.
roads of this country, These figures
give, respectively, speed of 40.8 and
47.2 miles per hour, Taking asa fair
average 4¥ miles an hour, including
stoppages, the journey from New York
to Chicago should be done in 18 hours
59 minutes, or, say 19 hours, a saving
of 7 hours 55 minutes on the presént
time ; so that, if the train were arranged
to leave at 4.55 in the afternoon instead
of 9 o'clock in the forenoon, the whole
of this time would be saved in the busy
part of the day, effectually adding a day
to our imaginary traveler's business and
dollar making life. .
It may be thought that such a dedue-
tion is unfair, as the English style of
oar is so much lighter than the Ameri-
can ; but, as a matter of fact, the aver-
age English express car is considerably
heavier than the Chicago limited, and
conveysabout three times the number
of passenger; and, as trucks and oil-
lubicated axle-boxes are not yet univer.
sial there, the tractive resistance per ton
is probably higher. It certainly therefore
seems not only possible but feasible to at
one
where owing to the long distance to be
traveled, they are more valuable than
in England ; and the great step toward
All the other steps are achieved; the
American passenger locomotive of
present day is perfectly competent
drag abeavy train at a speed of
am | Sixty miles an hour ; the cars, as
fect workmanship of the modern
bridge can well support the thu
doubtful whether the dimly seen
him to a fall stand
i
—.
split tube sheet and two cars down a
ditch.
To run a fast train, a clear unin.
terupted road is absolutely necessary,
and the reason is not far to seek. To
move & body from a state of rest to a
velocity of sixty miles per hour, or
eighty-eight feet per second, an amount
of work must be performed equivalent
to lifting that body 121 feet. Now, it
is apparent to the simplest capacity that
it requires a pretty powerful engine to
overcome the resistance of the air
and the friction of bearings on
journals and of flanges against rails
going on all the time. As a matter
of fact, showing what severe work
this is on uu engine, the Zulu ex-
press on the Great Western Railway of
England, which is the fastest train in
the world, has been repeatedly carefully
timed, and it is found, though running
over an almost absolutely level and
straight road, it takes a distance
of twenty-six te twenty-eight
to attain its full speed,
eight miles and a half
Beience,
miles
about fifty-
an hour.
Madame’ s 1 Conduct.
He came home
She,
with a serious face.
who was all love and smiles, saw
in an instant that something was the
matter. . He turned his face away when
the attempted to plant the warm kiss
of greeting on his lips. Her soul sank
within her. “George,” she said eager.
ly, “tell me what it 1s. Has your love
grown cold 7 Treat me frankly, It is
better to kuow the truth than to be kept
in suspense,’’. He kept his head avert-
ed a-minpte, Hid lip trembled. Then
he said : **Oh, heavéns | Florence, how
can you wear that mask of deceit when
I know all?” “All” she repeated,
as her face grew white, ** All what 7”
“Kpare me the sad recital,”’ he contin-
ued. “There are some things that are
better left unsaid.” “I will not spare
you. 1 insist upon knewing what it is
you mean. Tell me, and at once.
| Some prejured villian has abused your
mind,” “Alas no!” hesaid. *'I was
an eye-witness of it all. Do not add
deceit to your other crimes. 1 was
and saw it.” ‘“‘Saw what?"
she cried. “What have yom seen?
Are you mad?’ “Calm yourself,
madame, saw you—you, the wife of
my bosom-—when you did not think my
eve was on you. You were on Broad-
way, mingling with the giddy throng
He was hurrying on. You beckoned
to him. You made telegraphic signs
until you attracted his attention”
“Merciful powers I’ she gasped. “You
see I know all,” he continued. “You
did this on the public street. At first
he would have gone on and disregarded
you, bul you were importunate. You
caught his eye, you beckoned. He
smiled, and you went down the thorough-
fare together.” “*Tis false, as false as'’
~— “Madame, It is too true; I tell you
I saw it. let us have no nonsense
about it.” Then she sank upon the
sofa. Again he turned his manly head
to hide his emotion. The diamond
tears began to come through her fingers.
Helplessness, indignation and shame
were struggling together in her soul.
Suddenly she looked up. “Perhaps,
sir, you will tell me who he is." “Cer-
tainly,” replied the brute. ““He was
the driver of a Madison avenue omni-
bus.” Then he went suddenly out of
the door as if fearful that one of the
statues would fly after him. And she
dried her tears and said somebody was
a fool, She was right, only she got the
person wrong.
Glant’s Graveyard.
Two miles from Mandan, on the
bluffs near the junction of the Hart
and Missouri rivers, is an old ceme-
tery of fully 100 scres in extent, filled
with bones of a giant ruwee. This vast
city of the dead ‘lies just east of the
Fort Lincoln read, The ground has
the appearance of having been filled
with trenches piled full of dead bodies,
both man and beast, and covered with
several feet of earth. In many places
mounds from eight to ten feet high,
and some of them 100 feet or more in
length, have been filled with bones and
broken pottery, vases of various bright-
colored flints and agates. The pottery
‘sof avdark material, beavtifally deco-
rated, delicate in finish and as light
as wood, showing the work of a people
skilled in the arts and possessed of
a high state of civilization. This has
been a grand battleteld,
there
¢
made, as only little holes two or three
feet in depth bave been dug in some of
the mounds, but many of the bones of
man and beast and beautiful
of broken pottery and other
have eth Sout in Hose feebie efforts at
excavation. easked an aged Indian
what his people knew of these ancient
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