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HJJ YOUTHFUL HEADERS. »TTERS OF PARTICULAR IN TEREST TO THE YOUNG. With Toothpicks—A Camp "2j£L_Not Butter—A Little Nan nv-Goat—Tackled the. ,, Ghost. Tricks With Toothpicks. Tricks with toothpicks? Why. cer finty, and good ones, too. And, bet still, anybody can do them—after ning how. Here is one that mil ante old heads as well as young, thepicks and form them into nine squares, when they will looklike the annex ed diagram. Then ask your friend to remove eight picks and leave only two squares in stead of the original aine. If the trick is correctly done the tight picks bordering on the big out vie square will be taken away and ie solution will be seen in the second diagram, which is here given. THE THREE SQUARES. Another little puzzle |in known as "the three squares." First form he picks in the accom nying diagram and [then "request your end to remove three picks and leave but three squares. He will undoubtedly ponder over the problem for a long time before he hits lupon the proper combination, it can lonly be done one way, and that is |to take up the central pick in he lower Iron- and then remove the two picks in •the upper left hand corner. Then the I squares will appear as in the fourth I diagram. TRIO OF DIAMONDS. Another pretty but Imystifying trick is •styled "the trio of dia Imonds." It is rather I unfortunate in name, as it gives a slight cue as to tne manner in which the puzzle is done. The problem is to make four squares, as in the fifth diagram, and to change the positions of four I picks, leaving three I squares instead of four. [These must all be joined together as at first, and be of the same shape and size. Although this appears easy to solve, yet many people will find it to be a perplexing proposition. The fifth diagram, how ever, shows all you have to do: Take the'two toothpicks from the I upper left hand corner and place them in the same posit ion at the upper right hand corner then remove the two picks from the lower right hand cor ner and place them with the two oth I ers at the upper right hand corner. A Camp Bed. My latest device, suitable for all service, has been made up as follows: A mattress body, made up of a piece of "hair boiler telting," 5-8 to 3-4in. thick, 6ft. long and 2ft. wide, care being taken to procure felt ing not odorous with common glue, or else the odor is very lasting. This is cased in ticking of good quality, to prevent any stiff hair from working through, tied 5in. apart, mattress fashion, and inclosed in removable slip and washable calico. If preferred, the mattress can be in two parts 3 to long, as it is the shoulders and hips that require protection, and one piece will answer when portability is an object, or a friend can be accommodated. The lengths of mattresses, of course, are to be proportioned to the persons using them, but don't get them too wide, and more, I do not advise double widths, as usually a person is more comfortable sleeping alone, while two mattresses can be joined if desired. A jpair of narrow, long, double blankets and a small thin pillow complete the bed proper. Some way my ears could never be induced to fit properly in the seat of a saddle or the inequalities of a folded overcoat, and a sun-burned neck does not rest comfortably in a coil of rope or block of wood, as I have used and 8e®P used on many occasions. Next have made, or rather have it made first, as it is indispensable, a sheet 7% to 8ft. square of light water proof duck, the same as is used in the best canvass hunting suits, and also a sack of the same material 18in. long, and 12in. wide, the latter to act as a receptacle for extra clothing, toilet ar ticles and the ceteras always requisite, to^be used as a supplemental pillow In packing the articles, the canvass spread out and matress thrown in the middle, blankets folded in quar ters and placed at the head of mat tress, with pillow and sack on top. ihen fold the canvass sheet carefully and roll the package, commencing at head, int a neat and compact a bun dle as possible, securing it with two straps made up in shawl-strap man nu'i ^"?ht "Og chain around the whole, with padlock, passes it as chekable baggage on allrailroads with w™ch I have had dealings. Thus you have all your belonging in one bulk, free .from rain, mud, dust and burrs, and ready for boat, wagon or pack, excellent as a substitute for stool, and with partial opening of the roll it gives.a comfortable place ror a siesta. night place the mat tress neaar one end of thecanvas. so the loose part can be drawn pyerm case it is needed to keep off dew, ram or wind, fot if jtr® Jjaveto rain vfery hardf igfopd .jrun .the deejwr -elevated .•S&s!ss J&F8 so water will not run under it. and the canvass is properly tucked at foot and side. Give your bedding all the air and Bunshine possible, and if you are in a section where ticks, bedbugs pr other pests of a biting nature abound, sprinkle a quantity of insect powder over your bedding when rolling it, and you will not be troubled at night. Of the many uses that can be made of the canvass sheets it is needless to speak, as they will at once be ap parent, so I will finish with one word of advise: As you have a place for all your tricks and traps, keep them in it and don't disturb your mates by al ways looking for something.—Forest and Stream. Not Butter. A bright woman, who makes it a point to find out in what subject the person to whom she is introduced is interested, and to lead the conversa tion speedily to it, had an amusing experience, which she relates with great glee. A dinner was given by an intimate friend, and she whispered hurriedly to her hostess, who had in troduced "her to a preternaturally grave man who was to take her in to dinner. "What does he like to talk about best?" "Butter!" said the hostess'^ lips, with a meaning smile. It seemed a strange subject, but the tactful guest brought the conversa tion around to it, and as she after ward said, "talked as to know good butter when one saw and tasted it was one of the most important things in the world!" Her companion did not seem inter ested, and the conversation first dragged and then came to a stop. An other effort, and then the lady give up the task, and devoted herself to her neighbor on the other side. The "butter" man was obliged to leave, pleading another engagement, the moment the dinner was over, much to the evident regret of his host ess. "It's too bad lie could not stay longer, and talk to us," lamented the hostess to her friend. "He's such a charming man. I knew you'd be just the one to get him in a good mood for talking, and then I thought we could all reap the benefit." "Charming! That man!" repeated the guest. "Why, he scarcely opened his mouth though I racked my brains to make the 'butter' question attract ive!" "Butter!" ejaculated her hostess in dismay, "f said 'Buddha!' I supposed of course you knew he was a high au thority on the subject? What must he have thought?" "I fancy," replied her friend, dryly, "that lie thought he had hold of an advance agent for some agricultural show."—Youth's Companion. A Little Nanny-Goat. A small girl—a very small one-Avlio did not shine particularly in the way of goodness, was attended by a nurse maid who was a simple, honest, religious girl, always mindful of her duty and this duty, she felt quite sure, pointed to the reforming of the little heathen committed to her charge. On Sunday afternoons she often took Miss Nellie to a meeting that was held in the basement of some place of worship, and the surroundings were very plain and doleful, but the preach er was an earnest man, and, to Hannah's great delight, her young lady listened to him with much attention. The words, "Now, my hearers, I will give you a little anec dote," were frequently used, and then would follow some incident by wayof il lustration. Nellie always looked so ex pectant at this announcement, and lis tened with such eager attention to what followed, that Hannah's heart bounded for joy to find that the troublesome child was so seriously im pressed. Her eyes filled with tears, and she failed to notice the look ol disa pointment that spread itself over the small maiden's face after each anec dote. Finally the pent-up feelings came to the surface and one afternoon as they were walking home, Nellie indig nantly exclaimed, "That man's an awful story-teller, and I sha'n't go there any more!" "Tut, tut!" said the horrified Han nah that's very wicked, Miss Nellie. What ever makes you talk so?" "Cause he is. He's been saying ever so many times. 'Now my hearers, I'll give you a little nanny-goat' and he never gave anybody one! I don't b'lieve he's got any.' '-^Harper's Young People. Amusing the Little Ones. It takes very little to amuse small children if people know how to set about it, and the elder' brother or sis ter left in charge of some fractious lumps of humanity should bear in mind the fact that nothing is so Soothing as employment. To find that he or she is really doing some thing "like big people" will act like a charm, and few occupations are so absording as painting. The verrifest toddler can do this after a fashion, and a piece of iyhite paper with a square drawn on it will answer all purposes. The square can be di vided into two parts, and the child told to paint one half red and the other green, or one yellow and the other bine, teaching it first the differ ent colors. Then it tnixst be shbwn how to keep the colors quite within the drawn lines/ ani ^ot to ^4n ttHe r*. i* IjV/ 4- times the square can be divided into quarters, with a different color in each, or there can be a parallelogram with. six or eight colors. V- It is good practice and when "the primary colors have been learned,' the mixing of two colors to produce a third can be attempted. Tne arrang ing of harmonious colors will soon teach the young artist that while some colors look well together, others do not. Illustrations in some book or pam phlet of no value can next be prac tised on, while the books that come for that purpose with duplicate pic tures, colored on one page and uncol ored on the opposite one, will be found an endless delight. Outline cards, too, are to be had, with little books of di rections for painting them and for rainv days, or any emergency, these fascinating occupations will fill up ev ery spare moment.—Harper's Young People. Tackled the Ghost. A young man who was a servant at a farmhouse in a very wild district in Sussex, was sent one night with a message to Burwash. He was warned before he started that a ghost was very often seen near a stile which he had to cross. He accordingly took with him a middling sized thick stick, and said that if any ghost interrupt ed him he would, by the help of his "bat," try and find out what a ghost was made of. As he got near the stile, he duly caught sight of the ghost in front of him, glaring fiercely out of the hedge. He put down his basket, walked boldly up to the place, and with his "bat" struck out boldly. He owned that he then felt a good deal frightened, for no sooner had he struck than flames on all sides came flying past his head. However he held his ground, and then discovered that he had smashed into a hundred pieces an old rotten tree stump, which had dried up into touchwood, and the phosphorous in which shone with such mysterious brightness in the dark. He Could Spell. Grandmaliad forgotten that it was two years since she had seen one small member of the family, and that the child had, in the mean time, done a great deal toward learning to spell. "I can't take it!" stoutly asserted this little Frank, when his mother in sisted on his swallowing a spoonful of medicine. "I cant. I can't!" "Then I shall be obliged to punish you," said mamma, who had passed through more than one scene of the kind, and was beginning to tire of them. Grandma did not like to interfere, but thought she could do so without showing her partisanship to the boy. "My dear, said she to her daugh ter, "why not try li-o-n-e-y?" "Yes," cried Frank, before his moth er could answer, "I'd do most any thing for honey!" Grandma'sruse had not succeeded, but he got the honey. THOUGHT OF HIS FAMILY, If He Were Killed He Didn't Want Any Financial Complications. The road was uneven and there were numerous sharp curves, and as the train was running at a high rate of speed it was anything but comfor table for the passengers. Sometimes it actually seemed as though all the wheels on one side of the Pullman were off the rail at once. This didn't serve to put any of the passengers at ease, but it seemed to have a particularly bad effect on a little old fellow near the middle of the car. He grew more and more nery ous with every jerk of the car, and finally called the porter to him. "How soon will we reach a placp where I can send a dispatch?" ho asked. 'Bout ten minutes, sah," was the reply. "All right. Bring me a telegraph blank" It was brought and he hastily scrib bled the following message to a New York broker: "Sell all my stock in and road at once and at any price you can get." "You don't seem to have much con fidence in the road," said the man in the next sea t, who had read the dis patch over the little man's shoulder. "I haven't was the terse reply. "You don't think it has much of a future, apparently?" "Future be hanged!" returned the little man. was thinking of the present and my family." "Your lamily exclaimed the stranger. "What has your family got to do with it?" "Everything, my friend, everything," explained tlie little man, "and if you were anything," of a financier you'd see it I've got to ride 200 miles on this road yet, aud how would it look for my family to sue the road for damages th*at, if secured, would prac tically come out of my estate? No, sir, I'll allow this dispatch twenty minutes to reach New York, and I'll allow the broker twenty-five minutes to dispose of the stock. If this blamed car keeps the rails for forty-five min utes more some one else will be stuck for damages if I climb the golden stairs. And if sne holds the rails for the wholei 200 miles, I can buy the stock back if I want it and go back by an other road."—St. Louis Star Sayings. •MM Positively the Worst. "Speaking of Bishop Coxe," observed the exchange editor, loosening his col lar, "why doesn't he say something about that notorious female rider in Germany?" The financial edi£or braced himself firmly, seized a paper-weight, and in quired: "What female rider?" "Em Bargo on the American hog,' answered the exchange editor. The fiuancial editor laid down his weajpon, put on bis hai, ahd went. jsadiy out •It was the WAS MODEST. Fam^Ie Immigrant Who Wanted to Ive a New York Street Car, Awing the arrivals Jon a Hamburg ship recently were a German widow and her seven china-eyed, flaxen-haired stair steps. Being turned over by the authorities to a Germain paternal society of the city, the widow com placently sat down upon their tem porary weekly allowance, awaiting its evolution by the most natural laws into a permanent weekly allowance. Finding themselves very much in the situation of "Wans,'' who has "an elephant on his hands." The German Ladies' Aid Society appointed a committee to wait upon her Hamburg ian majesty and propose some plan ofreasonable investment on the part of the Society whereby the widow could undertake the support of her self and family. She listened amiably to their propositions of a cow, a goat, a washerwoman's outfit, but evident ly demurred at such humble walks through American life. Finally, being asked" to suggest something, this is what she said: "Efyou blease, laties. dis is wot I tinks ef you laties would so gute be dat you call a wisit upon de Mayor of New Yorruk, und ask would he so gute be that he give but one of dose so many sthreet cars dat on de Broadway strasse run—I kann nieinselb de horses make to go, und I will nieinselb see dat you gute laties wot have so helped me gute, must no money pay for riten. I kann much money maken von so many man dat rite all de day in my sthreet-car." About Wedding Rings. There is less change in wedding rings than in anything else in the jewelry line. The wedding ring is about the same to-day as it was a century ago. The marriage token can hardly be improved upon. It is a ring of pure gold. It is softly rounded and if you hang it on a piece of string and strike it gently it will ring out an indescribab ly soft and sweet sound. Ladies often wear numerous rings which carry no significance, except, perhaps, in some instances a hint of the possession of wealth. Twenty-five years ago it was unusual to see a woman wearing more than one ring on either hand, but now the more one can crowd on her dainty digits the better she appears to be pleased. While women are most mindful of the harmony of their dress, they jumble diamonds, rubies, pearls, gar nets and other precio.us stones to gether in ridiculous confusion. Some Uses of Kerosene. I fa tablespoonful is put into a quart of tepid water and this used in wash ing windows and mirrors, instead of pure water, there will remain upon the cleaned surface a polish no amount of mere friction can give. If a flannel cloth dipped in kerosene, then wrung dry, be used in rubbing off dirty finger marks from paint, the grateful house keeper will repeat the experiment often. To clean and brighten brasses and copper, wring out a piece of soft flan nel in kerosene, and with this apply Put/, pomade to the tanished surface. When well coated, rub hard with old linen and polish with dry flannel. The result leaves nothing to be desired. The shining brasses of locomotives and ferry boats ave cleaned in this manner. For white spots left upon polished furniture by scalding water, tea or coffee, rub hard with kerosene, then polish with dry soft flannel. An Aluminium Steamboat. A novelty in boat building is the tiny steamer just completed for the Frankfort Electrical Exhibition by Messrs. Esclier, Wyss, and Co., of Zurich, and which made a successful trial trip on the Limmat the other day. It is constructed entirely of aluminium, even to the engines and screw propeller, and is the first vessel that has been built of the light, ductile, silver white "metal of the future." The lilliputian bark is 20ft. long and 5ft. wide, and is driven by a 2-horse power naphtha motor.' As this com pact style of engine, when, as is usually the case, it is wrought out of iron, is already considered one of the lightest on the market, the further advantage gained in this respect when the motor is constructed of aluminium is obvi ous.—Iron. Outburst in the Sun. A luminous outburst in the sun was observed by M. Trouvelot at 10:16 a. m., Paris mean time on June 17 last, and has now been fully de scribed by him to the Academic des Sciences. First, a luminous spot ap peared on the disc of the sun near its western limb. It was of a .golden yellow tinge, and shortly afterwards a companion spot appeared a little above it. The spectroscope showed' the first spot to consist of a central eruption, from which volcanic bombs were thrown to heights above tna chromosphere, where they seemea to rest as dazzling balls. A few minutes later these were-replaced by brilliant jets or filaments. On the next day, June 18, at 9:50 a. m., the eruption was seen to be diminishing, and it finally ceased at 2:45 p. m. There was no corresponding magnetic per turbation observed at Kew. ••-'I'M Coast Fishing. Dot: "Auntie May, I wish 'oo would take me out fishin' with 'oo dis morn -in'." Auntie May: ^'Fishing, dearie? I'm not going—1—" Dot: "Ess 'ooare, tause mummiefsaid 'oo was going to fish all deweek for'Mr. Moniebagges, an', if 'oo take nie I will help 'oo to fish for him." Auntie "May (to Mr. Monieba^ges) VWhat absurd creat- i. The Family Recorder? "That," said the quiet little woman, as she was showing her guest over the house, "is my hall phonograph and family record taker. My husband and my sons all talk into it when they come home at night, and each has to give the hour at which he comes in." "But mightn't they give the wrong hour?" asked the visitor. "Oh, yes but I don't care about that particularly," said the little woman carelessly. "It shows me their condition, and that's what I want, you know. Now you stick those lit tel things in your ears, and I'll turn the switch, and we'll see what the re port is this morning." The visitor followed instructions, says the Chicago Tribune, and then the little, woman asked her if she saw the value of it. She said most em phatically that she did. Then the little woman took the report herself, and she grew red in the face as the ma chine began: "It'sh 2 g. m.: 'n! I'm glad of it! Whoopee-e-e. Fuller'n a goat, and had more l'un than a box of monkeys! Woop-la, Maria, wow-w! I'll bust" Then sheshut the machine off and said faintly: "George must be playing a joke on me." There was more sarcasm than sin cerity in the tone of the visitor as she replied coldly: "I presume so." Then she added. "But I wouldn't put the family re corder on exhibition." To Preserve Flowers. A charming way of preserving flow ers is shown by a Boston friend. Take very fine sand, wash it perfectly clean, and when dry sift it through a fine sieve into a pan. When the sand is deep enough to hold the flowers in an upright position, take some more sift ed sand and carefully cover them. A spoon is a good thing to take for this, as it fills in every chink and cranny without breaking or bending the leaves. When the pan is filled solidly leave the flowers to dry for several days. It is a good plan to warm the sand in the oven before usingit, as the flowers will then dry more thoroughly. In taking the sand off great care must be taken not to break the leaves, as they are now dry and brittle. Pan sies preserved in this way will keep their shape and brilliancy of color all winter, and many other flowers can be equally successfully treated—any thing, in fact, where the full pressure of the sand comes on both sides of the lea.f other wise they will shrivel. To fill in flowers with cup-like shapes it is better to lay them on the sand and with a small spoon fill in and around each flower. Ferns, when preserved in this way, have a more natural look than when pressed, and the maiden hair l'ern looks almost as well as when it is freshly gathered.—New York Tri bune. THE ONLYTRUE IRON TONIC Will purify BLOOD, reprulate KIDNEYS, remove LIVER disorder, build strength,renew appetite, restore health ami vlgorofyouth. Dyspepsia, Indigestion, that tired feeU imj ahsol utel eradicated. Mind tirigi. eued, brain power increased, hones, nerves, mils* cles, receive new force. suffering from complaints pe* I culi.ir tolheirsexvusin*it,fiui a sal'.', speedy cure. 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