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Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-11-07, Page 7A COSTLY BARNYARD. Ghat About James Stinson's Ohioo g° Establishment. A HAMILTONIAN% FAT HORSES. Sights to be Seen on Drexel Avenue. ' • (Chicago News.) eseseseeeeeeeeeMtteeseeleedown Drexel boulevard hourly, and eiic e ve throng the flower -bordered driveways all day long,°but'few of the passing multitude know even the names of thoee who are so fortunate as to poeseB8 the beautiful man- sions which olneter in this meet aristocratic portion of the city. As one comes up from the region of Jagknon Park one of the residences which first attraot notice is the large brick men - i• I happened to be near the railroad M u.e time. and catching and reoognizing the horse,•I drove her bsok to the home. ' Well, ie this your horse, Mr. Stinson?' I aeked, as I reined up in front of him." "' Well, I believe it does look something. like one of mine. Bow did yon come to be with it young man ?' " " 'She was running away, and I caught her down by the railroad and brought her back.' "' Was she running or trotting ? " She was trotting,I replied. "' Trotting naturally ?' " I told him she wee, and he got up, brushed off hie troneers, end remarking. �i:1767.. r1 0C-Liii- {t r #1CL4W G= -J i:t 1;,IFS r' �J�i�it`i started for another drive without a word of thanks." Notwithstanding his peculiarities Mr. Stinson is, in a quiet way, very liberal,. and many a worthy charity baa received sub- etantial evidence of his benevolence. Some Practical Hints. The following practical bon but nevertheless imposing, which stands on the northwest corner of the boulevard and 50th street. It is the home of B. D. Few - ler,. President of the Anglo-American Pro- vision Curnpeny and one of Chicago's wealthiest ottizr The groAnds are athe- tie in their arra gement, but perhaps no portion of the establishment . is more attractive than the very extensive conserv- atory, which, glittering' among the trees and shrubbery enrmouuting it, is' as plc turesque a bit as one .can find in a day's journey. And the interior fay neeeete the espeotallons of the visitor who has viewed the place from the outside. The rarest plants from distant climes mingle their perfumes with our own fair roses and other fiowere, lovely in their very commounees. An expert flower gardener has the place in charge, and, with a mope of assistants, keeps his glass -roofed province in a state oloaely bordering on that of the beautiful Eden. One of the oldest houses on the boulevard is that of H. P. Darlington, on the west side of the driveway, near 47th street! Among ehe *Sieve buildings of brink and atone surrounAing it this wooden structure, with ite quaint tower end pointed gables, seems to have strayed into its present situ- ation like a memory from the olden time. Despite the numerous mate of paint which adorn it, the dwelling shows its age, with. out showing any sign of decay ; and with its meseive tree oompanionu' end old-time surroundings it serves to show the Chi- cagoan to day how Chicago appeared in the RO8INA VOYE8 AND NATURAL FLOWERS. No Artificial /flowers. for Bier, li nessThough the Others are $1 Apiece. With the death of 'her mother, to whom she wait fondly attached, one of Rosins Vokes' pretty little fancies . will inevitably be laid aside. Mra. Olay, as Miss Vokes is in earnest though not in play, is very fond of housekeeping and general " mussing." When she first went into aammer quarters at No. 253 Fifth avenue, folies Vokes bethought herself of those wonderful minis - wee kitohen£r, oonteining ohafing_t1igh end tins of all kinds set on a'big tray. To 0o k with one of these is just about messy and ehe flew into the Woman's Exchange on Fifth avenue, followed by her grim Abigail, and bought one. As long as she was in the room the eye of every woman was upon her, upon " Bproggs " the dog; and upon the wonderful pink rosea in her bat. When ehe went out some one spoke of them, ouch :big, unnatural roses : " I should hardly think she would wear Behold notes them, when you can buy each lovely ones]" .. ing could have been more real than those Amerioan beauty ro..eee, worth $1 each.. It is Miss Vokes who " wonders how any one can wear artificial flowers on hat or gown when real ones oan be bought so pheap 1" atare�ee� s r :.=mi1.c.-rRa;c rr g Flowers will remain fresh for a fortnight if a little carbonate of soda is mixed with the water. Flood the wastewater pipes every week with boiling water, and 000esionally with a not sotuttur, of sal soda. Railed wall paper oan be improved some what by rubbing carefully, in short strokes' with a soft old flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal. Silk articles should not be Iv pt folded in •.vhi.te papere, as the chloride of lime used in bleaching the paper'will impair the Dolor of the eilk. Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine will take paint out of clothing, even ii it be herd and dry. Saturate the spot as often as necessary and wash out in weep ends. Whole cloves will exterminate the in- dustrious and merciless moth. They bre more effectual as a destroying agent thea either tobeeoo, camphor or cedar shav- ings. If there are any suepicioiis•ot carpet bugs do not have a carpet relaid until you have wet the cracks of the floor for a distance of a fact or snore from the aides of the room with the solution of corrosive sublimate, and the edges of the carpets with benzine aatl carbolic acid, Ticks or ocmfortables should always be token apart ; the covers washed, and the 'cotton thoroughly sunned end aired. They ehould afterwarde be retied. Washing " need -to wee." oc':.'0D1---1 tn,.,g.rendere ixhgast nd�irn� NNW YORE'S " LITTLE GERMANY." Oharacteristica of the Teutonic Colony on the East Side. To 'most New Yorkers the tenement house dietriot on the East side is almost as unknown as it it were a tbonstanct miles away inetead of at their dcore. In f+at, the only times that that section of the oily comes before their attention is when e murder or fire which occurs there is described in the newspapers, or when an appeal is made for funds to carry on religions or charitable work there. Yet the East side is an interesting place to visit; although in the hot months it is hardly ,;?•n...c^`P;a,,""`V„m`7F't_''a.°,,'b`'t,�:•?I7!?Y" .r9y.'...v...,._M: Tribune. That part of it which liee, say, between Houston and. Fourteenth streets, is almost es German ae if it were situated in the " Vaterland." There ere German ohurohee, German shape, German restaurants, Gar man people, German everything. The people, many of them, wear clothing that they brought with them to this country, the costumes which attraot most attention The Ingredients. Judge; In a nosy little cellar ou the east side of the Dwells Dee genius who concocts the ye'luw freeze. - He's a quint sort of fellow. and you never wrgtid suppose Be could ever kidlet'e system try to tease. But could you stand beside him as he poises up the dose And See the base ingredients by the ream, '1 You'd agree with me from wayback that he never was she man To be truatt wi h"creation of ice-cream. First he takes some corn -starch screeniugs rota the Maker in the block, And amOgaivates with glucose with a spa ‘IP, Then a gaau ity Sufficient of the skimuteet kind Wns dws,�, . +t`v -^.::orf.,.. -r..r-^Y,^' 4,, rc+^.x:rs.;c , . •,z.,; �r7 il•��,h .f� , ,; �lh of—Yellow ooli a ort a �ha o : ,a p no o y w r Now a passe, weary lemon for the flavor weepa its tears, And the whole refrigerated makes a dream That will make the'esger youngster ellen be puts away the stuff, Double up and softly bellow, " Ob, I sereaui!'' WIVES DREAM 011 BL1.-S. The Hitchen Will Be i aniahed from 1'i« homes—A Co-operative Trluwyb. ts� NIIT-BERING TREE*. ` The London Free Friss recommends the planting of oheetuus, black walnut, butter- nut and shell bars; hiokory treee. It is not necessary to take up much land as theee trees may be planted for shading roadeidee and pesturee, instead of other trees. The only objection that can be urged against their being grown along the roadside or .on e, pactnro some disti nce from the house ie that the fruit may be stolen. Very little of this would thus be loet if their owners would piok up all the fallen nuts under the trees at sundown, at the time of ripening. Strangers ascertaining this would not visit the trees, and the neighbors who did not grow them would pay, the eame respect as in the ease of apples, pears or peached. /Beeidee, the double purpose of planting nut-bearieg trees for shade and shelter, there are large tracts of land, such as bar- ren hills end hillsides that it would pay to plant for the orop of fruit alone. Cheetnnte eel' now on our markets at $4 to $4.50 per bushel, and hickory nuts es $2.50. Our contemporary says that whether for the valve of the fruit, or the timber, or for the uses that theee nut -bearing trees are as shades and shelter to the orops and enimale, tree planting offers one of the tee. most profitable investments that an Ontario farmer oan make. In a few years millions could be added to the wealth of the Province in an abundance of satee,ble fruit, e steadily-inoreasing lumber eupply and oereal crops through shelter and protection. To show what an extensive trane is done in chestnuts in one of the adjoining States, Connecticut, we quote from en exoteenge, which says " eheetnuts are plentiful now in all the markets, and the shipping of the ante to the big city maria is in trill tide. The price paid to the pickers for chestnuts is $2 a •bushel, and it takes fide pee aii—to make a who]esalter' bushel, so. the retailers say. Not much care is taken in sorting the nuts, and worms count equally with meat in the nuts.' The nuts aro ebipped in barrels to Boston and New York, and three bushels make a barrel of them. They cost the shippers $7.25 a barrel—$6 for the oheetnnta. 25 Dents for barrel, $1 for expressage. The amount of chestnuts ebipped from Hartford daily in the season averages about fifteen or twenty barrels. The New York wholesaler gets $8 or $9 a barrel, and the auction price in the metropolis is about $10: At 10 cents a pint for roasted ohestnute the consumer buys at the rate of $6.40 a bushel. In the country every grocer, and"oven the country, postmaster, who also Bella groceries, . takes chestnuts in exchange for meate and gro• caries." - Fall is the best reason for transplanting treee, as farmers are not so driven with work then es in spring, and taken up_ as, coon as the leaves are' first touched with frost, or beginning to be shed from the branches, the roots will get a considerable growth before the ground freezes suffi- ciently deep in winter to prevent this. • Across theon evar rom a er ing- abet, and should Duly be resorted to with ton plate, nestling between two towering bedding which ie quilted, and the sooner mansions, etande a curious, one. story little we cellae altogether from making such the affair which invariably attracts attention. better. If there are cockroaches or ante to annoy you, sprinkle a mixture of equal parts of powdered borax end sugar around their haunte, after cleaning them out thoroughly. If you will examine closely around the back yetpd, you will, no dobt, find the breed ing places of ante, and by pouring boiling hot water or kerosene into the hills, you `wrt1-fin-d-prevention easier than onre. It is of red pressed brick, without windows, equsre, and with an almost fiat roof, and oan be construed by the imagination into anything from an foe -house to a prison cell. It is nothing more or leen than a private art gallery, belonging to Charles E. Gifford, the Board of Trade man, whose residence is just north of the curious -looking etrnc- inre. —T'ie dlegeAce-of--wtnooweegiuea-epac4 for the hanging of the artist's work, and light is obtained through glass in the roof. The collection is a fine one, ranking among the beet pcivate art galleries in the city. - The entire block between Drexel --bonle_, yard and Cottage Grove avenue, and 44th and 45th streets, is taken up with the buildings and grounds of Jamas Stinson, President of the Terra•Cotta Lumber Com. 'pony, gnu formerly of Hamilton Ont. This place is the wonder of all who see it. That a man, no matter bow weelthj; ehould use' ae a door yard a. piece of property, worth close to $500,000 is something not readily understood. But the proprietor thoroughly understands it himself, and that is all that is neoesea;y.' Mr. Stinson isabou',55 yeare of age, and hie neighbors say . he is'eooen- trio. Hie hobby is trotting horses, and for the gratification of his love for that porton of the animal kingdom the wealthly old gentlemanhetiturned his.expeosive pro party into a stock farm; and right in the centre of nue of the most fashionable reeidenoe portions of the city he raises ' ooltsand calves, cheerfully indifferent .to the fact that the ground upon which his pets sport and graze is worth hundreds of. dollars per egoare •foot. The mansion which stands in the centre of the grounds is old-fashioned, and could hardly have been said in ite beat days to • be • an architectural triumph, but the .house apparently is the least considered;: portion of .= Mr. Stineon'e establish- ment. He is unmarried; and with him lives a w'd wed sister end two children Back of the use clusters a collection c f barna, stabte� and graneries which would drive the average farmer wild with envy, An extensive brick steble farnishee eocom modatioa tor the more blooded and arieto- cratio of !'r,. Stinson's horees and. cattle, while those more plebaiau in their standing occupy stables less pretentious. About a hundred horses, brood mares and colts are oared for by a force of fifteen or twenty mere,' and eeve:ral fancy bulls and cows lend their influence to the collection. Moat of the horses,are of trotting stook, and some of them are rather feat. One in particuldr, the young stallion Nutmeg (record 2.19), by Nutwood (record' 2.18i), and ethers nave records pretty well Down. Mr. Stinson devotes his entire time to the care of bis stock, On pleasant tiayabe begine early in the morg and drives all day long, first one horse, hen another. His men, on suck 000aeion s, ave the next horse in order in readiness, and when the old gentleman re turns from one drive he steps from his sulky into the ono in waiting, and away he goes for another spin. i ,The park policemen are all well an- gaainted with him, and are kept busy puff• ing along after Mr. Stinson, shaking their caries and ordering him to drive slowly; as he rips rocklesely along the driveways. .,�, Euuaways, ooll•isiona and emaeh-ups are ic),ery not unusual indidents -in the eccentric' , llioreoman's ctQtreer. " We frequently haw i '" �,;1`;y�s to rescue Mt?itStinson from perilous' posi,Ce, shit;, tions," said one of the gray•ooetoyt• ,l,t;e, guardians of the park system ; " did w fluter get atiy thanks for it, either. .Tat to show yon bow queer be is: Some tine ago he was driving a mettlesome you,,„ steed along here when it became frighten and started for ;Jackson, Park rather in, denly,leaving Mr. Stinson rolling itr Om I,.• 1) dust. Ho was unhurt; and pinking himkk ll he in feel tip, walked back to bis own gate, whereittp, and fourth eat down on the •sidewalk, evidently ex p(ittonth• (lnorl ing somebody to catch his horse and rele ting; A Wheel, Great Luck. ".And you mean to say that your trein massed the chasm where the bridge had burned without being wrecked ? Remark able I What kept it from going down ? " " As gcod luck would have it, just at that moment it was being held up by train robbers." - Tho Summer Gill a Back Number. New York Herald: Pack away my blazer, mother, Four in hands and vest ; Give my rmeets. to the waitress, Lay my bathic g suit to rest, Come and sit beside, me mother, Smooth the puckers from my brow, For the season's over, dearest Mother, I'm a chestnut now • Toni. Philadelphia assessment roll for 1890 shows that nearly $1100,000,000, worth of property is exempt from taxation. The total,asseseed vales, of exempt property in the city is $95,408,994, divided as follows : 609 Churches, assessed at $20,292,300; 341 cneritabie institutions, valued et $13 693,- 65v ; 161 public schools, aesessed at $4,456,- 00(1 ; 38 hospitals, assessed at $3,708,500 ; 68 cemeteries, valued et $2,359,500. Pro- perty belonging to the city of Philadelphia, eysseseed at $39,399,044, which inductee some, schoolhouses, police etatione, the public buildings, the, park, the engine- hiinses, eto. 1f to this is added the 510,- 000,000 worth of exempt property owned by the UnitedeStates Government and $1,600,000 worth controlled by the State of Pennsylvania, the aggregate is $50,899, 041 , This question of exemption will yet have to be rj; alt with in this country. By exempting one all the rest are as a rule hurt. Tun unfortunate individuals who fail to prizee in the now popular " word oom- i e.rstions " may feel interested in e portion of the annual report of the British Peatmasiet General. It says : The fashion of offering prizes for competitions of various kinds amongst the readers of news - ,papers and magazines gives rise to much corres- potidence'. On the 2nd May last year no lose ti -au 31,398 postcards were delivered at the office of one magazine, and at another office. about half -a -million postcards were delivered in a siregeo week, one delivery alone comprising MAC lettere and postcards, carried to the office of the magazine in two, vans. In another week as many as 118 0.0 letters wore delivered at tho °Moe \'w the n stip wW f one e. urns!, the postage alone amount - bout £1,000. Doubtless this will explain many candidates in these competitions way die appointed. clothes that fade over night in in which has been dissolved one f sugar of lead to a pailful of rain Burns, the rising English labor is a man of striking individuality. candidate for parliament. rinse of Wales left England Satur-, e a London dispatch, on a visit to iretoh, in spite of all the efforts e been made to prevent hie putting rian court n an awkard position ting hospitalities within the dominions of an Austrian subject sovereign does not receive. Several n membere of English eooiety are ay also to -Moravia. nr,en,.�,. wear dresses that hardjy reach their ehoe tops, just as they did in the Bavarian or Prueeian fields. - In the shops most of he signe are in German, end many eho eepere insist on trading with yon in their ative langfnage, and eeem astonished and little hurt on finding out that yon talk o ly English. In the bar -rooms. the Amerio style of taking one's drinks standing hoe ade some head. way, although there ares ill Teutons who hold it sacrilege not to sit down while emptying a mug of beer. All the characteristic Garman diehee, cooked in the style of the fatherland, are to he had in the restaurants. Ae in Berlin and Hanover, there are wiener cafes, whiuh testify to the high regard in which Ger- mans hold the Viennese methods of pre- paring foods end drinks. Many of these cafes have on file a large number of Ger- men periodicals, end others have ohees rooms in• which customers speed many hours at play. The fact that so many Germans live together is the reason why they become Americanized so slowly. If they were scattered among English-speaking people, they, would be compelled to learn the language, customs dna ideas of this coun- try. Wben a German's baker, butcher, tailor, preacher, shoemaker; neighbors and friends are ell his fellow countrymen, there is no great need of hia giving up the epeeoh and ways of his fatherland. dn't help getting .diad. Now, I you, if yon were I, wouldn't you " " I don't know es`I would be it if I were you, I should bo inex• ad." 1 England's Coal Supply. Who will say that our coal supplies are giving out ? Mr. Lewis, speaking at the meeting of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers in Nottingham, declared that if any enterprising ' person were to obtain permission of the Town Council of that femme historioal.town to sink a pit in their market place (we are told, by the way, that there ie " ample room ") he would assuredly come down upon the trip hard seam of coal, end that' at a depth probably not exceeding three hundred, yards. Mr. Lewis even tells us that " the whole thickness of the coal measures "' is there. This, if literally true, would mean that at -least for three thousand feet lower the shaft might go on sinking through seams 'of coal. For some years poet the Nottingham coal fields have been more and more developed ; but Mr. Lewis is of opiinion that we have as yet " little mare than touched the fringe " of the' great Nottinghem coal field. These vast unde- veloped reeoaroes will be there for dor' nee as the times require them, or as the smaller collieries at the outcrop of the coal in Derbyshire and Weat Notts become ex. ,haunted.—London Daily News. A 80,000 Cluster of Lights. • THE TItN COMMANDMENTS. tifefi f i i ltatefife : fee e' of sic operative enterprise is sweeping ov- West Poiiedelphia now, end seen honest keepiug may be oonduoted on the mat ra ,i plan. A circular was prepared lest v-etse by Dr. John Taylor, of No. 3,Ii9 Browia street, which is being handed or ,Led among the residents of that neigbtorete,cd for signatures, and as soon as a sufiieleut;ly larks number of names are atteuheu the central cooking -house will be established, and servants in private dwellinge will ht diem'iased. The following ie a ool•y of the circular which is being diattibuttd : " We, the undersigned, having forma.: a favorable opinion of the plan of co-oeera. tive hcnsekeepieg, hereby .exprsea ear willingness to help form an skit:m atiou ter that purpose when as many as ten famitea or thirty persons will agree to join it. 1i?o also agree to attend all the meetings neat u• eery to effect an organization of Olt How\Health May be Secured and Preerved- From a paper read by Dr. Redden, of Topeka, Kansas, before the Health Board of that State excite last meeting, the follow- ing excellent,iealth rules are taken : 1. Thou Shalt have no other food than at meal times. 2. Thou shalt not make onto thee any pies, or put into pastry the likeness of any thing that ie in the heavens above or in the waters under the earth. Thou ehalt not fall to eating it or to trying to digest it, for the dyaoepsia.wilLbe_visited_.upon the chil- dren to the,third and fourth generationof them that eat pie, end long lite and vigor upon those that live prudently and keep the law° of health. 3. Remember thy bread to bake it well for he will not be kept sound that eateth hie bread as dough. 4. Thou shalt not indulge sorrow or bor- row anxiety in vain. 5. Six days shalt thou work end keep thyself Olean, and the seventh day thou shalt take a great bath, thou, and thy eon°, and thy daughters, and thy man• servant, and thy maidservant, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days man sweats and gathers becterie enough for disease ; wherefore the Lord blessed the bath -tub and hallowed it. • 6. Remember the Bitting -room and bath. - chamber to keep them ventilated, that they day may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 7. Thou shalt not eat hot biealite. 8. Thou shalt not eat thy meat fried. 9. Thou ehelt not swallow thy meat un• chewed or highly spiced, or just before hard work or after it. 10. Thou shalt not keep late hours in thy neighbor's house, tor with hie cards, not' with hia gldee, ncr anything that is thy neighbor's. Baron James Rothschild, of London, hae. adorned his drawing -room with the most. superb electrolier ever made. It is, compoeed of gilt bronze and rook oryetal in a design ,of the time of Loafs XVI., eixty.eight electric lights being skilfully arranged among the bronze leaves. Tlw unique illuminator is about five feet high by twenty-eight inches in diameter, end :post $6,000. She—I hope yon do not remain in the parlor when your eider receives her fiance. He—No; 'cause I'm afraid of the dark. The other day a gentlemangaw a profes- sional florist watering hie plants in the hot sun, and in a surprised tone inquired if that wouldn't injnre the plants. " Why. no," was the answer ; " why not now, ? " " I supposed they had to be watered only at night," t said the atnatehr. " Do you drink only at night ?" asked the florist ; " are yen only thirsty after the Ann goes down?" r ._.. . Tomato Confections. A very delioione confection may be made Of tomatoes. The single, or pear-shaped tomato is the beat, for this purpose. Take six pounds of sugar to onepeck of the fruit ; scald and remove the skin, sprinkle the sugar over the tomatoes, end let Them stand two days in stone jars ; then; cook them in this juice until the sugar 'pens• trates, teed they look clear ; take them out, spread on dishes, flattening' each tomato, and dry in the sun ; a small quantity of the syrup shonld be occasionally epribkled over them whsle drying ; .when dry, pack them down in boXea with powdered Apgar between each layer. The syrup is cooked down and bottled for use. When treated in this way the flavor of the dried tomato is ,roach like; the best quality of fige.— Margaret Ryder, in Harper's Bazar. society." A number of names have already be a subscribed, and the promoters of the under- taking are very sanguine of scouring he signatures of a large proportion of tt e neighboring population. -Meetings are held weekly et the residence of Dr. •'a y tor, and a permanent organization had been effected. The association is in oommanioation with similar concerns in western oitiee, bat the Philadelphia system will differ sorc.e- what from all others now exietteg. • 'I ha idea ie not so much to • secure cheaper living es to do away with individne household work. At first the cook itt ohp-rge-cfthe central--oulnnar-y-; ..tsd4 ..3 rrent will purchase all provisione neces- sary, bite the needful help and collect from each family its proportion of the ex. peneee. The families will be oherg,rd according to•the number of persons es eh contains, special `.prices being mare fee babies and very small children. After the lapee of a few weeks the association v ill settle aeon a regular weekly rate:' Purchasing fuel end provisions in whole. axle quantities the aseooiation will buy at a mach lower rate than that charged, i. di- viduals. Families oan either take tittle ,nreeia-at-private tables -curtained. in.iio..tha in the mein dining -room of the Der. rr'el supply -house, or baye them served in their., own dwellings. The former place it tba one usually adopted, end can be carried on somewhat cheaper than the other. Speaking of the association and its future, Dr. Teyipr said last night : " if the pirate works, as we have no doubt it will, beee...tee having a central cooking -house, tin re will be established ' a laundry, elrctria light plant and house -heating appara:'.a. A gcod eyetem is to have one central supply -home for each egnare. 1 ha dwellings are built as usual, with the exception of the dining -room. They are built .ew,ay. from the .main structure mint along a covered aisle , leading from the ct:n- tral house to the middle of the four ewes of the square. The dining rooms are orfs etory structures, and they are oonneoe,dl with the main dwelling by little arohwatt:. Thus each family onto itt -its- own- dinrnf room, but is served` from the comment sopply.hone'e. ' Experienced hotel men tell us that three ,servants oan cook for forty familir s. It would require three more to dietriouta the meals. The laundry would not neees- sitate'the employment of more than three people. The' heating and lighting appar- atus is attended by a few laborers. Forty families thne diemiss at leant forty ser. vents, • and have their work done more thoroughly and better by a dozen." Know by Experience. Little Nan of bons summers, considering, it her duty to entertain a lady who is wait- ing for mamma, enters into con%'ereation : Nan—Have you got any little girls'? Caller—Yes, I have two. Nan—D•de you ever have to whip 'em. Caller—I'm afraid 1 have to, sometimes, Nan—What do you whip 'em with ? Caller (amused)—Ob, wheu they have been vary naughty I hake n'tya lippert. Nan (most feelingly as mamma entero{)— Y-yoyon ought -to use a hairbrush ; my mamma doe°, and•it hurts awfully. Hints to Hoesohoipers. To keep lemons, pot in • a glaeta'oan at d cover with cold water, ()hanging the water every week. . To prevent tin pats from rusting, rnh flesh lard on them, and set in `a hot eve n until thoroughly heated.. Whet mattreaaeet aro stained, take starch Wet into a. paste with roll watt r. Spread this on the :stairs fhtteputting the rnattress in the sun. In nn hour or two tub this off, and if net clean repeat the recces. 14: e bout Vegetarians. The vegetarians are without doubt the worst enemies of vegetarianism. for my- self, I am a very Small meat -eater. I def nor doubt that a large number of my fel- loH•oonntrymen would be both healtht..r end wealthier Were they to reduce, trehr butchered bills by, say about 75 perp' oe-ra. Birt whenever I direct low attention to the Wale, discussions or ntteranoee of vege.- teriane I become convinced of tho intimate connection between abstinence from fl. ds and weakness of intellect. This drive -e me back in alarm to my flesh -pot.. So it is doubtless with many others.—Londoaa Tru'],. A Memory Md. Gccd(ello—Here's yonr health, old fel. By the way, what is that knot in your handkerchief for ? ,Yellifello—Hem 1 That fete remind mo that I've sworn off. Goodfelle—But Sou just this minute took a drink. Joliifello—Le-s. Fact is, I never see the knot till J take out my handkerchief to t4 4317 my mouth. • ' The Jumbo of Mankind: John Haaenn Craig of Danville, Tod,, Undoubtedly the largest man the world was in,the pity today Mr. Ca Mg standees fe t .5 inches in his stockings, and weiehe ovrr 600 pounds,. He mteenree eight feet 1 ab fat the hips, wears No. 10 shoes, a 7t hitt a •ci a 7leglove. Pis father and mother w..re if medium eizt. He is a preat•great- grandson of ' Gov. Crittenden, the first Governor of Vermont. He is also a first cousin of William P Hepburn, et present i siliutter for the 1;etied Sotos Trottenry --- Mew i teed/lee fed , ••-•,tllar•titeenilleefed, Diepateh The czar of Rneet'a is the largest of all livintt landed proprre tore, oweir•g an estate ' whieb is yearly (Tirol in area t., $be whole of Fi a'eoe V 1 j4 • •