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fhn gerald and Newnan, Ga., Friday, Jan. 6, 1888. Freezing to Death. Lambt'l How Pies are Made. A great revolulion has gon« on in the manufacture and compounding of pie. No more the housewife carefully meas- j ' vas ures out “a cup of milk, a spoonful of saleratus. a lump of butter, pinch of salt, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, four sliced apples and a little pui*e lard." Today tire dough is kneaded by steam and the ovens are vast and hot breathed caverns. In the great kitchen of the modern pie factory are numbers of immense copper kettles surmount ing brick ovens, and fat male cooks stir the sa vory masses within. On little tables around the room are dozens of wooden tubs holding the linings for thousands of pies. Then the busy bakers bake the dough, and lx'fore the oven door with deft and rapid touches press it into the shape of the embryo pie, into a pan and a line of pies is soon pass ing into the oven's mouth with wonder ful celerity. The ordinary ovens used will bold about 300 smail pies and the temperature required is graduated with remarkable skill. New York, of course, produces and eats j more pies than any city in the world, ‘ although its per capita consumption is eclipsed by Chicago. Boston and Piiiladel- j phia. There are eight or ten large fac- \ lories dealing excltn ivcly in pies, and be- j tween 500 and 000 bakers also make j them. The largest factory is on Sullivan j street, and its output of pie is something J awful to contemplate, and when one j thinks of the number of • churches and j schools the money spent for pie would j build, it is a question if the people should j not stop and ask. ••Whither is this awful j habit carrying us?" In a year or two the j pie habit may rank with the curse of j drink and evils of tobacco as a never ; failing fountain from which debating so- J cicties and lyceums can draw topics to ] argue on. One of the foremen in the factory on .Sullivan street said: “In cur establishment we turn out every kind of pie so far discovered, but* there are certain kinds that are staple. These are apple, mince, lemon, grape, raisin, plum, gooseberry, whortleberry, A Wight's Experience Is the Keetons of Maine. “In tebraarv, 1840,’’ said Cant. R. L- Zeby. of Uniontown, “I had an interest in some lumber way up in the Piscata quis region, and I had to go up there and see how things were getting along. It long journey', but the sleighing was like glass, and I had one of the best horses that ever stood inside the thills. On my second day out the thermometer stood at 20 degs. below, and was inclined to go lower. I knew I would reach one of those queer little villages common to the Maine backwoods early in the even ing. There I intended to stay all night, and drive on next morning to the house of the agent of the lumber property, twelve miles further along. I reached the village and found that there was no tavern- there. “This, of course, upset my plans. So I ate supper in the village and started on, intending to proceed to the agent's the same night. It was a starlight night, but the air was filled with that peculiar frozen mist frequently noticeable on very cold nights. As we neared the river this haze became denser, until finally it was with difficulty J could see anything ahead of me. It w,os like passing through a storm of scaly ice. Suddenly, as 1 was thinking that we must be almost on the margin of the river, there came a crack ling sound, a loud splash of water, and the next second my horse was flounder ing about in water, which also covered the sleigh, the robes and myself up to my waist. “The water splashed drenched the rest of me, time than 1 can tell it I was coated with a rapidly thickening armor of ice. I guess mv noble beast must have floim- In the French Cemeteries. that Favorite Emblem, tke Everlasting Flower, Superseded by the Glass Beat). The everlasting flower, which used to be the favorite emblem of mourning in the French cemeteries, has now been almost superseded by the glass head. At the recent festival of the dead, to every person who carried a wreath of innnor- telles to the cemetery a hundred carried wreaths of beads. Those who along the shores of the Mediterranean gather the everlasting flowers to be sent to Paris must lie sorely tried fly this change of j custom. There is a little town called i Ollioules, near Toulon, whose inhabitants, | about 3.500 in number, have for'many years earned their living by collecting the j everlasting flowers on the sun scorched j hills and preparing them for commerce. ! Care must be taken to pick them in the | hud, for if the inflorescence is advanced the seeds will ripen afterwards, and the so called flower, which botanists describe 1 very differently, will fall to pieces. There is still a certain demand for immortelles in Paris, for there are workshops in the i Roquetto quarter, where women are con stantly employed in making them into I wreaths, crosses, etc. This is usually | done by fastening the heads of the flowers ! upon a foundation of tightly packed i straw. But, as I have already stated, it is the i bead wreath that is now a la mode. The change is not one for the better. The I immortelle, although it is one of nature's sham flowers, is, like the amaranth, a | poetic emblem of eternity. That it de- : cays, those who went to the cemeteries about soon 0,1 A]l Saints ’ or All Souls’ had ample and in less j liVI,;!ence - but it will last a few years without looking very shabby. It. there fore. imposes no great tax or expense | upon mourners to put afresh wreath over Wi Queer Notion* of the Saxon*. Our Saxon ancestors appear to have de voted considerable attention to the sub ject of their hair. Though ignorant of macassar oil, they discovered that dead bees burned to ashes and seethed in oil with leaves of willow would stop hair from falling off. hut should the hair ho too tliick, then must a swallow be burned to ashes under a tile and the ashes be sprinkled on the head. But in order altogether to prevent the growth of hair acquainted, Under t lie caption emmet's eggs rubbed on the place are Publications. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE Publications. 1888. v.ffi.HARPER’S MAGAZINE. ILLUSTRATED. which his secretaries lie knew exactly what had happened. When the situation did come to him he became quiet, threw his fore feet up, and lodged them both in the ice with a con certed blow like a trip hammer. The ice was thick, but beneath that blow an im mense cake was broken off and was car ried down in under the edge of the ice below. The horse swam onward, drag ging the sleigh with it through the rap idly freezing slush. Once more he pounded the ice ahead of him with his strawberry, peach, raspberry, pineapple, ( powerful fore feet, and again the ice pumpkin and custard. Apple, mince, lemon, pumpkin and custard are the fa vorites. All our material is the finest in the market, and we buy it in large quan tities, always keeping our orders ahead.” •TTow much material do you use daily?” asked the reporter. “In a single day we use about 100 dozen eggs, 850 pounds of lard, 12 bar rels of flour, GOO quarts of milk, 2,500 quarts of fruit, and turn out about 7,000 pies, or about 50,000 a week and 2,600.- 000 a year. The output from llie large concerns in the city will amount to 35,- 000 pies daily, and the bakers will turn out about 40,000 more, or 75.000 a day, 525.000 a week and 27.300.000 per year, an average of about sixteen pies per capita. These pies cut into quarters the usual sizes outside of boarding houses would make 100.200,000 pieces. At an average of live cents—as some of the cheap restaurants charge only .three cents, and tonier ones ten cents—this would make New York’s annual pie hill $5,460,000, or more than we pay for public schools, or the lire and police de partments, or send to the heathen. New York produces about one-thirtietli of the pie crop of the United States.” This last remark aroused a statistical vein in the reporter, and he figured until his brain was dizzy, and these are some of the results: In the United States there < are eaten every '’ay 2,250,'000 pies; each | week, 10,750,000; each year, 810,000.- : 000, at a cost of $163,800,000, an amount . greater than the internal revenue, and j more than enough to pay the interest on the national debt and pensions. If the j pies eaten daily were heaped one on top ! served, of another they would form a pie tower 103,000 feet, or nearly thirty-seven miles high; if laid out in line they would reach from New York to Boston. With the pie products of a year a tower 13,468 miles high could be erected, and stretched out they would cover a line 80.180 miles long, or sufficient to girdle the earth three times and let a Chinaman in Pekin chew at the last pie. These pies before eaten would weigh in a year 803.000 tons. Pie is a great institution, as these' figures show.—New York Journal. oil at least a minute in that hole before | 1 ' 1 e one us T * ie kdter wears out. The bead wreath is without beauty and with out any of tliar association of jtoetie and religious idea which gives an emblematic value. It is simply an economical expe dient: glass beads do not wear out, and when they are strung upon wire that does not rust they remain where thev are placed year after year, quite unchanged by wind and weather. The French are practical people, and they appear to have come to the conclu sion that the best emblem of immortality to put upon a tomb is made of glass and wire. The reasoning may be sound, hut the taste is detestable. The bead wreath is a lamentable invention, on a par with that of the metallic flower which is to be i seen in a pot on many a grave in the Paris cemeteries. The French are un doubtedly a nation of highly cultivated i taste; but their decorative sense has an ! inherent tendency to break out into vul- I garity and tawdriness. We see this in their rococo buildings, like the Grand j , s a out safely on the other I °if 1 ra hous ?’ " here unity of design and j he didn't tarr'v when he got 1 nobl . e e nes ? of Portion have been utterly darted off at'the top of Ids '"f cn,iced , t0 the flashy adornment that j i the crowd mistakes lor art. And vet | there is no country in the world that j j contains so many superb examples of | pure architectural taste as France.— i Paris Cor. Boston Transcript. found an effectual depilatory—“never will any hair come there.” Excellent also as a cure for deafness is the juice of emmet's eggs crushed, or else the gall of a goat. or. in extreme cases, Ixiar's gall, bull's gall and buck's gall mixed in equal parts with honey and dropped into the ear, sometimes with the addition of very pasty ingredients. But if earwigs had entered hk then the sufferer is bidden to “take rfce mickle great windlestraw with two edges, which waxes in highways, chew it into the ear; he, the earwig, will soon be off.” Even this poor insect was turned to account.. One prescription desires that “the" bowels of ail earwig be pounded with the smede of wheaten meal and the netlierward (i. e. root) of marclie, and mingled with honey.” For a hard tumor or swelling, goat's flesh burned to ashes and smudged on with water is found to be efficacious, as are also shavings off the horn of a hart to disperse ill humors and gatherings. Wood ashes seethed in resin or goat's horn burned and mingled with water, or its dung dried and grated and mingled with lard, were all good reme dies for swellings. For erysipelas the prescriptions are numerous. A plaster of earthworms, or of bullock's dung still warm, is recommended; but better still, ••for that ilk, take a swallow's nest, break it away altogether, and burn it, with its dung and all; rub it to dust, mingle with vinegar, and ‘smear there with.” For pain of jowl, burn a swal low to dust, and mingle him with field bee's honey. Give the man that to eat frequently.—Nineteenth Century. ITH the November, 1587, issue Century commences its thirt volume wfth a regular circulation of j almost 250,000. The War Papers and the I.ife j • >f Lincoln increased monthly edition by 100,-4 000 The latter history having recounted ttie ! events of Lincoln’s early years, and given the Harper’s Magazine is an organ of pro- necessarv survey of the political condition of gressiY'e thought ami movement- in every de- tiie eountrv, reaches a new period, with partinent of life. Besides other attractions, * ■ • ‘ —’ ere most intimately j jt will contain, during the coming year, im portant articles, superbly illustrated, on the Great West: articles on American and for eign industry; beautifully illustrated papers on Scotland. Norway, Switzerland. Algiers, the writers now enter on the more important and the West Indies; new novels by VY il- liirt of their narrative, viz : the early years of mam Black and W. I>. Howells; novel? :l,e War and President Lincoln’s part therein. | ejn-s., Hear£? an« \n Ki/JE Kicks; short stories by .MissWool- so\ and other uopulur writers: and illustra ted papers ol special artistic and literary in- LINC0LN IN THE WAR, SUPPLEMENTARY WAR PAPERS, ' A Safety Lump Needed. Three thousand dollars is offered by Mr. Ellis Lever of England as a prize to the inventor of a miner’s safety lamp, and it has set to work the wits of the in genious. Sir Frederick Abel will lecture on the subject- during the present month in England, and probably will exhibit specimens of lamps which the Swan & Edison company are manufacturing for a large colliery in England. Electricity, it is said, is most likely to solve the ques tion and take the money prize first and lots of profit after. —New York Sun. A Peculiar Locomotive. A peculiar Jocomotive has just been manufactured in Boston, and will he tested on the Boston,and Lowell railroad. l,r has hut one driving wheel on each side, and these, instead of being perfectly round, liave q periphery composed of a series of plain facets connected with each other by very obtuse angles. It is claimed that the flat surfaces will give greater ad hesion to the track and make the engine more powerful than any heretofore con structed.—New York Press. A Misleading Premonition. A negro woman of Pulaski. Tenn.. told her friends that she would surely die at 7 o'clock on a certain evening. So about fifty of them gathered around her lied and shouted and prayed and sung in an ecstasy of religious fervor as the hour drew near for the soul to take its flight. But it didn’t do it. On the contrary, the woman went into an apparent trance, from which she arouses occasionally to eat a square meal.—New York Sun. yielded. “During all this time I was shouting for lie!]). I might, at the first break, have turned and leaped back to shore, hut had not collected myself in time. It was now too late, and even if it had not been 1 was so stiffened by the casing of ice that I couldn’t have moved to save myself from death. The horse kept on, and, strange as the story seems, broke a chan nel for fifty feet across that river, and drew t lie sk side. An there, but started ott at the toj speed toward our destination. He soon struck the road and away we went. I knew that although one danger was es caped. a greater was 'before us, and I urged the horse on with my voice. My robes and clothing had frozen so solid that if I had been encased in iron I could not have been more motionless. My horse was a jet black, but his icy coating made him stand out, even in that frozen mist, like a specter horse. I could not move even my hands. We were not yet half way to the agent’s house when I found myself growing drowsy. I could no longer use my voice. The clatter of the horses’ hoofs and the creaking of the runners on the ice sounded to me like thunder claps and weird, hideous cries. I know that I was freezing, hut I labored hard to rouse ray will and fight with it against my fate. Tiie stars looked like great coals of fire, although before they could be seen but dimly through the peculiar haze. The trees, with their branches covered with snow, took on the shapes of gigantic ghosts. Still I pre- all my powers of reasoning. Finally I felt myself growing deliciously warn^ A languor, such as De Quincy might have described, with attending visions of loveliness, took possession of me. 1 heard the most delightful music. Still I made one mental effort to shake off this fatal spell, and that was all. “I don’t know how far I was from the agent's house when I froze to death, but tlu* next thing I remembered I was suf fering such tortures as a victim of the rack might feel. He never felt worse. Suddenly, at my feet. t*ie pricking of a million needles assaulted nay flesh. Tor turing me at that spot a moment, until I writhed in agony, it dashed quickly up my leg. stopped an instant, as if gloating in my misery, and then crawled with that awful pain slowly upward, until it seemed that tiny jets of the fiercest flame were being blown into my body, heart and brain. The intensity of this agony was not constant. If it had Iieen I would have died again in a short time. It came in waves, so to speak. Each wave was a little less furious than its predecessor, until at last the storm was passed, and I found myself a weak, speechless, limp and helpless mortal, lying on a robe be fore the fireplace of my friend, the agent. He had brought me back to life. ••When I was strong enough to hear it. lie told me that he was awakened in the night by the peculiar and loud neighing of a 1 torse. He looked out of the window and saw a sight that startled him—a ghostly horse and sleigh and driver in the road 1 lefore his door. He recovered him self and went down. Then he discovered that the driver was dead. He quickly carried the driver into the house, laid him on the floor lie fore the fireplace, and recognized me. Knowing that even if I was not beyond all aid. nothing could ’oe done for me until the robe and clothing were thawed, he made the lire blaze and hurried to the rescue of the faithful and intelligent horse that had reasoned with itself that it must stop at the first house The Wet Umbrella Joke. The old practical joke of a half dozen young fellows raising dripping wet um brellas in the main doorway of a public hall at the close of an entertainment ’oe- fore a crowded house on a starlight night, following the “battle series’’by distinguish - ,-d generals, will describe interesting matures of army life, tunneling from Libby Prison, narratives of personal adventure, etc. Gener al Sherman will write on “The Grand Strate gy of the War.” KENNAN ON SIBERIA. Except the Life of Lincoln and the War Ar ticles. no more imp irtant series has ever iieen undertaken by riiK Century than this of Mr Kennan’s. 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Every householder has been worrying himself about the plumbing in his r idence, expending money to put th e ijest traps that can be procured under his sinks and basins, making experiments with all sorts of in ventions to consume the foul gases, pull ing his wall to pieces to build air shafts from the cellar up to the roof and six feet beyond, and nevertheless living in constant dread of diphtheria, typhus lever and other diseases supposed to be engendered by the escape of the deadly sewer gas. And now we are told by doc tors and learned professors that we have been frightening ourselves with ghost stories; that sewer air is comparatively free from noxious gases and contains pro portionately fewer micro organisms than the outer air of the same locality. Of course, unscientific people Yvill lie apt to discredit these conclusions and to pronounce them ••humbug.” But what are we to do when those by whom these conclusions are readied offer proofs of their correctness? How can we reply to the matter of fact statements that “scav engers who work in sewers are generally healthy and long lived;” that “plumbers seldom die of zymotic disease,” and that “sewer rats grow gray in their subter ranean quarters?” Such proofs of the nourishing qualities of sewer gas are unanswerable. Yet it is questionable whether they will remove the popular prejudice against the inhala tion of the clastic fluids of the house drains, or induce people to abolish traps, ventilators and air shafts, notwithstand ing the long lived scavengers, the healthy plumbers and the venerable subterranean rats.—New York World. unexpected and most unwelcome storm was communicated to others by those of the audience who first saw the umbrellas, and in that way it became the exciting and exclusive subject of conversation throughout the building. Gentlemen carefully covered their silk tiles with their handkerchiefs, rolled up the ends of the legs of their trousers and turned up their coat collars. Ladies prepared them- j selves in the conventional way for a pro- j Yoking walk to the cars, and others sent their gallant escorts flying after umbrel las, coaches and waterproofs. In about ten minutes the real state of things, the pretty how to do, had been discovered, and then came unbounded hilarity and a resolve on the part of the weatherbound boys to try it on somewhere themselves. —New York Times. OF Foreign Literature, Science and Art. ‘The Literature of the World. 1SSS—44tli YEAR. H arper’s \Vkkkey- lias a well-established place as tiie leading illustrated newspaper in America. The fairness of its editorial com ments on current politics has earned for it the respect and confidence of all impartial readers, and the variety and excellence of its literary contents, which include serial and short stories by t he best and most popular writers, fit it for tiie perusal of the people ol the widest range of tastes and pursuits. 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Whenever the imperial family of Russia passes that point in winter a viaduct is built leading from the Prussian carriage to the imperial waiting rooms at Wir- ballen. the Russian frontier depot. Such a viaduct is now constructing. It is made of stout Yvood. covered all over with thick felt veiled under copious folds of rich carpets and curtains, lest the sensitive skins of their majesties and their off spring. just risen from the measles, should feel a draught and catch a cold on their run from the Prussian to the Rus sian saloon car.—Chicago Yews. Too Clever School Boys. Although boys are often rather hard in j their treatment of each other, they cer- j tainly always stick together when one of i their party is in trouble. There are hun- j dreds of instances of this, but a most , amusing one occurred whilst Dr. Vaughan whs head master of Harrow. He was | returning late one evening from a dinner j party when lie caught sight of one of his j pupils, who was taking a Yvalk when he 7 ought to have been in bed. The moment Harper’s Young People interests all the bov saw Dr. Vaughan he ran for his j voung readers by its carefully selected varie- life Off started the master in hot pur- ty of themes and tlieir well-considered treat- . , . . . . . . • ment. It contains the best serial and short suit, and he just succeeded in seizing ins ; stories, valuable articles on scientific subjects pupil bv his coat tails. After a good j and travel, historical and biograpical sketch- 1 ia-7r.o-. Joc fho hnv ocrtiwl hut lie I “ s > papers on athletic sports and games, stir- many struggles Lie IX)y escapeu, : ring poems, etc., contributed by tiie brightest left one tail in the doctor’s hands. The j and most famous writers. It’s illustrations master made sure that he would find out j ;l ,re numerous and excellent. Occasional nia tei , . | Supplements of especial interest to Parents the culpit next morning by his coat, but H nd Teachers will be a feature of the forth- when lie entered the school everv bov of J coming volume, which will comprise fifty- i- i,_,i r,nl-iT one tail to liic t,ir ee weekly numbers Every line in the pa- the sixth lorm had only on t< _ p er j s subjected to the most rigid editorial coat, so the offender escaped punish- scrutiny in order that nothing harmful may men t._Manchester Times. enter its columns. Our First Mail Service. An epitome of everything that is attractive , and desirable in juvenile literature. — (Boston The first record contained m our colo- j courier. A weekly feast of good things to the beys and girls in every family which it Yisits.’— f Brooklyn Union. It is wonderful in its wealth of pictures, in formation. ami interest.— [Christian Advo cate, N. Y. A Methodical Authoress. In her daily life Mrs. ©inali Mulock- Craik was remarkably methodical. Though many of her works appeared in it came to on that terrible night, and that periodicals, she would never under any lifc and death depended on it. By the circumstances consent to a beginning of There is no place where the ups and downs of lire occur more rapidly than in Washington, and as a result the pawn brokers of the capital are all wealthy. The south is drawing largely from northern capital. It is said over $160,- 000,000 of capital has gone south within the last year. _.. time the horse was cared for I tvas in shape to be resuscitated in case any such thing could be done. I was stripped and rubbed briskly with snow and snow water for more than an hour before I gave any evidence that I might be called back. Then another hour was spent in the same treatment, when a spoonful 'of brandy Yvas poured down my throat. After that the circulation was started, and my agony began. That suffering lasted for an hour, and—well, I can say this: Freeze to death if you want. You’ll like it. 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