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Tho St. John, N. Ii., Olnbt now open
ly advocates immediate annexation ol
Canada to tho United States.
The .largest amount of land held In the
Vnitcd States by an alien corporation is
t lint owned by tho Holland Company, In
New Mexico. It embraces 4,500,000
acres. 1
Unptain All crt 8. Fillsbury, of Ilock
land, Mo., who was recently grantel a
cortiflcato by the United State? Hoard of
Inspectors to command a steamboat, is
the youngest Captain In the service, be
ing otdy twenty-three years of ago.
There are wholo towns in Germany
that do little else but make dolls for
American children. They are mostly
simple country folk. England's children
spend ulmo-t 1,000,000 for French and
German dolls, and America's children al
most double that.
The:etsa touch of pathos in the case
of Margaret Cainc, who has been con
victed o drunkenness 231 times in vari
ous London polico courts. The woman's
latest exploit was to turn up very drunk
tit a police station, and to begin singing
"Home, Sweet Home.''
There are fourteen thousand acres of
vineyards along the Hudson river valley,
and tho average yield is four tons to the
acre. At !) cents per pound th!s means
f 240 per a- re to the grower. Some grow
larger crops than this average, and real
ize $.100 per acre in sales.
The United States Postal Improvement
'Association, which has just been formed,
desiies the reissue of fractional currency
for use in the mails, the abolition of pos
tal notes, the issue of postal orders for
small sums at reduced rates, and the pas
age of laws of special interest to farmers
and fruit-growers.
An accommodation train in service on
the Omaha road between St. Paul and
Stillwater is known among railroad men
as tho hospital train, from the fact that
every engineer who has run on tho train
forso.eral years post has either had a
stroke of paralysis whi'e at Hie trottle or
been injured in some way.
The extension of the oyster trade in
juance during the last ten years is re
gurded as ono of the most extraordinary
gastronomic features of the times. Dur
ing the last yearho bed have produced
imo,000,000 oysters, ten times mora
than in 1376. Tho working classes have
their oysters daily, and every wine shop,
even in the poorest quarters, has its oys
ter stand outside.
Tho youngest racing syndicate in the
.world is that known as D. J. McCarthy
A- Brother. The senior member of the
firm is 18 years old, the junior member
but a little over 10. They belong in San
Francisco and own C. H. Todd, t lie horse
whVh won the American Derby at Chi
cago last spring and brought nearly
$14,000 into the pockets of the tenior
member by so doing.
Tho United States has been, without
doubt, the mo t prolific of all countries
in the world in tho issue of postage
stamps, having put forth over 500 differ
ent varieties altogether. The number of
distinct varieties issued by the various
(ioveruments throughout the world is
vnrously estimated, but 5,000 would
probably cover the wholo. Quite a nura-
bcr of new issues have appeared the past
year.
Advices from the gold mining regions
of 'Georgia, indicate a marked revival in
gold mining entcrpiises. A syndicate of
Knglish capitalists has just bought 2,000
acres of gold mining property near
Gainesville, and w ill construct a 10 mile
canal aud erect stamp mills. New Or
leans capitalists havo ulso purchased an
extensive tract near Canton, aud will
engage in gold mining on an extensive
scale.
There are more than $1,000,000 in the
savings banks of Massachusetts for which
there are no known owners. A law
passe i by tho last Legislature requires
. every bank to print annually a list of de-
Us fticu have remained untouched
iwcnty years. One Boston bank, tho
rovim ial Institution for Savings, has
$148,000 of such deposits, divided among
280 depositors. The Five Cent Saving
Hank has $41), 000 credited to 807 de
positors, from whom nothing has been
, heard for over two decades.
In lough, mountainous districts of
New York, Pennsylvania and some of
the Eastern States, bears have never been
entirely exterminated. Lately they have
greatly increased in numbers. Kither
the presence of winter, or, more likely,
scarcity of water in their mountain
homes, has emboldened them to
come down and invade the settle
ments. Several such cases have lately
been reported in central Pennsylvania.
A wounded bear is a dangerous customer
for one man to deal with. Though they
seem to move clumsily, they get around
in altogether too lively a fashion for
safety, if one meets them a'one. But
wherever bears show themselves old guns
will be burnished up and a general hunt
, : made, until they are destroyed or
veil bark.
THE WINOINO noun.
"71 i better fo do the mol trtfinn thing in
the world than to consider a half hour a
trifle.nUoethe'i Spruteht in JVosa.
Stay notl Pans notl
The moon Is near;
The sun has climbed the height
I Ht ay not nor fear I
I Follow till thv work bo donst
On, ever on !
Mo suinmor beam shall scorch thee,
Nor sudden wave o'erwbelm thee,
Till thy task be endod.
On, ever on !
Through tho mist and through tho night,
Through the blinding morning light,
By elements befriended,
Till thy work be done.
Thou wouldat sail the sea,
Tho mountain wouldst thou scale,
Upon the starry worlds
Exhaust thy vision frail,
Stay not for the storm
And stay not for tho hour,
A greater master yet
Holds thoe in his power.
The moon is here,
Thy work undone.
The end draws near
Kre thou hast won.
Conquer Death, for he Is weak
And the gathering days are strong!
Time to struggle, time to seek
While the untired moments throng
Close about thee: sefzethe flrstl
Then to thee the second turns,
And the third is all thine own;
Thine the light and thine the strength,
Thine the throne!
Mr. Fields, in Century.
BIG JiEX AXIM'HARLEY.
Were we afraid of Big lien?
Well, yes, to a certain limit. There
were live of us in a bit of cabin out in
the silver country, and Iiig Hen was
boss of the ranch for several reasons.
First and foremost, ho was too much
for any one of us single handed, und.
secondly, he had many good points
about him. While he was overbearing
and brutal at times, he was tho bes't
miner in the party, and no bad luck
could d scourage him. With any one
else as boss we should have scnttered at
once, for tho winter was coming on and
wo had been down on our luck all the
.all.
"Break up? Hunt for luck?" sneered
Big Ben whenever anything was said
about abandoning our claim. "Well,
you are a lot of coyotes a cussed bad
lot. You haven't got the pluck of a
sick wolf. I'd like to sec some of you
walk off and leave me in the lurch, yes, I
would. Ml turn to and lick the hull
crowd out of your boots if I hear another
growl, '
Dig Ben insulted us a dozen times n
day, and on three or four occasions he
laid hands on us in a voilcnt way, but
somehow we stuck there. As 1 told you,
he was a practical miner, the hardest
worker in t he lot, and we leaned on him
in spile of the fact that we hated him.
Wo could have shot him down in some
of the quarrels, and the verdict would
have been: "Served him r glit!" but we
knew that ho had a good heait down in
his bosom, and the hand which clutched
knife or pistol was alwavs restraimed.
One afternoon, while I was minding
the cabin and the other men were at
work in the tunnel or shaft, a stranger
entered. He had come up from the
Forks, three miles away. Ue was a boy
of sixteen or thereabouts, with a girl's
voice and shyness, nud he was hungry
and in rags. It was bitter cold, and yet
his clothing was of tho thinnest kind,
and he hud hungered so long that he was
hardly more than aslindow. I welcomed
and fed and warmed him, and then ho
told me that his name was Charley
Bland, and that he had wandered out
there to look fur his brother .1 nines, from
whom he had received no word for two
or three years. They were orphans, and
both had been bound to farmers in Illi
nois. Botli had been ill used, and
Charley had finally followed James's ex
ample in running away. This boy had
been knocking around' the silver camps
for six months, sometimes meeting
friends and sometimes treated like a dog,
and he had found no trace of his
bi other. Koine one down at the gulch
it was a cruel thing to do had told him
that James was at our run p, and he had
periled his life to come up there and see.
On that day, as I shall never forget,
there was a loot of snow on the ground,
a blizzard racing, and the thermometer
marked ten degrees below zero.
The boy was asleep when the men re
turned from the shaft. Big Ben was
out of sorts at the way things had been
going, and no sooner did he see aud hear
tho lad than he rail' d out :
"lie can't stay here uuoiher hour. We
don't run a poor-house, und we let no
baby-faced swindler cat our hard-earned
provisions."
"I ll work. I'll work as hard as ever
I can," protested the boy wiih a sob in
his throat.
"There's no work for you. You've got
to move on to the camp above." !
I he lour of us protested in chorus,
and we took such a firm stand that
deadly weapons were drawn, and would
have been used but for the action of the
boy. He was terribly frightened over
the row he had I 'en the innocent cause
of, and as the lour of us had our pistols
leveled at Big lieu, and meant to shoot if
he moved a foot, the boy opened the
cabin door aud glided out into the dark
and bitter night with the silenco and
swiftness of a shadow.
"You uro his murderer," wo paid to
Big Ben, as we lowered our weapons.
and he growled :
"If we took in every straccler wo
sho.ild be crowded out of house and
home before New Year's. What is it to
us whether he lives or dies."
I think he felt conscience stricken
within the hour, however, as he went to
the door and acted as if lie hoped to see
the hid standing outside. The boy bad
been gone half an hour before we fully
realized what his going meant, and then
two of ns went out with the lantern and 1
searched and called for him. The snow
was being whirled about in a furious
manner, and the wind was rising to a
gale, and the bitter cold drove us back
after a quarter of an hour. It was true
that we had 1 ttle enough to eat, and
that we were cramped in our cabin, but
the idea of driving that pale-faced ,
orphan boy out to freeze was something 1
we could not get over. It was just the
thing needed to set us up in rebellion
against our boss, and that night we
threw off the yoke and gave it to Big
Ben right and left. We had two or
three, rows- before -.becUirne.., and all
turned in sulky and indignant.
Whew I But what a night that was I
Tho cold increased until the rocks were
split, and the wind roared until ourcabin
threatened to topple over at every blast.
At midnight Big lien crept carefully out
of his bed and opened the door, ai d then
I almost forgave him for his brutality.
Conscience had been at work, and his
heart was touched. Ho hoped to lind
tho boy crouched on the threshold, and I
heard him sigh and mutter to himself ns
he shut the door and returned to his
blankets. The strongest man in our
party, clad as we were for the winter,
could not have stood against the blizzard
half an hour, and I fell asleep to die un
of finding poor Charley's frozen corps on
the trail leading down to the Forks, and
of his big blue eyes being wide open and
staring at me in a reproachful way.
For breakfast next morning we had
some canned meat opened u new can
from our slim store. We thawed it out,
and all ate our full shares, and were on
the point of starting out to search for
the boy when one of the men was taken
ill. Inside of half an hour all of us wero
down with fains and cramps, and it was
evident that we had been poisoned by
the meat. AVe had no antidote of any
sort, and one after another went to bed
to suffer the most ngoniziag pains and
to lose consciousness. Big lien was the
hardest hit of nil, while I, perhaps, suf
fered the least. That is, while all the
others raved and shouted and lost their
senses, I was all tho timo dimly con
scious of everything going on." The
blizzard was still raging, and tho ther
mometer was marking a still lower de
gree when the door opened and Charley
walked in. I saw him, but 1 was flighty,
aim it seemerl to me that lie was dead. I
remember his looking down upon eachof
us in a strange, scared way, and starting
to retreat when one of the men shouted a
louder curse.
I was the first to come back to life, as
it were, and that was twenty-four hours
after being first taken. Tho pains were
gone as I opened my eyes, but I was
weak and wretched, like one just over a
terrible fever. The boy Charley was
standing before me as I opened my eyes,
and he bent down and whispered :
"Y'ou have all been terribly sick, and I
think one man is dead. Can you eat
something?"
I did feel a bit hungry, and I bad no
sooner signified it than lie came to me
with a bowl of btoth. As I afterward
learned, the stoim had driven a couple
ot nures to seeK sneitcr at the aoor, una
he had secured both of thorn. He did
not know the cause of our sickness, but
suspe. ted some calamity, and was pre
pared to feed us as soon ns wo could eat.
It seemed that when Big Hen drove him
out he tumbled into the ravine a quarter
of a mile away, and he found shelter
under a ledge. How he kept from freez
ing to death that night heaven only
knows. Indeed, heaven, preserved him.
It froze our water pail solid when stand
ing within six feet of the fire, and there
he was, out in the cold in a threadbare
suit. When morning came he returned
to the cabin to make one more appeal.
He found us suffering and out of our
minds, and the tire about gone out. Had
it not been for him we should have frozen
as stiff as pokers, for on that day it was
thirty-one degrees below zero all day
long, and it went down to almost forty
decrees.
The boy kept up arousing fire, dressed
his rabbits for the soup, and all day and
all night long he kept forcing strong
coffee down our throats. That doi.btless
helped us to pull through, or at least
four of us. The other man, whose nanio
was Hale, had his teeth firmly clenched,
and from the way his features were dis
torted and his limbs drawn up it was
evident that he died in great agony. In
a couple of h iurs I was able to be up
and assist Charley in caring for the
others, but it was far into the nwht before
the last man could use his tongue in a
sensible manner. It was Big Hon, and
when consciousness returned and ho saw
the white faced boy bending over him
the great t rant whispered:
"Ayo! 'I he corpse of the lad has
risen up to confiont and accuse mcl It
was a cruel thing I did to drive him out,
and the Lord will never forgive me for
it!"
While out of danger we were yet weak
and almost helpless, and none of us could
attend the fire or do a bit of cooking for
nearly a week. The wholo thing de
volved upon the boy, and no one could
have done better, lie was cook, nurse,
doctor and protector all in one. He got
three more hares aud a couple of birds,
and 1 don't believe u spoonful of tho
broth went down his own throat.
Well, I for one had been watching
Big Ben to see what he would do. The
first moment ho was able to sit up h
called Charley aud pulled the frail little
fellow down on his breast, saying:
"If you'll only forgive me I'll pray to
the Lord to do the same. I'm rough and
witked, but to turn a lad like you out o'
doors on siuh a uight as that wasn't me
at nil. Old iNi I a n must have had posses-ion
of me."
That gre:it big fellow cried like a child,
and Charley cried with him, and I might
as well own up th it we all cried. Whut
made it the more solemu was the fact
t hut we had a corpse at tho door. When
it was known that Hule was dead, none
of the other four of us could lil t a hand.
How the boy got the bodv out of doors 1
never could understand, but get it out he
did, and it was three long months before
we could give it Christ inn burial.
On the morning when we all got out of
bed feeling pietty strong again, Charley
went to bed with a fever.aud before noon
was raving craiy. I tell you it was awful !
to hear him cry out every few minutes in I
his delirium: '
"Oh, Hen, don't drive me out. I'll!
work as hard as I can !"
Every cry went through the big fellow
like a bullet. He nursed and soothed the
poor boy with all the tenderness he
could command, and two or three times
carried him about in his arms as a father
would his ailing babe. There was a doc
tor at the Forks, and after dinner U'e
Ben braved the blizz.aad and made the
trip down and back. The doctor could
not be iudu edto return with him. owing
to the cold, but he sent some medicine.
Poor Charley was beyond human aid,
however. He raved through the afternoon
aud night, and next morning was siruck
with death. His mind came bark to him
at the last, and as we stood over him he
calmly said :
"I know I'm going to die, but I'm
not afraid. I'll sec father and mother
in heaven, and perhaps Brother .lames is
there, to."
""" W'niJc we all felt bad enough, Big Pen
was completely broken down. ""lib"' got
down on his knees and begged Charley
to forgivo him, and I never saw a man
feel the bitterness of an act as he did.
"Yes, I'll forgive you, replied the boy,
"and if you pray to God, He'll forgive,
too. Has it come night so soon again?"
"No, my child," answered one of the
men.
"Hut I can't see any of you any more.
Good-by. Let me take your hand,
for "
And with that ho breathed his last,
and there were two to rest in the snow
until spring came. Did you ever hear of
"Charley's Gulch;" Yes, of course you
have, and if you have passed that woy
you have seen the boy s grave. The
head board contains only the name cut
deep by Big Hen's knife but tho story
of the boy's heroism has been told in
every mining camp in Nevada, and it has
never been told without bringing moist
ure to the cyea of all listeners. A'cit
York Hun.
HEALTH HINTS.
In some forms of headache a towel or
a napkin, wrung out in hot water, as hot
as can bo borne, and wound around the
head, affords relief.
Ex-Secretary Holcomb, of the Ameri
can Legation at Pckin, Bays that out of
the 4()O,00D,O00 inhabitants of the
Chinese Empire fully :)(, 000,000 spend
less than $1.50 a month for food.
"Granny," tho famous sea anemone of
tho Edinburg Botanical Gardens, is
dead. It was fed with half a mussel,
dropped onco a fortnight into the mem
braucous csophagal tube which did duty
for a month.
The common practice of raising faint
ing persons to a sitting or upright posi
tion is often sufficient to destroy the
spark of life which remains. The death
of un eminent English Statesman a short
time ago gave opportunity to the Coroner
for emphasizing this fact, and of point
ing out how much more reasonable and
sound it is to keep such persons in the
prone position while restoratives and
local means are adopted to enable them,
if possible, to regain consciousness.
Endurance of the Japanese.
When ono rejects that there is never
a firo which would fill a half-bushel
measure; that tho Japancso wear no
woolen garments, and only sandals or
clogs on their feet; that the Winters are
cold enough to make ice two or three
inches thick, and the ground is often
white with snow, one wonders how they
live, writes a correspondent from Japan
to tlio Chicago Miil. There seems to be
something peculiar in the physical make
up of tho Japanese, us well as in their
plants, which enables them to endure
safely great cold. I am told that plants
which in America are killed by Autumn
frosts here live and bloom in the midst
of snow, and when tho thermometer has
gone much below the freezing poi.it.
Certainly tho people hnve wonderful
powers of endurance if their sensations
are as ours are.
Every Japanese, high or low, takes his
hot bath every night. He jumps into a
vat of water heated from 100 to 115 de
grees and enjoys the boil, and stands f"r
hours up to his waist in cold, mountain
torreuts, and it. is said will break the Ice
in Winter and work up to his neck in
immersion, and seems to feel no ill effects
from it. He is certainly a wonderful
animal, and ethnological data must yet
be furnished to convince me that he il
not indigenous to the soil he lives on.
Chinese Punishment.
The Chinese penal Code provides that
when an unskillful physician, in adminis
tering medicines or using the acupunc
ture needle, proceeds contrary to tho
established forms and thereby causes the
death of a patient, the magistrate shall
cull in other physiciuus to examine the
medicine or- the wound. If it appear
that the injury done was unintentional,
tho practitioner shall then bo treated ac
cording to the statute for accidental
homicides, and shall not bo allowed any
longer to practice medicine. But if he
have designedly departed from tho estab
lished forms, and has practiced deceit
in his attempts to cure the malady in or
der to guiu property, then according to
its amount, he shall bo treated as a thief;
and if death en'iues from his malpractice,
then for having thus used medicine with
intent to kill, ho s!iall be beheaded.
There appears to bo nothing in the "ce
lestial" code nnsworing to the laws of
"barbarian'' nations concerning civil
damages recoverable by parties made to
suffer by "unintentional" malpractice.
Tlio Origin of Beer.
Ale was the sole title of malt liquor
until the reign of Henry YJIL, up to
which time the employment of iioj.s as
an ingredient In the beverage was un
known in England. In the" year 1524,
or thereabouts, the use of hops was intro
duced from Germany, and lo distinguish
thu new kind of malt liquor from the old,
the German name bier was adopted, and,
with au iutinitesimal change of spelling,
became part of our iaiiguaie. Germany,
in truth, is tho native laud of beer, and
nowhere iu tho world is it treated with
such special honor. Iii Germany the !
drinking of beer is not, as with us, a j
mere means of carnal refreshment, but, :
particularly among the students of the
universities, is elovated to the dignity of
a cult, amilianty w ith whose ritual is '
deemed an essential branch of a liberal
education. lb tltVK
Two Great Foreign Armies,
A gentleman publishes the following
comparative statement in a Siuthumpton
journal, Rays London "Truth. It is clearly
put and worthy of recollection:
BRITISH AKMV.
Nuintier of troops,
Ids, (KM, cost, ils,
a.rj.uuu. held marshal.
OEECMAn ARMY.
dumber ot troops,
4'J8,1"4; cost,
bou.iOJ.
'i tlel I marshals
(Count Molrko and
the frown I'rinee.)
rl general.
"tti lauU'uant-gua-
1 17 iiih or-euulUi.
21U coluuels.
21U lieuleuant-colo
neln.
si majors.
41 generals.
1 r7 luutfiiant gen
f-rals.
is-i major-generals.
JO colouola.
l.'iO jiouluuant-colo-nela.
1.1. 'i0 uiuj'irs.
400 broker, w'l.ueu,
tin pot, Holen-le-gel
or otli. i wise usi
J hal -'; v Ki-iirru!11.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Recipes.
Graham Griddle Cakes. One pint
of graham flour into which has been well
mixed two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
jJCi' ,;n'Ia halfteaspoonful of salt; make
a thin batter with sweet mTlk'ari"iI cook
in thin cakes on a aoapstonc griddle.
Coiin Bread Without Ehud. Take
two cups of corn meal, one tup of wheat
flour, one half cup molasses, one tea
spoonful soda and a little knit, and sour
milk enough to make a batter that will
run easily, pour in a pan about three or
four inches in depth and bake one half
hour.
Potato Chowdkr. Large potatoes,
six; onion, one; milk, one quart; butter,
one tablespoon ; salt pork, two ounces;
egg, one. Cut the pork in small pieces
and fry, add potatoes and onion sliced;
! cover w.th boiling water and cook till
I potatoes are tender; add the milk scalded,
and the seasoning. The last thing add
I the egg beaten light,
j Corn Sorp. One can sweet corn, one
I pint and a half of milk: flour, one table
spoon ; butter, one tablespoon ; egg, one;
salt, one teaspoon; celery, one sprig:
pepper. Heat the sweet corn and celery1
slowly in the milk till it reaches the
boiling point. Hub butter and Hour to
gether ahd add to the milk, then the salt
and pepper. Beat the egg and pour it
into tho tureen, strain the soup aud pour
upon it.
Graham Muffins. Ono and a half
cups of graham flour; wheat flour, one
half cup: milk, one cup; baking pow
der, one and a half teaspoons; salt, one
half teaspoon; sugar, one-fourth teacup.
Put the graham flour into the mixing
bowl. Mix the remainder of the' dry in
gredients in the sieve and sift. Pour
the milk on to the dry ingredients, nnd
stir well. Beat the egg and cut it in.
Grease hot gem pans and fill. Bako iu
quick oven.
Custard Pie. Line a deep plato with
pie-crust made as preferred with butter
or lard, or both. Huild up the edge a
little, lo three well-beaten eggs, rc-
serving the white of one, odd four table
1 spoons sugar, one of flour, and a pinch
of salt, and milk to fill the crust, on
which nutmeg should be grated. Hake
in a moderately hot oven, tryinsr it with
a fork from time to time. When no
i longer "milky," teinove from oven, nnd
after it has cooled a little, cover with a
i meringue made by whipping the white
of egg that was reserved with one tea
; spoon sugar and a bit of essence lemon.
Brown lightly.
: Broiled Chicken. Cover it with
I boiling water; lot it boil once, then
1 draw to one side of the range and leave
: it to simmer an hour. Kemove the scum,
! which will discolor the fowl if allowed to
remain. The slow boiling makes it ten
' der. When done servo with egg sauce
' in n sauce boat, and use the broth to
I make soup for dinner. The egg sauce is
I made as follows: Cream an ounce of
' butter; add to it ono tablespnonful of
I dry flour, a saltspoonful of salt aud half
i a saltspoonful of white pepper (black
I pepper spoils its color). Mir it briskly
and add half a pint of the chicken brot h.
i Divide an ounce of butter into little
i balls, roll them in flour and add them
i one at a time; stir constantly, and enre
should be exercised not to allow the
same to brown or discolor. Chop three
cold, hard-boiled eggs and add them to
: the sauce before serving.
j Useful Hints.
I Never leave the cover off the tea canis
ter. Use newspapers to polish window
! glass and mirrors.
. Flour should nlways be sifted just be
; fore you wish to use it.
j Salts of lemon will take spots out of
linen and also remove stains from wood.
' A spoonful of fine salt or horse-radish
will keep a pan of milk sweet for several
days.
Carpets will look much brighter nfter
sweeping if wiped off with a dump
cloth.
White and pale shades of paint may bo
beautifully cleaned by using whiting iu
the water.
Do not leave any tomatoes in tho bot
tom of a tin can, but pour them into an
earthen bowl till you want them. This
applies to nearly all tanned vegetables.
Kerosene will brighten silver, but an
easy way to keep bright the spoons and
forks iu daily use is to leave them in
strong borax water for several hours.
The water should bo boiling hot when
the silver is put in.
A pie that is properly baked will slip I
from the tin with careful handling, and j
if placed on a wire frame where the air 1
has access to the bottom it will cool I
without becoming moist, and when
ready to be served it can bo transferred
to a plate. I
One of Gw? C7 r readers has excel- j
lent success in cutting glass by holding
it under water and cutting it with a pair
of large scissors. One of the family pa
pers says glass may be cut with any hard
tool, like a chisel, for instance, if kept 1
constantly wet with camphor dissolved 1
in spirits of turpentine. (7.i t'nv. j
Cleverly Caught.
Hero is a good story of tho redoubta
ble Master of Bulliol. Not long ago an
under-gruduato of that college iost a
roll of bank notes. He had the numbers
and wisely told Mr. Jowett of his losH.
"(Jive ine the numbers and say nothing
about it to uuy one," said the Master,
who then sent tho numbers lo the bank
teller with a hint not to disclose them.
Next day the Oxford boardings were cov
ered with posters proclaiming the loss,
but giving the wrong number. The
thief fell into the trap and presented
one of the notes at the bank, with the
prompt result that ho was arrested That
undergraduate has recoveied all his
notes and thinks that Mr. Jowett ought
to have been a detective. l.m,ilon l.iit.
An Unexplored Country.
There are few regions more didicult to
travel over than unsettled portions of the
Puget Sound basin, the timber is sohc iv y
and the undergrowth so dt-u-o. I lai cs
less than ten miles uiurt uro of en -ciai -ated
as completely us if seveiul hundred
miles of opeu country Vy bei ween them.
In fact little is geneial y know.i con
cerning the country outside of Hie (.u
ernment . turvevs.-- i
SOME OLD-TIME SONGS.
TUNES THAIWIHE POPULAR DUR
ING THE WAR AND BINCB.
Hontlmental Sonus of the Minstrels
Favorite War Tnnce on Both
Hides Later Compositions.
How many of the popular songs of
twenty years ago can the old boys of
to-day recall? How many of the old
melodies that thrilled them in the days
of their hot youth have found an abiding
place in their memory? The evolution
of the popular song presents a striking
illustrat'on of the survival of the un
fittest. The great sentimental success of
the unti war period was undoubtedly
"Hen Holt." The untimely death of
something lovable and beautiful was the
unusual theme of the sentimental song
of that period, though it varied occasion
ally in order to picture the heart havoc
caused by the separation of slave-lovers.
"Hen Holt" was n splendid illustration
of the prevailing theme. Hwashummed,
whistled, sung and played on musical in
struments for more than a decade. It
was immensely popular with the young
ladies, many -of whom are now grand
mothers. "Sweet Alice" was shrined in
every sentimental female's heart, and
the question of the day was:
Don't you rememlier sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,
Kweet Alice with hair so brown?
She wept with delight when you gave her a
smile
And trembled with fear at your frown.
Sharing "Ben Holt's" popularity dur
ing tho same period were two songs
widely sung by Dan Emmett, Dan
Byrant and other minstrels. These were
"Nellie Gray'' und ", !-usannuhl" both
depicting the sufferings of slave-lovers.
"Nellie Gray" swept the country like a
cyclone:
My charming Nellie Gray,
They have taken you away,
Ami I'll never see my darling any more.
w as heard on every side and voiced by
every tongue. "O, dear Susaunnh!"
was built more in the comic way, and
the request, "Don't you cry for me," was
1 used on tho consoling fact that "I'm
going to Alabama with the banjo on my
knee." The pessimistic strain in which
tho fate of a certain "old nigger," popu
larly known as "Uncle Ned," was be
moaned was well known before "Nellie
Gray" or "Susannah" nppeared. Dan
Emmett's "Dixie" und Foster's "Swuneo
Kiver" hnve proven the most prominent
of the ante-w ar melodies. , A sentimental
ballad railed "Loiena" was a great favor
ite in the '00s, and lor 80 years previous
the appearance and philosophy of "Old
Hosiu tho Bow"was known to every one.
A state of warf ire has always proved
conductive to song. The flourishing
condition of minstrelsy in ages past was
duo largely to the warlike and adventur
ous spirit of the times. During
the civil war both sides were proliffc in
song-making. The South made the first
great hit with Randall s "Maryland, .My
Maryland." The "Bonnie Blue Flag''
was tho Southern national air and was to
the boys in gray what "Y'ankee Doodle"
was to tho boys in blue. The Southern
women ardently took it up, and through
every city rang tho chorus:
Hurrah I Hurrah! for Southern rights of war.
Hurrah! for the Bonnie blue Flag that
bears the single star.
Of the sentimental songs of the war
period the most popular were "Fairy
Bell," "Annie of tho Dell," "Just Before
the Hattlo, Mother," "Toll the Bell for
I ovely Noll," and "When This Cruel
War is Over." In the North. "Wait for
the Wagon" and "Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp, the Hoys are Marching" hail a
great success during the same period,
and otheis that ran riot through camp
and fireside weic "Mary Blane," "eld
Cabin Home,'-"Fair, Fair with Go'den
Hair," and "Daisy Dean." Who has
forgotten "Daisy Dean" and its wistful
( bonis?
None knew thee but to love thee,
Thou dear one of my heart,
Thy memory is ever fresh and green;
The wild flowers may wither
And fond ht-artsbe broken,
Still 1 love tine, my'dui li ig. Daisy Dean.
A beautiful song, truly pathetic, ob
tained great popularity iu both North
and South during the war. Th's was
Florence Percy's "Hock Me to Sleep,
Mother." The South produce I two war
songs that evince genuine poetic talent,
and have been accorded unstinted prai-e
by the critics. They are the ''Conquered
Banner" and "All tju'et Along the Po
tomac To-night,'' tl.e first named by
Father liyanuud the last by I ainar Foun
taino. Ono of the most pathetic poems
that appeared during the war was
"Somebody's Darling. The circus clow ii
was the great promulgator of popular
music during and ju-t after the war. lie
was then in the full blu.e of his g'oi v.
Sim e then the blaze hits degenerated to a
spark, und that is threatening to go n::i.
Hut twenty years ago he was the b gu" -t
attrac tion in the ring, and li s loulss !d
like shares in a wild cat mining scheme.
The war songs were succeeded by whit
might be termed the Billyenieiso i.ici
epoch. These were the days when the
"Iiig Sunflower'' and " ove Among the
Hoses'' were epidemic. The agile Bil'y
was the pioneer of the genteel song imd
dance business, ami whci he sang
1 feel ju .t as happy as a bi' suullowei
That no Isaucl Ih'uIs tothc. breeze.
Aud my heart is as light as the wiull!i it
blown
The leaves from otr the trces-es.
he was pronounced unapproachable, of
the same date is that ridic ulous composi
tion: "Captain Jinks of the Hor-ii
Murines. " YV. II. I ingard brought it
over from I ondon nnd first sunk it iu li s
act of lightning i Images, und while Ii"
maintained intimate le'ations with
"( a tain Jinks'' he prospered. I en
he attempted something higher he n t
into trouble. "Put Malloy," "The
( harming Young Man on the Flying
Trapeze," "The Dark Girl Dressed in
Hli.e." "Tho Fellow That Looks l.ie
Me," "In the Howery," were widely su g
at the time. In the early ',0s the Ii;
successes w ere "Little Fraud," "I I 'eel
So Awful .loll v When the Hand Ben ins
! to I I, iv, '' "Champagne I barley," "'I he
I Muil gan Guards," "The Cottage by the
Sea,' "! illarncv." "Good live, Charley,"
Ten 'Ihousiind Miles Away," and
.'ennie the I'ride cf Kibhtre." Tie n
came ",lv i,H, "Miolling on lie
i-aiid ," and since then the ouautity h:cs
increased aud the quality decreased iu
t he same i;il ;o. - I 7 e
io Jribiini:
Thcie is a big difference between get
I ill:: on well in lite aud ti lting well on
iu lite.
"1 LOVE THEE, L.IFB."
I love thee, love thee, life!
I fain would dwell with thee thy mnch-love.1
guest.
ih fold me nearer to thy pulsing breast ;
That I may feel thy heart-beata throb in
mine, - - . - -
Soliold'ing it in unison with thine,
I love thee, love thee, life!
Oh. hold me closer in thy strong embrace,
t'plift me, lie ir me onward In thy race,
Impart to me thy soul's exulting power
To tie mine heritage, mine earthly dower.
I love thee, love thee, life)
I fain would wear thy brightness in my fac e.
Oh, give to me thine animating grace,
Inspire me, thrill me, love me in return,
It is thy noblest gifts for which I yearn.
I love thee, love thee, life!
Bear not so swiftly toward my journey 'sen. 1 :
For oh, I dread to part with thee, my friend !
Surround me with thy warm, entrancing
breath,
And leave me not too soon alone with death
Inter-Ocean.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Don't count your chickens before the
hatchet falls.
A man may be opposed to capital
punishment and yet in favor of hanging
up his grocer. Bntnn Courier.
An oculist doesn't want an eye for an
eye, and a dentist doesn't want a tooth
for a tooth. They want . Life.
Did you ever see a doctor kick a
banana peel off the sidewalk or tell au
acquaintance that he was sitting in a
draught?
About the most miserable man in the
world is the one who is expected to
laugh at the joke of a story he has heard
before. Nebraska S ate Journal.
"We've won your suit," the lawyer said.
And gleefully rubbed his pate,
"And what are your charges, sirf" they said;
"Oh, merely the saved e.-tute!"
Oil City Derrick..
They tell of a young Lincoln man that
he is so able a contortionist that he can
Bee without dilliculty the bald spot on
the back of his head. Lincoln (AiiJ.)
Journal.
Some musicians are fond of speaking
of tho "colors" of tho tones of various
musical instruments. We wonder if they
have noticed that the cornet is always
"blewi" Burlin'jton Free I'res.
A violinist says that it is not the bow
arm that gets tired, but the tips of tho
fingers. We always supposed that it was
the man who was compelled to listen to
the violiu playing. Y rrUtvwn Herald.
"What is the cause of that red spot on
the end of your nose, Blobsoni" asked
Popin.ay, slyly. "That, sir," replied
Blobson, "is a solar spot. I was out in
the hot sun all the summer." Burlington
Free Prett.
A New York firm left a 1,000-pound
boiler out of doors overnight and in the
morning it was gone. The only thing
that can safely be left out over uight in
New York is a six-story building.
Omaha World.
Wife "What under the sun are you
doing?" Husband "Trying to tie this
string around my linger." W ife "Why,
I did not ask you to do any errand."
Husband "No; this string is to remind
me that I have nothing to remember
to-day." Omaha )Vorld.
The Canse of the Glacial Period.
Tho ocean equalizes the earth's tem
perature. How delicately balanced the
forces of nature are as to glaciers may be
seen in tho fact that there havo been five
periods of . advance aud retreat in
Switzerland since lsot). Wero. tbj
Sahara desert to bo inundated, it might
disastrously cluiugc the climate of cen
tral Europe.
The orbit of tho earth is an ellipse; its
longer diameter being ii, 000, 000 miles
moie than its shorter. The sun is in one
fo.i of this ellipse; the earth's summer
solstice is fully seveu days longer than
the winter. Tho present is favorable to
glaciutton in the southern hemisphere.
There should be an increase of glaciers
each 21,000 years, due to the earth's
changing relations to the sun. Special
epochs have been 200,000, 750,000 and
850,000 years ago, aud similar epochs are
sxpected 500,000, 800,000 and 1100,000
years to come, .'roll's theory rests ou
hypotheses and assumptions. Ho takes
the winds and ocean currents for stable
quantities. But the Gulf Stream fifty
miles wide, 1,000 feet deep, and which
moves four miles an hour and the trade
winds need be to accounted for. The
southeast trade winds predominate. Why!
Because the southern hemisphere is
cooler, But why is it cooler? The ex
tent and depth of southern oceans add
power to the winds in that hemisphere.
While tho trade winds are steady but
not strong, they are sometimes interrup
ted by terrible monsoons. Not all cold
seas are favorable to glaciation; those in
the far North lack moisture.
The weak point in Mr. ("roll's theory
is his failure to satisfactorily account for
the absorption, retention and distribu
tion of beat received from the sun. Why
do clouds prevcut frost I Why does heat
fiass into glass easily (as into a greea
louse) umi not so easily escape f The
equator is not so hot, nor the arctic region
so cold as they ought to be according to
the heat received from the sun. The dif
ference between the equator aud tho
coldest point on parallel 07 (where the
mean temperature in January is Mi de
gress below zerol, which ought to be
172 degree , is but about 75 degrees. We
do not know what caused the glaciers,
but gla iu'ists are moie concerned w ith
the facts of glaciation. 1'rof. 'riiht of
Uirrarl. '
The Value of a Whale.
The ow ners of the b erk Staiuboul have
brought suit in the I'nited States Dis
trict Court against t lie I'aeilie Steam
Whaling Compnuy, owner of the bark
Wuuderei, to iccovcr $7,000 for the loss
of a whale. Plaintiffs claim tint they
hud harpooned the whale, which there
upon kwu u under a held of ice and came
to the sort ice a mile away, und that the
crew of l he Wanderer then captured
the same animal, and, iu ur.lcr to give a
shadow o! claim, substituted their own
harpoon for tliat of delcndant. It is
ilaimed that for forty yems it had been
the recogni ed custom that when a crew
had once harpooned a whale it wus
entitled to the full ownership of the
inttnal. S' .t'v i'.'iK.-i .