ICELAND'S HOSPITALITY.
or BeMclag Whisk
Shocks m TrtkVeMr.
All mentors of an Iceland family
top in one room, and this, indeed,
often serves all purposes save that of
kitchen. Very narrow and from six
to twenty feet long, according to the
rise of the family, with a row of low
banks on either side, leaving a space
three or four feet wide down the center,
these rooms are lighted by one small
window at the end, ventilated by the
door or the trap through which they
are entered from below and wanned by
the heat of the bodies collected in them.
The steeply pitched roof, constructed
of rafters and overlapping boards and
covered on the outside with a thick
layer of growing turf, rests on low
walls and makes it impossible to stand
upright, except under the ridge. The
priests1 houses and a few others have
guest chambers, with sometimes a stove,
which is only used on extraordinary
occasions, .owing to the difficulty of
transporting fuel from the seaports.
Parties of tourists stop where there is
a church and shiver out the night on
the eight-inch wide benches, the vest
ment chests or the floor, but if there
are only one or two of you and no
guest room, or that is already filled, you
generally share, for experience's sake,
in the somewhat promiscuous nightly
packing of the family for experience's
sake, mind you, and you always get it,
as well as the only good idea of the
home life of the people.
Upon this evening I found myself in
a room smokily and dimly lighted by
seal oil, burned with a wick of cotton'
grass in a lamp of brass, much like the
ancient lamps of the Greeks, but
famished with an overhanging arm and
a swivel and boat-hook arrangement,
which permits of its being stuck or
hung wherever the user wishes. Two
bunks on one side and one on the other
were literally full. In one a man and
two boys, in another two women and
children, and in the third three men,
all sleeping like sardines in a box, the
head of one on thosame pillow as the
feet of his next bed-fellows, and the.
space that was not occupied by human
beings probably was by beings inhuman,
After shaking up the many boxes and
bundles under the rude mattress, ana
giving an extra poke or two to the
feather or down bed which is the only
form of covering known in Iceland, one
of the girls motioned us to the bed
where we were to sleep (an Iceland
gentleman was to share my bed,) and
len, as if it were an every-day oc
currence to shock the senses of a modest
traveler, while we were still undressing
she, with two others, proceeded to tako
possession of the bunk opposite ours,
until 'the last in bed put out the light."
My companion somewhat surprised mo
by a warning to secrete any valuables I
might have, out as ho was an Icelander
I thought it belter to follow his advice
than to trust to the proverbial honesty
of his countrymen, and after an appli
cation from a box of rough on rats no,
well never mind I was soon uncon
scious, breathing carbonic acid gas by
the cubic yard, out in sweet oblivion
until awakened during the general turn
out next morning.
The daylight revealed nothing new,
except, perhaps, the many little articles
stuffed into every nook and crevioe.
Furniture is scarce and a chest of
drawers a luxury in an Icelandic habi
tation, and odds and ends are hung on
nails in the roof, stuffed into the cracks
or in boxes hidden away under the
mattresses in the bunks. Horn spoons,
knives and forks, bits of cloth, needles
books and fishhooks were tucked prov
miscuously away, and old clothes and
fish hunr over lines stretched length
wise of the ridgepole. It was interest-'
ing to see the men, after slipping intd
the few clothes they had removed upon
retiring, sit on the edge of the beds
chatting and sipping thecoffeti brought
by the women.
Several times I was roused from my
musings by the rustling of the disar
ranged covering in a bed which I had
supposed empty, and prcsontly a half
naked child would start up from the
depths and 6taro in open-eyed wonder
at the stranger, who returned the gave
with a sense of the ludicrous rising
within him. From a bed where I had
counted three the night before, four
had already risen, and now many mare
were to follow? At the farther end of
the isle a mattress spread upon the
floor had served for the resting place
of three more girls, whoso accustomed
bunk myself and companion had proba
bly occupied. By this time I had be
gun to feel tho need of a little clean
air, and, getting into my clothes, I
descended to the guest-room where I
breakfasted on more mutton and tur
nips, but lightened this time with a cup
of chocolate and some English crackers.
Lang (Iceland) Cor. Philadelphia Press.
V AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.
Am Incandescent Inap Whfeh Requires
Mo Vacnam In tbe Globe.
Mr. Max Muthel has patented in Ger
many an incandescent lamp which
possesses the advantage of requiring no
vacuum in the globe. He has. it is re
ported, very ingeniously overcome one
danger that experiments of this kind
'have hitherto presented, and that is
the fusion of tho incandescent wire.
The wire used fey him consists of a mix
ture of bodies that are conductors and
non-conductors of electricity. He takes
magnesia, silicate of magnesia, etc.,
and porcelain clay, and forms a fine
thread of them, which he heats to in
candescence and saturates with a sola
tion of platino-iridium salts, and after
ward raises several times to incandes
cence in order to reduce tho absorbed
traits to a metallic state. Instead of the
foregoing mixture, filaments of clay
may be taken and saturated with a
solution of a metallic salt, which is
then reduced to a metallic state, through
; incandescence and the use of oil of
lavender or some other organic sub
' stance, or through an electric current.
With wires thus prepared fusion is ab
solutely overcome, the presence of tho
non-conducting substances preventing
.the metallic parts from melting. Mr.
.Muthel supposes that the electric spark
jumps, so to speak, from one particle
to another, and in this way causes a
heating of the other substances, which,
brought to incandescence, emit a more
intense light. N. Y. Post.
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The Latest Society Whim.
The latest craze which has struck
the Washington belle is the carrying
of canes. A few weeks ago a young
leader in society returned from En
gland, and the next day she surprised
her friends by appearing on the streets
with a cane. It wasn't the ordinary
dude cane, but a nice little stick with a
.shepherd's crook of hammered silver.
Sometimes she swung it and at other
times she struck the ground with a
harp rap. There is no question that
this created a sensation, but there is a
great deal of difference of opinion as
to whether the craze will strike in or
not. So far not more than half 3 dozen
girls have mustered up courage enough
to appear on the street with canes.
The probabilities arc that the craze
will not extend to that point where it
will seriously interfere with the ordi
ary every-day hapf incss of the mod-
aaae. wasnmgum ucucr.
The average price paid a school
teacher in this country is four hundred
And yet some peopic compiatn
: schoolmistresses re not aj-
gflfif
ptMtM. r. r.
BOOKS AS FURNITURE.
Shay Ar Admirable AeUanets t
Home Properties.
Surveyed only from the point of view
of their utility as home furniture,
books have a recognized value. In the
mind of the average purchaser, there is
usually an apologetic residuum after
the accomplishment of his purchase
Carrying his coveted volume home, he
casts about for reasons, apologetic and
sufficient, which shall lead wife and
daughters to condone this unwonted
extravagance. If the book be bound,
it assumes a more definitely rebuking
shape, and he knows that the rigid
economy which accepts resignedly tho
acquisition of a new novel in paper
will be suspicious, if not outraged, at
the greater permanence and cost of
binding.
It is amusing to hear tho excuses
made by book buyers with reference to
the indulgence of their taste for litera
ture. They wore on the train and
something was needed to beguile tho
tedium of the jonrney, or a birthday
anniversary was about to recur, and a
book was not only cheap, but might bo
read by several in tho household be
sides its possessor, or and let it be
confessed that the last is the most fre
quently assigned reason tho book wa3
offered at a bargain somo cents below
its advertised price. To the multitude
any article offered on sale at ninety
nine cents appears fabulously cheap in
comparison with its neighboring arti
cle at one dollar. Ladies ingenuously
own their preference for saving tho odd
cents, and the bazar whioh holds tho
trump card is the one which offers tho
number of wares for sevonty. or eighty
or ninety-nine cents.
Seriously, there is nothing so inex
pensive, its real value, itu perennial in
terest and its external charm all
weighed against its cash price, as a
book and anound book. Wo do not un
derestimate the convenience of cheap,
issues in paper, but their only use after
they havo been read is to lend or to
give away. They are simply rubbish
and impediment in the eyes of the neat
housekeeper, and justly so. Far better
these than none: still, in these days of
luxurious typography, exquisite illus
trations and daintily-perfect binding, a
well-bound book is a thing of beauty
and a joy forever. In itself it is a min
iature art gallery. It helps you in tho
entertaining of guests. It offers a theme
for conversation. It tends to the fos
tering of refinement in the children. It
diffuses around it an ntmospnorc as
distinctly elevating, if the book be good
and bad books should never be ad
mitted into the home as tho air of
health which blows cheerily from tho
mountains or the sea. It drives ennu
away; it stimulates to activity. Any
teacher will testify to tho fact that his
most intelligent pupils are the bookish
pupils the girls and boys who are ac
customed to nandling books and living
in their good company.
But, conceding all this, admitting
that the everlasting borrowing of books
is as much a mistake in manners as
should be the borrowing of coats, or
vests, or gowns, or gloves, we present
an argument whicc shall irresistibly
appeal to the- frugal -nind.
Books furnish. They furnish in the
same manner that drapery and pictures
and bric-a-brac do. After you havo
possessed yourself of the bare necessi
ties, the carpets and chairs, and tables
and bedsteads, aud when you begin to
think of adornment and decoration,
every penny you expend in books is an
investment which will return you largo
interest. Furnish a house in the ex
treme of the upholsterer's art, without
regard to the money spent, omitting
books, and your house shall resemble a
statue waiting for tho soul. The backs
of books on the shelves, books ou tho
centor-tablo, books tempting hand and
eye, as tho caller in the parlor awaits
the advent of the hostess, are all useful
in filling up what wo may style tho
properties of the home. You may mako
a mistake in buying silver or glas3.
Your other furniture may find itself in
the wako of a departing fashion; your
pictures may bo inharmonious, or'you
may pay too much for them in propor
tion to the merit, but the modest book,
costing comparatively little, well worth,
even if it cost much, the price of sev
eral desserts and of two or three pounds
of candy, will, merely as furniture, re
ward you by its vindication of your
taste and its quality of inherent vitality.
Therefore good maler-familias encour
age the household book buyer. Home
Journal.
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A PEDESTRIAN WONDER.
Vke Besaarkable Walking- Feats Performed
by m Norwegian Sailor.
The pedestrian feats of the present
day are castjnlo tho shade by the re
corded exploits of Ernst Mensen, a
Norwegian sailor in the English navy,
early in the present century. Monsen
first attracted attention by running from
London to Portsmouth in nine hours,
and soon after he ran from London to
Liverpool in thirty-nine hours. Having
distinguished himself at the battlo of
Navanno in 1827, ho left the navy and
became a professional runner. After
winning a number of matches he under
took the feat of running from Paris to
Moscow. Starting from the Place Vcn
domo at four o'clock in the afternoon
of June 11, 1831, he entered the Krem
lin at ten o'clock a. m., on June 25,
having accomplished the distance of
1,760 miles in thirteen days ami eigh
teen hours. Tiie employment of Men
sen as a courier extraordinary became
a popular amusement in European
courts. He ran from country to coun
try, bearing message; of congratula
tions, condolence or despatches, and
always beat mounted couriers when
matched against them. He never walked
but invariably ran, his refreshment be
ing biscuit and raspberry sjTitp. Ho
took two short rests onlj' in the twenty
four hours. These rests he took stand
ing and leaning against some support;
at such times he covered his face with
a handkerchief and slept. In 1836,
while in the employ of the East India
company, Mensen was charged with
the conveying of dispatches from Cal
cutta to Constantinople, through Cen
tral Asia. The distanco is5,615 miles,
which the messenger accomplished in
fifty-nine days, or in one-third of the
time taken by the swiftest caravan. At
last ho was employed to discover the
source of the Nile. Setting out from
Silesia on May 11. 1843, he ran to Jeru
salem, and thence to Cairo and
up the western bank of the river
into Upper Egypt Here, just outside
the village of Syang, he was seen to
to stop and rest, leaning against a palm
tree, his face covered with a handker
chief. He rested so long that some per
son tried to wako him, but they tried
in vain, for he was dead. He was
buried at the foot of the tree, and it
was 3-eara before his friends in Europe
knew what late had befallen him. if.
T. Clipper.
Quite a Novelty in His Way.
The wife of a New York cashier
remarked at the supper table:
"Have you read the late novel by
Wilkie Collins?"
"Haven't read it"
Well, there is a cashier of a bank
In it just like you. He is honest and
faithful, and does uot run off with his
employer's money.
That's the way it is with those
novelists. They are so unnatural ami
improbable in their description.-. (
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ROLLER SKATING.
Tbe BUe and Fall of the Paatlae-Tfc
Fortone Made Darlag the Craze
The great, empty, barn-like struct
uresthe skating rinks which last
season were alive with thousands of
busy skaters, are very quiet now.
Here and there in the city can be
found one that is making an effort to
keep open, but the attendance is very
poor and tho attractions that last year
would have brought out thousands are
bringing but few to the rinks this sea
son. The "craze" is over. It was a
very profitable one for the manufactur-
I ers ox roller states ana tne owners or
! rinks last year. There were rinks in
J this city that made thousands of dol
1 lars. Last year Frank Hall, the pro
prietor of the Olympian Rink, in Fhila
I delphia, and who owned a factory for
' making roller skates, sold one hundred
. thousand pairs of skates. This year he
has sold nono and has closed nis fac
tory.
Mr. Hall says that, though the
"craze
that roller skating as an amusement is
ID J W l& , .V M& lUlOIMAV w ..
to die out. wnen tne "craze" nas en
tirely subsided roller skating will be
reduced to the limits of a pastime upon
which legitimate business ventures
may be made.
Nothing connected with the "craze"
is more curious than the manner in
which it affected the trade in boxwood,
maple and hemlock. The boxwood
was found to be the best material from
which to manufacture the rollers. In
consequence, last year that wood
jumped up from $26 a ton to $40, and
one firm, by a fortunate purchase just
before the market took an upward turn,
made $17,000 in less than two weeks.
The market was stripped almost bare
of boxwood for a time, and thousands
and thousands of tons were made
up into rollers in a few months.
Boxwood is selling now at $18 a
ton, and the price is still going down.
So enormous did the proportions
of the infatuation for roller-skating
become that companies with hun
dreds of thousands of dollars as capital
were formed for tho purpose of con
structing rinks in small cities all over
the country. Theso rinks were built
for the most part of hemlock, and so
extensivo were the opcratidns that this
lumber, notwithstanding tho immense
supply, made advances until tho market
at ohft timo showed that its value had
been increased at least 25 per cent, by
tho large operations of the construction
companies. Since 1884 the price of
hemlock has fallen off 90 per cent be
cause the building of the rinks had to
be stopped. One of these construction
companies in ten months divided profits
of $400,000. The plan of the managers
was to build a rink in a promising
locality, run it a few weeks, and then
sell it out to local speculators. Maplo
was found to bo the best wood with
which to construct tho rink floors, and
this lumber jumped up to $50 and $55
a thousand feet.
It is an interesting fact that the
"ronor-skattagefwse1' would havo COTtte
long ago but for the patent F of seven
teen years after the skate was patented
not a skate was sold, and yet tho
patentee in that time made $3,000,000.
Eben Plimpton was the lucky fellow
who first conceived the idea of tho
roller, and he made all the f oiler skates
used during thp years his patent ran,
and rented thjm out to skating-rink
managers. Ho always made the con
tracts read that he should recelvo ten
per cent of the admission receipts and
all the money for tho rental of the
skates. Of course, roller skating did
not flourish under these circumstances,
but the amusement was popular enough
to keep small rinks in largo cities, and
Mr. Plimpton made money. As soon
as the patent expired and skates could
be made by any one the "craze"
started, and started in Richmond, Ind.
A citizen of that place started the
manufacture of roller skates in a little
wood-shed. The skates bccaraopopular,
a'nd he enlarged his shops until he had
a factory of over four hundred feet in
length and ono in which many work
men are employed. He has made a
round million of dollars in the business.
Pittsburgh CJtronicle.
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MODERN SCIENCE.
Its Discoveries la Regard to Man's Senses
and Constitution.
The experiments which have been
and are being mado in Germany and
in this country on the five senses show
that there is no especial apparatus for
each in the human system. It has
been proven that touch, for example,
is not a function of the skin solely, as
heretofore believed, but is an organiza
tion which works out its wonderful
results through distinctly created ma
chinery. This machinery registers
the minutest pressure and the slightest
alteration in temperature. Scientists
demonstrate that there are distributed
spots on tho skin which are cold and
hot, and that there are places interme
diate botween these localizations whioh
arc insensible both to pain and to cold.
These epidermal spots are unequally
distributed over varieties of human
bodies, but aro to be found in such sizo
and localities as are best adapted to
the wants of an individual; and further,
that they peculiarly differ in their dis
tribution on tho body of tho same per
son. It is stated, too, that the places
intermediate between tho cold and heat
spots may bo pierced with a sharp in
strument without producing pain. All
feeling, of course, proceeds from the
brain, tho apparatus of touch being but
a register in given localities of tho
human organism. A gentle pressure
on the hidden springs of tho machinery
is at onco telegraphed to the brain, and
the answer is sensation pleasurable or
painful. Another discovery has been
made, and it is that tho whole of tho
esophagus is alive to temperature, thus
evincing that the apparatus of touch is
made sensitive even there by the at
mospheric pressure. In fact, if the
hidden organs could bo reached, it
would bo seen that the organ of focling
variously operates upon them. It is no
longer conjectured that tho entire
surface of the body breathes, and
German scientists go so far as to
say that in the experiments touch
ing the five senses they "indicate
the external covering of the human
body as the primeval and reliable source
of knowledge of tho external world,"
and justify tho belief that further re
searches may "shed more light on
Sdnie of the fundamental problems of
Escychical action and unfolding." That
1 going too far in the repudiation of
the primary motor, mind. Neverthe
less, the onward stride of science is
developing something wholly new in
regard to that "fearfully and wonder
fully made" being, man, and the en
riouszpart of it is that man himself is
becoming gradually but surely to attain
a knowledge of himself! Discoveries
as to touch and temperature are the
most recent of wonders, and the twen
tieth part of the mysteries of each have
not yet been developed. .Y. Y. Mer
cury. m m
The Hawaiian Gazette says the na
tives of the Sandwich Islands have
"only just reached a higher civilization
than poi, the. national dish, and if the
Chinamen come into the islands all that
has been gained will be lost" Then
by all means let Chinese immigration
into the Sandwich Islands be prohib
ited. When a people have reached a
higher civilization than "poi" they
should be assisted and encouraged in
their great and glorious advancement
But what a ridiculous way to spell pie.
Norristovm Herald.
ii
An artists' chance for drawing a
turkey in s raffle is no bettor than any
body Ut.-Jf0 Bm.
HE POUND OUT.
enraalaqvlBtilve traveler Had Hli Carl?
asttr&ufefled.
When tbe train comes to a stop on
flBlmg Botween tho stations soincfhlng
has got tofce done. Tho veteran raff
road traveler cither polls out a news
paper or settles down for a cat-nap,
and the responsibility of finding why
the tram is standing here instead at
firondering along twenty miles away
devolves upon Farmer Davis. Mfc
Davis got on' two stations below, and
Is going three stations beyond. He
was at toe depot just an hour and a
half before train time, and he spent the
long interval in reading railroad adver
tisements and walking up and down
the platform. He didn't ask the sta
tion master if the train was on time
over twenty times, which was letting
him down very easy.
Now that the train has come to a
standstill without just cnuso or provo
cation something should be done. In
deed, something shall be done, and Mr.
Davis is the man to do it. Ho throws
op his window, crawls out as far as he
can, and looks up and down tho train.
He soes nothing to alarm, and nothing
to indicate tho cause of delay.
"Mighty singular, isn't itP" he
Queries of the man behind him as he
draws m his head.
"Yes."
"Ever known a train to stop this way
before"
"Never."
"Somo ono ought to find out the cause
of it, hadn't they?"
"Somo one certainly had."
"Well, I'll go out and look around ft
little. If they've come to a lop a
purposo to let somo other train run into
us I want to know it."
Tho fanner goes out and walks down
to tho rear of tho train, but nothing is
in sight Then ha heads about fdr tho
locomotive. When ho reaches it ho
finds the fireman oiling up ami the en
gineer smoking. He can't sec that
there is a single wheel missing not a
one. Tho cow-catcher is in its acens
tomed position smoke-stack, cab ami
tender arc seemingly all right, and
Farmer Davis begins "to feci indignant.
"What's the matter?" ho demand,
as ho looks the engineer square in the
eye.
The engineer looks down upon him
as caini ana placid as a June morning,
but has no reply.
"Anything givu ontP"
No reply.
The fireman is next appealed to, but
if Mr. Davis was ten thousand miles
away that fireman could not have been
more oblivious of his existence.
"Now you look a-hero!" says the
farmer, as he advances a foot nearer'.
"I want to know why in Tophet this
'ere train is fooling around herd along?
side of this swamp instead of tending
to bizncssP Mebbo you've" got time to
fool away, but I haven't!"
Neither the engineer nor fircmnn
looked at him. He thought of climb
ing into the cab and waking them up.
but gave up the iden ou second
thought, and returned to fit? seat in
tiie car. Just as he reached it tho CraV
cago express cawo rushing post, ami in
half a minute his own tram moved on
"Why, tlioy must a-bcen waiting tor
that train!" ho said to the mail bvhihd
him.
"Oh, certainly.-"
"And you knew it all the timer
"Of course."
"Then, sir, I want to say that yon
aro apizen-inean man not to tell me of
it, arid I wouldn't sell you 'raters' if
you offered four dollars' per bushel!"
Detroit Free Press.
A MODEST SCIENTIST.
Mr. A. Martin, the Creates Mathematician
In America.
The Librarian of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey is an odd
sort of person. The only name hd per
sonally cares anything about Is Arte
mas Martin, but he has a half dozen
prefixes and suffixes, all given him by
learned societies. Mr. Martin is one of
tho first mathematicians in the world.
Tho problems of Calculus are to him
mere child's play. Nothing short of
mathematical sophistries of the most
abstruso and unpractical sort have any
fascination for him. Oddly enough,
Mr. Martin was, until his appointment
in tho United States Government ser
vice, a market gardener. He owned a
small piece of land on the south shoro
of Lake Erie, within a half-dozen miles
of the city of Eric, which he tilled,
raising mostly kitchen truck for tho
city market Twice every week ho was
to bo found In his stall, as little known
to his customers or people of the city as
was the vender of poultry or the seller
of beads and buttons in the neighbor
ing stalls. One day it was announced
in the telegraphic news in the papers
that a Mr. A. Martin, of Eric, Pa., had
been elected an honorary member of
one of the leading learned societies of
Great Britain, tho Royal Mathematical
or something of that sort, I have for
gotten just now what Everybody said:
"Who's Martin?" "Have we any such
distinguished individual in ourmidstP"
No one seemed to know. A few days
later tho University of Michigan con
ferred the degree "of Master of Arts
upon Mr. A. Martin, of Erie, Pa.
Here was a fresh bit of news. Well,
after awhile this learned but mysteri
ous man was discovcrod in the person
of the gardener who tended a stall in
the city market A man of perhaps
forty-five, ho was tall and ungainly,
dressed as became his calling, looking
as little like a fellow of a royal British
society as like British royalty itself.
But fame mado no change in tho ap
pearance or occupation of tho market
gardener. Ho continued to tend his
stall and study, too, 4 suppose ns be
fore, dropping tho former only when
nnnointed a few months asro to tho
Government position for which ho is so
eminently qualified. Cor. Detroit Free
Press.
Getting Up Wood.
There Is no better time to get wood
from tho lot than on the first snows,
and before a great depth has fallen.
As soon as tho ground freezes, tho
farmer can generally get time to go
into the wood lot and cut what is
needed for the next seasoals supply,
and havo it ready to be hauled to thu
woodshed as soon as there comes good
sledding. This is an easy way to get
the wood out, for it is. often difficult to
get about tho wood lot with wheel?,
and then if the wood is at the door it
can bo cut at convenient times and
made ready to be housed. It is much
more comfortable cutting wood in tho
lot before tho snow gets deep. Congrc
gationalist. Tho Supremo Court of Massachu
setts has decided that tho word "guest"
as defined by the public statutes under
tho license law, is limited to persons
who resort to an inn for food and lodg
ing, and clearly excludes those who
resort there for tho purposcrof produc
ing and drinking intoxicating liquor.
m m
A nicely sharpened lead pencil Is
the only thing in sreation that defies
the law of gravitation. Tho lighter
end always strikes tho floor first
Burlington (VI.) Free Press.
Society spends nearly all of its
time not devoted to eating and dress
in discussing what somebody not iu so
ciety is doing or has already done.
fhiladelpfria Timet.
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
When snow is scarce and the.
weather freezing, look out for your
orchard trees aud vines.
An excellent remedy for hiccough
for youug and old is grar. dated sugar
moistened with pure vinegar. For an
infant give from a few grains to a tea
ipoonful. Toronto Globe.
. Coarse brown paper soaked in
vinegar and placed on the forehead is
good for sick-headache. K tho eyelids
are gently bathed in cool water, the
pain in the head is generally allayed.
Exchange.
Treacle Muffins: One and one
fourth cups oatmeal, one cup flour, one
half cup brown sugar, one-half cup
butter worked into the sugar, one egg,
iinall cup of milk, a teaspoonful soda
dissolved in less than a half cup of
molasses, one egg, a little nutmeg.
Albany Journal.
For a light tea oake, take one cup
of sugar, two eggs, half a cup of melted
butter, one and a quartor cups of milk,
twoteaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and
one teaspoonful of soda. Add flour
enough to make a stiff battor. Bake
twenty minutes in a good oven. Boston
Budget.
A Salamander: Bone a chicken and
rub it well all over with cayenne and
pounded ginger; put a quarter of a
pouud of butter in a stew-pan and lay
the chicken in it; let it simmer in the
butter until it is quite cooked; lay it on
a dish and pour the butter ovor it with
the juice of a lemon; serve very hot
The Caterer.
Snow B til: Coro and peel six ap
ples; till tho placo wher- tho core was
with orange or lemon peel chopped,
Allow two tablespoons fujs of rice to
cover each apple and scatter this ovor,
ater it is placed in the cloth. Tie
each apple in a separate cloth and boil
one hour. Sorve with sauce. -Ciitc:'.i-nali
Times.
For ebonizing wood, use half an
ounce of copperas and eight ounces ot
logwood chips. Boil the logwood
chips in one 'gallon of water for half
an hour and then add the copperas.
Tho mixture must bo applied hot to
tho wood. Two or three coats will be
required. If the ebonized wood is to
be varnished, a little black must be
added to the varnish else it will give it
a brown tinge. Chicago Journal.
Orange snow is delicious when pre
pared after the following method: Au
ounce of isinglass is dissolved in a pint
of boiling water. It is then to be
strained and allowed to stand until it ia
nearly cold. Now mix with it tho juice
of six or seven oranges and one lemon.
Add tho wliite! of threo eggs and sugar
to taste. Whisk the whole tosretnei
until it looks white and like a sponge.
Put it into n mold and turn it out on
tho following day. Toledo Blade.
Plum Pudding: Beat thoroughly the
yelks of four eggs and stir them into a
quarter of a pint of milk; add a quarter
of a pound of snot chopped tino, half a
pound of fine bread crumbs, half a
pouud each of stoned raisins and cur
rants, one-eighth of a pound of citron
cut into thin peels, one and a quartet
gills of sugar, a little nutmeg, powdered
Cinnamon and mace. Mix all well
together, adding to the lvt tho white
of the cgsfs beaten to a stiff froth. Tic
in a cloth aud boil six hours, turning
onco in a while, and being sure to keep
boiling water on hand to add to that in
the kettle when it boils down. Boston
Globe.
GERMAN FARM HANDS.
The Wajres They Receive In Some of tfct
Kmplrc'4 Richest Districts.
Consul Dithmar, at Brcslau, Ger
many, has made a report to the Depart
ment of State relative to agricultural
labor. He says the laborer usually
lives upon tho estate, aud is employed
upon it tho year round. The working
hours aro in summer from six a. m. to
leven p. m., and in wintor from sunrise
to sunset. He has free lodging and free
fuel, and it is customary also to allow
his family the use of 100 square rods oi
land for raising vegetables. As direct
wages he receives per annum $19 to
$23.80 in cash aud 24 bushels of rye, S
bushels of peas and U bushels of wheat
Tho laborer's wifo is bound to work in
the field whenever required, aud re
ceives for a day's work in summer 12
to 14 cents, and in wintor 10 to 12. Of
tea, meat and tobacco the farm laborei
gets but little. If he smokes a pipe it
is but seldom, and his tobacco is un
manufactured leaf. In harvest, time he
is treated to schnapps to encourage
him in his work. A writer on economic
subjects estimates that a laborer's
family, consisting of himself, wife
and five children. under 12
j'ears of age can sudsisc ior
$1.09 a week, or $57 a year. Miners
and mino laborers reeeivo daily from
52j cents (which is paid to foremen,
engineers and carpenter.) to 18 and
15 cents paid to womrn and minors.
Tho average cost of tiie subsistence of
a miner's family, inoluding rent, cloth
ing and tixes amounts to $122.80 per
annum. The rents paid by miners
range from 36 cents to $1.19 jjor mouth.
Mr. Fox, the Consul at Brunswick,
sends a report on agriculture labor in
that duchy. The wages paid to agri
cultural labor depends upon tho locali
ty where such labor is employed, being
considcrablyliighcr in the level than
in tho mountainous districts In the
former the vagi.s of a man and wife
aggregate $l!)4.2G per annum, while in
the mountain districts a man aud his
wife, assisted by a child, uarn.s but
$184. Men aud women earn from S3
to 47 cents hoeing, and from 47 to 59
gathering beets. In this latter work
children aro also employed to cut oft
the leaves, and a .;hild from 10 to 12
years old will earn in a period of three
or four weeks 24 cents daily. In the
matter of boot culture contract labor
is sometimes engaged, cash wages be
ing from 24 to 30 cents per diem. Oft
en a donation of 11 emits per diein i
given, provided the laborer remains
steadily at work until the contrast ex
pires. Each employe receives from 20
to 70 cents head money upon entoring
into the contract, and extra hours are
paid for at tho rate of 2, 3 and 4 cents
per hour. As a rule, every five or six
work people receive one quart of milk
and often one pound of bread per head
daily, with coffee iu the morning and a
warm meal at uoon and night, with
meat on Sunday. Waihuiglon Cor. N.
Y. Sun.
To Prevent Rusting of Iron.
A composition has been invented by
an English cngineor whioh is claimed
to offectully preserve iron from
rust, being also usefully applicable to
other materials, such as stoue and
wood, used in conjunction with metal.
This composition consists of 100 parti
virgin wax, 125 of Gallipol, 200 ol
Norwegian pitch, 100 of grease, 109 of
bitumen of Judoa, 235 of gutta percha,
120 of red lead. 20 of white lead, these
ingredients being mixed together in
the order named in a boiler, tho gutta
percha being cut up iu small nieces ox
rasped. The mixture is stirred at each
addition and poured into molds. For
iron it is melted and laid on with a
brush; for stopping holes it is used as
paste. Boston Transcript.
The London Lancet says that chil
dren who are allowed to go barefooted
enjoy almost perfect immunity from the
danger of "cold" by accidental chill
ing of the feet, and they aro altogethei
healthier and happier than those who.
in obedience to the usages of social
Hie, wear show ad stockings.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Tutors at Harvard are said to re
ceive salaries of from $900 to $1,200 a
J sr. while the trainer in athletics "get
2,000.
The English Church Congress of
1886 will be held at Wakefield, on Oc
tober 5. 6. 7 and 8. The Bishop of
Ripon- has been chosen president for
the year.
At a late meeting of tho Psesbyte
rian Synod of Dakota the Indian women
reported having raised fivo hundred
dollars for .missionary work among
their own people the past year. Tins
was more than all the money raised by
their white sisters in three societies.
Missionary work in Mexico is at
tended with hard work and slender re
sults. A missionary preacher writes
that he and one other preacher are ex
pected to supply oighVcfcttrches, and
also to open new fields of labor. In
ordor to do this they will have to spread
themselves out exceedingly thin San
Francisco Ghronicte.
Charlemagne in 789 gave these
wise instructions: "Let sjome one open
schools to teach childronito read; let
in every monastery, iu every bishopric,
somo one teach psalms, writing, arith
metic, grammar and employ correct
copies of holy books; for often men
seeking to pray to God pray badly on
account of the unfaithfulness of copy
ists." In France in the tenth and elevonth
centuries there scunulo have boen a
Kind 01 religious "revival 01. peace.
The clergy "preached it;; religious en
thusiasts went from village to village
proclaiming in the name of Christ, the
"Prince of Peace," and holy relics
were brought to public places, on which
tho wild barons swore a vow of peace.
Rev. Dr. Clark, in reviewing the
work of tho American Board of Foreign
Missions during tha lat twenty-five
years, says: "As a result we note an
advance in churches from 103 to 292;
of church members from 3,500 to 23,
000; of pupils in common schools from
8,000 to S5,000; of native pastors from
25 to 147, not to speak of the growth
of a large and eflicient body of native
preachers and teachors acting as co-la-borors
with us iu tiie emngelization of
their people." .y. Y. Tribune.
As stated in tho ProvinziaUEcJittl
collegium the maximum of daily school
work considered in Prussia to bo com
patible with health is fixed at from sev
en hours a day for children of cloven
and a half years, tin to nine hours for
those of sixteen and a half and upward.
The standard is thought too high by
very many German teachers and doc
tors, and Dr. Koth states that sixty-four
per cent of those wlio should work
after graduation ar much bolow the
normal standard of health. The
standard in Denmark is still higher,
and a recent government investigation
finds that twenty-nluo per cent of the
boys and forty-one per cent, of the girls
are "sickly" from confinement and
mental strain.
The ecclesiastical summary of the
Roman Catholic Church in tho United
States for tho year ending January 1,
1886, show that tho Archbishops num
ber 12, Bishops 62 and . priests 7,926.
Tlftrc aro 1,621 ecclesiastical 6tudonte,
tho Archd'ocese of Milwaukee having
the largest number 335. There aro
6,755 churches, 1,071 chapels, 1,733
stations, 36 diocesan seminaries or
houses of studv for regulars, 85 col
leges, 618 academics and 2,621 paro
chial schools, attended by 492,949
pupjl3. Tho charitable institutions
number 440.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
The stars themselves are the best
astronomers. They studded the
heavens before Adam had a telescope.
N. O. Picayune.
Talking about being in comforta
ble circumstances, did you ever see two
lovers occupying one armchairr Bur
lington Free Press.
"Ah, Miss Green, what aloyely
complexion Miss Pink has! I declare
she is as protty as a picture." "Yes,
Mr. Black, one might almost think she
had been painted by ono of the old
masters." Chicago News.
In England young gentlemen speak
of their fathers as "tho governor,"
"pater," "the overseer," etc. In Amer
ica they say "dad." "the boss," or the
"old man' In heathen countries they
say "father," but they are a long way
behind the age. N. Jr. Telegram.
A South Side girl who covered her
face with her hands when she thought
her lover was about to kiss her, in
her disappointment complained: "O,
Harry, my hands are so small; there's
room enough for five hundred kisses
between them." Chicago Telegram.
"Darringor, I sympathize with yon
in your financial distress. As a friond
you can trust me every time." But,
Bromley, that doesn't happen to be the
kind of friend I am looking for. I want
a friend who will trust mo." Philadel
phia Call.
Rev. H. R. Heweis savs that "a
poem becomes a hymn as it becomes 'a
lifter.'" "According to this notion."
says a certain young man, "my girl's
father ia not a poem. Anyway he
doesn't become a hymn when he be
comes a lifter." This may be becauso
he is opposed to the meet-her. Nor
ristoum Herald.
Matilda Snowball, the colored do
mestic in an Austin family, was sus
pected of helping herself to somo wine.
"Own up, Matilda, that you have been
drinking out of this bottle of Rhine
wine," said the lady of the housr.
"No, mum, I nebber has been near dal
bottle." "Aro you sure?" "Ob course
I is. Ketch me a-drinkin' dat ar sour
sniff what puckers up yer mouf. No,
mum, I has got better senso dan dat
ar." Texas Silings.
A Boston girl was at a New York
reception. "So you are from Boston?"
said a young gentleman to her. "O,
dear!" she responded, with an accent
of despair, "how did you know? I'm
sure I tried hard enough to conceal it"
"To conceal it?" he repeated, with a
puzzled air. "Surely, you are not
ashamed of it?" "O, no, replied she,
with engaging candor; but I thought
everybody would be afraid to speak to
me if they kuew I was from Boston."
Philadelphia Press.
"O, dear," exclaimed Mrs. F after
vainly endeavoring to pour hot water
out of the empty tea-kettle, "how did I
forget it I wonder. I'm getting a per
fect simpleton. I wish I did nave a
little common sense." "But, my dear,"
interrupted Fogg, "supppose yon had.
Do you think you'd know what to do
with it?" "Do with it?" echoed Mrs.
F. ; "many things. I might want to be
married again, yon know, and it might
save me from making a fool of yself
a second time." Boston Transcript.
Proper Protection of Stock.
The rule to be obserred by erery
farmer in regard to the proper keeping
of cattle is that every animal from tbe
greatest to the least should be kept
happy and saved from pain and misery.
Then tho stock are profitably kept, and
the profit is in proportion to the degree
of comfort enjoyed by them. Every
farmer before be retires to his own
warm bed at night or before he eats
his abundant supper, should ask him
self: Are my cattle, horses, sheep,
pigs, and fowls resting in comfort and
with well filled bellies F If he can not
answer himself affirmatively and his
conscience accuses him of neglect, Ids
him be assured that his pocket is suf
fering just as much as his stock 9X8
and that, moreover, his conduct is just
m inhuman as if he prodded his an
male with a fork or beat tbfsB wMfc
labs. IT. T. Timet.
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