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It never ha« happen d that opt of two, :;.0f; "Bathe boy, «5»d girt. together- ?Y «*• 3if'« %* |V-v 'M* >1Wl a hare felt th.t to low was enough to do In th • sweet and tho sunny weather-- ' Bl b«r»ftmnd tight wrndafor theaoogof birds IB$ the geeenery wcrhead; , ,. For U> bUhl the nest in the gprinir is boat, And 'tis best in the spring to wed. ^h,' beIWM M her bridle-rein^ And he bends him to her car. With rbe mnMcal tones of : he old reft*In That ladies de-iuht to h?ar. An# fin JRdHIs were pleasant as rain that patten I»t»roatholaughing leaves. I *?,, And kind as t he chert y aim that flatten *hfgold «f harvest sheave*. . , ?1, AMI hl» hand it is on her hridlo-rein, ; And h » U> k it is on her cheek-- ,ff j ao in t U her over a^sln a , _ Of tjje cucr ion that he woul .t .seelc-- /W/t Utit Wi, th" teliin^f 'tis lHre the nneltlng Ol tii - icipnoiie e and ;he rose: Fornom .tt rh w lon« von sing love's song, §»jM» Yo^i oa# never ctane to t*clo»e: . U i (rfattdon, in Hariter's II eeklg. KSrtt •;»io int*" iv rttT. BETTY, THE HANGWOMEN. ;k*if ,o ' Wfjrft traTelefa tell of the King of t)abomey*a Amazonian body-guards --gannt, prim viragoes, every one of prodigious strength, courage anil fero- - in* --impresses one frith African bar l»ntv more forcibly than, perhaps, Mfty otber institution on the "i^ark i3ont;nent." Even among savages one |J|M jifrbjW for some leaning tow ard mercy >*,:t woman's parf. It'is natnral to expect a Pocahontas even on the coast Giiinea, hat IIM^idea of a female ex* ii* jpcutiooer, strange and dreadful when V' narrated io the annals of au African 1ril e. be<-omes horrible, grotesque, in- < «TKtUbJe when transported to a .spot within a few hour's journey of London, and two days not remote from our own. .Aifti vet fWfifched in Roscommon, iU>g^ed, branded, hanged, and pocketed «QehjBervices one whose mem- 0 s o^r e(tiU ^ngers round the old goal and ^ • in the minds of the peasantry---the famous "Lady" Betty. : How shfc came to be a liangwoman may he fyriefly told. She was of peas­ ant origin; early left a widow, with one ' .d,aboy, in the latter half, of the " >h& century. Her disposition silent and brooding--what the h call "dark." Having no friends, all her dull a^dctiaas concentrated in L|| h«r son. She was superior to her class ^ J in jpany ways; she could read and i -write, nnused accomplishments in those -m in these arts she instructed > } the lad. fche was crushed by bitter, IiopdeupoTertr, lived with diflSculty by tn¥ lilbr of her hands, and priva- tiotf toimed to act like frost on her sotil, ^filing and freezing the fount of tindiifss that springs in every woman's heart. In truth, an unlovable creature, » »- ®v,° when allowances are made for *• .•' tSIfulnatanoes. The l>oy was lively •| •'! jgtffl w'atm-hearted, full of merrv affec- ways, winding himself round mother's heart and returning her v-v*.- jove with interest, the one bright spot in her ol«cure, monotonous life. Then, Kit*} -** n5*v- tide of emigration flowed - westward, hut America seemed vastly further off Before the boy's imagina­ tion it fluttered a sliimmeHng phan­ tom, an El Dorado, where for- % . tunes "Were to be had for the taking, a ' • * i i of gonnliine, of marvels. " Gradually he won Betty to his way of thinking. Though it wrung her heart to let him go, they agreed there ?%«» «r'Vasno opening for him at home, nor ! ̂ 1,, bope of fortune, and so it came to pass f h6 stood one morning at the cross-roads, po<ket empty, cooiage high, with a i <*4h cf intending emigrants, while his I J mother, choking with tearless g*ief, knag around his nock as if she could *• " outs tuuui not tet him go, straining him in the / Jaat passionate embrace, then turning i %-ithorft once looking back, ran blindly ***' 'Tfc»9r- '.r > 3 4 •>*»<)'- " »«i " • ] % U i J -'l, ••WW* • :3;*' ;U *)" I* #«n« to L ̂̂ offflj <»bia, locked the door, and fhMtgtoaself down in an agony of •'W Borrow. Whether he ever reached his dogtwutiaa, or fella victim to the cli- *;<»*' whether he wrote her letters •t«»8 wkiob never reached her, is not known. W^'^fShb* temt heard from him after lie ***•• "yilld. Years passed, her dark hair T *!*"Parted grayish, the lines hardened round her mouth. Happier far if she h*& riieA then, poor and alone, than lived to earn the price of hl°od. One ivinter evvuing she sat by her fire of dry sticks, and crouched over the feeble blfu^e. Outside the dark rack sailed across ttie sky, the trees swayed their Iie^vy branches with a dismal creak. , glialy showers had fallen all day, sod- dening the roud and grass; now the wind was raising, portending ominously A storm, and driving the smoke back into the blackened kitchen, which, with ""the room," as Irish peasant? call it, -composed her desolate dwelling. The storm grew louder the rain came 'jrtfriifttMg tfgtwiiit the window 4tith every ^ustaudits heavy monotonous patter was'lWfcid in t%e lull of the blast. It foundkM way through weak places in the tbatdi and dripped slowly on the earthen ioor. fil ing the uneven places 'witli little pools of water. A half- starved black cat rnbbed against its in^tresH* knees. It was 9:30 when a loud important knock was heard at the , the woman Rtarted violently And listened; it was repeated. Light­ ing the one caudle the hoase afford* d, * she advanced and asked who was there ing shelter," replied and Betty, opening the %nan with a long black the bridle of a powerful tie into the cottage, the on his clothes and the "A terrible niarht," fce stod, m Iweriy; genial tones. "Thev fioscommou before . - B|ift matjU east a shoe, and it it repaired ttiat th s overtook me. I am wei^oweekiR, and if you can give me an4 >ome supper I. shall stay ~ ̂ JPP have .no objection, of not a night for a dog to be eut, Jatftloae a Christian, air; bat this is a <* +Sor the his splendid fur cloak, aad other ligns of wealth. "Dh! I'm contented," he said, his smile disolosing the whitest and most regular teeth. "1 have put up with worse in my time," and he proceeded to AM ten up the l^orse, while Betty barred the door against the intrusive blast fehe hastened to throw more sticks on the tire, drew a seat to the blaze, took the gentleman's damp, heavy overcoat from him and made him sit down. He placed the rush light in its queer arm- and-socket candlestock, just what the Anglo-Saxous used, to one side, saying it pained his eyes, and stretching out liis feet to the fire asked coold she give him anythiug to eat. "No! There is nothing in the house, and no money either," she added with a kind of defiance. The stranger looked sadly and earn­ estly at her; perhaps the idea of any one wanting money seemed strange to a rich man. His lips moved as if he were about to speak, but, changing his mind, he drew out a heavy purse and laid a gold piece on the table. "Buy something with this, then," he Said; "I shall pay you well to-morrow for your trouble." She took it iu silence, wrapped her dark cloak about her, passed ont into the wild night. In less than half an horr she rapped for re-admittance, and entered ladened with bread, meat, eggs and spirits, not forgetting a bundle oi hay on her shoulders lor the horse. The stranger rubbed down nnd fodder­ ed the animal; |while she prepared his frugal meal, which he insisted her sharing. When he was refreshed and warmed, she gave him up her bed, saying she would sleep by the fire, and he unwill­ ingly consented to deprive her of her couch. * He retired and his regular breath­ ing announced that he slept. She resumed her place by the hearth. I know not if it was then or at the first sight of the gold that temptation to the blackest treachery entered her mind--treachery that she now brood- ingly matured. It is painful to dissect a mind like hers--cold, callous, covet­ ous, soured by a hard life and disap­ pointment, longing for the ease of a daily toil that money alone could bring without moral sense of fear--save death, so let me pass as quietly as may be this most shocking part of a true story; she resolved 'o do away wuh the unknown larveler. As far as she could judge be was not an Irishman, certainly not a native of Roscommon; none had seen him enter her cabin;she could unfasten the horsj and drive it forth before morning. The money she had spent in food can be easily accounted for by a pretended letter from America; *he had seen the purse tilled to bursting with gold, in short she argued with herself there was everything to gain and little or no risk. "The woman who deliberates is lost," says Rosseau. and so it proved in this instance. She murdered the unhappy man as he slept, possessed herself of his papers and valuables, set the horse free, and sat by the dim rush­ light to examine the treasure. It was now nearly sunrise. Was it the cold wind that blows before dawn that chilled her to the bone, and made her shiver as - if in ague fits?--or-- what did those papers contain? Un­ happy, wretched mother I she had slain her son! He had come back successful, rich beyond his expectations, to take her by surprise, to make her a sharer in his good fortune. She did not recognize in the dark-bearded man the slender youth of years gone by. The tempta­ tion was irresistible to his laughter loving disposition. He would pass himself off as a grand gentleman until, morning, then they would laugh tor gether when she knew all; reveal him­ self. Alas! the morning never dawned for him. The woman's mind was unhinged by the appalling discovery. She shrieked and laughed aloud like a maniac. Then rushing wildly out into the cold, gray light, by her awful cries drew terrified ne ghbors around her, to whom she yelled she was a murderess, and had killed her only child. They though^ she was mad or possessed of a devil; but one bolder than the rest having ventured to enter her cottage ru*hed back horror-stricken to confirm her broken utterances. She was se| cured, tried, found guilty, and con­ demned. Roscommon was fixed for the execu­ tion. These were the good old days, when it was death to steal a sheep, or forge a signature, to rob a coach or take a horse, so that the cart that drew Betty to the gallows contained a goodly number of wretches, all her inferiors in guilt. Every available foot of ground was thronged by a yelling, hooting crowd; every window looking on the jail was filled with sight seers, joking, laughing, chattering, but when the tum­ bril stopped at the gaUoW foot silence fell like a pall, and the multitude held their breath. There was a long pause; officials hurried to and fro. Thcie were whispered consultations - what had happened ? The news soon spread. The executioner was absent, was taken suddenly ill, and had sent an excuse; at the last moment all was confus­ ed. It was the sheriff's duty to carry out the sentence; but that gen­ tleman flatly refused, saying IIH would forfeit all he possessed first. What was to be done? Eve.i the criminals raised their heads, a kind of dull hope dawn­ ing within them, and got more or less animated. Suddenly from their cart broke a woman's voice, shrill and harsh. "Spare me life, yer honor, spare me life an' I'll hang them all." The Sher­ iff grasped at the unexpected offer. "Betty was unbound by a war !er, de­ scended from the tumbril amidst a murmur of horror, and with awful cal­ lousness proceeded to her task. Never was an execution better performed. In a few minutes she stood the oniv living being on the scaffold, while around her hung the ghastly bodies of her late companions. The hangman died. She was nominated his successor at a yearly salary; lived alone, generally detested, and exercised her vocation for many years unt 1 her death. One of her hab­ its was to draw with a charred stick, on the walls of her cabin, portraits of all the criminals she executed. I failed to get either a certain date for her death or particulars of its manner, but think that she went to her account during thefirst decade of the present century. --Edinburgh paper. To WASH GREASY TIN AND IBOHB.-- Pour a few drops of ammonia into very greasy pan, first half filling with warm water; a bottle of ammonia should always stand near the gink lor such purposes. NEVEB leave jour-clothes on the line over night' r, U Y'xJ ' H 2?* , , '! -.'Li 11 - jg FKKD Orrr.W.--A Vermont dairyman says a young calf should be fed three times a day. Over-feedtng ai loin in­ tervals, and especially wifli cold food, kills a good many valuable calves. LET IT ALONK.--The JwrnWn Dot- ryman says: "A hay seed in a cow's eye will turn it white. It will come all right in a day or two if lef< alone. If doctored we don't know when H will get well." THK VALUK OF COB-MEAI*.--The exact value of the meal of corn and cob gronnd together is a subject upon which a great variety of opinions have been expressed. Many farmers believe that cob-meal is moro or less injurious to the stomach of animals, others admit that the cob contributes somewhat to the value of the meal when ground with corn, but not enough to pav for the dif­ ference in the cost of grinding ttie ker­ nels alone and the corn with the cob. The nutriment of the corn-cobs rests almost entirely in the carbon-hydrate* (sugar, starch cellulose), there being an infinitesimal quantity of the more im portnnt ingredients of albuminoids and fat3. The advantage of grinding the cob and corn together, according to as good authority as Elliott W. Stewart, is not altogether in the nutriment of the cob. but because the cob, being a coar ser and a spongy material, gives bulk and divides and seperates the fine meal, so as to allow a free circulation of the gastric juices through the mass in the stomach. Cornmeai, when wet into glastic dough, is very solid and not easily penetrated by any liquid, hence pigs, when fed on cornmeai alone, often suffer with fever in the stomach because the meal lies there too long undisturbed. The authority referred to, who lias fed corn and cob-meal largely to both swine and horse?, says he never observed any ill effect therefrom, but on the contrary found it a healthier feed than clear meal.--N. Y. World. FEEDING YOUNO PIOS.--As we have often said, pig-raisers should avoid giv­ ing young pigs specially fattening food. In the dairy there is plenty of skim- milk, which is well adapted to grow the young pig, as it is rich in phosphate of lime to grow the bones, and of cheesy albuminoid matter to grow the muscles. A little,corn may be given with the milk. Such pigs never grow into little round dumps of fat, but grow into rangy shoats. Yet probably a majori­ ty of our readers have the pigs without the skim-milk, and we must name the food for pigs under such circumstances. One of the best food for pigs is a small quantity of linseed oil meal, a table­ spoon ful to a fifteen-pound pig, increase as'the pig grows; this fed with oats and corn ground together, made into slop, will cause rapid growth, but not premature fattening. Cotton-seed meal is sometimes used, but we cannot recommend it for young piga It is not so easily digested, and it has not the same beneficial laxitive effect as lin­ seed oil meal, which is found to be a promoter of health in the pig. This can be procured at any considerable town, all over the country, and those who raise and feed large numbers of hogs can afford to send to the oil mills for it, and get it at wholesale rates. It can be bought at the mills at $20 to $25 per ton, and it is always worth these prices as a food: It is so rich in muscle-forming matter as to be of great value to feed with corn, which is so de­ ficient in this quality.--National Live Stock Journal. • BAISIKG GARDEN SEEDS.--Joseph Harris, of Rochester, N. Y., in his cata­ logue of seeds for 1884, describes his mode of selecting plalits and raising seeds, so as to secure those of best quality, which may afford some useful hints to those who try to raise their seeds from the poorer or later plants in their gardens. He remarks that the stumps of cabbages will produce seeds, but lie sets out good, solid, selected heads, rejecting everything which is not perfect. By this treatment, as he remarks. American-grown cabbage and gives better crops than the same varieties grown from seed raised in Europe. He raises ten acres oi radish seed, and cuts with a reaper. The ten acres are cut with less labor than a fourth of an acre in the old-fashioned way. He says the great point in keep ing vegetables in winter, is to make the soil as mellow as possible, and that nothing will keep out frost Letter than dry, loose earth. Keep plowing and plowing around the pit or trench, till it is thoroughly mellow--not less than two feet, and five or six feet wide. In keeping cabbages, he finds loose earth all that is necessary. No straw is need­ ed. A deep, dead furrow is plowed, with two or three furrows on each side, throwing the soil away from the center. The ground cannot be plowed too much. Then the cabbages a: e set up- r ght in the furrow, two or three feet wide, and on top close together, and the mellow soil thrown against them with the plow, and the operation is re­ peated and repeated until all are cover­ ed but four or five inches- on top for ventilation. The soil mu$ be as loose as an ash-heap. In December all is covered. The frost cannot penetrate the mellow earth--it only crusts it HOME COMFORTS FOB FARMERS.-- The comfort of the farmers family should not bo overlooked. Very old farm-houses and those that are cheaply built for temporary use until a better can be afforded, are often most uncom­ fortable in severe weather. Windows and doors udmit the external air more freely than is required for ventilation. Weather strips made of India rubber are very effective, but they are not to be had every where, and require more of au outlay than is always convenient. A little ingenuity will provide substi­ tutes. For the windows place small wedges between the upper and lower sashes, to prevent rattling, then paste on strips of brown paper to close all the cracks, using still flour paste, or that made from rye meal with a little alum added. It is well to leave one upper sash to be let down, as may lie required for ventilation. Doors may be made tight by tacking tailor's listing or fold­ ed strips of woolen cloth along the sides and tops. The openiug at the bottom of doors is usually the largest. For these take pieces of small scant­ ling, of the proper length, and cover with old carpet or other convenient fabric, stuffing the sides which goes against the door, with wool, cotton, or even with hay, to make a sort of a cush- sn. While it is well enough to have the kitchen door open directly into the oom in summer, it is very uncomforta­ ble for the inmates in winter. If pos •ible a storm door which can be closed itefore the kitchen door it opened should be provided. This may be made in such a manner as to be taken away n warm weather and stored for future use. Sleeping-rooms in farm houses ire usually cold. Those who suffer rom cold feet should not be deterred 'rom making themselves com portable through fear of being thought "old womanish." If one cannot bleep on ao* r-.'f [wot of oold tit*, Bottles of hot wntgr awet,but are not M> good » Mooksof MMp-skMi* Block* of hard wooA that fcww* no taipsHtinn, if plaeed in fee oven early in the evening, will be found excellent foot warmers. In driving in the oountry in very oold weather, afoot varmtr of MMM* kind will add gr«etly to the comforts of those making Uie journey.--A merman Agriculturist. HOSMHSBPEB'S HELPS. OYSTKB SAUCE--One dozen oysters, one pound of batter, three tablespoon- fuls of cream; pepper, boil oyer slow fire one hour. GREEK PEAS--Shell and lay in cold water one hour; put into boiling water, season aud cook one hour. Drain well and season with butter. BOILED HALIBUT--Cut pieces of hal­ ibut about an inch thick, salt and' pep­ per, and lay.in melted butter one half hour; roll in flour and broil twenty minutes. Serve hot ROAST PORK.--Dredge the roast with flour, pepper and aalt, and put int» a baking-pan with a pint of water. When half done put a chopped onion in the gravy, and when ready to serve thicken the-gravy with flour and water. BOILED ARTICHOKES.--Soak in water six hours; trim away the lower leave* and boil in salted water with the tops downwards; let them remain until the leaves can easily be drawn out Re­ move from the water and serve with melted butter. TOMATO SOUP--Cut a dozen large tomatoes in small pieces. Take three onions, two carrots, throe turnips and a sprig of pfcrsley, boil till well cooked and pass the whole through a sieve; add tomatoes with two quarts of water; thicken with bread crumbs. POTATO SALAD.--Chop cold boiled potatoes with enough raw onions ,to season; pour over a dressing made as follows: The yolks of three hard boil­ ed eggs, mashed fine and seasoned w ith salt and mustard; add one tablespoon- iul of melted butter and one teacupful of milk. SCOTCH CAKE--Two pounds flour one pound butter, one-half pound powder­ ed sugar; chop flour and butter to­ gether, having made the butter quite soft by setting near the fire. Knead in the sugar. Roll into a sheet not quite one-half inch thick; cut iu two-inch squares. Bake light brown. Put in stone crock for few days. COFFEE CAKE--Three eggs, well beat­ en, two cups brown sugar, one cup but­ ter. one cup of milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoons of cream-of-tartar. Work this to a stifi dough, and roll out to about a half-inch in thickness. Sift ground cinnamon over evenly; then roll up like roll jelly cake. Cut slices about a half-inch thick from the roll; drop into granulated sugar and bake thoroughly with sugared bide up. FATHER ADAM. --Whence the name come nobody knows, says the authors of the "Virginia Cooking Book," but the dish that bears it is one that is a favorite for common use with every family where it is known. When you have a cold roast of beef, cut off as much as will half fill a baking-dish suited to the size of your family; put this sliced beef into a stew-pan wi:h any gravy that you may have also saved, a lump of butter, a hit of sliced onion and a seasoning of pepper and salt, with enough water to make plenty of gravy; thicken it, too, by dredging in a taplespoonful of flour; cover it up on the fire, where it may stew gently, but not be in da ger of burning. Mean­ while there must be boiled a sufficient quantity of potatoes to fill up your baking-dish after the stewed meat l as been transferred to it. The potatoes must be boiled done, mashed smooth and beaten up witu milk and butter, as if they were to be served alone, and placed in a thick layer on top of the meat. Place the dish in an oven, and let it remain there long enough to be brown. There should be a good quan­ tity of gravy left with the beef, that tho dish be not dry and tasteless. Serve with it tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, or any other kind that you pre­ fer. A good plain dish. Didn't Pres.* It. A Detroiter and his wife were mak­ ing a trip tro ught the State prison at Jackson, and both were much impress­ ed with the countenance of a certain convict in one of the shops. He looked so melancholy aud downhearted that the lady's sympathies were strongly aroused, and the gentleman was certain that he could discover evidence that the man had a great deal of moral worth in his character. One of tho guards was applealed to for informa­ tion, and he replied: "Yes, he is very well behaved---one of the best in the prison." "He seems sorry for his offense," ob­ served the ladv. > "Yes'm." ' "And I know lie would be honest if pardoned," added the man. "Yes'r. You might speak to the Governor. I believe the offense was a trifling one." » "Do you know exactly what it was?" Why, I believe he came from your city. I think he entered a house iu the evening, choked the lady senseless, and then stole money and jewelry." "W-why! when was it?" gasped the lady. "Oh, about two years ago." "And he was sent for five. years?" asked the man. "Yes'r. If you desire tq press the matter, I'll --" "Press, be hanged!" blurted the De- troited. "Here's the very woman he choked and robbed! It was my own wife he nearly killed! Mary, I guess we won't slop over on him any further!" --Detroit Free I'rem. BE Sure You're Going, Then (io Ahead. All people have not learned the art of leaving a room in an appropriate manner. When you are ready to de­ part, do so at once, gracefully and po­ litely and with no dallying. Don't say: "It's about time I was going," and set- tie back and talk on aimlessly for an­ other ten minutes. Some people have just such a tiresome habit. They will even rise and stand about the room in various attitudes, keeping their host standing, and then by au effort succeed in getting a* far as the hall, when a new thought strikes them. They then brighten up visibly and stand fpr some minutes longer, saying nothing of im­ portance, but keeping everybody in a restless, nervous state. After the door is opened the prolonged leave-taking begins and everybody in general and in particular is invited to call. Very likely a last thought strikes the depart­ ing visitor, which his friend must risk a cold to hear to the end. What arel ef when the door is finally closed! There is no need of being offensively abrupt; but when yon are ready to go--go I Every Other Saturday. Mat of the our--"we" editors. AXROKACTS say th*t in lake OR sea in A balloon, MM lattsw oati be distinctly seen, tho wntsr linfcig no hindnwo* whatever. This knowlsdg* may hereafter be put to good use in getting eharts of the ocoaa. IT is asserted that passengers peroeir a diffeaenoe in the ease of riding in ear having the larger or ssoaller wheels, nnd that they prefer those with the larger onea. This, says the Nation* Car Builder, is significant if not eon elusive. YELLOW fever is said to be propa gated by the sting of the mosqnitn, on the snthority of Dr. Carlos Findlay, of Havana, who has seen under the micro- scope spores and filaments of a particu lar nature on the sting ef one of these insects that had just bitten the patient suffering from yellow fever. TELEPHONIC communication between moving vessels has been successfully accomplished in France, Engineering says. As one vessel was towing the other the wire was carried along one of the hawsers, and the circuit was com­ pleted through the oopper on the bot­ tom of the ships and the water. Con­ versation was carried on directly. THE Boston Medical and Surgical Journal says there is now living in Penn Yan, N. Y., a man who, for two years, has had a bullet imbedded in his brain. Before receiving the shot he was dissolute, morose and quarrelsome, but has now become a peaceable, sober, and industrious citizen. Tho records aliow analogous cases, but few that are so well marked. TANNER'S record in fasting has been greatly surpassed by a Newburg spider that lived two hundred and four days without food or water. That specimen ought to be stuffed and mounted for permanent preservation with the record of his extraordinary fast. California spiders stuffed are in great demand for collections at 50 cents apiece. This Tanner Bpider ought to fetch a large price for a premium.--Dr. Foote'x Health Monthly. THE Scientific American says that most of the article sold as bear's grease is made in this way: Take of washed hog's lard 1} pounds avoirdupois, melt it by the heat of a water bath, add of balsam of Peru 2 drams, flowers of ben­ zoin and bright palm oil 1 dram of each, stir vigorously to promote solu­ tion for a few minutes, then remove the pan from the bath, and after repose for a short time pour off the. clear portion from the sediment and stir the liquid mass until it begins to cooL GERMAN ingenuity has produced another derivative from coal tar in the shape of an explosive for mining purposes or fire-arms. This resultant is a mixture of saltpetre, chlorate of potash, and a solid hydro-carbon, the latter being paraffine, aspha.tum, or pich. The solid ingredients are pow­ dered and intimately mixed, and the mass is then treated with liquid vola­ tile hydro-carbon, such as benzine or gaspline, which dissolves the solid hydro-carbon and forms the whole into a plastic body. This cake is then roll­ ed into sheets and hardened by allow­ ing the liquid solvent to evaporate, the product being afterward broken up into grains of any desired size, liko ordinary gunpowder. By this method of dissolving the hydro-carbon before or after admixture with salts, The grains become coated after drying with &. water proof surface of varnish. The new compound is only an explosive when confined in a small space. It posesses the same density as gunpow­ der and is very hard. Slow-Moving Mexicuus. Inertia is the strongest characteristic of the Mexican--whether by that term we designate the Creoles (Spaniards and^their decendants), who are about one-sixth of the population, the full- blooded Indians, who constitute five- sixths, or the Mertizoes, who make up the other half. They ali like the old ways instinctively, and nothing but a hope of gain causes them to turn (very slowly) towardl improved mothods. For instauce, the railroad still finds in the crowds of human porters and the droves of donkeys natural and vig­ orous rivals in the business of transpor­ tation. In many cases the haciendado could send his' produce cheaper to mar­ ket by rail, but he is tardy about find­ ing it out. Mr. Thomas C. Purdy, Vice President of the National System of Roads, tells me his experience: "These farmers are willing to make money, but they seldom think of leav­ ing the old way till somebody has dem­ onstrated its economy. There is a rich haciendado with some tens of thousands of aores of land out towards Morelia on our line. He has always sent his crop to market with his droves of donkeys-- nearly 200 miles. I sent word to him thttt we would carry it cheaper, and furnished him with rates, bat it made no impression. Finally I got him down to a table, with pencil and paper, and figured it out for him. I showed him that his burros cost so much, feed so much, interest on money so much, and we threw in the peons, for he said he had just so many men all the while and they might as well be at work. I showed him that he would make thous­ ands of dollars a year by sending his produce by us, and then he gave in re­ luctantly, and tried the 'experiment'-- of course permanently. But it would be slow work to go to every farmer in Mexico and show him that his interest lay in patronizing the National Rail­ way--wouldn't it? But thousands of producers are still transporting by the old way, not only paying more for it, but taking valuable' time, and very likely losing the best market."--Letter from Mexiro. . - : Disillusioned A Cincinnati girl who married a poor young man and who lias in consequence be«n practicing domestic duties has lost laith in the entire social system. The other evening her husband came at 6 o'clock to supper and handed her a pa­ per folded and sealed. "What is it dear?" she said tenderly. "An insurance policy on my life, dar- line;, for $ld,000." 'Why, love, you already have one What did you want with another?" "Angel mine, 1 ate two pieces of that pie you made for dinner."--Exchange A Study in Physics. A bright miss of three summers was seated beside her father at the dinner table. She was full of mischief, and her father finally said to her: "Dotty, if you don't behave better, 1 shall have to spank you " The little one remained in deep thought for a few moments and then answered, with a saucy twi kle in her eyes: "Oo tant, pa; l*s sitting? on it."--Boston Globe. THE art of living eas ly as to money is to pitch your scale of living one de gree below your meant. .SALT, if applied immediately, will turely prevent ink stains. eimpie T« t* by WNUI In suspooled potgfrle Water for per- -eops who can not command chemical analysis the following testa are reeom me?d«2 «f gem>rally available and: reliable: Color--Fill a bottle made of oolor- less glass with the water; look through the water at some blaok objoct; the water should appear perfectly eolorlfess and free from suspended matter. A muddy or turbid appearance indicates the presence of soluble organic matter, or of soluble matter in Huspension. It should be "clear as a crystal. Odor --Empty out some of the water, leaving the bottle half full; eork up the bottle and place it for a few hours in a warm place; shake up the water, re­ move the cork, and critically smell the air contained in the bottle. If it has any smell, and especially if the odor is in the least repulsive, the water should be rejected for domestic use. By heat- ing the water to boiling an odor is evolved sometimes that otherwise does not appear. Taste--Water fresh from the well is usully tasteless, even though it may contain a large amount of putrescible organic matter. Water for domestic use should be perfectly tasteless and remain so, even after it has been warm­ ed, since wafminc often develops a taste in water which is tasteless when cold. If the water, at any time, has a repulsive or even disagreeable taste, it should be rejected. Heisch's Taste for Sewage Contamin­ ation--The delicacy of the sense of smell or taste varies greatly in differ­ ent individuals.; one person may fail to detect the foul contamination of a given water, which would be very evident to a person of finer organization. But if the cause of bad smell or taste exists in water, the injurious effect on health will remain the same, whether recog­ nized or not. Moreover, of some water of very dangerous quality will fail to give any indication by smell or taste. For these reasons I attach special im­ portance to Heisch's teat for sewage contamination or the presence of pu­ trescible organic matter. The test is so simple that anyone can use it. Fill a clean pint bottle three-fourths full of the water to be tested, and dissolve in the water a teaspoonful of the purest sugar--loaf or granulated sugar will answer--cork the bottle and plaoe it in a warm place for two days. If in the twenty-four or forty-eight hours the water becomes cloudy or muddy, it is unlit for domestic use. If it remains perfectly clear it is safe to use.-- Sanitar.an. How Hen are Tortured. There is no one thing in the line of clothing that is so uncomfortable as a dressing-gown, and yet they are all made for comfort, and in nine cases in ten they are a present from loving friends who think they have dono noble act. They have worked flowers or figures in it, and have made a beautiful ornament to hang on a chair, but not knowing that the animal that is to wear it, they have got it about as comfortable as possible, and the martyT who wears one bocause it was given by a loved friend, wears it, and groans and sneezes and takes cold, and wishes to heaven the friend had given him a dog, a flannel undershirt, or anything on earth but a dressing-gown. There are only seventeen persons in the United States who habitually wear dressing-gowns, and they do it for fear of offending the donor if they fail to wear it And yet every home in this country but six have from one to four dressing-gowns hung up in closets, furnishing sustenance to moths. The reason that dressing-gowns are unpop­ ular with the males are several. In the first place novelists and play-writor3 always get the idiotic, sim|.>ering. la- de-dah, liair-parted-in-the-middle Alex into a dressing gown, and he locks so soft that you feel as though you could run a cat's tail into him anywhere, and that makes them uapopular. Then when a>-<woman sets out to provide a dressing-gown for a dear friend, she picks out some pattern of colored goods with a figure as big as a palm-leaf fan, and when il is made up it makes a man look s though ho had blown off a bill­ board with a wet circus poster. They cause it to be made u p so that it is in a man's way more than an ulster overcoat would be. It is padded where the mau is too warm, and where he is liable to take oold there is nothiug to project him. The lappels are thrown back so that he presents an open shirt front from his collar to tlio waistband of his pants. It is true the lappels of the gown are of velvet, aud maybe they are embroidered, but if they lay back over his shoulders they cannot keep his chest warm, as it should bo kept, when the martyr has taken off his vest and shirt-collar, to have a quiet f veiling at home. The dressing-gown whieli a man might wear in tho dark, ho would not be seen wearing ont to the front step after a paper for $10, because h« would look like the remnant of a mas­ querade ball. The tail is invariably eighteen inches too long, and padded, so when he sits down ho foels as though he was sitting on a nest of kittens. The sleeves are invariably too long, so he has to roll thorn up, and then lio feels as though he was hand-cuffed. The collar comes up to the back of his head and files his ears, the shoulder gets around under the arm. and after wear­ ing the "comfortable" garment for an evening, and jotting go nervous that he almost fli^ s, and lying a few times when asked how he likes his dressing-gown, he lays it away and wears a business sack-coat forever after, and is comforta­ ble. Societies should bo formed tor the amelioration of tho sad condition of men who are compelled to habitually wear dressing-gowns when at home. They already have tho lieart elt sym­ pathy of aH who havo emancipated thoinselves from the slavery of the gown, but they need something bes~.de sympathy. We would close this article by a solemn warning addressed to young women. Whatevor you do in the way of presents to the man you love, never hire anybody to erect a dressing-gown for him, because it will cause conceal­ ment, like a worm in tho bud, to feed on him, and it w i 1 fit him too, ultimate­ ly, and some day yon will find that he has used it to swab his shot-gun.-- Peck's Sun. ^ She Was a Down-Easter. "Where do you come from?" asked the lady, addressing the girl at the in­ telligence office who was a candidate for a cock's situation. "Sure, an' I'm a down-easter ma'am," replied the g rl in a decided brogue. "A down-easter; why, I would take you to be Irish." "So I am, ma'am. T came from the County Down and that's east of here, a long way east, so, av coorse, that makes me a down-easter."--Chattanooga P*o- plp's Paper. Vrmufodfc ift mtwmh a» _ •Vanswwed th* it" as totlwthehpi| pleMo going intothepertac. Tanx is over one hundred dollars' worth of patent mediduos con­ sumed in this country every yeec. This accounts for thatsardonie gtxn Worn by undertakers on esBtain osoea&ms.-- Pech?8 Sun. A BAD egg can be detected by tbe way it lies m the water. It will float So with bad characters. They lie so much that it is necessary to go below the surface to detect than.--Logane- port Chronicle. SMITH declined to eat butter when it was passed him, remarking that he was proud to say he had reformed end was a temperate man. Inquiry revealed the fact that he never takes anything strong.--St. Louie Breete. "DID the lion and lamb over lie down together?" asked a young hopeful who had just returned from Sunday SchooL "Yes, my son," answered the father, "but the lamb was ont of sight." Tho boy was satisfied.--Peck's Sun. A DISTINGUISHED member of the Penn­ sylvania Legislature who haa just re­ turned from the west, ingeniusly owns (hat he never felt so flattered in his lî e as when, in a certain Kansas town, they mistook him for a horse thief.-- The Judge. - A WORTHY old lady offers the follow­ ing advice to girls: "Whenever a fel­ low pops the question, don't blush and stare at your foot Just throw your arms around his neck, look him full in the face and oommenoe to talk about the furniture." SECRETS of the confessional: "Is it a sin," asked a fashionable lady of her spiritual directors, "for me to feel pleasure when a gentleman saya I am handsome?" "It is, my daugter," he replies gravely; "we should never de­ light in falsehood!" "So TOU'RE engaged to Dr. B. It must be very nioe to be engaged to a doctor. Every time he oalls, you know --and of oourse that must very often-- you feel as if you were getting for nothing what everybody else would have to pay $3 for."--Exchange. AN English temperance society has offered prizes amounting to $5,000 for some non-intoxicating drink that will b9 a substitue for beer. It would be first in order, we think, to devise some non-culpable inquiry that would be a substitute for sin.--Boston Transcript "ITS the early bird, my boy, that gets the worm," remarked a father to h s son who was late at breakfast "Well, suppose the worm don't come around how's the bird to get it?" The father remarked something about smart Aleck and dropped the subject--Peck'g Sun. AN English Nonconformist was once banding words with a curate about Episcopacy. "I should not care to live subject to a bench of Bishops," he observed. "But is there no authority over you?" asked the curate. "Only a board," was the answer. "Well, what's a board except a bench with oo legs to stand upon V ELECTRIC currents are now used in tanning leather. Young men who have • been kicked off front stoops and vino embowered porches, by wrathful fathers > of lovely maidens, have long been aware of the existence* of whole thun- ~ derstorms of electricity in leather, but never knew how it got there. Indus­ trial science now sheds her kindly light upon the thrilling subject--Hawkeys. IT oleases a man, especially a poor man, to pick im a copy of the Builders and Architects magazine, and under the heading "Cheap Houses for Work­ ing Men," read a few descriptions of houses that can be put up for day la­ borers, which cost from $6,000 to $18,- 000 each, without the plumbing. Peo­ ple must have houses to live in, and it is most kind in the architect to thus remember the poor.--Burdette. WHY did you leave your last place?" the woman who wanted the cook asked the lady who said she wanted a place. Because replied the lady, "the family was intoirly too large." "How many were in the family?" inquired the wo­ men. "They wur two or thim, jist," replied the lady, "an' I cud get along well enough wid him, but they wur no livin' wid hur, an' so I kem away. I'm willin' to wurrk hard but I can't cook for a hotel full of people, an' ye may as well know it." The women went with­ out a "cuke."--Burlington Haw key c. Jackson and the Beggars. General Jackson turned a deaf ear to the numerous applications made to him for charity. In 1830 a large number of Irish immigrants were at work on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgo- tAwn,' and, the weather being very hot, many of them were prostrated by sun­ strokes and bilious diseases. They.wero without medical aid, the necessities of life, or any shelter except the shanties in which they were crowded. Their deplorable condition led to the forma­ tion of a society of Irish Americans, with the venerable Mr. MoLeod, a noted instructor, as president. A committeo from this society wai ted on the President for aid, and Mr. MoLeod made known the object of their visit. General Jack­ son interruped him by saving that ho •'entirely disapproved of the sooiety; that the fact of its existence would in­ duce these fellows to come 100 miles to get the benefit of it." Mr. McLeod represented the deplorable s'tuation of the women and children sick in the streets, without brea 1 or a house to cover them, aud without their proteotor either dead or dying, and observe ! that the evils which tho President antici­ pated could not flow from the society. Gen. Jackson started from his seat at this part of the interview, and said there had bean three beggars at, his house that day. Mr. McLeo i replied that there had been four or five with him before breakfast. The President clinched his hand, and with great vehe­ mence exclaimed that if the treasury of the United States were at his disposal, it conld not meet the demands that were daily made upon him, and ho would not be driven from that house a beggar-man, like old Jim Monroe*-^ JW Pf rlp." Pnnre. ^ * - WMi Reade on Condensation. >»* ' Regarding the stipulation of the pub­ lishers of the Youth's Otttn anion that his story must be short, the late Chavles Reade said: "After all, condensation is a fine thing, and a story long enough to excite an interest and paint characters vividly, a story in which there is no con­ versation, but only d alogue, which rap­ idly advances the progress o! the action, is more likely to be immortal than those more expanded themes which are apt to betray us into d f^ioeness." To CLEAN wd.ow lu mture, use salt and watts; apply irith a brush and wipe very dry. 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