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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."
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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,
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