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THE HOME. How to Wash Dishes. H. is no uncommon thing to hear a housekeeper lamenting that her dishes are no longer whine, as they were when new ; that they are stained brown or black, and especially around the handles. Also that. many of the prettiest pieces are broken, and almost every remaining one nicked or cracked. Perhaps a new and moderately expensive set was bought, and at the end of two years not enough respectable look- ing ones were left to set the table decent- ly. The housewife is naturally an ardent lover of pretty and artistic table ware. It breaks her heart (and her pocketbook) to have the dishes continually broken. The fault lies chiefly with the one who washes the dishes, and the rest. of the blame be- longs to the cook. About one person in fifty who washes dishes knows how, or if they know do not take the trouble to wash them properly. The noise in some house- hold kitchens at dish washing times ‘resem- bles the sound in the alley back of a coun- ter lunch room during the busy hours. Delicate plates, cups, and saucers are banged together indiscriminately into the dishpsn. The handles of jugs, pitchers, and covered dishes get knocked off with- out a pause on the part of the worker. . A pretty tumbler goes smash. Never mind, it’s only on! of a dozen. Too many women unfortunately know how true this is. Such work is carelessness, pure and simple, or worse, laziness unadulterated. A careful dishwasher is a godsend to any family She proceeds something after this man- ner : A pan ofsoft. water hot as the bands can hear is first procured. Just a little good laundry soap is put into it. The cloth is clean and soft. First the glassware is washed, then rinsed With clear, hot water, and wiped on a towel of glass linen, which leaves no lint ; it comes out sparkling an~l as clear as crystal. Next the cups and saucers, which are handled gently, not to break the handles off the pretty cups nor crack them. Renew the water to make it hot, and put in plenty of soap for the sil- ver ; it then comes out of the rinsing water shining. Lastly come the plates and larger dishes. Great care should be taken that the edges are not knocked against anything or each other, for that is what makes the unsightly nicks. Every piece should be cleaned thoroughly, being espec- fally careful about the crevices. A brush can be used to advantage here. The water should be kept hot and the rinsing water almost boiling when poured over the washed dishes. Last, but not least, the towels must be clean and dry to make the dishes bright. Old linen hand towels, if not linty, make first-class dish towels. If these points are observed, the housewife will need worry no more about her dishes, and they will be white and without nicks or cracks. A Home-Made Washstand. No woman need be without a washstand in her bedroom unless she chooses. Hero is a way to make oner and any woman who is a little of a carpenter will have no trouble with it. Or, perhaps she could in- duce some one of the “men folks " to do it for her, but she, Lf course, would have to superintend its construction. Prooure four hoards fourteen inches wide â€"two as long as the height stand is to be, and two as long as the length of stand. Then nail the height board to one end of a length hoard, half way up the height board and you have a letter T. Then nail the end of the other length board to the end of the height board. This last length board is the lap of the stand. Then nail on the other height board at the ends of the two length boards, and there is a washstand with a shelf in it. This will be firmer if a couple of boards are nailed down the back of it. New cover with cretonne, sateen or cam- bi-ic and cheesecloth. Tack a newspaper or heavy wrapping paper over the top first, then the crctoune. Make a full ruffle of the. cretonnc wide enough to reach from the iup of stand to the floor. Gather it with a bending at the top just large enough to reach around the ends and front. Then tick on with brass-headed tacks. The shelf inside is handy to keep shoe boxea, eic.,iii. 'l‘hese stands are very pretty covered first With blue or pink canibric and then with cheesecloth. Dress Points. it does not pay to buy cheap bargain veiling that is mostly starch and melts away in the rain and fog. For a small hat .)I‘ bonnet three-quarters of a yard is enough. For a medium or large bat always buy a yard. Then gather it along one edge in the middle 50 as to make it fit to the hat- briin and gather up the ends, letting the lower ends bag consider- ably more than the upper in order to ac- commodate the chin. Fasten the veil at the back with a small gold or silver afety pin, fucking the ends under the list. In putting on skirt braids. it is a good lan to shrink them by drpping them in hot water and hanging them over a line to dry also after the first rain you will find your skirt puckered around the bottom. Run the braid on flat and change whenever it becomes shabby. After all the sxolding about criuoline and full skirts women have come to the conclu- limit that thorn is nothing quite so comfort- able for dancing or walking as the present voluminous skirt which is the fashion of the day. Some Tested Recipes. Silly l,unn.â€"â€"0ne quart of flour, four eggs, one-half cupful of melted butter, one cupful of warm milk, one cupful o." warm water. our tsblespoonfuls of yeast, one toxepoonfttl of salt, and oneâ€"half teaspoon- ful of soda dissolved in hot water. Beat. the eggs to a stifl' froth, add the milk, 1 l I i l l I water, butter, soda and salt. Stirin the, flour gradually so as to prevent lumps and beat in the yeast. Set to rise in a buttered dish for six hours. Bake steadily for threeoquarters of an hour and serve but without turning it. out from baking dish. Thistle Pufl'aâ€"Stir into halfs. pint of sifted flour, to which a saltspoonful of salt; has been added, one gill of milk. Beat the white of an egg to astiff froth. Mix the well beaten yolk With a gill oi milk and stir into the batter ; add the white of egg and bake in muffin pans in quick oven. Rice Rolls.â€"Moisten cold boiled rice with a little milk, and stir in enough white flour to make a stiff dough. Knead on a moulding board, and roll out about half an inch thick, cut in finger lengths an inch and a half wide, place in a floured pan and bake in a quick over. Coffee Cake. -â€"â€"One cupful of strong cold coffee, one cupful of molasses, two~thirds of a cupful of sugar, two~tiiirds of a cupful of! butter or lard, one cupful of raisins, a] teaspoonful of salt, a 'easpoonful of soda, and spices. Mix the ingredients quickly and lightly and bake in a brisk oven. Jelly Cake Fiitters.-â€"-Cut some stale sponge cake, or plain cake, into rounds with a cake cutter. Fry them a nice brown in hot lard. Dip each slice for a moment in a bowl of boiling milk; drain, lay on a hot dish, spread thickly with jam, serve hot with cream. Knitted Lace-net. The simple stitches used for this work produce a lovely all-over pattern, like lace-net. In silk, linen or fine wool it it! suitable for any piece of work requiring a thin, web-like design. The needles should be rather coarse, compared with the thread, especially for wool. To knit a square, with No. 300 knitting silk, cast on ‘26 stitches, evenly but quite loosely. First rowâ€"Knit one, make three out of the next stitch by knitting l, purling 1 and knitting 1 without letting the stitch off the needle till the third stitch is made, bind oll'2 stitches; to do this knit ‘2. over the last stitch, draw the preceding one, knit 1; and over that draw the preceding one; then, as before, ’make 3, bind off 2, repeat from“ till only 1 stitch is left, knit 1, turn. ‘ . a! -‘ at" I "cs 5" 59- I .99 ‘9 Second rowâ€"Knit all plain (there should be 26 stitches.) Third rowâ€"Knit 1 for the edge stitch, bind oil' ‘2 (perhaps the beginner would understand it better if we said knit the 3 first stitches,draw the second over the last, knit l and draw the preceding stitch over that), make 3, * bind off ‘2, make 3, repeat from * till only 1 stitch is left, knit l. Forth row-Knit all plain (‘26 stitches). Begin again at the first row and repeat these four rows till the work is as long as it is wide (the last row should always be a plain row), then lootely bind off all of the stitches. The edging is knit in the same way, only more stitches are required ; to ascertain how many are needed, measure the article to be trimmed, and allow for silk or fine linen 1‘2 stitches for each inch with one extra stitch for each end ; that is for a tie six inches wide allow 74 stitches (6 x 6): bind off very evenly and loosely,as the bind- ingforms the edge of the tiny scallops. The insertion is made in the same way, tut is much nn'rm' er. Lawn ties with fine linen lace u -l are very dainty andpretty. A for. ...-.i square (50 stitches) makes a pretty centre for a pin-cushion cover ; the border may be a ruffle of airy crocheted knot-lace, sewed around the square, or it may be knitted in any thin, lace-like pattern. The sketch shows such a cover, bordered with knitted Tunisian lace with a deep figotted heading. II should be laid diagonally over a large square cushion, and be fastened with a bow or rosetteof nairow satin ribbon at each corner of the centre square. SQUARE OF KNITTED LACE-NET. ‘ .. _--â€"â€"â€"_......_ Researches In the Air. The air of a meeting room, tested in diff- erent places and at different times during the progress of the meeting, showed num bers of micro-organisms varying from l35,' 000 to 3,500,000. The air near the ground contained fewer than the air near the ceil- ing. For example, the air some four feet from the ground contained 270.000 before Lhe meeting, and at the end of the meeting 400,000; while near the ceiling the amount at the beginning of the meeting was 3,000 - 000, and at. the end of the meeting this had been increased to 3,500,000, Air near a burning jet of gas showed the largest figures of all. Thus, in the immedi- ate vicinity of a bunsen flame the gigantic number of 30,010,000 was found in a cubic centimeter, of 489,000,000 per cubic inch. in Mr. Aiikin’s own words . “It does seem strange that there may be as many dust particles in one cubic inch of air of a room at night when the gas is burning as there are inhabitants in Great Britian ; and that in three cubic inches of gases from a bunsen flame there are ‘8 many particles as there are inhabitants of the world." Possible tests on the air of smoking rooms would reveal still greater numbers. 1m, Aliken has not yet tested such air. but he found that a cigarrette smoker sends 4,000,. 000.0(70 pirticles, more or less, into the air with every pufi' he makes. THE 'nocs's SIDE or res QUESâ€" TION. BY AXNIB I. NORRIS. I married a lady ls l June: A lady to live in the Moon ; From Kingston hailed, And my freedom cur- tailed ; Alas! I was married she too soon She wished a piano from Strauss ; She ordered a pedi- greed “ hoss ;" And dresses from \Vortli, 0 she wanted the Earth ! Moreover shi- wanted to “boss.” I gave her the silvery horn. in the morn ; 3g “Just blow it. a minute, There’s music within it--” She rejected my offer with scorn. Now since, I have made her my bride, I’ve neglected my mis- tress the “Tide 3" Folks on the Atlantic Have nearly gone fran- tic . For fear I won’t help them to glide. "3 ‘ Sometimes 'I lcame .e‘ - . ' home fee in g ‘ queer, _ (z- ’ And she marched me \ V ‘ around by the \‘7 Z ear, x “To-night you are ‘full ;’ %" And you can’tpull the wool 0'9? my eyes to that fact, my old dear.” I told her the wish of my breast : A divorce, . which should give us both rest. She replied with a sneerâ€" “No reporters here are _~ . all To write how the or”? «g plaintiff is dress- ed. " 0 dear ! Pray pity a man much distressed.â€"Tcr onto Ladies’ Journal. PAPA WAS TOO LATE. Ilowa flitniif‘ncturcr's Daughter Did Not llrcoiiii- “.lly Lady." Some years ago I was acting as curate in a large London parish. Two young people in whom I was greatly interested were to be married on a certain Wednesday in April. Contrary to custom, the bride arrived before the bridgroomâ€"indeed, the bridegroom never arrived at all ! It subsequently transpired that the bridegroom had disappeared the previous evening and was nowhere to be found, says a writer in an English paper. He has not been found to this day. No cause for his disappearance was ever assigned, nor has any clew to his whereabouts ever been discovered. The poor young bride suc- cumbed to the shock, and it was my melancholy duty to officiate at her burial some weeks later. One more case and I have done. A curate, in receipt of little more than £100 a year, proposed to the daughter of a wealthy north country manufacturer and was accepted. .Paterfamilias was extreme- ly angry at this and forbade the young follow his house. Candor compels me to state that the daughter offered very little resistance to her father’s objections, and the curate, who was genuinely fond of the girl, removed to a distant parish. Two months after this event he fell into a baronetcy and rather more than £3,000 a year. The manufacturer saw that he had made ainistake, and opened up negotia- tions in a letter. By return he received a telegram with the Income information: ” Too late." \Ve may be certain that the good manufacturer’s wife gave him a " piece of her mind,” as the saying goes. Hot Air Care At St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, an ingenious hot-air bath is now in use for the treatment of sprains, inflamed joints due to gout or rheumatism, and similar affections. It consists of a copper cylinder about. 3 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, which will hold an arm up to the shoulder or a leg up to the middle of the thigh. It stands on an iron frame, and is heated by gas-burners placed underneath. so that the temperature can be raised m 3000 or 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The patient is place in an arm chair at one end of the cylinder, the limb is introduced and the joint made airtight by a rubber band. No discomfort is felt tip to 9.50 degrees until perspiration sets in, when the moisture has a scalding eflect, which is relieved by opening the further end of the cylinder and letting the moisture eva crate. A sitting usually laws 40 minutes. he immediate effect in. great- ly increased circulation in the part treated, profuse local perspiration and relief from pain. .____...._‘â€"_.â€". The phosphate mines of Florida number 106, and they yield more than 500,000 tons of prosphate annually. lcipal robber. GREATEST 0F MURDERERS A BRIGAND wso KILLED A MAN EVERY YEAR HE LIVED. p He Is: .‘llosl Pious JInssnlmanâ€"‘I'he Bloody Career and Horrible Tortnrrs of Areal“, the Terror of Northern Africa. The most ferocious and successfulbrigand and assassin that the modern world has known has just been arrestel in his career of robbery. murder and abduction in th° rocky defiles of the mountain country adjacent on the north to the great African desert. The country is called Kabyles, and its inhabitants are Barbers, an untamable and bloodthirsty race,descended from aborigin- al Africans and claiming descent from Earn, the son of Noah. Areski-el- Bachir (the butcher) is a w/orthy descendant of such a stock. He is now forty-five years of age, and by his can confession has, in obedience to a vow,for he is a mest pious Mussnlman, slain a man for every year of his life. How many more he has disposed of in the way of business he declines to state. He is about five feet ten inches in height, Well made and sinewy. His fingers are long and tapering and have a marked re- semblance to the talous of a bird of prey. His feet are arched and small, his forehead high but retreating and thickly seamed with wrinkles. DIS EYES ARE PIERGING when aroused, but at rest are veiled and fact, his countenance has many characteris- tics of the wild creatures of the racks and woods. In ancient times the land of Egpyt was subject to invasion and conquest by these fierce and - relentless mountaineers, and mural paintings, monuments and‘pictured papyri have preserved the forbidding and fierce figures of these dark-skinned robbers. Their original names of “Mayzgi,” or “Madgi,” or “Miilizy,” were handed down in their legends as demons and evil Jins under the name of “Mazikeon,” and were used by mothers to frighten naughty chil- dren. The robberies of this modern Barabas re- call the exploits of Robin Hood and Fra Diavolo, save that they are unrelieved by the tinge of chivalry that lent a fictitious but pleasing glow of romance to the deeds of those dwellers “ under the greeuwcod tree." Areski is a prosaic villian, but none 'the less a master villian, to whom such rose water rufiians as Claude Duval, Robin Hood or Fro. Diavolo must yield the palm. They never marked their birthdays by human sacrifices. At the head of a band of twenty-five robbers Areski has terrorized all Kabyles, and set at defiance the forces sent against them by the French Colonial Government. His men are as murderous as himself. All but one are in the Vigor of life ; they are from twenty to forty years of age, and ex- tremely secretive. Wrapped in their burnous, a flowing robe, silent and immov- able, they wait their prey. They have slain, ROBBED AN D CREATED, but, strange to say, only their own com- patriots, for there is no record of any white man having been molested by them, and for this reason they look upon the interference of strangers as uncalled for and unfair. Areski has been many times caught, and even sentenced, but until now has con- trived to escape by the aid of false witness es. Unfortunately for him he committed the grave error of murdering a man " with a pull." His last victim, an Arab sheikli, Abdul-Reschid by name, held friendly relations with the French Governor- General of Algeria. While carrying the tribute of several native villages to Al- geria, he was captured, robbed of the money and put to death with horrible torture. He was beaten .with rods of the thorny hibiscus common to the country, his hands and feet were cut off, his tongue torn out by the roots, and, to finish all, his eyes ware put out and he was stabbed to death with a hundred wounds. The Colonial Government at once sent an overwhelming force of native police and French military to capture El Bachir and his band. The strange discovery was made among the effects in Areiki’s camp of a well- thumbed copy of the Koran. A richly carved and gilt rosary, such as is used by dervishes, was also taken from the bosom of his dress, so that it does not appear that this tiger of the desert did not con- sider that his life of r MURDER AND ROBBERY in any wise endangered his passage of the bridge “Al Sirat," finer than a hair, over which the true believer in Islam must walk bare-footed to Paradise, or, falling from which, by reason of the weight of his sins against the faith, must drop headlong into the embrace of hell. Notwithstanding his crimes Areski found favor and assistance with the very people among whom he murdered and robbed. This was owing to his undaunted bravery and the report that his body was impervious to ordinary weapons, and that his life could be only taken by means of a silver bullet consecrated With mysterious ceremonies to "Azrael," the angel of death, and to “Ebv lie,” the monarch of hell. A few years ago Areski was a porter on the quays ofAlgiers. Hailing committed a robbery upon a fellow workman he fled to his native Village, where he assembled a band of villiaus over whom he established complete mastery. One day three of his band gave into his hands a sum of 700 francs which they had stolen from a traveller. The next day. learning that the traveller was a venerable marabout of Soummam, he hastened to restore the stolen money and slew the prin' From that time forth the NAME 0? ABRfiKI was respected by the most influential mars.- bouts, and the vine men of the country da. clared that he was . under the special pro. tection of the Prophet. somnolent, like those of most Orientals. In ‘Punr which the death of his father had Oneday, ata family fete, Amski assem- bled at. Bou~Hini, his native village, all the natives of the country. More than a thousand guests were present ata festival where_ the Nautch-\Vallahs, or dancing girls,displaysd their most fascinating graces and gathered more than two thousand faces from the spectators, which they dutifully handed over to the bandit chief. It.was owing to the excesses committed on this occasion that he and his band were captured at the moment they were about to escape. Being tried and condemned to death, the robber-assassin and his hand displayed the brutish resignation that distinguishes the Berber at his last gasp. The faith of lslam inculcate: the belief that every man's “ kismet," or destiny, is written upon his forehead by the finger of Allah, and that no efl'orti of his can change it. ("louse- quently when his time comes the Alumni- man‘ wraps his head in his mantle and iiwaits death imperturbably, murmuring ing “Ablah‘il-Allah, Muhammad resoul Allah,” which he believes tobe the shib- boleth or password which will admit him into the gates of Paradise. Thus during his trial, when the Presi- dent of the Assises put the usual ques tions, Areski replied. "The dead speas not." And from that moment till the fatal sentence was pronounced, like Iago, “he never more spoke word.” â€"â€"__..___.__ THE CZAR’S DECISION. He Will Malntnln the Principle of Auto era .11: Authority. At a recent gathering in St. Petersburg of deputations from the Zemstvos, or local representative councils, of all parts of the empire, to congratulate the Czar upon his marriage, Nicholas II. declared decisively that he would surrender no part of the confided to his hands. He had heard, he said, that the hope had been expressed in the Zemstvos that they might share in the nterual administration of the empire ; but he wished it to be understood that while he would devote all his energies to the welfare of the people, he would permit no encroach- ment on his rights, and would maintain, as his father did. the principle of autocratic authority. The idea that a change of rulers would materially benefit the cause of free- dom in Russia must, therefore,be abandon- ed, though probably few close observers of Russian affairs have at any time believnd that the new Czar would be any more will- ing than his father to curtail his own powers by advancing representative govern- ment. The autocracy is firmly based in the huge army and the belief of the pea- santry that the Czar ought to possess absolute authority; and the cheers with which the deputation greeted a declaration which extinguished all hopes of the exten- sion of representative institutions, show that the great mass of the people for which they stood, prefer an autocrai; to any. popu- lar assembly. Their fear is not of the Czar, but of the officials who execute his orders and who use their powers for their own aggrandizeinent, and the history of Russia proves that the more absolute an emperor is the less oppressive these officials are. Moreover, many of the wisest men in Russia doubt the possibility of holding the vast empire together without a central” autocratic liead, armed with irrestible force to crush out any opposition, and having but one possible interestâ€"the welfare of the majority of the people._ If; is true that Russian policy and institutions cannot be judged by the standards of western nations, the conditions being wholly dissimilar ; and it must be conceded that in promoting nationalprosperity the autocratic govern- ment of the Czar has served Russia fairly, well, while in developing new states it has been even more successful than its more progressive rivals. Nevertheless, there seems little doubt that a representative assembly with consultative powers only, sitting in St. Petersburg and deliberating in public, would remedy many of the worst evils in Russia, by breaking the silence which prevents knowledge of them by the Czar. But it is this silence which the officials, great and small, wish to maintain for their own protection;aiid as they stand nearest the throne, they resist any effort made to break it, ii. resistance which,couplei with the natural desire of a young ruler ti retain all power, has doubtless led to tht determination recently asserted by the Czar. Undoubtedly acceptable to the majority 01 the Russian people as that determination will be, however, the failure of Nicholas II. to indicate the reforms he contemplates is certain to increase the despair of the educated, the chief cause of Nihilism, and to preciptate anew the never ending con- test between the sovereign and the revolu- tionary societies. Wise concession would have removed all reason for that content; but the Nihilists will now declare that the only hope for Russia lies in revolution, and will renew their policy of terror, a policy almost of necessity fatal to the best exer- else of the autocratic power which the em- peror is determined to assert. Increased Cost of Living. On the whole, says a writer in a Londox paper, I am disposed to think that the grey majority of the articles which/we consumt and the accessories of civilization, are con siderably cheaper than they were, say, is 1834 : butâ€"and there is a great deal in thil particular butâ€"the cost of living is greatei in the present year of the good Queen Vic- toria than it was in the last year of William IV. All classes consume or enjoy a great deal more than they formerly consumed; still everybodyâ€"rich, moderately circum- stanced or poorâ€"Wants more than he formerly did. If travolling by rail or steamer be cheap, all classes travel much more frequently and longer distances than they were formerly accustomed to do. Tlie' have more clothes, more food, more book. and papers than their fathers had ; but wage. and salaries have not, to any ro- portionate extent, increased, in view 0 the largely enhanced cost of living. I mean, in fine, that fifty years since a professional man in a small way of business could maino taiu himself, his wife and his family very rgmfortably on two hundred a year ; and I scarcely think that such an income would now suffice to keep him a. ‘- hâ€"- ‘wwo‘ncâ€"JH . Ash -. *9... , ' . . “#3.”: - ..--.... we“ vh-