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ermntry. No nolle will bs Uktn of iinonimou.
nonuinlnltond.
Oiirrmpendcnr olieltrt) from an parts of the
FOREST
Jtv
It id ft curious fnct that this country
exported abroad 175,838,000 pounds of
ngfir last year, and 258.000,000 pound,
tho year before, notwithstanding we do
not produce more than one-eighth of the
sugar we consume.
" In one pew in a church at Dcs Moines,
Iowa, sit the widows of seven clergy
men: and yet there are only two womou
in thepow. One of them is the "rolict"
of three, and the other the surviving
partner of four divines.
Perhaps one of the most primitive of
independent kingdoms is tho little island
of Johanna, in the Comoro group. The
Hultan boards any ship that may call
there, and endeavors to sccuro tho wash--ing
for his wives, whilst tho Prime Min
, ister cddlos cocoauuts and bananas.
The floating inland on Lake Dcrwent-
water, England, has again made its ap
pearance. It came to tho surfaco of the
water a year or two ago near Loilo.e,
after complete submersion for nearly
three years. The cause of the phenom
enon has never been satisfactorily ex
plained. There is said to bo a man iu Lcadvillc,
Col., who can toll, by the tingling sensa
tion in his fingers, when he walks over a
body of ore. lie is a living mineral
detector. His powers are said to have
been thoroughly tested, and he has
earned largo sums by his peculiar gifts,
but his fond,- ss for gambling keeps him
poor. 1
Hiss Florcm Maenaghton, who lives
id the north of . Hand, was recently try
ing to persuade a fisherman to become a
. teetotaler. Ho told her he would do so
Trf-ho would swim the bay between
I Black rock and Port Hiillantr.ie. Noth
ing daunted, Miss -ilacnnghton swam the
bay, which is a mile across, and now the
fisherman is a teetotaler and has signed
- tho pledge . That's a cold wati-r girl.
Tho noblo red man in the West is an
FnthuMaatic gambler. Tho Winncmucca
(Nevada) Sileer Slate says: "A baud of
Shoshones arrived here a few days ago
with several hundred dollars for the pur-
M)so of engaging in a gambling bout with
tho Piutcs. Usually tho Bhoshoncs take
away more money than they bring with
them, but this time the rule was reversed,
and they lost all their coin and their
blankets."
Czar Alexander has suddculy found a
diversion very soothing to his disordered
nerves. A short time ugo the complaint
reached his ear that the carp and pike in
the ponds of Gtttshina were multiplying
too fast. 1 ho C.ar resolved to occupy
bis leisure hours with fishing. While at
first only sport to him it has now become
a confirmed habit. Indefatigably he sits
on the bank with a fishing rod and waits
patiently for ft bito.
'"The New York Financial Chronicle,
with estimates which appear to be care
fully conservative, places the present
population of the country at 01,318,339.
the seven years since the hist census it
llnccs the increase by births at 7,873,471,
and by immigration at 3,703,003, mak
ing a total gain of 11,105,473. With a
corresponding increase we shall have
considerably over 00,000,000 of people
when the nest census is taken.
( - Dau Eminott,thefatherof modern negro
. minstrelsy, is now selling milk for a liv
J"? Chicago". Jle is a genial old man
' of seventy-two, win entertains hij
friends with interest ing reminiscences.
Occasionally he blacks up and gives them
a taste of what uegro minstrelsy was be
fore it degenerated into burlesque opera
aud rftule ballet business. Emmett's
fame will rest on the authorship of
. "Dixie," which he wrote to please some
professional friends in New York, ncvor
dreaming that it woull become a na-
tionnl air.
V
The Atlanta C.if thiuks "there
there can be no doubt that the discov
eries and inductions of th'o present nge
have thrown a new light on tho physi
ology of food. It is a happy though;
that some time in the firtSfrff a man's
cook will bo his doctor that he can pre
vent as well as cure his ailment, proloug
his life, by securing a good cook. The
cook and the physician have both killed
their thousands in the past, and if they
come to be tho benefactors of humanity
by uniting their best efforts, ami puve
the way to the luillcuniuiu, they will
certainly atontf for much of their mis
conduct in the past."
The nominal cost of railway construc
tion in the United States has been swollen
wGrdinatcly, of course, by the "stock
watering " process. Apart from this form
of inflation, however, the ISA, 000 miles
of railway in this country have beeu put
down at very reasonable figures compared
with the cost of construction in Europe.
We can see this tho more clearly in the
following table, prepared by uu English
exchange :
Ave mjc t ujrf r Mitt.
Vuited Kingdom f:il'J,0O0
Belgium
Franc 13
(lormany
Kusia
rv.'umliiuivia...,
Unite I Statos
trie! Bto-ki..
ISO, 000
l:l8,ooo
!;,(. o j
1110,000
AOmO
Aft)
(Discarding Va-
A CONTUMACIOUS SUBJECT.
Uoii his throne the mighty king
His gallant courtiers kneeling round
Impatient, tapped his signet ring
And said some new, diverting thing
For his amusement must bo found.
Then spoke an old and trusty knight:
"Mar I my king's indulgence crave,
To bring within the royal sight
A subject who denies the right
Of any king to call him slave)"
"How nowr the angry monarch said,
"Who dare deny our sovereign power?
Go, fetch him here, alive or dead;
The fool shall bow or lose his head
Within the passing of the hour."
The knight retired with solemn stride.
Then came a page, all sleek and trim,
To say the queen would sit beside
Her lord and see this traitor tried
If he, the king, indulged the whim.
The queen earn In and took her place.
The baby boy upon her breast,
TJnhnedful of the treason case,
Looked bravely on the monarch's face
And snatched away his jeweled crest
He crushed the king's symbolic rose,
Upset the sceptre with a crash ;
He even tweaked the monarch's nose
And kicked hlin with his tiny toes.
The while he pulled his fierce niuatache.
All others at the king's behest
Their serfdom hastened to declnrej
The babe alone, with freedom blest.
Defied the king who ruled the rest
Most potent be the weakest there.
Willi B. Hawkins.
THE LAST MAN.
Tho light was well spent and darkness
waa near, when tho Confederate's attack
ceased on that part of tho Federal line
nr. I'bicKamauga which was held by the
troops under Thomas, on tho second
day. Between the left of these forces
and that remainder of the army which
iiaa not icit tne nciu, lay a long stretch
of forest, cllectually cutting off tho view
between the two points. Just at dusk
there was borne across the forest a sound
of rapid musketry, but this was soon
over, and then followed prolonged cheer
ing. It was clear to thoso with Thomas
that the cheers came from Confederates.
and signified a enpturo of more or less
importance Tho incident served, in
connection with what followed, to cast
a deeper gloom over tho exhausted sol
diers. That which followed win an order to
withdraw from tho field in retreat to
Chattanooga. The left of Thomas's line
rested upon a ridgo, the end of which
was covered with standing corn. At
the foot of the ridge, to'the left, wes a
iencc, una ueyona tins tlio forest already
mentioned. A line of Federal skirmish
ers waa posted along the fence, and tho
oraors were for tins lme to remain until
the troops were well off the ridge in
their retreat, and then to Quietly with,
draw and make the best of their way to
rejoin tho column. The skirmish line
waa composed of a single regiment, nnd
a captain was in command, all the field
officers having fallen in the two days'
fighting. The captain, a straight and
soldierly fellow, with bright brown hair
ana Dear a closely cut, was waiting with
what patience ho could command until
Ins time came to. retreat. It was an un
certain service at best.- this staving be
hind in skirmish lino whilo the army
marched away. So thought the captain,
evidently, as he moved uneasily a few
paces back and forth behind his men.
There was something else to trouble him;
he winced whenever he put his left foot
to the ground.
The captain had been waiting nearly
half , an hour when there came an ominous
sound from tho forest in front. It was
too dark to sec, but there could bo no
mistaking that sound. It was the tramp
of men coming cautiously on, as a force
would do iu the dark, oxpeeling to meet
an enemy at every step. Tlio captain
thought it too early to retire, aud so there
was nothing for it but to await the ou
coming force and trust to fortune. On it
came, and presently tho dusky forms of
a line of skirmishers were seen scarcely
thirty paces in front of tho Fodcrnl lino.
At the same instant the captain's men,
standing silently iu their places, were
discovered by the others. Neither knew
certainly to which army the other be
longed. The line which came from the
Wood halted without command, hesi
tating. Then" an officer stepped for
ward and demanded:
"What troops are those?"
Not at a loss for a moment, the Fed
eral captain responded:
"All right! We're going up the hill.
Be ready to su.tpnrt us. Now, then,
men quietly 1 Pass the word along:"
Whatever the doubts of the other, tho
Captain was sure that the force con
fronting him was Confederate. He was
at last relieved of uncertainty ho must
move now. His men understood; tho
command went from man to man in low
tones, and the whole line of skirmishers
quietly turned and marched up through
the corn to the top of the ridge. As they
came to the open ground at the summit
all was still about and in front of them.
Their comrades were out of heariug in
their retreat. The Captain mounted his
horse which an orderly had been hold
ing while tho Captain was on foot with
his skirmishers and put his little regi
ment in motion to follow the army, lie
himself remained until tho last of his
men had filed by, and then followed. As
he did this, he turned his face as if for a
last look at the bloody field. There was
nothing there now but darkness and si
lence. 1'erfect silence, it seemed, thinking
what had been there now less than two
hours before. It was perfect silen e,
save that 203 yards down to the front,
where the enemy's dead and wounded
lay thickest, a sharp cry came up out of
the night now aud then, tos the hospital
corps lifted a sufferer too rough'y or
turned some poor fellow over upon a
mangled limb. Save, alas, that a rust
ling noise iu tho corn through which he
had just come told the aptain that the
enemy's shirmishcr left at tho fence be
low were already moving ou his track.
"The last man at ( hi. kamaiigi' !'' mut
tered the captain as he rode on after his
regiment.
They passed quickly down the rear
ward slope into the deeper shadow ol the
vulley, uud presently turning their heads
to look behiud. saw family outlined
against the sky the figure oj the South
ern skirmishers as one after another they
emerged from the corn and Stood Upon
me crcsr.
The Inst of Chickatriatitrat Ah. nol
Not the last: for as the little rear cuard
reached tho lower ground they camo
upon their wouuded comrades, who, too
badly hurt to go on to the rear, had yet
wiwi unioiu agony araggeu tnemselves
bark from the tire swent mound in front.
and so got partial shelter. Along tho
route tiicso wretched sulTcrers lay thickly.
Here nnnwith an arm half torn off: there
a foot dangling; hero a poor fellow shot
through the liody, his death a question
not of hours, but of minutes; and so on,
in sickening continuance. And all want
ing water I I hero had been none all dav.
and tho retreating soldiers were march
ing witli lips anri ton cues blackened
and swollen and cracked with thirst until
many could utter no articulate sound.
"Hoys, you won't cro and leave us
hero ?"
"For God's sake, water 1 water!"
"Hoys aro vou croinir on the retreat.
and leave us behind ?"
"You ought to hold the ground, boys,
till they take caro of us 1"
"Water! water 1 Don't let us die
here?"
Pitiful, pitiful appeals! And all in
vain. Not a canteen of water in the
whole command. Not an ambulance
within miles. Nothing but a victorious
Too behind, an unknown way in front,
and tho blackness of night over all!
Pitiful, pitiful. Harder to face these
reproaches than all of Bragg's artillery.
Ah! here is punishment! Not only to
leave the field to the enemy, but to
abandon torn and bleeding brothers,
nlsol
So thought the captain, riding in rear
of his little worn command. Presently
he heard a well-known voice at the road
side, and pulled up hlshorso.
"Good heavens, Major 1 You herc.and
hurll" cried tne Captain, as he camo
close to a prostrate figure at tho road
side. "Yes, Milney, I'm here. For God's
sake get me a drink of water 1" replied
the suiferer. And then went on eagerly :
Is it a retreat, Captain? Have we lost it
all? Where are the ambulances and the
hospital trains? Are all these poor
icuows to be leu to tne enemy? Why,
they can't take care of their own in this
wilderness, let alone ours I It is cruel it
is horrible! Get me a drink, captain;
get me a drink I That is all I shall ever
want. I shall not get away from here."
Captain Milney dismounted. He had
a few precious drons of water in his can
teen hoarded for hours against his own
thirst. His friend, Major Galton, he
found was shot in the breast how badly
could not be told, lie was quickly re
lieved so far as half a dozen swallows of
the lifo giving water could do it.
"God bless you, Milney I" he cried.
"You've done me the last service I
sh ill receive in life. God bless you, my
friend! And now go on. You can't
help these poor fellows here, I know;
you can't help me any further. Go on
with your regiment and leave us. But
here, Milney, take this letter, and when
you are back in God's Ohio 'country give
it to Mina Clark, and tell her that her
promise made a man of me when I was
nigh desperation and despair. Tell her,
I say Go'l bless her for it!"
"Mina Clark!" exclaimed Captain
Milney, starting back. "Mina Clark I
is thero no mistake? I thought it was
"No no Mina Clark. I can't tell
you now, Milney. I'm growing weak.
Good-bye, Milney good-bye!"
If any inward trouble showed itself in
tho Captain's face none could see it in
tho gloom. He was silent but an in
stant, and then said slowly and firmly,
but in a greatly altered voice:
" Major Gallon, I am going to put you
on my horse and forward you to Chat
tauooga. You shall bo your own mes
senger to Mina Clark. You have some
thing to live for, and you will live 1
Whilo I it does not matter."
Had the Major known that Captain
Milney was himself wounded a painful
hurt in tho foot, not dangerous, but
disabling his protests might have been
vigorous, but they would not have
swerved the Captain. As it was, the un
expected ura seemed to give the Major
a new lease of life. Iu an instance he
had resolved to live he who a moment
before had bidden his friend good-bye
forever. Astride the Captain's horse he
seamed to get out another lease of life,
and all this stood him in good stead.
The troops, tired and dispirited as they
vere, moved rapidly ou the road, and
the Major's horse kept pace with them.
I.ons before tho niht was gone Major
Galton was safe in an ambulance and up
the way to Chattanooga with not a
thought of anything but rest aud sleep.
And Captain Milney? Why, the cap
tain fared badly. He had already been
too much nUmt on his injured foot, aud
it was swollen and stiff. He started to
hobUo after his men, but it was so hard
that in half an hour he gave it up aud
lay down by the roadside, a mile or two
behind the rearmost of the retreating sol
diers. It seemed almost as if Major Gal
ton's new life and spirit bad been ab
stracted from the Captain's store.leaviug
the latter ambilionlcss and despairing.
"I am whipped!" he said to himself,
as he lay down and gave up to weariness
and pain. I am whipped; but not by
the enemy back there. No; ft woman
did it!"
At daylight next morning Captain Mil
ne) was a wounded prisoner of war,
bound for some Southern military prison.
"I am whipped," he said, as on the night
before, and prepared as well as he could
to take it philosophically.
Seven or eight months aftcrwead the
Captain awoke one morning from the de
lirium of a long fever. He was in a hos
uital near Washington. When he first
becauiJ conscious things about him '
looked almost as strange as the fantastio '
visions ut that dream haunted fever land
from which he had just emerged. All
things strange, except ah! except the ; sula of Kamchatka, says a writer iu the
female figure at the side of his cot. That London Tcltgraph, the banks of the in
was familiar euough; it was Mina Clark, lund streams are clothed with grass grow
Shew s reading, and he had been look- ing with tropical luxuriance and spangled
1 n g at her and wondering dreamily for
some t uno before the turned her bead
and saw that he was awake. Then he
asked the tpiestion that was uppermost
iu his mind.
'Where is Major Major Galton 1" he
asked.
"oh, Charley I" she cried, glad tears
streaming from her eyes. You are cou-
s -ions agaiu. thank God! You will get
j well, dear! But the dreadful things you
! have been saying while put of your head.
The Major is here, ttnd comes ill every
day td see you. But you must not talk
now, and I must not talk to yon. l ou
are to tnke a pood sin of this and then
go to sleep. Not a word now only,
Charley, if anything is in your head
about Major Galton and and I such
as you've been talking about in your fever,
it's all a mistake, Charley a cruel, cr"cl
mistake!"
Well, he found that out in tho after
noon Of the same day when ho saw
Major Galton and his wife his Wife,
who was not Mina Clark. He discovered
that Mina's promise to the Ma jor that
promise which bad so exalted the Mnjoi
and so wrecked the captain was simply
a promise to set things riirht with
Galton's lady love, who in his absence
was being influenced by an unworthy
rival. Doing this service involved foi
Mina the sacrifice of some maiden pride
and reserve, but at the Major's urgent
petition sho did it, and even raised him
to the seventh heaven of happy anticipa
tion by writing him her promise to de
liver his girl safe into his arms whenever
ho came home.
The Captain came to think that he had
jumped at a conclusion too quickly,
and that a littlo faith in the girl whoso
solemn troth he had would have saved
him a trip to Libby prison, and saved
him also tho fever which attacked him
the very day his exchange was ellected.
But then where would the Major have
been If the East Man at Chicnmauga had
not lent him a horse? Cincinnati Com
mercial Qazette.
Indian Ball.
"The gamo is not made up of nincs,but
of sides, and has twenty-five Indians on
each side. Tho Cherokee Indians will
have the right side of their faces pninted
black and will carry a spoon or stick,
something similar to a Lacrosse stick.
The Choctaws will have the same make
up excepting that tho left side of their
faces will be painted red or yellow.
When they get on the grounds, Snake
Puppy, Chief of the Cherokces, and Lone
Wolf, Chief of the Choctaws, will 'toss
up' to see who will throw the ball. Both
sides take their position at cither end of
the grounds, with a board about fifteen
feet in heiuht behind them. This is
what they call the goal just like a game
of football in this part of the country.
The chief who has won the toss will take
his stand about an equal distance from
both sides, and will toss the ball in the
uu i ii aiues, auu win loss liie umi iu iuu i
air aud give ft whoop to notify tho men
to start for the ball. They all make a
rush, and as they are swift runners they
generally meet about where the ball lies,
and as they cannot touch the ball with i
a , i i .1. .i - . i '
ineir nanus tncy use tneir spoons, unci .
when one man clutches the ball he holds
the spoon high in tho air nnd makes a
terrible race, with the remaining forty
nine players in hot pursuit, beating him
over the head and shoulders with their
spoons in order to gain possession of the
ball. When the possessor of the ball
reaches a spot with a clear field he
throws tho ball, and if there is not some
man who will throw his spoon in the air
and catch it, the ball strikes the goal,
and the men retire to their places for an
other inning." St. LouitOMie-Democrat.
Selecting a Family Horse.
Among the good points to be noticed
in the selection of the family liorse, do
cility and gentleness must 1 e kept well
in front. If the women and children are
to share in the use and care of the horse,
nothing vicious should be tolerated. If
sound and previously well cared for, a
horse eight, ten, or even twelve years old,
mny be bought with no fear of disability
nn nnfminr. nf nrm Mr .Tnlm lluuai'll j
who recently delivered a series of lectures !
in Boston on the care of the horse, said i
that "old wine, old friends and old
horses" and by that meaning those from i
eight to fourteen "should always be pre
ferred to young ones." The horse does ,
not come to maturity as early as some
think, as the record of the trotting horse
of America shows. A horso ten years
old, that has no defect of body or limb,
is practically safe from tho ordinary
horse diseases. So far as outwaid ap
pearance, color, etc., aro concerned, no
general directions can be given, but if the
buyer is inexperienced, it is better to go
to some reliable dealer, stating what is
desired and the amount of money to bo
given. An honest horse jockey iu some
people's minds is an anomaly, but many
such may be found. American Agricul
turitt. A Clean Crab.
Miss Gordon dimming reports some of
the "acute and pithy remarks" of the
native Christian teachers at the Samonn
Islands. Among the rest is a trnit of the
crabs of the island, which was brought
forward as an illustration of the com
mandment to cut oil a right hand or a
right foot, or to pluck out a right eye,
rather than be led into sin. Ono of the
teachers told how often he had watched
the mali'o, or land-crab, which by day
burrows deep in the soil, but by night
hurries down to tho sea to feed and
drink. It is a woudrously clean creature,
and the Samoans declare that if on its
seaward way, as it presses through the
tall grass, it should chance to come iu
contact with any filth, which adheres to
its legs, it will deliberately wrench them
off, and thus, self-mutilated, hobbles back
to it hole, there to hide till its legs grow
agaiu.
It is positively affirmed that this extra
ordinary crab has beeu known thus to
wrench off its eight legs in succession,
and then drag itself home with she great
est difficulty by means of its nippers.
Strange Extremes of Heat and Cold.
Northeast Siberia posseses a climate 1
colder than the North Pole and hotter
than many uplands under the Equator ; j
uui uiu torriu neat lasts oniy ior a lew
weeks, while the intense cold endures
, for many mouths. Iu the volcanic peuin
with gay flowers the Alpine rose, the
cinquefoil, and the beauteous Kamchatka
lily while on the low-lands cluster the
poplar aud the silver birch. The pre
vailing humidity of the Pacific seaboard,
particularly In the A moor Basin, favors
the development of a splendid vegeta
tion ; and on the Usuri the ginseug is
largely cultivated for the Chinese market,
where it fetches it weight iu gold, the
plant being esteemed a soveriu remedy
against all disorders.
HOUSEHOLD AmiSS.
W hat Salt la Good For.
When you give your cellar its spring
cleaning, add a little copperas water and
salt to the whitewash.
Sprinkling salt on the tops and at the
bottoms of garden walls is said to keep
snails from climbing up or down.
For relief from heartburn or dyspepsia,
drink a little cold water in which has
Veen dissolved teaspoonful of salt.
For weeds in the grass, put a pinch or
two of salt in the middle of each, and,
unless a shower washes it. olt it will kill
the weeds.
Ink stains on linen can be taken out if
the staiD is first washed in strong
salt and water and then sponged with
lemon juice. j
In a basin of water, salt, of course, falls
to tho bottom; so never soak salt fish
with the skin side down, as tho salt will
fall to the skin and remain there.
Salt nnd mustard, a teaspoonful of
each, followed with sweet oil, melted
butter or milk, is the antidote for Fow
ler's solution, white precipitate of ar
senic. For stains on the hands, nothing is
better than a little salt, with enough
lemon juice to moisten it, rubbed on the
spots and then washed oil in clear
water.
For weeds in pavements or gravel
walks, make a strong brine of coarse
salt and boiling water; put the brine in
a sprinkling can nnd water the weeds
thoroughly, being careful not to let any
of the brine get on the grass, or it will
kill it too.
If a chimney or flue catch on fire, close
all windows and doors first, then hang a
blanket in f rout of the grate to exclude
all air. Water should never bo poured
down the chimney, as it spoils the
carpets. Coarse salt thrown down the
flue is much better.
Recipes.
BnowN Bread. Three cups each ol
flour and sour milk, two cups of sweet
milk, ono cup of molasses, live cups of
Indian meal, one tablespoon of soda, one
teaspoonful of salt. Let rise, then bake
in a modciate oven.
Black Pudding. One-half pound
each of raisins.
currants, chopped suet
nnd aurrny. nnn nmind tf brenrl annkerl
, r -
in milk and beaten smooth, one-fourth ol
pound of flour, spice to taste. Put in a
bag and boil six hours,
Fbied Tomatoes. Cut ripe tomatoes
in half and fry slowly on both sides iu
. . . , , .
outtor ana lam. v ncn cookcu orown
; take them out carefully, pour a little
milk in the frying pan, thicken with
flour, season with salt and a mere dust ol
' red pepper. When H stews into a rich
sauce pour it over the tomatoes and serve.
Peach Sweet Pickles. Choose
I peaches that are ripe but not soft enough
( to eat; put a clove into each one; boil a
pound of brown sugar with a gallon of
vinegar; skim it well and pour hot
over the peaches; cover them closely.
j It may be necessary to scald the vinegai
j again iu a week or two. They retaiu
I their flavor well.
I Stewed Cucumbers. Three large cu
cumbers cut lengthwise the size of the
j dish they are intended to be served on;
' take out the seeds and put them into
boiling water with a little salt, and let
I them simmer for five minutes, then place
them in another saucepan with half a
I' )int of good brown gravy and let them
oil over a brisk fire until the cucumbers
! are tender. Should they be bitter add a
lump of sugar; carefully dish them, skim
the 80uce. Pollr k ovur tl,e cucumbers and
serve,
Mock Apple Pie. Make ft paste as
for apple pie. Boll two small crackers,
or break them in crumbs, and soak them
in a cup of cold water while making the
paste. Grate one lemon, or pare it very
thin, and cut this paring into the small
est pieces possible Add this and the
juice of tho lemon to the crackers. Fla
vor with nutmeg and stir in one cup of
sugar. Cover a plate with paste, fill with
this aud set in the oven till partly done.
Then bar the pio with narrow strips of
paste, return to the oven aud finish
baking.
Junkett. A plain juukett is made by
warming two quarts of fresh milk until
a very little warmer than when just from
the cow; pour the milk into a large
ornamental bow l or dish in which it can
bo brought to the table, and, while the
milk is warm, stir into it two tablespoon
fulsof prepared rennet; stir gently for
two minutes, then set away in a cold
place. It will soon become a solid, sweet
curd. Serve by dipping the curd out iu
largo slices with a small, flat lad'e or
broad spoon. It may be eaten with rich
cream alone, or with cream and pow
dered sugar.
Chestnut Fokcembat. Take a few
chestnuts a dozen and a half will be
sutlieieut for one larife fowl roast and
peel the nuts, and then put them in a
saucepan with some good veal gravy.
Let them boil in this for fifteen or twenty
minutes, then drain off the gravy, and,
when they become quite cold, mince
them, also chopping fine the liver of tho
fowl. Now take a teaspoonful of grated
ham and a teasoonfiil of black pepper,
a pinch of grated lemon peel and two
largo tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs.
Mix these well in a mortnr, adding the
chestnuts and fow l's liver, and moisten
the whole with a mixture of the beaten
yolks of two eggs aud two ounces of
butter.
A Great Place For Celery.
It is in and around the fair and far
famed city of Kalamazoo that the celery
lord, with all his innate pride aud odor of
gal lic, may best be founu. Here his coat
of arms, consisting oi a ouncn or ceiery
peuchaut on a silver dollar guardaut. may
bo seeu emblazoned on his armorial bear
ings aud also on the faces of the shop
keepers. Here it is that over 3,000 acres
of reclaimed" land is devoted to the
cultivation of the crisp aud toothsome
stalk that is gifted with nerve strength
ening properties. It is a saying that in
Kalamu.oo they swear by celery and at
everything else. The latter proposition
may be a trifle harsh, but the former is
self evideut to any visitor In spite of
the fact that Kalamazoo leads the country
iu light vehicles, wiud mills, harrows
and many other brauches of manufacture,
she still pins her faith alid hope and trust
to the celery lands and tlfi cidery lords.
Chicago JJcraU,
MR. AND MRS. BOWSER.
TUB TBIBTTLATTONS OF A KATBI
MONIAL FIRM. '
Mrs. Ilowspf Describes the Attempt
Made by HCr Husband to Sew
on Home Huttons.
The other evening, when Mr. Bowser
stepped off the street car at our corner,
one of his suspender buttons flew off.
This may or may not have been the first
time in his lifo that ho lost a suspender
button, but he took it so much to heart
that I guess it was the first. Ho came
into the house with the look of a man
who had been deeply injured, and
shouted at me:
"Do you know whether I've crot a sin
gle button left on any of my garments?"
"Whnt is it, dear?"
"Don't what-is-it-dcar me, Mrs.
Bowser! If you were half a wife you'd
look over my clothes once in five or ten
years and catch up the loose buttons!"
"Why, there's only one button gone,
and ril'havethat fixed in two jillys. Let
me get my needle nnd "
"No, I won't! It has been pluin to
me for the last year that sooner or later
I'd have to do my own sewing, and now
the climax has come."
"Just one minute, Mr. Bowser."
"Not one second ! I shnll hereafter
sew on my own buttons, and I might as
well begin now !"
I had needle and thread and thimble
Bt hand, but ho turned away. Supper
was all ready, and when I mentioned tho
fact he replied:
"Go and ent it, then ! I have no time.
I have 200 or 300 buttons to sew on."
He wouldn't even permit mo to give
him the needle and thread. He hunted
around and found a darning-needle and
sonv! coarse thread, and went off to his
room nnd locked the door with a great
binir. I went up after supper nnd
looked through the key-hole. He hadn't
got the button on yet. As the needle
was larger than tho eyes, he had tried to
enlarge the latter with a bodkin, and
thereby broko them all into one. Ho
was bothered to know how to proceed,
when I called :
"Mr. Bowser, won't you let me in?"
No, ma'am! Your place is in the
pnrlor, reading the last French love
story, whilo your husband sews on his
buttons!"
"But shan't Jget you another button?"
"No! There are no other buttons in
tho house, or if thero was you wouldn't
know it ! I shall go down town and buy
some."
Ho came out, locked the door and
started off, and iu half an hour he came
back with a dozen varieties of buttons,
running from n pearl to an overcoat but
ton, lie also had three papers of nee
dles and five spools of thread, and to
these he had added two dozen safety
pins.
"Won't you ent supper and let mo sew
on thnt button, Mr. Bowser?" I asked as
he returned.
"Never! It's too latct I may get
through in time for breakfast, but you
can clean off tho supper table. I havo
been losing buttons for tho last five
years, nnd now I propose to sew them
all on."
When he had locked the door ngain
he got out every coat and vest and pair
of pants from the closet and sat down to
his buttons. I am telling you the sol
emn truth when I say that I looked
through the key-hole and saw him de
liberately cut every button off of two
yes's and a pair of pants, and ho took
one of his new shirts and coolly ripped
it clean down tho back to the bottom
hem. And I will further muke a solemn
affidavit that the button he lost when he
got off the car was the only missing but
ton he had ever complained of.
When he had cut tho buttons off, as
dew-ribed, he lighted the gas and got mit
his needles and thread. Mr. Bowser is a
near-sighted man, and our gas fixtnres
aro hung pretty high. Between the two
he got into trouble. It didn't scorn to
make any difference to him which vndof
the needle he threaded. Instead of jab
bing tho thread at tho ucedlo he jabbed
the needle at tho thre td. After alout
twenty jabs he'd get discouraged nnd se
lect another needle, or break tho thread
oil at a new spot. He finally got tho
thread into the eye, doubled it ui and
tied a great knot at tho end, and after
twenty minutes of hard work he got the
missing button back ou nis paniaioons.
In his nervousness ho put on a brass
blouse button with a shank, nnd he tujed
just thrco yards of doubled thread to
make it secure.
It was 10 o'clock before he camo down
stairs. Ho had given up the job with the
one button.
"Well, have you got through?" I
asked.
"Got through! Do you expect lean
sew on 2H4 buttons) in two hours?"
"Well, I'll sec to the rest in tho morn
ing." No, you won't! Don't you dare to
touch any of my clothing! ltu worm
has finally turnod, and he proposes to
tako care of himself after this!"
Next morning ho put on one of the
vests he had stripped of buttons and
fastened it with five siifety-pins. lie put
ou a coat from which ho had cut two but
sons, and those were also, replaced by the
pins. Ho came down aud paraded around
to attract my notioe, and I finally said:
"Mr. Bowser, I want to beg your for
giveness. I knew there were over 200
buttons off your clcrthce, but I was shift
less and slac'k. This will be a groat moral
lesson to ine, and I pnwnisu you "
"Didu't I tell you tho worm hail
turned ?" ho interrupted as ho waved his
hand in an imperious way. "I have got
to go down town in thi fashion. People
will remark it and of course they will
understand how it is."
He was gone about twenty minutes,
and then sneaked back, slipped softly up
stairs uud changed his clothes and skipped
out.
When Mr. Bowser came up to dinner
nfuherof us mentioned buttons. It was
not until he was ready to leave the house
that he said:
"Mrs. Bowser this must never hapiicn
again never! You are my wife, but
don't drive mo too far too far!" De
troit Free I'rtat.
Dakota among the States aud Territories
stands sixth iu the number of bushels of
wheat produced. Only eleven States
raise more oats, sixteen have mote
schools, fourteen more newspapers, and
but twelve have more miles of railroad.
'TIS BETTER NOT TO KNOW,
The hand of mercy lights the past,
But hides the future ill;
It tempers every stormy blast,
And bids us ouward still.
Whatever cloud may darkly rise
Or storm may wildly blow,
Whatever path before us lies,
Tis better no to know.
Our friends may f alter on by on
And leave us to our fata,
If but the staff we lean upon
May still support our weight
Unoonquered by a dream of ill;
Unburdened as we go,
The storm may break beyond, but still,
Tis better not to know.
If faith In human constancy
Be but a dream at best;
If falsehood lurk where love should be.
Yet In that dream I'm blost;
If warning of a coming wrong
Cannot avert the blow ;
If knowledge fail to make me strong
'Tis better not to know.
. And if within my brother's heart
A buried hatred lies;
If friendship be an acted part,
His smile a cold disguise
The knowledge would each blessing dim
And not a boon bestow
Ah! leave me still my trust in him,
'Tis better not to know.
D. Hawyhton, in Current.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A genuine hum-bug The locust.
A half loaf is better than no vacation.
Inter-Ocean.
It is queer that Queen Victoria did not
confer tho Order of the Bnth on some of
Buffalo Bill's Indians. Pittsburg Chron
icle. Advice to young ladies who ore setting
their caps : Use percussion caps so that
the pop may be heard. A'eie Uacen
Kcics.
When a girl pays her husband's railroad
fare on their bridal trip, its a pretty good
example of love's transport. Merchant
Traveler.
The doctors tax their patienta
When they their bills display;
Folks tax the doctors' patience
When those bills they will not pay.
t G'ootfuif Sun,
The hottest article of a man's attire aro
his suspenders, But, oh! how much .
hotter and more uncomfortable he feels
when they hnpjwn to give way in public.
Burlington Fret Prent.
" The gentlemnn who is about to
shoot," said the master of ceremcnies
at a target practice, "is a iamous French
duelist. Then the frightened crowd got
right in front of the target and begnn to
breathe easy. Xeio York Sun.
"Young man," said the old deacon
solemnly, "do you realize that when you
retire at night you may be called before
morning dawns?" "I hope so; "I'm a
young doctor, and I need encouragement
of some kind. 2'eros Siftingt.
"No," said old Bill' Squeezers, who
was down from Bodie the other day.
"I didn't go to Judge Podger's wed
ding. Tho notico said 'No cards,' and
I'm blamed if I can fool away a whole
eveninar where there's no chance of a
little. .. four-bit ante." San:
Wasp.
PROSPECTS SPOILED AS USUAL.
They thought to have a cottage neat
With honeysuckles twiuing,
And live in lovers' transiiorts sweet.
All othor cure resigning.
The goal of peace they thought to win
And happily through life to Jogl--","'.-
And so they might, had it not been s9, State
For papa and the dog. ' -y or
Merchant Traveler. : Me
How Chocolate Is Made.
"Chocolate," said a New York con
fectioner, "is made from beans that grow
in pods on the cacao tree. These trees
are numerous iu the West ladies, and it
is from them that wcgetoursupply. The
beans are brought hither in tho pod, and
put through a regular manufacturing
process to produce the chocolate eakos
that we use. Tho first operation is the
breaking of tho husks nnd separating
them from the kernels by a blast of air.
Then the beaus are ground with sugar
by revolving granite grindstones. Tho
stones are heated, and the oil contained
iu the bean makes tho mass adhere and
become a thick paste. This pulp in now
partly dried and the air bubbles are
squeezed out in a press, and it is trans
ferred to tho cooling lublus. Hero it is
placed in molds, a blast of cold air is
turned on, and in a few moments the
beautiful glossy tablets are finished. '
"The liritish Government has recently
directed that chocolate be served two or
three times a week in the army and
navy. In confectionery the Parisians
exceed us iu the number of preparations
of chocolate. We use it in its natuial
flavor only, while they mix essences aud
other fiavorswith it, until their is no end
to the combinations that they produce.
In England much of tho chocolate is
adulterated. Some recent tesls detected
flour, starch, potato, lard, chalk, bran
and old sea-biscuit in specimen? offuivJ
for sale." Mail and Erprtu.
A Novel Musical Iustrumeut.
Two Spanish naval olliccrs were play
ing a duet in tho cool inner room of a
piano wnrerooin ou Fifth avenue yester
day afternoon. A group of musicians,
critics and employes of thu company were
sitting or standing around, attentively
listening. One of the dark-bearded per
formers was playing an accompaniment
for the other, who held to his mouth an
instrument so small as to bo entirely cou
cealed by his fingers; yet tho notes of
"l.a I'aloina," that sensuous, fetching
Mexican air, rang out iu tones like a
piccolo's, yet so strong as to seem as if
they camo from n calliope. When the air
I was finished, the infant lluto was submitted
for inspection. It was a section of a
reed, very like those which are u-ed for
pipe stems, having three smull holes be
side the blow hole. It was not three
inches long; yet from this scrap of per
forated reed over two octaves qf notes
had been elicited with a strength that
made the air palpitate, and the most
rapid runs had been executed. It is a
new instrument called U e resd tlute, and
isijiiite a cm iosity. For its i.e, it is the
biggest instrument on earth. ,Vr l'.
Sun, '