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.