/ According to tho Now York Mail
and Express nearly four thousand chil
dren in that city are refused admission
to the public schools for "Jack of ac- ;
commodation."
Tho Hartford Journal declares that
moneyed men of to-day have their per
sons as well guarded as the Czar of
Russia, to protect them front the
murderous cranks which now infest
the whole country.
' Over seventy-two per cent, of the
population of India are of the Brahm
an io religion, nineteen per cent. Mus
sulmans, three per cent, of Animistic
or aboriginal forms of worship, and
0.80 per cent, arc returned an Chris
tians.
' Otto Wells, a full-blooded Coman
che, who entered the Carlisle (Pcnu.)
Indian School in a blanket as a boy
pupil, stood up in a dress suit at tho
school the other day to he married to
Miss Pnrkhurst, an Oneida girl. So
fnr ns Lo is concerned civilization is
not a failure.
/ The street railroads of New York
C'itv had, until the introduction of tho
cable system, '20,000 horses in service,
and the total number of horses and
mules on American street railroads
was not far from 400,000. Now, with
7000 miles of trolley roads, and over
1500 of cable, there is decidedly less
demand for horses and mules, and
correspondingly smaller demand for
bay for fodder.
It has been decided by nu English
court tlint it is not libellous to call a
lady a woman. This recalls the fact
to tho New York Tribune that in a
Western town a couple of years ago a
young woman who worked as a clerk
in a drvgood store threatened to sue a
newspaper for libel because it referred
to her as a saleswoman and not as a
saleslady. She did not carry out her
intention, however, as she was ad
vised that she had no ease.
About ten years ago a number of
Germans, who had migrated to the
Northwest, disgusted with the hard
ships of (hat cold country, determined
to remove to the South. They accord
ingly bought at $lO an acre a worn
out plantation of some 2000 acres in
Lauderdale County, Alabama, and
settled there. They proceeded to im
prove their property along practical
and intelligent lines. They cleared
away tho broomsedge and planted
clover and grasses and began raising
cattle. They sold hav ami small grain.
They planted orchards and vineyards
and utilized tho products in every avail
able way. The result is that the St.
Florian colony is among the most
thrifty and prosperous communities in
the State of Alabama. Their land is
now worth at least SSO per acre and
they are happy and independent.
Professor Garner's announcement
that his visit to Africa to study tho
language of the monkeys has been en
tirely successful is necessarily of great
interest, observes the New York
Times. It is of tho greater interest
because lie lias brought back with him
two chimpanzees, with whom he
"claims" to have established conversa
tional relations, and with whom,
doubtless, he will consent to converse
in public—not necessarily for publica
tion, but as a guarantee of good faith.
Of equal interest is his statement that
when he was anchored out in a cage
in the middle of an African forest,
eavesdropping on the circumambient
apes, he kept a phonograph, and by
trick find device induced the monkeys
to talk into it. Their remarks will
doubtless be ground out again for the
benefit of learned societies, in the
wheezy and asthmatic tones into which
the phonograph converts all sounds.
The wages of train-robbery do not
seem to the San Francisco Chronicle
to be large enough to make the pursuit
attractive. Within the last three
months there has heeu an epidemic of
this crime, but in nearly every case
the robbers have been run down and
either captured or shot. Even where
bloodhounds are not used the fugitive
is placed at a terrible disadvantage,
as he is usually seeking to escape from
men who know every trail and hiding
place. Before the day of the telegraph
the criminal had some chance of elud
ing pursuit, but in the present day of
instant communication his lines are
not cast in pleasant places. It would
make h curious exhibit were one to
bring together the profit and loss of
train-robbery in a single year. It
would be found that the men who ex
pend rare skill for weeks in planning
a crime seldom realize anything for
their pains. An honest, plodding day
laborer makes more in a year than one
of the higher class criminals who risks
life and liberty a dozen times for
petty gains.
THE KINGS
A man said unto his nngel
"My spirits are fnlleu through,
And I cannot carry this battle ;
O brother! what shall I do?
"The terrible Kings are on me,
With spears that are deadly bright,
Against mo so from the cradle
Do fate and my fathers light.' 1
Then said the man to his nngel
"Thou wavering, foolish soul,
Back to tho ranks ! What matter
To win or to lose the whole,
"As judged by the little judges
Who hearkeu not well, nor see?
Not thus by the outer issue
The wise shall interpret thee.
"Thy will is the very, the only,
The solemn event of things,
The weakest of hearts defying
Is stronger than all these Kings,
"Though out of the past they gather,
Wind's doubt ami bodily pain,
Aud pallid thirst of the spirit
That is kin to the other twniD,
"And grief, in a cloud of banners,
Aud riuglettod vain desires.
And vice, with the spoils upon him
Of thee and thy beaten sires,
"Whilo Kings of eternal evil
Yet darken the hills about,
Thy part is with broken saber
To rise on the last redoubt ;
"To fear not sensible failure,
Nor covet tho game at all,
But lighting, fighting, fighting,
Die, driven against the wall !'*
-Louise Imogen Guiney, in Boston Pilot.
ROMANCE OF A RANCH. 1
v OB Mill May were ( i
I Sweethearts. 1 '
WLylfvYX Of course thev 1
Vvv\ werc I that's what 1
[®iC.j&J.j\\ they had been .
i Jlearning ever since j
J —" * £&?]} Bob, n stripling of
II ,twenty, had come
°"t from Tennes-
I Ree " le Texas
SPiw qjJ / Manhandle with the
j In those days
r , M ' ly WftH R bright i
r..i . haired, high strung 1
little girl of fourteen, whom Bob never |
called or thought of ns "red headed."
Bub wiih n strong, good humored
boy, not a bit afraid of work, and be I
bad n way with him that gave him com
mand of men nnd crentiires. He rose
rapidly in old man Love's employ from
simple cow puncher to wagon boss,
then foremnu ; and when he was only
twenty-five went with the approval and
good will of his employer to take the
position of rauch manager for a Bos
ton com nan v.
All the world loves a lover. Bob was
such a whole henrted one, his state of
mind was so patient, he took much de
light in it, wore liis chains with such
open pride nnd enthusiasm, that all
the Panhandle felt with and for him.
Besides being a fellow that a girl
could love without any difficulty, any
body with a daughter to spare
might have been pleased with Bob for
a son-in-law.
And old man Love was pleased enough
with the match, and greatly given to
bragging of Bob as a coming adjunct
to tha I.ove greatness, until the tragedy
of the one horned brindle cow, which
tore things all up generally, threat
ened to sever two loving hearts and
darken forever Bob's and May's happy
horizon.
This old cow—worth perhaps $7
bobbed up at one of the round-ups
sporting, in addition to the B. N. of
the Boston National, which was
facetiously known an the "Bean"
brand, old man Love's (XXX).
Though very uncommon, such acci
dents may occur in the haste and con
fusion of branding, without necessarily 1
implying dishonesty on some one's
part. While they do sometimes re
sult in tights and killings, they are
easily enough adjusted between
reasonable people, since any clever
cattleman can readily toll which brand j
is of the longer standing.
But any cowboy on the range would I
have told you that while old man Love I
was square enough himself, he was a !
crazy crunk about the sacredness of j 1
his brand. His long suit was to jump I
up anil down and swear that it never I '
yet was on anything that wasn't his | 1
own. He invariably claimed an ani- 1
Dial that bore it in addition to an- <
other brand (as did his old cowl, how
ever-plainly it showed as the newer of t
the two, though as a matter of faeth's <
branding irons were handled by just
as many careless cowsboys as anv 1
other. • ,
If Bob bail known what that aged
and damaged brindle cow was going
to coßt him be might perhaps have
blinked his obvious duty and let old
man Lovt have her—in the face of
right and reason.
But he was not the man to be backed
down by any one, and he dared the
worst- and got it!
He held the cow for his company,
after a tierce contest, and old man
ove went home raging, to give his'
distorted version of the affair, issue
orders that no member of his family !
?„3T k l ,V r ° f ' Bob - that
S re ? lark "gnifioantly 1
that he had far rather see a child of
his married to a horse thief than to a
person capable of such behavior.
Communication be tween the love rs
had since been managed, once or
twice, by the utmost stealth and
secrecy. Having, by his means, been
assured of his sweetheart's steadfast
ness and readiness, Bob sent her word
by one nf her father's cowboys to ride
a good horse past the half-way brand
ing pen, armed himself with a license,
and hung around the Triple X ranch
for a week.
When May finally found the oppor
trinity to slip away in the most care
less niunner, with one of the men's
sombreros on, and in the face of
threatening weather, she received a
rapturous welcome from the long-ban
ished Bob, and they promptly headed
their pouies for Squire Wiley's, just
the other side of Roaring Creek, who
was supposed to be holding himself in
j readiness for their visit.
What Mexican, or other paid spy,
or what unfriendly or envious hand
carried the news to old man Love will i
not be known, but ho burst into one J
of his nesr cow camps at dinner, short
ly after Bob and May's departure, like
a roaring South African lion with
mustard in his eye.
"The boys"—who knew well enough
what was afoot and -what would be
asked of them—dropped their tin cups
and plates, jumped on their waiting
ponies, and were out of hailing dis
tance before he fairly lit in their
midst*
But old Hank Fearsall, the cook,
was a new man, not long from South
west Texas, neither knowing of, nor
caring particularly, for Bob Holly and
bis love affairs. So he stood at his
official post at the tail end of the
chuck wagon und gave amiable atten
tion to the impassioned harangue and
singular antics of this new and enter
taining employer.
Being commanded to come along
and assist in dispersing Bob ami res
cuing May, he mounted a serious ap
pearing but fitful tempered buckskin
colored pony, with one white eye aud
much symmetry of bone—as much of
a character in its way nj Hank was in
his—and started, with considerable
interest ami curiosity.
i They rode hard, And were near over-
I hauling the lovers within H mile of
I Roaring Creek. But while pursuer
and pursued pushed on ut their ut
. most pace, another factor was coming
1 with a hundred times greater speed to
take a hand in the game.
The dry bed of Roaring Creek was
just before them, beyond that a tiny
rise, then an arroyo, and beyond that,
again, the roof of the justice's house,
i just iu sight. As Bob and May clat
tered over t lie creek bed, and scrambled
up onto the rise beyond, both looked
back, and tlieir ponies stopped, tossing
their heads, pricking their ears ami
snorting at a curious humming sound
that suddenly seemed to till all the air
, about.
"Hurry up, darling," cried Bob,
throwing out a hand to catch May's ;
" 'tis a big storm coming from above
but before they could descend the
slope to cross the dry arroyo in front,
it was running from bank to bank,
and brimming over with a sudden flood
of red, muddy water.
; And, even above the noise of the
flood before them, they heard a Round
| like the angry shouting of furious
i multitudes. Looking backward ami
I up the creek, whence the souuds came,
they saw a great tumbling shudder
wall pushing before it and bearing
upon its crest all imaginable sorts of
debris advancing down the dry' creek
bed with such a thunderous onslaught
that the little mound on which they
stood shook and seemed fairly to lower
under their feet.
! They looked about them. The ar
| royo ran into the creek below. Above
i both it and the creek luul flooded out
until they joined. Their little mound
, was an island, momentarily growing
smaller, surrounded on every side by
j raging torrents, in which were driven
l and whirled whole trees, full grown
cattle, with sometimes a fence post
whose trailing w ire had caught in their
barbs all manner of ghastly wreckage. I
Up came the water übout them ;
down fell the liar!.
"It's a cloudburst above, darling,"
said Bob. "It won't last long—the
water won't cover this rise."
"I'm not sfraid, Bob," said May,
with very white lips; "I'm glad I came,
anyhow, If we've got to die we'll die
together ; aud the way I've felt for the
last three weeks I'm sure that's a heap
better than living apart."
Bob jumped off his pony and lifted
May from hers. The hail was coming
bigger and beat cruelly upon them.
J He wrapped his slicker about her,
I pushed the ponies close together and
I sheltered her with them aud his owu
| body as best he could.
"We won't die," hesaid ; "but, poor
little girl, what an awlul atorni I've
dragged you out into 1"
Just then from the further bank of
the creek, above the awful howling of
the storm, came this intelligent com
mand in old man Love's ear-splitting
tones:
"May Love, you come here to me
this minute 1" And May laughed hys
terically.
"Well, he can't get at us, anyway,
but the hail can. Oh, look to your
poor hands! Oh. Bob, I can't bear it.
Put the slicker back on."
"Why, honey," said Bob, as the
tears came in earnest now, "I'd get
pounded just the same anyhow, and
I you must let me have the comfort of
keeping some of it off you—it ain't
a patehin' on the way your pa would
wm 6 I COuld et me rl gkt now."
While the storm raged and the water
rose nearly to their feet, Hank Pear
, sail had the almost exclusive benefit of
| old man Love's remarks, since only his
wildest shrieks reached the young
; couple, who werc too much absorbed
in each other to heed either him or the
storm.
These remarks disagreed with Mr.
Pearsall, who was notoriously a man of
judgment and observation.
"What's the matter with that young
feller?" he queried angrily; "watch
him a standin' to the north'ard uv his
KI, a keepin' the hail often her ! Ho
ain't no chump! If he keeps that lick
np right through he'll make a better
husband n' what you ever did !"
About this time, the hail ceasing,
the expectant Justice came down to
the further bank of the arroyo. The
water was going down visibly but its
roar was Mill considerable.
"Ho, Hub! ' yelled the Justice above
the sound, "got yer license?"
I Boh took it out and waved it above
| his head.
Old man Love could not, from where
he stood, hear a word; but he sur
mised what had been said, and the
sight of the document was like as the
red flag to the bull.
'I dare ye to marry Vm," he
screamed. "I dare ye to do it!" And
in an ecstasy of rage and anxiety he
forced his pony down into the foaming
creek, among the whirling drift, where
ho was promptly pitched off by the
terrified creature, which instantly re
turned. Pcarsall, at the risk of his
own life, had to fish him out, receiving
plenty of abuse for his pains, and re
turning it with biting irony.
In two minutes' time the shallower
arroyo was fordable, though the creek,
down which big drifts continued to
come, was not. Bob sat May on her
pony, mounted his own, and prepared
to ride out. The sight of the Justice
a plaius cupid, with boots, slicker
and cowboy hat—preparing to take
charge of the pair, was too much for
old man Love, and, dismounted as he
was, he plunged iu a delirium of rage
into the creek, sputtering and yelling:
"Stop! Hold on ! You just dare !"
May hesitated, frightened, but Hank
Pearsall yanked her father out again
and set him on dry land, snorting:
"Doggone ye! I pulled ye out
onct before! What fer cain't ye stay
out! Huh? When ye try buckin'
agin a boy like that, backed by a
Texas norther, you're agoin' to git left
—don't ye know it? That kid's got a
double cinch on Proverdunce? Bet
ye he had this liyer storm staked out!
Go it feller! Go it gal! I'm with ye
every time—l'm fer ye ! Yer the right
sort! I wouldn't hender ye fer all the
old snake bit fools in Texas 1 I'll jist
gether up the scraps o* this ole eejit
| an' tote 'em back to the ranch."
| And as May and Bob rode off, tat
-1 tered, beaten, draggled, but oblivi
ously blissful and jaunty, a faint hail
followed them :
"Goodbye, kids: wish yer joy!
Come on, ole calamity I"—New York
Herald.
KUo and Fall of Clipper Ships.
Clipper ships were first built in 1840,
at the time when English steamships
were beginning to take business away
from the Yankee packets. The latter
I had been the rulers of the seas from
j the establishment of the Black Ball line
in 1816. That was just after Uncle
Sam s rights on the high seas had been
vindicated by the outcome of the War
of 1812. The first clippers were built
for speed, regardless of carrying ca
pacity, but were not very profitable,
I because of their small freight and their
structural weakness.
i i They were culled into being by the
i | demands of the California trade, and
i in 180 l the secret of building swift
ships that were also stanch and ca
pacioils was solved by the Challenge,
' the Invincible, the Comet and the
; Swordfish. These vessels were of enor
mous size for those davs, the Challenge
I being of 2000 tons, and their appeur
• , ance was beautiful in the extreme.
| The arrival in the Port of New York of
■ a clipper that had won repute as a fast
■ ; sailer always excited the wildest and
most patriotic enthusiasm. She caused
I corresponding emotions of chagrin
when she touched at British ports.
Nor was the advantage altogether sen
timental, for the swift Yankee ships
could command much higher freights
than slow British vessels, SOO a ton
freight being readily paid to American
| skippers from China to Liverpool,
while S2O was thought euough for En
glish masters. Had it not been for the
j fact that the English were first to use
iron in building steamships, and the
j destructive work of the Alabama during
• the Civil War, America might yet be an
j preme on the wave.—New York Times.
Animal and Invalid Diet.
Foods that will keep a well person
I healthy may kill the sick. On a diet
of beef tea, which will build up an in
■ valid, healthy men rapidly lose their
strength. Bare, juicy beef, which is
the most nutritive of all meats, and
i which nourishes the healthy, is the
least nourishing of all foods for the
sick person, whose feeble stomach can
assimilate no part of it. The nutri
tive power of milk is very much un
derestimated. There is more nourish
ment in a pint of inilk than there is in
a quarter of a pound of beef. But
this is uot the whole question of inva
lid dieting. Chemistry has far less to
do with the subject than the patient's
stomach, which must have not what is
most nourishing, but what it can as
similate with the least exertion. The
food that a sick person likes and hun
gers for is invariably what nature re
quires. The perfect animal may be
fed, the invalid must be fostered with
simple but delicately served morsels.
The cheek of a broiled lamb chop, a
checker of toast, a spoonful of jelly
and an eggshell of hot milk—those are
the dainties that provoke' appetite.—
New York World.
Canning Rug Repairers.
There are in this city two Armenians
who make a living by repairing Orien
tal rugs. This work requires a special
tact, because these rugs are all made
by hand, each bit of the warp being
tied to tho woof with the fingers. Fre
quently they are obliged to cut a full
width piece out of the middle of a rug,
and join the edges, and unless they
break into a figure the new joining is
hardly noticeable. —New York Sun.
A Freak ol Lightning.
A table in a house was apparently
set on fire by lightning, although the
lightning itself did not strike the
house. The explanation offered is that
spark* from inducted currents from
the lightn:ngdischarge passed between
the fine metallic threads which were
woven into the tluffy material of cot
ton and wool used for ornamenting the
table und that, the sparks set the cot
ton on fire. - Kleetrical World,
SELECT SIFTIXUS.
Portugal's royal crown is worth
16,500,000.
An Arctic owl was recently captured
in Freeport. Me.
A man in Norway, Me., raised nine
large pumpkins from one seed.
A Philadelphia hat dealer says his
least profit is in selling silk hats.
On an average a locomotive engineer
travels 20,000 miles irx tho course of a
year.
J. A. Mcßrayer, of Anderson, Kv.,
has killed 237 rattlesnakes in seven
years.
A bald eagle was shot off the steeple
of the biggest hotel in HewartlCounty,
Kansas.
Iu the year 760 A. D., Pope Paul I.
•cnt the only clock in the world as a
present to Pepin, King of France.
Needles were first made with every
rude machinery in 1545. At that date
a workman did well if he turned nut
ten a day.
Boman colonial coins bore a number
of banners corresponding to the num
ber of the legion whoso veterans had
occupied the country.
One variety of the India rubber tree
(Ficnselastioa) lias leaves of the deepest
green, each provided with a narrow
border of very bright red.
The loftiest volcano is Popocatepetl,
Mexico. Its crater is 1000 feet deep
and three miles in circumference. The
mountain is 17,784 feet high.
The longest wooden bridge in the
world is a trestle work over Lake Pont
chartrain, New Orleans. It is of
cypress piles and twenty-two miles
long.
The dogs which Chinese epicures are
6aid to be most fond of are n peculiar
species of canine noteworthy for the
, entire absence of any disposition to
bark.
The mountain of Fnjisian, in Japan,
is actually in motion. It is 12,400 feet
Above sea level, yet the power of the
winds iu those quarters causes it to
sway from side to side.
One of the largest wire cables ever
made has been completed by a Liver
| pool firm. The rope lias a continuous
! length of four and one-half miles and
j weighs over twenty-3ve tons.
Notless than fifteen hundred (1500)
j people were trampled to death in the
crowds which gathered at the fete
| given in celebration of tho marriage
| of Louis XVI. of France, June 2), 1770.
In computing the age tho Chinese
j always reckon back two years from the
I celebration of the first birthday ; or,
j in other words, as though the person
had been one year old at time of birth.
Mount De Angus, otherwise the
; "water volcano," is situated about
twenty-five miles south of the capital
of Guatemala. It takes spells of vomit
ing immense torrents of pure, cold
j water.
Caged lions and tigers, pumas and
| jaguars take no notice of the men and
| women passing in front of them, but
i let a dog be brought anywhere near
I the cage and they show their savage
' nature at once, and spring up, glaring
I out savagely.
Savage Precautions Against Poison.
In Madagascar thingH are going all
wrong, according to the latest infor
mation. The foreign affairs of the
country are disturbed by reason of the
unfriendly relations of the Malagassy
Government with the French Resident-
General; and domestic affairs are kept
in a state of suspense and anxiety on
account of the mental and physical
condition of the I'rimo Minister,
Rainilaiarivony. It is known that
this man, who is the husband of Queen
Rauavalo, is the real sovereign of the
great African island, and that he has
[ managed to be something more thau a
Prince Consort in his relation to the
politics of the country. Unfortunately,
since the plot against his life, con
cocted by one of his sons, assisted, it
is alleged, by Mr. Kiugdon, a supposed
British political agent, Rainilaiarivony
has lived in perpetual dread of being
poisoned. He is an old man, extremely
shrewd, and he is taking extraordinary
precautions against his enemies. Every
day. morning and evening, there may
bo seen passing along the road leading
from the palace to tho market place a
a strange group composed of Radilfera,
a son of the Premier ; Ratiloferor, his
grandson and heir presumptive; Ra
kotomena, a nephew of the Queen, and
some other near relatives. On the
passing of these high personages, amid
the cries of "Tanila! Tanila!" ("get
out of the way,") everybody makei
room and uncovers respectfully. They
carry beneath their lambas, or long,
shirt-like vestments, the pigeons and
the milk which are now the daily food
of the Prime Minister.
Rainilaiarivony himself places the
pigeons under the bedstead, and if no
suspicious disorder attacks them with
in forty-eight hours he cooks and eats j
them. As to the milk, it JB tasted '
daily by twelve persons, and not until I
the following day, when he has seen I
again these persons in good health,
does the Premier drink it. He spends I
bis days in playing with toys, and is j
represented as having fallen into sec
ond childhood. State business is BUS- '
pended, and merchants experience
great delays in securing the necessary
permits for the transportation of their :
goods from one point of the island to
another. —New York Tribune.
Beer Hunting On n Bicycle.
An Oregon man claims to be the first
person to go deer hunting on a bicy
cle. The inflated tire on his wheel a!
lowed of his traveling swiftly am)
noiselessly over thegronnd strewn with
pine needles and before he peddled
many miles he came upon an unsus
pecting deer quietly browsing just
ahead of him. He killed the animal
and returned to the hotel with it sluna
over his shoulders.-Chicago Herald
! GETTING OUT MAHOGANY.
A PROFITABLE, BUT HARD AND
DANGEROUS BUSINESS.
The Valuable Logs Are Obtained
From the Tropical Forests of
Nicaragua.
T T SCHNEIDER, of Nica
fagna, is stopping at the
j 1 JL Hotel Royal, says the New
6 Orleans Picayune. The
gentleman is an extensive expor
ter of mahogany from the country
I where he has resided for the past few
I years, and where he lias amassed a
■ competence in shipping that particu
lar and valuable wood.
"Mahogany is a very valuable wood,
but is hard to get out of the forests
where it growp," he said to a reporter
last night. "However, it pays if one
goes at it right, and knows how to
manage the business. The way we go
about the work of getting out mahog
any logs is, first, to get a concession
from the Nicaraguan Government.
You must 'stand in,' as they say in the
United States, if you get a concession,
but an enterprising citizen from our
country cau go there and establish
himself in the favor of the officials,
and if he has a good record at home
as a man able to tend to business they
grant him a privilege. But that is
only the beginning of the trouble one
has in cutting and exporting the wood.
You then proceed to make bargains
with the natives to cut and haul logs
out of the forests. If you treat them
kindly they will work for you for a
! time at the least. The best Indian
I labor costs about fifty cents per day.
j It is often hard, however, to get them
j to work, as they live on fruits, and
1 can sustain themselves without labor
!of any trying kind. Half of the year
is called the rainy season, and it rains
I from May to October. It is then so
wet that one finds it impossible to
get ont any timber, and no one will
. work for you during the wet sea
j sou. When the dry season opens we
I commence operations, and if we can
I get enough labor we succeed, but we
j have to be careful with thein, as they
: become easily misled and often think
j we are taking some advantage of them.
! When they become convinced that
' something is wrong, whether they have
j cause to believe that such is the case or
not, they get angry, and the feeling
j spreads among all the tribes. The
| woods are so dense and the work so
1 trying on men brought there from
other countries that they cannot stand
| it, and there is no profit in paying
! them what they require to risk their
! lives among the snakes and iu the
swamps where the mahogany grows.
I When the timber is cut we haul it, one
log at a time, on a two-wheeled oxcart
i especially made for the purpose. It is
a very slow process, but it is the only
practicable way to get the timber out.
! There are 400 and 500 logs to the acre,
j and the price of the wood is so high
I partly because the timber is so hard
I to obtain."
"What is the price of mahogany?"
"The average price of a good ma
hogany log is $75. I sell very few logs
j in the United States, and my principal
market is in France. There I ship
I practically all my timber. The price
i is better in France, and the money is
! paid as soon as the logs arrive iu port.
: There are not as many fortunes in ma-
I liogauy as some people imagine, as tho
; wood is too difficult to draw from tho
| tangled forests of Nicaragua. When
a man from the North goes to Nicara
-1 gua he stauds the climate very well for
a year, and is very energetic, and won*
j ders at the spirit of laziness that pre
vails among all the people. But after
awhile he is overcome by the climatic
conditions and gets lazy and is unable
!to work three good hours a day —if he
i doesn't die in the meantime. The ma
| hogany business is very pretty to talk
I about and very nice in theory, and
j even in price, but a great deal of the
fancy profit that apparently accrues
i on logs is lost in the time and expense
one is required to undergo to get the
| logs out and carry them to the ships."
('heap Lodging Houses Abroad.
j One of the City Councilors of Lon
! don told me recently with justifiable
| pride of the wonderful success that bos
; followed the establishment of a mu
-1 nicipal lodging house in London. He
j says it is absolutely clean, the linen is
spotless and the rooms are more like
those of a club than of a public insti
! tution. The charge for lodging for a
! night is five pence, or ten cents, and
j this gives the lodger the right to cook
I his own food in the place. London
was not the originator of this system
|of public lodging houses, but fol
| lowed an example set some years ago
by the enterprising city of Glasgow,
! which has ten lodging houses, nine for
men and one for women. These, too,
are organized somewhat on the prin
] ciple of a club and beds with one sheet
are provided for seven cents and beds |
with two sheets for nine cents. The i
thrifty Scotchmen have succeeded in |
making these institutions pay over j
four per cent, on the investment, and '
I haven't any doubt that publio lodg- 1
ing houses on the same plan would
pay a good deal better in New York.—
New York Mail and Express.
Chinese Executions.'
At Canton, China, the average num
ber of executions is about 800 per
year, but in 1885 50,000 rebels were
beheaded. Females are sometimes
strangled and the worst criminals are
nailed upon a cross. Sometimes tho
sentence directs that the criminal
while living shall be cut into a number
of pieces, which number never ex
ceeds thirty-six. The headsman for
merly received $4 a head, but the sup
ply and competition has reduced the
wage to fifty cents apiece. Most of
the criminals who are beheaded are
water pirates or land bandits.—Chi
cago Herald.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
ftOUOHNUTS IX nnYMB.
Ono cup of sugar, one cup ol milk
Two eggs beaton line as Milk ;
Salt and nutmeg (lemou'll do) ;
Of baking powder, teaspoon* two.
Lightly stir the flour in ;
Loll on pie board, not too thin .
Cut in diamonds, twists or rings.
Drop with care the doughy things
Into fat that briskly swells
Evenly the spongy colls.
Wntch with care the time for turning r
Fry them brown, just short of burning.
Roll in sugar ; serve when cool.
Price—a quarter for this rule.
—Ladies' Home Journal- #
CHICKEN TIE.
After the chickens are nicely singed'
and washed then put to soak in cold
salt and water for a while to remove
the blood that may not have drained
out. Then stew till tender in a stone
kettle. Just before taking off mir
with ice water your pastry. Pour
into an earthen dish the chicken and
as much of the liquor as possible
without danger of its boiling over..
Put a rim of the pastry around the
top of the sides of the dish but do not.
put any at the bottom to become
soaked and heavy. After thickening
and seasoning the gravy to your
taste, just before putting on the upper
crust place in the centre of the pie au
earthen cup to keep the crust from
sagging down in the centre and get
ting soggy. When the pie is to bo
served, the entire upper crust may be
removed and the cup taken out. At
this time more of the hot gravy may
be added.—American Farmer.
HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE CAKES.
In large cities the making of cake is
almost a lost art. There are many
reasons for this, first and foremost of
which is the bakery. Then there aro
the women's exchanges, where people
fancy they can buy just such cakes as
dear grandma used to make, but oh,
what a delusion and a snare they
prove! "The test of the pudding is
I in the eating," but the test of bought
cakes, either at bakeries or exchanges
should be left entirely to their appear
ance, for there alone is their merit. I
have a friend who makes the most de
licious cake I ever tasted. One of the
best and . easiest made of her almost
endless variety of cakes is what she
calls a luncheon cake. This is how it
| is made:
One cupful of sugar, one-half cup of
( butter, worked to a fine cream; one
egg: one cupful of sweet milk; two
! cupful* of flour ; three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder. Flavor with grated
nutmeg. Hake in a shallow pan well
| lined with buttered paper.
Sometimes she frosts the top of this
cake and decorates it with English
walnut meats. Then she calls it re
ception cake. Another of her cakes is
what all children love. She call* it
; sponge cake.
One large cup of sugar, four egg*
beaten to a foam, three tablespoonfuls
| of milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, one large cup of flour, flavor
! with lemon.
This makes a small cake. It should
bef baked in a shallow, square pan, and
eaten fresh.
Another of her cakes is rich and de
licious; she calls it wedding cake.
Two pounds of sugar, two pounds of
granulated sugar, twelve eggs. Beat
whites and yolks separately. One cup
of New Orleans molasses, three table
spoonfuls of cloves, one tablespoon
ful of mace, two tablespoonfuls of
allspice, one nutmeg grated, a quarter
! of a pound of citron cut in little
pieces, four pounds of dried currants,
two pounds of flour and one heaping
; teaspoonful of baking soda.
| This must be thoroughly beaten and
! mixed and baked four hours in a slow
| oven. To frost it heat up the whites
I of four eggs to a stiff froth, add pow
| dered sugar as long as you can blend
i it nicely, also add the juice of one
j lemon. Spread this over the top of
tho cake nearly an inch thick and
aronud the sides half that thickness.
Here you have a eakc fit to set be
fore a king. It will keep for months.
—St. Louis Republic.
HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES,
j Flatirons should be kept as far re
moved from the steam of cooking as
I possible, as this is what causes them
to rust.
Sandwiches can Vic made some houra
before needed if kept in a cool place
snugly covered with a damp cloth.
They should be piled closely upon a
dish.
A towel rack made with several
arms fastened to a half circular centre,
which in turn fastens to the wall, is a
convenient place for drying dish
towels.
When drawn butter separates or de
composes from standing too long, add
a tablespoonful of cold water or a small
lump of ice and beat until it becomes
smooth.
| In making lemonade strain the juice,
and to improve the taste allow a half
dozen oranges to every dozen lemons.
If desired a few thin rounds of banana
may be added.
Rapid boiling is the general rule for
vegetables and all scum that rises
should bo removed. When done drain
at once, or the vegetables will lose
much of their flavor.
The water in which green peas has
been boiled should not be thrown
away. It has a fine flavor- -the very
essence of the peas. A little stock
added, seasoned to taste, makes an
economical, delicious, wholesome and
appetizing soup.
Iu boiling chickens for salad put
them to cook iu cold water and let
them come slowly to the boiling point,
ihisprooess makes theni more tender
and blanches the dark meat—usually
rejected—so it may be mixed with the
white, Tho dressing should not be
added to the salad until serving time.
If mixed long before serving it bo
conies watery.—New York World;