AROUND THE HOUSE, Never iron lace window curtains, blue with indigo or too stiff with gtarch. Stretch them upon a mattress to dry, pinning down carefully the ex- treme edge of every peint or scollop, In putting down oileloth you do not tack as vou go, as with carpets; plan out the whole room first, putting in & tack here and there to hold it all in position until ready for the final tacking, It is disagreeable work to fit oilcloth and you will need a very sharp knife to cut it in shape. A good way of keeping a keen edge is to have a piece of fine emery paper and every once in a while lay the blade of the knife flat on it, drawing it along as if it were an oilstone, The vessels of the [United States have not yet be n aamed or located on the | map, as they are so few that Gen. Miles | considers their insertion a min r matter, | to be completed ina few minutes, They { will be put in, however, to show by cone. | trast the great wenkness of this country. | “Many of England's ships which cruise { along the North and South Atlantic consts,’’ Miles, “are of | light draught that they can navigate the St. Lawrence and get into the lakes with ense. In forty-eight hours the Pacific fleet could have San and the other Pacific const cities completely it their mercy, andin a few weeks oth the Atlantio and the Pacific cousts co td be lined with England's summonad from their present stations.” i savs Lien, such Fracisco VOssalr “armer’s Paradise, ter than tacks to use at to preveut fraying. The deepest lake in America isin the Cascade Mountains, about seventy- five miles northeast of Jacksonville, Ore. Itiscalled the Great Sunk Lake, and far outrivals the famous valley of Sinbad the Sailor. It averages 2000 feet down to the water on all sides, It is about fifteen miles long and four and a half wide, and looks like a mam- moth sheet of glass, its mountainous shore preventing the wind from ever rufling its surface. Locally it is be- lieved to be bottomless, thousands of feet of line been let into its clear bosom without the weight touch ing anything more solid than For thousand of ages it hus lain silent and mysterious, in the heart of the Cascades, I like a gigantic trench scooped giant genil. At this season ing cleaned, the floor be, in its Rugs with. ) slip out of place polishe i, but ing way so the edges which is not but is very apt to prove: the unwary. rug generall any othe but the wri deal of exj conditions best way, by fa the corners ead cuvere to the un pieces may according t but should relaying a car assistance Inower knives: proper how a secant carps by working the { girable poiat. thin use st tacks; thes simply doul in the shap sharp and auything, material wi » having water, 1 ii Wiki r out I't r i tir dire Ways of Wild Geese. What strange squawking creatures wild are'!~-flying in spring fro the South to their Northern | | side crecks and rivulets where, among tall grosses and reeds, they nest and raise their young. Often have | de Tod, : laskell, they meant by one after anothe:, f ne letter the alphabet, t i ing the Sometimes the tired in to the ground the tail-end o : The other day goose became far detached and her faint squawks, as her wings moved more and more slowly, seemed to make no sion on those ahead of her some tame geese in a farme’s rd, directed her thither and » half fainting in the midst of them greeted her with ishment and terror, but seeing her help less condition, they began jabberiug softly together, as geese will, and at last addressed themselves to her, for sh: arose feebly and pecked faintly at some £50d that had been strewn around. All that day the we uy creature sat ebout, taking little notice of anyihing. The next day she scemed much refreshed, and tek a walk with the tame geese gees MIs He. in savs Mrs nemseives aul bear ¢ tii€ Ones Host the the +} ihe last from line, mores Espying she course nk They loud sirieks us of aston- tkom, and scemed glad for their hospi- tality. jut just as the farmer who self on the added possession, she sud- denly took wing when another flock passed; and continued her northward course... She was an old goose, probably the motier of many flocks, and lo ged for their companionship as well as the beautiful freedom away up in the air, that she could readily see domesticated geese can never enjoy. It is said that some gesse live to be fifteen or sixteen years of age, both among wild and domestic, nnd they may be known by their very slow, deliberate waddle, and by the skin on the breastbone hanging #0 loosely ns nlmost to 1oach the ground, A farmeronce found a nestof wild-goose eges and placed them under seiting hens, In due time he had u flock of wild geese, five of which he raised, and though they screamed and jabborad exactly like wild geese, and sometimes secmed restloss and ill at ease, they tried but little to use their wings, not having been brought up that way —{New York Tribune, Our Defenseless Coast Lines, The engineers of the Dement of the Missouri, under direction of Gen. Miles, aro preparing a map of the world, show- ing the almost defensoless condition of the entire coast lines of the United States. The location is also given of the count. less modern war vessels of other nations, As thus fur made the map shows, b little printed slips posted in the different oceans, the name of every foreign war vessol and the squadron to which it be- longs. The sliips of euch nation are dis- ting ished by their flags. ¥ A leading railroad man in | west, who is noted for | picturesque way of talking, is | calling the Rel River farmers “the lea- sure ciass of the West.” He says, ““'Ubey only attend to their business tor a ‘ew weeks in the spring and fall, and. they do sitting down, with splendid fa i 804 to drag the farming implements vo which thev ride arvund. When their grain is ripe, they hire | borers to cut and harvest it, and then they cush it :n for money, fill the the with money to ihe settle down for a long loaf, or rope or New York. must find a continuance and prosperity in diversified farming und in hard and i taught to the rest by the shi 4 $ foud D wks ol bursting this in being ones ) work. ewder making the Sn Side 1 among then 1 Are breeding ine 1zht-hors linnce ‘ tain 1500 to 2000 Percheron, Norman ( lv dead: i and poultry for the una arms now mais Animal Truffle Hunters. as an inherent « I'he very odor of meas. 1 hue i dish of log into be dog is then encouraged to hunger con the desired do the urgings of its master, for the doz On finding the game the doz is always rewardel little which arther ees Chambers and the promptings of 1 tribute as much to result as is always taken out fasting. : ; with some him to f Journal, delicacy, incites Hons, The Ceres Indians, Tiburon island, off South Cniirornia, twenty miles long and ten miles wide, is said to be a resort of the Ceres Indians during a great portion of the vear. Their huts and encampments may be seen anywhere along the eastern coast, They ure exceedingly hostile and use poisoned arrows in opposing the lending f strangers on what they consider their domain, The canoes these Indians deserve espec’al mention, They arn made of long reeds, which are bound to gother with strings aftor the manner of tascines, three of which when fastened together have sufficient buoyancy to support one or two persons. The In. | dians kneol in the eunves when paddling, i the water being of the same level inside the litt'e bark as outside of it, Formerly they would sell them for old clothes or a pint of whisky, but they soon learned their value as un curiosity and now refuse to part with them except for very gool prices. — [San Fruoeisco Chronicle, LL of exeit ment prevailed i used for smuggling purposes, i was bronght trom Mexico, and reverenly {conveyed across the line, ostensibly for shipment to relatives in San Francisco {A curious citizen, who had had his suspicions aroused, secretly followed the ! corpye after its arrival in National City, | and saw it conveyed to a lone habitation | in the mountains at Otay Mesa. Peoping {through the window, ho saw the sad | mourners engaged Inu rather unusubl | proceeding. ‘They had opened the coffin, {und from the interior of the corpse they | were taking small tin boxes of opium. THE LADIES. A NEW GARMENT, plegant garments made like alow necked princessoe domi-trained. This garmentis a sort of compromise between dress, a petticoat und a silk corset.cover, and being narrowly gored and beautifully shaped makes un ideal garment to wen: beneath a perfectly fitted tailor costume or princesse evening toilet, gather =t. Louis Republ us there are neither bands nor about the waist, BEAUTIFUL EYER The ideal form of beauty a a female face without the fue of a medium shade the strikingly beautiful. jut eves do not alone constitute beauty, lies, doubt, in OVS nre the Phere nre most the hair, nose, mouth and complexion to take The hair should dark, the nose aquiline and the mauth into cecount. small and wi h rosy lips, and the com- There should aniso be a set of pearly teeth to show when i : inna plexion should be of a rosy tint 6 pair of Phis, without penusy, You lnugh, dimples when von smile stitutes fou ne doubt, cos {London Answers WOMEN TYRANT he women of Ghard the Sahu i, B00 10 have freedom unknows communitios Iarry, draw contract, ag Nik vw : At tun in one but walk, says Kate Fie rt Nothing comands i more respect than dignity of carriage BIWAYE ©X0¢ Sauce ang Qignits nf speec 3 h when my sex discovers that feet have a higher miss 01 than to crowded into boots fied i Ii for them, and that nature, noble bearing may set in ‘It's the find a foot women,” be Biws foo Rina COrns are an the rel an ol offense against rarest thi i with straight toes among say chiropodists, hey lap and overlap. and frequently are doahled utider. As for bunions, well, they are the rule.” No woman with a distorted 1 the world fo ng reason that such torturing of the extremt ities must condace to physical ailments of turn it which way we will, t ght boots are an abomination. Let the apostle of the mudless gown but introduce a fetching covering for the various Kinds. No art of walking, and she will gon long way toward breaking down those most formidable of barriers, tradition and prejudice. VARHIUN XDTES, White satin-—indeed, satin of all gorts in one of the leading fubrics. A popular combination is lizht tan color with black and yellow White moire is a popular fabric for bridal dresses, Navy blue and red are used together. Women who can afford the luxury their various house gowns, so that a beautiful harmony may be preserved, In gloves shndes of fawn and beaver Short gloves are still in favour for tailor made gowns, while long ones are relegate] to evening wear, : The address is still placed at the top o letter paper, and is more used than the monogram, although that is by no means out of style. This is placed at one side, Many of the elegant dresses are made in princess fashion. This gives better opportunity for producing fine drapery effects in the thin materials which are so oxtensively u ed. Rome of the nes bell skirts have slender A-shnjed sections set in the lower portions of the skirt from the hem upward, These are of contrasting color or are embroidered or otherwise fanci- fully decorated. soft and eambricas or cottonnades 13 the A combination of common crepous lutest novelty in the realm of fashion. Satin 0s a trimming is better preferred to velvet and together with narrowly striped ribbons, moire, The styles of the year 185.0 are surely In stationery Hurd's roval purple is a popular shade at the present moment. coming in, Bank note paper 1s also in Very i in delicate Vora, smnll note paper is in Night dresses are made of fine striped i bustiste, us well se effect is given to a night dress, wi have I'l £ finished with a deep bem trimmed, 1 may an eum broidered belt, skirt may be simply laboretely necording bertha-like thin has n Jeep, dull Deep, dull very popular for tume of crepon with wide sot front in V shape, andi around the to fall almost 10 the we nearly to the elbows, ek stvie of coil The possible i he Gr fii others to POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES. A Gern Coasteth 1 shaken he is In 1832 un similar celestial exhibition, th magd.itude, was wit. nessed along the Ohio River and of the coast of and Spain ; the year be. fore, 1831, a great ** fall of stius’ reported by Captain Hammonds, the British vessel Restitution, then safling in the Indign Ocean. It is theses occurred on the night ugh of lesser was *atar showers’ of Nuvember 13. The Lion of St. Mark. That symbol of the Veuneotian® Re. the famons Lion of St. Mark which, after being restored, was re- placed yesterday on its column in the tian people that its eyes are dinmonde ; as it now different The belongs creature fo many ous to our eva down to this century, It is conjectured that it may have or- iginally formed a part of the decora. palace, Bt, Mark's lion it certainly was not orig. inally, for it was made to stand lavel upon the ground, and had to be raised up in front to allow the Evangel to be slipped under its forpaws, last year the granite column on which the lon stood wus seriously of plumb, and the authorities decided on ita rectification, The work was entrusted to Signor Vendrasco, who by passing a copper bar through the axis of the shaft and by balancing the whole shaft upon the rod, compelled it to return to the perpendicular, The work was ate tended with po little danger and dim. culty, but within three days was one tirely successful, Signor Vendiaseo being able to say : “fl am master of the column ; she obeys me as I choose, NOTES AND COMMENTS, Wryonine oil lands are proving to be the richest in the world; soda lukes eon nsbheston nitention: tain train loads of pure soda Hue 1 wonderfully deposits are attractiug gold and silver mines rich. Berwers the ng forty, ch more I poopie itside of confine prisoners die of rapidly tha ment, but wh confinement or the convicts is of nny kind ii Tar good ship « which for t tained ing on the Austria, aswell ; mous burdens imposes ani the » of either nation wil After that, the war. WONT Tur Budget of the trates i generations of the ¢ I R45 the Youn the Fre p the elloct ol Z nen bot sco Asorin jepression in to 18:3, alter the if the TTR i n manera #5 same time pi 2 of fa i Ciavye and mG be empl Ores, Other min Models wed to sl} : i in mining. Thes iH be by hist al Jats and reliable tion regarding the of veins LTRs w mn and « : BPOgTeRs na ie secompanied informa. ot and formation in tre mining districts. In the shy beautiful statue of a executed in to $10,000 display will be silver Orive-arowisa is now all the rage in California, and warnings are thrown out that the business is likely to be overdone. In the neighborhood of Pomona, for in stance, more than 300.000 trees have alrendy been planted. It must be ad. mitted that the Californians are promo fo excesses in the matter of During the past thirty.five vears there has been at different times a craze fo cultivate the grape. apricot, fruit-culture. Bartlet pear, and other popular fruits, as if is overshadowed overvthiog else in import. ance. The last fashionasle horticultural fad is the olive. A writer on the subject points out that Pomona being the head. quarters for the sale of olive cuttings, the conclusion that elsewhere in Califor- nia the olive is as largely cultivated is unwarrented. He thinks that the dis. without danger of overstocking the market. Pure olive oil, he says, is hard to find in the United States, and in sup- plying it will consist the large profits of the growers, most cases adulterated, and the admission i= made that the alifornian product is sometimes n t as pure as it might be, dealer 10 fraud. Were the State law against «the adulteration of olive-pil strictly enforced. he says, almost every grocer would be fined or imprisoned. Of thirteen sambles of California oil recently examined by the Beard of Horti. culture, only two were found to be pare, The oil of sunflowers and cottonseed enters largely into the adulteration, The principle followed by Mr, Thwaite in his appliance for the pre- vention of smoke in steam generitors consists in the admission of a second. ary air supply through a wire gan of au apocitic mesh, wlapted to «fier the requisite frictional resistance to the passage of such air. so ns to acgord acelin ely with the “pull ”’ on the grate, which remains unaffected, PENNSYLVANIA ITEM3 EPITOME OF NEWS GLVEANED PROM VARIOUS PARTE OF THE STATE. Tus fo marry LCatholie priest of Bi Joe De BIMOoOXIn eh and Miss Au Micha because they sre cous ns aiterward declined to be marrie | gn ens fered suit {or brea Tis Clues Bonker } President, withou pressed the be pe toatl ¥ ie 10 be present Pu ERBOX Jormailly opened before Attorney General also arrested ised mo answer of the Supren er of Frater: Harrisburg tuted A 11 uy rney Le general denial of all th the Order is entered with sit be dismissed, of Mounts giliowed 6 s Myx Es, 9 nd died fr eC WEs AL sireet Car conisinis crew from pioe hepter, walked into a strange house, removed his hat, overcoat and vest, Ini! down on the sofas end died. mmitted suicide by shooting himself in the head. THE corner-sione of the new Uni ed Breth. Church at Nt Tabor, near Lancaster, was jaid with sppropriste ceremor Ture Proli esunty mel ROBERT Siar, of Tamaqua ren es. ition Convention of Luzerne st Wilkesbarre and nominated a uckel J. Ware Mercon, of Wallingford, swore Kain, Rambo, out warrsnie jor the arrest of Will rege K clerks, on the charge of making a false retorn judge sud Otto Wand, and Ge of the vote of Collingdale Borough at the oent Republican primaries SUPERINTEXDEXT of Public Instruction Waller has prepared a circular which will be pent to School Directors throughout th and the object of which is to increase school term in many districts. The minimum school term in Pennsylvania is and there are 1200 State where instructions is given length of time only during the year. Harry & Hari, a Shenandoah photogra- pher, was arrested on the charge of conspir. ing to burn bis place of business 10 ser re months the for that sx school districts in WHILE attending the Methodist Chureh in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Sam. uel Graybill, aged 10, died suddenly of heart failure, : AT the meeting of the Presbyterian Minis terial Association, of Pittsburg, Rev. George L. Johueon vigorously denounced the methods pursued by Dr, Parkhurst in his warfare against vice, . Tur Lancaster Prohibition County Con vention nominated Joseph Brosiue, of Little Britain, for Congress. ————— A Good Bag of Canvasbaoks, Judge 8. H. Greon yesterday re- shoot that must bave been a picnic. He was shooting at Green's Lake, near Knapp's Landing, on the Washington side of the Colam- bia, and during a few hours’ shooting, Wednesday afternoon, he slaughtered forty-one canvasbacks, This is one of the | t bags secured by a single linnter during ‘the season, her wero pice, fat canvasbacks, too, and fit to the festive board of an Sn orne erers, Canvasback ducks ao now Jud, 0 he more plentiful in some of t os than any other variety aithough but very few were to Le found * {aw weoks ago, ~Lortlanw Origone an. ¢ A ON A es SR i a 8 re
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