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THE HOUSEHOLD,.
.HOME IS HOME, HOWEVER LOWLL
A Proverb Paraphrased.
Home Is home, however lowly,
Vetoed around by many a spell ;
If within its procfnota holy
Room be found for Love to dwell
There ie, sure, no spot on earth,
Whereaoe'eraur steps may roam,
fan outshine the smiling hearth
Ot a tranquil, happy home,
Home is home, however lowly;
There is magio in the word ;
Strife. avaunt, and Melancholy,
Whilst its comforts I record!
Woman dear my song approve,
To my aid, Penetee.,come
Whiled I hymn, with duteous love,
Home, however homely, home.
Home le home, however lowly -
Peaceful pleasures there abide;
Soothing thoughts and visions holy
Cluster round our own fireside.
Though the outer world be dark,
Ani its ocean lashed to foam,
safe within its sheltering ark,
Ail is galm and bright at home.
Moue is home, however lowly ;
Oa, how sweet when storms are rife,
And our feet have struggled slowly
' Through the tangled ways of life;
Sad, encumbered, faint, and weary,
Spared the grief again to roam,
To lay down our burden dreary,
At the blessed door of home.
Cookery for Beginners.
The pleasing custom in many families is
to make the daughters reaponeible for "fancy
cookery." Mamma turns naturally, when
company is expected, to her young allies for
themanufaoture of cake, jellies, blanc -mange,
etc., and for the arrangement of fruit and
flowers, and seldom cavils at the manner in
whioh they do the work.
The difference in the appointment of feasts
in homers whertethere are girls growing up
and grown, and in those where there are
none, is so marked that I need not call at-
tention to it.
LEMON OR ORANGE JELLY.
One ptokage of gelatine soaked in two
cups of cold water. Two and a half cups of
sugar. Juice of four lemons and grated peel
of two (same of oranges). Three cups of
boiling water. A quarter -teaspoonful pow-
dered cinnamon.
Soak the gelatine two hours ; add lemon
juice, grated peel, sugar and spice, and leave
for one hour. Pour on the boiling water,
stir until dieoived, and strain through double
flannel. Do not shake or equeeze, but let
the jelly filter clearly through it into a bowl
or pitcher set bsheath. Wet moulds in
cold water end get aside to cool and harden.
RIBBON JELLY,
Take one third oarrant jelly, one third
lemon jelly, and as much plain blanc -mange.
When all are cold and begin to form, wet
a mould, pour in abaut a fourth of the red
jelly and set on the ice to harden ; keep the
rest in a warm room, or near the fire. So
aeon as the jelly Is firm in the bottom of the
mould, add carefully some of the white blanc-
mange, and return the mould to the ice.
When this will bear the weight of more jelly,
add a little of the lemon, and when this
forms, another line of white.
Proceed iu this order, dividing the red
from the yellow by white, until the jellies
are used up. Leave the mould on ice until
you are ready to turn the jelly out.
A pretty dish and easily managed if one
wall have the patience to wait after putting
in each layer until it is firm enough not to
be disturbed or muddied by the next supply.
BUTTERCUP JELLY,
One half paokate of gelatine soaked in
half a cup of cold water for two hours.
Three eggs. One pint of milk. One heap.
ing cupful of sugar. One teaspoonful of
vanilla. Bit of aodathe size of a pea stirred
into the milk.
Heat the milk to scalding in a farina -ket-
tle and stir in the soaked gelatine until the
later{is dissolved, and strainithrough a coarse
cloth. Beat the yolks of the eggs light, add
the sugar and pour the boiling mixture grad-
ually upon it, stirring all the time.
Return to the farina -kettle and stir three
minutes, or until it begins to thicken. Let
it 000l before you flavor it. Whip the white
of one egg stiff, and when the yellow jelly
coagulates around the edges, set the bowl
containing the frothed white in cracked ice
or in ice -water and beat the jelly into it,
spoonful by spoonful, with the egg -whip, un-
til it is all in your sponge thick and smooth.
Wet a mould and set it on the ice to form.
Lay about the base when you dish it,
WHIPPED CREAM,
I have been assured by those who have
made the experiment, that excellent whip-
ped cream can be produced, and very quick-
ly, by the use of our inoomparable Dover
Egg -beater. I have never tried this, but my
pupils may, if they have not a syllabub•
churn.
Put a pint of rich sweet in a pail or other
wide mouthed vessel with straight aides, and
set in ice while you whip or churn it,
As the frothing cream rises to the top, re -
Move it carefully with a spoon and lay it in
a perfectly Olean and cold colander, or on a
hair sieve, set over a bowl. If any cream
drips from it return to the vessel in which it
is whipped to be beaten over again. When
no more froth rises, whip a tablespoonful
of powdered sugar into the white alyliabub
on the colander, and it is ready for use.
Hinte.
Lemon juice will remove tan and %taine
from the hands. For the face, mix the le-
mon juice with an equal quantity of the
white of egg, Beat them together, then
put the mixture int) a porcelain or granite -
ware dish over a slow fire, and stir until It
thickens slightly, but not until it is hard.
Put it on the face at night.
Sweet oil is said to whiten the akin, and
also to inareaae the flesh, when eaten in
quantities. Yet, when sickening or un-
pleasant to the stomach, it sometimes turns
the skin brown, and of oeuvre under such
cireumetancea not enough of it could be talc.
en to make much difference in the flash,
When the stein of the face, neck, and
hands has become hard from exnnaure to the
elements, whether in summer pleasure trips
or outdoor occup:ttiin of e mors uti i'r,. rias
character, it may be t:cftened .nil muoo
benefited by tab ii a mixture meat.. of four
ounces of the einuisloin of bitter atlnnende
and twenty grafna of borax, It should be
applied to the ski'' with a piece of soft
sponge, and washed off in a little while with
a soft towel and tepid water.
Oatmeal is exoellent for softening the
hands. Rubbing the hands with cold cream
and drawing , on a pair of locse,kid gloves
at night is also good, Dogekin gloves help
to whitten the hands and do not irritate the
skin. Cold boiled potatoes are .extremely
good for whitening and softening the hands
and akin. Take them when not quite done,
though they should not be to hard, and use
in the plane of soap,
The Laugh of England's Crack Cruiser..
A large gathering of speol:ators aesembled
in the dockyard at Chatham to witness the
launch of her Majesty's ebip Severn, Thie
vessel, when completed, will be one of the
most important additions which have been
made to the royal navy. The Severn is an
unarmored fast steel cruiser, belouging to
the Ola a of the twin screw prottotodcor-
vette, which inoludee the Thames and the
Mersey. She is a more powerful vessel than
the cruisers of the Leander type, and posses.
ses greater steam power. The principle fol-
lowed in her construction has been that of
the water -tight hull, and the main object
which the deeignera have had in view is to
guard as much as possible the boilers, en-
gines, and magazines from danger.
The Severn has been about two years in
the course of construction,. and is estimated
to cost about £160,000. If the anticipations
of her designers are realized, it is believed
she will turn out to be one of the fastest
cruisers in the service. Her principal di-
mensions are as follows : Length between
the perpendiculars, 300 feet; extreme
breadth, 46 feet ; mean draught of water, 17
feet 9 inches ; load displacement, 3,600 tons.
Her armament will consist of two 8 inoh
breech -loading guns, ten 6 inch breech -load-
ing guns, one 9 -pounder boat and field gun,
one 7 -pounder boat and field gun, six 1 -inch
Nordenfelt guns, and two -forty -inch Gard-
ner guns. She will carry Whitehead tor-
pedoes, and discharge them above and below
water on each broadside. Although the
hull is unarmored, the vessel is provided
with a nine -inch thick armor steel faced
conning tower, steel protective horizontal
deck plating two inohee thick, and three
Inchon of the same on slopes. She will be
fitted with horizontal compound engines of
6 000 indicated horse power, made by
Meissen. Humphry, Tennant & Co., of Dept-
ford. There are two propellers, and the
vessel is estimated to attain a speed of 17a
knots per hour. The authorized comple-
ment of her coal bunkers is 500 tons. and
accommodation is provided for 300 officers
and men,
Three o'clock was the hour appointed ler
the proceedings to begin. As the hour ap-
proached a large staff of workmen made all
preparations for the christening ceremony,
which was performed by Mies Daisy Watson,
daughter of Admiral Watson, C. B ,
Admiral Superintendent of the dockyard.
Prayers having been read by the Rev, Mr.
Dearden, a signal was given by the chief
constructor, in riaponee to which Miss Wat-
son moved the lever holding the ropes. As
the last support weir knocked away a pause
of a minute or two occurred, during which
the vessel remained fast on the stocks,
There was a momentary bustle and a flicker
of excitement ; but presently the vessel,
obeying the slight pressure which had been
applied to it, began to move from the fast-
enings which had retained it so long, and
amid a storm of enthusiastic cheers slid
swiftly into the Medway. As the Severn
got fairly out of the slip the cheers were
again renewed ; the royal standard, tate
union jaok, and the Admiralty flag were
hoisted on board the cruiser, and the band
of the Royal Marines brought the proceed-
ings to a close by playing " Rule, Britannia."
It ie expected that the Severn will be
ready for her first commissi.:n in a few
months.
Giving Way To a Sister.
Not many sisters would be as obliging as
was the one mentioned in one of the follow-
ing incidents, which illustrate some peculiar
customs existing among French Canadian
peasants. For these people, as indeed is
the c- ss for almost all communities, the
chief social event is a wedding, Among the
habitans it is ally oat the only set occasion
for feitivitles. Tho priestthenpermits dant•,',
big, and allows unusual expenses to be in-
orred. Courtship is short, and engage -
meats are made frequently with a view to
pecuniary interests, as in France,
A widower recently went to spend an
evening with a neighbor who had a sister
—a spinster whom no one had thought of
marrying, When tho visitor left the house
the brother accompanied him, and suggested
that he marry the epinater. They returned
to the house, and$went to the bedside of the
lady who wan asleep, When she had been
awakened, the visitor said to her,—
" liJdademoiselle G—, take a good look
at me; I am rather worse than 1: look by
caudle -light, and I've nine small children,
and not much land. Will you tnarry me?"
The elderly maiden, sti.l hali--asleep, rub.
bed her eyes, looked. the hank suitor over
for a moment, yawned, and replied, " Yes."
" Then be ready next Tuesday."
And that was all there was of that court.
ship, which was certainly brief, simple and
to the point.
In another case, the would-be bridegroom
found his betrothed crying after the banns
had been published.
" Whatever is the matter, Marie 1" he
asked
" Weil, 'Baptiste," she replied, " my
sister Louise wants very much to marry,
beoauee she is older than I, and it is her
turn first. And It makes me sad to see her
disappointed. Now, if you would only
marry her 1 Everything is ready, and it
would be such arelief 1"
" Well, well," cheerily replied the young
man, " don't cry a`aout a little thing like
that, Louise will do; go and toll her to
get ready.') -
Daudol, the Peach novelist, is a nnan,
rather under middle height, but strikingly
handsome. His black hair, which is parted
in the middle, hangs down upon hie goat col-
lar His forked bead is Hark brown and a
litt'•e thin, his eyes are large, dreamy, and
southorn, with a soft, melancholy expression,
A wine merchant in Hamburg hal am
queathed
-
queathed 1,000 thelere per annum, the in'cr-
est of his capital, to the baldest man in the
oity, with the proviso that should a matt
Wm tip with no hair at all on his head, he
is to take the entire Capital,
Brom the Bed to the Bow Biver,
The Southern route through Manitoba
from the Red River westward has been well
brought before the notice of the reading
public and is the portion of tho province
which is most densely settled. Along the
river south of the capital we have the rail.
way towns of Emerson and Morris besides
several villages where railways have n 't
reached. In this stretch we have the houses
of the old settlers and native farmers with
their narrow river frontage and in many
respects the appearanoe they presented
forty years ago. On the other hand the two
railway towns mentioned show the effeots of
more enterprise than judgment, Morris
had at one time a population of some six
hundred, but has not much more than half
of that number now. It has suffered eevere-
ly from ovorbooming, and ie only now begin-
ning to show a reaction of a favorable kind.
It is surrounded by a beautiful country,
whioh may be looked upon as one of the
boat agricultural districts xn Manitoba, and
now that the boom ideas of its speculators
have been rudely wiped out, ite healthy
growth is setting in, It must yet take its
place as a market town of some importance,
and there are points about it which renders
it attractive to the capitalist looking for an
industrial location, With the main line of
the C. P. R. Southwestern running through
it, and the Red River nigh at hand it has
good shipping facilities for manufacturing
concerns. At present its bueinees institu-
tions number about twenty, and inoludo a
flour mill which has been sometime silent,
Emerson, the gateway city of Manitoba, la
another pint where over speculation has
lain like a load upon progress, and seldom
has a town suffered so much from bubble
speculations. It has its fine business blocks,
some of them built by scheming speculators
who never paid tor them, and thereby forced
quite a number of traders into insolvency,
and has altogether the appearance of a town
of considerable pretensions. At one time
its population was conalderahly over 3,000
but now dons not number more than 1,500.
Besides having every facility for bueinees in
the way of buildings it has a well settled
oouniry tributary to it, and but for the
scheming of speculators would now have
been a prosperous town, and contending for
the position of second trade point in the
province. It is the key to the Northwest
by the river route. and will yet be a busy
point of transfer, especially in the event of
the Hudson's Bay Railway being construct-
ed. Its prospects are good for the future,
and there are evidences that a better era
has set in, and that the town will from this
move on towards prosperity. It has still
nearly forty places of business of every It nd
including a flour mill, a saw mill, a brewery
and several small industrial institutions, and
has good solid business men, who will sur-
vive to see the day of rushing prosperity.
From Emerson westward we advance into
the garden of the Northwest, the famed
Southern Manitoba, acknowledged by all
who have been through it to be the finest
grain raising country in the world. From
Gretna north and west to Morden is the
first fine stretch of this district, and at the
latter place we leave the beautiful natural
valley. which the energy and industry of
the Mennonite settlers from Ramie have
made a huge grain field. In Gretna the
boundary town there are some sixteen busi-
ness places, and an amount of bushman is
done which would only be credited by those
who have been frequently there in winter,
and seen the long lines of grain laden
wagons coming to market. Although un-
pretentions in appea-ante, Gretna is un-
doubtedly a wonder from a bueinees point of
view, especially when we consider that its
population does not exceed one hundred
and fifty.
At Morden the end of the Mennonite
settlement is reached, and the town itself
draws WI trade from a country settled by
people from different countries, and all set
tled on farms, which for grain raising ad-
vantages have no equals outside of Southern
Manitoba. The town has a population of
about 400, and has over forty business insti-
tutions in it. It is as yet too young to have
any importent industrial ine`itutions, but
these must come in time, while at present it
is probably the best grain point of its size in
the whole Canadian Northwest. About
seven miles from it atands the remains of
the town of Nelson, which promises soon to
be a thing of the past, nearly all its mer-
chants having moved. into Morden with
their effects.
Leaving Morden for the west by rail, we
commence the ascent from the valley to the
table land above, passing through the vil-
lages of Thornhill and Dalingford, and eur-
rounde d by waving grain fields as far as the
eye can se-, we in time reach Manitou the
present terminus of the Pembina Mountain
section of the C. P. R. Here we have a
population of at least 500, and over thirty
places of business. As Morden is the grain -
market of the valley, so Mauitou is the grain
market of the upland plateau on which it is -
located, It is simply dropped in the centre
of a huge grain field, so to speak, and is a _
rushing western town in every respect.
Like Morden it is too young for important;in-
duetriee, but its day of industrial growth
cannot be far distant.
From M initou westward the work of ex-
tending the railway is now going onward,'
while millions of bushels of grain are wait-
ing to be carried out of the country b'yond.
On the western side of the Pembina Valley,
which is crossed about ten miles west of
Manitou, there are numerous villages await-
ing the approach of the lccomotiv a, some of
which may be fortunate enough to secure a
station, while others are likely noon to be
numbered among the towns of the past.
We have Pilot Mound with some
twenty busineea Institutions inoluding
a mill, where several thoroughly en-
terprising business men can be found with
their stores around the base of the mound
which over -hangs the place, Then there in
Crystal City with nearly as many business
h uses, C,earwater with about a dozen, and
quite a number of smaller villages scattered
along the north side of the proposed new
line until S ^uric is reached, and on the south
aide of it away down to the Turtle Moun-
° tain district, 'where hundreds of settlers
have for years linen waiting anxieuely for a
ins of railway.— li'i x) Ia ' )E
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The Praiser of Wales% lest dog, Bang was
mastered, I learn, in Stockholm, after Il.is
Royal Hihnees'% departure (for Hungary
recentlyl thr )ugh its collar With the Prince's
name on. It was dispatched after its Royal
I master, who was delighted at its recovery,
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A WESTEEN DESI'EBADO,
The Person who Shot Ten lien fa Tele
e
Minutes.
An Eastern journal recently published an
Ito:oont of the shooting of eight Texans by
Matt Raley iu Eansae some years ago, The
article ormolu led with the statement that
Riley, some years of ter tbsrtragedy desorib•
ed, was attacked with paralysis and died in
the Eietern Sta es, ltiley did not die in
the Last, but, on the contrary, Is alive and
a resident of San Francisco, where he has
lived the greatest po.tioa of the time sinoe
bis celebrated adventures in Kansas caueed
a sensation through• ut the Southwest,
Matt Riley, or Matt Foster —the latter be-
ing his right name —was at the date of the
occurrence referred to one of the most noted
and desperate of the professional fighters
and gamblers of the West. He was about
30. years old, ani in physique the counter-
part of the redoubtable John L, of Bacton.
His whole life has been pasted in scenes of
rough adventure. When a boy he enterel
the civil war on the C mfederate elde, being
a native of Arkansas, and finally graduated
as a full-fledged bushwhacker. At the burn-
ing of Lawrence, Kan , he obtained a .con-
siderable share of booty, and, growing tired
of fighting for hie party, concluded to do
something for himself. At that time the
sparse population and peculiar conditions of
1.fe in Kansas offered great inducements to
a desperate man, and Riley made the great
State his abode. He filled several positions
—was sheriff of Ellsworth and was deputy
marshal at Newton at the time of the sen-
sational adventure with the Texans. Mo-
Clesky, the Murehal of thetown, was Riley's
partder,
Riley had formed McCiusky'e acquaint-
anae at Laramie, where he met him in com-
pany with some of the most desperate char-
acters that ever infested the West. Subse-
quently MoClueky and Riley met on the
Atchison and Topeka road, and they became
p irtnera in the preservation of the peace,
and the proprietors of a hurdy-gurdy and
gambling house at Newton. On the day of
McClueky's death Riley had been out hunt-
ing a horse thief, and got back in the after-
noon. While standing outside the dance
house he noticed that the place was doing a
lively business, There were eight women
dancing on the floor and as many mere ped-
dling drinks, and the cowboy element was
numerous and uproarious. MoClueky was
sitting on a ohair with his back to the wall
looking e.t the proceedings, when of a sud-
den a party of Texans who had planned to
kill him sprang forward from the crowd and
began to shoot at him. McClusky bad kill-
ed one of their men a 'me time before, but
was wholly unsuepicioue of au attack, and
he was
RIDDLED WITH BULLETS
before he could draw hie pistol. The des•
perate character of the man aeeerted itself
in the death agony, and his last movement
was to nook his pistol and point it at his as-
sailants. He had not strength to press the
trigger, however, and fell on hie face, dead.
At the first report of the Texans' pistols,
Riley started for the dame house. His
quirk eye took in the tragic situation of his
partner at a glance, and in an instant he had
seized the nearest Texan by the neck, and,
holding him up before him as a living target
opened a fusillade on the assassins. When
the firing ceased there were nine men ly-
ing on the floor dead and wounded. When
Riley loosened the grasp of his herculean
arm from the neck of his human shield the
tenth victim of the terrible encounter drop•
ped lifeless to the boards.
Riley formed a partnerehip with the no-
torious Jack Wiggins. and opened a large
saloon in Salt Lake City. Oa the opening
night a Mormon known as Dutch John,
who figured as a destroying angel, entered
the saloon and intimated to Wiggins that
no Gentile would be allowed to run such an
establishment in the city. Some hot words
following, the destroying angel seized a, bot-
tle awl hurled it through the largo mirror
behind the bar, shivering the glans into
fragments. Wiggins had his pistol out al-
most before the destroying angel swung the
bottle, and the crash of glass was drowned
in the report of a shot that sent
DUTCH JOHN TO ETERNITY,
For the inauepici •ue incidenr of the opening
night Wiggins was arrested and sentenced
to death.
With that lofty conaideratioh which dis-
tinguished Morin an justice, Wiggles was
given the choice of death by hanging or
shooting He chose the rope, although ex-
horted by hie rough friends to seleot the
bullet as the moat c xpedient and respect-
able agent of extinction. When reasoned
with by Riley, he stated that he preferred
to be hanged, " for," said he, " I've seen
many a good man shot, and I want to see
one hanged."
A few days before the day of execution
Riley managed to secure an opportunity for
Wiggins to break jail, which that worthy
improved with alacrity. The fugitive was
concealed for eight days in the cellar under
the Hotel, Riley had sold his saloon and
spent all his money to secure the escape of
Wiggins, He had nired a notorious charac-
ter named Bill Bean to take the fugitive to
Evanston, Wei. T., on horseback, as from
thtt laoint he could get East it safety. On
the night when Bean was to have taken
Wiggins away the latter aeked Riley to
give him his pistol, as he had only two of
his own, and he wanted another for Bean,
whom he expected to fight for him if nines -
eery. Riley refused at first, as the pistol
was an old friend, but finally yielded to
Wiggins's importunities and handed himthe
weapon. The moment Wiggins got the pis-
tol he became almost insane with passion,
and, seizing Riley, thrust the muzzle of the
cocked revolver down thelatter's throat till
it nearly choked him. Before Wiggins
could carry out his threat to
ireow THE IIEA1) OPF ITIS PARTNER
Mean and others interfered, and Riley
made his escape. He at once went to his
lodginge, and, getting another plebe', rush-
od back to the cellar, but Wiggins had set
out on his journey and tragedy was averted.
It subsequently tranaplred that Wiggins
was jealous of Riley, whom he Suspected of
paying attention to hie enamorata while he
wan hiding from the officers of the law in the
cellar. After warring from Utah Wiggins
could not test, He goon made his where.
abouts known by several daring eeetpadea,
and was finally arrested and taken bank to
Salt Lake. IIe again centred and tome
ycars after ho wan shot in a row in Now
Mesico.
Riley moved to Nevada from Salt Lake,
qty, and figured In that teetion as a monte
gambler and a hard oaso generally. He
finally descended on San Francisco, and, itt
conjunction with Charles ltferion, better
known as Boston Charley, a swell mobaman,
now serving a term in an Eastern peniten-
tiarp, opened the first'bunoo shop in San
Francisco, and did a thriving business, the
capital being furnished by 'cine business
men of the pity. While iu this avocation
Riley, alias Foster, fell desperately in love'
with a 16•year•old girl of Hebrew descent,
and finally married her, despite the moat,
tion of her parents, when sue waseicaroely
16 yearn of age. After this exploit he set-
tled down to the comparatively quiet life of
a faro dealer, in which profession he be-
eame paralyzed under remarkably strange
circumstances. Ous night when dealing
"a flyer ' a Rambler won eleven straight
bets. Foster, for by that name he was then
known, burst into the wildest profanity, and
wound up his exhibition of anger with the•
wish that he might be paralyzed if the man
won the next bet. The men won, and as
the faro box dropped from the nerveless
hand of the dealer the players looked at
him in horror, for he was etrickon
HELPLESS WITHI PARALYSIS
of the left side. Some time after the broken-
down desperado, no longer a stalwart speci-
men of humanity, but a poor cripple totter-
ing on crutches, was committed to the alms,
house by hie wife. It seemed impossible
that he could ever again return to the
world, but the tremendous vitality of the
man brought him back from the jaws of
death, and he is again struggling for a liv-
ing, a cripple sustained only by the hope
that he may somehow regain the affections
of his former wife, now separated from hint
by divorce and married again.
STATISTICAL.
The Prince of Wales has 75 uniforms and
a snore of official ;ostumee, as Governor of
the Charter House, President of the Society
of Arts and innumerable other distinctions.
His dress by which he is chiefly known, that
of an ordinary English gentleman, adds
many costumes to a wardrobe which would
enchant the most fastidious dandy.
There are existing more than forty Egypt-
ian obelisks; many of them are fallen and
broken. There are eeventeen of them in
Italyy, seven in England, two in France, two.
in Coustentinople, and one in America. The
smallest is at Berlin, which is twenty-five
and a half inches high. An unfinished one
in the quarries at Syene is estimated to weigh
1,500,000 pounds.
The centre of population in the United
States Is moving rapidly westward. It is
now a little to the south of Cincinnati, hav-
ing long since crossed the Alleghenies. The
movement has been about 44.5 miles west
for every mile south, In 1890 the movement
westward wi 1 probably be even greater, and
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so rapid has been the settlement of the orth•
west, the centre of population will befarther
north than at present. •
To meet the requirements of a classic fig-
ure a lady ehould be 5 feet 4a inches tall, 32
inches bust measure, 24 inches waist, 9 inches
from armpit to waist, long arms and neck.
A queenly woman, however, should be 5 feet
5 inches tall, 31 inches about the bust, 261
about the waist, 35 over the hips, 114 inohee
around the ball of the arm and- 64 inches
around the wrist. Her hands and feet should
not be too small.
The new railroad station belonging to the
North Western Railway Company at Bir-
mingham, England, has been completed and
is the largest structure of the kind in the
wo Id. It covers twelve acres of ground,
and $5,000,000 have been expended upon its
construction ; one thousand workmen have
been employed upon it for two years and a
half. The platform exceeds a mile and a
half in length and four hundred trains daily
pass through the tunnels,
The people cf the United States drink
about two gallons of liquor for every bushel
of wheat they consume According to offi-
cial reports the liquor annually consumed in-
cludes 69,156,903 gallons of spirits, 19,155,-
953 barrels of fermented liquor, and 20,508,-
345 gallons of wine. Estimating the popula-
tion at about 55,000,000, the average con-
aumption appears to be about 1 2 gallons of
whiskey for each person yearly, over 10.25
gallons of beer, and .35 of a gallon of wine.
The quantity of beer consumed appears to be
about 595,000,000 gallons,
The Czar Alexander L died Deo. 1, 1825.
In 1833, his friend and adviser, M. Arant-
cheieff, deposited in the Imperial Bank of
Russia fif cy thousand roubles (about $37,500)
to remain at interest till the hundreth anni•
vereary of Alexander's death, when three-
fourths of the sum is to be awarded by the
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences to the
person who shall write the best history of his
reign, and one-fourth reserved for the ex -
pensee of publication,,At four per cent. in-
terest, the whole amont will be 1,439,220
roubles, or $1,079,415 Perhaps the child is
already born who is to receive this vast hon-
orarium.
Few persons are aware of the extensive
nature of the victualing on board the great
ocean steamers. Each vessel is provisioned
as follows for the passengers and crew t
Three thousand five hundred pounds of but-
ter, 3000 hams, 1600 pounds of biscuits, ex-
clusive of those supplied for the crew ; S000
pounds of grapes, almonds, figs and other
dessert fruits ; 1,500 pounds of jam and jelliese
tinned meats, 6000 pounds; dried beans,
3000 pounds; rice, 3000 pounds; onions,
5000 pounds ; potetces, 40 tone ; flour, 300.
barrels, and eggs, 1200 dozen Fresh liege.
tables, meats and live bullocks, sheep, pigs,,
geese, turkey, ducks, fowls, fish and game
aro generally supplied at each port, so than
it is difficult to estimate them.
Tho Bird of Evil Omen•
The rooks which for many centuries have -
frequented the spires of the ancient cathedral
of Rat soon, have suddenly disappeared, and
not a bird la now to bo seen in the vicinity.
This circumstance has excited the utmost.
consternation in south Germany, aa the last
Unto that the rooks took flight from Ratisbon
Cathedral their departure heralded a severe
outbreak of cholera.
Extreme cold commute tin into a calm-crys•
talline mads containing large cavities. The
pipes of a ehuroh o-gan have been so altered.
by cold as to be no longer sonorous,