PLENTY OP HOXEY COMETO.
California Smiling East a Large Sup
ply of IIcp Sweet Products.
Tliero will lie no scarcity of honey
this season. Within short time the
California supply will lie here. As the
Xew York honey is not usually ready
for sale before October, that from the
l'aciiic slope will have a good opportu
nity for finding a market. The samples
which have been sent in advance to the
New York houses show the crop to be
remarkably fine this year, in addition to
the crop King unusually large. Over
ii,uOO,ouO iounds have been shiped
eastward, which is the greatest quantity
known since bee cultivation has been
undertaken in the Golden .State. .South
ern California lias been found to be
especially favorable to bee culture and
the production of honey. That which
has been shinned to the East is mainly
from the districts of San Diego, Los
Angeles and Santa ltorbara, which
places have also produced an additional
lamer quantity, intended for home con
sumption, than iji former years. AVhile
a larre irtion of this great shipment
will 1 brought to New York, such is
now the convenience of transportation
that direct shipments will lie made to
other places. On the way East Chicago
and St. Louis will receive their sliare of
the rich product of the California in
sects, and before the train will reach
New York city separate carloads will be
diverted to JJoston and Philadelphia.
Even of the through freight which will
come to New York direct, a portion will
1 sent across the Atlantic Ocean to
London. Hamburg, Amsterdam and
nther Eurojiean cities. So that, even
though the shipments from California
are unusually large, there is no proba
bility of a glut until the product of the
New York bees conies into the market
in October. As a natural result of the
lanre crop, prices will this year l
greatly reduced. In 1SS5 the wholesale
rates for extracted honey were from 5
to 8 cents a pound, while in lSNi they
ituiged from 10 to 12 cents jer pound in
California. This vear the wholesale
rate in that State is from 3i to 4 er
cents per iound, according to quality.
After paving freight across the whole
continent, it is expected that the sweet
product can Iks sold wholesale at
from 0 to t cents ier pound
a very great reduction from the rates of
two and three years ago. For the con
venience of the trade, the producers
have tacked the honey in five-gallon
cans, two cans making a case; the net
weight of each case being about 113
oimds of clear honey.
Most of the honey brought from Cali
fornia is extracted, as it is diflicult to
transjHirt the honey in the combs. In
that state the bee-culturists do not use,
us in this State, the hardened comb
foundations for the bees to build upon.
The little winged insects consequently
make their entire combs, which are soft
and brittle. The honey therefore is too
heavy for the comb, and on the road
becomes loosened from the cells, often
causing heavy loss. An attempt has
been made this year to ship some of the
comb honey in two pound frames, eight
frames going to a rack and four racks
to a case. Each case will therefore con
tain about seventy pounds of honey
combs. The wholesale price for the
comb honey has heretofore 1-een from 12
to 14 ceiits"ier pound; but this year, if
the shipments should come through all
right, the price will range from 8 to 10
cents per i-otind.
California is said to le favored witr.
a growth of foliage especially adapted
for the production of honey. The finest
produced in that State is a clear white,
very sweet and rich. It is the product
of the white sage, with which Southern
California is abundantly supplied. The
next in quality is from the sumac. This
is of a light amber hue, and is also
sweet, with a very fine flavor. Another
class of honey is produced from the tar
weed. This is rather dark in color, and
has a bitterish taste. For this reason
it is not so well liked ;is the other varie
ties mentioned, and at times is scarcely
salable. The flavor of the California
honey is entirely different from that
produced in New York State and vi
cinity, where the white clover is the
main source of supply for the bees to
work upon. Consequently it finds a
market amons those who prefer a rich
and sweet article for their own use, the
white sage honey having also a fine con
sistency which at times is much desired.
The honey producis of the States of
Michigan, Illinois. Iowa, "Wisconsin and
Missouri promise also to le very large.
But this will scarcely affect the market
here, except indirectly, as the crop is
generally used for home consumption.
The principal markets for the produc
tion of the bees in these States are at
Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City.
As a natural effect of the plcntif ul crop
in California, the prices for the honey.
produced nearer home, will this year 1
greatly reduced in the markets of the
two first named cities, as that from the
Pacific slope will have some advantage
m being the First in the held.
A good crop is also reported from the
Southern Suites, the greater lortiou of
which is brought to New 1 oik for sale.
Owing to the carelessness of those who
attend to the lecs and prepare the honey
for market, it docs not realize such
good prices as it might do with better
attention. Instead of the honey being
extracted it is merely strained, and all
kinds are mixed tgether. When spoken
lo by merchants about keeping the liner
honeys from the poorer kind, the proJu-
cers have said: It's all honey, ain't it?
What's the use of making such close
distinction as to what the bees gather it
from.-' ' 1 ben, again, little care is taken
with regard to packing for market. In
stead of being put up in a tasty manner,
it is shipjted iii Imrrels and therefore
sold at a low price to confectioners and
others.
Within a short time a few bee cullu
rists have tried Florida as a honey pro
ducing State. The success which has
attended their efforts has induced others
to engage in the enterprise. It is ex
iccted that o of the finest honeys ever
produced will U- soon in the market for
general sale. The transplanted bees
have taiien a great fancy to the orange
blossom, and from it produces a honey
very delicious in ll.fror. At present the
Florida orange blo-som honey is a nov
elty, and commands here as good prices
as any brought to the New York mar
ket, should the producers in Florida
only take advantage of the experience
gained in this State as to the advantages
of the bees building the comlis and fill
ing them with honey in marketable
packages, there is no doubt, that honey
from the Florida orange blossom will
meet with as much favor as that produ
ced from the white olover.
Table linen and other articles that
are liable to be stained should be care
fully examined before washing, and
such snots removed by soaking in milk
or dipping In melted tallow; fruit
stains disappear when equal parts of
kerosene and soda are applied; cover
wine dissolorations with saltdampened.
"What is wanted in this country."
said the bride, as she examined the
wedding presents, "is not civil service
reform, but silver service reform. This
set is plated."
"Aukklia, darling?"
"Yes, Arthur."
"You know we are soon to be mar
ried?" "Yes."
"And we should learn to be econom
ical in small thing!1."
"Hadn't you better tuia down the J
gas?"
INDIAN'S AT SCHOOXk
The Nursery of Aboriginal Slips at
Lawrence, Kan.
The Haskell Institute carc3 for nearly
400 pupils, about one-third of whom are
girls. There is a very considerable
group of buildings forming the institute,
which consists of large and capacious
structures for the school rooms, dormi
tories and living purposes of the pupils,
and additional buildings which are used
for shops, storehouses of various kinds,
and which constitute a little settlement
There is also a large farm attached, on
which the b vs are taught farming, gar
dening and the like, and which is con
sidered not the least valuable of the in
structive agencies to which they are
subjected.
The institution is under the manage
ment of a siqierinten lent and a large
staff of teachers and assistants of vari
ous kinds. The number of tribes repre
sented in the school is nearly or quite
thirtv, and includes the names of many
of the most famous fighting bodies, as
well as others not so well known in his
tory. lo yon have any difficulty arising
from the tribal distinctions?" was asked
of the superintendent
"There has been a good deal, as I
understand, under prior managements,
but I have substantially obliterate! it
under the system w hich I have adopted.
There is an intense clannishness among
the bovs on their arrival, and in fact
their tribal affections are never obliter
ated; and yet it Is at least kept well in
the background during their st:iy in the
nstitute."
"How do vou bring this about?"
"I arrange them in companies, select-
inir them with reference to size, putting
the tallest boys on the right, which, of
course, prevents anything like tribal
association. They are also mised at the
tables, and the companies are roomed
together in the various dormitories, ami
thus, by these and other means the
tribal relations are weauencu uy uisiise,
If not wholly obliterated."
'1K you iiud any intellectual differ-
race in the various tribes that is, are
joine of the children of certain tribes
Irighter, quicker to learn, more or less
ijcile than others?"
"There is not much difference iu that
direction: the children of one clan are
about the same in intellectual qualities
as the remainder. I do find an inequal
ity in one respect, and that is that 1
think I find more tractability and am
bition among th.se ossessed of warrior
blood, I had nucli rather teach the
children of blaui .t Indians tlian those
of the more civilized. As to the chil
dren here, while there are twenty-nine
tribes in all represented, there are more
Chcyennes and Arapahocs than all oth
ers combined.
In reference to the control of the boys,
the manager said tliat he has great suc
cess in appealing to their manly senti
ments. It is enough to say to an erring
boy: "A brave man would not do that!
Tlie son of a warrior would not do this!"
When one of them gives his word oa
anything or shakes hands on it, he re
gards his pledge as inviolable, and never
"goes back on it," in the words of the
sui-erintendent.
A trip tlirough the shops reveals the
boys engaged in various occupations. In
the rooms devoted to shoemaking, there
weie four or five young men of from 16
to 20 years of age engaged in repairing
foot furniture. Some specimens of their
work were shown, and while they were
not just what would be produced by a
cosmopolitan artist, they were at least
creditable to the locality and the oper
ators. They handed out their work for
inspection, and seemed sh( cpishly pleased
at the commenilation which their labors
elicited.
There were several young fellows at
work in the carpenter shop who shoved
the plane and handled the mallet and
chisel with as much earnestness as if
they were white men. The exhibit in
the blacksmith shop was as creditable
as that of other work places; and, in
short, in all the mechanical departments
the boys seemed as much at home as if
they were inured to the business by gen
erations of training.
There was, however, a point of differ
ence between these young men and the
same number of white boys. There is
in the face of the thoroughbred mechan
ic an expression which seems to be in
entire harmony with his occupation.
There was a lack of this in the faces of
the young Indians. They were at the
bench and forge, and yet from their
countenances they seemed to be far
away. They worked, as it were, me
chanically, pen unctoruy. J hey seemed
one thing, and their surroundings some
thing else, Ahey were like an in-
harmonous clement in the scene; as if
two quite unlike things had been thrown
together. Their expression was solemn.
stern and unyielding. During the enj
tire visit or inspection Mere w as scarcely
such a thing as a smile to be seen on the
faces of the boy or girL This was not
owing to anything like unhappiness
over their situation, but rather to the
iwcullanties of their race.
Each young Indian who was at work
suggested some wild animal tamed suf
ficiently to perform domestic service;
something like a wolf broken to harness,
doing the work well, but yet very much
out of place with bit traces and collar.
That the boys retain much of the old
warrior leaven is constantly shown
They evince it in their fondness for mili
tary trappings and parades. They art
excessively fond of listening to narra
tions of heroic deeds. "Talk to us,"
they will often say to the superinten
dent, "of the warnoi-s of Europe"'
They listen to battle accounts and inci
dents in the lives of great soldiers with
interest intense bevond description.
With such sentiments prevading their
natures, it is not likely tnat they will
make hrst-class, plodding mechanics.
Thev may not know whv they do not
love the occupations to which ci vilizat ion
has assigned them; in fact they may
fancy that they do like their civilized
trades, but lvond question there is
something in these labors that is at war
with their instincts. A generation or
two Liter may afford a difference, and
they may take kindly then to what they
now apply themselves to as a duty or a
task.
Old-fashioned but Excellent.
And now, remembering the invariable
thirstmess of children, who, I believe,
really suffer much when they have
thoughtless elders, J will give a cheap
and easily prepared recipe for 'Imperial,'
an old-fashioned but excellent drink,
and. suitable for every one, of course,
as well as children.
Put a quarter of an ounce of cream of
tartar and the juice and thinly cut peel
of one lemon into a large jug, pour on
them a quart of boiling water, and
sweeten to your taste with white sugar.
Cover it up, and when cold it will b
fit for use. The lemon peel and creaw
of tartar w ill fall to the bottom as sedi
ment, and need not be disturbed in pour
ing it out
This last recipe will be found a verit
able acquisition where tennis playing
and constant violent exercises are going
on among the young people of the family.
?7ie doctors disagree. The now fa
mous fossil footprints found last year
at Caraon, Nevada, and supposed to
have been made by prehistoric human
giants, are regarded by Prof. O. C.
Marsh as probable tracks of a large
sloth. It is stated, however, that Hark
ness still insists that the impressions
were left by a species of man, and that
he finds his theory strengthened by
fresh discoveries of tracks even more
clearly defined than those first uncov-red.
FARM NOTES,
While it may be said that pese
trees require nearly the same cultiva
tion as corn, the pear trees do best
when kept in grass. If cultivated and
fertilized they grow too rapidly, which
seems to bring on blight The yellows
in peaches are caused by starvation,
but the pear trees should not be forced.
If the orchard is in grass it should re
ceive fertilizers or manures, but not in
sufficient quantity to more than nourish
the grass. The grass crop should be
plowed under when a sod has become
thick, and a crop of rye grown on the
sod. The ground should then be seed
ed to grass again. The most important
matter in connection with the grow
ing of pears and peaches is iu avoiding
disease. Sprinkling a solution of blue
vitriol around the trees and spraying It
m the branches and leaves Is an excel
lent preventive. The trees should not
be induced to bear early, as it is much
better to allow themto mature the wood
and become firmly established before
being taxed for fruit. Then, with due
precautions against insects, and proper
care, they will be less liable to disease
and will yield better.
The first grade, says an experienced
apiarist should consist of only perfect
white combs, and it is his opinion that
in mauy instances there should be only
this one grade of honey. Borne bee
keepers mato a second grade of unfin
ished sections, but if the apiary is right
ly managed there will be but few of
these at the close of the season, and it
is better to extract the honey from
them, and keep the combs until another
season. Honey that is too dark for the
lirst grade should not, as a general
thing, be stored in sections, as it is
usually more profitable to extract
it
Like many other products, honey
should be neatly put up for marketing
to assure profitable sales. A Western
bee-keeper says there is no doubt that
much first-class honey does not bring
first-class prices because of the manner
of puttipg up. Its delicate flavor is
lost and it soon becomes tainted by
being put into whisky or molasses bar
rels, or eveu fresh wooden barrels may
give a taste. Tin cans are, iwrhaps,
safer for storing or shipping honey in
than any Eort of wooden receptacle.
Professor Budd says that inset
ting trees it is always best to lean the
tree toward the south at a strong angle.
This may not look near so well as to set
them upright but we must pay more
attention to profit to ourselves and gool
health for the tree In this matter. By
leaning the tree to the south in this
manner sun-scalding is prevented to a
great extent, for the top being partly
between the sun and the trunk arcades
and protects it from the beat; as the
tops and roots both are strongest on the
north side they will gradually pull the
tree back into an upright position.
The Le Con te pear, the Japan per
simmon and the Japan chestnut are
sub-tropical trees not valuable for pro
fit north of the parallel of 35, which
defines the northern boundaries or Mis
sissippi, Alabama, Georgia and (approxi
mately) South Carolina. Keinember
this it asked to invest by the traveling
tree agent of glowing Imagination and
gaudy colored prints. Also, remember
there is no blue rose, no strawberries
that grow on trees, no cross ofstaw
berries on blackberries and no huckle
berry that will grow and bear in ordi
nary garden or field
We have ',rreat faith in the bagging
system. Cur grape-growers should give
it a thorough trial this year. It is
stated by those who have tried it in
other sections that grapes in bags will
keep from four to six weeks longer
than those without baza. Two-pound
manilla bags, which can oe bought very
cheap in quantity, are put over the
bunches and fastened to the vine with
pins. The time which this operation
requires is well employed. The grapes
can be left on the vine nntil severe
freezing. Bags must be adjusted early
after blooming or the good results are
endangered.
Tue advantage of keeping clean,
smooth bark on any tree is that there
is no place for worms and insects. The
operation of soaping should be gone
through with about three times during
the warm weather. Whenever the
the trunk and lower branches of any
fruit tree are rough an application of
some potash soap will bring the bark to
its original smoothness. If the bark is
very rough matters will be haitened
somowhat by scraping. If the tree is
I entered with any kind of enemies an
application of this soap with a syringe
will kill them if repeated often.
An Illlno's farmer has a sixty acre
strawberry bid, from nine acres of
which be gathered In one season G5.50Q
quarts of berries, which is at the rate
of about 277 bushels per acre. The
Crescent has proved the most profitable
berry in that locality. Before one goesln
to strawberry culture as a business, he
should take into account the man
ure he can get, and also find
out whether he can get pickers
enough when the season opens. It Is
of little use to think of raising straw
berries for market without manure and
pickers in abundance.
The American farmers may note
with interest that an intelligent and in
fluential English committee has, "with
out hesitation," declared it to have
been "abundantly and conclusively
proved" that the ensilage system prom
ises g reat ad vantage to the practical far
mer by "materially improving the
quantity and quality of his dairy pro
duce," and enabling him to keep more
live stock upon the same land.
Tue New England Farmer says that
"the evolution of the tomato Is going on
in a remarkable way. Not many years
ago the fruit was mostly skin and seeds,
but the newest varieties are almost
solid pulp with very few seeds. Possi
bly, as in the case of the banana, the
seeds will yet disappear altogether and
the plants will have to be propagated
by cuttings,"
Fbagiiexts of time can be used in
caring for bees, fragments of lumber in
making hives and frame fmcrmanta nt
comb for wax, and every crop of
noney is useiui lor me Dees, ir not for
their owner.
A scccessfcl farmer says that be
"feeds his land heforn it ia hnnirm
rests it before it is weary, and weeds it
Deiore it is ioui."
A VAT.TTATU.K mnT In f !onfralia til
ran away and dashed against a barbed
wire fence. One strand nparTv d9ni-
tatcd him, killing him outright
"Ah. BairlevI home nrain? TTnnr'a
Mrs. B. and Aurelia?"
"Still at Newport "
"Enjoying themselves?"
"Immensely. Mrs. Tt: pom hatliinir
and Aurelia goes a-fisbing."
"Fishing? I didn't know that the
fishing was good at Newport."
"i aiant say she was fishing for fish."
"Ohl
GtTEST frisin? exc.itodlv from thA ta
ble after tastin? an oliva for th first
time) "It's sorry I'd be to disturb the
nuariiy or me mating, duc i Deiave
some joker's been Baiting the zuseber-riesl"
HOUSEHOLD.
To Cleast Glass and Silver
wake. Esg-shells crushed into small
bits and shaken well in decanters tbrco
parts filled with cold water, will not
only clean them thoroughly but make
the glass look like new. By rubbing
with a flannel dipped in the best whit
ing, the brown discoloration maybe
taken off cups in which custards have
been baked. Again, all of us are
aware that emery powder will remove
ordinary stains from the white ivory
knife handles, and that the lustre of
morocco leather is restored by varnish
ing with white of egg. Nothing, it is
said, Is better to clean silver with than
alcohol or ammonia, finishing with a
whiting on a soft cloth. When put
ting away the silver tea or coffoe-pot
which is not in use every day, lay a
stick across the top under the cover.
This will allow fresh air to get in and
prevent the mustiness of the contents
familiar to boarding-house sufferers.
Devilled Eggs. Bod six eggs hard
and throw them into cold water. Divide
into halves, cut crosswise, take out the
yolks and rub to a paste with a gener
ous teaspjouful of butter. Season
with pepper, salt and a suspicion of
mustard. Mould into balls the size
and shape of the abstracted yolks, put
back Into the hollowed whites, lit the
halves neatly together and roll each egg
up in tissue paper, as you would a bon
bon, twisting the paper at the ends. If
you wish to make the entree ornamental
fringe the squares of paper before en
veloping the eggs. They are yet more
savory if you have some minced gib
lets (boiled and cold) to mix with the
yolks, and a little gravy with which to
moisten the paste.
Pot Koast of Beef. Five pounds
from the i ump, without bona. Place
In a broad pot season with peppar, salt
and minced onions, and pour over it a
liberal cup of boiling water. Cover
tightly and cook slowly two hours turn
ing once. Kemove the meat from the pot,
place it in a dripping pan dredging it well
with.fiour.pour the pot liquor over it,and
brown-paste half a dozen times. Put
the meat w hen done in a covered dish
to keep warm while you cool the gravy
by setting it in cold water. When the
fat rises skim off every particle, return
the gravy to the fire in a saucepan,
thicken with browned flour, boll up and
serve. Evea the coarser pieces of meat
may be made palatable by this mode of
cooking.
Milk Socr. Take four large pota
toes, peeled and cut in quarters, one
onion cut up, put them in two quarts of
boiling water, with two ounces of butter
or suetlthat from the kidney Is best).tea
soon of sweet marjoram, one bay leaf,
salt or pepper to taste; boil till done to a
mash; strain through a colander and
rub the vegetables through with a
wooden spoon, return the pulp and soup
to the saucepan, add one pint of milk
and put It on the fire to boil; when It
boils sprinkle in by degrees three table
spoonfuls of crushed tapioca, stirring
well all the time. Boil for fifteen min
utes and serve in a hot soup plate.
Cokt shell clams, scalloped, are an
excellent dish for breakfast, luncheon
or supper, to be eaten warm or cold.
Put a layer of these clams with their
liquor in the liottom of a deep earthen
dish; season with sweet butter, cayenne
and nutmeg; soak pilot crackers in
cream and dust with salt cayenne.and
cover with lumps or butter; then an
cther layer ef clams, and then crack
ers; finisa with the clams, slivers of ba
con, cracker crumbs and seasoning,
pouring in as much cream as therilsh
will old ; bake and brown. . T
Tins pudding is simple and delicate.
Set one quart of milk on the stove, and
when it is very hot add three table
spoonfuls of corn-starch, mixed smooth
with a little milk and the yelks of four
eggs, adding a little sugar; stir until
thick and then pour it into a baking
dish; when cold, pour over it a frosting
made of the whites of the four eggs,
allowing a tablespoonful of sugar to
each egg. Flavor with lemon juice,
and set it in the oven until it Is a deli
cate brown.
To make green jelly from fox grapes
you should get the fruit In July. Cod
dle the grapes in a tall stone jar, set in
a kettle of water as you do currants
for jelly. Mash down with a wooden
spoon. Strain the juice through a Liig
that has been previously wrung out in
hot water. To each pound of clear
juice put three-quarters of a pound of
sugar. The cloudy juice that comes
with squeezing the bag may be used for
grape tarts or jam. Grape jelly made
late in August ia pink, and still later in
the season it is garnet But It is always
tart and good.
Citron Loaf Cake. One teacupf ul
granulated sugar, one-fourth teacupful
butter, two eggs, one-half teacupful
sweet milk, one and one-half teacupfuls
flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder,
grated rind of one lemon.one-half grated
nutmeg, one-half teacupful citron.
Bake in a loaf.
A vert good cake is made in this
way. Half a cupful of butter mixed
with one and a half cupfuls of sugar;
and two thirds of a cupful of milk, in
which is dissolved half a teaspoonful of
soda, two cupfuls of Hour, sifted, with
one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and
three eggs. Flavor to taste and bake
in a good oven.
Fob. breakfast or lunch cold meat of
any kind may bo used m this way:
Mince the meat very fine; mix it witb
an equal quantity of bread crumbs that
have bean soaked and then pressed
rather dry and one finely chopped on
ion. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg
and allspice. Mold with beaten egg,
form into balls and fry in boiling fat
A rn actical housekeeper says if tbe
necessity of cutting hot bread be im
perative tbe moist unpleasantness may
be obviated by using a warm knife for
the purpose. The heating of the steel
prevents the chill which causes the
sodden look so well known to thoro
who have been compelled to cut the
warm loaf. A napkin shou be laid
on the plate upon which the slices are
placed.
Ham Sandwiches. Chop the meat,
lean and fat fine, season with pePPr
and, if agreeable, a veiy little mus
tard. The yolks of two or three hard
boiled eggs, minced and worked in with
tbe meat make a pleasant change.
Sardine Sandwiches. Wash the oil
from a dozen sardines, wipe them dry,
take out the backbones and scrape
with knife and fork to a paste, season
with pepper and lemon juice, and lay
between buttered slices of bread.
"Gentlemen," he said to the re
porters, as the Sheriff put the knot
where it would do the most good, "will
you grant me one last request before I
die?"
The reporters, to a man, said they
would.
"Then write me down as having been
simply 'haneed not 'Ian nphri intn et
ernity. I'm no dule."
A his request caused some conster
nation among the younger reporters,
but they all kept their word.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Denendenm la
low-
Konsense About Act res so.
There is a lot of nonsense talked and
written on the subject of "mashers."
I have played with a great many pretty
women Mrs. Langtry, erliaps, the
most famous beauty among them; and
with some very fascinating women
Miss ijjphio Eyre pre-eminently so, I
Uiink but I have never seen priceless
diamonds delivered at the stage door in
cart loads. More than half the flowers
are sent by ladies, personal friends and
sister artists very largely.
A certain class of chorus girls un
doubtedly Interest a certain class of
brainless lad, but no more than bar
maids or shop girls.
An actress will sometimes receive a
silly letter, but not often. Some of the
handsome young leading men I havo
known were far more persecuted. I
had an adorer in the front of the house
myself once, when I
Could pass er well for forty-two,
la I he Uuk wlih the lignt bek nl tue."
He was not the traditional bald head.
To tell the truth, he was only about
forty years old. But he was in deadly
earnest and I took a great liking to
him myself. He finally succeeded in
making the acquaintance of a lady I
often visited, and be used to haunt her
house. His father had a well furnished
conservatory, and I fear the lad his
name was Frank, I remember used to
rob It for me. Ho painted a Htt!o, and
used to send me gruesome plaques and
weird pastels.
I was playing a boy's part at the
time the boy in the "Black Flag"
and Frank used to teach me bits of
business. But he grew jealous of my
superior whistling and we parted.
A girl, who was once in the company
with me at Manchester, used to have
sent ber every Friday night a large
hamper of early vegetables and fruit
with a dozen eggs, a duck or chicken,
and some old-fashioned flowers on the
top of all bollybocksor marigolds.
We used to chaff her about her bu
colic swam, until it was discovered that
the supposed masher was a dear old
farmer's wife who had seen her play
one market night and used to send her
the farm produce because she looked so
thin.
Every one, says Trofessor Matthleu
Williams in one of his lectures on the
"Chemistry of Cookery," who eats his
matutinal egg eats a sermon and a mir
acle. Inside of that smooth, symmet
rical, beautiful shell lurks a question
which has been the Troy town for all
tbe philosophers and scientists sinie
Adam. Armed with the engines of war
the microscope, the scales, tbe offen
sive weapons of chemistry and reason
they have probed and weighed and ex
perimented; and still the question is un
solved, the citadel unsacked. Professor
Bokorny can tell you that albumen is
composed of so many molecules of car
bon and nitrogen and hydrogen, and
can tersuade you of the difference be
tween active and passive albumen, and
can show by wonderfully delicate ex
periments what the aldehydes have to
do in the separation of gold from his
complicated solutions; but he can't tell
you why from one egg comes a "little
rid bin," and from another a bantam.
You leave your little silver spoon an
hour in your egg-cup, and it is coated
with a compound of sulphur. Why is
that sulphur there? Wonderful, that
evolution should provide for the bones
of the future bent There is phosphor-
ii a1tn in that liffla microcosm! ami
iie oxygen of the air, passing through
the shell, unites with it, and the acid
dissolves tbe shell, thus making good
strong bones for the chick, and at tho
same time thinning the prison walls.
Chemists know a good deal now about
albumen, and if they cannot tell us why
life differentiates itself therein and
thereby they can tell you how not to
spoil your breakfast
Jiluen. of the Smithsonian Institute,
has contradicted much of the popular
belief concerning snakes. The veno
mous hoop-snake, which takes its tail
m its mouth and rolls along like a hoop,
and the blow-snake, tbe breath of
which Is deadly, exist only In the im
agination. Tho Idea that serpents
sting with the tongue is erroneous.
An impression prevails that the num
ber of poisonous snakes is great, but in
North America there are but three spe
cies the rattlesnake, tbe copperhead
or moccasin, and the corah Snakes do
not jump; they reach suddenly for
ward, perhaps half the length of the:r
bodies.
It is a mooted question whether the
sunlight falling upon an ordinary wood
fire retards the process of combustion.
This is a popular notion, and one writ
er says it looks as if the fire bums
more feebly when the sun shines full
upon it It is now alleged by scientific
men that there may be some Influence
produced by the action of the sun.
A cement for maible Is made by stir
ring to a thick batter with silieate of
soda twelve parts Portland cement, six
parts slaked lime, six parts fine lead,
and one part Infusorial earth. It is ex
cellent also for uniting alabaster. The
objects to be joined need not be heated.
After twenty-four hours the fracture is
firm, and the place where the t.nion
was effected can scarcely be discov
ered. Instructive display at the newly
opened Colonial Exhibition in London
is that of the rice of India, which in
cludes ten thousand different varieties,
all belonging to a single species. All
colors are represented, from black to
pale yellow and white. Two species of
wild rice are known, only one of which
closely resembles the cultivated varie
ties. Travelers arriving in New York City,
tired hungry and dully, will find the Grand
Union Hotel, immediately opposite the
Grand Central Depot, an excellent stopping
place. It is rood acted on the European
l'lan, and Tor ft 00 a i!ay an excellent room
ean be had. The Restaurant is fine and
the prices moderate. Baggage is taken to
and from the Grand Central Depot without
charge.
Great pain and little pain makes a
man weary.
If yon are suffering from CUronlc Congh,
Bronchitis, Asthma, or Lou of Voice, Dr. Kilmer's
Indian Coazh Cure Consumption Oil) will relieve
quickly remove tbe cause sad cure. Price 35c,
soc. and tl.M.
Panoramic photographs in connection
with military surveying and the like are
now taken by a simple French instru
ment called the cylindrograph. A
semi-circular cylinder, having a small
lens in tbe centre, moves on an axis,
and is provided with a dark slide of
some material that bends without break
ing. When a view is to be taken the
lens is moved from one side of the land
scape to the other.
Fire and water are good servants, but
bad masters.
Fraaer Axle Creaaa.
The Frazer Axle Grease is better and
cheaper than any other, at double the price.
Ask your dealer for it, and take no other.
Fortune knocks at every man's door
once at least
PnEVEXT crocked boots and blistered
heels by weariug Lyon's Patent Heel Stitf
eners. False friends are worse than open
enemies.
The beat cough medicine Is Ptao's cure for
consumption. Sold everywhere. 23c.
Doing nothing is doing UL
FACETIAE.
Some years ago Hon. James Eaiu
tlttof Waverly, Ohio, visited Europe,
and while there made the purchase of
marble statues, clad simply in primeval
simplicity. On the return he had bis
stone "girls." as the boys called them,
placed in the rotunda of the state house
with the expectation of selling them to
the state. They looked so neat and
lifelike that many a ruralist was taken
in at their expense. One day a couple
of lads from Sharon township dropped
in to watch the proceeds of the legis
lature. When they reached the rotunda
they walked around taking In the pic
tures. All at once they came to a
stop. They had discovered the "stone
girls" and for the time being stood
spellbound, gazing with all the rapture
of mortal life at the faultless beauties
before them. At last one of them
spoke up and said:
"Bdl, do you see that?"
"See what?"
"That card just hanging over the
girls' heads?"
"Yes, but what of that?"
"Why, don't you see that it reads
Hands off?"
"Yes."
"Well. Bill, them ain't genuine live
girls, for what live girl would say
'Hands off I'
Bag ley "Just one moment."
DeBaggs Excuse me, I am in a bit
of a hurry. I expect my wife home
from Atlantic City to day."
"Are you going to meet her?"
"No, I'm going home. I haven't
seen the house since she left, and I
want to brush the cobwebs from the
front door. You see, I dated all my
letters 'At Home.' "
important.
When too nut or ae New Tor Cttr, rvra
tarcace axpreawee an-1 (3 carriage tura. and tv
aillie Ormatt L'ulua Ual, oppu&Ue Urand Uua-
Ual Depot.
tto t;eg.int rooms, fined ap at a ens of on
Bimloo itoUan, ft and epwaMs per
day. European riaa. Elevator. Keacaoranc
supplied with the beat, llurse can, augee aui
e.evaiel laliroad to aa depot Kami lea eanim
teuer tor ieaa muner at the tiraad l.oloo llocet
Utaaat am outer imwiiass aowt la the cut.
When rich rogues are merry, honest
folks may go into mourning.
Twnty-foor lloors to Lit.
From John Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind., who
announces that he is now in "perfect
health," we hive the following : "One
y ear ago I was, to all appearance, in the last
stages of Consumption. Our best physi
cians gave my case up. I finally got so low
that our doctor said I could not live
twenty-four hours. My friend then pur
chased a bottle of Dlt. VM. HALLS
BALSAM FOETHELUXG3, which ben
efited ne. I continued until I took nine
bottles. I am now in perfect health, hay
ing used no other medicine."
The locsest and darkest of all nights
Is the night of despair.
IIonniFiE IIcsdand "What's
this I see? Another new dress?"
Calm wife "Yes, isnt It a beauty?
And it only cost eighty dollars, includ
ing the ribbons." "Eighty dev elop
menls! You had one just like It last
year that only cost forty." "I know
it; but my dear, this was advertised as
a bargain."
A soft silky texture Is a most desir
able feature to any bead of hair and
Carboline,the only natural hair producer
made from petroleum unrefined, will
impart this characteristic loveliness to
the mo3t unruly locks. Try it.
Try to see yourself through tLe eyes
of those around ycu.
The purest, sweetest avlttxtOI Ltrer OH la
the world, manufactured fmm truh, healthy ur
era, upon the seashore, it Is atmluteiy pure ail
sweet. Pa'ieaM who have oace taHen it prefer U
to all others. FarsK-iaiu have deiMed a upen-
to any of the other 0)4 In tnjrte:. Mule by
well, Uaxar-1 A Co. New YorK.
Cnirnt binds, face, pimple and ro-ijh sia
cured iy using Jua:per Tar (--up, ma-le by Ci
well. Hazard A Ox, New YorS.
Better break thy word than do worse
in keeping it.
Hood's SarsapanlU U made only brC L Hood
4 Co, Apothecaries. Lowell, SUis, It Is prepared
H h the greatest skUl and care, under the direc
tion of the mea who originated It. Hence Hood s
SarsapaiUIa mir be depended upon as strictly
pure, honet, and reliable.
Civility Is always safe, but pride cre
ates enemies.
FITS: AH Fits stopped rrw. TTwtue and 12 trial
totiieof Dr. Klioe'sijreat Serre Restorer, free to
1 11 usca tend u Dr. hUineoi Arch 3L, f hila., Pa.
A ritETTY fair story is told at the
expense of one ot the dealers In ready
made clothing, being an actual occur
rence. A gentleman, in conversation
with the proprietor, was asked if ho
knew a certain well-known young man
of the town. He said he did.
"I tells yon vot he deet mit me. lie
comes here and buys de best suit of
clothes in de house and he forgets to
ray for him."
The visitor expressed disapproval of
such neglect of duty and financial
looseness when a new idea seemed to
strike the dealer in hand-me-down
clothing.
"I was hear t somedings bretty bat
of him," he cried. "Vot you dink?
lie went oop to Schneider's and bought
a suit and p-a-i-t for 'em!"
Ilere bis indignation was so great
that he said no more, tut shook his
head ominously as he inwardly contem
plated the wickedness of the world.
"Will you please signal to me In the
gallery when Mr. begins to speak?"
asked a constituent of a member.
"Certainly, sir, certainly." replied the
senator. M Well, what shall the signal
be?" asked the constituent. "I'll
leave," answered the senator, with
much enthusiasm.
Scuawley "So old Smoothbore U
going to start a daily paper? I should
think a man as far behind the times as
he could find something more approp
priate to do."f
Fennibs "Well, he says he wants to
mould public opinion."
Scrawley "I guess he can do it; his
opinions are mouldy enough."
Boarder "Thes irriP i inv
are from Florida. I am told they are
shipped here in refrigerator cars. They
have certainly come a long way."
Landlady "Yes, and they certainly
would go further if you wouldn't help
yourself so liberally."
"William, I am ashamed of you."
"Ashamed of your husband, Clara?"
"Yes, sir; you have been drinkinsr.
William. Think or your boy. I can I
expect him to go in the right way when
you don't?"
"Clara. I am the sign post to warn
our boy not to take the road I am trav
elling. I am sacrificing myself to save
him." .
He "Dal hal ha! Here is a good
hit in this paper at the female sex."
She "What does it eay about th
women?"
lie It says that more than half of
the women in this country are crazy.1'
She (with a sigh) "I expect th it's
so. There are a great many married
women in this country."
ST. BERNARD VEGETABLE PILLS.
WaaaumcD PcaEtx VroETapta,
Tha bnit car lor Litct and K.l.on.
Dizime and Dtpepiia. a a
Blood Purifier and Lr Retralator.
hoald ba without a bsi of th. St
Bernard Veiratabla Pill, in th how
Pnca 2S centa at Dnouu. or t
IMS
Sallies and Farleys.
A handsome woman is dangerous.
A woman lia-i neither love nor re.-pect
for a man she can rule.
One bad woman can keep a whole
neighborhood in hot water.
A woman who is not jealous of her
husband is not in love with him.
This world is full of beautiful women,
but a truly good woman is a rarity.
Two things always trained for action
a woman's tongue and a mule's heels.
JS me cases out of ten when a woman
says she hates a man she is in love with
him.
Woman is the sweetest and bitterest
gift of God to man.
A woman will confess to almost any
thing but to the fact that she is growing
old and ugly.
The devil is never as black as lie is
painted, and a woman is never as inno
cent as she appears.
If you want to keep a woman's love,
keep up a slight but steady flirtation
with her most hated rival.
When a woman gives you her love,
don't lay it away on ice for safe-keepinfj.
Better keep it iu the wanna-1 corner of
your heart, so if she calls for it any time
you can return it in the condition she
gave it to you.
27ie power which water has to trans
port or carry is now usually appreciated.
This power increases as the sixth power
of tbe velocity, so that a stream flowing
six times as fast as another will be able
to transport 40,Go6 times more matter.
The flowing data are often used by en
gineers in calculating tbe scouring ef
fects of water on the bottoms of nvers.
Fine clay is hardly affected by a velo
city of three inches a second. Fine
sand is raised by six inches per second,
while a velocity of eight inches will
raise sand as coarse as linseed. Fine
gravel is swept away at twelve inches
per second, and twenty-four inches per
second (one and one-third miles per
hour) takes off pebbles about one inch
in diameter. When the velocity gets
up to thirty-six Teet per second, or
a Tout two miles per hour and this is
about two thirds the rate of an ordi
nary walker pieces of rock as large as
an egg are carried off.
Professor LtsXoj, of the Pennsylvania
Geological Survey, estimatesthe amount
of coal In the Pittsburg region at 30,
000,000,000 tons. About 11.000,000
tons are now taken annually from Its
bed, of which two-thirds are bitumin
ous and one-third anthracite. Profes
sor Lesley believes that the oil and gas
supply will practically cease ten or
twenty years hence. To which the gas
journal of Lvjht, lb.at and Poxctr says:
"Let it cease. If the gas supply of na
ture holds out at a fair rate for ten
years tlure will be a dozen different
methods of making as good gas just
about as cheap on the spot as the nat
ural gas can be piped for, and if pre
ferable to pipe the new gases from place
to place the cost will not be much. A
sudden stoppage of the natural gas sup
ply will not banish the general use of
fuel gas."
The color produced by Buckingham's Dye
for the Wtii.skere, is permanent and natural.
To promote digestion, to keep the body
healthy and the mind clear, take Ayer's FilU
.tin English chemist has found a way
for turning to account tbe practically
illimitable quantity of seaweed that the
ocean supplies, or at least as much of it
as may be desired. lie boils the weed
with carbonate of soda, and treats the
filtered solution with sulphuric acid,
obtainir? from it in this manner a sub
stance Uiat ti.is more viscosity than
starch, or even gum-arabic, and that
can be profitably employed in stiffening
various textile fabrics. It is also said
to be excellently adapted for the mak
ing of syrups and for certain culinary
uss. From the cellular and fibrous
matter left after tbe extraction of that
material to which he has given the
name of "alguina" a very good quali
ty of writing paper can be cheaply
made.
-1 gaitlauun who died recently in
Paris If fi a leeacy of SO.OOO to his niece
iu Dubuque, Iowa, who died about the
same hour of the same day. The ques
tion which died first turns upon the re
lation of solar to true time, and must
be determined by the difference of longi
tude. If the niece died before the un
cle the legacy will revert to his estate,
but if the contrary, her heirs will re
ceive it.
Customer "Did Hugh Conway
write '-Living or Dead?"
Xew Clerk "He wrote some living,
but judging from the number of his
posthumous works, I guess he wrote
more dead."
A simple and convenient way of ob
taining the weight of cast-iron when
the number of cubic inches is known is
to divide the number of cubic inches by
four, and then add 1 per cent, of the
cubic inches. The result is exactly the
same as if it had been multiplied by .2C,
the weight of one cubic inch.
THE
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This medicine, combining Iron with pare
Tecetabl tonic, quir'.-lv ami complete:
Cairo Dyspepala. Indtireatioa, Weak
saeaa. Impart Hlood, Malaria, Chill,
and Fevcra, anil Kenrmlgla.
It is an uiifailinc remedy for Diseases of tbe
Kidney and 1.1 ver.
it is Invaluable, for Diseases peeoliar to
Oman, and all who lead sedentary lire.
lldoesnot injure the teeth.caiueheadacbe.or
produce constipation olltrr Iron nrd-nnn do.
It cnrlehea and pari flea the Blood,
Stimulates the appetite, aids the awimilation
of food, relieres Heartburn and Belching, and
strenrthens the musrles and nerres.
For Intermittent I-Vvrra. Laaaltude,
Lack of Enera-jr, etc., it has no equal.
V The genuine has abo-re trade marl and
Croaaed red lines on wrapper. Take no other,
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