THE FOREST MPDELICAN I pobllahcd avary Wednesday, bf J. E. WENK. Oftlo la Bmenrbaugta A Co.' Building ELM STREET, TTONK8TA, Pa. Terms. I.BO par Year. No mbserlptlons received for shorter period thn thra fnontlie. Oorrepondnire tollctted1 from al part of tha ennntry. No notice will be Mn of anonymous nuii:nicatlo&s. RATES OP ADVERTISING. On. Square, on. rrieh, on. Inrertto. ,! I M One Sqnare, one Inrb, on. month............ as PUBLICAN One Pqnare, on. Im h, Ihrr. months, , I r One Hqnare, one Inch, one rear ...., . Is 01 Two Squares, oa ynr ..... It 00 Vuarer Colemn, on. rear. . M 00 Half lolamn, one year M 0 On. Colomn, on. year ............ ...Its idrert!MmnU t. eenW pc Una Man la erUeii. Marriage end death notieea mill. All blllt for yearly edTertiaements coDerta; qnar. terly. Temporary dTertleameata am ha para la advance . Joe work cask oa aelrvarm VOL. XX. NO. 14. TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3, 1887. $1.50 PER ANNUM. Re t Congrcsmnn Willlnm D. Kcllcy is de lighted with the resources of Iho new South. In his opinion Anniston, Ala., is an ideal industrial centre, while sections of Georgia, Alabama and Tcnncsseo areas rich as Pennsylvania in mineral wealth. Tho latest show window attraction in New York Is animals. The electric dummies that thump on the window gasi to attract one's attention are being supple mented In places by parrots that call to customers, squirrels that keep a cage buzzing, and ono hat store keeps a Brazilian lizard that wiggles his tail and blinks. t 1 J - An Indianapolis colored barber is credited with eating, at one sitting, seven pounds of roast beef, forty-five pounds of vegetables, a pone of corn bread, a loaf of wheat bread, four piea and six glasses of iced tea. Commenting upon this alleged performance, the Balti more Herald says that, "as a rule, the Indianapolis reporter is an able-bodied liar." Lieutenant Dudley Mills, of tho British army, in a recent expedition to Bhang Tung, China, discovered tho sculptured stones near Chiasinng, which he was the first foreigner to visit. Tho inscription! and figiyes are cut on tho walls of tombs, and are mainly devoted to the illustra tion of moral precepts. ' They aro said to be seventeen centuries old, and tho first description of theiu was given by a Chi nese scholar of the twelfth ceutury. Tho mortality of tho globe has recent ly boen completed as follows: Per min ute, sixty-seven; per day, 97,7D0; pel year, 3-i,031),83.5. The numlcr of births poryear Is about 30,792,000; and per day about 100,000. This makes about three births more per minute than deaths. It tho population of tho glob 3 goes on in creasing at this rate of about a million and a quarter per year, mankind will b obliged to soon limr it the sign of "Standing Room Only :" The Philadelphia Pre has been mak ing a chemical examination of the output pt Philadelphia bakeries. The result is startling. Tho amount chromate of lead used In coloring cakes and buns by the Quaker City bakers is astonishingly large. Speaking of tho chemist's report, tlx Yen says: "It shows that even at thil season of the year, when eggs are cheap, and the inducement to tho substitution of lead dyo is largely removed, tho poi sonous material was found in six out ol twenty-four cases." From May, 1884, to May, 1837, eleven deaths have occurred in a certain locality in Philadelphia which are now believed to have been caused by poisoned food sold by a baker, who is to be prosecuted at once on the chargo ol homicide. That so many persons should have fallen victims to lead-poisoning is not strange. Tho effect of a compara tively small quantity of chromate of lend, or chrome yellow, as it is callod, ou the human system is fatal. Valley City.Dal'.otu, claims the greatest prodigy in music in tho Northwest. It is Blanche Hamer, the four-year-old daugh ter of E. T. Hamer. She plays on the orgau or piano strictly by note,and reads the notos w'ith surprising rapidity and ac curacy, and always counts her own time when playing. ' Her knnwlcdgo and ob servance in the playing of rests, dots, ac cidentals, and in fact all tho characters used in music is unsurpassed by any play er. Her first appearance upou the stage occurred recently in the opera house be fore tho largest crowd ever gathered in the city, which audience sho entertained by a solo on the piano. Blanche's ap pearance upon tho stage was greeted . with loud and extended applause, when she was lifted to the piano stool and de liberately executed, without a single mis take or hesitation, to the astonishment of everybody present, a charming solo, then retired amid the cheers of the audience to a little rockiug chair with tho dignity, grace and composure that would do honor to Patti. A party of treasure-seekers, backed by several Philadelphia capitalists, have chartered tho .ehooner 'William P. Orr for a period of six months to look for (K)0,000 Spanish doubloons, which they assert are buried off tho Delaware capes on the English privateer De Braak, which tank in 1798. A Loudon lawyer has been at work for six months past in look ing on from English records in London thw'lll particulars of the founderiug of tlJi Braak, and has furnished to the parties interested the miuutest details of the craft. It seems that the vessel had been privateering ou tho Spanish main and had captured two galleons loaded with the precious coin, which was lodged in the lockers of the De Braak for ship ment to England. The vessef foundered in a, gale, however, before she could make the Delaware copes in safety. The experienced divers, with all necessary apparatus, steam boilers, pumps and a party of ten men, will accompany the schooner, and work will be started im mediately. A powerful tug will be char tered to remain by the Bchooner to tow her to the Delaware Breakwater when the sea shall become to heavy for work, and to assist in moving the divers about in their work in the water, which is hot less than fifty feet deep. A SUMMER SONO. Ol spirit of the summertime! Bring back the roses to the dolls, The swallow from her distant clime, The honey -be from drowsy cells. Bring bark tha i.Tendshlp of the sun, The gilded evenings calm and late, When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wail Bring back the singing and the scent, Of meadow lands at dewy prime; Ol bring again my heart's content. Thou spirit of the summertime. Irish Timet, HOW AMASA WOT GOT ON HIS FEET. A mass Snow sat in his little law office, his feet on the top rim of his stove, and his stove full of wood and red hot. His office was about a rod from his house, and quite near the high wooden gate lendiiig into tho village street. Over the door lead, "Prothonotury and Attorney-at-lnw." It was a huge, faded sign in black letters; one could not go by Amass Snow's olliee and not know of the busi ness of its occupant. The trouble w ith tho sign was it was not alluring enough. Squiro Slayton, down the street, with a very small sign and over a gioccry store, and without a big white house, nnd a family name and connec tion Squire Slayton somehow got all tho business there was going on in East Chestervillo. Amasa Snow sat tilted back in his wooden arm-chair, pulling his long chin leard, scratching the few gray hairs in his sloping gray head, and. trying to conjure up some new scheme by which ho could beat Slayton again, and defer the foreclosure sale. He had deferred it five times on one excuse and another; but Slayton had him this time; there was no help for it. Tho old place would have to be sold the old place where his boyhood had been passed until he went to college, and wheie he had lived ever since, and seen his six gills grow up about him. His six motherless girls I lie reached down and broke a splinter off a bit of pine-wood by the stove, and began to chew hard on it. What would become of the girlsf . Every one a beauty in hi eyes; every ouc worthy of marrying tho Governor of tho State. How could he tell them that tho sale ,of their old home cou !l be postponed no longer; that every devise and trick, and every lesral quibble, had "been tried and tried again? lo dared. not tell the girls. He 1 yoked out of the window; it was raining. An April shower, to be sure, w ith the prospect of a golden Bunsct Inter on, .but making even tiling outside under the trees look very, muddy and dismal. Amasa Snow felt very much depressed. Fate appeared 10 oe aL'iiinst nun. There were ids law books a couple of thousand dingy calf volumes, not kept up to date tho inheritance from tho judge, his father, but even tho law books were 'chattcled,' as they said, t. ., mort gaged, quite beyond their value. Every thing lie had, in fact, was mortcaccd Ho had como this wet April day to the cna 01 t rungs. rcxt week came the sale He felt like saying the deluge. He had not enough money to take him and his family out AVcst. That was his plan to go West. lie hardly felt his fifty years. He felt young and energetic when he thought of the West. By-the-by, there was his brother, Elisha his brother who in his youth was so like him. Ho was West in Cali fornia. He had not seen him for twenty years. The last he had beard from him was a request to tend on a hundred dol lars. That was five years ago. He had sent him fifty, and nothing had been heard from Elisha since, except his name endorsed across tho back of the check, showing that he had received the money. Ko, it was clear that Elisha could never help him. Elisha had caused him to loose several thousand dollars once in a mine. 'Elisha's mime was always a great bugbear in his family sine. No, Elisrra could not be expected to help hiiu. Stay! An idea. A mnsa Snow be gan to poke the red-hot fire vigorously. It was a bleak raw day, but the tiro was hot enough in that little office if left alone. An idea. Elisha should be mado to help him. It was a hist hope, but it fired him with enthusiasm. He readied up into a dusty book-case and got down a file of letters. Ho was looking for Elisha's address. Just then there came a tap at tho office door. Amasa turned round. "By George I" he cried, nearly curried off his feet with nstonisluncut. "It's Elisha in propria pertona!" "I have come home," raid Elisha, meekly. "I havo come hoayto neighbor round." "And just in the nick of time, Elisha. Mighty glad I am to see you'." Then a thought occurred to him, as he shook his brother's hand, with that feeble wave in the air so common in Southern Connecti cut, he would not tell Eli-ha of his finan cial condition. He might not help him if he did. No, he would keep his own counsel. Tho two brothers sat dovn by the stove, and Amasa threw another stick of soft pine on the fire. It was frightfully hot. "See here, Elisha," he said, after a pause. "How's the (J rand American Eagle a-doiu'r" "She isn't a-doin'." "Nothiu at all!" "No; hasn't been for ten years." "It vat a splendid mine once, Elisha. You used to say so." "So it was. But we struck hard pan you remember about it. What's tho use of rakiu' over old personalities at this time, when I ought to be received with open arms, and a bonfire lighted, and fire-works touched off!" "I know, I know," replied Amasa, apologetically. "I ought to ask how you have happened on East this way." "Why, ves; you ought to show tome brotherly feeling. It's natural." " ell, Elisha, have you got any ready money in your pocket!" "A thousand dollars." Amasa walked over to his old rusty safe. "Better put the money in hercf" he asked, casually. Elisha handed him roll of bills. "Don't feel like payin' ha.-lr nv of thnt two thousand a.-kcl I Amasa, facetiously, referring to the loan , he had made him iu the mining scheme. I "No," said Elisha, "I don't," Aftera pause, while his brother locked the safe, I he said: "That thousand i the hut cent I I've got in tha world." "Glnd you've come home. Glad vou've come to live with me," said Amasa, tub bing his hands, "Tho girls will be so happy to see you. Come, let's go in the house." He slipped nn old, well-worn overcoat over his shoulders without buttoning it, and they went out into the rain. Elisha was very well dressed. Any one would havo taken him for a well-to-do We-itcrn bank president. He looked sleek and well red. J here wan t a trace of anxiety about his faco. Otherwise the brothers looked very much alike. As they were crossing the threshold of the house, Amasa whispered: "Just tell the girls you're a millionaire; for a joke, you know." Elisha winked. " J es, he said, "for a joke wish I was, though," and they entered the parlor. There were the six girls; six good-looking, hearty, frank, healthy country girls. J hey all rose and gave a veritable shout of welcome. They usually gave a united shout when ever anything pleased them. They fairly screamed when Elisha opened the door. I hey Hew at him. I hy kissed him. They took his hat for him ; they took away his overcoat and umbrella. And hme they wcro impressed when their father said, proudly, "And then to think that your uncle has returned to us a millionaire 1" A millionaire! really!' chorusscd the girls. Elisha began to feel his old boastful spirit, for which he had long been noted, coming over him again. "Why," he said, "out in California we don't reckon a million much money. My five million dollars don't count very much out there." "klisha says he is going to Inula a pub lic library building for Enst Chcsterville," put in Amasa, without a grimace. "A public library, chorusscd the girls. "He says he don't mind paying oil the debt on the church either, added their prevaricator of a father. "How perfectly splendid I" "No one would have thought the Grand American Spread eaglo Mine would have panned out so well," said Amasa. Hy this time the six ifirls were dancing Ground tho room in their excitement. They had never been so excited since John Mawley, the son of Mawlcy, the mill-owner at the other end of the village, had become engaged to Bessie Snow,thcir eldest sister said Mawlry having con cluded, ou the consent and advice of his father, to break off said engagement, after knowledge of Lawyer Snow's financial condition came out and became common gossip. "Elisha rays the Sunday-school shall have a new organ if it takes his lastccnt," said their father, laughing heartily. He could not hold him elf in. "Well," said Elisha, "not quite as bad as that. But they shall have a new melo deon yes." This capped the climax. The Sunday school had been holding picnics, straw berry festivals, lectures, busy bees, and I don't know what besides in which the six girls had taken a lively interest to raise money enough for an organ; but, do their best, they could raise only about fifty dollars. They threw themselves upon their uncle, and as there was not quite enough of him to go around, they threw themselves upon their father. It was a touching scene. Two of the girls were in tears, and one of them was heard to say: "Our deliverer!" Suddenly Bessie looked up. "It's late," she said "it's dreadfullly late for the sewing society 1" When they wero alone, Elisha said : "You've done itl you've gone and douc it I In five minutes every word of what we've said will be all over this village. Yes, and all over the State of Connecti cut. I say, Amasa, this isn't right !" "Why? Don't you have any fears. Suppose they do tell of your millions; it will give you credit." "Ah, yes, yes! but they will all be after me for my money." Elisha straight ened himself up very stiffly, and but toned his coat over his chest very firmly, as if to impress on his brother the fact that he wouldn't let them have a cent not one cent if they did. "Well, don't say it isn't so, anyway," whimpered Amasa, and led Elisha to his room, where that great and good philan thropist and millionaire lay down upon a sofa and took a comfortable nap. For a week East Chestervillu was in a condition of ferment. The resurrrcction of Elisha Snow in the form of a million aire, after having departed twenty years before with a reputation for unconqucra b'e laziness, and an ability remarka ble only for imbibing hard cider, was enough to shake the entire county to its centre. Then his magnificent bequests the town library building, tho new organ, raising the minister's salary, pro posing to cstabli-h a Home for Iucuiablc Idiots for poor Elisha fouud he could not stop promising when he had once begun, and his plan to build a new gym nasium, skating rink, winter bath, all combined, for tho young people, made him at once the idol of the town. Mawley, the mill-owner met Amasa one day in tho street. "See hero," he said, " I've told Slayton to let up on you. You and I were always old friends. Pay up tho interest on that mortgage any time you please. By-tho-way, I'm tired of Slayton. He's hounded you, when you were down, in a mean way. I'm sick of Slavton. I'll send you a re tainer to morrow of five hundred dollars iu a case I've got against some Providence people. Big casis big money in it. How's your brother f pretty well, I hope. Those California magnates are all coming East, I hear. Think your brother would like to put any money in my mill ? A big chance now. I don't need the money, but it don't pay to keep all your eggsiu one basket. How's Bessie ? Good-morning." "Mr. Mawley, ono moment. You don't let up on me and send me this law suit becauso Elisha is a millionaire, do you I " "Oh, no, no, no ! My dear fellow, no, no! Why, what an idea! By-the-way, I never favored the breakiug off of that match my son and Bessie. Good-day." Amasa Snow got round behind the fence, and laughed and shook until the entire fence laughed and shook with him. His little scheme was working well. One needs very little capital in this world if one cau only obtain its substitute credit. Thnt week and tho next he had retainers scut him from several wealthy proprietors in a neighboring manufacturing town. They hud heurd of his brother's millions. He had the foreclosure suit disc ontinued, paid Mawley his interest, got his tuoit KK8 extended indefinitely. What is more, hts business picked Up so that he paid a large sum On Account all around among his creditors. They all said: "Elisha is doing it for him." He painted and refurbished the old Snow house. He ran slightly into debt In doing it, but his girls had some new clothes sent them from New York. He donned a new suit of broad-cloth, and he was happy. He was on his feet. Slayton was utterly nonplussed. In vain the wily pratitioner went aboutspreading doubtsas to Elisha's having any money whatever. "Why don't he buy that organ?" he kept saying, until peoplo began to wonder why indeed. As soon as the rumor spread about that Elisha waschildlesx,and that he intended leaving his money in equal shares to his six nieces, they went off literally like hot cakes. Mawley junior, who really loved the girl, married Bessie, and then they were all married off in batches of two, until the youngest refused to marry at all, saying, with her finger at her lip, "she preferred to stay with her father." In one year all this happened. Amnta Snow was now a successful man his debts paid and practice increasing. One day the rumor reached him why had not Elfsha paid for that organ? Me went to Elisha. "It is time," he said, "for you to disnppear." "I'm very contented here," protested Elisha, "reading the newspapers and sit ting in the hotel. It agrees with me. I don't want to disappear." He liked the adulation extended to him on the ground that he was a million aire. He played the easy, well-fed, rich plutocrat revisiting his New England home to perfection. His acting was con summate, because it was nature itself, without a mirror being held up to it. He had just that amount of narrowness, of close-tistedness, of sagacious doubt as to the motives of men who approached him with schemes for Investment; he acted the millionaire to perfection, nnd he never overdid it. "Amasa, I can't go," he said. "They think I'm such a good man to make money. They have actually brought money to me to make more for them. Yes, I've received over fifty thousand dollars for investment within the last month." "Great Scott 1" exclaimed Amnsa. "This is dreadful! I sec State-prison yawning before us!" "It's hist what the Grand American Spread-eagle Mine needs," said Elisha, I swelling uimscu out a 111110 money. "Well, take the money and go, then go! I will have nothing to do with this nothing!" Amasa was very angry. He resolved to be responsible for his brother no long er. He went to his daughters, all but ' one now well married and in hippy, wc'.l- to-do homes. "1 our uncle nnd I have L UntC had a row," he said, to California." "He is going back And the organ, the new library, the gymnasium? "Well, he is mad about something. Hesavsthe town has slighted him. But one thing must bo understood, whatever ho does I wash my hands of him for ever!" Elisha did leave a few days after. Ho took away about a hundred thousand , , . , a , 1 dollars of widows' and orphans' funds, -.1 . frti S4,in I. rnmls.-n tir Itiu mrtnnv lnt.1 ...... . vniioul enterprises, paid tin. beneficiaries eight Mxzt cent, interest, was honest as the dajv. and died a few years ago worth a great dcat"tV i;acv. which ho left, sharo and share alike, to hie tirethcr's six girls, and he left a thousand dollars for the new organ. Amnsa still lives a fairly well-to-do old country lawyer slightly in debt still, in East Chcsterville. But he is tho adored grandpapa of twelve of the dear est little grandchildren, and he often says to them, benignly: "Children, I have tmtall and myself on our feet. Yes, nit 1 had to tell your mother an awful lie?" "What was the lie, grundpopper?" "I had to say the laziest man nlive your granduncle, children I had to say the penniless old rascal your grand father's brother, my dears, who had robled me of all I had in one ot his mines, tho Great Americau Spread-eagle Gold and Silver Ihnd to say, and stun' to it, that he was one of the biggest millionaires on tho Pacific const! But that lie has put us all on our feet." llichnrd 11. lioe, mi llarper't Weelly. The Amir of Afghanistan. A correspondent of the Journal tie Debiitt sends the following account of the Amir of Afghanistan: 'Abdurrahman in the first pin t of his career was a sol dier; when he was raised to the Amirship he became a bureaucrat, a new role for an Afghan ruler, and one not likely to be popular. Each day with him has its appointed work. Two days a week are devoted to his correspondence, Monday for that with the upper country (Herat, Candahar, etc.), Thursday for that with the lower country (Cabul. Peshawur and India). On Tuesday hu holds his mili tary durbar and receives the officers of the garrison, all of whom dine with him. It is also the day of private reception or Diwau.i-Hass. On Wednesday and Sat urday he administers justice, and admits the public to his presence, eveu to the last beggar. Thisis called the Diwan-i-Am. Friday is treated as Sunday is in London all the bazaars, shops and the palace itself are closed, the mosques alone remuining open. Sunday is do voted to the Amir's private utlairs. The two most important days are those of the Diwan i-Am, for the Amir is nbove ull a dispenser of justice. He dispenses it w ith his hand on the hilt of his sword. Highway robbers are brought before him and ho hears the charg. Then he says one of two things: 'Bckoiishid.' aud they cut their throats, or 'Gargara kounid,' and they lead them off to be hung.' If an article is lost on the road no one is allowed to pick it up. If any one does so his hand is cut off. The Amir is writing his memoirs, be ginning with his ninth vear, and he is now forty-two. They will be full of in terest if the Ghilzais will only allow him to finish them." Curious Bugs. Next door to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company's store, Fulton street, is an exhibition cu.-e with glass sides containing three, litifcgrtles. The turtles are alive, aud are about i..o :.u of a silver quarter. "Say, Johc, saiilu pretty shop girl to her youug nun: "Ain't thev curious bin's." John nodded and the tea clerk smiled. Y i bun. ME GREAT DRAFT RIOTS. rEHRlBLH OPPOSITION TO CON SCRIPTION IN NEW YORK IN 1803. 4 Itr-lef Sketch of tho Sanguinary Resistance to the Draft Hun dred, of People Killed. The difficulty in enforcing the draft In New York might have been foreseen, indeed, it was plainly apprehended, but it was not thought advisable by the Fed eral authorities to materially alter the regulations of conscription in putting the law in force in thnt city. Still, there can be no doubt that the vastly dilletent con ditions then existing in New York from those in inland towns of tho State, or even other senlmard cities, formed the original cau y of the trouble. New York bad then a much larger population than any other city, and a much greater pro portion of foreigners among her inhab itants. These, naturally enough, had no sentiment of patriotism "to aid them in submitting to the harsh conditions of conscription. Further, there were, as there always aro in every large city, a great proportion of poor men whose families live from hand to mouth, and who never have any provision made for future contingencies. To such families of course the forcible removal of their bread-winner meant starvation. To such an extent had apprehensions oi this fate of their wives and children been aroused among the laboring men of the city especially in those districts largely inhabited by foreigners, and no doubt incited by those who opposed the draft for political reasons that associations were formed to resist the law by force. On Saturday, July 11, 1803, the draft was begun in the Ninth Congressional District, a locality largely inhabited by poor people. It was carried on without interruption or disturbance, but on Sun day secret meetings were held and the plans of resistance formed. When the draft was begun on the following morn ing, a mob surrounded the building in which it was held, smashed in the win dows, broke down the doors, and, rush ing in, destroyed, the furniture, and finally set the building on fire. All of the officers escaped uninjured but one, who 1 was hurt by flying stones. The success ol the rioters here added large numbers tc thcirranks and in a few hours a great army, re-enforced by all the roughs ol the citv. was tramplinrr throiurh tin streets, burning, destroying, plundcrino ' ana murdering wherever resistance wai offered them. Crowds of women were with them, inciting their husbands tc lawless deeds. At first a detachment ot L'i.rincs were sent against them with muskets and blank cartridges. When it .-n ltlfttt-n I ll u f tL.lil flrlni. nrnrlnio.1 effect the crowd .et uno , , , them, seriously injuring and even killing several. Police sent against them were treated in like manner. The Colored Half Orphan Asylum on Fifth avenue was attacked by an army of boys, the children beaten, tho place plundered anil fired. There wns no force at hand tc defend the city from the rioters but the police, which did valiant service, though but J hvib iiui at ail auiu iu ilium lilt dirder Gn tho gecond d he rioU . - they were not at all able to check the 1 was even worse than on the hrst. Gov- 1 .rnn, Npmn. i,,vl .rrivn.l in th. crnor Seymour having arrived in the city, issued a proclamation in which he promised the peoplo that the rights of all would be protected, while he warned the people thut ho would use all means in hit Eowcr to preserve order. A few hours latei e issued another proclamation, in which he declured the city in a state of insur rection, and ordered tho ilwix'rsal of the mob. These proclamations, however, ,l:.l I...1 ttiii 1 ir t ill" urn out iiiuu goou. cjencrui n 001, 1111 iicitu ui uiu ueiHiriuiuiib ui liiu naisi, called out all veteran volunteers, but there was so little time for organizing that, though large numbers responded, they could not be used effectively. A small command of regular troops from Fort Lafayette did more effective service. The riot laded three days, during whick business was entirely suspended. The draft was for the timo given up, and the City Council passed a relief bill to paj $300 commutation, or substitute money, for every drafted man of the poorei classes who had a fumilv dependent unor. him. It was estimated that the numbet killed during the riots, or who died ol injuries, was nearly 1,(100, but this wai probably an exaggerated estimate. The mortality statistics recorded an increnst of 450 nver the average weekly mortalitj of the year, there was much destruc tion of property, and claims for damagei I caused by the riots were brought before tho county authorities to the aggregate of $2,500,000. Muny, however, were disallowed by the examining committee, but about $1,500,000 was finally paid. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Pulque in Mexico. It is as amusing to note the effort! which uewly nirived Anieirans make tc suy tho word (which should be pro nounced pool kec) as their grimuccs in learning to like the liquid, writes a cor respondent of the Philadelphia Prex from Mexico. They generally begin in Calling it "milk," or ut best "poolk," and end by doing their full share toward disposing of those 80,000 gallons pel diem. In its best estate the sour-smelling stuff looks like thick buttermilk, and tastes somewhat nustier, if possible, than spoiled yeast. Its beauties were dis covered about the yearliUO by Papaut.in, a Toltcc noblemau. Tradition says that this ancient benefactor, having suc ceeded in dietilling a beverage which to him seemed fit for the gods, called his only daughter. Xochitl (the mime signifying "flower of Tollen"), and commissioned her as cup-bearer to the King. The dusky Hebe was young aud beautiful, and so the Toltec monarch not only drank and praised the pulque but straightway fell iu love with the niaidun. He would not permit her to return to her people, but for many years the old rascal kept her a prisoner in his palace, though wars aud bloodshed, and at last the dis ruption of the empire, grew out of his infatuation. A Iteason For Happiness. Queen Isabella, of Spain, sometime1 makes very cutting remurks. She ' recently told that her younger sister, the T ichess of Montpensier, looked older thim her Majesty, whereupon she ex claimed: "Then she ought to be happy, for she has wanted to be the elder aiaier all her lifu iong, and now, ut least, sho aiipears to be so." London 1'rutK. ., HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Kecelpea. ToimcK Toast. Make some slices of toast, not very thick, browned evenly all over on both sides, and minus crust. Butter it slightly. Grate with a large grater a liberal sufficiency of cold tongue snd spread it thickly over the toast. Lay the slices side by side on a large dish. Serve at breakfast, luncheon or supper. Lemox Creak. Boil the tlira peel of two lemons in one pint of cream, strain, and thicken with the well-beaten yolks of three and the whites of four eggs, into which half a teacupful of white sugar has been beaten. Add half a salt- spoonful of salt, stir tapidly with the egg-beater until nearly cold, and pour it into glasses or cups. This quantity will fill six good-sized cups. Stkwko Apri.F.s With Kick. Scoop out the cores and peel some fine russet apples, and stew them in clarified sugar. Boil some rice in milk with a pinch of salt, and sugar enough to sweeten it. Leave on the fire until the rice is quite soft and has absorbed nearly all the milk; place in a dish; arrange the stewed apples on the rice and put in the oven to remain until they are of a golden c olor. Ciieksk Fritteiis. Put about a pint of water into a saucepan with a piece of butter the size of nn egg, the least bit of cayenne and plenty of black pepper. When the water boils throw gradually into it sufficient flour to form a thick paste, then take it off the fire and work it into a quarter of a pound of Parmc sian chees 0, nnd then the yolks of three or four eggs nnd the whites of two beat en up to a froth. Let the paste remain for a couple of hours, and then fry it the size of a walnut into plenty of hot lard. Serve sprinkled with very fine salt. Rhubarb Jam.-To six pounds of rhubarb add .ix pounds of lump sugal and six large lemons; cut tho rhubarb into small pieces about the size of a wal nut; then the lemons should be sliced and the peel cut very fine. Put the fruit (taking out the pips from the lemons) all into a largo bowi; then cover it will-, the siifrar, broken small; let it stand twenty- four hours, after which boil it slowly fot ttl,mlt three-quarters of an hour, taking cnre il docs not 8tlck ,0 tho Pj"1' n.,so not to 8,ir muth " as 10 l,rcak th? Pleces. ol rhubarb, as the beauty of it is in being whole. Vegetable and Family Sours. Twc pounds of lean beef, half an onion, one large carrot, one turnip, quarter of a cab bage heart, two fair-sized potatoes, one tnblcspoonful of minced pnrsely, two stalks of celery, pepper and salt, three quarts of cold water, browned flour. Put the beef over the fire in the cold water, and cook slowly three hours. An hour before taking it from the fire pre pare the vegetables. Shred the cabbage, cut turnips, celery, carrots and potntoei into dice, and slice the onion. Cook them half an hour in boiling, salted wa ter. Drain this oil and throw it away, Bv this time tho meat should be tender, but not in shreds. Add the parboiled vegetables to it and the broth, put in the parsely, pepper and salt to taste. Cook all for fifteen minute; stir in a great spoonful of browned flour wet with cold water; Don up ana pour out. Useful Hints. A few oyster shells, mixed with the coal used for a furnace or large stove, will effectually prevent the accumulation of cunke:s, To clean satin that has become greasy, sponge lengthwise, never across the width, with benzine, alcohol or borax water. - ' prt8s on the wrong side It is said that white spots can be re moved from furniture by rubbing with essence of camphor or-peppermint, una afterward with furniture polish oil. Put a small pieco of charcoal into the pot when boiling cabbage to prevent the disagreeable ocior that usually accom panics the cooking of this Vegetable. ' Velvet wears better, if brushed with a hat 1 rush, bv nressiiur down into the nap and then turning tho brush as on n axis to flirt out the lint. Do not brush backward or forward. Ice is but water. Ice, rhould, there fore, never be added to anything that would be injured or injuriously nffocted by water, Salads are frequently ruined t in summer by covering them with broken I lie. Tho human system consists of fifteen elements, all of which are found 111 com mon wheat. But tho flour of commerce is deprived in a large degree of twelve of these elements. An improvement in making flour is evidently needed. Brains aud Bodies. On the one hand, the great men of the past have been noted not only for their bruins but lor their uotiies as wen, ano that, ou the other, in the development of their bodies the time given to athletics aud to exercise was productive at once of an increased tenure of life and of the highest and best intellectual power, Here uuain, were it desirable, examples might bo indefinitely multiplied. It is easy to recall that Sir Walter Scott was unusually robust una physically active until overtaken by fatal diseases; that Burns in his youth was an athlete of ne mean prowess; that Byron, in spite of his deformity, excelled in leuts ot strength, and that he prided himself as much upon having swam the Hcllcsiiont as upon having written "Cliilde Harold;" that Dickens considered himself at a great intellectual disadvantage if compe'led to forego his daily ten-mile walk at four miles an hour, regardless of weather; that George Sand preferred to work far into the night, so that she might have more hours of daylight for her walks in the country; that Goethe swam, skated, rode, nnd was passionately fond of all forms of exercise; that Humboldt prepared him self for his explorations by systematic exercise to tho point of fatigue; that Leonardo da Vinci was a devoted eques trian; that Wordsworth was an inde fatigable podestriuu; that Hunt allowed nothing to interfere with his daily after noon wulk ; thut Gladstone has his pri vate gymnasium, in addition to lo.-ing no opportunity for out-of town exercise; thut Bisiiiurck bus ull his life been fond of sport und excrci-e, and is as inde fatigable in their pursuit as in his work as a diplomat; and tliat among living au lho, orators, aud clatesmcn we have muny equally conspicuous cxuiuplei of the kauit geueral Vfulh. Livvincvtt. . THB CARK OF CARS. Like the rapacious eankerworm that strip The orchard's verdure, leaving stark and bare The shriveled boughthatelee had blossomed . fair, With promise of ripe frnit for craving; lips, Cars creeps upon ns stealthily, and sips The life-hloodof our souls wiKaeverr rara Purpose and act the will to do and dara Without one fear of failure or eclipse. Yield not, brave heart, to such a subtle foe. So small in its first inroad; sot stout heel On the consuming ravage; hunt it down With firm endeavor; blast it with a frown Of noble deed; and Uura shalt find and feel Sure handsel of the harvest's overflow. Margartt J. Preston, 0 Good Cheer HUMOR OF THE DAT. The most charming talkers are those) who think as you do. Picayune. Which is the most avaricious A man will run after a dollar, while a dog will follow a scent. Whv a man boots his doz, but merely shoes his hon, has never been" precisely determined. Philadelphia L'alL Sophronia "Certainly, dear, imitation violins for the room adornment should b decon.ted with bows." tlmton Onirir. The mosnuito is here and we realize that there are other troublesome bills be sides tho inter-state commerce affair. Boston Bulletin. Tennvson is ill with gont. It is appre hended that be caught it from some of his recent poetry, whose lameness is thus accounted for. Botton Iranteript. Stiggins has married his tf pe-writing I irl. Before thev were mnrricd he was t J in the habit of dictating to her, but now ; j she dictates to him. Botton Boacnn. The baby believes in the motto: "A place for everything and everything in us place, ami uer place lor rrurjmiyjj is in her mouth. Somercille Journal. A Canadian has shot an American sew ing machine ogent;' but shooting on)y one American sewing machine agent won't settle tho fishery trouble. TrateZ- en' Magazine. "Is it right," ask a contemporary, "for a member of tho General Assembly to go without his coat?" It depends upon where he is going. If he is going to bed it is all right. SaramaA jTcics. "What is the chief peculiarity of tha Canadian climate?" asked a school exam iner. "It is beneficial to bank cashiers" said the bright boy of the class, "but very deadly to reformers." judge. "Oh, Mr. Lighthcad," remarked Miss Oldgirl, with a simper, "I've seen just eighteen happy summers to-day." "Only eighteen happy ones," replied ho, With pity in his tone. "What an unhappy life you must have had." Neti York Sun. ' "Theodore, I don't believe you leva mo any more," said a K-strcct girl plain tively, as her best fellow, a Postoffice Department clerk, pulled her hastily past an ice cream saloon. "Oh, don't say that, dearest," said he, reproachfully. "Why, I named fourteen Postoffices after you last week." Washington Critic. where; oh! waEREt The seasons fly swiftly awy ; Spring has pa1. n 'r- OhKU8j' iiiW;iay a. Begun ouUie tiret of the yearf v -i This truth to us yearly cornea nit;h, As we wander through life's dreary vale, That diaries are kept only by The people who keep thorn for sale. Boston Courier, Infant Prodigies. . Willio Gordon, the ten-year-old son of of H Mandan wholesale clothing dealer, is his father's book keeper and confiden tial clerk. Ho shows a surprising apti tude for biif.inesB, and alwavstaJigentire charge of theTiterfl1" wflOa his futUeT comes East to buy goods. Eddie Hace, a tivcycar-old youngster, of Glen's Falls, is the best drummer boy for mile around. He performs the most difficult beats without a flaw and nevei seems to get tirod, although the drum he carries is neurly as big as his body. Eddie has never had any tuition, but he gets the beats right by instinct. Lillio Stuch, the fourteen-year-old daughter of the State Librarian of Penn sylvania, recently composed a cradle song so difficult that her music teacher advised her to modify it. She said that : she had made it difficult so,, that she ' might send it to Patti, who wmtki-W. able to sing it. This she did, and it was sung by tho diva with great success in tho West. Miss Fannie Block, of Jackson, Miss., ik said by the S'fif l.eljer to be one of th.i most precocious children in the State. Though only nine years old sho reads, writes and speaks English, Gcr man and French fluently, aud reads llo brew with ease. She is now beginuiug to master Gieek. It took her only two mouths to learn Gcriuau, and she ac quired the other languages with equal readiness. A little ncL'ro lad. about seven years old, living near Uniontown, Ga., is said to possess a wonderful talent forsculpt ure. Ho can take a lump of mud from the roadside and with his bauds form any animal he ever saw, the proportions being perfect. He recently made out of clay a life-size statue of a dog that as tonished everybody who saw it because of its extraordinary fidelity to life. Paul Williams, the twclve-vear-old son of G. B. AYilliains, of Mendon, Mass., has neither arms nor legs only stumps two iuches long from his shoulders and similar stumps, eight inches in length, in place of legs. Vet he is an accomplished penman and a very goou artist. He holds the pen or brush between his chin , and one shoulder stump, an I moves it with his head. Besides all this, he is a pu Hii nipil of high standing in the Mendon gh School. 4a Ungrateful Panther. Jim Ponce, of St. Augustiire, Fla., going through the woods heard tremen- doussquiiwls, yells, and roiirs, and cau tiously investigating came upon a seveu foot panther fighting with au alligator, which had the punt her fast in its ponder- , ous jaws. Ponce sided with the under ; dog and shot the alligator, whereupon the pauther, freeing himself, made for ; the Luut r, who had a hard iigh. be dor ; he killl the ungruteful beast.- - Trk Hiiu. I