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' The vela* *s the diamond* in America
to-day U estimated at $1,000,000,000.
The most valuable gem in the country
mas owned by Mrs E. D. Morgan, and
was worth $30,000. It weighed twenty
two carats. -
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An eminent German oculist, Dr. H.
•Cohn, thinks that reading and writing
-are much more likely to produce short
sightedness and othewiae impair the
might than watchmaking and other min
ute industries.
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Diamonds are found in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and California,
•he last State furnishing the finest speci
maens. Five hundred dollars has been
Uid fora California stone in the rough,
•■d a good many have sold for SIOO
, * —l-JLJ 1
That the roller-skating mania run
ming out ia shown by the great decline in
•he price of boxwood, of which the skate
wheels are made. Last year this wood
commanded from S2O to S4O a ton, but
mow it can be had for $lB, and is likelv
•o go lower. -y
The statement is made that all the
waned machinery of Great Britain, now
upended by steam-power, is capable of
performing more work, and hence of ere
cting more products than could be pro
duced by the labor of 400,000,000 able
bodied men, a greater number than al*
•he able-bodied men on the earth.
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There are now twenty-four chaplains
ia the United Btates navy. Their salary
•during the first five years after their ap-
Bintment is $2,500 when at sea and
,000 when on shore duty. After the
epiration of five years the salary is
,800 while on sea duty and $2,300
while on shore duty. They are appointed
-‘by the President on recommendation,
A report on the progress of the leper
settlement at Molokai, one of the Sand
wich islands, states that the settlement
pened in January, iB6O, with 131 lep.
ters, of whom 103 were males and thirty
tcight females. Up to November last
ftfcere were admitted 1,101 lepers, of
Whom 1,985 were males and 1,116 fe
males. The largest muster roll from the
foundation of the settlement was in
August, 1884, at which date it stood at
*4l, comprising 513 males and 321 fe
males. There is a biennial appropriation
l |IOO,OOO for the maintenance and care
of the sufferers.
Borne interesting facts were developed
at the recent electrical convention in Bal
timore. Among these was the informa
tion that there are about 5,000 arc lights
in New York, and about 3,000 in Boston.
Over fifty towns in the United States
have each over 100 lamps. Tower light
ing meets with great favor in some parts
of the West, as at Detroit, Michigan, and
Elgin, Illinois. Domestic lighting by
electricity has not advanced much so far
on account of the expense, and meets
with more favor in Europe than in
America. There are now in use in the
United States 95,000 arc lights and 250,-
000 incandescent lights, and the money
invested in the electric light industry
amounts to $70,000,000. _
What may be the secret of many lost
ocean vessels never being heard of is
given in the following: Some weeks ago,
in latitude 41.05, longitude 63.02, the
•captain of a transatlantic steamer ob
served indications of shoal water, and,
upon sounding, found sixty fathoms, the
lead bringing up fragments of shells and
■and. After running nineteen miles an
other sounding was taken, but no bot
tom found at 200 fathoms. On Septem
ber 3, 1885, a sounding showing 1,791
fathoms was made by the steamer Alba
tross in latitude 41.02.30, which is west
southwest throquarters west and barely
five miles from the spot mentioned. The
'position of the shoal is directly in the
jjwth of transatlantic steamers during part
of the year.
The city of Mexico, for a number of
months past, has been attiicted with a
scourge of mosquitoes. These insects
prevailed to such an extent that they
have been a constant theme of discussion,
and have, in a number of instances,
caused sickness, and, it is said, even
death, by their poisonous bites. Official
bulletins have be n issued by the director
of statistics, Dr. Penafiel, as to their
habits, natural history, etc. Sing l) J Br ly l
■avs Science, tl# species, which g hu-L
has not or has not £
attention before the past year;
•ndfears are entertained that the pest is
of recent introduction. .The varviug
abundance of different kinds of insects
during different years renders such a
view improbable; yet it is significant that
the present species is new to science,
never having been described by entomo
logists.
Quite a valuable industry is now car
ried on in France, in the utilization of
the various kinds of feathers formerly
treated as worthless, especially those ob
tained in plucking ducks, chickens, tur
keys, and those of wild fowls and other
birds killed as game. The plan pursued
consists in trimming these, particularly
the larger ones, off the stump, which may
be thrown away, the plumes being then
made use of in the manufacture of a
feather cloth or blanket which possesses
the essential quality of being exceeding
ly light and at the same time very warm.
The plumes which arc separated from
the stalk are placed in a bag, closed
tightly, and then subjected to rubbing
between the hands, as in washing clothes.
a few minutes the fibers are by this
separated from each other, and
a perfectly homogeneous and very
V dowi . applicable by simple opera
tion to the production of quite a variety
of coverings and other household objects
jfX s r ca-otnble cost
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GKEENESBORO. FRIDAY. APRILS:!. ISSfi.—EIGHT PAGES.
The “preacher” Is the latest swindling
dodge being worked in Central lowa. Hs
calls ob his way distributing Bibles, and
often presents the family with a hand
•ome book. He then asks for dinner or
other meal, and takes a receipt for
twenty-fire cents paid for it. A few
months later the neighboring bank calls
for the payment of a note for $150.25.
“Mandolins are the latest craze,” said
* dealer in music to a New York Sun re
porter. “They were brought to public
notice several years ago by the traveling
| company of Spanish students, but they
j did not become popular until this winter.
! Pianos are neglected and banjos are
i tossed aside, and young ladies now wear
■ Out their fingers on these shrill noted
{ guitars. They are more like guitars than
i anything else I know of. The body is
made of wood, and is the shape of a
pumpkin'cut in half, t It has four
strings, and has frets like a guitar. The
fret-board is short. A mandolin is played
with a thumb-piece, and is a romantic
and really musical instrument. We are
having a big sale of them. It is easy to
learn to play on them.”
A London paper prints a very witty
letter from one of its fair readers anenl
an unfair discrimination which custom
has decreed against married women and
in favor of their husbands. She asks
very pertinently why, when a woman
marries, she should be compelled to pub
licly exhibit the badge of servitude
known as “Mrs.” Blank, while her hus
band is allowed to go spott free as simple
“Mr.,’’without any outward and distin
guishing mark of his now, and of course,
improved condition. “If it is necessary,”
she says, “that the wife should be label
ed ‘Sold,’ why should not the husband
also bear the red ticket?” The title of
“Mr.” Is entirely too comprehensive.
There is no danger-signal in it to catch
the eye of the unwary, and a young mar
ried man can do a great deal of mischief
if he be so inclined.
Anderson 11. Jones, a colored man,
who went to Liberia six months ago from
Missouri, writes home from Brewersville,
a village fifteen miles from Monrovia,
giving some account of the country. He
says that there are no horses, no mules
and no oxen in the whole settlement. All
the farmwork is done with the hoe, the
rake and the axe. lie says: “I have
been all over the settlement, and I found
the largest number of people in a suffer
ing condition for something to cat and
for clothes to wear. There isn't any
doctor in this settlement—the settlement
is too poor to support one. Calico is
twenty-five cents per yard. A common
labovar, when he can get any work to do,
is paid twenty-five cents a day. Pickled
pork is twenty-five cents per pound;
shoulder meat twenty-five cents per
pound. All the flour and meat used here
is imported from England and America.
Corn meal is ten cents per quart. C om
mon flour is sls a barrel. The only way
the settlers have to make money here is
by raising and selling coffee. It will
take a newcomer like myself from five to
six years to get a coffee farm in trim for
selling coffee. The public schools are
poor. There is a class of people over here
who do not want the true condition of
things written back home."
The Astor Estate.
A New York letter to the Utica Herald
says: John Jacob Astor left the bulk of
his property to William in trust for his
two sons, William and John Jacob, this
being as extended an entail as our laws
permit. William was a very faithful
trustee, but in addition he accumulated
a half dozen millions of his own. This
lie bequeathed to his sons in trust f>r
their children, thus repeating his father’s
plan. On William's death the two sons
made a division of their grandfather’s es
tate, this being the most imoportaut act
of partition that ever occurred in Amer
ica. _ The'most curious feature of this af
fair is the secrecy with which it was
done. It was an immense task to divide
such a vast and varied estate into two
equal parts; but it was effected
in a manner that must have been
mutually satisfactory. It is sup
posed that the property was carefully in
ventoried by the clerks and then
separated into two portions as equally as
possible and then the choice drawn by
lot. At any rate the Astor house fell to
John Jacob, who is generally thought to
have the best slice. The brothers always
preserved amity, and when the dissolu
tion took place they erected adjoining
offices in Twenty-sixth street. John
Jacob soon afterward placed all hjs
property ill the hands Of Wald**-* - *
is how the i'Uv- ’
• .—est man for nis age in
.-•erica. The advance on the valuation
may be given as follows: John Jacob
died worth 120,000,000. When William
died (twenty-seven years afterward) the
estate was worth at least thrice that sum,
and its increase since then will make each
of the brothers worth $50,000,000. This
may be considered certainly well to do
| in the world.
One reason why the Astor brothers
have adjoining offices is found in the
common ownership of the deeds, maps
and leases belonging to the estate which
cannot be divided. These form a library
in themselves and are very interesting to
the antiquarian, as showing how New
York was laid out in the olden time. A
still greater curiosity is the little four
wheeled wooden wagon which is used
in bringing the old books into the office for
reference. It is made iu the rudest and
cheapest manner, the wheels being sawed
out of a hoard, *but it has served this
purpose for more than half a century,
and old John Jacob loved his ‘-book
wagon - ’ more than his coach. This col
lection of maps anil leases is of much
value in real estate searches, but only a
favored few are permitted to examine
them.
In the Parlor.
she. .
Anticipation.
HE,
Exultation.
both.
Osculation.
KATItKK.
Indignation.
IIK.
Gyration.
AM. AIioLXD.
Bens at ion.
TiJCitt.
Faith and works.
Ho umnr ronw to thorn that pray,
And idly stand
And wait for stows to roll away
At God's command.
Ha will not break the binding cord
Upon ns laid
If we depend on pleading words.
And do not aid.
When hands are idle, words are vain
To move the stone;
An aiding angel would disdain
To work alone.
But he who prayetb, and is stron
Ia faith and deed,
And toileth earnestly, ere tong
He will succeed.
—J. C. Rcc’arelt.
The San Jaguelo Mine.
To Joshua Main’s widow it had always
seemed a simple thing for people to sup
port themselves. Did not girls and
women do it oftentimes? Was there ever
any difficulty about it?
Yet, when she herself was left alone at
the age of twenty, she did not know in
which direction to turn.
She was a soft-eyed, timid little woman,
with absolutely no experience at all in
the ways off the world; and so she went
to her cousin—a brisk, bustling widow,
who kept a wayside hotel on the high
road to Santa Barbara.
“What am Ito do?” said she, looking
very small and pale in her deep mourn
ing robes. “What is to become of me?”
•‘Why don’t you go to Joshua’s folks?”
Mrs. Chebburn, who was frying crabs
for a party of excursionists who had ar
rived by the noon stage.
“I have no money, ” said Alice. “Be
side, I wrote to his father, and he wrote
back that we didn’t ask his advice about
getting married, and he certainly
shouldn’t interfere in my business now.
Such a cross, curt, hateful letter!”
“Just like them!” said Mrs. Cheb
burn, fiercely dredging her pan of crabs
with flour. “Couldn’t you keep miners
to board?”
“I—l don’t think I have courage for
that 1” whispered poor Alice. “Beside,
it would require a large house, furniture,
capital.”
“Might sew?” suggested Mrs. Cheb
burn, who had a quick, abrupt way of
speaking which was very apt to discon
cert a stranger.
“I am dreadfully slow and awkward
with the needle,” confessed Alice. “You
see, Cousin Chebburn, I was brought up
in a boarding-school. I can play on the
piano, and speak tolerable French,
and—”
“O, my!” burst in Mrs. Chebburn.
“And p’raps you could paint on velvet
and make wax flowers, or any such other
accomplishment which would be so use
ful out in these California mountains.
There, Alice, don't cry! I don't want to
hurt your feelings, child, but people’s
ideas about educating girls are so queer.
Get me a platter—two big platters—for
these crabs. You can stay here for a
while. It’s possible you may be able to
help me with the housework. But I’ve
no use for your French and your piano
playing.”
For all Mrs. Chebburn’s short, blunt
speech, there was a kindly sparkle in her
honest, pay eyes and Alice Main ac
cepted her invitation in the spirit in
which it was given.'
It was a strange existence for the girl
who had been brought up in the artificial
surroundings of San Francisco life, this
wild home on the plateaus, with monster
redwood trees keeping watch on the
heights above, passion-vines swinging
in purple fringes over the edges of the
cliffs, and figs ripening against the sunny
rocks.
With the coming and going of the
daily stage, travelers came and went,
also, of all varieties, and Mrs. Chebburn,
assisted only by a pair of pallid China
men, and a fat old colored woman in the
kitchcD, ruled, an absolute queen, over
the place.
“It’s hard work, to-be-sure,” she would
say; “but lam my own mistress here,
and I render an account to no one. If a
miner talks too loud, I can tum him out
of the house. If a traveler finds fault
with the fricasseed chicken, I can bid
him go further and suit himself better.
Joshua's widow is welcome to a home
here, though I misdoubt me she’ll turn
out a poor, shiftless timid thing.”
But Mrs. Chebburn was favorably dis
appointed. Joshua’s widow proved to
be posses sed of better qualities than she
had thought.
She was quick and dainty with the
desserts, tasteful in the arrangement of
the rooms, and affectionately anxious to
spare her cousin all that she could of
work or worry.
“I may make something of the girl
yet,” said Mrs* Chebburn. “Pcordear!
she’s very young to be left a widow.
What a selfish scamp that old f ither-in
law of hers must be! Joshua was as
fine a fellow as ever lived! Guess he
wasn’t like the rest of his folks though.”
It was one December evening, when
the heavy winter rain was pattering on
the roof of the house and beating down
the shuddering boughs of the redwood
trees, 4Rd the stage was several hours be
hind time." _ JB n,
t a ''i per il be clean spolled,Mrs.
Chebburn, with a discontented glancfi
toward the kitchen, “and then they'll all
be grumbling. Men are so inconsiderate!”
Just then, however, Linn, the tallest
and yellowest of the Chinamen, came
shuffling in, with the news that the rain
had washed away part of the steep and
narrow read that wound through the
gorge, that the stage was overturned and
“allee folksee killed!”
“Linn, you are a fool!” said Mrs. Cheb
burn. *
“Missee look for sheself,” persisted
Linn. ‘ 'Alice dead ! Ilorsee leg broke!”
And presently two or three men came
up the hill, bearing the senseless body of
an okl man. who represented the “ullec
folks( e” of Linn's terrible tale.
With this exception, the travelers had
been more lightened than hurt.
"Is he dead?” said frightened Alice,
with a glance at the yellow pallor of the
fa e, temporarily piibwed on a folded
shawl.
“No,’’ said Mrs. Chebburn, who had
no contemptible knowledge of simple
surgery, “he isn’t dead. But there are
some ugly bruises on his head, and I
think there’s & rib or two broken. Get
the little corner room ready, Alice, as
quick as you can. Light a fire and see
that the bedclothes are well aired and
that there is plenty of hot water.”
When Mrs. Chebburncattle down stairs
again, to superintend Linn and Chee Sun
as they served the supper and to keep
old Aunty Felicia from braining those
brisk Celestials with her pewter spoons
—for there was always an internecine
Warfare between the Mongolian und
African races iu the kitchen—the stage
driver was warming his chilled lurnds
before the fire.
“He ain’t dead, ehf” said he, nodding
at the Main.
“Ob. bless yon, no!” arid Mrs. Clrel.
burn.
“Well, h ermat kind o' wicked to sa*
so,” observed George Geith. the driver,
“but I wouldn’t 'abeen sorry to hear he
was deed!”
“Come, come!** said Mrs. Chebburn;
“don’t talk like that, Geith!”
“He sat on the box-seat along o' me,”
said George. “He'deome out here to
look arter the Ban Jaguelo mine. Bo he
told me. He’d a powerful gift of the
gab, and a many questions to ask. for he
hadn’t never been this a-way before. It
seemed he'd a son come out here a spell
ago, and they bought a claim together.
And the son he got married all of a sud
den-like, and then he up and died.
“And so this old sinner, mind you,
Mrs. Cbebbong, he mistrusts that the
son’s wife don’t understand business; so
he has come on to pocket the whole con
cern, profits and all—for the San Jaguelo
mine, don’t ye know, is trebled and
quadrupled in value since they first be
gan to work it.
“ ‘Ain’t you goin’ shares with the
woman ?’ says I.
“ ‘Ain’t the papers all in my name?’
says he, with a leer. ‘l’ve al'ays heerd,’
says he, ‘that you Western people was
sharp on business.’
“ ‘Not that kind o’ business,’ says I.
‘I sw’ar,’ says I, ‘ef I hain’t the biggest
mind I ever had in my life to pitch you
off the box into the bed of the creek be
low!’
“And, sure as you live,it wasn't fifteen
minutes afore the lurch came, and over
we all went together! Most like a jedg
ment, now ain't it? And I declare I'm
’most sorry he wasn’t killed outright!”
Mrs. Chebburn was busy spreading a
luscious cream meringue over the top of
a pineapple pudding—for the desserts
served by the lady of the Redwood
house have acquired quite a local celeb
rity—but she looked quickly up.
“Didn’t say what his name was, did
ye?’’ said she.
“No,” said Geith; “because I don't
know myself. Grasp, I should reckon—
or Gripe, or Grind, or some such thing.”
And he chuckled at the clumsy joke as
he made haste to obey the summons to
supper.
It was late in the night before the
stßge was righted and a relay of horses
supplied, so that the tide of travel could
once more flow onward; and the clock
struck twelve when Mrs. Chebburn
went up stairs with the candle in her
hand.
“Who’s that talkin’?” she asked, as she
stopped on the threshold of the im
promptu hospital ward.
“It’s the sick man,” said Alice. “The
doctor said he would be more or less de
lirious for a day or two. Do you know,
cousin Chebburn, he keeps talking all the
time about ‘Joshua!’ And look at the
color of his eyes, and the way his hair
grows down on his forehead!”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Chebburn. glancing
keenly from the restless head that rolled
to and fro on the pillow to the pale,
startled face above it.
“I know who it is,” cried Aliee,
wringing her hands—“it’s Joshua's
father!”
‘ ‘Hush!” said Mrs. Chebborn. ‘‘l kind
o’suspicioned it was. • Now, don’t cry!
A sick room ain’t no place to get excited
in. Keep cool—keep calm, and jest let
Providence workout its own salvation.”
Near-y two weeks elapsed before old
Sewell Main recovered—two weeks of
pain and suffering; two weeks during
which he looked grim death full in the
face.
“Who are you?” he sharply asked,
when first he became conscious that a gen
tle hand was ministering to him day by
day.
“I am Joshua’s widow,” Alice gently
answered.
H closed his weary eyes, and asked no
more. But he thought of many things.
‘‘l should have died if it hadn't been for
you, ’shouldn‘t I?” was his next abrupt
question. “But how does it happen?
Joshua’s widow here, taking care of me 1”
“Hush!” soothed Alice. “Don’t try
to talk now. Don’t even try to think!”
But he put out his skeleton hand to
find hers.
“Forgive me!” said he, in a choked
voice. “Only say that you forgive me!”
“For what?” she asked, in amazement.
“For all that was in my heart!” said
he. “For all that I might have done, if
God had not’stayed my sinful hand!
Alice—-they called you Alice, didn’t
they?”
“Yes.”
“You have been like an angel to me.
Henceforward, nothing shall ever part
us. Will you go back to the East with
me, Alice?”
And Alice went, only too happy that
Joshua's father had learned to love her.
She never knew aught of the darker
side of his character. Stage-driver
Geith never came that way nowadays,
and Mrs. Chebburn was one of the few
women who can keep their own counsel.
“He’s good to the child now,” said
she. “They’re as happy together as if
they were own father and daughter. Why
should I interfere?”
And so the San Jaguelo mine made lit
tle Alice rich in her Eastern home, and
old Sewell Main treasured her as if she
were a rare tropical flower. While every
year there caml some loving token of re
membrance across the Sierras to Mrs.
Chebburn, who still presided over the
Redwood House, and kept the peace,
with ever-increasing difficulty, between
Aunty Felicia and the two sons of the
sun._ * . . . .
“The child doesn't forget me,*’ said
Mrs. Chebburn. with a smile and a tear.
—Helen Forrest Grate*.
Fnel of the Futnre.
The house of the near future, the Bos
ton Journal of Commerce thinks, will have
no fireplace, steam pipes, chimneys or
flues. Wood, coal, oil and other forms
of fuel are about to'disappear altogether
in places having factories. Gas has be
come so cheap that already it is supplant
ing fuels. A single jet fairly heats a
small room in cold weather. A New
York artist has produced a simple design
for heating entirely by gas at a mere
nominal expense. It is a well-known
fact that gas throws off no smoke, soot
or dirt. The artist filled a brazier with
chunks of colored glass, and pi. c:d rev
era! jets beneath. The glass soon be
came heated sufficiently to thoroughly
warm a room 10x30 feet in si/.e. This
design does away with the necessity for
chimneys, since there is no smoke; the
ventilation may be had at the window.
The heat may be > raised or lowered by
simply regulating* th£ flow of gits. The
colored glass gives nil the appearance of
fire: there are black pieces to represent
coal, red chunks for flames, yellowish
white glass for white licat. blue glass for
blue flames, and hues for all the remain
ing colors of spectrum. Invention already
is displacing the present fuels for fur
nace* and cooking ranges, nnd glass do
ing away with delay and such disagreea
ble objects as ashes, kindling wood, etc.
The use of paper ruled in square for
diagonal lines has been forbidden in tho
Austrian schools, as such ruliug has hem
found to injure the eyesight of pupils.
Only plain paper, or with ruling straight
acroasj will be used in future.
Mil’ll FROM LITTLE.
IZfIE JUGGLERY OF COOKING IN’
BIG CITY HOTELS.
How Various Dishes are Made from
a Few Materials—Many Soaps
from One Kettle —A Cook's
Confession.
The hotel population of Detroit aver
tge 1,000 persojs daily. What do they
! ;at? Everything that is good, the answer
s. Oh, no, they don't know what they
sat, and the hotels, as a rule, don’t in
.end that they shall. There is the bill of
fare, it is true. It presents nine or ten
courses at one of the best hotels. For
iinner— soup, fish, boiled, roast, cold
lishes, entres, vegetables, relishes,
pastry and dessert. The dishes on is
aumber as high as a hundred, and it B
interesting, if not provocation to gusta
tory delight at the tables where they are
served, to consider them.
First, soup. The basis of soup is the
stock—colored with a little sauce it is
consomme; add a few shreds of carrots
snd cooked peas taken from the vege
table department, and there you have
your Julienne; some boiled grains of
barley and a little thickening and you
are favored with barley soup. Very
simple? Yes, very. Is it oxtail? Bless
your heart, essence of beef to strengthen
and a few joints of oxtail, and you are
served. Mock-turtle? Mock-turtle re
sponds to a similar jugglery, only shifting
it as to method, and using some force,
meat balls and a little of calves’ brain.
Chicken salad for one. No sooner said
than ready—yesterday’s roast of veal, its
meat white and tender takes the place of
chicken, and daintly cut into cubes, and
fitted with the usual condiments, then
stalks out before you a chicken salad, as
irrecognizably such as if the poultry-yard
had bsen drawn upon for it.
It was in conversation with the chef
of a well-known local hotel, whose ex
perience in hotels of country has
been long continued, that a complaint
was made to the writer about the confi
dence game played by hotels upon their
guests. “The bills of fare,” said he,
• ‘are as untruthful as Tom Ochiltree, as
unreliable as Goshen butter, and as curi
ous as a mule with five ears. Take the
dinner I had to-day! Tomato soup;
stock with strained tin tomatoes, brought
to a boil, a trifle of thickening, baked
white fish, ala chambord. Well, if any
guest can tell me what chambord sauce
is, he may know whether he got it or
not. I know he he did not. I
first made a straight commonplace every
day fish-sauce and put in a shred of
parsley, a few cubes of mushroom and a
little grated celery. The next dishes you
see are plain enough. Leg of mutton,
caper-sauce, Just rattled a few capers
into the fish-sauce before I added the
parsley and mushroom, , and then
corned beef,- the tongue, chicken,
turkey, beef, mutton and so on are
honest enough. However, we often
use boiled mutton for roast. All
we do, suppose we have run out of
roast mutton, or it appears on the bill
and does not appear from the oven, we
slice up some boiled mutton, dip it into
thick, brown gravy, and serve it with
brown gravy. The hotel guest does not
mind, because he does not know. Cold
mutton is often treated the same way.
Just heat it a bit, put brown sauce over
it, and serve.
“There’s many a jumble in the busi
ness, I tell you. For instance: a bill of
fare offers both chicken and turkey
roast. Turkey will do all right. A good
carver takes chicken from turkey as well
as turkey. Did you ever notice that
boiled chicken shows so regularly on bills
of fare and roast does not? Well, you
can boil a chicken tender, but you can’t
roast nor quill him so. Speaking about
chickens reminds me that eggs are the
things to handle. A good cook ought
never to waste an egg. He gets a bar
rel of eggs or a box from the best
sources but there will be at least ten per
cent of them stale and one or two per
cent not good. None of these should be
wasted. Now you have noticed very
often, I suppose, that poached eggs are
fre piently left off the bill that gives no
end of omelets, jambon, with pastry,
onions, tomatoes, Spanish omelets, ome
lets au rhum, olives, fine herbs, ce'.estine
and eggs scrambled, shirred, fried, panned
and boiled, 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
goes off in curdling masses, the yolk
breaks and runs and your egg must be
fished out and tossed into the omelet
beater. But the other day Yankee inge
nuity took the last prop from under the
faith of the believer in poached eggs.
He has invented a material, which, put
in the water before the egg is dropped,
will ma'kc the stalest egg poach beauti
tifully. ,He was egg cook at the Murray
Hill hotel in New York. He is now on
the road selling this stuff, and you enn
depend upon it there will be poached
eggs on nearly every bill-of-fare hereaf
ter.
Perhaps the kitchen is the least invit
ing place about a £gtel. ’Qpere.are to be
seen slatternly scullion maids whose in
harmonious voices discordantly follow
ing the catch songs of the day, or quaver
ing off into some tuneless ditty, go up
xtlth the mingled oders of the range.
CTcjmlinessjjnd order in a well regulated
kitchen ariTnecessary, but the degrees of
cleanliness are as varied as that of that
godliness to which the old saying gives it
proximity. The cook, stem autocrat of
the situation, rules with unbending firm
ness, and never unbends unless to wink
at some more attractive maid or curse
some dunsy waiter. These little excur
sions from his native dignity throw him
into his shell once more, which he holds
more closely than ever. The appetite
less rows of food uncooked, cooking, or
cooked, 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
discriminating palate.— New York Tri
bune.
Some Definitions.
A great undertaking—Burying the fat
woman. _
Changing the subject—Making an Eng
lishman a citizen.
A pretty plight- -The maiden's yea.
A killing affair—An English joke.
Hanging fire—The chandelier.
A great head—The cabbage.
Be;?is the deck—The cabin.
Level-headed—The snake.
Very much cut up—Hash.
A vist-off—The anchor. —Puck.
“That Birchen Tree.”
Oh, woodman, spare that birchen tree,
In youthful days it tickled me:
And many a lick, and many a whack.
The t.*achor did lay on my back!
It taught me w hat I otizht to know,
And showed me where I ought to go;
All 1 still 1 do delight to see.
That good old fashioned birchen true.
lluA< UMill,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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THE FARMERS' KEY TO SUCCESS!
Farmers say it is just what they have been looking for ever since the war.
f * % w *'ich farmers can make their own fcrn.
j- ! were, grind steamed lione, phosphate and u a
i Plater, rock, marl, cotton seed, dry stable m
~#->-4jrilS?T I Dure ’ coru * od for stock food, or
It will make good corn meal when you chi’.
i do any better. By its use the farmer will
j | richer, instead of poorer mil the time. h
iff Hi Giving full particulars: also state if yon wn „:a
f ! bke circulars of Ike DeLoacli Water Wliecii,
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[ _ i Address:
A. A. DeLOACH cfc BRO.
ATLANTA, GA.
FACTORY PRICES FOR NINETY DAYS [
NOW 18 THE TIME TO BUT FOR ALL WHO WANT FURNITURE AT THE
OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE OF
PLATT 3KOTHEISS,
The largest Furniture Emporium in the State. Guaranti ed to give Satiefacton to all p ur
sera °r return the Gv-od*. We take great pleasure in showing onr goods. COME
USE, CU.ul-. ALL. and satisfv your—lves that, we sell g.,ods clieaner
—THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE STATE , P
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FOR THE NEXT 60 DATS!
AT GOODYEAR’S
cumuli tmsiTti!
WILL BE SOLD THE LARGEST AND MOST
BESiEABLE ASSSETMEET
OF OPEN AND TOP BUGGIES ever brought to this market at lower prices than ever
beforn' offered. These goods are First Class, with steel axles and tires, thoroughly paint
ed, full leather trimmed, and warranted Tor twelve months. Just received another
shipment of those fine
Mill CARRIAGES, PIiITIM CJBBIEIS
OPEN and TOP BUGGIES, made upon special orders, bv the best Manufacturers
North and East. Nothing being used in the construction of these vehicles but the best
materials, and in Quality, Style and Finish are uneaqualled by any oiliers now in the
market. In stock a full line of
Saddles and jaiaeg o£ |ll grades l
W Inch I will offer at LOWER PRICES than have ever liefore been known In the
history of the business. MILBURN. STUDEBAKER and S TANDARD PLANTATION
WAGONS, all siz-s. Oak and Hemlock Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Shoe Findings,
Carnage and Wagon Materials, Harness Leather, Belt Lacing of superior quality, Rubber
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Nails, Axes, Ilocs, Picks and Mattocks, Pitch Fonts, Shovels, Spades, bteelyards and
Scale Beams, Grind Slones, Rakes, Padlocks, Carpenter 'Tools, Files, Hinges, Window
PRICEs!*™ and Blinds, Farm and Church dens, which lam offering ut LOWEST CASH
A. R. GOODYEAR, Agent,
(Successor to R. n. MAY & CO.)
At the Old Stand, Opposite Georgia ailroad Bank, 704 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA.
NAVASSA COMPANY
WILMINGTON. N. C.
mini fiimim
POPE cfc FLEMING,
GFNEHAL AGENTS, AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
T We a>e General Agents for the goods made by the above company. Their FETtTILIZ
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We ask for the patronage of the public. Write to us for terms and full particulars.
<Sc nemingO General Ag-ents.
■JaTR. TAPPAN, Local Agent, White Plains, Ga. f e b. 19, ’BS
- R. Weight, President. j. T. Newbbjiy, Cashier.
PLANTERS’ LOAN
AND
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IST Interest allowed on Deposits in the Savings Depar’meht. jl-,
DIRECTORS: D. R. Wright, W r . 11. Howard, G. R. Lombard. W. E Benson, W. M.
Jordan, Z. McCord and D. H. Van Buren. AUGUSTA, GA.
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