SNAIL FARMS. SNAILS BECOMING A POPULAR DISH IN NEW YORK. A Hotel Keeper Says That Fortunes May Be Made in Raising Them Their Cultivation Abroad, “It is surprising,” said the proprie- tor of a well-known New York restau- rant to a Tribune reporter a few days ago, “how many snails are eaten in this city. I remember well the first time we added them to our bill of fare, not many vearsago. We cooked them day after day, displayed the fact in large letters on our bills of | fare, but it was all in vain, The pa-; trons of the house seemed afraid to] try them. We lost considerable | money in our efforts to introduce them to New York. At first they re-| mained on our hands, and day after] day we were obliged to throw our] supply into the waste barrels to be carried away as food for animals. | But it is different now. to have overcome their prejudices, and snails in various forms are or- dered so frequently that we have ceased to be surprised. I do not doubt at all that they will become a favorite dish among New Yorkers. Fortunes, in fact, may made by People seem be their cultivation, and the enterpris- ing Americans who begin ‘farming’ them now will be certain of large in- comes from this industry in a few years. It will unnecessary to import them, as we do now, almost exclusively. Many of be found in the York and on the vate families are France and Switzer “‘In the Canton of Zu land,’ added the ber of peasants large snail farms derive handsome land, covered not t trees, is the favorite for these little horned trees and thick, because will then die ir at the autumn and early w sun, they usually some, white-shelled hot snails with such covering the best. The earth shoul a good percentage of li 80 that the snails material for their should the earth be what we call If the earth does not contain ient lime, the farmers should sprin! it with burned cl Ihe snails lay their eggs in To keep them from ‘running from the farm there fence about two feet i t it. On the fence iron-vitriol or some bad smelling oil should be sprinkled. it is not a bad mount the fence closely together the snails from crawling then be snails to New pri- {rom the restaurants of tables of imported ROME rich, Switzer- hotel man have e , ‘os from which shade mus rr 16 Can : 3 houses, Neither fat.” a. «tiffe- or sand May _]awa'y be 3a Ww ioden idea. either. ta sur- with nails placed is this will prevent Over ‘‘As a rule one can raise H00 snails to a square One person can easily raise O00 snails on The space, however, mu cramped. When the hotly snails like to selves, It is, there! provide hiding plac Moss along the fence park and low sheds made by pls ing boards over a framework are be recommended for this purpose “The best food cabbage, kitchen dandelions. In dry nothing, but as soon as i seem to become In food. If the food i and when they want it they will try in every way from their bounds. White-leaved weeds seems to satisfy them also. If the farmers make them very fat they sprinkle some kind of meal on the which they eat “In the begin about the end of Aug of Beptember—ihe farmer strews the entire snail park with not be too thick, or smother. They erawl at this time of the ) there until they ar they are covered with are sorted out quality. or vaulted houses, whi } sunlight, then they are nice and fat and the purchaser can tell that | good ware, “They. are pn taining from 1 ment. Hay, material, i8 used to keep t They ean stand eold better tl If it becomes too warn will open their shells strongest box. A different snails rs used io Bavaria. There taey have as much freedom as possible until the fall. Then they are picked up by the children or sepr- | vants f the farmer and thrown into a deep hole. Grain is put in the hole, | and they feed on this until they be- | come fat enough to be sold. This is generally in the spring. ‘In Switzerland the monks of the | Capuchin order raise large quantities of snails. | “Americans have not begun te pay much attention to their cultivation metre earti. fifty square for snails i= sala waste, nettle weather they eat tO esenne wish to leaves Auf umn IE wr thie first m t must the under the moss (INs rail it SIOBIIS Wii ace +h shine ir (HK) § Or sane method 4 f paris oO} raising begin at the proper time. The snail ad a delicacy has come to stay, and will become more and more popular every year with the New York gour mands.’ Neo Cure for Squeaking Shoes. “These shoes will drive me erazy,”’ said my friend Croggs to me as he forward in evidence a foot clad n a brand new and decidedly neat looking cork soled shoe. “1 wouldn't mind a touch of that same form of insanity myself,’ said I, looking disparagingly at the pair which incased my own feet. “‘Perhaps not, but just listen.” My friend arose from his chair and walked briskly across the room, whereupon there ensued a tumult of squeaking and shrieking from the soles of his shoes that much resems- bled the groaning of a prairie wagon across the plains. “1 bought these shoes,’’ continued Craggs, ‘because they had cork soles and would keep my feet dry. When [ found them possessed of this infer. nal squeak I was willing to try any- thing to stop it that offered a chance of success. One of my friends told me to place the shoes overnight on a sheet of wet blotting paper and in the morning the squeak would be gone: I did so. When I put them on the and I had to wear them that way all day. The result was I eaught cold, and not only did it fail to stop the squeaking of the shoes, but every next week my chest squeaked nearly as loud as the shoes, “‘Acting upon the advice of other friends I have variously filled the soles full of pegs till they looked li anything but _hand-sewed shoes, oiled them, soaked them, hammered them. The only satisfaction I have derived is from the lutter—but the shoes bid fair to squeak on forever, “1f I'm late to church I go home azain rather walk down aisla, If I'm late to theatre l—ahewn —1I squeak my way shamefacedly to When I walk the newsl vell i than the my seat. along at take a fiendish delight in my rassment. Finally, wl my ness keeps me out late at nig often actually down on the front my before I rather than wake sntire flat. learned o SOrrow Total iH and only cure { sHoes.'—{ New York Herald. street the OVS me em en does, I have stoop an I take enter the océupants the nolse of shons sole A FAMOUS FLOWER. Wholesale Destruction of Edelweiss Stopped in Switzerland. Every traveler in Switz miliar with i flowers of t the tender star-shaped his curious plant, whose » ange green blossoms are stuck the hat of every guide and collec with rare ingen the race r start ou AER 3 little rascals who nate riages on the road, o rabbits from the bushes as the pedes- begins fis ! The 1 in trian plant is I is found in solitary climl scarce and very partial, seldom il has par- ins that it searcity and partiality edelweiss a somewhat thy notoriety cording to ti ladelphin T The rarer if tious were the €) + 1OPe RIN aobta a sprig SOme vent ry COCK. feathered as it al name applies it was no and endurance badge 1 i fon g Ci When tourists alpenstocks dowr mounts but never attempted to name of a ey touched edelweiss sold by the terlaken, Chamounix wald, and the guides boys were tempted to rifle the handful and Gripndel- porters reed 11 - ¥ilt ELL When us tains of their peerless flowers, the rage for art greens came upon in full force ] lad lattered themselves that a wreath o ¥ 5 » - mathe i these soft petals would look becomin in the hair. and some went so {ar to appear at fancy balls in the ter of “The Alps WCIsSs, As for the it ref in any way gracious at the to nist dec] fire ohst ie de as amothered in ede flower itself Fe it b to be of the botanist and sternly The the more . ‘ to be transplanted. nate was the edelweiss the florists root the 100rné the termined becam they purchased it the fully tended it nursed it during home ACTORS sickening ain home. had refused ingland with the aid of ang cial process. There have one or two rare and except where the edelweiss was indo flowers in fiy nd oi live and g i { then § fing by a system have worn out ve forth . he result wasonlys obtained that would of botan- i * of nursing : the majority iats, At last the Swiss government deters mined to put down by law the whol destruction of this popular flower. It was rapidly disappearing altogether from the country when an enactment made it penal to take a plant up by the roots. The dignity and tmportunce of legislation gave a new impetus to the interest that was attached to the plant, and going in search of the edelweiss became as at- be found in Switzerland Unnccom- panied by guides, and straying from the beaten tracks, more than one tourist has eisked hislife, and several have been killed in the quest.— {Washington ® Ir is alleged Leri, in the Gulf of California, not more than sixty miles from the Mex- jean mainland, there are remnants of a race of giant eannibuls. This start. ling discovery was made curly in 1801, and has since been affirmed by both United States and Mexican explorers, —{Goldthwaite's Geographical Maze nzine, NOTES AND COMMENTS, town will suffer in reputation, To the Hartford Journal ‘As Like of spring. Miss May PriLsrook is the over there are so bothered with the problem that the whole Court of the State will consider the question, Tue popular feeling in England against Russia must the reason for the large audiences which gathered to hear George Ken- nan lecture on Siberian prison rors. The English fear Russian de- signs on Indian more now than for many years, hence there is great pop- ular curiosity about the Czar's do- main. of Oxg of the strongest features the Midwinter Fair at San Francisco and undoubtedly that in which the greatest interest centres, is a small village of enbins and similar enclosed exhibits which is supposed to repre- sent the Golden Slope in the ¢ ‘49. A few placer-diggers, numerous saloons, and by no means a few dance halls, represent this era of El Dorado America. Thue timber Mountains nr days o 18 low 8.500 feet iM), fr i n i= It 8 8 12 i : Mount MeClellan 2 feet in » and in Colorad: and 30 in size 12.400 fee dinmeter INCTrense terse rific vi in the food supply I'ewo or three vears extimated that or product was ninety per cen ised were 1 Other st the pro someting Is growin wenlt that esse hand population. properly comstit now have a THN ONY t hose be LARE EE) about nessee have broke when ization from the east, passed throug the eastern ctor of were cOoltnted thou Ww the f work u tion ye p a which the native 1 po 18 to quired nan Tis gion of E pitifully uropean impoverished hich is daily becomis The area ACres hile ment is formulating pia commercial and ment of this region i 1 x + Of raiiromd systems nffected than the im region mast vy of not less Bie develo bu the local oo industrial by the Ors are appx aling for assis keep the people from act tion. The people for bread to winter. They a rears with their IONSEY have not inst them re four vear and ar the Crow! and sine faxes, indebted to vances made during late famine. Tue United doing what it can by precept and ex- ample to bring order out of the chaos of geographical names in this coun- try. One source of confusion in the South is the not uncommon custom of giving a county seat two names, One may be anything. the other is usually the name of the county, with C. H. for Court House, attached. It grew up, doubtless, in times when the county seat consisted solely of the Court House. The United States Government seeks to drop the initials C. H., and to adopt one or the other name alone in the cases of such county seats, It would be a pity, however, to alter in any way the his- toric Culpeper Court House. Ax official report of the instantly available battle-ships of the six great wors shows that of first-class ves- sels England has 15, France 9, Russia 8 and the Triple Alliance 10, of which 0 are Italian and 1 German, All the English vessels steam 16§ knots and upward, 2 being 184; none of the French is over 16.2 knots; while 2 of the 8 Russians are under 16, the third re ching 17.8 In second-class shins States Government is | England leads with 12, France has 9, Russia 4 and the Triple Alliance Ii, of which Germany owns 7 and Austria $. Here there is no such superiority of speed on the English side, three under 18 knots, while no | French vessels goes so low as that figure and all the Russians steam 14 knots and over, |v. being MAN AGAINST BOA, A Remarkable Duel Fought in Central America. A Newark engineer who served on the engineering corps émployed in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, and is home on a sort of a fur- lough, recently told the story of a | duel with a boa constrictor by a fel- low engineer, Life in the canal country dreary, and various schemes are resorted to in order to relieve the monotony. One of the party stated evening that he could kill a boa single-handed. The rest of the erowd tried to convince him he was wrong, but he stuck to the Finally, a handsome bet was made that could not de- spatch a boa alone if the deadly rep- tile was in its natural condition, The young engineer promptly accepted the terms of the wager. The next vere sent into the They continued time and article is one assertion, he gang of natives forest their finally eame upon 1I00KINng specimen fifteen feet few discovered and it It day a to find a boa search for some $4 ’ ' is the 3 ' for It + bon It had before it were wis 8 species, full) eaten heartily a Was hoerefore without oO camp. it tintil 11843 torpid difficulty was y and It was deposited in a securely bound Tos Pp should be speineer who was us monster of the Can taken where fs Wiis ite death, repent- many times Know, HH and one as Lhe to last Boas often or three weeks ght before { re- sngineers then signs 0 combat was to fi the »fraini and lear brais and puppie wrist to carry safety the ap- in thi pro- ta) whieh i ang with it had bands placed severed but rom ropes Was bound been and several These were all id the snake's ¥ while his on- opponent beat a ns of van- he strange inst ex- ! ¢ engineer was y clad and carried in his right a long knife, highly ground and wed. The mu half it was in i companions rotreat to safe coig rom which to wateh t « pnd to give succes Of i a 1 hie Young «3 REIH meter fame- WH most angry d its horrid head osciliat- fro ded jaws ously beady eyes have mi the man's it! lightning stroke nt bound nstant the with the celerity of t his swiftness was snaji- of the Quicker than thonght the boa d i npared with that sere descended upon his enemy Yotfore man could the snake had faller his pie upon way up its entire ie nove arm, had wound its length and was bit- Ider around if $y il § fhe arm it his shou he snake the young fel- kily the hand He dE not wait other power which t had wound itself was 14 « knife arm Ia and wrist were {res IY ie knife to med all his to transfer tl the hand, but samme Wt the coil of the serpent It was a a backward cut, and The coil his pinioned hand fendid stroke, dean through the body sper portion of the slimy pped to the floor and the intrepid engineer had won his bet. n1ost lasted but a few sed onds, and did it pass that the breath- onlookers scarcely realized what had happened. The ¥ nretty thoroughly exhausted shoulder was te badly the teeth of the rt of the episode was thnt talelve my QU Kiy ng by |uake UNE Man 8 arin Was weeks, and all its length was a spiral black and blue wher encircled it. —{ Pittsburg Dispatch. A Human Fox-Trap. J. R. Van Etten, an Y., Ellenville. N. he had a remarkable experience. He gent his dogs on the trail of the fox and then stood alongside of a stone wall, ready to blaze away when the animal came near him. After wait. ing some time he began thinkin about the European war cloud an the fox passed out of his mind. Suddenly, however, he felt some- | thing brush against the inside of one lof his legs and he mechanically closed them. Upon looking down he found he had caught as in a vise a fine, lively fox. ‘It seems that I had been standing by a hole in the wall,” said the law ‘and the fox had cautiously followed along the wall without seeing me, and, finding the Oe ha was : not take kind bit me in the leg, came it and it along me. It is the first time 1 a human body to be turned into a fox- trap.''={ Detroit Free Press. TE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. A Reply~-indictment '' Quashed'' ~~ in Constant Expectation--Con- tempt of Court-~-Ete., Eto. A REVLY, I want 10 Creditor—Look here an answer. When are pay my bill? CholligpeA w-m'dear prophet. now. you Oil ” mi gir, I'm no INDICTMENT “QUASHED. She was a lawyer's daughter; but he kissed her ‘““ Sir,” she exclaimed, '* how dare you? Don’t you know I can have you indicted for larceny? ““ All right.” he replied. ** If you do, 1'1l have yon charged with re- ceiving stolen property !"'—{ Truth. IN CONKETANT EXPECTATION, He (audaciously)—Suppose I were to kiss you unaware She (coyly)—I don’t believe you CONTEMPT OF COURT. Littleton—{ur joke r. Coke—Yes, and his ions are the greatest judge NAUGHTY Gerald—I{ you were but this gleam shore would 3 yearn to be von white-winged vacl ng Jeanette how Jeanette—And why, Gerald, would you be yi ht! Grerald—Ne Jeanette Your why do vou say Young ber IOV — Wu is y that? — Because 1 a No just before He: rs glove £0 remems- your ny ine ing dorrows — Have you tia saad unas Lenddes (curtly)=My fun spare. i Chicago Record. 5 Ora STAND Bingo—You know that {og of He Ki gley—Why ter? r watch- ming Was go—1I know bls 14 she sees —i Puck. REASONARLY die posed to my remarrying He-No She-—Why n Hee) hy about the welfare { never know 2 Life SfRhe-—Should you 4 ot should Of A MODERN 1 OMBETIC, ‘Why left Mary?’ Yes, 1 have Bless me. Why, everybody who has lived with Mrs. Blank gives her a good name. ‘Yes: her hats ain me.” Texas Siftir 3 you haven't your place, t bent 11145 FE SURE OF THAT Jones—This cigar you gave me is a vile Brown—-You don't know a cigar when 1 give you one. Jones—Perhaps not, but 1 know a bad one,— Truth. one, good AN IMPOSSIBILITY. me of $10 last night. but he failed. She-f course he failed. You can’t take something from nothing. — {Truth, TWO CAN DRESS AS CHEAPLY AS ONE, “Why, you silly boy, you couldn't even pay my dressmaker’'s bills.” “I know. But I can’t even pay my tailor’s bill now.’ —{ Life. AS HE DEFINED THE TERM, Harry—Who's to be your best man? Jack—1 haven't decided yet; but I shall select him for his superlative ness, Harry-—How is that? Jack—Why, he's to be the one who will loan me enough for a bridal tour. ef Puck. HER EXPERIENCE. Yenusley~~What is the greatest piece of fiction in she world, in your estimation? Miss Passe (so irly=Mant JURT THE OPPORITE. The Je Judge — Patrolman Ene save you bil d drunk. The po ft Your Honor [xis i eoitld # * Twice I NAry o wer Prisos is a mistake, ad of being blind, fis Inlieil as On ordi- cotild see 1 Patrol- your CURLY ee 11 short i if I had Im Jenkins inkl » Hounie i133 { { r .1 Honor. 1 sho [Wash Edith- y vou knov vho was the prett Astor s re- cepti £] wirst one. oat bed. H and lies 3 tt: @ On mind, and » 10 20 imagined i joke Nine was did not ng for the * was the case and althoughli waited hour after hour, no friendly halt eam i WW biuff had bee: vert into ¥ rescue. nded for a an ont and | intense dampns we with il was hardly be nat an Py rage by sl * for fulness n rl : nigh Spent a darkness The Ie noises fil and rab TONS {hat aroun tr which impossible HO potonant. ean realized. and if it ix anvihing like | what a prisoner suffers solitary | confinement h unfortunates have {my hearty sympathy. —{St. Louis { Globe Democrat, ¥ in sli A Youthful Crook. A very young crook was before the Police Court of New York the other day. His name is Andrew Brust, and he is not yet seven years old, but he is so confirmed a kileptomaniac that his father had to ask the Court to have him confined. Ever since he was old enough to walk Andrew has been accustomed to steal any and everything that he could carry off. Sent to school he stole pencils, books, handkerchiefs, hats, lunch baskets and everything else that he could, and showed no sort of shame when detected. He would slip into the houses of the neighbors and carey off their portable property, and would even get out of in the night to pockets of his father and He was committed to th
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