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Make amoney orders, checks. etc.,pay able io the Tribune J'r.n'.ing Company, Limited. In the exploitation of any article, chooso for it a good name, and the result trill be great riches, says Pro fitable Advertising. The flesh fly produces about 20,000 young in a season. The larvae ar hatched almost instantly from the egg and at once begin their tvorlt of de struction. Profitable Advertising remarks that advertising is a distinctly egotistical proposition, which accounts for the fact that tha successful advertising man is always more or less of an egotist. A well-known London newspaper l to try tho experiment of leaving out raeiug news of every kind and of ex cluding betting quotations. A great many people will bo sufficiently in terested to watch the effect on that daily journal's circulation. In a Philadelphia kindergarten school a teacher was telling the little children all she knew about a clock, "Now, this," she said, "is the pendulum—this thing that swings back and forth. Did any of you ever hear the word pendulum beforeA child put up her hand. "Yes, teacher," she said. "Pendulum Franklin. I've heard it often." No limit is to be put on the vagaries of food reformers, remarks the Lon don Globe. A Frenchman who objects to what is known as butchers' meat seriously advises a diet of insects. He himself has tried many hundreds of species, "raw, boiled, fried, hashed, broiled and roasted," and finds them excellent, nutritious, and highly di gestible. In reply to the question: "Why do wo men write better novels than men?" Mr. Frank Norris, the author, denied that women do write better than men. and asserted that tho best novels still come from "the razor-using contin gent." Now the London Academy asks "Why razor-using contingent?" and points out that a recent illustrated catalogue of American writers is full of authors bearded like the pard. A bill recently introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature required the licensing of cats. The fee is fixed at fifty cents, and It is provided that any one who shall keep a cat contrary to the provisions of the act shall be fined five dollars, one-half to go to the informer and one-half to tho city or town treasury. Between July 1 and 10 of each year the chief executive of each city or town is required to issue warrants for the execution of till unlicensed felines. A now religious sect has started In Russia called Podpoinlki, which signi fies "Dwellers under the Earth." They pledge themselves to care for all fugi tives from justice, vagabonds, deser ters from tho army and other miser able beings, whom they hide away in clefts or holes in rocks. Those among their own people who fall slek are treated in the same way, bnt are left without food or drink of any kind. Every two or three days they visit the sick. Should any be dead they are buried secretly, but not before the corpses are baptized and have a new name in order that the soul may ap pear spotless before the throne of heaven. The Mexican government has or dered that all railway employes com ing into contact with the public must be able to speak the Spanish language well enough to deal directly with tho passengers. Pullman car employes will he principally affected. A Bostonlan pleads that a new bridge across the Charles river be called the Longfellow bridge. LOVE AND THE INGLE. BY CLINTON SCOLLARD, Loa-g in the vernal season Is a thing of which poets tell; Forsooth, 'twould be very treason If one did not own its spell; "Spring," "wing," and "sing," how they jingle! May and "gay,' how they leap to the lyre! But give ine the coscy ingle. And my love before the lire! [ Love in the tide of summer Has devotees by the score; It has snared the unwary comer To the mountains and the shore. 0 the lonely aisles in the dingle. With the robins and wrens for choir!— But give me the coscy ingle. And my love before the fire! Love ivlien the autumn dapples The hills is said to bo sweet; When a maid's cheek like the apple's Glows fair in the noonday heat. But give me the cosey ingle, (And who would such fate desire?) 0 give me the cosey ingle, And my love before the fire! —Collier's Weekly. jwo; NOBODY in nnisboro ccuid find any mitigating circumstances In tho rascally and, happily, (, brief career of Tom Niles. Mothers of growing sons were glad that lie had forever disappeared from tlie village. Good men who had known his stepfather before that hapless man _ „ had married Mrs. oCh-"""I M'es agreed that Tom's disagreeable | conduct had driven fiffiS* Alhj his mother's young husband to despon denoy and drink. MM I>rpacher8 ' 8n - J| 111 'KA jsFyij L ifl day-school teach ffeliSw ers ond solicitous | pjjlllilr ifrfoWj parents pointed to 11II) f* (1 the vanished black ||j/J| cM 1 UK*'/ guard as a horrible lllllrn i ex,im p' e ° f fl " al 1 I fl/7tt feiii'itll scatitudeandyoutli ! |l| /f W \ fid depravity. Tliey 1 li "///WyN®B ''oniloiied tlie "mis- Ifl(III 'A #||l fortunes" of the 111 l!^~ — ' Am)l n! °f' lel '' s second PJflfv- "• *\, "TI husband, his wastc '''• ' A;] fulness of her es |Y |H tate, his idleness, . Pis perennial state DON TYOtT ENOW -, ' . , ~ ME?" of besotted self-pity, and laid it all at the door of the absent stepson. "Tom Niles druv him to drink," tliey would say; or, "Hiram Baxter never held his head up sence Tom Niles was mixed up in that bank robbery." When Mrs. Baxter, Tom's mother, came to death's door after six years of uncomplaining disappointment, pinch ing poverty and uuspoken yearning for her absent son, the women said that it was Tom's disgrace and desertion that had brought her gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. Nobody knew just what alio really thought of Tom's treatment of herself. They knew that she would not telorate abuse of him, and so his name was never mentioned in her pres ence. If she regretted having given the boy a stepfather almost as young as himself, she never said so. If she yet believed that under better condi tions Tom might have grown into good ly manhood, she made no sign. It was too late. The boy had run away, first, to escape the holier-than-thou tyranny of his model stepfather, aud second, to get away from the warrant which charged him with eomplieity in rob bing the village bank. In the old days, just after the wedding, his mother had sided with Mr. Baxter against Tom, and then But it doesn't matter what she might have dene if Tom came back, for he didn't come back. Mrs. Baxter died, everybody In Hills- __________ boro went to the ~""j I I 11 funeral and every- W. body pitied and (]ij tried to comfort . yY "pore Hiram Bnx- l|| tcr," who appeared very drunk, wept copiously upon the coffin, aud insisted 'iWfcvgjllljl that as-"soon as MyialfSSMSBi things was 'tended jl to he would drown fA, himself to death in 'I | f Bramble Creek." , As a matter of fact. Silas Ilep- J ■' p burn, who com- j'l \\m ■" billed the office ol jjlj IwJ Sheriff with tin ~~ business of sclllnp furniture aud the doleful duties of undertaker,'"tend- COPIOUSLY ed to things" in such l; -' NN * THE COFFIN. a masterly manner that everybody had a word of praise for him. Most of the old women knew that Silas, in his rude, old-fashioned way, had wooed tho fair Widow Niles In the old days before Hiram Baxter "cut him out," and so they ail admitted that l:o had "done liisself proud" in the funeral arrange ments, in the somber appurtenances for coffin and tomb, in bis own decor ous cadncss of voice and bearing. They knew that the cost of so mueli dreary panoply far exceeded the wishes or the means of the Baxters aud they saw in it all Silas' last generous tribute to the woman ho had twice lost. So it was a "very nice funeral," as the undertakers say, and Silas was so Interested In com pleting his task that when the grave wan filled aud banked with the frozen clay, when (lie flowers and wreaths were all spread upon it and duly wat ered by tho lachrymose widower, when the last carriage and buggy had creaked j away over the snow-dusted hill, he | stayed behind in the fading light to j stake off the lot and measure the space for a tombstone. While he was standing there a slouch. Ing, shambling stranger came along r.r.j- and stood by the i l ...blossom-covered mound opposite ! tVf -/xiTw Silas. i (( ( \ • "* S til' B tho LA I grave?" asked the rive? tramp. I "What grave?" fillivitf growled the under -1 taker. '•••(! • lj|!®| "Hergrave;whose | do you suppose? I 1 Don't you know Kit' mer i-'S-"That you Tom? Shore now, is it you?" Poor Silas v-S measured the thin, tattered figure he 'ore bun, saw the W. < 'A. pinched, blue fea &■'' ■ ■tii'fnii.iiJyiß'-'l tures that peered HE SAW TOM YET from the bearded STANDING. face, thought of the warrant, recognized his man, and sat down on a stone ccping near by. "Tom, why'd you come back? I don't want to run you in exactly, hut by J ing " "You mean why didn't I come back," said the tramp, Ignoring the voice of the law, "why didn't I come back and square myself before it came to this?" and he pointed helplessly at the grave. "Well, then, why didn't you?" "I didn't know she was sick, Silas. I knew you were lookiug for me, hut anyway—" "Anyway what?" "I never could stand for that sneal; Baxter, Silas. He's worse than I ever was. He stole those bonds from the hank when he was chief clerk " "Oh, rats!" growled Silas, standing up. "Ef he stoled 'em, how was it you sold 'em?" "Well, I stole them from him, I " "Is that honest. Tom? Standing 3 hero by her grave, VLjaj] "Thchonesttrnlh, Silas." They were silent' for live minutes. li Tom kicking his ill-J ? clad feet to keeps fi$MM them warm, audi YjP|pii}MP Hepburn staring at I , the red afterglow in! | the West. 1 {ilH! Jid Then the Sheriff I .Vi|M|ji|ffljAp'Jj II came over with lilsl f i' l big hand ungloved! ' j|| )fl| "Let's sIK.UeS "liP Jjflfjfy hands, Tom. IJ # want to go home, ..." NOW •• HE WALKED 111' "If you'll wait for THB HILL WITH me just over the ms nANI, s BE hill," shaking the bind nm. warm strong hand, "I'll he along in a minute. I suppose you've git to ar rest me, and mind I don't blame you. Only I just want a minute here by my self." "Arrest nothin'i" grinned Silas. "I'm a undertaker to-day. To-morrow I'll he Sheriff agin—maybe." He walked up the hill with his hands behind him and pausing at the crest, looked hack for a moment. Down in the gray hollow where the grave lay he saw Tom yet standing, watching him. "Wonder ef the pore fellow is a-goin' t* pray?" he thought, as he strode away over the shoulder of the bleak hill.— John H. Itaftery, in the Chicago lice ord-Herald, A Altericas Inland. There is a small island named Tapa Little that lies in St. Magnus Hay, on the west side of Shetland. It gets its name in contradistinction to Papa Stour, or the Big Papa, another island in the same hay. Botli names are cf Norse origin, and signify Priest Isl ands, from the fact that they were colonized by the Irish Catholics who first Introduced Christianity. There was a solitary croft on this island at one time, hut all that now remains is a ruined homestead, for the place is used purely for grazing purposes. A. striking feature of the isle is the fact that no mice eau live there; and on various occasions to test the truth of this, mice have been caught and slipped on the isle, but so uncongenial did Its soil prove to their existence that in a short time tliey were dead. There are instances of crofters on the main land, when troubled with mice, going the length of fetching earth from this isle and sprinkling it cn the ground before building their stacks. This is said to have tlie desired effect in all cases.—Liverpool Daily Post. Choice Lanili and Fisli. Senator Foster, of Washington, an 3 Mr. Loud, of California, liva under the same hotel roof. A few weeks ago when one of his constituents had forwarded him a fine iamb, wliLli was served on the Califoruian's table, he sent a choice cut over to the Sen ator. "Give him my compliments," quoth Mr. Loud, to the waiter, "and tell the Senator that this lamb never tasted anything but milk." The days of the session flew by, and not long ago a waiter appeared at Mr. Loud's elbow one evening, bearing a cut of magnificent salmon. It was sent by Senator Foster. "But I want to know wheth' r this salmon came from Washington or Ore gon," asserted Mr. Loud, with the bearing of half-spread wings terrifies tlie victim, and then with the suddenness of a spring the toothed forearm of the mantis folds hack on an arm also toothed, and the insect is seized between the blades of a double saw as though the blades of a wolf trap were closing on the beast as it takes the halt. Then without unclosing the erue! machine the mantis gnaws little mouthfuls of its victims. Such are the cestncies, tlie prayers and the mystic meditation of the Prego Dieou." When Abroad Speak English. The English-speaking tourist who wastes half au hour of time, temper and energy in trying to make some dweller in a foreign land understand Ills had French or Spanish, only to he shocked at length by some such ques tion as "Can't you speak English?" Is utmost as common nowadays as the track-walking tragedian. This is a little story of his experience ill Spain, as (old liy "The Dominie," in the La dies' Home Journal: "One day we all entered a little shop in Madrid, and 'The Captain' began to speak in Spanish to the girl behind the counter. She failed to understand, and so lie tried again. Once and again he tried and tried, and summoned up his whole vocabulary. At last in his attempt to make his meaning plain by illustration he drew from his pock et-ease a card, and with it stroked Ids cliin. The girl fell into fits of laugh ter, and in perfect English said, 'Ch! what you want is a ilue-tootli comb.' " Trembles or Electricians in India. It is asserted that the height of electrical lines in certain parts of In dia is determined by the reach of au elephant, the wires being placed Just high enough to he out of harm's way from tlie largest elephants. To pro tect the poles from the ravages of white ants in the same land the poles are encased in iron sockets for a heights of about seven feet, as the3e ants will not venture higher than five or six feet in search of edible wood.- ■ Artificial incubators are being used in England for plieasautn and other game birds. Nearly all the ostriches on the South African ranches are also raised in incubators. JF Fancy Mattresses. Fancy mnttresges anil bolsters, cov ered In gayly-covered chintz, are new and novel, but a trifle too bizarre to become popular. Troublesome Stains. The most troublesome of stains with which the laundress has to deal are those of mildew. Linen that lias be come mildewed should be thus treated: Soap the spots, and while they are still wet cover tliom with line powdered chalk, which should be well rubbed in. Obstinate spots of mildew will yield I to the following treatment: Pour a I quart of boiling water over two ounces of chloride of lime, strain this through eloth, then add three quarts of cold water. Lot the mildewed article stand in this for an entire day, then rinse thoroughly. Scorching stains when not too deep may he removed by ex posure to the sunlight. IVlien too ob stinate for tills to be entirely successful apply chlorine water with a linen cloth. A Preserve Closet. A woman reader says: "I feel en couraged to suggest to you two or throe household economies. The first of these is a cupboard, or closet, in the furnace cellar for thestornge of canned fruit. A good house-wife should not be compelled to leave these winter pre parations on her pantry shelves. They should he stored where the severe freezing cannot reach them, and where they can he easily got at. Then I think household comfort depends on a much better pantry than most women have. There should lie besides shelves, bins for bread, cake and so forth, and there should he tin boxes for holding sueli articles as become quickly dried— a tin bread box, a tin cakebox, a [ tin for codfish, a smaller one for smoked fish. A house that is run witii proper economy should always have in storage half a dozen cereals in lcogs or half barrels, macaroni and split peas and similar articles in quantity. I would have an arrangement for a row of such kegs, all of tliera with lids or covers that can lie lifted on hinges. A little thought, applied in the way of providing such conveniences, will save a lot of trouble and a lot of waste.— New York Tribune. To Clean I-aces. To elean laces, particularly hand made "real" ones, I prefer to put them in a preserve jar filled with suds made of a good soap and water; add a little ammonia or a spoonful of borax dis solve in boiling water, and set In the bright sun nil day, squeezing and stir ring occasionally. Rinse lightly but thoroughly, lay in the double folds of a towel, wring as dry possible, and then sit contentedly down with a fresh towel over your lap nud pick eacli scql lop and point into shape. The lace will be just wet enough to bo manageable, and will dry looking almost as well as when it was bought. Old black thread laces that have become rusty may lie renovated by dipping them into weak green ten, and pressing them between newspapers on a flat surface under a weight, after being manipulated by the fingers into the condition in which you wish them to remain. I. think tlie mistake is usually made of Ironing laces with a very hot, heavy Iron; this flattens the thread and takes away much of their original beauty. If time is too precious, or you lack patience, and a piece looks slightly rough dry when you have finished it, lay between flue flannel and iron "wise ly but not too well."—Good House keeping. tT U RECIPES U U Stuffed Tripe—Cut boiled tripe into stripes four inches wide; spread with forcemeat made with three ounces of stale bread crumbs; half a tenspoou ful of chopped lemon peel, one tea spoonful of sweet herbs, two ounces of Chopped suet, salt and pepper to taste and bind with the yolk of one egg; roll the prepared strips and tie; put into a baking pan nud roast an hour and a half, hasting frequently with a mixture of butter and water. Tomato Fritters—Put over the Are in an agate pan one pint of stewed tomatoes, half a teaspoonful of sugar, and salt and pepper to season; bring to the boil; cream together one table spoonful of butter aud one tablespoon ful of flour; add this to the boiling tomato and cook until thickened; cook for five minutes and pour over four slices of stale bread; turn the slice once; then dip the slices into one beat en egg, then In dry crumbs; fry in very hot beef fat; drain and serve. Hoffman Salad—Cut sufficient cleaned celery to give one pint Chop line two truffles, and a few steins of chives, or rub the inside of the salad how] with a clove or garlic. Mix the. celery and truffles will together. Put them in the bowl. Chop two hard boiled egga rather coarsely. Slice two more hard boiled eggs; remove the yolks; chop them with the first two eggs, re serving the white rings to .decorate the salad. Sprinkle the hard boiled eggs over the celery and truffles. Lay tlie egg rings over the top and against the sides of the salad and pour over French dressing. CALIGULA'S SUNKEN PALACES. Another Attempt to Itnlso TließO Play* tilings of the Degenerate Emperor. A company with a capital of SIOO,OOO has been organised l'or the purpose of draining Lake Nemi, a small body of water occupying what was once the crater of a volcano in the Alban Hills, upon the estate of Prince Orsiui, about thirty-two miles from Rome. The ob ject of draining the lake is to recover two enormous floating gardens or house-boats o'f the most extraordinary character, which were built aud used by the crazy Emperor Caligula about forty years after Christ. The historian Suetonius tells us that Caligula squandered in fantastic schemes during a single year the sum of 2,700,000,000 sesterces (equivalent to about $100,000,000 of our money) that had been left him by Tiberius, and describes among other remarkable toys-, constructed for his amusement floating gardens of cedar wood adorned with jeweled prows, rich sculpture, vessels of gold and silves, sails of purple silk, 4 bathrooms of alabaster aud bronze and . f other equally novel and costly features. Upon these floating gardens were vine yards and fruit trees. They were not only places of amusempnt, but temples in which the mad Emperor worshipped himself. Tho floors were paved with glass mosaic, the window and door frames were of bronze, many of the decorations were' of almost priceless value, aud the ordinary equipments wore of beautiful design and costly workmanship. These floating palnces were attached to the shore by chains and bridges were stretched across the water for the purposes of communication. Upon them occurred some of the most ex traordinary orgies that a human being ever indulged in, in which cruelty, mur der and the most revolting depravity were mingled with music and sport. For some reason or another, prob ably during the wars that followed the reign of Caligula, these palaces were "A sunk, aud now lie in the mud 200 yards distant from each other hi Ave. fathoms of water; one is 150 feet from the bank and the other about 250 feet. One measures 350 feet in lengtli aud 00 feel in width and the smaller is 170 feet long and 20 feet wide. Tim first attempt to raise them was made in the thirteenth century, lmt it was found impossible. In 1440 Car dinal I'rospero Colonna employed Loon Batista-Albertl, the greatest engineer of that period, but bis mechanical ap pliances were wholly inadequate. He used pontoon bridges, windlasses and inflated bladders. In 1535 Francesco do Merrill of Bologna, a great military engineer, made another attempt, au account of which is given in bis work on "Military Architecture." He was unable to do anything, nut obtained accurate measurements and other valu able information concerning the ob jects of ills search. A diver who spent several months In their examination brought up samples of richly wrought i bronze which bad become detached p" from the decorations. Nothing further was done until 1827, when another en gineer succeeded in breaking off the prow of one of the vessels to its per manent injury. Five years ago Signor Eorghi, a learned autiquarian, obtained permis sion from the Orslnl family to make another attempt, and although he was unsuccessful in accomplishing his pur pose, he managed, with his grapling irons, to rip up the palaces pretty gen, orally aud lias probably destroyed much of their value and beauty. He took out many beautiful decorations of bronze and marble before he was stopped by the Minister of Fublic In struction, who lias charge of antiquar ian researches in Italy. The articles are now hidden away to escape confis cation by the Government, which lias been trying to get hold of them. There has been a bitter controversy over the matter in the newspapers and ir pamphlets, and the Government lias forbidden the use of any further meth ods that will Injure the boats. Borghi has therefore organized a company, and is now offering the shares for sale in order to raise money to drain the lake far enough to allow him to get the ships and dredge tho bottom for fragments that may have become de tached. The boats are made of cedar, with a thick coating of pitch and cov ered with cloth, on the outside of which a skin of sheet lead of great thickness is fastened with copper nails. The decks are paved with glass mosaics ot exquisite beauty. Archaeologists who have been look ing into the thing are not confident of the success of the scheme. They think the boats are too far decayed to hang together.—Chicago Record-Herald. A 1 loyal Salute. The fondness of navy officers for J telling jokes at each other's expense T* is well known, and their yarns, like the traditions of the Indians, are handed down from one generation to the next. Years ago there was a brusque old Admiral upon whom many stories were told—in most cases true oues. At one time when the warship cf which the Admiral was in command was off the coast of Portugal the King of that country expressed a desire to visit an American man-of-war. The Admiral received the party with groat cordiality, but instead of address ing the royal visitor as "Your Majes ty" or "Your lllghueßS," he invariably called him "King." It was, "Step this way. King, "Look out f.or your head. King," when show ing him about the vessel, and before His Majesty departed the Admiral con vulsed all within hearing by saying hospitably, "King, come down in the cabin and have a drink."—Caroline L Lockbart, In Lippincott's Magazine. 1 Fortune smiles on some people, but to the majority she gives the laugh. *•