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h*/. '4«s. -H**r fr-'Z&u *./ flMJSSSMi *; t* - ^ ,w '>% • ?.% <c.n iP'W* •#* t VM tLtWL Mhr Mi MMw MCHENBT, A Moktkkai oleigymsa was too ill to preach, Ml be wrote * Sermon, and, by the use of atelephone, heard it de- | livered in his church by another 0 ̂preacher as ha lay on his sick-bed in ®# Us chamber. ' . ?•' : m THBBE was * terrible scene in oonrt at St. Petersburg when Lieut. Boutse- viisch was sentenced to death. His Bother sank overwhelmed on a bench, his sister ran out with piercing cries, and his affianoed bride fell in a swoon. ft A THE Trustees of Colombia College, >W'l Hew York, have prepared a plan to re- %J -cave young women for a four-years <sonise outside of, bat under the super- vision of, the oollege, graduates to be K ~ entitled to the same honors 't W- • [ " * < : r : i it as young aaen who hare,taken the regular course. W; «• / f -----r----^-- i- ' '•# ,/ ¥JVK young ladies of Denver, CoL, Tide the bicycle "man-fashion," dad in | black velvet knee-breeches, woolen high ;Stockings, a polo cap and" a sack coat, •i\." with low-cut bicycle shoes. The Den- • Ter masculines are all learning to ride, as to accompany the girls In their spins. • V THK following is the schedule of , rates adopted by the big Brooklyn bridge Trustees: Foot passengers, 1 oent; car-fare, 5 cents; one horse, or horse and man, 5 cents; one horse and vehicle, 10 cents; two horses and ve­ hicle, loaded or unloaded, 20 cents; ;:'v each horse beyond two attached to any ' ; Tehiole, 5 cents; neat cattle, each, 5. (. oents; sheep and hogs, each, 2 cents. •; "9t-r •' SPEAXINO of "Iiish Conventions in the ; % tFnited States, the Washington Post ' ̂ : remarks that "the population of Ireland in 1881 was 6,174,836. According to * ' * the census of 1880, there were 1,854,000 - , J natiyes of Ireland in the United States. * «; Immigration since the census was taken £ has brought the number fully up to " ' 2,000,000. From 1820 to the present 'time, the total immigration from Ire- " land to the United States is about 3,300, :>u*i "^ *®, therefore, evident that we '•$£4have a population of pure Irish blood quite equal to the population of Ire- ~ * land." It is not strange, therefore- that Irish Conventions are held in the - United States. - +*- m I- > NEARLY 200 women in 'H#W York, wives of some of the best-known citizens, feave petitioned the Board of Educa- n to make the teaching of sewing to $irls between 10 and 12 compulsory in I the primary schools. A plan of teach- ing accompanies the petition, and pro- | tides that after attaining a certain pro- ^ fioienoy, the children may bring their a own work. This is a step in the right ? direotion, though it leads backward to I; tiie method employed in the education of pur gradmothers. The tendency of our modern education is too often away from home; it trains the brain, but ^ does not make housewives. But as j1 these good women point out, sewing is of mnch more importance to the mother •fa poor family than arithmetic, or aphy, or history. K m K- a II-fi THE various Governments of Europe •f" € are drilling their armies for active serv­ ice by sham fights and military maneu­ vers of great extent. The English troops made a fine display at Brighton * not long ago; a part of the German army, about 60,000 men, is to execute a series of complicated maneuvers along fjhe River Main before long; the French 4rmy during the months of August and September is to occupy the country be­ tween Chalons and Chartres for a series of military operations and maneuvers; and the Italian troops and fleet are be­ ing concentrated in the South for prac- y|j tice in combined maneuvers. Each sovereign is to superintend personally •I t; the maneuvers of his army, with many invited guests, and everything is being dabs to insure the success of each sham campaign. . v A cftjuiACTERTSTtc anecdote ef the sojourn of the Princess Louise in Ber- muda is told in England. On the day *prior to the grand reception accorded 1 ^ her at St. George's she was out sketch- ing, when, feeling thirsty, she called at " the hut of a negro fisherman MID re- ;* quested a drink of water. Now "Aunt- " ie," the fisherman's wife, was then en­ gaged in ironing a -shirt for her old man to wear at the reception, and somewhat testily replied: Tse no time to bod- der widyou; Tse fea'ful busy, for I'se -• boon' to see de Queen's chile to-mor- row." With that easy grace which ** characterizes her, the Princess said: <:lil j*But if you will get me some water I will finish the shirt for you." This of- , fer was accepted and the ironing 00m- , pleted. The Princess disclosed her identify. MFo' de Lo'd, honey," said the startled auntie, "my ole man, no' . ' no 009 eke ever wear dat shirt again, no how." 'ff,; THEME lately died in Stuttgart a . _ goose whose martial fame has extended ~ " | over all the German Empire. "This * eccentric animal," writes a Berlin cor- rsspondent, "when still a gosling, Ij-aBandoned its flock, dismissed all its * recollections of its infancy, repudiated the conventional views and habits of geeae^ an(J boldly marching to the bar- racks of a Uhlan raiment, stationed itoelf, one fine day, next to the sentry- box. Touched by this predilection for their corps, the Uhlans erected a shed ^ ftar the goose, and for twenty-three *'" years neither threats nor persuasions have been able to separate the martial bird from its adopted regiment for any ;•? |. length of time. Ik has at different • T, Hit IBHS changed quartets with the oorptt from Esslingen to Ulm, thence to Lud» wigsbnrg, ana back to Ulm. When the Uhlaxw went to fight for their °oontry the forsaken and desolate goose took up for the time with a bat­ talion of infantry; but no soOner did the first Uhlans re-enter the town than the goose marched out to meet them, and returned with them to her old quarters. She has now been stuffed, .ao£ is to be seen in a glass case on the gale Of the barracks at Stuttgart." A HORRIBLE affair took place recently at Bio Grand del Sur, in Uruguay. A young farmer was bitten by a mad dog and remedies were immediately applied to the wound. Cauterization was re­ sorted to, and there was every reason to believe that the virus had not entered the victim's system. When the accident occured the young man was about to marry, but in consequence of the untoward occurrence the ceremony was postponed for three months, when the medical fiifen who were consulted on the e*se gave it as their nnamimous opinion that there was not the slightest ground for apprehending any danger from the" bite. The marriage took place on the farm, and was celebrated with the customary festivities. After the nuptial supper was over, the bride­ groom appeared to be seized with a fit of melancholy. One of love's caprices, said somebody. After supper came the ball, and when this was at its height the newly-wedded couple withdrew from the festive scene and retired to their apartment. About an hour after­ wards the house resounded with ferocious cries, intermingled with shrieks and groans.. As soon as the guests had recovered from stupefaction, they started in the direction of the cries. They proceeded from the nuptial chamber. The door was burst open and a horrible spectacle presented itself. On the floor lay the young bride in a pool of blood. She still breathed, but her body was torn and bitten as if she had been seized by a tiger. In the corner of the room was the bridegroom, covered with blood and foaming at the month, scratching, biting and tOaring iaway at the wall and fnrni- ture. With a sudden bound he sprang like a tiger upon the invaders of his lair, and he would have made one or more victims had not the brother of the dying bride sent a bullet through the madman's brain. A8EICULTPRAII4 The Mexican Saratoga. altillo, Coahuila, Mexico, the little plaza in the center of the city, was un­ der the blaze of a hundred lights and fragrant with the perfume of rare flow­ ers. The shrubbery was stirred with the whispers of an evening breeze, and the waters played from the great stone fountain in their midst. Sixty musi­ cians, comprising the military band sta­ tioned at Monterey, discoursed the sweetest of weird Mexican .airs, and hundreds of people threaded the walks, or filled the seats placed at convenient distances about the charming place. It was a lovely scene, as I saw it this April night, and, beside what there was in it to cliarm the senses, here in their best garb were displayed the habits, customs and the lights and shades of Mexican life. Two evenings a week there is like a panorama moving in Monterey, and, doubtless, many other places in Mexico, but I have chanced to see it here only. There the high, the low, the rich and the poor gather On the walks and amidst banks of roses, to en joy the beauties of their land, its delightful climate, and the recreation that their Government thus provides for them. I took my seat on the plaza the evening after I reached this strange country, to enjoy and observe the pict­ ure. Half the population of the city seemed to be out of doors and centered in this one spot. The scene cannot well be described. Each one's fancy must paint it witfh such tints as will naturally suggest themselves. Perfect order reigned. Not a boisterous word or act could be heard or observed. Every one seemed to be quietly enjoying the lovely things that both God and man had provided. No noisy children romped among the flowers; no jolly laugh or hearty talk broke in upon the happiness of the hour. People here never talk loud, or are noisily animated. This perfect de­ corum at once attracts attention and provokes comment. I have found it as manifest in private as in public. The people appear to be always serious and tragical, rather than cheerful and hope­ ful. It may be in appearance only, however. It is this retiring disposi­ tion, though, that makes all classes delicately sensitive and the women jeal­ ous. People here rarely laugh, and the women always look thoughtful and sometimes even sad. They have beau­ tiful hair and eyes and small hands and feet. They seem born and reared out of the sunlight, and in the evenings, when they stand at the glassless win­ dows and look out through the grating, you often see faces that recall the pic­ tures of Charlotte Corday peering from between the prison bars.--Cor. Phila- 'via Press. The Gold Supply. The future supply of gold, even fox coinage purposes, says a contemporary, is beginning to be one of more than common interest. Ancient history is resplendent with the prodigal display of gold by the barbaric peoples of the Orient. Arabia, Egypt and Africa, ac­ cording to this same authority, were prolific in their production of this pre­ cious metal. Pliny states that Cyrus returned from his conquest with 34,000 pounds of gold (about $10,000,000). Alexander the Great brought $100,000,- 000 in gold from Persia. But at the same time, these great fields, so re­ nowned in history, are barren, so far as the production of gold is concerned, and it is evident that Europe can no l&nger be depended upon to perform any appreciable part in furnishing a supply of gold to meet the demands of the future. Even in this country the statistics pf production show a constant and marked decline in gold, although the field is largely extended and mining is more thoroughly prosecuted than be­ fore. IT is well to give horses a double amount of feed on the evening preced­ ing a long journey, and only naif ra­ tions of gra n or a little nay on the morning of starting. ':-r, : Tit* years ago Western batter brought only the lowc* prices in New York; now it is in demand at a pre­ mium. LOOK often at your horses' feet and legs. Disease or wounds in those ports, if at all neglected, soon become dangerous. Too MtrcH attention 'eannot be to regularity in the care of stock. Any delay beyond the usual time of feeding or niilking makes the animal uneasy. A 00RI1K }PONDENTof the Iowa Home- atend says that it is a mistake ta raise cabbage plants in a cold frame or hot­ bed. He plants the seed where he ,wants the cabbage to grow, aud when in slices and served in sauceni at din- the plant shows four leaves, thin out ner. a gteat addition may be* made by all but the strongest plant in each hill, slicing some boiled carrots with them. He claims transplanting checks the Do not cook the carrots and beets to- growth of the plant, and that hy the 1 gether, btit in separate kettles. Served latter method larger and heavier heads j together each gains, and neither lose.!. written upon wfcaft au(ht be observed in hmnble village graveyards or splen­ did city cemete îs*. In far fewer years than most peep!* imaging monuments erected to last to the resurrection are in ruins--before the grandsons of "the poor inhabitants below* are dead. Nature will allow just aa little waste material as she can has a very dry eye for sentiment. The subject is. far from being exhausted. HOUSEKEEPER'S HELPS. COD STEAKS, WITH MOCK OYSTER SAUCE.--Sprinkle the cod with salt, and fry, either with or withont bread crumbs, a golden brown. WHEN small beets ere boiled and cut are produced. THERK is a serious loss of fertility from severe winds passing over plowecl land in winter. The frost finely pul­ verizes the surface so that it is' blown freely, as may be seen by the blackened snow on the lee side of a plowed field. This fleck on the snow is the richest portion of the soil. A growth of winter grain, if only rye to be plowed under in spring, affords some protection from winds and will pay the slight expense in this item alone. A BOTTLE of carbolic acid should be kept in every farm-house, not merely as a disinfectant, but as a wash for wounds and sores. For any purpose it should be diluted with water. Its power to destroy fungus growths makes carbolic acid invaluable in pruning or­ chards of pear, plum or peach where blight or other disease is suspected. The pruning shears should be frequent­ ly dipped in carbolic acid water. A FAT hog is no test of good pork. Flesh must be healthy to be good. As a general thing fat hogs are not healthy animals, nor is the pork the best qual­ ity. The wise buyer wculd prefer, for hut own use, the hog that is not so fat as to be unable to help itself to its food. The blood ought to be pure, and to have this so the hog must be aide to move about easily. The over-fattened hog has impure blood, hence impure flesh.--Ch icago Journal. THE Gardeners' Monthly says that "in planting fruit trees aim to have them so that the hot, dry sun will not have full effect on the ground about the roots. The great heat in this way in­ jures the trees. Many who have trees in gardens plant raspberries under them. The partial shade seems to be igood for the raspberries, and helps the trees. Blackberries would no doubt do well in the same situation; and straw­ berries, it is well known, do not do badly grown in this way. A CORRESPONDENT of the Toledo Blade recommends the method follow­ ing to rid the garden of moles: Take a handful of yellow dent-corn and soak it ,in hot water until the thin skin of the kernel can be l9osened; then take each kernel and prick the skin over the sprout just enough to admit some arsenic or Paris green. I use of the latter a mite as big as the head of a pin; then let the skin lie back over the hole and dry. Second, take a small stick and push it down in the dirt directly over the hole (be sure not to go deep), then drop in a kernel or two of corn. The moles will discover the corn and e a t t h e s p r o u t . . . . . . , The Indiana Farmer savs that "in using lime on clay lands that are not underdraihed care should be taken the lime is not spread in the spring, when the soil is liable to become saturated with water while the lime is yet caustic. This woujd be liable to result iti com­ bining lime in its caustic state with the clav and sand of the soil, to form bard concretions like water and lime, which not only defeats the object, but these lumps become troublesome in the after- cultivation. But lime for this purpose can be of no use unless there be an abundance of vegetable matter in the soil. Frequent plowing under of green crops and heavy dressing of barn-yard manures must accompany liming if we would get the best results from it." A CUSTOM of planting potatoes early is much more prevalent than formerly; this change has been caused probably by the desire to get them harvested be­ fore the third crop of beetles come. On warm, dry land there is but little danger of planting too soon, after the frost is well out of the ground, but on moist or low land there is danger of planting so early that the cold, wet weather may continue so long that the seed will rot before sprouting; whole fields are sometimes lost in this way. The better way is not to attempt to grow early potatoes on moist or wet land, but to plant them on well-drained land that is high enough to be warm in the spring, and yet not high enough to dry the crop up in July.--Chicago Journal. TREATMENT OF SANDY LAND.--Most farmers give the same treatment to sandy land in preparing it for a crop that they do to land chiefly composed Of clay. They plow it every season, and as the plow runs easily they allow it to enter almost to the beam. The harrow is then used the same way it is when there are hard lumps of clay to break up. These farmers would find it difficult to give a reason for using a plow on sandy land as often as they do. Probably the continual plowing of sandy soil is due to habit. There is in reality no occasion for plowing very sandy land unless a necessity exists for covering Up grass and weeds. It is better to de­ stroy them by burning if it is possible to do so. The soil is in a better condi­ tion for a seed bed before it is plowed than it is afterward. It would be bet­ ter to render it more compact than to stir it and make it lighter. If the seed is sown on the surface after it has been burned over it may be covered suffi­ ciently by the use of a harrow or roller. A farmer in the vicinity/of this city, who has been very successful in raising rye on sandy land, states tbat he rarely uses a plow in the preparation of the soil. When successive crops of rye are raised on the same land he burns off the stub­ ble in the fall and applies fertilizers on the surface. The eeod is sown and scratched in with a harrow. A heavy roller is then passed over the land. In seeding sandy land to grass and clover he scatters the seed on the surface and drives sheep over it. They force the se.d into the soil and render the latter more compact. He finds it advantage­ ous to soutt r fine o'ay on the surface of sand and to' allow the rain to wash into the interstices of the sand.--Chicago Times. • Iti MOCK OYSTER SAITF,.--One teacup* ful of good gravy, one of milk, three dessert-spoons of anchovy sauce, two dessert-spoons of mushroom ketchup, two ounces of butter, one teaspoonful of pounded mace and whole black pepper. All to be boiled until thor­ oughly mixed. NANTCCKKT PUDDING. -- Six ounces rice, six ounces white sugar, four eggs, a pinch of carbonate cf soda; put it all in a bowl, and beat it up until it is very light and white. Beat four ounces of butter to a cream, put it into the pudding, and ten drops of essence of lemon. Beat all together for five min­ utes. Batter a mold, pour the pudding into it, and boil tor two hours. Serve with sweet fruit sauce. FBESH MACKEREL.--Clean the fish; scald a bunch of herbs and chop them fine, and put them with one ounce of butter, three table^poonfuls of soup stock into a stew-pan. Lay in the mackerel and simmer gently for ten minutes. Lift them out upon a hot dish; dredge a little flour, odd salt, cayenne, a little lemon juice, and finally two table-spoonfuls of cream; let these just boil, and pour over the fish. THE CHILDREN'S APPLE PUDOIHO.-- Boil a cupful of rice for ten minutes, drain it through a hair sieve until quite dry. Put a cloth into a pudding basin and lay the rice round it like a crust. Cut six apples into quarters, and lay them in the middle of the rioe with a little chopped leaion peel, a couple of cloves and some sugar. Cover the fruit with some rice, tie up tightly, and boil for an hour. Serve with melted butter, sweetened, and poured over it. BAKED SHAD.--Shad for baking should be carefully cleaned, but not split. Make a dressing of bread-crumbs, a little finely-chopped pork, a suspicion of onion, some summer savory, and chopped parsley and seasoning; fill and sew up the side. Put in a baking pan a slice of sweet salt pork and a couple of bay leaves; make it hot before lay­ ing in the fish, which should bake one hour,fand be basted with its own juioe. BOILED TONGUE.--If the tongue is not hard, soak it not more than three hours. Put it into a stew-pan with plenty of cold water and a bunch ol herbs; let it come to a boil, skim, and simmer gently until tender; peel off the skin and garnish it with parsley and lemon. If to serve it cold, fasten it to a board with a fork through the root and another through the top to straight­ en it; when cold, glace it and dress with tufts of parsley. A DELiciors^ake by belting five eggs very light; beat the whites ai>d yelks separately, and if the yelks are at all lumpy, strain them. Beat three cups of powdered sugar and one cup of butter to a cream, add one cup of sweet milk, four cups of sifted flour in which you have mixed one teaspoon ful and a half of baking powder, and the grated peel of one lemon. Put the whites of the eggs in last. Bake in a moderate oven in one large, round loaf or in two long, narrow tins. CHOWDER.--Choose a black boss fresh and firm, dress with care, cover the bottom of the steamer with potatoes peeled and washed; slice two onions, and scatter the slices over the potatoes; wrap the fish in a cloth, and lay that on the potatoes; steam till ail are done; pick the meat from the bones, slice the potatoes; then put in a kettle alaver of buttered crackers, one of potatoes, with the "onion atoms," and a little chopped parsley, salt and pepper; then j low a certain price. Of course, he a layer of fish, and so on until all the does not employ machinery in farming, material is used. Pour over this enough I but plows his ltnd with a crooked piece rich milk to moisten it thoroughly; let! of iron-pointed wood, harrows it with the Te«f Vaa Who Shewed OC ̂ A young man about 20 years of ago, accompanied by s girl two or three year* younger, reached the city by a Bay City train, and after looking around for a few hours returned to the depot and bought some sandwiches for lunch. The fellow was heard bragging a good deal as to what he had done and could do and cities he had visisted, and by-and-by he walked up to the depot policeman and handed Him four 5-cent cigars and said: "That's my girl in there." "Ye*-" ' "She just thinks her eves of at** * "So?" ' • Tve never had a chance to show her how I'd die for her if necessary, and it seems to me we might put up a little job right here. " "How?" ( ,, . "Well, suppose me an'd her walk out to see the river. I leave her for a moment. Some chap comes along and begins to chin her. I rush back and knock him into the middle of next week. She'd want to marry me within a week. Girls of her age just dote On heroes, you know." i * "Yes they do." v/ > "Well you help me. You pick out Some ch&p around here and tell him what I'm up to, and I Won't mind stand­ ing treat for all hands. When I run in on him he'd better run." Five minutes later the girl stood on the wharf alone. A fellow big enough to pitch a barrel of flour over a freight car approached in a caiaiess p*p-.!$d observed: "' •» -r ~ "Fine day, miss?* **Yes, sir." ' "Nice view of the Canada iho|e?* • "Yes, indeed." "May I offer you some peppermint loz ?" Just then the young man came rush­ ing down. When he came within ten feet of the pair he cried out: "Villain! takfe your leave or 111 toss you into the river I" "Oh, I guess not," carelessly replied the other. "Base scoundrel! I am here to res­ cue this young girl from your clutches!" "Don't bust any buttons off, my young cub!" The young man made a dash. He had to or wilt. He rnshed at the big chap with his arm upraised and heroism in his eve, ai d the next minute he was picked up and tossed over among a lot of green hides as carefully as if he had been glass. Then the big man raised his cap to the girl, smiled sweetly as he bowed and scraped his foot, and he was out of sight before the young man recovered sufficiently to call out: ? "Minnie, did I kill him?" 1 "No, Henry." "Thank heaven that I am not guilty of murder! Let him beware, however, Another time I may not be able to re* strain myself!"--Detroit Free Pres$. The Farmer in India. The Indian agriculturist--ryot--can in no sense be compared to the Ameri­ can farmer, but rather to the late serf of Russia. He is a tenant on hard con­ ditions, and is, by custom and bigotry, almost a fixture on the particular spot of land where he was born; his farm­ ing is done on a very small scale and according to old methods, to which he clings with religious veneration; his wants are very few, and he endures pov­ erty and even hunger with patience; he cultivates his patch of five to fifteen acres on shares for the landed propria* tor--zemindar--who holds under rent­ al to the Government, and the better half of his gross income generally goes to the zemindar, the priest (Brahmin), and the usurer, in the form of rent, presents, offerings, and interest, and if he can net 10 cents a day by hi3 hard and hopeless labor, that will suffice for the most pressing wants of his house­ hold. His home is a mud or bamboo hut; his property a pair of Bmall bul­ locks, a few cows, calves and goats, a wooden cart, and a few brass and earth­ en pots--in all worth about $50; and his implements and tools are of the ru<lest kind, such as his ancestors used a thousand years ago; and yet he is making some progress under British rule, and finds his wants increasing, at the same time better outlets for his pro­ duce and more recompense for his la­ bor, and, on the whole, is so independ­ ent on 10 cents a day that he will eat or store his wheat rather than sell be- it heat gradually and simmer gently till it is all "boiling hot." In this state it should be brought to the table. SOAK one pint of fine bread crumbs an implement resembling a common ladder laid flat on the ground and drag­ ged by the little bullocks crossways over the field; he sows by hand, reaps in a pint of sweet milk; beat the velks ! ,with a ri\d? 1 canJ8 8,1'eave® j 4, ! home on his back or in the bullock cart, threshes th un with a wooden club, or lets the cattle tramp out the grain, and cleans it by hand-winnowing--United States Consul General Mattxoris Mo- port. A Dry Eye for Sentiment. To determine the value of building •tone, a meditation among the tombs is a very good thing, and a capital article on the "life" of stone used for public or private structures could not fad to be ^step it by WWQ i of six eggs and the whites of three till they are very light; beat in with them one coffee cup of sugar, one table-spoon­ ful of melted butter; stir these in with the bread crumbs, add the grated rind and the juice of one lemon. Bake in a deep pudding-dish. When done spread a layer of tart jelly over the top and then a meringue made of the whites of three ergs, which, should be reserved for this purpose. Set it in the oven to brown. Photography. Quection--"I suppose a great ad­ vance has been made in the art during the past few years?" Answer--"We think we have made some advance, but then we thought so ten, fifteen and twenty years ago. I can remember when we thought we had reached the top of the ladder and were doing perfect work, but when we look at that work to-day we are ashamed of it, and we well may be. The photo­ graphs which were taken twenty years ago are old and faded, and cannot be compared in any respect with those of to-day. I suppose twenty years hence those of us who are living then will smile as they look at what we now ad­ mire in photography. We are con­ stantly making advances in the art, and while they are not perhaps so notice­ able as those made in other branches of science, they are none the less ad­ vances, which become easily apparent when the work of to-day is contrasted with tl at of a score of vears ago. I j yOU Yteg youTjwdo^'W anticipate sti.l greater advances in the! , A„,, tL i„, future, and I believe the time will come when the press will not only chronicle the event* of the day all over the world, ns it now does, but, by the com­ bined aid of telegraphy and photogra­ phy, will daily prevent its readers with views of the most striking events of the day, ' taken 011 the spot,' and transmit­ ted around the world by telegraph."-- Boston Transcript. _ THERE is a dark-red line on the mat* ting of the House of Commons about a pace from the benches. It was origi­ nally intended to prevent members drawing their swords on each other, and it is to-day considered out of order for a member, when debating, to out- Believed Everything He Said Bf-I Btrolled into the emporium of Hans Von Orinifacabellitudenitanabuski, my Teutonio corner grocer, to purchase 1 cent's worth of smoked herring and a soda cracker, when the worthy tradesman hailed me with: "Hello! Meester Shones, vere you peen coin' some days vot I missed you, eh?" 'Tve been out of town, to Trenton,* I said. "Yell, vst you hevsaw mit Trenton?* •aid Hans, ready for gossip. "Oh, not much," I said; "Isaw sman tried for murder." "Vel, vat mooch murder?" aaid Hans, eagerly. I determined to gratify ay German friend, and so gave it to him: "Well, they tried the man, found him guilty and the Judge said: ' That will do; take him out and hang him to the lamp-post in front of the door!' They were just doing it when a man came up to the Judge and sa.d: ' Judge, did you know that it was only a Dutchman killed?' The Judge said, 'No! No­ body told me that; fetch the gent back.* They brought the m n back, and the Judge addressed him: 'My friend, I didn't know it was only a Dutchman 'ia free.' And then he turned to the law* yers and the people in the court-room and said: 'Gentlemen, did you know it was a Dutchman our friend here killed? I tbink you ought to raise a subscrip­ tion for him.' So they handed the hat round and got $181.50, and the man went away with three cheers from the crowd. "Meester Shones," said Hans, grave­ ly, "I pelieves every tings you cay, put 1 tinks dot ees von lie,. Meester Shones!" There was no farther argument*-- The Imp. GREAT BRITAIN cultivates 2,967,059 acres of wheat, 2,662,927 to barley, and 4,306,391 to oats. on any TALCE. TAINTED salt meat is the retail of salting carcasses while in a frosen con­ dition. WHEN acid has been article of clothing, apply monia to kill the aeid, men apply chlo­ roform to restore the color. A WRITER in the New York World says: In traveling I always take some salt with me. A heaping table-spoon­ ful of salt scattered between infested sheets will drive the fleas away. Dr. Footers Health Monthly says that nails greased with lard may be driven into hard wood without break­ ing, and screws are more easily driven and withdrawn if their points are greased. BLACK crape can be beautifully reno­ vated by folding the veil once and steaming over a kettle of boiling water until stiff, then place between a black shawl, and cover with heavy books or other weight for a day or twenty-four hours. KEROSENE will make the tea-kettle as bright as new. Saturate a woolen rag and rub with it. It will also remove stains from the clean-varnished furni­ ture. Boots and shoes that have been hardened by water may be softened by kerosene. A GOOD "way to clean hairbrushes is to dampen tne brashes and Sprinkle them with powdered borax; let them lie half an hour and then wash and rub thoroughly, rinse in clean water and Stand them on end to dry. It is a good plan to olean two at one time, as they clean better by rubbing two together. If you have no borax, oommon baking- soda may be used. A VERY pleasant perfume, and also a Ereventive against moths, may be made y taking one ounce each of cloves, carraway seeds, nutmeg, cinnamon, mace and Tonquin beans. Add as much Florentine orris root as will equal the other ingredients put together. Grind the whole together and put them in little fancy bags and distribute among the clothing. NOVEL and strikingly-elegant piano and table scarfs are made of plush, IKUMHOQM, ttalrtl tag I ro«d compute t* Ummt 1 atom |O>«U1M to of sonneiia; MMadtac u«]-- scbadHtM made npVy tfe*] boose CoHtums onerR thai! tw State PltetB under SN.-'SSUR priirt* ; jwij dSpcS oa tbcis sfc UMT m i (*qoii*ooalMwiatonto waiptt atttbec cRMr Mi tfack drtot**beta t t r their ow*< t misdemeanor larata ttract the 6»en~ibtfOTti mtter. • • AGREEABLY to thefr promise the nembwe- of the Home H (tfitjr-OM m- m*ined I11 Hp an the-floor of 2d. After *eoond reading to tiltt, _ Madison, as Cbairmaa «* tee on AnmHrittMH, imontWe tMHOMftdu Irtetetlte payment at ths •emUr. It waa mdaloM the next order. , ln 1 of the Judges of the A_ son introduced a bill <du«ea*iiM £Qrtth2 t time to send to«hws* to Court at its eeseitnt the ID The change wfil am the by Appellate Court bwiaaas gt prente Court at the aext Jurao?! Appropriation bill " appropriated 817.0 CMeaio Charitable _ . which WHS advanced to seoond I ready for final action. TH* House held a ftve-mlntttw seeMoii Jane 4, adjonralng gfcsa the f>ii 1--Illy > of readinx the Joniaal. Tbm ten 1# ffc* sentees. There was no oenata aesafea. Tm Senate held a brief ssMioTi <a tfce fith. But few members were yiMttai XT. MSMIIsa Introduced a bill to appropriate a* addM°a«l tio.ooo to pay the employee et the scmbly. after which aa adjoai nsseirt wm Or­ dered. There wrs a good attaa&N(|MI tk the House, aad the regular order Of M closely followed. Tea foUowtas passed: Limiting income of the Wiu Home from Chicago liaaor Hcense* to $» annum: compelling toU-brldm to ] i loacd all night forpksaengtrsilheEast L-. OIB in-Inspection fiUI; requiring railroad . l antes to warm and light their depots a l#> hour before the arrival of a train; imposing apett* altv of $100 utroa county sorveycrs who refuse or ncKlect to keep a record of every survey; Mr. Thorn on's "Piggy-sow* Ml; Mr. OSSMTS Mil to convey an acre of land at the statte oC Kmality to the St. I<onis and Houtheastnilroadfordepot purposes, thereby clearing the title t»ttthn4: providing that when a deed or other written in­ strument not required by law to be attested by a. subscribing witness offend ia evidence la aeiK cause bears the signature of a sabeefibtagint* uew it shall not be necessary to prove i Ity by the subscribing witness r " irtttug sailors; ,mxm absence; amendhig the law rega the Glanders bill, having the e attached. The purpose of this bQl fa to 1 state Veterinarian power to takr active 1 eradicate KtadeM among horna 1 asses under the Pleuro-pnetimo&ia lav it is an extension. The expeae ment are provided for by -an 110,000. NEABLT all Senator! were ia their seats en the 6th, aad by anaaiawaa consent the SbMee bill appropriating tHt,TU for tha i«pijj|lliis and furnishing et the .Sisto Hosw. sartflf tht Improvement of the 1 " passed. This MH ah meat by the Governor, of the Senate, oft intend the work,who ante l satkra $8 per day fa In the discharge of 1 ttoa. The following nr by unanimous consent: it the duty at Recorder* 1 having abstract books to mai •tracts of title: bv Mr. Ln $6,765 to pay to BichardiB suffered by a failure of the I contract with him for werfc < tarnished on the bill from the Committee < for the appatatiaeBtsC House a resolution was as tike day. et Road îSl; Ifr. _ roads to extend thetr Ones articles at ineocwnatleii, present, incorporating the dependent line: to autsroori of 110,000 for the payment of " yea, with the emergency elssaafr lift DILL" to increase the fees of the Coon ' Senate bill pzotidtttg for the safc ufr' property in private warehouses. The, river was declared navigable by the passage < bill to that effeob IN the Senate, en the Tth, the Elarrafcat Railroad bill was defeated, and th*tq}ku*lBg bills were passed: The Hopsebill refvndilgithe surplus funds in the State treasury, .tothSf of counties, tow nships, etc; J~ the erection <>f pier I , the Illinois river, t , i in discussing the HighLtoeaae ttfjĵ anl fealty | made it th>- special order for the nextdaĵ Xa the afternoon, toanimoas consent ~ the Spanish invasion, but it is not easy to identify them. So there are copper mines in the Lake Superior region in which the tools %nd minging marks of ancient miners of pre-historic times It JTIVCH the Railroad and Warehouse < sioners the pow<r to appoint asit.hniM I Urn «4 krrain at all places where the S:ate Inspection ia. adopted. Reaolumns of condolenoe with Hon. . are with figures applied in odd and out-of- the-way designs. These figures may be purchased at art stores. They are cut from Turkish scarfs or shawls, and are to be pasted to the plush and then, after being outlined with gilt thread, are to bo used as a sort of center for long stitches in all-colored embroidery silk. Much ingenuity and expression of individual taste may be exercised in the embroidery. PROP. KKDZIE gives the following val- nable information: "Cane sugar is two and one-half times as sweet as grape sugar, closely allied to it, aud differs so little from it that many persons cannot distinguish it. By cooking, the cane sugar may be ohanged to grape sugar, and thus lose its sweetening power. Some women put the sugar in with a mass of acid fruit to be cooked, and they keep cooking and adding sugar, while it keeps on growing sourer, until at last they use two and one-half times as much as tliev need to secure the de­ sired result. The cane sugar has been changed to grape sugar. Now, if the sugar had been added after the fruit was cooked, much less would have been required, and the result would have been much more satisfactory." The Oldest American Mine. It is generally conceded by those who are read up in the history of muting and metallurgy in this country that the oldest mining enterprise of the United States, still active, is the mine La Motte, in the lead district of Eastern Missouri, opened about 1720 under Renault, of Law's notorious Mississippi Company. It was named after La Motte, the mineralogist of the expedi­ tion. It has been worked at intervals ever since it was opened, and is in suc­ cessful operation now. There are sil­ ver mines in New Mexico and Arizona, some of which may have been opened !by the Spanish adventurers of the lat­ ter part of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. Some of these ancient mines were operated by the Toltecs and Aztecs years before ' Mr. llerringtdp called up a Benata bill ajjijaag *1,0 w U --• „„„„ the willful destracttoki of ice a misdenwhfto* punishable by fine am read the third time and] was pursued wiih a 8MM by line and imprtsoamsiBt, embankments or levees, 0 used for the artificial prop«g*.!on IdfMSh. 1.,, tl,. *1 . . ; Nichols made a motion to reconsider the vol* by were found bv the pioneers of the pies- .1 Which the Wciirhmsstsrs* bill failed to pass, ent American mining companies. Where j The vote was reconsidered_and the i)ill_passed the first colonists of Virginia got the ship-load of "fool's gold" which they sent back to England, to the great dis­ gust of the London company, is not certainly known; but it is known that at the same time, in 1608, they shipped a quantity of iron from Jamestown, which yielded seventeen tons of metal, the first pig iron ever made from Ameri­ can ore. There are diggings in North and South Carolina and Georgia, now overgrown with forests, which are sup- 5>osed to have been excavated by the ollowers of DeSoto and his immediate successors between 1539 and 1600. The first recorded account of the discovery of coal in the United States is contained in Hennepin's, narrative of his explora­ tions in the West, between 1673 and 1680, when he saw the coal outcrop in the bluffs of the Illinois river, not far from Ottawa and LaSalle; but coal was first mined in the Eastern States, in the beginning of this century.--Inter Ocean. A Literal Compliance. A man living in Harlem, who owns a large yard, had a high fenoe built around it, and in order to protect the fence from the onslaught of the bill- posting fiend put up the following sign thereon: "Post no bills under penalty of the law." Recently the owner of the fencejoaught a paste-slinger at work sticking up bills, recommending a new liver-pad, on each side of the sign. "I've caught one of you chaps, have I? Bead that sign," said the owner, jumping around and pawing up the pavement. "Sure, an' Oi do, sur, an' divil resave the bill have Oi put undher ' penalty av the law,' but both sides av it, as ye can see wid your own two eyes," said the bill-poster.--New York World. A dreat Inducement. A Now York nabob, who reoently made a trip to Southern Missouri on business, fell in with one community which appreciated him 100 cents on the dollar. The village tavern-keeper bribed three or four roughs to quit quarreling an hour earlier than usual; the undertaker offered 40 per cent, off in case liia services were needed; the Postmaster was awful sorry there waa no mail for him, and, as the m.llionaire got ready to leave, the lrader of the brass band took him by the hand and said: Say, Mister, we like your style, we do, and if you want to settle down here with us you can be eleoted a Justice of the Peace quicker^* Jack Robinson!"-- JFa«Strata®. , SS3 Bountree, whose father has jut dM* Were adopted, and the House adjourned. . . w 1. M. Bug-Making at In the dirty mud huts of the villagers it is most interesting to observe'tho slow yet regular growth of the beanti* ful patterns as developed by the busy, untiring hands of a dozen or more half- naked natives, and which the giaitot traces in imagination to their future dis­ play in the attractive windows ol Regent street or Broadway, and eventu­ ally to the chambers of Western homes. As the native quarter of the city is approached, the busy wool-carders, the spinning of the native women, the labyrinth of dye-pots, the dyeing yarns of various colors in the sunlight, be» speak the industry of the place. Thi huts, of oommon structure aad oftf material, mud, contain but one apart ment. Sunk in the ground to a dlptb of two or three feet is a long roller ol wood, perhaps six feet in diameter and three or four yards ia length, top- ported at either ends by iron rod* ind movable at pleasure; upon this illlll the rug is rolled as the work advances; attached to the roller and iritisiiif the l»eams are the etam* strong three lis of the warp, and in tho rear, spepewisd from the ceiling, withhaagmgsndjaat a convenient distance ̂ are ootDtnsas balls of yarn of varied eolor aadi wwiflw; beneath these sit the nstiie wwinewn and boys. Immediate ̂ oppoatta, a» the front of thehnt, seated apon aaoai, is the pattern reader or overseer, whQo upon the ground before lum ia the to- versed pattern of the rug whose manu­ facture he so skillfnlly mrects. It in­ quires the closest attention, ragii&i& tif thought, sight and unflagging appfiea- tion on his part to keep the doasn or more men before him how, for not a thread ia woven but at his direction or verbal order, as calling eaeh workman by name and noting his position, he orders the number and color ol the yarns to be nsed, as he traee* them upon the pattern at his feet. Tho WOA* man in the rear seizee the end of the yarn called, weaves* the number ordered, the substance ia driven I bv an iron comb, the It) clipped and the rug rolls pletion. every thread of wool and every stitch by hand.--Awter-irKhtu ̂ lit Boston Transcript No principle is move noble, as thero is none more holy* than that of * tNB _ Hwwran* •