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CITE 4lQO(<KRY OP COOKING IN
BIG CITY HOTELS.
i«w Various Dialm are Made from
a Few Material*—Many 8onp«
ftum One Kettle—A C’ook'e
CwifNaiM.
7 lemon, which ‘now f«
" thelnr *"
ropii.u: .wikSIf.
Large quantities of citric acid hare
been extracted from the fruit of cran
berry, but it b not probable that it will
be able to compete commercially with the
the bulk of
upply.
The hotel population of Detroit -aver
age '.,000 perrons daily. What do they
•at: Everything that i# goqd, the answer
«. Oh, ao, they don't know what they
sat, and the hotels, as a nde, don't in*
iend vhatthry shall. There is the bill of
tare, it is tnie. It preaenta nine or ten
wuiim at one of the beat hotata. For
iiao-r—aoup, *'U, boilai,
iishr*, entres. vegetables, remh<
pastsy and dessert. The dishea on u
a umber aa high as a hundred, .and it 9.
interesting, if not provocation to gmtm
lory delight at the tables where they are
icmd, 1o consider them.
Fir^noop. Tl»e basis of soup is.the
stock —colored with a little sauce it is
.-oasorRine; add ~ few *.hreds of carrots
•rod> coked pen taken from the vege
table department, and there you have
you .Julienne •. M»mc twilnl grains of
barley and a little thickening and you
»re :«.vored with barley >-oup. Very
iifaj'cf Yea. very. Is it oxtail? Bless
yottr L'-art. 4»«<i>C* of lieef to atrengthen
and - few joints of oxtail, and you are
sei*Vt«’. Mock-turtle? Mock-turtI** re-
ipOD'J- to a similar jugglery, only shifting
it M '.*• method, and tiring some force,
meat balls and a little of calves' brain.
Chicken salad for,one. No sooaer ►aid
than re*dy—yesterday’s roast of veal, its
inept white and lender takes the place of
chiok'.'i. anti dainlly cut into cubes, and
liUec with the usual condiments, then
stalk' out before you h chicken salad, as
irrea*gni/ably such as if the poultry-yard
hud b**n drawn upon for it.
Uv.asin conversation with the chef
of a well-know n local hotel, whoee ex
perience in hotels of this country has
t>cen long coatinued, that a complaint
win n.adr to tlie writer about the confi
dence gameplaycd by hotels upon their
guoet*. “Ttie bills of fare," said he,
••are us untruthful as Tom Ochiltree, as
unreliable as Goshpii butter, and as curi
ous as a mule with five cars. Take the
didm-' I had to-day! Tomato
stock with strained tin tomatoes,brought
ton toil, a trifle of thickening, baked
white fish, a la chainbord. Well, if any
guMtt can tell me what ehambord sauce
is, he may know whether he got it 01
not. I know In* lie did not. 1
first made a straight commonplace every
day tisb-saucr and put in a shred of
uaodey, a few cubes of muslins
little grated celery. The next dishes you
sec.are plain enough. Leg of mutton l
caper-sauce. .lust rattled a' few capers
into the fish sauce before I added the
} tarsi*-\ and mushroom, and then
corned lieef. the tongue, chicken,
turkiy, beef, mutton and so on are
honcM enough. However, we often
US'! foiled mutton for roast.
wc l de, suppose we hare run out of
roast mutton, or it appear* on the bill
and does not appear from the oven, we
alicc ;p tome boiled mutton, dip it into
thick, brown gravy, and serve it with
brown gravy. The hotel guest docs not
mind, because he does not know. Cold
mutton is often treated the same way.
Just heat it a.bit, put brown sauce ovei
it, and serve.
• •There's many a jumble in the busi
ness, 1 tell you. For instance: a bill of
fare offers both chicken and turkey
roast. Turkey will do all right. A good
<*urver takes chicken from turkey as well
aa turkey. Did 'you .ever notice- that
fioitSdThinkeq shows so regularly on bills
of fare and roast doe* not? Well, you
can be: 1 a chicken tender, but you can’t
roast tor quill him so. Speaking about
chickens reminds me that eggs arc the
thing* to handle. A good cook ought
nrveMt. waste an egg. He get* a bar
rel Ci eggs or a box from the best
xnarcvt but there will lie at least ten per
cent cf them stale and one or two per
cent net good. None of these should be
wasted. Now you have noticed very
often, I suppose, that poached eggs are
frequently left off the bill that gives no
end cf omelets, jambon, with pastry,
oi.ionr, tomatoes, Spanish omelets, ome
lets au rhum, olive*, fine herbs, eclestine
and eggs scrambled, shined, fried, panned
and f-oiled, but not poached. The reason
is that an egg that is not fresh will not
poach. You break the shell, drop the
egg into hot water, and instead of coagu
lating nicely as it does if it is fresh it
gt*e« off in curdling masses, the yolk
tweak* and runs and your egg must be
fished out and tossed into the omelet
healer. But theotker day Yankee inge
nuity took the last prop from under the
faith cf the believer in poached eggs.
He has invented a material, which, put
in the water before the egg is dropped,
willyr.ake the stalest egg poach beauti-
tifully. Hcwas egg cook at the Murray
llill be tel in New York. Hei
tbcim.il veiling this stuff. and
dcpqi.<l upon it there will be {touched
egg* cn nearly every liill-of-fare hereaf
ter. .
Perhaps the kitchen i- the least invit-
iug place about a hotel. There are to be
• sceftslatternly scullion maids whose in-
harmocious voices discordantly follow
ing the cntcli songs of the day.or quaver
ing off into some tuneless ditty, go up
with the mingled oders of the range.
Cleanliness and order in a well regulated
kitchen are necessary, but the degrees of
cicaatiness arc as varied ns that of that
godliness to which the old saying gives it
proximity. The cook, stern autocrat of
the situation, rules with unbending firm-
ness,, and never unbends unless to wink
at some more attractive maid or curse
some duusy waiter. These little excur
sion* from his native dignity throw him
into-his shell once more, which he liolda
more closely than ever. The appetite
Icssrpwsof food uncooked, cooking, ot
ooojted. are to be seen strewn in every di
rection in all the disorder which adds to
its uninviting appearances, and such a
picture is. shown as to dull the edge of
the keenest appetite, or leave without a
gustatory desire the whims of the least
„ diaariminating palate. She Tori Tri-
Some Definitions.
A great undertaking- Burying the fat
woman.
Changing tlie subject —Makiqg an Eng-
li-hmai. a citizen.
A pretty plight -The maiden's yea.
A Killing affair—An English joke.
Hanging fire—The chandelier.
A great head—The cabbage.
8cz«£ ike deck—The cabin.
Level-headed—The snake.
Very much cut up—Hash.
A,Wftst-off—The anchor. —Fuel.
“That Birchen* Tree.”
WORDS OP WISDOM.
A Boston writer declares that there is
morenutiiment In a dark thaiin awhile
shelled egg. The* glair of a white shelled
egg is likemilk-of-lime water,, while that
of dark eggs haa substance, is geUtioous
in appearance, and will bold together if'
lifted a few inches, and. it is claimed, is
onMhird more valuable for any culinary
purpose.
M. Heliriegel has ascertained by a
series of experiment** that rye and winter
wheat germinate at thirty-two degrees of
heat, barley and oats at thirty-five, In
dian corn at forty-eight, turnip at thirty- ,
two, flax at thirty-five, the pea and clover
at thirty-five, bean and lupin at thirty-
eight, asparagus at thirty-live, carrot at
thirty-eight, and the lwan at forty.
Accounts show that the sal peter beds
of Nevada are far better situated for
their development than the niter region
of South America, w hich is au aria des
ert. Water for all pnrposes is condensed
from the ocean water and earned to the
niter fields, fuel being procured from tlie
mountains in South Chili. la Nevada,
the sal peter deposits are in the vicinity
of a rich farming country, with nnabun
dant supply of water and wood.
An interesting experiment, showing
the influence of electricity on the growth
of roots, has bem made in Germany by
Professor Hode.'ieLv*. Plates of copper
were thrust upright into Ih? earth and
connected by wires with similarly-pbwe 1
zinc plates about 100 feet distant, an
electric battery l>eing tbu* formed, with
the earth between the copper and zinc in
the circuit. Both potatoes and beets
planted between such plates gave an in
creased yield—beets fifteen j»er cent., po
tatoes twqpty-tiveper cent.—as compared
with other parts of the same field.
Colonel 0. R. Branfil, late of the survey
of Iudia, remarks as a noticeable feature
in the meteorology of the southeast of that
country, the frequent lightning storms,
which occur daily, for weeks together,
before the setting in of the southwest
monsoon, unaccompanied by rain or by
any sound of thunder. They are seeu
along the coast where the land and sea
breezes alternate, and along the liue of
the Ghats, where the surface current is
thrown up into the upper and opposite
current of the atmosphere. In this region
the rare phenomenon of iuterfcrenci
fringes is very frequently to l.»e seeu.
.Recent experiments confirm the opin
ion of sanitary authorities that, though
natural soil is an excellent filter for *
pure air that may pass through it, it
poor filter for infected water.
Raphael Punipelly, of the national board
of Health, finds that sand interposes ab
solutely no barrier between wells and
infection with genus from cesspools,
cemeteries, etc., lying even at great dis
tances in the lower wet stratum of saud;
and that it is probable that a dry gravel,
or possibly a dry, course sand, ls no ob
stacle to the free entrance into houses
above of these organisms, which swarm
the ground air around leaky drains.
A Confederate “Ram.* —»i
In the game of war the oppoaiog armies
Mad Dogs.
.A mad dog on tie* rampage, trottnngat ... „ 9
the mouth and covered wTtU foam, is a .strive to. outwit-each, other. Each strit
creature of the imagination.
Mad dogs are not afraid of water; un
der the influence of the disease they will
plunge their mouths in’O water to cool
the burning fauces. The tmn hydro
phobia is therefore a misnomer applied to
this di-ease in the dog, although correc -
ly describing a symptom iu the disease
communicated to man by the bite of a
mad dog. The bite of * a healthy dog,
even should he become rabid t^e week
after, cannot possibly produce hydro-
E hobia in the person bitten. Nothiug
ot the vims of rabies can communic itc
the disease to man. Seizure with u fit of
an epileptic character. convulsion of the
body, kicking with the whole or some of
the Umbs, champing of the jaws and
frothing at the mouth are not only symp
toms of rabies, but may in nine hundred
and uiaety-nimoutof a thousand cases,
if not in every cas?, be considered as
proof that the dog is qot mad. I have
neither seen, heard of, uorread of a mad
dog suffering from such a fit cj
the very tot stages of the disease.
The true add unerring
change in the qatqrij
BUDGET OF FUN.
Troubled About Labor-.Vo Further
1 : Use for tire Dog—Not Remark*-
! ble—He Skipped a Sale—Cash
Paid Car Cat's Hair.
“These labor troubles, Barringer, are
of it* adversary’s movements, and neither
hesitates to mislead its fo.\ “All is fair
the motto, as Admiral Porter
found out. when he tried to gain informa
tion about a ram which the Confederate* I
were said to be building somewhere up |
the Red river. Meeting a man near Fort i
de Russy, which the admiral's gun-boats-*
hid demolished, he said to him: I _
“Well,stranger, I hear you have a Con-1 going to min the country. Tqkei
federate rara up here somewhere. Where- Actively **
aboutsisahe?" I -Oh, thov don't bother me in the-ag-
“Lcmme think." said the native, I gregate, Bromley, but simply in their lu-
scratchiog his head. “Yea, thar is a ram dividual aspect.’*
’bout eight miles above hyar.” j -Why so?"
“Is it a powerful one?” asked the ad-1 -Well, labor lias been a trouble to me
miral. 1 m \\ my lifetime. I wouldn't work a
“Well, I reckon yon!d think so ef you < 8tro ko. if I could help it"-ItyifnJtfphio
seen it. Its the all firedest strong thine Call.
I ever seen, an'. I reckon at buttin’ it ’ud \
knock them tr bow*of vourn into smith • ,
creens." No Farther Work for |ilre Dp*-
How lame is itf" Wife (reading the paper)— 1 “Well, I
ceftta on the pound; that will make $-1.35
per pound.’
“This satisfied the boys and they re
turned with the bag, ami it is needless to
sav that after an attempt to separate the
hair they gave up the job. Tme neigh
bors had accomplished their object and,
the number of cats were reduced to leas
than nothing."— Wa kinft** Stmr.
A Soldier of Fortune.
Glancing through a Philadelphia news
paper a few days ago my attention was
arrested by a brief paragraph, dated at
Politeness is a virtue, for it is nothing
lev* than a form of self denial.
Courtesy is not like a drr--> suit, to be
worn only on company occasion*.
He who advises ns to do at Rome as
the Romans did was a true gentleman.
AVho lives to fancy rarely may be rich.
Who lives to nature rarely* may*be poor.
Aa ill-fitliog coat h not a mark of gen-
iuv, lmt simply a sign that you do not cm-
?l|oy a good tailor.
The fear that our kind acts may be re-
*tve<l with ingratitude should never de-
*.t us from jierfonnuig them.
It is cowardice to wish to get rid of
everything which w; do not like. 8ick-
nes-. and sorrow only exist to further
man's education in this world. They
gpll not be needed in the future.
As one man that runneth in haste and
leupeth over a fence may fall into a pit
which he does not see, so is a man that
plungetli suddenly into an action before
be hath considered the consequences
thereof. ^
__ . temper; excitement
Mackerel r 1 suing. . bright and glistening, such
‘•Mackerel fishing begins ia Murcb. | leather, polished metal, ct?.: _ r
generally, said a retirecl Gloucester j tion to retire behind ’dark objects: a ! buttin’. That's all I know about it.
(Mass.) skipper to a Boston Glohe repre-: peculiar gleam in and unsteadiness of the j se en it on Mr. Wliitlcr’s place,
senttlive. -Nobody knows what the j eye; disposition to gnaw inedible thing-. • you. eight miles above hyar; an
mackerel do during_thc winter, for m>-J sucli as straw, stones, carpet, wootl, his , W’en I was up tliar. thar warn bull youngest daughter, wasn't she?” i There was a relvellious aniTU 0 afloat in'the
!^*^tVr^n e of Vm in the fall^ev’are ' sna PP in S f imaginary , weighing twenty-eight hundcr: an’ a* j Wifc-- ‘‘Yes, but what has that got to kingaom< and the adv enturous foreigners
last that is seen of em in the fall they are j objects; unusual excitement on hearing soon as the bull seen the ram, he gan tc do with it? j oaj,!,,
here in Massachusetts lay, and then they j strange or sudden noises; indi*e rim mate | p aw the airth an’ throned up his tail, au j Husband—-Why, of course, if she and th( .j r own pml
turn up again in thc_ spring off Cape j ctticks on every other dog (in a usually ; the r.un pur down his head, au’ the bull all the! rest were^ married, he^ had no j Tavlor sai j nothing, but upon their ar
rival iu Honolulu he sought a \ audience.
that State, which
suicide tot night by
luioging. Mr. Taylor had been employed
until recently ns a clerk in the treasury
department at Washington, D. C." *
Taylor was one of the characters of
Washington. Thirty years of his life
(he was sixty at the time of his death)
were spent in travel and adventure,
had visited i
every U’d-i<3l>JC
lie s|»ok** half a dozen lan-
, and was one of the most
ersaiionalists I have ever
the overland trip to
irlv youth. Iu San
party of Americans
"fy— j " aiiswcreu ur. «u-u, , — ,-p . ^ _ j » nr |uineaa panyoi Americans
i as patent i -that’s easier said than done, it’s au all- ‘ and among the weddmg presents was a j bbvmd for the Sandwich Islands. While
: a disposi- j fired buster, an’ kin boat all creation at | bull-terrier, given to the bride by her , rowtc Savior discovered that the ob-
d- 1 j father • ^ .. ,« i jesJ of the expedition was the overthrow ,
told | Husbjmd--I don t anHhiBg odd | of tho oxklin ^ mon ,rehy in those* 5 lands
-* day, about that. J'-ie man "; and the formation of a new government.
There was a rebellious spirit afloat in the
kingdom, and the adventurous foreigners
calculated to take advantage of it for
Henry or Hattems. In March they arc quiet. welf'lxHuiYed dog this conduct j bellered, an' they went slip-dash at eacl further use for the dog.'*-
off Chesapeake bay: in April they are off ! should alone excite strong suspicion); j other, au'ef that ram didn’t knock day- j Journal.
nith of the Delaware; in May y<
find 'em off Long Island and after that
through the summer you can find 'em
most anywhere north of Cape Cod and
the Georges. After the first of October
they arc all somewhere between Cape Cod
and Portland and the last of November
they disappear altogether.
“How we catch ’em? It always used
to Ik* by band lines, but now they use
the purse seine. The seine is 1,000 or
1,200 feet long and- is weighted to go
down about 100 feet. They take the
seine, and it weighs about a ton, and pay
it out from a large row boat, having one
end fastened to a dory. The upper edge
of the seine is buoyed, and the idea i'*
to make a circuit and surround a school
of tlie fish. There are rings on the lower
side of the selne^ like a purse-string, you
know, and they "pull on that and '
change in the tone of voice,' the bark be- i lights out o* that bull, an' knock his tail
coming harsh, husky and hollow in . cut by ttc roots, an' his horns off, an’ laj
sound. _ | pin, 0 * u t as flat as a pancake, I’m a liar!’’
Even one of these symptoms should i “But,” said the admiral, “I *
put the owner on his guard and on the yju about a Confederate ram
qui vive for others, and a combination of : covered with iron.’’
several or all of them imy be considered 1 “ Wall, gineral,*’ replied the man, “1
certain evidence of his madness. The j don't know nothin' 'bout any Confederate
first duty then, is to isolate the dog, and ram; but I'm sure the one I seen coulc
keep him confined. waiting the knock the bow off them ar turtles ov
development of other symptoms , vourn afore vou could wink, an'J reckoc
and examination by a veterinary sur- j he must be a Confed’rit ram. .serin' hi
geon; and if the services of the latter are j war born in these parts.
Not Remarkable.
A party of gentlemen were, discussing
not obtainable, keep the patient supplied
with* food and water, and watch the
progress of the disease. If he howls
di-mally, persists in gnawing inedible j piny
bodies is seized with paroxysms of rage, ! -- *
or becomes paralyzed to any extent, al
though death would certainly ensue with
in twelve days or so, probably less, from
The simple native, as the admiral .sub
equently learned, was a Confederate c f
ficer in disguise, who thought he would
little joke upon the inquisitivi
Yankee.— Youth'* Companion.
8 ^ ,n 8 domestic subjects. One of them said
vessc j «i0h, G f course , when a man marries he
may naturally expect to surrender many
of his liberties. He cannot stay out late
at night, nor can he go to so many places
of amusement as he could previous to
marriage. I don't suppose there ever
was a woman so sweet-tempered that she
refrained from scolding her husband for
staying out late at night.”
“You are wrong,” some one else re
marked. “No matter how late I stay
out, my wife does not scold me.”
“She may not scold you. but she shows
by her tone of voice if not by her words
that she does not like to be left alone.”
No, sir. The other night I stayed out
Keeping Warm ia Dakota.
Of the many hardship, with which tlu j untU lj cfclock uttcl"whcn I went home
Meanwhile the cook, who stays the time the. seizure was first observed. „j onP( . r » lfi o hid to contend uav , -, , , „
a'wanl the schooner, brings her around, it will be most merciful to tlie animal to )erha be0ll ' reater (han that of pro |'“ «5?n?»ho w
and If the catch has bean successful | end his suit-, mg, by killing him. tiding his family with the necessary fuc 1 mJv.
|h,;y just keep closing up on the | there is nn known.cure for this terrible fol wiul „. Twisted hay has been tin
seme and balling out the ti.h with , malady, and it is fortunate that it is com- .ettler'e main fuel, for with soft on! a'
p-net. a liarrel at l pamtively rare. I nder the e nreuu. | ^ f n[l harl ] coal at , l2 toa bllt fc .
time,
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rtasji'
American Fable*.
THE THIEP’s AFPKMi.
A Thief who had been Convicted of
Stealing a Hog sought to I^esaon his Of
fense by saying:
“While it is True, your Hooor, that 1
Stole the Hog, you must take his Condi
tion into Consideration. He was very
Poor iu Fle*h.”
While that is true,’’ replied his Hon-
“I must also Consider the. Fact that
you probably liked Lean Bacon letter
than Fat. I shall give you two years at
Jackson.”
Moral: Such a thing never Happened,
of course. The Thief's Lawyer would
have cleared him ou that very point.
THE SAIl.OM AM) 'I HR SHARK.
A Sailor who fell Overboard in a Har
bor where many Sharks were swimming
about and was Rescued without a Scratch,
turned to the Fish and Returned Thanks
.for the great-courtesy shown him.
“Oh, as to that," replied a shark who
.-ame swimming nea-, “you owe us noth
ing. We hnp])cned to be busy just thru
on a dead horse. We'll see you later.”
Moral: Don’t feel too grateful too the
Hangman until you are out of a Hangiug
State.
THE BCItOI.AR AXI> THE HOUSEHOLDER.
A Burglar who had Ransacked & house
without Profit entered the Bedroom of
•he Owner and Indignantly Enquired.
“What sort of a man are you that your
Silver is the cheapest plate, your Watch
out of order and your Wallet entirely
empty? Do you imagine that my time is
of no Account, that 1 must Fool it away
in this Manner?”
“Alas!" replied the Householder, “the
fault is not my own. The holder of a
chattel Mortgage just cleaned me Out to
day.” • • '
“Ah! I Leg a thousand |>ardous. No
man should have his house robbsd twice
in twenty-four hours. My Bretbern
should have Notified me by Telephone.”
Moral: Give the B irgiar the Preference
in such Matters.—Detroit Fre« Prc**.
they salt ’<
to bring ’em iu fresh they put
Most of ’em are salted on board, though.
After they are lauded they are sorted and
packed again for the market. The crew
is generally about fifteen men, and they
are paid on shares.
“This all seems very simple and easy,
and it is so sometimes, but it’s different
stormy weather. Then again, you
*t ever rely on mackerel. Sometimes
they will dive and there won’t lie one
left in the seine; and sometimes for days
together they won’t school—just like va
cation at the schools on shore- They use
-^barrels of bait—porgies ground up first
and clams—to bring ’em together aud
keep ’em together, and sometimes, with
good luck, they’ll get 100 or 200 barrels
' i three or four hours.”
Under the-'e circum
stances it is pleasant to record that a wt ^
u tl>i R dismal subject j AVlvile twis'ed hay is not to Ik* sneezet
rnnf '“ m '“ ' a heat-producer, still it has had it:
two or three waters, and theu i comes to ns from France, where M. a t witt B mu u ««■ tuu ik
barrels, or if the.v ivant Pastoir haa been prosecuting rewarchy j d™wU.“k»‘; n^'the’w of which*!^,
••• ~ been the time consumed in preparing it.
Loyalty to the Death.
A tradition, preserved in the South, of
the Natchez, (a tribe of Indians who in
habit ed the lower part of Alabama) t?lls
us that wheu the chief died, it was usual
to sacrifice as many of the braves as vol
untarily came forvvard to give up their
liv
Only a certain number could be sacri
ficed in each year; and on the death of
one chieftain who was greatly l»elovcd,
to many offered themselves that seven
years passed before all were slain. “Dur
ing which time," the legend states,
“their impatience to join their lord was
great; their wives embroidered rich gar
ments, while they sought by deeds of
valor to render themselves fit* to appear
iu his presence.”
A similar story of loyal self-sacrifice is
told of the Japanese, who. in the days
when the DnimoL were in power, made
haste to kill themselves on the death of
their chief, “in order that he might be
fitly served*
gone.'
into the nature of this disease, which
has baffled the learned of every country
for more than two thousand years—Har
per a Magazine.
How often has a settler been called frou
his work to “twist- just a few twists” t<
finish a baking. None but those wht
have been there can have an idea of thi
annoyance and loss of time caused bj
fulfilling just such little requests. It
winter, if one depends on hay, it is uoth
another city. The greatest of the great ia S b,lt twist - twist, twist, and when thi
men ride in street cars,and it is not an un-! ba y is twisted it keeps one warm feediu*
common thing to find yourself welged 4 " 4, ’~ “*'*”'* T * ”“** "*'
Supreme Court Judges in a Street Car.
Some of the street scenes ia Wushiug-
orth as much as the theatres of
between a Seuator, whose presence
would bring thousands to hear him speak,
and a general, whose deeds will live in
history.as long as time lasts. To-day
your companion may be a noted lawyer;
to-morrow you may sit beside a distin
guished litterateur, and on the next day
you may hobnob aud chat, if you will,
with a'cabinet .minister. 1 rode home
from the capitol last night in a car in
which there were a half n dozen justices
of the supreme court, and wheu off the
bench I can tell you you will not
find a jollier set of fellows anywhere.
They had left their gowns in the disrob
ing room, and' came into the car in
overcoats and mufflers. Stanley
my wife didn't Say a word."
* ‘ ‘ ask you where you had
been
•“No. I tell you, she didn’t say a word.”
“She must be a very remarkable per-
“Oli, no, nothing remarkable about
her, and she possesses no peculiarities,
anlvthat-she is deaf and dumb."—Met-
rhant- Traveler.
it to the stove. If you sit down to write
you must rise at every period and put i
twist in the stove, and if yon forget il
for ever so short a time you will fim
yourself sneezing and catching cold.
But now all that is done away with.
Some enterprising Yankee in the viciniti
of Mitchell has invented an attachment - -
for cook stoves which is the wonder and
He Skipped a Sale.
“About four weeks ago,” said a farmer
ou the market the other day, “I con
cluded to get rid of several old stumps
near the barn, and I came in and pur
chased some giant cartridges. Next day
forenoon l went at the job, and had just
got a cartridge tamped down in the first
Htifmp when I saw a mon drive up to the
house. That was nothing to bother over,
however, and I lighted the fuse and ran
around the barn to wait for the explo
sion. I had only got in place when I
heard a voice calljug:
“ ‘Ah! there, Sharp! I want to sell
attachment I J 011 ’ l>est washing-machine ever
admiration of the country. The app:
atus is nothing more nor less tnai
sheet-iron boiler, about the shape of an
ordinary wash-boiler, only deeper. Tc
operate it yon stuff the boiler full of flax,
straw or loose hay—the flax straw ij
preferable—and taking off the griddle:
over the firebox of the stove, you place
the boiler upside down over the griddle
Matthews led the profession, and i ) loles > anl1 “ V> »™*J surprising what ;
took liis seat way
near the fare box, where, during the
whole trip, he bobbed up and down put
ting in fares and getting cliange for the
people behind him. Just opposite him
sat Judge Miller, and at the side of
Matthews was the chief justice. After
the car laid gone a block or two,
ruddy-faced boy of perhaps six years got
inteuce heat it will emit. One filling
will last from one to three years, accord
ing to the draught you give it, and yoi
have a fire equal to a coal fire for baking
and all other purposes. As there is an
abundance of flax straw iu the country, .... t „
fuel is now costing the people next to I s ^’- c '' ,n " ® ut a *‘
little j Nothing. . One of the leading coal mer- 1 ,v ” ,A "
chants here complained the^other daj
7 but he failed to find a seat. J that they were losing their best coal cm-
Chief Justice Waite took him by the hand! I Miners on account of the “blamed toilet
ami said: “How do vou do,* my Utile invention.” As it is not patented and
man ? Let me have your fare and* I will : ®>ade by any tinner its cost is but
pass it up.” Stanley Matthews put the *1-50, which places it within reach of
boy’s fare in and Justice Miller got hold i al1 - A great many are using their old
the place where lie had | oft he toy]s lumtl and, drawing him u *' u
between his big fat legs gave him a s
-.W country where the feudal *ys- i on the edge or the bench, and made
tern was iu power, this personal devotion i much of him during the whole ride,
to the chief became a kind of religiou. ; Strangers who came into the car asked
Scott gives many incidents were the I questions of the great judges whom they
Highlander proudly gave his life for the • not know, and w* _ * ”
head of his clan; aud Dalton, ‘ : J 5
In youthful day* it tickled x__.
It taorkiwe what l ourht to know, .
And showed me where I ought to go;
And still I do debcht to see, •
That good old birchen tree.
—Wake HnbbeU.
The American Trotter.
It i« uow the American trotting horsp,
and not the runner, which is the high
stepper of fashion. Runners are bred
and trained only for the race track, for
exhibition, and the chances which ren
der their performances of • interest to the
gambling class. But for pool-selling and
private betting, the rauniug race tracks
would soou grow up iu weeds, and the
noble lace of blooded runners would die
out. For personal use the ruuning horse
is of little practical value, compared with
the recognition of lain merits when saddle
riding was - popular in the days gone by.
But improvement in the * trotting strains
receives encouragement in the demand for.
horses of good movement for road uses.
Most horses which . develop extraor
dinary powers of speed, of course find
their way to the race-track, but public
exhibitions serve a good purpose iu ad
vertising fine blood, and promoting an
interest in improved horses among the
people. The wonderful stowing in the
trotting records for the last few years
must bring out corresponding signs of
improvement, not only in the fashiouablc
city drives, but, also, in the country
lanes; andwhi!ethe dashing gentleman
flashes by- everything ou tho-road that
doesn’t move faster than a mile in 2-JJO,
the farmer’s boy, with his girl by his
aide, throws dust in the eyes of his
father’s ambling “crittsr.” Take last
year's record and ponder. Two hundred
and eighty-three trotters that in 1885,
for the first time knocked off a mile in
less than * :30, and twenty-four who en
tered the fliSO list! There remains un
matched Maud S.’» time of 8:03 3-4, but
who knows that in a few years this now
fancy record may be rated as rather slow
and “unprofessional,” and abandoned to
the “speed rings” of the country pig and
pumpkin %hoyn:~CuidriMfcCmmercial
wash toilers, wh’ch do very well, but
*"seat i they Mre not nearly as good as the regular
les.—Chieaqo Tribune.
How Washington City is Governed.
( The government of the District ol
kindly answered j Columbia inis been, since 1874, in tlu
. I without condescension. Poorly dressed ! hands of the commission appointed bj
teentli cHilary, asserts “no tie of blood j women erme iu. and these ten-thousand- j Congress, which controls also the mu
is as strong as that which hinds the poor dollar-a-yeat justices squ-eczcd them- , uieipal affairs of the city of Washington.
Irish cotter t > his nob!c foster-brother." . selves into uncomfortable positions t«» This commission, which , is designated a
In more modern days this passionate gi'*e them room. In short, their whole "Board of Regents,” consists of three
fealtv to the individual has only been manner was so democratic and simple persons, who are appointed by tlu
called forth by great military leaders. ! that it would have delighted the heart of ! President and confirmed l>y the Senate.
Napoleou's guard %vcre ready to protect a Ben Franklin. I find this to to the i Their term of office is four years, and
him with their lives; and the great Rus- ; rasc with alt of those who are really ; they
rian general. Skoheleff. it is said, in-j great. Suc h men are not ostentatious,
spired the same enthusiast ic devotion by j and they feel Jheir failings
his personal magnetism.
quality of manhood, proh
ably, which to}s admire
heroic loyalty, even to death. They
apt to thiuk in reading history that it has
disappeared from the earth, and lament
that the days of chivalry are over.
But the only difference is that men now
are willing to sacrifiee themselves for au
idea, though not always for a person, as
was proved on both sides of tlie contest
They give. too. their strength, their
personal hopes, their live;, for the sake
humanity, iu a spirit unkn*
their virtue) _ w
were all babies once, aud that they will
than this : all be corpses by and by.—Carp, in
removed for good and sufficient
cause only. This board exercises the duel
if% .. than ! executive authority for District and city.
They do not forget they i Under its supervision are a number of bu
*" 1 reaus. each controlled by a board of offi
cers. These relate to and embrace the entire
civil service of the District, except such as
falls under the executive departments
and the courts, and are known as the
boards of health, educatiqn, police^ ex
cise, public works, Are and buildings.
They are all appointed by the regents,
except the board of education, part oi
whose members are elected by the inhab-
1 —-Y' J :—■*""-' I itouts of the district; and the board ol
f«»t mite m t-leycland m 2 .101. < ap am • wi work trolling offletr It
„°I appointed by tho Present from the «.
Cleveland leader.
' Lack. ~~
GOOD.
Speaking bfr superstitious, a writer
saya4bc oliLaotipu tliat there is luck in a
horseshoe finds Mip|N>rt in one case at
least. When Iffaud S. did her first really
ppointed .
^ineer corps of the army. All these ofli-
rs lutve ucertiin tenure of office, but
iv be removed by the regents for cause.
Arizona's Silicificd ,Fore»t„
The silicitie<l forest oi Arizona, known
»Chalcedony park, is undoubtedly
{Hilled off her rhoes and stored them
his desk, and sold the mare to Vander-
those early ages of the world. Tlie serf; hilt for a snug price. He has Ira mat
then immolate d but himielf for bis mas-1 ing ^ ex?r since, aud .rapturing the i 'SSSFZrtk S
the engineer dies for a trainful j b^t things of life The'captain kept ! , lhem . 1 myrn/ipai court, which
. mings ot nil. luc eapi-un “P- ejoittstTOcm! jnnsiltctton in tnsttera
only ope nr the shoes. He gme one to j i7able bT justices of the peKe.
Mra. Swam, ami she gave it to her larger , nd ,^ y j,„, , a f tlu court may he de-
lKother. He hadn t had it a week Imfore ignat( . a J )iy s , he suprenle collrt of tha
District to hold a term and sessions oi
the police court if necessary. The taxes
are apportioned by assessors chosen by
the board of regent®, and are collected
under the supervision of the collector of
internal revenue for the district, and by
him are {laid into the United Stated
treasury. All other sums collected for
fines, etc., are also paid into the United
States treasury, and all payments of sal
aries, etc., or for necessary municipal
expenses, are made from the United
States treasury. Each year the board of
regents makes a report to the President
concerning their service for the year past
married to one of the most charm
ing ladies in New York. He has been
prospering like a green bay tree ever
since.
Au old Western hunter, hearing of a
white deer being killed near Chico, said:
“It's bad luck. In the fall of 1853-1 was
living at Feather river, putting in my
time hunting, mining and trapping. My
George F. Kunz. This mar
velous deposit, eight miles south of C’or-
riza, covers a thousand acres, and con
sists of fallen trees which have become
buried and siiu ifit-d into probably a mil
lion tons of agate and jaiper. Some of ^ w
the trunks are 150 feet long and ten feet 1 claim was paying first rate; I was getting
in diameter, and others arc broken Into j lots of beaver, and you bet I was on the
every conceivable shape. Silicified wood j high road to TTortnne. But one unlucky
is obtained from many parts of the world, ! day I shot and killed one of the most
but nowhere else ia it so beautifully colored j beautiful white deer I ever saw, but it
as here, every imaginable shade of red, I looked sad to see the blood running from
brown and green being presented. The ; its heart upon the snowy hair. Well,
most remarkable feature of the park, and sir, Jronx that day on I had the wretch-
a phenomenon perhaps unparalleled, is the edest sort of luck. My traps failed to
natural bridge of agatized wood,' span- get beavers, I never got any more game,
ning a canon fifty-five, feet wide. The; my mine played out, and the worst of
tree is from three to four feet in diame- \ all, J fell and broke my right leg. I am
ter, and more than a hundred feet of j not a believer in rigns and omens, but
its length are in sight, both ends being' I’ll be willing to bet my life that the
;_k«,i,i.a s» ♦*.» M -ndstonc at the sides j killing .of that white deer caused my bad
I luck.
the chap who had driven up,
and my wife had sent him out to hunt
me up. He was within ten feet, of the
stump when he called. I had a two-
minute. fuse oa the cartridge when l
heard his voice and I called back:
“‘For Heaven's sake, get out o' that!'
“‘Oh, I’ll get. out. after I have sold
you a machine. Slurp, where are you?*
“Well, sir. you can have my ears if
that idiot didn’t walfc up and rest his
el tows on the stump, and he was there
wheu she exploded. He took a rise ol
six or eight feet, came down spread
eagle fashion, and then scrambled u;
and made for his wagon with sliver
sticking out all over him. When he
went by the house my wife asked him
if the machine saved ten per cent,
soap, but lie never answered nor ca
to a halt, lie just sailed over the foro-
whcel to liis scat on the wagon, give the
horses a cut with the whip, and was a
mile away when I went out to the road
to inquire if his machine was full-jew
eled.”—Detroit Fret Pres*.
with the king and unfolded to him the
details of tin plot. The conspirator*
v ere bundled from the islaud. Taylor
remained and was speedily installed
as the king’s favorite. To crown all,
the kiug’s sister, a beautiful Hawaiian
princess, fell in love with the dashing
American, and, at the king's suggestion,
offered him her hand and fortuue. Taylor
received tlie most positive assurance that
his marriage to the p incess would make
him heir to the crown. He declined the
honor, however, with thanks. In talk
ing with his Washington friends Taylor
used to say that, although he never’ rc-
S ettcd the refusal, lie felt positive, that
d he espoused the dusky princess, the
king’s pledge would have been faithfully
kept.
Years afterward Taylor returned to the
United States, and served as a /oldicr iu
Pennsylvania regiment. In tlie course
of time he drifted to Washington, where
be secured a minor clerkship in the
treasury department. About six month*
ago be was dismissed from government
service on account of his irregular habit*.
Broken in bcaltli and in fortune, lie at
last returned to the obscure Pennsylvania
village which he quitted a light-hearted,
adventurous toy forty years ago. Within
a fortnight after his arrival he ended hb
life in the manner -.itove described.—
Chicago Neats. J
Funny Cause or a Panic.
Iu some stories of John B. Gough, the
temperance lecturer, printed, by the
Philadelphia Time*,occurs the following:
One of the most terrible scenes I ever
witnessed throughout my forty years’
career us a public sjieaker* and yet one
with a very ludicrous side to it, occurred
in Dr. Herron's church, the first Presby
terian, Pittsburg, in 1851. I was speak
ing to a densely crowded house, when
allofa sudden there was a terrible crash
in the gallery. A frightful panic ensued.
The people thought the gallery W»$ fiIP~~~
ing, and made a stampede to escape from
the application of public moneys, etc. v
and this report must to submitted to
Congress for approval.—Chicago Inter-
Ocean. .
A Buffalo debating society has re
cently discussed the question: * ‘Resolved,
That a city man in the country is greener
than a countryman in the rater.” That
depends on whether the game b “bunko”
or a “hoss-traJc.”—Hatton Pest.
Cush Paid for Cats’ Hair.
“Did you ever hear,” asked an old resi
dent a few days ago of a Star reporter,
“how the ‘slaughter of the cats' was
brought about
“No,” was the answer, “I uever knew
if any particular slaughter of the feline
species.”
“Well,” continued the old resident,
“forty years ago or thereabouts there was
a square not far from tlie patent office iu
which the cats had multiplied so that
it was a mooted question whether the ro
dents or felines were in the ascendency.
The cats and kittens fairly swarmed, and
those who lived on tlie square finally
came to the conclusion that the par^lwho
would devise some effective menw of
thinning them out would be entileH to
the gratitude of the neighbors. Thils set
the wits of some of the inhab?4hfts at
work, and it was not long befoi^*?. were
appeared before one of the doors 41 f im
mense placard; ‘Wanted! Coir hair.
Highest cash price will be paid.* lay
be supposed, this soon /'l.fl *ea
the notice of the boys, 1 ! te
inquiry dieted the reply that a -fcttuacn
demand for genuine cats' hair had sprung
up and that the article at that time com
manded $2.50 per pound. The immediate
result was that for several days none of
the boys of the neighborhood could
to seen on the street, lmt the contin
uous sound of stones thrown st the cats in
the alleys told where they were ttnd what
they were about. Some six or eight days
had passed and the sign did not appear
to have drawn in the first ounce. About
sundown the dealer noticed approaching
hb shop from an alleyway a crowd of
some thirty boys, bearing in their midst
a long five-bushel hay sack stuffed full.
It was dropped at hb door beneath hb as
tonished gaze.
“ ‘Why, boys!’ asked the dealer,‘what
have you there T
“ ‘Cats’ hair, sir,’ said the largest boy.
‘Every bit cats’ hair; killed them first
and then plucked the hair; can swear to
«t ail, sir.’
“ ‘Why!’ exclaimed the dealer. I fear
that yon will break me if you want your
E y in a lump, but bring ia the bag.
t*s look at it.*
“The bog was carried in and hastily
opened,whraithe dealer exclaimed: Tut,
tut! boys, you have it all mixed. I can’t
do anything with the hair as it is.’ After
hesitating, he continued: ‘8ince you have
the hair, put every shade to itself; and
I’ll allow you an advance of seventy-five
the building. ' Some- threw themselves
from the gtllery to the floor below.
Other* jumped from the windows. In
the midst of the confusion the store was
upset. Fortunately the fire in it was
very low, and no conflagration followed,
but the occurrence terrified the already
frantic people. Above the din I could
hear the stentorian tones of three or four
powerful men in the front of the gallery,
who seemed to be trying to quell the
pauic by shouting at the top of their
voice, while they gesticulated wildly with
their hands and arms. “The fiddle! it
was the fiddle, the fiddle,” but what on
earth the fiddle could have to
do with it was more tlirin I could make
out. At length some good brother near
the pulpit struck up “From Greenland’s
Icy Mountains,” Others joined in the
familiar hymn and order and quiet were
at length restored. The meeting did not
last long, though, after that. When tho
audience had disjiersed the floor was
trewn with false hair, hairpins, hats,
tonnets, overshoes, gloves, skirts, canes,
rapes and wraps of all kinds, overcoat*
and every conceivable article of wearing
apparel. A large cart load of these things
were taken to the mayor's office the next
morning to await the claims of their
owners. After the trouble was all over
I lea riled that the crash which created
the panic was caused by some man’s
stepping upon tlie big bass fiddle, which
was at that time used iu the choir and
which, when not in requisition, was al
lowed to repose on the gallery floofl This
was what the men iu the gallery whom I
heard shouting atout the fiddle were try
ing to explain to the fright-crazed people
below. -
The Young Idea.
Little six-year-old was obliged to take
a dose of medicine that left au un
pleasant taste in the moitth. When asked
how he liked it he said : “Its good
enough, all but the end of it.”
Why, I thought you and little Flossy
Brown were great friends.” Little Miss.
Fashion—“So we are; but you wouldn’t
have me play with a little girl who
dresses her dolls in last year’s fashion,
would you, mamma!’’
Bobby is carrying au umbrella open
when it Is not raining or the sun shining.
asked why he docs so. * “Cause
when it rains pa wants it, and when the
sun shines ma wants it, an* it’s only this
kinder wedder X, kin git tir use it at alt”
1
‘John,” said a . schoolmaster, “you
will soon be a man. and will bare to at
tend to business. What do you suppose
you will do-when you. have to write let
ters unless you learn to spell better?”
‘Oh, sir,” answered John, ‘»I shall put
easy words into them.”
“Now, Willis,” said a coaxing mother,
I don’t like to take medicine any more
than you do; but I just make up my
mind to do it, and then do it.” The
child looked up through his tears, and
replied: “And mother, I just make up
my mind that I won't and then don’t.”
A bright little girl who lives near Chi
cago, asked for a second saucer of ice
cream the other evening. “I don’t think
it’s good for you; ask your father,” said
the mother. The girl went to the library
and put the question. “Not much,”
said her father emphatically. “Papa
says I can have a little,” she reported to
her mother with truthful and innoceai
eyes.