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Sl:•? SONABLE DISHES. time to time as it evaporates. Un-
Fruit Dessert,—Slice three - ban- screw : the covers and from a boil"
aims and three (mangos. Add one rug teakettle 811 the cans to over-
cupful of chopped raisins, ono cup- flowing. Seal • the cans at °nee as
fol of chopped walnuts, oite pound tightly as .possible and pour boil -
of Tokay grapes. Make a bailed ing water• over them until the Gans
custard and when cool lay over the are all immersed. Boil for another
fruit, When ready to serve use in- hosts', remove, tighten covers, wipe
dividual dessert glasses and nosier dry .with a towel, and invert to test
with whipped cream, This is a fav leakage. When cool place in a
dainty dessert and will serve about dar'lc, dry place,
eight people.
Escalloped Corsi.—Butter a bak-
ing dish, and in the bottom o£ the. Cupid's Salad.—Cut four oranges
chup
sh put a layer of rolled cracker
crumbs, a little salt, pepper, and in halfs, scoop out the pulp, keep -
dots of butter ; then a layer of ing the peel whole; slice two ba-
cenned corn, salt, pepper, and but- nunes, hull and slice seven pints
ter; then cracker crumbs, salt, pep- �' strawberries. ]?lace all mated
per, and butter, and so on. Have els on ice. Make a dressing of one
cracker crumbs for last layer, salt, tart apple, one egg, sugar, and one
pepper, and butter; then over all tablespoonful brandy. Grate the
pc.ur plenty of rich milk, as the apple and sprinkle with sugar as
crumbs absorb a goad deal. Bake you grate it, so as to keep it from
thaee-quarters of an hour in a mod- turning dark. Add to it the brandy
erately hot oven, until a light and unbeaten egg whites, and with
brown. This is a delicious dish,- a wire egg beater, beat until it is
and one •can of corn will serve 'ten Miff and fluffy. Take the orange
people. cups and with asharp scissors cut:
Whipped Cream Hint.—Excellent small scallops near the top and tie
substitute for whipped cream: Beat them together in pairs, using baby
white of egg until stiff, slice one ribbon for tying. When ready to
banana, add to egg and beat until serve fill the orange cups .with the
dissolved; sweeten. The richness Prepared fruit and, `1faap the dress -
of color and nutritious contents ing on top. Put a large strawber-
combined making it is desirable as ry on each half orange. Place a
Whipped cream and much easier pair of cups on a salad plate on the
prepared. table between each couple. They
Mayonnaise Dressing. --Yolks of ca- untie them or not, as they
three eggs, beaten light, two cup- please.
fats vinegar, one cupful water if Cuban Salad.—On lettuce leaves
vinegar is very sour, making three place bits of string beans, asperse
cupfuls in all, two teaspoonfuls of gust raw onion, green sweet pep-
. ground mustard, one cupful of vine- pers, sliced boiled eggs, and rad -
gar or more, according to taste,
one-half cupful cornstarch, two
even teaspoonfuls of salt, butter
size of an egg, boil together three
minutes. This makes one quart,
Will keep a month or more, and is
fine for all kinds of salads, cab-
bage and beets.
Baked Ham with Mushrooms. —
Take a choice cut of ham weighing equal distances upon the sides of
about two and one-half pounds andthe mold, holding each in place till
parboil for one-half hour in cold( it becomes "set." Then fill mold
water into which has been added; with tomato jelly made as follows
one tablespoonful sugar and three I One can tomatoes, two whole
wiole cloves. Take from water and cloves, two bay leaves, one-half cup
d ,t with bits of butter and put.in water, one tablespoon sugar, one
hot oven to brown for about a half saltspoon celery seeds. Boil ten
an hour. Rub one tablespoonful of iminutes and then add two round -
flour' into two tablespoonfuls of ing tablespoonfuls gelatin dissoly-
warni milk and all the ham gravy ed in a half cup of cold water.
in baking pan. Let come to a boil, Strain when cold into mold. When
then add one can drained mush- ready to serve turn from mold and
rooms, season with salt and pepper, fill the open center with crisp let -
and boil for ten minutes. Arrange tree leaves. Serve with mayon-
cn platter and garnish with curled naise or boiled dressing in a sep-
celery. Pour over mushroom arate dish.
sauce.
Chocolate Cookies.—One cupful THE SEWING ROOM.
of -brown sugar, one-half cupful of Apron Hangers.—A two inch
butter melted (Iarge), one-half cup- piece of linen tape or fold of same
Ful of sour milk, ane egg, one-half material sewed to the center of
teaspoonful of soda, three squares band on wrong side makes a fine
of chocolate melted, one and one- hanger for aprons. Keeps them
half cupfuls of flour, one-half cup- fresh much longer.
lid of nuts, one-half cupful of rai- Shirtwaist Trimming. --An effec-
sins. Do not roll out, but drop
from a teaspoon.
CANNING.
To Can Asparagus.—Tie in bun-
dles, each the size to fit in a jar,
and cut off the stem end so that out the linen underneath. Twenty -
the bundles are an inch and a half I five or fifty cents will buy doilies,
shorter than the jar. Lay them in according to size. For more elab-
grhno, whirl disappear under • its
use as if by magi°.
To wash windows --Add one-half
cupful of kerosene to a gallon of
cold or tepid water. Weals with
one cloth, wipe dry with a second,.
and then rub lightly with a third.
The result will be windows of a
brilliancy and transparency not to
be obtained by 'any other means.
Mirrors and ebandelier globes may
be treated in the same manner.
To ,polish hardwood floors and
woodwork: Wipe the surfaces with
a cloth slightly dampened with
kerosene, then rub lightly with an
(lel soft cloth,
To • whiten Oodles: Throe table-
spoonfuls of kerosene added to the
clothes while boiling makes an ex-
cellent bleach. Care must be tak-
en to use only hot water for rites-
iag and bluing the clothes alter the
use of kerosene.
This cleanser has the additional
value of being ' excellent for the
hands, both, softening and whiten-
ing them,
HINTS FOR THE HOME.
Fresh meat should never be al-
lowed to remain in paper. It ab-
sorbs the juices.
Calico shrinks in the washing.
Wizen making it up, allow one inch
in the yard for this.
A boiled leg of mutton will pre-
sent a far better appearance. on the
table if it has been wrapped in a
c.oth while cooking.
Never rinse lace in blue water,
it entirely spoils the color. Many
people rinse it finally in skim milk,
to give. it the exact shade.
Store soap for a month before
using. Out it into pieces and pile
up in a dry place so that the air
can get to it.
A joint of meat may be kept
sweet for many days if wrapped in
a flee cloth wrung out in vinegar
and hung in the air.
In case of.fire a wet silk handker-
chief tied over the nose and mouth
i, a complete security against suf-
ishes. Pour over all a dressing of foeation from smoke.
oil. salt, pepper, and lemon juice. ink stains on a white silk blouse
Tomato Jelly Salad.—Put a bor- can be removed. Make a paste of.
des mold into a pan of ice water. salt and lemon -juice and lay it on
Dip chilled slices of egg which have the stains, and they will soon ells
-
been boiled hard into half a tea- appear.
spoonful of gelatin softened in a Cotton dresses and petticoats
little cold water, and melted over at d other starched goods should
the tea kettle, and put them at net bo put away till next year with
the starch in them. Wash them
and rough dry them, and then they
will not rot.
Jabots Hints.—Dissolve a pinch
of granulated sugar in a basin of
water and wring the articles out in
it. Roll them in a cloth and let
them lie for half an hour. When
ircn•ed they will leek like new.
An inexpensive disinfectant for a
sick room can be made as follows:
Put some ground coffee in a, saucer
ane: in the middle place a small
piece of camphor gum. Light the
gum with a match. As the gum al-
lows the coffee to burn with it the
smell is most refreshing and health-
ful.
To keep light colored summer
dresses and stockings pretty and
fresh looking, purchase packages
of any standard dye, as many col-
•: as you have different colored
dresses. Dissolve each dye in
about a quart of boiling water, and
when cool bottle. When washing
five trimming for a shirtwaist is ob- your pink or blue dress add a few
trained by purchasing a round or drugs,or sufficient to make the de -
square doily having the torchon or sired solar, of the pink or blue dye,
cluny lace shaped around it. Re- as the case may be, to the last rins-
move the lace and applique on a ing water. Just as a few drops of
waist fastened in the back and cut bluing added to the rinsing water
v,ill benefit white goods, so this
compound will restore the faded
dress to its original brightness.
The dresses must be hung to dry in
a shady place.
a sauce Iran, putting in the cut off
ends also. Boil until they begin
to be tender, but not soft. Take
out, untie, and fit into the jars,
stem end down. Set each jar on your silk petticoats from the dirt
a perforated' board in a boiler. Put; and save cleaning so often make
in the small pieces cut off ; add a a flounce of some nice white wash
teaspoonful of salt for each bunch material, India linen, or batiste.
to the water in which they were Trim with lace, then put on to band
boiled and divide it among the jars, an inch wide after you have mea -
filling up with boiling water till sured to get the exact width of pet-
- F . Put on the lids, but not the
rub rs, pour around them hot
water to"the: neck of the jar. Bring
t:r a boil and then with less heat
boil steadily for: half an hour. Take
oft o e jar at a time, remove the
tc p, put on a new rubber, after
acedding it, and screw on the top.
'When all are done go over them
and tighten the tops. Set upside
crate trimming two of sizes to fit,
one beneath the other, could be
used.
To Protect Petticoat.—To protect
TUNING A BELL.
No matter how great may be the
care taken in making the mould, a
bell has to be tuned before it will
ring a clear, true note. As a mat-
ter of fact everybell 1 five
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 24.
Lesson IV, The Transfiguration,
Matt. 17. 11-S, 1.1-20. G.oldeu
Text, Matt. 17, 5.
Verso I. After six days—Luke's
statement that it was "about eight
days after" is doubtless only an.,
other way of reckoning a week, The
variations in the accounts by Mark
and Luke make an interesting
study.
Peter . • . James . John—On
several other occasions they were
the picked companions of Jesus.
2. He was transfigured before
them—It is ,idle to attempt tosay
just what took place. The word.
here used is, literally, "metamor-
phosed," which would have a fa-
miliar sound to any who were
versed in classical lore. Perhaps
that accounts for Luke's variation,
"The fashion of his countenance
was altered," Luke also mentions
that the change occurred while he
wus praying. At any rate, though
Jesus himself calls it a "vision"
(verse 9), it was real -a revelation
cf reality, it may he, not accessible.
to the senses under all circumstanc-
es, but no mockery of the senses
(Luke 9. 82).
His face did shine—Compare
Jchn's description of the glorified
Jesus (Rev. 1). His appearing thus,
ie the likeness of his radiant resur-
rection body, would be .a reassur-
ing promise, to the perplexed dis-
ciples, that the death he had pro-
phesied would not end all, but that,
as he recently declared, he should
cane "in the glory of the Father."
3. Moses—Representing the old.
law, as Elijah represented the pro-
phets. Their talking with Jesus
suggests the unity of the Old and
New Testaments. Luke alone gives
us an inkling of their converse:
"They spoke of his departure
which he was about to accomplish
at Jerusalem."
4. Peter answered—Once more he
expresses his disapproval of any
proceeding which should end in
tragedy at Jerusalem. Luke says
that he knew not what he was say-
ing. But, ridiculous as the speech
seems, it shows that the loyal
apostle was eager to grasp at any
straw which would indicate a way
of escape for his Master. So he
micas impetuously, It is good for us
to be here. Why face the disaster
at Jerusalem? He wished to pro-
long their stay amid scenes of such
ineffable wonder, rather than court
danger, and offers with his own
hands to set up a tent for each of
these great personages.
5. A bright cloud—Compare the
pillar of cloud in the wilderness,
and the cloud that filled Solomon's
temple. Like them, this was the
external manifestation of the invis-
ible Divine Presence, the cloud of
God himself. One of the fathers
explains it as the glory of the Trin-
ity. Compare the record in 2 Pet.
1. 18-18.
This is my beloved Son—Although
he was to be despised and rejected
of men, the Father was well pleased
with his course. His prophecy of
death not only accorded with Moses
and the prophets but agreed also
with the divine purpose, and, ac-
cordingly, met with heavenly ap-
proval. His disciples, therefore,
were not to try to find an easier
way for him, but to hear him—an
injunction which is found in all
three Gospels, and distinguishes
thus voice from that heard at the
Baptism.
8. They saw no one, save Jesus
only -Moses, Elijah, God himself
mani'est in the shining cloud, all
have disappeared from the scene.
Seeing Jesus we see everything—
notes, all of which must blend to-
gether
• all there is in the law for us, all
ticoat. This can be basted on the gether harmoniously. 11 one is thelthat the prophets fo-etell and de -
under side and be removed as often least bit out of the tone will be,
e elate, all that God purposes for the
as necessary to be sent to laundry. pails. The first of these notes is redemption of men.
This you will find will prolong the` produced by the vibrations at .the 19. 'When they were come to the
wear of the garment. ( outh of the bell, the second by multitude—The experiences on the
Sewing on Hooks.—When sewing; the vibrations a little higher up, mount hadtaken place the night
en hooks on a wash dress which will l the third still higher up, and so on previous. While Jesus and his three
need frequent pressing, try sewing' to the fifth, which is produced disciples were gone the crowd, who
the eyes on the upper flap and the Barite near the top. As the charas"
hooks on the troches instead of the I ter of the sound which rings de tad discovered his retreat near
Caesarea Philippi, surrounded the.
nine, and with many more (Mark.
says, "a great multitude about
them, and the scribes") now eon -
front Jesus upon his return.
15, My son ... is epileptic—Mat-
thew here uses the curious phrase
"moonstruck," from whose Latin
form we get our word "lunatic."
From verse i8, however, it appears
that Matthew shares the belief of
the times that lunacy, epilepsy, and
demon -possession all belong in the
same category.
16. Jesus rebuked, hint --That is,
the unclean spirit. The accounts in
Mark and Luke are sconsiderably
fuller. The case was one of ex-
treme complicity, but at the .word
of Jesus the demon went out, and.
the boy was cured from that Hour,
19. Why: could not we l - The
charge against his diselples is once
snore their little faith. Mark says:
"This kind can cotnc out by no-
thing, save by, prayer" (margin,
("and fastind� ), It was . no6 .hes.
casts° Christ was absent from theist,
tor, when they went out two by
two, they fjfad taken power to cast ,ceine, to be held at The Hague.
down in paper bags and put in a reverse(the usual way). The out- pends upon the thickness of the me -
dark place. Keep standing on their er flap may then be ironed smooth- tai, it is possible, by taking thin
heads and do net shake. ly, and the closing will be truly shavings from various places in the
Canning ;Rhubarb. --Wash rho- invisible. inside of the bell, to alter the five
barb well and if tender it noes not New Use for. Flouncing. -Three notes until they are all in harmony.
be peeled. Cub into small pieces yards of embroidery flouncing ei
acid pack well in glass jars. Put snakes arett fano cover,inas-
p Y p
rubbers on jar's and' submerge in much as it launders well anis in-
bucket of cold water. Screw on the
lid of can under the water. Goose-
berries will keep well when canned
by this method,and thus canning
may take place on the warmest
days without fire.
To Can Asparagus.—Select the
best asparagus in the market.
Serape away the outer woody akin,
wash free from dust and grit, Ar-
range the stalks evenly in each can
as compactly as possible, fill with
ccl,l water, adjust new rubbers, and
screw down lightly. ,Place the fillcd
cans in a boiler, Protect from
breaking by heat or toughing cash
other with wisps of hay, Fill with
cold water to within half an inch of
cover, Bring slowly to boiling
NEVER SAW HER,
expensive. Some dainty patterns The Man—Did you notice that wo-
san be had as.reasonable as 29 cents man we just passed
IA, iib cents a yard.
tMiter at cer The Woman—The one with blondpuffs and a military cape,who was
e r much tefit piano top and you will dreadfully made up and had awful.
be
pleased with the effect. lv soiled gloves on 2
Little helps,—In sewing up The Man—Yes, that one.
seams on thin goods use narrow; ,
hemmer, To turn hems for nap- i he rheWh'y an—No, I didn t notice
king or tablecloths run through—as--^ .
hemmer with needle unthreaded. SPLITTING HAIRS.
Get a ball • of crochet cotton for •
sewing en buttons and for button- "Yon think Jinks is a better ton -
holes. vcreatinnn.list than Smith' Why,
neither one of ,them. ever says any-
thin sensible," "I know, 'brit it.
USES Or KEROSENE. NE g .f t
takes, Smith Iongor•iri say„it.
The labor of housework may be
materially lessened and better re After a man lies been married
a snits obtained by the use of koro- about a year he has almost as many
bolus, then boil without ceasing for, stem instead of soap, powder, et battens off his garments as his
• three hours. renewing. water item etelishor, It is a foe to sell end, wife has pins in hers
out demons and had succeeded, But
their faith In hint had vanished,
and they were trna:ting in them-
selves, a common danger with dis-
ciples of Jesus.
20, Faith as a grs•in of mustard
seed—Small, but capable of groat
gi owth.
Ye shall say unto this mountain
—A common proverbial expression
for a matter of extreme difficulty.
ORIGIN 01' METEORIC DUST.
]embossment of Shooting Stars—
• Never Ending Shower.
Meteoric dust particles are in-
fteitely finer than grains of sand.
They have an. iptereating origin.
Meteors or shooting stars have
been bombarding the world from
the beginning at a rate estimated' at
many thousands an hour, of which,
however, an average of only five
or six are visible to the naked
eye in that time. •
.Owing to our protecting envelope
of air, few of these missiles reach
us. In weight meteors vary from
a few ounces to many pounds. Oc-
casionally one is of sufficient dimen-
sions to survive the passage of 80
to -100 miles through an atmosphere
increasing in density as the earth
is approached.
The speed at which they enter the
atmosphere, calculated at not less
than thirty-five miles a second, gen-
erates such intense heat - by fric-
tion th'at the iron, of which the
meteor principally consists, is im-
mediately reduced to an incandes-
cent vapor, which is the luminous
train eo frequently seen in the
heavens on a clear night. The va-
ne- rapidly coolsand condenses in
the form of these minute particles,
which assume the spherical form as
does shot during its fall from the
tub of the tower.
Finally the little spheres are
scattered by the winds and cur-
rents in the upper air and gradu-
ally descend in their millions as an
invisible, never ending shower. The
perfect condition in which, those
meteors are found is due to the
presence of certain non -corrosive
elements, found by analysis to be
present in the metal of meteors
which have come to earth.
ELEPHANTS A NUISANCE.
Take Off Roofs and Eat Native Af-
rican's Corn Stores.
The destructiveness of elephants
is shown in a blue book on the pre
servation of wild animals in Africa.
An official report from Uganda
stated that "the elephants seem to
have become more bold than they
werettwo years ago. I came across
flourishing gardens and plantations
that had been absolutely wiped out
by herds of wild elephants roam -
kg through the ;country. The
complete destruction wreaked by
these beasts is hardly credible and
the natives are getting desperate.”
The Governor of Uganda report-
ed that the elephants "have be-
come so bold that they not only feed
at night in the native maize gar-
dens, but actually enter the vil-
lage, remove the roofs of the corn
stores, and help themselves."
-- 's -
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Love enlarges the limits of life.
Yon can know true faith by its
foresight.
The secret of right living is right
Thing in secret.
We miss most of our blessings by
refusing burdens.
You never lead men into truth by
ming it as a whip.
Nothing deceives its owner better
ti a pious conceit.
The lights of the world neveee tell
you to watch their smoke.
Life soon denies all pleasure to
those who deny themselves none,
The man who Sikes people can
be led to like any really good thing.
Some churches seem to mistake
the dinner bell for the meal
It takes a lot of love to hold our
children from the snare of luxury.
Many a preacher fails because
while he guards the seed of truth
sedulously he knows nothing of the
soil in which he plants it.
MAGNETS IN FLOUR MILLS.
Explosions are often caused in
flour mills and breweries by nails,
or other iron particles that find
their way in the grain and which
when they strike the steel rolls of
the mills produce sparks and ig-
nite the finely pulverized material
about them, says the Scientific Am-
erican. Recently a large malting
concern that had been troubled by
many such explosions installed a
set of electro -magnets over which
the grain is passed before being
prepared for shipment to the brew-
eries. All iron particles in the
grain are picked nes by the mag-
nets and 800 to 1,000 bushels of
grain aro cleaned an hour. When
the magnets have collected a large
amount 'of metal they are swung to
ono aide, deenergizecl and swept
clean of any particles adhering to
them by residual magnetism. Since
the installation of these ntagnets
there have been no explosions in
the mills.
•
Bishop Brent of the Phillippines
is orgenizing art international con-
ference an o tum, morphia anti to-
I'iLli`YENTON S OF DIAMONDS,
Total Amount Yielded by the South
" African Fields.
It has been thirty-nine years,
July 13, 1871, since the discovery of
diamonds in South Africa. In these
thirty-nine years about eleven tons
of diamonds have been taken from
the Rimbercley mines. Think of
eleven tons of diamonds, like elev-
en tons of coal, being dumped in-
to your cellar,
The day's work at the ming was
over and Frederick 'Wells, the sur-
face manager, was making his usual
rounds. Glancing along one side of
the deep excavation his eye sud-
denly caught the gleam of a bril-
liantobject far up the bank. He
loss no time in climbing up to the
spot where he had noted the glint
of light, He had not been mistak-
en ; it was a brilliant crystal He
tried to pull it out with his fingers,
and as this proved impossible he
sought to pry it out with the blade
of his pen -knife. To his eurprise
the blade of the knife broke with-
out causing the stone to yield,
Then he knew it'was a large stone;
So large and brilliant was the stone
that he feared he was either dream-
ing or was insane.
Determined to test the stone on
the spot before proceeding further,
Wells rubbed off the dirt from one
of its faces with his fingers, and
soo co vinced himself that it was
not a lump of glass, but a diamond,
apparently of exceptional whiteness
and purity. He finally succeeded
in prying out the stone and bore it
away with himto the office of the
mine. Here it was cleaned, and, Even caterpillars havetheir i11 -
to the ` astonishment of all, was -cess. They find it just as trouble -
fueled to have a weight of 302% some as we do to get through pre
carats, more than three times that longed bad weather. They do net
of any other diamond that haul been contract pneumonia or influenza, it
discovered. Before many hours is true; but in wet seasons they get
passed the telegraph carried tidings low fever and dysentery. The first
to all parts of the world that the symptom of low fever in a caterpil-
greatest diamond of this age or any Sir is a change in its complexion.
other age had been brought to light. If he is a green caterpillar his
—' --- beautiful emerald coat turns e. sick-
SIBEIIIA GOAL OF FARMERS. 15 yellow. He loses his appetite;
--- his round, plump bn y gets fiat and
Migration Started • by Two :Big flabby. Soon he is too weak to cling
Crops in Southwest Russia. to his oak -tree perch.
Nature has given him no instinct
tr•..-keep out ofthedraught and
wet. and unless he has been res-
eued by a passing entomologist and
taken into dry quarters, le dies.
In the case of beetles, death will
occur where the slightest dodtor]*
would put things straight. A coke
opteiist once picked up a dnmble•
dor beetle on a country road in a
dying condition. •
The big . blue body had been
drenched with rain, then dust lad
successive years. passed overit and adhered, with
Farmers on the wheat plains the result that the creature was dy-
around Kieff had kept a portion of ing of suffocation; The coleopter ,
last year's Heavy crops in case of ist rinsed it in a. neighboring peel
a shortage of this harvest, but now and in twenty minutes it flew away
that Russia's grain supply is cer-
tain to be much greater than a
year ago they have disposed of
their stores and, with money for
their present fields, are richerthan
ever they have been in their lives.
By migrating in June instead of
in the fall they are able to sow"'on
their new Siberian farms next
spring. •
WIIEN NATURE IS AI[I G
MANY ANIIIIALS PERISH FROM
NEGLECT..
Nature Has a Heavy 'bat
Sfek List,t
�
no Doctors or Surgeons to
Attend,
Human beings are the only liv
ing organisms on the face of the
earth that look after thele sick
comrades, Nature runs us very
close in most things; most of the
animals know how to protect thou
young and keep themselves in food
nasi housing, but the all-important
surgeon, physician,and hospital are
entirely wanting.
Such domestic animals as the
horse, cow, dog, and cat are, of
enures, doctored like human beings,
but this is only because they are in
our immediate care; but the ailing
wanderer of the woodland is left
severely alone.
You might perhaps imagine that
Nature makes up for this deficiency
by safeguarding her creatures
against illness, for we hardly ever
see such a thing, for instance, as
a sick rabbit.
But this is a mistake, Thousands
of animals - perish annually from
neglected disorders, and the reason
why we hardly ever see an ailing
beast lies in the fact that it does
not show itself until it is dead,
CATERPILLARS GET FEVER.
Many hundreds of small farmers
1't southwest Russia 11 ,ve sold their
standing crops to their landlords
or to reaping and trading compan-
ies and are now on their way with
horses and oxen to establish horne-
steads on the Government lands of
Siberia.
Never before has the migration
begun so early or promised to reach
such dimensions. It has been made
possible by two bumper harvests in
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RING EDWARD'S TACT.
Holy Late Monarch 'Pet Shah of
Persia at Ease.
quite well.
This often happens with beetles,
and they do not appear to thinks
of hunting for water. The same
creature is frequently killed by a
noxious parasite which collects in
dense clusters round the points of
the legs—just exactly where -tho
beetle can't get at them.
WHEN BEETLES G0 MAD.
A •pin't point will remove this
plague, but there is nothing in Na-
ture to supply the remedy, and the
creature does not think of using
twigs or thorns.
One story, I believe unpublished, A further and very quaint dis-
nf Ring Edward's , tact is (says a order is a species of imbecility.
wi iter in "The Sketch") a prat -Mr Sc.mc betties lose their sense of bat-
example than moss of its kind. The arca and are constantly tumbling
Shah of Persia was dining at Marl- over on to their backs: If they do
borough House; the dessert being tl"s on a smooth flat surface they
reached he stretched his hand and are so formed that they can never
trok a Iarge and very pulpy 'fruit struggle over onto their legs again,
from the centre of the table. After •and the dire result is starvation,
011e or two mouthfuls.he threw the Beasts and birds aro liable
remaining portion, with skin and consumption, pneumonia, distem-
st(.ne, over his shoulder so that they per, glanders, diphtheria, heart
hit the wall behind him with much disease, . and several ether well -
squelching noise. One other fruit kt.own disorders, Consumption in
of the same sort was on the dish, 'a state of Nature is net common,
and there was a horrified pause in not is pneumonia, but occasionally
the talk; would theguest from afar a rabbit has been found sitting nut -
repeat the operation 'before the side its barrow, shivering from
rather fastidious eyes of the Prince head' to tailand gasping for breath.
of Wales, as he then was? Edward: It has come out, fancying there
himself brake the suspense. Tak- rs no airin the burrow. But the
ing the fruit, he at a mouthful, tremble is pneumonia. A passing
The rest he threw over his shorn- human being, might save it if he
der so that it bespattcrod the wall amid catch it; hutofcourse the
behind him. startled creature would sc•rarnble ,
away into the hush tsnd.clin in soli-
tude. The most obvious, perhaps,
(1 all eases of neglect, where a lit.
Ile attention woutd right matte re,
is whoa animalsput their limbs mit
of joint, er break diem, or burst
blood -vessels.
A little human surgery in the
woodland would bring about happy
recoveriele Rut, as Nature does
not attend tc, st;ch matters, rnni,y
a rabbit, fax, pheasant, mouse, es
hare loses its life °ver whet among
us is regarded as the most trifling .`
accident.—Pearson's 'Weekly.
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PETALS OPi 'PHILOSOPHY.
Keep your word, and your word
will keep you!
The less a melancholy person en -
jos s himself, the happier he is.
Every man .feels sorry for the vie -
ten of some ether man's injustice.
It is a good principle that draws
interest enough to support you.
A woman wlio cannot influence a
man' for good had better give hien
up
Remembrance is the heritage, of
woman; forgetfulness' the gift of
roan,
Show less indignation behind the
barks of other people, and be bol.
der t thole faces.
Contentment is merely the abil-
ity to fdrget far a while the 'things
that tare beyond our reach.
Money is the • lubricant of the
marriage -wheel and the lade of it
sometimes acoouets for the
screeching.
When a mother shows her baby's nails. Whoa starting os a long
pictnr'o she always says, "The baby hard the drove, always 'raid in a
moved; or the picture would have ;;rod sapply °t nail, to use on the
been better," trip.
A BRIGHT BLAORSMITII.
The greatest improvement in ye-'
hale censteuction was when some
bright blacksmith thought of heat-
ing the tires a.nd shrinking them on
the. wheel. While niauy claire the
honor, it is not known to whom it
rightly belongs. Previous to this
csc•nt tiros worn nedo iu shortsoe-
tions and held on the fellow with