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country. No relic will b taken of aaonf mout
Experiments at Chicago prove Tcxai
fover to bo contagious. .., .
The longest ocean cablo In the world
ia to bo laid from Canada to Australia,
7300 miles.
Statistics of the cost of publis educa
tion In Prussia has just been published.
The; show that tho cost is fifteen cents
per head.
A Kansas ranchman predicts that
cheap beef and mutton of the future will
come from tho immenso grassy plains of
J rft.il and the Argentine Republic.
Tho German colon; In China is said
to number about GOO mombor. Tho
number of German inerenntilo firms is
! out sixty-five, larger than that of any
other nationality excepting England.
Competout authorities cstimnto tho
totnl area of 'and in British India ca
i nblu of producing wheat at nearly 70,
000,000 acres, lets than one-third of
which has as yet been utili.ci for the
purpose,
The only recognized G. A.. K post
outside of the United Statos is said to be
'" in Honolulu, Sandwich. Island J. It is
ailed Post George W. Do Long and nl-
ays observes Memorial Day with fitting
re monies.
California now ranks sixteenth in the
t of States arranged from a point of
: lway mileage Illinois to ids with COOO
,les of road, closely followed by Iowa
a, and Kansas, while Ca'ifornia
i.k sixteenth with 3077.
'i lie California State Board of Horti
: 'ito offers prizes for essays on tho
t methods of crystalizing fruits. Tho
;'id flavor of most crystali.ed fruit
lie objection. Whon this is over
, tho sales will largely Increase.
tiring the last five years -lil lives
o been lost at sea among tho English
ing fishermen. There are 40,'.! 2 1
mien and boys regularly employed.
niiml:cr of boat is 15, 1:1.1, aud . tin
nl invested in tho:n und in their
ttid lines exceeds 8, W000.
ts school census of Ch'cugo shows a
population of 802,651, an increase
i.e last two yoara of OP.Siil. Tho
..:;e yearly increase of tho city is
'iij. The total tor Cook county 1
1,1)83, an Increase iu two years of
. S;', aud iu eight years of 434,401.
lU's tho Chicago suburbs contain
it 150,000 peop'dj railing Chicago
iiy to near 1,000,000 souls.
nl aa hunting is, according to tlx
snta Cini'itutton, the popular amuse
:it iu Biazil. On the frontiers it is a
tmon thing for parties of white men
attack Iiidinn villages and slaughter
i inhabitants. When this U impossl
e. they poison tho wells with strych
ie, and in this way murder helpless
. d innocent victims by wholesale. The
.ittcr will be brought to the notice of
.t) government.
Fays the Few York Sun: '.'Now thero
s another rush of invalid like that of
ne consumptives who go to the abat
, o r to bo eu ed. This time tho rush is
by rheumatics, who believe that they can
be cured by standing near tho dynamos
in electric light establishments. This
new fad grows out of the idea that moo
employed in tho munufuctu o or u 0 of
electricity novcr htvo rheumatism or
neuralgia. It U said to be a fact, and
another statement 1s that if a rheumatic
yets work thaftakes him constantly bo
tide dynamos, hit disease, quickly leaves
hni."
Port Huron, Mich., has a gas well
(but is six years n'.d. 'Ilia Under did
not know what it was when they struck
it. It was p it down for oil, aud us the
Timet eays, the objects for which the
work was undortaken not hav'ng been
reached, it was abandoned, und by sonio
strange phase in this wide-nwuke com
rounity it is being forotteu. Tho silo
of the hole was orig'ually a hollow basin.
It is now a mound. The a tion of the
gas through thosa years has forced over
600 tons of matter out of Iho bowels o!
the earth and is still at work. A powet
that might have been used in I'ghting
and heating our city is thus miming to
waste in buldiug a miniature hill.
The practice of sub-irrigation by meant
of tiles, says the New York Tim'4, is the
exact reverse of tilo dra'uago, watei
being supplied to tho land through the
tiles iuatead of being drained away from
it. But theie is uo economy in the
quantity of water used ; the ground must
be saturated anyhow, and it makes nc
matter how the water is supplied.
Twenty thousand gallons would supply
an acre of land with three-fourths of an
inch of water, and this would be sulli
c ent iu Florida, if given once a week,
so that a tank of this capacity filled ever
twenty-four hours would supply tivt
acres. At first a much larger quantity
of water is required until the soil is tilled,
and then the quality evaporated only
needs to be restored. This quantity de
pends, of coifree, upon the dryness of I ht
weather and upou tho nature of the soil,
i-uudy land aud porous subsoil iis'riu
in ji e wuter by percolation than hta;ei
Jaud with clay under it.
MOSS.
Strang tapestry, by nature spun
On viewless loams, aloof from sun,
And spread through lonely nooks and grots
Where shadows reign, and leafy rest
On, most, of all your dwelling spots,
In which one are youjovelieitl
Is It when near (rrlit-rthat coil
Their snaky hlrSfoiigh humid solll
Or when yotPwrap In woodland gloom,
The great prone pine trunks rotted redi
Or when you dim, on timbre tombs,
The 'Toquieseats" of the dead!
Or is It when your lot is east
In some tpiaint garden of the past
On some gray, crumble I basin's brim,
With conches thnt mildewed tritons blow
Whila yonder, through the poplars prim
Looms up the turreted clint-aol
Nay, loveliest, are you when time weaves
Your emerald films on low, tlark leaves,
Above where pink porch roses peer.
And woodbines break in fragrant foam,
And children laugh and you can hear
The beatings of tlie heart of bom.
Edgar Fuwcttt, in M til and Exprttx.
CAUGHT N A STORM.
"We might just as well have been
standing behind tho counter in Jew
Yor.i all theso ten days," sighed Barbara
Hale, "for all tho out-of-the-way advent
ures we've had:1'
"Who wants out-of-the-way advent
ures!" raid l)orca Dunn, scornfully.
"Behind the counter, indeed !" chimed
in JInry Vnnnecker. "Can you breathe
in clover scented air like this behind the
counter) Can you get a mountain view
like this from Sixth avenue? What more
would the girl want, I should like to
knowf
Bnrbara sighed once more, and shook
her head.
"It isull so tamo," said the. "Itisn't
what 1 expected at nil."
Tho three girls Barbara, Dorcas and
Mary were sitting on a side hill, under
the sh.itlo of a gram! old cedar tree.
Banmrn, who had once tai-cn a ntiaiter's
lessons in drawing, had a sketch ard in
her lap, nnd was trying with but ill
success, it must be owned to reproduce
tho lovely, rihboc-like curves of the river
that wound its way through the valley
below.
ilary had her needlework iu her lap,
and Dorcas, with her hands clapped
under her head, had long given up all
attempt to rcd the puper cotered
novel that tho bad brought with her.
"Tho y and the sunshine are so much
better 1" she said.
They were three shop girls bright,
amWtiou', spirited young things, full of
life and aspiration,,- oven though they
were kept down by th; force of ciicum
stancet; nud llicy hud c ubbed together
thoir slender resources, in ordor to enjoy
their vacutiou to bettor advantage.
Dprcas, the Im-iuess member of tho
firm, had bought an excursion ticket
firxt. ami traveled out to Svhcpp's Valley
to soo w hat could bo done. But it is
needless to say that the hotel and board
ing house prices were far beyoud their
simple meaus.
"Js there no plate," said she, "where
wc could obtaiu one room auci the very
simple-it fare, for less money!"
"Vou nvghl try old Man Morris's,"
said the portly duum who kept the Vnllcy
House. "IiV a tjuiit place, and Mrs.
.Morris she ain't iio great of n cook, but
there s them us has boarded there, I'm
tjld."
"Where is it." eagerly askel Dorcas.
Aud the land ady went to tho door
to point out a lender blue thread tif
smoke that was curling up licavcuward
from a m ss of woods on a distant hill,
and once mote 1 orcas set fonh on her
pilurim ige, this time with undoubted
success.
Mie engaged one room. Tho board,
to-be-sure, was plain, the bod a coarse
husk mattress, with a blanket spread on
the Moor for Dorcas herself, the furniture
home-made aud unpuinud. But there
was a grove of p ne woods in the rear;
the blackbirds piped their siliur liutes
all day long, and the bees darted in and
out of the red lilies by the garden wall,
and our three heroines believed them
tcUci to be In Paradise.
But even as Barbara Hale thus be
wailed herself, a portentous ahadow
crept across t lie sun, and looking around,
they enw that a mas, of livid purple
thunderclouds h id piled themselves up
along the western i-ky, while distant
muttering, antt not, and then a sudden
Mash, Announced the coming of a storm.
'Dorcas sprang to her feet. Barbara
began hurriedly to fold up her sketching
apparatus. Mary put her thimble and
tt i-sois in her pocket,
"Wo must get home as quickly as
possible!" cried a 1 three.
But iu availing themselves of a "short
cut ' a ross a palcli of woods, they got
hnpelciuly lot. The suu set behind the
purple battlement of clouds, the dusk
fell rapidly in these dense woods, and
tl.o rain began to patter down in huge
dro s.
Barbara, the uspirant after adventuro,
begun to cry.
"Wc are l"ott." said she.
".'ost! Nonsense!" said brave Dorcas.
"When I can sea the inilway track shin
ing dotvu below. Who ever got lost
close to a railway Hue? Let', make for
too. trac k."
"Aud get run over," lamented Bar
bara. "'ot likely, when there's only one
train a day, and that at noon," laughed
Dorcas. "If we walk along the railway
liue, we must come out somewhere, dou't
you ee?''
"And besides," added Marv, 'there
is a little ruined cabin not far from
here, where the railroad flagman used to
live before they changed the location of
the station. I remember Airs, ilo ris
showing it to meonce."
h: oh!" shrieked Barbara, "I
couldn't go there! The flagman was
killod ou the tra k. There's a k g ghost
there!"
"Would you rRther stay here and be
drenched through w.th rain." severely
demanded Mary.
"Or ttruck with lightning!" added
Dorcas.
Aud the upshot of it was that the
three fugitives took refuge in a misera
ble old shanty close alongside of the
railroad track, where weed wore grow
ing up through the cracks of thu lloor,
and a pleutilul portion of rain came pat
tering through the leaks iu the roof,
while the old atone chimney, all settling
to one side, looked as if no stroke of
'ightuiugcou,ld h'0 it very much
"But it' FOine shelter," said Mary,
cheerfully. "We'll stay here until the
shower is over, nnd then make the best
of our way home."
The shower, however, showed no in
dication of abating in its vigor. Tho
raia still poured down in sheets; the
thunder still bellowed through the rocky
gorge where the cabin had been built;
the lightning stdl lit up everything with
sudden spurt, of blue name, like panto
mime effect,.
"Oh, dear) oli, dear 1" f aid Barbara
wringing her hands; "it must be mid
night I"
"It can't be but nine o'clock yet," said
Mary.
"And I'm so hungry! Oh, howl wish
I hadn't eaten the last of those sand
wiches 1 Oh, oh! what is thati" flut
tered Barbara.
An- unusually vivid electric flash had
revealed something white and spectral
at the window. All three girls jumped
at once.
"The ghost!" shrieked Barbara, stop
ping her ears and shutting her eyes as
tight as was practicable.
"A stray white cow," suggested Mary.
"A young man in a llunnel tennis
suit," said Dorcas, the closest observer
of ell.
"Don't let him coino in," said Bar
bs ra. "We shall be robbed and mur
dered ."
".Xot while we aro three to one," said
composed Dorcas.
And at the same moment a voice sound
ed hurriedly at.the door:
I "Ploaer may I' como in. I know it
t seem, intrusion, but it's raining a deluge,
unit l ni wet inrongn. -
"Come in by all means," said Mary.
And the ghost entered, dripping like a
fountain.
,- "All in the darki" said he groping his
way.
"There are uo gas jet, here," said
Dorcas, ironically.
"But we might have a little blaze of
sticks," ha.arded the new arrival, shak
ing h mself like a Newfoundland dog.
"1 saw by that last glare of lightning,
that there was a heap in tho corner, and
I've got my match. box intact."
"Oh, thut would be aplendcd!" cried
Dorcas, w ho was wot aud shiverinir.
"And I've got some l.sh on a string
outside, and we could liavo lorao sup
per," suggested the ghost, cheerfully.
"I'm so-o o hungry!" wailed Bnrbara.
The stranger was evidently used to
mountain camping. He had a fire kin
dled iu no time, and the fish, cleaned
by aid of his pocket-knife and washed
in one of the pool, outside, were pres
ently boiling over the coals, emitting a
most savory smell.
" Vou must bo a good genius!" cried
Mary.
"I'm only a tramp," said the ghost.
"And I'm ever so much obliged to you
young iadies for letting me in :" '
"Wo couldn't havo kept you out if wo
had tried," said Dorcas, frankly.
' You don't think I would have thrust
mys!f in here against your wishes.' Even
a tramp wouldn't do Uat," said the young
man.
The sticks blazed cheerfully- up; the
ghost economized them to keep tho
Haines alive as long as possible. He told
thrilling tales of his experience in these
woods; he made himself a most agreea
ble companion.
"Are you from the Valley House?"
asked Dorcas.
'No; I am campiug just where it
happens."
".ih!" said Mary. Then you are poor,
like nsf We are shop-girls, on our vaca
tion." "Eor," she said to herself"I am de
termined he sha l not tako us for other
than we are."
"And," observed the ghost, "I should
think you were having a very jolly time
' of it! A little more trout. Miss Miss
Hale! And how did you come out in
these wildernesses?''
i ho then, of course, little Barbara, who
was generally tho spokeswoman of tho
assemblage, related all her e. Torts to
secure summer board.
"You see," said she, "Mr. Archer
pays us so small a salary that we haven't
much margin for luxury."
! , "He ought to pay you more," said
the ghost. "I'm in business myself. I
kuow how it is. People can't be ex
pected to live on nothing."
"I do believe," crietl Donas, "you are
th'J tailor's young man from Cut A' Fitt's,
next door to Archer's 1 I thought I had
seen jour face before! But if you ever
get to the head of the firm and a muu
can achieve almost anything he please,
- -dj pay your employes a decent
sum !"
' I will," said tho young man in the
white rlauuel tennis suit.
And he spoke as if he meant it.
And then Dorcas discoursed still more
learnedly about tho rights and vViongs,
the in uslices and petty trials of lite be
hind the couuter.
'We are ladies, you see," said she,
"and we evpect to be treated like ladies."
But I suppose you have your troubles,
too."
"Lots of 'em," said the young man,
gazing absently into the fire. "Evory
one ha", I suppose."
So that they nil became great friends.
At midnight the rain ceased, and the
moon burst in a flood of glory on '.ho
dripping scene.
"We fun go home now," said Dorcas,
clapping her bauds. "And 1 dare nay,
youuj' mail,'' with a pretty air of patron
age, "Mr. Morris could make you up a
bed on the kitchen, floor at our house,
without charging very much for it. '
"1 should bu delighted if he could,"
said the young man, meekly.
And so it was arranged.
The girl, nude au extra toilet next
morning, to meet "the ghost," us they
called him, at the breakfast table.
But to their infinite disgust, ho was
gone when they descended.
"Ye see," said Old Man Morrfi, "that
there white thinning suit o' his'n bad
shrunk up with the wet, so it wasn't
fairly presentable, and lie just cut across
lots afore daybreak, tin' cleared out."
"I told you so," said Barbara. "He
was a ghos'. and being such, he dis
solved into thin air at cock-crow !"
"And I hud put on my blue cambric
gown," sighed ilary.
"And my hair was crimped so nicely!"
said Don as.
"But he gave me this 'ere," said Old
Man Morris, displaying, on the horny
palm of his band, a gold half-eagle.
"Bather extravagant for a tailor's
clerk," said Mary.
"That is just the class of people,"
said Doicas, loftdy, "who doa'tknow
how to peud mputy properly.'1
"I thought he wrw very nice." said
Barbara; "and I thought, perhaps, he
was going to be the beginning of -a real
adventuro."
September set iaa sultry a, the tropics
this year, and thdUstrce girls returned to
Archer's great stoft with unwilling foot
steps But the cashier met them with a smil
ing face.
"I'vo received instructions," said he,
"to raiso the salaries of nil the girls in
this department ten per cent. Young
Mr. Archer himself told me to do so."
"Young Mr. Archer?"
"There he i, now!" said the cashier.
And the next minute the hero of the
rainy nijjht had como up, and was
cordially shaking hands with them.
"Then you are not tho tailor's young
man after all? ' said Mary, a little taken
aback.
"Did I say I was?" said Archibald
Archer.
At the end of the autumn little Barbara
Hale had a confession tj make.
"Girls," said sho, "when I thought
that young Mr. Archer was going to be
the beginning of an adventure, I wns
right. He has asked mo to marry him,
and when we go on our summer vacation
next year, we shall go together 1"
And Mary and Dorcas kissed little
Bnrbara. and congratulated her from the
very bottom ot their hearts.
"This," said they, "is an adventure
worth having." .inlurdai Night.
Dogs ah Motive Power in Germany.
Some philanthropist in Germany
should scntl his name reverberating down
the age, as the friend and protector of
overworked dogs. The condition of
these poor animals throughout Germany,
writes Blakley Hall iu the New York
V i, i, a blot upon nineteenth coLtury
civilization. They passed a law in Ei::r
land prohibiting the u e of dogs for
draggiug vehicles, but there is no such
law in Ucrmauy. A customary sight is
a woman seventy -five years of nao har
nessed to a cart with two dogs, drawing
it wearily along country roads or througU
the streets of the cities. Very often the
woman gives it up or is too fee bio to
bear her share, and then she varies tho
journey by alternately pushing tho cart
and whipping the dogs as she walks by
their side. A cart about the si.o of a
street cab in New York, aud often
loaded to the height of five or six feet
by merchandise, is the usual load for an
old woman and two dogs. A cart of
smaller dimensions is often dragged by
tho dogs alono, and sometimes one poor
beast is seen struggling along uulcr a
load thut an American would consider
up to the powers of nn average horse.'
The dogs are of all sorts of breeds, but
invariably largo aud strong. They are
muzzled for they grow sarago under
their harsh treatment and are harnessed
a good deal after the fashion of a Iioieo.
The faithfulness and industry of the
poor creatures are wonderful. They
will toil along the dusty roads straining
every muscle iu their bodies until they
drop dead iu their trucks, and dead dog
by tho roadside in this county are by uo
means uncommon. At night iu the
streets of Beilin aro countless venders'
carts d'spliying fruit, nnd to every one
U attached a dog or two. As soon as they
have dragged the load into Beilin, the
woman who is celling the fruit takes a
small square of carpet out of the cart and
places it on the patcment. The dog then
roll, himself up on it nnd is tenderly
CoTOred w ith another rug to protect him
from cold. Ho sleeps there till it is time
for him to begin h's jouruey home. Very
often the coats of the auimals exhibit
big sores whore the harness has chafed
them.'
A Crab's Antipathy t9 IHrt.
Habits of thorough cleanliness are not
only requited by good taste and good
breeding, but are essential to health.
Those enemies to life and health called
"germs," are always fouud in connec
tion with dirt. MoBt nniiuuls inst nct
ively avoid unclcanliness. The bird
takes its morning dip iu th) like or
stream; the elephant treats himself to a
shower bath as often a, he likes; dogs
love to bathe aud switu in the water, as
do many other animals. Kveu so hum
ble a creature as thu crab, which docs
not recetvo credit for much intelligence,
has a great antipathy to dirt. The-e
curious creatures havo a singular habit
of tearing o f their legs on sundry occa
sions. ! or instance, if a crab gets badiy
scared at a thunder-storm or a loud
noise in the water, it 'straightway tears
o;f a leg or two. A crab often loses.one
or more legs in combat withoElier crabs.
A still more curious thing is, that when a
crab's legs aie lost in this way, they
grow on again in a few week's time, or,
nil her, new ones grow out in place of
the old ones. Perhaps this is why the
crab values a leg so little: he. can get a
new one just ns good a, the old one by
simply wailing for it to grow.
But we said that crabs are extraordi
nariry neat in their habits. These creat
ure, have such a dislike for dirt that if,
by chauec, one of them happens to got
one of his leg, toiled in any way, he im
mediately pulls it off. A missionary iu
the Namoan islandi tells a story of a
crab that was going out one moruiug iu
search of foitl, when it accidentally
soiled one of its legs. It immediately
wrenched off tho leg, and hobbled bacK
to its hole, to rema u iu solitary confine
ment until it should grow agniu. It is
claimed that crabs have been known to
pull oil all thoir leg, iu the same man
ner, and then laboriously drag them
selves home by their nippers to wait for
new legs to grow. Farm, Field and
Stork inaa.
A Polish father's Curse.
There lived at bhauiokin, Peun., some
time ago a 1'ole named Limbski, who
by the industry of himself and his five
sou, accumulated considerable property.
Beceutiy an appeal to the sous for
money to pay a debt caused a serious
dispute between father aud sous. The
old mau sold the property aud prepared
to sail, ni'compauied by his wife, says
the Bethlehem (Penu.1 i ar, to the home
of his childhood. Before leaving he
expressed a wish thut the boys might ali
be killed in the ni'ties. A few days
ago, Thoma, his youngest son, was
killed at Cameron colliery, and at the
iostnure of the other brothers tbo
crushed body was photographed as it
lay on tiro tooling board, aud the picture
seat, labelled "son No. 1," to his falhei
iu Poland.
Ppeliu is the rival universal laoguago
(o Yolapuk.
MISSOURI MEERSCHAUMS.
MANUFACTURINO THE HUMBLE
CORN COB PIPB.
The Only Factory of the Kind in the
World Turning Them Oat by
the Million.
The handsomest houses here come of
corn cob pipes, writes a Washington,
Mo., correpondent of the St. l.ouis
QIM-Vtmo'rat. The most pretentions
business building is given to corn cob
pipe making. The principal business of
Washington, in fact, is the turning out
of tbeso adjuncts to a smol.er's outfit,
which are familiarly called "Missouri
Meerschaums." Beyond all this Wash
ington enjoys tho distinction o? being
tho only possessor in the world of n
corn cob pipe factory.
In 187(5 H. Tibbo secured tho patent
for filling tho interstices of a cob with
what is described in the application for
the patent as "a cement-like substance."
The substanco is simply plaster of paris.
The manufacture of pipes wa, then be
gun in a small way. In 1882 Upton L.
Weirich, of Kansas City, had some
thought of going into the same business,
but, "with several others, took nn interest
in the Washington factory aud organized
a stock company. Tho operations then
became more active,and have so increased
that Mr. Tibbe now receives 3J0 a
month royalty on his patent. Beyond
this he holds ono-third of the stock, the
remaining two-thirds being divided
between Mr. Weirich and three others.
The exact amount of tho annual prolits
is not known to the public, bnt the best
posted claim that each one of the Are
stockholders pulls out about $10,000 a
year. By the arrangement under which
the pipes are made, the company is re
lieved of the responsibility of selling tho
product or of investing nny lareo sum in
stock or machinery. The solo care of
the members is to buy the cobs as they
are offered by farmers. They are turned
over to the outside party, who contracts
to make the pipe, at to much a gross.
The finished pipes are taken by ono St
Louis wholesale house, which agree, to
take all the compauy can produce. The
only nnnoyance experienced by the com
pany is now and then a scarcity of cobs.
Neighboring farmers do not seem to
"catch on" to the fact that they can
make moro from the cobs raised . than
from the corn itself. Th3 kind known
as the Collier cob is preferred, as it is
larger and the corn is not set in a, deep
as in other varieties. For good cobs one
cent apiece is paid, and many a loud is
known to have realized 6),
Farmcis in the vicinity of Washington
aro urced to grow tho Collier corn and
bring in the cobs.
An insight into the man nor of manu
facture, obtained after considerable
troublo: The accessories ate of the
simplest kind. They aro so simple that
there is only wonder that so good a thing
could have been kept in one company's
hands so lonir. The cobs are delivered
at the factory and -are dumpod under
cover. They are then sorted and the
good ono's couuted and paid for. The
desirable size is ono und five eighth!
inches in diameter, farmers being sup
plied with iron rings of that si.e through
which to try cobs. Those rejected are
invariably left by tho farmer, not being
worth carrying away And are used in the
factory furnaces for fuel. The good cobi
are then sawed by small circular saws t
tho right length for turning, one big
cob making two pipes. Tho boring fol
'ows. The piece of cob is placed in a
:up that holds it tightly, aud an inch
sugcr connected with a rapidly t evolv
ing shaft is brought down tbtougli the
cob's centre for a specified distance.
This is done wondorfully fust by the
boys, who are proficient from pructlco.
With one hand they jam the cub in the
cup, bring down tho auger with a move
ment of the levor by the other hand, and
in a twinkling it is over. Almost ns fast
as thev can bo counted the sawed pieces
of cobs are bored. Tho turners next
take the pieces. Thore are two shapes
to the pipes, the "pear" and "straight."
Tho first swell in tbo centre aud are
rounded at tho bottom; thu others are
only smoothed, the natural contour of the
cob being left unchanged. Tho tumors
aro experts. They have no patterns, but
arc guided by their eye and the condi
tion of the cob. Tho piece already bored
is placed on a spindle, the other end
having a spring bearing that cives the
pressure to hold it steady. With a turn
ing tool tho cob is cut down to the firm
body and tho shape given, exactly as in
wood turning. Tho fastest turner in
the factory can do H000 pieces in a day
of ten hours, but tho average for the six
men engaged in th s particular puitof
the work is 2100. 'They are paid 1 per
loon.
The next step involves the patent
looked upon ns throwing the law s pro
tection a ouud thu company's interests.
The fillers, so-called, curry it out. They
are boys, who fix tho bored and turned
pieces of i obs ou spirdles similar to
those used by the turner, grab a hand
ful of plaster of paris and clutch tho re
volving embryo pipo. A jar of water
sits over their bund, so tiled that a tiny
stream flows down nnd moistens the
plaster. One grub, presto! all the irreg
ularities of iho cob are tilled with plas
ter. The pieces are then drhd, sand
papered and shellacked. All is by
machinery, and wheu the shellac ia dry,
tho pipes are ready for packing. The
a mount of plaster or shellac used is trif
ling. One barrel of plaster will till 'M,
000 pipes, and one gallon of shellac will
cover them; tho stems tiro of Arkansas
cane, ind come already cut Of the fac
tory's capacity, Mr. Weirich said it was
intended to make 'o"0 gross of pipes a
week, and the shop would ruu through
tho year if a stttlicieut supply of cobs
could bu had. There was never an ac
cumulation of stock, as the cobs usually
came iu by thu single load aud were
worked up very fast.
For tilling the interstices of tho cob
the compauy looks upon plaster of paris
as the best thing possible. Many cobs
do not have to be tilled at all, beiug
large enough to tusdown smooth. One
early preparation tried was of cornstarch
and gamboge, but this was not satisfac
tory. Nothing is d ine to the inside of
the pipes, tho cob being left in a natural
conditiou. The new patent tilling has
chalk, pumice-slcne and sulphate of pot
assium umoog its ingredients.
There are uow about SoO.OOO boo keep
era in the I ui'.ed States. Many of them
are procuring several tons of honsy An
ouafiy from their bees.
IIOrjUEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A Pret ty Plaque,
Take a piece of stiff pasteboard tho size
of a cabinet photograph, and on one side
place a layer of wadaing. Cover with
dark blue velvet, being careful to have it
he perfectly smooth, aud taste n on the
wrong side. Take another piece of paste
board a little smaller than the first and
cover with black cambric. Sew or glue
this to the wrong sideof the larger piece
of cardboard. Buy a small bunch of
field daisies, and around their stem tie
a bow of dark blue satin ribbon. Fasten
this to the center of the plaque. This
makes a pretty ornament, and may be
placed nn a wire easel or hung on the
wall. If the latter way is liked, attach
to the center of tho back a tiny brass
ring, through which run a loop of dark
blue satin ribbon by which to suspend it.
Amtriean t'u'.ticator.
In the Kitchen.
Scvcrnl things are indispensable for
convenience in the kitchen, first a
small keg of soft soap will be found
more economical and do its work better
than hard soap, t-hould the latter be
preferred though, it should bo bought in
the green state or newly made, so to
speak, and placod in a dak tool place
lor two or three month, uciore using it.
It can be bought hardened but will cost
a trifle more than in the fresh state.
Next comes a tin can of washing soda
for cleaning greasy kettles and pans.
for sweetening sinks, for scouring out
all dark corners and closets that do not
get much air and light, nnd for washing
olf dusty and dirty brushes and brooms.
Some people forget that tho tools they
work with need cleaning very oitcn.
Tbey will scour thoir knives every day,
but forget all about their brushes.
From the hair brush to the scrubbing
brush, from the dust brush to the broom,
all need to be frequently cleaned with
soda and ammonia.
Dish-cloth, are quickest sweetened
by being boiled with soda. Borax is a
convenient and rafe article to strew
about where there are roaches. In the
laundry it is also useful. For washing
the baby's flunnels uso two tablespoon
fuls to three gallons of hike warm water,
and no soap. The garments will be
found soft and clean nudwid not shrink.
Detroit Fret Preit.
Pickles of Many Kinds.
Tickled Pepper: Tako large green pep
pers, take out the seed, soak in strong
brine
ino for two days, stulf with chopped
cabbage and preen tomatoes, sniccd: tie
up, place in jars aud cover with vinegar,
Pickled Onionsr-felect small " white
onion,, and skin. Put them in strong
brute for three days. Boa tho vinegar
with mace, red pepper, cloves nnd mus
tard seed. Pour over the onions while
hot.
Cucumber Pickles Wash nnd wipe
one hundred small cucumbers nnd place
them in jars: cover them with boiling
brine and let them stand twenty-four
hours. Tuke them out, wipo, placo iu
clean jars and cover with best vinegar,
Bpiced with cloves, mace and mustard
seed." Set away for two weeks, when
tbey will be ready for uso.
Spanish Pickles : Ta'o two dozen largo
cucumbers, one peck of full grown green
tomatoes, stand in brine three days; cut
the same up and sprinkle with salt; tako
oialf a gallon of vinegar, throa ounces of
white mustard seed, oue each of turmeric
and celery seed, one box of mustard aud
ten pounds of brown sugar: simmer half
nn hour, nour over the cucumbers, put
in ajar and seal.
Green Tomato Pickles: Slico a peck
of gieen tomatoss and a fourth of a peck
of onions. Put a layer of each in the
bottom of a jar; sprinkle with salt, aud
continuo until full; let aland over night;
in the moruing drain and put in a kettlo
with viuegar to cover, in which put two
O'.mcei of black pepyer, ono of alspice,
three of ground mustard; let simmer ten
minutes. Put away in stone jars.
Indian Pickle,: For one gallon of vin
egar put four ounces of curry powder,
four of mustard, three of bruised ginger
root, half an ounce of cayenne pepper,
two ounces of tumeric, tw of garlic,
and a quarter oT a pound of salt, i'utiu
a stone jar, cover and keep by the flro
thiee days, shaking occasionally. Take
cucumbers, put in sodding brino three
days, drain, und drop iu the spiced vin
egar. Pickled Cauliflower Cut up and
throw in boiling salt water, set on the
stove until tbey como to tho boiling
point, take up and druiu. Put in stone
jars; boil su.ticient vinegar to cover
them, seasoning with one ounce of nut
meg, one ounce of mustard seed and half
nn once of mate to every half gallon of
vinegar. Pour hot over the cauliflower,
adding a little olive oil. Put in jars and
seal tight.
Chow Chow Pickles. ( hop in large
pieces oue peek of green tomatoes, half
a peck of ripe toinatoot, hair a dozou
onious, three beads of cabbage, oue
dozen green and oue doon red peppers.
Sprinkle with a pint of salt. Put in a j
coarse bag and drain twenty-fojr hours.
Then put in a kettlo, with two tiounds
of brown Mi:;ai', half a teacup of gruted I
horse radish, oue ounce each of black j
pepper, white mustard, mace aud celery
sued. Cover with strong vinegar aud !
boil until clear.
Mustard Tickles: Take two gallons of
viueur, two largo cupfuls of mustard,
two lablespooufuls of sal id oil, a little
salt and a tablcspoouful of tumeric pow
der. Mix together and let stand lor a
week. Iheu take three hundred sma'l
cucumbers, six cauliflowers, half a gal
lon of mu iII ou oris, one quart of nastur
tiums, six heads of celery, and soak them
all over night iu stioug brine. Steam
ull ihe vegetables, except the cucum
bers, mil il lender. Put nil iu the mus
tard, aud h:t stand ouo week ; then put in
a kettle, add two cups of brown sugar
and half a cupful of corn starch. Boil
well; skim; add red pepper; let the
viti"gar boil, aud then pour over the
pickles.
WttUhluf the Heart.
A novel rase has been brought t the
notice of the Paris Academy of Medi
cine. A mun's breast bone was nearly
all letnoved, with parts of several ribs,
in order to stop the progress of boue
disease. The experiment lesulted not
ooly iu saviog the patient's life, but has
given several physiologists au opportun
ity for direct investigation of th living
heart aud great artery, parts of which
have been wade readily accessible.
VACATION.
. .
O, worker, weary with thy work,'
Worn with the dally strife, S
Who knoweth that success is vain,
TliAt rlmnmH futA nut of life. -
"1
Go to thy mother's heart for rest, f
Deep as thy childhood's slecj., i
Her tired children safe and close - .
Thy mother yet can keep.
For stlU'tis true, as in those days
Long past, ot mirth and song, .
Calm Nature great all-mother is,
With love and memory long. .
Find then, thou canst, on Nature's heart, '
Thl, solace for thy pain
The joy that blossoms with the grass,
The gtadness of the grain. (
The happy breaking into song
Of brook, and bird, and bee,
And on the wind that lifts the wa.fj '
And bends the willing tree.
On silent pools beneath the hills,
Where quiet shadows lie.
On waters swift, and changing bus
L t fall thy line and fly.
Let thy heart dance with dancing leaves,
And with the pattering rain
Bo shalt thou find, though day decline,
Thy childhood's rest again.
Edward Carlton.
IllMOR OF THE DAY.
Glucose is a sugar beat.
A hand-spring The pump.
The moose has a great head.
An ink-convenience A pen.
A sin of commission More than tea
per cent.
Milk that is absolutely pure, must be)
milk of the first water. Life.
The lighthouse keeper ought to ba
! well posted in light housekeeping,
I t is not surprising that an alma mater
i ihould give her students a diplo-ma.
Time.
New York can stand the rag and tag,
but it can't endure the bobtail car.
LoteeU Cuttri r.
When a man sits dowa and reflects,
it doos not always prove that he is
brilliant. Jmhjf.
A manse, little triend, is a house, and
a romance ought to be a boat house, but
it is not. Jlurjier'a liautr.
An Exchango says: "The buttermilk
habit is spreading." So is tho butter
habit, for tliat mutter. l'icwjuar.
Bill collectors sometimes imitate tho
promoters of a colonization scheme ana
offer special inducements to settlers.
A Pittsburg man has a parrot which
can say "Polly wants a tracker!" in
throe different languages. She is a Polly
Riot. it is hardly fair to sneer at a carpenter
because you sco him driving every day.
iJriving nails is not a luxurious pastime.
Jltu'jter' Iluiar.
"Mamma," said littlo Willie, inspect
ing a porou, plaster, "are them holes
wherj the pain comes through?"
Drakt'4 Majajiue.
Ono of the parachute jumpers his been
killed out West in falling from his
lalloon. Ho took a drop too much. .
I'hiUiddphia Pro:
A Boston weighing machino has this
inscription over it: "Insert a half-dime
in the aperture and ascertain your
avoirdupois. JJ-uar.
'I hear you have had an addition to
, your family, Mr. Brown." Mr. Brown
(6adly): "Multiplicotipn, my
Madam twins !" Life.
Guest "Isn't my dinnor ready yet?"
New Waiter "O, certainly; it was
ready yesterday., It is just beiug warmed
over a little." Sil'tinni.
Tho recent net which nrevents tho
VViding of dunning postal cut ds through"?
trie mails should have been entitled:
"Post No Bills" Kmo Yvrk Ktitt.
Kastern people are discussing the
question: "Who is the g cutest living
novelist!" Thu correct answer is that
there isn't any. Ddroit Fret t'ren.
"She's ihe ovenest temper ever you saw"
He s ti'l as he saw me wiueo
"Shu got mad ouee at seven years old,
An' she's stayed mad ever since."
Tim.
Pe Smith "Hello, Travis! You
look awfully cut up about something.0
Travis "Yes; shaved myself for the
lirst time this morning. Iturlintjton
Fr't I'rem.
"These are hard times," sighed the
young collector of bills. "Every place I
w ent to day I was requested to call again,
but one, and that was w hen I dropped iu
to seo my girl.'' si'tiiiy.-.
A young I hiladelphiau perceives the
disadvantage of living iu tho "(junker
City," wheu ho gets a letter Horn his liest
gir', addressing him as "Friend
Charles." Life.
"That's it!" exclaimed Mrs. Bascom
at tho concert, ns iho sing -rs caino nut
aga'u in lesponsa to an en ore. "Muko
'e n do it over again until they get tho
thing ri'ht." Jittrlitytoii Fit 1'ie t.
A cynical man says that there aro two
occasions when be would like to be
present. One is wheu the gas company
p.iys its waler bill; tho other is wheu tbo
water company pays its gas bill. Sift
i..v. K.iyi Willie to Clara: "You Llusb, maidtu
meek;
'Twas my glance that planted the rosa in
your cheek.
Let me lu k it." Her lashes the blush-rosa
SWiJcp
Kays she: 'fis but right where you sow you
should reap."
Jud'jt.
Pro-ecutiug Attorney (selecting a
juiy) "Isn't the prisoner a relative of
yoms?" Juror "No, sir; ho is a rela
tive of my wife's." Prosecuting Attor
ney "Your Honor, the pro-ecution ac
cepts this gentleman." A Yuri Huu.
1 cader of .Street Baud (looking iut
the sky w ith cxtn ino disgust, and speak
ing in stentorian voice) 'Half an hour's
playing und ouly thirteen', 'ills! We
will try oue of Wagner's grand com
positions." Shower ot silver coin from
neighboring window and fifty voices iu
ugouivd entreaty Move ou! t'liiaiy
'J riant.
"Why, sir," said the lireiuuu, "the
iogiatituda of some people is way be
youd understanding. At the Skyhi Hat,
last week I saved a stock-btokei's
daughter carried her down a spliced
ladder seveuty feet long, and now" thu
houeat fellow gasped for breath "I'm
blowed if he doesn't want me to marry
her." A'm "ik Yi',
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