Although Ireland has been de
scribed as one great farm, only thirty
of the 8555 schoolliouses have gardens
attached to them.
A Southern railway has made a new
departure by appointing a young
woman as its chief train dispatcher.
She is a native of Georgia aud is said
to be but twenty years of age.
Says the Loudon (England) Specta
tor: Without pretending to the knowl
edge of experts, we look upon it as a
law that wheu Anglo-Saxons open fire
npon the water their flag will be found
flying after the engagement.
"Neither can be on top; they must
walk hand iu hand." These words of
Bishop Potter iu reference to capital
and labor, the New Y'ork Herald
thinks, should bo inscribed in big let
ters wherever capital aud labor meet.
They put iu terse form the only solu
tion of the useless and perilous dis
putes which disorganize both sides.
At the Paris meeting of the Inter
national Medical Congress, to be held
presently, a treatise will be read com
posed ',by Emperor Menelek of Abys
sinia on "Smallpox aud Preventative
Vaccination" as it has been practiced
in that country for two centuries. The
'discourse may bring forward the
claim of some Abyssinian Jenuer,
hitherto unheard of, pointing the
moral that there is no new thing un
der the sun, and never has been, even
the English doctor's bovine lymph
being but a plagiary and weak after
thought. The debut of the Emperor
as an author of medical tractates may
be more interesting to Abyssinians
than to Western doctors, but to both
it is a notoworthy incident, and native
or alien inattentive to his postulons
opusculum is first to be pitied aud
after that neither endured nor em
braced.
Women are endowed with strango
vagaries, and, while extremely fastidi
ous in many ways, are very neglectful
in others, confesses Godey's Magazine.
Even the swellest society girl is not
as particular as to the freshness of her
collars aud enffs as the plain every
day man of business; to change his
linen at least once a day is a sort oi
religion with most men. With a wom
an it is different; they will inspect
their collar and cuffs after a day's hard
wear, aud decide that they will do,
not recognizing the fact that if any
doubt exists on the matter they should
be consigned to the laundry without
demur. Again, a man is much more
concerned as to the state of his shoes
than a woman; even the poor clerk on
a meagre salary spends his nickel a
day for a shine without grudging, and,
if it be imperative that the nickel be
saved, he gets up earlier in the morn
ing and wields the blackiug-brush
himself. The woman will gown her
self in Worth's or Paquin's latest crea
tion and forget to look at her shoes.'
The Board of Education of the city
of Buffalo, N. Y., has jnst perfected
plans for practical instruction in the
principles of banking iu certain grades
of the public schools. Through the
generous co-operation of William C.
Cornwall, President of the City Bank
announces the Chicago Times-Herald,
the schools havo been placed in pos
session of all the paraphernalia neces
sary to make the instruction not only
very complete, but more practical in
its character than the usual courses ol
so-called "business training" iu the
schools. The idea is not to nlakt
bankers of the pupils, but to incite
them with the ambition to become
ideutified with the business of bauk
ing. The design is rather to make
"depositors" of them, to teach them
how to avail themselves of the facili
ties offered by the banks. They are
to be made familiar uot only with the
Junctions of tho banks as instruments
for aggregating the small individual
savings of a particular locality, so that
they may be used in facilitating vari
ous business activities, but they aro
to be taught the benefits that accrue
to all classes from putting idle money
into the channels of industry and
trade. It is not enough to teach the
youth of the public schools how to use
the banks. The knowledge of the use
of cheeks, drafts, deposit books and
other banking instruments is impor
tant. But the greatest value of this
sort of instruction will come from in
culcating the general obligation to al
low no money to lie fallow in boxes or
bnrenvi drawers. If public school in
struction in banking will convince the
young man that it is his duty to put
the first hundred dollars he saves iu
the bank—provided ho has no imme
diate use for it—where it will do its
share toward quickening the industrial
activities aud enterprises of the com
munity in which he lives, the Boards
of Education of all our cities can well
afford to make the outlay necessary
for its support.
■dlfFTctioo-
CORAL BEADS.
Come twenty yenrs ago or moro
His ship was lost at sen,
Alone ami lonely for his sake,
Yet still a maid is she;
Her eye is dim. her brow is seamed,
Her eheok a withered rose,
The glossy ripples of her hair
Are touohed with gleaming snows.
But still she clings to girlish things
With unforgotten grace,
And frills about her faded throat—
A bit of yellow lace,
But little dreams her cherished string
Of crimson beads are made
Of coral from tho sunken reef
Whereon his bones were laid.
Minna Irving, in Criterion.
Eooooooooooooooooooooooo
KEEPING STEPS
00000000000000000000000
,O away; it's no
use, Mab," said
r I—NAf Prisey Cart
hCl/yil wright to her
I P sister. "The
t .k/fHyfl firing has been
Y>pf\yj settled ages ago,
1 80 far as * um
Mab echoed, re
fusing to "hush up"—"l believe it
must be ages ago. Well, if you per
sist iu this unreasonable course."
"I dou't persist any more than you.
Look at how you did with Tom Van
duren."
"That was a long time ago. I
didn't do it for an example, either.
And you said at the time you wouldn't
do as much for me. Then you went
and did the very same thing, after all."
"Don't care," Prisey said, doggedly.
"I will not marry off and leave you
for any man under the canopy of
heaven."
"Then, my dear, since we cannot
get our suitors to keep step, so to
speak, we might as well make ar
rangements for a quiet and dignified
old maidhood. Let's buy a parrot or
something, Prisey."
The front door bell rang while the
two young women were discussing
their mutual affairs in their own room
on the second floor. Just as Mab's
brilliant suggestion for the purchase
of a parrot had thrown both the sisters
into a fit of laughter, the servant girl
of the boarding house appeared at
their door with a square envelope ad
dressed to Mab.
"The boy says he's to wait for an
answer."
"Here, Prisey," said Mab as soon
as she had glanced at the signature,
"this must be for you. It's addressed
to me—yes—no —wait a minute."
Then she read to herself:
My Dear Miss Mab—Do you Intend going
out this evening? If not, will you see me
at 8.30? I have something to say to you of
the greatest importance—to myself, at
least. JULIUS CLEMENT.
"Here, Prisey, read this." And
Mab handed the letter to her sister.
"What do you think he means?"
Then she added, speaking gently, to
avoid being beard by the servant girl,
who was waiting at the door, "Do you
think he's got us mixed up?"
As Prisey read the note her blue
eyes widened in amazement, but slfe
only said, "You're keeping Jane wait
ing, Mab."
Mab turned suddenly to the door,
"Tell the boy 'Yes,"' she said.
"That's all the answer there is."
The door having closed behind the
servant, there was a silence of some
moments between tbe two sisters.
They seemed to take the incident in
contrasting ways. The brunette Mab
stared, as a child might stare at an
elder sister—Prisey was her elder by a
year—who lias met with a calamity
and perplexes by her coolness under
it. Prisey went on with her occupa
tion, which happened to be pulling
feathers from an old hat to rearrange
them cn a new one.
These two orphan girls had been
alone together in the world for so long
that each expected to understand
every inmost feeling of the other by
intuition.
"Don't you care?" Mab said at
last.
"I?" said Prisey, looking up from
her feathers for one moment. "What
for? Why shouldn't he?"
"Was I right, Prisey?"
"Perfectly right, child."
At the appointed hour Mr. Clement
rang the bell and asked for Miss Mabel
Cartwriglit.
"Did you say Miss Mabel?" Jaue
asked.
"Yes, Miss Mabel."
Jaue really felt uncertain as to
whether Mr. Clement's memory had
not played him a trick.
"So you have something of the
greatest importance to sny to me?"
Mab asked him when she had taken a
very st#ut chair opposite her visitor.
"Er—yes, Miss Mab. I hope you
won't hurry me though. Did I nay,
'the greatest importance,' i;l that note
I sent you? Oh, well "
" 'To you,' I think you said. But
I don't want to hurry you. It's very
sloppy out of doors, isn't it?"
"Oh, now don't make fun of me!"
"How?" Mab asked innocently?
"Because I asked if it was sloppy?"
"I might as well come to the point,"
said Clement. "Look here, Miss
Mab, of course you know what hap
pened last night—at the Jernay's—to
me, I mean."
Mab only fixed her dark eyes on
bim and wbea he hesitate 1, said,
"Go on."
"Well, I want to know if—if yon
think—that is, I have yonr sympathy."
Julius Clement had a fine mustache
which curled with boldness and grace,
and which he always stroked and
pulled when he was in doubt or in
deep thought. On this occasion he
was in both,'] and he acted accord
ingly.
"Do you need a great deal of sym
pathy?" Mnb asked him.
"I don't know whether I ought to
say I do," Clement answered. He
had already worn out his first embar
rassment and was beginning to warm
to his subject. "Perhaps I ought to
consider myself fortunate, rather."
"Oh, may I ask—?"
"Of course you may. I snppose
you know what answer I got?"
"Well, no."
"Just so." He laughed nervously.
"But then I found out something—l
think."
'•What did you find out?"
"If your sister said 'No,' is was be
cause—it wasn't because—it was be
cause—because Bhe wants always to
be with you, just as you are? There!
Am I right?"
Mab had away of tightening her
lips which rrisey called "shutting up
herself all to herself." She went
through this process now.
"We were talking of buying a par
rot," she said very seriously after a
little pause.
"A parrot? What for?"
"For our amusement aDd consola
tion."
Clement laughed at this idea so
heartily that Mub began to wonder.
"Tell me, seriously," Clement said,
"isn't it something to know that some
body cares for you—even if ?"
"Mr. Vanduren to see Miss Mabel
Cariwright," Jane interrupted, open
ing the door at this point in the inter
view.
"Mr. Vanduren!" Mab exclaimed,
not concealing her surprise.
"Oh, I—eh—l intended to tell
you," said Clement. "He arrived in
town to-day, you know. You hadn't
heard?"
There was some embarrassment in
the meeting between this young artist
and the girl who, in the language of
common report, had "given him the
mitten" nearly two years before.
Vanduren had taken himself off to
Mexico and Central America, alleging
an irresistible longing to sketch na
ture in those parts.
"You quite surprised us," said Mab,
as she shook hands with the bearded
last arrival—"and very pleasantly.
When did you get back? Prisey will
be so glad to see you again. Let me
go up and tell her here."
Without perplexity it would be im
possible to describe Vandureu's man
ner of receiving this suggestion.
There was more than mere embarrass
ment, there was annoyance. Some
thing seemed to have gone wrong.
Mab saw this much, bnt was not clear
as to what was wrong. Clement smiled
a very proper, conventional smile and
stroked his mustache. Vanduren
mumbled something which Mab felt
perfectly at liberty to take for assent.
Accordingly, Mab left the room and
the two men stood fa 36 to face.
"You seem amused, Clement," said
Vanduren, breaking the silence.
"Well, why shouldn't I?" Clement
answered. "What did I tell you to
day? Of course, you didn't tell me
you would be here so soon—very first
evening, you know.
"I didn't think it necessary to ad
vise you of all my movements be
forehand," said Vanduren, coldly,
while he stood before the mantlepiece
critically examining an applique drap
ery.
"That's right, Vanduren—quite
right. Now, before they come down,
let mo tell you something." Van
duren turned quickly and faced the
other man, "We have no time to
lose," Clement wont on hurriedly.
"You may not know it, but you aro my
'god out of the machine'—that's a
classic allusion, you know. I'll explain
it another time. See here, I knew
well enough you'd be here to-night.
That was why I told you I was coming.
Now you want me to get out, don't
you?"
For answer Vanduren only stared.
"Yes, you do. Miss Prisey won't
come down."
"How do you know that?"
"Never mind. No time now for
argument. I only want to make a
straight-forward business proposition
to you. If I get out of this will you
promise to propose to Miss Mab this
very night? Yes or no?"
"Well, I'll be shot!" Vanduren ex
claimed in an undertone.
"Yes, I know," said Clement. "It
does seem a queer and quaint idea,
but there'll be time for explanation
later. Yes or no?"
A rustle of skirts could be heard on
the stairs.
"Yes," said Vanduren. making his
decision hurriedly, as one who leaps
in the dark.
"Good for you—for us both," Clem
ent whispered to him, as the skirts
came nearer the door of the sitting
room. "And tell her to take a day or
two to think it over—not to hurry."
"I'm so sorry, M.\ Vanduren," said
Mnb, opening the door. "Prisey lins
a headache. You are going to be here
some time, are you not, in the city?
That's right. Slio told me to say alio
hopes you'll come again soon. She
was very glad to hear of your return."
The rest, for ten or fifteen minutes,
was small talk about traveling and art,
Mexico and volcanoes. Then Clement,
in conformity with his promise, "got
out of that."
Next afternoon the two girls were
together in their loom. Prisey was
turning over a letter that had come to
her through the mail.
"I think you might let me see it,"
said Mab. "I let you see mine yes
terday."
At last, after some hesitation, Prisey,
without speaking, handed her sister
the letter, which read:
"Vou must not think me overbold It I re
fuse to take your 'No' for an answer and
ooine back again within forty-eight hours
of my defeat ct the Jernay's. Something
lends me to the conviction that this is a
specially favorable chance for me to 'try
again.' Will you reconsider your decision,
or is there really no hope for me?
"In tho latter case, mercifully end my
suspense by an early answer.
"JULIUS CLEMENT."
' 'I wonder what he means by 'some
thing,' Prisey remarked as Mab handed
her back the letter,
Mab was shutting herself up to her
self to think.
"I tell you what, Prisey. That man
is no fool." Mab paused a while for
further meditation. 4< Yes," she went
on, "it will take a pretty sagacious wo
man to manage Mr. Clement. He sees
into things, does Mr. Clemeut. Came
here last night to ask for my sympathy,
eh? Forgot to mention that Tom Van
duren was in town. My dear Priss,
that man knew very well that Tom was
coming here last night. It was a plot
to force Tom Vanduren's hand. If I
thought Tom was half as clover "
"But as it is," Prisey interrupted,
putting an arm about her younger
sister's neck. "As it is? What?"
"Why, Prisey, I think they're keep
ing step at last, don't you?"
"Then we needn't advertise for a
parrot," said Prisey.
And the two sisters wrote two little
notes that evening. Mab's note was to
Yanduren, and it said: "Come and
get your final answer to-morrow at If
o'clock p. m." Prisey's was longeu
But the effect of the two communica
tions was much.
The two sisters and tlieir two suitors
kept steps admirably a few weeks later
to the tune of tho Wedding March.—
St. Louis Star.
Once Considered Insane.
Some interesting stories about tha
enlistments of recruits to the Ninth
have been going the rounds. One of
the assistant surgeons of the Ninth
gave a young man a rigid physical ex
amination, under orders, as the
young man was not thought to be e
desirable recruit.
After tho applicant's weight and
height had been ascertained, aad the
color of his hair and eyes noted, tho
dialogue between the surgeon aad
prospective recyuit went on as fol
lows:
"Were you ever rejected for life in-
Bnrance?"
"No."
"Have you ever given up an occu
pation ou account of your health or
habits?"
"No."
"Are you subject to dizziness?"
"No."
"To fluttering heart, pain in the
chest, cold in the head, shortness of
breath,severe headache?"
"No."
"Have yon had fits?"
"No."
"Nor stiff joints?"
"No."
"Sunstroke?"
"No."
"Have you ever been considered
insane?"
"Yes, sir."
"What's that you say?" asked the
snrgeon, scratching out the "No"
that he had written in anticipation of
a negative answer.
"Well, I guess it's all right," re
plied tho recruit. "My mother said
that I was insane to-night when
I told her that I was going to enlist.
As I had got tired of saying 'No' I
just thought I'd mention it."—
Wilkesbarre Leader.
WISE WORDS.
In faith lies victory.
Secrecy is sin's coat of mail.
Honor dresses in home-spun.
Pride is the national pickpocket.
Tho man above suspicion lives above
the stars.
Man never makes truth—he only
discovers it.
Fame's race-track runs across the
rights of men.
Society's glow-worms always shine
with a sickly light.
A big heart aud a big pocketbook
seldom travel far together.
Wearing finery unpaid for, is re
spectability going jailward.
Too much goodness is as monoto
nous as too much wickedness.
The man who confesses his ignor
ance is on the road to wisdom.
Do your best to-day aud you will
be able to do better to-morrow.
About the best water-proof for all
kinds of weather is a clear conscience.
The moral training of the little
child is the future hope of the nation.
If you don't pay as you go some
day you may have to go without pay
ing.
To marry for money may turn out
to be like going to the hornet for
houey.
It is a great accomplishment to
know how to make the best of life as
it comes.
Two Famous Naval "liemarks."
The auswer of Commodore Stock
ton to the Mexicau Governor of Cali
fornia, when we took possession of
that country, is worth recalling: "If
you march upou the town (Los An
geles)," threatened the Governor,
"you will find it the grave of your
men."
I "Tell the Governor," said Stockton,
i "to have the hells rtady to toll at eight
| o'clock in the morning, i shall he
there at that time."
j Commodore Tatuall's "blood is
j thicker than water" won great recog
j nition in England in 1859. Seeing
the British Admiral, Sir James Hope,
in a tight place under the fire ol
Chinese forts, Tatnall gallantly came
to his rescue. In so doing he was
guilty of a breach of neutrality, but
his answer, "Blood is thicker than
water," had the effect of condoning
his offense.
Grain Willi Pasture.
I Whether or not it pays to feed some
grain to cows on pasture is still a ques
tion for discussion. While it seems
on it's face not to pay, yet upon the
whole it has been our custom for years
, to give at least enough grain, even on
the best pasture, to toll our cows to
the stable morning aud evening, and
more us pastures become aged and less
succulent. At the time it may seem
that no protit accrues from the added
expense, but our experience teaches
us that the profit comes in later by
keeping the cows from shrinking.—
Agricultural Epitomist.
The Kight Way to Set Fruit Trees.
A. D. Wood, of Michigan, writes:
When any kind of a plant has its roots
exposed, it is sure to suffer loss of vi
tality by evaporation. These should
be kept covered with damp straw or
cloth, and if to be kept several days
before setting, placed in a cool place.
Trees sometimes arrive in a shriveled
oondition, caused by delay in ship
ment and transportation. These
should be immediately placed in a
trench horizontally and covered with
puddled earth aud allowed to remain
for several days. If the branches are
still shriveled, they are worthless.
They should be plump when removed.
Remove all bruised and injured
roots with a sharp knife or pruning
shears. Also cut off' all fibrous root
lets, as uew growth starts from the
large roots. Cut back the top quite
severely, the peach to a whip and the
pear and apple to three or four short
branches equally distributed around
the trunk and not more than three
feet from the ground. The branches
should not exceed the roots in length
and quantity. Dig a hole large
enough to admit the roots in a natu
ral position. In the center of the
hole place a small amount of earth.
On this set the tree and gently press
it into the earth. This insures suffi
cient soil among the roots to prevent
any open space. It is these open
spaces which often cause the death of
the tree. Pack the soil above the
roots as fast as it is filled in, leaving
the upper three inches loose to act as
a mulch to preserve moisture.
It is best to set the trees a little
deeper than they stood in the nursery.
This place may be known by the dif
ference in color of the hark. It is
customary to set a tree as near verti
cal as possible, hut I have learned
that it should be set so as to lean
slightly toward the direction of the
prevailing winds, then as the tree
grows, it gradually straightens and at
maturity is able to maintain that posi
tion. A tree should never be mulched
the first year, as it will cause the roots
to grow near the surface. There is
nothing better than frequent and shal
low cultivation to conserve moisture
and promote new gTowth. It is bet
ter to grow some cultivated crop
among the trees than to allow the
ground to jbecome occupied by weeds
and grass, but all seeds should not be
planted closer than four feet to the
tree. Careful attention Bhould be
given the new growth, cutting back
any branches which are growing out
of proportion to the others, keeping
the top as nearly balanced as possible.
Rub off all shoots on the trunk which
are not needed for main branches.
How lo IJo Successful With Ileos.
Scarcely any one is incapable of
handling and controlling hoes. It is
simply a mistaken idea of some people
that bees have a special dislike for
them, and that only certain individuals
can handle bees. It is only neces
sary to know how to handle bees for
any one to succeed with them. To
handlo bees properly it is not neces
sary to go to war with them, but abso
lutely wrong. If we should under
take to fight a colony of bees into
subjection, the fight would continue
until the last bee of the hive was
dead, providing we held out that lorg
ourselves.
Bees can only be handled success
fully by kind treatment, and by study
ing their habits and becoming well in
formed of their nature aud mode of
doing things. Any one may Bncceed
with them by taking advantage of their
weak points. Smoke is the control
ling agent to be adopted in handling
bees. By smoking Dees they become
excited and will at once proceed to fill
themselves with honey, and when thus
filled arc perfectly peaceable and will
allow themselves to be abused, robbed,
and evea killed without offering
auy resistance. The Cyprian bees are
tho only ones I ever had that at times
would resist smoke, aud in order to
handle theui I have used simply kind
treatment and careful manipulation,
and fully succeeded. If wo but take
the time, we may handle any colony
of bees without the aid of smoke by
careful manipulation if we get well
acquainted with their nature and
habits.
If you nre afraid of bees, you will
not get along with them very well,
and the greater fear the less success
you will have. The fear of bee stings
keeps many from engaging in bee cul
ture. This reason to the practical
apiarist appears very foolish indeed.
You may say that bees sting persons
whether they are afraid of them or
not. This may be true to some ex
tent, but I am satisfied that fear causes
almost ninety per cent, of all stings
received. Bees seem to dislike all
rapid moving objects. You may walk
slowly through the apiary and not 0
bee will molest you, but, on the othei
baud, if you pass rapidly among them
some of the bees are likely to follow
you, and hence your actions have
much to do with it.—A. H. Duff, ol
Kansas.
Farm and Harden Notes.
A small horse is the thing of the
past—if you expect to get a price for
him.
The supply of horses just now ie
about equal to the demand—in num
bers but not iu quality.
Till pasturage is good, give your
brood sows some clover hay every
day. It will do them good.
One of the benefits of low prices for
horses is the cross roads five dollar
stallion has been castrated.
Plug horses are never good proper
ty. They often eat more than good
ones, making them a double tax upon
tbeir owners.
Have you observed that the horses
farmers are using now are poorer as a
whole than those they used five and
six years ago?
The snowball is old-fasbioned but
most desirable for the home lawn.
During the blooming season it is cov
ered with masses of snowy white.
The Rocky Mountain blue Bpriico is
one of the most valuable introductions
of late years and ranks among the
most beautiful of hardy evergreens.
Six degrees Fahrenheit is a good
temperature in which to germinate
seeds of tender plants coming from
semi-tropical regions. Tropical plants
require in the neighborhood of eighty
degrees.
The variegated dogwood is one of
the most beautiful shrubs at all sea
sons of the year. The foliage is
richly variegated with white and this
contrast is well maintained through
out the season.
The tartariau or bush honeysuckle
is a free growing shrub and one of the
earliest to blossom iu the spring. It
is first covered with pink and white
flowers and later is attractive because,
of its bright colored berries.
Hallway Efficiency in War.
The railway companies have already
been called on to show their efficiency
as an instrumentality of war in the
movemeutof troops to "the front" and
to the various designated State camps.
This movement in the aggregate has
already been immense, and it has
been accomplished without delay,
difficulty or accident. Iu European
countries, where the railways are re
garded as semi-military or semi-stra
tegic institutions, and are supposed
to be specially equipped and prepared
for purposes of mobilization, it is cus
tomary when a movemeutof troops be
gins to Btop all othor traffic ou the
lines. Here, where the railways have
uo thought of military uses and have
made no special preparations, troops
are moved as a matter of course in
masses which would coufouud the
railway systems of some nations, aud
there is no disturbance of the ordi
nary freight aud passenger service.
The equality of the American ruihvays
to any emergency which may arise is
so much accepted as a matter of
course, that it is perhaps a pity that
the people cannot onee in a while
have an experience of the methods of
other countries. They would then
appreciate better the excellence of
things for which the railway compan
ies now get no credit.—Railway Age.
Counterfeit I'eniilcs In Circulation.
The banks have received notice from
the Secret Service of the Treasury De
partment that large quantities of coun
terfeit pennies wereiu circulation, and,
in response to the request of the Se
cret Service, they will mark carefully
the bags containing the pennies sent
to them by country banks, lin order
that the source of the counterfeits may
be ascertained. The pennies reach
here in lots of 820, Bso an-J 8100. It
would appear not to bo worth anybody's
while to counterfeit this smallest of
coins, yet experts say that a little
profit can be made, aud a reasonably
certain one, also, as nobody ever takes
tbo trouble to scrutinize a penny. The
copper penny is composed of ninety
five per cent, of copper and five per
cent, of zinc and tin. The nickel penny
is seventy-five per cent, copper and
twenty-five per cent, nickel. As cop
per is worth about twelve cents a
pound, it is estimated that a skilled
counterfeiter can make a profit on his
work of ten pennies on each one hun
dred he makes.—New York Tribune.
llrown.
There is a man iu our town who oc
casionally goes into the woods in the
summer time with another Springfield
man by the name of Brown. The first
sportsman was out on the lake with
his guide "jacking" deer, aud had ar
ranged with Brown, who was left
ashore, to come aud take him aboard
as soon as be bad bad a shot. He bad
bis shot and missed it, but tlie guide
persevered, aud soon bad the "jack"
shining into the brown eyes of another
deer.
"Shoot," said the guide.
"No. no," said the raau; "it's
Brown."
"Drat it,*" said the guide, ' 'of course
they're brown, you idiot; what olor
did yon think they were?"— Sprin
gfield (Mass.) Republican.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
How to Drape a Piano*
If tbere is an upright piano in the
room, do not jam it ttiftly against the
I wall. Put it crosswise, almost in the
J middle of the floor. Hang a piece of
tapestry or a portiere over the back,
place a box 011 the floor behind it, put
some cushions on the box and yon'
have the latest thing, the "piano seat."
How Moths Are ISreil.
On coming in from the street do
not hang up in the closet the gown
that has been a great assistance to the
6treet cleaning department. The
darkness and heat of a closet are all
the incubators moths are looking for.
The gowns should be shaken well,
j on a balcony, if possible, or out of a
window, anyway, to get rid of the
dust and filth gathered in the streets.
A Substitute For Snct.
It is often supposed that the vege
tarian cook must be at a disadvantage
for want of suet. What is the merit
of suet? Simply this, that it presents
fat in a fibrous form, letting it out
gradually into the mixture of which it
forms a part. Exactly the same re
sult is achieved when bread crumbs
are saturated with butter or oil. A
ship's cook, when making plum duff,
knows this secret, and sops up oil
with biscuit crumbs, which he incor
porates with the dough. Another
mode is to add a little washed and
soaked tapioca to the paste used for
boiled puddings.
Whitewash the Cellar.
Every cellar should have a good
coat of whitewash at this season, in
order to keep it sweet, fresh and
wholesome. A rule for preparing a
whitewash that will not rub off is this,
given by a good, old colored aunty,
ripe in experience: Slake the limo in
the usual way. Mix one gill of flour
with a little cold water, taking care to
beat out all the lumps. Then pour on
boiling water enough to thicken it to
the consistency of common starch
when boiled for use. Pour this while
still hot into a bucketful of the slacked
lime and add one pound of whiting.
Stir all well together and add a little
bluing water to improve the color.
\
Hygienic Salads.
Dandelions have other uses than
furnishing subjects for poems and
playthings for children, and just now
is the time to prove their efficacy in
meeting the loss of appetite- and that
prevalent "tired feeling" so common.
From time immemorial "greens" of
all sorts have been held in high es
teem for purging the blood of humors
engendered by the winter's diet of
fatty foods. The Italian women here
understand this, and all through the
parks and along the roadsides in the
suburbs one sees the gay purple-and
green gowned women bending assidu
ously to their task of gathering this
hygienic salad. In the country the
children are sent out to the garden
and pasture to gather a supply—an
exercise, by the way, that is quite suf
ficient to give a hearty appetite of it
self. Dandelion greens are served in
either of two ways—in their natnral
state as a salad with the simple dress- *
ing of vinegar, oil, salt and pepper, or
cooked in plenty of water with a bit
of salt pork or butter for seasoning,
and salt and pepper to taste. When
tender drain thoroughly and serv&
piping hot, with a garnish of slices of
hard-boiled eggs or riced yolks. It is
hardly necessary to emphasize the
necessity for the thorough picking
over and washing of all greens in order
to insure absolute cleanliness and the
prevention of "gravel walks" depre
cated by Sidney Smith as too familiar
in salads.
Hints to Housekeepers.
Prints, if rinsed in salt and water,
look brighter.
For scorches in linen spread over
them the juice of an onion, and a quar
ter ounce of white soap.
Silk handkerchiefs and ribbons
should be washed in salt and water
and ironed wet to look well.
Yellow spots on the linen or cotton
produced by the iron may be re
moved by setting them in the broiling
sun.
Tablecloths are now being made of
silk and have gained considerable
popularity among those who can afford
them.
Velvets should be held over the
steam of boiling water, and kept well
stretched until the moisture has
evaporated.
For making table and bed linen one
initial is preferred to a monogram or
two letters, and a simple design to a
more elaborate one.
An excellent starch for dark clothes,
blue calicoes, eto., is made by using
cold coffee left from breakfast, instead
of pure water. Make the starch as
usual.
Colored muslins should be washed
in a lather of cold water. If the mus
lin be green add a little vinegar to the
water, if lilac a little ammonia, if black
a little salt.
A heaped-up tablespoonful of chlor
ide of lime mixed with one quart of
water will remove mildew. Hinse the
cloth iu clear water a9 soon as all the
spots have disappeared.
Nickel a Moilern Metal.
Nickel is a modern metal. It was
not in use nor known till 1715. It
has now largely taken the place of
silver in plated ware, and as an alloy
with steel it is superior to any other
metal, for it is not only noncorrodible
itself, but it transfers the same qual
ity to steel; even when combined as
low as live per cent, it prevents oxi
dation.
Jerusalem is now nothing but a
shadow of the magnificent city of
ancient times. It is about three miles
in circumference aDd is situated on *
tocky mountain.