One hundred and twenty-eight min- 1
isters of the Presbyterian Church died i
last year. The average age was sixty- 1
tix years.
All reports from sections of the coun
try where peanuts grow indicate that
the crop will be short and the quality
inferior this year on account of the
drought.
The horses of German cavalry regi
ments are to be entirely shod with
paper shoes, recent experiments as to
their durability and lightness having
proved very satisfactory.
A German paper calls attention to !
the extraordinary fact that at Aachen
alone 800 tons of steel wire are used
up annually in the •manufacture of
needles—4, .500,000,000 in number
valued at $1,500,000.
A pretty New York deaf and dumb '
girl has sued a deaf and dumb man 1
for $50,000 for breach of promise. 1
The young man's father is a million
aire. The chief witness is also deaf
and dumb. Love, too, is deaf, dumb
and blind, but money talks.
Says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
"The Treasury Department estimates
that the population of the United
States is increasing 2,000,000 a year*
That is fast enough without admitting
great numbers of illiterates from coun
tries with which we have nothing in
common."
The fact that the Japanese are a live
people, if somewhat conceited over the
amount of belated progress they have
realized, is shown by the fact that the
Japanese Government now issues
every day three weather charts, which
include observations in China aud the
Lin-Kill Islands.
Massachusetts has expended $700,-
000 fighting the gipsy-moth, and it
will require SIOO,OOO annually for
several years more to exterminate
this destructive insect. If the work
is successful, as it now promises to
be, the money will be well invested,
for the gipsy-moth devours everything
green that grows, aud is capable of
doing incalculable damage.
United States Consul Charles 1
Denby, at Pekin, gives the substance I
of a representation recently made by
Mr. Brennan, British Consul on Trade
in China. Brennan states that the
currency of China is copper much
more than silver, aud that the rela
tive value of gold aud copper is an
important factor in the consideration
of trade problems. It is undoubt
edly true, says Brennan, that the or
dinary business of China is done in
copper cash, aud he incloses a trans
lation of an imperial decree, in which
it is shown that the price of copper
cash has been enhanced over twenty
per cent, at the same time that prices
for ordinary articles of consumption
are materially increased.
The recent loss of three lives by
the drifting of a disabled sailboat
over the falls of Niagara has led to
the suggestion that a safety cable be
stretched across the Niagara River
at a point just above the head of Goat
Island. The sshemo seems to bo a
wholly humane and practicable one,
but as the co-operation of the Govern
ments of the United States and Can
ada will have to be secured to lay the
life-guard, it is probable that it will
not play the part marked out for it
for some time to come. But 110 pre
caution should be spared to protect
unwary or unskillful voyagers in the
Upper Niagara from the fateful ter
rors of a pluuge into the rapids and
the cataract.
The marvelous success of the Eng
lish in keeping .300,000,000 East In
diaus in subjection with a handful of
men is explained, believes the San
Francisco Chronicle, by the fact that
the example set by the French has
been consistently followed. When
Frenchmen were operating in India
they speedily discovered that there
was no such thing as national feeling,
and they took advantage of the discovery
to hire natives to subjugate other na
tives. It appears, however, that this
policy has not been so successful in
the hill country, where the natives are
now in opm rebellion. But Sir Wil
liam Lockhart has been given a free
hand since the outbreak, and we are
informed that as he is not to be bound
by red-tape regulations he will proba- '
bly bring the recalcitrants to terms in
a short time. Just what this means it
would be lmrd to tell, but if Sir Wil- j
liain Lockhart follows the example oJ
some of his predecessors in India, who i
were also unrestrained by red tape, j
the concluding years of the century
may be marked by brutalities which
the jubilee writers told us were things
of the past.
FEW AEE BURIED ALIVE.
THE SIGNS OF DEATH SURE BEYOND
MISTAKE.
When the IToart Cease* Keating, the Jaw
Drops, the Eye Loses Lustre, and the
Gray Veil Covers the Face, the Fliysi
ciuu Knows That the End Has Come.
Many persons live in fear of being
buried alive. This is a pity, since it
is so easy to distinguish apparent
death from real death. When asked
to talk about premature burial, and
more especially how to distinguish ap
parent from real death, Dr. George P.
Bhrady, of this city, said:
"It is really astonishing liow many
persons fear being buried alive, and
more astonishing the number who
have their dead disinterred to see if
they have Ueen buried alive. This is
done quietly and does not reach the j
ears of the public. A child takes a
notion that its mother lias been buried
alive or a husband concludes in his
hopeless grief that perhaps, after all,
his wife was not dead, and the bodies
are taken up to satisfy distorted ima
gination.
"There is little if any danger of a
body being buried alive. All of these
horrible stories about premature buri
als are 011 a par with the ghost stories
told in the nursery; the more improba
ble they are the moro readily are they
believed. These stories are circulated
usually in times of an epidemic, when
bodies have to be disposed of quickly.
"In almost all cases where burials
are said to have been premature they
have been investigated by unscientific
persons. Physicians do not make any
tests of deatli ordinarily when a pa
tient dies. It is altogether unneces
sary for them to do so. A scientific
man is never in doubt in bis practice
as to whether a patient is really dead
or not. I don't think there can be
such a thing as premature burial
where a body cau be examined by a
scientific physician. The physiognomy
of death is so well known that it
hardly needs a description. In truth,
it seems almost absurd to talk about
it. There is the pallid lip, the
dropped jaw, the lustreless eyes, and
so on. Besides, any old nurse cau see
the approach of death. The poet
speaks of it as a gray veil, and that de
scribes it about us accurately as any
thing.
"Of course, death approaches dif
ferently in different sets of diseases;
sometimes it comes through the brain;
sometimes through the heart, and
again through the lungs. All signs in
each are well understood by physi
cians, and death is expected by them.
Death comes as a regular, logical con
clusion, and I have never yet heard of
a scientific doctor pronouncing a live
patient dead.
"Cases of apparent death are very
rare, so of course cases of premature
burial are still rarer. There are con
ditions of trance where patients are
apparently dead for days at a time, to
the ordinary observer. A person in
such a condition might be buried alive
out on the plains or in the woods, or
we might say that a miner could fall in l
a cataleptic state and be buried prema
turely by his fellow miners; but these t
possibilities would not be realized once (
in a million cases. There are too many ,
conditions to take into account. The
seat of vital power is the heart. When !
that ceases to beat, a person is as dead
as Julius Cicsar. An imaginative, ex
citable layman could not listen to the
heart and distinguish a case of appar
ent from real death, but a doctor has
uo trouble iu doing this.
! "The greatest danger of premature
burial, if there is any at all, is incases
of sudden death iu times of epidemic.
Over a century ago several mortuary
chambers were established in Germany.
The first was at Weimar, aud the second
at Muuich. Dead bodies were brought
to these places ahd watched closely by
medical men. During the first forty
eight hours after death a bell rope is
. attached to the hand of the corpse so
: that in case death was not real the
1 slightest movement will ring the bell.
1 In all of these hundred years only once
; has the sound of a bell been heard in
any of those mortuary chambers, and
: then it was due to the relaxation of the
gtiffened hand of a corpse.
* 'To distinguish apparent from real
death many things have to be taken
into account. The signs of real death
are manifold. There is respiration;
breathing, however, often stops before
the heart ceases to beat. The disap
pearance of the pulse at the wrist is
another sign. Almost the inatant'that
death occurs the eye loses its lustre,
the pupil dilates, and a film comes over
the eye. Hippocrates, the father of
medicine, thought the moving up and
down of a patient's Adam's apple an
infallible sign of real death. That
motion is due to paralysis of the res
piratory centre, and patients never re
cover after this condition is reached.
Inability to swallow, which shows the
inability of the nerve centre to preside
over the inherent vital forces, also
points to the approach of death. But
all these signs, except the ceasing of
the heart to beat, are merely corrob
orative. That by itself is an infallible '
sign of real death.
"Persons who fear premature burial
often make a request to bo bled in
order to be sure that death is real.
One man I know of left a request in
his will that one of his toes be ampu
tated, and this was done to carry out
the provisions of his will. There is a
fallacy about this bleeding test, how
ever. Immediately after death one is
not apt to bleed; later the blood oozes j
• out on account of the pressure of the j
' gases on the heart and other organs.
! The eye becomes relaxed at the mo
ment of real death, but not at that of
| apparent death. The tension of circu-
I lation is taken off and a peculiar speck
| comes on the white of the eye which
ha 3 the appearance of a speck on
| parchment. This indication of death
I was observed first by fishwomen, who
used to watch the eyes of their fish.
I One, I might say, absolute sign of
i death, is a bkie spot in the right groin;
this is almost infallible. There is a
peculiar odor about the body even at
the moment of death. It is not that of
decomposition, for it is too early for
decomposition, though when the body
once becomes stiffened this signifies
the commencement of decomposition.
It is said that this odor explains why
dogs come around and howl when some
one dies. A tradition that bees fly
away at the approach of death unless
some one taps their % hives and speaks
to them is prevalent throughout Penn
sylvania and New York State. This
may be due to the odor which accom
panies death.
"Not all persons when tliey die are
absolutely cold. Different diseases
produce different temperature. The
higher the temperature has been the
longer it takes the body to cool, and
young persons hold heat much longer
after death than old ones. A corpse
often has the appearance of breathing
to those looking at it. This is the as
sociation of the habit of vision with
life.
"All this talk about death, apparent
death, and premature burials bring us
down to one vital question, How long
could life be maintained in a coffin?
All experiment 011 a dog in a coffin
showed that the animal lived five or
six hours. A body in an ordinary
coffin gets only three or four cubic
feet of air, and that would keep one
alive only fifteen or twenty minutes.
So those who trouble themselves about
being buried when only apparently
dead may rest assured that, if such an
improbability were realized, they
would not live to hear the last hymn
sung at their funeral."—New York
Sun.
WISE WORDS.
A place for everything and every
thing iu its place.—Franklin.
The fruit derived from labor is the
sweetest of all pleasures.—Yuuveu
argues.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
for loan oft loses both itself and friend.
—Shakespeare.
We know accurately only when we
know little; with knowledge doubt iu
cre ases.—Goethe.
A good face is a lettor of recom
mendation, as a good heart is a letter
of credit.—Bulwer.
A kind heart is a fountain of glad
ness, making everything in its vicin
ity freshen iuto Riuiles.—lrving.
We must not judge of a man's merits
by his great qualities, but by the use
he makes of them.—Rochefoucauld.
The opportunity to do mischief is
found a hundred times a day, and
that of doing good once a year.—Vol
taire.
A brave man knows no malice; but
forgets iu peace the injuries of war,
and gives his direst foe A friend's em
brace. —Co wper.
Whoever is mean in his youth runs
a great risk of becoming a scoundrel
in riper years; meanness leads to vil
lainy with fatal attraction.—Cher
buliez.
This way upward from the lowest
stage through every other to the high
est; that is, the way of development,
so far from lowering us to the brute
level, is the only way for us to attain
the true highest—namely, the all-com
plete. -Henry Jones, M. A.
True poetry is truer than science,
because it is synthetic, and siezes at
once what the combination of all the
sciences is able at most to attain as a
final result. The soul of nature is de
vined by the poet; the man of science
only serves to accumulate materials
for its demonstration.—Amiel's Jour
nal.
Falsehood is so easy, tVuth so diffi
cult. Examine your words well and
you will fiud that, even when you have
110 motive to be false, it is very hard
to say the exact truth, even about
your own feelings—much harder than
to say something fine about thein
which is not the exact truth.—George
Eliot.
If we live truly, wo shall see truly.
It is as easy for the strong man to lie
strong as it is for the weak to be weak.
When we have new perception, wo
shall gladly disburden the memory of
its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
When a man lives with God, his voice
shall be as Hweet as the murmur of
the brook and the rustle of the corn, j
—Emerson.
Value of the Kgg in KiekneHft.
The value of egg albumen in fopd in
certain diseased conditions is pointed
out by Dr. C. E. Boynton, says the
Pacific Medical Journal. When fever
is present the appetite is nil, he says;
what one wants is an aseptic article of
diet; the white of an egg, raw, serves
both as food and medicine. One way
to give it is to drain off the albumen
from an opening about half an inch in
> diameter at tlio small end of the egg,
1 the yolk remaining inside the shell;
add a little salt to this and direct the
patient to swallow it.
In typhoid fever the mode of feed
-1 ing materially helps us in carrying out
an antiseptic plan of treatment. Fur-
I therniore, the albumen, to a certain
L extent, may antidote the toxines of
the disease. Patients may ut first re
bel at the idea of eating a raw egg;
but the quickness with which it goes
down without the yolk proves it to be
less disagreeable than they suppose,
and they are then ready to take u sec
ond jlose.
A Strange Fml.
Lady Bosslyn, the mother of the
Duchess of Sutherland, has a very
strange hobby For many years past
- slie has collected skulls—not only hu
; man ones, of which she has eight, but
L all sorts 0/ china and metal death's
L heads. She often wears a unique watch
L concealed in the head of a small ivory
t skull, which opens with a spring, re
| vealing the face of the timekeeper.
FIELDS OF ADVENTURE-]
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARINC
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
Climl> n Tree to Escape the Clutches of a
Wounded Bear—A New York Police
man Who llui* Saved Twenty-Nine
Lives—A II lave Young Suilormau.
j Miss Jessie Loughran, of Jersey
City, N. J., who has been visiting her
j aunt, Mrs. James Davis, near Woocl
| ford, Vt., has had a lively adventure
{ with a large hlaek bear She is an
| enthusiastic wheelwouian, and when
■she cnnie from Jersey City she brought
her bieyele with her. She had gone
about five miles from heraunt's house
j and was returning home when she j
j heard the sharp crack of a rifle. Miss ]
: Loughrau would probably not have
paid more than passing attention to
f the shot had she not heard immediate
ly afterward a heavy body crash
through the undergrowth skirting the j
roadside. She turned around, and I
doing so lost her balance. To save
herself from a fall she dismounted.
Hardly had she left the wheel when
a large black bear burst out of the
woods in fall view of her. It was
evident that the animal was wounded,
for it was snorting with rage, and en
deavored to lick its left shoulder.
Miss Loughran screamed and made a
desperate attempt to remount her
wheel. Never before did her wheel
; behave so disreputably. It wabbled
as it never wabbled before, and ca
vorted with all the wickedness of an
: unbridled bronco. At least, that is
j what she thinks it did.
No sooner did the bear see Miss
Loughran than it gave a snort and
made a dash for her. Half frightened
to death Miss Loughran made another
desperate attempt to mount her wheel,
and this time was successful. Just ns
her feet caught the pedals and the
; lirst burst of speed was acquired, the
bear shot up alongside her and with
one dart of his paw tore a jagged piece
out of the side of her flapping skirt.
The wlxeelwoman looked down upon
the enraged bear, and wondered how
long the race would last. So long as
the bear did not get tangled up in the
wheels, and she ran against no ob
struction, she was reasonably sure of
getting away from the animal. But
fate had not decreed that Miss Lough
ran should escape absolutely un
scathed. The bear got over the
1 ground with surprising celerity,
i Once when rounding a turn in the
road the bear drew so near the wheel
again that it tore nnother piece from
Miss Lougliran's skirt. The sharp
claws even went deeper and scratched
Miss Loughran's leg. At that Miss
Loughran screamed at the top of her
j voice.
j "It's a wonder I was not heard in
Woodford," she said afterward. "I
thought every minute was to be my
I last."
Not a mile had been covered in the
race with the bear, yet Miss Loughran
imagined that she had gone at least
half way to the New York State line.
The bear, though panting hotly, was
beginning to gain steadily on her; the
excitement of the race was telling on
her and she was rapidly losing bolh
nerve and strength. She began to
pedal with renewed vigor, but the
spurt was made too late. The bear
was upon her. Both its forepaws fast
ened themselves on the hind wheel of
the bicycle. The claws sank deep
into the tire, and wheel, rider and
bear went toppling over, a confused
mass, in the dusty highway.
When Miss Loughran struggled to
her feet she was covered with dust
and bleeding from a scratch in the
face. Turning about, she saw the
bear making desperato attempts to
free itself from the wheel. Then Miss
Loughran did what few city girls are
capable of doing. She climbed a tree.
She knew Hint it would be worse than
useless to run away, for it would not
be long before the bear would bo free
and after her. How she ever got up
that tree she will never be able to tell
lucidly. But after desperate strug
gles and many sobs she got as high as
the lower limb, over which she swung
herself. In her excitement she forgot
that bears can climb trees. It w<is
not until she was perched there that
this thought came to her.
"Great goodness I Suppose that
bear should climb this tree!" she cried.
The thought made her shudder.
Happily for lier, this occurrence was
averted. Just as the bear had suc
ceeded in getting itself untangled from
the wheel a pack of hunting dogs rau
out into the road a short distance
above. The bear immediately turned
tail and fled into the woods on the op
posite side of the road, followed by
the dogs. A minute later two young
hunters came into view. Both were
running. When they saw the bicycle
they stopped.
| "I wonder where that bear got this
wheel?" said one of the hunters.
"If you please, it's mine," said Miss
Loughran.
| The huuter looked around in aston
ishment.
"I thought I heard a voice, Harley,"
said be to his companion.
1 Miss Loughran slid down the trunk
of the tree, rather the worse for her
• experience, yet relieved to know that
; her peril was past. It took few words
> to tell her story. Beyond the fact
> that the rear tire was badly punctured
the wheel was not much injured.
Miss Loughran insisted on trun-
I dling the wheel herself to her aunt's
j home, though she was accompanied
; the greater part of the way by the two
* young men, one of whom was from
7 New York and the other from Rut
i laud, Vt.
| "I never expected to have such an
4 exciting time in quiet old Vermont,"
l said Miss Loughrau, "but then one
r cannot always tell what is going to
_, happen- My only regret is that the
I horrid bear was not killed."—New
I York Sun.
Saved TwentyN!ne Lives.
In the Century there is an article by
the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, entitled
"The Roll of Honor of the New York
Police." In speaking of promotions
for gallantry, Mr. Roosevelt says:
Among the first promotions we made
were two which illustrated the attitude
of the Board toward cases of this kind,
and which also incidentally illustrated
exactly what we mean by "taking the ;
force out of politics"—that is, by ad
ministering it on principles of de- '
cency, and appointing and promoting
men on their merits, without regard
to their political backing. The firs!
case was that of an old fellow, a veter
an of the Civil War, who was at the
time a roundsman. I happened to
notice one day that he had saved a
woman from drowning, and had him
summoned so that I might look into
the matter. The old fellow brought
up his record before me, and showed !
not a little nervousness and agitation;!
for it appeared that ho had grown
gray in the service, had performed feat
after feat of heroism, but had no
political backing of any account. He
was a Grand Army man, but not one 1
of the "political" type; and so had not
received any attention from the for- ,
mer Police Boards; and now, at last,
he thought there was a chance for him.
Ho had been twenty-two years on
the force, and during that time had
saved some twenty-five persons from
death by drowning, varying the per
formance once or twice by saving per
sons from burning buildings. Twice
Congress had passed laws especially
to empower the then Secretary of the
Treasury, John Sherman, to givo him
a medal for distinguished gallantry in
saving life. The Life-Saving Society
had also given him its medal, and so
had the Police Department. On ex
amining into his record carefully, wo
found that it was wholly free from
complaints of any infraction of duty, i
and that he was sober and trustworthy. !
We felt that he was entitled to his 1
promotion, and he got it. We did not
know his politics, nor did we care
about them. It is very unlikely that
the woman whom he last saved, as ho
swam out towards her, felt any special
interest as to whether he had voted for
Cleveland or Harrison;nor did we. He
had risked his life freely again and
again in the performance of his duty; j
he had conducted himself so as to be
a credit to the department, and a credit
to the city; and we felt that he was en
titled to his reward.
It is worth while mentioning that ho
kept on saving life after he was promo
ted to a sergeantcy. On October 21,
189G, he again saved a man from
drowning. It was at night, nobody
else was in the neighborhood, and the
slip from which he jumped was in abso
lute darkness, and he was about ten
minutes in the water, which was very
cold. The captain of the precinct, in ;
reporting the case, said: "The sergeant
was off the bulkhead and into the water j
after his man quicker than it takes to ,
say Mack Robinson.'" There was no
way in which the board could reward (
him for this, except by telling him he
was an honor to the department; for i
he had been given all the medals, and
bars to the medals, that he could be |
given. It was the twenty-ninth per- ;
sou whose life he had saved during his
twenty-three years' service in the de
partment, and lie was fifty-five years
old when ho saved him.
A Itrnve Hoy Captain.
With death walking the deck by
his side, short handed, officers dead
or disabled with fever, through seveu
weeks of disaster, danger and fear, a
boy of sixteen years of age performed
an act requiring rare force of will and
character in the south seas recently.
His name was William Shotton, and he
is the son of an English sailor.
The Trafalgar, his skip, a tour
masted bark of 1700 tons, sailed from
Batavia on October 29, 189Q, with a
cargo of petroleum for Melbourne,
Australia. Fever broke out among
the crow even before the ship left port,
and Captain Edgar was invalided.
The command devolved upon the next
in authority, Mr. Roberts. But scarce
ly had the ship weighed anchor when
he, too, was stricken, together with
several other able-bodied members of
the crew. The ship carpenter next
succumbed to the fever, and on the
same day Officer Roberts leaped over
board in delirium. The entire charge
of the ship thereupon devolved upon
Shotton. Luckily for all concerned
he was born of a race of sailors and
had received some instructions ia ]
navigation.
For a time the wind was moderate,
but the fever still pursued its deadly
course, and on December 7 the cook
died, the sixth victim of the disease.
Port Fairy, Australia, was the first
place sighted on the mainland, but
this was by no means the end of the
bo}* captain's troubles. A few days
later a fearful storm broke out, and
Shotton was of the opinion that notli- j
ing could be done bat run before it,
{ since to attempt to withstands would
almost certainly mean destruction in
the weakened state of the crew. All
of the crew who were half fit for duty
were ordered on deck and the neces
sary steps were taken to put the ship j
in order to carry out the decision, j
Day and night the young captain was i
on the bridge, giving his orders amid
the awful tempest with a coolness and
| calmnsss which would have moved
j many a gray-haired skipper to envy, j
Finally the wind moderated and the
I vessel was able to resume its journey
I to the Victoria coast.
Nniio<l in n Spirit of Wacgery,
The little town of Peculiar in Cass
County, Mo., got its name in rather a
curious manner. Its founders got 1
into a controversy over what tliey
should christen it, and finally referred
the matter to the Postoffice Depart
ment, saying that they didn't care
what name was given the place as long
as it was peculiar. One of the Wash
! ington officials then, in a spirit of
waggery, named it accordingly.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
How to Carve Tongue.
A tongue should be carved In
very thin slices, its delicacy depend
ing on this. The slices from the cen
ter are considered the most tempting,
and should be cut across and the
slices taken from both sides with a
portion of the fat at the root.
Roaatlng Coffee.
In Norway, where superb coffee is
made, n bit of butter is added to the
beaua while they are roasting in the
covered shovel used there for that pur
pose. In France as well a piece ol
butter the size of a walnut is put with
three pounds of coffee beans and also
a dessertspoonful of powdered sugar.
This brings out the flavor and, more
over, gives the slight carmel taste
which is so greatly admired.
Old Fashioned Gingerbread.
To any one in whose breast there
still linger haunting memories of the
topography of the genuine old fash
ioned New England "card ginger
bread," that flourished during the
early part of this century, there will
come a feeling of thankfulness for this
family recipe, handed down for sev
eral generations from mother to
daughter: Two cupful sof Pur to Rico
molasses, one cupful sugar, one cup
ful drippings (or half butter and half
lard), one cupful cold water, a dessert
spoonful ginger, one tablespoonful
soda, and flour to make a rather soft
dough. It may bo baked as of old,
in sheets about two inches thick,
barred crowsswise with the sharp edge
of a tin, or rolled into cookies. In
either case, it will bo found an ad
mirable concomitant to the morning
cup of coffee; or an assnager of that
"aching void" with which the small
boy commonly returns from school.—
Washington Star.
Removing Stain** From Silver.
To remove stains from silver, especi
ally such as are caused by medicine or
by neglect, use sulphuric acid, rub
bing it on with a little flannel pad,
then rinsing the articles most carefully
at once. For less ingrained stains,
the pulp of a lemon, whose juice has
been used for lemon squash, may be
recommended, as both efficient and
harmless. Indian stiver and brass arc
always cleaned by natives with lemon
or limes. It may be as well to warn
housekeepers in these days, when pretty
serving is such a consideration, that,
where one has to reheat food in a sil
ver dish from which it is impossible to
shift the eatable, a baking tui should
be half lilled with hot water, a doubled
sheet of paper should be placed in this
and the silver dish stood upon it, after
which it will take no harm from ihe
effects of the oven heat. Again, as
eggs and vinegar are alike apt to dis
color plated or silver dishes, always
run a little weak aspic jelly over the
silver dish before dishing the mayon
naise, etc., to be served in it, and if
this coating is allowed to set before
putting in the other materials the dish
will suffer no damage that hot soap
and water will not easily remove.
Tomato Preserves—Peel red toma
toes. For each pound use three-fourths
pound sugar, half cup raisins and tea
spoon cinnamon. Make syrup of the
sugar; add fruit and seasoning; boil
half hour; skim out the fruit into jars;
boil syrup thick and pour over.
Lemon Cake—One cup butter, two
of sugar, one-lialf cup milk, five eggs,
beaten separately, four cups flour,
three teaspoons baking powder. Mix
butter and sugar to a cream and add
yolk of egg, and beat; milk, lemon
juice, a Vittlo salt, flour and baking
powder, sifted; egg whites last. Rake
in loaf one hour.
Entire Wheat Puffs—Mix together
two cupfuls of-entire wheat, one-half
teaspoonful of salt and one table
spoonful of sugar. Add one cupful of
milk to the beaten yolks of two eggs,
then add one cupful of water and stir
this into the dry mixture. Add the
whites beaten stiff and bake in hiss
ing hot geui pans thirty minutes.
Pickled Onions—Peel small white
onions and put in salted water (one
teacup salt to gallon of water) over
night. Rinse in water several times,
then drain for an hour. Then pack
in jars with teaspoon each of whole
cloves, peppercorns, allspice, and two
of broken stick cinnamon. Celery seed
or chopped celery, for each quart.
Pour scalding vinegar over.
Cucumber Sauce—One peck cucum
bers the size for slicing; pare and cut
into dice. Slice and separate four
large onions into l ings. Sprinkle over
the whole a pint of salt and drain
seven hours on a sieve; add teaspoon
black pepper, teaspoon (level) cayenne
pepper, three blades of mace, eight
tablespoons salad oil. Fill jars two
thirds full, then pour vinegar over,
put weight on; tie closely.
Pickled Cabbage—Chop firm white
cabbage fine. To two quarts allow
one bunch crisp celery and one onion
chopped fine. Make spiced vinegar
by steeping in cup vinegar half ounce
each cloves and stick oinnamon, and
i teaspoon pefipercovns. Set bowl in
rot water, covered, for an hour.
I llruise the spices and pepper. Put
! the materials in jar, add spiced vine
gar when cold to other cold vinegar
and fill over the pickle. Tie closely;
; keep cool.
A Lighthouse Monument.
Penmarch lighthouse, on the Brit
j tany coast, with its 10,000,000 caudle-
I power eleclrio light, 180 feet above sea
i level and visible sixty miles away, is
| i monument to Marshal Davoust,
1 >uke of Auerstadt, his daughter liav-
I ing given the French Government
J 800,000 for the purpose.
■ Para rubber trees are being planted
'in Geylon. Hundreds of tea planters
are trying the experiment and hope to
, have the same success that they have
I had with cinchona (Peruvian bark).
Clara—Are you not afraid, Maud, to
marry old Dodderly? I hear he gets
horribly jealous without any cause.
Maud—Don't be anxious, dear; I'll take
care he never does that. —Pick-Me-Up.
"Two hours of sleep before midnight
are better than four after that hour."
"Fiddlesticks! Two hours of sleep af
ter one In the morning are better than
all the others."—West Union Gazette.
"Bless my soul!" cried the shade, as
ho entered the golden gates and they
gave him a trumpet; "I never learned
to play this thing!" "That's the reason
you're here," remarked St. I'eter.—Ba
zar.
Reporter—Well, I got the great Dr.
Slasher to sign that article for next
Sunday's edition. Editor—Good! But
what kept you so long? Reporter-
Why, the idiot wanted to read it.—
Judge.
"My wife is rearing Bobby very care
fully. When he is disobedient he goes
to bed without his dinner." "Isn't
that rather severe?" "No; she always
carries his dinner up to him."—Chicago
Record.
Wheeler (who rides a Lightning)—
You ought to get a lock for that wheel.
Scorcher (wbe rides a Blue Streak)—
Think so? Wheeler—Yes. Some one
might steal it—for the lamp.—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Mlkey Dorian—Hullo, BUI! How did
you like being a caddie? Billy Nolan—
Ah, I didn't like it at all, at all. First
de feller he towld me ter kape me eye
on the ball, den he gave me de ball in
de eye.—Bazar.
| "Do I get m.v riparian rights with
| this wheel?" asked the lady of lan
guage. "Get what?" asked the clerk,
surprised into rude abruptness. "Ri
parian rights, I said. Do you repair
! It?"—lndianapolis Journal.
Rouser—How accurately are the Ills
of a nation reflected In the breasts of
her loytl sons. Watson—What do you
mean? Rouser—Take me, for Instance.
I'm desperately In need of more rev
enue—Philadelphia North American.
"So that young man says he would
lay his fortune at your feet?" sqhl Ma
bel's father. "Yes." "But he liasu't
done so." "N-no." "And perhaps you
can tell why?" "I guess, father, that
he hasn't had It told yet."—Washing
ton Star.
"It Is the nature of a child to be
wanting to do something," said the en
thusinstic kindergartener. "As far as
I have noticed." said the mother of
six, "It Is the nature of a child to be
wanting to do something else."—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Batterton Banged—No, mum, It's
ng'in' me prlncypnls t' chop 'null wood
fer ye t' cook me bre'kfuss wid, hut ef
you've n mind ter cook It on dat gas
stove, I'll break de iron-clad rules 'f de
nssoclashun 1 b'lougs to. an' turn OD
de gas.—Puck.
; "I may have bitten off more than I
j can chew," remarked tlie bon-constrlc
-1 tor, as the young gazelle disappeared
! within Its capacious jaws; "but, thank
fortune, I don't have to chew!" And
It curled itself up for a six-weeks' nap.
—Chicago Tribune.
He—Er—these stories your father
tells about the things he saw out West,
you know. She—Well? He—Ought I
to laugh nt their improbability and
make him think I am Hinart, or ought I
to pretend that 1 believe them?— Ci
ncinnati Enquirer.
First Cyclist—l always get nervous
when I see a woman crossing the street
ahead of me. Second Bicyclist—So do
I. They have so many pins In their
j clothes that if a fellow collides with
them lie in almost sure to puncture a
tire.—Spare Moments.
'J>~ne Tatters—Uv course it's none
UT my business, purxl, but wuz you
ever married? Rambling Rube—No!
Wot makes you ask? Torne Tatters
—Why, I was wonderin' how you <'v*;r
acquired dat habit uv sleepin' wit yer
hands In yer pockets.—Puck.
"Colonel, we are intending to erect
an artistic drlnklng-place in the center
of the park, and thought perhaps you
might subscribe a small " "The
project Is sheer nonsense, sir. Do you
Imagine to' an Instant thnt the city will
grant a license?"—lndianapolis Jour
nal.
I "These stripes," sighed the convict,
I "make a man feel small." The kind
| woman who lind come Into the dark
! some place to cheer him smiled radiant
| ly. "Only think," she urged, "how
i much smaller they would make you It
! they ran up and down your suit."—De
; trolt 'Free Press.
I Stern Parent—Well, sir, I don't know
as I am particularly desirous of be-
I coming your father-in-law, young man!
Cholly Seeke—Er—eh—l n-ne-never
[ thought of that. Y'ou w-wo-would b-be
! my father-in-law, wouldn't you? I g
guess we'll 1-let the—er—m-matter
( drop; g-good d-day.—Truth.
! She—l would like a marriage license.
He—Well—er—madam, but It Is cus
| tomary for the gentleman to She—
j Not in this case—the gentleman can't
i come. He objected, nn' for n time It
looked as If there wasn't golu' to be any
wedding. He'll he able to be arouud
to-morrow; so you can just give it to
me.—Judge.
Sun ay at Sea.
Smith—Did many of the passengers
go to hear Dr. Fourthly preacli in the
main cabin this morning?
Brown —Yes, but mast of them left
when he announced his text.
"What was it?"
"Cast thy bread upon the waters."—
Life.