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k3JL JLJL-
Th St John, N. B., f7V& bow open
ly advootm immediate annexation of
Canada rjthe United State.
The large -t amount of land held In the
VniU'd States by an alien cororation la
lint owned by the Holland Coin), any, In
New Mmico. It embrace 4,600,000
scree.
Captain All crt 8, PHMmry, of Kock
l.md. Me., who tu recently grants 1 a
cortirlentc by the United States Board of
idpeelor to command a iteamboat, it
the youngest Captain In the service, be
ing only twenty-three yeara of age.
There are whole town in Germany
that do little else but make dolls for
A merit an children. They are mostly
wimple country folk, England's children
ixnd nlmn.t f I , notit tv") for French and
German dol's, and America's children al
most double that
The: is a touch of pathos in the raae
of Margaret Caine, who baa been con
victed of drunkenneaa 231 timet In vari
ous London police court. The woman's
!ut st exploit win to turn up very drunk
nt a police station, and to begin ainging
"Home, Sweet Il'me."
There are fourteen thousand acreiof
vineyards along the Hudson river valley,
and the average yield la fourtona to the
acre. At II rent per pound th's rucana
f'?40 per a re to the grower. Some grow
Iargcrcrnp than thia average, and real,
le $ i(0 per acre in sales.
The United States Postal Improvement
Asstxiation, which ha just liecn formed,
desiics the reissue of fractional currency
for uae in the mail, the eWition of po
tal note, the issue of postal order for
small sum at reduced rates, and the pas
sago of law of apoclal intereat to farmer
and fruit-grower.
An accommodation train in service on
the Omaha road between St. Paul and
Stillwater is known among railroad men
a the hospital train, from the fact that
every engineer who ha run on the train
forsu.rrat years past ha either had
stroke of paralysis whi'e at the trottlo or
been injured in aome way.
The extension of the oyster trade in
France during the lat ten year ia re
garded a one of the moat extraordinary
gastronomic feature of the time. Dur
ing the last year the bedi have produced
0(10,000,000 oyster, ten time more
than in 1876. The working classes have
their oysters daily, and evory wine shop,
even in the poorest quartern, ha its oys
ter stand outside.
Tho youngest racing syndicate in the
.world is that known a D. J. McCarthy
& Bt other. The ouior member of the
II rm is 13 year old, the junior member
but a little, over 10. They belong in San
Francisco and own H. TodJ. the horse
wh:rh won the American Derby at Chi
cago last spring and brought nearly
$14,000 into the pocket of the tenior
member by so doing.
The United States has been, w ithout
doubt, the rdo-t prolific of all countries
in the world in the issue of postage
stamps, having put forth over 500 differ
ent varieties altogether. The number of
distinct varieties issued by the various
(tovcrnments throughout the world Is
vnrmisly estimated, but 3, 000 would
probably cover tho whole. Quite a num
ber of new issues bave appeared the past
year. ' -
Advices from the gold mining regions
of "Georgia indicate a marked revival in
gold raining enterprise. A syndicate of
English capitalists has just bought 2,000
acres of gold mining property near
Gainesville, and will construct a 10 mile
cannl and erect stamp mills. New Or
leans capitalists have also purchased nn
exteusive tract near Canton, and 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
pustel by the lust Legislature require
every bank to print annually a list of de
posits which have remained untouched
for twenty years. Due Boston bank, the
Provini ial Institution for Savings, has
$148,000 of such deposits, divided among
28tl depositors. The Five Cent Saving
Bank has $39,000 credited to 807 de
positors, from whom nothing has been
beard for over two decades.
In rough, mountainous Jwtricta of
New York, Pennsylvania an m of
theKastern State', bears have A. W been
entirely exterminated. Lately tttky have
greatly increased in numbers. F.ither
the presence of winter, or, more likely,
scarcity of water in their mountain
homes, ha emboldened them to
come down nnd invade the settle
ments. Several such cases have lately
been reported iu central Pennsylvania.
A wounded bear )8 a dangerous customer
for oue man to deal with. Though 4hey
seem to move clumsily, they get arouud
in altogether too lively a fashion, for
safety, if one meets them a'oue. But
wherever bear show themselves old gnus
will be burnished up and a general huut
i made, until they are destroyed or
veil back.
THI WINOINO HOtm,
"tl It bfttrr to f thu most IrlMnQ thing in
1h itmrij than to cnnnider a half hour a
trtlr.n(ioethe'$ Sprueeht in Prota.
Btj not I Pause not!
The moon is near; -
T be sun has climbed the height,
Way not norfearl
Follow till thywork be done!
On, ever on I
No summer beam shall soorch tbe, .
Nor sudden wave o'erwhelm thee,
Till thy task be anded.
On, ever on ! '
Through the mist and throfjh the night,
Through the blinding morning light,
Bv element befriended,
Till thy work be done.
Thou wouldst sail th sea,
The mountain wouldst thou scale,
Upon the starry worlds
Kxhaust thy vision frail,
P!ay not for the storm
And stay not for the hour,
A greater master yet
Holds thee in hi power.
The moon is here,
Thy work undone.
The end draw near
Kr thou hast won.
Conquer PoatJh, for he Is weak
And th gathering day are strongl
Tim to struggle, time to seek
While the nntiml momenta throng
Dose about thee; seize the first 1
Then to thee the second turns,
And the third ia all thin own;
Thine tbe light and thine the strength,
Thin the throne!
Mrt. field, in Ctntnry.
BIG LIEN AND CHARLEY.
Were we afraid of Big lien ?
Well, yet, to a certain limit. There
were live of us in a bit of cabin out in
the silver country, and Big Ben was
boss of the ranch for several reasons.
First and foremost, he was too much
for any one of us single handed, and,
secondly, he had many good points
about him. While he was overbearing
and brutal at times, he was the best
miner In the party, and no bad luck
could d scourage him. With any one
else as boss we should have scattered at
once, for the winter was coming on and
we had been down on our luck all the
.all.
"Break npf Hunt for luck?" sneered
Big Uen whenever anything was said
about abandoning our claim. ''Well,
you arc a lot of coyotes a cussed bud
lot. You haven't got the pluck ot a
sick wolf. I'd like to see some of you
walk off and leave me In the lurch, yes, I
would. I'll turn to nnd lick the hull
crowd out of your boots if I hear another
growl.
Big Bon insulted us a dozen times a
day, and on three or four occasions be
laid band on us in a vodent way, but
somehow we stuck there. As I told you,
he was a practical miner, the hardest
worker in the lot, and we leaned on him
in spite of the fact that wo hated him.
We could have shot him down in some
of the quarrels, and the verdict would
have been: "Served him rgbl!" but we
knew that he had a good heait down in
hia bosom, and the hand which clutched
knife or pistol was alwavs restraimed.
Ono 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. lie was a boy
of sixteen or thereabouts, with a girl's
voice and shyns, and ho was hungry
and in rags. It was bitter cold, and yet
his clothing was of tho thinnest kind,
and he had hungered so long that he was
hardly more than ashsdow. I welcomed
and fed and warmed him, and then he
told me that his name was Charley
Bland, and that he bad wandered out
there to look for his brother .lames, from
who.n he had received no word for two
or three years. They were orphans, and
boih had been bound to farmers in Illi
nois. Both hud been ill used, and
Charley had finally followed James's ex
amplo in running away. This boy had
been knocking around the silver camps
for six nion.hs, sometime meeting
friends and sometime treated like a dog,
and he had found no trace of hi
bi other, home one down at the gulch
it was a cruel thing to do had told him
that James was at ourcunp, and he bad
periled his life to come up there and see.
On that day, as I sh:ill never forget, I
there was a loot of snow on the ground,
a bli.rard racing, and the thermometer
market! ten degree below rero.
The loy was a-leep when th men re
turned from the ihaft. Big Ben wa
out of sorts at the way thing had !ecn
going, and no sooner did he see aud hear
tho lad than he called out :
"He can't stay here another hour. We
don't run a poor-houc, aud we let no
baby-faced swindler cat our hard-earned
provisions."
"I ll wo.k. I'll work as hard as ever
I can," protested the boy with a sob in
his throat.
" There t no work for you. You've got
to move on to the camp above. "
The four of us protected in chorus,
nnd we took such a firm stand thut
deadly weapon wete drawn, and would
bave been used but for the action of the
boy. He wa- terribly frightened over
the row be had I rn the innocent cause
of, and as ih four of us had our pistols
leveled at Big lieu, and meant to shoot if
he moved a foot, the boy upened the
cabin door aud glided out into tho dark
and bitter uight with the silence and
swift nesa of a shadow.
"You are his murderer," we said to
Big Beu, as we lowered our weapons,
and he growled :
"If v.e took in every straggler we
sho.ild be crowded out of bouse and
home before New Year'. What is it to
U whether he live or diet."
I think he felt conscience stricken
within th hour, however, as be went to
the door and acted as if be hoped to see
the lud standing outside. 1 ho boy had
been gone half at hour before we fully
realized what bis going meant, aud then
to of i went nut with th luulern and
searched and called for hiiu. The suow
was bciug whirled about iu a fuiious
nianter, and the wind wa rising to a
gale, and th bitter old diov us !.ck
after a quarter of au hour. It was true
that we had 1 ttle enough to cut, and
thut we were crained in our cabin, but
the idea of driving that pule faced
orhan boy out to fierce was aouieihinf
we cculd not get over. It was just the
thing needed to set u 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 row, belorc -beiltinic..and all
turned in sulky and indignant. --7-Whew!
But what a night that wast
The cold increased until tho rocka were
split, and the wind roared until ourenbin
threatened to topple over At every blnst.
At midnight Big l'en crept carefully out
of hi bed And opened the door, and thenff
I almost, forgave him for hi brutality.!
Conscience had been at work, and his
heart was touched. Ha hoped to find
the boy crouched on the threshold, and I
heard him sigh and mutter to himself as
he shut tho door and returned to his
blankets. The strongest man in our
party, clad as we were for the winter,
could nothave stood against the blizzard
half an hour, and I fell asleep to dream
of finding poor Charley's frozen corps on
the trail lending down to the Forks, and
of his big blue eyes being wido 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 fiill,l).ues, and were on
the point of sturtiT Jlit to search for
the boy when one tjilio men was taken
ill. Inside of half Su hour all of us were
own with pains and cramps, and it wa
evident that we had been poisoned by
"the meat. We had bo antidote of any
sort, nnd one after another went to bed
to sutler the most ngonixiag pains and
to lose consciousness. Big lien was the
hardest hit of all, while I, perhaps, suf
fered the least. That is, while all the
others raved and shouted and lost their
senses, I was all the time dimly con
scious of everything going on. The
blizzard was still raging, and the ther
mometer was marking a still lower de
gree when the door opened and Chnrley
walked in. I saw him, but 1 was flighty,
and it seemed to me thut he was dead. I
remember his looking down upon each of
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. The pains were
gone as I opened my eyes, but I was
weak aud 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 f"
I did feel a bit hungry, and I had no
sooner signified it than he came to me
with a bowl of btoth. As I afterward
learned, the storm had driven a couple
of hares to seek shelter nt the door, and
be had secured both of them. He did
not know the cause of our sickness, but
suspe; ted some calamity, and was pre-
f ared to feed us as soon a we could eat.
t seemed that when Big Ben drove him
out he tumbled into the ravine quarter
of 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, aud 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
degrees.
The boy kept up a rousing 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 nunio
was Hale, had his teeth tirmly clenched,
and from the way his features were dis
torted and bis 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 niuht before
the last man could use his tongue in a
sensible manner. It was Big Ben, and
when consciousness returned and he saw
the white faced boy bending over him
the great t j rant w hispered :
"Aye I 'I he corpse of the lad has
risen up to conftont and accuse me! 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 lire or do a bit of cooking for
nearly a week. The whole thing de
volved upon the boy, nnd no one could
have done better. He was cook, nurse,
doctor aud protector all in ono. He got
three more hures and a couple of birds,
aud I don't believe a spoonful of the
broth went down bis own throat.
Well, I for one had been wutehing
Big Ben to see what he would do. The
first moment he was able to sit up he
railed t'barlcy and pulled the frail little
lellow down on his breast, saying:
"If you'll only forgive me I'll pray to
the Lord to do tbe same. I'm rough and
w it ked, but to turn a lad like you out o'
door on auth a uight as that wasn't me
at all. Old ."Ntau must have had posses-ion
of me."
That greU big fellow cried liko a child,
and ( hurley cried with him, and I might
as well own up tint we nil cried. What
made it the more solemu was the fact
that we had a corpse at the door. When
it was known that Hale was dead, none
of the other four of us could lilt a hand.
How the boy got the botlv out of doors I
never could understand, but get it out he
did, and it was three long months before
w could give it Christian burial.
On the morning when we all got out of
bed feeling pietty strong again, Charley
went to bed with a fever,and before noon
waa raving craay. I te'.l you it was awful
to hear bim cry out every few minutes in I
his delirium: j
"Oh, lien, don't drive me out. I'll
work at hard as I can !" !
t'very cry went through the big fellow
like a bullet. He nured aud ootucd the
poor boy with all thu tenderness he
could cominaud, aud two or three times
carried biru about iu his arms as a father
would hi ailing babe. There was a doc
tor at the Forks, and after dinner b g
Ben bravej th bltzaad and made the
trip dowu and back. Th doctor could
not b iudu ed 10 return with him, owing
to the Cld, but he seat oiuo medicine.
Poor ('barley was beyond human aid,
however. He raved through the afU ruoou
aud night, and urt morning was s ruck
with tlvaih It s mind 1 aniv hack to b in
at the last, and as we stood over him he
calmly said:
"I know I'm going to die, hut I'm
not afraid. I'll see father and mother
in heaven, and perhaps Brother James is
there, to."
"'While w? ill fel hnd enough, Big Pen
wa completely broken down. lie" got
down on bis 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 Agnini"
"Xo,
my child," answered one of the
men.
"But I can't see any of you any more,
flood-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 way
you have feen the boy s grave. The
bead board contains only the name cut
deep by Big Hen's knife but the story
of the boy's heroism has been told in
every mining enmp in Nevada, and it has
never been told without bringing moist
ure to the eyes of all listeners. New
York Sun. .
HEALTH HINTS.
In some forms of headache a towel or
a napkin, wrung out in hot water, as hot
as can be borne, and wound around the
head, affords relief.
Ex-Secretary Holcomb, of the Ameri
can Legation at Pekin, says that out of
the 400,000,000 inhabitants of the
Chinese Empire fully -100,000,000 spend
less than $1.50 a month for food.
"Granny," tho famous sea anemone of
the Edinburg Botanical Gardens, is
dead. It was fed with half a mussel,
dropped once a fortnight into the mem
braneous onsophagal 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 an 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 one reflects that there is never
a fire which would fill a half-bushel
measure; that the Japanese 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 boow, one wonders how they
live, writes a correspondent from Japan
to tlio Chicago M.til. There seems to be
something peculiar in the physical make
up of the Japanese, as 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 the thermometer has
gone much below the freezing point.
Certainly the people have 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
torrents, 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 is
not indigenous to tbe 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 the
established forms snd thereby causes tho
death of a patient, the magistrate shall
call in other physicians to examine the
medicine or- tbe wound. If it appear
that the injury done was unintentional,
tbe practitioner shall then be treated ac
cording to the statute for accidental
homicides, and shall not be allowed any
longer to practice medicine. But if he
have designedly departed from the estab
lished forma, and has practiced deceit
in his attempts to cure the malady in or
der to gain property, then according to
its amount, he shall be treated a a thief;
ana lttieatn ensues irom lus malpractice,
then for having thus used medicine with
Intent to kill, he shall be beheaded.
There nppeara to be nothing in the "ce
lestial" code answering to the laws of
"barbarian" nations concerning civil
damages recoverable by parties made to
suffer by "unintentional" malpractice.
Tho Origin of Beer.
Ale was the sole title of malt liquor
until the reign of Henry VIII., up to
which time the employment of hops as
au 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 to distinguish
the new kind of malt liquor from the old,
the German name bier was adopted, and,
with an iutinitesimul change of spelling,
became part of our ianguui'. Germany,
in truth, ia tho native land of beer, and
nowhere iu the world ia it treatid with
such special honor. Iu Germany the
drinking of beer is not, as with us, a
mere means of carnal refreshment, but,
particularly among the students of the
universities, ia elovuted to the dignity of
a cult, lamiliurity with whose ritual is
deemed an essential branch of a liberal
education. (h. alii'.
Two (Jreat Foreign Armies.
A gentleman publishes the following
comparative statement in a Southampton
journal, says London 1'rutk. It is clearly
put and worthy of recollection:
HltlTISH ARMY.
NuuilK-r of troops,
lllx.tKM; cost, Alt),-
2iy.uuo.
0 field marshals.
HERMAN army.
Number ot troops,
4'.28,l'i4; cost, !,.
860,00 J.
3 Hell marshal
(Count Mnltka and
the Crown i'riuc.)
50 genera Is.
10 iuruteuAnt-gea-
1 17 luajor-ouenti.
2!oi-oluuel.
210 lwuuuaat-colo.
Dels.
'.io major.
41 generaU.
1")7 luuleiuuit Ka
erahk
ifvi major generals.
I MO coluuoU.
I I'sJ !uUiuact-volo-
nei.
I l.l'iOiimjirt
400 broker. wi&,;J,
' tin ptt, Moclt-n-leg-tr-l
or otltrrwise um
) hul -'w y Knvi'a!.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Itoclpea.
Graha Griddle: Cakrs. One pint
of graham flour into which has been well
mixed two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
dC'l' .p.'I halfjieaapoonful of salt; make
a thin batter with sweet 'milk a"nf "cook
in thin cakes on a soapstone griddle.
Cors Brkd WrrnoiT Eoos. Take
two cups of corn meal, one cup of wheat
flour, one half cup molasses, one tca
spoonful soda and a little Milt, and sour
milk enough to make a batter that will
run easily, pour in a pan about three or
four inches ia depth and bake one half
hour.
Potato Chowder. Large potatoes,
six; onion, one;milk1-Mie qunrt; butter,
one tablespoon : salt pTrk, 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
potntoes are tender; add the milk scalded
and the seasoning. The last thing add
the egg beaten light
Corn Soi p. One can sweet corn, one
pint and a half of milk : Hour, 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 the1
boiling point. Bub butter and nour to
gether ahd add to the milk, then the salt
and pepper. Beat the egg and pour it
into tho tureen, strain the soup and pour
upon it
Graham Murns. One and a half
cups of gTaWm flour; wheat flour, one
half cup: iiMk, one cup; baking pow
der, one and a half teaspoons; suit, one
half teaspoon; sugar, one-fourth teacup.
Put the gruhum flour into the mixing
bowl. Mix the remainder of the' dry in
gredients in the sieve and sift. Poor
the milk on to the dry ingredients, and
stir well. Beat the egg and cut it in.
Grease hot gem pans and fill. Bake iu
quick oven.
Cubtard Pie. Line a deep plato with
pie-crust made as preferred with butter
or lard, or both. Build up the edge a
little. To three well-beaten eggs, re
serving the white of one, add four table
spoons sugar, one of flour, and a pinch
of salt, and milk to fill the crust, on
which nutmeg should be grated. Bake
in a moderately hot oven, trying it with
a fork from time to time. When no
longer "milky," remove from oven, and
after it has cooled a little, cover with a
meringue made by whipping the white
of egg that waa reserved with one tea
spoon sugar and a bit of essence lemon.
Brown lightly.
Brollkd Chicken. Cover it with
boiling water; let it boil once, then
draw to one side of the range and leave
it to simmer an hour. Hemove tbe scum,
which will discolor the fowl if allowed to
remain. The slow boiling makes it ten
der. When done serve with egg saute
in a sauce boat, and use the broth to
make soup for dinner. The egg sauce is
made as follows: Cream an ounce of
butter; add to it one tablespoon ful of
dry flour, a saltspoonful of salt aud half
a saltspoonful of white pepper (black
pepper spoils its color). Mir it briskly
and add half a pint of the chicken broth.
Divide an ounce of butter into little
balls, roil them in flour aud add them
one at a time; stir constantly, and care
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.
Useful Hints.
Never leave the cover off the tea canis
ter. ,
Use newspapers to polish window
glass and mirrors.
Flour should always be sifted just be
fore you wish to use it.
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 after
sweeping if wiped off with a damp
cloth.
White and pale shades of paint may be
beautifully cleaned by using whiting in
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 ami
forks iu daily use is to leave them iu
strong borax water for several hours.
The wuter should bo boiling hot when
the silver is put in.
A pie that is properly baked will slip
from the tin with careful handling, nnd
if placed on a wire frame where the air
has access to the bottom it will cool
without becoming moist, and when
ready to be served it can be transferred
to a plate.
Ono of Gotxl C'u-rr readers has excel
lent success in cutting gluss 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
i constantly wet with camphor dissolved
j in spirits of turpentine. God Chert.
i -j
Cleverly Caught.
I ' Here is a good story of the redoubtu
j ble Muster of Bulliol. Not long ago an
under-gradjj; of that college lost a
roll of bankftos. He had the numbers
and wisely told Mr. Jowett of his loss.
I "Give me the numbers nnd say nothing
j about it to any oue," said tho Master.
! who then sent the numbers to the bank
teller with a hint not to disclose them.
' Next day the Oxford boardings w ere cov
ered with posters proclaiming the loss,
1 but giving the wrong number. The
j thief fell into the trap anil presented
one of the notes at the bank, with the
prompt result thut ho w as urrested That
i under graduate has retoveied all his
; notes and thiukt that Mr. Jowett ouht
j to have been a detective. L,uJvn l.ue.
.Km I'nexplored Country.
There are few regions more ditlicult to
travel over than unsettled portions of the
Puget bound basin. the timber is sn lie ivy
and the undergrowth so deu-e. 1 laces
less than ten miles apart are of .cn -epar-ated
as completely us if seveiul hundred
miles of opeu country l.-iv bet ween them.
In fact little is geneial y known con
cerning the country outside of tlie o
ernment nirvevs. Or"
SOME OLD-TIME SONGS.
TTTNES THAT WETtI! POPULAR DTB
INGr THE WAX AND 8IKOB.
Sentimental Bong of the Mlnatrela
Fartejte War Tune on Both
Bides Later Composition.
How many of the popular songs ef
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
placo in their memory! The evolution
of tho popular song presents a striking
illnstiat;on of the survival of the un
flttest. The great sentimental success of
the anti war period was undoubtedly
"lien 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 vo picture the heart havoc
caused by the separation of slave-lovers.
"Ben Bolt" wa a splendid illustration
of the prevailing theme. It wa hummed,
whistled, sung and played on musical in
struments for more than a decade. It
was immensely pomilar with the young
ladies, many-of wMorn are now grand
mothers. "Sweet Alice" was shrined in
every sentimental female's heart, and
the question of the day was:
Don't you remember sweet Alice, Bea Bolt,
Hweet Alice with hair so brown?
She wept with delight when you gav her a
smile
And trembled with fear at your frown.
Sharing "Ben Bolt's" popularity dur
ing tho same period were two songs
widely sung by Dan Emmett, Dan
Byrant and other minstrels. These were
"Nellietiray" and "O, tusannah!" both
depicting the sufferings of Blave-lovers.
"Nellie Oray" swept the country like a
cyclone :
My charming Nellie Gray,
'1 hey have taken von away.
And I'll never see my darling any more,
w as heard on every side and voiced by
every tongue. "O, dear Susannah 1"
was built more in the comic way, and
the request, "Don't you cry for me," was
based on the consoling fact that "I'm
going to Alabama with the banjo on my
knee." The pessimistic strain in which
the fate of a certain "old nigger," popu
larly known as "L'ncle Ned," was be
moaned was well known before "Nellie
tiray" or "Susannah" appeared. Dan
Emmctt's "Dixie" and Foster's "Swaneo
Hiver" have proven the most prominent
of the ante-w ar melodies. k A sentimental
ballad called "Lorena" was a great favor
ite in the 'tifls, nnd for 80 years previous
the appearance and philosophy of "Old
Rosin tho Bow" was known to every ono.
A state of warfare has always proved
conductive to song. The flourishing
condition of minstrelsy in ages post was
due largely to the warlike and adventur
ous spirit of the time. During
tho civil war both sides were prolific in
song-niakiug. The South made the first
freut hit with Randall s "Maryland, My
luryland." The "Bonnie Blue Hag''
was the Southern national air and was to
the boys in gray what "Yankee Doodle"
was to the boys in blue. The Southern
women ardently took it up, and through
every city rang the chorus :
Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern right of war.
Hurrah! for th Bonnie blue Flag that
bear the single star.
Of the sentimental songs of the war
Eeriod tho most popular were "Fairy
ell," "Annie of the Dell," "Just Before
the Battle, Mother," "Toll the Bell for
Lovely Nell," and "When This Cruel
War is Over." Iu the North, "Wait for
the Wagon" and "Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp, the Hove are Marching" had a
great success during the same period,
and othets that ran riot through caup
and fireside were "Mary Blane," "old
Cabin Home,'-"Fair, Fair with Go'den
Hair," and "Daisy Dean." Who has
forgotten "Daisy Dean" and its wistful
thorns)
Nona knew thee but to lov thee,
Thou dear one of my heart,
Thy memory it ever fresh and green;
Tbi w lid (lower may wither
And fond hearts be broken,
Still 1 love thee, mdai 11 ig, Daisy Dean.
A beautiful song, truly pathetic, ob
tained gieat popularity in both North
and South during the war. Th's was
Florence Percy's "Hock Me to Sleep,
Mother." Tho South produce 1 two w ur
songs that evince genuine poetic talent,
and have been accorded unstinted pral-e
by the critics. They are the "Conquered
Banner" and "All (.u'et Along the Po
tomac To-night,'' tl.c first named by
Father Kynnnud the last by I amar Foun
taine. One of the most pathetic poems
that appeared during the wur was
"Somebody's Darling. The circus clown
was the great promulgutor of iopu!nr
music during and ju-t after the war. lie
was then iu the full bla.e of hi, glory.
Since then the bluze bus degenerated to a
spark, and that is threatening to go ui:t.
But twenty years ugo he was thu b ggc-t
attraction in the ring, anil h's :,nii. "!d
liko shares in a wild cat mining -cbeme.
The war songs were aucccedcd by whit
might be termed the llillvt nn iso i.n
epoch. These were the days when the
"Big Sunflower-' snd ". ove Among the
Hoses ' were epidemic. The agile ltil y
was the pioueer of the genteel song nnd
duncc business, aud whe;i he sang
I tf ju-t as happy nt a be. Minitower
Thut HO Isanti b?!ll ttilhc breezes.
Aud my htNtrt was liyhl as tti windt!cit
Mows
The Waves from oh' the tiivs eh.
he was pronounced unapproachable, of
the lame dale is that rut 1, ulous ciuxei
tion: "Captain Jinks of the !or-a
Marines." W. II. I ingard brought it
over from I tuition mid tii-t unk it in li s
act of lightuing changes, and while h"
maintained intimate le'ations with
( upturn Jinks'' he pro-pcretl. I en
he attempted fouiething higher be u t
into trouble. "Pat Malloy," "The
(harming Young Man 011 the Living
Trapeze," "The Park Oirl DrtMil in
Bli.e,"' "The Fellow That Looks .i'.,
Me," "Iu the Bowery," were widely su g
at ihc time. In the early ','Ot the lit
successes were "Little Fraud," "I 1I
So Awful Jolly Whcu th Band Bevui
to I lav,'' "Champagne ( hurley," 'Ihc
Muil gan (iuurds, "The Cottuge by the
Sea,'' "K illarney." "(iootl bve, ( harlev."
"leu Thousand Mile Away," and
".'ennie the l ride cf Kildare." Th o
caine "My tiul,'' "Stiolling on the
Minds," ami tint t; then the tiuautity li t
increased and the qnalilv dt crea. d iu
the same lalio. ( 7i mjo J'nb'tn'.
Tlieie is a big difference Itetween yt t
linL' tm well in life and felting well on
iu lite.
"I LOVE THKK, LIFE."
I love thee, love thee, life I
I fain would dwell with the thy moch-loved
gueat
Oh fold me nearer to thy pulsing breast;
That I may feel thy heartrbeata throb in
mine, - -
Solioltfing it in unison with thine.
I love thee, lov thee, life!
Oh, hold me closer In thy strong embrace,
Cplift me, bear me onward hi thy race,
Impart to me thy soul's exulting power
To be niln heritage, mln earthly Slower.
1 love thee, love thee, life!
I fain would wear thy brightness in my fat e.
Oh, give to me thin animating grace.
Inspire me, thrill ma, lov me In return,
It is thy noblest gifts for which I yaara.
I love thee, lov thee, life)
Bear not so ewiftly toward my journey's end :
For oh, I dread to part With thee, my friend !
Surround m with thy warm, entrancing
breath,
And leav me not too soon alon with death
7(r-Oceoa.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Don't count your chickens before the .
hatchet fall.
A man may bo opposed to capital
punishment and yet in favor of hanging
uphisgroeer. BttUm Courier.
An oculist doesn't want an eye for an
eye, and a dentist doesn't want a tooth
for a tooth. They want f .Lire.
Did you ever see a doctor kick a
banana peel off the sidewalk or tell an
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. Nelralca Slate 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 tat!"
Oil Citu Derrick..
They tell of a young Lincoln man that
he is so able a contortionist that he can
see without difficulty the bald spot on
the back of his head. Lincoln (-Ytft.)
Journal.
Some musicians are fond of speaking
of the "colors" of the tones of various
musical instruments. We wonder if they
have noticed that the cornet is always
"blew!" Burlington Free Prei.
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 violin playing. N,rritomn Herald.
"What is the cause of that red spot on
the end of your nose, Blobsom" asked
Popin,ay, slyly. "That, sir," replied
Blobson, "is a solar spot I waa out in
the hot sun all the summer." Burlington
Free Pre$.
A New York firm left a 1,000-pound
boiler nut 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 aix-story building.
Omaha Wot Id.
Wife "What under the sun are you
doing?" Husband "Trying to tie this
string around my finger." Wife "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 World.
The Canse of the Glacial Period.
The ocean equalizes the earth's tem
perature. How delicately balanced the
forces of nature are as to glaciers may be
seen in tbe fact that there have been five
periods of ..advance aud retreat in
Switzerland since lvOO.
Sahara desert to be"Tmiudated,'t might
disastrously change the climate of cen
tral Europe.
The orbit of the earth is an ellipse; its
longer diameter being 8,000,000 miles
moie than its shorter. The sun is in one
fo i of this ellipse; the earth's summer
solstice is fully seven days longer than
tho winter. The present is favorable to
glaciation in the southern hemisphere.
There should be an iucrouse of glaciers
each 21,000 years, due to the earth's
changing relations to the sun. Special
epochs have been 20i,000, 750,000 and
050,000 years ago, and similar epoch are
sxpectcd 500,000, 800,000 and "00,000
years to come. C'roll's theory rests on
hypotheses and assumptions. He takes
the winds and ocean currents for stable
quantities. But the Cult Stream fifty
miles wide, 1,000 feet deep, and which
moves four miles au hour and tho 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 the trade winds are steady but
nut strong, they are sometimes interrup
ted by terrible monsoons. Not all cold
seas are favorable to glaciation ; those in
the far North luck moisture.
The wottk point iu Mr. Croll's theory
Is his failure to satisfactorily account for
the absorption, retention and distribu
tion of heat received from the sun. Why
do clouds prevent frost! Why doe heat
pas into glass easily (as iuto a green
house) anil not so eusily escape? The
equator U not so hot, nor the arctic region
so coltl 11s they ought to be according to
the heat received from the sou. The dif
ference between the equator and the
coldest point ou parallel 07 (where the
mean temperature in January is 5(1 de
gress below rero), which ought to be
Hi degree , is but about 73 degrees. We
do not know what caused the glaciers,
but glut ia ist aro moie concerned with
the facts of glaciation. Prof. Wright of
Uirrarl.
The Value er a Whale.
The owner of the bark Stainboul have
brought suit in the I idled Slate Dis
trict lour I agaiust the I'aciric Sleuin
Whaling 1 ouiMtuy, owner of the bark
Wautlerei, to recover r.tMHI for the loss
of a wlu!". Plaintiff claim that they
had harpooned 1 he wha'e, which there
upon sw 11 uuder a tield of ice and came
to thesurl ice a mile away, aud thut the
crew of I he W anderer then captured
the same animal, ar.tl, iu i.r.ier to give a
shadow o' claim, subntilute-l (heir own
harpoou lor that of de endant. It i
.Uiincd that tr forty Jeais it had been
I ha ratogai ed cusioiu that whcu a crew
had out harpooned a wli I" il waa
entitled to th full ouucrslnp of the
urinal. Nia AY.nf i-v t n;tnr.