M——— Nii 5 —— | D——— THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, NEw Jersey towns were surprised and frightened by a meteor and an earthquake, Ary doubt on the question of rebuilding the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Tabernacle may now be considered at an end, Thn project has been abandoned, and the Rev, Dr, T, De Witt Talmage has sent in his resignation as pas- tor, which has been accepted, Micuaern J. Kerry, the well-known’ base. ball player, died of pneumonia in Boston, Mass, Bexsaxix Syren, having made collections for a telephone company in White Pialus, N. Y., was robbed of several hundred dol. lars by highwaymen, who flest throw a bag over his head, Daxsor to the extent of $100,000 was done by the storm to telegraph and tele phone wires in Connecticut, South and West, Ir having been demonstrated that the woman's vote in Denver, Col,, was finty-five per cent, of the total vote, the leading women have formed a State organization ol their own for the next National campaign Jorx Trayxor mortally stabbed Llewellyn Sharp and killed Isaac Davidson at L xing- ton, Ky., in a quarrel growing out of the Owens-Breckinridge campaign Cruz was killed in an election America, Ky., by “Tom" Joues, Jones and Tom" Bu the Somers brothers In an Wise County, Virginia, 1" “wat il 1 Washington. Tae two American armor plants at Bathle- hem and Homestead, Pennsylvania, seco ing to the annual report of Captain W. Sampson, Chief of the Bureau of Ordoance of the Navy, are the best equipped in world, Axmeassapor and Mrs, Bayard guests of honor at a dinner given dent and Mrs. Cleveland at House, All the members of the Cabinet and their wives, except Secretary and Mrs, Smith and Postmaster-General and Mrs, Bissell, were present Foreign. Near Valencia, Venezuela, a elo killed one hundred and fifty p damaged the cof ther crops to the extent iollars, Houses were levelled s washed away and traffic generally suspended Tux Russian Czar's body was conveyed from Livadia to Yalta, thenea on a warship to Sebastopol, where it was transferred to a railway carriage and the journey to St. Pet- ersburg began, THE LABOR WORLD. NEw Ye ~ » hep Tererroxes employ 10,000 Americans. 1dburst ersons and ak has 600 unions, Crxcixxart horeshoers work ten hours. Axznicax tackmakers organized in 1824. CixcixxATI carpenters get from $2to $8 a day. St. Lovis women shoomakers have formed & union, Tex Sicilian authorities are allotting land 10 laborers, Bavaxxan, Ga., has a colored longshore- men's union. INTERNATIONAL cigar-makers have a sur. plus of $450,000, Tue American Railway Union is gaining ground in the East, TuIrTY per cent. of the Union moiders of Cleveland, Ohlo, are idle, New Haxrsurze central labor unions have | formed a State association, Asovr 200 tailors are employed in the unt- | Britain, form factories of Great is cost the West Yorkauire, £120,000 in 1893, Turaz are 3468 railroad neers om- ployed in the United States and Canada. Exrroves of the United States Company has been on months, Tux Cooks and Pastry Cooks of New York has nearly 200 members and a fund of $8000. Tre owners of the Cocheo N. H., have increased wages five per cent, without any demand from the operatives Tyrawarr 3 the British War Ofon re. ceive only $3.50 to $6 per week, and an agitation for higher wages is in progress, » mills, at Dover, Tue trades unions of Australia have pro- teste admission of non-union men s public and charitable hospitals, Tax defaulting Secretary and Treasurer of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association took £32,000 of the money belonging to the Order. Wasuinarox Crry has got four-cent bread, but it is making trouble in the bakeries, as the bakers want to reduce the wages of their employes, and a strike is threatened. Tur number of employes of all grades in the famous Krupp gun manufacturing es- tablishment at Essen, Germany, is 17,176 ; st the fot the number of children is 43,658, and that of | 4 | Airy horses recently purchased was $909.19 per strikes, 0, Ix consequence of the closing of twelve saiphur mines in Sicily almost 4000 laborers were reduced to the danger ol starvation, In the mmes still opan laborers are glad to work fourteen hours a day for twenty cents, “Tue Mutual Society of Linotype Oper. | ators and Employes” is the latest trade or- | ganization in England. It is independent of the London Society of Compositors, and will | compositors who | probably include hand work in offices where the linotype machines are used, I — SLAUGHTER OF DEER. Greater Than Ever Before in the Adirondacks, The slaughter of deer in the New York | | substituting aluminum for beass in buttons, Adirondacks this year has been greater than | ' » ever before, It has been found that the present game law, which allows deer (0 be | shot between August 15 and September 1 | and allows sach hunter to kill two deer, does | If deer | were killed for the next two years at the rate | not protect the animals sufficiently, they were this season, they would be exter. minated in that period. The framers of the game law never antiel- pated this great slaughter, It was stated in the Department of Fish and Game Comu ls. | sion in Albany that the Legislature would probably be asked to shorten the deer season, and might possibly be roquested to close it tor the next year, POSTAL REVENUES. The Saving Effected Under the New System, The annual report of Third Assistant Post. master-Genoral Cralge has been made to the Postmaster-General. It shows that the postal revenue from all souross for the year ended June 80 last was $75,080 479, and that the total expenditure was $34.334,414, an excess of expenditures over the receipts of $0,248,985 The saving on the several contracts for stamped paper, as compared with previous arrangem ents, du the periods the cone tracts severally run, i shown to be about as follows: On postage stamps, $275,000; on stam envelopes, $906, § on al ara $262,000 i Rotal saving, 1,445.00, Trene 18 a great domand In Now York po Mog # decrease In the price of bread ow to the cheapness of flour, but no reduction has taken place, kers say that t are doing very badly, and that the Bread Trust, which is making ali the money, should reduce thelr rates, Bmall William | riot in South | shanan wers killed by | election riot in | Glass | strike cighteen | Association | | 1854. | that the clothing and equipaze TALMAGE'S TOUR. The Brooklyn Divine Returns From a Trip Around the World. The Rev, Dr, T. DeWitt Talmage has re. turned to Brooklyn from a six months’ trip around the world. He has been to Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, India, France and England. In all the large cities ho passed through he Jroached and lectured, speaking over sixty times, T. DE WITT TALMAGE, From San Francisco the Doctor went last | Mayto Honolulu, where he arrived at thetime that the actual transition of the Sandwich | Islands from a Monarchy to a Republic took place, Then he proceeded to Samoa, arriving at Apia the day after a fleres battle had taken place between the natives, He continued his journey to Auckland, New Zsaland and Sidney, New Bouth Wales, Then he went to Ceylon, Bombay Brindisi, Italy, ) Talmage was es. corted down the a by the ehlldren of the infant ¢ 1 flowers, He said that his plans for the future were not entirely settlag, Ha could say 1 about what may be done toward church to take the place of the Ta'x destroyed by fire just he Ceparte n with 54 hafore tt —— GENERAL HOWARD Ile Leaves the Army Under the Limit iver Otls RETIRED. Time exception Howard was the las He n West Point in inole War in Mf Oednance on General subsequently was an in was OK part Fiorida as Chief Harney's staff, nnd 1958 civ i Ey COST OF CAVALRY HORSES, For 975 Animals Parchased for the Army It Was $90.10 a Head, Quartermaster-Geoneral Batobelder, in his | annual report to the Secretary of War, shows of the army ver $1,300.00 daring past year, that the average cost of 975 ecav- and militia cont he head, and that toe transportation from Jaly, 1808 1894, for 3%3.664 persons, 370% animals and 89 855 tons of material, The Quarter. masters corps expended over hall a million dollars tor buildings at military posts, the most important being at Fort Theo Allan, Vt. ; Fort Wayne, Mich , and the new Fort Harrison, Montana. The new post near Little Roek, Ark.. wili be commenced this year. General Batchelder also has the jarnished to Jaly, Department | supervision of eighty-<three National ceme. teries, and during the year 7637 white marble headstones wore srectedd to mark the graves of soldiers and sailors, Considerable progress has been made in fixing the positions of the opposing armies | on the battiefleld of Antietam, Md. General Batchelder has not been able to reach a conclusion as to the desirability of helmet ornaments and buckles, as the dur ability of tue now metal tor these purposes is questioned. A PECULIAR STRIKE. One Girl Cried and Two Hundred Quit Work. The tears of Maud Callen wore the cause | ot a strike of 250 girls employed as packers Agana, on the Island of Guakan, in the La- at the Detroit (Mich.) Pear! Button Factory. The factory has been having trouble with its | employes, about 100 of its men now being out on strike, An effort to get the girls to strike failed until the foreman ordered Mand to pack some buttons that had heen finished by non-union hands, Bha refused, where upon he orderad her to quit work altogether, She donned her wraps, and then sat down and mried, Over 200 girl workers immedi. ately sarrounded her, od after a brief in- dignation meeting, walked out of the fac tory. The primary cause of the trouble Is the discharge of a foreman whom all the employes liked, SHE LIVED 100 YEARS, Death of Mrs. Lydia Caldwell King Mualock in ™iddletown, N. Y. Mrs. Lydia CaldwoN King Mulook has just died at Middletown, N. Y,, at the age of 100 years and two months, She leaves many descendants, some of whom are prominent in New York State, and others inthe West, Mrs, Mulook possessed a remarkable moms ory for names, faces andiBeriptural ‘pass. ages, and retained most of her faculties until the end. In Beptember last she ocolobrated her one hundredth birthday. Er | nounced at 9 o'clock | peror Alexander III, and the ne CZAR NICHOLAS IL Russia’s New Sovereign Assumes the Throne-—-Cleveland's Condolence. Emperor Nicholas IL, of Russia, has is« sued a proclamation at 8t, Petersburg an- nounocing the death of his father, Emperor Alexander III., and continuing as follows “May we be consoled by the consclousness that our sorrow Is the sorrow of the whole of our beloved people, and may the people not forget that fe strength and stability of Holy Russia les in her unity to us and her unbounded devotion to us, We, however, in this sad and solemn “hour, when ascending the ancestral throne of the Russian Empire and the Czardom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland, indissolubly connected therewith, we, in the presences of the Most High, record our solemn vow that we will always make our sole aim the peaceful de- velopment of the power and glory of baloved Russia and the happiness of our faithful subjects.” The proclamation concludes by directing the oath of allegiance to be taken to him, Emperor Nicholas II., and also the Grand { Dukes George, his successor, until God shall vouchsafe to bless with a son the union into ! which the Emparor is about to enter with | Princess Alix of Hesse Darmstadt, The Imperial heralds, olad in brilliant unis | Princess Alix was receive a, m, the death of Em- | forms, accompanied by trumpeters, ane The by a military guard the thrones of Emperor Nicholas II, heralds were escorted | through the principal strosts, The trampst- ers would blow three blasts, when the heralds would proclaim the death of one Emperor and oMefal birth of another, This proclamation was made from every plass of vantage on the routs taken by the Ria The following is the oMeial correspons dence in connection with the death of the Russian Emperor: “From Livadia, 1804, “To the President Amerlea “I have the sorrow to impart to you the cruel loss that I and Russa have just sus- tairfed in the person of my beloved father, Emperor Alexander, deceased this ay. “Nionoras,® ol as follows embar 2, 1804, olns IL, Emperor of Recslved November 2 of the United Btates of To this the President rep! “Wasmixorox, Nov “To His Majesty Nie Russia, Livadia : “I hasten to sxpress my heartfelt sympathy and the sympathy of my ntrymen with the royal family and the Russian peop their afiliction by reason of the death of your honored father, Groves CrLeveraxn,” i The deviation from the usual custom of sending messages of condolens thr Sacretary of State was taken in fnstancs because FE notifying the President of hi made the notification 1 ficial her's death, onal than ole ——— PROMINENT PEOPLE. assassination ‘rar of Rus onw. or's usiastis bi- on every DMAN, i 1d bank is one of the hand- fn men in New York, Dwionr L. Mo an invitation to pend six months evangelizing Japan, and it sald that he will probably aseept, py has Eovoexze On yf the most popular American singers on the Hght opara stage, died In London after a bris! (lines, Dix, any Parsee Cronwio Cant Vieron vox Hone ExLoRE-SoRILLINosrUasy, the new German lor, is seventy-four years old the distinguished Te Paovesson Bracke, Scoteh philosopher, bas an odd habit for in. | doors, It includes a widebrimmed hat, Nis wife (Elaine Goolala) are living fn St. | Pani, Mian, and are well and prosparous. Oscan Winn (a ssid to have deolined with soant courtesy an offar of mach financial y Inctdre again in this country, Aronien, the veteran y! the world in ex-Mayor of fa tour I. Pier {ociares that Servia de. 1 terms with all ves wil fore tat Brasewnn, yaar, nearly wiography, on which he has been en time past, ee J. M, Hantax, fs the largest, and *xt to Jastios Gray, the tallest man on the United States Supreme Bench, He is sixty- one years old, bald, and in fins hwmith, He has Is bial, hearty, very popular, anl greatly | in demand at dinnor parties, Tux Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, of Bng- ward, Christian Soldisr,” Is at once a coun- manor, a sermon writer, a student of com- parative religion, a popalar novelist and a poet, He has written fifty books, M.A Cruxo Is the diplomat of the Ohi. ness Legation in Washington, whose thor ough knowledgs of English medium of communication between the lo gation and the press and public. Mr. Chung Is a Yale graduates and a member of the Delta Kappa Upsilon fraternity, He is one of the first of the Chinese officials able to speak English without a trace of foreign accent Doxcax H. Canrnrry, whose inventions are sald to have revolutionized shoe manu facturing in this country, diad tn Pawtucket, R. I. aged sixty-sight, Hoe was born in Beotland, and was brought to this country when sight years old. The New England and Era pogaing and stitching machines, cable screw wire machine for making sloth. coverad buttons, and the greatest of all, the wax thread lock-stich machine were among his Inventions, SAILED BY CHILDREN. The Daring Voyage of Captain Vehl- ing, His Wife and Seven Children, Captain Frederick Vehling has arrived at drones, having made the voyage of 6500 miles from San Francisco, Cal, in a twelve-ton schooner, nccompanied only by his wife snd seven children. He left last spring to engage in coffeo planting in the Houth Beas, Vehling's two oldest ohildren, the oldest fourteen years, took turns in steering during the day and the father and mother alternat- od at night, The schooner is forty-six feet long, with twelve feet beam, SL —————— - Tux Virginia State Bullding at the World's Fair, which was a reproluction of George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion, has been purchased and is now occupied as » residence a Chioago policeman, W, 8, McGuire, o house, which cost $17,000, was bought by McGuire for $400, EE — cm Ixrerviews with large rotatlers in Ohi cago result in the unanimous opinion that more Joods are being sold than in 1803 at this time, but the gross return is much smaller beonuse of the lower prices. All ax- Pitted themselves as satistiod with the - i —— cm Burris morohants do not expect sorious scarcity of apply or advanos prices in the raw markets in conse quence of the Ohina~Japan war, FATAL EARTHQUAKE, People In Mexico City Crushed by | Falling Walls. A number of deaths in Mexico occasioned by earthquakes are reported, including chil. | dren erushed by falling walls, News from the interior shows that the | shocks wore severe, Many people were in. | Jured and houses wore destroyed, | The earthquake showed {ts groatest foros | in a north and south direction, though the | upward shock was violent, | Probably no city less strongly bullt than | the Clty of Mexico could have resisted its | fmme foron, Buildings overywhers are | ornoked. Even the massive rook wall of the | cathedral is in a perilous condition, the beams in the roof erpoked and the bulld. ing threatened to come down on the heads | of the prisopers, over 2000 {no number, | The city government bdllding was io jured slightly, the glass roof belng wrecked, RUSSIA'S NEXT EMPRESS, | The Princess Alix received ut {the names Alexan ira | noteworthy ineldent, { tions and | absolution, the priest | with consecrated ofl os in | agh the | op- 1 author, | [Fowla, ¥™..... ..... Princess Alix Admitted Into the Ore thodox Greek Church, A déspatoh from Livadia, Russian, says that formally into the orthodox Church, After the ceremony she exchanged rings with rension to | hor Lethrothed, the | Emperor Nicholas, other meme present, her baptism Faodorovaa. I'he her the rank Nicholas IL, his mother and bers of the Imperial family were Crar afterward conferred upor | of Grand Duchess of the The ceremony passed After the responses, and usual gues. giving of anointed the Princoss n the temples, eyes, nose, lips, ears, hands and feet, touched these spots with a spong holy water, He pr and exhorted the onlookers to pray the I inimed her ior ber, A sony has al 30.000 to ba the Government Electric Ballway ( lands require fleld intaet, THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted In New York. 45 MILE ANT The market showed onl of motivity the past week . reosived for the surplus at the platforms was $1.57 per can of 40 Exo! ice, Se. per quart net to the shipper eipts of the week, fluid milk, gals. Cae Condensed milly gals Cream, gals... paid by tysburg (Penn for the takin the historic battle. EL ——— CREAM, y & Ialr amount I'he average price 1 juarts ange 1.555.008 14.780 . 87.407 BUTTER. Creamery —Penn., extras. .. 9 Wastern, extras, Waostorn, firsts, PTY Western, thirds to seconds Thirds toseconds.... .... Western Im. Creamery, firsts Seconds. . .. Ri Western Dalry........ Factory, June, firkins.. i CHERSE. | State-.Fulleream, white, fancy Fall scream, good to prime, | State Factory-—Part skims, Be Part skims, good to prime. Pall skims EE ] | tat NS PR Doma Sapa Hd | Due ogen—Bouth & West ., | Goose eggs a va ie masew | BEANS AND PEAS Beans— Marrow, 1804, chelce, 2 2 Medium, 1854, choles . Paa, 1884, choles Red kidney, 1574 White Kidney, 1803, cholos | Bisek tartle soup, 1563 Lima, Cal., 1593, ¥ 60 ils Green pons, hbis, FRUITS AXD BERRIES Lemons at Prunes, ¥ baskot . Cranberries, Cape Cod, ¥ bbl Jersey, ¥ orate Quiness, ¥ bbl. Apples, gresnings, win . Common qualities Pears, State, ¥ bbl ie Grapes, Del, ¥ basket... Catawba RAI Concord aholos BE BD BD AD we me BD ¥ bbl ROTA : , | Biate-—1804, choles, # Ib land, the author of the popular hymn, “On- | 1804, common to falr | Pacific Const, sholoe try parson, a country squire, a lord of the | Good to prime. Old odds,......... BAY AXD STRAW, makes him the | LIYE FOULTRY ow aaveaen > BE2Z%xunna DRESSED POULTAY, Tarkeys, young #1, ........ | Ohickens, Phila, brollem, .... cansssss 170 @ 300 YEIRTARLER, Potatoes, Bt, & Jersay, # bbl 125 Long Island... .. } Bweet, bbl... 0000s Cabbage, ® 100... .“h Onions—Yellow, ¥ bbl 16! Tamipn I: i rips, Rassia, # bt White ho Ege plant, ¥ bbl "au Celery, ¥ doz, roots... .... Tomatoes, ¥ erate... ... Lima beans, ¥ bag. > .. Cauliflower, ¥ bbl... String beans, Norfolk, “es 3 aw BE2881 881: : : 3 a ag) 8: saan GRAIN, KETO Flour—Winter Patents. ...... 0. CERIN 4 Oorn—No, FT Oats—No, 2 White Track mixed TEAR REaRRaEa SEAR EL AEs EE EEE a. od Western Benda Timothy, $100. +. LIVE SrOoK. PY dren to good. ...20 Calves, city Aremied.....sess Couniry dressod i) #100 AREA E RE SS Ld 200s w aR 2) 1923835 _- =I 2 8 I$ 1188 AAA RR A] 939 a _ BEANE Beals PRA EERE EE 4 | apartments, 2 = oo Lo Fo88=s3, SAA ARAL ER ARAL ANY v Boston has a five cent restaurant | for women. Sarah Grand only received $984 for her novel, “Heavenly Twins.” One London woman makes a good living in breaking in new shoes. Queen Marguerite, of Italy, has | yielded to the prevailing eye nia There was a panic in Pelom prison, where | ya 4 prev g eycloma All animals enumerated in naturs history are utilized for fur trimming The girl of the period resorts to artificial methods to add to her height, Even small women in sealukin wraps with balloon sleeves will look ““im- pressive.” There is a young society bud of the Gotham Four Hundred who wears a No. Lo shoe, Every of England's roysl princes wears a facsimile of his bride's wedding ring. In picture frames for the beautiful,” white and gold have great. est popularity. For the linen hee pe ra find lavender both pleasant and se rvie able. one “house closet most house The Queen of England has a large finely shaped hand, Bhe . 8 black suede glove. I'he Empress of Germany takes a 1 interest in hospital work and is 1 friend to the nurses, at wears g00 Paria “Occasion” prices the RUODE COrTespon 1 to the “‘special-sale’ placards of New York stores. The sionally tries her hand at ar mounted rod that cos Princess of ling, hag a gold $200, For birthday rings silver has again come into popularity, especially with agate, sardonyx and moonstone set- tings, Miss Helen Goul _2%% : DULNAras, 1 goes in strong for It is said that she has been known to score as many as three points at a run The danghters of the Prince Wales have taken to eycling and run into each other just wheelers do. of a8 every-day The ladies of Montgomery, Ala., are about to present the United States cruiser Montgomery with a handsome silver service. Mrs. Ella W. Peattle, a member of the staff of the Omaha (Neh) Worzld- Herald, has been nominated for a po- | School sition on the city. Miss Anna F. Grant, who is at the head of a printing and publishing house in Boston, is preparing s pro- fessional and business woman's direc- tory. Board of that fitted ap special sobs of honeymoon Blonde, brunette and brides have ¥ooms to nut-brown harmonize, Au anti-corset league is conducting 8 campaign against tight lacing in England. Its motto is: *“Pashion without folly; elegance without ec- centricity."” Those who are in the country now and co secure good specimens of rough bark, will find it an effective decoration for a special room in their winter home, The verse of Helen Hunt Jackson was ranked by Emerson above that of most American poets. She was born 34] in 1831, and her best prose works are | tales of Western life. Worth is said to be the only dress. maker living who refuses to alter your dress if it does not suit you. If the fit is not perfection he makes an en- tirely new costume, A committee of German women has been organized to visit foreign coun. tries and study the woman question under the leadership of Frau Profes- sor von Gisysky, of Berlin, When Mrs. J. W. Mackay, wife of the bonanza millionaire, wants to im-! press her European friends with her own importance she invites them to dinner and sets them in front of a $196,000 silver service. London society women have a new fad—the wearing of an immense ring on the first finger of the right hand. The ring has to be big and aggressively | solid, so that it may contrast with | small and delicate hands, On rainy days in China, when a lady | comes to a muddy place she beckons | to a boy, who will, if he is in the busi- ness, drop down in front of her, mak- ing a stepping stone cn which the lady reaches dry land again. The cleverest American actresses are | taking steps to emancipate this coun- | try from the tyranny of French fashion. Many of them have very de- cided and original ideas which they make their dressmakers carry ont, One of the few things for whieh old Queen Mary is to be thanked is the big sleeve. While it represents the garish taste of the Tadors, it also in its present modifications gives a pie- turesqueness to a tall girl's costume that is often queenly, A new cult has been formed which is devoted to the eyebrow and the eye lash. Its disciples believe that the charm of beauty lies in broad arched brows and they useall sorts of brushes, tweezers and pomatums to produce the effect seen in ancient statues, By the will of Mra. J, P. Armory, of Beoiiator Mase., that town is to have “‘a temporary home for poor wo, men and their young children, and for invalid women, both yonng and old.” Mrs. Armor wlso left bequests to the Women's Hospital and the Skin and Cancer Hospital of New York and t¢ two Massachusetts hospitals, Co a— HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, LACE KERCHIEFS IN THE WASH. By putting lace handkerchiefs in warm water in which are a few drops of ammonia, and using castile BORD, they are emily washed and made a beautiful, clear white. Then do not iron, but spread the handkerchief ont smoothly on marble or glass, gently pulling out or shaping the lace, Just before it is entirely dry fold evenly and smoothly and place under a heavy weight of some kind and you will find handkerchiefs lasting thrice as long as before, —New York Journal, HINTS ABOUT MENDING, Nothing keeps flannels and stock- ings and other underwear looking so well as d arning and mending snd re- pairing material that matches per- fectly. A hole seems almost prefer. able to a gray stocking darned with biue, or black undershirt bound with red, or a brown patch where there should be a black Buttons, all kinds of mending threads, in cotton, bindings in taf. one, linen, silk, and wool, feta ribbons by the roll, and white sotton tape of all widths, and even webbing by the yard are to be bought At most reasonable old things as prices for making good LE] for y new, and Wales, who occas | keeping the new in perfect condition. yy in the ‘ An Boon It also seems to be same direction to buy the same n wakes from ou 5 un One ILNay fle ROABOI, | and colors in and hose BO that have material to reinforce weak places New York Post, | senson to { i { without buying it { To rub spotted lamp chimneys with | salt before washing them. To restore gilded picture frames by | rst removing the dust with a soft brush and washing ti gilding in | warm water in which i has been boiled. Then dry quickly witha gioth, To wear well-fitting shoes about the housework ; they will be less fatiguing than loose, untidy slippers that are supposed to be worn for comfort To remember that the usual methods for removing paint spots from clothing will not be satisfactory if the paint has become hard and dry. In this use equal parts of ammonia and turpentine, saturate the spot as often as necessary and wash out in soapsuds, To cut doughnuts out an hour or more before they are fried and allow them time for rising. They will be | much lighter than whea fried as soon as they are cut. Try cutting them at night and frying them in the morn- | ing. Io use melted alum for a handy cement. It may be quickly prepared, and may be used for mending any- thing whigh will not come in contact with heat and water. i To prevent hair from becoming | prematurely gray by taking one ounce onion CARBO of glycerine, one ounce of bay rum {thoroughly and add a few drops of the | oil of bergamot. | To clean carpet by wiping it off i with a sponge wet in water, to which 's tablespooniul of turpentine has been added. This should be dome about once & month, after the carpet has been thoroughly swept; and it will keep it wonderfully bright and fresh looking To keep the ironing board and table firmly and evenly covered with a thick blanket and sheet, with a quantity of holders convenient, so that the towels will not be burned out in their service. --New York Recorder. CAKES FOR THE CHILDREN. | Plain Cup Cake—For two sheets of cake use one oupful of sugar, haif a { eupful of butter, one cupful of milk, | two cupfuls and three-quarters of sifted flour, the rind and juice of one | lemon, three eggs, one teaspoonful of | soda and two of cream of tartar. Mix [the flour, soda and cream of tartar { and sift the mixture. Beat the butter [to a cream. Gradually beat in the | sugar. Beat the eggs till light and | beat them into the butter and sugar. | Now add the milk, and lastly the flour, Beat vigorously for half a minute, Spread the mixture in two buttered shallow pans, Sprinkle with powdered sugar and cook for twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Raisin Cake—Take two and one-half eups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sour milk, two spoon- fuls of cream, one cup of chopped raisins, one teaspoonful of soda, one- half teaspoonfal of cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg. Flour enough to knead. Roll out an inch thick. Cat into ob- long pieces. Bake quickly. Soft Gingerbread—Stir two tea- gpoonfuls of soda and one of ginger into one cup of molasses. Add one- third of a cup of butter and one oup of warm water in which one teaspoon- ful of cream of tartar has been dis- solved. Add three small cups of flour, mix together and bake. Plain Spice Cake—Take one egg, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar, the same quantity of molasses and of but. ter, a cupful of milk, two cupfuls and s balf of flour measured generously, one teaspoonful of sods, one level tea. spoonful of cream of tartar, one tea. spoonful of vinegar or lemon juice, and one tablespoonful of mixed spice. Beat the egg well, and after adding to it the molasses, sugar, spice and but. ter—the latter being first melted beat again. Mix the soda with the milk and add to the other mixture the eream of tartar with the flour, and stir into the butter, and finally add the vinegar or lemon juice. Pour into two shallow pans and bake for twenty min- utes in a moderate oven. Cookies—Two oups of sugar and one cup of butter beaten y § wo eggs, yolks and er rately; one-half Cup of sweet milk, one-half teaspoonful of tmog. Flour to poll. —New York World : —~
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