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country. No node wlil bo Ukon of aooay mout?
There are 000 miles of railway in ope
ration la Egypt.
John Most, the New York Anarchist,
says that there aro 500,000 Socialists in
the United States.
According to a Boston statistician
"the cost of tho fences in tho I'nitcd
States Is more thin the National debt."
If the arming of tho German cuirass
iers with lauci'i proves a success, the
Iragoons and hussars will bo armed in
; 1 0 iatno war.
A recent official publication estimates
(he average annual decrease of the In
dians at nearly 2000. Thoir present totnl
number in tho I'nitcd States, exclusive
-.if Alaska, is about 'J4",0 )0.
There have been li.Vi poisons arrested
t the United Slates during tho current
oar for violation of the laws against
counterfeiting, etc. Seventy have been
onvictcd aud scutcneod to imprison
ment. The work of thu United Stales Fish
ommissloners is appreciated. Begin-
leg in 1SU8 with une hatchory and
UOO0 appropriation, they now havo live
' it hoiios and on annual appropriation
about $ .'3,00tl.
The Cincinnati Enaulnr declares that
i.' source of all yellow fever which t'As
sntry has or over has had, is CtiW
o should bo cleaned up or cleared out.
:s nothing hut miserable misinnnngo
nt which makes tliat beautiful is'and
ecding-placo for pestilence.
' i tho manufacture of cotton tho
Vd States is the second nation in the
.1, led on'y by Ureal Britain, which
iifty per rent, more than this coun-
' '-.We consume two and one-hall
i as much raw cotton as Ccrmany,
three times lis much at France,
.ibcit Harding, a young English So
t, when ho wan's to miko a speech
he sheets or pubi c squares, padlocks
elf with a chain to nu iron lonce or
1 similar fixture. Then when the
- coine to tae him in they have to
t a long timu in getting him lin
ed, and he can mako a pretty long
a before ho is curried olT.
i English farmer who his been in
gating tho catoi pillar est, whi h is
nig bo destructive to tho fruit and
r ips iu Kent, has concluded tl at
. awn which produced tho catcrpil
vas deposited by tho swarms of
rdies which swept the coasts Lvt
inn, and which were supposed to
been driven over from tho couti
i by tho storms.
nglish railroads do not cut prices,
rves tho Detroit Free Pre it, but they
it time and have tho fastest trains
uo world. The l iving Scotchman
ItodoliOl miles in niue hours. A
1 putoua train that equals this, and
.the Scotchman doe3 the distanco iu
t hours. Notwithstanding the great
.1 of the English railroads they killed
.' 121 passengers lust year.
outh I ondon is to have a now under
und railroad. It is being built sixty
et under ground. rascnge aro to
..ach it by hydraulic tlivators, to carry
fifty persons at once. The tunnel is being
driven by tho u-e of a steel shield slightly
larger than tho iron r ngs of whidi tho
tuunel is to be constructed. Tho steel
thibld has a knife edgo, and is driven
forward at the rate of fifteen feet a day
by hydraulic rams worked by baud.
. thcrill Grant, of New York, accord
ing to the C ir;rr-Journal, has do tared
that he would not hold his present oiice.
after January 1, for live times the prcscut
valuo of tho position, which is $10,0 )0
perear. The new law requiring exe
cutions in Now York to bo by o'.ectriu
uhock goes iuto effect on the date named,
mid She tiff CVant fears that it might
fall to his lot to oxecuto a criminal and
that thereby his name might become in
tome way attached to thu new system.
Tho Khedive of Egypt has, by a de
cree, taxed laud devoted to tho growing
of tobacco iu his domains iflj?.M an
acre, and the Fgyptinns have refused to
grow tobacco. The result is, remarks
T'V'uni Z'i'-, that, instead of thu usual
crop of 13,000,000 pound), uot more
than 1,000,000 pounds are expo ted tli'n
year, whereat our Maryland tobacco man
ufacturer) particularly rejoice. Virginia
and North Carolina 11 also pro. 'it; but
Maryland is entitlej to assumo that her
products will be most in demand,' be
cause the- Bait mure tobacco has been
made the ollicial tobacco of France.
A leadiug Chicago restaurateur, avers
the Ih-airie Farmer, comes pretty near
solving the problem of how to furnish
the poor with good food at almott
nominal cost. Ho will buy the entire
carcass of beef at an average coit of
eight and oue lialf ceuts a pouud, re
bel vo for his restaurant the choice por
tions that would cost him tvveuty-two
cents a pound, aud with the remainder
niake soup. With the meat and bread
he proposes to furnish from a large
kitchen at five ceuts a meal, excellent
food to individuals aud futilities. The
c heme is uot a charitable one, but purely
business venture, run for profit.
ARTIST AND FRIAR.
Sheuld yon In Florence wander where
The Pest has hoarded riches rare
Painting' within whose perfect lines
The kindling touch of genius shines,
Statue throughout whose marble limbs
A seeming llfo blood leaps nd swims
A motif the names recounted long
With honor in enduring song,
One will be beard where'er you go,
The master's Michael Angela
And you will hear another name
Blown by the trumpet blast of fame
Through Christian lands. No halls of art
Bespeak the throbbing of his h art,
But street are vocal, and the square
That beard his final martyr prayer.
A rosary his Angers told,
The cap he wore in cloisters old,
Borne blazoned books, are all they show
Of noble Era Girolamo.
Both long have hosomod In the clay,
Yet both are living on to-day.
Time hath no bondage of control
O'er emanations of the soul.
The years have shown how well they
wrought,
Preserving still thoir priceless thought
One shaped in forms most fair to soo,
The other worked intangibly.
Tho artist stands at first confessed,
And yet tho friar wrought the host.
Clinto.i Scollard, in the Indepnulent.
F1TZI1ER1JERT.
My nnmn is John Smith plain Smith,
without change or addition of vowel
end I was in no way discontented with
it till I fell in love with Kntio Rogers.
Katio had never sneered at it, but her
cider sister, Miranda, had more than
once hinted that it was neither romantic
nor uncommon : and her father, in his
somewhat lenirthv discourses about tho :
British aristocracy, had an aggravating I revelation was about to wreck my life's
way of looking apologetically at mo i happiness. In a lightning Cash of jcal
evciy lime ho spoke of "a good name." I "s imagination I saw Kitherbert. No
lu our commercial community Smith
was counted a better name than Kogcrs,
and young Smith, tho rising cotton
broker, a more distinguished member of
society than old Kogers, ex-Captain of
dragoons, who could scarcely pay his
thirty-pound rent, nnd never wore a de
cent lint.
I quite agreed with my neighbors on
these points till I fell in live with Katie,
and grew fumilnr with Miranda's senti
ments about "the ignorancoof l'hilistioe
Itiverbauk.
Captain Hogers. was descended from
Fit.roger, who camo over with the
Conqueror, nnd, as I listened reverently ' fied yourself when I first told you about
to the history of the family progress I Fitzhcrbcrt's proposal."
through eight centuries, there was aj Miranda replied iu a tone of cold wipe
total collapse of my onco foolish pride riority.
in belonging to what a local paper called "I was more open to conviction than
"ono of the oldest families in Hivcr- ; you would rind .Mr. John Smith. We
bank." For Bivei hank was scarcely as ( who have been rooted in English soil for
old ns my father, having grown into a eight centuries naturally take larger
town with n spued rarely equaled on
this side of the Atlantic.
In a general way 1 did not undervalue
mysolf, but it was with a decn sense of !
humility that I implored tho d'es endant
of Fitzroger to become my father-in-law.
Wo were alone together in tho
dining room of the thirty-pound house,
ho sitting in a shabby armchair, I stand
ing ou u still t-habbicr hoarthrug. Ho
looktd up at tho "Buttle Koll of Hast
ings," which hung over the mantelpiece,
and down at tho tiro kept low by eco
nomical Miranda. Then, huving ap
parently weighed tho past glories of
l itzroger against tho present pric e of i
coals, ho accepted my proposal with the i
magnuiceni contiescensiou ! a king
conrenting, for certain State reasons, to j
bestow the hand of a royal princess on I
an aspiring subject.
So Katie ami I werccngaged, and, for
a time, 1 was supremely hapny. I was j
not quite vain enough to share my dar- !
ling's opinion, that I, John Smith, was
hotter worth worshiping than all Car-I
lyle's "Heroes" put together; but I was
rather easily convinced that I was far
too fine a fellow to fear any rival. So,
when Kntio went ou a visit to Loudon,
theio was no bitterness iu my regret, for
I bel'eved in her and myself.
At first I was not disturbed by Mi
randa's boasts about tho ail vantages her
sister was enjoying in "the best society,"
but when the London visit extended for
weeks and months beyond its original
limit, I began to feel vaguely uneasy. In
those days Katie's loiters, though loving,
were not long, and she more than onco
apologized for their brovitv by pleading
"a particular engagement," the nature
of which she never explained. My con
fidence sank, my jealousy rose.
At last she came home, and then I
noticed a change in her that seriously
alarmed me. !-he was paier and quieter,
and at times theio was a wistful look in
her eyes, suggestive of something on her
mind. It could not be anxiety about
her father'.! pecuniary atlairs, because
about that time he appeared in a new
hat, and Miranda kept better fires.
These outward aud visible signs of pros
perity would havo given mo sincere
pleasuro if it had not been for the sus
picion that old Logers was rnoro than
ever disposed to ta'e the Normau Con
quest tone with ran, and for the cer
tainty that Miranda's sneers at "people
who could not count their.'graudfatheis,"
where all for my benefit.
Ouo evening I tal ed much luter than
usual, having been detained by an im-
fiortaut business matter in the neighbor
ng city of Shipley. The outer door of
the house was open, aud I, in my u-ual
way, turned mo naudle or the vestibule
door and w alked into tho drawing-room,
which appeared to be empty. 1 was just
going to ring the bell fur the servant,
when I heard a pleading little voice be
hind me:
"Oh, I say, Jack, don't do that!"
It was the voice of Bob, the youngest
of Katie's many young brothers, aud.
turning sharply round, I saw his scared
little face pcc iug between the curtains
drawn across the bow-window.
"Come here, dear old Jack," ke en
treated; "aud stay with me till she goes
past. "
"What she!'' I asked, as I stepped be
hind the curtains to find Bob's hitherto
invisible form clad in a nightgown.
".Miranda," he added iu a tragic
whisper.
Bob had blue eyes and golden hair,
and iu his white arruy hj looked like an
angel in a picture. But I rightly I helping poor old daddy that at first I
guessed that be had descended from the forgot about you and your possible ob
upper regions that uight on nu angelic ' je: ti..n to marrying a young woman w ho
mission. : worked for a shop, but I thought of this
"I thought she was safa up in the luin- afterwards, and was alway righting with
ber room for the next half haur," he ex- j my conscience about telling you the
plaiued, "aud I got out of bed and was J truth. But, indeed, there are many lady-
slipping down to the kitchen for a taste
of the new jam. I knew it was my only
chance. She's so mean about it when
it's in pots. I just got to the ha'l when
I heard her sneaking down stairs, so I
run in here, hhe's in tho dining-room
now, and I don't know whethor she's
going up again ordown to the kitchen."
'I Don't be a coward, my boy," I said,
feeling it my duty to bo moral. "Of
course Miranda will scold if she finds
you, but you must bear it like a man."
"Scold !" repeated Hob, with scorn in
his subdued tones. "Do you think I'd
care if it was only that?"
I understood the full peril of the
situation now. Miranda prided herself
on doing a mother's duty to the mother
less boys, nnd I knew that whatever her
hand found to do she did it with all her
might.
"And it's just because I ain't a coward
I don't want to meet her," went on Hob,
evidently mindful of tho traditions of
Fitzroger valor. "You see, .lack, I
could hit back if she was a miin, but she
ain't, you know, aud of courso no fel
low who is a gentleman ever hits a
woman."
"Itobcrt," I murmured, "you are tho
soul of chivalry."
"Oh, shut up, Jack Smith 1" and my
small brolhcr-in-law elect held mo with
a desperate grip. "Sho's coming in !"
I poercd cuutiously between tho heavy
curtains, and caught a glimpse of
Miranda's lank form and lynx eyes. Tho
next moment she was vanishing, but she
stopped as Katie appeared at tho door.
"Kate," she said in her thin sharp
voice, "I was looking for you. I think
you might help mo to pot the jam. Smith
may not bo hern to-night, nnd if ho
comes let him wait. How pule you lookl
lean tell you, my dear, that your ap
pcaianco has not improved sinco you
took up with Kitzhcrbert."
I stood with freezing blood behind
tht curtains, wondering
hat a -w fill
doubt he was ono of tho swells Katio
had met in London. A military swell,
one of those handsome, haughty guards
men I had read about in society novels.
".Miranda." said Katie, "don't you
think I ought to tell Jack about Fitz
hcrbcrt?" "No, I don't," said Miranda, sharply.
"I don't see why 'he interests of our
family are to bo ri-ked in a collision
with the narrow mddle-class prejudices
of Mr. John Smith."
Katie's voice sounded a little 'weary
when she spoke uyain.
"tou know, Mirnnda, you were Born
views of life than mushrooms of vestcr-
day. Besides, your conduct in this af
fair is justibed by the example aud ap-
proval of women iu tho best societv."
I hate concealment." said Katie
"nnd Jack is so truthful himself, that 1
can't bear tho idea of deceiving him.
Oh, Miranda, dear, I was so happy when
Fitzhorbert made me the oiler that I
never stopped to wonder what Jack
would think about it, but now I am so
miserable that I sometimes think I must
give tip Fitzhorbert."
"ICubb'sh !" said Miranda, "and self-
ish rubbish too. I wonder. Knto Horers.
how you can talk in that way, when you
know how useful Fitzhcrbcrt's money is
tc your poor father."
oh, this was too awful? Katio not
only false to me, but actually so mean an
to tako money from her new lover. 1
could stand it no longor. I wrenched
myself from poor little Bob's giaip, aud
stood sternly facing the two girls,
Miranda fled from tho room. Katie
stood white and still.
Pray do not give up Fitzhorbert on
my humble ncrouut," 1 said scornfully.
"Do not let my vulgar prejudice in
favor of truth and honesty interfere with
the wider morality of tho best society.
Marry Fit.hcrbcrt to-morrow, if you
like, and bo as happy as you deserve to
be."
Tho color rushed back iuto Katie's
face. Tho l'ght sparkled in her eyes.
She actually laughed.
"Thank you very much, Jack," she
said, "but even with your kind per
mission I enn't marry Fitzherbcrt. Tho
fact is," and her bluo eyes danced,
"Fitzhorbert is a married woman."
Then, with the crushing consciousness
of having mado a fool ot myself, I
listened humbly to Katie's little story.
" Fitzherbcrt is a West End milliner,
nnd wns Aunt Clara's maid before her
marriage. Her name is not really Fitz
herbcrt, but something quite ordinary,
like Brown or Smith oh, I beg your
pardon, .lark! She was always foud of
me, nnd I often amused myself looking
through her new fashions. Ono day,
while I was waiting for Aunt Clara, who
had gone to her dentist, a fussy old lady
cunio into tho shop, und was very angry
because none of tho new l'aris bonnets
suited her. She was one of the best
customers, and poor Fitzherbcrt was in
despair when she was leaving the shop iu
a rage. Well, Jack, I have quite a geuiu
for millinery. One of our ancestors was a
painter, aid Aunt Clara says I have his
artistic eve for color and form. Anyhow,
I always seem to know exactly what suits
a iaco. 1 pcrsuaaod the old lady to sit
' down again, and with Fitzherbcrt's per
mission, 1 made a few altciutions in one
Irarticular bonnet. The result was so
lecoming that the old lady was
charmed. ' You aro a heaven-born
milliner, my dear, she said. 'Why
don't you go iu for that sort of thing?
It is all the fashion among tho
best people.' Aunt Clara called for me
presently, and was quite struck with the
new idea. After a long tulk with Fitz
herbcrt, it wus decided that I should go
to the shop every day, aud qualify for
the position of millinery aide-de-camp.
I becamo quite populur with thecustom
ers, especially the elder ones. I love old
ladies, aud delight in making them look
lovely, nnd some of them threatened to
leave Fitzherbcrt unless I undertook the
arrangeraeut of their I onuels and caps
for the term of my single life. Fitzher
bert oUcrcd me very liberal pay for my
assistance, and I was so glad to think of
milliners in London, and Oh, Jack
dear, I see you don't mind so much, af
ter all 1"
The precise nature of my conduct on
this occasion need not here bo recorded.
The bridal wreath was a present from
Fitzhorbert. llotarhold Wordf.
Fantastic Brahmin Idols.
One sees Brahma occasionally in the
East pictured in heroic size on the walls
of houses, or ns nn idul of wood or
stone, occupying a shed at one end of a
village with his wife Sarasvnti. He ia
also, of course, to be seen in temples, but
not often.
Sarasvatl Is always represented as a
beautiful young woman presenting a
flower to her husband, says a corre
spondent of tho Courier-Journal. Like
our own Mother Eve, she was created out
of a portion of her husband's body, al
though the Hindoos do not distinctly say
a rib.
When this happened Brahma was pos
sessed of but ouo head. Buholding this
lovely newly created companion, how
ever, ho at once became smitten with her
charms. Sarasvali, being a shame-faced
maiden, modestly turned away to escape
his gaze.
At Brahma's wish to still behold her,
a second head issued from his body. As
the damsel skipped around to another
position a third head appeared and then a
fourth.
At length, in Iter embarrassment,
Sarasvnti sprang into tho sky. Not to
bo outdone, however, Brahma instantly
produced a fifth head. This fifth head
was subsequently struck oil by another
god in a dispute, which leaves him only
four.
'J he idol with the leopard skin loin
cloth, the snake about his head and
neck nnd the trident in his hand, is Siva,
tho destroyer. He is ouo of tho most
familiar idols ono sees in India. As you
approach an Indian village tho first
building by the roadside is ape to bo
a shed-like shrine, shellerinsr an idol of
Siva about tho size of a man.
He is painted red, with a blue neck,
' and sometimes garnished profusely with-
j bits of gold or silver tinsel pasted here
! aud there about his fiuure. This bright
paint and tinsel gives the idol a rather
cheap and tawdry appearance, suggestive
ot a tlican show.
A Snake Swallows a String of Fish.
Hugh Fattison, of the water rales
office, had a funny experience while
iishiurr at I.oilf Lake, suvs tho St. Louis
0 0 , v
(J lube-Democrat. He had been catching
fish pretty lively nil the morning, and
along toward noon he went on land and
left his string of fish in tho water by the
boat. Ho lingered under the shade of
the trees for a couple of hours, and then
returned to take up his rod for the pur
pose of enlarging tho string of croppies
thnt he caught iu the morning, after
fishing a nhorc time he took a nice bass
nnd reached over the side of his boat for
his string of fish, to place the bass with
the others. It was gone. iot a sign of
his twenty-five croppies cou'd bo found
"You may imagine my disgust at the
discovery," said .Mr. I'uttisou, relating
the s'.ory. "1 had almost made up my
mind to pun up stages and go home,
when I noticed a monster blacksnnke
lying in the sun by a little bush about
twenty feet away. I had a littlo rifle
with mc and I took careful aim at the
snake's head and let go. The bullet did
its work well, for tho snake, after writh'
ing a little, became quiet, and I went
ashore to look at him. I took a pole
with a hook on tho end thnt I uso for
loosening my line when it is caught on a
snag and pulled the big snake up on thu
bauk. I nover saw such a big one before
and its belly was pulled nut till it looked
like a stovepipe. I noticed a piece of
siring sticking out of the snake's mouth
and my curiosity was aroused, so I took
out my knifo and cut him onou. Well.
you may not believe it, but there was my
elegant string of croppies in tho snake's
sto i a- h, and some of them were alive
and kicKiug when I took them out.
Threw them away? of course I didu't.
1 inst washed them oil and wcut on fish
ing. and when 1 got home I gave the
string of lisli to a friend, who declared
that he never ate bettor croppie in his life,
Leghorn Straw Farming.
What is known as Leghorn straw is
raised on the hills which rise on each
side of the rivers Pisa und Etsa, to the
southwest of Florence, Italy. Its adapt
ability to the uses to which it is destinod
depends principally on the soil in which
it is sown, which sou, to all appearance.
exists only in this small district, out of
tho bounds of - which, the industry is
unknown. Any variety of wheat which
has a hollow, flexible steam can be used
for seed. The soil must be tilled and
prepared very much as it is for corn, but
the seed must be sown five times as
thickly as is usual for other purposes.
aud this is done iu the month of Decem
ber or February. When tho straw is full
grown, and just before tho grain begins
to form itself in the ear, it is uprooted
aud firmly lied in little sheaves the sie
of a handful. Each sheuf or mensta, as
it is called, is spread out in theshupu of
a fau, to dry in the sun for three days,
afier which it is sately stowed uway in
barns. The harvest being over and the
fields empty, it is again spread out to
catch the heavy summer ile.vs und to
bleach in the sun, during which process
it is carefully turned uutil all sides are
equally white. Hero thu cultivator
work: ends, and tho manufacturing be
gins. JVieio i'urk JJijii'tA.
Flameless Seeiirlto.
Sccurite, tho new flameless explosive
is the invention of Herr Schoenwcg, and
has been used iu (iermany for two years
past. It is composed ot a nitrated
hydro carbou iu combination with cer
tain oxidizing agents, which is leudered
flameless by the addition of a certain
proportion of un oigauic salt. It emits
a spark in cxplodiug, but this spark is
harmless, uot possessing sufficient energy
to explode lutlamable gases or coal dust.
By the action of the organic salt tho
spark is almost iustautly extinguished.
In the tests mentioned, the flameless
"securite" was exploded in vessels con
taining the most highly explusive mix
ture of gas and air. and, in some cases,
! this couibiued with coal dust, but whilo
' gunpowder invuriably causes their ex-
I plosion, the flameless "sccurite" (lid uot
' ignite the gas or the coal dust, and it was
1 demonstrated to be safe, even uuder more
sever tests aud conditions than are ever
I present iu mining operations. Jietroit
tr$; I' ten.
WORLD FAMOUS CHIMES.
CELEBRATED MONSTER BELLS OF
FOREIGN LANDS.
Thn Largest of Tintlnnabnlatlng
Giants la In Japan The Oldest
Pnal of nolle In America.
The largest bell in the world haugs
in a great tower In the city of Kioto,
Japau, says the Boston Hernld. It is
twenty-four feet high, but as it is struck
on the outside with a wooden hammer,
its sound is comparatively feeble. China
possesses many large bells, but, like the
largo bell of Kioto, they are worthless
according to our standard. Their pro
portions are wrong, for they are as large
at the top as at the bottom, and, being
struck, by wooden hammers, their
tones are no mo;o terrific than those
which emanate from the steeple of a
country mceting-houso in New England.
1 ho 1 urks abhor bells, and are said to
be adverse to admitting them into their
country, for they seem to regard them ns
inimical to their faith. Ou the other
baud, the Germans have a pcculinr
reverence for bells, aud iu the Hartz
mountains the casting of one is made an
occasion of great public rejoicing. In
Jlandclav, when the hour is struck upon
a bell, a public official cries: "By the
ravor or His ,Ma;esty the King, it is such
and such o'clock I" Tho ceremony, which
still prevails In somo parts of our own
country nnd in England, of ringing the
church bells at 0 o'clock in the evening,
is, doubtless, a survival of the practice
of sounding tho Curfew or cover tire,
which William the Conqueror intro
duced into England as a famiiiar
custom of his Norman hsinc. At Ox
ford University it was long a time
honored custom, and ono that may exist
to-day, that caused the bell known ns
"Great Tom" to ring 101 blows at u cer
tain hour in the evening for the purpose
of calling the students home to bed, and
at Yorktniuster, England, for som un
accountable reason, an old verger climbs
the stairs of the high tower each noon,
and with nn iron hammer strikes twelve
blows upon tho tcnton bell. A littlo
clockwork in tins instan e would savo a
great deal of labor.
The old Church of St. Septilchro in
London, well known to all American
visitors as containing all that is mortal
of Captain John Smith, whoso name is
familiar to every boy and girl iu the
States as that of tho hero of the
Fowhatan-Pocahontas episode, which
possesses a bell which used to toll when
ever a convict at tho Newgate prison,
on tho other side of the street, was led
out to execution at Tvburn Melds. As
tho unfortunate man passed tho church,
sitting on his co.rin in the open prison
cart, the sexton would present him with
a little nosegay in token of the beauties
of the earth upon which the eyes of the
poor wretch would soon closo forever.
w hen the Royal Exchange in London
was destroyed by fire in IbuH the dismay
of the Cockneys was changed to momen
tary amusement as the famous chimes
which, by u mechanical device, were
made to play a different tune each day of
tlie week, struck: up tno famous air
"There's Nae Luck Aboot thd House,"
lust as tho roof fell in.
Various nations of Europe make
various boasts regarding their respective
bell. Tho thirteen-ton bell of Erfurt,
for instance, is said to contain tho finest
metal in thu world, but tho Church of M.
Stephen, at Vienna contents, itself with
possessing the largest bell in t.enniui
countries. The people of Antwerp
point with justit.ablo pride to the sixty
live bells in their superb cathedral. The
fine church edifice in Mechiin follows this
with forty-four bells. The famous belfry
of Bruges presses fast behind with forty
ono bells, and Ghent makes a respoetnble
Bhowing w.th thirty-nine iu a single
tower.
The oldest chime of bells in America
is tho chimo of eight on Christ Church,
Salem street, Boston. They were brought
Irom England in 1744 and were pro
cured by subscription, Mr. John I'.owo
giving tho freight. I hey cost fJKUO,
the charges for wheels and putting them
in place were 4ita.
Next to the giant of Kioto, the mons
ter of Moscow, Kussin, is the largest
bell in tho world. This marvelous
specimen of tho founder's art weighs
more than tons, it is more than 21
feel high and is 07 feet ia circumference,
and being mounted on a huge stone pe
destal, now serves as a chapel. A great
fragment being broken from ono side
easy access is afforded to the interior,
There is a mystery ubout this great bell,
and a mystery as great as the bell itself.
History does not report whether this
enormous mass or metal lias ever been
hung or rung. The exact ago of the bell
does not seem to have been accurately
determined. Some writers as-ert that
as the bell was being raised upon one of
the great towers of the Kremlin it fell
nnd broke. Others affirm that it had
been safely hung when thu building
caught tire and that the water used to ex
tinguish tho flames cracked the heated
ni"tul aud rent a great mass from its side
while others are equally positive that the
injury was djne in the process ot ca-l
iug, and that the bell lay in tho foundry
pit tor 10 1 years, und was then dug out
aud placed upon the pedestal where it
stands to-day. it is uot easy to see the
use of such a metallic monster. Nothing
short of steam power could swing thu
mass ot metal, and steam power was un
known in the days when the .Moscow bell
was cast. The value of the metal alone
has been computed at ubout f :0,iU0,
and it is said that a large quantity of
gold nnd silver was mixed with it.
The twelve bells of St. Paul's Catho
dral iu l.ondun arc said to be the great
est ringing peal in the world. It is i
matter of pride with the English that
they always swing their bells instead of
merely swinging the clappers ufter the
fashion prevailing iu liussia aud other
parts ol continental r U'ope.
Thu Russians have a passion for hi,
bells. There are numbers of them i
.Moscow. Iu tho tower of Ivan, in the
Kremlin, hangs a sixty-ton bell, which
is rung only three times a year, aud then
the combined ellortsof three men are re-
mired to swing tho hammer. Above
this hang forty bells of various dimen
sioiis, a mouulain of metal capable of
emuting the most tiealening sounds.
en J aster eve, a deathlike silence reins
throughout magniiiceut Mo-cow Sud
ieuly, ut midnight, from 'he tower of
Ivau, the mighty congregation of bi lls
peals torih in a tumultuous aud (lis
cordaut crash. Then the bells of the eu
tire C-ty join in the metallic uproar.
JlOl'SEUOLU AFFAIRS.
rtnklng Ush.
Fish can ho baked by two methods.
Ono method of baking fish require fre
quent basting with sauce or gravy. Th
other method, which is properly de
nominated dry baking, is best performed
when thin slices of bacon are placed
upon the bake pan, beneath the fish, and
slso upon the suriace or upper siuu vi
the fish, and when baked in this manner
a fish requires no other attention than
that it should be removed from tho oven
ks soon as baked. Fish baked by either
method flakes and separates easily from
the bones when sullicicatly cooked.
To Prcocrvn M Ilk.
According to an English recipe, when
it is difficult to preserve muk from be
coming sour and spoiling the cream, it
may bo kept perfectly sweet by scalding
the new milk very gently, without boil
ing. Cicam already sKimmea may uo
kept twenty-four hours if scalded with
out sugar, and by adding to it ns much
powdered lump sugar us win inane n
pretty sweet, will bo good for two days,
if kept in a cool pia e. pyrup oi cream
may be preserved as abovo in the propor
tion of one and a quarter pounds of
aiigar to a pint of perfectly fresh cream ;
keep it in a cool place lor two or inree
hours, then put it into ono-ounce or two
ounce bottles, and cork it close. It will
keep good for several weeks, aim wiu
be found very useful iu traveling.
JVfie York World.
Drying Corn.
To dry corn, first parboil it, then cu
from the cob; or, belter, ecoro the tops
of the Drains, scrape out and spread
thinly in clean tins, dry in the cool oven
(not over ViO deg.) of a stove, if you
have a fruit-drier, it may bo perfectly
dried thereon, and without danger or
ron tr. i( tin? dust.
in drving sweet corn, many ladies
make the mistake of thinking that corn
too old foreatins will answer for drying.
I have tried different ways, says n lady
iu the Prairie tanner, and like the lol
lowiug way best: Cut olf the corn bo
foro cooking, nnd put it in a pan over a
kettle of hot water until the milk is set
stirring frequently, then dry on plates
in tlie oven as quictiy as puiui.v, wim
out scorching: when wishing to cook I
put it in soak in warm water immediately
after Ureaklast, or ire juenny me nigut,
before, and cook from utteeu to twenty
minutes, flavoring ns when green; it is
tender and delicious.
Sweet Tick lea.
Sweet pickles are moro whMesome
than other pickles, and area nice accom
paniment to game ond poultry. Almost
u..v fruit, nr vprrptiihln makes nict Bweet
pickles. They should be well spiced
and su ticiently cooked to keep thorn
without sealing.
Green Tomato Sweet Pickles. Slice
ten nonnds of irreen tomatoes. Soak in
salt water over night. Make syrup of
five pounds of sugar and a quart of vine
gar. Spico well, put the sliced tomatoes
in. and boil until clear. Put iu glass
jars, pour syrup over, and seal.
Sweet T'ickled Grimes. To POVen
pounds of grapes ue five pounds of
sugar, three teaspnonfuls each of cinna
mon, allspice and mace, with a pint ol
vinegar. Put ripe grapes on tho stem iu
to scald; take out, put in jars. Cook
the syrup low, pour over tho grapes, aud
seal.
Sweet Applo Pickles. Pnra a peck of
sw ;et apples leave wnoio, our, remove
tho core. Put in cold water. Take
three pounds of sugar nnd one quntt ol
vincgur, uoil, skint, ami add a te (spoon
ful of cinnamon and cloves ground.
Dron tho annlcs in. lot cook, take up.
put in a jnr, pour the syrup ov;r, covet
close.
Pickled Cucumbers Peel mruo rine
cucumbers; cut ihein to quarters, lemove
thu seed. Eet them stand iu weak vine
gar over night. In tho morning scald
in clear water. Boil five pounds of sugar
in a piut of vinegar for every eight
pounds of cucumbers; sp'co well, drop
the cucumbers iu, and boil clear. Putin
ars, aud cover well with syrup.
Pickled Plums The large blue, gieen
gage nnd wildgooso plums are best foi
pickling. For ten pounds of fruit, use
five pounds of sugar, one quart of vine
gar, two ounces of stick cinnamon and
a few cloves. Otick two or threu cloves
in the plums, pick the skins with n fork.
Heat the sugar and vinegar: skim; put
in jars, pour ovor tho syrup, aud seal.
Sweet Pickled Beets Wash, and be
careful not to break the skin. Put iu salted
hot water, aud boil until they can be
pierced with a fork. Take up and put In
cold water; rub olT tho skin, and cut a
slice from top and bottom. Then cut
the beets in fancy shapes, put into jars,
and pour over them syrup made of a
pound of stigarto a piut of vinegar, well
flavored. Cover close.
Sweet Pickled Pears Have ready a
pau of cold water, peel the pears, und
drop them in. Weigh the pears; allow
to every pound of fiuit four pounds of
sugar, one quart of vinegar, wilh spices
to taste. Put the sugar iu a kettle with
a teacup of b uling water; let bod. skim,
add he vinegar and spices. Dia'u thu
pears, put iu the kettle. When tender,
put iu jars, boil lhu syiup down, and
pour over; teal.
Sweet Peach Pickles --I'aio seven
pounds of jh aches whole. Put tlneo
pounds of sugar and a pint of vinegar
on to boil. .Mix half au ouineof ginger
root, a teaspoouful of ground cloves, two
teaspoonfuls of allspice, two of cinnamon
and a half a teuspoonful of ground mate;
add them to the sugar and vinegar.
When the mixture is hot, add tho
peaches; bring all to a boil, take from
thu lite, and pour in a stone :ar. Stand
in a cool place over night. Next morn
ing drain all thu liquor from the peaches
into a pieserve kettle, let heat, and pour
over the peuches. ltepcat this for seven
days.
The Richest Min In the World.
Tho richest mine iu Australia, and
pel haps in the world, is the Mount .Mor
gan, ut lioi khampton, tiuecusland. Its
value has been variously est:mated hi
fiom $ti0,0uO,UO:i to l,0 10,110 l,u 10, but
it is a fact that one of thu llothschilds
oll'cied f'.io.tiuO.l'OO for the miue, and
the offer was refused. Tho gold as
taken from the miue is. 00 line, or almost
pure. txtn t'raii' iMO F.titmi iirr.
Some one says that wealth is a shadow
This is, perhaps, the reasou that we ul
like to sit iu the shade Ihttn 0i:e!tt.
A SONG OtT DREAMS,
A dream of a merry child at play,
Blue eyed and fair, frolicsome, gay,
Glad a the birds in the springtime are,
Sorrows afloat like clouds afar.
Careless of tronhle, untouched by fear,
Singing her way through the golden year.
A dream of a woman, old and gray,
Wrinkled and bent, wending her way
Lomesomely toward the last milestone.
Whore tho grim, dark shadow of death W
thrown,
Btorm stained and weary, and worn with
care
Tho candle of life at it final flare.
A dres-m of a grave in a churchyard Ion, ,
Neglected, drear, with weeds o'ergrown, '
With only tho chirp of the cricket's song.
As it sings in the grass tho whole night long,''
To break the silence that brood so deep
Wher the worn out soul nnd body sleep.
Susie M. Vest, in Home Journal,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
In a nutshell Sweet meats.
Born to rule A book-keeper.
Notes of the day Sight drafts. - '
Worth its weight in gold Gold.
Ho "whoops 'em up" Tho cooper, i
Awaiting its turn A buckwheat cake.
Tho bent of many a man's inclination
is crooked.
Lame men have ru tiling expenses tha
same as other folks.
Keep your conscience but not your
farm void of a fenco.
Strange to say, clastic has its greatest)
annp when it's "broke."
Tho bottom of a gun -barrel ia always a
good base for a charge.
The chief disease of a miser is attacks
of tightness of the chest.
Paste diamonds are so called because
people get stuck on them so often.
When a physician loses his skill it
naturally follows thot he is out of prac
tice. An imposing sight A street fakir
selling brass watch cases as solid gold
watches.
Shakespeare advised his readers to
throw physic to tho dogs. He is silent
about cats.
A littlo up-town boy is so fond of
whipped cream that he licks the dish.
Drake's Miigtuiiir.
Big Head is the name of a prominent
Sioux Chief. His Sioux-de nym as it
were. PA iladelph in i';vs.
Some men nro born witty. Others
have a good memory and somo witty
friends. Somrrcilte Journal.
Determining tho weight of an eel is all
guess work. You can't weigh a fish
without scales. Ottawa Z?r.
Signor Casus Belli, tho celebrated
Italian, is still tryiug to foment trouble
iu Europe. De'roit Free Prt.
The sweet girl graduate about this
timo is getting sour over the kitchen
rouge, learning how to cook. SamereiU
Journal.
"Poor childless wish!" exclaimed
Fogg, when Fendcrsou spoke of his wish
being father to his thought. Boston
'J'ratucrijit.
Blobson "Dou't you think that
Penipscy rather plays tho fool:" Popin
jay "No, sir; I thiuk ho works at the
job." Liirlinijton Free. lres.
"I am so glad your sister enjoyed her
visit to us, Mr. Smith." "Oh, well, you
know, she is the sort of girl who can en
joy herself anywhere, you know." Lift.
"I love you, dear!" the young man said,
"Oh, will you be my wife?''
The maiden drooped her modest heal
And whispered, "Hot your life!"
Somerfilla Ji.tt,ial. ,
Trobably there is nothing in the
world that a man rcsouts so quickly and
so deeply as to find you awfully busy
when ho is perfectly at leisure. Shoeund
Leather J j orter.
Do not let your overweening modesty
prevent you from recordiug your owu
good deeds. A real estato man lost a
fortune onto through an unrecorded
deed. Jlarier't Vazar.
Hopeful Youth "Is Miss De Cash
in!" Servant "Yis, sor." Hopeful
youth "Is she engaged" Servant
"Vis, sor; but he isn't here this aveuin'.
Come in." The Cartoun.
"Do you understand much about arbor
culture:" asked I abatt of a friend. "Ves,
I thiuk I do." "Well, I want to ask
you a question: Are all forest trees
seeders f Texas Sijting$.
Says a novelist of to-day, describing an
interview between lovers: "Betwoen
them there passed an ecstatic kiss." And
neither of I hem got it! Aw, what muffs
they must have been. liarJct'e.
You can't nuigh grams with a grammar,
Nor sui;ar cure hams with a hammer,
Ho sums wilh a summer,
tstew plums with a plumber,
Nor slieur au old rtuu Willi a rammer.
Sirinttjiltl t 'tiian.
Dentist ' 'Well, how do the new teuth
works" Patient "Not very well. They
icem to cut the other." Dentist "That
is perfectly natural. They belong to uu
entirely clillcreut let, you know." .Sii
Fi'aueUi'O Fjumittti .
At n on his yacht, with n fair lady by him;
lie aske 1 for u kiss, but she chose to deny
him,
".Not here.'' cried the lady, in toues full of
mirth,
' Though 1 have not the slightest objection
on earth."
Visitor at Cannon Foundry "This is
all giuud, stupendous, astounding. But
where will your occupation bo when
universal peace prevails:'1 Proprietor of
Works "Casting cannon to celebrate it
with, Sir." Vhi'-iijo 'J'rib'tne.
" If you think my legs eccentric.''
Isttid tliLi grasshopper to llie bee,
"And my forehead iiiocrly p inteJ
IV hertt Hit brain pox ouht to Le;
That my muutli lias feeble- muttons
hiiiice dark mysteries do exude,
Pleuse to know 1 unci. exUtisl
As a I'yllmsureuu dude. '
.nfje.
"Father, the paper says you 'officiated
lit the we lding i la 1 in thu traditional
g lib of the clergy. ' What does tradi
tional mean?" "Tradiliouul, my sou,"
replie 1 the poor minister, ul he looked
at his chcip suit of black w ith a sigh,
"refers to things that have been 'handed
dow n.' " Chi io Trib'i-ie.
Three women were iu hysterics ut ono
time in thu waiting room of a New York
dry goods stoie thu other day. Some
slight ta.isu unbalanced one, and the
other two weut olf because the.' looked,
Ut the first ouu.