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The Exeter Times, 1885-8-6, Page 7r-. SALES Alp) SAUOES, A Fans, , • Chef-Valuab:8 Opinions—Sugar and Balt—A white Sauce—asgg Naiad —Celery—e, Stock." "If you don't get any thing tilde there you ike, you will say you never tasted such sal *d.* and sauces," So spoke a wise friend to us aw we were starting for a historic town in Provence, France, and while we could joyfully teatify to many other delights in which that visit vaulted, yet have we the meet fragrant memories of the *alads and sauces of the little inn where we lingered for more than a month that winter, It waw: such a very homelike place that we had not been there any time before`we were on friendliest terms with the whole establishment, establishment, from Madame in her little gayly deeoratd "bureau„ just off the court- yard, to Jean, the fat cook, who held da',ly confabs with me in one half -covered part of the portioo near the dining -room, Jean was quite a character. He had his own way of doing A thing ; for example, he never on these occasions came iutothe room; we have Peen him quite indolent there at other times. On relay mornings, our breakfast over, we would behold the prudent chef making his way aerosol thecourtholding a large umbrella over his head, and not to be lured from his usual place. He would cbat affably on various culinary subjects, "aking our opin- Ioa on this and that iu the meet compliment- ary mann&t, now and then giving us fag: moats, aa,re, of the most delightful sounding recipes At last a time came when he actually wrote down some of these, Later he told us that he knew the might make a fortune in England, for ---aa may letters he had received testfied--be could gettenormous wages in a club or some great nobleman's house, but Jean preferred hum - bier laurels and lower **ening., in bis own Provence. And his fame did go Abroad. To the superior exoellenoe of his salads and sauces more than one guest at the little Hotel Imperial has *ascribed. Jeanassur- ed ui that the first oo4lsideration In a sanest was the ammut of aweet or salt naturally in the article to be deemed, for salt and sugar, he observed, were far more important element* than oaio believed Until cue thought with aeriouiuese upon it. White sauce* were his eltekeineurrs. A fine one for .fish which we have Pince used sucoesafully for eclair' vegetables and ragouts, was made as follows ; Put into a porcelain stew -pan a good sized lump of butter ; when it melte add one pint of cream or rich milk ; let this beat through, And add *good pinch of salt, some Cayenne pepper, and the heart of en onion chopped tolerably fine. Smooth to the consistency of paste two tibia-spoonfuba of our in a little cream or milk, and taking care to stir all the time, pour thaw, in slowly. Let it all boil np, keep on stirring, and then put it at the buck of the fire. Hove ready, well crumbled, the yolks of two very hard bailed eggs. Beat those well into the sauce. Just before pouring it over your fish or other article to be dressed with it, let it boil up once more, but taking care to atir well all tbe tilkta. Aaa sauce for small new potatoes, for\bat ed lobster, for chicken hash, veal stew, etc,, this le excellent, but, too much Dare can not be taken in following the directions exactly, the molting of the butter first being very important, and to be recommended in all white or'. cream sauces An egg salad can be made by boiling els a eight minutes, and placing the yolks in unbroken balls on a dish, pour- ing over them the above sauce with one table -spoonful of salad oil beaten into it. Garnish with sprigs of parsley and the white of the eggs cut in crescents, It is also ex- cellent poured over bite of toast which have • been previously dipped in boiling water. Our Provence cook made a delicious celery sauce by boiling pieces of celery tender, and adding to some gocd stook a little white wine. Then thicken this wfthflour, alittle butter, and some pepper and salt. Boil up with the celery, and pour hot over the ar- ticle, fowls, etc., to be dressed. All small white fish when dressed should have either a cream or a white wine aauee, and for the Latter stale champagne may be used to excellent advantage, but never when the sauce is to be served cold. ANIM iLS WITH BINS A Tallahassee man out the tail off hie cat last year, and her last litter of four kittens have no tails. At Croton Palle, N. Y., a rooster looks after a largo brood of chickens as tenderly as a veritable biddy. The maltose cat belonging to Squire Bel- leville of Saverton, Mo., went to the woods and brought in two young wild rabbits tba she now treats as well as the reat of her family. Rover is a dog belonging to William Tuttle of New Haven. After the morning paper, which is delivered it his master's store, has been read, Rover takes it to Airs. Tuttle's mother to read. At Easton a horse envied his master the comfort of A hammock, and while the gentle- man was dining the horse left his pastor$ and took possession of it. The bammock had to be cut to phew; to get the animal clear. A cat belonging to Judge Bernard of Tel- ahassee became such a nuisance that the Judge sant him to a now house fifty miloa away. Tom owe walking into his old home a few nights ago, nearly drowned and very weary. He had walked the fifty mfe*back, swimming across several streams on the way. The sparrows Kaci been too well treated by a farmer near Youngsvllle, N. Y., for them Scenting a Slaver. Many years ago, when 'eatery ruse the rule and not the exception, vessels running a cargo were extremely clever in eluding capture and putting their pursuers off the scent. A good story is told of the flagship— Winchester, I think—going out of Simon's bay bound to the Mauritius. When off Cape Hangklip, late one afternoon, a very rakish, suspitioue•looking craft was sighted, carrying an unusual number of stay -sella, who upon seeing the mart -of -war hoisted Spanish colors and her number of Marryat's code and requested to be reported. She passed quite close, and was apparently a paaaaenger ahip of about five hundred tons burden, for as she neared them about a dozen ladies, in very smart bonnets, veils, and parasols, were observed to come on deck and wave their handkerchiefs with every demonstration of cordiality to the offzoers of the flagship. She seemed to have also A large crew and was very clean and. smart. Suspicion was quite disarmed, and aha we* logged as a passenger ship from Manila to. Cadiz. The admiral was alone in hie opinion that all wan not right, remarking that the ladies waved their pooket handkerchiefsi un- commonly long and vigorously to a mere pasaing ship ; beam thought the handker- obiefe unusually large, and further he men- to forget him, so when A big hawk swooped I tinned that as she passed he was loolttee oat down on A fat hen and curled it to the top of of the door in the iters gallery, and a faint a neighboring tree the sparrow* went for canoe whUf came dews en the wind, re' him. They worried it antic it released the uunduig hixn of aoraetl4fng long part, He hon and at•empted to fly away, It finally could Act remember for the moment of what fell back into the poultry yard with both It did remind him, but it suddenly occurred oyer+'deka(' oat sad ao badly hurt that le to him several bonne attar that the faint died. Learning the Thermometer. f4Thernxotnoter'a gauss ap oonalderable since I passed here as hour ago," he said, putting his head ia, at the door of the jewel- er's store. "Oh, 1 geese not," said the jeweler, as he afficed hismagnifaer to biome and picked up the works of a watch.. "But I tell yon it has" cried the other exaltedly, while he mopped his brow with his handkerchief. odor,mein sie the recalled the;melt of a aiavoiblp whicht b h had navigated into port yaare before, And he was right, This same vessel was taken, oft the Havana, on her subaegoeat voyage, And proved to have beau a Spanish ship from Fernando, Velem river, in the Mozambique channel, full of slaves for Cuba, Her cap - Iain explained with delighted pride his meet- ing with the flagship off the cape, and bow, timing a large tnen•of-war bearing down upon him, with the certainty of capture and no hope to escape ehonld the ship's c uiseter "I think Fan mint be rnlatakou," slid the be known, he Adopted the clever expedient, jeweler as he picked up a pair of tweezers and rigbtenod a sarow. "Mistaken 1" yelled the other ; r' d'y. think I'm anWitt 1 Come out and see." "I. an pretty busty," observed the jeweler as he brushed a pock of dust off the main- spriug. 44What'll you bet it hasn't gone up f•" shout- ed the other as he danced into the store. rr What'll you bot;?'" "Well, I'm willing to bet you a dotter," replied the jeweler. Done 1 Came out now and ate." They went out together. " What do you think of that, now!" be yelled; "you ain't blind, are you ! The there urometer has gone up five degrees dime we looked at it before." "Pardon me," said the jeweler ; " the thormoneter is in precolely the same place that it was when I hung it up this morning It is on the same hook, I see, however, that the mercury hearken five degrees, a obange in temperature which the thermometer faith- fully registers. A thermometer, my friend, neither rises nor falls. It is a measure which indicates arias or fall of the mercury. Please hand over the dollar because I am busy and have no time to fool." "I shan't pay until some better authority decides the matter." " Well, let us go and find some better au- thority. Pm willing to let my businase go for a little while to prove that I am right." When last seen the pair were hunting for Gen. Daniel Pratt, the greatAmerioan travel- er, who is an emiment authority on all scion- tific questions. Preparing Fruits for Oanning• Boil tomatoes twenty minutes, add a lit- tle salt ; can hot. Boil ripe currants six minutes; amount of auger to agnart, eight ounces, Boil Siberians, or crab apples, whole twen- ty-five minutes ; eight ounces of sugag,to a quart. Boil peaches whole fifteen minutes, using Pix ounces of sugar to a quart. Boil pears from twenty to thirty minutes —twenty for halves and thirty for whole pears—using six ounces of sugar to a quart can of fruit. Boil whortleberries five minutes ; the amount of sugar to a quart jar should be four ounces. Boil plums ten minutes ; eight ounces of sugar to a quart is needed Boil blackberries six minutes with six ounces of sugar to the quart. Raspberries six minutes, with four ounces of sugar to the quart. Boil cherries. five minutes ; the amount of sugar to a quart is six ounces. Fruit cans ought to be tightened both be- fore and after the fruit cools. Never use poor rubbers if you want your fruit to keep well. The best oans have porcelain tops. Keep canned fruit in a dark, cool plane (in the cellar) with doors is just the thing to keep fruit in. Swing shelves in the cellar is no place for fruit. Fruit gets too much light and sometimes takes a fall, and, great:is the fall thereof, as well as great waste of fruit and time. Avoid all such calamities. Have a cupboard for your fruit. Any man or boy that is handy with tools can make one good enough to put in a dark corner of your cellar. I can assure you it will pay well for the trouble. Fruit kept in the dark retains its flavor better. Try it and judge for yourself. He Preferred to Walk. "She'spretty hot, ain't she?" said a back woods passenger, addressing the engineer of a Mississippi atean:er that was racing with another boat. " So-so," responded the en- gineer, as he ..hung an additional wrench on the safety -valve cord to stop the ateanifrom escaping. "I reckon we'llovertake that craft soon, " pursued the stranger. " That's about it, " returnedthe engineer; giving the cords another twitoh and hallooing through the trumpet to .the fireman to "shove her up." " One hundred and ninety-five," hummed the passenger, looking first at the gauge and then at the boilers. " That's where. -elves rusticating," put in the engi- neer. The passenger ran his fingers through his hair nervously,and walked about the decks for a few minutes, when he came baok to the engineer and observed, "Hadn't you better leave that boat go 1" " Can't do it. Must pass her." "But s'pesin' we should blow up 1" "Well," said the engineer, as he peeped over the guard to see how fast he was going, " if it is the will of Providence for the boat to blow up, we'll have to stand by it." Then he hallooed to the fireman to coal, and give her a little more turpentine and oil. The next moment there was a splash in the river ; but before the yawl could be lowered, the man had succeeded itis reaching the shore and hallooed out, " Go' on with the rape. I guess I'll walk," 0 A miser grows rich by seeming poor ; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich doubtless not for the first time, of dressing up A number of Iia men in won►en"s attire," ruse that was in this instance entirely tn000auful. HISTOBIOfL ITEMS.. Pope Innocent IV. (1254) publicly recom- mended philosophie study instead of legal. A decree of Clement V. directed Hebrew, Arabic and Chaidee to be taught in tie monasteries, . Sylvester II. is said to have introduced Arable numbers into. Christian Europe. The Corees were a small tribe of Algonquin on theooast of North Carolina. They were alike of the Tuscaroras in en attack npona the English in 1711, and were defeated; and they have since disappeared from the face of the earth, and their dialect IS entirely forgotten. .i r' idiots areof Institutions fo edt . tol recent origl in the United Staten, In 1818 Mr. Galleedet admitted en idiot boy into the deaf and dumb tulle= at Hartford, and Tele salad was strengthened. The fust asylum for idiots was opened Ina wing of the Perklns Institute in South Boston, late as 1848. Among the early efforts to bring about peace in France wags* meeting of the clergy and Christians at Oberon* 989 A. D., which solemnly anathematized all who plunder the poor and attack the clergy. The establish - meat of peace wag held to be a means of removing Divine displeasure, and in 943, after a terrible pestilence in I imoges, the clergy ordered a fast, and the "Pact of Peate" eaacleded by the seigneur; end the duke, Inanolont times the +swampy, spongy ter- ritory of the Netherlandse was bordered by thick foremts, which prevented it from being wbolly welshed away. The wretched iubeb- ltaute of this watery waste were obliged to rano mounds for dwelling -pieces amid the fretlueet flood*, Strange as it seems, this rave of savages, living on fish and spendieg much of their time in trying to keep them- selves, from drowning, grew lata a great and powerful nation. Their hardship* were the school of courage and perseverance that enabled there to surpass maces piatoed amid more genial conditions,. They made the overflowing rivers fertilize the soil of thole country, which became a garden of product, inc fndngtry. The ocean, that threatened to engulf theta, they kept back by caulk - manta, while oovering it with their tom- rooroe, But the abief glory of this people was net in their induatrlel enterprigos and wealth, or in the triumphs of their ext" and arms, but in the *mines whish they rendered to the cause of human liberty and justice by theirrosietance to approesiou, Bleeding at the Lungs. Etemoptysis Is the medical nano of this disease, The prima article Is wed en one ip the Leneef, by Dr. Seymour Taylor, phy- sician to the North London Hospital for Consumpten. Hamnptysis does not always indicate con- sumption. no bleeding may be due to', bronchitis or to a tonporarilyoongested state of some platen of the lungs, If it occur in the early stage of consump- tion, the blood is Simply exuded from some oongeated vessels of the lungs, .and is quite 'scanty. At a mare adveneed stage, attacks odour at comparatively abort Tutor -ale of varying length. The quantity is apt to be a gill or more, audissues from,same large vessel b � dissaso. whish has been eroded y the There is usually connected with it a hard, irritating sough—"chopping" in its char- acter. In the last stage, the attacks are much less frequent, frcm tae fact that the inflam- mation hes tended to thicken and harden the vessels. But they are profuse, exhausting, and greatly alarm the patient, from theldea of impending death, A naturallyselfish disposition may be con. tinual, but gentle influence be brought to rejoice in another's happiness and to work for it, whiten naturally generous heart may be coldness-beshut up from its own warm instincts. It should bo understood, however, that death from haemoptysis is oxoeediugly rare. Dr. Taylor, during his entire oonnection with a consumptive hospital, has seen only ane death directly from it. The experience of others has been similar. In a majority of oases the bleeding tends to stop spontan- eously. Indeed, in the early stage, it is ratherbeneficial as alleviating the congestion, As to treatment, Dr. Taylor decidedly con- demns the use of astringents and of ice -bags, not only as ineffective but as harmful, He has, however, found much benefit from the application of hot flannels to the chest, from the top to the baso. We may add; Improve the general health, if possible, by country living, especially a milk diet, and pure air in the sleeping -room. MAXIMS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL. Love, when it visits old men, is like sun- shine upon snow ; it is more dazzlingthan warming. We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it ; we remember it if he forgets it. The first love that enters the heart is the last to leave the memory. The truth about our merit lies midway between what people say of it to us out of politeness alhd what we say of it ourselves out of modesty. Where the intellectual level is low charla- tans rise to distinction. They are like those rocks on the seashore which only look high at low water. Thosrhwhom experience does not render better are taught by it to seem so.. To endeavor tomove by the mama discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to op en all locks with the same key. The flavor of a detached thought depends upon the conciseness with which it is ex- pressed. It is a grain of sugar that must be melted in a drop of water. Very Your; Widows. The following advertisements appear in no India Soda Re/order:.— A widow of a Bengali, ,Brahmin canto, 11 years of age, lost her husband six menthe after marriage. Her father wishes to give her in marriage tt a Bengali Brahmin of high clan, A Bengali lady, of Brahmin caste, who became a widow when she was 11 years of age, and who possesses a fair complexion and long, beautiful hair, end whose moral character fa most unexceptionable, is pre- pared to marry a gentleman of her own caste according to orthodox rites. The guardians of a Bhatti (caste) lad of is a scion Kapur clan,s 17,who n of a god th highly respectable family, and is receiving eduoation in English end Pension, aro will- ing to encourage the syatefn of widow mar- riage by msrrying him with a widow of the same caste, Required, a matoh for Bongall widow of Vaidya mete, aged 14, who had been mar- ried at her lith, and lost her husband et her 13th, She is of "wheat" complexion, of good featured, and can read end write Bengali tolerably well, knows the Alphabet of English, Audis very intelligent; knits cam- fcrters, stockings, ere., pretty well, and is. very willing to work. The candidate must be a member el the t taidyea caste, and of respectable fanxdY. He mute be well eda- eated, awl of good moral clrraoter. Required, en educated widow, 13 to Ili years of age. She should be of got d shape, feature, complexion, temper, and health, andezot suffering from any hereditary di- sease, deughter of a well-to-do gentleman, and of respectable casts-nlor an enlightened young Bengali Zimindar (landlord) of re- apeatableoasto and tastily, a000mplidhed, well built, and free from unser peeenst end fdio- patbia malady. He to prepared to meet agreeab'e demand*, and 14 order to encour- age widow rearrisge among the nobles and gantries he is desirous of progenting the bride at the wedding with jewels worth 10,- 000 rupets, Hobart Pasha. The career of Hobert Pasha, just sent by England on a minion to the Suiten, has, been an eventful one. The second ion of the Earl of Buokiughamshire, he was born in 1b23, and Scat saw Active aorvioo when stilla boy in tate expeditfou for ,tappreseing the 'lave trade in Brazilian waters, Daring 1815 and 1849 he served as Lieutenant on board the Queen's yacht. He was mention- ed when in command of H. M. S. Driver at theeapture of Boomarauad and bourne Poet Captain in Nil. Six yearn later he WAS Ap- pcintednaval adviser lathe Turkieb servioe. In 1569 he commanded the Turkish float which was sent to Crete and brought to a satisfantory itaue the delicate dipiomatione gotiatlona whish were carried on at Syria. Ile was aubsequently promoted to tbe rank of Pasha and team Inspector-Gener- el of the Turkish navy. During the war he contrived to elude the vigilance of the Run aims and at groat risk suoesafully* ram the blockade of the Danube in one of the Sultan's gunboats. In ISSO he was named Muohir and Naval Aidede•Camp to the Sultan. Pour years ago he married Miss IiathleenL. Here, who belongs to an ancient Anglo-Nor- man family which settled in Ireland as far back as 1160, and who has the rare distinc- tion of being a countess of the Holy Roman Empire in her own right. Mrs. Hobart Hampden bas devoted. "great part of her life to works of charity, and is now Presi- dent of most of the Catholic societes de bion /aisance at Constantinople. Hobart Pasha stands very high in the favour and friendship of the Sultan, and is doubtless now sent to renew that anti -Russian English and Turkish alliance which existed under Bei<conafield, but has been broken under Gladstone. An umbrella loom -moiety is said to be on the point of being established in Berlin. Branch -offices will by opennd all over the city where members can obtain umbrellas in case of a sudden shower. Leather may have its color restored by a application of good blacking, and after brushing, a slight oiling and an after dressing of gum tragacanth, It will improve the shabbiest leather, Her Grammar. It is a pathetic sight to watch the mean- deringg of the childish mind through the in- trioacies of English grammar. Little Jane had repeatedly been reproved for doing violence to the moods and tenses of the verb " to be." She would say "I be," instead of "I am," and for a time it seemed as if no one could prevent it. Finally Aunt Kate made a rale not to answer an incorrect ques- tion, bat to wait until it was corrected. One day the two sat together, Aunt Kate busy with embroidery, and little Jane over her dolls. Presently doll society became tedious, and the child's attention was at. traoted to the embroideryframe, "Aunt Kate," said she, "please tell me what that is going to be ?" But Aunt Kate was counting, and did not answer. Fatal word, be ! It was her old enemy, and to it alone could the child ascribe the silence that followed. "Aunt Kate," she persisted, with an hon- est attempt to correct her mistake, '"please tell•me what that is going to am ?" Still auntie sat silenti3, counting, though her lip curled with amusement. Jane sighed, but made another patient effort. "Will you please tell me what that is going to are ?" Aunt Kate counted on, perhaps by this time actuated by a wicked desire to know what would Dome next. The little girl gath- ered her energies for one last and great effort. "Aunt Kate, what one that going to are ?" Pure beeswax is obtained from the ordr" nary kind by exposure to the influence of the sun and the weather. The even ie sii into thin flakes and laid on sackingor coact cloth stretched on frames resting on posits to raise them from the ground. The wax I turned over frequently, and cocasionally aprfnkled with soft water if there be not dew or rain sufficient to moisten it. wax should be bleached in about four weeks H. Fol and E. Serasinhave lately written a memoir on the depths to which solar rays penetrate In merine water. From a series of experimenta made in the month of. March s - ter (Medi - =Trauma) french - yeara i'Ue of that t terrrauean) Analogous to those previously carried out at the Lakes of Geneva, the au• thors conclude that in fine weather the last rays of light are dissfpsted in the Waiter cancan at a depth of about 400 meters. N. J. Herioourt has submitted a paper to the Academy of Sciencos, Perin in whioh bs maintains that all waters, of whatever origin contain curved bacilli of variable forms am) dirneneions; that the curved bacilli do not exist in the atmosphere under their cherccteristic forts, but are tere, however, in the condition of germs, and that alt substance* capable of serving ea nutriment to germs or bacteria contain curv- ed bacilli. no method, says the &Own has yet been discovered for removing obstacles from pneumatic tubes preferable to that re- sected to in Paris. The position of an obs stractionee determined by simply Bring s. pistol into the tube, The resetting wave of compressed air, traversing the tube, strikes the impediment, and le then deflected back toile originwhere it strike e spinets delicate, disphragm, itearriaai beingrecorded eleetrio- ally upon a very sensitive ebronogreph,, on which algo the instant of firing the pistol bad previously been mended. The wave of sound on reaching the diaphragm ie re- corded, and then refieeted back, a almond timestrikheg the astute and retaining to the dlapluraggm. This operation being sev- ers' times repeated, suae s4ir^emeesureanent seethes nada of the time required by tie sound ware to traverse to and f o within thespneumetfc tube, and the exact petition the bloeicin stetter is asaertalned. Lord Osmnmron Henry Hewerd Molynenx Herbert, fourth Earl of Carnarvon, was born in London in 1831. He wag educated at Christ Carmen, Oxford, where he was drgt-alasa he ohmic* in 1852, His father died before his majority, Hence he had no expo:te m lathe house of Commons, but acquired his knowledge of practical statesmanship in the House of Lords, a seat which he icheritod, In 1•S$4 he revolved the appointment of Governor of Carnarvon Castle. Four years later he be came Un `rear Secretary of State for the 0 1 - odes. In 18.19 be reviewed the degree of D. C. L from the University of Oxford, of which he was elected High Seaward. The same year he resigned his ofiioe, and started an a tour lathe Eaat. Having returned he pub- lished hiss book, "The f)ruaes of the Lobe - nano" opportunely because of the reoent mas- sacre of Christians in that region, and spent several yeast* in the atudy and expositional leading social +fuestions In 1866 he was giv- en a seat in the new Conservative cabinet, of which the Earl of Derby was heed, 1* Secretary of state for the Colonies he cen- sured the oanduct of he auihorItteaduring the insurrection in Jam Baa, and provided the measures which led to the paaffioatton of the island. The Bari of Carnarvon, more- over, developed and favoredthe plan for the confederation of the British North American Colonies. Before the Queen's sig- nature had been afSxed to the bill provid- ingfar that confederation, its autht r resigned his seat in the cabinet, because opposed to the extension of the franchise then being provided for by a government bill. From 1874 to 1878, Carnarvon was again secretary of state for the colonies, but resigned because of a difference with Mr. Disraeli, the prime minister, as to the policy of sending an English fleet to Dardanelles. The Earl of Carnarvon was married in 1861 to the only daughter of thetsixth Earl of Chester- field. His estate is situated in the northern part of the county of Hants. The Earl has spent most of his time in London, where he has a fine residence. Besides the book al- ready mentioned and other publications of less note, he has writen " The Archaeology of Berkshire," a biography of Dean Maned, and a translation of the "Agamemnon" of Aaohylus. As a speaker the Earl is more fluent than powerful ; but he is listened to with pleasure, having largelygot the better of the simpering and affectation which spoil- ed the delivery of his earlier utterances. Waiting to be Swindled. The people ready to be swindled are far more numerous than the swindlers, Ona man offers to furnish oountarfelt ourrenoy ata low rate. A dozen tempted by their greed send forward their money and get Wok in due time their boxes filled with saw- dust. One man pretends to bane drawn at prize in a lottery. He will find a soon quick to trust bim with their cash in the vain hope rf getting something for little or nothing. It is a fortunate provision of nature that there are so few rogues; for if they bore any proportion to the number cf dupes society would go to pieces. In Philadelphia the other day a man pre.. tending to be se sailor went into a baker's shop and asked far a person for whom he had bought some jewels. in a foreign land. He was exhibiting the casket when in rush- ed an alleged pawnbroker, who pronouncing the jewels worth 8600, offered 3150. The sailor demanded $250, and the pawnbroker went away for the money. The sailor soon after departed, when the pawnbroker com- ing back nphrafded the baker for letting the man go and took his departure, telling the baker to advance the sailor $100 and he would call and take the treasures off his hands. The sailor, of sienna,came bank and said he had been frightened away be- cause the goods had been smuggled. Fear of arrest induced him to offer the jewels to thebaker for 380. He eagerly accepted and that was the Inst he saw of money, sailor or pawnbroker. The" jewels" were worth fifty cents. Ghost of the Engineer. Ever since the killing of a colored engines by the explosion in the mill of the Bibb Manufacturing Company at Macon, Ga., the negroes in that locality have been excit- ed by what they believed to be repeated. visits of his ghost. According to them, the ghost of the dead engineer is in the habit of appearing near the northeast corner of the factory inclosure on moonlight nights and of promenading in grim silence around the grounds just outside the brick wall. One morning Police Officers Long and Thomas, on Oglethorpe street, in front of the mill, saw a large man approaching them from the northwest. He walked slewly and seemed to be examining the brick wall which inoloses the grounds. They contin- ued their walk, wondering what the man was doing on the street at that hour. When quite near him he suddenly turned around and disappeared. They knew that he could not have slimed over the walls, and con- sidering his sudden disappearance suspi- ebous, at once began tosearch for him. They looked everywhere in the neighborhood, even beating up the tall grass in the factory reservoir inolosure, but they could not find the mysterious promenader. The question which agitates the officers is, Was the man flesh and . blood or was it the ghost of the dead engineer? Tea as a Beverage. Use a china or porcelain pot. If you do use metal let it be tin, new, bright, and clean; never use it when the tin is worn out and the iron exposed. If you do you are play- ing chemist andforminga tannate ortea-ate of iron. Use black tea, Green tea when good is kept at home. What goes abroad is bad, very bad and horrible. Besides containing the two hundred and three adulterations the Chinese philanthropist puts up for the out- side barbarian, it is alway pervaded by cop- per duet from the dirty curing pans of the growers. Infuse your tea. Don't boil 'it! place one teaspoonful of tea in the pot and pour over it one and a half cups; of boiling water—that is, water realy boiling. If your tea is poor use more. It is cheaper, though, to buy good tea at the outset. Put your pot on the back part of the stove, carefully covered, so that it shall not loae its heat and the tea itsbouquet. Let it remain there five minutes. Then drink it. Drinkyour tea plain. Don't add milk or sugar. Tea -brokers and tea -tasters never. do; epicures never do; Chinese never.. do. Milk contains fibrin, albumen, or some other such stuff and theeteaa delicate amount *1 • tannin. Mixing the two makes the liquid turbid. This turbidity, if I remember the oyclopcedia aright, is tannate of fibrin, or leather. People who put milk in tea are therefore drinking boott and shoes in mild disguise, cetee to At Green !fiver island, in the Ohio river, near Evansville, Indiana, Charles Harding and James Townsend fought six rounds with bare knuokles, the stake being the head and heart of Miss Sadie Corning, a rural belle, for whose affections they had long been rivals. Harding proved victor, and will claim his bride as coon as he can see out of his right eye. Townsend was severely punished. .