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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-11-18, Page 7t 8 h 11 s. r0 0 St of 19.1r to e n. 's. 7, is ry rz- io hb OS 30 WO ly he 'e- an 'al fn is rig lk I1t Ito or ill 11, ;r• Rat ht - 1d 1 1.p 1y ill r 11- Nov, 18, 1892 TEE ERUSSELSPOST. HOUSM OLD. Mr. BonneOdy, My little one carnet() 110 weeping, wconing, Over her chunks the bright Were orouping: 0 mamma, 11.18 raining and pouring a1ayt Wo 8)001101.11010 the prattle today,' d kook the darling up In my lap, And. tried to make light bio greet mishap; "Be patient. my 0111111, with the rain ; for, 0I SU makes kir, Somebody's garden grew, Yes, it makes Mr, S0ml1ody'e garden grow.," My little ono 0)8810 to me 11)hnig, sighing, Almost randyaK«in for crying; 0 mamma t 010 s1111 Is Rory hot., The flowers 1 planted have died ht the spot," I'took the darling up on my knee, And 111.100(1 Iwd spoke to her cheerily: Be glad, my 010111, of the sun 10 -day; It Indira Mr, Somebody Make 1)10 hay Yes, It helps 04v. somebody make his ha)." There's many a thing may seem "quite too bads For that tittle lass or that little Ind ; But the thing that to you may the hardest bo MAY lir, Somebody's heart with gleeYes, may fill Ml'.Samohody o heart with gloo, -111). Nicholas. Sa11n0l Salad. In answer to an inquiry for a recipe for salad with cabbage or lettuce, I give the following : Pick out the bones and skin, and chop oto can of salmon. Chop the same quantity of white eabbago or celery, or equal parts of each, and mix it with the salmon. When ready to servo, pour over ib a dressing, Toss all together lightly with a wooden or silver fork, and servo. If you use lettuce, do not 'chop the salmon, hub pick it into small flakes, Let the lettuce stand in cold water until ready to neo, then pull it in pieces with the fingers, mix it with salmon, pont, the dressing over it and serve immediately. Dutch Apple Cake. A German neighbor used to make a dish which received the above name. To ono pint of flour add two teaspoonfuls of baking - powder, one half teaspoonful of salt ; sift it and rub in a tablospoottul of butter ; beat one egg and add it to a scant cupful of milk and stir into tate prepared flour. Butter a deep piepon and spread the dough over it about, half an inch thick. Pare, core and out four good-sized, sour apples into eighths and lay them on the dough, sharp edge down, pressing the pieces into the dough a little. Sprinkle half a teacupful of sugar .over the apples and bake until the apples aro done. To he oaten warm with butter or 'cream, Choose the Best Way. Some one has said that our women can do anything, and consequently they try to do .everything. If this is true, and it certainly is not far wrong, may we net find in it the cause of so many women fading at an early age and becoming invalids? Only a certain amount of vitality fa given us for a certain time, and if the expenditure exceeds the in• 00)00, failure must bo the final result. Life is not long enough for any one to do every- thing. Something must be crowded out, and the sooner we decide what aro the least important duties and what oan be best spared from our lives, 111e better for our health and happiness. No doubt there will be a little struggle as we gave up, one after another, the things we had hoped to do and see them drifting beyond our reach, yet if we ohouso wisely, and remember that " the life is more than meat, and the body more than rah• went," wo need not allow ourselves to regret the things that have been crowded out. It is often not so much the work we do that ties us as the complication of duties and cares and the thought that some must be left undone. t,nocannot ohoosefor another, but oaeh must solve for herself the question of simplifying liviug in order that more time may be given to the higher things of life. A constantly tired woman cannot be the host wife and mother. She is not able to give thee ready sympathy and companion- ship which is the life of the home. Itis pos- sible to sacrifice too 11111011 to immaculate housekeeping, and the first years of house- keeping are the hardest, for the ogres are new and untried ; but of all the work that comes to us, is not the mother work the most important? If some things must be crowded out, lot it not be that. It will avail little how we toil for the outer life of the home if the soul of the hone life be wanting ; if we let tenderness and sympathy be shot out or pushed aside by cares and tasks that min- ister only to the body. Convenient Kitchens. This season will probably see the com- pletion of many a new farmhouse. In mak- mg your plan, look first to the parlor ? Not much. The kibehon demands the first and beat, for there the loved wife and mother, in 10086 cases will0 a spend 1(e half of p her time. I do nob mems to have tho kitchen on the front side of the house, for that would not only be silly, but very inconvenient, unless yon turned the front yard into M garden, made a wood -pilo at the front door, a lien -hoose in the street, etc. You do nob want a largo kitchen, for a small one, meth accompanying dining -room is tic, muds more pleasant. Have a dining. room if you cannot have a parlor. I do nob toe what two thirds of the' farmers went a parlor for. It is not read, on an average, once a month, In the majority of oases it is a cold, perhaps musty, grand, shut tap room in the best corner of tate house, and too nioo to use. 'The money that went into the fur- nishing of that useless corner would buy many oomforts and some luxuries that would make thereat of the house a most de- lightfuI re0ting.phaco. Hove a cosy cheerful, sitting -room, with good, substantial furniture—ae good as you tion afford—and use it every day, or in the evening, at least. Do you. suppose John or Will or Boss or Kato will care about going to the neighbors' when they can have such a pleasant resting plaoe at tone, espeoially if they can have music, games or books? The money for that parlor furniture will buy a good many of these things. When the good man comae in from the hay -field, tired, warm and so hungry, does not the cool, pleasant dining -room loose more inviting than the hot kitchen, be it ever so convenient? In building a house, plan to have the kitchen at the north side, if it can be as convenient to the wood-boueo, garden and barn. There should be a wide porch oui • side the kitchen door, whore the washing may be done in summer, Many other bite of work do not. seem so tiresome if they can be done in the freeh air, sheltered from the sun's fieroo rays, The cistorn pump should be in the porch oleo, if it is not con- venient to have ib in the house at the hit' ohon sink. There should be double amp. boards built into rho Wall between the diet- ing -room and the kitchen for dishoe, and the kitchen sink should stand es near Wile cupboard in the kitchens as possible, sous to melte the least trouble in putting away dial's; after washingthem. The pantry should open into both diningg room and kitohorl if powslblo, :Chore 01ton1(1 be plenty of 811pboaed room ha the kitchen for tine and cooking 11110118118, hand'tawels, (that -towels, diel -rags, string boxos, and rags for bruised fingers or toes. Wo have ono remarkably convenient article in our 1)1011011. In manytartn-holsos a batlha'oon is 1101 practicable on manila of beating and the coat of wa101' cnnven' fences. Put the bath•tuh in the kitchen by au outside wall, where the weete water le oaslly carried away, and you will have a bath -room that is always warns when the water la, One the will heat both, whioh is quite an item to the farmer who :toes his wood.lot tepidly emptying to the domand of the coolc•stovo, Make a cover fur the bath. tub of stoat boards, hinged at the beak, a1111 ithaho c on the front. t ed a to 0 1the back fasten the aver u) to the wt. 1 ab t while hauling. Make this fuetoniug very Bemire, for a knock on the head from this heavy cover would not 0o very comfortable, to say the least. When the cover is down, you have a pormanentwash-bench that will old three 1 abs side by side, if you get the largest size of bath -tub. It is a nee, long benoh to ant out clothing on, too, for you can taste a low locking -chair and sit down by it. Lay pearria10-roboortwo down on this cover, end if you ane have a 'pillow handy, there will bo a lounge that the tired wife can lie on and watch the dinner cooking It may nob be as soft as eider- down, but it is very restful for a few min- utes, just the same. Desserts, While ice is very generally pub up for use in the farmer's household, yet there are localities where itis not always to bo had, and the housekeepers aro not able to have ices during the summer, and are quite at a loss for dainty, light desserts to take their place. Creams, binno mangos, charlotte rune and gelatine jellies will all be found excellent substitutes for ice-cre0m and sherbet, if set un a epring•houso or hong in a cool well until chilled. Blanc manage is so easily made, and the expense is so trifling, that it should come first in the list of convenient desserts. The Irish moss in its natural state, the moss Carina, gelatine, 8000.8taroh or arrow- root may all be used to convert the milk into bland mange, which may bo flavored with froeh fruit juices, extracts or chocolate. Even in the warmest weather blanc mango will thicken if put in a cool place. Bavarian creams come nest in the list of economical dainties, and aro very nourish- ing, being a combination of Dream, eggs, sugar and fruits. Charlotte rune is also very clenches, but being more troublesome and expensive, is better suited for special occasions than every -day use, when the overworked mother is the cook. Gelatine jellies are refreshing after a heavy meal of vegetables and meats, but do not possess any strengthening qualities. To make blase mange, put a quart of new milk i1( a saucepan ; dissolve a tablespoon• fel of moss farina in a 111110 cold milk and mix fu ; beat one egg and half a teacupful of auger, add to the boiling milk. Flavor with lemon extract or any fruit juice in season, pour in a mold and set o1( ire to cool. Serve with steam sweetened and flavored. Ifcorn•atarch is used in place of moss farina, add three tablespoonfuls to a pint of milk, or half a box of gelatine to a quart of milk. Bavarian cream may have any flavor desired. Dissolve half a box of gelatine in a little cold water and mix in le pint of milk ; let boil, add half a cupful of auger and the flavoring ; take from the fire, pour in a tin pan, sot on ice and stir until thick. Then add a pint of whipped mane stir until well mixed, turn in a mould to harden. Serve with whipped Dream flavored and aweotoned. All fruits aro excellent for flavoring Bavarian creams. Charlotte ruse may bo made in several ways. The simplest recipe is the following: Line a cake -mold with thin slices of cake. Put one third of a box of gelatine in a pint of milk ; set it where it will haat and dia- solvo. Make a rich custard (one quart) and add rho gelatine ; flavor, and set where it will be cool. When it begins to thicken stir in carefully a pint of whipped cream. Pour into tho mold and set to cool, Egg meringue or whipped cream may bo put on top of the charlotte rune when ready to serve., ABC CT WOMEN. A contrivance has been invented by Mrs. Harriet el. Plumb, of New York, for keep- ing oars supplied with fresh air without the annoyance of cinders. Few blue-eyed people are colorblind, and Wo are told that woolen as a rule have bet- ter oye sight than men. Queen Lillonkalani Inas an income as Queen of Hawaii of 520,000, and a re80110 from the crown lauds of $200,000 more. ar standing army of sixty-four 111 i 1. men, three of whom are generals. 1 Swedioh women often work as farm labor- ers. Those that have babies carry them on their backs in a loather bag, as squaws carry their young, This plan permits the mother to use both hands at her farm work. Queen Victoria, who tae a valuable col- lection of literary treasures at Windsor Cas- tro, hes just purchased a very old ntaneseipt relating to Mary Qttoen of Scots, and a hymn 1(t the handwriting of Queen Ade- laide. Jeanne Eugenie Moreau, the child wonder of Paris, whose phenomoual memory has made a highly educated person at the age of 5 years, is a graud-daughber of the Philippe Moreau who led the assault on the Bastila in 178e, and who was decorated therefor by Lafayette. Near the town of White Oaks, N. At„ lives one of the moot remarkable women even of this most remarkable age, Tito house in whioh she lives, a low, whito-wall- ad adobe building, ooverod with green vines, and fitted out with riot carpets, artiobio hangings, books and pictures, exquisite china and silver and all tete dainty belong- lugs with which a refined woman loves to surround herself, was built with her own hands, The huge ranch on which It is lo- Dated,with8,000oattle,ismanagedbylmr, It de she who buys or takes up the land, selects and controls the men, buys, sella and trans • fera tho cat1.lo. She is a skillful ul and intelligent proepootor, and found the vain. able silver mine on her territory, in which oho now owns a half interest. She slogs ohariningly, a000mpanying ltoreelf on the piano or guitar, and handles a oambrio needle or a water color brash ea dexterous, ly as elm uses an adz or a jaokplene. She entertain deligfitfully at her home whiot garties, little dances and even en occasional erman. Hoe name is Mee. Barber, and she has been twice a widow, A Woman who oan ren a ranch, build a house, manage e mine and ongmoor a ouccoaoful german de• serval a promptent plaoo in the ranks of women of genuis. ewe -ball billiards i0 a game fob oorning auto favor with the expecte, To 0011011, a playa, met hit the object boll twice With he cute ball ab each shot, ADIZIF'i' ON `FRB PACIFIC. wanders Borne by Winds and Currents fan' From Promo, in tlloj earliest days of navigation across the Paoifie Ocean the Myriad of Iolanda, big and little, 010t1000d over the 11ea101 expunge were found to be inhabited, Questions 00 to the origfh of these peoples and how they rea01(0d their isiuud hence, aepnrated MS they often are by h0ndreds of 11(1100 of 00011n have long interested anthropologists. It wee 00rtai11 that these 000at110 peoples could not have originated where they were found, for their relationship, not only with one 8nolhe, but also with the inhabitants of the\' i 4' n r e ap- parent, .l tiny Art upolag , wt easily p area r the ' 1 1 ca iter• p t, An hop, ale that had is 1 al)10 vogue was that these islanders were merely remnants of the people of a canon. out that years ego sank beneath the waves with only its mountain tops peering above then]. This hypothesis was proved to be worthless. In the course of the investigations it hes become, perfectly evident that these islands wore peopled by [migrations and thab very many of those migrations were involuntary. It huts been oh.orvetl that the greatest and most eastern of these Peel. lie times, the Polynesiane, in their traditions, merle of lifo, religions praotices, resemble in many respeots tee Papuans. Maylayana, and oven the Japanese. Some careful ob- servers also have found analogies between the Polynesians and the natives of North and South Anlerioa, and may be tint our Indium races had some part in peopling the Pacific islands, a supposition that derives the more probability from the fact that the prevailing winds and currents south of the equator move from east to west. Since the Pacific b00a110 well known, numerous instances of migrations from eon• tinental lands to the islands and from archi- pelago to archipelago have been recorded. Reales tells of a Japanese junk which in 1 3 as rel dt 3, w 0t. o by a typoon far oat of the 101and home of 1110 111110 fishermen who worn on board, The Kuro Sive current born the castaways still further east. They lost all their hearings, knew not whittler they were drifting, and for ten months they were buffeted hero and there on unknown seas until finally their hapless vessel brought up on the coast of Oahu in the Hawaiian Isl- ands. Thanks to their loads of ifeh and the ram water they caught, four of the nine un• fortunate() live to tell the story of their terrible suffering. "It is plain now that we came from Asia," said the Hawaiians as they recognized the resemblance between these foreigners and themselves. Pine trees brought from the coasts of Oregon or Van. oouver Island aro often stranded on the shores of this archi pelaao, end the traditions of Hawaii have handed down reports of red men from the far East whom some chance has cast upon the Iolanda. One of the greatest geographers has said that natien0 push forward to possess new lands in a direction opposite to that of the general movement of the air and waters. This is the case in the Peeifia To be sure the general movement of air and currents flowing west produoo reflex currents moving oast, which have undoubtedly been of groat importance in scattering people among the Eastern Archipelagoes. But these counter currents are almost wholly north of the equator, where oceanic lands are rare. Most of tho Polynesian Islands are south of the equator, where strong currents move soros the ocean from the western world toward Australia and Now Guinea; and to resell these eastern islands the boats of the unfor- tunate castaways or voluntary travellets must have been driven by wind and wave over a tortuous course until at last, when far toward America, they sbrnok the west- ward currents and wind zones and were carried to the new homes of whioh they had never heard. Oftel, if they could have travelled in a straight line, a journey of five or six hotundrod miles would have tithe' then] to their new places of abode. But, as Roclus hoe said, the authentic records of these involuntary voyages, made during the past three centuries, show that many times the actual journey was two or throe times as long as the shortest route. It is certain that comparatively few of these castaways were spared to be the seed from which future peoples were to spring. How many of thorn, with their frailoaft, were. swallow- ed up in the deep? How many succumb- ed to the pangs of hunger and thirst, or perished of exposure and anxiety? A few, here and there, wore carried on, tho aporb of wind and wave, to find new abiding p100e0 for the race, just as seeds and plants drift to rho barren heaps that submarine volcanoes roar above the sen, and, in time, caves them with verdure. Millions of these plants mrd seeds may per- ish in the sea for every one that finds a place to grow and ]rectify ; and mycids of Paoifie castaways have beet engulfed while a few have survived to er stn to n their kind in p p hitherto exampled h islands. There is proof, also, that these nigra. Gone have not only been aheresult ofaOeitlont, but sometime, also, of deliberate porpnee. Traditions have been handed down from father to son of lauds not far away, and, aid - nutted by love of conquest, expeditions 11nv0 been sent out to rind them, Then the gods, on being oonsultad, have sometimes ordered the islanders to seek edvoutures afar, and choosing times when winds and ;MVOs were auspicious, they have sat out for the unknown; Neither aro hurricanes and other phenomena of the sea responsible for all the cases of involuntary wanderings. Instnnoes have been known of conquered tribes, condemned to exile, and thus com- pelled to find new homes or perish. Sono. tunas also an island has become too crowd. od for its growing populaoo, and it has been necessary for a part of the people to find new homes. Two soltnlars, the late Prof. Quatre£ages and ?olr. Otto Sittig have given groat at- tention to collecting the evidences of authenticated oases of involuntary wonder - Inge in the Pacific. A mere catalogue of the known instances recorded by Quatro- {ages in his "Les Polynesione et lours nti- grations," and by Sittig in his study"Uober rnfreiwilligo Wanderungen im Grossen Ozean" would fill several columns. A re. markable instance 10 that recorded by mite sionaries in the Philippine Islands as oc. curring in 1698. Twenty.nine natives of Palau which at that time had mover been aeon by civilized man, were driven by a storm far west of their home and then drift• ed with rho current to Somal, one of the Philippine Islands. Their two boats drift. ed for soventeetwo days, and five of the men dried of exlauetion during the 500. mile journey. A few days later two women from the same island were brought by the same chance to the same ].lace of refuge. If all had, been cast upon alt uninhabited Wand they probably would have perpetua- ted their people and added one more to the centres of population in the P010150. Some instances of astonishingly long in. Voluntary voyages ere known. Kotzebue toile of Japanese who were blown away froth their native ahoroe and actually lived to roach tho American coast, having travel. led across the North Pacific in the Kuro Sivo and the outward drift north of the equator, Now and then junks have boon driven from Chinese wetere to the American coast, -- Another very iutoroating feet is that there are tunny records of loyal m]tary 80y. ages made frum eastern to western Islands. Many of these islands were doubtless passed by 111(80 n in the agog when the Pacific lands were gradually becoming peopled from 1111(1 ellen and islands of Arita. Later, doocondaute of th0'o immigrates wore oaet away le their turn and, wane of them drifted 11001101.1 the anoiont homes of their rave until they, like enough, brought up on some 1ninbltbited island. An interesting case of this sort was Jiacoverod by Turner in Vatc, aro of 010 New 1lebrfdee islands. He found there the blind chief Bela and hie people, the older of whom were ell native born Samoans. Bela and his company left « Samoa i harbor 1825 in a double n r indon o o1( 1 pe, There worn fifty people At the party, They wore aught in a great storm and for days expected to perish. When the storm 0ub0id• od they found shat they were far from home and the current aed wind were taking them steadily westward. Finally the half tread mal and women reach Vete, fully 1,300 miles seethe cat of their old ]tomo After a while thoy made a vain attempt to sail back to Samoa. The adverse wind and current were more than they could over- come, anti so they oettlod down for life in the Now Hebrides. Other castaways from Samoa and Tonga have been found more than a thousand miles from their old homes in the New I -Ie' rides and Loyalty islands. On one of the little Banks islands the mis- sionary Codringtun a while ago met a man, wife, and son who were castaways from east- ern Polynesia, having lived through a drift of 0107 a thousand miles in n small boat. Ellis told of people from eastern islands of whom the inhabitants of the Society group had never hoard who wore blown ashore on the coasts of the Tahiti. Many instances aro known all over the Paoifie of involuntary voyages of from 300 to 7C0 miles in length. The longest jour- neys on record have been north of the coma. too, where little land i0 found, and the drifts have extended from Asiatic waters to Hawaii or North America. These acid. dents of navigation sometimes have curious enguistio results. Dialects closely allied to the Tongan, for instance, aro found hen. deeds of miles away, with other dialects intervening. There aro no records of iht'ol- untary voyages to New Zealand or to the South American coast: Mr, Sittig is of the opinion that the mental superiority of the inhabitants of the Hawaiian and Gar. olins islands may be accounted for by their absorption, at an early day, of the Chinese and Japanese elements that accidentally reached them. In Polynesia the most eastern islands that can show any positive proof of involuntary immigration are the many little oceanic specks known as the Panmota group oast of the Society Islanda, and the people of the Paumotus show un- mistakably mmistakably that they received their inhabi• tants from the Malayan Archipelago. Last year a solitary white man, the sole 80rvtvor of a shipwrecked crew, was resound iron an uninhabited island in the North Pacific. Thera is no doubt that white cast- aways are to -day living on out-of-the-way islands seldom visited by ships, end are seen- ntng the horizon anxiously for the relief that is long in coming. In 1887 thirteen sailors of the French ship Tamarie took refuge, after the sinking of their vessel, upon one of the Crozet islands south ofMadapasearand far toward the Antarctio circle. There they lived for nine months, subsisting on biscuit they had saved from tho wreck, penguin eggs, and fish. They would doubtless have been reached if their patience had held out. But, as the record they left behind them shows, they sought to roach in small boats another island eighty miles away whioh they believed was nearer tho track of whalers, and they perished in the attempt, for they were never heard of again. Suoh misfortunes as still befall the sailors of the white races have been the means of spreading mankind over the greatest of oceans. The breadth of the Pacific would seem to interpose an unsurmountabla obeta- ale to rho immigration of savagee in their tiny craft. But this obstacle has been more than counterbalanced by the myriads of islands that have served as stepping stones for the human race on its way 00(000 the great waste of waters. 50,000 YEOPLE DROWNED. The Yellow lIlver Again Causes .lwful De- struction in. Chita. Letters from China bring terrible acoounts of the loss of life and property caused by the breaking of the banks of the Yellow River, which 1s aptly called "China's Sorrow." It is only three years 81008 the whole basin of the river was flooded, and now comes a now flood, fully 00 disastrous as the other. It is estimated that the flooded district is 100 miles long by thirty miles wide, that over 50,000 people have been drowned, and that fully 1,000,000 starvedeath wi]lto 1(u• less the Chinse Government furnishes then food from now until next spring. Those figures furnish some idea of tie enormity 01 the calamity, in whioh, in sin- gle villages, the whole loss of life at Johns town is surpaeoed. The work of strength• ening the embankment of the river was poorly done three years ago, and the high water this soaoon swept away the dikes as thought they weronlade of straw. In sever- al districts the water ie fifteen feet deep, and whole families are perched on the roofs of their houses. Only the more substantial structures resist the aotion of the water, the majority of the houses crumbling away and carrying the wretched people to death. A Ft'aotioal Illustration• Uncle Silas wee the best posted elan on general topics in the village, and a hunter of renown as well, He also had a viragofor a wife, Dear, dear, what a temper that women had I She was the only thing on earth of whioh Uncle Silas was afraid, One day a class of school children called on the old man. They were sent by their teacher to got some facts in natural his. tory. " We've oume," said the spokesman of the class, " to ask you some questions, Uncle Silas, about the habits and customs of the wild eat." Uncle Silas had been very glad to see them, as the broad smile on his face testi- fied. But now he looked very mucin alarm. ed. "Hnu•s-h," he said with it eantieue gee. tare, "who on 118th sent ye here on ouch a errand 2" :Visa Knowles, our teacher," said the class in concert, "Wall, she onghter know better, I ain't never heti atythin'to say about them that, critters sense—Oh, Lordy, thar mho comes 1' And Unole Sflae lit out, as a tall woman armed with a broom, lit in, "Think ye'r smart, do yo?" she screamed, "wauter know about wild'cabs, hey? Got up a joke on the ole man, but 1'll tench ye to joke on face. Take that hems for yet: ohne" Whnok, whnok, want the broom, and it did mot fail in its aim, as two of alto boys who were the last to got out could easily prove. And the glass in natural history skipped the ohaptor on wild tate for some. thing less exoitin1. PERSONAL, Only four homes of British writers have been preserved on account of the as0ooia. tions oonnooted with them. Tiley aro the homes of Skakeepoarc, Millon, Burns and Wordsworth, and it is suggested that Homersby Rotatory, Tounyeon's birthplace, should he Added to the number. The Gorman Emperor is a very particular monarch about his meals, though not even a Frenchman could charge hint with expel. Sive tastes. IDA "fad" in food is to have as many different kinds of broad as poeeible. At breakfast, he eats a email white loaf, the top of which is sprinkled over with salt. This salt 1.1(01 001,10 al n)em1 y, One of rho bust -known woman farmers in Great Britain, Miss Hnpe.Johnstone, of 11 000blhankwoOd, Dumfrieeehil'e, Scotland, diets the other day. She had a large sheep farm in Eskdale, whioh she snperiutondod 'ravioli, and she was an excellent authority on all agrionituraf matters. The Princess of {Vales and her daughters have been 5011hng fn the river Doe, killing mime fine salmon and trout, Prinrees Maud mime hooked a ]0 -pound salmon with en ordinary trout rod, and landed it after a battle of forty minutes. The late Joseph Randall Testate' was for thirty years the only wax-figere.mukor for Madame Tussaud's collection in London. During that time ho received encourage• ment from the Emperor Ntoholas of Russia, The Emperor Napoleon, and other European sovereigns. Ilhs first bust was exhibited at the Academy tvhon he was only fifteenyeare old. He was th0 grandson 0f the original Tusoaud, A. F. Farkor, a streetcar conductor in Oakland, California, possesses two medals, one given by the Queen, and the other by the Khedive of Egypt, for bravery on the battle -field. Mr.Parker took part in the march with Wolsoley Aaron the desert to Khartoom to relieve Gordon. The second son of the Czar, the Grand - Duke George continues his ppecaliar course of treatment for pulmonary rliseaao. In ac- cordance with hie physician's theory that a low temperatt(0 tends to destroy the con- 014mption bacillus and to prevent the growth of tubercles, the room of the royal patient is untapered and bare, the =Wesson his bed tam, and the fires moderate in the coldest weather. The progress of the disease is said to have been checked, but his attendants suffer extremely from the cold. General Booth, the commander of the Salvation Army, has established a farm colony, some forty miles from London, for the reclamation of drunkards and the idle and vicious who have been captured, as it were, by 1h8 soldiers of his army.. The farm embraces 1500 pores of excellent land, and the experiment of praotioal eool.saving gives promise of being successful, There are now nearly 400 reclaimed mon at work in the colony, and many of them have be- come physically if not morally regenerated by their experience ot honest labor to which they were previously unaooustomod. At Cavendish Falls, on Black River, Vb., a vertical cliff is known as Lover's Leap. It's a poor town that has not ohne such fea- turo in this country. A man actually went over this Vermont leap along in tho '40s, He did not mean to, and a companion crept to the edge and looked over, expeoting to ace )rim dashed to pieces below. The man was crawling out of the river. "Hello 1" shouted his friend. "Are you hurt much?" " 1 ain't hurtmuoh," was the answer. "but I'll be darned if I haven't lost my jack- knife." Dr, Mary E. Bradford, the American Presbyterian missionary at Tabriz, Persia, who hes clone such noble medical work among the Persians in the late cholera epidemic, is a native of Lexington, Illinois, and 1s only about thirty years old. She re- ceived her diploma in 1587 from the Wom- an's Medical College of Chicago, and WAS afterwards a surgeon in the Now England Hospital in Boston. She was sant to Perste i1( 1888. Archbishop Vaughan, of Westminster, on whom the palllem was recently conferred with imposing ceremonies in London, was a Captain in the Crimean war, in which he gained the reputation of being a good sole dior, a brave officer, and a men of exbraoe- dinary coolness under fire. Ho was the son of one of her Majesty's crack officers, Lioutenaut-Colonel Vaughan, of Hereford. shire, and it was not until he had returned from his service in the Crimea that ho deter- mined to abandon the army for the church. There were several instances in our own civil war of staff.oficors becoming bfshope of the church, but Dr. Vaughan is probably the only Eugltslt prolate of modern time who has risen from the soldier's tont to an arch. bishopric. Finding w the Dro v ned' Superstition everwherehesmany curious Y modus of recovering the body of n drowned person. Tho Indians imagine that in the ease of a drown001 body its place may he dis- covered by floating a 011ip of cedar wood, which will stop and turn around over the exact spot. Not many months ago a man was drowned et St. Louie, After 00008)1 had boon made for the body, but without suc- cess, the man's shirt, which he had laid aside when ho went in to bathe, was spread out on the water and allowed to float away. For a while it floated and then stink, near which spot, it is reported, the plan's body was found. A loaf of bread is a favorite talisman he most European countries, Sometimes ib is found sufficient of itself, sometimes it needs the aid of some otltorsubatanoo, Thus, as in .England, the loaf is usually weighted with quicksilver, The L melon Staurla'rl recently told a story in point, Some years ago a body fell into the stream at Therborne, Dorsotshiro, and was drowned. The body not having been discovered for several days, the mode of procedure was thus : A four. pound loaf of best flour was procured and a small piece cut out of the side of it, forming e cavity, into which a little quicksilver was poured. Tho piece was then replaced and tied firmly in its original position. The loaf, thne prepared, was thrown into the river at the spot where the body fell, and was expected to float down the sbream until it came to tine place where the body had lodged. But no satisfactory result oc- curred. Int Brittany, whore the body of a drowned man cannot be found, a lighted toper le fixed in e. loat of bread, which is then abandoned to the retreating current. When the loaf stops, there it is supposed the body will be found. In Java a live sheep is thrown into the water, and lesupposed to indicate the pool• tion of the body by sinking neer it. A curious custom is praotfoad in Norway, where those in search of a drowned body row to and fro with a roostot in the boat, fully °spaoting that the bird will crow when the boat reaches the spot where the corpse Bea Tho organist of a church in Cardiff,\Valga,. discovered that so010 of the notes were ooundloes. Investigation revealed the foot that six birds, 0010 of thole a robinn, had made their nest in the pipes, A NERVY SKIPPER WAS IILl. Captain Durkee's Yarn of Bis Bark's Vo-. age From Iloilo. Mc Was L008(1n4r, lila ,lien Were ifying Hut lie Was rtrnve oP ;Heart --Alt Were )108011 bet 1101anselr, rk Ohm anti a than. The yarn of the Nova Scotian bark H. 13 Cann, whioh arrived at Norfolk, Va„ on Sunday from Iloilo with 2,100 tons of raw sugar, was elleerfully spun yesterday by her nervy little Yarmouth 8klpper, (;)apt. Durkee, to an audience of reporters. "I can't give you rho exaot latitude and longitude the fleet man was taken down," said the optimistic old salt," unless I lock at my log book, and that's aboard fillip, out in serean. Anyhow, we were 130 Clays out from Iloilo, and we were leaking. The mars complained of a numb sort of feeling in his logs and wanted to lie down all the time. After a fete days other men wore attacked by the disease, whioh made their legs swell as if they had dropsy. I suspected that they had beriberi, which the doctoreeay is caused by the steam from the sugar. Ont Saps, 23 ono of the men, Thomas Russell, died and I mustered all the crew—ave had fourteen men in all now—that could stand to the waist of the ship and wo shoved the body, sewed in canvas• into the sea, while I road the burial service. This had a de- pressing effect on the crow, every man of which, except one, was eiok. But some of 'em were able to stub along, and, as the Lord blessed us with coed weather, we fared. pretty well till our biscuits began to get low. We had teething left but salt horse end water, and mighty little of that, when we neared the Carolina coast, Seven men were down then, and the root could work only once in a while. We had a brisk northers d 1i y win wl ah was dead ahead, of course, and wo beatslowly up the coast. On Saturday, Oct. 8, the carpenter, John Nugent, died. I mustered the mon again and buried Nugent. They were almost hopeless then, each one thinking he might be the next to slide off the plank into the sea. Our biscuits had given out, and the prospect of eiok anon living on a dint of corn- ed pork wasn't altogether bright. I lied to do something to keep their spirits up so I called all of em that could bobble aft end made 'em a little speech. I said we were not far from land, and thea I would make the nearest port north of Hatteras as quick- ly as I could if they would try to shake off their sickness for a time. They responded, 'Aye, aye, we'll try, sir; and went fer'ad. Just than a steamer hove in sight and I set two pennants, signifying that we were starving. The steamer kept on her course and I 118010(1 down the flags, and, bonding our ensign union down on the halliards,aent the signals aloft again. The steamer didn't notice us, and the men cane aft' and de- manded thatl should do something else. One of 'em, a sea lawyer, as we call 'em, gave mo 001000 balloon talk. I told 'em I had sig- nalized the steamer with the strongest code, and if she didn't mind that oho wouldn't mind any thing. I also told 'em„ I Was the Captain of the ship and was going to rut her to suit my interests,whioh,underthe oir- onmstances I calculated, were the came as • theirs. " We beat to the no'th ard, pretty slow you may boheve, with only one man, my little dog, and myself entirely well. We were a time getting about, as theship's bot- tom was heavy with barnacles and slime. At last, we saw the Ctrrituck lighthouse, and the Wren brightened np a bit. But the wind went down then, and we just lay there and whistled for a breeze. The men, with the sea lawyer for spokesman, came aft again and said something must be done for them. I kept the signals up, and told 'em that was all 1 could do. Then the sea lawyer said a boat might bo sent ashore to Currituok. T knew no man of 'em could get there in boat, as it was a longer way off than it seemed to be. They went for'ad grembling, and left me pacing the deck with my dog. A little puff of wind came, and then an- other, but not strong enough to give us steerage way. Then I felt more like pray- ing than I over did, and I said out loud, Ob, Lord, please make them puffs a little stronger,' But they didn't get much strong- er, I wondered how long we would have to lay out there, and Ibegan to make reedy to oast anchor in case the worst came to the worst. Thorn were only 12 fathoms under us, and as f had 120 fathoms of chain in the looker I knew I could stick it out a good whsle. "But 011 Tuesday morning, Oct. 11, we SAW a big tug steaming out to us. I knew then that our signals had been seen at Cur - ritual; and that the tug had been sant onb frotn Norfolk for us. But I didn't want that tegboatman to catch us napping and mulct us for salvage, so I called all the men aft end told '0m to stay on dock, look spruce as possible, say nothing when the tug came alongside, but let me do all the talking, and they wouldn't regret ft. I had the signals hauled down, and the windmill, whioh was pumping us out, unshipped, and the side of the ship near the sotuppers scrub- bed so the tngboatman wouldn't know we were leaking. He steamed around us three or four times, sizing us up, aid getting near. 00 every aireie ho made. At last he lay to and asked if 070 were the bark that had sig. nals of distress up 011 Sunday, I said we were and then he asked what the treublo was. I said we merely wanted food and drink 8.0 we were just about starving. Then he asked if we hadn't sickness aboard. I said we did have bwo men slightly ill with some sort of swelling of the feet. Then he wanted to know if I wouldn't like to be towed in, Ipretend. ed not to be powerful anxious for a tow bub asked him, careless liko, how much be would. charge. We said $100, and I said 1 guessed I would let him have the job for that if he would throw in a breakfast, He Dame alongside and gave us a barrel of fresh his. omit, lots of meat already cooked, and gal• tons of hot coffee. The men wore 088000110, end so was 1, and that breakfast was just about the best 1 ever tasted. It made me feel kind o' small for playing it on the tug - boatman. I penile must have felt pretty mad when the doctors boarded ns at Quar- antine. When our anchor went down every mother'eson aboard went down with it, and the tugboatinan found we hadn't a thee. onghly well Wren on the ship. Then he in• vlted me over to the tug' which was the Rescue, and asked me if i didn t think that job of towing was worth more than $100. I said I couldn't tell, but lthought the break. fasb was worth at least $50, So wo 0004- premised on $150, whioh was dirt cheap. When we got to Norfolk' sent the mate and seven ]non to hospital, and they got well. The doctore told mo that the way to euro botibort was to send the patients to. grass; thoy want the ninon of the dry land, whioh you can't get abase unless you take it in your cargo. A sl* .ago discovery was mode by 11iO4, J. E. 138 At of Nyaok, N. Y. She was eon• ming pe8.ohes, and in ono of tlton, whioh she had freshly out she found a penny lying ol000 to the atone, The fruit heel groWn 1811, arrilnd the ooiu,