Only about four per <ent. of the sea-going vessels constnn'ted at the present time are of wood. f The development of - sports is indicated, thinks the Chicago Her ald, by the fact that Harvard now haa a salaried manager. In Canada positions in the < 'ivil Ser vice are obtainable after examination and are held during good behavior, which, as a rule, means life. / In Japan a man can live like a gen tleman for about $250 a year. This sum will pay the rent of a liolise, the salaries of two servants and supply plenty of food. ' The Hungarian Government has re cently passed a law providing for the payment of indemnities to prisoners innocently condemned to penal servi- . tude, and to their families in cases where such prisoners have been found to have suffered capital punishment. The Argentine Republic is rapidly becoming a prominent competitor in the business of supplying grain to the European markets. Shipowners of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are taking advantage of the trade and find ing employment for their vessels at remunerative rates between the River Plate and Old World ports. The low price of wheat this year is due, maintains the New York Witness, lo the fact that n very large surplus was held over from the big crops of the past two years. The farmers of the world are producing more wheat than the people of the world can buy, though not more than eould be con sumed if nil the people who need it were able to pay for it. A curious lawsuit has just been con cluded at Brussels. A widow named Moeus died intestate, leaving a large fortune. A dispute at once began 1 among her relatives and a lawsuit to settle the various claims was institut ed. At the trial it was proved that no fewer than .{.500 persons were related to the testatrix. Judgment has been j pronounced in their favor that is, in favor of relatives, even twelve degrees removed. The reclamation of the arid wastes of southwestern desert lands proceeds marvelously apace. Another reclama tion company was incorporated nt San Bernardino, Gal., a few days ago, with a capital stock of $2,500,000. A dam is to be erected nt Victor Narrows, on the Mojave River, in San Bernardino County, fifteen feet in height, which will make a lake nine miles long and about three wide, whose waters will he used t<> irrigate about 200,000 acres of latid on the Mojave Desert, which will then he especially adapted for growing raisin grapes and alfalfa. According to theSviet, a St. Peters burg paper, Russia, unlike other Eu ropean countries, incorporates in the army only one-fourth of the young men who are drafted every year when they reach the legal age for military service. The recruiting in 1892 en listed 708,672 conscripts, but only 260,290 were actually sent into the ranks. Of these 196,000 were Ortho dox, 16,000 Israelites and 9000 Mo hammedans; the Russian army is therefore composed of men belonging to the National religion. There were also in the contingent called to service in 1892 195,000 men of pure Russian origin, 17,000 Poles, 4000 Germans, 16,000 Jews, 568!) Bashkires, and a small number • ! Lithuanians, Tartars, | etc., so that the Russian army can be J considered as being quite homogene ous in regard to its nationality. Ever y little while the pi dice arrest ! a man with H kit of burglars' tools in i hia possession, and one naturally won- ! der.i where they all com* from. It iH I easy to buy a gun of any description ' and the most reputable citizen would not be ashamed to be seen purchasing the most wicked-looking knife ever made; hut who would know where to get a slang-shot. or a jimmie, or a df vice for drilling into a safe, or any of the many tools used by the profes sional burglar in the pursuit of liis calling? There pr .bably are places in mady large cities where these things are made and sold to the users hut such places are scarce. Once in a while the police find such a factors, and then things go hard for tin- pro prietors. Jt may seem a little strain..- to learn that most of the tools u . ,| n, burglaries are made by mechani who arc looked upon as respectable met, m the community. When a bur onr wants any particular tool made |,. , to a mechanic who can do the .1., HI. I pays him perhaps five times wind it act ually worth for making the keeping still about it. AT THE TUHN Oh I'M E HOAD. Where the rough road turn?, and the valley sweet Smiles bright with it? balm and bloom, We'll forget the thorns that have pierced the feet And the nights with their grief and gloom, And the sky will smile, and the stars will And we'll lay us down in the light to dream. We shall lay us down in the bloom and light With a prayer and a tear for rest, As tired children who creep at night To tbo love of a mother's breast. And for all the grief of the stormy past, Rest shall be sweeter at last it last I Sweeter because of the weary way And the lonesome night and long, While the darkness drifts to the perfect day With its splendor of light and song. I'he light that shall bless us and kiss us and love us And sprinkle the roses <>f heaven above us! —l'rauk L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. A PINK SILK PARASOL. BY JUDITH SPENCEB. J-*. . -f HAT nre we goinp; to do now?" quer- | ML V ried Anne. " If I>a had ~uly a iArvxi. stayed quietly at home !" sighed Mar "Blithe didn't," I r'L said Helen. "And ihe lecture tour j TTy ended in disaster; w A ftud he has returned I with empty pock- 1 ets, and a cold which threatens pneumonia!'' "Oh dear! and we were so well oft i before little Mother married again," i Margaret murmured, dolefully. "Treason!" cried Helen, stoutly; "not one word against Pa Pendergast the dearest old visionary thing that ever lived!" "He certainly tries to make a for tune for us," smiled Anne. "And has only succeeded in reduc ing us to the verge of—beggary!" supplemented Margaret. "The expressman is stopping at the I gate, 'said Helen; "but, of course, i it's a mistake." "Yes; nothing comes to us now— but trouble," ended Margaret. But a moment later and Helen called ' back, ecstatically, "Oh, girls, it is for us, sure as you live!" Then, less joy fully, "But—there's seveuty-ftve cents to pay !" At last the necessary amount was made up, the expressman departed, and the girls and their mother, in a state of unusual excitement, gathered around the huge, irregular bundle which, by their united efforts, they had dragged into the middle of the sitting-room. "Who could have sent it?" won- 1 lered Anne. "What do you suppose it is?" ques tioned Helen. "It's—old clothes," Margaret said, gloomily, "Madge!" in a general chorus of dismay. But even as Helen' cut the strings the lopsided bundle burst asunder and i shed its contents of crumbled ball gowns and nil kinds of forlorn and draggled finery upon the floor. Anne bit her 1 ij, Margaret's eyes j flamed wrathfully and Helen laughed. But the mother's face worked piteously, and if wasall that she could dotokeep back flic tears. All her life fill now, Mrs. Pender gast had been used to comfort, and even luxury; and she had always | shown so much tact and delicacy in ! sending their own left-off but useful garments to those who were poorer than themselves. And it was a bitter hu miliation to her now. when, for the first time, a mass of dingy and inap propriate tinerv had been literally dumped upon her doorstep, without | any accompanying message from the rich, city cousin, from whom it uii- 1 doiihtedly had been sent. " There isn't a practical thing among j them!" laughed Helen, who was' adorning herself with whatever came I first to band. And even Margaret j could not help smiling at the comical 1 picture her pretty young sister made i with a crushed French bonnet perched j coquettishly on her fair curls, a faded j and altogether too-ample olive red ingotc enveloping her pretty form, and , above her head the bony skeleton of j a once splendid parasol—its melan- , cholyiibs uplifted now, as if imploring I pity. Anne laughed hysterically ; but just | then Pa's querulous voice was heard i in the room above, and the mother I wftH glad of an excuse to hasten away, j Night came. The debris had dis appeared, and the letter of thanks to Cousin Frances, which Helen had volunteered to write, was finished. "Listen, girls, while I read it." she •aid; "hut don't interrupt. If you thin'; .f anything more to say just wait ami 1 11 add it on at tho end. "My generous rich relative," she hf - ui, nisi, regardless of the rising, 1: i • o t dismay, she hastily went, on : !t was ho thoughtful of you to j sen lus such i,, of old clothes (which 1 bly make use of), and) not to j ! pa tin ' Xpr. ftfi which is un commonly high in this part of the' world). We now understand why it I is 'more blessed to give than receive!' | But, unfortunately, we don't know ' any one who would take such stuff as a 1 giit. unless it's the ragman" "Helen!" "Ton shan't send such a letter!": and M:u".;nret snatched the perfectly proper little note she had written j Irom 11 ••U-ii h hand, while the young girl laughed merrily over the success j ot her impromptu nonsense. She loved i >t- use lor sober elder sisters, and with | h i happy disposition she found away i I t ing fun out of everything. I' ll anxious and busy days came i ibis, Pa Peuilei'irubt was nerioiiH* lv ill for a time, and before he was really able to be around again he was planning another of those disastrous lecture tours, with which he was always trying to retrieve their fallen for tunes. At last, however, they had managed to persuade him to put it off until the fall. There was no family in nil the vil lage who had once stood so high, or who were more respected in these •lavs of their misfortunes. "Pa's" failings and good qualities were alike i freely discussed, and his wife com- I iniserated for having allowed her vis ! ionary spouse the control of her com- I fortable little fortune, which, under ; his childlike incapacity for business, had disappeared in an incredibly short number of years. Anne and Margaret were now the main support of the family, one teaching music and the other having a good position in the village school. The "little Mother" and Helen were the "household angels;" and it was 110 light task to keep thiugs nice and comfort.ible with their extremely limited purse, and to prevent "Pa" from seeing too plainly the ruin he had wrought. The neighbors were very kind, and often some little delicacy found its way to their scanty table—giveu with so much friendly good-will that sensi tive little Mrs. Pendergast was no more hurt by the attention than the neighbors were when Helen brought them bunches of Mayflowers from the j woods in spring. But of late Heleu's fingers had been busier than ever. Upon careful re-ex | animation the "bundle" had shown possibilities which had not been ap parent at the tirst. And the old party dresses, dyed —for Helen had mas tered the dyepot's mysteries long ago --were now transformed iuto four pretty silk petticoats which would "rustle delightfully" under their ; wooleu gowns. "Just the last thiugs in the world auv of us really wanted," Helen ad- : mitted; "but the silk wasn't tit for another thing, and as it didn't cost us anything I guess wc can afford to be j 'swell' for once!" Then in some magical way lier deft fingers had fashioned for herself as j dainty a gown from the voluminous j old gray opera cloak and the best of 1 the well worn redingote as ever a 1 pretty maiden wore to church on a bright Sunday in spring. ! The battered Paris bonnet bloomed anew with apple b/ossoms, freshened over the kettle's reviving steam. But , the crowning feature of the costume j was a beautiful pink silk parasol, which Cousin Frances would certainly never have recognized as the "skele ! ton" of her famous bundle, newly clad in the pink lining of the opera j j cloak, and adorned with the freshest flounces of the chiffon gown, j "Girls, how do I look?" WAS Helen's anxious question, as arrayed for the first time in all her glory she was ! about to start with them for church. "Just too sweet and lovely 1" Mar garet said, with enthusiasm; and the I mother, who thought her girls were always perfect, echoed Margaret's words. i But Anne was troubled. Such finery | 1 seemed hardly in accord with their 1 straightened circumstances, or with the almost Quakerish simplicity of the Iquiottown; hut Helen was so happy that she could not bring herself to speak her doubts which, after all, might prove without foundation. She was keenly alive, however, to the sensation which Helen's appear ance caused, and which, all during the service, divided the attention , of the congregation with the good minister's words. Aud after the service, Anne's straining cars caught more than one Iragmeut of un friendly criticism, which seemed float- j ing in the air. "It does beat all," old Mrs. Sharp whispered to her neighbor, "how folks behind-hand in their rent can buy such ( finery!" "P'raps Pa Pendergast has some- j how made his everlastiu' fortune," was | the audible answer. "Did you see how Chan Bassett . kept lookin' at her? He can't afford | |to dress a wile like that. I heard Mis' j Bassett tell him so durin' the collec tion." "Jest see that pink parasol 1 Why, I 'Many couldn't get one, plain dark ; | blue, for less'n five dollars. An' silk . | petticoats, too, I know by the rnstlin'. They're up an' down extravagaut, or I ! else they ain't so poor as they've been 1 makin' out." | "An' the neighbors sendin' 'em in cake PII' pie at every bakin' ! ! Helen's cheeks were like roses as 1 i they went on their homeward way, j and Anne wondered if she, too, had ' overheard the gossips' whisperings, or whether the deeper flush was only the j reflection from the pink silk parasol, which she held so bravely overhead. Margaret was less observing, aud was • evidently quite unconscious of any un- j | usual stir going on around them. It was the first Sunday in many months that Chauncey Bassett had not walked home with Helen. He had been with his mother on the church steps when they came out, but he had only bowed and then had looked away. It 'was certainly strange, thought Helen, but—if he didn't want to come, he needn't! And no one, not even Anne, should know she cared ! The weeks rolled around, and sum mer followed spring. Every Sunday Helen went to church in lior brave at tire, and walked borne afterward with Anno and Margaret; and Chauncey never came. . She never mentioned him; but Anne, watching her darling with jeal ous eyes, saw how her cheeks grew , paler, and how listless she seemed to I be as the summer days went on. One night as Anne lay pondering upon these tilings, with Margaret asleep beside her, she heard H stifled | sob from tbo cut where Helen lfiv. That was all; but it was not long bo fore Anue had determined what to do. And the next day, on her way home from the village, she stopped at Mrs. Bassett's for the first time since that spring Sunday when Chauncey had lingered at his mother's side. "It's ever so long since I've had a chance to run in," Anne began, with friendly apology. "But I've been so busy, teaching right along. It wag fortunate for us that the Beutons wanted their children to. make up all they lost when they had whooping cough last spring. II it wasn't for that and for two ot Margaret's music scholars, who have kept right on, I hardly know what we should have done?" It was not like Anue to speak so freely of their affairs; but Mrs. Bas set! showed no signs of unbending yet. "You know how it is," Anue con tinued, with heightened color. "Pa tries to do all he can ; but he's always so—unfortunate." "Then that last lecture tour wasn't a success?" said Mrs. Bassett, falling into Anne's skilfully opened net. [ "Everyone thought he must 'a' been makin' money, the way Helen came I out this spring." "And didn't she look sweet?" cried Anne. "But people shouldn't judgo by appearances! I'm going to tell you, Mrs. Bassett tho' I should hate to have it get around. A cousin of mother's in the city sent us a—a bun dle of old clothes. And Helen is just the most ingenious, most economical girl you ever saw! Those things weren't suitable for us at all, and I thought they'd be of no use whatever; but Helen lurnedthein and dyed them, and made the old worn out party silk* into the prettiest petticoats you ever saw —and one for each of us! Then the poor child needed a new dress, badly ; she hadn't a thing lit to wear to church, and we couldn't afford to buy anything; so she went to work and somehow made that pretty grav and olive gown out of just nothing! And her bonnet, too—you ought to have seeu it when it came! And," hysterically, "all that never cost us a single penny 1" I "You don't mean to say!" ejacu ; lated Mrs. Bassett, in amazement. I "But—that pink silk parasol?" she queried. "'Mandy Ward priced one 1 in the city, an' they asked—sixteen 1 dollurs!" "She made that, too!" cried Anne. "Oh, you don't half know how clever Helen is! You won't let this go any further, though'?" she added, unxious ; ly. "I wouldn't like every one to know, because—well, because it was the tirst tima any one had ever sent old things to us—and poor little Mother—cried." "I won't tell a iiviiT soul but Chan,' Mrs. Bassett said, earnestly. "But I must tell him. He'll he home to night, you know, over Sunday. An' —an' I'm eomin' 'round to see your ma, right soon." Anne went her way with a lighter heart; and sho had not far before Chauiiccy Bassett himself came iuto view. To her surprise he stopped. "It's ever so long since I've seen you," he began awkwardly. "Why haven't you been around?" she asked in her pleasant way, noting curiously his wane and troubled face. "I'll tell you why," ho said, sud denly. "It's because I can't think of any one or anything but —Helen 1 And I never realized until—until one Sun day morning in the spring" (Anne sighed) "how far above the farmer's son—the poor book-keepei—she was. Then I saw that the best I could ever hope to give her would not be worthy of her—not even as much as she is having now" (Anne smiled); "anil 1 1 knew that it would be better for me to—to forget her—before she ever dreamed I had begun to care. 1 | thought I could turn iny thoughts away; but I can't; and though it ie madness to think she could ever care ! for me, yet I must see her nnd tell 1 her; and, unless you tell me not to, J ! am coming this very night, I "Come," said Anne, with a reassur iiig smile. Supper was over and the girls were putting the things away. As Margaret disappeared in the china closet with a pile of plates, Anne said cheerily: •'Oh, I met Chauncey Bassett as I was coming home, and, do you know, he said he was coining around—to-night." "Anne! you—you didn't say—any thing?" ••You dear little goose! Not n word that the town crier couldn't pro claim with propriety. But I thought he was looking thin and worried, poor fellow. There, I'll wipe the teacups, for you had better go light the lamp in the parlor, and put on your pretty gray gown, directly." "If he had waited until he had seen his mother, I'd have hated him--al most," thought Anne, an hour later, when, above the murmur of voices in the little parlor she heard Helen's laugh ring gayly, as of old. And the next day, being Sunday, the village gossips had something new to talk of; for Mrs. Bassett actually waited and kissed Helen on the church porch. And Chauncey walked home with her again, as he used to do; but though his face was radiant, no one could get sight of her smiles and blushes then, for carefully aud almost rever entially Chauncey was shielding her lovely face with the pink silk parasol. —lndependent. An Electric Tow Horse. Another scheme has been proposed for utilizing the trolley system on the canals. The plan consists in laying a narrow-gauge track on each bank and moving the boats in tows by means of a small car furnished with a device for gripping the rail, to bo driven by u motor from an overhead trolley line. —Detroit Free Press. Italy exported 480,000,000 dozen etfff" lt year, FREAKISH SORT OF WINTER OUT-OF-THE-WAT METEOROLOGI CAL PHENOMENA. It Has Rained Angle Worms and Land Snails—Simple Explanations for Some Very Queer Things. 1 yHE winter of 181)3-04 will go I on record as a freak winter. | With the snow line 500 miles north of where it ordinarily is during January, the entire winter wheat region was bare. That im- j portant crop was thus exposed to de struction by the always possible sud den cold wave. Meanwhile, people all over the country have been sending to the Weather Bureau reports of out-of the-way meteorological phenomena unusually varied and peculiar. There have been showers of angle worms in New York and showers of land snails in Ohio. A boxful of the latter, to furnish proof, was sent to Washington by express. They were about the size of pin heads. Instead of falling from the sky, they must have been brought out of the ground by the wet. Worms and small toads are fetched out of the earth under like conditions, appearing in great num bers after storms, and thus give rise to stories that they have rained down. Spring showers of what used to be taken for sulphur occur in Washington every year. When the sky clears the gutters are found choked with yellow stuff. Under the microscope, how ever, it is quickly seen to bo vege table. It is merely the pollen of pine trees blown from forests many miles distant. People in fill parts of the United States are constantly reporting such freaks to the Weather Bureau, with de mands for explanations. Often the puzzles thus propounded are too diffi cult for Uncle Sam's professional prophets to solve. No fewer than twenty-one "showers of blood" have been recorded during the present century in Europe and Al geria. These phenomena excited widespread consternation in ancient and even comparatively recent times. They were regarded as dire portents. They are accounted for by very com monplace reasons. In 1070 a shower of this kind fell at the Hague, and caused great excitement. A level headed physician got a little of the crimson fluid and examined it under a microscope. He found that it was lilled with small red animalcules, which proved to be a species of water flea. Doubtless they were brought from a great distance by wind and de- ! posited with the rain. Ju March, li'.l8 a the people of Gerace, in Caluh'ia, saw a terrific cloud advancing from the sea. It gradually changed from a pale to fiery ; red, shutting oft* the light of the sun. The town, being enveloped in dark ness, the inhabitants rushed to the cathedral, supposing that the end of the world was come. Meanwhile the strange cloud covered the whole heavens, and, amid peals of thunder I and flashes of lightning, red rain fell in large drops, which were imagined bv the excited populace to be of blood. Analysis afterward made of the fluid showed that, its coloring matter was a dust of HU earthy taste. Probably j this dust was ejected by an active vol- j en 110, carried a great distance by the i wind, and precipitated by the rain. ' There was a rain of ink in the city j of Montreal on November 9th, 1819. j Some of the liquid, collected and for-1 warded to New York for analysis, was discovered to owe its hue entirely to ' soot. The explanation of it was that I there had previously been immense j forest tires south of the Ohio River, j the season being remarkably dry, and 1 the sooty particles from the conflagra tion had been conveyed by strong j winds northward, so as to mingle with the rain when it fell. Jn 1824,' in a district of Persia, there was an abundant shower of a nu tritious substance strange to the peo ple. Cattle and sheep devoured it greedily, and bread was made from it. Jt proved to be a kind of lichen. 1 Large quantities of vegetable material are always floating in the air. Astron omers have frequently mistaken such organic bodies for meteorites as they passed across the field of the telescope. They were finally discovered to he mostly the feathered seeds of plants carried by the breeze. Small marine fishes are sometimes found scatterad about on dry land far from sea. They are transported by storms, which at first take the form of waterspouts, sucking up the finny creatures, together with a portion of their native element, and carrying them shoreward. Showers of frogs and the larva* of aquatic insects are produced in a similar fashion by tor nadoes. The "cyclone twister" will sometimes suck a pond dry in passing. Tornadoes are the most extraordin ary and among the most destructive of atmospheric phenomena. It has been reckoned thaJ, on an average, each of them costs one life. That which struck Louisville in 1890 wiped out $3,250,- 000 worth of property and 135 lives. The funuel shaped cloud which does the damages runs at a speed of from forty to eighty miles an hour. No structure that can be raised by man above the surface of the earth will resist this kind of storm. It perpe trates many extraordinary freaks, plucking chickens bare without hurt ing them, tearing the hair from wo men's heads and twisting it into ropes, and stripping people naked and cover ing them with mud. Every tornado seems to carry great quantities of mud. It has been known to take up a carpet from the floor, to which it was secure ly tacked, and carry it out of the house without tearing it. On one oc casion a piece of scantling seven feet long was driven lengthwise through the body of a hog. One of tlio most wonderful of at uiuaphorio iicuk# nt the wintry UGMOU is tho "silver thaw," which clothes the trees in shining coats of ice, every twig sparkling in the sunlight. Yet few take the trouble to inquire how this comes to pass. It is very simple. 1 At the beginning of a thaw the air, , laden with water, passes over the i boughs and twigs, and the moisture it i contains is frozen upon them. Every year stories of great hailstones are cir culated in the newspapers. Some as big as elephants are said to have fallen in India, and they have been fairly well authenticated. Unfortunately, however, these were doubtless aggre gations of hailstones, partly melted together. —New York Press. WISE WORDS, Talent controls genius. Cupid claims all or nothing. Hope drags the wagon uphill. Reformation begins at home. Victory comes with the last breath. No mau is a hypocrite in his pleas ures. Fear of detection is a great disci plinarian. Work is an investment ; rest the dividends. Theology never gave a crust of bread to the hungry. Duty is a rock that keeps many souls from flying. It is always the steady horse that is called the old nag. An ounce of action is better than a pound of sentiment. Our souls were made for us, but we mold and color them. Two souls with but a single thought want that thought doubled. The stars are the punctuation marks in the poetry of the heavens. Most men would prefer to bo re membered as knaves than us fools. Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. The world is scant of its praise of quiet characters—it likes pyrotech nics best. Women in conversation seldom get beyond the interrogative and declara t tivo sentence. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. Death to the Christian is the funeral of all sorrows and evils, and the resurrection of all his joys. Covetousness is both the beginning and end of the devil's alphabet; the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. Common sense is (if all kinds the most uncommon. Tt implies good judgment, sound discretion, and tact, which is practical wisdom applied to common life. Haste makes all things difficult, but industry all easy ; and ho that riseth late must trot all day, and scarce over take his business at night; while lazi ness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. To Sterilize Water. A savant of the University of Gene va publishes in the Swiss Medical Re view a new method of sterilizing water, that is killing auy organic germs that may be in it, which is said to be at once simple and efficacious. The pro cess cousists in stirring into the water a small quantity of permanganate of potash, which will instantly destroy any living organism that the water may contain, purifying perfectly even ! stagnant water taken from putrid pools. The permanganate imparts a i color to the water, which is not fit to ! drink in that condition. The addition of a little charcoal in a finely-pow dered state (bone charcoal being : recommended for the purpose), at once ' relieves the water from the perman ! gnnate, aud makes it absolutely pure aud colorless. Careful experiments have demonstrated that water contain ing ptomaiucs, aud other deadly or ganic poisons, is perfectly purified by i this process, so that it may be drunk with impunity. Jt is established be ■ yond all doubt that cholera, typhoid ! fever, and other dreaded diseases are | in most cases communicated through driukiug water and unless one is per | fectly sure of the purity of his water supply, it would be well for him to take the precaution by testing this | process. Idaho Reins and Minerals. Besides the boast that Idaho pro i duces almost every mineral heretofore known to science, also diamonds, em eralds, rubies, sapphires and opals, | now comes the report from the Smith sonian Institution at Washington, that a variety of ore sent there from Cassia County contains a metal unknown to scientists, which they have named pow ellite, in honor of the gentleman at the head of the geological Burvey in the State. I Recently it has been discovered that 1 the "chalk hills" in this country, which I cover considerable territory, contain ; so large a percentage of aluminum that it is probable that they may become a most important source of supply.— j Virginia (Xev.) Enterprise. (Jueer Story of Teeth Extraction. A novel suit is liable to be begun at Superior by P. A. Viles, father of Retta Viles, eleven years old, against the Electric Company. About four weeks ago the girl, in running, struck iier cheek against a guv wire of one of the poles aloug which the electric : lighting wires are struug. The girl s attorney says that the guy wire had become charged by induction, and that the shock pulled three of her teeth, two molars and a bicuspid. Her face 1 was sore for several days, but has now I recovered, except that theskin issome wliMt wired. There was no pain at the time the teeth were pulled. Milwau- I keo Journal HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. THE KITCHEN OP A FARMHOUSE. The kitchen of the farmhouse should have the best attention in the laying out of a plan for building. To slight ly alter Solomon's advice about tha Held, it may be said, first make the kitchen fit and then build the house. This is due to tho most important part of the farmhouse —the wife and moth er. Her health and life often depend upon the kind of kitchen she spends a large part of her time in. It is pre ferably built aH an annex to the house on the east side, getting the morning HUII and escaping the mid-day heat. On the north side should be an out side kitchen lor storage, for a laundry and the refrigerator, There should be windows on three sides, and the fire should be 011 the side adjoining the house.—New York Times. PRETTY AND USEFUL. Convenient and useful cases for knives, forks and spoons are made of white cotton flannel. Half the ordi nary width of tho flannel is the width of the case. Make it long enough to fold onto itself the length of the knife, spoon or fork, and allow five inches at the top, with rounded corners, for the flap. Bind with pretty braid, and stitch the fold into twelve compartments with tho silk used for stitching on the braid. When filled with silver, they are conveniently rolled up, tied at one side by a piece of braid, and put away. The silver is kept bright and un scratched in these cases. Pin balls or pin cushions—and neither name is exactly appropriate, may be made by covering six uuiform circles of thin cardboard, about two inches in diameter, with China silk. The sumo color, different shades or eontrnsting colors, may be used to suit one's tnßtes. Hew two circles together, back to back, with silk. Procure baby ribbons to match, and suspend the three at different lengths from a many-looped bow. Arrange the pins like rays from the circles, having, if desired, different sized pins for each circle. This makes a useful and pretty ornament for the parlor, as there is no room where a pin is needed more. —Yankee Blade. KEEP THE BABIES WARM. A professional nurse of many years' experience tells me that, she finds more babies suffering from insufficient clothing among the rich than among the poor. For example, she was sum moned by a physician to a wealthy family where the five months' old baby was suffering from some mysteri ous trouble that baffled everybody, lie could live only a few days, the doctor said, if something was not done. He could keep nothing on his stomach,and was slowly starving to death. The nurse found a distracted mother and a pinched and moaning baby. His flesh was blue, and there was a settled look of anguish on his face. The nurse picked him up from the silk and laces of his costly crib and found just what she expected. Dress and skirts of linen ffuo as gossamer and about as warm; shirts and sock* like lace ; flannel skirts of the regula tion number, but so fine ami thin as to give little warmth. "Is this the way you have dressed your baby from the first?" asked the ntirße. "Oh, yes, I've always had the best of everything for him," answered the mother. "Web, it's no wonder he is sick. He hash t enough on to keep a fly warm iu July." The nurse called for the thick est blanket in the house and the hot water bag, and sent the astonished mother downtown for the warmest flannel wrappers, however ugly they might be. The result was that in a few days the child was taking his food perfectly, and was thriving as well as could be desired. —Babyhood. lIECirES. To Make Milk Toast—Put one pint of milk into a double boiler ; rub three tablespoons of butter and one table spoonful of Hour to a cream ; add to the scalded milk aud stir until it thickens. Season with salt Toast six slices of bread a light brown, slightly butter each slice and dip it, while it is hot, into the scalded milk. Lay them in the dish and over each slice put a large spoonful of the milk, pour over it the remainder of the milk aud serve it at once. Bread Pudding Boiled Take w pound of stale bread ami pour over it a quart of boiling milk and let it soak one or two hours, then rub it quite fine with the hands. Add five well beaten eggs, two cups of sugar, half a cup of molasses, half a nutmeg grated, half a teaspoonful of ground cloves, the grated rind of one lemon, half a pound of Euet chopped fine and pound and a half of raisins. Boil it four hours. Cheese Fingers—Take bits of pastry left from other cooking and roll as thin as writing paper; spread with grated cheese, fold and roll agaiD. Repeat this three times, then cut in strips as wide and as long as your finger. Brush with beateu egg and bake in a quick oven. Watch care fully, as they burn quickly and re quire to be only delicately brown. Lamb Chops iu Paper with Fine Herbs—Cut a piece of foolscap paper in the shape of a heart (and sufficiently largo to fold a lamb chop in), rub little oil over the paper ; then seaso i the chop with a teaspoonfnl of chopped onions, one of chopped parsley, a little pepper, salt and grated nutmeg. Wrap the chop in a paper, which plait down at the edges; lay it upon a grid iron over a slow fire, turning it fre quently. It will take about twenty miuutcs to broil properly. Wit' ij done serve iu the paper very hot,
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