FOR THK FAIR MUX.
Taka Bark the Ulna.
Take buck Ihc ring thy linger wore,
It ne'or shall circle mine;
'l'ako t>sck tlie ring; 1 trust no mow
A heart so laltc ns thine.
'l'he love which closed in blisslul sleep,
To dream ol heaven and thee,
A wokos to know, hut not to woep,
How vain thy vows can be.
No grid shall wring tny trusting broasl.
No pain my heart shall know j
In hopeiul peace my soul shall rest;
No tear for thee shall (low.
I'he heart that wins a morning love,
To evening loves incline;
As stars engage us trom abovo
When meteors round us shine.
New hopes to cheer, thy way is clear, 1
'Tis lit with flick'ring joy;
Keturn to her, to thee so dear.
Nor her sweet peace destroy.
1 uke back the ring thy linger wore,
It ne'er shall sully mine;
I loved thee once; I plight no tnore
At thy uuhnllowod shrine.
—Hugh F. Mc Dermott.
Fashion Notes.
Jet trimmings continue the rage.
(k>ld dollar bracelets are theJatcst.
Beads have obtained the acme of
lavor.
White is the favorite coler for even
ing dresses.
Small Japanese fans with long handles
are very fashionable.
Jet an cashmere beaded trimmings
are much worn around the neck.
Pearl beads abound on white lace and
embroidered silk bands for dress garni
ture.
Young ladies wear their corsage bou
quets on one side of the neck, near the
shoulder.
White jet and white Spanish lace ap
pear to he favorite decorations of white
dress bonnets.
There never was a season when so
great a variety was seen in tlie style of
dressing the hair.
I-ong round trains show rows of fine
plaiting, and square trains employ side
garniture and full trimming at the backr
New silk handkerchiefs for the neck
are in pale shades of blue and rose, and
edged with plaiting of Breton, Lanque-'
doc or Valenciennes laces.
The novelties destined to the greatest!
popularity in spring goods is the printed j
India cashmeres in small multicolored i
pine patterns over a light ground.
The most fanciful piece of jewelry j
now worn is the bracelet, and many go j
o far as to wear it instead of the linen '
off or other lingeries at the wrist.
Fichus for mourning consist of white ,
till centers edged on both sides with i
rery tine hlaitings of crepe lisse and se
cured in front by a black ribbon bow.
A revival lias taken place in the
fashion of wearing a bodice that differs ;
front the skirt, both in material and in j
color— the spencer, in fact, of forty !
years ago.
In Paris brides have paid their visits j
this month in dresses of white Hindoo 1
cashmere, trimmed with ivory white
piurii. with the mantle and bonnet of
plu?h to match.
Skirts are decidedly shorter this sea
son. whether for the matron who wears
striped velvet, brocade and satin, or for
youthful dancers in gauze, silk muslin \
.snd India muslin.
It is becoming a fashion for ladies
each to adopt a separate flower for her
own, and to wear.it on all occasions; I
natuial blooms especially whenever I
they arc obtainable.
Full fraises of lace are worn high and j
close around the throat. Tlie Tace is j
put in treble box plaits, and therd is a
long bow of muslin and lace added to \
this to fall low on the corsage.
Snoods, simple ribbons passed through
the hair and knotted at the side witli
pendent ends, are revived. They are in
the richest Oriental colors and finished
at the ends witli gold fringe or tassels.
At the charity ball, in New York,
there were culrasse basques of rich bro
cade worn over trimmed silk, satin or
lace (rimmed skirts, the brocade being I
usually repeated more or less in tlie |
trimming.
A very pretty and inexpensive wrap
which bids fair to be popular for spring
wear and for traveling through thesum
ater, is a circular of dark gray ladies'
cloth, with hood iined with black silk
nnd finished by a heavy tassel.
The dove in various Rhodes of gold is ■
a favorite design in jewelry. Properly
mounted and bearing a diamond branch
it forms an ornament for the hair, or
with a single diamond suspended from
its bill, becomes a beautiful ear-drop.
All trains are made a comfortable
walking length in front and at the sides.
I'lie long narrow trains, whet.ier square
or round shape, are lengthened abruptly
back ot the front sidegorrs, while in the
flowing trains the lengthening is more
gradual.
The newest corsage for evening dress
has the short basque shape at the hips,
is laced at the back, and terminates
there as well as at the front in long and
acute points. The neck is heart shaped
or round and very sliort puffed sleeves
replace shoulder straps.
Some new linen collars are given* a
very full effect hy having the upper edge
rolled down and three rows of point
l.angufdoc )' M:C mounted on it to turn
over and downward. When the linen
is "tiffened and well rolled the whole has
the effect of a ruff supported by wire.
I-onjr black kid gloves with a bracelet
of small yellow rose-buds at the top is
one of the caprices of semi-dress toi
lettes. For a debutante to wear with a
white and blue toilette, white undressed
kid gloves had a band of tiny blue for
get-me-nots forming a bracelet at the
top of each, just below the elbow.
* lanne'i, serge and cashmere in light
Rrp n,ft de up witli dark velvet lor
ondf-smaids at English weddings. Old
English, almost fancy, dresses are
adopted sometimes. At a recent wed
ding white satin, with Watteau plaits,
tight sleeves with puffs, and Olivia
c ?P s of white lace ana green satin were
i M*f n ' ftm ' 'wked most quaiftt on the
children who acted as bridesmaids.
The Duly nl Huaban.ta.
I'he first duty of husbands is to sym
pathize witli their wives in all their
cares nnd labors. Men are npt to for
i get in the perplexities and annoyances
. "Usincs's, that home cares are also
annoying, and try the nathmce and
strength of their wives. They come
home expecting sympathy and atten
tion, but are too apt to have none to
invo. A single kindly word or look,
that tells his thought of her and her
troubles, would lift the weight of care
from her heart. Secondly, husbands
should make confidants of their wives,
consulting them on their plans and pros
pects, and especially on their troubles
and embarrassments. A woman's In
tuition is often better than all his wis
dom and shrewdness; nnd all her ready
sympathy and interest is a powerful aid
to his efforts for their mutual welfare.
Thirdly, men should show their love for
their wives in constant attention, in
their manner of treating them and in
the thousand and one trifling offices of
affection which may be hardly notice
able, but which mukc all the difference
between a life of sad and undefined
longing, and cheery, happy existence.
Above all, men should beware ot treat
ing their wives with rudeness and in
civility, as if they were the only per
sons not entitled to their consideration
and respect. They should think of their
sensitive feelings, ind their need of
sympathy, and never let the fire of love
go out, or cetuse to show that the flame
Is burning with unabatedf ervor.
PrefrrrliiK Niilclrie to Marrlaßr.
Colonel Forney's Progress tells ola
widow in China who committed suicide
rather than marry again, and in this
public manner paid the last debt of na
ture: "People in China arc not only
allowed to commit suicide, but thev even
advertise their determination before
hand, stating wlien and where they in
tend to effect their purposes. At least,
the Fooehow Herald tells of a young
widow who had promised to hang her
self at a certain spot on the 16th of Jast
month, rather than yield tot lie ' wishes
of her inhuman parents,' and marry
again. The sacrifice was actually con
sumatcd in broad daylight- The girl
hanged herself in the presence of all as
sembled crowd of friends and admirers.
The tragic ecrenony was preceded by a
reception of visitors on the platform
erected for the occasion, after which the
poor young creature mounted the chair,
placed the rope around her slim neck,
and bidding a final adieu to this unsym
pathetic world, launched herself into
eternity." The reason assigned for the
suicide docs not seem adequate for the
sacrifice, and the Chinese journal may
imitate some of its American contempo
raries and indulge in the sensational.—
Modern Aryo.
How a Canine Milk Thief wa Canglit.
It is customary for the occupants of
one of the houses on Valencia street to
deposit a milk pitcher on the front
door step, there to await the arrival of
the milkman. As this custodian of tin
cans drove up to the house in question
yesterday morning lie did not observe a
cur of the mongrel breed which dogged
his wagon wheels. He slopped, and so
did the dog. He walked up to the door
step, and so did the dog. He filled the
waiting pitcher with milk and took his
departure, but the dog didn't. The
canine had determined to take the milk
instead. After surveying the surround
ings with n wary eye. and ascertaining
that there were nobody near to molest
or make him afraid, he commenced his
nt furious operations. He bent his nose
lovingly in the pitcher, and for a mo
ment, while he quaffed delicious
draughts of the rich liquid, his head
was visible to the Call reporter, who
observed the movements from behind a
lamp-poet across the way. Deeper and
dfepcr dived the dog's head into the
pitcher, and shallower and shallower
grew the milk within.
At last the vessel became empty, the
dog's snout touched the bottom and he
would leave the pitcher and go. hut the
pitcher obstinately refused to be left
and clung to the thieving dog closer
than a brother. The canine became
hysterical and begnn to.turn somer
saults, but all in vain; tlie pitcher would
not l>e shaken. The dog fell down the
steps and got hurt, hut the pitcher
wasn't inured whatever. Picking
himself an, the quadruped ran be knew
not whither. Completely blinded by
the pitcher, he was unab'i to guide bis
footsteps, nnd, in consequence, the
course which he pursued was a very
erratic one. A hitching-post in the
vicinity was awkward enough to get in
tlie dog's way, and the collision which
ensued was very unpleasant for tlie dog.
The pitcher, however, still remained
unbroken, and the agonizing howls of
the terrified canine became so shrill and
continuous that tlie whole neighborhood
was alarmed, and heads were projected
out of doors and windows by the hun
dred. Among the spectators was tlie
dog's master, who, perceiving the piti
ful plight of his pet, hastened to his
relief. The efforts of the owner of tlie
dog to pull the pitcher from its vantage
ground were fruitless. The dog came
every time, but the pitcher didn"t. At
lat lie was compelled to break the stub
born piece of crockery with a stone.
The dog once more regained hi* accus
tomed composure, the atmosphere again
became quiet and calm, the windows
were shut one by one, and Valencia
street, between Thirteenth and Four
teenth. was quiet again —San I'ran
ciseo Call.
Mr. and Mrs. Ouray.
Tlie Washington fbxl thus describes
the famous Ute chief Ouray nnd his
wife Chipepn, or Mrs. Ouray: She is a
large, squatty woman, about forty-live
years old, with broad, fiat features, a
large round head and lonjr black hair
parted in the center and thrown care
lessly at either side, almost coneealinjr
her fcntuYes. Her form was enveloped
in the folds of a large black and gray
woolen shawl, concealing her attire, the
only part of which visible was a pair of
handsomely worked buckskin leggings.
Arctic rubbers covered her feet, which
were cased in buckskin moccasins.
Ouray, who is fifty years old, is in ap
pcnrance very much like Ids squaw, ex
cept that his hair was plaited and rested
on his shoulders. He had adark blanket
thrown around him, concealing a white
calico shirt with red figures, and a black
cloth vest, and wore overshoes and dec
orated blue flannel leggings, llis head
was covered witli a large broad-brim
light slouch hat. He carried a bundle
of wrappings strapped together, and
took his plnce beside Chlpcns at the
head of the ten other Utes. The latter,
with one exception, were wrapped in
blankets, but their costumes -ould be
sen as half civilised. All wore calico
or vari-colored flannel shirts, in which
were worked iwads, quills nnd other or
naments. Some wero shod in army
hrogans, nnd with one or twocxceptions
had on slouch hats. Shells, buttons nnd
other bright ornaments were studded in
'.heir hair.
.... . 0 t-IftrciiHoim, •
It is a littlo singular that sonic person
desiring to become rich without labor
does not take out a patent on a revolv
ing grindstone. It would not be neces
sary for him to engage in the manufac
ture and sale of them. He could quietly
remain at home and send Ids agents
about the country to scare farmers into
the payment of damages for infring
ruent on his > patent. Examiners in
the patent oflice are not supposed to
have seen a grindstone, and, as
the records of the department contain
no mention of one, they would be quite
likely to regard it as a novel invention,
and so report it to the commissioner,
who would issue a patent on it. The
patentee would then have a wide and
rich field from which to reap a bounti
ful harvest. By threatening to bring a
suit for damnges in the United States
court, nearly every person who uses a
grindstone would settle and congratu
late himself that he had escaped so
easily. A course like the above has
been pursued by numerous persons with
reference to implements and processes
that have been in rse longer tlinn the
common grindstone. In some instances
they have made arrangements with
; " snide " lawyers, who attended to their
claims in different counties and re
' eeived a commission on all sums they
| collected by means of sending out wi.rn
i ing notices.
) A few years ago a person came to this
, city and endeavored to dispose of a
patent process for drying blood. One
!of the claims in the patent was for
"dried blood as a new article of com
merce." He represented that the blood
that could be obtained and dried in the
city would be worth several millions of
dollars annually, and that by having a
monopoly on the manufactured article
an individual or corporation could ob
tain a fortune in a single season. As he
offered his patent with " all the rights
and privileges thereunto belonging for
the modest sum of $ 1,(100,000, several
persons of means thought it a great
bargain, and made arrangements to
secure it. One man, however, of in
quiring turn of mind, investigated the
matter and found that dried blood was
a common article of commerce in this
country long before the owner of this
patent right was born, and that it had
been bought and sold in other countries
at least a thousand years before the dis- j
covcry of America.
A sliding gate has been used by West
er® farmers almost from the time settle
ments were first made on the prairies. '
This circumstance, however, did not
prevent a person from procuring a
patent on it a few years ago, and from
that time to the present men have been
traveling about the country making de
mands on every farmer on whoso place
one of these gates were found. In most
cases tjiey have succeeded in collecting !
a sum byway of damages, and in sell
ing a farm right to make ntid use their |
gates. In a few neighborhoods, how
ever, farmers combined to resist the ex
actions of these agents, when they de
parted in quest of victims who wen
more easily frightened. The patentee
of tiiis device may have been sincere in
declaring that he was the inventor of it.
but the circumstance that it was not
only described but illustrated in an
agricultural paper liefofe he applied for
a patent shows that lie was not the origi
nal inventor, and his patent is therefore
worthless.
The Latest account of attempting to
collect damages from farmers who are
declared guilty of employing an old
process that has recently been patented
comes from Ohio. In many parts of
the Htate fHriurrs have been In the habit
of bleaching apples and peaches dried
in the sun by exposing them a few min
utes to the fumes of burning sulphur.
The method employed is the same as
that used for bleaching old straw bon
nets and bals. Many farmers who were
discovered bleaching their dried Iruil
were served with notices that they
would be made parties to a suit in the
United States court it they did not pay
a considerable sum byway of damages
for infringing on a patent. One large
dealer who operated as a fruit drier was
called on to pay the sum of 990,000, but
the claim was so large that he took the
matter under advisement. It is now
understood that combined action will
be taken to resist the demands of the
owner of this patent. It is certain that
the process of bleaching by means of the
tumes of burning sulphur was very ex
tensively employed in the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and an operation
claiming so great antiquity cannot
reasonably be c'aimed as a novelty.
It is possibly that none of (he examiners
of the patent office ever read tlie book
in which the above account is recorded,
and it would appear that they rarely
read any work devoted to ancient or
modern discoveries in the industrial
arts. —Chicago Tinux.
A Conscientious Man.
An affecting snd novel incident was
presented in connection witli the rcfent
annual meeting of the Pacific bnnk
stockholders. Kx-Gov. P. 11. Burnett,
for so many years president of the bank,
arose in the course of the meeting ana
announced that, on acs-ount ot his fail
ing health, he would not be a candidate
/or re-election. He further stated that
indisposition had so interfered with the
regular discharge of his duties as presi
l dent of the bank that he had been un
able to give more than half his time to
Ids regular routine work during bonk
ing hours. He considered, therefore,
that only half his regular yearly salary
was due him, and asked that one-haif
the salary be paid him, the balance to
ls> placed as the directors and other
officers of the hank might see fit. Mr.
| Burnett's wishes were over-ruled hy his
fellow officers, who held that his ser
vices given were well worth the full
salary. A check was therefore drown
for the full amount and left on the
president's desk. When he opened the
envelope he rose nnd went to the teller
and drew the full amount. He then
walked over to the cashier's desk and
placed one-hnlfof the sum lie fore that
officer, requesting that it lie placed to
the credit of the " profit and loss ac
count." On leaving the hank he shook
hands with each ol the employees, but
was too affected to say good-bye.—San
fYancitco Ckronie'e.
A Remarkable Itj.
The property Ivy hss of adapting
itself to circumstances Is moat strik
ingly illustrated by an incident related
by Miss Strickland. The body of
Catharine Parr, buried at Sudley, was
disinterred, through curiosity, on sev
eral occasions. The last time the coflin
was opened It was discovered that a
wreath of Ivy had entwined iteell
around the temples of the royal corpse..
A berry had fallen there at the time of
the previous exhumation, taken root,
and then silently, troin day to day.
woven Itself Into this green sepulchral
coronal.— Chmrbtri' Journal.
HALF A MILK A MINUTE.
A l(a|>l<l mill Prrllou* Itrmrnl on Nliow
thoM.
' he Wdvillc (Col.) Chronicle gives
the- following account of the perilous
lotirney of Mr. K. O. McCandless, wlio
made the trip trom Ute City, in the
Roaring Fork district., to Leadvilie on
snow-shoes, ninety miles, in lour days
and u half; The first eighteen miles oc
cupied three days of hard lubor, and
brought him to Independence (Jump.
I wo days out of this three lie was with
out food, having taken hut one day's
supply on starting. The difficulties in
the road were appalling. Heavy, wet
snows had laden the trees in the canon
and soaked them full of water. Cold
weather froze them solid and strong
winds cracked them off their stumps
like so many matches. This caused the
narrow gulch to be completely filled
with a dense brush or thicket of* their
snow-laden branches. The high, per
pendicular and heavily-timbered walls
of the canon forbade any attempt to
scale them, iiiyl to pass this all but in
surmountable obstruction McCandless
saw that he mußt cut his way through
or return. He chose the former course.
A light "squaw axe" was his only tool,
snd was almost useless, from the fact
that the wood was almost equal to rock
in hardness. He had calculated on
making Independence Camp the first
night. His provision was gone, and
there was nothing to do but toil on or
lie down and die. Night came cn, dark
and oold. No wolves howled to keep
him company, nor was the roar of the
mountain lion heard. Nothing broke
the deatli-likc silence save the sharp
thud of his little axe, as he cut away,
inch by inch and foot by foot, through
the gloomy defile. So passed the night,
the day, the second day, and late in the
afternoon McCandless, haggard, pale,
starving and completely worn out,
crawled up to the door of a cabin in In
dependence Camp. He was warmly
welcomed and tenderly cared for. so
that on the next morning he felt like
pursuing his way.
After a hearty breakfast he started
again, reaching the foot of the range at
the head of Independence gulch at half
past nine Tuesday morning. Another
hour took him to the summit. He had j
a draw-knife with him. and he stopped
to fix his snow-shoes. The edges were
shaved down, and the pole was sharp
ened. Then securing everything about
his person carefully, and bracing him- 1
self for the perilous descent, he made the i
start. The rrust on the scow was like j
ice, and neither shoes nor pole raude :
any impression upon it. Tins rendered i
any attempt at steering or slowing up (
useless, and an idea of the rnpidity witu
which that descent was made may he
had when we state that it was just ten
o'clock when he left the summit, and i
four miles below, where he passed a |
cabin, he pulled out his watch and it j
marked seven minutes past, showing a ,
speed of over a mile in two minutes.
It was while on this descent, and at the i
highest speed attained, that McCandless
passed through the most imminent peril j
of the whole trip. As he drew near to
the timber line a fall and sturdy pine,
fully three feet in diameter, loomed up
directly in his course. His hair stood
on end, as every effort to swerve to'one
side of it proved vain until when, within
a few feet of the tree, the snow had be
come a little softened by the sun. and a
slight grip was taken by the shoes and
pole. Expecting instant death, and with
the mentally uttered prayer of "Good
by, Mac," the man threw himself over
Until ills shoulder lnin>lia<l the nuWaM
oflhe snow. A sharp "sip," and the
tree was passed in safety. On down
through the timber flew the slider, and
soon the foot of the range was reached
in safety. From there on he used his
legs with such good effect thnt the Twin
lakes were reached at five o'clock in the
afternoon of Sunday. McCandless hav
ing made thirty-eight miles that day.
Monday morning at haif-past ten ho left
the lakes, and at half-past twelve, two (
hours later, he was eating dinner at the
(irand hotel in this city.
The snow-shoes on which this trip
was made are worthy of mention. Me- j
Candless hewed them out himself at his
cabin. Their length is thirteen feel
nine inches each, while the guiding pole
is thirteen feet long. McCandless is an
expert in their use. having traveled,
perhaps, thousands of miles upon them.
In addition to bis travels in all the
noteworthy mining regions of America,
he has visited and mined in the gold
fields of Australia, the dinmond beos of
Africa and other notable foreign mining
countries. He unreservedly declares,
however, that his last trip, as detailed
above, is by far the hardest and most
perilous he has ever made.
A Ularicr In Olorado.
A gentleman who has during the past
two years traversed the mountains in
the vicinity of I<cadville. snd r<*ne
tratcd almost every one of the secret
recesses, informed -n Herald reporter
that there is within* twenty-five miles
of this city one of the most interesting
curiosities of nature—a veritable gla
cier. presenting ail tlio characteristic*
of the glaciers of Switzerland, both in
magnitude and motion, its progress be
ing gradually down the gulch. The
scene of this curiosity is located in the
Mosquito range, about fifteen miles
north of the pass. Our informant states
that he first discovered it about three
years ago, while out on a prospecting
tour. It was then nearly a mile in
length, and ift the bottom of fhe gulch
presented a sheer precipice of ice not
; less than 150 feet in height. loiter in
I the season the place was visited again,
i when it was found that the great mass
: of ire had melted until at its Tare it was
: not more than 100 feel high, the loss
; from the surface reducing its length to
about hall, a mile. Again, early the fol
lowing year, the place was visited, ami
the glacier was found to have regained
its hulk, showing thatthe accumulation
of.ioe and snow during the winter was
about one-third its gross hulk. 'The
rocks on the sides of tills immense mass
of ice BIIOW the marks of attrition,
proving beyond all controversy that
the glacier is in motion. Indeed, the
earth at the foot of the placier, heaved
up in great masses, shows that it is
gradually moving down into the valley.
During the summer a large stream of
water flows from the face of the icy
cliff. Our informant is of the opinion
that the glacier as it progressed out of
the deep gorge in widen it was first
formed will slowly melt away, and that
it will not last many years. It is out of
the way of ordinary travel, and fhe
route to the scene is exceedingly diffi
cult, so that it is not likely to be visited
except by proapretors and hunters.—
Ijtadviilc (Col.) Herald.
The prefect of police of I'aris com
mands an army of 80,000 mm. and dis
pows of an annual budg t of $5,000,000
Black Eyes,
a n . ot il " (, * traor dinary event in the
life of the average man to become, by
some of the numerous accidents which
are constantly occurring, the unenvied
possessor of a discolored optic. Jt oft
times happens that the undesired iv -
quistion ol this chameleon-like charac
teristic of one's eyes is superinduced by
a misapprehension of one's strength or
his knowledge of the manly art of self
defense. The perversity with which
door hinges swing their incumbrance
ajar, after the sun's rays and the lights
of night have disappeared, and the total
absence of any regular system as to the
velocity and direction assumed by fly
ing chips, have no doubt caused many
" an unforgiving eye and a disinherit
ing countenance." To remove this stain
of battle, or to whatever exterior causes
the "dark and revengeful eye" may
owe its origin, has for a long number of
years occupied the attention and science
of the medical profession. Nature has
often deluded suffering and disfigured
man with what the uninitiated have
fondly believed to be efficacious reme
dies.
The molluscous bivalve has often
strained its elastic ligaments and de
stroyed its palatable qualities in vain
endeavors to remove the rapidly-con
gealing blood under many a swelling
eye. The cotylaid worm has oft, with
its triangular mouth, made a stillate in
cision on a bruised and rapidly darken
ing organ, and there remained until its
symmetry of form vanished with the
usefulness of its mission. Hut it has
remained for the deft lingers of man to
do all that the medical profession and
animnl kingdom have failed to achieve,
for now, so remunerating has the science
of eye painting become, that some half
a dozen artists located in this city arc
slowly but surely treading the path to
wealth and winning the laurel ol the
philanthropist. It was the fortune of a
member of the Chronicle staff to call
not to solicit professional service—upon
one of these useful members of society,
from whom lie gleaned the following in
formation :
Artist— Oh, ys, I paint a great many
black eyes. Times are a little dull now,
since the holidays have passed, hut they
will brighten up as soon as the picnic
season commences. I tell you, that is
our harvest; fifteen or twenty black
eyes after every Sunday excursion.
Reporter—Av hat arc you charges?
Artist—Well, if it's not a very bad
eye, we don't charge more than fifty
cents; we generally get a dollar and a
half for painting both eyes; occasionally
a swell gives us two and a half.
Reporter —How and with what in
gredient! is the operation performed?
Artist—Oh, that is our secret, and it
ain't much of a secret either. We just
take some oil and rub it around the eye
until the ski.i becomes soft, for it if
originnlly hard and feverish after ro
ceiving a thump hard enough to blacken
it. AY e then take some paint and ex
periment on their check or the back of
their hand until we get the right color
of their complexion, and then with a
finger—for a brush, you see, won't work
it into the pores of the skin—w<- paint
the eye until no one can see whether it's
black or not.
Reporter—AN'i 11 tbo paint withstand
the effect of water?
Artist— After it gels well hardened.
| one may wipe his face with a wet
towel, but it won't do to use warm
water; or. if a fellow has lots of crow
feet in the corners of his eyes, it will
cause the paint to crack. I had an Eng
Rahman come here one dpv. iusi sfier
Ids arrival from Australia, fie was
mistaken on the wharf for " the man
that looked like him," and was struck
in the eye. Of course it was a mistake;
hut he had got a black eye all the same,
and, after I had finished the job, lie
went over to a bathing establishment and
took a hot hatli and that washed all my
•oloring off and left the other fellow's
there, so I had to paint his eye again.
Excuses did you say? AVell, I should
speak of it. One man wiil say he ran
against a door; another had a chip fly
up and strike him in the rye; another
falls down, and occasionally one toils
you he had a fight, hut generally it was
"onlv skylarking with a fellow." —
Han Francisco Chronicle.
Railway Officials and rigs.
Count Baranoff, imperial commissary
of railways in Southern Russia, while
on a recent tour of inspection over the
I,ossoY-Sebastopol line, in the Crimea
heard complaints from all classes of the
inhabitant*. At one p .rticulnr station a
strangely worded protest was addressed
to him by the spokesmen of a group ol
| landowners. " AA'e cannot," vociferated
i this gentleman, " bear with the pigs
any longer!" " Which pigs do you
mean? I hope you do not allude to the
j railway officials?" "By no means,
j they are bad enough; hut it is the pigs
| we can no longer endure." After a good
i deal of heat ing about the bush, the count
succeeded in getting at the following
curious facta: The subordinate railway
officials along the line, compelled to
submit to rxhnrbitant reductions from
their w.iges at the hands of the cashiers
charged with the payment of all current
expenses, found themselves so bad.y off
tliat, in order to keep body and soul
together, they had taken to swine breed
ing on a greatynlc, encouraging their
herds to acquire a marketable fatness
upon the estates contiguous to the line
of railway. The circumstance that
several valuable farms have been laid
waste by horde* of hungry swine
prompted the passionate protest which,
until its true grounds were revcnled to
him. so completely puzzled Count Bar
, anoff.
Wild Horses of the East.
(leneral P. B Harper, who has been
scouting in the Platte country, tells the
Greel 4 v (Colorado) Nun that the prairie
fires on the Rickaree and Republican
have driven the wild horses within
twenty miles ol South Platte, and that
there are hall a dozen hands, the largest
numtwring fifty animals, ranging the
country. He concealed himself in the
i*ng gro>s. and after cornt lime one
company of horses grazed up to within
two hundred yards. There were a num
ber of mules and American mares in the
crowd, which had been enticed away
from civilization and are now apparently
as wild as their native associates. AVhile
thus watching. General Harper saw
these horse* satisfying their thirst- In
oneplaceon Payton creek (adry stream),
he saw them pawing with their hoofs in
the sand, and afterward found the holes
were thus dug for water. In many spots
srater can be found six or eight inch's
below the surface. A band of buffalo
came in to Hsrper's sheep camp, about
ten miies from the river, and apnhy of
hunters went out and killed twenly or
more.
j PAH*, WARDEN AND HOUHEIIOLD
Itadtu.
Hi'T. PlE.—One teacup boiled rice,
oncegi [, one mp rice milk, one-half cup
stjKiir, or more if desired; flavor with
viiniila < .r nutmeg, and mix before put
ting in ; bake with one crust.
Sii AMI i> I'l DOINO. —Two eups of
sour mi Ik, one and one-half cups of In
dian meal, two cups of wheat flour, one
teaapoonful of soda, a little salt, and
half a cup of chopped raisins. Steam
two hours.
SI OAR CAKES.—One-half pound of
butter, one-half pound of sugar. one
pound of flour, three eggs, milk enough
to form a dough. Heat the butter and
sugar together; whisk the eggs light,
ar.fl add them; then stir in the milk and
flour alternately, so as to form a dough.
Roll it out, cut it into cakes, and bake
in a'moderate oven.
HAM CAKES,—A capital way of dis
posing of the remains of a ham, and
making an excellent dish for breakfast,
is: Take one and a half po. nils of ham.
fat and lean together; put it into a mor
tar and pound it, or pass it through a
sausage machine; soak a large slice of
bread in half a pint of milk, and beat it
and the ham well together; add an egg
beaten up. Put the whole into a mold,
and bake a rich brown.
APPLE SNOW.—Roast eight tart
apples and pulp them through a sieve;
take a half pound of the pulp, and, when
wild, mix with it a half pound of finely
sifted loaf sugar, and the thin rind of a
small lemon; beat the whites of three
eggs, whisk all the ingredients together
to a tine froth and pile on a glass dish.
A little sponge cake, soaked in fruit
syrup, and lain on the bottom of the
dish, is an improvement.
SCOTCH COLI-OPS.—Cut the remains
of some cold roast veal into about the
thickness of cutlets, rather larger than
a silver dollar, flour the meat well, and
fry a light brown color in butter; dredge
again with flour, and add half a pint of
water, pouring it in by degrees; set it
on the tire, and, when it hoi is, arid an
onion and a blade of pounded mace, and
let it simmer very gently for three quar
ters of an hour; flavor the gravy with a
tablespoonftil of mushroom ketchup or
Worcester sauce, (live one boil, and
serve.
t'wrm SolM.
A cow will yield a greater weight in
butter than she can store up in fat. An
animal might give the product of two
pounds of butter in a nay, while one
half that quantity could be laid on in
fat.
For roses in pots and almost any
house plants a good liquid fertilizer
may he prepared by dissolving soot in
warm water. Hone ground fine makes
an excellent tertilizer for all plants.
A correspondent writes: Isst season
I kept the striped bugs from my cuiuni-
Viers by saturating ashes with kerosene
and applying a handful in a hill.
Turnips are healthful for horses.
They should be out in slices, or, what is
better, pulped finely and mixed with a
little meal and s&it. Rutabagas are bet
t<r than white turnips.
A cellar thai is cool, dry and dark and
yet well ventilated, is the best place for
preserving potatoes in large quantities.
When smaller quantities are to be pre
i -erved there is nothing like dry sand,
i The same may be said of fruits and roots
of all sorts.
Plant tans; at the roots of your plum
trees, or hang branches of the plant on
(k* lIBIIM ufUn- taoa, IHIO you Will not
be annoved with curculio. An oid and
successful fruit-grower furnishes the
above, and says it is the most suc
cessful curculio preventive he evei
I tried.
Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips,
and especially mangcl-wurtzel, will all
1 fatten pigs. These roots ought not to
! be given in a raw state, but always
cooked and mixed with beans, peas, In
dian corn, oats or barley, all of which
must be ground into meal. When pigs
are fed on such cooked food as we have
stated the pork acquires a peculiarly rich
flavor, and is much esteemed, especially
for family use. —Dublin Farmer* Qa
rUe.
The Western Agriculturist says: In
the manufacture of butter the custom
has become general after churning to
wash the butter with cold brine of
greater or less strength, and not only to
wash it once but twice, if the washing
does not remove every trace of butter
milk. Cold water, be it of the purest,
and ice in the bargain, is not now used
for butter washing, brine having been
found far preferable.
SikH tarn Frrtlllur.
A Garratlsville (N. Y.)correspondent
of the Country Gentleman writes on this
by no means new subject: After using
ashes on my farm for many years, both
leached and anleached, I consider them
a valuable fertilizer for grass or grain.
I have used large quantities of leached
ashes, generally applying them to land
to be seeded down. I first prepare the
ground for sowing, then spread 100 or
150 bushels of leached ashes to the acre,
then sow wheat, barley or oats, as the
case nmy be, and seed down, harrowing
thoroughly, and when the crop matures
lam always pleased with the result. I
use fifty bushels of unleaehed ashes to
the acre. Ashes, whether leached or
unleaehed, make a very fine top dress
ing for meadows and pastures, and in
every case where I have used them, the
result for grain or grass has been very
satisfactory, there being a large increase
in both quantity and quality of grain or
grass.
My mode of using ashes for corn, is
to apply thera to the top of the hill, be
fore the oorn comes up. As soon as the
corn is planted, I put about a gill of un
leaehed ashes on the top of ecch hill,
always preferring to get my corn ashed
before a rain, so that the first shower
will carry the potash from the ashes
down into the bill, for the com roots to
feed upon. I apply in the same way for
potatoes. It takes, as I apply them,
from fifteen to twenty bushels to the
acre, and I think the ashes thus used
are worth half a dollar per bushel. I
am satisfied that ashes, either leached or
unleaehed, are the best fertilisers the
farmer can use. For immediate effect*
I know of nothing that is equal to them,
and they are also lasting. They do not
leach through the soil like manure, but
after an application is made to grass or
grain, the following crops for many
years will show the results.
I should judge that the relative
value of leached ashea would bs about
one-hnlt that of unleaehed. While the
leaching of ashes extracts most of tlie
potash from the ashes, it leaves them
rich with niter, which as a fertiliser is
very valuable. It is claimed that to
mix ashes and plaster together, makes
the mixture worthless, the one neutral
izing the fertilising qualities of the
oth.r. If nny one doubts It he can try
It, and satisfy himself.