J" TUEMIDDLEKURGIIPOST. T. B. HA TITER, tone afd Vro'n. MWDt.KHVlUi, IA. JV1.Y Jl. !. The public ili-lit of the Anstrnlinn colo. Hii- amounts to is?5.M0,000, while the n:i-e population white, lilmk, Muori h.i I Chinese numbers four millions. ( ti'Ur boasts that iim-irtit Home wis i.i-vcr hi populous as New York. In the ev.ith of her Tune the 1 i 1 not probably contain a rtiillin;i people. l!rookljn is t sirh a t'ity, as to sie, ns .hu was in In r glorv. The experiment of profit sharing has hu i :i thorough lest at the If ionic mills, .11 IVil Kiver, Muss., during the last Um he month", a:il the results have been so sat; factory as to elicit f rum the Presi dent of tin t (imp my ti.e opinion ih i' it is the!. inning of the solution tj tic; labor i. If the uib'i: is to lie tr i-!rd, some I'.irisiii'i T i i 1 1 are to be in lin k year. It is said tint :i sum of v amounting t dti'l'l has been be. your Ml !. in"::- Hi' ith'd to the City of Paris by one I'.i- al F.ivalo, the interest of which is to be us d annually to In: nNh dowries to ouug women from the nges of sixteen to 1 wen! v live, who mut bj of go 1 1 icpoit nnd na'.ivcs of Paris. The modern idci is,ih.-.ci ves the Arjn t,f.', tiifl'. it is better to wound than to kill, not becau-e it is more liumane, but bemuse a dead man can bu left lying on 111" hnttle-ficld, w hiio a wounded man puts born ilis combat his comrades who assist him. Therefore, thu buliet that p isses through lialf-a-do.eii men, wound, ill',' nich severely, is preferred to the bill 'et h;i h pimply finds its allotted billet nad kills only one. 1: is very gratifying to tho-o citi.ons who brought (icriiian Bone; birds to Ore a year ago and released them in the ub'.ir'rs of Portland, rejoices Wat .Siori, to vte ho.v thry have increased in num bers in one seisou. In a few years they will have spread over u largo territory, and tb.-ir songs will carry joy t. the ncai'.sof thousands to whom the nightin gale and liiillllach have been as unknown us the bird of paradise. ('enrral (). (). Howard, in a recent address ia Brooklyn, N. Y., referred to workiiigaien who earn 20 per inonth, iny $S of that for rent and hud only tiio remaining $12 to support families of four or five, persons for thirty days. Tho Chrittiun Inquirer says: '-It is that class if pinched, impoverished workingmon that is liable to rise like tho blind Sam som mid burl the Statu to destruction. It ii impossible t make such men feel the ju-'.iee of the inequalities in modern mmtm Th 'J llostij.i ('!! it-itor sends out this warning: ".Sundry sharpers, with more shrewdw.-s th in honesty, arc working an entirely new trick upon the farmer.) out Wot. They go to a farmer and pretend to 'v.uit to buy his farm at nin;. The prh docs not exactly suit the strangers, but they manage while negotiations lira un.:i',' on to in -tall themselves into the ;;.io 1 graces of the farmer, and proceed to -put iu' ut hi.s hou.-c for as many days s ti.ey can. After they h ive stayed as lone; us they d ue, they take their depir t u: and look u;i lodgings with a fresh victim. If their prim is met they give the tanner the slip at th" first opportune it v. A New York iininani e paper has just roniph ted in tluics on life insuraneu for 1 an I they i-how that during la'-t year the companies increase 1 their assets .'i.'i, (it'll, (Hlil, and their surplus, which now mnount.s to $'.), 177,7(17, is ij?,"1", lliio lsirLter than it was last year. The piemimu income increased t'.'n.Oil dOil, wl'i'e the total incoaiu ainouiited to 11,1 1 jjSo.l, an im lease of over '"'lid, tiiM.tHlO. The companies disbursed to policy holders 52,0 Jl, 7"j, and thu total premiums for the year were 121, 17i',i',s. The new business of liut year iiiei .iised Clti,i)iMi,()a ) over the pre iiuis year, while thu insurance! in force .u increased ' J.Vj,21!.",2.) I. A IIUMlber citieiis have of New York's foremost orani.ed themselves into t!i New York II itli Association, witii i.upo.Mi of I'stablishint; in that city a tie ', 'ill 11. public ; nl KoiiiC. VI! Iieeil M'itlc batii similar to tha'. of 'l'iie plans for the baths 1 up in. Tiu; building 1, will oei.upy nearly a whole, city blo'-k, 1111 1 ai i'ii.iiiiiodiite 11 vast nuiii');r of p a--hous at. o n e. It w ill be patterned niter tiie Uo.'iiau baths, with all modern appli ances niul comforts, utld wiil be three Morics, high. The oa'.'.r walls will be of ter. -a colta and brick or btone, and alt I lie lloors marbled or tiled. The tipper floor will bo converted into libraries and gymnasium, mid the bathine; rooms will hiive a lnr swimming pool, hoi baths, p!u. and drtwiu rcmuut. THE BONO OP THE SEA. TbWr world wii world of enchantment; A wonder of luminous llglit Camoout with a flaring of csrmlnis Krotn all the black ipnee of night; The muic of morn wen na lilitheenna And chwjr as music could bo; Ittit all throiiRh the dawn mil the daybreak I inouni?d for tho ewig of the ea. They shone 1 nis the ninrreloiis flowers And fruits of tlmir mn-lienleii Ian Ih; Thny mid, "Here are vlne-tmiKleil vnlleyg; Forget ye the barren whito snn In; Kor a wenriness unto tho snint The dah of tho breakers must bt; S i dwell yo IkmI le our lilui waters; Korget the sad Hong of thu s n." And I wrapped me about In tho nunli?lit, a tlie innrgii of a diiiiilinK htroam, And therj in a tannic of lilies, I wove tne a won ler ful dream; An I a wing from mjr tlrcaml.ind went float in far up where thj nngrtu must ba, I'.ut divp In its under vibrations I heard the sweet miiik of tho With the dew in his loclts all n glitter, The IVinejof the Daytim i lay .!,.. 1; T.'l- the silver-whito liineo of Ihj twilight is note tiff thn K.iM crown lr mii his he.nl; An I the I'nneeKS of Night eame to sea him, Her lights nil nlMiut him t Imiig; Anil a niKhtinnln T ssne I in n,o tliieket His sonx to tlm shriilm-cr tn. And the Mream from the tn;li of lilies ('nine ivinilin; iti way tliroii;h thu seJe; And a nilvery no it urn i it ri.. I Atiioiik the tall flaH on its edgo; I'. it its liahlilti I fiiui would have ire-i Kor the sleeji-wnoins " viicvs' hill, And tiie nihtinj; a'e's aon woul I hava bar tensl For the desolnto cry of a kuII. Their world was a world of en hantmnt; And they In i;he l with tho Inuhtor of scorn, When I turned me away fr.i n iti lieanty In the light of tho luminous morn; Hut I heard a grand voire hi tun distaueo Insistently calling to inn. And I rose with a Jubilant sj.lrlt And followed the H0113 of th.. lhitHe M7n7,.;, ;,f,,f t,tja:ine. A Patcbwork Quilt. UV M.VItV KVI.K im.l.AS. Have you my where nbout your house, amidst your counterpanes and romfort itbles which you looke I nt rive minutes u fore buyin perhaps, one of those old fashioned pntehwoik ipiilts in ide of the tiniest pieces, ;irnin,'ci in the most in tricate pattmis, over which nt least one pair of eyes were Mraincd for days and weeks 1 cforo ipiiltiuo ,lm, ,..m. ,( those puffy little diamonds were marked out, amidst chat and laughter, by half 11 dozei, ladies I Did you ver, in child hood, sit upon the bed ami bear the hin tory of thu various pieces of chint.f That's a pieco of your first colored dress; that I had when I was a girl; that waa your grundinoiber'a morning gown; that is n pieco Misa 8 gave me. I hnvo heard audi a history many a time, and little picture used to putts beforo my eyes with the words. I could sue just how grandma lookeil in the morning-gown. I could nco myself a baby, taking toddling steps in the'blue frock. It neemed so funny to have been 11 buby when I was an important person of live years. It doesn't seem half fit funny now, for I have begun to doubt whether I shall ever be anything else, and to know just how many big babies there ure in this world. Dear old patchwork ijuilts? We've lost, something in losing them, I think, and probably Mrs. Mumford thought so, too, for whenever any of her childu u were found hitting with those idle hand, for which Dr. Walts declares that Satan al ways funis some mischief, she invariably remarked: "You'd better get jour patch work." They always obeyed, those threo little girls, Lucy, Ituth mid Olive, and there, were piles of quilts in the upstair room where spare bedding was stored ouilt.s of many color, ipiilis of only two, .piiits with large, mpiaro blocks, and ipiilts with intricate patterns, like a Chinese puzzle, ipiilts that had been made by people in their nineties, mid ipiilts that, had been made by people who could not yet s!iy: am nine years old." I'iecing n quilt whs I he first work and the last of the members of the Mumford family. I think an ancestor made some patches on board of thu Mayflower. At least, it was said ho. When 11 young person married, a dowry of ipiilts had always been pro videdalways would Im while Mrs. .Mumford lived. When Olive was fifteen, .slm had been told that the white and Turkey red ipiilt which her gre it-grand- mother had made -was to be amotig her share, as the eldest daughter of thu house. She laughed then, and said: "I shall always stay at home with you, mamma. 1 bhall bu thu old timid daugh ter." A year afterward she did not think this, whatever she might have said, for the year had made her feel thut sho was 110 longer a child, and she had met Harry Martin, who had put an engagement ring on Olive's linger, and, if all went well, her seventeenth birthday would Dud her a matron. Nothing like Racing your children settled before you nru broken down your fell'," f"id thu mother; mid thereupon be inn to teach Olivj thu higher mys lencs 01 pastry, nam eoottiug every girl ol tint lamily ipnto understood. A lover always takes great interest in bis lady's handiwork. Harry regarded all the little pieces of sewing which pased through Oiive's htttid with im mense admiration, mid the homely patch work was just as line in bis eyes as any thing else; and there was often liiueli talk about thu pieces, mid, oneu or twice, Im had cut them out, after thu cardboard patterns, loving to meddlu with i::ythiug that sho was busy with, iu old tritu lover' fashion. Ouu evening, when ho went in, liu found thu girl looking, as tin artist ini'ht loo at a ruru old muster, ut a loug breadth of old-fashioned, flowered chintx. 'Mother has just given tna this, Harry," sho said. "It is like a gown of old Aunt Hrpsiba's. It shimmer like silk, and sen how fine it is. Hut fancy wearing such largo patterns. Look! a butterfly on a bough, and a rose, ad a butterfly on a bough again, and thasi An other rose, like wall paper. Tho diffi culty will be," said Olive, pausing tocon sider, "how to get tho pattern Into a patch without spoiling it." "I'll help you," said Harry; and to work ho went, and for a pleasant hour or two ho kept cutting patches. A bad nnd n butterlly on one, n rnso on tho other, bud and butterily, and rose, again. "And he has not sjHiiled nnc,uiamma," said Olive, in a tone of pride. "I'm sure I should have cut it do.eu butterflies' heads off, if I had tried." So tho young things laughed over their exploits, and then flipped merrily away to have their lovers' chat whero nobody could listen. It was tho last. Tho next day, Harry Martin was missing, and with him a large sum of money from his employers' safe. The news spread through tho country town liko w ild-tire. Harry was an or phan, nnd the son of an old friend of the lead of the linn. It was understood that iiiey would be merciful, but his charac ter was blighted foiever. No one doubted his guilt but Olive. She steadfastly declared him innocent. Weeks passed on, and there was no news of htm at lent, none that reached the Muiiiford'sears; but ons night, when Mrs. MumforJ went out to the cow-house to sec that I'rummio was safe for the night, some mm tame out of tho dark ness, and culled to her. 'Who is that?" cried tho la ly, her heart giving one great throb. "It's I Harry," said a well-known voice. "Oh! Mrs. Mumford, let me sec Olive." "Harry Martin!" said Mrs. Mumford. ''Oli! Marry Martin, you've made a sal home of mine!'' And sho broke into tears. "And you nil believe! it nt once?" aid Harry, sadly. "I didn't think you would." "Oh, Harry," said Mrs". Mumford, "Satan tempts us all. I'm sorry for you, but you can't see Olive. It's better for h'T you shouldn't. Sho was very fond of you, Harry." "And she has turned against me, too, thenf" said the young man. "You don't blamj her, poor lamli," said Mrs. Mumford. "A girl like that can't have anything to do with one that has disgraced himself." "Love is more stedfast," said Harry. "Lvil reports fould not have won my from Olive." Then, without another word, ho went away and such a hold have homely things upon our memory sometimes, Hint, as he went, he saw the pretty household picture ho had l ist seen beneath the roof that now refused to welcome him, as plainly as we see things in dreams; his love, with her dark curls about her fane nnd tho ueedlo in her hands, nnd the skein of thread about her neck ; a bright lamp burning upon the tuble, nnd on tho other side, himself cutting out pieces for patchwork from a pasteboard pattern, and laying in a littlo brilliaut pile, squares and triangles, on which were a rose and 11 butterlly ukii a tlowcring branch, a butterfly 011 a flowering branch, and a full blown rose alternately. A Western editor speaks of u wind that "just sat up on its hind legs nnd howled." Such a wind it must have be n that was howling through thu bleak Maine country twenty years from the night 011 which Harry Martin turned from thu MuufordV door bu 1 went his way uloue. Tho inn or tavern or hotel, whichever it was, which boro the numo of T. Jolli ver upon its signboard, was not expect ing any guests that night, but, neverthe less, ouu eamo to its doors came Into, too, as the clocks were striking ten, and people generally thinking of bed. The gii 'st was a man of forty, with a sad sort of face a faeo with a story in it. Hut ho was well dressed, and evidently no poor traveler. Ho had supper in the best parlor, nnd, meanwhile, a tiro was made iu the best bedroom, in which, when ho madi! his way thither, ho found 11 buxom, youngish woman spreading uu extra counterpane upon tho bed. (iood evening, sir, she said, turn ing toward lnm with a manner tlmt be spoke tho landlady. "I thought I'd see that you were comfortable myself. I never leave everything to chambermaids. When I married a hotel-keeper, I made , up my mird to help him, nnd there's no such way of making guest feel dis couraged ns turning them over to help. And I've given you my prettiest quilt, too," said she, with u laugh. "There's uu honor." The gentleman looked toward the bed. The quilt was patchwork. It had a wide striped border, but in thu center the block weru all the same bright ( hint alternated with white a butterfly on a branch, a rose, a butterfly on a branch, uud a rose again. Tho man took a fold of it up iu his hand, and looked at it, ns men do not often look at patchwork quilt. Thu woman bubbled on. "We're great for patchwork In our family. Such a pile as wo had of these quilt ut homo. Sister Ituth had twenty when she was married, but I bad fifty. My other sister gavo mo her share, sotting that I married a hotel-keeper, and shu thinks she'll never marry. Oh, dear! There's a story in a good many ipiilts, if you did but know it; nud there i u story in tins. 11 s tne last 0110 uuvu ever made, liut 1 m iioring you, sir. "No, go on," said thu gentium an. Go on, please. "Sho was engaged tald tho landlady, "and sliu was but sixt.cn. Onn after noon, sho and her sweetheart cut out thesj blocks, thu next they parted. Ho wus suspected of a crime of robbery, sir, if I must say it uud sho never saw him again. Sho knew that ho was in ntceot. Sho said thu". all tho Angels in heaven couldn't make her doubt it, but 110 onu else thought with her until a year hud gout by. und tucu uu old conliduu tint clerk, Vno was trusted in everything, being caught in another theft, confessed to that which' my sister's sweetheart had been accused of. The story he had told to hi.s employers of being knocked down in the street of New York, where ho went that holiday afternoon, and being thought drunk, and put into a station house, and being ashamed to glvo his nntns next morning, and too sick to come home next day, was no doubt true. His employers advertised for him, but iti vain. And mother owned to sending him away fro.o tho door when he came to sen Olive. It is a sad story. Olive can't seem to like any one else, and tho poor fellow was so fond of her. So that's thu story of the ipiilt." Tho woman stopped nnd gavo a littlo cry, for the guest had flung himself upon hrs knees, und was kissing that patchwork nilt ns lovers kiss their sweetheart's lips. She gave another littlo -cry in A mo. meat, and knelt down besido him, and put her hand upon his shoulder. "Oh. dear! oh, dear!" sho sobbed, crying hard herself. "Oh, dear! 1 do believe it is Hurry Martin." Au 1 it was Harry Martin, who had been to the far ends of the earth and had omul gold, but not happiness, bcliex ing himself robbed for.'ver of love and of fair repute, nnd who had returned to find both awaiting him, through tint means of that patchwork ipiilt, with its butterlliei :.u 1 tlowcring boughs und roes. "Lucy" said Olive to her sister, a few months afterward, "now that we arc go ing to housekeeping, I want you to give me one thing." "Anything on earth that I can," said Mrs. Jolliver. "I was thinking of a sil ver service." "Oh, Lucy, dear," said Olive, begin ning to cry for very happiness, "it's only the butterfly ipiilt thnt I want. Tho dear old quilt. I lurry says we can't keep house without it, wo both love it so." "I've rolled it up for you already," said Mrs. Jolliver. "It seems to belong to you, Olive." And so to-day Olive's last baby sits upon the brilliant quilt, and tries, with his chubby fingers, to pull therefrom tho butterflies and roses. 7'fte ljiljtr. The Musical Sense In Aiilmalsand Men. The higher nnimals can also enjoy music, us my house-cat shows, when she comes at tho playing of the piano to sit by the player, and sometimes jumps into her lap or on thu key-bonrd of thu in strument. I know of a dog, too, in a family in Ilerlin, which conies in in like manner when there is music, often from distant rooms, opening the door with his paw. I knew of another dog, usually thoroughly domestic, which occasionally played the vagabond for love of music. Whenever the semi-annual mass was celebrated in tho city he could not bu kept at tho house. As soon as the so called Hergknnppun, which were accus tomed to play at thi time in the strSHiU, appeared, ho would run away and follow them from morning till eveniug. Evidently neither cats nor slogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appiuciatiou of it, for it is not of tho slightest use t them in the struggle for existence. More over, they and their organs of hearing were much older than man and his music. Their power of appreciating music L therefore uu uncontemplated side-faculty of n hearing upxrutu which has become on othsr grouuds wdiat we And it to Iv. So it is, I Irelieve, with man. He bus not acquired hi musical hearing as such, but has received a highly duveloHd organ of hearing by a process of selec tion, because it was necessary to him in the selective pnx-ess; ami this organ of hearing happens also to Im adapted to listening to iuuic. I'ujmlar b'cau Monthly. Heroic Deed of u Telegraph Operator. A delegate to tho recent Convention of thu Order of Kail way Telegraphers of America in New York city who attracted much attention wa Charles Adams, of Youngstowu, Ohio. At onu time when lie wus in the employ of the Pennsylva nia Railroad Co., Adams found a freight train directly in. the way of a fast ex press on thu main lino, and at that very moment the instruments in his olHco broke down without warning. Unless tho freight train was headed off and got on a siding a ureaatul disaster was in evitable. The anxious operator fortu nately was equal tit the emergency. He climbed the nearest pole, cut a wire and brought it down. I heu he took his stand on tho steel rails of the track, und made a connection through his body. Calling up the next station, he received thu response by holding the end of thu wire to his tongue. Iu this way he sent nnd received dispatches and saved thu exoress. The pain wus cxcrutinting,and his tongue was badly burned. Such i the stuff out of which heroes nnd mar tyrs uru made. eu Urban Picayune. Frederick's Tall Kegimcnt. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, formed a regiment of the tallest men I10 couM procure, and insisted ou their marrying thu fullest women they could find, with 11 view of producing a giant rase of guards; but iu this he wus unsuccessful. Yoltairo say that these men weru his greatest de light. Those wdio stood iu tho front rank were none of them less than seven feet high, and ho ransacked Europe and Asia to add to their number. There is a somewhat apocryphal story that Frederick was once reviewing his regiment of giunt iu thu pre-seaeo of thu French Spanish and English Ambassadors, and that he asked each of these iu turn whether au equal number of their countrymen would ciiru to engage with such soldier. Thu French and Spanish Ambassadors politely replied in thu ucga live; but thu English Ambassador replied that, whilo ho did not venture to assert that au equal number of hi countrymen would beat tho giants, he was perfectly sure that half thu number would try.--Alt th Year JiounJ. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. I TH.UIXO WOOWCX PLATTER. Tall Tali tells us how to utilize the little, thin, wooden plates now used so extensively in sending out lunches from restaurants and bakeries. Take two per fect plates; cut one in heart form, gild or bronze it inside and out; fasten it to the other plates by means of small hole aWit three-fourths of an inch from the edges, through which are run silken cords. Sketch a pretty design on tho upper plate, and the result is unique. On.XAMEXTATIOS OF HOUSEHOLD l.ItSKJf. The ornamentation of household linen should lie of a kind that will not dete riorate by wear and tear or by frequent washing. The popular style of open work now claiming much attention from housewives who desire tho latest fancy resembles licnnjssnncc or Richelieu gui pure. Kor thi the embroidery is dono with colored threads. Tho main por tions of the design touch each other, or are drawn so as to be connected by small linrs. Tho outlines are covered with buttonhole stitches an 1 the pattern filled iu wi'.h various fancy stitches, as may bj required, lace stitch, French knots, etc. When the design is embroidered tho material between thu portions should be cut away, fare should lo exercised in electing both the design and the col ored threads, that the former, when fin ished, may bo sutlleiently close to prove, durable and that the latter may not fade. Jie IC.-k II W.f. nsMsntsri ri.tEs. Flies will not pas through.! not maJo of thread, fine silk or wire stretched across anopcu window, even though tho meshes nre an inch apart, unless there is a window or light behind it. This af fords a ready means of excluding these insect from nil our rooms which have windows on ono side of the rooms, rlies can only bo kept out by using fine gnu.o for the purpose. Tho best way to de stroy rlies in a room is to expose on a shallow plate the following mixture; Quussai chip (small), one-quarter ounce; water, one pint; boil ten minutes, strain, and add of treacle four ounces. Flies will drink this with avidity, and ure soon destroyed by it. Cold green tea, very strung, and sweetened with sugar, when set nbout the room in saucers, will tilso attract Hies and destroy them. An ingenious person has devised the follow ing plan' Observing that a fly always walks upward, he made n window screen divided in half. The upper half lapped over the lower, with an inch space be tween. As soon as n fly lighted on tho screen it proceeded to walk upward, and thus walked straight out of doors. Not being able to walk down it had no way to return to the room. Ily this means a room cen bo quickly cleared of tlius, which ulway seek the light. BOUQUET MAKING. The most graceful bouquets have the least method in their arrangement; a few sprays of bloom put in carelossly often are tho most artistic in effect. A bunch of misty gypsophilla with a half dozen or moro coreopsis blossoms, placed in a dark brown vase and set before a mirror was a combination which demonstrated this. Few largo flowers mo capable of moro arrangement than the cony. Tho old time, rich, red variety forma a gorgeous bunch by itself, or is cqiailly beautiful lightened with sprays of white; with it owu bron v -green foliu';e, it is mcst effective. The lovely and fragrant Chi nese varieties, with their delicate shad ing and exquisite tints, when massed on a platter and bordered with ferns are al most ua handsome us roses and make a pretty and lasting table decoration. Theie is au early single peony, between magenta nnd rose iu color, and with a deep golden heart. It is contemporary with the tirst sturdy growth of thu rib bon grasis nud combines with it admira bly, although, by tradition, lemon lilies ml ribbon grass uru nihilities. An old ginger jar of just tho right shade of blue, tilled with 11 large bunch of these richly odorous lilies, their exquisite yellow re- lievtu by the creamy wdilte und delicate green of the grass, may quite content the artistic country maiden who has no royal orcester and orchid ut her command. 'Ui' M,tijuine. IlKCIPKS. Quick Biscuit Two cups flour, ono tableHixionful mixed lard and butter, one cup milk, one heaping tco.sioonful bak ing powder, pinch salt. Handle little, roll out nnd cut quickly, and bake iu n steady oveu. Chocolate Icing Allow ono pound of icing sugar to every two ounces of choco late; grute tho latter into a (uucepuu, ami mix with it eight tublespoonful of water; stir well, and let it cook gently for ten minutes, then add tho sugar, und usu w hile warm. Potato Soup Three pints of rich milk, ouu pint of mushed potato, two tuble spoonful of butter, salt and pepper to taste, lloll thu milk, ndd thu potato and boil again, stirring frequently, that tho potato may become thoroughly dissolved, and seusou just before serving. Servo very hot. Puree of Celuty Boil two. heads of celery iu plenty of salted water with an onion, a blade of mace and some whole pepper. When dono drain them and pass them through a hair sieve. Melt a piece of butter iu a saucepan, mix a littlo flour with it, then thu celery pulp uud work it well on the fire, lidding a littlo cream of milk uud some of the gravy of the ducks. Horseradish Snueo. Mix two or three heaping tublespoonful of fresh grated horseradish with twicu ns much cream. Suit it lightly nnd stir iu un equul num ber of dessertspoonful of vinegar withu teanpoonful of sugar. Add a littlu pep pcrsauee or cayenne if very hot sauce uro liked. This sauco is good cither hot or cold. If preferred hot, it must bo warmed in a double boiler, taking enro that it does not boil, or it will curdle. It i especially good with roust beef, either hot or cold. rOPULAR SCIENCE. new 1 or s oroacrs reduce oUi. d kinnimr the rone. o 1 -Ttrffftri marl will, a k - 1 I Ml a rrnnil nmAl fn i ' 1 -- o - ---v. . v.. -"..mum, Tho French have tried imi,.i.. der with the biggest guns snrCwwr,l!,'!v A man require about eieht v... .' pounds weight of food in the coitr Stnnlev s.-ivs he frpmmii . mercury mark 133 degree in the ih J in Africa. 04 1 There are thirty-five varitti. granuo in juaine, caeu of which ll mail rnrnn n i 'sml Aim in.i A house in Southfairfield. v:rt et on fire by the rays of thesu,, 11 "ill III1IU 111! JIUUS lllUi IJJJ out to dry. American wheat contains nearly ns mucn giuien ami nitroSpn.J iiia-ii.ivijiniiiu ne'iiieub US that iu Australia. Electric launches proved an ..... fill nt the recent Edinburgh FxhiK;. J t,.tt.:n ... i i ... .' .""'woi .........tig tutu, wn.-j uuin'j iravei six kt .... ....... .iiiji'i-i n uunry cargo, tint is now proposed to stut au oceau ship. , A new electric lantern li h, A signed in Vienna for the use of U.-J nun nieuic.ii classes. ny arom)iMf of lenses tho magnified itn igoof M ject is projected on a white icr... j, natural colors. The circumferences of a nua'i B, nnd tho calf of tho leg nre th. m, firMlfnfnr..ni.n nf tl... . ... 1 l! .1 .1 " . , WCK twice tho circumference of th J,. Three times tho circumference of iJ I. I . . 1 S ucnti equals ma lengiu ol tlie bub. .....i.i ;-.,ii nut aim I me IS COO1 in summer anil ricuted In winter by tjJ tricity, und the flood of lig'ut froBiJ electric lamps is untoi a ili-liest nit .-v,i..v, ! ... i. ... ......... uui.uiiiin i n me tojj plexions of the lady visitor tint ti place is tnrongeu. From tho investigations by ProfwJ foster ana ue t reytng.saltmgorpickliJ seems to nave very little deitmit power on many of the commoner forJ of bacilli, which mnv be found in din meat. The bacilli of typhoid, cmipelJ luucrcie uiiu luieciious porcine nmxU were round alivo arter liuviuj; bt pickle two months. The experiment of treating tjpb. lever by prolonged immersiun o( tJ patients in water 1ms been tried in Liverpool hospital with gratifyiiii: i; ress, Four cases were recently rfporH ono or wincn involved six ilun i mcrsion; two other eleven il;'i t ! and the fourth sixteen days. Thet i I all severe cases, and every onu of ti patients recovered. Tho scoring of tho bores of modi cannon by the new powders in u claimed to be duo to tho fact that m iguition all of the powder i not UrJ to gas, some of it remaining in t 8 state. It is this latter which does t Scoring by being thrown with suetiM against the metal of the gun that the rl suiting action ia very similar to thtto! sand blast for cutting glass. Thero are two periods of life in tt tho powers of resistance to advene i fiuencc arc excessively weak. In I fancy, from birth to five years of ii but especially in the first year of cmtet tho Miwer of life l very feeble, mil is tho reason that so muuv infuott luddenly in convulsions. A;'ia, if: the age of sixty-five is passed, the t. tenacity is lowered, the sulxtaace the henrt and of the muscles in gntt becomes' fatty, and there is iinun liability to suddeu fail.ire of the ha' action. Another tdectrical device Im brought out to afford comuiiiuiiiiioi tweeu trams in motion and to pw accident. Batteries and the necesf connections nre placed on each f M central conductor being laid pun with the rail. Should two trains jiroacji w ithin n certain distance of a other, au alarm l sounucil in ma with nn electric gong und a ste.iini is set blowing. The engine oriwn stop tho traiu and communicate M phono. Ibis communication i effected when thu engines are t running or still. An automatic upH also given if a switch is misplaced bridge burned or washed saj. ditiounl batteries are placed stutions along tho road, and the'' tho alarm should those platw engines bscome broken. Statistics About Hie I'M Sonuhone has recently tigiircJ & exact distauce that a person uuf moved from a reflecting surface hear tha echo of hi own voice. ' syllables a second is said to he th both of distinct pronunciutinn m tiuct hearing. This gives onc-lidkj second for each syllable. Wheat mosohcric temperature is sixtj-o" grees sound travel 1120 fetft M Ia one-fifth that timo it will cow tance of 224 feet . Hence, if I lit? ff.ni .listant the r- sound of un utteren syllable will turned to tho ear just as the nr'! start on it journey. In 'I'1 J. (iftkr ti,..n...mi in' uxei- uair .vu'. ., Bvi.u'. m utterance of a syllable uud the ml of the second iu hearing it l" Ul" , syllables would be echoed fr lng surface 221 feet distant, thM I.I... 'I'll! f,.,.t .... 1 mi llll 'tV J.IWHI mv ii;i:i u... " , , Parliament Houses ('riim'""sj lliv XJllkinil t .ii ....... ( crumbling to piece so fast tnat J coustant danger ol so'iio building toppling down "P members. Part of tho fr0"', .Stephen's has hud to bu cutire'J thernuic of the wearing awsT 01 . :tone. Only a week or two :! Iplece of a stone heruldic uiiim1 ..11 n IU Aiitninl(l tO O"' 'Hull, in Old Palace Yard, anw,( trance to the house which w o ;ored. Neie York TeUjrum.
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