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TALKING BY TICKS. details of the work done IN TELEGRAPH OFFICES. 'Groat. Accuracy and Clearness Re quired of Telegraphers—Their Wonderfu 1 Hiijn LanffuaKe— Sending- Cable Messages. . More than 2000 telegraph operators are employed in this c ty, says the New York Commercial Ad i-rtiser. Their work is essentially skilled labor; they themselves style it a profession. The greatest degree of accuracy and clearness Js required in ‘.heir work. The omission of a single letter in transcribing, the addition of a letter too many, may some times involve a suit for damages, and cost more than a year’s salary. Oper ators must, therefore, be thoroughly expert, they must be steady, jsober and reliable, iu order to retain their positions, Though less than a century old, the principles at least of the electric tele graph are known by every schoolboy. It is in the detail of the business that the public is ignorant. There are several classes in the pro fession : Ordinary line bauds, cable oper tors, those who know more than one code of communication, those competent to keep hooks and take charge of a branch ’office. possessing more than the ordinary requirements, are competent for more than ordinary positions. It is not essential for an operator to be a walkingdictionary, or to know anything about the spelling, or other matter of a telegram. His only duty is to send and receive messages letter for letter as they come to him. *ln cypher messages this is ©specially es sential. In receiving this must he done by sound, by listening attentively to the little instrument as it clicks out in long or short ticks, dots and dashes, as they are called, the various combinations that represent letters and ligures. T..e sense of liearingin this way is developed to an almost abnormal quickness. The receiving operator, by the very tone of the instrument, can tell whether it is a familiar or unfamiliar hand that is on the other end of the wire,' and can e en recognize a friend’s touch almost the minute he grasps the key. Good telegraphers can read or send their sign language by almost any means. It is employed in army service ior sig naling on the field by means of sunlight flashes reflected by a mirror, in which the s'ght, instead of the ear, is employed. Tli ■ same idea is used in transmitting across an ocean cable, the length of which does not permit of sufficient elec trical power to work a “sounder” instru ment, but mere y gives a little electric flash of exactly the sa r.e character as the most miniature flash of lightning, the series of wai hare read by observation in a dark room, the duration of the flashes t corresponding to the dots or dashes that constitute the letters on the “sounder.” All cable messages must he repeated by more than one operator; they are always handled by an ordinary operator first and , seat to a special cable office for trans mission across the sea. This is essential as a rule, for while the Morse code of telegraphy is used almost invariably through America, the Continental system is preva ent iu England and Europe generally, and is used now on most of the cables. The chief difference between these systems is that the Morse plan utilizes space, or brief intervals between certain dots or dashes to constitute certain letters, while the continental system has no spaced letters and is, therefore, a little longer and more cum bersome. The letter C, for instance, in the Morse system, is represented by two dots, a space and a dot, and the letter R by a dot, space <fnd two dots, the letter Y by two dots, a space and two dots, the tetter O by a dot, a space and a dot, etc.; while in the continental system these letters are represeuted by a greater num . her of dots or dashes combined without space. It is said that a person with a natural ear for music can most Quickly become an expert telegrapher. Members of the profession can communicate with each other by a simple pressure of the fingers of one upon the hand of the other ac cording to the intervals of dots and dashes, which, together with other ways that naturally suggest themselves to an ingenious mind, constitute systems of communication readily usable in church or anywhere else within seeing or hear ing, if not ol feeling distance. The motions of a fan can convey the language as distinctly as writing. In sending messages, every letter con tained in them must he faithfully re peated. For an hour or more at a time the receiving operator will have to write message alter message, interrupted only by the signal “ahr,” something this way: • signifying “another message.” This is continued until the long series is ended by a full point. Then the receiver is obliged to make sere that he has made no errors, and sends Hie acknowledgement “O. K.,” i sounding: . . . This signifies “all right,” to which he adds his signature of one or two distinguishing letters which are also put on each message under the space on the blank “sent by” i. and “received by,” so that each message can be traced. No two operators in the same office can have the same signature. The average pay of an operator is about ¥75 a month for men and £SO a month for women. This can be frequently' aug mented by extra work time. Cable operators and those in exposed positions tn the West get higher salaries. The Dollar Plant. A queer little growth makes its ap pearance in the wire crass country of Georgia. It is called oy the natives the dollar plant, from the singu arity of its leaves, which are perfectly round, lying flat upon the ground, and when full grown the exact size of a dollar. When the plant is pulled up it is seen that the leaves retain their perfect roundness from their incipiency, and grow through fill the gradations the money takes from the size of the silver five cent piece to dimes, quarters, halves and the coin from yhich it takes its name. At this season it throw-, out from the centre a cluster of yellow flowers.— Brooklyn Eagle. If a man empties his purse into his p head, no man can take it away from him. Any investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. A Soldier’s Life Saved by a Dream. Rev. L. W. I ewis, in his “.Reminis cenees of the War,” published in the Christian Ai rotate, relates an instance where a drearn saved the life of a soldier. “A man by the name of .oe Williams had told a dream to his fellow soldiers, some of whom related it to me mouths previous to the occurence which 1 now relate, ile dreamed that lie crossed a river, marched over a mountain and camped near a church located iu a wood, near which a terrible hattie ensued, and tn a charge just as we crossed a ravine he was shot in the heart. On the ever memorable th of December, 1801 (Bat tle of Prairie Grove, Northern Arkansasi, as we moved at. double quick to take our place in line of battle, then already hotly engaged, we passed the c hurch, a small frame building. I was riding in the flank of the command opposite to Will iams, as we came in view of the house. ‘That is the church I saw : n my dream,’ said he. I made no reply, and never thought of the matter again until the evening. We had broken the enemy’s lines and were in full pursuit, when we came to a dry ravine in the wood: and William said: “.lu3t on the other side of this ravine I was shot in ray dream, and I’ll stick my hat under my stftrt.’ Suit ing the action to the word he doubled up his hat as he ran along and crammed it into his bosom. Scarcely had he ad justed it when a minnie ball knocked him out of line; jumping up quickly he pulled out his hat; waved it over his head, shouting: ‘l'm all right.’ The ball raised a black spot about the size of a man’s hand, just over the heart, and dropped into his shoe.” Here the prophecy was a long time ahead, and foretold the exact coming of a hall depending on a combination of circumstances which it would seem im possible for reason or intuition to foresee and foreknow. Its fulfillment is pe culiar,for guarding against it the danger was averted and the dream proved un true. % The Mexican Congress. W. E. Curtis says in his book. “The Capitals of Spanish-Amerlca,” that in appearance the members of the Mexican Congress will compare favorably with those of our Congress, and they are far in advance of the average State legisla ture in learning and ability. The t.rst features that strike a visitor familiar with legislative bodies in the l nitecl t-tates is the decorum with which pro ceedings are conducted, and the scrupu lous care with which every one is clothed. During the night sessions it is usual tor all of the members to appear in evening dress, which gives, the body the appear ance of a social gathering rather than a legislative assembly. Nine-tenths of the members are white, and the other tenth shows little trace of Aztec blood. There is never anything like confusion, and the laws of propriety are never trans gressed. One hears no bad syntax or in correct pronunciations in the speeches; no coarse language is used and no wran gles ever occur like th se which so often disgrace our own congress. The states men never tilt their chairs hack nor lounge about the chamber; their feet are never raised upon tne railing or desks; there is no letter writing going on; the floor is never littered with scraps of paper; no spittoons are to he seen and no conversation is permitted. Extreme dignity and decorum mark the proceed ings, which are always short and silent, and the solemnity which prevails gives a funereal aspect to the scene. But everybody smokes. The Secre tary lights a cigarette at the end of a roll call, and the Chairman blows a puff of smoke from his lips before he an nounces a decision. The members are constantly rolling cigarettes with deft lingers, and the people in the galleries do the same, so that a cloud of gray vapor always hangs over the body, and in the dark corners of the chamber one can see the glow of burning tobacco like the flash of lire-flies. But cigars are never used, nor pipes, and no one chews tobacco. Only Woman Killed at Gettysburg. Among the interesting things concern ing the battle of Gettysburg 1 have seen no allusion to the story of jenny Wade, who was the only woman killed in that conflict. She was a young and very at tractive girl, living in a double, red brick house on the Baltimore pike, east of the town. On the first day of the combat, when the Eleventh Corps, under Major-General O. O. Howard, was forced back to Cemetery Hill,and 5000 of their number captured in the streets, Jenny was engaged in her usual household oc cupations in the kitchen in rear of the dwelling,and a Confederate bullet.pene trating the front door, traversed the di rect and connecting hall and buried itself in the poor girl’s bosom, killing her instantly. She was engaged to be married, and her lover was fighting among the Union troops. By a strange fatality he was killed, as neat ly as could be ascertained,about the same time as his sweetheart, neither of them, of course, learning aught of the death of the other. The house is still standing, and was con spicuously decorated with bunting dur ing the reunion.— Washington Capital. Value of a Good Voice. There is no doubt that one of the most useful qualifications of an orator is a good voice. Burke failed in the house through lack of it, while Wm. Pitt, through the possession of it, was a ruler there at the age of 21. Mr. Lecky says that O’Con nell's voice, rising with an easy and melodious swell, filled the largest build ings and triumphed over the wildest tumult, while at the same time it con veyed every inflection of feeling with the most delicate flexibility. The great mabrity of celebrated orators have been aided by the possesfiou of a good voice. Webster’s voice, on the occasion of his reply to Senator Dickinson, had such an eflect that one of his listeners feltallthc night as if a heavy cannonade had been resounding in his ear-. Garrick used to say that he would give 100 guineas if he could say “Oh 1” as Whitefield did. Mr. Gladstone's voice has the music and the resonance of a silver trumpet. Gentle man's Magazine. The Czar of Russia is a great fisher man, and he has just bought in Finland a tract of land with a river swarming with salmon. His imperial wife is also a fair fly caster, and can manage a wicked fish with ease and grace. The Oxford English Dictionary shows that there are 15,000 words in current v.se beginning with the letters A and B. THE RACCOON AN ANIMAL OFTEN DISCUSSED RUT SELIiOM SEEN. Avoiding; Pie I-launfs of Men —Fo mate Coons More Sociable Than Males —Coons Always Drink Re lore Touching Food. Even in localities where coons arc must abundant nine out of ten of the present generation never saw one, and ievv people know anything about them or their habits. Although the coon pre fers the vicinity of civilization as his habitat, he plans to keep aloof from the eyes of men, and habit renders this an easy task. By day he lies close in out-of the-way retreats, in the depths of hollow rocks. He wanders forth only at night, and although h.s foraging expeditions may take him to the very doors of the farmers, and even within the very bound ary lines of villagers, he never betrays his presence. If more than one coon is brought to bay in a tree they will in variably be females or a mother coon and her offspring, The female brings forth her litter only once in two years, and from the coming of a litter to the arrival of another she and her young are ne er separated. She keeps her little family together till they are two years old, and in pro tecting them will tight the attacking dog or hunter till she dies. Many a good coon dog has been forced to retreat be fore the fury of a she coon fighting for her young, and if she is captured the whole family fall victims to the hunter. The animal scent the coon leaves on the trail is at all times less than that of any other game quadruped, and when the female is nursing her young during the summer manths her scent is hardly per ceptible the dogs, thus saving her and her litter from many a race for li.e. The scent of-the coon grows stronger as the cold weather advances, and through November and December the dogs fol low it with comparatively little difficulty. While the female coon is social and domestic, the male is quite the reverse. He is surly and solitary, ranges entirely alone, and gives no care or attention to family matters. If two males meet in the woods or fields they light furiously and not infrequently to the death. An o d eooa hunter of this vicinity tells how he once surprised two male coous fighting in a corn field. They were so frantically in earnest that they flew into each other even after the dogs had jumped upon them and taken ahand in the dispute. The male makes his range for forage much wider than the female does, and having no one to look after hut himself more frequently escapes the hunter. In spring and summer the margin of brooks and ponds and the soft mud in swamps and bays in every coon country are always thickly indented with the graceful footprints of the cooti, for in these months he spends his nights in catching frogs, fish, lizards, grubs and mussels, which are then his chief sub sistence. Later on he ranges among the huckle berry and blackberry patches and leasts on the fruit. When the milk comes in the corn is the coon’s gala time, for he loves the tender succulent grains, as the farmer knows to his sorrow, and great are the r sks he will take to forage in the fields. It is not until the beiries are gone and the corn grown tough in the ear that the coon begins to look about for his winter stores. These he lays by plentifully froyn the beechnut, chestnut and acorn crops, and on these crops de pends the hunting of the coon when he is at his best. During the nutting season he is tat and solidand wide awake, pro vided there are plenty of nuts. If the crops are a failure the coon goes to his winter quarters thin and miserable and poorly prepared for the long winter’s sleep and fast, wanders forth on every day of thaw, though the snow may 1 e deep on the ground, in search of such fag ends of provender as may fall to his lot. At such times the unfortunate coon may be seen hovering, wan and haggard, on the edges of the farm and door yards, waiting for an opportunity to pick up scraps from the kitchen, the poultry yard or the pig-sty. One pe culiarity of the coon, which, like most of his peculiarities, has es aped the at tention of naturalists who write books, is that he never touches food until he has quaffed at some spring or brook, ,even if he is compelled to go faY to find it. Old coon hunters say that the coon dips every mouthful of his food into water before eating it, but, like all old hunters, old coon hunters say a great many things that it would bother them to prove. It is doubtful whether there are many people who know that in no other coun try on the globe besides the American continent can the coon be found, and,al though he is a favorite game in the South,is nowhere so gamy and excellent in. condition as iu the Middle States. When the coon grows inordinately fat and large he lessens his chance of falling a viet m to the hunter, for then he ven tures hut a short distance from his hiding place and gives the dog small opportu nity for finding his trail. It was rare, for this reason, even in the days when coon huntfng was a science, that a coon over twenty pounds in weight was ever bagged, although they have been krjown to attain a weight of forty pounds.— Mail and Express. Curiosities of Nomenclature. The Earl of Sandwich, for whom the Sandwich Islands were named, a some what profligate nobleman in the last century, the boon companion of John Wilkes, and the person against whom Erskine thundered in his famous maiden speech, was the inventor of the well known luncheon staple called the sand wich. In this connection it may also be said that the tailless coat called the spencer was the contrivance of another English Earl, Lord Spencer. Spencer and Sandwich were coupled together in some once familiar verses, two lines of which were: The one invented half a coat, The other half a dinner. Blankets were named after their first makers, three brothers in Bristol, Eng land, named Edward, Edmund and Thomas Blanket, who established a large trade in this article of woolen goods, and were the first manufacturers of it in the fourteenth century. The first watches were made in 1470. Iltny Storms are Made. Our earth only receives a small frac tional part of the sun’s heat; hut. wtiat ever that may he in the year, more or less than the average, the entire surface of ou:- earth must fael -uni Bo sub cut to the cfle is. And one thing is certain — namely, that a year or ser.e< of yearn, of excessive sun-heat will inevitably he years and sea-ous of atmospheric dis turbances, because increase of heat will produce excess of evaporation, excess of electric action, and, necessarily, exces sive precipitation; and, during a preva lence of this sun-hiat, there must he over limited areas violent storms both summer and winter. When very large areas of tluv atmos phere have been, by excess of heat, -Brought into an unequal state, as large areas of lower stratum of highly-heated air and vapor, which is also intensely electric, the conditions to produce sand spouts, water-spouts and tornadoes, are fully ripe. The upper and colder layer of the atmosphere cannot cool the lower highly-heated and vapor-lndened stratum so even and quickly as to prevent vents in the form of funnels forming from the lower stratum to the higher stratum, and causing a rupture which takes up ward in a pipe form, just a« water in a tank or basin, having a bottom means of discharge by a pipe, flows out with a whirlpool motion—in # our northern hemispere always in the direction of the hands of a clock—and so heated, highly elect ic and excessively vapor-laden at mosphere breaks into the cold atmo sphere above when at the level of the “dew point” invisible vapor becomes visible, parting with its latent heat, which so rarities the air as to force some of the condensed atmosphere in visible cloud, mounting thousands of feet above the condensed dew point and into a re gion above the highest peaks of the high est mountain. To feed this p’pe, or, as in some cases, pipes, the lower stratum flows’in from all sides to rotate and ascend with the in tense velocity of steam power, sufficient to produce ail the disastrous elfeets of the wildest tornado, there being almost a vacuum at the ground or water line, as the phenomena may be on the land or over the sea. On the land trees are twisted and uprooted, houses are un roofed, solids of various kinds are lifted from the earth, and human beings liava been blown away like dead lea es. There are, also, records of railway wagons having been blown o i' the rails. In deserts entire caravans have been buried beneath a mountain of blown sand—camels, horses and men; while iu Egypt there are ruins of cities, massive temples and monuments deep buried in the adjoining desert sand. At sea many a good ship caught by a tornado has been overwhelmed and sent to the bot tom whole. —Pa l Mall Gazette. Mysterious Warning t. We see and hear through the medium of the whole body. Close or bandage your eyes ever so tightly, and if the visual organs be healthy radiations of light, and even forms and scenery, will singly or panoramically appear. Stop the ears ever so well and still sound is not shut out. There have been well accredited signalizing warning appari tions toclosed*eyes, and the clairaudient nerves have repeatedly, when the ears have been artificially stopped, heard warning words. In their natural condi tion both eyes and ear 3 have seen and heard remarkable things. Lord Broug ham and John Wesley had their experi ences, and Proctor, the astronomer, ha? averred his belief in such marvels. The American Psychical Society investigated the case of a iran at Oil City, Penn., who, on approaching a clock in his room which had suddenly stopped, although wound up, heard the \oiceofhis brother at Grand Rapids, Mich.,ufttrijhe words: “I’m gone, I’m gone 1” The irext day he received a telegram that his brotnerdied at that time, and four days afterwards received a letter stating that the last words of the dying man were: “I’m gone! I'm gone!” The British Psychical Society narrates the cases of two sisters living miles apart, and who at night met in their carriages at the cross-roads on their way to their mother, who had ex pressed a dying wish to see them and which the daughters had heard at night. The evidence is cumulative. So, also, is cumulative the testimony relating to the transference of sounds of consolation to livina persons. Jessie Brown, while in India, heard the Scotch pipers of Gen eral Haveloek inarching to the rescue of Lucknow when no one else heard a sound. The quick ears of some Edin burgh people are su’d to "have heard the voices in the air whch told that King James lay dead on Plod den Field with many a knight and noble around him. The Indians have acute ears and aver that they hear voices constantly by which they are guided. The emotions are mysterious, hut we know that they quicken preternaturally the senses, and especially the sense of hearing. There are ears that can detect coming footsteps when others are deaf to them as posts. There are hearts that feel the approach of loved ones.— New York Mercury. New Way to Get Money. The inventor of one of the latest swindles in New York usnally represents himself as an Englishman. He has a de cided cockney accent, is always well dressed, and presents a very genteel ap pearance. When he thinks he has an easy prey he approaches his victim with an eyeglass in hand. From one rim the pebble is missing. He explains that he has just dropped the glass and shattered it. The remaining glass is simply a shade for an eye that is totally blind, and by the broken glass life is unable to see at all. He is a stranger in a strange land, and is, unfortunately, writhout money. It the gentleman would kindly loan him the amount with which to replace the broken glass he will be able to return it soon, for when he can see he will be en abled to attend to remunerative business. Then to cap the climax, the fraud gives an illustration of his blindness by walk ing against the wall, or a fence, or a building, as the circumstances permit, and bumping his head. This generally catches the victim, who goes down in the pocket and brings forth some change, ranging from ten cents up to a dollar. The blind fakir is profuse in thanks, and feels his way out from the presence of his benefactor only to lay in wait for another victim. For the last week he has been plying his busine-s in the vicinity of the Grand Central Depot. —New York 8 in. LAND OF BELLS. TUNEFUL PEALS HEARD EV ERYWHERE IN BELGIUM. Antwerp Cathedral’s Ninety-Nine Dells— The Pride of the Lam!, Worth ft! 00,000 An An cient Mode of Casting. In Belgium, day and night are set to music; even the wind that ranges over her compagnas is fraught with sweet, harmonious whispers. Those peals of hells, playing the same joyous strain, possess a wonderful fa>c nation for the listener. livery seven minutes there is bell music.from some gray old • -a such as St. Eomhaud, Mechlin. . lie sound floats to us in moments of dis couragement, and we choke down a sob at the recollections that it brings. It comes to us in the crowded city street between the pauses of summer rain, and it drifts through our dreams at night, tinging our dormant fancies with a semi consciousness. There are ninety-nine bells in the Antwerp Cathedral: forty form the carillon, fifty-four are smaller in com pass and tone, and the remaining five are very ancient, and are rung at an elevation of 274 feet. '1 he oldest of the five, “Horrida,” hears the date 131(i,and is a peculiar shaped bell which, from its extreme age and chronic rheumatics, the Antwerpiaus have, of late, permitted to live in silence. Then comes the “Bur few,” which may be heard daily at the hours of five, twelve and eight. Next is the hell wh.ch rang for the first time when Carl the Bold entered the city, in 14tK. It is called “;t. Maria,” and its companion is “St. Antoine.” Last of the five and the pride of the land is (he well beloved PCatolus,” given by Charles Y r ., reputed seven and a half tons. It is vulved at one hundred thousand dollars, contains gold, silver and copper, and is only u-ed about twice a year. The quarter hours are divided by two or three notes, the number doubled is rung for the quarter itself, quadrupled for the half hour, while at the hour a peal of music issues forth that shakes the entire belfry. ■Suppose wc pass in imagination to the ci’vof Mechlin iu th • year Kffi-iffi to the furnaces aud work shops of Peter \an den Gheyn, and witness the casting of some of these mighty bells. W hen the hollow space between the cover of clay aud the clay' mold is the precise cast required, the critical moment lias ar rive!, and the skillful workman produces his rarest metals (the “Rosette” copper, with its uni t* pink bloom, relined tin, glistening like si.ver, certain proportions of z. nc aud antimony, known to the smith alone) aud throws them into the caldron.- At a given signal, the molten m ss is allowed to ru-h through an open ing and till the hollow mould. When it has cooled the hell is finished. Kings and princes of the blood royal have blood by these caldrons and have thrown in go.d and silver, a costly ring or a bracelet, with the name of holy saint or martyr, as a token of success. home of the decorations and inscrip tions upon the old bells are wonderfully beauti.ul as well as interesting. The former are in low relief and illustrate al most every variety of subject, while the lines, in raised letters, are often sugges tive and touching. “Petrus Hemong me fecit,” is the in scription familiar to all hell-hunters in Belgium. The grand hells of Mechlin and a number or the Antwerp chimes beanie same name, while in the belfry of Bruges (which “thrice con sumed and thnee reuuilded, still watches o’er the town”) is to be found upon the carilion the name of Dumery. There seems to no limit to the num ber of Bells ui Belgium. Besides the ninety-nine in the Ant werp cathedral, St. Kombaud, Mechlin, has forty-five; Tournay, forty; St. Ger trude, at Louvain, forty; Bruges, forty one, and Ghent, thirty-nine, but for all the seeming multitude, there is scarcely a citizen wiio does not reverence the in dividual history of each hell. To him they are not mere masses of metal emit ting a mechanical sound, they are the grand old sentries of his country, which have tolled mournfully for dead patriot ism, or rejoiced in loud tones at ttie exit of a tyrant. He would tell you that such aone is a “storm-hell,” which warns the traveler of the approaching hurricane; another is the “peace hell,’' whose sourfd, in days gone by, brought assurance that the enemy was quiet; this one is rung at the opening and shutting of the city gates; that one proclaims the hour of prayer. Ah, Belgium, loving and be loved of hells! Thy many-voiced, chim ing patriarchs hold daily communion with man, but they are not of him, they summon him to hs duties; they swing for his griefs and pleasures, “ringing out the old, ringing in the new,” almost for ever and ever. 'lbese valiant spires, gray and constant in the upper air, dis course together over the heads of frail humanity, and their speech is rocked from tower to tower by the music of the ail Is — Chicago Current. Coffee With the Arabs. Iffio great event of the visit to an Ara»o family m Palestine is the coffee. The .host has a kind of brazen shovel brought, in which he roasts the beans; then he takes a pestle and mortar of the oak of Bushan, and with his own hands he pounds it to powder, making the hard oak ring forth a welcome to the guest. Many of these pestles and mortars are heirlooms, aud are richly ornamented and Beautifully black and polished by ageTaml use. Su h was the one in ques tion. Having drunk coffee (for the honored guest the cup is filled three times), you are quite safe in the hands of the must murderous. So rnr do they carry this superstition that a mau who had murdered another fled to the dead man's father, and before he knew what had happened drank coffee. Presently friends came in, and, as they were relat ing the news to the bereaved father, recognized the murderer crouched by the fire. They instantly demanded venge ance. No, said the father, it cannot be; he has drunk coffee, and has thus become to me as mv son. Had he not drunk coffee the father would never have rested until he had dyed his hands in his blood. As it was, it is Said he 'further gave him his daughter to wife, Commercial Advertiser. A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool’s coat still. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. . The Rose of Orde How can I tell her! By her cellar. Cleanly shelves and whitened witffik I can guess her By her dres-er. By the back staircase and hall, # , And with pleasure Take her measure By the way she her broom* Or the peeping At the “keeping” Of her hack and unseen rooms; By her kitcher’s air of neatness, And its general completeness, Wherein in cleanliness and sweetness The Rose of Order blooms. —Builder. Gathering Rose Leaves. The delightful work of gathering rose leaves is best done eariy in the morning or late in the evening. Shake into a wide basket the petals from ro es thal are about to fall to pieces. The rose ieaves shou dhe spread out on a sheet laid down in a dry place where the wind will not disturb them. Ross leaves gathered on different days should not be mixed, but each collection on the sheet should be stirred and turned every day: wheu they are all nearly dry.they can be heaped together ani finished off on another sheet. When quite dry put up*in self-sealing fruit ars. These dried leaves alone, packed in as tight as they can be pressed down, may be used to till a fancy jar which, when left open for a short\ime, will perfume a room if the rose leaves are stirred up a little.— New York World. - '■< A Useful Contrivance. For the benefit of tired mortals whe recline in hammocks most of the tmu during the warm months there is a con trivance irom which, if properly made, they will derive much ease and comfort. Make a square frame of wood and covei with any light fabric, and place a thick fringe of the same at the Dotioni. To the top of toe frame nail three pieces of hoard, two at the sides aul one in the center, the three meet in- together, ot attach cords iu the same manner by which hang to a screw above the ham mock. On one side of the frame atta-b cords a» for a kite, and have a cord long enough to put .through another screw ou a post on a line with the side of the hammock, which, when swung, will cause the l’rqme to swing and stir a de lightful breeze. A damp towel can he attached to the bottom, instead of the fringe, during the intense heat. A-trng tied to a screw on another post, if pulled, will swing the hammock. If this is too much exertion let some one else pul! it. This frame, with more adornment, can he utilized us a fly fan. —De roil Free Press. Apples in Many Ssyles. Lubig says: “Besides contributing large pioporrion of sugar, mu il ge and other nutritive compounds in the form of fond, apples contain such a tine com bination of vegetable acids, attractive sui stances amt automatic principles, with the nutitive matter, as to act powerfully in the capacity of refriger ants. tonics and antiseptics, and when freely used at the season of ripeness, by rural laborers and others, they prevent debility, strengthen digestion, correct the putrefactive tendency of uitrogeni ous food, avert scurvy and pro lahly maintain and strengtlion the power of productive labor.” “Of all fruits none are more healthful or afford a greater variety of dishes than apples. We give the following recipes for preparing them, all of which will be found to bfe excellent: “Stewed Apples. —Pare tart apples, cut them in quarters and remove the cores, put them in a porcelain kettle, stew with sugar, add the juice of half a lemon and a lew hits of the rind, cover with boiling water and simmer gently until tender. Dish very carefully with out breaking the pieces and serve cold. “Baked Appi.es. —Wipe sweet apples dry and clean, remove the cores without paring, put them in an earthen dish and hake in a moderate oven until tender. Seive cold with sugar and cream. “Coddi.ed Apples. Pare tart apples, remove the cores, stand in a kettle, cover with sugar, pour in a little boiling water, put ou the lid and allow the ap ples to steam ou the bank of the stove until very tender. Dish carefully with out breaking, pour the syrup over them and stand away to cool. “Compote of Apples. Quarter, peel, core and cook a dozen apples with a little water and sugar. Take up the apples, boil down the syrup, add a sliced lemon and a handful of raisins, let jelly and pour over the apples. “Apple Snow. —Pare and core some large apples without dividing them. Boil some ric e for ten minutes, drain and let cool. Spread the rice iu a 3 many portions as there are apples on small cloths, tie the fruit sep,irately in these and boil for three-quarters of an hour, turn them carefully on a dish, sprinkle with sifted sugar and serve with sweet sauce. “Apples with Whipped Cream. — Fare and a#e large juicy apples, lilt the cavities with sugar and a littie lemon juice and a little grated rind, put them in a pan with a little water in the bot tom. Sprinkle the top with sugar, bake them and when done set to cool. Cover entirely with whipped cream, sweetened tnd flavored. “Apple MftRiNOUE. — Boil tart apples; after they are pared and cored rub through a coianderand sweeten to taste. To a pint of the pulp stir in lightly the beaten whites of six eggs, flavor, put in a pudding dish, set in the oven, brown and serve with custard. “Charlotte de Pomme.— Cut ten soui appies into quarters, peel, put them in a kettle with hot water and two cups of sugar, and stew until they are clear. When they aie done, line a large dish with slices of sponge cake, turn the ap ples iu, make a round hole in the middle and riii with the syrup in which the ap ples were cooked. Then put them in a stove oven for an hour. Turn it out on a dish, place over the top slices of sDongi cake. Serve with sugar and lemon juice. “Apple Float.— Pare aud slice some ripe apples: stew down and run through a sieve; beat to every quart of apples the whites of twelve eggs and a pound of sugar. Flavor with extract of lemon.’ Portable electric lights, to he -hung to a coat button, are the new invention foi the benefit of readers upon cars. Thus each one can become his own lightning hug.