RAILROAD BUILDING More Than Six Thousand Miles of Track Laid in 1888, “The Greatest Activity Shown in the Southern States. Since January 1, 1588 £4°0 miles of railwa) wave been built in the United States, Thi mileage was built, according to statistics col. lected by the Engineering News, on 286 dif- ferent lines by 190 companies, The Now England States ave credited with 167 miles of new track. Maine leading with 27, and Vermont following with 19,and Con: necticut with 17. New Hampshire and Massa «husetts had 2 miles each, built 176 miles, the Central Northern States 858. the South Atlantic States 1107, the Gull and Mississippi Valley States 044, the South he Middle States | waostern States 1504, the Northwestern States 750, and the Pacific States $37, In New York | 60 miles were laid In Canada 14 companies built 16 new lines, | whose total extent is 355 miles, In Mexico, | the Central and National (the two principal American systems) built 405 miles of new | road. The 6430 miles laid in this country is only Half the record for 1587 and two-thirds that of 1856, but is still a large showing for a year in | which confidence in railway investments has been so badly shaken. Kansas leads the States with 5:3 miles, California has 465, Georgia | 419, Kentucky 851, Washington Territory S00, and Alabama, 304. The South, on the | whole, has shown more activity compared | with the North than ever before. In lowa | there is no new mileage at all. This fact is ascribed to hostile legislation and the doings of the State Railroad Commissioners, and the anti-railroad téndencies of other North- western Legislatures has also had a depress: ing effect upon railroad building Fhe tock Island's extension to Colorado Springs, 208 miles, was about the only long tine built during the year. Few of the 1888 extensions are {mportant as com- petitive lines, while in 18% and 1887 the feature of the work was the construction of lines to compats for the traffic between Chicago and St. Paul and Kansas City, and the road to compete with the trunk lines via the Sault Ste. Marie There is a great contrast bet ween 1553 and the two preceding yearsin the ownership of the extensions, The 26 companies that built MHS miles in 1857, or nearly 72 per cent of the whole mileage, built only 251% miles this year, or only 39 per cent of the whole “The current belief,” says the News, ‘that the inter. State commerca law tends to force the local roads to consolida% with the great systems is hardly corroborated by the large number of local lines built in 15%, It seems indeed open to question whether the Jaw, while it tends to force the consolidation of competing lines, does not handicap the great systems, which are seriously affected by competition, and leave almost untouched the small local roads which in their limited fields are monarchs of all they survey.” Among the large systems the Rock Island | leads with 302 miles. The Santa Fe drops from 1730 miles Inst year to 104 miles in 1:88 The Northwestern built 12) miles, the Burlington 10% the illinois Central 0, and the Milwaukee and St. Paul only 5 Paul. Minneapolis and Manitoba built 513, the Northern Pacific 80, and the Southern Pacific 237. In Canada the falling off was as marked as in the United States Tux new United States cruiser Vesuvius made three trial runs {a Delaware satisfactory results, Pt Broken BE, Grawau Hamwont, of Company (, Seventh Regiment, seven years old, committed suicide by shoo ing himself through the right temple at his residence in New York city, Despondenocy, caused by the death of his brother and dissi- pation, was the cause, ¥ Tae City Gas Works at Big Rapids, Mich, were destroyed by fire, leaving the city in darkness, Tug ducking tub and hanging-by-the- wrist modes of punishment, long in vogue at the Ohio Penitentiary, at Columbus, have been abolished by Warden Coffin as too sovers and inhuman, and the dark dungeon will be substituted for them. A cniup of Joseph Groff, aged sixteen months, was burned to death at Westminster, Md., a three-year-old brother setting its | clothing on fire during the mother's absence. A pyxaumire cartridge placed under the corner of a house near MeGaheysville, Veo., in which a party of colored people were hav- | ing a dance, exploded and almost totally de- stroyed the building, fatally injuring Amos Moore and two women, Mantua Higoow, a girl eighteen years old, of Jellico, Tenn., killed Pete Morris, who was trying to murder her father, “Per” OvertoN was hanged at Bastrop, | La., for the murder of Frank Hearsey in | April last, and Ling Sing, a Chinaman, was f hanged at San Francisco, Cal, for the mur- der of his uncle, Ur to the present time 163 Republican and 150 Democratic candidates have been certi- fied to the clerk of the House as having been elected to the next This leaves three districts in doubt—two in West Vir ginia and one in Tennessee. In Tennessee the Governor decided to issue the certificate to the Republican, but was restrained by an injunction. Congress Tus fortresses of Messina, bursting of a shell in one of the Sicily, exploded a powder magazine killing sixteen soldiers and injuring many others, Tne annual report of the Minister of Cus toms shows that the exports of Canada dur. year $00,250,000 and the imports §111,000,000, the largest balance of trade against Canada since the Dominion was formed, jng the fiscal ending June 30 were Weer Brasxpox, who killed his wife, while drunk, has been banged at Winnipeg, Mani toba. Fe destroyed most of the village of Del- oraine, in Canada. The total loss is about $100,000 Prince KARAGRORGEVITCH, brother of the pretender to the Servian throne, is dead His immense fortune goes to his brother, A TRAIN “HELD UP.” | Two Masked Men Rob the Central A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE, The Business Part of Marblehead, Mass, in Ruins—A Heavy Loss of Marblehead, about twelve acres, has been burned The entire business part Mass | The fire was discovered inthe houses furnish- ing storeof D. B H. Powers on Fleasant street, at about 10 o'clock r. MM. The first warning was a loud explosion of naptha in the store. The building was of wood, and was rapidly consumed The buildings sur rounding the structure were mere shells, and it seemed everywhere a spark fell a fire started. In Afteen minutes the entire busi Doss section was burning. The entire shoe manu/acturing district, the principal busi ness of the town, was burned. Thirty-seven buildings were consumed The estimated Joss is $8300.000, with 1000 or more men thrown out of employment, and many families rendered homeless. Though the boundaries of the fire were almost identi- coal with those of the big fire of June, 1877, the losses are nearly double those by that One, For a while there was a panic among the | snhabitants, who packed their goods for re moval. Charles Choate, who broke a leg by jumping from a second story window, is the only injured person reported The heat on all sides was intense; curb stones were cracked and crumbled, car rails were twisted out of shape, tall chimneys | fell with terrific crashes, and boilers exploded with the force of cannon. None of the manu- facturers think it possible to rebuild this winter, and thete is a general feeling of de pression in the town, C—O a— a Turne are forty-two firms in the United States engaged aaslunfvaly in the manufac- ture of chewing-gum. heir trades is in. creasing, and it is estimated that the value of their annual product is not less than §10,- | 500,000, THE MARKETS, 51 NEW YORK. BOOVOB, «os sass ssa ssssususin 4) Milch Cows, com. to good. ..50 W Calves common to prime... 0 po | 1500, has not had a death in Tue tonnage of the United States in the | Pacific Express of Bags of Money. The east-bound Overland train on the Cen- tral Pacific, from Sacramento the other night, was robbed by masked men near Clipper Gap. The express-car was ransacked and many packages were taken. Two men with masks suddenly appeared while the cars were running slowly through a long snow shed. They broke the glam in the upper part of the express. car doors and covered the two messengers with revolvers. Then, wh lo one stood guard over the men the other went through safe and packages He secured cotsiderable plunder, but, strangely enough he passed over one Sack containing over £10,000 in go coin, and he also left behind several small sacks containing lesser amounts When the train neared New England Mills the robbers droppsd from thedoor. They are described as young men, but they were so well masked that no description of them could bo obtained. Detectives were at sent by special train to the scene of the rob- bery. The railroad company claim that the rebbers‘only secure! $300, but other reports once | say that they got from $10,000 to £20,000 ———————— NEWSY GLEANINGS, A GrEAT Matoh Trust is the latest, IXDIAXA is about to borrow $2,000,000, Tuer are 0) Hebrews in Minncapolis Dirmrrnenia is decidedly on the increasa, Tur use of tobacco is on the increase in this country Tuene are 208 owners of Percheron horses | im this country, OnreGox has doubled ber population during the last ten yaars THE Jatest syndicate is one formed to force ap the pr1 e of silk. AMEricaxs used 575.211 mull in 159% than in 1887, THERE are 300) women in charge of post pounds more offices in the United States, Tux Pope has abandoned the proposed | | European congress on slavery. New Jensey will derive $1,540,431 in | taxes from railroads during 1580, MARYLAND oyster pirates number nearly 500 armed men and have S00 vessels. ation of over ve months, Wansen, N, H., with a pe | foreign trade continues to slowly decrease, Fatents......... Wheat—-No ¢ Red... Straw Long Rye. ‘sen Tmt Ey AT a utter—Ntate Creamery .... Dairy fair togood. . West. Im, Creamery Chosse—State Factory. fi Skims— Medium, ... Sheep Medium to Goold Lambs—Fairto Good, ,...... H to. holes s orks Flour—Family,......ooiveve Wheat Nao, £ Northern. .... Corn—Nao, 4 Yellow. ....... Oats—-No, 2, White, . Barley State. ........ nOomTON Flour—“pring Wheat pat's. ‘orn—Steamer Yellow, .... taNo, ¥ White, ......... (MASS) LL i EE QoUew 23s 218) 8EBER a al at = SuLEEEIER FN - «3 w= Rs EE | to $30 per ton last year, Ax experimental shipment of Alabama Cuina has not been without a rebellion in | sume portion of the empire for over 130 years. AT Los Angeles, Cal, coal was from $25 To-day it costs $14. con! is to be made from Pensacola, Fla, to Cuba. Tne damage done to summer resorts along | the Atlantic each wintor is estimated at 82, Duo, 00, Onroenrs have been given for a large In- | crease of the Husian artillery force in Poland. Caxapa’s trade with England has fallen off about $4,000.00 during the last ten | months, In eleven months thirty-two men have been taken from Northern and Western huog up. Tur Empress A of Germany, has offered a prize of 4 for a portable mill tary hospital. " Frontoa alligator-hunters say that the saurians will be looked upon as curiosities ten years hence, Tux Government grant per pupil, reckoned on the daily average attendance for England and Wales 1s #4 15. Bouvrneay quail introduced into the State of Maine are wintering weil and becoming jails and ot be Ln | rocks and in patriotic ce lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters, ex | tract the sting from your sarcasm, let your | exercise it until Shes | give them until y be 4 WB Subject: “Barniike Birthplaces ¥ Yeo (1 TF ihrenatista te wigs e galleries of ht from one of the t broke. To an ER But such “y m, or Bad ot, been such brilliant and mighty recogni- at an advent in the house of Pharaoh, or at an advent in the bouse of Cdtear, of the uart, rn seems 100 poor cate and archangslic circumference. stage seems too small for so great an act, the musie too grand for such unappreciative auditors, the window of the stable too rude and the coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers. No wonder the medieval Fepirenetit the oxen as kneeling be the infant Jesus, for there were no men there at that time to worship. From the depths of what poverty He rose, until to-day He & hon- ored in all Christendom, and sits on the Im- perial throne in Heaven What name is mightiest to-day in Christen. dom! Jesus. Who has more friends on eorth than any other being?! Jesus. Before whom do the most thousands knee! in chapel and church and cathedral this bour! Jesus. For whom could one hundred million souls be marshalled, ready to fight or diel Jesus From what depths of poverty to what height of renown! And so let all those who are poorly started remember that they cannot be more poorly born, or more dissdvantageously than this Christ. Let them look up to His example while they have time and eternity to imitate it Do you know that the vast majority of the world's deliverers had barnlike birthplaces! Luther, the emancipator of religion, born among the mines, Bhakespenrs, the smanci pator of literature, born in a humble bome at Stratford-on-Avon. CUolumbus, the dis coverer of a world, born in poverty at Genoa. Hogarth, the discoverer of how to make art | accumulative and administrative of virtue, | born in a humble home at Westmoreland, Kitto and Prideanx, whese keys unlocked new apartments in the Holy Scriptures which had never been entersd Core in want Yea l have to tell you that nine out of ten of the world's deliverers, nine out of ten of the world's messinhs—the messiahs of science, the messiahs of Jaw, the messdiabs of med) | cine, the messiahs of poverty, the messiahs | of grand benevolence were born in want, I suppose that when Herschel, the great astronomer, was born in the home of a poor musician, not only one star, but all the stars he afterward discovered, pointed downto h's manger. | suppose when Haydn, the Ger man composer, was born in the humble home of a poor wheelwright that all the angels of music chanted over the manger. Oh, what enconragement for those who are poorly started. Ye who think yourselves far down aspire to go high up | stir your boly ambitions to-day, and 1 want to tell vou, although the whole world may be opposed to you, and joside and out side of your occupations or professions there may be those who wou d hinder your ascent on your side and enlisted in your behalf are the sympathetic heart and the almighty arm of (ne who one Christmas night about vighteen hundred and eighty sight years ago, was wrapped in swaddiing clothes and laid in a manger. Ob, what magnificent =n couragement for the poorly started 11, Again. | have to tell you that in that village barn that night was bora good will to men, whether you call it kindness, or for bearance, or forgiveness, or geniality, or af fection, or love It wus no sport of high heaven to send its favorite to that bumilia tion. It was a sacrifices for a rebellious world Alter the calamity in Paradise, not only did the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, | and the elephant to smite with his tusk, and the lion to put to bad use tooth and paw, but under the very tree from which the forbidden | fruit was plucked were hatohed out war and revenge, and malice and envy and jealousy, and the whole brood of cockatrices But against that scene | set the Bethlehem manger, which says: * Bless rather than curse, endure rather than assault,” and that Christmas night puts out vindictiveness. It says: “"Sheathe your sword, dismount your guns, dismantle your batteries, turn the war | ship Constellation that carried shot and hell into a grain ship to take food to famished Ire'and, hook your cavalry horses to the plow, use your deadly gubbowiar in blasting le wit coruscate but never burn, drop all the barsh words from yeur vocabulary “UR™ you say, 1 can't exercise it: 1 won't ae them.” You are no Christian then you are no Christian, or you are a very in their them if they ask your forgiveness, = or “Good will to men.” Oh, my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into our hearts this Christmas hour. | tell you | what the world wants more than anything | olsemore helping bands, more sym thetic hearts, more kind words that never die more ines in making others ba mt of that Bethlehem “Good will to men.” That principle will yet settle all con. troversien, and under it the world will keep on improving until there will be only two The bear and antagonists in all the earth, and they will side by side take the jubllant sleigh ride int - when be sald: “Holl- pathetic union with other worids, The only : havaaver bail Aout Unrisuahit and waster worlds! But my skepticism is nd watch His i i i 3 g | takes its first step from the J inters | tion, stop your | ogize; & won't for | me to forgive | I my | wel had a v wettin fo is born — wd old pillars of the forest, the wheip of the lion lo of lux- urisnt leaf and wild floser, the kid of goat is born in cavern chandeliered with stalactite | and pillared with stalagmite. born in abare barn. Yet that nativity was the offender s hope. Over the door of beaven are written these words: “None but the sin- less may enter here,” “Oh, horror,” you say, “that shuts us all out” No. Christ came to the world in one door and He departed through another door. He came through the door of the manger and He departed through the door of the sep- ulcher, and His one business was so 10 wash away our sins that one second after we are dead there will be no more sin about us than about the eternal God 1 know that is putting it strongly, but that is what | understand by full remission. Ab erased], all washed away, all scoured out, all gone, That undergirding and overreaching and irradiatiog and imparadising possibility for you and for me and for the whole race was given on that Christroas night, Do you wonder we bring flowers today celebrate such an event! Do you wonder that we take organ and cornet and youthful voloe and queenly soloist to celebrate it! De you wonder that Raphse! and Hubens, and Titien and Giotto and Ghirlanda jo, and all the oid Italian and German painters gave the mightiest stroke of the pencil 0 sketch the Madonna, Mary and her boy! Oh' now | see what the manger was, Not #0 high as the gilded and jeweled and em broidered cradie of the Henrys of England or the sisen of France, or the Fredericks of Prussia. Now | find out of that Hethie bem crib fed not s0 much the oxen of the stall as the white horses of Apocalyptic vis jon. Now | find the swaddling clothes en larging and emblazoning into an imperial ro ¢ for a conqueror, Now | find that the star of that Christmas night was only the diamond sandal of Him who hath the moon under His foot, Now [| come to understand that the music of that night was not plete song, but only the stringing of the in straments for a great chorus of two works the Lass to be carried by earthly nations saved, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won Oh, Lo oom heaven, heaven, heaven ' I shall meet you there. After all our imperfections are gone | shall mest you there day, through the mist of years, fog that rises from the cold Jordan the wido open door of solid pear! union 1 expect to see you there as as lo you here What a time have in high converse, talking over sins par doned. and sorrows comforted, and battles triumphant I am going in through to that re certamiy we shall 1 am going family with me. 1 am going to take all my church with me. | am going to take all my friends and neighbors with me. 1 have so much faith in manger and cross 1 feel sure . 1 am going to coax you in. | am going wh you in By holy strategem | am go ing to surprise you in. Yea, with all the con entrated energy of my nature-—-phywical, mental, spiritual and immortal 1 am going to compel you to go in. 1 like you so weil | want to spend eternity with you Some of your children have already gone Some time ago 1 buried one of them, and though people passing along the street and soeing white crape on the doorbell may have said: “It is only a chil,” yet when the broken hearted father came to solicit my service be said: “Come around and comfort us, for though sbe was only fifteen months’ old we Joved her so much.” Ah! it does not take long for a child to get its arms around the parent's whole nature, What a Christmas morning it will make when those with whom you used to keep the holidays are all around you in heaven! Bil ver haired old father young again, and mother who had so many aches and and decrepitodes well again. and all your brothers and sisters and the little ones. How glad they will be tose you! They have been wailing The last time they saw your face it was covered with tears and distress, and Hid from Jong watching, and one of them | can imagine to-day, with one band holding fast "he shining gate, and the other hand swung oul toward you, say ing: Steer this way, father, steer straight for me Here safe in heaven | am waiting for thee Oh! those Bethelehom angels, when they went back after the concert that night over the hills, forgot to shut the door. All the r 10 take all my t to p tis out. No more use of trying to hide | consistent Christian, If you forgive not men | I ry , seen, how can you expect your | | Heavenly Father to forgive you! Forgive nd from us the glories to coma, It is too late to shut the gata. It is blocked wide open with hosannas marching this way and ballelujabs i h that way | give thom anyhow. Shake hands all around. at What almost vanmans me Is the thought that it is provided for such sinners as you and 1 have been. If it had been provided | only for those who had always thought raht. and Spoken right and acted right, you | and 1 would have had no interest in it, no share in it; you and | would have stuck | to the raft mid oosan, and let the ship sail | by. carrying perfect passengers from a per fect life on earth to a perfect life in heaven, Oh! 1 have heard the Commander of that ship is the same great and glorious and sym. Pathatic One who hushed the tempest around the boat on Galilee, and | have heard that all the passengers on the ship are sinbers saved by grace. And so we hall the ship, and it bears down this way, and we come by the side of It and ask the Captain two ques tions: “Who art Thou! and whenee™ He saves: “lam Captain of Salvation, and | am from the manger.’ Oh! bright Christmas morning of my soul's delight. Chime all the bells, reathe all the garisnds. House sll the anthems Shake hands in , Oh! life and lay Him down in all our hes Him an costly a present as Christ was | and | dieates the mencement of the new dis. {| son by adoption, ute phic; the mi graphic; the mouvement rapid. 8 favorite and characteristic word, on has Jong been thesymbol of Mark. The nar rative is vivid, Events ars sometimes put in the resent tapne, as though ve wers l00k- ing at There is abo “réquent abrapt- in passing from one thing to another, 2. we have a summary of this THE LESSON, by John (vs 1-0).—The “be- v., 1) does not refer to the book, a mere superscription. It in. labors of the Baptist. The ds for the work of Christ as See a summary of it in 1 ul. The dignity of Christ on of God,” not made a ints are, bat ‘made of “declared to be the ‘gow in 2 Tim i, Cor. xv. 1-4 by is declared —the the sed of David,” Son of God" by w did and by His resurrection see Hom 3 4 The evangelists deomed it of t importance that we should know this rk begins and John ends with it (John xx. 21), John is the messenger iv. 2 called Elijah in Mal. iil, 1 from being in his “spirit and power” see Luke I, 1517. The prepsring of the way relates to the influence on men's minds of the Baptists teaching. Christ was to appeal to men's consciences, and the work of preparing men for Him is a moral w f quotes fsa. x1, “The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of the Lord Revisad In the “wilderness of Judea t is called in Matt. ii, 1. John preached in a wild, rocky, rageed region in the eastern part of Ju territory. It is called wilderness bees ating not cultivated land ut used for pastures, and wilh tilled Ho far was it from umnhabited that, even in ad towns like Engedi Jont t Ie Its natural features would suggest the figures employed (Isa. xi, 4 to describe a great moral change, It was only afew hours Journey from Jerusalem. As in order make roads in this difficult region, levelin mast be done, 80, for the making of 8 way to men's bearts, the pride and haughbiy, im penitent spirit of the stony heart must be brought down. Hence John's preaching of repentance Hepentance (v, 4» Greek word, metanoia, change of n means much more than another word oon fused with it in the Authorized Version (See 2 Cor. 7, 8 Paul regret but the Co rinthians repented It is [ar more than re grotting. Its a total change of all that thinks and feels in u Judas's repentance was not metanoia word for it He ru change bis mind in Gowpwl The Jewish people nee od to mind as to life and its ends as to the Messiah and the reign 0 ex pected Every soul that becomes religious bas to change in the same way, 10 be re volutionised All re nm at makes re pentance mere keen regret for soul destroy ing sin is imperfect. Fe pentand hange of mind regarding ox self, Lime, Carist, and the very end for which we a made A sense s but the first result of this John fulfilled the pr He would have men break up old associations of Phar sees. NBadducees, and the like, and begin anew, with a changed mind wi bh would be owned by a fitting rite, baptism with water Hence It is called the “baptism of repent ance.” And as one was coming 10 pul away sin. whom they would re ect if the mind re mained unchanged, and receive if it were changed, it is added “for” or unto “ihe re mjpsion of sins” ie sudience was “all Judea” not every inbabitant, but people from every part of it—and “of Jerusalem” (v. 5). The Jordan was pear. They who did change their minds and adopt the new truth he st forth were “baptized of him in the river of Jordan, con fosming their sina A true sense of sin is the first practical result of the changed mind Baptism of Jewus (wx, 6-11), ~The striking appearance of the preacher is described in v. 8 His dress recalled, as did his tones, an Old Testament prophet 02 Kings i, 8; camel's hair the material of his simple robe, and a Jeathern girdle about his lolns; his food the jocusts, not cakes or fruits, but the locusts bodies, the lege and wings being thrown away, and the body eaten with salt, as the poor Orientals Sil this day Honey that was gathered from the rocks or from the trees was She other slement in his wo Version iab's the translation of a i t ted change their ast : uly, au Lh] sn of sin jrhecy mumple diet, V. 7 gives the Baptist's announcement of the Messiah. He draws attention, but it is to turn it to another coming after him, greaier that he, and more worthy of alien tion, as he ox = by “whos shoes,” eto. This needs no explanation, The baptism of John with water (v, § was preparatory. The higher baptism of the coming one should be with the Holy Ghost, The facts of our Lords teaching, promise, and gift of the Spirit, explain this The baptism of our Lord (v. W, who came from Galilee to John at Jordan, we can only understand in part, and moch conjecture re garding it is useless, or worsa il we oan certainly say is that it was His willing identi Boation of Himsel! with men, with the Jews, and His scovptance of that new dispensation for which John's work was a preparation. Je He had no sin to confess, as John the Baptist | cleat and firm. felt. (See Mate iii, 14) He desire 1 to “ful fill all nghtnotsness, even as He was circum. cised.” Omitting particulars, not in the line of his main object, Mark hastens 10 the super. natural testimony, the and pred rig todo, Great trials often follow grant privileges. As with the Master, so B il be in a measure with His peope. HOUSEROLD AFFAIRS, Tar painted Floors. . Fome months ago the floons ho! tralian garrisons were painted wi ar and the results have er, #0 uni ly advantageous, that the method is : tly extended in its applic collection of dust in cracks svented, and a consequent ht in irritating diseases of the Ren noted. Cleanliness of the greatly facilitated, and most completely ex- pg of tar is inexpen- al but once a year, ove disadvantage, Weolor, Housewife, p me for Invalids. i operly prepared, says te, boil a fine young it is three Pins cooked ; ther skin, pick all the flesh from and pound it in a morta He of the liquid in which it was : tablespoonfuls of finely d crumbs, = teaspoonful of pn rind, a sufficient seasoning pd & grating of nutmeg, When d to & perfectly smooth paste, put tho x ture into assucepan with a little more of the liquid, and let it simmez geutly for ten minutes. When finished, the panads should be slightly thickes than cream. It will keep quite fresh and sweet for three or four days, and can be heated, a few spoonfuis at a time, and served poured over a lice of nice, crisp, hot toast, or in a very tiny dish with sippets of toast inserted round about. Nothing more quickly destroys the capricious appetite of an invalid than having a large of anythi no matter how dainty, set before them ; they require to eat often, but only a very little at a time, fieh ¢ ais +. Dampening and Ironing Clothes. The clothes should be gathered as soon as dry on windy days, as an hour's whipping and switching in the wina will wear them more than weeks of or- m, as they will be les longer time, Dampeni and shirts is an import polishing, as ; not wet. For collars an thin piece of cloth—cheese- loth is best perhaps—wet it and wring itout. Then begin near one end of it, tolayonita cuff: then fold over the end without bending the cuff, lay on another piece, fold again and so continue until ail the cuffs and collars are wrapped in the damp cloth. They will be ready for polishing in about an hour. To dampen shirts, lay a damp cloth over the bosom, sprinkle the rest of the shirt lightly, roll up and place with the collars and cuffs, The ironing table should be covered with a th'ck blanket and a clean white sheet, There should also be a shirt board six feet long and eighteen inches wide covered withtwo or three thick- pesses of cloth, in order to iron dresses aod skirts nicely. A bosom-board is in- dispensable ; this should be nine inches by eighteen inches, planed very smooth, and covered with a single thickness of cotton cloth, Keep the smoothing irons clean, and free from rust by scouring them well occasionally with powered emory. It is to be hoped that no one who reads this is an advocate of the “*non-ironing™ theory. So slovenly a practice as that of putting away clothes unironed cannot be d« pre ated 100 seve reiy Other care Jess habits will be sure follow in the wake of such a violation of the rules of Deatness If time is limited and strength inade- quate, economize elsewhere, See that no garments are soiled and washed une necessarily, Have fewer tucks a ruffles if need be, but do not neglect ha ironing , Laces and embroideries should be placed wrong side up over flannel, and ironed after being carefully smoothed. Ircn the thinner parts of dresses and other starched garments first, as they dry soonest; leave gathers and baads until the last, — Youlh's Companion, limber fls procure a to Recipes. Arrie Froru,—Bake four large ap- ples very soft, press the pulp through a sieve and add twelve ounces of sugar, the white of an eggand the juice of half a lemon, or any flavor desired. Stir to a froth and serve with maccaroons or any delicate cake. Braxce Maxor, One package of gel. atine soaked for one hour in a piot of water, At the end of this time pour | on the gelatine two quarts of boiling hot milk; add three Leaping teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar; stir ustil dissolwed; flavor to taste; strain into molds and set i the ice. Craxuenny Jerry, —Beoil the cran berries and water the same way for ff. teen or twenty minutes tl they are soft, thea strain through muslin close enough to retain the seed. To every pint of juice put & light pound of sugar. asd boil ten minutes. This ought to be very Pres Promixe Saver, —An excellent sauce for plum pudding can be made from the following recipe: Stir to a cream a 2up of butter, three cups of powdered sugar. When quite light, add the juice of one lemon, two teaspoon. fuls of nutmeg, apd the whites of two eggs beaten very still. Curexex Sovy, Cut up one chicken chicken from the soup, tear or cut h ad od
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