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VOL. XX. NO. 49,
There are 8,000 persons In the United
JMates who profess to be able to heal the
Ick by the Christian icience, or faith
cure formula.
The prize for the effectual destruction
of rabbit offered by the New South
Wales Government is being" warmly con
tested. Already 380 .-inventions have
lieen sent' In to compete for the
250, ooo.
The Church of England ts getting so
pressed for money that Canon Gregory
proposes to cut down the salary of the
Archbishop of Canterbury from 15,000
to .CI3.000, and the salary of the'
Archbishop of York from 10,000 to
A'8.000- '
It may not be generally known that
Arkansas 1ms very flno apples, and a
greater variety than is grown on the
Pacific coast. Arkansas has now com-
peted at all the limit shows in the United
1 States, and has at each place wou the
i highest award for apples.
j
i The insurance companies last year col
" Ucted f 4,1 HO, 000 net money in Chicago,
for premiums, while they paid out for
firo losses a little over $3,0011,000. The
showing was nearly as bad as this in New
York, and all around the year seems to
have been. an unprofitable one for the com-
panics.
The fashionable butter makers of
America, such as Mayor Hewitt, of New
York, and William B. Dinsmore, are fur
in advance of their English colleagues.
They get a dollar a pound fur their b.it
ter, but the Duchess of Hamilton offers
burn for sale for one shilling and seven
Jicnco'per pound.
The Boston's Young Men's Christian
Association, establishing a library, in
vited George W. Cablo to deliver a lec
ture in behalf of the enterprise. No
tickets were sold. Admission was given
to anybody who brought a book for the
library. The scheme umdo a happy hit;
g many librury shelves wore filled.
The queen of the Cowling River tribe
' of Indians died near Freeport, Wash-
' Ingtou Territory, a few days ago, and
was burried -with a grcit Indian pow
' wow. the was more than one hundred
years old and was ono of the surviving
members of a tribe that was once a
power among the Indians of the North
s') west -
Professor Kirchoff, to decide a bet,
recently stated thst Chinese was the
most popular language in the world.
is spoken by 400,000,000 persons; Hin-
dostaniby upward of 100,000,000; Eng
lish by more than 100,000,000; ltussinn
' by more than 70,000,000; German by
5H,000,000; Spanish by 48,000,000, and
French by ouly 40,000,000.
Tho night school for convicts, lately
started in the New Jersey State Prison,
is produ ,iug good results. One of the
. .. SA'Vidlars ius s'i'.iT'e. A a dictionnry in' uis
cell. When be hears a new word hu
write it down on a slip of paper. lie
then asks a deputy keeper what it means.
He writes down the meaning opposite
- the word and tiles the slip on a hook in
his cell. In the evening he studies these
slips for an hour an two. His unique
dictionary now Consists of about 80i)
words.
General Grecly now wisely suppli
menu his monthly "Summary of Intcr-
national Meteorological Observations"
with a series of daily charts covering
laud and sea, most of tho way from the
equator to the Arctic circle. The changes
taking place in one part of the globe
have such intimate relations with those
at a distance that the highest eiticiency
in forecasting can bo obtained only after
careful study of simultaneous phenomena
in adjacent regions. Those maps con
duce directly to that end.
If the wits who waved humorous over
the purchase of Alaska twenty-one years
ago could read to ne of their "jokes" to
day, they would scarcely be pleased at
their exuberance, says Frank Lflit'i.
The average annuul market value of the
products of that locality in recent years
bas been almost equal to the entire sum
which the United States paid for the
whole region. With a Territorial Gov
ernment organized there, to give security
tq titles and afforcTencouragemcnt to emi
gration, the annual gold product alone,
a few years hence, would undoubtedly
exceed the original cost of that entire
section of the country. ,
Though considerably past seventy years
old, Prince Bismarck still works as hard
ai he did when he was twenty years
younger. He never goes to bed until two
in the morning, and eats a hearty sup
per shortly before midnight. He rarely
rises much before noon, us he has always
been a heavy sleeper and is otten dW
tf jed during the night by the arrival of
v.jpatches which require instant atten
tion. The Chancellor is becoming a rich
man. The salaries from his o. lice are by
no means extravagant, but added to the
revenuej of his estates and the profits of
his saw-mills and distilleries, they bring
bis income to bvtwenn $100,000 and
(150,000 a year. And, as the Prince is
notoriously economical, a very large pro
portion of this comfortable income is an
nually caved,
MY NEIGHBOR ANb t.
My nelghliort arrve held In fee
tile Road, and green, an! fair;
Six slender foet of ground for me,
My mother earth may spare.
To have and I10M when I shall b
Heedless of title there I
The turrets of his mansion rlsa
In state above the trees;
The walls thst frrwt my waking ayesj
His pride would hardly please;
Unless some bide me In the skies.
I have none elss than those I
The dainties of his broken fast
He took with (trace unsaid;
I marvel if the plain repast.
Which my fresh hunger fed,
Upon his pride theohnrm could cast
Of thanks for "daily bread."
A thousand greet him on the street,
Proud of his smile. Or hArtd;
He would not see me, should wo meet,
The lowly ami the grand;
But there's content beneath my feet
He would not understand !
While to my neighbor and to me
Time moves with even speed,
He's rich, as one may need to tie,
And I am poor Indeed ;
Bo poor, that I his splendor see,
Lacking both gold and greed.
Boon Death, who mocks at rank and class,
Will bring us to one goal.
When each its narrow gate must pass,
Btrlpt to the naked soul.
What will he have beyond, alas I
Of earth's unstinted dole)
For him six slender feet of earth,
Six slender feet for me;
We two, divided from our birth,
Twinned in the grave will be;
Enough, it then my mortal dearth
Is merged in heaven's full seal
C. Ilichards, in Home Magasin.
"AT THE PATGO,"
There is a very peculiar custom which
prevails in the rural districts of I.ouisi
anna, of which the oldest inhabitant can
not tell the origin. In some points it
resembles tho old Scottish game of tho
"Wappenshaw," but it has local and
special features of its own, which only
some dead-and-gone Acadian ancestor
cculd explain.
As for tiie singular name, ii is simply
corruption of "Papc caie" the Pape, '
or "Pop." as it it called ia English,
being a bright little bird. ,
The Patgo is a wooden rooster, gaily
decorated with showy ribbons, and
mounted on a polo as a mark, or target.
Prizes are offered, so many dollars for
each wing, so much lor the head; but
the grand prize falls to the lucky marks
man w ho brings down the bird.
A horseman discounting before the
gate of one of tho small cottages in
Prairie Manon, in Southwestern Louisi
ana a, noticed a great excitement in and
about the house. Men were collected in
groups, guns were being cleaned and
fired, and that deafening hubbub pre
vaile I which the soul of the excitable
Acadian delights in.
The gentleman fastened his horse to a
post, and approached a venerable-looking
old man who a it on the steps of the
house, and who was gesticulating and
shouting with the most obstreperous of
tho noisy crowd.
"Can you give me lodging to night,
sir?" he said, taking off his hat with a
courteous inclination of his line head.
The old man took his pipe from his
I -U&Tftil -it H.f atioe.UM Ti-ln.
was a magnificent young man in tho un
dress uniinrui of the I nited States army.
Over six feet in statue, he was finely
proportioned, and had a face of singular
and marked beauty. There was a game
bag slung over his shoulder, and he held
a rillu.
"Je comprends 'pas', monsieur." the
old man answered. "I spik not tho
language, 'mericain."
".nd I not one word of French,"
laughed the stranger. "Hut look here,
old fellow, I must make you understand,
Been hunting," pointing to the full
game-bag and eun. "Lost my way,"
walking a1 tout, and turning from right
to left in a confused manner. "Want'
tome supper," chewing vigorously, "and.
above all, want a bed," laying his head
on his hand aud shutting his eyes. "If
the old coon don't understand that
specking pantomime, ho's an idiot."
The old man certainly undei stood all
that was ridiculous in it, for he laughed
aloud, but courteously repressed his
merriment and answered gravely: "My
gurcon, my son, Jean Ilaptiste, he spik
de 'mericain good. Jean ilaptiste, viens
ici!"
Jean Ilaptiste came up. A good-looking
hid about eighteen, but with a
gloomy and desjiondent face. In fact,
Jean Baptiste had the air of a person
crushed by some misfortune, for whom
the world had no charm. He listened to
the ollicer, aud translated his request to
his father, who answered him in an ex
cited speech.
"My papa he say ze house is full, full.
People come fcefty mile to shoot at ze
Patgo to-morrow ; but if monsieur can
sleep in 10 loft, boa '. he can stay. Ze first
come, beget ze best bed."
"And as I'm the last coiner, I get the
loft, and thankful am I for it," said the
officer, with a gay laugh. "It isn't
pleasant to be lost in your prairies at
night. Hut, my boy, what in the world
is a Patgo?"
"Monsieur docs not kuow ze Patgo?"
in a tone of astonishment. "Mon Dieu,
that is strange '. It is a bird made out ze
wood. You pay twenty-rive cents for a
shot, email what brings it down gets
ze big prize. Such a pony, all bla k, no
while spot, and he run like a deer !"
"I suppose vou aru going to trv for
the wouderful pony?"
"Ah, mon Dleu, but no! I have
broke my gun, and zcj will not lend me
one. And why? 1 shoots best, and zey
isjaloux. Zey vants me not try. Ah,
and zey is glad my gun is broke!
Canaille I" he muttered betwe n his set
teeih.as he glared savagely at the marks
men. '1 he stranger looked around, anil
thought to himself that even in this beau
tiful isolated region, so remote from the
struggl.ng ambitions of the world, envy
ud hatred tlourished. "The buy has
actually u murderous look." bethought,
"and those fellows must be a mean set
of beggars to treat him so."
"Look here, Jean Baptiste!" he said
hloviri. "You shan't be balked of your
shot. You shall take my rifle ; it'i a first
rate one. You'd better try it now, with
the other marksmen, till you get accus
tomed to its weight."
II lie hud rescued .lean I'aptiste irom
a terrible fate, the Acadian could not
have been more vehement in his expres
sions of gratitude. In A queer patois of
t rench and Knirl sh, mixed With hyster
ical sobs, he poured forth his thanks.
1 lie stranger sauntered leisurely alter
him, and watched with keen eyes the
markmanshipof the Acadians.
".lean Ilaptiste isn't half a bad shot,"
he said to himself, "but tho boy's too
nervous. Dare say he'd have done bet
ter if he hadn't been tearing his nerves
to fiddle strings this evening. Funny
people, these Acadians I Too excitable
and noisy ever to make good marksmen."
That night, in the loft which Jean Ilap
tiste shared with him, the boy confided
to him his reasons for wishing to win
the great prize. He sat on his mattress,
his great brown eyes luminous with ex
citement, and his expressive gestures
piercing out his imperfect speech.
"You see, monsieur, I vas born here,
and nevaire haf I been feefty mile from
ze prairie. Y'ou see a tall tree far off in
ze irutntu? 1 haf nevaire been more far.
I climb it, I took far out. I say, 'Jean
Ilaptiste Avran, if you had a pony
for your own, yon could run away. You
could gallop, gallop into ze big world,
and, who knows, make a heap of money.
" Ah, gr ntl JJim, is so tired 1 " throw
ing out his arms with a tragic gesture,
"lis not a cow; I is not a horse, to be
find and satisfy because ze grass is fine,
vant to go fur off to see people, to learn
to read. Monsieur, when strangers come
here, not good, not kind like you, zey
luugh at us. Zey say : ' You cannot rend
or write; you know nothin'; you are no
more zan your beasts.' Non, non," strik
ing his breast, "I vill go avayl I vill
not stay herd "
"Y'ou would leave your father, your
friendsf " the ollicer said gently. "My
poor boy, the world isn't quite heaven."
" It may be bad, yes. It may hurt me,
but it vill not be ze prairie. Ah, I choke
here!"
" In plain words, you want a change,"
and the officer laughed. " Y'ou want the
pony to gallop off into pitfalls, and
stumbla against walls, and to get so
many knocks and tumbles that all the
King's horses and all the King's men
couldn't piece you into the old Jean
Ilaptiste again. Y'ou don't understand a
word I say! I was just talking to my
self you see, and you needn't understand.
Go to sleep, and sleep soundly if you
want to shoot well. Nothing like a good
night's rest to steady tiie nerves."
About ten o'clock next morning sev
eral hundred people assembled at the ap
pointed place. In the open prairie, the
Pntgo fastened to a tall pole fluttered its
gay streamer iu the breeze, and the at
tention of the Acadians seemed divided
between the bird and the stately young
ollicer who towered above them all, his
keen eyes taking in every detail of the
scene.
"He looks like St. Michael," whispered
one. "The picture in the church."
"Bah?" answered the other. St.
Michael is angry, he is trampling the
dragon. That man looks as cold as ice,
his face never changes, though he is
handsome. Y'e-i he is beautiful."'
The shooting began, but somehow it
was unusually bad. After twenty shots
the Patgo's ribbon plumage still waved
deliance. Neither wings nor head had
been brought down.
" V i 1 1 not monsieur take some chance t"
said ono of the judges, in very good Eng
lish, approaching the stranger.
"Yes, I will take four, but after Jean
iiaptisto Avftt. it '. .ma t".:s, HC'S.
Jeau Haptiste's first shot was tolerable,
as it struck the wing of the bird, but
without bringing it down. In the next,
his nervous excitement had got the bet
ter of him, and his shot flew over the
head of the bird. He had taken but
three chances, and his last shot was so
deplorably wide of the mark, that a
mocking laugh from the competitors
saluted it,
"Aha, Jean Baptistel" cried one,
"thou didst not gay thy prayers last
night. Get out of the way, mon gars',
aud let the strange monsieur try his
luck."
The officer took his rifle from Jean
Baptiste, and smiled at hia downcast
face. He examined tho weapon, loaded
it in his cool, deliberate manner, and
taking his position, carelessly raised it,
and, without apparently looking at the
Patgo, called out:
"This for tho right wing of your
birdl"
The shot rang out, and the wing lay
on the ground.
"This for the headl"
Tne ribbons which had adorned that
portion of the Patgo gave a lost flutter
as it swooped down.
"And this for the ponyl"
As the bird fell, a perfect storm of
rage arose in the crowd.
"lnfair!" "Cheaterv 1" "The Patgo
should not have fallen for an hour yet!"
'lie is a sorcerer!" "He is a devil!"
"Kohbcr!" "Vile American!"
The officer did not understand them,
but he taw threatening faces and gestic
ulating arms, as the crowd pressed
closely to him. He coolly loaded his
i tie. aud, stuuding with his back to a
large tree, waited for an attack, his im
passive face as calm as if he had been
among friends. Jean Baptiste, his boy
ish face glowing with indignation, and
his eyes flashing deliance, sprang to his
aide.
"Zey is mad '." he cried. "Zey wants
to tight you I Cowards! Aha, I has a
gun !" holding it up. "I vill help you."
"Two agaiust two hundred," said the
officer coolly, with a smile. "It's long
odds, my boy, "but I'll try to hold my
itost. Y'ou must keep out of tho mess,
''or the life of me I don't know what
the beggars are howling about, but all
the same if they attack me, I'm ready."
But there were some cool heads iu that
crowd. They dashed ubout among the
turbulent crowd, scolding at the very top
of their voices, and giving heavy blows
right and left to some of the furious
youngsters who were thaking their lists
and howling curses at the cool stranger.
"Y'ou must hexcuse ze boys, monsieur," j
said one of the judges courteously, to the
ollicer. "Boys are fouls, and you spoiled i
if, fun bv brincim down 70 1'atiro so
soon. It is all lair, and yof. haf ze prize,
I,, ,t , v lose lhi-ii beuils when vou tell
just where, you going to hit. We nevaire
itk a stranger he name, but if monsieur
vill tell us, ne sin wouuuiiut a roarasuian,
I vill be much gratify."
.... 11 ,
"My name is Scott," ssid the stranger,
"Captain Scott, from the Barracks at
Baton Kougo."
There was a minute's profound silence,
as the name of the most celebrated marks
man in the country fell upon their ears.
Not a man there, not a man hardly in
the United States, but what had heard
of the wonderful feats of marksmanship
of that gallant young officer;
Theri suddenly, as With One voice,
there arose a deafening cheer.
"Captain Scott I Hurrah forCaptuiri
Scott 1"
Men crowded around to gaze at him,
to shake hands with him. A voire cried
, , I.- ..i : .1. icnr.. ........ .1
Captain Scott, to have seen you. We'd
have given two ponies willingly just to
have a peep ae you. And you're worth
it too."
Captain Scott laughed and turned to
the Judge, whd, leading up the prize
pony, laid the bridle in his hand.
"It's a beautiful animal," he said, ad
miringly, "but of course it's not up to
my weight. I didn't win it for myself.
Here, my bov," to Jean Baptiste, "I
shot for you. Mount your pony," he
added, With a laugh, "and let us see you
gallop into the great world."
Jean Baptiste gasped for breath, then)
before Captain Scott could prevent him,
he had thrown his arms around the As
tonished captain's neck, and kissed him
on both checks. The crowd cheered.
Jean Baptiste, with an Indian yell,
sprang on the pony and galloped over
tho prairio. But he did not gallop into the
world that day, nor belore a year,
when, through the influence of Captain
Scott, he was placed in a good school.
The World was kind to the prairie boy.
and he became a wealthy and influential
man. A few years ago he died at an ad
vanced age, but his most treasured pos
session was a picture of Captain Scott in
the glory of his beautiful manhood.
Tho gallant officer died shortly after the
picture was taken, but tbere are proba
bly many living now who remember the
incident of the Patgo. loutn i Uompan
ion.
Charity in China.
On the hrst day of tho tenth moon
(15th of November) the winter charities
are opened in Peking for the dispensing
of food.. When the cold season is fur
ther advanced the distribution of cloth
ing is made and the almshouses become
filled. Two members of the staff of the
Chinese Timet recently made a tour of
inspection among the charities in the
south city of Peking. All tho institu
tions visited were supported by imperial
bounty. The first one reached was a
porridge kitchen, a little east of the
great central city gate Ch'ien Men. The
"granary rice was already cooked and
waiting hot in the great wooden tubs
usually found in such places; but al
though it was 9 o'clock none of the poor
people had arrived. The explanation of
this unusual lateness is that at a place
half a mile away they were drawing the
rations of good millet porridge first. The
granary rice is of bad quality, and the
people much prefer the millet. The sec
ond place visited was one where sound
millet porridge was served, and there
men, women and children to the number
of 1.200 were wnitincr in great rooms
or barracoons the distribution of
the food. It was soon begun. Two files
marched out simultaneously, .men on
one side, women and children on the
other, each person carrying a vessel of
some kind iuto which with great expedi
tion a dipper of hot millet porridge was
ladled. Most of the recipients returned
to their homes to eat, but many homeless
ones found quiet nbi". in wood-vnry
and
uii.iij.. corners ot the streets to
finish up the millet while hot, and then
go to the place where the rice already
mentioned was waiting for them. At
tho third place visited the dispensing
was already over, only five hundred ap
plicants having presented themselves
to-day, most of them, as usual, being
women and children.
This was one of the departments or
branches of a large and expansive charity
under the title, "Hundred Goodnesses."
The functionary in chargo informed us
that several thousand sometimes were
fed. A few steps further on were the
free schools of this same charity, and
still further to the west at a short dis
tance the winter's lodgings known as
"The Warm Quarters. " This is appro
priated for women and children, fifty or
sixty of whom had already arrived. They
receive porridge of millet and granary,
rice twice a day, on which they subsist
during the winter. The "warm quar
ters," number eight in the south city,
and vi ere opened about ten years ago in
addition to the regular official alms
houses. The administration of the
charity leaves little to be desired, many
thousands of poor people being housed,
fed, aud clothed during the winter in a
perfectly efficient manner.
On Hangman's Day.
A Philadelphia job printer who began
business on Friday has circulated the fol
lowing card bearing a list of interesting
events that have occurred on that day:
Washington born on Friday.
Ojuccu Victoria married on Friday.
Napoleon Bonaparte born on Friday.
Battle of Buuker Hill fought on
Friday.
America discovered on Friday.
Joan of Arc burned at the stake on
Friday.
Battle of Waterloo fought on Friday.
Bastile destroyed on Friday.
Heclarationof Independence signed ou
Friday.
Battle of Marengo fought on Friday.
Julius Ca'sur assassinated on Friday.
Lee surrendered on Friday.
Fort Sumter bombarded ou Friday.
Moscow burned on Friday.
Shakspe ire born on Friday.
King Charles 1. beheaded on Friday.
Richmond evacuated on Friday.
Battle of New Orleans fought on Fri
day. Detroit Fret Prett.
A Novel Lawsuit.
In the I nited States Circuit Court at
Springfield, 111 . a judgment has been
I rendered for the defendant iu the eject
meut case of Johu 11. Hecker agaiust
Koderick E. Bambour. The defeudaut
has been for twenty years the occupant
of a pice of land of 00 acres knows ui
Cobb Island, in the Mississippi rivei
) near East St. I ouis.
' tiou in the changes
It slutted its posi
of the stream and
lodged against the laud of the plantiff.
w ho claimed it as a natural accretiouaua
' i ti.. a..., ... .kui.aui.tn win i nil
i ui"K"- iu""u" K"
i result stated. (Jhu-wio TrwuM.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAilM
Cement to Mend Iron Pota and Pan.
The following cement is lupgested tj
the ticimtfie Amen an to mend Iroti pvM
and pans: Take two parts of sulphur
and ono part, by weight, of fine black
lead; put the sulphur iu an old iron pan,
holding it over the tire until it begins to
tncltj thert add the lead; stir well until
all is mixed and melted; then pour out
on an iron plate or smooth stone. When
cool; break into small pieces. A suffi
cient quantity of this compound being
placed upon the crack of the iron pot to
be mended.can be soldered by a hot Iron
in the same way a tinsmith solders his
sheets. If there is a small hole in the
pot, drive a copper rivet in it and then
solder over it With this cement.
A Gortd Family fJeawrt
Annies and stale bread make one of
the best of family desserts, according td
Miss Corson. Peel ten good sized apples
(evanorated anoles will do), core and
slice them, and stew them to a pulp with
sugar enough to sweeten them. Mean
time thickly butter the sides and bottom
of an earthen baking dish and press all
around the side and bottom crumbs
from the inside of a loaf of bread, hav
ing them nearly an ich thick. When
the apples are done, mix with them a
tablcspoonful of butter and ono egg
beaten; put tho apples into tne dish
without disturbing the crumbs; over the
surface put an inch-thick layer of crumbs
dotted with biti of butter, and bake the
pudding until the crumbs at the sides
are brown; turn a plate, just large
enough to enclose the dish within its
rim. over the pudding dish, quickly turn
both upside down so that the pudding
will slip out on the plate, dust with
powdered sugar and serve not.
A Clothes-Basket Crib.
The nicest kind of a crib for a new
born baby is a clothes basket. Get the
largest size of wicker clothes basket a
snuare on with handles at eacn end.
Have a small hair mattress made to tit
the bottom of it, as hair is much more
wholesome to sleep on than feathers, but
for a sudden emergency any ordinary
pillow will answer the purpose. This
kind of crib has many advantages. It
can bo put iu a closet when not in use; it
can be lifted into another room without
disturbing the baby's sleep, if its mother
should want to receive guests be
fore she is well enough to leave
her room; it is very convenient in mov
ing to the country in the summer, as it
can be packed with baby's clothes, cov
ercd with the bath rubber sheet and tied
carefully across with a rope; and on ar
rival the baby wearied and tireu mere
need be no waiting till the porter carries
up the heavy crib, as nny one can carry
up the basket; and there is no screwing
. , - . ii. i.i
togctner, out snnpiy iukis ou uie ruuun
sheet and there unuy lias its Dcd reauy,
and nurse can attend to other things,
In going across the ocenn it is invalua
ble as, resting on its broad base on the
floor, no pitching nor rolling of tho ship
will be able to upset it. When baby gets
too old to use it, it can retiro to its
natural home the laundry and there
be made useful for the rest of its days.
I make mine not only useful but quite
ornamental by covering it inside and out
with either blue or pink paper muslin,
over which I draw in folds some thin
dotted Swi-s, sewing it carefully and
tightly through the bottom where the
coarse stitches will be hidden by the
mattress; now from the outside edge of
the top I hang a rullle of cheap cotton
lace, covering the stitches made by sew
ing it on" by -rXPf quilled satin rib
bon in color to match iue 7".7.;'-m..l,?.1.m.
and I have a very pretty and cheap crib.
The mattress can be kept till needed
again. liabyhoo I.
Household Hints.
Clean piano keys with a soft rag dipped
in alcohol.
Egg stains on silver can be taken off
with table salt and a wet rag.
Apples that are not properly looked
after will decay in the barrels very fust.
Leather chair seats may be revived by
rubbing them with well-beaten white of
egg
Sweet potatoes require nearly twice
the time that Irish potutoes do either to
bake or boil.
To polish nickel-plated goods after be
coming black and not worn, use rouge or
whiting on a rug with a little oil.
If ribbons need renewing wash them in
cool suds, made of soup, and iron when
damp. Cover with a clean cloth and iron
over it.
Tea or coffee stains will come out at
once if they are taken immediately and
held over a pad while boiling water is
poured upon them.
When using stale bread for puddings
always soak it in a cold liquid. Bread
that has been soaked in cold milk or
water is light and crumbly, whereas that
soaked in hot liquids is heavy.
Vegetables with a strong flavor, such
as onions aud turnips, will be much im
proved by putting them to boil in cold
water, renewing this from a kettle of
boiling water as soon as it comes to a
scald.
l lil cloths should never be washed in
hot soap-suds; they should lirst be
washed clean with cold water, theu
rubbed dry with a cloth wet iu milk.
The same treatment applies to a stone or
slate hearth.
To make silk which has been " tum
bled " aud wrinkled appear nearly like
new, sponge it on the surluee with a weak
solutiou ol gum arable on white gloves,
aud iron it on the wrong side. Strong
black tea, cold, is a good thing to clean
black silk.
China's Noloniou
Another Solomon has arisen at Shang
hai, China. A man was accused of hav
ing stolen a table. He professed to be
so weak and sick that he could not have
carrh d away tho table. The judge lis
tcued sympathetically ami then said:
"I think you are right. I pity oii.
Take that bag with $10,000 and spend
it iu getting thoroughly cured." The
accused bowed and took up the bag on
his shoulders aud walked out. "Hiing
that man back!" ordered the judge, and
on the culprit's reuppeaiance the w si?
judge told b in he hud noticed him as he
hu 1 walked through the room with that
heavy load of money ou his back, aud
he considered him quite equal to tin-
task of carrying away a table. So he
pronounced the accused guilty of the
tiieft. C'iicuyu llcmld.
A MAGNETS GREAT POWER
SCIEMriFIO EMPLOYMENT OF
TWO DISMANTLED CANMONS-
Interesting Experiment witn mo
World's Largest Magnet A
Watch Stopped Three Feet Away.
Willctt'a roint, on Long Island Sound,
s Msed as a post graduate echool for
Wtt Pointer. It is designed especially
for the instruction of those enlisted in
the engineer corps. At present there are
about 400 men there. Major W. H.
Kittff; who is in command, is a large man.
of massive physique, with bushy black
hair and beard. He IS very courteous iu
his manner, dresses neglige, and does not
look m ich like a soldier, tie is an en
thusiast on the subject of physical sci
ence, and he has entered into all his
original researches witn sucn a sironj
determination to make them succossfii'
that the men under him regard him in
the light of a genius.
Last December Major King happened
to see two large 15-inch Dahlgren gun-
lying unused side by side on tho docK
He immediately conemvea tne iuea imn
a magnet of enormous powct could In
constructed by means of these cannou
with submarine cubic wound about thorn
The experiment proved very successful.
The magnet, which stanusaooui ten ice
from the ground, is eighteen feet long,
and his eight miles of cable wound abon
the upper part of the guns. It is tli
largest and most powerful magnet in tin
world. Some faint idea of itspowei
may be conceived from the fact that it
takes a force of 25,000 pounds to pull oil
the armature.
The experiments made the other day
were the last of the season, as the men
are about going into winter quarters
Heretofore the experiments have been
largely in tho direction of fish torpedoes.
The tests to demonstrate the enormous
power of the magnet were made in tin
presence of a number of the officers o'
the United States Engineer Corps, and
were highly successful. A crowbar
which was applied to the magnet re
quired the combined force of four strong
men to tear it away. A handful of pins
thrown in the opposite direction immedia
tely Hew back and attached themselves
to the magnet. A seemingly impossible
experiment was performed with some
fifteen-inch cannon balls. The bnlls
were solid and as much as a strong man
could lift, yet the magnet held several
of them suspended in the nir, one under
the other.
Tho most interesting experiment au l
the one that was regarded with the
greatest attention was the test made of
an American non-magnetic watch. Ever
since the gteat railroads of the country
have coinnellcd their employes to pro
vide themselves with timepieces that
would not be affected by tho magnetism
generated by the cor trucks, there has
been much speculation ns to whether
such a watch could be made, and a sharp
rivalry has been going on between tho
American nud Swiss manufacturers. The
test was highly satisfactory, and once
more proved that whenever a new in
vention was imperatively demanded
American genius could fully hold its
own agninst the whole world. Major
King's magnet was so powerful that an
ordinary watch was stopped stock 6till
as soon as it came within three feet of
it. Before the test was made there was
quite a diversity of opinion among the
experts present as to how far it would
prove successful.
Those who believed that while a watch
might be constructed that would resist
magnetic influence under ordinary cir
cumstances were also of the opinion that
wlienYt 'wu;bu,,i.TU'd t0 the nost l,ow:
w iu nit was bu. .m. .the steel
erful magnet in the wuu -pinions
would bear so on the working
parts that the watch must necessarily
stop. For ten minutes the watch was
held in front of the magnet. It did not
vary the hundredth part of a second.
The man who held it said that he him
self was conscious of the influence of
the magnet. He could feel as he held
tho watch by the chain that somo other
power than his wus keeping it suspended.
The most amusing experiment was
made with a sledgeluunmer. When one
tried to wield it iu a direction opposite
to the magnet he felt as if he were trying
to hit a blow with a long feather in a gale
of wind. There ia nothing in tho world
that could take the conceit out of a
strong man so much as this simple ex
periment. Another amazing test was
made with a number of carpenter's
spikes. A spike was put lengthwise
on the end of the magnet, then another
spike was attached to the lirst and so on
until a line of them stood straight out
from tho magnet nt least four feet in
length. Aside from their interest to
science the experiments were so novel
and startling that they were entertaining
even to those who were not interested in
the wonderful developments of elec
tricity. JVVw York ti'in.
W nes For Life From a Kuilrouil.
A locomotive engineer on a train en
tering the city of Constantinople,
Turkey, December l!t, lKM, on reaching
the depot was frightened to see a num
ber of freight cars ou the track, lie was
in agouy ol terror, Out succeeded in
stopping the locomotive in time to pre
vent a mishap. Iu consequence of the
terrible excitement he suffered he fell ill
uiid became unable to continue his occu
pation. The company discharged him.
lie brought a iuit of damages against
the company for payment of his full
wages of ij'J a mouth during his life
time, to be secured by a capital of 1-',-.ion,
which was to be deposited witli
the court. The suit was tarried through
all the thr -e stages, namely, tho Aus
trian Consulate at Constantinople, the
Superior Court of Trieste uud the Su
preme Court of Vienna, Austria. The
engineer w is awarded flO u month by
ail the courts, because his loss of health
w as caused by a mishap beyond his power
tocoutrol, and for which, therefore, the
company must be held responsible. -
C7 .(; Hi. -'ild.
A Hull Fight iu Her Honor.
A young lady iu the city of Mexico,
Henorila MatiKl i Montagu, having been
tin- tiisl of her sex to devote In r ell' to
medical studies, the young men of the
city w ru struck w ith such admiration of
hi r courage that they got up a bull ti ;lit
in her honor lutely. It was a real tight,
as the lad that two of the lort-adora weui
seriously hurt proved. The uceiptsweio
devoted to the pun-huso of books aud
inaUtuuuuU )-r the .-MM of the U&J.
BALLAD OF THE FAPD FIKLIfc
Broad ban of sunset slanted fold
Are laid along tho Sold, and her
The tllenc sings, as if soma old
Refrain, that once rang long and clear,
Cam softi'7, stealing to the ear
Without the td trf sound. Tho rill
Is voiceless, and tb Tass Is sero;
But beauty's soul abideth still.
Trance-like the mellow air dofh hold
Tho sorrow of the passing year;
Tho heart of Nature groweth cold,
The time of falling snow Is near;
On phantom feet, which nonBy hoar.
Creeps with the shadow of tho hf
The semblanc of departing cheer;
But beauty's soul abideth still.
The dead, gray clustered weeds enfold
The well known summer path, ami drear
The dusking hills, like billows rolled
Against the distant sky, appear.
From lonely haunta, where night and fees
Keep ghostly tryst, when mists are chill.
The dark pine lifts a jagged pear
But beauty's soul abideth still.
ENVOI.
Dear love the days ti.at once were dear
May come no more: Life may fulfill
Her fleeting dreams, with many a tear
But beauty's soul abideth still.
Itobert Burnt Wilson, in tht Critic,
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Beats awl shoe machinery.
A pang of desperadoes is a preying
band.
D'i pensers of charity are permitted to
carry alms.
That would be a weak enterprise which
could not stand a loan.
The spook of the "Haunted Tavern"
must have bee an inn specter.
It was the lady you thought she wa
going to swoon who had a faint sus
picion. A Paris paper says "the people of St.
Louis, D. T., are dying of a disease called
the blizzards."
While some ladies desire only the
latest novelties in ribbons, there are
others who prefer those of a moire
antique pattern.
The Tnimrrijit speaks of the turtle aa
tuking a leading part at dinners." We
thought he generally appeared as a supe.
lio.-tn Bulletin.
"Ah, ye," said a cabinet-maker to a
! crockery dealer, to whom he wag intro-
duced "ah, yes, you sell tea sets, and
1 I sell settees." Gr ipMe.
A labor writer asks: "What luxury
I can the common ditch-digger claim as
his own?" Dear man, he can take hie
pick. BingJtampton Republican.
I F.nolish traveler (out Westl "What
is the population of Pistolville?'' Native
"Oh, about four hundred in the morn
ing, on an average, and twenty to
twenty-five at night." Graphic.
Fair Critic "I think that little spot
there! (Pointing.) Artist (alarmed)
"Pardon me, but you must not touch
the picture I" Fair Critic "Oh, it
doesn't matter; I have got my glovea
on I"
A serious accident occurred in an up
town house the other night by a mis
placed switch. The owner's husband
stepped upon it and run a hairpin into
his foot to tho depth of an inch. Xorrit
town Herald.
As the act-drop fell Mrs. Galutine
fixed her eyes on it and studied it curi
ously. "You seem to be enjoying the
drop," remarked her husband. 4,I am."
"Well, 1 think I'll enjoy one myself."
And he stole softly out. Tid ilit.
Mistress "Anna I Whatever has be
come of all your pretty curls i" Maid
' . : t 1 l-.fi.
'You see, ma . . . X
our town, and so l have nau to givfvs
lock of my hair to several of my ac
acquaintunces." Flfrgeinle Blaetlir.
Stranger (to boy) "Boy, can you di
rect me to the nearest buuk?" Hoy
"I kin fer twenty-li' cents." Stranger
" l weuty-llve centsl isn t that high payl
Boy "Yes, sir, but it's bank directors
what gits high pay." JVoio Ywk Sun.
The prairii's vast we used to deem best,
We thought 'twould be bliss to live out in
tho West.
But when storms knocked us endways, with
a whir and a whiz,
We really believed there was more blizzard
than bliss.
A Kansas City woman saw Booth and
Barrett play " Othello" in that city and
was asked which actor pleased her most.
"Well, 1 hardly know," she said, after
due deliberation; " I liked one 'bout aa
well as the other. They were both just
as cunnin' na they could be." Graphic.
Waiter (to customer) "Ain't de soup
all right, suhj" Customer dubiously)
"Ye es, it tastes all right; but I am
barber, and 1 wish you would ask the
chef if be doesn't wunt a bottle of my
Fgyptian Tonsorial Klixir; it prevents
the hair from fulling out." I'hilndelphia
Call.
It is interesting to trace, the evolution
of words and expressions. Cultured
people say "how do you do?" Those
who are less precise say "howdy dot"
In the bac kwoods of Tennessee they say
"howdy?" The noble red man of the
West says "how;" While the cat on the
fence says "ow?"
The careless use of the editorial "we"
frequently gets newspapers into trouble,
aud the use of the word " we" to repre
seut the people of the whole country ia
sometimes as fatal at least this is piob
ably the opinion of the editor of the
Springfield I ni.ii, who recently said:
" We ate :l, 1 HO, OHO bags of peanuts lust
year." - It hmier I'o t h' rj re.-i.
Returned .Missionury "All natives of
rank liavj coins suspended from tlieir
noses and ears." " Hut with the crude in
struments you say they have 1 don't see
bow they can punch holes through the
coins." " The holes are ahead y pouched.
Y'ou see, ui"-t ol the coins come from
America, whero they are collected iu
church contribution boxes."--Xbitmla
JStutt Journal.
"For ten years pant," said tho new
boarder, "my habila have been as regu
lar as clock w o: k. 1 roseon the stroke
of six; Inilf :m Ii. ur later I s it down to
breakfast ; al seveu I was at work ; dined
at twelve; ate supper at six and was in
bed by Vine thirty; ate only heaity food
and hadn't a sick day iu a l that time."
" I ii ur iue,' said the den ou, in sympa
thetic ton. s, "and what were you iu
for?" Aud iu tho a Inl sih iu e that fol
lowed you could hear the hash grate it
teeth. Burdette.