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At. Washington, alleges the Detroit
Free Press, there is a list of all the
known Anarchists in the work!, and
their place of residence when last
heard from. The French Government
has a similar list.
Tho Southern States aro said to
contain at least 70,000,000 acres of
waste laud which might bo devoted to
the production of rice. This would
increase tho present annual crop of
237,000,000 pounds to 70,000,000,000
pounds.
.Tudgo Colt, of the United States
Court of Boston, has denied the appli
cation of Shebaxto Saito, a Hap, for
naturalization papers. Ho holds that
Japanese, as well as Chinese, are ex
eluded by tho expression, "white
men," in the Chinese exclusion act.
It is proposed to establish an inter
act ional marriage bureau, with head
quarters in Berne, Switzerland, for
the purpose of regulating marriages
between natives of different countries
and so doing away with the anomalies
ami cruelties which at present too
often result from marriages between
aliens.
There is a dearth of good poetry in
these times, according to tho poetical
editor of a New York magazine. Ho
says that the demand for it has for a
good while been greater than the sup
ply, and ho believes that the pro
ducers of it have been discouraged by
the newspapußs. For years past a
number of papers have often taken
occasion to sneer at a great deal of
the poetry thrown on the market, and
the younger poets especially have felt
disheartened under the slighting re
marks of writers who were unable to
appreciate their verso. It is evident
that these poets are determined to
withhold their products from the pub
lic until such time as they can have a
reasonable assurance of hotter treat
ment. Tho older poets aro hardened
against abuse, but they cannot turn
•ut poetry every duy.
Alaska has been a part of tho United
States since 1307, and of late has been
rapidly growing in commercial im
portance, enforcing the nee 1 of the
statutes and tho enactment of a sys
tematic code for the regulation of its
concerns, ft is as large as England,
Ireland, Franco and Spain put to
gether, containing 585,000 square
miles, so that it is no pocket borough
or Northwestern Rhode Island which
is to be legislated for, but a spacious
and stretching territory likely in time
to become of tho first commercial und
other importance. Its fisheries stand
in the first rank, its production of
gold increases year by year, au l may
some time be as abundant as that, of
California or Middle Africa, au I it
possesses many other productive
capabilities likely to bo rapidly de
veloped. Immigration there shows a
steady increasing volume, as do its
tables of export and import, and alto
gether it is entitled to tho most seri
ous and attentive legislative considers
tion. _________
Tho statement that advioos have
been received at Copenhagen, byway
of Greenland, that tho two young
Swedish botanists, Bjorling an l Kail
stenius, had started for Labrador in
a small open boat will revive interest
in those hardy explorers, thinks tho
New York Press. Bjiorling and Kail
stonius, with fivo assistants, set out
two years ago on a voyage of discovery
in the Arctic regions. Their hazard
ous expedition awakened much atten
tion at that time from the fact that the
young men defrayed the expenses of
the journey out of thoir own limited
resources and were actuated purely by
enthusiasm for sciontifio research.
Nothing had boon hoard from thorn
for a longtime, although repeated ef
forts had been raado to find traces of
thorn, and it had begun to be feared
that they had suffered tho fate of so
many others who have braved |
the perils of the polar zone. Many j
besides relatives and friends will hope
that the bravo Swedish explorers will
yt bo restored to their homes.
BABIES YELL AT THEM
SOME RIDICULOUS INVENTIONS
FOR THEIR COMFORT.
Combined C'rmllo nnrt Walker That
Worked with Spring:—A Gaudy Jumper
Unsigned to liiiltiito Trotting; on Moth
er's Knees—Whirligig; Creeper.
Many Have lleen Patented.
From the baby's point of view the
inventor is a mighty mean man and
anything but a benefactor to tho hu
man race. The numerous double,
back-action, spring-lock contrivances
piled up in the dingy corners of the
Patent Office, everv one of which it
was intended should be palmed off
la
f ill
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WINDS I P LIKE A CLOCK.
upon the infant as a substitute for a
mother's arms, has prejudiced lilni
against the man with an idea to ex
change for an annuity, and lie wants
none of him or his. A baby wants
no patent nurse, even if it may have
sift pillows, llimsy canopy and music
box attachment. For him the good,
old-fashioned way is best, and when
one of the crazy combinations is tried
on him it is no wonder he kicks the
air with a pair of chubby little feet
and veils the roof off the house,
lumpers, walkers, tenders, creepers,
cradles, and several too complicated
to belong to any special class are just
a few of those things which have
AN IS7C. COM 111 NAT I OH.
combined to make tho baby's life a
sore trial.
The first American production,
really the genesis of the cradle, was
never patented, though it was used
extensively in some portions of the
country. This was the sugar trough,
made and used at a time when the
sturdy father was literally hewing a
home out of the forest. A length of
the maple tree, split in the center,
stripped of its bark and hollowed out
—that was all there was to it, but,
crude as it was, it served the purpose
and allowed the mother to attend to
other duties In this busy time of
home-making. In spare moments,
the father constructed a more elab
orate affair, box-shaped and fitted
with roughly fashioned rockers, and
then the trough was relegated to its
former service of holding the sweet
sap from the sugar tree. At this
stage the inventor got a firm bold on
the idea, and it was no time at all
until there wore enough articles In
this line to make two generations of :
babies miserable.
J. H. Brown, of New York, got an j
early start with his combined cradle J
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NAMY TENDEU.
and walker. He abandoned the old
fashioned rocker and made his little
machine work with a spring so it
would go up and down with tho mo
tion, and noise too, perhaps, of a
dump cart. It was only necessary to
furnish it with wheels to make a
walker out of it, not as good a one or
nearly so handy as the ordinary chair,
hut it gave the inventor the chance
to claim a dual virtue for his patent,
something essential in addition to an
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-WALKER AND CRADLE.
early iftart. Mr. Brown never tried
it again, and if he ever had any more
ideas along this same line he trained
them into another channel before
they reached the patent stage.
J. II Caldwell, of somewhere In
Massachusetts, came off second host
with his jumper. lie had an idea
that the happiness of the average'
young American would be complete
and the invention a decided success,
if he could mechanically produce the
motion of a mother's knee when she
J H. CALDWELL'S IDEA
is "trotting" her offspring. ISut it
wasn't. Although fitted out like a
modern hobby and painted in gor
geous colors it couldn't sing a lullaby
or recite Mother Goose, and where Is
the pleasure of being bounced up and
down if these are to be left out?
Baby just looked at it and then cried,
and this was the commencement of a
boycott which made Caldwell's ven
ture unprotltablo.
P. 11. llurd, out of the two or three
hundred who were at that time regu
larly producing something that was
of no account, got clear oil the track
when he patented' his whirligig,
which was supposed to teach the baby
to creep, and later to walk. There
was never any litigation in regard to
infringement of thts patent; its life
was as short as that of a sand-Ily,
and it didn't take the inventor much
longer than that to find out that the
million dollars or so which loomed up
on the horizon the day ho made ap
plication had taken wings.
J. S. Brown, of Michigan, who, by
the way, Is no relative of the lirown
of walker and cradle fame, had a
similar experience with his baby ten
der. It was a thrashing-macnlno
AN OLD FASHIONED CRADLE.
looking afFair that worked with a
treadle and might have been con
structed from the remains of a di
lapidated feed-cutter, for all the
beauty and symmetry it combined,
but he got a patent on it Any self
respecting infant would raise the
whole neighborhood if such a thing
were wheeled Into his presence, says
the Chicago Tribune, and the irate
father would probably hunt for the
inventor with a large double-barreled
gun, so it is just as well, or better,
for Brown No. 2 that the demand for
his tender was exceedingly limited.
Along about this time the paragon
of the whole lot was born, but like
its predecessors it vanished before
any great number of people had an
opportunity to test it and say swear
words at the originator. It was all
thought out in the Maine woods. In
that country babies and dairies aro
unmistakable signs of thrift and E.
Whitman couldn't understand why
the cradle and churn should not be
p. n. IICRD'S PROPELLER.
more closely affiliated, so he combined
the two. It might have worked all
right and the hand that rocked the
[ cradle in addition to ruling the
j world could, at the same time, have
j carried on the more vulgar occupa
! tion of making nice prints of yellow
j butter for the huckster, only the
I cream was never ready to churn when
] the baby cried, and when the dasher
j was fitted in and everything ready in
I the manufacturing department tho
I baby was invariably asleep or on its
j good behavior. This is the little
point that E. Whitman failed to con
sider, so ho buried his regrets and
j went back to the plow, leaving a
clear field.
| As a usual thing when inventors
| find a clear Held they tax their twen
! ty-candle power ideas to covering the
j entire ground, so as to leave nothing
| for the man in their wake but law
suits. J. Erickson was one of these,
i He Invented a baby-walker with a
j barrel-stave crib combination war
j ranted to take all care and worry
j from a mother's mind—that is, pro
| viding the little monarch of tho
household would put up with It. But,
like E. Whitman, he overlooked one
important feature. The walker
should have been adjustable for the
use of the father until the baby was
largo enough to push it around and
break all the bric-a-brac in the house.
Hot WnteP.
There is a custom practiced in
Northern China of using hot water
:very morning to wash the face and
hands. Men, women and children
must have a basin of clean hot water
wticn they get up or before they eat
their breakfast, In which to bathe
feet and hands at least. Even beg
gars have hot water, or use none at
all. Seasons do not affect the cus
tom. In summer, when one would
think a cold bitth would be grateful,
hot water is used all the same. No
one would insult his guest by offering
cold water to wash in. The water is
almost scalding hot, and the towel
for wiping is first used as a wash rag.
A LAZY man does his hardest work
1 In looking for an easy place.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
The Involution of a Chicken Cro
quette Pay—Quite Lowly An
Kxperlmcnt —Not in the Race, Etc.
First you to my eyes appeal
AH succulent and brown roast veal.
Then for supper you repeat
Your triumphs among slicod cold meat.
Next for breakfast I docry
Your well-known features as veal pie.
Then lor dinner, second day,
You are chicken-fricassee.
For the supper table's cheer,
As chicken salad you appear.
An 1 lastly what surviveth yet.
Is served to us us chicken croquette.
—Courier-Journal.
PAY.
Madge—"Pa gave me SI not to be
at home when Fred calls."
Maine—''You're out lor the stuff,
then. "-Truth.
QUITE LOWLY.
"Wlmt docs Barlow mean when he
speaks of his aucestral halls?"
"I dun 110. May ho his father was a
truck driver." —Life.
AN EXPERIMENT.
Froddie—"Hi, Johnnie! the goat
has swallowed the tire-cracker."
Little Johnnie "Hurry up and
feed him a handful of matches." —
Judge.
PROMPT REFUTATION.
Jess—"We were just talking about
you when we heard your voice in the
hall."
Bess—"Then it's lucky I came, to
put in a denial."—Puck.
NO USE FOR IT.
Kid—"Bay, mister, this cannon
you sold 1110 is no good."
Dealer "How's that?"
Kid—"l loaded it to the muzzle
and it never burst." -Judge.
NOT IN THE RACE.
Jaspar—"How are the Jumpuppes
getting along at housekeeping?"
Mrs. Jaspar—"Poorly. Mrs. Jura
puppo is not yet strong enough to
light for bargaiusat the big stores."—
Truth.
TIIE POINT OF VIEW.
Nervous Old Lady (to deck-hand on
steamboat) —"Mr. Steamboat-man, is
there any fear of danger?"
Deck-hand (carelessly) "Plenty of
fear, ma'am, but not a bit of danger."
—Life.
OUR HIGHER EDUCATION.
Uncle George—"Are you learning
much at school?"
Little Nephew—"Yes, indoedy. I'm
learnin' to sit still, an' not talk, an'
not make any noise, ail' git up an' sit
down, an' march, an' lots of things."
—Good News.
A WISE GIRL.
He—"Why do you force me to wait
for an answer?"
She (who is up on political econ
omy)—" Because I don't want to give
you a monopoly until I find out
whether there's any competition."—
Chicago llecord.
THEY DON'T.
Little Clarence—"Pa, what is a
Lieutenant-Governor elected for?"
Mr. Callipers—"To succeed tho
Governor in ease of death."
Clarence—"Why, pa, I didn't know
that anybody ever died whilo holding
office I"—Truth.
TRIBUTES.
Traveler in South America—"What
are all these defunct cabbages and
melons and eggshells lying about for?
Don't you ever clean your streets?"
Native—"Oh, yes; as arulethoyaro
scrupulously swept, but this was the
President's birthday."—Truth.
A MIND-WRECKING TASK.
"It is impossible!" sho exclaimed.
"I am foiled." And sho threw the
pen despairingly from her.
"What is the matter?" asked her
mother.
"I was writing to Herbert, and tried
to spell his coilcge yell."—Washington
Star.
REPEATED ANNUALLY.
Miss Amy—"l wonder how old that
Miss Malays is, any way?"
Mr. Scrubbles—"Twenty-four, I be
lieve."
Miss Amy—"Nonsense 1 What
makes you think that?"
Mr. Scrubbles—"Hasn't she told me
so every year since I met her?"— Ch
icago Record.
SHE BOUGHT ALL HE HAD.
Agent—"To every ono buying one
package of 'Bittern's Baking Powder'
we present a baking pan."
Mrs. Athoino— "Baking pan? Why,
that thing with a screen over it looks
more like a bird cage!"
Agent---"Yes, ma'am; but that pow
der makes such light biscuits that you
must bake them in a cage, or they'll
float away. " Tuck.
A LONG FELT WANT.
Fakir--"Here you are, gentlemen;
tho greatest invention of the age."
Passenger (stopping to listen)
"What is it?"
Fakir—"A magnetized key-hole
plate for front doors. It will attract
an ordinary steel key from a distance
of two feet. All you have to do to find
the keyhole is to take out your key
and hang ou.to it."
(Three meu were injured in the
crowd that gathered to buy.)—Pear
son's Weekly. •
HARDLY SUITED TO THE OCCASION.
Editor (looking oyer reporter' 6
co Pj)—"What's this! 'Our esteemed
fellow citizen, Colonel Jones, is be
lieved to be at death's door?' Didn't
we print a sketch of Colonel Jones's
career some time back? Look it up,
and bring it up to date in case lie
should die to-night."
Reporter (after an'inspection of the
files) —"Here it is, sir, but, but I'm
afraid it won't do for an obituary. It
was written when we were opposing
Colonel Jones for tho legislature.
Life.
EDUCATED ENOUGH
"I think I'll take my boy out of
school and put hiiu iuto business this
fall," said the fat man.
"What? And he only twelve years
old," asked the man with the hay
colored vest. "He surely needs more
education befo;e ho is tit for business
life."
"I guess not," said tho fat man.
"A boy who can part with a titty-cent
baseball for a three dollar pair of
skates when tho thermometer is up in
tho nineties had better bo in business
than wasting his time learning a lot
of rot about stars and bugs aud
things."—Cincinnati Tribune.
BRINGING HIM TO LIMERICK.
Colonel Kutmynoseoff (of tho Rus
sian police) "Has tho prisouerski
confessed?"
Sergeant Kauffupacatski—"No, your
Highhessovieh. Wo have beatenski
him with our clubs, cut off one of his
earsovich, burnt the soles of his feetski
with hot irenskoff, aud tried the
thumbscrew ovich on him, but he ab
solutely refuses to ooufeski."
Colonel Kutmynoßeoff (sternly)
"Then, as a last resortski, try the
effect of a recitutionskog by a young
lady elocutiouistovich."
Nihilist Prisoner (screaming)
"Have mercy! I confess! I con
fess I"—Puck.
FISH IN FRACTIONS.
At Point Lookout tho men started
to build a platform out iuto the bay
which was not completed. Connect
ing hoards along the spiles furnished
an excellent opportunity for fishing.
On one of these 1 sat trolling for spot
ted-tail bass—a fish there found- -and
O'Donnell was "still" fishing from
another two or three rods distant.
He caught a fiouuder, evidently the
first he ever saw. Holding it aloft
as it twirled around, alternately
showing the dark and flat white sides,
he summed up his ichthvological aston
ishment in tho following soliloquy:
"Bejabbeis! Oi'll fish a long spell
before I get tho other half of yez."—
Boston Journal.
A LITTLE CONFUSED.
They were celebrating their silver
wedding, and, of course, tho couple
wore very happy aud affectionate.
"Yes," said the husband, "this is
tho only woman I over loved, audi
shall never forget tho first time I pro
posed to her."
"How did you do it?" burst out a
young man who had been squeezing a
pretty girl's hand in the corner.
They all laughed aud he blushed,
but the girl carried it off bravely.
"Well, I remember it as well as if it
were yesterday. It was at Kichmoud.
We had been out for a picnic and she
and I got wandering alone. Don't you
remember, my dear, and what a lovely
day it was?"
The wife smiled.
"We sat on the trunk of a tree.
You haven't forgotten, love, have
you ?"
Tho wife smiled again.
"She began writing in tho dust
with tho point of her parasol. You
recall it, sweet?"
The wife nodded.
•'She wrote hor name, 'Mary,' and 1
asked her to let me put the other name
to it. And I took the parasol aud
wrote my name 'Smith,' below it, and
she took back the par isol and wrote
below it, 'No, I won't.' Then we went
home. You remember it, darling?
Ah, I seo you do."
Then he kissed her, aud tho company
murmured, "Wasn't it pretty?"
Tho guests had all departed and the
happy couple were left alone.
"Wasn't it nice, Mary, to sec all our
friends around us so happy?"
"Yes it was. But, John, that remi
niscence of yours!"
"Ah, it seems as if it had been only
yesterday, Mary."
"Yes, dear; there are only three
things you're wrong about in that
story."
"Wrong : Oh, no."
"John, I'm sorry you told that
story, because I never went to a pic
nic with you before we were married.
1 was never in Richmond in my life,
and I never refused you."
"My darling, you must be wrong;
I have a good memory."
"I am not wrong, Mr. Smith, and
my memory is as good as yours, and
although we have been married twen
ty-five years, I'd like to kuow who
that m inx was. You never told me
about hor before."—Boston Journal.
Curious Springs.
There are several springs along the
range of the Alleghany Mountains
that are great curiosities. From these
springs a very considerable current of
air passes constantly, sufficient at any
time to blow a handkerchief out of a
person's hand, unless it is held very
tightly. These phenomena have never
been explained, but it is gonerally be
lieved that they indicate caves, and
that the breeze comes froin tho inter
nal air passages. Tho best known of
these is called Blowing Springs, audit
is at the foot of Lookout Mountain,
about Aix miles from Chattanooga.
This is visited by a groat many curi
osity seekers and scientists. Others
not so well known are found in North
Carolina and Georgia.—Chicago Her
ald
HOTTEST SPOT ON EARTH.
TO THE COLORADO DESERT BE
LONGS THIS DISTINCTION.
Schemes for Reclaiming Death Valley
by Irrigation—What the Great
Stretch of Sand is Like.
MONO the many schemes now
/\ agitated by irrigationists is
the reclaiming of the famous
(f "Death Valley" in the Great
American Desert, in Colorado. It is
proposed to make of it an inland sea
by turning the molting snows and
rains that fall upon the Sierra Nevadas
into this 4 'dry sea." The valley is
200 feet below the floor of the desert,
is 150 miles long, thirty miles wide at
the jiorthorn end, tapering to about
three miles iu width at the southern
extremity. One of the schemes to re
claim the desert is to turn the Col
orado River into the lower end, or,
as it is called, the Colorado Desert,
from which water would naturally
seek its level in Death Valley.
Death Valley is the hottest place on
earth, so far as known up to date.
There is no spot so deadly, more
desolate, and so thickly strewn with
dead. It is appropriately named,
for human life cannot exist amid its
poisonous vapors, and even the birds
are infected with its noxious gases
and fall dead in their flight. Heavy
rains never fall in this death-bringing
place, and the few light showers only
mako the atmosphere more humid, if
possible. With the thermometer at
180 degrees in the shade, and the sun
beating against tho black bristling
rocks, reflecting back the intensified
heat, one may form some idea of this
desolate region. It is the dryest
place m the world—the bodies of
those who perished from thirst have
been found in after years completely
mummified. The corpses were not
disturbed by oven the prowling hyena.
Animal life cannot exist there—only
the reptile species. Jilen have died
from thirst, and yet water within
reach.
The blistering heat and dryness of
the air rendered it impossible to keep
the body to tho proper temperature
to sustain life. This valley was named
by Governor Blaisdell, of Nevada. Ho
and a few others were making a sur
vey, and found the mummified re
mains of about twenty emigrants, who,
in attempting to cross the valley, lost
their way and died of thirst and star
vation. One of the survivors of this
party, now a citizen of Los Angeles,
Cal., gives a picturesque account of
that voyage of perhaps unparalleled
suffering in this 44 dry sea."
"Before the days of the transconti
nental railroads," says he, 4 'the over
laud immigrants camo to California
by tho southern route mainly, thus
avoiding the mountains of tho north
ern route as well as tho snow in win
ter. There were about fifty in our
party, about half that number being
women and children. About the third
or fourth day after entering the val
ley wo begau to realize that we were
lost. Wo had aimlessly traveled from,
one point to auothcr and saw that the
valley was walled iu on each side by
steep and craggy rocks, and that there
was no way to cross it, or get out of
it, except at its lower terminus. So we
continued on, hoping to find our way
out. Wo wandered nround in this laud
of dosolatiou for about three months
—the drifting sands had obliterated
the trail that we set out to follow and
covered our tracks so that wo could
not retrace our stops when we found
that we were lost in this land of burn
ing sand.
"Our provisions became scant," ho
continued, "and we were reduced al
most to starvation. Finally our
wagons were abandoned and we
packed up what we could upon tho
backs of oxeu, and the women and
even some of the children were com
pelled to walk. Tho supply of wator
was so near exhausted that only
enough was taken at a time to moisten
I the parched lips aud the swollen
throat. Refreshing streams and
gleaming lakes were seen in tho dis
tance, and, nerving every effort to
reach this haven, we found only blis
tering beds of alkali. Au occasional
Bpring was found oozing from the
burning sands, which gave us tem
porary relief. Day by day the pro
visions ran lower, and the oxen per
ished one by one. All baggage was
now abandoned ; every one was com
pelled to walk, excepting those who
were completely exhausted, and they
were carried on the shoulders of
others. We took what provisions was
left, with the very small supply of
water, and trudged along, traveling
mostly at night, but eveu then the
heat was almost unbearable.
"At early morning we would travel
while it was cool and our sufferings of
mind would bo intensified by the re
flections of lakes and rivers, so clear
and distinctly defined. The tall green
trees that lined their banks were
plainly seen. Of all delusions a mirage
in a desert is tho greatest. Oue night
we camped under a ledge of rock;
our party could go no further. Seven
or eight had died ou tho way, aud at
this camp or resting placo of
them died. Wo buried them there,
and in a few days continued our pain
ful journey. We had brought along
some meat of our dead oxen, but could
not eat it, beoause it had been poisoned
by tho deadly vapors. We scorched
the hides, boiled them to a jelly, and
attempted to eat that, but it was too
bitter.
"When I started on that journey
tlirodgh Death Valley I weighed 160
pounds; when I arrived at Los Ange
les I was weighed and found that I had
lost seventy-two pounds," concluded
tho pioneer of Death Valley.—Chi
cago Tribune.
The first Bible printed with a date
was furnished by Faust, the German
father of typography, in 1462.
HOUSE HOLD AFFAIRS.
ECONOMICAL FROSTING.
The whites of two eggs will mako
frosting for two large cakes if proper
ly managed. Beat them up with a
little sugar until quite light, then put
a tablespoouful of cold water into the
dish, mix it slightly with tho egg and
sugar already thero and add more
sugar. This may bo repeated until
nearly half a cupful of water has beeu
added. Tho frostiug must bo well
beaten, and may have any flavoring
preferred. Made in this way, it sets
quickly and retains its moist and deli
cate qualities much longer than wheu
made with egg alone.—New York
Ledger.
TO BOIL AND SERVE SWEET CORN.
Half the sweet corn is spoiled in
cooking. The earc should not be
broken before cooking unless it is im
possible to get them into the kettle.
Have tho water boiling. Throw in a
tablespoonful of salt to every quart of
water. Tho corn, if not hard and
very full, should bo cooked in from
twelve to twenty minutes. When the
corn is dono a silver fork thrust into
a kernel should break open the skin
and release tho inuer kernel. Don't
let the corn stand after it is dono in
the water in which it has been cooked.
Place it in a double steamer.
A good plan is to boil moro cars
than aro wautcd for dinner and cut oil
the remainder to be heated up for
breakfast with milk, butter, pepper
and salt. Those ears should bo left
iu tho hot water until ready to bo
scraped.
Tho ears which aro to bo served
should bo brokeu into two or throe
pieces, as they can then bo eaten
without disturbing the comfort of the
rest of the table and making every oue
who tries the corn on tho cob appear
liko hogs while eating. Tho pieces
should bo small enough to bo held
with one hand without soiling the tips
of tho fingers.
Corn tastes best and looks best if
brought to tho table in a coru doily,
or wrapped in a plain napkin.—Now
York Journal.
TASTEFUL VEGETABLES.
Mashed carrots are quite as palata
ble as mashed turnips. They should
bo cookod, passed through a sieve aud
put into a stewpan with a piece of but
ter, a spoonful of cream, a drop or
two of tarragon vinegar, whisked up
and seasoned with pepper and salt, ar
ranged in tho form of a mould and
sprinkled with a littlo chopped pars
ley.
Cucumbers are seldom used except
raw, aud yet they are both dolieious
and digestible when cooked. Tho peel
should bo removed aud tho cucumber
should bo boiled until tender, then
drained and sliced and simmered in
good brown gravy, to which a very lit
tle Chile vinegar has been addod, for
soven or eight minutes. Radishes,
like cucumbers, can bo served hot as
well as in salads. They should bo tied
in bunches aud boiled for eighteen or
twenty minutes, thou placed on toast
and covered with white sauce. Pons,
French beans ami sprouts arc greatly
improved by being tossed for a few
minutes previous to sending to table
in a saucepan containing a lump of
fresh butter, a tablespoonful of cream,
a pinch of caster sugar and seasoning
of pepper and salt. A rather more
simple way of treating French beans is
ala Fraucaise. They are put into a
pan with a piece of butter, tho juice
of half a lemon and a littlo pepper and
salt.
A ragout of poas needs but to be
eaten to be appreciated. Put three
ounces of butter into a saucepan with
a teaspoon of minced onion, a few
leaves of fresh mint, pepper and salt.
When thoso ingredients have simmered
for a few minutes—take care that they
do not acquire the loast color—add a
quart of greeu peas, and shako tho
panto prevent their burning; after
five minutes add half a pint of water,
a very little borax aud half a teaspoon
of powdered sugar. Cover tho pan
closely and draw it to tho side of tho
fire and let the contents cook slowly
for about three-quarfers of an hour;
if allowed to boil tho water will soon
be absorbed, and unless moro is addod
at once tho pea v , instead of being
largo and tender, will be shriveled and
hard.--New York Advertiser.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A bag filled with salt aud lieatod is a
great relief to any one suffering from
neuralgia.
Baking is one of the cheapest and
most convenient modes of preparing
a meal in small families.
In roasting meat turn with a spoon,
instead of a fork, as tho latter pierces
tho meat and lets tho juice out.
One teaspoonful of cornstarch to a
cup of table salt will keep it from
getting hard in tho salt shakers.
To toll good eggs, put them in
water; if the large ends turn up they
are not fresh. This is an infallible
rule to distinguish a good egg from a
bad one.
Never bite or pass sewing silk
through the lips, as load poisoning
has been known to result from BUCII a
habit, as it is soaked in acetate of lead
to make it weigh heavier.
When mattresses are stained, take
starch wet into a pasto with cold
wator. Spread this on tho stains,
first putting the mattress in tho sun.
In an hour or two rub this off, aud if
not cloau, repeat the process.
An English way to cover flower pots
is to pasto the narrow ends of the
tissue paper sheet together and cut it
of the right height, makiug the top
edgo tulip pointed. Crimp the paper
together iu tho same way as tho lamp
shade; this will bring it about the
right size to tit an ordinary flower
pot. Finish with a ribbon" of the
same shade.