FOR TIIE FARM AM) HOME.
Ililllirlioltl Hint..
Dried bark of sassafras root put
around dried fruit will protect it from
worms.
Slightly dingy furniture may be
made to look liko new by applying a
"oat of pure oil.
To remove oils and varnish from
silk fabrics use benzine, ether, and
s<>ap very cautiously.
To clean and polish tortoise-shell,
use a drop or two of sweet oil, and rub
it in thoroughly with the ball of the
thumb.
To remove spots from furniture take
four ounces of vinegar, two ounces of
sweet oil, one ounce of turpentine. Mix
and apply with a flannel cloth.
To cleanse porcelain saucepans, fill
them ha'f full of hot water and put iu
the water a tahlespoonful of powdered
borax, and let it boil. If this does not
remove all the stains, scour well with
a cloth rubbed with soap and borax.
To clean decanters, take some soft
brown or blotting paper, wet and soap
it and roll it up in small pieces and
put into the decanter with some warm
waiter. Shake well and then rinse with
clear cold water ; wipe the outside
with a dry cloth, and let the decanter
drain.
Krrlpfn.
CttippF.n REEK IN HL'TTER. Shave
dried beef very thinly either with a
knife or inverted plane. Put into a
pan enough butter to cover the bottom
when melted and then a cupful of
shaved beef. Dredge with pepper.
Jstir alsiut. When fairly hot through
it is done. May be served heaped up
on thin toast or in individual deep
dishes.
RICE BREAD.—Rice bread makes a
pleasing variety at the breakfast table.
Take a pint of well-cooked rice, half
a pint of flour, the yolks of four eggs,
two tablespoon fills of butter melted,
one pint of milk, and half a teaspoon- !
fill of salt; beat these altogether; then
lastly, add the whites of the four eggs
which you have beaten to a still froth.
Bake in shallow pans or in gem tins.
Serve warm.
t'UR CAKE.—Put three even coffee-'
cupfuls of flour into a sieve with one
even tcasponnful of soda, two tea
spoonfuls cream tartar; sift it on a
large dish, break three eggs into the !
pan. heat well, then add one and a halj
cupfuls granulated sugar, half cupful
soft butter, ->tir all till light and j
creamy, then add one cupful milk, stir I
a few times only; now add gradually
the flour, b at well, flavor with lemon
or almond; it will make two moderate
sized cakes; throw a handful of cur
"• rail's or >D>n-d raisins into it.
PEA Sot p. —A pound of peas will
make a gallon of soup. The |was
should be washed and soaked iu cold
water over night, then be cooked in
live pints of water, with gentle sim
mering. A pound of beef or a ham
bone may be lmil .|; fur xp.T-oning, add
an onion with a few cloves stuck in it,
salt to taste, and almt forty w hob
grains of pepper. An ounce or two of
sugar will add greatly to the richness
of this, as it docs to almost all soups.
At the end of three hours simmering,
pass the soup through a wire sieve or
colander, with the aid of a potato
masher. Krv brown some squares of
stale bread iu lard or drippings, and
add just lie fore serving, or serve these
crouton*, as they are called, separately,
to lie added at pleasure. Bean-soup
may lie made in a similar manner.—
American Agri'-ulturM.
I'nrr-Rrrd
As a rule pure-bred stock is not the
most profitable for farmers to keep.
Many who have triad to breed a herd of
pure blood animals have failed. The
cost to liegin with is large. The writer
recently visited a herd of Jersey cattle,
theWoWs in which had cost
manyJiilhdreds of dollars. The pro
duct in flesh and milk from these ani
mals is not so much over that of the
grade cow as to warrant the prices
paid. The management that sueh
close bre<l stock requires is much
greater than that of grade stock; that
is crosses between the pure blood and
the native stock. Pure hi tod animals
i ami herds, like the one alsive men
tioned, are of value as breeding
centres, from which the great mass of
common stock can lie built up. At a
low estimate the value of the grade
product can lie raised #ls or #2O each,
I the first season. It may lie that a far-
I fner with a large herd of grades thus
L produced can afford to keep two or
I three pure blood animals for further
■ Improvement of the herd, but In many
■ cases it will be lictter to replenish the
■ pure blood from one of the centres of
I such stock. It is a national blessing that
fanners," as they are sometimes
Broiled, are pleased to make such large
■ investments in pure blood stock, for by
I this means the supply of any breed is
■kept up. It would lie a calamity If
■from any cause these carefully man
lagcd herds should all be I • aken up and
scattered. It is through them that
the whole live stock of this country is
to be improved by a gradual process of
I grading. In this important work the
j less fortune-favored stock raisers may
liml a profitable Held of labor, AmerC
i-iin Agrirulturi.st.
l.k|tilt .Wiuiiirr.
It Is a matter of great surprise that
so many farmers allow the liquid con
tents of their barnyards to be washed
away Into creeks and rivers instead of
utilizing it in fertilizing their land.
Nor will it ever be otherwise until
proper means are taken to prevent it.
There certainly would be no great
trouble in doing so. All that is neces
sary is to dig a round pit or cistern of
sutlieient size just outside the barn
yard, and wall it up with stone, firmly
embedded in cement mortar to make it
watertight. A trench or sort of blind
ditch about a foot in depth the sides
of which to be also walled with stone
—should then be dug all along the
lower side of the yard, close inside the
fence, for the purpose of conducting
the liquid from the yard to the cistern, j
from which it is to be pumped or em|i
tied as nccdi d, into a live-barrel cask,
placed in the hind end of a wagon to be ;
hauled to wherever wanted. A hole
should have been previously Imred into |
the cask, near its lower heading, from
which there should extend a piece of
rubber hose to connect it with a dis
tributer suspended from the rear end of
the wagon by means of iron rods, the
distributer to lie made of a four-inch !
pump stock, live feet in length, c losed '
at both ends, and perforated with
quarter-inch holes at ihort intervals
the whole length of the bottom, for the
purpose of distributing the liquid over
the land. With sueh a simple tlx it is
an easy matter to distribute the liquid
;ts fast as accumulated, and it is par
ticularly beneficial to grass land at any
time when the grass is not large
enough to lie injured by being driven
over. By this means, and by carefully
saving and utilizing all other manorial
material found on the premises, we
verily believe that on a majority of
farms t lie most of the money now living
spent in the purchase of fertilizers
could Is* saved. ]inUimor> Sun.
brilliant Meteor*.
A surprising numtier of large and
brilliant meteors have made their ajv
pear.mee within the last two or three
weeks. (>n December 20 a meteor w .is
seen in New Hampshire shooting
across the sky in broad daylight. A
few nights afterward a very large me
teor was seen in Connecticut. •>n
New Year's eve a brilliant lire ball,
who h burst into fragments, was seen
from various plares in New F.ngland.
I)n New Year's night, just before the
snowstorm set in, atla-ti of light in the
sky, believed to have l*-en cau*<sl bv
the passage of a large meteor, was -• • n
in this i sty. On Wednesdax night a
big meteor was seen shooting OUT the
Mate of Illinois, producing a startling
illumination, and h ax ing a rsl trail of
light in its wake. The earth is being
continually bombardisl by small no
te.r-, whiihare eallisl shixit ing <-'.irs,
and many of which are pro! ibly no
bigger than hickory nuts, so that the
Intense heat generated b) their pas
-age through the atmosphere quickly
consumes them; but big meteoric
masses, like tho-e recently seen, which
illuminate the heavens during tle-ir
passage, and sometimes fall to the
earth with terrilic force, are rare.
Whence they come is a mystery the
astronomers have not solved. At any
rate, nobody need lie alarmed. The
chance of lieing struck by lightning is
many times greater than that of being
hit by a meteor.— N. Y. Sun.
Watches anil Diamonds.
The demand for American watches,
both here and in Europe, has con
stantly liven growing, and one Ameri
can company, which is now producing
1,100 finished watches a day, is unable
to fill orders except on long notice.
There has lieen a heavy importation of
Swiss watches the past year, but these
are mostly of the cheaper line. The
number of very costly diamonds sold
in this country the past year has been
remarkably large, the demand lieing
unprecedented for exceptionally line
stones, both single and matched. He.
cently in several cases as high as #I.OOO
per karat has lieen paid for diamonds in
this city in the trade, and they ha\V
been sold for this price by one dealer
to another. Very high prices have
lieen given by our dealers for rare
stones In Europe, and when these dia
monds have been brought here they
have been resold in the trade at prices
which have astonished the sellers them
selves. Then, an enormous quantity
of the cheaper diamonds have been
worked up the past year in all kinds of
gold and other jewelry. There has also
been a strong demand for rubies and
sapphires, which have advanced greatly
in value, and there has lieen a rise in
the cost of fine pearls.
The Massacre of the Mamelukes.
The Citadel, Cairo, was in lnl I the
seeno of the massacre of the lust of the
Mamelukes by Mohammed Ali, a deed
of base treachery, but of consummate
and successful policy; a coup d'etat, in
fact. The Mamelukes had risen from
the position of slaves to that of sul
tans. The Circassian dynasty pro
duced a raeo of military princes who
waged war with the Ottoman sultans.
The last but one, Sultan Choree, was
slain in b:.'"* !u Syria, and his succes
sor, Toman Iky, was routed on the
plain between Cairo and Heliopolls.
lie was taken captive ami hanged, and
his head stuck on the- malefactors' gate
way, Hab Zooaylen. Though the su
premo power bad thus passed away
from them, the* Mameluke aristocracy
still maintained their aneient valor,
till tlioir brilliant cavalry was routed
by Napoleon at the buttle of the Pyra
mids, and but a small remnant left.
These Mameluke nobles had helped
Mohammed Ali to the Pashalik, but it
is supposed that they had changed their
inimis. and were plotting to destroy
him. At all events, having used them
;is the ladder of his ambition, he found
it expedient to get rid of them. Ho
therefore invited them all to be present
within the citadel, when a Pasha was
to he invested with some military
command. Four hundred and seventy
of these magnificent beings accordingly
rode up in great state, but when they
turned to depart they found the gates
elosisl, and from every corner a mur
derous tire of musketry rained upon
them. From this horrible carnage one
alone escaped, namely, Amyn Hey,
who forced his horse to leap the ram
part, a fall of forty feet. Happily he
lighted on a heap of rubbish, and
though the horse was killed, the man
escaped, and giving himself Into the
care of the Arabs, found protection
during the ensuing days, when the
houses of Muiiieluki-s were plundered,
and all t heir relations, numbering atxiut
1.000, were murdered, and the gate of
Haii Zooavleh literally covered with
those ghastly trophies, the heads of the
slain. It is said that from this final
massacre one other man cscajMsl. Sulei
man Aga by name, who disguised
himself in the long ldue robe of an
Arab woman, and thus \. iled, escaped
his foes. This man h.VI liecn the
Pasha's prime favorite, and the story
goes tli.it. without show ing any sjN-cial
di-giist at in- friend's trc.ii lory, he ro
turned to his |h.s( ~f f,i\. rite, and even
repeated the little joke of dressing up
a an A rati damsel, xvho appearing be
fore his highness as as a suppliant
pleaded hirmvn cause with volubility,
and carried her rase, whereupon, re
moving her veil, she displayed the
features of Sub .man. who is altirmed
by living eyewitnesses to have contin
ued for many years the cordial friend
of the Pasha and other great folks in
< "aim.
Population of Is-aillmr ( ilios in Furope,
The loilowitig statistics of the num
l*r of inhabitants of some of the prin
cipal cities in Europe have b< • n re
cently issiu-d. There arc ninty-two
citn-s in the whole of Kurope eh con
taining a population of more than
lOO.tKfU. but only four which have
more than a million viz: London,
I *; Paris, 2.'.2V.1"; lb rlin,
1,222,-VSt; Vienna, I,l'tit. IP>, Of the
other capital . *t. Petersburg | --<-ssc.
876,570; fJoiist ant itjoplc, (> m.nfN i; Mad
rid,Bß7J2Bo; Budt>Pi ith,860,580, War
saw, 339,310; Amsterdam, 317.01<e
Koine, 300.470; l.islHin. 240.34"
Palermo, Ut ; Copenhagen, 21t,-
8-'i<i; Munich, 2J"."20; Hur harest, JJI .-
hi*; Dresden, 22".5(,w kholm, ltls,-
77; ltnissi-ls, lid.**.'!; Venice,
Stilt gards, 117,3"". In addition to
these, Moscow < "Ht.nnst'd 1.97"; Naples,
4113,110; Hamburg. 110,12"; Lyons,
372,*""; Marseilles. 357..V10; Milan,
321,840; Hreslau, 272.910; Turin, 252,-
830; Hordcaux, 22o,'.it'iO; llarcelnna,
215,960; Odessa. 193.510; Ellierfcld,
1*9,480; Henna. 17t*.M'; I.tile. 177.1M0;
Florence, 169,000; Hig.l, 168.810; Pra
gue, 162,520; Antwerp, 1 5", 65"; An
drinople, 150,000; I<ei|le, 149,060,
Rotterdam, 148,000; Cologne, 1 1 1,770;
Magdeburg, 187, ISO; Frankfort, 100,-
820; Toulouse, 136,630; Hhent, 127,-
650; Messina, 126,500; Hanover, 122,-
840; Nantes, 121.060; Liege, 115,850;
The Hague, 113,400; o|*.rto, 105,840,
and Itonen, 104,010.
"What Was It You Said."
No man, says an English writer,ever
an joyed life more krenly than Anthony
Trollope. He was full of common
ense, yet ludicrously obstinate and
perverse; roaring and spluttering, and
wholly incapable of argument. Once
ho and a partv of friends were In eon
rla* at llenlev. Same subject of im
|K>rtanee was being considered, and
some one made a meg.* ion. TroL.
'.ope, engaged in conversation at, the
other end of the room, at once raised
nis head and his voice. "I differ front
you entirely," he roared, like a bull nt
a red rag. "I differ from you entlroyl!
What trot it you said t"
"DAI BUTZU."
A Vloll lon Famono .lupmir.r Mmiuo.
A Yokohama (Japanese) letter to the
Detroit'/'Vec i'rrss describes in pictures,
que language a visit paid to one of the
most famous of Japanese statues. Tint
Dai Hutzu, says tlie writer :
"Early Sunday morning a party <d
three of us started from Y'okidioma on
a ride to the far-famed statue of Dai
Hutzu at Kainakura. Anxious to
avoid the noonday heat as much as pos
sible, we started at early dawn. Our
road led us along the canal through tin
outlying villages in the suburbs of the
settlement. The people were just be
ginning b> rise and everything—-except
the canal appeared fresh and cheerful.
Looking at the sluggish waters of the
canal covered with slum, and inhaling
its odors, which eanic up on every
hand, we ceased to wonder at the
rapidity and fatality with which dis
eases—especially cholera arose and
spread among the native people. It
was an immense relief when we crossed
the last bridge of the canal where it
enters a long cut through the rocky
bills, and found ourselves in the open
country. This cut is one made fur the
benefit of the kerosene trade, and took
two years to finish it. besides the outlay
of alargesutnof money. It is looked
upon by the Japs as a big piece of
engineering. Leaving the canal be
hind us, our road wound among the
rice fields, now pa-sing through some
small village, ami then down a narrow
path lined with tall bushes that shook
their glistening dew-drops over us as
we nishisl by.
The rising sun saw us passing by
the "Plains of Heaven." The road
ascended and passed along the brow of
a small hill, covens! with a heavy
growth of ecdars, lielow ii*. stretching
(ar away without a sign of human life
to mar the calm beauty of the scene,
lay the terraced rice fields with their
green plants. Far off ahead of us, a
single conical hill separated the valley
from the one beyond, while opposite to
the spdt w here we lingered by tlie gates
hut entered not, the fields rose with a
gradual swell till, the view was ended
by a grove of cedars. It was a magni
ficent sight ami one which fully justi
fied the name the |x*oplo had given it
After tarrying here as long .as wt
dared, wo |pushi-d rapidly on, pass
trig numerous xill.tgos and small
temples, lxwides the wayside shrines
which are to IN- found every where.
The sun was l ginningto feel very
uncomfortable when, at 1":30 A. M..
we entered the outklrts of the Village
of Kamakura. Pa -ing through the
\ lll.lgc W •• 1-nt* re<l the immense temple
which is here, and nle for s..tne time
under the shadows of the great
"<slars which are the crowning l-aiily
• f the place. The limits of the temple
seemi-d vi rv large and and it wa not
till 11 \ \! . that we caught the rcilec
tionof tic sun from the bronze lead
of Dai Hut/u.
\ppri a hing the statue the fare ha
a remarkable evpressian of placid re
j> and ti"' w;t h-taiclmg it-immense
-ize, i- so admirably j r >|>ortion<s| that
it 1 - not lunged it-effect on a near
appp eh. It is fifty feet high and
rnnfj ox feet In circiimfi renee, th
faio Iwing eight and a half feet In
length. The km cis thirty-eight feet
in diameter ami the thumb three ami a
half feet In i ir umfcrence. It is cast
in si vera] plaees, the lines of jointure
1 eing plainly seen and represents the
g.si sitting on a jMslestal with bis legs
i rnssed in front of him and his hands
clasped. It was cast in A. I>. 1252 at
theib-sire of one of the "Shoguns" or
native governors. The casting is hoi
low. ami one realizes more fully its im
mense sj/c when standing inside and
seeing the ladders w lib h lead up into
the dome-like head. The inside is
littisl up as a temple with numerous
littli*statues arranged around its sides.
Finding that a native photographer
had taken up his residence here, for the
purjiose of suppyling visitor* with
photographs of the statue, and always
desirous of improving our opportuni
ties, the three of lis perched ourselves
on the god's thumbnails and had our
pictures taken. It is by such contrasts
of the size of the human frame with
the image that the photographer Iwvd
expreasea in a picture the inmiesity of
the easting. It is said that at Nara there
is another casting of the same image,
the face of which is sixteen feet long,
and yet the hight of the statue is said
to lie only fifty-three and one-half feet.
In all their eastings, whether large or
small, the workmen have devoted
themselves to their tasks with an in
tense love for them, and nowhere in all
the world can better bronze work lie
found than the work of "Old Japan."
There are many secrets of the trade
that they still keep, notably the im
parting of a greenish tinge to the metal
which is produced in the casting.
A Florida youth has discovered that
strong, soft, flexible rope ran be made
from the fiber of thp common cocklebur
bush.
H>rcn In Life.
Without unremitting labor, success
In life, whatever our occupation, is ku
jMihsililc. A fortune la not ruade with
out toil, ami money unearned com oh to
few. The habitual loiterer never bringaj
anything to pain. Tlie young men
whom you nee lounging about waiting
for the weather to change before they
go to work, break down before they be-;
gin -get Htuck before they start. Abi
lity and willingness to labor are the
two great conditions of success. It in
useless to work an electrical machine
in a vacuum, but tin* air may be full
of electricity, and Htillyou can draw no
Bpark until you turn the machine. The
beautiful statue may exist in the
artist's lirain, and it may also lie said
in a certain sense to exist in the marble
block that htandH before him, but he
must bring both his brains and his
hands to bear upon the marble, and
work hard and long, in order to produce
any practical result. Success also dc
jieniisjn a good measure upon the man's
promptness to take ailvantage of the
rise of the tide. Agri at ih al of wliat
we i all "luck" is nothing more nor less
than tiiis. It is the man who keeps
his eye- open, and his hands out of his
pockets, that succeeds. "I missed my
chance," exclaims the disappointed
man, when he sees another catch
eagerly at the opportunity. Hut some
thing more than alertness is needed;
we must know how to avail ourselves
of the emergency. An elastic tempera
ment, which never seems to recognize
th" fact of di (eat. or forgets it at oim
and begins the \M>rk over again, is very
likely to ensure success. Many agn at
orator has made a terrible break-down
in his maiden apcech. Many a mer
chant biscs one fortune only to build
up another and a large one. Many an
inventor fails in bis first efforts, ami is
at last rewarded with a splendid
triumph. Some of the most jiopular
novelists wrote very poor stuff in the
beginning. Tin y were learning their
trade, and could not expect to turn out
tir-t-i lass work until their appis-ntid
ship is over. One great secret of suc
rirss in not to become discouraged, but
always be ready to try again.
High Food.
may IN* laid down as a great
principle that inat. fish or jmultry in
a state of decay cannot be eaten with
safety, since symptoms of irritant poi
soning have -si frequently art-ii from
this cause. Ilut a little consideration
will show us the impossibility of draw
ing a hard ami fast line upon this
point. We relish venison which has
partially undergone ill - ay. while we
at iatis' r< jdt ls f or mutton in a
similar i >mlition. Again. ] nitry to
Is• palatable must le lri-h. yet we do
not scruple to •at game which is far
advancisl mcb ' iiip ' .n There is
no doubt that in many • asm we are
guided by our palates in determining
what f l is wlndei-ome for us; f.,r
while many of us eat moldy i -hee-e. a
' hiiianiiUi w ill swallow bad iy,-gj, and
- line races enjoy Ash whim we should
■ oiisider putrid. Kvi u as regards oys
ters, who h arc generally relishcsl in
] rojMirtion t• • ttii-ir freshm -s, it is -onus
tiiie-s a matter .ft ,-ti Fur example,
it is recorded of the lir-t im nari h of
the house of Hanover that he objected
to the Knghsh native oyster as Ix-ing
(leAricnt in flavor. It was privately
suggested by a shrewd rourtier that the
native oyster should be allowed to b<-
ronie somewhat stale l>efore Ising
brought to the royal tilde. The king
at onre recognized the flavor which
had always pleased him so much at
Herrenhausen. and gave orders that in
future he should always IN* supplied
from that particular Ins). The absence
of evil consequence after eating food
which had undergone a certain amount
of decay is doubtless due in many cases
to the completeness of the cooking pro
cess; but tins does not militate against
the general rule that food in any state
of decay is unwholesome and should
lie avoided. Of late years there have
!>oon many cases of |mis<innus sym|-
toms arising from the use of canned
meals. The cause appears mainly to
have been improper methods of can
ning, or of the use of meat that was
tainted before 1 icing canned. An ex
amination of the outside of the can is
our only available guide as regards
this class of article. The head of the
can should IN* slightly concave, where,
as if it lie convex it shows t hat decom
position has commenced within the
can. Sometimes through careless sol
dering the preserved article becomes
contaminated with leal, and poisoning
by this substance is the result.— Good
Words.
Example is the light of day, every
man sees it, every man's life proves
what his character is. If he is honest
those he deals with know it. Every
honest man does as he agio -s ami pays
his debts. A dishonest man does
neither. If a man's word is good for
nothing what kind of a man is ha?
Every man that deals with hitu is sure
to have trouble.
Hnowflukfu.
Fallintf all the nlglet-Uma,
Falling all the daj,
Crystal winged and T<,IOSIMS,
Ou their doevn weird wajr.
Falling through the darknaaa,
Fulling through the light,
Covering with hnnaty
Vale and Mountain h-ight-
Nevwr summer blossoms
Dwelt HO fair an th >*&',
Sever lay like glory
>u the liehl* and treea.
flare the airy wreathing,
Deftly turned the scroll,
Hung in we/dland areho*.
Crowning meadow knolL
Freest, ehate*t faneie*.
Votive art, may be,
Winter's sculptors rear to
Hummer'* memory.
J. V, Cheney, in the >"rttic.
POUKVT PARAGRAPHS.
t play should !*• judged by Its acts.
silence i the better part of some
orator's elrxjueiiee.
The man who lends his influene*
rarely get* it ba k.
The meat dealer should be a rieh
man for he Ls always ready to make a
steak.
The bc*t time to offer your hand to
a lady—when she is getting out of an
omnibus.
How to destiny. One of these (lays
destiny may la- [elite enough to return
the compliment.
The man who was hemmed in by a
crowd has been troubled with a stitch
in his side ever since.
A new hook is title*) "Short Havings
of Great Men." When arc we to have
"Great Savings of short Men?"
It takes a girl about four hours
longer to wash the front w.ndow.sofa
house than the hack window s.
S> long as the school-tear her keejet
the pupils in his eye nolsxiy can d<my
that he has a perfect right t*> la*h hla
pupils.
Many a man who *nal* and growls
at his wife in public is very loving
and tender when no one eLv is around.
He has to he.
"Whistlers are always ge**l-riaturcd,
says a philosopher. Everybody knows
that. It is the folks who have to listen
to the whistling that get ugly.
>oineiKly ha* discovered that the
correct pronunciation of the word
Khedisei* "Kcdova." Theymight is
well tell u- that the proper way to pro
nounce lieo-hive i- lahowa
The town of Paris. T has rai*<xl
a potato five f>* t long. The Colorado
I M**t le hasn't heard that fashionable
summer re rt. When it, does we *hall
read of a potato bug rnat< h.
iMi't Kjuamler any time over pro
historic man, but rather put in your
spare hour* wondering if the new
family "ti tie corner a:-- tie- sort of
[••-•jile to lend redo, .and sugar and
baking powder.
"Jones, if burglars should conic into
/our house, wl t would you do?" "I'd
do whatever they required of nm. I
lev. r h i I my own way in that hoti*c
jet. and it is t> > late to begm now
alas ' it's t , late !"
"What are y 11 l - king ar- und for *o
mtieh?" askisl a mother of her sixteen
year-old -on, with wh : shewas walk
ing. "I am l.H.kmg around on your
account." "f'n iny accountV" "Yes.
I want to pick you out a g'ssl-looking
daughter-in-law."
The other day a stage driver in trie
Black Hills undertook to hor*ewhip
the passengers int • getting out of the
stage and pushing it up the hill, but
the passengers empties! their revolvers
into hitn a few times, held a coroner's
inepmst, and found th.at he had died of
pneumonia
"I declare," exclaimed a Hoarder at a
Sinner table recently, "this is the most
affectionate pic I ever saw." "Affection
ate pie!" cried every one at the table,
including the landlady. "Yes,"said the
boarder, "the upper and lower crusta
are so affectionate that they won't al
low anything lict ween thein."
At a dinner party the little son of
the host and hostess was allowed to
Come down to dessert. Having had
what his mot her considered a sufficiency
of fniit, he was told he must not have
any more, when, to the stirprice of
every one of the guests, he exclaimed:
"If you don't give me some more I'll
tell!" A fresh supply was at onco
given him, and as soon as it was fin
ished he repeated his threat; where
upon he was suddenly and swiftly re
moved from the room, but he had just
time to convulse the company by ex
claiming: "My new trousers are tnatte
out of ma's old bedroom curtains."*
There is many a soul trudging along
life's pathway wilh weary, uncertain
steps, sad and downhearted, who v -npl,
if there was a kind hand re-a.-b tit
to help them, walk erect tan ep
lightly, and ex-eu sing whila m_
over rough [daces.
There are people in
gium, and they consume f10.000.000
epinrts of alcoholic liepiors. There is
one public house for every tw elvo
men