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A Tale of Horror.
“And if a man has been hanged, doctor,
can he, too, be restored by heat? '’ asked the
most inquisitive among them, upon whom
the new method for resuscitating the
drowned had an impression.
The doctor, who had never looked bet
ter in his life, answered mildly:
“Why not?”
“But what if his neck is broken?” asked
a muscular reporter.
“Hanging doesn’t break a man’s neck.”
“Did you ever see a man hanged?” de
manded the youth with an intonation of a
person who had devoted a century or so to
sight-seeing of that sort.
“Several times,” answered the man slow-
ly.
“What does a hanged man hang his head
over on one side for, then—so?”
“Not because his neck is dislocated.
The ligature of the neck is stronger than
any rope. Hanging never yet broke a neck.
It’s the shock that tends to kill a man—the
shock, and then the suffocation. You
kno\? how it shocks your brain to make a
misstep when going down stairs. Well,
there are fifty thousand springs that your
head rests on from the neck to the feet.
But w hen you jerk a man up by his necK
the shock comes without an intervention of
springs.”
“I’ve heard doctors say that a man’s
neck was broken by hanging,” persisted the
muscular man:
“So have I—young doctors. But surgi
cal science does not report such a cast.”
“O, well, now you’re on science. I’ll
give in, ” and the modest muscular reporter
withdrew a step and filled his pipe. His
forte is facts straight.
“Did you ever see a hanged man come to
life, doctor?” asked a doubting Thomas.
“Yes, I have.”
All ears bent perceptibly toward the
speaker, and there was silence as in death.
“A youth,” began the doctor, “w T as con
demned to be executed. During his incar
ceration he promised his body to the prison
physician in return for the tobacco he
used. When he was dead the physician
determined to try an electric machine on
him, but never having handled one, called
me in to help him. I went. We applied
electricity to various parts of the body, and
wherever it was applied the body moved.
At length we sent a current along the spine
from end to end. The fellow' was lymg'on
a long table—as long as—well (looking
around the room) rather longer than you’ve
got here. He sat up; opened his eyes slow
ly ; shut them; then opened them wide.
The physician who owned the body, and
two young men who were helping him,
started affrighted for the door. ”
“Did he come round all right?” inquired
the Thomas reporter, earnestly.
“He didn’t lie down again. In half an
hour he spoke—asked w T here he w'as and
what we were doing with him. In a couple
of hours he was on his way out of the villa
as fast as his legs could carry him.”
“Did they catch him again?”
“No. The inhabitants to this day think
that he w-as dissected. ”
“Ought he to have been hanged if he had
been caught?”
“Well, there’s a difference of opinion
about that. Certainly the physician owned
him—had bought and paid for him.”
“Would it have been wrong, doctor, for
the physician to kill him when he saw him
coming to life and robbing him of his pro
perty.”
The reporter who asked the questions is
one of the most bloodthirsty persons in his
line. The doctor wisely replied by saying
that the answer belonged to the department
of morals, in which he was not a professor.
constructed as to last without alteration for
two years instead of as many months. She
should also have house and evening gowns
made in the same durable manner, and of
the same durable material, constructed in a
different style however. At present our
gowns are like our houses—not made to
last. The walking dress should stop above
the top of the boot. High boots and an
inch or two of dark silk embroidered hose
showing above them, would be considered
quite unobjectionable after a short period of
usage, any great length of dress below the
knee impedes motion. Then it should be
full enough to allow ease of movement, no
tie-backs for me. Hose, and in fact, every
tiling worn under skirts made short enough
to combine ease and grace, should, in my
opinion, be made of similar material to the
The Wild Beasts* Rendezvous.
Sallie’s Sentiments
Popular Subject
When water becomes scarce In these
thirsty plains, the whole of the wild
animals that Inhabit them congregate
around any pool that may be left, for
with very few exceptions all have to
drink once in twenty-four hours. The
lions, which follow the game, are thus
led to these drinking places, not only
to assuage their thirst, but to satisfy
their hunger. To watch one of these
pools at night, as I did in the northern
Massara country, is a grand sight, and
one not to be forgotten. The naturalist
and the sportsman can here see sights
that will astonish them, and cause
them to marvel at the wonderful in
stincts possessed by the animal king
dom. That the Creator has ordered all
things well, we know, but the minute
details to which they have been re
duced is seldom noted except by those
who live not the life of the busy trading
world, but such as wander into those
portions of the earth undisturbed by
the presence of man. At such places
the small antelope generally drink
first, the larger later on, and with them
the zebras and buffaloes. After these
come the giraffe’s, closely followed by
the rhinoceros, and next the elephant
which never attempts to hide his ap
proach—conscious of his strength, he
trumpets lorth a warning to all whom
it may concern that he is about to sat
isfy his thirst. The only animal that
does not give place to the elephant is
the rhinoceros; obstinate, headstrong
and pig-like, he may not not court dan
ger, but assuredly he does not avoid it.
The elephant may drink by his side,
but he must not interfere with him, for
he is quick to resent an insult, and I am
assured that when one of these battles
takes place the rhinoceros is invariably
the victor. The elephant is lar f
gigantic power, but the other far more
active, while the formidable horn that
terminates his nose is dreadful when
used with the force he has the power
to apply to it. I have been told on
trustworthy authority that a rhinocer
os in one of those blind fits of fury to
which they are so subject, attacked a
large wagon, inserted his horn be
tween the spokes of the wheel, and in
stantly overturned it, scattering the
contents far and wide, and afterward
njuriug it to such an extent as to ren
der it useless. The lion is not tied to
time in drinking. After it feeds it
comes to water, but it would never
dare to interfere with the rhinoceros
or elephant. Where the buffalo exists
numbers it is the principal prey of
the lion; in other localities antelope
and chiefly zebra are its food,
strange circumstance connected with
the lion is, that it is almost impossible
to tell where he is when you hear his
voice. Wheu roaring loudly he places his
head to the ground, gradually raising
it as he diminishes the power of his
Mr. Kroeger was transquilly eating his voice. Although I cannot say that 1
dress, or of something in keeping with its
trimmings. They might be made beauti
ful and costly if desired, or plain. These
arrangements with graceful basques., I
think, would, to some extent, embody my
idea ©f a jaunty and comfortable walking
dress.”
“Dr. Walker! Dr. Walker!
“No, for Madam Walker’s is not my idea
of grace. Turkish trowsers are too long and
loose—almost as bad as long skirts—be
sides, we should cultivate the graceful and
artistic, not the stiff and mannish styles.”
“But that costume would make us look
like pages stepped out of ancient plays.”
“And what more pretty dress than that
of the pages would you require? It is,
however, more of the peasant dress that I
propose.”
“But think of the big ugly feet some of
us have! ”
“Think of the pinched meagre figures,
round shoulders and prominent shoulder
blades, that might be avoided if our women
had more vigorous exercise in the open air
and what prevents their going out so much
as the elaborate dressing and the anticipa
tion of tugging their toggery about?”
“And how should we attire ourselves
while indoors, most learned professoress ?”
“Our practical housewife will doubtless
fly about in the morning in her short dress.
(I should). And when in her parlor “re
ceiving,” or in any of her “hours of ease ’
when she can sweep over soft carpets or
smooth marble let her wear her graceful
train. There is a place for the train. It
isn’t in the street or in the kitchen, neither
is it tne dress to dance in. But on the
stage, and in many places where outline is
observable, a train is graceful. Even ball
dresses might be made easily adjustable
were a little skill displayed.”
“O, don’t stop short of full analysis Sal-
lie, what is your idea of a ball dress ?”
“Overskirt might form the train—skill
ful loopings gather it into festoons over the
underskirt by means of ribbon straps fas
tened to a belt, which might be drawn
through a buckle, and secured in an instant
at pleasure.”
Verily, Sal lie, you are one of the refor
matory spirits of the age. When do you
expect your idea will be realized ?”
‘Alas, if ever, when you and I are in
graves, my sisters. Would that it
could be accomplished before I have beaten
myself against ti2-backs and other prison
bars into an untimely resting place. Y"ou
may advocate and enjoy, if possible, your
very prim and proper person of stereotyped
female swathing clothes—‘but, as for me,
give me liberty or give me death! ’ ”
The Greeueyed Monster.
SCIENTIFIC.
“Oh,” groaned Sallie Wilber as she en
sconced herself before the fire with her
skirt over her knee a la David Copperfield’s
aunt Trot wood, and prepared to “sew her
self together” as she expressed it. Sallie
was as lively as a grasshopper, and long
dresses and tie-backs were her chief afflic
tions. The “oh” was a prolonged and de
spairing one. A plump, lazy young lady
sat rocking serenely by the window, with a
novel in her lap, and asked Sallie with an
easy, indifferent smile “What is the matter
now?” There is something outrageously
aggravating in this expression that invaria
bly includes an affirmation of your being in
a chronic state of ailment.
“What’s the matter*?” responded Sallie
ungraciously, “don’t you see? I tumbled
up stairs over my dress again, having only
my parasol, satchel, fan and six small and
large parcels with which to_ employ my
hands and arms, besides the* necessity of
holding up my gow T n, which I grappled
with my elbows, (as you see unsuccessfully).
I wish I could wear what I’d like.”
“What would you like, Sallie? Poor
girl, you always seem to be in a hurry,”
and another comfortable young lady came
up and smoothed Sallie’s hair. Now’, if
there is anything a little more provoking
than to lx* asked “what is the matter now t , ”
it is to have some one speak and act re
markably sweet and affectionate when you
feel remarkably sour. But, my faith, we
are none of us perfect.
“What would I like?” snapped Sallie.
“Well, I’d like to wear pantaloons!”
“Oh !” in horrified duet from comfortable
young ladies.
“O, yes; look shocked and prim, now-
do. It isn’t so bad for you two, you like
to take things easily and more slowly. I
don’t. I like rapid motion and don’t care
to be all day getting a piece of cambric
lining. Think of the waste of flesh, blood
and muscle, besides temper, that these pet
ticoats entail! It’s cling, clog, every step,
and our gait with the shuffle and trip move
ment makes us about as graceful as crabs.
O, yes, 1 know- you w-ould say that the short
walking dress is not so bad but it is only a
little better than a train, because we don’t
have to carry it in our hands. ”
“But, my dear, what would you have?
You don’t mean to come out as Madam
•Walker, do you?”
“I don't say I mean to come out as any
thing different from the rest of the geese.
How can I ? No true-born lady likes to
appear over prominent or ridiculous, and if
she looks markedly different from others,
she does. That’s just it, w-e can’t do any
thing hut grin and bear it, and hear the men
make fun of us, when, after all, they are
the first to laugh at anything the least bit
outre in a woman. There is where they
are inconsistent. There is just as much
scope for taste in dress in another style of
costume as in our present, if all could adopt
it at once. No one lady can come out
alone in it without making herself a spec
tacle. Were I a person of experience, po
sition and influence (ahem!) I would insti
tute secret societies, beginning with my im
mediate circle of acquaintance, for a grand
reformation in diess, and very soon it could
be brought about, if our best ladies adopted
it at the same time. ”
“Sallie, its enough to frighten any one to
be with you sometimes, you are such a rav
ing, tearing radical! if you ever come
out in company with any of these tornado
speeches, Kitty and I won’t own you.”
“Well, I shouldn’t wonder if I do some
times, so you’ better take w-arning at once.
I could turn it all into a good joke, but I
didn’t mean to. Its time sensible women
took the thing into earnest consideration if
they are ever going to bring all this female
education to account. Think of the stitches
—the stitch, stitch stitching—goihg on ad
finitum. That alone is enough to make a
woman wish she had never been bom. ”
“But Sallie, my dear, if we had a differ
ent gear it w-ould have to be put together,
if it weren't stitched it would have to be
glued—even the fig-leaves had to be fas
tened.”
“Yes, but think of the difference with a
different style of gow-n! ”
“Well, Sallie, isn't your invention patent
ed? Can’t you divulge to such sympathetic
bosom friends as Kitt and I the secret of
this ideal raiment in which we females
should be clothed ?”
“Yes, I’ll tell you just for the fun of
seeing your proper faces. Every lady then
ought to have two or three gowns for the
street, made of rich, durable material, so
A Wonderful Testing Machine.—The
great machine designed by $£r. Albert
Emery, for the United States Commis
sion for testing iron and steel which
has been in process of construction for
three years past at Watertown (Mass.)
Arsenal, is now completed. Some ex
perimental test made with it in the
presence of the commissioners are thus
described in The Boston Traveler: The
merit of this new testing machine is its
great power united with its mathemat
ical accuracy. A five inch bar of iron
pulled apart, and the strain regis
tered in doing it was 722,000
pounds. To attest its minute exact
ness, a horse hair w-as next submitted
to the strain, and it yielded to a regis
tered force of two pounds. Agaiu, a
pine bloek of four inches thickness and
two feet in length was taken and press
ed into a board of two inches thickness.
Then to ascertain its refinement of ac
curacy, a hen’s egg was taken and in-
c'osed in plaster of Paris, w-ith two
small holes at each end, and, the.press
ure being applied, the couteuis were
forced out of these small apertures at a
strain of thirty-two pounds, and such
is the command over the action of the
machine that the pressure w-as stopped
in an instant, and the yolk ceasad to be
expelled, and the shell of the remain
ing unbaekan. A nut was also cracked
by the machine without crushing the
kernel. No such nicety of regulated
pressure, combined with such an enor
mous range of power and absolutely
exact registration of the exerted, has
ever before been attained. Tne cost of
the machine to the Government, under
the contract, is $31,000, but Mr. Emery
has expended over $100,000 in perfect
ing it.
A Powerful Spectroscope.—A new spec
troscope of remarkable power has just
been brought to the notice of the
French Academy by M. Thollon. Its
chief feature is the use ol sulphide ot
carbon prisms, which are closed later
ally, not by plates with parallel faces
but by prisms having curved sides
meeting at an angle. Two of these
compound prisms are used in the spec
troscope, and in this way an enormous
dispersion is obtained; with a magni-
lying power of fifteen to twenty times,
the spectrum has a length of fifteen
metres. This instrument should throw
considerable light on the structure ol
the spectrum, and M. Thollon has al
ready noticed some interesting facts.
The Hues cf sodium and magnesium
present a dark nucleus passing into
nebulosity, which becomes gradually
merged into the continuous spectrum.
Many lines have been split up, and all
that have been thus resolved have been
found to belong to two different sub
stances. One of the hydrogen lines
presents a nebulosity without a nu
cleus. The spectrum of carbon from
the electric arc observed with the new
instrument is said to be very tine. The
spectra of iron, copper and magnesium
in the same arc are also seen with great
clearness and brilliancy.
recognize anything terrible in a lion’s
voice, many people do and I have been
in the company of persons com
pletely demoralized while it lasted.
That this animal’s voice makes the air
vibrate is a fact.
AGRICULTURE.
Stables and Houses.—We frequent
ly see articles ag; inst keeping harness
in stables, the reason given being that
the ammonia prevalent there rots the
leather and soon destroys the harness.
Now- this is beginning at the wrong
end to remedy the evil. We may talk
and advise, “year in and year out.”
about the matter, but harness w ill be
kept in the stable in spite of all. Where
else can the majority of people who
keep horses hang these trappings! A
rich man may have a closet in which
the harness may hang safely from fear
of ammonia and all other dangers; but
the average horse owner w-11 have his
prgs beiiind the team, because he can
have no other way of disposing of the
harness. * But the trouble would end
if the production of ammonia were pre
vented. Enter an ordinary stable at
any period, but especially in the wili
ter, when every cranny through which
the wind can come in is carefully stop
ped, and what an offensive odor offends
the nostrils and irritates the eyes. Is
this ordor of ammonia, strongly alka
line and irritant, injurious only to the
harness? W^et of the horses, and the
tender membranes of the eye, the
throat and the nasal passages? Do you
think they are less sensitive than oak-
tanned harness leather, well greased
and preserved as it is? By no means,
If the prevalent odors injuriously affeci
the leather, you may be sure the eyes
suffer, the throat and lungs are irritat
ed and the nasal passages become in
flamed. Then occur the frequent
uioonblindness, opthalmia, weeping ol
the eyes, followed by inflammation,
white specks, then follow cough
bronchitis, iieaves, catarrh, nasal gleet;
and by-and-by, when the blood has be
come poisoned by the absorption of di
seased matter from inflamed and sup
purated membranes, larcy and glanders
dreadful and latal to man and beast,
too—results. And while we think of
saving the harness and removing it to a
purer place, the beast which is worth a
dozen sets of it, is left to rot from these
pungent gases without auy help. Cleau
the stables, and the harness may hang
in them in safety; and be sure if the
stable is not a fit place for the harness,
it is no place for the horse. A barrel
of plaster can be procured for about
one dollar. It is worth that as a fertil
izer. It is worth ten dollars as ail ab
sorbent of ammonia, and a hundred, as
a health preserver to the horses, not
counting the saving to the harness.
Sprinkle it every .vhere, be liberal with
DOMESTIC.
HUMOROUS.
Cistern and Filter.— Pure water: A Worthy Object .—He was a small,
for domestic use is of great importance. ‘ innocent-looking boy, yet there was
In most wells the water is more or less something about him which denoted
impregnated with lime, or oilier min- : deep thought and philosophy. He went
eral or earthly substance, so ihat it; up to & leading politician whom he met
not so pure as rainwater. Wells are ' ” *’ ’ A
often so deep that it is hard drawing
the water. For family use I recom
mend the cistern. Most places where
a w-ell can be dug, and where it is not
sandy so as to cave, a cistern can be
plastered with cement without walling
with brick or stone. When 1 built my
at the City Hall a week or two ago,and,
after saying good morning and asking
him how he felt, he continued:
“ I’d like you to contribute about $5.”
“ Five dollars,” mused the politician.
“ Yes, sir; it ain’t much;” persisted
the boy.
What do you want to do with it,
house, four years ago, 1 dug my cistern j get your mother a barrel of flour?”
back of the house before I built the
miner kitchen, so a3 to have it in the
kitchen. The fiiterer is a small cistern, j club?”
No, sir; I don’t.”
Are you getting up a base ball
one or two feet from the other cistern,
with a tile for a spout in connect them.
The end of this pipe in the fiiterer is
enclosed by a small circular brick wall.
“ No, sir.”
“Well, what do you want with $5
then?”
The boy removed his hat and replied
or a double wall'of two inches each, with becoming dignity:
with a space of two inches between, “lam collecting money for a fund
wnich is filled with pulverized charcoal.; to erect a monument over the last r st-
The surface of this filtering wall is j ing place of the man who struck Billy
scarcely a square yard, and that part of • Paiterson.”
the rouf discharging into the cistern is j *• Were you acquainted with the
twenty-four feet by forty. Yet it is j striker of the late Wm.Patterson?” in-
only the most violent thunder shower j quired the Alderman.
that gives more than enough water .to
pass readily through the fiiterer.
main cistern is six feet in diameter ah'
twenty-four feet deep. This gives us
c<*ol water %11 summer—as cool as well
water. We draw with a chain pump,
which keeps the air and water circu
lated, so that it is pure. I prefer to
have the filrerer outside the main cis
tern, and being shallow-, it is easily
cleaned. Both cisterns are covered
with a brick arch. In the cistern ot
six feet in diameter, the arch is started
with a grove cut In the earth for the
bottom of the arch. The earth holds it
sufficiently from where the cistern is
plastered. The arch rises three feet,
leaving three feet of earth over it. lu
Tnotnas’s book, “ Farm Implements.”
I lound the following rule for measur
ing cisterns: Five feet in diameter,
each foot in depth will contain four
and two-thirds barrels of thirty-two
gallons; six feet in diameter, six and
three-fourths; seven feet, nine and one-
twelfth barrels; eight feet, nearly
twelve barrels.
Vegetable isinglass, which has hith
erto been derived Irom Eastern Asia,
is now extracted from French sea
weed and made useful in French fae-
lones. It is, iu its crude state, a yel
lowish gelaiiue. but which, alter re
peated experiments under the auspices
of the Industrial Society ot Rouen, has
been successiully converted into what
bids fair to prove the best sizing for
cotton cloth known.
The Kitten's Dinner.
breakfast a morning or so ago, when his
boy broke the silence by asking him for
fifty cents to go to the minstrels with-that
night. Mr. Kroeger promptly refused on
the ground of hard times.
Mr. Kroeger’s boy is more than a boy,
and when he sets his heart on having any
thing he generally succeeds in getting it;
so, when his father refused to comply w-ith
his request, he moved over by his mother,
and said:
‘ I guess I’ll tell ma what the cook said
to you last night. ’
Mrs. Kroeger’s eyes flashed like balls of
fire.
‘You’re a nice man,’ she said sarcastical
ly, ‘to come home and pet me, and kiss
me, and call me your little dew-gemmed
tulip, and theo go and receive the caresses | anim-tl from some for- : u,u t0 flow through the pipes for ten or
of the cook, you miserable, trog-eyed | had been a rare animal irom -ome lor j tttteon m i nut ee. The inside of the pipes
The French Academy has received a
number oi letter giving details of a re
markable rain, which froze as it fell,
for several day in some parts of France,
— ; and did great damage. The drops had
Two little girls, the elder not yd j exidently been brought to a state of
five years of age, had a present ol a j suriusion in their passage through cold
kitten the other day.
i air and solidified on meeting solid bod-
It was the first time in all their little j
lives that a cat of any age had ever; whm , fiad pipe " become trusted
been in the house, and they were asdc- j witll su i p hide of lead, they may be
lighied as possible, and as full of won- cleaned in this way : Allow a hot eon-
iler over all its w-ays and doings as if it | centraled solution of sulphide of sodi-
runt, for two pins I’d go over there and
rake the *»v#»s out of vou!’
‘I; m! ’ stammered the lord of the manor
when ins w lie uruAc in—
‘Oh, yes, I’ll I am, you!’ and turning
to the boy she demanded an explanation of
the whole affair?’
“Will y< u give me 50 cents?’
‘Yes, she responded, ‘what did she
say?’
‘Give me 50 cents first?’ said the young
hopeful. ‘I’m opening the year on the C.
O. D. principle.*
He soon had the money, and relieved his
mother by telling her:
‘Last night the cook came up to pop and
got pretty close to him and—
‘Oh, you wretch,’ hissed Mrs. Kroeger.
And when she got beside him she
smiled very sw-eetly, and said:
The boy moved cautiously toward the
door, and his mother yelled:
‘Come, out with it!”
‘And when the cook get pretty close to
him, she whispered:
‘Mr. Kroeger, the potatoes are getting
pretty low, and you had better get another
barrel in a day or two.’
And then the boy got outside as fast as
possible, while his mother sank into a
chair. Mr. Kroeger lifted the morning
paper before his face to vail the smile
which made it look like a calcium light.
Female Jealousy.
eign land.
I will then appear as if coated witbagray
The Dos and tbe Wasp.
‘ What shall kitty have for her dm- j gi aze> ami water; may then be passseil
ner, mamma?” asked Lulu, climbing : through them free of any lead,
down from her high-chair when the j ——
dinner was over.
“Oh. you can fix her up something
on a plate,’’replied mama hastily,as she
went into the sitting-room; for she was
very bLsy with some sewing, and for
got that lier little girls knew nothing
about feeding kittens.
Five minutes later Bridget poked her
head in at the door.
“Plaze, mem, jist do come out and
ee thim childer.”
Mamma dropped her sewing and fol
lowed Bridget. On the floor behind
the kitchen stove sat Lulu and Ella,
either side of a large dinner-plate, by
by which stood the kitten, as if puzzled
what to do*about it.
And what do you suppose these two
little dunces had put on the plate lor
that kitten to eat?
Well, there was a large slice of
wheat bread and butter.
Spading a Garden.—The spading
fork, when used iu digging unoccupied
soil, should always be inserted nearly
perpendicular the depth of eight or
nine inches, the slices not being more
than five or six inches wide; if much
wider the soil cannot be sufficiently
pulverized, and il the fork is not insert
ed to a sufficient depth the roots of the
plants w ill not penetrate deep enough
to enable them to withstand any
drought. The operation of trenching,
or digging the soil two or m^re spades
deep, is generally wrongly performed,
as the bottom soil is brought to the sur
face. and the topsoil buried below. In
such cases the soil brought to the sur
face is almost a 1 ways poor and of a hun
gry nature, totally unfit for young
plant life. The proper way of doing it
is to open a trench two or more feet
wide and a spade deep, throwing the
top soil to one side, then spr« 2a onie
manure in the bottom of the rcnch,
and spade it into the bottom ?oii; on
this throw the top soil of the next
trench, incorporating with it some
manure, and so on, trench after trench,
until the plot is finished, filling up the
las trench with the top soil taken from
tiie first trench.
What to Eat.—In a lecture before
the Workingmen’s Lyceum. Dr. Seguin
spoke as follows of food: An ordinary
meal is generally copiposed of five in
gredients—animal or nitrogeneous food,
starchy or sweet iood, watery vegeta
bles, beverages and condiments. This
food, w hen digested, is taken into the
system by blood vessels. For persons,
and (.‘specially for workingmen, in this
climate, meats are the most easily di
gested, and at the same lime are the
most nourishing food. Tripe is the
easiest and pork the hardest to digest.
Among vegetables, rice and boiled cab
bage are the extremes. Anything that
is fried in fat is extremely indigestibl .
Milk contains the live ingredients above
referred to, and is really ‘ all-sufficient,'
The whasp is wheeling airily about
the room, singing in low, soft tones,
the songs of other golden sum
mer days. How peaceful and sum
mer-like the picture.
The dog! Ah, yes! Was there, then,
a dog in the scene? Memory, memory,
open thy golden gates. Ah,yes; there
was a dog, not long ago. Yes, I re
member now. He was here.
But there is no dog in this immediate
vicinity now.
He has moved.
How like a silent benison the radient
sunlight falls upon the street. Yes, 1
think, now, 1 saw him move. I heard
him, too, for my recollection is that he
moved as much with his tongue as he
Death from Corn Fodder.—There
nave been many cases throughout the
country of sudden death among cattle
that have caused great alarm. At first
mut was supposed 10 be the cause ol
the trouble, but analysis has proved
that smut is not injurious, and a post
mortem examination has shown in
many instances a hard iiia.-s of husks in
1 lie stomach. If it should be proved
that it is unsafe to let cattle loose in a
field of corn stalks it would be a serious
matter to stock raisers.
‘ No, sir.”
“ Then what do you care about get-
ng him a monument?”
“ Nothing at all, except that my
mother thinks he ought to have one;
she thinks he must have been a good
man, and I am going to do my best to
carry ner wishes out. You see in this
iittle drama my mother is acting the
part of Dean Stanley; the man tuat
struck Bliv Patterson is Major Andre,
and I
“Well, who are you?” asked the
Alderman.
“ I—why, 1 am Cyrus W. Field.
Now, then, are you going to let me
have the shekels towards the carrying
out of the enterprise?”
“ Getaway from me or I’ll kick you,”
said the politician.
Then the boy left to find some one
who could be induced to subscribe.
The fair sex in Guernsey are not to
be trifled with. At a fancy dress ball
given there recently by the subalterns
of an infamry regiment, a lady noted
for originality and wit was brought by
chance to the side of one of the chief
military authorities of the place, baid
she 10 Col. Z , “May 1 ask, Colo
nel, what you are?” “Oh.” answered
the Colonel, who was evidently not in
one of his happy moods, “ I am noth
ing! What are you?” “I am next to
nothing,” was the prompt rejoinder.
A lady was entertaining at dinner a
stranger who had brought a letter of
introduction to her husband, and at the
end of the meal coffee was served. The
lady had asked her guest if he took
sugar with his coffee; he replied, “Oh,
never, ma'lam; that is to say, hardly
ever, unless the coffee is very poor.”
A few minutes later he said: “Will
Mothers make a great mistake in trying you please give me a little sugar ?”
What Is soda^Water? It Is simply
water strongly impregnated with car
bonic acid gas. The gas is obtained by
pouring sulphuric acid upon-carbonate
of lime as it exists tU-marWe dust chips
in a powderful metal cylinder termed
a “generator.” Copper generators
were formerly in vogue, but frequent
explosions, leakages, and Inevitable
corrosion, even where the interior has
been lined with tin, has led to the sub
stitution of steel. The contact of the
sulphuric acid with the carbonate of
lime produces a tremendous efferves
cence. The vitriol, |iaving a stronger
affinity for lime than the carbonated
acid gas has, liberates the latter, and a
sulphate of lime is formed. The gits
thus obtained is then passed through
a washer, you can wash gas as perfect
ly as you can a handkerchief—to re
move any trace of sulphuric acid, and
then it is pumped under enormous
pressure into the fountain, already
charged with water. This constitutes
in brief, the whole process of carbon
ating. Imitations of Vichy, Kisaingen,
Seltzer and other mineral waters are
made by dissolving in the water in the
fountains the requisite amount of salts
Ginger ale, root beer and draught cham
pagne are made the same way, except
that the aerated water is passed through
a closed vessel holding the essences and
extracts in solution, wfifch impart to
these drinks,their characteristic flavors.
The machinery required is intricate
and costly. The generators used in
large establishments cost about $3,000
each, and ocher appliances are very ex
pensive. Very few druggists in cities
make their own soda water as they can
buy it more cheaply from wholesale
“chargers.” The fountains vary from
one draught tube and five syrups,
to six tubes and twenty-two syrups,
ranging in form ft \ simple square
marble box to an -ate gothic tem
ple of the most exc 1 * ,ce workmanship
and in cost from to $4,000. On no
other beverage is there such an extray-
agant outlay of money, and a well
managed concern seldom fails to be
very profitable. With good syrups, an
attractive fountain aud attendant, and
strict cleanliness, the soda water stand
will pay the rent. It is upon the
syrups that the trades turn generally.
Conscientious dealers make their own
syrups, some even making genuine
fruit syrups; but essences are general
ly preferred.
An Interesting Rain.
10 induce children under two years 01 j
age to eat starchy food, for there is no j
A citizen went into a Norwich
alkaline fluid in the stomach of an in-j hardware srore the other day and
fant by which the starch can be changed ! quired : “ How much do you ask for a
to sugar, and so ini used into Hie system, j bathtub for a child?” “Three dollars
It has been estimated that a man work- an ,i seventy-five cents,” was the reply.
w in the open air daily needs fifteen j
ounces of meat, eighteen of bread,
whistled the customer,
’ll have to keep on washing
three and one-half of butter or fat, aud j t i, e baby in the coal scuttle till prices
fifty-one of water. I agree with many j come down.”
Feed for Cows.—A mixture of hay
bran and meal is an economical feed
for milch cows. The hay should be cul
and moistened and the bran and meal
-priukled over it. Let the morning
iced be a bushel of cut hay with two
and a half quarts of corn meal and bran
mixed iu equal quantities. Give the
same at night, and at noon about eight
pounds ot dry hay with a few roots.
eminent chemists who have proved that
alcoholic drinks are an aid to the sys
tem in retarding the waste of tissues.
5io, too, for the same reason, I regard
tea and coffee as nourishing. An excess
of starchy food is to be caretully
avoided. Men who handle lead ought
to abstain trom alcohol, for if too much
is taken, the kidneys, which throw off
the poison of the lead, are likely to be
come diseased.
Short-Cake.—Short-cakes, as made
fifty years ago by an aunt of mine,
were made by adding one-haif pound
of butter to one quart of lepid or warm
water, with flour to make the dough
just right to knead a long time—from
one to two hours—as therein lay-
secret of lightness. About one-tifih of
the blitter should be reserved to roil in
just before pettin_
which was done by placing the pie-lins
against a long stick of wood lying on
the hearth before the kitchen fire. The
cakes were made three-fourths of an
inch in thickness, or les3. o»* about
Stout Chairman (who ftels the fire
close at his back rather oppressive):
•* Waiter, 1 asked you to bring me a
screen.” Waiter: “Master’s very
sorry, sir, but we ain’t got no screen!”
Stout Chairman: “Then, for good
ness’ sake, tell the cook to send up the
diipping pan, and put it under me,
quick!”
Look not upon the strawberry when
it is red, when it giveth its color in the
short-cake; for at last it biteth like a
serpent, and is indigestible like unto a
Welsh-rarebit eaten at midnight.
did with his feet. I gaze upon the can-
generous I vas of the pas', and memory limns for
poonful ot cider apple-sauce, a pickle, | me the details of his moving. But noth-
and a huge pile of plum-pudding fair
ly drowned in sour sauce.
Mamma laughed, kitty ran under
ing limns auything tor the dog. He
doesn’t need it.
He limned it all that was necessary
the stove, and the little girls both cried ; f or his own unaided self.
“Meet me, love, at the old place to
night.”
The gentleman was aroused from his
slumbers next morning by the pent up fury
of a shriek which resembled the scream of
a locomotive. He sprung out of bed, his
hair bristling with terror, to encounter his
wife rigid with indignation—her face pale,
and her entire expression of countenance
an interrogation point of the hugest propor
tions.
When she spoke her words were in italics,
and were as frosty as a piece of ice.
“ Can you explain this note?”
“Wliat note?” asked the bewildered
merchant.
“The one that wretch wrote you last
night—the note from the party ‘ you met at
the old place’ yesterday evening
“Upon my soul I don’t know what you
mean?”
“Perhaps this will refresh your memory”
and the note was thrust into his hands with
an energy which made his blood tingle
with apprehension. A single glance re
vealed its contents. He knew the hour
was big with fate for him and he struggled
bravely- for composure. A mistake would
leave him desparate. His tone was there
fore calm and collected as he replied:
“I suppose it is some scribble bv one of
the clerks. I know nothing about it.”
The exquisite scream that fevered upon
that woman’s lips at the answer would have
reflected credit upon a Massachusetts repub
lican when asked for pecuniary- aid for the
refugees.
“And you expect me to believe this?”
“Confound it, Madame, I didn’t expect
you to believe anything. But what the
mischief are you prowling through my
pockets for any r way?”
“I haven’t been prowling through your
pockets!”
“Where did you find that thing?”
“I—I—picked it upon the floor,’’.was
the confused reply.
Here was daylight at last. The man
fixed his eyes on her in indignant scorn.
There was the ring of victory in the accent
with which he reversed the tables
I Upon the cloudless, pale, unshadowed
| blue of the April sky above me, storm
because kitiy would not eat the nice
dinner they had fixed for her.
But Bridget went and got her a saucer j w ,n come, and the fierce white glare ol
of warm milk, and tbe children forgot | the lightning will frighten the radieni
all their trouble in seeing her lap it, g U11 g]nne and the meilow starlight.
up * , . There will be drifting clouds across the
summer days, and the smile ol the
springtime will be quenched in bitter
How to Become Graceful.
The best grace is perfect naturalness. : lears .
Still, you must study yourself, and form
your manners by a rule of that art which is
but a carrying out of the laws of nature, j
Oh, icy sheen of winter, and the hol
low sound of the man upon the treacn-
How all these things will come and
;o. The changing seasons, flecked
But if it is y-our nature to be forever assum- erous cellar grating!
ing some unpicturesque, ungraceful attitude, j
pray, help nature with a little art. If you | _
are stout, avoid the smallest chair in the ; gtorm and calm; the still, deep, starry
room, and be sure you sit on it, not to lean j 8U mmer nights; the restless tide, and
back in it with your hands folded in front j lhi of the niillds in t he voice-
of you just below the line of your waist, 1 a
especially while the present fashion lasts, j‘« sa fore8t i laughing childhood, ra-
If you are thin, do not carry yourself with | 11 ^ youth and reverened age; the
your chin protruding and your spinal col-1 bridal wreaili and the snowy crown
umn curving like the bowl of a spoon. Do upon the casket lid.
not wear flimsy materials made up without
a ruffle, or puff, or flounce, to fill up the
hard out lines of your bad figure, so cruelly
defined by the tightly pulled back draperies.
Study the art of dress. We once knew a
very- plain woman who dressed so tastefully
Ho.» all these things will come and
go-
But the dog will never come back
here again. Never.
At least, not until he has heard that
that it was really a pleasure to look at her. ! the wasp is dead. Dead. Dead and
If you have been moping until you are sick j buried.
with the thought of your own hopeless ugli
ness, be up and doing. Forget y-our dis
appointments, forget the past and the sneers
of your own family over the mistakes that
you have made.
Pumpej’i Pillar.
Don’t Judge.
| During the campaign in Egypt, some
| sailors in harbor took it into their heads
I that they would go and drink a bowl
of punch on the top of Pompey'spillar
Don’t judge a man by the clothes he i How to get there was, however, a oiat-
wears for God made one and the tailor | «*r of difficulty, but not too great for a
sailor to surmount. A paper kite
made to fly directly over the pillar. A
two-inch rope was then tied to one
end of the string and drawn over the
The Drains.—One of the things de
manding attention D the making of new
drains and the cleaning out of old ones,
especially 7 those about farm yards,
so as to give the surplus water ail out
let. The health and comfort of the
animals are thus secured.
The Teacock.
Bonnets are not worn in heathen
he Jands Hence churches are not popu
lar there. It requires a new spring
bonnet to develop the latent Chris-
the cake to bake, j tianity in a woman.
These are the days when you put
your foot down on tacks, and when the
painter, the kalsominer and the carpet-
beater, unmolested, hold high carnival
eight ir elies in diameter, and placed on among your household goods.
the tins lacing the bright fire, which
would soon roast one side a nice brown,
when they w^ere turned and roasted 011
the other side. The slashing an inch
apart which these cakes received before
baking, made them break easily without
mangling, when they were put 011 the
table. If we now must have short
cake, w-e can do no better than to mix
with cream not too old.
Why is it that the umbrella mail al
ways comes around on a wet dav, and
begs the privilege of carrying off vour
only hope of shelter to be repaired?
What is the difference between the
solargraph and the detective? The one
shadows the lime to serve men, and the
other shadows men to serve time.
Brown Thickening for Gravies.—
Take half a pound of flour and silt
after drying it thoroughly on a new. .
paper before the fire. Melt half a!
pound ot butter in a porcelain sauce- j
the other.
Don’t judge him by his family con
nection, for Cain belonged to a very
S °Donh7t!dge him bv his speech, for I P” lar b >' tbe e “ d to which tbe k [ te " a?
the parrot talks, aud the tongue is but I B y tbls r0 P e one of 4he f a ’
1 men ascended to the top and in less
than an hour a kind of shroud was con-
an instrument of sound.
Don’t judge him by- hislikeof di«plav
Then some one must have sent it to I for tiie long eared beast is the humblest
of animals, but wheu aroused is terrible
to behold.
Don’t take it for granted because he
carries the contribution he is liberal; he
often pays the Lord in that way and
keeps the currency.
Dou’t judge him for his activity in
church, for that is not unfrequentl/ill-
spired by hypocritical and selfish mo
tives.
you; and see—see—it’s in a man’s hand
writing. Cecelia, is it possible?'’ His pa
thos would have found its way to a heart of
stone. His wife cast upon him a sacred
and frightened look, and then turning, fled
the room.
He master of the situation.
—The amount of timber rafted to
market this year i? estimated at just
double the amount sent last year. The
prices are only fair.
structed by which the whole company
went up and drank their punch, amid
the shouts of the astonished multitude
who had collected around the spot.
The sailors, eight in number, left the
initials of their names inscribed on
the pillar. They discovered what was
not before known—that there had for
merly been a statue on the pillar, the
foot and ankle of which are still re
maining.
There are four species of the peacock
known. Two of these are found Asia,
one in Africa and one in China. The
domesticated which are found in Eu
rope and America, came originally
from Asia. They are all birds of large
size and great, beauty. The crested
peacock measures about five feet, in
cluding body and train. The body is
only a foot and a half, while the train
is three feet aud a half long—more
••sail than ballast.” Common prudence
would require that this animal should
keep near the harbor in stormy weather.
Its head is very small, but plumed and
crested, the neck is long and small, ta
pering most gracefully from the breast
upward; the wings are short and
rounde-J, w-ith the sixth quill the long
est; the tail is composed of eighteen
feathers, long and rounded, which in
the males are concealed by the greatly
lengthened coverts. This magnificent
bird is elegant in form, graceful in
movement, and its plumage resplen
dent, with tints of green, golden,
bronze and blue; the long tail coverts,
which the male can spread like a fan,
are beautiful beyond description, with
1 heir metalic iridescent hue3, white
shafts, velvet-black centre, and bril
liant terminal eye spots. Every one
must have seen it display itself in pub
lic or private parks. And the wild
peacock is said to be even more brilliant
than the domesticated. Griffith says
of these birds : “We find in their incom
parable robe all that glitters in the
rainbow, and sparkles in the mine—
the azure tints of lieayen and emerald
of the fields.” Some are more or less
variegated, and occasionally one is
found entirely white They are about
the size of the turkey, their flight is
low and heavy; and they lay from 12
to 20 eggs, and raise only one brood
per annum. But the peacock has de
fects as well as attractive beauties.
Whan we have seen his elegant plu
mage, we are disappointed to hear
nothing but the unpleasant and even
shocking scream of his voice, His legs
are black and so homely that he is said
to be disgusted with them himself. He
is a voracious eater, and devours plants
seeds and insects without distinction.
I11 the neighborhood of gardens and
planted fields, he is an intolerable nui-
-ance. So disgusting are his h&bits
and bad his conduct, that he finds but
one companion, the turkey, in the farm
yard.
Gallows executions may be called
: suspensions of public judgment.
It's all right to goto Paris for polish,
luiii • skim the top and pour off all that 1 hut for perfect Finnish one must go to
is as clear as good salad-oil. Wash out ’ the shores of the Baltic,
the saucepan and pour in the melted j
butter and flour; stir over a quick fire
with a wooden spoon. The stirring
must be continued until the whole mass 1
begins to change color. As soon as of i
Calls of distress reach us from every
direction, and charity begins to hum.
Pistols and Prayers.
three pounds of butter at a time.
Trusting Futurity
At four hundred and something
Jones street is a fortuneteller, who has
made a new departure in the astrologi
cal profession by causing her custom
ers horoscopes to appear on a slate ly
ing upon the table. She enjoys the
large patronage due to a soothsayer,
who serves up at the very least a rich
uucle in India, and the undying secret
love ot a dark eyed person of the other
sex, according to the circumstances, to
each cash client. The other day as
ng Guffey and a half dozen boon
companions were going home from the
club in a state of owlish complacency,
they came to where Signora Clementi
na’s sign invited the passer-by to peer
into futurity. They accordingly-
tiled solemnly in, and sitting around
the Signora’s table, had whole hunks
of coming events dealt out to each.
When they arose to depart, Guffey
waited until the party had got safely
into the street, and then putting his
hand into his vest pocket, inquired the
amouut of the bill.
“Seven revelations at $2.50,” replied
ths sorceress, sweetly, “just$17.50; call
it seventeen dollars even.”
“Are you sure everything on that
slate will come all right?”
“Oh, It’s certain, sure.”
“Then put the bill on the slate, too,”
and the wicked young man had just
time to escape before that educational
adjunct was shivered ju.-t where bis
head had been.
„ . 131 agination goes a long distance
a light lawn color, take trom the fire,; willl a ji ve cent cigar,
throw in a large onion—this will give i *^*«^^*
die thickening a nice flavor—and keep j ~
stirring until it stops bubbling; take j
out the onion and turn into an earthen |
pot. When cold It has the appearance } Some time ago a Deputy SheriflT and
of light-colored chocolate, and very j t jj ree other citizens ol Evath County,
gravie*'/“lfVigluIy'*n!ade°it ‘wilHceep j ^ were charged with a warrant
good for weeks, and as brown thicken- for the ariest of Rusk Holloway,
fug is almost a necessity where gravies ; and reached the house in the midst
ami sauces are properly maoe, I have u f a prayer-meeting. Rusk Hollo-
tound it convenient to piepare two or 1 wav refused to surrender his arm3,
and in a moment the officers were sur
rounded by enemies. Rusk commenced
shooting, and Robertson fell dying af
ter escaping from the house. Tne fight
now amounted to a regular battle. The
voice of prayer was hushed in the whiz
01 bullets and the bang, bang, ban
guns and pistols. In the meantime the
smoke of gun-powder and the groans of
the wounded and dying ascended to
gether. Keith and Ross, in the midst
of a shower of bullets, ran quickly
around the opposite side 01 the house
Just as he reached a small tree Ross tell
pierced by a ball. But with his six-
shooter still in his hand the doomed vic
tim rose to his knees, clung to the tree
with one band and tried to shoot with
the other. At this moment old man
Holloway and his daughter appeared on
die scene of carnage, and hastening to
where Ross lay clinging to the tree de
manded ihe surrender of his six-shooter
Ross replied that he might have it pro
vided he would let him take out the one
remaining cartridge. Hoilowayand his
daughter, the eyes of the girl flaming
and her long hair floating on the south
wind, which blew away the smoke of
the fight, then seized the pisiol of the
wounded man, and by main force
wrenched it from his hands, enfeebled
as they were through loss of blood
The old man then like a veritable fiend
placed the muzzle of Ross’ own pistol
against the side of the wounded man
and fired. Ross with u groan fell over
dead, his murderer cooly extending his
1 feless body on the ground, all be
smeared in blood. King and Keith es
caped, and the bodies of Robertson and
Ross were shortly afterward found
where they fell by a posse of citizens
“ By’m-by.”—“ John ” had bought a
watch at our jeweler’s, but as it ran too
slow, he took it back, saying,
“ Watchee no good.” “What is the
matter with it asked the jeweler.
“ Oh.” said John, “ watchee too much
by’m-fry.”
A ruin, accidentally discovered by A.
D. Wilson, of the Hayden Survey, sev
eral years ago while pursuing his labors
as chief ©f the topographical corps in
Southern Colorado, is described as a
stone building about the size of the
Patent Office. It stood upon the bank
of the Animas, in the San Juan cour-
try, and contained perhaps five hun
dred rooms. The roof and part of the
walls had fallen, but what of it that
was standing indicated a height of *oar
stories. A number of the rooms were
fairly preserved, had small loop-hole
windows, but no outer doors. The
building had doubtless been entered
originally by means of ladders resting
on niches, and drawn in after the occu
pants. The floors were-of cedar, each
og as large around as a man’s head,
the spaces filled neatly by smaller poles
and twigs covered by a carpet ot cedar
bark. The ends of the timbers were
bruised and frayed, as if severed by a
dull instrument. In the vicinity were
stone hatchets, and saws made of sand
stone slivers about two feet long worn
to a smooth edge. A few hundred
yards from this building was another
large house in ruins, and between
them rows of small dwellings, built of
cobble-stones laid in adobe, and arrang
ed along streets, after the style of the
village of to-day. The smaller houses
were in a more advanced state of ruin,
on account of the round stones being
more easily disintegrated by the ele
ments than the heavy masonry. The
streets and houses of this deserted town
arc overgrown by juniper and pinon—
the latter a dwarf, wide-spreading pine,
which bears beneath the scales of its
cones delicious and nutritious nuts.
From the size of the dead as well a9 the
living trees, and from their position on
the heaps of crumbling stone. Mr. Wil
son concludes that a long time has
elapsed since the buildings fell.
The Almost Forgotten Employment*
Darning and Mending.
—The Pen nsy 1 vania Railroad, during
the mouth of April, averaged daily
about five car loads of emigrants forth©
West.
It is possible that in olden times too
much stress was laid on the importance
of training girls to mend and darn so
exquisitely that it would be difficult,
almost impossible, to discover that
there had been any necessity for the la
bor; buj if there were any error in
teaching and exacting such perfect
work it was a fault “that leaned to vir
tue’s side,” and beyond all comparison
better than the wretched “botching” to
be found on the raiment of 9ome—of
many—of the girls of the present day.
Laundresses that wash for school girls
could make strange revelations of ne
glect of garments and careless repairs
were not their lips sealed through fear
of losing good customers. When a
broken stitch is allowed to go ©n un
cared for until it has become so large
that the stocking cannot be worn with
out some repairs, and is then drawn
up into an ugly bunch—hard enough
to blister the feet—instead of being
nicely darned; or when a tear or rip on
a dress or under-garment is pulled to
gether with thread coarse enough to in
jure the fabric, who is to blame—the
motner or the daughter? What instruc
tion has ever been given the young girl
about looking out lor the beginning of
evil in her wardrobe? Has she been
taught to darn or to mend every rent or
rip the first possible instant after it was
discovered, and to do it neatly ? Oo, no!
Her music or drawing lessons, her
French and German and dancing, are
apparently of more importance than
such useful w-ork as mending and
darning. If a young lady has what in
these days is the rare skill of compel
ling her needle to assist her in carry
ing out all the requisitions which will
enable her, with scant materials, to
keep herself neatly and genteelly clad;
if she can turn, remodel, piece neatly,
cover tbe lack of material by some sim
ple appropriate trimming until she
makes an old dilapidated garment look
“amaist as weel’s the new,” she will
have cause all the days of her life to
thank the mother who led her In the
way she should go; and whatever
changes or vicissitudes may be sent she
has far less than those who, in prosper
ous days, are only fanciful ornaments
of their homes, but when the evil days
come, will through their ignorance be
come oppressive burdens upon those
whe Must provide for their support.