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WORK OF A CYCLONE.
Two Towns Partly Destroyed in
Kansas and Texas.
A Large Number of Persons Killed
or Badly Injured.
A destructive cyclone has swept through
Kansas and on into Texas, causing wide
spread disaster. In Kansas the severest ef
fects of the whirlwind were felt at Argonia,
which is presided over by the first woman
flavor ever electel in this country, Airs,
fcusan Salter.
It cut a wide swath through the thickest
settled portion of the place.
The arrest residence, that of Mr. Camp
bell, was literally picked up and carried a
quarter of a mile. Of three churches only
the foundations remain- The school building
was torn to pieces, and there was not a house
that was not damaged. All the houses were
shaken up and the greater part of them car
ried away from their foundations. .Seventy-five
people are reported as seriously in
jured, and two, a young laay teacher, .anss
lonroe, and a railroad hand, have sincedied-
A srreat many had their leers and arms
broken by flying timbers. Two men had
both eyes put out, and a child had its skull
crushed.
The cyclone swept on to Brownton, Texas,
destroying the Methodist, Baptist and Con
gregational churches and eight dwelling
houses. Nine persons, including the Sheriff
and County Recorder, were killed. The
damage will exceei $12,000. The path of
the storm was oOJ yards wide, and every
thing within those limits was swept away.
The damage to business and residence
property at Corsicana, Texas, will exceed
$2;",ooo. The damage to crops cannot be
estimated, but is very great. Over a dozen
buildings were unroofed. The dry-goods
stor of A. Fox & Bro. sustains a loss of
$10,o0o. About a dozen small houses were
demolished.
Oreat damage was done at Sulphur
Springs, Texas, to growing crops and fruit
trees. The storm coered a belt three miles
wide. The cotton plants were completely
destroyed, and mut be re planted. Toe hail
stones were so large that they broke shingles
on the roofs of houses, and tore limbs from
trees.
A CATHOLIC UNIVEESITY.
Cardinal Gibbons Jjays the Corner
Stone in AVasliiii?ton.
The corner stone of the Catholic University
was laid in Washington, D. C, Thursday
afternoon by Cardinal Gibbons, aided by
Archbishops Williams, Ireland and Ryan,
Bishops Spaulding and Kane, and others.
The steady rain which fell during the day
caused the abandonment of the parade of the
societies President Cleveland drove out to
the grounds, which are two miles and a half
from the city, and was given a seat on the
platform betveen Cardinal Gibbons and
Bishop Spaulding.
The choir was supported by the Marine
Band. The blessing of the site of the uni
versity and stone laying followed. The ser
mon was by Bishop Spaulding, and the pre
sentation of a gold medal sent hy the Pope to
M iss Caldwell, whose gift of i?.iO0,0.JO was the
nucleus of the fund by which the university
has been founded. A large number of promi
nent officials, Congressmen, Cabinet oflicers
and diplomats were in attendance.
PBOMINENT PEOPLE.
General Phil Sheridan will turn sixty
seven this year.
Senators Sherman, Evarts and Hoar are
related to each other.
The senior Admiral of the British navy
Sir Provo Wallis, is 10 ) years old.
Attorney-General Garland says he ha?
been wearing the same hat for twelve yearst
A subscription fund is being raised t
erect a statue of Horace Greeley in City Hal
Park, Xew York.
Lawn tennis bats made from trees felled
by Mr. Gladstone are becoming fashionable
and popular in England.
James G. Blaine will accompany Andre
Carnegie in a four-in-hand tour through Eng
land and Scotland in June.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is said to b
meditating a journey to England to call on
the Empress of India this summer.
Jeax Ixgelow, the poetess, gives a dinnei
three times a week to the sick poor and dis
charged oonvalescents frm hospitals.
Mrs. Cleveland planted a sapling at
Mount Vernon the other day in great secrecy,
lest relic hunters should destroy the plant.
Secretary- Endicott's coat-of-arms is a
silver shield, with a dragon on a blue band
running across it, and three red diamonds on
the shield.
Justin McCarthy, the eminent author,
has been offered the editorial management of
the Dublin Freeman's Journal at asalary of
$10,000 a year.
General Boulanger was lately accused
of wearing a wig, whereupon a correspond
ent called upon nim, and he submitted to
having his hair pulled to show that the story
was a slander.
Governor John B. Gordon, of Georgia,
is one of the finest-looking men in the State.
He is six feet two inches in height and stands
perfectly erect, his military life having had
much to do with his manly bearing.
Dr. Thomas Evans, of Paris, the eminent
American dentist, who was recently sum
moned to Charlottenburg by the Empress
Victoria of Germany, has been to Sandring
ham, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of
Wales.
Mlle. M. Ramirez Cortez, of Paris, who
is at present in San Francisco, is a lineal de
scendant of Hernando Cortez, the famous
conqueror of Mexico. She is about twenty
eight years of age, slender and small of
stature, with jet black hair and regular
features.
A son of Sir Stafford Northcote, the emi
nent English statesman, is employed as a
clerk in the Chicago office of the auditor of
the Illinois Central Railroad. He is punctual
at his desk and a hard w orker. He is quite
affable and popular in the office and a favor
ite in Chicago society.
Major E. A. Burke, proprietor of the
Isew Orleans Times-Democrat, expects, it is
said, to realize something like $10,000,000
from -is land speculations in Bessemer, Ala.
If he does, it will represent an enormous
profit on an investment he made there hardly
two years ago, when a small frame hut was
the chief building in the town. Major Burke
is about fifty years old, and was employed on
a Texas railroad at a small salary when the
war broke out.
Lawyers from all over the country met
in convention at Washington recently to se
cure uniform laws throughout the country
Vi divorce and commercial paper. About
fifty were from New York, thirty from the
Marine looe. and 200 from the Middle States
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eautern nd Middle Stat.
Rev. Isaac W. Joyce, of Cincinnati, was
the third of the five Bishops chosen at the
Methodist General Conference.
James Blp..vs, a sixty-year-old resident of
Bridgeport, Conn., tried to kick a dog down
the cellar stairs, but missed his aim, fell
down stairs himself and broke his neck.
The Democratic State Convention of Penn
sylvania assembled at Harrisburg and
elected a Cleveland delegation to the Na
tional Convention hearted by Congressman
Scott of Erie. The administration of Presi
dent Cleveland and the Mills bill were both
indorsed. The plaform as adopted declares
that ''revision of the tariff laws is necessary,
with a view to their simplification, the cor
rection of their incongruities an 1 inequali
ties, the regulation of duties in such manner
as will put American industry on a firm and
permanent basis' etc. James B. McCullum
was nominated for Supreme Court Judge.
President Cleveland and wife visited
the Presbyterian General Assembly while in
session at Philadelphia, and were accorded
1 an enthusiastic reception.
Albeiit Murn, the fourteen-year-old son
of a rich farmer of ' Stouchsburg, Penn.,
killed himself rather than submit to expected
punishment.
Dk. Lyman- Abrott, the editor of the
Christian Union, has been elected by Brook
lyn Plymouth Church to till the pulpit made
vacant by the death of Henry Ward Beecher.
The Rev. Dr. Thoburn was elected Mis
sionary Bishop for India and Malaysia by
the Methodist Conference while in session at
New York.
Austin Coubix has negotiated in London
a loan of $50,000,00!), secured by a four per
cent, mortgage on the Reading Railroad.
Mrs. Cleveland spent Friday in Phila
delphia as the guest of George W. Childs.
She paid an informal visit to a female college,
attended a missionary meeting and then de
parted for Princeton College, N. J., to at
tend the Commencement Exercises.
UTIr r TIM VlflTTIU A V a mnniT K-1TT f
I into a tub of hot water at Bridgeport, Conn.,
i and was boiled to death.
j Frank Mills, of San Francisco, Cal., a
! student at Harvard College, died from excer-
sive indulgence m opium smoking.
Sontli and
South Carolina Prohibitionists have
formed a State Alliance.
The North Carolina Republicans have
placed a full ticket in the field headed by
Oliver H. Dockery for Governor.
Teller Braley, of the Chicago Union
National Bank, has absconded with a large
amount of trust funds.
The Texas Democratic State Convention
at Fort Worth indorsed Cleveland and the
Mills Tariff bill and favored Roger Q. Mills
for Vice-President.
The Democrats of Illinois, in convention
assembled, nominated a State ticket headed
by General John M. Palmer for Governor.
The delegation to the National Convention
is for Cleveland, and will be lead by ex-Congressman
W. R. Morrison. The President's
administration was indorsed, together with
his tariff message.
The Democracy of Mississippi convened at
Jackson and elected delegates to the St.
Louis Convention who are instructed to sup
port Cleveland for renomination. A resolu
tion was adopted strongly indorsing the
Mills Tariff bill.
David More and Willard Hall, both col
ored, and a white man named Graham, have
been hanged at Bolivia, for three murders.
A fifty-foot bridge over a deep ravine
five miles from Kansas City gave way under
a Rock Island freight train, and five railroad
men were instantly killed.
Mrs. F. C. Kruger, of Elgin, 111., while
attempting to rescue her eighteen-months-old
baby from an approaching train, was
struck and killed with the child.
The Prohibitionists of Wisconsin held
their State Convention at Madison. They
placed a State ticket in the field headed by
E. C. Durant for Governor and elected dele
gates to the National Convention who are
instructed for General Clinton B. Fisk for
President.
The Colorado Democracy assembled in Con
vention at Denver and elected an unin
structed delegation to the Presidential Con
vention. The Sheriff of White County, Ind., was
fatally injured by three prisoners, who
fractured his skull and escaped from the
County Jail.
The Ohio Prohibition Convention met at
Toledo and put a State t'eket in the field.
The platform adopted favors a woman suf
frage and denounces trusts and contract
labor importation.
An immense crowd assembled at Jackson,
Miss., to participate in the military demon
stration accompanying the laying of the
corner-stone of a monument erected to the
memory of Mississippians who perished in
the Confederate Army.
Joseph James has been arrested at Tim
monsville, S. C, charged with hiring a col
ored farm hand with 400 to assassinate his
father.
Mr. and Mrs. Drake, an old couple, and
their two infant grandchildren were mur
dered at Kickapoo, Wis., by burglars who
escaped with a large quantity of valuables.
The Democratic Convention of Louisiana
met at New Orleans and elected a Cleveland
delegation to the National Convention,
headed by ex-Governor S. D. McEnery.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to
Congress an estimate urging the appropria
tion of $50,000 to complete the Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
General Philip H. Sheridan had a
stroke of apoplexy at his home in Washing
ton which threatened to prove fatal, but he
passed the crisis safely.
The Senate has confirmed the nominations
of John Engel, to be Postmaster of Hacken
sack, N. J., and James S. Mellick, to be Post
master of Dover, N. J.
The Senate Select Committee to examine
into all questions touching the meat product
of the United States will consist of Senators
Vest, Plumb, Manderson, Cullom and Coke.
Senator Hawley has accepted the official
invitation of the city of Philadelphia to de
liver the oration in Independence Square on
the Fourth of July.
Foreign.
English Liberals defeated the Conserva
tive candidate for Parliament, this being a
very substantial victory for Gladstone and
the Home Rulers.
Three thousand Thibetans recently at
tacked Gratong, in Northern India, which
is defended by a small British force, and
after several hours' fighting the Thibetans
retreated, leaving one hundred dead. The
British loss was three killed and seven
wounded.
Queen Victoria's birthday was celebrated
in a loyal manner throughout Canada and
the British Possessions.
It is estimated that 103 persons belonging
to the fishing fleet lost their lives in the re
cent gale off Ireland.
Prince Henry, second son of the Emperor
or Germany, and Princess Irene, his cousin,
have been married in the Chariot tenburg
Castle ChapeL The Emperor, who was
much improved in health, was present, as
were also the Prince of Wales, the Grand
Duke Sergius, Crown Prince Oscar and
count v on 3ioitJce.
Eleven persons were killed and twenty
one injured by a fireworks explosion at Paris,
France.
The village of Harlan in Roumania has
been destroyed by fire. Four hundred fami
lies are homeless.
Four men were killed and thirty seriously
injured at Montreal, Canada, by the explo
sion of the city gas reservoir.
Large anl demonstrative Nationalist
meetings were held throughout Ireland, and
speeches against the Papal res. ript and de
nouncing the Irish bishops were made by
Messrs. O'Brien, Healy and Dillon.
The camp of Osman Digna. the lea ler of
the Egyptian rebels. ha3 been burned by in-een-3iar
es in order to compel him to retreat.
Two thousand of his followers are said to
have perished.
LATER NEWS.
A child in Philadelphia, Penn., was
choked to death by a candy sour ball she was
eating, dying in great agony.
A storm swept over a wide stretch of
territory, Monday, and caused a great
amount of damage to crops and property in
West Virginia, the oil regions of Pennsyl
vania, Northern and Middle Ohio, Southern
New York and Michigan.
A cloud-burst in Dewes county, Neb.,
submerged five miles of railway, flooded
many farms, raised the White river sixteen
feet in forty minutes, and drowned many
cattle. The water fell in a solid mass many
feet thick.
William H. Roe, a wife murderer, has
been hanged at Anderson, Mo.
Six men were killed and over ninety in
jured by an explosion of gasoline at Fred
erick, Md.
A terrific wind storm passed over South
ern Indiana and did great damage at Wabash
and Mentone. At Hendricks a farmer named
Bunson and two horses were struck by light
ning and killed. Bunson's barn was de
stroyed. A party of surveyors emploj'ed in Wise
county, Va., by the Tennessee Steel and Iron
Company, were attacked by settlers whom
the company seeks to drive off and two of
their number killed.
Mr. and Mrs. William Powell were
struck by lightning at their home in Parkers
burg, W. Va. , and instantly killed.
A dispatch to the Navy Department from
Montevideo, Uruguay, announces the death
of Lieutenant-Commander George M. Totten,
United States Navy, executive officer of
the United States steamer Tallapoosa, flag
ship of the South Atlantic squadron.
The President has approved the act grant
ing certain lands in Wyoming for public pur
poses; the act authorizing a loan of arms and
equipments to the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of Boston, and a number
of private pension bills.
Anxiety about the fate of Stanley, the
explorer, has been allayed by news just re
ceived from Zanzibar that his expedition is
safe, and that all its members are alive and
well.
J. G. Voight, United States Consul at
Manila City, Philippine Islands, is dead. He
had been in charge of the American Consul
ate there for three years.
THE LABOR WORLD.
A $50,000 silk factory is to be built at
Jacksonville, Fla.
Pullman, III, is to have an electric belt
railroad five miles long.
There are thirty-six societies of the various
crafts in Minneapolis, Minn.
In Massachusetts 12,000 children under 14
years of age are working in shops.
Extensive potteries for working up the fine
native clay are now in course of building at
Memphis, Tenn.
Industrial establishments are springing
up in the South faster than an account of
them can be kept.
The Boston Herald, in furtherance of its
profit-sharing agreement if a year ago, has
divided $10,000 among its emploj-es.
Section men along the line of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad have gone on strike because
of a reduction from S1. 0 to ?1.2.) per day.
Twelve hundred Hebrews engaged in
tailoring at Leeds. England, have struck
against more than fifty-eight hours a week.
Two Presidential Labor party tickets have
b?en p:aced in the field, one by the Union La
bor party and another by the United Labor
party
The industries in the United States are
now carried on by 4,000,000 per--ons,in round
i.umbsrs, repres?nting a population of 20,-
0,0.0.
The Loughlin Coke Works at Bradford,
Penn., have shut down its '240 ovens indefi
nitely, throwing a large number of men out
of employment.
Returns from 3S9 labor organizations in
New Jersey give a membership of .07,002
40,172 being Knights of Labor and 17,7U0
Trade Union i-ts.
There were over 100 delegates, represent
ing 5j00 butchers, at the annual session in
Philadelphia of the Butchers' Union. Thomas
Armour, of Chicago, presided.
The number of men employed at iron min
ing in the Lake Superior basin is estimated
at 150,000. Wages have been reduced trom5
to 10 per cent. Miners get $1.5 a day.
Ir is reported that the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad of New Jersey
has issued notice that hereafter the train
hands on passenger trains will be held re
sponsible for damage to seat arms and backs.
Skilled laborers in China, such as car
penters, masons, blacksmitts and the like,
aarn from ten to thirty cents a day.while un
skilled laborers, men who, in the expressive
term in their language, "sell their strength,"
sarn from eight to ten cents a day.
The Union Steel Works of Chicage con
sume daily 1000 barrels of oil as fuel in place
of 405 tons of coaL For every IS barrels they
save $5, or $ 27S per day. They dispense alsc
with the labor of 65 men, or $b0. In the 31 C
working days there is saved in these work
alone the enormous sum of $126,4-50.
Workmen in the vicinity of Hackettstown,
N. J., are exuberant over the tidings that the
Warren Foundries, owned by Cooper &
Hewitt, will be put in blast, employing sev
eral hundred hands. These work3 have been
idle during the last five years, owing to the
depressed condition of the iron trade, during
which time the business interests of the tows
hare been paralyzed.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Ed. Swartwood is Captain of Hamilton.
About G.O,0X l-a!ls wore used last year.
Tiernan, of the New Yorks, leads tne
League in home runs.
Radeourn, of Bton. appears to have lost
none of his own skill.
Sunday, of Iittsburg, now leids the
League in base stealing.
Chicagoans are offering ?1V to n or
Anson's aggregation winning tne pennant.
Krock, the new Chicago pitcher, is show
ing up in tine form under the coaching of
Catcher Flint.
It costs the Harvard Baseball Association
$120 a week to run the training table for t'ae
University nine.
Sowders, Krock. Viau and Gleason are
the greatest successes among this season"?
crop of new pitchers.
Sam Wise still makes plenty of errors. but
hits the ball at ritical times of tener than any
other man on the Boston team.
iT'sconcededthat Kelly will win the bicycle
offen-d by a Boton firm to the Boston player
making the most runs this season.
The Hamilton team contains eight left
handed Itatters. A good "south-paw pitcher"
generally makes sad havoc with them.
The marvels and the wonders who were
discovered last winter are not proving
themselves to be what they were advertise!
to be.
No base runner takes so many desperate
chances as W;ird, of the New Yorks. At
times thse attempts to steal a base are
brilliant.
The Chicagos' new suits are of black broad
cloth, and cost $45 each. The suit is to le
worn at the opening srame in each League
town and during the Australian trip.
The work of Reipseblayer behind the bat,
for the Jersey City team, has greatly aided
that club in obtaining its present high posi
tion in the race for the Central League pen
nant. The eight ball clubs in the Central Inter
state League will travel 1,7. miles. It
will cost them $31,452.40 for transportation.
The contracts have been made with the rail
roads. It is a noteworthy fact that young play
ers seldom or never suffer from 'Charlie
horse.1' It is generally the veteran players
who have been in active work for a number
of years.
Sowders, of the Bostons, delivers a diffi
cult ball for a catcher to handle. He has
control of the mysterious drop ball, but he
adds considerable more speed to it than
other pitchers.
Nearly all of the Texas League clubs are
increasing their capital stock to raise the
wherewithal to strengthen their teams.
Dallas has secured $2500 extra and San
Antonio will do likewise.
TnE Chicago papers have started a story
about the immense strength of Borchers,
the new California pitcher, to the effect that
he can tear a pack of cards with his fingers,
and split a silver coin with his teeth.
Tony Mullane, of the Cincinnatis, once
pitched in a Geneva (Ohio) team, and he re
ceived the munificent sum of -?4 a week for
doing it. When not playing, the players had
to put in the extra time in the hay and corn
fields.
Figures tell the story of Kelly's work for
the Bostons this season better than anything
Keise. in tne nrst nineteen games played lie
r 1 1 r 1 1 1 a a. 11 .
iins iiiaue loriy mus, nivi soreu iiweniT-mrea
times, while the rest of the team combined
has made but sixty-seven runs.
In Charleston, S. C, a fund has been
raised to give such deserving boys as are un
able to 2ay for them, tickets to the best seats
at the baseball grounds. Fifty boys at a
time will be sent in while the fund lasts, at
ten cents each, and, according to the Xeu-s
and Courier, "it is expected to last all sum
mer. national, league record.
Name or Club. n. Lont. ,
Chicago l 4
Boston Is 11
Detroit 1" 13
New York 14 11
Philadelphia 12 l-
Pittsburg 11 !"
Indianapolis... 1
Washington o 20
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
Kame of Club.
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
ll'on. Ist.
22 7
St. Louis Is 7
Baltimore 12 14
Athletic 13 14
Cleveland (
Louisville "1
Kansas City 7 20
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Trenton, N. J., will grant no liquor
licenses to foreigners.
It is probable that mackerel fishing will be
a failure in the South.
Tobacco and other vegetation in western
North Carolina has been injured by frost.
The fruit crop of Georgia is a failure, ex
cepting blackberries, wild haws and persim
mons. A fleet of cruisers will guard the Cana
dian coast against American fishermen this
season.
In a fight at Lincoln, Neb., one Burlington
brakeman killed another by biting off his
tongue.
The Emperor Frederick's medical staff will
be reduced, and there will be but one bulle
tin weekly.
Professor Vip.chow's formal report says
there is nothing cancerous about the German
Emperor's malady.
Eugene Chalfault, a laborer in the
glass works at New Albany, Ind., died re
cently of hydrophobia.
Louis Neebe. the Anarchist convict in
Joliet, 111., penitenitiary, is breaking down
physically and mentally.
The total number of saloons permitted to
sell liquor in Philadelphia after June 1, are
131'J, against O'.MO the past year.
Ax Oregon bo'y recently killed a companion
for answering in Sunday-school a question
on which he himself had failed.
Two St. Joseph (Mo.) girls were struck by
lightning, which tore off all their clothing,
but left them otherwise unharmed.
William Patterson, a condemned mur
derer in the Louisville prison, turns evan
gelist and has converted seven fellow pris
oners. The King of Portugal has ordered thirty
tons of fireworks and fifty ton3 of mortan
for use at Lisbon in the royal reception to
the King of Sweden.
Mrs. Sallie Y. Henderson, widow of a
contractor, ha3 recovered $2S,ritf in a suit
against the city of Louisville, Ky., after thir
teen years of litigation.
James W. Schooler was recently ad
mitted to prac tise in the Kentucky Court of
' Appeals, the first colored man to whom the
privilege has been accorded.
M. Jovis, a French aeronaut, is making a
balloon, nearly two hundred feet in height,
in which he proposes to sail through the air
across the Atlantic next autumn.
The Chinese Government is resorting to the
courts in the Australian colonies to compel
the reception of the Asiatic laborers held on
board the Hons Kong steamers.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Instruction for Laying Carpet. 1
Carpets are often badly lai.i down,
cither from ignorance or careWnes.
The carpet, neatly folded, should 1
brought in and laid down as it is folded,
the way the width arc to run. It must
then be unfolded bv degrees, notdra
open any way. When the carpet i
thoroughly opened our. let the centre
width be laid perfectly straight from one
end to the other, a tinned tack put at
cich end to k ej it in hi plru c and all
the other widths laid straight accord int;
to the first. When one end of tho
widths is straight ami thoroughly
stretched, let it be tacked down with
tinned tacks at regular intervals, begin
ning at one end and working toward
the other. When thi f.rt en i h.s Wen
firmly fastened down, let on- ide. at
right en gUs to the end n liled ah e idy,
be tacked, Uiking care to pull it out
4taiit' as the aihrs s.iy. Winn tho
side and end at right angles hive been
fastened down, the coricpomlin:: side
and end are easily man d, and th
thing is done. JN" J- York Y . '..
Peacock I Vat her Ian.
Take a small Chinese fan, round op
slightly oval in shape, cover it with
dark green paper muslin t any dirk
green inin material; cut tne leathers
about four inches long, me inured from
the top of the libers. Have a bottle of
mucilage ready; begin by clipping tho
tibers remaining o the quill, fiom
which has been cut the tops, takes these
libers and glue them all around theedgo
of the fan, ko they will extend about two
inches over the top of the fan. Tako
the largest sie of the feathers and gluo
in the center wf the top and have thetu
about one inch longer than tup of libers.
Keep on glueing one f ather after an
other, arranging so the smallest will
come to he bottom. When t lie lirst
layer has been placed all around the out
side edge of the fan begin the second
layer. Keep on until one side is all
finished; let it dry then begin on the
other side; when all is finished and dry,
take a curling knife or any other blunt
knife or shears and begin curling tho
long fibers into nice large :md oft
curls. Those on the edge curl closely
down to the edge. Next wind the han
dle with peacock-blue libhon. finish with
a full bow with long ends of the samo
and you will have a beautiful fan. De
troit Free Vie.
Veal in Tempting Shapes.
Many very delicious dihes may bo
made of veal. To be good, veal should
be about two months oid, xvhen the llesh
will be linn, with a pink tinge, and tho
bones hard. A'eal is divided into foro
and hind quarters: the fore quarter i
divided into loin, breast, shoulder and
neck, the hind quarter into leg ami loin.
Chops are cut lrom the loin, and the leg
is used for cutlets and fillets. The loin,
shoulder and fillet and breast are ued
for roasting. The knuckle and neck arc
used for soup, stews, pies and croquettes.
Fricandelles of Veal. Put on one gili
of sweet milk and half a teacup of bread
crumbs to boil until thick. Chop a
pound of lean veal very line, and add to
the bread crumbs and milk; season with
a tablespoonful of butter, salt and pepper
to taste, take from the lire ami stand
aside to cool. When cold form into)
small balls, dip in beaten egg and fry in
butter until a light brown; taker up care
fully. Thicken the gravy in the pan with
two tablespoons of Hour, then add a pint
of soup stock, stir until it boils. Put
the fricandelles into a saucepan, pour
over the gravy and let simmer one hour.
When ready to serve add a tablespoonful
of Worcestershire sauce.
Veal Loaf. I'hop three pound of
lean veal and a pound of fat pork very
fine; roll a dozen crackers and moisten
with a teacup of sweet milk and two
well beaten eggs; mix alj together and
serve with nutmeg, allspice pepper and
salt. Make in the shape of a large loaf
and bake an hour and a half; butter
frequently with a little butter and hot
water; take up dry, 5-et away to cool;
when ready to serve, slice thin.
Fricandeau of Veal. Cut a thick
slice four or live pounds from a fillet of
veal, trim It, and lard the top. Put somo
pieces of pork in a kettle, with somo
slices of carrot, an onion stuck with
cloves, a stalk of celery and a bunch of
parsley. Put in the meat s, sprinkle with
pepper and salt, and cover with a greased
paper. Fill up the kettle with sulllcient
boiling stock to cover the meats. Put
on a tight lid. Set in a hot oven for
two hours, and serve with tomato sauce.
Blind Hare. Mince three pounds of
veal and three pounds of beef; mix with
light well beaten eggs, a pint of stale
bread crumbs, a littld pepper and salt,
two grated nutmegs, and a tablespoon
ful of cinnamon. Form into an oblong;
cake, roll in cracker crumbs and bakciu
a hot oven three hours.
Veal Patties. Mince a little cold
veal and ham, allowing one-third ham to
two-thirds veal; add a hard boiled egg,
chopped, and a seasoning of pounded
mace, salt, pepper and lemon peel; moist
en with a little gravy and warm. Make
pull paste, roll' thin and cut in round
pieces, put the mince between two of
them, pinching the edges together, and
frv in hot grease.
"almi of Cold Veal. Put two or three
ounces butter in a saucepan, when
it melts stir in two tablesnoonsful of
flour, when this bubbles add slowly a
half pint good broth, a chopped onion,
a bunch of sweet herbs, pepper and fcalt
to taste, and a tablespoonful of current
jelly and mushroom CaUup each; cut
some slices from a cold roast of real, lay
them on the prepared gravy, after it hai
simmered fifteen minutes add a squeeze
of lemon juice, take up and serve on
toast. Courier- Journal.
Flosaie (aged four) "Bobby, why
do they call mins3ters doctors Bobby
(a lad of considerable information)
'Cos thej make folic better." Epoch.
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