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SI. 50 FER ANNUM. - In Faris they arrest and punish any one . who throws a banana peel on tiio side walk. , It is understood that it will cost (300, 000 to render the old Treasury vaults at Washington secure. Mora than two thousand farmers have applied to the Agricultural Department at Washington for seeds of tho sugar beet. Tho United States Patent Office is more than self-sustaining. On tho books of the Treasury it has to its credit some thing like $3,000,000. A postal convenience in Mexico is an im mense insurance company which guuran tevs the senders of valuable letters and packages against loss in the mails. It is an opeu secret, avers tho New York Commercial Advertiser, that tho German Army has not that affection for . the Kaiser that existed between Paul and Virginia. - The pet names for four baby States are as follows: North Dakota is the "Flick ertail State," South Dakota is the 'Swinge Cat State," Washington is the "Chinook State," and Montana is the "Stubbed-Too State." . Now that Canada has been scratched j off the list of safe resorts for American rogues, remarks the New York Tehgram, Australia looms up as a non-extraditable paradise. The length of the journey in volved may prove a handicap in ras cality. Mr. Foster, of Buckfield, Me., the largest manufacturer of toothpicks in the world, says of his make alone there are now enough in stork X v supply the United States for two years. When running, his mills will produce in twelve months moro than the total American consumption for twice that time. Poverty has driven many persons to suicide, observes the New York Herald, but the story from Moscow of the widow of an army otllccr and her five daughters locking themselves in a room, turning on the gas ami dying from suffocation on account of dire want excels in horror most cases of tho kind. French scientific men and engineers are discussing tho feasibility of a rail road across tho desert of Sahara. It is . claimed that such an enterprise is neccs . sar to confirm the hold of France upon her possessions on the west coast of Africa and to develop tho north African provinces that she holds. The unmurriiM women of Massachu setts, according to the reports of its sav ings banks and other institutions, have (29,000,000 in deposit. Perhaps this - will explain, hazards the New York JVouvt, why the women of Massachusetts havo the reputation of being so independent, is nothing contributes to the feeling of Indcnendence likn n crnod hiinlr'nncniitit The irony of fate it seen in tho sad fate of Cujijiiu Couch, the "Oklahoma boomer. After devoting his time and energies for several years to orgauiziug raids into that forbidden region, aud thus doing much to force its opening to settlement, ho was so beaten in the race for land when tho day of jubilee came that he was compelled to jump another man's claim, aud was shot iu tho leg aud killed in cousopienco. "The Southern States," says Dixie, "should make a grand display at the World's Fair. Kuch State should have . an exhibit which would show tho world just what her resources are, aud what the capitalist and immigrant can expect to find, when they seek her borders. TT!e Southern expositions held iu Louis , ville, New Orleans aud Atlanta have . been of incalculable benefit to the South, having brought millions of dollars to our rnines, quarries, cities and manufacturers. k The outside world must see what we have, and tho World's Fair will be the place to advertise our resources." Those who spent the year 1889 iu New York will not be surprised, says the 04 terter, to learn from Sergeant Dunn, Chief of the New York Signal Service Bureau, that tho year 1889 was the wet test on record. The total rainfall for that year was 68.(58 inches. Sergeant Dunn describes it not only as tho wet test, but the warmost and wettest. A singular incident about the weather of the past winter is that tho coldest and 'warmest days of the winter were each found iu the mouth of March. Ou ' Marclrt' the thermometer dropped to six degrees) Ou March 12 it reached seventy-one degrees, tho maximum aud uiin-' imum thus oecuring within five days of each other. Last djjsW'gave us tho warm est Christmas day we ever had so far as records shows, the thermometer reaching sixty-five degrees iu the afternoon. Ser- geaut'Duuu argues that the couditious cf the weather have been such as to make ' it tolerably safe to expect a cool summer. IF WE KNEW. Could we but draw back the curtains That surround each other's lives, Bee the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives, Often we should find it better Turer than we judge we should; We should love each other lietter If we only understood. Could we judge all deed, by motives, Bee the good and bad within, Often we should love the sinner All the while we loathe the sin. Could we know the powers working To overthrow integrity. We should judge each other's errors With more patient charity. If we knew the cares and trials, Knew the effort all In vain, And the bitter disappointment Understood the loss and gain Would the grim external roughness Seem, I wonder, just the same? Should we help whore now we hinder? Should we pity where we blame? Ah I we judge each other harshly. Knowing not life's hidden force; Knowing not tho fount of action Is less turbid at its source. Bering not amid the evil All the golden grains of good; Oh ! we'd love each other better If we only understood. H'onwm'i Work, THE ROMANCE OF A FLOOD. HARRIET K. CHOCKKR. They had parted coldly. Kit-hard Holmes had walked rapidly up the street to his boarding place with a white face, sternly set lips, his hands clasped tightly behind him, and his whole frame quivering with wounded pride and keen disappointment. Eloise Ellison had turned her pretty face homeward with a proud little toss, and n look of something like triumph in her coquettish dark eyes. That she was a spoiled and petted beauty, every ono in the village knew; and that she was as willful and capric ious and exacting, as she was bright aud pretty and bewitching, every one knew as well. The only child of the wealthy mill-owner, from her very infancy in dulged iu her every wish and fawned upon by admiring friends, it was no wonder that she was, when she chose to be, a most tyrannical specimen of young womanhood. She had chosen to be such the after noon she met Richard Holmes, her fa ther's bookkeeper, on the street, and al lowed him to turn and walk beside her. It was ruining, and she graciously closed her own elegant little umbrella to share the larger one he carried . They had gone on together enjoying the rain, laughing ana chatting gayly, gossipiug in their light way about this and that happening in the social life of the village. Perhaps he had chosen an inauspicious moment to declare his love and offer her his hand, but, inauspicious or not, he had spoken and received his answer. They had exchanged a few hot words and then parted in a sudden frigidity which seized them both. She had added such scorn and disdain to her refusal that it was more than he could bear in silence. She had even insinuated to him that it was not herself lie loved, but her father's wealth. She had wounded him cruelly and intentionally, and he had left her suddenly with a cold adieu. Eloise raised her own umbrella with a defiant little laugh, and a glance at the retreating figure, and then turced homeward humming a fragment of the latest opera. Her father's bookkeeper! Presume to offer her his luiud ! It was absurd ! Thus she communed with herself as she went on up the street to her home. She tried to be angry at tho presump tion of the man, but in spite of herself she could not. Sho had always admired him yes, in a way she had quite liked him, and it was pleasing to her vanity to know he loved her; but, marriage that was another thing, indeed, and quite out of tho question ! For days and days it rained. It grew monotonous and wearisome. Eloise, wandering aimlessly about the drawing-room, looking over a book ab stractedly; striking a few chords on the piano; going from window to window to look out at the falling rain and the dis mal landscape wus wretchedly lonesome and ill at ease. Why did not some one come ! Even Hichard Holmes would bo a welcome caller, if only to quarrel with. Ho used to drop in so often to play a game of chess or listen to her music. She wished she had not treated him quite bo badly tho other day. Why .could she not have said, as other girls would have said, that she would be a sister to him? It had never occurred to her to say that. She wished she had been less unkind that day wished she had held him oil a little longer at least it used to be so pleasant to have him drop in for an hour or two. The day was closing in dark aud stormy. Eloiso from the window looked at the swollen river, and tho pools that stood here ami there on the lawn. Suddenly she stood erect, and looked eagerly at a well-known figure coming toward tho house. It was Kicliuril Holmes. The girl stood watching his progress eagerly, as he picked his way among the pools of water, her lips parted, her pretty head thrown back, her dark eyes glud and bright. "1 am L'lad he is eviing," she said, softly to herself, as she stood, surrounded by the creamy draperies of vho window, waiting for him. She heard his firm step ou the piazza. She heard him riug the bell, and then seak a few words to the maid who opened the door. Suddenly a great roar filled all the air, drowning the voices iu the hull, drown ing the silvery chiuie of the little French deck, drowning everythiug, swallowing up everything in its awful volume of sound, There was a terror iu it uulike the heaviest crash of thunder a strange and terrible menace in the sound, swell ing and gathering and growing louder every moment. Eloise stood paralyzed with fear. She was powerless to cry out, to move her self; she could only stand and listen to that awful, all-pervading roar. She did not think what it might mean. She had heard vague rumors of fears for the great dam above, but had not hcodoiL In a moment it was all over; the sound had como upon her in all its awfulness. Sho fell back, overpowered with terror, and became uuconscious. A violent blow ou her head roused her to herself. She found herself float ing on the strong current, borne along at a sickening speed, upheld by the strength and fury of the roaring waters. Near her she saw the great elm tree that had stood before her house ever since she was a child. It must have been a branch of that which struck her and brought her back to life. With great, dark eyes dilated with horror, and a face white and ghastly as the fuccs of the dead, the cirl flew along. KShe had caught hold of tho branches of the great tree, and was clinging with a grasp like death itself. Life was sweet too sweet to lose. In her first mo ment of consciousness slic had thought of Hichard Holmes. Where could he be 1 Drowned? O, God forbid not drowned the thought was dreadful to her. In a flash she was revealed to herself. She loved him loved him with her whole heart had loved him all the time- with out knowing it. What had he como to the door for that night it seemed ages ago to her now to bring a message of warning? Her father was he safe? O, Heaven ! that appalling darkness that dreadful roar of rushing waters! Sho raised her voice and called: "Hichard!" It was lost in the roar of the flood. Sho tried again, summoning all her strength, and scuding her clear voico out over tho waters. "Hichard! Hichard!" She thought she heard a human voice, faint and far nway could it be his? He was near her when the flood struck the house; he might be somewhere near her now. She raised her voice again and called his name with a desperation born of fear and love. A dark object was floating near her, tossing up and down on the resistless current. Sho could see that it was a mau clinging to a mass of boards. The face was turned from her, but the head was familiar. She called again, and the mau turned and looked at her. "Is it you, Eloise?" he screamed; and then she barely heard him ' 'you, Eloise? Thank God!" She breathed a sigh of relief. She felt safe now safe, even on tho bosom of this rushing ocean of fierce waters and crashing debris if he were near. She saw that he was trying to get to her, but could not; that he dared not loose his hold of tho boards and trust himself one instant in that mighty cur rent. ' She could see his face, white and agonised, turned to her always tamed to her. Something hail struck him, and cut a gash in his head, and tin blood was trickling down his pallid cheek; she could see it from where she clung in the branches of the elm tree. She did not know that one beautiful, white arm was bare, bleeding from a cruel blow sho had received she did not realize the pain in her he-id where the tree had struck her such thiugs were trivial now. Life was the only thing to be thought of life and death if death should come. A house came reeling down and struck the mass of boards to which Hichard clung. The shock loosened his bold and tossed mm far out in tho water. 1 he horrible under-current sucked him in and ho sunk from sight. The next moment his white face showed above the water. Such horror and despair Eloise had never seen as she saw there. One last appeal ing look at her, one cry from his white lips, and ho was gono again. Eloise i prayed prayed as she had never dreamed ' of praying before; crying aloud for help j and pity in this time of need Hichard came to the surface again 1 near her this time. Could she reach j him? Only a little nearer he was half j unconscious aud could not help himself. I She leaned far out over the dark torrent, j holding to the tree firmly with one arm j and touched him with her hand caught him by his collar aud held his heaiibove the water as they were borne along. She called to him wildly. He heard and un derstood, made one great effort to seize the brandies of the tree, and at last with an almost superhuman strength, drew himself up into the sheltering arms of the old elm. There he clung with what frail strength was left him ; but he was too weak for words. It was no time for speech. The scene was more terrible than auy of the imagiuiugs of Duute. Great masses of timbers, that ten minutes before had been houses and homes, came rushing by with shrieking women clinging to them, aud little children boruo along upon thorn. Strong men were tossing like egg-shells on the waters, and horses and cattle were plunging madly for life among the ruins of great barns tliat cauie crashing by. Now aud then some wild shriek or un earthly moau would mean the death-cry of a human being going down to eternal sleep under the roaring waters. A great mass of timbers came tearing along down the highway of death; with one blow it sent the elm-tree spiuuing fur ahead ou tho waters. Eloise und Hich ard were hurled iuto the air and fell to gether, cringing to whatever they could find a door, a fence anything to keep afloat. At last they climbed to the ridge pule of a house and clung there. All night they floated, bruised and cut by heavy objects striking them, almost losiug their hold mauy times, but never quite tossing, plunging, flying with a speed that was terrible. Iu the first gray dawn of morning they were rescued. Friendly hands drew them from their perilous position and bore them to a place of safety. There they lay for hours unconscious. The shock had been too great humau endurance had been too sorely tried. The physiciaus who dressed their wounds and the nurses who cured for them shook their heads gravely over tho young st rangers given so mercifully into their hands. Hichard woke to consciousness first, but lay with closed eyes, resting and try ing to think why ho was there and what had happened. All at once he heard a voice ho knew and loved. It was Eloise, delirious with fever. "Hichard," she was saying: "I love you now, I loved you all the time, but I did not know it. Hichard, did tho horrible waters drown you? O, my dar ling!" He opened his eyes and looked across the room toward the weak voico lying away into silence. What he saw was Eloise lying on the snowy cot with closed eyes and flushed cheeks Eloiso piti fully thin aud changed, but Eloiso still, despite tho lines of pain on her white brow, left there by tho agony of that fatal night. Hichard. looking nt her thus, loved hef all the better for these marks of sor row; they made her tenfold dearer to him; their mutual distress had welded together their souls forever. It was a very quiet, very brief cere mony that made them man and wife. It was no time for merry-making and re joicing. Death and poverty were every where. Her father was among the lost; the servants were missing; many of her friends were gono from human sight for ever. She was penniless. The beauti ful home was entirely destroyed. Noth ing that hud been hers remained. Nothing she had loved in the old days was left her. Nothing? Yes, thank God, her husband her good, bravo Hichard ! They had gono together through that dreadful night, their paths henceforth through life lay side by side. Eloise was a chuuged woman. What had been wrong in her became good. What had been vain and foolish became beautiful and pure. Her whole nature was changed her heart ennobled and uplifted, made sweet aud womanly and good. The Ledger. The Frequency of Old People. Michael Solis, who lives in San Salva dor in the Hepublic of Bogota, is said to be 186 years of age, nnd is apparently in the full vigor of all his powers. Ho has never taken any unusual precaution with his health, is not a vegetarian or teetotal ler, and has always been a hard worker. Peter Barlow died in Damariseotta about three years ago at the age of 135. Ho served under George Washington in the revolutionary war. There is a colored man liivng in Lynn, Mass., who has recently been on public exhibition, who claims to bo over 130 years of age. People over 120 years of age, in tho very general dillusiou of news which is now possible, are frequently heard of in various portions of tho world. Conten arisiis are by no means the curiosities they were a few geuerutions ago. Seth Perking, who recently died iu Norwich, Conn., was a President of a railroad at 100. Chevreul, the French scholar, re cently died over 100 years of age. Probably every State in the Uuion con tains its centenarian, and some of them perhaps several. People over ninety years of age are by no means a curiosity. Tho late Emperor William, of Germany, was nearly niucty-two at the time of his death. Simon Cameron was over ninety, and so was tho late Dr. Dollingcr, tho theologian. Our historian Bancroft is over ninety, and so is Cardinal Newmau and Marshal Von Moltke. If so many eminent men can be tound who havo lived to an advanced age, it is reasonable to infer that there are a large number among the more obscure classes. An English writer on longevity main tains that genius is inimical to old age; but this hardly seems borne out by tho facts. Carlylo died at eighty-four; Bryant at eighty-three; Professor Sir Hichard Owen is still alive at eighty-six; John G. Whittier at eiglitv-two; Kobert c. Winthrop at eighty -one; William E. Gladstone. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Alfred Tennyson at eighty. The throes and frenzy of genius do not, it seems, always prove destructive to longevity. All classes nnd couditious of men lire liable to attain to old age, though there can be no doubt that some occupations are more destructive of health aud, heuce of long life, than others. Yankee Blade. Novel Method of Removing Hats. Texas farmers have been almost ruined by the depredations of rats. To get rid of them a novel expedient has come iuto use. The farmer finds a burrow iu which from fifty to a hundred ruts reside. Every exit save one is carefully stopped. At this one is placed a common iron tea kettle. Opposite the spout is bored a hole in which is inserted a piece of gas pipe about ono foot long. Over the spout is placed another piece of pipe, which is run into the opening leading to the burrow. A fire is then built iu the kettle and a couple of handful of sul phur thrown on the coals. Tho top be ing closed, tho fumes are driven into the burrow by a hand bellows, tho nozzle of which is inserted iu the top pipe. Some of these burrows are titty yards in length ; the fumes go through all its passages, aud in live minutes every young and old rodent is dead. Carrier Pigeons aud Poachers. General Cameron, commandant of tho Koyal Military College at Kingston, Cunadu, is orgauiziug u system of mes senger pigeon stations throughout Canada. He proposes thut the Canadian cruisers utilize the pigeons by having stations along the coast, and tlms communicating news of poachers aud fishing vessels. The prartieal object in view is to supplement the facilities for the rapid transmission of messages afforded by telegraph lines. He proposes a chain of tweuty-six stations from Windsor, Nova Scotia, to Halifax, Nva Scotia. An Inventive Genius. Hardbake "I hear that thut chap Drvson is somewhat of an inventor." Snarleigh "Yea." Hardbake "What's he ever iuveuted?" Suarleigh "Lies." CURIOUS BURIAL CUSTOMS. ODD BURIAL METHODS OF TIIE CHINESE AND OTHER RACES. Chinese Mourners Orrsa in White -Undies Sometime Kept in the House Tor Years. Exceedingly different are the modes ol burying the dead among various people. Among some the dead are buried lying, among others sitting as is tho case with several of the Indian tribes, among whom, it is related, warriors or leaders in the nations hnve been buried upon their fa vorite war-horses. There is a remarkable general agreement of custom, however, iu the practice of placing the body to lie cast or west. It is held by some writers that this cus tom is due to solar symbolism, and the head is placed to the east or west, accord ing as the dead are thought of in connec tion with the sunrise, the reputed home of the Deity, or the sunset, the reputed home of the dead. There are, however, some tribes that lay their dead north and south, and others bury men with the face to the north and women with the face to the south. The burial customs of the Chinese are peculiar. Immediately upon the decease of a person in China a priest is called, whose prayers are supposed to free the departed spirit from tho necessity of going to hudes and to secure his admit tance to Paradise. The body is arrayed iu the most costly garments that the family can afford. In one hand is placed a fan and in the other a prayer written on a piece of papci, which is a letter of recommendation to open the gates of heaven. The coffin is a very solid, substantial case. The corpse, when put into it, is luid in a bed of lime or cotton, or is covered with quicklime, and the edges of the lid arc closed with mortar in the groove so that no odor can escape. The nature of the site for burinl is re garded as having an important influence upon the prosperity of the living, the people fearing ill-luck, disease nna acci dent if the dead are not satisfied witli the site of their craves. The selection of propitious sites is made by gcomaucers, a class of quacks who pretend to super natural wisd nn. When the day of burial arrives, whicl is if a satisfactory place for the tomb has been found the nearest lucky day to the third seventh day after death, the friends assemble at tho house, and an of fering of cooked provisions is lnid out near the coffin. Tais is intended o oc cupy the attention of the spirit af the dead, which is supposed to linger near the body, or any other vagrant spirits that may be hovering around, to keep them from doing any mischief or harm to the living. All the mourners aro dressed entirely in white, and they nssemble about the coffin and iu turn prostrate themselves before it, a band of music playing mean while. Tho procession is then formed, the coffin going first, born on an unwieldy bier carried by a large number of mep. A man goes before the procession and scatters paper money, to buy the good will of any stray, tricky spirits that may be prowling about. Immediately aftc; the coffin, in a separate sedan, is born' the ancestral tablet of the deceased wit the oflering of food. Different figures, banners aud tablets are also carried, ac cording to the menus mid rank of tin family. When the grave is reached tho coffin is let down, nnd lime is abundantly mixed with the earth thrown iu upon it. Crack ers aro theu fired, libations are poured out, prayers are recited and finally paper molds of houses, clothes, horses, money and everything that the dead man can possibly wnut in the land of shadows are burned. The origin of this latter cus tom is unquestionably the idea that everything that had been enjoyed or used in this life would be desired in the other. The ancient custom was to burn a man's household belongings, to kill upon his grave his favorite horse, hound or bird, aud sometimes his chosen servant, that their shadows might go with him into the life beyond. After the funeral the elaborate dishes that have been borne to the grave are carried back, and the mourners feast upon them. Bodies are iu some instances kept in or about the house for many years, aud incense is burned before them morning and even ing. They are kept ou trestles in the en trance hall, or sometimes iu a chamber set apart. This occurs when the family cannot afford funeral expenses which are considerable or when a lucky place of burial cannot be found. From the earliest times the mauner of expressing grief at death has different in different countries. The Hebrew period of mourning was usually seven days, but in some instances, as at the death of Moses and Aarou, it was extended to thirty days. Tho mourners tore their clothing, cut oil their hair and beard, strewed ashes ou their heads and cast themselves ou tlat ground, weeping and smiting their breasts. The Greeks mourned thirty days, ex cept in Sparta where the mourning period was limited to ten days and wore coarse black garments, cutoff their hair und secluded themselves from the public gaze. In the event of the death of i great General the soldiers of the whole army cut off their hair and also the manes of their horses. The Homau mourning period lasted only a few days, but if the death was that of some great ruler or General, all business was stopped and the forum and thu schools were dosed. Among the Fiji Islanders tho womeu are required to burn their bodies on the death of a Chief, aud in the Sandwich Islands the people go into mourning by knocking out their front teeth und by painting the lower part of the fuce black. Xeto i'urt Mar. Crowing Younger. Hardbake "Miss Withers seems to grow younger every day." Snarleigh "Yes, she will soou have Lreached her secrmd childhood." HOUSEHOLD .UFAIHS. A HOVKI. WAY OK 11AKIXO ArTI.F.S. Peel a lemon, cut it in slices and take out the seeds: lay in n shallow tin pan and on each slice a pared ami cored apple; 11 II the pan half full of water and bake until the apples are tender. Lift the apples into a dish and place the pun with the lemon and water on the stove, add half a pound of sugar to every half a pint of water; boil for half an hour until it jells; pluec a slice of lemon on each apple, pour the syrup over them and let them get very cold before serving. Wtuhiti'tvn Htur. rim MAKING oood cofff.b. Most connoisseurs prefer a half-and-half mixture of Mocha and Java. To make for a family of four, wash one egg nqd break into a bowl, shell and all; beat with a fork until it is frothy, then beat in a pint of cold water, a little nt a time. Add a generous half pini, of coffee, mix thoroughly aud pour into tho pot. Set on the buck of the range where it will heat slowly half an hour, keeping the spout closed to prevent the escape of the aroma. Then ndd about a pint and a half of boiling water and bring to a boil, stirring down once or twice as the grounds gather at the top. Serve with plain or whipped cream or with condensed milk as preferred. Citron i-hhservks. Cut the citron in pieces about two inches square, and boil it in soda water until it is so ttmler that a straw will pierce it easily, then skim it out nnd let it lie in weak alum water for three hours, and after that, in cold water lor one hour. Make a syrup of one quart of wa ter and four pounds of sugar for every four pounds of citron. Boil this syrup, removing all scum, until it is clear, then put iu the citron and let it remniu.cook ing slowly, uutil the sugar has penetrated it thoroughly, when it must be dipped out of the syrup and packed into jars. Boil the syrup until it becomes ropy, flavor it with lemon or stick cinnamon or extract of ginger, then pour it over the citron, sealing tho jars as soou as they arc filled. Yankee Jllailt: HAM PATH. Housekeepers are often puzzled to de vise a way to make the hard p.irts of a ham palatable. But after the better por tion has been sliced oil, the rcuiaindei can be converted iuto a very tempting dish. Cut all the meat from the bono and chop it fine, boil six eggs hard and chop them also. Put in the bottom of a small, deep puddiug dish a layer of the chopped ham, then a layer of egg. Moisten with cream sauce, add a second layer of ham, another layer of eggs, moisten again with bread-crumbs, dotted with bits of butter. Bake about half nn hour or uu til the to)) is brown. The creum sauce consists of one table spoonful of butter, one tublespoonful of flour, uud a cupful of milk. Melt the butter nnd flour and stir iu the milk. Zadict' Jlome Journal. TO BAKK DRY FISH. Make a sauce of one and a half ounces of chopped fat barm fried in the bottom of n saucepan with ono ounce of beef suet nnd two oums of carrots, onions ami tomatoes. When t'icse ingredients are brown, stir in three tnbtcspoonfuls of flour, which should also brown; add a quart of hot wuUr and season with salt nnd pepper. Let this boil gently one hour, skimming it clear. When the vege tables ure soft, rub the 'sauce through a sieve aud add a tublespoonful of vinegar. Clean the fish if it is a whole one, and lay it or the cut fish in the dripping-pan ou a few vegetables, slivered. Season with salt and pepper, mid pour over it a half pint of stock or hot water. Bake half an hour. Pour a little of the sauce on a dish; lay the fish in, with boiled potatoes around it. Serve the remainder of tho sauce iu u boat. Al io York Wit net. HOrsF.IlOl.D HINTS. Buttermilk will take out mildew stains. Bottles are easily cleaned with hot water and fine coiiIb. A dampened cloth is better than a dry one for dusting furniture. If the bunds ure rubbed uu a stick of celery after peeling onions the smell will be entirely removed. To remove rust from steel, rub with kerosene, and soak for a day, polishing with emery Just and kerosene. If a cucuiiiIht is cut into strips and the pieces put into places where ants arc found, it will flimsy drive them away. A cloth saturated iu kerosene oil and dipped into whiting, for cleaning tin ware, is much betur than anything else useo . If new calicoes ore allowed to lie in strong salt water au hour before the first washing, the colors ure less likely to fade. Table linen should be hemmed by hand. Not only docs it look more dainty, but there is never a streak of dirt under the edge after being luuudricd us with machine sewing. There should be a tuiall table about the height of the range or stove for usu as a resling-place for utensils wheu omelets, griddle cakc, etc., are made. It should be covered with zine. In bottling catchup or pickles, boil the corks, and while hot yon can press them into tho bottles and when cold tliey are tightly scaled. Vsetlictiu foil from com pressed yeast to cover the corks. If the material is washable at all, black dye eau practically be rendered a fast color by the help of the salt water bath before the general washing is commenced upon. After such u treatment faded bluck caused by wa.'hing will never occur. Nothing so quickly restores tone to exhausted nerves and strvngth to a weary body as a bath containing an ounce of aqua ammonia to each p lilful of water. It makes the flesh firm ami smooth us marlile, uud renders tho body purg und live from all odors. AN ECONOMICAL MAN. He lived on thirteen conts a day, Ten cents for milk and cracker. One cent for dissipation gay, Anil two cents for tobacco. -t And If he wished an extra dish , He'd take his pole and catoh a fish. And if his stomach raised a war 'fiainst his penurious habit. He'd go and kill a wnodchuck, or Assassinate a rabbit; And thus he'd live in sweet content On food that never cost a cent. And, that he might lay by in bank The proceeds of his labor. He'd happen round at meals, the crank I And dine upon his neighbor! And then he'd eat enough to last Cntil another day had passed. He liought no pantaloons nor vest, Nor rich, expensive jacket; He had one suit his pa's bequest He thought would "stand the racket. He patched it thirty years, 'tis true, And then declared 'twas good as new. lie owned but one suit to his back, And minus culTs and eollarR. He died, and left his nephew Jack Nine hundred thousand dollars! And Jack he run this fortune through And only took a year or two. &. M". Foss, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Momentary bliss Second love. A well-wisher Tho tiaveler on the desert. "Pa, whnt's the dead of night?" "Ghosts, I reckon." iVi-. The man who never smiles is a centre of gravity. Hochetter Pot- E'jprest. A good-sized sinking fund will help to keep a corporation afloat. Xeie York i'rcna. Does a man of-war go on a winding voyugo when it starts out to whip some body? Much charity that begins at home is too weak to get out of doors. TtJbu Sif'tinti. The man who is employed iu n feather store is apt to get down ou his knees -pretty often. Groom "Shall I rub his legs off, sir?" Equestrian "No, you had better leave them on." Here's to the bootblack. Ho improves the shining hours by shining ours. jUansciUe Urate. "How did Bobinson happen to get swamped i" "Ho got into tho swim too deep. " Munney't Hawkins "What kind of jokes does young Tompkins write?" J'twkins "Alleged, I believe." "Your opinions remind me of a hun-dred-dfjllur bill." "Ah! valuable, I sup pose?" "No; subject to change." Poet, try your hand at prose. If you'd weigh your thought sublime; If in'Knglish plain it glows. You may put the thing iu rhyme. Puck. "Well, I got there!" exclaimed Jay smith, announcing a recent success. "Yes; with all four feet," replied Cum so. Judge. A philosophical frieud remarks that if there is anything that will encourago rising ability it is sitting on a bent pin. Muimey's. Young Johnnie has a sister small, He loves with all his heart; For, when he does not get it all. He goes and takes her part. Puck. A scientific man has discovered that tho reasou why a hen lays an egg is be cause she can not stand it up on end. Washington Critic. Old Hoi will soon, in cloudless skids, tShine like a tlerv ball. And there will theu be lots or flies L'iou us all. llonton Courier. Vesey "Why do you think Fulton dislikes liviug iu New Jersey?" Cort luudt "Because every t;iue he gets on the ferry-boat it makes him cross." jl'uck. VOICES Or THE YEAR. Hark to the fiendish yell, Hark to the umpire's shout, "All ready, now, play ball! "Time Man's Out!" Sew York Herald. Most rubber goods have been adulter ated so that they don't begin to be as good as they used to be. Not so with Truth, however. The rubber of which that is made seems to be of a better qual ity thuu ever, for the truth never waa stretched half so much as at present. There seems to be absolutely no limit to its elasticity. Dantrille llreae. His jh'ii was but half-feathered, like the chickens of the spring; His way through life, spring-chicken-like, was rough. Ami the simile goes further he was as weak of w ing, And as thut same jtoor chicken, he was tough. Judge. An Emperor's Mania for Uniforms. Emperor .William has developed a mania for new uniforms ami costumes which is worthy of George IV. He has established u new body-guard for tho Empress, which is to do sentry duty be fore her upurtmcnts at the palace, aud is to serve as her escort at reviews and State functions. For palace duty tho uniform consists of a white rirandenhurg coat with cherry-colored fariugs, uud huge shoulder-knots iu black, white and silver; a white waistcoat coining dowu lo.v, white trousers and "jack" boots. There is also a black velvet, three cornered hat, with cockade and feather iu the Prussian colors. The escort uni form is much the same, except that tho hat is replaced by a helmet of polished steel, crested with a golden eagle. TimtA-i)eiuoi-rat . What the Hand Was Playing. First Steamboat Passenger "There's a brass bund playing on deck." Second Steamboat Passenger "I don't hear it." F. S. P. "Probably not; a dozen di'uuiiiicrs can play a game of draw with out being heard ull over the ship."
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