A Recipe. Double one small troublo Which ien't worth a frown. Fret tiuii worry over it All uround the town; Stew n bit and boil with rago, As people do of twice your age Then you'll find it isn't worth even writing down. —New York Mail and Express. Boyliootl'a Ambitions. Very early in the life of all normal l»oys, they begin to think on what they will do when they get to be men. Not only do they tninlc of their fu ture occupation, but in enthusiastic boyish candor they proclaim to those about them what they mean to do or to be when they grow up. The author of "A Boy's Town," Wil liam Dean Howells, tells us that when he was a boy he wished to become a canal driver, then when he grew a little oluer he felt sure his career was to be that of a circus actor. With manhood's years, however, came a taste for the art of rhyming, and from that time he has never wished to be other than an author. When Admiral Dewey was a boy his "most ardent desire/' according to his own statement, 'was to be an officer in the army." Through the interposition cf "late,"he has become the head of the American navy. John Philip Sousa has accomplished that for which he longed while yet a mere boy. Then his "absorbing am bition was to become a composer." Joseph Jefferson, the great inter preter of "Rip Van Winkle," dreamed, while yet a mere boy, of becoming a great actor, and he tells us that he has "never had a desire to become any thing else." Structure of a Fnake'i Ear. The structure of a snake's ear is such as to make its hearing very imperfect, but it so readily feels vibrations that its actions lead people to believe that its hearing is very acute. A pet garter snake was known to lie quietly on a table and pay no attention to the re port of a toy pistol fired beneath it, but whenever the narrator of the story placed a paper on the bare table and began to write with a scratchy pen the snake showed signs of interest and excitement. In Popular Science there is an account of snakes of the same species that did not notice the striking of an alarm clock standing on the ta ble beside their cage so long as there was a cloth on the table. When the doth was removed, however, and both the clock and snake box were placed on the bare boards the vibrations would pass readily tlfrougli tne wood and the reptiles were startled whenever the clock struck. This same writer says of the familiar stories of cobras being fascinated by the playing of a flute and rising on their tails and keeping time with the music, which are well authenticated stories, that it has been repeatedly demonstrated by experi ment that it is not the sound of the music but the movement of the player which exerts an influence over the ser pents. When a screen is held before the musician to hide his movements the cobra pays no attention to the mu sic, no matter how loud it may be. A liall for Foxy. One day Elsie went down town and when she came home she brought Fox a ball. It wasn't a very big ball, just big enough for Fox to carry in his mouth, and too big for him to swal low. And it was made of hard rubber so Fox couldn't bite it to pieces, no matter how hard he tried. Fox had never seen a ball before and he didn't Know what to make of it now. He had often played with sticks and bits of coal, but a ball was some thing new. Elsie sat down on the floor and rolled the ball to Fox, and Fox's eyes most popped out of his head as he jumped about barking at this funny rolling thing. At last he picked it up and sat down to chew it, just as he did the sticks, but he found that was no use. Then lie dropped it and the ball rolled a lit tle ways. That was queer, it scared I-'ox, and he was afraid to touch the ball again. He would go up to it care fully and take a sniff and then jump away with a funny little bark that said: "I wonder what this strange thing can be?" Elsie and mother had ?reat fun watching him. When he found the ball did not move he carefully picked it up again and ran around the room with it. Elsie chased him and Fox dodged under tables and chairs to get away from her. Once he dropped the ball and it bounced —that was another funny hing. Fox tried dropping it again; ae liked to see it jump up and down. After he had played with it for a ong time Fox found he could toss the all up in the air and that he would uake it bounce higher. Then there vas fun. He tore around the room with he ball, throwing it up and then run ting after it again, and all the time riving Tittle growls to frighten Elsie nd make her keep away from him. Ie was having a good time by him elf; nobody must touch his ball. — •rooklyn Eagle. I.llla*f« Kxoitimr Ad venture. "I know," said small Lilla, dellght lly. "I know what the corn rows look ke. They look like teenty-tinty, nar )w fairy streets. And I'm going to 'n down the teentiest one of all." Lilla was 6 years old last April, and June her mother took ber to the ntry to visit her Aunt iieien, who lives 011 a (arm. From the very mo ment when she left home Lllla has had the loveliest time you can think of, but it wasn't until last week that she was allowed togo down across the pasture all alone and visit the cornfield. She wouldn't have been allowed to do BO then only her Aunt Helen was so very sure she couldn't get into any trouble. "Let her run wild a little, Eliza beth," she said to Lilla's mamma. "There isn't a bit of harm that she could get into down there, right in our fields. And she doesn't have a chance to play in green fields every day in the year, you know." So off Lilla trotted, just as pleased as you or I would be if we knew we could spend a whole, long, lovely af ternoon in a pasture and a cornfield, and it was when she stood at the edge of the cornfield, looking down between the long rows of tall corn, about three times as tall as she was, that she made the remark about the "teenty-tinty, narrow l'airy streets." Then she picked out the very "teentiest" row of all, and walked straight down it —until she came to the fence at the side of the road. Then she turned back and walked straight into the mid-die of the field again. It was the loveliest place you can think of, down there among the tall corn. The long, silky leaves rustled over her head like music; the sunlight made beautiful patches of gold here and there on the ground. And it was so cool and beautiful and lovely alto gether that it made Lilla think of fairyland, or the heavenly kingdom. She was wondering whether she should play she was an enchanted princess, with the beautiful corn arches for the roof of her palace, and the tall corn stalks for ner servants, or that she was a sky angel, with the corn leaves for harps and the yellow, dangling corn silks for a halo, when she heard a great sound as of some big animal tearing and snapping along on the edge of the field. She ran in the di rection of the sound as fast as possi ble, and there, just at the edge of the pasture was a great, strange dog, with dripping jaws and wild eyes and a rumpled coat, and he was making strange noises as he went. "Here, doggie! Poor uoggie!" called Lilla. who loves all animals dearly, hut the dog didn't seem to hear her. Panting and dripping he rushed on, madly, going in the direction of the farmhouse. Lilla, when he paid no at tention to her calling, went back among the tall corn rows quite con tentedly. "Maybe he wouldn't have played he was the ogre or the guardian lion, any way," she told herself, smiling. "And if I'd wanted to play angel I wouldn't have known what in the world to do with him." Then she sat down cn the soft earth between tne tall cornstalks and fell to watching the yellow sunlight and the purple shadows play a sort of flicker ing hide-and-go-seek on the dull,brown ground before her. By and by she leaned back against a specially big cornstalk and looked up at the sky— so bright and blue where it shone through the beautiful green roof above her head. Then she began fitting queer little nursery words to the queer little tunes the wind sang. And then — It sounded like a fairy trumpet, but when Lilla woke up she found it was only the horn which Aunt Helen used to call the ni n home to supper. She had been asleep actually, and here it was supper time. The sunlight had grown paler, and the purple of the shadows had become very deep and bronze-like. The fleecy white clouds in the blue sky were all turning to gold and scarlet and crimson. And the corn leaves were rustling and sing ing in the soft, gentle way which they keep especially for sundown. Lilla sang, too, just because she was so very glad to be alive and to be in the country, as she ran across the pasture and up to the house. "Where have you been all after noon?" asked her Uncle Albert, kissing her gently. "I was a little anxious about you just after nooning." "A mad dog got lose in the village somehow," he explained to the grown people, "and came tearing up the road and along through our pasture. I was a little afraid Lilla might get in his way, for he dashed right through the barnyard. I was watching from the hayfleld and I saw him." "I saw him, too," cried Lilla, all ex citement and wonder. "He was so hot and tired looking, poor thing, and I called him to come and play with me, but he never seemed to hear me. And I guess the corn was so tall he couldn't sea But I didn't know he was mad poor doggie!" And then Lilla wondered why all the grown folk made such a fuss about her, because even if a poor dog was mad and had to be killed afterward, he hadn't even seen her. But by and by she began to smile a little, all to herself, and when they got up from supper she caught hold of her Aunt Helen and drew her outside the door to whisper a little secret. "I 'spect. Aunt Helen." she said, very softly, "that I had a real 'citing adventure with tlfit mad dog this af ternoon. But I was having such a love ly time down there in the torn palace that I almost never came to know a word about it. I think it's just lovely that I found out, don't you?" And her Aunt Helen, who loves to hear little girls' secrets, smiled as she answered "Yes." —Chicago Record-Her ald. Her Comment. "I never gossip," said the woman with the uncompromising eyes. "I never say anything about anybody un less I am sure it can be shown to be true." "Dear me." murmured Miss Cayenne. "How utterly relentless." —Washington Star. To Clean Cut Glass. Experts in cut glass advocate the following' as the best means of clean ing. Wash the glass thoroughly with warm soap sud3 and cover with saw dust. As soon as the sawdust is dry, brush the article very carefully with a soft brush, reaching all the crev ices. It wiil come out as clear and sparkling an a bubble fresh from the pipe. Prolonging the Use of Velvet. The use of velvet that has been marred beyond restoration by the usu al steaming process may be prolonged for ordinary wear by "mirroring" it. Place the velvet on an ironing board, and with a flatiron that is not hot enough to burn the fabric press it carefully in the direction of the nap. As long strokes as possible should bo taken with the Iron to avoid leaving marks. It is a good idea to sew a piece of cloth on each end of the vel vet in order to have something to hold while the work is being done. Care in denning Oil Paintings. No one who does not understand al) about colors should attempt to clean an oil painting, for it is easy to r& move with it part of the painting it self. The inexperienced person can, however, clean an oil painting safely in the following manner. Remove the picture from its frame, lay it flat and cover with a cloth moistened with rain water. Repeat until the dirt on the picture has been removed by the cloth, or till it is so softened by moist ure that it may be wiped off easily with a soft sponge. Then let the pic ture dry, when it should be gone ovei carefully with a piece of cotton wool saturated in pure linseed oil. The paint will then look fresh and new. On no account must soap be used, and an oil painting should never be touched with anything harder than a piece of lint or cotton wool. For dusting there is nothing better than an old silk handkerchief. Tlie Uaeftil In Tableware. In many of the largest silverware manufactories the principal designers are women. Among the many useful and attractive things recently de signed by women is a pie dish which may also be used for an entree dish or for fruit. A breakfast set, consist ing of tray, egg cup, butter dish, toast rack and salt and pepper bottles rep resent a new design in silver by a woman, as does an egg boiler fitted with an alcohol lamp lor cooking eggs at the breakfast table. A sand glass attached marks tlje three, five or ten minute limit for boiling. One of the most useful feminine inventions in the form of culinary devices is a frying pan with asbestos lining and supplied with a basket attachment for the cooking of special articles. Honey pots of glass and silver, available also for jam unique and pretty table gongs and bells, silver stands for smoked beef and tongue, bread forks of odd pattern, china or silver stands with compartments for butter, cheese and crackers and supplemented by silver knives to match are a few of the re cent designs by women in the line of household conveniences.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Russian Cream —Soak one ounce of gelatin in one-half pint of water for half an hour, then add one-half pint of boiling water; stir until well dis solved one quart sweet milk, one cup of sugar and four eggs. Cook sugar, milk and yolk of eggs together; when ready to take from stove add gelatin and whites of eggs, well beaten; flavor with vanilla: pour in a wet mold to cool and serve With whipped cream and macaroons. Date Muffins—Yolks of two eggs beaten until light: add two cups of milk. Sift three cups of flour, add one half teaspoon of sa»L and three of bak ing powder (level). Stir the milk and eggs into the flour and a table spoon of softened butter, then add one half cupful of chopped dates (floured). Beat until smooth, then carefully put in the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Turn into warm gem pans and bake in a moderate oven 25 min utes. Oyster kuortcakes —Make a good shortcake and bake on pie tins. Wash one and one-half pints of oysters. Strain, scald and s.nm their liquor. Melt two teaspoons of butter, stir in a tablespoonful of flour, add the oyster liquor, one-half cupful of milk, two thirds of a teaspoonful of salt, a salt spoonful of pepper and the drained oysters. Cook until they begin to ruffle and seem plump. As soon as short cakes are baked split, butter, spread with the oysters and serve at once. Onions Stuffed With Sausage—Par boil a dozen mild smver skin onions about on hour, changing the water twice, and replenishing with boiling water. Drain and remove tl'o centres, leaving a thin shell of onion. Fill these cups with pork sausage, round ing the top. Bake about an hour, basting occasionally with drippings from the turkey. Those with whom sausage does not agree may solace themselves with turkey and giblet sauce. In making the cranberry jelly use loaf sugar and mold the jelly in CUBS or forms DEER AS SMALL GAME. INTERESTING DISOOVERY MADE IN NEW YORK STATE. Bones found Prove the Animal Coold Not llave Jleen More Than Six Inches High—fcore Let; and Foot of the Skeleton Remain Intact. Bones of a tiny deer, five and one half inches high at the shoulder, and small enough to be stowed away in a coat pocket, have been found In a ploughed field in Iten3salear county, near Troy, N. Y. A fore foot and leg of the skeleton remain intact. From these it Is possi ble to determine the exact proportions of the remarkable creature, and to know, beyond question, that the skele ton is that of a deer. The bones prove that the deer had matured, but whether it belonged to a diminutive species, or was a dwarf, is not known. The epiphyses, or ends of the bones, are firmly united to the shaft by os seus tissue, showing that the leg found belonged to an adult deer. This tiny deer doubtless lived In that middle age of animal life when evw the horse was represented in a species of little creatures with five toes. It was an age in which the ani mal kingdom ran to extremes. The groat Irish deer, which was probably contemporaneous with the little deer of New York, was even larger than the largest deer of this day. On the other hand, there were the little horses and the diminutive creatures of many other species, one of which is probably represented by the extraordinary deer Deer Ciuler a Foot Rule. whose remains have been found In New York. The oculist says business is out of sight, Cunningham's Changeable reach Tree James Cunningham, a farmer In the vicinity of Pleasant Grove, has a poach tree on his place that puzzles the hor ticultural world. Last year the tree had several bushels of plum peaches; this year the tree had several bushels of free stone poaches. Last year is the first it has borne fruit of consequence. —Nashville (Tenn.) Banner. FTJTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to min light, washing and rubbing. Hold by all drug gie tB. In Newfoundland and Labrador cramps are said to be guarded against by carry ing a cod's head or a bone from a haddock caught without touching the boat. I am sure Pieo's Cure for Consumption navel my life three years ago.—Mas. THOMAS ROB BINS, Maple rtt., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17, I'JOO. It is better to give than to receive what you don't want. G&r\i\y; ''Kr* S A c * s Ple^saj\tly t I'. '* v' /J;, '•i/ k \v' / Ber\e-ficiaJly ; c AT ' / M* tr\ilyas»a. La.xa.iive.. UA V - ;//■' .▼ • ''f i •y '\ y '' ,T ~/ ' 7 / Syrup of Figs appeals to the cultured and the /'r *•/'**' " Jl®/ / well-informed and to the healthy, because its com >ir ."• ,- ""' - | JgSlPi\ j ponent parts are simple and wholesome and be .> V' cause '* acts without disturbing the natural func tions, as it is wholly free from every objectionable / jr* V .; N >ui\i-v- manufacturing figs are used, as they are / - virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained l^gH 11iapkx from an excellent combination of plants \MI /y / .. known to be medicinally laxative and to J To get its beneficial effects—buy the 14 genuine—manufactured by the . . r s L~i.vilW. Ky?** *-»«<"<>• C^ w York „ Y * F* or by all Price- fifty cervts per bottle.. The Luxury of Modern Railway Travel to Florida and the South. The gratitude of tourists who appreciate luxury in railway travel is due in no small measure to the Southern Railway (System. Their line of opeiation is the great highway thatleads by Washington, D.C., to and through th" Houthern States. Year by year they have adopted every improvement that could add in any way to tlie comfort of that army of visit ors who make their home in the vast territory covered by itß network of lines. An eiample of the superb trains operated by the company is the "Southern's l'alm Lim ited," whi n runs between New York and St. Augustine every day, except Sun lay, during the winter months. Thiß magnificent train will be inaugurated January 14, ISIO2, leaving New York 12.40 noon, the most luxurious in the world, runs through solid from New York to St. Augustine, excepting one drawing-room sleeping-car, which is detached at Blaekville, 8. and runs to Augusta, for the accommo dation of travelers to this popular resort, and Aiken, S. C. The train is composed of Pull man composite, compartment cars, drawing room sleeping-cars, library, observation and dining-cars. Two other last daily limited trains are operated, carrying through Pull man drawing-room slecping-carß.to New Y'ork, Savannah, Jacksonville, 'lampa, Charleston, Augusta, Asheville, Chattanooga, Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, affording excellent service to Florida, Mexico and the Pacific Coast. Dining-car service on all through trains. The popular route to Pinehurst, N. C., Pullman sleeping-car Wash ington, Pinehurst, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. New York to Thomaeville, Ga., Pullman drawing-room sleeping-cars, every Thursday, commencing January 9. For fur ther information call or address New York Officii, 271 and 1185 Broadway. Alex. S. Thweatt, E. P. A., 1185 Broadway, New York. Our own misfortunes are always the greatest. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, I LCCAS COUNTY. ) '' FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. 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