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BT EttiRKE t. UU.
The r* «o*s will ta^ir c
T her.i T < auwns tr war,
To <.trrv ia' fret n-i 1
An' •eh wiBthc I,it o' d«i l» now Day;
He he ics trials—I*!i leli y*iU b««w
He was temfried an’ tried by a LLihway cow.
Th - lie o’ her hide was a daskr brown;
II.." >iy wus I*an, aa’ her nevk was shin;
One horn turtea up. an’ the other d wn;
• wua »aar;> o’saglit. an* WU5 tO!l« I o’ limb.
witii . aktti _____uose, i an’ a short stunif-uil,
An’ ribs like the h-n p« oa a hoaie-made pail.
5. l ny a dar M site passeti in pound
5Iinr Furmeaniy iidpu’ ht*r?elt loeora.
H* l % i«een cowardly cur an’ hound rampled horn,
transfizeti l>y her t
Hed Many a tet-fnian’ oM old tin-pail
the iai m boys tied to her stumpy tail.
Oid Deae.n 1 >at was a pious naan,
A irurai termer, ujtr ^iii an’ phtin;
Ah* many a weary mile he rau
To drive her out o’ his grow in’ grain.
Sharp wer>* the prank* that she used to play
To git her fill and to git away.
He used to sit on the Sabbath-day
With ids open Uibie upou hi> knee,
Thin kin* o’ loved ones far away.
In the Better Land that h«-1 >nged to see —
"When a distant beller, Ivwae thro’ the air,
Would bring him back to this wot hi o' care.
When the Doae^n went to his ehurt '.i in town,
He Shi watched passed an’ waited without till h«* frown, went by
never h*r a
Ac*l an' evilgleaui in each au^iy eye.
He wwtid etaek his whip, an’ would holler,
E* he “ Whay !** ia shay.”
drove along his “ one-hors?
Then r.t his homt stead she loved t<> call.
Lt/Jiii’ cis burs wirh her crumpled horn,
Kirublr mulin’ hisg.'rien wall,
La Helpin' 1 in’ his herself cabbages t«» one Ids staudin' by on*— corn,
Scamperin' home when her weal was done.
O ren the Deacon homeward came,
Hmaulin’ a hymn, from the house o’ prayer,
His kindly heart in a tranquil fraui*.
His sou! *-je cjIui tv tie eveniu* air,
His fmehead siu'Xvth « z a ivell-worn plow—
To liiid in his gdrden that highway c*>w.
His human p.isaions were quick to rise,
An* stridiu’ forth with a ravage cry,
With fttiy blazin’ from l*o’h hiseyt
E/. ligiitiin's danli in a summer sky,
Heddcr an’ redder his face would grow.
An* alter the critter he would go—
Over liis garden, round and round,
Brcikin’ his pair an’ appl*> tm»*,
Tr.impin’ Tippin’ bis melons into the ground,
over his hives o’ bees,
Leavin’ him angiv mu' b.ully stung,
Wishia’ the oid cow’s neck was wrung.
The uirisnes grew on the garden wall:
The years went by, with their work an’ play;
The boys o' the village grew strong and tall,
An’ the gruy-haiied farmers drftpp; d a war,
Otic hy one, ez the red leave* fall—
Bui the highway cow outlived ’em all.
Th»* things we hate are the last to fade;
cSoim* cares are lengthened thro’ many years;
Th* 1 death o’ toe wickf d Hpems long delayed,
But there is a climax to all careers,
An’ the highway cow at last was slain
In limnin’ a race with a railway train.
All into pieces at once she went,
.Text lit,.savin’s hunks when they fail;
Out o’ the world she was swiftly sent;
Beetle was left but her own stump-tail.
The farmers’ gardens an’ corn-held# now
Are haunted no more by the highway cow.
SAVED 1> TIME.
“Charity, kind sir! My poor children
are starving!”
The speaker was a thinly-clad woman,
who shivered in tho wintry blast, for it
was .lannary, and the keen fiostv air
penetrated even tho warm garments of
the rich.
The gentleman addressed was a man
Of perhaps thirty-five, a rich and pros¬
perous man, who hoped soon to become
Still more rich and prosperous through
an alliance with the fair girl at his sido.
“ Poor woman !” said Isabel Howard
compassionately. “ I have left my
purse at home. Walter, I a in sure you
Will relieve her distress.”
“Of course I will, my darling. Here,
poor woman, take that, and may it do
you good. ”
half As bespoke he drew from his pocket
tended a sovereign, hand and put it into the ex
of the applicant.
The poor woman’s heart hounded
with joy, for she had hoped for but six¬
pence at the best, and ten shillings
seemed to her positive wealth.
“Heaven bless your generous heart!”
•he exclaimed with heartfelt gratitude.
“Thank you,” said Walter Iiarton,
graciously.
Isabel rewarded him with a beaming
smile.
“I am glad you gave the noor crea
ture so much, : she said. “ I like gener¬
osity. 1 don’t think I could esteem or
respect a mean man.”
“ We think alike on that subject, my
darling,” said Walter. “ i never can re¬
fuse to give, even if I suspect the object
may be unworthy. happy.” It makes me happy
to make others
Another beaming glance from Isabel.
“Ilove you all the, better for that,
dear Walter,” she said in a low voice.
“On the shillings whole,” thought Barton,
though “myten are agood investment,
I can’t help grudging it to the
beggar. Barton, When Isabel becomes hundred Mr*.
and I get hold of her
thousand pounds, I shan’t give many
half-sovereigns to beggars. generous.” For the
pres -ut it’s policy to be
Of course Isabel could not read tha
thoughts of the man at lier side. Sh*
believed him a genuine philanthropist,
while, in reality, he was a mean, selfish
hard-hearted man, yet with tact
enough to overcome these traits for
the sike.of making a favorable impres¬
sion upon the heart of the heiress.
Isabel Howard was an orphan, and
the absolute mistress of a hundred
thousand pounds—no small fortune for
a girl of nineteen. But her fortune was
by no beautiful, means her sweet-tempered, chief attraction. She
was accom¬
plished, by and her heart was animated
the most generous charity. She bad
a regular list of pensioners, and would
have found it impossible to refuse an
applicant who was in need. Doubtless
she had often given to unworthy objects,
but such mistakes rebound to the credit
of those who make them.
As Isabel said, she would have found
it impossible to respect or esteem a
mean man. Thus far, Walter Barton
had succeeded in eonsealing his real
character from her, hut the time was
coming -'■.lien it would he revealed.
Whenever he was with her he gave liber¬
ally to any who asked for charity, but
at his warehouse he would have repulsed
them with hard and bitter words. He
kept a large clothing establishment in
Manchester, but Isabel, who lived in
the suburbs, had never been there, and
knew absolutely nothing of him in his
business relations.
Of course there were many who court¬
ed the favor of the young and beautif ul
heiress, but there was only one who
came near being the rival of the sac
«**«• sll *’ or ^' s was P r -
Elgin, a young physician, . who had re
eently established himself in the city,
aiiju-is having- a li-ir,) «rm<nrh> to <r t
able witii and r^nk'l^en'faceraiS’unn^F^ intelligent. Success with him
was IVlmn only a matter of time. trader
he saw the ri h diLrpiKuut- preferred
to him, he quietly withdrew,
e.1, but too houoralde to attempt to re
to V be s made. ao * that lt “ p *
It was made, and the wedding-day
was about to be n»l, when something
1“«» change the posi
Uon ot anairs.
IsSbel was walking near the cat redral,
when her attention was attracted to a
as plainly isr'^’vy'vS's aud
dressed, and iu her face at¬
titude was such an air of despondence,
that Isabel, ’ whose heait was full of
compassion for the wretched, felt her¬
self constrained to stop and speak t>
her.
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The girl, who was very thinly and
poorly clad, looked up.
“Yes,” she answered “I am well.”
“But you are sad. You have met
with some misfortune, have you not ?”
“ Yes,” answered the girl, despond¬
ently,
“Will you tell mew-hat it is? Per¬
haps it is something that I cau remedy.
Do not think me inquisitive, but I
really want to help you, if you will let
me.”
The girl answered fraukly:
“Thank you for your kindness. It
does me good, for I stand in need of
kind words.”
“Tell me, then, your trouble,” and
Isaliel, in her sealskin jacket and warm
velvet dress, took the ana of the shabby
creature, aud together they walked
along through Market street into the
busiest part of town.
“ My mother and I lived together,”
explained and the girl. “ We are very poor,
mother is an invalid, unable to do
much. We have nothing to live upon
except wliat learn by my needle,”
“That must be very little.”
“ Yes, it is very little; but I have
been defrauded of that little. It is too
hard.”
“Tell me about it. Isit possible that
any one could be so mean as to cheat
you out of the little you eai'n in that
hard way?”
“ I will tell you how it happened. A
week since, I got a bundle of waistcoats
to make for a large house. The pay
was very small. By working early and
late J could earn about eighteenpeuce a
day.”
never
oppression “Well, said Isabel indignantly. and
1 finished the half-dozen,
this morning took them round to the
shop. Instead of paying the money, roughly the
propnetor, a rich man said
2r«svra i
a pretence ot lit at me me out o t of of mxnenee j l o
on each, for I am an experienced waist
coat-maker ’ and these were made as well
n hi, vi.ai ■*
noor' “ Ami did vo.ih.l-o the money ’ mv
" *
1 “What friend.vlTsalad Itl^^
could There was no
money to buy our dinner. I had to tak
it, it imt but j I ]- kn Miv w tii tn.it i it it is itnniKsible lrnpo. si for . I
uSL"™'
tell help
you,” said flu heir.,s. “But Wl 0dl me
f 19meUU " T ‘ -
frauded A-onV’
“Wctl-r Pirlnii ’ ”
o-titi in. XC i lUme<1 • i t i i atartl , „,, “ l
’
and sain rised
“ W alter tcr Burton barton, I l hear near he tie is i eu- tn
ffi sucharrSn iZ^ d °
“1 must look into tl.K” said Isabel,
miickh' quick 1}, hor 11 r lace hu>(* finsh«><l nusnea. “ft’s i 3 more n 1 y
^ °
The girl accompanied lier home, and
presently the heiress, who bad chunged
dresses with the poor girl for a brief
space emerged into tho street and made
her way to the muffled shop of Wslt-r her Barton.
She was so up that face
could not be seen.
“ What do you want ?” asked a sales¬
man roughly. Mr. Barton,” answered Isabel
“To see
in a low voice.
“He is busy. He can’t see a girl like
you !”
“I have something important to say
to him.”
Walter Barton, on being told this,
came forward.
“Well, girl, what do you want of me,”
he asked You rudely.
“ gave me only sevenpence for
some waistcoat 1 brought here tips
morning, ’ said Isabel Jin an assumed
voice.
“What of that? They were poorly
made.”
“I need the money for my mother. I
worked hard, aud I am sure the waist¬
coats were well made.”
“Look here ! I can’t he troubled with
you,” all said work Barton roughly. worth.” “I gave
you the was
“ My mother will starve !”
“Let her starve then. It's no bus¬
iness of mine.
This was too much for Isabel, whose
indignation was intense.
She threw np her veil, revealing to
Walter Barton a face that terrified him,
so full was it of withering scorn.
“ I am g!ad I have Isabel. found you out,
Mr. Burton,” said “Fortun¬
ately it is not too lab;,” and she turned
haughtily aud swept out the shop.
“Isabel! Isabel! Isabel Howard!”
called Walter Barton in an agitated
tone. “ Come hack. It’s all a mistake.
I will make it right.”
Isabel did not answer, nor turn back,
but left the place with her illusions
broken.
The next day it was announced in
society that the engagement was broken.
Three months later there was a new
engagement, but this time it was Dr.
Percy who gained the prize for which
so many were striving.
Ihe poor girl soon obtained remusera
tive employment through Isabel’s in-
fluenee, and she aud her mother never
again tut •'''•*■ ■*■
As for 'V alur Bartou _ ho . ruedbit- , ...
terly his fatal . mistake, but for Isabel it
»a most fortunate one, since it saved lier
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IKuing With the Two-Headed Girt.
| Tl , r ... . , “ . an ,, 1 -... *wnon ..„ from Air. ,,
*; » V> l” XT' ., ‘“it v % ^ ^rier took break
. ivJSL-s ' l R f r iV \his "interesting voting
| Jadv fusings duets, two heads, waltzes, four polkas, arms, four and
, j boasts of several other accomplishments. l
Whpn the r ’ )rter . &TrWeii A l\ was in
reaJine58 f()r t ht , maraing meaL Five
. p,, rs()lls coni j >r j se ,j the party. “The
j the weather is exceedingly ,f Vig! oppressive,” was the.
I *-*►*«&•««.«-*«* pret , tms of tll t side of
right hand of the scribe with two of her
four bauds. The left side smiled se
, ™?^ . au d , fanned „ , rise! vigorously . , with ...
disengaged . hand. There great
a was a
deal said at table, but the guest was
there for the purpose oi taking break
fast with Millie Christine and omitted to
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Nightingale ocenpied one entire side oi
the table, aud while one of her pair of
eyes was intent upon gazing on the well
spread table, the other was looking out
of the window w ith a dreamy expression.
Two plates were well filled with edibles i
and the work of destruction was begun.
One-half of the lady had an espeoics
fondness for fried chicken and blast,
while the otiier would partake of noth¬
ing but porterhouse steak and fried
potatoes. In the line of liquids one
half drank iced milk to the other's coffee,
and two napkins were demanded and
freely time used. Somehow or other there
the was meal, for bilking toward tlie close of
freely aud the Nightingale spoke
mid intelligently ni>ou a number
of would interesting topics. At times one head
make an asertion which its com¬
panion could not entertain, and then nu
interesting .fonld follow. and animated discussion
Happily these arguments breakfast
were finished amicably in adjusted, for and the double
was time
headed lady to go to Bunnell’s Museum
for the mid-day exhibition .—New York
Star. ’
A Business Girl.
The women who are considering the
advantage of adding to their incomes by
undertaking the culture of silk, the ex
perience of Miss Nellie Kossiter,
Philadelphia, who last year received the
Pennsylvania ploma Agricultural Society’s di
for her success in this industry,
will be of interest. Miss Kossiter, who
is only fourteen years old, thus describes
her work: ‘• When 1 first started I had
about 2(H) worms, which I procured of a
friend of my fathor; in a few days I
shall probably possess 100,000. I have
made $300 tnis year,' f andl hope to treble
that sum in the next twelve mouths,
CODstanl fading, and somehow they al
W avs need attention at 4 () YiooU i u the
} ? *3S£
«««><* procure a snilieient amount of
f 0 | ln; re to feed all the worms I expect to
. h*itc i,., t ,.i bed, „,i 1 i tiotze . thousand
1 as many
esgs os I cannot provide for at the ('uv
thus frozen willlivcfor
and on being restored to a heated room
H'’ hatch On the other hand, the
*70 to'”5 di'o^T * ( "‘ 1>era '
turt.pt 10 1<> o> degrees, This llus morning
X w ,ld ll),8t>0 eggs, fixed on a card like
ibis (showing atn.nl covered with little
ecu a hundred, l»t then I have thou
sani s and thousands of eggs. I have
offered and have received permiKaion to
give instruction in silk-worm culture at
and or as you '’’ see pljau by the asylums framed in letters the city, m
^suh^rih.^s fr r k '\’ bXufitl^bwk^lmve
puhlislied i , on Silk and the ‘V,-!, Silk-Worm, l\ r 1 m
w ^: l£ .n f'***™* information.
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The Strange Story of a Hermit and
His Sweetheart.
Many years ago there suddenly ap¬
peared iu Morehead City, N. C., a -pre¬
possessing young woman calling herself
Maiy Hurt. She obtained work and
soon became a favorite witii her acquaint¬
ances. Fifteen years after when nil the
circumstances concerning her first ap¬
pearance had been forgotten, she- received
an offer of marriage from one of the
well-to-do residents of the place. She
refused, her however, and immediately after
whole manner changed.
She became moody and scorned fond
of solitude. She fiually purchased a [dot
of land in the mountains, built a log
cabin and lived there alone. The only
hook she had was the Bible, which she
knew almost by heart. The story of her
life was published recertly in the Ashe¬
ville Citizen. The article was copied by
a Vermont paper, and attracted the
notice citizen of Hubert Fletcher, Fletcher a prominent
of that State. soon after
visited Asheville, sought the editor oj
the Citizen, and, together, they went to
Miss Burt’s house. The hermit did not
recognize learned the Vermonter, but she soon A
that lie was her old lover.
mistake hud kept them apart for half a
century, but when Fletcher left Asheville
a few days later, Mary Hurt Howe, for
that was the hermit’s full name, accom¬
panied him as his wife. When Miss
Howe and Fletcher were young they
were engaged to he married. The woman
fancied her lover was attached to another
girl, however, and suddenly left her
homo in Maine. Going to Boston she
shipped for Liverpool. as stewardess on a ship bound
The vessel was wrecked
on the North Carolina coast, and, after
many adventures at sea in an open boat
and among friendly Indians ou land,
Miss Howe found her way to civilization,
liobert Fletcher traced his runaway
sweetheart to the ship on which ha
sailed, and, hearing of the loss of the
vessel, always mourned her as dead until
the North Carolina papers gave him a
happy surprise .—Boston Herald.
T VifAT a pity flowers can utter no
Bound! A Binging rose, a whisxiering
violet, a murmuring honeysuckle—oh,
what a rare am} exquisite miracle would
these he.— Beeeher.
Facts for THE CTRIOI'S.
^hk 3^ weight of an average male adult
fe
Thb avenge man measures about , five ,
’^SSr L * mm
Tp.k wrcharodon (shark), the fore
"rthrrof _ the of to-day,
mau-eater was
from 100 to ISO feet in length. A good
sised horse aud cart could have been
driven into its mouth,
The female spider spins the webs; the
'*» wanderer. In nine eases out
theft-mate eats her husband up.
Eiev^n skeletons have been found m
^ermutames “backyard.”
Evntv adult man has 1,400 square feet
°f brane lungs; or, rather, the mucousmem
lining the air-cells of his lungs, if
spread upon a smooth, J plane surface,
*—«<«■» m».*~
feet.
Boman gladiators received sometimes
as much as $3,000 per year by the sale
of the mixture of oil aud sweat, culled
stngamenta, which was scraped from
their bodies after their contests. This
mixture was made into pills, which were
sold as a tonic for endowing strength
aud prolonging life.
Thehistoci.es could call by their
names the 20,000 citizens of Athens.
Cyrus is reported soldier to have known the
name of every in his army. Hor
tensius (alter Cieero ? the greatest orator
of public Borne), sale, after correctly sitting a whole day at a
enunciated from
memory all the things sold, their prices
and the names of their purchasers.
There was once a curious saying in
England England, “ When once hoinpe is spun,
is done,” which became a
prophecy fulfilled when James I. as¬
cended the throne by the death of those
sovereigns whose initials sp iled the fa¬
tal word, Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip
(Mary’s England Spanish husband), Elizabeth.
“ Scotland was done,” then, since James
of was King.
Writers on natural history describe a
hideous reptile known as the fishing
frog, which angles for its game as ex¬
pertly aud with as great success as the
most adioit flv-fisher. He is a clumsy,
awkward swimmer, but nature has com¬
pensated furnishing him him for his umvieldinoss by
with an equivalent for a
roil and line, with bait always ready for
use. Two elongated tentacles spring
from his nose, which taper away like
actual fishing rods. To the end of them
is attached by a slender filament, which
sel ves the purpose of a line, a bait in tho
form of a shiny bit of membrane. The
hooks are set in the mouth of the
man down below, and ill order to induce
the fish to venture within reach of them
the angler stirs up the mud at the
tom with his fins and tail. This attracts
the fish, and conceals him from
observation. He then plies his rod;
glittering bait glows in the water like
living insect. The dazed fish are taken
Making Things Over.
aw?s£a-S£rJiBr. old clothes, why can’t make
m y children you
them over for tho instoad of
giving them away ?
“Because they’re worn out when you’re
done will, them,” answered Mrs. .Tones,
“ It’s no use making over things for the
children that won’t hold together; you
co ', lld "’l, d ,? grumbled 11 yWHclf Jones, smart as yon wouldn are.”
“Well, “I t
have wait closets full of things wunanTthat^ mildewing for
of w«Hf I was a alh
’M.^Mr A rv yKttV ^!f •
^7eLte CShlng he
oouldn’tfiiiilttndturniugthiugsgener
allv inside out lie
“Maria!” screamed, «where’s my
gray alpaca duster ?"
“ Made it over for where'/'tho Jolinnv ”
“Ahem f Well, brown
’“or'.iT “Clothes-bag!’ 1 \° UfS }o mumbled Mrs. Jones,
s5°ech“ w ho seemed to have a difficultv “/ust madelt in her
at moment
into a nice one!
“Where are my lavender pants? yelled
Jones.
2 Cut them over for Willie.”
2 Heavens!” groaned the husband.
Then, in a voice of thunder: “Where
have my blue suspenders got to?”
“ “Maria,” Hung the baby-jumper with them.”
asked the astonished man,
in a subdued voice, “ would you mind
tolling me what, you have done with my
silk hat; you haven’t made that over for
the baby, have you ?”
“Oh! no, dear,” answered his wife
cheerfully, basket. “I’ve used that for a hanging
It is full of plants, and looks
lovely.” Mr. Jones never mentions the
word economy or suggests making over
—he had enough of it.
An Uncomfortable Suggestion.
Mr. and Mrs. Tojmnody were get¬
ting ready to go out to call on a friend
the other evening, and Mrs. T., desiring
to look well, was arraying herself in a
great vaie-ty of colors. Topnoody uo
ticed it and began to comment. Said he;
“ Mrs. Topnoody, I think a woman of
your colors. age ought to wear more subdued
”
“Oh, do you?” was the response.
“ What would you suggest as beccming
your angel wife ?”
“J think a black dress is simple,
tasteful and becoming,”
“Indeed?”
“ Yes, indeed. ”
“ Well, then, Topnoody, suppose you
die and leave me a widow so that I can
wear the color you think most becoming
tome. Of course, you can’t see mo iu
it, Imt it would lie such a pleasure and
comfort to me to know that 1 wa- pleas
ing Then my poor, dear, dead husband.
M rs Topnoody smiled in such a
very satisfied way that Topnoody eon
eluded his suggestions were possibly too
previous, his necktie and while he busied Airs. himself T. distributed being
the rainliow tints as she pleased.—
Steu tier, irllle Herald.
In the Philadelphia Medical Times
a whose case was reported of a young man
mother and five sisters had died
of consumption and who had himself
escaped a similar fate, probabt)/ because
lie “has lived for the part seven years
in apartments well stocked with thrifty
plants.”
SCRAPS OF SCI FACE.
Mr. Brvmi has mmle a number of ex
p.rijnento ou animals with wire hvdro
.. ■ • . , . - , , i
\ !h~ s™ dtoillato.n''t haT'it j
from tissue .y I
was of herbivorous more readily accomplished in cases
than of carnivorous aui
mals. i
In a letter !o the I.nncrt, Dr. A.
Paggi rcc >rds the following observation :
He states that in Paris he saw a case in
which, under the inhalation of chloro
‘ h " l '* beat aml arti
R-ial respiration for ten minutes failed
torcsb re eu-cuh, 1 on. when Dr. Lal.be
b .1 1 S*',. m lsuling water and
" so, ; U ;; i, l i U \ lx ' n * , "“ of th0 ieart
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r . t ,
A Frexohmin has devised a method
of converting iron into steel and at the
same time producing illuniinitting gas.
The iron is placed in a retort with char¬
coal or coke in layers, and is heated to
1.1150 degrees Fahrenheit. Fatty mat¬
ters are then injected, and as soon as de
composition passed lias taken place a jet of dry
steam is over the incandescent
mass. The iron is thus changed into
steel, while oarbnretted hydrogen is
given off from the retort.
The lead used in sounding from a ves
sel usually weighs alsmt fourteen
iwmnds but in deep-sea soundings a
/eight of not less than 150 .Simula is
trcqie iitly employed. Wuo lma been
largely friction used for a line, as it makes leas
in sinking through the water.
With hemp rope a sinker of 300 weight
is sometimes twenty minutes inreadung
the bottom in 1,500 fathoms of water, so
great is the friction of the lino.
Professor Ira Bemskn, of John Hop¬
kins University, lias been investigating
the question whether or not east-iron
stoves allow deleterious gases to escape,
and the result vindicates the stoves.
Tho professor finds that carbonic oxide,
Ihe gas generally thought to ho emitted,
does not pass through red-hot cast-iron
even if it is not more (hail an eighth of
an inch thick ; aud ho says, moreover,
that after careful examination he did
not, find, in any instance, hurtful gas
given out by a well-made furnace.
Mr. Maxim, inventor of one of the
electric lights, ridjciiles the idea that
there is danger to either life or property
from the use of that light, and says he
is ready at any time to take tho shock
from any liumberof the largest machines.
While lightning will jump through
two miles of air and forty feet of solid
rock, he asserts that uodynamomachine
used for the electric light in this coun¬
try will make a current of sufficient
droth strength to jump through the one-linn
part of an inch of either air or
<1. 11. Darwin 1ms been trying to esti¬
mate the stresses caused in the interior
of the earth by the weight of continents
and mountains, and concludes that either
the materials ef the earth at 1,000 miles
from the surface have about the strength
of granite or that they have n much
greater strength Sir nearer William to the surface.
He confirms Thomson's
theory nearly throughout that tho earth must be solid
its whole mass, and
ho attributes the lava of volcanoes to tho
melting of solid rock, which exist at
high temperatures, diminished, at points where the
pressure is or to the existence
of comparatively small vesicles of molten
rock.
Men Who Make Journalists.
It has been remarked that very few
men who get into journalism start out
with such intention. They drift in ac¬
capacity. cidentally, Money, are prompted wealthy as they develop
parents uuil
influence are of no sort of service iu get¬
ting a young There man is a business place on a news¬
paper. no that is so
entirely siderations independent A of all these con¬
as this. wealthy father
can easily medicine, got, his son a location to read
law or or push him forward in
almost any rank in life lie may select;
but he is utterly powerless to do any¬
thing for him in a journalistic way. To
be sure he may buy a newspaper, and
set him up in that way, but unless there
is something in him called “journalistic
knack, a natural knowledge of what to
write and how to write it, he will Vie a
fidlure in that line, wealthy and all the money
and ranuenco of and (.crimps
powerful relatives will count, for nothing,
Home l'ond parents educate their sons
with tu© special view it of making' jour
nalists of them ; but is rare that we
hear of these young men after a few
years. Meanwhile, some youth born
among the hills, having nothing more
than a common school education, and
the knowledge scraped up in a country
printing office, will advance to the
rank in the profession. He has the
journalistic knack, and forces reeogni
tion because ho has it. Ho gets into
y?ood position, influence not because the he has wealthy
parents to proprietors of
leading knows newspapers, but because ho
what to write and how to write it.
His articles go in booause they supply a
demand, wliile perhaps the elaborate
essays of a man educated on two con
tinents are cast into the waste basket.
The Many-Leaved Clover.
A gentleman residing at Ht. John,
sends this office four small bunches of
clover leaves, which are quite a curiosity.
He says: “At the request of Mrs. L.
O. Severance 1 send tries inclosed speci
iuen of four, five, six and seven-leaved
clover, which are quite a Ixitanieal euri
small (•hity. 1 hey were all plucked from a
sod not afoot square.” On- hunch
contains sixteen stalks, each with four
h ave -of clover; a second eight .-talks,
■ ith five leaves; a third, eight stalks,
•vi'l. : ix leaves: and a fourth fix, with
*i. feu leaves .—Portland Oregonian.
A Simple Cholera Cure.
William “ It is a sin,” said the late Rev. Dr.
Tracy, wh > spent tin whole of
his adult life as missionary in India, and
who had experience of many hundreds
of cases of cholera, “ for anyone to die
of cholera. If at the first premonitory
symptoms he lies down at once and sub¬
mits to a treatment the principal part of
which consists of a patient and persistent
rubbing of the abdomen, to lie kept up
even after apparent collapse bos occur
red, he is certain to recover ."—Pittsburg
Leader.
HOFSEHOLB HELPS.
iPr M tit* Detroit Fre« Pt ■» H as<io!4.J
Tossed „ Potatoes. — Boil some potato?*
pepper and salt, till they are
hot and well covered with the amice,
Spiced C'crrants. —Five pounds ot
currant.--, four jhhiiuIs of sugar, one pint
°f vine 8 ar . funr teaspoonlnla of pare
< "J nnMtt0U > teaapooufula of pure
C lie ho urs ; n .° 1^‘PI^r or
n Ochgfdful e with , veiusou or mut
'
, ”k
bikd Eon Pr.ANT.-Paro and ahee
tll0m th( ,„ iukl ^ sll ,, e with gaU
„„1 lot them stand for alsmt one hour
eggweini, witU a Wt . ight OB the then di Ull „
then Hour and fry light
Mi stabd Sattce.— One enp of sugar,
one cup of vinegar, one talilespoonful of
butter, four eggs, aud one tablesjioorifr.l
of niustsrd; beat tho eggs well; mix
all together; turn into a new tin pail or
basin and Imil in water same as custard,
only hi a cream, not thick. Htram
through a thin cloth and it is done.
Peitf.b Bare*. — Take twenty-ftva
l’°l’l x ‘ rs ' without the seeds, cut them
l’ rett y t"ic, then take more tlinn double
tlle ‘liwntity of cabbage, cut like slaw.
?“, e S°* ho r f ra ‘ ,i8h - t^te.1, a hand¬
f" 1 <>fsal, rathermoro ( than a tat.e
»P°"» ful '>|"i«^rd seed s tablcepoonfnl
*'f cloves, the same of allspiee ground;
a eufti. i. ut quantity of vinegar
“ d l H,uruvl ‘ r “> n,lx,u « W « U
® ‘
CoooANUT Puddixo.—T ake sufficient
stale bread to make a pudding, the sizo
you require; |>oiir boiling water over it.
After it is soaked well, take a fork aud
see that no lumps or bread remain ; then
add half a cupful of grated oocoauut,
make a custard of one quart of milk
aud four eggs, flavor with nutmeg (of
course you will nweoteu it with white
sugar); jxnir over aud bako immedi¬
ately.
Good Lemonade.— Take two lemons,
divide them, aud put eaeli half into a
lemon squeezer. When all the juiee is
extracted, put the remainder of the
lemons into a pitcher and pour boiling
water on them; after they have Btixxl a
little, squeeze all the goodness from
them; mid tho juice to some loaf
sugar—enough then to sweeten ploaaantly—
the pour enough cold water to make
strength required—I think about
one quart or a little more. Ice must ho
added.
A Farmer's’Dainty Dish.— Peel and
slice thin tomatoes aud onions (five po¬
tatoes to one smalt onions) ; take half a
pound of sweet salt pojk (in thin slices)
to a pound of beef, mutton or veal; out
the meat in small pieces ; take some nice
bread dough and shorten a little; Iina
the Isittom of tho stew-pan with shoes
of pork, then a layer of meat, potatoes
and onioinylnst over a little pepper and
cover until the with a layer is of crust; repeat this
stew-pot lull. Tho size of
family. the pot will Pour depend in sufficient oil the number to in tho
water cover,
and finish with crust. Let it sim¬
mer until moot, vegetables, etc., are
(lone, but do not let it boil bard. Herve
hot. This we are assured by one who
knows is a dish fit to set before a king.
A Wholesome Hai.au. —Out up a
pound of cold beef into thin slices, ami
half a pound of white, fresh lettuce;put
in a salad bowl, season with a taaspoon
ful of salt, half that quantity of popper,
of two tablespoon salad fnls <>l vinegar, and four
lightly good oil. Htir all together
with a fork aud spoon, and when
well mixed it is ready to serve. Chaptol,
u French chemist, says the dressing of a
salad should be saturated with oil, and
seasoned witii pepper and sail, be¬
fore tho vinegar is added ; it results from
this process that there can never be too
mueli vinegar, for, from the specific
gravity the oil, of what, the is vinegar than compared useful with wB)
more
fall to the Isittom of the bowl, the salt
should not bo dissolved in the vinegar, hut
in the oil, by which means it is more
equally distributed throughout tin 1 sai nt.
Fairs in England,
It is wonderful how completely the
old Euglish fair 1ms disappeared. Enw
year the characteristics of “merrieEug
land ’ become more awl more historical
At Epsom races there are no more side
shows, no speckled boys, no fat skeleton*! women
Tho no dwarfs, giants, or living
skofV is gone. The i»
creasing crowds of people amuso tlieia
selves with plenteous potations of boor
ing throwing from sticks at coooauuts, and shoot
toy guns at targets. It is tl;a
same at fairs ; even at Coventry Fair
there is almost nothing of the old time
Lady Oodiva is forbidden to lead her
procession through the town, however
occasionally thickly clad. Tho old .Shrewsbury show
appears, but only as a ghost
of its former self. The Lord Mayor’s
show holds out longest, but it is a sad
spectacle. is resjxmsible Probably for this George hiding Stephenson
away of
the fairies that used to dunce and sing,
The railways have let in too much light
ou their solitudes. Tho fragments of
that strange pa t, [licked up and set
u-playing like puppets at Alliert Hall,
were amusing, Human but there was a sad sido
to them. nature devours its
own children, aud sometimes plays with
their hones. ■
The 11 n mini Pulse.
Physicians the have always attached for
all ages greatest importance to th«
frequency of the heart’s action as indi.
cated hy the pulse. The number of
pulsations of the heart, as stated by Dr.
Milne Edwards, average seventy per
minute in a male and from six to ten
more in a female. The pulse of Napo
leon, however, was much Mow the av¬
erage. That -J Hir William Congreve is
saiu to have been about 128 per minute
even in health. But, as a general thing,
the variations at Guy’s compiled hy Milue
Edwards, have been verified hy obser¬
vation.
The following in this tabte of the pulse is in¬
teresting connection:
Mate «’ Male%
A wrage. A ge. A veraae.
51-, ....'•♦7 42 to 49.. 7(1
u . -. . -H4 i\i to W.. .69
....76 56 to 63.. nu
Isti.ar,'. ....TH 63 to 70.. .0
....7!) 70 to 77.. CT
\ ....US 77 ■
» -1-< . to 81.. 71
,
—New York Herald.