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The Georgia Enterprise
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PBESIBEITILECT
Harrison’s Friends Congratu
lating Him.
A Semi-Official Opinion of
His Views Regarding
The South.
THE BTATUS OF CONQREBB
STILL IN DOUBT.
The Democratic plurality in Now Jer
sey is now put down at 5,0 •;). The Demo
crat* elect to Congress Qeiscnhainer in
the fourth, and McAdoo in t io seventh.
The legislature will be Democratic by a
close vote. The Senate stands, Demo
crats, 11; Republicans, 10. This is the
first time in ten years that the D mo
crats have bud the N. J. senate. The
closeness of the legislature will make
the contest for United States Senator
next Winter unusually exciting.
The New York Time* (Cleveland),
says: “The 51st Congress, according to
returns, will consist of 168 Republicans
and 162 Democrats. This Republican
majority of one may be wiped out, and
it may be increased by later corrections
of the list. Indiana has gained three
Democrats and Missouri hue lost three,
ihe Maryland delega'io* is equally di
vided—three and three. New t ~
gains a Democratic member. Virginia
appears to have chosen an almost solid
delegation of Democrats. The New
ork Herald figures: 163 Democratic,
161 Republican ' r Hnr T’hoXr v or k
..t-xt House is so evenly ui
videii .hat it will take an official count
to deci- e which party has a majoiity.
The New York World (D. nu cratic), says:
“New Yon. state is 10,000 pluraiuy ret
Harrison. U< unecticut is 600 for Cleve
land. New Jersey is 8,000 for Cleve
land. Indiana is doubtful. The Demo
crats have been claiming Illinois as a
lorlorn hope. Illinois, with its twenty
two votes, would probably elect Clevc
and, despite the loss of New York.
Missouri has had a peculiar election, St.
Louis going Republican. The Democrat
ic state and national tickets, how
ever, are elected. New Jersey
is 6olid for Cleveland Cai
fornia is claimed for Cleveland.”
Returns throughout California come in
slowly, and us there are no complete
city or county returns, nothing of a com
parison w ith the vote of 1884 is possible.
Republican and democratic state central
committees both claim the 6tate, the
former by 7,000 to 9,000, while the latter
claim a majority of 2,000 to 3,000. San
Francisco was carried by the democrats.
Republican Chairman Cappcller claims
Ohio for Harrison by 25,000. The dem
ocratic committee makes no claim, but
still say the vote on the national ticket
is very close. The republicans gain two
congressmen—Moore in the 7tlr and Bur
ton iu the 21st—and lose one iu the 10th.
Mill’s majority in Texas two years ago
was over 6,000. This has been reduced
between 1,200 and 1,500. lie will have
a safe majority of 4,500. The counting
is slow owing to the many kinds of tick
ets. Ihe fight in Mill’s district was very
hot, butno trouble occurred. 'I he tables
of the Albany, N. Y., Argue (the oldest
Democratic paper in the country), gives
New York to Harrison over Cleveland
by about 10,000. Pennsylvania is
claimed for Harrison by 50,000 majority.
Delaware went for Harrison. The At
lanta Constitution has thia opinion: “it
is doubtiul if President Cleveland l.a?
carried any Northern state except New
Jersey, though both Indiana and Con
necticut arc claimed. It is equally doubt-
ful if the Democrats hold the House.
The loss of congressmen in the North
west, where it was claimed the tariff is
sue would make phenomenal gains, can
hardly be overcome. It is probable t hat t lit
President, the House and the Senate will be
in Republican hands for the nest 2 years.”
The latest reports show that in 440 out
of 1,806 products in Indiana, Hariison
has a net gaiu of 2,800. Republicans
say confidently “Indiana will give Har
rison 5,000 to 8,000. The Demo
cratic managers say: “Our reports
show that wo have carried the
state by from 3,000 to 6,000
unless the returns are tampered with.”
The family of Gen. Harrison (Presiden
elect), is a most interesting one. It con
sists of his wife, a matronly lady of at
tractive manners; his son Russell, who
has for a wife the daughter of Senator
Saunders, and his daughter, who is
married to Mr. McKey. They are at
tendants upon the Presbyterian church.
President Cleveland takes the result
calmly and philosophically. He talked
quite freely about the returns and in
creased Republican vete, but expressed
not the slightest regret in the world at
any action he had taken during Ins ad
ministration. From what lie has heard,
however,he concedes that he is defeated.
He attributes bis defeat to no one in par
ticular, anel says that Governor Hill and
Tammauy hall treated him with perfect
fairness, and that he has no fault to find
stall Pi obnbly Jhe coolest and appa
rently the least interested man in Colum
bus Ohio, was Judge Thurman, whe
spent his time in the way he has done
for the past few years, quietly rending in
his library. He was free from opinions
as to the result, and had not been-pay
ing much, if any, attention to the par
ticulars of the election. Hong asked for
an expression of his opinion, ho
laid he had nothing to say.
While President-elect narrison is re
ceiving the congratulations of his friends
at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., the
inevitable storm is brewing around him.
The hotel corridors are filled, not by
distinguished strangers from abroad, but
by men bent after the spoils of office.
Those men are cheering for
now, but in a few months, whcn they
And there are not offices enough to go,
iround, they will be as loud in their lm
irooatlons upon him. In the meantime,
those close toqen. Harrison have become
iware that their utterances arc l> kel y t 0
be regarded os the echod of their chief,
and have become somewhat chary
conversation. One of the closest friend,
and neighbors of Gen. Harrison, and
who worked hard for his nomination is
Dr Wilson, formerly of the i urgi
Institute la Atlanta, Ga„ who lived
twenty years there and was commander
of O. M Mitchell Post G. A. B. Said
Dr, Wilson; JT want ey frjs.wlaM At
lnnta to know what kind of a man Gen.
llnrrison is. He is clear handed and
free of ull entanglements. When he bo
romes President ho will recognize the
fuct that Georgia and South Carolina are
as much parts of the Union as Indiana
aud Illinois, lie will bend to nothing
for mete parly purpose. I have had oc
casion to talk with him upon the situa
tion in the South long before he thought
of the nomination, and therefore I can
speak for the honest sentiments of liis
heart. Gen. Harrison will recognize the
intelligence and virtue of cither part of
thp country. He is aware of the pecu
liar circumstance* in tho South, which
render politics there such n problem. If
be cannot remedy, he will not irritate.
He evidently desires the elevation and
full recognition of citizenship and tho
hi aliitg of wounds, and the promotion
of harmony will bo with him a labor of
love. My resideuco in the South and
knowledge of the noble character of her
people makes it a pleasure for me to lee
ablu to convey these assurances to my
friends there.” A staff correspondent of
a Southern Democratic paper says:
“There arc already signs of trouble ahead
in tegard to tho cabinet. The notice
senti officially conveyed to Mr. Blaine
that the memory of liis visit to Indiana
was not fragrant, was aggravated by the
publication of extracts front the London
newspapers in which Gen. Harrison was
spoken of contemptuously, and Mr.
Blaine was hailed as the real head of the
next government. Gen. Harrison feels
(here taunts deeply, and though he is a
man of cool judgment, there are times
when be feels like asserting himself. A
near friend of his said: ‘Wherever
Gen. Harrison sits, will bo the head of
the table.’ This wish to assort his own
individuality will force Gen. Harrison to
pass over Blaine, and select some other
man for the premiership,” In a double
leaded editorial headed “Harrison and
the South,” John C. New’s paper, the
Indianapolis Journal says: “Gen. Har
rison is not merely a strong friend of the
policy of protection to American indus
tries, which the progressive people of the
South desire to see maintained, but he is
in all other rcspec:* a patriotic American
statesman, large enough and broad
enough to take the entirfe country in the
scope of his vision and his efforts for its
welfare. We believe his election marks
the dawn of anew era of good feeling
between the North and South, and the
development of anew national
sentiment based on a better
understanding of our common interests.”
A story is iu circul ition in Covington,
Ky., that Speaker Cat lisle is to be de
prived of his certificate of election. The
ground of this action is an alleged ille
gality of the ballots cast for him in Camp
bell aud Kenton counties. It is as
sumed that if these are thrown out
his majority in the district will be over
come. The Kentucky law, it is said, re
quires that the ballot shall be plain white
paper, with no distinguishing features,
but the Carlisle ballots were priuted ou
large sheets of perforated paper, so that
when the tickets were toru apart, the
perforations appeared on the edges and
made them easily distinguished from
other tickets. W. H. Barnum, of the
Democratic National Committee, is seri
ously ill at bis home at Lime Rock, Conn.
In answer to telephone inquiry, it was
iianted that he was taken sick a week
ago while in New York. He returned
to his home Monday aud his illness as
sumed a dangerous character. Trouble
was caused by overwork, re
sulting in nervous pro.-tration.
Iu regard to the congressional situa
tion the New Y’ork Evening World, of
Thursday says: “Is Coogrese, as well
as the presidency, lost ?” As the belated
returns from the congressional come in
the complexion of the House grows
more and more doubtful. It is a possi
bility that the Republicans tnny have
control of the 51st Congress. The Dem
ocratic majority of 18 is dwindling away.
Estimates made by the Democrats
bring the margin down to two votes.
The Republicans are claiming that the
full returns will give them the House.
This is very improbable but a distinct
possibility. There have been some sur
prising Republican gains. Democratic
Bt. Louis has elected three Congressmen.
The Republicans make apparently well
based claims to three gains in Michigan.
But the Democrats have gained in Vir
ginia. New Y’ork’s delegation is un
changed as to parties. The fact of the
situation, is that there are enough dis
tricts yet uncertain to turn the House
majority either way. Chairman Brice,
of the Demociatic National Committee,
concedes Harrison’s elec'ion. The Re
publicans carry California from 5,000 to
10,000, Indiana by 3,000 to 4,000; West
Virginia is still in doubt. It will re
quire an official count to decide the re
sults. Full unofficial returns from New
York state place Harrison’s plurality at
12,000. The New York Evening Poet
makes the electoral votes stand: Harri
ior 233, Olevelaud 168, giving West
Virginia to the Democrats. Tho indica
tions are that the Republicans have ma
jorities in the legislature of AVest Vir
ginia and Delaware which give the party
two additional United States Senators.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ARE DOINO.
Dr. Porter, at Jacksonville, Fla., re
ports to the Marine Hospital rcrvice
that there were forty-seven new cates of
yellow fever and one death on Thursday,
making a total number of cases to dato
4,355 and deaths 307. Dr. Porter sug
gests that arrangements be made for con
valescents and other persons who have
escaped the fever s > far, ar.d wish ing to
go North without stoppage, to points
where frost has appeared this year, to and >
so without quarantine detention at Camp
Perry, with the restriction of disinfec
tion and fumigation of baggage and per
sonal wearimr aimarcl.
PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS.
Tho elections for members of the Land
tag resulted in favor of the Government,
the Extreme Right nnd the Left losing
seats which were captured by the Moder
ates. On church and school questions there
is a majority against the government,
consisting of Conservatives, Centrists
and Poles, is still possible. The lower
House of the Landtag will not meet be
fore January. The Reichstag will meet
in a short time.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Governor Scales, on Thursday, issued
his death warrant for the execution, on
January 25th, of Howard alias Bud An
derson, the man who last July, at Golds
boro, murdered W. H. Porter.
“MY COUNTRY: MAY’ SHE KVKU UK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /"—Jefferson.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1888.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LXIIOR—BEETIHNO CAUL
UUON OF EUROPEAN INTRIOUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
The Spanish government will not pro
test against the seizure of tho Spanish
schooner Gracio by tho United 8 atef
revenue cutter, admitting that the seizure
was justified.
Seven waiters aud anarchist* have
been arrested in connection with the ex
plosion of dynamite bombs in the registry
offices in the Rue Boucher and Rue Fran
caiso, in Paris, Fiance.
A report comes from a town in Alsace-
Lorraine of a conflict between the Ger
man and French sympathizing populace.
The people threw stoues at an officer,
ami fie was compelled to draw liis sword.
In accordance with o decision of the
special uuval committee, the English gov
ernment announce an admiraliiy scheme
to build eight first-class mcn-of-wnr, a
score of swift cruisers and many torpedo
vessels.
The large hotel at Long Beach, on thi
boast, about twenty miles from Los An
geles, Cal., with nearly all its costly fur
niture, was totally destroyed by fire on
Thursday night. Loss, $01,000; insur
ance, $45,000.
There was trouble between the Repub
lican and Democratic judges of election,
at San Rafael, New Mexico, over an at
tempt by the former to secure the poll
books. Provenchcr, one of the judges,
uud an old citizen, was shot through the
heart and instantly killed by the attack
ing party.
Ou Thursday, tire upper Btorv of the
building occupied by the wholesale
grocery house of Jacob Wcllancr, iu
M.lwaukee, Wis,, was gutted by lire.
The loss, which was caused mainly by
water, is fully $100,000; fully insured.
Three firemen narrowly escaped death by
suffocation.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episco
pal Church began their semi-annual ses
sion ou Thursday in Boston, Mass. The
Episcopal Board is made up of ten mem
bers. Two of these bishops—Taylor and
Thoburn—are missionary bishops, and
have jurisdiction and authority, one in
Africa and the other in India.
Mr. Gladstone received an address
on Thursday from the Birmingham na
tionalists, in reply to which he said that
the Irish cause was no longer dependent
Upon one life. The liberal party, bo de
clared, had taken up home rule, aud
they never had yet espoused a great
cause without achieving a successful
issue.
Anna Dickinson, lecturer and actress,
has begun suit in the supreme court in
New Y'ork, against the Republican
National Committee to recover $1,250
for services rendered during the cam
paign. She claims she was engaged in
September to deliver thirty lectures in
the West, and was to receive $125 for
each lecture and her expenses. She has
received $3,750, but claims it was also
agreed that in the event of Harrison’s
election she was to receive $5,000.
In the French Chamber of Deputies,
nn r l liursday, M. Dreyfus moved that the
5,000,000 francs asked for by the gov
ernment to fortify the harbors of Brest
and Cherbourg be spent in building
cruisers aud torpedo vessels. The Ger
man aud Italian navies, he said, were
supetior to the French navy, and the
German government was about to demand
250,000 marks to build more vessels.
Admiral Krontz, minister of marine, said
that when the Germans demanded that
amount he would demand a similar sum.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INO3 STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
There have been two new cases of yel
low fever at Decatur, both colored nurses,
but no deaths.
The Birmingham Atre wag on Thurs
day bought by the Herald. The p ‘wpaper
will be issued from the Herihl ofiire, and
will be called the “ Age-Herald .”
City Marshal A. 11. Draper, of Oxford,
was shot twice in the left arm by Abacr
Alexander, a grocery merchant of the
town. Alexander and a companion had
violated a town ordinance the night be
fore by popping fire crackers. Marshal
Draper made a case against them, and
when he went to summon Alexander
before the mayor, he got mad and slap
ped the marshal in the face. Draper
then struck at him with his stick, and
from that both parties commenced fir
ing pistols, with the result above. A
bystander hold Draper, or it is thought
he would have killed Alexander.
KENTUCKY.
Five men were killed and another mor
tally wounded at Lexington. In a po
litical discussion Champion Mullins und
John Martin pulled their revolvers and
commenced firing at each other. The
former a prominent Republican, and the
latter a government official. Friends of
each took up tho quarrel and twenty
pistols were pulled and a fusilado of
shots fired. Desperate men fought for
several squares. The fight was contin
ued for a quarter of au hour, when, foi
want of ammunition, tho sanguinaiy af
fray ceased. It was then found that
Samuel Ward, member of the Kentucky
Legislature; John Clifford, agent of the
Louisville <fc Nashville Road; John Mar
tin, government storekeeper; Frank
Stewart, an employe of the Kentucky
Central Railroad, end C. Mullins, were
killed, and J. Sambrook v merchant, bad
ly wounded.
FLO II IDA.
Dr. Neal Mitchell, president of the
Board of Health, r<- ports 34 new cases of
yellow fever for twenty-four hours. Dr.
Martin, at Gainesville reports, that phy
sicians will not accept less than sls per
diem, and even at that price prefer not
to visit cases which are principally ne
groes, and very insulting. He will, he
added, employ them at that rate until
otherwise ordered by the U. S. Govern
ment.
UEOUIIIA.
An Atlanta policeman named Veal
was heavily fined and will likely be dis
charged from the force, for assaulting a
Mrs. Christian, who declined to allow
him to court her daughter.
UOIBEHOLD MATTERS.
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.Cranberrv Sanee,
After removing all imperfect or soft
berries, wash"] thoroughly: placo for
about two minutes in scalding water
skim out or drain, and to overy pound
of fruit add three-quarters of a pound
granulated sugar, a half pint water, aud
tew over a moderate fire, lie careful to
cover, but don’t stir the fruit, occasion
ally shaking the pan if in darigor o(
burning, Tho berries will thus retain
their shape and add to tlicir appearance.
Boil from live to seven minutes; removo
from tire; turn into a doep dish, and set
aside to cool. If to be kept, they can be
Dt't up in air-tight jars.
i
Homemade Toilet Soap.
careful housewives save even tht
small bits of soup that liavo become too
little to use. Melt the pieces all together,
put in a small bit of Indian uica! and a
few drops of I perfumery. Let this
harden iu any way desired, stamp on a
pattern, or cut with a cake cutter, and
the result is a pleasing soap for toilet
use. Other bits of soap can be melted in
water, aud while the mixture is hot stir
in oatmeal until there is a stiff batter.
f\*r a hand soap this is uneqtialed when
much dirt or deep stains of ink or berries
are to be removed. The common yellow
soap incited ahd thickened with scouring
sand makes an excellent soap for scrub
bing aud scouring. Graphic.
Availing Hardwood Floors.
For waxing a hardwood floor take *
pound of the best beeswax, cut it into
very small pieces and let it thoroughly
dissolve in three pints of turpentine,
stirring o c.isionallv if neces-ary. The
mixture should be only a trifle thicker
than clear turpentine. Apply it with a
rug to the surface of the floor, which
fhould be smooth and perfectly clean.
The right amount varies, less being re
quired for close, hard grained wood,
and more if the wood is soft aud open
grained. Even professional “waxers’
are sometimes obliged to experiment,
according to the S'icntitic American,
which gives these directions, and novices
should always try a square foot or two.
When thoroughly dry, rub with a hard
brush. If it polishes well repeat the
proce s over the whole floor. If not,
remove the wax with sand paper and try
again. If the mixture is slow in drying
add a little of the common “dr.ers” sold
by paint dealers.
How to Utilize Buttermilk.
Buttermilk is used in many ways dowD
South. There is uothing more health
ful on a warm day thau a glass of fresh
buttermilk. In our cooking it is almost
indispensable, used with soda in bred
making. ( labbci is nice made into cream
cheese. If you do not have a press made
of tin you can make a bag of coaise
cloth, Into which you pour the clabbet
till the bag tightens and hang it up to
urip. In twelve hoars the curd will
be ready for use. Servo for breakfast
with cream and sugar (with a little nut
meg if you like) or eat with salt and
pepper. ;
Buttermilk Biscuit: Sift together a
quart of flour and a teaspoon of soda.
Work into it a teaspoon of salt, and a
tablespoon of lard or butter (not melted).
Add a pint of buttermilk, a little at a
time until ail is used. Do not work tliet
dough longer than to collect it smoothlys
Roll out one-half inch thick and cut with)
a biscuit cutter. Bake immediately in
hot oven tor about ten minutes.
Buttermilk Egg Bread: One quart of
corn meal, one tablespoon of melted lard,
one tea-pooa of salt, four eggs beaten
until light. Mix these ingredients into
one quart of buttermilk, into which has
been disolved one teaspoon of soda. Pour
batter iuto a pan, which has been heated
and well greased, to bake.
Compotes of Fruit*.
Compotes are fresh fruits boiled with
very little sugar. They are much used
by the French, and are an excellent
mode of preparing inferior or overripe
fruits.
Compotes of Peaches: Cut ripe peachet
in half, thr,.w them into boiling watci
for two or three minutes, then take them
out and put in ice water; peel them.
Put a pint of water in a saucepan, and
set over a brisk fire; let boil, and put
the peaches in. As soon as tender take
them out, placo on a dish, and pour
syrup over, t
Compote of Oranges: Put a pound of
sugar aud half a pint of water on to boil.
Boil ten minutes, and skim ; add the juice
of one lemon. Peel a dozen oangcs,
cut them iu halves, remove the seed, and
drop a few pieces at a time in the hot
syrup, and lay them out on a flat dish.
Pour over them the remaiuisg syrup,
and set on ice.
Compote of Apples: Peel and quarter
large ripe npples. Put in a pan to stew
with a little water and sugar to make n
syrup. Aid pieces of cinnamon bark
and lemon peel cut in strips. Let boil,
take up the apples, lay in a dish to cool;
boil the syrup thick aud pour over.
Compote ot Pears: Quarter, peel and
cook some pears in a stewpan with 8
little water and sugar. When tender,
take the pears up. Boil the syrup down,
add a handful of raisins and a sliced
lemon. When thick as jelly pour the
syrup over the fruit.
Stuffed Compote: Select some large,
ripe apples; pare them, and take out the
cores, leaving the apples whole. Cook
them in syrup, take up, drain, and bake
them a few minutes iu a very quick oven.
When done, till the middle with peach
or quince marmalade. Then roll each
apple in the jelly in which it was bo led.
Dish them in the form of a pyramid;
put whipped cream around the base,
and serve, t
Syrup of Compotes: Put a pound of
sugar in a kettle with a pint of water,
the juice of a lemon, a little powdered
cinnamon. Set it o.cr a slow fire, let
boil, and skim. Continue to boil until
clear and thick; let cool and bottle.
This syrup will keep for months, and is
very convenient to have ready for mak
ing compotes. Courier-Journal.
To Save Firemen From Asphyxiation.
An English inventor has perfected an
appliance which will be of great value to
firemen. It is a respirator with an India
rubber mouth piece, and is designed to
enable the wearer to breathe and work in
comfort in dense smoke and poisonous
gases. The device is fastened securely by
a baud around the head and a flange lying
between the teeth and lips, while a small
projecting piece may be grasped by the
teeth. The air inhaled is drawn through
a series of small filters containing wet
sponges, coltou wool dampened with
glycerine, and animal charcoal. Tho
filters are provided with valves so that
the breath expired from the lung* is
sent direct to the external atmosphere.
Spectacles, with india-rubber rims fit
ting tightly to the cheek and brow, pro
tect the eyej.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HI7MORODB SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Should Bear It In Hind—Nothing
But tho Truth—A Rotter
Name—Changed Hi*
Mind, Etc., Etc.
Iluiband “You arc not tho cook my
mother used to be, my dear.”
Wife—“No, John, fortunately. A'ou
mustn’t forget that your father died of
dyspepsia. ” — Sifting*.
Nothing But the Truth.
Judge—"Prisoner,thia ia the thirtieth
time thi*year that you have appeared
before this tribunal. W’hat brought you
here againt"
Prisoner—“To tell the truth, Judge,
it was the police.”
A Rotter Name.
Pretty Cousin (to young Siisy)—
‘‘Why, Charley, since I last saw you you
have grown quite a beard."
Young Sissy—“ Was, Maud; mutton
chop whiskers, vou know.”
Pretty Cousin—“Oh, are they? Why
they look more like lamb-chop whis
kers.”—Ntto York Sun.
The Progress of Science.
Jenkins—“ Did you hear of the won
derful operation Dr, Ball performed on
Sndthcrs last week?"
Bilkins—“No! what was it?”
Jenkios—“Five years ago Smithera
stepped on a tack, and yesterday the
doctor removed a ten-penny nail from
the arm of Bmithers’ little bor.” —The
Idea.
Changed His Mind.
Wife—“ Shall we go to the picnic to
day, dear?”
Husband—“ Just as you say, love.”
Wife— ‘ Well, if we go we must take
the baby.”
Husband—“Oh, by the way, there’s
all that cord wood to cut and split. I
gueas I’ll atay at home.” —Burlington
Tree Trent.
In the Same Predicament.
Kirby—“ Lend me • fiver, will you, old
boy? I’m clean broke.”
Moxcy—“That’s a pretty good ring
you wear. Why don’t you hock it?”
Kirby—“ Couldn’t, you know. It's a
(ouvenir of a deceased brother.”
Moxey—“Well, my money is a souve
nir of a deceased father. Day-day, old
fel."— Time.
Fan Enough.
It was his titst visit to the city. As he
stood on tbc curbstone shaking his sides
with laughter, he was accosted by one of
New Haven’s finest. “What’s the fun,
stranger?”
“Fun? Can’t you ace it? Just look
how that thing (pointing to a watering
cart) leaks. Why, the blamed fool won’t
have a drop left when he get* home.”—
Neut Haven News.
Learning English.
A Frenchman of this city, having re
ceived the photograph of a lady, asked
a friend what was customary under the
circumstances.
“Compliment it,” replied the friend.
“Tell her its beauty is very rare.”
“I beg to make zee scknowledgmong,
madauie,” he said to her at their next
meeting. “Zee beauty of madame is
very scarce." —Binghamton Republican.
Two Brutes.
Magistrate “What’s tho charge
against this man?”
Officer—“He threw a photograph lens
at a baby and cut its head. ’’
Magistrate —“Are you a regular pho
tographer?"
I’risoncr “Yes, your honor. I had
been trying for two mortal hour* to take
a picture of that little imp—I mean lit
tle baby, your honor—and—”
Magistrate—“ You are discharged. I
used to be a photographer myeelf.”—
The Cartoon.
The Lost Found.
“Well, Mias,” interrogated the irate
father of a Chicago girl and a now thou
sand dollar piaao; “can you tell me
what this is. stuck onto this rosewood
like a lump of grafting wax ! Have you
decided to marry a farmer, nnd is he giv
ing you lessons in tree-planting:”
“Oh, no,” answered the maiden, with
a glad ring in her spruce-like voice:
“that’s my dear old gum. When Harry
wanted a song, I put it where it would
be safe, and then forgot it and thought
I’d lost it.” —The Jdea.
A Hullnc Passion With Him.
The inquisitive traveler had sat along
side his one-legged victim till everybody
had turned in, and still plied him with
questions till he wished he had died at
the amputation.
“How did you lose your leg!" he
asked, as a clincher.
“Well, I’ll tell you if you promise not
to ask any more questions.”
“All right; I won’t.”
“It was bit off.”
“Good night; am going to bed; but
I’d like mighty well to know what bit
it off.”— Chicago Timet.
The Expletive that Caught Her.
Wife (piously)—“Henry, I wish you
wouldn’t swear so."
Henry (shocked) —“I don’t swear, my
dear.”
Wife—“ Yes, you do; or just the same
thing. You musn’t say ‘by George,’
or ‘by Jove,’or ‘by Ned’ or bv any
thing.”
Husband (submissively)—“Not even
buy anew bonnet, love?”
Then she was very, very sorry for her
thoughtless reform movement, and com
ing close to him, threw her arms about
his neck and asked him to forgive her. —
Washington Critic.
The Court Reversed Its Decision.
“Mr. Brief,” said the judge, grimly,
“it seems to me that you are wasting
time; you might as well try to make the
court believe that two and two do not
make four.”
Brief settled his eyeglasses a little
more firmly on his nose and responded
blandly: “May it please your honor I
am prepared to do that. Two and two
make 22.”
The shadow of a smile played around
the corner of the iudge’s mouth as he
sat back in his chair, and said: “You
may go on with your argument, Mr.
Brief." —Boston Bulletin.
A Bad Habit.
“Now, hubby, before wo wero mar
ried wo promised to tell each other of
our little faults and try to correct them
—do you remember, dear?”
“I'm-huh,” grunted the husband, who
was deep in reading the last scandal.
‘ Well, we’ve been married a week
and I notice a had habit you have-do
you hear?”
“Urn-hub.”
“Yes, a had hnbit you have of not
paying attention when one is talking
are you listening to met”
“Pm-huh.”
“Of not paying attention, and then
when one gets through and asks you
•omething you *ay; 4 Do what?' This is
not only aggravating, but impolite, and
I want you to break yourself of tho disa
greeable habit.’’
“Do what?”— St. Louit Ilumoriet.
Would Throw That In.
“My friend," said a tight-fisted banker
to a young man who had pulled him out
of the water, “I appreciate the fact that
yon have saved my life, and I am pre
pared to reward you—to reward you
liberally for your services. What can I
do for you?"
“Well, sir, there was a suit of clothes
spoiled. ” said the rescuer who was good
natured though not educated, “that
would be about seventeen dollars; then I
lost my hat, that would be fifty cents;
then I took considerable liquor to keep
off a cold, which cost me a quarter. I
don’t think of anything else, sir.”
“But you do not mention the fact that
you have saved my life. What can Ido
for you on that score?”
“Oh, well, call the whole thing
eighteen dollars an’ I’ll throw tho life
saving in free.” —Merchant Traveler.
The Visitor Was Mistaken.
Proprietor (showing visitor through
the office)—“This is the editorial de
partment.”
Visitor —“Then I suppose that fat,
genial-looking chap across there is the
obituary editor, and that the thin, cross
looking genius who just threw a paper
weight at the office boy, is your funny
man?”
Proprietor—“No; both guesses are
wrong. You probably obtained your
ideas from current paragraphs. The fat.
good-natured man is the humftriat, and
the attenuated gentleman is the writer
of the tariff editorials.”
Visitor—“ Ah. indeed! But this gentle
man with the handsome desk, railed in
from the rest of the office, attended by a
pretty type-writer and two messenger
boys? I suppose ho is editor-in-chief.”
Proprietor—“ Wrong again! That i*
the baseball reporter I” —The Idea.
Artificial Flowers.
Artificial flowers, says a writer in the
Gartenlaube, were first invented by pious
nuns. In the Italian convents the altars
and shrines of saints were, up to the end
of the eighteenth century, decorated
with artificial flowers, laboriously put to
gether, of paper, parchment, and other
stiff materials. Since then the “Italian
flowers,” which are made in Venetian
factories of tho imperfect cocoons of
silkworms, have become famous for their
daintiness, which makes them particular
ly suitable for toilet decorations. Beside
these silk flowers other artificial flowers
are made in Venice, whence nearly all
Italy is supplied, and whence whole
wagon loads are exported to other coun
tries. No sooner has the visitor to Venice
taken his early cup of chocolate at
Florian’s, near the Marcus place, when
the cicerone appears, offering to show
him the "famous” factory of the “fa
mous Italian flowers.” This factory is
situated in one of the gray old houses of
the Frezzaria, and several hundred girls
are occupied in it. In the warehouse
the most wonderful reproductions of
natural flowers arc exhibited in glass
cases, and it seems in many cases as it
not only the richest and most brilliant
colors, but the very scent of the flowers,
had been stolen from nature, for some of
the artificial flowers are steeped in th
perfume distilled from the flower which
it represents. Any one wishing to take
home some souvenir of Venice can have
his choice of beautiful and often fantas
tic objects at the factory.
In the upper stories of the house the
girls sit at their work, constructing, with
clever hands, the most beautiful works of
art, for all the most expensive artificial
flowers are nearly exclusively made by
hand, and their value depends solely on
the manual dexterity and taste of the
poorly-clad and mostly delicate-looking
girls, sitting at long tables and inhaling
the unhealthy dust of the dyed mate
rials. No machinery could replace the
dexterity and taste. Last century a Swisi
invented a machine for cutting out the
leaves and petals, but it can only be used
for the smallest kinds, such as are want
ed for hyacinths, lilies of the valley,
and other small flowers. In larger petals
the irregularities of manual work are
preferred to the stiff and correct forms
produced by machinery. The material
of which the petals are made is woven
in special factories; the scissors and
other tools used by the girls, as well nt
the presses in which the veins are traced
on the leaves, are of a shape specially
adapted to the work. Each part of a
flower is made by specialists. In one
room, for instance, only stalks of flowers
and leaves are made; in another fruits
and beiries of all kinds are cast, if they
are of wax, or blown, if of glass. Ths
cleverest workers are employed in mak
blo-soms of the single petals, and bou
quets, wreaths and garlands of the sin
gle blossoms. It is very interesting to
watch this process and to see how, first,
the centre of a flower is constructed,
then the petals put round, next the green
leaves, and so forth, till a flower or •
branch is complete.
Explaining A “Shower of Blood.”
Superstition has in all ages been the
fertile source of direful misfortunes about
to befall the human race. It often
i creates objects of terror out of the most
! harmless natural phenomena. The so
’ called showers of blood have occurred in
many countries and in all ages of which
we have any knowledge, and while the
ignoraut and superstitious have alwayf
regarded them as the precursors cf some
direful calamity, naturalists know from
whence they come, and that they are
really harmless. That in most cases
these showers are merely the excrement
of butterflies when on tho wing is now
well known, and one of the earliest ol
recorded phenomena of this kind oc
cured in 1353, fer Sleidan relates that a
vast multitude of butterflies swarmed
through a great part of Germany, and
sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings,
clothes, and men with blood drops, ns if
it had rained blood. Another similar
shower is described by lieaumen in the
beginning of July 1008, in the suburbs
of Aix, when all the country about was
covered with what appeared to be blood.
Similar showers arc likely to occur wher
ever butterflies emerge in great numbers
at a tima from their pupa' state, for this
reddish fluid is usually discharged soon
after they take to their wings in flight.
—New York Sun.
It is announced that Mrs. Cleveland is
getting tired of answering notes from
people who name their babies after
her.
NUMBER 4.
THE PROUD LADY <3OHE.
Away from tho noise and clatter,
Tho din of the busy street,
Is a cabaret, shaded anil silent,
Where at evening we often meat
She is a proud, rich lady,
Reantiful, wealthy and grand,
Ami society’s legions marshal
At the wave of her jeweled hand.
Yet far from the glamor and glitter,
From revel and rout and ball,
She seeks her old companion.
When the evening shadows fall.
I read in her eyes of azure
A welcome tender and strong.
And her greeting to me is the music
Of a sweet, old fashioned song.
She sits where the fading sunshine
Falls on her pure, sweet face,
About her, draped and twining,
An aura of shimmering laoe.
We chat over old excursions
By woodland and stream and shore;
We clink our glasses, the wine flies;
“Come, waiter, and bring us more.”
I open my eyes, the waiter
Is before me, bottle in hand,
But alas! the rich, proud lady
Has gone to the shadowy land.
For although I weave about her
This web of an ancient time.
The lady long since has banished
Her minstrel and his rhyme.
—San Francisco Newt.
PITH AND POINT.
Grammar students advance by declin
ing.
The first vacant lot has a “common”
place appearance.
A party “hemmed in” by the Indians
U likely to be basted.
• “Please, I want to buy a shilling’s
worth of hay." “Is it for your father!’ 1
“Oh, no; it’s for the horse.”
The left bower —The man who isn’t
recognized by the lady to whom he lifts
his hat.— Burlington Free Frets.
“There will be a domestic storm," he
murmured, as he heard a crash in the
kitchen: “The glass is falling."— Hatton
Pott.
When a man pays 33.00 for a little
piece of quinine, it is hard to convince
him that it is a drug in the market. — The
Idea.
Requested to define the word “den
tist,” Saphirsaid: “He is a man who
pulls out other people’s teeth to get
tomething for his own to bite.”
The hights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
Were out among the boys alt night.
—Merchant Traceler.
Mamie—“ What are you writing, Min
nie; your will?” Minnie —“No, I’m
writing my won’t George proposed
last night and I told him l’u answer to
day.”
“That’s it!”exclaimed Mrs. Bascomat
the concert, as the siDgers came out again
in response to an encore. “Make ’em do
it over again until they get the thing
right.”
Never use a crow-bar to get a railroad
cinder out of your eye. A lead pencil
sharpened to a fine point will work it
out if you jab hard enough.— Detroit
Free Press.
Old Mr. Bently (reading the paper)—*
“I see that the King of Spain is ill.”
Old Mrs. Bently—“Goodness, Joshua, I
hope he hasn’t got a cant cer, too J" Old
Mr. Bently—“No, he’s teething.”—
Phi'ip H. Welch.
There is a yell that scares them all.
The pagan and believer; \ j
For hear it now in Florida,
It is the yell o fever.
—New York Mercury.
The distressing news comes from Eng
land that the Prince of Wales loses his
wind too quickly to make a good tennis
player. He wouldn’t make a successful
member of the Lnited States Congress,
either. — Norristown Herald.
Thero were a lot of Ita’ians sorting
over a waste heap on lower Broadway.
“Why are those people like women’s
dresses?” asked I’lugly; and when h:s
friend couldn’t tell he said they were
gathered at the waist.— Siftings.
She (Haring up)—“What do you mean
by kissing me, William Henry Smith?”
W. H. S. (humbly)—“l-I-I-mcant no
disrespect, I assure you.” She (angrily)
“Well, I should like to see you do
it again, that’s all.” W. 11. S.—“ Hers
goes, then.” 8. (smoothing her rulfled
plumage)—“You’re just awful.” —Boiton
Courier.
The Aquatic Spider and Its Diving-
Bell.
While their nearly constant abode is
the water, they are, like most other
spiders, air breatners; consequently they
need some special provision for” provid
ing themselves with air while living
under the water, and for this purpose
they possess the art of constructing a
kind of diving-bell. It is au interesting
sight to witness one of them making his
air ceiL Clinging to the lower side of a
few leaves, and securing them in position
by spinning a few threads, the spider
rises to the level of the water, with its
belly uppermost, and, doubling up its
bind-legs, retains a stratum of air
among the hairs with which its body is
covered. Then it plunges into the water
and appears as in the first stage of the
making of its silvery robe. Going im
mediately to the spot it had chosen, it
brushes its body with its paws, when
the air detaches itself and forms a bub
ble under the leaf. The spider sur
rounds this bubble with the impermeable
silky matter furnished with its spinners.
Returning to the surface, it takes in an
other layer of air, which it carries down
and adds to the first one, also extending
the envelope over it The process is kept
up till the “diving-bell” has reached the
proper size and is finished. The ideal
form of the construction is that of a
thimble, but it often assumes au ir
regular shape, like nn inverted sack.
WhiG the spider has taken possession of
itetedoubt it remains quiet in it, head
down, watching for the appearance of
an insect. Perceiving it, it seizes it and!
returns to its lodge, which ithassecured
against intruders by spinning threads
across it, to devour its prey at its leisure.
—Popular Scietiee Monthly.
Radishes.
Radishes were known in E.ngland in
the days before this ceutury, or in cer
tain portions of the island, by the name*
of “radcole” and “radio.” It is gener
ally believed that we arc indebted to
the Chinese for the radish, and it is said
that before the Christian era, this vege
table had had the honor of having a hook
written about itself. Pliny tells of
radishes that were cultivated in Rome,
one of the kinds being so transparent
that a person could see through the
roots 1