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Recipes and Other Velliable Information
of particular Interest to Women Polk5,
SEASONABLE RECIPES. ratpful of, molasses. to this mix -
Lunch Cake.—One peund brown tura add two enprua fruit, ei-
sugar,one cupful molassee, roue U." eurrants and raiiiine
divided, with a few stripe oi cam,
dal orange' Peel or citron, or cur-
rants alone, whichever is preferred;
one-lialf tetteptionftd each of ground
cinnamon, cloven, allspice, and mit-
meg, one tea8peonfu1 of Bod0,. leis -
wave in a little water, flour enough
to make rather a stiff batter, bet
not quite thick enough to be milled
cake batten Butter a 'wilding mold
nr tin lard can. Pour the mixture
in and steein four bolus. This
pudding will keep foe a fortnight
and 18 excellent when Implied over.
Cream eauee for pudding: Beat, ti
'a foamy cream ono and. one-lielf
cepfulseof white sugar and one-half
isupfui of fresh butter, , It will take
at least twenty minutes to beat the
sugar and butter to the desired
foamy State, Add ono well bealem
en ,..0auser to taste. Just before
serving beat into the sauce three
tablesporinfuls of hoe water, stir-
ring rapidly to prevent its curd -
len rt '
Devil'e Food.--Melb over a lire
a cunful of grated chocolate, one
cupful of brown rimer, and one-half
cupful of sweet milk; cool and add
the yolk of 000 egg, well beetne,
and set aelde. • Cream one cupful
of brown sugar and one-half om-
it,' of butter, tiocl one -hall cnriful
of sweet milk and the yolks of two
pees. the two enpfuls of flour and
fold in the stiffly beaten whites of
Iwo sexes. Lath,. ILC1f1 one teasrosei-
fel of soda. dissolved in a little
warm water. Bake in them., lavers
and ice with the following icing:
of marehreallows, boil until it
Melt over a kettle 5 cents' worth
threads Ono eupful of 811a.ar and
f me -half cupfel of water with oec-
half toimpeonful of white vine -ear;
Beet the remaining white of egg
etiff pour slowly over it the syren
and stir in the marshmallows. Stir
in a cool place entil cool. '
eggs, two teaspoonfuls of ground
einnaMen, one teaspoolifed ground
ployes, '10 cents' worth Sweet al -
Mends chopped, 5 c,ente' worth et-
eon,- One teaspoonful of soda, flour
enotigh to make a stiff batter. Mod-
erate ovem Shonld ego one week.
Will keep for three inonths or
more, Nice to have on hand whou
o friend (hems in in for
an afternoun cup of tea or coffee,
Doughnut.—Ona egg, one cup -
fel of sugar, butter eizo of Walnut,
ene and one-half melds Of milk,
two heaping teaspaonfuls of bak-
ing powder, ono quart of flour, fla-
vor with either vanilla oe nutmeg;
fry in hot fat,
Apple Sauce (lake,—Two enpfuls
3if granulated sugar, one cupful
shortening (one-balf butter, one-
half lard), two eupfuls hot apple
mince, three and ono-balf cupful::
flour, three and one-half tea-
spoonfuls of soda (dissolved in one
tablespoonful of hot water), one
square grated chocolate, ODO ellp•
Fut of chopped yaisins, ono tea-
spoonful cloves, one teaspoonful a
• cinnamon, one-half nutmeg, grated;
add nuts if desired. This cake can-
not be told from a dark fruit cake,
and will keep any length of time.
Pimento Relish.—One large head
of cabbage chopped Ane, one mall
can of pimentos, •also' four pickles
either sweet or sour, two green cu-
cumbers, all chopped; mix this to-
gether and' pour over it one-half
glassful of vinegar in which one
tablespoodful of sugar and one tea-
spoonful of salt have been dissolv-
ed, Put in a cool pliee and let it
get cold before serving. •
Creamed Chicken.—One pound
of cold chicken or turkey cut as
for salad. Rub twO ounces of but-
ter in two tablespoonfuls of flour.
Add one pint of milk, salt, red and
black pepper, and a glass of sherry.
Cook slowly two or three minutes.
Add the chicken • and two hard
boiled eggs chopped fine.
Pot Roast of Beef.Six poupds
cif rib roast. Dredge well with
flour. Place in a pot witli a little
dtippings and a sliced onion.
Brown on all sides. Add three pints
of water, cook slowly for three Polish immediately with a dry one.
hours. Keep eDvered with water to Windows can be cleaned in half the
prevent burning. Add one and a time with a fraction of the labor
half cupfuls of highly seasoned to- -and the result is brilliant, never
mato catsupand cook three-gOar- cloudy Or muggy. It has the mi-
ters of an hour longer. Serve meat ta,ge, too, of. keeping tbe win -
and sauce on a hot platter. , dow clear of frost in cold weather.
Mock Oysters.—Chop fine a pound Denatured alcohol is sold ab 05
and, a half of fresh pork; season cents a gallon. One pint will do
with salt and pepper and minced thirty winclews- inside and out.
onion; add half the quantity of Tumbler flarden.--After the glass
br-ad soaked in water until soft and has been filled with water cut a
squeezed dry. Mix with two eggs piece of cotton batting or flannel
well btaten, shape into patties and to fit the top exactly. Scatter mus -
fry in drippings.. Garnish with tard, fix, or grass seeds ne the
parsley and sliced lemon. wool and put the tumbler in the
Fienan Haddie.—Put a piece of dark. In a few days the petits can
butter the size of a walnut in pan. be Feen through the glass and the
and when hot add two cupfuls of green eprouts above. The water in
finnan huddle pickled fine. Add the glass will need to be kept full
ooe eupful of cream or milk into by adding a teaspoonful carefully
which one tablespoonful of flour two or three times a, week. Keep
has been rubbed smooth. Let come the "garden warm."
to a boil and when cooled a little
add a dash of pepper and the well
beaten yolk of an egg. Serve on
toast.
Corned Beef—Cook in cold water;
'allowing fifteen minutes for each
pound. Stick several cloves in the
meat and add, three tablespoonfuls
of sugar to a gallon of water. Boil
slowly, adding water when 00008
-
eery.
Chuthey.--eifour pounds of freeh
or canned tomatoes, foue rounds
sour apples, two pounds raisins,
two pounds brown sugar, eight
ounces ground ginger, one-quarter
ounce red pepper, two ou00e8
giound allspice, one ounce grated
nutmeg, one quart mild male vine-
gar, four small onions, and the,
jnice of three lemons: Cheep fine:
Boil two hours. Bottle when cold..
Pecan Tarts.—Beat the 3,61k:a of
three eggs to a cream, add half a
copful of sugar, and beat for five
minutes. Pound half a pound af
shelled pecans slightly, Add them
to the eggs and eugar. Place the
mixture in patty pate lined with
paste, bake ten minueen; beat the
whites of the eggs stiff, add two
tablespoonfuls tiugae; spread on
to; of tarts and brown in oven.
Mint Salim—One-quarter pint
vinegar, four tablespoonfuls cif
(delvcs! mint. and two tablespoon -
filo of sugar, Lee stand for en
hour er more befoeci using.
LITTLE HELPS.Windw Cleaning. ---Instead ef
'ueing water with soap, (tnnnonia.
berax, .or keresene, usc dmiatured
alcohol. Moisten one cloth, or bet-
ter. chamois. with the alcohol and
A TTIL OTIVE DES SERIES,
Baked Suet Pudding,—Boil Denied;
of milk • when become cold stir it
into eight, ouncee flour abd eix af
;breaded inlet; Add two' eggs and
a teaspoonful of salt. If to be plum
nedding put in eight 01 tel ouneea
of eeeded raisimi and omit the salt.
Plum Puddieg.—Beat tegothee
thoroughle nne-half empfel of but -
le> . oee-half erpful oi brOwn 1411.
Carpet Cloapan—One-eighth pint
ce1. ammonia, tate and cine -half
ounces of soap tree bart,'one and
cne-fourth bars of *bite soap, (me -
fourth pound of pulverized borax.
Put three-fourths gallon tef luke-
warm water in 11 three gallon yes-
seL' Put in Ramo/tie,. Take a yes,
eel with onc pint of water; add the
soap bark. Boil twenty • minntes
and 'strain into the veseel. Have
the seep put into a quart of water
and boil until all is dissolved. Add
the borax; boil ten Minutes,. stfr-
ring all the time. Pour into a ves-
sel and add enough cold water to
make three gallonsof soap.
Glass Outten—If you wish to cut
a piece of glass and have no glass
dater try this incite d Take n file
and mark the glues into the desired
shape, bind tightly around mirk-
iese with common wrapping ,twine,
tvhich has been soaked in ketosene,
stand the glass up edgewise, and
get lire to the twine. The heat will
break the glass at the marking. .
Dresser lielp,e-eWhen
tic ns•or liquidsof ay kind has been
tipilled on dressers and varnish
etairm appear on the dresser scarf.
satueate the stain in gasoline and
then wash with naphtha, sop and
all traces of varnish will disappear.
Com of Hats.—A wee, to telco
care of hats in titian apartments.
Take of lawn, or any lightweight
material, ono yard for each large
hat, run caeing (tomes ends and
sides, using cord elastie. Draw
Up 80 that plenty of Teem, is allow-
ed for the largest hat, so the trim-
ming will not creeh. Tank the four
corners to the wall to form a fiat.
bag, or a batik could be made, of
a heavier material, making the beets
11v02tion1Llm1y snlallee. The elase
tle at top allows the hate to he pia
itwaY earaflalY and Prat'eta them,
from the diteiss-entirely out, of the
gay, and UNVe eggs; add one-half Rade Knolne---11 the ',drub of
euptel of eller ose1Ik and oue-balf esme kettle oe ef 28 lid is miaeing,
aeleee a cork a little larger than the.
the hole, seeming In wolL Steam 1HE S. S. LESSON 01 II
inde, trim one end, and insert in
will swell the cork, holding it Arms
lif la Place, and it will Dover be-
come too het to handle,
SALADS. FED, 27.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSONs
Garniehos.—One of the most con-
venient is the tiny rod radish, which
May be peed whole or put into roses,
Tho small red and yelluiv tomatoes
make beautiful garnishes, aud beets
aro an old time favorite, either
who/e, jIl elicee, or rings. Whites
of hard boiled eggs are ehoppeci 15)10
or cut into rings or lengthwiee into
petals. Rings from red or green
peppers sliced or whole, •Olivee,
tarry peer] unions, shrimps, aro all
Tometo, mint, mid cucumber
jellies cut in oubee are pretty gar!
nishes. ,
Winter Salad. --One cupful of rais
sins, softened in boiling water ; mac
cupful of chopped apple, ono -fourth
cupful of chopped 01111, mayoneaise
or French dressing. If mayonnaise
is used it should be slightly sweet -
once!. And lemon. jobte added te
the _French drebRiDg if it 15 used.
Cream Salad.--Oneshelf pint po-
tatoes (dieted (131 vegetable cutter),
one-half pint of sliced cucumber
pickles, one-half pint onions chop-
s eel fine, one-half pint of cheese cut
fine, one-half pint celery cut fine,
one pmt of any kind of nuts, except
you. But the way leads inceiteibly
almonds, broken in bits, Cream
to
dressing for Paled; Yolks of three destruction.
14. The narrow gate, on the other
eggs, beaten light; one teaspoonful
hand, opens into a straitened way.
( f mustard, eine of salt, a dash of
T
cayenne pepper, two tablespoons of here eontioues to be no room for
the things renounced at the en -
snotty, sate° of melted butter', one- •
eels cup of vinegar; tide the whites trance. To travel that way one
tit' eggs, be.aten stiff, and cook in roust have laid aside all sin. and
double hailer until thick. When sellisbne-ssi all shams and faies.
enid thin with mem mos poirr,over But it is worth while; for there is
salad. Onions can be -omitted if al' surrescloO 'of freedom, sand the
end 13 life—a condition of unthink-
wanted for an afternooe •parf.y.
able happiness.
ew aro thes that find it—Liter-
ally 'METHODS OP SOCIA331SM
• ally, "Dew are finding it. This
throws no light on the question 55'Enterprises Based on 0 Hod Taken
to .the number of the saved. When
Pr6111 Einandal Maglia°8- Jesus was asked that question he
MOIL IN, False awl True Dis-
eiPleship, 1.3141:. 7, 13.20, Golden
',.reesst, Matt. 1, 21.
Verso 13. Enter ye in—An ear -
rest exhortation tri live after the
, „
manner 0.050100.“ 121 WO rOft of
the diseourse, It implied the possi-
bility of every man's living that
way
The narrow gate—The figure is
taken from the,Orieuto,1 eity, Whose
gates were exceediegly narrow.
There is an entrance into salvatien
and• all mon (50) pass through. But
they must come one by one end
strip theniselvea of all Memo-
brances.
Wide is the gate -n -Life presets
us with an eltereative, There are
two gates. We can go in at either,
but not at both, And it is.easier to
pese through the wide gate, for you
can carry with you anything yon
like. After you Onee eimose that
gate you find that it opene , upon
a broad WaY, • There are no restric-
tions, and you have the SPDAn of
company, for many are there with
In Europe, if NVP may believe avoided a direct a.nswer. Instead
such a write i 1 1 int Prof Inc cautiened men to straM everv
Brooks, the more advanced soviet- energy to get in for themselves.
Nig have practicall: abandoned the "There is .no list published of the
old communism which is still groped eitizeus of heaven." One thing is
after by •the noisy socialists of certain, that the demands of mem-
America and hare turned to more !bership iiu C'hiist's kingdom are
practical and profitable things by severe and exclesive. No man will
developing the infinite forms ,of co- reach the goal who (lees not strip
alterative industry. at the start and keep up the sting -
In Ilelgiiim• and in many • other ale with energy and patience.
parts of Euterpe, as in England, 15. False prophets—Impostore
the advanced socialists aro to -day who, under. a mask of orthodoxy,
the eo-operators. They have taken loada corrupt life. The Pharisees
the- hint of the financial magnates whom Jesus arraigned so severely
and orgenizeel co-operative stores, all through his ministry, belonged
mills, bakeries and so on—in short, to this class, guides morally blind
termed joint :deck companies for (Matt. 15. 14), and therefore totally
the, conduct of productive and dis- unfit to teach religious truth ancl
tributive lines a busineseifor their duty. But Jesus here has in mind
own heDeflt and profit. (compare verse 22) those unworthy
In the great Austrian capital, teachers who sprang .eip with the
Vienna, we find such a eocialist early life of the church.
venture—a great flouring Mill and What they actually are (inward -
bread bakery', known as the "Ram- lo), ravening wolves, whose one
nier 13read Works" of the "For- thought is to prey upon the flock,
ward Co-operative Store," an as- Ls hidden from view by their sheep's
seciation or company of working- clothing, or feint of religiosity. it
Mel that has some 70,030 members, im necessary, therefore, to watch
The great establishment, which with exact care (beware), since it
was opened on June,20 last, stands fis impossible to detect them at
on a site once occupied by a cloister first approaoh. The idea of this
and later by. an iron smelter and „ere, is eeeee 10 Aesenrs Fables,
also o flouring mill. The great but nowhere else in the New Testa -
building erected by the scicialiets Thent.
mittains a flouring mill of the most 16. Ye shall know them — They
modern type knowneto Austrian may. with a show of innocence,
milling, with capacity to sueellY teach religion and morale, but so
flonr for a bekery turning out about long as they fail to produce the
150,000 pounds of ,bread 'daily "and fruits • of true religion and irrward
then some," the mill marketing a morality, such ,.fruit of the
large pa.rt of its pr. Elects directly Spirit" as Paul describes in Gala -
in the form of flour. ,
thins, no one 'can be long deceived.
The bakery in its turn is also n, 17. Good tree , . • good fruit; .
model of its kind with great, cheer- corrupt, tree . . . evil fruit—Thie.
fel( clean and cleanable workrooms is an unchangeable law of eaterel,
and the most . advanced nutchineeY Fruit is the outward manifestation
for manufacturing bread with the of the inward life. If the tree is
least possible manual labor or con- good, its nature cannot (18) be
tact with human hands, the mov- made conmpt by expecssing itself
able parts of the machinery all get- Irt fruit. The reverse is equably in -
ting power from electrie motors. evitable. If you want different
Cleanliness and perfection- of the fluits there it but one way to get
products is the aim. it—change the heart of the tree.
Of oourse it is possible for a clever
"Give 10.0 a ham sandwich!" pereon to arrange clinters of grapes
shouted the traveller at the bar ef in an artific1a1 fashion upon thorns,
the refreshment -room. Two seconds and give the appearance of a grape -
later he complained to the attend- vine. But then they cea,se to be
ant, That was the worst sandwich (ems, nee beeerne figment,.
I ever had. No more taste than
19. Fruit trees are not meant for
sawthise, and not big enough to
m
a
hew but for good fruit. If they
see.'' ``You've, et yer ticket,'' re -
he purpose of their .being,
terned the attendhey iant contemptu- 11:11" t.
tnumme unprofitle abetals-
ovely 1 "this here's yer ham gin-
biances of the ground and may as
_-....._...-.-„,e - well he burned. This is the teach-
ing of ,Tobn the Baptist over again
(Matt. le 10).
20. Therefore—As if to reiterate,
witih the force of demonstration,
die statemeut made in verse 16. The
law universally applicable in nature
..- innst be true among men.
'21. Not every oleo that saith—
The Judgment Day is in the thought
of Jesus. There also the false pro-
phets will inake their lout] inofes-
shins, Entrance into the kingdom
of heaven )5 net by the Mere recital
of a creed, but on the coedition that
men really do Din will of God.
What. that will is Jesus declared
On general terms) in the early part
uf the sermons (Matt. 5. 10), and
unfolded in detail iu what follows,
Lord, Lor.1--Thiplying it belief or3
Jesus's part in Ilk 011,11 sovereigety.
22, Sneceesful 'ministerial Idiot's
eallflOt he pleaded as sufficient to
admit num into heaven's blies, It
is an observed fact that God does
,•
111 blows the wind that profits
eobody.''- Life.
They Who Sacrifice the Flesh to Do the Will of
God Will Reap to the Spirit.
For whosoever will save liis life
shall lose it,—Matt, is. 39.
Life, like truth, is full of Para-
doxes. The deepest facts a, not
lio on the surface, The larger in-
sight eontieadicts the eyes' first
Such seeming paradoxes
were frequently with ;icons, who
pierced the outward veil id thing.
So Re eays here that the way to
save life is to lose it. Row eau this
seeming contradietien be so? Look-
ing closely we will see that it den -
tains the deepost wisdom for man's
guidanee.
We only gain plsasure by losing:
it Ile who sets out to sec pleasure
will 'end in surfeit and pain. The
voluptuary who indulges his apOe-
Litedulls its militia] edge. It is
but. by, mastery and temperance
that; we Pail pinelt 1.1n7 field flowers
31 bodily pleasure..
Success can •but achieved by
failure. All ascent to high piece
comes by a first descent. To wield.
the scepter of cononand we must
FIRST, LEARN TO OBEY.
The great painter Messonier tells
is that he suecceded only berause
he was willing to eoffer a thou-
sand failures. No holiday soldier,
hut a real fighter, ean win yietory.
It is teme, as says Hamilton Wright
Metric,. that in the field (tf Work
he who would keep his life must
live it. mid in thus losing hie; life
.alone does man achieve any lasting
result."
Again, to gain a personal prize,
we mud forget all, It is only by
tsiling for others that we c,an en-
eich ourselves. Sslfishness loees
the very reward of whieh it grasps
so narrowly, while the man who
fergots himself is the one whom he-
wanity remembers. The good Queen
of Sweden who, gave all her jewels
to relieve the suffering, found theWl
again in the tears of gratitude that
welcomed her visit to the hospital.
Fre3leriek Harrisou says of Rus-
kin that "Re spent himself, his
time, his vast fortune and his health
in trying to uplift the suffering
InfISSPS and to illuminate and en-
ni hle the Here of others.' And
it is this nobility cif self -forgetful -
nese that brightens the lines of
lluelciee with 11 luster that pales the
spender if his literary genius. The
deeply, truly happy Iran la the per-
son who disreearcls his own plea:
nitro for the Fake of
M AKIN G OTHERS HAPPY.
Thie truth, we note, is verified in
tis sphere of religion. It was to
ihie intent that the Master said:
"For e•hosnever will save his life
shall lose it."
What is true of this broken are
of time holds 1114 to the full circle
of eternity. 'rhe righteous man is
like a torch—a light to others, a
waste to himself—but such loss sews
ft r an incalculable future gain.
They who have been willing to sac-
rifice the flesh, if need be, to do
thc. will of God will reap to the
l'epaThirdisto.to the g1orions Easter sun -
Lento. n vale of penitence
burst. They who tread the way of•
thc cross may seem to lose the
piesent, hut they Save -the life ev-
eila,sting. Well for him who pon-
ders this deep truth.
Rev. Junis B. Remensnyder.
sometimes use the man who has
only the outward semblance of, the
shepherd. The haute professions,
eorrect teaching, and iwonder-work-
Me (if such men mat providentially
anent for sumething in establishing
the kingdom, but they will have no
share in the ultimate blessings of
the kingdom.
23. I never knew you--Josus here
d'stinctly reprenentS himself as the
final Judge cif men. False prophets
may so succetsfully hide their true
nature as to deceive many of their
fellows. But Christ will infallibly
,detect those that work iniquity,
and they can never, in the nature
of tha case, abide with him.
24. A. wise man—Here we have a
tree picture of the conditions of
house -building along the water
courses of Galilee. The first man,
ift all prudence, dug down to the
bed rock and built his foundations
strong. Winte.r's storm and fury
found his position impregnable. So
is the man who pays good heed to
the iestructions of the Sermon on
thc- Mount and goes forth ti do
them.
N. A foolish man—Perhaps he
built as well ILS the other. He
may even have put up a more
showy house. It did well enough
in fair weather. But it collapsed
ia a dismal beep before the driv-
ing tempests of winter. There is
no fall (27) more tragic than that
of the man who has impressed -the
world with being a man of excellent
worth, but the utter unsnundnesss
of whose foundations has been re-
vealed in the storms of life.
20, 29. The multitudes were ae-
tonished, because of the ma,sterful
autheritv whieh rang throneh the
whole diseoer.e. It; was wholly un-
like' the teaching of the seribes,
who relied entirely on tradition.
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STANLEY PUNISHED NATIVES.
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Explorer's Desceiption of Africans
A (lark on Party. •
In the following language Sir
Henry M. Stanley describes an at-
tack of native8 epon his pi:ley dur-
ing one of his African expeditions:
"Tho Leviathan bears down nn
with racing speed, it$ tionsorts on
either flank snuiting the water
into foam and shooting op jets with
their sharp prows; a thrilling chant
from 2,000 throats rises louder and
louder on out hearing. Prescntly
the poised spears are launched and
a second later my rifles respond
canoes and ;Paddlers rush past ns.
"For a short time the savages are
'111,Uylid
ltlYzned,
llbnier('e tlide
lse'vlTit10211
111 those
flaming tubes in the hands of the
.stenneere lied with possibly great -
re energy than thee advanced they
retreat, the pursued becomieg •the,
persucrs in hot chase, . My blood
is up. It 15>8 meederutis world, and
I have begun to hate the filthy, veil
teirons shoals' who inhabit it.
"I pursee them upstream, up to
their villsnol 1 skirmish in their
streets, drive them p ill -veil into
the woods beyend and level their
ivory tsinplee; with fraitie haste I
fire their buts, and ,end• the wee.
In towing their cantors into mid-
stream and getting them adrift,!'
DEADLY POISON IN COMET
SPECTRUM REVEALS PRES•r
ENCE OF CrANOCIEN.
What Will the Result Bel—Opinion
of Disliugnished Frensli
Scientist.
Although the asteonomers at the
Harvard Observatory have not yet
made a photographic spectrum of
Halley's Comet, which is rapidly
approaching the earth, a telegram
reeeived thre on Monday from the
Yerke's obeervatory states that a
spectrum of the (minct obtained by
the director and his assistant show
Nary prominent cyanogen bench.
DEADLIEST POISON.
Cyanogen is, perhaps, the dead-
liest poison known, a grain of its
pctassium salt touched to the
tongue being sufficient to cause in-
stant death. In the uncombined
state it is bluish gas very, similar
in its chemical behavior to chlorine
and extremely poisonous. It is
characterized by an oclor similar to
that of almonds.
WILL IT SNUFF OUT LIFE 7
The fact that cyanogen is pre-
sent in the comet has been.. tom-
municated to Camille Flarnmarion,
the distinguished French scientist.
and many other astronomers, and
is causing is great deal of diseus-
shin as to the probable effect on
tbe earth should it pass through the.
comet'tail. Professor Flammar-
ion is of the opinion that the cyano-
gen gas would impregnate the at-
mosphere and possibly snuff out all
life on the planet.
SHOWERS 01, METEORS.
Only once, :a far as known, has
the earth passed direcely thrteigh
the tail of a comet, and at that
time no unusual phenomena, were
neticed except that there were
abenclant showers of tnetcors. Must
astronomers do not Agree -with
Flammarion, inasmuch as the tail
of a comet is almost incenceivably
rerifiece and believe that it would
be repelled by the mass of the
earth as it is by the light of the,
sun.
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The production cif flny 50)1 is goy.
•
creed by the searcit,y of any one
the principal three constituente
of plant food, nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash, A soil mai- be tieli
in potash and phoephates, and if
deficient in nitrogen will prodoce
poor crops, The addiCon of huge
qoantities of fertilizer containing
only potash :tool phospimrie avid
wuuld not inereaee the prodeetive
eepaleity of steel soil. So if phoe-
pirates lincl nitrogen are plentiful,
bet potash largely Ineking, the re.
Sliit win be the same. . Plants iv -
;mire all three of these foosle11>
large quantities, and the sluices., •
fel farmer meet know what his hell
needs, This ii, not a CHIjen11 Neat.
1:11' to determine, tiirpl • a gee 0111
Of a little commen-sensei expeii-
inentieee a.nd does 313.t ne i't-te I' 1'01 Vd 1110)4,30it4 14)1 1 hi a
amilysie (if seila. 1.... , ta vould Pc naslo4 l•selsife,
KEPT STATUES OF DEAR'
PLACED Tit 8,1j AT TI101103DR
LNG TAIf Los.
Eeeeldoleities of Bereave/It 4108.
ball& and Wivee-eifeived in
A PariSiall lady who diod y000n.tt-
cl,tyywionnthaee je,,,;teanienhaenault:izti:ita 1.ktly
nitor-
training at.dinner for over a derlado
ie marble statue of her late him-
nbearde
nd. 't FaltTirniinTi1 ield
°nhsy )ilfbereepeaarata-
ehe always dined with the etatoe,
which WW1 five feet, ea emight, plaes
ing it at the head of thri".k,eble s8e4
e)oitiweaglecoorit;laitri 0 lip:A and viende
lvy
eTclh(al lalia Koffnglar)if.i Aavnal(ir;I3ie
ette by
his side pelnpn he sat down to din-
nei , He regarded the stone image
aheolutely the same aka if it wer411
the Queen herself, placing•the most
(wetly viands for its eontramption
and speaking to it in tender tones.
WIIIM OF BAC'Eflf,L011.
There is an old gentleman 1ivin8
Dear Glasgow who has for several
years dined daily with a statue,
He is is bachelor, and the etatue
is a counterfeit presentment of his
sister with whom he lived and who
:lied suddenly of heart failure. At
her death an exaa model of her
ill a sitting posture wee ehieelled
by a sculptor, ancl this was attired
in her clothes and placed by her
bereaved brother in a (their in his
dining -room. , From the -en -less, to
this the statue has occupied
at his dinner table, with a niaid-
Fervent standing beside it, whose
duty it is to place food and drink
fel it at every meal.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Clyde Fitch, the dramatist, gs3ve
banquet once at which there were
n number of half -human -size dolls,
dressed to represcet the feraa.beee'
characters in certain -of bia„..plays.
Cases of eculptors falling in love
with the figures they chisel are by
no means uncommon. One sculp-
ter became so entranced with one
his works that he used to wor-
ship it in a most extraordinary
fashion. Another knight of the
mallet chiselled a Venus, and fell
in love with it to such an extent
that on several occasions he enter-
tained it at dinner -table, inviting
his fellow-sculpters to toast-it-ist,
bumpers of champagne.
COMPANIONS OF THE DEAD: -
It scenes incredible _that men
should live in the Vohief-11751.7o-
wives, yet there are severe/ eases
011 recoed of men who have done
this. Jonathan Reed, for inatance,
sat daily in a veldt in Evergreen
Cemetery, New York, by the side
(if the coffin containing the remains
41 his wife.
Mr. Reed, who was an eiseentric
gentleman of considerable wealth,
erected' a tomb ;it a cost fA $3,500
and, after placing the body of his
wife in it, furnished it with a dress-
ing-ta,ble and mirror, chairs, a
table, china vases, boxes, and all
the property belonging to his wife,
including old gloves, balls of,yarn,
ideees of unfinished knitting, pho-
lographe, and boxes of letters.
The coffin stood on a shelf, am
ever this Mr. Reed threw" aeepie
of cheep Japanese matting, gait
fly painted with flowers. Regular-
ly every inorniag the bereaved hus-
band visited the tomb, and remaiii-
ed there until the remetery closed
at seven o'clock, in the even:ng.
THE SHAH'S HIGHWAY.
It is true we have some had
roads, but mod of our highways. -
compared with those of Partin,
would be as a paved street to a
ploughed field. You wevId think
that the keeping of the Shah',
highway would be ono of the Ar
cares of a State. yet so little a
tention 111I5 been giaen,-±0.,,Shie 1111
ject by the Parisian- Gevcrninen
that there are not a, dozen geed
wagon Nettle throughoitt the 'whale
coentry. The caravan routes aim,
except in a very few comes, 'merely
trails. Not only are the wagon
roads bad as well es scare* bet it 1e,
en astonishing fact that although
Persia is one of the oldest of civil-
ized States, a country compeisieg
ail area of 0211,000 square, ronos and
a population of 0,000,000, elleIsies
bet six miles of railway. '