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Russia proposes to encourage cotton*
growing by loans and subsidies to tho
growers.
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Negotiations are in progress to be¬
gin the astronomical day, like the
business day, at midnight instead of
nt nooD.
Tourists to Jerusalem annually in¬
crease in number. Next to Russia the
United States sends tho greatest num¬
ber of visitors to the Holy Land.
Tho Chicago Record avers that mat¬
rimonial statistics prove that the mas
culino girl’s wedding usually comes
tong after all her friends are married.
The Sac and Fox Indians are said to
be the purest-blooded red men in the
country. They neither marry in or
give in marriage outside their own
tribe.
The Texan Legislature has, by reso¬
lution, invited cotton manufacturers
in the North to remove to Texas and
get the trade of Mexico and South
America.
Edward Atkinson says that tho time
will como when the fiber in the cotton
stalk will bo utilized, nnd there are
important elements for tanning and
dyeing in the root.
Franco is about to appronck Italy
with a view to arranging a commer¬
cial treaty, and thus ending tho long
period of commercial hostility, which
1ms inflicted heavy losses on both
countries.
Tho Livo Btock Report, of Chicago,
says that every indication points to n
decrease in meat supply, which is
likely to bo general in all branches,
and that tho market is now in healthy
shape and brighter for the producer
than for several years.
Tho Now York Impendent says:
“Wo have quite overlooked, many ol
us, the extensive and valuable foresti
of tho South. We are already getting
lumber from across our Northern
border. Would it not bo well to make
larger use of our timber resources in
the South?”
Gladstone computes that the habit¬
ual speakers of tho English language
have increased from 15,000,000 to 104,
000,000 duriug tho last 100 years, and
tlmt they will number 120,000,000 by
tho end of tho' year 1900. At that
late of increase, which is seven-fold
each century, such speakers will in¬
clude not less than 840,000,000 by the
end of the year 2000.
Modern processes of preserving
meat by freezing it were anticipated
by natu re in he r process of preserving
ele
phants of thtr tti. ■ AfterThe
flesh of these animals has been frozen
for several thousand years it can still
be eaten. A correspondent of M.
Paul Boca reported to that scientist
that mammoth flesh thus preserved
tastes a good deal like leather.
The story is told of old President
Humphrey that, he got a bequest all
unknown to himself for Amherst Col¬
lege, made by a woman, a stranger to
him, to whom he had given up his
scat in a stage coach, Tln* story is
nearly matched by the bequest of $13,
000 given to Dr. Talmage’s wife by a
woman to whom Mrs. Talmage had
shown personal attention by visiting
her when she was sick in a hospital.
A very serious fall has taken place
in the price of horses in Paris, also in
various French towns, says tho Phila¬
delphia Record This is said to be
mainly due to the extraordinary in¬
crease in tho number of bicycles and
tricycles, tho production being during
last year excessivo—namely, over 100,
000 more than in the year prior.
Tho complaint is bitter ou the part of
horsedeaiers, who say the bicycle is
taking their bread away; but they
must, like the rest of society, suffer
for tho benefit of the million.
Tho New York Sun remarks: Form¬
erly men lived in palaces and con
ducted their business in tho plainest
of buildings. Tho many big white
edifices recently erected in this city
indicate a change in this respect. The
semi-public corporation lead the way
in a movement which must improve
public taste. Some of these structures
show a completeness in detail, a
breadth in total effect which recall the
profusion of the Italian Renaissence.
Then the tendency was to seek th*
beautiful in the surroundings of pub¬
lic worship, in places of trade and in
the furnishing of the home.
In Lauibeth, says the London Tele¬
graph, a milk vendor displayed a tin
plates setting forth that all the milk
sold from “this establishment” was
guaranteed pure as delivered at the
dairy farm. An inspector purchased
a pint for analysis, and informed the
milkman of its destination. “All
right,” saul the vendor, “there’s its
certificate of birth,” and he tapped
the tin plate with a milk can compla¬
cently. “Perhaps I may be able to
send you its certificate of baptism
soon,” answered the inspector, which
he did in H>3 ^yfiTSTTHinione, which
subsequently was transformed into a
flue nr 8>5 for adding fifteemPer cent.
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CHINCH I CONSPICUOUS IN THE
BATTLE OF 1*0ItT ARTHUB.
A Queer Little Arrfmal Found by a
Correspondent Guarding the
Body of Her Slain Master —
Brought to New York.
r I 7 HE long-nosed, adventures squirrel-tailed, ofChinchi, the
human-eyed pug who was
found guarding her dead mas
tor’s body in the outworks of Port Ar
tnur, are, according to the New York
Advertiser, becoming matters of inter
national importance. The Emperor
of Japan has ordered the incident re¬
corded in the “Book of War.” Chin
obi 1ms already become know to Lon
doners through pictures in the
Grapbic, and in New York to-day
she has been the topic of conversation.
This is the history of Chinchi:
Tho battle of Port Arthur was
fought November 21, 1891. Among
tho correspondents who were on the
field was A. B. de Guerville, of the
New York Herald and Frank Leslie’s
Weekly. With him wag a Japanese
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photographer, sent out to take snap- ; She howled and moaned all afternoon
shots for the artist of tho London 1 and during tha night when he woko
Graphic, who didn’t like tho noise. , ho could hoar her sobbing softly ou
Field Marshal Oyama had just ordered her pillow, Mr. da Guerville says
a battery forward a bit, and the cor¬ bhe was thinking of her dead master,
respondent followed. As they moved the Chinaman who lay out on the hills
forward and took position on tbs by Port Arthur, over whom she had
crest of a hill, overlooking Fort Ar¬ watched so faithfully.
thur, they saw a man lying on his side Mr. de Guerville, who had traveled
in a little hollow of the hill. His for a number of years in the East, lias
head had been crushed in, and he had fitted up one of his apartments in the
evidently been dead for many hours. Chinese fashiou, and among tho red
They knew him for a Chinese soldier and yellow screens, hangings, vases
in spite of the fact that he wore civil¬ aud idols Chinchi felt at home. On
ian clothes. her journey, however, she had con¬
“Tho Chinese officers and men tracted a cold, which developed into a
alike,” explained Mr. de Guerville, serious attack of the grip. Her mas¬
“threw away their uniforms and weaiv ter, who is a bachelor, felt that she
ons when defeated.” needed a woman’s care and sent her to
The dead Chinaman had probably the house of a friend in West Seventy
been an officer, or at all events, an second street, where she recovered.
official of some rank. Just behind Chinchi is ten inches long and short
where he lay was a tent, which had legged. She has long ears, a tail like
been looted. a squirrel, a face like a fox terrier—
Nestled up against his breast, in a with a hint of tho sunbbiness of a
fold of liis dead arm, lay the little spaniel—and her soft hair is white and
dog. She looked up and growled as brown in beautiful markings. Her
they approached. eyes are large and tender, and re¬
Field Marshal Oyama and his staff, markably intelligent. Indeed, she is
the correspondents and all, forgot all an extraordinary dog, and would be
about tho battle raging down tho hill, noteworthy anywhere, even had she
and gathered round the dead China- ; not proved herself a heroine—a loyal
man and tho dog. Tho French mili- ! little friend, yearsjMvSijlB| faithful untodeatJ^^&g
tary attache, Dr. Labry, tried to pick j is about two
her up, but Chinchi snapped at his J far as -k&tfwnrshe is
hand and he jumped back. They all Uaftt kind { n this confftry^MPB
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“ofaiilGHt Citing to ITdMfclead master and houses of mandarins, and they are
refused to be cajoled or frightened, very valuable dogs of long pedigree.
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ville told the Chinese photographer
to take a snap shot of the scene. The
picture which appeared in the Lon
don Graphic, is reproduced here.
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Field Marshal Oyama, however, had
no time for sentiment; he wanted a
telescope for watching the maneuvers
of the Chinese fleet erected near the
spot, where the dead officer and his
faithful little dog lay, aud ordered a
couple of coolies to remqye the corpse,
One of the coolies grabbed the dead
man s arm aud Chinchi caught him
savagely by the leg. He kicked her
away and drew his sword to kill her.
At this moment Mr. de Guerville
thrust the coolie aside and snapped up
the dog. She snapped at his hands
and wailed as though she were heart
broken. He wrapped her in his coat
and gave her to his Japanese servant,
When Mr. de Guerville got back to
his tent that evening he found his
Japanese servant and the small dog.
It was a long time before he could
make friends with her. She mourned
for her dead master and refused to be
comforted, d inally he persuaded her
to drink a little milk, but it was a
month before she was over her fear of
the “white devil. She had never seen
a foreigner before. She didn’t know
what to make of a man without a pig
tail, who wore breeches instead of
petticoats and after they got a bit bet
ter acquainted she used to sit and
w atch him by the hour, with a mixture
of friendliness and contempt. They
went back to Japan together on one
of the troop ship She had been
named Chiuchi, which in Chinese
meaus Faithful. She readily learned
her name.
On the troop ship was a great deal
of the loot of Fort Arthur, including
two c-.fnels aud a lot of strange birds
which were destined for the Emperor,
The Japanese officers tried to persuade
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Cbincbi’s owner to present her to His
Majesty, who bad beard the story of
the dog who was faithful untci death.
Mr. do Guerville thought he would
keep the dog, but promised, if Chin
chi ever decided to go in for a life of
matrimony, to send back one of her
offspring.
And so Chiuchi came to America.
By the time she reached Vancouver
she was on terms of intimacy with the
“white devils,” and did not mind them
much, but when she got to the hotel a
negro porter, black as tho ace of
spades, suddenly appeared in her room.
Chiuchi nearly had a tit. Life was be
c.oming altogether too cosmopolitan
for her. What with “white devils”
and “black devils” she didn’t know'
what to make of it.
The day before they left Vancouver
she and her new master went out for a
walk. All of a sudden Cbinchi set up
a wild yell and vanished round a cor
nor. Mr. do Guerville followed and
saw her cutting along the street, her
squirrel tail waving in the wind, while
far ahead pattered a little, long
queued Chinaman in a purple blouse.
When she got near the Chinaman
turned and faced her. She looked at
him lor a moment and then, howling
dismally, ran back to her new master.
are three which were sent to London
a few years ago by the English Miais
ter to China,
. Chinchi has fine quarters, and is
as happy as a lady-dog with such a
“past can be. Her onlv grief is
when in her walks abroad she
1 meets a Chinaman, The
common
laundrymen she hardly notices, but the
other day she met one of the attaches
of the Consul's office, and whether
sbe thought he was her old master
or the meeting recalled the old days
to her, she was very unhappy that
night. Her master thinks she re
called the night she spent by her dead
master's side, there on the hills above
Port Arthur, while the defeated
Chinese troops hurried past, and the
noise of battle roared seaward, And
whenever the little heroine re
members those cold and lonely hours,
when she lay there guarding the dead
Chinese officer whom all his friends
and soldiers had deserted, she crawls
into a corner and sob 3 like a woman.
Chinchi has a right to be numbered
among the famous dogs of history,
She has had wonderful adventures,
The little brown aud white spaniel
was the special feature of the lecture
which Mr. de Guerville delivered in
the Madison Square Garden Concert
Hall, New Tors, It was carried on
the stage by the lecturer, and was re
warded with tumultuous applause for
its fidelity to the dead Chinaman in
far away Port Arthur,
Au Odd Gold Nugget.
There is on exhibition in Lumpkin
County. Georgia, a large and beauti¬
ful piece of gold in the shape of a leg
less duck. It was purchased from a
man who found it a few years ago
while mining, on theChestatee River,
near Dahloaega.— Chicago Times
Herald.
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France [uner Fresident was born
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eventful life was luckier than his win¬
ning of Mile. Marie-Mathilda Belluot,
who became Mrs. Fauro on July 10,
1865. She was a niece of Senator
Guinot, of Amboise, in the Depart¬
ment of Iudre et Loire, and it was in
that pretty town that ho saw and fell
in love with her.
She was not only one of the belles of
Amboise, but was celebrated for her
wit, her grace aud her perfect man¬
ners, all of which have brought her
further renown in her trying situation
as “first lady of the Republic.” Mme.
Faure has presented her husband with
two charming daughters, Conseiller-Gen- the younger
of whom is the wife of
eral Berge, of the Seine Inferieure.
The elder, Mile. Lucie, is as bright as
her mother, and often acts as her
father’s secretary. She has a talent
for verses, and shares with Mme. Bergo
a talent for entertaining that has
brought back all the old life and gayety
to the Elysee receptions.
Tho home of the Faures at Havre is
on the Boulevard Maritime, command¬
ing a superb view of the sea snd
boasting a beautiful garden. It stands
next to the Villa Marie-Chnstino,
owned by the Queen of Spain, and
near the Sainte-Addresso villa, built
by Sarah Bernhardt.
Poe’s Collage jit Foi jn,
iou EghbrTdg! iad, w
Edgar Allan Poe lived anl wrote, has
once more chauged hands. Joha Ross
has sold it to Edward Chauvet, a den¬
tist of Kingsbridge road, for Austin
E. Ford, the editor of the Freeman’s
Journal, who has owned it since 1890,
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THE POET’S COTTAGE.
Mr. Ford expected to dispose of the
cottage to a syndicate that would pre¬
serve and treasure it as a relic, but he
was disappointed, and at length
placed it in the market. It lay va¬
cant for months. Hundreds called
for the key at Mr. Ross’s office and
after going through the cottage once
occupied by the author of ‘ ‘The
RaveD,” went away with everything
portable as souvenirs, aud always with
the key. Mr. Haffen’s new map of the
Annexed District, which calls for the
widening of Kingsbridge road, takes
away three-quarters of the house, and
Dr. Chauvet will move it back to the
rear of the lot and use it for an office.
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ntETTY COSTUMES SUITABLE
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER.
Cuggestlons Valuable to Mothers—
Materials and Styles That Will
Be in Vogue—Some Stylish
Neck Garnitures.
(5 ROWX-UP community monopolizethe of the members do pretty not Never entirelj- of things the
season. were
the little ones more gracefully or nr
tistically clad. The blouse waist is
seen everywhere, developed in all
sorts and varieties of material, and for
tots whose ages range from two to
eight years skirts barely reach to the
bend of the knee. Sleeves are large
—puffed, shirred and rosetted quite
as elaborately as those worn by the
mammas and big sisters.
In hats the Kate Greenaway styles
are still in favor. They nr8 always
gathered ou to wires and trimmed
with lace-edged frills or bows of rib¬
bons.
Black and red combined are popular
for little girls, and solid colors have
almost driven the “mixed effects”
from tho field.
Small boys and girls—those who
need nursery gates—have fortunately
an abiding fashion in their clothes.
Both sexes dross alike, in white nain¬
sook, until three years, when the boy
gives the first cold shoulder to frocks
by getting into kilts of pique, serge,
or flannel, with a blouse waist of the
samo and a reefer jacket for out-door
wear.
Girls of three years attest their ad¬
vance from babyhood by wearing
much shorter dresses of nainsook,
with others of chumbray, fine giug*
hams, and dimities. The little misses
of this tender age are bo attractive in
themselves that they are superior to
dress, and it is the wise mother who
makes the little frocks of very simple de
esign for general wear. If the small
gingham and cambric morning dresses
are made open in the back, to be but¬
toned to the hem, their laundering will
be much simplified, a point worth con¬
sidering when a half day’s wear, tui>3. some¬
times less, sends each to the For
the pique, chambray, and nainsook
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FASHIONS FOR MISSES.
frocks pretty models are shown this
spring, which give to Miss Baby a
touch of her mother’s breadth of
shoulder. These are little yoke or
guimpe dresses, with a wide, pointed
capo collar of the material, edged
with embroidery from two to three
inches deep, put on just full enough
to keep from puckering; this is fin¬
ished round the neck with a plain
cord, and is hooked or buttoned with
a single button beneath the neck fin¬
ish of dress or guimpe, as the case
may be.
Older girls who are well dressed are
simply dressed. So Jong as short
dresses are worn, there is not enough
of plain fabric shown to make a back¬
ground for elaborate trimmings, and
much ornamentation of these small
dresses violates the canons of taste in
dress as well as gives undue
prominence to a subject of minor im¬
portance to a child. Especially does
the average American mother err in
this respect in preparing the ward¬
robe for her little girls for their sum¬
mer vacation. Then, it ever, should
they have simple and serviceable
frocks; instead then, more than ever,
for materials are cheap and long days
give time for sewing, are they apt to
be over-dressed.
There are, of course, many pretty
models in tasteful designs for those
who do not care to confine the dresses
to severe simplicity. One illustrated
in the large cut is of printed duck,
white, with a pin-dot of light blue;
the long, full sleeves are finished with
cuffs of blue duck, pin-dotted with
white, and folds of the same material
start from the armholes and are caught
down in the front of the bodice by
two rows of round pearl buttons.
Another model illustrated is of pale
pink pique, the chemisette trimmed
with rows of narrow feather-stitch
braid, white, and a wide ruffle ol em¬
broidery, double-pointed revers of
the pique forming a sort of color,
which is tied in front with a bow of
white lawD.
A model for a cashmere or crepon
dress has the skirt trimmed with Jong
lines of baby velvet ribbon of har¬
monizing or contrasting color ; these
outline the seams of the gored skirt
and radiate from the neckband in a
circular yoke effect on the round
bodice, each line on waist. The
sleeves and collar band are similarly
finished, and frills of lace drape the
shoulders.
The short French skirt, falling jast
below the knee, remains in favor
among fashionable mothers for girls
from three to ten years, and i? even
worn up to twelve years by girls not
full size. The skirts from ten to four¬
teen years now flare decidedly, with
full plaits in the back, quite like their
mamma’s gowns. The little women,
in fact, copy most of the effects in
the older women’s fashions m big
sleeves. Directoire sleeves, fichu and
blouse effects, and the rage for fronts
and crushes, as the stock collars are
familiarly called. Gnimpes remain in
favor for giris of all sizes, though the
girls above twelve years usually de-
clare a preference for frocks without
them.
STYLISH NT OK GARNITURES.
lliere seems to be no abatement to
tho fancy for showy vest fronts and
decorative collars. Probably because
it is so easy to put ou your best bib j
and tucker over a last scasou’s gown,
and feel quite satisfied with your up¬
pearance.
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A GROUP OF FASHIONABLE C0LLAR3.
lace will be so ubiquitous through the
spring and summer that tho many
fingers are already busy over their
preparation.
Very pretty and generally becoming
arc tho lawn collars which turn over
at the throat, and cuffs to match
which turn back at the wrist. For a
slender throat the threo-coruerod
pieces which turn over beneath the
cars are the most beooming.
A group of fashionable collars is
pictured, the upper one being mado
of gauze muslin in a pointed yoke
outlined with an insertion of sdk em¬
broidery, from which falls a flounce
to correspond. The yoke of the sec¬
ond collar is of flue muslin laid over
a colored silk foundati on, and bor¬
dered with a band and frill of stiletto
The third collar of the
group is an old-time shape, made of
grass cloth, ornamented with self
colored embroidery and feather stitch¬
ing. All of these collars may close at
the back with satin ribbon bows.
NOVELTIES IN HEADGEAR.
Art, as far as millinery is con¬
cerned, is in advance, far in advance,
of nature this season. Not a bud, nor
blade of grass, nor tho faintest allur¬
ing suggestion of spring is out-of
doors, and indoors in fashionable
shops a perfect riot of blossoms in
riumphant profusion proclaims the
news that spring millinery has arrived
from Paris and Vienna. What elegant
perversions of last year’s modes daz¬
zle one. Last year’s small, unimport¬
ant flowers are magnified into large
editions in strange colors. Already a
clever observer has 'discovered that
ever hiag in the millinery line runs
in a trio this season. Of course a
chord of three notes is necessary for
harmony in music, and in red, yellow
anu blue makes a perfect chord in
color and certainly in the queer twists
and shapes and oddly interwoven
straws, and the variety of materials
that are conspicuous features of head
gear now, there should be a harmoniz¬
ing element. Three is the magic num¬
ber that preserves accord in what at
first glance appears startling discord.
Feathers come in bunches of three;
colors are massed in triple shades,
flowers are arranged in threes and the
brims of hats form three distinct
pleats or three terraced effects lik#
that shown in the illustration. It is aT
most springlike combination, beingof
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STRAW WITH CERISE P.ED BOSES.
coarse pleated straw, green as tender
young grass. Cerise red roses and
cyclamen form the decoration either
side, and rising like ribbon grass
from the flowers are three loops of
glace ribbon of a very pale shade of
green. This is jauntily tipped up in
the back, the flutes in the straw being
ornamented x , with green bows.
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An old Colorado .voman who plays
a hand organ on Denver’s streets has
been found to be worth over $100,006,
and to earn as high as S25 a day.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CREAKING DOORS.
If the doors are of heavy, obl fash*
loned make, the hinges should bo
to now and then, as the weight
0 f the ^oor often loosens the Borews,
axx ,\ the wbo]e thing is thrown off tho
in which case, tightening tho
screws will set it right unless worn
very loose, then it may be advisable to
insert longer screws, which will pene¬
trate deeper into the woodwork. Locks
want an occasional inspection aud a
touch of oil. If tho door has shrunk
and no longer fits tightly into the
frame, a piece of baize or list nailed
round the framework reuders it quite
tight and prevents draughts in winter
time.—New' York Dispatch.
THAT TROUBLESOME MERINGU3.
The secret of making tho meringue
for lemon pies so that it stands tall
and thick is in the baking. Whip tho
whites of the eggs to a froth that will
not fall out of tho bowl when turned
upside down; put m about a table¬
spoonful of granulated sugar for each
white, stir very little, spread it ou tho
pies when they are just done and still
baking hot without taking them out
of the oven, aud let them bake with
the oven open. If made hot enough surelyt®
to brown, the meringue will
fall and become than nothing. *
worse
Five to ten minutes is enough to bake
tho meringue dry and straw’-colored.
Sift granulated sugar ou tho top of
the meringue as soon as spread on tho
pie before baking.—Philadelphia
Times.
BROWN PAPER IN THE KITCHEN.
It is a very common practice for
cooks to use brown paper as an ab¬
sorbent for superfluous fat on crullers,
fritters, croquettes and tho like, and
this custom has grown to bo general
without any consideration of sotno of
the possibilities that attend it.
An expert in the manufacture of
paper, upon seeing some of tho com¬
mon brown, uuglazeJ stuff used for
this purpose, delivered a lecture that
his hearers are not likely ever to for¬
get. Ho showed them tho serious
danger by detailing some of tho
sources of supply and giving tho par¬
ticulars of some of the processes of
manufacture.
Tho paper stock is gathered from
every refuse heap and roadside, any¬
where and every where, without regard
to its previous uses or its immediate
condition. The material is put into
tanks and goes through a sort ot‘ wash¬
ing that removes tho grosser impuri¬
ties. At no stage of its preparation is
it any way disinfected or mado fit to
use.
“As a matter of fact,” ho said, “tho
practice of wrapping meats in paper
of this sort is attended with the great¬
est risk. There is no telling whether
a piece of paper used in this nay may
have been thrown from a sick room or
employed for purposes that would
Tender it utterly unfit for contact with
iarticles of food.”
Regardless of thD, freshly cut meats,
of moisture, are wrapped in it,
it is not an unusual thing for some
one to remark that he can taste the
paper after the steak has been cooked.
There ought to_be a very strict san¬
itary 1 a wre gu l a t i n g t he g ath e ring
waste and materials for paper-making.
Every scrap of this staple should go
through a degree of heat sufficient to
kill all known disease germs. This is
not impossible or even difficult. It
might entail some expense to the man¬
ufacturer, but this is a small item
compared with the results to human¬
ity. Above all things, brown paper as
an absorbent of hot fat is not only un¬
wise from a hygienic point of view,
but positively disgusting. Old linen
is a thousand times more desirable for
such purposes, and, in addition, has
advantages on the scoro of economy.
A woman who has for years used bits
of linen in this way, says that she has
made all of her hard tuilet soap by
dropping the cloths in*o clear, strained
potash water. This cuts the grease
from the linen, and the liquid is
boiled, then put in an earthen vessel
until enough of it has accumulated;
then it is boiled down, and the result
is a Boap that is smooth, strictly hy¬
gienic and more agreeable than almost
anything that can be purchased. It
is better to eat fat galore than to fill
the system with germs of tho most
horrible diseases simply because there
is a fad for utilizing brown paper as
an absorbent.—New York Ledger.
ORANGE DESSERTS.
The simplest and most common way
of serving oranges is to peel, slice and
sprinkle sugar between the layers.
Whipped cream is an excellent addi¬
tion to this form of preparing them.
Other del cious desserts are as follows:
Orange Pudding—Soak a cup „ of
bread crumbs in a quart of rich,sweet
milk. Beat three eggs until very
light, add a cup of sugar, a small
lump of butter, the juice and grated
rind of two oranges. Add this to tho
soaked bread crumbs. Turn into a
buttered pudding dish and bake in a
hot oven.
Orange Short-Cake—Pare and slice
five or six oranges,‘removing all seeds
and bits of white pith, sprinkle a cup
or more of sugar over them and let
stand while making the crust. This
may be of any rich biscuit dough,
using sour cream and saleratus, or
sweet milk, lard and baking powder,
as one prefers. Bake on buttered
plates,with soft butter spread between
the two layers. Bake quickly, separ¬
ate and spread thick with the orange
both between and on top. If liked a
cup of whipped cream may be spread
over the top.
Orange Pie—Grated rind and juice
of two oranges, four beaten eggs, four
tablespoonfuls of sugar, one of butter
and one pint of milk. Bake with one
crust, spread a meringue over the top.
A good filling for layer cake is make
of the juice and grated rind of two
oranges, two tablespoonfuls of cold
water and two cups of sugar. Set in
a pot of boiling water and when scald¬
ing hot stir in the yolks of two beaten
eggs, and just before removing from
the fire stir the white of one egg
slightly beaten. When cold spread
between the layers of cake.—Amer¬
ican Agriculturist.
The largest price pai l in England
during 1894 for a work of art at
auction sale was $17,75 >. This sum
was given by Mr. Charles J. Wert
beimer for Reynold’s “La iy Betty
Delme. ”