i) HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher NILi DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars por Annum. VOL. X. BIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1880. NO 41. Guided. tTp the ioiir, slippery elopes wo toil and strain, Amid the ice Bod snow, Untrodden heights above ns to attain, UntroJrten depths below; Danger to lolt and danger to the light, All wearily we go. Cruel and beautiful the Mue crevasse Yawns close beside the way, The avalanches topple o'er the pass, Their eold, white torrents stay Only a moment ere they roar and plunge To rend and whelm and slay. Each following each, we mount, as we are led, Up the lone, steep incline; Our Guide walks calm and tearless at the head Ot the long laltering line, And sbows the narrow path where safety U By word and look and sign. Marktrg His footsteps, treadini where He trod, Clcso following on His track, We cannot la'nt or tall or miss the road, Though deep the snows, and black The precipices yawn, and rough and steep The lorward path and back. Intent ou Him, we do not mark or see These linrd things by the way. It is enough that we are led, and He Whose guidunce we obey Has gone belnro and knows how bard it is) What He has done we may. Abovo the mists wo catch a faint, lar chime, And elin:pses heavenly lair Sliino through, and siem to beckon as we distant, bright they ate! Dear finidc, lend on! We do not ask lor rest Would God that we were there! .Susan Coolidgc. UNAVAILABLE TALENTS. My wife nnd I looked at eacb other in blank despair. We are such lively peo pie that it is very seldom we are both blue at once, hut this time we had good and sufficient renon. We had come t our Ut dollar. We had no certainty of getting any more monry.nnd we were too honest to wish to be in debt. This was an extraordinary position for us, us we were considered by all who knew ustohnsrc'i "uncommonly talented'' peopl. I whs always told in college that if I would apply myself I might easily Ft and first in my class, though in point of li-.ct I stood somewhere in the twenties, I believe I have since some timf s wi.nrtered if application may not be iue'f a separate talent, instead of be ing within (he reach of all. as is often ciippospii. My wif was always the life of ar. j c m. any. She was as pretty and 1 1 ru a we m m ns you would wish to see. ami sLe sang ballads with really won derful expression. I never saw a woman who appreciated a joke po q lickly, and in amateur theatricals she was ivreMibV. Her talents went even fnrtlT t'in this. She read poetry s beauti'ully fit t "everybody cripd ; and, on the other h'nd, she w.is so fond ot mathematics that she studied cmic sec tions one winter by herself, " for fun." We were both vtrsatile, we were both lively, we wore both mercurial. Now, however, we had no money, and very little flour in the house. M wife had made a nice johnny-cake lor the delectnion of the children at supper, and they had gone to bed content, and were row peacefully sleeping. Mean time it became absolute! necessary for us to fucc our fate. I was a lawyer. I chose ttiat profession, not from any in nate sympathy with it, but because I could not bp a clergyman, and would not bi a physician. Of course I began to pracice in the city; for though there seemed to be no opening tncre, i liked to Jive in the city. You know the theater, and music, and books, and pic tures, and society, can hardly be had in the country. K I had been less talented a mre c'.olhopper I could have cone without the refinement of life and been happy. As it was, it did not orca recur to mo that I could live in the country. I need not say mv practice amounted to nothing. Those who have tried the same experiment know thai some years eiap3e before a maintenance can be counted upon. However, I lived meanwhile on a modest legacy which had descended to me from an aunt, and married a wife. Florence had no money and no experience of housekeeping; but I hope I should not marry as I would select a servant. We got on beautifully in spite of the quicksands which already present themselves to the reader's mind In the first place we had no end to good times together, so our lifo was a success so far, and I know we were so happy that we made everybody arou- d us happy too. Aud we lived within our means, email us they were. We would have liked a million, and I really t'jitik we could have spent it profitably ; still we were not extravagant, and both ot us were honorable and conscientious. We were at peace, with all the world, and considered ourselves noble in char acter and talented in mind. Unfortunately the failure of the bank in which my legacy was invested changed the aspect of things. We smiled at first, because we thought we should respect ourselves more if we were brave. Ana our friends said we bore it charmingly. " But of course it is not as if you had not your practice.' This was very well, but privately we know that the practice would hardly keep us in boots and shoes; and then I had practiced long enough now to find out I hated it. 1 was not meant for a lawyer, and, to speak after the manner of the Methodists, it would have been "indulging n false hope" to supoose I ever should succeed. It seemed imper ative that I should look to some other source for an income. I had written a play for the " Grecian Club," to which we belonged, the year before, which had been received with prolonged applause; but r.ow, when I wrote another, aud oil'eied it to th? manager, he declined with thanks. I had also written vers de societe which had been pronounced by good critics as witty as Holmes'; but when I sent them to the magazines, I received a neat printed circular saying that, "owing to t' e overcrowded state of the market," they could not accept anything nioreat present, but urging me to believe that ' want ot literary merit" had nothing whatever to do with their r'jij.'tlon. Florence, getting desperate, advertised for private pupils in mathematics; but the only one who appeared was bent on studying logarithms, which she bad found so tedious when a ic-i.oolgirl that she had skipped them alwjr titer. This wai too bad, for the is icthy a splendid mathematician, as far as the principles go, and that is the reason probably she hates rternal figuring sc much. With her music- ttie contrary Is true. She knows nothing about the theory, but her practice is exquisite; so of course she cannot give lessons. She sews very well, I believe at least we are all kept neat and whole and she has good taste; but she says her stitches will not bear examination, and if she tried to sew better, she should work so slowly that she could not earn her salt. Her housekeeping is very pleasant, I know; hut we have a hun dred little idiosyncrasies which would make taking boarders impossible, even i f it were not intolerable, so we have never seriously considered that ques tion. It will probably be thought cold blooded in me to speak in this way of my wife's earning anything, especially when, now we had dismissed our girl, she had everything to do for the chil dren and for me; and, in fact, I did not mean she should do anything, but she was always pondering the matter, and in some darit momen s I gave in a little myself. I thought I would commit uicirte, aud let her support the chil dren! It is obvious that now neither of us felt as sure of our elevated character or of our talents as before the legacy was lost, and we had at last arrived at the above-mentioned state of blank despair. " It is really too bad," said Florence, at last; "it would take so little to make us happy, and yet we can't have it." "There is nothing under heaven to be done," said I, gloomily, " but for me to go as a day-laborer in a factory ; and as I am unskillful, and very old for a be sinner, 1 cannot earn enough to support the family, so I think, my dear, that you had better go into the same factory : that is, if we can find work, which I think doubtful in these times. And we will apprentice the children to the trade, so they will be better able to tike care of themselves than we were when they iro w up." Florence made no reply to this re mark, but shortly after began a short catechism. "Van, are you aristocratic?" " No, not exactly," said I ; " I like the things aristocratic people have, you snow, but it is not for fear ot losing caste that I object to the factory." " I thought not," said Florence, com placently; " but of course you object to the ' grind,' and so do I. Now the ques tion is, what are the necessities ot life to you?" "Oh, yes," said I. "First, you and the children; second, a house that does not leak to cover us; third, corn cake and salt fish; fourth, a good fire in thr vinler; fifth, a warm woolen suit foe acli ot us; sixth, some light active out loor employment, which will not re duce my spirits to such a point that I jan't enjoy your society when I have .eisure to sit down in the evening." " And you would like to keep a horse P" said Flor.nce, confidently. " Why, yes." I said, rather surprised ; " but since wo have never kept one since c were married, it seems to me we might dispense with it now." ' Unless it came in the way of busi ness," said Florence, calmly. "Now that I know what your real views ot lie necessaries ot lite are, I have a plan which I had hesitated to proposo be fore, thinking you might demand more." She unfolded a newspaper, and poinfd to an advertisement. FOR S ALE The horse, cart and complete stock tit a tin oo Idler. Excellent rou'e. business piy well. Sells only becau-e himi'y mutters require a removal to the West. Terms easy. Address A. Wicks, Plainville I felt a spark of hope. " I suppose you are in fun, Florence," I said ; " but I really think I should not hate this a much as anything else I see any pros pect of trying. However it will proba bly amount to nothing." It then appeared that it was several days since Florence had seen the notice, and jhe had ttken paias to inquire into the matter before speaking to me. Stic Knew some one in Plainville who had learned all the particulars. It really was true. The business was good, that is, of its kind. "Of course," our in formant said, "it did not pay anything like the law;" and we honed he was right. The peddler really was goini west, lor lie had money enough to live on, and his wife's health demanded change of climate. He would sell chean. and let us pay in installments, and wo couia r?nt his cottage for a very small sum. It did seem providential. Riding about the country, even in a peddler's cart, had far more attractions for me than toiling in a factory. Besides, 1 had a secret assurance that I had no capacity for "toil," and I knew I could drive any horse in PI dnvil'e at least Then the selling, my goo i looks (I believe I forgot to men' ion that before), my gen tlemanly manners, my goou-nature, my persuasive address, on which l had been complimented again and again, would all be of the utmost service to me in this business; and here I had been almost tearing my hair in my anguish at thinking that none of my powers were ot the least avail m the bread-and-butter Question. And so we purchased the business by selling some ot our furniture, and went to Plainville to live. I seriously believe that there is a niche lor every one Looking back on my time of despair, and comparing it with my present, l am gratelul that I can say that while I then thought I was so constituted that I could be neither useful nor happy in lite, I now find that I have been endowed with abundant capacities for both use fulness and happiness, and that no talent I possess has failed of bearing some iruit. And Florence says the same ining aoouc nerseu. Let me elaborate : The cottage we lived in was not strictly beautiful, but it was comfort able, and in a pleasant place, with an orchard before it, and we trailed creep ers on trellises about it, and planted roses and flowering shrubs along the stone walls. It was a fresh, sweet place to live in, and the children had a lovely playground. At first Florence had no servant, and worked very hard, but sho wa9 young and well and strong, and she declared that she did not get so tired as she had often done i" our old home with the thousand and one society duties from which she was exempt now. "And the balance in favor of this is," she added, "that now I get tired in ac complishing something." I enjoyed my life even the first day, for, as nobody knew me, I had no loss of caste to fee r, and it was amusing to me to see the puzzled faces of my cus tomers, who seemed to feel that in lome w;f I wtr ot to the manor born, and were evidently pleased with my bum- Die airs and graces. I liko to study human nature, and now F saw much of it at home and off its euard. This delighted me. Two rules I observed which made me respected and popular: first, I never entered a house unless 1 was invited : second. I never in sisted that peopie Bhould buy what they did not want. But I always had an ex cellent assortment of things, and any lit tlo novelty I might have I took pains should be seen at a glance, that it might recommend itself. I am passionately fond of out-door air nnd scenery. I used to enjoy fist horses, but I have my dreamy side, and I hardly know anything more exquisite than to jog leisurely along the country roads at six o'clock on a May morning, when the buds are all bursting and the birds all singing, or to return quietly home in the late June twilight, just as the stars are coming out. I like to be out in a soft summer rain, too. There is enough to see and enioy in the crisp autumn weather to reconcile me to the unwieldly cart 1 ride in. Even on run ners it is not to be despised. I believe I like all winds and weat hers. Then I used to give myself holidays, often in winter, when Florence and the children and I had no end ot fun. Of course we helped Florence to do the house work first, and then had the day for pleas ure. From May to Ootober I hardly ever went alone on my journey. Every pleasant day Florence, or one of the children, or all the family, went with me on our rounds. How exciting it was, nnd how happy we were I We took our dinner with us sometimes, and played we were gypsies, and camped out in the roost enticing places in the beauti ful woods. if I had to go alone, I often took a book; sometiir.es I learned a poem. sometimes 1 even composed one, and. strange to say the magacines which had disdained my contributions in the days when I desperately needed money, now often accepted my effusions with com pliments. In the evenings Florence and I sang duets, and popped corn, and read novels. As we had no social dignity to keep up. we felt at liberty to enioy ourselves even better than in the law days, which is saying a great deal, tor we always had such a good time then. Then my business kept improving, so Florence could have a servant. Then we had more time for "larks" than ever. We got acquainted with our neighbors. There was not a person of any literary pretension in town except the minister and doctor. This state ot things had its advantages as well as its disadvantages, because it is pleasant to be (Jatsar even in a country village. Florence and .1 wrote a comedy lor the Sons of Temper ance, and performed in it with great ap- oiause. l suppose Shakespeare went, to his grave wii bout such recognition as we received. Florence sang in the etioir so swf etly that several people who had hardly baen to church twice a year be fore began to go regularly. We formed a reading club of all the young people who showed a spark of promise, a' d they had a deiightlui;time, and thought they were literary, and we had a de lightful time, and the modest conscious ness that we were great benefactors ol our race. Once a year we put on our best clotho3 and went to the city lor a week, and went to the theater, opera, concerts and art galleries, and came home tired and happy, and convinced that tin peddling was a far healthier and happier life th tn it was possible to lead in the midst ol such effete civilizations. Let me be clearly understood. I did not continue the business when I had laid aside enough money to live upon without it. Meantime lean tru y say 1 en joyed it a thousand times better than I ever did the la-, aud to me a; least it as a hundred times more lucrative, and I bless the day when my clever wife discovered a sphtre in which all our odds and ends of talent would be avail able. Harper' Hazir. Emperor William as u Huntsman. The Emperor William, of Germany, has returned from a hunting viit, to J-iUdwigsiust. use day a stag was driven past him. He fired, but the stag hounded away and was afterward found dead in the cover bv the roval keeoers. When the sport was over tho emperor loosed at the game laid out as having been shot by him, and, pointing to the stag, a.-ked, with a smile, of the chief huntsman, if he had rtallv shot that particular deer. " Most assuredly, sire," was the answer. " Good," rejoined the emperor. " Now let me tell you a little story liastyear 1 was deer-shooting in the llartz, where everybody was ex tremely kind and polite toward m". as. indeed, is the case everywhere. When the first day's shooting was over. iweniy-tiiree luu-grown stags were shown to me as. my share in tue sport. Did I shoot all these?' I asked the upper forester, who had charge of all the arrangements. He repeatedly as sured mo fiat I had shot them, every one. I could not h lo lauhinir as I told him that was very odd, for that, quite by chanco. I had counted the cartridgas I naa uieo. i uey were sixteen In number. How I managed to kill twenty-three deer with sixteen cartridges I must leave to him to explain." Hot Ice. A correspondent of Niture. after sum erous experiments on the boiling points of substances under low pressures, came to the conclusion that it would be possi ble to have solid ice at temperatures far abovo the ordinary melting point. He says: After several unsuccessful at tempts I was so fortunate as to obtain the most perfect success, and have ob tained solid ice at temperatures so high that it was impossible to touch it with out burning one's self. This result has been obtained many times and with the greatest ease, and not only so. but on one occasion a small quantity of water was irozen in a glass vessel which was so hot that it could not be touched by the hand without burnine it. I ha. had ice a considerable length of time at a temperature lar above ordinary boi ing point, and even then it only suonmea away without any previous meeting, iuese results were obtained by maintaining the superincumbent pressure below forty-jix mm. of mer cury that is, the tension of aqueous vapor at the freezing point of water. Other substances also exhibit these same fihenomena, the most notable of which s mercurial chloride, for which latter the pressure need be reduced to only 420mm. On lotting in the pressure the substance at once liquifies. The sea ot Galilee oontainsltwelvo ipeciet of fish. FARX, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Feed Apples to Farirt Motik. This year has been cxceptinnallv favorable for apples, nrd a remarkably large crop is the result. Tn Onondaco county, N. Y., ci lorninkers pay five or six cents a bushel, and the best picked fruit brings twenty to thirty cen' in Syracuse, or at shipping stations, fa buyer cai be found. Near the canal and railroad, twenty-five ml e east of Syracuse, a little more is paid by one mill that works up 3,001 bushels daily But the receipts were over S.onO bushels, so that all were refund tl.l the accumu lated stock was worked In o cider and vinesrar. What can a farmer with lmn dreds or thousands of bushels on hand. do with them? Ho will, of cou-ge, have raw aomcs, baked apples, apple sauce, and apple pie wholesale; and if h- dare run the risk of making drunkirds of himself, sons, and hired help, will put a large supply of cider info his cellar. Rhall the remainder rotr Can he afford to pick and draw apples miles and mil's to a cider mill, and sell for a mill a pound, oi $3 a tonP Good-looking pork cm be made on raw sweet apples alone. Hordes that don't wo'k hard become nlnvful and sleek o-. straw Hnd the nutriment and, perhaps alcohol, of good fruit. Sheep soon learn to like and thrive on apples. Cows give mor. and ieher milk when regularly fed a reasonable allowance; and if horned a-Imals nr allowed a good range when eating, and are not suddenly startled, the-e is al most no danger of choking, as they pick up the windfalls in an orchard, or are fed while in a pasture. Then, while hay is so dear, fodder so scarce, nnd pasturage so poor. feed all the bipeds and quadrupeds all the apples they can digest. Feed raw or cooked, and store away for win ter food for every animal on the farm. Do not tear a tew hundred or thousand bushels, nor cut down your orchards, even if one apple Is not sold in low- priced years. They can bo profltaWv eaten on the farm. Correspondence Ni;w lorc Tribune. Save the FWst Fowl for Breeding. It is the worst possible nolicv to kill all the best and handsomest fowls, and save only the mean and scraigy ones to Dreea irom. ruts is precisely the way to run out your stock; for like tends to breed like, and the result is that by con tinually taking away the best birds, nnd using the eggs of your poorest, your llo ik will grow poorer and poorer everv suc ceeding jear. It would seem a3 though it was too plain to be insisted upon, but, in fact, " line upon line " i3 needed. It is the crying want of the poultry upon the farms the country through thi careful and intelligent seleotion of the nest tor breeding. iNothing is lost by a little self denial to start with. Tha extra pound or two of poultry flesh that you ii-ttvc tiu us legs, lusueau oi senaing it :o the market, is as rood as seed, and w'.h bring forth tenfold and twentyfold in jour future broods. Save vour best sto -It for breeding. Shrinkage of Park, There is a great difference in povk. and perhaps in other meat also, as to i s ap pearance on being put into the pot for cooking and when taken out done. lome sample.' will come out fre3h and plump, wlnle others will be shriveled un to half their origin 1 dimensions Ihis is particularly the ccse with what is termed "shackled" pork. The isi- raais, during a large portion ot the sea son, are simply vitalizsd frames, which, when autumn approaches, are conned and stuffed in order to make quick work of the fattening process. They swell rapidly and appear to be doing finely out wuen Killed ctiSiPDmnt trie ouer both in weight and quality. Tue flesh when cooked shrivels un; lacks inviz- orating power; and the housewife won ders what ails It. The trouble is just here : 1 he animals producing the meat were not properly cared for not suit ably fed as their frames were expanding. In carpenter and joiner phrase, there was no sheeting to hold and sustain the outer covering, consequently the whole was shaky and unsatisfactory. Keep hogs in good heart in su nmer, and when penned for fattening in culumn give tticru plenty ot corn in t tie ear or ground and there will be no complaint of " rot snnnKage." Iteclpes. Chef.se Souffe. This dish mus1; he sent to table direct from the oven in tho pan in which it has been baked, as it talis if kctit standing. Beat separately the whites and yolksof twoeggs; a id to the yolks oie tabiespoontui of sifted flour, two of crated cheese, a pinch of cayenne, one ot salt and one cup of milk W hen well mixed add the whites beaten to a froth, and stir briskly. Pour into a buttered i-hallow pan, and bake in a quick oven until a rich brown- about fifteen minutes. Pumpkin Pie To a quart of pump kin, alter it is stewed and sieved, allow on8 quart of milk, a lump ot butter, pinch ol salt, two tibiespoontuls ot gin ger, nnd oneeeg to each pie, or a tab'o spoonful of flour may be substituted fur the eggs, tfako in a good paste about three-quarters ot an hour. Bed Cabbage. Cut ajflrm hai of red cabbage in shreds; lay it in a sauce pan with the following ingredients: One gill of vinegar, one teaspoonful each of ground cloves and salt, bait a teaspoon ful of pepper, two ounces of butter, and two ounces ot sugar: stew it eentlv un til tender, about one hour, shaking the pan to prevent burning, and serve it hot. anss Corson t Cootny Manual. Russian Salad Rusian sahd is made bv cuttine up raw anoles and every kind of available vegetable into small lices and laying them in a shal low dish with salt, a little vinegar an pepper and the best oil. The dressing must thoroughly saturate tho mixture tor at least twelve hours, and the eflect will be found very agreeable. Paper, as every one knows, burns well when scrunched up, but is not by any means so inflammaole as wood, and in the form of hooks is somewhat difti su'.t to burn at all. In the olden time there was considerable trouble takrn in de stroying heretical books, which were placed on large wooden platforms, but after all the care taken to annihilate them from the face of the earth, mashes were found in the embers sufficiently uncon sumed to be easily readable, and it was thought this was brought about by the wnes oi tue evil one. A St. Louis boy spent a dollar of the money that he had collected for his father, who whipped him for the offense The youngster went directly to the river and drowned himself. Catching: Halibut. Tho halibut season, savs the S&i World, lasts from the middle of January to the first of December. At one time New London, Conn., was an Important halibut port, thirty sail of vessels hav ing been owned there at one time. By reason of the business not paying for a length of tune, however, the neet nas Vieen irrarlnallv reduced bv loss to ten schooners at the present time engaged In the catch. These are hne going schooners of fifty to sixty tons, and there are no better sea boats oi sau or steam afloat. Their average cost was about $9 000. They fish on George's Banks and the coast of Nova Scotia, a round voyage including the running of fares to New York, requiring a month. The more venturesome commanders sail in January, although it is considered dangerous to start thus early, and the more careful masters will not venture out till later. The service is a very perilous one, although no men or vessels have been lost from New London in two or three years. This good fortune can not be counted on to continue, and th hardy mariners verily go forth with their iives in their hands, une master in forms us that of the men who were in the fleet when be first engaged in it. all have perished on fishing trips. Three, and even four, vessels have been lost in a single year. There sre various circum stances attending the loss of halibut men, the terrible storms which sweep the fishing grounds be ng a fearful element of destruction. Next to the peril by storm is the danger of being run down by passing vessels, during dark nights, or the impenetrable fogs, which cover the grounds like a pall during so many days in the year. The halibut catchers tell of wonderful escapes from dire destruction through this terrible agency, which constantly fill their lives with grave forebodine3. The ereatest danger is irom the collision of European steamers as frequently the damage nroduc.ed by sailing ships is not fatal. The fishermen, however, exercise a commei dabie degree of conservatism in this matter toward the steamers, averring that in general the steamsh p captains keep a sharp lookout when off the banks, and do all in their power to avert calamity. Often in the darknesss and fog tho tiny halibut vessels are not seen until they are almost upon them, when it requires time to change the sheer of their long hulls, and very many times the luckless hahbutmen are run down and sunk beneath the waves. The average crew consists of eight men, two men going out in each dory, of which there are three, two men being h ft to manage the vessel. 1 wenty-hve fathom lines are putout from each dory, to which are attached from 300 to 325 hooks. The men are often lost from the vessel by the presence of a sudden gale, or the setting in ot a tog. lue jate reaty entered into with Great Britain has operated against the halibut flet, and the men are hoping to see the objec- lional features revoked. Our informant wa? confident that more vessels would engage in the business ere Jong, ana hoped to see the Beet bunt up to respect able size; for, despite its peril, capital ttius invested pays very fair margins of proat. Titles in Russia. A New York San correspondent says hat in Russia ail the members of the ami lies of princes, counts and barons. both male and female, when addiessed. are always addressed by their titles. The members of pnnce.y lamiues ore ad dressed as Prince, Prince N . N., or renitv. S ime princes are called Most Sirem; for instanc, the Suvoroffs. A count may be addressed simply as Count, or Count N. N.,or lllustnousness. ihe serene and hlustrious persons may be caught in the act of picking pockets (as 30me have baen), yet in court they are always spoken of and to by their titles; and if a ludge, for instance, were to ask. Mr. Doifforouliy, you are accused ot having stolen hve rubles, what nave voa to snv f " i'rinoe Dolgorouky would ke?o silence- until given his title. A baron may be addressed as Baron, or Baron N N., or Excellence. All generals are addressed bv persons ot interior rank as Excellence, and by those of superior rank as General, or General N N. ihe chief generals are addressed as liiah Excellence. The colonels and majors are called Height Nobility, and the oflicers simply Nobility. The same forms are strictly observed in speasing to civil oflicers. The bishops are ad dres-.ed as r.minence, the archbishops as High Eminence, the priors as Keverence, and the priests n3 Benediction, jiivc-ry citv mavor. alderman, or village eldf. is addressed as Honor. Even plain c erks pretend on the title ot Dignity The latter title is liked and much useu among the me i chants. Persons of tho same rank, intimate friends, near ac- auaintances. call each other by the Christian name and the lather's name. the latter being a lit le changed. For instance. Petr Ivanovitch, Ivan Petro vitch. DerimedoutFeostiriktovitch: and among women, Anna Ivanovua, Snan- dulia Petrovna, Filikitata Trankvill movna. Rhyming Made Easy. The Tribune has fitted up a room for the exclusive use ot its poets, and has introduced its new system Of rhyming charts, which are designed t aid these of our songsters who never have any difhcultv in whooping up the sentiment. bat are occasionally a little shy on the jingla part of their otherwise highiy creditable productions, rue charts con tain words that rhyme pretty well, and are adapted to any kind of poetry, from the Papa's-stepped-on-mother'e-bunion U1UC1 bVS 1 11 V Wiv umwuuw verses of Swinburne. When a poet wants something that goes along smooth and easy, like Maud S. or the price of wheat, he has only to glance at the on syllable chart, which contains words like: Lime, Time, If he is in'search of something with a Crime, Dime, little more get-up to it, he can refer to tho next one, which contains words like: Item, Benison, Fly-time, Venison, Redress, Despot, Maud 8.. Guess Not. If the Swinburne metre is what ho wants. Chart No. 3 may be studied to advantage. It reads: Asurebky, JJattodirs lilow. Refrigerator. Sorrel Horse. And so forth. AU poets are cordially invited to come in and try the scheme, Take the ehvator. It may fall some day. Chiciga Tribune, If hens b ave a warm house and enough to eat, and of the right kind, they will lay in winter as weu as summer. lOH THE FAIR SEX, Hoods. Hoods are seen upon nearly every style of cloak or wrap, nnd also upon many bodice waists. Most of these are gaily lined with scarlet, antique gold or a mixture of many colors, in plaids or stripes. A silk cable cord and tassel arc usual'y added. The Russian cloak is a treat favorito with young ladies. It is in the shape of a long casaque, and is trimmed with twenty or thirty rows of fine white silk braid. The color of the cloak is Russian blue, and the long pointed hood is lined with white sat n sublime. The trimmines and hood lin ings of some of these cloaks are made of bright tartan braids and silk plaids. Very elegant hoods are seen upon the white brocaded velvet opera cloaks. lined with white satin, and finely shir red around the neck and terminating in a Maria Antoinette fraise five inches high. The revers on the hood are trimmed with white marabout feathers to match the trimming on the wide Chinese sleeves and on the bottom of the wrap. These opera cloaks are mostly seen with panbr effects in the bacK. New and Notes'! for Women. The bride and bridegroom at a Nash ville wedding had only one leg apiece. A voung man died of heart disease at St. Paul while asking a girl to marry him. Alexander Dumas' youngest daughter, Mile. Jeannine, is mentioned as a beau tiful young creature, with large Intelli gent eyes and features very like her father's. The young daughter of the Duchess La Torre, who has just been married to a wealthy Cuban, wore a bridal wreath made of diamond oranee blossoms, and among the wonders of her trousseau were hose of point d'Alencon. Tim hotel kfiftnera ot JNew uneans. who have decided to emolov white girls as waiters, say that they have no trouble in securing them, and say that respecta ble families apply almost daily for places for their daughters. The girls like the work and give satisfaction, both to em ployers and their guest'. A voung lady was asked by her fiancee on the eve of the marriage what of all things she would like best that he should give her as a wedding present. "Pay papa's debts," said she, "and I shall be the happiest girl in the woiid." And, like the dear, good George Aueustus that he 13, he did it. New York Mail. At a recent reception in London where tho Princess of Wales was present many of tho ladies, including the princess, car ried bunches of white lilies in their hands. The fancy among leaders ot fashion to adopt some one particular flower and its corresponding perfume seems to have lost none of its prestige. All artificial flowers are perfumed with the odor of the flowers they are intended to represent. The wood violet very suc cessfully produces the perfume of the natural tlower, so that as one innaies a taint odor of these sweet blossoms one can reasonably imagine it to be fresh from tho heart of the vernal woods. Some one having propounded the quorv, " What invention would mtst benefit the community nt larger"' A auspicious married woman replies: "A glass so framed that when the husband's out, the wife, at home, can see what he's ab'mt. Fashion IVolet Bonnet strings are immensely wide. Beaded , bonnet crowns are all the rage. Leonard sets are worn by young ladies. Plush flowers grow more and'moie popular Old-fashioned mink-tail sacks are remain the popular revived Sealskin sacks fur wrap White toilets are in best taste foreven- ing drcs3 Fur collars and capes have taken! the place of boas, Russian and Lapland furs are worn this winter. Silver and blue 'fox arc among! the favorite fancy furs. A handsome "millinery set"!consists of a bonnet and muff to match Lone glove3. reaching above tho elbow, are de rleueur, with short sleeves. The princesso stV.s for.u for chi'- dron'3 dresses ro.nains the preferred style, The Albanl iialong cloak with do1 man sleeves, set in far back, so as to to give a narrow effect in the back. Greciau Ivnx and Arica chinchilla remain the fashionable furs lor young ladies and misses in their teens The "American frock " is the favorite dress of little London eirls. It is a ow piece garment in sacquo style, trimmed to simulate a kilt skirt and jacket The "Mother Hubbard" is a new English cloak, much shirred about the neck, back and front, and with elbow sleeves, also shirred, the skirt long, plain and close, Circular fur-lined cloaks continue in vogue, but aro not in as high fashion as the fancy fur visites sold under the ni w names or the Mandarin, Kicneneu, ig nore. Mother Hubbard, Rajah an! Medici Onflftf tha nrcitiest " millinerv sets" seen tins winter is a oonnet or loquo Tilush with a earnet satin quiiiea border in place oi ionm,ww I I . . , - ostrich plume lastenea on one mue wu waving down the baen; on tue opposn-j si rle nf the toaue are some red plusb. rose bud. The muff of maroon plush i s trimmed at the ends with aarnet satia quilling and red silk laco. On the iron of the muff, instead of a bow, a red paroquet is placed flat, iU head covei - ing the steel clasp of a concealed por - monnaie. 1 he cora wnica suspenas vuo muff is of heavy garnet cuenuie In the Ootober number of the organ of the German Baptist mission the statistics of the churches are given, from which it appears that there are ut churches in Germany, with 26 658 mem. hers. 1 407 stations, and only 11 BIJ oar day-ichool scholars, instructed by 84 teachers, mere are sixteen cuurcnus with more than 400 members each, one of these reporting 1,170 members and another 775. Fifty-me churches nave a membership of less than 100. an1 a few of these report very small member shipsnine in one case, eight in another. and four In a third. The Silk Industry In tlie United State. According to a well-informed writer tn the Notpmber Atlantic, as fine a quality of silk can be raised in the United States ns in any part of the world, but the silk cannot be produced here and reeled as eheaply as the raw silk can be imported from China and Japan. These tacts are proved by many experiments in silk culture extending through more than 200 years and made in almosteverv part of the country. The climate of California is admirably adapted to silk raising. Cocoons and eggs of excellent Quality have been raised there. But those who have en gaged in the industry have found It more profitable to suip the eggs to France than to rear them for silk. A well organized effort to make silk culture successful and profitable in this country is now in progress in Kansas. It was started by Mr. de Boissiere, who came from France and settled in Franklin county. He has established a small mill, and with Mr. Crozier, the author of atreatise on the raising of silk worms, is working with hope and enthusiasm among the farmers of Kansas. But the success of their experiment remains to be established. While silk culture has so far prove! a failure in the United States, the manu facture of silk has been a remarkably successful industry. The first mill on the continent was built at Mansfield, Conn., in 1810. To-day 27 firms are engaged in the silk manufacture in this country, the most of them being in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Cou nrcticut and Massachusetts. They have $18,000,000 capital invested, employ io, ooo operatives, pay annually more than f 9,000,000 WBPes ano yearly pruuuue mnAn worth S27.000.000. The greatest center of the industry is Paterson, N J., the Lyons of America, where tnirty-iwo firma nra pnfrnfren in tho business with 8 (M10 optatives and an invested capital 0'j $8,000,000. Nearly every variety of silk manufacture l? renresenieu in iuo United States, while " the quality of the work," says the writer aoove cuuu, will compare with, and in some ae- partments is superior to, that oi any other country in the world." indeed. the goods of one firm, whose mm at South Manchester, Conn., is the largest in tho United States, are now imitated in Europe. The display of American silks at Philadelphia in 1876 surprised Americans themselves naroiy less man foreign experts. Our marked success in this held is Que in no smau measure vu the improvements we nave maae in machinery. In silk machinery the cen tennial judges declared this country to be ahead ot au others. jxew ur Herald. John B. dough nnd tho Cigars. John B. Gough, who had faced over 8,000 audiences, acknowledges that on one occasion, and one oniy, ue encoun tered an embarrassment he could not overcome. It W;.s his own fault, he says, and proved a sharp lesson he never forgot, in his own woras : I was engaged to address a large num ber of children in the afternoon, the meeting to be held on the lawn back of the Baptist church in Providence, R. I. In the forenoon a friend met me and said: I have soma first-rate cigars, wu you have a few?" " wo, 1 thanit you." " Do take halt a dozen." " I have nowhere to put them." You can put half a dozen m your rocket." . ... 1 wore a cap in tnoso nay. ana i pus the cigars into it, and nt the appointed time I went to the meeting. I ascended the platform and faced an audience of more than 2.000 children. As it was out of doors I kept my cap on tor fear of taking cold, and 1 torgot all about tne cigars. Toward the closa ot my speech 1 became more in earnest, ana aitcr warning the boys against bad company, bad habits and the satonns, I said : ' Now. boys, lot us givd three rousing cheers for temperance and for cold water. Now, '.hen, three cheers. Hur rah!" And taking eff my cap I waved it most vigorously, when away went the cigars right into the midst of the audi dence. Tho remainiug cheers were very faint, and were nearly drowned in the laughter of the crow.i. I was mor- tihed and asuameo. and snouia nave been relieved could I have sunk through the platform out ot sight. My feelings were still more aggravated by a boy coming up to the steps of the platform with one ot tuoso arcaaiui cigars, say ing : " Here s one oi your cigars , mx. Gough." Bernhardt' Extravagance: Tho London Henry C Jarrett is known among theatrical folks as Bismarck, by reason ot his diplomatic aouiiy. ne is not the Henry C. Jarrett known to the American nuhlio in the show business. He represents Bernhardt, and when she is at rehearsal ho sits in a chair beside the prompter. When sho gives a recep tion fctie leans on ins arm. wnen sue talks with a visitor who can't use French ho nets as interpreter. When she rides out he is in the seat with her. It is understood tha. ho get a percent age of her receipts, lis id ugra-uaired, white-whiskered, solid-looKing man, with none of the distinguishing marks of a showman. Ha says that Bern hardt is not mercenary. If, by that, he means that sho spends money lavishly, he undoubtedly tells the truth. Almee, for example, was grasping to the last de gree. If she couldn't get money from a man in any other way, she would invite him to a game ot poker, and her ptay was so strong that s te would usually clean him out. But Bernhardt is care less of cash. "It will cost f5i0 to put a bath in your dressing room," said somebody. " Vhat do 1 carer 'she responded. ' But you will have to pay it your self." " That doesn't matter put it In." Shejdoes not bulldoze Abbey, by the way. He is not the kind oi man to tremble at the word ot his star, even if she does cost him $8,000 a we jk. New YorkS.n. Batter at Forty Dollars a Pound. Gilhoolv straved into Da Smith's grocery yesterday, accompanied by his dog. Suddenly the grocer cried out, as if in great pain : Your blame dog has eaten ud two pounds of nice fresh country butter." " wen, u it qon t hurt tne cog it s an right, but I want you to understand he is a vaiuaoie ooz, ana n ue aies vou will hive to pay about $4 a pound for that oleomargarine ." Qnlueton News. Wooden poets have been broueht"to premature decy by painting thenijoe , fore their moisture had evaporated.
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