The superiority o! the American lo comotive is gradually coming to be recognized in England, and this chief ly in connection with express train service. It is stated on the best au thority that an English railroad i 3 now building an engine patterned after an American model—another example of the way in which this country is lead ing tho world in point of mechanical ingenuity. South African trade reports during tho last fiscal year indicate emphati cally that the United States has large opportunities for commercial progress in the German, English and native colonies of South Africa. A glance, however, at the relative trade done by this country and Great Britain under conditions, too, that favor tho United States, demonstrates that we have not yet begun to scratch around tho mar gin of our opportunities in the com mercial world. Tho day cannot be distant when we shall realize fully the importance of these opportunities and adapt our commercial spirit energeti cally along tho lines of definite ac complishment, says tho Now York Commercial Advertiser. Camara's fleet being useless—hardly able tc keep itself afloat—and her others all at the bottom of the sea, Spain ought not to repine overmuch at the surrender of her colonial posses sions. She has no means of protect ing theci, and few of communicating with them. Even when she had ships she could not keep them in fighting or Bailing order. She will be much bet tor off' when confined to the limits ol her peninsula. If she introduces there modern methods of industry and ad ministration and teaches all her peo ple to read and write, suggests the New York Tribune, a modest but fairly prosperous career may still lie before her—much more satisfactory than the one she is now forced to abandon. Admiral Palumbo, the new Italian Minister of Marine, has decided to strike off the list of the active fleet all the ships which during the next naval manoeuvres show a speed inferior to that laid down by the navy regula tions. In addition, every effort is be. ing made to promote economy in the construction of battleships wherever such economy can be effected without loss of power. For instance, instead of pane*ling officers' cabins and saloons with expensive woods, simpler ma terial will he employed. The older ironclads, like the Dandolo and tho Duilio, will be examined and refitted wherever necessary. Besides all this, the German firm of Schieau has been commissioned to build four torpedo boat destroyers, ono of which will have a speed of thirty and the other of thirty-two knots. The physiological evils of overwork have been the subject of official inves tigation in the Swiss schools, with tho result that such evils appear to be so positivo that in the case of the Canton of Lucerne severe repressive meas ures have come up for consideration by those in charge of such interests. The measures, as thus proposed by high educational authority, seriously limit tho work to be done by pupils composing the six classes of the primary schools, provide that no lessons shall be studied at home, as is commonly the custom by children iu this grade and only moderate tasks to he so re quired in the secondary schools. In regard to intervals, ton-minute re cesses every half-hour are called for, a week's vacation every six or seven weeks, and attendance at school shall hot begin before the age of seven. The American triumph seems com plete, says tho Washington Star. The valor of the army and navy is highly praised. Tho marksmanship at sea is the marvel of the world. The kind ly treatment of tho Spanish prisoners excites both admiration and gratitude, The terms of tho peace protocol are generous iu an unexampled degree. >nd now there is applause from abroad for American diplomacy! That is vio tory, indeed. We have long been re garded as hopelessly short on diplo macy. We have been lectured and condoled with on that score. Atten tion has been directed to our crude ness, our lack of forms and ceremon ies, and so forth. The learned for eigner hps observed with pain, and at! times with displeasure, that we invar iably fail to discuss international questions cither with duo appreeia* tion of their importance or with due regard to the polite requirements of euch negotiations. But it is conceded now that, so far, in the business with Spain, though pursuing the old, crude and direot methods, the United States has won in diplomacy as in the field of war. The whole result is in justifica tion of its methods of managing large Affairs. MODERN CRANDMOTHERS. You "wonder where they'vo gone to, those grandmothers of yore, With such quaint old nursery jingles, that we always cried for more, With their spectacles and aprons, and their ruffled inuslin caps, And their puffs of snowy hair, and their broad enticing laps?'* Why, they've gone, dear, with tho children of those old and happy days, When little ones were little ones, in thoughts and acts and ways; When everything was different and simpler lives were Jed, Those days aro gone, "tho times have changed," with that, tho whole is said. The grandma of the "modern child" must crimp and talk and dress, If not, L fear, tho modern cfeild might love her grandma less, For lads and lassies of these days are critical, I ween, With a grandma of "ye olden time" they wouldn't once be seen. But, after all, bonoath the dress, and this we won't forget, That grandma' 9 grandma, now as then, her love Is ours yet. And if tho children turn to her—demand her love and care, They'll flud that underneath it all the grandma's always there. —F. S. A., in Boston Transcript. jg?K9KQoQo<eK3ieogie>et9<9i9t9e*oi9<9>e>Qg | THE VICTOR'S SPOILS. | A Story of Army XnifA. Q> By Gwendolen Overton. /S\ §£ I I ISS TERBEXCE, r —-—-/I J going down the ~*r ''^ —| ;./ „M, 'ine, watched the B' r ' wa3 c°m {rif i n S toward her. 1} 1 fil There were three \V L ' if men with the girl, \\ X'Sr II n nd only Lancas \\* / H ter wns ®i' sa V\\ ft! Terrenoe. How \-\ A-y ever, as he was x/ all the world to her, Helena-like, she lacked not worlds of company. The six men met on the walk in front of Captain Lansing's quarters. Lansing was a cyuio who observed his kind and told the result of his ob servations. Suoh are deservedly un popular, but command appreciative audiences that are the envy of tho good-hearted. It was to an audience of the sort that he recounted the meet ing, the same afternoon, when the band stopped playing and the invad ing hosts frsm the town had scattered and left the post to its rightful owners. "Dorothy Terrenco"—he began, laying his sabre across his knees and settling back to the temporary repose which alope can fall to the lot of the officer of the day—"Dorothy Terrence eamo up tho walk. She had Lancaster with her, and she was looking happy. Miss Leeds—the banker's daughter, you know—eame down the walk. Sho had Kant, and Dartmoor, and Fer guesson with her, and she was look ing like a celestial being. They were both dressed in white—but there was a difference. Mrs. Lansing says it lay in a silk foundation. Be that as it may, there was a fearfully and wonderfully made hat, all drifts and mists, and sprays of white, atop of Miss Leeds, and a fluffy-all-round sort of parasol atop of that. Dor othy saw Miss Leeds from pfar, but the lattor did not soe Dorothy. They came together in front of my quarters—'and I with my harp was there.' Dorothy moved to one side. It wa3 her inßtant attitude, and, I fear, prophetic. The woman who steps aside cau always stay there. But all might have gone well, and this story might nevor have been told, if Kant had not indulged his vulgar pro pensity for introductions. Miss Leeds bestowed a sweet and transitory smile upon Miss Terreuce; but Lancaster is not tho best-looking fellow in the Pre sidio for nothing. If any of you hap pen to share my good fortune of know ing her, you will understand what— iu the nature of things and of men— happeued wheu she turned her eyes upon him with a trick sho has of seem ing to look into one's very]soul. She has tho most beautiful voice outside of the heavenly choir, and she brought it in to play also. Dorothy stood it as long n3 she could, and then she tried to get him away. He uever even heard her. If Miss Leeds had not gazed soul searchingly at him, and told him that sho must be going, but would see him at the hop, ho doubtless would he standing there still, with Dorothy anxiously watching him. It will he worth going to tho hop to seo things happen." Lancaster stood at tho door of the dressing-room and watched Miss Leeds, whilejha waited for Dorothy. Ho saw her throw hack her gorgeous clonk and drop it from her with tho careless disdain of a celestial creature discarding some temporary earthly gar ment. That it fell on a chair nnd crushed other less splendid wrappings beneath it was a detail which escaped him. He watehod her as the huddling feminine mass made way for her at the mirror nnd she stood unchallenged, leisurely touching her glimmering brown hair and pinning a great white roso upon her shoulder. Dorothy waited at his side for fully five minutes before bo saw her. Then she laughed mockingly up into his face, and wished that her laughter might have boen a blow. As soon as he oould leave her he went running and sliding across tho floor to whore Miss Leeds stood at bay before a besieging group. She was backed against the wall, and a sun burst of sabres was just above her liead. "Thero are only twenty dances," shs kept repeating, "and I never divide." Lancaster took two of his fellow oflicors by tho shoulders and put them out of his way. Miss Leeds looked iuto his eyes and smiled as, it seemed to him, no woman had ever smiled be fore. She put her card into his hand. "The two with the crosses are the ones I promised you," she said. And as she had promised and he had asked nothing, his heart heat high with triumph. Not that it was a case of love at first sight. He was in love with Dorothy. But the moH faithful of men may pay the court she expects to a belle, and may allow himself to be flattered by her marked favorß. He could honestly, then and for several weeks afterward, give Dorothy the comfort she sorely needed, and say that ho did not even think Miss Leeds beautiful. "She has style and charm," he passed judgment, "but notboauty. And she is a flirt." Ho meant that Miss Terrenoe should understand how entirely he abhorred that. "Did she try to flirt when you called upon her?" Ho had made a point of confessing the call directly it was made, and he thought it tactless of Dorothy to insist upon it. He shrugged his shoulders. "Sho does that with every mau."„ It was a truth which he fully appre ciated, but its feeble light no longer fell upon the path of duty when tho time eame that the sun of Miss Leeds's countenance shed its glow upon tho highway of inclination. And yet she did her best to make it clear to him. "Now, listen to something I mean to tell you," she said to him. She set down her tea-cup and leaned toward him, with lner elbows upon her knees and her chin between her soft, pink palms. Her eyes wero looking straight into his, and they filled his heart with anticipation. "Do you kuowthat this is a risky game we are playing, nnd that wo have been playing it for all it is worth this last fortnight or so?" Lancaster knit his brows. "It is not worth while to pretend you don't understand. We both know exactly what I mean. But I to bo snro wo both know that it is only a game. lam not in earnest, and you mustno.tbe." He gazed at her, speechless. "I suppose you aro thinking that the suggestion of serious intentions migjit come first from you," she said; "that may bo your way of looking at it, but it is not mine. I don't care to let you have anything to reproaoh me with. I have had enough of that in the past. lam a hopeless flirt, you know. Igo into tho tiling for the fun there is in it, and it is only fair to wuvu you." Sho leaued back in her chair and fell to watching the passers-by upon tho street and to biting at a oubo of sugar, meditatively. "If you will accept matters that way, we cau have a very good time; if you don't, I have warned you; and the consequences—if there are any—must be on your own head." Lancaster laughed rather weakly, "I accept tho terms," he said, "It is understood that this is only n flirta tion." Which ho explained to Dorothy at much length, but which sho would not understand and was so unreason able about as to break her engage ment. Lancaster was deeply aggrieved and rather more deeply relieved. But it made one faot plain to him; that he was seriously in love with a girl who frankly told him that he was no more to her than a score had been before, tlian scores might be thereafter. And it was all in vain that ho tried to change her. "I warned yon quite fairly," she reminded him, bending forward to stroke the glossy neck of his blaok mnre. It was the maro that, of old, Dorothy had considered nlmoßt her own property, and on whioh she had lavished the overflow of her affection for Lancaster. "Iwarned you," Miss Leeds repeated, "and nobody has suf fered but yourself, unless"—she glanced at him with a quizzical little sihile—"unless there was another girl?" "There was another girl," he an swered. She shrugged her shoulders toler antly. "That was to have been ex pected. Most problems of tho heart are in the rulo of three." He frowned angrily and his lips curved in contempt. "Are you abso lutely heartless? Have you no pity for her?" "Not a great deal. If you were the sort to desert her in a fortnight for a girl who made not tho slightest effort to win you, and who told you that she didn't love you, I think, upon the whole, that she is rather well rid of you." Lancaster was biting his lips, and he was very angry. "She is a better woman than you," he said. "That may be. But still," she laughed, gbod naturedly, "do you think I am had enough for vou to be passing judgment upon me?" "I do; for you are doing the thing eold-bloodedly, and I—I," he said, despondently, "have lost my head." She smiled into his eyes. "You dgn't want to do that. It is suoh a handsome head. Lose your heart— it is not worth nearly so much." He turned in his saddle anil iaced her. "I am likely to lose more than that," he burst out, suddenly; "I am likely to lose my life." "Ohl come," she said, "you are not contemplating falling on the point of your sabre, or drowning yourself in tho bay, or superinducing galloping consumption, are you? I have had men do a number of things for me, but never quite that." "I am not contemplating doing any of those. I may be a good deal of a fool, but not enough of a one to put an end to myself for a woman who cares nothing for me." "Yet that has been done," she sug gested. "What I meant was—and what I intended to tell you when I asked you to come to-day, was that I am going to the war." "That was to have been expected, of course. Is your regiment ordered?" "Not yet, I am especially favored." "When do you leave?" "The day after to-morrow. And now I am going to ask you to promise me something." They had reined in their horses by the dynamite-guns, and sat looking out over the white-capped blue sea. "So that it is not something I CUD not promise." "Not that. I shall loave that until I come back —it Ido come back. If I do not —in short, if I am killed"—she gave a little shudder; he saw that she did, and repeated—"if I am killed, I shall leave orders that my most treas ured possessions shall be sent to you." "Do you mean this mare?" "I mean the mare. It will make me as happy as it would seem I am meant to bo, to know that if I die yon will have her, aud will ride her, and be kind to her. For you are fond of her, too." Miss Leeds knit her brows and con sidered. "And if I should not?" Bhe said. "She shall not go to any one else. I will have Dartmoor shoot her on the day that he hears my death con firmed." Miss Leeds switched at the skirt of her habit. "Is there no one else who is fond of her, also?" "No," ho answered. "But that other girl you told me of?" Thero flashed back upon Lancas ter's memory how Dorothy had been wont to stand with her arms around tho arched black neck, and her cheek against the warm, soft nose; how the mare had followed her tamely around the garrison, as she would follow no other but himself. Then Miss Leeds turned the sun of her questioning eyes upon him. They were serious now, and their gentle light scattered tho mists of memories. She only valued the horse for tho master's sake, and the master is no longer anything to her. "Will you do ns I ask?" A little, ironical smile, the smile of an easy-going cynicism curled her lips. "Unto the victor belong the spoils. Yes, if anything happens to you, I will take the horse. But you must not be rash. I believe I prefer your safety to it." Two months afterward, Miss Leeds, bending forward to stroko tho glossy neck of the black mare that had be longed to Lieutenant Lancaster, turned and glanced up into the face of the man who was riding beside her. "Who was tho girl you bowed to near tho gates? The one with the big, sad eyes?" "It was Dorothy Terrence," he told her. "Lancaster used once to be en gaged to her." "No wonder, then, that she looked at me reproaohfully." She tried to laugh, but tho laughter broko and sho grew white as she set tho mare into a gallop. "There may, you know—" sho called to him, mockingly, above the clatter of the hoofs—"there may lurk tho adder of remorse, among tho victor's spoils."—Argonaut. Puzzled Over Our Slang. "What gives me most trouble," said a foreign military nttache, "is trying to translate your American language into English first, and then into my own language, so as to give my government a correct understand ing of the spirit and character of your soldiers. I find the phrase 'get there,' for example, difficult. When I saw your infantry going forward against the opposing troops in the forts and intrenchinents, I said to the officer with mo that the infantry should not attempt such a movement without artillery. 'You're right,' he told me, 'but the boys will get there.' "At night, when we were all so hungry, I ventured to inquire if a further movement were contemplated till your army was provisioned. Then tho officers, who were gentlemanly, all laughed and said tho army would think about rations when they 'got there.' The second day we met many of your wounded men coming back as we were going forward. When the Colonel asked them about the fighting so many times I heard them say: 'We got there.' And afterward also I heard those words very often. But it is so difficult for me to explain so my own people will understand it, what nature of tactics is 'get there.'"— Boston Transoript. A New-Fnnjcletl Idea. A prominent downtown restaurant has put in a machine which "outs ice," literally and also figuratively, in thai it saves money. Back behind the kitchen, shafting and the machinery necessary to ruu an ordinary band saw have been pui in, together with a little table. An employe takes a big cake of ice and saws it up into little cnbes, just as e workman in a sawmill might mak cubes out of a piece of timber. Tho saw goes through the ioe with out causiug any appreciable loss ol material, the ice melts more slowly, and the little cubes, when placed in a glass of water, look neat and trim. Al together,there is a great saving of time and ice.—Chicago Journal. FIELDS OF ADVENTURE. THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A Charge of Sea Elone—An Exciting Epl eorie In a Submarine Cave Oil the Coast of California Captured and Over turned a Boatload of Explorers. In the long string of islands —up- lifted mountain ranges, that extoud along the coast of Southern Califor nia, there is ouo named Santa Cruz that if thoroughly known might be as famous as Capri. It lies nearly off Santa Barbara, its shores, abrupt rocky cliffs, often rising directly from the sea, presenting a bold and forbid ding front. This shore line ill per forated with wonderful caves, some of which reach in to a great distance aud have assumed the dimensions of large halls through which the sea washes with a reverberating roar ap palling in its deep-toned intensity. Many of the caves are entirely cov ered at high tide, and at half tide con stitute orifices from which air and water is blown with grent violence. The largest cave opens in a chamber forty or fifty feet in height, the roof aud sides of which are richly colored; red, yellow, blue and green tints pre dominating. This chamber leads into a second almost as large from which, three or four hundred feet from the entrance of the cave, a nar row passage has been worn away, leading into the largest room of all, of unknown height, from which branch other leads below the surface, and from which proceed horrible sounds— the groaning and muttering of the sea as it is forced into tho deep crevices of the great cave. It was in this chamber, or at its en trance that a very singular adventure was experienced by a party of men; one that was almost a fatality and that made a deep impression on the ob servers. They were cruising around tho island, and seeing the entrance to the cave.they determined to go in. The wind was blowing heavily, and with much difficulty a boat was lowered, the yaeht running in near the entrance to the cave, then dropping a boatload and keeping away. When close in to tho opening the water was calm, being protected by the high mountain into whose heart the cave extended. Pushing through the hills that formed n slight barrier,the men rowed into the great chamber, the roof of which rose over them like a cathedral dome. The first aud second chambers wore investigated aud beforo the nar row entrauco to tho third they halted, startled at the marvelous sound that came forth. The sea in entering the passage seems to dip almost at an angle of forty-five degrees, and conveys the impression that a whirlpool is formed in the room beyond. For some moments the explorers listened; then seeing that the water flowed in and out without any danger ous disturbance, they decided to make the attempt to enter the passage; so taking tho oars and using thorn as paddlos they moved on. In a moment they were in the entrance, peering in to the gloom beyond. A few feet more and the boat was fairly in the narrow gateway. Tho man in the bow had lighted a torch and was waving it when a deafening roar came from the inner room—barking, screaming, hiss ing sounds that fairly raised the hair on the heads of the adventurers; and before they could retreat a band of large, black auimals came pour ing through tho passage, uttering frightful cries. To the demoralized party they seemed to be the object of u determined nttack, and that there was little doubt regarding this was shown by the fact that the animals came at them with their open mouths. Some climbed into or over the boat, and others followed until tho boat filled and the men were thrown into the water. For a moment the water appeared to be filled with- struggling men, while the boat was in possession of several sea lions, others diving be neath it and nil uttering wild cries, whose reverberations were echoed un til thero appeared to be thousands of them. Driven from the boat, the men swam to the second room to a ledge, from which they watched tho extraordinary spectacle. Their boat almost filled the narrow entrance and tho sea lions were still pouring ont, over and under it, forming a perfect stream from the inner cave to tho bright spot which indicated the outer air and world. When they had all disappeared the men, who had a narrow escape, lowored themselves into tho water again and swam to the boat which they hnd managed to right. The inner chamber was a sea lion rookery, and must have been fairly filled with tho animals which, when tho boat appeared, realizing that they were trapped, made a desperate rush for the entrance, completely filling it and sinking the boat in their efforts to crawl over it. Nearly all the largo eaves of Santa Cruz island are inhabited by sea lions and seals. Tho sea lions are very largo, tho males weighing much more than a large horse. An Incident nt Santiago. "The thing about tho fight that par alyzed me," said a Lieutenant, now in a hospital in New York City recover ing from a wound received at San tiago, "was that we couldn't get at the fellows wo wore fighting against. Why, do you know, I never saw n live Spaniard in my two days of fighting. The next time I get in a shindy I hope it will be a hand-to-hand affair with bayonets. Any fellow can do that sort of thing if ho has red blood in his veins; hut it's diderent to be a target for bullets coming from the Lord knows where. There's something mysterious and frightful about it, and it gets ou a man's nerve. It's a won der to me that any fellows could stand up to it as our men did, aud I'd have had some sympathy for a man who flunked. "I'll never forget the few minutes before I got this hole in my side. We were going forward under a scattering fire from the front, and all at once, off at the right, a rapid-firing gun opened on us. There was no smoke, so wo couldn't locate the battery exactly, but we could see the bullets playing over the long grass like spray from a hose. They didn't have the range at first, and the shower of bullets went swinging back and forth, clipping off the tops of the grass and coming nearer to us with every sweep. You can't imagine the sensatious it gave us to watch that death spray, driven by some invisible, relentless force, creep ing on and on, reaching out and feel ing for us. There was something un natural about it, and we watched as thongh we were fascinated by it. I didn't feel as though men had any thing to do with it. It was an imper sonal, deadly enemy that I couldn't fight and couldn't escape. There wasn't a living enemy within sight. "At last with one big sweep the shower reached us. Men all around me dropped, aud then I felt a sting in my side, and down I went. Some body ripped out an oath, and I was glad to hear it. It sounded so mag nificently human. I believe we were all thankful when that gun found us. It relieved the tension—but it ended my fighting." "It's all very well for him to talk about being nervous," commented a wounded corporal in a neighboring cot, "but he gave a mighty poor imi tation of a nervous man down there. A man with a record liko his can afford to own up to having felt creepy." Big Simlto Attacks file], Miss Jennie Kernaghau, of Mount Vernon, N. Y., had a tight with a black snake nud although the snake was killed, the shock of the encounter prostrated Miss Kernaghau. Before Miss Kernaghau's house is a fine lawn on which a croquet set is spread. Miss Kernaghau nud some friends were playing croquet, and she drove her ball through a wicket under an apple tree, at the edge of the lawn. As she approached tho ball for another stroke a black sunke, which was after ward found to be nine feet long, dropped from the bough of the tree and fell upon her. She shrieked as the snake coiled around her neok, but managed to seize it aud throw it from her. Tho snake, nngry, again attacked her, winding around her arm, trying to bite her as she endeavored to shake him off. With her free hand Miss Kernaghau tried to disentangle herself and hurled the snake away. Agaiu it seized her clothing and wound itself around her body. All this very quickly. Then Miss Kernnghan struck her deadly assailant with a croquet mallet. Her brother William ran up, and hit ting the snake with his mallet, almost cut off its head. Theu William climbed the apple tree. In a hollow of it he found fourteen young black snakos hidden aud easily despatched them. Heroic General!!. At Santiago General Joe Wlieclcr climbed a tree to look at the enemy. General Shafter, who weighs 300 pounds, said to him: "I wish I could do that." Yet by climbing a trea Gen eral Shafter, May 31, 1807, won a medal of honor. He was badly wound ed, and to avoid being seen by a pass ing Surgeon who he feared would order him to tho rear ho climbed a tree. Then ho came down, and with hardly a leg to stand on he fought all day, aud Congress gave him his medal. General Nelson A. Miles, May 3, 1803, was in command of skirmishers as Colonel of tho Sixty-first Now i'ork Volunteers. Tliay were holding a lino of abattis againsta liordeof the enemy. Miles is a big mau and makes a fair mark. Yet to encourage his men he kept jumping on an eminence and ex posing himself, inspiring his followers by his voice. Ho fell, finally, badly wounded. He wears a medal of honor. Brigadier-General Guy V. Henry, whom tho soldiers love, led his brigade in au awful charge at Cold Harbor. One horso went down under him. Ho mounted anothor and led on. Tho enemy's breastworks wero reached aud General Henry spurred his horso at the obstruction. The steed was killed in midair, aud with its rider fell in the enemy's line 3. The place was carried. Henry was promoted aud voted a modal. Ilruve Colo red Sergeant. Thomas Shaw, colored, Sergeant Ninth United States Cavalry, was in command of a detaohment of his troop near Carizo Canon. New Mexico, August 13, 1381. The little baud ran onto signs which showed unmistakably that a largo force of hostile Apaches was in the immediate neighborhood. Shaw turned to his dnskv following: "You are under my command," ho said, "do as well by mo as you would by the Lieutenant." Tho Apaches they attacked. In num bers they were live to one. Under their Sergeant's leadership the men stood like rocks. Though their posi tion was extremely exposed they beat off their nssailauts gallantly. Tb savages tried to surround the black troopers. By an exhibition of taotical and strategic knowledge, credit able to any commissioned officer, Shaw prevented this movement of tho Apaches timo after time. Belief came after hours of fighting and cease less watching. Congress gave Shaw a medal, which he wears as proudly as he would a knot on either shoulder. In a newly designed glove, patented by a Michigan woman, the palm of the baud and inside of tho thumbs and lingers aro provided with interwoven rings of leather or other material which prevent the glove from wearing out. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. CarlugPor Silverware. In making bags or cases for silver* ware, an unbleached material should be employed. Sulphur is generally used in the bleaching processes, anil it tends to blacken and tarnish silver. Rubber in any form is another thing that should never be kept near silver ware. Silver is best wrapped in blue, white or pink soft tissue paper and un bleached cotton-flannel bags. Home Surgery. A bit of home surgery practised when a splinter is driven into a child's hand particularly deep is ft 3 extrac tion by steam. A bottle with a suf ficiently wide mouth is filled two thirds with very hot water, and the mouth £s placed under the injured spot. The suotion draws tho flesh down when a little pressure is used, and the steam, in a moment or two, ex tracts inflammation and splinter to gether. This is very efficacious when the offending substance has been iu for several hours, long enough to have started up some of its evil conse quences. Washing Made Easy. Have water scalding hot in the washer. If the water is hard and clothes much soiled, use one pint of washing fluid; soap enough to make a good lather. Put in as many of the least-soiled pieces as the washer will hold, aud work well. Put in all light ginghams, calicoes, lawns or percales, as this mixture does not fade them, and is also excellent for woolens. When nil white aud light articles have been put through,strain the water through a thin cloth, a flour sack be ing most convenient. Then use the suds for dark cloth ing, which would show lint if not strained. For tho second suds, have the water with less of the fluid aud as much soap as necessary. A teacupful of the former is often enough. With soft water, much less can be used satisfac torily. Rinse well and hang out. This fluid neither fadc3 nor rots the clothes, as the ammonia brightens the colors. It is essential to riuse well. This does nway with boiliug, which is of ten a task in the winter, but in the summer one sudsing will do,with boil ing. Cure of Lamps, The light of oil lamps is so much softer and less injurious for the eyes than flickering gas, or even electricity, that it really should be used instead of these iu all nurseries and children's rooms, and tho only drawback about lamps is that they require such oare ful tending to keep them iu a safe and bright condition. But given a con scientious nurse, or a mistress who un dertakes their management herself, all will be well. One very necessary thing iu lamps is that the oil reservoir lie kept scrupulously clean inside; no oil is so pure that it does not leave a sed ment.and.if this sediment be allowed to accumulate, the succeeding oil fails to burn as brightly as it otherwise would. Lamp reservoirs should be washed out once a week with hot water and pearl ash and be allowed to thoroughly drain and dry before new oil be added. Tho burner should also be frequently cleaned —once a day, in fact—aud every orifice should be thoroughly cleaned out; tho wick should bo wiped at tho top with a piece of soft rag to remove tho charred edges, aud if the wick should bo found to burn rather cloudily, it may be nooessnry to re move it the next morning aud soak it for an hour or two iu vinegar and water. It should be quite dry before being again placed in tho buruor. Recipes. Laplands—Beat separately one dozen eggs, mix into the yokes one quart of flour, one quart of cream, one tea spoonful of salt, the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Put into small moulds, well floured before being greased, and bake in a very hot oven. Plnin Coconnut Pudding—Pour one and one-half pints of boiling milk over one piut of bread crumbs aud one cup of desiccated cocoauut mixed, and a tiny pinch of salt, or sprinkle of nut meg, aud three tablespoonfulsof sugar-, bake aud serve either warm or cold. Open Peach Pie—Lino a pan with nice crust, put a quarter inch layer of peach marmalade over smooth, then a layer of fluo, sweet peaches; cut in half after peeling. Add a dust of flour and a cup of sugar. Bake at first with pan over, then, ns the peaches are hot, remove. When serv ing add whipped cream. Onion Pickles—Peel small onions of uniform size and lot them lie in salted water twenty-four hours. A teacup of salt in a gallon of water. Rinse in clean water two or three times, letting them staud in the last water half an hour; theu drain an hour and pack in jars with spices, mace, red pepper pods and whole cloves. Cover with ho't vinegar and seal. Pressed Chicken—Stow slowly two chickens, out up small until meat drops from bones; take out and chop tine; lot liquor boil down to cupful; add to it butter size of an egg, teaspoon pep per, little allspice and a beaten egg; stir through the meat; slice hard boiled' eggs, lay in mold and press with your meat. Serve very cold, garnished with a little parsley. Charlotte of Green Gooseberries— Cook one quart of gooseberries with sugar to make quite sweet and a gilt of water; pulp through a sieve that will exclude the seeds. Butter a pudding mold and arrange a star with lady fingers in the centre, and also a lining on the side. Whip half pint cream until thick, add to the pulp, then add half ounce gelatine dis solved in a little milk. Pour carefully into the mold and set on ice.
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