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"1-''1 - - " , . , - " -I" L FT L . . .. .. .. ,_ .· ,. · .- .r : _.--a-: ~~~~~~~~~I .: .-? . . . . ... . . .. . . .. .. . mmm u n nn mu e i SEQUJ!TA ibbs Autor.] H pu blished s'e ouunt ontfthat -.'terrible eve t in the Mull of * Cantyre are - very inacen rate. but I should have let them pass un der ordinary .- circumstane eas. s,. My poor friend, Pro. Quintus Extremus Be F 'ithing for popular opin Se never looked at a news t ling, and it seems un w ld adopt the practice now. that the scientfic jour ;misapprehend the story of fte-and that he would feel All the lesson of it may be the facts be made plain. No perform that service for the agmself, and I regard it as a } e- motive of his retirement to i'%of.Cantyre is mfisunderstood. .ahinted in society, I hear. tient scorn of his contem dove hat great soul to make in a barren spot, far from tiet men. In other words,Prof e simplest of human be- 1 whole mind was absorbed in,4 Ror the happiness and advance t,-:the race-was a misanthropel mad;i -charitable if not much i~-informed have stated that his ~ ecame so irritable under the a of those tremendous studies .s lclations that he felt stifled as by . td, even in his lonely house on Ep s. There is some faint truth SBHe said to me once that every s ed to be Derby day when he il id eyes. But a mind so well bal - - reasonable, would never have teampted to withdraw into the S': erit--for such was his abode on the I" of Cantyre-by fancies like these. 'rie'reluctance to move which is natur -..i:o such- dispositions would have --cheekedim. The truth is that Prof. -. rtl ]had long foreseen the necessity - o,~ 1ung a habitation in which he Soil.crry through his last decisive S.rocesseswithout fear of harming any .'nsbhetides himself. This fact I have Sunder his'own hand, in a letter dated July 7 'last year. I had heard of his - 3ortyto uantyre--as who did not? the movements of such a world-wide genis, are chronicled at the antipodes. - .Inr aiwear to my inquiries, the profes -ath- wrote: S"It is quite true that I have built a lIttle house at Ratholin; you shall S-Rtznide tae it for yourself if all goes t e- 'i-ell--about this time next year, so far AS .ean calculate. It is true also that : ihave .built it secretly-that is. Scot, t Swy lIwyer, made all the arrangements t withont naming me. But the state ..~t that I have paid many visits to assure myself that the laboratory, etc., 'Is properly constructed, that I mean to live there. and all the other gossip P whieh you retail, are grotesquely inex a.et, Where is no laboratory, I had .rver seen the house till last week, and i havenot thought of living in it ex . rept fo a'day or two at rare intervals. '- ~si., five years since I perceived that a time would come, if my researches d me to the result which they seemed to indicate, when it would be advisable to have a 'pied a terre' In lome - unpeopled neighborhood. ea - I consulted Scot, in the strictest coifldence, who advised Ratholin. *e ihs carried out my wishes admir ably. The little house is comfortable enough for me, and for you too. I hope. As for the main point, there is but one human dwelling within five miles, and the occupants of that, a shepherd's family, are more than will- tl nlg to turn out for the day upon pay Si ye er he in ki hI = - to in htCO.VuLTED SCOT." it - .....esovereign. If you wish to , oe n condition that ,t.i"'tweek. I have some very S iCtis, to dhow yost." t" p Eblished prove esom asm ip ..been left alone in the o !,by his express desire.- Of lo shot send awiay that ad ;,to whom savants all a re R'eierag respeotful tr oraw. dd he volunteer per " ~'ervnts Wmasins and et.aLt nd the festivity at oh TIhe es ne pratient in t!·;airer I my d to cafi i nt on sphere-nhe oon- t t set should go oa b.eSodi~ and that the o in :his t~r eaI rtl published tpoe smpo : Itwould haeve been dan unl byhisexres deir.- m ~)ie UU~nt sed awy tht ad A eonsequences what they might-Prof. 8eaqils, the glory of English solence. the dear triend of so many among his confreare, undertook that last opera tion whieh should crown, and, as it were, sum utp all the labors of the led human intellect, in all ages. What mas that operation? I cannot t tell precisely. Mr. Sequita has found' very little to assist conjecture in the re study at Epsom, and of his papers at mn- Eatholin not the tiniest fragment re r main. It would be quite consistent let with the professor's other arrange un- meats to destroy every hint of his pur 'ry pose before leaving home. For if the ea operation succeeded,. he designed. 1 d, know, to make a public announcement s instantly; but if it failed, hewould be anxious to prevent others following the in- same deadly course of experiment. W Therefore, it is searcely to be hoped ma- that detailed memoranda survive. '* But although unable to give any ex ur- act information, I can furnish some of hints. Prof. Sequata chatted to me eel a friend from boyhood, ignorant of b technical science-more freely, per No haps, than to his brother savants, the upon the final purpose of his investi gations. There is no harm. 1 think, in -sketching the general idea which to those conversations left on my mind. Md. Everyone knows that the higher prop Mr. erties of electricity were his special m- study of late years. After inventing ke all those wondrous applications of the mm power which have made his name im )- mortal and gained him such wealth, She sought, in his own words, the First in Cause. Of his conclusions upon that e- matter, up to a very recent date, there MI is no secret-they will be published ch shortly. But this inquiry led him, by a Ais parallel course, to speculate on the he mechanics of electricity. That it is the e only force of nature, as we say, the by th ry he he re :. I VISITED THE SPOT. professor had demonstrated long ago. 1 That it is life, not only the principle of I a life, and that men possess intelligence in proportion to the volume or the ac es tivity of electric matter within them er will be shovwn in the work forthcom it ng. From these conditions it follows that if electricity could be stored in 1 is the human body, every mental or phys e ical capacity would be strengthened to a degree only limited by the amount which it could hold. "Visions of glory crowd the aching sight," murmured my poor friend many a time as in broken, K thoughtful phrases he hinted rather c I than spoke to me of the theme that ab sorbed him. The feeblest mind would soar to the heights of genius; genius S would rise to the level of angels. Air and water would be as familiar to man as earth. No limits would bound his forces or his enterprise. And he could live unchanged for ever. ° But how to charge the body with this elixir, and how to retain it? Such were d the problems which held Prof. Sequita L enthralled daily and nightly for ten years past. He never confided the re suit of his labors to me, and if any. were dropped, I had not knowledge r° e enough to grasp them. Gradually, r e however. 1 came to perceive that his a course was growing plainer. He g thought at least that he had a clew. It b must have been about that time Mr. cl Scot received instructions to build a little house in some unpeopled spot. I am reluctant to name the idea that , formed itself in my mind, because it may do the professor injustice; but w your readers will understand that it is fr entirely my own. I fancied then that he had the project of reducing elec tricity to a form which might be in- fa haled, or by some such means taken d, into the body. like gas-not, as at pres- j ent, by a series of shocks which must kill before any great quantity has been pl absorbed. How it was to be retained, 61 I have no suspicion. Once, however, I touched upon that point, and he an swered laughingly: "If the genie doesn't tear me to pieces, I will force it ye into the bottle-and trust me to keep se it therel" be This was the operation, I make no th doubt, which shocked the universe by in its terrible result. Everyone has heard fo how the merrymakers of Arbroath ou were tossed headlong on a sudden in qi heaps, how the farm buildings were fo unroofed, and a tidal wave swept the b coast. To speak of an "explosion" is os singularly inacurate. All agree that, foi no sound was heard, no wind felt, no pe movement of the earth. Prof. Sequita tie was torn to pieces by the genie he had raised. Of his cottage, and .1l in it, not a traee remains; but the soil be neath is undisturbed, the foundation be walls are shaved off, as it were, at the be level of the ground. I have visited the an spot-how sadly unlike the visit to the which I had looked forward-anl in mu truth superstitious persons might think eve that some Divine vengeance had fallen foi on it! Had Prof. 8equita's design sue- gru oeeded, men would have neen as gods- of boundless in their forces and capacities Ro -Immortal. Is there a point at which dread powers stand semed to arrest the triumphal march of science? Did our I lost triend, suspectinag only material sal dangers, touch that point? Sometimes gil I thinak sa. - -In 18666the states of 1ilnots, In diana,' lowa ad Kmanss lacked but -*even of -he numibr of divorces of FARM AND GARDEN. 1i" . f A TERRIBLE BURDEN. -it Poor Road Are the Hes75est Leads Warm - era Have to Carry. I There is considerable talk in a quiet f way among farmers concerning the ad roads and the question of bettering he them. They are beginning to realize at that the only time the roads are good - Is in the summer when they are most nt engaged with their farm work, or by a 'e- chance freeze up in winter. The times i- when they need them the most they he are the worst. In the city where peo 1 ple drive for pleasure the roads are al ut ways good. The first and most liberal be improvements are put upon the high oe ways. An investment of this nature t. not only serves for pleasure, but com ed mercial profit. No business man would allow for a moment a mud hole or rut ,h d A SOFT ROAD AND A BARD PULL. a Scene on roa between Rochester. Pairport and Pittsford, N. Y., from photograph taken in April, 189& An expenditure equal to one pe.r Scent. of the sseassed valuation in Monroe coun ty would build and maintain a system of arteri at county roads, formlng hard smooth ways at all times of the year, and connecting Rochester i with all the prtnor pal villages and towns within the county limits. before his place of business-he could I not afford to; how much less can a farmer afford poor, rough roads? As a matter of business he cannot afford them as well as can a merchant. It is a fact well established that roads over which farmers carry their produce to , market return the largest interest upon the cost of construction. A good road saves from 3" to 3i to the farmer, and oftentimes more, because there are times that the roads cannot be used at alL The habit that some of our path masters have of plowing and dragging,' f only ruins a road; with good drainage, and no good road can be built or main- o tained without drainage, the heavy . scraper and heavy roller are best on common dirt road. There is more to . the farmer in good roads than there is h i in politics. MR. FUNNYMAN'S IDEA. A Farmer Humorist Tells How to Have II Good Roeads. I can inform your readers of the very best way that roads can be improved and the only way tohavelasting roads. Take the road tax from every farmer who is willing or able to build up and care for a limited length of road. Di- bi vide the country roads up into small chunks. Give a premium of a new hi kind of pig or a new strain of cockerel for the best improved chunk of road in the care of any single farmer. Get the ladies interested by offering them prizes of sweetmeats or chocolate drops, if they. will use their influence with their husbands, father and sweet hearts, to make and keep up their quota of the road. Have kissing bees which will interest the boys, they will do any sort of work for a kiss. This will start up a big excitement through out the country. Offer to give all the stone, gravel or sand necessary to make a permanent of road. When there is no stone there is th plenty of gravel, and when there is no gravel there is sand. Alix sand with clay -mix gravel with clay-mix stone pi broken as small as hen's eggs with ou clay. Tax city people and farmers who do not help to make the roads. th Then when everything begins to th work smoothly offer a reward for the poorest worked piece of road. The re- th ward may be a pair of mule's ears cut hi from the head of a defunct mule, well greased and dried. There is nothing ,like rewards offered to start the farmer into good actions. 1 feel confi dent if the above is put into practice hi we will have the best roads that the a world ever saw. And we will have plenty of fun as well as good roads. Stir 'em up. -Cor. Rural World. st Fungus Spores in Seeds. pr, Some fungous diseases of fruits and to vegetables live over winter in the seeds. This is especially true of the bean anthracnose, and possibly also of the watermelon rot. The fungus sporesa in the seeds may be killed by soaking ne for an hour in a solution of three ounces of copper carbonate in one qnuart of ammonia and diluted with four and a half gallons of water. This is somewhat similar to the treatment of cr oats and wheat preparatory to sowmg er. found so efficient at many of the ex-e periment stations and in actual prac-m tice on hundreds of farms is Everybody Is Interested. ma The farmers will be the prircipal t beneficiaries from road reform, but the the benefits will be extended to all Essses and its effect upon business must be of the greatest importance. The move ment should command the support of sta every citizen, and wherever a man is me found with moss-covered ideas of p~ro-i gression he should boe an especial object c of consideration by hid" neighbors- ly. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ha Cows uut ave salit. de Don't let the cows get hungry orcan salt They mint have it in order to me give milk, for milk contains soda and d salt (the common name for chloride of sodium) is the material which furnishes r the soda. But for the soda the casein not of milk wold be absent Neutralize the sods by putting in an acid andse the how soon it turns to *~elbbe.r." Give a cows daily access to salt. -th in"?p.~ PL.ANTING PEAR TREES. The =rads Whate Are esa Profltate ter the Average E*rower. Never plant pear trees on wet soil Do not be afraid to manure them, for you cannot produce large and luseioust e pea on starved trees. Do not let them run too near the sky, but prune beak some every year. If this is done in ie June and July it will Induce fruitful od ness in trees that are tardy bearers. t Of all the early kinds Tyson is my Ss favorite. It is almost free fee from blight ie and for beauty and delicate flavor it is ey scarcely equaled. Seekel is also nearly s blight proof and behaves well either as a dwarf or standard. It bears well rand4or sugary richness and high flavor rh- Is equal to the best. Howell is another 1 re favorite and is a dependable bearer, m- but the fruit is too soft for market. ild Sheldon should not be forgotten, .it ut is one of the best of the fall varieties. Bartlett is too well known to be de scribed and should be planted either I for home or market use. Anjon is about the best of the winter kinds, ex cept it be Lawrence. All these are well tested and of high qualities almost every way. Those who want to make a money regardless of giving offense to * those who really know what good a pears are should plant Kieffer. It will pay in almost any market, and when i cooked with sugar is quite good. Le t Conte is almost tasteless, but in the r south it pays for market.-Prof. L. H. I Van Deman. a NOTES ABOUT MILKING. What to Do and What Not to Do-Prae. tieal Suggestlons. e It is a blessed sight easier to keep t ,rt the dirt and ill flavor out of the milk n In than to take it out of the butter. a Sr Any delay in setting the milk lessens u . the quantity of cream obtained. To q at secure the beat results in cream raising e or let the milk be strained and put at rest tJ 1n at once it is drawn from the cow. To si test this, strain one-half the cow's milk a Id into a pan as soon as you get up from n a the milk stool, and strain the other it a half into another pan half an hour ca later and note the difference in re suits. er The old-time method of covering the o milk pail with a strainer cloth, laying m a clean clam shell in the depression Ld and milking in the clam shell, is not id one which modern dairymen need to ,t re laugh at. The practice is excellent. It allows straining the milk instantly, , Sand does not permit the streams to n, ' force filth through the strainer, as their t1 C, force is expended upon the hard and i n- odorless clam shell, or other like sub- at 7 stance. *n In milking a cow with sore teats al- of ways wet them first, also place the hand so t he sore will come in the palm ty of the hand. in Do not expect to pound milk out of at a cow with the stool, and halloing ni re is no better than pounding.-Farm Journal. tl d TEMPORARY MENDING. th at How to Repair a Break in Greenlahoe or co Elsewhere. ta d I find two large metal buttons and a tu bit of copper wire an efficient means of an temporarily mending a break in green- oc house or elsewhere, provided that none co e e e os Squ fom MENDING BREAKS IN ORRIENHOUSE. ti Na r of the pieces has fallen out. Where tul tthe two or more cracks meet, remove vit the pointed piece and carefully break He of a small bit of the point, replace the a piece, lay one button face down on the mc outside with the ends of the wire down is 1 through opposite holes, and both ends through the opening in the glass; put ffa the other button on the wire face up; twist the wire until the buttons press the glass firmly, and the pieces will be F held securely.--Elder's Wife, in Amer. ican Gardening. 1 The Poultry Business. The raising of poultry on the farmsd of the country is not as general as it th should be, nor is the subject ever given a thought, as a rule, when figuring on the most profitable or productive crops B to cultivate. It is no secret that the staple products furnish the smallest profits for the investment of money, o.r time and labor involved. The raising lrc of turkeys, chickens, geese and ducks s brings more money to the farmer or leg farmer's wife on the investment, than m anything else that can be named. af Rarely a failure except through gros a u neglect, they are always marketable at a profit either alive or dressed; apart lat from them the eggs alone bring in quate a revenue. The favorable conditions d essential to success in raising other mu crops are not demanded, and no good fe excuse can be offered for not raising tio more or less in every state in the union. They are needed on every table so there is always a local as well as outside de mand for poultry and eggs, and hence tr the elements of risk do not figure to flt1 the extent vlsi ble in other enterprisea Thu Growth of Raspherries. a The Prairie Farmer gives in sub di stance the following directions in the had management and growth of raspber law ries: Raspberries grow from young ,w canes that spring up in gardens annual- Iati ly. The old ones die out when they a, have furnished their cropl All the pruning then required is to outout the dead or old wood and shorten the young P canes. Th i s often done in the sem win mer, and the canes shortened until they ool are about thrde or four feet high. When grown as a bush no stakes are wa required, though in this form they can- r not well" be piotected, if of a tender kind, by laying down. Whaen grown - the old-fashioned way, the tederkinds of are laid down, covered with solil, and birt thus secured from fros. the. pree&d- Ingl lug ives in few words- Wh' is often Gel t u 'i' THE BUTTER INDUSTRY. le istoer of one Oe the taple , Oommeditles of Modera Commeree. IL Mention is several times made of the or word butter in the English translation tms of the Old Testament, but most schol !m ars understand the Hebrew word for ok butter to refer to some liquid prepara. In tion of milk or cream. The oldest dis. 1l- tinet allusion to butter is by the Greek ra historian, Herodotus, with an occa ny sional reference by other contempo ht raneous writers who lived about five is hundred years before Christ. The ly Thracians and the Greeks were the as earliest nations to adopt it as food, for all it served as an ointment before it came or to be eaten. It subsequently came into er use among European nations. Mr. It is related by Plutarch that while it. a Spartan lady was visiting the wife of it a distinguished nobleman of an adja i cent principality, the former smelled le- so strongly of sweet ointment, and the er latter so strongly of butter, that a 1 is mutual repulsion was the consequence, _- which finally ended in war. ill A distinguished Grecian physician, at who lived about the time of Christ t ke mentions that butter was made by < to agitating the fattest milk, as that of e 3d sheep. i Ill Another writer treats of the com n parative qualities of that made from I Le the different animals, but none make t he mention of its being used even at this f g. period, except by the Thracians and I ancient Germans. I It was between the third and fourth i centuries that butter came into gen. e. eral use. It is supposed that the gen eral custom of eating of butter was in- c ip troduced into northern Italy by the I Lk merchantmen of Genoa and Venice, a and from these cities the custom grad- t as ually spread over Europe as the good ii 'o qualities of it became known. Ameri- L ig cans are a nation of buttereaters, and, 7 it though immense quantities are con- u 'o sumed at home, many thousand pounds c k are exported every year, and the busi- a m ness is steadily growing, and the qual- 1 er ity becomes better.-Baltimore Ameri- t ar can. t WITHOUT WATER. The lVtimate oenditoun of Our Earth as Deduced From Ansalgy. 0 n A volume might be written on the It vast and awful desolatioq of the lunar a surface; but unquestionably this tre- re mendous metamorphosis wvas wrought n when the oceans, whose dry beds we p 0 now designate as mares, retreated to p r the interior and literally rent the v planet with explosions of natural gas b " and steam. a If we calculate the coolest crust of p our earth at fifty miles in thickness. li e and this is perhaps allowing for more o: n than there really is, then the molten n interior at an approximate estimate si f still has a diameter of seven thousand i E nine hundred miles. We can imagine ti " what an effect this would have on g the earth's contour, or rather on de the character of its periphery, if p any of the oceans should in a sa e colossal way come in direct con- sa tact with this internal fire. We can of a turn our large telescopes to the moon at f and see, on a smaller scale, what has m - occurred, and which, if we may deduce is s conclusions from analogy, will be the ct ultimate fate of the earth. Yet, without the water there could not be a single form of life, for in both vegetable and animal formations this i, is the all-important vehicle in produc tion and development. Beyond. any question it is to the water that all life in forms must primarily refer their ori- gm gin, and there is not a single known w: form that can maintain life without it. re The principle of life can not be opera- to tive except it be in organic moisture. or Neither brain, nerves nor capillary ha tubes are capable of manifesting the ty vital principle in a dry condition. a Hence a waterless world is necessarily du a dead world. It is the water that in molds the sphere, gives it its contour, to is the animating vehicle, sustains its fin life, and also rends it in the throes of co dlssolution.-Pittsburgh Dispatch. TI HEALTH IN LONDON. d Flectuations of the Death Rate in the he Elghteenth Century. Oea From 1700 to 1750 the death rate in cAil London was so high that the popula- na tion stagnated. In the former year the ro' inhabitants numbered ¢65.200. and in it the latter year 658,900. During this sh' period the deaths were in the ratio of edj about one per thirty persons living. bri By 1801 the population had crept up to irr 777,000, and the deaths had fallen to pie one in forty-one persons living. This a f great improvement in the state of pub- bol lie health in London was not, except to 'I a trifling extent, the result of sanitary Ja legislation. People were becoming use more enlightened on many matters pri affecting their health, partly owing to cor a more general knowledge of chemis- inii try, physiology, and other sciences re- wh lating to man and his surroundings. no WVhen those intrusted with the con- of I duct of public affairs became aware how nes muceh the health of the people was atB fected by bad water, by foul emana- son tions, and even cesspools, and by too erm great a density of population, they be- red gan to secure supplies of pure water, lo to construct proper house drains and cas street sewers, to remove systematically thu filth from houses. and to widen streets. F The promulgation of the natural laws the of health preceded the enactment of chi laws of health by the state. Jenner's bra discovery of propeylaxis in smallpox the had for its corollary the vaccination ine laws. The chemicasl analysis of water roa was the basis of acts of parliament re- in d lating to water and rivers.-Charles oft ,ameron, at Sanitary Congress. hen Cleramg RHlmmll. ha Wife--John, you never stand at the was window and kiss me when anyone is qua looking. na Husband-Of course not I don't nd want people to tak~ my darling wife abe Tor a hired girL-TrTth. Wk -It is eomputed that the death rate of the world is T a minuPte, and theom birth rate 70 a minute, and thia seea bo Ingly light percntate of galut hi ;sat Ina ficlent to give a net ibrease .s.p- Ia a upult.~1~T~ i·S HOME HINTS AND HELPS.I --Cookies: Three eggs. two cups eof e ugar, one cup of sour cream, two he thirds butter, one teaspoon soda, Savor , to taste. This makes from seventy-five )1' to one hundred good-sized cookies. r Ohio Farmer. a' -Chocolate Walnuts: Dip halves of English walnuts in melted chocolate, 'i let them harden, and then dip again. "a Chocolate creams can have half of a o walnut dropped on the chocolate as re soon as dipped so the walnut willshow. e . Filberts and pecan nuts can be dipped e in the chocolate twice, and are very • nice.-Good Housekeeping.' --Indian Pudding: Let a quart of milk come to a boiL Stir in meal slow le ly until you have a batter a little of thicker than gruel. When smooth take it off the stove and stir in salt and mo d lasses to taste. Let cool and add two eggs well beaten. Pour over it one a pint of cold milk and bake until brown, which will take nearly one hour. *' Farm, Field and Fireside. - -Pickled Sweet Apples: For pickling, t they may be pared, quartered and ,y cored, as for canning, or pared and the >f core removed with a slim, sharp knife, leaving the apple in its original shape, ,. minus the core, or they may be cut in I halves and the core taken out. Cook e until soft in liquor made the same as is for pickling pears. In short, in any d place where pears are used, sweet ap. ples make a good substitute, and they ' b are healthful as well as appetizing.- E . Country Gentleman. - -How to Pop Corn: Place a quart of common salt in a large iron pot, and e heat until thoroughly dried out. Place C a teacupful of the shelled pop corn into S L- the hot salt, stir constantly, and when s I It begins to pop, keep it moving with a large iron spoon until it ceases to pop. Then dip the corn off with a ladle and use the same salt again. Indeed it s can be used several times, putting it a away where it will keep dry each time. t The philosophy of this method is that t the hot, dry salt absorbs all the mois- t ture in the corn, thus enabling it to a pop out clear and brittle. This is much d better than when a popper is used as so much more corn can be popped at 0 one time. -Orange Judd Farmer. h . -Boiled Salads: Perhaps it never occurred to some housekeepers that the d remains of an old-fashioned boiled din- 1h 6 ner could be converted into a very ti pretty and delicious salad. Equal n parts or any proportions of different vegetables included in the dinner can s' be used. By arranging them in layers on a flat dish they may be made very pleasing to the eye as well. Make a o little mound of dice potatoes, then one e of red boiled beets, then one of turnips, I next carrots, then cauliflowers, then ce string beans, and in the center a little k mound of the cold meat. Parsley and It turnip tops (the young sprouts which Yi grow in the winter) may be used for al decoration. The best dressing is the at plain French dressing; three table- e2 spoonfuls of oil, one of vinegar, and d' salt and pepper. Melted butter, cream al or sweet bacon drippings can be sub- ti stituted for the oil, but should not be of mingled and poured over until the salad fr is about to be eaten.-American Agri- N culturist. FASHIONS IN "KERCHIEFS. Lace or Silk OGaue for Evenlng Use, Chins Silk for OrdlBary Times. b The handkerchiefs in vogue for even ing use are dainty bits of lace or silk gauze, those of real point or duchesse to with center of finest linen lawn still he remaining the favorites for a bride, or in to put the finishing touch to an elab orate toilet, especially when the latter M has a garniture of similar lace. A pret- be ty one can be found for one dollar and sh a quarter, with a narrow border of Y. duchesse lace, and a similar piece let in at the four corners; while for ye twenty-five dollars an exquisitely ca fine specimen, almost entirely is. composed of point, can be procured. is, The handkerchief of silk gaze is usually ell pure white or of a creamy hue, but the delicate tints of pink, yellow, ecru and me heliotrope are favored. The edge is ev, embroidered in white or colored floss- of silks, and one variety displayed has a He narrow hem-stitched border with a -] row of the silk embroidery just above it. A Parisian novelty in silk gauz 1i shows a square of pale yellow with an to edging of black lace set on, the lace ..r broadening or narrowing to meet the ru: irregular outline of the gauze center- tin piece. Another imported sample is of a faint shade of pink crepe with wide border of colored embroidery. we The fancy white or tinted China and we Japanese handkerchief for ordinary of use can be purchased for almost anyas price from nineteen cents upwards, and pe comes with the plain stitch, an added To initial, or with embroidered finish of - white or colored silks. However, it is bo not so much liked as a similar article of linen, and it is sure to lose its white- il ness or original tint when laundered. sai The shops are constantly offering pr some special lot of this both useful and e ornamental part of the wardrobe at a reduction in price, and if one is on the lookout for opportunities the purchase 5O can be effected at much lower rates res than ordinarily. sto For general use or dressy occasions lad the fine linen or linen-lawn handker- Th chief with dainty border of lace or em- the broidery is preferable. One seen on ag. the counter of a Broadway shop was of vie linen lawn as fine as gossamer; its nar- so row hemstitched border was decorated Ho in delicate hand embroidery, and a vine N of the same encircled it just above the roy hem; this article waq marked seven use dollars and a half, and was noticably - chaste and refined in effect. A second on was composed of linen most choice in His qnuality, and its embellishment was of kna narrow Valenciennes, both the edging "Ti and a bad of insertion which was let in my above the border being of this lae, to White is always recommended as in the tood taste, biut the deliate tints are lar permissible when desired to mateh "A1 ome particula shade of dreas or rb- i bona. Upon the 'white baudkseoblhse narrow finish ofoesuloceaambrderay is a present lesefin e -a amodest PERSONAL AND LITE$ Y:l 1 oi -"A uthors are always ooli; ro-' strive to secure popularity," wrii - for gar Faweett. "It is like thewii" w !'- ve bloweth. The great secret of -cos ment on the part of a writer -tto ; sure himself that he has got out of is of pen the best work it can perforu " -e, -Besides her recent volume of. ho.r [ni stories Miss Olive Schreiner has wL r . a ten a longer work, the title of whei as probably will be "From Man to Man." w. It is described as a study in..the o - ed parative ethics of men's treatment, :.'; ry men and their treatment of women. -'t -John D. Rockefeller, the Sts - of oil millionaire, got along in bnaii ;. very well as plain John Rockef~-isr ~ tle until he began to get rich. Theu lie ire appropriated the letter D as a middle o. initial. Nobody knows what this let 7o ter D stands for, and nobody ever will se -Thorny Lafore, a negro, whose will n, was recently probated in New Orleans, leaves an estate worth nearly, if not quite, 8500,000, and as only heir a bed ridden sister. He devised enough to id her to keep her comfortable and left 1e the rest to individuals and charitable institutions. e, -Francis Parkman, the historian, in left an estate valued at $195,950. This - ,k did not include a summer estate at as Newcastle, N. H., copyrights and stee- - ky otype plates and contracts, these behing p of uncertain value. The real estate .ise ,y valued at $55,000 and the personal prop. erty at $140,850. --In 1885 the Austrian press censor rt refused to sanction the publication. of Id two books one of which was "'Pri ;e ciples of Trigonometry," which, he said, discussed the Trinity, a forbidden n subject. The other was a scientifie a treatise on the destruction oft insects. Swhich he imagined made a concealed d attack on the church. it -Father Kenelm Vaughan, of En it gland, a Catholic priest who spent . three years in a missionary journey Lt through South America, from Panama s. to Patagonia, addressed the students o of Johns Hopkins university the other h day on the subject of his adventures. The journey was made on muleback, on the backs of Indians, in canoes, in hammocks and on foot. r -Princess Helen of Orleans isgal- - g den haired, blue eyed, tall and very lovely. She is a magnificent eques 5 trienne, and is a familiar figure on 1 many an English hunting field with - it her favorite horse Chocolate. She . a swims, and shoots with unerring aim, and is most skillful with the sculls and foils-all this without sacrificing any of her dainty femininity or Parisian e elegance. , -WVilliam Lane Booker, the British n consul-general, who has just been - e knighted, remains thoroughly British . in outward aspect after nearly forty I years' residence in this country. He is r above the medium height, neither stout or spare, ruddy, grizzled, ble-e eyed and slightly bent at the shpui s ders. He walks rapidly, and pays little u attention to persons and things upon the street. It used to be said that one a of his duties was to receive the rents i from Queen Victoria's real estate in New York. HUMOROUS. -"How many foreign languages can your wife speak?" "Three-French. German and the one she talks to the baby. "-Tit-Bits. -"Are you certain that Hale is going to marry Miss Frost, of Boston?" "Yes; he's having steam heat and stoves both in his new house."-Inter-Ocean. -"There's a peculiar thing about Mrs. Frett." "What is it?" '"She has been in a pickle all her life, and yet she doesn't look well preserved."-N. Y. Press. -Benedict-"Why won't she marry you? Is there another man in the case?" Singleton-"I'm afraid, there is." "That so? Do you know who it is?" "Yes- her father."-Boston Trav eller. -She-"Do you really and truly love me, Harry?" He-"Love you?, Why I even have a fondness for that nuisance of a brother of yours." She-"Oh, Harry! You have made me so happy!" -Boston Transcript. -"Do you think," said Willie Wish ington, "that it actually hurts a man to be hit with one of Cupid's arrows?" "No," replied Belle Pepperton; "as a rule he merely becomes senseless for a time. "-Washington Star. , -The Emperor Francis I. of Austria. was once present while two of his sons ' were quarreling violently. Atlast one of them said; "You are the greatest. ass in Vienna." "Hushl" said the em peror, "you forget that I am here," To-Day. -Fogg--"Ther's an example of the' bottle working a man's ruin." Fygg' "Humph! Whisky?" gt--,"N6d ink. Jury awarded the girl fiftyiC sand dollars damages in . rhaei promise suit on the strength of ~tlie @ ters he wrote, and it took every he had to pay it."-BuffPaloi Ctre - -Irish viceroys are strippeld o' sovereign attributes as ao ad reach English waters. The story is told of Lord Hough lady with whom he was a They both found themselvedirs the Holyhead packet. Durin ip. age from Ireland the lady viceroy with ceremonies spt. soon, however, as the pa4et e Holyhead harbor shq t a "Now, Bobby, yon are no roy, so take my bag .inn irtsk useful."-London Trruth.b -The earl of Derby, whi on his own land, once sat His lordship inquird 'ied " knew he was walkiia' o s "Thy land? Well, l~ua *ot mysel'," was thergp3~', to walk on smebod's tha' get it fro'?""Oh- lordship, " got "&n' wieer adl