In 1877 Montana hod within her
fcordors only 70,288 sheep. In 1804
tho number hn.l risen to 2,780,908
heop.
Whilo tho foreign born comprint
(nt thirty-niuo per cent, of tho wholo
population of Chicago, thoy fiirninh
over forty-nine per cent of tho voters.
The post-oflico savings bank busi
ness hns been growing enormously in
Knglnnd. Lost year moro thnn CH,.
000,000 interest was croditod to de
positors. Tho Danish government hns nndor
taken, during the years 1895 and
18011, a deep sea exploration in tho
Greenland nnd Iceland waters. Tho
expedition will bo accompanied by a
lotanist.
Tho Turkish Government 1ms or
dered tho aqueducts of Solomon in
Jerusalem to bo pnt into repair. Thoy
vill bring water into tho city from
tho fountains of Arroul. A tunnel
4,000 yards long will bo built at a
cost of 82,000,000. Tho acpicduct
was still in working order in tho time
of Christ
Cnldoron, the well-known Spanish
writer has joined tho crnsado now go
ing on in Spain against tho inhuman
practico of bull fighting. It seems
Jueor to tho St. Louis Star saying that
nuch a crusade should be necessary in
this enlightened ago, but the fight is
Iwing very vigorously made, especial
ly in Madrid.
It is difficult for the New York Trib
une to understand tho object to which
the King of Abyssinia intends to do
Trot o the elaborate postago stamps
which he is now having engraved and
printed at Paris. There is u6 post
ofliee and no postal service in Abys
sinia, nnd the Ethiopians have not yet
developed the civilized mania for
tamp collecting.
Tho Chicago Herald says: Clovo
land is oue of the eight presidents who
never attended college, the others be
ing Washington, Jaekson, Van Huron,
Taylor, Fillmoro, Lincoln, and John
ston. Tho other fifteen, including
Grant, who was a West Fointer, were
nil collogc-brcd men. It is a curious
tact, however, thot neither Yulo, Dart
mouth nor Columbia has furnished
ouo.
- - - - j
An English paper states that tho
young Earl of Shuftsbury possesses a
"pretty drawing-room light tenor
voice," and that Mr. Maplnson has of
fered him $500 a night to sing through
tho principal cities of tho United
.'States. Tho statement is calculated,
in the opinion of tho New York Ob
'Server, to niako tho old Earl, tho
.young man's fathor, turn in his gravo.
Tho son is evidently not n chip of tho
(fraud old block. And what a pity.
Many amusing . facts are being
1rought to light during the progress
of hostilities between China and Ja
pan. Korea, as tho bone of conten
tion, has become an object of uuusual
interest, and the Chicago Kecord has
learned that the war vessel which is
the prido of her navy is an ancient
turtlobaok which porfurmod prodigies
of valor and destruction in the wur
waged between Korea and Japan in
1619, 275 years ago I This irou turtle
back ship was built by the Koreans
nd it pluyed terrifio buvoo among the
Japanese junks, the method of pro
cedure boing to sail up to a junk and
capsize it by nieausof grapnels thrown
"from ports under tho turtlobaok. This
ironclad, terrible of tradition, is au
thored at Yong-Yong and the Koreans
mutually believe that it is destined to
play a decisive part iu tho wur now in
prog reus.
'Total abstiuonco has boon iuoor--poratod
as an element iu nn important
Iinmuoss enterprise in New York City.
.An insurance company has inaugura
ted a total abstinence dopartmout, uud
lias put ut the heud of it Hon. John P.
St John, former prohibition iHt can
didate for president of the Uuited
States, . At present tho undertaking is
jpurely experimental. It starts with
the supposition that enough totul ah
wteiuers will insure in the company as
arach to form a scparato and distinct
class of polioy holders. Every man
taking out a polioy as a total abstainer
ia repaired to plodgo himself to ab
stain from the usa of ulooholio liquors
mn beverages, medicinal use not to be
included. Any violution of this
pledge vitiates the polioy. Just bow
the company will keep track of all its
elients who hold total abatiinanee pol
icies the officials cannot say. That is
entirely in the hands of Mr. St John,
they say, and he will have a sufficient
.number of iuou under him to carry on
he work and keep track of total ab-
atiueuao policy holders in such canes ut
jui deemed necussary.
When tho Wind Mow.
Oh, the dancing of tho loaves,
When the wind blows!
And tho rushing nolso ot trews,
Hhoutlng, shrinking on the leas,
Llko the sound of seething was,
Whon tha wind blows!
Oh, tho bonding of tho boughs,
When tho wind blows!
Tho moan nnd the quiver
Of reeds nlong tho river
Tliat sink, and rise, and shiver
When tho wind blows!
Oh, tho shifting of tho clouds,
When tho wind blows!
Falling swiftly on bntwoon
J he wldo blue world and tho green,
Throwing shadows o'er tho sheen,
Whon tho wind blows !
Oh, tho drifting of tho snow,
Whon the wind blows!
Knowing in tho cold moonlight
Fallon trees hidden undor whltn,
Llko groat ghost in bod nt night,
Whon tho wind blows!
Oh, tho comfort of tho flro,
When tho wind blows!
To hoar tho song and tho chat
Or tho kettle nnd tho oat,
And tho crli-knt on tho mat,
When tho wind blows!
(luy Rosalyn.
TRACED BY A BUTTON,
When I was on tho detective forco
by tho way, my name is Jack Hind
son, at your service I had a case on
my hands that bafllod mo. I wanted
to get on, for I was at that time en
gaged to Kitty Teaso, and she had
said that though she was very fond of
me she did not moan to marry me un
til I had enough to marry on, which I
should have as soon as I had found
ont tho party who committed a cer
tain murder.
Mrs. Jeffries, a rich, miserly sort of
old lady, had been found dead in her
bed, murdered by some one. No one
know who it was.
Everybody was under suspicion a
man servant who had been dismissed
weeks before; a dissipated nephew
who had quarrelled with her ; a ped
dler ; a man who had mended tho
roof. But it scomod likely that no
ono would bo actually proved guilty.
To bo sure, tho nophew would come
iu for her property, boing her only
relative, but though he had boon to
the door that evening he had boon
seon to go away ngain, and tho ser
vant had to call for liolp before the
bedroom door could bo broken in.
The only clue that I had was a bit
of black cloth clutchod tight in tho
dead woman's hand a find bit of old
black broadcloth torn in quite a sin
gular shapo. Wo hid tho fact that
this had been found from tho news
paper men, and I was looking for tho
coat it hod been pulled off of. That
would bo my chanco.
Tho dismissed servant was a waitor,
but I bribed myself into a chanco of
scoing his black coat off duty, and it
had not boon torn or patched. I hunt
up the oophew's boarding-house and
got into his room under prctonso of
having been sent from the tolegraph
office to see the wiros, but his clothes
were all of thick, coarse cloth. I talked
those things all over to Kitty, and she
sot her wits to work to help me. She
asked me to lot her go to the old
lady's house and show her the room
she slept in, and sho went out on the
roof, as I had done many a time, and
wont along first in one direction and
then in another, looking at all the
scuttle doors, until I thought sho
would go off into tho street, but she
stopped at the lust of the row and
beckoned mo. I hurried up.
Closo to the scuttle door lay a little
black button.
"This bulongs to tho garment the
bit of cloth camo from," she said.
"There are blacks and blacks. This
is a button that matches that black.
Not a blue black, nor a brownish
black, nor a foxy black, but a black
thut is almost invisible groon. Do
you know No. 100?"
"It's a vory respectable first-class
boarding house," suid L
"Will thoy take ladios?" she askod.
"If they are well introduced,"
"I shull go there to board."
Next day I got a card from hor
she hadn't boon in the habit of having
cards with that address on it. I cull
ed. She came down to see me in her
beat black silk, with her bonnet and
mantilla on.
. Thore was au old lady in the room.
She introduoed me to her and thon
said she was ready. I took tho hint
We went out togethor.
"Of eourso you know why I came
bore," she said. "I'm spending all
my salary and wearing tny best olothes,
but I've found something out already,
Mrs. Jeffries's nophew calls here some
times. He calls on a young widow
who has tho uppor front room. He
has been engaged to her for some
time."
She paused a long time and then
said: "Ha was here tha night of the
murder."
"Well," I said, "has sho let him
out upon tho roof?"
"I wish you wouldn't ask me any
questions," said Kitty, "I shall know
before long. When I send for yon
como at once. Will you let mo have
that bit of cloth?"
"It's moro precious than diamonds,'
I raid.
Her answer was:
"Yes, I know it." Sho put it
into her pocketbook. "I have
changed my room," she remarked.
"I'm next to hor. There is a locked
door between us. That is all. And I
havo mado a penpholo."
"Yon aro a born detective, but as
this widow is rcspectoblo yon can't
watch young Jeffries that way."
"Yesterday," sho said without an
swering mo, "Jeffries called. I saw
him coming up tho stroct and hid bo
hind a screen in tho parlor. I should
havo pretended to bo asleep in a chair
there had I boon seen, but no ono
found mo ont. Sho camo to him, nnd
ho talkod liko an innocent man.
" 'The poor old woman has done
me a groat injury by getting herself
murdered,' he said. "I beliovo I'm
suspected, because I shall profit by
her death. Why, what do they toko
mo for? I wondor who killed her?
Thoy say nothing was gono. '
" 'Whoever it was, yon ought to bo
thankful that the crabbed creature is
dead,' she said, 'Some common
burglar of course. She'd scream and
shriek if she saw one at her jewel-caso
and get herself killed.'
" 'Well, poor old woman, I'd have
been his death if I had been near,'
Jeffries said. 'She wasn't half bad.
She never made a will and left things
away from me, as she might, after I
told her I'd never cringe to her for
hor favor. Hang it, I wish I wasn't
her hoir! Peoplo will suspect me
secretly perhaps. I can prove I wasn't
inside the house that night, but you
know how tho papors talked. Poor
Bitzncr, the roofer, camo to me and
cried ovor what they said about him.
Kill Aunt Jessy I Why, good
Lord I '
" 'You used to call her Aunt Jeze
bel," said tho widow. Mrs. Mull is
her namo.
" 'Yes I'm sorry I did, but sho had
a tompor,' said Mr. Jeffries. I've a
mind not to take the money.'
" 'Thon I shan't take you,' said
Mrs. Mull. 'Such an idiot I I should
bo ashamed of you.'
"Soo horel" Kitty handed mean
address on a piece of paper. It was
Mrs. Preston Mull, nt a certain num
ber, Chestnut stroet. It is her
mothor-in-law. Can yon send our
Mrs. Mull Eliza Mull a telegram
saying, 'Come at once to this ad
dress?' " sho askod.
"I can," said I.
"Do it," said sho. "No, don't ask
me. I am helping you. I have my
thoughts. Now take mo home."
I took hor homo and telegraphed to
tho widow, and I waited and watched.
I saw her got into a carriage and go
away. I followed and saw her take
the train. If Kitty wanted hor out
of the way sho was safe.
A fow hours afterward I recoived a
note:
"Disguise yourself as an old woman
and come hore at once. Como in a
cab. Wear a thick black veil. Send
up word that you are my Aunt Agnos.
Lose no time."
I lost none. As I went slowly up
the stairs with my black voil down I
could hear my heart bast Kitty open
ed the door, called out "Why, aunty,
dour!" and shut it
"I have opened the door between
my room and Mrs. Mull's," she said.
"I hove found something. I can't
appear in this mutter. You must see
for yourself."
Sho led mo into the handsome
room and went to a wardrobe. Thore,
from beneath other dressos, she drew
a plainly cut coat, or redingote, of
thin black cloth, with many buttons
down the front, and spread it on a
chair. About the height of the knees
a piece was torn away and a button
gone.
"Hush!" she said. "We don't
know who may be listening. "Make
no sound."
Then she took the bit of cloth from
her pocket, fitted it to the rent and
lull the button on it
"The piooo of cloth found in dead
Mrs. Jeffrios's haud came from this
garment," was her remark. .
''Yes," I said, "she must have dis
guised him in it But why "
"Goosey I" said Kitty. "Mr. Jeff
ries oould not get into this. Mrs.
Mull wore it herself. Mrs. Mull kill
,ed old Mrs. Joffrios. The nephew
knows nothiug about it guesses noth
ing. This wickod woman wautod to
marry him when he had inherited the
estate. She has done it I watohed
her through the peephole I hud made.
I saw her writhe iu agony, and with
out speaking a word, wring hor hands'
and tear hor hair. It was an awful
sight, but I know it was guilty con
science thot moved her. There you
have it all in yonr own hands now.
I'll go and tell Mrs. O that I have
news which must toko mo away, pay
her my board and go with you in the
cab."
I loft her at her own door. Mrs.
Mull was arrested at the station on
her return, and it was all as Kitty
said. She mado full confession. She
had concioved the idea of murdering
the old woman that her nephew might
get the money, and sho had hoped tho
poor roof-mender would be charged
with the crime
She was a fiend in female form, but
the thought that I had driven a wom
an to the gallows haunted mo and
sickonod me of the detective business,
which I left very soon.
Kitty and I are keeping a little ho
tel now and prospering very well.
London Tit Bits.
Strange Meats.
Tho French hove taught our people
a great deal about what is good to eat,
and not the least of their services in
this department of knowledge is thn
teaching of the world that frogs and
especially frog's legs are an excellent
articlo of food.
People in this country do l ot com
monly eat frogs, any more than thoy
cat rabbits, squirrels and other equal
ly accessible and equally palatable
meats; but frog's legs are a regular
item on tho bills of fare in tho first
class city hotels and restaurants, and a
considerable industry in supplying
them for the market has sprung up.
Often necessity is required to teach
people that they have good things to
cat which ordinarily they do not
touch. A camping expedition of
young nvjn on a northern lake ran out
of provisions, and found the fish in
the lake insufficient for their wants.
They had no firearms with which to
shoot wild game. At the lower end of
tho lake, basking on some old logs,
wore hundreds of fine fat frogs.
Impelled by hunger, the boys fell
upon these frogs, and for several days
lived delicately and well on a diet of
which frog's logs constituted tho prin
cipal item. All tho members of that
party are now fully aware that frogs
are good to cat.
Recently a French missionary in
Tnlo-Chino, Rev. Father Ouerlach,hts
made tho discovery that toads aro also
good to cat. Reduced by necessity to
resort to tond-flesh, ho found it no less
palatable and nutritious thnn the frog.
"Most people," says Father Guer
lach, in his journal, recently publish
ed, "would dio of hunger lather than
eat a toad, which is nevertheless, I beg
you to believe, an excellent food.
Whenever I could procure toads, I
was ablo to give myself a banquet.
But in France, yonr prejudices pre
vent you from knowing and .using
what is good."
However, a Paris Journal affirms
that tho cookery of toads has mdo
some little progress iu France. Noth
ing is better, this journal says, than a
dish mado of tho bocks on I legs of
toads with tho skin first carefully re
moved, it needs hardly to bo said.
Tho popular fables about tho pois
onous character of toads aro nowadays
not much believed. It is true that
the toad is protected from carnivora
by the acrid secretions of his warty
skin, but those are irritating rather
than poisonous, and not always that.
Toads, however, aro of great service
to man, and it is to bo hoped that it
will not become fushionablo to cat
thorn. Youth's Companion.
Fruit Eating to Cure All Ills.
A new society of cranks has been
startod by a former lieuteuant iu the
German army," says the Modioal Rec
ord. "His namo is Bocter. He is the
leader of a now 'ism,' and as such
sailed rocently from San Francisco to
Honolulu. The 'Fruitarians' is tho
uauitt of the new society he represents,
and their belief or rather notion is
tHat modern civilization is full of van
itios and strange notions, and greatly
needs reforming. The members eat
nothing but ripe fruit, eschew cooked
food of any kind, aud driuk only wa
ter. They are to live in huts, bare of
the comforts of civilization, and go
naked. Ex-Lieut Boeter iuteuds to
buy a large traot of land in the Sand
wich Iiiiiuds, or, perhaps, a small
island outright, for the purpose of
founding a colony.
He Could Not Fall Slowly.
Fond Parent Goodness, how you
look, child. You are soaked.
Frankio Please, pa, I fell into tho
cauul.
Fond Parent What, with your new
trousers on?
Fraukie I didn't have time, pa, to
to take u:u g Bodtou Hi ma Jour-
1011 THE HOUSEWIFE.
FRIED CKLKRY,
Did yon over hosr of fried celery?
It is really excellent. Boil a head of
celery until tender J cut it to pieces;
season with parsley, pepper and salt,
and saturate with lemon Juico setting
it aside for half an hour. When ready,
dip the pieces in batter, and fry to a
light brown. Properly done once,
there will be a demand to have this
dish repeated.
PCMPKIW PIB.
Cut np a small-sized pumpkin, cook
until done and stew until little moist
ure is loft. Press through a colander.
Take four cupsful of the pumpkin, add
to them ono cupful of molasses, two
enpsful of sugar, two tablcpoonsful
of ginger, a similar quantity of cinna
mon and of flour, three pints of milk
and a teaspoouful of salt, and five
well-beaten eggs. Mix all together
thoroughly and bako with an under
crust only. New York World.
CH1CKEK WIXOA.
A nice dish can be mado from tho
wings of fowls by stewing slowly un
til extremely tender, then making a
puree of peas by boiling a quantity of
peas, either fresh or canned in water
until tender, draining and mashing
through a seive and seasoning with
salt and pepper and butter. Just be
fore mashing through the seive thicken
with a tablespoonful of flour to every
quart of peas. Wet tho flour with
cold water and cook for two minutes.
Serve on a steak dish with the wings
piled on top. New York Recorder.
TOMATO CATSCP.
The following recipe has boon tested
for many years and never fails : Cut
in small pieces for cooking in their
own liquor euough fine, ripe tomatoes
to make four quarts of pulp when
cooked. Rub through a wire sieve
till it is as smooth as cream. Add oue
tablespoonful of salt, one teaspoouful
of block pepper, one-half spoonful oi
cayenne, one-half teaspoouful ol
ground cinnamon grind it yourself
and be sure that it is good one-half
teaspoouful of cloves and sugar to suit
tho taste. Boil slowly for three hours
and when nearly dono add a pint oi
good vinegar. Bottle when hot, and
cork the bottles tight, sealing them all
over with sealing wax. When you are
going to uso spicas of any kind, or
pepper, get tho grains and grind them
yourself. Now York Telegram.
A MEAL IN THEMSELVES.
Tako largo potatoes, bake until
soft and cut a round pieco off tho top
of each. Scrape out the inside care
fully so as not toJireak the skin, and
sot aside the empty cases with tho
covers. Mash the inside vory smooth
ly, working iuto it while hot soma
butter and cream, about half a tea
spoonful for every potato. Season
with salt and pepper, with a good
pinch of grated cheese for each. Work
it vory soft with milk aud put iuto a
saucepan to heat, stirring to prevont
burning. When scalding hot stir in
one well-beaten egg for six largo po
tatoes. Boil up once, fill tha skins
with tho mixture, replacing the caps.
Thon return thorn to the oven for three
minutes. Arraugo upon a napkin in
a deep dish with oapj uppermost,
cover with the fold of a napkin and
serve vory hot.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Acid phosphate will removo ink
stains from the bunds whon everything '
else fails. i
Milk, applied once a week with a
soft cloth, freshens aud preserves
boots uud shoes.
Tho pulp of a lemon rubbed on tho
roots of the hair will stop ordinary
cases of fulling out.
Canned sardines oarofully browned
on a double-wire gridirou, uud served
with lemon, are uppetizing.
Ririu water andwhito cistilo soap in
a lukewarm suds is the bost mixturo
in whiob to wash embroideries.
Cold meats or fish may ba hashed
fine and mixed with potatoes, rioj or
hominy, aud a sauoe made into cro
quettos. Gravios, sauces and soups, no mat
ter how small the quantity, , should
be saved to use in warming ovor meat,
fish or vegetables.
Culiooes, ginghams and chambrays
oaunot bo properly washed aloug with
the white clothes. Thoy need a much
quicker process, and tho long delays
of an ordinary wuhu, day would ruin
them.
Two uses of eggs are not geuorally
known or appreciated, A fresh egg
beaten and thickened with sugar, free
ly eaten will relieve hoarseness, and
the skiu of a boiled egg,, wet aud ap
plied to ft boil, will draw out soroues.
Tim Hour r Arhlotetnent.
On tho thlr y-sn-ond dny of ihe thirteenth
month of tho eighth dny of the woek,
On tho twenty-fifth hour of tha sixty-first
minute, wo'll find all things that wt
snok,
Thoy are thorn In tho limbo of I.olltpop Land
a clond Island and rotting In air.
On tho Nowhere side of tho Mountain ol
Hist, In tho Valloy of Overthero.
On a solid vapor foundation of cloud are
pnlaoes grand and fair
And thore Is where ourdroams will cometrue,
and the seeds of our hops will grow,
On tho hlthorward sldo ot tho Hills of Hops
In the Hamlet of Hocus Po.
On tho hlthorward sldo of the Hills of Hope,
is tho Hnmlot of Hocus To,
W shall soo all thinis that wo want to soe,
and know nil we core to know i
For thoro tho old men will never lament, th
bahb-s thoy novor will squeak.
In tho Cross-road Corners of Chnosvllle, In
the County of Hldeandgoseek.
In tho Cross-road Corners of Chaosvlllo, in
tho county of Hldoandgosoek,
On tho thlrty-sooond dny of the thirteenth
month of the eighth day of tho week,
We shall do nil the things that wo plesso to
do and accomplish whatever we try,
On tho sunset shore of somotlmooruther, by
tho Iwnutlful nay of Wmeby.
8. W. Foss, In Boston Transcript
HUMOROUS.
The man who knows how it is him
self is apt to let others learn as he
did.
It tact could be sold, only such as
are already possessed ot it would not
want to buy it.
Robbins I don't see why they water
railroad stock. Higbee To form
pool, of course
He She bos very handsome teeth.
She Why shouldn't she, when her
brother's a dentist?
"You needn't try to deceive me,"
said the curtain to the window. "I
can soe through you."
"Tho bride's father gave her away,
did he not?" "More thou that. He
threw in 8150,000 to boot"
"Thore," said the new policeman, s
he fondly handled his club, "is what
I call a stunning ornament-"
Tho nnme "Napoleon of Finance,"
Ho missed i 'twas rnthor rough.
Ho got some crooked cash by chanco,
Hut ho dlilu't got euough.
Nell What makes you think your
new suitor is entirely too honest?
Belle Because he wouldn't even steal
a kiss.
Bashful BnchelorSay, didn't you
find it pretty hnrd work to pop tho
question? Bold Benedict Not otall ;
you see I mnrriod a widow.
"There ore few moro disappointing
things iu life," says the Manayunk
philosopher, "than a balloon ascension
to a man with a stiff nock."
Shop Girl Really, madamo, that
whito feather in your hat makes you
look teu yeors younger. Old Maid
Is that so? Thon givo mo another.
Mrs. Bingo Ciu't I have a bicycle,
dear? Bingo Pshaw, you'd never
loam. Mrs. Bingo Well, I've had
enough praotico working tho sowing
machine.
"Your wife takes great intorest in
the woman question." "She does,
sir; she is so much taken up with the
rights of women that she forgets men
have any."
Browu Jouos soenn to bo work
ing hard for the nomination. Smith
I should say so. Just published
his fourth letter stating that be is not
a candidate.
Paid the ruler of China, 'Perhaps
Wo con conquer those troublesome Jups;
If wo can't reach their islo
We'll contiaue to smile.
And cross It right out of our maps!"
Jones-Brown I've been stopping at
a place in Chicago whore it is $30 for
fifty days. Brown-Smith I've been
stopping at place there where it U
830 or fifty days.
Warden What is your occupation?
Female Conviot Domestic.
Warden Hore, turnkey, put this
woman in irons! We can't run any
risk of juil-breoking.
She And is the hair dye as danger
ous as the dootors say? He Every
bit Au undo of yiine once died his
hair, and three weeks after he marriod
a widow with four children.
Everett Wrest Do yon believe
this guff about love of money being
tho root of all evil? Laymond Sowre
I dunno but what it is so. Want of
money bus drove many a good man to
work.
"Do you think Sickles will reoover
soon?" asked the invalid's friend.
"H'm'm," replied tho physician
thoughtfully, "My answer depends on
whother you mean physically or flnan
riolly. Professor (lecturing on the gorilla)
Geutlemon, you must give me your
undivided atteutiou. It is impossible
for you to form a true idea of this
hideous auimal uuloss you keep your
eyes fixed on me.