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Tin* l!l|)|>|p Collar.
The newest collar is the one known
ns 4 ‘ripple/ 1 winch really uoes not
ripple any move than those of last year.
It differs from the old collar in that it
fils snugger to the neck, and yet lias
the same effect of flaring which it had.
If the collar flares too much it loses in
warmth, and yet it is the flare which
is becoming to most faces. An ingen
ions maker of fur garments has obviated
tin's difficulty by making tho collar
slightly more flaring, and then catch¬
ing it in plaits about two inches wide
at regular intervals. The plait is not
evident except upon close inspection,
ami vet the collar 1ms the effect of lie
ing extremely full, at the same time
standing up snug and trim around the
neck sq as hardly to require fastening
in front.
t Turkish Gli-1*.
Turkish girls of the better, class in
flic cities, after they are too old to at¬
tend the primary schools, are largely
educated at home by governesses, and
manyof whom come from England
France, but. unfortunately, do not al
ways represent th§ highest culture of
these nations, so that the real love of
i t-udy is not as a rule, developed un
<lei- their influence. Turkish women
have a great aptitude for foreign Ian
gunge-, andiho.se mot on the steamers
off l.« Bosphorus often speak French,
ami it is not unusual for thorn to
speak German and English also
,,, hn ‘ lu 18 . h '* 1,1 v,,m ' engaged 11 ,u , “ a trade, 11,n ! 1J
women are in>
Kome even carrying on an extensive
•
, frequent ■
business, involving 1 , journeys •
to . Egypt ,, , and , other ,, places, , which pro
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supposes the aliility to read aud write,
as well as some knowledge of arithme¬
tic. Moreover, conversation with the
Mussulman woman in the capital re¬
veals some progress at tho present
time in independence of thought, and,
while, social conditions have unavoida¬
bly arrested the development of Tur¬
kish women as a class, forces are
slowly but surely working among them
that will result in their final emancipa¬
tion.
An Economical Princess*
Though always elegantly and per¬
fectly dressed, the Princess of Wales
by no means errs on the side of ex
travagiince. Her Royal Highness has
been known to wear a gown three suc¬
cessive seasons xtfhen it suited her,
and remained fresh and handsome.
Itor instance, at the .peninA of the
eoplel Jhitacij). ?'' ,: U]!ly. M'fce
'i'ince®, sw' f ^,rtT--. Wltl.in cll v lkW‘ I 51 ,j- l ' 1 1 '
"^ri ■ JH I I Vo. Am,,. orocaoeij
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mall ripe could red straw^errios. be mistaking dis
There no so
\ iactive n stuff, and it was recognized
\ iy 1 : woman who had seen the Princess
in Ireland two summers before, as one
that had been worn at several func¬
tions in that country. The style had
been altered somewhat, but there was
tlie same splendid fabric doing its
thorough economical duty. Her Royal
Highness's influence, too, has ever
been against excess in fashion. She
has always refused to patronize very
wide skirts, balloon-like sleeves or
huge over-trimmed headgear.
When ordering new gowns, colored
pictures of them, back and front, as
they should look when finished, xvitli
scraps of liie proposed materials and
trimmings attached, arc submitted for
tl»e Princess’s approval, and it is a
very usual occurrence for the Princess
to take her own brush or pencil and
alter the pictures to please her excel¬
lent taste. The gowns are fitted on a
model of her own figure, and the work
womeii do not see her at all, unless
considerable alterations are necessary.
Tho clever brush has made it so cer¬
tain just what Her Royal Highness
wants, that a personal interview is
needless. -Loudon Figaro.
A vl (Jliis In raids.
A young American, who, heaped
with honors, has just returned from
Paris, told 1110 , greatly to my surprise,
that she thought it an idle aud unwise
plan for girls to go abroad to study
art until they had been drilled iiito
the fundamental work at home.
She gave me over so many reasons
for this, but that which seemed to her
the strongest, was tho fact, that Paris
is full of American women who, not
having lmd their abilities tested at
home, have gone there only to find
.hat years and years of uphill work
lie before them with no prospects at
the cud. or t lat n Inch they
to be talent themse ves has proved,
v. non taken to the other side to be
but a flimsy allair not worth eulhvat
ing 5or bread-winning purposes.
With the poverty belonging to most
of these women, suffering is inevitable,
and this suffering, she argues, is best
endured at home, where the young
girl is near her family or her friends,
and Where the many forms of eompli
cited miseries incident to a life alone
in Paris are spared them-miseries
easy to endure aud accepted without
question if success lie ahead, and one
is assured of possessing real talent
and power, but miseries that cut into
the soul of oue and destroy the liner
fibers if endured for ends never possi
ble of attainment.
»The mere cost of living may be
cheaper in Paris, but the advantages
to be derived among ns for foundation
work outbalance all other questions,
Oue must have $50 a mouth to live iu
Paris. With rigid economy 825
mude to suffice for one s personal
The other 825 must be
P^^side for the purchase of paints
materials necessary to her if she
means to derive full benefit from her
opportunities to w ork. —Harper’s
Bazar.
<*ossi |>,
Miss Cora Dow, of Cincinnati, it
the proprietor of four successful drug
stores in that city,
iMiss Murnane, a man hater, of
Brushy Fork, III., has directed iu he.!
will that no men shall bo present at
her funeral.
Mrs. Elitch, of Denver, drives about
tho city in a light wagon, drawn by
an ostrich. She is tbe only woman
in tho world who owns a zoological
garden.
Paris has drawn a line on bicycle
riding in a rather unexpected quarter.
Hereafter, none of the women teach¬
ers in the primary schools of that, city
may ride to and from the schools on
their wheels.
Mrs. .Tessie Palmer Weber, of
Springfield, Ill., a daughter of Gcu
eral John M. Palmer, has been chosen
to succeed the late Miss Josephine
Cleveland ajj liljjariau of the Iliuois
Historical Library,
An original idea of a New York
woman’s club,‘whose realization must
OCC upy some time, is for each mem
her to give a quotation at each club
mee ting iir place of the regulation
“here” when the roll is called,
The wife of Senator White , of Cali
fovnia, J does not live with him during
Ms teil lauc0 iu Washington, be
site , dreads 1 . thunderstorms, ■ .
cause
winch , . , they ,, do , not . , have in California, „
taking ... earthquakes , substitute, , ... ,
1 as a
Miss Edna .Whitney, the factory’ young
woman who works in a cigar
and whom Kansas City rejected as
maid of honor at the fall carnival, is
going on tho stage. She will study
for her new profession in Kansas '
dtj
Miss Itamsay Gibson Maitland, by •
f ., nT7, „ , iv ( ' i /r a tradland, .... S ’I U n. ' T Eng
if *',Vf iiVi'*n‘ , V Tmit t , ' SS SS ° l
of 1 r '° ro11 ul f al>out ^ oiro ’ imn < 0 ^ v
,
irrouiifl b rents ' ‘ in Fdinburffh ' ‘ ° '
Elizabeth Lnler U heatou, probably
the besi-.tnown prison evangelist m
this country, lias visited every prison
in every important - Ty m the world,
Mie has Docome 1 * a n to most rail -
road men, and rece. «tc annual passes
OV< ? j witfta V s<1 ' lini li’ l, ‘ Him cimptTj.
f ls 0 ‘
• iWlnrer. dll', like, >^mgiui%to*t h ilia
Achilieion, a .the had built such
wliicn she at
a tremendous cost in Corfu, mid all
the furniture and objects of art which
adorned it, including the gigantic
statue of the dying Achilles, palace have
been removed to the imperial
at Vienna.
Miss Ellen Xusucy, who was the in
timate l'rieud of Charlotte Govnersal' Bronte,
died on November 2(5, at
aged eighty-throe years. It was large
ly by means of the 400 or more letters
written to Miss Nussey by Charlotte
Bronze that Miss Haskell was able
to give the public so much of the life
of the author of “Jane Evro.”
Kan.,Was Mrs R N Perdue of Fort Scott
recently drawn by mistake
on the jury of the District Court.
She insists on serving, and McKinley says that
as she voted for Mr. in
Wyoming, she is a “qualified elector,
and consequently a competent juror.”
She believes in woman suffrage, and
says she will appeal to the highest
courts about her rights as a juror.
Fashion Notes.
Old-fashioned pink cameos are com¬
ing into vogue again, and the old-time
setting- is to be retained.
Huguenot caps are added to the
tops of many of the short, full, puffed
sleeves of evening bodies.
Collars with stole ends are worn by
the woman who loves frills. They
can be fashioned by any deft fingers
directed by taste.
Many of the demi-tvained dress
skirts are cut with nine gores, and al
the back some are box-plaited and
others fan-plaited,
Tne small pad bustle is now worn
with the latest day costumes aud even
ing toilets; and those of larger pro
portions are announced.
Cravats of white net. mull or liberty
silk< trimmed with frills of lace, chiffon
or net, are made easily aud may be ns
simp i e OP fts elegant as time, skill and
purse permit. Owing to their airy
daintiness they seem especially suit¬
a in e f or „;« ts
‘
- . 11 0U R 1 handsome imported .
« owus 8een a * ’some recent openings,
s «veral , were of black Chantilly taco,
aud ^'Oidered b<3ads aui with ] “ ade steel over or h jet a, ' k sequins •"«*>'*•
J* 18 pr f dloteJ tha * 1 lace costumes will
be mnoh . 1 uext
Wrtrn 111 ans Year,
l’eplums, which are added to Rus-
81a J 1 blouses, jacket bodices, surplice
waists and similar garments, are
abaped in various ways. Some are
crenelated, others cut in oval tabs or
sharp \ andykes. aud also in circular
form, with or without plaits at tlie
back.
Velvet is in high favor for smart
gowns this season. Corduroy is seen
in Paris, the ribs being wide apart.
Some of the swellest carriage and
evening wraps have bishop sleeves,
quite wide, aud the width equal from
tbe shoulder to the narrow bauds at
the wrists.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS,
Cajiet Saner.
Melt one tablespoonful of butter In
a saucepan; add one fine cut onion,
eight whole peppers, half bay leaf.
Cook throe minutes without brown
ing, then add one heaping tablespoon¬
ful of flour, Stir and cook two mm
utes. A.dd one pint of veal or chicken
broth, season with half toaspoonf l o
meg, and boil fifteen minutes. Strain
through a sieve into a clean sauce
pan.
Mix the yolks of two eggs with one
tablespoonfal lemon juice. Add »
Jittle s(iuce first to the yolks. Mix
well and add the yolks to the sauce.
I luce the suueepau on tlie side of the
stove, add half a tablespoonful butter
in small portions, stir five minutes
over the tiro without letting it boil
agatu. Add two tablespoonfnls of
capeis and serve.
t ried Tripe a l lv Marinlere.
Wash one and a half pounds of tripe,
cut it into pieces four inches long and
two inches wide, season with one even
tableHpoouf.il salt, one even teaspoon
fill pepper.
Place the tripe in a bowl, mix one
pint vinegar with half pint water and
pour it over the tripe, adding one
sliced onion, three cloves, one bav
leaf, a blade of mace and twelve whole
peppers. Cover and lot it stand twen¬
ty-four hours or longer.
When ready to cook take out tho
tripe, wipe dry and dust with flour.
Beat two eggs till light, take each
piece of trijie beaten separately 011 a fork, dip
it in the egg, then cover wilJv
fiue sifted bread crumbs.
When all are prepared thus place a
frying pan over the lire, add half a
tablespoonful of lard or fat. As soon
is hot lay in as many pieces of tripe
is convenient aud fry light brown on
both sides. When all are done uT
range the tripe on a warm disband
garnish with water cress.—New York
Tress.
Fried Chicken.
To a Northerner fried chicken and
corn bread are typical Southern dishes,
!ind mean nothing more than fried
chicken and corn bread. And yet
there are so many different ways of
cooking these two delicious foods in
the South that they seem almost like
different dishes in different sections.
'Take, for example, fried chicken,
^ ryl ? nd styie ' \ f « ooked in tllu
billowing manner: Select small young
‘“hickeus, not weighing S % over a pound
(>ac , The chicrk en coo ked verv
KOon ,if ter being killed, plucked aud
dressed. In the country it is not con
.sidered tne tiling to keej) a chicken
any time after it lias been killed. I 11
the cities of Maryland, where people
buy their chickens in the marints, aj'ldy
they are generally killed at least
before cooking. Dir .
Out the dressed chicken into
pieces. Then saltj^**- dry it on a eathl
sprinkled with .*
iv * :
;dif'v l.»«i»--*nf“egg-s, txmfy ifWST i/fi orw
whites lieaten separately. If t.hlar
chickens are to be fried it takes I
eggs. adlj
To the beaten yolks of the eggs
some milk, a gill to each egg. Stir
this in well; then add enough sifted
flour to make a stiff batter. Season
with salt, aud last of all add the beaten
whites of the eggs, which must be
thoroughly whipped in aud blended
“ ith the batter.
Put enough lard in a de< p frying
pan toiswim the pieces of chicken in
when the lard is smoking hot. Dip
the pieces of chicken in the frying pan
md fry till a golden brown. Lift and
drain tbe and place them on a
bofc l ,latto1 ’
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Household Hints.
J clean “hfij mother-of-pearl ’oTCtt apply -i
p * te o b and
pi water .
Ribbons may bo renewed by wash¬
ing in gasoline and then stretching
until the gasolene has evaporated.
To restore lace that has become
quite yellow, and yet should not be
as white as it must surely become
through washing, make a suds in a
glass jar, drop the lace in aud stand
the jar in the sun.
Dust marks behind pictures are !n
great annoyance to tidy housekeepers,
A simple way to avoid them is this
Place two small pieces of cork at the
bottom of the picture frame. This
will prevent an accumulation of dust,
ami the consequent dirty, ‘ unsightly
rk. -
JUJl
To clean a Shetland-wool shawl,
make a lather of lukewarm soapsuds,
and dip the shawl into it, rubbing
and squeezing gently with the hands.
Even the rinsing water should be soft¬
ened with essential a little that soap and water particular! when'
ly is it the
ever it is changed should be exactly
the same in temperature.
To remove mildew from white cot¬
ton materials dissolve oue aud one
half ounces of chloride of lime in one
quart of boiling water. Strain tli6
liquid through a thick cloth aud soak
the mildewed spots in this liquid for
several hours, and then rinse thor¬
oughly iu clean water. Wet the goods
before putting them to soak.
Shoe leather may be dressed with
vaseline or glycerine. This is spe¬
cially good treatment for leather that
lias become stiff through being wet.
When shoes are wet, before putting
them away to dry they should be
filled with paper. The paper absorbs
the moisture and renders the shoes
softer than they would otherwise be.
To clean picture names, take 11 s
quarter, put it into a 1 bottle with r a m tea- , *
cupful of water and shake well. Add
^ut la.it e d/1 ,lu aunu l i 0 ii 8 vvm witn 8 t°h> the am mixture, !T ia -
using a soft brush. After a few 111111 -
utes rinse of! with another brush
dipped iu clear cold water. Dry in
the sun aud rub with chamois leather,
MKXTir ['LTOiE TIIEFAD.
46
MANY WOMEN IN NEW YORK THINK¬
ING THEIR ILLS AWAY.
O'*"' *" •'*" " "“‘■•“•y Hobby —11 aril
ThinMn^ n» a Cure tor i>.v«|>»-)>»sn—
Tii«u«h» Transference For uinu or
m- »« •Don’t iv,,rr,” n«n,
recently obtained a great vogue among
Now York people who have time to
dev,t,. to it. The harder one thinks,
says the New York Sun, the further
»ue advances in menUealtuve, and the
things tlmt are promised with ad
vancement are so wonderful that in
these promised rewards lies the itj
centive for thinking and the fascina- ' *
tion of it.
The practicing of menticnlture be
gnu, according to the best information
obtainable, in this way: Mrs Blank
'T‘ :Ut 0ct,,1 >er at Lenox. I 11 tho
h b ^' y °! th f hou ?« "'here she was
vlsl . ! Ug s 1 e l UH ! lce<1 to,ind a mono
nt, . . . by the . late Prentice
" f u
Mul ,’ ' vb ? v& » toni ! d dead in a
canoe down Coney Island way on May
:5 ,°' 1891, Mulford was » «‘ih>r,
,beI1 ” n ‘‘ ws l» a Per writer in San
brum-iseo and New lork, and hually
became a Spiritualist and a medium.
fIt ‘ " a \° U P ,lews P*Pei- work to write
pamphlets on topics akin to what is
known now as Christian Science. In
the pamphlet v,-hieli Mrs. Blank
piCied ■ , , " p S1H , ,. bitind , „ this . text from
Emerson;
, rr i ., , your to , star ..
cu wagon a
1,(0 sentence caugut. her. She read
K -i aloud and liked the nay it sounded.
. lien she read liivtlier. The author
<>t the monograph maintained tha. a
man who w ould make up his mind
mud enough could accomplish any
thing he set his mind on. Mrs. Blank
11 ltor ‘ v l s estoi l,00k8 |, aud 8' I’rom ,t some these 111016 she ot
blamed.some , very -_ allimug things j
11)0111 thought She learned that, it
one was ih, all he or she had to do was
to think hard that he or she was well
and health was restored. Now that
struck Mrs. Blank very forcibly. She
bad long been a sufferer from dyspep
sia - Physicians hadn't helped her
:U ' (I "he had settled down to the
thought of being a chronic dyspeptic,
-Vow she had found a cure for the ill.
Straightway she began to think she
was perfectly well. That night, ac
to the story, she, ate ail sorts
oi tilings tor dinner. Whenlierhos
tess marvelled at her temerity, simpl^ Mrs.
Blank smiled sweetly and said:
‘‘Oh, I haven’t been bothered with
indigestion for a long time.»
that struck the hostess as a bit
queer, inasmuch as Mrs. Blank had
complained of her old malady only
that morning. However, she said noth
ing and in a few- days Mrs. Blank
returned to town. The story is that
when she began at the top of her visit
ing Upilate in October all. her friends
iJQf * -d o n how w ell she was look
themecn. “ -j : 'Ushf. •fij^^i%«JL toli.ialiout the, 2 books
she had read, the thinking she had
done and the cure that had been
effected. All the women of her ac
quaititance seemed to have something
the matter with them and they became
greatly interested in the thinking
process.
They wanted to know more about it,
and one day Mrs, Blank gave and a
luncheon to about a dozen friends
told all she knew* about how to think,
That was the beginning. Other lunch
eon parties were given by other women
of Mrs. Blank’s acquaintance, and at
these the women told of their experi
ences at thinking. These think lnuch
eons have now become a fixture.
A woman in upper Fifth avenue
, became interested, ana concluded that
it^Trr successors ot I rentice
fm 0110 a ! ld f 1 ' 1 ^ om > a "°*
man. This woman had a name tor
the process of thinking oneself into a
desired condition of miml or body.
She called it menticnlture, and now
that’s what they all call it. Her creed
was a little different from Mnlford’s.
She held the doctrine of thought
transference.
According to this teacher, thought
can be transferred from one mind to
another as rapidly as the telegraph
transfers words. All that is necessary
is to think hard enough. She asserts,
101 instance, that a person’s spiritual
maybe made better by resolute
thinking. Think of Christ and His
example. Continue to think about
Him. Think hard. Little by little
the moral life of the thinker will im¬
prove. As he thinks, the thought
crystallizes in action. The acts will
resemble more and more the acts of
the Exemplar. The only bar to
absolute perfection, according to this
philosophy, is the lack of ability to
keep one’s thoughts on the subject.
What is true of the spiritual life,
nccordiug to the reasoning of this wo¬
man, is true of the physical life, only
you must have assistance in improv¬
ing your physical condition. In this
assistance comes in the thought-trans¬
ference. A person who is sound of
wind aud limb and mind meets a
friend who has a cold or consumption
or any other ill The well person be
gins to think of an ideal healthy per
l£a'hoS and m lidays l ™»StSfw“d.wS wun ms fnend thinking
Altera me le persin who 1 . ill
catches a taint notion of this physi
cally perfect person Then the notion
becomes clearer and finally he gets an
unclouded mental picture oi the physi
cally perfect mau. Ouee be lias that
idea he can think of uo unhealthy per
sell as otherwise >■?»r* than perfectly well.
As pain or illuess of any kind is ex-
1>orienc ® d oul VY he *?, nBRti0n iS
ti-uusmiueu to the brain, tlie person
who can thiuk only of tbe physically
perfect ideal eaunot experience a
sation of illoess
bo great has the interest in
become that the thinkers have divided
themselves up into circles or cliques.
£w'o or three of these circles are
known as the Prentice Mulford
branch. Then there is another set,
who are members of “Don't Worry
Cluii.” ^ organized £f™ l Xrfotthese bv Theodore F Sew
T iuo inemoeis ot tuese chibsdiV clubs uis
avow any belief in “Christian science”
or “faith healing. ” They insist that
lliud as peifec t a machine as possible,
Iie e ud ai)d aim being 1u P e °P le t iu
?<*}* ,e . er . wl(U ,a t? ta better y men P. iy f; an. lc ^ women- y
f p. 11 Don .. t Worries do ’, believe,
however, in thought transference. It
sald that the fooling between the dif
Intent kinds ot menticulturalists is
ruuniu B high and that some of the wo
men of one circle hardly speak to the
womo ° of the ‘'there,
Women Centenarians.
it is an acknowledged fact that a
great age is attained by women often
er than by men. One of the most
famous female centenarians was the
Countess of Desmond, who lived to be
115 years old, and died in the reign of
James I. from the effects of an acci
dent, This wonderful woman found
herself, at the ago 100, so lively and
strong as to be able to take part in a
dance; and when she was 140 she trav
eled from Bristol to London—no tri
fling journey in those days—in order
to attend personally to some business
affairs.
Lady Desmond is, however, quite
thrown in the shade by a French worn
an, Marie Frion, who died in St. Col
onibe, it is said, at the wonderful age
0 f 150 . Toward the end of life she
lived exclusively on goat’s milk and
cheese. Although her body was so
shrunk that she weighed only forty-six
pounds, she retained all her mental
Unities to the last.
It is an extraordinary but incontesr
ible fact that some women at the age
when most people die undergo a sort
0 f natural process of rejuvenation— wrinkles
hair and teeth grow again, the
disappear from the sliiu, and sight
and hearing reacquire their former
sharpness.
A Marquise de Mirabeau is an ex
ample of this rare and remarkable
phenomenon. She died at the age of
eighty-six, but a few years before her
death she. became in appearance quite
young again. The same change hap
pened to a nun of the name of Mar
guerite Vevclur, who, at the age ot
sixty-two, lost her wrinkles, regained
her sight and grew several new teeth.
When she died, ten years later, her
appearance was almost that of a young
girl.—New York Ledger.
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*SE Bags shakes For a Living.
.
Dan Reeves, of Portland, this State:
who has acquired more than a
local reputation as a rattlesnake
hunter, gives some interesting facts
concerning the sport.
“These snakes,” Mr. Reeves said,
“have now all gone into winter quar
entrrely they ^ fjmring
spring, dormanr.
that time their eyes are covered with ,
a sort of film, which obscures their
vision. They eat nothing while in
this state, but they never ‘go in’until
they have filled themselves to their ut
most capacity.” Mr.
For several years Reeves was
the only person who hunted these
dangerous reptiles. Last, season
others devoted some attention to the
pursuit of the snake, but finally gave
it U P
It is [by no means an unprofitable
business, especially in the fall, when
the snakes are fat. They yield an
average of $2 worth of oil each, which
finds a ready sale among druggists.
The skins are dried and preserved.
Mr. Reeves recently sold about a
hundred of them to Meriden parties.
They have been sent to Philadelphia,
where they will be stuffed for distri¬
bution among museums at good prices.
During the season of snake hunt¬
ing just passed Mr. Reeves has bagged
thirty-four rattlesnakes, some of which
were unusually large. He was as¬
sisted by a small dog, which has
learned the dangerous character of the
game he pursues aud always keeps a
safe distance.—New London (Conn.)
Telegraph.
Soldiers Must Swim,
In the Dutch army a man must be
able to swim as well as to fight. More¬
over, if he is in the cavalry he must
have a horse which will take a river
as easily as a hunter takes a fence.
Swimming manoeuvres are part of the
regular drill there. Collapsible canvas
boats, manned by a few oarsmen,
lead the horses so that they do not at¬
tempt to land on stone quays and
other difficult points. The men swim
across with their horses and on them.
They do it in swimming costume, aud
iu all the accoutrements of war. There
are few nautical emergencies for which
the Dutch army is not prepared.
Some of the officers have even reached
such a degaee of proficiency that not
only their horses and kit cross the
rivers with them, but then pet dogs
sit upon their shoulders and 1 re borne
over, almost without wetting.- -Lon¬
don Daily Mail.
isata! Gem,
As lU) old legead lias itf tbeye is 8
gem especially set , s i,Ie to .jmboliee
the character of persons born in Jauu
ar 7- mmtlmi- for those born in Febru
aryj an< j so 0 n throughout the rest of
t)je twelve. The ? gems themselves are
/ mbolical of qnal tiM . Here is what
ach f 8tauds for and what month
u ,, el 0 to;
January- Oat-net Constancy, Fidelity
April.......... Diamond ......... Innocence
May...........Emerald..Success .KubjL. in Love
J«^:. A 8 ate,
August. .Sardonyx, Moonstone. Conjugal
Felicity
September-----Sapphire...........Virtue ::.".tSpL.'.V.
j November. V./.V.'.V.V.'.Lo^e
j December. Turquoise. Success. Prosperity
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
Selling off ___ oor tq» k.
■* . 1a winter approaches every farmer
sllould . Iook over hls «‘°ck and
? oasi der wbat ot lt will pay best for
kee P ln . S through until spring. If all
that does not come up j- to the standard
. ,, 1 to , . liutchei . , othei ,, di
s 0 01 w - e ;i .
P oso in ‘ ?? h * y
s . n .j u , r than if ho fed it Don’t
try to get high prices for the Jl £ nnm
farmers' (
of it than in keening it. The 5
^ iMthese davs’depends Ue'keeps rno’-« on
the kind of stock than m any
other factor
ltoishi\i Fall Calves.
There is a great unwilling ne. rf n.
the part of most dairymen to al! o w
calves dropped in the fall to reach mu
turity. It is really the greatest ob¬
jection to the extension of winter
dairying. That in all cases takes the
best" cows, as no one would think of
keeping poor milkers through the win
ter, with all the extra trouble that
winter dairying involves. But if all
the calves of these winter cows are
se nt to the butcher it must meat* a
great deterioration of average dairv
stock. No one should begin winter
dairying unless he has a warm barn,
which f rost will not enter, in which to
keep his cows, and succulent feed of
30 me kind to feed them. These are
j us t the conditions for successfully
rearing fall farrowed calves.
The Apple Haircut.
The furrows which yju see in »p
pies arc due to the presence of a worm
in the apple, which is the product growth of
an egg laid very early in the of
the apple by the apple maggot. As
the mature insect does not eat the at : -
pie, but only stings it to deposit her
egg beneath the skin, it is not likely
that the maggot.can be killed bv
sonous insecticide. Some success has
been had by using an emulsion which
is applied before the tree is leaved
out. The maggot hatches early m
spring aud waits without eating until
her work in reproducing her species
is done. The orchard should be kept
as a hog pasture wherever this pest,
becomes numerous. There are many
of these pests in the fallen fruit, and
a good lot of hogs will eat this fruit a n
fast as it falls to the ground. The iu
crease of the pest may thus be pre
vented if it cannot be exterminated —
Boston Cultivator,
Siiccessi’al “V cape Grafti
j. I. Porter, of Ohio, writes: An
old Clinton vine stood at the corner of
the woodhouse which was so vigorous
that its branches spread over every
thing within reach, but bore no fruit,
In April, 1896, I cut both branches off
close to’ the ground and grafted a
Delaware grape into one and an Iona
into the other. I used no wax-simply
wrapped carefully with strings of
doth, pasted a little mud over the
cept fheTo^Ib u'^ol the -grafts/TbOAe "
grafts made a wonderful growth the
first season, owing to the far-reaching
roots of the Clinton vine. At close of
tire first season the Iona vine was
about 18 feet long and the Delaware
about 12. This season, with the vines
one y ear 0 lil, the Delaware branch
bore twenty-four as fine hunches of
Delaware grapes as I ever saw. The
bunches and berries were slightly
larger than the Delaware generally
grows and so compact on the stems
that they could not be picked off easi
ly without beginning at the end of the
stem.
The Iona branch bore about forty
bunches of Iona grapes of the finest
quality. This is a quick way of get¬
ting a grapevine into bearing. I tried
the same experiment on a wild grape¬
vine down in the pasture. It grew
just as vigorously, but an inquisitive
Jersey cow spoiled the experiment.
Largest Canal in the World.
The Chenab irrigation canal, in the
northwest provinces, India, is 200 feet
broad. It is doubtless the largest
canal in the world. Its main channel
is 450 miles long, while the principal
branches have an aggregate length of
2000 miles, and the village branches
will extend, when completed, for an
additional 4000 miles. Apart from
irrigation, the longest canal in tha
world is that which extends from tha
frontier of China to St. Petersburg,
aud is 4472 miles in length. Another
Russian canal, from Astrachan to St.
Petersburg, is 1434 miles long: both
the last-named canals were begun by
Peter the Great. The Bengal Canal,
connecting with the River Ganges,
completed in 1854, is 900 miles -iu
length, and cost £2,000,000 sterling,
or £2200 per mile. The total length
of canals in India for irrigating 8,000,
000 acres is calculated at 14,000 miles.
The Canal du Midi, connecting the
Atlantic with the Mediterranean, is
148 miles long. The Caledonian Canal
in Scotland has a length of sixty miles.
The Suez Canal is eighty-eight miles
long, and the Erie 360; the Ohio
Canal, 332; the Miami and Erie, 374;
the Manchester ship canal, 354 miles.
The Word „r an Indian,
While Indian Commissioner Pray
«. »t cue „t the egencle. »
young men drank whisky .li.taVi and be
«nH,. They They
peace. were tried and convicted
and sentenced to do a highways certaiu number
of days’ work on the
The next morning the Indians Lv under
sentence, without guard of k d ' .
-JLir * bUa t afl d did
their dav’s LTJTZ? mi ’ "Z
UtU a f
terms of tlieir ' (es a had i , beou tul- ,
ing' T) rejuirod „„ 1 'Lom eJcept
was them VnltRI
their word that fchev would lu ^hH -ha be
oonditim,. '
x-’ \ *1,^ e sentence. . .
,
than the word
State B eg irt or