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1 luuated itself. Maine men are taking
contract to got out fir by the ton, and
many people are afforded employment
. in filling orders.
Purveyor who are loaning the lino of
the Washington and Ellerton Railroad,
in Georgia, find from tho deflection ol
their instrument that thcro must be Im
mense quantities ot iroubolow the ur
face. Japan is making great stride in th
pathways of progressive civilization. A
native paper reports that the Japanese
Government is about to establish a new
Btato Department to be known as the
"Railway Board."
' Surveyor Tinnin, of Pan Francisco, re.
ports that from 1833 to Juno 80, 1887,
tliero arrived at that port 331,204 Chi
nese migrants.of whom 100,203 have ro
turned, leaving 130,001 still in th
country. Tho local press consider thii
cumber too short by 00,000.
In the Indian encounter at the moult)
of the Little Rig Horn River, dirertlj
after the Custer ma acre, Privato Henth,
of Company E, Fifth United States Cav.
airy, saved the life of his captain, Georgt
P. Price. In recognition of this service
Captain Price has now deeded Ilcnth
800-acre Kansas farm, valued at $10,000.
IT. F. Snedigur, of Iroquois, Dakota,
ha a prairie yacht in which he skinn
over the couutry. It consists simply ol
an ordinary road wagon to which sai l
are attached, and there is a steering ap
paratus in front, lie recent y traveled
from Iroqnois to Huron, a distance oi
eighteen miles, in an hour and a half,
. vCiV light wind.
One of the largest benefaction in the
history of the world i that of the Huron
Birsch, who has just given 130,000,000
.- to Jewish charities in Europe. Like a
prudent man, the Karon gives the money
during his lifetime, and intends to seo
hi wishes carried out personally. His
. generosity eclipse in magnitude the gift
of George Peabody.
Dr. Barnado, a London philanthropist,
ha obtained 3,000 acre of land in north
western Canada, which he hopes to con
vert into an industrial farm to which
homeless London boys may be sent. It
V i Mid that Dr. Barnardo hat had much
success with this class of boys, his idea
boing to give them a practical training
that will render them self supporting.
U doe comparatively little toward re
lieving their immediate wants.
f The United States heads l ho world in
the matter of locomotive engines, with a
horse-power of 7, .500,000. Then c mo
England, with 7,000,000, Germany with
t 4,500,000, France with 3,000,000 and
.. Austria . with 1,500,000. Tho horse-
, powcr of the steam engines of tho world
represent! tho work of 1,000,000,000
men, or more than double the man-
; power of the whole working population.
This means that steam has trebled man's
working power.
Several years ago watermelons were al-
most unknown in California. An old
Uissourian, who owned forty acre neai
Lodi, and who had raised the fruit in old
Missouri, planted his whole lot to melons
Hi neighbor laughed at the idea oi
' . melon growing without rain, and hu win
called the bos crank of the country. But
the vine thrived and bore melons, 40,
?' 000 of them, and he cleared 30,000
. from hi forty acres; and now Lodi ia the
great melon district of the Pacific Slope.
A Californian, largely interested iutm?
fur seal industry, says that sealskins are
, expensive, not because they are scarce,
but because the trade limits the supply.
If all the skins that could be taken were
Jyed on the market, the fur would be-
l io comraou .hat it would cease to
ie desired by the wealthy. So the seal
' catchers agree upon the total numbel
that they will put upon the market, and
they make their report to tho furrienol
London and Paris, who meet each spring
Old decide upon prices.
Two carloads of Texas steer escaped
to the woods from Ishpeming, Mich.,
recently, and thereby hangs a tale. The
owner, who kuew of no better way to
reclaim hi property, went out and shot
all of the herd t hut he could find. Then
ome friend of his, who thought the
port great because the game was, went
out to shout the rest of them for h.m
They found plenty of cuttle, and had
bagged eight or ten before a funnel
turned up with a club and drove them
away. They ha 1 been shooting cream
ery crows.
Tha prevalence of scarlet fever in all
parts of the civilized world, and the great
mortality therefrom, amounting in En
gland alone, during five years, toSH.STS
deaths, have induced Science to institute
n inquiry into the reasons for such a
condition of things, whether it is a fact
that this disease is not amenable to con
trol by sanitation, or whether sanitarians
have not suggested any practical method
by which it may be controlled, or
whether parents, teachers, health au
thorities and others neglect to carry out
the recommendations wnich sanitary
science has made.
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TO-MORROW,
Th future ours t An, no; -
It Is tha gods' alone I
The hours are rb gln-r low
" Farewell " in every tone.
The future I Think I Beware I
Our earthly tronsures rare,
Hani won through toil and cart,
Our palaces and lands,
Groat victories, and all
Possessions, large and small
But only to us fall,
A birds light on the sands I
Victor Hugo.
THE WONDERFUL ISLAND.
In a book entitled "Adventure by
Land and Sea," which I picked up tin
other day. I saw a brief referenc e to the
strange adiicnturcs of Captain Wheaton,
of the ship Starlight. Among all the
forecastle yarns I ever heard, that story
takes the medal, and when I am through
relating it the reader will be as much
mystified as I huve always been regarding
it. Indeed, I never yet met a sailor who
did not firmly believe iu the truth of
Captain Whcatou's every statement. 1
tell tho story because I was an actor in
the first and last chapters.
It was in October, i8i!, that I shipped
a second mate on the Starlight, winch
was then lying in the p irt of Honolulu.
She was an old whulcr, mid had been sold
at auction and cheaply refitted for a
voyage to Lima and return, in tho in
terests of lome California shippers. We
left port in ballast only, and were
two men short of our complement. Capt.
Wheaton was a Rarncgat man, and the
crew all English-speaking people, ana
for tho first fortnight no ship ever h id
better weather, i he Captain, as 1
understood him, was nn earnest consci
ent.ous man, being above the average in
point of iute.ligence, aud of strictly
temperate habits. The first mate brought
a demijohn of whiskey aboard the day
before sailing, but the Captain made him
hip it ashore nt ouce, and he cautioned
the forecast lu men that ho would clap
tho man in irons who was found the
worse for liquor. The men used to slyly
refer to him as "the Suuduy-school
Saperintendent," and I believe he was
gjod enough to have filled the bill.
At the end of the fortnight the fine
weather was broken by a rousing gale,
which struck us during my night watch,
and all hands had to be called. We
had a hard time of it during the
first hour, aud were finally com
pelled to lie to, and it was
while we were bringing the ship to
the wind that the Captain was washed
overboard by a heavy sea which boarded
us. With him weut one of tho sailors,
the hencoops, several sparo spars and
booms, aud a lot of deck rallle, and by
the time the ship had shaken herself clear
of the foam it was too late to renderany
assistance. Indeed, it was a serious
question just then whether any of us
would live another half hour. The storm
did not break for nearly twenty-four
hours, and the old ship was so strained
arid knocked aoout that her life was
ended. The gale had scarcely abated
when she began to leak faster than the
pumps could throw the water out, and
on the seventeenth day of the voyage we
had to abandon her. When we had been
allo.il for four days in the open boats we
were picked up by the American bark
Yankee Boy, bound from Boston to San
I'raneisco. We were then to the north
of the equator, aud fully 100 miles from
the Galapagos Is. amis. These island lie
a good distance to the left of the true
courso from Honolulu to Limn, and at
that date every one of them was well
known, and all were inhabited by natives
who could speak more or s English.
Now, as we got the gale dead from the
North, and as the send of the sea was
Southward for several days. Captain
Wheaton could not possibly have been
floated toward the Galapagos. He must
have been driven down toward the
equator, or possibly toward the Mar
quesas group, although to reach any of
those islands he would have had to drive
for hundreds of miles and for days and
weeks. How was a man iwept over
board in a gale to sustain himself above
a few hours, even if not drowned at
once? Ask yourself these questions, and
you will answer them as all others have
done, and you will be as greatly mysti
fied over the Captain's story.
Un the fourth day of September, 1860,
as the English whaling ship Lady lias
combe was Bearing the equator, being
about midway between the Murque-u
group and the Galapagos, aud the time
being 11 o'clock at night, she was hailed
from out of the darkness, and five min
utes later had Captain Wheaton aboard.
He had then been afloat for three days
and a half on a small but well con
structed raft, which was provided with
a sail, and had carried hun safely aud
buoyantly an e-timated distance of 130
miles. The Captain was in good health
and spirits, but could answer no ques
tions until he had seen the Caplaiu of
the Buscombe. The sailors knew that he
must huve been wrecked, but that he
should be aloue and in such seeming good
health iu that dreary spot was a great
mystery to them. Captain Moore of the
liascombe had heard of the loss of the
Starlight, and when Captain Wheatou
introduced himself lie ( rented a big sensa
tion. He was at first taken for un im
poBter, but he had letters and documents
in his pocket to prove his identity at ouce.
That being settled, ho told his story. I
have heard him tell it four or five times
over, and can relate it almost word for
word.
When Captain Wheaton was swept
overboard he gave himself up for lost.
He got but one look at the ship, and
realizing that she was driving away from
him and be w as beyond rescue, he ceased
swimming and hoped to drown at ouce.
Just then a hencoop floated within reach,
and in a second he changed his mind
and fastened to the float. He was clear
on the point of floating all that day and
far into the night. Then he lost con
sciousness, but did not lot go of his float.
He remembered nothing of the next day
until about an hour before sundown,
when he opened his eyes and came to
his senses to find himself Jying on the
sands, his float near by, and the storm
cleared away. He was stiff and sore and
bewildered, aud he crawled further un
the shore aud went to s eep again, and it
wis sunrise before be again opened his
ye. An hour later he knew that he
was on an island about three miles long
by one mile wide. It. was well wooded,
containing several springs of resh water.
and there was an abundance of wild
.uits to sustain life. There was not an
nhahitnnt or sign of one, nor did he find
my living thing except birds and mon-
Wheaton was not only a good seaman,
but a well educated and well posted man,
and ho h id ounedontho Pacific for many
years. There was hardly an island in that
ocean which he had not set foot on and
could recognize by sight again.
Y I ter a bit he began to figure on his loca
tion, and he made out that he had been
1 riven ashore on an unknown and unchart
d island lying very clise to the equa
tor, and in longitude 120 degrees west.
This put him midway, on a northeast and
southwest line, between the Marquesas
group and the Galupogo Island. He
had visited both groups, and as both
were inhabited at that time he could not
have been mistaken in his location had he
rone ashore on any one of them. He
found proofs satisfactory to himself that
the island was of volcanic origin, not
over twelve or fifteen year old. and that
the luxuriant vegetation was due to the
tropical climate. The birds, of which
there were several species, could perhaps
have flown there from ome of the other
i -lands, but how the monkeys reached
the spot was a puzzler the Captain never
iot over. That he found 'em there was
proved when he was rescued, there being
i wo net animals on the raft.
When the castaway came to walk
around his island he found the wreck of
he Scotch brig McNeil on the east shore,
and the wreck of the California ship
Golden Bar on the west coast. Both craft
had been reported lost with all on board
two or three years before. The one was a
whale' and the other a trader. The Captain
not only said he found them, but he had
proof again. He had the name board of
tho ship and some papers belonging to
he brig. He found and buried the
skeltons of thirteen sailors, and among
the debris of the wreck he secured a
urge quantity of clothing, considerable
money, some bedding a lot of tools,
ropes, boards, and planks, and within a
week he began the work of building a
boat to enable him to escape.
I always felt that tho old man must
have had a jolly life of it for the ten
months and over he wa on what he
caled "Wheaton' Island," but he dwelt
on the fact that it was terribly lonely.
It went harder with him, because he had
a wife and six children, and he knew
that they would be mourning his death.
Ho put in two months on his boat, and
had just got her finished when a storm
set in and she broke her moorings and
drifted out to sea. Anxiety and expos
ure, aided by the worry about the folks
at home, laid the old man on his back for
several weeks, and he probably had a
close call from slipping h;s cables. He
got up slowly.nnd as he had been waste
ful with his materials, he found that he
must turn to a raft if he ever got away.
He worked at it at odd hours, being ill
and despondent, for several months, and
when it was finished he hesitated a full
month before making a start, hoping
every day to sight a sail. He had a sig
nal flyngby day, and almost every night
he kept a fire going, but rescue never
came.
One day, two weeks before he et out
on his voyage, the Captain made a great
discovery. In a rough, wild place, in
the center of the island, where a mass of
rock was thrown up in great confusion,
he found a lump of gold as bit? as your
fist. Aye I more than that, he found
masses of it so heavy that he could not
lift them. These chunks, he said, were
as pure as his big nugget, and that I not
only held in my hand, but saw the certifi
cate of assay reading that it was HI per
cent, pure gold. He sold it at the mint
in San Francisco for over $13,000, and
that in mv presence. In the course of
three or four d lys the Captain piled up
such a heap of gold on his island that he
dared not estimate its value. 1 here was
enough to make a dozen men rich for
life, and more to be had with picks
and iron bars. Then the demon of ava
rice would not let him wait any longerfor
rescue. Indeed, he did not want to be
rescued. He made his raft ready, cut
branches and pulled truss to hide his
nuggets, and set sail with a fair wind to
the northeast, hoping to tret into th
track of ships bound for the Sandwich
Islands. He was picked up a I have
told you, but he found a tough nut in
the English Captain. He had to bel eve
that Captain Wheaton had left some isl
and not far away, for there was the man
and there was the raft. He couldn't hav
made himself believe that the island was
one of the group to the east or west, but
yet he wouldn't believe in a nearer island
because it wasn't charted. Ho simply
jumped to the conclusion that the cast
away had suffered and endured until his
mind was off its balance. This was nat
ural enough in one sense, but when
Wheaton came to show him the relic
from the two wrecks, and when ihe two
monkeys were skipping about on deck,
any one but an Englishman would have
been convinced.
Captain Wheaton was sharp en' ugh to
withhold his big secret until he had
learned something of the Eng'ishman.
When he found all his stories and
assertions d's redite 1 he held his
tongue, and let them believe he was light
in the top story. He was taken to the
Sandwich Islands as a castaway, and
thence, with money found on his un
known island, he paid his passage to San
Francisco. It was at this latter port he
found me. and within two hours after
meeting him I had his story. I had no
reason to doubt its entire truth. Three
or four others were taken into the secret,
and we formed a syndicate to go after the
gold. I hud had a legacy of $H, 000 from
an aunt, and five of uschip-ied in an
equal amount and bought a schooner and
fittad her out and manned her. Some
thing of Captain Wheaton' wonderful
adventure got into the papers, and there
was great anxiety to find out where we
were going. We had ten times as many
men offer their jrvices as we could
accept, and when the story of the big
lump of gold was whispered around two
other craft fitted out to follow us. We
went nut of the harbor on a dark and
stormy night, and two or three days be
fore we were supposed to be ready, and
thus gave them the slip. One of the vessels
stood up the coast w hen ready toiomeout,
and the other headed for the Sand
wich Islands and was lost in a gale.
As the Captain had $9,000 in the n
terprse, and h d not even waited to
visit his family, who were rnly 2S0 miles
from San Francisco, the reader must
credit him with honestly believing all ha
asserted. A I bad an eeuul amount in
vested, the reader must believe that I am
writing of things as they honestly looked
to me. How could I or any one else dis
believe? There was the nugget, there
were the papers and relics, and the Eng
lish Captain knew of the raft and its lone
passenger being picked up 700 mile
from any known land. There wan't
the least difliculty in making others be
lieve, either. I think we could have
raised $300,000 capital if there had been
need of it. The trouble was to keep
capitalists and speculators out.
Wheaton had no sooner been rescued
than he asked for the Englishman's lati
tude and longitude. Then he figured on
the direction and strength of the wind
and progress of his raft, and he had the
location of his island down to within
five miles. I have had miners aud
geologists tell me that do gold was ever
found in a volcanic upheaval from
the sea. If not, where did the Captain
get that big lump? There is no gold on
any charted island in the Pacific, and
he certainly could not h ve drifted to or
put off on his raft from the coast of South
America. It is easy enough to sneer at a
story, but not so easy to get around cold
fact.
We had a fine run to Honolulu, and
remained there for a week to make some
needed repairs and lay in more provisions
and water. Capt. Wheaton there met a
fellow Captain named Bridges, who com
manded a iNew Bedford whaler, and
without a suspicion of what he was do
iug this man greatly discouraged us. He
hud just come iu from a long cruise,
which the chart showed must have taken
him very near the unknown island. He
had not sighted it, but the logbook re
ported hut when in that neighborhood
something like an earthquake ' had oc
curred. Indeed, one did occur, and a
new island was born to the Galapagos
group. The ship rocked violently in
mid-ocean, and a sort of tidal wave came
near being her destruction. Next day
the whaler encountered many green trees
floating about, and he said to Capt.
Wheaton that ho hud no doubt somo
island had been overwhelmed. He had
no suspicion of our errand, and related
the above simply as an adventure. How
ever, from that hour we all lost heart.
Figure as we would we could not shake
oil the conviction that it was the un
known island which had been destroyed
in the same manner as it was born.
After a long and tedious run from the
Sandwich Islands, we finally drew near
the location. Then for days and day
we sailed to and fro, and at length re
alized that the island had gone. It was
not there, to enrich us and prove the
Captain's story, but still we found proofs.
We discovered more than one hundred
trees floating about ns we sailed this
way and that, and after we had given up
all hopes we made a still greater find.
The boat which Wheaton had built and
lost turned up thereon that vast expanse
of sea. It wus sighted from the mast
head one morning, and two hours later
we had it alongside. It was water
logged, but floating well enough for all
that, and its find was the strongest link
in the whole chain. We hoisted her on
board and brought her to Sun Francisco
to exhibit to the silent stockholders in
our enterprise, and that relic was the
only thing we could show them. The
story has been told and retold among
sailors in various ways,and portions of it
have been published, bat Ih ive here given
it entire and correctly for tho first t.me.
Olficers of tho survey service of both Eng
land and America ha.'e denied that any
such island existed even for a month ; but
I ask the reader, and I huve often asked
mvself : " If not, what land could Capt.
Wheaton have reached in so short a
time?" He knew every foot of his isl
and and drew a map of it. No other isl
and would answer the description. Ho
built a boat and we found it. He built
a raft, and it bore him into the track of
ships. He found gold, and he found and
saved papers aad relics which settled the
fate of two missing vessels. That island
was born in ten seconds when the bottom
of the sea upheaved. Why shouldn't it
have been destroyed just as quickly I It
is not the only one which has come and
gone, and the fact of its remaining until
covered with timber .nd vegetation was
no guaranty that it would always re.
main. That's ray story, gentlemen, and
if you are unsatisfied you are no worseofl
than your humble sorvant, who lost hi
all in the venture. New York Hun.
The Signs of Drunkenness.
The symptoms of drunkenness, be it
observed, are all paralytio, and are all
due to loss of nervous power aud of
voluntary control. The flushing of the
face shows the paralysis of the small
blood vessels; soon the slipshod utter
ance shows the want of voluntary con
trol over some of the muscles of articula
tion; the dou de vision indicates the loss
of accommodating power iu the eyes,
and the staggering gait shows that the
loss of control has extended to the larger
muscles; lastly, the drunkard falls
prostrate in a condition so closely re
sembling apoplexy that the most ex- ,
perienced occasionally tail rightly to
distinguish the one Iroin the other. If
the intemperate ue of alcohol be per
sisted in there soou results a degenera
tion of all the tissue of the body. The
nervous tissues arc, perhaps the first to
tuffer, and the shaking hand and totter
ing gait are infallibly followed by a
similar tottering of the intellectual and
moral faculties. The stomach reseuts
the constant introduction into it of
ardent spirits, and soon refuses properly
to digest food. Tha liver aud kidneys
give out in a similar way, and the
impairment of their functions causes
terrible dropsy. Tho heart gets fatty
and weak, the lungs lose their fresh
elasiicity and soon there is not a tissue
in the body which has not, in one way or
another, succumbed to the ill-treatment
to which it has been subjected. The
Family Fhy'u-ian.
A Prince's Costume.
The Prince of Wnle when he took
his morning draughts at the Homburg
springs puzzled beholders with an
amazing costume. It wus made ap-
Sarently out of a snulT-colored blanket, I
clicutely set off by a red silk haodker- 1
chief tied around his neck, so as to show
above the collar a "thin, red line." This j
striKing costume was uusea on tan
leather shoes and crowned by a light
gray felt Tyrolean hat. A white Pomer
anian dog followed at his hee!s. Hi
invariable salutation to his feminine ae
qnaintani es was: "Are you drinking the
w tU this morning)" .iaratugian.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Family Stork From none and Meat.
If the family ia small the bones may be
kept for a week, or until sulllcient have
accumulated, by baking tbem thoroughly
after the meat is removed; all bits of
giistlc, fag ends of steak (well rinsed io
boiling water if smoky from broiling)
and chicken bone or giblets help the
stock. Break the bone as small as you
can, a small machine comes for the pur
pose, but a hatchet aud block of wood
will answer. Cover the bones with
water, and a teaspoonful of alt to each
two quarts, and let them tew from six
to eight hours. If the bones have yielded
all their nutritive qualities, they will look
dry and chalky, if they are still, aftet
long cooking, semi-opnquc and greasy,
they are not completely exhausted; tew
still longer.
Care or Lampi.
It is best to clean lamps the first thing
in the morning after the dishes arc out ol
the way. The scissors for trimming the
wicks should be very sharp and had bet
ter be kept for thii purpose alone. Lift
up the cap and cut olf the wi k close to
the flat tube through which it passes; it
will then be sure to bo straight. Then
turn it up a little and trim off the cor
neis slightly, so that it will not flare up
on ea h side ot the flame. Once in
while wash out the bowel of the lamp to
clear it of all sedi.i.cnt that may cling to
the bottom. After washing the chimney
in warm soapsuds rinse it in clear water,
otherwise, it is claimed, it will be more
apt to break. The chimney shou d be
allowed to heat gradually before turning
the liame up ery high.
Cloths which uro used to wipe oil from
lamps should be burned. Do not put
them away thinking to use them again.
They are generally kept in a close place,
and in such a case are generally in dan
ger of firing the house. Some of the
mysterious tires, the cause of which no
one knows, might be traced to this very
practice.
Reel pen.
Arpi.E nrMFi.iNo. One quart of flour,
one tablcspoonful of lard, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder wet with milk,
roll out an inch thick and place on it
eight apples sliced thin; put in pudding
bag ami boil one hour.
Ghated Cheese. When cheese gets
too dry for the table, grate very fine,
and mix enough butter with it to make
a smooth, compact mass, adding a
little mado mustard. When thoroughly
blended, press it into small jars, to be
kept for condiment for meats or on bread
and butter.
Buns. One-half yeast gem dissolved
in a little warm water, one pint of warm
milk, salt to taste, make a sponge and
let it rise; then add one cup of sugar,
two beaten eggs, a cup of butter well
worked into the dough, adding mor
flour; let it rise. Boll out, butter it,
and cut into biscuits; fold them over,
place in tins not too close, let them rise
again fur a short time and bake.
Cheese Toast. Toast some slice ol
bread to a delicate brown, butter them,
and cover for a few minutes, to steam a
little. Shuve some cheese very thin,
place it in a saucepan, add for a teacup
ful of cheese, two tablcspoonfuls butter,
spiink.e a very little mustard over it,
and cook carefully until the cheese is
melted and the whole is smooth. Spread
this preparation on the toast und serve it
hot.
Fried Fkesii Frsrt. If the fish arc
small, after carefully cleaning, wipe
them dry and dip in beaten egg and
then in flour or Indian meal: drop them
into very hot fat and try like dough
nuts. Tlicy are better cooked thus than
when fried in a pan, as in this way there
is no liab lity ot their sticking fast or
scorching. Large tish can be fried in
the same way, but they should be cut
before cooking into pieces convenient
for serving.
Baeed Apple Pudding. Take four
tart apples, sliced or chopped, put them
in a well-buttered pudding dish, make a
batter with a pint of sweet milk, a pint
of flour, a pinch of salt, one teaspoonful
of baking powder and two well-beaten
eggs; pour over the apples and buke.
buuee a half pint of water, let it boil;
add a nice lump of butter, a l;ttle salt,
half a cup of sugar,' a little wet corn
starch to thicken it like cream, a little
yellow rind of a lemon and some of the
juice; boil all together and serve.
Coknstauch Pie. Put one pint o)
weet milk on the stove, and when boil
ing hot stir into it the yolks of twe
eugs and one tablespoouful cornstarch;
after having stirred them smootlny into s
little cold milk, stir briskly; when it has
boiled remove from the fire, add out
heaping tublespoonful white sugar and
one teaspoon ful lemon extract. Stii
well, and then pour this custard into a
baked piecrust. Beat the two whitei
to u stiff froth and add two heaping tuble
l oonfuls white sugar; spreud over th
pies, put in the oven and brown tht
frosting delicately. Set away to cool;
the colder it is the nicer.
Bullets That Hit anil Miss,
The question has often been raised
what proportion of bails, exchanged by
hostile armies, will hit their mark and
kill. Didicult as it is to solve it exactly,
ome appioxiuiatiou may be arrived at
from the number of balls estimated at
2i,ii0o,ooi) which were fired by the
Germans in the war of 1870-71. The
French army lost iu the dead and woun
ded, about 110,1100 men. According to
this, only one bull out of 14:1 tired hit its
man, and assuming that on an average
one man out of seven hit was actually
killed, it would seem that only one rifle
bull in S'iH proved fatal. If it is further
considered that the number of men
wounded and killed by the guus or the
artillery are included in the above esti
mate, it may safclv be said that not over
one rille bull in a thousand fired proved !
10 DO Ittiai. I1v'nn tlraeoit.
Wooden Handles.
The wooden part of tools, sin h as the
stork of planes and handle, of chisels,
a: oiieii made to hive a nh u apw.ii.uiu o
by French polishing; but this adds noth
ing to their durability. A much belter
plan is to let I hem souk in linseed nil for
a week, and rub with a new ( loth for a
few minutes every day for a week ur-t .,
This produces 'ft 1 cautifuT surfa-e. i:d lit
th same time everts a solidifying ami
preserving ae!:..u on tho wood.
MELTING TRADE DOLLARS-
CHANOrNO THE REDEEMED COIN
INTO SILVER BRICKS.
How the Work waa Performed at
the Assay Office in New York
The Last "Melt."
On a recent Friday afternoon the last
"melt" of the 8,405,33:1 trade dollars
which have been received at the I'nited
States Assay Oltice in Wall street since
the act of Congress authorizing their
purchase went into effect was completed
and the limpid silver was poured into
the molds aud transformed into silver
bricks, 1,100 to 1,200 ounces in weight.
"melt" of silver at the Assay Oitic
means 5,000 ounces. Therefore, in order
to make way with the whole number of
this three and a half millions of trade
dol.an about seven hundred " melts "
were necessary. A reporter chanced to
be present and stood near the crucible
when these last representatives of a dead
currency slowly lost their individuality
and became a shapeless glittering mas.
What is denominated an "inclosnre"
In one of the vaults of the Assay utlicc,
contains over 400 cubic feet of trade dol
lar which have passed through the
cruciole and are now stu ked up in the
shape of silver bricks. The Govern
ment has paid about $3,400,000 for them,
but they are useless, Superintendent
Andrew Mason says; and unless made
into standard dollars, of which there is
now such a surplus that the Treas iry
Department cannot find storage room for
them, a loss of about 3" per cent would
be sustained in dispi sing of the me tal to
manufacturers and artisan. The fur
nishing of g ild and silver bars for man
ufacturing purposes is, Superintendent
Mason says, a growing business nt the
Assay Ortice. During the patycar these
bars, to tho value of $10,000,000, have
been sold for use iu arts and manufact
ures, an increase of $3,000,000 o er any
previous year.
When the last "melt" of the trade
dollars had been poured into the molds
and mode into brick, the reporter ob
served that two small quantities, per
haps of a grain or t.vo each, were put
into little receptacles nnd sent to the
assaying-room. "These," explained As
sistant Assayer J. T. Wilder, "are the
samples for assaying. Two are taken
from each 'melt.' They are each a-sived.
by different persons and their work must
tally. If itdoesnot the work is repeated
If the "two assays still fail to agree the
whole melt is remelted and fresh samples
taken. Then the process is gone through
with again.
'The greatest care is taken," said Mr.
Wilder, "to guard against inaccuracies.
The assaying is done by the (JayLussac
method. The exact amount of metal is
weighed and dissolved in nitric acid.
Then enough chlorine is added to pre
cipitate precisely a drachm of pure m1
ver. The solution is then shaken for
three minutes in a shaking mtichiiie (run
by steam), after which it is allowed to
Be tie. Mote salt water is added, every
atom of which is taken account of, aud
if any silver remains in solution it shows
a slight cloudiness. The operation is
repeated until no cloud, neBs appears,
showing that no silver remains in solu
tion; that it has all been precipitated.
Then a calculation is made as to the ex
act fineness of the samples of silver in
tho trade dollar, whi h is corrected by
silver proo s. When the fineness is thor
oughly ascertain, d it is stamped upon
the bur or brick which has been formed
by the melted dollars, together with the
value, weight, melt number and number
of the bar. Then the bar or brick is
ent to tho 'inclosure' before mentioned,
where the other 'trade dollar' bricks are
kept under a combination safe lock. The
combination of this, as well as of the
other safe locks in the building, is known
only to Superintendent Mason and one
other trusted official." AVi York Tri
bune A Great Help to the Speaker.
"Harry" Smith came in with the
XLIst (. ongress, and holds the position
of "Journal Clerk." I have no doubt
that he can retain it as long as he chooses.
He has made a place of his own, and it is
no idle statement to say that there is not
a man in the country to-day who could
fill it, should he retire. The ebb of the
Kenublican and the flow of the Demo
cratic majorities sweep other oilicials out
into the cold, cold world. .Mr. smith
alone remains an unconcerned observer
of the tights of factions and the bitter
controversies of parties. I have never
been able to ascertain whether he is a
Hepubiicun or a Democrat.
Mr. Smith is retained in his position, to
prompt the Speaker on nil questions of
parliamentary law and practice. In the
midst of a squabble, while b.ith sides are
doing the r best to carry a point, the
Speaker may lose his head, and iu the
eores of precedents thrown ut him may,
for tin-moment, be thoroughly "rattled."
It is then that .dr. Sm.th proves him elf a
master of the situutiou. Seizing his
manual he rapidly turns to the exact place
which will solve the question beyond the
shadow ef a doubt. Thus armed the
Speaker almost alw ays succeeds with the
array of rules and practice, furnished by
Mr. Smith iu tumbling over ordeinolish
ing all the pretty structures of mingled
fancy and logic which the members have I
been building about them. Speaker Car
lisle relies upon Mr. Smith's judgment and
knowledge almost implicitly, as did his
predecessor; and it is probable that a por
tion of the long line of Speakers to come
will do the suine tiling, whether they be
Itepublicuiisor Democrats. Mr. Smith is
a nutive of New York, I believe, but his
present home is in Mi higau. He served
with distinction during the war in one of
the Michigan regiments, but nobody ad -dresses
him as 'Colonel." lie is simple
'Harry" Smith to his friends, and of the
latter there are legions." Ane York
Tribune.
Homes Without Windows.
There are iu France 270, 370 apart
ments, providing accomdations for over
;, OO.liOii persons, which rooms are entire
ly destitute of uuy other means of admit
ting air aud light than by the door. In
l'aris alone, the number of families thus
lodged readies a total of 27,:iHii. There
aie in London over fj0,oo0 families
who live in ce'lars under the 'most unfa
vorable couditious as regards salubrity.
In BerUo ther ttro :U 000' families who
occupy only portions of rooms, often with
a sort of shelf on which a luther, mother
und children sleep one our the oilier.
IMvr-t tui death nolle gnU.
HER SINCINO.
Her voice rose like the rising lark,
And soared Into the skies;
To me the stars left heaven dark.
And gathered in her eyes.
The trembling air In music broke,
And quivered into bells;
The mocking bird in envy wok;
The sea despised it sheila
The rippling wavelet softly flow.
And whispers to the shore;
The perfume of the sleeping roes
Seems sweeter tban before.
A breez drinks up the fairy sound
And sighs it through the air;
I saw a star slide to the ground,
The better stUl to hear.
So silvery soft it seemed to me,
So tremulously sweet,
I longed to fall upon my knee
And worship at her feet
Methought 'twould be a happy thing
No more a sound to hear,
So those melodious tones might ring
Forever iu my ear.
Timet-Demoera '.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A select affair A first class oyster
stew. Merchant TraveUr.
An early settler a man who pays for
his lodging before going to bed.
They raise vegetable tallow in Aus
tralia. There's the place to laugh and
grow fat. Sijtingt.
All great men are attentive listener
Many of them acquire the habit by bcinj.'
married. S'tntrtHle Journal.
A married man can always pack a
trunk mure easily than a bachelor can.
lie gets his wife to do it for him. Hot
too Journal.
Farmer's Wife: "I must go home; I
have a great deal to do. We are going
to kill an ox to-day." City Damsel:
" What, you kill an entire ox at once?"
Ft icjrnde HUietUr.
" Pa," said a New Hampshire farmer's
daugter, " the laziest tramp I ever saw
camu into the yard to-day. He stood
there by the wood pile and let the dog
undress him." Burlington Free Prcu.
"You may say what you please about
Pompano," said Bngley, hotly," bul you
must ackowledge that ho is generous to
n fault." "I admit it," said Mrs. Bag
ley "to his own fault." PhilmUhhia
CM.
Doctor (to convalescent patient): "I
have taken the liberty, Sir, of making
out my bill." Patient (looking at bill):
" Great lleuvcns, doctor, you don't ex
pect me, to take all this in one dose!"
She (sentimentally inclined) : "What
is your favorite flower, Mr. Pitt?" He
(commercially inclined): "Well, we
handle various brands, but there is the
biggest margin in Bed Winter. No. 2."
Epoch.
A Wisconsin court litis decided that a
husband may open his wife's letters.
That is all very well, so fur as it goes,
but what this country wants is a law to
protect a husband who forgets to mail
his wife's letters. Nets York New.
One day little Emma's mother reproved
her quite sharply for not changing her
shoes. After a moment's rcllection
Emma said: "I wish you would be renl
i . ..... ... i iLtnic -,'.tfr
like it after you gotyrsVToit." Detroit S-"-.
Free Pre. . ,
Some Valuable Woods.
Tho tulip tree is a native of America,
and is found from Canada to Florida. It
is especially abundant in the Western
States. The wood is greatly valued for
the ease with which it can be worked.
Satin wood is the name applied to several
woods of commerce which acquire a
peculiar lusture when polished ; the prin
cipal of these are brought from India and
the Bahamas and West Indies. The
Indian satiu wood is from a tree of the
mcliacete family, which grows to a height
of 00 or 00 feet, nnd is found along the
Coroinaniel coast und other parts of In
dia; the wood is hard and yellow. The
Buhuman wood tomes from a tree of an
other species; it is lighter colored than
the India wood. Hoscwood is a name
applied in commerce to several costly
kinds of oinumeutul wood, which come
from different countries und from very
different trees. The best-known rose
woods are from Brazil and other parti of
South America. Africa aud Burmese
rosewoods are thought to come from a
different species ol the same family as
South American trees. Other kinds are
brought Irom different places and are ob
tained from very different trees. One
kind is found on the Canary Islands only,
another on the island of Jamaica, und
others ut different places. Suud'ul wood
is the name of the aromatic wood of sev
eral species of suutalum, mainly found in
the liust Indies, aud on the mainland of
India, though certain kinds are also ob
taiuc 1 in the forests of the Hawaiian-'
Islands, the Feejee lsluuds, aud in Aus
tralia. Black ebony wood is fouud,
principally in Ceylon, Madagascar, and
Mauritius, where it grows spontaneously,
and iu cultivated to a certain extent iu
other local. tic of the East. The wooil
of all species of the holly tree is remark
ably white when the tree is young, but
ussuiues u darker color with age. The.
Eu opeun holly is found especially in
Italy, Greece, and the Dauubian prov
inces t grows abundantly throughout
Southern Europe, and is ul.-o cultivated
in rent Britain The American holly is
found along the Atlantic coast, from
Maine southward, and is especially
abundant iu Virginia and tho Curolinus.
It docs not seem to flourish so well in
the West. litter-Oct tin.
Preparing and Spinning Flax,.- -
Flax 'gives us two classes of yarn,
namely, lim n or line yarn and tow yarn.
The processes, of preparing lineu yarn
are very similar to those of preparing
worsteds; id' couise, the machines are
different in their construction, because of
the difference in the length aud character1 '
of the fibre. ' Flax is ' hackled," beat or !
crushed to make it llevible; it is theu
"scutched," au operatiou equivalent to
Cuinhiug. lu some cases the fibres are
too lung to work; they are then broken
by a "saw." After the scutching the -
ihort flbre9 are curded for "tow" yarn in
the same manner as tha "Doil," or short
fibres of wool alter couibiug, are cardi
for woolen vsrn.
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