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Ta Paris tlioy arrest nod punish any one
who throws a bannna peel on tuo side
walk. It is understood that it will cost $300,
000 to rendor the old Treasury vault at
Washington secure.
More than two thousand farmer) have
applied to the Agricultural Department
at Washington for seeds of the sugar
beet.
The United States Patent Office is
more than self-sustaining. On the 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 guaran
tee the senders of valuable letters and
packages against loss in the mails.
It is an open secret, avers the New
York Oommerritil Advert iter, that the
German Army has not that affection for
the Kaiser that existed between Paul and
Virginia.
The pet names for four baby Stotos are
as follows : North Dakota is the "Flick
ertail State," South Dakota is the
"Swinge Cat State," Washington Is the
'Chinook 8tate," and Moutana U the
"Stubbed-Toe State."
. Now that Canada has been scratched
y off the list of safe resorts for American
rogues, remarks the New York Telegram,
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 Buckfiold, Me., the
largest manufacturer of toothpicks in the
world, says of his make alone there are
now enough in stock t o supply the United
States for two years. When running, his
mills will produce in twelve months more
than the total American consumption for
twice that time.
Poverty has driven many persons to
ulcide, observes the New York Herald,
but the story from Moscow of the widow
of an army officer and her live daughters
locking themselves in a room, turning on
the gas and dying from suffocation on
account of dire want excels in horror
most cases of the kind.
French scientific men and engineers
t are discussing the feasibility of a rail
road across the desert of Sahara. It is
. claimed that such an enterprise is neces
, tary to confirm the hold of France upon
her possessions on the west coast of
Africa and to develop the north African
provinces that she holds.
The unmarried 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 Now York Aewt,
why the women of Massachusetts havo
the reputation of bciug so independent,
as nothing contributes to the feeling of
independence like a good bank'account.
The irony of fute is seen in the sad
fate of Captain Couch, the Oklahoma
boomer. After devoting his time and
energies for several years to organizing
raids into that forbidden region, and
thus doing much to force its opening to
settlement, he was so beaten in the race
for land when the day of jubilee came
. that he was compelled to jump another
man's claim, and was shot in the leg and
killed in consequence. -
"The Southern States," suys Dixit,
"should make a grand display at the
World's Fair. Each State should have
an exhibit which would show the world
just what her resources are, and what
the capitalist and immigrant can expect
to find, when they seek her borders.
The Southern expositions held in Louis
ville, New Orleans and Atlanta have
been of incalculable benefit to the South,
having brought millions of dollars to our
mines, quarries, cities and manufacturers.
The outside world must see what we
have, and the World's Fair will be the
place to advertise our resources."
Those who spent the year 1889 in New
York will not be surprised, says the OA-
terter, to learn from Sergeant Dunn,
Chief of the New York Signal Service
Bureau, that the year 1889 was the wet
test on record. The total ruiufull for
that year was 58.68 inches. Sergeant
Dunn describes it not ouly as the wet
test, but the warmest and wettest. A
' singular incident about the weather of
the past winter is that the coldest and
warmest days of the winter were each
found in the month of March. On
Marcirt' the thermometer dropped to six
degrees. On March 12 it reached seven
ty-one degrees, the maximum and min
imum thus occuriug within live days of
each other. Lust year gave us the warm
est Christmas day we ever had so far as
records shows, the thermometer reaching
sixty-five degrees iu the ufternoon. Ser-
geaut Duun argues that the couditious of
the weather have been such as to make
it tolerably sate to expect a cool summer,
IF WE KNEW.
Could we but draw back the curtains
That surround each other's Uvea,
Bee the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action given,
Often w. should find It better
Furer than we Judge w. should;
We should love each other better
If we only understood.
Could we judge all deeds by motive.,
Bee th. good and bad within,
Often we should lov. the sinner
All the while we loathe th. sin.
Could we know the powers working
To overthrow integrity,
W. should judge each other's errors
With mono patient charity.
If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the effort all in vain,
And the bitter disappointment
Understood th. loss and gain
Would th. grim external roughness
Seem, I wonder, just the samef
Bhould we help where now w. hinder?
Bhould we pity where we blame?
Ah I we judge each other harshly,
Knowing not life's hidden force;
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source.
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good;
Oh I we'd love each other better
If w. only understood.
-K'omon'i Work,
THE ROMANCE OF A FLOOD.
HARRIET V. CROCKER
They had parted coldly.
Kichard 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 a look of something like triumph in
her coquettish dark eyes.
That she was a spoiled and petted
beauty,- every one 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 in 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 Kichard Holmes, her fa
ther's bookkeeper, on the street, and al
lowed him to turn and walk beside her.
It was raining, 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 and chatting gayly,
gossiping in their light way about this
and that happening in the social life of
the village.
Perhaps be 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 disdaiu to her refusal that
it was more than he could bear in silence.
She had even insinuated to him that it
was not herself he 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 theu turced
homeward humming a fragment of the
latest opera.
Her father's bookkeeper! Presume to
oiler her his hand 1 It was absurd I
Thus she communed with herself as
she went on up tho street to her home.
She tried to be angry at the presump
tion of the man, but in spite of herself
she could not. She bad 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 the 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
piauo; going from window to window
to look out at the falling rain and the dis
mal landscape was wretchedly lonesome
and ill at ease.
Why did not some one come! Even
Kichard Holmes would be a welcome
caller, if ouly to quarrel with. He 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 so badly
the other day. Why .could she not have
said, as other girls would have said, that
site 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 sho 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 and
stormy. Eloise from the window looked
at the swollen river, and the pools that
stood here and there on the lawn.
Suddenly she stood erect, and looked
eagerly at a well-known figure coming
toward the house. It was Hichard
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
glad and bright.
"I am glad he is ciciing," she said,
softly to herself, as she stood, surrounded
by the creamy draperies of the window,
waiting for him.
She heard his firm step on the piazza.
She heard him ring the bell, and then
speak a few words to the maid who opened
the door.
Suddenly a great roar filled all the air,
drowuiug the voices in the hall, drown
ing the silvery chime of the little Freu ;h
clock, drowning everything, swallowing
up everything in its awful volume of
sound, There was a terror in it unlike
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 listeu to
that awful, all-pervading roar.
She did not think what it might mean.
She had beard vague rumors of fears for
the great dam above, but had not heeded.
In a moment it was all over; the sound
had come upon her in all its awfulness.
She fell back, overpowerod with terror,
and became unconscious.
A violent blow on 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 faces of the dead, the girl flew along.
She had caught hold of the brandies 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 site had thought of
Kichard Holmes. Where could ho 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 come 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 watcs!
She raised her' voice and called:
"Kichard!" It was lost in the roar of
the flood. She tried again, summoning
all her strength, and sending her clear
voice out over tho waters. "Kichard!
Richard!"
She thought she heard a human voice,
faint and fur away 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. She could see that it
was a man clinging to a mass of boards.
The face was turned from her, but the
head was familiar. She called again,
and the man 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 the 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 had struck him, and
cut a gash in his head, and thi blood
was trickling down his pallid check; 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 iu her hetd where
the tree had struck her such things
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 Btruck
the mass of boards to which Kichard
clung. The shock loosened his hold and
tossed him far out in the water. The
horrible under-current sucked him in and
he sank from Bight. 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 bo was gone again. Eloise
prayed prayed as she had uever dreamed
of praying before ; crying aloud for help
and pity in this time of need.
Kichard came to the surface again
near her this time. Could she reach
him? Only a little nearer he was half
unconscious and could not help himself.
She leaned far out over the dark torrent,
holding to the tree firmly with one arm
and touched him with her hand caught
him by his collar and held his head-ftbove
the water as they were borne along. She
called to him wildly. He heard and un
derstood, made one great effort to seize
the branches 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 8cech. The
scene was isA re terrible than any of the
imuginiugs W Dante. Great masses of
timbers,that ten minutes before bad been
houses aud homes, rame rushing by with
shrieking women clinging to them, and
little children borne along upon them.
Strong men were tossing like egg-shells
on the waters, and horses and cattle were
plunging madly for life among the ruins
of great burns that cauie crashing by.
Now and then some wild shriek or un
earthly moan would mean the death-cry
of a human beiug going down to eternal
sleep under the roaring waters.
A great muss of timbers came tearing
along down the highway of death; with
oue blow it sent the elm-tree spinning fur
ahead on tho waters. Eloise and Kich
ard were hurled into tho air and fell to
gether, clinging 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 aud cut by heavy
objects strikiug them, almost losing
their hold many times, but never quite
tossing, plunging, flying with a speed
that was terrible.
In the first gruy dawn of morning they
were rescued. Friendly hands drew them
from their poriluus position and bore
them to a place of safety. There they
lay for hours unconscious. The shock
hud been too great humau endurance
had been too sorely tried.
The physicians who dressed their
wounds and tho nurses who cared for
them shook their heads gravely over tho
young strangers given so mercifully into
their hands.
Kichard woke to consciousness first,
but lay with closed eyes, resting and try
ing to think why he was there and what
had happened.
All at once he heard a voico ho knew
and loved. Itjvas Eloise, delirious with
fever. "Richard," she was saying: "I
love yoiv now, I loved you all the time,
but I did not know it. Kichard, did the
horrible waters drown you? O, my dar
ling!" He opened hjsjeyes and looked across
the room UprtfrJ the weak voice dying
away into silence. What he saw was
Eloise lying on the snowy cot with closed
eyes and flushed cheeks Eloise piti
fully thin aud changed, but Eloise still,
despite the lines of pain on her white
brow, left there by the ngony of that
fatal night.
Kichard, looking at her thus, loved
her all the better for these marks of sor
row; they made her tenfold rieacr to
him; their mutual distress had welded
together their souls forever.
It was a very quiet, very lf ef cere
mony that made them man annf 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 other
friends were gone from human eurht for
ever. She was penniless. Theweauti
ful home was entirely destroyed. Noth
ing that had been hers remained.
Nothing she had loved in the old days
was left her. Nothing? Yes, thank
God, her husband her good, brave
Kichard ! .They had gone together
through that dreadful night, their paths
henceforth through life lay side by side.
.Eloise was a changed 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 and womanly and
good. The Ledger.
The Frequency of Old People.
Michael Solis, who lives in Sau Salva
dor in the Republic of Bogota, is said to
be186 years of age, and is apparently in
the full vigor of all his powers. He has
never taker anv unusual precaution with
his health, is not a vegetarian or teetotal
ler, and has always been a hard worker.
Peter Barlow died in Damariscotta about
three years ago at the age of 135. He
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
be over 130 years of age.
People over 120 years of age, in the
very general diffusion of news which is
now possible, are frequently heard of in
various portions of the world. Centen
arians are by no means the curiosities
they were a few generations ago. Seth
Perking, who recently died in 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 tho Union con
tains its centenarian, and some of them
perhaps several. People over ninety
years of age are by no means a curiosity.
The late Emperor William, ol Germany,
was nearly ninety-two at the time of his
death. Simon Cameron was over ninety,
and so was the lute Dr. Dollingcr, the
theologian. Our historian Bancroft is
over ninety, and so is Cardinal Newmau
and Marshal Von Moltke.
If so many eminent men can be found
who have 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 lougevity main
tains that genius is inimical to old age;
but this hardly seems borne out by the
facts. Carlyle died at eighty-four;
Bryant at eighty-three; Professor Sir
Kichard Owen is still alive at eighty-six;
John G. Whittier at eighty-two; Robert
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 and conditions of men are
liable to attain to old age, though there
can be no doubt that some occupations
are more destructive of health and, hence
of long life, than others. Yankee Blade.
Novel Method of Removing Rats.
Texas farmers have been almost ruined
by the depredations of ruts. To get rid
of them a novel expedient has come into
use. The farmer finds a burrow in which
from fifty to a hundred rats reside.
Every exit save ono 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 one foot long. Over the
spout is placed another piece of pipe,
which is run into the openiug leading to
the burrow. A fire is theu built in the
kettle aud a couple of haudfuls of sul
phur thrown on the coals. The top be
iug closed, the fumes are driven into the
burrow by a hand bellows, the nozzle of
which is inserted in the top pipe. Some
of these burrows are titty yards in length;
the fumes go through all its passages,
and in five minutes every young and old
rodent is dead.
Carrier Pigeons and Poachers.
General Cameron, commandant of the
Royal Military College at Kingston,
Canada, is organizing a system of mes
senger pigeon stations throughout Canada.
He proposes that the Canadian cruisers
utilize the pigeons by having stations
along the coast, aud tlws communicating
news of poachers aud fishing vessels. The
practical object in view is to supplement
the facilities for the rapid transmission of
messuges afforded by telegraph lines. Ho
proposes a chain of tweuty-six stations
from Windsor, Nova Scotia, to Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
An Iureutive (ieolus.
IIardlake"l hear that that chap
Dry nun is somewhat of an inventor."
Suttrleigh "Yes."
Hardbake "What's he ever invented?"
Bnarleigh "Liea. ''
CURIOUS BURIAL CUSTOMS..
ODD BURIAL METHODS OF THE
CHINESE AND OTHER RACES.
Chinese Mourners Irr In White -Bodies
Sometimes Kept In the
House for Year.
Exceedingly different are the modes oi
burying the dead among various people.
Among some the dead are buried hying,
among others sitting as is tho case with
several of the Indian tribes, among whom,
it is related, warriors or leaders in the
nations hove been buried upon their fa
vorite war-borses. There is a remarkable
geneAl agreement of custom, however,
in the practice of placing tho 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 re, however,
some tribes that ins their dead north and
south, and othc I Jury men with the face
to the north amfivonien witn tne lace 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 the necessity of
going to hades and to secure his admit
tance to Paradise.
The body is arrayed in the most costly
garments that the family can afford. Iu
one hand is placed a fan and iu the other
a prayer written on a piece of paper,
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 laid in a bed
of lime or cotton," or is covered with
quicklime, and the edges of the lid are
closed with mortar in the groove so that
no odor can escape.
The nature of the site for burial is re
tarded as having an importaut influence
upon the prosperity of the living, the
people fearing ill-luck, disease ana acci
dent if the dead are not satisfied with
the site of their craves. The selection
of propitious Bites is made by geomancers,
a class of quacks who pretend to super
natural wisdom.
When the day of burial arrives, which
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 the house, and an of
fering of cooked provisions is laid out
nearhe cofhn. Tjis is intended to oc
cupy the attention of the spirit ef the
dead, which is supposed to linger near
thcody, or any other vagrant spi-its
that may be hovering around, to keep
them from doing any mischief or harm
to the living.
All the mournen are dressed entirely
in white, and they assemble about the
coffin and in turn prostrate themselves
before it, a band of music playing mean
while.
The procession is then formed, the
coffin going first, born on an unwieldy
bier carried by a largo number of men.
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 aftci
the coffin, in a separate sedan, is born'
the ancestral tablet of the deceased wit
the offering of food. Different figures.
banners aud tablets are also carried, ac
cording to the means aud rank of thi
family.
When the grave is reached the coiliu
is let down, and lime is abundantly mixed
with the earth thrown in upon it. Crack
era are then 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 want 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,
and 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, and incense is
burned before them morning and even
ing. They are kept on trestles in the en
trance hall, or sometimes in 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 tho manner of
expressing grief at death has diffcrus? in
different countries. The Hebrew period
of mourning was usually seven days, but
in some instances, as at .the death of
Moses and Aaron, it was extended to
thirty days. The mourners tore their
clothing, cut off their hair and beard,
strewed ashes on their heads and cast
themselves on thai 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
- huir and secluded themselves from the
public gaze. In the event of the death
of a great General the soldiers of the
whole army cut off their hair and also
the manes of their horses. The Roman
mourning criod 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 the schools were
closed.
Among the Fiji Islanders the women
are required to burn their bodies on the
death of a Chief, and in the Sandwich
Islands the people go into mourning by
knocking out their front teeth and by
painting the lower part of the face black.
Aitw York Star.
Growing Younger.
Hardbake "Miss Withers seems to
grow younger every day."
Snarleigh "Yes, she will soou have
reached her second cjiildhood."
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A KOVEI, WAV OF BAKISO ArPLKS.
Peel a lemon, cut it in slices and take
out the seeds; lay in a shallow tin pan
and on each BUce a pared and cored
apple; fill the pan half full of water and
bake until the apples aro tender. Lift
the apples into a dish and place the pan
with the lemon and water on tho stove,
add half a pound of sugar to every half a
pint of water; boil for half an hour until
it jells; place a slice of lemon on each
apple, pour tho syrup over them and let
them get very cold before serving.
Washington Star.
FOR MAKING GOOD COFFER.
Most connoisseurs prefer n half-and-
half mixture of Mocha and Java. To
make for a family of four, wash one egg
aqd 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 at a
time. Add a generous half pint of
coffee, mix thoroughly and pour into
tho pot. feet on tlie buck of the range
where it will heat slowly half an hour,
keeping the spomy closed to prevent the
escape of the aroma. Then add about a
pint and a halUof boiling water and
bring to a boiVirring down once or
twice si the grounds gather at the top.
Ser7e with plain or whipped cream or
with condensed milk as preferred.
citron preserves..
Cut the citron in pieces about two
inches square, and boil it in soda water
until it is so tender that a straw will
pierce it easily, then skim it and let
it lie in weak alum water forthror hours,
and after that, in cold water for 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 t is clear, then
put in the citron and let it remain, 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
are filled. Yankee Blade.
II AM TATE.
Housekeepers are often pu.zlcd to de
vise a way to make, the hard parts of a
ham palatable. But after tho better por
tion has been sliced off, the remainder
can be converted into a very tempting
dish.
Cut all the meat from the bone and
chop it fine, boil six eggs hard and chop
them also. Put in the bottom of a small,
deep pudding dish a layer of the chopped
ham, then a layer of egg. Moisten with
cream sauce, add a second layer of ham,
ancVher layer of eggs, moisten again
witn bread-crumbs, dotted with bits of
butter. Bukc about half an hour or un
til the top is brown.
The cream sauce consists of one tnblc
spoonful of butter, one tublespoonful of
flour, and a cupful of milk. Melt the
butter acd'flour and stir in the milk.
Ladies' Home Journal.
TO BAKE DRY FISH.
Make a snueo of one and a half ounces
of chopped fat bacon fried iu the bottom
of a saucepan with one ouuee of beef
suet and two ounces of carrpts, onions
and tomatoes. Wlieu t'icso rtNulicfes
are brown, stir in three tublespSVnfuls
of flour, which should, also brown ; add
a quart of hut waUr and season with salt
and pepper. Let this boil gently one
hour, skimming it clear. When the vege
tables are soft, rub 'the, 'sauce through a
sieve and add a tublespoonful of vinegar.
Clean the fish if it is a whole one, and
lay it or the cut fish in tho dripping-pan
on a few vegetables, slivered. Season
with salt und peppcrr aud 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 he fish in, with boiled
potatoes around it. Serve the remainder
of the sauce iu a boat. New York Wit-
HOUSEUOLD HINTS.
Buttermilk wilt take out mildew
stains.
Bottles are easily cleaned with hot
water and fine coals.
A dampened cloth is better Wian a dry
one for dusting furniture.
If the hands aro rubbed on 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 duy, polishing
with emery dust and kerosene.
If a cucumber is cut into strips and the
pieces put into places where ants are
found, it will gurWy drive them away.
A cloth saturated in kerosene oil and
dipped into whiting, for cleaning tin
ware, is much betUr than anything else
used.
If new calicoes are allowed to lie in
strong salt water u hour before the first
wasliing, the colors are less likely to
fade.
Table linen should be hemmed by
hand. Not only does it look more dainty,
but there is uever u streak. of dirt under
the edge after being luuudried us with
machine sewing.
There should be a (mall table about the
height of the range or stove for use us a
resting-place for uU-nsils when omelets,
griddle cakcA etc., are made. It should
be covered with zinc.
In bottling catchup or pickles, boil the
corks, and while hot you can press them
into the bottlcsjrfud when cold they are
tightly scaled. Use the tin foil from com
pressed yeast to cover tho corks.
If the materia! is washable at all, lluck
dye can practically be rendered a fust
color by the help of the salt water bath
before the general washing is commenced
upon. After such a treatment faded black
caused by washing will uever occur.
Nothing so quickly restores tone to
exhausted nerves and strength to a weary
body as a bath containing uu ounce of
aqua ammonia to each piilf ill of water.
It makes the tlesh firm aud smooth as
marble, aud reuders the body pure and
free froui ail odors.
AN ECONOMICAL MAN.
He lived on thirteen cant a day,
Ten cents for milk and cracker,
One cent for dissipation gay,
And two cent for tobacco. .
And if he wished an extra dish
He'd take his pole and catch a fish.
And if his stomach raised a war
'Gainst his penurious habit,
He'd go and kill a woodchuck, or
Assassinate a rabbit;
And thus he'd live in sweet content
On food that never cost a cent.
And, that h. might lay by In bank
The proceeds of his labor.
He'd happen round at.meals, the crauk I
And dine upon his neighbor!
And then he'd eat enough to last
Until another day had passed.
He bought no pantaloons nor vest,
Nor rich, expensiv 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 now.
He owned but one suit to his back,
And minus cuffs and collar.
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.
S. W. Fom, in Yankee Blade.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Momentary bliss Second lovo.
A well-wisher The traveler ori the
desert.
"Pa, what's the dead of night?" f
"Ghosts, I reckon." Puck.
The man who never smiles is a centra
of gravity. lloehttter Pout- Expreu.
A good-sized sinking fund will help, to
keep a corporation afloat. A'eui York
Presi.
Does a mnn of-war go on a wlraling
voyage when it starts out to whip some
body? Much charity that begins at home is
too weak to get out of doors. Ttiat
Sifting.
The man who is employed iu a feather
store is apt to get down on his knees--
pretty often.
Groom-5-"Shall I rub his legs off,
sir?" Equestrian "No, you had better
leave them on."
Here's to the bootblack. He improves
the shining hours by shining ours. -Danttillt
Breeze.
"How did Bobinson happen to get
swamped?" "Ho got into the swim too
deep." Muntey't
Hawkins "What kind of jokes does
young Tompkins write?" Jiwkins
"Alleged, I believe."
""rour opinions remind me of a hun-dred-dllar
bill." "Ah! valuable, I sup
pose?" "No; subject to change."
Poet, trwjnir hand at prose.
If ywfi? weigh your thought sublime;
If in Kr4;lish plain it glows,
You may put the thing in rhyme.
Puck.
"Well, I got there!" exclaimed Jay
smith, announcing a recent success.
"Yes; with all four feet," replied Cum
so. Judge.
A philosophical fricud remarks that if
there is anything that will encourage
rising ability it is sitting on a bent pin.
Muntey't.
Young Johnnie has a sister small,
He love with ail hi heart;
For, when he does not get it all,
He goes and takes her part.
Puck.
A scientific man has discovered that
tho reason why a hen lays an egg is be- -cause
she can not stand it up on end.
Wtuhinyton Critic.
Old Hoi will soon, in cloudless skies,
Mhine like a nery ball.
And there will then be lots of flies
Upon us all.
button Courier.
Vesey "Why do you think Fulton
dislikes living in New Jersey?" Cort
laudt "Because every t'me he gets on
the ferry-boat it makes him cross."
Puck.
VOICES Or THK TEAR.
Hark to the fiendish yell,
Hark to th. umpire's sbout,
, "All ready, now, play ball !
"That
- Mau's
Out!"
Vm 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 than ever, for the truth never wu'
stretched half so much as at present.
There seems to be absolutely no limit to
its elasticity. DantcilU Brtett.
Hi pen was but half-feathered, like the
chickens of the spring;
His way through life, spring-chicken-lika,
was rough.
And the simile goes further he was as weak
of wm it,
Aud as that same poor chicken, he was
tough. fc
Jud'je.
An Emperor's Mania for Uniforms,
Emperor William bus developed a
mania for new uniforms and costumes
which is worthy of George IV. He has
established a new body-guard for the
Empress, which is to do sentry duty be
fore her apartments at the paluce, and is
to serve as her escort at reviews aud
Statu functions. For palace duty the
uniform consists of a white Brandenburg
coat with cherry-colored fuciugs, aud
Imgo shoulder-knots iu black, white aud
silver; a white waistcoat coming dowu
low, white trousers and "jack" boots.
There is ulsu a black velvet, three
cornered hut, with cockade and feather
iu the Prussiuu colors. The escort uni
form is much the same, except that the
hut is replaced by a helmet of polished
steel, crested with a goldeu eagle.
Tiiiut-DtiHiK rat.
What the Baud Was Playing.
First Steamboat Passenger "There's
a brass baud playing ou deck."
Second Steamboat Passenger "I
don't hear it."
F. S. P. "Probably not; a dozeu
drummers u play a game of draw with
out bciny heard all over the ship."