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As a conquering kins I could stand „ > It yo i gave me a smile from yonr cves, love, £V" And let me bnt once kiss yonr h»n«i • 8HE-' There, t*k« it and kiss It, my hero, |r;h You chivalrous son of the South; L The oti ers who told methsy loved nw All kissed me rieht smack in the mtftttlL' *-At+iCuifiuuatiMerchant Travel^ , m ONLY A M, Only a pin? ' And it calmly lay |n thp shining li£ht Ot a bright noonday. • • , Only a boy, C ' " ' ; > ? > • B e s a w t h a t p i n , * I • -- . Ani fixed ol 11 a Ioo,t tnf«al'- as y, '$* • *111 boy and pin alike were bent.;1- * '" Only a chair-- ,It had no business standing there. . < i •? « A The boy he put on a tiend sh fenn. ' Andon the seat of taatchilr he fixed that pJn Only a man, ; , ^ He m- on that chair, '•» * • And »s he lose-- » ' Bo did his hair. ' . Only a yell! "%Zi <&.' Bnt; n : onest one; f It lacked all elements of fun, £ v-y' And man, and b v, and pin, and chair, •* •. , l11 wild coWu«ion mingled there; - >~~C*rmartken JonrnnL SH- JK . The Ice-Curl A French physician has discovered inexpensive remedy for the inde­ scribable disease known as "ont-of- aorts," when one feels limp, lethargic, ttod lazy, and don't care whether school keeps or not; when the duties of life are irksome, and no pleasure can be •derived from either work or play. Ev- •erybo.ly has been there more or less, *|nd those who are often troubled that Way need suffer no longer. Let them •v go to some hilly place where there are woods to fill the air with oxygen (and aaosqnitoes) and tbere sit jn a sunny *pot with a narrow bag of ice on the " «pine. i (Ouph! --ugh!!!--Great Soott!!!-- Jeruselam!!!!) / Never mind; of course it is cold, but * grin and bear it. - " . The learned M. D. says that in a A Wiort time the che9t will expand, the lungs will put forth all their power to ( jjnhale, and you will labor under the > illusion of being youthful again. To ; . -quote verbatim, as being enticing enough for anybody to read: t "A gentle warmth prevades all the i>ody; the sky looks bluer, the tiees ^ greener; one is more alive to the exu- oerant joy of the song bird, to the brightness of the flowers, to the fra- «• r grance of the country; and if the coars­ est fare were served at the next meal, #o sweet would it taste that he would M.fpel inclined to say grace after meat, in 2 S hearty spirit. My advice to fashion- ' tble women is to drop morphine and ,4 J Intake themselves in rural solitude to ' Ihis ice treatment." ^ So copiously is oxygen let in, that if ; ,|there be a microbe, or trichinae, or mi- #roscoi>e, or protoplasm in the body, it ,y-aiust almost immediately be burned h an J the entire system is rajuvera- ted. y -; Some of the cures performed by this method are but little short of miracu- ' .Sons. A lady who had not seen a well «day for ten years, and had unfortunate Jy become a victim to the use of mor­ phine nntil she felt like a dish-rag all ^he while except for a short time after each day's use of that baneful drug, re- ifolved to try the ice-cure, but without •ny faith in its efMcacy. The first ap- {lication doubled her up into a bow-not, as though she had been eating encumbers, but started a circulation of blood in her feet, which had been like icicles for ten long years, and alter the •econd trial she went home and did a two week's washing, just to work off ier superfluous energy. She now /weighs 170 pounds, eats like a hired tuui, and can scold with the best of her y"-;:.," 'Jfiiex. Another case: Charles Z--, son of f <|he wealthy banker on 3treet; be­ came h total wreck on account of dis­ sipation, late hours, corns, tight lacing, %.t *#tc. The doctors had given him up, y. ?*nd he had lost all interest in every- except mite societies and camp meetings. Having read of the ice-cure, -1/ lie procured a piece one day last June, Strove out to the woods with a cheap boy r 4o take care of the horses, and applied « ice as directed. It threw him into 'nfcti trance wherein he distinctly saw the • 'Greely party suffering and dying in the tlArtic region, and every particular and ^-^'.^^etail connected therewith; and so . Strong was the impression (made on his Jnind that when he got home he wrote -t to the Secretary of the Navy, relating i •• pis dream, and locating the place so £4 (iccurately that a telegram was immedi- #itely sent to the commander of the jfeearch expedition, who was thus enabled 'V, ' the spot without any trouble. >i, ""The result is .already known to the tp ' "Jworld. He began to gain strength and ambi- , • "^*on rapidly, and after two more apph- ^cations and the judicious use of dumb * " *<bells and Indian clubs, witli a daily „ srun of several miles, applied for and •obtained the position of catcher in the ^oel^rated Kinnikinick base ball club, | ¥ ; witWL salary that in a year or two will v. . place him above want in his old age. j;' ? rv^JBundreds of similar instances could be fe • "-cited, but a couple more will suffice. A bank cashier became debilitated i-vji,' l>y too close application to business; ^ the machine-like regularity of certify £>' :*&f ing checks, counting money, stying :4, ^f/'You will have to be identified," etc., A Teas wearing out his life. He ate little, - >.1 liecame bilious, and longed for rest in ^ the silent tomb, and yet had not the 0}t , <jourage to commit suicide. He could p.*;- -' hardly lift a roll of trade dollars. After feJlf > "°D® trial of the ice-cure, he lifted a w : mortgage on his palatial residence, sold f' ̂ it, and salted down the proceeds in his », gripsack. Another application was </ w ,v- «v«ln more surprising in its results, as „ on the next day he lifted all the cash •i wan is the bank, and started on a liong and tedious journey, via Canada, to Syria and the Holy Land, carrying a 1 satchel that weighed ever £20000. A beautttal young lady was in the laet efcagea of consumption, fading away elowly but surely, like the summer I ' * 4 '.n-t , up. Dr. {toeh. had then gated his mtoxy that ohotate, tion, St, Vitas' dance, Bright's dhwaie of the kidneys, cornucopia, and ttsny other ailments, were caused by i&^<il>- tessimal microl>es finding lodgment in the system and the doctors were grop­ ing in the dark. The young lady could eat almost nothing except chicken's wing, fricasseed frogs, and ice cream; the latter always had a soothing and beneficial effect, and she could store away unlimiied quautitie* with impu­ nity--and a spoon. She saw the ice- cure item. "If ice agrees so well with me internally," thought she, "why not externally?" To think was to act. She called the coachman, instructed him to bring a chunk of ice. put it in the cm- pidore of the family brougham, and asked him to drive her out to the ver­ dant, shady woods. John was not ver­ dant, and said he would do so with the greatest pleasure. Arriving at a hilly eminence embjwered among the forest bordering the north branch, she select­ ed a suitable place, and told John he might retire and smoke his pipe, and return in'an hour, or at 10 o'clock sharp. But, your ladyship,*' said John, "cawn't I be of some hassistance to you on this occasion, doan't you know? I •five some knowledge of medicine,(horse medicine, he and you certainly 'ave known me long enough to pfTce reliance on my honesty and hintegrity." And he gave her emacinted hand the slightest possible indication of a squeeze as he lifted her from the cab­ riolet. SThank you, John," replied she, a faint tinge mantling lier marble cheek, which was as white as the marble man­ tel in her father's marble-fronted man­ sion, "yon are very kind; I shall never forget your thoughtful attention and forbearance to a poor, nervous invalid." And she wiped away the decimal frac­ tion of a tear with her lace embroid­ ered mouchoir. Oh, don't you go to taking hon, now Miss Mabel; I cawn't stand it, by Jove, I cawn't ; it breaks me hall hup, as the huncnltivated l'aukees say," and he placed his strong right arm around her slender waist, led her to the foot of a moss-covered oak, and gently seated her so that the mild * summer breeze could play on her wan features and amid the frescoed blonde bangs which overshadowed her dreamy eyes. After a few moments' contemplation of the minaVets, mosques and tanneries of Milwaukee in the near distance, and an evident struggle in her mind be­ tween maiden modesty on the one hand, and expediency on the other, she said: "John, although you are to the world but my father's coachman, I feel sure that you are a gentleman, and perhaps in your own country have mingled with the haul ton. Tell me, is it not so?" "You 'ave guessed my secret. Miss Mabel. Hi am the youger son of Lord Angleterre, hand my proud spirit could not brook the position hentailed hupon me when the demise of my father hoc- curred, so Hi sailed for Hnmerica, re­ solved to carve hout a name hand for­ tune 'ere." And he drew himself to his full height (five feet eight and a half in his stockings) and in his flashing qves shone the light of independence. "Noble soul!" said Mabel, after a slight pause, "I am about to make you my knight and confidential adviser. I am sure you can assist me more than that disagreeable old Dr. Bluemass." And she directed John to wrap the ice in a napkin and hold it between her shoulder blades, after she had made the necessary arrangements with her toilet, which did not take long, as her dress was decolette in the back. "I fear the shock may 1>e too great to your system, Miss Mabel," said John in a tenderloin tone, "but perhaps not. Hit will be like going bathing hin the lake; the first plunge is 'orrid, but af­ ter you 'ave been in a few minutes you don't mind hit in the least, and come hout feeling like a race 'orse--that his, feeling first-rate." "I will risk it," said Mabel; "I may as well die at once as bv inches, but I have great faith in tiie result. If I should not recover, break the news gently 1o my parents, and see that the details are not mentioned in the obitu­ ary. Now apply the ice." She closed iier eyes, and John, his eyes suffused--more than suffused-- with tears, and no available hand to get at his wipe, clappad the ice against her spine. It is hard to say which suffered the most at that awful moment, hut proba­ bly Mabel did, for she yelled loud enough to stop a clock, and fainted away. With rare presence of mind John disengaged one hand, and, still holding the ice firmly in position, felt around in his pocket, brought forth a piece of limburger cheese and held it to her nostrils a moment, when she im­ mediately began to regain conscious­ ness. "Ob, I had such a beautiful dream!" were her first words. I thought I was in a lovely place where the air was so laden with the richest perfume and ev­ erything w£h so lovely. I feel much better; indeed I do. I may yet be saved!" " 'Eeaven grant it, Miss Mabel," said John; "but don't you think yon 'ave 'ad the hice hon long enough now ? Better be careful hat first, you know, hand my harm haches." "Poor fellow! I had not thought of that," said Mabel. "How nelfish suffer­ ing makes one, to be sure. Yes, that will do for to-day," and after the neces­ sary friction with a crash towel, and a pleasant walk on the green sward, arm in arm with John, (he entered the ba­ rouche, and was driven home, where she astonished the household be eating a good-sized sirloin steak, two baked potatoes, some pickled beets, and a lib­ eral allowance of strawberry short­ cake. The balance of this narrative must necessarily be brief. The intelligent reader will have foroeen the result. Mable, after a few more applications of the magical ice, became perfectly well; and meantime overcome by the delicacy and faithfulress of John, fell desper­ ately in love with him, and eventually succeeded in getting him to acknowl­ edge that he had long worshipped her from afar, and that "concealment, like the worm i' the bud," was praying on his constitution and by-lawB the worst way. They ran away and were mar­ ried ; the papers made a great ado over the affair, with big bead lines: "Great Excitement in Milwaukee! Miss Mable Murchison elopes with her Father's coachman," etc. The best part remains to be told. About the time the ice was getting in its work, the elder brother, Lord An­ gleterre No. 2, was killed while riding a steeplechase at Epsom, and of course the title, with all the broad acres, de­ scended to John, as his brother had not married. He had squandered much of his wealth, but enough was left to set the young couple up nicely in housekeeping, and they are now as hap py as the day is long at Manor Wy- appears a p<4ar bear couebant, ana an ice wagon awr fcimily co«oh rampunt. It is whispered about that an heir to the estate is expected about Christmas time, when great rejoicing and celebra­ tion will be had at 'he old manor house, after the manner of titled people in old England. Let's see, no dates have been mentioned heretofore in this "over true tale ?" No, that's all • right, Mien. --Peck's 1Sun. A Sword of Honor Sent » Woman. Mdlle. Lix is now 45 years old. She is the daughter of an officer in the French army and was born at Colamer Her mother died when she was a baby, and made her wear boy's clothes until she was 8 years old. At 12 she could ride and fence admirably. At 17 she was well educated, and spoke English and German. She went to Poland as governess to the daughter of a Polish countess. In 1863, when the rebellion broke out in Poland, she put on male attire and joined the rebels. For brav­ ery on the field, she was made a lieu­ tenant. She returned to France in 1866, and when the cholera broke out in the north she distinguished herself as a fearless nurse and helper of the sick poor. In recognition of this ser­ vice the French government appointed her postmistress of Lamarche, in the To ges. When the Franco-German war broke out Mdlle. Lix again put on her soldier clothes, enlisted in a free corps, and soon afterward again became a Lieutenant, and took part in the fight at Bourgonce Nompatelise. She was called Lieut. Tony, the name given to her by the Polish patriots. She prov­ ed liprself a brave fighter, as well as a kind-hearted woman, and her labors for the relief of the wounded were in­ defatigable. After her company be­ came part of the army of Garibaldi she devoted herself exclusively to the am­ bulances. At the close of the war she resumed her duties as Postmistress, but soon began to suffer from rheuma­ tism. which she had contracted during the campaign, the hardships of which proved too much for her. She resign­ ed, and the Government then gave her charge of a tobacco bureau at Bor­ deaux. She m <ves about on crutches. Her soldiery conduct won for her many honors. In '72 the Government con­ ferred upon her a gold medal of the first class, as well as the bronze cross Of the ambulances. Gdn. Chartte in '72 sent her the medal of the Pontific­ al Zouaves, while the ladies of Alsace presented her with a splendid sword of honor; and this year the chief Secreta­ ry of the National Society for the En­ couragement of Good Conduct, M. Ho- nore Arnoul, also sent her a medal of honor. Gen. Faidherde, the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, is about to present her with the cross of the Legion. Two other Fr%nch women, Mdlle. Dodu and Mme. Jorretoat, have been also decorated for bravery during the war of 1870-71.--Courrier des Mats Unis. Drinking in Ihe Middle Ages. We are of the opinion that drinking had not in the middle ages reached anything like the disgusting extreme at which we find it in the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth century. Chaucer, it will be conceded, was an accurate painter of the contemporary manners. With the exception of Shakspeare no English­ man has surpassed him. Many of the characters in the "Canterbury Tales" get drunk, and misfortunes happen to them in consequence, but nothing is ever said to indicate that "the poet had any sympathy with the gross form of voice. The same may be said of the Elizabethan dramatists. It is not un­ til we reach the regin of Charles II. that we find writers of repute speaking of excess in drink as if it were no fra­ ilty, but rather a virtue. This distor­ ted view of things continued getting worse and worse until the days of our grandfathers. All eighteenth century literature is full of it. There was a print once so popular that it was found on the walls of cottages, as well 'as in bar parlors, which represented two compartments. In each was a man sit­ ting. The first was labled "A Jolly Good Fellow;" he had a tankard of foaming beer beside him. The other had for an inscription, "A Muckworm," and represented a thin and careworn man making entries in a ledger. The inference to be drawn, of course, was that the man who cast up his accounts was infinitely inferior in the social scale to the boon companion who stupe­ fied himself with beer. We imagine this was the common feeling of the time, and that it continued in many classes down to the beginning of the present reign. We ourselves knew a farmer who had broken his ribs twice and an arm three times by falling off horseback when returning drunk from market. . / Shooting Money Away. "About tho quickest way to use up money is in a shooting gallery," ssid the keeper of a summer garden in the suburbs. "I mean one of those places in which one can shoot at a target for so much a shot. One little range here actually coins money in the busy sea­ son," "Is it more profitable than billiard tables!" , "Yes, indeed, it is. Just make a com­ parison. A billiard table never brings in more than 50 cents an hour, and out of that must come the wear and tear and cost of four gas-ligdta. In the shooting gallery, where powder cart­ ridges are used, the usual price is six shots for 25 cents. Under ordinary circumstances it takes less than three minutes to shoot six times. I have seen six shoots fired in half that time. That would bring in $4.50 an hour, however, at the rate of six shots in three minutes. The cost of the cartridges is trifling. An excellent target rifle can be bought for $25. An excellent billiard table costs $300, and there is less wear and tear on the rifle. From this you can tee that one target, with equal business, brings,,in as much a five billiard-tables." - -New York Sun. CLOVER hay is much better for milch cows than timothy. It produces a mhoh larger quantity of milk, and also of a better quality. All butter makers know how yellow the butter is which is made from the milk of cows fed on clover hay. AN OHIO farmer washes his apple trees every spring and fall with a strong lye that will float an egg, and finds it to be sure death to the borers. He claims that he has not lost a tree since beginning this practice, although he had lost several previously. WHILE hens are laying they should be well supplied with material to form shells of eggs. Pulverized bones are excellent for the purpose. If bones are placed in a fire till the animal matter in them are consumnd they can be read­ ily pulverized with a hammer. SASHES covered with unbleached cot­ ton which has been tieated with oil are recommended as being better than sahes filled with glass for the cover­ ing of hot-beds. They keep out the frost, admit suffioient light and heat, and the plants grown under them are not only "stockier," but bear trans­ planting better than th&e raised under glass. FARMKBS' Call: Is there any reason for the continual cry for smaller-farms ? If a man farms 1,000 acres .slovenly, he will farm ten in the same way. The trouble is not with the size of the farm, but with the charaoter of the man. Lessening the size of the farm would not of itself imx)rove the cultivation of the land, as It is often said that it would. »Awd. "i Coiyi>p<wt<fawiw ; -Toum . tit HOUSEKEEPEas' HELPS. " f •! , BY experiments made at the Bavarian Museum a very simple and effective method of bleaching bones, to give them the appearance of ivory, has been discovered. After digesting the bones with ether or benzine, to remove the fat, they are thoroughly dried and im­ mersed in a solution of phosphorus acid in water containing 1 per cent, of phos­ phoric anhydride. After a few hours they are removed from the solution, washed in water and dried, when they will appear as indicated above. IN SOME parts of Northern Sweden it is considered a crime to danee Saturday night, while every Sunday night may be spent in dancing. The Sabbath com­ mences at 6 o'clock p. m. Saturday and ends at 6 o'clock p. m. Sunday. DIOGENES lived in a tab. He proba­ bly did not advertise. .,v, , AT A meeting* of the Elmira Farm­ er's Club, the subject of loading wag­ ons was discussed, and the conclusion reached that the heavier part of the load should be placed over the rear axle, thus making the load draw easier, and in a measure counteracting the tendency of the tongue to jerk and pound the horses. A heavy load on a wagon coupled long is drawn more easily tha i it could be on a wagon coupled short. THE best place for a melon patch is on ground sloping to the south, or on well drained level ground. Dig hill trenches, partially fill with well-rotted manure and cover with earth. Place hills from twelve to eighteen feet apart, according to nature of vines. When vines are about six inches in length cover with flax straw evenly all over the patch, and your cultivation is done for the season. Never place the straw when the ground is either cold or wet. IN a late address Prof. Wiley gave the result of his investigations to de­ cide the question, "How far North may the Sorghum Sugar Industry Extend ?" He believes that the success of the sor­ ghum sugar industry will not be found so far North as many of its friends had hoped and many of its devotees proph­ esied. It is yet enly to give a definite answer, but at present he inclines to the opinion that the isothermal lines for September, October, and November that pass through Cape May, N. J., should be considered the northern boundaries of successful sugar culture. THE Massachusetts Plowman sums up the benefits which snow confers on the farmer by showing that it affords protection to grass, roots and all creep­ ing vines. The snow not only protects the vegetation which it covers up, by sheltering it from the cold winds and sudden changes of weather, but it pre­ vents the frequent freezing and thaw­ ing of tho ground, which is so destruct­ ive to small roots that are near the surface, and which are often lifted en­ tirely out of the ground by the action of the frost. When the land lies open and exposed all winter it not only in­ jures the grass and small plants, but it injures the land itself, by blowing away the finer particles of decayed vegeta­ tion from the surface, and when thus exposed tnere is a chance for the frost to enter the ground to the depths of several feet, thus cooling the earth to a great depth, requiring many warm days in the spring to thaw it out and warm it up sufficiently to start vegeta­ tion ; but'when a deep snow covers the land until spring opens, as soon as the snow melts,the ground, being free from frost, will soon be in a condition to cul­ tivate and for plants to grow. FEEDING COWS.--It is now about the time when the dairymen think of turn­ ing off their poor cows to fatten them, if they can. Some Cows are easily fat- tent d. Some cows are poor for the dairy on this account; but some poor cows will neither milk nor fatten. What is good for one sort of a cow is not always good for another, and it may not always pay to feed a cow that cannot be made to fatten. A dairyman should understand and know his cows, and there is no better way of becoming acquainted with them than through the Jeed box. A neighbor once said to me: "That is the poorest cow I ever owned, and I am thinking of knocking her on the head." "Have you given her a fair trial before you convict her?" I asked. "Well, she gets the same feed as the others," said he. "My dear fellow," I replied, "cows are like folks; you can't judge of one by another. Now, you give that cow some extra feed and see what she will do. Give her a trial; I think she is a good cow if you give her a chance." And he gave her a trial. The more feed he gave her tha more milk she gave, until she oame up from five quarts a day to twelve. Then he tried all the herd in the same way. He soon found which cows should be kept and which should go to the butcher, and some he thought the best were the worst. The feed that made some milk made some fat. Now, a dairyman wants wilk. and fat ,in the milk, and not on the ribs. It is the cows that put the feed upon the ribs instead of into the pail that should be weeded out. Never mind their looks. "Handsome is as handsome does." And just now this test should lie applied to all the cows, and those that will not respond in any way should go off in the quickest way, if it is to the orchard to be buried under an apple tree, 'i hose that make flesh and fat should go to the butcher when fit, but as a rule it does not pay a dairy­ man to feed a $15 cow two or three months to make her bring $20 or $25. It pays better to put another cow in her place and get her butter from the feed that would be used. There is a very great economy in having good cows and feeding them well. I make more money out of the feed I buy than out of what I grow. Grass alone will pay the dairyman. He may get an inch of cream from ten or twelve inches of milk from grass. But cotton seed meal or corn and oats and rye bran ground to­ gether will often increase the yield of cream 50 per cent. I don't care what the savans or scientists say about this. I have known it for years past every day. Nothing comes from nothing. And the converse iB apt to be true- something comes from something. And in the dairy, butter comes from rich food, and milk comes from plenty of BOILKD CORW.--Remove all silk from the ears, cut off the end of the cob, put in salted water and boil for oae and a half hours. POTATO BALLS.--Mash a dozen large potatoes and add enough milk to make them soft; half a cupful of grated ham; one teaspoonful of chopped parsley, pepper aud salt; mix well and stir in the yelks of two eggs, form into balls and fry brown. POTATO SNOW.--Take large white po­ tatoes and boil them in their skins ua- til tender, drain and dry them near the fire, and peel; put a hot dish before the fire and rub the potatoes through a coarse sieve into it; do not touch after­ wards or the flakes will fall; serve im­ mediately. OATMEAL ProDixo.--Pour a quart of boiling milk over a pint of fine oatmeal, let it soak all night; next day beat two eggs, and mix a little salt, butter a ba­ sin, cover it tight with a floured cloth and boil Jm hour and a half. Eat with cold but&r and salt. When cold slice and frost. CRAB STEW.--Put one cup of vinegar into a saucepan, add a tablespoonful of butter, some catsup, a teaspoonful of dry mustard, and as much pepper as is found to be needed; after tasting, set the saucepan over the fire till the con­ tents boil up, then stir in one can of crab meat; as soon as it boils up, settle. GHEEN CORN SOUP.--Take one quart of green corn, put it to cook in two or three quarts of cold water; let it sim­ mer gently for one hour; if it is done in that length of time add one cupful of sweet milk, a lufnp of butter rolled in flour, salt and pepper to taste. Okra and tomatoes may be added to corn soup if desired. EGGS A LA MODE.--Bemove the skin from a dozen tomatoes, medium size, cut them up in a saucepan, add a little butter, pepper and salt; when suffi­ ciently boiled beat up five or six eggs, and just before you serve, turn them into the saucepan with the tomato, and stir one way for two minutes, allowing them time to be well done. GUEEN PEA SOUP.--Green pea soup is made like green corn soup, and may be flavored with chopped onions, or it may be made in this way: When the peas are perfectly done, wash then and strain through a colander, add milk and a lump of butter and boil until done. Soup should not be boiled long after the milk has been put in. To BOIL PLAICE.--Choose good plump and fresh fish. Their eyes should be bright and gills very red. Get them slit down and divided into nice sized pieces by the fishmonger or those of whom you buy; rub your pieces well with salt, then wash them thor­ oughly, but do not soak them, as that destroys both firmness and flavor; lay them in your kettle or pan with a few pepper corns, whole all&pice and salt to your liking; cover with cold water and let them gradually boil up; ten min- u es will do unless the pieces are very' thick, then it will take another five minutes; drain your liquor off into a basin, gently slide your fish on to a hot dish and piace before the fire, turn your liquor back into the saucepan; have ready some flour well mixed in a little cold water; as soon as your liquor boils up put in your mixture aud keep stirring until it has become as thick as you require. You must be guided by your own judgment as to what quantity of flour will be sufficient, as that all de­ pends upon how much fish you serve with potatoes. A little parsley chop­ ped fine an,d a small piece of butter put into the liquor make it very appetizing, but means do not always admit these little extras. Felt One's chances of a safe return from a wild beast's den are better when he goes in of his own accord than when he gets thereby accident. Theknigbt who went down among the lions and picked up Kunigund's glove might not have come back so triumphantly if he had tumbled into the midst of them unan­ nounced. As very few have any wish to enter a lion's or bear's deri, it is wise to use caution about looking in--and not lean over too far. An exciting scene was witnessed at the Jardin des Plantes, a few evenings since. A man leaning over the wall of the bears' pit overbalanced himself, and fell into the pit, a depth of some twelve feet. He was stunned by the fall, and his head cut open. One of the bears, the biggest and fiercest in the collection, instantly ap­ proached, and after smelling at the man, began licking the blood from his brow. This caused him to revive. Starting, up he pushed the bear back­ wards, which, combined with the scared cries of the bystanders above, dribve the animal into a fury. A terible struggle * ensued, the bear attempting to seize the man's head be­ tween his teeth, and the man holding the bear by the throat. Ultimately, the officials came up, and by dint of a rope the poor fellow was extricated in an ex­ hausted and wounded condition. While he was being pulled up, tho bear was kept off by an iron bar, with which heavy blows were dealt at his head. The man. who is a respectable worlc- ingman, was taken to the hospital. A Bull in a Millinery Shop. An infuriated bull rushed from the street into a millinery establishment in Liverpool. He dashed the whole length of the show room, and grew more ram­ pant at the sight of himself in a mirror. The occupants of the place, all young women, screamed in terror. The police arrived on the scene and were too timid to enter the place, and contented them­ selves with calling upon the swooning females to drive the brute out. A great crowd collected around the doors, the excitement grew intense, but finally a coolheaded young man entered the shop alone, and, by dexterous manage­ ment turned the animal's head toward the door, driving him out, to put the police and crowd to flight, after there had been great mischief wrought among the hats and bonnets.--Foreign Letter. AN OLD and skilled New York physi­ cian, when interviewed on the hot wa­ ter craze, said: "It has long been used. It is an internal wash; nothing more or less. As such it is excellent. An old trainer of prize-fighters used to tell me about it before I had even heard of it elsewhere. He said he had cured everything from toothache to rheuma­ tism with it. My lady patients often beg me to prescribe it for them, and I very often do so; sometimes because I think it likely to do good, and some­ times because I don't think it will do any harm." KEEP thy temper, keep thy purse, and keep thy tongue, if thou wouldst be healthy, wealthy and wise.--jP. AC An- dr«um. AMMONIA water Is best for cl< brushes. To FRESHEN velvet hold tha wrong side over boiling water. WET mildewed fabrics With lemon juice and lay them in the sun. A RANCHERESB of Washoe valley, Nevada, has invented a novel method of preserving eggs for winter use. Dur­ ing the summer she breaks the eggs, pours the contents into bottles which are tightly corked and sealed, when thev are placed in the celler, neck down. She claims the contents of the bottles come out as when put in. THERMOMETERS are inexpensive, and every occupied rOom should have one. Fuel is often wasted, by allowing the air to become too hot, and inmates catch cold by allowing the tempera­ ture to fall too low unawares. A ther­ mometer is valuable in a fruit-room, and by keeping the temperature uni­ formly near freezing, decay by too much heat will be prevented, and freez­ ing and spoiling by too low a tempera­ ture. A CHEAP WASH FOR OUTSIDE WALM. --A cheap wash for old brick walls and one that will last for years is prepared as follows: Make a good mixture of fresh lime, about as thick as thick syrup, and add about a twentieth its bulk of linseed oil while the wash is yet hot and about a sixteenth part of glue which has been dissolved in several times its bulk of hot water. Then, when cool, stir to a proper consistence for apply- »ng. This wash will adhere firmly. When painting is te be done, wash the waH well with crude petroleum. WORK BASKET.-- The hour-glass basket, made by fastening the bottoms of two wooden peach baskets firmly together, is much improved by a cover­ ing of cretonne or momie cloth, gather­ ed slightly or plaited, and tacked to the top of each basket, one of which be­ comes the bottom of the stancL The upper basket is lined with deep pockets of the same, gathered and tied with ribbon bows. A false bottom of naste- board covered with sateen completes lining, and a cover is made of a circular piece of thin board or doubled paste­ board, lined with sateen and covored with the outside material, gathered to a centre and supplied with a handle, made by fastening the flat sides of two very large wooden button moulds to­ gether, and covering them with cre­ tonne. This should be sewed to the mid­ dle of the cover, as suspended buttons are sewed on, with the thread wound around several times, between the but­ ton and the foundation. A broad ribbon should be tied around the point where the baskets join, and a ruche of ribbon, or plaited oretonne, may be on the top and bottom. Such a basket will be found both useful and ornamen­ tal in a room, aifd if covered with figur­ ed Swiss, over light-colored silesia and decorated with lace or embroidery, it will make a pretty baby's toilet basket, its depth giving it an advantage over the usual shallow baskets, as those who try it will testify. For the latter pur­ pose, the cover may be dispensed with. Women's Sixth Sense. Here is a singular instance of the working of that subtle, fine, sixth sense, which is apt to affect women more than men, and which is so mysterious in character that we often incline to deny its existence at all. A lady sat sewing quietly in her room, and in an inner chamber the nurse had just put the baby to sleep and laid her in her basi- nette. As the nurse came out of the chamber she said to her mistress: "The little thing is asleep for three hours, ma'm I'll warrant." The nurse went down stairs, and for about a min­ ute the mother sewed on. Suddenly a desire seized her to go and take the sleeping child from its crib. "What nonsense!" she said to herself. "Baby is sound asleep. Nurse just put her ddwn. I shall not go." Instantly, however, some power, stonger even than the last, urged the mother to go to her baby; and, after a moment, she rose, half vexed with herself, and went to her chamber. The baby was asleep in her little bed, Bafely tucked in with soft white and pink blankets. One small hand was thrown Above the little brown head. It was half open, the ex- qnisite fingers slightly curved, and the palm as rosy as the depths of a lovely shell. "My baby!" whispered the mother, adoring the little sleeper as mothers will. "My own little baby!" She bent over suddenly a third time, impelled by that mysterious force that was controlling her, and, for BO appar­ ent reason, took the sleeping baby in her arms aud went swiftly in the other room. She had scarcely crossed the threshold when a startling sound caused her to look back.' Through a stifling cloud of thick clay dust she saw that the ceiling above the baby's cradle had fallen, burying the heap of rosf blank­ ets, and lying heaviest of all upon that spot where, but for her mystio warning, her little child would have been lying. --Boston Courier. Lime Kiln Clnb Dust. "Gem'lem, dar am sarting tings dat it am well to b'ar in mind," said the old man, as he slowly uncoilcd himself and stood up. "De man who boasts dat he can't be convinced by argyment hain' wuth de trubble o' knocking down. "De man who flatters liisself upon alius speakin' his mind am de werry pusson who kicks hardest when criti­ cised. "A sliillin' in money am mo' to be de­ sired dan a dollar's worth ob credit. "It am much easier to gpile a loy ob ten dan it am to reform a man ob fo'ty. "A man worf a millyon dollars may be friendless. Yew kin buy praise an' flattery, but true frieu'ship seldom soars higher dan de po' roan's cabin. "De man who sees nutfin' good in de world aroun' him can't have much good in liisself.--Detroit Free Press. Divorce Law. It don't pay to sue for divorces in some climates. An Afghan woman asked the Ameer for a divorce because her husband was growitig bald-headed. The verdict was that the head should 1>© anointed with sour milk, that the woman should lick it off until the scalp shone again, that then she should ride through the bazar on a donkey with her face astern, and that the husband and wife should dwell in harmony. We think the Ameer has got hold of the proper end of the divorce question.-- Burlington Free Press. THERE are 100,000 deaths yearly in London, and all the bodies are buried in the surface soil around the city, that is, in thirty years 3 000,000 bodies. In twenty years, says Sir Spencer Wells, a body becomes clay, and London has, therefore always 2,000,000 bodies un­ dergoing "harmful decay." WHAT we are afraid to do before men we should be afraid to thuxk before God.--Foster. -The miQv. • THIS man ^LIR WV / sole--The chap who W0o.1l' * I ^oots. , ., _ *' •'l.'.ii THE Bev. Joseph Cook calls himself a pandenominationalist. If he had had time Jo would have used a longer word. - i THERE is a great deal of billing and cooing going on at the seaside. The principal part of the billing' is being done by the hotelkeepers. 1 "By-by, love," he murmured as he started down to the offiice in the morn­ ing, and she did, to the extent of at$50 | bonnet. He says "Good-morning" now. BARTHOLDI'S Statute of Liberty has % eyes which measure six feet from cor- | ner to corner. And yet she is unable to see a fund large enough to complete i her pedestaL ? "Do CATS reason?" asks a writer in % natural history. We dont know wheth­ er they reason or not, but for pure, un- 1 adulterated argumentation thev take | the cake.--Burlington Free Press. A HEN'S egg measuring 6| by 8| inch- 1 es has been laid on the table of a Geor- | gia editor. He proposes to keep it *nd i let it ripen for the next dramatic com­ bination that comes down that way. "How DO you like Wagner's muaio?" | asked Kosciusko Murphy of an Austin1 f society lady. "Like it! I don't like it | at all. I'd rather listen to one of Mozart's pauses than all the muaio | Wagner ever wrote." "You ought to put a sign over thai hatchway," said a policeman to a store- | keeper, "or someone may tumble inta it." "All right," replied the merchant; and he tied one of his "Fall Opening" placards to the railing;. "PA, what is that you've got?" "That is a peach-basket,my daughter." "Ain't \t cunning? Will you give it to me when you get through with it,?" "What do you want to do with it my dear?" "I want to use it for a thimble case for my little doll." IF there is anything that will make a man cordially hate himself, it is when he takes a walk about a mile to the post office to find that he has left his keys at home, and then on going back after them to find on opening the box that the only thing in it is a card noti­ fying him that his box rent is due.-- Boston Post BIGGINS was feeling poorly--"all run down and no strength," he told his friend Smith. "Does yer ever take % any stimilent, Mr. Biggins?" asked I Smith. "No,",answered Biggnis, mourn* t fully, "except sometimes just before goin' to bed." "Well, for my part," said Smith, decidedly, "I don't never want to take nothin* jest afore goin' to bed, for I goes right "to sleep an' losea all the good on it." "JOHN," called the city editor to a re­ porter, as he came into the office* "there's some kind of a row going on around on the other side of the square from here." "Is that so? I didn't hear of it. Where is it?" "I don't know the exact location, but there's a big row of some kind on." "How do you know?" "Why, I saw all the po­ licemen who belong in that neighbor­ hood standing around on this side as I came up stairs."--Merchant Traveler. A TIMELY SHOWER--"I was mighty thankful for that rain we got yester­ day." "Yes, it did the corn a world of j good. How many acres have you got 3 planted in corn ?" • "I've got no corn ; planted this year at all. I wasn't % thinking aboutcrops." "Well, how can the rain benefit yon?" "You see I f don't often get a decent dinner at home, i as my wife says she can't cook in hot | weather: but yesterday there was to be | a church picnic, and she fixed up a I lunch basket for the preacher's table, but it rained so that the picnic could not come off. To keep the preacher's I lunch from spoiling we had it for din- | ner. and it was the best dinner I've had since we were married. There was no | end to chicken, and jellies, and that sort of alleviations. Don't tell me that - rain yesterday didn't do the country I any good. It was the most refreshing | shower we have had for years." >| Little Peter Johnson's Experience. Several years ago a squad of eight Indians came into Comanche County. I Peter C. Johnson, and his little son Pe- f ter C., then in his 10th year, had been % to Waco to purchase family supplies, " and were returning home. The Indians ! surrounded the wagon, killed Unole .J Peter, and captured little Peter, rifled 1 the wagon, and struck out up the | Bosque Valley; In the meantime a | scout from Besley'e Creek and Leon Valley had hurriedly taken the trail. | On the Clear fork of the Brazos, from J some cause unknown, the Indians dropped little Peter, t iking his coat, 1 hat, and socks, leaving him with noth- ; ing on but his shirt and trousers, fifty ? or seventy-five miles from the nearest ? ranch, in the month of January, with | nothing to subsist upon, and 110 means of procuring food, and liable to be de- | voured any moment by hungry wolves. | He had wandered .from the trail, and/ the scont in pursuit had failed to find him. 1 Little Peter lived five days and | nights without a single bite to eat save grassroots. On the evening of the sixth | d'ay he was found by a company of cow- I hunters that Bill Keith had sent oat to J make a round-up. The little fellow J had found the cattle, and had remained | with them,thinking perchance he could \ procure milk from some ot the cows, ; but in this he failed, the cows being too 1 wild, but the cow-hunter found him in f time to revive and save him. A cold, I drizzling norther was blowing at the 4 time, and the little fellow would evi- ' dently have frozen to death dnring the | night that ensued. When brought to | Cora a few days after his l>eing found | he was the poorest living object imag- $•% in able--a mere skeleton. The writer of this sketch took him in his arms and. 4 carried him around over the town, and procured him a present of $1 from | every man in the town.--Fort Worth Gazette. i In AN article on the genealogy of dis- | ease a physician asserts in the London \ Standard that if a person having a " cancer [and one having consumption wed, there is scarcely a hope of th% offspring's escape from an early death;, and that the intermarriage of victims of rheumatism and consumption is pro­ ductive of such ailments as hip and joint disease, so common among weakly children. A LEGAL gentleman says that great lawyers recollect principles only; exact lawyers, cases, and can repeat decisions by the hour in the very words of the book. The former make the best ad­ vocate, the latter the best judges. GOOD breeding is the result of moA , good sense, some good natote, and a oft* lie self-denial for the sake of others. 4 . -Hi,, Ml . : . . •* - . . . . .