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,