The Exeter Times, 1886-6-3, Page 7•
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THE HOUSEHOLD
How to Iron Cuffs and Collars.
Have ready Immo IMPS very hot, only jest
no to eoeruh. And let there be enough kern
not to have to wait for a spored when the
drat is 000l. These meat be very clean and
with a good polish. To Jesup the letter
have 4 piece of beeriwax end when the iron
le teken off the firs ruble over the beeenean,
arid then rub the iron on some crushed Wilt
and it will run innoothly. New on the ironing
!Inlet lay a clean, smooth o'oth; a haudker
chief will uo. Lay a miter on title, foid
over part of the handkerchief, and •iron
quickly from ono end to the other two or
three timee le dry it a little. While atilt
steaming takeoff the handkerchief, stretch
the collar with the handle and iron briskly
on the eight aide straight woes. If the iron
knot hot eneugh, or the oollar too dry, the
staroh will stick. When the right aide is
smooth, withou oreasee, turn it on the other
side and froni
ore slowly Bo as to dry it
thoroughly. e irons require 3o08tant re-
newing, as the damp cools Elton quickly. li
any starch appeare on the iron it mud be
ileealied oft with a knife before going back to
fire. If you do not want ehirte or ouffa to
blister and wrinkle when buttoned do not
make the first, or boiled starch, to stiff, and
rub it in well. Of Puree you know that
they should al waya be dipped in cold etaroh,
I. a., clear starch mixed thin with oold
water, before ironing,
flow to Wash Woolen Blankets.
Select a bright, sunny day, with a brisk
breeze, so that they may dry rapidly. Have
the water as bot an the hands will bear, and
diseolvetthe soap in the water, avoiding Knb.
bing it on the blankets unless very piled
spots render it binperative, After rubbing
it through this water, thorooghly rinee
through two waters or tie same temperature
of the rubbing water. Wring as dry as pow
dike; then let eeme one tabs hold of each
end of the blanket and evenly and
atrong to bring it to its former eizs before
drying. Pin as evenly as possible on the
line, and let it become perfectly dry. Treat-
ed in thio way no ironing is neceseary.
The secret of washing flannels without
shrinking ie to have all the water the ewe
temperature (and after long experience I
prefer hot to lukewarm water), and also to
thoroughly rinse all soap from the blanket,
Eeoeipte,
Tomato soup made of canned tomatoes :
One pint of canned tomatoes and one quart
of boiling water. As soon as thie boils add
one email teaspoonful of soda ; then add one
pint of milk, and salt and pepper to taste,
Alter this boils, eift in the orumbe of eight
butterears,okers rolled fine.
LEI/ON PIOKLE.—The fruit should be
email, with thick rinda. Rub them with a
pieoo of flannel ; then slit them down in
quarters, but not quite through the pulp,
fill the slits.with salt hard pressed in; set
them' upright in a pan fer four or five days
until the eteIt melte ; turn them three days
bo
until they b a 'tender in their liquor.
Then make e ough pickle to cover them of
ripe vinegar, the brine of the lemons, Jam-
aica pepper and ginger; boil and skim it.
When oold put it ever the lemons.
Rearm-Wonie.—One quart of milk, five
eggs, eix tablespoonfuls of sugar, vanilla or
ether inseam Heat the milk ; pour upon
the beaten yolks ard auger. Cook until the
custard begins to thicken, . Pour out, and,
when cold, illyour and pour into a glees
bowl. Whir the whites stiff with two
epoonfule of sugar, flavor, and poach by lay-
Ing,it a spoonfig a time, upon boiling milk,
and, careful] hdrawing the epeon from
underneath,' ea nig the oval maim of mer-
ingue floating upon the surface. Turn it
ever when one side is done, and presently
take it up and lay upon the custard. Heap
them irregularly on the top, and let all get
cold before serving. Pass light cakes with
this custard.
MARBLED CREAM CANDY.—Four imps of
white sugar, one cup rich sweet oream, one
cup water, one tablespoonful butter, ono
tableepoonful vinegar, bit of soda the size of
a pea,
stirred in cream, vanilla extract,
three tablespoonfuls of chooalate greted.
Boil all the ingredients except half tho
cream, the chocolate and vanill& together
vtiry fent until it is a thick, ropy amp.
Heat in a separate saucepan the reserved
cream, into which you must have rubbed the
grated chocolate. Let it stew until quite
thick, and when the candy is done add a
cupful of it to this, stirring in well. Turn
the uncolored sirup out upon broad diehee,
and pour upon it here and there, great spoon-
fuls of the oh000late mixture. Pall as aeon
no you can handle it with comfort, and with
the tips of your Engine only, If deftly mani-
pulated it will be streaked with white and
brown.
Excuses.
•
Teachers who require written excuses for
tardiness em parents of pupils sometimes
receive y amusing notes. Here are sew
eral spec melts from a number received by
a teacher while he was teaching a year or
two ago in a Western village,
" Dear Sir : Pleaso excuse James for late.
nese. I kneaded him after brekfust."
A second note reads : " Please forgive
Billy fer being tardy. 1 wae mending his
pants."
The third exam° goes mere into detaile,
but le none the less ieteresting,
"
Mieter Sir : My Jason had to be late
toelay. It is hie bizness to milk our cow,
She is a tricky cow. See kicked Wise in the
back to -day when he weenie looking or
thinkiig pi her actin so. He thot his back,
was ,bro , but it aint. But it le black an
blue, an you don't bleeve it you can see.
The pane kept him late. We would git rod
of that cow if we could. This is the forth
time she has kicked Jase, but never kicked
him late before. So excuse him for roe."
4. girl, absent for half a day, brought the
following satisfaotery excuse therefor,—
" Mr, teacher : Mi dotter's absents yester-
day was unavodabet. Her ohm had to bo
11%in:touted, and ehe had a sore throte. Her
keraititushun is delikit ennyhow, and if she
is absent any, mote you can know that it is
on account of unavodabel diskettes or sone-
. thing eke
A boy absent for half a day laid the fel-
_
lowing explanation on his teaoher'a desk :
"Dear sir: , Please excuse . Henry. He
went tn Grandpep Diokson's funeral with
me thle forenoon I have been promising
him for several weeks that ho might if he
was good, and he has been real good so I
kept my word."
Fire from Healen.
At Beaver Falls, during a heavy thunder
storm the other morning just before day-
light, a huge ball of fire depended from the
heavens, and striking near the Baptiet
Church, tore a hole in the ground six feet
deep and ten feet amps. Those who saw
it descend say it presented a frightful Sight,
and when it etre= it buret into a thousand
pieces with a loud noise, the pieces flying in
every clireetiom like hissing eorpente
TIRED QF LIP.
Vontan Napa einem front Ilegielfusband
and Telco to brown Herself,
The many persons who usually lounge
abent Bemis's beidge, Montreal, on a Sunday
afternoon were I uddenly startled about two
o'clook the other afternoon by .the cry el
"Help 1 help Some one is drowning 1"
4. Moment , before a woman was observed
by captain Goulet to run along hie barge,
the" John Gray," ape withoueu, inorneutie
heeltation throw herself headforemost into
theiriver. He raised the cry for help and
then, with the aid of a boat and a hook,
fished her out of the water and, aided by
willing Arms, removed ber to the deck of
his barge. Mhe was well nigh ineeneiblin
but not enough ao to hide from theme who
saw her the fact that she waa considerably
under the influence of liquor, When she
had eornewhat revived, she upbraided the
humene captain for saving her life, exolaim,
lug through her tears. ' Vou might have
let me drown, I want to have done with
this life, 1 eaM the most unfortunate of
living creatural 1" It was evident that
her intention had been suicide and she
was therfore (weeded and taken to the
Harbor Bilker station, She was sent to
the Court of Queener Bench by the Police
Magistrate next morning, Her name le
Mary Ana Brown, and her age ie thirty-
two, Her featuree. although now almost
entirely deprived of any expression by hard-
ship and a lengthy abuse of alooholio 11 -
quern, still retain a degree of regularity and
she may at one time have been a eomewhat
p-etty woman, She tette a very sad story
of here past life. Married in England at
the age of sixteen to a man named Brown,
a well-to-do fruit dealer in London, he
lived very happily for some time, Unfor-
tunately domeetio troubles eet ).n. She be-
came j ohm at her husbaud'a manner 'of
eating, and eighteen months ago she secret-
ly left her home and emearked for America.
She moved from town to town until she
reached Sweetsburg, Q ae.,whero her funds
having become exhausted she was forced to
work by the day. She did this for some
time, but was not need to such labor, and
through discouragement became seriously
addicted to drink. She moved to Montreal
a few wetlye ago and fell so low in the way
of degration that siok with her exieterci
she tried commit eukide. See was vele'
repentant Imes morning,
The Apostle Islands.
On the puthern shore of Leke Superior,
that great " unsalted sea," and nearing Ito
head, nestle the Apostle Mande, dotting
the entrance to Cbequamegon Bay. Soule
twenty in number they are of vedette eases
and shapes. Long reidohes of white sand
form here and there wide beaches, while
near by red sandstone oliffa rise perpendicu-
larly from the water to magnificent heights.
Again the shores are lined with huge boul-
ders ground round by the ceaseless roll of
the sun. Yawning chasms within whose
windmheltered walls boats glide over the
still water ; waterfalls dashing down pre-
oipitaus bilis; huge pillare seeming as
thongh formed by the bands of giant atone
masons ; great wave -worn fissures ; immense
blocks ostone fallen from the cliffs and
forming other little islands upon which the
hardy pine has found root and grower, are
some of the natural beauties seen in passing
through the island channels. The charm of
the group lies mere, however, in the ever -
varying viewsof their wooded slopes. On
a summer day in that clear atmosphere,
when light clouds flit morose an otherwise
brazen sky, a perfect picture is formed. In
the foreground the clean pure water of Cho-
cinamegon Bay ; in front and on either hand
lie the islands as far as the eye can reauh.
On the water a shade le oast here, giving
it a deep green color ; yonder the sun lights
it up and It is molten silver; flashing saross
a wooded hill, all the vivid colors in the lab-
oratory of nature are brought out ; a shade
from a cloud deepona the enierald-green of
spruce and phut, and as the white -winged
boat le wafted along, the scene is changing,
ever changing. With baleamio odors waif: -
ed from deep, woody shores ; with refresh-
ing breezes from the bosom of old Superior,
mellowed by the rays of the sun and tem.
pared by the winding hille, that lull their
else teo boisterotte Waste, life is a lullaby
ended all too soon. • '
The Jesuit Fathers, Reymbault and
Jaques, who sought but never reached the
head of the great lake; Maenad, who put
his trust "in that Providence which feeds
the little birds of the air and clothes the
wild flowers of the desert," but who wand-
ered into the trachless woods whence no
word, or sign, or °mind „ever came from
him ; and Alloile, who made his way along
the shore, through the labyrinth of islands
and planted the standard of the cross on
the largest of the group, had their hard -
chips, it is true, but what a glorious lies
they led; with nature in her majeaty, her
beauty, her purity, ever present. That was
more than two oentuties age, and there sit
those islands to day almost as they were
when the devout and daring Jesuits with
their Indian guides first looked upon them
in their beauty. Civiliz ition has gone
around them; the despoiling hand of man
has bean stayed. Save here and there a
cleared spot, a fisherman's cable, some
three or four lighthouses to gunnel the great
commerce which flows past these solitary
aloha of the few, they are now aa they
wore when earth was young,
Long voysg is are made to view tho beau-
ties of nature ; our people flock to the shores
of many seas in search of Penes with which
to store life's memory, but the impressive
grandeuriof &perked biles equal if they do
not eurpaffe, the moat famed groups ot the
Old World.
He Wanted No Tricycle.
This happened one evening, recently, not
a thousand miles from Cambridge: Two
trioyclers °Ilene° to halt by the roadside
for a brief rest just as a group of Irish laeor-
ern were parsing on their way home from
work, Attracted by the bright new machines,
two of the men paused a moment to look at
them.
" If yon only had a trioyole, Pat," Field
one of the Jewelers to the nearer of the men,
"you could ride to and from your employ-
ment."
"Ride to the diokene I" said Pat, with e
contemptuous look at the combination of
man and wheeler. " Do ye think loam from
alio eiould coutethry to drive a donkey-caart,
diedad, and be me town herrn ?"
There Is said to bo in one of the German
wards of Springfield, Maim , a liquor club
called " Wiesentiehaftlichedartoffelpfannen-
kuohenverein." One of the bylawe requires
that a re =bee mutt spell the name of the
club after every drink. If he spells 11 eine
rootly, ho is sober enough and thirsty enough
for another drink.
'Zeno, the stoic, used the following method
to convinee his servant that he ought not to
steal. "Don't whip me, master 1" exclaim-
ed the man, as Zane was about to punish
him for a theft. "11 was fated that I
should steal," " And also that I should
whip you," anewered the atolo, as he laid
on the le.
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eyE. 1, epee/it 'MONTREAL.
That great philosopher, Ow litee
Peter Bell—known to verniers of Wordsworth
as "Peter Bell the Wagoner!',--putffied his
aharaoteristied Indifference to the most popu-
lar flower of our time to such a degree that
" A primrose by the river'e bleu
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more,"
But it would belie been nometblug mop to
him, beyond all doubt, if he had happened
to be in Liverpool this retelling. The row -
storing Lenoashire lade, who are usually
rather too fond of "painting the town red,"
asem bent ape ,palating it yellow to day,
the fottidioaa gentleman whom country
houee.wae rendered uninhabitable by the
overpowering stench of the reset] and the
deafening °lamer of the nightingales" 'mule
dellbeeee exclelin quite ai vehementlyi were
he w !king about the armies of the ,great
Hempel just now. against the outrage of
Naving his eyea dazzled by the blinding
glare of the primmer:1w From the darlagrey
setters of the Alexandre Dook up the epot
where " The Original Everton Toffy Shop
still clinger like a limpet to its steep cobble -
toned hillside, all Liverpool is one great
flower garden, brilliant with endlessly mul-
tiplied imagea of King PI imroae,
Bat beyond all queetion those flowers
give to the dreary landscape " the only
chance of brilliancy which it Is likely to
have," as a heartless publisher once said
while cueing In the fire an armful of re•
j eoted manuscript. W ere Tennyson to re.
write " Lookeley Ha'1," he might fitly
describe the oharaoteristIos of an Eeglish
Spring as follow:e
'In the Spring the crossing. weeper eplarhoe all the
pasgere' boot,
in the Spring the wanton semil boy smashes window
panes and ' scoot,'
In the Spring the buey doctor ri un I cur coughing
household goes,
In the spring a poor man'e 'may turtle to thoughts
' of Summer clothes'
The leaden Sky is as Mann and rayless as
if the can had suddenly become bankrupt,
and all the stare had gone away In a body
to attend a meeting of his oreditors. B
neath the thiokeniug pall of mingled smoke
and fog, the gray, molten waters of that
dismal stream which gave to Liverpool its
ancient name ef " Lither Pale" (the lazy or
worthiest pool) look as grim and ghcatly as
the river of death, white the huge black
'barge and shadowy freight boats that float
upon its gruel -colored surface Beene unpleas.
antly like gigantic coffine, and a few tall,
aoraggy, soot -begrimed church towere peer
forlornly through the overhanging smoke
like the toes of a tramp peeping through his
warn -out boots. Oe such a morning the
most thickheaded John Bull might appre-
ciate the sarcasm ot that caustic Spaniard
who, when taking leave of Sr Walter Ra-
leigh, begged the latter to "convey his
most respectful cemplimente to hie Eon:A-
len ier the wen, whom he had not had the
honor of peeing during his du months' resi-
dence in England."
But the gloom which overspreads the
eke, finder no answering rection in the
bright faces of the merrymakers below.
Good old Feels:mete] famous saying that
the "Eugli eh amuse themselves very sadly"
is for the most part quite as true now as it
was iwthe days of Edward III., but on the
very few occasions when Englishmen do con-
trive to enter into the epirit of a holiday
they certainly do so very thoroughly in-
deed. It might almost seem that just as
the four-leaved shamrock of the old legend
sheds light from its enchanted leaves amid
the deepest darknees, the primrose of this
day's festival has power to brighten with
its own sunny hue the hard and toil -worn
fame of its wearers.
Even on the Birkenhead side of the Mew
cep there is a aprinkling of the , universal
primroses and the bright faces that accom-
pany them, and I have pained a good many
of both by the time I reac a the foot of the
Borough road and halt opposite a low,
many -windowed brick building which dis-
plays on its front the words " Birkenhead
Central." This is the new up -town station
of the famous " Mersey Tunnel Railway,"
the opening of which by the Prince of
Wales last January created a local eensit-
tion second only to the loyal excitement
which is now being kindled along both sides
of the river by the Qaeen's expected visit
on May 11 to open tne Liverpool interna-
tional Exhibition.
In the inner details of its station, as in
other points, this miniature "underground
railway" has copiedito thelife ite big Lon-
don brothers. There are the long, bare
platforms on either side of the Hee' the
benches with a partition at each endlike
the boxes in front of a pawnbroker's count-
er, the white -lettered boards warning you
to " Wait here fer first claeWe "Wait here
for second clam,
' " Wait here for third
class," But in the pane:mere there ie
marked difference. , London smoke never
bred the healthy, glow that: lights up the
round, plump cheeks of the sturdy little
2 -year old who is lifted into the nearest car
by his fetheras the down train comes
creaking and groanirn alongside the 'plat-
form. Yonder hale, hearty old fellow in
broad -skirted coat and top boota, with the
fresbnestA'oorefleld. and orebards , upon
his broad, rudely face, eonld never by any
chance be eilleeakini for pcwonent trot.
ter." That trim, may, inightioyed lass,
who cornea tipping along the platform ten
der e fire of Admiring glanoee fee ill the win..
dows of the oms, would have been painted
by Rae lionheur es the eeetral Agoro of a
group of abaggymened farm horses or rough
short -horned metgt Nor (gelid any plum)
but a small county village have ,produced
this foray, nerVO114*Od,rty oldwomerd with
4 huge beeline in her hand and a cottlesouttle-
bonnet on her head, whioh looker as if it
might hay° been now in the days of Noah
and got Ilpoiled by the rain of the flood. At
the first glattee I set her down as a disciple
of the good old school which rogerde all
reilways as a rule and impious Mamie of
the will of Providence, which would have
created them Melt hall it seen fit that they
should exist. Tumbling over her umbrella
as she Bamako in, and all but upsetting
her basket as she Bits down, she mike each
of us in turn whether " this be the train
for Liverpool town," manifestly receiving
with titter disbelief our repeated assurances
that it is. Finally she &Ike into the further
corner with a deep sigb and resigns hermit
to a quiet deeper being evidently possessed
by an unalterable conviction that passengers
and conduetera alike are leagueu together
in a deep and dark conspiracy to carry her
to the wrong place or to defraud her of her
panne money by not carrying her anywhere
at all.
The train is thinly peopled, it being new
long past the usual hour for the migration
of the uptown men of bushman who nat-
urally find this sudden whisk morose to Lim
erpool in a few minutes a considerable Ian.
provement uponithe long journey by stage
down to the ferry, and the somewhat slow
passage of the Mersey by steamboat. We
come forth late the daylight for a moment
at the Hemilton Street Station, close to the
opt where the tunnel works were original-
ly commenced. In a short time our train
stops at Jamenstreet atation in Liverpool,
and the old lady soramblee out as eagerly
an if fleebsg from a burning house. When
we have surmounted the last of the in-
numerable windings of the slippery atone
stair, (which has been made as steep, nar-
row, and °rooked as possible for the con-
venience of the travelling publion we find,
on emerging into the open street above,
that "Primrose Day" is in full awing,
awe was Seejamin Disraeli, Earl of
Boaoealtdiudeed: has the romance of hit
gory 400 more 18tiXiking1y ithlBtiBtad than
lathe career of this , daring and maguin
cent moueterbank, In January, 1831—
when the Reform bill and the abolition ef
the elave trade were already looming he
the distanoc—a matt young exmtudent of
the University of Cambridge named
Thomas Bablugton IvIlocaulay, who had at
traded a good, deal of attention by a Mt,
foal may upon Milton a few years before,
published In the Edinburgh Review a pa
per on "The Civil, Disebitieke of the
Jews," containing the folloiving passage
" Thane jew should be Privy Councilor to
Christian King would le an ,eternal die-
graos teethe entice. Bat a few may govern
tee ,incliey market, and the money market
may- govern the world, A Minister may
be in doubt as to late scheme of finance
until he has been dented with the Jew.
A congress of sovereigns may be forced to
summon , a Jew to their aseistence. The
mewl of a Jew upon the back of a piece
of, paper may be worth more than the
royal word of three Kings or the notional
faith of three new South, American re,
eublies, Bat that he should put 'Bight
Honorable' before his name would bo the
most frightful of all national calamities,'
The truest prophecies are often those
whioh aro -uttered unconsciously. At the
time when thee splendid ,plece of political
Irony was written, One of the familiar
figures in London society wax a handsome,
foppiah, effeminatmlooking young Jew,
(chiefly known as the author of one or two
clever, fleshy, politioni novels,) who had
recently broken down in the middle of his
first speoch.in the House of Commons and
had been reviled by plain-spoken old Dan
O'Connell as " the lineal descendant of the
impenitent thief who died on the OIONi and
in every way worthy of hie mentor." Most
of those who witnessed that failure re-
garded it as final. The young Jew himself
knew better. "1 alt down now," he ex.
ols,imed defiantly, amid the universe
laughter, "bat the time will come when
you will listen to me." History will tell
as long as the world lents how the great
politionl aorobat fulfilled his own predio-
tion, and how he not only put "Right
Honorable" before the name of Benjamin
Disraeli, but seated himeelf among the
peers of Britain, ruled the whole British
Emplee for yens, and sent thousands of
Carietien soldiers to die among the grim
Afghan mouutains in support of his own
theoriee. Equally striking was the trans-
formation that converted the denouncer
ef Conservatiem as " an orgauized hy-
pocrisy" into Conservatism's acknowledged
leader. The famous jest prefixed to BM-
canefield'a life sums np his whole career :
" Says he, What air your principles 1'
Says I, 1 han't got nary one ; in the
eaow businesee "
Primroses everywhere. Primroses be the
buttonholes of smut young men or upon
the hate and dresses of young ladies.
Primroses lighting up the greasy grey
frocks of sturdy teamstera and the grimy
Indian jaokets of hulking freight hand-
lers, leprous with flakes of cotton. Prim-
roses overhanging the round rosy fame of
chubby babies which laugh and crow
with glee at all the stir and bustle around
them. Primroses standing np plumelike
from the heads of plodding dray homes, re-
calling the injudicious decorating of a
number of marketmen's donkeys with the
Conservative colors at the Cambridge eleo.
tice hot Autumn. Primroses festooning
the nooks of slaughtered geese and turkeys,
twining lovingly around the gannt knuckle-
bones oi half devoured hams, or blossoming
In spasmodic patches over acres of 'beefsteak,
So universal is the display that the pude,
watery sun itself, peoping through its veil
of mist, looks very much like a big half -
faded primrose which has aomehow got into
the wrong place. Bat the pageant rises to
its insight where the broad slope of Lime -
street curves between the vast many pillar-
ed front of St. George's Hall and the
stately hewed atone of the railway station.
The sea of flowers on the sidewalk has caet
up a few stray chaplet', on the statues of
the Q men and Prince Albert, while Lord
Beaconsfield's effigy between them is quite
hidden by a mass of yellow wreaths.
All thio while I am quite in the dark as
to the meaning of this floral celebration.
and I take gcol care not to " give myself
away" by any rash legniries, having
hulled by experience that when you ask
any ordinary Eiglish laborer for au ex-
planation of something which he knowa,
and which You do not, the usual result is
you being oalled t a fool point blank, with
the poasiblo addition of an adjective of
peculiar plemancy, which I need not re-
peat. But at length, coming upon a big,
brawny, bearded man with a tool basket
in his hand, whose jolly face gives some
hope that his inevitable contempt for my
Ignorance will at leaat be of a goad humored
kind, I venture to Inquire what festival
this is " Pi imrose Dew o' course," an-
swers J ihn Bail, with a stare of reproaoh-
il " But why to -day moro
than any other day in Spring 1' ask 1,
fairly puzzled. " Why to -day ?" echoes
my informnant, with a ham breezy min -
tempt in hie tone to which n words can cio
justice. " Why, where have you been liv-
ing all your life, young feller, not to know
as its always Primrose Day on the 19th of
h'April ?" The last words are a revelation.
Like a flash there comes upon me the rood -
Diction that the primrose was always the
favorite flower in the hittorloal gardens of
Hnghenden, among which died five years
ago. on the 19th April, 1881, a man whose
A Puzzling Question.
Sime persons seem wholly unable to cope
with ecientific facts, their inability being
doubtless due largely to circumstances and
their education. For hundreds of genera-
tions of man were puzzled by the same
problem wbich now seems so simple to tee
A teaoher in a western county in Canada,
while making calla among the people, came
into convene:Wen with a farmer's wife from
Vermont, who had taken up her residence
In the " backwoods.' Of puree the school
and former teacher came in for criticism,
and the old lady, in speaking of his piede-
oessor. inked:
"Wa'al, master, what do you think he
learned the Phalan ?"
" I couldn't say, ma'am, Pray what did
he teach?"
"Wa'al, he told 'em this 'ere arth was
round ; what do you think of such stuff ?"
Unwilling to came under the category of
the ignorant, the teacher evasively re-
marked:
" It does seem strange, bat still there are
many learned men who teach then thinge."
"Wa'al," eaye she, " if the earth is round
and goes round, what holds it up ?"
"0x, these learned men say that it goes
round the sun, and the stin holds it up by
virtue of attraction."
The old lady lowered her specs, and re-
sponded with this poser.
" Wa'al, if those high larnt men eez the
rain holds np the meth, I should like to know
what bola the arth up when the sun goes
down ?"
The Bishop of Oxford sent t- the church
wardens in hie diocese a circular of inquir-
ies, among which was : "Dos your offien
atisg clergyman preach the Gonpel, and is
his conversation and carriage consistent
thnowith ?" Ono reply was : " His carriage
is, but he dries a pretty fast home Inc e
preaoher."
" Mainme, please road to me." " No, my
child, I can's road to you ; you have been
too naughty." " Well, 1,11 get Grandme to
read to me then." " No, my child, I will
not let your Grandme read to yore" " Why,
M =ma, you're u, regular Knight of Labor ;
you're trying to boycott Me 1"
THE ELEMENTS OF TJRGEDY.
Mrs. JoUgibey : Is MISS BELLEFILLE AT HOME, THOMAS 7
Thonurn No, MUM, SITE'S DRIVEN OVER TO YOUR HOUSE THIS AFTERNOON, AS USUAL,
Jollyboy : As usurer. I WHY, 1 HAVEN'T SEIM IIVR von WEER& WHO DID SHE GO WITEI
Th011tet9 : WITH MR, JOLLYBOY, Mtmx,
THREE VIOLENT DULTAI,
A liusbenit glue pie *vire, W1 JUr ghee*
Nephew mad ,
The particulars ofs triple murder at,
Lerrusherry Station cm the Poiewarer Lauke
aleanna intd Western Railroad, four nailer
east ofNichol'
e liege County, leave just
060n leaped. At the station mentioned
there lived Horace Iteuesberry and wife,
and with them Rome E. Payson, a nephew
who was a favorite withethe old people, en
they had YIA child of their OWD. Some
irotweb,rry's brother, Norman, age fifty-
two, the principal in the tragedy, several
years ago parted from his wife, lost his
property and alma has drifted about, living
for some time in Elmira. After a time
he went to hi, brother's term to live, In
Daeomber he married Miss Presser, age
seventeen, and began honeekeeping in a
small house near the home of his brother,
the latter supplying him with money, Nor-
man Is represented as being j Worm, because
Horace Louusberry showed so much favor
to the eephew Horace and this with A
quarrel whioh (moaned yesterday between
the murder and the latter about a horse
is thought to have lad to the tragedy.
About 8 o'clook this morning Frances Pay-
son, a slater of Horace, noticed Norman
Louneberry going into the woodshed of the
house with a gun. Shortly afterward a
report was heard and her fears were arous-
ed as Imuneberry had been heard to threaten
her brothern life. She and Mrs. Horace
Lounsberry ran out and found Horace Pav-
e= lying dead where he had been shot
while ploughing.
Constables Charles L. Dunham, of Nichols,
and Spencer'ot Toga Centre, went re leto
arrest Louneberry. On breaking into the
heuse, Lounaberry was found lying in the
metre of the room with the top of Lis head
blown off and tbe blood and brains ecatter-
ed all about on a bed. In a back room was
found the body of hie wife with a gunshot
wound back of one war. Tao following note
was found by Louniberry
" Send for Allen 0. Lenneberry to some
and take care of nee, to Waverly. I am
crazy. May God have meroy on my soul. I
have a hope beyond this world and have
prayed for Himto have mercy on my soul,'
Oae of the horses was wounded by the
first shot which mimed Payson. Notwith-
standing Louneberry's statement that he
was crazy, it is believed that he was cause-
lesely jaalone of Payson.
Thoughtful Benevoleaoe,
This would be a glad world if be Vey ofert= •
ture In it wore to do all he could to lessen'
pain and inorease happinens.
It is astonishing hew much auffering can
bo prevented by a little attentkn of the e
right kind at the right mcment. An audi-
ence of three thousand people may be kept
In misery for two hours if the janitor does.'
not watch his thermometer ; or a whole
play -ground full of weledisposed boys map'
be tormented by one half -civilized bully
On the ether hand, a large party goes off
beautifully, simply because the direotor of
the entertainment has taken thoughtful
pains to have it go off so.
Some people seem to have s, lovely genius
for diffusing happinese around them. They
are themselves so engaging that only tinbe
near them is a delight. Most of us, how-
ever, if we would wiper the hs,ppluess ef
making others happy, must try to do it.
We mast avoid and remove causes of pain ;
we must invent and provide the means ef
enjoyment.
The most usual cause of failure In this
particular le not thinking. The evening
lamp is distressing a lair of aged eyes; a
thoughtful pereon quietly places a preen se
as to shelter them from elm piercing light.
"Why didn't I think of that whispers
the onlooker to himeolf. Thinking of it is
the rare accomplishment. Anybody can
perform the trifles of household benevolence;
the merit lies in not forgeteing to do them.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, one of the iron
Binge of Pennsylvania, mentions in hisnow
celeorated article in The Forum two faots
which illustrate what a little thought may
do to mitigate the human lot. One of the
workmen in the employment of his company
happened to allude to the increased eget of
groceries throngh having to buy on credit,
wages being paid only once a month
"Well, ' said Mr. Careeteie, "why cannot
we overcome .that by paying every two
weenie. 'Wo did not like to ask it," replied
the mem "became° we have always underptood that it weal& mane much tremble ;
101 11 you do that it would be worth an ad-
vance of Eve par cent, in our wages."
The change was made Dt once, and now
the custom prevails in manymenufaoturing
centres of paying wages every week. Mil-
lions of men have desired that for sixty
years. A little thoughtful good nature
would have stared to bestow the boon two
generations ago.
From another men, at the same interview
Mr. Carnegie was surprised to learn that
poor men veto bought a few bushels of coal
at a time paid just twice the price which
his company paid. Ono moment's kindly
thought remedied this grievance.
"How easy for tui," said the president of
the company, "10 deliver coal to our men
in small quantities at coat 1"
So said, BO done.
Arad as.,such ideas are exceedingly con-
tagiouil, a very large number divan masters
now provide their men with coal en this
,
same terms.
There are few things more catching than
wise benevolence, It beats theisearlet fever..
Despite' all appearances to the contrary, the
deepest thicg in man la the lova he bears
hie fellow -man.
How he Popped the Question.
VMS sitting by the aide of Imogene,
maditating ripen the beet manner of coming
to the point, when ehe took up an orange
that lay upon the table.
'W111 you take part of this 7' she in-
quired.
I assented, but my mind was running
more on orange fiowers than fruit, What
she was thinking of I can't say. She divid-
ed the orange Into two parte, and gave me
one. A sudden implication C31119 upon me,
"Oh, Imogene 1" said I, " 1 wish you
would nerve rue as you have this orange."
"Whet de you mean 7" she asked quite
innocently.
" Why, you have halved the orange —now
won't you have me 7"
am a little oblivloue ars to what followed
for the next few Moments— only I remem-
ber that somehow I found my moustache in
contact with her lips. We are to be mar-
ried early in the Summer,
A German school teacher was instructing j
his pupils how to not when the Grand Duke
should pmethrough on the railroad, an avant
which was to occur next day. " Remember
children," said the pedagogue, " that an
soon an the train arrives you are to yell as
loud as you can Long live the Grand
Duke until he leaves." Next day when the
Grand Duke arrived at the station, and
graciously bowed from the platform of the
Npecial oar the school ohildren made the
welkin weary by yoking " Long live the
Grand Duko until he leaven 1"