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I. ha men several plane of peeking eggs
to preserve them, publitilaed in the parrs,
bat have. never Men mine. I will give it
anci you own publisb, lt if you think it worth
pla,ce b your ealanana. Why eell eggs at
LOW Flee when. you eau save them for a
better price 7 Here ? Procure a wire egg
'basket, tint a kettle of water onthe stave,and
let it oonie W a boil; fill your baskea,with
eggs, and immerse them in the boiling water
five or six seconds or till you can count ten
(not too bat), then take them oat, let them
dry, and pack them down in oats with the
little end down to prevent the air that ie in
the yelk from working through the egp.
Then keep them in a cool, dark cellar, or if
you have no cool cellar pack in salt. The
:scalding cooks the skin in the shell and
closes the perm, excluding the air. I have
seen eggs thus treated carried through the
heat of summer and kept till Ootober, and
when taken upfor market in October, came
oat sound, bright and fresh as new laid
eggs, both outside and in. lianver Luce.
[It must be remembered that eggs thus
preserved cannot be sold for pity Uffe,—Ed.]
WHEN Docrons DissispzE,
)10143' either that farnaere can as little
awn Tie get blaistr hoPme mitt of abapo as
new, the tdowing kflANOO. being near fah haII(14
when every day'a wark May mean ;to many
dollars and oente,
Abdul AZIA.
Suiten Adbel,Azis had au undoubted pre,
disposition to insanity in hip blood; the mind
of his brother, Abdul-IVIecijid, wham he quo.
coded, had broken down r under hio excesses
while still a young man, and his nephew:
Murad,who succeeded him, boom() hopeleely
ini
sane mmediately after his acoession. Ho
had himself, to my own knowledge, been out
of his mind on several different °maidens;
the first time as far back as 1863, when I find
it mentioned in lettere that I wrote from
Athens, where I was on a special mission,
and on two later occasions within 18 months
of his aeposition I had spoken of his insanity
in my lettere to Lord Derby, reporting that
I had been told of it as an undoubted fact,
bv one of the Ministers with whom I was
intimate, and mentioning some of the
peculiarities by which it was exhibited. At
one time he would not look at anything
that was written in black ink, and every
document had to be copied in red before it
mid be laid before him, Itlinisters ep-
poitted to foregin Courts could not proceed
to their posts and were kept waiting mdefi
nitely, because their credentials addressed
to foreign sovereigns could not well be writ-
ten in red ink and he would not sign those
that were written in black. At another
time a dread of fire had got hold of him to
such a pitch that, except in his own apart-
ment, he would not allow a, candle or a
lamp to be lighted in fife whole of his vast
palace, its innumerable inmates being forced
to grope about in the dark from sunset to
sunrise; and in many other respects his
conduct passed the bounds of mere eccentri-
city. That such a mind as his should have
entirely given way under the blow that had
fallen upon him need hardly excite surprise;
and under the circumstances there is noth-
ing even improbable in the fact of his taking
his own life, especially as he was known to
hold that suicide was the proper resource
of a deposed monarch. When the news of
the abdication of the Emperor Napoloen
wall brought to him his immediate exclama-
tion, " And that man consents to live I"
When I first heard this story I did not
know whether to believe it, but the truth
was afterwards vouched forte me by the
person to whom the Sultan said it, and he
is not a man whose word need be doubted,
Sir Henry Ellett.
A medical man. writing to an English
contemporary on the subjeot of bees
differing from another correspondent,
who eaya "In the royal cell there is a
grub, but there is no life in it ; it is simply
a grub;" very correctly does so as followa ;
In the cells the queen deposits eggs,
which, after three or four claye are hatched,
a tiny worm or larva appearing.This larva
ID has life i
t. It, is attended
to by the nurses, who supply it with food,
and when it has increased to certain extent
in size, which it does veryrapidly, these
nurses close up the cell. The larva then
ceases to eat, spina itseelf a c0000n, and
changes into the pupa form. The next
change is into what is called the imago, and
then the perfect insect. All these transfor-
mations take place in about sixteen days
from the time the egg was laid. In the egg
life was latent, but in all the other forma
life undoubtedly exists. else these transfor-
mations could not take place. Bee -keepers
are, however, very familiar with larvm or
grubs, as your author calk them, •which
have no life in them, little to their profit.
One form of this is called chilled brood, and
is the result simply of cold ceasing the bees
to cluster closer together, leaving some of
the brood uncovered. The other form is
oalledfoul brood and is an infectious disease,
much dreaded by bee -keepers. In thisform'
the brood die, and when the cell is opened,
its bottom is found filled with a brown,
putrid, evii-smelling matter; while the
covers of the cella are depressed, and have
generally a hole in them, so that Clubs in
which there is to life are not profitable to
the bee -master.
CARE OF FOWLs.
The cheapest way of getting rid of lice
in the hen house is to dissolve a pound of
soap in a wash boiler of water. Let it come
up to a boil, add. one quart of kerosene, and
sprinkle, while hot, over every part of the
hen-bouse,
To make map. pills take one ounce a9.
saftetida, ten firms red pepper, twenty-five
drops carbolic acid„ half 'drachm sulphur,
setne.., drachm ground saffron and twenty
drops tincture of iron. Mix well, and if it
gets hard soften with castor oil. A pill as
large as a bean twice a day is sufficient.
For cholera add a teaspoonful of liquid
carbolic) acid to a pint and a half of water.
Mix their food with the water, and give the
fowls no other Water to drink. Cholera is
indicated bygreat thirst, greenish drop-
pings (changing to yellow and white color),
prostration, and a nervous, anxious expres-
sion.
Nosr.
On most farms a pound of chicken meat
may be produced at less coat than a pound
of perk, while to refined taste itis certainly
more acceptable.
Very early pullets of the laying breeds
not infrequently commence laying by the
middle of November, and it is ou these that
farmerkrely principally for winter egg's.
It is a fact that dogs seldom attack sheep
kept with cattle, unless in the case of some
old rogue, and then only when the sheep aro
found at considerable distance, for the in-
stinct of -the cattle is to attack animals
found chasing or worrying other stock near
them. •
There is no standard percentage of butter
as to milk. Milk varies in the amount of
butter it contains during the season. In the
autumn, when cows give less milk, the per-
centage of butter is twice as much as it is
when the flow is the greatest. Cows differ,
as it takes all the way from five pounds to
twenty-four pond s ofrmilk to make one of
butter.
In k -good fruit -growing localities, where
bare, yet fertile land, is worth one hundred
dollars an acre, fields set with fruit ready
to bear, are worth twice to four times that.
aunt Considering the increased value az
the land, the care whiehthe farmer bestows
on his newly -set orchard till it is ready to
fruit, pays him better than any other work
on the farm.
The failure of the potato crop 01 1887 was
the worstthat has befallen the country since
1881, when the average yield per acre was
only 535 bushels. The disaster is attributa-
ble to two causes, opposite in operation but
uniform in their ultimate result. The crop
in the Western States was stunted for want
of sufficient rain, and that in the Eastern
States was rotted bya surplus of it. 'The
Department of Agriculture places the area,
Of the Mop ill 1887 at'2,300))tt0 acres, and
the average yield per acro is about fifty-six
bushels, which is the smallest since 1881.
By a happy dispensation of Providence,
which occurred only six years ago, the orop
ID the United Kingdom and in Europe is ex.
&silent in quality and abundant in quantity.
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GOLD AS A CIVILISES.
Tkc lleinarDable Development of
Nita *Ina the Discovery of tile Vre011..
One IOW.
Remarkable ohmage,: are occurring in the
greet region in Soule Africa, nearly a third,
AS large as Eurote, which Sir Bartle Frere,
late Governor of Cape Colony, said was
well adapted to support an immerge white
population, The annexation f Beohuana.
land by Greet Britain ; the new and proton.
ing golkl fields, covering an unexpectedly
large area ; the roilroads from Cape Town,
Port Elizabeth, East London, and Durban,
that, penetrating far north, are already
kneoxing at the doors of the two Beer
States ; the frantic dismay of the Traziavaal
Dutch, who are draggling in vain against
the wave of immigration that is revolution-
izing their State •• the open advocacy by
that far-seeing satesman, Sir John Brand,
President of the Orange Free State, ot
confederation of tho South African States
•and colonies, which "will lay the founds.
tion of the rise and growth of our South
African nation," are among the signthat
this vast domain from end to end is begin-
ing to feel the thrill of a new life and of
great enterpriSeS that will prepare it for
a splendid future.
The auriferous fields of S ;nth Africa, are
giving the main impulse to the significant
ohanges now in progress. Across the entire
southern part of the continent, from . the
German territory in Namaqualand to the
Portuguese possessions on the mat coast,
stretches a gold -bearing belt with a north
had south width of from 400 to 700 miles,
Tho gold finds of the -past three years have
attracted 'the attention of the miners, capi-
talists, and economists of all lands. In the
report that our Government has just issued
on the production of the precious metals,
Prof. N. S. Shaler expresses the opinion that
Africa is the only continent whereeive may
now expect to discover:important fields of
gold supply, and that the "recent discov-
eriee in the Nebula portion of the contin-
ent give great promise of extensive produc-
tion." Prof. Newberry, while believing
that the surface deposits have 'been moseys
exhausted by the native population, says it
is quite possible that Africa has stores of
gold deeply buried in the earth which will'
form an important factor in the future his-
tory of gold, and which " for centuries may
help to keep up the world's needed supply."
It is these mineral veins, buried deep beyond
the reach of barbarous miners,' and stretch-
ing across the southern part of the Transvaal,
that in the past two years have drawn 20,-
000 white men to the Boer republic and made
the Ce Ks ap valley and the Witwatersrand
'famous.
• The Boers regard their mineral riches as
a curse instead of a Weaing. Years ago
President Pretorius said that if there was
ever a rush to the gold fieldof the Transvaal
the fate of the Boer republic would be seal-
ed. More recently President Kruger has
told his countrymen that, though they had
beaten the natives and held their own
against the English, their supremacy might
yet pass away before an influx of gold hunt-
ers. These gloomy ferebodings, seemon the
point of realization. Three years ago there
were seven Boers to every white foreigner
in the South African republic. The present
ratio of the white population is one:foreign-,
er to three Boers. The immigrants are
mostly male adults, and if permitted to
rote they are clamoring for the rights of
ciizeuship, and it is not possible that these
new property holders, constantly increasing
in number, can much longer be disfranchis-
ed. Pretoria has ceased to be the chief
town of the republic. The mining towns of
Barberton and Johannesberg are both more
populous, wealthier, and better built than
the capital of the Transvaal. The Boer
herders near the mining regions are selling
their lands and are moving north, into
regions unpolluted by thepreaence of the
miner. •
Her treaty obligations and the comity of
nations have pro. ented the Smith African
republic from excluding these new corners
from her territory, but President Kruger
seems to have done what he could to repress
them, though they are already the largest
taxpayers in the republic. He has failed in
hia attempt to induce the Orange Free Sate
to permit no Cape Colony railroad to ap-
proach the Transvaal boundary through that
State, and to raise a joint military force to
enable both States to treat the miners as
aliens and prevent them from taking part
in the Goverrin-ent. The' Caps Colony
branch of, tbe Afikander Bund has warned
Kruger that he will base its friendship and
support if he persists in his customs policy,
which hasstop.ped the importation of Cape
produce, and m his opposition to railroad
exteinsion. The fact is the slow,:unpro.,
gressive Boers, loving isolation, not yet full-
fledged agriculturists, but still in the pas-
toral stage, are poorly adapted to live con-
tent or to maintain their supremacy amid
the bustle of a largo and energetic populace
i
Every sign now ndicates that in the rush
to their gold -bearing hills, in the scramble of
England and Germany to seize upon and
make the moat of the natural advantages of
South Africa, and lathe irresistible pressure
of population and improver:Mute, the Boers,
who in both their republics number only
20,000 souls, are destined to lose their
im-
portanco as a predominating political infiu.
ence. This will be done, not necessarily by
subverting their Governments, but by now
principles at stake and new men at the
helm, all legally called upon the stage of
adieu by the voice the ruling inajority.
The existing roilroads have already
brought the Transvaal gold within twenty-
four days of London. There can be no
doubt that before many years South Atria
will possess the oounterpart of our Pacific;
railroads in the extettion of the Cape Colony
and Natal lines to the road now building
from Dolgoa Bay. Thee° ^line, passing
through the gold belt and connecting two
:seas, are not the only railroad projects that
are likely to be tarried out at no distant
day. Colonial statesmen are Continually
talking of txtending the railroad from Kim-
berley through Bechuanaland to Khama's
Country, where some of the latest discover-
ies of gold have been made, a region that
Sir Charles Warren described as maghifi.
cent for raising cattle and fareffilgr and
that Mr. Mackenzie, who had lived there
twelve years, Says is one of the • Bacot parts
of South Africa. A brighttutureis dawning
for South Africa, and the impetus which is
being imparted to all its materprises by the
recent discovery that it poriseasea the largest
unworked gold -bearing area in the world, is
hastening the day when this great region of
temperate climate and rich and varied re-
murecis will be fitted to be the home of a
mighty, energetic, and homogeneous people.
Old Leap -Year Laws.
It is commonly supposed that leap year is
an invention of the playful mind, and that it
never had a more serious existence than it
now has in the acts of those sportive young
people who give leap -year parties to which
the ladies escort the gentlemen, and who
laugh over the ides of a lady asking a gentle-
man to become her husband.
But there was a,:tirne when leap yearwas a
serious affair; when men were compelled by
law to recognize seriously the matrimonial
propositions of women. For example, there
was an old Saxon code one section of which
ran thin:
"Albeit, as oftenas leepe yearre dothe oc-
cur, the woman holdeth prerogative over
the menne ,in matters of courtships, love, and
matrunonie-'so that, when the lady propos.
eth, it shall not be lawful for the man to say
her nae, but shall entertaine her proposall
in alt gude curtesie,"
Among'the old Scotch statutes still pre-
served is to be tound one, bearing the date
of 1228, which contains this business -like
section:
" It is statut and ordaint that durin the
reins of her midst blessit majestie ilk forth
year, known as leap year, ilk maiden layde
of baith high and low estait shall have
11-
berty to bespeak ye man she likes; albyit, if
he refuses to take her to be wif, he shall be
mulcted in the sum of one pound (l) or
less, as his estait May be, except and awis if
he can make ib appear that . he is betrothed
to one woman, and then he shall be free."
We find nowhere any statute intimating
that a woman can be held for breach of pro-
mise, nor is there anything in the law to
prevent her going up and1 down all Scot-
land and proposing to every man she meets
till she has either found one who will accept
her proposition or has had every unengaged
bachelor in the realm fined for refusing her.
And. yet there are people who say women,
through allhistory, have been crushed down
and enslaved and abused, ani that never
before were they treated so well as they are
to -day.
A. Remarkable Crime la Telma,
Tom Vora/the, the murderer of County
Treasurer Hill of Prtnole Minty, Tex., the
lynched at Carthage, in that State, was
Other night, The story of his crime and
its restate is one of the most remarkable In
the motels of crime. Mr, Hill was murder-
ed in his office o11 the evening et the 10th of
of February, his skull being crushed with an
axe and his threat cut. There were no wit -
mime of tho bloody deed, and for a long
time no clue was found of the murderer. A
poor negro wee arrested on suspicion, which
proved to be without foundation. Blood.
hounds were meared,and the country thor-
oughly ilearched, Sheriff Forsythe and his
son Tem,o,deputy, visited Longview in hope
of obtaining information that might lead to
the discovery of the murderer,Here De -
pity 'United States Marshal Parker joined
the party. ,
He ;soot suspected that Tom Forsythe,
who was quite a wild young roan, was the
perpetrator of the crime. Parker, to satisfy
his suspicions, proposed a. game of cards, in
which young Forsythe joined. Parker won
some $500, and discovered blood on a Duni-
ber of the tale. Nothing was said at the
time, and atter the party returned to Carth-
age the deputy won more bloody money,
Parker :then charged , young Forsythe
with the rnarder. Forsythe at first de-
nied it, but afterward made a full con-
fession. This confession was afterward re-
peated in the court room, the prisoner dig -
playing great bravado and insolence. He
said that he went to the County Treasurer's
office to get a.$20 bill changed. The sight
Of the money in the 'safe aroused his cupid-
ity,, and he seized an axe, struck Hill it ,the
face with it, and out the old man's throat
with his pocketknife. After getting out un-
observed he walked out, locked the door and
carried away the key.
, The other night a mob entered the jail in
which Forsythe was incarcerated, seized the
murderer, and took him to a tree, where he
" hung himself, with the assistance of a
large number of citizens," as the Texas re-
porter puts it. The rope was fastened
about his neck, after which he climbed the
trio and jumped from one of its boughs.
The Forsythes have always been highly
respected in Pa,nola, county, and much sym-
pathy is expressed for the Sheriff , and his
wife. Mrs. Forsythe was prostrated by the
news of her sen's confession and may not re-
cover. It was rumored that Sheriff Forsythe
had committed suicide through grief and
humiliation, but this has not been authenti-
cated. •
ThiShardiest %Yak on farm horses is that
of a spasmodic nature heavy ono day' and
light the next,or a hard day'work One
day and nothing at all to do the next.
Horses whose nerves become like iron and
whit& are able to. ;stead almost anything in
the way of wear and tear, are those which
haveitan opportunity to lay out their strength
every day -in the week. Sore shoulders,
weak limbs and many of the disorders that
tore found among horses are the resultoften
of but short periods of too severe 'strains or
of a day or a half clay's Work that was
harder than they had been used to. There
la danger at this season of the year of bil-
liard team upon teazle • the roach:
and some of the healed of farm
wetting afrtenbion. There is no time
Cursed by Wealth.
But the poor devil Who', in the mishit of a
great city, without raoney, home or friends,
decides that the best road for him leads
through potter's field may derive some small
consolation from the fact that riches, to,
sometimes lead to a voluntary funeral and
hole in the ground. The political economiet
and the Anarchist may extract a double ker.
nerfrom this nut of city life and mammoth
fortunes, for suicide among theyoung sons
of wealthy fathers is reaching a point which
calls for reflection. To be sure, the coroners'
inquests in these oases are "doctored" by an
adequate outlay of cash, and they go upon
the official records generally as aco dental
death. Nevertheless, they .are cases of self -
murder and the public know it, while wends
ering at the causes which should lead a youth,
and heir apparent to a million or More and
untold luxury, to take his own life. , The
very wealth it at the root of it all. The boy
is indulged in money and the disposition of
his time. He plays billiardi and cards alt
night,smokes:cigarettes inamoderately,drinks
whitity in proportion, indulges in other pas-
times and vices, and bribes the servants to
lie about his comings and goings at home.
The father, engrossed in largo affairs, fre-
quently had a young drunkard sitting opposite
him at dinner without being aware of the
fact, and the rnother'is love is too blind to
observe. 'rho bey'a health is damaged, hie
morals strangled, an his pockets mortgaged.
He gets into all aorta of scrapes that he is
ashamed of, until finally one more outrageous
than initial, and perhaps with a female attach-
ment, drives him, with. a mina weakened by
debauchery, to deepair. Then he ehoots him.
eelf, and he's usually drunk when he does it.
Who Sit Next the iinte,
ay i,„ a. mmusee,
Vein came to him the mother of Zebedee's 0111100e
with her two eons, . avant that these my two
sone may Bit, the ring:On thy right band, and the
MOO Mi thy left in thy kingdom; Josue said :—It 10
not mine to give, hut it shall be given unto them for
W.iom it is prepared."—Matt. XX,, 20, 21 & 213;
When the Judgmeat Segelons, ended,
Shall their full decree award:
When the ranemned have ascended
Into Heaven, with their Lord ;
When the Kings of all the Nations
Do their tribute bring
—With their eanotifled oblations—
Unto °Inlet, and do Him honor
For hie leve-gifte : He—the donor
Of all human weal—shall crown them.
Who may fill the throne beside him?
Who sit next the King.?
Is it Battelle Prophet -Leader?
Where loth he, or flaw or neck?
He, who as his nation's pleader,
Held the wrath of God in cheek.
Who, of all Earth's seen) or sages,
Can such record bring
Unto Judgment, from the ages?
But he swerved when duty called him,
Don'ts great purposes appalled hirn,—
Disobedience brought him Pisgah ;
Hardly May be reign beside him,
Or sit next the King.
Will the Shepherd-King—anointed
13y the Lord, who knew his heart—
Once again be God.apppointed
To this Israel -Throne and part?
Psalmist -Statesman I At God's altar
All the Nations sing
Soul-outbreathings from hie Psalter;
Human hearts, that pine and languish,,
Here fInd comfort in their anguiea ;
Yet for sin did,Nathan chide him :
Scarcely may he stand beside him,
Or alt next the King.
A Great Smelting Works.
Prominent capitalists of St Paul, New
York city and Helena recently formed a
company for the purpose of erecting the
most extensive reducing works in the
United States, at Great Falls, Mont The
company has a capital of $2,000,000, of
whioh $1,500,000 has been paid in. Among
the incorporators are: Edward Cooper,
Mayor Abraham S. Hewitt, Anton Ellers,
and the Gurnees, of New Y ork ; H. W.
Childs and Col. Broadwater, of Helena; and
J. J. Hill and others of St. Paul. The plant
will be the largest in the United States, and
the machinery the latest and moist approved
for the purpose intended. These works
will be a great thing for Great Falls, of
course, but the benefits flowing from such
an extensive contern wilt -also be felt in st.
Paul. ' The greater part of the supplies
needed will be purchased here'and nearly
all will certainly pass through the Saintly
City.
Great Fella is a booming town at the
junction of the 'Manitoba and Montana
Central railroads on the upper Missouri.
The place has a magnificent water power
whioh is to be greatly improved and utilized
during the coaling year. A branch rail-
road has been built from the town'to the
mines, and all the smelting will be done
there. Great Falls seems to be one of the
natural , trading centres of Northern Mon-
tana, and its marvelous growth during the
past year bids fair to be far surpassed by
the next few years. The Manitoba railroad
is doing all in ,its tomer to build up the
town, both byits own operations and in the
way of inducing other capitalists to invest
thcir money there. With such backing the
town evidently has a future before it,—St.
Paul Globe.
" Dot vas a trustverthy horse dot you
Adele Mr. Smalloash," said Mr. Levi,
" Yee 7" replied the gratified rider. I
didn't know you were a judge of horses."
" Vell, I see he pone as he goes ; he vos
good clothes horse, Mr, Small—" But he
deliffeflo for what is the use of talking to a
man out of hearing.
Preservation, of Meat by Sugar.
It results from a speeial report made to
the French minister of agriculture that
auga [it an excellent agent for preserving
meat, and possesses some advantage: over
salt. In fact salt absorbs a portion of the
nutritive substances and of the flavor of
meat. When an analysis is made of a Belli
tion of the salt dissolved by water contain-
ed in meat we find albuminoid bodies, ex-
traotive substance,potassa, snd phosphoric
Is it he of Shinar'a Palace
Once who purposed to be strong.
And refused the wine-preseed chalice,
Or eubservienee to the wrong?
He, around whose every notion
Fragrant inerreries cling?
Whose true life was benefaction
Broad and grand: whose bright adorning
SauetMed that "Golden" morning?
God, no sought -for gift denied him:
May IM not be throned beside
And sit next the King
Prieets, apostles, martyrs, teachers
' Serviog God withoonscience true ;
Prophets, leaders, poets, preachers `•
How their numbers break in view,
Age by At their host inereaelog,
What a cloud doth
Who have day and night unceasing
Done their duty bold and fearlest I
Who, from these, may choose the peerless
Ono, who in that Light may hide him,
'Fill that jewell'd throne beside Him,
Or Bit next the King?
2
Even Chrht !rein Judgment measure
Only shall'find out his name,
Who hath garnered greatest treasure,
Who hath won this highest fame,
Then all Heav'n shall sing his story;
(How bit name will ring I)
Who hath gained this ," crown of Glory,'',
Having sown in pain and sorrow
Seed that fructified each morrow,
Till most wondrous store abide him
He may reign, enthroned beside him,
li
• e alt nextthe King.
• Tonosro, March 5th, 1888.
WIT AND WISDOM.
There are more than one thousand differ-
ent religions in the world, and it is seldom
you will find any. one of them mixed with a
man'ti business.
An evangelist named Wolfe is said, to
have jumped up and cracked his heels to-
gether in the pulpit at Lancaster, Wis., and
exclainied :— Oh, how I love to worry the
devil 1" •
"Good morning, Tommy ; how is your
mamma ?" "Shea all right:" "Is that a 1
you have got to say, Tommy.?" "If you'll
gnie me a piece of cake I'll say 'thank
you.'"
Six" specimens of ' North Atiorioan birds
have become extinct in the last ten years. If
this thing goee cal, there will be terrible suf-
fering' among the women folk with a taste
for millinery:
Minister's wife (to husband)—Will you
put `up the parlor :neve tmday, dear? Min-
ister (vexatiously)—I suppose I will have to.
Wife—And don't forget, John, that you are
a minister of the gospel..
Somebody wants to know "why it is,
with so many negroes dying, nobody ever
sees a black ghost ?" It is for the same rea.
sent that, with so many white people dying,
nobody ever sees a white ghost.
An Indiana -judge did not know, what a
cartoon was. A lawyer sketched the body
of a jackass with the judge's head and face
attached as a specimen, and Was promptly
fined $25 for contempt of court. ,
A man Cleveland has spent twenty-
three yeara trying to trace back the'aaying
"Who Struck Billy ,Patteraon." He hasn't
satisfied himself yet, and his wife will con-
tinue to support him by washing.
"George," asked the teacher of a Sunday
school class, "whom, above all others, shall
you wish to see when you get to heaven ?"
With a face brightening up with anticipa-
tion the little fellow shouted : " Gerliah."
A.,W.estern man, says ,our New England
acid. Salt deprives meat of these sub-
farms are so poor that that a "disturbance"
stances so much the mote readily in proper -
cannot be raised 'upon them. He might '
Mon as it enters the tissues more aeeply or
have added that you can scareely raise the
acts for a longer time. It then results that
the meat, when taken from the salite solu-
tion has lost nutritive elements of 'genuine
importance.
Powdered sugar, on the contraey, being
less soluble, produces less liquid. It forms
around the meat a solid crust, which re-
moves very little water from it and does not
alter its taste. , Thuspreserved, it suffices
to immerse the meat in water before using
it. Although this treatment costs a little
more than preservation by salt, account
=list be taken of thenal result and Of the
loss prevented, which offsets the difference
in cost between the two preservative agents.
We think that navigators might profit by
this,
4 London Bank.
Lord Wolverton was one of the partners
in the Well known banking house of Glyns
'Mills, Currie &Ile. The half -yearly balance
sheet of this firm has just been issued ; it is
made up to the 31st of January of this year,
and may afford,serne of us who aro able at
all to grastr such figures a vague idea of the
magnitude of the transactions in whirl such
an inatitu den mud be engaged. The amount
due ou current accounts totals up to exactly
fifty millions of dollars and on deposits near-
ly eleven millions, making a total of, rough-
ly, sixty milliohe of dollars. The liabilities
on acceptance, eto. ((fevered by securities),
nor banded in the bidattee-eheet, $7,000,-
000. The eash itt hand and at the Bank of
England is stated at 9,C0,000;$the money
at call and short notice at $13)500,000. The
bills discos:Med, loans, eto, are set down at
$25,000,000 ; and the investments aro valued
at a little under nineteen millions of dollars.
No wonder that one of the principals in tuch
a oonoern has "cut up tat."
mortgage—that is, en a great many of them.
She—" You ought to be ashamed of your.
Neff, John, for shooting such a dear little
bird 1" Be—" I thouget you would like it
for your hat." She—" Oh, what a good
idea That was very thoughtful of you,
John,"
The latest thing at 'big dinner parties in
New York is for the hostess to have each
gentleman as he leaves the dressing -room re-
ceive a card bearing the name of the lady he
id to take in to dinner and a diagram of the
dinner -table with his place and that of the
lady picked out in red ink.
A countryman was itt it broadway fruit
store. "lay gosh 1" he sold, "there'll straw-
berries 1" Putting a couple in his mouth,
he asked, "How much a quart, mister ?"
" We don't sell 'em by the quart this season;
they're 50 ants apiece." The countryman
paid a dollar and hurried back to the farm,
A curious centenary was recently celebrat
ed by the women 6f Bunzlau, in Silesia. It
was just 100 years since the man died who
construoted a gigantic earthenware vessel,
which is a kind of counterpart to the far-
famed vat at Heidelberg. The weal holds
thirty bushels of peas, is three yards high
and measures nearly four yards acroas.
Eastern Lady (travelling it Montana) •.
"The idea of calling this the Wild West.'
Why, I never saw such perfect politenest
anywhere," Native : " We'er glove per -
lite to ladies, mann." " Oh, as for that
there% plenty of politeness everywhere; but
I am referring to the men. Why, in Now
York the men behove horribly to one an-
other ; but here they all breach each other
as delioately AS gentlemen in a draVving-
rooM," "Yes, Marra i Wet,"
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