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In Egypt, on the Hirer Nile, as well as
In Italy, on the Po, the custom of travel
ing for bee pasturage has been continued
from the remotest ages to the present
time, as there is about seren weeks dif
ference in the vegetation on the Upper
and Lower Nile. They use large flat-
boata bolding from sixty to one hundred
hires of bees, and float slowly along as
the vegetation advances. The sinking
of a boat to a certain depth in the water
indicates when they hare filled the hires
with honey.
Hew Mexico newspapers tell of a*
‘norther” that passed over the northern
edge of Lincoln county a few weeks ago,
accompanied by hailstones ai large as a
man’s list, doing great damage to sheep.
One man lost 8,000 killed, another0,000,
a third 4,000 out of a herd of 5,000 Xa-
rinos and Co it wolds. Several beeves
and some cattle were killed, and it was
rumored that the hail killed two herders
THE WINDS.
Yrom the pallid
Was wrought .in the wide waste, wan and
General Jubal A. Early writes to the
Lynchborgh (Va.) Neva to contradict the
story that during the closing days of the
civil war General Lee intentionally ex
posed himself to death. General Early,
who can speak on the subject from per
sonal acquaintance, says: “No; while
Genual Lee did expose himself very
greatly, often to the great distress of his
oScer and soldiers, he did not seek
death because he foresaw defeat, but he
determined from the beginning to share
the fate of his people in victory or de
feat.'’ •
The area of practical agricultural lands
In this country is immensely extended by
practical irrigation. In nil the Terri
tories west of 100th degree of longitude
this method has added millions to the
value of the producing soils and wonder
fully extended their capacity. In Ari
sons, especially, irrigation is aiding the
rapid development of the Territory and
demonstrating its productiveness. The
practice is to flood small grain from
two to four times during the season.
Fruit and grass need less water. The
Arizona canal is over forty miles long,
and irrigates nearly 100,000 acres of
land. Other canals are now in progress
on the Lower Gila which will irrigate
over 300,000 acres. In New Mexico,
along the Rio Grande, a large canal was
recently completed which is expected to
bring more than 200,000 acres into cul
tivation. While these great water sup
plies are of first-rate consequence to the
development of the rainless districts,
they are nevertheless the origins of gi
gantic land monopolies.
The National Board oz fire Under
writer* celebrated the twentieth anniver
sary of their organization at New York,
recently, Vice-President Heald deliver
ing an address reviewing the experience
of twenty years. The amount paid out
for fire losses last year in this country
was $03,000,000, and in twenty-five
years the losses pud amount to $739,-
000,000, which is more than half the re
maining national debt. Our total losses
by fire average $100,000,000 a year,
equivalent to one fifth of our annual
growth in wealth, and this burden is
growing faster than wealth grows, in Mr-
Heald’s opinion.
There is a rising prims don. the
West, according to a newspaper writer
in Los Angeles, CaL He writes: “There
is a woman here who it selling small
fruit and vegetables to educate herself
in music. She has been, she says,
’starved for music all her life,’ but now,
at forty years of age, in spite of poverty
And thrir icy breath b hitter death.
Their footfall only woe.
Ibe East wind comes with ndnew
And pain, and midnight malncs i, —
From a solitude where corses brood
And sorrow throttles gladness;
Tl comes like a gbo X frotnspe ;tral coast
Where cypres branches wave,
And out of its plumes fall ghastly glooms
Lika those that encircle tho grave.
The Sooth wind comma-sighing,
To bods and blooms replying,
He comes in quest of love and rat,
And presently, on a ro*e’s breast.
In rapture lias a-dying;
Ha comes 10m dreams, and only seams,
His cradle is his tomb;
His life is a song to murmuring streams,
Tho calm atilt held, bat it was wear
enough to a sailor'* ey« that we should
have a breeze as soon a* the Kin began
fb climb, up. No man asked" himself,
the errand of those boats making out for
the Huntress. At that time and locality
there could be bat one answer. The
Captan presently called us aft and said:
‘ Men, the craft
The zephyr, fragrance laden,
Brings halm to maa and maiden—
Brings dove-eyed rat to the troubled breast
From the mystical regions of the West—
From love's enchanted Aiden;
It comes with news as fresh as the dews
That gather in starry hours,
With wonderful store of tender lore
From the sweet book of the flowers.
—Giorge K. Camp.
ATTACKED BY HRATES.
James Torrence was a foremost hand
on the British berk Huntress, and one
morning in the seventies we left Singa-
sixteen hands
on the bark, and for a: mament we had
a nine-pounder mounted on a carriage
and a good supply of muskets and pikes.
which you see polling
ont forus are pirates. We shall -have a
breeze within an hour, but they will be
here first. If we cannot beat them off,
we are dead men. They take no prisoners.
I look to see every miiwdo bis duty.”
We gave him a cheer, ^and began our
preparations. The cook was ordered to
minis coppers full of water and start,
a roaring fire, and the arms w re
brought up and served out. There were
three or four men who had served at a
heavy gun. and these took charge of the
cannon, and the piece was loaded, with
a shell. When the Captain called for
some one to use the rifles, the only man
who answered was an American. He took
them aft, loaded them with his own
hands, and by the time the pirates were
within a mile we were as ready as we
could be. The bark was lying with her
head to the east, and the fellows were
approaching us from the north, on our
broadside. The mate kept his glass
going and announced that both craft
were crowded with men, but that he
could see no cannon. They made alow
progress, and. we were impatient to open
•* " By and by, when they might
—ww three-quarters of a mile away,
the Captain passed word for the gunners
to send them a shot. In a few seconds
the big min roared, and we all saw that
the shell flew over tho pirates and burst
in the air. It was a good line thot and
something to encourage, but before the
cannon sent another shot the American
had a try with one of the rifles. The
mate was watching his shot from the
rigging, and the report had scarcely died
away before he shouted:
“Good for the Yankee! He hit at least
couple of them.”
The second shell from the cannon burst
over one of the boats and took effect on
some of the men, as reported by tho
mate. The American then fired again.
her voice, which is really a fine one. An
odd and pitiful sight was this woman,
with her broad sun hat and linen duster,
at the piano the other day, playing and
singing for a wealthy invalid, while hex
vegetable wagon stood waiting at the
door.”
A recent investigator has mado analy
ses of popular brands of paper cigarettes,
and has been rewarded with some start
ling discoveries. In the manufacture of
one of the beat known braoda he finds
that valerian and tincture’ of opium are
used in large quantities to give the cigar
ettes their delicit-* flavor and well-known
soothing property. Another flavoring
material is made from the tonka bean (
which gives the so-called “Havana fla
vor” to a cigarette. It is known that this
bean contains a deadly poison called mel-
lolotis, seven grains of which have been
found sufficient to kill a dog. Other
drugs and substances equally deleterious
to the health are used in doctoring, col
oring and flavoring the tobacco from
which cigarettes are manufactured, and
the symptoms of cigarette poisoning can
be discovered in any one who has used
them to excess for a long time. The
only remedy is to give them up entirely
or “taper off,” as most cigarette smokers
are oblige! to do, at frequent intervals.
8o overpowering, however, is the force
of the habit that when its victim one*
gives himself any license stall, the num
ber that he will smoke every day is only
limited by the number of opportunities
afforded.
Lieutenant Grecly, to whom Arctic
adventure ought, one would suppose, to
be a nightmare, is confident that new
Arctic expeditions wil soon be under
taken. Lieutenant Hovgaard is plan
ning one which is to take Cape Chelyua.
kin, in Siberia, for its base, and Franz
Josef Lantl for its objective point. How
near Frans Josef Land extends toward
the coast of Asia, we are without knowl
edge. Hovgaard’s plan is a Joint land
and water expedition, the men to travel
on sleds over islands and ice, and in theii
ships when clear water offers. Two
English expeditions are projected, one
of which proposes to reach Franz Josef
Land directly from a Scotch port, fol
lowing the course which has been tailed
by Leigh Smith; the other pairing west
of Spitsbergen, and establishing its base'
at the Seven Islands. Nordenskjold is
going to East Greenland with an expedi
tion, which, If fair weather should prove
tempting, may strike across for Franz
Josef Land, passing north of Spitsber
gen. It will be noticed that all the Arc
tic explorers—English, American, Dan
ish, Swedish and Austrian—agree that if
the Pole is ever reached, it must be by
way of Franz Josef Land. The Russian
government alone is pushing a party—
largely a sledge party—by way or the
Yana River to the new Siberian Islands,
wljjch are nino hundred geographical
miles from the Pole. And this country
las a sledge party in Alaska, which will
push forward to the southern shore of
the Arctic Ocean, and will establish a
base for future operations somewhere
near Point Barrow. Arctic expeditions
are kept up, not so much by their yield
of scientific knowledge, but by the spirit
of adventure which animates our race.
Young men volunteer because it is
plucky thing to do, and they want fame.
So far as practical results are concerned,
they have added little to our stock of
knowledge. But they have tended to
keep alive an instinct of adventure, and
n readiness to endure suffering and to
confront the grave, which are the best
traits in human nature. The courage
which leads a young man to sail into the
* certain death in the < ‘
All of the seas to the north of Australia
are suspicious waters for an honest ship.
Pirates have abounded there ever since
ships began to sail, and I’m thinking it will
be long before the business Is wiped out.
There are hundreds of islands iu the Java
and Banda Seas, and each one of them
offers a secure headquarters for a gang
Texas and Rhode Island have been en
gaged in endeavoring to define their
boundaries. The big State has a claim
of sundry hundreds of thousands of acres
against the United States lying on the
head waters of the Red River,"Irad the
little State has a claim of sundry scores
of acres at the mouth of the Pawcatuck.
The Texas and the United States Com
missioners have adjourned without agree
ing, the former claiming everything np
to the North Fork of the Red River, and
the latter everything down to the South
Fork. But Rhode Island and Connecti
cut seem likely to come to terms, and it
has been reported that the former will
acquire four acres in Narrgansett Bay,
which will be a handsome addition to
her domains, even though the new ac
quisition is all under water, and its popu
lation natives in their oyster beds.
Lieutenant Schwatka, in command of
the New York Tunes’* exploring expe
dition in Alaska, is over six feet high,
and weighs two hundred and fifteen
pounds. It was he who discovered in
King William’s Land, in the arctic seas,
evidences that Sir John Franklin and his
party had really perished. It was he
who, a few years later, sailed twelve
hundred miles on a raft on the dangerous
Yukon River, in the polar regions, and
explored also the remaining eight hun
dred miles of that previously unknown
stream. To-day the Lieutenant la sup
posed to bo climbing Mount St. Elias, the
highest peak of North America, its ele
vation being almost four miles. If he
reaches the snowy summit, he will be the
first person to have accomplished that
feat. The Smithsonian Institution wanted
to send him cn the same errand, but was
out of funds. He expects to bring back
many facta and specimens valuable to
science and deposit them in the Museum
of Natural History at the Central Park,
tnd in the museum of Princeton College,
where his assistant, Mr. Libb£y, is a pro-
The New York Graphic says that
“nothing is more interesting to those who
jive on Staten Island or at one of the lit
tle bayside villages than to watch the in
coming and outgoing stea mers and ves
sels on the daily trips np and down the
bay. The first thing that one realizes ii
that Great Britain rules the ocean, for
her blood-red flag is found on nearly
every ship, from the colossal Atlantic
liner to the moribund and leaky fishing
smack from Canada. Moat of the Brit
ish flags, however, are on iron ships.
The wooden vessels that are to be seen by
the thousands in the bay fly the flags of
Norway, Germany, Portugal, Spain and
Italy. A good many of them seem too
rotten to cross Lake Michigan, much less
the ocean. Some Norwegian “ships”
come in that are not 100 feet long. But
when you tee an American vessel she is
worth looking at, and is conspicuous
among those of other nations by reason of
her towering but graceful masts, long,
sharp hull, trim and taut top hamper and
general tidy appearance. Most of the
sea-going American ships are engaged i>
the California trade. Some English ocean
tramps are seen that might easily be mis
taken for first class Atlantic liners. The
majority of the iron freight steamers ap
pear to be engaged in the transportation
of live cattle, and are easily distinguished
by the rough wooden houites that run the
whole length of the deck. They lie ou 1
and the cattle walk aboard
w when six or seven miles
away, and as mv Match came on deck
ders to patrol those waters, and sink
every craft which could not show hoaest
papers; but they are there still, and the
temptations are too great to expect they
can ever be entirely suppressed. On our
way up, when off the Red Islands, on the
northwestern coast of Sumatra, we over
hauled an Italian brig called the Cara-
pello. She was stripped of sails, cordage
and most of her cargo, and had been set
fire to and scuttled. For some reason
tho flames died out, and the water come
in so slowly that she was floated six
hours after the pirates abandoned her.
Our mate was sent off to board her, and
had been lai .1 aboard without resistance by
two native boats, armed only with muskets
and pistols. The crew had at ones been
made prisoners, and set to work to strip
the ship and hoist out such cargo as the
pirates coveted. She was run in behind
one of the islands and anchored, and for
three days and nights the pirates were
hard at work on her. Each man of the
crew worked under a j^iard during the
day. and at night Captain and all were
secured in the forecastle. The crew
numbered fourteen.
Toward evening of the thiid day the
pirates had secured all their plunder. Sev-
everal native crafts had been loaded and
tailed up the coast to some rendezvous,
and only one remained to take on the last
of the plunder. As no actual violence
had been offered Captain or crew during
the three days, there was hope that the
pirates would go away and leave them in
possession of the robbed and dismantled
brig. Just what shift they would have
made in this cass I cannot say, for the
craft was left without sail, rope, block
or provisions. About 4 o’clock in th*
afternoon the crew were ordered forward,
while the natives collected aft, and at a
given signal fire was opened on the de
fenceless men. To their credit let it be
recorded that they seized whatever weap
ons they could lay hands on and dashed
at the pirates, bat it was simply to die
like brave men. In ten minu cs the last
one was shot down. The pirates then
raised the anchor and got it into their
boat, bored holes in the ship’s bottom,
and started a fire in the hold amidships.
The information I have give r yon came
from a little chap on board who was
making his first voyage as an apprentice.
He was, if I remember right, only thirteen
years old. On the morning of the third
day he managed to hide among tho
bravely
the struggle was yet to eomo. The fel
lows bent their energies to creeping
closer, and pretty soon they opened on us
with musketry, and the balls began to
sing through the rigging in a lively man
ner. We had our musdets ready, but
the Captain ordered us to hold our fire
and keep sheltered behind the rail. One
qf the piratical craft was a quarter of a
mile in advance of the other, and the
third shell from the cannon burst aboard
of her, and must have killed and
wounded a dozen or more men. There
was great confusion aboard, and she re
mained stationary until the other craft
came up. During this interval the Ameri
can got in two more shots, which found
victims. We now looked upon the vic
tory as assured, and there was cheering
from one end of the ship to the other. We
were* little ahead of time. The third
shot from our big gun burst it, and al
though no one was hurt, we were thus
deprived of a great advantage.
As soon as the Captain knew what had
happened, be called upon all the crew to
shelter themselves and wait to fire at
close quarters. One man was detailed to
assist the cook with the hot water, and
powder and bullets were placed handy
for reloading the muskets. I was sta
tioned near the gun carriage, and I no
ticed several shells lying about under
foot. The American kept firing away
with' the. rifles*Jcnocking oyer a pirate
at every shot, and pretty soon the two
craft were near enough for us to open
lire with the muskets. I presume we
wasted a good many shots, for we were
work and sent the hulk dri.ting out to
tea without having missed him. He was
on deck to catch the painter of the
mate's boat when the drew alongside,
and to one of our crew who could
Italian he gave the story as si
the Captain could have talked.
it as
We Reported the affair at Singiporu*
off to in-
and a British gunboat was sent
▼estimate. She returned before we had
completed our loading, and reported
that she had made no discoveries It
was a warning for our C antain, and he
wisely determined to heed it. We took
on shell and grape for . our cannon, n
dozen revolvers were purchased for the
crew, and on the very day we left, tho
Captain brought aboard two very heavy
rifles which he had picked up somewhere
at a bargain. I call them rifle?, but they
were young cannon, carrying a three
ounce ball, with powder enough b.hind
it to kick the marksman half way across
the ship. We left Singapore as well pre
pared as a m rchant vessel could be, and
it seems that the Captain was advised to
bear well up toward Borneo, and give
tho Red Islands a wide berth. We
crossed the equator at least a hundred
miles to the east of the islands, as I over
heard the Captain say. and then altered
courts to the soutirast, calculating
to pass to the east of Biliton Island be
fore hauling away for Suada Strait.
bark made good weather of it,
The
and we bad crossed the equator and run
down on the new course until Biliton
might hive been sighted from the mast-
1. when the e cams a calm. The
and the drift of the bark was to the
north. We looked for a change at sun-
ItAllllllf. A.mn .n<l at.. —I 1. i
set, bat nothing came, and the night
My watch was below when day
light came, and we got the word to turn
np lively. To the Northeast, off the
coast of Borneo^ two or three green
islands were in sight and between us
and tbe islands were two native craft
bearing down upon us. These craft were
about the size of pilot boats, half decked
over, and rigged like a catboat. They
CANADA’S CAPITAL
Something About.. Ottawa and Its
Government Building*—Canada's
Master Splrlt-Posstbilitles
of"tbe City’s Future.
TLe years can almost be counted oa
the fingers of two hands that have
elapsed since the day when a map of tin
British Possessions in North America was
ijcsty Victoria, by the Grace of God
Queen of Great Britain and Ire’an l and
Empress of India. To the august lady
had been left tbe selection of a capital
for the Dominion of Canada. Mindful
of the mutual xmbitions and jealousies
of the great ettiea of this American realm
—Montreal, Toronto, Kingston and Que
bec—she dropped her finger on a point on
the map that teemed to her the best com
promise between the four, and which
was the junction of three rivers.
“What is there?” she is said to have
asked.
“The little hamlet of By town, your
Majesty.”
“Let that be the capital of my Cana
dian dominions.”
So spoken so done. Bat there were
many who mocked the regal selection.
A capital removed from the centre of
population, in a howling wilderness and
on a stream with impeded navigation,
Bytown seemed to have no future. But
time demonstrated the wisdom of Victo
ria’s choice. Bytown, now Ottawa, has
grown to be not only an important, but
a very busy city. It is located on that
great artery, the Canadian Pacific.. It
possess an unusually beautiful location,
nnd is fast becoming a noted pleasure re
sort. From the touch of the royal finger
Ottawa sprang by magic from a strag
gling ham’et to a handsome city of more
than £0,000 souls.
At first sight the capital of the consol
idated Canadas has a decided tendency
to make a person tired. The vicinage of
the Canadian Pacific depot is especially
wearisome. It has all tne appearance of
a ba?kwoods lumber town. The build
ings are roughly knocked together and
daubed with different pigments! The
city seems to end, after two blocks of
this, in an abrupt high bluff. But it is
after the ascent of this bluff that the city
proper breaks upon the observer, * thing
HOUSEHOLD HATTERS.
Wasted In tbe Kitchen.
Ill cooking meats’ the water is thrown
out without removing the grease, or the
gretifc from the dripping pan is thrown
away.
Pieces of b; cad and cake are left in the
box to diy and mould.
Cold potatoes are left to sour and spoil.
Preserves are opened, forgotten and
left to mould and ferment.
Vinegar and sauces are left standing in
tins.
sorting over.
The tea-canister is left open.
Bones of meat and the carcasses of
fowls are thrown away when they could
be used in making soup stock.
Canning Fruit.
Mia. Kedzie, teacher of household
economy and hygiene in the Kansas Ag
ricultural College, writes as follows on
the results of her tests in preserving fruit
by simply heating it boiling hot, then
putting it in jars, and tying cotton bat
ting over the mouth. She siys: “In the
NEGLECT.
When Morn, with music and perfume
Bunt shining In tti* eastern room,
And made my eager heart elate
With promise* of life and bloom,
Besprinkled with the crystal daw.
There came an Angel to tho gat*,
And said: “I bare a task for yon.’*
And I replied: “Good Angel, wait;
The day will be so long, so long.
And I am blithe with dance end song
The sun is not an hour high;
111 do your bidding by-and-by—
Have patience with me, then, and wai*
V
were tried with five kinds of fruit, in
cluding tomatoes. Results were perfectly
satisfactory in every chsc, not even n par
ticle of mould forming in the can. In
most esses the cotton was simply tied
over the canful of hot f:uit; in some
cases there was a piece of white paper
S at on first, to prevent the cotton from
ropping down and becoming juice-
soaked. This seems to be the preferable
way. The cotton is taken out jost as it
comes off the roll, tho thickness lelng
about as it unwinds, and it is tied down
with strong twine. If this should be
as successful with all fruit canners as
here, there is no longer need for patent
fruit cans, for any bottle with a wide
neck suitable to receive the fruit, or any
jar with glaring which is perfect, to al
low no entrance of air through its walls,
Preparation of Fruit Juice*.
J. W. Parkinson gives in the Conjec-
tionera* Journal the appended directions
for preparing fruit juices: Mash the
juicy fmits in a basin, to a pulp; place
on the fire and make scalding hot;
now pour into a hair sieve and allow the
juice to run through. Put into bottles,
and securely tie down. Place these bot
tles in a caldron of cold water, and boil
for twenty minutes. Remove from the
fire, and allow to remain in the caldron
until cold,then set av.ay for use. In the
of exceeding beauty. New as it is, there unw coin, wen.set av.ay lor use. in the
is no prettier Canadian city. It may be • c “'_ of non joicy fruit., roch aa apples,
that
am likewise certain that we also did
great execution. We had a plunging
down upon a mass of half-naked fel-
?, and we must have weeded out a
full third of them. There was no air
stirring, and the smoke soon grew thick
about us. By and by the shouts and
yells of the pirates sounded close at hand,
and their craft were laid alongside and
they began climbing the rail. We
flung down the markets and used the re
volvers and pikes. When the revolvers
were empty we used capstan bars, clubbed
muskets, or whatever we could lay
han Is upon. Our rail was clear in half
a minute, and then I picked up a shell
and a burping wad and ran forward. A
dozen natives had gained the bow and
were pushing our men back. I lighted
the fuse And gave the shell a roll along
the deck into the crowd, and I give you
my word that not one of them was left
alive after the explosion. One of our
the quarter threw a second shell.
and I brought the third one and threw it
from the dow.
The fight was ended. A bit of wind
blew the sm>ke away, and we looked
down upon a terrible sight. Tho boats
seemed full of dead and wounded, the
living sought shelter under the half-
decks. Why, there were bodies without
beads, heads without bodies, and arms
and legs and pieces of bloody meat enough
to make the bravest turn pale. As we
cut their lashings they drifted off, and
or three of the men with muskets, kept
up a fire on everything that moved. Pres
ently tbe breeze came up, and as we mode
sail and got the bark where we could,
handle her we ran down for the dhows.
They were light built, and it needed
only a fair blow to crush them. The first
one we struck on her starboard quarter,
and, although the bark glanced off, we
crushed in hert’mbers, and she filled and
went down inside of five minutes. There
were about twenty living men on the
other, and as we bore down for her at
a good pace they uttered shouts of terror
and made signs of surrender. Cur Cap
tain had no mercy for them. We put
the ship right at the dhow’s broadside,
and we cut her square in two and rolled
tbe bow one way and the stem the other,
while the living, wounded, and deed
went into the sea together.—Neat York
Son
Odd Ears and Eyes.
With reference to the discovery by the
Troy Ttlegram that a large number oi
persons in its city ore becoming deaf in
one ear—a fact which the Tdejramactmt
inclined, without much reason, to at
tribute to the use of the telephone—a
“Traveler” writes to the Buffalo Courier:
“I made some extended experiments
with the telephone some nx years ago
and developed the fact that nearly every
subject, out of some thousands, heard
better with one ear—usually the left—
than the other.” He also learned after
ward ^hat it was quite common for the
evesight of one eye to be better than the
other.
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Nutmegs Poisonous.
The common nntmegs are poisonous
in large doses. In a case which came
under medical treatment, a lady had
eaten a whole nutmeg and a half, which
caused extreme drowsiness, then great
nervous excitement, followed by subse-
om the perch aloft, quent depression and pain in the region
ng the glass, and of the heart. This case points to the
iin thafc ft)® i* v
said that the stre ts are altogether too
narrow, and that there is too frequent an
attempt to architecturally aggrandize
stuffy little buildings.
The Parliament buildings stand on an
imposing bluff on the south bank of the
Ottawa River. The location is admir
able and commanding. They front on
Wellington street, one of tbe city’i
upon the expanse of the Ottawa
River from the Rideau to the Chaudierc
Falls. The architecture of the buildings
differs from that of any structure in the
United States oflike character. The de
sign is Italian Gothic, and the material
used in their construction is cream-colored
and furnish a veiv elaborate and com
modious headquarters for the government
of 5,000,000 o'f people. The buildings,
which include the departmental office3,
occupy three sides of a square and face a
'anal runs through a series of locks at
one tide of the grounds.
In the pretty suburb of New Edin
burgh, across the Rideau River, is the
home of the Governor-General, Rideau
Hall, whence the Marquis of Lansdowne
administers the government os the Vice
roy of Victoria. The citizens of Ot awa
are very proud of this shadowy resem
blance of royalty. They were prouder
still of wbat s me were pleased to de
nominate the preceding “reign” of her
Royal Highness the Princess Louise and
her consort, the Marquis of Lome. Lans
downe does not have enough to do to
trouble his rest at night. Sir John A.
Macdonald - relieves him of most of
those burthens. He is a very blue-
blooded figurehead and that is all,
but he costs Canada the pleasing stip
end of $50,000 per annum besides
the maintenance of Rideau Ha 1 !, which
is an item of such considerable dimen
sions that the Liberal newspapers say
that if Edward Blake ever gets in power
he will let daylight through it.
Sir John A. Mcdonala is Canada’s
master spirit. He works the strings from
Barracks Hill in Ottawa, which run all
the machinery of Federal government
from Vancouver to Cape Breton and Lake
Erie to the Arctic Ocean. He governs
and possessing more acres than
United State, exclusive of Swineford’
Alaskan jurisdiction. It has about the
same population as New York State, but
the possibilities of its future are almost
beyond comprehension.
LooT *
to the northward from old
Barracks llill.fthe rocky promontory on
which the Parliament buildings stand,
the eye crosses the broad Ottawa River,
the little fringe of settlement on the op
posite bank and then 6paus a long vista
of green and almost virgin country
that stretches away for many miles to the
foot hills of the Height of Land. It is
a beautifnl landscape. This all lies ii
the Province of Quebec. It an un
broken wilderness, except for the lumber
camps of the Upper Gatineau and an oc
casional very small group of 1 rench
squatter*. Communication with these
remote camps and petty settlements is
very difficult, as may be illustrated by
the fact tbat just the other day a horrible
murder in one of the Gatineau lumber
canps reached the Ottawa'newspapers
about two weeks, old. It is related in
Ottawa that the few people in th a ex
panse of country only pay taxes about
once in five years, and then at the earnest
solicitation of a militia company sent up
from the capital.
Ottawa has no Tributary farming coun
try worth speaking of, although the rail
roads arc devcl ping that portion of On
tario norti and wist of the city very
TThe^ city, now the seat of Britain’s
American domain, may yet see itself the
capital of a mighty rival of. onr owe
greatest government on earth. The
Canadian Pacific has opened up to her
an empire of timber, coal, grazing and
grain country. It has already knit the
people of Canada into a harmonious
whole. There are dreamers about the
t to one day hear a Canadian Pa-
5 conductor shout: “Ottawa! Change
cars for New Orleans, New York, Uper-
~ ~ ‘ ►.Sitka
Li California they indulge in rose
hedges. The best variety for tho pur-
is said to be the hybrid perpetual,
’ * dwarf rosa
of an active principle which
lould be investigated - - -—_ 011
pose is saia to De tne nyDna
Madam Charles Wood, a semi
of close and compact growth, constantly
in bloom from early spring till winter.
The lowers are deep rosy crimson me
dium to large size, and very fragrant.
pears, peaches, etc., put the fruit into a
basin, ■’
, cover with water and bail to a
pulp/ Now place on a hair sieve, and
allow to drain without pressing. Ob
serve now that it is only tho liquor
which passes through the sieve without
pressing which is to be used for flavor
ing purposes. What remains in the
form of pulp is not adapted for these
uses. Now put the juice obtained as
above into bottles, and proceed to treat
as already laid down for the juicy fruits.
The foregoing process is to he gone
through with in the case where the ex
tracts are to be kept transparent and
dear, as for syrups, cordials and bever
ages. In cases where the flavorings arc
to be used for any purpose where trans
parency or clearness is not desirable,
such as for ice creams, fruit ices ana
bonbons, then I would use not only the
dear fluid, but the pulp of the fruit also.
I would for these opaque purposes save
The glaring son stood overhead,
Thi guests were met, the board was spread
And high the featt and ravel grew,
When, fainting with the midday heat,
Tbe Angel rested at the gate.
And said: *,I have a task tor you.” I
And I replied: “Good Angel, wait;
Tho festival is at its height,
The lips are warm, the eyes are bright;
The sun is yet half-heavens high;
I'll do your bidding by-and-by—
Have patience with me, pray, and wait**
and utilize every thing of the fruit ex-
rod seeds; this pulp to be
cept theskins and
treated as already laid down.
Preserved Peaches and Tomatoes.
Weigh the fruit after it is pared and
the stones extracted, and allow a pound
of sugar to every one of peaches; crack
one quarter of the stones, extract the
kernels, break them to piece?, and boil
in jost enough water to c^ver them until
soft, when set aside to stew in a covered
tom of the kettle, then one of fruit, and
until yon have used up all of I oth;
set it where it will warm slowly until the
sugar is melted and the fruit hot through;
then strain the kernal water and add it:
boil steadily until the peaches are tender
and clear; take them out withaperfo-
dishes, crowding cs little as possible.
Boil the siiup almost to a jelly—that is,
until clear and thick- skimming off all
tho scum; fill your jars two thirds full
of the peaches, pour on the boiling sirup,
and when cold cover with tissue
paper, then with cloth, lastly with thick
paper tied tight y over them. The
peaches should be ready to take off aftei
half an hour's boiling; the sirup boiled
fifteen minutes longer, fast, and often
stirred to throw up tne scum.
Nice tomuto preserves can bs made in
the following manner: Select smooth,
ripe tomatoes, scald and remove the skins
and the hard part near the stem. Cut a
gash in each lobe and with the thumb
remove the seeds. Rinse well in cold
water, which will remove any stray seeds
and the slime. To every pound nf fruit
thus prepared allow half a pound of
thin
ng from the fire add lemons cut in
slices in proportion of about one
lemon to every pound of fruit. Keep in
air-tight jars the same as other frnit.
Tomatoes should be u*:d, cither for
preserving or for canning, before the cool
weather of autumn has made them acid,
as everyone perhaps already knows.
Poisonous Ice Cream.
During the present season there have
occurred two instances of violent poison
ing from ice cream. The sjmp oms were
those of irritant poisoning, combined
with certain nervous effects, such as diz
ziness, double vision, headache, great
muscular weakness and sense of weari
ness. They are precisely -the same as
those appearing in cheese poisoning. In
both forms the milk appears to have un
dergone some peculiar change, probably
doc to the work of a special .microbe.
Dr. Vaughan, cf Ann Arbor, Michigan,
has investigated come cheese that had
produced poisoning, and from that as
well as from the deidly ice cream of the
Michigan cases this year, he has suc
ceed vd in extracting a crystalline poii
ceedid in extracting a crystalline poison,
not before described, which produced
similar effects upon animals upon wh'ch
he had made experiments. Tbe symp
toms were like thos; produced by arsenic,
but the chemical examination showed
that substance was not present. The
gallant but economical young man has
now a valid objection to entering
of value to him. Ordinary putrefaction
does not develop this poison in cheese,
hence there must be some special cause
at work in the instances where poisoning
occurs from making use of it—St. louU
Globe-Democrat.
A “Drap” Too Mach.
Now the hammock swingetb,
8wingeth in the breeze,
Like a filmy cobweb,
’Twixt the trees.
Ha! the thing collapse th,
Collapsethwith a snap,
And the one within it
Takes a drap.
-Merchant-Truxtier.
The sky is dull, the daylight wanes;
The sleet beats on the western panes:
Tho festive wreaths lie where they fell*
Like withe ml garlands on a tomb;
Their dust the only thing to tell
That there was ever love or bloom;
The story of my day is told,
The music hushed, tbe revel gone;
The eyes are dimmed, the lips are cold.
The brightness flown, I sit alone
And watch tbe dreary night creep on.
Ah, had I but the duty now
I coanted irksome till too late;
Came back, O Angel at the gate.
And give me yet the task to do l
—J. T. Goodman, in Argxr
PITH AND POINT.
Going the rounds—CHmbing the lad
der.—Hiftin-7*.
“By their works shall yo know them.”
—Watches.—Merchant 2 ratcler.
Tho more you cheque a spendthrift
the faster he goes.—National Weekly.
The barber can be relied upon for data
in the making up of “crop” reports.—
Yonkera Gazette.
A way to get even with the Canadians
on the dshcry question: Make them eat
shad.—Boat on Pott.
A theatrical manager in London says
ns in that city live by
that 150,000 persons
playing.—Free Prcaa.
One does not need a thermometer in
summer to find that it grows warmer by
degrees.—Pittaburg Chronicle.
“Th ; s,” said the tramp, as he arose
from a hearty meal, “seems to fill a long-
felt want.”—P.iilidtlphia Call.
Illinois butter is remarkably strong. A
churn burst at Elgin, in that state, and
killed two men.—Burlington Free Preez.
Don’t be so stuck up,” as the feather
bed said to the wall paper “You are
down enough for both of us,” replied
the paper.
If a dealer in grave stones were to foil,
some newspaper would be sure to refer
to the disaster as “a bust iu marble.”—
Norriatotcn Herald.
A young man who lives on a ri<
mother-in-law is not necessarily a Cj
-bal, but approaches that tril>e for
ness.—National Weekly.
Australia has had a ball game, but a»
the Australians have not learned to kick
at the umpire's decisions, it was not very
exciting.—Lot cell Citizen.
I know what the nights of labor are,”
of six boys as sho sab
said the mother
down to repair the pile of trousers and
jackets.—Boiton Courier.
The price of Jamaica ginger goes up
when the price of watermelons goes
down. It is the see-saw of commercial
adjustment.—Philadelphia Call.
She—“John, will you put up the ham
mock ?” He—“Jessie, you forget that I
put up the hammock last fall and got
only ten cents on it.”—Tid-Bit*.
“We more than hold our own,” says
na exchange. Yes, that’s why your
neighbors have all locked up their chick
en coops.—Marathon In lepend-nt.
knowing,
Sallie, sweet Sallie, is kissing her Bill.
What is more pathetic than to see the
simple faith with which a bald-headed
man will buy an infallible hair restora
tive from a bald-headed barber?—Detroit
Free Prea.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes used to lie
an amateur photographer. Wheu he pre
setted a picture to a friend, he wrote on
the back of it: ’'Taken -by O. W. Holmes
& Sun.”—Detroit Free Preee.
poet, wants to come to America
Ti«:t. fjjjjjjjjj.] Those]’,belong
in the name somewhere, and the reader
can distribute them to suit his taste.—
Norurizh Bulletin.
What every married man In this.coun-
try wants it a trained, tierce-looking lit
tle me use that will appear whenever
in less time than ft takes to provoke
one.—Macon Telegraph.
“Have you heard Miss Simplon ring
since she returned from Europe?” “Sev
eral times.” “Do you think she ha? im
proved!” “Very much.” “In what’
particular?” “Sne doesn't aing as much,
as she used to.”—Musical Jourml.
Now dip* and sways tbe ladan grainv
Tb* bar-cocks dot tbe mead, ,
Thro’ leafy shade* a golden rain
Sprays fern and lissome reed;
One snowy clood—like ermine rug—
Float* calmly o'er the scene,
While yet the sleek potato bog
Doth browse on Paris-green.
—Yonkera Gazette.^
“Horace, why don’t you sit dow
You’ve been standing there for over e;
hour.” “Cawn’t sit down.
Going to the reception, you know.”
“Well, what of that? It*a early yet.”
“Just had my twowsers eweased, Fwed-*i
die. Do you think I’ve got s-s-s-soften- "
of the bwain 1”—Life.
Corrected by His Wife.
The first written speech read in the>
General Ja kson. * When about'I
through he’suddenly lost the thread of
his discourse, and stopped, evidently-
embarrassed. His wife, whj sat in the:
prehended the situation, and said in a
voice heard all over the Senate chamber;
“Mr. Hill you’ve turned over two leaves
at once.” He immediately corrected hi*
mistake and proceeded with his remarks,,
amid a roar of laughter.
All Asia has only about as many rail
roads as Illinois, and seven-eighths of
these are in British America.
Patrick Rergen, of Fulls
107 years of age, — J —*■ *
j hoe potatoes s