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5-. ‘t N THE HOME. Thrifty Housewives. There is every commendation in the world for an economical woman. but a stingy one has no one's sympathy. Economy is a virtue when not ridden as a hobby. When all the waste that exists is taken into consideration, it seems strange that housekeepers and mothers do not. or will not. exercise their ingenuity to prevent it, or rath- er, make all things go as far as pos- sible, and thus save the surplus and ass‘ut those in need. One housekeeper we have in mind, keeps house for five persons on less than any one we know of. There is not a sign of stingyness in anything about her work. and her table is always laden with good things. It is true it does not show the best the market produces, but the way she cooks and takes care of what she has is the only secret. \Ve have never known her to throw away or burn anything that could be utilized again. Many housewives do not care to take the trouble of saving or fixing over things, especially where the table is concerned. The waste in some homes is simply deplorable. \Ve have seen a frien of ours when clearing up the remains of a meal, take two or three otatoes, meat, breadâ€"food which ha never been removed from the dishes on which they were brought 1 to the tableâ€"and burn. If remonstrat- ed with she would answer, "Oh, pshaw, that would be too much trouble." She is one of the most generous souls who ever lived, but is improvident and lav- ‘sh where her table is concerned. She must be either very indifferent or and as a consequence the waste in er house would positively make an economical person angry. Soâ€"called economy may be carried to such an extreme as to amount to stin- gyness. and is sometimes ludicrous. no woman was so remarkably careful that over her new carpet she first tacked a muslin cover and then plac- ed newspapers wherever she thought it would have the hardest wear. Again many people want to be so economical that company is altogether out of the question with them. They never can afford to give a beggar a bit to eat when he comes to their door. They can- not go here nor there because it may cost something. They shut themselves out from so much of the leasant and beautiful in the world t at life to them must be a burden. A writer not loinfg since said of the thrifty houseâ€" w e: _ She takes note of the kitchen fire and closes up the dampiers when she is not using it, and ma es one fire do -all the work it will at once. She saves ’her nice " drippings " and makes them serve in cooking instead of butter. 'She saves all the odds and ends of bread and meat left over from meals and works them up into ap etizing and nutritious dishes. instead 0 throw- ing them away. Her clothing she keeps clean by the use of aprons; she has suits of clothes suitable for dirty work. She "turns" her sheets when they grow thin in the middle . Her Worn tablecloths are out up into nap- kins for every-day use. She keeps rugs spread over laces in the carpet that are subjecte to the hardest wear. She carefully dries her tinware so it will not rust out. She keeps old brooms for rough use. and so prolongs the term of service of her best broom. She uses up her worn garments in making quilts and comforts or in rugs and ragl carpets, and so in a thousand ways 5 e saves what is wasted would ‘be pure loss, and do nobody any goo “Thank You." Just a simple little " thank you," but how cheerful and light a duty may be made to appear or how pleasant an act of kindness or chivalry will seem if only rewarded by a gracious "I thank you." Politeness is never beyond-the reach of anyone, and it is the truest sign of good breeding. It is not more than right, and it should be expected of everyone to thank people for any kindness they might show us, whether it may be their duty or not. How much more willing we are to do for one when we know that our work will be appreciated by a grateful thank you! f a friend takes the trouble to send any little token of love, no mat- ter what, common sense, if not de- cency, should dictate that an acknow- ledgment. either verbal or written, is expected. _ Suppose. for instance, you would wish to surprise a friend. You buy some exquisi e roses and smile in an- ticipation of the pleasure they will afford. You give them to her and expatiate on their beauty and frag- rance and all that. What would be more discouraging and painful than have her receive them with no thought of thanks. or answer you with an un- interesting "ch. they are nice." We arc. afraid it would be long before you would take her roses again. Do we ever think of thanking those about us for services they perform for us? \Ve become so accustomed to have this and that done for us that we look for it as our due. “'0 never think of thanking the little ones whose tiny feet run so many errands. vou say, "they have nothing else to do." Perhaps not, but surprise them once with a. "thank you dear." and the ef- fect is magical. No doubt. they are willing enough now to do for you, but liteness is chcsp, and, like charity, t should commence at home. It is sad to see how impolitely members of a family treat each other. One takes from the other ever so many kiudnesscs without even a thought of thanks. Be profuse in vour thanks rather than not say enough. but be sincere. Useful Recipes. Oyster Sauteâ€"Thoroughly drain the juice from a dozen large oysters. But- ter the shallow cutlet dish and when very hot lay the oysters i . in single lays . When brown on one sideturn mdrfry the other. and while cooking keep addin a little butter. This “Hill the juice 0 the oysters forms a brown skin that should be served with the masking hot shell-fish. Season with pepper and salt. No. 1 shows edging suitable for trim- ming many articles of the wardrobe and is especially suitable for children's 4; loop in continue thus to the end. By using one row of braid and repeating crochet to re from nature's workshop is a rela- often hollow; such used as the burial laces for the “sor- Roast Mutton Chauffe.â€"This is the nicest way of using up cold lamb or mutton; Cut the meat in small slices labout half an inch thick. Put atablo-T'RATUBES 0F ACTUAL LIFE THAT ‘spooutui of butter in the chafing dish and when melted add 3 tablespoonfuls of currant jelly. a dash of cayenne pa per and a little salt. Then lay int c slices of mutton. heat through and serve hot. It will taste very much like venison. : Meat Croquettes.â€"Chop any cold cooked meat very fine, add a third as much cold mashed potato, a raw egg and a tablespoonful of melted butter _to 4 cups of material. Pepper and salt to taste. \Vhen thoroug ly mix- ed flour the hands and form into round flat cakes. Keep in a cool place until ineeded. Then melt a little dripping ,or lard in the chafing dish. lay in :the croquettes and fry it fine :brorwn. l Cheese Fondu.â€"This requires 1table- ;spoonful of butter, 1 cup fresh milk, 1 :cup fine bread crumbs, 2 cups grated feheese, 2 eggs, a salt 1 mustard and a very little pepper. When lthe butter is melted in the outlet dish lover the lamp, put in quickly the milk, lbread crumbs, cheese and mustard, fseasoned With a little epper. Stir Iconstantly and fist beore serving aten very light. jadd the 2 eggs, Chicken or Veal Frittersâ€"Beat 2 leggs to a. light froth, add 1â€"2 cup milk l’and pour the mixture over 1 cup of gflour into which a teaspoonful of bak- ging powder has been well sifted. Beat 1thoroughly. Cut cold chicken or veal “into thin slices and season with salt ,and pepper. Dip these in the batter and fry in the chafing dish. crisp Useful and Ornamental. No. 1. dresses, as it is very durable, being composed of fancy braid and crochet. Take a piece of wavy braid double the - length. required; double the braid, mak- ing paints meet, and with No. 40 thread, sew the points together, passing the thread down the middle line. Use No. 16 crochet cotton. Make a chain of 9; loop into the point of braid and con- tinue to end. Second row, chain 6, loop into center of the last row, then chain flllllllllllllllllll Illlllllll - ' 5 vowv a e‘ 'nnVlun‘ , sandman-.- IIIIII II III "III am“:- It'- I’Qi'e'flvi'o'n‘ o J o 'm‘ MW at again onto the same, and correspond with the other side, makes a nice insertion, and thus a pretty edging and insertion can be made to accompany each other. No. 2 is very simple and needs no explanation. ._._..â€"__.â€"â€"-â€"â€" MOST REMARKABLE OF ALL TREES. -â€"-=a line No Trunk, Enormous Spreading Branches. and Probably a Relative or the Giant Iroabab. What isgprobably the most remark- ble tree on earth was lately discovered on the promontory of Kinsembo, south of the mouth of the Congo. It has not even the vestige of a trunk, but spreads its immense branches directly on the ground. Naturalists say that this cu- tive of the boabab, the well-known giant tree growing on the prairies in many portions of the Dark Continent, which has a trunk measurin sometimes nearly fifty feet in diame er. while the branches often extend seventy-five feet and more, their ends touching the ground. so that the tree forms a huge skeleton tent. For a short time every year the boa.- bab shows a Scant display of meagre leaves. but generally the tree is here except for the large melon-shaped fruit.. The shell of the fruit incloses a dry. white substance which can readily be reduced to a powder and in that form serves as a specific against fever. In some districts the negroes eat the leaves. ‘ The trunk of the common boabab is hollow trees are oerers" of some tri es. that the earth may not be polluted by their evil re- mains. Adzimson pretends to know that one of these trees. which he had seen him- self, shows evidence of being 5,150 years old, while the untutored savages still look upon the bOIIllflb as a puzzle old and big enough for worship. ___.___.._â€"â€"â€"____.. Lively Fishing in Australla.‘ Fishing in Moreton Bay..Queensland, is scarcely sport; it is a piscatorial battle. You are hauling up from the bottom, fathoms down, a burden which taxes all the strength and makes the perspiration ooze from every pore; yet it is grand fun for awhile. The fish bite fast and furious. As your line after yielding its captive is recast, it: throws out coruscations of silver in its rapid descent. Soon your eye dis- ccrus. fathoms deep. an almost. impalpâ€" able flashing to and fro, as if a hurâ€" nished platter were gyrating in an ed- dy; it assumes a lovely pink hue M you bring it nearer the surface, and then in a twinkling a burlv schnapper of seven or eight unds is flapping vig- orously and noisiy on deck. Some- times it is a fish at every haul. and under these circumstances not the least amusing part of the sport is thc spectacle of a score of excited men jumping round a Score of big ILShJVblCl‘. are doing their best to convey their ‘amazemenf and indignation to an un- feeling world. spoonful of 2 SOME GURng THINGS. g - i HAVE LATELY occoaaso. A Girl Suddenly Stricken Speechlessâ€"â€" hmvlty of a. Tittleâ€"Weighing Cell. - Ino- Airâ€"Experiments In Beard I Growth. etc, etc. A GIRL STRICKEN SPEECHLESS. Miss Agnes Eek, the eighteen-year- old daughter of \Villoughby Eek, of Topton,‘is in a trance. Two weeks ago last Friday she was apparently as well as ever in her life. an she was a healthy girl. Suddenly she said _to her mother: “ My tongue is growing stiff and I cannot talk." A few min- utes later she was speechless. She has not spoken a word since. On Thurs- day last she was found on the floor unconscious, and she still remains in that condition. The doctors says she is suffering from catalepsy. LONGEVITY OF A TURTLE. 3 When Mauritius was ceded to the British, in the year 1810, one of the soldiers, who had a liking for natural history, discovered a turtle in the mili- tary barracks which competent auth- orities said was then over 200 years old. _The repulsive-looking old reptile is still alive and health , and bids fair to live to the end of t is or probably the next century. He has enormous strength, and can with apparent ease carry two large men on his back. i E MULBERR’X’S Gaowrn‘. In the year 1834, 61 years ago this last spring, Captain A.S. Allen, then I [a boy on his father’s farm near Zebu- ;lon, Ga., stuck a mulberry sprout in the ground. At that time the sprout was not larger than a lead pencil, and had been used.by the boy as an ox “ gad.” To-day it is a tree almost nine- teen feet in circumference at a distance of. two feet from the ground, and is said to be,the largest mulberry treein Georgia. THE HAIRY BOY 0F VINDIEQ. The greatest curiosity of W'estern France is a modern Esau, in the person of Leon Fernerod, the nine-year-old son of well-to-do parents, living in the lit- tle village of Vindieq. The boy was born in May, 1886, and from the day of his birth has been covered with a. heavy growth of curly, straw-colored hair. Several attempts have been made to remove. this queer hirsute growth, but so far all attempts have been in vain. The boy dislikes very much to be called "the hairy boy." and even -h.is parents are said to be very sensi- tive on the subject. THE MOST CURIOUS ANIMAL. The most peculiar and remarkable animal in the world is the ornithoryn- l lchus paradoxus, the famed egg-laying mammal of Australia. It is is shaped like an otter, has fur like a. beaver. is web-footed like a. swan, has a bill like a. duck and a tail like that of a fox. It is the only known fur-covered crea- ture that lays eggs. A correspondin ndrhtv among feathered bi eds woul . he. a. bird that brought fort its young ’ alive. ;WONDERFUL EYES OF INSECTS. The "facets" of the eye-masses of some species of insects are exceedingly .numerous; in some cases, in fact, the lnumber is entirely beyond_belief. Each iof these separate ” facets " is a perfect .eye, and they are so arranged as to give their insect owner a. command- ing view of all the cardinal points and every conceivable intermediate direc- ltion at one and the same time. In the lent, the little creature which we have ‘ had so many ” curious notes " concern- . mg, there is not to exceed 50 facets in the great compound eye. It has been argued that this is nature's provision. because the ant spends so much of its time underground. This may be true. but what is the naturalist going to gdo about Blaps mucronata. the most sluggish of the European beetles? This Elast Inamed creature spends 99-100 of its time in the dark, yet has .250 eye facets. .Meloe. another insect of simi- lar habits, has over 500 facets in each eye-mass._ In certain varieties of the dragon flies theaggregate of facets in p the compound eye often exceeds 12,000. It. appears to be a general rule, not- wrthstanding the exception cited above. . that the swiftest insects have the great- est number of eye facets. The swift- wmged butterflies have from 10,000 to 17,000 in each eyeâ€"mass, and the Mordella, the swiftest and the most active known beetle (a resident of Bri- tain), has no fewer than 25,000 facets in each of his enormous_ compound :yes. \VEIGHING COMMON AIR The wight of air has often been test- ed by compressing it in receptacles by the air pump. That it really has :weight when so compressed is shown by the fact that the weight of the ves- sels is increased slightly by filling them with compressed air, and that such vessels become specifically "light- er" as soon as the air contained in them-is exhausted. Many gexperiinents on the weight of air lhave proven that one cubic foot weighs 3 536 grams. or something less than I [â€"1 .ounces. The above experiment. on [the weight of air is SU)pOS(‘.(l to be made at the surface of the earth with the temperature at 50 degrees Fah- renheit. Heated air. or air at high elevations, is much lighter. PERPETUAL MOTION. One hundred and twenty years ago, in 1775, the Paris Academy of Sciences withdrew its standing reward of 500,- 000 francs which had been offered for a. " perpetual motion machine." It was elaborate plainly stipulated in the offer that the} machine 8 ould "be self-active; so much so. at least. that when once set in inorion it shall continue to move without the aid of external forces. and without loss of momentum. until its parts are worn out." During the year that the above reward was the stand- ing offer. thousands of men became insane over the problem. At last, at the time of the date given in the open- ing. the impossibility of constructing such a machine having been demon- strated, the offer was formally with- drawn. No Government or society of istanding now offers a reward for such a machine. 1 BEARD GROWTH. I Who knows what finally became of lChas. Peterman. the bearded freak of lJackson County, Missouri? Eight or lten years ago he was the proud pos- 3sessor of a crop of whiskers which ex- itended far below his knees. and of a {mustache which could be thrown back {over the shoulders and used as acloak. jPrior to the period of which we speak. rPeterman had allowed his heard to grow to a len th of over four feet. but such_growt being very inconven- ient he finally had it shaved off. The , below-theâ€"knees growth alluded to above {was one of only seven years' duration and it was Peterman's boast that he proposed to keep his hirsute append- A nice little animal story is givenin this month’s Nature’s Notes. which raises the interesting question wheth- er mice have a fondness for music. It is contributed by a musician, who says :â€"” One evening I was somewhat startled at hearing my piano suddenly giving forth sweet sounds, apparently of its own accord. A mouse, so it prov- ed. had g_ot inside the instrument and was making music on the wires. W hether this was intentional on mouâ€" 51e 8 part or not I can not say; perhaps he was try to make a nest for him- self there. Some years ago, however, while. the piano was being played in the dining room of my old home, sev- eral mice came out upon the hearth rug be an to jum about, apparâ€" ently With elight at t sound of the music, and one was either so absorbed or overcome by.it that he allowed him- self to be carried away in a tongs by the housemaid." WORSHIP OF BANK. The Extent to Which It Is Carried by Some People In England. Idolatrous worship of rank is one of the foibles of English character. The Duke of Edinburgh, when he was an admiral in command of a fleet, landed in naval uniform one day at a British port from a steamâ€"launch. and was sur- rounded by a crowd of awe-struck ad- mirers. He sent an attendant to fetch a. carriage, and gazed at the throne with undisguised amusement. An energetic newsboy, who did not allow the dignity of the royal presence to interfere with opportunities for trade, boldly approach- ed the prince and asked him what paper he wanted. The prince smiled and taking a paper from the newsboy tossed him a three- penny piece, waving him off when two pennies were offered in return. The prince then strode off in the direction of his carriage. some of the spectators expressed asâ€" tonishment at the liberty the newsboy had taken in selling the paper to a member of the royal family with as little ceremony as though he had been a costermonger. The boy was roughly admonish‘éd that he ought to have more sense and better manners. One indi - nant person. expressed the opinion that the police did not do their duty in not preventing such an outrage. Another bystander, a well-dressed wo-’ man, followed the boy a. few yards from the landing pier, and then touched him on the shoulder. " I want the coin," she said, with eager interest, "which his royal highness has given you for the paper." "I would rather keep it myself,” an- swered the boy. , "But I am willing to pay you well for it," said the excited woman. " Well, you will have to bid high for it in order to get it." “Here is a halfâ€"sovereign. Take it and give me the prince's coin." It was a, ood bargain, and the news- boy prompt y handed her the coveted three penny piece, remarking that he had received a good deal of money for a. penny paper. The excited woman gazed at the coin as though it was a pearl of great price. It had touched the hand of a. member of the Queen’s family,and was associated with the royal presence! This is an extreme example of 'the deference paid to ro a1 rank by Eng- lish people. Proba 1y there are few subjects of the Queen so foolish as to exchange a half-sovereign for three- pence simply because the smaller coin had been handled by royalty. The ob- sequious devotion to the great personâ€" a es of the court is carried to lengths w ich are often incompatible with self- respect. A story of an opposite character in which a lack of even civil deference is rudely shown, is told of a famous master of Balliol College, Oxford. He was out for a long walk, and came to a turn- pike gate where toll was demanded. Putting his hand into his pocket he found that he had left his money at home. "My good man,” he said to the gate- keeper. "it will be all right. I am the master of Balliol College."- "I don’t care what you are master of." said the gatekeeper, inexorably. "If you are not the master of twopence. you don't go through this gate." Rents in London and Parls. Some interesting figures concerning house rents in London and Paris have recently been published in the Journal des De‘nnts. its population of It. appears that in Paris 2,250,000 pays nearly as much mm as London, with twice the number of inhabitants. The 2,250,- 000 Parisiaus have only 93,000 dwell- ings to live in, while the number of houses that the 5.000.000 Londoners oc- cupy is nearly ten times as many. In lParis, where the people live in flats. there are on an average over 2270 xx- jsons residing in each house. In .on- Idon the average is only seven persons ‘to a house. Yet for much less com- fort and s ace the Parisians have to ay little sliort of double the rent paid iy Londoners. The total annual rent of Paris, says the Debuts. is now 775.- 000.000 francs, or $155,000,000, while Lon- doners who are twice the number of Parisians, only pay $85,000,000 for far more comfortable dwelling accommodaâ€" tion. The average rent paid by Lou- doncrs is between 835 and $40, while in Paris it is nearly $70. iages in ood owin o d't‘ t'l n . - - : they brofie thgflonggbegrg 11.331.3me que Ports, \\ hich office had in the fthe world. . l t ‘14.“! Sallsbnry is Now Warden of the \y \W“ x,‘ BRIEF SKETCH OF THEIR PAST AND PRESENT POSITION. g..â€" Cinque Portsâ€"Illa Dutlu and Pruner es -‘l‘he Cinque Ports are five in Run- bcrâ€"‘l‘hc onlce Is One of Importance. Sullenli and silent and like couchant ons; Their cannon through the n' ht, Holding their breath, hadwa ohed in grim defiance The sea coast opposite. So sang Longfellow in October. 1853. in his poem, " The \Varden of the Cin- previous month been vacated by the post has now been accepted by Lord Salisbury. The governorship of Dover Castle is annexed to the wardenship. It is also the warden’s duty and privil- ege to preside at the Courts of Brother- hood, and Brotherhood and Guestling. local tribunals still held at Shepway. near Hythe. As admiral of the ports he exercises maritime jurisdiction over the southern coast, from Seaford. in Sussex, to Burlington. in Kent; this district being included in the liberties of the ports. The warden has also the appointment of justices of the peace in every place in which his authority is recognized. The Cinque Ports ori-r ginally were five in number (as the name implies), viz., Hastings. Hythe. Romney. Dover and Sandwich. Jcakes mentions these five in his f'Chartcr of the Cinque Ports,” and states that they were enfranchised in the reign of Ed- ward the Confessor. THE OLDEST CHARTER now on record, dealing with the libertie? of the ports is dated the sixth year 0 Edward the First. It refers to the olde charters of \Villiam the Conqueror, an Edward the Confessor. The five ori inal ports were incorporated for the dc ence of the south coast, in default of a r- manent naval force. This defence o the coast was undertaken by them even be- fore the Con uest, and it is to be noted that the ‘ irst resistance made to \Villiam's invasion was at Romney pre- vious to the battle of Sean (Hastings). Going thither in person. after that mem- orable 14th of October, he in the words of the Saxon Chronicle " took what vengeance he would, for the slaughter of his men." Up to the time of; Henry VII. the Cinque Ports furnished nearly all the ships and sailors for the English navy. Even subsequent to the establishment of a permanent fleet they made heavy contributions to the naval force. in return for this they were allowed in ancient times to hold a local parliament at Shepway. This assembl . had power to regulate the Yarmouth ishery; had appellate 'urisdiction over the local courts, and) was empowered to decide cases of treason, sedition, false coming, etc. To the original five rts were afterwards added Rye. \Vinc iclsea, and other places, and the liberties .were so widely extended as to cover in some cases places many miles away. Ij‘or instance. Pevensy, a place nine miles distant, is included within the liberties of Hastings. THE ANCIENT PRIVILEGES of the Cinque Ports were eleven in number, viz., 1, Exemption from ” tax" gtahe regal) and " tallage;" 2, '.‘ $90 _and c,” or criminal and ciVil jurisdiction ; 8, " T011 and Theam,” or right in levy« ing toll and holding serfs; 4, 'jBlood- with and Fledwith'," or the_right of punishin murderers and fugitives from justice; , “Pillory and Tumbrill,” or the right to use these instruments of un- ishment; 6, "Infangtheof and Out ang- theof,” being the power to imprisonnund execute felons; 7, Mundbriech." or right to erect dykes and sea walls on any man's land; 8, “Waivos and Strays/'or right to seize all cattle, and lost proper- t , not claimed within a year; 9. Right of "flotsam, jetsam, and witsom," or ownership of whatever is cast ashore by the sea; 10. The right to im use taxes: 11, Right of assembling in " ort- mote,” or Port Parliament. The mem- bers of the Cinque Ports form a con- siderable contingent of the House of Commons; and formerly had.the .right to the title of "Baron" while Sitting in parliament. But in 1606 the use of this term, in a message from the Lower to the Upper House, drew from the Lords this protest. "that they would never acknowledge any man that's“- teth in the Lower House to the right of the title of Baron in parliament." Thenceforth this title of courtesy was dropped. In these days the burdens im- posed upon the Cinque Portahavmg be- come less onerous, their priVilcges have suffered a mrresponding curtailment. Yet the office of warden is still one .of importance, be having entrusted to him the defence of the southern (past of England, that coast on which the French guns once roared so mightily and then. as ls‘ullcr quaintlyjomarks, "forever after lost their voice." â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"-§-â€"â€"â€""" They Were Both There. If a man is going to play the bully, he ought to have good muscle or n clev- er wit. A little adventure into which one such brnggart stumbled is thus narrated by an exchange. lie was a “smallish man with a large voice." lie and a companion, who, be it said to his credit, seemed ashamed of the cninuanv he was in, stood in the. hotel rotunda on Saturday night. The little fellow was talking about Ireland and he said many hard things concerning the ciumry and the people. A bi! man stood by lieu-ping to the little cllow’s vaporinus. lle merely smiled. until the little fellow said, in a very loud toxic. "Show me an Irish- man, and I'll show you a coward." Then the his: fellow slipped up. and touching the little follow on the shoul- der. said, in a heavy, b25591 voice, “\Vliat's that you said .’ " "I said show me an Irishman, and I'll show you a coward." said-the little fellow. whose knots were shaking under him. _ _ "\\'ell.l'm an Iri-hufan." said the big fellow. " You are an Irishman! \\'tell," and a smile of joy flirted over the little felv law‘s counlcnzinm: as he saw a hole through which he could crawl “l'm a unvard," 3" fl 5‘. 5’ ABOUT THE noun Pun- ‘