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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-5-20, Page 7TELE EOU$E FOLD. The Art ofDish-Washing, It is hard, writes Mrs. C. T. Herrick, to make dishnwasbing poetical, titin, even ordinary mortals, by dint of giving the same amount of thought to this that they would to some more highly esteemed occupations, oan convert it Into something totally differ- ent from the unsavory busiuese into which it degenerates when left to the hands of melees or ill -trained servants. It would seem ,'most gratuitous to mer tion plenty of really lot water as an miser tial for the pro- per purityfng of utensils, were it not that one is too fn quently ooavinoed, from oloudy glees, streaky china, or dull silver, that. their latest bath had keen of extre mein mod• crate temperature. With water just r fir the boil, good eery, and an, abundance of towels, there Ie no reason Why etoaeware amid preen ed glees should act be as attractive in their dainty ole ,linees as French ohina and out oryetal, , some aver• r of -. has e e # e houaeb Near! r d. N_ Y euro silver and bi ht o for r ,tin e l?., Lt g ;braaldps. Among theme whiot accomplish tibia vg theca injuring' the artiolee to NIhroh they „applied may n eotloned : Fir atlioon No n 'electro e oa and eve ally x& e it p pop %be will eervefor olecning vaeee or trays r;of ;'73enarea or other tiucly engraved brass. 'MNor ahonld they be touched by a brnah. The delicate etching Ie too coolly effaced or clogged to be Ben petted to any but the gent lent handling, Wash the ornament in clean hot water and then rub thorougbly with a bit of soft cloth ; an old handkerchief is bei t dipped in lemon juice. Wipe dry and pol- ieh with ohamois akin. Benarea brasses are especially apt to lose their bright lees read. ily from the duet settling in the interstices of the closely engraved surface. To clean copper tt e old fashioned mixture of vinegar ana salt, tollowed by an am Lea- den of silted ashes, does better than any- thing else, The final friction with chamois ekin or soft flannel should never be omitted, Even in our enlightened age, and among people who eugl t to knew better, the prac- tice of " draining " dishes is less uncommon than it ahonld be. Serval is do it almost in- variably, unless closely watched. ICU a puzzling question why it should be consider- ed easier to wipe a pile of plates and oupe that have all been drawn from the water at once than to dry each article singly while it be still so hot that it needs but a few touches of the towel to make it bright, ]The towels themselvee are not the least important of the m' ane to tee end of wash- ing oiehes properly. They require care to prevent their becoming greasy and malodor• one. While washing soda should never be used in any department of laundry work, the addition of a couple of tablespoonfuls of ammonia to the nide in which diet towels are scrubbed does no harm, and desists ma- terially in the removal of dirt. Tne towels should never be boiled until waehed thor- oughly. Otherwise boiling setethe stains. Notes for Housekeepers. People who pay allegiance to fashion are d eing their white lace window curtains me shade of yellow. - IN BUTTE —Acaries ona ant of BUTTER -BOWLS the National Stockman recommence tin buts ter -bowls, affirming that, with all posel ile care, the wooden onus will become tainted and spoil the butter'. CLEANING BRASS AND COPPER VESSELS.— Braes or copper veedele used for stewing Wruits should be polished while v arm, as they are easier cleaned to say nothing of the pleasure to find them ready for use. APPLE BATTER PUDDING. One quart of milk, four egge, one pint of flour, one mall tearpoonfnl salt, three or four large tart nip ant fine and stirred into the batter last.; Boil or bake it for one hour. Est with dauoe. LIQUID SAUCE (FOR PDDDIF GS).—Two tableepeone butter, one oup of sugar and yolks of two eggs beaten together, just be- fore wanted pour on slowly two cups boil- ing water and stir until dissolved. Flavor with a little grated nutmeg and three table- spoons Catawba eyrap which comes in bot• ties, or strawberry syrup if preferred. FrSu BALLL.—Cut up eight good sized po• tatoee and piok fine one pint of salt oodfieh, Pat all in cold water and boil until tender enough to strain through a colander ; add a piece of butter the size of an egg, a little cream and one egg ; ealt if needed. Mash all togonher and fry in boiling hot fat. Use a epoonffbl for each ball, dipping the spoon in cold water to prevent the mixture from sticking to the spoon. WIRE RING DISIrOLOTII.—Many good housewives have no knowledge of the ex- cellence of a bunch of wire rings (to be had for a reaeor able pride at any house-Purnish- ing store) in cleat ing pots, skiliett, eta, par- ticularly if the latter should happen to get scorched. A piece of sandpaper will also be found very serviceable in rubbing off patohee of "burned -on " food and it doesn't injure the glazed surface of the kettle. , POTATO ROLLS,—Bali six goods'zvd pota- toes with their jackets ; take them out with a skimmer, dram and squeeze with a towe to insure being dry ; then remove the skin, mash them perfeotly free from lumps, aid a eablespsonful of butter, the yolks ot three ggs and a pint of sweet milk. When coo beat in a teaspoonful of yeast. Put in just enough flour to make a stiff dough. Wien this rises make into small cakes. 1 et them rise the same as bisouit, and bake a delicate brown. e E•ow to Advertise, A contemporary, in some "hints on ad - e,"(vertising," says : " Another thing which publishers have to contend with is that the remitter of advertising are not always vfaabie to patrons, many of whom can not under- etand why custom can not be directly traced to the source where they expended their money to obtain it. Business is like a river with many tributaries, and In which it is impoesibie to trace every individual drop of water to the spring from whence it came, But if a journal is aolected for advertising purposes that reaches time and again the persons most likely to bo interested in the no. natation, that paper le certainly a sure fountain -head of profitable trade in the stream of patronage far below. Temporary advertisements in a smallway will not pro. duce an immediate or permanent increase of busineeet any more than a light ebowor will affect the depth of water in a well, but by pereietenoy in the ono of printer's ink in the right direction, the result sought will be gained in the end with interest. Vicar's daughter—" Well, Tommy, how are you all getting on ?'' Tommy ---6' Nioe- 1y, thrnk you, ,rales. Oi got a gumboil, mother she's got the rhoumatios, and father e'vo got a month in jail 1" There is actual proof that wood can be charred by steam pipes, and by the clow but Tong continued action of moderately heated steam, Charcoal thus formed it said to be liable to absorb oxygen setd- denly, arid break oat into spontaneous cam- bustion. WILD ORAS AE. I'ureved by a Runaway Engine. I'. had a run out of Columbus, Obto, ken er twelve years ago, and several things con- epired to bring about the incident I am, about to relate, I had a passenger run of nine hours, begining at 7 o'clock e, M For nearly three years t hada locomotive named after a railroad official, "Ben Davis,," and I get to know that piece of machinery better than any man ever knew' his horse, Yon may buy two watohee of the same make, of the semenom nem at the same time, and while one will keep exoelleut time and give good satf-faotlon, the other will have off spells. It le the same with two l000mo ttvee, White •' Bon Davie'' would make regular tripe, day after day for menthe with- out giving me the least trouble or wanting a cent's orth of repairs, other locomotives from the same shop were in the hands of the repairers ae often as out on the road. Oneof our freight engineers wae a man n e mo named mor a Iv b f1 as on to our g y road from some line in New England, and gave good satisfaction for auout three months. Then whiskey got the better of him, and he went to tbe doge, One day, atter ale fireman had brought the train into Columbus, with Roby drunk and asleep on''. the floor of the cab, he got his blue envelope. The idea eornehow lodged in Ha head that the effioials were dowu on him, and heswore he would have revenge for boiag discharg- ed. One afternoon he turned up down the road and was noticed to be drinking heav- ily, and to have the bearing of a man bent on some desperate deed. That woe at, a station eightetnil miles from Columbus, and on a gloomy April evening, I was due there at 7:28, and it was a two -minute stop. A mixed freight always elide -tracked there for us to pass, and then followed us down the line, Well, I was there en this special evening on time, as neral, having baggage, expreae and three ooachea. It begun to drizzle just before we reached the station, and I saw that we were in for a dark night and a slip- pery track. I did not see Roby, nor did any one tell me that he had enown up there, I noticed that the freight train was unusally long and that it was palled by. one ;of the biggest'cnsines on the road, Three or four :peeiple`got off and perhaps as many got on, and wet were ell ore the,'.eaecnd•., , It .;viae a run of sevenniflea to the next stop, and my sobedule was thirty-seven' miles -an hour, We had not yet come to a standstill at the next stop when the telegraph operator, whose face was as white as snow, ran along- side, and called to me : "There's a wild engine behind you—for heav—" He ran back to the conductor, and in ten seconds that official rushed up and shouted tome: • • It's a runaway engine—pullout at once!" He yelled '- All aboard 1" sprang for the steps of a oar, and away we went, some of the people getting cif or on being flung down as they jostled each other. After we left the station where the freight was side- tracked, a brakeman ran down the track to open the a itch Ashe did eo Robymount ed the engine with tacked revolve in hand and drove the engineer and fireman off. He had previously uncoupled her irom the train without being detected. He ran the en- gine out on the main line and half a mile beyond. Then he filled up the fire box, saw that she had plenty of water, pulled the throttle wide open, and jumped off. That wae how we come to have a runaway engine behind ne. As soon as the engineer was driven from the cab he ran into the station and informed the operator, and about the time the runaway started we got the news. We were about six miles ahead of her. That meant about six minutes. When 1 pulled out I supposed the pro- gramme was for some of the station folks to run down and open the switch so that the runaway would be ditched, but it ap- peared that the agent was so dreadfully rat- tled that he did not attempt this step until too late. The switch was forty rode from the station, and just as an employee reaehed it the runaway came rearing past. Idly next stop was ten miles distant. I reasoned it out in about a minute that if the runaway was ditched the fact would be telegraphed ahead, If she wasn't, that foot would also be clicked ever the wires, and I' would get some sign or signal as we passed. 1f she was following us there would be no time to switch in, and my hair stood up at the idea of trying to outrun her. I made the ten miles in twelve minutes and a half. A mile away 1 began tooting the whistle, and ea we neared the station, still flying, I leaned out to look for the agent. He was on the platform. If be held up his hand 1 would atop. Bat he ail not. On the contrary, he waved his arm down the line for me to keep on, and I knew that *e were in for it, The runaway could not ba over three min - uteri behind, and there would not be time to turn mer in on the siding here, The next stop was eleven miles away, and it was a good piece of track. Little by little I gave her more steam, and after the first mile I knew that we were reeling off a mile every minute. There was train enough to hold unsteady, and the traok was straight and but for the awful roar It would have been easy to imagine we were flying. The agent ahead would let me know by signal, as the other had done, He was en the platform, with a great crowd behind him, and he motioned me en. The runaway was still after us: She must hove gained some, but how much I could not say. It wae eight miles and a half to the next station, and l could not do better than forty five m forty-eight miles an hour on'mthe up grade, The runaway must catch no in the next six or seven miles, We had gone abont five miles when I got the signal on the bell rope to stop, and as soon ae I had slowed down a little a brakeman camp over the tender with Instructions to stop at the station, Tho conductor knowing that we oornld not outrun the wild engine, and that there wae no show to ditch her, oould think of but ono plan to save the train. He called the pas- sengers from the rear coach and cant it tff. This was on the eleven -mile tan, and the poach had about two minutes to lose its me. mentum before the runaway struck it. The pilot ran under the platform, the end of the poach was lifted up, and the next moment ongfno and car were in the ditch, Neither ene of them was ever repaired, the w,teck being too'oomplete; nor did the cffioere of the law ever succeed in laying hands on Roby, Jupiter. The distance cf Jupiter from the sun is 480,000,000 miles, It is next in brlghtneet to Venue, end may be seen in daytime in clear weather from a mountain top, It it about 300 times the weight of the earth, and bas 1,200 tlmee the balk of the earth, It re• fleate nearly one-half the light that fails upon it. The Human Heart. Tt ongh I've travoll'd far and wide, And haveWaited time and tido, I never knew iDi honesty to' win, Or a heart howeverlrard From all eympathy, debarr'd Or hat kindness could not touch and enter in, ray our Mlle, r, A well-known business man hailed US te- day with "Come here, 1 want to interview you." The idea of a merchant interviewing a newspaper man was so odd that the call was. answered riahtawty, " What made you put that article in the paper, headed, a Pay your Bilis ?"' he asked, "Because," we replied, "it a peara to be the proper thing to do," " Well," be amid, "you are right; it wee. the proper thing to do, Now let me tell you that I have been in business here for several yearn, and before In other pioneer too, and 1 believe I know what,I em talk- ing about when I say that it everybody, would pay the bine he owee to his neigh- bore once in thirty days, or upon preser}te- tion, there would be very little of what we oall'hard times.' Tne man who owea a dollar and has got it to pay, tut hangs to it, nrevepts the payment of a groan many debts. The journey no that a dollar ar trey le the &rat week of the month, and time it metros, as we may say when we talk of raoe horned, would su:prise the man who never investi- gated. I marked a dollar once and kept. track of it a few daya, requesting oaoh man to keep a record of whom it wan received by him, and to whom payed. Before it disap- peered, about the end of the first week of the month, it had paid between twenty-five and thirty dollars in debts. Not long ago 1 presented a bill of about forty dollars to a man abundantly able to pay it. I knew he had the money. But he looked soared and said, ' I can't collect my bilis, you know; wait awhile.' Now that tarty dollars be- longed to me, but he had it in his possession, and of course I couldn't take it away from him. If he had paid it to me, as he ought to have done, I should have paid it out al - moat immediately, and t he chances are that it would have been kept going, and by this time have paid ton times its value in debts. " Yon see," he went on, "money ie valu- able when it is in circulation, Like blood in a man's body, when stagnant it is of no use. There are too many oowerds. A man whe gets soared and grips his dollars when he aught to pay hit debts with them, does the public a positive iujury. Hie money would certainly return to him throngh cre- ditors. The financial coward does more to bring on hard times than any other cause, He is a stumbling block and a nuisance. We talk of the timidity of capital. It is not the money, but the men who handle it, who are timid. " You were right," he continued, "when you said that if everybody will pay his bills next week, in three months' time business will be gond and money plenty. We can make courage and confidence if we will. Some men who are ohronio deadbeats put on a great deal of style. I could point you out a man who dashes up and down Dela- ware street behind a hired fast horse, and his creditors are thinker than bees. He stands them off and rides, while they have to take wind for money and walk. He le ' kiting' now, but he le sure to come down in dishonor and disgrace. Let every hon- eet man who oan do it, square up with hie neighbors to whom he owes a few dollars, and times will ease up at once. There is plenty of money, plenty of produce, and plenty of everything except honesty and courage. Honeaty and courage will restore confidence. The croaker, whether it be a newspaper or business man, will soon quit his croaking, and nobody will remain with a woeful tale about hard times except the professional dead -beat, who is always look- ing for an excuse for dishonesty. A Royal Printer. It le not generally known that Prince Lud- wig of Battenberg, sun of Prince Alexander of Hesse, is a practical printer. Like most of the princes of the Prussian Royal House, who have been taugbt either ant or a trade, Prince Ludwig of Bsttenberg was early called upon to choose a calling, and his choice fell upoa the art of Guttenberg. In the palace of his father the Prince has a printing cffice completely fitted up for or dinary printing and book -work. Prince Ludwig prides himself on hie ability to com- pete with compositors and printers who fol low typography for a livelihood. What ie still more interesting is that the Princess, the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke of Heate, is a priater, too, and that, the high. born pair work regularly together at the ease. The latest work which has come from Prince Ludwig of B tttenberg's press is a volume of notes on travels written t y the Prinoe'e dieter. the Counteae of E:oaoh- Schonberg. The book is said to be executed in a thoroughly printer -like way. Happy in His Dreams at Last. Fond Wife—" Did yon have pleasant dreams last night, George t" Rude iineband—" Why do you ask ?" Fond Wife—" Because I noticed a plea- sant smile on your facets you slept " Rude Husband—" Yes ; I forgot for the time that I was married. Pass the butter," PEOPLE. Pev, Qeorge Washington fa chaplain of the Britfeh legation at Constantinople, The pay of a second lientenant in the French army le but $37,80 per month, and sword knot ooete, $5, Esther Dow, of Deerfield N H.,who re. minty died, aged 88 years,' had serr in her life seen a railway train, and for years had not beea off her farm. : The romance of the jailer d lovely daughter has been realized in Belgium, 'l'B►nitg, the embezzler, woo no sooner released fit in lw- prieoaxnent then he married the daughter of the pcieonkeeper of Louvain. Mies Nellie Arthur was confirmed last week, at: St. John r Church, is W:iiehtngton, the same church in whioh her father ex President Arthur, Inserted a memorial win- dow to the memory of hie wife, Ellen Herndon Arthur. In McCready', dress for VIrg incus, now in Mr. I vi ' r n e o eeeasio n n tne armor was o1 B P , pante-board, covered with tinfoil, and the dagger of wood. There was a scarf of red serge, a linen turio and, sandal's, eta. The whole could not have cost $10, Mre. Joshee, the Hindoo lady who lately was graduated from the Woman a Medical College of Penneylyania, carefully preserved her caste while in this country to insure he reeeptlon in high caste families in India, and even 000kea every one of her own mettle and served herself at table. An old man ander the wreck of the care at Deerfield made known hie presenoe by cursing the railrsad company. When he was got out he was found to be terribly braised, and he fainted. On Doming too he immediately resumed hie anathematizetion just where It had been interrupted by his swoon. When Mlle. Dudley, of the Corneille Fran oaise, first began acting in Paris the critics complained of a certain aibillation of the voice, which was due to a peculiar fermetic n of her lower jaw. A dentist said it could be remedied by forcing book her lower teeth. So for six mouths, day and night, she wore an instrument of India rubber, never remov- ing it anti always suffering severely from it. Sae obtained perfeut enunciation. Among reigning sovereigns who 'have written books are Qaeen Victoria, Dom Pedro II. of Brazil, Dom Luis of Portugal, the Saab, ;'Wear II. of Sweden, Prince Nikita of Montenegro, Ludwig 11. of Bavaria, and Qaeen Edzabeth of Roumania ; and among prinoee and princeesese who have dabbed in literature are the Princes Christian, the Crown Princess of Germany, the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, the two sone of the Prince of Wales, the two sons of the King of Sweden, the Duke of Edinburg and the Comte de Paris, Some six or aeven veers since there came to Washington from California Mr. and Mrs. Boyer. Site was a rather small, bright, ambitions woman, with literary ability, whose nom de plume was " Dere Marmore.' It was hie deetre to obtain a position in the Government Printing Offioe, and she did all in her power to aid him. When he succeed- ed, however, she went to New York, secur- ed a legal separation and resumed her maid- en name of Dora Tiohenor. Not long ago she captured Mr, Voorhies, of the New York yacht fleet, and he has now been sued by Mrs. Garnne,°a dashing widow for $100,000 for breach of promise, The Emperor William is the oldest sover- eign In the world, the Pope being now only in hie 77th year, while King William of the Nethertande, the next oldest, is twenty years younger titan his namesake on the German throne. Waren the present Emper- or was born, eighty-nine years ago, his grandfather, Frederick William II. (the ne- phew and successor of Frederick the Great), was King of Prussia, George III, had reiga- ed in England for thirty-seven years, France web under the Directory, In 1,neeia Paul I. had euooeeded to Catherine II., then dead only four months, and George Washington was still first President of the United States. Mr. Rees R. Winans, who is being drag- ged before the public by one Mrs. 0 Keefe, appears to be a very much married man. His first wife was Miss Ludlum of Baltimore a very handsome and conspicuous looking woman. She bad very blonde hair, and, some eaid, her death was paused by the 111 effeots of the coloring she need to give the beautiful golden tint to her hair. Sts pre- sent wife was Miss Whistler, a niece of the eccentric artist, who was such a fondness for "symphonies" and "harmonies. The father of Mr. Winans made his immense fortune as a contractor for building the rail- roads in Russia, rr4411.--l► Copper -lined tanks are often known to give trouble by leaking, after a few years, mach of which arises from the manner of soldering. Most plumbers nee common sol- der, masse of lead and tin. For this hind of work pure tin ehooli be used, and the laps thoroughly sweated through. The nails should also be of copper. S7lr11IIP A,T fil1YW ' Poon,. TnINee I HE'S So DAEADFULLY 2111N lriit. $UItE rBItDt'LL NEVER EE 1 NOUGar TO 00 ARovx», A k,TRU(lGLE TO THD DEATH, In Locomotive a L conioti o ab withMad E I 4 a te l , aYir: racer. I was in the second Yonne of my appren• Heirship p as Gramm on No 63 of the Umtata nal, Hamilton and Daytou Road, when I get pnuh a bet- been one night as few ,firemen ever lived through. Tbe incident happen, ed about ahem years ago, but every feature of it cornea to my mind ae clear as if the af- fair occurred last night, My engineer was named Bob Ripley. Ile was a jovial, whole soiled fellow, never going beh'ni a glues of beer, and wae, known all along the line as a sober and trusty man Well. all of a eutidsn, boa luck struck. Tae had a little hone, which was taken away by a land shark, He. left Cfnoln• nett one night for Toledo on hieusual run, and returned to find bla wife :dead, She. had some heart trouble, and died without a mon':ent's warning, Within. a fortnight his boy baby eiokenedand died, and that left Bob without homeorfa ityI t e 11 you it made an awful change on him, Ila was oft for two or three weeks, and when he came back bo the oab L could scarcely recog- nize him. He had a wild, queer leek to bra eyes, a strange sound to his voioe, end he was so sullen and morose that 1 almost fearedcto ape ek to him on matters of been nese. I made two or three trips with him, and but for the fear of hurting hie feelings T should have made application to be changed, It was the third or fourth trip after he returned to the road when we left Cincin- nati one November night for the north. It was a wild, stormy night, and as we got out into the country I caught Bob smilsng and chuckling. The wildness of the night seemed to strike a responsive chord in hie soul. 0 d 63 seemed to be in uncommon epirita, too, eor she was gliding along with a heavy train,`and making no fuss over itt. I made some remarks about it, but Bob had no reply, Indeed, he noted as if he was alone in the cab. I didn't like the situation a hit, for I had a euspioion that he wasn't quite right In his head, and he was also spurting her beyond schedule time. We were to pass a side tracked accommodation about thirty miles out of Ciacinnaii. She ought to be in eight minutes ahead of our time, bat 63 was overreaehtug schedule time so fast that I feared a collision. The conductor had his eyes open, however, and at a stop about twenty miles out he dame forward and cautioned Bob to slow her down. We had overreauned five minutes in that short` run. B ib answered surly enough, but as we pulled out again he obey- ed orders and obeokod her down to lose the extra minutes gained. We had passed the siding all right when I noticed that his nervontnese increased. He would whistle for oroseings where none existed, and he would toot anppositious cattle off the track. Orme, seeming to ignore my presence altogether, he opened tne turner* door and pilea in the fuel, al- though we wore carrying more steam than I had ever seen on. At Hamilton I was fully resolved to speak to the oonduotor if he Dame forward and gave me opportunity, but he did not. It was when I returned to the dab after oiling up that Bob looked up at me with a start, as if surprised to see me, and said : " Jim, I'm thinking of them." " Yee, Bob, but they are better off," I eootoingly said. " You must bear up like a man. it's sad enough, God knows, but you mast meet it bravely" " DId you see—?" " What 1" I asked as he soddenly check- ed himself. He did not answer. He looked at his watch signalled me to ring the bell, and in a moment more we were off. Tne night was growing wilder, and we were not ten minuses out of Hamilton wheal made up my mind,thatthere wastrenble deal at hand. Bab turned to look at me new and then in a way to prove that he meditated evil, and from the way he kept the whistle going the passengers behind must have supposed the track to be swarming with living obetruc• Vona. We were about half way to Day- ton and I had just replenished the fire, when Bob suddenly gave her all steam. It aeemed to mess if old 63 took a clean jump of ten feet as she felt the extra steam, and I shouted my alarm. The words were hardly uttered before he was upon me. " You've got to die with me 1' he scream- ed as he clutched my arms, and I'm not ex- aggerating a bit when I tell you that hie eyes looked like coals cf fire. I was by far the stronger man of the two, but in his first rash he dialed me about in a dreadful way, and had almost pulled me to the steps before I called up my muscle, Then I aid my beat to save him, He was bound to go cif, and I was bound to pre- vent, it and as we pulled and tugged at each other, the train was running so close to a mile a minute that none of the pattaengers cared to reduce the fraction. I think our struggle lasted about five minutes, I was gradually drawing him back into the ten- der, and was wondering how I could se- cure him, when he , uddenly shut hie teeth on my right wrist, and bit and tore like a dog. I had to let go my clutch, and as I did so he turned and leaned off, uttering a ory which rang in my earn for weeks after. is was high time the steam was shat off, As I afterward learned, every passenger was hanging on and praying to heaven, for the dullest of them knew that something had happened on the locomotive. I brought her to a stand -still as soon as possible, and when the conductor reached the cab we baoked up to look for poor Bob's body, We found it about two miles back, and it was a shocking eight. He had struck a stump head first, and bead and face were simply a bloody mass of flesh. I ran the train into Dayton and we had scarcely come to a standstill before I was seized with a ohill, and had to be helped to the hotel. I wae just olean broken down under mental strain, and it wan plump six weeks before I crept out of my bed. 1 was determined never to step foot on an engine, but when health oame back I got my nerve again, and the result was that I finished my apprenticeship, and took the other side of the cab. 17itality of Males and Females. Some intermitting facts concerning the relative vitality of males and fernelos are shown in the forty-sixth annual report of the Eogliah register general, In eaah 1,000 living porsono there are 487 melee and 513 females ; bus for every 100 females 103.5 males were born, At every age of life the death rate was lower in the females, and the difference is greater in early years. in both sexes a diminished death rate is taking plane, This is more marked in fe- melee than in melee, at all ages; Tho im- provement iseapeotaily notable in women tip to 45 and in the men to 35, The mean expectation of life of a male at birth is 41,- 85, and of a female 44,62 years, The annual expectation of Innen] le, counted by the daya, nearly the same in both saxes, Satan always rooks the cradle when we sleep at our devotions, -[Bishop Hall, HARE ,SND THERE. Speculators have bought a little old house in Sion, Me., formerly occupied by an allege ed female miser, .cud are touring it down i,n, search of hidden treasure, Thus far they found $28, 'The .North German Gazette admits that the feeling in ]'ranee against l;rmany ha;treated a similar feeling in Germany against. France and the actzotte warde France that r her official elutions will gruffer if the anti- French feeling In Germany be much furtheit aroused, The experts from Germany to the United States during the &rat quarter ot 1886 amounted to $2 635,000 more than the ex- ports during tae tame period of 1885. Thea newspapers oall atteution to tae large in- crease in exports to America, which they at- tribute to tbe great strikes. A gang of thirty thirsty toughs from Bea. ver broom the nthe r nightht took posseesion of George Morgan's cider mill, in which were several barrels of hard eider, When Mor- gan found them in the morning they were all drunk, and some of thorn ugly, but he pitch- ed into them single handed, drove them out of the mill, and threw the leader inte the mill race, where he was nearly,drownecla Charles Patterson, a notorious chicken thief, of Rtohmend, was in the habit of kill- ing and omoeeing the chickens he stole before quitting the premises. Unfortunately for him, he fell asleep while picking chickens. ton Monc ay night, and in the morning the owner found him calmly snering by the side of eight well-dressed fowls and a pile of feathers. Richmond roosts will not be dis- turbed by Charles for many moons. John Ackerman, who Yves near Poplar Bluff, Mo., was attacked by two large blank wolves while going home from work the other evening. 6,,a he ran. he fell and the, wolves were right upon him ; but the rattle of his dinner gait caused them to halt, and noticing this, Ackerman jumped up, and, furiously shaking the pail, frightened the wolves away and went home unharmed. G, M Dupree of Warwick, is 60 years old the father of eight children, and eighteen, times a grandfather. Three months ago he,. sent his friend James Hobby out in search. of a wife for him. He tela him not to pink a young one, for she might be giddy, bat to find, if possible; a nice chunky woman, " nigh on to 30 years old," Hobby was enc - metal, and Mr. Dupree and hies Saliie�,. Jones were recently married, George Moore, a clerk in an Augusta, Me,,. - hotel, hate been in the habit of wr,ting an order for the porter to call Andrew Jaok, railway postal clerk, who goes out on an early train, at 4 30 in the morning. The other night Moore dreamed that he had not pat down the order. He thought he saw Jack stagger up to the depot with an im- menee load of mail bags met as the train was drawing out, and the eight of the mail olerks efforts to catch the train ao impress- ed him that he awoke. He harried down stairs to make sure that the order had been written. It had not been. He looked at the clock. It watt just 4:30. Then he went and palled Jaok himself. to be sure that the dream shouldn't oome true, Slow Trains. A man was one day making a trip en a " mixed" train on a Cauadianroad. Passes on these trains is never taken except en journeys of considerable length ; walking is as easy and much faster for short distances. On this occasion the movement was much more deliberate than usual and the passen- ger called the conductor to his seat and said : " Isn't tbie motion pretty slow ?" " Well, we ain't flying, I'll admit, " Sure everything is all right ?" " I think so." " Wheels all greased ?" " Yee, I greased them myself." "Tires all on 2" " Yes, we run through the creek back here and soaked up the wheels so thatthey would stay." " Any spokes loose ?" "No.' " You are certain the wheels are all on the rails ?" " They was when I oome in," " Couldn't be possible that any of them are off and the axle dragging, could it ?" " I guess not," " Are we going np hill ?" " No, this is pre:tymidd'lin' level." " Do you always run at this gait?" " No, we generally hump along a little faster'n this." " May I ask what as tne trouble then ?" " Certainly. We found a fine two-year- old steer stuck in a trestle back here, be- fore you got -on, and stopped and helped it out, You know the rules of the road: are that in such oases the animal belongs to the company," f, " But I don't see why that should make you run so thundering slow." " Why, you blame fool, we'ie takin' tha steer along to headquarters ; got it tied b hint', and it ain't used to leadin, and do walk up very well, I'm doing all c got the brakeman prodding it up wit umbrell', and an ear of c .rn tied to the of the bell rope. If you think I'm go start up and go howlin' along, and yen horns off as good a steer as there le territory, why you're mietaken, tha IIs trainmen can't expect our pay unl bring in some stock once'ner while." A Pathetic Tragedy in Real Life. The evidence of little Frankie i Gari; in court in Soranton, Pa., against MoAndrewe and wife for the deatho tnirteen year old sister (whom they adopted) was another proof that tru stranger than fiction, and told a story of life Wiese narration Dickens might hay vied. The child, ()lad in a calico dress; without shoes and stockings all W beaten and starved, lay at last on a b straw in the garret in the early morn a raw March day, dying. There we bedclothes there, and she was shi with gold when her bro`her a littl nine, came to nee her at five o'clock, Frankie," pried the dying girl brothereas he drew near, "it le to and so cold here—so very cold, Llf little, please." Tenderly the boy raised his fragile' to a sitting posture and molatene parched lips with water, Per an mate girl revived, but soon relapend Into soiousnees, The boy thought her de; started to summon a neigh bar, but 1 tive voice caused him to halt. Hie. was speaking faintly. "I just saw a beautiful angel," "It wae mother, and she wore too, Yes,"—brat here her mind w for moment. "Oh, I'm no cold.. ie, bring Prince (the family dog) an him on my feet to keep them warnt.t' The boy did so. et Water 1 Water 1" whispered tl sufferer. ''Angela are owning 1 thom, Frankie, see—eh, mother that was all, fol the little girl was t`