At the annual show of cngo birds at tho Westminster Aquarium, Lomlou, tho interesting fact developed that hundreds of cannrio?, wrens, finches, etc., on exhibition were bred by arti sans of the East End. Tho Glasgow (Scotland) corporation tramway committee Las recently paid a tribute to tho advanced state of elec trical engineering in this countr}', It has rocommendod that tho manager and engineer should bo sent over to make further inquiries about electric motors. Professor Flinders Petrio has some largo ideas about museums, lie wants the Government to buy a tract of 500 ucres, somewhere within an hour's ride of London, and gradually build it all over, for a storago placo for ethno logical materials. No museum in Lon don is large enough to hold tho treas ures that are being discovered by Eng lishmen all over the world. Tho French arc not disposed to al low tho fact to be forgotten that one of their race brought tho potato into general use. Everywhere they are do ing honor to Parmeutier's memory. A Purmentier medal was recently offered at a grand exhibition which brought out a collection from ono grower of 350 varieties, probably tho greatest ussemblago of tho potato family ever brought together at one time. Ono of tho believers in tho common senso euro is a physician of Lewiston, Me., who has a big dumb bell made in imitation of iron and marked GOO pounds in a corner of his oilioe. To a certain class of sufferers who call on him ho gives somo medicine to be taken with exercise for a brief period, and says : "When you como back yon will be ablo to lift this," whereupon he picks up tho dumb bell easily, but with a serious air. One of the most curious results of tho crazo for bicycling is to bo ob served in tho ancient city of Coventry. It is, as is well known, tho centre of tho bicyclo manufacturing industry of England, relates the New York Tri bnno. There has couseqenlly been a groat rush ot mechanics thither, to meet tho demand of tho workshops, and the city is unahlo to accommo date properly this addition to its pop ulation. Every available lionso is filled with tenants, and yot there are homeless men on tho streets— indus- trious workingmen, with money in their pockets, but unnblo to find va cant lodgings. Tho health officer re ports that moro than 3000 houses arc so over crowded as to be in an unsan itary condition, while the vaccination law has become practically a dead lot tor from the physical impossibility of executing it. Hundreds of uew houses are going np as rapidly as carpenters and masons can build them, but they aro only a small fraction of what is really needed, nnd in tho meantime workingmen are camping out in tents and improvised sheds. And all be cause of a style of riding which good Lady Godiva never so much as dreamed of. The Atlanta Constitution says: Only a few short years have passed since tho laying of tho Atlantic cable was completed. Associated with that stu pendous enterprise, which ranks as one of the greatest achievements of modern times, aro the names of Cyrus W. Field, who conooived the idea of tho cable ; Sir John Pender, who fur nished the means necessary to com plete the undertaking, and Sir Jame3 Anderson, who engineered tho Great Eastern in the actual work of laying the cable. To enumerate tho good results which have accrued from the Atlantic cable during the past fifteen or twenty years is simply beyon 1 tho tho range of human possibility. It is, therefore, highly proper that England and America should join hands in do ing houor to this illustrious trio. The recent death of Sir John Pender, which occurred in London some two or, three months ago, has ha:l the wholesome effect of arousing interest in the subject of the Atlantic cable. At a meeting of thelnternationalSub marine Telegraph Company, held in London a few days ago, it was decided to inaugurate a movement of some kind looking toward the erection of a joint memorial in honor of these colebrated men. Tho movement has received tLo indorsement of tho Queen and has created no small amount of enthusiasm in England. It is need less to say that such a proposition should appeal strongly to popular fa vor on this side of tho Atlantic. Cyrui W. Fiold was a native of this country, and his ashes reposo in tho soil of New England. It should be tho delight of Americans to honor Buch a man and to cordially unito with England in tho movement which hor senso of grati tude to these great benefactors has inspired. WITH! HIE. I If I could know that after all I These heavy bonds have ceased to thrall, | We, whom in life the Fates divide, I Should sweetly slumber side by side— That one green spray would drop its dew Softly alike above us two, All would be well, for I should be At last, dear loving heart, with thee. llow sweet to know this ilust of ours, Mingling, would feel the selfsame flow ers— The scent of leaves, the song-bird's tone At once across our rest be blown— One breadth of sun, one sheet of rain Make green tho earth above us twain. All, sweet and strange, for I should bo At last, dear tender heart, with thee. But half tho earth may intervene Thy place of rest and mine between, And leagues of land and wastes of waves May stretch and toss between our graves; Thy bed with summer light be warm, While snowdrifts heap with wiud and storm My pillow, whose one thorn will be, Beloved, that I am not with thee. But if there be a blissful sphero Where homesick souls, divided hero And wandering in useless quest, Shall find their longed-for haven of rest; If in that higher, happier birth We meet the joy we missed on earth, All will be well, for I shall bo At last, dear loving heart, with thee. MRS. VAN KLEV YER'S CLUB. "Nancy," salil Mrs. Van Klevver to liar particular friend, Miss De Korus, "did you ever go to a stuffed club?" "What's that, a dining club?" . "Nancy, you are improving." "Really V" "Yes. You are like a good transla tion. You're so literal tbat you're al most original." "1 don't understand you." "I know you don't. That's one reason I like to be with you. Ouc gets so tired of tlic people who think they always ex actly understand your inmost soul. No one does that." "Really?" "Oh, Nancy; why do you always say 'Really?' I'eople will think you are English. An English girl, Nancy. Think of that and try to reform." "Hut what shall I say?" "Say anything. Just any old thing. Say what Maud does." "Maud?" "Our Irish princess." "Why, Katherine!" "Well, it would ho a change at least." "What does site say?" "Site comes In and asks me what we shall have for dinner, and when 1 as sume a world weary air and tell her humming birds' wings and rose leaves she says: "Oil, get out, now, Miss Van!" "Katherine, you wouldn't have mo say that?" "Yes, I would. Anything but one continual round of ivallys. 1 suppose you do It because you're so realistic." "Do you think so?" • "You are in one of your tensing moods to-day," remarked Miss Do Ko rus, with some stiffness. "Am I, dear? There, I beg your par don. It's tho after effects of that stuffed club." "What was it, anyway?" "Oil, It was great fun at least, for (iiose who wore inside. Part of the stuffing, so to speak." "Will you explain yourself, Kather ine?" "Well, I'll try to. I'm not quite sure that I can make it clear to you, but I'll try. You see, I am almost the only woman of my acquaintance who lias not belonged to a club, and sometimes I have felt that maybe I was missing some fun, which would he dreadful. Even you belong to a club." "Not exactly. Miue is a guild." "Oh! Well, that's different, I sup pose. At any rate, tills was a club that Is, it became one yesterday, when it was organized, had its officers elect ed and a habitation and a name pro vided for if. The name was the Tues day Club for Parliamentary Practice. Isn't that great?" "Rut why did you Join a club for par liamentary practice?" "That's just what Jack asked me last night, and I told him that lie woudn't go to church on Sundays, so I had made up my mind to work out my salvation on week days." "Hut what about parliamentary prac tice?" "Jack again! Did you ever hear of heaven's first law—namely, order?" "Of course." "Weil, when Mrs. Vnn Klublier (old me that the text book of the club would be Roberts' 'Rules of Order' wasn't it natural for me to think it tlio lirst step toward n halo?" "1 don't understand," said Miss Do Korus. "Of course you don't. 1 don't think I really expected it. Never mind, I'll be liberal, too. Did you ever hear of a packed convention?" "Yes, I think so." "That's what tiicy did to (lie club yesterday, and flint's why 1 call It a stuffed club, which may or may not he the right name for it, but which lias a familiar sound. The Parllo Prack— one really iias to call it something for short—was the pot project of Mrs. Van Klubber. She and half a dozen of her friends have been working it up for some time, and tliey had everything beautifully planned. They got up a constitution and by-laws, made out a list of officers they meant to have elect ed, and then they invited a whole lot of women to come and hell) organize. I went among the rest; though, to tell you the truth, Nancy, I had about as much idea of Joining as—as you have of what I am going to tell you. Still, I , don't kuow why Mrs. Van and thoso women—you know the set, Mrs. Fed erated Jones and Mrs. Organized Smith and Mrs. Amalgamated Brown, and all thoso women—should have seemed as (surprised to see me as they did. " 'Why, Mrs. Van Klcvver! You here/ and all that sort of thing, you know. "They patronized me as If I were a child. 1 thought Mrs. Amalgamated Brown would take me uuder my arms, lift me Into a chair and offer me a pic ture book to play with." "Not really!" exclaimed Miss De Ko rus. Mrs. Van Klevver made a gesture of despair "You're a hopeless case, Nanoj*. Never mind. If you don't say something be sides 'lteglly' when 1 finish my story I'll declare our friendship adjourned sine die. Now, listen! I didn't care about being patronized, so 1 sat down in one of the middle seats and let them -alone. I don't know who all the wom en that came were. They seemed to know Mrs. Van and her crowd, at least hy sight, anil I found out from what I overheard that most of them were club fiends. I suppose that was the reason I didn't know any of them. The first thing I knew Mrs. Federated Jones was on the platfoi n asking some one to nominate a temporary chairman. She hadn't the words out of her mouth when Mrs. Smith piped up Mrs. Brown's name, and Mrs. Van seconded it, and the women in front said 'aye,' and Mrs. Brown got up In the chair be fore you could wink. " 'Humph,' said a woman hack of mo, 'they've got things fixed all right. Trust Mrs. Amalgamated for that.' " 'Wonder who they'll put in for president?' the woman with her whis pered. "'That Mrs. Van, I'll bet anything,' said the first one. 'You see, they won't have Mrs. Brown, 'cause they've made her temporary chairman, and the other two want to be secretary and treasurer. You can seo that.' "I began to be Interested. I listened to the reading of the constitution nnd nil that sort of thing, and when they asked those who would like to join to come up and sign their names I went, and put mine down with the rest. Mrs. Organizer Smith had charge of tile book, and when it came my turn to sign she pretended to bo immensely astonished. "'What,' she exclaimed, 'not Mrs. Van Klevver! Well, what next?' Mrs. Van Klevver paused and smiled. "1 flatter myself, Nancy," she resum ed, "thai I astonished her even more by what did come next. When we lind all taken our scats again they counted the names and announced that there were thirty-nine signers to the constitu tion, and that they would proceed to the election of oflicers, twenty votes be ing necessary to a choice. Mrs. Brown said that if there was no objection the election would he by a—well, by your saying yes or no. I don't know what they call It. At any rate, that was where they struck the first rock. A woman back of tne objected. She want ed the vote to he by ballot. That's where you write a name—oh, you know what it Is, do you? Well, first they said they would elect a president, so some one got up nnd nominated Mrs. Van Klubber, and it was seconded. " 'I told you so,' said the woman back of mo. "Someone else got up nnd nominated that frlnipy Mrs. Caucus and that was seconded, too. In the meantime tho head women had been tearing paper into slips, which they sent around through the audience, with hits of pen ells, which you passed to your neigh bor. I was waiting for a pencil to get to me, when I heard the woman back of me saying: " 'How do you spell lier name, any way?' " 'I don't know,' said tho woman be side her. "Some one touched me on tho shoul der. "'How do you spell that Mrs. Van's name?' the woman whispered. "'Mrs. Van's?' I said. "' Y os.' " 'K-l-e-v-v-e-r,' I whispered. " 'Oil, 1 thought it was Klubber!' " 'No, Klevver.' "Why, Katherine, how dared you?" "1 dare do anything that becomes a Van, and 1 guess I've just as much right to tho name as she has! But wait! I heard a great whispering all along the lino behind inc. "'That isn't right! It's spelled K-l-e-v.* "After a while someone came around nnd collected the ballots and took them up to tho platform. 1 looked as inno cent as the babe they, seemed to con sider me, but I kept a sharp eye on Mrs. Federated Jones and Mrs. Organized Smith. They were tho tellers. Oh, my dear! If you could only have seen them!" nnd Mrs. Van Klevver threw back her head and laughed. "Mrs. Smith picked tip a slip nnd looked at it. She puckered up her forehead nnd squinted n little closer. Then she un hooked lier glasses and took another look at It. Orndunlly a smile stole into the corners of her mouth anil she passed tlie Klip over to Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones took a long look at it through tier spec tacles anil then they put tlielr handker chiefs to their mouths and I could see their shoulders shaking. "'Never mind!' I said to myself. 'They'll find it a larger joko than they think.' "And, oh, Nancy! tliey did. I wish 1 could liavo taken a dozen or two pho tographs of I heir faces as they counted those ballots. It was funny at first. Then It was queer. Then It was very strange. Then It was Incredible. They went over and over and over the thirty nine slips of paper, and then they whis pered together for a while. Finally, Mrs. Smith went up to the chairman on the platform and said something in her car. "'What!' said Mrs. Amalgamated Brown right out loud, .and she went down to tile table and took a look at the ballots. Then she went over and whis pered to Mrs. Van Klubber, who was sitting at a little distance trying to look unconscious, and succeeding about as well as a man who knows that ho will be called on for the next 'extemporane ous' speech at a banquet, and is afraid he hasn't learned it thoroughly. It was a very unparliamentary proceeding all around, anyway. 1 read up about it last night, aud I think I could have them all Impeached if It were worth while." "Really?" "Nancy," In a warning tone from Mrs. Van Klevver, "you remember what 1 said about adjourning our friendship." "I'll try, dear, but I was so interest ed." "So was I. I'eople began whispering nnd wondering what was the matter. The woman back of me snickered. "'l'll bet that Mrs. Caucus is elect ed,' she said. 'Well, I don't like her, but I wouldn't mind seeing the machine defeated.' " "The machine?" inquired Miss Dc Korus. "Yes." "What's that?" "Why, that's—well, In this case it was Mrs. Van. That'll do for the present. I haven't looked up Its general applica tion yet. I know it was Mrs. Van be cause she really was beaten." "You don't say so!" "Bravo, Nancy! You'll work up to Maud's eloquence before I'm through. Y'es, she was." "And that frumpy Mrs. Caucus elect ed ?" "Why, no. Mrs. Caucus wasn't really in it. She had only live votes. But let mo tell you. After a lot of whispering and excitement Mrs. Brown went back to the chair aud banged the table with a little wooden hammer and asked the meeting to come to order. There was a dead silence. " 'The tellers have counted the votes nnd will announce the result,' said Mrs. Brown iu a sort of stunned, bewildered way. "Then Mrs. Smith got up. " 'The result of the vote for president Is as follows (you know how she always pipes up): Mrs. Van Klevver, 20 votes; Mrs. Van Klubber, li, and Mrs. Cau cus, 5/ "Well, there was a funny murmur through the room and Mrs. Brown hit the table till she was red in the face. " 'This meeting will please come to order/ she said. And then, when they had quieted down she went on: 'Mrs. [Catherine Van Klevver has been duly elected president of the club. Of course, if Mrs. Van Klevver wishes to withdraw, not having been consulted, ns I believe, In advance—why—er—a how is that Mrs. Van Klevver?' she has located me and was leaning over the table In my direction. "There was nothing to be done but face the music, because, 1 tell you, Nancy, I wasn't going to be railroaded —that's what Jack said—out of oflicc by that crowd. So I got up and ns 1 did I turned around and gave a sort of a confidential and appealing wink to the women back of me, the ones who had elected me without knowing it." "What could you—what did you say?'' demanded Miss Do KOTOS. "Well, in the first place, I said 'Alicm!' All public speakers tlo that. Didn't you over notice that? Yes, I said: 'Ahem! Mrs. Chairman'—l'd caught on to that much!—'while this honor is, as you know'—emphasis 011 the 'know'—entirely unexpected and undeserved'—l gave the women back of me another look over my shoulder where was I? Oh, yes!—'undeserved, I would not be guilty of such a lack of appreciation as to decline it.' "Somehow, the audience began to see that it was a joke, and they liked It. You know those women who are al ways at the head of tilings get to be so overbearing that people get tired of it, and the audience was simply tickled to death to have the leaders beaten at their own game. The women clapped and said 'Bravo!' and 'llear! hear!' " "And what did you do?" asked Miss De Korus rapturously. "Oh, 1 bowed to the right and the left as if I were a presidential candidate- United States president, I mean—and said 'Ahem!' again. Mrs. Brown bang ed the table some more. She thought I was going to got out of it some way." "And how did you?" "llow did I? 1 didn't. I'm in it. and I mean to stay in it as long as I want to. I'll show tliem how to run a club as they've never seen one run before." "lint you dou't know anything about parliamentary practice." "Wlint it 1 tlou't? Tliey don't know much themselves. Anil I'm their presi dent. anyway! They can't set around that. Why, Jack said last nisht that I don't even have to recognize them if I don't want to, and they won't dare say a word." "What does Jack think about it?" "Oil, he says I'm great, simply great! He laughed until Maud came in from the kitchen to see whether he was crazy. I tell you, Nancy, I'm going lo create an epoch. If you want to see it. come to tlie meeting of tlie I'arllo l'racks next Tuesday. Mrs. Van Klub her alone will be worth the price of ad mission." "Really?" "Nancy! What did I tell you I'd do it you said that again? You are adjourn ed sine die, or at any rate until next week."-—New York Sim. Wheel New*. "It Is queer how you inexperienced riders always take such long rides." "No, It isn't a bit queer; we are afraid to stop and get off for fear we can't get on again."—Detroit Free Press. . oV!na UPOII omm on crime. Yei fair science frowns not with both sides of her face. Medical men, as Is their habit, disagree as to the moral responsibility of the kleptoma niac aud even jurists do not rest In sweet accord upon the subject. So emi nent authorities as Judge Noah Davis and Judge Cox have handed down the opinion that "every one is responsible who knows the nature and conse quences of Ills acts." Other judges, ex pressing the advanced ideas of their constituents, have tenderly recommend- Ed alleged kleptomaniacs to the care of their friends, convinced that medical treatment would cure them. It is not so very long since the world began to consider insanity an extenua tion of crime or a disease amenable to treatment. More recently still those only have been considered insane who raged, raved and were entirely without self-control or saving grace. Now there are physicians learned iu mental dis eases who claim that four-llfths of the human race are Insane upon some point —are liable to give expression to mor bid impulses. Just here the work of the moralist jurist if you will- comes in. As prac tically all men are or may become cap bly destructive forces in the shape of lion to decide is whether the individ ual to whom these come is not always capable of suppressing them if he will. That strange, unmeasured, ull guessed power, the human will—how far is that, or is it not, responsible. Are not terri ble destructive forces in the shape of morbid impulses repressed until they die out of individuals aud of races be cause the moral balance is maintained by that same human will*/ And is it not the duty of the law to insist that the moral balance must be maintained and the giving rein to mor bid impulses punished? The man who steals when under the influence of liquor is in a mentally irresponsible condition, yet the law takes no account of that or holds that he should have taken care not to become mentally and morally irresponsible. English society aud English courts have not the privilege of pretending to be greatly surprised at the alleged pe culiarities of an American cousin—in law. So long ago as the early seventies the London Times, in commenting upon the case of a gentlewoman who had been arrested charged with stealing some handkerchiefs from a shop, that any one in society could name off-hand a dozen dames of high degree who were a terror to the tradespeople on account of their thieving propensities. Further more the Quarterly Review, in 185(1, in an article upon the London police, said: "The extent of pilfering carried on, even by ladies of high rank and po sition, is very great; there are persons possessing a mania of this sort so well known among the shopkeeping commu nity that their addresses and descrip tions are passed from hand to hand for mutual security. The attendants allow them to secrete what they like without seeming to observe them, and after ward send a bill with the prices of the goods purloined to their houses." Pre sumably the same policy might have been carried out in the Instance that is attracting such widespread attention just now If tiie shopkeepers had but known it, or had as much faith in for eigners ns in their own beloved, if ec centric, aristocracy. Tales of the exploits of kleptomani acs In the abstract would do very well for humorous reading, but for the al ways apparent undercurrent of sad ness and suffering. One lady, varying the expression of morbid impulses, ar rived at complete insanity by yielding to a fancy for throwing things Into the fire. She confessed to her physician that the impulse was merely playful in the beginning. She had thrown an old pair of slippers into the grate, and had been amused at the contortions caused by the scorching of the leather. Next day she threw an old hat into the lire and enjoyed seeing it burn. In another day she was surprised by a strong de sire to throw something else Into the fire, and as the object nearest at hand happened to be a handsome prayer book, madnme covered her eyes rather than see it burn. The habit seemed thus to be established. The victim of it said the desire came in the shape of a violent paroxysm which caused her flesh to creep and quiver until she had yielded to the morbid Impulse to throw something of value into the fire. A homely instance of the existence of kleptomania is that of an elderly phy sic-lan. This good man, who is a high ly respected member of the community in which he lives, and faithful unto death In his profession, cannot bear to leave a patient's house without some trifling souvenir of his visit. Thimbles, spools of thread, spoons and scissors are carried away in the doctor's pock ets. The situation is so thoroughly un derstood that the doctor's pockets are regularly inspected by his better half, and the articles are quietly returned to their owners. A specialist in mental diseases lias a fund of queer stories of kleptomania. One thorough-going woman, who came for treatment for the trouble, contrived to carry away after her first "treat ment" a bulky medical work, a few In struments and the doctor's driving gloves. All these articles, with quan tities of other, stolen goods, were af terward found in a closet of the lady's house. The closet was a dark one, and the fact developed that everything this particular maniac appropriated was cast into the closet and never even looked at afterward. Persons of high moral standards and bright intellects have not Infrequently enriched medical lore by giving careful accounts of their kleptomaniac experi ences. One lad, who was recovering from an attack of fever, saw a man pass ids window wearing a big watch chain. The hoy had plenty of money to gratify his whims, but he became possessed of a desire to possess that particular chain. Ills dreams and wak ing hours became an agony. As soon as he was able he watched in the streets for that chain. He saw it, and eventually saw the man lay It, with a watch attached, upon a Jeweler's coun ter. The boy dashed in, seized his prize and escaped. With a guilty conscience the thief sent the watch back to the jeweler, but still found 110 pleasure in tho possession of the chain. At last he returned the chain, and suffered no more from a morbid impulse which he could always have resisted If his will power had not been weakened by ill ness. Instances are valueless, save as they establish the status of the mental or moral disease. But the consideration of that question, involving as It does a wider subject than that of kleptomania, might well be entered upon by all the people who have time enough to stop to think what the morbid and danger ous Impulses are, and to what extent they can be controlled in the interest, of public morals and the general good. The KlcctrioStorage Battery. The electric storage battery, in whose development lies the hope of emanci pation from electric light wires, trolley wires and other unsightly obstructions, has reached a point of perfection, as shown by an exhibit in Philadelphia, which makes it a commercial possibil ity, and promises a large extension of the usefulness of electricity in every day life. With a further development in the direction of cheapness, it may be possible to reproduce, in towns unpro vided with cheap means of motive pow er, the conditions existing in Great Falls, Mont. In that town electric pow er produced economically at a water privilege does*all the mechanical work. It propels, lights and heats the street cars, runs the elevators, the printing presses, the cranes, and all kinds of machinery, and is used for pumping, for excavating, and for rock-crushing. It is even applied in the building trades, it not being unusual to see on the streets a mortar mixer attached to an electric wire leading down from a pole. The restaurants cook by electricity; the butcher employs it to chop his sau sages, and the grocer to grind ids coffee. The housewives run their sewing ma chines and heat their lint-irons by elec tricity; they bake their cakes in wooden electric cake ovens, that can be set away on the shelf like pasteboard boxes. They have electric broilers,' boilers and teakettles. One almost holds his breath as he wonders to what use next this wonderful power will be put. " Accident" Swindlers. The extension of electric traction has brought upon the scene n particularly dangerous and offensive swarm of ras cals who prey upon the street railroad companies by bogus claims for person al injuries received in real or Imaginary accidents. They are fostered by a tribe cf disreputable attorneys, who make a practice of communicating with all per sons whom they can Identify ns con cerned In any street railway mishap, and often without Instructions issue process against the companies. Some of these legal sharks have a regular staff of detectives, who prowl about the depots and termini of the lines on the lookout for cases. False witnesses are easily procured, and juries are usually liberal in the matter of damages, the greater portion of which is swallowed up in the attorneys' "costs." The evil has become so great that the street rail way press is suggesting the formation of a mutual protection society of some kind. It is proposed to keep a regis ter of the names of claimants, and In terchange information ns to persons who, it is more than suspected, make a trade of the business and travel from city to city for the purpose.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Hard to I'leaso. A man was taking his usual dose of pork and beans in a restaurant at Olym pia and found two silver dimes In the beans. Calling the waiter, he howled out in an impatient manner: "Here, what kind of a lay-out is this? I have found twenty cents In my beans!" "Well, you are hard to please," re plied the waiter. "Yesterday you growl ed about not having any change iu your diet!"— Seattle Times. Nature. "Unnatural father," sobbed the he roine. Indeed, be was to such an extent un natural thnt the stage manager let him go at the cud of the week. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. CARE OP SILVER BACKED BRUSHES. To clean silver backed hairbrushos flour is recommended, it being obvi ous that dipping the bristles in am monia water is not praotioable. When the silver backs need polishing, the bristles should bo proteoted with a strip of paper. TO CLEAN LEATHER. Leather chair-seats and table-topa may be rubbod up at rognlar intervals with somo of the excellent prepara tions sold for the purpose. Those made in different oolors to matoh dif ferent materials aro varnishers rather than actual oleaners, and not so satis factory in the end. Rook ammonia dissolvod in water, or benzine, is the best—the latter never fails, but is rather expensive. Sprinkle Fuller's earth over the seats, rubbing it in gently, leavo on over night, then in the morning rub or brush off with a soft brush, leaving no partiole of powder, then apply the diluted am monia evenly with a soft flannel just moistened with the liquid, refolding the flannel, as soon as it is soiled with the grease drawn out. After all the grease has been extracted, apply spar ingly with an old silk rag a simple mixture of pure linseed oil and vine gar, polishing with another silk rag. —The Housewife. USING UP COLD TURKEY. Devilled Turkey—The logs and back of oold turkey, one-half teaspoonful salt, one-half teaspoonful pepper, a little cajonne, one lemon, mustard, butter. Score the meat along aud across about ono inoh deep, then rub into tho gashes tho salt, popper, cayenne and juioe of ono lemon, and cover with made mustard; brush over with butter melted, and broil over a dear fire nbout ten minutes, till nice and brown, but do not let them burn. Send to tablo on a hot dish with a lit tle butter. Turkey Rissoles—Remains of cold turkey ; to one-half pound cold turkey, one ounce lean ham, ounce tongue, two ounces finely-grated breadcrumbs, one ounce butter, one boiled onion, finely chopped, one egg. Mince tho turkey, tongue and ham finely, then add tho butter, breadcrumbs, onion, finely minced, and seasoning; mix with the yolk of one egg; mix well, roll into balls, dip in egg and broad crumbs, and fry a nice brown. Hashed Turkey—Remains of cold turkey, forcemeat balls, popper, salt, ttour and butter, shallot, parsley, two cloves. Cut the meat off tho turkey in nice slices, put the skin, bones and trimmings in a saucepan, with one and one-half pints of water, a shallot, a spoonful of chopped parsley and cloves; simmer geutly for one hour, then strain, and thioken with flour and butter. Flour tho slices, put them iu a stewpan with the gravy, and simmer gently for ten minutes, but do not let it boil; warm the force meat balls in the gravy, and servo with the moat in the oeutre, the force meat balls and sippets of toast round. Minced Turkey—When there is not much moat loft on tho turkey, it is better to mince it. For this out all tho meat off tho bones, free it from skin and gristle, and pass it through a mincing machine; put it into a saucepan, with gravy made as direct ed for hashed turkey, or one half pint white sauce, season rather highly, and simmer fifteen minutes, stirring frequently. Turn on to a hot dish, and garnish with poached eggs. Tur key may be also cut iu slices, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs or in batter, and fried a nice brown. Spriukle seasoning over, and serve garnished with diamonds of toast, out lemon and forcemeat balls. I'ottod Tnrkoy—Ono-half pound cold turkey, two onncos touguo, one half pound butter, soasoning. Cut the turkoy in pieces, removing all skin aud gristle, and pass through a mincing mnohiue with the tongue, then pound in a mortar with the but ter to a smooth 'paste, add seasoning to taste, pour into pots, cover with olarifled butter. Turkey Soup—Remains of oold tur key, two quarts weak stook, ono-half bead eelery, one onion, one carrot, salt. Put the bones and trimmings in a saucepan with the stock, vegeta bles and seasoning ; bring this slowly to the boil, then simmer gently for two and one-half hours, skimming occasionally ; strain the soup, remove the fat, and thicken with a little ar rowroot. Curried Turkoy—Put into a sauce pan one heaping tablespoonful of but ter ; mix together one even tablespoon ful of curry powder aud one heaping tablespoonful of flour, and stir caro fully into the melted butter to pre vent. lumping. Hnvo ready one cup and a half of hot milk or cream and add, stirring until smooth and thick ; theu put into this sauce pieces of cold turkey, aud cook only until the turkey is heated through. Tomato sauce may be used if liked ; it must bo strained, and the curry may be made with half milk and half sauce. Halt should be added to taste. Minced Poultry—Take oold roasted turkey or ohickeu, audrainoetbe meat very finely without any of the skin or bone, but put the skin, bone and all the odd pieeies intc n stewpan with a small onion, a blade of mace, and some sweet herbs; add a pint of water. Let this stew for nearly an hour, then strain, nnd add a teaspoonful of Wor cestershire sauce. Boil two eggs very hard and chop them very fine. Mis with tho minoe meat, nnd season ac cording to tate; add the gravy, a tea spoonful very finely minced lemon peel, nnd ono tablespoonfnl of lemon juice, two tablespoontuls of flour, and let the whole just oome to a boil. Serve with toasted bread. The wires of the Frenoh railways are so arranged that they oan be used for •ither telegraphing or telephoning.
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