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LOCKED IN THE LAKE. Alirric FXI’FH IItM'K OF TIIK FIIO* i’KI.l.Ktt .IlirilMlAN. NrvrnifR iMm i rnvo ihr Nitip nnd (>#•• Thin* IHHonoi bio Muller Inn um the Mond-CrwwuiU with Nncmn-'l'bi 1 l ake Froxeiu A dispatch from Grand Haven, Mich., save.* Full particulars were received here regarding the terrible experience of the crew of tiie ioe-locked steamer Michigan. On Monday morning, February 9, the Michigan, with Gapt. Prindiville aud twenty-nine men on board, left this port in si^arch of the distressed steamer Oneida. When offLudington the Mich¬ igan encountered a gale and was 1 etnmed in by luavy ice. She drifted with the ioe to the southward, experien¬ cing many dangers, bnt at no time being within twenty miles of land. She finally got iu compact ice, many feet thick, to¬ ward the head of the Jake, bnt on ac¬ count of the drifting and turning they could not tell their exact whereabouts Sunday last it was decided that, owing to short provisions, half of the crew would have to go ashore, as the food would last but a week longer. Monday was very stormy. Tuesday morning, from the crosstrees, a rim of land was sighted to the eastward. Thir¬ teen men were chosen to remain and seventeen of the most hardy to make the land. The mercury was ten below. At 7 o’clock Joseph Bussell, first mate; David Martin, steward; W. P. Kenny, clerk, and fourteen of the crew, started with a day’s rations, axes, pikehoie, blankets, etc., expecting that they might have to be out over night, as the land seemed thirty miles away. When about twelve miles off the boat, Clerk Kenny broke through the ice, wetting his right leg to the knee. They went on about six miles, when they found Kenny’s leg frozen. AU were badly ex¬ hausted, as the ioe was very rough and blocked into nearly impassable ridges many feet high and miles wide. Each man went for himself, knowing that life depended on his own exertions, except Bussell and Martin, who helped Kenny. When off land four miles Kenny coni d not stand, and dragged himself along on his hands and knees for two miles, when he was completely exhausted and so frozen that he could not move and urged the others to leave him and save themselves. Some of the party had by this time— 5 o’olock—reached the shore, and found a few houses at West Oasoo. They warned the neighborhood, and the farm¬ ers went out and oarried the brave but insensible Keuuy to the beach. The laud there rises ICO feet almost straight. All hands worked like horses to throw off the insensibility creeping on them aud climb the steep. Heaving lines were plaoed on Kenny, and he wae drawn up by those above and carried to a dwelling. The men were apportioned around among the farmers, who willing¬ ly cared for them. Kenny recovered at 10, and everything was done for him that was possible. AU of the men are able to take, care of themselves exoept Kenny. The surgeons have dressed his limbs, and it is hoped he will soon be all right The Michigan is now in no dan¬ ger, since so many of the crew have left, the provisions will last the rest 80 days. When Charles Crocker set about building his house in San Franoisoo there was one lot on the side street he wanted to complete his space. The owner demanded a large price for it, but Crocker consented to pay it. Then he doubled it and Crocker “stood the raise. ” That didn’t satisfy the fellow's avarice and he made fresh demands, until, at last, he wore Crocker’s patience out, and he refused to buy the lot at any price. He built hi« house, laid out his gronnds aud quarantined his neighbor with a fence 50 feet high, and out off the view on three sides of his house. This made the man very sick and he moved oat. The fence is there yet Domestic Recipes. A good tomato soup may bo m*do by thin recipe: Chop fine half a turnip, one carrot, two small onions, one stalk of Celery and three sprigs of parsley; mix with one can of tomatoes and one quart of water, seasoning with one teaspoonfui each of salt and sugar and a little pepper. Boil gently for one hour. As the water boils away add more, so that the qu&n tity may not be diminished. Mix two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour thor¬ oughly with one of batter, and thin the mixture willi some of the soup. Then mix I he thickening with the soup and *' 0,1 !or ,uinut es. Strain the soup aud serve. For a mutton ragout cut three pounds of the neck or breast of muttou iu pieces au inch wide and two inches long, put them in a saucepan with two ounces of butter; set on the fire and stir occasion¬ ally until brown, then add a tablespoon ful of flour; ctir for one minute and cover with cold water, salting to taste. Season with one oniou, a bun jh of sea¬ soning composed of one bay-leaf, one sprig of tliyme, four of parsley and ft, clove, also one clove of garlic chopped fine. Boil gently until two-thirds done; then add pieces of peeled potato, cut in the shape of orange oxrpels, as many pieces of potato as of mutton. Boil gently until done. Place the meat in the center of the dish with the pieces of potato around it. Bkim the fat from the sauce and strain it over the dish. Serve very hot. Veal cutlets prepared in this way are palatable: After trimming the outlets nicely, dip them in melted butter and dust them well with a mixture of equal parts of grated Parmesan cheese and bread-crumlw. Then dip them in beaten egg and dust them again on both sides with the oheese and crumb mixture and fry them brown. Boil half a pound of macaroni, and after it is drained add two ounces of butter and a cupful of tomato sauce, some grated Parmesan oheese and salt to taste. Let this become thor¬ oughly hot,, stirring occasionally.* In the center of a dish and plaoe the outlets around it Photographing a Thief in Action. A Mrs. Curtis, carrying an alligator skin hand satchel which contained $22, entered a photographic gallery in Chi¬ cago to have her photograph taken. Two men unobserved followed her into the gallery. While the photographer was in the darkness of the camera he heard a great noise and pulled the trig¬ ger taking an instautaneous photograph. When he got bis head out of the curtain a man was rushing out of the door and Mrs. Curtis was screaming. The hand satchel was gone. Mrs. Curtis said that a man had rushed iu and snatched her satchel from her. When the artist looked at the plate he was astonished to find that he had a doable photograph. Portions of Mrs. Curtis showed up through a maze of outstretched hands, a fur hat and a brown overcoat. He had photo¬ graphed the thief in action. The Des Plains street officers arrested William Burns. Some of Mrs. Curtis’s money wa3 found in his possession and he was iully identified by the photograph. African Explorations. Borpo Pinto, the celebrated African traieler who started for Central Africa ia^t year from Mozambique, came near starving to death not long after he began uis march. lie aud his comrade, Lieut. Cardoso, were stricken with fever iu a district where famine prevailed. They could buy little food, and, beiDg too ill to be removed, their party were soon reduced to sore traits. The Governor of Mozambique heard of their distress, and scut a relief party, who remained with them until the explorers were able to push on to ample food supplies beyond the famine district Pinto is leading into inner Africa one of the best parties that ever left the A Japanese ftlrl'a TotirL When a Japanese girl gets up in the morning, she washes her face, but does not have to dress her hair. That is at tended to bnt onoe a week. The hair¬ dresser comes to the house and arranges her jet-black locks in the fashion for little girls of her nge. Bo she has no trouble about her hair, and after her bath the servant assists her to powder her neok with a small white brush. She puts a little red paint on her lower lip, aud a little gilding in the middle. When she removes her sleeping-dress, she has on only a short skirt, which is simply a square piece of cloth, crape, or silk, tied around the waist No other under¬ clothing is worn. In making her toilet for the Jay, she first puts on a garment made usually of some coarse material, not very long, aud reaching only to the waist, but with long sleeves. Oa the neck of this gar¬ ment is sewed a deep fold of scarlet or some bright-colored crape or silk. A long, straight skirt of blue or red crape, silk, or wool is tied around the waist and over all three of these garments is worn the kimono, or dress, This is of some dark color, and made of coarse span silk or thick crape. For festivals and holidays the Presses are of very fine material and very handsome. The outer dress is simply a wrapper reaching to the feet, with very long and wide sleeves hanging nearly to the ground, and used as pockets. On each shoulder, a deep tuck is made which extends to the waist, thus making a little fullness for the skirt. But the dress has no gathers, and is straight all the way down. The neok is adorned with a wide piece of black velvet or satin, whioh reaches nearly to the waist, and the dress is crossed over the bosom and confined by a girdle. Over this is worn a very wide sash, a piece of brocaded silk or satin, stiff with embroidery in gold or silver, liued with soft silk, and fastened behind in a very large bow. When these are all on, bnt barefooted, or if in cool weather, in white mitten-socks, made to reach only to the ankle, and with a place in whioh to put the great toe (just as mittens have a place for the thumb), she goes out to say “Ohaio,” or good¬ morning, to her father and mother.— St. Nicholas for March . A Mormon Story. A Mormon bishop told a friend of the editor of a Sait Like paper of this, a few days ago, that he had suffered with the blues all day, because of something one of his daughters had said to him. When asked to explain, he said: '‘You know my daughter Mary, the eldest child of my second wife ? She is about the age of Lizzie, who is the daughter of my first wife. Well, this morning I was going with Mary over to Lizzie’s mother’s when she suddenly s lid : “ ‘Father, I wish I was Lizzie.’ “I asked her why, and reminded her (hat she was quite as bright and pretty as L : zzie. “ *It is not that,’ she said; ‘Lizzie’s mother is your first wife.’ "We did not speak again all the way, and I have had the blues ever since.” This is a true storv all but the names. The Silver Party. Great interest is everywhere shown in the aualysis pf the vote iu the United States House on the Silver bill. • The vote in the House shows that of the 118 members in favor of suspending fc- e coinage of the silver dollar 54 were dem¬ ocrats and G4 republicans, while of tlio-e asraiust interfering with the present law 118 were democrats and only 32 repub¬ licans. The House consists of 325 members, of which 200 are democrats aud 125 re¬ publicans. According to the analysis 54 democrats voted for, 118 against the proposition, and 28 did not vote, were absent or paired; 64 republicans voted for, 32 against the proposition, and 29 did not vote, were absent or poured. THE FREE LUNCH. U’tiiit n New Orlrou Vlellor Hays lie Found Down Month. The restaurant keepers complain of the free lunches. They have given up preparing much ft. the noonday meal, and their tables are lonely, while the crowds surge around the bar-rooms. The most striking thing about it all is to see the sort of men who patronize the free lunch. Dignified and well dressed men, gray-haired and bald,walk iu and wait patiently until the luncheon is announced at noon. Then they tuck napkins under their chins and go to work. There is nothing diffident or re¬ tiring about the New Orleans free luncher. He doesn’t walk in with a careless and nonchalant air and look with a casual interest at the pictures over the lunch while he dallies with the bologna sausage with the near hand. He doesn’t assume the free, easy, and jovial mein that is sometimes affected; and the conscientious man, very rarely met with in the North, who takes a drink before attacking the lunch, is never found here. Workmen in their shirt sleeves stand side by side with office boys, gamblers, local swells, and there is no conversation, but a simple, stead¬ fast, and brisk endeavor to put away as much luncheon as possible in a given length of time. It is on record in the bar-room of the St. Charles Hotel that a large, portly, and prosperous-looking man, whose waistcoat was adorned with several gold chains, walked in about noon and put a big bowl of green turtle soup under the watch chains. Then he took some veal stew, two slices of rare roxst beef with mashed potatoes and pickles, a plate of macaroni, and some cheese and crackers. Then he looked at one of the hard-working at¬ tendants and growled: “Say, nigger, bring me a cup of black coffee.” Then the large man leaned against a pillar and ate a plate of olives while he waited for his coffee. As it dil not* appear he walked over to the bartender, after spreading a sandwich with mus¬ tard to carry him through, and repeated the demand. The man behind the bar said they didn’t serve coffee with the luuch. “You don’t,” said the large man, speaking thickly through heavy emo¬ tion and the sandwich; “well, I’m blessed if that don’t knook me silly. No coffee? What kind of a place is this, any way ?” Then he called down the wrath of all his ancestors on the house, and in¬ dignantly departed without spending a cent’for drink. ‘ Before long,” said the idle barkeeper, a=i he gazed at the hungry crowd in front iiiin, “we’ll have to give away billiard tables and pianos with the beer to get people to drink.” Nearly all the saloons .have regular bills of fare for every day in the week, with a specially elaborate one for Sun¬ day. A sample of what the free lunchers get is furnished by the following list oi dishes in a saloon by no means preten¬ tious and not particularly prosperous in appearance: Monday—Gnmbo soup, roast beef, beef stewed with potatoes, stewed kid¬ ney, baked macaroni, corn, tomatoes, lettuce, green onions, sweet potatoes, beets, cold slaw. Tuesday—Pea soup, dry hash, roast beef, stewed liver, fish cbowder, boiled shrimps, baked beaus, boiled rice. Yet, though the native of New Or¬ leans, for flamboyant and cheerful alac rit-y in taking the free lunch, elicits the admiration of all visitors, the New York¬ er », after their first attempts, succeed in holding their own. An old carpet was taken up irom a San Francisco room the other day and burned. The ashes of the carpet yielded more $2,500 in gold-dust The room, from which it was taken was in the Uni¬ ted States Mint