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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-2-18, Page 2HOW' SENQ.LD Oholee, Recipes, Arne CtiS Er.—Lay a orust . in your Plates ; slice apples thin and half fill your plates ; pour over them a vuetard made of .four, eggs and one quart of milk, sweetened and seasoned to your taste, MOON BOLOGNA SAUSAGE.—Ono part of beef, two parts pork, one part beef suet, a little garlic, sage, blank pepper, a email portion of cayenne pepper. Season to taste. Stuff tightly in cloth bags and hang them in a dry place. FIG PUDDING.—Delicious : One pound of figs, one pound of beef suet, one pound of bread orumbs, one pound brown sugar, six eggs. Chop the figs fine, along with the bread crumbs ; boil two hours kin a mold well buttered; eat with butter aanee. Any ether fruit may be ueed in place of figs. Toa RoLLs,—Make them up at 12 o'clock in the day. One quart of flour, one-balf pint of new milk, and one gill of yeast—one teaspoonful of sugar in the yeast is an im- provement. When light, work in a table- apoonful of butter and the yelks of two eggs, then set it again to rise for half an hour be- fore baking. Roll them out and make into any shape you prefer. OssTen SOUP,—Ptit on in a brass kettle one quart of oysters ; let them cook until they are nearly done without boiling hard (which makes them tough) ; stir in a piece of butter about as large as a walnut, rub it thoroughly into one and a half tablespoons of flour, add one quart of rich milk When it boils up once the soup is done. Season with pepper and salt. Pour it into the tureen en a quantity of small pieces of bread. This will be enough for six or seven persons. SPLENDID Orarmwr—From four to eight very freak eggs ; break them singly and carefully. When they are sufficiently whisked; pour them through a sieve and re - aurae the beating until they are very light ; add to them half a teaspoonful of salt, sea- son with pepper. Dissolve in a small fry- ing•pan two ounces of butter, pour in the eggs, and as Eisen as the omelet is well risen and firm throughout slide it into a hot dish, fold it together like a turnover, and serve at once. POTATO SALAD.—Slice thinly eight or ten good-sized Irish potatoes (boiled and cold) ; chop finely one good-sized apple, one and a - half small onions, rinse and chop the leaves of a large handful of green parsley. Spread a layer of the potato in a chopping tray, sprinkle liberally with salt, then half the parsley, apple, and onions, then the rest of the potato, then more salt and the other half of the parsley, apple, and onion ; pour half a teacup of sweet oil or melted butter over the whole, with a small cup of vinegar. Mix the whole carefully so as not to break the potatoes. A subscriber asks a recipe for common biscuit. Will some lady reader kindly fur- nish her rule ? Household Hints. Sweet oil mixed with melted beeswax and applied with a soft flannel cloth to wooden furniture will give the wood a high polish. It is partioularly effective on ma- hogany and le what was used in southern families before the war, when polished ma- hogany tables and chairs were the pride of every housekeeper. The mixture should be well rubbed into the wood, and then polish- ed with a dry piece of chamois. There ie quite an art in pressing the seams of a dress made at home to give it a good finish. The bodice and eleeves seams ought not to be ironed on a flat 'surface, but over a roller covered with flannel ; this gives them the true tailor's set. An ordinary rolling -pin, such as is used for pastry, will do. The white felt or flannel covering it must be caught tightly together and over- cast, but the edges mast not overlap, as they would cause a ridge. All the mama of a bodice are ironed over this, and the difference over those ironed 'on a fiat aur - face must be seen to be believed. The secret of good puff paste, or even plain, is to have the butter waxy. Wash it in ice water and flatten it into wafers ; put it into a cold window. It should be al- most brittle, If you keep to thio rule about the butter, and always work it be with a knife, flouring your hands when you have to touch the paste, you will bave light pastry. A tablespoon of saltand one of sugar go to a quart of flour for light paste. Add the water judiciously, as too much water makes pastry hard. The Latest Tramp Dodge. Right in the midst of the late January blizzard, a forlorn -looking tramp was blown to the front door of a cottage, and when the woman came out at his knock, he handed her a little note -book, with the request : "Please write my name in this 'ere leedle book." "Certainly I will. What name, please ?'' "My name is Jim Barto, but I want yer to write it so that people will take me for Sam Scadger. I don't want my real name to become known in this town.". "Does anybody in this town know you ?" "No, ma'am.,, "Then what difference does It make what name you call youraelf ?" " Well, you see, ma'am, I hey a dear old mother livin' in this County, and, as I'm dyin' of starvation, 1 want ter hide my real name, so that when your neighbors find a dead man on the street, with nethin' in his stomach but a whist of oat straw, my poor old mother will never know it was her poor, was ward son." That Christian lady stuffed his worthless hide so full of well -cooked grub th it is not likely he'Il take to eating oat straw for several days. Bismarck and Gladstone. Dr. Theodore Cuylor, in addressing the Yale students lately, referred as follows to Bismarck and Gladetone :-- " To my personal knowledge, the greatest man in modern Germany is a Christian, and G,adetone, perhaps the most powerful Intel- lect of rnooern timoe, stands side by side with Bismarck in thin respect. With my own eyes I have seen Mr. Gladstone kneel by the side of a common street sweeper and pray for the salvation of hie mous. 1 know of no grander eight than the Premier of England and the leading statesman et the world kneeling by the side of a common street sweeper and pouring forth his eloquent appeal to God in behalf of his humble brother." emembesomemeenn----- Fe' Even in this world mart ra shall have their judgment day, and their names which went downn in the dust like a gallant banner trodden in the mire shall rise again all glori- ous; in the sight of nations, .-[Mrs. 11. 13, S tome, A Japancee inventor has discovered a means of making paper from seaweed. It is think in texture, and, from its transpar- ency, can be substittted for glass in win- dows, and, when colored, makes an excel= lent imitation of stained glace, QUEBEC'S AWI'UL DANGER. The Gate of the &t, Lawrence Menaced. The Detroit Tribune the other day eon - Mined an article headed, "Soared Sir John A.—Why did the Canadian Premier make a. endden trip to England?" A prominent Irishman, who was in. Que- bec last Autumn, asked the newspaper in question "Why were two companies of artillery summoned to Quebec unexpectedly and without apparent cause a short time ago ?' Why did Sir John Macdonald hasten off to Eugland also without apparent cause 1' Ile continued as follows : "The Canadian papers have been trying to account for thee° things, seemingly unconnected, but they couldn't see right, for they looked with partiean glasses, The reform press tried to ascribe John A.a' sudden departure to fear that some of the French, angry at his course in the North-West rebellion, might kill him, The Conservative papers denied thie imputation of cowardice. But the public remained and still remains, in the deepest ignorance of the motive of the trip, While in Quebec I conceived a plan for wars IND A BLOW AT BRITAIN, but I saw no good opportunity then of ant• ing on it. When the Canadian Government became engaged with the discontented half- breeds and the Indiana, I communicated my plans to a few personal friends in Detroit whom I could trust. The immediate result was a series of meetings, some at my home, some at the reeidonoe of my friend. These meetings grew larger and larger, until, at last, we were obliged to rent a hall on Michigan avenue, Over 100 young men were let into the secret, mostly gentlemen of means, all educated and daring men who could be relied upon in any emergency. At last it was all arranged. Seventy-five of us were to proceed to Quebec in groups. On a certain day and at a pertain hour we were to visit the citidel, all armed with 44 calibre Smith & Wesson eelf•acting revolvers. The smallest of us were to be women, or as much so as smooth faces, wigs, skirts, and padding could make us. When all had gained en- trance, I was to throw handfuls of silver to the soldiers and so collect them at the gate. At that moment my companions were to draw their revolvers and DRIVE THE MILITARY OUT. This appeared to all of us as easy as rol- ling off a log. We had no doubt that after gaining possession and arming ourselves properly we could retain possession until aid should arrive, Riel was beaten and sentenced to be hanged. All Quebec was furious. The allegiance of the French Can- adiane, merely nominal, after all, was knocked into a cocked -hat. We felt that our time had approached, since we might expect material aid from the Lower Cana- dians, and we began our final preparations, Good men in all the New England cities were communicated with. They assured us that on two hours' notice they could sum- mon large numbers of men. The old Fenian organization, though practically inert, could give efficient aid with men and arms. All was finally arranged that the hour of our a,- sault 2000 men would be on their way, by rail and by water, to Qaebec. They would arrive within a few hours afterwards and reach us ander cover of our guns, With their aid we could withstand any force sent against ne. This much gained we would es- tablish a direct line of communication with the United States and, making Quebec the base of our operations, overrnn,the Dominion. Undoubtedly we could enlist the French on our side by giving them a free state. Vic- tory would be certain. We felt that all else would be welt could we CAPTURE THE CITADEL, for that success would kindle the fires of enthusiasm in every Irish heart, and thou- sands of hands would be extended to aid us, Five days before we were rr ady to put our plane in operation one of the men whom we had already despatched to Quebec telegraph- ed me in cypher that two companies of ar- tillery had been ordered to Quebec ; that the citadel guards had been strengthened and kept closely to duty, and that but few per- sons were allowed to collect within the walls at one time. I notified my co-conspirators immediately. Why should these precau- tione be taken at that moment ? we asked ourselves. The fever of excitement in the province of Quebec had passed away, and there were no symptoms of a French Cana- dian outbreak. We were unable to solve the puzzle,but made up our mind that something had gone wrong. On the following day we learned from Buffalo that a man from that city, who had promised his aid and been in- formed of our plans, bad been seen at Sir John A. Macdonald's residence in Canada. I immediately notified my friends of what had occurred, and our excursion was declar- ed off. Since then the Buffalo man emigrat- ed to Canada. "Sir John's sudden trip to England about that time was, I have reason to believe, to confer with the home authorities on the scheme which we had prepared." Murdered by a Madman. A Victoria, B. C., despatch says: A hor- rible tragedy is reported to have occurred on the road between New Westminster and Port Moody. A man named Walker has squatted on some land and the other day he took L. Robson, his partner Smith, and another man named Jones to the place, wishing to dispose of his right. They arriv- ed at the ranch late in the afternoon, and after dark Walker picked up a double-bar- relled shot gun and said he wen going to shoot a crow. One of the men remarked that it was rather late to go shooting, when Walker said 1 e might as well tell them his intention, that he was going to cook their goose for them, He then shot Robson through the breast, killing him instantly. Jones attempted to take the gun away from the murderer, but he received the contents of the second barrel in the lig, shattering his knee. Walker then made for Smith with a knife, but the latter succeeded in getting, out of the cabin and escaped. WaIk- er then lashed Jones to the body of Robson and fled. The wounded and dead non were found by constables, who arrived a few hours later, The dead body of Walker was anon afterwards found. Ile is supposed to have killed himself, THE MURDERED MAN. D. L. Robson, murdered by a squatter in British Columbla, is a Kingetonian, and a step -brother of Mrs. Black, wife of the Mon. treat City Treasurer. He was in Montreal last winter, and only a week before the murder he wrote a letter to a nephew here, saying that ae soon me he purchased the claim of a equator ho would start for King - sten again, He was wealthy, and was pro- bably murdered for his money. meow— They must needs move slowly who would move surely and euoceasfully up the hill of knowledge. Haste does only harm ; things must have their natural eouree, and they who cannot wait should cease all ex. pootation and hope, and betake themselves to some other pursuit, THE FARM. Forcing Rhubarb and Asparagus. A method whioh we have frequently pram Med is to dig up, in the fall, or at any time during winter when the ground le not frozen, a number of clumps with as many roots attached es posaible, and plane them olose together in a cold frame, sprinkle fine soil between and over them, water copiously with lukewarm water, level again with soil, cover all with a few inohea of dry leaves and put on the (rashes. The subsequent Dare is the same as required for ordinary cold-frames,giving air on mild days, and secure covering in cold weather. Water is rarely needed, as the leaves prevent rapid evaporation. When cold -frames are not available, the roote may be taken into a warm cellar under a window if possible, and coveredwith soil and leaves, or straw. Plants in a cellar need more water than in a frame, and the water given should be lukewarm. Another, and very eaay way to [forward Rhubarb, is to turn a one -headed barrel over a strong plant, and bank fresh horse -manure all round and over it, The bottom of the barrel should have several holes bored through it to facilitate the escape of ,"super- abundant heat and gases, else the stalks are apt to grow up siokly an decay, Timely ,Suggestions. Keep no unprofitable cows over winter. The present is the time to cull the herd, if it has not been done already. Ten chances to one you aro keeping one or more Down that do not pay for the feed they eat. You can easily ascertain which cows are profit- able for cream by setting a little milk from each cow in a tumbler, or better in a oream gauge. There will be a difference in the thickness of the Dream, and that very marked, unless your cows are all of the same breed, and even then the difference in the oream may be noticeable, A good condition powder may be cheaply prepared on the farm. A mixture of one pound penugreek, one pound of gentian, one pound salt, 0110 pound sulphate of soda, an ounce of sulphur, pound of phosphate of soda, half a pound of chloride of iron, and half a pound of blaok antimony, given in tablespoonful donee twice a day, will greatly assist the appetite and promote the condi- tion of the animals. A farmer u scrap -book should be kept on every well -regulated farm. There are thousands of recipes for the curing of sick animals which may be of great value if re- ferred to at the proper time. Useful hints regarding special crops may be forgotten unless preserved in this manner, convenient for reference, Plans for farm buildings or their interior management may be pre- served until wanted. Gates, fences, ditches, and the numerous other things which make up the business of the farm, require frequent repairs or entire construction, and the hint) and helps which may be afforded if the scrapbook has been well kept are of immense value. MThe necessity of keeping horses away from quagmires in the public roads is shown by the manner in which one of my horses is affected since it became stalled in one not long ago. Since the occurrence, when- ever the horse touches a soft place in the road it trembles all over with fear,, every muscle in its body seeming to shake, and it has to be led away from the 'spot, refus- ing to be driven. Crumbly Buttes Winter -made butter carries its' own cer- tificate of quality. It is usually white and tallowy, and crumbles into small fragments. It is atwaye deficient in the oily part of the fat. Fat consists of three acids—steario, margaric, and oleic, combined with glycer- ine. Stearic acid, or stoerine, is hard, white, and friable; oleic acid, or oleine, is yellow, soft, and oily, and dilutes the whiter and harder stearine:and. margarine. In the winter the oleine of the butter is in much less proportion, being used up in making fat tn keep the animal warm. And unless food that is rich in oil is provided for the cows, the butter made in the winter will always be hard and crumbly, and white in color. This fact applies also to some cows, which coniume the oleine of the food, and cense quently make white, hard butter at all times ; but much more co in winter ,than in sum- mer, while other's make rich, yellow, and oily butter. Tho rich butter of the Jersey cows is associated with a Iean carcass, while some other cows are always fat and sleek, but theirbutter is white, and of poor flavor. Much however, may be done in the way of feeding to secure an excellent quality of butter, even in winter. Some of those who have made winter dairying a epeeial buai- neas are mach troubled by the poor quality of the butter, and farmers generally, who make butter this season, complain almost univer- sally of the same difficulty. While some part of it lies in the cows, beyond doubt, yet the greater part of the difficalty is in the feeding, and dairymen must provide an abundance of food that is rich in oily mat- ter, to supply both the want of tie cow for herself to sustain the vital warmth and to leave an abundant surplus for the butter. A caution may be given against depending on the so-called oilmeals for this purpose. By the new processes in use in the mills every particle of oil in cottonseed and lin- seed is taken out, by means of benzine, or naphtha, as it is sometimea called, which dissolves the oil and leaves the meal entire- ly free of it. Formerly those meals contain- ed from 10 to 18 per cent. of oil, ,-and they were then most valuable feed for fattening and the butter dairy. Now they are of no use for making fat, excepting so far as their protein elements may be converted into it by a roundabout transformation ; but it is known that fat, given in tho food, is formed into an emulsion by the process of mastica- tion and digestion, and is assimilated di- rectly and taken into the blood by the way of the lacteal vessels and the portal vein, If we want to get rich milk we must feed food rich in oil ; and the beat food of this kind wo can use is hay or fodder, ao that it is thoroughly mastioatsd and made to yield up its oil to the action of the ealiva. "Do Note" for the Driver. Lord Hampden, who presided at a re- cent dinner of the London Cab -Drivers' Benevolent Associationcommended to the members the following lines relating Eo the proper oare,of the horse, which, he Bald, he had hung up in his own stables Up hill—whip inc not. Down hill -hurry me not. On level road -spare me not. Loose in abable—forget me not. Of hay and corn—rob inc not. Of clean water—stint me not, With sponge and brush—neglect me not. Of soft, dry bed ---deprive' me not. Tired er hot—leave mo not. Sick or Cold --Chill me not. 'With bit and reins ---oh, jerk me nob. When you are angry --strike me not. Ode to Charity. TAY 3edYT 8. e1L1'fl5 1. Thine excellent and perieet way, Thou Obarity, Divino— Bid-me pursue—end from this day 0 let me o'er in darkness stray Far from thy right benign. II, Bid me to know and deeply fool The hindrances within, Till with thy fresh and heaven -born zeal 1 share cash ill thy truths reveal, And spare my brother's eta, IIL Then In the onward, -up -hill road, That leade to Heavenly net, The path by Saints and Martyrs trod, Clothed in the panoply of God, Till numbered with the bloat. IV. Bid me Thy gentle skill to prove In healing human woe, More by the tender volas of love Than 11 Thy precepts to approve 1 "all my goods bestow— v. The tender love—which long endures, Nor falters to the end, That bosatetb not the 111 It aures, Nor its own merit that ensures Bre' it can succor tend. VI. The joyful Hope that can believe, Nor sink—thouga all seems dark, And Faith—which all thmge can receive, Rising o'er, wove which vex or grieve LUe'e ever buoyant ark." VII. These bid me bring to that bloat shore, Where earthly treasures fail, Where knowledve, skill, and learned lore Which—to the soul—in part btfore, For happiness avail, VIII. Shall merge in floods cf perfect light Their dim, torrential ray, And as the day beams fair and bright Scatters the shadows of the night And inhere in the day. Ix. Bo shall Thy wondrous, mighty power, Thou; greatoet Charity, Survive in Time's decisive hour And reign, when Time ehall be no more. Chfefeet of all the Three. A Beres. The hero holds his life as a trust, and not as a poeseasion. His general course of action is that of an administrator, rather than that of an owner. He thinks little aboub himself, but mach about others. Tho question which inter - eats him is not what can he get out of hie life, but what can he do with it. If promotion, or honor, or wealth comes to him, it emphaslzss the motto of hie life : 1 serve. He serves because he looks out on life from the stand -point of that Jewish -Christian hero who wrote, "I am a debtor." Sir Henry Lawrence, the detender of Lucknow, was one of those heroes who serve becauae they are debtors. He was born at Mature, Ceylon, cele- brated for its diamonds, and on Mrs. Law- rence's removal to another locality, a lady asked if she had brought any with her. " Yes," said the mother, producing her babe ; " here's my Mature diamond, 1" She was prophetie, though her ' son's life, while not wanting in brilliancy, re- sembled mere the diamond which cuts or polishes than that which merely displays itself. Simplicity, truthfulness, self-denial, and consideration for others marked him an a boy and man. He never " passed by on the other side," but alyays lent a hand to man, woman, child, or beast, or any crea- ture that was down. He could deny himself, even at a great coat, when self-denial was demanded by another's welfare. His father, a retired officer, lived on a small pension, and Henry had but little pocket -money while at the seminary where cadets prepared for the East India Service. ' Foot -ball, hockey, and cricket were as essential to an Englfeh boy's happiness as three meals a day. But Henry never in- dulged in them, because eubscripbions were required, and be would not ask his father for the money. Once at the end 'of his vacation, before starting for school, he collected. a bundle of clothes for a poor lady in London. On arriving at the metropolis, he carried the bundle, a large one, through the streets, and delivered it to her. A simple deed 1 Yes, but one which showed the heart and pluck of the young cadet, who was not ashamed to seal his uniform by carrying a bundle through London streets. Years after, while defending Lucknow, with a few hundred men against thousands of Hlndoos, who had joined the mutiny, a shell exploded in hie room. A sheet of flame, a terrific report, and dense dark- ness were followed by his low voice saying, helplessly, "I am killed," He lingered two days, his mind intent on serving till the last. Minute direc- tions were given to his successor as to the defence of the place, with the order " never to give in." He bade those about him to remember the vanity of ambition, and to inscribe on his tomb : i0 Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty May the Lord have mercy upon his soul." So few were the defenders, and no ne- cessary was it that every one should be at his post, that only four private aoldiers could be spared to bury him. As they were about to carry off the dead body, one of them turned down the sheet which co- vered Sir Henry's face and, stooping over,‘ reverently kissed his forehead. His com- rades also kissed their beloved chief, and then, amid the plunging of shot and shell, laid him to rest, " Mother, will yon be kind enough to cook the dinner to -day. John was so dim eabisfied with the cook that I sent her off without telling him about it." °t Certain- ly, my daughter." At the dinner table- John : " Maria, you must send off that cook. This is the worst deal she has given me yet." Capt. Ead's Tehuantepec ship railway scheme has received a great impetus from the recent aotion of the Mexican Congress in enlarging the conceseion to the railway and guaranteeing it $1,250,000 a year for fifteen years on condition that some other country guarantees twine as much for the same period, The distinguished Oriental traveler, Prof Arminius Vambery, says the "only two mediums in the world capable of bringing a better life into the dark recess seri of barbarism are the miosionary and the bale of goods." The bale of goods in- evitably follows the missionary, as the re- cords of every mission chow. A Care For Blizzards. ` "Yes, I am on my way to Washington," replied a man with a buffalo overcoat and a beaver cap who was held up for an in- terview ab one of hotels the other day. "It is hinted thet.you have made an important discover" y So I have. I am Capt. John White, of Montana; the man who fleet discover- ed the birthplace of blizzards, and wbe invented a euro for them." "Tell me about it 1" "Well, I have nothing to conceal in the matter. For five winters past I have been in the Far West watching cold waves or blizzards. Nineteen out of every twenty start on a line drawn from Fort Onion, in the northern part of Montana, to Fort Laramie, in Southern Wyoming. There are mountains, rivers, valleys and plains on the line, and these bring about the conditions required for a radical at- mospheric change," "Did you ever see a blizzard •born 1" "A hundred of them." "What is the operation 1" "Well, for insbanoe, one day last win- ter I was in oamp on the Powder River, in Wyoming and directly west of the Black Hills. It was a pleasant sunshiny day, and during the forenoon the wind blew smartly from the Hills. Just about noon, while I was preparing my dinner, a puff of wind from the Laramie Moanbaine to the south hit me, and just where two valleys brought these two different winds to a focus point, a cloud of anew was lifted high in air, and the wind began to circle. In ten minutes the cloud began moving toward me, and the meroury soon went down eleven degrees. The cloud bore to the northeast, struck the north fork of the Big Cheyenne River, and followed it east to Fort Sully, spreading its flanks as it went. At Sally it ran down the Missouri to the Iowa state lino. Here the wave was a hundred miles long. When 1b got down to Omaha it was 200 milea. It left the river there and went east, and by the time the centre reached Dee Moines one wing was at Minneapolis, due narbh, and the other at Sedalia, due eolith. From wing to wing was 500 miles. That wave took in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, and was kept from Michigan by lake influences, the latter on all the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Virginia was overspread by it. That was only one out of the many I have seen born." "Could it have been stopped 1" "Certainly. It was no larger than a barrel when it started." "What is your cure for these cold waves 1" "Well, I've been experimenting. Yon must warm the air as the first step. In that case you kill the germ and the blizzard falls flat. On this line of the birthplace of blizzards, a distance of 500 miles, base - burner coal stoves should ;be set about six feet apart. Ten thousand stoves might do it, but the government might as well add 5,000 more and make a sure thing of it. Each stove would burn, say, nine tons of coal during the winter. One man, as I figure it, could attend bo five stoves. As all the stoves would be out of doors only one length of pipe to a, stove would. be required. I figureon saving 78,000 joints of stove- pipe. This item alone, would pay for moot of a. the coal: - • Every blizzard costs the country $3;000,,000x,. We have- an average•of°ten per. season. I figure ;that I can stop every one for $100,000 each. This,aaves the country, $29;000,000 per season'. The government puts $20,000,- 000 in its pocket and hands me the other nine." " And. yon•phave an idea that your scheme will )ee;adoptedl' "Certainly. ' The only ;fear ; .I have is. that the government may want to put plain stoves off on me, while I shall stick for nickel -plated affairs. There's no use in going into this thing with anything cheap. I shall return* about a week, and as I will then know exactly how much I can save on stove -pipe I hope you will come and see me. This afternion I shall try and figure on ming one leg to a stove, thus saving 30,000 stove legs. This would pay for the coal for 367 stoves. Don't forget to come and see me." They took Seats. Two young dudes who are, acquainted with a country echoolmaater having a school about twelve miles from the city, were invited out to a spelling -school a few nights since, and they' took a horse and buggy and drove out. There was a large gathering of farmers, and an excit- ing contest was looked. for. Juab pre- vious to the beginning of the exercise a young fellow, whose head would have bumped a six-foot mark, and whoa° weight was about 160 pounds, called one of the dudes aside and asked : " Are you two fellers going to spell 1" "I guess so." " Purty good ab it 1" " I think wo can down yon all." " You do, eh 1 Now you look a -hero I've come here to -night to spell this school down. My gal la here to see me do ,it. I hain'b no objections to your spellin' along till we come to the word catarrh, but after that you can't drop down any too soon 1 If either one o' you chaps beat me you'd better have the wings of a dove to fly out o' .s tor 1'11 gin ye both the all-firedeet licking two dudes ever got 1" They stood up with him until all the others were down, and then at a look full cf deepest meaning both missed and left him victor. When he had carried off the honors he came around and said i4 Much obleogod, and I hope you don't feel hurt. Shouldn't have cared about 11, but Susan had her heart sot on it, and Suaan'a got eighty acres of land and a drove of sheep." Queen Margaret of Italy has chosen for her private physician the first Italian wo- man who took up' the study of medicine. Tho beet advertisement ofa workshop is first class work, The strongest attraotion to Christianity is . a well -made Ohriatian character, -qtr. L, Cuyler, The following are tome anatomical local. Mee newly mentioned in current litera- ture : " Ko kfated her upon her appear - twice, t She whipped hien upon hie re- turn." They seated themselves' upon hie entering. "He kissed her back." 1 She sat down on his invitation." Dr, Fillmore Bennett, author of the "Sweet By and. By," lives at Richmond, I11., and is quite poor, The King ofBavaria owes 15,000,000 marks and the rich widow whom he is aboub to espouse morganabicaliy proposes to wipe out the entire score. Mme.. Nilsson has won her singular law- emit against the relations" of her deceased husband, M. Reuzeand. "'They have been. mulcted to the amount of $50,000. Lord Tennyaon's dedicating his last. book of poems to Mr. Robert Browning 1s a strong argument against the old remora of any hostility between the two authors. Mrs. McCracken, of Haywood Co., Ga., who died soon after the war ab the age of 85, had sixty-five descendants in the Con- federate service, grandchildren and great grandchildren. HenryM. Stanley, whose haluvas al- most white from exposure in-Eph, has returned to London again with hair and beard that are described as beautifully brown. They are not dyed. Ibis announced that the fine old portrait. of Goethe, by Heinrich Kolbe, wbioh wall recently discovered after ib had been lost for half a century, is about to be placed in the National Museum at Berlin. Of the Dake of Seville ib is said that he once went to a ball without any cravat ; the reason being that jest before dressing he had dismisaad hid valet for insolence, and did know how to tie a cravat himself 1 Col. Edmund Richardson, who died re- o3ntly at Jackson, Mies., was the richest cotton planter in the world. He had 17,- 000 acted under cultivation, with an ave- rage harvesb}of 13,000 bales, and his estate was valued ab $10,000,000. Mrs. Hendricks has received from the officers of the United States Senate the massive iron inkstand used by her hus- band in his private room at the Capitol' at Washington. It is a handsome and unique work of art, and is worth at leash $30u. King Humbert, of Italy, it is said, re- cently quarrelled with Queen Margharita beoauee she inflated upon having straw- berries every day in the year. Peaoe was finally declared upon the economical basis of two plates of strawberries a week for the Queen. Driving through Windsor recently, the Queen noticed a cab horse thrown down and injured. Interested in the accident, she forthwith directed that the owner should have a new horse given to him from the royal stables. Mr. Spurgeon found only a temporary relief from neuralgia in his vegetable diet. At first it seemed likely to restore him to health, but it soon proved no aid to that end. He is In a very oveFworked and neu- ralgic condition. The question in Eniplomatic and social circles of a marriage between Prime Frederick Leopold of Prussia and one of the Queen's young granddaughters is be- coming a topic. It is to be hoped that he can support his wife, if he gets her. A girl, 13 years old, who has grown only an inch in height since she was 2 years old, and has gained Inn, Bee le in weight, was before the Concord (N. A) Medical Society at its annual meeting. The gir weighs thirty-five pis nrja and is thiet two inches high, ha er been severely nick and is unusual), Aro Her mind seems also to have stopped growing at the same time. Mr. Gladstone finds his annual corres- pondence to exceed three thousand letters per month, or an average of one hundred a day, besides innumerable postal card), circulars and papers. And yet people will write him and ask him for an auto- graph. During Garibaldi's first visit to England that patriot and Greville were placed side by side at a Stafford House dinner. After- ward, "Well, what do you think of Gari- baldi?" Hayward asked. "I think," said Greville, "that he la a fool. I never met any one less like a man of the world." Dying, urged Henry Ward Beecher in his pulpit on Sunday, is usually painless, and passing out of life far easier than being born. A man with dyspepsia may carry a little hell n hie ebomaoh. Men go out of life with the gates on oiled hinges. "Being ready to die''Mr. Beecher concluded, "is being ready to live right." The President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, never attended a col- lege of any kind. The Acting Vice -Presi- dent, John Sherman, is a graduate of the common schools of Ohio. The Secretary of State, Thos. F. Bayard, never got farther than a Delaware rural academy. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, John G. Carlisle, is a self-educated man SOBER MOMENTS. The weak sinews become strong by •their conflict with difficulties. Hope is born in the long night of watching and tears.—[Dr. Chapin. A new thought be false ; if it is it wil para away. In hen new truth ham come _ , to life It urste'the ld husks ]J b [ H cite Newton. The golden harvest lies in the future, not the past. The true Eden is to come. Out off seemingly chaotic elements God is evolv- ing His Kingdom of righteousness and joy and peace.—[Lyman Abbott. Christ speaks as the high priest of the Divine nature, speaking as one who has come out from God and has nothing to borrow from the world, The inoense of the upper world is Brought as perfume on Hie garments,— ttloraco Bushnelle It is the habitual thought that framed i1. self into our life. It affects us even more than our intimate social relations do. Oar, confidential friends have not as much to do in shapingour lives as the thoughts have whloh we harbor,— [J. W. Teri, Filial affection is the corner -stone of good morals and the most essential element of order and discipline in the State, Even in. tho republics of antiquity the rulers were styled fathom. The very name "father is itself a law of justice and imposes the highest obligations.—[Biehop Ryan, The only untitled married lady invited to meet the Prince and .l'rinoees of Wales at Eaton Hill, the Duke of Westminster's seat, was Mre, Arthur Pia et, daughter .o of the late Partin Stevens of New York, e - 1