-3 . - jw r - "x T "- -. -T " - 7J mm B. r. UHWEIBR, THK OON8TITDTION-THE ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWH. '. v VOU U. MIFFLINTOWIS, JUNIATA COUNTY. l'KNNA., WEDNESDAY. JUNE lt. 1S97. NO. 27 6 3' IF-, PlIAITKIt XXIJC. Hester Stuplcton j brilliant and rndl nt, aud nil ilmt in charming, an she al ways is out of the limits of the home cir He. Captain Leverson is very quiet, nut to say dull, and a little absent-minded, even to the exteut of neglecting the charming Hester. Editb Cameron doe not seem to notice any one or anything in particular, and ia jut her own graceful, Insoucinhte self; and Muriel aita in the dimmest corner beyond the wide fireplace. Suddenly Kditu walks across the room to her lover. "It ia a lovely, misty, moonlight night, and I feel unutterably sentimental, " ah ays, in the gayest voice and brightest auille that can contradict her words. "Don't you want to see the ruins of the old church on the whores of the lake by the pule moonlight?" I do." "1 ahall be most happy to see it ia your company," Captain Leverson says, atitlly enough, for the "bright particular atar" be adorea ia apt to ahed effulgeut beam a on her worshiper, and leave him in hope less gloom by turna in a moat madden ingly capricious manner, and the faithful adorer ia beginning to resent it ever so little. Walking silently, Harry Leverson's heart la too full for speech, and he has stammered through a few fragmentary sentences of gratitude for "tbia happy opportunity," when, as they enter the flagged, grass-grown pathway by the ruin ed church, where the thick ivy rustles drearily and mysteriously, though never a breeze is stirring, he starts back sud denly at the sight of a slender, black robed figure, with etripa of anowy white at her throat aud wriata; and covering her head, above the Ivory-pale face, ia a mass of soft, dazzling white, gleaming in the moonlight. "It ia only Muriel; I told her to come J with ns," K.lith aays, calmly. "She looks like the ghost of a widow!" he says, irritably, ns he is both startled and angry. An indefinable thrill runs throngh Edith at hi word, and to his dismay she with draws her hand uoni hi arm. "I do not know that she is mucii better off than a widow, poor child," she saya; "aud if you ran tell her anything that may comfort her, or give her a hope for brighter days, pray do." And with this enigmatical nieech Miss Cameron turns sharply round, and hurries back to t.'se house. . . " There is a 80 In the Lull tove, Bind Edith sits down beside it, wrapped in Met cloak, to wait a few minutes, and then he enters the drawing room demurely once more. "What have yon done with Captain Leverson and Muriel?" Ilettie asks, start lug. "Done? Nothing. Inasmuch as 1 haven't drowned them," Edith says, air ily. "They loitered, and I found it too cold to loiter, aud they had an interesting aubject of conversation and I hail none, and I shivered aud they delayed, and I fled home aud they remained behind. There, you have the full, true and particu lar account of the excursion, Hettie." But just as she lays her head back in tier cosy chair, a picture of graceful ease and comfort, IMith catches the sound of light footsteps hurrying past the window, rushing ucross the hall; and in at the drawing room door comes Muriel, wild and hnriii-d looking, panting more with fierce emotion through pale-dry lips than with mere haste, aud across the room she rushes and seizes Hester's arm with both tier hands like the grip of a vise.. "Where is my husband's message to me that you stole 7" she demands, iu a shrill, clear voice that rings through the room. "Where is it? Tell me. You had better tell me this instant! You stole it! Eric'l message to uie with the jewels be gave me! Where is it, I say?" and her eyes are glittering and full of a blue, lurid light, like a tigress at bay, as she shakes Uettie like a reed, and her plump, pretty form fairly shrinks together before this tall, slender, vengeful woman, whose grip is like steel. "You're mud ! you're mad !" Hettie says, with a suppressed scream of real fright. "Muriel! Let me got Too are bruising ue black aud blue! You horrid creature, you are bruising my arm dreadfully!" "I will bruise you!" Muriel aays, through her clenched teeth, all the fury of her Celtic blood raging like liquid fire In her veins. "Tell me what you did with Eric's message to me 1 You wicked woman; if you had stolen the Jewels I would have forgiven you easily 1 Tell me, Hester, or I will kill you!" By this time, Edith and Captain Lev erson, who have been at first too paralyzed with alarm and amazement to stir, rush between them, aud by passionate entreaty Induce Muriel to let go her frenzied hold and give Hester time to explain. Which, however, Hester only does by the reiteration of scornful denials of hav ing ever seen or known anything of the written message which Muriel asserts was laid in the jewel case, which assertion Captain Leverson gravely and positively affirms. "For I can swear that from the mo ment Eric ahowed me the emeralds, and lip of paper lying across them, with the words, 'For my darling Muriel, with Eric's love,' written on it, and then shut the case with bis own hand, I can swear," repeats Captain Leverson, "that that case was uever opened, uever touched again even by me, as Eric fastened it up In white wrapping paper before he left it and the other jewel case in my secretarie iu my dressing room until the day he left Lou don, when he told me to take or send to the bouse. I intrusted them to a com missionaire whom I have known for years as a strictly honest man, as I could not possibly come with them myself. I am sorry now I did not keep them until 1 brought them in person." "I am sorry, too," Hester says, haught ily, biting her bloodless lips, "as then I at least might have escaped this suspicion this lady has thought well to harbor 'aaiost me. Does any one else imagine I atole' Mrs. Eric Llewellyn' love letter? t lather a rara avis wltn ner, 1 p" ZZlus!, as she has made this disgraceful fuss over it." "I should not like to think that any one belonging to me could do so cruel and foolish a deed," Edith says, but she does not look at Hester. "So the verdict of both of you Is guilty," Hester says inwardly, as she bites and bites her lips, with the nervous, vindic tive habit she has when angry and per plexed. "Yes. it was a cruel and vindictive thbig io do," Aiu.iel said, quietly and drearily; "for it could have done you o good be yond a momentary revenue, and it ha helped to separate me aud my husband lerhups forever." , , Late that night, ere the . moon goes dowu, Muriel rises again from', a" sleepless, feverish pillow, and in the weird, pale light that fulls through the frost-rimmed window Vanes, she kneels dowfci by her little bedside to prayloug aud fervently for her absent lover for bis safety and their speedy meeting for wisdom from nbove to be a most a loving aud'.patient and dutiful wife and for the blessing of Eric's love for Eric's love, and for Eric's welfare, and for the blessing of heaven on her husband far away so far a wail And that very uight a passenger sJeaB er off the coast of Madagascar is burned to the water's edge, aud a few only'-of the crew aud passengers are saved. A list of the missing ones arrives In Cape Town a week later, aud amoug that of the cabin passengers who are known to have gone down with the burning wreck ia the name Major Eric Llewellyn." CHAPTER XXX. It Is a bitterly cold December aftef noon, with the snow flukes drifting hea ily down, and the chill wintry winds howling outside, through the mouutain glens and across the dense fir planta tions, aud through the leafless woodlands around the ruined church. But within, in Curraghdene House, all is warmth aud brightness, with a subdued sense of fes tivity aud pleasant excitement, in the well-warmed rooms with blazing fires, and soft carpets, and ample draperies to ex clude every chill breath; the glitter of evergreens, and the glow of flowers mid winter though It be the bloom and per fume of azaleas, violets, roses and came lias are everywhere. For It is Christmas time, and the eve of a wedding as well, for Miss Edith Cameron's engagement with Captain Lev- j eraou Is more than three weeks old fr day, and the day after to-morrow, Christ mas Eve, is to be her wedding day; aud there exists a bustle and excitement of marriage prepar.:?."-" that ever so quiet a wedding will occasion; for it is to be a very quiet wedding for one of the beau ties of Loudon society for the last four seasons. "I letter, miss, please," Hannah says, enteriug. Hester has not been able to drill .auy vf the old O'Hara aerrr ita iuto correct forms of address. "Thank you," Miss Stapleton says, for mally. "I wish you would recollect, Han nah, that 'miss' is an incorrect title for any young lady beyond childhood." She goes over to the window in the fading light to read it. A faint, flutter ing nervousness rushes over her from some intangible cause as she unfolds the large, stiff, white letter, and sees that it fills all the first page, closely written in Mr. Farren's neat legal caligraphy. She sees "Major Llewellyn" a few lines down, and her eyes gleam and her lips curl scornfully. "Some news of Eric! He wants 'his darling' to go out to him, aud is sending directions through his solicitor," thinks Ilettie, with a fierce pang of jealous envy as she begins to read the letter. Begins and reads, aud holds her breath, aud stares, and looks back at the heading aud the address; and then, panting aud star ing, reads every word hurriedly to the end, not comprehending it not daring to comprehend it. Aud then again a second aud a third attempt to read and under stand the brief fatal news of the lawyer's letter, aud Hettie staggers against the window sill with a horrified sobbing cry. "Oh, Eric! Oh, Eric! Oh, heaven, for give me. dear Eric! Oh, Eric! It cannot cannot be true that you are dead dead and drowued in the depths of the sea!" The letter Is from Mr. Farren, and be gins with a brief but earnest apology for his being obliged to select Miss Stapleton as his medium of communicating the grievous news which he has every reason to fear is correct in all particulars, namely that Major Eric Llewellyn, having ex changed into an Indian regiment, sailed from Cape Town on the twenty-fifth of November in the steamer Cyprus, and one week later, according to advices received at Cape Town, the Cyprus took fire off the coast of Madagascar and was burned to the water's edge eleven of the crew and nine passengers only having escaped. "And I deeply deplore having to tell you that among those who are known to have gone down iu the burning wreck is Major Llewellyn," coucludes Mr. Farren. "I have made inquiries at the War Office, but beyond ascertaining that Major Llew ellyn was gazetted to a lieutenant-colonelcy of an Indian regiment, and had cer tainly sailed from Cape Town to join his regiment, I could obtain no further in formation. Should auy such occur I will communicate with you immediately, and please to accept the expression of my sin cerest sympathy with you and the other ladies of Major Llewellyn's family under this heavy bereavement." "It can't be! It can't be!" Hettie says, hoaiiely, gazing blindly at the awful words that seem to leap out of the page at ber. "Uone dowu In the burning wreck! Eric! poor Eric! brave, hand some, gallant Eric!" whom she has known and secretly loved since the day she first saw him, a slender young lieu tenant of live ami twenty and she a school girl of fifteen! "Eric to meet Willi such a fate, in the prime of his days in tEe glory and strength of his manhood! It is too horrible!" She goes up to bed early, aud comolains if having taken cold, and so has a fire la tier room and warm soup and sherry and a unu-s herself up most carefully. "For I must keep up until this is all vrr," the young lady aays. with the wls loin of a serpent and presumably the tiarmlessness of a dove. Aud she does "keep up" admirably all through the next day, and is bright, and levi r. and amiable to everyone, save owurds Muriel, to whom she never speaks unless absolutely obliged, at whom she never look. (To be continued.) HEATERS 2,000 YEARS AGO. Interesting L'iscoverr Made by a Cin cinnatl Man in Komau Antiquities. In two of the musennis of old Ro man antiquities at Naples there are several water heaters, which indicates th.it the pi'lnciple of the water tube, the crowuiug feature of modern boil ers, win fully understood and appre- i-.tel 2.CJO yec.-s ago. v'. T. Bonner, of Cluclnuatl, has been Investigating thine beaters aud fouud them to be as Interesting as they are beautiful. Oue of them couslbt of an outer shell twelve luetics la diameter and nearly seventeen Inches high, surrounded by x somewhat hemispherical top, which Is leu Inches iu diameter and twelve Inches high. The two shells are con uocteJ at the bottom by a rim, like ilie uuul rim of a locomotive firebox, a n. I the space between them was tilled with water. The grate was formed of seven tubes made from sheet bronze, rolled aud soldered or brazed. These tubes open at both ends luto the bottom of the space between the shells, thus forinlug a water tube grate for the fuel to rest upon. Charcoal was probably used for this beater and was placed on the grate through an opening 4.8 inches high and 4 Inches wide, closed by a beautifully decorated door. The gases from the fire escaped luto the outer shell about S.6 Inches above the grate. The whole apparatus was rais ed about twelve Inches on a tripod so as to allow air to reach the fuel. In another boiler of somewhat the same type the outer shell has the form of an urn, while the lnuer shell rises from a water tube grate to an openlngin the side. It Is twelve inches in diam eter at the widest part, 17.6 Inches high and supported on a tripod about four Inches high. Its general shape Is much like that of the silver cream pitchers known as the Paul Uevere patterns, al though, of course, it is much larger and has a top closed by a lid. It has been suggested that these utensils may hare served at some time to heat wine as well as water, which suggestion ap pears reasonable, as many historians state that the Pompellans made great use of hot drinks. It may be that they were fouud iu one of the termpodi or cafes, of which there were several la I'ouipeiL An Incident in Garrison Life. In Boots aud Saddles Mrs. Custer writes: We spent the days together almost uninterruptedly during the winter. The garrison gave me those hours aud left us aloue. I became so accustomed to this quiet life In the library with my husband that 1 rarely went out. If I did begin the rounds of ur little circle wttb our girl-friend, whom every one besought to visit them, an orderly soon followed inf np. Without the glint of a smile, and iu exactly the same tone of a man giving the order for a battle, he said: "The general presents hU compliments, and would like to kuow when be shall send the trunks?" I recollect a mes sage of this sort being once brought to us, when we were visiting an Intimate friend, by the tallest, nisst formidable soldier in the regiment, was a mys tery to ns how he" managed to deliver his errand without moving a muscle of bis face. He presented the compli ments of the commanding officer, and added: "He sent you these." We did Dot trust ourselves to look up at his lofty face, but took from his extended bands two bundles of white muslin. There was no mistaking the shape; they were our night-dresses. When we hurried home, and took the general to task for making us face the solemn or derly, he only replied by asking if we had Intended to stay forever, pointing to his open watch, and speaking of the terrors of solitary conflnemnet! To Drive Away Mosquitoes. While the British steamer Bellucla was in the harbor of Buenos Ayres on ber last voyage to South America Cupt. Nerison taught the people of that city a lesson which may be of value to peo ple In many sections of this country. The residents of the city and the other captains In the estuary of the River Plata wondered why the English ves sel's fog horn was tooted every even ing. The echoes of the harsh, braying of the born waked up the harbor and caused a great deal of comment. When the mystery was solved the horns on other craft were blown too. The ex planation was very simple. Oapt. Neri son, of the Bellucla, was unable to smoke his evening pipe on account of the mllltous of South American mos quitoes that made life on deck after sundown unbearable. He happened to remember that mosquitoes cannot stand the pulsations in the air caused by sound waves. So oa every dog watch he detailed a sailor to blow a born back of his chair on the quarter deck and thereafter smoked his pipe undisturbed. He Was About Klght. The little King of Spain bad for bis lesson the other day the mottoes of the different European countries. He got as far as England and promptly recit ed, "Dleu et uion Droit," and then abruptly asked, "What Is the motto of America?" Count Z , who happened to be in the room at the time, answered, "Dieu et Mon roe." Personal Notes. Henry C. Work, the author of "March ing Through Georgia," and a host of negro dialect songs, was the only North ern writer of such songs to receive praise from a responsible Southern critic. Rev. Henry Hupp, ihe oldest active clergyman in Ilinois, is still a strnftg and lieu I thy man and preaches a vigorous senium, though he is 92 years of age. ii,s favorite pa-unie is fishing ami when I when lie i it in thus has earned a vacation he siiends Austin CollaJier. said to be the last e . i i i -. 7 i - . . i t 1 . AOI UIlMni llll! IUII s w. iiinhj ii t-lU!., JS dying at his home near ilmlgenville, Ky. lie lives about three miles from the farm where Lincoln was horn and distinctly remembers the youthful Abe. whom he once pulled out of a creek into w hich he fell. Independently of the sculptured monu ment which will lie erected over the grave of Coventry PHimore, the poet, in the cemelerv at Lymington, Kng , a mini'' ber of the deceased isiet's friends have? proposed to plant with appropriate trees' the neighboring portion of tl.at place. William li Aikey, of Ko-ton, who was in the regimenl commanded by the gal lant Colonel Robert C Shaw, at the bat tle of Fort Wagner, said in talking of the memorable nit lit on which Shaw was shot: "We could not see the rebels all the time, but fought in the direction where we knew them to be." J William C. Whitrcy s.iys that the Metropolitan Street Kailwav Company, of New York, has searched the world for the best motive power, and that it is now prepared to spend $6,000,000 for the un derground trolley. Harm Notes. Copper sulphule is made by addlnt ! pounds of ulhie of cornier and lr ihiuii.Ii of lime lu -J-2 gallons of water. I irst. dissolve the ulhaie of .er in lii k11ou of water and the lime iu Hi ealloui. Then ur the liinewaler inlo the copT solution slowly, stirring well an l bli-kly while., doiug. It is safe to allege I list farmers would Binre readilv adopt the soiliug system f keeping stock but for the cost of pivparing the food. On the MSture the cow collect!, the food herself and stores it away for further prcOWiatioii after she reaches the stall. It is the objection to lh- ex.ra la bor aud care which hus piven ed '"""" funnel's from making a pi..iit. what hould be considered lu cattle are kepi at the baruvai'd and the food carried to theiu, however, is whether the labor woiil lie well remunerated. Less In ml would ho required, fewer fences needed, more manure would lie saved, and a larger pro duction of milk and butter wo ild result. The soil iiiS' system would also lead to a greater variety of crops grown for food aud an improvement iu the fertility of the soil due to more uiauure sua a oeuer rotation on the farm. m Where do the weeds come from ever car on land that has beeii well worked ami kept clean. It is probable that weea seeds are spread with the manure. On some farms everything is added to the immure heas, eveu tne weeus iuii oi that are cut down. This would not be ob i...ii..ni.iu if the manure wns so managed us to cause the heap to heat and decom- spread on fields is undecoinposed und the seeds are really preserved instead of de- lHise, but a large poriion oi ur u.uu. j st roved. If every farmer would make it nle to use oulv well-rotted manure ne would tiud fewer'weeds on his farm. It is claimed that the use of ensilage enables the dairvman to keep twice as many cows as when no ensilage is used. There is no crop so easily grop-n and at so small an outlay for labor as ensilage corn. aud it not only proviues a large ooi.ioik to the bulky foods, but enables the dairvH nuu to give succulent food in winter, thuf keepiug the animals iu good coudition. C round bone or bone meal does not be- ,.lat f.wul immeiliatelv. The l arti cles are given off slowly, and, although a liortiou will lie utliizen me ursi yem, . next crop will be benefited more. If the Druiin.l ia not too sandv and porous, n application of bone meal will show its ef fects for several seasons, n neu r.. k is ustl the same result occurs, tut often farmers are disappointed the Srst year. Anv investment in pnu.c. surely bring in good returns at some time. E :verv wagon can assist in making goofl .i it it ie tiiie.l with wide tires. ?ar- roa tir. cm the roads into ruts but Ivide tires wck the surface and make the foads better. . .- The mistake of keeping and using fros bred males aids materially in degenerat ing the hogs on luauv farms. The boar hould lie a thoi-ougnnrea, or mere he no uniformity in the offspring. lJ?ie is little pleasure in raising mougreis. a dry season there is no fertilizer h produces lietter results with Mita thau wood ashes, notwithstamwue the fact that ashes seem to dry themselves. Foually good results will follow when they are sprinkled ou the strawberry bed tng, as well as aiier, snouiu - - by herself, well covereu, ury au.i . . It need not be a large lien, and should not lie high. A pen 5 by 6 feet is large enough. Only cut straw should, be used for bedding, so that the sow will not pile it iu great ouuenes anu smoiuer i itt under it. The warmth from the sow will keep the small pen warm enough if the '.en is made wind-proof. Do, not lie too gross nor top busy to care for the tbiugs of beauty which should sdoru the farmer's home. Thecultivation of flowers lends to bring out that which is hwi ami huest in our natures. Make the door yard bloom with beauty in the pring, aud have a thought for the Pal or house decoration iu the winter. i for tin a scale of 100 points the prize but rf-r at the Massachusetts Agricultural Society ranged as follows: Creamery, 97 1-2; dairy, W The standard for judging butter adopted by the Massa chusetts Agricultural iyety is a very good one for others to fsjuw. It is this: Flavor, 45; grain, 25; color, 15; salt, 10; packing, 5. The standard of flavor was 'hat of June butter. The egg plant is not difficult to grow, nd it is one of those vegetables not often ieen on fanners' tables, but which, if provided, would help make an agreeable vurietv. The purple egg plant is most productive and best. The plant belongs to the same botanical family as the po tato, aud must be protected from attacks of the potato larva. The best way is to watch the plants closely so long as the potato beetles are flying, aud kill the beetles before they have laid their eggs. If any larva hatch a weak dilution of Paris green will kill them. Every housewife knows that dandelion greens are excellent for the table, and none the worse because they are slightly touic to the stomach and aid digestion at this season. But all do not know that the dandelion under good cultivation grows much larger than in its wild state, and is therefore much more easily gathered, cleaned aud prepared for the table, it is considerably grown for greens by mar ket gardeners, who find it a fairly profit able crop. Probably if farmers planted the improved varieties of dandelion they could find a good market in near-by cities ir villages along with other produce. The canker worm is tLe one that de stroys the foliage of the apple trees. Broad paper bands put around the tree ami fas tened with one or two carpet tacks, and then smeared with coal tar, will prevent the female canker worms from ascending the tree to do a night's work of laying eees. Put on fresh tar as often as neces sary. Printer's ink used in the same way will answer the purpose as well. If not already done, this work should be doue immediately. Equal parts of lime water and swee oil well mixed will form a kind of soap which is very efficacious in taking out or removing the innauimation. as well as lot healing wounds caAsed hv burns or scalds. A captive bee striving to escape has been made to record as many as 15.54" wing strokes per minute in a late test. In the city of Lmrango, Mexico, is an iron mountain 640 feet high, and the irou is from sixty to seventy per cent, nine. The metallic mass spreads in all directions for a radius of three or four miles. The large archaeological and ethno graphic collection brought together by tho covcrnmcnt of Costa Rica has now been commodiously installed in a buildinz erected for the purpose at ban Jose aa Costa Kica. A statistician says that of every 10, OOO chimneys, three are struck hv light ning' while of the same number of church steeples and windmills, sixty and eighty respectively are struck. The Adirondack lands now owned by the State of New xork are valued at Jb.00o.ooi,uiid when the entire area is acquired and put in condition it is be lieved it will be wortn at least t.su.uiKi.lKHj. The Vale lock manufacturers have proved that in a patent lock having six "stensi." each capable of being reduced in height 20 times, the number of changes or combinations will be Bb,40u. Marshal Lannes' divorce from his wife, granted ou Fructidor 8 of Ihe vear VII H August 25, 180), has been! de clared Valid , by the Perpignan courts. Suit to set it aside had been brought by descendants of his divorced wife. . Household. Harhecued Ham. Cut a pound of raw hant in thin slices and soak ia rufd watei half aa hour; dry in a towel, sad place iu a ItM frying sn; dust each slice light ly with pper and spread with a quar ter of a leaspooiiful of mixed mustard and iur into viuegar in I lie nruportiua of half a teaspooulul to a slice, t ry quickly, turning often. Serve on a hoi dish, with a teaspooulul of sous jelly on each slice. ripiuach, with (ioldea Sauce. Wash and drum a k of spinach; spriukle with a tablesooiiful of salt; place iu a kettle with water, and cook U'ri uiiuuies; drain and put inlo a sauce au with half a hiut of cfcaui aud a tahlesiouful of butter; cut live hard boiled eggs iu halves; take out the yolks and slice the whites over the spinach; set iu a place and muke the sauce; melt two tublespooufuls of butter; add the same amount of cornstarch; mix smoothly; pour on aTintof boiling water; stir until smooth; take from the tire; sea sou with pepper and the juice of a leuioi.; lastly, stir in the yolks of the eggs, hich must be finely grated; let come to a brii, and pour over the spinach. Marlborough Tarts. To one pint of grated pineapple allow three-fourths of a Pound of sugar, four tablesioonluls of butter, five eggs and 13 tablesHMnfuls of milk. Beat the suyar yolks and butler, together; then add the milk, the grated pineapple and, lastly, the whites, beaten to a stiff froth. 4.iue two pie plates with rood pie cnut, till with the mixture and take in a moderate oven 3o minutes Serve vry cold. I Veal Potr-Pie. Takes. three pounds ot iplanip veal-never buy the skinny kind, fit is immature or Mrly fed which may ue cut iroiu tne sliouiner or lie a pari oi the rack. The first is better since less bony. Cut in pieces of uniform size and cook slowly in a small quanity of boiling water, with a little piece of salt pork, or in place of kii k, add about a quarter of a pouiuf of butter before the veal is holly cooked, aloug with salt, if not fortu nate enough to have sour milk or butter milk, as in olden days, to use with soda (one-half teuspoonful to a cup vf milk), make a baking powder crust and have it thick enough to drop in balls from I lie spoon. If the water seems to be low, add more before dropping in the dough, as the steam must cook it; cover perfectly tight aud cook briskly twenty-five minutes Serve with lutked (totatoes. " Kvaporuted Apples and Raising. To one half pound of evaM. rated apples, put one teaciipfnl of raisins. The raisins should be stemmed, and both raisins and apples washed ami drained. Cover with warm water, and let soak on the back of the range for live or six hours. Stew gently until the apple is thoroughly cooked, aud sweeteu slightly. Stewed Apricots. Wash the apricots thoroughly, cover with warm water, and let souk for two or three hours. Hlew gently, and when they commence to get tender, add sii:ur to taste, and boil until soft. This makes a delicious and easily digested dish. Lemon Mutter. tine-half cupful of but ter, one cupful of sugar, juice of two lemons. Cook in a brig.t sauceitan unti it threads. Let stand until cool, then spread on and between the cake layers. - Steam Roast. Take five or six pounds of plate lieel, instruct the butcher to re move the bones and roll up, fastening with twine or skewers, as for corned leef. t'aremust be taken that it is not too fat. Place it in a large steamer over a stew pan containing two cupfuls of water, salt and a pinch of red iiepper; set it on the back of ranee or stove to cook slowlV to. C4M The fat may tie poured off and used as a 1 substitute fiW butter in warniiug potatoes. About an hour before serving, remove the meat from the steamer into the stewpan, which should contain a cupful or more of rich, brown gravy, dripping from the meat. Turn it over a number of times so that it will tie seasoned through and through. Let it brown a little. Serve as a Hit roast, (me advantage in steaming meats is that the cheafier meats may be made tender and palatable in this way. Labor Notes. Minnesota has 2600 barbers. There are bo4,6ts Bell telephones. Africa's iieannt area is increasing. Alaska gold miners get $15 a day. Agriculture employs 20,0011, (UK) men. iVyIou has 40,mio acres of cinnamon. There ate rubber tired patrol wagons. World's railroads stretch 427, 215 miles. Louisiana levee repairing employs 12, AMi men. (ierniaiiy makes 2,000,000 false eyes an nually. United States contains 150,000 seam st resses. Birmingham, Eng., makes 37,000,000 pins dailv. I'nujil States have 13U0 fruit and veg etable'caniieries. lor the first time in the history .f Christiania, Norway, bootblacks it found on the streets. The woolen mill, broom handle factory aud saw mill iu Baudon, Ore., are all running full time. tireat Britain has one-fourth of the wealth of F.uroie, although possessing only one-ninth of the population. China has established a Consulate at Warsaw, with the object of promoting trade between Poland and Manchuria. In some parts Of Tulare county, Cali fornia, this season's sheep shearing has been giveu entirely to Indians and Chin ese. 4 if the $56V,00,000 worth. of goods ex ported from the United States last year f.'iol, Ooo.oou worth were.jigricultural pro duce. The Transvaal produced last year 1,34) 000 tons of coal, 2,30.10 ounces oL gold, according to the statistics of the Johan nesburg Chamber of Mines. According to an official organ of the Russian overnment, saya The Engineer, the iron and steel industry has taken the lead in the march of industrial prufress. The most extraordinary Wims paid for any service rendered theinjsed Stales Government go to the railroad and steal, ship lines that carry our maiRThey ag gregate in round numbers 9Mnbu,000 a year. SjL lu the cotton-producing statW of the South, perhaps 30.000 individuals, firms or corporations are engaged in the gin ning of cotton, representing an investment of at least $7U,0UU,000 and employ inglur ing the ginning season certainly not less than lOOfOO persons. The only clay pipe factory of note in this country is a one-story affair with a single kiln, located up a side alley in a New York suburb; hence the special need of Governmental log-rolling may not strike the average person very forcibly. Yet. as over 5oti,0u0 pipes are annually made in the little shed and as many mil lions are imported, it will be seen that the industry is not such a small one. Statistics do not bear out the assertion that machinery is detrimental to labor, says the New ork Tribune. In no in dustry, perhaps, has machinery been so largely introduced a, in the making of shoes. Vet, according to the figures of the census. 8,5,000 people were employed in this industry in New England in 1890, against 313,000 in 1S60, while the average wagrs per capita have risen from (246 a year to $169- I n German schools French is taught to a greater extent than English. In the higher class schools English is an op tional subiect; in the comiSSrcial school more ti1 is devoted to French than En- glisK The trollocipede is S new bicycle which runs on a trolley wire and has the chaiu geared to a wheel running on the wire, the wire supporting the whole de vice, the person silting in a framework below the wire. The North Carolina House passed a bill requiring all teaajiers in the public schools to read aloud to their pupils at least twice each year the Constitution of the United States aud that of the state. . New YorkTis not only America's fi nancial and commercial metropolis, but also itsreate manufacturing city. REV, OR, TALMAGE. ' Eminent li vine's usuUy UuKourse. laSrwIiy mt It la Aa la Mast tho IVat of aa Mu4ut Tribal tm IIm MMll-ml lroiMltta ummI fmm M hy All llurlara Should K ChrUluut. Aud Asa, in the thirrand ninth year ol Ms reigu, was diseased lu his feet until hit ri s-aso was exceeding groat, yet in his diseaso he sought not to the Lord, but to the phy-icjau. And Asa slept with hu futhers."- II. Chronicles xvl., li, IS. At this season of the year, when inedloa colleges of all school of medicine are glv lng diplomas to young doctors, and at th capital and in many of the cities medical asAu'ialiona are assembling to consult about the advancement of the Interests o( their profession, I feel this discourse la ap. UropriatH. In my text is King Asa with the goat, Bwri living and no exercise have vitiated his blood, and my text presents him with his iuHamed and bandaged fet on an otto man. In dertance of God, whom he hatedj he sends for certain conjurors or quacks. They come and give him all sorts of lotions and panaceas. They bleed him. They sweat him. Thev manipulate him. They blister him. They poultice him. TUiv scarify hun. They drug him. They cut him. They kill him. He was only a young man and had a disease which, though very painful, seldom proves fatal to a young man, and he ought to have got well, but h fell a victim to charlatanry aud empiricism. "Aud Asa lu the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in bis feet until bit disease was exceeding great, yet lu his dis ease he sought not to the Lord, but to tnt physicians. And Asa slept wltn his fa hers." That is, the doctors killed him. In this sharp and graphic way the Bible aets forth the truth, that you have no right to shut God but from the realm of pharmacy und therapeutics,, If Asa had said: "O Ird, I am sick. ' Bless the in strumentality employed for my recovery." Now, servant, go and get the best doctor rou can find" he would have recovered, u other words, the world wants divinely directed physicians. There are a great many such. The diplomas they received from the academies of medicine wpre nothing compared with the diploma they received from the Head Physician of the universe on the day when they started out and He said to them. "Go heal the sick and east out the devils of pain and oien the blind eyes and unstop the deaf ears." God bless the doctors all the world over, and let all the hospitals and dispensaries and In firmaries and asylums and domestie circle of the earth respond, "Amen." Men ot the medical profession we often meet in the home ot distress. We shake bands across the table of agonized Infancy. We join each other In an attempt at solace where the paroxysm of grief demands an anodyne as well as a prayer. We look into each other's sympathetic faces through the dusk as the night of death la falling In the sick room. We do no- have to climb over any barrier to-day in order to greet each other, tor our professions are In full sym. pathy. Vou, doctor, are our first and last earthly friend. Vou stand at the gates ot life when we enter this world and you stand at the gates of death when we go out of it, In the closing moments of oureartbly exist ence. when the hand of the wife or mother, or sister or daughter, shall hold our right hand, it will give strength to oar dying mo ments if we can feel the tins of roar ttnirera atanjr th? oiilje o xhei iaftjty- f3?a ' uiwi c vBjyca orasra jys, in r asea of dsxtress, but by the pleasant altars ot God, and I propose a sermon of helpfulness and good cheer. As la the nursery children sometimes re-enact all the scenes of the sick room, so to-day you play that you are the patient and that I am the physician, and take my prescription just once. It shall be a tonic, a sedative, a dietetic, a disinfect ant, a stimulus and an anodyne at the same time. "Is there not balm in Gllead? Is there not a physician there?" In the first p'lace, I think all the medics, profession should become Christians be cause of the debt of gratitude tbey owe to God for the honor He has nut upon their calling. No other calling In all the world. except It be that of the Christian ministry, has received so great an honor as yours. Christ himself was not only preacher, but physician .surgeon, aurist, ophthalmologist, and under His mighty power optic and au ditory nerve thrilled with light and sound, and catalepsy arote from Its fit, and the clubfoot was straightened, and anchylosis went out of the stiffened tendons, and the foamtbg maniac became placid aa a child, and the streets of Jerusalem became an ex temporized hospital crowded with con valescent victims of casualty and Invalid ism. All ages have woven the garland for the doctor's brow. Homer said: A wise physician, skilled our wounds to V. heal. r?ic lore than armies to the public weal. Cicero hid, "There is nothing in which men so approach the gods as when they try to give health to other men." Charles IX made proclamation that all the Protestants in F ranee should be put to death on St' Bartholomew's day, but made one excep tion, and that the case of Pare, the fathei of French surgery. The battlefields of the American Revolution welcomed Drs. Hercei aud Warren and Rush. When the French army was entirely demoralised by fear ol the plague, the leading surgeon ot that army inoculated himself with the plague to show the soldiers there was no contagion in it, and their courage rose, and they went on to the conflict. God has honors this profession all the way through. Oh, the advancement from the days when Hippo crates tried to cure the great Pericles with hellebore and flaxseed poultices down tc tar later centuries when Haller announced the theory of respiration, and Harvey th circulation of the blood, and Ascell the uses of the lymphatic vessels, and Jenner balked the worst disease that ever scourged Eu rope, and Sydenham developed the re cuperative forces of the physical orgauism, am cinchona bark stopped the shivering agues of the world, and 8ir Astley Cooper and Abernethy, and Hosack and Romeyn, and Gri scorn and Valentine Mott, of the generation just past, honored God ana 'ought back death with eir keen scalpels. If we who are laymen m medicine would jnderstand what the medical protessiot has accomplished forthe insane, let us look into the dungeons where the poor creature! used to be incarcerated madmen chained naked to the wall, a kennel of rotten strav their only sleeping place, room unven. tilated and unlighted, the worst calamity of the race punished with the very worst punishment and then come and look a. the ffcsane asylums of L'tica and Kirkbridt sofaed and pictured, lirVaried, concerted until all the arts and adornments come tc coax recreant reason to assume her throne Look at Edward Jenner, the reat heroot medicine. Four hundred thousand peoplt annually dying in Europe from the small pox, Jenner finds that by the inoculation o people.arith vaccine from a cow the great sPourgpif nations may be arrested. The ministers of the gospel denounced vaccina tion, small wits caricatured Edward Jenner as riding in a great procession on the back of a cow and grave men expressed It their opinion that all the diseases of the brute creatton would be transplanted into the human family, and they gave instances wuere, tney said, actually corns naa come out on the foreheads of innocent persons and people had begun to chew the end. But Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on lighting for vaccination until it baa been estimated that one doctor in fifty years hat saved mgj;e lives ttmn all the battles of anr one center destroyed. The aroleasion has done wonders for pub lic hvglene. How often they have stool between this nation and Asiatic cholen and the yellow fever. The monuments ii Greenwood and Mount Auburn and Laare Hill tell something of the story of tho men who stood face to face with pestilenc In southern cities, until staggering inthei f own slcknnss thev stumbled across tni eor;.ses of those whom they had come to av. This profession has been the suo ressful advocate of ventilation, sewerage, tratnage and immigration, until tbelt 'sentiments were well expressed by Lord Palinerston. when he said to tns English nation at the time a fast had been pro claimed to keep off a great pestilence: "Clean your streets or death will wags, ii I -ft .twithMdi !i fv af tkt aaiKas-'traa vxw stfWts aa4 tWa eas" im ls4 tur Ita-lp." iW what tae pT-sfe4i. a& Jom Kr h a" tofviiy. Tar w Meh a fcwtwl uMr ii.. Irvm kaauu lih tkal ikmiM prv.-oxv-t thai within fww (MiuMika world Would r left alutoMt iaaatataatUnu. A J'U tarJ with a whoi etorwtt of muthtv wxi-4e,- Wrote him. bat a eat otf Ihe at.iea ot It and ualv eoutparwlivviy few rears were left -oulv Tuu yean ot bf. aa J then Mil. aud then 400. aad then W. aad then 1UO. aud then SO, aadttwa tb if human lite came to 40. aad then it Iropped . li. But medical science eanu a. and since the sixteenth century I K average of human life has risen from 1H Years to 44. and it will continue to rise ua 'II the average of human life will be 50. and II will lie M, and it will tie 70, and a man will have no right to die before !), and the prophecy of Isaiah will b literally fuldlle.1, "And the child shall die 1110 years old." The millennium for the souls of men will be the millennium for the bodies of men. Sin done, disease will be done, the clergy man and the physician getting through with their work at the same time time. But It seems to me that the most beauti ful benediction of the medical profession has been dropped upon the poor. No ex cuse now for any one's not having scientific attendance. Dispensaries and Infirmaries everywhere, under the control of the best ioctors, some of them poorly paid, some of hem not paid at all. A half starved woman Tomes out from the low tenement house nto the dispensary and unwraps the rags 'rom her bitie, a bundle of ulcers and rheum Hid pustules, and over that little sufferer lends the accumulated wisdom of the ages, 'rom Aesculapius down to last week's lutonsy. " in one dispensary In one yeat I5U.000 prescripins were issued. Why do I show you what God has allowed this pro. fession to do? Is it to stir up your vanity) Oh. no! The day has gone by for pompou ioctors, with (conspicuous gold-headed anes and powdered wigs, which were thf iccompaniments in the days when the bar ker used to carry through the streets ot .joudon Dr. Brockelsby's wig, to the ad niration and awe of the people. Buying: -'Make way! Here comes Dr. Broc kclsby's wig." No; I announce these things not only to increase the appreciation of laymen In regard to the work of physicians, but to itir in tne nearts ot tne men ot tne medical profession a feeling of gratitude to God that they have been allowed to put their hand to such a magnificent work and that they have been called into stich illustrious company. Have you never felt a spirit of gratitude for this opportunity? Do you not feel thankful now? Then, 1 am niranl, doctor, you are not a Christian and that the old proverb which Christ quoted in his ser mon may lie appropriate to you, l'tiyst vian, heal thyself." Another reason why I think the medica. profession ought to be Christiana is be cause there are so many trinls ami annoy, ances in that profession that need positive Christian solace. I know you huve the gratitude of a great many good people, and I know it must lie a grand thing to walk in telligently through the avenues of human life, and with anatomic skill poise yourself on the nerves and fibers which cross and recross this wonderful T'hTiinsa nt 1 in I suppose a skilled eye can see'winTe beauty even in a malformation than an architect can point out in any of bis structures, though it lie the very triumph of arch aud plinth aud abacus. But bow m..a;' annoy ances ami trials.the medical pror., bavel Dr. ltush used to say in hia ijfiledic tory address to the students of tlfctnedicnl college: "Young gentlemen, h-e two pock ots a small pocket and a l-Jg pocket; a nall pocket in which to put your fees, a ibikq wcty ig 'w"uu "feeni veur aaav nces.ir ' I ' . Vanuatu. uusy mere fc-. vs rt"sT' "VJ snd mechanics cannot artiTToi be HiktSJfj' t' luring the secular week, and so tbey nurse Ihetaselyes along with lozenges aud bore bouud candy until Sabbath morning comes, and then they say, "I must have a doctor." Aud that spoils the Sabbath morning church service for the physician. Besides that, there area grait many men who dine but once a week with their families. Duriug the secular days they take a hasty lunch at the restaurant, and on the Sabbath they make up for their six days' abstinence by especial gormandizing, which, before night, makes their amazed digestive or gaus cry out for a doctor. And that spoils '.he evening church service for the phys .clan. Then they are annoyed by people com Inn too late. Men wait until the last fortress of physical strength is taken and death has dug around it the trench of the grave, aud then they run for the doctor. The flight fever which might have been cured with a footbath has become viruleut typhus, and the hacking cough-killing pneumonia As though a captain should sink his ship off Amngansett,.and then put ashore in yawl, and then come to New York to the marine axflce and want to get his vessel In jured. Too late for the ship, too late for the patieutr Then there are many who always blame he doctor because the people die, target ing the divine enactment, "it Is appointed into ail men once to die." The father in nedlclue who announced the fact that he had discovered the art by which to make men in this world immortal, himself died at 17 yearh of age, showing that immortality was less than half a century for him. On, how easy it is when people die to cry out, 'Malpractice." Then the physician must hear with all the whims, and the sophistries, ind the deceptions, and the stratagems, nd the irritations of the shattered nerves ind the beclouded brains of women, and more especially witb men who never kuow how gracefully to be sick, and with theli alivated mouths curse the doctor, giving him Ms dues, as they say about the ouh lues he will in that case collect. The last bill that is paid is the doctor's bill. It teems so incoherent for a restored patient, with ruddy cheeks and rotund form, to be bothered with a bill charging him forbid alomol and jalap. The physicians of wib. sountry do more missionary work without barge than all the other professionals put together. From the concert room, from the merry party, from the comfortable couch on a cold uight, when the tfiernibm eter is five degrees below zero, the doctor must go right away he always must go right away. To keep up under ibisnervou; strain, to go through this night work, to bear all these annoyances, ma physicians have resorted tostrong drink Mki perished. Others have appealed to.God for sympathy ind help and have lived. Which were the wise doctors, judge ye? Again, the medical profession might to be Christians because there are "profes sional exigencies when twey need God. Asa's destruction by unblessed physicians was a warning. There are awful crisaJn jvery medical practice when a doetorouit :o know hitfr to pray. All the hosts of ills will sometimes htti themselves on the weak points of the physical organism, or with equal ferocity will assault the entire tine of susceptibility to suffering. The next dose of jnedicine will decide whether or not the happy hoas shall be broken up. Shall it be this medicate or that medicine? 3od help the aoctor! Between the five arops and theSan dropi may be the ques tion of life or death. Shall it be the five or the ten drops? Be careful how you put that knife through those deficate portions tho body, for if it swing out of the faV.tho sixth part of an inch the patient perKUes. Under such ciraamstances a physician needs not so much consultation wirn men of his own calling a he needs consultation with that God who stujng tho nerves and built the cells and swung the crimson tide through the-teries. You wonder why the heart throbs, why it seems to open' an.l shnt. Thre is no wender about it. It I God's hand, shutting, opening, shutting, opening, on every heart. When a man eomes to doctor the eye, hetmght to pin oommunicatu with Him who said to the blind, ''Receive thy sight." When a doctor eomes to treat a paralytic arm, he ought to be in communication with Him who said, "Stretch forth thy hand, and he stretched It forth." When a man comes to doctot a bad eaw of hemorrhage, he needs to be in communication witb Him who enred thaV Issue of blood, saying, "Thy faith hafh saved thee." . Another reasoSi why the medical profe. ston ought to be Christians is because these opens before them such a grand flefci for Christian usefulnes94aw auii see so many peoi pie in pain, in troinna, In bereavement, ton ought to be the voice of heaven to thelt souls. Old Dr. Oasherle De Witt, a prac tltloner of New York, told me In his last days. "I always present the religion of as r-v - JTmtry al I N i (s ir. is-f ; 4 1 !Vv4Maa. I'r-. H-x ut.1 JH; . ft sv4- r- -a. .! s' I Xfs-r sr-lwvl a,vr I v. f s . . tKm UumoMo- "Y t-e -ts l r'fsKs. lt x t- ;.'... THat kekif i. IV- oif.-. e l s Hi brolhw. Iwtv ar --v r i,, ia which wa will a.s avtitttt ewa t-v- .-ter-x. aad that fuial .-ttii. w'1 J-e u I ato your taitnfulae-st. m V- 'iie.li -is f.iT th bodv la one hiaa-t. th- 'U-tl-u fo the soul la IH other. ...V wht a cK.ka.-v. Thr Iwi a dviaif 4'fireoiu .a tv i.til-.w. You nMd to hold oxer hru tile lament d the gospl antd its light stren'ie a-T'- ti pathway ot the departiui; I'll-frtui. au-l vou need to erv luto the diU ear of d.-it!x. "Hark to the- soug of heaven's w.-te.riu that comes stealing over the waters!' There lies on the pillow a dying sinuer. All the morphine that you brought with vou cannot quiet him. Teimr in the face. Terror In the heart. How tie i"rits himsell np on one elbow and looks wiMty iuto vuui face aud says: "DoeCr. 1 can't .tie. 1 aiu not ready to die. Whit make it so .lark? Doctor, can yv prav?" Blesw.l for you and blessed for uim If then you can kueel dowu and say: "O God, 1 huve .l ine the best I could to cure this man's tio.lv, and I have failed. Now 1 commit to thee his pi Kir, suffering an.l aiTrighte.1 soul. Opeu Paradise to his departtnir sj.lrit." But 1 must close, for there may lie suf fering men and women waiting in voul olflce, or ou the hot pillow, wondering why you don't c.ie. Hut before you go. O diH'tors, hear niv praver for your eternal Wlvation. Blessed will b" the reward iu heaven for the faithful Christian physi cian. Some day, through overw.o-k or from bending over a patient an. I eat.-hing his coutuiMoils breath, the il...-t..r comes home, and he li.-s down faint an.l si. -k. lie i-too wearv t. feel his own pulse r take the .li ncuosisf his own cini). lain! . He is worn out. The fuel Is, his work on earth is cmb'il. Tell those people ill tile otllert therethev nee-l not wait any l.mifer. The doctor will never ni tliereairain. II. has written his last prescription for the allevia ti.mof human pain. The people will run up his front steps and iiiir", "How is tho doctor to-ilav?" All the sympathies of th neighliorhoo.l will be arous.Ml unl there will be many pravers that he who has been so kind to the sick may be com forted in his last pang. It is all over tiow. In tiro or three days his convalescent pa tietits. with shawl wrapped around them. A-ill come to the front window and look out it the passing hearse, and the poor of the ity, barefooted nnd bareheaded, will stand 3n the street corner, saving, "Oh, how good he was to us all!" lhit on the other ide of the river of death some of his old patients who are forever cured, will comb ut to welcome him, and the physician ol aeaven, with locks us white as snow, a.; lording to the Apocalyptic vision, will come out an.l saT: "Come in, come in. i was sick and ve visited nie ' Curious Condensation, The fly lays four times each summer And si) cg?s each time. The female tly is always larger and lighter iu color than the male. A spider's eye is not iu his head, bur in the upier part of the thorax. - The army worm has cost America ui'.ra than the Revolutionary War. . . The descendants of a single female wasr will often nnnilier 2ri,i)o0 iu oue season. Female spiders are snneh larger "anrf .in r.ioi..i.n-j-rt. the, amies and often "CTtne ca.t'Iu rottsumel J- the yye last La-years. f Since im.O the'Vaiue of grain cros has sti adily diminished, while that of pastor al products has increased. A St. Louis woman had a guardian ap pointed for her hu.srjau.i on proving itiat he spent ull his in-nsion money Mi every mouth fou-i.atrut mcilicim's. A young man who washed vuucelcd pitaUe' stamfis and used them acain has been .ent to jail in Alniue f..r :u days the minimum penalty beint: indicted be cause he was poor and ienoiaut. Baltimore has mote churches, in pro orlioti to population, llinn any city in the world.-and, judging from the refiorts of new editices, she intends to keep up her record at tlie head of the procession. A St. Louis man who died recently left a will in which there was a bequest of $1000 to a young woman on the "score of gratitude," the document lead, "because she declined to marry, me und thereby enabled nio to pjiend my last years hap. pier. The art of printing, sccoi liable and the missionaries, tieed ui China nearly S year Christian era. In the time of It C ."in", books were mini ling to Dt. was ptuc i la-fore tho Cotiliicius, of bamboo. and about tin years ull r Christ paper was first made. Current hvents. The firemen of Kochester, N. Y been prohibited Iroiu entering have loollS a hue on duty. The clock interests of Western .Nebras ka have received such an imietus jluriug the last three mouths that the dealers are looking forward to a iiermaiient improve ment. l!ut no tevival of the cattle king era is exacted. The children in the Chicago ch.ols are induced to sign a bird plcduc. iu which they promise not to lob the nests or o wear the plumaite of birds. The advance of the (neiilc,cu ray ra ceived a legal seJai'k recently in I'bli a go, when 'udtfe Tiiitchinsoti rcfus-d to licrinil a series of shadowgraphs to be usSHi as evidence iu a dumuye suit II ill. .well. Me., has a uniifhe society Nailed tne improvement .-society, once iVpur ull the mule ti.en. tiers turn out with rake, hoe and broom to clean the streets while their wives prepare a feast in the church. 1 roily tour scorcher were lined $ "i each in the Itecorder's Court in Iietriot one lllol'liilic lat week. . Two bo s at one of the leading acade mic in Central Massachusetts, have leon expelled for raising money to pay a pitcher lor liie school b.ill nine. There Is a ln.-iu now living in Indiana, v.ho has ilenion.-ti.ited that milk alotie can sustain liie Kiel keep a man l..iitv slid stroni:. He has used no other lod J lor a iiuiiiler of year-, and, while ap pearing about forty jears, is, in reality ui... nt i;u. The boast of a Molilalia paper on the length of the strawls'iry season in that State has prompted another paper to point out I lint at liapnuto, a small Mexi can town .straw terrios may be picked iu the ojien nir any day of the year. The natives sell large baskets of them for l 12 cents, in Atnerii an money, or 2ri cents iu Mexican. 2 Johnson, sixth and latest in the list of Rhode I-land cii. ,ad a population by the last census of !ir,s. A bov who recently cMrd at if.c hup of 13, in In.lisa. from excessive smoking, had consuii.i 'Ttn tlic past tive yeais Su,W;0 tavarettes. It is said that the highest single fount-, ain jet in the world is in lteiii.ii.gt.4t, Vt., on the estate given by tlie late Tren ton W. Park as a home for destitute women and children. Pome Connecticut fisnrrrrrn report a fivruliar freak of lightning wiiie they nad tlfajr net in the rir reccMly. A bolt strticfc the east end of the pole and passed along some distance on the coik line. When thev took up tin- net all the shad on that end of it had turned red. 3 Certain female ineets live 1 times as long as the male. The females oT bees and ants are longer lived than the males. One of Edison's latest patents is a two pointed receiver for the phonograph, which will (rive two recnrJat once from the ame cyliteWr. The JapanasV government, instead of presenting ine.l it to the soldiers who took part in the war affain-d Illinois to give them excellent .wuss wati lies. w Just the same, the man who juiiasine there is danjer of a bicycle TTanune better continue to look up and down I t , on hp attempt to cross, " tne J 1 i it: j V"- ... 1 , . ji . n, ' i" jyg.--?s8j-.eY .- "J " aa.' ri .: , a 1 1 -- ' yrfr- vi-'A "' tarSrx- '"-- .w . I W V . ' .- .3"TTT . v tr . . - . .
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