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tine Way to HoH a Ham.
The following is the recipe of the fa¬
mous John Chamberlin of Washington
for boiling :< 1mm:
“To bull a 1mm a la Chamberlin, the
night before put the bam in a tub if
cold Wider, fleshy part downward, skin
part up. Next morning put the ham m
n large kettle or pot of cold water to
boil. Lei the wall r get hot gradually
and continue to cook the ham in a slow
boil, scarcely more than a simmer. At
the end of live hours lake the ham out,
throw the water out of the pot and fill
it with fresh cold water. Put the luun
back immediately and let it simmer or
boil slowly five hours more. Then add,
according to the size of your purse, a
gallon of \ inegar or a gallon of claret
or burgundy or champagne; then sim¬
mer or boil for three hours more. Then
take the ham off, skin it and put in a
cool place. Next morning trim it and
eat when you are ready.
“To prevent the liam from tearing or
the water suddenly boiling too fast it
Is always safe to w a piece of cotton
cloth tightly around the ham so as to
lit as close ns a glove. This will keep
the i Ml « n i against the
IM'-Micrt of i , Cf a; in letting (he water
le-d too I*.*.,!.’ New York Herald.
A ( lever Womfin’M Anavrcr.
“Do y hi not consider your husband
the most graceless sinner in existence?”
This question was asked the wife of
a gay Lothario by a rival for his affec¬
tions while playing a game called “can¬
dor.”
Tiie stillness became Intense and
every pair of eyes grew rounder as
those present looked from one woman
to the other. It was the husband’s
voice that broke the silence.
“Y*;ur question is out ol' order, Bea
trice.” In; said quietly. “It is a rule
laid ! s\ n in courts of law that a wo¬
man i i net required to testify against
her husband.”
in tie confusion that followed as tlie
game broke up the man sought Ids
wife's side. “What should j r ou have
replied l > the query of the fair Beatrice
If I had not come to your rescue so
neatlyV lie demanded.
“I should have said you were a sin¬
ner, yes, but a graceful rather than a
graceless one.”- J dpplncott’s.
Slow bn! Inexorable .lusllee.
Ill October, 1900, Pietro Glaconi and
Marie L nielli were tried at Rome oil
u charge of sextuple murder by poi¬
soning committed 31 years before. In
England Eugene Aram was hanged for
the murder of < ilarke 14 years after tho
e(Tense A man named Horne was ex¬
ecuted for the murder of ids child in
the eighteenth century no less than 35
year.; lifter the offense. There is also
the well known case of Governor Wall,
who was executed in 1802 for a mur¬
der committed in 1782. Shenvard was
hanged at Norwich for the murder of
his wife after a lapse of 20 years.
But Sir Fitzjaiues Stephens recalls
vrluit Is the most remarkable ease of
nil. He prosecuted ns counsel for the,
crown in 1863 a man who was charged
with stealing a leaf from n parish reg¬
ister 00 years before—that is, in 1803.
In this ease the prisoner was acquitted.
The Strength of n Shark.
Given special advantages, such as
that of holding the eml of a stout rope
nt the other extremity of which is a
hook fixed in a shark’s mouth, man
may, with the assistance of a number
of his fellows, have the best of the
shark. But alone and in the water the
advantage is wholly and absolutely the
other way, raid the strongest swimmer
nml tiie bravest heart fail when the
tyrant of the sea seeks to make his ac¬
quaintance.
The shark Is a creature gifted with
great strength, a savage temper, dog¬
ged perseverance and exceptional pow¬
er of jaw. The lion and tiger may
mangle, the crocodile may lacerate, the
bulldog may hold last—the shark atone
of living creatures possesses the power
of nipping ou a human limb at a clean
bite.
Gender of the Sword.
Among the many curious notions ob¬
taining among the different races using
the sword may be noted the gender of
the weapon. In tiie north of Europe it
was either masculine, as in Britain, or
neuter, as in Germany, while in tiie
south it was uniformly feminine. Its
force and cruelty appealed to tiie north¬
ern mlml. Its grace and elegance at¬
tracted the warriors of Hie sunny south.
It typified to the one strength, to the
other dignity.—Exchange.
Poor Meekton.
“Henrietta.” said Mr. Meekton, “do
yon remember the moonlit evening
When I asked you to marry me?”
“I trust, Leonidas, that you arc not
going to become sentimental and silly.”
“Not a bit of it. But I often recall
the occasion with interest. 1 can uev-!
er quite understand how I managed to
talk so familiarly to you without seem- :
ing impertinent.”— Washington Star.
AH Cork.
“There goes a man with two cork
legs. You’d never think it, would you?” j
“Go away! Didn’t I just see him 1
running across the street like a deer to
catch that street car? He couldn’t do i
that with cork legs, could he?”
“Certainly, if, a3 happens to be the
case, he was bom iu Cork.—Boston
Courier. .
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Timely Warning.
Proprietor—1 am satisfied with your
work, Pusher, and I will raise your
salary from $10 to $12 a week; but,
mind, that does not mean that you
must so and get married on the
strength of it—New York Times.
Written Chinese is practically uni¬
form throughout the empire and has
hardly altered during the whole course
of Chinese history. The spoken lan¬
guage. on the other hand, is constantly
changim,.
Voo Camphor Tree.
The c:« mhor tree (China mom urn enm
phora) is an evergreen, a member of
the laurc 1 family, belonging to the
same g- mis as the tree wlio.-e bark fur¬
nishes the spice called cinnamon, and
Is related to the bay and to the sassa¬
fras of the United States. Of sym¬
metrical proportions, it Is one of the no¬
blest objects in the forests of eastern
subtropical Asia. In its native habitat
it attains gigantic dimensions, notably
in girth of trunk, some specimens
measuring 10 to 15 foot in diameter. It
is said they have been known to reach
as much as 20 feet, and they may be GO
to over 100 feet high, and live to a
great ago.
As a rule, they rise 20 or GO feet with¬
out limbs and then branch out in all
directions, becoming a mass of splen¬
did and luxuriant foliage, Their
leaves, broadly lanceolate in form, are
of a light green color, smooth and shin¬
ing above and whitish or glaucous
on the undersurface. Small white or
greenish white llowers are borne from
February to April and by October ripen
into berrylike, one seeded fruits about
three-eighths of an inch in diameter.—
Good Words.
The Inquisitive Antelope.
An antelope is as curious as a wom¬
an. If the lmnter will lie down in the
grass and wave a red handkerchief, a
band of antelope will keep circling
around until within reasonable distance
for a safe shot. After completing a
circle the antelope halt suddenly and
bring down one fore foot with a vigor¬
ous stamp on the ground, and at the
same instant they make a sort cf snort
that sounds like a half whistle. That
is the propitious moment for peppering
them with rifle balls.
1 learned this trick when a frontiers¬
man came along and found me crawl¬
ing for miles on the level prairie on
deavoring to get a shot at one of the
timid creatures. The man asked me if
I thought 5 could get him. I answered:
“Get him! I’ve got to get him. I’m
out of meat.’’ lie then posted me
about lying still and flirting with the
handkerchief, and I found they liked
that better than chasing, and 1 made
an entry right there that an antelope
possessed some of the characteristics
a woman.—Exchange.
Blnsqitieriullne' In the Past. ;
In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries Venice set the fashion in all
matters of amusement and was a sort
of combination of our Monte Carlo and
Paris. Throughout the eighteenth cen¬
tury the Venetians were seized with a
peifeet mania An masquerading ^ n d
gambling. Paris and London followed
suit, and the two most popular amuse¬
ments, both public and private, were
masquerades and gambling saloons, j
People not only wore their masks or ■
visors at bails, but in the Mail and the j
parks and the theaters. At length
matters got to such a pass that when
a police raid was made on a certain
low dancing place in Soiio and an
order was given for every one to un¬
mask wliat was the amazement of the
police to find that at least a third of
the company consisted of ladies and
gentlemen of the highest aristocracy,
some of whom had even brought tbelr
daughters.—Saturday Review. ,
WEEKLY - B ANNER-
Cooking a Mackerel.
Many a dainty nose with beauty and
fortune behind it has been airiiy ele¬
vated at the mention of plain, old fash¬
ioned salt mackerel, but never at the
salt mackerel as cooked by the famous
John Chamberlin of Washington. His
testimony runs to this effect;
“Take one or more mackerel and soak
about 48 hours, changing the water
once. Then put them in a pan large
enough to hold them, cover them with
cream or the nearest you can get to it,
put in oven and cook until cream is
brown. This beats any mackerel cock¬
ing on eartb.”—New York Herald.
A Business Tonic.
Advertising is not a cure all for busi¬
ness ills, but a pharmaconia cf busi¬
ness tonics. All depends upon the pre¬
scribing. Magazine space is good for
certain business diseases that will
never yield to billboards, while the
newspaper is the quinine for business
chills that are beyond the power of
dodgers. Every remedy in the list has
its uses, and the whole result of treat¬
ment depends upon the doctor.—Point¬
ers’ Ink.
Arriving nt n Tctnl.
Tax Collector—IIow much is your
husband worth?
Mrs. Wise—About a million.
Tax Collector—Are you sure?
Mrs. Wise—Oh, yes. You see, the
jury awarded, him $2,000 for Hie loss
of a linger. I think in proportion tin
rest of him would be worth about 500
times as much.—Chicago News.
Losing- No Clinneeg.
Genial Doctor (after laughing heart
ily at a joke of his patient)—Ila! ha!
lull There’s not much the matter with
you, though I do believe that if yoi
were on jour deathbed you'd make ;
Irrepressible Patient—Wbjg of cours*
1 should. It would be my last chance
—Punch.
Cold In California.
The Society of California Pioneers
determined after careful investigation
that Jan, 28, 18^8, was the exact date
0 <- ^i 10 discovery of gold in California
by James W. Marshall. The gold was
found in the rocky bed of the tail race
of the Sutter sawmill at Coloma, on
the south fork of the American river,
The highest clouds lie at 27.000 feet;
Mount Everest is 29,002 feet. The
highest recorded balloon ascent is 36,
000 feet.
Women were first permitted to be
come employees in government offices
in 1SG2.
Foldias Linen In Holland.
Folding linen is an accomplishment
in which each one of the women in
Holland is expected to be proficient
before she becomes mistress cf a home.
In Holland especially the folding of
iiuiU requires considerable skill and
training. Much of their fabric is of
the finest texture and quality, and they
fashion the various pieces iu ironing
into birds, animals, flowers and all
of artistic shapes. Their linen
closets are often shown to visitors with
the same pride that china eiosets are
shown elsewhere.
Sever Wanted to Be nt Home.
“Oh, you men, you men! When you
used to call on me before we were mar¬
ried. it was all you could do to tear
yourself from me at midnight. Now you
are never so happy as when you are
away from homo.”
Mr. Griffin—But you seem to forget,
Fannie, that I was away from home in
those courtiug days when it was sc
hard to tear myself away. — Boston
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