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A QUEER DREAM.
Hine Thln* Thai Should Como to Thooi
Hut. I'ulori uimtHr, Won’t.
[From the Boston Transcript]
T want to toll yon, childron, of the
queer dream I had lust night. I dimmed
that many thiugs were greatly changed
from what I hail always been accustomed
to sec them.
I thought, for instance, that babies’
months were no longer made us common
as tho common shaving mug at the bar
ber’s, but that nobody presumed to kiss
a baby until the infiuit had urgently ro
quested the favor.
1 thought that when a baby’s stomach
was full to overflowing with food, the
homoeopathic theory of siinilia similibus
eurantur was not followed, and instead
of plying him with more food to relieve
him from the distress occasioned by the
overplus of food which was distressing
him, his stomach was permitted to pay
exclusive attention to getting rid of its
present burden.
And I fancied that the young thing
was no longer tossed about until his
•very bone threatened to break, when lie
was very tired and wished only to be
allowed rest and sleep, nor rocked into
dizziness when the tosser had grown
weary of the tossing.
I thought, too, that the infant had
ceased being swathed in tightly rolled
wraps, and was now clothed in* loosely
fitting garments which allowed him to
move his body and limbs with ease and
freedom.
I dreamed that babies were never
whipped because their mammas had lost
their temper, and that they were never
made drunk with soothing syrup, that
their mammas might attend tho lecture,
the play, or the ball.
I thought that grown persons had
•eased to ask a child his age, if his hat or
tils dress or his shoes were new, or where
he got them, or any of the questions
which are considered impertinent when
addressed to an adult.
I thought that when a little boy was
very tired ho was not forced to give up
bis comfortable chair to a lady or gentle
man who was not tired at all, and that
when a child had secured a window seat
in a steam car it was not taken from him
simply because he was a chili
1 thought it had become the fashion to
say “thank you" to a boy-gentleman or
a miss-lady, and that “yes, sir,’’ and
“no, ma'am," were no longer exclusively
used in addressing gentlemen and ladies
of larger growth.
I ureamcd that little hoys and little
girls word’’some turns allowed to ask
questions In which their parents were
not particularly interested, and were
answered with the same consideration
that would have l>oen accorded them had
they been the most insufferable adult
bores you ever hoard of.
I thought that parents never attempted
to deceive their children, but always told
them the truth without prevarication or
evasion.
I thought that the adage “Children
should he seen but not heard," had be
come obsolete, and that when a child
spoke he'wus listened to with the sime
attention that would have been bestowed
upon him were lie twenty years older.
i dreamed that because parents Imd
forgotten how to whine and scold, ohil
dreu had failed to learn the arts of w hi
ning and angry articulation.
I thought that little girls were taught
to run and romp instead of being nl'owed
to sit all dav, and that keeping their
clothing unsoiled and their muscles flaccid
was not tb% whole of t heir education.
i thought that mothers eared more to
see their boys with ruddy cheeks than
with clean hands, and that lungs and
limbs were considered as worthy of
development as brains.
I thought that, parents wore as polite
and kind in talking and dealing with
their own children as w ith tho children
of others.
I thought, that children were more
like pleasant adults because of all these
transformations, and that adults, for a
like reason, retained more of the fresh
ness and ingenuousness of childhood.
Now, children, wasn’t this a most
ridiculous dream ?
A Parisian Story.
If the statement did not appear in a
French paper we should perhaps 1 ><: in
clined to doubt all the details of tho in
cident which we find recorded in a Paris
newspaper of recent date. A most awia
ble and devoted wife is the heroine. Hhe
is lovely and possesses a set of white,
pearly teeth. A few weeks since one of
the most prominent of her teeth became
troublesome, and the dentist declared
that he could not save it, as it had com
menced to decay at tho. root. He pro
posed that she find someone who had
equally beautiful teeth and induce her to
part with one, winch he would trans
plant, and thus preserve her beauty.
The lady thought at once of her portress,
who was the terror of the household and
the torment of her poor husband, whose
life she made miserable by her evil tem
per. His head bore marks of a hundred
attacks. The woman consented to give
up the coveted pearl for ten dollars.
They repaired to the dentist, and, with
the aid of ether, the transfer was made
without pain to either. But mark what
followed —it might not follow in New
England—bnt in Paris everything is
possible. The portress lost her vicious
ness and became so amiable that her
dilapidated husband had fears of her
sanity, while the charming lady, whose
w hole life had been a perjietual blessing
to h"r husband and friends, has become
such a vixen that there is no living in the
house with her.
Mud Fever in Horses.
An English lover of horseflesh offers a
hint that may beuefit horses in the pres
ent condition of the weather. “The ob
ject of the hint,” he says, “is to prevent
horse's getting mud fever. One of mine
used to suffer from it until I adopted the
following plan. I suggested to my coach
man to oil him underneath and down
his legs in muddy weather, then, when
he came in, to sponge, not brush, off tho
mud with warm water, my theory being
that the fever was principally caused by
brushing off the half-dried clay and mak
ing the skin sore and tender. The proof
of the pudding, etc. For the last thre*
winters the horse has never had tho
least symptom of the disorder.”
The Boss Schooner. — The biggest
schooner afloat is called the Augustus
Hunt, She is owned in Baltimore, Md.,
and was very recently bnilt in Bath,
Me. She carries four masts, is 208 feet
over all, 40 feet 7 inches beam, 20 feet 8
inches depth of hold, 1,140 37-100 tons
burden, is registered A1 for fourteen
years, and when fully loaded can carry
2,000 tens of coal She is a whopper.
£1 )c -S'ummmiiUc ortjcttc.
VOL X.
Washington Society World.
The wedding of Hiss Mabel Bayard,
eldest daughter of Senator Bayard, of
Delaware, and Mr. Samuel D. Warren,
Jr., of Boston, took place at the Church
of tho Ascension Thursday morning in
the presence of a distinguished company
of invited guests. The ceremony was
perform'd by the Bov. Dr. Elliot. There
were ten ushers anil eight brides-moids.
The bride, leaning upon the arm of her
father, entered the church at 11:45, and
was met at the chancel-rail by tho groom
and his liest man, Mr. Wetmore, of
Michigan. Tho bride's dress was of
heavy white satin, the back of the train
falling in long folds and the front covered
with point lace flounces. Paniers wore
shirred across tho hips, and the high
corsage was cut with square neck and
elbow sleeveß and finished with point
lace.
Her only ornaments were a string of
gold heads around her throat. Her bou
quet was of white roses, and the long
tulle veil was confined to the head by a
chaplet of orange blossoms. The eight
brides-moids were the two Misses Bay
ard, sisters of tho bride, Miss Warren,
Miss Crebbs, Miss Marshall, Miss An
drews, Miss Kane, and Miss Lockwood.
The dresses of these bride’s attendants
were of white mull, over silk, tho skirts
demi-train, and tho fronts covered with
ruffles of pompadour and Aurillac lace.
They wore large white Gainsborough
hats, covered with white plumes and
faced with sapphire and ruby velvet,
each bridesmaid carrying a bouquet of
colored roses in her hand.
The reception that followed at the
residence of Senator Bayard was a largo
affair, and the houso was crowded until
the bride and greem departed to take the
4 o’clock train for the North. An
elaborate collation was served in the
dining-room, and souvenirs of wedding
cake were provided for the guests.
Maty handsome presents were made,
but were not displayed.
Nothing to Do.
A man who lias nothing to do is a piti
able object. He is simply a kept man.
fie is living on charity. Homo amiable
snoozer, now dead, Ims left him the
money that lie lives on, anil all ho has to
ilt i is to draw the money and eat, drink
and sleep.
No eyes can brighten with happiness
when ho comes home, because he only
comes homo when the other places are
closed. He cannot coins home tired,
nnd lie petted and rested by willing
hands, because it would boa mockery to
pot a tired man who had got tired doing
nothing.
Such a man simply exists nml is no
good on earth. If he would wheel a bar
row and earn n dollar, and get tired, anil
buy a beefsteak with tho dollar, and
have it cooked, and eat it while tho ap
petite was on that he got wheeling the
barrow, lie would know more enjoyment
than he had over known before. That
man with nothing to do on earth no
doubt thinks, as ho lays around and
smells frmvy, that he is enjoying life,
but he knows no more about enjoyment
than a tom-cat that sleeps ail day and
goes out nights to play sliort-stop to a
lot of bootjacks and beer bottles. Such
a man is a cipher, and does not know
enough to go in when it rains. If there
were less incomes left to lazy young fel
lows, and more sets of carpenter tools,
there would be more real enjoyment.—
Burlington JJawkeye.
Hints About Cooking.
Tho following culinary rules are from
the London Caterer :
1. Never boil fat with bones or meat
for stock for gravies or soups.
2. l’laco all fisli, salt or fresh, to cook
in boiling water.
3. Ail fresh fish to have vinegar and
salt added to tho water.
4. Never let fish lajil fast; draw it to
the side of the fire, and only let it boil
slowly.
5. Place all meat to boil in boiling
water, then the same as Rule 4.
6. All vegetables to be cooked in plenty
of ttoiling water, with salt, and be rapid
ly lioiled.
7. All greens, as broccoli, cabbage and
sprouts, to be cooked with a little soda
and salt in plenty of boiling water.
8. Carrots, parsnips, stca kale and cel
ery, artichokes, beet root, vegetable mar
rows and onions to have fat boiled in the
water, with salt; no soda.
9. Ail things to lie fried to tie first well
dried, well floured or egg-enimtied and
cooked in boiling fat, and plenty of it.
10. Strain through tin strainers all
sanees, gravies and soups.
11. Dripping can be used for fish
twice; it should not be discolored, but
while hot be strained into lard or butter
for basting and pastry. It should be
noted that stewing and simmering are
not synonymous terms for boiling. A
thermometer will soon show the differ
ence between the two processes. Boiling
point is not reached under 212 degrees
Fahrenheit, whereas simmering requires
only 188 degrees.
The shooting season has set in, and
the average boy begins to worry the lifo
out of his parents for a gnn, with which,
in all human probability, the boy will
either cripple himself or somebody else.
“Father,” said Johnny Fizzletop, “can’t
you spare money enough to get me a
gun?” “My son, when I can spare a
boy I’ll get you a gun.”
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 1(>. 1883.
Swearing Under Dinteiillie.s.
Ling Ah Dwe and Ling Ah You are
on trial in the Criminal Court of Chicago
for the murder, on August 38 last, of
Sing Quon. It appeared In the Icßti
mony that Quon attacked Dwe with a
Chinese pipe, whereupon Dwe ran out of
the room, procured a knife from You,
and returned and stabbed Quon to death.
There is in attendance at the trial a
Chinaman named Ling Sing, from Los
Angeles, Cal., who is supposed to be the
agent of tlio Six Companies, which are
paying the expenses of the prosecution.
Ho is very intelligent and richly dressed.
When the examination of witnesses was
begun n dispute arose ns to the kind of
oath that should la’ administered. The
defense insisted that the Chinese oath
should l>o given, anil another dispute
was at oiioo begun as to wliat
the Chinese oath was. Tho de
fense contended that it consisted in cut
ting off a chicken’s head and swearing
tho witness on the decapitated body
w ith a certain form of words. Tho pros
ecution claimed that the oath should be
written out on paper, all the witnesses
sign their name to it, and the whole
manuscript be burned. Judge William
son said that he understood tho break
ing of a saucer was necessary. It was
finally determined to write out the oath
and burn it, which was done. The wit
nesses all signed their names in full, and
n match was applied to the paper by the
clerk, who burned his lingers in the per
formance.
The Emptiness of Human Ambition.
The first time I saw Van Buren, writes
the Hermit, was in the spring after liis
defeat in the Presidential canvass. He
hail felt the crushing nature of what was
his first great disappointment in his
whole history, and he had seen the tri
umphant Harrison inducted to an office
from which ho himself had been excluded
by the voice of an indignant nation. Ho
was, in fact, the worst beaten of all Presi
dential candidates up to that day. In the
midst of this disappointment came tlio
news of the death of Harrison after only
one mouth of official service. Tlio City
of New Y’ork honored tho occasion by a
funeral procession of imposing character,
but its most impressive feature was the
defeated candidate. I was then merely
a boy, but as I gazed on tlio long ranks
of the military marching in solemn step
to the wail of dirges, and saw all the
(loop expressions of public bereavement.
1 felt the most touching lesson was found
in Martin Van Buren. Ho occupied a
barouche, dressed with tho American
and British colors bordered with crape,
and by liis side was the British Consul.
I thought then, and I have often though!
sinee, of the emptiness of human ambi
tion as illustrated by the appearance < l
Vau Buren at Harrison’s funeral. Tlio
latter had crashed the former, and then
bo suddenly yielded to the all-conquering
power of death.
In Judgment.
The late Gen. Ghanzy was once ap
plied to by a gentleman for assistance in
discovering the whereabouts of liis son,
who had disappeared after the battle of
Lo Mans. Chanzy at once remembered
that this young man and several others
had been by his orders shot, for running
away at the moment of battle and calling
out to their comrades: “Nous sommes
trail is |” When this recollection flashed
across the General, ho hesitated for a
moment whether he should say that ho
did not know what lmd been the fate of
the young man, or tell the unhappy
father the whole story. But tho hesita
tion was only momentary, anil he told
him what had taken ploco. The father,
though as pide as death, preserved liis
sang-froid and observed that, whatever
his paternal feelings n iglit be, he coil il
not but feel that General Chanzy had
done his duty. General Chanzy often
referred to this as being the most terrible
ordeal through which he had ever passed,
and said that the figure of this unhappy
father, sitting in judgment, as it were,
upon his son, like another Bratus, hod
haunted him day and night for weeks
afterward.
A Bashful Clergyman.
The memorial sketch of the late Rev.
William L. Gaylord, read at the recent
meeting of the Congregational Club in
Springfield, Mass., stated that ho con
fess'd to his friends that ho was a very
diffident man, a fact unsuspected by
those who knew him intimately. In
making such a confession, he oueo said
that when he was a lioy liis mother used
often to send him about tho neighbor
hood to invite her friends to tea, and
I hat when he reached a house where an
invitation was to be left ho never could
look anybody in the face, but with eyes
ori the floor, he would repeat these words
which he hail said over and over on liis
wav there: ' 1 Mother sends her compli
ments, and she hopes you will take tea
with her this evening.” He went onto
say that after lie, began to preach ho
could never catch the eyes of his audi
ence till after lie had listened to the
sound of his own voice for a while, and
that at such times those same words
were sure to come into his mind. “And
some day,”said he, “I shall speak them
out, and you will be very much astonished
to hear me ‘mark at the opening of a
sermon: ‘M tlier sends her compliments,
and she ho; s you will take tea with bee
this eveuii' o .'”
A YElft I’AfhftlUii GOVERNMENT.
A Chemnitz letter to tho Chicago Xt'wi
Says : You cannot live in Saxony with
out handling an assortment of yellow
tickets every day. You get a ticket for
everything; When you pay your faro on
the street oitt, the conductor gives you n
yellow ticket. Before teaching the end
of your trip, auotlier official Cutets the
ear and tears a corner off tho ticket. If
you scad a package by express yon re
ceive a yellow ticket, and if you receive
an express package yon got a yellow
ticket. If you semi tttfltley by mail you
get two yellow tickets, one tot the con
signee and one for yourself, and wlion
the consignee receives the money ho also
receives a yellow ooupon, and signs a
yellow ticket. When you buy a bill of
goods in a store you urn handed a yellow
ticket, and when they are delivered at
your house the bundle boy gives you an
other yellow ticket and takes the ono you
first received. I don’t know whether the
minister who officiates at a wedding gives
tho briilo and groom yellow tickets or
not, bill I believe they must have one
when their first baby is ls>m. If you
live at 3,790 B street, and you move to
3.795 A street, you must go to the City
Hull and yet a yellow ticket. If a ser
vant girl leaves Mrs. X, and goes to work
for Mm. XX, she must also go to the
City Hall and got a yellow ticket. It is
probable that the Saxon goes into the
next world with a yellow ticket in his
hand, but that is another point upon
which I have no definite information.
AU this seems very strange and very
funny to an American until ho has in
quired into it thoroughly, and tlion it
strikes him that the plan is au excellent
part of an excellent system. In the
street ear, for instance, thore can bo no
such thing na “knocking down.” The
braco bell punch will not work. Every
passenger must have a receipt for liis fare,
and lie must show it to the official who
tears the corner off. Everybody knows
the value of receipts for packages sent
and received, whether it bo by express,
by post, or by bundle-boy.
The books of the City Ilall will tell you
where every man in Chemnitz rosidos,
the numlier of tho street as well os the
number of the flat; they will tell you
whether ho is married or singlo; whether
he lives with his parents or rooms alone;
how many children he Ims ; how old he
is ; how old his wife is, and how old his
children are ; what his trade is ; whether
ho keeps a servant girl; what he pars
her ; how much his income is ; where lie
was born, etc., etc. They will toll you, in
a word, anything that it is possible to
find out concerning himself and his busi
ness. Ho cannot sail under false colors.
If ho pretends to have au income of
10,000 marks per tqjpum, he must pay an
income tax on that amount or prove that
lie has been talkitig too big. If a mer
chant is thinking of hiring a mall, lie can,
within forty-eight hours, discover
whether his prospective employeo has
ever been mixed up in a dishonorable
scrape, and determine whether or not the
account given by the niftli regarding Ins
own history is true.
There is another feature of this sys
tem which is remarkable. If you know
the number of the house where a certain
man lives whose history yoll ale anxious
to ascertain, but yoll cannot possibly find
out his name in any other way, you can
go to the City Hall and have not only liis
name but his entire record placed before
you in ft very short time. The number
iif the house fills the story. But you
cannot gel information about Tom, Dick
or Harry simply to satisfy an idle curi
osity, or for purposes of blackmail. Yon
must show cause for seeking the history
or naino of Tom, Dick or Harry; your
own name is entered as having called at
the City Hall at such and stu b a time for
such and hiicli a purpose, and if you use
the information which you have received
unlawfully, you will be punished se
verely.
Ilow to Make Buckwheat (lakes.
The season has arrived when buck
wheat cakes add so much to the break
fast table. But there are several de
grees of difference in the qualities of
them. The good are very good indeed,
wliilo the bod are most insufferable nui
sances. In the first place, it is all im
portant to have good, pure, clean buck
wheat flour. Prom some cause this
flour is dear, making it a temptation to
bad men to adulterate with corn-meal,
or wheat and rye shorts. Very little, if
any, pure buckwheat flower can bo had,
unless the farmer raises his own buck
wheat and carefully threshes and has it
floured at an honest mill. There are
such mills. When you have good flour,
the next thing is to have a skillful hand
to prepare the cakes.
Never use any baking powders, soda,
or any other preparation containing al
kali, except it be not exceeding half a
teaspooriful of pure bi carbonate of soda
to sweeten the batter just before begin
ning to bake. Take a quart of water,
lukewarm, for a family of six, a heaping
tablespoonful of yeast and five teacups
of buckwheat flower. Beat thoroughly
until you have a smooth batter. Salt to
taste. This is mado up over night and
set where it will keep warm. In tho
morning thin the batter to a proper con
sistency anil bake rapidly, not to scorch.
Jt is a good practice to suve some of thiK
batter each time and use it for several
bakings instead of adding new yeast.
After three or four days renew the batter
with new yeast.
Oakes prepared in this way are deli
cious anil easily digested, and add much
to the pleasure of the meal, especially
if it is covered with a little honey or
maple molasses. But poor, solid, gritty,
insipid cakes are not fit to feed to pigs,
and they ought to be thrown in some
safe place whero no domestic animals can
get at them. There are greater degrees
of merit in buckwheat cakes than any
other article of diet which comes to the
table. Strive to have the imperial ar
ticle.
“On, yes,” said the contented man,
“I am just as well satisfied that my
horse isn’t as fast as some. When I
owned a trotter that could got away
with anything on the road, I was in
front all the time, and didn’t half enjoy
myself. Now lam behind most of the
time, and see all the fun.” —Lowell
Wuen.
THE NAPOLEON HEIR.
AkCfotttfi Che liii|.Moni it Prlnra •( France.
Prince Nftpoleob; lately arrested In
France on political gtottnds, is tho
second son of Jerome Bonaparte lit hie
second marriage with the Princess I rod- 1
erikn, of Wurtemburg, and was bom at
Trieste, September 9, 1822. He was
Cousin to (ho late Emperor. His youth
was passed at Vienna and Trieste,
Florence find Rome, occasionally in
Switzerland,England and Spain. After tho
revolution of February, 1818, Prince Na
poleon returned, and tho Corsicana
elected him a member of the Constituent
Assembly, ill which bo became leader of
the extreme republican party known ns
tho Mountain. His Vleft's, however, un
derwent a change, and in 1849 he was
appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at
Madrid, but was shortly recalled fof
having quitted his post without authority.
Ho was tnftde ft French prince, with a
seat in the Senate and Council of State,
December 23, 1863, and at the same time
received tho Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honor and the rank of General of
Division. In 1854 he was appointed ton
command in the expedition to the Crimea,
and commanded nil infantry division of
reserve at the battles of Almalnkermann.
On account of his sudden retirement
from this post, ill-health being tho ox
euso, the sobriquet 'of “Plon-Flon” was
given him bv his countrymen.
Ho married the Princess Clotilde,
daughter of Victor Emmanuel, late King
of Italy, January 30, 1859, by whom ho
hail two sons, Napoleon Victor Jerome
Frederick, born July 18, 18(12, and
Napoleon Louis Joseph Jerome, born
July 1(1, 1804, and one daughter, Mario
Lctitia Eugenie Catharine Adelaide, born
December 20, 1866. In the Italian cam
paign of 1859 be commanded tho French
army of reserve in tho south of Italy,
but was not engaged in any of the great
battles. In the Senate in 1801 he made
an attack upon the Orleans family, which
was answered with spirit by the Due
d’Aumale. Prince Napoleon, to the dis
gust of a great portion of the French
army, declined to accept the ehallengo
sent liim by the duke on that occasion.
In 1865 Prince Napoleon was appointed
president of the Commissioners for the
Universal Exhibition at Paris of 1807,
but resigned the post in consequence of
a reprimand which ho received from the
Emperor for a speech delivered at
Corsica at, the inauguration of a statue
of the Emperor Napoleon 1., May 27,
1865.
In 1861 lie came to this country, wliilo
the civil war wan raging, and formed tlio
aeqiiaiutance of President Lincoln, Mr.
Seward, nml of several of the Federal
and Confederate generals. On war
being declared with Prussia in July,
1870, Prince Napoleon implored liis
Cousin to appoint him to a military com
mand. The Em pore r, hotveVef, declined
to do so, on the plea that lie might ren
der more efficient aid to France by ac
cepting a confidential mission to Italy,
Where 110 (timid bring his personal influ
ence to boar oil liis fatlier-in-lftW, Victor
Emmanuel. Accordingly lie went to
Florence, but failed to obtain tho co
operation of Italy. After the fall of the
Empire, he spent some months in Brus
sels and in other continental cities, hut
ultimately he fixed his residence ill Eng
land. In September, 1870, he ventured
to FfanOe on a visit, to M. Richard, an
ex-Ministcr of Iho Empire, but on the
12th of that month lie was banished
from France. Previous to the killing of
tho Prince Imperial, Prince Napoleon
claimed to ho the chief representative of
his family, and endeavored, however
without success, to organize a party of
his own in opposition to the adherents of
the Empress Eugenio and the Prince
Imperial.
The Subject of Education,
The subject of education reciives crit
ical and exhaustive attention in the in
rugurnl message of Gov. Butler, of
Massachusetts. Tie Governor claims
that the fund is not expended for the
benefit of all in the State; the percentage
of illiteracy in her borders slaws tliin
if nothing else. High grades of study
are cultivated, but the spelling book is
abolished; subjects that ought not tr bo
included in a common school education ex
liaust the fund until Massaehusi Its is tlio
nineteenth Stv.te in tho illiteracy of her
population of the thirty-eight. The sal
aries in the higher schools are too high
and in the lower grades too low. It is
necessary, to prevent crime and pauper
ism, to educate the masses up to a cer
tain necessary point and to lit them for
the suffrage. The chassis above will
and ought to educate themselves up to a
still higher point. In order that he can
not be misunderstood, he says that the
school lurid money is diverted extrava
gantly from the many to Whom it does
belong to the use of the few to whom it
does not belong, and he illustrates it by
citing the Formal and tho Art schools,
and closes by advocating the following
measures: Restrict the branches taught
in the primary schools by law specifi
cally to spelling, reading, writing, gram
mar, arithmetic, geography, history—
preferably of the United States—anil re
quire that those shall be taught upon
the same system, to tho samu grade of
scholars, in every common school in tho
Commonwealth. When the scholar can
show by an examination that ho is well
grounded in the .elementary English
branches, then let him bo admitted to a
school of higher grade, where-line-draw
ing for industrial purposes shall be
taught, bookkeeping, algebra, geometry,
the rudiments of the Latin and French
languages, chemistry, pin sics, with nat
ural philosophy in a rudimental degree;
and there a common school education
should stop.
A Wii inkle Against Wktnkles. —A
lady writes: “You say that girls who
want to have good complexions should
wash their faces with almost boiling
water. Not osily girls should do this,
but women wlio do not wish to have
wrinkles. lam above fifty and I have
not got a wrinklo. This is due to my
having washed my face night and morn
ing with very, very hot water. Tho
water tightens the skin and prevents it
from wrinkling.”
NO. 17.
A DANISH DAIRY.
Tim JUlntrrns of It (rail llm Manner In Which
Hhr Hoes lldl Work.
Pcrliiqw not maiiy Danish farmers oau
hope to emulate Mr. Nielson’s success,
because few can Isi blessod with such a
wife an he has. It is, in fact, mainly to
Mrs. Nielson’s exertions that the results
accomplished (ire to bo traced. This
lady first of all took tom- in Sweden
amt Germany, and iu those countries
learned to make butter on tho Swartz
system, and skim milk aud whey cheese
as practiced by Swedes and Gormans.
Then she resolved upon extending her
travels. She knew only her native
language and a smattering of German,
but with this slender linguistic equip
ment she had the courage to make a tour
in England, France, Switzerland nnd
Holland, picking up knowledge every
where*.
She contrived to get such an insight
into tho dairy systems of these different
countries as to be able to make butter
on the Norman system, Cumembert anil
Brie cheeses as they are made in France,
Edam ns it is made in Holland, Cheddar
and Cheshire ns they are made iu Eng
land, and Grnyero according to tho most
approved Swiss process.
Mrs. Nielson has n shop in Copen
hagen, where she sells her dairy produce,
the king beingone of her regular custom
ers. Her work in the dairy begins at 6
in tho morning, and is finished at 1 in
the afternoon. Mrs. Nielson is then off
by train to the city, where she is always
to be found from 2 o’clock until 8, re
turning to her country home by the 9
o’clock train, ready to liegin tho same
round of work the next day.
It would be interesting only to practi
cal dairymaids to describe Mrs. Nielson’s
methods in detail. Her dairy (which is
also her kitchen, where cooking and
cheese-making go mi simultaneously) is
tint sixteen feet square, and yet three
kinds of cheese—Derby, Edam anil
Cainembert —have been seen in process
of concoction together. Tho mistress
devotes her personal supervision to the
most critical parts of the work, but. is
assisted by her pupils, of whom she has
generally about a dozen boarding iu tho
house.
For it will not excite surprise that her
fame lias spread far and near, and that
farmers are only too glad to send their
daughters to study under such an in
structor. The girls stay for various
periods, from six weeks to two years,
usually about six months, and those who
stay but a short time are charged pro
portionately high fecH. All have to
work as hard as any ordinary dairymaid
while at the farm.
Most of the pupils are the daughters
of small farmers. One was pointed out
to Mr. Jenkins, however, whose father
owned forty cows. This young lady was
about to lie married, and her parents
thought themselves fortunate in securing
for her under Mrs. Nielson the knowl
edge by which she would be enabled to
turn the dairy that was so soon to be her
own to the best account. It is, perhaps,
worth mentioning tlmt Mr. Nielson takes
no part in the dairy business himself,
and had at first but small faith in tlio
success of liis wife's enterprise. So she
began by buying her milk of her hus
band at what he regarded as a remuner
ative selling price, and Ims continued to
do so to the present time. She now has
to buy of many other farmers as well,
but Mr. Nielson is still paid for every
quart nt tho market value, just, as his
neighbors are. As Mrs. Nielson's pupils
do most of the work, her outlay for labor
must bo very small, and she makes, un
cording to her own statement, lietween
two anil three times ns much for her but
ter and cheese as she pays for her milk.
She must evidently therefore be doing a
prosperous business. Her profits are, of
course, all tho greater from the fact that
|iv keeping her own shop she bus to Make
no allowance for those of tho factor aud
retailer.
Introducing You to Oleomargarine.
Now, no person with a keen sense of
taste can be deceived about oleomargar
ine. Butter is pure oil. Put a little in
a warm place, and see how quickly it
liquefies. If tho temperature comes
close to boiling, tho butter is “oiled,”
and unfit for food. Try tho same exper
iment with oleomargarine. It will not
harm it, and you will find it difficult to
melt it if you drop it in boiling water.
It will dissolve like tallow, with a sort of
metallic glint. Oleomargarine, if “ fla
vored” with true butter and made into
“prints,” always keep the prints in the
original clear lines. You can handle it
without crushing it. It seems ns if it
had just come off ice.
Tho fust timo 1 ever found it on a
table I thought it the handsomest butter
I had ever seen. It was at the United
States Hotel in Saratoga, where board
was $5 a day. I tasted it, eoulil not
swallow it. In two hours iny mouth wiis
sore, poisoned by pytemic germs in this
pretty butter I I did not connect the
two things, and continued every morn
ing to touch tho butter to my tongue, in
tlio vain hope of finding something
eatable. After five or six days a well
known memlier of tho Boston Board ot
Trade paused beside my table and said,
“ Mrs. Dali, I hope you are not trying
to eat that poison ?’ r And then I dis
covered what tho substitute was. T
ought to odd that oleomargarine is
gritty, though tho grit is very fine, anil
it will not cream smooth with sugar or
without, like true butter.—Cabouk* H.
Dall, in Boston Transcript,
Divorces. —Vice-Chancellor Simrall,
of Louisville, Ky., took occasion severely
to rebuke an ageil couple who apjiearcd
before him a applicants for a divorce on
a trumped-up charge of abandonment,
the wife, tho plaintiff, being seventy
years old and the husband ninety years
old. Judge Himrall dismissed the
petition, and said he believed that if the
records of the courts which alone have
jurisdiction in such cases were searched
they would disclose such a state of facts
as to the number of divrxree suits and
the rapidity of their increase in the last
few years as would fill the great mass of
light-thinking people in the State with
amazement and disgust,
A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
A Child In u Prison Coll aud Illn utter fltw
lorj.
The oft-tolil story of tho painter who
painted an ideal picture of “Iunooonoo”
from tho face of n pretty child who sal
as his model, anil iu his old age had a
villuinous-liHiking eriinin.il sit to him for
the model of apioturo of "Guilt” as a
companion piece to tho other, and dis
covered that the child nnd tho oriminal
wore the Name person, lias rooeived soma
startling illustrations in real lifo. A oon
viet discharged from old Charlestown
Stato Prison told the following remark
able story of himself to tho warden of
tlmt prison;
Si imp years ago a gentleman, his wife
and their only child, visited a prison.
They were shown through the workshops
and prison hy an officer, who pointed
out the different objects of iuterest as
they passed along. Tho gentleman
was inquiring about a man who hod re
cently lieeu sent to prison for lifo for
murder.
“By the way, this is his room," said
the officer, stopping before one of tho
cells, tho door of which stood open.
Tho little boy, with a child’s curiosity
stepped up and looked in. His father
came up behind the child, and playfully
pushed him in and closed the door.
The little fellow shrieked to Vio let out.
The door was immediately opened, and
tho child ran sobbing into Ins mother’s
arms. She, brushing back tho light
curls from his forehead and kissing him,
said, soothingly;
“No, no; they shan’t shut up my littlo
boy in prison.”
The little boy was terribly frightened.
Ho turned his eves once more toward the
dreaded cell, and for the first time noted
on tho door tho "No.
The incident made a deep impression
upon his mind.
Time passed. Ho grew to manhood.
His father and mother were both dead.
He became a sailor, nnd a good one,
rising step by step until he beenme
second in command of ono of the Cali
fornia steamers sailing from New York.
But, like many others, in consequence
of that vice which has ilragged down so
many even from high positions, ho lost
his situation, come book to Boston, sank
lower and lower, and wan filially arrested
for breaking into a store. Ho was sen
tenced to State prison for four years.
When received at tho prison ho wus
taken to tho bath-room—tho usual cus
tom—bathed—shaved and clipped ;
outlied in tho prison dress and conducted
to the room ho was to occupy.
Judge of his horror and consternation
when he found himself standing before,
and the officer unlocking tho door of tho
same coll, “No. into which ho,
when a lad had boon tlirust by his
father.
In relating this story to me (says Warden
Haynes) ho said no ono could imagine
his feelings when ho found himself an in
mate of that cell. Every incident anil
scene from childhood rushed upon his
mind; tho exclamation of his mother,
“No, no; they shan’t shut up my littlo
sun in prison,” rang in his ears, and lie
threw himself upon a stool weeping, in
utter despair and wretchedness.
It is pleasant to boo shining through
this strange story of circumstantial ret
ribution tho truth of the famous line,
“There is a divinity that shapes our
ends.” The convict became a religions
man while in prison, nnd years after his
disci largo rose to bo an officer iu tho
navy.
The World.
The population of tlio principal civil
ized countries of the world, according to
the most recent census for each, returns
for but few of them being older than
1879, are as follows, with the percent
ages of annual iucreaso appended :
Franco, 37,321,180, 0.22; Prussia, 27,-
279,111, 1.23; Saxony, 2,972,805, 1.54;
Bavaria, 5,284,778,1.04; Austria, 22,144,-
244, 0.78; Hungary, 15,725,710, 0.13;
Belgium, 5,536,654,0.98; Holland, 4,012,-
693, 1.24. Switzerland, 2,846,102, 0.66;
Sweden, 4,565,668, 0.95; Norway, 1,878,-
100, 0.60; Spain, 16,625,860, 0.86; Italy,
28,437,091, 0.76; Russia in Europe, 83,-
626,590, 1.32; England and Wales, 25,-
968,286, 1.43; Scotland, 3,734,370, 1.11;
Ireland, 5,159,839, 0.47; United States,
50,155,783, 2.96. Russia in Europe is
the only country, it will be seen, in this
list that surpasses tho United States in
the number of its inhabitants, while the
nearest approach that is made to tho
United States in tho matter of increase
is Saxony, which shows a percentage of
1.54, as against ours of 2.96, or only
about one-half as great a percentage.
A Surprised Now Zealander,
A New Zealander who was suffering
from a dreadful headache conceived the
idea that since the gum tree was potent
against miasma, a poultice of its leaves
might relievo liis pain. Ho accordingly
made a mash and soaked his head in it
for an hour or two, when ho was de
lighted to find himself completely cured.
But on glancing in tho mirror he was
overcome with astonishment which has
since deepened into woe. The gum poultice
had dyed his hair a fine peacock blue,
and the color is us fast ns tho famous
Tyrian purple of which tho world has
lost the secret. Perhaps the surprised
Ngw Zealander has involuntarily become
a vicarious sacrifice for the beuefit of
humanity, in which case lie may console
himself with the reflection that hi*
memory will l>e held in reverent remem
brance long after his illustrious com
patriot shall have sketched the ruins of
Ht. Paul’s and sunk into oblivion.
An Index to Character.
A Boston preacher says that nothing
gives such a complete index to tho civ
acter of man as the substance he spreatJ*
upon the icy sidewalk in front of hi
house. He who uses sifted ashes is a
strict utilitarian, precise and hard in his
ideas, without much sentiment, and
prone to look to the end to be gained
without much thought of the graceful
ness or beauty of tho means employed.
He who takes ashes, half-burned coal
and incombustible slag out of his grate,
and pitches the whole promiscuously
over his sidewalk, is a man who really
cares nothing for tho safety of other
people’s limbs. He who covers the slip
pery places with sawdust, that seems to
afford a footing, but does not, is oynical
and malevolent. He who strews the
glassy pave with sand so judiciously
heated that it sticks to the ice without
melting it, is refined and nice in hia
tastes, sympathetic in his disposition and
bulging with philanthropy,