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FUTURE OF COOKERY.
HOISEKEEPIXG WILL BE A XEW
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on the Xlarket—New Apparatus for
Heating Hnawi.
From the Pittsburg- Dispatch.
Electric cookery is in its nfaney. Yet
the time is nearly approaching when the
kitchens of all well managed households
will he run by the mysterious fluid. Elec
tricity will take the place of fuel in
the range; the department of the cuisine
will be lighted by the same agency, and
it is entirely conceivable that small elec
tric motors will be made to serve for
such purposes as beating eggs and mix
ing griddle cakes.
Already electric cook stoves in a num
ber of patterns are on the market. You
can buy an electric dialing dish, which
may be attached at a moment s notice
to an ordinary electric light wire in any
house. These ehafilng dishes are made
In one-quart and two-quart sizes, nickel
plated. All you have to do is to make
the attachment by a plug switch, turn
on the current, and almost immediately
your oysters are beginning to stew or
your eggs to frizzle.
Before long householders will take
electricity regularly for domestic pur
poses, just as they now take gas. But
the more subtle fluid will be made to
serve for cooking and heating as well
as for lighting. The convenience to
the housewife of being able to rely upon
one system of wires for fuel for cooking
and for warming and illuminating the
dwelling will be enormous. She will And
It particularly delightful to be rid of a
hot kitchen in the summer time.
Nowadays the kitchen is apt to be the
dirty part of any house. To keep it reai.x
clean is almost out of the question. The
coal used for fuel blackens everything
with which it comes in contact; ashes
more dirt, and amok** t>*ftck**ns
ceiling and walls. In the electrically con
ducted kitchen of the near future it will
be quite different. There will be no coal
no ashes and no smoke. The range witl
be ready for cooking at a moment s no
tice. with no time and patience wasted
In the laborious kindling of a hre. Ihe ,
turn of a switch will start the current,
which may be shut ofT again when no
longer wanted. . „
An electric kitchen in full operation
was exhibited at the world s fair in Chi
cago. All sorts of cooking were done in
tt, includng the roasting of joints and
fowls, the broiling of steaks, the baking
of bread and cakes, etc., and the results
were extremely satisfactory. The only
feason why this method of cookery has
not already come into general‘use is that
•lectricltv as a substitute for fuel costs
more thn'n coal or oil or gas. The differ
ence of cost, in fact, is considerable, but
It has so many advantages as to be worth
the price. Some day processes will be dis
covered by which electricity can be pro
duced more cheaply, and then even poor
people will be able to afford electric ran
des and heaters.
Meanwhile a good many people who
are able to pay for the luxury are buy
ing electric culinary apparatus. It is
undeniable that the kitchen thus equip
ped is a joy and a blessing—free from
flirt and noxious gases and cool. Think
of the happiness of a kitchen that is al
ways cool, of a cook who is not red in
the face and soiled as to clothing; of
a fire that requires no kindling, being
turned on or extinguished at an instant’s
notice! Why, under such conditions life
assumes anew aspect, from the point
of view of the housewife.
With the Introduction of the electric
chafing dish ends the era of the alcohol
lamp, with its disagreeable odor and lia
bility to overflow and set fire to the
table cloth. Similar In Idea is the elec
tric tea kettle and stand, admirably adapt
ed for five o’clock tea.
The stand Is connected with an elec
tric wire; a turn of the button, and
presently the water for the beverage that
cheers without inebriating is singing in
the pot. Take oft the tea kettle and
J-ou have in the stand a suitable apparatus
for making coffee in a bachelor’s apart
ment, or for various uses in the nursery
or sick room. In hospitals electric con
trivances are particularly well adapted
for heating food, warming bandages, etc.
The electric range looks very differ
ent from a range of the ordinary kitchen
pattern. It is more like a table, with
a cupboard beneath for warming dishes
and a shelf above for such supplement
ary articles as the chafing dish and coffee
pot.
On the table will be seen perhaps a por
celain-lined pot for boiling or stewing,
a griddle and a broiler, while the ovens
stand on the floor alongside. Ovens, pot,
broiler, etc., are attachable to wires when
wanted for use. Overhead the skimmers
and other small utensils hang from pegs
n the wall.
It Is said that meats roasted In the
electric oven have all the qualities of
meats cooked in front of a fire, and they
do not require basting or watching. They
are cooked more evenly and in less time,
while retaining a larger percentage of
the nutritious Juices. Bread Is baked in
the same apparatus Ideally.
No culinary process is more difficult
than to broil In a first-class manner. The
coal stove is usually not in suitable con
dition. and the gas flame often ignites the
hot fat and burns the food. The electric
broiler does the work without singeing
the food, smoking It or burning it. The
escaping Juices are collected unspoiled in
a pan beneath, so that the cook can
readily baste the meat.
Electric cook stoves are made In port
able shapes, like gas stoves. Urns for
heating water are sold for use In hotels,
restaurants, barber shops and other pla
ces where hot water is constantly requir
ed. An ordinary electric light wire sup
plies the caloric. The electric sad-iron is
a boon alike to the laundry and the house
wife. The current supplied to it by a
wire keeps it at a constant temperature,
and thus no time is lost in changing and
reheating irons. One Iron may be used
continuously, and no coal or gas stove
Is required. The Iron never becomes
overheated: It always remains clean and
bright, and does not require whlping
to prevent the soiling of the fabric.
Another blessing for the women is the
electric curling tongs. They can be
attached at a moment's notice to an
electric light wire, and are heated almost
instantly. They remain at a constant
temperture as long as required, or until
the connection is cut off. All that is
necessary in the employment of this con
trivance is to remove the incandescent
lamp from its socket, attach the cord of
the Iron to the socket in place of the
lamp and turn on the current. This sim
ple and valuable device, so useful nowa
days, when fashion obliges nearly every
woman to use curling tongs on her hair,
costs only $4.
The time is destined to arrive before
long when houses will be warmed in win
ter by electricity. What the electric lamp
is to artificial lighting, as furnished by
the candle, oil or gas, the electric heater
is to artificial heating. But the problenj
in this rase is very different from that
of electric cooking.
For the latter purpose the object aimed
at is to provide an apparatus that will
localize the heat as much as possible,
confining It to the spot, and not diffus
ing it through the surrounding air any
more than ran be helped. On the other
hand, the Ideal heater for warming a
dwelling or other building would be Itself
cool, the heat given oft it
as much as possible.
Of course, this is scarcely practicable.
But the electric heater is a great im
provement in this respect over the or
dinary stove or radiator, which, while
itself very hot, is apt to warm the air
only in its immediate neighborhood.
Stoves and radiator*, too, are unlovely
Objects to the eye
Electric heaters, on the other hand,
occupy little spare, ahd are easily con
cealed. (some day such heaters will be
distributed over the walls of theaters
and concert halls, forming, It may la-,
panels In the wainscoting, or Included In
in*- achetn< of ornamentation.
Modern warships and mercantile ateani
*T* are nowadays equipped with appara
tus for electric lighting Before long
thlr dynamo ropalty will be increased
so that heat as well as light may be furn
ished. One system Of wires will supply
both, and the present rosily equlptm at
of steam pipes will be done away with
It Is expected that lu L’attada whvrs uwiu
Wanted to Get at It.
Hardware Dealer—What do you want with such a heavy saw?
liilkens—My wife has made a fruit cake for Christmas.
A Gent If Hint.
t'holly—Why do you nevah awsk me to come Sundays? ,
Miss Sharppe—Because Sunday is a day of rest.
is very expensive, and abundant mechan
ical power is afforded by swift-running
streams, power stations will be establish
ed within a few years for supplying ad
joining territory with electric currents
for healing purposes.
Eventually coal for heating will be
largely dispensed with In towns and cit
ies which have plenty of water power for
the manufacture or electricity. Indeed,
companies have already been formed with
a view of carrying out this idea. It is
thought that Albany and Troy might be
supplied with almost indefinite quanti
ties of the electric fluid for heating as
well as for lighting by simply raising and
improving the dam on the Hudson river
just above Troy.
All over the country street car compa
nies are putting electric heaters into their
cars. The apparatus consists of coils of
wire beneath the seats, which are con
nected with the trolley wire overhead, or
with the wire cable in the conduit below.
Thus the vehicle is heated, lighted and
propelled by the same electrical energy.
Furthermore, the heat is uniform
throughout the car, instead of being un
comfortably tierce about a stove and
scarcely perceptible near the ends of the
conveyance.
Such heaters are now in successful op
eration on about I.OUO oars belonging to
street railways in 74 cities and towns in
the United States and Canada. One ad
vantage possessed by them is that they
take up no space; another is that they
require almost no attention and do not
require any of the time of the conductor.
The turning of a switch does every
thing, and the current is easily regulated
so as to produce any degree of tempera
ture that may be wanted. The current
may be diminished or increased to any one
of the five intensities of heat, and how
ever the temperature may be regulated,
it remains constant. With a stove similar
control is out of the question. Of course,
there are no fires to be built, and no
ashes to be disposed of; when a car Is laid
off, there is no fire to be drawn.
The electric heater furnishes a large
quantity of pleasantly warmed air, in
stead of a small quantity of overheated
air. In cars the apparatus is also placed
as to distribute the neat as evenly as pos
sible and an advantage is obtained by de
livering It near the feet. Thus the warm
air is communicated to the passengers
before it rises to the upper parts of the
vehicle. A coal stove, on the other hand,
sends its heat to the upper part of the
car, while the air near the floor remains
uncomfortably cold.
AT EVERY WEDDING.
A Feature That Invariably Mark*
Every Event of Thin Character.
From the Chicago Record.
It's beneath a woman's dignity to keep
track of keys.
A girl who has been bridesmaid four
times, and thereby cut herself off from
all prospects of matrimony, says this is
what happens at every wedding: The
bride gives minute and particular direc
tions about the packing of her trunk.
She knows to within the hundredth of an
Inch the exact location of every frill and
furbelow, and looks on while various
members of the family assist in cram
ming the tray* in and forcing the lid
down. Method* of accomplishing this
differ—sometime* it dost s easily and
sometime* it I* necessary to Jump up
and down or *lt on it. Then the bride
to-be orders someone to pul a sirup
around it. but one person leaves it to an
other until the moment for departure ar
rives. At till* juncture the discovery Is
marie that the trunk is not locked, the
key* are missing and everybody wonders
where tlie strap can be.
Twenty minutes until (rain lime
"Where's ymr trunk key?" someone
urk*.| the groom.
"My dear, tln > are asking for lira key
to your trunk wntri I* it?'
"The key? tin auiuv peipleklty.) Why,
THE MORNING NE WS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1895.
on my key ring:, of course; the little sil
ver one you gave me that time; don’t you
remember, dear?"
"Certainly—on the key ring.” To the
anxious searchers: “You’ll find the trunk
key on a small, heart-shaped key ring,
my wife says," replies the happy young
man.
"But where Is that?” comes in chorus.
"I’m sure I don't know,” falters the
bride almost in tears.
"Oh, never mind. There, there; bother
the trunk; what do we care?” says the
groom.
The bride has a happy thought.
"George, I have two keys to that trunk.”
"Well, you're a wise little woman," in
tones of pride from the young husband,
while the aunts and cousins say: "She
has another key.
"But they were both on the same key
ring," continues the bride, and the gen
eral anxiety is redoubled.
The girl who has been a bridesmaid
four times says the first time this hap
pened the key turned up at the last mo
ment inside of the trunk, and after that
she always looked there the first thing
and never failed to And it.
DlSonni’.HLt GUM CBBWING.
Two Girls Fined for Xolsy Mastica
tion In the Front Pew* of n Church.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Cumberland, Dec. 4.—A very interesting
case In the police court here to-day, in
which two young and pretty girls figured
as prisoners before the bar of justice. The
Rev. Mr. Gillum, pastor of a church at
Cresaptown, a village six miles from here,
swore out a warrant against the girls,
charging them with disturbing public
worship. They were' brought to this city
last night and committed to Jail until
noon to-day, when they were taken before
the public judge to be tried.
The Rev. Mr. Gillum was placed on the
stand and stated that he had been con
ducting a revival, and that the girls had a
habit of taking a front seat in the church
and chewing gum in such a noisy man
ner as to disturb his congregation. He
also stated that he had told a brother of
one of the girls about it last Monday
night, when his sister came dancing up
the aisle and made a mouth at him. The
minister remonstrated with the young
woman, when the other girl interfered
and he placed his hand on her shouider
and told her to go out and never come
back again. The girls then went out and
dared him to come out on the outside.
He went out. when a regular scene took
place. One of the girls shook her list in
his face aud called him a liar.
Several other witnesses were examined
who swore that the girls had disturbed
public worship by chewing guru rnd
laughing and talking. The magistrate
imposed fines and costs amounting to $27
which was paid.
The girls are extremely pretty, and have
always been considered lady-like here
tofore. Their names are Sailie Lease and
Cairie Truux.
Discovered a Pigmy Tribe.
From the Chicago Tlmes-Herald.
London. Nov. 3ft.—Dr. Donaldson Bmith
of Philadelphia, the explorer of Somali
land, has reached London in the best of
health. Dr. Smith had a narrow escape
from being killed by a rhlnoeerous whflo
on his way to the lakes, but he pushed on
ward and succeeded In exploring the coun
try. discovering many new tribes, the
members of one of them being under live
feet high. Ttie exploration. Dr. Smith
said, had been successful from a natural
history point of view They had discov
ered a mini tar of fertile districts and
new tribes, and lia<l located several doubt
ful rivers They only lost six people kill
ed durli g the whole journey. Jr Hmllh
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A TALE OF THE FRONTIER.
HOW A.V ARMY’ POST WAS SUPPLIED
WITH BEEF.
Ehcrlctn nnd His Frlcml Lopez Stole
Cattle In Droves and Long Escaped
Detection— Threatened With Ills
Life, the Spaniard Led Ills Pursu
ers to u Mysterious Cave.
From the Buffalo Express.
The oldest butcher of New Mexico died
the other day. He was Chris Eberleln.
He died outside of New Mexico. If he
could have had his wish he would have
lived out hia life at Fort Stanton. The
reason of his living and dying elsewhere
calls up the story of his life and scenes
of early days in the southwest. l?ber
leln was past 70 years of age. He was
born in Germany and turned up in this
country in Philadelphia, where he start
ed in the meat business in 1850. His shop
was in Water street. After four years
of bad luck he failed, sold out his effect*
and started west. He drifted about for
twenty years, and finally turned tgp at
Fort Stanton. For two years he dickered
in cattle and made a little money.
Then the gold fever caught him and he
moved to White Oaks, N. M.. drawn by
stories of fabulous wealth lying loose
In the town. White Oaks was In the
full flush of Its glory. Chris set up a
butcher shop and Immediately mxde a
hit. He accepted anything for beef, even
town lots. In 1879 he was the richest man
In White Oaks, owning half the town,
all due to butcher bills. Then came the
season of outlawry, and before Chris
realized what had happened his half of
White Oaks had been jumped by outsid
ers, and he was ordered out of town. He
went, and made straight for Ford Stan
ton.
The Thirteenth infantry was stationed
at Fort Stanton in those days. At all mil
itary posts beef is bought by contract from
a successful bidder. Joe Tulouse was the
beef contractor at Stanton. He knew
Chris years before in Texas. Chris made
an arrangement with Tulouse to supply
him with beef at a price lower than the
contract rate, provided that he should
be allowed to sell beef at the contract
price to outsiders. Chris worked alone
for a time, and then picked up a Mexican
greaser named Pedro Lopez. These two
men were direct opposites in physical ap
pearance. Lopez was tall and dark, with
a thick bull neck and powerful limbs.
Chris was short and slight, with light hair
and fair complexion. He had lost his left
arm at White Oaks.
Lopez and Chris would disappear to
gether, and after an absence of three or
four days Chris would turn up alone emp
ty handed, followed a day or two later
by Pedro and a number of cattle. Pedro
would Invariably come in at Right. In
stead of driving the cattle on the trail
through the post he would circle around
the fort, reaching the butchers’ corral
without being seen.
Chris would kill and dress the cattle as
soon as they were brought in. Lopez
kept watch by the corral gate while
Chris worked. It was wonderful to wutch
this butchering of cattle by a one-armed
man. On the blackest night he would
raise his rifle with his one arm and fire
without hesitation. Sure of his aim, he
would drop the rifle and take up his knife.
Holding the hide in his teeth he would
skin a steer quicker than any other man
with two hands could do it. it was re
garded as peculiar that after taking off
the hide and horns of a steer Chris would
leave it and go on to another. The hides
and horns were never seen. Before the
break of day all the steers would be hide
less and hornless, while Pedro and the
hides and horns had disappeared.
In broad daylight Chris could be seen
working leisurely over the meat, dress
ing and sending it up to Tulouse to be
sold to the government. When asked
where he got his cattle, Chris would in
variably answer:
"Me an’ Pedro bought ’em oft greasers."
As time passed and Chris thrived in
his meat business, complaints began to
pour into the military authorities about
wholesale and persistent cattle stealings.
The thieves always managed to get away
with their plunder undetected.
Col. Bradley was then in command of
the troops at Fort Stanton. An inves
tigation followed, but resulted in noth
ing. The finger of suspicion, however,
was raised toward Chris and Pedro. They
both protested their innocence. Col. Brad
ley said that they could easily rid them
selves of suspicion by producing the hides
of the cattle they had killed.
“Can't do it,” said Chris. "We sold
them.”
“-Who bought them?" asked the colonel.
"Greasers," said Chris.
"Who sold the cattle to you?” asked the
colonel.
"Greasers,’’ said Chris. "Greasers sell
and greasers buy.”
All this time no one knew where Chris
and Pedro butchered their cattle. They
had forsaken the corral used by Tulouse,
and the sandy plain and the level back
of the post. Some time in the night they
would bring their meat to Tulouse. Guards
were detailed to trace them, but they
worked in vair.. When Pedro was ques
tioned he referred to Chris; and when
Chris was examined he referred to Pedro.
The largest ranch in New Mexico in
those days was known as the Veevee
ranch. It began about five miles from
Stanton, and ran for many miles beyond.
It wall owned by English oapitallsts.
Over WO punchers were employed on it,
managing the thousands of cattle. Dur
ing the career of Chris and Pedro the cat
tle of the Veevee ranch were not molested.
The punchers grew careless and lax when
"riding the line."
One morning Toory Scott, the herds
man, rode into Stanton, straight to Col.
Bradley'* ottlce. Shoving open the door,
he pushed in pust the orderly.
What'* the matter?” asked the colonel.
"Matter, hell!" roared Scott. "Two hun
dred of our best steer* have been stolen—
stolen right before our eyes."
"Where are they?” asked old Bradley.
"Where? Lifted up In a chariot as far
a* we can tell,” said Toory. "Not a trace
of them —not a hoof-print in the sand.”
It went* that the night before about a
thousand of the cattle nad been driven to
the Little Honito river, a mile beyond
Stanton, for water. No one dreamed of
any trouble, whan suddenly the herd was
stampeded without discoverable reason,
and In Ilia confuaaloa and darknea* 100 of
the finest steers got separated from the
herd and disappeared aa romplatey aa
if lbs earth had swallowed them up.
Col. Bradley sent tot koigt. MaJ. Heller.
■•Sergeant." he said, "where are Chris
Eberlein and Perdo Lopez?"
“They haven't been seen for two days, >
sir."
"Well. Mr Scott," said old Bradley, "it '
may be that two men can steal AW steers
and get away with them. I’ve heard
of just as strange things as that. Hunt
those two men up and I think we can
find your steers."
Three lays passed. Neither Chris nor
Peuro put in an appearance. On the
fourth day Pedro showed up alone. Be
fore Col. Bradley could send for him a
gang of cowboys and regulators rode into
tne post. They were armed to the ears.
Pedro saw them and started for the
trail. They rode him down, lassoed him
and led him out to a big tree known as
Bradley’s Boost. They halted under the
tree and threw one end of the nooee
lariat over the big limb, from which more
than twenty men have been hanged.
’Where are those cattle?” asked Toory
Scott.
"1 don’t know," said Pedro.
"String him up," said Scott.
The rope tightened and Pedro shot up
Into the air. He swung suspended a mo
nie**t and was then lowered to the ground.
IX here are those cattle?' asked Scott
again when Pedro had come to.
"Ask Chris," said Pedro.
Up he went again and was again low
ered. It took longer to bring him to this
time.
“''"here are those cattle?” asked Scott.
This is your last chance."
Pedro hesitated. The slack in the rope
disappeared. The noose began to tighten.
‘Lome on,” he said, finally. ‘Til show
you. But Chris will kill me, and he's
waiting for me now.”
The regulators started Pedro ahead of
them with the noose around his neck.
The other end of the lariat was fast to
Scott’s saddle. Pedro made straight for
the Little Bonita, at the point where the
Veevee herd was stampeded. Reaching
the river he turned up stream, walking
waist deep in the water. The regulators
suspected a trap.
"Hold on,” said Scott, tighening the
lariat. "Where does this lead?"
“Come on," said Pedro, “I’m going to
the cattle.
He followed the river’s bed for about a
mile, to a point where a deep, narrow
canyon opened into the mountain. Turn
ing into this canyon he followed it for
about 100 yards, then turned sharply to
the left, doubled back, and brought his
captures face to face with the mouth of
a big cave. The trail of the cattle, which
had been hidden by the water in the
river, was now easily seen on the rocks
and sand. The men entered the cave. As
they pushed ahead they were forced to
dismount and lead their ponies. The tun
nel grew narrower and Just when it seem
ed about to close to man and pony it
turned sharply and opened up Into a big
cavern. The men stopped, surprised.
In this cavern were the stolen cattle.
Chris was busy killing and sklning them.
At the farther end of the cavern was an
underground lake of clear water. An old
Indian canoe was drawn up on the rocks
on the edge of the water. It was evi
dent that the cave had been the retreat
of savages centuries before. The wails
were decorated with odd figures and queer
hieroglyphics.
Chris was so busy that he did not ob
serve his visitors. Scott walked toward
him, and, drawing his pistols said:
"Hello, Chris. We’ve come for the cat
tle.”
Chris grabbed for his rifle, but, seeing
Scott's pistols, he raised his one hand,
grinned, and said:
’’All right, take 'em."
Scott divided his men into two parties.
One drove the cattle back to the ranges,
and the other took Chris and Pedro to
the guardhouse at Stanton. After they
were locked up, Scott and a party of
ranchmen returned to the cave. They
found over I.BUU hides. Pedro and Chris
alone knew of the side entrance, so *o
speak, to the famous cave, near Stanton,
known as Hell's Hallway, because it
seemingly has no end. Here they hid
their hides until such time as they could
sell them safely to wandering greasers.
The carcasses they sold to Toulose, the
beef contractor at Fort Stanton.
Chris and Pedro were tried for cattle
stealing and got twelve years each. They
were taken to the little abode Jail at
Lincoln. One night the jail door was
smashed in and Pedro and all the other
prisoners were set at libery. When the
sheriff rode up the next morning he found
the jail empty and Chris sitting in the
doorway.
"What’s up?” he asked.
"Every one went,” said Chris. "I’ve
got eleven years yet, though.”
A month later he was released and the
unexpired portion of his sentence was
remitted upon condition that he ahguld
leave New Mexico and never enter its
limits again.
"I'd almost sooner do eleven years,”
said Chris; but he agreed to the condi
tions.
He lived in Arizona for several years,
but later turned up with the Thirteenth
regiment at Fort Sill, when it came here
from New Mexico. He clung to It until
he died.
THE ART OF KISSING,
Scientific Twaddle About the Dan
gers of Osculation.
From the Boston Herald.
It is announced that strenuous efforts
are to be made to reinstate this gentle
art In the polite world, and to render
the act what it some time ago ceased
to be. an evidence of good faith. From
all accounts of the fear of this pleasing
contact being a means of disseminating
disease has now passed away, and be
lievers in the practice scoff at the idea
of any danger arising from a kiss given
In amity.
Physicians were the first to interfere
with these prerogatives of affection, but
that was only natural, considering how
germ ridden the pathological mind ever
is, and how, to the scientist s eye, every
breath is drawn with peril to the com
munity at large. The round, rosy cheek
of childhood must be left unpressed by
the parental lips; the warm, young mouth
that seeks the mother's with such baby
ardor must be avoided, the clinging, twin
ing arms must be unclasped from around
her neck, because unhallowed microbes
hover about the human frame.
Cases of excruciating bitterness are cit
ed as the result of these tender demon
strations, but when the love of a mother
comes into the question, the doctor’s
warning falls on a dull understanding.
Because the Princess Alice died from
kissing her little son who, in his death
struggle, clung to the mother who had
given him birth, It does not argue tat
without the sweet caress she wouNi nave
escaped. Better, perhaps, that both moth
er and child should pass away than for
the yearning of a helpless little child
to be repulsed at such a moment.
This may be sentiment, but then, if
ever the cold-blooded tendency Is to be
deplored from even the most comnfton
sense point of view. At all events, the
northern races are unlikely to carry oscu
lation to any excess, and the reckless
kissing noticed between people of the
Latin races will scarcely worry Ameri
cans, whose temperaments are generally
influenced by climate. Nevertheless, a ru
mor that has come across the Atlantic
ocean this week will throw a bomb into
the camp of our medical fraternity. It
is only a rumor as yet, but experience
warns us to take it for all it is worth
and look out for breakers at the same
time. It appears no less a personage than
the King of Portugal has been kissing
his male relatives, to say nothing of those
of the gentler sex, with the utmost aban
don, and, though phlegmatic English
men do not like it. they cannot resist
the impact of ■ royalty, without grievous
comment from the kisser.
A gentleman is presented to his Portu
guese majesty, and lo! Jolly, good temper
ed Carlos gives him a smack that would
do credit to a sailor Just on shore. Fear
was expressed by the Prince of Wales
that his mother might not relish having
her welcome met with a kiss, but it did not
deter the fat king from giving her majesty
a good one, right on the check, after
he had duly saluted the royal hand. And
now, continues rumor, the members of
the court arc following the king s exam
ple among themselves. Nobody really
likes the seeming familiarity, but the
English handshake and cold "Good day”
pertaining to high life have certainly re
ceived a setback that promises to revive
tiie gentle art of kissing. When not in
dulged in to repletion It 1# a pretty grace
ful expression of regard. Of course
among the undemonstrative the liL. ~,1
cite* levity, but Its opponents should bear
In mind that *vn scripture bids ux ‘greet
our brother with a holy kiss.
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expected to pay a visit to England during
the coming spring.
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SOME POPULAR EXPRESSIONS.
Curiosities of American Speech Ac
cording to a Dialect Society.
From the New York Sun.
Is a pancake fried or baked, or simply
cooked? Is It, after all, really a pancake
and not rather a griddle cake, a llannen
cake, a buckwheat or a flapjack? What
Is a doughnut? When you tear your trou
sers on a sharp point what is the first
word you Instinctively apply to the rec
tangular rent; trap patch, barn door, or
weewary, as says the New Englander, or
is It winklehawk or nicklehawk, as New
Yorkers say? What do you mean by ding
bats? How widespread is the use of the
shimmy? Such are the problems set by
the American Dialect Society in part eight
of its notes, which will be published in a
few days.
Three distinct recipes for the preparation
of doughnuts are promulgated by the so
ciety. Dough, raised with yeast, sweet
ened and spiced, cut into cubes, which,
when fried in a deep vessel with liot fat,
become round lumps, forms the dough
nut of Connecticut.By substituting soda or
saleratus for yeast, and cutting the paste
into circles or twists, you have the dough
nut’ of Massachusetts, which the Dutch
settler calls the olykoek and others the
cruller; while the native of Connecticut
distinguishes between the twisted blled
cake and the round Jumble. If mere ly un
seasoned dough be used, you have the fried
bread of Massachusetts, called i>n Cape
Cod seventy-fours, and elsewhere, it seems
doughnuts. The dingbat has had an ad
venturous career. Starting as a ball of dirt
on the legs of sheep In Vermont, it be
comes a smart spank to the northern New
Englander, a squabble, a flying missile
and money to the Maine lumberman, the
biscuit of the New England boarding
school, while in Ueorgla it has turned to
a mother's kiss, and you may say of the
girl you admire: "She is a regular ding
bat.”
It must not be inferred that culinary
and domestic matters alone engross the
society's attention, though it is at home
that the careless words and phrases are
most likely to be used tvhlch deviate from
literary forms, but have passed from
mouth to mouth since the man first spoke.
This part of dialect notes contains no less
than 6od new words and usages, collected
throughout the land, some poetical, many
picturesque; and all curious and interest
ing.
In the Tennessse mountains, streums
flowing from the east are sunrise waters,
a mule that you can trust is a confidential
mule, a railroad train is a smoke waggn,
a kiss is a smouch, cheese is plural, with
a singular chee, sugar is sweetening, but
molasses is long sweetening, a man sub
ject to fits it fltified, and very much is a
heap sight, or a* good few, or some sev
eral, or way yander. A man points to
a hillside and tells you that he "lives on
yon coast" and has a “good scope of
land;” he greets you with "How do you
come on?" and asks you to "Come in and
rest your hat." A toothbrush to him
means a snuff stick, ill means cross, juber
ous timid, fisty mean, popular stylish, his
past tenses are fotch and holp and
seed and squez and swole; he tells you
that “sickness is mightly interruptin',”
that it is "a gosh wet spell;” and “hit's
too-my-goodness cold,” that he has ”t\ie
beatenest boy and talkenest old woman
ever you see/'.and that that young flirt is
“tryin’ to git a chaw on a feller.”
The sky-baked or stay-at-home Jersey
matron coosters or potters around the
house, calls her preserves do-ups, pork
spack, her husband, if need be, a lob
scouse or loper, meaning a worthless fel
low. She sides up or cleans up or goes
struling, wasting time about the village,
but she cares not a Dutch cuss about
going down oountry, this Is, to New York
city.
Coof is the name for an off-islander in
Nantucket, on Mt Desert the summer vis
itor is a rustlcrata. a stupid Vermonter
Is a dodunk, a goober grubber digs pea
nuts in Tennessee. When a man is con
fused he is mommixed in Kentucky, he
is muxed up in Otsego county, galjeyied
in New Bedford, stodged in Indiana, and
wuzzled in New York. “I don't hurt fer
it," means "I don’t care” in Mississippi
while “I don’t mind it a bit” implies ter
ror in North Carolina, where a groat ca
lamity is scandalous. The sunset is day
down on the Virginia coast. A man has
large money In Cincinnati, he has Bcuds
of it in Missouri, and a session of it in
Georgia. When a Terre Haute citizen
is sullen he is putchlky, and if too weak
to get out of bed Is on the lift, while a
pawky Ohioan is one in poor health, and
a mentally weak Kentuckian is slack
twisted. Hogo is a strong smell in New
Hampshire, where a sever storm is a tan
toaster. Missouri slush is sposh. Green
corn remain roast’n ear in Florida, even
when it is canned, and there a cow may
give birth to a yearling.
The farmers of Orange and Sullivan
counties have the reprehensible practice
of making their maple syrup by melting
the sugar: this they call alamagoozieum
On Staten Island, splendid Is galloptlous’
titbits are manavelins, and to turn is to
tarve. Patchogue says nolnk and sulnk
for nothing and something. In the north
western part or the state, when two
young hearts begin to beat as one they
are said to he scamuljugatcd. The Itha
can on entering the house hangs up his
shock, his hat and coat. The Otsego thief
when caught looks meecking or guilty
cven when he has stolen a mere smltoh a
very small quantity, quarter eagles must
be more common in the central part'of
the state than in the city, for they u r „
still known as twenty-shilling pieces, and
silver dollars is hardtack. There alouchv
I* loploiiy, sticky is tacky, you are hush
ed when you are tired, you change off
when you move, you go large when you
are extravagant, you pronounce hoax as
a dissyllable, you pooster about when you
are fussy, you are in a yang when In a
burry, and when violent you do thinaa
kabang, kachunk, kaflop, kaslam.
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