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. ' TvwMhirds of alt tho children born in
Connecticut in 1889 wcro boys.
There has been a monster baby show
ifl Melbourne, Australia. Upward of 700
infants w'e ro on view and 30,000 peoplo
went to sc them. Tho exhibition has
aroused an indignant protect against tho
employment of babes for tho entertain
ment of adults.
Threo vessels which arrived at tho
port of New York recently reported that
they had been successful in overcoming
the effects of n hurricane by uRing oil.
Every week we hear reports of this kind.
Tlio New York .Xtics says it looks as
though it would bo wise to make every
vessel carry a Rnpply of oil for this pur-
.
pose.
In his address at Allmuy, N. Y.t on
the reform of criminals, Colonel Ingcrsoll
gave some statistics showing that while
in 1850, with a population of 23,000,000,
the United States had between C000 and
7000 prisoners; in 1880, with 50,000,-
. (100 population, we had 25,000 prisoners.
Jn 1850 wo had 15,000 insane; in 1880
kc hud 91,000 insane.
.litniuic Cooke, of Carroll County, Gu.,
is the youngest add most remarkable boy
preacher in the field. lie is but thirteen
years old, nnd has already been preaching
two years. ' Ho lias been preaching to
crowded houses in Atlanta. Ho doesn't
depend much on book learning, for he
has been to school only eight months in
his life. He is very eloquent, and holds
his hearers spellbound. t
A case of considerable interest to men
who insure their lives for the benefit of
their wives was recently decided in St.
Louis. The .Case was one in which a man
had taken out such a policy. His wife
died and he married again, having chil
dren by both marriages. At his death a
dispute arose as to who was entitled to
the insurance.. The decision of the court
was that as the insuranco had been taken
out for tho benefit of tho first wife, her
.children alone were entitled to tho money.
.-. . ... .
Tho baby King of Spain is now "a
TCathcr. The other day his Ambassa
dor at St. Petersburg solemuly accepted
in the name of his Majesty tho duty of
ceeing that tho son of the. Comte and
Comtcsso dc Morella renounces his pomps
and vanities of this wicked world. As
the King is only three years older than
his godchild, ho may find the tusk of
forcing tho latter into the paths of virtue
uncommonly difficult. Hy a curious co
incidence tho little do Morella's grand
father was Cabrera, tho noted Carlist
leader, who for years held Queen Isabella's
forces at bay.
AVarncd by the experience of the
Cr.jnin trial at Chicago, when weeks of
valuable time were consumed in the se
lection of a jury with a result far from
satisfactory, a Chicago judge has adopted
a plan by which ho hopes to overcomo
these difficulties. He bos simply tuken
iuto his own hands the examination of
the veuiremeu ; and having satisfied him
self that they were qualified as jurors to
try tho case without prejudice, he ac
cepted them in spito of the objections
raised by the. defence, the cause in ques
tion being a criminal one. It seems
that under the Illinois luw this power is
, vested in tho judge; and one has been
found who is willing to take the respon
sibility for his actions.
To-day Seattle, Wash., is largely re
built, and tho new buildings are much
finer than the old ones K before the
enterprising city on the PiHie Slope was
burned down. n seventy fmys after the
lire a brick hotel, containing 200 rooms,
was completed. Nine street ear lines
arc, cither completed or about to be, and
they will be operated by cables or elec
tric motors. A $500,000 rolling mill
has been finished, and iron works to cost
f3,000,000 aro being established. A
costly opera house has just been thrown
open to the public, atul there is nothing
on the Pacific coast that approaches it in
magnificence. These are only a few of
the improvements that have been made
within six months, but they aro sufficient
to show that Seattle possesses indomit
able pluck, and that her peoplo believe
in her future.
"You don't know wnat snow storms
' arc in New York,"" said General Belu
Buell,of Leadvillc, Col., to a Press man.
"Why, even out in our country we have
no such snowfall as wo had twenty years
ago. I have seen the snow so deep that
as we went over its surface I have sat
down on the top of telegraph poles to
rest, my feet being in tho snow. Tele
graph" poles are eighteen or twenty feet
high. I have gone over the mountains
w ith Hunk Monk, iu tho early days out
West,' when there was a little narrow
path beaten down on top of tho snow by
snow shoes, uud marked at -the sides with
chips and sticks, off which it was dan
gerous to step. Once off the path you
would plunge dowu into the snow up to
your armpits, und if you didn't huve your
rms out us you fell you wotild go into
th suow over your head."
THE SIN OF OMISSION.
It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone.
Which gives you a bit of a heartache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunt ing ghoeta to-night
The stone you might have lifted
Out of a brother's way
The bit of hearteome counsel
You were hurried too much to say
The loving touch of the handj dear,
Th gentle and winsome tone
That you had no time nor thought for,
With troubles enough of your 'wn.
These little acta of kindness,
Bo easily out of mind.
Those chalices t t angels
Which even mortals find
They come in night and silence,
Koch chill, reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is ail too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion '
That tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which give you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the suu.
Margaret K. Songster,
THE BEST ROAD.
TiV 1IKI.KN FOHHKKT CIIIAVF.S.
"And here, Claribel," said old Mrs.
Grigg, "I declare, I had nearly lorgot
ten little Pen. Pen came so long after
the others, and she's such a mite of a
thing, that I'm always forgetting her.
But" plunging her hand deep down
into her pocket "here's a ten dollar
gold piece. Tell her to buy something
with it to remember old Cousin Grigg
by."
"It's very good of you, Cousin Grigg,"
safl Claribel Wilton.
Kvcry year, on her birthday, old Mrs.
Grigg visited her relations aud made
each one of them a present.
"I've got plenty of money, and they
haven't," said Mrs. Grigg; "and it's a
pleasant excitement to mo to pick out the
things. A sort of fairy godmother busi
ness ha, ha, ha 1 And it docs me good
to see how pleased Clara and the chil
dren are."
So Mrs. Grigg rolled away in her com
fortable old-fashioned coupe with tho fat
coachman and the still fatter horses, and
Claribel stood ecstatic among the parcels,
viewing their magnificence.
"A black silk for mamma!" she cried.
"Oil, how did Cousin Grigg knov that
tho old one was so shabby? And books
for Kate, the family book-worm: and a
camera for Tom, and skates for Will, and
the sweetest muff and boa for Edith,
and a rosewood writing-desk for me!
But how I wish she had given me the
money instead 1 I did so want a new
white sat in bodice for my evening dress
for Fanuy Haley's party 1 The old one is
too shabby for anything, and ten dollars
would have bought all the material, and
I could have made it myself."
She looked longingly at the gold
piece in the palm of her hand.
"If Pen wa-u't so little," she said, "I
could make an exchange aud give her the
writing-desk instead. But Pen is only
eight years old, and not out of Number
Three writing-bocks yet. What could she
do with a rosewood desk! Why didn't
Cousin Grigg think to give her a doll or
a tea-set, or some regulation children's
toy? Or why can't I do it?" Claribel
exclaimed, with a sudden long breath.
"There's a solution for ;he riddle! Pen
hull huve a fifty-cent doll! I can dress
it myself with some of the old luces and
sash ribbons iRtlie catch-all drawer, uud
I can have the satiu peasant waist after
all!"
Claribel Wilton carried out the pro
gramme. 4
She ran to the nearest toy store and
bought a limp, big-eyed doll, with a
cataract of yellow jute down to her back,
nutt by dint of exceeding haste, man
aged to get it dressed before Pen, a
dimpled, plump little maid of eight,
came trottirlatme from school.
"Is it Cousin Grigg's presentl Oh,
how nice!" cried the child. "But
Cousin Grigg always gives me a big,
jointed doll, with eye that will open
und shut, aud real silk stockings, and
boots buttoned with little gilt buttons.
Is Cousiu Grigg poor this year, mam
ma?" '
"Hush, child!" said Claribel, sharply.
"Never look a gift horse in the
mouth !"'
"But I don't sec any horse," said Pen,
casting a half-terrified glance over her
shoulder. "Mamma, what does Bel
mean by horses' mouths?"
"Why do you talk slang to the child,
Claribel?" said Mrs. -Wilton, who was
cutting off the breadths of her substantial
silk gown. "She means, Penelope, that
you should be sutisticd with whatever
Mrs. Grigg is kind enough to give you."
"But the eyes areu't a match," com
plained Pen. "And there's a hole iuone
shoulder, where the sawdust is coining
out ; aud just look at the greasy mark in
the flounce of the tea-gown! It isn't a
bit like the dolls that Cousin Grigg al
ways gives me ! I shall be awful 'shamed
to introduce this doll to Frederica aud
Emily aud my other dollies!"
Clarinet's conscience pricked her a lit
tle when she saw the piteous disappoint
ment of her little sister, but she forgot
it all in the joyful excitement of cutting
and fitting the glistening whitc-satiu folds
with their trimming of white blonde,
caught dowu with ltoman pearls.
"Harold Carlton will be there," she
exultantly thought, "and I always do look
well in white."
But the afteruoou before the eventful
evening she went out in the rain to buy a
pair of long-wristed kid gloves, and
caught cold, and just when the cere
monials of the toilette ought to have com
menced, she was Iving in btd with a mus
tard plaster on her chest and a prodigious
pitcher of nax-seea tea on the table besiae
her, making her piteous complaints iu a
whisper, because she was too ftoarse w
"Don't let any one come in, for pity's
sake," she muttered, as the doorbell gave
a clang,
Little Pen came ruuningto her side.
"Such a bouquet, Claribel!" she cried.
"With Mr. Carlton's card stuck in among
the roses 1 Do only smell of it! Oh, I
forgot, you can't smell, because of the
influenza iu your nose 1 Norah says Mr.
Carlton is in love with you, Clary! Is
he?"
Claribel turned her face away with a
groan. Alicia Vinton would have the
field all to herself to-night, nnd what
might not be done iu such a golden op
portunity as this?
"And here comes Cousin Grigg,"
added the child. "Who ever heard of
Cousin Grigg coming out at night be
fore? To see you, Clary?"
"Don't let her come in!" whispered
Claribel. "I do look such a figure with
my nose swelled up and my eyes run
ning!" But the caution came too late. Cousin
Grigg's black satin dress was nlrcady
rustling on the threshold, and iu she
trudged.
"I thought I'd like to see you in your
ball dress, Claribel," said tho kind old
lady. "I've got some young thoughts
and faucics about mo yet, if I am seventy
odd years old, and I like to see a pretty
girl dressed up, especially if she is my
own flesh and blood. And I've brought
you a little diamond hair ornament a
fleur-de-lis set on a long gold stem that
I wore to my first ball, more than half u
century ago! Never mind, Claribel
your mother told mo how unlucky you
were, but tho diamond fleur-de-lis will
do just as well for the next merrymak
ing, eh?"
Oh, Cousin Grigg, now good you
are!" murmured Claribel, as the old lady
placed a kiss on her forehead and tho
licur-de-iis in her hand.
"Well, Pussikins," said Mrs. Grigg,
jocosely, addressiug little Penelope, who
stood by with a hot-water bottle iu her
hands. "And what did you buy with
my present?"
"I didn't buy anything," said Pen,
the most truthful of small witnesses. "I
gave it to the washerwoman's little girl.
It was so very ugly, you know, alter tlio
one bad-match eye Jell out, mat j
couldn't bear to look at it."
"Ugly?" cried Mrs. Grigg.
"Oh, very!" nodded Pen. "Please, I
don't want to hurt your feelings, but
mamma says we must always speak the
truth. It was ugly !"
"And vou gave it to the washer
woman's littlo girl?" slowly repeated
Mrs. Grigg.
"Why. yes," acknowledged Pen.
"She hasn't got so many of 'cm as I
have, you know."
Mrs. Grigg stared.
"So many what, child?"
"Dolls, to bo sure," said Pen.
"It wasn't .a doll," said Mrs. Grigg.
"It was a ten dollar gold piece."
"No, it wasn't!" declared Pen, posi
tively. "I guess I ought to kuow, be
cause I' got it."
"Child " began Mrs. Grigg.
But just then a fevered hand fell on
Mrs. Grigg's arm, aud Claribel 's eyes, full
of repentant tears, were lifted to hei
face.
"Send Pen away," she whispered,
"and I will tell you all about it. I am
to blame I only and I do think this
dreadful iuflucuza is a judgment on me
for my folly and wickedness!'1
So Mrs. Grigg sent Pen down stairs to
get a handkerchief out of the pocket of
her sealskin cloak, aud Caribcl sobbed
out her confession.
"I have been a thief," she said "a
wtked, mean conspirator I I've deceived
swelTlittlo Pen and acted a contempti
ble lie, and I almost wish I could die!
So there!"
"Gently, Claribel gently 1" soothed
Mrs. Grigg. "There's no doubt but that
you've done wrong, but we're all liablo
to' error, and this, luckily, isn't a thing
that can't bo undone. Don't cry, my
child, but remember for the future that
the straight road is always the best one.
"Hert, Pen," as the little girl came
panting back, "is the ten-dollar piece.
Buy yourself as nice a doll as there is in
tho stores. The other thing was all a
mistake."
"Oh, Cousiu Grigg, how much I thank
you!" gasped Pen, with eyes nearly as
big as tho glittering coin which Mrs.
Grigg laid in her hand. "Oh, what a
doll this will buy! And sister, look
here!" running up to the bedside,
"here's a letter that Norah says dropped
out of the bouquet on the hall floor, aud
she only just picked it up. Shall I read
it aloud to you, sister?"
Should she read it aloud? Never!
Claribel hid the "letter away under tho
fragrant bunch of smilax and roses until
everybody was gouc, and then read it,
with secret thrills ol Happiness tne let
ter that told her, what sho had hardly
dared to hope for, the story of Harold
Canton s love!
"And everything has happened for tho
best." she murmured to herself, forgetful
of the beatiug headache, the pangs of the
poor, sore throat; "and 1 have got .liar
old's love aud Cousin Grigg's diamond
fleur-de-lis, and I've regained my own
self-respect at last, for all I haven't de
served a single one of them. But I'll al
ways remember Cousiu Grigg's words,
'The straight road is the best road,' and
this false step thall most assuredly be my
last."
While in the adjoining room little
Penelope lay fast asleep, with the ten
dollar gold-piece under her pillow, aud
dreamed of a doll so magnificent that all
the other dolls in the nursery up-stairs
bowed down before her, as Joseph's
brethren's sheaves of wheat bowed down
before his in the Scripture story she had
read only last Sunday afternoon. Satur
day Niyht.
Pagauinni's favorit violin a Guar
nerius del Gesu of 1743 is preserved
under avglass case in the Municipal Pal
ace of Genoa, hii birthplace. He be
queathed it to the city on condition that
it never should be used.
Pittsburg is not so disagreeable now as
it was in the old sr.ioky times. This shows
that natural gas v ill do more for a city
than it "ill lor i au. Ikmtm ir'iuttt,
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
OX-TAIL SOUP,
One ox-tail, two pounds of lean beef,
four carrots, three onions, a little thyme
and parsley. Cut tho tail into several
pieces and fry brown in butter; slice tho
onions and two carrots, and iry also;
when done put them into a muslin bag
with tho thyme, and place in the soup
pot with the beef and ox-tail ; grate the
two whole carrots, and cook all together,
pouring over four quarts of cold water,
and adding a pinch of burned sugar, and
pepper and salt to taste; cook from four
to six hours, in proportion to tne size oi
the tail; strain fifteen minutes before
serving it, and thicken with two table-
spoonfuls of brown flour; boil ten min
utes longer; add half a glass of burnt
sherry, and serve. UoiUy's La1y's Hoot.
.lKlXIEI) CHICKEN.
Cut up a full grown fat chicken, put
in a pot with an onion, tnree or iour
whole cloves, a blade of mace, and hulf
dozen pepper corns. Let simmer in
water to cover until tender; when done,
take out, cut from the bones, ami re
move the skin. Put the bones, skin
and scraps back in the pot, and Bet on
the stove. Put an ounce of gelatine in
a little cold water, nnd let soak one
hour. Add it to the liquor; stir over
the fire one minute; take off, strain and
season; then put it aside to cooi. vt nen
solid, remove all the fat from the top,
and set on the stove tvmclt, and pour
half of it in a mold and set on ice to
harden. Put a layer of chicken on top
of the jelly; when solid, spinkle with salt
and pepper, lay on more chicken, pour
over the remainder of the jelly, and put
it away to harden over night. hen
ready to serve, turn carefully from the
moid and garnish with celery leaves.
Houteicife.
OI.D-FASHIONED 11READ.
In one pint and a half of luke warm
water put a cuke of compressed yeast
aud a tcaspoonful of salt, stir until the
yeast cake is dissolved, then stir iu, by
degrees, as much sifted flour as will
make a batter as stiff as will drop from
tho spoon; cover, nnd put in a warm
place to rise. This is the sponge. When
light, which will be when all covered
with bubbles, and beginning to wrinkle
iu the middle, add to it one pint of sweet
milk, a piece of good butter the size of
an egg, one tablespoonful of granulated
sugar, and one-half of an even teaspoon
f ul of bicarbonate of soda which has been
previously dissolved in a little cold water,
and allow to settle. The milk should bo
warm enough to thoroughly soften tho
butter. Add sifted flour, by degrees,
until the mass is stiff enough to put upon
the paste-board to knead; have the
board well floured, and knead the bread
thoroughly until it ceases to stick to the
bauds, which will take about twenty
minutes. After the bread is on the
board, add flour, very carefully, to pre
vent it from becoming stiff. It should
feel soft and light, aud rise rouud tho
hands very much as a feather pillow
does when kneaded. Put it in tho bowl
which contains tho sponge, cover, and
replace it in the warm spot to rise again.
Wheu the surface begins to crack, cut
into four pieces, mold them into loaves,
put them iu buttered pans, and let them
rise again. When light, bake one hour
in a hot oven, turning every ten minutes.
Journal of Useful Invention!.
HOUSEHOLD irTNTS.
Violet, rose and orange blossom leaves
re frozen in ice cream of delicate flavor.
It is said that kerosene will soften
boots and shoes that have been hardened
by water.
Try keeping cranberries fresh by put
ting them in cold water containing a
piece of charcoal. Change tho water
sccasionally.
When your sifter becomes clogged
with flour or meal sift some hot ashes
through it; you will be surprised to see
how nicely it is cleaned.
The clear juice of the pineapple is
now considered by some physicians to bo
the best remedy for diphtheretic sore
throat and even for diphtheria.
Put camphor gum with your new sil
ver ware and it will never tarnish as long
as the iruui is there. Never wash silver
in soapsuds, us that gives it a white ap
pearance.
A small piece of paper or linen moist
ened with turpenliue aud put into the
wardrobe or drawers for a single duy
two or three times a year is a preventive
against moths.
Coffee pounded in a mortar and roasted
on an iron plate, sugar burned on hot
coals and vinegar boiled with myrrh aud
sprinkled on the floor and furnituro of a
tick room are excellent deodorizers.
A mustard plaster applied to the back
of the neck often relieves a severe head
ache. Iodido of potassium, too, is
good remedy when tho pain is mostly in
the forehead; two grains dissolved iu a
wine glass of water sipped slowly.
When cooking eggs by breaking into
hot water, never allow the water to boil
it wastes them and destroys their Bhape
Have the water boiling hot and set the
pun on the back of the stove until the
eggs are cooked coft or hard, as liked.
The best way to clean out lead pipes
without the expensive aid of a plumber is
to pour a strong solution of concentrated
lye down them. The lye will dissolve
hair, lint, indeed all animal aud most
vegetable mutter, and so open the pipes.
A sponge is excellent for washing win
dows; and newspapers will polish them
without leaving dust and streaks. Use
a soft pine stick to cleuse the accumula
tions of dust from the corners of the
sash. Ammonia will give the glass a
cUarer look than soap.
The use of poor soap is said to be the
most prolific source of skin diseases. If
this be true, a person suffering from such
trouble should Ht once make
chanire in
k
the soap he is using. Many persons pre
fer almond meal cr oat meal to soap for
washing face and band-.
Seventy-one towns and citie iu Indi
ana are ueing natural gas,
WONDROUS WHEAT FARMS.
AGRICULTURE ON A LAROK SOALF
IN CALIFORNIA.
Millions of Acres Seeded to Wheat
Annually I.abor-SavlnB Machin
ery Cost of Cultivation.
The wheat crop of California bids fair
to increase steadily, year after year.
Very few persons know how large is the
area of excellent wheat land as yet un
used, except for pasturage. About
3,700,000 acres are now seeded to wheat
annually, but fully 10,000,000 acres in
the State are wheat lands. Of the 115,
000,000 acres in California, says Charles
Horward Shinn in the American Agricul
turist, I rate 30,000,000 as fully arable,
and to allow 20,000,000 acres for all
farm purposes, other than wheat-growing,
does not appear unfair. If the
yield per acre can be increased by better
culture, as our most practical farmers ex
pect, California will each year cut a
larger field among tho wheat-growing
States.
Ilv 1854. tho immense profits of wheat
wem recognized. In 1856 the total
crop of tho State was 87,000 tons (of
2000 pounds), grown on 200,000 acres.
Ten years later the space seeded had
grown to 750,000 acres. It is now
3,700,000 acres.
The Spaniard in California often sowed
wheat ou un plowed ground and dragged
it in with branches of trees. The first
American settlers used single plows and
home-made triangular harrows. In 1852
and 1853 somo wheat wa9 cut with a
cvthe. As late as 1860 a great deal
ra9 bound In sheaves in tne oiu-iasmoueu
wav. JSUt n acmanu lor -un urovcu iu-
chinery" was stimulated by the hign
nricfi of labor. As early as ie jonn
M. Horner, of Alameda County, invented
and built a "combined harvester," which
contained tho principles of the great ma
chines of the present time, and ought to
, i :..! n:
nave mauc mm a ricuumu. imuwiuo,
which cost over twelve thousand dollars,
wiu destroved bv fire, and no other
harvesters were "built for many years,
The usual method of preparing soil for
wheat is with a "(rang" of six plows
On liuht soil only eight horses or mules
are required, but on ncavicr sous more
are attached, until as many as twenty
four horses can be seen breaking up hard
adobe for "summer fullow." On large
ranches a dozen "gangs," each with its
driver, can be seen moving back aud
forth across the immense news, in tne
most advanced system only five plows
aro used, but a seed-box and good
steel-toothed harrow are attached, so
that the plowing, seeding and harrow
imr are done at ono operatiau. Some
soils have to be plowed twice, and har
rowed with a heavy eight-horse harrow,
before being seeded. But when the whole
work can be done at ono operation, it
costs less than one dollar per acre for
lnhnr. Harvesting is done by an im-
nroved header and thresher, which cuts,
threshes, cleans and sacks the wheat, and
drous it in piles of a dozen sacks to be
tratliered m by a wasou. The machine
rcnuires from twenty to forty horses, and
from three to eight men, and cannot be
run on very hilly land. In many places,
therefore, the old-fashioned reapers and
sliindim' threshers aro Btill used. But
the cost of the hitter system is about $
ner acre, while the combiued harvester
handles the crop for $1.75 per acre. The
rainless summers of California makes the
wheat so dry and hard that no "sweat'
ing" is necessary. General Bidwcll, one
moraine, had wheat cut, threshtd, sack
ed, taken to his flour mill, ground, taken
to his house aud made into biscuit for
breakfast, nil within two hours! Without
counting tho cost of seed wheat, the ma
chiuery in general use here puts in crops
and harvests them at a cost of from $2.75
to $5 ner acre.
The lust two years have witnessed an
other development of machinery in Call
fornia wheat-culture. Steam power has
been successfully applied, and a very
creat reduction in cost has been made.
In tho summer of 1889, a large number
of field-engines, built here, on Califor
nia designs, wero iu the fields with as
tonishing results. Tho largest of them
cut a swath of forty feet, aud harvested
the crop at a cost for running expenses
of less than twenty-five cents per acre, as
arainst $1.76 of tho old system. The
same engine is expected to plow, carry
ing twelve or twenty or even forty plows,
and, since it is a road-engine, it will haul
th 3 crop to the nearest station or landing
at less expense than if hauled with horses.
The price of such an engine, with the
harvester and thresher, is from $5000 to
$8000 at present, but this cost, it is said,
will soon be reduced. From the talk
among wheat-growers, two or three years
w ill witness the introduction of steam on
all the large ranches. The engines are
"straw-burners;" or, wheu plowing,
wood can be used. Coal is very high on
the Pacific coast, and therefore coal
burning engines will never be profitable
here. I have asked wheat-raisers what
they thought would be the cost of plow
iug, harrowing, seeding, harvesting and
delivering at the station would be, if
these steam-engines do what is expected.
They answer: "About one dollar an
acre, ou the easily-farmed lands, and not
more than two dollars anywhere." This,
then, is the way that California can suc
cessfully meet the competition of Iudia,
Kussia, Siberia and tho Argentine He
public. The Cause of the Seusution.
During the recent gripe period, when
most everybody iinugiued peculiur symp
toms, a gentleman dropped iuto hU doc
tor's office ou the way down towu. "Doc
tor, I don't kuow what is the mutter. I
have a peculiar sensation iu one of my
legs. It appears to be shorter than tho
other." Walk ucross the room," said the
doctor. The patient ambled gracefully.
"Thut will do," said the doctor, smiling.
"You'll have to go home." "I can't; I
have business engagements." Well, I
1 give you my advice, aud jou can take it
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or not, Olll 11 uu wuiil iu jjc. i...... iuav
peculiar sensation you will go home aud
put on a pair of boots that are mates,
for a siugle sole boot and one with a cork
ole never did gq well together " Chi
e$y lltruhl.
SELECT S1FTINGS.
Honmania has 200,000
gypsies,
and
Hungary 80,000.
Huby Valley, Cal., boasts of snow
drifts fifty feet deep.
A young lady at Dayton, Tenn., has
died of hydrophobia from the bite of o
cat.
A Philadelphia shoemaker's dog died a
day or two ago from swallowing a piece
of sole leather in mistake for beefsteak.
A scventy-ninc-year-old woman, con
fined in the Steuben County House, N.Y.,
has rend tho Bible through fifteen times.
An agreement without consideration is
void ; a note made on Sunday is void ;
contracts made on Sunday cannot be en
forced.
Levi Williamson, of Ansonia, Conn.,
has a hoe that is seven feet long and
wciirhs 1000 pounds. It is so fat that it
is unable to get up.
A Chinese laundryman nt Bristol. Pcnn.,
rents all the places in the city avatluble
for laundries, so that ne can enjoy
monopoly of the trade.
A hen in Meiires County, Ohio, hatched
out some turtle eggs thut were placed
under her lately, and treats the little
creepers as tenderly as she would chicks,
Never buy diamonds except on a clear
day. The least mist or fog in the atmos
phere will prevent you Irom discovering
the flaws in them. Damp, murky weather
practically kills the diamond business,
Lydia Bacon, of Sudbury, Mass., who
has iust been cut off in her lOJil year,
attributed her longevity to hard work,
plenty of exercise, plain living and read
ing enough to Keep tno minu in peace
with the body s vigor.
An artesian well at Woonsocket, South
Dakota, poured out its waters in such
profusion before it was brought unner
control that a lake of forty acres was
formed. A dense fog is continually rising
from the warm water
Unseasonable freaks are plentifully re
ported in Connecticut. Mrs. Avis Hoss,
of Danielsonville, opened too iront uoor
of her house after church service one
Sunday, and a big black snake tied itself
into knots for her edification. She got a
club and killed it.
A remarkable little auimal has been
added to the London Zoo. It is a deer,
though in sizo but a trifle larger than a
full grown cat. The cloven hoofs pro
claim its position in the mammaliau
world beyond doubt, but it has no horns.
In the mal3 two long canino teeth pro
ject from tho upper lip, and these, per
haps, serve in tueir steau.
The twenty-six letters of the alphabet
may be transposed 620,448,401,733,239,
439,360,000 times. All the inhabitants
of the globe, on a rough calculation
could not, in a thousand million of years,
write out ull the transpositions of the
twenty-six letters, even supposing that
etch wrote forty pages daily, each of
which nasres contained forty different
transposition of the letters.
Bosworth Smith, in n report on the
Kolar gold field in Southern India, re
cords somo finds of old mining imple
ments, old timbering, fragments of
bones, an old oil lamp and broken pieces
of earthenware, including a crucible. He
expressed astonishment at the fact that
the old miners were able to reach depths
of 100 or 300 feet through hard rock
with the simple appliances at their com
mand. A fine female pigeon belonging to a
citizen of Shenandoah, Peun., was re
cently shot. For three days and uighH
her mate walked to and fro on top of the
Diieou house, mouruiug constantly. The
female pigeons that had no mates alighted
in his pathway every little while, but ull
tho notice they got from the mourner
wus a thump that sent them kiting from
the roof. Then the females fought ono
another. The widower watched the
fight, and soou after made one of them
his second mate.
An Austrian Gipsy Wedding.
The bride and bridegroom were led be
fore the captain. Yemra, tho bride is
handsome gul of seventeen, with eyes
aud hair as black as jet. She wore a red
gown with white trimming and patent
leather laced boots. Katilu Oyefnn, tho
bridegroom, is a well built youth of one-and-twenty,
with pleasant face, a black
moustache and bushy hair. A yellow
scarf was handed by an old man to tho
captain, who bouuded it lightly around
the wrists of the happy pair, saying, as
he did so: "Man and wife must bo
bound together." Ho then took an
earthenware jar aud ixiured the contents
u smull quuutity of wine over their
heads, reciting words to this effect,:
"Sometimes wine is sour; so is lif
Sometimes wine is sweet; so is life. The
existence of gipsies is a mixture of sour
and sweet." lie then took off tho yel
low scarf and said : "Ye are now a true
gipsy couple." This brought the cere
mony to a close. The young people were
congratulated by their companions, ami
afterward they adjourned to the public
room of the Bohemian Mill, for feasting
and merrymaking. The company left
three days later, the newly-married couple
traveling in a commodious new curt.
Will the Future Women be Bald I
Will the comiug woman be bald ?
Doubtless she will, us most people come
here buhl, but this doesn't apply to the
women of the future. Some genius has
made the discovery thut bruiu work
causes baldness, and cites the capillury
poverty of ministers, lawyers, baukcrs,
editors, etc., as evidence that intellectu
ality is tho primary cause of the billiard
ball display iu the front rows ut kicking
shows. From this exercise of the mind,
therefore, it is claimed will come a race
of hairless womeu. The strong-minded
woman has heretofore beeu regarded as
the cause of much baldness among mules,
and there is a sort of poetic justice about
the idea that her strong mindeduess will
react ou her self aud make her au object
(if derision to the small boy anil a fair
target for the humorous paragraphia
Just think how our descendants will have
to change the ideal of womauly beauty
wheu there is au utter ubseni e nt raven,
golden and other trtsi.', (i('-6uj'm;t.
A VALENTINE.
On, Valentine. I do not daro
To go my myself and speak
The word which, like the morning a!f,
Shall tinge this Rose's cheok.
And when you see the scarlet tint
Across her features climb,
Betraying in a blush a hint
How she accepts my rhyme.'
Know this: if I her heart have won,
Iler lips shall part and tell;
If I have lost, your day is done
A swift match, and farewell.
Go, then, and while I madly burn
In love's devouring fire,
1 live if she one word return
Or else, like you, expire.
Frank D. Sherman, in Harper's.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Cinderella was a slippery maiden.
The musician is not easily played out
The best cigar meets its match when it
is lit.
Door fastenings have knobby decora,
tions. '
"The whirled is mine," said the cy
clone. Washington Post.
The burglar opens the door for the sake
of a littlo lock-upation. Merchant Tra
refer. The Speaker of the House is the man
who listens to the Ulk of others. JVeu
York Xeits.
When a man wants to And fault he will
do so, even if he lias to be up all night
looking for it.
The goat eats tomato cans, and such,
To the amusement of man;
But what can tickle man's palate so much
As an oyster can
"Tommy, you may go and cut me a
good, strong birch rod." "Pa, I don't
think it's a good day to go fishing."
Time.
This truth should everywhere be known
One swallow can't a summer bring;
But vet it can be clearly shown
That just one frog can make a spring.
Chicago Herald.
To be convinced that it is possible to
bo very sharp aud very flat at tho same
time, it is only necessary to look at a
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ell kept carving Knnc. uantrun
Br cat.
It takes a man of iron nerve to sing
"Home, Sweet Home" for a lullaby wheu
the baby wakes up squealing at 2 A. M. ,
and positively will not go to sleep.
SomerrilU Journal.
Visitor "You look utterly worn out,
Miss Sophie. I suppose you have been
bored with callers all morning?" Miss
Sophie (languidly) "Oh, no; you ro the
very first." St. Paul Eye.
"You can't procure content with
money," says the philosopher; but the
fact that the converse is equally true, if
not more so, rather hurts the force of the
proposition. Merchant Truteler.
Cantwaite "How about thnt five dol
lars you owe me;'' Van Gall "Oh,
hang that five dollars! I'm sick and
tired of hcuriug about it. Say, can't
you make it ten ?" II 'asliimjton Star.
Teacher "When boys disobey tho
rules of the school nnd refuse to learn
their lessons, they grow up ignorant nnd
lazy. What kind of men do they make?"
Pupil "I kuow. Jurymen." DanscUU
Jlrteie.
Boarder "Madam, we want hot meals
or we'll move." Laudlady "Hot meals!
Why haven't you got pepper, and cat
sup, and horseradish aud raw onions,
and mustard! Whut more do you folks
expect?" Timt. '
An exchange tells of a man who
"choked to death while eating his sup
per at night." He would probably have
escaped this sad fate if he had eaten his
supper in the morning, right after break
fast. Sea York A'eics.
"Yes," said tho oldest inhabitant,
"this is a pretty mild winter, but I re
member a season thut was much warmer
than this." "How long ago was that?"
queried his listeners. "Only last sum
mer." Norrittotcn llerahl.
A Glasgow boy came home from school
very much excited, and told his father
that he believed ull human beings were
descended from apes, which made the
old man so wild that he replied augrily:
"That may be the case with you, but not
with me; 1 can tell you that." Indon
Tit-Hits.
Wickwire "There aro a heap of
thiiiL'S a man thinks he knows until he
has an occasion to air his learning, and
then he fiuds out that ho is not so smart
after all." Yubsley "What got you
into that state of mind?" Wickwire
"My ten-year-old nephew has been at my
house for a week." Terrt llaute Etyrest.
A Paris masher, iu hard luck, entered
a third-class restaurant; a waiter, for
merly employed at the Cafe Anglais,
recognized him and whispered iu a tone
of surprise: "Can Mousieur think of
dining at a low bash house like this?"
"Well," said the discomfited dude,
"You're here, aiu't you?" "Very true,"
the waiter said, with au air of pride,
"but I never dine here."
The Most Widely Head Author.
The author whose books have the
largest sales iu the United States is a
St. Louisian, and the chances are that
there are not 100 people iu the city who
have ever heard of him. His work is
not that of a genius. It is hack work,
pure and simple, but he makes more
money than Howell, James, Mrs. Bur
nett or any other American author or
authoress. This author's name is J. W.
Unt il, and one of his books has been sold
to the extent of 1,1100,000 copies. Tho
books he has written are never heard of
in the litirury world; the literary review
ers pay no attention to them. They are
sold by subscription all over the coun
try. They are usually bound in a style
that is w isely culcululed to sell the book
where the contents certainly would not.
Buell cutches a fad and writes a book to
meet the fashion, and iu a lew weeks of
compilation comes forth with a volume
that is greedily .'i.l. Buell is wealthy,
but lie hasn't ennchi'd liteiatuiee to a'iy
meat t-Mtnt. f. LvuU f-tur-.. j,u,it, (
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