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Strip’d Bke SB outrider.
The owl sharply eyed ter,
Aad said: "If he chest you
FD not soold nor beet you;
nt Just merely eat you.”
The osri sot her spin
Her web, frail and thin,
Found tbs ball, eat end In.
But, next Sunday morning,
Wither: word of warning.
The baft want a-etonnlng I
With a shag and a clang,
With a beam and a bang.
The old clapper rang I
The owl did not chide her,
Bebuke ner deride her,
But he ate up that spider 1
Here is a moral, dear children, for you:
Kevei promise a thing you're net able to de
—Frank JL Scan Jet, in St yicholtu.
Tho Little Man Who Bad at Mann Chil
dren a a a Sieve Bat Ho let.
There was a little can who had as
many children as there are holes in a
si ere. As he was going to seek his
bread he met a beggar who gare him a
bean and told him to plant it in his gar
den, assuring him at the same time that
it would grow so quickly that in a short
time it would reach the sky. The man
sowed the bean, which grew so prompt
ly that soon it hid its head in the clouds;
thee he climbed up the bean-stalk and
knocked at the door of paradise.
“ Who is there ? ” asked the bon Dieu,
who came to open the door.
“It is a little man who has as many
children as there are holes in a sieve.”
“Here k a napkin,” said the bon
Dieu to him; “ take it, and when you
ward; to eat lay it on the table, saying :
Let (hero rams to m bread, wine and rout,
That liiUlhl here;
Let there oome to me bread, wine and roast,
To satisfy all the folk her*.
She little man went down from Para
dise all joyons; he gave to eat all his
family; then, as he was proud of what
he had done, he went to the inn, where
he remained over night. Before going
to bed he could not help talking:
“I have a napkin; keep the thing
quiet, and don't let anybody say to it;
bread, wine and roast
To satisfy all the folk here.”
During the night the inn-keeper re
placed the fairy napkin by another nap
kin fast like it, and the little man took
it away with him; but it was no use say
ing to it as he laid it on the table:
bread, wine and roast
To satisfy all the folk here.
He saw nothiDg come. So he climbed
np his beautiful bean-stalk again and
knocked at the door of paradise.
“ Who is there ? ” asked the bon Dieu.
“It is the la!-tie man who his as many
children as there are holes in a sieve.”
“Ton oome rather often, my friend.
But this time I will not refuse you.
Here is a donkey; you must put a cloth
under his four feet and say : ‘ Donkey,
make gold and silver,’ and your wish will
be fulfilled ; but try and be sharper than
you were the first time.”
The little man, after having tried the
virtues of his ass, could not refrain from
going with him to the inn, and he talked
again :
“ Mind you do not say to my ass :
‘Donkey, make gold and silver.’ ”
“ No. no.” reolied the inn-keoner :
“ we won’t say that to him ; go to sleep
in peace.”
During the night he substituted an
other ass for the one that came from
heaven, and the poor little man could
not have any more crowns. So he went
io see if the beanstalk was still there,
olimbed up it and knocked for the third
time at the door of paradise.
“ Who is there ?” asked the bon Dieu.
“ it is a little man who has as many
children as there are holes in a sieve.”
“ Ah! it is you again, my friend; you
oome too often ; I am sure that you have
been to the inn again.”
“ Give me something !” said the little
man.
“Here’s a stick; when yon wish to
make use of it you must say: ‘Stiek,
unfold, but not on me.’ This is the last
thing I shall give vou.”
The little man went down from
paradise and returned to the inn; be
fore going to bed he said:
“ Mind you do not say to my stiok :
‘Stiek, unfold I’" ' *
‘ 1 Best in peaoe, ” replied the inn-keeper.
But as soon as the little man was in bed
the inn-keeper made haste to take up tne
stick and sav to It:
“Stick, unfold!”
No sooner had he spoken than the
stick began to beat him so that he cried
for help. The little man came, and the
inn-keeper said:
“ Little man. pick np your stiok 1”
“ Give me my napkin and my don
key ?”
The inn-keeper agreed, and when the
little man had his nankin and his ass he
delivered the inn-keeper by making mm
•ay:
“Stiek. nnfold. but not against me.”
Bate io Boot With a ueopard.
No sooner had we camped than Tom
mv hurried off to find ont where the
noisy flocks of iris-crows were perched.
Menito, meanwhile, had watered onr
mule, and reported that, farther np, the
rill was as cold as ioe, so I pioked up the
drinking-cup and accompanied him to
the spring. We had followed the wind
ings of the glen for some 500 or 600
yards, when suddenly the boy seised my
arm, and by a sort of instinct at the
same moment my eyes met those of an
animal crouching behind a fallen tree,
not more than fifteen paces from where
w*stood. “Don’t stir,’’ I whispered;
ELLIJAY ®H| COURIER.
W. JF. COMBS)
BS:t*r ud FvblKhu J
“ that’s a panther! The least movement,
and he will make a spring.”
Menito stood as stiU as a statue, bat j
felt his finger-nails piercing my skin ;
he began to realise onr situation, tor
even through the gloom of the ravine
and the intervening branches at the
fallen tree we could see that the animal
was getting ready for action ; inch by
inch it advanced its fore-paws and
lowered its head. At that moment, as I
gripped my hunting-knife, the report of
a gun boomed through the glen. Two
instants afterward, the panther had
vanished—a single leap had landed him
on the other side of the oreek, and with
the second jump he was away and ont
of sight among the bowlders of a branch
ravine.
“ That was Tommy’s shot-gun,” said
I; “he fired at the rookery, I sup
pose,” for once more the hills were
ringing with the croaks and caws of the
iris-crows.
Menito made no reply, bnt still
clutched my arm, and, looking into his
face, I saw the tears rolling down his
cheeks—the first and last time I ever
caught him crying. 1 never saw a
braver lad of his age, but the excitement
for onoe had overstrained hk nerves.—
Dr. Y. L. Oswald, in St Nicholas.
A Bird that Turns Sotru'r+ault*.
There’s a pretty little bird that lives
in China, and is called the Fork-Tailed
Paras. He is about as big as a robin,
and has a red beak, yellow legs, black
tail, and red-and-yellow wings. Nearly
all tiie colors are in his dress, you see,
and he is a gay fellow.
But this bird has a trick known by no
other birds that ever I heard of. He
turns somersaults I Not only does he
do this in his free life cm the trees, but
also after he is caught and put into a
cage. He just throws his head far book,
and over he goes, touching the bars of
his oage, and alighting upon his feet
on the floor or on a peroh. He will do
it over and over a number of times with
out stopping, as though he thought it
great fun. All his family have the
same trick, and they are ' oalled Tum
blers. The people of China are fond of
keeping them in cages and seeing them
tumble.— St. Nicholas.
a journalist's influbnce forty
TEARS AGO.
A story told by Charles T. Congdon,
of the New York Tribune, in his “Ram
iniscences” of a Boston editor, Itichard
Haughton of The Atlas, also illustrates
the personal influence of the journalist
in the old Whig days.
In 1840 Daniel Webster thought the
Whigs should nominate him for Presi
dent. Mr. Haughton, believing that
Mr. Webster could not be elected if
nominated, favored the choice of Gen.
Harrison. It was a bold act to come out
against the great man in the city where
he was idolized. But the editor was
capable of doing more t.han that—he
dared
To beard the Hon In his den.
The Douglas in his ball.
Taking a proof-sheet of the article, in
which he indicated the course he in
tended to pursue, he called on Mr. Web
ster. The great man read the article
and flew into a passion. He ordered the
editor out of his house, but the com
mand was not heeded. Waiting for Mr.
Webster to become calmer, Mr. Hough
ton set forth the political situation.
“You cannot be President, Mr. W' n *
ster,” he said, with editorial plainness
of speech; “ but you can have-sa office
quite as important and honor* 0 ! 0 ; you
can be Secretary of Stated Yon know
how it will irritate your friends in Bos
ton. Ido not ak you to say to them
that you approve of it, nor that you dis
approve of it. I merely ask you to say
nothing.”
These were brave words to speak to
Daniel Webster, for he was then the
dictator of Massachusetts politics. But
they were effective in persuading him
that silence would be the most dignified
course for him to pursue.
Great was the commotion in State
Street the next morning, as Mr. Webster
walked down it with more than usual
dignity. “ Mr. Webster, have you seen
the Atlas ?” “ Mr. Webster, have you
read that shameful article?” cried one
and another of his friends,
“ I have not seen the Atlas,” he said,
bearing himself magnificently; 11 nor do
I care to see it. I suppose that the ed
itor expresses his opinions, as ha has a
right to do.”
Thus the great man, heeding the edi
tor’s frank suggestion, took himself out
of the way. He became Secretary of
State, and thereby was enabled to do
his most serviceable act to the republic,
the negotiation of the Ashbnrton
Treaty. , _
He happened to press the foot of a
young lady, who was sitting next to the
door, in getting out of a street oar. The
damsel, compressing her brow into an
awe-inspiring frown, ejaculated : “ You
clumsy wretch! ” Many men would
have looked foolish and apologized, bnt
Col. Fellows was equal to the occasion.
“My dear young lady,” he exclaimed,
“ yon should have feet large enough to
be seen, and then they wouldn’t be
trodden upon.” Her brow relaxed, her
eyes sparkled, her lips smiled, and the
injury was forgotten,—AW York litr
mUL
ELUJAY, GA„ THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER 29, 1881.
ADULTERATION OT WOOD ABB
DRUGS.
The New York Legislature at its last
session passed a law to prevent the ad
ulteration of food and drags. The duty
is committed to the State Board of
Health of ascertaining what articles are
adulterated, and the Sanitary Committee
of the board has appointed eight chem
ists to make the investigation. To
each of these chemists certain kinds of
foods or drags are to be assigned for
purchase and analysis. The Sanitary
Engineer has already directed attention
to three classes of articles adulterated,
which, in his opinion, require to be
analysed, exposed and oheoked. The
United States exported last year to
France and Italy 1,668,544 gallons of
cottonseed oil. It is what may be
called “anopen secret” that muoh of
this oil comes back to ns as “pure
olive oil.” It is also known that a
quantity of cottonseed oil does not go
abroad, but is put up in bottles resem
bling those of foreign make, and laboled
“olive oil,” and sold as such. Another
article adulterated is castile soap. This
iseommonly regarded as the purest article
of its kind, and is consequently in great
demand for certain purposes. But near
ly all the eastile soap, even that put to
medical uses, is now said to be more or
less good or bad imitations, the purity
of the soap being at this time, an ex
ception instead of a rule. Our wines
are also largely adulterated, and some
of the beer and ale that is so largely
consumed in this country have been
subjected in the brewing to similar
fraudulent processes. The New York
Sun gives a long acoount of the adul
terations practiced in the laat-mentioned
articles of drink, and prints the opinions
of physicians as to the effeots produoed
in drinkers by oocoulns and cannabis in
die us, glucose, etc., effeots especially
not liable in diseases of the kidneys.
Gluoosr when properly made, and
freed from the acids used in its manu
facture, is said to be harmless, and the
same harmlessness is attributed to
oleomargarine when the manufacture is
oonducted with, a due regard to cleanli
ness and the fat n the prooess of eon
version is pure. In both cases those
articles are held to be 'deleterious when
the acid in glucose has -(p-pletoly
pletoly removed,.and the fat frorilW -Th
oleomargarine is mode is of an iniSttoS
quality. In Chioago it has been com
monly reported that it is the al most
general practice there to mix stearin”
with commercial lard for the purpose °f
hardening it. Spices also are wg°ly
adulterated; their charaoter per
mitting unscrupulous manufacture and
handling. Of samples of
mustard, carefu I ’/ selected in New York
from rcsponsi klo dealers, Dr. Smart
found that *** vrere entirely pure.
It is consol' fl g> however, to be told that
adulteratP nß in this country “seldom
take a f~’*n that is dangerous to health.”
Hov”>' or tliis may be, there are possibil
ities of such a peril wherever adultera
ti'-ns are resorted to. A purchaser who
jays for a pure article and does not get
yhat it is guaranteed to be should have
jomo stringent power of redress, and
this is what the English law and what
the law just passed in New York unde*”
take to give, besides affording inciden
tal prelection to the publio by author
izing a rigid system of inspection.—Bal
timore Sun.
A LUXURIOUS RATII-ROOM.
Among the things we sometimes read
about, but never really see, may be in
cluded the bath-room of the Marquise
Annonast Visconti, who has given a de
scription of the interior of her bijou
hotel in the Bne de Jouv. Full plans
and details of the marvelous luxury of
the interior fittings of the bath-room
have been given. It is lit by handsome
stained-glass windows, wainscoted with
lava from Vesuvius and hung with rare
old tapestry. The bath is made of solid
silver, the water is supplied by a dol
phin; a pressure on the one eye causes
the water to oome ont hot and on the
other cold, while the movement of the
tongue allows the bath to empty itself
in a moment. The whole house is fitted
np in the same luxurious manner.—.
Paris correspondent
The great United States has 7,200 men
and 1,898 offioers in its navy. Only
about one-fifth of these seamen are ever
at sea. One reason is that we haven’t
ships enough in sailing condition to ac
commodate over one-third of them, even
if fully maimed, and the other is that
they are away on leaves of absence and
shore duty—and don’t care to ride the
foamy billow. We suppose they are also
in as bad a condition as Oapt. Corcoran’s
crew, so far as the terpsichorean art is
concerned, but Secretary Hunt might
teach them a hornpipe during the dull
summer days, when he 6oh nothing else
to do
An anti-fra ad ballot-box, adopted in
Boston, registers the ballots as they
drop and an automatio stamper marks
them.
Liettt. Conder has advocated that
the site of the crucifixion is a knoll north
of Jerusalem, near Jeremiah's grotto,
ealled the 1 ‘ Race of fhe Stoning, ”
A WOXDRRWVL STOUT.
Some gentlemen were dining together
and relating their traveling adventures,
when one of them dealt so much in the
marvelous that it induced another to
give him a lesson,
“ I was onoe, sir,” said he, “ engaged
in a skirmishing party. I advanced too
far, was separated from my friends, and
saw three Indians in pursuit of me; the
* horrors of the tomahawk in the hands
of angry savagee took possession of my
mind. I considered for a moment what
was to be done; most of us love life,
and mine was both preciousyund useful
to my family. I was swift ' foot, and
fear added to my speed. r took"*
back—for the oountry war open one
—I at length perceived that one of my
enemies had outrun the others, and that
well-known saying, ‘ Divid and con
quer,’ occurring to me, I slackened my
speed and allowed him to oome up. We
engaged in mutual fury. I hope none
here (bowing to his auditor:) will doubt
the result. Id a few minuics he lay a
corpse at my feet. j
“In this short space of ime the two
Indians had advanoed upon me, so I
took again to my heels witfc the hope of
reaching a neighboring stood, where I
knew dwelt a tribe friendly to tho En
glish. This hope, howevext J was forced
to give up, for, on looking hack, I saw
one of my pursuers far before the other.
I waited for him, recovering my almost
exhausted breath, and son", this Indian
shared the fate of the first I had now
only one enemy to deal with, but I felt
fatigued, and, being near the wood, I
was more desirous to own life
than to destroy another of my fellow
creatures. I plainly perceived smoke
ourling np among the trees; I redoubled
my speed, I prayed to Heaven, I felt as
sured my prayers would be granted;
but at this moment the yell of the In
dian’s voioe sounded in m; ears—l even
thought I felt his warm breath ; there
wa no choice—l turned i tund—”
Here the gentleman wh., had related
fhe previous wonderful story grew im
patient past all enduraiibe, and oried
out:
“ Well, sir, and you killed him, also?”
“No, sir; he killed mol”— Newark
Uegister. **
illiteracy nr tr "Si united
- Arms. -y
Prof. Gardner, of Albany, read a pa
per in that city not long ago, on “ The
.Relation of the General Government to
the Eduoation of the People.” This pa
per showed an alarming amonnt of illit
eracy in the United States, and suggest
ed methods of removing tt. It present
ed statistics showing tbit in 1880 the
voting population of the United States
was 7,623,000, the voting population of
the Southern States being 2,775,000.
The illiterate voters of the United States
were 1,580,000, and tho'pame class of
voters in tho Southern States numbered
1,123,000. Twenty per cent, of the en
tire voting population of the United
States, and 46 per cent, of the voters of
thq Southern States, could not read
their ballots. The total vote cast and
counted at the last general election in
the whole country was 9,297.000. Ad
vanoe sheets of census reports and care
ful estimates say that from 21 to 22 per
cent, of them were illiterate. Ten years
ago one voter in five was illiterate. The
proportion is larger to-day. Sixteen
Southern States contain one-third of the
entire vote of tho country, and three
quarters of that vote is illiterate. There
are 457,000 illiterate votes in the East
ern, Northern and Western States,
New York has 77,120 illiterate votes;
Pennsylvania, 67,108; Illinois, 4,447;
and Ohio, 48,970. These 457,000 illiter
ate voters of the North showed their dis
tinctive power in the riots of 1877, and
they can decide every contested election.
The rapid growth of city population and
illiteracy is an evil omen for American
democracy. In 1870 ’fcteraey had
grown to one-sixth of odr population,
and in 1880 it was one-ffith. In New
York alone nearly 65 per cent of the
illiterate live in cities, t
LONDON MISERY.
The moment there is trouble among
the thousands who live by odd jobs
along tho river, the public houses are
fulL The abject appearanoe of these
unattractive drinking d&'ff£ filled with
men women and children) cowering on
the comfortless benches, with pots of
beer or glasses of spirits in their hands,
is indescribable. No city in America
affords the spectacle of such hopeless
and seemingly useless degradation as
may be observed now any day, even at
certain hours on Sundays, and all Sun
day evening, in this largest city of the
world. Old women boggiig and earn
ing those who give nothing, and spend
ing what alms they receive in getting
drunk; young girls overcome with liquor
and tumbling against tin sides of the
houses, nauseatinglv otercomo with
drink ; men singing ands hearing at one
moment, and perhaps fighting the next
—all this may be seen on public and re
spectable thoroughfares a London any
evening.— Boston Joum X
Beautiful are the admonitions ot
him whose Hfe aooorcU 4Mh his teach
ings.
BELLE BOVS.
During her residenoe in Washington
“ Belle Boyd” formed sn intimate ac
quaintance with President Linooln, and
a friendly correspondence was kept np
between the two during a greeter por
tion of the war. On one oooasion her
letter paper was adorned with the Con
federate motto, a snake entwined around
a Confederate flag, and the inscription,
“ Don’t tread on os or we will bite.”
When Linooln replied to the missive ho
sent bade the motto with “ bite” erased
and the word “ bust” substituted. Brok
en down in health and bereaved by the
loss of her father, who had died in the
oßn ri to effect her release from captivity,
“Belie Boyd” determined to leave for
foreign shores, and in May, 1864, she
embarked on the Greyhound at North
Carolina as the bearer of important dis
patches from Jefferson Davis and Judah
P. Benjamin to tho friends of the eauso
in Loudon, In endeavoring to ran the
blockade, however, the Greyhound was
captured by a United States steamer.
“ Belle Boyd” was token to Boston, kept
a prisoner for some time, and finally
banished to Canada. From there she
went to England, where she passed the
second epoeh of her life. She was mar
ried at the aristoeratio church of Sh
James, P.eoadilly, received with open
arms in titled society, became a widow,
and finally, having a natural talent for
the theatrical profession, took to the
stage. Probably no person in this ooun
try has been afflioted with so many
“ doubles” as this lady. Since her re
turn to America and marriage to Col. J.
S. Hammond, an English gentleman,
once a member of the celebrated “ Lou
isiana Tigers,” she has completely sunk
her history with that of her husband,
and, with the exception of a few occa
sions, when she has appeared upon the
platform as the talented reader and elo
cutionist, “ Marie Isabelle Hammond,”
her mind has been engrossed with do
mestic affairs. Yet, every few months,
she is vexed and annoyed by coming
across an announcement that “ Belle
Boyd,” tho ex-Confederate spy, has
turnod np in some port of the oountry.
Now the pretender is beiug entertained
by some prominent Southerner; again,
she is in distress and soliciting aid.
Several years ago one of these bogus
“ BvllW visited Atlanta, Ga., on a leot
uring tour, and was denounoed
by Capt. St. Clair Abrams of
the News, as on impostor. Next
morning she proceeded to the office and
demanded satisfaction, whioh boing re
fused she proceeded to draw a couple of
Derringers, but was seized before the
weapons could be pointed. Since that
time she has not turned up in Georgia.
SMOKING CIGARETTES.
It -was the American who invented th
patent cigarette*; not so much to save
the consumer the trouble of making the
article aB to get a good chance to adul
terate them. There is not a cigarette
made in America that any man, boy or
woman would smoke if the making and
mixture of them oould be seen. Every
brand makes a loud boast of using rice
paper; whereas any one who takes the
trouble to examine the rice plant will
see at a glance that there is no fibrous
consistence in it to make paper of the
sort used in cigarettes. Prodigious fort
unes have been made and are making,
and millions of people are slowly ruin
ing their digestive organs by inhaling
the foul stuff wrapped up in the various
brands that claim to be pure. Let any
smoker of cigarettes subject his tongue
and throat to a medical examination
after smoking a package of cigarettes.
Vitriol itself leaves no more sinister im
pression on tongue, throat and palate.
If the cigarette were made of pure to
bacco and fairly good papers it would
be no more harmful than a cigar, which
the world has come to agree substan
tially is not harmful at all. Bnt the
greed of the trade enters this like all
other enterprises that spring up to sup
ply sudden demand. A package of twenty
cigarettes, which may represent an out
lay of from 3 to 5 cents, the manufactu
rer exacts 12 to 16 oents for. There is
rarely in a package of twenty as much
genuine tobacco as a smoker consumes
in one honest pipeful. It may be safely
said that, with perhaps one or two ex
ceptions, every cigarette made is a source
of violent physical reaction, destructive
of vital tissues and the active principle
of lurking and insidious diseases, and
that it is better to smoke a pound of to
bacco in any other farm than the pinch
mingled with poison that makes up the
ridiculously expensive and utterly worth
less article of cigarette that holds the
market. —Philadelphia Timet.
Thu Boston Commonwealth reports
that an intelligent young man, fitted for
Harvard College, and standing deserved
ly high in his classes, astounded an
anti-slavery leader, reoently, by the
question : “ Was there any movement
against slavery before the war ?”
John Mulkb, of Cleveland, Ohio, who
has heroically saved from drowning ni
different times nearly 100 persons, has
bera presented with a gold medal
worth $l6O by the Cleveland Board of
Trade.
SHSWSKZ VOI.. VI.-N 0.35.
WHKJT YOU WTRST WJTI9PERJSD LOTM
Tm la the spring-time long ago.
The trod* were bursting on the tree
We’d Just left winter** front end now
When yon drat whispered lore te me.
Do yon remember bow the birds
Reng out their pensive chicked©*
When yon first spoke those tender words.
When yon first whispered tore to met
▲ glorious sunset slowly died.
Grey shadows crept o’er lead sad see;
Twee then yen drew me to your side.
Twee then yon whispered lore to me.
The orescent moon roe# white sad feint,
A pallid light gleamed o’er the lee,
The whip-pooi>will made mournful plaint,
And then you whispered love to me.
And now, when birds of spring I hear,
The opening buds and leaflets see,
I think or that sweet Urns, my deer.
When you first whispered lore to me.
DOMESTIC ECOITOMT.
Merrors.—One pint of sour milk,
piece of melted batter size of an egg,
two teaspoonfuls saleratns, flour anrmgh
for a stiff batter.
Caulijxo wer. —This is a very pretty
addition to a jar of pickled cabbage,
bnt it must be pnt in salt and water for
two days first before it is added to the
oabbage.
Tea Case.—Four cups flour, four
cups sweet milk, two eggs, two spoon
fuls cream of tartar, one teaspoonfnl sal
eratns, small pieoe of butter, sweeten if
yon like.
Whip Orb am.— Half a pound of
powdered sugar, juioe of two lemons,
one gill of sherry.' Mix and add one
pint of thiok, rioh cream. Set on ioe,
whip to a strong froth, and terra in
glasses.
Cbaioib Toast.—Three eggs, beaten
well, one green chili out fine, the inside
of two tomatoes out into small pleoes, a
little milk and one ounoe batter, all
mixed together with a little salt, then
heated and served on hot toast.
Shrimp Sauce.—Take half a pint of
shrimps, piok out all the meat-from the
tails, pound the rest in a mortar with
the jnioe of half a lemon and a piece of
butter; pass the whole through a sieve.
Make a pint of melted butter ; put the
meat from the tails into it, add a dust of
cayenne, and when the sauoe boils stir
into it the shrimp butter that has como
through the sieve, with or without a
table-spoonful of cream.
Tons Chops.— Cut some outlets from
a neok of pork, trim them neatly and
take off the chine bone; give them a
few blows with the bat, and grill them
on or in front of the fire; sprinkle them
with salt and arrange them in a circle on
a dish, with mashed potatoes in the oen
ter and the following sauoe round them:
Put a large pieco of butter, rolled in
flour, in a stewpan, slightly rubbed with
garlio; add mushrooms and a little
chopped shalot; moisten with equal
quantities of vinegar and broth ; add salt
and grated nutmeg; strain, boil it up;
add a little mustard, stir well and serve,
Appwt Compote.—Peel, core and halve
six large apples, trimming them so as to
get them all of asize; drop them as they
are done into cold water with the juioe
of a lemon squeezed into it to prevent
theirturning brown. Have ready a strong
sirup (made (with one pound of sugar
and quart of water) boiling hot; put the
apples into this, with the thin rind of a
lemon, and two or three cloves. As soon
as they are cooked—great care most be
taken that they do not break—take them
out and dispose them, concave side up
permost, on a glass dish ; place a pieoe
of currant jelly or quince jelly in the
hollow of each apple, then well reduce
the sirup and when cold pour as much
of it as is necessary under the apples.
FALSE ECONOMY.
Many people think it economy to buy
cheap food, and save in articles which
really are more necessaries than they
believe. There are people who really
grudge 10 cents for vegetables, because
they say it is too dear; others will re
strict their children in milk ; others will
buy no fish, because there is uothing in
it; others will deny the little ones a re
freshing orange at banana, and others
will never have a pudding on the table.
Meat sad bread, hot cakes, chops and
steaks they call cheap, because it is rwq
food. These people forget that variety
really nourishes fire body, and makes up
for that food which can alone supply our
requirements. Beside that there is no
real economy in it. Meat sad bread cost
more than vegetables and pudding com
bined with them. The former leave yon
craving for something else, which yon
have to satisfy, while a good mixed diet
supplies all your wants.
You can often see workingmen or boys
gulp down their hunches of bread and
meat, and look around them for rome
thing they have not got. The thirst
qnenching, succulent vegetable is not
there; the tasty second dish is wanting,
and the craving remains nnsatisfied-
Btiil, double is spent in drinks.
Oaket Hall, when he was asked
whether he liked newspaper work, an
swered : "Yes, for it has no yester
days.” This sums up very forcibly the
I charm there is in newspaper work. It
is always the work of the to-morrow.
! Vo retracing of steps, no delving into
the past; in fact, no yesterday—always
to-morrow.
<W a young lady who te
knitting her eyebrows be salted indus
trious!
Tn only prise the English oan-Ud off
at the Derby was s surprise, but it was
a big one.
Tn aga of discretion—The age when
company aiia can be put on or taken off
as necessity demands.
~ Who says it is unhealthy to steep in
feathess? Look at the spring chicken
(nd see how tough he i s.
Do bot tell s men be lies. It is rid*
gar. Say that tds oonVenetian suggests
to your mind s summer -resort circular.
It has bean definitely settled at last
that the reason why the pig’s tail eulb
is because it’s styed when it is young.
“ Nothin o is impossible to him whs
wills. “ Nonsense; te is impossible for
the man who wills to get ahead of t£e
lawyers.
Wns a woman attains the age ef M
without accumulating a husband she en
joys attending one funeral more than a
dozen balls.
A mmm maid In Gsrttal#
On the bank at her neok had a Mala;
Wfeen her lover forgot,
And hogged the sore rpot,
Her eereama oould be heard for a mfcto.
Is is now believed that the oleomar
garine factories put hair in thoir goods,
th*M rendering it mare difficult of da
teotion than ever.
Whenever young ladies learn how to
stick a pin in their apron strings so that
it won’t scratch a fellow’s arm there will
be more marriages.
“Ip you wait a broth of a boy, take
me,” said the Irish sailor to the cannibal
King. But flie King said be preferttd
him roasted. He wasn’t fond of brritis.
“What can run faster than a good
horse?” was the oonundrum, and the
man who had had some trouble with his
creditors guessed it at onoe: “The
Sheriff.”
' Tn latest sweet thing for the ladies
is ivory heels on wedding slippers.
When tiie first-born gets old enough to
get into mischief the ivory heels should
be removed.
Thu Hew Orleans JHeyun states
that Philadelphians kiok against the
elevated railways. Jehoshaphatl That
beats the best efforts of the Soldane
troupe.
i “Pm upon my tombstone,” said the
dying man, “an epitaph stating that I
was a scoundrel, thief and brute. Then
people will think that I was a good man.
Epitaphs always lie so.”
1 A parrot in Harlem speaks £SO words.
There being lem than that number of
profane expressions in the English lan
guage, it is presumable that the bird is
'something of a polyglot.
“Thebe goos the oelobratod Mr. 0.,
the lams lawyer,” remarked a lady to
her companion, a he passed them in the
street. “Exouse mo, madam,” said
turning sharply, “yon are mistaken; f
lame man, not a lame lawyer.”
“ Yea, jour Anfuatna la a fraud I"
field flu* to Arabella.
“A fraud 1” said Belle, ”1 can’t afford
To hear that of my fuller;
Ho i true and tried, and good boride,
And delioat* and dainty—”
“ Ah, ye, but Uuni,” Mias Guo replied,
“He's sort of beau Gua. ain’t be?”
HATES' BARGEE WHOM A LUNATIC.
Jnst before the 4th of March, 1877, a
young gentleman of this city, Mr. Ha
gan, went to the Rev. Father Seville,
the famous Dominican pulpit orator—
who died from yellow-fever about a yea*
afterward, during the Memphis epi
demic—and told him that he was great
ly worried over a certain matter. An
acquaintance of his from Illinois had ar
rived and informed him that he proposed
to assassinate Hayes. He did not know
what to do or how to go about it, as the
man was evidently insane and deter
mined to carry out his project. Father
Reville, who was then of St. Dominio’s
Church, immediately advised Mr. Ha
gan, and they went together at once to
Detective McDevitt’s house andinformed
him of the circumstanoe. McDevitt
communicated the facts of the case to
Maj. Richards, then Chief of Polioe,
who directed the deteotive to look up
the man and examine into the matter.
McDevitt discovered that the would-be
assassin was at the Imperial Hotel. On
his way np the avenue to that establish
ment he met two of the secret-service
men, Anohisi and Maxwell, and suggest
ed to them that they approach the
would-be assatain. They did, and the
man—he was quite a well-to-do man
from Northern Illinois, Myers by name
—gave Anohisi .a S2O gold piece with
which to purchase a pistol on his prom
ising to aid him in the plot. McDevitt
then arrested Myers, and conveyed him
to polioe headquarter. He found that
in his room at the hotel he was well
"heeled” with an arsenal of weapons.
Myers did not deny his intentions, but
said he had intended to shoot Hayes,
then proclaim himself President, and to
be sworn in amid the ringing of bells
and the firing of cannon. After dne con
sul tation the polioe authorities, con
vinced of his insanity, remanded him to
the insane asylum. He was kept then
for about six months, and then sank
home to his son under charge of a nurau
Washington OriHo.
Sons men era so stupid I (Scene: At
the Vavasours’ dance). Waltzer (to host
ess’ fair daughter)—"So glad to find
you alone at last, Mias Vavasour.”
Miss Vavasour—"You are—very kind.”
Waltaer—“ Not at all. But teU me,
you are not engaged ? ” Mira Vavasour
—•* No-o.” Waltzei—" Then may I
hope—” Miss Vavasour—“ Oh l really
—Caps. Hawley—you must talk to
mamma.” Waltear (blankly)—“What
about f ” Moat opportunely the waits
strikes up sad they plunge into H