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COOKING RECIPES
.SCOTCH Tart -Line a pudding nan or
ed); cover the apples with sufficient sugar to
siit and sprin e small bits of butter.
Bake » a qu.e oven nnu. a nice brown,
Favorite PrnmNO.—Beat three eggs
very light, the whites end yolks
together; flavor with juice and the
grated rind of a lemon and half a t as
poonful of grated nutmeg; to this add orn
cup of grated bread crumbs, one cup ol fine
ly-cbopped apple, one cup of English cur
rants and one and a half cups of sugar; stir
these vigorously till well mixed, then putin
a buttered pudding d'sh and boil for at
least two hours and a half. Serve with any
good sauce.
Pork TEsntia.oiK. —Stew in water until
nearly cooked; then with a little butter in
a hot spider, fry to a light brown; have
a piece of buttered toast for each piece
of meat salt and pepper and moisten with
a thin milk gravy.
Minced Chicken —Mince cold cooke
chicken very fine, adding some minced ham
or veal and bread crumbB, moisten with
cream, season with pepper and salt, put it
m a pudding dish and spread a th.n coating
of butter over the top; set it in the oven and
base a nice Drown.
Tomato Fritters.— Use odp quart of
stewed tomatoes* one egg, one small teat
poonful of soda; stir in flour enough to
make a batter like that for griddle cakes.
Have some lard, very hot. on the stove:
drop the batter in, a spoonful! at a time, and
fly.
Poached Eggs. —Place a frying pan of
salted boiling water on the fire filled with
as many small muffin rings as it will hold;
break ths eggs singly in a cup and pour into
the ringr; boil them two and one-half or
three minutes; remove the rings and take
up the eggs singly in a strainer, serve on
half slices of nicely browned and buttered
toast; put a small piece of butter on each
egg; peper slightly, and garnish with sprigs
of parsley. Serve hot
Cobnmkal Muffins. — 1 Two cups of corn
meal, the same of flour, two and one hulf
leaspoontuls oi baking powder, ont-hall
enp of sugar, teaspoonful of salt, small piece
of butter, four eggs, milk enough to make a
stiff batter.
Tea and Coflee.
Coffee and tea are nalural allies, but they
are also natural rivals. As against alcoholic
drinking in any form they are combined.
It iB over the unoccupied territory, after al¬
cohol has been driven away, that tbe conten
tion between the two comes. Taking the
world through, tbe genera’ verdict seems to
be in favor of tea. Two of the largest em¬
pires in the world—China and Russia—are
tea-drinkers. In Bokhara and Samarcand,
and in most parts of Central Asia, the tea
urn is forever steaming. On the other
hand, tbe Arab and the Turk, and with them
the whole western part of the Mohammedan
world, are coffee drinkers. The decision of
Europe is riot absolute for either side. It
seems to be very much determined by what
we may call the accidents of the case.
The nations which can get good coffee
drink coffee. Those which can get good tea
drink tea Those which can get both drink
both. England claims to be oue ol these,
but tbe preference of England is beyond all
doubt lor tea and not for cc flee. The unfair
choice is very largely compecsnti d for iu
the United States—the chief coflVe-consum
ing country in thewoild. Englishmen too,
would probably make more use of coffee
than they do if they could once be induced
to overcome the initial difficulties of having
it prepared as it ought to be. Tea can be
made easily enough. It may be strong or
weak according to fancy. It is lea in eitliei
case. The right plan, we are assured, is to
put plenty of tea into tbe pot, then to add a
little more tea; aud, this done, to leave it to
chance whether the liquid comes out strong
or weak.
But whatever we may tea,
there is no good word to be said of weak
coffee. Coffee must be very strong if it is
to deserve the name of coffee at all. It is
a generous drink, and it is for generous
natures. The little arts which the frugal
housekeeper uses Id making tea are not to
he thought of in making coffee. There
must be no economy in the amount used;
no filling up of the pot; no making the same
materials serve twice over. That tea should
ever be made like this is bad enouga, but
there may be tastes so depraved as to put
up with it and see nothing to object to about
it The man has yet to be found who can
even make pretence of liking weak coffee,
dilated into ten times its proper volume
and as deficient in fragrance as in strength
some Pet Superstitions.
"T Ihiuk ih^^mTud there wrTTore idle silly sulTc super
sm.ons n in n the popular mind ou on the the wtg««
^d “•Whi an'tmmer^uhvriciau rr £
Tail .bout ......
oi mem. ”
“Take the popular ^ notion in regard to hy
h ^ a rwm<T a
™ l?,of ^ Tot Snfind a d the chiW wni
inelfficable f red.t Stbe niu“eenth cen
turv isn’t it? So is the corollary from
proposition, that when a child is bitten
a mad dog the beast must be killed to
the child from going mad Then there
that time-worn hut ever new scare that
ock babies’ breaths Wha: a cat could
with a baby s breath is a deep and
mable mystery to me I suppose they
into cradles where there are children
of the warmth, and superstiticus people
not in love with cats and especially
ones. They twist the vampire story around
till they get the breath-sucking story.
“Another mediaeval anatomical
is that a man has twelve ribs aud the woman
thirteen, because God look a rib from man
and made woman from it. You will iaufh ai
the idea, but I have beard men vehemently
declare that it was true, and wvie perf'.cl'j
astounded when ibey found out th.y were
mistaken.
“The most common superstitiou is the
charming away of -vam. Sensible white
people will do all sorts of little hoo-doo
tricks t °, get *! d ° f “ ^ "ll ^
whicb have been charmad 0 ffi The notion
that ;f a , oa d touches a person warts
come at the P !r.ce of contact is so strong
that I venture to say that there is not one in
twenty but is aB afraid of touching a toad as
•> rattle snake. Millions of toads are killed
annually on this account, when they are
really the farmers and gardeners bes!
friend, as they feed upon the bugs and
worms that destroy their plants,
’’The most of these superstitions are
harmless, but one of these wart myths is
probably the most dangerous superstition
extant. They say that if a horse hair (it
mast be a black one) be tied tightly about
a wart it wiU disapper. It will, usually.
Also, usually it is replaced by a cancer,
which is hardly a desirable exchange. More
cancerous growths are caused by this crazy
idea than come from any other cause. I
could go on for hours at a time on these
medical snperstitions, if 1 had time to relate
,hem, or you had to lis ten to me.”
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A Meetlng-Honse Two Centuries Ago.
a[J(j miflchiev0M boys think
ahould be compelled to
during the one holir and a
ha]f of ^ moden) choreh 6ervrice . Their
complaints may be moderated by reading
the following description of church services
in New England two hundred years ago,
when the praver was almost an hour long,
and all Blood'—
On foot, on horseback, singly or on pil
lions (some of the old women and little
children in ox carts perhaps,) they come,
Some tie their beasts to the palings, others
under housels they have had leave to build
near by. Entering the meetinghouse, they
take their allotted places—all the married
men and women, the elderly people, and
the civil and military dignitaries in the
seats and pews below, according io rule;
the unmarried r.i both sexes,in the ga leiiea,
with a paling between them , the boys
under sixteen on the pulpit and gallery
stairs, if the latter are not yet removed to
the otherwise in the “hinde seats, 1 '
tower;
or corner seats in the galleries—always
with tything men, “to keep them from
playing or sleeping." The younger children
on little benches in the aisles by the side of
the pews, into whicb they often creep, to
huddle around their mother’s foot-stove.
Those who are too young to sit alone are in
little cages in the pews close to their moth -
era. The negroes, slave or free—every tewn
has several of both—are on wall benches iu
ihe galleries—men and women apart, of
course—in the upper one, if there are two
tiers of galleries; or perhaps their dark
faces are peering out from those two queer
crannies opening upon the gallery from the
tower. These are two square pews built
for them at the head of each staircase in
he lower, from which they are entered.
They are sufficiently elevated above the
pews to be very conspicuous from
They are arched over the top,
balnstraded iu front, and so arranged as to
any communication with the other
in the gallery. The boys call them
swallows’ ne-te. Very near the pulpit on
either side sit the aged deaf—ihe men on
the right, the women on the left; adjoining
the pulpit in front, the elders, if there be
any; a step lower down, the two deacons in
their respective places. The most elderly
man of most distinguished birth or service
in the community, is honored with a seat
at the communion table—he, as well as the
elders and deacons, facing the congregation.
About the doorway the guard is seated,
each man with his bandoleer slung over his
shoulder, his match-lock close at hand.
There is a ruBtle at the door. It is the
minister? No; two constables leading in
culprit! He wears a paper cap on
his sin is written, and is placed
ously on the stool of repentance.
A Touching Incident.
The news of the sudden death of Mrs,
Ruth B. Simpkins, at Newport reently, has
recalled a touching incident in connection
with her. A beautiful little boy of hers
was taken ill with an acute disease, and to*
several days caused the greatest anxiety to
Mrs. Simpkins and the other members of
her family. One day the attending physi
can told her that the case was a most sen
OU8 one, and that there was little if any
ground for hope. From the moment that
this sorrowful news was made known to her
Mrs. Simpkins would not leave her child,
v hut watched . * and j tended * . j _• him all „.. through . the ..
. long, sad j hours , that A , followed, n A u Betore , i long
a change passed over his face, when she in
stinctively knew that .be shadow of death
bad fallen upon his features. At about the
same time he said to her, in faintest tones,
"Mamma, dear, please hold me!” extending
his hands toward her. Tbe devoted mother
lifted him from his bed to her own lap en
** hu vm, in such a wav
that his face was turned toward hers. He
looked into her eyes with a most pathetic,
pleading expression, and asked, “ Will you
sing * to me?”
, . ^ the nhvsi
-an attempted to dissuade her from comply
mg; but after only a moment’s hesitation
with her eyes filled with the deepest, tender
! «at Wve, looking into thoee ot her child
while he watched her face as if to read
tbereon what she endeavored to hide, his
J little band tightly grasping one of her fin
! RTS, his breath growing weaker and more
: weak—the mother’s lips parted, and ming
i '"‘g with the sobs of those about her, soft,
\ sweet, bird-like notes went out upon tbe
| air, and the faintest of smiles dawned on
( the little upturned face, as if in grateful
recognition of her effoit. Still she sang on.
with only the slightest tremolo in her voice,
i nothing to mar the fullness of the harmony,
The eyes were slowly closing, hiding their
light from her loving heait. while the notes
soft and low, still went out, filling the room
with a 6weet, rare melody, never ceasing till
the little eyelids tell, the tiny hand relax d |
its hold, and she knew her precious boy bad
pafsed to the world beyond. An unselfish
love is sometimes revealed to us in almost
divine fullnees and perfection.—Cape Ann j
Advertiser.
Pouring Oil on the Waves
Mr. Vincenzo Fo^dTcaro arrived in New
Up ,' °° 0 1 1880 he sailed from Mon
^ „ ( jn a , bree -ton boat,
he had bui , t him8ft lf : : He hed a crew
^ ^ mgn Makga wr , g reacbed on
^ q( p ebrurary) 1881, and there
^ ceaged for whi , e becauge tbe
and 8tore8 0 f tbe par ty had become
exbauBted r j; be little boat was enabled to
^ ^ the roug hest gale in safety by olive
oil being scattered on tbe. water.
Mr. Fondacaro was found by a reporter
at the Astor House ;—
“I claim,” said he, “to have made no
great discovery. 1 have no valuable patent.
For two hundred years it has been known
how oil would smooth the ruffled surface of
the sea and prevent the waves from break¬
ing, and ships in the whakng trade have
means. But until I made my voyage it
was not known how small a quantity of oil
would accomplish this result Generally a
ga j )on o{ od woa )d enable my boat to lay
. faove t0 > in a ga i e 0 f w i n d for twenty-four
hours and be f e "
' S!i
^ Fondacaro t h en described how he
made use of the oil. It was enclosed in
small, bottle-shaped bags, each bag con
mining about half a gallon. In case of a
ga ] e 0 f wind, when it became necceseary
to lay to, a large hag attached to the bow
of the boat was thrown overboard. I his
the sailor call a floating anchor or a drag,
This kept the boat s head to the wind. 1 *o
o(the 8ma11 ba<?s of oil were then thr0WD
overboard, one fore and one aft. Each , bag
had a small orfice through winch the oil
escaped slowly. It circled around the boat
and prevented the sea from breaking over
her and overthrowing her. “Of course,
said Mr. Fondacaro, the oil does not di
tninish the size of the waves, but renders
them comparatively harmless by preventing
them from breaking.”
During the voyage many hardships were
encountered. The sleeping berths were
necc esshrily small and generally wet, but
so accustomed did Mr. Fondacaro become
to such quarters that when the Canary
Islands were reached, and for four days he
was entertained by the governor and
lodged sumptuously, he found it difficult to
sleep in a feather bed.
On his arrival in Italy Mr. Fondacaro
received a visit from the king and queen of
Italy. He was invited to the royal palace
and very kindly treated. The King pro
posed that a subscription should be take.i
up for his crew, “but,” said Mr. Fondacaro,
“nothing came of it. Nobody subscribed,
and I was not going around with a paper
asking them to do so. The Italian govern¬
ment has taken no steps to make a practi
cal application of my process. The
Euglieh government experimented with oi)
by means of life boats. The English in¬
surance companies are likely to make it a
condition of granting insurance.’
The Circus Man’s Slogan.
-
A few evenings since, tbe class inexperi
mental study chanced to discuss the recent
attack by a mob, iu Dover, Del., upon the
people of O’Brien’s circus, and the question
was raised whether or not the cry of “Hey !
Rube!" is, as was affirmed in the published
accounts of that occurence, the circus men’s
rallying «ry for war, Mr. W. C. Coup, the
veuteran circus manager, settled it. Just as
he came in some one of tbe party tested him
by an experimental yell of “Hey I Rube 1
at his back, and hiB instantaneous jump and
look of combined alarm and ferocity were
reply enough for even the most skeptical,
He said:
“That is a terriahle cry to any man who
has ever seen its consequences, and it gives
me a cold feeling down my back, even to
hear it iu conversation. It means savage
force, desperate combat, and too often death
A man who has heard that yell sounded in
earuest, as 1 have, will not monkey with it
even in a parlor, among ladies and children.
I don’t know what its orign is or how it
came to be so universally recognized. 1
only know that ever since I have been in
the business or known anything about it
that has been the circus man’s slogan. It
used to . e equal to immediate discharge for
a man to yeU that about my show. Why,
I d rather have given a thousand dollars
any minute than hear u from one of my
men. hire d up in the air once and «
brings together, as it by magic, 200 or 300
men, all there are about the show, generally
powerful and determined fellows, armed,
perhaps, f. only with stakes and clubs,
but stakes , aud . clubs . , are terrible . ...
weapons in tbe hands oi such men,
all wild with excitement, and ready lor a
desperate and pitiless fight, tor they know
that is what the rallying cry means. It sig
miles to them, “You have to fight for your
lives, and to stand by one another or be
killed,” Thank God, it is less necessary
now than it used to be in early days ol mr
cus life in this country. Isay necessaay,
for there was a time-aud sometimes it
comes nowadays-when circus men had no
other resources than they had to stand to
gather’’—New York Sun
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Deatll Without Decay
—
The great curiosity of the monastry of
the Mount St. Bernaid is the morgue.
Here is death without decay; here, in this
woudrous air, on this pass more than 8,000
feet above the sea lev-el, purtretaetion is
j unknown; and bodies found in suows in
: wiuter—or after the white shroud ha-melted
away from the bosom of nature in the spring
—are preserved entirely so long as the
monks care to keep them. The grimness
of the spectacle is enhanced by tbe fact
that nearly everybody found is contorted,
twisted, strained and knotted up in fantastic
shapes. Now and then one which bears
the appearance of tranquil sleep is brought
in, but in most cases there are indications
that man a ad woman, in their battle with
nature, fought bard and desperately, aud
refused to be overcome until every part of
force was overcome. The brethren gather
up the bodies with tender care and place
them in the deadhouse. in the usaaily vain
hope that some relatives may come to
Uwm. ,
Mr and Mrs. Spoopendyke.
“Say, ray dear,” whispered Mr, hpoopen
dpke, closing the door carefully and ap¬
proaching his wife with a broad grin on hie
visage. “Say, my dear, Specklewottle's
down stairs in the parlor. He has come to
take dinner with us!"
“Great gracious 1” exclaimed Mrs Spoop¬
endyke, dropping her work and hustling up
to the glass to arrange her hair. “What
did he come to-day for ? Don't he know
it's wash day ?”
"He came for dinner!” retorted Mr.
Spoopendyke, turning pale around the lips.
“What d’ye 'spose he came for, to be wash
ed ? Wbat’s wash day got to do with .it ?
Think the man can be soaked in a tub and
hung over the clothes line with a measly
wooden pin astride the small of his back !
Well, he didn’t, he came for grub, and you
want to hustle around pretty lively and gel
it for him, or I’ll begin to serve up things
myself before long 1”
“But, my dear,” remonstrated Mrs.
Spoopendyke, “there’s nothing in the honse!
The clothes—"
“Then serve up the clothes!” roared Mr.
Spoopendyke, who had utterly lorgotten tbe
day ol the week when he had invited his
friend, and now wanted his wife to get out
of the scrape somehow, and at the same
time not let him d>wn with Specklewottle.
“Just put the clothes on a platter and set
’em before him!"
“You don't imagine he would want to eat
the clothes, do you?" asked Mrs. Spoopen
dyke, innocently.
“Just try him yelped Mr Spoopendyke
enraged at the idea of oeiug taken literally
“Just try him and sling in some of the
natural grace you always put on at the
table! 'Mr Specklewottle, have some of
this fricasseed petticoat?' ” and Mr. Spoop¬
endyke held out, the legs of hie trousers as
a woman holds her skirts and waltzed
around the room. Mr. Specklewottle
have a little of’this poached night shirt?
Now, Mr. Specklewottle, do try one of those
fried socks and a slice of the pillow sham I
Dear Mr. Specklewottle, pray let me help
you to a piece of this shirt and a pair of
stuffed cuffs! I made them myself, and
though they are aot as good as—’ that’s the
way to do it 1” continued Mr. Spoopeudyke,
suddenly concluding his remarks with a
war whoop, and presenting himself before
his wife all out, ol bieath. “Think you’ve
got that bill of fare right? See your way
to a successful! dinner party now?”
“There’s some cold shad, down stairs, and
I think there" is a raw ham in the cellar,”
ruminated.M.rB. Spoopendyke, regarding her
husband with a startled look of inquiry, as
if asking if he thought Specklewottle would
mind the meat being raw and the fish a
trifle cold.”
“That’s what he wants I” howled Mr.
Spoopendj'ke. “Bring forth the shad that
froze to death in the houseof Spoopeudyke!
Produce the ham with a’erumpled born that
milked the shad that froze to death in the
house of Spoopendyke! Develop the measly
banquet and let joy be unconnned 1 Ain’t
ye « ot no more sense lhan a bung hole ?
Think I’m going to bring the aristocracy
here to tatten on dead fish and live hogs?
[j ow ] ong ar ,, y 0U going to let that man sit
down stairs in a state of starvation ?
Where's that roast of beef I brought home
the other day ?”
“j think we ate that all up the day it camt
home,” sighed Mrs. Spoopendyke. “Do you
mf , an that roast with the queer little sticks
; t ?"
“The same,” replied Mr. Spoopendyke,
uerv ing himself for another ordeal. “Did
we eat the sticks? Am I to understand
that tnere is not one little dodgasted stick
left of all that affluent luxuriousness ? Lift
the impenetrable vail of obscurity off
the bower of the shrinking st'eks ?” he
ye jj od a8 ; t dawned upon him lhat Speckle
wot tle was in the parlor waitiug to be fed,
an d that, the social problem was no nearer
solution than when he started. “Let us
u , )rav el the mystery that hangs like a pall
over j be f a j e 0 ( the unhappy sticks, that
fbey may come f ortb aud frnctify Speckle
wo ttle,” and in the excess of his emotion
\] r Spoopendyke gasped for breath, and
r esting his hands on his knees, looked as
be were inviting his wife to a .ittle game of
leapfrog.
*•'! here’s seme lettuce in the hou e, and
, bought s. me sir:, wherries today, and I
COil ,d cook the steak I had left over for
breakfast,” murmered Mrs. Spoopendyke,
coming out triumphantly at tbe end, worn
“And I will put op my new wine
co l or ed satin, and we’ll give him a nice
SUDDer ”
Going . to put that , . Decolored , , satin .- on
wi
the , shad . A or the , ham? , y , « howled , ,, Mr. f c.*™™ bpoopen.
, , , ,
J ®' V '!° a ' a e ‘
. “ not a .f ““® r nBt,1 ... ltM ™ a8t ? d , ; Th, ! k
I br0U ?ht that “T . h " e " cl °° , k ^
af,e f ! B ? n « ^ brnWart? Got some
kl “ d 01 a ”° tU>n C ° W fish - raw hatr *
WOl ” y ’ ettuce - .8 reen «rawberr.es , and a
fr . ! ed C0W satisfy the cravmgs
of a man who has just won abet of a dinner
bu ' here Lr ' ! N ,00nk vke 8t ° PPed
-
short lhe la8t reVelat,0n WaS UmateD '
U0 ^ ,
W it . , bet, dear . r asked Mrs, spoop
as a
enkyke, opening her eyes in astonishment
? f 1 ^ I k ”“ “ W h “ ^ h ^ ? d y °“ ^ R ‘ Ven f
,ime ' W0U ?7 e a '“ Ce 8 “ Pper ° r
y °*. I 1 ™ 1!y lhink . -
“That settles it, squealed Mr. Spoop
endke, mad at himself for what he had
divulged and angrier still as he must explain
to Specklewotle how he was fixrd. When
I™ commence to think the free list is en
tirely suspended, borne day when 1 catch
you thinking, I m going to drive a spigot
in your bead and advertise science on tap;
hook science a dime extra; free lunch from
U to -
A,ld w ‘ tb * b ' s prospectus Spoon lyke
dashed down stairs and explained to Mr.
Specklewottle that, owing to Mrs. Spoon
kyke having a severe headache, they had
better postpone the dinner or go to a res
taurant,
“I ddn’t care,” murmured Mrs. Spoopen
dyke, drawing a paper of candies from an
upper bureau drawer. “I don’t care; it must
have beer, a very important thing they bet
on, when cold shad warmed ove* and a nice
beefsteak isn’t good enough to pay it. Any
way, he’ll be glad ot it for breakfast, and
the next time he brings a man here to din- j
that we don’t have anything to eat here
from one'week’s end to the other. Anyhow, j
she owes me a call, and I hear that the |
dressmaker disappointed her all last week j
so she won’t pay much attention to what he j
does say. And Mrs. Spoopendyke went
down to her supper of strawberries and let j
tuce, while her husband took it out with
Specklewottle in fillets of beef and yellow
Cliquot. Brook lyn E agle. j
The Modern Methuselah. I
"Auero Largo,” or “Long Hide,” accord¬
ing to the English deri vation of the Spanish
word, burned himself to death at the Real
del Castillo, California, last winter. For
some time the old Indian had been feeble
and unable to wa'k. During a period ol the
heavy rains that fall in that region, the old
man sought refuge in a cabin near by. One
day he crawled up to the house of Senor
Francisca Parma, and told him he was very
hungry, 'fbe latter gave him a good dinner,
besides furnishing food for future emergen¬
cies, and then instructed the other Indians
at the rancheria to care for him. They
replied that they had always done so, as they
eutertained unusual reverence for the old
man on account of his age. The day he
died was a cold day in Lower California,
and Long Hide was given an extra blanket
by his dusky friends. This he soon tore
into strips, put them on the fire, and soon
his “teepe,” or brush house was all ablaze,
Wh n this had been accomplished despair
tor the moment seeming ti seize him,
plunged)headlong into the burning mass,
A stout young Indian near by seiz d him
and tried to drag him out of jdanger, but
the old man grabbed a stake in the ground
near by, held himself in the fire, and before
otbRr be } p cou ! d cowe be was literally
roasted alive, dying within a few hours after
the occurrence mentioned.
LoDg Hide was married and the father of
several children when the mission of San
Diego was built, one hundred and twenty
years ago, and from what he told parties
who visited him, be must have been not less
than thirty years old at the time. Three or
four years ago he lost a son who could
remember when the mission was tirat built
by Franciscan friars. This son must have
been not less than one hundred and tweuty
years of age. Long Hide told of the first
settlement of Old Town years before the
mission was built, of the coming of ships for
water at Russian springs, and many things
of great interest in the past history of San
Diego and vicinily. Juan Melendrez, who
lives near the Real del (Castillo, says he
knew Long Hide fifty years ago, and that
he appeared nearly as o'd then as he did
the week before he died. He says the old
man frequently beat the best horses owned
in the country on trips to San Diego, one
hundred miles distant from the Real, aud
that he often chased deer until they gave
up with fatigue. He would then capture
them after they had lain down to rest.
Until a year ago he was able to walk about
and travel quite well. Since then he has
been obliged to craw! about on all fours, like
a cat or dog. He retained his sight per¬
fectly, and all the faculties ot mind up to
the day he died.—San Francisco Paper.
Cha'-ing a Loon With a Tug.
Just before a recent squall ia Chicago a
tug discovered a great loon and endeavored
to run him down, Tae <ap ain tells the
story himself: The looa is the shape of a
duck, but this fellow was as large as a doz¬
en ducks. He bad a white breast, and dar¬
kish bead and wings. We gave chase, and
i he went in a straight line. As we chased
he drank in water rapidly, probably taking
in ballast so that he could live and stay un¬
der water. He suddenly disappeared, but
came to the surface astern of us a minute
later, aud we turned and went after him a
gain. He seemed to realize that we wer
beat on his destruction, aud took to swim,
ming in a circle. Ours is a ten-mile boat
and, wilh the helm hard ove-% we made at
least the rate of seven miles an hour and
were gaining on him fast. Through in¬
stinct or something else, the great bird
made his circlesmaller aud smaller, so small
that we could hardly iollow. We tired him
how( , ve , a!ld fioaily carae upon him,
j standing ready with the pike-pole to spear
^ when ’ w 0 , lr g rige and horrot . be
^ qu hi g wgb feot in the Wilteri flapped
^ an(( give a cry , or how i that
'
. , “ f r. j £ never heard a hu
hp n J? „ diatrpaa n ttP r ‘ a more nieicinc b
® artr ® 11 ‘ DS or 8UCCor or mLr ^'
“God forgive mel came to my lips, and I
dropped , , the pike-pole and , sank , down , on
, ,
The crew lhc loon were lay all there awestricken, helpless, no and, one
raised a finger to hurt him. Soon after
ward that frightful squall str-ck us. It
blew a hurricane, and was so dark we could
see nothing except when the tearful thun
der and lightning came. It seemed like a
visitation upon us. The tug made bad
weather of it, and for a few minutes it
seemed as if our fires would be put out in
which case we must certainly have founder
ed . We finally got inside the piers safely,
aad -“P° a ««V soall-just as we did so that
^ circled O'er us with a low sort
of chuckle, and then went out to sea again,
Chicago News.
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What Trout Like.
-
The popular opinion has always been that
trout prefer worms to any other food, but it
j ga mistaken idea; flies are their favorite
d ; et They do not gain much tDsh until
the warm spring weather brings forth the
maDy varieties of flies that sw rm on the
waters. The experiment of feeding trout on
different kinds of food has been tried. Those
f ed entirely upon flies were decidedly the
beg , ; n appeara nce and in taste; next come
t boae f ed on minnows, and the poorest were
those fed entirely on ear h worms. In a few
favored streams they find the fresh water
shrimp, and where these abound they stem
to tb rive and grow very fat The angler
will find, therefore, it he can wait until the
: '™e when the dies and ^haetH)m^
better'condition thi^ear'y in
tbe gf ason.—Wakeman Holberton in Out
ing.
Receiving a Deputation
trod ^ ed ,oto the a ™y caused
tl! ‘ tao,lon the great
a '™ng so diers. Eve
e reg.ment of the Potsdam Guards
> nd ed a
6 P ,nt8 themselves toge
t °^! , orce a c,ttim 10 certain priveligea,
Without^ eve 1 )
°J 5' ey the were not entitJ
” 1otl severe penaltie
^ were liable under the milit
laws, they went straight to Sans Souoi
residence coming, and of the went King. Frederick 8aw ,’hj
out to meet them on |
terrace in front of the palace. Before j
ringleader of the malcontents could say
single word, the King commanded: "H|
Attention!—Bight about facel-Marcl
The whole band obeyed the word of
mand with the co
greatest precision and mar
ed off, awed into submission by the eye
voice of their e
old commander, and g
enough to escape without punishment.—]
Wanderer.
Family Altercations.
mu8t talU w h en daily in each others society
and , hf , y conld not at all ,; mt8| either on
priva(e or public affair8) agree 0Q .
point 0 f argument; and, though the^e disa
creement8 are ve , y pa i nfu i at tbe time th
are> we may 8 ay, necessities, ns otherwise
tbe man ond wife wou)d mere , y be a 8tup ; d
and op ; n j on l eaa pa ; r True, may no word
bg gpoken barbo , ing ft , eraonal inanlt . bu
tJie unpleasantness is there nevertheless,
and 't cannot truthfully be denied. To defy
these harmless altercations in wedded life,
one of the two must necessarily be a sort of
dummy, with machinery by which he can
be wound up to smile, weep, look grave,
shocked, sympathetic, or loving, and by
which he can be made to utter ‘'Yes, dear,”
“No, darling," and other desired remarks
at the other’s will. Who shall be the invent,
or of this sort of clock work, and who shall
be the one to submit to the ordeal ? We
shall not attempt to draw a picture of the
model wife, as men would wish her to be
We don’t believe they could draw it them¬
selves to their own satislation. However,
we will vouch,for it that all sensible women,
and most all the others, would prefer a
husband who now and then upset two or
three chairs, throws the bootjack through
the middle pane of the window—that is,
providing he had no trouble to keep his
own balance—to that most detested of all
creatures, the man who is as silent as the
gods of India, and who sits hour after hour
trying to ape a long faced and sorely perse
euted ourang oufang. His picture first
provokes merriment, then anger and disgust.
His wife is the most piii.able creature in the
world Fire, flood, an earthquake or even
a hurricane, might he welcome guests;
a man in a fit of sulks, never ! Wake him
up! As well might you try to revive
mummy, while his fit lasts. He is as rigid
and dead to seusibility as the tenants of an
Egyptian catacomb, and his
as hiu wife know-s, beggars all description.
The spouse of a henpecked husband heart!
regrets the nature of her mission,—Ex.
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An Gild Industry.
The manufacture of the oil of
green has some interesting features,
the Providence 1 ‘Journal”—in fact,
from a shoe-peg to a locomotive is
details of more or less interest to all readers.
Just at this time the essence of wintergreen
is very biuh—as high as three dollars
pound, The oil of wintergreen
chiefly from New York Sttale and
sylvania, where the wintergreen vine
birch trees grow in abundance.
green is a plant common in nearly
parts of the country, but not in every
do the inhabitants thereof make the oil
wintergreen. The makers of
essence are under the surveillance ol
government. The oil is made from
green when wintergreen is abundant. If
iB not plenty then birch is used. Tbe
of an oil-maker consists of a furnace
of rough stone, a boiler, a tin pipe,
trough, a barrel and running brook.
tin pipe leads from the top of the
through lhe water in tbe trough to a
Under the end of the pipe is placed a
rel, and out 1 * end of the pipe in the
is bung a glass jar. Tbe boiler is
with water and birch bark and
twigs. A fire is built, the steam is
through the tin pipe, and is condensed by
the pipes passim through the water in
trough. The oil of wintergreen and
water fall into the glass jar, but the
being heavier than water, goes to the
tom of ihe jar, while the water runs
into the barrels and is used again.
business is carried on in certain
; both day and night, as the pot must, be
boiling. The men who work at this busi¬
ness make their homes during the
in the forest or field wherever the birch
wintergreen is to be found. They enjoy an
all season picnic usuless the internal
nue collector “drops down” upon them,
1 e has done upou many, and
tbirty-six dollars for every still-like
para us he finds. It is supposed that
of the ru le affairs for con iensing which
Government calls still*, are so concealed
lhe forest that the collector does not
hem. The manufacturers dispose of it
oil) to apothecaries for about two dollars
L pound, * ho, after dilating with alcohol,
to confectioners and others at the
j apothecaries’ profits.
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Pay as Yon Ga.
This advice is always good, bat it
specially timely, now that the prospee
ahead tor work or business looks
, every , 0 , y . ee . 8 C , eer e U , u
i,n
many times have you said to yourself f
the past fe * years. If I could only
my b Us squared up. I never would
caught again, and you have fussed
worried iver debts, contrasted when
were flush and the prospect of pa,tug them
seemed fair. Now is a good t. ne to
over a new leaf, because it is just the
when the temptation to do the same
again is strong upon you. If your
£ re increased or you are selling more goods
and getting a better profit, you begin
think “now I can buy that new carpet
chamber set that my wife wants and can
pay for it in a short time.” You had better
wait until you have paid np all the old deots
&rSt \ Do ”' t g6t trBsted ' Pay ^
provisions . and groceries as you go a ong
and husband what you have over. Ih-n
relief from the old debts will be like thp
recovery from aboil you feel better when
A is well—and the comfort of feeling that
the little pile you accumulate is subject to
nobody’s lien, is a positive pleasure. Hush
times almosf invariably lead to speculation
includes not only the investment in stock or
lands for a rise, but the discounting of the
future for anything that you want Tbe
man who buys what he is unable to pay for
at the time of the purchase, is mortgaging
his life aud his labor,and incurring a burden
which most likely he will regret. “Pay as
you go” is a wise maxim, foryours-rif honest.
and for your neighbor just. I s ob-ervanee
Wld Wghten the cares and bnrdens of life,
sweeten toil, encourage industry, reward
honesty promote good neighborhood and
prosperity,
The young gentleman would no doj ii
pay but fact ample attention to the wall-flow]
is they can t see ! hern without ij
bility to the charge of being wall-eyj
—Boston Transcript. ;
If you waut to see a man indulge in t]
maizey dance, tred on his pet . om.—B<j
ton Commercial Bulletin.
He is an even-tempered carpenter w
can keep bis spirit-level when annth
workman wants to borrow it,—N. Y. Nei
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