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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-