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Th<- pmpri'tv an I tro >d tatte of doing
away with abi»r. viatid r.mn< » among
women i« fa<t growing into favor and
the good old f iidiion of giving the full
nan <* i« regarded the correct and dig
niffod thing. and Mattie, and
Tillie, and Maggie are again Mary,
M >rth&, Matilda, arid Margaret stately
nann t, allot them, and full of Mgnifi*
cance, whrroM th ir diminutives arc
silly and meaning lew*, arid women are
gradually awakening tn the fa< t that it
is far more elegant to rewrvr these pct
names, if they be used .it all. for the
household, and to sign themselves
always in add reding those outside this
little circle with tlrn full name they re
ceived at the baptiarnal font. In thin
respect our ancestor* showed a proper
amount of dignity, and it would be well i
Low if the old form of addressing j
women as Mi tress Ann Page, .Mistress
Catherine Smith, etc., were revived.
The present custom of retaining the
maiden name as a middle name after
marriage and the use of the husband’s
Christian name by widows are both sen-
Bible, rm they identify the individual ,
-vith a certain family. Chicago llccald.
A Flirt’s Conrr««ioi».
“I do not think that 1 ever flirted with
the hope or intention of lerioualy win- 1
ring men’s heart,. It was fun to receive
their attention, and to be able to lure
them away from other girls, and especi
ally wua thia the caw when tiie men
were married or engaged. In most in- j
ttances I think they went bark to their
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awn and their own received thi-in. Why
lid Ido ill Well, I think tho reason
wa, thia: I really liked all agreeable
men, and anything that looked like lack
of appreciation on their part wa, so ex
eeedingly diala,teful to metbat fatraight
way atrove to overcome it. The young
fallowa ju.t coming out camo into iny
net aa a matter of couriie for several
yearn, hut older men heard of
me before being presented, and
fought shy. J did not understand
this then, I thought they disliked
me, whereas it wax probably
caution or disapproval, and I set myself
forthwith to disarm the caution and
change tho disapproval to liking. It wax
•imply unpleasant to mo to have anyone
indifferent. I have cried time and again
on iny way homo in the carriage, simply
because some one whom 1 wanted to
please seemed indifferent. Several times
■I wax actually caught with tears on my
cheeks by those of whom I waa thinking,
and I always managed to let them guess
ilia reason of iny tears. That wasalway,
effectual. It never failed to bring about
the desired end, but I declare solemnly
.that I never did it on purpose cried, I
mean and I never intended to he caught
in tears. I suppose that most men will
refuse to believe thia, but it is true. 1
was simply at my wits’ end with wretch- i
ednexa, because I thought some one hud
taken a dislike to me." The Hour.
A Persian l*ri ■»<*<*«■.
Lady Hhiol, in her “Glimpses at Life
and manners in Persia," says: “I went to
we tho Hindi's half-sister, a bountiful gir|
of 10, who lived with her mother in an
obscure part of tho ante-room, neglected
by the Bhxh, and consequently by every
one else. She was really lovely, fair ami
prith indeacrodiblo eyes and a figure only
equalled by some of the chefs d’cciivre of .
Italian art. This is so very rare among ■
Persian women that she was one of the
few persona 1 saw in tho country with an
approach to a good figure.
“She wax dressed in the usual fashion
of trousers on trouser,, the Inst pair being
of such stiff brocade that if put standing
upright in tiie middle of the room there
they would remain. Her hair WiuiCUrled,
not plaited, mid she was literally covered
with diamonds. She wa, quiet in h r
manners, and seemed dejected. She
was most anxious to hour about European
customs.
"And what seemed to surprise her
m wt was that we took the trouble to un
dress every night going to bed and she
asked me was it true that we put on a
long white dress to pass the night in.
"All Persian women are n-t.mished at
this custom, and are quite unable to ac
count for it. They never undress at
night; they untie their thin mattress
from its silken cover, draw it out from its
place against the wall, and roll them
wives up in tho wadded quilt which
forms their blanket. The only time they
change thoir clothes is when they go to
bathe If they go out to visit they of
course put on their best garments, and
take them off at night; but generally
they lie down just as they are, and even
in cold weather they wear their ’chadeor,
or out-of door veil, at night.
Ito bue< You it a American Women.
Seme years ago, says the New York
See, a young woman rather coveted an
appearance of delicate health, as an evi
dence of refinement, and associated fresh
and blooming cheeks and a vigorous ap
petite w iUi a daiy maid style of beauty
that seemed to her coarse or inelegant.
She was also taught to look on little hy
sterical fears and tremor, as prettily fem
mine, and, of all things, she most
dreaded to be regarded as a tomboy or a
hoyden. She might dance all night iu a
tight and loug gown, but she must avoid
the outdoor sports enjoyed by her broth-
! era, and stan I in mortal terr:? cf cows
! and mice. Therefore it hapjiened that
I the typical American girl of those days
was s fliin and nervous creature, beside
whom her English sister seemed full and
rugged. She was a pretty, but a fragile
specimen of her sex, whose good looks
were like ly to be soon replaced by tho
lines of chronic ill health, or destroyed
by the cares of motherhood. -
Hut all that has changed since the time*
when Dio Lewis began to preach hi,
dor trim of w hat he called physical cul
ture. The girls of this period vic with
their brothr i s in outdoor cxm. ise. They
wear stout boots, easy clothing, and gar
ments appropriate to the weather, and
which are made with careful regard to
the protection of their health. First, :
croquet took them out upon tho lawns, j
and then tennis: and meantime they
learned to row, to ride, to drive,to prac- ;
tire archery, to take long trumps, and to 1
endure exposure, so that ii ha, come to
puss, that girl.,, like boys, arc ashamed I
to be unequal to vigorous physical ex- '
crcise. They want to be healthy and
strong and mi'<- and cow . do not terrify
them a, of old.
The result is that the well-trained
American girls who arc now approaching
maturity; or who arc already in the first ■
flush of womanhood arc distinguished
for the symmetry and beauty of their
physical development. Their lungs are
stronger and their voices better than
those of the women who preceded them.
The race has grown taller and far hand
somer, ho that now we can sriy without ,
boasting that the handsomest types of
their sex a lywhere to be found arc the
young American girls of to-day.
Os course Dio Lewis only helped to
bring about this happy result, for many
Causes contributed to it, but we accord
him great praise for the part he took in
inspiring our young women and their
parents with enthusiasm for health and ,
physical exercise.
Fashion mote,.
Lscc dresses arc more flowing than for
merly.
Embroidered nun's vci.ing is very at
tractive this season.
Beige and corde-dc-la-reine are com
bined for girls' wear.
Yellow and black on high walking hats
is a favorite combination.
A bouquet of carnations is one of tho
most stylish hat garnitures.
Chalii, etamine, foulard and India silk
arc used for girls’ nice dresses.
Tucks or folds on an under dress are
very stylish in any heavy goods.
Shot silk in light shades is used in
combination with light summer woolens. ;
Draped polonaises and overdresses, ,
with bosque bodices, are in equal favor. I
Veils of colored crape accompany tho
shirred crape bonnets so stylish this sea
son.
Plain skirts without gores, some being
made with deep plaits at tho side, arc
worn. ;
Watered ribbons arc used very effec
tively in tri.niuing light weight cos
tumes.
A largo gray parasol is a very stylish
affair this season. A huge bow ornaments
the top.
Egyptian and oriental lace ore used
for flounces over colored and white
dresses
Wide sashes of surah are very stylish
with street costumes as well as those for
the house.
Embroidered crape, gauze and muslin
are shown in most elaborate designs and
beautiful coloring.
White canvas cloth combined with
black velvet makes a very stylish cos
tuine for the seashore.
Course meshed nets have largo oi
small polka dots. They uro to be found
in nil the fashionable colors. They are
made up over silk.
Sorges for children are made with
blouse bodices and box-plaited skirts.
These frocks are useful for seaside wear,
and are made with square collar and
cuffs of striped flannel.
A velvet sunshade is not only senseless
but it is very heavy, and when it is
adorned by a bouquet of artificial flow
ers on the handle, it is worse.
Some of the new woollen laces nrc of
very fine quality and are quite glossy.
Lace for millinery purposes is often
edged with wire so fine that it cannot be
detected. This wire prevents lace from
becoming limp and clinging, and en
ables lace bonnets to preserve their pris
tine freshness.
The Moon.
Astronomers are continual? making !
as ounding < a'cul-.itio .s w ith regard to
the moon. Prof. Darwin savs there was
a time, about fifty-four millions of years
ago, when the moon was so near ths
earth that it revolved around it some
where between two and four hours. It
must have rubbed the tops cf some of
our highest m untains. Telescopes
were unnecessary in these days, AU
' that an astronomer had to do was to
’ climb a mountain and wait till the moon
conic along, then step on and investigate
things at his leisure. Finally tho moon
started on its long spiral journey awaj
from the earth, and we shal lose it al
together s' few million years hence.
‘ Siting*.
FOB THE FARM AND HOME.
Most seeds grow by flrat absorbing
moisture, then swelling and putting
forth a germ and roots to sustain it.
Hence they require some dampness in
their seed bed. But the |x>tato is not a
seed. Its first nutriment is from the
tan h stored in the set and planted with
it. Hence not only is dampness not es
sentia! to starting potatoes but it is even
detrimental. If potatoes arc covered
with dry earth they will come up quicker
than they will if covered with that which
is wet. This is partly because dry earth
in the same t -mperature of air is warmer.
When a potato lias been cut the surface
of the wound must dry over before the
eyes will start. If planted frcshly-cut in
very wet ground potatoes often rot, es
pecially if this is early while the soil is
cold. But as soon as the germ is above
the surface, or even before, fine roots
start from the base of the eyes and catch
ing hold of the fine soil soon do away
with dependence on plant food stored in
the Het. If the soil is rich and in fine
tilth the seed may be safely cut much
smaller than where it is poor and cloddy.
Cultivator.
I.llllc Wastes.
Manure, the farmer’s bank stock, in
liquid form flows away to the stream an!
is lost. Old machinery, in which arc
many good bolts and screws, are al.
lowed tx> rust out in the field. In an
emergency, lie drives an overworked
horse to the nearest town or shop to
duplicate an article that should have
been preserved from the old one. He
fails to keep his toofs in perfect order,
and in haying time, when the weather
is threatening, a tire rolls off, a bolt is
missing. And down comes the rain and
up goes the temper. Tiie missing shingle
is never replaced, and a constant leak
finds its way to the grain bin and then
he growls because his wheat is docked
for dampness. Odds and ends of lum
berremain where the last job is finished,
curling up and becoming worthless in
the hot sun. Good tools often keep
company with the perishing boards.
The weaklings of his herds and flocks
are allowed to remain with the strong
until they droop away and die. This
man tells a continued story of bad sea
sons, weather too hot or too cold, too
wet or too dry, taxes too high. No in
tellectual shadow falls across his pessi
mistic path, and he never reaches the
goal of the successful farmer.— Farm
and Live Stock.
Feed for Butter*
It is not necessary to feed oily food for
a large production of butter. On the
contrary nitrogenous food mixed with
selected food rich in starch and peculiar
ly well flavored fatty matter is prefer
able. It is a fact that oils taken into
the digestive apparatus nrc largely ab
sorbed directly by the blood an 1 are
carried, without change, into the milk,
thus giving to tho butter a flavor like
that of the food. But when peas, bran,
malt, sprouts, and other food rich in
nitrogenous elements, and fats which
have an agreeable flavor, are used witli
cornmeal or other starchy food, the
whole is thoroughly well digested, and
pass into blood and tiie milk in a changed
form, and not directly. The butter is
thus of a better quality than when oil
meals are fed. The selection of food for
dairy cows is a matter for tiie greatest
care, and also for individual experiment.
A good mixture of food for cows used
for making butter is 100 pound of peas,
or Southern cow peas, 200 pounds of
corn, and 260 pounds of fine wheat o r
rye bran, all ground together. To eight
quarts of this meal may be added four
quarts of thoroughly soaked malt sprouts
and one of cotten seed meal for a full
daily allowance, divided into three feeds
for a largo full milking cow.—-V. T.
jTi'mos.
The Cure of I’nsturee.
At a farmers’ convention held in New
York Hon. Lewis Hams said: I have
heard it remarked many times that it
cost more to summer a cow in pasture
than to winter her, but I have never
kept a strict account so as to be able to
decide the question. But I know that
our pastures are usually neglected. If
we have a..y manure to apply, it is used
on the turable land and not on our
pastures. Then in fencing our farms we
fence off the poorer parts and then make
an average of fencing for the whole farm.
I dou't exactly like the principle of soil
ing, preferring to send my cows to pas
ture. In suggesting points for the im-,
proveinent of pastures, I would say,
first: If there are any mudholes in the
pasture I would say tile-slrain them.
They will then be tho most productive
part of tiie farm. Another improvement
js to break up the droppings of the cattle
about the 20th of October. Break them
up with a stable hook and then go over
the ground with a harrow. Also top
dress the pasture late in October with
horse manure. There should be a hurdle
fence to surround that part of the land
that is newly broken up for pasture. I
would sow two hundred or three hun
dred pounds of ground bone on any
piece of land that I was going to
seed down to pasture. In taking
from the soil a pound of milk the cow
takes a piece of phosphate of lime as
Urge as a good sized pea, and in sixty
p ounds of milk she will take sixty times
that amount. Now we must find some
way of putting this back, and ground
bone is best for this purpose. I would
•ow for seed a mixture of fourteen
pounds of orchard grass, ten pounds
Kentucky bluegrass, twelve pounds
meadow fescue, and six pounds each of
meadow foxtail and of redtop. This
may seem a good deal. A half a crop of
grass is worth more than a little grass
seed. These grasses are all deep rooted
and least affected by drought, and will
give a succession of food. I’m not in
favor of clover in the pasture, as it has
too much water in it. I also regard tim
othy as the poorest pasture grass on ac
count of its bulbous root, which is easily
pulled up by cattle grazing close. When
you sow these grasses keep the cattle off
the ground the first season, because some
of tiie grasses are weak when young.
The tread of cattle is always an injury to
growing grass, but it is unavoidable.
If you take the cattle off by Oct. 20 and
break the droppings as I have described
you will keep the grass in good condi
tion. I would turn cows on to the
pasture early in the spring, as soon ns
the ground is firm enough not to meach.
They know when they want to get out,
and will eat the rank early grasses well.
They will crop it evenly, and will keep
it so all summer. Some men never take
their cattle off in the fall, and there is
nothing worse for a pasture than this
eternal grubbing of roots in the fall and
in mild winter weather.
IXnlry anil Hlovk Topics,
The best butter is made on the old
pasture.
Rye bread is a common feed for horses
in Belgium and Germany.
Sprinkle salt upon the back of a lamb
to induce a sheep to own it.
The butter supply can be increased by
frequent stirring of the cream,
The cows should be milked as “regu
lar as clock-work,” as to the hour, and
in precisely the same order, each day.
Keep young pigs dry and warm. Clean
pens and dry beds are necessary; damp
ness causes mange, which stunts the pig.
A flagstone floor is the best for the
dairy; wood, cement or brick absorb
drippings, and the floor soon becomes
foul and odorous.
A Maine man says the way to start an
obstinate horse is to take him out of the
shafts and lead him around until he is
giddy.
The last month of an animal’s life has
great influence upon his flesh, because
the feeding during that period largely
determines the flavor and quality.
Stock needs salt, and it is a matter
that should be looked after. Many cases
of colic in horses and hoven [in cattle
are caused by a deficiency of a supply of
salt.
The small mess of milk furnished by
one cow may be far richer than the larger
quantity obtained from another cow.
And it is the butter yield that is the best
test of a cow’s value.
Horses will go eight and probably ten
hours without food if properly fed at
evening and morning. They should
have water more frequently, but never
when hot.
The root crops for swino should con
sist of a variety; tho farmer should grow
not only beets and turnips for them, but
parsnips and carrots also. The cheapest
pork is that made by securing rapid
growth on roots and grass.
A mixture of skimmed milk, buck
wheat bran, and cobmeal with good corn
fodder should be very good feed for or
dinary occasion, but in fattening an ani
mal, an evenly balanced food is not
wanted, but one rich in carbohydrates,
and cornmeal bran and corn fodder
would be the best.
lloiiMeholil Hints.
In washing bedsteads use strong brine
or hot alum water.
Wash grained woods with co’.d tea,
wipe dry and rub with linseed oil.
Cayenne pepper blown where mice or
ants congregate drives them away.
A little carbolic acid put in your glue
or paste pot will keep the contents sweet
for a long time.
Rub window-sills with fine wood ashes
and rinse with clean water to remove
flower-pot stains.
Beat carpets on the wrong side first,
then on the right side. Spots may then
be removed with ammonia and water or
ox-gall.
When hard-finished walls have been
calcimined the soiled coats should be
washed or scraped off before a new one
is put on.
When drain-pipes or other places get
s our or impure they may be cleansed
with lime water, carbolic acid or chloride
of lime.
llecip...
Ham Croquettes.—One cup of nam, two
cujis of potatoes, one cup of bread
crumbs, one tableepoonful of butter, and
one egg. Make in balls, roll them in
bread crumbs, and fry in hot fat.
Omlet.— Four eggs, yolks and whites
beaten separately, and one and one-half
tablespoonfuls of milk. Mix the whites
and yolks together, and add a little salt
and pepper, and turn into a buttered spi
der.
Fish 3M.ie.—Tuke some fried fish, two
tablespoonfuls of cream, a dessertspoon
ful of butter, three or four onions, green
chillies (when they are to be had), a piece
of ginger, and two or three tablespoon
fuls of vinegar boil for ten minutes, then
serve. This is an excellent breakfast
dish.
Green Corn and Peach Pudding.— One
cup of the pulp of green corn, which is
obtained by cutting the kernals with a
silver knife and pressing out the pulp
with the knife, being careful that the
kernels are not loosened from the cob, one
cup of sliced ripe peaches, crushed
slightly, two table-poonfuls of sugar and
one cup of water. Mix thoroughly, put
in an earthen pudding dish, placing thin
slices of peach on the top. Bake from
twenty minutes to half an hour in a mod
erate oven. Serve cold.
Carnival Scenes at Buenos Ayres.
A Chicago A'eics correspondent, de
scribing the carnival scenes at Buenos
Ayres, says: Landing at the Boca, we
entered a closed tram-car and started
toward the hotel. The driver and con
ductor were protected by rubber coats.
Soon the seige began. All along the
narrow streets from the tops of the one
story houses were thrown pails of water.
Paper bags filled with water were thrown
on to the car. It was drenched. The
faithful gossamer did good service again.
At last, within a block and a half of the
hotel, wo left the car. A close hack
passing that moment, we chartered it
and drove on. We had not gone a block
until the carriage was nearly submerged
in water thrown from the houses.
This was only a sample of what went
on for three days and nights in every part
of the city. There was no law—no pro
tection. The chief of police forbade it,
but the first day had not passed before
his superior, upon whom he depended
for his appointment, was out on his
house throwing water upon every
one as they passed by. Fre
quent collisions occur. One North
American, for years a resident in South
America, was in the street with his
bride when some one squirted water in
her face from the universal pomo. This
was too much for his fresh affection, so
he promptly knocked the “carnivalite’’
down. Os course he was arrested and
taken to jail, It is proper to wet
strangers, and spoil their clothes, and
perchance leave them far away from their
homes with wet clothes iu a changeable
climate, but it is not allowable for a man
to protect his wife from assault. This
is carnival. Some friends interceded,
and the slow procession of legal justica
were hurried up, and by paying a lib
eral “fine” the North American was re
turned to his bride. Occasionally parties
in the streets went to the nearest gro
cery and armed themselves with eggs,
the worse the better, and returned to
the points where they had suffered and
drove their assailants into their houses.
In a few instances the enraged “vic
tims” used their revolvers. Generally
the best people either left the city or
kept within doors during “the reign of
terror.”
The Poisonous Scorpion of Mexico.
At a recent meeting of the Academy
of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Dr.
Leidy read a communication from Dr. V.
Gonzalez, giving an account of the scor
pions of Durango, Mexico, and the dead
ly effects of their sting. They are found
everywhere in the city, and every effort ,
has been made to exterminate them, but
without effect. A reward of a cent and
a half for males, and double that amount
for females, is paid by the authorities,
and tho records indicate that some years
over one hundred thousand are captured
and destroyed. The sting, especially in
the case of children, is invariably fatal;
tho victim, if under two or three years
of age, dying in a few hours, and some
times in a few minutes, in strong general
convulsions. No antidote for the poison
has yet been discovered, and the assist
ance of Dr. Leidy is asked by the writer
in his endeavor to determine some suc
cessful mode of treatment. It was sug
gested by Messrs. Horn, Heilprin, and
Leidy that the Mexican scorpion must
differ from the species found in Florida
and California, as the sting of the latter
is not usually graver than that of a
wasp.
Whipping Up Nature.
Margaret Sidney says in Good House
keeping: There is a whipping up of tired
nature going on that ought to come un
der the notice of some society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals. The
lash is being applied in this way, to !
take a common instance, in your very
house. Your husband did not sleep any
last night, thinking of his business en
tanglements. Y’ou prepare him two
cups of strong black coffee, which he
pours down for breakfast, unable to eat
anything with it. No doubt while the
stimulus lasts he is carried through an
immense amount of work in a savage
manner, it passes for pure grit by the
on-lookers. Perhaps it may be; but
there is another kind of grit that we like
quite as well, —tho patient, steadv fol
lowing one’s conscience. And your
doses of strong tea that enable you to get
through the house cleaning, or the fall
sewing, is another,—long and cruet I
The society should have iu hands on
you both instantcr.
Set not too high a value on your ow a
abilities.
He that will not look before him will
have to look behind him—and probably
with some regret.
The appellation of gentleman should
never be affixed to a man’s circumstances
but to his behavior in them.
Those who sneer habitually at human
nature, and get to despise it, nre among
its worst and least pleasant samples.
If a man’s religion is pretentious on
Sunday and obscure on week days, vou
would better do business with him on a
cash basis.
Happiness does not consist in our
possessions, but what we are in need of
ourselves. Tho person who has a clean
heart and conscience is far happier than
if he was the owner of untold millions.
Goodness is beauty; and beauty cannot
stay inside; like the sap iu a tree, it
must come out in fresh leaves and buds
and blossoms. Good, pure, kind gener
ous thoughts light up the plainest face
and make it beautiful and youthful.
Idleness is the hotbed of temptation,
the cradle of disease, the waster of time,
.he canker worm of felicity. To him
who has no employment, life in a little
while will have no novelty; and when
novelty is laid in the grave, tho funeral
of comfort will soon folllow.
Forestry and Cyclones.
The only means of which we can con
ceive within human power for the pre
vention, or at best the rendering less fre
quent, of cyclones, is in the covering of
the face of the country as much as pos
sible with trees and verdure. Let there
be ascending moisture instead of ascend
ing currents of heated air. In the great
timbered valleys of the Amazon cyclones
are unknown, yet when we look at the
; formation of the laud it is probably one
of the mosh monotonously level regions
on the face of the earth. In the vast
area drained by the Amazon in its trifj.'
utaries might be packed the whole United
States and not one of its boundaries
would anywhere be touched. Seen from
any of the eastern spires of the Andes,
this whole region is a sea of verdure.
The boundless and unbroken forest give
it the appearance of an illimitable mead
ow. From the grassy steppes of Venzu
ela to the treeless pampas of Buenos
Ayres expands this sea of verdure. In
it we might at almost any point draw
a circle of eleven hundred miles in diam
eter, within which all would be an un
broken evergreen forest. And so matted,
corded and festooned with vines are all
the trees of this forest, and such is the
exuberance of the undergrowth, that a
“macheta,” must be used with which to
hew away into the wall of vegetation
the moment the voyager on one of these
put a foot ashore from his canoe.
Such is the steaming moisture within
these great forests that salt soon becomes
brine, the best refined sugar becomes
j syrup, epsom salts and many other kinds
of medicines deliquesce, and the best
gunpowder becomes liquid in a few days,
even when enclosed in a canister.
Take away the forests and verdure,
and leave this region a vast desert plain,
and it would no doubt at once becoue a
very playground of cyclones.— Salt Lah
j 't'rilmne.
The Dead Sea of the West,
The famous Dead Sea of the West,
Mono Lake, situated in Mono county,
California, is thus described by a writer
in the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘‘lts
water is .so strongly impregnated with
alknlies that the hand held for a few
minutes in it will crack open and the
skin be eaten off. No living thing ex
ists in it, though it is said that often,
after strong winds have blown across
its surface, there is a layer of worms
several feet wide on its leeward shore.
It cleanses clothes dipped in it almost
instantly, and if they are not as speedily
removed does worse. Its shores are bar
ren, bleak and lonely in the extreme,
bordered by a soil that will grow noth
ing but the scrubbiest of sage brush. In
the prosperous times of Bodie a steamei
plied on the lake, but it is now laid up
in ordinary. The length of the lake is
about 30 miles, and its greatest width
about 18 miles. Seen from tliis magni
ficent point, surrounded by the walks of
Bloody Canyon, it is one of the noblest
views on earth, but at the same time it
only proves to one who has been about
its shores and toiled across the deserted
and sandy interval to the welcome foot
of the Sierra, with even no better way
across than the Bloody Canyon, that
truly ‘distance lends enchantment to the
view.”
Taking Him Down.
They had just been introduced. She
was a pretty country girl and he a wheel
man, who was very vain of his personal
appearance when clad in 'cycling cos
tume.
He—l assure you there is scarcely a
man who does no find the wheel suit
most becoming.
She (doubtingly)—lndeed !
He—As for myself, everybody insists
that I look 100 per cent, better in a bi
cycle costume than in an ordinary busi
ness suit.
She (innocently) Dear me. How
awfully you must look in an ordinary
business suit.— Boston Record.