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Mcntincl. HARLEM. GEORGIA PVBI.ISHI !> EVERY THURSDAY. Atllln-O”' |»KOI-|<IKH>KM. j mif'tific mcrahm. The recent wertlon* by inMters of veMds, that relined petroleum in tin cmm exerts an influence on the com . lUMS equal to the same amount of iron or steel. haa attracted much at tention. and it lx expected that means of protection will in a short time be devised. Electricity has been brought to the aid of the sportsman by the use of a small lamp for the front sight of a ri fle, to render It visible in the dusk, or when, from any cause whatever, there Is Insuflicient light. Ihe minute elec tric lamp is fixed near the muzzle of the gun, and shielded by a metalic screen. The current is supplied by a small battery In the stock. Experiments are making in I’hlla dalphla with the talepherage system. The object is to transport packages, up to eight hundred or one thousand pounds' weigld, upon cables strung on wires, by means of electric motors. Two cables are. used, one above anoth er, the package being suspended on the upper ami steadie I on the lower one. It is an English invention, and has been used in a South Americah mine. In a paper on the size of the brain in extinct animals, I’rof. Marsh, of Yale college, has brought forward the ■ •markable fact that In the race for life during the past ages the survival of any particular group of animals de pended on the size of their brain as compared with that of their content ]«>raries of the same class. Bruins won then, ax now, and the brain of aid nals crushed out of existence was always found to be relatively smaller than that of those outliving them. A wild aquatic plant, called the It I odea I'anadeiisis, first discovered in the rivers of Canada at the beginning of the present century, has recently been found on the banks of .the Oka river, near Moscow. In Germany the plant is called the “Wasserpest,” (wa ter plague,) its vegetation being so rapid that, under favorable conditions as to soil and climate, it soon forms such a dense tangle of leaves and stems us to make navigation impossi ble. The curious question has been asked, why oaks and elms are especially lia- ; bin to be struck by lightning. It was declared in 1787 that the elm,chesnut, ak and pine were thetrees most of ten struck In America; and in 1860 .Mr. 0. .1- Symons stated that the elm, oak, ash and poplar were the most frequently struck in England. A Madgeburg record reports injuries to 265 trees, 165 behrg oaks, 65 Scotch firs, 22 pines, and 20 beeches. It has been suggested that the frequency with which oaks are struck is due to the presence of iron in the wood. A Vaccine Factory. A Greenwich, Conn., correspondent writes: in a cow-housn at the side of tile old turnpike road, in the quaint village of Cos Cob, two calves can bo seen on almost any day strapped to a bench, their feet sticking up in the air and lots of quills protruding from their bixlles. Around the room are razors, knives, bundles of quills and ropes. A man is usually in attend ance. This is n vaccine factory, one of the first established in this country. The quills remain for a short time in the flesh of the calves. As soon as they become tilled with mucus —vac cine, as ft is called they are pulled out, sealed up air tight, and in lime do duty all over the world, finding their way to Germany and Australia Some people imagine that the calves are killed by the process, or are »o injured as to be unlit for use. This is not the case, but it is claimed that they are made mon- healthy by hal ing these sores, for that is all the harm done to them. They seem to sutler very little, and after a few days frisk about ax lively as ever. Calves of two colors are preferred at the factory, white and red. and only strong and healthy ones are selected. "Often times people come to the factory to be i .xf-nateil," said the attendant. "They are afrxi I they won’t get the right stuff puts c.Uf vaccine. lam not a d>- tor. xml th»doctor-don't like it very ne.. 1 just 11Its mis knife that 1 cut the - alves with; so I cut the arm as 1 cut the calf. 1 pul! «. <j M jU f rom t h» raif and put it in the eyt or scratch Twy smile, take a look at tXe calf, an go lo ne, sure that it s took.* Then is mire d< mand for vaccine at t!.» pre ■ent tin - than at any previous tun. during ti*» Live \ears » as!. ( iKcr»n charged cue hundred nil fifty vK L.*r» fkir »hv privilege of exhibit iDg iu Alacvt, bi DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON- CHOICE OE A HI SBAMI I T' <t “Th** Lnnl grant you that’*» may <«di of vou id the immim* of In-r hua- ■ linn*l Huth l- ( ** . I I Lin WIE- the pre .er pi"<> Nnorni fir Ruth find Orpah. I*-. an the pint h'-r It •in an appropriate pray-r now m to h* Ifof I uniimrin*! Hornarih'Mxl Saoinl. the k* 1 “ilXl kn.-w that Ibedr i-il »* old txke their in hand if Go>l did not, anti *) *h»* f.rav- Th* I xml grant you that ve may - t »m» hos V'-u in th** lioum* <>' her nu*- liand I applaud lb<- Miliary of a multitude ,t women woo rather than make mint «*•!** I,on have made none at all It has not been , lack or opportunity for marital contract on .art. imt their own ■ niton- and r.-lin. ■ n, nt nwl »b**ir exalted idea Io what a hiifr i tand • ugbt to have <uu m*l th* ir hna- i ,n Th-v bav. *- nmo many w »m.-n marry i]«*m or ruffian*, or m< intent sote or lire tin.p or magnificent nothing* or fn'-n who before marriage were angelic and -kfU-rwaid diatmlk, that they hav»* te-n aiarmwl and *tood lark. They miw >o many |w«t g<» into the mnelwtroih that they into other water* Better for a woman to Ih.. hI-.im'. thmigh *he lived a thousand year*, than u, I* anm*x<l to *om** of thwae mtiMrubne failure with whi< hwx iHy i* uurfeitod. Ihe ration saint of alni-M. every family < in le to «>me mi< h unmarried woman, and among all th- famili<* of rouaina »he mov<* around, and h»*r coining in cardi hou.** i* the morning and tier going away ix the night. hi my larg»- <-ir< le of kindred, j«rhap« t w ent y f amily- in all, it wax an Aunt I’bod* 1 . Paul gave H letter of introduction to one whom he < alia “Phiebe, our gtoter,” as *he went up from (!eD<’hrea to Rome, commend ing her for her kind new an<l Christian service, and imploring for her all courtwm* I think Aunt Pliiebe wax named after her Uas th»'ie a -i< kn»*« in any of the bouxeboldx, she wn there ready to aft up and count out the Jropa of me<li« ine Wax there a nuirriage, ihe n< l|M<l <le«-k th»* bride for the altar Was there a new soul incarnated, she wax there to rejoice at the nativity. Was there a sore berea\rme;it. she was there to consol". Ilie "hildren rushed out at her first apjx’araive crying. ‘ Here comes Aunt Pho lx*,’ and but for j«rcutai inb rference they would have pulled her down with their cares Ms. tor she wax not very strong, and many severe illnesses bad given her enough glinips*** of the next world to make her h» a\enly min«|ed. “He Witt,” »he said U> me one day, “twice in my life I have Ixsn so overwhebne<! with the love of God that I fainted away and could hardly Im» resuscitated. Don't Udi me there to no heaven. I have wm it twice. If you would know how her presence would soothe an anxiety or lift a burden, orche< r a sorrow or le«v< a bbtwing on every ro , nn in the house axk any of the Talmages. She has tarried at her t ally home, taking < are of an invalid father, until the blo<id of life had somewhat huh d. but she could inb rest the young folks with some three or four tender in her own history, so that we all knew that it wax not through lark of opportunity that she was not the <pi«**n of one household, instead ot Ix ing a benediction on a whole circle of households. At about seventy years of age she mad** her last visit so my house, and when she sat in mv Philadelphia church I wax more umlMirrnxHftd at her presence than by all the audience, liecaure I felt that in religion I had got no further than the A B C, while she ha<l learntsl the whole alphabet, and for many >ears had finished the Y and Z. When she went out of this life into the next what a shout there must have Ixsui in heaven from the front d<Mir clear up to the Lack seat in the highest gallery. 1 saw the «ith< r day in the \il lngei'cmetery of Somerville, N. .1., her rest ing pla"e. the tombstone having on it the words , which thirty years ago she told me she would like to ha\c insx rilM-d there, namely, ‘‘The morning comcth Had she a mission in the world? Certainly. As much as Caroline Hci -. hel, ns much ax had Florence Nightin gale, th<> nuiM‘ of i ’rimea, or Grace Purling, the oaniwoman of the Ixuig Stone lighthouse, or Maiu.O ' t Brv« kenridge at Vicksburg or Mary Sn Itdn distributing row's anil grapes 4 wild cohigne in Western h<»spitai, or thousands of other glorious women like them, who never took the marriage sacrament. Appreciate all this, my sister, ami it will make you de , liberate liefore vou rush out of the single •lute into another unless you are sure of betterment. It is easier for a man to find an appropriat** wife than for a woman to find a good husband. Statistics show that in Massachusetts and New York States women have a majority of hundreds of thouxan ls. It would seem that woman is a favorite with the lx>rd, and that therefore he has made more of that kind. From the order of the creation in Paradis*' it is evident that the woman is an improved edition of man. Whatever l»o the reason for it, th? fact is certain that she who hs tx a husband has a smaller number of people to select from than he who selects a w ifv. It a man err in his selection he can spend his evenings at the club and dull his st nubilities by tobacco smoke, but woman has no club-room for refuge, and would find it difficult to habit uate hcrxelf to cigars If a woman makes a l»ad job of marital selection the | r >babilitv is nothing but a funeral can relieve it. Pi vorev <a.se- in court may inti rest tin* pu!« lie, but the love letters of a married < <>uple arc |xa»t remimg except for those who wri o them Pray G<sl that you lx- delivered from irrev- able mistake, it you have made su h vnzn.? ment \ nr fl s.‘ dut y is to break it. Forth r H not unite in marriage with a ii st of Imi I habits in the idea of reforming him. If now, under th" restrain* ’ •>u» j'lr-M-nt • .j i.tiii'.!-' i. hr will not gtre up‘. —s ’.•i lln -it.-,.i. !• h I w< n the prtn* you at n >t < \p. t h. u to d. You might as w. pla-it a \ iol. ’ ' th" five of a t orth a ( ci w ith the .ha < l ayi•• m neg it You • 1 a • '.o II run a -> I -•n t alongside of a i o.; 'up w .’h th" idea of savmg the ship. I ner and ship i ill lw* d -i! together II? almshouse • •ill It»ii th i \ a, hund-.ed uonien who mm nod ii.. nto reform them. If by tw« nty the y«.:rs of age a man has Ixs-n gr* - bx hi’ ».\i otion hr is under such he:. ay that x oui attempt to stop bun would l»e verx mu h like running un the track with a wheelbarrow to step a Hu«ls»»n River train Wk.it yon .all an inebriate nowadays is not a victim to wine or whisky, i but to logwiH*! and strychnine and t ivx' im-.i \lltb. '' p .-"iis have kindled (heir tli-es in his tongue and brain, and all ■•• team a wtfehi weeping cannot extin guish the tlamev Intend of marrying a man to reform him. let him refonu first and th< n give him time to w h«‘th"i thr reform :s to lie js rmanent. lx t him understand that • f he I'annot do xvithout his Uui habits t- r two xofirxhe must do without you forever. \v id uni* n with one supremely selfish or so wound up in his oe« iqiation that he has no i s»m for another. His disposition is a long dfe protest against marriage Some nre so •uai 1 1< dto their occupation or profession that ! the toking of anx other bride is a cc. ieaf big ainx. There are m< n > tied to their literal x xxorks a> wa* Cliattcrtou, whov* ee> sax was not printed In*-atw of th? death of th" had mayor Chatterton made out the I follow ing a«vount: “IwM by the lord mayor's 'death in this essay, tme pound, elvxen >hil -1 ’’iP*. >i\|* nee < tamed in elegies an I essays, JL'> p.i i P .-’ i fix. kilim. Th : h<‘ fait at he had gained bv the lerd mover's death op|M*sitc to w ' at t»e had lost, and xxn*U* under : Am gl -.-l he s dead bv th-w is.unds, thirteen s..dhm.x and Wk na man > as ho«*4essh ht< in-' h . he ought to I sap ns tux', v Kate S .me f the nr.dit lest men this world exer saw Imve no. :«t* 10t...-" !..«;: u.i.-ux ('own r. 1 « ;*■. Nrwton. Swift, 1.-• ~ I v-i. Hume. Ar- Inithr. ! wen' -uu!•». Some of tlie-.- mar riage would lune b< l|<-d. The right kin.i of a w»!e xvvuM ha'* cunxi Coxvper's gLxun «n<l given to Newton ukhy' pra. fi ability and been a relief to lock, s owrtaxkt\l beam. A Christ.an wife might have »vn , xerted Hume aid Gibbon to a la-ltof in Chris. ' Canity Rut IX an 8w ift did imX a * v e from the way in w hich he Icoke the Z f J,u>e first and EsthirJohn- < •T 1 of an ’ ' *»*** The mai wit of hu day. be wa* outwitted b v ius own rrueltto*. Beranw m<*t marriages are fft to mail** r<rnvin't*» ux that thev are di vine! \ armngwl. Almost every < rmlle hax an nffirctv toward xomc other cradle. They may lie <>ii th** opfM*ite *id«* of the <*arth. but one • hil l "< tx out of thto cradle, another < hild g/ts out of that cradle, end with their ftr*t toetM thex -tart for each other. They may diverge from the straight |«th. going toward the north or xouth or eaxtor west. They may fall down, but the two rixe sac ing wh other. Thev are approaching all through infancy. The'one, all through the years of Iwiyhood, to going to meet the one v ho to coming through all the year* of girlh'md to meet him. Th<- <le nof pan a» to whai to best <<-n ma ing them and the ciiang»« of fortune may for a time M*?m to arrest the two journeys, but on they go. Tliey may never have xef*n each other Th'* may never have h<*ar<l of each other, but the two pilgrims who started at the two cradles are m-aring. After eighteen or twenty or thiity years the two corne within sight At the first glam* they may feel a dislike and th<*y may hlm ken their step. Yet something that the world < allx fato and that religion call* Providence urges them on and on. They must meet. They come near enough to join hands in soc ial acquaintance, after while to join hands in friepitohip, after aw hile to join hearts. The delegate from the one cradle cornea up the eaxt side of the church with her father. The delegate from the other cradle comes up the west aisle of the church. The tw o long journeys end at the snowdrift of the bridal veil. The two chains made out of many years are forged together by the gddrn link which the groom pute upon the third finger of the left hand. One on earth, may they be one in heaven. But there are so many exceptions to the general rule of natural affinity that only those are safe who pray for a heavenly hand to lead them. Because they depended on them srlves ami not on God, there are thousands of women every year going to the slaughter. In India women l‘ ,ft p on the funeral pyre of a dear! husband. Vve have a worse spectacle than that in America—women innumerable leaping on the funeral pyre of a living hus band. Thrust your hand through the cag *at a menagerie and stroke th'* luwk of a cobra from the East Indies. Put your head in the mouth of a Numidian lion to see if he w ill bib*. Take a glassful of Paris green mixed with some delightful h'nbane. Thc:e are safer and healthier fun than answeringa l vuh-o nents for a wife. Murry a man who is a fortune in himself. .Houses, biml* and large inheritance are well enough, but th • w h *o of fortune turns so rapidly that throng <omc inv<*stment all those In a few years may lw om . There are some things, however, that are n iM»!jM*tual fortune—good man m*rs. niality of soul, kindness, intelligence, Hymputhv, < ourage, perseverance, industry and wholcheai-teuness. Marry such a one ami you have marri<sl a fortune,*whether he have an income *now of $50,000 a year or an income of SSOO. A bank is secure according to its capital stock, and not to be judged by the depisits for a day or a week. A man is rich according to his sterling dualities and not according to tha vacillation of circumstances which may leave with him a large amount of resources'’to-day and withdraw them to rn* <i -tow. If a man is worth nothing but money he is poor indeed. If a man have up right character he is rich. Property may come and go, he is independent of the mar kets. Nothing can buy him out, nothing can r *ll him out. He may have more money one year than another, but his better fortunes never vacillate. Yet, do not expect to find a perfect man. If you find one without any faults, incapable of mistakes, never having guessed wrongly, his patience never hax ing been perturbed, im maculate in speech, in temper, in habits, do not marry him. Why* Because you would enact a swindle. What would you do with a Derfectman who are not perfect yourself? And how dare you hitch your imperfection fast on such supernatural excellence! What a companion you would make for an angel! In other wof ds, there are no perfect men. There never was but one perfect pair, and they slijijwd down the banks of Paradise to gether We occasionally find a num who says he never sins. We know' he lies when he says it. We have had financial dealings with tw'o or three perfect men and they cheated us wofully. Do not, therefore, lo k for an iinmiwulate husband for you wilL not find him. But do not become cynical on this subject. Society has a great multitude of grand men who know how to make home happy. When they come to be husbands thev evince a no bility of nature and self-sacrificing spirit that surprise even the wife. These are the men who sit cheerfully in dark and dusty busi ness offices, ten feet by twelve, in summer time hard at work, while the wives and daughters are off at Saratoga, Mount Desert or the White Sulphur. These are the men who, never having much education them selves. have their sons at Yale and Harvard and Virginia university. These are the mon who work themselves to death by fifty years of age and go out to Greenwood leaving largo estates and generous life insurance provision for their families. There are husbands and fathers here by the hundmis who would die for their house holds. If outlawry should ever becinne dom inant in our cities they would stand in their doorway and with their one arm would cirave down one by one fifty invaders, face to face, f<M)t to foot, and every stroke a demolition. This is w hat makes an army in defense of a country fight more desperately than an army of conquest. It is not so much the abstract sentiment of a Hag as it is a wite and children and home that turns enthusiasm into a fury. The world has such men by the million, and the homunculi that infest all our communities must not hinder women from appreciating the glory of tru • manhixwl. 1 was reading of a bridal reception. The young man had brought home the choice of his heart, in her elaborate and exquisite ap parel. As she stood in the gay dra wing-room and amid the gay group the young man's eves tilled with tAirs of joy as he thought that she was his. Y<*ars passed by and they stood in the same jiarlor on another festal oc casion. She won* the same dress, for busi ness had not opened as brig) t to the young husliand as he expected, and he had never l»een able to purchase for her another dress. Her face was not as bright and smooth as it had l»een years before, and a careworn lo»>k had made its signature on her coumeiinnee. As the huslmud looked at her he saw the dif ference l»‘t ween this occasion and the former, and he went over where she sat and said: ‘‘You remember the time when xve were here before. You have the same dress on. Cir cumstances nave somewhat changed, but you look to me far more beautiful than you did then. ’ There to such a thing as conjugal fidelity, and many of you know it in your own homes. I imagine the hour for w hich you pledged your truth has arrived. There Is much merry-making among your young friends, but there is an undertone of sadness in all the house. Your choice may have lk*en the gladdest and the l>est. and the joy of the whole round of relatives, but when a young eaglet is about to leave the old nest and is preparing to put out into sunshine anti storm tor it.sc'lf it feels its wings tremble somewhat. So she has a gtxxi cry l**fore leaving home. and at the marriage father ami mother always cry, or feel like it. If you think it is easv to give up a daughter in marriage, though it lie with brightest prospects, you will think different ly xvhen the day conies. To liave all along watclasl her from infancy to girlhood, and from girlhood to womanhood, studious of her xvelfare, her slightest illness an anxiety, and h**r in your home an ever-increasing ioy. and then liave her go away to some other h«»nie-—aye. all the rvxiol<»uce of orange blos soms and all the chime of marriage bells ami all the rolling of welding march in full diapason, and all the hilarious congratula thuisof year friends cannot make you forget that you xr* suffering a loss irreparable. But you know it to all right, and vou have a re membrance of an emliarkation just like it tw enty-flwor thirty y«irs ago. in which you were one of the parties, and suppressing as possible yoir sadmxss. you say “(tood-by!” I hope that you. the departing daughter, will not forget to write often home, for what ever betide you, tlie old folks will never lose their interest in your welfare. Make visits to them also as often and star as long as you can. for there will be changes at the old place after awhile. Every time you go you will find more gray on father's head and ' more wrinkles on mother's brow, and after a , whil- vou will notice that the elastic step has , decrepitude. And Mme day one of , th., two pillara Os hi* early home wil.' f after awhile the other pillar of that home W>ll full, and it will be a comfort when they are gone, you can feel 7““ vou are faithful in your new home jou can never forget your old home and the first friends y . ever had aud those to whom you are more indebteel than you ever ■•an be to any one else except W G*xl—l mean jour father and mother. THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. Cleanline., and l onlaalon. ; Doctor Aufrecht has written to 8 Jewish paper to recommend the prac tiee of washing the hands before eat ing, as a most valuable safeguard against contagious diseases. The doc tor says that scrupulous cleanliness of the hands is, he is firmly persuaded, a certain means of prevention, particu larly in the case of children, who so often take their food in their hands. The Jews have again this year en joyed a wonderful immunity from the ravages of cholera. Can it arise from their habit of cleansing the hands be fore meals, which is one of their most urgent commands? At all events, such a practice is to be highly com mended from more points than one.— New York News. BatliintC the Baby. Those who have once become ac customed to the daily bath will be loth to give it up. I never think we can commence a good habit too early; so I have always had my babies put into the bath from the time they were a fortnight old, says a lady correspond ent. My last baby, however, proved an exception. For five weeks after his birth 1 was too ill to attend to these things myself, and the nurse was too ignorant or too idle. The conse quence was, when I was able to take charge of the young gentleman ray self, there had to be a battle. I had the water slightly warm, so as to cause no chill, and when baby was un dressed I popped him straight in. The little man kicked and screamed for a minute or two, but soon ceased. For the next two or three mornings, there was a slight resistance, fainter every time; after that, the crying was per formed when he had to be taken out of the bath; not when he was put in. A warm or tepid bath should be given every nigiit, until the child is three or four years of age; then a bath twice a week is quite sufficient. After cold bath the children should be well and briskly rubbed all over with a coarse towel; this is of great import ance. If a child displays symptoms of weakness in the spine, indicated by general lassitude and an inclination to stoop, it is a good plan to put a hand ful of very coarse salt into a bowl of water, and sponge the little one’s back and chest with this when it is in the bath. No one, either old or young, should stay in cold water more than a minute or two at the outside. Sick Headache. This complaint is the result of eat ing too much and exercising too little. Nine times in ten the cause is in the fact that the stomach was not able to digest the food last introduced into it, either from its having been unsuitable or excessive in quantity. A diet of bread and butter, with ripe fruit or berries, with moderate and continuous exercise in the open air sufficient to , keep up a gentle perspiration, would cure almost every case iu a short time. Two teaspoonsful of powdered char- I coal in a half-glass of water and drank often gives instant relief. Sick head ache with some persons comes on at regular intervals, and is the signal of distress which tin,* stomach puts out to inform us that there is an over-alka line condition of its fluids; that it needs a natural acid to restore the bat tery to its normal working condition. When the first symptoms of headache appear take a tabiespoonful of lemon juice clear fifteen minutes before each meal and the same dose at bedtime. Follow this up until all symptoms are passed, taking no other remedies, and you will soon be able to go free from this unwelcome nuisance Many will object to this because the remedy is too simple; but many cures have been . effected in this way. Talking about antiquity and the ag*? of things, we submit that the oldest berry is the elder-berry. Bad Penmanship,—Colonel Selby Harney was attorney for John Stanton wh se case was called in the city eourt’ the charge being shooting. Colonel Har ney said he was not ready for trial. “I had a summons issued for a man named he, “and the marshal got it laylor; that is why my witness is not Here. Ihe court granted a continuance and remarked as he did so, “But a law yer ought to lie fiaed who doesn't write ■■ - that it can be read.” Colonel Harney ,hecoru - an d the lawyers ail . Abo ’7 Woods.—The strongest wood in the L mtrd States is that of the nut meg hickory of the Arkansas recion, and the weakest the Meat Indian birch. The most elastic is the tamarack, the white or shellbara hickory standing far below ' •k ■* hlghes ! specific gravity, upon whtch in general depends value as fuel is attained by the blue wood of Texas. ’ SCIE MIEIC AND [N Bl si ii. A ... Measurements by Captain ?<o:> c shown that explosion is traisun.teu through trains of dynamite at the rate of 20,0 0 to 24.000 feet per second. A sample of preserved tomato exam ined by a French chemist seemed to be chiefly composed of carrots and pump kins colored with some analine dye. A colossal plant specimen exists in the garden of Mr. J. B. Torry, at Sunning da e. England. It is a vine or tree of Wistaria which covers a wall nine feet high for a distance of 340 feet. Probably the best way to ascertain what particular stone will withstand ex posure to the atmosphere in any particu lar locality is to step into the graveyards of the district and observe the condition of the stones employed for monumental purposes. A new industry in Italy is the man ufacture of grapeseed oil, which is used for purposes of illumination. The ex traction is principally effected in Mode na. It has also long been used for sim ilar purposes in Germany and the Le vant. Thirty-three pounds of seed will yield about thirteen quarts of oil. A new method of preserving fruit is practiced in England. Pears, apples, and other fruits are reduced to a paste, which is then pressed into cakes and gently dried. When required for use it is only necessary to pour four times their weight of boiling water over them, and allow them to soak for twenty minutes, and then add sugar to suit the taste. The fine flavor of the fruit is said to be retained to perfection. The cost of the prepared product is said to be but little greater than that of the original fruit. One of the most beautiful processes in enameling, according to a German paper, is accomplished by using gold thread rubbed with the juice of an onion, which causes it to adhere to the surfaces, the figures being afterward filled out with enamel. This is the art known as cloisonne, the method pursued being to bake the article in a furnace until the enamel exhibits a luster or glossy sur face, which is an indication that it is melted. The process has to be conducted with care, for if it is overbaked the en amel burns and falls off; it may also happen that, in places where the enamel burns it thinner, it also burns. When cool, the roughness is removed by care ful hand polishing, with a fine sand stone, and lastly the enamel receives its finishing polish. The improved kind of explosive re cently brought to notice in foreign jour nals, and known as cocoa powder, is said to possess such superior value for many purposes that it has been intro duced in the famous Krupp factory. It is asserted that, with equal pressure, this substance gives greater velocity to a ball than can be attained with ordinary pow der, while its smoke is found to be less dense and to clear off more quickly. It is brown, or, rather, chocolate colored. In sundry tests about one-seventh less of it was required than of the ordinary kind of powder to produce given re sults. The merit which is especially ad vanced in its favor is, briefly, that of beginning its combustion moderately aud steadily, and then, when the pro jectile has started through the bore, burning with great rapidity, and with, of course, tremendous impelling force. .The method of preparation and the cost as compared with other explosives are not stated. Writing a Book to Order. Major Ben: Perley Poore has done con siderable literary work the past year, says a Washington letter. He wrote for a publishing house a life of Grant, which has already had a sale of 10,000 copies. The publisher came to him and said: “Major Poore, I want a life of General Grant, to contain about 90,000 words, and 1 want you to write it for me. I want it in about two months, if possible. I will pay you so much for it. ” To this Major Poore assented, on condition that they would furnish him with a steno grapher. They did so, and he dictated the work at an average rate of a chapetr a day. Each chapter comprised about 2,500 words, and this continuous writing is perhaps some ot the fastest literary work of the pastjyear. Biaine considers 1,000 words a day good work. Frances Hodgson Burnett, when she was well, did from 1.000 to 1.500, and I am told that Bancroft considers when he has written 250 words he has done a good day’s work. Ben: Perley Poore looks remarkably well. He weighs about as much as usual, perhaps 250 pounds, and his eye is ns bright as that of any corre spondent here. He has been here in new-piper work for fully two genera tions of men, and for generations of pub lic men. as the lite of the average public man is very short. Teaching a Dog. Miss Catherine Rae explained in a re cent chit-chat one science in Aberdeen, oxer thesen, the way in which she got a dog, within three weeks, to ring a bell. She began by letting “Tiny” smell the bone of a rotton chop and then tied the 7 'n !he s . trin S of the bell - At first ylmv ’ was in a great tremor, but by taking her very kindly and stroking her, she lound that she could induce her to pull at the bone and so ring the bell. After that she tied a small piece of wood to the string, but the dog would not puli it. At last she p illed her gently l ack until the bell rang, and in this wav, m the short course of three weeks, with not more than one or two les sons a day, the dog would go and rina the bell by being told—“ ‘Tiny,’ go and ring the bell,” at the end of three weeks she gave an evening party, and during the evening thev were all electri zed by the sudden and violent rino-in" o. the hell. “Tiny" hid been neglected to be indulged with any lid-bit, and had taken this means of receiving attention, A Terrible Disappointment. 'Vi,™ organ grinders leave the street, i!" r n- e ’ hard, and snow and sleei Are falling fast, and wet the feat- t hen strut precautions we must use Gai‘s. taking cold, and then w - know in ■ time for searching high and low Has come, and right to work we go u .’ °. h “ <l ,? ur ' ast year’s overshoes. -a!! 1 |, ' , ’ sets through and through, The cellar and the attics, too- For hours the anxious search pursue, Bn. all in vain, and when ’tis o’er 't makes us rather mad to find that those nice rubbers-flannel lined- Jur wife (of coarse with motive kind) Has giv n to feed the goat next door. —Boston t'ouri'rr, SLUMBER-LAND. Oh, baby mine, the night is here, The night that drifts us slowly near The realms of Slumber-land. Gently the watei-s obb ami flow, Creeping through nodding lids of snow, The.t border Slumber-land. Mother’s arms are the sails and boat, And mother's voice the winds that tloat Your bark to Slumber-land. Beautiful dreams, instead of sands, Fleeting visions people the strands Os far-off Slumber-land. Sleepy sands that creep into qysa Ever so open, ever so wise. Wafted from Slumber-land. Hush! I’m sure you are almost there. Breathing the drowsy, mystic air That floats through Slumber-land Now a kiss on the rosy face. Just to show we have won the race— The race to Slumber-land. —Adelaide Salmon. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Billiards must be an easy game, for it' s mostly done on cushions. — Stock ton erick. The average postage stamp generallj gets in place after it has been well licked. —Electric Light. A canal horse should never be hard up. He can always draw on the bank. —St. Paul lieraid. There is no hen so self-contained but that she is liable to lose her head.— Binghamton Republican. “What is your idea of love, Mr- Sin nick?” “Three meals a day, and well cooked. — Chicago Ledger." When she was younger and wore the queens’ wreath, She was the finest sonranoyou met. oh: But now she’s grown oilier, with a set of false teeth, I find that her voice is falsetto. —Gorham Mountaineer. Three editors arc members of the Delta (Cal.) brass band. They were driven to it in self-defense. Burlington F m Press. Strange, that with the 21,000,000 bat- i tons manufactured in this country last year, we still have to fasten our suspend ers on with a shingle nail.—Pizbncr Journal. A. nicely sharpened lead pencil is the only thing in creation that defies the law of gravitation. The lighter end always strikes the floor first. — Burlington Free Press. A LOVER’S COMPLIMENT. “A pretty thing in gloves,” said she, “1 wish to get a perfect glove.” “The prettiest thing in gloves,” said he, "Are those white hands of yours,my love.” ■ —Boston Courier. The king of Dahomey has 3,500 wives. When his royal husbandness roils home ward about 3 A. ji. the chances are 3,500 to one that he will be overheard when he | tries to sneak upstairs in his stocking : feet. Uneasy lies the head that wears a| crown.— New York Graphic. TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT. The snow is beautiful to see And to the poet gives delight, When over lawn and over lea It lies, a mantle pure and white. But when six inches deep, or so, It lies, at morn, beside his door And must ba shovelled off, the snow, The poet deemed a blasted bore. —Boston Courier. Noses and Ears. With the astrologers a large nose ivasl always a sign of much character of soaeS kind, but that was determined by othera characteristic marks. A Roman nosM was a sign of a courageous temper antliffl disposition to face and overcome --liffi-H cutties, while a more strongly aquiline B nose was an indication of rapacity: the I idea being evidently borrowed from he S similarity of this description of beak to 3 that of the eagle, the most rapacious oil birds. The snub nose showed lit: -i character but much temper, while 'he J Greek nose, even, straight and reguhr.3 was a sign of the temperament of ’ j owner. Large nostrils indicated go?■ lungs, health and long life, while swc.l-B ing nostrils showed a warlike spirit indH tire. A very sharp no<e was consideretM an indication of a busybody, while bluntness at the end of this mvuibet an outward sign of the possessor's meofl tai lack of acuteness. Large ears wezM always bad, the similarity between owner and the donkey being suppo■ 3 to extend further than the ears. whiiß small ears were iilw.ivs good. The lob of the ear passing insensibly into cheek was a sure sign of a th es and lh' while an exceedingly sharp division be tween the two indicated honesty a® candor. Thick ears meant thick brains while thin, delicate ears declared the: possessor to be a man of refined intelli gence. Two Storie t of Grant. After General Grant had appointed Judge Taft secretary of war, he invite; a number of leading Republican Senatm to dine with him at the White Houk that they might become personally so quainted. He forgot, however, to inv.s Judge Taft, who consequently was o ; present, so those invited to meet bi did not have the pleasure of seeint him. On another occasion, when CongreS was investigating the Washington res estate pool, General Grant sent one ol his sons to the Capitol to invite info' mally adozen Republican Senators todi: at the White House for a couferenc a The young Grant mistook that stat'-*-' Democrat, Senator Eli Saulsbury, Senator Morrill, of Vermont, and so vited the Delawarian. His preset 1 - acted like an extingu sher on all polit J cal talk, and he, after having xvond" " all through the dinner why he wa< I vited, hurriedly took his leave when ?■ cigars were introduced.— Bin: P B Poore. Crimson Tipped. She has sunny, golden hair, She is exquisitely fair, And her eyes of blue are gorgeous in b a lustre: While her lips are ruby bright. And her teeth are pearly white And, in fact she, as a neauty. is a bust- "■ 4 But. despite hi r charms so rare | And her fascinating air, And the knowledge that of them all met j. talking. She in life no pleasure finds. For the frosty autumn winds Tint her lovely nose with red wuen suc tW walking’. —Goodall's 5 'V I