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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1902)
. -.. -i" I If. i J HOUSEHOLD : MATTERS : 5v.v.w.w.v.v.vav.v.vJ? preserving fruit. . Tlir Unit Nlrm lo Hrlrrt hiiiI tl lull lUxir Nnrtlcil. Fruit of inoiHuin size ami high llnvor N best for cunning. It should In fully ripe, liul thin mill free from bruises or lot leu .specks. Clingstone penciled me much tlio best. Choose fruit from ln nearest orchards Unit which has been shlpficd a long distance seldom pays for cunning. This Is particularly Into of pears, which arc almost llnvor less ipic.s ripened on tin tree. Fruit must, lie picked Just as It begins to turtfor, long-distance shipping, hence 1 always mom or less tiftQW" WasTi'mid drain the frulrMiotore be ginnlng to pare It, II It Is Hit leant hi; dusty or sticky Pare us thin in possible ilic burst l'nill Haver lurks next the skin. Drop peaches last as peeled Into a deep Jar lull of clear li.uc w iter. This prevents llielr turn lug lirovvn and In a measure hardens them. Leave tliem whoK' unless too big to go In the can. In that case, halve, leaving the pit Hi one half. When all are peeled, drain off the llinc water, cover with fresh water, rinse well ami weigh. Take half the weight of pared fruit In granulated sugar, put It over the lire In a pre serving kettle, with half a pint or g. ti ger lea. ami the Juice of a lemon to each pound, prepared as follows; Tare olf the yellow lemon rind before squeezing, ami put It Willi (he fruit. .Make the shiner ''" '' bruising half an ounce of ginger for each pint wanted. (ovcrlng It with boiling water and lolling it siaud for llfteeti minutes heroic straining. 1 toll (lie syrup live minutes, skim ming it well at least twice, and when It bulls hard, drop In all Hie peaches it will cover. Leave them In until the kettle again strikes a hall, then skim out with a perforated skimmer ami put into hot glass jars; Set the Jars where they will keep hot iiulil all the fruit has been in the syrup. Add a plat of fresh syrup for each half gallon al ready Used. F.rlng it to a quick boil, skim thoroughly, and till the cans with it boiling hot. Scatter the leimm peel well tliiough the fruit as li is put into the Jars. Seal after lllllng. and stand where the cooling will lie gradual, Washington Star.. . (,'llMIH lf A!IIKII 5lllp. Two bundles of asparagus, one qitnrl of white slock or water, one pint of mill.-, one of cream, if stock Is used, lint If water, use all cream. Three taJilcspoonfuls of liuiter. three of Hour, one onion, salt ami pepper Cut the tops from one hunch of asparagus ami cook them twenty minutes in salted wnler to cover. The remainder of the asparagus cool; twenty minutes In the quart of stock or water. Oil (he onion in Ihhi slices ami fry In the butter ten minutes, being careful mil to burn; then add the asparagus that has been boiled in the stock; cook live minutes, stirring constantly. Mien add Hour ami enok the minutes longer. Turn this mixture into the boiling stock ami boll gently twenty minutes, ltub through a sieve, add the milk ami cream which linn Just come to a boll, ami aNo the asparagus tips. Season with suit and pepper ami serve. jJjlKiJ U d Hints for tbt Cool rain water ami soda will re move machine grease froir washable fabrics. A lublespoonful of i ugar added to mill; that is to be boiled for custard or sauce lessens the danger of the liquid burning. To blanch a few almonds and put them into soft gingerbread Just before putting It liilo the oven makes ihe cake mori' tasty. Wash fabrics that are Inclined to fade should be soaked and rinsed in very salt water, lo set (he color, be fore washing In the suds. Inexpensive jule tapestries may be had In strong, rich colorings that make very desirable summer hanging: the blue and the green are especially good, Kerosene will make tin kettles as bright as new. Salurate a woolen rag s jiikI rub with II. It will alo remoela Mains from the clean varnished furni ture. ' The best way lo lake grease spots out of carpets is to mix a little soap Into a gallon of warm water, then mid half an ounce of borax; wash the part well with a clean cloth, ami the giease or dirty spot will disappear. Black lace may lie washed in warm water, lo which a little borax has been added In the proportion of a teaspoon ful to a pint. Tills lace should never be dried by the tire, as It will turn rusty. To sponge it use an old black kid glove. All canned vegetables should be opened ami set aside. If possible out of duors.for some time, perhaps half an hour, before using. Thus I ho oxygen, removed In the process of canning, Is restored to them, and with It much of the fresh taste. Heeswnx and salt will make your rusty tlatlrous as clean and smooth us glass. Tie a lump of wax In a rag and keep It for that purpose. When the Irons are hot, rub them first with the wax rag, the scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with suit. FROM ANOTHER WORLD. An KiirIIkIi onlcrr Wmnnl nlnut Jlrnlli. j n An Kngllfdi sill wan engaged l W married t' n young American who had been n student abroad. They had met M Heidelberg, Jle died .iiiddetily after returning to this country. She came over here shortly afterward to visit his mother. While In New York she went to a medium. There was mi appoint ini'iit beforehand and there was no way by which the psychic eotlld know who she was. Taking tier turn, she sat down 'iy the medium, who went In to a trance and began to speak. Im mediately the gill's lover claimed lo be present, lie told lor some things which only they two had ever known, Up recalled circumstances connected with their acquaintance abroad. Now, Ir'KCtfflilippciicd that this young lady's 'frttfibtvvui mi Knglish oiljeer In the wiir"jfiHoiilh AH'tea. Ainng other tilings which Hie young man told was lids: lie said "I am glad that I have been aid" to save your father's llfo once or iwlee during the past summer." Now conies the strange coincidence, If coincidence It be The father wril"s home from South Africa, being en tirely Ignorant of all that has taken place here, and rehitrts What seems to It lit a somewhat rcnuirknhl" fact. He tells how he was sitting in Ills tent one day when there came upon him suddenly an itmiecoiinlable Impression that he was in danger. It was as though some one were trying to make hit.i feel this and Induce him In move. So strong was the finding that he got Up and went over to the oilier side of Ids tent. He 'aid hardly done this before a shell struck the chair where he had been sifting. Had he remained there h wniih' have been Instantly killed. Of course. It Is not assert"d that this Is anything inol'e than a co Incidence; litit the (suggestion Is made that coincidences of this soil have been so very frequent as lo make one womk'r as lo whether there Is not some deeper meaning In It al.1. Minot .1. Savage, In Alnslre's .Magazine. Wlirnri Cmnr i:ir tl l Itv '.' At a llmrwhen electricity Is rapidly transforming the face of the globe, when it has already In great nleasure annihilated distance and bids fair to abolish darkness for us, it is curious 10 notice how completely Ignorant "the plain man'' remains as to the later developments nf electrical theory. Siiue recent correspondence has led me to think thai a vague notion that electricity Is n fluid which In some i lysterloits way Mows through a tele graph wire like water through a pipe. Is alioiil as far as he hits got: ami If v.'e add to this some knowledge of what lie calls "electric shocks." we should probably exhaust his ideas on the subject. Yet this is not to lie wondered at. Kvcn Hie most In Mructcd physicists can do nothing but guess what electricity Is. and the only point on which they agree Is as to what It Is not. There Is, In fact, a perfect concensus of opinion among scientific writers Unit It Is not a Hold, I. c a continuous stream of ponderable matter, as Is liquid or a gas: ami thai 11 is not a form of energy, as Is heat. Outside this limit the scientific Imag ination Is at liberty to roam where it llstcth, ami although It has used this liberty to ;t considerable extent, no delinlte result has followed up to the present time. -The Academy. Tli I'Uli of llrriiiniU. There is a great given parrotllsli" of Itenumhi, as brilliant In color as his namesake the bird, showing himself boldly, ami hwlimning along slowly, secure from any assault.' ills scales are green as the fresh grass of spring time, ami each one is bordered by a pale-brown line. Ills litis are pink, ami Ihe end of the tall is banded with nearly every color of the rainbow. IK Is showy, but this Khowlucss serves him a good purpose. Ills flesh Is bit ter ami poisonous to man, ami prob ably so to other lishcs as well, and I hey let him well alone, for they can recognize him afar oil', thanks to his candy dress. Underneath the parrot, lying on the bottom, is a "pink hind." You notice him. and as the parrot passes over him he suddenly changes to bright scarlet, and as quickly resumes his former faint color. Had Hie parrot been looking for Ills diiuicr.nudthought the hind would make a good tirst course, this sudden change of color might have seared him off. Just as the sudden bristling nf a cat makes a dog hange ids mind. When ihe hind is disturbed al night he gives out Hashes ot light lo startle Hie Intruder, and s ud him away In a fright. St. Nicho- I't t-li M-nt I'roin l,rui;iiuy. According lo Hie report of I.'nlleil States Consul Albert W. Swtilni, at Montevideo, the exports of fresh meal I roiu Hie Itiver Plate show a steady increase. Nearly two years ago the export of live slock from the Illver Plate lo r.urupe was embargoed by reason of the fool and mouih dease, ami while die disease has disappeared the quarantine remains. This has caused a marked development of the refrigerated beef Industry, so Hint three Uw of steamers, including the Itoyal Mall Packets, have been titled lo carry beef In quarters to the Mngllsh markets. These beef exports, up to October 1, t'.HH. have amounted to .'tlT.U'.'l quar ters, as against 1 i:t,S.V,i for the same period of lPOU, During the same nine mouths 1,1 iiSO.it I 'J frozen sheep were ex ported to llnrope. The Itiver Plate can easily furnish from H.tMHi.otX) to l.MHi.. IHMI quarters of beef for export. The cattle used for the trade cost an average of $'J,". to ?."0 gold per head at tie killing imiukej. The best sheep for freezing cost an average of $ii per head. AMERICA'S PINE CATTLE VALUE OF SCIENCE IN BREEDING PROVED HERE. An Account oT tlir KtoIiiIIoii of Cntltfi In Aiimrlrit by un JUprrMnny llrpril foinlilnrO 111 tlieNo.Crtllnl .Vntlv'n Cul tlr Worlf of tmiirovliic tlin llorrf. (ienrge M. ltummel, expert in animal husbandry of the Hurcau of Animal Industry, says In an Agricultural De partment bulletin. Just. Issued that American bleeders of cattle have equalled if in t excelled the reHtilts reached on the other side of the water. "Hut." he adds, "no suprem acy of excellence, no Victory 111 show ring or market, can cITacc the memory of the debt America owes to those stiirily yeomen whose ur.mes adorm Ihe hest herd records of Kugland ami Scotland." Mr. Nomincl's pamphlet Is devoted to a study of American breeds of beef cattle. He begins at the very begin ultiir, goluw act; to that voyage of Columbus on which the tlrst cattle known In Hi" Western Hemisphere are supposed to have been In ought over, other Spanish explorers and armed invaders followed Culiiin'iiiVs exam ples, bringing not only cattle but hum's as well. Then' was an abundance of grass ami water, ami as the Spaniards pene trated further into the Interior of the country their herds In grdwln? num bers followed tliem. I'linn these sprang ihe native cattle of the West Indies and Mexle.o, the long-horned steers of Texas and the wild horses of Hie pialns. The next cattle Immigration . cniue with the Portuguese t, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The Kivucli, too, introduced caltle into Arcadia and New Prance. These were carried Into tit" far in terior, ami as far back as 17." j the i'Vi'tich missionaries In Illinois pos sessed considerable herds cf ca'HIe, !iorsc.s and .swine. Virginia gol her cattle from Kugland soon after the settlement cf .lames town, Tliey multiplied iii the Old. Do mil. ion very rapidly, one contributing cause being the fact that the law in those early' days made the killing of caille ;i crime tinlsliable with death. The Pilgrim I-'athers began the cat He business with three hellers am) a bull, brought over from Kugland in the ship Charily In HUI. New llampshiie got her first cnUlc from Denmark. New York from Holland, and Delaware from Sweden, ift about the lime the Charily lauded ihe three heifers and the bull. The tlrst shipment to Ihe Carollnas was from Kugland In KiTO, while Geor gia was the last or all llie'coloules tr, llgure as a market for Hie Kngllsh ex port trade in breeding cattle. Thus It was that the l.'nlted States gol its tlrst start in Hint cattle business which in Hie year of grace llltW has made it possible to have all the present rumpus about the .Meat Trust. The stock gathered from various parts of Kurope were all so hopelessly inter crossed in course of time that their Identity was lost, with the result that our forefathers had what were known as the native caltle of the United Stales, of this slock Mr. Koininel says: "What the native stock was like we can best imagine from the stories of men now old, ami from the scrub stock Hitil Is even yet the eyesore of many American pastures. Itluoil cf Spanish, Swedish. French. Dutch and Kngllsh, with, may lie. a dash of buffalo as they wandered westward, gave this stock a cosmopolitan character that was repre sentative, perhaps, but hardly profita ble1. "Lack of care by farmers, with no Pakewell to point the way t Im provement, brought about a type of animal that a century has not yet been able lo absorb." In Hie years from 17)10 to 1K17 there was an awakening. That was the era of the ferineuilve stage or Anglo-Saxon cattle breeding. It was in 17ti0 that Hubert Hake well began the operations which left so lasting an impress upon the cattle breeding business. He was the tlrst man to practice systematic Inbreeding. Around Ids name those of all great improvers- of live stock group them selves, ami from the lessons he taught by example every breeder to this day learns Hie fundainenlals of his craft. He was a Leicestershire man, given btile to talking, and not at all to writ ing about his methods, A great deal Hun he learned by careful experiment lie Kepi to himself. His aim was io secure cattle that would fatten on the smallest amount of food, and Ihe great success of his an was revealed only by what he did and not by what he told anybody to do. This secret Mr. Itommel describes as Inbreeding in Hie hands of a master. i in- surest way known to secure Improvement of stock. mi "Out of the dark ages of Ignorance and Ihe scrub." says Mr. Itommel, "by leaps ami by bounds, using what male rial lie had at hand, ami iiiouhlln II to his will, the Kngllsh fanner devel oped the modem breeds; producing lender meal where lough ami leathery tibre had been before, paying the rent with bis cuttle and his sheen, and In time niiiirlbuiing very largely to the growth of agriculture In tlie New World." The liuprovei it In America began almost simultaneously with that in Kugland. No sooner hail the Hevolu Honary War dosed than iiniuirtiitintw of mproved stock began. This was kept up until the War of 1S1'' temnor arlly checked It. Mr. Itommel says that the year 1S17 will always be memorable In Ameri can cattle history, lu Hint year, fol- lowing the Short-Horn importations of 1812, came the beginning of the Devon and Hereford importations, to Kether with still another arrival of Short-Horns. Growth was slow up to 18U7, when (here came renewed activity, especially In' Short-Horns, Companies were formed ami the Improvement of cattle 'was marked. In point of numbers the (Short-Horn breed rapidly assumed the foremost position, ami until the year 1880 was about the only beef or promi nence. The expntislon or the caille business wits rapid. Up to the opening of the Union Pacllle Itallroad- It was -mainly carried on In the part of the 'Country east of the Missouri Hlvcr. Then came the discovery of the great opportunities offered by Ihe far West ern plains for p'uzlng. The growill In thu eiUUe,ralsilng Industry AvnsjliQn abnormal. -., "In the early eighties." says Mr. Honimel, "pure bred cattle by the thou sands were brought from Kugland to supplement the American herds In breeding bulls for the range, and the nearest that the Hereford ami Angus bleeds ever came to having a boom In tills country was at this time. "After the collapse, which was bound to follow, the cattle business is now on what Is thought to be a substantial and healthy foundation. Quality is be ing bred Into the range herds by the extiudlng use of pure bred sires, and this, with the better methods, Is bring ing thu range steer to a high plane of excellence, ltoth on the range and on the small farm Improvement has gone hand In hand with increase in num bers." ,.M Kkb line i I in Coin. Iii these days, when everybody Is crying out upon the scarcity of hen's eggs, says the London Answers, It Is interesting to know that in soni" parts of Peru notably in the province of lauja, the fruit of Hie hen is circulated as small change- Prom forty to tifty cgg?t the number varying according', icj they are plentiful or .scarce, are count ed as a penny to sixpence of our money. In t'he market places and in the. shops Hie Indians make the- most of their purchases In this brittle sort of money. One will give two -ir three egys for a ill Ink of the llery. native brandy called "plsro." three more for a villainous native ctem'. and .can have a regular onrv on a dozen eggs. These eggs are packed in boxes by the shopkeepers ami shipped as soon iM possible to Limit, the Peruvian capital. Prom ilahja alone several thousand call loads of eggs are shipped annually to Lima and Cnllao. The eggs are brought Into the town of .lauja 'by tin- Indians from all the region around about; the shopkeepers insist upon their being fresh. A shop keeper hi .lauja can tell iiu aged egg (ami will reject if) as readily as a bank cashier can detect a counterfeit coin. IllooilliniinilK h Irtri'tlvn. Ill the West Ihe bloodhound is now extensively used In the detection of crime ami the capture of criminals. The modern criminal is a very elusive person. He is always abreast of the times, and, quiet, skilful and often courageous, he has this advantage, that he usually does his work at night. When he lias completed his task, lie silently makes Ids cscap.'. frequently leaving behind him no clew by which his movements may be traced. So, at least, he believes; but try as he will, he must leave some clue. Intangible, in visible as It Is. it yet exists the pc ctiltar odor of the human body. It is n certain guide to Ids footsteps; science cannot efface it. Ingenuity cannot wipe II out. This odor Is as distinctive as the features of the face. No matter where a person moves; uo matter whether his trail is crossed by a thou sand others of Ids kind; no matter whether the rains have fallen, or hours have elapsed shuv his foot pressed the earth, the trail Is still there, and may lie followed. There Is only one animal, however, which can infallibly trace out the scent after It has been on the ground for several hours, and that Is Hie bloodhound. The Century. Lightning ami AVutcliei. "An electrical storm seems to have a peculiar effect on some li.uepieces." remarked the Junior partner of a big down-town Jewelry linn. "Kvery time lightning ami thunder get.t active in this vicinity one of the results Is that our watch-repairing department is overworked for several days there after. The damage wrought chlelly consists iif broken inal.isprlngs. "When business yets dull with us," added the Jeweler. Jokingly, "we re quire all our employes to pray for a thunder storm. Falling to comply with this order is considered sutlielem cause for discharge. 1 am unable to make clear the whys and wherefores, but It Is au established fact that after the lighluiir: has frolicked awhile in come the watches with mainsprings wrecked." Washington Star. WonU. "No die will ever be able to deny that the Fifty-seventh Congress was an energetic one In some directions," observed a member of Congress the other day as he read a letter he had received from the-printing otllce. "Al ready we lutve delivered In our legisla tive halls speeches which we think worthy of reproduction ilOO.OOO.tHKl times. 'Must think of the reading the Amerl. lean people are to have Indicted upon them in the next campaign, ami that campaign is this fall. Three hundred million congressional speeches Is four apiece for every man, woman and child in the laud, mid yet we are still talking and the printing otllce is run ning uight nud day." Washington Star. MOST C0L0SSALSW1NDLE DETAILS OF THE HUMBERT.CRAW. FORD $10,000,000 HOAX. A Kiifn In l'rl ,Siiiiii'.tl to Conlnlii tyo.OOO.OdO l-runc, When Opened' Ift . Found lo Until Only 840O mill H I.lttln .I.-wrlr.v rrwlullt.v Kiin SlHilif f Details of the colossal hoax which for the last two weeks has occupied Hi? attention of Paris to the exclusion of almost everything else are at hand. On the pretence of a fortune of ?'J-I, 0(K),(HKJ locked up Hi a safe the perpe trators of the fraud ha.v'beeii nhuf'to borrow In the last twenty years slims aggregating a total amount of $!),'-HV ooo. When the creditors became Impor tunate the fatuous safe was Opened and found to contain securities amount lug to nbqui f 100. a little Jewelry' jnnd sonic worthless papers. i The story begins In Nice in l$77,;iud the principal actors are an American, one Holier! Henry Crawford; Therese d'Aurlgnac. now Mine. Humbert; her husband, who Is a son of n former French minister of Justice; two broth els and a sister of Mine. Humbert, sev eral lawyet's. and' last, but not least, two nephews of Hubert Henry Craw ford, both New Yorkers and liolh mil lionaires. Concerning the existence of the Humberts ami the d'Aurignncs there Is no doubt, but no one seems ever to have seen or to have heard of Crawford or his nephews, nlthougb the latter have been parties In Innumerable suits contested In fhe French courts over this fabulous fortune. According to the legend that has grown up. In 1S77 Henry Hubert Crawford tiled in Nice, leaving his whole fortune or l'JO.0110,000 francs to Therese d'Aurlgnac, who had liurseil him during Ids last illness, she was 'the daughter of a linen draper lu Tou louse, and shortly after the fortune had been left to her she married. Fred erick Humbert, whose father wir's min ister of Justice in He Freyclnet's cab inet, lu IKL.'. Hut before she had lime lo enjoy her windfall two nephews of the. deceased Crawford appeared Hub ert and Henry Crawford, of New York bringing- with .them another will made on Hie same day as I h cm me which left iill in Mine. Humbert. This will provided thai the fort line should be divided into three equal parts, to be given to the two nephews"'' and to the younger e.lster of Mine. Humbert. Ma rie d'Aurlgnac. with the condition, however, that an annuity 'of :t;o,O0 francs a year be paid to the elder sis ter. Hut the nephews were rich al ready, ami generous," too, so they pro posed I hat the fortunes lie united and all made fair by one of litem marrying Mine. Humbert. When they discovered she was already married they proposed tlir. union of one of them witli the younger sister, Marie, who at this lime was a child In school, and the offer was rejected. Then au arrangement was niad? by which Mine. Humbert was made trustee of the entire fortune, to hold until her sister came of age. She was to have an allowance of :!(S.",000 francs a year, and Hie rest of the for tune was to be locked up lu a safe ami not be dlstiii'lfd. A few years Inter when Marie d'Aurlgiiiic came of age she refused to marry cither of the brothers Crawford, and since that time, a natter of twenty years ago, French courts have never been without a Humbert-Crawford ease. In the meantime, no one, not even the lawyers retained by them, has ever seen H.e Crawford brothers, although up to a comparatively short time ago they received, or asserted they re ceived. Instructions from them, and that all the necessary l"gal papers were slgued by them. And Mine. Humbert, unable to get their consent to open the safe and divide the money, look lo bor rowing on the concealed assets. She boughl a palace In the Avenue de la (iruiide AiTt.ee lu Paris, two lnagnlll cent chateaux In the country, a steam yacht, splendid jewels mid spent great sums lu various charities, the money for which she borrowed at very high rates from vaiious money lenders and banks. From one man, a M. (ilraril. she got .VL'-MO.imi); from another man -Sl.lOO.ODO. and from several she se cured nioiT i ban half a million. All this time she was ass-Mtlng that the safe contained 1'JO.OOO.OIH) francs in securities which she could not touch without ihe loiiseut of the Crnwfords, ami to calm the fears of her victims she would show them the ofliclally sealed envelopes containing the fortune, with the allidavits of Ihe notaries as to their contents. A few years ago communica tions from Hie mysterious Crawfonls ceased, Ihe brothers wen' completely lost sight of, and all Hun Mine. Hum bert could do was to borrow money, which she did most successfully, con sidering that the only proof of the ex istence of I lie fortune was her word for It In IS! (7 O Irani, one of her principal creditors, committed suicide on account ot his failure to collect the money he had lent to her. Ills estate was liqui dated by M. Waldeckltousseau, the present Premier, who, during the course of his argument, asserted that the Cravfords, uncle and nephews, had never existed, that they were un known in New York, and that the whole business was a gigantic fraud. Mine Humbert settled this claim for l!,.00.00(i francs. (The Nationalists are making political capital out of Will dock-Houssean's connection with the case, accusing li I lit of having known the truth for the past live years and to lime concealed it for good reasons). Lately, however, new complications have arisen, and finally, two weeks ago, the courts ordered that the safe be opened and the contents examined. This ceremony was to take place on the afternoon of the !lth. On the even lug before, Mute. Humbert with a party, was lu her box at the opera, weajiug her famous Jewels, wjilcu have not been paid for. After the opera she and her friends disappeared, the supposition being that she went to Dieppe, boarded her yacht and sailed away to parts unknown. The next day t.he safe was opened, with the results already Indicated. Warrants have been Issued for the arrest of Mine. Hum bert, her husband nnd her sister and two or the lawyers Implicated , were arrested the dny following lAieOclos ure. Up to last accounts tntvhere abouts of the principals had not been discovered. The swindle is one of Ihe most -extraordinary in the history of crime. Were not the truth vouched for by theT French courts it would be Impossible to believe that a woman could have borrowed nearly $10,000,000 lu twenty years on such a slim story as Mine. Humbert's. The genius with 'Which .the. scheme was devised,, matched on'y Jiy tjic audacity wltir'jvhrcii It was carried through. New York dotnmer clul Advertiser. An Uiionlrlnl nrilrr. Thomas, tenth Karl of Dundonald. at his death Vice-Admiral lu the KuclWIi navy, tells in his "Autobiography of a Sen mini" of an incident on hoard the' Hind, on which he served as midship man. The pet of the ship was a parrot, the aversion of the boatswain, whose whistle the bird learned to Imitate ex actly. One day a party of ladles paid us a visit nboaid. lty the usual means of a "whip" on the yard-arm several had been hoisted on deck. The chain laid descended for another. Scarcely had Its fair freight been lifted out of Hie boat alongside when the panel piped. "Let go!" , 't'he order was Instantly obeyed, and the unfortunate lady, Instead of being comfortably seated on deck, was soused In the sea. Luckily for her. the men were on the watch and quickly pulled her out. and luckily I'm the parrot the boatswain was on shore, or this unseasonable as sumption of the boatswain's functions might have ended tragically fur tin bird. Wimn'l Hid liul. Anyway. .Mr. Wcddle. .visiting. Uls wife's rela- , lives up in Maine, fairly had to go t chinch that Sunday. He did not want to go, but his wife thought It would do him good, and would be apt lo pre serve the harmony nf the family. The sermon was long and powder dry. and Woddle stole.off into the arms of Morpheus, gently and serenely. As he did not snore his wife did not sus. pe'et that he had gonc'to sleep along side of bet. and gave herself up fully to Inspecting the bonnet of the woman In the pew In front. Like all things, good and bad, the sermon came to an end at last, but Weddle slumbered on like' a baby even after a deacon began taking up the collection In a hat. When the derby was paused to Weddle. Mrs. Weddle was surprised to see that he did not respond. She nudged him violently to bring him back to his senses, and Wed dle. awakened with a start, sat up right, and. bewildered, gazed at the lint in the hand of the deacon. Then he shook his head sleepily and said: "No, that Isn't mine. Mine is a gray fedora," New York Tribune. iieru VIcIiiI'Ih'h 'Way. The Queen's Interest In and oversight of public affairs did not cease with the Prince's death, although, lu the tirst years of overwhelming sorrow, it must have been dllllcult to carry out her con ception of duty. All important resolu tions were taken by her; the personal notes in the "Court Circular" were written by her own hand, and were seen by no one else. When Sir Henry Pousonhy became the Queen's private secretary, she said to him: "H.'inember this: uo advice! 1 am older than you are, anil have had more experience." In after years, historians will have much to say upon the Queen's personal sluiiv in the government of her do minions. All her papers have been most carefully preserved and arranged, and some day. perhaps, will be ac cessible to the Inquirer. On the other hand, there is not a single paper be longing to (ieorge III. which is known to be in existence. Professor Oscar Ilrownlng, in the Century. NHpoli-on'it (lrrt I'oiiniif, Napoleon Bonaparte's will, among those of great men, affords the nearest parallel to that of Cecil It bodes in the fortune It bequeathed, lie was surely the richest exile since the world be gan. From his lonely home at St. Helena he bequeathed to his relatives mid friends $10,000,000. He had been rich, In gold as lu power, beyond ihe dreams of avarice, and there must have passed through his hands a pri vate fortune such as mortal man lias lately dreamed of. His exactions from conquered States have been set down at nearly .Sa7.",000.000, which Is, after all, but six times multiplying the gift he secured for himself from the Aus trian treasury after Auscerlltz- UhU cago News. I.ediiilnxtiT'B Old llucklni; Moot. In the old Priory Church of Leomin ster is a very Interesting specimen of the old clicking and ducking stool, a universal mode of punishment former ly In vogue for the punishment of scolds, scandalmongers and women with too long a tongue. It was also Inttlcted on brewers and bakers, etc., transgressing the law, who in ueb stool were inimerged over hciiiifiul cars in (stercorc) stinking water. This mode of punishment dales back to Sax on times, mid the Leominster speci men was the last used lu Kugland of which we have any record, lu ISti'.l. Several other specimens still exist about the country, as at .Montgomery, Warwick, Fordwlch nud LecUe, Twivel. i JIM