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WbsteTsr you want,»f yon wUb for It ttBf
With constant jttrtfQX torrent &+■
lira,
That thsy noTcr grow languid and bct*
tiro,
Why, over the storm-clouds and ont of the
dark,
Itihall come flvlnz someday to you,
Aa the dare with «£» oflve-bnmob Cow to the
ark;
And the dream yon have chcrisbcd.lt shall
come true.
-*f" Mary almost cried as she came over
t» Where I was lying. We were.great
frtends, you sc;. It wusn’t-forthe old
Bin's talk or tho water alone that I had
■topped there so frequently.
“They ar: good fellows—they won t
drink too much. You will be safe with
them:’* I said, but she would not bdieve
But, lest much rapture should mate you
Or too bright sunlight should j strike you
Something unwelcome and unforeseen,
Yet of your hope and your wish a part*
Shall stood like a sentinel in between
The perfect joy and the human heart
A giant shadow which scorned to ray:
“If yon ask for the sunlight you must tako
Oh, a wonderful thing is the human wQ
When earring one purpose and seeking one
But I think it wiser just to sit still
And accept whatever the gods njay send.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
A TERRIBLE NIGHT.
A. STORY OP TIIE MICIIIOA
r rntERiEs.
There were four of us college boys and
Raymond, the engineer of a shinglc-mill
It Ontanngan. We had been boarding
at his house. The mill had shut down
for a few weeks, and he hud gladly joined
in our tramp, eager as a bay for the free
life of the woods.
We had found an old lumber camp for
our camping-place. Before it our fire
was burning. Raymond was the only
smoker in the party. He filled hii pipe
and leaned back upon the pile of hemlock
boughs to watch the moon come climbing
over the tops of the trees.
It was nearly twenty years ago, boys,
began Raymond, just after the war, that
I went to work in a lumber camp on th;
Muskegon river. I was a young fellow-
then, too light for an ax, and they put
me to driving the tote-team. It was
tiresome, lonely life, I can tell you. __
fellow had to be out in all kinds of
weather with no company but his horses.
Many times have 1 spent the night on the
road with the wagon stuck fast in tho
mud, or with a big tree blown down
across the road.
There was only one house on the road
between the town and the camp. That
was a little log cabin where old man Bil
lings lived with his wife and daughter.
It got so that I couldn’t get by that place
without stopping for a drink of water or
to ask the old man some question I made
up on the road. Tho horses got so they’d
Stop right in front of the house every’
POPULAR SCIENCE.
‘•If I can’t trust my own father alone
with such stuff, how can I trust them?”
she said; and she was right, for Charlie
and Pen both showed by tbeir-manners,
when they came in, that thev had found
the jug. Their eyes were bright and their
voice4 were a little thick. They were
lavish in their attentions to me, but they
handled my leg with singular roughness,
and Ben nearly fell over the lounge.^
After supper they, made another trip to
the barn nn-t came back surly and ugly.
They took their scats by the stove with
their hats on. When Mary went post
them with a pile of di hes Ben tricJ to
catch her by the arm. I couldn’t stand
that.
You miserable scamp I” I shouted,and
tried to get up from the lounge, but my
feet gave way under me and I fell back.
mid not move.
Bring me that gun,” I said to Mary.
I do bsiicve I would have killed them
both if I could have got that gun in my
hands. Bat, before she could stir, Ben
rose with a fearful oath and walked un
steadily to the corner where the gun was
standing. He raided the weapon in his
drunken hands. I could hear the lock
click as he walked up to me and pointed
the gun within six feet of my head. I
tell you, boys, if you want to see death
{ •ou want to look into the muzzle of a
oaded shot gun with a drunken man at
the other end. Could this be the friend
who had carried me so tenderly but a
few hours before? What a cursed thing
this whisky must be that could change
him thus!
He held the gun in front of me for a
moment and then dropped the muzzle to
the floor.
“Come, Charlie,’* he said, thickly,
‘let’s go and get another drink.”
He reached tho door and opened it.
The wild, biting storm blew directly into
his face; with a snarl of rage he raised
his gun and fired both barrels at the
open door. Then clubbing the weapon,
he struck desperately at the snow, and
then rushed out into the 6torm as if fight-
o omc unseen enemy. Charlie followed
him, yelling at the top of his voice, and
Mary quickly closed the door and bolted
it.
A German investigator, Scmmola nas
succeeded in producing musical tone;
from a metal plate by electrifying it in
termittently from on induction machine,
the wire* being attached to opposite
sides of *the plate end the path‘of the
current interrupted so that sparks strike
^ffxporatlons made last summer prove
that the ancient mound-building inhab
itants of America extended their works
northward lieyond the Red River of the
North. Along this river and Lake Win
nipeg were found mounds identical in
structure with the famous ones of the
Ohio and Mis-L-sippi valleys.
As an example of the strength of cne
kind of fibre, a recent work on the sub
ject states that the best fibres of New
Zealand flax are equal in strength to a
piece of the best wronght iron of the
same diameter. These strengthening
fibres are placed in the plant just where
they can be of the best service in sustain
ing weights and resisting strain.
A Chinese block is engraved on a hard
native wood with a close grain, cut in a
different direction to the boxwood pre
pared for English engravers. The Chi
nese printer inks the block with a brush
—the ink being a suitable compound
largely composed of India ink. To secure
an impression soft paper is laid on the
block, and a dry brush is passed over the
back of the paper, which is printed on
one side only.
The heat of the earth is caused by
light impinging upon the earth’s sub
stances and its friction through the at
mosphere, that is, if we accept the
“Newtonian” theory of light. If, how
ever, the theory of “undulation” is be
lieved, then heat is caused in substan
tially the same way by the action of these
rapid wnves or undulations for in no
THE MOCKING BIRD. FACTS F3E TBE CDBI0US -
Favorite of trie Poets-^as
Haunts and. Habit*—Waute
Slaughter of the Bird—
Pillage of His Ptcst.
Up to emancipation times or rather
the close of the war, knocking birds were
plentiful everywhere ill Georgia. During
the years that followed, freedom armed a
rare* to whom guns had been forbidden.
The negro became an enthu iastic hunter,
but he was unskilled and could gratify
his craze for destroying only upon birds
that were nearest at mind.
The destruction of the mocking bird
has alro been more rapid because his ne t
has been systematically robbei by parties
of both colors for private ga n or gratifi
cation. A year or tw»; since we noted
one shipment of the so Turds from Savan
nah which contained* six or seven hun
dred. Unon the streets of this and all
other cities they are openly sold overy
summer. — i *A.
The loss of these birds and others not
named from the field is very unfortunate,
if we consider the matter merely from
the standpoint of economy. It is said,
and any one who has sem the invoking
bird feeding his young may readily be
lieve it, that a worm Or bug goes to its
nest every five minutes during the day.
This would give more than one hundred
tithe day for every pair during the nest
life of their young, three sets of which
are raised every sihnmfcfr., When it is re
membered thateve’iy.JipgbrNvhrm thus
cut off may represent /thousands, tho
value of the*bird’s services can bo under-
The first temperance agitation in the
Ucited States of which there is any
record, it is stated, occurred in 1651, at
Orient, L. L
In England the Speaker of the House
of Commons is the first Commoner of the
kingdom, and always receives a peerage
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
To Clean Windows. •
Wash with lukewarm water, rub with
toy clean, dry cloth to take off the first
dampness, then finish with a piece of
chamois. A large one can be purchased
for fifty cents, and it will lost a lifetime
and save so much hard work. When
soiled wash in soapsuds, rinse well and
dry, then- rub it in the hands to
when he resigns, that he may not step | mike it soft For silver it is unequalcd.
back into the ranks. I Also wring it in tepid water, and use it
The comb3 of cocks are considered a to rub off the finger marks on the piano,
delicacy in some parts of Europe. They ! then rub with a ary one.
arc cooked, put in small, long glass bot- j
ties filled with white vinegar, and sold at j Laundry Hints,
wholesale for one dollar per bottle. 1 In washing collars, cuffs and shirts, let
A resident of Minnesota, who has seen ttem 80 » k in some strong suds; then
several severe tornadoes, says that their , wash them with as much care as possi-
most peculiar feature is the singular suck- j then boil, and always bo careful to
ing movement. Buildings are sucked up rinse your linen as much ns you can.
into the clouds entire, and come down When linen requires bleaching, bleach
soon in fragments. be ore you blue. Always see that your
It is said th-.t the oldest merchant ves j ‘ in . e " is c !? m *»“ *>'" !t b °
■» to the bark True Love of Lon- ! *“*,,£*** SEttFVEZ
don, 290 tons register. This vessel nas \ na C , U1IS 5°“ your other linen, get your
built in that city in 1784, makinghcr 122 'torch read, by boding >t to a medium
si,; i. 1,. Vi. « thickness. Then mike some lig.it cold
years old. She is owned by John
Ward, of London, a large owner of ves
sel property. The True Love is yet in
active service.
trip
we had the roughest crew in camp
that I ever saw. There was nothing too
mean for them to do, and they got the
upper hand on the bo<s, and so had
things their own way.
One
One morning I got up early to feed my
horses so I could get a good start and
reach Billings’ in timo for breakfast.
Four o^Jho roughest inen in camp fol
lowed me out to the stables and asked me
right out if I would smuggle a jug of
whisky back with my load. It was dead
against tho rules, and I knew it, but
when they told me, iu so inauy words,
that I didn’t care to dp it, I was foolish
enough to promise. As things happened,
it’s a good thing perhaps that I did it.
I bought the whisky and started back
to camp just after dinner, I had two
passengcis. They wero the quietest
workmen in camp, goods friends of mine,
both of them. They knew nothing about
the whisky, and I was ashamed to tell
them about it.
.Charlie brought my miserable jug with
him. He put it down beside the stone
with a wild laugh; then he glanced
eagerly around him. “Where is that
gal?” he demanded, roughly, ne stag
gered to my side and repeated the ques
tion.
“She’s gone,” I answered, trying to
raise myself on my elbow.
“You lie!” he shouted, in his thick,
brutal voice. “You lie! She’s here
You’ve got her hid somewhere—bring
her outl”
He started as if about to drag me from
the lounge, when suddenly anew thought
seemed to strike him.
Bring the jug here, Ben, and we’ll
mako him drunk 1”
Ben unsteadily poured out a quantity
of the whisky into a dipper and brought
it to the lounge. With a curse he caught
me by the arm to pour the drink down
my throat.
I never can tell just how I did it, but
somehow I . brought my sound leg up
against his breast and kicked him as.hanl
as I could. Ho staggered back, and fall
ing upon Charlie, carried him to the
floor.
Then they began to fight. They
seemed to forget all about me, and at
tacked each other just like dogs. Over
the floor they rolled like brutes, kicking,
striking, tearing and biting, with hor-
riblo sounds which no one could sup
pose would come from any human throat.
At times they fought up against my
lounge; onco they fell across my broken
leg. Then they rolled over the floor, up
against the table where the lamp was
burning.
At last they rolled up to the stove.
Ben lay underneath, Charlie's hand fell
upon a stick of wood under the stove,
lie raised it and “struck blow after blow
at Ben’s face, till tho hands stiffened
out, the neck turned and the chin
, , . . , , .... . 4 .. . , stood. True, he hikes figs and berries,
~».l heat be found till within the bounds j bu t earns t j lcnii °
of the atmosphere. . | When, however, we lor k at him from
A “black snow” which fell in 1875, i a sentimental point, the wonder that any
over an area of about fifteen by twenty one can harm a member of the mocking
miles in the vicinity of Holland, Mich., J bird family increase). No song bird in
was found to contain a considerable pro- j the world*can equal the sweetness of his
portion of dark, earthy matter. This j notes or sustain a sOng so long. No bird
was subjected to elaborate scientific ex- j known to naturalists can produce tho
animation, and pronounced volcanic dust j notes of others and of owls or even nni-
from some for distant crater. A dissenter mals' with' such precision and in such
from this view has sought a simpler ex- I combination. The little gray singer
planation, and has since proven that the. j that balances himself upon tree tops or
dust came from the prairie soil a hundred dances along the ridges of our houses
milts to the southward. I seems to have all the bird notes of the
Three years after date the floating is- ! land at his tongue’s end and to delight in
lands of pumice thrown up and into the | weaving them into new forms of beauty.
The population of London now exceeds
every other city, ancient or modem, in
the world. New York and all its adja
cent cities combined are not equal to
two-thirds of it. Scotland, Switzerland
and tho Australian colonics each con
tain fewer souls, while Norway, Servia,
starch; put your linen in and wring it out
lightly by hand; then use the boiled
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
Ecru is the leading color for summer
wear.
Figured tissues have plain materials to
correspond. ir- ’
Striped silk skirts are worn with over
dresses of wool.
Lavender and white ahs worn for deep
mourning for house dresses.
Embroidered crepe li>se flounces are
in demand for dressy toilets.
Black surah Norfolk jackets are
trimmed with garnet galloon.
Jerseys of silk tricotine are worn with
skirts o*f every sort of materiaL
Fine white mull dresses have alternate
flounces of laco and embroidery.
Black silk dresses may have rovers,
vest, collar and cuffs of black velvet.
Fashionablo ladies now correspond
upon parchment paper with bluo ink. ,
Miss Nellie Brightmnn is leading edi
torial writer of the Duluth daily Few*.
Plain surah and foulard are combined
with tartan plaid of the same materials.
Linens for summer wear have thread- .
like stripes, dark figures or small checks. ♦
Ribbons for sashes are of satin-faced
so many.
? resent century the population of all water, and put it through the
ondon did no* 1 AAA AAA •* ’ .
During his
starch as described above, first rub in, by j velvet and double-faced satin with picot
rubbing between both hands; then rub ’ edges.
the starch in more by Vising the mlm of j Tailor-made costumes of light weight
the hand assisted by the other hand, to | , , h or ^ bhort jackets of Bio
get as much weight and friction as possi- m3tcria i - J
ble; then wipe off with a rough towel; with , urpUcc f ron t, have plas-
all the surplus starch Dry quick as pcs- , of Telvct ^ or { olds o( whit0 ml i U n,
sible; the quicker they dry the better. ... _______ ”
m - dampen ready for ironing, take collars ; .P 0 ’. .... i
cults by themselves; get a picco of ' Colored velvet mantillas with beaded
J s will be worn this sumnqcr. They
subdued tints!
Greece and Denmark have scarcely half an j (Ul f s themselves; get a picco of ‘ Colored velvet inantll
’• Yet in the beginning of the ; muslin (good weight), dampen it in clean ! sleeves will bo worn this
London did not reach 1,003,000. . then start at r one end of the musliif^ by , Uihhpn is employ
“ * of India silks ' ’
expedition to Mount j laying
„ __ . collars and cuffs in row’s of India silks, IndiabatistcsaiJ
Kilimanjaro Mr. II. H. Johnson noticed and folding the muslin over the first and checked cambri
a singular resemblance of “mimicry” j row and so on until all is rolled up: then ; Vegetable ivory buttons J with tiny
between the appearance of the tall red- ■ put them under some weight for five or sprays of blossoms paiuted on them, are
brown antelope and the mounds built by ten minutes, and they are ready for iron- j used for cotton dresses,
the white ant. The coloring being the ■ ing. Shirts should be dampened by Gold or giWer bra icl ,. m broidery is em-
samc and the long grass hiding the ani- j wetting the tail of the shirt up to the ployed to makc tailor-made dresses. It
mal’s legs, it was really difficult to dis- j base of the bosom, not too wet; fold the , forms panels, collars, cuffs and vests.
ant-hill, i bosom half «
tinguish aa antelope from
A more ludicrous exactness
times given to the mimicry by the sharply l the place where they
pointed leaves of a kind of squill, which A
suggested the horns of the antelope.
Did you ever think of the huge pro
portions of the payments for pensions by
the Government? It ha9 come to stay
for generations, and as widows of de
ceased soldiers arc entitled to pensions,
estimated that there will be a pension
the dampened part, ;
- then turn in cuffs crosswise, cUmpcning ; Pereas « emrasscsarc worn
„ th. whore ther onm^ then fol3 Wlthsllkor WOO Ml bodices. They must
anil roll the n up and lot them correspond with th. color of tho hodicc.
stand five or ten minutes aud they arc ! Contrasts in color are not in as great
ready to iron. If attention is paid to I favor for costumes ns formerly,unless tho
this mode you will hive your linen come j second colo» be in stripes, plaid or
out iu first-class style. , eheck. _
bky-blue is never out of fashion. The
blues have a grayish tint, although
sea by the stupendous volcanic eruption That he has never been the poet’s theme ! bill until the year 2004. or 144 years after
at Krakatoa, in the Java seas, arc fqund to the extent that the lark, the night- J the close of the Civil War. For example,
to have drifted along the Indian Ocean in j ingale, or even the robin has. I attribute ! a soldier is twenty at tho close of the
the last twelve months 970 miles In a ! to his name. It is not fitted for verses, i \ear, marries fifty years later a girl of
direction west by south from where they • nor is it at all poetical. Had hfl borne | twenty. The girl proves to be tough and
were one year ago, or about five miles a : the name of Orpheus, as does his cousiu, i lives to be eighty years old herself. She
day. This accidental help to hydro- j of the Great Antilles, he would have j would draw a pension till 1975. Exag-
graphera, and all who study ocean cur- j filled tho song loro of tho South. Paul i gerate all these ages and we would have
rents and drift, is probably the best they j Hayne, William Hamilton Haync, and a ! a case that would extend to the limit
had, because the origin of the i few others have used him, but none have ; named,
well-known, the floating ex- conquered his plebeian name. Sidney j
Lanier, who loved and observed every 1
form of nature, pays attention to him.
and tho description is so graphic and
perfect that it should be noted.
Superb aud solo upon a plumed spray
That o’er the general leafage boldly grew.
He summoned the woods in song; or typic
drew
The watch of hungry hawks, the lone dis
may
Of languid doves whoso lovers stray,
Or all birds’ passion plays that sprinkle dew
At morn iu brake or bosky avenue.
Whate’er birds did, or dreamed, this bird
could say;
Then down he shot, bounced airily along
The sward, twitched grasshopper, made
song
’Mid flight, perched, pinked, and to his art
have
pumice
panse of it is so large that it cannot
cope notice, and tho datc3 and other par
ticulars about it are all matters of rec
ord.
There has been introduced at the Paris
observatory an apparatus specially de
signed for photographing the heavenly
bodies and M. Moueliez, director of the
observatory, has presented to the French
Academy of Sciences a chart obtained j
by this wonderful method. This map j
contains a small section of the Milky j
Way, and presents to view five thousand
stars, ranging from the sixth to the fif
teenth mognitudo. In view of the fact that
there are forty-one thousand superficial
degrees in the firmament, it is estimated
thntn representation of the whole surface,
completed in the same way, would re
quire six thousand similar sections,
forming one thousand five hundred eclip-
tical charts. It is further estimated—
gigantic as such a work appears—that,
if it wero undertaken by six or eight
observatories, favorably situated in both
hemispheres, the work might he con
cluded in five or six years and would
contain photographs cf 20,000,000 stars,
down to the fifteenth magnitude.
Tho thing never would have happened dropped down horribly,
anyway if my wagon seat had held. It Cnarlic desisted at last and came back
broke down just os we reached the middle tome. He staggered toward me. mut-
of the little hill in front of old man Bil- ' * " ■* ....
lings's house. I had my feet out over the
front of the wagon when it broke, and I
foil flat under the horses feet. They
stopped as soon as they could—I could
trust them for that—but before the
wagon came to a stand the front wheel
ran over my leg, and I could hear it snap
liko a stick.
Charlie and Ben both jumped to the
ground in time to save themselves. They
pulled me out from under the load and
laid me on stm.* grain sacks at the top of
tho wagon. If was only a few rods down
the hill to the house. Charlie drove the
horics on while Ben held me in the wagon.
We drove right into the yard, and I tell
you I felt bad when Mary Billings came
to the door with her big eyes wide open
with fright.
The girl was all alone in the house.
Her father and mother had gone to town.
She was not afraid to be left alone. As I
tajon the bags I could sec, standing in
the corner, a bright shot-gun. and I knew
•he could use it if necessary.
The boys carried me into the kitchen
and put me down on the lounge by the
itove. Oh! hbw my leg hurt me! I be
gan to feel faint and dizzy as they tried
to move my foot. The awful grating of
that broken bone filled me with a ter
rible feeling. The boys did their best to
make me comfortable. Charlie proposed
taking one ot the horses to ride back to
town afer a doctor.
He had even started for the door to
carry out this plan when the room seemed
suddenly to darken, and great flakes of
snow came with a quick rush against the
windows. As he opened the door the
thick, blinding storm swept in upon us
with a wild fury. The storm was as
fierce as it was sudden. We were shut
up in the midst of a whirlwind of snow,
that hid even the road and the passage
k ea- *wwia
of the wall. He had me at his mercy. a
He stopped within throe feet of
steadied himself and raised an ax high
above his head. Mav I be killed before
live another five seconds like that
again. I could see the ax coming nearer
and nearer through the air. I could
heir it cry. My head felt as though a
red-hot iron had been drawn acro*s the
place where I knew the blow would
11. I could not close my eyes.
The drunken arms missed their aim.
log wall within an inch of my head. I
could feel its cold side against my cheek.
Before Charles could draw it out for
another blow the door of the other room
flew open, and Alary sprang like a
panther to my side She gave the d runken
man a push that sent him sprawling.
Before ne could rise she placed her lit
tle foot on his throat and pinned him to
:c floor, till I could pull out the ax and
stun him with a blow from the handle.
She turned him over on his face, and
tied his hands behind him with a toweL
Then, for the first time, she screamed,
threw herself into a chair, covered her
face with her hands, andb n gan to cry.
I want you to keep in mind, boys, the
picture I looked at as I lay helpless
under the trees.
There was no help for it. The boys
drove the wagon under the shed and un
hitched the horses. Then they came
back to the kitchen, where we all sat
watching the storm. It grew darker and
darker, and at lost Mary lit the lamp and
E t the supper things on the table. I
rand watched them with that awful
funt feeling on me.
At last I spoke out the thought that
was on my mind:
“I wish I had a drink of that whisky,
**°MaiT <3
j dropped the plate she was carry
ing and looked at me so queerly that '
was ashamed of myself for speaking. _
wished I had bitten my tongue off before
I had let her know of that part of my
load.
“No, I don't, boys! I was only fool
ing,” I said, as quickly as I could; but
. they looked at each other eagerly and
then at m?. In a few minutes they started
out to feed the horses.
• “Oh, what made' you tell them about
A Straggle with a Deer.
The ‘Wheeling (W. Vo.) Register sayt
that the most noted hunter in the State
west of Moorfield is Gabriel Cooper,
whose deeds have caused him to be known
by his neighbors as Dan’l Boone. Dan’l
keeps two dogs and a brown mare, and
he knows every hog jiath and deer trail
in .West Virginia. It is said that the
animals know Dan’l so well that when
they sc 3 him and his brown mare they
again.
Sweet science, this large riddlo read mo
plain,
How may tho death of that dull insect be
The life of yon trim Shakespeare on«the
tree.
Most Soutlicg|^^HH|rc familiar with
th6 habits of but it will be
news to many to be told, as in the ency
clopedia Britanuica, that they go to New
England in the summer to breed and re
turn in the fall. Audubon’s statement
was that some of them “go north,” and
this term applied to the migration of
birds means with him northward. In
Maryland and Virginia the bird
that lounge. The lamp was bright and
I saw it all. One man with his still face
one mass of bicod and horror, the other
flat on his face muttering and cursing in
drunken stupidity, ar.d that girl sobbing
as though her heart went oat with every
sob. How do you suppose I felt when I
thought that it was that miserable whisky
that had done it all? Do you wonder
that I would sooner sleep with a mad
dog in the house than to know that a
companion of mine had that which
changed my friends into murderers?
Raymond paused. The moonlight still
streamed in over him. IIis face was hard
and stern, as though he had lived again
that dreadful night. We could s iy no- j
thing in reply. Frank broke the silence ,
at last.
‘That was a mighty plurky girl,
though; I wonder what became of her.” ;
Raymond's face grew lighter. “I guess j
found in summer, but he comes north
ward in the autumn. I am inclined to
think that some pass us and go to Flor
ida in very cold weather. I have seen
them late in the autumn flying south
ward high in tho air and northward
early in the spring. Audubon says that
the stay at home birds of the family
fight these migratory fellows upon
their return.
Mocking birds can be taught almost
anything in the way of tunes. Macon
used to boast of a bird that whistled
“Dixie,” and year^ago a Frenchman
traveled about tho country playing airs
upon the piano which his bird would
follow accurately. At the Pulaski House,
in Savannah, a negro used to keep a bird
that would whistle a good alto to tunes
his master whistled.
. One of the most popular errors con-
the bend for his private | cerning the mocking bird is the belief
!o3hing up and down the j that lie has no song of his own; that ho
31 ix with the fried onions and
in a dhh. This is excellent.
_ .... , , Boiled Cheese—Put four ounces of
Competition js keen among the old cbee3e> sliced as thin
An Old Clothes Man’s Scheme.
Recipes. | the latest variations of this color is*as
Rice Griddle Cakes—To 1) cup) of dark sapphire.
A* New York woman who is fond of
notoriety has had the hoofs of her horses
gilded, and they create a sensation when
driven in Central Park.
Coaching coats of drab cloth have
scams like those on men’s coats and have
large white pearl buttons engraved with
scenes from coaching life.
Black lace dresses will be worn at
home this season. Their place in the
,ur street will I* taken by black ctamine,
possible, two canvas and laco grenadine.-
? 1 i Domestic surah? have become almost a
hot boiled rice add three eg is and
and milk enough to make a batter, add
ing a little salt. Fry a delicate brown.
Salt Fish, W.tii Onions—Soak the
salt fish well and parboil it, letting it
drain. Slice up some onions and fry
them in butte a delicate drown. Re
move all bones from the fish, season with
pepper, mustard aud a dash of
clothes'men. They arc eager bidders for ta l,lesi’joonfuls ot cream, a piece of butter ,
stocks and will walk three miles any day i t j ie s j z * e G f two walnuts into a saucepan standard as domestic cottons, and
in response to a postal card which states an( j stirring it gently all the time “adc up plainly, or with a little lace,
that tho writer has some ca-t-off clothing : fc becomes thick and smooth, then ! passementerie or embroidery,
to dispose of. The garments of de- a raw c „„ and a little cayenne pep- j It is regarded in Alcxico by fashionablo
ceased persons are frequently sold to _ er p ut the saucepan again ou the fire, i ladies as in better taste to wear artificia
these ubiquitous dealers, and, desiring ItVring as b :fore till the '’whole is quite . flowers, because the real ones arc so chea
to cultivate this field to the greatest pos- b ot. Serve oa small squares of dry toast, ’-hat any
riblo advantage, a State street old clothes The above is enough for four people.
^'adopted an ^ingenious pbmjlo CoRXED 8rnISO B E«8-Dn.in off the
linuor, and, covering them with very
coll water, slightly salted, leave them
' for an hour. Drain and cook twenty
: minutes in boiling water, salted. Pour
off this aud shake the beans in a colan-
the list of ^ er ’ Then stir quickly through them -
had a printer set up for him a card-form
with a heavy black border, like this:
Sacrod to the M.-mory
John Smith.
deetb7ott y s to the U n™r .select! Wpep-
a tablespoon Tui of vinegar; put back over
the fire, toss the beans lightly with a fork
until they are hot, and dish them.
Mixed Pickle.—Cut into thin slices
half a peck of green tomatoes
hard head of cabbage, ~ ! “
obtaiu them.
Dark red casques, trimmed round the
edges and down the fronts with embroid
ery in black and gold, arc worn with
costumes of moss-grccn canvas, striped
with dark red brown, myrtle, old gold
and red.
It is now regarded as the correct thing
in bridal parties for the bride and groom
to arrive an hour or so late. At one
wedding they arrived two hours after
the time announced, and it waa regarded
as the most successful of the season.
Silk or wool piece lace and open work
materials are worn over every description
small, ! of silk, be it striped, figured or plain,
pep- This will be pleasing news to those who.
old ‘clothes, and sends them to his
prihter. In an hour or two he receives a
bunch of pretty, black-bordered cards,
one sacred to the memory of the late
John Smith, another sacred to the
cTrds 0 l:e 0f mailV I to eS rebit?ves of'thl^dc- pers, one dozen onions,’ one large root of ? aV ® S^n^bl^toilettemav be mSe° aA
ceased with his condolence and <ompli- j horseradish. Put all into a jar, sprinkle • foi^pi^ntable toilette may be made at
ments, and enclosing a postal card which thoroughly with salt and let stand for home at trifling expense^
the mourners may sign and re-mail, and i twelve hours, then press the liquor from I Striped skirts are untflfcmed, although
thus easily call to their places of abode the mass, and aid to the pickle black they may be varied by breadths of plain
the “svmpathizing and honorable mer- and whita mustard seed, a little ginger material. The overdress will then hj^>f
chant who is ready to pav the highest root, one ounce of whole allspice, one the plain material and the bodice ^om-
cash price for. tLe garments of the be- : tablespoonful of ground mustard, pack bination of the two, according to fancy,
loved dead.” into a stone jar, and add one quart of 1 If the bodice be plain the vest or plastron
The ingenious old clothes man is in- good cider vinegar. Ready for use in a | is striped, or if of the striped material
vesting his large profits in the South Side week,
real estate.—Chicago Herald.
cannot tell in tlie shape of hunting ad
venture is not worth hearing. Every
stream in Hampshire county has his traps
set along its banks. With his trusty
rifle he has brought down twenty-eight
deer this season. One day Dau’l was
visiting his traps on Lost River. A mile
above where this river disappears in the
eaith is a bend where the stream is broad
and deep. Dan’l keeps a little feather
weight skiff
While
bank of the river he started a big buck j adopts and blends only the notes of other
with six prongs. The animal sprang ! birds into a song. This is pure nonsense,
from cover into the water and headed for j The young mocking birds reared in the
the opposite side. Dan'l leapei into his garrets of great cities and beyond the
skiff, and a few powerful strokes brought { reach of the songs of others sing as do
him nearly alongside of the buck. His ! the natives in their freedom, though not
purpose was to secure him alive, but j as strongly, since *they lack theinspira-
when within ten feet fit him the buck tion of mates, tho mellow sunlight and
turned about and swa n for the boat. • liberty. Their song is, in fact, a number
The hunter, recognizing his peril,drew 1 of songs, but entirely original. No man
heard the divisions of the mocking
bird’s song in any forest. That he in
tersperses them with cat colls, the hawk’s
screech, the whirr of the bull bat, and
chickens* melancholy peep, and notes
from other birds is true, out these are
only characters in his recitative ballad,
features in the romance of his summers.
That he sings his parts backward and
forward aadxn»obtncs them anew is also
true. The mocking bird’s song is to tho
ear what the kaleidoscope is to the eye,
and the combinations of his songs are aa
the trimmings are plain.
Green Tomato Pickle.—Tako green j Airs. Alarry Pollard is called a repre
tomatoes and put them into a weak brine ; sentative woman of Alaine. She lives in
The Soldiers* Home.
The charming spot known as Soldiers* :
i the range of
days, then take them out and j Skowhegan, and superintends a farm of
slice them; put them over the tire in cold ; 200 acres. Last summer, besides doing
water, let them boil three or four min- her housework, she made butter and
— c, 4 , CT . - utes with a lump of alum as large as a cheese to sell and picked and canned
hills north of Washington, embracing wa \ nu t. Mix one ounce each of cloves, | more berries than any one else in that
502 acre), the cost of which has been adg pj ce an d cinnamon with one pound ol neighborhood. Through haying sho
$325,327.50. This is exclusive of the su^ar to every peck of tomatoes.. Skim milked four cows every night and took
buildings, which have cost as much more. 0 ut the tomatoes and put a layer of the "* ....
The nucleus of the fund from which pay- m * ixe d spices iuto the jar, then a layer ol
ments have been made was a contribution
of $100,000 levied upon the City of
Alcxico by General Scott as a punishment
for having permitted guerrillas to fire
upon the American troops. Besides, a
tax of twelve and a half cents per month
is levied upon all soldiers in the armv
and whatever is due deserters and col- ^^‘'beTareTully rcmoVed; a little coll
lected in fines. The whole, with the in- water p 0Ur ed in will assist the particle
terest on the funds, amounts to nearly 4 t,"* *«««««After th»
$160,000 per annum. There are now that compose the scum to rise. After thi
about 590 inmates of the Home, with 150
out pensioners who receive $8 a month.
tomatoes and so on until the jar is fulloi
all your tomatoes are used; then poui
cider vinegar over them and in a few
days they will be fit for use.
How to Clarify Sour.— Just before
the soup boils the scum that has risen to
the top during the process of heatins
all the care of the pigs and hens. She
lives five miles from the church, but she
goes there regularly every Sunday. She
reads the papers daily, and is a well-in
formed and vigorous old lady.
his sheafli knife and caught the creature
by the horn, as he made a vicious lunge
at the boat. Dan’l held on to the horn,
and the buck lunged and butted furious
ly. The hunter tried to get at its throat
and in the effort the skiff upset, and
Dan’l and the deer were left to fight it
out in the water twelve feet deep.
To escape from the maddened buck
was impossible, and instead of swim
ming from it the experienced woodsman
dived under the water, and. coming up
by the buck’s side, stabbed it again ana „
again, until he was forced to the surface , endless as the glass forms in the toy. Bat
himself for air. The wild plunges made the song notes are the same,
by the wounded beast were terrific. The \ This bird, is probably the most continu-
river was dyed with blood for twenty, ous singer in the world, but there are
feet aiour.d where the combat raged. As j two weeks out of every fifty-two when
the hunter poked his co«c above the sur- nothing can tempt him to sing, and that
face to get air the animal cut with its is when he is molting.' At such times he
horn a long furrow ia his side. It was may be found moping in a secluded spot,
eu. i ue m'muuyu 6l u. , > h ' *>**'' “I**® . Wi,b “ ' os ‘ in wtesnelMCholv. He looks then
n;« ga*p a-d a shivtr.ng moan it sank out of hot and sick, and the only note he utters
JWSHTJS; ! flsht ond tte l»tu«%« ended. j is , short, low whistle, not nnlik. that
- j which the fat man makes as he removes
Bangs for Men. ! his hat and mops his brow. Perhaps
3 2 ______ L.'rd lava ocMn
President Buchanan pnsied a summer i
one of the cottages at the Soldiers’ Home,
and President Lincoln also resided there
during the summer months, coming in lo
the White House every week day, es
corted by a ccmpany of cavalry. General
Grant preferred Long Branch, but Presi
dent Haye4 passed his summers at the
Soldiers’ Home. President Arthur went
there, but President Cleveland did not
occupy the cottage fitted up for his re
ception last year.—Wathington Critic.
that compose the sc
soup has boiled it should be strained
this may be repeated, then if the soup i$
not as clear as you would like to have it
mix one egg and its broken shell with s
teacupful of cold water, then to this add
about a teacupful of hot sonp, then stii
it all into the boiling soup; let it boil up
well, then set the kettle upon the back
part of the stove, and when somewhat
cool strain it.
»»c u „ selling a good many false during this season the bird lays
b-ngs.’ aid a hair-dr sser. mockery, repents and makes good reso-
• ,= f'or ladies r” inquired the reporter. lutioas. '
**No, for young men. Bangs are all • Georgia has no law to protect her wild
I canteil you about her,** h;-said. C with ! the race now, and every young feUow j singer?,whose songs delight and astonish
hi^old liugh. “You scc the company 1 must have one. Alany of them are bald, the world. Some of our Southern cities
— a .v —:~j- .u-» t—_ or their hair 13 too tlan on the forehead, have laws to protect buzzards, and en-
so thev call on us to help them. We force them rigidly. The man who,- by
make "abang that cannot be distinguished j pulling a trigger, may banish more m»i-
from the genuine article. It is fastened ody from the world'thM human ups
on with wires, and when neatly combed
looks very nice. A bang, should come
about half an inch short of the eye
brows, and should be evenly cut. It
should never be worn with a full beard,
as it contracts the face too much. It is
most effective with a drooping mustache
—Hew Tort Sun.
made up their minds that I needed watch
ing, and as Alary wanted a job,, she took
me in charge for life. _ I don’t know
which makes me hate whisky the most—
the memory of that fight or the promise
I made her just before her father and
mother came back in the morning. —
Herbert W. CoUingwood.
Between New York and the Gulf of
Mexico there are onlv four natural en
trances to harbors where tho depth at
mean low water is o?er sixteen feet,
while the largest ships'tlraw from twen
ty-six to twenty-eight and a half feet.
sound, may do it with impunity; but it-
costs him $5 to bit a buzzard with a clod
of dirt.—Macon (Go.) Telegraph.
A man in Bear Valley, CaL, started a
fire in a chimney that had not been used
for a year. There appeared to be some
obstruction, and he understood what it
was when two hundred pounds of honey
melted and ran down. The bees had
been using it for a hive.
Gypsy Palmistry.
Ingredients of Bogus Batter.
Their observations are always upon the
left hand, and with a tolerably well de
veloped system. The elements observed
the thumb, fingers, nails, joints, lines
It may be well to enumerate here some ! and mountains. There are four principal
of the ingredients included in the bogus i lines, the line of life, which is the most
butter patents named, as they may have j important,curving between the forefinger
escaped the memo; ies of some of our j and th-3 thumb, around the base of the
renders. Here is the list: Sugar of lead, | thumb to the middle of the
acid, alum, capsic acid,’sulphite of’soda, | health starts at the base of the forefinger
cow’s udder, sulphuric acid, pepsin, tal- J and passes directly across the hand; if
low. lard, salt, corn starch, butyric ether, clear and regular it indicates soundness
ciustic potash, castor oi!, chalk, slippery of the mind and body: if tortuous it re
alm bark, caul, oil of sesame, oil of sun- veals a propensity to steal; if interrupted
seeds, olive oil, turnip seed oil,
brJina chloralum, chlorate of potash, oil
of sweet a'monils oil of peanuts, perox
ide of manganese, stomacn of pig, sheep,
or calf, nitrate of soda, mustard seed oil,
nitric acid, dry blood albumen, sugar,
butyric acid, bicarbonate or potash, and
caustic soda.
In addition it is well known that the j .. ..
fats of animals of all kinds, dying from , Small lines parallel with the line of for-
lysteriously in the ' tune at the base of the little finger prom.
% .. . . . • , :___ C__11
Heavy Drinkers.
“We have one man who drinks 100
glasses per dayl”
This answer was in reply to a question
as to how much beer the employes in tho
Milwaukee breweries consumed. The
speaker was a gentleman engaged in
the office of an extensive brewing com
pany.
“What is the average consumption per
man?”
“About one and one-fourth gallons, or
forty glasses daily. As a rule, our em
ployes drink fifty one-quarter barrels a
day—nearly $100 worth. During warm
days this number is increased to sixty
quarters and more. Each man generally
takes two glasses at one time, which
„ time, whicl
would make the number of visits to the
bar about twenty during the day. Al
lowing three minutes only for each time
he kuocks off work, there is one hour
which he loses in this way. Some of
the men have to walk half a block and
further, and it often takes about five
minutes.”
“Where is the bar generally located!”
“Ours is in acorner of the washhouse.
We pay a man $60 per month to draw
beer for the men, and he earns his money,
too. He does nothing else.”
“Do your employes get as much beer
as they can hold since the late strike?”
“They receive all they want.”—Mil
waukee Sentinel.
The Baby’s Palace Car.
I should like to suggest a plan I have
the little finger, aud according to its tried for protecting babies from draughts
various phases indicates liappi
misery, poverty or riche*. The moun
tains arc the various protuberances with
in . the palm, and are called respectively
the Mount of Venus, the Alount of Alan,
mountain of sun or mocn, and
disease, disappear
vicinity of the bogus butter factory,
more villainous and disgusting swindle
thai> this counterfeit batter was never
perpetrated upon any community.—Home
Farm.
Barbers near Mono Lake, CaL, whose
water is heavy with salts of sodium and
borax, use it as a natural shampooing
water, to the satisfaction of their cus
tomers.
isc happy marriage. Small linss taking
the form of the branches of the tree indi
cate general prosperity; spots on the
nails, the fulfilment of hopes.
The foolishness of this is perfectly ap
parent, yet the longing which exists in all
minds to penetrate the future in a meas
ure sanctions and fosters its professions.
If the fortunes of its dupes are not mani
fested the fortunes of the diviners are
sustained.—Free Frets.
while oh the floor, consisting of a box
two feet by three feet, and just high
enough to allow baby to look over the
top as he sits on the bottom of the box.
Fasten strong cleats to each end, and into
these pat- good casters. Pad the side and
cover with pretty calico. Put several
layers of newspapers on the bottom, and
cover with carpet. In such a warm box
my little girl spent most of the winter.
Her playthings were within reach. In it
she learned to creep and to stand, the
sides being so soft a bump did not hurt
her. Her little brothers amused her by ..
rolling it about the floor. It did not
take up as much room as baby and her
scattered playthings. It deserves the
name the children bestowed 'upon it—
“The Palace Car.”—Babyhood.