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GENEKAL kews. Key West is to have $150,000 hotel, TliE cotton crop in Texas will be 1,070, 000 bales less than last year. A hotel, costing $500,000, is to be biiilt m New Orleans before tho Exposi¬ tion opens Pubino the year no less than 18,086 hom esteads have been entered in Florida, The FI >rida piue-apple is second in jmpoatance only to tiie orange and lemon. bushels of peach stones were Sixty Hawthorne, Fla,, last week, received at ffhic hwM be planted out for a nursery. T^E oldest man in Pike county , Ala., is sa id to be Thomas Grimes, of Spring Hill. He is 106 years old. XT is estimated, so says the Palatka Hernld, that five hundred thousand alli gators were killed in Florida last year. By the census of 1880 there were in Alabama 1,335 physicians and surgeons, 798 lawyers, 1,214 clergy-men, and 74 journalists. has been discover¬ A deposit of marl ed on the Conecuh river, in Alabama, ■which promises to be valuable for com pounding with other elements as a ferti¬ lizer. Two cypress trees have recently been cutin Sumpter county, Fla. From one 33,000 shingles were made, and from the other 37,000 shingles and 6,100 clap¬ boards were made. Wolves are so plentiful in the Black Mountains of North Carolina that they are poisoned with strychnine, and their depredations render farming and sheep¬ raising very uncertain. A Gum tree in Florida was fired the other day, and the occupants summarily evicted were a swarm of bats, followed by flying-squirrels, screech-owls, various other night birds, two coons and one ’opossum. Improbable that a telegraph line will be built from the cable of the Western Union Company through the Everglades to Jupiter Inlet, on the eastern coast of Florida. A survey of the country is to be made as early as possible. Pensacola Commercial: The moss crop of this State is worth more than the cotton, and can be put on the market with very little expense. The demand exceeds the supply, and there is not a county in the State in which the product is not now going to [waste. The dogs at the Louisville bench show were valued at $250.000. Fortunately for the dog raising industry, they are exempted from taxation. The same value in sheep would be annually taxed about $2,500. Yerily, the dogs are hav¬ ing their day. Leeds is spoken of as the next mining and manufacturing town in Alabama. Its situation is excellent, being in the bosom of the great mineral sources, with plenty of water power around, and a fine brac¬ ing climate. Several wideawake men are already at work developing the place. Mississippi has $7,000,000 a invested in manufacturing industries, a gain of 100 per cent, in five years, and Alabama has $5,000,000 in the iron production. The lastSouth Carolina legislature chartered nine new cotton factories with an aggre¬ gate capital of $1,725,000, and in three years 275,139 spindles have been added to the manufacturing capacity of the Carolinas, Alabama and Georgia. A Machine for picking cotton has. tlie Charleston News says, been satisfac torily tested in Sumpture, South Carolina Its capacity is two hundred pounds pei hour. The cost of picking the late crop by hand was $50,000,000, or at the rate of $7 per bale. The cost of picking by machine will be $1 per bale. It is esti mated that a third of the crop has been left in the field in seasons past because of lack of hands. The machine will remedy this. Montgomery Advertiser and Mail: The number of persons who emigrated to Texas and other portions of the YVest and are returning home is astonishing, On one of the north-bound trains of 1 he M. and M. road a fe»v nights ago, eighty of the passengers, and on another suc¬ ceeding, sixty were returning from Texas to their former homes in Alabama and adjoining States. Most of them were former citizens of this State. The original seal of the Confederate States, which is of massive silver, is still in the hands of an ex-Confederate sol¬ dier, who treasures it carefully. It con¬ sists of a device representing an eques¬ trian portrait of Wa-.hington (after the Btatue which surmounts his monument in the Capital Square at Richmond), sur¬ rounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the Confederacy (cotton, tobacco, sugar¬ cane, corn, w heat), and having around it file words. “The Confederate States of America, Twenty-second February, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-two,” with the following motto: “Deo Vindice.”— The Confederate monument at Magnolia Cemetery to the memory of the dead Who fell in defense of Charleston hears on one of its faces an enlarged represen¬ tation of the great seal of the Confede¬ rate States. THE WEEKLY. VI. EDITOHIaL aOTES. Germany has 500 mills for the manu facture of wood pulp. Such a degree of perfection has been attained in the treat¬ ment that even for the better qualities ot paper the wood pulp is substituted for pulp made from rags. It const! lutes io per cent of the paper stock used throughout Germany. The Methodist Episcopal Mission at New York, appropriated $15,482 for mis¬ sionary work in Bulgaria and Turkey, $34,000 for Mexico, -and $35,648 for Ja¬ pan. The total appropriations for for¬ eign mi-sions is $370,898. The appro¬ priations for domestic missions are • Arizona, Dakota $8,000 ; Black Hills, $3,600,’ and $13,525. Large fortunes are rare in Switzerland and the salaries . of public functionaries are very modest. The president of the confederation receives for Lis services only $3,000 a year: few judges receive more than $l,2o0, and there is probably no bank manager m he country with a salary of more than twice that amount, A man with an income of $2,500 is con sidered very well off indeed, and to have $5,000 a year is to be “passing ricii.” General Wright, chief of enginees, wants in the next fiscal year $36,730,485, wo* undertlie direet , ion of tlle Mississipp rivel . commission. He proposes to ex pend | 90 000 i n Charleston harbor, $I35 000 m fte Savannan river> and $20,000 in Cumberland sound. The es¬ timates for the Atlantic cost are for car¬ rying on operations on 145 of the 151 improvements in progress. They pro¬ vide for the completion within the com¬ ing fiseal year of 75 of them. While the men and boys of America were drinking eight gallons apiece of beer and whiskey last year they did not exhaust the stock of the manufacturers in this country. They exported over 5,000,000 gallons of spirits and supplied Europe with 235,000,000 pounds of to¬ bacco. The tobacco went almost entirely to England, France and Germany, while the liquor found its way over almost the entire area of the civilized world. In spite of the fact that we used 75,000,000 gallons „ of x- our own wlnskey m • xi J.e „ _„„i. past yeaf, there were imported 8,000,000 gal Ions of spirits of various sorts, which, by the way, is more than we exported in the year.' It is proper to add, that the internal revenue tax collected upon this whisky, beer and tebacco during the past fiscal year was $140,000,000. and that the internal revenue system, since its inception in 1863, has brought into the treasury a total of $3,087,376,125,05. An adroit reasoner once wrote an essay on tea as a cause of cri ice in which he contended that this mild beverage wrick edmore nerves and ruined more consti tutions than all the various forms of alcohol combined. The consumption of tea is increasing rapidly and tea drinking is becoming more and more of a social custome in England and America Sugar is going out of favor at fashionable Ame rican tea parties, and cream is losing ground. The French drink their tea very sweet and help themselves to sugar with their fingers. The Russians, who set many of our social customs for us, prefer lemon with both hot and cold tea and seldom use sugar. The luxurj of tea drinking is said to be offered in its most tempting form in Russia. Their best brand costs ten dollars a pound aid its proper preparation for the table is one of the national fine arts. Some startling facts are disclosed in the report of the commissioners of internal revenue. Last year the tobacco factories in this country used 11,653,339 pounds of licorice in fixing their goods for the market. Besides this they used 11,257,100 pounds of sugar to make the stuff taste good. The total amount of tobacco manufactured in the United States last year was 110,000,000 pounds. So that it is fair to conclude that ten per cent, of the tobacco chewed by free American citilens, is licorice and another ten per cent, sugar. New Jersey takes the lead in the manufacture of tobacco, with Missouri a close second. North Carolina third, and New Y’ork fourth. In the manufacture of cigars New York leads the list, having 3,893 factories and making a miilion cigars a year, The to¬ bacco factories and importers supply for every male person in the country ten pounds of chewing tobacco, three and a half pounds of smoking tobacco, two CONYERS, GA.. NOVEMBER 23. 1883. hundred and fifty cigars, and half a pound of snuff. The whiskey showing is still worse. Every male person in the country cohUI have had six gallons a piece last year if the quantity cconsum ed had been ebually divided, while there was enough malt liquor destroyed to furnish every man, woman and child with ten gallons each, The delightful luxuries, while they regaled the Ameri¬ can voter, paid the treasury $140,000,000. When fertilizers fail it is customary to blame the manufacturers, without stop¬ ping to think that no manufacturer can make a fertililer that will suit all soils. No two farms are alike in their wants. Then, too, the season may be adverse to the manner in which the fertilizer is put in the sol The Petersburg Index Appeal says the chief reason is found in the failure of tho farmers “to supply their lands with that quantity of organic matter which they alwavs need, and without which no stimulant is ot much value. All soil requires more or less of organic matter (humus,) and if this is insuflk-ent for the requirements of crops, xk e fertilizer remains comparatively inert. All must have noticed that ferti¬ lizers act best on soils rich in vegitable mould. The fact ought to supply the farmer with a valuable hint, Organic material is the basis of fertility, and all land should be liberally fed with it.— <» such soil, andon noother - LATER NEWS. Immense rlamagcvfas been done by a tor¬ nado in Oxford, Franklin and other counties of Maine. Millions of trees were blown down, many houses and barns des'royed, churches unroofed and railroad bridges moved from their foundations. The Fuses aggregate hun¬ dreds of thousands of dollars. The sum of §150,000 has been raised by sub. scription for the purpose of estab’isliing a general Unitarian headquarters in Boston and immediate steps will be taken to purchase an eligible sight and erect a suitable building. At the Prospect Fair grounds, Brooklyn the bay gelding Frank, with running mate, trotted a mile in 2)0834, thus beating 2:10J£ the best record, which was made by Maud 8. without mate. John VV affix, of Cleveland, bet a dollar that he could drink fifteen glasses of whiskj in fifteen minutes, and won the wager, ba* lost his life. Trinity cathedral, one of the most iuipos m? Episcopal buildings in the country was consecrated at Omaha, Neb., by the founder, Bfchop clarkS0U) assistel by Lord Bishop s weetraan 0 f Toronto, Bishop Garrett, of , Texas, and other clergymen. The National league, for the suppression of polygamy, in session at Cleveland, adopted an address to the country denouncing Mor¬ mon practices and urgently requesting “tluq petitions be circulated in every city, town and school district in the United States, ask¬ ing Congress to submit to the legislatures of the various States an amendment to the con¬ stitution prohibiting polygamy.” During the recent heavy storm the barge •Milwaukee wasdost with her crew of seven men in Lake Ontario. The annual report of General Merritt, su. perintendent of the West Point Mi-ltary academy, says that on September 1, 1883, there were at the aa lerny fifty-five pro¬ fessors and commissioned officers and 311 cadets. There were no deaths during the year among the cadets, officers or soldiers, The average cost of subsisting each cadet are goo(b altho „ gh the practice of hazing hai n ot yet been entiiely broken up. Gold in prying qu mtities has been found j n the province of Quebec. Senor Juan Valera, a distinguished pP' d ” a f “ al ’ n °’f be fc en a a n ^ )0 S™d succeTsorto^he ^ g no r Barca> who kille 1 himself in New York, as Spain's diplomatic representative in he United States. Furs.— An importer and exporter of furs gives this information: “The house cat is one of the most valuable of fur¬ bearing animals, and when they mys¬ teriously disappear from the back fence they often find their way to the furrier. It is an actual fact that in 1882 over 1,200,000 house cats were used by the fur trade. Black, white, maltese and tortoise-shell skins are most in demand. They are made into linings and used in philosophical apparatus. As for skunks, 350,000 were used in this country last season, valued from fifty cents te $1.20. They come from Ohio and New York principally, and, as in pursuit of the tiger and lion, the bravest men are re¬ quired.’’ Dropped Out. —It appears by a lecture of Mr. Laughton, delivered at Greenwich recently, that the old Royal George, whose sudden careening, just as she was ready to start on a cruise with hundreds of men on board, has been the subject of verse and romance, really went down because she was rotten, and the unusual weight in her hold caused her bottom to drop out, on which she filled and sank One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. Fools will otten mane success where prudent people fail. IMPORTANT TIME CHANGE Changes in tlic Time by which *he Uailroads oft tiie Country are Hun. The changes made on Sunday, November 18, in the tune by which about all the railroads in the country are run, cannot be brought about, at the best, without considerable friction, says the Scientific American. In Boston, for instance, there is no little opposition to the putting of clocks and watches back some seventeen minutes, as will be necessary under the new provision for “Eastern standard” time, but orders have been issued for many of the pi b ic clocks in that city to be so regu¬ lated, and, as the whole railroad system of the Eastern States will be controlled by this standard, tho prevailing opinion seems to be that the innovation will ba generally will accepted. There may 1)6 some -who at first carry the two kinds of time, the “stand¬ ard” and the true, as can bo rea !i y done by having two minute hands on a watch; this is now ire ment'y pract ce 1 to keep both New York and Boston time, by those who travel much between the two cities. In ISew Yo<k citv whi-ra the change required calls for putting back the prebibly true time be !e;s only opposition four^ min¬ to utes. there will the a motion of tiie new standard, but confusion it may b> readily conceived that great is at will inevitably be caused wherever it tempte l to use the two kinds of time simul- 1 ft T> 11 go Vi sly. adoption of the plan there will v the new practio illy be onlv four standards of time throughout the country, instead of forty nine as at pres n'. Tiie time-tables of many of tiie railroads will also order have to to facilitate be change:!, tile as well as the clocks, in between lines affected making of connections over < on-iderabie distances east and west. The following list of changes lias, therefore, boen furnished by Mr. W. E. Allen, secretary of the railroad conventions which decided upon the adoption of tiie new standard, the letter t denoting that the clock is to be set anead, and the letter s that it is to be set Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, east of Dodge City, clocks only. D minutes, f. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, west of Dodge City, clocks and schedules, 51 minutes. Baltimore and Ohio (west), both clocks and schedules, 28 minutes, Tunnel s. and Western, both Boston Hoosac clocks and schedules, 4 minutes, s. 10 min Boston and Albany, clocks only U division), clocks Canadian Pacific (Eastern only, 0 minutes, s. Hudson Canal Company, Delaware and clocks only, 4 minutes, s. and Western, both Delaware, Lackawanna, clocks an 1 schedules, 4 minutes, s. Louisville, Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, and both clocks and s: heluies, 23 minutes, s. Freehold and New York, both clocks and schedules, 4 minutes, Connecticut s. Western, clocks Hartford and only, 4 minutes, Shore and s. Michigan Southern, both Lake clocks and schedules, 28 minutes, s. Lehigh Valley, clocks only, 1 minute, f. Louisville and Nashville, clocks only 18 minute=, s. Pacific, clocks, schedules at St. Missouri Louis only, 8 minutes, Erie, s. and Western, clocks New York, Lake onlqq 4 minutes, s. (New York Central and Hudson River, clocks only, York 4 City minutes, and Northern, s. clocks only, New 4 minutes, s. New York and New England (east of 14 Con¬ min¬ necticut), both clocks and cchedu es, utes, s. New York and New England (in Connecti¬ cut), both clocks and schsdu’es, 4 minutes, s. Pennsyrvan a. New York division, both clocks and schedules, 1 minute, f. Pennsylvania, all divisions except New Yo:k. c ooks only, and 1 minute, Reading, f. both clocks Philadelphia minute, f. and schedule -, 1 Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg, clocks only, 4 minutes, s. Gambling Legally Defined. The Supreme Court of Michigan holds pools selling on games of base ball to be gambling within the meaning of the statutes of that State against keeping gaming rooms. The fact that the games upon which the wagers are laid do not take place in the room, but at a distance, is unimportant. of billiards “Betting upon played a game in New York,” which is being readily be says Judge Cooley, “can as in the carried on in a distant city as, very and room where the playing is going on; if the latter is a gaming room so must the other be.” The court considers it to he gaming al¬ or gambling to bet upon any game, though the game may be perfectly between inno¬ cent and there may be no wager the players themelves. Betting is thus equivalent to gambling whenever the bet is to be determined by the result of a game, but there may be betting which is not gaming, as for example, in the case of an election wager. Horse races, however, as well as dog fights, foot races and cock fights have been held to be games within the terms of the English the statute on the subject, passed in basis time of Queen Anne, which is the of much of the American legislation. Pensions. —In the United States the average value of a pension is about §105. The average date when arrears begin to accrue is 1864. The number of unset¬ tled claims now pending which involve arrears is 148,813. In addition, 95,692 claims are pending which will not in¬ volve arrears, The present annual charge for pensions is $32,0110,0( 0. If half the pending claims are allowed, this will be increased to $84,836,565. If no further claims are received, the an¬ nual charge will of course diminish slowly at present, but very rapidly in a few yeafs. A Guy Hooter.— Mr. Edwin Booth, when told that a “guy hooter” was a regular attacliee of a girl’s baseball nine, and was hired to make boisterously funny remarks in order to excite the crowd to laughter, said that it was a i good idea for the comedians. “Put a I good infectious laughter into an audi I ence,” said he, “and it would he a tre¬ mendous help to a tarcial performance.’ 1 NUMBER 35. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. WHAT WE FIND IN THE HUMOROUS PAPERS. SHE GOT IT. “’There,” called out a woman who was a passenger on a Bay City train leaving Detroit a day or two ago. “I’ve went and gone and left my satchel in the depot! Somebody call the conductor !” A benevolent man with a bald head and a double chin volunteered bis ser¬ vices, and after a time the conductor was brought in. “Can’t you stop and run back ?” asked the woman. “No, ma’am, but I’ll telegraph to have your baggage sent on. What is it?” “A satchel.” “Very well,” he said as he began to write. “It’s an old satchel with one handle off, and the lock broken, of cottrce. ” “Y-yes, sir; but it’s none of your business if it is. You don’t buy my satchels!” “No, ma’am—of course not. Let’s see! I’ll telegraph them night-cap.” to open it. The first thing on top is a “S’posin’ ’tis !” law she agin blustered wearing up. night¬ “I guess there is no caps !” t * No, ma’am; and the next thing is a pair of black woolen stockings which have been darned in the heels. What next ?” ‘ ‘The next thing is that if any man in this ’ere State of Michigan dares to open that satchel and go to pawing over tho contents I’ll make a corpse of him !” she exclaimed, as she untied her bonnet, “But I must telegraph.” “Then you call it a black satchel kind¬ er busted in on one side and kinder busted all to Goshen by you railroad wretches on both ends, and let it go at that! I won’t have it pawed over.” “But, madam, you—” “Not another word,” she said, as her spectacles danced on her nose. Do as I tell you, and if they can’t find it I’ll come back and stir things up and bounce folks around till they’ll think it’s a bad year for burrieanes. Just say a busted black satchel, and add that if it comes along with the other handle pulled off I’ll begin a lawsuit to make this railroad flicker!" The busted black satchel left on the next train .—Detroit Free Press. ON THE WRONG BACK. An invalid gentleman and his wife had engaged a berth in a Pullman car on a certain railway. Toward midnight the patient awoke with a severe pain in his back, and asked his wife to possible. apply a mus¬ His tard plaster as quickly as plaster ready better half at cnce got the and then ran to the other end of the car¬ riage to warm it at the lamp and make it draw all the better. Returning to her sick husband the little woman unfortu¬ nately went to the wrong bed, which hap¬ pened to lie occupied by a stout German wine merchant , who, was fast asleep. She quickly drew the curtain, lifted the bed¬ clothes, and in a twinkle clapped the plaster on the traveler’s back, At that moment the sick husband called out from the berth: “Mary, what a long time vou are !” Now the poor woman first became aware of her terrible mis¬ take. Hurrying to ber husband she told him in a whisper of what she had done. The poor sufferer could not help laugh¬ ing in spite of his pain, and lie laughed until his pain had left him. Then all was still for awhile, until suddenly loud cries and imprecations were heard pro¬ ceeding from the wine traveler. “Herr gotsmiilionendonnerwetter ! What is it that I have got on my back ? Himmel mel-bombemgranaten - elements-donner nnd Hagslwettei! Whew, how it burns! Water! Fire ! Ah ! Oh! my back ! The bed is on fire ! Thunder and light¬ ning ! Water! my back!” We draw a veil over the rest of the story .—Port Jervis Union. PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY. De reason dat we thinks dat our mud ders could beat anybody cookin’ is be¬ cause we kain’t carry de boy’s appertite inter ole age. When my wife says “Doan yer think yer’d better do so an so,” I commences ter argy wid her, but when she says, “Go an’ do so an’so,” I hus’les den an’ dar. I knowed one man what was so good dat he wouldn’t pull a steer outen de ditch on Sunday. He was arterward sont ter de penitentiary fur stealing a horse on Tuesday. De baby is more ap’ ter die den de man; de little apple is more ap’ ter fall den de well grone one; de ole man is more ap’ ter die den de young man, fur de ripe apple is al’ers ready ter drap. It is a mighty good thing ter be ’dustrious, but too much stirrin’ ’ronn’ ain’t good fur seed yer. by De pateridge is more ap’ ter be den when de hawk when he’s flyin’ ’bout lie’s restin’ under de bush. Once a man tole me dat he didn’t want de office wliat he had been nominated fur, an’ dat he wnn’t agwiiie ter ax no man ter vote fur him, but when he foun’ dat I had voted agin him he come aroun’ an’ raised a row wid me. Now, when a canerdate tells me det he doan want de office, I may not say mi thin’, but I has a mighty stron ’spiciondat he’s a bar .—Arkansaw Traveler. THE RIGHT OF CONQUEST. “Why do you make such a face in tak¬ ing medicine?” asked a wife of her hus¬ band. “You pour it down Tommy.” “Yes, because I am stronger than Tommy. If Tommy were stronger th pour it down me.” =—rl rla THE FARMER AND THE TELEPHONE. The Saginaw (Mich.) into Courier says:— A; farmer stepped wanted a grocery sell house here and to a load of apples. The buyer for the firm was at the telephone, and the financial man told the farmer to wait a moment, and as the buyer turned from the tele¬ phone the man of cash, who was busy, and attracted his attention by a nudge, pointed to the apples. He went out with the farmer and asked him what his apples were worth. The farmer pulled went down into his pocket, and out a dollar, and pointed to the bushel basket on the load. The buyer said, “That’s too much. I’ll give you 75 cents. ” The farmer shook his head and flourished the dollar. He was told it was too much, and that he must take something less. He took out a scrap of paper and wrote 85 cents and $1, and then by mo¬ tions indicated that he would take 85 cents for one lot and $1 for the others. The buyer said, “All right, but why don’t you talk ?” The farmer found his tongue, and replied: “ Why, ain’t you deaf?” “ Not that anybody knows of.” “ What did you have that tube to your ear then for ?” and the man from the rural districts learned about the tele¬ phone. ONE OP LINCOLN S STORIES. Secretary Lincoln lias enough of hia father’s nature to enable him to make good stories and to tell them well. When he was in Chicago with Arthur he, with a number of other gentlemen, was en¬ joying an after-dinner chat, when be told this story, illustrative of the craze in Chicago for entering the plea of self defense : Three men quarreled in a room above a saloon, when one of them fell dead from heart disease. Tho others were fearful that .they would be charged with murder, so one went to the saloon and enticed tho bartender out, while tlia other carried the corpse down and placed it in a chair with its head on a table as if tender sleeping off a drunk. When the bar¬ returned the two men took a drink, saying the drunken man in the cliair would pay for it, and went away. The bartender soon shook his customer and demanded his pay. The corpse fell over on the floor, and as the bartender stood trembling with fear, the two men returned with an officer. The bartender, anticipating his arrest, quickly said, “ He struck me first.” SUPPOSING A CASE. It was an ingenious witness that turned the laugh upon the genial County At¬ torney of Androscoggin County, Maine, at court recently. The case was the Philip Atkins case. “Now, sir,” said the County Attorney, would holding up a gold chain, “what you have thought if you had seen such a chain as that around the respondent’s neck ?” “Well, I can’t say. I didn’t see any such chain.” “Well, if yon had?” “I can’t say; never see any such chain on Atkins’s neck.” “Yes,” replied the Attorney; “but let us suppose a case. Suppose, for in¬ stance, that you had seen this chain around Philip Atkins’s neck; what would you have thought, knowing At nins, as yon do ?” The court-room was very quiet. Tho witness drawled perceptibly as he re¬ plied: “Well, I suppose if I had seen it, I should have thought that he had a gold chain around his neck.” The Judge relasped, and the audience exploded, and the prosecution lost tho point .—Lewiston Journal. Domestic Recipes. A delicious way to prepare baked apples for tea is to cut out the core be¬ fore baking. When ready to send to the table fill the space left in the apple with sweet cream with a little powdered sugar iu it. Quinces are also excellent prepared in the same way. In these butter may take the place of cream if more convenient. A delicious hot sauce for puddings is made of six tablespoonfuls of sugar, two of butter, and one egg; beat the butter, sugar, and the yolk of the egg together, then add the white beaten to a froth; lastly stir in a teacupful of boiling wa¬ ter and a teaspoonful of vanilla. One way to economize and to produce excellent results in cooking is to use suet in place of butter or lard. For many purposes it is better than either of these. Some people who object decidedly to cakes fried in lard relish them when snet is used for frying. Beef balls are very nice fried in suet. Round steak can be used for these. Chop the meat fine, sea¬ son well with pepper and salt and any herb you may choose, shape them like flat balls with your hands, dip in egg and fine cracker or bread crumbs, and fry in the hot suet. Fried Tomatoes.— Have ready over the fire a frying-kettle half full of fat, or a large frying-pan containing butter enough to cover the bottom to the depth of an inch; peel half a dozen firm toma¬ toes of medium size, and cut them in slices about quarter of an inch thick; put into a howl quarter of a pound of Hour, half level teaspoonful of salt, quarter of a saltspoonful of pepper, the yolk of one raw egg, a teaspoonful of salad oil or melted butter, and sufficient cold water to make a batter thick enough to hold a drop from the mixing spoon for an instant on its surface; beat the white of the egg to a stiff froth and mix it lightly into the batter; when the fat is smoking hot put dip the them slices into of the tomato hot into the batter, fat, and quickly fry them brown; when they are brown take them from the fat with a skimmer, lay them for a moment on brown paper to free them from grease, and then serve them hot. It Was There. Judge David Davis was once making a deposit at a Washington bank and stood counting a large pile of money at a desk. A well-dressed young man. stepped up and, with a bow and a smile, said: “Judge, you have dropped a bill.” Sure enough there lay a clean, crisp, genuine two-dollar Dili at the depositor's feet. “Thank you,” his blandly answered the judge, placing bill ponderous right boot over the on the floor and calmly resuming his counting. The sharper, taken aback by the coolness of the pro¬ ceeding, disappeared and the judge was $2 ahead by the transaction.