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001010N -SEM BROBIETS
AssoaTED Ceases. --One cup butter, two
upe sugar, four cups flour, one milk, four
ggs, two teaspoons yeast powder.
Anterssns.--.One cap butter, four cepa 44.
gar, two cups rank, three eggs, ale cups
Sour, one pound raisins, one teaspoon soda.
spices to snit taste.
FA= Iltmsse 's Itne Bneatrrese
;axes. -One and one-half cupfuls sweet
milk, one-half cupful znolaasee, two cupfuls
rye meal ; mix very soft. One teaspoonful
soda and salt. Bake at once in gena pans.
Mer, Srantees' Cassa.—One egg, one
cupful sone cream, one and one-third cup -
foie white .eras, n little salt; one end ono
half cupfula flour, one amall teampoonful;
cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful eoda
Sever with nutmeg.
VA rzsa-The above receipt with the
addition of citron, curt -ante, militias or oC-
ooanut is very nice. Can be baked in fancy
shape., or in loaf or sheet. It is also nice
for Washington pie. Try It, and you will
call it delicious.
issuer CaxK .—Two onpabutter, one cup
molasses, one andone-half cupe flour, one
cap milk, one teaspoon soda, two egg's, one
pound raisins, one pound carman' or'Itemn,
one teaspoon each kind of egioa, Flour to
make a stiff !ratter.
Nice unseen Can;s.—Eight eggs, two
caps sugar, juiose:d rind of a lemon. Beat
tiro whites of the eggs to a froth, then put
ligar to it and beat; add the yokes well
beaten, and a tabieapocnful lesethan two
sopa of Sour. Tbfe Makes two loaves. Bake
ssbout three fourth, of an hour,
Sr'ozsuas CairnrS.--Oros cup dour, one :nap
etuger, two eggs', one teaspoon Yeast pow-
der !sifted into the flour, Gne.tbird cup. boil-
ingwater. Mix flour, sugar and yeast pow -
dor together, beat yolks and whites of eggs
separately, then together and stir into the
Sorer; then add the hot water. Flavor with
lemon ff dextral
Cry "Telex Fox of ziers,--Heat the
currants and strain off the jute•*; bell it
quietly fifteen minutes; add ane-baif the
weight of it of sugar, and boil eight minute.
longer and pour out. Anti* of this spread
am hot beef steak or served with roast pork,
veal or lamb, is very nice.. Thin slices Iaid
over puddings with sweet fixating are very
ornamental.
Rome Decoration -
Money spent in making bole worth Irv»
ng in is well duvested.
Figured designs in relief, executed in
terra oatrt& or Itacrusta Walton, are being
adopted as frieze..
It Is a common idea that the furniture of
the dining -roam must be heavy, this to a
certain extent is quite oorr.ot, but it is fre-
quently carried to extremes;. what is re-
quire(' are serviceable, oemfortable *bairn
withbroad backs and roomy seats stuffed and
covered with leather or mor000a.
A suggeation in order to change the tem-
perature in rooms is to open the windows
and hang In them wet cloths.
Ink stains may be removed from any -
Mug white by simply putting a little pow-
dered salts of lemon and cold water on the
stain, allowing it to remain a few minutes
and then wash it out with soap and water.
The time when carpets and upholstering*
must all be made to mato: has gone by,
Gipsy Fortune -Telling.
Too many of us have so pronoimoed a vein
of superstition that, in spite of the pretests
of reason, we aeoribe'tome weight to omens,
dreams, and utteranoes of the fortune-teller.
Thelatter, however, is always allowed ale-
nient j edgmentby hie victims' ; like the or-
acles of old, homey deliver ambiguous atate-
mente, which the credulous are only too an-
xious to twist into conformity with facts.
A gentleman about to deliver in Loudon a
%entre on gipsiea was accosted, on ontering
the public room, by a, respectable -looking
man, who at once referred to what he con -
adored the miraeuloua power possessed by
gipsy women, of revealing future events..
"I know that there gipaiea, can reveal the
future," he declared, "for I had my fortune
told by one of their girls in Greeuwleh Park,
more than twenty yearn ago."
"That is a long time since. If yen have
not forgotten what the gipay told you I ahould
liken) hear it,"
"Well, air," began the man, "then I will
tell you that twenty yeara since, I was single,
but one day I happened to see a young wo-
man whose appearance and manner produced
such an impreaaion on my heart that I re -
waived to make further acquaiutsuce with
her, let her know the state of my feolinge,
and ask her to become my wife. Just about
Unit tune, I was one day in Greenwich
Fork, when a gipay women waisted to tell
my fortune. I consented, and gave her a
piece of silver, which, you know, tiny al-
ways expect before they begin."
"Oh yea, that is their custom, But tell
me what the gipay said to yell."
"She said," continued the man, "1 aheuld
be married to a young woman who was good.
looking,. and very fond of me, and would
make me an excellent wife. But this waa
to me the moat remarkable and strangest
thing, that the description she gave of the
hair, eyes, nese, metal and complexion. of
my futurewife answered to thetot the ycurg
woman I had seen, and o: whom I spoke
jest now."
"But did you marry the person the slyly
de*orileeel to you 1"
"l am haply to nay 1 did ; and so you
see, ate, the gip*y was right to begin with."
"But what more did she tell you V'
"A doe= things l,eeldee," be replied,
"She told me I should prosper in businoes,
and become a man of some importance—for
natanoe, a town councilman ; and that my
children would marry well; but also that
I should have a good deal of trouble."
"You mauled, it appears; have you any
children, and have they marled well V'
"Well, now," raid the man, hesitatingly,
"on that ono point, the gipsy. I must admit
was not quite clear. We bed but one child
and that died in its infancy ; and I regret
to say I lost my wife about six years since.
But as to my riling in the world, I think I
in a fair way for that. I have been messen-
ger of the pariah vestry during the last
twelve years, and I oan some yon, I've aeon
in my time as many upa and downs as Aar -
body of my own ago ; ee that you sea these
strafes must know more of the future than
other folks do, or how eouid that girl have
piotneed my future life so truly 1"
Hutaaanature is, indeed full of weakness ;
too often it believes what it wishes to believe.
ems-- a•
There is room for every variety of indi-
viduaItaste in making and adorning a
screen, a pretty one for a library where
there is an open fire is a sheet of jeweled
glass in a setting of wood to match the fur-
niture or wood work of the room, it pro-
tects from the heat wethout hiding the
cheery blaze.
Amber beads of large size make an effect-
ive finish for plush satin sofa cushions.
Rooms entirely finished and fn:nished in
Arabian style are fashionable.
Merely pretty things that please for'the
moment, but exert no lasting influence, are
to be condemned in decoration as in other
things.
In the majority of houses the hall le
generally a narrow passage connecting the
rooms, and only large enough to contain the
stair -case, but within the pact few years
there has been a tendency to bring this por-
tion of the house into greater prominence ;
with a little thought and careful planning it
may be converted into a most desirable sit
ting -room, the stairs may be wholly or part-
ly screened, a treatment giving opportunities
for a picturesque effect; give it a tiled or
polished floor, with large skins or rugs
thrown down, and from the point of beauty
and cheerfulness a plea must be entered for
the open fire place ; we all love to gather
around a cheerful glowing fire on the hearth
of a cosy home, and exchange pleasant
thoughts or dream away twilight hours in
the flickering light.
Banner screens fastened to the mantel -
shelf are best arranged upon rings attached
to a cross bar.
Frames of unpolished oak or chestnut
without markings are the best for small
sketches or etchings.
The Kensington art carpets are likely to
continue in demand, owing to their artistic
patterns, for which a few tints, often two.
shades, of the same color suffice.
_ ar
The Rev. Robert Laird Collier resembles
Reenry Irving so ceosely that, when in Lon-
don, he was mistaken for the actor by inti-
mate friends. Mr. Collier says that once a
member of the Lyceum Theatre company
talked an hour with him about dramatic
matters, supposing him o be his employer.
Boots are seldom worn in the evening,
and 'undressed kid is the favorite material
for slippers, says a fashion journal. It may
be added that slippers are not a favorite
material with the undressed kid,
a'IIi Ooean-Bound Rome,
Probably the remotest and loneliest spot
on earth ,is the little island of Tristan.
d'Aonnha, This speak of an island, which
is only seven miles long and six wide, lies
almost midway between Africa and South
America, and a thousand miles south of the
equator,
When Napoleon was imprisoned on St,
Helena, it was thought that the loneliest
place in the world had been assigned to him
as a prison. But St. Helena is fourteen
hundred miles nearer a continent than is
Tristan d'Acunha. Many hundreds of miles
of ocean Ile between it and the smallest is-
land neareat to it. Tristan, in short, is a
tiny oasis in a boundless wilderness of water,
go from it in which direction yon will
It is a rooky and cliff girt little laic, with
a solitary mountain a thousand feet high
rearing itself from the midst. Weeks and
sometimes even months elapse, without so
much as the film of a ship's sail being espied
in the distance from its shores.
Yet on this lonely speck of rook and earth
there lives a bright, cheerful, thrifty Chris-
tian community whioh is, seemingly, quite
happy in its isolation from all the rest of
the world. Thereare abontahundred inhabi-
tants, all Englishmen and Englishwomen.
The oldest nhabitant ie a man of aeventy
eight, who was wrecked on the ,island fifty
years ago, and has ever since dwelt there,
and ham beo.me the patriarch of the little
company.
An English captain, returning from a long
voyage in the coarse of which he anchored
at Tristan, has recently given a very inter
eating account of the community. Those
who compose it are one and all farmers,
cattle -raisers, and shepherds. In the valleys
of the island are fertile fields, where pota-
toes mainly are grown. On the slopes
were grazing some seven hundred head of
cattle and as many sheep. The food of the
people consists for the most part of beef,mut
ton, fowls, potatoea, and fish.
As to the dwellings, they are described as
being kept very clean and tidy, as we might
expect from English people, and the people
themselves are healthy, robust and long-
lived. They have whaling-boats,and are very
adventurous in their sea -roaming after
whales. They eomestimes row as far as
twenty miles out to sea to intercept a pass-
ing ship.
It is often the case that that region is as -
ailed by mighty tempests of wind, while the
island is subjected at times to what re
oalldd "rollers"—huge masses of high -raised
water which fairly inundate the lofty shores.
Tristan used formerly to produce many
fruits and vegetables which Can no loagerbe
grown theze. The reason of this is that the
!eland is overrun by rate, which escaped
froze a ship thatanchored there, and which
the people have never been able to extermi-
nate.
The people have preserved the customs of
their English native land. In the centre of
the settlement stands the little English
church, to which all the inhabitants repair
on. Sunday morning, Thus the Church -bells
of England and the prayer and praise of the
borne ohurohes fled a faint echo acmes the
leagues of ocean whieh atretch between the
motherland and the lonely reek of the South-
ern seas.
The people of Tristan, solitary as their is
land ie, steadfastly refuse to leave it. They
leek upon it as their Jame; to some it is
their native land. The abips which now
and then touch upon Ito ahorea in vain ofter
to bring them back to the haunts of civiliz-
ation. They have grown to love their lone -
linens, and to be content with a lot that is
strange and pathetic indeed.
Some Recent IaTentions.
Inventions multiply so rapidly in tbeee
days of sharp competition andscientifio ac-
tivity, that it would be in vain that any one
should try to keep pane with theca Of the
vast masa of inventions, Indeed—even of those
which are accepted by the Patent Woe,
and for which patents areialaaod,-the world
never bears, anything. Many others, of real
and prectioel value, quietly take their photo
among the implements of the„world'a work
withoutattrecting the notioe of the general
public
An annual exhibition is bell in Lucien,
where model! and specimens of the Moat
noteworthy appliances are displayed. In
1853 the exhibition included all things relet
ing to &sheet and fishing, Last year it em
braoed discoveries and iaventdens for the
ogre and preservation of health, The oxhibe
ition of this year, which began, as ueusl, its
Janie, end luta until late in the Autumn, is
devoted to reoeut intentions,.
Some of the meet curious and;; sbriktug of
the sxhiblte made In tide exhibition may bo
profitably glanced at.
One interesting atacbinue is tbatwbfvh op -
antes the sweepings of :engineers' shops,
picking out the iron scrape from the brave,
thus enabling both to bo utilised for further
porpoise. Another machine extracts gold
from the ore by the application of olootrl
city. This is mid to got twenty per cont.
more gold out of thequarta than wan pee -
t ibia under the older process.
Large guns used to be bored in snob a num-
nor that the metal excavated owns out in
shavings, and was for the moat part melon.
But a znaohine was shown in London which'
borea a solid cylindrloal cora from the gnu;
sometimea oorea thirty feet long are thus
taken out. These oan, of course, be used in
many ways.
A ship was displayed called an"aqua-ae-
✓ ial ship," which, so the inventormainteics,
canmake the voyage woo the Atlantic and.
book in Iess than a week. She is: fiat -bot-
tomed and of dight draught, so as to skim
over the water, instead of ploughing through
It.
The warlike contrivances shown wero
among the moat iateresting. There wore
guns which were capable of diaeharging one
thousand bullets a minute, and which were
also self -charging and: self -discharging. A
quick "ration•distributor" was also shown
dhioh would deal out rations in seven min-
utes to half aregiment.
Of course electricity played a prominent
part in the ,inventions of the year. It is
used to find out just where a bullet bas
lodged in a human body, without the painful
application of probea; to light a lamp to be
planed in the mouth, as an aid to the den-
tist, and another lamp, by wbloh the sur-
geon can examine the interior of the patient
upon whom he is operating; and to convey
parcels to a distance, in placeof the slower
express system.
Other machines of interest wero, one for
cutting lines in wood engravings ; one that
chops up blocks into kindling, gathers them
into bundles, and ties them ;pt the same
time; one that makes thirty-eight square
paperbags per minute; and one that packs
up grocer's goods at the rate of eighteen
thousand parcels a day.
These are only a few illustrations of the
untiring energy with which the ingenuity
and skill of men are giving to the world an
infinite variety of labor-saving devices; and
are thus, each one, aiding to speed yet faster
the progress of modern civilisation.
New principals are constantly discovered,
andwell-known principals receive now ap-
plications. The novelties of to -day become
the indispensable tools of tomorrow. What
an antiquated display the great London ex-
hibition of 1885 would seem to the visitor in
1900!
$40,000 Ransom Paid.
Two ladies belonging to families of rank
in Mezzevo, Epirus, were some time: ago ale
ducted by brigands from Epirus Mountain.
The abductors demanded' a ransom of $20,-
000 for the return' of each captive. The.
families of the women have just paid to
agents of the brigands the $40,000 demand-
ed and the ladies have been safely restored
tootheir homes. They say they were well
and honorably treated by their captors,' and
made as,00mfortable as the circumstances
of the robbers would permit.
An old proverb says : "All things come
to him who can wait," but if the restaurant
waiter doesn't put in an appearance inside
of two hours after you send him out, it is
always safe to call a new waiter.
There is a considerable similarity in one
particular betweena locust and and a grow-
ing boy. It is supposed that atomise devours
three times its own weight every fifteen
days.,
ITRBONAL.
It is acid that Beaconsfield had Sir Charles
Dilke in his eye when he drew the character
of Walderehare in Endymion.
A Canadian poet, M. Freohette, who is
also the author of a play which was produc-
ed not long ago in New York, bee been dee-
orated with the ribbon of the French Legion
of Honor.
Dr. Brouardel,a diatinguished Frenoh phy-
sician:, thinks that the epidemic at Marseilles
is Asiatic cholera, It began in the houses
/doted last year, and was canned by local
uncleanliness,
le spite of his great age, Mr. George Ban-
croft still rides horseback gracefully, Iiia
horse is jot black, and when the venerable
historian is ou it the two are the observed
of all observers,
Lord Tennyson has sent the following dis-
patch over hie own name, to the people of
the United States : "1 am deputed to ask
whether America will organize a sebacrip.
tion for our national Gordon Home for Poor
Boys."
An announcement was made not long ago
that Mr. Gladatone intended to visit tine
wenn.), in the Autumn. But there appears
to be no truth In the report. Similiar an-
nouncements are made in reference to many
distinguished persons of Europe every sum-'
mer, nearly always without good reason,
Ins the wedding preoonte of MUo. De Bra -
young lady
ra-younglady oonneoted wtththo prince•
lir Iivasian house of Snwaroli', who rear -
ie d tbei Ron. L. Stanhope meetly, wan a
quaint little model of a B nian house in
gold, with a door ref emeralds and dismouda,
which, when it is opened, diaeloaes a por-
trait.
The mother of Mr. Bartley Campbell, an
American dramatist who has battledmany
yore for sncceaa, and who has finally won.
it, died several days ago at tho ego of eighty-
three. She died, oddly onongb, during the
first week of her son's career so a New York
manager -a career that Mr. Campbell had
looked forward to along time,
At Ur. Cyrus W. F.ield'a dinner et the
Star and Garter, Riebmond, there were pee
tent, among two hundred aud fifty guests,
representatdves of all the the groat Englith.
railway nd telegraphoompaniee, and ropro-
aentetivee of all the leaning elanaam and finan-
del corporation; of Great Brltde. Tho ed-
itor* of roomy nawapepere and magarines
were oleo in the list of gussets.
Mr. Lsbonobere says that Prinee Edward
Albert Victor, the Moat son of the Prince
of Wales, bas a countenance in wbioh his
father's and mother's facial peaalarltiee aro
Wtrengoly mingled. The Prince of Wales
the Duke of Edinburgh, and the young
Priuce Edward Albert all rumble their
burly ancestor, Hoary 'VIII. But Prince
George, the Prince of Wales's second son,
has not a traoo of the Gaolth. or York or
Lanoaater in his foe.
Be Wanted to $now•
At Willis a tired -looking woman, leading
a freckled -nosed, towheaded, ten-year old.
china of the United States, boarded the
trainand sat down with& sigh that sounded
like the exhaust pipe of a tug boat. The
boy stared at the passengers while he
crowded a green apple into his mouth.
Having stowed the oholera bombshell away
in the soerot recesses of his internal econ-
omy, he renewed himself around on the
meat, looked hard at a perspiring fat man
across the aisle, and said :
" Say, maw, why don't the keens go ?"
"Be quiet, Johnny," said his mother, as
she pulled a red bandanna from her pocket
and blew a blast on her nose that went
echoingand re-echoing down the aisle like
a glad cry of a full grown Apache with
an important case of cholera morbus and
two scalps in his belt.
"Maw, v'at's that fat man's name ,"'
"I dunno."
" W'at made bis haircome out, maw? Oh 1
maw ; there's a skeeter on his head 1 Does
it hurt fat men when akeetera bite 'em ?"
The woman took an invoice of snuff,
while the boy squirmed around and fixed
hie eye on a fashionably attired lady who
was engaged in the classic pastime of churn-
ing a hunk of gum. His lower jaw dropped
two inches as he gazed, and then he poked
his maternal ancestor intheriba and inquired
" Maw, is that woman ohawin' terbacker
W'y don't she spit? Yon alters spits when
you chews terbaoker, don't yer, maw 1
Say, maw, w'y don't the keers go 1"
The woman took another invoice of
mnuff and remarked
:—
" Shut no! drat ve. or I'll bust ye 1"
That settled him—for four seconds.
Then he gazed at the fat man and
asked :—
" W'at makes that man so fat, maw ? Oh !
maw, he spit on the floor ! If this was your
house you'd peel him fer it, wouldn't yon
maw ? Spose he'* readin' 'bout Inj una ? Say
maw, w'y don't the keers go ?"
Then he twisted around, got down and
humped himself over the arm of the fat
man's seat and said :—
" You aint my pa."
" No, blast you 1" howled the sufferer ;
'if I was I'd shoot you. Now you go and
sit clown, and don't say another word or
I'll eat you."
The boy winked hard,shuffled` his feet
upon the floor, sidled back into his seat
and remarked:—
" Maw,
emarked:—"Maw, w'y don't the keers go ?"
Speaking of butter—The poor ye have al-
ways with you.
People learn wisdom by 'experience, A
man never wakes up his econd baby to see
it laugh.
Good manners is the art of making those
people easy with whom we converse. Who-
ever makes the fewest people, uneasy is the
best bred man in company,
THE ENGiINEERS TERROR.
A
arum story that has antSR of Freshness.
Henry Andrews, and old engineer on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louie Rail-
way, tells= interesting story about the cap-
ture of his engine when he was "pulling" a
passengor train. His engine was 56, and he
pulled out of Nashville with a full train of
passengers bound for Chattanooga. At Ste-
venaon, Ala., they stopped to wood np, which
they had to carry in their arms, They start-
ed again and just before reaching Anderson
station Jim Wilson, the fireman, who had
turned around to get some wood, sung out
"Great Scott ! Look at that rattler." "I
jumped," said the engineer, "as he uttered
the word's, and, tow horror, saw a tremen-
dous rattleanan' climbing down from the,
tender with hie ' ody over the platform, My
hair commenced to crowd my cap off my
head, and to say I was scared doeen't begin
to erprese it. Jim gave a yell and when I
locked around two seconds later to nee what
he was doing I saw the rattler crawling Into
the cab. But Jim was nowhere to be seen.
He had jumped off and left me. I pulled
back the throttle and leaped over the snake
which rattled ata I made the jump, and land-
ed on the tender. Staw.ding on a log, I
snatched that snake take poaaemion of the
cab, which he did without any ceremony
The etoam wm not completely abut oil, and
knowing that the train full of paaaeogers
was at the mercy of that auake, I started
back toward the cab with a stick in my Iseund,
when the rattler hearleg the nolo I made,
elevated hie tall and rattled in a mighty
lively feebler,. That nettled it. By this
time we bed crossed the mountain and wero
tailing along pretty lively. No. 6 wa* wait•
tog for us at Stevoneen, and know that if
that Mato ran tho endue till we got there
the Coroner of the town would be kept busy
ora week. Crawling over the tender, mak-
ing my way into the poatal-car, I hurriedly
toll my atory to Charles Ilendorson, the
messenger, and then to Armstrong, the ex -
a roemman. We bold a busty consultation
aasd determined that min thing had to be
done, and done quickly. The treks was
moving along livsty, and the thought of No.
6 at Stavensoe modem feel wild. Arming
anrsolves with pistols furnished by the pos.
tel and expressman, we carefully crept on
to the tender, and, looking into the cab, saw
that d.ggoaod rattler stretohod out on the
board by the window. Well, it didn't take
more than thre.seeonds for es to pit them
bullet* into hi. carcass, They atruek him
so quickly and so thoroughly that, before
he could got a chance to rattle, bo was as
dead as Roctor. Grabbing a stick I jumped
into the cob, threw the slabe out of It, and
got hold of that throttle, W.11, to make a
long story abort, I handed old'30' on lino
at Stevenson, and, 'triage to say, the first
follow I saw was tho coroner, but, thank
beaver, there weren't any Inquest. for him
to hold."
kaamoossa-
PIOES SMILE&
Aaimpls-hearted and truly devout country
preacher, who had tasted but few of the
drinks of this world, took dinner with a
high-toned family, where a glese of milk -
punch was quietly set down by eaoh plate
In silence sad happiness this new Close of
Wakefield quaffed Iris goblet, sod than
added : "Madam youshould daily thank
God for viola a good ow 1"
Rev. Philips Breaks reoently spoke;
at the rate el 213 words per minute, wbioh',
proves oonolusively that there is nothing a
woman can do whioh a man can not do just
as well or better.
"Children," said mamma, "don't you
know itis wicked to play cards =Sunday to
"But we are only using the picture -cards,
mamma." "Oh 1 Well, I don't know a
there ie anyharm in that"
Boy (who does not appreciate sermons)—
Well, I'd just like to know what preaching'a
for anyway, Small Sister --Why, It's to
give the singers a reat
A man has invented a praotical thinking
machine. It will be the greatest boon for
dudes nine the invention of the sword point-
ed shoe.
The inhabitants of Burmah worship idols
of brass. Book agents would probably meet
with a very different reception in Burmah
rom what they do hero.
The Emperors of Russia and Austriat met
at the Schloss of Kremsi.r, in Moravia,
which is the country seat of the Arohbishop
ofOlmlte. The Schloss of Kremeier ie one
of the largest buildings in Austria -contain-
ing, as it does, upward of 300 rooms—and
it is surrounded by splendid gardens and an
immense park. There is a000mmodatien for
150 horses in the stables. The personal
suites anus two Emperors. were quartered
iatheSohles's, and forthe remainder of their
entourage every hotel in the town was seour-
ed, all the rooms were taken by the function
aries of the Austrian Court for 14 days pre-
vious to the meeting.
A man in a lonely part of Iowa had brain
fever in consequence of the death of his wife,
and on recovering could not remember where
he had buried her. Daring the interval the
three persons who had assisted in the inter-
ment became scattered. Very desirous of
locating the grave, the widower dug over.
most of a ten-aore field before finding the
remains.
A little girl who in in the habit of going
into the woods: to pick clematis, told her
mother that if she found any "calamities"
she would bring her some.
Lovers and burglars have some things in
common. They both laugh at lookamiths,
and they both have :a good deal of cupudity
about them.
Thought is the firstfacult9 oman f ; to ex
g
press it is one of his first desires ; tocp read
it his dearest privilege.
THE ADIERICet'S CUPOtyassatsa.,
How it was Ftr*t woe br waakee Tactile. "n '
men.
Some foots in referenoe to the cuporigin-
ally won from. England are of interest just
now. The America was a peculiar yacht,
built from a deaign by George Steers, who
suffered a fatal accident in 1856. She was
rigged as a pilot -boat or jibboom, and excit-
ed a great deaf of humorous comment, not
to say ridionle, when oho sailed to England
in 1861 to be exbibited in commotion with
the World's fair, and run a rage if one
could be arranged favorably. A few private
trials convinced the Britisbere that the
America was not to be 'sneezed at, and so
successful were her exhibitions of her pow-
ers: that it was found impossible to arrange
the desired race, though very liberal induoe-
ments were offered. Arrangements were
then completed, however, for an internation,
al regatta, to be sailed at Cowes, for a cap
aimed by the Royal Yacht Squadron, and it
wan finally decided, thoughsomewhat reluc-
tantly, that the America should enter the
contest as the only means open for showing
her qualitiea.
The race mimed August 22, 1851, there
being fifteen starters. The America came inn.
twenty minutes in advance of the Aurora,
the lighteat and fasteat vessel in the beet.
The cup time woo, and representing the
yachting aupromaay of the world, was kept
py the owners of the America zmlU 1857,
when it was presented to the Row York
Yacht Club under condition that it was to
be bold as a perpetual challenge cup for
which any foreign club might sail.
The Brat race in American waters, making
the second content for the cup, occurred Au-
goat 8, 1870, whoa the Bnglieh keel-echooner
Cambric .trove for the prize. The +sup was
euceeeefuily defended by the ooutre-board
yacht Magic. In. 1871 Jame., Ashbury shat-
longed, as the ropreesutstive of eight Eng-
lish clubs, the LIvonie being designated aa
the vassal. There was a long and heated
correspondence before this !series of roes
WAS agreed up+n, and a lawsuit Was the
threatened roan, but finally a aortas of five
moo were agreed upon, the first of which
occurred Goteberthe 1Qtb, when the Livonia.
was beaten by the Columbia; the wood
October the ltitb, when the Columbia was
again victorious ; the third, October 19th,.
when the Liverpool beat the Coiumbie the
fourth, whoa tbeSsppha *me to the rescue
and boat the LIvoafa; the fifth, October 23
with the Sappho the a.00nd time triumphant.
There was no further contest until 1876,
when the Royal Canadian Yacht Club be-
lieved it bad in the Countess of Du ferin
something totake theoap, and lamed a chal-
lenge for aodes of throe races. The echoon-
er-yaoht Madeleine was named by the home
olub, and tho deoltiveraces were run August
11th and 12th, the Madellno winning. The
last contest for the famous cap was in. 1381,
when **Bay of Quint* YachtClub, Ontario,
out over the eloop-yaoht Atlanta. The
home club selected the Mischief, which won
the two fest roes of theseriesrf three ar-
rangod.
Ths next your th.Nsw York Yacht Club
adopted a resolution returning the cap to
Mr. Georg. L. Schuyler, the only survivor
of the ewnege of tho Amarioa at the time
th.oep was drat won.
rOOULA.RiTIB$.se
A recent poem on a bank clerk makes
wherewithal and "Montreal 1" rhyme.
Ginger alejs saki to be g.od for the blood.
That's the reason the dude drinks ginger
ale. The dude le a blood.
For truly deep feeling let me call your at-
tention to a negro waiter who has to stand
by while the hotel gusat whom he is serv-
ing eats watermelon.
The death of an aged man was caused by
the shock of discovering that he was only
90 years old, instead of being the oentenari-
an that he had aupposed.
The cablegrams say Osman Digna has
been deserted by his followers. Aa he was
reported dead some weeks ago, the hot
weather may account for the action.
A literary man, who was asked to furnish
a Shakesperean motto to be framed and
hung up over the bar of a saloon, suggested
the words—" As you like it."
A Pennsylvania man claims to have seen
a white rattlesnake. The only way we can
account for the phenomenon is to suppose
that he had been drinking milk•punch.
As a drug clerk the female is not a bril-
liant success. When you wink at her across
a soda fountain, she doesn't know whether
to put a little Balm of Gilead in your soda
or hang her head and blush.
There have neon various answers to the
conundrum : Why is a ship called she ? We
think the proper answer is : Bectsnse she is
handsomest when she is well -rigger Wives
should out this out and show it to their hus-
bands.
"(Tom," said an Irishman to his office
boy, " was that lump of ice put in the water
cooler to -day 1" "No, sir," replied the
youth. "St was left over from last even-
ing, and as it was a large lump I thought it
would answer." " You did, eh ? you rascal ?
Throw it out 1 throw it out 1 and put in
some freah ice, ,`an' niver agin try to palm
off a stale article on me."
A ;prize fight was arranged between two
young women in Australia. The pugilists
came up defiant and jaunty for the first
round, which ended in a mutual knockdown,
each receving a blow squarely in the nose.
At the expiration of the allowable interval
the referee called " Time 1" but the antagon-
ists had lost all vim, and both were weep-
ing over the possible disfigurement of their
faoes—a calamity compared with which the
loespf the fight was nothing.