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RAILROAD SENSATION.
Russell Sage Fathers a Scheme of
Great Importance to the
Northwest*
The associated press of New York City
eends out tue following: In tnese days of big
railway combinations, Wall street keeps u
very sharp outlook for possibilities, and
when it was announced on excellent au
thority yesterday that Bussell Sage was en
gaged in a deal of this sort, with an interest
ing history attached to it, there was some
lively scurrying around for facts and fiarures,
which, owing to the well known reticence of
Mr. Sage, were lamentably scarce. Not very
long ago, saya the Times, the legislature ol
Connecticut granted an extraordinary char
ter to a number of gentlemen, prominent
among whom was Hr. Sage, who declared
that the company they represented would
have a capital of $150,000,000. With the
usual liberality ot Connecticut when grant
ing charters, the state legislature gave the
new company permission to build, operate,
acquire by purchase or lease railways, steam
boats and steamship lines, and to acquire,
hold and dispose of bonds, stocks and securi
ties issued by corporations or by govern
ment, sate or local authorities. The wide
scone of this charter would permit the cor
poration to do almost anything in u financial
way. and Mr. Sage almost at once proceeded
to do as much as his shrewdness wouid al
low him to do. Associated with Mr. Sage in
this company are Sidney Dillon and Eugene
Zimmerman, together with George Gould
and, it is said, Gen. Wager Swavne.
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The milk in the cocoanut, as explained by
■excellent authority, is this: The first three
gentlemen mentioned are deeply interested
in the Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton, the
Wheeling A Lake Erie, and at least half a
dozen of their connecting lines. The two
Toads mentioned would form a very impor
tant nucleus for an extension of their con
nections to the east and weßt. The Connect
icut charter, it is declared, was obtained
with tbe purpose of combining these roads
and enabling the incorporators to bring un
der the ownership and management of the
■Connec; icut company a great many mileß of
valuable railway property, with terminals at
St Paul and some Southern port, or possibly
St Paul and Baltimore. The plans are now
being put into active operation, it is said,
and tbe combination will be effected m a
comparatively short time. The control of
tbe new company, say the gossips, will ex
tend over tbe Cincinnati, Hamilton A Day
ton, the Wheeling A Lake Erie, the Dayton,
Fort Wayne A Chicago, the lowa Central and
the Minnesota A Northwestern. Tbe lowa
Central reaches Peoria, 111., and will, in con
nection with the Minnesota A Northwestern,
give the consolidated lines
AM ENTRANCE TO ST. PAUL. i
It is the intention of the company, it is said,
to acquire or build a Hue from Indianapolis
to a connection with the lowa Central at
Peoria Mr. Sage is vice president of the
lowa Central and is the holder of a large
block of its stock. The Louisville, New Al
bany A Chicago wili give the company a line
from Cincinnati to Chicago and from Chi
cago to Louisville. The company will be
able 10 compete with the great trunk lines
for the business in tbe Northwest, and will
be in a position to extend connections to St.
Lcuis. It was rumored that C. A Hunting
ton was concerned in this scheme, but the
rumor could not be verified. It was in Con
necticut. however, that he secured his char
ter for the Newport News and the Mississippi
Valley company. 'The refusal of those con
cerned -co converse about the proceed
ings of the company led many to
place reliance in the reported plan
of the combination to unite the
Northwest with the Atlantic. Mr. Sage, who
ils supposed to be the most deeply interested
in tbe scheme, declined to talk about it. He
■refuted, however, to deny that such a gen
eral extension of the roads in which he is in-
terested v,-as contemplated. One of the per
sons who have been in the confidence of Mr.
'Zimmerman said that the proiect has been
Under consideration for several months. It
had been decided that the interests of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton should be
-advanced with the utmost rapidity after the
blow which had been given to the road by
Henry S Ives, and the wholesale charter was
suggested by Mr. Sage, whose interests in the
"Wheeling A Lake Erie and the lowa Central
■ seemed to place him in a position to afford
tbe de'-irtd outlets to the Cincinnati, Hainil
. ton A D ivton. When the through traffic ar
rangement wiil be made, the speaker was
not in a position to say, but he declared that
■it would probably go into effect at tbe latest
.by Nov. 15.
GATHERED AT HONOLULU.
"Four American Men*of-W«r at That
Port—Trial ol Insurgents.
Ban Francisco, Oct. 27. —According to ad
vices received from Honolulu to-day tbere
are four American men-of-war vessels sta
tioned at that port—lroquois, Mohican, Nip
sic and Alert, the Iroquois having recently
arrived from San Francisco and the Mohican
from Callao. Anrairal Kimberly still re
mains at Honolulu, and the squadron is
under his immediate command. It is not
known definitely here now how long Ad
miral Kimberly will remain at Honolulu,
but it is reported he will not return to San
Francisco until after the coming elections in
ithe Hawaiian kingdom, and it is believed
the four war ships will also remain until
after that event. The trial of the men who
•engaged in the recent rebellion at Honolulu
has been In progress for some time. The
bearing of but two oases has been com
eeted, being those of a Belgian named
toruens and a Chinaman. Both were found
•guilty. Bobert Wiicox, the leader of the in
surgents, who has no: yet beeu tried, was
the principal witness for the defense. He
claimed tbat he and his men were not en
gaged m rebellion, but in an effort to protect
Xing Kalakaua.
Vicksburg, Miss., Oct 27.—A. D. Simon
and and J. Feiber, employes of T. Hirsoh.
merchant at Delhi, La., arrived here to
•day and state that Saturday morning
the stores ot two or three Jewish merchants
were attacked and fired into by a mob of
fifty or seventy men, about a thousand shots
being fired, and fronts and some stock of
stores being greatly damaged. Business
rivalry, and the fact of Jewish merchants
monopolizing the trade, is the reason as
signed.
Nbw York, Oct. 28.— The World’s Florence,
Italy, correspondent gives statements by
physicians who attended Mr. Blaine in 1888,
«o the effect that he was partially paralyzed
and suffering with paresis and melancholia,
and for this reason wrote the letter declining
to be a candidate for tbe presidency.
A Famous • ell for >uioides.
Waterloo. lowa, Special Telegram, Oct.
27. Rocoo Z inell, an Italian railroad laborer
who was in Jail at Toledo, Tama ooanty, for
murder, hanged himself In his oeii with a
rope made by unraveling his stockings This
Is the third suicide that has happened in tbe
aame cell In this jail within a few yeara
ST. PAUL P.. 8 A TERMINAL.
Down on tlm Jews.
Why Blaine Declined.
THE SCANDAL IN SEBYIA.
Qaeea Natalie.
Queen Natalie, whose separation
from her husband, King Milan, of
Servia, on account of political and
other differences, has travelled over
Europe, and her history has filled
numberless columns in the journals
of the world. It is unnecessary to
review the situation ofServia. whose
peculiar relations to Russia and
Austria, have magnified the import
ance of this little kingdom and the
intrigues in which has disrupted its
lately happy family.
Queen Natalie is the daughter of a
Colonel in the Russian Imperial
Guard, Kechko, of Bessarabia, and of
Princess Puleherie Sbroudga, a Rou
manian. She was born May 12,1859,
and married the reigning Prince of Ser
via in October,lß7s. Their only child,
Alexander was born August 14,1876.
His mother has superintended his ed
ucation.
It is difficult to describe the rare and
exceeding beauty of the Queen. Her
classical features have at the same
time a commanding royal majesty
and the charm of a playful girl. Her
fair broad forehead is crowned with a
profusion of jet black hair; her al
mond-shaped brown eyes have a look
at once inexpressibly tender and
sparkling with intelligence; her rip-
pling smile and silvery laughter ir
radiate a clear and pale complexion,
recalling her own Russian snows,
warmed into a richer coloring by the
Eastern suns. She is tail and sur
passiugly graceful, and her manners
have a subtle charm, partly royal
and wholly feminine.
The Queen is well read and pos
sesses a solid and varied intruction.
She speaks French quite fluently and
takes particular pleasure in reading
the poetry of France as well as all
the publications treating on history,
which is her favorite study. On her
hook shelves, besides the classics and
serious volumes, can be seen the
works of Taine, Coppia, with his
musical verse; SullyPrudhomme, the
satirist; L’Amand and Alphonse
Daudet. Before the fatal Servian-
Bulgarian war broke out, while she
was enjoying her popularity and the
glory of her late accession to the
royal crown, Queen Natalie had
made her remote little court the re
sort of Western elegance, wit, and
refinement, and enlivened it with re
ceptions over which she presided with
juvenile gayety and womanly tact.
At the time of her marriage to the
man who now seeks divorce from her,
he was known as Prince Milan. On
March 6, 1882, he was proclaimed
King Milan I. His seat is a very un
easy one, and it is open to doubt
that his present policy will save him
much longer from the ignominy of
losing his crown.
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He Must Change His Will.
From the New York Tribune.
A familiar figure around Crystal
lake, a summer resort near Carbon
dale, Penn., in late years has been
that of Mr. McKibben, of Washing
ton, father of Gen. McKibben, the
Congressman who was the second of
Senetor Broderick in his duel
with Judge Terry. Mr. McKibben
was at one time a great friend of Si
mon Cameron, than whom he was
one year older. There is a good
story about the old man and Simon
Cameron. In the course of their lives
an estrangement arose between the
two friends on account of some po
litical question, but Mr. McKibben
had a picture in his possession upon
which the Senator set a high value,
and desired most anxiously to have.
So he went to Mr. McKibben and
asked him for the picture. Mr. Mc-
Kibben would not part with it.
“But, said he, “I’ll tell you what I’ll
do witn you, Cameron. I will be
queath that picture to you.” “Oh,”
said Cameron, “that will never do.
When you come te die, where will I
be?” Mr. McKibben did not give
him the picture, and since Cameron’s
death has probably had to alter a
clause in his will.
Perfectly Convenient,
“Could yon render a poor printer,
out of work and destitue, a little as
sistance?” queried a disreputable
looking specimen as he came, in a
rather hesitating manner, into the
sanctum. “Don’t put yourself out”
he added hastily as the editor rose
with great suddiness’ “don’t put
yourself out.”
“I won’t,” said the editor cheerful
ly, as he rolled up his sleeves, “it
isn’t myself that I’m going to put
out.”—Epoch.
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.
St. Paul will have an ice carnival
next winter.
A man named Bartholomew
dropped dead of heart diseare at
Clearwater.
The salaries of the police force
of Minneapolis have been reduced $5
per month all around.
Seventy-five prisoners were trans
ferred from the Stillwater beniten
tiarv to the St. Clond reform school.
A capitalist’s offer for the Duluth
street railway system ot $500,000
was refused, $600,000 being the
figure demanded.
S. Kinney, aged 30, was caught
between two stock cars in the stock
yards of St. Paul and crushed to
death.
A Caledonia jury awarded Mollie
Greckwell SBOO damages in a breach
of promise snit against William 0.
Medt.
Two robbers tried to hold up tha
station agent at Mallory, but were
frightened away by the arrival of
a section boss.
The Phillsbury academy was dedi
cated with imposing ceremonies at
Owatonna: Hon. George A. Pills*
bury made an eloquent address.
St. Paul will not banquet the Pan-
Americans, as reported. A dress re
ception will be substituted at the re*
quest of the state department.
Henry Wood, an ex-conductor on
the Northern Pacific, was killed by
the Duluth express near Kimberly*
The entire train passed over his
body, mangling it terribly.
The grand jury at Aitken failed to
indict Thomas Kelly, charged with
shooting Sam Christie at Grand
Rapids, October 1, and he was re
leased. Christie is i ecovering.
Martin Nelson, a Northern Pacific
freight conductor, fell from the top
of the cars near Fertile and was
killed, his body being frightfully
mangled.
Another paper is to be started at
Clearwater. It will be published
and edited by T. Finley Wharton,
formerly of St. Cloud, but more re
cently of Columbus, Ohio.
John Beck of Burns, near Anoka,
was arrested on the charge of rob
bing Patrick Gorham of S3O while
enjoying his hospitality. He was
held for trial in S2OO.
While fishing in Lake Pepin An
drew Stromberg found a sealed bot
tle with a leaf from a memorandum
book enclosed, the following words
being written thereon: “Tired of life.
Good bve.’’
Andrew Olson, the alleged slayer
of a companion named Hagen at
Breckinridge, has been captured at
Duluth and taken back to Wilkin
county, where the crime was commit
ted.
An old man who has lived a seclud
ed life at Mankato for some time,
and whose name is unknown, shot
and seriously injured a boy named
Charles Brooks, who had been play
ing mischievous pranks on him.
George Thaden, F. G. Draper and
Geo. Kingsley, St. Paul real estate
men, were indicted by the grand jury
for grand larceny and forgery in ex
changing forged mortgages for a
team ot horses.
Andrew Olson is under arrest at
Rich Point on the charge ol murder
ing Hans Hagen at Breckinridge.
They left Brainerd together to go to
Dakota and work during the harvest
and it is claimed Olson killed his com
panion and robbed him of his money.
In looking over the effects of Miss
Lena Weinberger, who committed
suicide at Winona a few months ago,
$12,117 was found hidden away in
three trunks. The money was con
cealed by means of false bottoms in
the trunks, and a large amount of it
was in gold.
The Northwestern Endowment as
sociation of Red Wing refused to pay
the insurance on the life of P. B.
Sheehan, of Slayton, on account of
alleged intemperance, and the court
decided that the association was lia
ble and awarded Mrs. Sheehan fl,-
700.
Quite a sensation has been caused
in St. Cloud by the disappearance of
a certain young married woman with
a gay drummer. The young woman
and her husband came to St. Cloud
about a year ago, the husband to
take an important position of trust,
and obtained admission to the best
society and especially church circles.
The cooper shop branch of the
Creamery Packing Manufacturing
company at Mankato, caught fire
about midnight and is a complete
loss. The machinery stock and raw
material are totally destroyed. The
fire is supposed to have originated
from the friction of a pulley. C. H.
Higgs, manager, estimates the loss
at $40,000. He cannot give the
ixact amount of insurance, but says
it will amount to $12,000 or $15.-
000.
In base ball, as in cookery, the best
batter takes the cake.—Puck.
Though some of our colleges are
very old, they are still in possession
of their faculties.
Man is the lord of creation, but he
rarely presumes on the fact when he
occupies the same lot with a bull.
An onion trust has been organized
in New York. There is nothing too
strong for a trust to tackle.
He—'‘Darling, will you love me
when I’m gone?” She—“ Yes, if you
are not too far gone,”
A Detroit widow wants $5,000 for a
kiss given her by her employer. What,
$5,000 for one kiss? Go to—go to.
Give us two for five.
The faithful lover doesen’t care
where the World’s exposition is held
while he is holding the world’s fair in
his arms.
Doctor (to dying patient)—“Death
does not end all, my dear friend.”
Dying Man—“ Right, doctorl You
and the undertaker send in your bills
after that.”
The female organist of a Utica
church has eloped and married a
fourteen-year-old boy who pumped
the organ. The affair has taken the
wind out of the choir.
“What are your children quarrel
ing about so continually?” “Why,
you see, they are so of one heart and
mind. Whatever one wants, the
other always wants, too.”
Ted—“l suppose the best way to
find out whether she loves me is to
go right up and ask her. Ned—“ Not
at all my boy. Ask one of her girl
friends.”—Harpers Bazar.
“John, dear, doest’t it make you
sad to see the leaves fall?” “Weil,
not now; but it used to when I was
a small boy, for then I had to sweep
them up.”
Tired Child—“Mamma, how much
did you put in the collection?” Moth
er—“A quarter, my dear. Why?”
Tired Child (gasping)—“Well, this
preacher gives an awful lot for the
money.”
When the boilers of the steamer
Corona exploded, destroying forty
lives, nothing was saved except the
certificate of the United States boiler
inspector, to the effect that the boil
ers were all right.
“Father, what time is it?” “Just
2 o’clock, my son.” “Well”(throw
ing down the hoe), “just 21 years
ago to-day at 2 o’clock I was born;
you can do your hoeing yourself
now.”
If the smokeless and noiseless pow
der eomes into general use salutes
will become a thing of the past, and
the sun will go down without waiting
for the evening gun to fire, as now
required by army regulations.
Moneybags—“Ad vei'tising, my dear
boy, always pays/’ Youngblood—
“lt hasn’t paid me.” “What do you
mean?” “Nothing, except that fa
ther advertised me in the papers a
while ago and I haven’s been able to
get tick anywhere since.”
Papa—Which of your suitors do
you think you will accept, Maria,
Jones or Smith? Maria—Which do
you favor, papa? Well, Smith has a
fine vein of humor. But Jones has a
fine vein of anthracite coal upon his
farm. I think I’ll take him. Sensible
girl.—Siftings,
A man at Monticello, Florida,
claims to have a tree which bears
quinces, pears and apples. But that’s
nothing remarkable. A man in this
town has a tree which bears apples,
sweet potatoes, pears, onions and
pumpkins. It is an axle-tree. —Nor-
ristown Herald.
“Don’t you think,” said a youth,
after working his vocal chords with
intense vigour beside the hotel piano,
“that I ought to go on the stage?”
“Yes,” replied Miss Pepperton, who
doesn’t like him very well, anyhow,
“I certainly do. There is one that
leaves for the station just an hour
and a half from now.”
Talk about the weather as a fertile
topic for conversation! It is 'not to
be named with the ills that flesh
is heir to. What is our very first re
mark upon meeting a friend or ac
quaintance? Do we not inquire, quite
as if we expected an answer, “How
do you do?” And do not people
sometimes tell us, to our infinite
bore dom?
“I hope you will pardon my late
arrival,” said the young man, as he
seated himself in the easiest chair.
“I forgot my umbrella and had to
stand in a stairway until the shower
was over.” “That’s one on you,
Jennie,” shouted Tommy, in great
glee. “I told you so. Of course he
had sense enough to go in when it
rained.” And the silence, like a soft
hat, was plainly felt.
FOR THE FARMER.
Im Picked ip Pointers.
Ploughing for spring crops is now
in order and can be done better and
with less hurry than next spring.
This is the time to ditch, drain, re
pair buildings, and make improve"
ments generally.
The next meeting of the National
Grange will be at San Francisco,
Cal., beginning November 13.
If wheat is to follow corn the latter
shonld be now cut at once and re
moved from the field.
All root crops liable to injury from
the frost should be gathered without
delay.
Mr. E. F. Stevens, of Dickey Coun
ty, Dakota, in a letter to the Rural
New Yorker says, “I planted our
field potatoes somewhat after the
Rural New Yorker’s trench system:
result, I have potatoes to sell to my
neighbors who planted theirs in the
old way and hilled them up.
A little dry earth is necessary foi
fowls in Winter to roll themselves in,
and there is nothing better than dry
road dust gathered in barrels and
kept in convenient place for use when
needed. It has also some manurial
value, as it is on much travelled
roads always mixed with the drop
pings of horses driven thereon.
“I made a test plot by planting
every other hill of potatoes, with a
teaspoonful of sulpher sifted in
planting time,” says a Forrestville,
N. Y., farmer to the Rural New
Yorker. “The potatoes in the sul
pher hills came out perfectly clean,
while those in the other hills were
badly scabbed.”
As soon as frost comes either re
move the cows from pasture or give
them additional feed to make up for
its lack of nourishment. Frost is
not like the drying up alter cutting,
which turns grass into hay. Frost
disintegrates the particles of matter,
and when rains come the value of the
grass for nutrition is soon washed
out, and the grass after that is near
ly worthless as food.
If a farmer’s time is valuable he
cannot spare much of it to gather
leaves merely for their manurial val
ue. If bedding is scarce it may be
worth while to gather them as an
absorbent in stables, but to merely
rot down into leaf mold, leaves are
worth more where they lie in the for
est than anywhere else. There they
serve as a mulch and protection to
the soil they cover.
Any lot of slop, by the combina
tion of various grains and meals,
can be improved for the pig by a
liberal addition of whole or skim
milk. Any farmer who annually
raises a lot of pigs will find it to his
advantage to keep a sufficient num
ber of cows to have a good supply
for the pigs after the wants of the
family are met.
If you wish a superior kind of corn
husks for mattresses, writes a farm
er, do not loosen the husks from the
ear, but press it close to the base
and break it off. The rough, coarse
husks will be left on the stalk and
all the finer sort on the ear. Throw
the ears in a pile and when enough
are broken off husk them, sort out
the ‘silks,’ and you will have a very
superior article.
In our experience the late crop of
white turnips generally does better
among potatoes than among corn.
So soon as potato tops die the tur
nips have all the soil from which to
draw, and they are rather benefited
by the stirring of the soil required in
digging potatoes by hand. If a
horse potato digger is used, no tur
nips can be grown, as the digger nec
essarily upturns the entire soil, in
cluding turnips or whatever else may
be growing on it.
In passing any piece of sowed corn
late in the growing season, it is easy
to see what will and what will not
make good feed. That which has
been thickly sown, especially on poor
soil, is a light yellow color, tasteless,
and nearly void of nutritive value.
That sown in drills and cultivated
once or twice, is large thick-stemmed
and dark green in color. Taste it
and you will find the sweetness that
with a little more room and time
would be transformed into the starch
of the perfected grain.
Some of our women poultry-keep
ers are quite expert in inducing their
hens to lay during the winter,
writes a farmer. I have tried several
different, kinds of food for my own
hens, and find that they lay as well
on a diet of mixed corn and oats
and what they pick up about the
yard as on anything. When allow
ed the run of the place they will eat
only enough to keep them in good
trim, even when the food lies before
them in heaps. When yarded, how
ever, I find it necessary to feed them
only a limited quantity or they'
quickly become too fat and lazy to
lay.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Bead Tbeae TUigi by Year Flre*lde.
To arrest hiccough close both
ears with the fingers with pressure
while a few swallows of liquid ore
taken.
Coughs may be much alleviated
and dry tnroats be cured by glycer
ine and lemon juice taken at night.
The glycerine should be diluted.
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To prevent cake adhering to the
pan when baked, scatter a little flour
over the greased surface before pour
ing in the dough.
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Use a silver spoon when cooking /
mushrooms. The silver will be black-/
ened if any injurious quality is pres-1
ent. I
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It is a good idea for a tall woman \
to have her kitchen table and iron
ing-board higher than ordinary. It
will save her many a back ache.
Embroidery and braiding will still
be largely used on stylish autumn
gowns, but more in separate special
designs than in continuos paterns.
English walking hats have lower
crowns than those now worn and
many have the brims turned pp be
hind as well as on each side.
Old pieces of passementerie are
utilized to trim sashes of black moire
ribbon, the ribbon being cut away
where passementerie is applied.
A very good liniment for sores and
bruises is made of one-half pint of
sweet oil, one ounce of laudanum,
and a piece of camphor gum the size
of a walnut.
Leather bands are used as hems,
cuffs, collars, revers and waistcoats,
upon walking and driving suits for
country wear, and may be procured
in colors to match the costume.
A salve that is good for all kinds
of wounds, etc., is made of equal
Sarts of yellow wax and sweet oil
felt slowly, carefully stirring. When
cooling, stir in a small quantity of
glycerine.
When you boil a cabbage tie a bit
of dry bread in a bag and put in the
kettle. French cooks say that all the
unpleasant odor which makes a house
smell like an old drain will be al£
sorbed by the bread.
An excellent way of cooking eggs
is to break them in boiling milk with
out beating; cook slowly, stirring
now and then. When done soft pour
into a dish and add a little pepperj
salt and butter.
Do not scrape the inside of frying
pans, as after this operation any
preparation fried is liable to catch
or burn to the pan. If the pan has
black inside, rub it with a hard crust
of bread and wash in hot water mi*,
ed with a little’ soda.
To Clean Papfred Walls.— Wip©
down with a flannel cloth tied over a
broom or brush. Cut a thick piece of
stale bread and rub down with this.
Begin at the top and go straight
down. Care must, ofcourse be taken
not to wear upon the paper.
A rough and pimpled face may be
improved by washing it in sour but
termilk just beforegoing to bed; then
let it dry and rub it thoroughly with
dry wheat flour. In the morning
bathe with cold soft water, and rub
vigorously with a coarse towel.
Delicate Indian Pudding.— One
quart of milk scalded, two heaping
table spoonfuls of meal, cook twelve
minutes; stir into this one tablespoon
ful of butter, then beat three eggs
with four tablespoonfuls of sugar,
one-half tablespoonful of ginger, salt
to taste: mix all thouglily, and bake
one hour.
To laundry red table linen use
tepid water with a little powdered
borax, which serves to set the color.
Wash the lhien separately and
quickly, using very little soap; rinse
in tipid water containing a little
boiled starch; dry in the shade, and
iron when nearly dry.
It is odd, says a writer of fashion
how many famous women have had
auburn hair. Catherine, of Russia,
gloried in it and Anne, of Austria,
had brown hair just on the verge of
being red. Ninon de 1’ Enclos was
equally proud of her warm tresses
and Mary Stuart seemed a daughter
of the sun.
In a report to the French
Academy of Medicine, Dr. Dietholl
says that diptheria and croup may
be cured by the vapor from liquid
tar and turpentine. A teaspooDful
each of the tar and turpentine is to
be put into a pan and set on fire.
A dense Bnioke arises which tends to
destroy the fibrinous tissues which
choke up the throat, and the patient
immediately falls into a deep slum
ber, and in the course of three
days will entirely recover from
diptheria. The pan containing the
tar should be set into a larger pan
to prevent fire, and everything
should be taken from the room
that could be injured by smoke.
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