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BY span LAssnea,
; Mien irSve in 0110 wieter breeze
,,ssid the anowlialres 1cneath the leafless trees
In a bright Canadian street
I hear the prow.get
l'ittioh other cheerily.,
Always cheerily!
Wbrit,,wliut little bird,
1111401os it I heard?
Tat, tat,
Cheer up, cheer el)
Never wearily
And the little boys and the little girls
With their fur eapped heads and their hooded curls
In the pleasant, winter day
Happily engaged, in play,
Q h, no, never wearily,
Always cheerily)
WO, well, little girl
With the golden curl,
Tut, tut,
Cheer up, cheer up
Never won AV
The Ohim ey aupboard.
BY MRS. ANNIE A. PRESTON.
" Girls : never cla y thing in stories,"
said Margaret Bather, impatiently throwing:
down her raagaalim ; " it is always the boys
who do things."'
" slim," said her grandmother, "that
in the story you have been reading, Imey
washed the dishes, swept the kitchen floor,
and took care of the baby, while her
:nether was away—"
" But Horace killed the bear P' interrupt-
ed the young girl,' atill so impatiently, that
her grandfather laid down his newspaper,
took off his steel.bowed glasses, and lookin
across the room at a still pretty, plump ol •
lady, who was slowly rocking and swiftly
knitting, he said:
" Washed the dishes, swept the floor, and
took care of the • baby, did she? That is
just what your Aunt Hannah was left to do
the day she was ten years old, when father
and mother went to Toronto, ancl hunch -back
Pingree came along. If that story could be
printed there wouldbe a grai in it that did
something, for I was the boy. and 1 was the
baby, and did nothing but scream. Tell us
about it, Hannah."
"Oh, yes, Aunt Hannah," cried Margar-
et, "do tell us a'
And although the plump old lady shook
her head at her brother, to begin with, she
relented, presently, and said:
"Do you see that cupboard there by the
fireplace ?"
To be sure," said Margaret's inother,
who, with laer daughters was making her
first visit at the quaint old homestead. "It
quite distresses me, it looks so old-fashioned
with its two doors. I should have it taken
out if the house was mine."
" No..doubt," said Aunt Hannah ; "but
that has been a serviceable . part of the
bailie in its clay. It was framed. in and
finished up when the chimney was built,
with little secre drawers that pull out from
between the sto the great chimney.
" My father was: quite a business man for
those times ; be Was a town clerk and trea-
surer for years, and he settled all the estates
of all the people who died, far and near, so
there were always packages of papers and
rolls of money belonging to a great many
' different individuals, in that little cup-
board.
"When Captain Pingree died, I remem-
ber well that father was very much opposed
to having anything to do with settling the
estate.
They are an ill-tempered family,' 1
iiii_e
m
heard him say t : iny other, ' and that
hunch -back is lik' a ail spirit to deal with.
His father has adva, ced him a good deal of
money, and holds his notes for the same, yet
now he intends to share alike with the other
heirs. They will not submit to such injus-
tice, and consequently tbere will be trouble,
that some one else must settle besides me.
I can have nothing to do with it.'
" My father was honest in that decision,
yet that very night papers came to him from
the Judge of Probate, authorizing him to
----arest as administrator, and before bedtime one
of thesPifigeehrothers came in secretly by
• the back way, fetching a little tin trunk full
of his father's papers.
" I was in the trundle bed, and was sup-
posed to be asleep, but I heard him say,
as father locked the tin trunk into the cup-
board :
The notes that father held against my
brother are in there, and he is so determin-
ed to get hold of them that we dare not
keep them in the house another night. He
is like a baby, sir, his mind being as dwarf-
ed. as his body; but because he is,a man in
years, he insists that he is so in intellect,
and resents any interference by a legally a,p-
pointed guardian. Since mother died he
has ' never been under the least restraint.
He has had his own will and his own way
in everything, and that makes it a hard
matter to deal with him. He recognizes no h
law of obedience or submission, as his will
was never broken or even subdued.'
'" I know it,' replied my father. 'Some
one is to have a trial with him."
"The next morning he repeated these
words to my mother, and added :
" I think I will drive into Toronto,
and ask Esquire Elsworth what his opinion
is in regard to the course that ought to be
pursued with that poor fellow. I guess you
had better go with me. You and Hannah
will be wanting something new."
" But Hannah will`skave to stay alone
with baby, if I go,' hesitled my mother.
" That she cando. Is she not ten years
old this very day? No possible harm can
come to hN:d. she can care for baby as
. well as his ther herself,' pleasantly said
e
my father. -
" I have often stayed away a part of a
day,' I said. 'A whole day is a little long-
er, but I shall not mind it. I shall be busy
washing the dishes, sweeping the floor, and
rocking the cradle.'
" That settled it, and they soon drove
away, leaving me with my little charge.
" About the middle of the forenoon, as I
was kneeling by the Gracile, feeding the
baby with bread and milk, their was a rat-
tle at the outer door, and immediately that
hunchback, Pingree, came walking in. Oh
how frightened 1 was I It makes my flesh
creep, even non, to think of it. He was an
ugly, misshapen oreature, with a repulsive
leer on hia foe, instead of dui Sweet, patient
expression that draws one's heart to most
such unfortunates.
" ' Where are your folks ?' he asked, iu
cracked voice, that startled me so
that 1 spilled the milk and choked tho
baby, on't he to me, now, for I know
where they are as Well as you do.'
" 'To' 'Toronto,' X managed to artieulate
at the Stine time ptishing a low chair to..
Ward the poor creature, thinking to appease
his evident ilbhumor by politeness.
' 41To My horror he passed by the ohair,
• lid seated himself in the foot of the otadle.
The baby was terrified, now, and giving up
coughing) began to serohni at the top of hia
POWelat. X bent over to take him. hi my
arms) but the hunchback snarled with an
Vile leer,
" 'Lot the young one don Until you
fetch me that tin trunk o:ob that my
VAStittigiratesft
bititirOr left lhia, last '41*the
hOlh' didn't .yonl"
"1 nOdded:My head, tam intiels frightened
to speak.
4f. Where is 43qkliek, namr•I'
"i paiated• to the enpboarsb and greatly
to the relief ()me Jk4y e4 1V0.01f, he
crossed the reausi
• " Locked•1! aliouted trying the dooa
. ,
Open it young one
" Father heti the IseY,' I Stammered,
" 'Think of:Wine Other way to ,open
then. How Wattld yonr father open itif
the.key w,0 Think, quick as you can
Or,I will kill thebaby, wring ita slim, white
neck as I would a chicken's ; then I Will iiet
the boils° on filo and burn up VI* eon.
founded mites and yen with them, so that.
you on't
" A multitude of confused thoughts rush-
ed through My brain, and upon, one'ef them
half a memory and half a suggestion, I oeized
with desperation. At the dawn of hope in
my heart, my courage returned, and going
to the lower door of the cupboard I turned
hk.riob that held a button on the inside,
aircl 'opened t.
"The bottom Of the cupboard, and the
one broad shelf above it, my mother used as
a huge work basket, and it was well 'filled
with family sewing and mending. Clearing
the shelf, and setting the little splint thread
and thimble basket in a chair near at hand,
I said, as steadily as I could :
" The upper cupboard door is always
kept locked, and my father carries the key
in his pocket; but the bottom shelf of the
upper cupboard is loose, and if you crawl in
upon this shelf on your hands and knees,
and raise your back up against the shelf
above, you can misplace it so that one end
will come off the slat that hold ib and all
the things upon it will come ra sing down.
I know about it, for I did it myself once
when I was a little girl, and it d d a great
deal of in:aphid. Your brother', tin trunk
sits hpon that shelf, I know, for I saw it
there when father opened the door to get
his pocket -book just before he went away.'
" Yon know how to misplace the shelf;
get in and misplace it yourself,' said the
hunchback.
I can not, I replied. I used to play
in there when I was a little thing, but now
the clipboard will hold me no longer.'
"He looked me over, (I was large for my
age), saw that I spoke the truth, ancl pro-
ceeded to crawl in upon the shelf himself,
saying, • in a tone of authority :
" If any one comes to the door'don't let
them see me here ; it would be too ridiculous.
Do you hear?'
"1 nodded my head, too anxious for the
success of my plan to speak.
"No sooner did he draw the last club foot
upon the shelf than I sbarnmocl the
gether, and turned the button, then catch-
ing the brass key from mother's thread bas-
ket, I put it in the lock and turned it upon
h' • As the strong bolt slippedinto its
place, I ran back and dropped into the
cradle with the screaming baby. I had been
strong enough for anything but a moment
before, now I was so„arrea,k I could not
stand.
" My little Iiiiither hushed his crying the
moment my head sank in his babylap, and
putting his tiny, cool fingers upon my face,
he laughed in merry glee.
" The hunchback, when he found himself
caught, Yelled like a caged demon ; but I
knew that the cupboard door was of heavy
plank, that the lock and lunges were strong,
and I felt perfectly safe. I knew, too, that
there was a crack under the door so wide that
air enough would pass to keep him from suf-
focating.
" His threats were ario terrible to listen to
that I began to sing hymns to the baby as
soon as I could find my voice, and it was
not long before he was quiet, save an occa-
sional appeal to my sympathy, telling me
how uncomfortable he found his cramped
position, and begging me to let him out. I
was sorry enough for him, but my fear lest '
he should harm the baby, overcome my fear. '
" Father and mother came at sunset, and
I never shall forget the look that passed be- i
tween them when I told them of my prison-
er. Father unlocked the cupboard door,
but the poor hunchback had remained so
lona in his cramped position that he could
not stir. Father pulled him out, carried
him in his arms and put him in bed, and
'nether bathed and rubbed him.
" He was sick for three months, and the
whole of that time mother nursed him faith-
fully. That illness was a turning -point in
his life. He lived for several years a quiet,
humble, Christian life, respected and be-
loved.
"At his death he willed everything that
he possessed to me, in gratitude, he said,
foa my saving him from crime by locking
him in the cupboard, as he was fully re-
solved, if he could not obtain the papers, to
burn the dwelling. He said also that his
mprisonment in the cupboard broke his
tubborn will, but mother's patience and
sindness in his long illness softened his hard
eart."
a' The girl did do Something in that
story," said Margaret, going across the
room to give Aunt Hannah a hug and a kiss.
and then going to peep into the cupboard,
" Oh, Granqa, isn't it a pity yon can't
remember it ?'
"1 supposed all through my childhood
that I did rememcer it," said Grandpa.
"1 heard it told of so often ; but Uncle
Pingree and I vere great 'friends, and once
I coaxed the 'fanny little man to get into the
cupboard and show Inc just howshe lay
there that long, day when Hannah and I
were his jailers.-'
Remember This.
, Dr. R. Couetoux, of France, reports two
cases, aged six and nine years of diphtheria.
When death was apparently imminent, and
treacheotomy had been refused as a last re-
sort he ordered inhalations of steam, tinc-
tured with cubebs, of which twenty-five
grammes were placed in the boiler at once,
and the steam being conveyed by tubes to the
beds of the children to be inhaled by them.
13oth nkade a good recovery. Dr. Couetoux
says that cubebs used in this way against
the diphtheria is more powerful than euca-
lyptus, glycerine, tar, or the essence of
terebintlima.
A SatiSfsgstory Explanation.
4 " Something you wanted, madam ?" he
queried as she wasgoing out of the store.
mi
" Why, I ca
e n for a pair of shoes, and
I've Waited twenty minutes and no one has
(mint near ine, I've got tired,"
" Waft just ono mintiO," he whispered,
I've spent twenty -file minutes with this
lady with tho big feet, but it won't take
five to fit your little No. Ws with something
niee."
Although she wore d'S ehe smiled and sat
down t� Wait,
An Ae0eInMedating Oleris4
Pair CusOmer,—" Have you the Lady's
'ompanien "
Clork,—('ii2h 2"
am goiag out into the etaintay aficl
Want a Lady's Companion' to take with
" You do cli ? Well; what's the matter
With ine
LAU PDXINION ZIEWS,
Another attempt has been made to start
an ineendiary fire at Calgary, '
Weodatock High Schoel hes been 'weed
te the rank of a Celleo"late InStititte,
TwolVe theirsand barrels 91 alWles were
shipped from Ralifax lor London in elle yea.
sel on Thursday last,
There died in Sheffield Township a feW
dapYa ag0 Mrs. Mai•sy Wilhelm, aged 100
years 5 menthe and 5 clays.
The sowing of wild rice oxi the inland
lalsea of Bruce county is being the means Of
etoolsing them with wild geeee and ducks,
During last week over one hundred thou-
sand bushels of potatoes were shipped froln
the little port of Montague on Prince gd-
ward Island.
Fifteen bears, averaging in weight three
hundred pounds each,have been killed by
i
farmers n the twin:hip of Plummer within
the past month.
The dead body of a well dressed man was
found at Sharonigad Lake, B. C., recently,
sitting in an upright position, with a pistol
lying on the ground beside it,
On Thursday of last week John W. Roscoe,
an aged and weal ty farmer of Kings County,
N. S., got into ao altercation with Ids son-
in-law, Trueman Thorpe, regarding Thorpe's
treatment of his wife. A personal encounter
followed, from the effects of which Roscoe
died. Thorpe, has fled to the United States,
A tramp got on the Air Line Railroad
track near ,Slincoe waved his hands, anti
stopped an expresstrain. When asked by the
conductor why he had stopped the train he
replied that he had done it for a joke. He
was arrested, tried, and given three months
to work out the joke to its legitimate con-
clusion.
According to the St. Stephen, N. B.,
Conner, a large number of the operatives
brought there from Europe last summer
by the St. Croix Cotton Mill, have left, as
, they were not considered desirable help or
citizens. Several grocers and other deal-
ers hold unpaid bills against some of the
absentees.
I The Battleford Herald pleasantly ob-
serves :—The weather continues most de-
lightful. The days are bright and warm,
the nights so free from frost that the
rivers are not yet closed. We feel sorry for
those who returned to the fogs and muck of
Ontario a couple of mouths ago through fear
that winter was about to set in. They have
no such weather in Ontario as we are enjoy-
ing.
The St. John, N. B., Telegraph recently
published a report of an entertainment al-
leged to have taken place in the Moncton
Opera House, which turns out to have been
a scandalous fabrication. The names of pro-
minent citizens were placed side by side
with the most disreputable characters of the
town as having participated in the enter-
tainment. The Telegraph will spare no
pains to discover the author of the malicious
and rascally report.
Mr. James Bradburn, formerly of Dere-
ham, who recently returned from Little Cur-
ren, Manitoulin Island, brought a very large
specimen of Canada's national emblem—a
maple leaf measuring 12a inches long by 12
inches wide. He, plucked the leaf from a
tree on Manitoulin Island from among many
more equally as barge. He says these great
leaves --giants in comparison with those we
are used to seeing in this portion of Ontario
—are no uncommon thing in the Muskoka
district.
The other morning James Behanel, of
Lorneville, N. S., left Amherst Head to
look out timber in a large tract of woods.
Not returning at night a party was organiz-
ed to searchfor him. During the whole
night the woods were scoured, guns fired,
and horns blown, and on the following day
another party was sent out and the search
continued, but without success. As Mr.
Beharrel had a gun with him it is feared
he has been accidentally shot, fallen into a
inoose snare, or become the prey of bears.
A young lady named Beal, of Prince Ed-
ward Island, has just been sent to Boston
for treatment for insanity. The circum-
stances of the case are very sad. Last sum-
mer the brother of Miss Beal was suspected
of being one of the two men who wantonly
shot a youth while driving along one Of the
highways in the Island. The officers of the
law followed young Beal to his home, and
there arrested him in the presence of his
sister. Tht girl was so stunned by the ar-
rest and trial of her brother that from that
time to the present day she has been out of
her mind. Her brother, who was accused
of the crime, was tried and acquitted.
Quite the Proper Thing.
" Did you hear that Isaacs, the pawn-
broker, had recently been presented with
triplets ?" said Sam Sample.
No," replied Peabody Jamieson. "But
it is cluite the proper thing."
" Why was it ?'
"Three bawls, you know."
•Rotnall
In A. D. 50 Cmsar founded Lundinium, or
Augusta,• Eleven years later the Britons
'revisited under oadicea, sacked the town,
massacred the inhabitant, and burned
every Wilding, and thisaimits of the diaeov.
• erissa of the ashes of this •onilagration,
couplecl with the (liscovery of walls •of too
great a thickness to be therm of ordineay
buildings, seem to define the extent of the
Ant Roman London ae follews ; The north.
ern boandary, Cornhill and Leadenhall -
street ; the eaatern, Billitesastreet and Mark.
lane; the western, the east side of Wall -
brook, and the southern, of eourse, the
river. Within these limits, and nowhere
beyond wherever pick and shovel have
penetrated deep eaough—that is, to an
average depth of 18 feet below the present
surface, charred remains and other evid-
ences of intense heat have been foand, an(1.
to Sir Christopher Wren, to whom the task
Was confided of rebuilding the eity after the
fire of 1066, is the credit due of having
made the discovery that theie was an em-
bryo London previous to the compara-
tively big city of the later Roman domin-
ion. Cannon -street was evidently the cen-
tral point. In Bush -lane, in 1066, was
discovered the remains of a very large
blailding, (probably a Basilica, or hall of
justice) and the pavement of a house which,
from its size, must have been the Gover-
nor's residence, both imbedded in a thick
black layer of ashes and charred wood.
43bout here the buildings appear to have
been tolerably dense, for in digging for
sewers in Queen -street, Scott's Yard, and
Bush -lane in 1340, the workmen came
upon innumerable walls of such solidity
that they could not be destroyed; and, at
the foot of Lambeth Hill, one 10 feet thick
and 8 feet high, which might have been
fragment of the oldest London river wall.
All this part of London war. .hen marshy,
for in Thames street, alwa,ys a rich mine of
Roman remains, we find that the buildings
unearthed are almost invariably built upon
stout oaken piles. The Wallbrook, too, like
the Sherbourne and the Langbourne, must
have been something more than a mere
streaan, for the timber supports of a fair-
sized bridge have been discovered, and the
causeway leading from it in the direction of
what is now Princes street, consisting of
big stones laid upon regular layers of earth
and wattles supported by timber, as if a
quay had run along the banks.
• Scraps.
A mean temperature—Ten degrees below
zero.
" At all events," said a young doctor as
he heard of another one of his patients'
death ; " I can take life easy if I am
poor."
A Philadelphia paper has an article en-
titled
" The Science of Sleep." Philadel-
phians have got sleep down to a fine point.
The Boston Budget notes as a singular
fact that the two biggest men iu that city,
physidally and intellectually, Rev. Phillips
Brooks and Judge Horace Gray, remain ob-
stinate bachelors.
An irate female seeks admittance to the
eater's sanctum. "But I tell you, madain,"
protests the attendant, "that the editor is
too ill to talk to any one to day." "Never
mind; you let me in. do the talking."
Those who seek for perpetual novelty in
ideas will soon have none worth keeping.
2:Ats the old ones than have proved their
by long experience are reverenced and
chbalshed can new ones safely make their
Way.
From the universal law of habit, little by
little, day by day, act by act, thread by
thread, link by link, we mould the charac-
ter, we weave the woof, we forge the chains
which bind our being, and, in forming our
habits, form our character.
The man who can learn, reason, and exe-
cute with equal facility possesses the ele-
ments of success, even though his qualities
be of but an inferior order; while one who
has any of these faculties abnormally de-
veloped at the expense of the others will al-
ways be crippled by the absence of the es-
sential features of a successful life.
Desire for change seems natural in the hu-
man mind, and needs to be provided for like
other instinctive likes and dislikes. There
are instances where energies are crushed,
capacities deadened, and lives despoiled of
happiness by a monotonous existence re-
lieved by no shifting of scene, no change of
place, no respite from the dull routine of
hard and perhaps distasteful labour, except
in the unconsciousness of sleep.
A story is told of a confederate guard who
was once:on duty in South Carolina. An
officer was discussing war matters and re-
marked : You know your duty Lae ; do
you, sentinel ?" " Yes, sir." " Well, now,
suppose they should open on you with shells
and musketry, what would you do ?" "Form
a line; sir. " What 1 one man form a
line ?" "Yes, sir; form a beeline for camp,
sir."
LADIES' APRONS.
• No, L—Lady's apren made of 'etainine or
Scrint4trinimed with velvet bands and,girdle
of a contrasting °color, and cross-stitch em-
broidery done in harmord2ing
tints. indi-
'idual tatite can be egercised in the seleetion
o inateriala and taireiniagag and the length
and width of the apron panbe 'decided by
the Preference of the Wearer. The skirt
should reaoh ome distance below the knees,
and in width should well cover the trent Of
the dress. The bib should reaoh up to the
bust, brit ft Marie too • high it will appear
made,of straight breadthil
. pongee laid hi broad bodc.pltutS) and the
tateraothing spaces orriltMented With hetiontal ISOWs efaliarroW , valVet bOW ribbon,
t The bottein is trirrimed with crnbsoidery
done oNtlie Seine material; with silk inateh.,
• Ing tile color of the velret ribbon, The bib
is made to, correspbnd With the skirt of the
apron, and the belt is of velvet finished
' with a velvet bow on the left aidn
e, is
apron can ilISO be made in ereton:color or
any bright tint of India Si k; and the stripes
can be rilade of velvet or satin ribbon, of any
contrasting color, the bolt and 'bow to be of
the same, Scrim ifould bo used,for,the
't:IOTTSHOLID*
About Pato).* and Darning'.
The peeple in this worli Who get beyond
the sise of patches An garments are few and
exceedingly foolish. • We formerly new
gthaea wabifsess'ayll°a: dpea;hse:sll'etil°e1s arie:t1111;714:
who to her dying slay took asteat pride in
'‘vrais°111aPTare41431901elltklitlX:°trinera'llb.1401'711.1a4essetethine
for the lady was all, the greater on Oda ac.
count.
But net every one is able to neatly lay a
•hPealteielel wore daadrvrianarent
ceafeWwhh°helpful t
uelsan' geo4
• s tiQo
In patching start by cutting a piece of
material of a size slightly larger than to
completely co'ver the wore, place, Cut it ac:
eurately by the thread; nothing book a niore
untidy than a crooked patch with inishapely
sidesPQrNneexrost; tthi ler np ai nt c laianiaayrriotwfold nhef°
inplaceoouttsidethl
worn part and tack fast. Sew it on a
arounc , either like a seam, or else fell it.
it lies close and fiat the tacking thread ma
then come away.
Now the work must go on from the wrong
side, by first cutting away the worn piece,
leaving enough margin to turn in as for a
hem Cut little nieks at the corners to al-
low it to lie flat, and fell it all around. The
corners should be as well shaped ae are thos
of the patch. To have the piece square o
the right side, and then an ill -shaped circl
of much sinaller dimensions on the wren
side, as one sometimes sees, is to spoil th
work so far as looks go.
To neatly match the stripes or figure o
the garment by the new material is one-half
in doing fine patching. When a patch is
completed lay an old handkerchief or other
thin cloth ever it and press out with a hot
iron.
Flannel may be mended in the same way
as described, only that instead of the edges
being folded in, leave flat, and instead of
being felled they should be herring -boned
all round.
Sheets and shnilar articles that are worn
thin by long use, and are too weak to patch
must be darned. For this, real darning cot-
ton, not that used for stockings, but a soft,
fine article made for the purpose, should be
used.
When darning take quite half an inch
extra on either -side, and not just the very
thin place itself and that only. If so done
there is danger of the mended pant not get-
ting through the first wash without breakm
out. By running several lines of stron
sewing cotton round the thin part before do-
ing the darning it will strengthen the
foundation greatly, and will not show after-
wards.
Use a long, fine darner for fine fabrics, a
thicker one for coarser cloth. Take a thread
and miss two threads uniformly, going
straight across. Leave a moderate loop at
the end to allow for shrinking, turn and go
back again, getting your stitches on a line
with each other.
RittPLE ivAirtit wgsws,
oolveeanall quantity of good . soap in al,
IF1°4 a glass of vvater
pot .we orops of oxaiic acid and blow upon
it. If itma gets milky, liis Prseer't
TirSTS'1,011114,41) Sorr
cohOl. ,Let a few drops full into a glass of
water. If it turns inilkY) it ie had; g nbt
it
is oak' _•
TgliT 1%)X.---1, Boil 4 little nut gall
and add, to the *Mer, Uit turns gray or
late, black iron, is present, 2. Dissolve as
little prussiate of potash, and, if iron is pre-
sent, it will turn blne,
Tun you Amp —Take a piece of litmus
• pfper, If it thrna red, there must be acid.
If it precipitates on adding lime water, it is
carbonic acid, If 'a blue Sugar paper is
turned red, it is a mineral aid.
iron FOR, CARBONIC ACID- —Take equa1
parts of water and clear lime water. If
ir coinbined or free carbonic acid is present,
e a precipitate is seen, to which, if a few
11 drops of muriatie acid. be added, an effer-
If
veseence commences.
TEST FOR MAGNESTA.---Boil the water to
a twentieth part of its weight, and then
drop a few grains of neutral carbozate
ammonia into a glass of it, and a few drops
of phosphate of soda. If magnesia, be, pre-
sent, it will fall to the bottom.
TEST FOR EARTHY MATTERS OR ALKALI.—
e Take litmus paper dipped in vinegar, and
n if on immersion, the paper returns to its
e true shade, the water does not eontain
g earthy matter or alkali. If a few drops of
e sirup be added to a water containing an
earthy matter, it will turn green.
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Into the Taws of' Death.
Everybody doubted the truth of the articles
in the Buffalo Sunday papers anncmucing
that Miss Sadie Allan and George Hazlitt
would undertake the hazardous and perilous
• trip through Niagara whirlpool rapids, but
when the driver of the waggon with the bar-
rel stopped in front of the Prospect House
and enquired the road to the ferry landing
people in the vicinity began to realize that
the feat was about to be accomplished. The
weather was very disagreeable, damp, cold
and cloudy, and few spectators were in at-
tendance, but the press was well represented.
At 2.25 p. us. Sunday Miss Allan, who is
a handsome, modest, neat young Buffalo
woman eighteen years of age, dressed in a
neat walking habit, expressed her readiness to
start. Shaking 1 auds with the gentlemen
a: who were in waitihg at the ferry landing on
e the Canada side, she took oft her hat and
jacket, and. stepped lightly into the monitor
barrel previously used. last summer by Potts
and Hazlitt on a similar trip. Hazlitt follow-
ed her a few minutes later. As soon as they
had both secured themselves to the fasten-
ings in the barrel, they were
PULLED OUT IN THE STREAM
Waste In the Kitchen,
Waste in the kitchen is often very great
from apparently trivial sources.
In cooking meats the water is thrown out
without removing the grease, or the grease
from the dripping -pan is thrown away.
Scraps of meat are thrown away.
Cold potatoes are left to sour and spoil.
Dried fruits are not looked after and be-
come wormy.
Vinegar and sauce are left standing in
tin.
Apples are left to decay for want of
"sorting over."
The tea-cannister is left open....
Victuals are left exposed to be eaten by
mice.
Bones of meat and the carcass of turkey
are thrown away, when they could be used
in making good soups.
Sugar, tea, coffee, and rice are carelessly
spilled in the handling.
Soap is left to dissolve and. waste in the
water.
Dish -towels are used for dish -cloths.
Napkins are used for dish -towels.
Towels are used for holders.
Brooms and mops are not hung up.
More coal is burned than necessary by
not arranging dampers when not using the
fire.
Lights are left burning when not used.
Tin dishes are not properly cleansed and
dried.
Good new brooms are used in scrubbing
kitchen floors.
Silver spoons are used in scraping kettles.
Cream is left to mold and spoil.
Mustard is left to spoil in the cruse, etc.
Vinegar is left to stand until the tin ves-
sel becomes corroded and spoiled.
Pickles become spoiled by the leaking out
or evaporation of the vinegar.
Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef be-
cause the brine wants scalding.
s Hams become tainted or filled with vex..
min for want of care.
Cheese molds and is eaten by inice and
vermin.
Tea and coffee pots are injured On the
stove.'
Woodenware is =scalded and left to
warp and crack.
Recipes. .
CORN 13nm/in.—One pint of corn meal, one
pint of flour, one:half cup of molasses, one
teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon of salt. Bake
in a slow oven, or steam one hour.
Saxon CAKE.—One cup of sugar, one-half
cup of butter, yolks of three eggs, one-half
cup of sweet milk, one and one-half cups
of flour, one-half cup of currants'one tea-
spoon of baking powder, spice to taste.
Proceed in the usual manner of cake mak-
ing. Dredge the currants with flour before
adding them to the cake.
CORN STABOII CAKE.—One cup of sugar,
one-half cup of butter, whites of three eggs,
one-half cup of sweet milk, one teaspoon of
aking powder, one and one-half cups of
our, one-half cup of corn starch. Rub but,
r and sugar to a cream. ; stir in milk ;
Id a portion of the flour, then the whites
eggs, stiffly beaten, end remaining ,flour
id atarch. Flavor to taste.
LEMON CAKE.—One cup of sugar, one.
alf cup of butter, three eggs, one-lialf cup
sweet milk, one and oue.lialf cups of
our, one teaspoon of baking powder, one
mon. Cream the butter and sugar;; boat
yolks of eggs; add milk, portion of flour,
a ten whites of eggs, grated rind° of lemon,
maining flour, and last the juice of lemon,
eat the calte thoroughly and get it into the
sen,aa. quickly as possible. It must not
an& after the lemon is added,
TOitt4,.To CaTsur.—One-halfbtishel of to.
atoes, • three large omous, one quart of
der vinegar; one cup of brown sugar; efie
blespoon of salt, whole allspice, cinnamesi,
oVeS arid red pepper to tasten, Seald said
^atoes, oda to them the onions,
elect ancient small pieces, amei boil till^
are,perfectly tender, through
eve) arldvinegar, sugar and spices, replace
the stoVe and boil two &inks,
tfalf tlte pePper sold eonsists ofp's,
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pose, the threads drawn for the stripesItt
narrow ribbon tint in 1. or a striikst Mud plain /),P
fabric ean eonibined Or the 8ath6 goo& •
iteett thtotighopt. 1,6,06 can be substitted 51
fill! the ouffiroidery with any gods, The 00
same general directions should lie 'Obtlerved
itt regard ,to Wtath and length at for 1'o,,
by a rowboat and towed down the 'river near
the Cantilever bridge. Here they were set
adrift. Soon they passed under the railways
suspension bridge and were tossing about
h ooting the angry rapids. The fiere e pitch-
ing about they got must haye shaken them
badly. At 2.56 they had passed through the
rapids and entered the famous whirlpool.
One long circle here and the barrel was
caught by the current and quickly drifted to
the big eddy just below, where it made
several turns. At this point it was secured
by a rope thrown from the bank and barrel
and cranks safely landed. Miss Allan and
Hazlittreturned to Buffalo theaaine evening.
Unknown Islands of the Pacific.
The fact that two islands ofCconsiderable
size have recently been discovered in the
Pacific Ocean shows that we have yet much
to learn of this great watery expanse. The
latest discovery is an island lying less than
100 miles from the northen coast of New
Guinea. It has been named Allison Isla.nd,
is nearly three miles long, rises from
100 to 150 feet above the sea, and has
abundant timber. Several specks of 'fertile
and inhabited land, some of. them muchlarger
than Allison Islancl, have been found within
a few years at a distance of one hundred to
tWO or three hundred miles from the New
Guinea coast, and similar discoveries are
made once in a while in various parts of the
Pacific.
Oceamica is so large that no map of it can
be given in an atlas except on a minute
scale. We see hundreds of groups and soli-
tary islands huddled together on the maps,
and get the idea that the Pacific is thickly
studded with verdant bits of land. The
fact is, however, that vessels may sail among:
these islands for many weeks without once
coming in sight of land. Only a few months
ago a crew that had been shipwrecked in
the great island region of the Pacific rowed
north for forty days before they reached
Hawaii the nearest land. Mr. A. R. Wal-
lace, who has travelled widely in the Paci-
fic, expressed the opinion sometime ago that
there are still a good many islands there
that have never yet been seen by white.
men.
Once in a while a Pacific trader finds
some new or little known island, and opens
trade with its inhabitants. If abusmess
thrives, he:keeps his secret as long as he
can, so as to enjoy a monopoly. It was
found a while ago, when the Woodlark
Islands were explored, that an Australian
firm had carefully charted the islands sev-
eral years before and had been quietly
trading there, alt unknown to the other
Pacific merchants.
The Dominion,
Of the iinmense area of the Dominion of
Canada there are altogether 50,000,000 of
acres unoccupied, some 22,000,000 improv-
ed, and over 15,000,000 under crop, while
under pasture there are over 6,000,000 acres,
not, of course incleding the vast prairies of
the North.West, stretching, with their
abundance of nutritious wild -gasses, for a
distance of nearly 900 miles, from the Red
River to the very foot of the Rocky Moun-
tains. The value of this natural pasturage
is highly appreciated by stock -raisers. At
the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains
there were, fit 1884, 47 ranches, ranging in
extent from 1,400 to 100,000 acres each, on
which cattle had been placed. Throughout
the whole Dominion the live -stock is estini.
ated to the number over 900,000 horses,
200,000 colt and fillies. 2,000,000 horned
cattle, 1,500,000 mulch cows, 1,500,000
siwne, and 3,000,000 sheep, yielding over
11,50,000 lb. of woot—English Paper.
Why Re Weft.
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oh,the firSt floor, .
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Colored Servant—" Please mem lie is .c
ins for minder plate ob presserves," •
ccblet have any nore.' fle has
four already," RI
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about. Ita'S oll alirOlka 111),/,
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where•a Street fight lios taken Vasty an
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