Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - December 31, 1881, Stevens Point, Wisconsin SIMONS Editors and Proprietors Devoted to the Interests of Central Wisconsin and the Vindication of Republican Principles VOL NO 34 STEVENS POINT AVIS SATURDAY DECEMBER per Annum Journal WHOLE THE NEW YEAR UY A flower unblown unread A treo witb fruit A paili a whow Luck vet tbo divino A wide border lies tn client neath A wondrous yet A casket with its Tills ia tbe year that for you LAND AHEAD B2 tEE BATES tbc arched want my shallop hung IKr wake iu vaporous wooing Jort From to nodding mut forever Yet former backward the of one A tbe ica it nil grew frost November it rung UJH far a singer ou tbi way Failed ot old Nor the of her Argo koew half tbc t of winds and cold Tbat crooned her pallid brow with dow But bore onward to the of old IN THE A XEW haste to see which could first reach the I shall before I get it earth Every now und then a violent i groaned Jack putting his finger ends gust of wind would come that romped into his mouth to warm them My rioted among the dry leaves that j my foot he shrieked as still clung to some of the trees raid j ting it for an instant he had stepped on near at hand the waves surged it Stub in the room below gave a dashed and tossed themselves FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES on the shore and against tbe rocks I know the lamp aught to be lit I'd better go right away and do said Jack addressing his companions As they raised no objection Jack started materials in hand and they to tee no doubt that everything was done fairly and squarely Up the stairs went the Stub ahead snuffing and peering into all the dark corners Jack with the lamp and oil in MB baud lowing warily and June with a dignity howl of sympathy and dashed ly at the foot of the ladder to reach his comrade I can't stand it any Oh and Jack fell scious on tho floor All was silent once again in the house no voice save the old clock ticking the seconds last minute of the old year Loud blew the wind in the face of man bruised by an the darkness and suitable for a lady other years bringing I with unsteady steps to up the Jack knew how to set to his home Out at eea a noble vessel was with the storm and happy unconscious of were 80 in a short time a thinking of the meetings the wort He watched his father daily aud j bailing had sometimes beea allowed to help hearts It was the last day in the old year and yet it did not seem much like winter though the trees were bare and the flowers all dead The oaks were covered thickly with leaves True when the wind blew it rustled through brown dry foliage very different from the living tints of mouths back but when you looked at the soft muddy or the clear blue sky you scarcely realized that it was just past Christmas John Hudson keeper of the lighthouse at Fishing Point was brushing his coat once black now almost und giving ing directions to John Hudson called Jack by his familiars Now mind don't set the house on fire while I am gone I must fix that chimney when I get back or we'll be burnt out yet and don't take to fooling with the isn't very much of it left now There's that cord of wood iu the yard I guess you had till the wood boxes and pick up a bit I guess the inspector will he round before long aad we want to have everything taut and trim when he comes Get your dinner when you're ready I may be bick in time and I may not with all these errands to do in the village but anyhow I thall be home this afternoon Good-by and the he tramped briskly away through the trees Stub Stub i here sir You must stay home with me Father don't want you There's a rat I live Sick it Stub! Jack after an exciting chase in which boy and dog had howled and barked a most powerful duet now Stub we'll wash ths breakfast won't Stub looked a knowing aagent and sat gravely on a chair which he first knocked the cat while Jack washed and dried the few dishes as deft as a girl He had lived here as long as he could remember His earliest recollection was looking at the bright reflector up stairs and seeing in it a sweet loving face with teuder bine eyes near his own His next memory of the face was in a coffin pale and still while his father held his hand and the minister from the village talked in a low sad tone But this was years ago when Jack was as he would inform you only a little fellow Now from his dignified age of ten years he felt himself arrived at man's estate His father was formerly a sailor but in con- sequence of losing some of his fingers in the icy regions of the north he had to accept the position of a lighthouse the sea too well to thins for a moment of any work Such stones as he used to tell Jack in the winter days when they would be cut off by snowdrifts from the rest of the world Such thrilling adventures de- the boy's ears in the long soli- tary evenings Stories of the time on Labrador when a tremendous whale cap- sized a crow and two men got drowned of the mutiny that once broke out on the Fair Betsy and the sneaking Italian who got put in irons for ing it Jack would go to bed with a creepy kind of feeling after these stories but the morning light always drove away the shadows and he would vow to himself never to let such ridiculous stories frighten him again Stub let's play Robinson Crusoe in the yard now the dishes are all washed Jane to the you can come too if you said Jack opening the door Stub accepted the invitation for himself and Jane by making a dart at her as she lay blinking near the stove and rushing her out doors with scant ceremony This shed here shall be the cave and I'll wear father's fur cap and be Bobinson Crusoe You can be Friday Stub You are black and you don't know and Jane shall sit up here en the woodpile and be the parrot Now Friday you just stay there while I go to get some sticks for the and Jack making his work into play worked with a will while the waves romped and tossed about on the shore like merry children and a little gray cloud no bigger than a man's hand rose slowly in the north and made another dash of color in the sky Why I declare if it ain't going to I wish father would hurry up How the clouds have come and they Took heavy too as if they were just bursting with the piles of snow flakes hid away in them My Won't it be jolly coasting It hasn't a winter snow except a little that melted right away and none of tho ponds frozen over I guesa I bad better see if my sled's all right and away Jock ran on this pretense delightful piece vf self-delusion about tho condition of the Artful for had he not examined it daily for tho past months and longed impatiently fcr ft chance to use My there's as the world and there's another and of cm 1 exclaimed py Jack to his small but select audience of Stub and Jane They were very and frisked and gamboled with as good an of happy innocence be desired It's getting dark very quickly not fonr o'clock yet I guess it's going to bo a pretty big fall this time hear the wind sounds squally don't Stub looked with an air of gravity through the window and seemed to be of the opinion that it certainly did pear threatening What keeps father isolate I If it on getting dark as fast as this tbe light will have to be fixed pretty soon thinking of the dear faces that should welcome their return in the bright new year Anxious hearts were beating in secret as the pilot and the captain paced tho deck uneasily and peered through the storm and of thp darkness v Fishing Point light ought to show of light poured through tbe window s of the little tower and laid bare the treacherous rocks with blunt ness while they strove vainly to hide beneath the stormy waves 1 suppose we might as well get per ready now against father and Jack laid the cloth neatly and cut the bread with a will Liken few raio and isolated bovs of his age being i was Jack's normal condition ir- to the nor the captain at occasional intervale by being j looking for Supper was tea was boiling and bubbling ou the Jack's limited knowledge of ing had not taught him that tea should be allowed to busin of broken bread in readiness for the scalding milk some dried beef as a special treat and plenty of good bread cheese tind butter besides Inside all sea and the pilot but the snow is so blinding I've not been able to see it yet There it JH he exclaimed after some minutes more of weary watching and the cloud teemed parted by a warm gleam oE light And miles away in tower lay a prostrate form cold and motionless while the of the one of the pioneers of died on Saturday JACK BLACK was fatally shot while attempting to break into a house at field Sunday to the open winter logging operations on the Upper Wolf ore very much retarded THERE is considerable snow on the upper Wisconsin River and lumbermen are rapidly banking logs Tire St Crois County board refused to allow claims made for hunting the notorious Maxwell outlaws THE investigation of affairs in tion with the Keshena Indian agency will probably to the removal of Agent Stevens THE recent sale of forfeited mortgaged lands wag one of the most profitable ever held by the state Almost every tract sold and the prices were better than ever before obtained A dispatch of the 19th A boy seven years of age fell over aa embankment forty feet high near der's brewery in this city yesterday aud was picked up for dead He is yet alive with chances favorable for recovery TILE State Historical Society has re- cently received some very valuable to its library forwarded bv the Society of Madrid through ex-Minister Fairchild The works in question treat of the early Spanish col- in America BAT A white pine tree was cut the laud of Gotlieb inan in the town of Humboldt which fering the money therein when young Heydecke was OE the watch and who had crouched down and crept along behind the counter seized his hand and the thief was nabbed He begged and prayed for forgiveness in the most ab- ject and cowardly but wag handed over to the officer and locked up in the cooler from whence lie will be taken to Madison to answer for his deeds FIRESIDE CHIT-CHAT SEASONABLE FARM HINTS THE tomato plant is avoided by wigs caterpillars aphides slugs and cows do not give as rich as do those of mature age A lean cow gives poor milk and a fat one rich KEEP sheep dry under foot This is even more necessary than roofing them j Never let sheep stand or lie in mud or i water 7 bees in cellars seems to be AT improvement over wintering them outside The bees consume less honey have less loss and ure healthier in the straw fans They aro ornamented with tiger lilies and sunflowers another man I like better end thau you that's all There is to wrote a New wife on leaving her husband AJ apathetic young lady us that sour apples are the ones disappointed m love Isn't that Philadelphia glad new year were ringing in the hopes which measured 70 feet long and 15 was warm and cozy cheery and like outside stormy and Two hours passed and still no father Jack had made a tremendous effort to delay eating till be arrived but bit by bit the broken bread had followed by other selections from the hill of fare while Jane lapped a saucer of milk and the quondam Friday for- getting his cannibalistic tendencies made a hearty on dried beef and pieces of Jack's bread and butter Seven o'clock father not home Well the light will burn an hour yet without fixing Father said it would burn longer than that but it's safest to look at it every four hours mid he's sure to be here before it needs looking to So Jack got his favorite book from the shelf and settled down tor a cozy read in father's arm chair close near the stove It was certainly was very where Crusoe and Friday discover the I arrival of the one and twenty savages and disturb them at their revolting re- But Jack got up so early ings and was so active during the day that wonder his ideas began to stray and his eyes to blink and close Stub had settled himself near for a little quiet between two black outstretched forepaws and gaze fixed ou nothing in particular while Jane ing first made her for the night by careful washing and patting dozed peacefully behind the stove Tired Jack slept and dreamed he was Crusoe and had just built a beautiful sled and he and Friday coasted down among the cannibals and sent them Hying on all sides and the old clock ticked and ed while out doors the snow blew in swirls and a weary man fought hard against the wind and sought to find again the beaten track to his house Hour after hour passed till the faithful hammer striking ten woke Jack in be- wilderment at not finding in his own little bed Whit's the he said ing himself and standing up Why now late it is What can have ed to father Stub roused up but could not answer the question so wisely kept ple don't generally you know The the suppose it's gone out I must go up this very minute to see though it's awfully dark and the stove's gone out to but I can't stop to make it up now Come Stub you can go with me if you want and diplomatic Jack who really didn't like to go through all those dark sages aud stairways alone but who have Stub know it for the world The house had got all cold and Jack was hunting long about with shivering fingers before he could find the proper oil for the light At lost however he found it spilled a lot of it in pouring it out into the small can aad got the rest cud triumphs of a thousand hearts Bravely the good ship Dauntless into port on that with flying and friendly from the shore A pretty narrow escape we had last the pilot tells said a to bin friend after a hearty greeting All but loat off Fishing Point Tbb light shone on the rocks just in time or we not havs been here now But Jack never knew anything of this All he knew was that his father said patting his God bless you sonny If it hadn't been for the lipht shining through the darkness of that awful night I shouldn't have been alive to take care of you now Jack thought this quite made up for tbe long weary weeks of before he cauld use Lis lame foot again THE HOME DOCTOR safely up the first flight of stairs Stub following rather sleepily The light tower was built high above the dwelling part of the house and was reached by several steep nights of stairs and finally by a ladder to a trap door The roof and walls from about four feet from the floor were glass and the light lamp and reflector stood on a kind of standard about five feet high All the beautiful brass plates were kept as brilliant as a mirror and the windows were ent and speckless as pure water It was John Hudson's duty to keep them in this condition Inspectors were always dropping in at unexpected times and dismissal from the post would have lowed any lack of proper attention to these details But it was the lighthouse to keep them bright and burnished even beyond any laws and regulations Jack reached the foot of the ladder and was slowly mounting when his slipped and he fell Stub looked at him helplessly and waited for him to pick himself up Jack had kept hold of his lantern and fortunately it had not got extinguished the oil can fell at a little distance What's the matter What my said he making several attempts to stand bow it he held it in bis while he bravely kept the tears bock I guess I've sprained it or something What shall I I could manage to slide down stairs again and there till father But then the light that ought to be attended to Oh why ain't father and he winced with pain as a sudden twinge came from hia ankle Oh dear it's tough said he as with the oil can slung across on arm he tried to climb the ladder with one foot and one I guess I'd better give it What's a fellow good any way if he can't put himself oat of the way for other folks once in a while How the tower What a night it The ascent was made at last and the light reached Just in said Jack the is all but finished I guess I didn't pnt as much in as father ho hopped around the narrow and trimmed the lamp It took him some time and the boy's fingers were getting stiff with cold while his THE ITCH in a Parisian hospital the itch is treated and quickly cured by a half hours rubbing of the body with soft soap followed by a bath and that in turn followed by the use of an ointment composed of lard 100 parts sulphur 16 and bicarbonate of potash 8 parts Four tablespoonfuls flaxseed whole one quart of boiling water poured upon the juice of two lemons leave out the peel sweeten to taste steep three hours in a covered pitched if too thick put in cold water with the lemon juice and sugar Good for colds Marion Harland A GOOD BREAKFAST IU The breakfast we take in winter will determine our efficiency for work in the day and will so influence our whole be- ng for that period of time that no after meal can correct The breakfast in winter must contain more nitrogenous ood than in summer it is absolutely You must store heat to furnish material for absorption and for ing vitality add to this nitrogenous food something that will disengage heat from blood aud keep up temperature and 701 may defy the coldest day Tour ace may feel it but your body will be to it and go on disengaging hat inward heat which can alone stand against the lowest temperature without If this meal has been properly at- ended to we may presume that vital can be maintained in full force for five hours at least before it needs re- plenishing THINGS TO Very few mothers are able to control nerves so completely as to keep iom being startled when confronted with a cut finger with dripping blood and the loud cries which announce a Sometimes she cannot col- lect her thoughts sufficiently to recall any of the good remedies with which she is acquainted One way to avoid this is to write out a list of help in trouble and tack it up on the door of your room ter manner of hotel regulations There is nothing better for a cut than powdered rosin Get a few cents worth of rosin pound it until it is fine and put it into an empty clean paper or bos with perforated top then you can easily sift it out on the out put a soft cloth the injured member and wet it with cold water once in a while It will prevent inflammation and ness In doing up a burn the main point is to keep the air from it If ton and sweet oil are not at hand take a cloth and spread dry flour over it and wrap the burned part in it It is always well to have some simple remedies in the house where you can get them without a moment's loss of time a little bottle of peppermint in case of colic chlorate of for sore throat pepsin for and a bottle of brandy Have them arranged so that you can get hold of them in the dark and the right remedy but be sure never to do it even if yon know that they have not been dis- always light a lamp or the gas and make sure you have what you are ter Remember that pistols are always loaded and that poison may be put in place of peppermint inches diameter at the top It was cut by Gotlieb Erdman and Joseph Lecoque and brought to the city by Hans son It will be used for the W L Brown AN dispatch of A great sensation was caused by the shooting of H J Ashman a mechanic of this city about 6 o'clock this morning aa he was going out to his barn by an unknown party A was used and twelve shot lodged in the right leg of Ashman The cause of the shooting and persons who did it remains a tery The injury is not fatal a market gardener was knocked down and robbed of some and some papers on Wednesday night while making his way home to the suburbs of Kenosha He has offered a reward of for the apprehension of the parties who assailed him Some of the people in the vicinity think his assailant was a tree or a which he encountered while under the influence of liquor LAST Friday evening three attempted to rob William Hadden of Harmony as he was on his way home from Janesville where he had sold a load of barley Two of the men at- tempted to hold the horses while the third attacked Mr Hadden with a club The horses broke away however and started off on the run and Mr Hadden escaped with only slight injuries A dispatch the 18th A painter named Conrad came to the county jad Saturday and asked protection from the sheriff He was laboring under nervous excitement caused by hard drinking He vag taken in and died during the evening He leaves a wife and large family and was about 40 years of age A jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the above facts AN old gentleman 83 years old named Wm F Hiney of Ableman walked into Baraboo Monday stayed at the Sumner House all night and was Tuesday ing to take the train for home On going to the depot he stepped off an em- Thick anH fast fell the ankle kept bringing a look of pain across and scurrying down M if in fuee Scratch Him A juror appeared before a judge who landing on some rocks feet below receiving injuries from which it is doubtful if he can re- cover He lay where ho fell for two hours before he was discovered WEONA Minn It will be remembered that a year ago in No- a well-known farmer named John Newman living on the Wisconsin side of the river opposite Winona whils driving home in the afternoon was struck by the Western train at the ing near Bluff Siding sustaining serious injuries He has brought suit for ages in the amount of the trial to come off at the present term of the cuit court at Whitehall MADISON This forenoon a jury was impaneled and an inquest held upon the body of Mr Peter Palme who was accidentally killed by a passing freight train on the St Paul road near Black Earth yesterday morning As it was shown that every endeavor hod been made by the train men to warn Palme while the train was bearing down upon him the company was exonerated from all blame in the matter a verdict in accordance with the facts rendered FBOM the Colby Phonograph is learned the particulars of a stabbing affray which occurred in that village on Thursday evening the 8th inst Wm S Meach of Unity and Asa Morley oi Colby in company with two other men were engaged in playing a of cards in saloon a dis- pute arose between the two former Meach struck MorJey a couple of times with his fist when the latter stabbed the former with a sheath knife in the side the blade of the same entering ths ab- dominal cavity which it is thought will not necessarily prove fatal although the victim now lies in a very low condition Morley was arrested and placed under SI 000 bonds his trial to take place day NEW developments are being made in the matter of the late Alto poisoning case and the probabilities ore that Vermeer woman now lying at Fond du Lac jail on the charge of having ad- ministered poison in the Sunday soup to her mother and brother a few weeks since will be called upon to explain tho says the Queen is the patent sign of vulgarity in heart and mind It is as thoroughly vulgar ne KEW YORK fashionables complain of the poor quality of wedding cake A I paper comforts them by saying that no sane person ever eats it THE President vice president and secretary of the treasury are all ers What a place Washington must be for pretty maidens aud widows to be sure A LEADING merchant ot Louisville re- fused to buy a sealskin for his daughter The day she left the bouse and found employment as a vant She says she will not return home until the father yields to her de- mauds WOMEN are not half so shy as men A woman will go to a dry goods store and buy all sorts of toggery of male clerks but not one man out of a thousand will buy anything but visible articles of at- tire of a female clerk THE catholics of Brunswick Me had a fair recently and a ring worth was to be given to the most popular girl There were two candidates one a pretty French girl who saw signs of being de- and drawing all her money 8150 from the bank she bought enough votes to carry the day IN a recent suit before a justice in this city a lady reluctantly testified that she thought that another Newark lady might be a good enough neighbor if she lived in a locality where the houses were 25 miles apart and was so crippled that she couldn't come over to gossip or Newark Call A BOSTON having invited a young man from out of town to meet two minds on a certain evening he had to decline her invitation on account of a previous engagement to meet four In his opinion pairs were not equal to four of a although we don't suppose they know what such language means in cultured Boston Detroit jFree Press A SOCIETY young man of Cleveland is quoted as The girls of this city are ending right along I know five young ladies three of them live on Prospect one on Euclid aud the last on Clinton Street who can play just as hari games of poker exercise as good judg ment in betting cards aud the relative value of bands precisely as well as any five young men 1 coul name A lady in New York who accosted by a well-dressed man in an in suiting manner accepted the offer of an old woman who was grubbing in an as barrel close by to cover him witi ashes for ten cents The biped wa pelted with handfuls of ashes covering him from head to foot before h could escape The old woman was re warded with a quarter by the youn lady who remained to witness the opera tion THEY say is a most form of expression and one that ha caused as much misery as any doze others put together Scandals and ful stories always begin with they say if any one is anxious to worm a secre out of another the chances are they wi begin they say Now who or In of the they are entirely supposititious and in ft tenth they are unworthy The worl would get on much better if they wer extinct New York Mail and THEBE are doubtless many cases i Chicago and more elsewhere that hav never come to light similar to that re cently tried in the Chicago courts it which a girl brought suit against a drug gist for selling her a cosmetic that ruin ed her complexion disfigured her fea tures and ruined The sale o these poisonous PEAK blight has in several instances been arrested in affected trees by ing them with a weak solution of oih and in some cases it has proved a preservative when applied to the healthy trees A of experience in growing says that there is more money in growing wool at even twenty cents per pound than in loaning money at ten T cent interest psB reason why our wheat crops are ily about half as much per acre as in upland is because the British farmer sheep M while ith us sheep are only considered as color mutton makers no unnecessary words in giving iis orders find to be excused The him Mr Clerk The What is your The have got the am itching now The Clerk scratch Whereupon the clerk scratched his name the list When tho juror returned to his store he said he never spoke truer in his life ban when he said he was itching said he I was itching but it was to get to my business I said a farmer I should make a good congressman for I use their language I received two bills the other day requests for immediate payment the one I ordered to laid on tbe other to be read that day six ed and no one knows the amount e damage done because the sufferers too much pride to confess their injuries The best cosmetic is cold water and fres air and there would bo more beauty i tho world and more charming com if nothing else were Chicago ONE of the young army officers re cently ordered to the capital has a charm ing home in the west end presided ove by a fair blue-eyed wife whose head i crowned with masses of red gold an whose dainty would never sug gest a convent and yet she was once religieuse a member of one of tho com established by the Church to look after its orphan children She was devoted to her little charge and they to her and never dreamed r other cares than those of the home but scarlet fever broke out among th wee folk the young army surgeon wn called in to help an attendant physician he saw Sister fell desperate in love with her and nt the expiration her year's vow nnd won he The Sawyer Observatory Tbe difficult task of removing th fir dispatching business and mysterious death of a sister and another brother about two years ago that these latter died as was supposed of being poisoned by floras sort of a wild poisonous vine and no inquiry was made into the matter Suspicion has ever been aroused by late events and an effort will be made to discover if possible the real cause of the deaths mentioned A light-fingered fellow by the of Flick employe on the new railroad and who has been suspected of abstracting articles money etc belonging to others for time past caught on Thursday evening in the very of stealing money from the till in Heydecke store It appears that ho was leaning carelessly over the counter and while the other persons present occupied at the further end of the store be readied over opened the drawer and was in the wrt of the breed of sheep originated the beginning of the ent century in a cross between tbe old white-faced sheep of Hampshire En- gland and the pure ter the few generations of crossing the horns disappeared and the face became black in fact the prepotency of the Southdowns greatly changed the of the native Hampshire sheep though the massive head nose large size and hardiness of constitution were retained in the cross The in some of the districts of Hampshire and Berkshire have gradually displaced the downs and afford an excellent breed for crossing with long-wooled sheep The lambs are dropped early and fed for the market or sold for mutton the following spring and when well fed will weigh 100 pounds The fleece yields from six to seven pounds of good wool being longer and somewhat coarser than that of the The larger size strong constitution and earlier maturity of the make it a specially breed under many circumstances in this country much attention can not be paid the cleanliness and ventilation of ables and pens To insure the health ud comfort of animals they must be ept dry aad warm and have plenty of ght as well aa pure air and pure ater A LAOT correspondent of the Country rentleman claims that by dipping the oint or ends of turkey geese or wings into a strong solution or they are made as as more durable than when treated in the ordinary way To get a gear wheel off a shaft upon which it has been shrunk take it to the and pour some melted iron round the hub and it will heat and ex- sand so quickly that there will be no ime for the shaft to get hot and the gear will come off easily To pinch off the tip of a shoot is not o produce a shock but to change not but to send the flow of the sap n other directions by which the fruit is Benefited while tiie leaf power is not materially interfered with the auxiliary eaves affording the needful supply should endeavor to sell as ittle as possible of that which comes mainly from the soil and as much as that which comes from the Butter and fat stock sold will improve a farm while cheese milk and lean stock sold will keep the farm ean unless manure or fertilizers are nought SCIENTIFIC apple culture is likely to let a boost from the present scarcity there is more money in it for New England than there is for orange ure anywhere Addison and Counties of Termont ore credited with barrels this season One it is said sold barrels ior per barrel When we look for the causes of this we shall find it was no accident The land chosen was adapted to the business the fruit was suited to the location and tbe trade and there were expert and experienced managers WHY do you keep that asked a shrewd farmer of his neighbor He'll eat a bushel of corn by spring The neighbor excused himself for the extravagance by saying that he wanted to raise some chickens next year was the put your rooster ia the pot and change eggs next spring with some one who keeps a rooster This was pretty close tion but such is the origin of business profits Why not this saving as well as the saving of a manufacturer who shaves a few cents off the cost of a shovel in the quality of steel THE Scientific American gives this as an excellent mode for preserving Take fresh ones put a dozen or more into a small willow basket and immerse this for five seconds in boiling water containing about five pounds of common brown sugar per gallon Then pack when cool small ends down iu an mate mixture of one part of dered charcoal and two of dry bran In this way they will last six months or more The scalding water causes the formation of a thin skin of hard men next the inner surface of the shell and the sugar or syrup closes all the pores IN making cider cleanliness is an in- dispensable requisite as sweet cider is most sensitive to anything it comes in contact and will take on pleasant and ruinous flavor from musty or filthy barrels or from apples that have been allowed to heat or mold by lying in bins or large piles or by lying too long tinder the trees with grass ing over them or by being picked dirty with leaves or other litter or by being scooped from a dirty wagon box or if the straw used in laying up tho cheese be musty or have any weeds in it the cider will partake of the bad flavor A half-dozen stalks of ragweed will flavor the cider from ten bushels of apples PERSONS who are unfortunate enough to live in clamp houses particularly near undrained land are apt to think that there is no help for them save in re- moval pays they tire mistaken CULINARY GEMS PLAIN PUDDING Bread crumbs put into a with alternate layers of stewed apples and a little sugar when baked make an GRANDPA'S tor s ite On tue When the Umr begin to thin mil not stop Holbe So tis why not put your ia T To say the good die young is a ing invitation for a small boy to be bad 0 Picayune TEE population of New York City's asylum for male insane is at the rate one hundred a year THE Pittsburg Board of Health an- that the meats in a gallon oysters should weigh eight pounds and three-quarters A of Youngstown 0 has been suddenly stricken with paralysis the tongue and is unable to articulate a word THE inmates of a tenement in New York from which eight patients were taken the ether day were nearly all cigar makers A man rushed eagerly for a front seat in an Albany theatre gallery excellent pudding the juice of the fell over the rail and was killed by the pies making the bread crumbs quite moist POTATO Grate one dozen of boiled potatoes add two eggs a little salt half a cupful of milk enough flour to stiff then cut in small pieces and roll long and round one inch thick fry ia plenty of lard to a nice brown Boil some onions in milk with pes salt and nutmeg When quite done pass them through a sieve Put some butter and flour into a saucepan when the butter is melted and well mised with the flonr put in the pulp of onions and add either milk or eream stirring the sauce on the fire until it is of the desired consistency HAM CAKES A capital way of disposing of the re- mains of a ham and making an excellent dish for breakfast Take one and a half pounds of ham fat and lean gether put it into a mortar and pound it or pass it through a Soak a large slice of hi a half pint milk and beat it and the ham together Add an egg beaten up Put the whole into a mould and bake a rich brown EOG One pound of dough two ounces of butter two ounces of pounded sugar two eggs Beat all well together in a basin in the same wanner as eggs are beaten only using the hand instead of the whisk set iu a plain mould to rise for three-quarters of an hour then bake in a quick oven When cut it have the appearance of This is a very nice breakfast cake anc will make delicious stale SMOTHERED STEAK Take one dozen large boil them in very little water until they are der One pound of steak season i1 with pepper and salt put it in a pan with some hot and fry it till it is done Take it out put it on dish where it will keep hot Then when the onions are soft drain and mash them in the pan with the steak gravy and add pepper and salt to taste Pu it on the fire anil as soon as it is hot pour it over the steak and serv e it STEWED ISO OF LAMB Choose a small leg of lamb about four pounds and put it into a kei tie which is just large enough for ii with two onions a small carrot an ounce of salt a small o pepper two cloves a small bundle o sweet herbs and a quart of stock Cove the stewpan closely and let it boil gent ly for two hours It will be well to try the meat at the end of an hour and half and if it is then tender to cease boiling and let it stand on a cool part o the range until wanted Strain th gravy take off the fat and reduce it tc a pint by boning without the lid of th stewpan pour it over the meat an serve Boil a quarter of a pound of Ita ian in a quart of water salted until tender Most shapes tak about ten minutes Take core when yo throw in the that the wate boils and it continues to do so ing all the time of cooking as this will fall AMONG the members of the lower house of the Tennessee legislature are a white and a negro who held the relation of master and slave before the war A dentist has just extracted IB aching tooth of a black and tan and cut off some of a pet squirrel Nobody has yet rought him any old hens AN Alabama paper says that making in the south is a lost art So s the old song says down south they lave to wait for the it omes from the north NEW has a yonng lady in ood circumstances who upon ng from school thought that for a cose if emergency she should have a trade She is learning to clean and repair watches THE following hint is re- sorted as having come from President I don't like to hear dried sermons No when I bear a man I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees THEBS seems to be no BO dangerous as that of brakeman on freight rains aad many insurance companies refuse to take the risk of insuring their ives It is said that only twenty-five cent of freight die except ay accident A grocery firm at Erie Pa has steadily missed bank bills from its cash drawer On Saturday workmen discovered a large made en- tirely of paper money immediately back of the cash receptacle Many of the notes were uninjured MBS the wife of CoL Hooker the new of the house of representatives will be one the handsomest ladies ia Washington this She is a tall well graceful bionde and a half sister of the late Col Jim Fist IT is stated as a fact by jailers that when husbands are incarcerated no matter what their crime may have been they are constantly their wives while women wkp are under sentence are very rarely visited by their husbands This sounds too bod but perhaps it is not true THE affectionate nature of a pair of geese was alluded to by an eloquent speaker at a dinner table I knew these interesting birda iu said he they were model spectacles of bial bliss they were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in death they were scarcely to be divided for I smashed the carving knife in the attempt A TINSMITH in Memphis Tean has hoaxed half the city by means of a den battery connected a clock ia his workshop The clock was made to respond to questions by the ringing of the bell and the credulous found the answers wonderfully correct The tinsmith was so delighted by the success of his deception that he could not keep the knowledge of it io himself longer than four days A who had selected a seat at the theatre from which he could obtain a good view of the stage was keep the from sticking together Put this by way of garnish round the dish on which you have placed the leg of lamb John Little Admirer Said 1 see and nize faces and sometimes become so much interested in one face that I watch it and act to it through tho piny Let me tell you an anecdote this habit Once while Iwas acting in Chicago a little girl whom I knew so well that she called me Uncle John was in one of the proscenium boies I love her dearly and I watched her almost as great iron tower erected for purposes in Philadelphia known as th Sawyer observatory has been succes fully accomplished It was feet in height 8 feet in diameter at the has and weighed 40 tons By mean of pair of shears formed of two massi timbers 90 feet long fitted with a bloc and tackle tho tower was swung fro the center and lowered to tho earth where it will be separated into sections of 25 feet each for removal to Boston The Sawyer observatory in Boston to be erected on a convenient site at the Black Boy will be 325 feet above the ground and 345 feet above sen level and will be 68 feet higher than the Bunker Hill A 30 feet high will surmount the structure The ob- recently at delphia will be utilized in the tion of the one to be erected in Boston A of the period ate the wired seen on dresses wired so M to make them staid cat i toward in facing Virginia for the lost time denly I her shrink in terror followed my look toward the closely as she did me You should have seem how her face lit up wnen I came on the stage and how she beamed on me in the early part of the play and pv it made her to me talking kindiy and lovingly to Virginia It would done you good could you have seen her clasp her hand's with joy I rushed upon the stage and clasped Virginia ia and states that experiments have shown mv iu time to lend her myself that it is possible to materially improve the atmosphere in such neighborhoods in a very simple the ing of the laurel and Tho laurel gives off an of ozone whilst the sunflower is potent in destroying the malarial con- dition These two if planted on the most restricted scale in tho garden close to the house be found to speedily increase the dryness and salubrity of the atmosphere and rheumatism if it does not entirely become a memory of the past will alleviated AT a recent meeting of N Mr O W Hoffman gave the facts attending the trial of rye grass sowed last spring on good ground no other crop being attempted The seed came up well and the grass made fine growth until drouth set in when the upper leaves turned low and at last died Drouth continued until fall was well advanced and the rye grass held its own When rains came new growths started quickly and giving the appearance of strength and tenacity two qualities et- tremely desirable in grass designed for grazing He could not say what erties the rye gross had as for the trial had not been made by his cows but hs hopes that it would prove a valuable to the list of forage in use on his farm 1 Ins Agriculturist knife I paw her tenor becoming worse ton and worse and then I gave the fatal stab and the curtain ML I saw her her head in her mother's lap 1 feit ST alarmed for her that I went to the box door to her On opening it I her still her head her softly by name I Don't be alarmed it's only fun T only killed her in fun In a moment she was toward me and Oh it only fua She threw her arras around ray neck and hissed me again and greatly discouraged when a young lady wearing a fashionable hat eat down in front of him He bore the affliction in silence as long aa he could and then bending forward said Please miss would you be so kind as to lower your She lowered it amid the applause of the audience cowboys shoot at and hit pipes that strangers smoke That is the way in which they have a little fun But a cowboy who tried it on a stranger recently wished he hadn't The ger was from the Maine lumber regions was athletic and walloped that till he couldn't stand He Baid ne didn t mind a joke but he'd be hanged if wanted his pipe broken just after he'd taken the trouble to fill it THE reading of the President's meg- sage was one of the prettiest farces imaginable When the clerk began member was seated At end of about five minutes about the house was gone out At the end twelve minutes just of the seats were empty At the end of twenty minutes the place looked very much bke a a day safe to My that only tho A MAN recently rna into a New house Which he snw ia and found a bundle of ara rass on the tuMo Picking it up If about to throw it oat of the when ft come in nn room exclaimios sto HMD baby H Family Ties I the Departing piest to hotel proprietor j Your porter is aa insolent j I'm sorry to say that you are 1 He is lazy ami impudent and will j drive away jour J Too true j If I were YOU I'd have tacked aim stop mom the he who bud starved to not ham money iu burial hid -t CUE tW did not know A out long tsp I've trial the natoc hut not teen
