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1.50 PER ANNUM.
OorrMwnileTic tollclted from til Mrt ot the
frnntrv.
mo akMoni
A new theory of tho finnl destruction
of the earth is tlint the polar Ice in pene
trating the interior of the globe like a
wedge, and Hint at soon ns it reaches the
furnnco thcro will Iks nn explosion that
will split thn world into pieces too small
for truck, patches.
According to tho statistics gathered
by Dr. Lindsley, of the New Haven
Hoard of Health, consumption claims a
larger ratio of victims nmong tho foreign
born population of New Kngiand than
nmong natives. The Irish arc particu
larly subject to it.
.Tnme. Pnrfnn toivn ? "Fnniiinir Amienn
" - ' - j ' - rt I I
.A . .1 ... ., 1 .. .... ,, .., 1 nF thn
thoughts of young men in the Eastern
States as a dcsiroblo career. Is not this
somewhat strange, in a Nation, the foun
ders and first rulers of which were farm
ers almost to a man?"
Sixty thousand orango trees are on
their way to California from Japan,
where they were shipped on board of an
English bark in the harbor of Yoko
hama. With them also comes a mis
cellane ius assortment of over 00,000
treca and shrubs, indigenous to Japan,
which it is proposed to acclimati.o in
California.
The New York Sun asserts that "tho
mosquito can be readily knocked out by
hanging in the window a bunch of green
pennyroyal herb, or where this is not ob
tainable a few drops of tho oil of penny
royal upon tho pillow will insure safety
from their attacks and a night's rest.
Pennyroyal herb, however, is common
eVry where."
It la well to know the safest kind of
tree to take refuge under in a thunder
storm. A farmer, who has known of
twenty-eight forest trees being struck by
lightning, says that nine were oaks,
acven poplars, four maples, three wil
lows, and the others were a chestnut,
horse chestnut, walnut, hawthorn and
elm. It is a popular belief in South
Carolina that lightning never strikes the
palmetto.
. A piece of ground in Philadelphia,
with a frontage of sixteen feet on Chest
nut and thirty-four feet on Fourth street,
was recently sold for $85,000 or 150 a
square foot. It was necessary to com
plete a building site in the heart of the
city, and therefore commanded this ex
traordinary figure. This is the highest
nriee ever naid for real estate in America.
J - I
The one next to it, perhaps, was on Wall
street, New York city, where a lot sold
for $143 a square foot.
A nugget of gold weighing 150 ounces
and five pennyweights was recently
found near Brcekenridgo, Cal. It is
worth as a specimen close to $5,000. It is
said to be the largest lump of gold ever
found in California, but one almost, if
not quite as large, was taken from the
. Little Annio mine in Summit District,
Rio Grande County, lato in 1870. Aus
tralia produced the largest nugget of
gold ever discovered. It weighed 130
pounds, and was found ut Itallarnt near
Ueelong.
' One of the regrets of the Israelites
shen they "in their hearts again turned
back to Egypt,'" was for the onions
which they used to eat in the land of
their bondage. It is to be noted that
JEgypt is again becoming a land of onion
culture. Large quantitities are yearly
shipped to Europe from Alexandria and
other ports. A few years ngo tho trado
hardly existed, whilo in two months of
last year alone 14,000 tons were shipped
to Liverpool.
The New Orlenns I'imei-Democrat
makes the statement that in recent years
the health of Louisiana has been im
proved fifty per cent. "Diseases that
ravaged New Orleans and till the chief
towns," it says, "have been kept out by
bolter sanitary methods and by nn effect
ive quarantine. The death rate is forty
per cent, loss than in ante-bellum days,
and is now as low as in nny portion of
the country ; the rate is fifty per cent,
less. If human life and human health is
to be counted in the balance, Louisiana
has made immense strides forward as
compared with tho most prosperous
period before the war."
An electric headlight has been recently
introduced on an engine of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad
wnich has given entire satisfaction in
. regular use, and has achieved some re
markable results in illuminating the
track ahead for a great distance. A pho-
tograph was taken by its light on tho
railroad near Cleveland, showing the
telegraph poles clearly for three-quarters
of a mile ahead. A newspaper has been
read by the light four miles away, and the
timo discerned by a watch at a distance
of nine miles. Tho rellection of the
light in tho clouds lias been noticed
twelvo miles away. Tho light used is a
2500-candle powerarc light with u special
refioctor designed for tho purpose, and a
feed for the carbons, which gives a con
stant light despite the jar of the tiuin.
The engiuu for driving the dynamo is
also of a special type, deigned to over
come certain diilieulties incident to the
renditions of working ou a running lo
comotive, and it is said to answer its
purpose admirably.
"TAKE IT EASY."
Do not hurry,
Do not worry.
As this world you travel through,
No regretting,
Fuming, freting,
Ever can advantage you.
Re content with what you've won,
What on earth you leave undone
There are plenty loft to do.
CONRAD'S ESCAPADE.
BY M!CT 1II.AKK.
With an cyo out for the nearest smok
ing compartment, Mr. Jeremy Calcott re
garded the approaching train which was
to convey him from Siena to Florence,
but Fnte, looking pensively forth at him
through the window of a second-class
carriage, caused him to change his mind
nnd relinquish all thoughts of that pet
cigar.
Fute had hidden herself behind such a
lovoly pair of pathetic dark eves under a
poke bonnet lined with red" silk, how
could Mr. Jeremy Cnleott resist her
mighty magnetism ? Though in reality
he was ready to rend liilib from limb u
fidgety governcs and three children who
threatened to bar his progress, Mr. Cal
cott ensconced himself in this particular
carriage with a manner intended to express
the coldest indifference as to where ho
sat. llo chose a place opposite the
wearer of the (Hike bonnet, so that at dis
creet moments his artist's eye might re
fresh itself without danger of dislocation
by a look at the most charming face and
figure it had ever rested upon. The air
of sadness in mouth and eyes, though
unsuited to her young years, added much
to the fascination of the girl's face.
She was accompanied by a rather dull
looking person in black, who divided her
timo between catching short, jerky naps
iu ungraceful attitudes, with her mouth
open, and casting anxious glances at a
largo basket iu red drniiery in a rack
overhead. She hail doubtless placed it
there herself with the usual feminine
disregard for stability and public safety,
and was watching for it to come rattling
down upon somcliody's head.
Mr. Calcott longed to spenk to his
pretty neighbor, but for fear of frighten
ing her ho refrained. Fate presently
took compassion on him; tho shade of
tho poke bonnet wus evidently not
enough for the pretty black eyes, for a
little white hand, quicker in its move
ment than Culcott's, reached up to draw
down the blind. The wood was wared
and stiff, nnd the poor little fingers were
pinched. Not very badly perhaps, but
the black eyes had a suspicious moisture
in their corners. Calcott forgot his
cautious reserve, and expressed deep re
gret for tho accident which caused the
young lady such keen suffering.
Did she know that roc? wine was con
sidered efficacious in allaying the paiu of
a pincn, ana would sho allow him to
offer some from his flask? She seemed
nothing loath, so the infatuated young
man tore up into strips his fine new linen
handkerchief (delighting all the time in
tho fact that there wus an embroidered
monogram in the corner, which made the
sacrifice more complete), and saturated
the bandage with wine to bind round the
injured finger.
"Thank you: it feels better already,
she murmured; "but what a pity you tore
up your handkerchief."
As if being allowed to touch that
dainty littlo hand for a few minutes was
not worth all the rubbishy handkerchiefs
in the kingdom! thought Calcott, but
what he said was less gallant.
The young lady in black witnessed
this scene with stony indifference. Mr.
Calcott resented her evident callousness,
but felt deeply grateful to her for leaving
the care oi the wouuded nngcr to nun
After this mishap Mr. Calcott found
himself chatting to his pretty tit-a-rit
with the case of long acquaintance. As
they stopped at a wayside station, he ex
claimed:
"There is a type of my countrywomen
of which I'm heartily ashamed! Why
can't she leave that wretched little brute
of a dog at home! Look! that is the
second porter who has tipped over its
leading-string. The way that that fat
little old man swore when the beast ran
under his legs was quite shocking, but
excusable under the circumstuccs
People who travel about the country with
animals demoralise tho public and make
themselves consummate nuisances. Do
you not agree with me?"
The young lady in the poke bonnet did
not seem quite to agree with Mr. Culcott
upon this subject, and as they moved on
he became aware of a change in her man
ner a timidity moro than coolness; she
glanced uneasily at the lady in black, and
seemed relieved when that commonplace
person snored unmistakably. Uncere
moniously enough she shook her awake
as tho trai:i ueared the Suuta Croco
Station, and both ludies began to collect
ing their belongings ready to descend.
Mr. Culcott handed dou tho basket
with the rubid republican covering, nnd
as he did so, there issued from it a pro
longed, unmistakuble Miuuw ! sonorous,
angry, loud, as only a pampered tomcat,
disturbed iu his slothful slumber can
give vent to.
Tho sable-garbed young person droop
ed over the basket, murmuring:
"Conrad, my darling! ure you over
tired, my sweet pet ? Feel how hot his
poor nose is, Dora; I fear ho is in a raging
fever."
Jeremy Calcott's heart sank into his
boots. Tho pretty girl seemed as rcudy
to make a spectacle of herself over the
cat as her plainer companion, uuil he.
Calcott, had of course offended them
both mortally by his unlucky remarks
concerning people who traveled about
with amateur menageries. In vain did
ho forfeit part ot his ticket to see the
cut and its two guardians safe into a cab
ut Santa Croce formal thanks, a limp
handshake, were his only reward, as the
poke bonnet vanished from his gaze for
ever, he believed in his despair.
Somehow, it did not seem silly for her
to be fond of a cat ; it was, probably, a
very nice cat, with who knows what in
teresting history. What a fool ho had
been to trifle with his happiness by those
ungenerous comments! All was over
now, thanks to this special confounded
cut.
Jeremy Culcott little realized that the
maligned Conrad would one day indi
rectly befriend him, wheu he was in sore
need.
To escape tho heat and find subjects
for his sketchbook, Mr. Calcott wandered
up among the Pistoiese Apennines, and
established himself at an old posting inn,
now patronized by strangers in search of
quiet rusticity,nenr the boundary between
Tuscany ami Lombardy. After his din
ner of risotto stewed kid and pumpkin
flowers fried in bitter Mr. Calcott began
to take his bearings. It was, indeed a
pretty, picturesque nook, tucked comfort
ably in a side pocket of the mountain,
eyes, had worn him gaunt and grim, ns
he believed and privately hoped, and
made a sojourn in Nature's solitudes best
for him.
Sitting on a bench at the end of the
path he had chosen, Mr. Calcott saw a
lady In a black dress absobed in a piece
of needlework. Jeremy lifted his hat
as he passed, aud was continuing his
way, when to his surprise the lady called
him back nnd motioned him to a place
berido her.
with the pine-tops embroidering the in
tense blue of the sky above, and chestnut
grove gathering round the peasants'
houses of gray stone with red-tiled roofs.
Very primitive, silent nnd lonely, but
unite suited to Mr. Calcott's frame of
mind. Tho gnawing heart-hunger,
awakened by a certain pairof bonny black
"You arc the man who bandaged my
sister Dora's finger in the train that day;
a very trifling pinch you and Bhe both
knew, not nt nil worth the waste of a
handkerchief. Dora kept the piece with
the initials on, it very silly of her," she
began.
Jeremy could scarcely believe his eyes
and cars. Here, dropped down in this
most hidden of hamlets, was the dull
young person who had so fidgeted nnd
yawned during that, to hira, most bliss
ful iourncy from Siena. Was her sister
with her f Calcott's knees trembled with
joy nt the delightful possibility, nnd then
n chill froze his blood at the fear that the
sisters might have parted company.
"My sister will be glad to see you; she
has wearied me to death talking about
you."
Though not wholly complimentary,
this was music to Calcott's ears, for it
hinted at Dora's having forgiven him for
his sharp judgment uppropos of quadru
ped pets. He had already liossessed him,
self of her name ns a precious treasure.
"Is is your sister here?" hazarded
Jeremy.
"Yes; she is sitting with Conrad, to
keep the flies off him while ho sleeps-"
Hereupon, to Jeremy's great discomfit
ure, tho young lady burst into tears.
With a praiseworthy desire to divert her
thoughts, he began, with a painful dis
play of mannish ignorance, to question
her about tho work now lying unheeded
on her Ian. She brightened up immedi
ntely, and displayed her handiwork to
Culcott, the nature or winch caused mm
considerable astonishment. A square of
black silk with a skull and cross-bones,
skilfully embroiderod in white, enliven
ing one corner, nnd a small cofiin, with
Hie jaset on tho lid, in process of com
pletion oi two of the otlsers.
"I'm making this for a lady who has
lost her husband ; it is to wear round the
neck; she always liked a pretty little
shawl. Don't you think it will please
her?"
"Yes," answered Calcott; "there is
something so original and and so cheer
ing about it, you know."
"Yes. Everything Oil, there comes
Dora; you can talk to her instead. I'm
going to Conrad," whereupon tho ec
centric young lady hustled her work out
of sight in a basket, and beat a hasty
and unc eremonious retreat.
With tho grace and lowliness of nn
ideal queen, Dorn ndvnuaed over the
carpet of chestnut leaves lying golden
on the path. Instead of tho poke bonnet,
a parasol lined with pale rase protected
her dainty head, with ita duwky crown of
hair soft and glossy as silk, from tho
glinting sunshine.
With a flush of pleasure, as the vain
young man chose to construe it though
it might have been only tho reflex from
the silken canopy over her head she
recognized Mr. Culcott.
"I'm very glad chance hns thrown us
together again," she said, sweetly, ex
tending her hand. "I'm going for a
short walk through the fields. . Will you
come with inef
Ibid she asked him to join her in a
ramble over redhot plowshares he would
have counted himself among the luckiest
of mortals. After tho first lull in their
chat upon ordinary subjects, Dora's man
ner changed, and she aaid, seriously:
".My sister has been showing you some
of her dismal embroidery. Mie was not
quite quick enough to escape my eye." -"Yes;
I thought it rather odd, but "
"Of course her manner has given you
nn inkling of the truth. I rarely talk of
my afflicted sister to strangers, but us we
are likclv to be together here for some
weeks, and as you aro my compatriot.
nnd most kiud hearted, I would like you
to know the whole truth. Let us sit
down on this fallen tree, nnd I will tell
you a story as briefly as 1 can."
Much interested, Culcott obeyed, and
she begun:
"Five venrs ngo. Hilda my father was
twice married, and sho is my half-sister
wus engaged to be married to one of
the best, truest men on all the wide earth,
I was ut that time a feather-brained girl
of sixteen. We were spending tho sum
mer in the Tyrol ; one afternoon, Conrad
(Hilda's lover) and I were walking alone
along a steep mountain path above lob
lach. I coveted a fascinating clump of
fringed gentian growing a few feet lower
than tho path; far below where it lodged
lay the rocky bed of the stream. I told
Conrad I intended to climb down and
get the flowers. He laughed, and said I
must be mad to think of risking my life
for such a trifle, nor was he gallant
enough to peril his own neck. Later,
wheu he wus absorbed in a sketch, I ran
back and scrambled down for the plant
it would be such a triumph to surprise
him with it.
"I slipped, and fell a short distance,
At my screams Conrad flew to help ine,
and managed to hold me till I could
seize the root of a tree and drng myself
buck to the path. He lost his footing,
and they found him lying on the moss
crown stouet below, not maimed, nor
disfigured, but quite dead.
They brought him back to the hotel,
where, without any preparation for the
horrible change, Hilda found him. A
little white kitten he hud given her a few
days before had stolen in, aud was lick
iug the poor dead boy's hand.
"Hilda hud a brain fever, which left
her iu the state she is iu now; not mad,
but with her reason unsettled for ever.
Wi e i the awoke to life she teemed to
j care lor nothing but me and the white
kitten,now grown to be a ttaid old rat,
which accompanies us everywhere. She
seems to think some of the soul of her
dead lover lives still in this cat, nnd
caring for it is her one great passion ; she
calls it Conrad, and is never contented
away from It. 1 have to feign the some
affection and interest in an animal I really
do not like, out of consideration for my
poor Hilda's feelings. I shudder lor the
consequences if any misfortune were to
befall her pet. 1 know it is ridiculous to
travel about with a cat. but "
'Oh,picase don't sny anything to recall
some stupid speeches of mine," began
Calcott, eagerly, "there is nothing
ridiculous "
Yos, it is silly," she interrupted him;
"but I tuke that as part of my punish
ment, ns I try to bear patiently with
Hilda s dreary fancies in needlework. If
I can suppress the frightful decorations
sho makes before she produces them in
public, I'm thankfnl. Sho always wears
mourning, and finds keen satisfaction in
elaborating the dismal symbols of death
you found her busy over."
"A terribly depressing influence for
you," said Culcott.
Yes; but do 1 not deserve a fur worse
lot? That is my story very hastily and
imperfectly told I cannot bear to dwell
on details but it is enough to explain
what seems strange in our conduct. Let
us return now through the fields, nnd
talk of pleasantcr things."
For many subsequent duys Jeremy had
to content himself with fleeting glimpses
of Dora, for she seemed to avoid him,
and his most adroit attempts to bring
about a chance meeting failed.
At sunset, one evening, he found her
sitting alone on a stone wall where a
sweep of the road commanded the prettiest
view of the valley. Traces of tears were
in her eyes, and a pathetic tremor in her
voice; she looked irresistibly lovely, and,
astonished nt his own courage nnd elo
quence, Calcott presently found himself
telling her that he hnd loved her lrom
the first moment he had seen her, and
that heaven would begin for him on this
dull earth if she would be his wife.
"Oh, no, no- I cannot! I beg of you
not to speak to me in this way. Oh,
why did 1 not prevent you!"
This was not encouraging, but Calcott
did not mean to let himself be abashed
too easily.
"But why may I not tell you that I
love you? I "
"No no man must tnlk to me of love
so long as my poor Hilda needs me. I
have sworn to devote myself to her, allow
ing no one to divide my allegiance it is
but little compensation for ruining her
life."
"Hut why not let me help to bear tho
burden which is far too heavy for you:"
"No, I suy; no one can help me.
Alone with me, Hilda is usually docile
nnd good. The intimacy of other peo
ple maddens her 1 have tried all that so
often."
But this sacrifice of yourself is shock
ing! It is "
"Please don't I know you feel sym-
Fathy for me, but I don't deserve it, and
can't bear to listen to it. I beg of you
to forget what you have said just now.
I cannot listen to any man's wooing. If
you vill not forget, will you not go away
and leave us to the quiet I sought here,
but alas ! have not found. No pleading
can shake my resolve; it only distresses
me beyond endurance."
There was no other alternative for Jer
emy but to promise to go on the follow
ing day. During the sleepless night that
followed he resolved that he would bide
his timo for awhile, but renounce all
hope of winning Dora, as she bade him,
he could not, if he would. To leave her
was to feel the gates of paradise close
against him; and who could tell how
long the separation so cruelly imposed
by Fate might last? Doia's eyes, in
spite of herself, told Jeremy that she re
turned his love. i nacr me circum
stances he could hardly tell whether this
consciousness caused him most delight
or despair,
Tho next morning the Atoergo delta
Posta was the scene of the wildest excite
ment; owing to the carelessness of one of
the chambermaids, Conrad, Hildas
irecious cut, had escaped from the room
lired for his special accommodation, and
wus now here to be found. It was said
that the bereaved Hilda hud tried to
fling herself out of a window, in which
case sho must have infallibly landed upon
tho pig's back; tho landlady was in
hysterics, and the butcher's boy brought
the report that a bushy white cat, large
as a goat, breathing fire out of its mouth,
had been seen to plunge itself into the
Lima, several miles down the valley.
"Please don't go yet; there is a look in
Hilda's eyes that frightens me," said
Dora, imploringly, laying a trembling
hand on Culcott's cout-slceve. This
request wus quite superfluous, for that
gentleman was devoutly thankful to the
delinquent Conrad for giving him a good
reason tor delay, and ne would not nave
tuken himself on for worlds. Presently,
the unearthly squalling of a flock of
geese on a green plateau on the hillside
above, mingled with the lusty yells of
the little goosegirl who stood frantically
waving the long, blue stocking she was
knitting, attracted the general attention
of the village.
All of the able-bodied Donulation flew
to the rescue. Through clouds of flying
fur and feathers, with his blue eyes big
as saucers, his whiskers fiercely bristling,
his Persiuu tail swiuging threateningly
to and fro, they saw tho doughty Conrad
in the thick of the hissing aud cackling
flock, dealing sturdy blows right and
left with his heavy paws. He would
plainly have come out with flying colors.
routing the enemy gloriously, had nut
the fiercest gander of the lot attack
him suddenly in the rear pulling him by
the triumphant tail till Conrad lost his
balance and presence of mind.
At this critical moment, Hilda, with
bare feet, disheveled hair, a shawl trull
ing after her, and a light toilet, plunged
in among the flock, flung away the irate
gander, threw the shawl over the be
wildered Conrad, and flew back with
him to the hotel.
An hour later, Dora sent for Jeremy.
"Hilda is alarmingly ill," she begun
in an agitated voice; "the shock of los
lug Conrad, the chill she took running
about the wet grass with bare feet, have
hnd their evil cried. She is either in a
rugiug fever or a dull aputhv ever since,
both of which look very grave. Whut
can we do? There is no dot tor here."
"Carlino talis me an easv carriage,
which brought an invalid up to Abeton
yesterday, U going back to the Bagni di
Lucca this afternoon. Why not take
your sister to the Bognl? She could fcavc
every care there."
This most rational suggestion was acted
upon, and Conrad nnd the two sisters
were stowed away as comfortably as cir
cumstances permitted in the really com
modious vehicle. A lew (lavs later .nr.
Jeremy Calcott found it convenient to
visit tlie Bagni di Lucca.
Conrad's escapade had a curious effect
on his erstwhile so adoring mistress ; when
she recovered from the fever his loss
caused her, she had totally forgotten his
existence; nor of her faithful sister Dora
had sho slightest recollection more; the
shade on her feeble intellect had become
a dcnsecloud, which only thclightof an
other world could penetrate. Iu a private
ntylum, her painless, mindless existence
continued its march, perhaps into old
age such lives arc spared, while useful
ones arc extinguished in this strange
world but Dora's sacrifice was at an
end.
A year later she and Jeremy were
married. Frank LrtlWt.
Their First Appearance.
Sirnomes were first adopted ill
reign of Ed word the Confessor.
the
Linen was first made in England in
1253, and only worn by the luxurious,
The Gttzetta, of Venice, was , tho
original model of the modern newspaper.
Books in ihcir present form were first
made by Attalus, King of Bergamus, in
887.
The first bread was made by the
Greeks, nnd the first windmill by the Sar-
ncens.
Tho model of the first English steam
vessel was laid before the Board of Ad
miralty in 1780.
The first royal letter was written by
Henry V. to the Bishop of Durham, Feb
ruary 10, 1418.
The first idea of electricity was given
by the friction of two globes of quick
silver in the year 1647.
The first book containing musical
character. was issued in 14115 fiom the
press of the celebrated "Wynken de
Worde."
Turnpikes were originated in 1200, the
sum of one penny having to be paid for
each wagon passing through a certain
manor.
The first advertisements known of in
England were in tho Bhape of small
bills, affixed to the doors of St. Paul's
hurch.
The first record of a judge's salary
gives iliJS 138 4i as tne snpenu ot
Thomas Littleton, Judge ot the King s
Bench, 1400.
The first play bill issued from Drury
Lane Theatre was on April 8, ItiOit, the
piece represented being: "The Hmorous
Lieutenant."
The first English newspaper was the
English Mereuri, issued in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, and was in the shape
of a pamphlet.
Tho earl of Arundel (temp. Charles I)
was tho first person who brought over
to England from Italy the new way of
building with bricks.
Carriages were first introduced into
England in 1:180, and were for a long
time ued only for the conveyance of the
sick and of ladies.
The first English almanac was brought
outatTrinitycollegc.Cnmbridgc, in 1357,
and the first printed almanac appeared
in London nbout a hundred years later.
The first balloon was made bv a Jesuit
nbout 1020. The idea was revived in
France by M. Montgolfier in 178:!, nnd
introduced into England the following
year.
The first striking clock was imported
iuto Europe by the Persians about the
year A. D. 800. It was brought as a
iiresent to Charlemagne from Abdella,
Ling of Persia, by two monks of Je
rusalem. The first spectacles were mado at Flor
ence, at about the beginning of the four
teenth century by Sulvino Armio d'Ar
miti, although their invention has been
erroneously credited both to Hoger
Bacon and Alexander do Spina.
The first record we huve of coal is
about 8U0 years before the Christian era.
Coal was used us fuel in England as
early as 852, and iu 12:14 tho first charter
to dig for it was granted by Henry III.
to the inhabitants of Neweastle-on-Tyne.
The first glass window iu England was
one put in an abbey about 080. (llass
windows, however, did not become
general for many hundred years, and as
lato as 1577 tho glass casements at Aln
wick Castle, the Duke of Northumber
land's aent, were regularly taken down
when the family were away from home.
Gold Leaf.
The AineriniH Stationer wiys that from
two to four million dollars worth of gold
is used annually, iu the shape of foil
for gilding, lettering, edging of books,
sign aud ornamental (minting, and den
tistry; gilding taking the greatest share.
A cubic inch can be beaten out so as to
cover .'1,500 square feet, and twenty
double eagles could be drawn out iuto a
wire that would girdle the globe. For
foil, bars 8x14 inches are cast and then
rolled into "ribbons" as thick as a finger
nail. These ure then weighed into
packages culled "beatings" of 2J ounces
euch. One of these is dividol into lNO
pieces one inch square and built up
into a "kutch," a layer of gold alter
nating with one of prepured paper 2(
inches square. Then with an
eighteen-ound hummer a kutch
is beaten till tho gold hus spread
out as wide and long as the paper. Next
they are piled iu "shoder" (which aro
made of pieces of square goldbeater's
skin euch four inches), and beaten till the
slips of gold spread as large as the slips,
of leather. The prepured paper is a pe
culiar kind of parchment made from calf
skin, nnd the goldbeater's skin from tho
large intestines of the ox. These four
inch "shoderleaves" are quartered into
pieces of two inches square, and packed
again into molds five inches square and
beaten till spread to nearly the same size
as the molds, w hich are made of the suuie
stuff as the shoder. They are now ready
to be sent to girls to be trimmed and pit
up into books holding twenty live lcu ox,
each three and u half inches square.
These books are sold singly or in pricks
numbering twenty books.
The high four posted ledsofa centim
I aao are again pepular.
MAKING NORMAN DREAD. I
THE STAFF OF LIFE IN
FRENCH
FARMHOUSES.
Loaves Like Cart Wheels Ha Veil
Once a Month Kneading in the
Family Dough Trough.
One summer's day, wc stopped to call
at the stone farmhouse of Monsieur
Duval, says Ernestine Dingle, in the
Epoch. Ernestine, the eldest daughter,
was housekeeper in her dead mother's
place, and she it was who brought out
the amber-colored cider, the goat'a
cheese and tha heavy, hard country
bread. It is nn essential of French peasant
hospitality to offer these things to vis
itors. The loaf she took from the shelf was
one of half a dozen others leaning against
the brick wall. These loaves resembled
cart wheels, and had been baked in six
quart milk pans. Ernestine cut the loaf
with a small saw made for the purpose.
Nothing less than such n saw or a pirate's
cutlass could sever that homely, but
wholesome pain rassis.
These loaves, we knew, were baked
only onco a month. Bread-day in n
Norman peasant family is like washing
day on an American farm, in the respect
that it comes nt regular periods. We
judged that bread-day in this cottago
was approaching from the fact that only
six loaves remained of the original thirty,
or thereabouts.
After our little lunch, Erne-tiue took
us through the orchard to a picturesque
stone building, where the bnad was
made. This building hud once been part
of an ancient abbey, aud amid its ivy
covered ruins we could still trn'c fine
sculpture and bits of armorial designs.
but inside there was no trace ot art or
nrchitectute. It was really a Noiman
hen-house. We saw several pairs of
sabots or wooden shoes hanging from
tho wall and looking as if they had been
whitewashed.
In one comer of the place was a large
space enclosed with boards. This was
empty, but, like the sabots, it suggested
whitewash or mortar-making.
Ernestine told us that this was the fam
ily dough-trough. Here, once a month,
came her father and the hired niau to
"set" the yeast rising. Flour nnd water
were stirred together with the huge
wooden spades, like snow shovels, which
hung with the sabots upon the wall.
When the mas, thoroughly beaten to
gether, had risen and assumed a dark
leathery consistency, then came the tug
of war. The two men put tho sabots ou
outside their ordinary shoes, jumped iu
upon tho dough and commenced tho
kneading, l he way they aid it was to
jump and prance nnd flourish like opera
dancers; to stamp and kick like horses,
to exercise themselves till the perspira
tion strenmed off them and they had no
strength left!
After this process the dough was put
into the pans, and then baked in the
huge oven nt the rear of thenbbatinl hen
house !
In nil Norman towns half-clad men
may be seen lounging nbout buke-house
doors. Their legs nnd feet are bare und
floury, nnd as they trend the streets we
know that they have just come from or
are returning to their usual bread knead
ing!
"Mon Dicu!" exclaimed Ernestine
when we told her tlint in America bread
making was woman's work. "Mon
Dieu! how cruel vour men are! I rather
shoe horses !"
Chinese Delicacies.
if one wishes to enjoy a genuino Ori
ental market sight, with stands und
booths of nearly every description,
crowded with Chinese patrons, he should
pass through Mots street on a Sunday af
ternoon, suy ubout A o'clock, writes Wong
Chin Foo in the apw i oik Wort I.
There are the Chinese peanut stands
that do a big business at any time of the
year. I his is because the Chinese cook
their peanuts in salt water. They are
boiled until they become mellow. Even
the Chiueso rousted peanuts are much
superior to those produced by the sons of
sunny Italy, because the nuts are soaked
in oil for thirty-six hours before they
are put through the roaster. Th'! water
melon seeds are similarly treated, and
hey serve among the Mongolians of Colh
am ns a very dainty dish at their t;ivat
dinners, as, instead of smoking cigars,
tho Chinese guests sit down and ci.u k
watermelon seeds.
The sugar cane btuuds ul-o do a rush
ing business, as do the Chinese "Leon
fun" or ice-creuui siunds. This Chii.e e
ice-cream is somewhat different from any
other kind of ice-cream. In t In? lirst
place it has no ice iu it, and in the second
!iluce there is no cream; but it isculled
-eon fun or "cold" cream or jelly, and it
is really the only thing that answers to ice
cream among the 400,000,000 of heathens
in China. The Chinese are so fond of it
that even the real article here has failed
to supersede it. This "Leon fun" is
made of a species of light stuff, very
much like blunc inuuge. It is boiled very
thin with brown sugar nnd set in c.ild
water until it congeals, and then cul up
in dice shaped small squares. A few
spoonfuls of this is put iuto a bn I, a
kiud of thin, cool sweetened sauce is
poured over it, und the whole of this
peculiar mixture is sold for a Christum
nickel. The Mott street faulaii players
cull it boiled ice-cream.
The Injuries of liasehall Players.
Dr. Leuf contributes an article to the
Medical mul Surgical Jhiortcr on tho in
juries of baseball players. The doctor is
a player himself, ami speaks from per
sonal experience as well as from observa
tion, lie says that one of his fingers
was injured by a ball five times in one
week, and that all his finger have been
iujured ut least once. Hi treatment is
to continue, and ut every opportunity
either in the street, iu the ollu e or upon
the field to firmly grasp the finger about
the middle ail rub toward the tip. l u
der this treatment the swelling, stiffness
and soreuesM diminish, aud alter some
weeks are entirely gone. The most
marked swelling ot the haud, accompan
ied by great pum-aii be best relieved
by the application of water us hot us it
can be borne, the hand remaining iu the
water for uil hour, the temperature beiug
maintained duriiig the whole time.
Nothing will do so much hurui to a play
er as to ahataui altogether from playing
because he has noma trivial injury or sore
muscles. .
NIGHTFALL,
The last red beam has faded from t be sVy, ',
While, in its wake, a sombre tint of gray.
Half light, half dark, so restful to tha eye,
Comes o'er the heaven 'tis tho end of day.
Above the distant hills the crescent shines,
And waxes brighter as the night grows
dark,
The gentle breezes sway the stately pines,
And from the meadow glints the fire fly's
spark.
Throughout the erstwhile crowded marts of
trade,
Deep silence reigns instead their busy hum.
And shadows thicken as the gray light fade,
And gnth'ring darkness proclaims night has
come. n
Georye Owen Kocn.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The most pushing man is the man who
gives momentum to a hand-car. Guod
aWi Sun.
Nothing so completely upsets a man
as to tread upon a small reel of cotton at . ;
tho top of the stairs. t j -
An up-country town is proud of' a fc-
male blacksmith. We prcsumo shctDcgan '
by shooing hens. Shoe and Leather Ile
jjortcr. ' -'
A Dansville boarder said they fed him
so much boiled beef that he was actually
ashamed to look a cow iu the face.
Danirille llnezc.
The broiled chicken on the bill of faro
at the summer hotel is too often like the
same fowl when it emerges from the shell
"Just out." Boston liulletm.
Billinir and cooing is a very favorite
amusement with young couples. The
wife brings in the bills and the husband
coos over them. Burlington Fret Brest.
Rev. Dr. Torsey states that he can marry
cnimle in ei ditv seconds, nnd it is
awful to think so mnch damage can bo
done in such a brief tune. Botton Herald.
There is a man in Indiuna who takes
thirty two newspapers, nnd you migru.
as we'd try to ride a whirlwind on a side
saddle as to attempt to impose upon that
man Sifting.
'Taint ever v pull can be a pullet,
And every 'bull can't be a bullet.
Hut overv bullet, bull let in.
Will surely prove a bullet in,
And may serve for a bulletin.
' UoodaWs Sun.
Heiress "I am afraid it is not for me
that you come so often, but for my
money." Ardent Woer "You arc cruel
to say so. How can I get your money
without getting you?" Boston Courier.
If you see a bald-headed man with
baud uplifted in nn expectant pose ho is
not ubout to take tho oath of office, nor
sitting for his picture. Ho is just wait
ing to smash that fly when ho lights
again. Boston Ulvbe.
Though woman, with her pleading voice,
Ne'er vaunts of her connnnnd,
Her arts she skilfully employs
To rule throughout the laud.
And mon must all acknowledge,
Although the fact they ru
The hand that rocks the cradle
Ketuins the night key too.
Washington Critic-
WISE WORDS.
Rebuke wik-oJt word,.
gumcnts.
Services nnd kindness neglected make
friendship suspected.
IIo that brings the most of use into
his life lives the longest.
Never run into debt unless you see
plainly a way to get out again. -
Live by the day; you will nav j.uy
trials and strength according'-.
The brave roan is nn iuspiration to tho
weak, and compels them, as it were, to
follow him.
It is not only arrogant, but it is profli
gate for a man to disregard tho world's
opinion of himself.
There aro words that strike even harder
than blows, and men may speak daggers
though they use uone.
Let us so use the moments of tho life
that is passing that they may win for us
a life that will never end.
The gamesome humor of children
should rather bo encouraged to keep up
their spirits ami improve iheir strength
und health, than to bo curbed or re
strained. He content to travel as you are able.
The oak springs from the acorn and does
not become a tree.ut onco. Tho mush
room springs up in a night. But what
is a mushroom f Remember there must
be timo to grow.
Said (leueral Oglethorpe to Wesley,
"I never forgive." "Then 1 hope, sir,"
said Wesley, "you never sin." Lord
Bacon said": "Ho that cannot forgive
others breaks down the bridge oer
which ho must pass himself."
For want of self-restraint many men
are engaged all their lives in fighting
with diilieulties of their own muking,
ami rendering success impossible by their
own crois-grained ungeutleness; whilst
others, it may be much less gifted, make
their way easily and steadily, and achieve
success by simple patience, equanimity
and self control.
Making Uelleie.
A correspondent says It's a custom in
Loudon for impecunious young men un
able to keep a cob (as they t ail a huddle
horse) to make believe they have beeu
riding, as little boys do with dining room
chairs. Algie and Burtic, old chappies,
put on their cords and tops, grab their
whip and go to a stable where there's a
"splasher" that's a bucket of mud and
u whitewash brush. There they are spat
tered, and us soon as it dries a bit they
toddle down afoot Regent, Bond or
Picciiddilly, just iu from a dash across
the country. The splasher has different
kinds of mud for different localities.
"W hut 'II it be, your honor, beast or
west 1"
So the mud and tho lie won't conflict.
there's yellow loam from one source, red
1 earth from another, and the nice looking
black dirt peculiar to a third locality.
That's a trick that takes. I have just
dropped on another. A worthy dress
maker I know is making three handsome
white dresses.
"Do they lit well!" I asked.
"They ain't to lit no one," said she;
"tlipn urn in hanu' on oks in the clean-
ers' winders to ujake leic thcy'e been
I cleaned," ,
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