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oaeotlrory.
JR
Chicago is the fifth Scandinavian, city
in the world, and Minneapolis tli
Mith.
Baa Francisco declares sho has been
r-hnken 417 times by earthquakes la the
Ust eighty years.
F.lghly publio buildings, costing the
Government 1)2,000,000, are now in
uise of orection.
The total rote of these United States
the Presidential election of 1831 was
"',(01,851. This year it should reach
.s.000,000.
Jtclva Lock wood, the Presidential
mdldateof the Equal Rights party, is
i n!? to stump the States, and will
"go an admission fee to her meet-
In Brar.il some of the Senators hold
";r term for life. One of them has
; shown himself ia the Sonate for
rty years, and there is now due him a
salary of $000,000.
X aplendid mine of molybdenum, a
iial more precious than silver,' has
''it found in the Cascade Mountains,
ir Tacnma, Washington Territory. It
north $50,000 per ton.
wenty-six members of the Unltod
byterian Church at Bellovue, Pa.,
) favor the use of unfermented wine
!ia sacrament, have withdrawn and
mixed a church of their own.
e body of a Parisian dude was
1 in the Hiver Peine a few days
The youug fellow was dressed in
iip.it fashion, and round his heart
I tattooed these words: ul'out
' anne Granier" All for Jeanne
'phone has been fitted up between
"tice on the Great St. " Bomard
Swiss Alps and the valley below,
: monks are now informed when
ts start to ascend the pass. If
lo not appear within a proper timo
ts are sent to meet thorn.
'tic show that about $00,000,000
Mod in tho hotel business ia New
ftte; ihst the hotels employ over
-the thousand persons, and that
utertaia eighty-seven thousand
daily, at an averago exense of
-00 a day for supplies alone.
Uore are," says the New York Trl
" 'about twice as many women as
in Yucatan, notwithstanding which
lie whole social system of the coua
rcmr to be constructed for the espe
1 . iicfit of the masculine third of the
miuity." N. 11. The men made it."
t unquestionable that the straw or
t'.s worn by American men during
minor is an insuffcient protection
. -t extremo heat Sunstroke is al-
' unknown among the natives of
i rn countries. The coiled turban
i the he id and the general use of
. ellasare protection which people
live ia American cities do sot
.9,
or quickness in raising money for
iuess enterprises Hutchinson, Kan.,
us to outrank so ne of the large
;e. They called a meeting out there
r such a purpose, aud, after the hall
was filled, locked the door. A local
j a;er tells that work then began, and in
just one hour and fiflocn minute (he
sum of $!3 1,090 was subscribed.
Sable Inland, on the coast of Nova
Scotia, is gradually disappearing, and in
a few years more will be totally sub
merged. During one gale iu 1881 a
strip of land seventy feat wide and
quarter of a mile long was washed away,
la 1773 the island was forty mites long
and two and a half miles wide. It is
now only- nineteen aud a half mile?
long and less than a mile wide.
i " j
It Is now possible to travel from Lon
don to Famarcand, in Central Assia, by
rail and steamboat In eight days and
twenty-two hours. It was not very long
ago that a European was unable to visit
Samarcand at all without incurring great
risk of being ki led, and until the build
iug of the Trans-Caspiau llailroad th
best time that could be made between
St. Petersburg and Samarcand was on
mouth.
On April 20th, when off the Westraan
Island, Iceland, the captaiuof the Danish
mail steamer Laura threw overboard a let
ter written in Danish. On May 0th the let
ter was found in the stomach of a cod
caught by a French fisherman o'l Iteyk
janas, about 120 miles distant. The
man showed it to the French Consul at
1'eykjavik, who submitted it to the cap
tuiu of the Laura. It was much decom
posed, but still readable.
The danger of somnambulism is well
known. A writer in the Century tells
of a piece of good fortune coming from
the habit A young lady, troubled and
anxious about a prize for which she was
to compete, involving the writing of au
essay, arose from her bed in sleep and
wrote a paper upon a subject upon
which she Laji not intended to write
when awake, and this essay secured
for her tho prize.
DEATH AND JUSTICE.
Death doth not claim Us with the pa-s'ng
breath;
Before our Lady Justios ca'm he stands
To bear hnr grave, Immutnb' commands;
"Wait, I shall tell you presently," shesalth,
"Walt but a moment's space, my brother,
Death,
While Time, our kinsman, shakos his silent
sanda"
She hold the balance true, with steady
hands
And strong, the little while it wavcreth.
Hatred and Envy must lie still and wait,
Bo, now, must Love and Borrow stand
aside
In breath Inss alienee, pale and eager-eyed,
Till, through th Hps of Justice, speaketh
Fate
"Death.in thy keeping must the man abide;"
Or,"He shall live for aye h:s work Is great"
Graham li. Tomton, in Scribner,
TtfO SHIPS.
Two cirls in the kitchen of a plain,
old-fashioned house were bmy sewing,
tho elder rapidly running a machine, the
younger trimming a straw hat with odds
and ends of ribbons, which sho tried in
vain to coax into some appearance of
i res nn ess.
"How docs It look, Mattief" she asked
anxiously, holding it off a little, and
slowly turning it around. '
Mattie looked up from her machine
without stopping its quick motion,
turned one comprehensive glanco upon
mo nac ana saiu, :iinpulsively : "Like a
Jast year's bird's nest"
)"Oh, dear," said Dolly, flushing all
over her pretty, worried face, and toss
ing the poor little hat into a corner.
"What is the use, any way We may as
well give up and go to the poor house
first as last.''
Til novor give up, first or last," said
Maltie. " Somewhere and somehow I
know thore must bo something better for
us, and we are sure to find it sooner or
later; but in tho meantime I can't afford
to waste any of my sticnth in pretend
ing. Our clothes are old and shabby
and dingy, and it's of no use trying to
make them look anything else."
Dolly gave a sigh that touched Mat-
ue s ncart.
"Poor little Dol!yI It's too bad for
you; your e so sweet and pretty aud pa
tient Just wait till my ship comes in,
"An' you shall hoe siller.
And wear a goold ring."
Dolly smiled.
"That was what father always said
when we wanted anything. I used to
believe in that ship as much as I believed
in next year, and sometimes I indulge
uiji.ii iu urenming auoui ic now and
fancy what it will bring us."
Mattiesetthe last stitches with Kns
compressed, and began iolding thecoarse
shirts on which she working into a com
pact pile.
"Arothey finished!" asked Dolly.
".No; I'll sew on the buttons to-night;
Pm going out to look for our ship."
Mattie put on a hat older and more
openly ugly than Dolly's aud walked
down tho street with her firm, rapid
tread. Once she turned to look back at
the smalt brown house that was the only
inheritance her father had left to his
wifo and girls a fortuno that seemed
indefinitely smaller, now that the mother
had gono also, after a protracted sick
ness that had consumed the last dollar
from tho salo of he orchard and garden.
Tho coarse sewing, with which the girls
managed to keep soul and body together,
was certaiuly better tbnn nothing, and
was considered a rcspcctablo resource,
but at best it was working with starva
tion swinging a merciless lash over their
heads. -
t-ho went where many a poor soul had
Ce with perplexities that seemed no
y's business to the minister. No.
doubt in that penurious, poverty-stricken
community the good man had perplexi
ties of his own, but that only helped him
to sympathize with other people, and
few households held any secrets from.
The old housekeeper, knitting on the
porch, welcomed Mattio kindly. The
minister was away; "gono to South
Adams to 'lend a funeral," but she was
looking for him every minuto.
Matt e went to the study, and turned
wear ly from tho rows of solemn old
books to find refreshment in the papers
upoa the table that seemed so much more
modern and human. There was a story
that looked tempting with its spicy bits
ol conversation, but this was Chap
ter XX.
Then there was a sermon, letters from
a traveler, answers to miscellaneous
queries, household hints and economics,
at which Mattio smiled grimly, w.th the
feeling that she could open some depths
of experience in that line herself, and at
lost a letter from a woman addressed to
the editor, complaining thut tho world
was out of joint and in need of regulat
ing. "So it is," thought Mattie, nodding
assent as heartily as if the writer had
been sitting there in the leather-covered
chuir opposite her. As she read her dark
face flushed, and her breath came more
rapidly. Why, here was a woman in
desperate need of help, and here was
she, asking only the chance to holp her,
and they were but twenty miles apart.
But then, perhaps, the letter was just
made up and put in the paper; perhaps
there was no Mrs. K. L. Howe, aud ut
the thought Matt e threw down the paper
and went to meet the minister who was
coming in at the gate. He smiled at her
impatience and seated himself very
amiably to read the letter, which would
never have attracted his notico. He
smiled again when he look up at her and
quite agreed with ber that the writei was
probably a fiction of somebody's brain,
created to make forcible the undoubted
truth that there were scores of women
with beautiful homes whose wealth
brought them nothing but bondage, be
cause of the impossibility of obtaining
the help of intelligent, dependable caio
taking servants, while there was a great
multitude of women in need of homes
and driven to all manner of muket-hifts
for a mere livelihood, who might, if they
would, supply just this service, with
mutual satisfaction and benefit. The
problem was to bring them together.
"Iiut if the letter were geuuine, my
child, "asked the minuter, "what theui"
"Then," said Mattie, promptly, "I
would write to the womau and ask her
to let me try. I should like nothing
better than to be her housekeeper. I de
light ia housekeeping; )'m a born 900k,
and Dolly would be perfectly happy with
two babies to cuddle and sew for."
The minister looked at her doubtfully.
"1 suspect it is only the rosy side of
her work that ths lettor writer describes;
there must be a Rood many disagreeable
things about the position of cook or
nursery matt."
"There are many unpleasant things
about our present position," began Mat
tio, but stopped abruptly.
Not even to tho minister would sho
have owned that thry were actually
pinched sometimes for suitable food.
"Do you think," she asked, hesitating
ly, "there would be any impropriety In
my writing to this lady to inquire!"
"Not in the least; I will forward your
letter with a line to the editor. Why
not write horei" he continued.
And with the promptness of despera
tion Mattie seized the venerable goose-
quill with which alone the minister
thought it possible to write his sermons,
and penned upon a if i eat square sheet a
brief, ladylike lotter. Tho minister'
endorsement was also brief, to tho effect
that the writer was a sensible, practical
girl, tolerably well educated, and would,
in bis estimation, be a benediction in a
family such as that described in the
communication signed Mrs. . L. Howe.
The joint letter found its way in due
time to tho sanctum of a-puzzled and
amused editor, who frowned and laughed
alternately over its contents, naif ctis
posed to toss it into the waste basket,
but finally nut it iu his pocket with
dozen other documents. It might have
remained there indefinitely, lor trie ed
itor was a young man, and had no per
sonal interest in the domcstio problem,
but, dininir that day with his s'ster, his
serene enjoyment was suddenly disturbed
by a series of dull thumps apon the
stairs, followed by piercinor screams.
"There 1" said Mrs. Lattimcr, rushing
away, "blic s let the baby fall down
stairs; I always said she'd kill itl I shall
dismiss her the minute Fred gets back !"
she punted, rettirninjr with the baby.
never draw an easy, breath except when
tho children are asleep.
"Oh, by the way, Florence," replied
her brother, "I've got hold of a solution
for all your domestic difficulties. Never
say I'm not practical again. Here are
two servants for you made to order a
cook and a nursery maid natives, sis
ters capabiej educated, warranted by
the minister; what more could you ask!"
"liaymond, what on earth are you
talking about!"
"It's all here, you can see for yourself.
The fact is, I've been thinking a good
deal about this labor ouest ion; and one
evening I wrote a letter for tho Journal
purporting to have come from Mrs. E. L.
Howe, letting forth her troubles with
servants, and appealing to the host of
respectable, unemployed women for
help."
"You miserable humbug! I read it
with a sympathizing heart, and meant to
write to her myself our cases are so
much alike only I forgot it"
"Well, here comes a letter from a rus
tic maiden, who speaks for her sister
and herself, and proposes to undertake
the job. She in serious earnest ton,
and I'm quite impressed by her letter.
JuU read it."
V.Mrs. Lattimer read with a critical not
to say skeptical air,
"I'd sooner have Bridget with all her
peppery temper. Deliver me from supe
rior, I'm as-good -as-you-aro. servants. I
intend to bu mistress in my house, and I
want servauts and not companions and
friends." .
"All right, you have my approval
there; but I thought the trouble was
you were not niistro s. They obey just
far enough to oiaoie tnem to Keep their
places aud draw the r wages, and they
have no conception of any Other kind of
service. Now, if I were a housekeeper
I should try these girls; certainly you
couidu t be worse oil.
'If you wore a housekeeper you would
do just as tho rest of us do bear the ills
wo know rather than tempt the un
known."
"Perhaps so; I'm profoundly thankful
I'm not a woman, to go on doiug a
thing to all eternity because my grand
mother did it before me, and my neigh
bors would th'uk it 'so queer' of me to
try any now way."
"What are you going to do about tho
letter You really ought to answer it."
"So I shall. 1 shall tell the minister
I have forwarded the letter to Mrs. K. L,
Howe, who will correspond with him if
she decides to pursue the matter."
If the editor's letter, proving that Mrs.
E. L. Howe was no myth, created deep
and profound excitoment in the little
circle ol tnreo, what can Le said 01 the
effect produced by a letter addressed to
Miss .Mattio Harper, offering to her and
her sister service in the household of the
writer, with wages and conditions very
carefully specified? To be sure, it was
signed Mrs. Frederic Lattimer, but of
course one would use a fictitious name
in a paper. The letter was written in
very plain terms; it said servants, and
not "hired girls" which was supposed in
liingham to lie a title of greater tespect,
and stipulated that the engagement was
only for a month of trial, at the end of
which tune, if Airs. J.altimer be not
ploased, she would pay their expenses
home.
"it'll come pretty tough on you,
Marthv Harper, being looked dowa on
as a servant," said the kind old house
keeper. "You wou't have any 'sociation
with the fain ly. '
'I don't tare to associate with the
family: we dou't associate with the men
we make shirts for. suiu Mattie.
shall have Dolly, and Dolly will have
me, and we shall both have tho babies.
I dou't think we shall care for much
more."
It was only at Mattie's earnest entreaty
that the minister forbore to accompany
them to their new home.
"It would look as if we expected to be
received as something more than we are,"
she said to Dolly.
tnd I want har
. ViW ,. . .
understand that all we ask is fair wages
for fair work."
So they went alone. - A smart looking
maid answered their ring at the door
bell calculated their social standing at a
glance, and left them in the hall while
she went for her mistress. Presently the
girl came back and conducted them to
the kitchen. Muttie's eyes noticed that
the floor was unswept, the range greasy,
and a pile of unwholesome looking tow
els lay ou the table; for Bridget bad
been goue a week, and a procession of
supplies, each one worse than the last,
had held brief possession of her king
dom. "I am so glad It isn't a basement
kitchen, aud see what a large nice yard,"
she said to Dolly, whose eyes were ready
to overflow.
Something came clattering along thfl
hall, and the door was pushed open to
admit a beautiful boy of four, drawing
a tin horse after him.
Oh, you darling 1 exclaimed Dolly,
rapturously.
Uut the boy drew back little, fay
ing: "Where's Bridget?"
And in a minute the nurse pounced
upon him and dragged him off, calling
him "a little torment and a bad, naughty
boy."
Mattie's first bread, rashly andertakea
with Bridget's home made yeast, was an
utter failure, and tho baby clung obsti
nately to Johanna in spite of Dolly's
blandishments, while Mrs. Lattimer,
knowing nothing of housekeeping her
self, hnd not a particle of.paticnco with
ignorance in others, and clung to her
deep persuasion that nothing but the
most vigorous putting down could ever
keep those girls from disagreeable as
sumption. Iiut long before tho end of
the month Dolly reigned sweet and se
rene in the nursery, wore her nurse's
cap without an uncomfortable thought,
and drank in delight from the shaded
park, with its flowers and birds and
fountains, as unconscious of bitter servi
tude as the children she loved and
guarded.
"As for Mattie," Mrs. Lattimer con
fessed to her brother, "she's invaluable,
and I shall never be able to endure an
ordinary servant again, but if she hadn't
known her mind better than I did mine
we would have parted the very first
week. That's one blessed thing your
old journal has done for the labor ques
tion, and if my ship ever comes in I'll
endow the paper out of gratitude."
"Ah, I always felt that I teas born to
be a benefactor," said the editor.
"Your ship would have come iu long
ago if you bad called me for a pilot."
"And which ono did he marry?" asks
the saucy girl at my elbow.
Neither f them, my dear. Pretty
Dolly, in the course of time, went back
to Hiugbamand married a farmer's boy,
who had worked his way through col
lege, and was not shamed of his wife
for having made her way in the same
fashion; and Mattie, for aught I know,
is a middle-aged and respectable old
maid, living oa her savings, and edu
cating heathen ia Africa. For this story
has nothing to do with marrying or
giving in marriage, but with the fact
that a good many ships that are Con
tinually at sea might oma prosperously
in, if they would join comany with each
other, without regarding tli fact that
one might be a merchant vessel, and the
other simply a lugger. Congregation'
alitt.
Implements of the National Game.
The national game of baseball has
taken so deep a hold upon the youth of
this generation asserts the New York
2'riliuns, that to keep pace with the de
mand for balls and bats big 'factories
have sprung up in many localities, and
hundreds of working men and women
gain a liveliMiPd turning the bats over
their lathesTSS sewing the covers by
hand over the inner core of the sphere,
which is now made by machinery. Bats
are shipped to this city by the carload
from Michigan and West Virginia, and
it is estimated that 50,000 cords of ash
and willow wood were thus used last
winter for this summer's trade. The
bulk of the bats are used by amateur
players, of course.
Willow is the favorite material for the
popular bat, as)ts lightness is combined
with a sufficient amount of strenth for
youthful players, and West Virginia
turns out tho best grade of this variety.
Tho superior toughness of ash makes it
indispensable for the great strain which a
professional player subjects it to. and
Arichigan's forests furnish nn inexhausti
ble supply of this tough wood. The
manufacture of balls demands more care.
The better class of balls, those of regu
lation size and weight, as prescribed by
the professional rules, are covered with
horse hide, stretched with double linen
thread, well waxed and smoothed by
machinery.- The inner core is of rubber
carefully wound about with yarn by
hand until the correct size is obtained.
The practice ball, or boys' ball, is cov
ered with sheepskin, and is more cheaply
and roughly made. The core is usually
compose anf leather scraps, which are
pressed into a spherical shape by ma
chinery and have no more yarn wound
around them than is necessary to hold
the scrauTtgeth6r until the cover is put
on. Tafesiga of cover now iu uni
versal use differs widely from the old
"star" pattern. It consists ot two strips
of leather cut something like the figure
eight, or even like the heelless sole of a
baby's shoe. These, when laid over the
sphere, exactly cover it and are more
easily sewn together than any other pat
tern, and if the man who invented it
had only patented his idea he might
have been reaping a fortune for hi
pains.
The City or Quito.
If it were not for the climate, Quito
would be in the midst of a perpetual pes
tilence ; but notwithstanding the pre
vailing tilihiness, there is vory little sick
ness, and pulmonary diseases are un
known. Mountain fever, produced by
cold and a torpid liver, is the commonest
type of disease. The population of the
city, however, is gradually decreasing,
and is said to be now about sixty thou
sand. There were five hundred thou
sand people at Quito when the Spaniards
came, aud a huudred years ago the pop
ulation was reckoned at double what it
is now. Half the houses in the town are
empty, and to see a new family moving
iu would be a sensation. Most of the
finest residences are locked and barred,
and have remained so for years. The
owners are usually political exiles who
W"T1I,8 elsewhere, and can neither
"Olnorreut their properly. Political
revolutions are so common, and their re
sults are always so disastrous to the un
successful, that there is a constant
strain of fugitives leaving the State.
Anuri-.an ilugazint.
Author (to Editor) " Have you ex
amined my last story, Mr. Snippitt'1
Kditor " Yes. It seems alt right with
one exception." Author " What is
that) " Kditor" Ia oue place you lost
sight of the eternal fitness of things aud
made quite a blunder." Author "In
deed!" Kditor "Ves, sir. The scent
is laid ia Kentucky, as you remember,
and yet ia one incident you make the
hero's mouth water," Idea,
FOX HUNTING IN ENGLAND.
OUTDOOR SPORTS OF 1VOHDLY
. 8SUIBE3 AND NOBLE DAMES.
those Who Follow the Hound Ite
qnire a Trusty Steed and a Good
Seat Reymard's Cunning.
Coursing with the greyhound and hunt
ing the hare with harriers is a kindred
Enjoyment to fox hunting, but of a more
selfish nature, as they lack tho first
named altogether the presence of that
necessary and charming element, the
ladies.
It may not bo out of place, says W.Fen
wick in the Detroit Fret lYcu, to give
some minor particulars in connection
with tho sport in question, as conducted
in England, not generally known. To
begin then, the pedigree of each hound
it is exceedingly improyer to say "dog"
is kept as carefully as a race horse, and
although to an un practiced eye all the
pack looks as much alike as peas, yet
the huntsman and "whips" if not the
master knows each by name and sight,
and could, perhaps, tell the pedigree of
either without reference. tile talking
once with a huntsman in his house ad
joining the kennels, I was surprised that
he could instantly detect a quarrolsome
member by hl growl, which would be
quickly silenced by naming and threaten
incthe offenderl Hounds after the hunt
ing season are fed but once a day, when
they have a "lively gorge" from troughs,
the only meat being boiled up with bis
cuits, of which the meal largely con
sists. They answer quickly to the call
of their names at feeding time by the
huntsman at the kennel door, and when
they appear, in his judgment, to have
had sufficient, they are named to retire
from the banquet, but often withalet-me-stay-a-bit-longcr
look. The pack,
too, is exercised several times daily, and
is not dangerous to strangers in the open,
but should you appear ia an enclosure
the "spotted beauties" immediately give
tongue, whereupon a wise person would
make himself conspicuous by his absence.
A good hunter requires nerve, a good
"seal" and a trusty steed. If Ihe ap
pointed meet is at the residence of the
master or some other member of the
hunt, a breakfast profuse with cham
pagne only increases the feeling of eager
no.ss for the frav.
The busy haunts of man are left and
covers drawn till the welcome "gone
awav" succeeds the lure tongue of a
trusty hound and tha sport begins in
earnest. I remember when a boy watch
ing a "draw" from a hill, when lieynard,
unobserved by anyone but my noble
self, broke cover and passed by me; not
realizing the importance of calling on
the pursuers, I stood there with all Ihe
dignity of the boy on the burning aeck,
with the proud satisfaction that sooner
or later the whole "hunt" must pass in
review before me. This occurred a few
minutes later when the huntsman, being
told in reply to an inquiry that I had
seen the fox pass, asked why I had not
shouted. I was lucky to be out of range
of his whip. Imagine the chagrin thut
must have filled the hearts ot the hunt
ing fraternity of Ireland when they were
turned back by the ruthless tenants, or
of a daring rider listening to the music of
the pacK as they passnis country uomain,
and who,
Owing to his having had a spill,
Is obliged to be absent against his will.
I have omitted to mention that the
early season is called cub hunting, when,
should a son of the master be making his
debut he may have to suffer from the
huntsman the "indignity" of having the
gore of the first fox killed, smeared over
his face, which "initiation" is called
"blooding." Of course there is no
greater pest of the poultry yard than the
fox, and yet as an encourage.ncnt to
small farmers in some parts of England
not to destroy this noctural marauder,
their claims for lost poultry are paid
once a year and a willful destroyer of
these animals is looked upon by the hunt
with much contempt and his property
seldom, if ever, tried.
So many excellent stories of Reynard's
cunning have been recorded the au
thenticity of which I do not doubt thai
it would be superfluous to add to them
here, but I may say that I have knows
instances of a "long brush ' after a fox
which resulted in no "brush," the cau
dal appendage having been omitted by
nature or more probably removed by
some hearthless opponent of tho chase
into whose hands Key nurd had some tim
fallen much to the disgust of the first
in at the death who would have to be
content with some other limb as a "tro
phv" of the occasion.
The lato Kev. Jack Pussell, who bore
tho soubruiuetof "the hunting parson,"
was notorious in England for many years
for the profound interest he took in the
noble sport. He was often known to
ride o church in hunting costume,
change it in the vestry and perform
marriage ceremony aud then appear at
the covert side soon after. The Princi
of Wales took a very friendly interest in
him. In conclusion, the topic has 1
financial savor about it, as it is custom
ary to say the hound first finding the
quarry gave a welcome note, and that
later oa the pack received a check from
the fox, probably because they were
without a scent!
Deceitful Sponges.
Temptingly displayed along Four
teenth street are baskets of beautiful
white sponges, offered at marveluuslj
low rates. K is probably worth the ex
perience to pay the few cents demanded
for an attractive looking sponge inas
much as one will find that those sponges
are not the clean aud airy things they
seem to be. After a year's immersion in
water, hot or cold, it will be found that
the sponge still retains the consistency
of a petrified and perforated rock. The
clear white color is due to the bleaching
effect of a chemical of such peculiar
power that the bleach remains long after
the sponge itself has disappeared. n
York Triburu.
Robust Mail Carriers.
In many of the back districts of Ken
tucky the mails are oftuo carried as far
as thirty-five miles by men who
walk the whole distance once a day. A
local paper thus describes one of these
sturdy carriers: "Mr. Dougherty is very
accommodating to persons living along
the line (he ought to be.) He will carry
a saddle, bee-hive, pup, or even a dog,
if he is not too big, aud he is offered
enough. He will rid a horse through
for any on for a quarter, and carry tui
mail pouches oa his shoulder."
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
The Rose of Order.
How can I toll herf
By hef Cellar,
Cleanly shelves and whitened walls.
I ran guess her
By her dresser.
By the back staircase and hall,
And wilh pleasure
Take her measure
By the way she keeps her brooms;
Or the piping
At tho "keeping"
Of hr back and unseen rooms;
By her kiteher's air of neatness,
And its general completeness,
Wherein in cleanliness and sweetness
The Kose of Order blooms.
Builder.
Gathering Hose Leaves.
The delightful work of gathering rose
leaves is best done early in the morning
or late ia the evening. Shake into a
wide basket the petals from rores that
are about to fall to pieces. The rose
leaves shou'd be spread out on a sheet
laid down in a dry place where the wind
will not disturb them. Rose leaves
gathered on different days should not
be mixed, but each collection oa the
sheet should be stirred and turned every
day. when they are all nearly dry they
can be heaped together an I finished off
on another sheet. When quite dry put
up in self-scaling fruit jars. These
dried leaves alone, packed ia as tight as
they can be pressed down, may be used
to till a fancy jar which, wheo left opea
for a short time, will perfume a room if
the rose leaves are stirred up a little.
AdW lork World.
A Useful Contrivance.
For the benefit of tired mortals who
recline in hammocks most of the time
during the warm months there is a con
trivance from which, if properly made,
they will derive much ease and comfort,
Make a square frame of wood and cover
with auy light fabric, and place a tmcK
fringe of the same at the bottom. To
the ton of tho frame nail three pieces of
board, two at the sides aid one in the
center, the three meeting together, ot
attach cords in the same manner by
which hang to a screw above the ham
mock. On one side of tho frame attach
cords as for a kite, and have a cord long
enough to put through another screw oa
a post on a line with the side ou
hammock, which, when swung, w
cause the frame to swing and stir a de
lightful breeze. A damp towel can be
attached to the bottom, instead of the
fringe, during the intense heat. A string
tied to a screw on another post if pulled.
will swing tho hammock. If this is too
much exertion let some one else pull it
This frame, with more adornment, can
be utilized as a fly fao. JJe.ro U Free
Preu.
Apples in Many Styles.
large proportion of sugar, niucil ige and
omer nuirmve cuuijiuuuui iu iug xuriu
of fo-u, apples contain such a line co n
bination of vegetablo acids, attractive
substances and automatic principles,
with tho nutitive mutter, as to act
powerfully in the capacity of refriger
ants, tonics and antiseptics, and when
freely used at the season of ripeness, by
rural laborers and others, they prevent
debility, strengthen digestion, correct
the putrefactive tendency of nitrogen!
ous food, avert scurvy and probably
maintain and strengthon the power of
productive labor."
"Of all fruits none are more healthful
or afford a greater variety of dishes than
apples. We give the following recipes
for preparing them, all of which will bo
found to be ojJient:
"Stkwi r.Ks. Pare tart apples.
cut them faarters and remove the
cores, put them in a porcelain kettle,
stew with sugar, add the juice of half a
lemon and a lew bits of the rind, cover
with boiling water nnd simmer gently
until tender. Dish very carefully with
out breaking the pieces and serve cold,
"Bakeii Ai'I'i.kx. Wipe sweet apples
dry and clean, remove the cores without
paring, put them in an earthen aish ana
bake in a moderato oven until tender.
Serve cold with sugar and cream.
"Coddled AiTi.KC Pare tart apples,
remove the cores, stand in a kettle,
cover with sugar, pour in a little boiling
water, put on the lid and allow the ap
ples to stoam oa the back of the stove
until very tender. Dish carefully with
out breaking, pour the syrup over them
and stand away to cool.
"Comi'otb ok Arfi.Ki. Quarter,
neel. core and cook a dozen apples with
a little water and sugar. Take up the
apples, boil down the syrup, add a sliced
lemon aud a handful of raisins, let jel y
aud pour over the apples.
"Ari-i.K Sxow. l'are and core some
large apples without dividing them,
Boil some rice for ten minutes, drain and
let cool. Spread the rice iu as many
portions as there are apples on small
cloths, tie tho fruit separately in these
and boil for three-quarters of aa hour,
turn them carefully on a dish, sprinkle
with sifted sugar and serve with sweet
sauce.
"AriM.iis with Winri'ED G'heau.
Tare and core large juicy apples, till the
cavities wiiu suar uuu a inuo lemon
juice and a little grated rind, put them
in a pan with a little water in the bot
tom. Sprinklo tho top with sugar, bake
them and when done set to cool. Cover
entirely with whipped cream, sweetened
aud tluvored.
"Al'i'i E Mkhinutk. Boil tart apples;
after they are pared nud cored rub
through a coluuderand sweeten to taste.
To a pint of the pulp stir in lightly th
beaten whites of six eggs flavor, put iu
a pudding dish, set in the oven, brown
and serve with custard.
"C'UAHI.OTTK l)K PoMMK. Cut tCUSOUl
apples into quarters, peel, put them in a
kettle with hot water and two cups of
sugar, and stew uutil they are clear.
When they ate done, liue a large dish
with slices of rponge cake, turu the ap
ples iu, make a ouud hole in the middle
aud till with the ,'yrup in which the ap
ples were cooked. '1 Leu put them in a
stove oven for au hour. Turu it out on a
dish, place over tho top slices of sponge
cake. Serve with sugar aud lemon
juice.
'Ahpi k Float. Pare and slice some
ripe apples; stew down and run through
a sieve; beat to every quart of apples
the whites of twelve eggs aud a pound
of sugary Flavor with extract of leiaou.'
P
ole electric lights, to be hung to
UULIVII, lla lug UCT 1UTQU11VU I ui
eat of readers upon cars. Thus
e4 fin
buf
n can become his own lightning
THE TWO ARCHERS. -
Upon the hills above th heights .
Of life two archers stand ; I
One like an angel seeming bright,
Th other dark and grand. ,'
First th bright anel bends his bow
Though wonnded, still the victim lives;
Blinded, his wound he doth not know,
But love th pain it gives.
Then tho dark angel, oon or late,
Doth with his strong arm bend his boW
Swift speeds his arrow, Ilk to fate.
And ends the mortal's woe. - r '
These ar th archers high above
. Tho tides of mortal life and breath
Th cruel angol archer, Love,
Th pitying angel, Death.
Philadelphia Newt.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Hard to beat A wet carpet
- Sic transit Crossing the ocean.
The cream of society Ice cream.
A stitch in one's side never seams
good.
A girl's "yes" generally has the genu
ine ring.
Toot terrible The blast of the ama
teur cornet player.
Lack of opportunity to steal is a pro
lific case of honesty.
No use before broke A honso. No
use after broke A man.
There is some quiet activity but very
little bustle about the dress-reform move
ment.
Definition of a secret "Something
for one, enough for two, nothing for
three."
The broker who tries to keep "in the
swim" has to water his stock to a large
extent
Coffee is going up and down so much
in the market it has good grounds for
being riled.
The cannon is liko a" fashionable
woman, inasmuch as it is accustomed to
powder and balls.
Single misfortunes seldom come alone,
and the greatest is generally accom
panied by a still greator.
An electric boat was recently launched
in New York harbor, presumably ofl the
Battery. N,ib JIaotn Jftiet.
Young physicians are often angry. At
least, they are sometimes found out of
patients. XatheilU American.
"Did he eject you?" "No. I wouldn't
've minded mild treatment of that sort
He kicked me out" 2Vtw York Sun.
A woman may refuse to tell her ago,
but she cannot conceal her rage. That
speaks for itself. NurrUtown Herald.
Mother "Come here, child; I'll sew
the buttons on myself." Fanny "I'd
rather have them sewed on the boot."
One swallow does not make a summer
of course not; but one summer makes
an immense amount of swallowing.
Picayune. '
Suggestioa to the theatrical manager
Goto Castle Garden for your Roman
soldiers; a broth of a boy ought to make
a good supe.
Talk about the meanness of murder
ing a man for f 'tO. We know a small
boy that struck his mother for a dime.
lieu) York isun.
You can't always judge of the quality
of a city's inhabitants by the "sample
men" it sends over the country. Pitt
burq Cironicle.
The inventor of the barbed wire fence
got his idea from the autograph of
Russian Prince traveling in this country.
New York S n.
Teacher (to class) "Why is procrasti
natiou called the thief of time?" Boy
(at foot of class) "Because it takes
person so long to say it" Life.
The milkmaid known In former days,
If plain was not unbearable.
And oftea won ths poet's praise;
But the milk made now is terrible)
Jacksonville Citizen.
"A man can't be everything; his
lordship is a man of quality, not of
quantity," said a wit of the third Earl of
Aberdeen on his making a false quan
tity. A grocer over in Bloomington is sup.
posed to be the honestest man in world,
lie chases the flies off the beam of his
scales before he allows them to balance.
Mercury.
The meanest man so far on record
lives in New Haven. His wife asked
Lira to give her a pet, some animal that
would stick by her, and the next even
ing he brought home a leech.
Mrs. Truthseeker "John, dear, I
re id of them making such a lot of fish
plates for railroad tracks. What kind
of fish do they use there?" Mr. T.
"What kind of fish? Guess it's pike."
Uritfihic.
Jack Hardup (who always forgets to
repay)"! say, old fellow," lend me $1,
will youl I have nothing but a large
bill in my pocket." Friend (who has
been caught before) "Whose is it, youi
tailor's? ' L 'e.
"Deviled crabs?" said the horrified
waiter at a Luke Chautauqua eating
house. "Oh, dear, no! We couldu'l
give you anything of that kind, sir)
Won't you have some angel cake in
stead?" Cliienjo Tribune
We are told in a Hem that "the hand
that rocks the cradle is the hand that
rules the world." This is, no doubt, a
pretty sentiment; but the author ought
to kuow that about eight women out oi
ten rock the cradle with their feet
Mercur;. ,
Nothiug else is so calculated to work
on a niau's sympathies as the sight of s
young man's painful effort at unconcern
while he is scratching his brow with the
hand with which he would have tipped
his hat to a young lady if she hudu't cut
him dead. Juttiie.
" Mamma," said a young ludy, "what
would be au appropriate present to giv
George. You kuow we are net engaged
yet?" " How long has he been calling
upon youl" "About two years." "Thca
I ihiuk a pretty plain hint will be the
proper thing tJ give him." Nete York
Nrire,
Kueh an affable man! I was glad w had met,
r or ho made a short ho'ir uiu&t pluuaut,
lie ipuka iu a way 1 ahull never forgot
Oa tfluestiniM loueeriiiug tho prtMeut
His opimous suited my 011 lot T;
1 retfrelUxi that bnuf hour a durance
Wheu uiy cuttt by tli buttons b took, Slid
he said:
" Ar you carrying any lnturanoor"
UmuAa Uerla