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'.and control 800,000,000 pcopl
itotit tho 'world.
statistics on tobacco show that
uses less of tho weed than any
(..to in the Union.
liiur to an cstirr.ato in Brad
tho tot (it number of strikes Inst
1 f'f, involving 1140,834 lnbor-
. red and twenty-seven pen
v to passed by the United
(o ono day recently in ninety
1 that nt least 1,000,000 tons
1 fertilizers arc now aunual
country, at a cost to buy-
il f serpent wor hip in
atcment that 53,(00 lives
.wily by tho bites of vonjm
"id wild bcats.
I of the United States Sena
" men, their averago weight
n to 180 pounds. ' Their
:u, according to a cotro-
'.irly 11,000 pounds.
j siroko theBritish Govern-
inverted its immense national
;ymO;000 into three por coat,
i tho privilege after fifteen
incing tho interest to two and
-it.
Pr. Agncw wns wont to de
no man had lived to 1 e 100
mo Biblical days, and ail such
- from ignorance or mistakes;
..iy case ho investigated not
' 'o be authentic.
iitai import some 10,000,-
year, for which we pay
Mr. A. F. Hunter wants
3 do not produce these
. IIo answers his own
' lie Vmi England Ftirmtr, by
e have hens enough, but
as they ought to.
i su'cs tho:e is one min
proplo; in China, one or
.nary to 1,000,000. Of the
i i;f AM a, 110,000,009 have
.inched by Christnlu teachers.
t States has CO.OOO preachers,
!ii, with Ave times the popula
tdO ord-iiaed misiinnaries. '
' !'.' Garner, of Charleston, 8.
nnnuiced that she would be a
'or the o'lico of County School
u. r, is tho first lady in the
far as is known, to run for
ii possessed of independent
! tul student, and has been
'nmh and school work.
. tlor who now habitually
( tlio little black skull cups
'union among tho Pcnat
o is f'eiiiitor Edmunds,
i bald as to be Tory
i)r:,tM;lits about tho cor-!-i'imto
Chamber. Tho
wii-inir the caps wns started
! ISurnsidn . and was quite
I r time.
! I!ou!unger, the idol of the
in pulaoe, ia now just" fifty years
is noted for his gracu and
', and more than any other
i an is tho especial horo of (ho
No one eke can o,'ca a fan or
v: a lady's cloak or mount a restlos
u in so graceful ana charming a way,
1 the same ipialities are said to charac
riui all his military actions.
Camden, N. J., comes to tho front with
i'0 operative burial company that issues
. rflifiertU's all tho wayfrom $10 to 100
' will enable their holders to be put
;' us j luiuly or as stylislily as they
As u!l s applies aro to be m inu
tUo company an I furnished
.. ai rates, it may bz reasonably
i numbers will got the worthof
i nU.'sh physician, who has in
iti'i tliu characteristics and sur
:: 'iings of centenarians, aayshe found
'nt tlio avemge qualities were a good
:.tm !y history, a well made frame, of
average stature, spare rather than stout,
fubust, with good health, appetito and
liicstiou, capable of exertion, good
"Iii'pers, of placid temperament and
nid intelligence, with little need for
. ! Utile consumption of alcohol and
;aia! fooi.
Krnbalmed goese, turkevs with painted
s, and diseased chickens, instead of
U!iy, uutainted poultry, are sold in
lively in the Paris markets A
.v. t porter recently died from blood
iiis from the bite of au insect which
. i - battening on some turkeys. The
I 'i act ice of embalming long demised biids
is comparatively of modern origin, but
the painting of turkeys legs is old. Fere
Chappelleire made a fortune out of it.
lie found that fresh killed turkeys had
Mack shiny legs, but later they would
urn to a dusky brown color, lln in
cited a peculiar varnish, and his services
i re requisitioned in every market. The
"cct of his varnish was so conclusive
:at. it deceived experienced cooks and
jiisckeipcra, who often bought tainted
uJL in preference to newly killed.
A SONO OF MA.YTIMH.
As fades tbe night with morning light,
Bo winter creeps away;
And in his place with sunny face
Tliere shinei the tun of May.
From over all the clouily pall
Of rhlll and darkness drear
Is quick removed, and spring is proved
Her warmth and light are here,
From out the South with prfumed mouth
Tho summer whispers, "Here!"
And sweet and low the breoies blow
As soft she troadcth near.
Cay after day the sky is gay
With ten ter tints of blue;
On airy wins the robin sings,
And woo l-birds call and coo.
Within our hearts, too, life impart
A gentle throb and thrill.
And bitter t rife no longer rlf,
Peace, Lov, our bosoms fill!
Di moral.
womiFoFgrit.
We were well into tho Gulf of Bongal,
bound for llndrns, when ono morning,
just ns night wns fading into dawn, 1
thought 1 heard a voice hailing us from
the surface of the sen. Ilit io lire sea
birds who cry out almost like human be
ings, and although I was startled by tho
hu 1, 1 dismissed it after a few seconds as
tho cry of a bird. Bcnn cly had I done
so when it camo egain, and this time I
knew it was tho voice of a woman.
Tlioie was no need to hail tho mate or
watch, for ho had heard the cry as well.
We were jogging along under easy sail,
and ho seined the glii'S uud ran up the
foreiigging. There was a sort of steam
rising from Mio wator, but the mato had
not climbed thirty feet when down
ho came again, and in one breath
ordered tho ship into the wind, tho
Captain aroused and a boat lowered. Wo
of the natch had no doubt that the ship
bad beeu hailed by castaways, but (he
boat was down before any of us had made
out a lone woman in a sort of a canoe
craft about two cables' length away on
our port bow. She had neither paddle
nor oar. and her craft was driving with
the wind and sea, whilo she sat cowering
inthes cm. Our boat was soon alongside
of her craft, and woman and craft were
soon aboard the Admiral Ncl-on. The
watch below had been turned up, and
everybody was on deck to see what was
going on. Tho woman was white, nnd,
we soon ascertnincd'Anicrican. I say
white, but brown would bo the better
term, for it was evident she had long
been exposed to tropical weather. She
was of medium size, regular features and
about 40ycnrsof ago, and at ono time
had been good looking.
"Who is tlio Captain?" she snappod, as
alio touched the dock.
llorc, ma'am," replied our old man, as
ho stepped forward.
1-1 want to talk to you in your cabin,"
he continued, her lingers working nerv
ously and her eyes snapping fire.
Th"y had not been gone a quarter nf
an hour when both icanpeaied on dec.
I was at tho wheel, and thercforo heard
all that was said. It appeared that the
woman, whose name was Mrs. Thomas,
owned and sailed a trading schooner,
which had been left her at her husband s
death. It was a strango vocation for
a woman, but it seemed she like it and
also had a good business head on lier.
Phe had a crew of six, her mate being an
Knglishman und tho others Lascars, and
she had been sailing between nearly all
tho towns on the Gulf. Three days bo
fore we picked her up, her schooner lind
nt Sumatra, bound for tho Indian coa-t.
rew seemed to be pertcctlv nuict
and content, b t at 10 o'clock of the
previous night, headed by the mate, had
suddenly laid violent hands on her nnd
sent hcradr.ft without water, food, or a
paddla. The intention wns to run away
with the schooner and cargo and sell
them, and this plan might, hava beeu
carried out but for her res ub. '
r?he was tlio spunkiest little woman I
over saw. bhe was so mad she couldn't
stand still for three seconds at a time.
What sho wanted was for our ship to go
in puisuit. iler schooner was armed
with two brass six-pounders, while wo
had four twelves, and she expressed her
cntiro willingness to see her craft sent to
tho bottom before tho mutinous crew
should benefit by their acts. Captain
Wheeler was pretty well along in years,
very careful on tho question of insur
ance, and his mind was not made up un
til after breakfast. Then he decided to
luff up toward the Andaman Islands
in search of tho schooner, and he almost
promised to give her a tasto of our metal
if she wns sighted and would not sur
render. 'Ihc little woman managed to eat a
dozen mouthfuls of breakfast, and then
returned to the deck to almost assume
control. Hie oidercd a man uloft,
bossed tho job of casting loose tho guns
and getting up powder and shot, and
every ten m:nutes she was hailing tho
lookout to know if anything was in
sight. Luck was ii her favor. WhMo
wo had been jogging along all night,
tho schooner, being further to tho east,
had been almost becalmed We raised
her almost dead ahead about noon, and as
luck would have if, again we had plenty
of wind while she had none until the ves
sels were not over two miles apart. The
schooner could have no suspicion that
tho woman was aboard of us, and wo
flew a signal that we wanted to speak
her. Mie at once lay to, and, as we ran
down to her, I saw lira. Thomas giit
her teeth, clench her hands and show
others evidences of her feelings. 8he
had borrowod the mate's six-shooter,
donueil a hat nnd coat to disguise her
self, and as we lay to aliout a cable's
length away no eye could have made out
her sex.
"Schooner ahoy!" called our captain.
"Aye, aye, sir! This is the JKaucy
Lee, bound from Sumatra to the main
land." "Are you the Captain?"
"Ho, sir. lie's very sick in his berth."
"Kun out those guns!" whispered the
old man to us, and down went the big
baikers, and such of tho crew as were
not at the guus tested their muskets
along the rail.
"I've got your Captain hero and she'll
be put aboard of you 1'' t hooted our Cap
tain. "If you attempt any resistance,
I'll sink you !"
The Ki'.glUhinau ordered his crew to
one of the guns, but they refused to obey,
every man of them skulking forward and
disappearing down the hatch. The fel
low hft the deck long enough to arm
himself with a cutlass, uud as we low
ered a.boat he called out that he would
split the head of the first man who at
tempted to board the schooner. Our first
mn'e, tho boatswain, nnd two of us fore-,
mast hands went in tho boat with Mrs.
Thomas, and ns we hooked on to the
schooner's chains the boatswain pulled a
revolver and climbod in over the bows.
Tho mutineer retreated afr, and then we
all boarded. The woman had not spoken
a word since leaving the ship. She was
pnloas death, and her eyes glared like a
tiger's.' As sho dropped from the rail to
the deck she cocked tho weapon in her
hand, walked aft and right up to tho
mate, nnd as he flourished his cutlass and
commanded her to kecpoJ, she shot him
dead in his tracks.
'It's tho law of the sea," sho rjnictly
remarked, as she turned to us. "ow to
rout out those Lascars 1"
"But you won't kill them!" said our
mato. t
"No, not quite!' was her grim answer,
as she handed him the smoking revol
ver. Casting a look at the dead mutineer,
to be furo that he was dead, she went
forward, took a behying pin out of tho
port rail nnd, approaching the hatch,
she callod down :
"On deck here, every man of you, and
be quick about it I"
They came up one after the other, and
as each man touched the deck she gave
him a crack over the head w hich made
him see stars. They went down on their
knees and begged for their lives, nnd
after knocking them about in a liberal
way she hnally agreed to extend pardon.
Under her direction the mate's body was
searched, and, as she had anticipated, all
the monoy aboard the schooner was
found. She then ordered the body flung
overboard, and as it touched tho water
one of the biggest white shnrks I ever
saw sci el it anl bit it in half. While
the l a-curs were cleaning the deck the
littlo woman ran down into her cabin
and brought up a do en bottles of wine,
six boxes of cigars nnd a lot of dried
fruits for us to take back to tho ship.
Then sho gave each of us a shake of tiie
hand, nnd ns we entered the yawl sho
sprang uion tho port rail, held fa t to
the main shrouds with one hand, and
shouted to our Cnp ain:
"(iood-bv and Uod bless you, Copt.
Wheeler I've got my craft back, thanks
to you,. and I'll keep my eyes open after
this!"
Then she jumped down and went to
the wheel nnd gave orders to get tho
schooner on her course, and in a couple
of hours the craft was lost sight of be
hind one of the islands as it made for
tho insido of the route. Two years later
I saw the w oman nt Singapore, and she
still owned the schooner, and was said to
have a coirifortnb'o fortune in bank. A
ye ir Inter I heard that she bad sold her
schooner, purchased a brig, nnd putting
in a cargo on her own account, bad sailed
for home.
A WOMAN HEPULSES rlRATES.
In the fall of 1857, having been paid
oif nt Capo Town from a'i Knglish brig
which had been condemned, 1 shipped
aboard the bark Kcsciie, Captain Moore,
bound to several Krtsin Madagascar nnd
return. We had a small but excellent
crew, every man but tho cook being
white, and all being English, American,
or Swede. Tho day before we sailed
the Captain's wifo camu aboard, nnd I
saw at once that she was a sailor. She
was about thirty-five years old, wciphed
not an ounce over a hundred pounds,
and her movements were those of a girl.
She was just such a little woman as you
might expect to hear scream out at sight
of a mou-e and to tea faint away if .-he
saw a rat. As a rule, sa'lors are opposed
to women folks at sea. - They are all
ri;;ht as passengers, but when a Captain
has his wife along there is more or less
growling in tho fo'castle. It is taken for
granted that the "old man" w.H be less
on deck and leave .more to the matet,
and instead or "trucking on" and carry
ing all sail to make a short voyage, he
will go slow and look out for squalls.
We growled about the woman coming
aboard, but, nt tbe same time, e ery old
tar vowed her an nngel and hoped good
luck for her.
We crept along the coast as far as Fort
Kli.abe'h, and then took a departure for
tho big islaud to the northeast, a matter
of 100 miles, before we could sight its
southern end. Wo ha I light, steady
winds and fair wealhor, making easy
work for the crew, but on the third day
out the Captain was taken down with
fever. We hadn't seen much of his wife
up to that time, but now sho was every
where in an hour. Although we had a
first mato who was thoroughly compe
tent, the littlo woman took full clurce
'of the ship. And we soon discovered
that she was entirely competent to doso,
She could stand by the log. prick off the
day's run, figure drift nnd dead reckon
ing, and order sail set or reduced as
smartly as any man I ever saw, and the
mates had sense enough not to sulk over
it. Iler husband owned a three-quarter
interest in the bark and her venture, nnd
it wns only natural that tho wife should
know it. Sho was doctor, nurse, Captain
and counselor all in one, and things
could not have gone better had the old
man been on deck.
All went we'd until we wcro within
sixty or seventy miles of the south end
of Madagascar, when the broiv.o died
away in the forenoon until wo scarcely
had steerngeway, and almost at tho same
tim? we sighted a felucca on our star
board I ow and about ten miles nway. Iu
those days there wero-p!enly of native
tea rovers hidden away in the bays and
rivers at tho lower end of Madagascar,
and they had no hesitation in plunder
ing, scuttling, and throat-cutting. We
had no sooner made out the strange
crnft than the little woman called, us all
aft and faid :
"Men, you know that the Captain is
very ill. Yonder native craft is a pirate,
and is coming down to attack us. If we
surrender, not one of us will live an hour.
If we do our best, we may beat her off
and escape. There may be sixty of
them; there are only thirteen of us. Will
you fi'ht or surrender ("
"Fight! Fight! Hip! Hurrah !" shouted
the crew in c horus, and, after thanking
us, the woman gave oreers to prepare for
the attack.
The sky was cloudless and the breeze
still dying away, nnd it was certain that
no change iu the weather could be looked
for. We hud two cannon, nine-pounders,
one on cither broadside, am. thefe
were uncovered and loaded with solid
shot. I uckily. among the cargo was a
consignment of muskets, and wo broke
out two boxes of iifty each. They were
cheap affairs, calculated for traffic, but
all were sure fire for a few rounds. I
wns one of the gang told -off to load
them, and I know we loaded the even
hundred. This would give us a matter
of seven shots apiece without reloading.
One-half tho muskets were carried aft to
the quarters, and the others distributed
along tho bow nnd wnist. Four cut
lasses were hunted up and served out,
and then there was time, for one moro
precaution. Tho felucca was coming
down slowly, urged by her sweeps, and
a man aloft with a glass reported that
she was full of mon and had. two six
pounders on her decks. The head of
the bark pointed pretty stca lily to tho
northwest, for there was neither wind
nor se.. Tho felucca was coming down
from the northeast, nnd wo could there
fore figure that she would board us on
tho starboard bow.
Orders were given to search for and
bring on deck bottles of every kind and
shape. I think wo routed out fifty or
moro in tho fo'castle, while the cabin
furnished a hundred. These were broken
in pieces on the forward deck, and a fine
mess they made of it. We could walk
over tho stuff with our leather soles, but
woe to the bare feet which leaped oil the
rail. The Felucca people did not sus
pect our cannon until they got a shot
from tho starboard gun which made tho
splinters ny. i hen they changed their
course and pulled for our bows, and we
could not train a gun to benr upon them.
I helped reload our gun with a so ld
shot, nnd we had scarcely finished when
tho 1 olucca was upon us. She grappled
us just where we had figured, and, under
the little woman s orders, we mado no
clfort to prevent, the had foreseen thnt
if driven back the Felucca could take
position on our bow or stern and pound
us to pieces with ncr six-pojndcrs.
while we would not be able to return a
shot.
Wo were drawn up in line across the
deck abaft the foremost, with the spare
muskets lying behind us. 1 ho captain s
wife was at mv left, armed with his re
volver. Mind you, there wasn't a shout
or shot nsthe fellows boarded us. They
pulled down to us in a grim, determined
way, never a man opening his lips, and
as the grapnels caught they came swarm
ing over the bows like a stream of giant
ants, each man armed with creese alone.
There wasn't a yell until they struck tho
deck, and then there were a hundred in
chorus. Every man was barefooted, nnd
every one was horribly cut. We opened
tire at the came moment, and down went
the first gang. The Becond was wiped
out- almost as quickly, and then we
rushed forward nnd each man went in on
his own hook. It wis a picnic for us.
A few miiBkct shots were fired nt us from
away aft, but the bullets flew among the
r,'ASinS- Wo rested our guus on tho
rail nnd tired right down among them.
and. in ten minutes from the beginning
of tlio fight all tho pirates alive sought
sholter below. We had fourteen dead
on our do ks, and there were twice that
number in sight of the felucca, whilo
not one of us had a scratch.
I eaving three men to fire away at any
head npearing nbove tho hatches, we
cast off the grappling and pulled the
felucca along our starboard side until tho
cannon would bear. Then we fired a
shot through her deck and bottom, re
loaded and gave her another, and then
cast her adrift. She rubbed around our
stern, drifted off nbout a hundred feet,
and in a quarter of au hour went to tho
bottom. Perhaps a dozen living men
came to tho surface and twain to the
bark, but not one of them was allowed to
board. You may think it a blood-thirsty
act, sir, but we wiped them out to the
lust man without any twinges of con
s ience, and I'vo always been glad of it.
Had thry captured us, our throats would
havctjon cut in no time. We lay all
that My without moving half a mile," but
sniisel brought a breeze, and we finished
our voyage without further adventure.
The excitement of the b'ght mado the
Captain much worso, but ho recovered
in a few weeks, and was ablo to take
command aga'n. Atto York Sun,
Valuable Ctini and Coin Collectors.
Said a noted coin collector recently, in
conversation with a New York .Ski re
porter: "l'o you know that, strango as
u may seem, the oldest coins are not the
rarest, and are the least in demand by
numismnticiansf"
Ths reporter was not aware of the fact,
and inquired why such was the case.
"The vagaries and caprices of tho col
lector cuunot be explained," replied the
connoisseur. "Why a man should prefer
the scarce American dollar of lisUl ut
fH)0 (which is tho market value of a
good specimen), to tho beautiful gina
coin, tho oldest and most artistic pro
duct of tho Greek mint, a flue copy of
whirh may be had for is as dillicult a
question to answer as why the handsome
and talented' Montague B own married
tlio unprepossessing Miss Dobbs.
"There is alwajs a lively demand for
tho scarcest coins." continued tho col
lector, "and it seldom concerns tho en
thusiast whether they are beautiful or
not. It is well nigh impossible to begin
now and make a eo.np eto collec tion of
our Amcricun coins. To doit one would
have to posses, beside a knowledge of
American numismatics, tho patience of
Job ami a purse as long as a Vandorbilt.
Tho colon al coins alono are worth a
small fortuue. Fabulous prhes aro paid
for good specimens of early American
coinage. The l ine Troi shilling is worth
from $10 to i0, and in later times there
is the Washington half dollar, valued to
day at :I0. 'The dollar of l?!)t has
brought us much as $100 at an miction
sale. The half cent of 17IKI is difficult to
get at l"i, while tho half dollar of tho
samo date readily sells at :t0. The
rarest, however, of all the small pieces, is
the half dime of 1803, which rcccutly
sold for ti0." .
"Where do all the old coins go to?"
queried the reporter.
"To tho same plni e that pins and but
tons do, wherever that may be," replied
the crllector. "Of course, nil uuiqiio
copies and the finest specimens sooner
or later find their way into public or
private collections, or tho bauds of tho
dealers. Th largest and finest collec
tions are owned by I)r. Charles E. West,
Alexander Iialmano, H. II. Lawrence,
Hubert Hobart Smith, and Cast on L.
Fcuaideut,-of New York. The finest
collei t'on in the world is that of the
liiitish Museum in Loudon.
Last year 41,832 cars were turned out
at car shops. Thirty thousand moro are
needed, and tho car works have ordert
for mouths to come.
TIIE RUSSIAN FAIR-CITY.
THB EPHEMERAL COMMERCIAL
MART OF NIZHNI NOVGOROD.
A Temporary Caravansary Whore
500,000 Merchant Assemble
Once a Year.
To a traveler visitinz Nizhni Novgo
rod for the first time there is something
surprising, and almost startling, in the
appearance of what ho supposes to be
the city, and in tho scene resented to
him as he emerges from the railway sta
tion and walks away from the low bank
of the Oka ltiver in the direction of the
Yolra. The clean, well-paved streets;
the long rows of substantial buildings;
the spacious boulevard, shaded iy
leafy birches and poplars ; the
canal, spannod at intervals by grace
ful bridges; the pictures U0 tower of tho
water-works ; the enormous cathedral of
Alexander Nevski; the Bourse; the
thnt res; the hotels; the market places
all seem to indicato n great pop-
nlous centre of life and commercial
activity; but of living inhabitants there
is not a sign. Orass and weeds aro grow
ing in tho middle of the empty streets
and in the chinks of the travel-worn
sidewalks; birds aro singing fearlessly
in tho trees that shndo the lonely and
deserted boulevard ; tho countloss shefps
and warehouses are all closed, barred and
padlocked; the bells are silent in the
gilded belfries of the churches; and the
astonished stranger may perhaps wander
for a mile between the solid blocks of
buildings without seeing an open door,
a vehicle or a single human being. The
city seems to have been stricken
by a pestilence nnd deserted. If
the new comer remembers for what
Nihni Novgorod is celebrated, he is
not long, of course, in coming to the
conclusion that ho is on the site of tbe
famous fair; but the first realization of
tho fact that the fair is iu itself a sepa
rate and independent city, nnd a city
which during nine months of every year
stands empty and deserted, comes to
him with the shock of a great sur
prise. The fair city of Nizhni Novgorod is
situated on a low peninsula between the
rivers Oka and Volga, just above their
junction, very much as New York City
is situated on Manhattan Island between
East l'.iver and the Hudson. In goo
graphical position it bears the same re
lation to tho old town of Nizhni Nov
gorod that New York would bear to
Jersey City if the latter were elevated
on a steep terraced bluff four hundred
feet abovo the level of tho Hudson. The
Hussian fair city, however, differs from
New 1 ork City in that t is a mere tern
pornry market a huge commercial cara
vansary whore 600,000 traders assemble
every vear to buy and to sell commodi
ties. In September it hai frequently J
population of moro than ICO.OUO souls,
nnd contains merchandise valued at 7",.
000,0)0; while in .Innunry, February
and March all of its inhabitants might
be fed nnd sheltered in the smallest of
its hotels, and nil of its goods might be
put into a Bingle ono of its innumerable
shops. Its lite, thcieforc, is a sort of in
termittent commercial fever, inwh chau
annual paroxysm of intense and un
natuial activity is followed by a long in
tervul of torpor and stagnation.
It seems almost incredible at first thnt
a city of such magnitude a city which
contains churches, mosiiucs, theatres,
markets, banks,' bote's, a merchant's ex
change, and nearly seven thousand
shops and inhabitable buildings, should
have so ephemeral a life, and should
be so completely abandoned every
year after it has served the purpose for
which it wns created. When I saw this
unique city for tho first time, ofl'aVleiar.
frosty night in January, lt0H, it pre
sented an e traordinary picture of lone
liness aiuL desolation. The moonlight
streamed down into its long empty
streets where the unbroken snow lay two
feet deep upon tho sidewalks; it touched
with silver the white walls and swelling
domes of the o'd fair-cathedral, from
whose towers there came no clangor of
bells; it sparkled on great snowdrifts
heaped up ngiinst tho doors of the
cirpty house), and poured a flood of
pale light over thousands ot snow-covered
roofs; but it d d not reveal any
where a sign of a human being. The city
scemod to be not only uninhabited, but
wholly abandoned to the arctic spirits of
solitude and frost. When I saw it not, at
height of the aunual fair in the autumn
of 1870, it was so chauged ns to I e al
most unrecognizable. It was then sur
rounded by a great forest of shipping;
its hot, dusty ntmosphero thrilled wilh
the incessant whistling of steamers; mer
chandise to tho value of 12,1,000,000
rubles lay on its shores or was packed
into its OOOUthops; every building within
iu limits was crowded; 00.000 people
were crossing every day the pontoon
bridge w hich tonncctcd it with the old
town; a military bund was playing airs
from Offenbach's operas on the great
boulevard in front of tho Governor's
house; und through ull tho streets of the
reanimated and reawakened city poured
a gnat tumultuous Hood of human lite.
(Jiorge Kramiu, in Ven'ttry.
Lonjr Distan t Telor rnuhy.
"How long would it take to snd a
word around the globe?" asked a Chicago
Hail representative of a Weste.n Union
superintendent.
"Well, just about the tenth part of a
second. Tiiu most accura'c measurement
of tho flight of a telegraph tick is about
280.000 niilis per second.
"Tho longest distance message sent
by relays was probibly that transmitted
to tho lull M di (ion-tie in London from
its traveling representative. Ho sat in
the operator's room in tho o lire nt Vic
toiiu, British Columbia, and talked with
bis chief in the o'iice in London. Greet
ings were echanged, and no sooner had
the editor of the great Loudon daily
uttered a word thun it was ia 'he dutches
of the operator at Cjueenstown, wbo
wafted it to Newfoundland, wh'-re it
was sent to New York. From there it
flushed to Sun Frauciseo via Chicago,
lifterwurd traveled northward to its
final destination, with the golden rays of
the setting sun shining on the wires
strung along the suowy Htrias, while in
Loudon the clock struck :i for the morn
ing of the next day. The wordi spokeu
iu Loudon were received ninety reconti
afterward Li Victoria, a distsice of
8000 miles.'
When you have learned to listeu, you
have ai quiied tLg rudiments uf a good
eJ ilation.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS,
Science In the Household.
There is heat enough wasted around an
ordinary kitchen range to Bay nothing
of the furnace to furnish all the power
needed to run the sewing machine, pump
water for an elevator, and light the
dwelling by eloctricity. The same waste
of heat of the cooking apparatus might
be made to cool the house in summer nnd
to dispense with tho ice bill. When
nitrate of ammonia, for example, is dis
solved in water it absorbs an enormous
amount of heat and the principle Is
readily applied in the construction of re
frigerating chambers. 1'ropcrly eiauo-
raatcd and located these could be so ar
ranged as to keep meats, etc., better than
tho ordinary ice box, to cool wnter for
drinking more who'esomcly than the
average ice supply, and to send volumes
ol cold nirdown through shafts to regu
lators in the ceilings of r aoiiis so that the
heat of summer might be tempered as
certainly as the cold of winter. The same
supply of the ammonia salt may be used
repeatedly by evaporating the wat r, ior
which purpose tho waste neat above
spoken of could be utilized. The possi
bilities of applied science in the nouse
hold have not beeu even nibbled at.
t'hicaqj A'eia.
Tarta.
Well made tarts are very dainty, nnd
form an acceptable chnnge from pics.
The English tart, so famous in that
country, is baked, in a deop dish, cov
ered with an upper crust only, while ours
is the reverse; an under crust is used,
and the fruit is stewed with suga- be
fore being put in tho crust. Tho best
puff paste should be ued for tarts,
rolled very thin, baked in small pans,
then filled with jnm, jelly or cream.
Cream Tarts. Make thin pull paste,
cut small, bake and fill with whipped
cream, on which drop a spconful of ac'd
jelly.
I hcrry Tarts. Lino patty pans with
puff paste, stone the cherries, stew with
sugar; add a t aspoonful of Hour to o
pint of che:ries; fill tho sho ls and bake
in a quick oven; remove from the oven,
dust with powdered sugar.
Applo Tarts. Boil ten large tart ap
ples, beat smooth, and add the yolks ol
six eggs, aod the juice and rind of twe
lemons? itiptf "aop of butter, one nnd n
half cups of sugar: beat all together and
line small tins with puff paste, fill with
the mixture and bako live minutes.
Cover the top with meringue nnd bake.
Etrawbcrry Cream Tarts, Line patty
pans with paste, bake, fill with stewed
strawberries; stir half a tcaspoouful ol
corn starch into half n teacup of milk
with tho beaten whites of two cgs, and
two tablespoons of white sugar; set on
tho stovcand stir iiniilth'ck n id smooth,
let cool and add half a teacup of whipped
it;.1,ii, beat, nod pouAliV.r the ta is.
1 asp'.icrries ofother small fruits may be
used instead of strawberries. .
Lemon Tarts. Lino pans with pnsto.
Squeeze the juice from four lemons, grate
the rind of tno; add the yolks of six
eggs and the whites of two; add a poun 1
of granulated sugar; place in a snail pan
ora kettle of boiling water; stir until a
Ihick paste is formed. Fill the shullj
and bako in a quick oven. Cover with
meringue and set in tho stove three min
utes Almond Tnrts. Boat to a cream the
yolks of three eggs, an 1 a quatter of a
pound of sugar; add ha'f a pDund ol
shelled almonds pounded; put in tart
tins liued with putl paste; bake ten
minutes.
Cocoanut Tarts. Dissolve half a
pound of sugar in a pint of wnter; add
a pound of grated cocoanut and boil.
. Lttt .cooj -v add the well-bcaten yoke of
three eggs 'anil the white of one; beat
all together and pour in tart t ns lined
with puff paste.
Trcserve Tarts. l?o!l very thin tome
puff paste, cut in round pieces; lay jam
or jelly over the paste; wet the edges
with white of nn egg, and close them;
lay on a baking sheet, ice nod bake fif
teen minutes. Cotritr-Juurnal.
Household Hints.
Leather chair seats may bo revived by
rubbing thera with well-beaten white oj
egg
Sweet potatoes require nearly twice tht
time thnt Irish potatoes do cither to bake
or boil.
. Tepid water with a littlo borax dis
solved in it is good to wash colored tabic
linen in.
White nnd palo shades of tint may be
beautifully cleaned by using whiting in
the water.
Cook oatmeal in a double boiler or in
a covered pail set in a kettle of water.
Be suro to suit it.
To wash castor bottles, put them one
third full of rice, and fill up with water;
shake thoroughly.
To clean red brick floors, rub them
with a brick moistened with a little warm
milk and water, and wipe dry with a
toft cloth.
To clean straw matting, boil three
quarts of bran in one gallon of water,
and wash tho matting with the water,
drying it well.
l each leaves pounded to a pulp and
applied to a bruise, or a wound from a
rusty nail, or a simple cut, will give im
mediate relief.
Don't allow matches to be kept looso
or in paper boxes, but only in metal oi
earthcrn safe'. Those lighting only on
the box aro safest.
If tho face seems constantly dry, rub it
with a trifie of olive oil every night for a
time: if too oily, put a littlo bo: ax iu
the water used for buthing it.
If you wish to keep a sharp knife don't
put in hot grea-o; stir your potatoes
while fiying, or turn meat with a fork oi
an old case knife kept ou purpose.
To remove paint from windows, take
strong bicarbonate of soda and dissolve
it in hot water. Wash the glass, and iu
twenty minutes or hull an hour rub thor
oughly with a dry clotlu
Tho carving knifo and large knivc
used in tho kitchen, as well us cooks'
knives that are required to be very sharp,
should nevor be used about tho fire fi
stirrii g hot things. This will quickly
dull them.
Lemons will keep good for months by
simply putting them into a jug of but
termilk, changing tho buttermilk about
every three weeks. When the lemons
are ieuired for use they should be well
dried with a cloth.
A SONO.
There is ever a song somawhera, my d
There is ever a something sings alw.
There's tho song of the lark when the skies
are clear,
And the song of tbe thrush when the skies
are gray.
i
The sunshine showers arrow the grain.
And the bluebird trills in the orchard tree;
And in and ont, when tho eaves drip rain,
The swallows are twittering coaseleisly. i
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear, '
In tbe midnight black or the midday blue;
The robin pipes when the sun is here.
And the cricket chirrups the whole night
through.
The buds may blow and th fruit may grrtV,
And the autumn leaves drop crisp and
sore;
But whether the sun, or the rain, or the
snow,
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear.
Jamrs lV'Aifcomb lii'eg.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Always comes out on top hair.
No thorough-fare An oatmeal dinner.
A copper trust getting credit for a
cent.
Money is an enigma that everybody
mu't give up.
A chess tournament ia always playod
on the square.
The canned article that goes the quick
est is a dog's tail.
A dentist will file your teeth but not
for ready reference.
Whoii a man claims the earth it is time
to unearth his claim.
Something that should bo looked into
a pretty girl's eyes.
It is unfortunate that a little money
doesn't go a long way.
If thirty-two is the freezing-point,
what is the squcezing-point? Two in
tho shade.
A good many women who havo mar
ried dry goods clerks have got two yardi
of illusion as a premiumi
Ho "Do you believe in high license,
Fannie?"' She "What kind of license?
Marriage license?" Ho changed the
subject. ,
"Who Is that man?" "He's tho ser
vant of old- Smith, the undertaker."
"Ah ? then he's the valet of the thadow
of death." loan Topicu
A Pittsburg man calls his wife by the
boautiful titlo "Virtue," because she ia
her own reward. Sho does all the house
work and gets no wagos. Graphic.
"One swallow docs not make a sum
mer," but it may have occurred to you
thnt one grasshopper makes moro than a
dozen springs. S'orrittoun llerald.
1 like iprmz bettor than the fall,
Said rtoluiison to Brown, i
Because in fall the stove's put up . i
til spring it's taken down. "
liotton Gazette.
Mr. Agilo to Mr. Stoutman, who ws
running after a horse-car "Why, old
boy, I thought you were too lazy to run."
Mr. S. "Easily explained; laziness runt
iu our family."
A warrant was rocently issued in a
North Carolina town for tho arrest of a
man for committing an assault "with a
deadly weapon, to wit, a certain vicious
J and large bull dog."
Tho West Chester iWin suggosts that
a man can hardly trust a signal servico
report that predicts calm weather when
' he has to hold his hat on wilh both
hands whilo he reads it.
The candidate's boomlet now bunglingly
boomuth.
And bashfully buzzeth the beggarly bee:
In the bulge of bis bonnet it busily hummeth
A song like the sob ot the sad sounding sea.
Chicaifl) TribuHt,
A Congressman, on receiving his hat
from tbe clonk-room, asked the waiter
how he knew it was his hut, and was
promply answered: "I didn't know it
was your hat; I only knows it wuz the
hat you cub to me."
Duughtor "Mnnima, wouldn't it be
just lovely if we only had necks like a
giraffe." Mamma "Why, my child
What advantage would it be to us?"
Daughter "Wo could tasto our ice
cream so much longer." Tid-Bit.
Mamie "Jfamma, enn't I go over to
Kitty's house nnd play awhile?" Mamma
(hesitatingly) "1 don't know, dear. I
yes, you cun go for just a littlo while."
Mamie (demurely) "Thank you, main
uiu, I've beeu." DiitU'n Mugjzint.
Which I rise to remark,
And my luugunga is plain.
That for ways that ale dark
And for tricks that ure vain.
This climnhi of ours ia pueuliar.
Lincoln t.Vti.) Journal.
Trsmp (piteously)- -"Fleaso help a
. poor old cripple," Kind Old Oont
I (handing him some money) "Bless me,
why, of course. How are you crippled,
I my poor fe'low'f" Tramp (pockeliug tho
, money) "Financially crippled, sir."
Tlie Hun.
I You have a very sour look this morn
ing," remarked n cucumber to his
neighbora dyspeptic straw berry. "Yes,"
was the tart rcjily; "one is necessarily
unpleasantly nllec'ed when compelled to
associate with such a seedy party as you
aro." "Cauliflower by any other namu
'twill smell as sweet," shouted an onion
near by, with a peel of laughter. Ha
York Fun.
Use No Sugar On Oatmeal.
"Bo careful how you eat oatmeal,"
said a doctor lecently to a reporter for
tho New York Jii7 ami Etprtrn. "Out
meal is a very heuthful food if taken
properly. No food Is healthy if im
properly used.''
"How should it be cuten?"
"If oatmeal is eaten in excess of the
needs of tho body for proper nutrition it
overloads uud taxes the system. It must
not bo eaten partially cooked. Flour,
corn meal, rice and other uppiovcd arti
cles of wholesomo diet are not ieu!thy if
half cooked. If an excess of sugar or
other sweets Is used it will disagree with
many people, causing iudigestion. If
eaten with au excess of c eain it will not
be healthy for some h-i.-.oiis whose
stomachs are too delicate to stand a rich
food. Oatmeal is a hoalthy food when
not used for over-feeding, when suf
ficiently cooked and wheu not used with
an excess of cream or sweets. Outiueul
should be eaten without any sweets,
using a little- milk or cream, a little but
ter, und seasoued with salt a4 the
fccotch dg."