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Heel*!? Yen**.
On the street corner, the curbstone
astronomer was standing by his instru
ment waiting for a customer. Presently
two miners came along and paused to
take a look at the “ machine."
“ What in thunder’s that?" asked <>no
of the minors.
“It is a telescope,” said the student
of the stars. “ You see Venus for ten
cents.”
“Consider me in,” said the minor,
and ha put up ten cents and turned tlie
tube on a constellation of the fourth
ascension.
“Don’t think much of it,” lie said,
after a look, and then he turned the in
strument down until it was focussed on
a residence some nine blocks away.
Here the miner paused, pressed his eyes
close to the instrument and liecame as
still as a mouse,
“Ain’tyou too low?” asked the planet
sharp.
“I alters was low-sighted,” responded
the man of the pick.
“You can’t look all night; other
customers are waiting.”
The miner surveyed the crowd stand
ing about him, and handing the show
man a dollar, asked him to tell him
when lie had used up the money. Ho
lowered his eyes to the telesoo|>e once
more and was again engrossed in his
observations. Suddenly fie rose up with
s nigh and remarked to lus companion :
“ Billy, she pulled t'm curtain down.
The handsomest woman 1 ever saw m all
my life. She let down her lmir, took off
her collar, and then, just after I gi\e
that coon a dollar, she lowered the cur
tain and shut the blinds. I think 1
ought to have about ninety cents change.
That old glass tula-, though, is about
two hundred boss power. It was like
being right under tho window with a
step-ladder. I'm going to buy one of
those machines tho ilrst time 1 make a
raise,”
The Einotkmal Poet,
fthe finds human passion, suffering
ami sympathy in etoiids and flowers and
weather, and she writes so rapturously
af all this, that unless tho render shares
her mood and divines with her, tho an
guish of the cirrus in tlie crepnnculiue
ether, and the passionate tears and orac
ular utterances of tho roue, ho is quite
bewildered by the rush and ecstacy of
the verse. There is something depress
ing in the wail of women, heard from all
quarters, over tho agony of unsatisfied
love. In former days, when poets were
rare, did women sutler so? Wore tluy
all like Mariana in the moated grange,
“aweary, awoary,” because the mischief
maker ho mine not? or broken-hearted
boonuso, having cofiie, lie wont awfty
lightly with a gay “(rood by, sweet
heart?” Does this olmos, universal
singing of sorrow come ns a relief to the
sorrow itself? Is it an abundant supply
in answer to a grout demand that lias
hecu increasing for generations, or is it
fictitious, a mere yielding to the tempt
tatiou to write warm, musical, tear
ful verses, vague in thought and ex
travagant in expression?— lloston Ad
•artitcr.
Beecher.
When Henry Ward Beecher was editor
of tho Independent., sixteen years ago,
he wrote a few editorials, but soon got
tired of such work, and his name was
dropped. Editorial life requires stated
labor, which is just what Beecher in.
tensely dislikes.
When ho wrote for the Ledger his
disinclination annoyed Bonner to such a
degree that he was compelled fo od.-j.i
new method. This was to send a man
to Beecher’s house every week with
orders not to leave until the “copy” was
placed in his luuuls. Beecher being thus
put under siege at first was wont to “ beg
off” and make promises, hut after a
while he found that there was no escape,
and hence fulfilled his contract. Bonner
paid Beecher during an engagement
which lasted only three or four years,
nearly $60,000 — including jKIO.OOO for
“Norwood.” This was then a profitable
engagement, but the scandal destroyed
the sale of Beecher's writings, and
Bonner droiqied him.
Beecher lias nmde move money by
preaching and writing than any other
man that ever stood in the pulpit, and it
is hardly probable that his success will
ever bo equaled. He is really a wonder
ful man, and his powers, even ut GO, seem
but little abated.
Pears.
Over 1,800 years ago Pliny wrote
“ All pears whatsoever ure but heavy
meat unless boiled or baked,” anil it >*
probable that tko varieties cultivated at
that early date could lmrdiy have been
anything but Humll in size and bitter in
taste. But when Pliny recorded this
famous opinion lie wrote for hia time,
anil the idea in as little worthy of consid
eration to-day as the philosopher's real
knowledge of the truth at the present
day must have been limited. Penis nrc
regarded at the present, tune n among
tlm most whoheome and nutritious fruits.
Baking or boiling may improve them for
weak digestive organ. , hut eaten raw and
freely at all times they are productive of
• fine blood and healthv skin. The
amount of real nutriment they contain is
hardly equal to that of apples, but the
tine and delicate juices arc hardly ex
cel le>l by any other fruit. Pears are
coming to tie regarded as one of the
staple fruit crops, and a great deal of
attention is lining paid to their culture
and marketing.
Mrs. TBri.Tßra.u, has lieen in the
•ity with her daughter to arrange for
the vocal instruction of the young ladv.
She has nut yet engaged u teacher, ami
is now in terrible state of perplexity,
“The first professor said," she explained
to Mr. T. on her return, “that Almira
singe too muoh with her borax. If she
keeps on she will get digestion on the
lungs. He said he ought to try the
abominable breathing and practice sol
fudgerv. Then the next teacher told
me that she ought to sing more with her
diagram and not smother her voice in the
sarcophagus. Then the next he poked a
looking glass down her throat and said
that the phalanx was too small and the
typhoid boust and the polyglotis wore in
a bad way, and I never knew that
Almira had so many things down her
throat, and I’m afraid to let her sing
any for fear it’ll kill the poor
girl." And that was the end of “ voice
building" in the Trulyrural family.—
Musical Herald.
Mysterious Tracks in Solid Stone.
There is a large rock on the creek '
hare in town with the perfect foot track
of a man in it, and on the same stone
can be seen a horse track two inches
deep. Old Mike Hur|>er, a superstitious
darkey, who died here a few years ago,
claimed that it was the track of himself
and horse, and made there iu the sand
on a day so hot that the sun baked the
aand into stone. W are not prepared
to vouch for the truth of Mike's asser
tion, but those who doubt the tra -ks
beixpr there can walk to the bend, of the 1
orosk, just below the mill, and see for
thsitiwiv**, (bftnjm (|?<o A’nfcw
IHist, I
Popular Name? In New York.
The city has a variety of localities
whose names sound strange to unfamiliar
bars, and hence are among the peculiar
ities of the metropolis. There is “ Mack*
erelville," and also “ Cowboy,” and
many other spots noted in the police
reports. Among the more notorious is
“ Hell’s Kitchen,’’ which was brought
before the public by the Rooney murder.
“ Hell's Kitchen” is a series of rookeries
inhabited by a class deeply sunk in
misery, but notwithstanding poverty
they "always have money for whisky.
Rooney only beat his wife to death—
which is so "common a thing here that it
hardly calls for more than passing notice.
“Hell’s Kitchen” is no worse than
“ Murderer's Row ” or “ Devil's Eelpot,”
each of which has its record. Then,
too, look at the fanciful names enjoyed
by an important element in our popula
tion. There are the “ Short Boys, the
“Dead Rabbits,” tho "Man Eaters,”
and others, who not only vote, bnt often
control elections, and also do their share
to fill the penitentiary. “Hell’s Kitchen”
is a richly remunerative investment to
the landlord, for the poor always pay
highest rent, and the tenements of this
city are immensely profitable. This class
of property holders claim respectability,
and may live in elegant style, while
their wealth is wrung from the most
miserable of mankind.— New York Let
ter.
Wliat They Eat In Africa.
An African correspondent of /'bod and
Health , speaking of the habits of the
people and incidents, says :
Of course hunter’s food, such as ele
phant foot, buffalo hump, sea cow,
giraffe, and the hundreds of different
kinds of deer that abound ill various
parts of tho country are all more or less
good eating, especially when you have
a good supply of Dame Nature’s sauce,
hunger, on hand. I iilho found the coney
or rock rabbit a fair dish, although too
much like a large rat to look pleasant on
the tidde. Tho natives of the country
are not, as a rule, great meat eaters;
living generally on com (called there,
mealies,) milk, pumpkins, and n sort of
sugar cane, now and tie n going in for a
feast of meat, f have often considered
whether to this way of living may he
ascribed tho really wonderful manner in
which they recover from wounds.
In the Zulu war I saw four persons
wounded in tho legs with bullets, one of
them especially having received a bullet
just below the luiee, smashing all the
bones, and leaving u hole that you could
see through. The doctors said the only
hope for any'of them was amputation.
This they refused to allow, aiul they
would do nothing tint pour cold water
from tunc to time. When I last haw
them all but the worst could walk alone,
and his wound looked healthy, the hone
having grown together, and knitted
quite strongly. No white man could
have lived without mi operation. On the
other liaud, these men soon succumb to
illness or disease.
Bev. Whangdoodle Baxter Insulted.
The Rev. Whangdoodle Baxter, an
Austin Colored clergyman, wished to
hint to Uncle Naoe, who is his near
neighbor, that a gift of n cord of ft re
wood would be very gratefully accepted.
Uncle Nuec bv the way does not like
Whangdoodle much. Finally, says
Whangdoodle, insinuatingly, “Uncle
Naoe, I’so gwine tor he powerful hard
up for firewood dis winter. Cau’t yer
give me a load ? ”
Uncle Naeo looked nil around as if he
n-u nfi-ai.i nf being overheard, and then
he said—
“ Parson, is you werry pertickler
wliar de wood comes from ?"
Parson Whangdoodle supposed this to
mean that Uncle Naeo was going to give
him some stolen wood, so he replied :
“ Uncle Naoe, as long as I gets do
wood, I don’t keor much where it comes
from."
“ Den Parson you don’t keer whose
wood you burns lip.”
“ Hit’s all de same ter me, Uncle
Naeo.”
“ Well, l am gwine,” said Naoe.
“ War is yo gwiue ? ”
“ Tor lock up my wood shed.” — Texan
Sifting ,
Prove It ly Mother.
While driving along the street one
day last winter in my sleigh, a little
hoy, six or seven years old, asked
me tlio usual question, “ Please, may I
ride V"
I answered him, “Yes, if you area
good hoy.”
11c climbed into the sleigh; and when
1 again asked, “Are you a good boy?”
lio 1. Hiked up pleasantly and uld) 11 Yeß,
sir.”
' 1 Can yon prove it t
“ Yes, sir.”
“By whom?”
“ Why, by my mother,” said he
promptly.
1 thought to myself, here is a lesson
for boys and girls. When a child feels
mid knows ti nt mother not only loves,
but lms confidence in him or lier, and
can prove their obedience, truthfulness
and honesty liy mother, they are pretty
safe'. That hoy will be a joy to bis
mother while she lives. She can trust
him out of her sight, feeling that lie
will not run into evil. I tip not think ha
will go to the saloon, the prize-fight, or
the gambling-Ik >u si-. Children who
have praying mothers, and toothers who
have children they cun trust, are blessed
indeed. Hoys mid girls, can you “ prove
by mother” that you are good? Try
aud deserve the confidence of your
parents and overv one else.
Wicked Tommy mid Ills Poor Mother.
“Mamma, come quick! The catsup
on the shelf!” “Drast that snooping
cat. I’ll make fiddle strings out of her in
no time, if I ever lay mv hands oil her.
She’s forever into something,” ami the en
raged materfaniilias vigorously pounded
her way to the cellar door. “ Where is
she. Tommy, I don’t see her?” “See
who"" “ \Vhy the cat you said was on
the shelf.” “1 nevir said there was a
cat. on the shelf ” “ Yes, you did, too.
You said the catsup on the shelf.” “So I
did, and I sav so vet. The catsup on the
shelf, right before your eves. Don't you
so' it ? There, in that old wine bottle !”
and lie quietly but very swiftly dodged
out into the kitchen.-— Oreenhus A (7a
telle.
“Kicking Agtn Nothin.”
A farmer to the Vermont Legislature
had charge of a go<>d bill and had mod
estly spoken in favor of it. A young
politician replied iu a long, frothy, high
falutin sjieei'h against it. All eyes
turned to tiie farmer, oxj>eotiug to see
him rise in defense of his bill. Observ
ing this, after a time be slowly rose, and
< lcvating hia voice to a squeaking pitch,
said. “ Mr. Speaker ! I si-e uiy friends
ekpoct me to answer the honorable gen
tlemau Wtfo has just set down. I can’t,
Mr. Speaker, 1 can't; it sllus wrenches
urn so to kick agin uot’uin.” His bill
passed turn, con. How many little and
big people do wrench thetaselvea, or
wtqfjt their strength, by worrying over
llp.iji* i A iiq SthHdtUt,
euitwitU
The u Don’l*Yoii-Know” Yonng Man.
One of tho most conspicuous objects
in certain circles of society at the pies
ent time is the “Don’t you know”yotmg
man. He ranks along with the youth
who carries his coat on his arm and
smokes cigarettes on the hack platforms
of street cars. If you meet him in the
morning he gtects yon by remarking :
“This is a fine day, don’t you know.”
His last salutation at nightistothe effect
that he wishes you ‘‘ a very good even
ing, don’t you know.” He goes down
on Third street just before noon and tells
his broker to “ buy me some Wuhttsh,
don't you know." It matters not where
he goes, his “dou’t you know” goes
with him. He beams down upon his
partner at the ball ands be places his
arm around the butterfly's waist, re
marks: "I’m very fond of waltzing,
don’t you know.” He bows graciously
to his friend in the pew behind him
after service is over on .Sunday aiul
thinks *' the sermon was rather tedious,
don t you know.” When his fond parents
conclude it is about time lie honors soci
ety and some millionaire’s daughter by
getting married ho broaches the matter
to the girl in question by informing her
that “I love you, don’t you know.”
Everybody knows him by Ins “ don’t
you know,” and those who are sensible
of the ludicrous, as well us ridinulatis,
have his expression for a by-word and
get lots of fun out of him. But lie is
oblivious to it all. He deems his phrase
very neat and very fashionable and
would not drop it “ for the world, don t
you know.” Bo he dons his stitched
backcd gloves, twirls his natty little
cane, and starts out every day to see what
is “going on down town, don’t you
know.” He is one of the features of
the times and must be recognized in any
summary of the oddities of humanity.
The “don’t-you-know” young man must
be heard to he appreciated, and lie is
sure to bo appreciated, in one way or
another, when lie is heard. For lie is a
character, “don’t you know. ”—Penn
eryluania Timet.
Orange Wines.
Tho subject of utilizing the surplus
and the defective fruit of tho orange
groves of the southern counties by man
ufacturing it into a palatable wine, has
engaged the attention of numbers of
persons, nml some interesting facts have
boon elicited.
Edward Prciss writes to the Semi-
Tropic, California , and describes his ex
periments in making orange wine from
the wild orange of Florida years ago.
Ho says that it cau not bo surpassed for
medical purposes, and sold when only
eight months old for three dollars j)eb
gallon.
The oranges must,bo perfectly ripe.
Pod them and cut iu hnlvos, crosswiso
of tho cells, squeeze into a tub. The
press used must be so close that the
seeds cun not puss into the must. Add
two pounds of white sugar to oaoh
gallon ol sour orange juice; or one
pound to each gallou of sweet ttrangb
juice; uiwl one quart of water to each
gallon of the mixed sugar and juice.
Close fermentation in necessary. The
resultant wine is amber-colored, and
taHtes like dry hock with the orange aro
ma. Vinegar can be nmde from the
refuse, and extract from the peels.
Tho Confectioners' Journal, which is
good authority, gives three formulas foV
making orange wine, and one for orange
brandy, in all of which wine, raisins or
brandy figure prominently. Wo quoto
the first, whioli is as follows:
“ Tako thirty pounds of new raisins ;
picK mein clean from the stalks and chop
them fine. Pure tho yellow rinds frein
two dostin oranges as thin ns possible,
being careful to omit nil of the white un
derlaying pith. Boil about eight gal
lons of soft water till the third part of it
is evaporated ; after letting it cool a lit
tle, pour upon your raisins and orauge
|>eel ; then stir it up well, and cover it
up and let it stand to infuse for five days,
stirring once or twice a day. Then
strain and press this liquid through a
hair sieve. Now put it in a clean cask,
adding the yellow rinds of a dozen more
oranges, pared thin ns the first. Make
a syrup of the juice of the whole thirty
six oranges, witli a pound and a quarter
of white sugar. Stir them well together,
and hung up; let it stand two months
to fine, and then bottle it off."— San
Francisco ltutletin.
The Idol of Hindoo Women.
Hindoo girls are taught to think of mar
riage almost as soon as they cau talk; in
deed, they arc often contracted in mar
riage at six or h von years of age, and
go to live with their husbands at twelvo
or thirteen. Before this, at the age of
five, they are tuuglit to propitate the
gods in order to secure a good husband,
and their little minds are distracted by
the idea of whut a model hushnnd ought
to be. The orthod >x conception is a
husband like the god Siva, who was holy,
austere, advanced in years, and faithful
and devoted to one wife, the goddess
Doorga. Good little girls revolt at the
idea of a husband marrying a second
wife while tlii> first i> alive, arid will con
sequently confess their anxiety to marry
a faithful spoils.' id;i 'Lvft, and they
learn from tlieir < 1!i r to utter the most
vindictive speeches against their rival
wife. But, lor all that, Krishna is the
idol of Hindoo women, and he was any*
thing tint faithful to one wife. He not
only kicked over her milk pans, ran
away with the clothes of the milk-maids,
hut dftuced mid thrted with other men’s
wives, eloptd with royal damsels, and
marribd an infinite number of beautiful
women. _
The Hugemre Act.
A lady writiug.to the Chicago I'ribime
makes the following confession:
Bitting in the New Y’ork and ltoston
Express itt the old depot at New Haven,
a man boarded us and asked if a Mrs,
was on board. An old ladv, directly in
front of me. trembling got up. read the
telegram the man handed, end in great
haste left tho car. Bite stood crying on
the platform, gathering her baggage,
when 1 spied a little satchel and um
brella on the seat in front. The cars
were in motion, but with ortieions prompt
ness, the window lieing open, 1 chucked
the two articles out upon the platform
aud loaned book like one who has done a
noble deed. Presently a dapper young
man came in and began poking about
for hia umbrella and sachel. The pas
sengers who had seen my baggage-act
never betrayed me, but wo all laughed,
and someone said the young man had
bettor “telegraph back to No* Haven,
as some accident hail called a traveler oft
the tin in, and a great deal of baggage
was carried out to her ?"
The Five Newest State*.
There are thirty-eight States and eight
Territories in the* Union. The dates of
the acts admitting the last five as States
and the time when the admissions took
effect are as follows :
Act adiuiitiuj Admission took
State efl'ot.
Kuie-iu ~Jau. IStU Jsn. 29,
West VirpnU. Dec. 31, ISO 2 June 19, 1903,
K, >:> hi . Match ft '• Oct 31, list,
N|i;h#M fob 9, JSC’. March 1. IW’.
u>,of too Mrrth S, ilfs.i. ,„:i.. Atif h lift
The ** Alliance ” on Angels.
Angels are not poupular now-a-days.
The artists who have depicted them as a
cross between a fowl and a fashion-plate
hove been largely responsible for this
attitude of the public mind towards
angels, of whom it Way be said that they
are not so monstrous as they havo Ween
painted. For a human being with feath
ered accompaniment is as much of a
monster as a faun of a Centaur. That
Raphael's cherubs have become popular,
in spite of their sprouting pigeon wings,
is the highest, testimony to the artist’s
genius. Perhaps (he angels have wings.
The Ortainarians, we ltelieve, hold that
as a part of their creed. But why these
wings should be hitched to their shoulder
blades, as though they had been attached
by Spaulding’s glue, is one of those
things that no fellow but an artist could
discover. But there are angels without
wings, who are nearly as monstrous to
the right-minded, as those which the
artists have created. There are a good
many of them in the world. They are
good—so good. As the homely saying
goes, Butter would not melt in their
months. They have no temper. You
o.ui not get them mail. They never
swear. The sins of impulse are never
to lie laid to them. They are never
rough. They are never impolite. They
never say things they are sorry for after
ward. They are never ridiculous. They
do not “slop over.” They do not cheat.
They do not lie. They do not Bteal.
They are good. But they are cold. The
angel’s hand is like a fish. He never
grasps you an though he meant never
to li t yon go. He does not rise into the
realms of strong feeling; never does a
noble, impulsive act. The human angel
is a very negative affair; there is nothing
positive about him. His virtues and
vices are alike negative. And we hate
him as nature is said to abhor a vacuum.
Better a warm-hearted sinner t han a cold
blooded angel. It was thought, for a
long time, that George Washington was
an angel. Time and patriotism; with ofer
kind hands, had smoothed away the
roughness of his character, and left hint
such a goody-goody reputation, that, as
Theodore I’urker once said, it is a posi
tive relief to know that he once swore
at Lee. Tho boy preacher, judged from
the distance which we arc careful to keep
from him, is an angel. He is so good
that lie says it sometimes seems to him
that lie will not die, hut will he trans
lated, like Enoch ii' old. It is a pity
that all tho angels can not be translated
—into a bran now suit of featliarSi
This world has no use for angels, nor
for any beings “ too bright and good for
human nature’s daily food.”
A Comedy of Errors.
The talk of the town is an elopement
that proved to be a “ Comedy of Errors.”
A rich old eieole opposed the marriage
of his only daughter with a poor artist.
One evening there was ft carriage drawn
cautiously up to tho corner of the grand
boulovurd Esplanade. There was an air
of mystery in its movements. The driver
looked around and then apparently, from
some signal, fixed his eyes at the window
of a mansion very little distant from his
halting place. A female form, cloaked
aud veiled, threw open the casement, at
the same moment bidding the driver ad
vance. He did so, and when the carriage
stood immediately flt the doofr, beneath
the lighted window, ft tall iinii hdndSoiite
man jumped out of the vehicle and
entered the house. Shortly after this
two cloaked figures passed hurriedly
down the steps of the main entrance aud
hastily entered the carriage, closed the
dot* and tcquisteil tlik driver to “ sjteid
like lightning. ’ An old geiitlemftti, tho
proprietor of the mansion anil the father
of the artist’s inamorata, was a spectator
of the whole affair, and, gliding softly
from a private door; mounted the nim
ble of the carriage find found himself
whirled on the road to Milneburg, the
take port of the Mobile packet.
The old fellow had caught them. The
lovers were in the carriage, but he was
on tho box. On rattled tlife carriage to
the steamboat landing. Down jumped
tho fathei and opened the door. What
did he see ? Could it be ! Y’es, it was
liis own hostler anil his daughter’s maid!
The affrighted servants descended from
the carriage, anil- iu an agony whicli
was so exquisitely c >mic that the disap
pointed pater fa * a Mas could not refrain
from smiling, fell on their knees mid
hogged forgiveness. The prevailing
mania for elopement had seized them.
Seeing a carriage before the door, and
being under orders from the millionaire
to watch the artist’s movements, they
thought to thwart the elopement of their
misttess Ity using the artist’s carriage for
their own. Meanwhile the artist and
the lady were beiug married at the house
of a friend. —Hew Orleans Letter in the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Death Penally.
Any man who kills another by acci
dent, without intention to harm him,
must he killed. No matter what be the
oxtenuatiug circumstances of any kill
ing, no man or government is authorized
to pardon, but the strict law must be
fulfilled in every case, and in all cir
cumstances ; tho soldier who kills an
other in war must die ; the insane man
who sheds biood, and the man who iu
self-defense kill liis assailant, forfeit
their lives, etc., etc. Do you object and
say, “ Oh, no ; we must construe the
command, uot as it was construed then,
but as the circumstances or our a™. <•“
our light demand ?” Exactly ; well, we
will meet you oil that ground, aud cheer
fully give the supposed command all the
weight iu present legislation which we
thiuk it ought to have. Do you remind
us that Moses allowed one who had shed
blood accidently, or without malice, to
tlee to a city of refuge—and as long as
he staved there the "avenger” could
not harm him ? Verv true. Moses then
felt justified iu malting exceptions to
this command, if it were such, after the
lapse of a thousand years, aud when
change of condition and established gov
ernment, and improved civilization, al
lowed it. Moses sot us a good example;
aud now, after 8,500 more years of
growth, and a still more entire change
of condition, and the opening of anew
dispensation, which abrogates the “ eye
for eye aud tooth for tooth,” we take ex
ample by the great Hebrew reformer,
and conform methods to our day and
needs, seeking only to keep sacredly
to the idea and spirit which underlie the
wise and humane records of inspiration.
Wendell Phillipi in the North Amer
ican lieview.
The Pekiu Times gave* the following:
“A young lady of this city, who has a
young gentleman friend in Peoria, called
him over the telephone, which is located
iu the office of the young fellow’s father.
The required ‘hello!’ came back over the
wire, and the dear creature proceeded
to lay herself out in ‘taffy,’ which she
sent to the listening ear in vast quanti
ties. While she was stopping to take
breath, a gruff voice in the telephone
startled her with the following senteuce:
‘I guess you’vo made a mistake, my
dear girl; I’m Georgia's father.' When
•ha roooYWd *h# Ifiuiid IwnwU at Uume
Response to a Toast on Women.
Mr, President, I think the most sensi
ble thing ever done iu the world was the
making of Woman. It ought to have
been donO before it was. I presume
that Adam, When the fib was When out
of him, thought it was pretty rough,
He did not know what was going to be
come of him, Hilt when the job was
done and woman was sent (ltrWfl, and
the meat put on in the right place, I ant
satisfied that he looked upon the job and
said it was the boss, 1 Bay it should
have been done before. The idea of
Adam's remaining there all those year*
alone, without any one to welcome him
home from fst'oteb banquets, and to ask
him why he didn’t sfftY Unt all night,
and come home smelling like ft awoke
house ? I can imagine Adam going to
the grocery after codfish, and building
fires himself, And booking hi* own meals
in the bachelor's hall. It hits struck me
that it would not be out of place felt the
legislature to pass resolutions of thanks
for the making of woman. It is to he
hoped that they will attend to it this
season. If woman hadn't been made at
that time, I am satisfied that ft great
many of us would not have been here
to-night. If it had not occurred to the
Almighty to make woman, I don t 'relieve
the Republicans could have got 15,000
majority in this state to-day. Women
are “ the boss.” I don’t kuow as I can
explain it, but the most of you know how
it is yourselves, There isn’t ft m<tn Who
hasn’t felt the electrio influence Of
woman—when taken across her knee, or
when in love. It beats all. Some of
you probably know more than I about
woman, though I have been exposed
more oi’less. The highest ambitions of
man are Stimulated by love of woman.
Theie is hardly anything good err noble
that man does'but what he receives liic
inspiration from woman. And in every
thing of that kind that we do, it is for
the benefit of woman—of mothers, wives
sisters, cousins—l Won tgo any farther
than cousins, because they are the
darlingest of all.
Every man has a guiding star, and a
cousin makes a good star to look up to.
It is good that it is so ; and the lovelier
guiding star he has the better. The
man who has a pure good woman to feel
proud of him, and love him, is indeed a
happy man, and be can work harder, en
joy his work better, and be nobler if he
knows there is one that, he is responsible
to for every thought—one whom he
loves till liis heart gets in a few extra
beats when he thinks of her, and one
who considers him “ the boss.” And all
of you have such dear ones gazing on
you always. --Peck’s Sun.
fanrif Work.
Wall pockets and card casef f£r£ easily
made ; common brown building pAper, a
largo roll of which may be bought at ftnv
hardware store for five or fen cents, will
do aa well for them in piost case* as the
more expensive bristot board generally
used. The pockets may be fijftda iij
endless shapes ana covered with wall
paper or the pretty enameled paper to be
found at the priding office, or the fancy
store, and colored or gilt picture*’ tsati he
pasted on the front.
Boxes made of cardboard in the shape
of books are neat and useful, and nicely
cox’ered are an ornament to any center
table. Out a pattern by a book the size
yott Wish, fold back the covers and cut
a p'ieds ihfe" shape of the ends, and a
straight piece bent with the fingers till
curved like the front of a book ; the bot
tom and back of the book Are in fine
piece, Cut by the cover of the patter*
book; The upper cover Can be fastened
to the blink by a Strip of cloth so that it
will open like the Cover of it bcttfki The
edges should be Covered with gilt oi
marbled paper and, the Cover with any
color totl wish. Very handsome ones
can be made with velvet; line thertt with
paper or silk. Blue, brown or green
boxes call be lined with very’ pale pink,
and fancy pictures ornament the upper
cover, inside and oitt; pleated tissue paper
makes dainty linings. These boxes can
hold photographs, cards or stereoscopic
views or collections of Small engravings.
Brackets cau be made of pine, stained
with walnut juice aud varnished. Picture
frames'of planed lath, stained aud varn
ished like the brackets, with a narrow
folded edge of gilt paper around the in
side are specially pretty for bright colored
landscapes; pine mouldings at from one
and a half Cents per foot up to as high aa
you may wish to pay, mfty he obtained at
the lumber yard and used in the same
way. Penwippef* of cloth cut in the
shape of a leaf, three or four fastened
together with a slight vetoing floss, are
nice to tie to the children’s books.—
Topsy .
Can A Lady lie a Cook I
There are many varied opinions about
this question. Wo ourselves maintain
that eveiV human being ought to be
properly instructed “ what to eat and
drink,” anil take an interest in this mat
ter. The higher the person, the more
they should know, and the more ration
ally should they live. Therefore, the
better educated a lady, the more should
she know how to order the dinner, how
to preside over her household, and not
have to fly to the caterer every time her
husband brings a few friends to take a
little dinner with him. If the art were
well understood, it is astonishing with
how little fuss a very nice dinner may
be providod. The lady who can afford
to KPt*p 11 gOOll cook ilt-t-vl ** xlircoi
her arrangements. But direct them she
must if she is to deserve the name of the
head of the house. The lady who can
only afford on ordinary servant, may
have to supervise the very preparations;
but there is many a lady who has to do
it hers If, because the keeping of a serv
ant takes a part of her income she can
not afford to lose. With proper arrange
ments it is an easy thing to be a cook,
and prepare a family’s dinner within an
hour or an hour and a half, while neither
destroying your hauils nor your clothes,
not being overheated or put out of tem
per. What a lady requires is such cook
ing arrangements aud utensils as will
help In r to prepare food cleanly and ex
peditiously, and such a knowledge of
the art of cooking that she will know
well how to use her materials. Natur
ally’ she must take to her occupation
with a will, and be ready to do her best.
There is no necessity for dirt and smoke
and grease being about. Cooking can
1h? done without tnem in cleanly utensils,
doing once for all away with all black
pots and pans, end establishing the rule
that nothing can be clean enough for
cooking. American stoves fill up too
much, aud then- wide openings are un
necessary. That stove is best which
acts like a hot plate, and gives heat
through the top plate without blacken
ing the cooking utensils. There is no
necessity for smut and dirt. Our cook
ing utensils art' not sufficiently looked
after, aud we are satisfied to use them
when they are leng beyond use. Clean
utensils are the first reqnsite of cooking
and we must learn that they have to be
replaced every bow and then, and that
it must be done. Further, the choice of
our cooking utensils is • great question,
aud oi< this paiul Ibtn li MUfth ts b#
Food Adtrfterftftoaa.
While good men are working for the
advancement of the human race, men
tally, morally, and religiously, Un
scrupulous soundrels are seeking with
devilish ingenuity for new methods ot
poisoning our bodies with villainous
compounds which we unsuspectingly
swallow in onr daily sustenance. In no
direction has the knowledge of evil
spread with greater rapidity than m
this. . .
In the long line of articles people use
for food, there is ecnrcely one which is
exempt from this infamous treatment.
If the ingredients used for the purpose
of adulteration were harmless, there
would be less objection to the practice,
but where as in most cases, they are
rank poisons that gradually sap the
eifudelof life, the evil is so great as to
call for piompt suppression.
A writer in the Medical Academg of
Sciences, speaking of the nse of grape
sugar in making beer, says:
“ A large piece of this grape sugar,
taken from the hands of a youth iu this
city, who said his father manufactured
it, proved, npoll analysis, to contain n
Tunntity of sulphuric acid, enough to
destroy s''Die half-dozen
As this sugar is hvrgely used 111
iting cane sugar, candies, and numerous
other articles of luxutfy *nd necessity,
further comment is unnecessary.
This sugar has been in use only a
few vears, bnt long enough to be tam
pered with. Onr syrups axe mostly
made now from glucose, yuich, if no.
poisonous, produces an article vastly in
ferior to cane syrup. The same writer
“Yeast powders are made and sold
here which contain soluble salts of
albuminium. The use of tin in sugar,
r/l baryta in numerous articles of food
to increase their weight are barely con
cealed. the agreeable odor of caramel
in the ntghborhood of the coffee mills
tells its Own tale, and to explain the
wonderful cheapness cf the beautiful
jellies n6W in such common use we
should hate to go further than our ma
tutinal friend ‘Kage-Bones,’ and pursue
through the Wonderful t/ensfortofttioi.s
worked by modern chemistry the bones
(rota our garbage box, flavored and col
ored by the waste products from the gas
works, back again fo our fables fts cur
rant jelly for OUr famous eaftVa* backs
and red heads, and perhaps meet in our
sugar bowls our old shirts transformed
into very palatable sugar. ”
And these are only a few examples of
this growing evil which has already as
sumed such gigantic proportions as to
be carried on in many cases with reok-
IbsA impunity, having lost even the de
cent veil Oi secrecy.
In China they punish adulterators of
food with death. Here they are rewarded
With riches and honor. Is it not time
ttmf tfeveie 18wa were made and enforced
against this monstrotis iniquity?— />-
buque Times.
Woman’s Dress.
Uhdef thiS head, of “ Hints, Questions
and Experiences,” Beecher’s Christian
tjnion remarks:
Fife* subject* have been more fre
quently dis6usfted than the healthful
dressing of women. Ffhdre the weight
of the clothes should come i£ at lwsf de
cided without question. But how/
even of those who admit that the weight
of the clothing should come on the
/rfioTtlders, wear their clothing of a pat
tern! that ffiakes it possible. Every
yfcar Witnesses greater improvements in
the itfl'Dfgafments made lor women,
but few avail themselves of the relief
and comfort to be gained by their Use.
Look at the young girls on car streets,
With Wstists so compressed that no artist,
or anv other person with a full realiza
tion of the true bffa ity of the female
form, could behold Without a feeling of
impatience if not disgust. How many
of those girl* when they compress their
waists in this ttoflftfuriil manner know
that they entirely destroy their freedom
of Walking; and that, while they appear
to thcinselVeS to have freedom of motion,
to others, who Watch then* they present
a verv comical combination of freedom
and Stiffness? The upper part of the
body being to a vice is perfectly stiff
from the waist tip. The shoulders are
held in position far abote where they
should lie, and the elbows are’ dt sharp
angles two or three inches behind ths
line of the shoulders. Loss of is
not the only penalty paid. Many girls
destroy good voices by this vicious man
ner of dressing. The waist being so
unnaturally compressed, it is impos
sible to ‘ breathe from the right
place. To test, this for yourself, place
your hand on your chest and take breath
from below the belt, and sing the sylla
ble, La. Then sing it breathing from
the chest, where you are compelled to
breathe if the clothes are worn tightly at
the belt, and note the difference in the
sound. Try, for a short time before
rising, to breathe from lielow the belt
without moving the chest. In short,
try all the time to breathe as low down
as possible, and watch how the hard,
djsagreeable head tones—.for which
American women are famous—will dis
apj>ear. You will sing without half the
effort, you will be able to walk without
“getting out of breath” and lose alto
gether the tired feeling from the chest
that so many complain of when walking.
This can be tried by all. It is not for
the young alone. Many of the fretful,
neryous women cau hold their imperfect
Dreaming responsible for much ol tuen
fretfnluess and nervousness. Think of
it when sewing, and breathe below the
belt. At first, it will seem hard, but if
persisted in will finally become as it
should have been from the beginning,
nature itself. Watch your husband
and brother, and you will see their chests
make no perceptible movement when
breathing, because they breathe natur
ally. They have not worn their clothing
so tightly belted that lungs and other
organs of the body have been deprived
of room for growth.
A New York Preacher.
A New York preacher, iu a sermon to
young ladies, repeated a few of the
pungent things that had been said about
their sex. One writer he quoted as the
author of the disrespectful proverb:
“ There were only two good women.
One is dead and the other was uevei
found. ” The Chinese say that woman’s
tongue is her sword, and she never lets
it rest. Dr. Payson wrote: “A wedded
man is like a bird with a broken wing.
He may flutter, but he never can fly. ”
Among the Amazoniaus candidates for
nuptial honor* had their hands tied iu a
paper bag tilled with fire ants. If they
survived the painful ordeal they were
considered fitted for the trials of matri
mony. The following are some of the
pertiuent similes employed: “Woman
is like the snail because ahe loves her
own house best; and silt) is unlike the
snail, who carries all he possesses upon
his back. She is like au echo, which
speaks when spoken to, ani} unlike the
echo, which always has tho last word.
She is like the town clock, which per
form* ;ta work regularly, wd on time
kiij unlike HWtiaiiiff Uit taws fat m
fawfii ftsl TM sfa* city."
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
M. Tissandikw is having constructed
in France- an elongated balloon, to- be
driven by a small and very light electrio
motor. The force in the first experiment
will be supplied by ~n electric accumu
lator, which will "develop considerable
energy for a brief period.
Satisfactory evidence shows that a
great fire must have occurred VA tbft
out-croppings of a Nova Scotia eotjL
district at a remote time. Fiom that
number of annual rings borne by trees
growing over the spot, it ie estimated
that not less than three hundred years
have elapsed since the fire was extin
guished. But three centuries have not
I cooled the ashes, and an area of some
: two acres is known to be now abnor
mally heated to such a degree that
frosts never penetrate far in the severest
; cold and snow soon melts.
Botanists in the Fontainebleau dis
trict of France have noticed a considera
ble change in the flora of that region in
j recent times. A number of species have
: disappeared chiefly on account of the
i severe wiuters. The winters of ]|564„
i 1709, 1788 and 3876- 80 were disastrous,
<•- espeeiallv in places bufc
i little protecfca. i... e a Jw. Among the
I plants which have been , S* nr
nearly so. in Central France, are vs.
i maritime pine (the loss of which was a
i national misfortawe), the broom heather,,
; ivy holly and box. The elder, the oak,
the cliesnut and the walnut have alii
j seriously suffered. TSie loss to the
j Fontainebleau flor* in these and other
i species is replaced to some extent by the
: appffurance of various new species in
j accent- times.
average descent of larger rivers,
i eWtasKe of cascade ragions. is seldom
more than *Wlve inches to the mile
and occuswiudV d ™ s na * cxcee . a . a , thm >
of this amount Memphis down,
a distance of and fifty
miles, the Mississippi' ifcw a oitch of less
than five inches at tow\ *Mter, and above
the Missouri, from iia so'.lvee, 01
eleven and three -fourth* inches. il I le
' Missouri in its greatest length l of ,3*
! three thousand miles, descends thvsm v
i eight inches to the mile; but from Fo**
j Benton to St. Joseph, over twothmu
j sand miles, only eleven and one-hall*
inches; and only nine and onofouVtb •
\ inches below St. Joseph to the mouiUi,,.
Ia length of nearly five hundred miles
: Tlic average pitch of the Amazon is a
i little more than six inches to the mile;
; of the lower Nile, less than seven; of
! the lower Ganges, about four. The
Rhone is notable ior a great pitch of
eighty inches per mile from Geneva to
Lyons, and thirty-two inches below Ly
ons to the mouth.
The researches of scientific wm® have
shown that thought is not so rupid a
usually believed, but that every action
of tho brain requires an appreciable
time. Hirseb proveil that less time is
j required to recognize touch than a
: sound, and that it took im'U'e time to see
, them than to hear, but the question stall
j remained as to what part of the' time was.
! consumed in the act of recognition this
problem was solved by Donders. By
means of very ingenious apparatus, he
has found that the double act of recoN'
niziDg a sound and giving a response*
occupied seventy-five thousandths of a
j second, of which forty thousandths were
i required for the simple act, of recogni-
I fiofi, leaving thirty-five thousandths for
the act of volition. One twenty-fifth of
a second was occupied in judging which
of the irritants wa? acting? upon the same
sense; but a sligliflh logger time was
necessary to determine tfbtf priority of
signal* sent by different s€fsl*kiS, ®s .^ os ?
of seeing- and bearing. Th/? described
results were obtained from a man ot
middle age. the young were somewhat
| quicker; biut the average of ma.'iyex
! p<-riments showed that the time reqn u*®
I for a simple thought is never less th.m
j the fortieth of a second. The mina,
I therefore, at its greatest activity, cau
j perform not more than twenty-four hun
i dred simple acts per minute —not a very
great speed when it is considered how
many of these “ simple acts ’■ must be
combined to form any process of reason
ing or continued thought.
The Gamier mid the Pickerel.
One would hardly believe that a goose
could be Iwiikeii of the habit of going
into the water, but a case of this kind
has occurred at Chilton. A boy owned
a large gander, aud he thought it would
be a good joke to tie a fish line to the leg
of tlto gender, with a hook properly
baited, and watch the result.. So he
fixed the gander with a line oil 1 oeie leg
about two feet long, at the end of which
was a pickerel kook and a frog for' ihait.
The gander was driven into the mail
pond, where he swam around for n kaitf
hour, turning flip flaps, and diving tor'
feed. Suddenly the gander felt a pnlU
et his leg, ami he looked as surprised i
the “Lone Fisherman ” when ho caught
a whale. The gander seemed to think
there was sonlething the matter with
him, anil he looked down at his feet im
der water to try at*d see into it. The
pickerel began to yntik, and the gander
made up liis miucl "that. V was not well,
and wanted to go home. He started for
the shore, but the pickerel .°n the hook
wanted to go the other way, .and it was
nip and tuck tor a time. The gander, to
those on shore who were wii c tong,
seemed frightened, and at times V 5
act as though saying his prayers *x.’“
asking for mercy, and then he would get
r "“d ami try aud fly ashore, when tha;
pickerel wofha t ,-ii i,; m h a .ek. Thev
say it was a fine study to watch the ex -
pression of the features of the gaudei.
He seemed to realize that a change wa?
about to come over him, aud white he
hoped for the best he seemed to be rw
pared for the worst. After half an ho®i’
of the hardest work he had ever done,
the gander came ashore and dragged a
six pound pickerel up the bank, and the
boys came aud took off the pickerel and
put on another frog, and tried to induce
the gander to go aud take another swim,
but he wouldn’t have it. They couldn’t
drive him in. He looked at them, as he
ran through between their legs as though
saying: “ Boys, this may be fun for you,
but you have crushed a noble nature.
Not anv more pickerel in minp, if you
please,’’ aud he flew off toward* Hie
barn squawking as though his fce& r t
would break. — Peck's Him.
Noble Nature.
There are persons sufficiently enlarged
to receive blame without pain, and yet
not be able to resist the excitement of
praise. Nobility of soul, magnanimity,
ward off or counteract the pain that in
smaller souls results from blame; but
the same traits render their posses,‘-or
more quick to the apprehension of a
kind word, more grate a loving
expression, more appreciative of appre
ciation. Why should it thought an
evidence of greatness to wlueive Dotb
praise and blame with equaT stolidity?
Must our emotional natures die to the
process of our upward grow’th? Will
they not rather become quickened to
keener enjoyment eon an unify ? So
would our traseeptibjlity of pain become
quickened, out that our
expanding shiljSe* its
Hflm WtHiamt-