LITTLE AM-ALONEY.
Little Ml-.Vloney's feet
'Mtter-patter in the hall.
Auil his mother runs to meet
And to kiss h< r toddling sweet,
Ere perehnnee ho fall,
if.- i. nh. so weak and small I
Yet what dauger shall he fear
Win n his mother hoveth near
Aud lie hears her cheering call
1
Little All-Alonay's face
It is all aglow with glee. f
As around that romping pla 1 1
Liingeth. pluugeth ho
And that hero seems to lie j
All un 'onscious of our rs t
Ou y one dear voice he hears
Calling reiwsuringl> c
• All-Alouey : ' ti
Though ).i~ legs bend with (heir loud, ] .
Though his feet they seemed so smnll ,
Tbnt you cannot help forebode ?
He-tie dis.-isinii. "i- "' le
In that noisy bull :
N.'ith. r thr ateulng hump nor fall j .
T !l- All-Vlon. y fears, j ]
JSut with sweet bravado steers
Whither comes that cheery call:
'•AU-.Vtbney!"
A that in th" years to come,
Wlu-n lie sburi'.sof Sorrow's store,
Whou his feet art- .-hill ami numb, ,
When his cross is burdensome.
And his heart is sore |
Would that he could hear onse more
The gentle voice he used to hear— j
Divine with mother love and cheer-
Calling from yonder spirit shore :
"All. all alone
—Eugene Field, in Chicago Record. |
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I.Y EMMA A. OPPEIt.
RTHUR CIIA 1 G
f I V! tossed liis cigar
Id away and strolled
s l ' ' i around to where a
rcd-Mijd-blit© liain
■•/ffijP rr l mock wns siting be
\ \ H two oak
VM #m,H 1,1 hig
f V - I hiwn which was the
grout attraction of
' "> the select summer
hot I —though i' was summer no
longer; there was an autumn scent in
the suit air.
Hut Lucy Winslow was staying lu re
still, with her brother's wife and her
little nephew; therefore Arthur Craig
Stayed on also.
She was sitting in the hammock,
tfith little Reginald beside her. Reg
inald always was beside her; their
foil*ln -ss for each other was great. It
had i <i n a "iiree of attlietioii to Craiir
all summer.
He told himself that he wasn't jeal
ous ut Reginald, but if a fellow could
g t ;• chance to see u girl alone once a
weed or so, it would be a, relief. Late
ly lie had particularly wished to see
Miss Winslow alone.
"Hello, Arthur!" said Reginald.
"01, Reginald," said his pretty
aunt, Hushing, "say Mr. Craig!"
"That fellow that was down here to
6ce him culled him Arthur, and I'm
going to," said Reginald.
He wit- . ,-o.it ;irs ' I and had the
bin. eyed, fail - face of a
cherub. But 110 cherub was ever so
pert and precocious as Reginald.
"Let him, Miss Wins!- v said
Craig.
He dropped down on the grass at
her feet and looked up at her.
Surely she must know by tins time
Say, said Reginald, "you said
you d take no boating on the river
again and you haven't.
w bei i, nil times, haven't
We f said ('ram
How swe. t she looked!
Oh, well, Aunt Luc\ a always been
along! You ai 1 you'd take me, and
you got to
Reginald, deal his Aunt Luc\*
remonstrated.
"Si I u ill ' i'hi- agreed. "Did
you read that poem I gave you, Miss
Lucy ? '
. -Md Reginald.
'"I sunn ■*it 1 1„. It uin't any
good ii„t nice tbftt . s all ~
Lucy laughed Hoftly.
"It ihii lnuutiful thing, Mr. (Jrai" "
i-b.- -nid. "leuJoj. d every word ~f it'"
"ton you khw the iiuKHfti/e I
marked? 1 8
Craig's the, was (lushed aud cage,
' ' os' Lucy murmured,
she looked closely at Reginald's
&ftihr-hat, in her lap.
"I U f H von. Arthur," said Regin
aiu. swinging hia lithe little lep H "il
rutlit-r tukt 111 •■, 1,, wI, i., Murphy i
• twoiot cream sodas -choc
it a i r ,1 "" ****** i„
y.ad ot taking in the Wt
j, you caii I, won't ,„ H k. llir
ference to me. '
"Oh, Reginald! i,. t N bettered
a distressed laugh.
"Now, that is magnanimous'. ' Ciai"
responded. He wondered if his hearty
wish that Reginald was somewhere else
was apparent? I think I'll accept
that alternative. That passage I
marked, Miss Winslow—l didn't do it
idly. There comes a time in a man's
life when lm feels a— a love like that
for some woman."
bid she know all he meant? Her
far.: was downcast and averted. Reg- 1
inuhl, however, was staring full at him,
aji.K ring s inward chafing* intensified.
'Hay, yon want to make a trade?"
Reginald demanded. 'I got tl k'leid
-oscope, and I'm sick of it i Wallt u
printing press. Cause von haven't I
got any, but if you'll buy one and give
me, I'll give you my k'leidoscopc ami
mebbe fifty cents or so besid'-s. Sir,
'll you do it, Arthur?"
"I'll think about it. Do you want
to run over and see if the mail | S i„
Reginald v I'm expecting a letter
j;. gmaidreflectf dand - hook hit head
"I guess I'll wait till bynie by, h.
said, "and you can go with me, and
>vt li atop at Murphy's."
"Miss Winslow,' said Craig, des
perately, "I don't know whether you
know —whether you have guessed—l
don't know, Miss Winslow, whether
you —you have suspected—"
'•My goodness!"said Reginald, with
a high-pitched eight-year-old 'laugh ;
"what are you trying to say, Arthur?"
Craig looked at Lucy. Was she
laughing at him, too? His face grew
warm with the sudden wretched sus- !
picion that she was.
After all, was lie not a fool to think
for a moment that she could care for
him? Of a sudden he saw matters in |
a new, a painful light.
If she had cared for him. would she
not have managed now and then that
they might see each other alone?
How rarely had that occurred—how
continually had that little nuisance of
a nephew dogged them ! Had she con
trived it ? Had she made Reginald a
defense, a guard against unwelcome
advances? He was all at once misera
bly certain of it.
He was warm with mortification, and
cold at heart with keen uuhappinness.
He had been stupidly slow of percep
tion, that was all. But that was a
thing which could be remedied.
He rose from the grass, and looked
down at Lucy Winslow with a set
smile.
"Well, I don't believe I know my
self what I'm tryingtosay, Reginald,"
he answered. "I needn't say good-by i
to you just now. Miss Winslow, for I'll
he here a day or so yet. But I'll he
off about Thursday, I guess, and after J
j a month or so at home, I expect to go
out West on business that will keep mo
there indefinitely, I imagine. I shall
think of this summer often, and with
pleasure, I assure you.'*
I He bowed, and turned awav.
He took himself and his bitterness
up to his room. He felt that ever hour
until Thursday would be a period of
i anguish; and iie began to put things
into his trunk in helter-skelter fashion.
1 He had half filled it when Reginald
ii walked in, without knocking. He sat
- down in the largest chair. I
"Ho?" he remarked, scofflngly, j
"Ihat the kind of a trunk you got, j
with cloth all over it? Mine's got,
wooden slats on, and tin and brass '
nails. What's that thing? Opry
glasses, ain't it? Hay, 'll you give
'em to me!
"Yea, iake them," said Graig, wear*
ily.
Reginald spent Beveral minutes iu ex
it mining objects in the room through
the glasses, for which he saw fit to re
turn no thank*.
"Say," he observed presently, turn
ing them upon Craig, "she's crying.
That's what I come up to tell you. I
thought mebbeyou'd like to know."
"Who's crying?" Craig demanded.
His heart stood still. .
"Aunt Lucy's crying," said Regin- ,
aid. "She began to cry soon 's you
turned round, 'most. I told her
somebody'd see her, but she didn't '
stop, and I wasn't going to stay there ,
and her a blubbering, and I thought
I'd come up and tell you." Reginald
looked up with his angelic blue eyes
and his cherubic smile. "Hay, I'm
going to see what's in that plush box,
Arthur. You care?"
Crnig strode from the room. He
got down the stairs two at a time, and
rushed around to the red-and-blue
hammock between the shady oak trees.
"Lucy!" be said, bending over her.
"You are not—you can't be crying
because I'm going away, Lucy?"
There was a hot flush iu the tearful
face she raised to him.
"Oh, Lucy," he implored, "don't
be ashamed of it ! If you are erying
about me, don't you know 1 am the.
happiest man on earth? I was so cer
tain you didn't care for me, and had
tried to ward me oft' with—with
Reginald, you know, because he was
forever around. Rut if you can cry
because T am going away, Lucy, then
1 can finish what I was trying to say
to you. You know what it was."
Lucy caught a sobbing breath.
"But you are going out West!" she
faltered.
"Yes, and you with me!" Craig re
i torted.
Nobody was near them, and he sat
down beside her, bis hand warmly
clasping hers.
"How did you know 1 was crying?"
Lucy queried, suddenly, after ten
minutes of glowing happiness.
'Reginald came and told me.
Reginald is a trump," said Craig—"a
jewel!"
"There he comes," said Lucy. "Oh,
Arthur, he's got your—your smoking
j&cket on!"
"It's my bath-robe," Craig re
sponded, with the composure of a
perfect, nil-satisfying beatitude. "I
don't mind it iu the least!"— Saturday !
Night.
C-M For rooking.
While electricity in trenching HO
• nously upon the field of gas light
nig, HUV recent application of gas
leads to an extension of its con
sumption \H ot importance to gas pro
ducers. Home. foreign companies seem
to nave done this unite successfully in
at least one direction. At the recent
Dundee meeting of the North British
Association of Gas Managers one mem."
ber, Mr. J. Ballantyne, of Rothesay,
stated that the company had gained
an increase of consumption of at least
forty pei* cent, in about six years, due
to cooking by gas among its custom
ers. The gas company furnishes the
cookers to its patrons at a rental of
ten per cent, of the list cost price per
annum, which charge also includes
putting them in, taking them away
and keeping them in order. About
eleven per cent, of the customers arc
supplied. His and other companies
have not only found this a profitable
part of their market, but it has the
added ml vantage of being nearly a day -
light consumption, thus tending to
1 jual/.e, the demand on the plant.—
Knginecriug Record.
BIRTHPLACES OF FOODS.
THE NATIVE LANDS OF THE VARI
OUS GRAINS AND FRUITS.
Most of ThPin Have Evolved From a
Wild State—The True Home of
Indian Corn— The Cherry's Origin.
THE grains and fruits used as
food by man originated in
different latitudes, and first
r 9 existed in a wild state some
being indigenous to the tropics and
some to temperate zones. As they be
came improved and differentiated they
were distributed in different countries
according to their utility and the
spread of agriculture. It was but nat
ural that the first gradual changes
from a wild to a cultivated state ,
should have takeu place in general in
warm countries where the climate |
and the advanced state of civilization
conspired to effect amelioration. For
instance, the grape is indigenous to 1
America, and had existed here in a
wild state long ages before the conti
nent was discoved by Columbus, but
it was first put to practical use in j
Egypt and Central Asia, to which lo
calities its origin is sometimes attrib- j
uted, and whence it was in reality
distributed throughout the Western
world. A similar remark inav be made
of rye, one of the less valued cereals,
which is a native of the temperate ,
zones, and spread thence toward the I
South. It is supposed to have been j
unknown in India, Egypt and ancient
Palestine, and, though it was more or
less used by the aucient Greeks and
Romans. it was from the north of
Europe that they received it.
Nearly all the grains now in use are
of unknown antiquity. Wheat was
cultivated in eighty-six latitude as far
hack in the past as we have authentic
knowledge. Barley is thought to have
originated in the Caucasus, hut it was
known and used everywhere in the i
most ancient times. Oats, like rye, J
was unknown in ancient India and
Egypt and among the Hebrews. The
Greeks and Romans received it from ,
the north of Europe. Had there been
an early civilization on this continent
the wild oats found here and there
would probably have developed into
the useful cereal now considered abso j
lutely essential for the proper nourish !
ment of horses. This continent is |
credited with having given Indian corn J
to the old world, but this useful cereal ,
was doubtless known iu India and i
China many hundred years before the i
discovery of' America. Cotton was
used for making garments in India at
a date so remote that it cannot -even be;
guessed at. The fact is mentioned by
Aristotle. The first seeds were brought
to this country in 1621. In 1666 the cul
ture is mentioned in the records of
South Carolina. In 1736 the culture
was general along the eastern coast of
Maryland, and in 1776 we hear of it
as far north as Cape May. The use of
flax for making clothing is nearly as
ancient as that of cotton, and perhaps
more so, plants of soft and flexible
fiber having been without doubt among
the first vegetable productions of the
ancient world and their practical value
discovered soon after the invention of
weaving.
The cherry in its improved condi
tion is of Persian descent and is an
other fruit that might have been im
proved from our wild varieties had our
civilization been contemporary with
that wi.icii preceded Egypt and Baby
lon in the valleys of the Tigris and
Euphrates. Peaches, plums and cher
ries were all known to the ancient
Greeks and Romans.
The apple, the most useful and satis
factory of all the fruits of the temper
ate zones, lias been known from time |
immemorial. It originated from some j
of the hardy wild species that are found
sometimes almost as far north as the
Arctic circle. It is a fruit that likes
the cold, and is found in the greatest
perfection in jiarts of New England,
New York and Michigan, where the
winters are severe. As it approaches
the equator it loses its finest of taste,
while still preserving its beauty. It '
is a notable fact that, owing to carc in [
the culture, and in part to a preference j
for the climate, all the fruits mentioned j
in this list are found of better quality j
in Europe and America than in the lo*
calities where they are thought to have
originated. The oranges of India,
Jiurmah and Cochin China are abso- |
lutely tasteless and those of Malaga
scarcely better. The best grown in
Spain come from the region of Valen
cia, where they have been introduced
at a comparatively recent date. So of
the cherries, apricots and peaches,
which have attained a perfection in
| Europe and America of which the an
cient Persians never dreamed. All
these fruits appear to increase in size
and improve in fiavor in latitudes
where the winter is sufficiently severe
to check the growth of the tree and
give it a needed rest.
It could not be expected, for the j
reasons alleged, that America, in- '
habited until a recent date by ravage
tribes only, should furnish to the
world products that require thoubands
of years of care and culture to give
them their perfect development. The
potato, however, is an invaluable boon
conferred by the new world on the
old. The tomato is also of South
American origin, and, though it plays
a much less important part in alimen
tation, it is an article of food that
Americans would not. willingly part
with. AH to the fruits in common use,
though America lias done much to im
prove them, there is not one of them ;
of which it can reasonably claim to be
j the place of origin.—-San Francisco J
Chronicle.
hi Brazil not one per cent, of the
male or female servants will sleep in
their muster's house. They insist on
leaving at the latest by 7 o'clock in the
evening, and w ill not'return before 7
or 8 in the morning.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Clouds are on the average about
500 yards in thickness.
American tools are far better than
those of European make.
The largest fish known to science is
the basking shark, an enormous but
harmless variety.
A steel ship has been constructed in
1 Cardiff, Wales, with the standing rig
ging, as well as the hull, all of steel.
The largest known species of night-
Hying insects is the Atlai moth, a resi
dent of the American tropics, which
I has a wing spread of over a foot.
Human hair varies in thickness
from the 250 th to the 600 th part of an
inch. The coarsest fiber of wool is
about one 200th part of an inch in
' diameter; the finest only the 1500 th
i part.
Houth American auts have been
known to construct a tunnel three
i miles in length, u labor for them pro
portionate to that which would be re
quired for men to tunnel under the
Atlantic from New York to London.
Many larvae of beetles and other
I insects arc used for food ; the bee giveH
honey and wax, the coccus manua and
cochineal, the Spanish fly a blistering
drug, the gall insects an astringent,
: and the silk worm an article of dress.
In Japan there are now twenty pub
i blic electric companies in operation.
| Further companies are proposed, and
there is a considerable demand for
■ electrical engineers. Nearly all of the
companies are conducted by Ameri
cans.
A New England firm is introducing !
AH automatic gas lighter for street j
lamps, which works on the prin- j
ciple of an eight-day clock. It is
explained that the only attention the
lighter requires is a weekly winding
of the clock movement, and that it |
lights the lamp at the required time
and extinguishes if at daybreak.
Safety matches that can be used ;
without a box are to lie placed on the !
English market by a German inventor. !
The idea is to tip the two ends of the i
wood separately with those composi
tions which in the ordinary way go ,
one on the box and the other on the
match. To use, break the wood j
across the middle and rub the ends to
gether.
An agent of the Suez Canal Com- ;
pany has invented an apparatus to j
split the electric lights that illuminate
the canal into two divergent streams,
one sending ouff rays one way, the
other in the opposite direction. This
enables ships to approach each other
and meet with perfect safety. Formerly
the lights blinded pilots so that they
could not see vessels coming in the op- i
posite direction.
A physician points out that fat j
people endure most kinds of illness
much better than thin people, because
they have an extra amount of nutri
ment stored away in their tissues to
support them during the ordeal. I
Moreover, there are many other con* :
solutions for persons of abundant j
girth. They are generally optimists j
by nature, genial and jolly com j
panious, whose society is universally
preferred to that of people with i
angular frames and dispositions.
At a recent State fair an inventor
exhibited a machine that he had con
structed for converting grapes into
sugar and syrup. Experts who wit
nessed the operation and others affirm
that the process is a complete suc
cess. The experiments were mostly
confined to Muscat and other sweet
grapes known to carry a large amount
of saccharine matter. Heretofore the
difficulty has been in granulating
grape sugar. But by this new pro
cess it is claimed that granulation is
perfect.
Tombs of the Danish Kings.
In the resting place of the old kings
of Denmark, the Cathedral of Rokes
kild, a recent visitor notes that there
is a column against which a number of
monarchs have been measured, and
upon which their different heights are
recorded. One of them is Peter the
Great, and we learn by this means
that the shipwright Czar measured no
less than eighty Danish inches, equiv
alent to something like six feet, ten
incuts in our measurement. Only one
other of the sovereigns was taller, and
that was Christian I of Denmark, who,
according to this authority, was just a
trifle over seven feet English. The
Czar, Alexander 111, is about six feet
one inch, and is about a couple of
inches taller than Christian IX ot
Denmark, and about four inches taller
than King George of Greece, neither
of whom, nevertheless, is what would
be called a short man. It is worth
noting that in the same ancient cathe
dral where this column is to be seen,
Saxo Gram mat icus, the Danish histo
rian from whom Shakespeare borrowed
practically the entire plot of ' Ham
let," lies buried.—London News.
Sewing in Public Schools.
The course of study in sewing in the
Boston public schools is interesting
for an amateur of sewing to consider.
To read of "thimble, emery, scissors,
Bet off neatly as articles of study, and
and to gaze upon a printed curriculum
of "basting, backstitching, overcast
ing, half-backatitohing and combina
tion of one running and one-half back
stitch," is to realize most intensely
the advantages Boston offers to her
daughters. In the fourth year are
taught, among other things, stocking
darning, straight and bias felling,
whipping and sewing on ruffles, hem
stitching, blind stitching, tucking if
not taught previously, gathers over
handed to a band, sewing on hooks
and eyes and buttons, eyelets, loops,
and in the fifth year there is a system
of dress cutting by which girls are
taught to take measures, draught, cut
and tit a dress waist. —Boston Tran
script.
WISE WORDS.
Love gains every time it is tested.
Home is the fortress of the firtues.
The truthful man is dead; been (lead
i long time.
The real ruler of the man is within
him, not without.
The man who throws a stone at an
other hurts himself.
It is time wasted to argue with a
doubt. Kick it out.
It's the youngest man who thiuksho
has the least time to spare.
The whisper of a slanderer can be
heard farther than thunder.
There is no good quality which does
not become a vice by excess.
A woman iH seldom quite so happy
as when she is thoroughly miserable.
Finding fault with another is only a
roundabout way of bragging on your
self.
Home people are kept poor because
they will not believe it is blessed to
give.
The man who is afraid to look his
faults squarely in the face will never
get rid of them.
No man is perfectly consistent. He
who is nearest consistency steers the
erookedest course.
The Ethics of Wearing*.
In a lecture at Cambridge, England,
on the subject of "Weariness," Pro
fessor Michael Foster said umlue ex
ertion was exertion in which the mus
cles worked too fast for the rest of the
body. The hunted hare died not be
cause he was choked for want of breath,
not because his heart stood still, its
store of energy having given out, but
because a poisoned blood poisoned his
brain and his whole body. 80 also the
schoolboy, urged by pride to go on
running beyond the earlier symptoms
of distress, struggled 011 until the
heaped up poison deadened his brain,
and he fell dazed and giddy, as in a
tit, rising again, it might be, and
stumbling on unconscious, or half un
conscious only, by mere mechanical
inertia of his nervous system, falling
once more, poisoned by poisons of his
own making. All our knowledge went
to show that the work of the brain,
like the work of the muscles, was ac
companied by a chemical change, and
that the chemical changes were of the
same order in the brain as in the
muscle. If an adequate stream of pure
blood were necessary for the life of tho
muscle, equally true, perhaps even
more true, was this of the brain. More
over, the struggle for existence had
brought to the front a brain ever
ready to outrun its more humble help
mate, and even in tho best regulated
economy the period of most effective
work between tho moment all the
complex machinery hud been got into
working order and the moment when
weariness began to tell was bounded
by all too narrow limits. The sound
way to extend those limits was not so
! much to render the brain more agile
|as to encourage the humbler lielp-
I mates, so that their more efficient co
| operation might defer the onset of
'■ Aveariness.—New York Press.
A Remarkable Career.
A remarkable autography goes with
a damage suit for #SOOO filed at Wash
ington, D. C. The complaint is against
a Washington street railway. The
complainant is Henry Johnson, who
says he was badly cnt and bruised by
the ear starting while he was getting
off. Attached to the complaint is the
atlidavit of Johnson that he was born
in Georgetown on Christmas day in the
year 1800 ; was hired out to General
Walter Smith, who commanded the
militia at the battle of Bladcnsburg;
was captured by Captain Patrick, and
was present and saw them burn the
Capitol, anil when he was seventeen
years old he went with Commodore
Porter as a cabin boy on a four years'
cruise. In 1824 he went as a footman
with his old mistress to meet General
Lafayette, and escorted him to Gen
eral Smith's in Georgetown ; was with
General Macon in Florida during the
four years' war with the Indians; had
waited on General Scott, Gaines and
Jessup; lived with General T'otten,
and waited on Daniel Webster, Clay
and Calhoun when living with Mr.
Nicholson at Georgetown Heights.
Was with Captain Herndon on the
George Law, that was burned, and
when the women and children and
crew were off he stood close to Cap
tain Herndon at the wheelhouse, and
he said to him: "You go and shift for
yourself," and ho begged the captain
to come with him, when he replied:
"No, I must stand by my ship." Then
strapping himself to a door he was
thrown into the sea and saved, and
saw tho ship go down with the captain.
The Cats Ate the Crickets.
There is a man in Harlem who has
a much respected aunt. The aunt is
wealthy and eccentric. She came to
live with this Harlem resident, and
having been reared in the country and
having recently come from there she
missed the rural hum of insects and
the agricultural noises of a country
residence.
Being anxious to please his rela
tive and make her reconciled to city
life this Harlem man hired a number
of boys to seoure crickets for him. He
bought twenty cans of crickets and
turned them out to pasture in his
back yard. For several nights the
cheerful chirping of the crickets
I proved very soothing to the aged aunt,
j I'he various cats in the neighborhood
j oon became aware of the unusual
j nimber of crickets in this bank yard.
| Jnts are fond of crickets, aud now the
j larlem man has cats and no crickets
a his back yard. He says that all the
•uts iu Harlem have made his yard a
trysting place and the mint threatens
I to move back into the country.—New
York Herald.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS*
CARPET SWEEPING.
With a little care you can sweep the
dirtiest carpet without raising much j
of a dust by placing outside the door I
of the room to be swept a pail of clear, j
cold water. Wet your broom, knock
it against the side of the bucket to
get out nil the drops, sweep a couple .
of yards, then rinse off the broom
igain. Continue this until you have
gone over the entire surface* If the
carpet is very much soiled the water
iliould be changed several times.
Slightly moistened Indian meal is also
lsed by the oldest housewives. Snow,
if not allowed to melt, is also excellent
is a dust settler.—St. Louis Republic.
TO FRY FISH.
"Small fish should swim twice, once
in water and once in oil." Perch,
brook trout, catfish and all small fish
*re best fried. They should be cleaned,
washed well in cold water and immedi
ately wiped dry, inside and outside,
with a clean towel and then sprinkled
with suit. Use oil if convenient, as it
is very much cheaper than eithei
Gripping or lard. Never use butter,
is it is apt to buru and has a tendency
to sotteu the fish. See that the oil,
ard or dripping is boiling hot before
jutting in the fish. Throw in a crumb
>f bread ; if it browns quickly it is hot
I enough and the fish will not absorb
j \ny grease. —New York World.
MANY USES FOR SODA,
i Tinware may be brightened by clip
ping a damp cloth in common soda
I mil rubbing it well.
Very hot soda in a solution, applied
with a soft flannel, will remove paint
j splashes. Use soda in the water to
| cleau paint aiul glass instead of soap.
| Strong, tepid soda water will make
! glass very brilliant, then rinse in cold
| water, wipe dry with linen cloth,
j Ceilings that have become smoked
I by kerosene lamps may be cleaned by
! washing off witli soda water.
| For cleaning oil paint before repaint
i ing, use two ounces of soda dissolved
! in a quart of hot water, then rinse off
with clear water.
A lump of soda laid <m the drain
pipe will prevent the pipes becoming
clogged with grease; also, flood the
pipes once a week with boiling water,
in which a little soda is dissolved.
Wash white marble porches, bath,
etc., with a mop dipped in boiling hot
water and soda. A good deal of soda
should be dissolved in the water.
CSISO CHLOROFORM, ETHER AND NAPHTHA.
The best of the detergents for doli
cate colored silks is chloroform—but
it must be very carefully used, as aside
from the risk of inhaling too much of
the vapor it is inflammable. If used
at all it ought to be done out doors.
Lay the spotted surface right side
down upon a folded cleau cloth, pour
on chloroform enough to wet it thor
oughly, then dab it over with a soft
cloth also wet in the liquid. After a
minute slip the spot onto a fresh space
of cloth, pour on more chloroform and
again dab it with the cloth held firmly
over your fingers. Turn it over quickly
and wipe off the right side with a fresh
soft cloth.
Ether can be used in the same way
—with quite the same precautious.
Both other and chloroform are too
expensive save for the most delicate
and costly finery. For ordinary things
naphtha used m the same manner
answers excellently well. It leaves
more of a mark than the aniesthetics
and lias a much more persistent odor.
Whatever you use test it on a bit of
stuff, since nobody can say certainly
what the effect will be without know
ing the chemical reaction of the colors
it is to encounter. —Chicago Record.
RECIPES.
Figcon Cutlets—Stow birds (whole)
in stock; cut up, dip in egg and
crumbs mixed with cayenne, thyme,
parsley and lemon peel. Fry in deep
lard and thicken stock for gravy.
Goose and Onion —Stuff with a mix
ture of three hot mashed potatoes,
stirred with one tablespoonful of but
ter, a little salt and pepper, one table
spoonful of powdered sage and three
chopped onions. Serve with apple
sauce.
Bait Mackeral—Soak over night.
Wrap in cloth and simmer twenty
miuntes in water to cover. Melt a lit
tle butter, and cream and chopped
parsley for dressing; or add lemon
juice, vinegar, gooseberry sance, 01
currant catsup.
Browned Oysters on Toast—Mix
yolks of two eggs with a little flour.
Season twenty-four oysters and dip in
batter. Brown in hot butter. Then
add oyster liquor to flour, stirred iu
the butter, simmer three minutes, add
Oysters again and serve on toast.
Polatina—Take one cup of stewed
tomato and the gravy left from roast
beef. Let them boil, and season with
cayenne and salt. Slice two onions,
soak them in cold salted water, drain
dry, and fry in deep tat. Cut about a
pint of cold roast beef into the thin
nest possible shavings. IJjiva the
platter as hot as possible, lay the
shaved beef on it, on the boiling
sauce, and garnish with the fried
onions.
Saratoga Potatoes—Cut raw pota
toes in slices as thin as wafers with a
thin, shnrp knife; lay them in cold
water over night, a bit of alum will
make them more crisp; next morning
rinse in cold water and dry with a
towel. Have ready a kettle of lard,
hotter than for fried cakes, and drop
in the potatoes, a few at a time. They
will brown quickly. Skim out in a
colander, and sprinkle with salt, or
lav them on ft double brown paper in
the oven till dry. If any arc left over
from the meal they can be warmed in
the oven and will bo jtlst as good for
another time.
Wisconsin has 8707 women farmers.
England is said to have over 1,000,000
widows.
The Shetland women are the finest
knitters in the world.
The Duchess of Portland is the tall
est Duchess in the world.
Mrs. Roswell P. Flower's charities
cost her an average of $250 a week.
The violet is conventionally the only
flower that can be worn by a person in
mourning. t
The Queen of Portugal is credited
with making many of her own and her
children's clothes.
Eton jackets of fur are being worn,
and eimine is going to be the fashion
able lining for cloaks.
Mrs. James C. Ayer lias a superb
collection of jewels. Some of them,
indeed, are world renowned.
Colored shoes are only suitable for
the daintiest feet, and display the
proportion better when made with sim
plicity.
Dress waists are worn so very tight
fitting that it is almost impossible for
! the fashion-loving women in them to
I breathe properly.
Round waists have lost none of their
prestige, but are rivaled by basque
bodices and pointed corsages with frills
attached to the lower edge.
Buttons are to be worn in all sizes
and compositions, but simply as a
trimming. The waist will be fastened
with hooks underneath the buttons,
i Crinoline is in stock, but it is not in
; style. Modistes use it for hat, collar
aud sleeve-head lining, but not a scrap
is put in the skirt of a stylish dress.
A noted physician says that the most
prolific cause of woman's nervous dis
, eases, hysterics, spinal diseases and
sick headaches is high-heeled boots.
Brooklyn boasts of two women who
are employed as blacksmith and deco
rator, respectively. Mrs. Bridget Du
gan is employed in the former trade
and Miss Mary Leaf in the latter.
The young Duchess of York has had
to wear mourning twice since her mar
riage. The royal family has now so
many ramifications that scarcely a
week passes that some connection does
not die.
Long hair should never be sham
pooed more than once a month. Brush
ing stimulates the growth of the hair
and makes it glossy and soft. It also
stops the hair from falling out and is
the best tonic for the scalp.
Mrs. Marshall Field is considered
one of the most charitable women iu
Chicago. Sympathy as well as help is
rendered women out of employment.
All applications lor help are investi
gated by Mrs. Field's private secre
tary.
A hundred ami fifty years ago un
married as well as married women were
styled "Mrs." Girls were called "Miss"
until they left school, when they took
rank as "Mrs.," while married women
were very generally addressed as
"Madam."
Perhaps the secret of Mme. Carnot's
perpetually youthful looking picturei
is to be found in the fact that for the
last fifteen years she has steadily de
clined to bo photographed. She de
clares that she will never submit to the
ordeal again.
Mrs. Edward Payson Terhuue (Mar
ion Harlaud) is indefatigable in hei
literary work. She has written cook
books and novels, essays and blank
verse, and has now Bailed for Europe
and the Holy Land to gather material#
for an oriental romance.
A St. Louis woman has lately per
fected an invention for making sweet
potato flour. Tho process include#
peeling the potato and drying the peel
as a food for live stock, drying and
grinding the potato into three grades
of flour, and also slicing into Saratoga
chips.
Wellsville, Alleghany County, iu
Western New York, has forty women
agriculturists, all successful. One has
a stock farm. One was a housemaid,
her brother failed on the old home
stead ; she had saved money; shr
bought the farm a few years since, and
all its belongings are rejuvenated.
Princess Maud of Wales is particu
larly fond of assuming an alias and
dropping some of the red tape of roy
alty. Every year she goes to visit
her former governess, who lives in
Devonshire. Always the sensible
Princess insists on being called "Miss
Mill," and upon being treated as a
member of the family.
Elizabeth Banks, once private secre
tary to the British Minister to Pern,
will publish in a Loudon daily a aerie
of articles concerning her experience#
as a parlormaid and a housemaid in
English families. The title will be
"In Cap and Apron." She recom
mends domestic service to poor girls
in preference to shop work.
The Empress of Germany has just
had a model of her figure ma le to be
used as a substitute when she cannot
personally have her diesses fitted. It
seems strange that this should just
have been done when American women
have for Borne time hail forms made
that were dnplicates of themselves and
have had them inconstant use at their
modistes.
A pleasing feature of some railway
stations in and about Xew York is a
smiling colored matron as an attend
ant in the ludiea' room. These women
ire nearly always popular, unfailingly
courteous, and apparently honest to a
penny. They make it part of their
business to care for packages,and they
accept the smallest tip with ft smile and
thanks that make the giver regret that
the amount was not thrice as large,