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A Newspaper tm Ctee Commtyc
D. E. ALWA1D3 Publisher.
VOLUME ill.
CLARE, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6,1881.
NUMBER 28.
Hy '&Erane23oa tbe Juey'c dono—fea^sffifeSa1 tocD
f to vatehed tha lawyers riQM sb& 2^s a^iE given
my verfliot true;
I otaeb so long "onto my chair, I SwEghfi 1 ueaM
nstowin;
Anfi ii I do not taav mysalf, they'll gsfe me theso
ag'in;
Sat now the court's adjourned, for g©BS, antl Tvo
got my pay,
I'm loose at last, and, thank tho jLoeS, Pm goino
home to-day.
Fve somehow felt uneasy like, since the list day I
came down;
Itis an awkward game to play the gentleman in
town;
And this 'ere Sunday suit of mine on Sunday rightly
•  sets;
.   But when I wear {hs stuff a week, it'somehow gallo
and frets.
Pd ratJier wear my homespun rig of pepper salt aad
gray— '
Pil have it oft in half a jiff when I get home to-day.
1 liave no doubt my wife looked out, as well as any
one—
As well as any woman could—to see that things wera
done;
for though Melinda, when I'm there, won't set hes
foot outdoors,
She's very careful, when Pin gone, to tend to all tho
chores,
.  But nothing prospers half so well when I go off to
stay,
And I will put things into shape, when. I get homo
to-day.
The mornin' that I came away, we had a little bout;
I coolly took my hat and coat, before the show waa
out.
For what I said was nought whereat she ought to
take offense;
And she was always quick at words and leady to
commence,
But then she's first one to give up when she has had
her say;
And she will meet me with a Mss when I go home
to-day.
My little boy—I'll giye 'em leave to match him, if
" they can;
It's fun to see him strut about, and try to be a man;
The gamest, cheeriest, little chap you'll ever want
to see!
And then they laugh, because 1 think the child re-
"   p       sembles me.
The little rogue!  he goes for me, like robbers for
their prey:
He'll turu my pockets inside out, when I get home
to-day.
My little girl—I can't contrive how it should happen
thus—   •
That God should pick that sweet bouquet and fling
it down to us!
My wife, she says that handsome face will some day
make a stir:
And then I laugh, because she thinks the child resembles her.
She'll meet me half way down the hjll, and Ms3 mo
any way;
And light my heart up with her smiles, when I go
home to-day.
" If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it
when.
Ma's been away from home a week, and then gets
home again;
3f there's a heaven above the earth, there often, I'U
be bound,
SoanelioEjesick fellow meets his folks, and hugs'em
all around.
Bat let my creed be wright or weong, os be it as it
may,'
My heaven's jastaheadiof me—I'm going hoses to.
day, - !
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[Argonaut.!
1 think it is Emerson who saya',
"When you pay your ticket and get inta
•he car you have no guess what good
company you shall find there. You buy
much that is not rendered in the bill."
I have found this remark eminently true
on several occasions, particularly when
my .life-long friend Euth. bears me
company.
Euth is the most unconventional of
women. She travels as she does every
thing else, with whole-souled earnestness, and finds bread where most people
could, gather only stones. Thus, recently, being in the rear car of the long
train, she preferred standing upon the
platform and drinking in at one draught
that magnificent valley through which
we .seemed flying than by tantalizing
sips, as one has to do from behind a
Harrow car window-
I followed her. I always do. Ana,
holding on to the narrow railing, w&
felt somewhat like two lost comets whirling through space. Soon the door behind us banged, and a gentleman in the
midsummer of life, with a face as classically beautiful.as Edwin Booth's and a
waist of Falstaffian dimensions, joined
us. He beamed on us almost „literally.
From the dimple in his fair, soft chin to
the ring of brown, silky hair which lay
upon his broad, smooth forehead, the
expression scintillated with intelligent
good nature. Withal, there was such a
retrospective background to the sunny
brightness that aftev a few . commonplaces Euth, the daring, honest, impudent creature, said, looking tip meanwhile into his face with a smfle so honest
and kindly that he would have been a
Berserker not to.have reflected it:
"Sir, permit me ' to remark that you
are a physical incongruity."
"Not so!bad as that, madame, I hope.
I am merely a conductor,   as by this
..time you have discovered, and a pretty
well   balanced'  one,   independent    of
avoirdupois.'1 .
"But your thoughtful face, sir. that
Is what perplexes me. It should belong
to a body, but one-third the weight of
yours," suggested Euth, the wise disciple of IJavater.
"My face is- all right," he replied,
stroking his cheeks and chin with an air
of marvelous self-complacency. "It
stopped growing ten years ago, but it is
here," touching the region of his diaphragm with the tip of his forefinger,
"that contentment and my good luck
show themselves. Once Iwas as thin as
Peter Schemmel's shadow, and"—he
paused, looking into Euth's clear, gray
eyes as if he would sound her soul's
depths—"I am strongly tempted to tell
you my bit of a romance, for tli"v<* is a
long stretch ahead, and you look like oat
of the kind to enjoy a touch of nature.
Isn't it so?"
The conductor had struck the very keynote of our needs. We were pining for a
veritable California story, told in an unconventional way, outside of the well-
read romances of Bret Harte and The'
Argonaut. To be told, too,, under such
peculiar circumstances would be an added spice, and thus besought him to im-
mediatly yield to temptation.
"I am an old stager," ho oaid, "at
least as far back as the spring of 1850.
With a blanket strapped upon my back,
fifty cents in my pants' pocket and the
biggest stock of hope and unused energy that ever made a lad's heart as light
as a balloon, I tramped along here in my
search for the 'gold diggings.' My
ambition was higher than those buttes
yonder by thousands of feet, and the top
was to be capped by solid gold," pointing as he spoke to the three singular and
isolated peaks we were just then passing,
known as the Marysville Buttes, whose
volcanic heights looked as inaccessible to
us as their peaks seemed brown and barren.
"It appears to me," said Euth, measuring the most precipitous sides of those
lofty and mysterious hills, "that when a
man aspires to. touch the sky he would
want a higher guerdon than mere gold,
not, however, that I hold the metal in
contempt."
"I had, madame, and that was the
whole matter. I was desperately in
love—that was a solemn fact, expressed
in as few words as possible—and I believe that she loved me, but the top of
Mt. Shasta was not more unattainable
to me than Jennie. Her father, an old
Philadelphia druggist, had money, and
I had none. He was as proud as Lucifer, and as ambitious f oc his daughter as
he was proud. I felt that JL could 'move
a mountain,' if I could find a mountain
to move; so Jennie and I said good-bye
one afternoon under an -old oak in Fair-
mount Park, and in the very depths of
my heart I believed that she would
be true to me. It was not a severe seven days' ride in a palace car
from New York to San Erancisco in
those days, and the tall, slender, hungry,
penniless lad who tramped akrag here
twenty-nine years ago. seeking his fortune nke another Dick Whittington,
was a weary and homesick one as well."
"By 'here,' which you have twice
nsed, do you mean this veritable Yalley
of the Sacramento?" said Euth.
"The very same. My objective point
was a place now famous in the annals of
that period, called 'Bidwell's Bar,' on
account of a rich bar in the Feather
Eiver, full of golden sand, which was
discovered by General Bidwell. The
place was many miles from me; the
country was thinly settled; I did not
know a soul (for even tramps were scarce
in those, early days), and so my courage
aaad my legs gave out together. Pulling
off my boots about 5 o'clock one sultry
day, I based my blistered feet to the
arAl everJtag breeze, and, -*agep£ti^iBtor'
a clump-o£ ' young manzauitas, I§U
asleep, hoping that I would never awake
again this side of the stars. I did, however, conscious that my toes were being
licked in a gentle fashion, and discovered
Hhat it was being done by a brown setter
dog, about as hungry-looking and*gener-
ally dilapidated as I was myself.
"Where he came from I never knew,
but, looking into his half-human eyes,
we speedily entered into a sort of dumb
compact to trudge oh together. I found
that the poor fellow (L never could call
him a brute) had a sore knee, inflamed
and bleeding. I tore a strip off from my
last handkerchief to bind it up, and, in
place of the Good Samaritan's oil and
wine, gave him my last scrap of cold
bacon. Itis strange, but forlorn as 3
was in those days, I recall them with a
tender pleasure almost unaccountable.
If I had been raised a Brahmin I would
have believed that some immortal spirit
of unfailing cheerfulness and unending
resources was imprisoned in that dog's
body. Did you ever read the fairy legend of the 'White Gat,' who, after
she had persuaded the young
Prince, her lover, to cut off her
head and tail and throw them in the fire,
suddenly stood before him a woman, as
fair as Aurora. Fritz, for that was the
name by which I called the dog, looked
at me with Jennies brown eyes,
half roguish, half thoughtful, and together we resumed our journey. Nor
would I have followed in the wake .of the
young Prince, even had I known the result would have been similar, for Fritz,
the dog, was invaluable just as he was.
All lonesomeness was gone now that, he
rarely left my side, and, although our
shadows had grown less by the time we
reached the 'bar,' our immaterial entities
were in prime order for everythiing in the
shape of adventure. 'Have never seen
any gold dug.' Then I'll not at this late
day spoil your first impressions of a miner's camp by describing mine as I approached Bidwell's Bar. I may say,
though, that one might have supposed
an earthquake or tornado had been there,
tearing up the hundreds of thousands of
cubic feet that had been moved and removed by mortal hands in their frantic
and persistent search for gold.
"The 'bar' was a world in miniature.
Almost every nationality was there represented, and almost every feature of human kind but humanity. Armed with a
pick, pan and shovel, I, like hundreds of
others, began to dig and burrow and
wash dirt. But my labor and its results
would not balance, for somehow my little leather bag of gold dust got no
heavier, toil as I would. Wages being
good, I stopped digging and hired myself as a camp-scullion. I did every kind
of jobbing within the range of a miner's
wants. Washing dirty flannel shirts and
cottons overalls, patching leather trousers and cooking flapjacks is not the
most dignified and flower-strewn path to
fortune, you must know; and to a boy
whose ideas of chivalry, independence
and deeds of knightly valor were purely
and intensely Byronic, Buch a fate you
must acknowledge, was a sort of poetic
injustice. My aim, though, was to earn
enough money with which to buy a certain claim of which I knew, and that I
had, in advance, labeled 'Bonanza.'
"I might have succeeded, but I was
prostrated by a malarial fever, and for
daya and weeks lay unconscious at the
tender mercieo of a few rough Welsh
minero with human hearts. My little
hoard of money and my energy melted
away together like spring snow. But for
Fritz I'd have died of disappointment
alone. He had adopted the 'Never say
die' motto, and as I often read in his
glorious eyes the sentence, 'You great
coward! At him again!' as a tender and
appreciative sympathy which the gift o£
speech could not have made more assuring. My nurses had pitched me a tent
on the south side of a low hill, and had
left me to get well at my own leisure.
My 'bottom dollar' had dwindled to the
value of a dime, my legs to thickness of
a pair of tongs (for all appetite was
gone,) and one evening hope failed me.
Believing I was going to die, I resolved
to do the fair thong by Jennie, apprise
her ot the event and advise her co forget
me. By the flickering light of a bit of
tallow candle I began the letter, the first
I had written for months. I thought
aloud and wrote. Fritz lay. beside me,
his nose weefged between his paws, but
I knew by the twitch  of his  ears that  ntory.
he understood
word I was writ-
every
ing.
"I had reached the climax of renunciation and wretchedness—or,- rather,
say expression of it—when he suddenly
rose and went out. I soon heard him
pawing and scratching and tearing the
earth about six feet from me. as though
he were under contract to dig a tunnel
to China before daylighj;. Thanking he
had found the burrow of a wolf or fox, IE-
called him off; but he was as deaf as &
rock to my voice. Seizing the candle, I
hurried to the spot, around which lay a
half bushel of gravel which he hadloos-
ened, when my eye caught the gleam of
a dull, red streak that veined a piece of
quartz about the size of an egg lying
among the fresh earth. Would you believe it? That streak was worth $50, for
it was virgin gold. Nor was it the only
one upon that hillside. Fritz had found
a lode (thanks to the gopher), and I
thereby had found a fortune. As soo:s
as    possible    I    had     the    gold  of
i ie trail of an erratie fox. I ealled Mra,
_!.,"at li© gave no head. People got oat <a£
!:p way. Tho gamma Ihouted, and,
vltha wild,   shrill berk,   he ouddenly
"ounded into the door-way of a large
^.vy-goods store. I bounded aftor Mm
11 time to see him rush up to a lady in
-' Aa.ck* who was examining som© gloves,
r ad danced around her with signs of Si©
: lost extravagant joy. There are tones
i net live without the aid of photographs.
Boy! Boyl Dear old Boy,' was all she
' lid, but I'd have sworn the voice was
i ennie's if Ihad heard it on the summit
<"2 Mount Blanc, A white hand was
i^id upon his head and my ring was on
■vhe hand."
He paused.
"Yours? Sir, I hope you
?laim it," said the practical
tov.
"I did, and the hand which
fust as I originally intended."
,£lexander, in his hours of conquest, ever
omile a more serene approval of himself
:iian our conductor at this stage  of the
did nos
collocu-
wore it,
Nor did
"But the conduct of Fritz, and the
'lady's silence, and all the queer concomitants which exist only in fiction—how
lo you reconcile them with an ow'r true
ble?" said Euth, the truth loving.
, "Fritz was Boy, the Boy who had
often been caressed by Jennie before his
young master, Jennie's cousin, got the
gold fever, when 1- did, and came to
California, never to return. Jennie had
'written, but he^ letters had never
Cached me. She thphght me dead. Why
Ahe dog came to me, when his master
riled, is one among- the riddles of my
r ife which I will disentangle in the hereafter.
"And to-day where is she ?"
He stood waiting for the answer.
"On our ranch ijearSjiCramento, jand!
believe one or laie Happiest women in the
Itate.   We bave a boy ten  years old,
whose- name is Fritz, and all the dearer
f 72 the sake of the old 'friend who has
^bne where I hope one day to meet the
human of him.   I wish you, could stop
that precious stone wrought into % ring J.O^ a hit and see my wife.   Queer, isn't it
roughness, I had
Sendingjfliese to
of my own designing—all of it, at least,
but the contents of one blunt Corner,
which,  in its native
mounted as a brooch.
Jennie, I—"
"An act of  great  generosity,   sir, J
think," interrupted Euth with a laughing;
glint in her  eye.    "" " '
thought you'd  have
"One  would hava*'*
preserved such &
lliat I should have introduced this bit
'o£ private history upon you? But the
truth is-—. Yes—coming! I'll be with
you again; ladies."
: A* brakeman beckoned him inside, and
we had seen the last of our handsome
; conductor.
Theevemng shadows had begun to
lengthen.
fI%> setting  sun had turned the vast
as a memorial that 1 sent my first bit? u£
treasure, but I expected to get it back
again within two years, ahd the girl with
it."
"And did you?"
"No; nor even received aline of acknowledgement that my offer had been
accepted.. Nothing finds gold quicker
than" gold, when a man has once got a
fan* share of it, and in two years I had,
in various ways, secured $20,000. Investing it, as I thought saf ely, I returned
to Philadelphia in all the pride of a conquering hero. My story ought to end
here; to wind up with the chime of wedding bells and a 'beautiful Eachel' as
my reward for faithful serving; but I had
scarcely arrived when I heard, incidentally, that Jennie had gone with her
father to Europe, nor left no sign that
she ever remembered me."
"You certainly did not let that fact
the   ardor of  your pursuit?"
Euth;   "yoii followed her,  of
courser""
"I did no such thing, madam. I returned to San Francisco, and plunged
into the excitement of gold hunting wit*h
a recklessnesss that a woman can nol;
understand. Six months after and I los|
every dollar, but by that time I had
learned thab experience is worth nothing
as solid capital until it has been dearly
bought. I whistled my rhyme:
"Loss and gain, pleasure and pain,
Balance the see-aaw of life,
in the sensitive sars of my faithful Fritz,
hugged his brown head close to my
shoulder—don't laugh, that dog was my
friend—rolled up my sleeves, and again
went to work with a vigor that I knew
dampen
queried
.«»
big
the
meant certain success if the vein held
out. It did, and five years afterward I
had a bank account whieh ran largely
into the thousands. I invested it in
land. By that time I was a bachelor of
thirty. Hard knocks and my one
disappointment had shaken all
romauce out of me, and when I again
went East it was on business connected
"with the construction of this railroad."
"And you have quite outlived your
boyish fancy, as heart began to lose its
youth ?" said Euth, with the least bit of
cynicism iu her tone.
"I think Fritz knew," said the conductor quietly. "I had become almost
misanthrope for his sake. If I left him
to go into society—such as Ave had—for
a few hours, he either whined like a sick
child or kept up such an increasing
barking and baying that to save him being shot as a nuisance I went to no place
where it was impossible for him to accompany me. Tne oiaieiiow went witiime
even to New York, and on the journey I
often caught myself cogitating how he—
born in a wilderness, of wild mustard,
and as fond of camp-life as an Indian-
would take to the constraint of .an old
oity. Well, I had not been in New York
a week before there was a strong tugging
at my heart to run down to Philadelphia.
Not that it was home for me, for my
parents had died before I first left it. _ I
called th'e desire 'the charm of association,' and it led me.
"There, as I went down Aroh street.
my poor dog lost his wits and the sober
dignity of his maturity. He had a remarkably fine scent. I always knew
that; but no sooner had we turned' into
that particular street than, with nose
close to the ground and rigid tail, he ran
zig-zag to and fro, aB though he was on
snows, but now rose-tinted and glowing,.
seemed to cleave the azure above them
as with a wedge of burnished silver. It
was starlight when we reached the end
of our car-ride and were registered for
the night.
"The conductor's story was a pleasant
little episode, Euth, wasn't it ? Do you
believe' it all happened ?" I asked, as I
leaned from my pillow to her's to leave
a good-night Mss on her round cheek.
"I like Fritz," was the sleepy answer.
"ThereVan instinct about some dogs
that the. half of mankind can neither
appreciate nor maintain. I trust a man
whom a good dog loves."
The National Debt.
Mr. Bobert P. Porter, who has had
charge of the statistics of the wealth of
the United States, under the present census, gives some very interesting facts
concerning the distribution of the national debt. The registered bonds are
distributed about as follows : The New
England States own about II per
centum, the Middle States about 43 per
centum, the Southern States a little
over 2, the Western States 8\, and other
corporations about 35£. The difference
in the number of bondholders is somewhat significant. New York State owns
nearly $210,000,000 of the bonds, and
there are less than 15,000 holders, while
Massachusetts, with $40,000,000 of
bonds, has less than 17,000 holders.
Mr. Porter says the debt is not a popular loan, but that it is owned by less
than 100,000 persons, and it is probable
that 1,500 persons own over $410,000,000
of the registered bonds. This is held in
amounts exceeding $50,000. Many of
the banks, however, hold small amounts
in trust, so that 100,000 do not represent all the holders in the country.
These figures indicate to some extent
the immense growth of private wealth
in the country. During the last few
years individual fortunes have grown
enormously, and a large part of this
wealth has been invested in government
securities. The checks that are drawn
by the Treasury for the payment ot interest to individuals are some of them
very large. This class of holders,
strange as it may appear, do not oppose
the refunding of the debt at a low rate
of interest. They are perfectly willing
to take 3 per centum, or any rate which
the government will pay, but they want
the bonds to run a long time. The difference between a low and a high rate
can not pay for the cost of reinvestment.
Tiiat and. the trouble of seeking new securities are what the owners of these
great fortunes dread. It is not at all
improbable that the influence of this
wealth should be soon felt in favor of
making the national debt permanent.
It was perfectly well understood at
Washington that the late Fernando
Wood was in favor of a permanent debt
as the best 'investment, both for large
fortunes and for trust funds. Such a
thing, however, is against 'all the traditions and policy of the country, and
will undoubtedly never be adopted.^—
Philadelphia Times.	
'' My child ? " " Yes, paw." " I saw
young'Sausargent giving you taffy, yesterday., Never, my daughter, never pay
heed to flatterers." "But, paw, how
can-I tell when they are flattering? " Pa
passes.
FACTS Wm, TEM CWM©HJ§0
CkBBiBB-piGEOHiJ often ©xMbit a remarkable love of musi®, and £hey are
exceedingly fond of aromatic odors.
Wheotveb any on© of a herd of hyenas, in their native state, is wounded ||s
companions tear it to pieces and devour
it.
JetiTiY-fishes can live cut in two Ios
an indefinite period. Halves of them
will swim along as if nothing had happened.
Thebe is a pair of scales in tiie New
York Assay Office of a kind so delicate
that, when brought to a balance with
two pieces of paper of equal size in the
pans, the mere writing of a name with
lead pencil on one of the pieces of
paper will add enough weight to ihe
paper to turn the scales in its favor.
When a lion is roused he never goes
directly forward, but takes an oblique
course, receding with a slow, proud motion, going from one side to the other,
and bounding rather than running.
The lion is a long-lived animal; in his
native forest his age exceeds that of
man. When a lioness fears lest her retreat may be discovered she often hides
her tracks by brushing them out with
her tail.
It is said that the bats of Java seldom
fail to attack such persons as lie in the
open air with their extremities exposed;
and they are so dexterous in this operation that they can insinuate their acule-
ated tongue into a vein, and continue
to draw the blood without being perceived ; and that during all the time
they are engaged, they agitate the air
with their wings in so pleasing a manner
as to throw the sufferer into a sounder
sleep than he was before.
The common flea lives by sucking the
blood of man, and of some species of
quadrupeds and birds. Ife abounds particularly in the nests of poultry,
pigeons and swallows, and wherever
sand and dust accumulate in the chinks
of floors; itis tobe found alsb plentiful
in beds, wherever cleanliness is neglected. Fleas undergo a complete metamorphosis. The female lays about a
dozen eggs of a white color, and slightly
viscous. The larvse is & lively little
worm, at firsfc white, afterward reddish,
and destitute of feet.
Thebe are at present in the jOld
World and in the New World mbie than
100,000 railway locomotives. Their to*
tai force is equal to 30,000,000 horse-
power^ and all the* other steam engines
vjtfn tib^gglpbe tfee.eithnated at.^OOOjOOt)
horse-power..,'" JThe technical ••> horsed
power," however, is really equal to thr'eO
average horses, and each horse to about
seven men, the aggregate power, therefore, of all the engines being vastly
more than the effective force of all the
human workers living. Four-fifths of
the steam engines now at work have
been made within a quarter of a century
or so.
Some of the washing waters of Paris,
which were formerly run into the sewers,
are now collected in casks, and, the suds
being subjected to chemical treatment,the
fatty matters are being manufactured
into toilet soap, made fragrant by the
addition of oil of rose. According to
this process a little sulphuric acid is
added to the soap water obtained from
washing linen, the whole is then stirred
up, and the fatty matter is allowed to
stand for a few hours, when, on its collecting upon the surface of the liquid, it
is gathered in casks. Instead of sulphuric acid, sulphate of iron or ferruginous sulphate of alumina may be employed, by the action of which the separation of the fatty matter is obtained,
being precipitated in the form of an insoluble soap. After the action of these
metallic salts the operation may be terminated by the addition of milk of lime.
Emperor of Brazil.
The present Emperor of Brazil, Pedro
H., is descended from the royal line of
Portugal. When ths French invaded
that country in 1807* the royal family
fled to Brazil, which Tvas raised to the
rank of a kingdom in 1815. After difficulties with Portugal, the father of the
reigning sovereign took the part of Brazil, and was proclaimed protector and
perpetual defender of • that country,
which was declared independent in 1822,
and he was proclaimed constitutional
Emperor and crowned. On the death
of his father, Dom Pedro I. abdicted the
throne of Brazil in favor of his infant
daughter, and returned to Portugal to
assume the office of King. It was duiing the residence of Dom Pedro I. ih
Brazil that Donr.Pedro IE., the present
Emperor, was bOrn, which event occurred
December 2, 1825. He was crowned
July 18, 1841, and was married Sept. _,
1843, to Princess Christina Maria,
daugter of Francis I., Bang of fche Two
Sicilies. Their one surviving child
Princess Isabella, was born July 29,
1846, and was married in 1864 to Prince
Louis of Orleans, Comte d'Eu, eldest
son of the Due de Nemours, of the ex-
royal house of Bourbon-Orleans. The
Empire of Brazil has greatly improved
under Pedro II., slavery has been abol»
ished, immigration invited, railways
built, and the finances and other departments of the government put on a firmer
basis. The Emperor traveled in Europe
for some time during 1871 and 1872, and
not long since visited the TTnited States,
where he was very cordially received.
"How muoh is that?" said a mourner
in a flower shop, pointing to a wreath of
immortelles inscribed " To my mother-
in-law." " What you like," replied the
florist; "I have had it for four years,
and no one has ever offered to purchase
it"	
""fn increase of the value "of French
railways £21880 over 1879 was $22,240*-
000.
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grUPNED wood should he wcsheS ■bMjJ
coldt-ea. |j
:"^ptib jQpk ^©moves' iron rasfe feosa:
■wiite gimSi -. -
Try pussa fojgpsi$©> to Eemove stsSsss-
from hair-cloth forgitaSa. ' '
The free use^f- lemon Juice am
will always reliev^^isough.
CbeajH of. tarta? rufcbed tapon
white Md gloves clean them -WeE.
Cut hot bread or oak© "with a hs&
knife, and it will not be clammy.
Moths will eat the all-wool mjmt femfe .
not the mixed silk and cotton upholstering.
Camphob placed in drawers or tmafe.
will prevent mice from doing them ©s^
injury.
CehiINGS that have beea smoked h$ o
kerosene lamp should be washed off wA
soda water.
Single cfceam is cream that has stooS
on the mUk twelve hours. It is best f cs?
tea and coffee. '    ■  ■
In bohiIkg eggs put fiiem in boilmg"
water. It 'will prevont th© yoke imm
coloring black.
In making a crust ©2 any kind, do bc&
melt the lard in flour. Melting will injure the crust.
Cbeam that is to be whipped shoaMk
not be butter cream, lest in whipping Sfe
change tc butter.
A pine comb loosens the dead skisa <ffiJ
the scalp just as friction rubs- oM %h®
scarf skin of the body.
A sew dried or preserved cherrlea^
with stones out, are the very best thing
possible to garnish sweet dishes. •
Doubj^e cream stands on its mpk
twenty-four hours, and cream for bt&«?
frequently stands forty-eight hours.
In Potosi the most violent headaches*
so very common there, are cured h>Y
putting the feet in hot water.
A soiitmoN of common salt given lsa~
mediately is said to bs a suecessfEaE
remedy for strychinia poisoning.
Salt extracts the Juicea of meat fev
oookiug. Steaks ought thereforenotfes>
be salted until they have been broiled.
In bohiXNG dumplings of any MnS^
put them in the water one at a time. |f
they are put in together they will tffe
with each oilier.
The only sure and efficient way tb?
warm "cold- feet is to dip them in cold
water and then rub them dry brisM^'
with a coarse toweL
To beat the white of eggs quickly put
in a.'pinch of salt, " Tlie ■x^iSti^^^^^'
the quicker .-they will'froth,   Balt'cools-
and also freshens them.   f !
Thebe is a greenness in onions anal,
potatoes that fenders them hard to digest.
For health's sake put them in warm.
water for an hSur before cooking.
When washing oil-cloths, put a littl®.
milk in the last water they are washed
with.   This will keep them bright and.
clean longer than clear water.
Fubnitube needs cleaning as mueh as
other wood-work. It may be washed
with warm soap suds, quickly wiped dry
and then rubbed with an oily cloth.
To make silk whieh has been wrinkled!..
appear exactly like new, sponge it on the-
surface with a weak solution of  gnat
arabic or white glue, and iron on ta& „:
■wrong side. -^
A paste made of whiting and benzined
will clean marble, and one made of whiting and chloride of soda spread and leffc
to dry (in the sun if possible) on the-
marble will remove spots.
Eggs coated with butter in which tw©>
or three per cent, of salicylic acid has-
been dissolved and then packed in dry-
sawdust without touching one another-
will keep fresh for a year.
Db. Beabd explains the marvelous-
powers exhibited at times by subjects ia
a mesmeric or trance condition by the
exaltation of some single faculty—as of
calculation or music-^-with' the suppression of all other faculties to a greater or
less degree, occurs sometimes in ther
cases of idiots, whose brain power appears confined to one line of effort. In
Buch cases any improvement, in generals
ability or intelligence is attended by a.
lessening of the force of the exalted faculty. The attention of- the Medico-
Surgical Society, of St. Petersburg, has
lately been called to a remarkable case,
illustrating this ■ principle in the inverse
order. The subject, a Eussian of twenty-
seven, was in youth distinguished for
brilliant abilities. Disease, brought on.
by dissipation, caused the loss of- all hia
mental faculties except memory and th*
power of mathematical calculation.
Those increased proportionally as his-
power of logical thinking and understanding vanished. He is now. a living
phonograph and calculating apparatus.
A Gebman naturalist has contrasted
the behavior of different animals towards^
steam machinery. That proverbially
etupid animal, the ox, stands composedly
on the rails in front of a locomotive without having any idea of ihe danger whicb
threatens him; dogs run among the-
wheels of a departing railway train without suffering any injury; and birds seent
to have, a peculiar delight in the steam,
engine. Larks often build their nests-
and rear then.' young under the switches
of a railway over which heavy trains are-
constantly rolling, and swallows make
their homes in engine houses..- A pair ot
swallows have reared their young for
years in a mill where a noisy three hundred horse power engine us working night;
'and*'day, and another pair have built;
their nest in the paddle-box of m
iteamer.
Thebe is a difference between tbe lips
of a young man and the lips of a young
lady—but sometimes it is a mighty smalL
one.