1 f. Pi I ' ' ' f '; ; : f 4 s f - ; : .7 '.S ' i ROSA BOXUETTR'S TOUTH. Ia a Sewing Establishment to Be come) a Seamstress. In a simple lioiue in Taris could have been seen in 129 Raymond lionheur and his little family Host, " years old, Auguste, Isadorc and Juliette. He was a man of fine talent in painting, lut obliged to spend his time in giving drawing lessons to support his children. His wife, Sophia, gave lessons on Use piano, going from house to house all day long and sometimes sewing half the night to earn a little more for the necessi ties of life. Hard work and poverty soon Lore its usual fruit, and the tired young mother died in 1S33. The three eldest children went to band w itlt a plain woman, "La Mere Catherine," in the Champs Elysees. and the youngi-st was placed w ith rel atives. For two years the good woman cared for the children, sending them to school, though she was greatly troubled because Kofa persisted in playing in the woods of the 15ois do Boulogne, gather ing her anus full of daisies and mari golds, rather than to b. shut up in a schoolroom. "I never ient an hour of fine weather indoors during the whole of the two years," she has often f aid bince those da s. Finally the father married again and brought the children home. The two boys were placed in school and Mr. Houheur paid their way by giving draw ing lessons three times a week in the institution. If Kosa did not love school, she must be taught something useful, aud she was accordingly placed in a sewing establishment to liecorne a seam stress. The child ha.ed sewing, ran the needle Into her fingers at every stitch, cried for the fash a:r and sunshine, and finally becoming pale and sickly was taken back to the liouheur home. The anxious painter would try his child ouce more in school; so he arranged that she should attend, with couijieiisatioii met in the same way as for his boys. Rosa soon became a favorite with the girls at the Fauborg St. Antoir.e school, especially because &he could draw such witty caricatures of the teachers, which she pasted against the wall with bread chewed into the consistency of putty. The teachers were not pleased, but so struck were they with the vigor and originality of the drawings that they carefully preserved the sketches in an album. The girl was far from happy. Xatu- rally sensitive, as what poet or painter was ever born otherwise, she could not bear to wear a calico dress and coarse shoes and eat with an iron spoon from a tin cup when the other girls wore hand some dresses and had silver mugs and spoons. She grew melancholy, neglected her books ar.d finally became so ill that she was obliged to bo taken home. And now Raymond Ikmheur very wisely decided not to make plans for his child for a time, but see wiiat was her natural tendency. It was well that he made this decision in time before she had been spoiled by his well meant but poor intentions. Left to herself she constantly hung about her father's studio, now drawing, now modeling, copying whatever she saw him do. She seemed never to be tired, but sang at her work all the day long. Monsieur LVnheur suddenly awoke to the fact that his daughter had great tal ent. He began to teach her carefully to make her accurate in drawing and correct in iierception. Then he sent her to the Louvre to copy the works of the old masters. Here she worked with the greatest industry and enthusiasm, not observing anything that was going on around her. Said the director of the Louvre, 'I have never seen an example of such application aud such ardor for work." One day an elderly English gentleman stopped beside her easel and said: "Your copy, my child is superb, faultless! Per severe as you have begun aud I prophesy that you will be a great artist." How glad these few words made her. She went home thinking over to herself the determination she had made in the school when die had eaten with an iron spoon, that sometime she would be as fa mous as her schoolmates, and have some of the comforts of life. Her copies of old masters were soon sold, though they brought small prices; the gladly gave the money to her father, Who needed it now more than ever. His second wife had two sons when he mar ried her, and now they had a third, Germain, and every cent that Rosa could earn was needed to help support seven children. ''La Mamiehe," as they cal led the new mother, was an excellent manager of the merger finances, and filled her place well. Rosa was now 17, loving landscape, historical and genre painting, perhaps equally, but happening to paint a g at she was so pleased in the work that she determined to make animal painting a specialty. Having no money to procure models, she must needs make long walks into the country on foot to the farms. She would take a piece of bread in her pocket and generally forget to eat it. After working all day she would come home tired, often drenched with rain, and her shoes covered with mud. She took other means to study animals. In the outskirtj of Paris were great abattons or slaughter ieiis. Though the girl tenderly loved animals and shrank from the sight of sulTering, she forced herself to see the killing that she might know how to depict the death agony on canvas. Though obliged to mingle more or less with butchers no indignity was ever offered her. As she sat on a bundle of liay with her colors alout her they would crowd around to look at the picture and regard her with houest pride. The world soon learns whether a girl is earnest about her work and treats her accordingly. Vial Cutlets with Cuicobv. Put the cutlets in a saucepan. Brown them well in butter over a brisk fire; then throw in a cupful of good broth. Let simmer until cooked. Blanch some chicory after cleaning well, and drain until all the water is extracted. Mince very fine. Melt together in a saucepan a spoonful of flour and a spoonful of butter, add the chicory and half a cup ful of good broth, pepper and salt; sim mer until cooked. When serving put the cutlets around the platter, the chic ory in the centre, and pour the gravy oyer. It is a glorious thing to resist tempta tion, but It is a safe thing to avoid it. Tbe more we help others to beat their burdens, the lighter our own will be THE INDIA V SPRING. A Place Where a spectre is saia to Warn Mortal Friends of Danger. i Within a radius of a few railf or Pittsbure there are a number of daces that bare associations connect d ! with them, dating back nearly a hun dred years in some lustancea, that lend I to them an interest and attractlventw that almost rivals the legends which cluster around the early days of the points of interest in the primitive days of the Ea t and Northwest. One of these spots is the scene of what is still known as the Indian spi ing. It is situated on the Ohio river, about sevee miles from Pittsburgh, and on the verge of the village of Laurel, on the Fort Wayne railroad. Ask any of the early settlers, who still reside In that section, about the places of interest in their neighborhood, and they will invariably refer you to the Indian spring. A few years ago they would have related a romantic legend con nected with the "Turkey Foot Rocks," a mile further down the river, but the encroachments of the railroads have : obliterated those Indian signs of a , turkey's foot, that showed boldly on a ; steep precipice where the wonder was jhow any mortal could ever have climbed to such a dizzy height to rudely ! paint them. But the water from the i Indian spring still trickles down into ' the ravine and forms a little brook that 'gurgles down the hillside and soon j mingles with the waters of the Ohio river. Less than ten years ago scarcely any ! other spot in Western Pennsylvania presented a more wild, weird and pic j tnresque scene than this spring. Over head was a natural roof that crept out and far beyond the crevice In the rock where the water trickled from; a roof that was formed of countless delicate veins of sandstone. Above the roof a dense crowth of oak and locust trees i bent over and threw out their branches j as though making aa endeavor to still : further shield the crystal water from ! the rays of the sun. So completely had nature hid the spring that the shadows, I even at midday, might delude one into lire belief that eventide was close at hand. Underneath the ledge of rocks and far back there was a siu; a crevice in tbe rocks, x rom tnis pourtu forth a clear, cool stream that withiu the recollection of the oldest residents has never ceased to Hjw, eo difference how great the summer drouth or how parcued was the earth above. In the center was a liitie room of pebbles, and on all sides were a dense growUi of ferns and wild grass and flowers. The legends or a hundred years ago have so associated this spring with the Indians that it still bears their name. It Is said that the spring was their favorite rescrt. It was on the tortuous path that led up irom the Ohio river to the highlands, The roaming nature of the Indians frequently took them from the hills and valleys beyond the Ohio river across the waters in their canoes; Their favorite three for disembark ii was at the hill at the foot of this spring. There the deep line of precipitous hills were broken, and through the little ravine they wound their way.stopi 1 ig at the spring, wheze the cool reueat afforded ihem many a pleasant hour to reit. In Litter years several legends have sprung up, most probably the work of fert.le imagination, in which the Indians were the romantic centers. It is said that as far back as tbe earl est sett'.er can remember that the spring has te n haunted. On dark, and par ticularly stormy nights, it is said that often when the farmers were driving home at midnight, from market, thi t a stately figure was seen stalking through the dense laurel bushes where a path still l?r.ds to the spring, and that the figure, after 1 etching the ledge of rocks over hanging the spring, and which commanded a view for miles up and down the Ohio river, would suddenly wild y wave a light to and fio as though signaling 10 mortal menus who were in danger. Oa other occa sions, according to the legend, tbe weirdness of the ghostiy surroundings was still more awe-Inspiring by the wonderful tinkling of bells in the still ness of the night that seemed to be rung by some unseen hand who e immortal owner was apparently stauu lng on the ledge of the haunted rocks. These legends and ghostly stories have been handed down and narrated for ages past, and still may be heard when the work of supernatural agen cies are related at the Laurel firesides in the winter. In these more en lightened days there are not a few peo ple who are said t) feel a chill sttalover them If occasion should require them to pass near the s, ot on a dark night, when the storm-clouds are at war with one another. The Indian spring, however, still remains, and the pure, cold water gushes forth the same as of yore. But the bridge across the ravine, that was formed by a fallen tree, has mjldered away. Within the past month one of the greatest of civili.rrs and landmark destroyers, a prosaic oil-pipe line, lias been laid through the iavioe that leads to the spring, and one-half of the last trace of the early sources of the spring are obliterated. Capital Punishment. Among the nations which take a comparatively lenient view of homicide it matters little for practical purposes whether the crime is legally punishable by death or not; for we may be pretty certain that the capital penalty will seldom or never 1 enforced. It may occasionally happen to such a nation to be seized with a paroxysm of indig nation at some exceptionally atrocious murder, and, as in the case of Switz erland, to hurriedly resume the powers of punishing the crime with death; but on the subsidence of txipular emotion the new weapon is allowed to rust un used. Here in England our legislators have fortunately no such hot-and-cold fits of public sentiment to reckon with. The instinct of all the more manly and sensible jwrt of the people is one of stern detestation of murder aud of healthy repugnance for the mawkish sentiineiitalisin which finds excuses for the murder. The little clique of pseudo humauitarians who at one time preten ded to represent the "better mind" of the country on the subject have become less and less formidable every year, and have at last sunk into almost com plete obscurity and insignificance. .Nothing now threatens the mainten ance of the death peiialy for homicide unless it be still surviving irrqerfection and anomalies of our criminal jurispru dence and general discontent with our faulty method of execution and its too often bungling practitioners. Nothing, of course, would 1 more childishly ab surd than to change our laws and abol ish a deterrent punishment on tbe strength of these objections, even if they were irremovable, and that is very far from being the case. It is, no doubt easier to begin with the cord than the code; but there should be no great difficulty with either. It ought surely to lie within the resources of so old a civilization as our own to advise some judicial method of discrimina ting between the more and less heinous of our murderers and to devise some decently skilled executioner who can rid the world of the worst of them with reasonable humanity and dispatch. There is no mjstery about making neats-foot oil, says the Rural Home. Tbe only thing necessary is to boil in a kettle as many cattle's feet and hoofs as can be obUined and skim off the od untd no more rises. From the four lore rises, irom the four animal a pint of oil is gen-1 rjeu, ana it is well worm tne- feet of one erally obtained trilling cost of making it. A NATIOXAIi PAWN SHOP. j Dow and Where the Parisian Sees HI3 "Uncle" or "Aum. - In the center of a busy commercial Fquaro of Pans in the Rue des Blancs Manteaux is a larce five utory building with its windows securely barred and wired, as if something precious were con tained within, with the ever prominent words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" carved on its walls, and over the door way of which, just under the tricolor, may be read in large gold lettering "Mont de Piete." Several republican guards walk about the two large courts witldn, and there are other signs of offi cialism, and tlrat the building in ques tion is national property. It is, indeed, the headquarters of the national pawn shop. AVith us, when an unexpected crisis in one's financial affairs leads him to temporarily, get rid of some of his personal pioierty, he euphonistically tells his friends that he has been to his "uncles." A Frenchman in similar straits visits his "aunt," whose real name throughout France is the Mont de Piete. There are no odious associations about this national institution such as have become connected with some estab lishments conducted by pious Israelites. A Frenchman will not slink away sneakingly to his "aunt," but, when necessity requires it, will visit her fear lessly and openly as he would the Es rompte de Paris or the Credit Lyonnais. The Mont de Piete is indeed a bank, without capital and without dividend. From the budget of the Paris institu tion for 1S77, which the director M. Edmoud Duval, has just placed in the liands of the municipal council, an idea may be obtained of the amount of busi ness done at this bank of piety. The estimated income is put at 93,310,020 francs about i'3,73'2,3S4 and as the accounts are supposed to do little more than balance, the expenditure is placed at several thousand pounds less. A de crease in the business done during the year is attributed to the fact that many people of all professions have been coui-l-elled to leave the city owing to the de nri'ssioii of trade. Connected with the in in. -111:1 M,mt de Piete there are 20 auxili.'irv bureaus throughout the town; a,j jt ,s jierhaps about the only mstltu- tion in Paris which is oiu all the year round, fete days included. The director of the concern is appointed by the min ister of the interior, and the administra tion is under the direction of the prefect of the Seine. Eight per cent is charged as interest ou the articles pledged. This charge is unquestionably high, but the cxiH'uses it has to meet are considerable. In irregular pawnshops the pcrcentago 1 charged sometimes reaches 50 per cent. u he administration of tlie Mont tie Pieto contemplate reducing their rate. The money thus acquired goes to pay all the expenses of management, the erection and maintenance of buildings, etc. At the end of a year or lo months, if the pledger does not respond to" a communication be receives from the Mont, aud reww his pledge or take out his property it is sold. Within the gen- eral administration of the Mont de Piete there is an army of oilicials called the "eomiuissaires prisecrs," who value the property pledged. luring last year there were loi sales of unclaimed prop erty, which realized M7,lS7 francs. The commissaires puseurs look alter these ' vales, and their charge is five per cent The director complains that the charges of these commissaires are excessive, and threatens reform. Should the proirty I sold bring more than it w;is originally valti'-d at, the owner gets the difference, but he does not lose through deprecia tion of value. Articles may be redeemed ad infinitum. At the immense store- house in the Hue dis Blancs there arc nay 4 vavvuiv articles that have been renewed for over 40 year?. One antiquated umbrella has lieeu there since 1S23, during which time its value has been paid four or five times over in interest. As a different colored ticket is iiven each time pledge is renewed, the umbrella has long since exhausted all the colors of the rainbow, and on the last occasion when the ticket was presented for renewal, the Mont de Piete made a present of the ven erable parapluie to the proprietor. After all theexpenses of the Mont de Piete have been met, the balance, if ariy, goes to the public assistance the relief of tho poor. There are between 40 and "0 Monts de Piete in France, and all are managed on the same principle aud are under the care of the municipal councils. The Paris bouse wish to have a capital fund (the result of private donations) for its pawnshop, and charges no inter est for articles less tlian 30 francs vidue. "T !"e uauoiia, ..uui.oii pav...- uroKir.g is prouionca m x ranee, .v man was recently caught who carried on a successf u business by buying up -awn tickets, and he will in due course 1 The nawnshnn is an ancient instil 11- " . .. , ,7,:, v 1 tion. As early as l lito one was cstab- lished 111 Liege. In the yearl4o2 several esiaimsiunenis Caiiei .Montr 01 rata . - . , 1 . ...... were started in Italy, under the care and protection of the church, in opposi tion to the usury practices of the Jews, who even at that remote period seemed to have embarked in the old clothes and mo ney lending business. All the early Monts de Piete were connected with churches or hospitals, and were a species of chari Italy, under the care table banks which charged no interest. in lod'J the Lointuirds liegan to run iiawnshops in opposition to the Jews in I ! Iiombardy and in Holland; but from the j When cuttings fail to root satisfac presence of the Jew and the three brass tonly try layering. This propagation bails in the same house it would seem by layers consists in placing the that the two had amalgamated at some branches of the plant in contact with period in their history. The Mont de Piete was long of being established in t ranee, cineny owing to the opposition of M. de la Keynie, chief of the police in Paris. Numerous projects were put ' Farmers who grow only a few to forward during the sixteenth and seven-, matoes in rich gardens do not generally 4 . i- . : t A .1 r 11 .1 1 1 1 . 1 . .i.j. . 1 . leeiuu centimes out, mey icu inrougii, though Colbert and other prominent statesman favored them. In litrz the council of finaiicealeclared that it would ance of vine but earlier and higher fla be to the "glory of God, the service of vored fruit, with less tendency to rot. the state and the public interest," were , Monts de Piete established. Xecker ! Many farmers in places where their took the same view, and protested land is swept by fierce winds find it against the conduct of the avaricious profitable to plant apple trees in masses Jews and others who practiced on the large enough to make a wind-break on cupidity of the public and successfully , the side of the farm most exposed. The fleeced them. It was not until Decern- apple tree branches low down, and if licr, li, that Louis XIV. sanctioned boarded by a fence four or five feet high the Mont de Piete. " Soon after this the on the windward side the ground will first was opened at Paris. It was under be covered with snow almost as perfect Hie charge of the chief of police and ly as it was in the original forests, four administrators of the geneial hos- ; pita!. The rate of interest charged was: Is presumed that the Trinidad thice and one-half and four aud one-' asphalt, used in pavement, is crude fourth per cent. The concern was a I rotten petroleum. Fifty thousand tons tremendous success. In the year 178S ' are annually exported, but the natural tl.tit-A wa-A rj 1 mm .1 , fr. : i I 1 1 - i.io nti wjv,ww umciciib amcies pawneu. ai ine lime or tne revolution the Mont de Piete was suppressed, on the ground that it was a monopoly, and immediately tlie Jews and the Lombards stepped in and carried on a flourishing business. The Republic, considering the condition ot things "intolerable," re-cs- "&lvu uucovereu several ice and tablished the Mont de Piete after five ! snow algae in Greenland, one of them, years, and, with slight changes now and ! -dnctfoiiemo 2 ordenskjold, being very then in the administration, it lias con- j abundant. A still later investigation tinued ever since with increasing sue- k3 Proven these plants to be more cecs. There are, opiioneiits to the sys- numerous, yet Dr. Kjellman finding at tern, and those w ho allege that it is a 1 Spitzbergeu not only 'rea snow," but Mont Sans Piete. But M. Edmond "itreen snow" which contained more Duval, in a work which he is preparing tuan a dozen plant forms. The snow giving the whole history and adminis- flora now includes thirty-seven species, tration of the institution, says that the tne ,ce nora ten species. These annual results of the Mont de Piete Pnts are almost entirely algae of mi show that the establishment has become croscopical size and very low organiza indispensabie to the population of Faris, 1 tioui growing sometimes singly who are too intelligent to pay any heed aiJd sometimes in colonies. They are to the reproaches of usury leveled generally of bright colors red, against it. purplish brown, and green being com- - ..- mon. Under the dark mass of the . . . I rlants the ice melts very ranldlv and Cold water and plenty of it. prooerlv XonienskUiri on .rf. .r. ..... applied, with a fair amount of soap " is the best thing to clean a kltchei floor. Tbe regulation "boiler suds" I is apt to make a kitchen floor greasr. FAR. IX MOTES. Pcmpkdis among corn. Although some farmers reject the lour aud well-sustained practice of planting pumpkin eeed among corn, on tbe eround that it detracts as much from tne com pr0(juct as in the profits it adds to the stock of provender, still It is the general method pursued to get a crop of pumpkins. Besides, from our owu experience and observation, we have had and seen as good crops of corn with as without the pumpkins. It may ap pear at first thought as If the land could not sustain two full crops of anything ; but this is sot so in all cases, as in those where the two cops do not require the same manurial stimulants, inas much as a portion at least that one will take up will not be required by the other. Of course, it requires very good land to raise pumpkins; but even in this case, though an extra crop of manure may be needed to be applied to the com ground where pumpkins are to be planted, there will be asavmg in tbe element of time, and, instead of one crop from the land in a year, we gather two. The objection that some make that the vines shade the ground while the ground requires all the heat it can get, is not well founded, as the corn it self furnishes perfect shade without the vines, which really can add little more to injure the crop. It is far more prob able that tbe objectors to this doublo crop who fail in getting all they want, owe their lack of success to poor land, or negligent cultivation, and we sug gest that they should change their sys tem by manuring and cultivating more, and then wait and see. Ax acre of sweet corn for feeding to swine will afford a good return in pork fully equal In money value to any use to which tbe corn could have been ap plied. They are very fond of the stall as well as the ears of corn, and will eat all up clean. If given to hogs fed upon corn principally, it serves to give them a relish for their other food, improves their healthf uluess and Increases their flesh. When hogs have been kept at pasture on clover, sweet corn may be used to follow the clover, as they will eat enough of it to make thsm grow thriftily. Important t) Merchant Tailors. M too Keller A Cx. Kucceasors to Keller A i RuHl, st Ihs old Cloth House, corner Ann sn l I William sis , New York city, are doing an ex tensive business br mi'an ot lurnbning to tlie terchaiit Tailoring UaU throughout IBS UnU I tat sutes. complete sample collections ot lucir nuoicns in season, ana receiving sna executing orders received turooga the ssin p:es. Whenever s stjie has been sold out, Iflev notify their customers to that effect, so that the parties boltlimr their samples are al ways properly Informed as U wliltl styles the; can oBr to their patron. The Merchant Tailor Is thus p'.ace-l In a position to show a large variety of styles without encumbering tiimseir with a lare stock. We usderttsnj that any Merchant latlor desiring such coLec Uoa ot samples ran have same sent tree of charge. Address Messrs. XI. von Keller A Co, THE new breed of fowls, Wyandottes, formerly known as American Sebrights, j kuujb ivui. iur,ua.c 1 peavy, compact bodies, and make good ers. The strongest points in their ! lav,or lual l"ey uave leK 01 a:per Fellow than the Plymouth Rock, nd ' tha nnmtia tiAlnfP email tirttrant, frrtafinff in winter. They equal the Dorking in compactness ot body, grow rapidly and are very hardy. The demand for this 1 I. . . 1. .. u . I I y ueavjr uiu season, 1 nuicu is uue m meir ueing ouiy recent v. : i. 1 1 .. . .1 . ly introduced. The Canadian Horticulturist tells how to blanch celery: "To blanch easily and rapidly go on your knees astride the row; take a plant in one hand, shake it and squeeze It close to ret out the I eJ"a "om centre. uoiaing in one nana; ' wth the other draw the earth up to the , m . . plant on that side; take the plant in the other hand and draw the earth on the other side, after which let go of tbe plant and draw the earth from both sides, pressing it against the plant. After your row is gone over and I Ranched finish up with a hoe. Two ujauiuiiiga aic cuuuu. jx Bimuauug of salt along the row has been found to be of advantage at tbe time of blanch ing." A writer in the Indiana Farmer says : "I thins the main point in rais ing a big crop of corn is to plow it over when it is very small. I would com mence plowing in one week rrom tbe time the corn peeps through the ground. To let corn get two or three weeks old before it is plowed stunts it in growth in my experience. I believe In planting corn as early as the weather and ground permit.'' wholesome milk in a clean ; or mllk h where temper. ; alure not over t degrees, w ill , k t fof mnyix 'hou an'd wil, nobecome thick under forty-eight nours. utnerwrse sometnintr is wron? 1 wiiu me cows. Acvweipusea w me hot sua in t or h j ,,:,. , ? k.,;,k. with the cows. A cow exposed to the ; h', fw ., w Ok. A UklUa. VU UUy un aia A ucaULII V .-,,, .'. tha x,taZ nr of the milk. Prof. Cook, of the Michigan Agri cultural college, says that most of the failures to destroy potato bugs by Paris green comes from waiting until eggs have been laid on the vines before ap plying it. Make the first application : Just a3 the plant comes up, the soil, the moisture in which arouses into action the root-developing power liuiereni in tne stems ct most plants, ' auuw mat, inia yegeraoie IS more successfully grown in fields with mod- erate fertility. There is less exuber- icacivuit nouu uus up again, Previous to l7o, according to a new work by Prof. Wittrock, the so-called "rea snow" was thought to be th9 only Planl growing on ice and snow. Since that time, however, Ji ordenskjold and very abundant Ancylouema maV have greatly hastened the SpearncVof the ice large a part of Europe and America. HOUSEHOUX Makixo Pickles. First put one peck of coarse salt in a barrel and cue pail of water, wash cucumbers, alwy leave on about one inch of the stem when cut from tbe vines, put them in the brine and lay all over thctn a piece of woolen cloth, a round cover that will go down to the bottom of the barrel, and a stone to keep them under the brine, rick cucumbers every day. and put in until the barrel is full, adding water to keep them covered. Xow the only trouble In keeping them is the scum that rises; put into tbe barrel about half a peck of horse-radish root thoroughly washed, and you will have no trouble of that kind, without that you must rinse your flannel cloth every day while you are making your pickles. To prepare them for use soak them ia a brass kettle, changing tha water every day, until quite fresh to make them green put in a piece of alum iu every water when you are soaking them, wipe them dry.lput in a jar and paur hot vin egar over them; put spices, pour whole cloves, etc, in your vinegar. For cu cumbers to keep green, take three gal lons of cucumbers, wash them, put them In pickle for six or seven days, changing the pickle once or twice dur ing that time; scald vinegar and put in it a lump of alum as Urge as a butter nut. Drain the pickles, pack into a jar; and pour tbe hot vinegar over them. Pick some grapevine leaves and lay over them. Close tbe jar for a week, then pour oil this vinegar, which will do for another lot; scald fresh vin egar in which some green peppers have been placed, some horse-radish, mustard-seed, spices and celery-seed. Lay on fresh grapevine leaves, and pour the vinegar on hot. Keep closed for awhile until thoroughly cool. This recipe Is good, and given by a lady who has made pickles the same way for forty years, and never fails to have the best. They are green and firm; I may add, however, that she makes her own vin egar by saving apple parings and cores in a stone-jar, and keeping covered with warm water. It is clean and good. She sometimes adds a teaspoon f ul of white sugar. Bollixo. Though rolling is of much benefit on light, porous and lumpy soils, yet, an exchange avers, it is injurious on wet clays, except in dry weather, when they are lumpy after plowing, ltolling a stiff soil when wet renders it more difficult of cultivation by pressing the particles still more closely together and preventing the ad mission of air. Even light, arable lands require tbe ground to be dry when rolled, if for no other reason than that otherwise tbe soil will adhere to the roller. Grass land, however, Is b?st rolled in showery weather. Caxxed Strawberries. Fill glass cans with fresh, whole strawber ries sprinkled with sugar In proportion of one half pound of sugar to a quart of fruit; put on the tops and screw down at once as tightly as possible; fill a wash boiler with cold water, previous ly putting an old dish at the bottom a perforated tin made to Ct the boiler, is a great improvement ou old plates.etc and stand in the jars. Tbe water should be within two inches of the tops; when the water boils, note the time and boil twenty minutes, draw to the back of the stove; take out the cans and stand on a piece of flannel; screw down again as the cans cool, caus ing the contraction of the glass; turn down and down again until air tight. Preserved strawberries. Three quarters of a pound of fruit and a pint of water to seven pounds of si: car. Put tbe sugar and water into a porce lain kettle and boil them seven to ten minutes according to thickness, then add the fruit previously washed and drained and boil four minutes; skim out the fruit; turn the syrup into tin pans and set in the sun as it is to cool; let it stand in the sun protecting from insects the suDny part of two days; put into glass and screw down; it is not necessary, however, to have them air tight. Black Ctrraxt Liquor. No. 1 boil a quart of npe black currants and a dozen bruised cloves in three half pints of water for half an hour, then filter the juice through a jelly bag. Add a pound and a half of loaf sugar, and boil the juice again a quarter of an hour, skimming it carefully. When nearly cold filter it through fine flannel. Add three pints of proof spirit, and bottle it for future use. No. 2. Bruise a pint of black currants,put them in a bottle with three half pints of spirit and three quarters of a pound of bruised sugar candy. Let this stand six or eight weeks, and filter it for use. Oil Cucumbers. Take one dozen large cucumbers, wash, and cut iu thick, round slices, spriDkle with salt, and drain in a bag three hours. Pre pare three large white onions in the same way. When drained put in a stone jar, in alternate layers, sprink ling, as you put them in, with the . al lowing spices, etc : one ounce ground allspice, half ounce cloves, quarter pound mustard, half pint sweet oil. three tablespoon fuls black pepper, ground or two of red, if yon prefer it. Mix the oil, mustard, and pepper to gether. After all are in a jar pour enough boiling vinegar to cover. Indian Pickle. Thirty yellow, per fectly ripe cucumbers. Pare and split them, spread on a dish, strew thickly with salt, and let them dry. When dry, wash them in vinegar. Put them in a porcelain kettle, in alternate lay ers with mustard seed, grated horse radish, and sliced garlic. Take one ounce each ot ground turmeric, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, and allspice, put them in two quarts vinegar, and let them simmer halt an hour, first scald ing and skimming the vinegar. Cool tbe vinegar and spice, and pour it over the pickles. They improve with keep ing. KirE Tomato Tickles. Take ripe tomatoes, skin them by quickly scald ing them, and put them in a wide mouthed stone jar, sprinkling salt on each layer. Let them ba in salt eight days, then drain, and cover for one night with vinegar and water equal parts. Dram, and to every peck of to matoes, allow one and a half ounces F.nglish mustard seed, half an ounce whole cloves, half an ounce whole black pepper, and two dozen small, white on ions. Pat the spices and onious in al ternate layers, with the tomatoes, and cover with cold vinegar. Ueady in ten days. Hot Potato Salad. Slice thin e!ght boiled potatoes; cut up a white onion and mix with trie potatoes; cut up some bacon into small bits, sufficient to fill a teacup, and fry it brown; re move the meat and into the grease stir three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Pour over the potatoes and serve hot. ST. BERNARD VEGETABLE PILLS. Wajulutttd Prn.T YcarrAPi.B. The bt r for Liver and Btlioos f'fmnlB.lnLal 1 'nalmnaaa U.l.-a. t - Iixxine and Djrpepaia As ?!iIood Purifier and Lirar Riralator, f they haw bo equal. Family u nu.nik qot 01 meat. rVnuH eatable Pills in the bona. Pticsj cau at Dramats, or by mail KimtilBa ismt AA.t P. KkX'STaXDTta A CO, UMercer Su. N.w VorkT IIWI JIIIF.liV. Kl..l,n.tlon.... mmiiU frsa, Adilr O. f sihk. IJ Brrwtwmr. N. V PENSIONS S-J liw Ujjrf. )3 t ,.n; IKOireaiica u U U Bi f UAJf.Au. Wan inJo. o o 1 a aura IiiTllW J 18 PASTILLES. iMK own, - Scrofula Frolablr no form or disease is so generally dis-. tributed among oar wools population as scrofula. Abaost erorr IndlTldaal has this latent poison coon Ins his reins. The terrible snlteiines en dured by those afflicted -with scrofulous sores cannot be understood by others, and their grati tude on finding a remedy that cures them, aston lihca a weU person. The wonderful power ot Hood's Sarsaparilla in eradicating erery form of Scrofula has been so clearly and fully dirmonstrated that it leans no doubt that It Is the greatest medical dlscorery of this generation. It is nude by C L HOOD A CO, Lowell, 31 us., and is sold by all dmgglsU. IOO Doses Ono Dollar - FACETIC. At breakfast time yesterday morning one of Pittsburg's best citizens looked uneasy and suspicious. Finally be re marked to his wife as he sampled a roll: "Sleep well last nlnht?" "Yes, dear; fairly well." "Didn't find a man under the bed when you looked for him last night?" 'No, dear.' "And you didn't hear any burglars about the house? ' "Why. no. dear." "1 thought you didn't," he replied, with a sarcastic smile. "You didn't wake me up once to po down stairs to cbase them out. I'd like to know. though,where that five-dollar gold-piece those three silver dollars and those half dollars and quarters 1 had in my pocket last night when I went to bed have dis appeared to." "I have them, my dear." "The deuce you have!" he exclaimed, astounded at the openness of the con fession. "Yes, dear; I read In the Dispatch that money is tight in the. East, and you know it is just as likely to get tight here as there, so I thought It best to take it away irom you, because I don't like to have you in dangerous com pany." And she only smiled at bis attempts to explain. Dudish Youth, (who is getting up a scrap-book) "I want a pair of scis sors. Anything cheap will do thirty or forty-cent oues. Only want to cut paper with them." Smart clerk (sizing up his customer) "Oh! yes. 1 understand; but you make a mistako in supposing that cheap scissors will do for your purpose; tbey are very apt to get dull and make ugly tears. Now here is the kind we gener ally sell for coupon clipping only f 3, sir. " Dudish youth "Well, I'll take them." Bright (on his knee) "In what kind of a knot shall I tie this shoe-lading?" Miss Flirt (coquettishly) "I think I prefer the beau-knot." ISright (who has doubts of his char mer's constancy) "Say ratht-r the double beao. In the railroad train: A gentleman carrying a heavy satchel finally succeeded in getting it into the rack. A lady seated directly beneath manifests lively fear, "Oh, mon Dieu, monsieur, supposing it should fall?" "Reassure yourself, madam, there is nothing In it that can break." Important. When ma nsti or care New Vor Clr, aire bareafeexprpsaaresnil S3 camairc H.re, ari l attne OratiiJ I'nton tiocel. opposite ranJ Ce tl si Depot. u) elegant rooms, fitted op at s ro f on Eiiilon dollars, fl and cpVirli nor day. European rian. Elevator. Kestaurauc supplied wita the be. Uonw cars, stages au I e.eratel rauroad to ail depots, r amlics can irs better lor less money at tti urand I nlon llutei loan at au other Orat-claaa hotel m Lie dir. Nothing is really troublesome that we do willingly. A BetnMy for Lung 11 tease. Dr. Robert Newton, late President of the Eclectic College, of the City of Xew York, and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, nsed DR. V. II. HALL'S BALSAM very extensively In his practice, as many ot his patients, now Uvinc and restored to health by the use of this invaluable medicine, can amply testi fy, lie always said that to good a remeJy ought not to be considered merely as a patent medicine, bnt that it onght to be pre scribed freely by every physician as a sov ereign retnody in all cases of Lnng diseases. It cores Consumption, and all pectoral com plaints. As the body is purified bv water so is the soul purified by truth. That feeling ofextreme debility Is entirely over come by nood'i Sarsaparilla. -I was tired a'.I over, bat Hood's Sarsaparuls gave me new life and strength," says Pawtacket, R. I , lady. Hood s Sarsaparilla la sold by all drogrj. Si a buttle, or tlx bottles for S3. Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency, in gjving no offense. One kind of me Heine will not cure all kinds of diseases. Dr. Kilmer's Preparations are Specifics a remedy for eacti disease. They are the result of a eaocesiful practice since 183. Guide lo HeaUh( K free) Binghamton, X 1'. Age respe.'U love, but unlike youth it respects little the signs of love. ftm DTsrsi-sTi, tNttOBsnoa, depression or spir its and general debul-.y in their various forms; .so aa a presenile against fever and eipie and ota-ir Intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-eiiospnoraie i Kllxlr of Jaitara"maie by Caswell, Uaaard Ox, New York, and sold by all Drojirists, u in nest tonic; and for patients reooeeruig from ferer or other sickness It has no equal. Aloy "Do you think, my love, your father will consent to our mar riage?" Angely "Of course papa will De very sorry to lose me, darling." AIgy"But I will say to him that in stead of losing a daughter he will gain a son." Angely "I wouldn't do that, love, if you really want me. Papa has three such sons boarding here now, and he's a little touchy on that point." Truer Asia areas. The Frazer Is kept by all dealers. One box lasts as long as two of any other. Ke ceiTeil medals at North Carolina State Fair, Centennial, and Paris Exposition. It is easy to teach virtue by theory, and difficult to teach it by example. Owner of a thousand graces. Decked in satins, silks and laces, Her rich, dark hair so very fine Shows the use of Carboline. By an agreeable and respectful de portment a good reputation is gained . Lvos's Patent Heel StitTeners Is the only invention that will make old boots atrait.hr as new. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a trou blesome dream. It m h u off.. death. FITS: An r8ppel free. TreaUse and J trial botueof Ur. Kline's Great .Nerve Keatorer, tree t Incases. tendtolJr.Kline.Wt Arcaac,Polla.,P. Omaua Doctor -No. dear, I can not take you riding this afternoon." Doctor's Wife "Why, we haven't been out for a week. " "I know; but I am terribly busy, al most driven to death." "Any epidemics?" "No; but people are returning from the fashionable summer resorts." Xo Opium iii iiw. Cure for Consump ton. Cures where other remedies fail. 20a To-morrow is the day on which lazy folks work and fools reform. TriE other evening a Brush street po liceman hoard a whistle shrilly blown and a female voice calling for help, and after a ehort run he reached the scete of commotion. A man was geitmz up aud failing down a?ain on the door steiis, and a female had her head out if an upper window and seemed to ba half scared to death. "What's the matter?" asked the officer. "A man has been kicking on the door," she answered. "This man here?" "Yes. I thought he'd tear the whole house down." The officer reached for the man, and made two discoveries at once. It was the woman's husband, and he was fighting drunk. "Why this man wouldn't hurt you he's your husband," be caned out. "Is that so? t'barles, is that you?" "Bet your life's smee," mumbled Charles. "Tiien you really must excuse me, Mr. Officer. You see, we have only been married six weeks and I do not readily recognize him yet. I'll ba down in a minute, darling." "Did you ever lose the key to your postoffice box?" she asked as he sat on the steps reading his paper the other evening. " 1 es, once or twice." "Was it much trouble to get anoth er?" "Not much. Why?" ' Oh, nothing. 1 know a lady who has lost her key, and she was asking me how she'd procure another." This must be her key." he said, as he drew a "Yale" from his pocket. "I found it on the floor of your bedroom three or four days ago, where she prob ably dropped it, (jive it to her with my compliments." She took the key, and they have not spoken since. A Boston young womau at CaUkill said to her brother. In the absence of somebody else's brother: "There is an impresslveness akin to solemnity Iden tified with tbe prospect, Algernon, prompting tbe soul to soar to heights hitherto imagined unattain but where are you going, Algeruon?" 'I'm going for a doctor." "For whom?" "Both of us." Foxd Father "How is thl3,char- les? i our standing the last examina tion was very low." C "Yes sir." F.F "What ia tha reason?" C "Well those old professors went and asked a lot or questions that I could not an swer." Donsox (who has come hither to horsewhip the editor, but is somewhat appalled at bis size) "Are you the edi tor that wrote the article about J. Thomas Dobson?" Editor "Yes." Dobson "Well er hum. Why here's a horsewhip I found on your pavement. I thought perhaps it be longed to you." For removing dandruff and caring all sca.:p diseases, use Hall's Hair Benewer. Ajer's Ague Curo is acknowledged to be the standard remedy for fever and ague. According to a writer In a French industrial journal, the greatest inclin ation on any European railroad worked by ordinary locomotives is on the two miles between Enghein and Mont morency, near Parts, being forty-five feet in tbe thousand, or an angle of 2 3i'. Grades of thirty-live feet to the thousand, or two degrees, are found on several roads. .The trade of the S '-upton road, the highway over the Alps with the least slope, is only three degrees l the thousand, the n axlmnm slope that can be travelled on a highway being set down as 132, or seven and one-half degrees. The grades on cable or cogwheel railways are of course considerably greater; that of tbe road up the Swiss Kigl from Vitznau is, in the steepest part, 200 to the thousand, while the maximum on the ML Washington Railway is estimated at 330 and 375. this latter being the steepest railway with a central-toothed rail, and the steepest of any kind in the world, except the cable road up the cone of ML Vesuvius, which has the extraordinary inclination of 630 to the thousand. Some silicious pebbles which are quite numerous in the quarternary travels of the Loing Valley, France, have been described by Meunier. These stones about an inch and a half in di ameter are remarkable for being hol low, and inclosing liquid water, to gether frequently with a loose stony nucleus. Meunier supposes that the water must have penetrated the pebbles through their minute pores, for not a siirn of a crack can be seen, even by the aid of a strong glass. On the Transcaspian Kail road in Kussia, now approaching Merv, it is claimed that about $800 per mile is being saved by the use of ozokerite, or mineral wax, for ties. When purified, melted and mixed with limestone and gravel, the ozokerite, which is abund ant in the vicinity of the railroad, pro duces a very good asphalt. This is pressed into shape in boxes, and gives ties which retain their form and hard ness even in the hottest weather. French: Toast. Beat an egg thor oughly with two tablespoonfuls of milk and a pinch of salt, into this dip slices of evenly-cut cold white bread. Have a hot griddle ready, butter it, and fry the slices of bread as if they were grid die cake?. Serve hot with powdered sufar or maple tyrup if liked. Lemos Sponge. Soak one ounce of gelatine in one pint of boiling water untd dissolved; then pour on it one pint of boiling water, the Juice of three lem ons and sugar to taste. When thor oughly mixed, beat to a white froth and add the whites of four eggs, well beaten. Beat: all together until quite stiff; put in moulds wet with water and set on ice. Vie Qulncy Market ('old Storage Company of Boston, is said to have the largest refrigerating building in the world. It is of stone and brick, 160x80 feet in size, and 70 in height. The capacity is 8U0.0U0 cubic feet, the cost $20C.0O0, and the ice chamber holds UJ0.0U0 tons of ice. It will be used for storing dressed beef aud mutton. The Chicago refriKerating cars unload at the door. Habit is ten times nature. So long as cows will eat grain or meal it will pay to give them some daily. If it don't they am not worth keeping anyway. Good cows will grow poor when kept on grass alone and in full How of mrlk. And when tbe pasture fails they will have no reserve supply of flesh and fat to keep them in condi tion for milking next winter. The man who gets bis living Ly his wits alone generally works with too small a capital. He only succeeds In I ramus?. is. snsssj3si.ii''.":7r,.-n-ir DVgg fp!lp IllllBi VUti nj.s h. fnna.. HenrthoraViu'Si'Sria . j mi.- ''i :;LvwitikI bars. P . -l,,.. ?.. i h2L?H IS .1 V T sua I mmA "'J ff-mT?: Korfollc. Vs.. sajs: "-. . -"J : r mj hsaltn aas fall, 7 t- " W"W ns lx TrvJ. H, MOW N cutmtan!'- i S. sa """rcomsi.sj"? Oitiuna. rati!.'c"tt How to l Catarrh Cream Balm Face a particle of tie BaJn Into ejcii nostril an I draw strong breatas through the ni l: It will be st,ort-d ui beirin Its work ol cleaus.nf a."l seal ing ihe diseased membrane. It a,:a?i IcS immat oq a i prevents frean col ls. .V'jf a LiqwS or Sm J I No poisonous drujs No offensive odor. HAY-flVES A psrtlclets spid !nw swl c-mm n. B Owo. N. Y. Consumption tin alTIr' UK. F f.aaay. Inf am 1 sa ! ' tsYl!! ease. ..a r.e-t. rb. uu "J llsaraea- - t!ir. a si II .!.!,. RAI.-Ol "ill Sfi i-TTl NO LADYJS REALLY BEAUTIFUL Without a Clear. 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