Dr. Manuel Ferral do Campos Sailcs, | President-elect of Brazil, will visit j this country shortly for tho purpose of studying our system of finance, with a view to tho introduction of an im proved financial system in Brazil. He \ is the second Vice-President that has been elected, and will be inaugurated next November. Tho Prosident-elect is said to be opposed to European con- i trol of the Brazilian market, and is desirous of bringing Brazil into closer commercial touch with the United Abates. A virions inuovalion at the Omaha Exposition is a bureau of courtesy. Not only is the idea novel, but it is surprising to learn that nearly all the people of the city will bo enrolled in tbe committee. Every member will j wear a badge, and visitors will bo at liberty to address any one who wears ! the badge and a3k for information just as much as he likes. The mem ber, on the other hand, will he pledged to treat the visitor courteously and answer his question--, or put him iu j the way of getting them answered. Leslie's Weekly says: "The most expensive Army chapel built at auy oi the United States posts has just been completed at Fort Riley, Kansas. It is of native graystoue, quarried on the nineteeu-thousaud-acre reservation be longing to tho post, aud handsomely finished in oak. Its seating capacity is sixhundred. and itcostover $15,000. The post, which is also the training school for artillery aud cavalry, has j about thirty-five hundred soldiers con- | etautly in the barracks. The Govern- I inent has spent $300,000 in tho last few j years improving it with fine buildings, ! and the now chapel is one of the most attractive structures on the reserva tion. Chaplain T. W. Barry, located at the post for twenty years, conducted tho dedication ceremonies." Methodism lias been making rapid strides in Loudon within recent years, j In 1801 there were only 13 circuits J with -13 ministers, 05 chapels and 15,- j 83-1 members, whilo now there are 64 I circuits and missions, 200 chapels, 139 ministers, and 30,758 members. Daring this period, since 18G1, the j sum of $3,500,000 has been expended in chapel building, of which sum London Methodists liavo given more than two thirds, London Congrega tionalism has been distanced by the zealous Methodists, and it is little wonder accordingly that tho leaders - of the former communion are now ex ercising themselves with the tpiestion of church extension, its possibilities and obligations. There is a legiti mate competition between denomina tions whiob, by fostering a friendly rivalry, really hastens the time when nil will be one in the unity of the faith. The Atlanta Constitution observes: Most of our European visitors seem to think thai wastefulness is one o ( our main characteristics. Only some 1 few days agw Dr. John Watson, the celebrated Scotch author, in giving | his impressions of our people, stated j that we had yet to learn the first prin ciples of economy in household mat- j ters. We may, perhaps, merit this fling. In household matters we aro I not as economic as we ought to be. | Every day wo throw away rich food j products which we could utilize in | some way, if wo only possessed the j secret of economy which is practiced in European households. But while we may bo wasteful in this one re spect, it does not follow that in others \ we are wasteful also; nor is such true. Indeed, tho splendid growth which we have measured along industrial lines within the past few years proves \ unmistakably that we have not ignored i the small economies upon which suc cess depends. In this connection it \ is pertinent to quote tho views of one j of onr recent French visitors. Says this candid critic: "The attention paid I to small details in your big works is j amazing to me. I have visited some ' establishments where I believe the j profits aro not made in tho manufac ture propor, but in tho saving of ma- \ teriat sud labor by closo attention to I details. For example, I saw iu your shops just now a little grindstone in j operation, automatically sharpening < tools. This machino probably cost as j much as one hundred of otir ordinary grindstone.3, but it automatically grinds all tho tools for three hundred high-priced mechanics. Tho skilled mechanics iu our country frequently stop their regular work to grind their own tools, and then do it imperfectly." So, from the testimony of this candid Frenchman, it appears that Americans are not wasteful in all respects at least. If time could be given to the subject it might bo shown that Americans lead tho world in most of the economics upon which success de pends, but for present purposes the above citation is sufficient. GOSSAMER THREAPS. (On a Scotch Moor.) TThcn fnUrles dance on the moor by night,— (Golden llair in the heather)— Btray silken threads from their dainty heads Hav Imply cling to the flowering ling Or the pink and purple heather. (Miuo eyes are blind in the mystio light, But none the less 'tis a \rinso;ao sight.) When morning breaks and the fairies floo,— (Gossamer threads in the heather)— Tho moorland shines with glist'ning lines. Liko harps new-strung with gold, and slung On tho pink and purple heather. (Gossamer threads are all I see, But none the less are they harps for me.) And wbon the wind breathes, far and near,— (.Eolian harps in the heather) — Bweet music rings from tho tiny strings, Aud wild and freo is tho harmony Thro' the pink and purplo heather. (Never a noto may reach mine ear. But none the less Is It swept to hear.) —C. Jelf-Sharp, in Pall Mall Guzotto. OIIOWI WON MY BKIDE. | BY J. F. AVEKY. fea'S'e^sie:a:oiß!s:efee®:s;eie!9(ceKsia's^ A4T 11 T was a warm sum- E mer's evening, and A I had left the win ■ dows and doors of the office open, for the sake of a re freshing draught. I had been sit ting for some time at my desk, plunged in a fit of '" tho deepest thought, aud had not heard any one enter, when suddenly the words: "Are you a lawyer, sir?" caused me to start violently. Rising from my seat and turning up the gas jet on the table, I turned and surveyed my interlocutor, who proved to bo a well-dressed, rather good-looking man of forty or there abouts, of middle stature, and pos sessed of a small, piercing pair of eyes, which returned my gaze un flinchingly. "The business on which I come," he said, taking oil' his hat, and fixing his keen, black eyes upon my face, will require yonr services untiflato in the night, if not until to-morrow morn ing. 3ly niece, who resides some miles from London, is dangerously ill, and her recovery being extremely doubtful, she desires to make her will. For this purpose I have ap plied to you; promising you, should you accede to my request, any fee you may demand." X communed with myself for a few moments, eyed the man suspiciously, aud then asked the distance to tho young lady'o residence and tho mode of conveyance thither. "About five or ten miles," he re sponded, banding me bis card, on which I read "Martin Jackson, Lon don Wall." "It is a short distance from Kew, and as a train does not leave London Bridge for some time, I have provided a carriage and driver, which waits in the street. May I consider your services as ougaged?" I respduded that he might, aud a few minutes sufficed to find us en sconced in a close carriage, which took a westerly direction at a mod erate speed. itfy companion meantime enlight ened mo with au account of his niece's sickness and previous history; and, an hour after leaving the place of starting, wo found ourselves about a mile from Kew Bridge. I was a young man, and my nervousness aud sus picions of the man beside me may be excused when his evident anxiety in employing myself, an inexperienced lawyer, are considered. His story, too, did not sound consistent in all respects, for he spoke of his niece, Miss Blanche Pickering, as being at times subject to short fits of insanity. When tho carriage stopped it was in front of a largo, dark-looking building of stone, standing a short distance back from tho road, and surrounded by tall poplars. One thing struck me as rather curi ous as I walked up the gravel walk to tlie mansion and tended to arouso my suspicions once moro. Jackson dis missed the carriage, after paying the driver, with a few low, whispered words, the import of which I was un able to ascertain, and tho hack turned sharply, as if to retrace tho road to London. I said nothing, however, but shitting a revolver which I always carry into a moro convenient position in my inner breast pocket, entered the house with my companion, who un locked the door with a latchkey, and ushered mo into the parlor, which was poorly lighted by a hanging lamp. Having seen me seated by a table on which were spread refreshments Jackson left me for a short time, and returned shortly with a large, well built man, whom lie introduced as Mr. Cooper, his cousin. This latter individual took a seat beside me, and pouring out some wine requested me to joiu him, which I courteously ro fused, on tho plea of being a teetotal er. Jackson had left the room again. A short time after, by request of Cooper, I followed him up the staircase into the gloomy hall above, and into a room where Jackson was seated by the side of a bed, apparently in conversa tion with some 0110 lying there. It was 110 wonder that I gazed long and earnestly at tho countenance of tho woman wVo reclined there. A moro perfect face I liavo never seen— pale, and with an expression of care and pain, it might have been, yet there was notraco of sicknessor disease, and as my eye wandered from those beauti ful features, the sad yetsweetly siniliug eyes, down to tho white, plump hand which rested in the large brown one of Jackson's, I felt that there was some mystery in the case, and that he had been untruthful in his revelatious. Suddenly the man arose, acd drop ping the lady's hand drew up a chair opposite to my own, and with an im patient, uneasy exclamation, brought my investigation to a termination. "You will draw out the ordinary formula of a testament," he said, giv ing the young girl a close, scrutiniz ing look, in which I could detect a warning expression, "writing as I dictate. Miss Pickering has already acquainted me with her destined dis posal of her property, and will nc quiesce when it is finished. I sup pose her affirmation will be all that is necessary?" I was somewhat surpvisod at the strangeness of the request, but re jiliod: "Certainly, if I nm confident that she is compos mentis, and she too ill to dictate the instructions herself." Here a slight exclamation broke from the lips of the occupant of the bed, as if about to frame a wcrd or sentence; but she was checked by Jackson, who, with a threatening scowl, evidently not meant for my ob servation, said: "Do not exert yourself, my dear niece; I will do all that is necessary," aud then, as I drew the writing materi als before me, be quickly leaned over toward her, and hissed in her ear, "Remember—be careful!" with such emphasis as to cause her to sink, pale and trembling, back among the pillows of the bed. A half-hour elapsed, and the will had been completed. All Blanche Pickering's property, personal and real, was to bo divided between the man Jackson and his son Henry, with the exception of a few small legacies. Then I road it, and after propounding the few necessary interrogatories to the legator, which were answered in a low, trembling affirmative, I requested her to sign it. Drawing my chair np to her side, with the paper aud pen in my hand, I waited for her to obey my request — intimating to Jaekson that it would be as well to have Cooper as a witness. Tho latter individual had, evidently, fallen asleep, for, a call not bringing him to the bedside, Jackson nrose and walked to where his confrere lay. At this moment, and with the rapid ity of light, tho gill's hand caught my own, and leaning my head downward, so that I could listen to what sho might desire to say, I heard hor whis per, in passionate, beseeching words: "I am forced to this! They intend tokillmel For heaven's sake, help mo!" Then sho sank back, and before Jackson had been able to observe us, we bad both resumed our former rela tive positions. At last the will had been signed, witnessed and sealed, and, bat in band, I stood at tbe table awaiting my client's further pleasure, as if I had not tho idea in my mind of return ing beforo morning, nnd that, too, with an officer of justice. I followed my servitor down the stairs, listened to his untruthful re grets that the carriage must have re turned to tho house, as agreed upon, and then gone to tho city; declined his offer to remain for the night, aud having been directed to tbe station, stood once more in tho open air. Suddenly a wild scream of terror assailed my ears. In a moment I was again up the steps, and turning the linob of the door in an ineffectual at tempt to gain admittance. I was about to attempt to force a:i entrance through tho window, when the door was flung suddenly open, aud the mail Cooper stood before me. He discovered me at onee and struck at me with his clenched fist. Evading the blow, I whipped out my revolver, aud, striking him with the but end, knocked him senseless upon tbe steps. I was again about to turn and en ter, wlien tile form of Jackson dashed down the staircase through the open door, and I felt myself in his grasp. I Haw at onco that ho was unarmed, and elevating mypistol, fired; but the shot was turned nside and the weapon knocked from my hand to tho ground. Then ensued a fearful struggle be tween us, in which we both were pre cipitated down tho steps upon the gravel walk below—l uppermost. It was, perhaps, for two minutes that I held him by the throat, dealing him blows with my disengaged hand —he having the other in his strong grasp—when, with a dexterous twist of his powerful arm, he turned me aside, aud I lay prostrate upon tho ground with the viceliko grip of his strong fingers grasping me by tho throat until my eyes wero staring from their sockets aud every muscle became inactive. Hoiziug a largo stono which lay near him, ho raised it in his left baud aud was about to strike mo oil tho head when a sharp, loud report rang oil tho air. The form of the ruffian fell back —his fingers relaxed their grasp. A form ill white passed before my uncertain vision; and then, for the snaco of five minutes, I was utterly unconscious. Vv'heu at length the mind awoke from its stupor Miss Pickering was bending over mo, chafing my temples and attempting to perform what ua turo had dono—restore me to sensi bility. From her I learned that she had risen from her bed at the exit of the two ruffians from her room, and, ob serving my dangerous situation, had fired at Jackson just as ha was about to strike me with the stone, with my revolver, which sho had picked up 011 the steps. I also learned that her scream wa3 caused by the resolution of the mur derous twain to start after and murder me, fearing that she had communica ted somotliing to me which might up set their well-laid plans. Having securely bound the still un conscious Cooper and removed tho corpse of Jaekson into the house, we awaited the coming morn—Miss Pick ering meanwhile informing me of her imprisonment by Jackson for over a year, and his resolve to force her to make a will, and then make way with her. Her parents having died and left her sole heiress to a largo property, her appointed guardian, Jackson, a half-brother of her mother, was play ing for no diminutive stake. Tho next morning a farmer's wagon conveyed Cooper to the city, au4 the affair having been reported to the proper authorities he was arrested aud conveyed to jail. His trial tbok place a mouth later, and he was rewarded with seven years' penal servitude. Miss Pickering was entirely exon erated from all blame in tho killing of Jackson, and her estate properly ad ministered a few months later—she haying been of age for over a year. Not long after Miss Blanche Picker ing became Mrs. Avery. The will and revolver are still in our possession—the sole mementos of that exciting night when I almost lost roj life and gained a bride.—Spare Mo ments. WORLD'S BIGGEST BEEHIVE. California Curlotiity Which People Gaze At Prom a Respectful Distance. Did you ever see a bee tree, with a swarm of bees around it? Well, mag nify this about 10,000 times and you will have a slight idea of a natural beehive in Mendocino County, Cali fornia. It is a rift in the face of a cliff, and tradition has it that there is a largo cave on the ipside, where the myriads of busy insects make their homes. This great natural curiosity is known to the residents of the adjacent country as "Bee Rock," and they have grown to look upon it as com monplace, when in reality it is the only beehive of the kind in existence. There is no danger of a person get ting very near this natural beehive without knowing it, for at all hours of the day a swarm of insects hover about several hundred feet in all directions. An incessant, maddening buzz fills the air that can be beard an eighth of a mile aud serves as a warning not to venture too near. But men do ven ture near after having first put on a suit of leather clothing, fastened a mask of wire screen around their hat brim and lighted a good big torch. Those precautions are absolutely necessary. It is almost impossible to make out just where the entrance to this nat ural beehive is. There is a sort ol cavern in the cliff that seems to have a craek through tho inner wall from top to bottom, but most of the bees hover around a bole about eighteen inches wide aud appear to make that the point of ingress and egress. Many days it is impossible to even see tho cliff, so thickly covered is it with in sects, aud they roll in and out of the opening like a stream of molasses. During the summer dead birds can always bo seen on tho ground around tho mouth of the hive. They hnve boon stung to death while attempting to fly through the the swarm of in sects. Four-footed creatures never venture within a half mile, seeming to know that death lurks there. In front of the mouth of the hivo there is a pile of dried honey that has flowed from the interior. It looks like a heap of molten lavn that has been hardened after being discharged from a volcano. A party of men living in the vicinity claim to have entered the beehive several years ago. They selected a cold day in winter, when the bees wero half dormant, and poured coal oil and benzine around and into the opening. Then they made a big fire of wood, so that the whole cavern was filled with flames. Then they poked the red-hot embers down into the opening and so killed every bee in it. But there was not npich to see after the men got outside. Only alar ge cave, with the walls covered with wax and dried honey and enough of the sweetness in pools in the bottom to last a big city for a soveral years. Of course, tho honey was unfit for use on account of being full of dead bees and ashes from tho fire. The men, however, did not linger in tho cave any great length of time, as it was foul-smelling aud stifling. Although countless millions of bees had been destroyed on this occasion, the next summer they were as numerous as ever aud just as vicious. Indians of the neighborhood say that in "the good old days" the had men of their tribe wero hound baud and foot and carried to within a short distance of the beehive by men wrap ped in blankets. There "the helpless creatures were left to suffer the awful agony of being stung to death. Anil It Was. ,Tlist beforo a recent dinner given in honor of a colonial magnate a young dandy, whose chief claim to distinc tion seemed to be the height of his collar aud au eyeglass, addressing a stranger, said: "Beastly nuisance, isn't it? Spoke to that fellah over there—took him for a geutleniau; some blessed head waiter, I suppose?" "Oh, no," replied tho other; "thatis the guest of the evening." "Hang it all, now, is it?" said the other. "Look hero, old fellow, as you know everybody, would you mind sitting next me at the dinner, and telling me who every one is?" "I should like to very much," re plied tho other; "but you see I can't —l'm the blessed head waiter!"— Ti t Sawdust Suits. Suits at law have beeu instituted at Moutpelier, Vt., to prevent the turn ing of sawdust into the river, on the ground that when the river overflows it now no longer leaves rich alluvial deposits on the bordering lands, buA incumbers them instead with sawdust. Tho objection to sawdust in California ' streams grows out of the fact that it destroys the fish iu them. I OUR SMOKELESS POWDER MANY ADVANTAGES POSSESSED BY THIS TERRIBLE EXPLOSIVE. Made of Nitroglycerine—Gun Cotton I* Also OHO of It* Ingredients—Power* In I, Clean and Safe, It Has lleen Adopted by All Civilized Nations. Although never thoroughly tested in actual warfare, the many advan tages of smokeless over ordinary black powder have frequently beeu demonstrated, and with such success that, in the opinion of experts, the black powder for use in military and naval operations is a thing of the past, "The idea of producing a smokeless powder," said Captain H. C. Aspin wall, of the firm of Laflin & Rand, when asked t give a few facts con cerning this explosive, "originated with Captain Sehultze, of the Austrihu army, in 18S3 or 18S4, but until eight or nine years ago smokeless powder was still used by sportsmen alone. "Some time after Captain Scbultzo anuounccd his discovery, Alfred No bel, a Swede, invented 'ballistite,' and this gave an impetus for develop ing smokeless powder for military purposes. As a result of experiments, based largely on Nobel's work, various kinds of Btnokeless powder have been made, differing from one another in composition, but all quite similar in general results. Each nation has a special'brand of its own. The United States, for instance, has adopted the powder with nitroglycerine as its principal ingredient. English powder is known as 'cordite,' and the Italian and German as 'ballistite,' and so on. All smokeless powders, however, con sist of a combination of nitroglycerine and gun cotton, or of gun cotton alone, although picrate acid and pictrate of potassium are sometimes used. "There have been many objections to the use of nitroglycerine powders because of fancied danger arising therefrom. It has been absolutely prove si that no exceptional danger at tends the use of such powders. The methods employed in their manufac ture are such as to mako the product more uniform in action, more volistic in result than any other explosive. The ordinary powder known as black powder is capable of throwing a pro jectile at the rate of 1950 feet per second, while smokeless powder will throw a projectile at a speed of 2300 or 2100 feet per second. Not only does the new explosive give increased velocity, but is much more powerful, and one-half pound of smokeless will do the work of a pound of black. "At first thought one might say that the increased velocity naturally causes a greater strain on the gun. Stich is not the case. There is no additional strain. (Practically all of the charge of,the smokeless powder is ti-ansformed into gas at the time of explosion and very little residue is left. With black powder only forty per cent, becomes gas, leaving a re sidue of sixty per cent, of solid matter. Furthermore, there is no more chemical injury resulting to the gun than with a charge of black powder, and after continued use there is little, if [any corrosive action. Smokeless powder is so clean and leaves so little solid matter after an explosion that a shotgun, rifle or cannon may be fired repeatedly without being cleaned. "The absence of smoke after a dis charge renders the new explosive very valuable, but its velocity and great penetrating [force are equally impor tant qualities. Artillery provided with smokeless powder and screened only by a sparse hedge or line of trees, for instance, could work terrible havoc in the enemy's lines, for there would be only the report and flash to indicate the location of the artillery, whereas a cloud of smoke, such as would result from using black powder, would furnish a fatal target for the enemy to train his guns by. "Very little white powder is export ed from the United States although some is sent to foreign countries, but this is usually in the shape of loadod shells and cartridges. The present output of smokeless powder faotories iu this country is about six tons per day, which is equivalent, approxi mately, to twenty tons of ordinary black gun powder. Here in the United States, as elsewhere, there are different kinds of smokeless, varying in color and combination. The Ameri can product is said to rank among the best."—New York News. Predicted a Generul War. "Nelson, we may not livo to £ec it, but in 1900 overy nation on the earth will bo engaged in war," isapropliecy utterjd fifty years ago by "Bob" Bradley, the father of Governor Will iam O. Bradley, and told by his old friend and neighbor, Captain Nelson 1). Burrns, a Mexican war veteran, and who also served with distinction in the Federal army during the civil war. Captain Burrns remembers when "Bob" Bradley began to jirac tice law, and relates some amusing incidents connected therewith, and says he can point out tho spot oil Sil ver creek where once stood a syca rnoro tree where "Bob" was wont to retire and read law and plead cases of thoso desiring his assistance, and which was known for miles around as "Bradley's court-house. "—Valley View (Ky.) telegram to the Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. Uses For Old Iloller Shell*. When the old boiler is so worn out that it is of 110 further use as a boiler, it may bo that before it goes to the scrap heap, tho final estate of all things iron, the shell—the tubes and heads having been removed—is made to serve as a part of a smokestack. The iron used iu tho boiler is heavier than that used in making stacks of a corresponding size, and PO the old boiler shells make good smokestacks. —New York Sun. RAILROADS ATTRACi IVfc. CAMP Those That Fas* Through Wooch the Re port of All Sort# of i!east aiul llirtlg, "One of the best places in the woods to see birds and small game," said a railroad engineer the other day, "is ulong the tracks of a railroad which runs through them. A man's oppor tunities for observing game are some what limited when he is swinging along at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour, but on some of my runs I see more wild life than I can find else where in the woods for a week. My run is on the Delaware division of the Erie, a great part of which runs through the woods of Pike County iu Pennsylvania and Sullivan County in New York. This is a good season of the year to find birds on the railroad. Another good time is late in the sum mer wheii the springs and swamps dry up. Then they llock to the water tanks and ditches along the road. Early in the morning, and late in the afternoon, on summer days, during a drought, you can sometimes see even the shyest kinds of birds drinking and splashing away in the water. It is astonishing how soon they will lose their fear of a big, noisy engine. Sometimes they will wait until the train is almost upon them, and, when they fly, they will alight on the near by trees. The early robins and blue birds at this time of tliß year, before the berries are ripe nud when insect life is hard to find, come to the tracks to feed. They can pick up a good deal of grain that leaks from the cars. On my run I see hundreds of crows every week on the tracks, and, a little later, coons, ground hogs, and even foxes will come out and eat the grease, and oil that drops upon the ties. "Last summer we use to see a mon ster rattlesnake up between towers CO and PS, east of Calliccon. On sunny dnys he was always warming himself in the same place, on top of a big fiat rock, not more than ten feet from the westbound track. All the firemen on the division used to throw chunks of coal at him when they passed, and he finally got so contemptu ous about their aim that ho didu't move when a train went by. A cata mount visited the operator at block station HX up on the Honesdale branch one moonlight night last week, and I guess they scared each other pre 4 ty badly. Once in a while, too, wo see a deer. The smooth roadbed seems to have a strange fascination for them. You can see their foot marks on the snow very frequently in the winter, and track walkers and tower operators see them racing back and forth as though they were playing train like children. They don't let the engine come very near to them as a usual thing, although a couple of years ago we came around a curve west of Lackawaxen and saw a big buck ahead of us oil the track. He ran along between the two rails ahead of the engine for nearly two miles be fore he found out that lie could jump over them. Then he went to the Delaware River, with his tail erect, and flying like a white flag on an en gine."—New York Sun. The Jmlee's Oueer Tipple. Mr. Justice Boyd, a Judge of the Court of King's Bench iu Ireland at at the end of the last century, was re membered by Daniel O'Counell, who was called to the Irish bar when Judge Boyd was still 011 the bench. O'Con-' nell descrfbod Judge Boyd as so fond of brandy that he always kept a sup ply of it in court upon the desk before him in an iukstand of peculiar make. His lordship used to lean his arm upon the desk, bob down his head ayd steal a hurried sip from time to time through a quill that lay among the pens, which manouver, he flattered himself, escaped observation. One day ifc was sought by counsel to convict a witness of having been in toxicated at the period to which his evidence referred. Mr. Henry Deane Grady labored hard, upon the other hand, to show that the man had been sober. "Come, now, my good man," said Judge Boyd, "it is a very im portant consideration; tell the court truly whether you were drunk or sober 011 that occasion?" "Oh, quite sober, my lord," broke in Grady, with a significant look at the inkstand, "a3 sober as a judge."- Law Notes. The Monsoon of Central Iml in. Hyderabad, like the rest of the cen tre and south of India, depends for its prosperity 011 the southwest mousoou. This, setting in in Ceylon soon after the middle of M.ty, works its way up tlio west coast, and overcoming, as it gains its full strength, the barrier of the western Ghauts, advances steadily across the Doccan. Its normal date for reaching the Hyderabad State is Juno 5. It continues, with the wind prevailing from the southwest, till be yond the middle of September, when the wind, gradually veering round bw west and north to the northeast, bringu what appears to be a return monsoon, but what probably is the current of the southwest monsoon, which, pass ing, from the commencement of the rains in June, up the east coast aud thence to tho northwest up the Gan getio Valley, lias attained greater strength than that which is then exer cised by the waning central provinces and the south. To this return current Hyderabad is often indebted for heavy falls that save the country from the scarcity that might follow a lack of strength in the original southwest current. —Engineering Magazine. A Serious Crime. A wheelman was lately arrested in another city for stealing his mother's bicycle. Whon the latter was asked if she were satisfied with the recovery of h'er property, she said that for the benefit of other wheel women she would prosecute. Even maternal af fection, which forgives many things, draws tho line at stealing bicycles,— Baltimore American. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS, Chcoso Relish. Rlx Boston crackers, split and dried, Thou buttered well upon one side; One pound of cheese (be suro 'tis nice); Cut first in slices, then in dice; One pint of milk (if fresh use cold, But scald if 'tis a little old); A baking dish to hold ti quart, One of tho round and shallow sort. Now first put in sorao bits of cheeso, Then crumble cracker over these; Then cheese, then cracker. When you stop, J3o sure the cracker comos ou top. With salt and popper season lightly, Also with cayene very slightly. The milk add last; bake half an hour, And serve it hot, if in your power. Poisonous Salt. Salt must not be kept in a tir. can. The moisture of the salt creates a rust that is absolutely fatal, and produces the worst form of blood poisoning. For Up-to-Date Dining Rooms. Dining-room furnishings, to be strictly up-to-date, must be massive aud modeled after the styles in vogue in colonial days or old English or Dutch. The last named is particu larly popular. Waxing Right Wood Floors. For waxing a light wood floor use one pint of boiled wax to one pint ol turpentine. Melt the wax over the register or in a warm bath uutil as soft as butter; then beat the turpentine into the soft wax, taking care to be away from the fire when using the turpen tine. Apply with a soft woolen cloth; then polish with weighted brush. This polish is equally good for furniture, beating in one gill of alcohol, A Popular Fruit Ico Cream. A fruit ice cream which is popular at the cooking schools is made in this wise: The ingredients required for a quart of ice cream which will serve eight people fashionably or six people bountifully are three cupfuls of milk, one cup of cream, one large deep yel low egg, two tablespoonfuls of flour, one cup of sugar, one level tablespoon ful gelatine (if it is to be molded), one half pound English waluuts in the shell and one-quarter pouud of figs. Soak the gelatine iu a little of the cold milk, saving two or three tablespoon fuls more of the milk to go with tho sugar, flour aud eggs. Mix thoroughly. Heat tho milk aud add the flour, eggs aud sugar stirred iu the cold milk, stir ring carefully until thickened. When iV comes from the fire add the dis solved gelatine, the cream and a tea spoonful of vanilla. Chop the walnuts aud figs and put in after the cream is frozen. Take out the dasher and beat in thoroughly. Pack. Recipes. Molasses Doughnuts One cup molasses, one egg beaten in a teacup, then till cup with milk, oue-lialf tea spoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, a pinch of salt, roll iu flour. Buttered Eggs—Heat two table spoonfuls butter iu frying pan until brown; break iu carefully four eggs. Pour butter over tbem with a spoon. When set, serve on buttered toast, spread with anchovy paste. Sprinkle eggs with saltspoonful of ' It; two dashes of pepper; serve very hot. Molasses Taffy—Boil molasses until it hardens on a spoon when dipped into cold water. This takes about a half hour. Stir when necessary. As the syrup thickens add a little sifted baking soda. Add slices of lemon, peanuts or cinnamon. Pour into but tered or oiled tins and let it harden. Compote of Chestnuts—Boil forty chestnuts eight minutes, remove the husks and skins. Bring a gill of water and one-fourth pound of sugar to a boil, then drop in the chestnuts aud lot thoin boil uutil they absorb all the sirup, then arrange them in a glass dish, squeeze over the juice of half a lemon and sprinkle with a tablespoon ful of granulated sugar; serve hot. Ehubarb With Blane Mange—One pouud of rhubarb, wasbod and wiped dry and cat iu two-inch pieces; place it in a pie dish with the rind of a lemon cut very thin, a piece of braised ginger about two inches long and one fourth pound of loaf sugar; cover and bake until tender, stirring occasional ly that the flavoring may bo uniform, then remove the ginger and serve cold with boiled ride. Okra Pilau—Put three slices of the indispousnble bacon into a saucepan with one quart of okra pods scraped and chopped into tiny bits, discarding heads; pinch of salt and popper to taste. Stir ten minutes. Add three pints of boiling water, one pint pre pared rice. Kernove bacon when rice is done, dry on the back of the stove for ten minutes, stirring several times loosely with a fork. Vegetable Maigre Soup—Cut into dice one medium-sized potato, one small turnip and parsnip; fry them brown in a frying pan in ono table spoonful of hot butter. Turn intoj a soup kettle with two quarts of cold water, two tablespoonfuls of rioe, a sprig of parsley, a root of celery (ehopped), a half saltspoonful of pep per-, two level tenspoonfuls of salt. Let boil until the lice is done and servo hot with toasted crackers. Lentil Soup—lt is very nourishing nnd has many advantages over those of a similar kind. Soak one pint of lentils over night; in the morning drain and wash thoroughly. Prepare and slice an onion, a carrot, a leek and two sticks of celery, and fry in a sauoepan in one ounce of dripping. Pour four pints of stock or water over; add the lentils and simmer for about two hours. Etib through a hair sieve, boil up nnd season to take. Serve very hot, with <Vce of fried bread. The hottest region on the earth is on the southwestern coast of Persia, where Persia borders tho gulf of the same name. For forty consecutive days in July and August the thermo meter has been known not to full low er than 100 degrees, night or day, and often to run up as hizh as 128.
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