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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-10-8, Page 7The Old-rashioned BY c, ol. WORBA. She dose network, she doss Act paint Kensington patterns odd and quaint; A croy.quilt she neer hath made, Nor stork on erly yet essayed. She cannot boast a cultured ear: Beethoven's symphonies, I fear_, She'd call a bore, nor care one bit WDOZ,XYa Grandy aaid of It. She does not poks her elbows' out Or paint her lips la scarlet pout. Orsmoke her eyebrows to a C AX re As fascinating lure to serve. She deal not wear her sleeves so tight She has to set her hat aright Before she vial Inside her arose (as fashionable dames coniese) She's lend a horses and of big And noble dogs; 710 Canals prig Or bloated and conceited Po& TO lie upon tosthetio rug. Sias never could beugittorseldi Tier love is worth a nation's logd. Ad who is the favored one? Ass well. 'Twould seem like boasting should I tell. Hand to Hand with a Madman. A BRAZILIAN STOBI. "My friend, you seem to be just in the right flame of mind to dies and 3. am going te kill e Startling words at any time, but doubly so when uttered by a man with whom one is sitting ciente alone, and emphasized with A leaded pistol leveled at oiseei forehead. The two men EA fairing each other aerre44 a table covered with the vernalize of a regular Brezilitsalinner, in the vicious awing - room orMr, Stewart's country-bouan four mien from Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, There was not Another white WM in the house—the negro servants were eith- er fast asleep or far away on the other side of the enormous court-yard—and Mr Stew- art had just diecovered that hie only earn. paniou (whom he had hitherto regarded as I a good Mew enough, though with SODIO queer flighty men of hie own; was a furious madame, Armed with a deadly weapon and bent on tasking his life. Stewart was a brave men And celebrated for his coolness; but for a moment he lost his he mompletely. And eat staring helpless. ly at the threatening muzzle of the pistol, now within a foot of bis face. But the click of the weapon as the mita- men cocked it brought ba:k all in. outage through 'hear deem:xenon, hells from out. side teere was 110A4 to be hoped for, as he well keew. If his life was to be reeved, he mutt NM it himself ; and in the very nick of time, a lucky thought occurred to him. "My dear Scott," said he, Ina grave, im. pretext.* voice, looking the menbut steadily in the face as be spoke, "it is like your kindness to say that I AM perfectly At to die but it only show* how little even you know me." 14 What 1" oiled the liar:Atte, sewing at him. "Ii it possible that you have not got a clew conscience? Why, evert' one cells you the most trustworthy men in the whole city." " That is what they ley, mire enough," replied Stewart, with a look of utter &tee tion ; " but if they knew the real story of my life, they would have a very different opinion of we, and so would you, too, Scott." The madmen's curiosity was evidently Around, which was justwhat Stewart went - ed. He un000ked the pistol and laid it down in front of him (stilt keeping his hand upon it, however), and leaning forward across the table, sale, eagerly : I shiend like to hear that story. Will you tell it me! There's no one else within hearing, and remise to keep the sec- ret." " Listen, then,' replied Stewart. And he began accordingly. ' Mr. Stewart was famous for telling gotcl stories, and for telling them well : but no- body would have believed it had they heard him ()vete present *case:ion, On, on, on, he went, with a tale that seemed to bare neither beginning nor end, so long, so ramb- ling and so confused, that no me person much lose a madman—couldhave made head or tail of it, Poor Scott was completely be- wildered, although he still listened as at- tentively as ever. But all this was part of Stewart's plan. He was talking"against time," knowing 4 that, sooner or later, one of his black "boys" must come in with coffee and cigars, and that if he could only contrive to spin out the time till then, he might be saved yet. So far all promised well; but in an evil hour for himeelf, Mr. Stewart conceived the idea, of getting hold of the pistol, from which Scott had now withdrawn his hand. Being considerably the bigger And strong- er man of the two; he counted upon being able to overmatch the lunatic in a fair hand- to-hand struggle without weapons, and, in any case, he was anxious to cut short this terrible trial, feeling that he could not en- dure it much longer without giving way. Suddenlyraising his voice to its fullest pitch, he cried out, as if in continuation of his story: " There it was that I met a man, whose face I then saw for the first time. Little did I dream that that face was destined to haunt me forever. Twenty years have passed, and I see it still—day and night I see it, It stands before me now !" As he spoke, he pointed straight at the opposite well, with a look of horror and ag- ony that would have -made the fortune of an actor. The startled Scott glanced hastily behind him as if expecting to see some horrible ap- parition there. But the moment he turned his head, Stewart sprang from his seat and pounced upon the pistol. This brought matters to a crisis at once. With a roar like a hungry tiger, the mad- man le lied right on to the table. Stewart starts 'ack, and as he did so, the pieta" ..whic he held in his hand exploded. But the bullet flattened harmlessly against the wall, and in another instant he was in the clutch of a madman. Stewart tried to sieze a knife that lay near, but instead of it, his hand encountered a heavy china dish, with which he dealt his assailant a tertifiti blow on the head, mash- ingthe dish to pieces, and making a fearful gash across Scott's forehead. The blood poured from the wound in torrents, but so far from weakening the madnian, it seemed only to rouse him to fresh fury, , Stewart wee a powerful mane and fought as men fight for their lives ; but he speedily found to his coat that all his vigor wee no match for the unnatural strength of the ma- nila. In spite of his tremendoue struggles, be was soon beaten down and laid prostrate on the floor, while the lunatic, planting his knee on the fallen man's chest, fastened with both hands on hie throat like a tiger. cat. Flashes of fire danced before Steerart's eyes, and his face grew purple. Already all seemed over, when suddenly there was a clamor of voices outside—a rush of hurry- ing feet—then the sound of a heavy blow dose to his ear. The strengling, clutch at his throat relax - Ad, and then, dimly as if in a dream, he be - conscious of being lifted from the ground by half a dozen of his ziegro servant's and of seeing his terrible meanest lying senseless; on the floor at his feet. "Some of my fellows luckily heard the report of the pistol 1" (so Mr. Stewart used to tell the story in after days), U and think- ing that something must have gone wrong, they came running te see, and arrived just in the nick of time. But I've never dined alone with any man since that day, and I never will again so long OS I live GARNERED WITTIGISXS, "All I want's a single heart," writes poetess. Probably she is trying to till a bob -tall flush. Bathing is more popular in Russia thanat some of the seaside reams in this melte, beeause the czar made all the eerie free.' An exchange ears "What should we stuff mama with I" Meet anything would be an improvement upon the original stuf- fing. A fashion writer says "accordion plaited waists Are worn, this summer." Boys, be up and doing. YOU cannot learn to play on an instrument without practice. A Down -East fire cornrow- in a resolution on a deceased member say: toe reared - ea to his last alarm," a won ier they didn't add that "he has gone to his last fire." "I hid prought mine seismal pox mit m," said a Gem= lodger to the landlady. "Oh, you weetioh I" she screamed. "And me here with four little bun:cent children that eint vaccinated," "And how does Cholla like going to school kindly inquired A geed Man Of a 6 - year -old boy like goise well enough,' re- plied the embryo statesmen, ingenuously ,; "but I don't like diners' After I got there, A pug slog has been taught to sing, and play on the pieno. This is e move in the right direction. Now if some one will only teach one of thaw worthless bran to sing "Sweet Violets" to a guitar accompitiol- matt we may hope to see the take breed exterminated at any moment. Perkins-08'1Mb' failed? Well? I hada nateww escape yesterday. He tried to bor- row $10 from me." Ponsonby—"You didn't lend it to him?" "No, indeed. I suspect' ed there was something wrong and—and— WAR?" "The Iiiet Is I didn't have the wen "Axe you an evangeliat,Mr. Smith'!" said Bobby at the dinner -table. "Yes, my little meet" replied Mr, Smith; "and do you know whit an evaugellet "Pa says an evangelist Is *man who roakaa lots of money without any capital to start out with." A 3 year-old little girl was taught to close her evening prayer, during the temporary Abeenee of her tether, with, "And plows watch over my pipe." It sounded very emote but the mother's amusement May be imagined when she *tided, "And you had better keep an eye on =rams, too I Dishy met *friend who is terribly given to fibbing, and accosted him thus ; "Been to church to -day, Jones t" "No," was the quick response; I've been on the bed nearly all day," "ant as I expected," chimed in Dig. by ; "you're Always lying, The Irishman had a correct Appreciation of the acmes of things, who, being asked by the jadge, when be applied for e Menses to sell whisky, if he was of goad moral tharaoter, replied: "Faith, yer honor, I don't see the necessity of a good moral chat- actertd sell whisky'!" A story is told of the reporter of a Jewish paper who prepared an abstract of his rabbi's sermons, and on one occasion read it to the rabbi himself. " Stop ! atop!' said he, at the occurrence of a certain sentence, " didn't say that." "I know y:ou didn't," was the reply ; "I put that in to make sem." Two men were dismissing material used for building purposes, and among the rest lathe. Commenting on the fact that the price of laths were Comparatively high, on of them remarked : "I don't ace what in the world keeps lathe up," when a third party, who never lets a chance go when he sees it, made the simple reply: 'Nails." .An English clergyman asked an unedu- cated woman whether she liked his written or unwritten sermons the best. After think- ing a few moments she said: "Why, I bike yo the best without the book, became ye keep saying the same thing over and over again, and that helps me to remember what Ihear a good deal betrere* jeweler (to new boy)—Did .you sell any- thing while I was out, JoIntme? New Boy —Yes, sir; I sold six plain gold rings. Jeweler (very much pleased)—Good my boy. We'll make a firatedass jeweller of you one of these days. You got the regular price, e course? New Boy -0 yes sir. The price was marked on the inside, yes, an' the gen- tleman took all there was left, sir. A negro boy, while walking along the street, took off his hat and struck at a wasp that had alighted on a tall shrub hanging over a fence. The boy put on his het, turned to a man, and geld : "I thought I got dab ar ole wan," "Didn't you get him ?" "No, ash; but I—" he snatched off his hat, clapped his hand on the top of his head, squatted, howled, and said: "Blame fi didn' git dat ole Wass." A goverment c'erk applied to the head de- partment for leave of absence in order to at- tend the christening his of youngest boy. "How old is the child ?" " Four days old." "Very good," eaid the chief; "bat two weeks ago I gave you leave of abscissae to bury your wife. What hitva you to say?" For a moment the subordinate was dumb; then putting a bold face on he said: "I beg your pardon ; my little boy is a posthumus child. A Scotch minister was once ordered "beef tea" by his physician. The next day the patient complained that it made him sick. "Why, minister," said the doctor, " try the tea mysel'." So, putting some ins skillet, he warmed it, and told the minister it was excellent. "Man," said the minister, "is that the way ye sue it "What ither way should it be suppit ? It's excellent, I say, minister." "It may be gude that way, doctor; but try it we the cream and sugar, man! try it we that, and then see hem ye like it 1" "Some twenty years ago," said the mild - faced stranger my wife, while sewing, sud- denly missed her needle. She saw nothing more of it, and soon forgot her loss till last week, when "When she suddenly felt a pricking sensation in her right foot," sug- gested Boodle. "When the point of the needle showed itself between her shoulder blades," guessed Coodle. "When the needle was seen protruding from her youngest daughter's left forefinger," intimated Doodle, "No," said the mild -faced stranger ; "you are al wrong. She found it in a crack in the floor. It had been there all those years. Singular wasn't it ?" There was a common desire to welter in the blood of the mild - faced stranger; but with difficulty Boodle, Coodle and lesctodie restrained themselves. MEALTI-1, Selene° and Alcohol. Ten years ago, at the request of the Edin- burg Society of Arts, Dr. 11, W. Richardson, F xc. S., delivered before that body six lectures on alchohol, Presenting the results of a protracted solentific investigation of the subject. Among the facts thus amentiecally established were the following: L Alehohol, instead of raising, lowers the temperature of the body. After a drunken stupor it has sometimes Wren three days to restore the natural warmth, under the most favorable circumstances. Even moderate drinkers are peculiarly exposed to dangerous "colds." 2. Alohohol is not, in any proper senses a fowl. The development of fat from its use I. simply due to structural degeneration of the vital. organs, 3. Alehohol accelerates the action of the heart from one hundred thousand beats a day to, say, one hundred and twenty -live thousand, followed by a proportionate weak- ening that necessitates, successively, addi- tional draughts. Hence the heart becomes enlarged and its valves disordered; and the increased flow of blood to in is rendered for the time more active, and is ;succeeded by greeter feebleness, which demands a mete time of the stimulus. 4. The whole internal cavity of the body, all its ormuhe every bone and joint, the brain and spinal cord, are wrapped in mem.- brasses, 'through which as filterS, everything has to pass for the sustenance of the respec- tive parte. Those inembrames must be met Moue enough, and be kept perfectly supple. Now, eichohol causes them to thicken and ;shrink, and num effeete a general deteriorie Oen of the organic ;structures, 5, Among the eteeote of this detheoration, in those who drink moderately, are various uellre)lele Paine, the worst form of Indigee tion, and wakefulness. 6. At a later stage of druirkeinne, not a tingle organ in the body escapes disorgani- zation of its vital structure, although here- dity or other oonditiont may Mae a summ- ing concentration of Memo on some per*, outer organ,—the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the heart, the brain or spinel cord. 4. "If this agent do really for the moment cheer the weary and impart a flesh of trap, /*Int pleasure to the unwearied who crave for mirth, its influence—doubtful even in these modest and moderate dogma -151M hattitreablal advantage, bythe side of An infinity of evil for which there is DO QOM. sation and no human cure." The *hove are the teaching of *deuce, We will add the teething ot actual thine - ration. Sir Andrew Clark one of the most eminent meant authorities in Greet Bri- tain, sap that 'uneven out of ten of his hoe - nal patients the disease was cursed by rink, and in three others was aggravated by it. He had some times thought of giving up his practice and going about the country in orroutde against intoxicative; drinks. The Delusion of Growing Pat. If you continue your present dietary and habits, and live five or wen years more, the burden of fat will be doubled, and the Insinuating tailor will be still congratulat- ing you. Meantime you are "running the race of life figure of speech tees lippro. date to you at the present moment, than it formerly was—handicapped by a weight which makes restive movement diffieult, up. stain atones troublesome, respiration nth& and panting. Not one men in fifty lives to a good old age in We condition. l'he typical man of eighty or ninety years, atill retaining a re- spectable amounfof energy of body and mind, is lean and spare, and lives on slender re - Cons. Neither your heart -nor your lungs can act easily and healthily, bong opposed, by the gathering fat around. And this is because you continue to eat sad drink as you did, or even more luxuriously than you did, when youth and activity disposed of that moiety of food was consumed over and above what the body required for sustenance. Such is the import of that balance of un- expended ailment which your tailor and your foolish friends admire, and the orad- ual disappearance of whioh, should you re- cover your senses and diminish it, they will still deplore, half frightening you back to your old habits again by saying: "You are growing thin; what can be the matter with you ?" Insane and mischievous delusion. ENGLISH ECHOES. Sir Charles Dilke is practically a total ab- stainer. He " passes the bottle, but does not diminish ite contents." Mr. Laton Woodville, "the English De Neuvine," is to paint a picture of Princess 'Beatrice's wedding. The Telegraph maintains that Prussia has at present the most capable and active de- tective police force in Europe. A mother poisoned her two children at Rishton by giving them poppy -seeds stewed in water as a cure for diarrhoea. Mr. Gladstone is so delighted with Nor- way that he is going to learn its language. Well, Cato began Greek at eighty. The Duke of Edinburgh did not acquire a Scotchmases aptitude for agriculture with his title. He loses £,500 a year on his Kent farm and is about to give it up. A master mariner who lost £120 by back- ing an unlucky horse at the Yorkshire races went tranquilly to his hotel and -made his quietus with a dose of laudanum. One pound sterling was the price assessed by a London magistrate for a kiss surreptitiously snatched from a married wo- man by a man claiming to be "an old friend of the family." . A pension of £100 a year on the Civil List has been granted to the four sisters of the late John Leech, Punch's celebrated draughts man. In presence of a munifioence so royal one can only be silent and admire. It is reported that the Hereditary Prince of Hesse and Prince H'enry of Battenberg are under treatment for rheumatism. They had the rashness to accompany the Queen to Scotland in full Highland costume. An elderly inmate of the Bermondsey Workhouse complained to the Southwark police office that a penny's worth of bread and a few slices of ham, which he brought with him when returning from a day's leave were confiscated by the Workhouse officials. ..—emeeeme--eme— Dr Comby states in Le Progress .31clica. that 20,000 children are set annually to paid nurses outside of Paris. More than one half of the Parisian mothers refuse to nurse their children, and thus ley themselves open to a charge of promoting infahticide. Tho neglect of this duty is said also to he injurious to the mothers health as well as to that of the child. The King of Westphalia's bath is not used except to look at. It is a beautiful pavilion with a sunken room of marble in the centre, statuary in plenty, and an ap- paratus for introducing perfumed water. A FAST RFS. A FASIOUT E,NQINE SAWING. Annan or TSB DAUB. "Ire heard tell a good deal about fait rune lately," said the engineer; " they talk of their eighty four miles in eighty minutes as if it was an easy matter, but my opinion 14 half O' these stories are 'lee —yes, sir, hes, open and abut. I don nee what a man wants to lie about A little thing like a fast run for. If it was feet le was fast, and if it wasn't gait° :so feet it was a little elower. That's all you can make out of it, " Did I ever have a fait run, myself. Yes, I did, but I don't like to tell *bout it for fear you'll think I'm stretching things. I never stretch. I devise this lyin"sthath &tin' to In so common, but if you want to bear a good, straight, insitter.ohfact tale of Actual experience I can tell lb to It was several years ago. 1 was ran, mug a freight on the Burlington. Was going west One afternoon with nothing' but a caboose. Had orders to 'run wild.' Got a little way's out from Burlington when Burnet came, and on goin" out, to light the headlight my fireman found no oil in the lamp. Came back to the tender, and, to our surprise, there wasn't an ounce of allarainating oil aboard. There won't an extra bit In the caboose either. *Heroes A go,' sari, 'out on the road and no oil. No against the rulee to rent after sunset without a headlight. If we do we'll he discharged for disobeying orders. If we don't g9 on we'll be bounced for carelessness in starting out on runin that eh%) and failing to go through. 'Yee, It's a bad go,' said my fireMen, but I know a Ivey out o',:the hole.' " 'How ? says 1, "Run out,,says be. "Yes, I mean it. The nun 14 just setting, We haven't any ell aboard, but we've a big lot of fuel, no load and an all -fired good locomotive It won't be sundown in Council Bluffs for a long time yet." "At that he looked at me and I at hire. Our eyes met. He didn't Mach a bit. 'Do you mean it, DIM "says I. For answer he grabbed his shovel and began piling in the coal on a Are al - reedy very hot. I squared myself down In my seat, pulled her back and opened her up, In On minutes the was clear back and as wide open as she mold, get, One was to do the teat with shovelling. "Well, air, whenever we'd strike= up -grade it would begin to get too dark, and I'd about to Dave for more steam. But when he came to a down -grade again the air would lighten up, and sometimes we could almost see the ann. Jett as we cat through the hills on the Wok of the Missouri Valley It grew so dark that I shouted to Dave that we'd have to give up. "Lot her go,' be replied; wait till We strike the valley." "Sure enough, in two minutes we shot down into the valley an' intothe sunshine. Over by Omaha the red nun was satin' low down close to the Nebraska hills, but we could gee him joist as plain as day.We had kept the dark behind us all the way across the State of Iowa." VerlOMP,M • ^ Sentry -Duty at the Bank of Eng. land, With regard to the amount of sentry - duty demanded of the men, the Bank Picket can scarcely be said to be exacting. On the contrary, the majority of the sole client are only ones called upon to perform "sentry go," and then it merely lasts for one hour. The limited number of men required a second time have some hours of an interval, during which they may gener- ally enjey slain night's rest. The sentries are posted chiefly inside rooms in the buildings. One tan is placed at the foot ante shaft -like opening to the top of the structures in front of the guareroora en- trance. An important item of his duty is to notice the expiry of the hour, and, to apprise the next relief of this fact by shouting out "Sentry -go !" ss as to rouse those who may be dosing within the room. Another sentry paces upend down a court where iti ie reported that bank -notes with- drawn from circulation are burned ; at all events, there are numerous furnaces there. A third man is posted in a circular hall called the "rotunda," which is devoted to some part of the btteiness of the Bank. These sentries are increased by additional ones in the middle of the night, who re- main till the departure of the picket in winter, and, till daylight arrives in summer. The officer goes his "rounds" at eleven o'clock, when he visits each sentry, and having heard all of them cry out "All's well," he retires to his rooms, and pro- bably to bed. He is seen no more till the elcuset parades to "dismount "In themorn- lug. Besides the soldiers. there are many officers on duty in the Bank by night. Capacious chairs are provided for these functionaries; and they appear to sleep comfortably—and sometimes audibly—in them for hours together, long practice having accustomed their senses to the noise of "changing guard." The picket leaves the Bank at six o'clock in the morn- ing in summer, and at seven, or a little later in the depth of the winter. The men within the guardroom are usually by theme times soundasleep. Oa the drummer summoning them to fall in, by means of a few strokes on the sheepskin of his in- strument, there ensues great activity in adjusting knapsacks, or performing hasty al:dubious at the neighbouring pumps. An officer arrives to take over the blankets and greatcoats, &c.; and the senior ser- geant completes his "report"by insert- ing a clause therein affirming that these articles are" preeent and in good order." This done, he takes ib to the officer for signature, and finally Murcia it to the drummer -boy to leave at the Horse -guards, as the party passes through Whitehall on Its. homeward march. The men having meantime been drawn up by the remain- ing sergeant, the offi ter draws his sword and marches them out of the Bank. A Beautiful Story. Salt Lake has the most intelligent dogs in creation, as the following story shows': The owner of the dog Is also the proprietor of a cow. Every morning the dog is started off to drive theconto pasture down near the Jordan. A. lunch for the dog is tied up in paper and fastened to his collar, He will drive the cow to where there is good pasture, and on hot days will then lie down in the shadow she caste, moving along as the cow moves, and thus keeping constantly in the shade. He does not touch his lunch until noon, when he slipsthe collar from his head, tears off the paper and devours his repast. go will then, vith his paws, push the collar back over his head, and toward evening Made the cow f or borne. This story is vouched for by overal persons whoheve witnessed the dog's perform Ince; In fact some of the peoplp of the vicinity are in the habit of rata Mug him every day. Soliloquy of a Housemaid. Oh, dear, deer Wonder if my mistress ever thinks I Ana made of dealt and blood? Five times within half an hour I Wine trot - teeter stairs; to hand her things that were only four feet from her rocking•chatr. Then there's herhon, Mr. George—it dem seem to tie that a great, able-bodied rune like him needn't call a poor, tired wowan up four flights of stairs to sak "What's" the time of day 'I' Heighol—it's "Sally, do this, "and "Sally, do that," till I wish I never hive beenteeptrzed at all; midi might as well go farther back, while I am about It, and with I bad never been born. Now, instead of ordering me round like a dray horse, if they would only look up smiling -like, now and then, or ask Mellow my "rhetimatie" did, or erg good morning, *Ally, or show some rent of interest in a. fellow-cretur, I could pluck up 1. bit of heart to work for them. A. kind word would ease the wheels, of my treadmill amazUgiy, and wouldn't coat them any- thing either, See my clothes, all at nixes and sevens. I can't get a minute to saw on a string or batten, except at night, and then I'm so ;deeply it is. as much AS over can find the way to bed: and what se bed it to, to be aural Why, even the pigs are allowed cleans:tram to /deepen; Waal* to bedolothee the lea said about them the better; my old cloak serves for a blanket, and the sheets areas thin as a charity achool soup. Well, well, one wouldn't think It, to ,see all the glittering things down in the dluing-room—master's span of homers, and Mee Olarea diamond wings, and mis- tress' doh dreeeee—I try to think it is all right but it is of no aae. To -morrow Is. Sunday—"day of rest," I believe they call it. Huuipite—more oeolcieg to beclorie, mere oorapeny—more confusion than on any day in the week, If Iowa a aceal I have not heard how to take ore of it for many a long day. Wonder if my master and mistress osi- culatetopsymefwtbatitlloielt? Itis a it loath:In in my mind. Lind of Gzaireni I ain't sure I've got a mind—there's the bell again. A Tempting Town. A city with half a million inhabitants and yet without any poor. With hand- some streets and magnificent boulevards, hut without any aunts; with the grandest European river running through it boring up the fruit and corn of Turkey, and bringing down the products of Germany; planed where the Ent Nue the Wed, and where the Walla* in his sheepskin and the Eroatin his il wing rohesmingle with the tailor -bound &eves of a fashion that we call ; with vineyards nestling on the hillside and dotted among the houses; outhe edge of the great Hun- garian plain, which is one of the richest agricultural tracts in the world, with a prospect bounded, by the Carpathian Mountains, and rich in every variety of scenery, Budapest is one of the most At tractive, and yet, to Englishmen, one of the least known of the great cities of zarope. It,. progress in recent times has been phenomenal. The Dumber of its In- habitants has actually doubled it the last twenty years, and is now about one -eight of that of 'mean. Ire hotels aro excel- lent; it possesses a fine opera -house and several theatres; there is a delightful fashion of dining in the open air ; there is more than one restaurant where the cooking is not only good, but artistic; the Danube supplies an abundance of the finny tribe, including the starlet, which Brillat-Savarin pronounced to be the beat in the -world; there are capital bands in the public parks and in half a dozen beer gardens ; and it would bedifficult to while away a summer evening more pleasantly thanat the Margarethan Insel,, in the mid- dle of the Danube, where all Budapes- daily betakes itself to eat wiener-sclenitztr and drink Hungarian wine under the treat while a glpsy band discourses wild music,s the river flews at the foot of the vine- yard, and the moon lights up the Turkish mosque opposite. E 11012TSEHOLD. mats. German writer gives this; as a remedy for inflammatory rheumatism, of wino!' malady he WWI cured in two days' time Make a soup of the steak* and roots of eel - my. Cut the celery into bits, boil it in water till soft, then scare warm on pieces of touted bread; drink the celery water. in Gemmey the roots and stalks aim hoileelk and eaten As a gated with oil and vinegan. Do not eat fruit skins or seede. The skin of an apple le as bad for your child sus a bit of your kid -glove would be; that of a grape more indigestible than aole-leather. A polish for delicate cabinet work can be suede as follows: Half a, pint limed on, half-pint of old ale, the white of an egg, one ounce spirits of wine, one ounce spirits of salts, Shake well 'before using. A little to he applied to the fate of a soft lineal pad sae tightly rubbed for a Dliallte over tbe article to be polished. Canned fruit should be kept in 11,004 drys dark closet. If one halm/ such a desist the fruit may be kept covered with paper or cloth and the light be excluded from it. Light seem to have an influence on canned fruit unfavorable and injurious to its flavor. Rave Any of our readers tried painting the outside of their glare 04414 to exclude light frern them? It is stated by a dietetic publication that baked milk peeresses extraordinary prop- erties of nourishment ler consumptives., and invalids. generally. This is the way to prepare 1;r l'ot a quart of good milk into stone jar; cover with writing pert, and tie it eowns Leave in A moderately hot oven for eight or ten hours, until it has the consistency of cream, Administered ad Prof. Brinton says that the best thing for a sprain is to put the limb int" a vessel of very hot water immediately, tines &cid boil- ing water ail it can he borne. Keep the part Immersed for twenty miautes, or petit the pain. subside'; then apply a tight bandage, And order rest Sometimes the men can be used in twelve hews. If necessary, use silicate of sodium dressing. Row to Cure the Blues. What am 1 to say about the treatment of this complaint? Nothing individually, that is obvious. Shall we seek for a pa- nacea in the Pharmacopoeia? Alas I there Is none. And yet I do nob bid the suf- ferer despair. On the contrary, I preach hope. At present he may see all things dark and dim, "as through a glass ;" it is In the very nature of his complaint so to look at matters. He must take heart of grace. Shall he make an attempt to shake off his trouble No; the effort would end In failure and farther exhaustion. But I will not have him sib indoors gazing out- wards at the gloomy weather, and inwards at the gloom on his own mind. Without actually foroing himself to any &great ex- ertions, either mentally or bodily. he must not sib idle and worry. He cannot force a cure; he may induce -one, though, by de - greets, If he believe that the ailment from which he is suffaring is to a great extent a blood disease, he will have made a good start towards recovery. He must get his blood purified. He must live abstemiously; eat but little, especially if weak. The mis- take weakly people constantly make is forcing Into their system food which can- not be digested, and continues to poison the blood.; or they drench themselves with tonics, in doing which they are but breed- ing heat and fever ; or they take stimu- lants. The last is almost a fatal mistake for the brain of one suffering from ennui Is far too weak to bear stimulation. By- and-by, when the sufferer feels lighter, happier, and more hopeful, than tonics may be began most cautiously—mild ve- getable tonics first, with cod-liver oil. the cure will be complete only after months of living by rale,the daily use of the bath, and all the healthful exercise possible, with—this is a sine qua non—something to occupy, without harassing, the mind. 01.M ••••! Mace Becipes. CercAnEl. E'..s.—Byll twelve egg; hard cl slice in tine rIngs ; put he a bekteg ilia layer of bread crumble them a layer Q gges aud so on tin the dish Le fun ; season with salt pepper and butter; pour aver cup of sweet cram sed bake to a nice brown in a moderate oven. SrieLP Bei ee—Coep *raw beefsteak sued a piece of suet the size of an egg; Ironton with salt, pepper and a little summer sav- ory; add two eggs!, four tablespoon; cream, and a small piece of butter; mix, and work in a roll with flour enough to keep together; bake in a pan with a little butter and water; slice when cold. Baum: CADDAIM.B011 ODD head of cab. base tilts= miuutes • change the water for fresh, and boil till tender; then set aside till oold ; chop One, add two beaten eggs, one tablespoon butter, three et cream, pep- per and salt to taste; stir all well together, and Nike in a buttered pudding dish till brown. Serve very hot, Arnie:so Cmeter CARL—Make P. good !Rouge cake; bake it a half-inch thick in jelly -cake tins and let the cakes get entire- ly cohl. Have a pound of Almonds blanched and pounded. Take a pint of thick, sweet erne= and beat it until it looks like ioe. cream ; sweeten very sweet and flavor with vanilla, and lestly stir in the almonds, and put very thick between the laers of cake, Rleu Cuzam.—To a pint of new milk add a quarter of a Ironed of ground nee, a lump of butter the size of a walnut, a little lemon peel, and a tablespoonful of powdered so Btil them together for five minutes; theu add half an ounce of isinglaes whichhas been dissolved, and lot the nutxure cool. When cool add helf a pint of good cream whisked to a frost, stir all together well, and set on ice. When used, put any favorite preserve or canned fruit around it. Apple Banos is very nice. Pickles, try to get the cucumbers as fresh as possible, all about the same size; lat- terly I have preferred to have them the size of my forefinger. It is hard work to put them up, and when they are so email nothing less than half a dozen or more a ill satisfy a genuine lover of pickles. Let them lie in salt water over night, the strength of a small half teacup to the gallon. In the morning put them into clean, clear water for an hour. In your porcelain kettle put some weak vinegar, three large grape leaves in the bottom, a piece of alum the size of a large pea; put in your cucumbers, and cover with grape leaves. Let them cook till thoroughly hot through; then put into quart glass jars, adding a teaspoontul each of black and white mustard seed, white su- gar, mustard, celery seed, a small red -pepper pod. Fill your cans with hot, strong vine- gar, seal immediately, and set away for win- ter. Should you want them for immediate use, put into a crock and let them stand two days. You will find these the most tooth- some, crisp, green pickles you ever ate. have quit using cloves and cinnamon, as it darkens them so and always gives them a bad color. For sweet pickles, though, such as pears, watermelon rind, etc., I use the cloves and cinnamon, but make a rich Sweet and sour sirup of sugar and vinegar.. If you have an abundance of grapes, they are very nice as pickles. Pack the bunches in crocks, and pour over them a rich spiced vinegar for four mornings; then tie a cloth over then, then a sheet of wadding, then another cloth. This will keep equal to sealing wax. Mr. Moses I. Ward 'of Pelham, Mass., bought a dog for $3 three years age, and has just sold the animal for 85, but as, in the interim, Mr Ward has had to pay $6 for licences and damages of $50 and $65 to per- sons bitten by the cur, there is not asi much profit in the transaction as one might think. Mr. Blowitz. the London Time's corre- spondent at Paris, is a German Jew; His ' patronymic was Gpfer, but, being born at Blowitz, Austria, he adopted that name. He is a naturalized Frenchman, Mrs. Lahr - mica Oliphant is said to have discovered 'him when acting as Times correspondent in Park. • , In some recent lectures upon hysteria in men, an affection which appears to be far from rare,, Prof. Cheroot states that many of those troubles arising from railway col- lisions, which are now referred to "railway - (spine," arise from a cerebral predisposition and are, in fact, ,"hysteria. nothing but hysteria." A Bank Holidcty--" Well, Jarvis, you've beaten your wife,you've had your MO head broken, and your eyes blacked, and your front teeth knocked out, and you sport the The V-shaped corsage is very popular in night in a police cell V' "Well. Sir John Paris itn a poor 'art as never rejoices !"