EREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBIUBIIED EVERT MONDAY AND TIIUKSDAY. TIROS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STKEET ABOVE CENTRE. SUIISUItUTION BATES. One Year M Six Months r,,,,. 75 Four Mouths Two Months 25 Subscribers arc requested to observe the date following the namo on tho labels of their papers. By referring to this they can toll at a glance how they stand on the books In tßia offlcc. For instance: Drover Cleveland 2KJuneQ5 means that Grover Is paid up to Juno 2ft, 1895. Keep the figures in advance of the present date, lteport promptly to this office when your paper is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when pajHir is discontinued, or collection will be made in the manner provided bylaw. Tho High Court of tho Transvaal Republic in Africa lins recently de cided that foreigners are liable to military service after two years' resi dence in the country. An old gentleman, of Dexter, Me., lias been doing a great deal of public good in bis town, and the Board of Assessors, as a delicate compliment, reduced his taxes. When ho found it out he was very much annoyed, nud going to the Assessor's ollice, swore them up again. Steel is now cheaper than iron, Tt seems hardly possible, remarks tho Boston Cultivator, but tho estimates of cost in a recent bidding for a bridge in Pennsylvania to be made with steel stringers and steel rivets was lower than a like estimate for tho same bridge mado with iron stringers and irou rivets. Four bids were made, and in each case tho bridge could bo mado cheaper of steel than of iron. The successful bid was 81903, as against 82157, wliieli was tho lowest hid for tho iron bridge. Owing to tho greater strength of steel, tho Weight of motal in the steel bridgo is much loss than it must necessarily bo for one of iron. The American Register, of Paris, is authority for tho statement that tho descendants of Queen Victoria aro either now in possession of, or will in the natural course of cvonts como to occupy, Rovcn throues—those of tho British Empire, the Uormau Empire, the llussiau Empire, tho Kingdom of Greece, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, tho Duchy of Saxc-Coburg and Gotha, aud tho Duchy of Saxe-Moiningen. According to this the Anglo Saxons may shortly come to univoraal rulo in Europe, as its language is coming to be the universal lsnguago of tho world. Possibly in this way, muses tho Tren ton (N*. J.) American, tho universal Bopublio, so long predicted by dream ers, mav bo established. Tiiis is culled the ngc oC electricity. That, in tho opinion of the New York llocorder, is a mistake. Wo haven't crossed the threshold yet. The ad vance has beon wonderful, however. In 1870 two examiners in the United States Patent Ollico did nil the work of tho bureau; now twenty are re quired, and they are months behind. Then two electrical patents were issued a week ; now there are fifty, Notwith standing nil this advance tho small amount of electric energy obtained from a pound of coal is sufficient to stimulate every inventor in this lino to renewed effort. The next groat stop will be to dispense with tho boiler, engino and dynamo and create electric energy direct from fuel. Until that is done tho ago of electricity will net have begun. As an offset to the movement for r general disarmament of Europe there Ims recently been going on a discus sion as to its probable effects oil the labor market. Air. Longhurst, Honor ary Secretary of tho English Chamber of Commerce in Paris, has come out boldly in favor of large armies in tho interests of tho working classes. 110 (shows that tho armies of Europe ou a peace footing number 3,775,000 men. Allowing 775,000 to be retained for keeping peace at home, how could tho remainder bo provided for if dis banded? They could not find occu pation in tho fields or tho factories, becauso production lias far exceeded consumption. A fall of wages would become inevitable, and tho stragglo for life bo much severer. Rather than throw tho liberated men on charity ho argues that it would bo hotter for them to remain in the regiments. Tho cost to the nation would not bo more, and service iu tho army is less de moralizing than idleness. Besides a military training has its advantages. It teaches habits of order and dis- cipline,and it prevents oarly marriages, which in countries that have no con- Bcription are among the chief cau/je oi poverty and distress GERMAN CWM'RY FAIRS. TII2 n 2Z\ZC -." A POPCjr,APOP.H OF FES TI ViT f. llow Hie People Enjoy Themselves, awl Nome of the Means of Amuse ment Described. ONE of the most interesting of the mm v forms of out-door amusements with which the Germans enjoy life in the summertime is tli 5 "misali." It boars a strong rosemblan • 1 > tho American county fair, but has points of differ ence which render it peculiarly inter esting t-> the student of national amusements. The word "masch" menus, more nearly than anything else, a mixture, mi l a mixture a German masch certainly is. It is held, as a rule, at the time of the annual "Schut zenfest" and as near as possible to the shooting garden. All the fakirs, and what we would call in the America side show attractions, make a business of traveling about from one masch to an other, so that their attendance lias grown into a regular trade. It is especially a "yolks'* gathering, and the masses enjoy it to the utmost. Severul days before the fest begins caravans which are composed ol wagons strongly resembling the or dinary freight car on wheels, except that they all have curtained windows, may be seen on every road approach ing the city in which the masch is to be held. Tliev take possession of the nearest open space to the shooting garden, and from the cavernous depths of the metamorphosed freight cars are taken first a larger <>r smaller tent, as the case may be, and a bewildering array of "properties" needed in tho forthcoming show. In a night the vacant place is trans formed into a small city of tents, each the temporary business plac • of some fakir, the wagons being drawn up con veniently near, a; they aro tho dwell ing-places of the showmen. The touted town is laid off into streets which on both sides aro lined with tho boots, tho merry-go rounds, tho tin typo galleries, tho miniature circuses, and iu short everything in which the heart of the small boy and diminutive maiden is supposed to rejoice. Out masch is typical of all. You enter the entrance street with out being expected to pay any fee an.l find yourself in a wide lane with con fectionery and bakery booths on each side. The candy is rather doubtful except to the German small boy, who has but tlii.- annual chance, as a gen- ! era! tiling, for tasting sweets, and to | whom it is a very heaven of saccharine delight; the cakes are excellent, how ever, as they are all over Germany. Chief among tliem is a sort of huge "pop-over," light as a feather. It is called "eirkrauz," mi l is made only at the time of the masch. It must be eaten hot and is devoured in vast quan tities. The first street at right angles from the entrance lane is the street of the tin type an.l shooting gallery fiend. Tho tin-type man does not differ es sentially from his brother at our own county fair, though he takes better | pictures; but the shooting gallery is far ahead of its American cousin. Be hind a count r ou which numerous air-guns are laid, stand a half dozen pretty girls ntiirel in fantastic cos tumes, and each seeks to attract men wlio may be victims to lier modern bow. That the Dianas are pretty suc cessful in their unceasing importuni ties is evinced by the constant pop, popping, which one hears on every side. A largo canvas is stretched about fifteen l'eet behind the maidens, and upon it are displayed every con ceivable form of target, every one of which it is almost impossible to miss, tor the vanity of tho customer must IK; cultivated if continued patronage is to be assured. Every one of these targets gives forth a beating of drums or a ringing of bells when struck, so the din may be imagined. Near the shooting booths nro the canvas palaces inhabited by tha fat woman; the genuine African Zulu, who speaks when caught unawares with a strong German accent; the museum of wax images of living and dead celebrities; tho stereopticon views of famous event?, and other shows of the kind which a country bov in America is familiar with at the fair in his own county, for none of tho usual attractions are missing. The entrance feu is ten or twenty pfen nings. Perhaps tho most popular thing on the ground is the merry-go round. There are a dozen forms of it. Some are in the form of real rocking I ships propelled in a circle by lnachiu t cry, but most of them are tho ordi nary liobby horses of our childhood fixed on a circular platform which is made to revolve by horse power. There are patent springs also which are adjusecl to small boats in such a way that the boats hanging from ropes are swung to and fro in the air like huge pendulums. These are called "American air chariots," and attract a great deal of custom for anvthing t coming from America is supposed to be not only novel, but the best of its kind. Of course in, about and around all these amusements is heard tho blare of the brass band. Your goo.l German would not believe ho was having a j good tinm unless ho was hoariug ! music, no matter what else ho might be doing, and therefore tho baud is very much in evidence. But hero is another starting point of difference from our county i'.tir.-s. The band is almost always a very good one, and the music well worth listening to. Nearly every German is more or less of a musician, anil while ho will tol erate a good deal of pers >nul disconi i fort lie will not submit to having poor | music blared in his ears. In the centre of the temporary town there it erected an immense teut. with open fid of, which will hold 2500 people. Smnll tables abound, and there nro peats for the number men tioned. On a platform at one end is an admirable band, which plays both popular and classical music, which in Germany is popular in another sense, all day and all evening. Numerous "madchens" in picturesque national peasant costumes servo as waiters. At a table sits a delegation of students from the city Fo!ytechuicum, or technical school, who start a chorus j whenever the band plays a student j song, which, to please them, for their patronage is valuable, the proprietor frequently orders. They all sing well, and as other people who aro not students, but who sing even batter, catch the infection and speedily join 111, the effect is very pretty indeed, j All this time the fun goes rompingly on all over the grounds as well as in , the pavilion, but sel lorn or never is j there an angry word exchanged, and the few policemen who are scattered about consequently have little to do except enjoy themselves. it is long past midnight when tho cro.vd finally makes up its mind to go home, and this for a people that is usually in bad by 10 o'clock measures a fearful amount of dissipation. As the orderly but merry groups tread ilia leafy streets numerous snatches of song are heard, eloquent testimony of the thoroughness with which the singer, be it man or maid, lias enjoyed the day's or evening's outing at the "masch."—New York Tribuue. WISE WORDS. Old ago is youth magnified. Never trust a woman half way. We can never give tho flowers wli.it they give us. Learn to laugh; hut not at a dis gruntled rival. The opportunity of a lifetime may not last live second . Man is naturally inclinod to believe in his own whiskers. Get as much advice as you can, and use as little as you can. Nature never refuses lior hand to those who would take it. Wlieu a man sells one of his convic- I tions he sells all of them. I If love were what the poets make it, I the provision dealeis would go into I bankruptcy. Tho man with tho push beats the mail with the pull any day. , A monument sometimes speaks loud ! est for tho relatives who erect it. I So:no men toll lies becauso it is I their only means of getting quoted. There is no rest for tho man who does nothing to make himself tired. A wise man is one who knows when his prejudices aro leading him astray. I Men and women wasto half their 1 timo commenting on each others'com- ] nients. A woman loves a man because sho loves birn, and that is reason enough in her mind. One of tho greatest pleasures in life is found in counting tho money one is about to make. When a man puts on a new suit ol clothes lie thinks the whole world lakos notice of it. ] No child woul 1 love its mother if its mother treated it as badly as it often treats its mother. One of the most delightful things ] about an apple blossom is that it promises some delicious fruit. 1 Tile opinions of wise men ripen into 1 judgments, while the opinions of the ' fool become hardened prejudices. 1 Doctors Disagree. An amusing instance of tho wide di vergency of opinion that may subsist among experts on a given subject is shown in a discussion now going on among European military men as to the practical utility of the -Mauheim tailor's bullet-proof cloth. One fluent writer maintains and backs his opin ion with a mathematical demonstra tion that while a bullet may not pene trate tho cloth, its striking energy im parted to tho man behind tho shield would lift him from ten to fourteen foot, according to the weight of his accoutrements. Another military ex pert, likewise with a mathematical demonstration, proves to his satisfac tion that the energy of a bullet would not move u man more than the six tieth part of nn iuch. Common souse shows that since action and reaction aro equal, tho impact of the bullet would affect the man struck no mora than the recoil of the gun affects tho man firing tho bullet, nor so musj, as a part of the bullet's energy is ex pended in the ah*. —New Orlaaus Pica yuue. _ (ireat Philosophers. The Kaffirs are great philosophers. If an ox should die the owner never grieves, but remarks: "Now I must go to work for master (all white men who treat them well aro called mas ters), and in six months he will givo me a cow; it will have a calf. If it is a bull calf, in a year I'll agaiu have a pair of oxen, but should it bo a heifer calf, I'm all the richer, for the next year I'll have two calves instead of one." A Rare Mineral. Spangolite, a very rare mineral, has been found iu some British Museum specimens of copper ore from the St. Lay mines of Redruth, Cornwall. It occurs m deep emerald green trans lucent crystals of a hexagonal form, ending in truncated pyramids, and is in reality a hydrated sulphate and chloride of copper and aluminum. Only ono other sample of spangolite is known, namely, that discovered iu the district around Tombstone, Aii zona.—New York Telegram. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOED BT THE FUNNY HEN OF THE PRESS. His Eight-Day Clock—Took No Note of Time A Useless Member— Properly Listed, Ktc., Kte. There was a man who had a clock. Mis name was Matthew Mears , H wound it regular every liigbt For more than twenty years. At last that precious timepiece proved An eight-day clock to be, And a madder man than .Mr. Moars You'd never wish to sec. —The Sketch. A USELESS MEMBER. "Mamma, have I an eye-tooth?" "Yes, .Johnny, why?" "Why, because if I can't see any thing with it."—Puck. ANOTHER WAY OP STATING IT. She "Don't von think I'm an awful bother?" Ho (enthusiastically) "Oh, my dear! I think you'd make a simply ideal wife!"— Puck. TOOK NO NOTE OP TIME. Young Husband—"lt is just n week to-day since we were married, my dear Lisette." Young Wife—"Ah, what a memory you have, darling!"—Tit-Pits. PROPERLY LISTED. Author —"Why do you catalogue my novel in your list of medical books?" Publisher—"Because it has proved i itself to bo a sure cure for insomnia." —Life. IIE SNOULI) HAVE KNOWN. Mendicant —"Will tho gentleman help a blind man?" Stranger—"Got out, you impostor. How do I know you're blind?" "Didn't you hear me call you a gen tleman?" CERTAINLY NOT A RECREATION. Mrs. Yeast—"l hear your husband is out of a job." Mrs. Bacon ".Sure, he was never i busier in his life." "What is he doing?" "Looking for work." A RECORD. "How are you getting along with your new servant girl?" asked the i caller. "Our new servant girl?" repeated 1 the hostess with some indignation in ' her voice; "why, she has been with us ! for four days!"— Washington Star. A FRANK CHILD. Teacher—"What would you say to j Charlie it' he should give you the only apple he had when he wanted it very much for himself?" Tommy (with emphasis) "l'd say he was a chump !"—Chicago Record. RECKONED WITHOUT HIS HOST. Duncoster (to elderly stranger) "Awfully stupid this, isn't it?" Elderly Stranger "Well, yes, it is rather." Lancaster —"Supposewe go home." | Elderly Stranger -"Can't, live I here." —New York Ledger. A SUPERFLUOUS ARTICLE. "Here," said the agitator, "is some 1 more food for thought." "We dou't need it," replied tho la boring man; "we have more food for thought now than we know what, to do with. What we need is some of the other kind."—Washington Star. PAYS TO HAVE FRIENDS. Jinks —"I tell you what it is, tlioro is nothing like having lots of friends " Winks—"l presume not." Jinks—"No, siree. Just as quick as I lose a job my friends all rush around hunting a new placo for mo, so as to save iue the trouble of borrow ing from them."--New York Weekly. THE IRONY OP FATE. "Why did you never marry, Tom?" "Well, you see, old man, when I ( was quite young I resolved I would never marry until I found an ideal woman. After many years I did lind her—" "Well, then?" "She was looking for an ideal man. " j WOULD NOT DO SO AGAIN. Mrs. Goode—"Aren't you tho tramp who was hero this morning?" Odorous Oliver "Yessum." "Well, I missed a cake I had left in the window." "I took it, mum." "Didn't you know hotter than that?" "No, mum; not then. I hadn't cat it then, mum."—Now York World. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Count von Ansgospiol—"l have rea son to think that an attempt will be made on my life. But if I buy ono of your bullet-proof suits can I bo sure I will lind it as represented ?" llerr Dowe—"lf anybody succeeds in putting a bullet into you while you are wearing this suit, we will cheerfully exchango it or refund the money I"—Puck. THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE. The Professor (enthusiastically)— "Ah, Miss Nomer! astronomy is a grand study. Look now, for instance, at Orion ; yonder is Mars; over there is Jupiter, and that beautiful blue star is SSiriue." Miss Nomer (deeply interested) "Oh, Professor! Alow wonderful! But, tell me, how did you astronomers ever lind out the names of all those stars?"— Puck. EXPLAINED AT LAST. He— vWhy do you women always begin a novel at the end instead of tho beginning?" I She—"ln the first place, we don't jdo anything of the kind. In tho sec ond place, if we did it would bo be | cause tho end of tho book is where tho marriage comes in, and we natually want to get tho disagreeable part of the story disposed of, so we are free to I enjoy tho lovomaking."—Cincinnati i Tribune. THE PRICE OF IT. The happy-go-lucky bachelor was taking his ease most delightfully on the veranda of the hotel, when tho lady with five marriageable daughters came and sat down besidj him. 'lon seem to bo very well satisfied with life, Mr. Frisky," she said. "I am always that, my dear madam," he responded. "And a bachelor?" she said qucs tioningly. "That is no argument against it, is it?" he asked. "I think it must bo. But tell mo why you have never married." "I couldn't tell you, 1 think, if I tried." "It seems to me that so handsome and cheerful and tbriftv a man as you are, Mr. Frisky, would have been cap tured long ago. How have you man aged to retain } ? our freedom?" "Eternal vigilance, my dear madam, is the price of liberty, you know," ho replied, bowing himself away as three of the aforesaid daughters joined their mamma. —Washington Star. ('razed Engineers. The strange antics of a crazy engin eer at Alton, 111., suggest the fact that insanity is very frequent among rail way employes. Two dramatic illus trations can bo mentioned. There is living in New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, a man who for many years was the foremost passenger engineer between New York and Phila delphia on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Ho ran all the specials and best trains, and in ten years never had an acci dent. One night in the gleam of tho headlight he saw a woman. He had only time to see her hands raised and | to hear her cry, and before he could put liis hand upon tho lever he felt a jerk under the wheels and knew that all was over. Since that night he has never been on an engine. For months ho did not sleep, and later became practically iusane, but only on the one point of seeing and hearing the woman his engine killed. Now he goes about harmlessly and aimlessly, but he lias to bo kept away from rail roads, and in his fretful sleep ho awakens with cries and paroxysms of horror. The other case iu that of a man who was conductor of a train on the Camden ami Amboy, whoso train had an accident. Ho came out all right himself, but it preyed so upon liiH mind that one night he left his home, and going to the point where tho accident occurred, threw himself in frout of a passing train, receiving injuries from which lie died. Phila delphia Times. Having the .Nose Burned Out. Rhinomania is tho medical name of a new craze tho doctors are telling about. Jf a man cannot breathe easily, or if his nasal functions refuse to do the work allotted by nature, tho proper thing to do is to have the nose burned out. Tho people who want this done to their olfactories arc known to the profession as rhino maniacs. One of tho first notable in stances of rhinomania was "Pa" Cor bin, a famous Yale oarsman and foot ball player, who a few years ago, being unable to breathe easily while in tho boat, submitted to an operation upon iiis nose. Tho operation was per formed by a prominent uptown physi cian, but, iustead of cauterizing or burning out tho nose, part of the bono was cut out, and a larger aperture for breathing was the result. Nowadays tho samo result is ob tained by burning away the mem branous tissue near the apex of tho nose by menus of a small galvanic bat tery. As a rule doctors will not rec ommend so heroic a treatment for nasal obstructions, but will try to find a remedy in another way. But the man whoso nasal breathing spaces are choked up will not listen to any other remedy than that afforded by ono of these methods—iu other words lie demands immediate relief and is willing to take his chances on its being successful. When he reaches this stage the doctors put him dowu as a rhino maniac.—Medical Record. The Old Gentleman's Mistake. Slio was only a typewriter girl, but she created quite an excitement in a suburban ear the other day. When she got on the car the conductor noticed that her left sleeve dangled helplessly by her side, so he helped lior on tend erly, and said to himself: "Poor thing!" Tho passengers also observed the empty sleeve, and were visibly sym pathetic, ono tart-looking woman even moved a triflo to givo the one-armed girl a seat. It was a very singular thing to sec such a well-dressed, bright girl with only ono arm, and public curiosity was at a high pitch concern ing tho cause of tho pathetic empty sleeve. Finally the afflicted maiden dropped her purse, and the old gentle man who restored it said kindly: "My dear, how did you lose your arm?" She turned her innocent violet eyes upon him in evident surprise, and the passengers all presented their ears, aching to listen. "1 haven't lost any of my arms," she replied, thrusting a neatly gloved hand in sight. "I just pulled my hand up into my sleeve to get it warm." Then all the passengers looked huffy, ' and tho conductor murmured: "With them big sleeves the women can work most any kind o' racket."—Louisville ! Courier-Journal. nMHEi Green tlenim is a new fabric. Amelie Hives Chanler, the Virginia author, is planning a trip to the Holy Land. Mrs. Astor, tlio rich American wo man, who now lives in England, has a SCO,OOO dinner set. A sister of Thomas Carlyle is living in Toronto, Canada, the widow of a train dispatcher named Manning. *'Health, recreation and lovely in spiration" are the chief benefits of riding a bicycle, according to Miss Francis Willard. The will of Elizabeth Anthony Braytou Hitchcock bequeaths SISOO to the Union Theological Seminary, Schenectady, N. Y. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts pos sesses one of tho finest collection of turquoises in the world, the smallest being valued at from SIOOO to SI2OO. Mrs. Rebecca T. Robinson, of West Newton, Mass., is to defray tho ex penses of tho erection of a new scien tific building at Tufts College, Mas sachusetts. A granddaughter of John C. Cal houn has just made a success in France, playing in French with a French com pany the role of Hermiouo in Racine's "Andromnque." Mrs. Cathnrino Salisbury, n sister of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, who was killed by a mob at Carthage, 111., Juno 27, 1814, is still living near Fountain Green, 111. A school for women students of medicine has been founded in Russia. A ukase has been issued allowing women to act as assistants to physi cians in the railroad districts. The Woodford prize in oratory, which is given annually at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., was award ed this year to a woman, for tho first time in tho history of the university. It appears that out of 800 young ladies employed in the Savings Bank Department of the English Postoffice only about a dozen, or 1| per cent, leave during tho year to get married. Miss Melle S. Titus, the first woman to apply for admission to tho bar in New York City duriug the last twenty years, passed a successful examination before the Supreme Court of that city*. Miss Annie Thomson Nettleton has resigned her position in Vassnr Col lege to become presiding officer of Guilford cottago at tho Woman's Col lege of the Western Reservo Uni versity. Miss Helen Gould is living very quietly at Irvingt'on on Hudson. Late in tho season she will spend a week or two at Roxbury, N. Y., where she is building a church, as a memorial for her parents. The Civil Service Commission at Washington has admitted women to the examination to fill the position of assistant in the department of vege table pathology in tho Department of Agriculture. The most fashionable way of treat ing diamonds now is what is called the double-cut brilliant, it is also the most expensive. The old style of cut ting was iu single cut brilliants of thirtj'-eight facets. One of tho cleverest conductors of u periodical in the world is Lady Clementina Hay, daughter of the Marquise of Twee dale, who publishes and edits a magazine called City Spar rows. She is fifteen years cf age. Marie Antoinette fichus of chiffon, dotted and plain muslin, net or lace, either black or white, are one of the fashionable accessories of summer dress, and tho very chick ones are knotted in the back with falling ends. Miss Anne Whitney, the sculptor, has completed a bust of Keats iu mar ble, which is to b'/ placed in the parish church of Hampstead, London, as a memorial from the Americau and Eng lish lovers of tho poet. This bust is pronounced a triumph of artistic genius. There are some 300 young women in attendance on Cornell College, Ithaca, N. 1,, but it appears that those ''co-eds," as they are callod, are extremely unpopular with the male students, who do not recognize them as their social equal, and ignore them as much as possible. A movement has been organized re cently in Chicago to build a station house for women and children whero they may bo detained until their cases can be heard in court, where they may be tried without association with male criminals, and whero they may have competent female care. Lillian Tomn, a Cornish girl, has taken a tirst in the law tripos at Cam bridge, England. She had studiod three years on the continent, whero slio entered Girton in 1890, and in the intercollogiato examinations she was first intho first class on each occasion. She is pretty, vivacious and particu larly fine in her dress. Marguerite McDonald, a ninctoen year-old girl who was given tho posi tion of station agent at Warrior Bun, on tho Lehigh Valley Boad, when her brother vacated it a voar ago, finds herself a heroine in tho Wilkosbarru (Ponn.) district. By her quickwitted action she prevented a serious collision between passenger trains. Mabel Percy Haskell, a beautiful and accomplished young woman of Boston, mado a charming impression iu her recent lecture before the Col lege Club, of that city. She described her trip last summer to Iceland from Edinburgh, via the Faroe Islands, and gave many interesting details of the scenery and vegetation, as well as the social life of the far-oil Northern isle. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. A TOINT IN TEA MAKINO. "They say" that tea made from rain water is incomparably tho best. Many housekeepers keep a stone jar in readi ness to catch any chance rain, which, when obtained, is securely bottled an I put on Hie, to bo used when needed. Says ono of these: "Tho water makes far more difference than tho mere loaves. I could make good tea out of anything with pure rain water."— Detroit Free Press. BAKED HEART. Take one veal heart, wash and care fully remove tho vessels. Stuff* with two cupfuls of bread crumbs, one quarter cupful of chopped pork sea soned with salt and pepper, a sprig of thyme or parsley. Moisten with hot water. When filled, cover tho ends with white cloth, sewed fast to retain the stuffing. Put in a pan with on.) pint of water. Dust over fiour, salt and pepper. Cover and leave on top of stove until steamed through. Put iu tho oven, with four potatoes cut length-wise, to roast. Baste often. When done to a nice brown, remove cloth, put into hot dish with potatoes and serve. —New York Lodger. A RAGOUT OF PEAS. A ragout of peas neods but to bo eaten to be appreciated. Put three ounces of butter into a saucepan with a teaspoon of minced onion, a few loaves of fresh mint, pepper and salt. When these ingrodients have sim mered for a few minutes —take care that they do not acquire tho least color—add a quart of green poas, and shake the pau to prevent their burn ing; after livo minutes add half a pint of water, a very little borax and half a teaspoon of powdered sugar. Cover the pan closely and draw it to tho side of the fire, and let the contents cook slowly for about three-quarters of an hour; if allowed to boil tho water will soon be absorbed, aud, uu less more is uddod at once, tho peas, instead of being large and tender, will be shrivelled and hard. —New York Journal. THE USE OF ODDS AND ENDS. The odds and ends left over from a meal should not be thrown away. The careful housekeeper can find many ways of turning them into dainty and healthful dishes. Pieces of cold meat or fisn may bo divided into small pieces and warmed in a white or brown sauce, or the sauco and meat or fish may be put in a small baking dish, covered with grated bread crumbs and then browned iu tho oven. Cold meat or fish may be hashed fine and mixed with potato, ricJ l -or hominy and a sauce, and made into crocpiettes. Tough pieces of meat and bones may be used in making little stews or a little soup stock. All kinds of moat can be combined in making a stew or soup. Pieces of bread may bo used for puddings and griddle cakes, and iu the form of dried crumbs for bread ing. Pieces of cake ami gingerbread may bo used in puddings. A few spoonfuls of almost any kind of meat, fish or vegetable may be heated iu a sauce, ami spread over a plain omelet just before rolling it up, tlius giviug a change in this dish of eggs. Gravies, sauces and soups, no matter how small the quantity, should bo saved to uso in warming over meat, fish or vegetables —New York World. HOUSEHOLD HINT 3. Rub sjioons with salt to romovo egg stains. Pails and tubs saturated with glyc erine will not shrink. A tablespoontul of lime water to a pitcher of milk is very beneficial. After knives have been cleaned thoy may be brilliantly polished with char coal powder. A shovel of hot coals held over spotted varnished furniture will take out tho spots. When you wish to uso very dry bread for any purpose, soak it iu ©old milk or water instead of having them hot. The hot fluids seem to take tho life out of dry bread and render it soggy; tho cold soaking leaves it flaky. Soft and flabby skin gains firmness of texture by the uso of cold water, to which has been added a littlo common salt. Vinegar aud spirits of any kind used as a wash about twico a week help to keep tho skin firm. Ladios wishing a smooth skin made without harm can obtain it by pur chasing ten cents' worth of tiucture of benzoin. Dissolve it in a pint of wine, and uso on the face at night. The face should first bo washed with pure and fine soap, and then rinsed off' in clear, cold water. The benzoin can bo dissolved in water, but wino is pre ferable. To removo moth patches wash thorn with a solution of common bicarbon nto of soda aud water several times during tho day for two days, or until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours. After this process wash with some nice toilet soap, and tho skin will bo left clean and tree from patches. Peroxide of hydrogen rubbed on tho face two or throe times a day for ten days will also free tho skin of auy discoloration. Tho homo laundry is rapidly disap pearing from domestic economy. Tlio family that employs one or two ser vants finds it increasingly difficult to get servants that will or can laundry linen, and there is a constantly in creasing demand upon tho public laundries. Some laundries make an extra charge for linen done up with out a gloss. The average public taste demands a mirror-like polish to shuts, collars and cuffs.
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