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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-03-28, Page 2INFLUENZA, Or La Grippe, though occasionally epi. demic, is always more or leas prevalent. The beat remedy for this complaint is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. "Last Spring, I was taken down with La Grippe. At times I was completelypros- trated, and so difficult was my breathing that my breast seemed as if confined in an iron cage. I procured a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and no sooner had I began taking It than relief followed. I could not be. Neve that the effect would be so rapid and the cure so complete. It is truly a wonderful med. lcino ".-W. H. WILLIAMe, Crook City, b. AYER'S Cherry Pectoral Prompt to act, sure to cure The Huron News-Reoora' 1.50 a Year—$1,25 in Advance. WEDNESDAY MARCH, 28th, 180.1. THE CFIILDREN'S ENEMY. Scrofula often shows itself in early life and is characterized by swellings, abscesses, hip disease, etc. Consump- tion is scrotula of the lungs. In this class of disease Scott's Emulsion is un- questionably the most reliable niedi- cine. Chamberlain was convicted of per- jury at Winnipeg Friday. Sentence was deferred. His trial for personation will now proceed. I CAN highly praise Burdock Blood Bitters because it had a fair trial in my case with wonderful success. My symptoms were dropsy, backache and sleeplessness, and all these disappeared after using two bottles ofBurdock Blood Bitters. I can not praise its healing:powers too highly. GEORGINA HOLMES, Wood Point, Sackville, N. B. A Paris paper states that the Prince of Wales won £8,000 at Monte Carlo last week and donated the whole amount to the poor of Monaco. , (2) SHILOH'S CURE is sold on a guaran- tee. It cures Incipient Consumption. It is the best Cough Cure. only one dent a dose • 25 cts., 50 cts. and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by J. H. Combe. Fifteen men have been killed and many others injured by a ,nine ex- plosion in Ekatermohland Province, Russia. 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NORWAY PINE SYRUP] is the safest and best cure for coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, sore throat and lung troubles. Price 25c. and 50c. Gordon Fetherston, the four-year- old Son of W. Fetherston, organist, London, was drowned in a cistern Fri- day. Consumption Cured. An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an .East India minslon • airy the !amnia of a slmple vegetable remedy 'or tbo speedy and permanent cure of ('onsttmpti, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma aud all throat an Lung Affections, aleo a positive and radical ante for Nervone Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powere in thousands of oases, has felt it his duty to make it known to bissu0ering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe, in German, French or English, with full directlone for preparing and using. Neat by mail hyaddressing with sumo., naming this paper, W. A. Noys o, 820 Powers' Block, Rochester, N. Y. 059- y It was proved in the County Court at Hamilton on Saturday last, before His Honor Judge Muir, that draw poker was a game of skill and not a game of chance. The case was that against James Hennigan for keep. ing an alleged gambling house. There were called as witnesses several of the young men who were found in the room on the night it was raided by the police. The witnesses sWore that they played casino, and then changed to poker. A rake-off was taken out of the jack -pots to pay the expenses of the room. It, was also asserted that there were dozens of places of that kind in the city. The witnesses swore, further, that poker was a game of skill and not of chance, and no evidence was brought forward to prove the contrary. So that when the Crown Attorney argued on the supposition that poker was a game of chance he was stopped by the Judge who told him that the evidence went to show that it was a game of skill. The defendant's counsel took exception to the fact that the warrant was not executed by the Chief of Police in person, and the objection was held good. The defendant was discharged. t,1 T$AT PANTHER HIDA. "Well, yes ; that there is a pant'er hide," said old Mose Boddie, pointing to a nondescript looking affair that lay upon the puncheon floor of hie cabin. "Don't look much like it, do it?" The hide in question was muddy of hue, and well "frazzled" at the edges, while it bad evidently once possessed much more hair than it did at present. "You bee," continued Mose, "me an' my wife, Canzady, have raised nine children, one atter another, an' they've all withered over it, lettin' alone usiu' it for a bed kiver every wigtyer for twenty years come next Janooary,' Mose was a grizzled hunter of the Blue Ridge Mountains, whose long rifle and coonskin pouch were better known in the wilds of Rabun County, Ga., in those days, than the personalities of many more widely -noted men. His cabin was a shell of half -rotten logs, with a dirt floor and a rough board roof held down by rocks and poles, instead of the less cumbersome but more expensive nail. In summer it was airy; in winter smoky and cold. Dried venison and bear's meat hung from the grimy joists. lean hounds slept in the ashes of the fireplace; on the outer walls were stretched the skins of foxes, mous and groundhogs, as odorous trophies of the obese. Canzada was a lank, sallow woman, clad m dirty homespun, She sat in a splint -bottom chair, '.grittin' up roast - in' ears" for the daily supply of "grit" bread. Several ragged, dirt- eating children squatted about, vacantly silent and staring. The youngest lad munching a bacon rind upon the panther skin, while Mose himself was cutting some greased wads for his rifle. "Pant'ers nowadays is about as skase as lien's teeth," he went on. "But hit wern't so in my younger days. That there hide was off'n my fust one, though I've knocked over a many a one Bence." So Mose repeated the oft -told tale that hunters everywhere delight to tell or bear. But, without following his pecu- liar idiom, it may be said that his narra- tive ran somewhat as follows : Several years before his marriage he had lived in the same cabin with his mother. One bitter winter's night, he and a younger sister were left alone, their mother having goue down. to Let - "SOMETHING'S A-PULLIN' OFF THE KIVER !" ter Gap, seven miles below, on a trading expedition to the nearest store. She would not be back before the next day. Mose was then a lad of sixteen, and his sister Johanna might have been three or four years his junior. The winter was a severe one, and there being no "mast" in the woods, wild ani- mals. as well as many tame ones, were famishing. Bear had been seen down in the coves, and the wolf's melancholy howl was beard at night with unusual frequency. It was said that a large panther—the rarest of the wild beasts that prowl those mountain regions—had caught a young steer close by Jabe Whiting's cow -pen, and many were the injunctions said on Mose and Johanna by their mother not to stir outside the cabin walls after dark. When night came on, they brought in the yellow cur dog, built up a rousing fire in the fireplace, and felt quite cozy, despise the cold draughts pouring in through the half -chinked logs ; nor did they heed the wind's sad whistle dowu the chimney as "Yeller Creek" moaned in the ravine outside. They went to bed early to keep warm as the file grew low. Mose was drifting into a doze, Oen he heard the house cat mewing ellitside. Presently a plain- tive cry sounded up the ravine,' not un- like that of a child in distress, but for its ending in a prolonged snarl. The cat redoubled its entreaties, and scratch- ed at the door. Mose rose shivering, and, slipping the bar, let the poor thing in. The dog now began to growl; inter. spersing his plaints with sundry winnings indicative of fear as well as anger. - The cry up the ravine again rang out, nearer than before. Its power and fero- city were quite startling, The plaintive. nese was not perceptible except when mellowed by distance. Mose hastily barred the door. 'His precaution was timely, for in a moment more stealthy footsteps were audible without, accompanied by fierce breathings and a scratching sound against the logs. The cur dog now slunk under the bed, his bristles lower- ing and his whines subsiding into shiver- ing silence. Mose began to wish that his mother was at home. "What is it ? whispered Johanna, who had just warred up. "Bears—or, mebbe hit's a pant'r," re- turned Mose. "I wish we ons had pap's old rifle." The animal, Whatever it was, after snuffling at the door, circled slowly round the !rouse, sniffing heavily be. THEN HUNG LIMP AND STRUGGLING. tween the cracks. The fire was now a mere masa of embers. Mose, fear- ful of the strength of the walls, crouch- ed in a corner ; his heart beating heavily ; but as the minutes pass- ed, and no other signs of the unknown presence without were mani- fested for a time, he again fell into a doze. He was aroused by an exclama- tion from Johanna, who was still in bed. "Mose I" she screamed. "Oh, Mose 1 Something's a.pullin' off the kiver I" Mose thrust a pine splinter into the embers, and when it blazed up he ad. 'winced toward the bed. Johanna was on the side furthest from the wall. By the flaring light they saw a huge tawny paw thrust through a wide chink be- tween the logs, with its great claws buried in the ragged quilt. Mose looked hastily around for some kind of a weapon. Though he had been at .flrot frighten- ed ny the aognde of an uncompreliended dtuhgee, the eight of a visible peril re- stored tris nerve. awhil- "'Keep'gutet, Johanna 1" ire cautioned,. "Tire oreatur can't do nethiq' yet e,"' The fancily spinning -wheel was stilt standing where their mother had left it that very morning, after spinning tile,; "fillin'"of some jeans she Intended to.• weave. Har(ily realizing exactly what he was doing, Mose jerked the long head-post from its socket, with its transverse steel spindle. then, swinging it high, lie brought it down with all his strength. The sharp point of the spindle was driven through the yellow paw, far into the log beneath. With a snarl of pain and anger, the beast strove to withdraw its foot. But the upper log catching the head-post, it did not succeed, There was a hatchet lying in the crack above. Moan seized it, and with frantic strokes drove the spindle further into the log. At every blow the animal without growled and whined alternately, Johanna watched her brother, clasping her hands and shuddering. When she saw that all the beast's -efforts to release itself were futile, she gave a little ner- vous cry of relief. "Massy Ine, Mose 1" she exclaimed ; "hots can we uus get any sleep with that there leg a hokiia'to the bed kiver?' But she did go to sleep after a while, despite the dolorous noises with which the imprisoned animal testified to its dislike of these proceedings. Mose, how- ever, kept wide awake and watchful. He was more keenly alive to the pussi- ttie perils attaching to so dangerous a neiehbof. The dog remained cowed and subdued. Morning at length came, when, not• withstauding Joltanua's entreaties, Mose armed himself with au axe, and sallied forth to view Itis mysterious and half - conquered prisoner. He ' found, as he expected, a large panther clinging to the wall of the cabin, now deeply scarred by its claws in vain efforts to re- lease itself. It was still furious, though worried, and its eyes shone with a yellow flame. He dared not upproach it closely, so violent were its lounges at sight of the lad; so, takiug -.Johanna along• they trudged two miles to Jabe Whitipg's cabin. Jabe was not at hou.e, but u long rifle hung over the fireplace. Carefully loading it, Mose and Johanna started hack. Arriving at their home, they found the panther a good deal as they had left it, and the dog barking at the beast witit recovered courage. "Now, Jo," said Mose, resting Itis gun on the garden fence. "Now, Jo, you stand back. I'm aooiu' to take hint right ahiud the fore -shoulder. See if 1 don't." The brute Iunged frightfully, uttering a fierce scream as the bail flew true, then hung limp and struggling. ,Bose reloaded sial gave it manner soot, to niake quite sure ; then took off his hat and gave a youthful imitation of what alterward was known to fame as the "Rebel Yell." When his mother ar- rived, Klose was quietly skiuuing bis victim, with Johanua watching in dumu admiration. The bloody spindle and battered head-post leaned agaiust the cabin Wall. She looked at her children, at the dead pan, her, and filially at the much. valued spindle. Her first words characterized the contempt of danger and absence of petty solicitude wham the savage isolations of nhouutailr lite en- gender and encourage. "Good Lord, Mose 1" she exclaimed. "What have ve besu 'a-doiu' to my epinuiu' wheel?" Mose and Jahanna volubly explained, while Mrs. Boddle's mariner seemed to divide itself betweeu admiration of her bt ys pluck, gratitude at their escape, uhd censure of the reckless methods purr sued anent the spindle. 1 i,,: l,y, :iter giving each of her children a hug, si e delivered herself judicially, as folio WS "If hit weren't that this yere puut'es might have ketched the roan heifer as we ons driv dowu the gap,, I'd natclielly wear ye both plum out for touchiu' of that there wheel at all 1" And, gentlemen," concluded old Mose, eyeing the ancient hide affection- ately ; "she was u woman us p'intedly meant jest what she said. She'd 'a' put the wood on me, shore, if I hadn't 'a' had that there punter to show for nhoinmikin up her spinout' wheel 1"—W. P. Brown. What Becomes of Freak's. The physical lives of most freaks, like their professional careers, are short. I'he fat people usually die of apoplexy, and it is a good thing, too, for many of thein suffer more than the public itnagines. The giants and dwarfs gener- ally live longer than their fellow curi- osities, but, no !ratter how good .they may be iu their line, they become worse than useless as soon as they can no longer make themselves attractive in appearance. Ouly the other day I came across one of the most noted pro- fessional giants of his day—second only to the great Chang himself in statue— along Sixth avenue between the boards of a sandwich advertisement of a cheap restaurant. It is only a few months since one of the leading fat men in the business fell ill and lost his flesh. As a result, he is now driving an ice wagon in Brooklyn. When on the road, he received as much as $50 a week. So, again, one who some few years back was accounted the most noted long- haired woman in the country is now working for $10 a week, addressing wrappers in a mailing agency on the west side. She used to get 370 a week in the days when she was a star, but there are so many better heads of hair than hers in the market now that she can't get employment as a freak any longer,—Lip. pincott. stopped a Leak With Sawdues. To stop the leakage of a boat by the use of sawdust appears at the first sug- gestion ridiculous. It is a common method, however, employed by back- woodsmen of the Adirondack region. Otto day last summer a party having considerable baggage discovered upon loading it into a scow at the end of one of the regular "carries," that the boat leaked badly. To delay for repairs would occasion considerable annoyance and without repairs to proceed seethed im- possible. At this juncture one of the guides said : "I think I can fix it. Just um load the boat again." This was done, and then the guide brought from a saw- mill near the spot a quantity of sawdust. This he sprinkled thickly upon the water on either side of the bo ,t. "Now," continued he, "lod"d" up again." This was done, and when the weight again sank the boat the influx of water through the sides and bottom sucked in the sawdust, which finally accumulated in the crevices, swelled under the action of the water and actual- ly stopped the leakage, —New York Herald. .� CITY MYSTERY. • ' My friend Brack e n, the detective, had been overdue several days. When things were normal he dropped iu once a week, but iii the coursed our long in- , timagy I Beard his light knock and saw his gentle, Melancholy fee° in the door- way ninny and many an odd and unex- pected time. Ten days had now gone 'by without a 'visit, and 1 was beginning t0.wonder what could have happened, when he appeared one evening and dropped into a chair with a sigh. "Where have you been this age?" I asked, as soon as he was seated. "In the Great Desert," said the, look- ing gravely into the fire, "Nohsense," said L "Wake up 1 There hasn't been time for you to get so far Aas to Gibraltar singe I saw you last. "I meant the Great Desert of Lon- don, • The Sahara is the Great Desert of sand ; London the great Desert of Man." "My dear Bracken," said I, briskly, "do drop that philosophic tone and come down to earth* and facto. What have you been doing ? Running a murder to earth in Westminster or stopping an eloping couple at Queenstown?" "Neither," said he, shaking himself up, "I have for the past week or more been on a private job—A_ City case, Last Friday week," he continued after a long pause, "I was sent for by Mr. Edward Merrick, junior partner of Merrick & Co, and son of Alexander ner, MOITlck, the senior and only other part - "The business house of Merrick & Co. is iu Mincing Lane, But I was invited to call at the private residence of young Mr. Merrick,iu Thompson's Road. Young Mr. Merrick is about thirty-five, and married. His father is between sixty and seventy, and a widower, " 'For some time back,' said young Mr. Merrick when I saw him, 'we have been very uneasy about my father. When I say "we," I mean the family, which consists of my aunt, my wife,and myself. 'Up t0 about three years ago I knew all my lather's business. He and I were on the most intimate terms possible. He reposed unlimited confidence in me, and • I had no secrets from him. He was the soundest and most steady -going rnan of business itt London, and the very last you would suspect of going into hazardous' speculations. The business was then in a flourishing condition. Never had it been better, never even so good. " 'My father aud I are now the only partners. Until lately the always kept plenty of money in band, together with a large reserve. My father owned,as his private fortune. about a hundred thou- sand pounds, invested in firstclass se- curities. He was as cautious of where he put his own money as the most careful trustee with the money of another. 'At the date 1 speak of about three years ago, a serious financial panic seized the Ciiy. A period of overtrad• "'FOR SOME TIME BACK 1' SAID YOUNG MR. MERRICK WHEN I SAW HIM." ing and wild speculation had ended in disaster. Houses of great re- spectability and standing cane down like bubble companies, and even sober - going traders were filled with apprehen- sion and consternation. " 'Up to that dreadful crisis I knew everything about my father's private af- fairs—where every shilling was invest- ed. In the middle of that crisis, a great change 'came over the ,old -.man, He grew taciturn and morose. He with- drew his confidence from me all at once, and from that day to this has told me no more about his private money nat- ters than you have told me about yours, Mr. Bracken. I have indirectly learned much. I know, for instance, that he converted all his first-class securities into cash. 1 have no idea what he has done with the cash. He has drawn large sums out of tho business, more than it can well afford, and now he has given notice of a further withdrawal— one which would cripple, if not ruin the firm altogether. "'In addition to our other uneasiness about mt father, I must tell you that he seems to have completely changed his nature. He used to be the most hos- pitable and liberal man in'his house; he has turned close, not to say mean and stingy. I want you if you can to find out what my father has done with hie money. You are not investigating the business of uhy partner, but the un- accountable and distressing conduct of a father for whore I would put down my last penny—tny life, if necessary. I want you to do nothing but to bring me some news which will put my mind at rest, or at worst which will let me know what is going on.' •" 'And,said I, 'have you no suspicion at all of what became of the money? "'Well,' said he, with a look of great distress, 'I can think of nothing at all, except that my father has in his old age taken to a vice never indulged in when be was young—gambling. If he isn't losing money on Dards, on dice, or horses, where cau it bo going? You will, I hope, Mr. Bracken, conduct this in- quiry with the greatest possible delicacy and secrecy. I would not for all the world that my poor governor knew any- thing of it.' "I promised to be more than usually careful, and having obtained a few par- ticulars to start with, I bade Mr, Ed- ward Merrick good -by." "And you have, Bracken," said I "found out the heart of the mystery, and Mr. Edward Merrick thanks Heaven he fell into the bands of such an acute and discriminating detective?" "1 have found out the old man's secret, and it isn't gambling, and none of the money has been lost ; and yet I think Mr. Edward Merrick would sooner every penny had gone into the Thames or the hands of the croupiers at Monte Carlo than that' had to make the report I did on his father," said Bracken in a tone of reproof. "Well, well," I said in a soothing tone, "don't be angry with me far my levity, I did not know that aur story; Wan to `base a 00.10 end. , The• did man hasn't had two wives, bus he ? I'ie isn't locked up now for bigatny ?" "He id not licked up now, but he is very likely to ne locked up soou, al. though I found no trace of a second wife, or even of one, barring the one lie buried years ago." "I will guess no more," I said peni- tently, "aud I um most auxious to hear you out." "Young Mr, Merrick had given the the name of his father's private bankers and his stockbroker, and the first strange thing I found out was that when the stockbroker sold stock for Mr. Alexander Merrick, he, at the request of the old man, always paid bion by nu open check. I found out that these checks were cashed across the counter, by cid MnMerrick, and that the money was never passed through his own bank." "That looks very fishy," said I. "But the man could not have been swindling himself," "No. Ile was not swindling himself or anybody else. The money is all in one of the strong rooms of, the Steel Safe Co., and old Mr. Merrick is mad—a monomaniac, He is quite sane on every other point but that of the security of money. When the great crashes took place in the City years ago the old man's reason must have got unhinged. Any- way, he now thinks there is no safe place for money but the strong room, and when his secret was found out lie became violent and had to be put under restraint in his own house. lt's about the queerest case I ever bad," said Bracken, as he rose and bade me good- night. CHICAGO'S STEEL CHIMNEYS. They Ai•e Much Ueod eu the Sky -Scraping Buildings. The steel chimney has been extensive. ly used in the coustruction of iuodern tall business structures in Chicago in place of the usual brick chimney, says the Railroad Gazette. Its use is the re. sult of the adaptation of plana to peculiar local conditions limiting foundation work in Chicago.•° The first chimney of this class to be built in a tall building was used in "'file Fair," a building for a department store, designed to cover one- half a block. It is situated on Adams street, trout Dearborn to State streets, extending back to the alley, and is 16 stories high. Froin Mr. W. L. B. Den. ney, of the firm of Jenney & Mundie, architects of the building, we learu that they were willing to place only 8500 pounds per square foot on the clay, which is of great depth and compressible. The footings required for the tall building covered the entire lot over large areas and in- cluded the space under the sidewalks, so that there was no room for the footings of a brick chimney. Therefore, a chimney of lighter materia! than brick was necessary, and the steel chimney naturally suggested itself. In looking over the works on tall chimneys at hand the architects found an extensive use had been made of the steel chimneys, particularly in the steel works at Steel- ton, Pa., where they had proved emi- nently successful. The question natural- ly arose, if a steel chimney was the best under certain conditions outside of a building, why not within. Calcula- tions were made and it was found prac- tieablo to secure foundations for a steel chimney which was erected and proved a success in every particular. It was very much lighter, occupied less space and was less costly than a brick chim- ney. .Through the building the chimney is surrounded by the partitions. The space between the partition and chimney is used for the ventilation of the base- ment. Old Edinburgh Ltus, In 1729 an Edinburgh dealer adverbs. ed in The Courant: "Neat Claret wine at 11d., strong at 15d., white wine at 12d., Rhenish at 1.0d., old !tock at 20d.— all per bottle." Cherry sack was 2s. 4d. per pint, and English ale 4d. per bottle. Among the poorer classes twopenny ale was this lignor most in vogue. Dinners were charged at moderate rates. Iti the middle of the eighteenth century a promiuent lawyer dined daily along with a friend in the Lawmarket for "twa groats and a piece," as they ex- pressed it. A groat was equal to four - pence. After dusk 'the adventurous stranger who wanted to see real life iri Edin- burgh could dive into one of those dark subterranean cellars, which were the "howffs" of judges, of literary men, and of the leading citizens. There, surrounded by a jovial company, he could sit fu' snug O'er oysters and a dram o' gin Ur haddock lug. Ile could regale himself at a dainty eupper— a bit toasted cheese. A crumb o' tape, ham, dish o' peas; The Beason fitting, An egg, or caller free the seas, A fleuk or whiting. For the moderate expenditure of six- pence he could enjoy an excellent sup- per with such appetizing fare as tripe, rizzared bad docks, prince collops, wnsh- ing it down with that luscious brew, Edinburgh ale, or more potent toddy. — The Gentleman's Magazine. The Flow of Sollhts. A cube of lead, steel, stone or ice,plao- ed on a solid surface, submitted to h suf- fiicient pressure or loaded with a suffici- ent weight, "flows" sideways just as if it were a block of plastio ciay. The only difference is that clay flows under its own weight, while steel requires an immense pressure in order to "flow" in its solid state. As to ice, it stands be- tween the two—much nearer, of course, to the former than to the latter, if both are -taken at ordinary temperatures. A thickness of a few hundred feet, or a corresponding load, would be quite sufficient to make it "flow," though remaining solid, even over a quite hori- zontal floor, and to behave in its spread- ing over the floor like a lump of plastic mud, provided its temperature is but a few degrees below zero. This is the net result of Tresca's epoch-making experi- ments on "the flowing of Bolide" under pressure, and those experiments have been fully confirmed as regards ice by the experiments of Helmholtz, Pfaff, and especially those bf the Bologna pro- fessor, Bianconi,—The Nineteenth Cen- tury. The Conscientious Editor. New Edlt-o•—I though you were a practical printer. Old Compositor—I am. New Editor—You've set up interro- gation points where their ought to be periods, Old Compositor—But J< thought all your statements were questionable. $114 'bat, TIIe niad�°wlto gets Mad at wharf the nlewspapere..esy about klm ihoul4 return. thanks three tittles a 4ay ter What the newspaper know about hull and don't esy, - The markets :--Egge have a settl'i> tendency, hops are inclined to rise, and butter is devotoping unexpected strength, "He has no more influence," said s certain wit of an acquaintance, "h6 has no more influence than monis," 'p' in u. "I fear," said the postage stamp, when it found itself fastened to a love- Ictter, "that I'm not sticking to facts." • Mots to the Cook. In beating the whites of eggs for meringue or frosting, do not add the sugar until the egg is atiff, When there is not time to ice a cake, remember that its appearance may bo greatly improved by dredging the top with a little powdered augur. To cut fresh bread so that it may be presentable when served, hest the blade of the bread knife by laying first one side and then the other across the hot stove. Always keep a jar of cracker dust on hand for breading, or else save up all pieces of bread, and once a month dry them in a bag and pound until fine. For rabbit pie the rabbit should be cooked as for stew, the gravy thickened, and the whole put into a deep dieb and baked with a top crust and stripe around the sides, as beefsteak pie is rnade. Ilere is the correct way to atone raisins : Free the raisins from the stems and then put them in a bowl. Cover thein with boiling water and let them stand for two minutes. Pour off the water, open the raisins, and the. seeds can be removed quickly and easily without the usual stickiness. Rabbit may be stewed in the same manner as chicken in fricassee. It should always he cooked in stock and have a strip of salt pork cut into dice to flavor it properly. The English add spices in which mace is the pre- dominating flavor, but care must be exorcised iu the use of this, for it ie objectionable to many. Rabbits may be prepared for roasting in much the same manner as poultry. Then stuff' it with sausage meat and a dreesieg made of parsley, bread crumbs, or whatever you would prepare for a turkey or chicken. Sew the rabbit together, place stripe of bacon over back and bako in a moderate oven, basting frequently. It should be served with red currant jelly and nicely browned. Cycling for Worthen. Sir 13sujainin Ward Richardson, w h ,se opiniou ou the subject is entitl- ed to weight, holds that women can in- dulge in cycling just as safely as men, and, moreover, that the exercise is of great use ie healthy women. It secures a quick and sure cultivation of the senses; it supplies a good and salutary Muscular exercise ; it causes a fine expansion of breathing; it causes the lungs to inhale pure air; it quickens the circulation, and brings to the mind a free and wholeflome change of scene,, which is a most admirable tonic to the depression incident to sedentary monot- ony. For all ordinary purposes -ofcyc- ling Dr. Richardson considers that bicy- cles are perferable. Ladies mount and dismount them with more ease and grace than sten, and, moreover, they cause less vibration than the tricycle; Last- ly, the dress is better arranged on the bicycle than on the tricycle : there is Tess risk of the folds of the dress being caught in the wlieels, and lees resist- ance from the wind, Twenty-five miles is a thoroughly good day's ride fore even an accomplished female rider on a moderately good roar -7' It is good for women, as it is for men, to dis- mount occasionally and walk, and it is always good for them to do so when they are climbing long and steep hills. Tho change of movement btings lib sots of muscles into play, and saves strain on the muscles of respiration. * * * In trainiug, and ever after- ward, girls should be taught to sit erect on the scat or saddle, and always to have the dress perfectly free around the waist and chest. Tho ankles ought also to be free, and the dress sufficiently short to allow the move- y� ment of the feet to be untraralneled. A paragraph appeared recently in a despatch from Montreal stating that a French-Canadian family there had been poisoned by eating canned tomatoes. Dr. Jette made an in- vestigation of the matter and found the a portion of the contents of the can had been partaken of on February 21. No evil effects followed from this, but the remainder was consumed the next day, with the result that all those who partook of it were seized with sickness, The investigation showed that a brass spoon had been left in the tomatoes over night, and that the deleterious substance was the verdigris produced by this. In connection with this case it may be said that housekeepers should make it a rule when they do not use the whole of a can of itny preserved article not to leave it, in the ra.n, but to empty it into a glass or crockery dish. RIIRIIMATIAM CURED IN A DAy.—South American ahenhnntic Cnre, for Ithennintism end Neuralgia radically cores in 1 to 8 days. Its action upon the syetom is remarkable end myatnrinus. It removes at oneo the caned and the dlaoo,e immediately die appears. The first dose greatly tenons. 75 tenth Seidl), Waite & Co., Doggiest.