' THE MIDDLKUURGH TOST. T. O. HARTER, Editor akd Tko'iu m iirrj:in r.i., iht. vs, ish. An international congress of nearly Hvs hundred physicians lately In session nL IViris was practical! J unanimous that ensssumptinn, or tulicrculosis, Is con tagious and transmissible between man a J last. There was unanimity also m ti the pruno necessity of boiling milk wrxl cooking meat well ns a preventive nC tnuch of the consumption which now iT.icts tlio human race. None of theso cwit-ludons are new, but they derive ad ditional force from the unanimity with sh'n h they were declared and accepted at farts well cs ublishcd. Dnrnt arrival from tho Hawaiian Islands declare that the Covernment is iir-ulient, ami that nothing can prevent Iiankmptcy in the near future. The re form (lovcrtiinent, wh eh came into power en the downfall of tlio tiibson SJiii-'ry, l.ns simply Used any coin in Vtrbt to pay current expen-cs with no thought of fiitun.' settlement. Tliu pub lic: lrlit (if Hawaii may be put in round rtrimW-rs at "(O.ooo, f,ir which llio only -crurity is Crown lands andiiov crnincnt buildings ut Honolulu, which tiiMlor foiccil sale would not realize half h s amount. "''Five million people upon the globo tt! now ib pi: ltd cut on the electric cur vol for their dady brcsd," so said Mr. tV. II. I'repce, at the recent meeting of he BritMi Assoeia' ion held at Hath. "Scarcely a week pas-en,"' he continued, 'without some fresh practical npplicn t.jon of its principles, and we seem to be only on the shore of thai sea of ccono'tiy n.T 1 bciielieoticc which expands witii i-vcry new di-covcry of the properties of v'ltictrii'ity, and spreads already be wind flic nvutal grap of any one single worker," And what is in store beyond for man's research and conqiic-t who hall say.' When the Mayor of Charleston, W. V.i., sentence. I a white woman the other day to work seventeen days on the streets, the A'tnu'ii Cmi-ti'iitio i declares that a young firmer nrose and olTcrcd to t.ikc her plai c, saying that hu would ('.rcr ierniit a wuinan to be workcil as tl convict on the public streets. The JM-tyor accepted his o:"er, and tho man was marched oil to tho chain gang. Ho declined to irjvc his name, and said that Jilm Smith'' would do us well a any thin: ele. lie said that he was a faun laborer from some place up tho river, ! that lie never saw or heard of tho woman in his life until he aw her in the Mayor's court, but that his sense of manhood and his respect for woman kind would not permit him to seo one of this nox scraping tho public streets in company with tramps and bummers. Statistics are not always interesting reeling, observes tho New York Urnjifiir, yvX can any one fail to find causo for iv joining when he reads the fact that tho .my of American school childteu who hive resumed their studies numbers over 1 1,100,0(10.' The latest data furnished by ilie (iovcrnmeiit shows that there nre marly I'l.iiOO.OOti scholats enrolled upon tfe lists of our schools, and that tho averago daily attendauco is fully 1 1, 00V)M). Curiously enough tho greatest progress in this line is evidenced where one would least expect it. Tlio Territory of Cakota shows tho most marked in-c-rease in the number of her schools nnd scholars, and is followed closely by that oft ala'.d'-ie 1 State, Indiana. In New Hampshire, Vermont, chio, Nevada und SVkiIIi Carolina there has been a marked (itcre isc in tho number of school children enrolled. The centrul States of tho North aro far ahead of all the rest of tho I'niou, and tho Southern States, while tn.ftking rapid advance, Ht ill remain far in tho rear ns to the number of their children attending schools. Tlio New York Inilf'iniltiU presents it annual statistical exhibit of the vari imi churches in this country, compiled mostly from otlicial sources. Tho follow l ip; is a general summary by denomina tional groups : C.l. .Via. Com. Adventists K 100,441 lujrtiFts im a,v:i,(W.-i CirMiau t'nion... 1,-SOO .100 l.'O.OOU Owigrcentionall-iU 4,4 H 4,0tK) 4.'j7,.')S-I Km-ntis too :m tor.HW irmart Kvaugu'l.. 075 1.00 1 1,000 I-ilhernus 7,!K)'J 4,L'l!i UST.tHJO .V,nnonitn. .W (!05 ttl.UOJ AJ.Uih1ikU 4V59 ,:il3 4,Cii0,.V.1l Moravians tt 10H ?iw Jcnis.i'om.... 101 5,750 IVn-sltytPriiilis. 13,0:7 l),.'0 1,1."W,S5 jwopalians 4.7iM a.KJl 4I0,75 Wforme. 2.0J5 l.MtS K,54i ltoman Catliolios.. 0.S2J 6,MW 7,U00,(XK) I'oitarians 375 4H8 UO.000 Universalis T.)Q i(7 37,807 irand to'.al..ls,b 04,4.17 lt,7lf.i,3J Tlio net gain for tho year was 0431 churches, 4.105 minister! aud 774,081 communicants. By far tho heaviest gain ws among tho Duplils 1.187 churches iul olO'.t ministers. Tho Methodists, ilh thrir lH.OS.I churches, 38,313 niin itors and 1,000,12!) communicants, stand at the head of tho denominations, the ltoman Catholics come next, and then the Uuptists, rresbyterlans, Lutherans, t'ongrr-gatioualists and Kpiscopsliaus. FOREST riRB. Summer hard a hidden Inrnxt whirring; Stooped shs to the flowers with a sigh. "Darling, corns," she said; "we must be stirring. tlear the heral'll Autumn draweth nlghr" Bo, her lifted skirt with flowers heaping, 1'assed she through the fields and wood land ways. Tiny croaturm, 'tween the bush ponplng, Raw her go, with sorrow In their gaze. Laughing, turned she, ere she went, uphold ing O'er the land her sun-glass high In air; Soon was soon a thin sinok.s Tell enfolding Distant hills ami valleys everywhere. Then she slipped awey with silent laughter, Kro the spark had quickened Into flame. "lluddy Autumn swiftly fo lows after," Whispered she, "an 1 he shall bear the blame." Koon a stealthy yellow flams was creeping Hre nnd there along a maplo bough. Bwift from tree to tro ths lire went leaping. Lol how all the woods are blazing now!" Charle I'. Sherman (a Airpfr's Weekly. A BRIDE FKOMTHE SEA. TV KIIANds M. I.IVINOSTOV. l'cm 'trins (Jrcnu was a traveling sales man. He had the reputation of being the bct-informcd man and of selling more o.nls in his lino of business than any man in New York. The causes for th;s were few, but amply Mi'licient. The li ist of these was natural ability ; he had a keen eye to biiMiie-s, and when he had anything to do he permitted nothing to interfere with it until his end was ac complished, lb; was a man of L'ood ap pearance and address; mid, lastly, wat a man of good habits. lie was in no sense n ladies' man, f'.r he had iick-cr cultivated the society of the gentler sex, perhaps from lack of time, perhaps f.'om want of inclination. lie had been with his house fouryenn when he took his li.iU vacation. He had never asked for one, nnd In; did not ask for this one. 1 1 is employers freely ollercd it to him and insisted on his taking three wrrks. So, in thu month of July ho ran down to l'atchogue, Long Island, intending to pais a part of his vacation with a married siter who w as spending the summer there. Hit sinter was an at tractive young woman, fond of society, bho introduce I him to several nice girls, and what with boating, bathing ami strolling on the beach, I'cmctrius louud that there were other things in life which he en joyed as much as selling canned goods. l'.y far the mot attractive gi 1 among his sister's friends, I lemetrius thought, was l.ydia Unit Icy. She was not par ticularly h autifcil, except that she had the beauty of youth, health ami inno cence; but she was modest, sweet tem pered, aud a thoroughly nice yirl. She wa from Drooklyu, and had come to l'atchogue with her aunt for the summer. More thauMiis I 'cmetrius's sister did not know, as .he had never met thu Hartleys before their seashore acquaintance. As for Demetrius himself lie did not nnk to know any more. At t.o end of a week he had settled in his own mind that ho would bo a happier man if he were mar ried. He had also do:crmined that l.ydia Hartley was tlio woniau to make Jinn hapoy, if ho could gain her consent. Though his mind was thoroughly made up on tiiis point, he resolved to wait another week before speaking to her. Caution was a character. stic of the man, and as he was to be iu 1'atchouu two weeks longer (for ho had icsolved to spend his whole vacation hero), there was no need to act on tho spur of the moment, aud Demetrius said to himself: 'I shall wait until next Saturday.'' On Motulav there was a boating party. When llio ladies wcie seated in the boat Demetrius noticed that l.ydia rose and gave her feat in the stern to her aunt. "She is thoughtful aud unscl!lh," lie said. When they were coming in a Bipiall sprang tip, the boat pitched a great deal arid tlieie was more dilliculty in making a landing. Mtut ol tho ladies were greatly frightened, many wero in tears aad some in hysterics. l.ydia alone, although a little pile, whs per fectly calm. 'Sho is sensible uud cour ageous," iaid Demetrius. They landed without an accident and Demetrius held an umbrella over l.ydia ns they ran to the hotel. Miss Hartley followed wrapped up in his mackintosh. The ladies wero none the worse for their wetting, and they had a merry patty at night in the parlor of tho hotel. Demetrius sat smoking his pipe for a long Mno In fore ho went to bed. He reviewed he events of the day, trying to recall all that l.ydia said and h'owldie looked when the said it. Ho thought ho had never seen eyes of such a beauti ful blue as heis, or hair of so pretty a brown. He remembmcd how her hands looked as they dipped iu and out of the baskets in preparing their luncheou.huch delt and competent hands as lliev were, as well as pi city haads. 0 thought of how she had a blight smile and a pleas ant word for everybody in tho parly, favoring uoue and forgettinir uone. All this and more hu recalled, then ho laid down his pipe, slapped his knee and laid: "She is a splendid girl 1 love her and I'm going to marry her:" which was a very enthusiastic outburst for Deme trius. Nevertheless he added: HI wait until Saturday.'' Saturday morning dawned bright and beautiful. Nothiug had occuued to change Dcmetrius's mind iu tue slightest deyreo, except that he was more in luvn than evor. There, win nnthimi . i... I , - - - ' .. ...... W UI that day, and Demetrius and J.vdia If- 3 .1 I II! .. - iuuuu wiuiuseivis strolling quite uutur slly on the beach together. They h id walked almost a mile neither h iving ipoken for some minutes when Deme trius proposed that they sit down on thu land. "1 have something to say to you, Miss Lydia," ho began. A fuint blush rose to J.ydia's cheek, but she made no reply. 'During the two weeks which I have known you I have grown to feel a doep regard for you," he went on; 'you ate the first wouiau I have ever loved, aud if you can caro for me in return I want to make you my wife. 1 am, as you know, I traveling talesman. My salary is $u000 t year, with perquisites amounting to 10i)0 moro. My id-lcr, Mrs. Jackson, is tho only relative 1 have. If you marry me you will find that 1 will do every thing a man in my position can do to make you happy. 1 have not arrived at this decision suddenly, and I will not press you for an answer if you wish to take time to consider. I shall be here until next Faturday." This was very long speech for Demetrius, but he felt that the circumstances required tome thing different from soliciting an order for canned goods. The blush on Lydia's check had deep ened as ho went on. When he paused she was silent a moment, and then, with downcast eyes, he said : "This Is sudden, Mr. Grem; I did not think that is, I was not sure that you" "Ah. you did suspect, thenl" said Demetrius, smiling. "A little yes." "And perhaps you have already con sidered what you would say when I should speak to you. I hope you haven't tnado up your miud to send me to the right nbout." l.ydia raised her eyes. "No, Mr. Orecn, I have not," she said. '-I respect youi offer, I have the highest esteem for you, nnd I am sure that I shall grew to to care for you very much." Demetrius took her hand, and bending over it kissed it. They sat thero long talking togothor; but all they said does not concern us. Demetrius had told l.ydia she was the only woman he had ever loved. She, in her turn, confessed what everv L'irl would not, that ho was the very first j sweetheart sho had ever had. Hut , Demetrius loved his tender flower all tho i more that he had lieen its discoverer. As they walked back to tho hotel ho Said: "And now I must speak to your aunt; do you think she will obect?" '.Myaiintf Oh, no, my sunt wiil not obYct. I am sure. ' saul l.vdin. In tho evening when Domctrus ap proached .Miss Hartley on tho sub ect she seemed considerably surprised. "l.ydia is so young I never thought that so soon " tho old lady stam mered, "..f course, Mr. (ircen, you have my consent, so far as I am con cerned, but I am not Lydia's natural guard nn.' ' "I thought she made her homo with you." sail) Demetrius in some surprise. "So she docs,-' said .Miss Hartley, "Who is her guardian then?' "Her father." "Does her father live with you?" o. Me comes to the house about i every week, w hen we are at homo." I "WLsie can 1 find him?" j "I cannot tellyou-Iio not know," i said the old lady in some confusion. j "Is it no. esary that I get his consont to my marrying l.ydia?' "I think so. oh yes, indeed." ) "Miss Hart'cy said Demetrius, "if there is anything of a painful naturo about your brother, I do not ask you to tell it to mo. I am going to marry your niece, but I should perfcr to have her father's consent." j "There is nothing painful Mr. Orcen. It is only that I can tell you absolutely nothing. My brother is a very peculiar man. Some year ago ho was a sea-cap- i tain of soma prominence. He lost tho command of his vessel, or resigned it, I do not know which, and since then I havo never learned what busiucss he went into, (icnernlly ho comes to see us every week, but sometimes he doesn't come for a month." ' "Does he never writo to you or your niece?" i "No yes, ho did once. lie sent Lydia a message nbout a year ago, and I : remember that 'Brooklyn Navy Yard' wa on the letter paper, but that, may not have meant anything." j "I am much obliged to you for tho information; it probably means a great; deal to nny ono who wants to find him. i Is this all you can tell me?" j "That is all I know." Another week passed, a week of great happiness for Demetrius, nnd apparently for Lydia, too. Demetrius had told her that he was to go ou tho road again tlio following Monday. He would bo in ! New York often before tho fall, nnd, of j course, would always come over to 1 Brooklyn to see her. "In October I shall bo in the city for three weeks," ho added, "and then, if it suits you, is when I should like our marriage to take place." , Lydia blushed, then smiled ai;d con sented. 1 tu Monday Demetrius bndo adieu to his betrothed, took the eaily train for New York and reporting to his homo made up his route. Then he started for Brooklyn, nnd reached the Navy Yard shortly after noon, tioing to headquar ters he inquired for Mr. Hartley. "David Hartley?" was the response i "Yes, is he heie?" ! "No, he's out." iioiutingto tho water. "Can I communicate with him? It is on a matter of great importance," said Demetrius, looking at his watch "and wilt probably take but a short time." The oilicial hesitated a moment then rang a bell. "John, this gentleman wants to talk to Hartley. Take him over." Tho mail led tho way to the dock when the two got into a small boat, tho man taking the oars and pulling toward a tug which lay about two hundred feet from tho dock. Thero were several men on tho tug. "Which of these gentlemen is Mr. Hartley I" asked Demetrius. I "None," replied ouo of the men, I laconically. "I was told that I should find Mr. Hartley here," he Baid. "if you can wait a whilo, we'll have him up." said tho tlrst speaker. "I p?" ieicated Demetrius. "Yes, out of tho water; he's in the wreck." "Wreck what wreck?" "The Mury Stevens, right under you, sir." Demetrius was appalled. Was Lydia's father drowned, aud had he come here only to carry back this dreadful news to herf Three deep, reverberntiug strokes came from far beneath him, which sounded like a death knell. Demetrius shuddered. Then catching sight of the amused faces of the men, ho thought it some hideous joke. "(jientlomen," he said, "I must see Mr. Hartley or communicate with him at once on a matter of the utmost import ance. You say that ho is under tho water, yet I nru perfectly sure that he is not dead. I have to transact my business and catch a train at o'clock, so I should he obligod to you if you will explain this mystery at ouce." "Certainly, sir," said tne man who hnd answered him, "Mr. Hartley is down in the wreck, in the diving-beli; if you cannot wait until ho comes up, we'll send down a message for you." Demetrius breathed more freely, tore a leaf from his memorandum took aucj hastily wrote: "Demetrius Orlien with Msnninff, Moore ft Manning, asks th hand of your daughter Lydia in mar riage. He has her consont, and hopes to have yours." This he enclosed In an envelope and addressed, gave it to the man and watched him curiously as he placed t In a small metd receptacle attached to rord, then jerked a rope and lowered the receiver into the water. After what seemed a long time, several of the same strokes which De.neirius had heard previously resounded again, and the cord was drawn up, the receptacle opened and Demetrius rece ved his own note, on the buck of which was scrawled: '! don't object. D Hartley." "Can you send me another meisage?" asked Demetrius. "Yes, sir." He wrote: "The wedding day is fixed for October 8; I sincerely hope you will be present." This was sent as before, and after an other interval of waiting came back the answer: "All right; I II be there " "What'e the charge, gentlemen?" said Dcmetriu.j. briskly, as he folded up his correspondence and put it In his pocket "No charge, sir." "No charge? Then take this, and drink to the health nnd happiness of my bride and myself on the Hh of October,'' and pressing a live-dollar note into tht hand of tho astonished workman, he sprang into tho boat and was rapidly pulled ashore. 2'U ICjvch. A Woman's lVrullar .Malady. Thero is living in Cleveland, Ohio, lady a llictcd with a pcculinr malady which lias puzzled and ba lled the entire medical fraternity of this section of the country. Herself tho si-ter of a well known physician, sho has been unable to obtain any relief, nnd has turned in despair from ono form of treatment to another without avail. Some years ago, when n young girl, the house in which u.o was stopping at the time was struck by lightning. All of the inmates were stunned, and more or less seriously in jured. This young lady su tiered more severely than tho other victims. The shock completely paralyzed both her or gans of speech ami motion, and sho lay for days in n most precarious condition. I ccovery, although slow, was appar cntly complete, however, and in a few weeks tho elTect of the stroke had cn thely passed away, says the Pittsburg D'i'pixlli. One day sho felt tho dread symptoms of paralysis stealing over her, and before assistance could be mtniuoned the un fortunate woman was again prostrated, speechless, and unablo to move a musclo of her body. It was noticed at tho time that a heavy thunder storm was brewing, and that tho air was overcharged with electricity. When the storm was over the patient rapidly recovered, and the next day was as well ns ever, save tho nervous shock attending tho relapse. Tho next th indcr storm brought with it the same alarming state of alTairs, nnd again was tho young woman pnralycd, recovering only when the atmosphere was cleared of its overcharge of elec tricity. The fact that the victim's sys tem, rondercd sensitive to electrical changes by the frightful shock it had ro ceived when tho was struck by light ning, was now susceptible to the slightest pretence of the subtle fluid, was row ap parent, aud medical science was called into requisition to elfect a cure. All remodies proved inelTective, and with every recurring thunder storm the un fortunnto woman relapses into a state of partial or complete paralysis, according to tho severity of the storm. Her health hss, of course, sulfcrcd from tho con stant strain put upon her both physically nnd mentally, but there appears to bo no relief from tho malady, if it can be termed such. The Handsomest Horse in the World. At tho horse annex of tho Buffalo (X. Y.) fair, every variety of the equine race was represented from the huge Clydes dales weighing over '000 pounds, "with hams like an elephant's and white fet locks that sweep the ground, down to tho daintiest darling of a Shetland pony, mouse color and white, hardly larger than a Newfoundland dog, and limbed like a deer. Very funny was a group of extra diminutive ponies with their de mure little mule colts beside them. Thero were many l'crcheron and French coach hrscs, splendid creatures, most of them imported, but perhaps the two most notable animals wero Mambrino King nnd Al-Monarch. Al-.Mounrch, tho bold originality of whoso Arabo-drcck title cannot bo too much admired, is not so celebrated for his speed, as for the fact that he is tho father of Kl-Monarch, a horse of i.:Vi record, tho last quarter being at n paco which would reduce it to 'Mi if the whole mile had been at the same speed. H-Monarch did not himself appear in tho flesh, but the pub lic were consoled by a photograph, pre sumably instantaneous, which represents him us llying through the air apparently, all four feet boing all tho ground. I be lieve the instantaneous process lias es tablished tho fact that a swift trotting horse is frequently detached in that fashion. As for Mambrino King, he trawls on his beauty, having tho reputation of be ing the handsomest horse in the world. '1 his at leust was the claim boldly made for him by tho placard in frout of his box. He certainly has a beautiful head and eyes of indecribnble muguiliceuce. As it was impossible to exhibit him in motion, tho instantaneous photograph was again brought into requisition, a wonderfully spirited picture, that re called Job's warhorso. He looks thero like an embodied thunderbolt. Timet Democrat. A Unique French Advertisement, The latest device for attracting the at tcntion of possible purchasers which has been adopted by several l'aris shopkeep ers is an "immovable boy." Outside a clothier's, for instance, the "boy" stands without moving a muscle, and bears on his carcase the newest fashion in blouses or coiduroys. l'assers-by are easily at tracted by the remaikable figure, which they take to be au effigy iu waxwork or a tableau ticnn'. The boy has been well drilled anl lives up to his work. Ho smiles not, neither does ho wink, nor does he betray tho slightest sign, tokeu or movement that he has anything in common with the ordinary palpitating aud etTervcscing specimen of humanity, the "Boulevard boy." The device draws, for spectators are usually lost in amazement at the impassive features of the breathing impersonation of a dummy figure. HDtrttOhO JfATTECa. To Clean Paint Work. ' A steamboat steward says that house keepers should go to a steamboat for lessons on cleaning paint work. The cabin of a steamboat, painted a cleat white, is kept quite as if the painter had iust left it, being not only clenr, but having a beautiful polish. All that is necessary Is a little water, a sponge, pure castlle soap, and a smooth cloth for rub bing after the dirt has been washed ofl with the sponge. The rubbing restores the polish. Many people ps.nt every year, whereas if the paint is washed in this way it will show clear and with high polish for four or five years. lYairu Farmer. Use Plenty of Apple. Applet are abundant and cheap this year, sayt the New York Wilms, and there it no more useful fruit. Law, stewed, baked or preserved, they are wholesome, toothsome and nutritious. The fall apples are the most Juicy and delicious, but do not keep, and for that reason have to be sold cheap. Every good sired family should buy a barrel of them at once for immediato use, and save them from spoiling by eating thero up A considerable portion of them might also be mado into jelly by coring them and boiling skin and all. lied ap ples are best for this purpose, as ht color of tho skin gives a tine rich tint to tho jelly. A liberal allowance of lemon juice should he added to the apple juice and an equal weight of sugar, nnd the whole boiled into a jelly. It is th cheapest of all jellies, and remarkably good when well mado. Bought apple .icily is not nearly so nice, and can seldom be relied upon. It is frequently made from the refuse of the evaporating es tablishments, that is, the cores, and skins and wormy applvs. Tickles. For pickles of all kinds uo tho best cider vinegar and not an acid, vinegar, so-called. It cannot be too strong, as it is weakened when scalded. I'nscnldcd vinegar does not keep well with pickles. Never use a metal vessel in pickling; it should be either granite ware or por celain. Tickles should be examined fre quently nnd tho soft ones taken out. If white specks appear in the vinegar drain it off and scald; add a half teacup ol sugar to each gallon and pocr again ovct the pickles. A few bits of horse radish or a few cloves added will improve the flavor. All vegetables or fruits for pickling, except for sweet pickles, should be sound, but not quite ripe. Do not scald cucumbers, but souk them in salt nnd water. Boiled beets can be pickled whole, first removing tho outer skin, to be sliced when required. Vegetable! that require to bo boiled or scalded before pickling will be whiter if a little lemon or green grapo juice is added to the water, .as cabbago, cauliflower, white beets or (onions. For green vegetable! put a little soda in tho water to preserve the color. Cure should be taken not to scald too much, or they will bo soft and tasteless. Always have tho vegetables or fruit perfectly cold before pouring over the vinegar, which should be in all cases very hot. A good average of spices to, a quart oi pickles is an even teaspoon each of all spice and peppercorns, one-half a tea spoon of mustard seed, a piece of Jamaica ginger one inch long ana a tablespoon oi stick cinnamon broken. Detroit Free Pre. Household Hints. Use a warm knife in cutting warm bread and the like. A paste of whiting and benziuo will remove spots fiom marble. A salt ham should be soaked over night in plenty of soft water previous to boil-iuK- After washing a wooden bowd place it where it will dry equally on all sides, away from the stove. Fruit stains on white goods can bo re moved by pouring boiling water directly from tho kettlo over tho spots. Hive sirup is good for croup or inflam mation of tho lungs. It must bo kept in a cool placo, for if it sours it is ery poisonous. If you want poached eggs to look par ticularly nice cook each egg in a mu tin ring placed in the bottom of a saucepan of boiling water. A creaking hingo can lie cured by tho use of a black lead pencil of the softest number, tho point rubbed into all tho crevices of tho hingo. Corks may bo made airond water tight by keeping them for five minutes under melted puraliiuo. They must bo kept dowu with a wire screen. For cleaning brass uso a thin paste ot plate powder, two tablespoonfuls of vino gar, four tablespooufuls of alcohol. Hub with a piece of flannel; polish with chamois. Suet should bo cooked before it is stale. Boil for two or three hours, then strain through a linen cloth. One-fourth of this fat und three-fourths lard is a good mixture for frying doughnuts. Be very particular about disinfecting tho kitchen sink. Washing soda, two tablespoonfuls to a gallon of boiling water, makes an excellent wash to pour hot into the sink at after you have fin ished using it. Washiny Away a Continent.' The average discharge from the Mis souri into the Mississippi is estimated at 170 cubic feet per second. This would bo 500,000 cubic yards per day, and 180,000,000 cubic yards per year. At flood stage the sedimeut has reached the enormous amount of 4,000,000 cubic yards iu one day. This w ould make a bank twenty-three miles long and 100 yards across, and loot) miles of such levee in a year. When the united rivers pour into tho gulf, the output of soil annually is twice the above amount. The meaning of such figures it is im possible to measure. One hundred and fifty cubic milos of the continent tumbled annually into tho sea by one watershed I The wear and waste of cultivable soil is euormous. But the great problem for man is how to control tho mud-laden waters so that they shall not destroy ruthlessly ou tho way to their discharge. U lobe-Democrat, George W. Cable calls Maurico Thomp son the sweetest and mott gifted of poets of the present day. "FACTii Wisconsin hat a chamoloil .L - a . . . tne gsme oi arangnis. No gold or silver coins art the Chinese Government. Edith Brlnkham of Tlacln ' her life by falling out of bed. The lean year privilege is .11 J T .""H ix uunureu sou suit years DM Ben Franklin recognized th. . time. He Invented three clorv. l A skipping rope hat been ... . i hlch sets in motion a small in ono oi me nanaies. Mary Goodwin of Atlani. , thirty-eight years of age and oi iwcniy-seven cnnaren. It it against municipal law In r dig over 11)0 feet to find well tj is me uiea mat me ooiiom ,J mrougn. Ice was produced in summer J oi cuemtcai mixtures by Mr. fl-.i i i ins was tne nrst known J in mis airection. The first patent in America I . - . -.. ... . . - in limp t ramuci Hopkins, 0 1 deiphia, lor an improvement manufacture of potash. iscnr wBKianu, icnn , an eim struck a fallen tree nnd every u. rans, vet not a single patt: citncr Killed or wounded. n. ti nniiiuiiMi luirnnry pf i ie..i.:.i... t !. 12000 lor ail tue delicacies of i to bo fed to his dog, while his r. i sm n a lini tn I . I 1 vvna iiinuv nun iv 1U9 UlCO 1 1 only. F.iuhty-four children bclnrgl mntiicrs oi .ilC' i in, I'enn. Jin Field has 2S. Mrs. Jose, h ( I Mrs. .lames Barrett 10, and Mn i Wright 13. A .Missouri horse fell over sr a .ti t i ii to icci uiii nnd escape l scratch on his leg. Next dir picco of corn cob in his tin choked to death. rr-c . i. ., mo i.cnmMins iuko ineir iH their discoverer, John Herinn i visited them in I't'i'i. Tlio ti . was 8ir George hummers, win , awny on them in 100.1. While Charles Cogswell a pretty young woman of lin-l Conn., tho other day, he dm; uj ncr iuu. ruu luinieo irnm ': and was for a time likely to d m' .i . i i, umoiny carter is Dencve.i :l oldest stcreotypcr. Ho Intro- J trado in Boston. School Im. . of him in 1817. Hu is still , man, lives at Newton, and years of age. At Tcxarkana tho other di; horned steer undertook to kiwi elephant of a traveling cicu. on his native heath was no iiu big foreigner, and was laid ou j stark in just half a round. At Kearney, N. J., a factonj is being erected, which wi isueo, ie mo iauct in t lie cn ; thu fourth highest in the woii. be 3-15 feet high. There arc:' chimneys in Scotland and on- land. A hotel waiter in Cincinnati J iroin a guest, ma tlio m: "turn-dowu" collar. Hewvj of the theft, and, whilo being J to the stationhouse, the oilier greenback protr.uding fro1 aiding piaco. A beetle as largo asasparrol received by tne Mate r.ntcl New York. It camo fro: America, Ho has another cut I resembles two green leaves i:: twig, it is called a camel c: was produced In Texas. A Massachusetts cat. which I tho age of twenty years und : is buried under a granite ow. to resemble Bunker Hill mom I deeply chiselled with the ni" erly," the which hitih soiini: . tion belonged in life to the a I There was a ruce lately in U tweou a obra aud an or tliouah tho bird camo in a Ik ahead, the beast wou the w done in this wise: I he M claimed that ho had been p- fowl, which nobody with a I tbography could deny, and i was awarded where it did no: sailors believe roliyiou-i; I frigate bird can start at d.iyl tho trado winds from thecoa-: aud roost tho same nhlit American shore. Whether oil a fact has not yet been com! termiued, but it is certain t; is thu swiftest of winged crevi is ably to fly, under favonug : L'OO miles an hour. Tho etymology of the wordij is tbus given by a ituua Among the northern niitioc-l there was ancient practice of : riod couples to drink met lit;' a kind of wine mado from 11 droinel) for thirty days nftet Henco the term honcymonth ' moon. Attila, tho Hun, dn: mead at his wedding feast tbi Vegetables of National 1st The importance of vcgcH- Lnited States, savs a writer u len ient, has been partially d' in late years by tne regular a by Congress of the "Section l'atholoiry," since, while in tends to the diseases of vi1 trees, it also investigates toe tables. A small upprop: granted to the Department ture for tho support of till'" iuopo iu cnargu Ol it in" -ered a good dual of infomut po'.ato rot iu the United f Botanical Division has slf 15,000 copies of the "Circa on "Treatment of the potato for the bliurht and rot." DIIow strange all such Co"' sistance would have seemeu lieh 300 vcars aero, when, us. cardenlnsr. "thoueh k! by the monks, had become art in England." In 15U3 we are told that to twenty shillings wus ( "; six cabbages and a fow earn writer of 1650 tells of an ' remembered "the first gl1 came into Surrey to ulaut." cauliflowers, aud to sow tu"J and parsnips and early T which at that timo were we having few or none in what oame from Holland or C0B10CS
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