a. NOTES AND COMMENTS, Venvwont is one of the few States in which it has been held that the jurors were judges of the law as well as of the facts in criminal cases. For nearly sixty yeurs there havo been decisions by the higuer court of the State in which direc. tions by the trial judges that the jury are judges of the law and of the fact have been sustained. In almost every other State of the Union, and in most have been vonsidered the judges of the facts only, and the judges have been called upon to decide as to all matters of law. The Supreme Court of Vermont in a recent decision has carefully re- viewed the decisions in that State, as well as the whole history under the Eoglish and American decisions of the relative duties of judges and jurors in criminal cases. Of gourse as soon as the judges concluded to dJdisregard the ap i { building has been tried with success in some cities of Germany. At Mannheim work was given at stone-breaking and repairing the roadways and parks. The workmen were not placed under the di- ! i ie direction of fle trades unions, Better work and more of it was done than was expected, and the self respect At Cologne that as soon as the city very low’ wages several workmen whom they would otherwise have kept. In Magdeburg it was found that any rate it was found provi led even were not the parawount judges of the law. Judge Thompson, who writes the opinion, supposes a in which the jury think that the Court has erred in its statement of law. ‘‘Debarred from access to law books of authority, from which they might hope to obtain some light to aid them, nor even permitted to read the statutes which perchance they are attempting to construe, unaided by} precedent and utterly ignorant of the law of the case, they are left to evolve it from their ‘inner conscio When thus evolved, and applied by them to the case, their decision as to the law cannot case hv oy ISNess i the requirements of the statutes, for it th wil or conjecturs, what be.” sv neld V i I'ng construction of a mili between and Balti being agitated by the business both The idea i seems to be that such a road, well graded and batlasted, would offer a safeguard, which neither should be without merely because no necessity for it seems to ex ist in these peaceful times. Mr. Wallace Stebbins, a merchant of Baltimore, who has interested himself and fay others in the matter, points out that in time of riot, or even |i the railroads could br quickly ered usele and the facilities for moving troops aad artillery would thea be found to be the worst conceivable, for the road system between the two cities is execrable from a military point of view Thesuggestion is made that a suitable routs | that the State of Maryland construct that part within its Washington ¢ Ql al rend 48, a selected, asked to its and the Government pay for that part within the District of Columbia. There be no objection, a portion of the an ¢lectric jae Lo « Washington, railway sh yiild be s interfere witl He thinks ti Houses of C into requisitio: 3 ne butt “1 xEvER 89 snd anay Coffin of ti had just returne Uncle Sam's n “Wh-n miles away ys could water as she it going so fast get out of her way, quite a mile off i of the water that was displaced seemed OF the new riser hear the through i the wale snd tast We Of to cut and spl yot she was goiaz so against her bow to twenty feet al was notwonly pushing but sucking it ale amidships the sur at least { have sworn t tint: 3 ten r, and on? would » had been a side wheeler her wheels would have been entire.5 of water. On board the Beynington we were mighty excited and cheered like lunatics as the armored ship in the world tore past We could the flat on bellies, lest there should be any surface rxposed to the wind to retard the speed of the vessel She left a wake of smooth, seething white foam half a mile wide.’ out us : wr thet EN Crew heir Sreawpeanry culture was an industry almost unknown among the farmers of Arkansas ten years ago, but to-day they are deriving large profits from it. Es pecially is this the case in fertile Craw- ford County. In 1885 Rev. C. H. Gregory, then President of Hiram Col- lege, leased a tract of land there and set put seven acres of strawberries, intend. ing to ship the product North farmers regarded the experiment iu- credulously, but when in the second the they lost no time in following his exam ple. To-day there are 1,000 acres of daily train of refrigerator ears, which run 2 to Kansas City, Denver, and St. Louis, shippers. Ia that part of Arkansas strawberries begin to ripen as early as April 20, and so alluring are the profits of the comparatively long xeason that many farmers will now do nothing but grow this fruit. The net profits this season are estimated at £90 000. They have formed themselves into a society, and now sead represcatatives to the principal shipping points to look alter consignments, A wong charity is that of the Summer Camp for tenement house children ia Piass Valley near St. Louis. The society known as the King's Daughters orig- inated it. In character it is strictly non. sectarian, Mothers who desire to send their children to the camp, and are not known to the society, have only to apply to the police captain of their district, and if they are found to be too poor to take their little ones out of town, ar- rangemonts are made to give them a holiday at the camp. It often happens that children are too poorly clad be Prosenisble, in which case the King's daughter's furnish them with the need- ful ¢ othlig. The buildiags at the cam are rough, but clean, well drained, an comfortable. As the children expect to live out-of-doors, frolic on the grass, and play in the woods, the finish of their sleeping quarters is of little monient. A voician and purses are to be on the ground prepared to care for the sick, i | laborers from other work, Our States, the Voice, need improvement of their roads. It would be cheaper for the public t to work at repairing the roads than to sup port them as now in unproductive and involuntary idleness, y give the unemployed PLE reared Anglo-Saxon cust always found Chinese of all languag: very sur Pe in an eavironment of ym and tradition have most difficult i It is not learn that i ies have found t alm yssible, ever by the most : $ i persuasive the siren officers manda an elementary ex i language ited States Chin i About Harvard instructios years 8 7 820 it will aw railroads. The pl heaith was damaged jdant 8 trains and that he nas noxious smells can were ia lefendant’s atto ourht ra tolerable eat any mona, Cal, versiag with a repo {id ¢ : tugury | aseed fr 1d hifalatin’ French fixi [hey just ain't in it at all with a fat Kansas hopper, done brown in fresh butter. 1 was traveling from St. Jue to Wichita when the Liop- pers swooped down on Kanes like a horde of hungry office-holders on a Pres. ident-clect. When they finished feeding and hopped up on the barbe i-wire fence to pick thelr teeth and talk it over, the country lovked like the burned distriet in I had a pew f rest of vour big, country once hoppers ate every bit of paint off 1% and gnawed the woodwork. They ate ail the blacking off my harness; the tails off my horses, and I had to keep my dog under a tarpaulin to preveat them devouring him raw. You never saw such appetites. ment and made away with everything but a stone jar of butter I had bought in St. Joe. didn't have a gent, and it was two days’ drive to Wichita. Couldn't live on butter, you know, 30 I concluded to | play for even. I built a fire, put my half a pound of the dyspepsia provoker, | It was s on frying and sizzling away at a | great rate, aud the hoppers were hop. ping into it, sixty a second. 1 let "em | fry abouts minute, then [I removed ‘om | aod sat down to give my stomach a sur. prises party. Well, sir, the hind less were the finest meat I ever ate. The had an excellent game flavor and tast like mountain brook trout. I fared sump- tuously a'ter that, and found the journey far too short. 1 had always been sorry for St John, whose diet had been locusts. and wild houey but I tell you he knew his business. 1f a locust fe anything like a Kansas hopper adet bad no kick comi For cleaning silver the best thing is plaster of moistened with water and rubbed on the metal with a cloth, Before it is dry take a piece of soft flan. nel and some of the dry powder and pol. ish off. This treatment will remove stains and make the silver look like new, It will make tin look Mkesilver, A STUDY IN POETRY. s— irs In Which it is Shown That Opinlons May Honestly Differ. The Loverof True Poetry had dropped into the office to talk with the literary editor, but that gentleman was busy pinching off the buds of inspired genius and the visitor sat down with the horse editor, who had a few moments just then to waste, “By the way,” remarked the horse editor, *‘l was thinking about you to- day.” “Oh, thanks,” lisped the visitor; “I hope it was good.” “Fairly, yes,” assented the horse editor; ‘but it was rather about your taste for poetry than about you, per se. I was looking over some of the eastern magazines, ready here and there the poetry they publish.” “Yes?!” and the Lover of True Poetry looked soulful. **They do print such lofty verse,” he said; ‘‘each beautiful thought in such artistic garniture.” ‘Now, don't know, it didn't strike me that way,” ’ you “] presume my soul isn't alto- [.isten to this, for in- ibner's for February, Chandler Moulton, aniain? Dinan % this : r, sweel and wirmured the Lover of re that] pic ked out ies and other numbers from.” =aid the horse “but * pleaded the Lover v0, 1 horse don’t say that," wows such a d won't; they make me tired, "said editor. said the visitor. readful lack of taste; uch a waste of appreciation of that which is so truly beautiful.” “Fudge!” exclaimed the horse editor “Do you moan to me these verses mean anything and say thiogs as they could best be sald” ‘Indeed I do; and only poems of that kind are admitted to those magazines, sl £1 teil ad.” ** Well, now, suppose you come off the perch,” suggested the horse editor. read them to you in have quoted from.” *“ But | know | can. the magazines | I read them my- wording quite distinctly.” ** Possibly you do, old man; possibly you do, but everyone of them I read to you from finish to start; that is, the last line first, and so on, and they make just 48 gvod sense one way as they do the other, and you can try them both ways sad see. And not they only, but most off the same piece. Now, what I want to know is, is the true merit of poetry to be found in that true comprehensive. ness of diction and sentiment which will permit it to be read backwards and for. wards with equal sense, or shall we ap- ply the ordinary rules of prose reading to it! Don't answer now,” said the horse editor, staying the reply of his visitor, “but think it over and come in with your answer day after to-morrow. I must now go outand lay a few sentences on a horse race in the eastern cirouit,” and the horse editor left the Lover of True Poetry carefully examining the poems in the various magazines, —| Detroit Free Press. Oxk of the forests in the world stands on fice. It is between Url and the DeBopk Sea, aud while digging s well ty the earth was found to be Frosen 10 8 depth of 340 fee. Gb RELIABLE RECIPES, Murrox Brora. —Remove every pare ticle of fat and skin, leaving two pounds of lean mutton, when done pour over it a quart of cold water and add a pinch of salt. After it comes to a boil let it sim- mer for two hours, Barley can be boiled in it, or small picces of macaroni added, about twenty minutes before it is done, Fxiep Eco Prast.—Pare and slice one large egg plant, let it soak in salt water for half an hour, them steam until soft enough to mash, © Stir the egg plant into batter made of one egg, one cup of milk and flour enough to make it thin, Fry like fritters in boiling lard. Drain paper. butter, When served spread well with Bromep Kipseys,—Broiled are delicious if cooked thoroughly with a little bacon for seasoning. Cut with alternate slices of the bacon, Lay on a hot dish, sprinkle half of each with minced parsley, pepper ! and press the other half on it Nooprea vor Soup. —DBeat three egos Il without and add thr of milk, and ss much os and milk will mix: roll i strips, twenty salts i delicately in of and celery salt, Birpat ating, oe out as thin as possible, cut into Boil for boiling Brown one tablespoonful and dry half an hour, fensad minutes plenty of in sa water: drain dry. with A nice summer sou t Julienne,” which is ut a piece of butter to the melted ; cut three young onions a mice brown: add clear beef stock, a salt i add three young carrots and three ik of eelery cut and & pint O green peas: boil two hours; if soup kettle the sou ) : a ¥ Boxep Roast pose yOu m After it -For this pur- ist have er chicken : ww 24 IRY 3 rv sharp Narrow + the flesh re juires Care ang tw + bones (ree, arefully, Place bones hot water, fold t lay across the bo at it will not em « ie « or two hours, in yd bake Jord Poi removing - KD gether wi a teaspoon 2 Dare ] ii 113i thorough ¥ about three. mad inegiassful boil after this is added, I, garnishing {ried baco i of course, ; any ad letting the flour butter Lrown, you can have the sance brown. fric REO, tis but by EEF] What is Celluloid? Probably a great majority of the peo- into its tinal ‘form of besu and util ‘hie process 1s not a complicate d A roll of paper is slowly unwound, od with a mixture of five huric acid and two parts of ic acid, which falls up it in a fine spray. This changes the cellulose of the paper into propylin gun-cotton, The excess of the acid having been ex. pellied by pressure, the paper is washed with plenty of water till all traces of the acid have been removed. It is then re. Mast of having Leen got rid of by 4] water with twenty to forty per oent. of cam. second mixing and grinding follows, The French article ing made from paroxylated paper, treated with alcohol, then mixed with alcohol and subj. cted to pressure, as in the other But the French article has the disadvantags that it is susceptible to ig- nition, and that of a very energetic sort. This usually takes place at about 480 de- grees F., but may occur spontsncously at a considerably lower tigure. It pro- duces a thick, black smoke, but no flame, [Paper World, What Is the Safest Place During a Thunderstorm 7 In answer to this question the editor of the Electrical Age says: *‘The ques. tion is rather broad and indefinite. Generally speaking, however, the safest place during a thunderstorm is amid dry snd non-metallic surroundings. In a room, for instance, get as far away as possible from o windows and metal pipes or machinery. The interior of a room is about as safe a place as any. Eos a vay goo htc It in od pro: A ve one, ish tective pe fent because Rehers are fnsulators, Any substance that is dry, but of a non-metallic nature, is a good with the substance eop in diy surround. od conductors of always socks su to the ground. Therefore get as far away as possilile SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts tures Which That Stranger Than Fiction. Show Truth AnouUT a year ago a great ws at or near Table Mountain, Oroville (Cal) Mercury, The fall of the witnesses was told manner to a reporter of Professor George H, Stout, ent : terest, in a duperintend Behools, and i in Searching several i of created wide came the gentlemen a piece to ge b. ietiers : t meteor, {r. Stout rece all over the Uni States and even Europe. But despite efforts, trace of veo strenuous the mystery The OR av mass . however, i 108 iE me ad sie overed th where a supposed to have what is undoubtedly i He was pis the implement B31 same ip A mineral immediately re i of he ordinary nt the same to OUro- remarsaniy says that the of iron, althougt no regular assa Gaount $ ’ x . +» Ash family, now in Almost sie n hood of a cent 1 years A b's J grand fat Dims if and were out walking ne Keystone State, when they espied a tur the Mr 1 al ross up weeks sinoe re was oliection of : few days ago t Ash family h the Doctor was pres a bystander n turned about and iis eves, wondering what The bas vender's onti next wnas were droppe was y bulged out head He might possibly have of finding tarantulas in a bunch of bananas, but was much. The * s a boa constrictor snake time after his five weeks’ fast, 00 ae for the first i i A mouse was dropp« d into his box wound himself his victim squeezed the life out of it, and theo swallowed it whole about Ax employe of the Western of Railway Company has hit upon a highly original plan for preventing his wife from gadding about in a way of which he dis approves. Before going to his daily duty Mr. Lehuby, for such is his name, has been in the habit of | in a large trunk. By an ingenious con be raised a few inches, of air. The most remarkable thing per the wife, who acknowiedged husband had the grounds for being dissatisfied with her conduct, seems to have been a consenting party to her seclusion. Nevertheless, the facts becoming knowa, proceedings were instituted by the police authorities, and the correctional tribunal of Louviers has condemned M. Lehuby to pay a fine of strongest It is a commmon belief in India that if a cobra is killed and the remains are left in a bungalow, others of the species will About nine large cobra in the compound of the bun. galow at Dinapore, aod bad its skin stuffed and sot up by a native mochee. Sivee then the compound has been in- fested with these soakes, and po less than eight full.grown cobras, measuring from four feet eight inches to five feet four inches, have been killed there, one of which was sitting up, with its hood extended, contemplating the house where the remains of its preserved friend wore, It is a curious fact that every snake when found was making in the direction of the bungalow, and most of them showed fight when tackled. No cobras bave been seen in other parts of the station, Tux curious statement is published in the of the Palestine Exploration Fund, on the authority of Doctor Lorter, that the Dead Sea loses every day by evaporation several million tons of water, Doctor Lorter says this enormous mass is easily drawn up by the of the sun, the valley wherein the sea lies being one of the hottest points on the rlobe. This vast basin is remarkable as being the pression u the surface of the earth, "1a 1,000 feet lore the Son ft on all sides. It is nourished only by the river Jordan, and there being no outlet, its entire tribute of water must be absorbed by evaporation only. Doc tor Lorter says tnat the waters the and of more, the human body floats on the surface tent of hands Sigal gReruvion or feet. an ecceatr ec character re Davip Prrmax living in Zavesville, Penn. sipce tirement from the river with a comfort. le fortune, has a horse forty-four years Captain Pitman has made a practices 1g the birthday 3 mal with a the h fis colehrat Aun the ani prove juet, during which ree is hroug into the best room in the house an all the dainties that are spread » other guests, The annual with 1m oven: been re celebrated » the guests aud h one of the f to is Kentucky bred ver (dave was a racer of gest guDers: &¥ ras wvrang he awe with which kroach, : something sa ily favored by theg favorite of the ¢ nate mishap step Ot nd was res wered A i IC Well sre than ria re His h that he can : to cat Dr om London, Epw ost a find amps, of Worth County, mileh cow under umstances, Her horns were y crooked, and {rom the position in od afterward it is sup pawing at the flies, which se, she hung her foot to before she was dis in and died covered Tue old cemetery of Barcelc is in truth a *‘city of the dead upon streets of walls, with five six niches, into which the coffins are to be placed, give one indeed the idea This fashion obtains all over Spain end in some parts of ltaly. na, Spain, Streets or How to Seal a Letter, The ability to ‘‘ seal” a letter correctly is said to be one of the lost arts. In the good old days of goose quills, loose sand for blotting, and fine sealing wax for ad hesive purposes, delicacy and dexterity in putting the wax in the right piace without burning one's fingers was a necessary part of a liberal education, Nowadays the art bas almost passed out of remembrance. Here is the correct method of sealing a letter: When the letter is ready lay the seal on the table, at your right hand, and in such a posi. tion that when used the impres. sion may be square and right side up. Then hold the wax above the flame of the gas or candle, but met vear enough to burn, When the wax bas been gradually softened apply it with a circular movement upon the place to be sealed ; rub it well around and down until you have the circle of per size and thickness. The wax, still soft, has cooled sufficiently to take a clear impres. sion. Hold the envelope a little dis. tance from the flame until the wax has again become soft, then moisten the seal and apply it. The result will be a clear. cut impression. There will be no ad- hesion of wax to seal, no breaking and no irregular wax strings ng about the paper. The letter cannot without destruction of the seal itsell which in old conventional style will serve as the security of the contents of the letter. The Vandyke sleeve caps which $8 4 Point xblove ths low ats naw a added to the short open
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