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TREASURY IN NEW YORK.
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Two Third* of the Financial Opera¬
tion* of the Government Are j
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passes on
wW r* either of the three
* thoroughfares is
thoroughly ac
quainted with its
massive
wails, huge columns and severely
classic style of Grecian architecture,
Half way up the long flight of ston*
step* which communicates with the
main entrance in Wall street stands a
bronze statue of Washington of heroic
HI Z*’ keeping watch and ward, as it
weft , over til*- viiht treasure within
( pon tli*' same site in 1789 and for
a score o f years later was Federal Hall,
standing upon tho balcony of which
the Father of His Country took the
<>ath of ollice as tho first President of
the United .States. The building,
therefore, rests upon historic ground,
whicb 1< uds to it a double charm and
connects tlie pr* cut with the past,
W ashiii;/ton no doubt ha*l au abiding
faith in the destiny of his country, and
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believed that it tain an ii/upor- <)>f
tant place among he nations assume, the
earth, but never, it is safe to
did his mind picture the trunsfi .rum
tions tl it have -me to pass over\
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•tion from the present.
1’ht'n the country won
front the effects of a devastating war
and was without a revenue or public
credit. Now its resources are bound
less, and its credit, unshaken by a
financial storm, stands pre-eminent
among the nations of the earth. On 1
1 h*> site where in 1 7Sff the infant Re
public was launched forth upon an uu
know n and unt raversed sea, without a
penny in its coffers, stands its treasure
house in which is stored wealth lie
vend the dreams of avarice or the
combined fortunes of Cnesus of old or
Monte Cristo of modem times.
Within the gray granite walls of the
New I ork Bub- Treasury are transacted
two-thirds of the entire financial opor
Htioiis ot the l nited States Govern
mcnl. In 18:12 its receipts were St,
inff, id0,.>!M .JO audits disbursements
wore SI ,”79,570,901.24. This would
have shown a deficit but for the fact
that the Hub-Treasury had u small bal¬
ance of #108,072,‘440.tiff left over from
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WHERE THE TREASURY NOTES ARE KEl’T.
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tho your be fine, and hence a year ago
Iasi dune, when the balance was struck,
th* G.n rnment found that it had
stored m its New- York treasure house
the neat sum of 811,8.222,977.69 to be
guv the w. vk of the iisoal y ear of 1893.
It is difficult to conceive of one hun
■ Ired and eightee i million and odd
lmuilt ' u thousands of dollars in coin
a id bill-,, and yet at the Bub-Treasury
this iv . trifling amount, and has fre
fluently by, u exceeded by a hundred
or two millions more.
I lie building fairly groans under the
weight of gold and silver and heaps of
copper and nickel aud huge stacks of
biii>. Stored neatly in little steel
•mouv hoi* s, inside huge vaults, them
selves incased i.i metal and granite, or
scattered arouu on desks or counters,
un icrgoing tl;. process of weighing
a counting, th .> iii Hn' fairly reeks
" in wetdiii. 1 he very air seems im
pregnat.'tl with an o r of riches. In
t>.ie instance t IIS Jl mats t au em
itmis-meut. or in the case o th;' sil
ver dollars. orty millions of which
r.;v store ! • cries of vault- hi th*
basement o h- ivv iron latiice work
and huge 1 l»rs are bulging out of
place under th* enormous pressure of
12 M i i >ns OI alvei', for ;■ -1.909,*>99 ' of
\\ ei;-h? thirty tom, and 840,
00'.Odd L the burden of tLie vault
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S-i i - try hau.Hc, very littl. coin.
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each one hag containing of silver. gold At and tho $1000 in j
present
time, however, all this is changed. The
Government has suspended the issue
of gold certificates against deposits of ;
that metal, the free silver dollars are |
exhausted, and only those secured by
silver certificates remain in the vaults ,
the Clearing House balances are settled j
in actual coin, gold is coming in and
going ont, is weighed and counted, I j
arid the passer by in Nassau street at
the corner of Pine hears all day long ]
the clink and clatter of metal.
At* any time a visit to the Sub
Treasury is interesting, but it is
particularly so now. Walk up the
long flight of stone steps leading from
Wall street to the main entrance of
the building any morning after 10
o'clock, pass by the guardian statue of
Washington and between tho huge
granite columns which support the
projecting roof, and you enter a cool,
lofty countingroom.
Standing at the main entrance be
tween two supporting granite columns
similar to those outside, the view is
unobstructed to the pine street, or
rear, entrance of the building. Be¬
for** another step is taken the visitor
becomes at once aware of the over
powering strength and massiveness of
the structure. He his passed through
a feet doorway in depth, of solid guarded granite by blocks outer six j
an
door of hug** iron burs, an inner door 1
of heavy steel plates and a frunie door
, the projecting rivets in the surface of
which bears testimony that it is metal
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sheathed.
On either side of the entrance is a
j room of comfortable proportions,
* 1 hat on the left, or Nassau street side,
| bears tho words over the door, “As
sistant treasurer,” while to the right
are the quarters of the Cashier and
i Acting Assistant Treasurer. The one
i is occupied by ConratUN. Jordan, tT fi
\ other by Maurice popular, L. painstaking Mu! man, o* e
of the must , i
thoroughly efficient Government
, in country. nHi
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j tail—is transacted within these two
rooms,
The interior arrangement of the
Bub-Treasury is peculiar to the date of
its construction. The ceiling of the
main room rises in the form of a dome
j and to the is extreme supported height of the building,
by granite columns,
: forming a rotunda. Four galleries
afford a means of communication be¬
[tween the rooms situated at either
j angle of the building on the second
floor, from which can be obtained a
bird’s-eye view of the clerks at work in
three departments on the floor below'
—the cashier’s, receiving and paying,
These, situated on the main floor, are
separated by- bank counters of wood
and partitions of iron, pierced here
and there by-the familiar pigeonholes
of a batik. In fact, the entire appear
aneo of the main room of the Sub¬
Treasury suggests the arrangements of
a large bank as they existed two score
years ago.
The departments of the Bub-Treas¬
ury urn the cashier’s, receiving and
paying, which is sub-divided into cash
paying and check paying; coin, divided
into paying and receiving; minor coin,
bond, coupon, authorities, accounting
and superintending. The namesofthese
; in most instances amply describe in a
! general way the nature of the work
performed. The duties of the authori¬
ties department, however, are pe
cuhar. In it are kept the lists of cor
porat ions having business relations
with the Government and the names of
the officials of each who are authorized
to sign and receipt for checks. In the j
accounting department are kept, iu
addit ion to the general accounts of the
Buo-treasury, the account of the Post
Office Department, always maintained
separately, and the accounts of the
disbursing officers of the United States
Army and Navy, etc.
At the present time the daily bal
a nee in the Sub-Treasury averages
about $125,000,000. It. runs, how
ever, at times as high as $225,000,000,
a sum of money of which the ordinarv
mind can form no conception. Nat
urallv enough everv safeguard is taken
for the protection of this immense
treasure. The casual observer of the
Sub-Treasury building kuows full well
its massive exterior. Its full strength,
however, is not apparent until after a
careful scrutiny of the interior. The
building itself was constructed for the
purposes of the Custom House in 1832
and used as such until 1862.
Strong iis it was originallv it was, in I
remodelling, made absolutely impreg
cable. A board of United States army
officers were intrusted with the work,
aud as it stands to-day it contains 1
many features of a fortress. The walls
in the basement are eight feet thick
aud are built of solid granite blocks,
No part of the walls anvwhere are less
thau four feet through. All the par
titions between the rooms are of
masonry. The ceilings are concrete, !
all the floors are of stone or metal and I
th s various doors are of steel plate.
The treasure is stored in five princi
pal vaults, three ot which hold the
greater proportion These are the
gold vault, the note a suit and the
vault iu which is stored the silver dol
Urs. ihe first two are on the main or
rotunda floor, while theotherisa huge
cavern in the cellar of the building ,
The vaults on the mam floor are
a ganer a! cataclysm. That in the
cellar is equally so. The walls of the
building forming the sides of the
are eight feet thick, and masonry
encases them on all sides, saving
where the entrance doors pierce
through. The ceilings of the upper
vaults are about twelve feet in height
and the dimensions perhaps twelve by
fourteen feet.
\ Pest of Western Farms.
To the order of animals known af
Rodentia, or gnawers, belongs th»
ground squirrel, or gopher, one of the
numerous enemies against which the
farmer has to contend. These pests,
says the New York World, have be¬
come so destructive that many schemes
have been suggested for their exterm¬
ination. The latest report of the Wy-
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CALIFORNIA GROUND SQUIRREL.
oming Agricultural Station details the
experiments undertaken to destroy the
various orders of goph ers.
The ground squirrels attack root
crops and seeds of all kinds as soon as
plauted, though they do the greatest
damage after the plants have com—
rnenced to grow and are through the
ground. Their burrowing habits are
a source of annoyance to tho farmer,
and greatly injure the land. In this
respect gophers resemble the prairie
dogs, their burrows being close to
gother so as to form towns,
While the gophers are fond of seeds
and have a particular weakness for
carrots, sugar beets and roots of all
kinds, they' also attack fruit trees.
The latter suffer so much from their
depredations that a California or
chardist suggests tying newspapers
around the trunks of the trees in such
a way that when the squirrels attempt
to pass over the paper its rattling w'ill
frighten them away'.
The plan of drowning these pests
out of their burrows has also been
tried. But this is a tedious method
and water is not always procurable.
Strychnine or some other poison mixed
with grain has been used with consid¬
erable success, But the danger at
tendant on this method is great, as
stock, poultry' and wild birds are as
liable to eat the poisoned grain as the
squirrels.
As the result of a number of experi¬
ments, the station advises the use of
bi-sulphide of carbon. The method of
applying it is to take a ball of cotton
about the size of an egg, thoroughly
saturate it with qi-sulpliide of carbon,
throw' it into the burrow and close the
opening with some earth, The bi
sulphide of ear!>on evaporates rapidly,
and being heavier than the air, soon
fills the burrow and smothers the
squirrels. A pint of the fluid is suf
j fleieut to treat twenty burrows,
Bi-sulphide of carbon is good also
prairie dogs, rats, ants and any
of vermin. A caution in its use
Mb mever, necessary. Tho liquid is
*J» v inflammable, and should never
i near in*' cu any | "gfcf
! “gl't for fear of mi explosion.]
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An Autumn Bonnet.
A stylish little bonnet for autumn
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rather long. The low crown is covered
with a dark, rich wine-colored velvet
Where the velvet touches the hair the
gold lace appears. Graceful loops of
the velvet and win^s decorate the
front with a gold feathery aigrette in
the center. The tie strings are wider
than those worn last season —New
York World.
Combinations in Locks.
It has been proved that in a patent
lock, with an average sized key having
six “steps,” each capable of being re¬
duced in height twenty times, the num¬
ber of changes will be 86,400; further,
that as the drill-pins and the pipes of
the keys may be made of three differ
eut s ^ zes * the total number of changes
woulJ be 2,592,600. In keys of the
smallest siz « the total number would
^48,000, while in those of extraor
duuirv size it could be increased to
no ^ ^ e8S than 7,776,000 different
°h R uges.—St. Louis Republic,
The Little One’s Guardian Angel.
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A Hercules Beetle.
The Hercules beetle (Dynastes Her¬
cules), one of the largest species of the
Coleoptera or beetle family, is fre¬
quently seen in the cases of the en¬
tomologist, but it is seldom that one
is seen alive in New York. Just at
present William Beutenmuller, Pro¬
fessor of Entomology «t the National
History Museum, has one of the giant
beetles alive, and the huge insect
seems to be doing uncommonly well,
as it has a capital appetite. It WHS
caught in the Island of Dominica and
brought here by a sailor. It is fully
six inches long from the tip of tho
upper branch of its pincers to the end
of its body. The head is jet black,
and from it grows out a long black
horn, somewhat irregular in shape.
The lower surface of this horn is cov¬
ered with deep, gold-colored holding bristles,
which no doubt aid in what¬
ever the beetle seizes. Another but
shorter horn grows out from the
thorax, and tho two form a powerful
pair of pincers, with the body for a
handle
The elytra, or wing covers, are of a
dirty dapple gray, while the upper
part of the body is blade. There are
six powerful legs armed with claws,
HERCULES BEETLE.
which easily sink into the human flesh,
while a nip from the pincers is a thing
to be remembered, even when the in¬
sect has only begun to pinch. —New
York Tribune.
Chairing ol the Banl.
The Rev. Evan Rees, of Cardiff,
South Wales, won the prize offered for
the best poem at the assembly of Welsh
singers in Chicago. The great event
of the day was the “ehairir * of the
bard,” a historic ceremony inherited
from the ancient Cambrians, which, it
is said, had never previously been per¬
formed outside of Great Britain. Sur¬
rounding the poet, the bards clasped
hands over his bowed head and Hwf’a
Mon, unsheathing a sword, challenged
all to dispute the rights of the. victor.
The challenge was given three times by
the interrogation, “Is there peace?”
Three times the bards and audience
answered, “Peace.” The sword was
then sheathed over the poet’s head,
the benectT.ction was pronounced, aud
the ehiif bard commanded the poet to
seat himself in the oak chair and de
dared him to be the most honored
Welsh poet of the age. —N w York
Times.
Fish or Sea Serpent .' *
The Captain fishing schooner William Wnlfe James ff. Bp Stet¬ Pro
son,
vincetown, brought to T.,a fish
that comes nearer, probda4Sv veA $itured.
sea serpent than anything c
The curiosity in question I s mt five
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feet long, and is nearly' the same size
at the tail as at the head. It is slen¬
der, not being over seven inches in cir¬
cumference at the largest portion of its
body, resembling, save for its fin-tail,
a snake. There is a long fin some ten
inches high, running nearly' the entire
length of its back.
It has a head shaped very much like
that of a boa constrictor, and its teeth
are long and very sharp. One upper
tooth is one and one-half inches in
length, about one -quarter or three
eighths of an inch wide, and as sharp
as a needle at the point. Tho jaws are
long and when open in au ordi¬
nary position easily' reach eight inches
apart at the end of the nose.
The fish is of a bluish color. The
tall fins are large, and the two fins un¬
der its jaws are exceptionally large for
its size, measuring not less than eight
inches in length. The thing was cap¬
tured off La Have, Nova Scotia, in 100
fathoms of water.—Boston Globe.
The Vision of Birds.
Birds have very acute vision ; per
haps the most acute of any' creature,
and the sense is also more widely dif¬
fused over the retina than is the case
with man , consequently a bird can see
sideways as well as objects in front of
it.
A bird sees—showing great uneasi¬
ness in consequence—a hawk long be¬
fore it is visible to man ; so, too, fowls
and pigeons find minute scraps of food,
distinguishing them from what appear
to us exactly .similar pieces of earth or
gravel.
1 oung chickens are also able to find
their own food—knowing its position
and how distant it is—as soon as they
are hatched, whereas a child only very'
gradually learns either to see or to un¬
derstand the distances of objects.
Several birds—apparently the young
of all those that nest on the ground—
can see quite well directly they come
out of the shel, but the young birds
that nest on the trees or on rocks are
born blind and have to be fed.—Cham¬
bers’s Journal.
Queen According to ancient cunom the
of England has forwarded to
the Lord Mayor four fat bucks from
Btt3key Park and to the City Sheriffs
three bucks. This usage had its origin
in the times in which the city had
rights of hunting in the royal forests
and parks'. Similar presents are made
in due season in January of each year.
In British India the number of per¬
sons ancient , adhering to the sects of the
BrabmaLic religions belief is
estimated at 211,000,000. There
.7,000,009 Buddhists, 90,000 Parsees,
57,000.000 Mahometan.;, and 9,000,090
of the ancient Pagans o A Nature wor¬
shippers.
There is a Japanese student, a bright
Corkscrews of Stone.
Among the recent arrivals at San
Francisco was Professor T. H. Marsh¬
land, of tip* Nebraska St *t • Uni-, or-,
who has just completed two re a r
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GIANT DEVIL’S CORKSCREW, EIGHT FEET
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able scientific expeditious i:i search of
fossils. One was to Pino Ridge, tho
famous scene of the recent Sioux In¬
dian outbreak, where he aud others
discovered myriads of a strangely
curious fossil, called by them devil’s
corkscrews. The other was to Phillips
County, Kansas, where Professor
Marshland discovered a wealth of
rhinoceros, elephant and mastodon re¬
mains, of whose existence nobody
hitherto had dreamed. The cork¬
screw's are as much as eight feet long,
actual corkscrews in shape, and are
often eight inches through. He esti¬
mates that there are 400 square miles
of them, yet, strange to say, notwith¬
standing the vast number of scientific
expeditions hitherto, none of them has
been discovered before. The cork¬
screw's are silicate, and they are found
in a silicious sandstone. In many
places they stick through the sand
rock of the hills, the stone being worn
off by the elements, and the silicate
spiral, being harder, having remained.
It is no trouble, the professor says, to
strip the sand away from them. It is
rather soft, and the men can w ork fast.
Some of the strange spirals are coiled
about a central spire, like a vine about
a ti*ee. Then at the bottom or root of
the spire are curious protuberances
each way, and rising toward the sur¬
face of the ground at something like
thirty-one degrees. They are often
quite as long as the corkscrew' spiral.
“These devil’s corkscrews which
stick out over Pine Ridge and border
on the Bad Lands,” said Professor
Marshland to a Chronicle man, “are
most singular things. Nobody knows
what they are or how they were made.
At first it was thought by some that
the spirals were caused by some sort
of a burrowing, the theory being that
some animal had burrowed, rabbit¬
like, and that the hole had filled with
silicious sand and hardened. But this
theory' wouldn’t do, because it ap¬
peared that whatever the spirals were
they' were of marine formation, and
wTiether animal or vegetable, had
grown under the sea. all we
•ac Ad gather we are inclined to believe
the devil’s corkscrews are a curious
form of the sponge, y r et even that is by
no means certain, Other remarkable
things were what we found imbedded
in them and forming a part, Once
we found the skeleton of a little ani¬
mal like a rat, and at another time we
found the skeleton of a snake.”
The corkscrew region extends from
the Niobrara River to Pine Biclge and
almost to the Hat Creek Basin, The
corkscrews are almost as true as it
made by a lathe and are right-handed
and left-handed indiscriminately. The
great transverse pieces, called rhizomes
or underground stems, project in all
directions out of the banks and bluffs
like logs. Borne are as large as ordi¬
nary barrels, others as large as hogs¬
heads. When half disclosed in the
bluffs they' look like large sawlogs,
Historic Church.
The honor of being the oldest Meth¬
odist Episcopal Church in China be¬
longs to Tien Ang Dong, or the
Church of the Peace of Heaven at Foo
Chow. It was built in 1856.
From that beginning great things
have come. Scores of Christian
churches may now be found within
the bounds of the Foo-chow confer¬
ence with an aggregate attendance of
about 6000 members and probationers
at their regular Sunday services. From
Foo-Chow went out the men who
founded Central China and North
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china’s oldest m. e. church.
China M. E. Missions, and there are
now connected with them over 2000
Chinese Christians. Tien Ang Dong
at Foo-Chow is the mother of all the
churches in which these thousands now
worship. Foo-Chow is the chief cen¬
ter ot Methodist work in South China.
They have there an Anglo-Chinese col¬
lege, theological school, boys’ board¬
ing school, girls’ boarding school,
womans’ school and womans’ hospital.
The numbers of Christians connected
with these institutions has increased so
that the Chinese edifice will not ac¬
commodate them. Last year a gal¬
lery was added, but even now this is
too small. Efforts are now being-made
to raise a fund for rebuilding the Tien
Ang Dong edifice with twice the pres¬
ent capacity. —Mail and Express.
Water-Tight Doors in Warships.
I he London Graphic gives, among
other pictures of the recent British
naval manoeuvres, one depicting the
manner in which, by sounding a horn,
the signal “Close water-tight doors”
was given on the Galatea. This order
becom necessary in the presence of
danger arising from threatening prox¬
imity to another vessel, or from actual
collision, and discipline and readiusss
in its execution are of the highest im¬
portance.—Frank Leslie's Weekly.
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
ROBS CABBAGE OF ITS HORRORS.
To rob cabbage of its horrors have
the water boiling very fast, Add a
teaspoonful of salt and half a teaspoon¬
ful of soda to the water aud then put
in the cabbage. Keep it boiling hard
for twenty-five minutes, but do not
cover it up. If there is not too much
water so that it boils over, there will
be no bad odor. At the end of twen¬
ty-five minutes take the cabbage out,
chop it. add butter or cream, and sea¬
son to taste.—[Brooklyn Citizen.
CUCUMBERS on toast.
For a family of six, pare four good
sized cucumbers; cut them into quar¬
ters lengthwise. Throw them into
cold water; let them stand for thirty
minutes. Then put them into boiling
salt water and cook slowly for twenty
minutes. Have ready a meat plate,
covered with nicely buttered toast.
Put one tablespoon of butter and one
of dour into a saucepan, melt, and
mix over the fire without browning.
Add one-half pint of water in which
the cucumbers were boiled ; stir con¬
stantly until it boils ; add one table
spoonful of vinegar, another of butter,
and one-half teaspoonful of salt and a
dash of pepper and pour over the cu¬
cumbers. Cucumbers in this way,
while they are not nutritious, are easily
digested, and act frequently as an ap¬
petizer. —[Household News.
PEPPER POT.
One knuckle of real, one pound of
honeycomb tripe, one pound of plain
tripe, one onion, bunch of pot herbs,
one-quarter of a pound of suet, two
medium sized potatoes, one bay leaf,
three quarts of cold water, two table
spoonfuls of butter, two tablespoon¬
fuls of flour, salt and cayenne pepper
to taste. Wash the tripe xvell in cold
water. Put in a kettle, cover with
cold water and boil eight hours; this
should be cooked the day before you
want the soup. Wipe the knuckle
with a damp towel, put it in a soup
kettle, cover with the water, place it
on the fire and bring slowly to a sim¬
mer, carefully skimming off the scum.
Simmer gently for three hours, then
strain and return soup to kettle. YVash
the pot herbs, chop the parsley, rub
off the thyme leaves and eut only half
of the red pepper (they usually
put a whole one in each bunch).
Cut the potatoes into dice; add all
these and the bay leaf to the soup.
Cut the tripe into pieces one inch
square. Cut the meat from the knuckle
into small pieces; add these also to
! the jsoupA- place iA 6n the fire *m<?when
at the boiling point, season wvfh salt.
Hid cayenne. Rub the butter and flour
together and stir into the boiling soup,
and the fifty small dumplings made as
follows: Chop the suet fine, measure
it, and take double the quantity of
flour, one quarter of a teaspoonful of
salt; mix well together, moisten with
ice water (about a quarter of a cup).
Form into tiny dumplings about the
size of a marble, throw into the soup,
simmer for fifteen minutes and serve,
—[New l r ork Telegram.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Mend torn books Avith white tissue
paper.
Revive leather chair seats with Avhite
of egg.
Rub a creaking hinge with a very
soft lead pencil.
To prevent pie crust from soaking
glaze the under crust with beaten egg.
To keep eggs put them with the small
ends down in dry salt and keep in a
cool place.
Remove grease from garments by
sponging Avith one tablespoonful of
salt to four of alcohol.
To preA'ent fly specks boil three or
four onions in a pint of water and with
a brush go over the picture frames.
Flies will not light on articles washed
in this solution.
Wash dish towels in coldAvater, with
plenty of soap, and rinse thoroughly in
cold water every time they are used.
If left to dry without washing they will
be sticky to handle and have a disa¬
greeable odor.
Kitchen mineral soap or pumice
stone may be used freely on all dishes.
It Avill remove the stains from Avhite
knife handies, the brown substance
that adheres to earthen or tin baking
dishes and the soot Aihich collects on
pans or kettles used over a wood or
kerosene fire.
Be careful where you keep flour.
Like butter it absorbs odors readily.
It should not be kejit in a place where
there are onions, fish, vegetables or
other odorous substances, nor in a
damp room or cellar, Keep it in a
cool, dry, airy room where it will not
be exposed to a freezing temperature
nor to one above seven:y degree s. .41
ways sift the flour before using.
The English Congregational Year
Book shows the number of places of
AA-orship in England and Wales to be 4,-
634. In Scotland there are about 100
churches, 11 in the Channel Islands and
43 in Ireland, including 15 mission sta
tions: in the British Colonies and on the
Continent of Europe 849 places of avot
ship, showing a large increase in last
year’s returns. The number of CoDgre
gational ministers in England and without Wales
is 2,72o, of Avhom G34 are
pastoral charge. More than 2,000 of
them are total abstainers. In the theo¬
logical colleges there are 423 student*;
293 iu England, 93 in Wales, 9 in Scot¬
land- aud 29 in the colonies,
Ode to the Hen.
•f robin and blue-bird and linnet,
Spring poets write page after page;
Their praises are sounded eneh minute,
By prophet, soothsayer and sage,
But not since the stars sang together,
Not since the creation of men.
Has any one drawn a goosefeather
In praise of the patient old hen.
All honor and praise to the singing
That cheers up the wild wood in spring,
The old recollections oft bringing
Joy, childhood and that sort of thing.
But dearer to me than the twitter
Of robin or martin or wren,
Is that motherly cluck when a litter
Of chickens surround the old hen.
And her mid-winter cackle, how cheery,
Above the new nest she has made •,
It notifies hearts all aweary
Another fresh egg has been laid.
Aud when the old bird, aged and lazy aud
fat,
Is well cooked with light dutnplingsand
gravy,
There’s great consolation in that.
- American Poultry Advocate.
HUMOROUS.
The hen is not* a cheerful fowl. She
broods a great deal.
The girl who had a falling out with
her friend will not try the hammock
again.
“How pleasant it is to be tall.
“Pleasant?” “Yes; everybody looks
up to you.”
W hen a man comes, to ask you for
your opinion he really asks you for
your confirmation of his own.
Miss Fosdiek—“You say Mr. Skidds
is a peddler. What does he peddle?”
Miss Keediek—“He pedals liis bicy¬
cle.”
Someone has asked: “Where do
flies go in the winter?” We don’t
know, but Ave Avish they would go there
in summer.
A im Belt—“When my wife gets hys¬
terical and begins to cry, Iioav can I
stop her?” Invalid’s Wife—“Tell
her it is making her nose red. ”
An Ohio man has put up a fac
tory for the production ot vases to
hold the ashes of cremated persons.
He must expect to urn a good deal.
Butcher—“Didn’t you like that ham?
Why it Avas some that 1 cured myself. ”
Customer—“Call tlmt ham cured?
Why, man, it wasn’t even convales¬
cent.”
Maud—“Why did you break off yoiu
engagement with Charley?” Ellen—
“Well, you see he would wear shirts
and neckties which didn’t become my
complexion. ”
Judge—“Three months and ten
days.” Prisoner—“Can’t you make
it a shorter sentence, yer Honor?”
Judge- “lean.” Prisoner— “Th&v/
yon, yer honor.” Judge’—“One
year. ”
“Now papa, tell me what is hum¬
bug?” questioned the ten-year old SOU
of a friend of ours. “It is,” replied
the father, “when your mother pre¬
tends to be very fond of me and puts
no buttons on my shirt.”
“Johnny,"said his teacher, “if your
father can do a piece of work in seven
days, and your Uncle George can do
it in nine days, how long would it take
both of them to do it?” “They’d
ne\ r er get it done,” said Johnny.
“They’d sit down and tell fish Btories. ”
Why Women Live Longer Than Men.
In the forty-ninth Registration Re¬
port of Massachusetts, (1890,) the
compiler presents the statistics of 203
persons who Avere reported as liaA’ing
died during‘the ten years (1881-90) at
the age of 100 and over, Of this nuin
ber, 153, or 75.4 per cent., were fe¬
males. (By the State census of 1885,
the number of females lh'ing over
eighty years of age was nearly double
that of males.) The greater exposure
of men to accidents, to Aveather age n
cies, to the constant strain of business
life, to the anxiety of providing for
the family, all tend to shorten the life
of men. The deaths by acciden 1
among men are more than threefold
greater than among women, aud m en
commit suicide in about a threefold
ratio as compared Avith women.
[Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
(Jueer Pronunciation of Proper
Names.
England is not the only countrj
which has peculiar pronunciations ol
proper names. The island of Terra
Nuvva, oft the coast of Honduras, is
called “Turneff. ” The Boca d’Agua, in
Jamaica is called “Bogwalk,” and the
Agua Alta in the same country,
known as the “Wagwater.” In
land there is a county called “Eirkoo
bree,” of which the correct spelling is
Kircudbright. Then there is the ‘ ‘Tol¬
liver” family in this country, whose
name is properly spelled Taliaferro.
Hogg, Bacon & Fryer is the firm name
of one of the most successful mercan¬
tile houses in Western Australia. By
way of preserving the unities, Mr.
Saint is a citizen of Paradise, in Jew¬
ell County, Kan.—[Cincinnati Times.
Star.
Little Dick’s Economy.
Little Dick—“Papa, didn’t you tel]
mamma we must economize?”
Papa—“I did, my son.”
Little Dick—“Well, I was thinking
that if you’d get me a pony I Avouldn’t
Avear out so many shoes.”—[Good
News.
The average effective strength of thg
British Army last year was 213,540,