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Acts ni: 3; "When e a.-.d d:seovt lei
Cyprus we felt it on the ie.t hau l," aud
llevelation i: y, -Julia was in the
isle that is ciiiel ratings"
Uoodby.Fgypt! A'ltiouji hiti resting
and instructive beyond' any t-ui;:;try in
ail tlie world, exes-ting tl. , v Laud
Egypt was to ina somewhat
Jt was a post-morten c:-.,..
" Cities that died -t,l:W vta.i .. . 'i he
laumies, or wrapped up boui.-s t f the
dead were prepared with leieu-ncj l
the Ilesurectioa uar, the Egyptians
departing litis life wanting thur bodies
to bo kept iu ;i3 good condition us
i ussib e s-j that; the would be present -
able when tin y were called agaiu to
1 :e;;i. ,ui il Wuell In. Hull
comes to the resurection lu finds his
body looking as 1 saw his mutuuiy an
the museum at, IJoulaes his foal will
become an unwilling tenant. Ti.e
spbiu xjaiso was to nma stern nion
bjroshy sta.ue carved out of rock of
red granitv Cu feet liighund about 113
feet kuig, and having the uwiJ -t a
man ani tbe body of a ilou. Vie sat
uowu in tin; sand oi tbe African divert
to study it. With a cold s:n;b p. lias
looked ciuivu upon thousands of j .crj
of earthly history; Eg', ptiau riviluutum
Oreciau Civilisation, Pomau CiVhi-
nation; upon the rise and fail of
turonts innumerable; the victory aud
dtieatof the armies of ceiiturus. It
took 3,W years to make one, wrinkle
on its red duck, it is dreadful in iig
stolidity. Jtsejts have never wept a
tear. Its cold ears have not listen, d
to the gro us of the t.gyptian uat.o:i
the burden of which I tried to weigh
last Sabbath. Its heart is stone. It
cared nut lor Pliny when be measured
i: in tbe lirst century, it will ca:e
i.uthiug fur the man who looks into its
imperturable countenance in the last
c. nuiry.
Night carne down on land and sea
and the voyage became to i..e more
and more suggestive and solemn. 1
was alone on ship s deck in ti e ties, el
I'-.ehipdago, and do you wonder that
i .e Si-a was populous with lhepa.il ana
i..utdowii the ratlines b b!e memories
defended? Our lnciid had ail gone
lo their births. "Captain," 1 said,
'v.i.eii will you arrive at tbe Island oi
lluodes?" Looking out fron under
his glazed cap he responded iu sepulch
ral voice, "About iiiidiiiht." 1 hough
it would bo keeping unreasonable
hours, I coticliidej to stay on deck for
I must see Jihodes, one of the islands
associated villi the i nine of the'
greatest missionary tlic world ever saw
ever will see. Paul Luuied there, i
Jt-.id that was enough to.make it famous j
wl.ie tl.o world stands and famous
in heaven when the world has become
a charred wreck.
.. ibis island has had a wonderful
history, v. j(h t;,t uo knights of St. John
il at oie Itnn' K',r,,f.l ,ni -n, Oiwum
A,ut t JJA.nj
warriors under ilyman the iingn.l:-!
t ent. j he clu :. rai ninint, o,,a
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a statue to Aioho cailul Coitus
"M wk . :iico ixeu consiuered
ve of the seven wonders of the world,
i'. was twelve ears m building and
was seventy cubits high and had a
winding stairs to the lop. It stood
hfij -six years and then was prostrated
by an earthquake. After lying in
ruins for 'JlOO years it was purchased
to be convened to other purposes and
the meta weighing Taj,(XKJ pounds was
put on UOO camels and carried away.
As I stood there on the deck of the
.Minerva looking out upon the place
where the Colossus once stood I be
thought myself of the fact that the
world must have a God of some kind.
Jt is to me an ii.iinite pathos-lhis
Colossus not only of It bodes but the
col.ssi in many parts of the earth.
This is only the world's blind reaching
. up and feeling after God. Foundered
human nature must have a superuatu
:ral arm to help it ashore. All the
statues and images of heathendom are
attempts to bring celestial forces down
Into hnman affairs. Blessed be our
ars that we have heard of an ever
present God, and that through Jesus
Christ he comes into our hearts and
.our homes and with more than fatherly
and motherly interest and elTection he J
ne is wiin U3 in an our Btrueetes and
bereavements and vicissitudes. Khodes
needs something higher than the
Colossus and the day will come when
the Christ, whom Paul was serving
when he sailed into this harbor of
lihodes shall take possession of that
island.
Hut there is one island that I longed
to see more than any other. I can af
ford to miss the princes among the
isUlwdsbuy must see the king of the
Archipelago, liie one I longed to see
is not so many miles In circumference
as Cyprus or Crete or "Faros or Maxos
or Scio or Mitlene, but I had rather in
this sail through the Grecian Archipel
go see that than all the others; for
more of the glories of heaven landed
there than on all the islands and con
tinents since tbe world stood. As we
come toward it i feel my pulses qucken.
"I, John, was i u the island that is cal
led Patmos." it is a pileof rocks twenty
eifht railes in circuraferenc. A few
cypresses ond inferior olives pump a
'Hftof out of the earth, and one palm
. ' jtffle spreads ita foliage. Hut thebar
,4 Imumm Mid gloom and loneliness of the
$&taA Made It a prison for ttaebonisbed
KpM DoniUan could not stand
"1 tsbSrf aad day, under armed
:3,CC5siltr of tuo gospel step
$ "Jtil&3io boat to tlafM dismal
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1 iix-M-i and v.io'ktd up to t!i. dismal
t avein whtcit was t- Iv h.s hor.'.e, and
: the pi.;-.; w.t -if shoiijj pr:s before him
a if the t i.iiicu oi CvU.iiig time and all
ii.e rapliirc-sid' a i 0111.11 eternity.
I'atui'js, wihl, chill and bleak and
terrible was t lie Lest island in all tlis
Archipelago, tin U-st pi u-3 ia ail the
tartii for divine revelations. Jleforea
pa:i..;a:iia can be succeasfuhy feeu, the
i: om in wtiirhjou si; must be darkeiien
i.nd .n the pH .cnc of Jifhn was to pass
!-:u-h a panorama as no man ever before
ti: v or fvi r will see in this v orld, aud
i.e;:ce the jl-iom of hij surrounding
was a l.eip ra'.her than a Jiiiulraiiee. All
the surMuii-Jiu-r of Ilia i lace affected
t. John's imagery r.heu be speaks of
heaven, m. John, hungry from en
forced abstinence, or laving iu fo ) 1 ex
cept that at which his appetite revolted,
thinks of heiuen; and as the famished
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man is apt t- dream of bountiful tables
covered with luxuries, 0 St. John says
of the inhabitants of heaven. "They
shall hunger no more." Scarcity of
fresh water on Patmos and the hot
tongue oi t John's thirst leads him to
admire heaven as he says, "They khall
thirst no more." St John hears the
waves of the eea wildly dishing against
the rccKs and each wave has a voice and
all the waves together make a chorus
and they remind him of the multitud
inous anthems of leaven, and he says,
'They ar like the voice of many waters.'
ne day, as he looked oil upon the sea,
the waters wre very smoth, as it is to
day while we sail them in- the Minerva
and they were like (.lass and the sun
light seemed to set them on lire, and
there was a mingling of w hite light and
intense flame, and us St. John looked
out from his cavern home upon that
brilliant sea, he thought of the splendors
of heaven and describes them "as a sea
of glass mingled with tire." Yes, seated
in the dark cavern of Patmos, though
homesick and hungry and loaded with
Domitia's anathemas, St, John was the
most fortunate man on earth because of
the panorama that passed before the
mouth of that cavern.
'Turn down all the lights that we may
belter see it. The panorama passes, and
lo! the conquering Christ, robed, girdled,
armed, the Hash of golden candlesticks
aud seven stars in his right hand, can
dlesticks and stars meaning light held
up, and light scattered. And there :
pa.-sed a throne and Christ on it, and j
the seals broken, and the woes sounded, '
and a dragon slain, and sevi-u last plague
3woop, ail si ven vials are poured
out, and the vision vanishes. And we
halt a moment to rest from the exciting
spectacle. Again the panorama moves
on before the cavern of Patmos, and
John the exile sees a great city represen
ting all abominations, Uabylou towered
palaced, templed, fouutained, foliag -d,
sculptured, hanging gardens, suddenly
going crash! crash! and the pipers cease
to pipe, and the trumpets cease to
trumpet, and the dust and the smoke
una tne norror nil the canvas u-),ii
iroin aoove ana ueneatn are voices an-
ll0ucing: "Uabylou is fallen, is faUen!"
And we halt again to rest from the
spectacle. Again the panorama passes
before the cavern of Patmos, and John
the exile sees a mounted Christ on a
snow white charger leading forth the
cavalry of heaven, the long line of white
chargers galloping through the scene,
the clattering of hoofs, the clinking of
bridle bits and the llasti of speers, all
heaven in doxology. Aud we halt again
to rest from the spectacle. Again the
panorama passes before the cavern of
Patmos, and John the exile sees great
thrones lifted, thrones of martyrs,
themes of apostles, thrones of prophets
thrones of patriarchs, and a throne
higher than all. on which Jesus sits, and
ponderous books are opened, their leaves
turned over, revealing the names of all
that have ever lived, the good and the
bad, the renowned and the humble, the
mighty and weak, and at the turn of
every leaf Uie uuiverse is in rapture or
fright, aud the sea empties its sarcoph
agus of all dead of the sunken ship
ping, and the earth gives way, and the
heavens vanish. Again we rest a mom
ent from the spectacle. The panorama
moves on before the cavern of Paimru
and John the excite beholds a city of
gM) and a river more bautiful than
the Khine or the Hudson rolls through it
and fruit trees bend their burdens on
either bank, and ail issurrouded by
walls in whica the upholstery of au
tumal forest and the sunrise and sunset
of all the ages, and the glory of burning
worlds seem to be commingled. And
the inhabitants never breathe a sigh, or
utter a groan, or discuss a difference, or
frown a dislike, or weep a tear. The
fashion they wear is pure white, and
their foreheads are encircled by garlands
and they who were sick are well and
they who were old are young, aud they
who were bereft are reunited, Aud as
the last figure ef that panorama rolled
out of sight, I think that John must
have fallen back into his cavern, never
less and exhausted. Too much was it
for naked eve Ix look at Too much
was it for human strength to experience
It is bo delerium, no delusion but a
supernal fact. Your glorified loved onei
will hear that you are about to come
and they will say in heaven, "May I go
down to show that soul the way up?
May 1 be the celestial escort? May I
wait for that soul at the edge of the
pillow V And the Lord will say, "tee.
You may fly down on that misaton."
And t think all your glorified kindred
will como down and they will be in the
room, and although those In health
standing round you may bear ne voice
i ,. j ,.. ani a! 1: ai the heavenly
wall, j.u vviil s.-e and h.tr.
An i tha moment the i t sh y bond of
the tool shall break, lie cry will l
'Follow me! I'p this way! 15y ibis
pihl.-d cloud apast these ttars, straight
lor home, straight for glory, straight
fur God" As o:i that d ly in the
Grecian Arehipehi jjo, I'littc a began to
fade out of sight 1 vyalliel to the stem
cfiheship that I might keep my eye
on the enchantment as long as I could
and the voice that Eoumlcd out of
heaven to John the exile iu the cavern
on Patmo3 .set-med sounding in the
waters that dashed against the side of
our ship, 'Thhold the tabernacle of
God is w ilb men. and be will dwell
with liiein and they shsill be his people
and God himself shall le with them
and be their God. and (bid shall wipe
away all tears from their eye, and
there shall lier no more death neither
sorrow nor crying, neither shall there ;
be any more pain, lor the former tlnn.s ;
are pas-ed away." !
Life hi I.li aloth' Tmi
in Elizabeth's time the ordering of
the household was strict, PfnanU
and 'prentices were up lit o iu the
summer and at seven iu the winter.
X" one on any pretence, except that of
illness, was to absent himself from
morning and evening prayers: there
wastobenostriking.no profane lan
guage. Sunday was clean shirt day
Pinner was at 11, supper at ti. There
was no public or private oillcc which
was not provided with a Jhble. I:i the
bet ter daises there win a general
enthusiasm for learning of all kinds.
1 he ladies, imitating the example of the
queen, practiced embroidery, wrote
beau ifully. played curious instruments
knew how to sing in parts, dressed
with as much magnificence as they
could afford, danced the oTantu and
the lavolta as well i s the Minpic hey.
and studied languages-Latin, Greek
and Italian.
The bust was the favorite langu.igo.
Many collected bonis. In-. .1i!ui 1'ee
had as many as ti.nnof which 1."!
were manuscripts. They wv.-v arranged
on the shelves with the leaves turned
outward, not the backs. This was to
show the gilding, the t.ol 1 claspi and
the silken strings. The books were
bound with great care and cost: every
body knows the beauty of the typr
used in tiie printing. Walter llesant
in Harper's.
Wheie steel s Afahc.
The general aspect of the interior of
a converting house at night, is at once
startling and grandly impressive. Here
heat, Maine and liquid metal are tier
present ; locomotives whistle and piili,
dragging with clatter and clang huge
ladles of molten iron; the lurid light,
flashing and liaming, that illuminates
the scei.e, throws shadows so intensely
black that they suggest the "black lire"
of Milton, for in such a place it is in- j
possible for a shadow to be cool; half
naked, muscultr men, begrimed with
i sweat and dust, flit about; clouds of
l steam arise from attempts to coo! in
s ime degree the roasting earth of the
! floor, converters roar, vibrate and vomit
! flames mingled with splashes of metal
. from their white hot throats; at inter
! vals the scorching air is filled with a
I rain of coruscating burning iron.
Ingot molds lift mouths parched with
I a thirst that can only be appeased for a
. short time by streams of liquid steel
: that run gurgling into them; the stal
j wart cranes rise, swing and fall, loading
; scores of tons of red hot steel upon cars
of iron; all these conditions and cir
' curnstanets combine to make an igneous
otal more suggestive of the realms of
Pluto than any other in the whole range
oi metauurgic arls.--V. F. Durlee iu
Popular Science Monthly.
How the Pyramids Were Unlit.
A moneyed man, who was looking at
the process of laying au artilichil stone
pavement in front of one of his many
properties, startled the friends who
were standing about him by remark
ing, "I believe that the Egyptian pyra
mids were built in juht that way."
Pressed for an explanation, be said that
while he had jiever been in Egypt he
had read the works of all Egyptologists,
including lirugsch and Piazzi Smyth,
aud had never found in any of them a
theory which would satisfactorily ac
count for the manner in' which the
pyramids were constructed.
".Now," he said, "you must remember
that that pyramids are built of stone
which bears no resemblance to anything
found within 500 miles of their location.
It is incredible that the Egyptians of
four or five thousand years ago should
have possessed the mechanical ingenui
ty to move these enormous blocks of
stone from the granite quarries of
Abyssinia or Syria to the pyramids. Is
it not much more natural to suppose
that the ancient Egyptians possessed
the secret of making artiiicial stone,
and that the pyramids were constructed
by layer upon layer of Mile river mud,
hardened by just such processes as we
employ to make artiiicial stone?
"It is a much more plausible explana
tion of their construction than the la
borious and unintelligent suppositions
that the stones were carried across the
desert to from the foundation and base
of the pyramids. 1 firmly believe that
the Egyptians of the ante-Christian era
understood the manufacture of arti
ficial stone, and that they built lite
pyramids out of it." Philadelphia
Press.
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GIKJ-'AKM DEPARTMENT.
Huiiif 11 ut.
Wver L ave veirehilles in
the water
after they re choked.
The juice tif Inaii lemon in half a
glass of waH-r is a tafe remedy for
headache
An ojshr shell in the teakettle will
prevent the formation of crust on the
inside.
To keep salt dry fur table ie
one teasioonfiil if corn s aid
mix
with
one cupful of salt.
Kqual parts of sweet oil and vinegar
and a little gum arable make an ex
ctllent furniture ;
Hubbed with
with kerosene a I
;sh.
oo.'eu rag s turated
kettle of coffee pot
.3 tieiv.
and w ater before n
v.iil strengthen tbe
becomes as bright
A gargle of salt
tireing at night
ti
roat an 1 keen nil bronchial attivus.
'ihick s.vcet cream sweetened and
flavored and thickened with a little
lluiir or cornstarch and bal.c-d between
two crusts is excellent.
A skillful cook may not be made by
a book but almost anybody can make
a good pudding by ob-erving carefully
a lew simple rules.
Powdered flint glass ground to an
itupaltable powder and mixed with the
white of an egg makes one of the
strongest cements known.
It is claimed by physicians that few
men are killed by hard work; it is to
irregularities of modern social life that
high death late is due.
Pibboiis and other silks should be
; "ut nway for preservation iu brown
I aper, as the choloride of bine used iu
uanfacturiug white paper frequently
produces discoloration.
llevvare of that common practice of
dipping the comb in water hen arr.tu
ranging the hair. It promote a decora
po.ihion and rancidity of the natural
oil, and so leads to 'rotting.
To remove paper labels from old
Lotties Wet the face of the label with
(later and hold it for an instant over
any convenient lame, i he steam ien-
tt rates lie; label nt ones and softens the
paste,
IloaAts that should be juicy come Vi
the table as dry as p.i-ste'ojard because
the oven was not hot enough at first to
Instantly harden the outer surface and
prevent the escape uf its juice.
Most vegetables are better cooked
fist excepting potatoes, beans, peas,
jeaubllowe.!- mid others which contain
starch. Cabbage i.lioiild be boiled
irpidiy iu plenty of water, so should
s.e.ons young beets aud turnips.
Doughs that slit'; t rolling pin
.Hiivrd tuid hands iu a hot kitchen
should be set away till throughly
Milled but all trouble might have been
saved by using cold lai. Hour and
Uquid at lirst and the texture of the
dough would have been better.
Twclv Venn With K illa?w
In ibVJ I built a 0 ton stone silo
in livo compartments aud afterward
a smaller one of wood. sa result of
my experience have reached the follow
ing conclusions: That stone, for a
permanent silo where the conditions
aresuohlhat She cost is not excessive
is the more economical. That in a
..tone ccmeut-liucd silo not a pound of
ensilage need watte or deteriorate.
That r. covering of trash closely packed
deep enough to take up the mold, i e,
as deep as tins air penetrates is better
than weighing; 1 discontinued weigh
ing years ago. 1 ha, be the lime for
grow th lung or shor!, .-.ouihern white
tithe best corn lo plant because of its
quickgrovvih and great productiveness.
That if cut at an early utago of grow th
the ensilage is quire acid but ia iulisi.ed
by cattle and is excellent food. That
the best period for cutting is the roast-ing-ear
stage. Last year much of my
corn stood until the kernel shrank and
hardened with the result that a large
proportion of the kernel were voided
whole and reasoning from unalogy I
think it a fair inference that the stalk
is less dijestible alter hardening (ban
when iu its more succulent state. That
the best distance for planting are
about four feet apart for ;he. roan and
one foot for kernels in the row. This
will glvo full-sized stalks aid ears-
many of the ears stand nine feet from
the ground where 1 have been cutting
That it is dangerous to feed imely-cut
corustaiKs whether diy-eure-i or en
sioled to horses or mules. A. J, Coe in
tho Country Gen'Jemau.
The difference between the weight
of milk from a scrub cow and "one of
the best of the improved breeds is the
diiTerciico between 4,000 pounds aud
16,000 pounds.
It is poor economy to keep a cow and
allow her to bo dry six months out of
the year. The treatment given the
heifers largely determines the length of
time they can be milked.
Partridge Cochins aie favorite
among farmers keeping Cochins and
who want large fowls and eggs, They
are by many considered the best of the
Cochin family. They are good fowls
and winter layers too.
No fear need lo be had of over-production
in wool or mutton. w mills
are constantly springing up for manul
facturing the fibre into wears of all
Ktnas ana me uemand for choice
i mutton is greater than the supply bv
fulljr 109 per cent . '
hem-ver a faroier sends the heifer
Ie; if of a good cow to the butcher be is
killing trie hen that lays thegolden egg.
A fanner Cdii ran bis own rows far
. . . l - 1 ..... 3 I
' o'1 ' " au wij uirm tun ivj
knows what he has got whenhhas
them, to?.
A farmer in Jefferson couuty. Wis,
dislodgt-d a huge rock at tha bottom
of Lis well when it sank out of sight,
uviaiinga subterranean lake.
harm No!.
If the parents are bad the chances
;;re that the offspring will be worse.
You cannot develop a new quality in ;
the next generation by a female devoid
of thi-t quality.
Cross-breeding is the pairing of an
imals not allied. Continued in-aud-in
breeding develops weak constitutions.
The form of the animal dejwnds
largely upon the breed but the grow th
and development secured depend very
largely upon !h feed.
Cjojs bred animal mav under some
conditions be better for feeding but
i.eversofo.- breeding and especially so
with the sires.
Ilutchers and dealers have a partiality
for choice handy carcasses. 'Size is only
a secondary consideration provided the
animals is fat, smooth and trim.
t'ler Kur ilog.
Stephen Favillo in Farm and Home
makes the following statements regard
lug the use of clover as food for hogs.
It is not extravagant to say that more
pounds of potk can be made from one
acre of clover than from the same acre
of corn. The average yield of shelled
corn per acre isn't over fifty bushels
and twelve pounds of pork per bushel
of corn is gmd production. 'Ibis
would make Ho) pounds of pork per
acre. One acre of fair clover will
pasture eight hogs from the time of
starting in the spring until the fall. A
bog weighing Px) pounds when
turned out wilt double his weight by
fall with no other feed. 'This means
m) pounds of pork against the (km
made by the a re of com. Whether it
is best to fenl hogs when they are
running to grass isn't yet decided.
Some good farmers claim it fs better to
give no other food furnishing the sti ck
with plenty of water and salt, 1 feed
little corn every day and think it bJ-sL
I do not give enough tj make the hogs
dernd on it but to neutralize to some
extent the gas In the stomach caused
by eating clover. It should be fed
regularly the lirst thing in the morning
one or two pounds per day. Many
make a mistake in letting clover got
too large before turning in the hogs.
The swine should be nlaced iu a field
as soon as the clover shows a fair bite.
If not it will outgrow them and become
too old to suit them. They should have
free access to salt and ashes mixed and
kept under cover. I consider clover
the sheet ancor of the dairyman ami
hay raiser.
Lake Winnipeg "Wolvos
In the winter of 1W) deer were unusu
ally scarce m the forests east of Lake
Winnipeg. A wet cold summer had
destroyed an uncommon large propor
Hon of fawns. Consequently wolvfs
were without their accustomed food
supply. Their distress made them
forget their fear ot human beings.
!,,.. ... . !.. I.. T
von inuming in January news
reached Winnipeg City that a band
numbering 100 wolves had slain many
inuian nunters along the east shore.
This turned out to be true,
Several of the men were caught on
foot. One climed a tree and shot
twenty wolves. Another clubbed a
dozen to death before they pulled him
down. One burner mounted a platform
erected on poles for the purpose of
keeping skins above the reach cf wild
blasts and vermin. He had harldv W
gun firing when the wolves pressed
and leaped about the posts in such
numbers that they threw down the
platform und tore the man to nieces.
The same band had visited other
camps. How many Indians in all were
devoured could not be exactly
ascertained as more than one hunting
party was said to have been completely
wiped out.-Youtli's Comnanion,
Ihiriod in silver.
William L. Scott was buried in a
magnificent coffin, the man.. ( ......
which required seventy-six pounds or
solid silver besides quantities of silk
and broadcloth. Ihe undertakers say
that within their recollection only one
- iiicrican, r tunnel
J- Tilden
eer mm ins mortal
clay housed nn
elaborately.
The use of ihu.1 ham
ohd go.d plates on expensive caskets
is not unsualbut so lavish a use of
solid silver is unprecedented.-,
irancisco Argonaut
M; I'0llIs physician recalls the
case of a young man wh h
ueen dtllllb for fiye
while out huntina 0ne rinv
the excitement of the chase, to yell at
tho top of his 1UU At JlIJrr
ulaulu m'ik WWh PCrfect
A clever woman has converted th.
unsightly, but. alasl J. Z Z T
'eaters of her W T ,D1
""of beauty vlngiomTrnw
boxes made to stand unon them. T,
Jl keeps fllM with a few low grow !j
bright hued want, and several vi
roots whrrcaehlnl
l.ng far toward the floor in .
swaying frin. Bew?
WOMEN'S DEPARTSEM.
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For cracking ice on the table aresii
ver malleU and r.icka . . au'
a smart blow. s ug
To have blue hydrangeas a,er
plant w ith alum water, esjtiali aft,.
the Cow er buds appear.
To raise the pile on velvet cover a ht
iron with a wet cloth and hold the ve
vet over it, Urush the velvet quit-kj
w hile damp. 1
Clover tea is admirable for puriryin.
the blood, for removing pimply "aiijj
whitening the the complexion and
a 'so kooo repute as a sleep
Inducing
draught.
There is a decided tendency shown to
return to the highei and more missive
tyie of table decorations instead of the
low flat Ktvln aliii-li In 1....... . . i
, . ... niu uvtii otj long in
favor.
Flower curtains are used lor bm! d
pairs to stand before w hile receiving
congratulations. The are of some dull
neutral tint, upon which llowars a:9
thickly strewn.
I'las ter casts w hich are projieily w axed
may be wiped off with a damp doth,
aud will last for years without being'
injured, while an unwaxed one s ion y.
comes soiled and it is practically iu,.
possible to clean it.
There are a number of ways for pre
paring beef for mincemeat, and several
different cuts are used. The most com
mon cut is a piece of the round, which
is boiled till tender. This makes very
good mincemeat. Cook books sonm-
times recommend the use of beef
tongue or the inside of a roasted sirloin
but this is so expensive that these piece s
are seldom if ever made use of for Una
purpose.
iVhcn I came home last week," savs
a housekeeper, "my piano, which lud
been covered with a cambric cover, was
loaded with dust that had sifted through
the sleazy cloth. The dust was too
thick lobe iiud off: il chould have
been blown and lightly whisked ntf
lirst; but this my maid did not do, and
iu consequence, the grim was wiped in,
for all 1 know, with a damp cloth. At
all events, the polished surface was
clouded almost to a gray, and I aim
despair, until a friend suggested a rem
edy. She advised me to wring as dry
as I could a piece of chamois from jut
a basin of water aud rub the piano im
til the chamois was bone dry. This 1
have done and completely restored the
polish."
yurtn Victoria Inl.jve Artir.
The good old Queen Victoria lias a
weakness for affairs of the heart and
they say that just now her sympathetic
soul Is all aglow over the visit of dm
crown prince of Italy to Eiitriami.
Which one of her grand-daughters is
the possible bride-elect we are not in
formed. Hut the queen, dear woman,
will probably bring out some of her
old treasures in the way of lace or
trinket and glvo the bride a blessing
with them, and a tear, as well we know
for that happy past of hers she has'
never forgotten and of which th.e
tokens from a part. It would be men
to know how she keeps them, thes
treasures. Has she anything so prosaic,
yet so full of sentiment, as a bureau
drawer, we wonder? A drawer with a
perfume of lavendar about it, like
those of our dear old grand-mothers ?
Or a trunk in the garret? How much
she misses if that right is denied her.'
An old trunk, with faded stuffs and
brocades and heelless satin slippers so
small that the daintiest of grandchildren
could not get their inside. And the
gloves! .So queer and old, so yellow too.
The queen we are sure must have
such a trunk. Every w. man of sen
timent has one she cries over silently
sometimes when she has crept away
from an iuquisilive household. Per
haps the queen has only a chest, sealed
with royal arms. Hut we do not be
lieve It. Exchange.
Hunting for tirrcne.
A gentleman spending the night with
a friend on the Chelton Hills arose early
the other day to catch a train for -New
York, says the Philadelphia Jnquirer.
While driving to the station ho passed
C" former place of Jay Dooke, now
. ... school for young women, and
looking at the grounds lie saw fourteen
young women running in Indian file
up a driveway. Each young woman
wore a loose bodice aud short skirt of
dark blue, black stockings aud low
flexible shoes. They had their heads
up, their shoulders down and back, and
kept their mouths closed. Oil they
ran, rapidly, following an luslructor,
who led the way along the winding
road until they disappeared.
"Uless my soul!" exclaimed the aston
ished New Yorker. "Who aud what
are they V
1 "That's the Ogontz running class,"
replied his host wiih a smile. "Almost
any One spring morning you cau see
tneee girls start out tor a mile and a
half spin. The teacher of gymnastics
is always with them and sees that none
overtaxes herself."
The running class was organised a
year ago and is one of the features of
Ogouu gymnasUcj.
The Chlllian war has had a rar
serious effect on tbe Kngllsh bataak
era who supply Hie majority ofCbilliaas.
Tbe latter aava bom to busy fighting
that they have bad no t&Mto attood
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