Coleman Voice. (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1892 Page: 2 of 4
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inn par of Gentian school
era said to «o Ib for athletic*.
trucriua, tirangely enough,
to be mini prevalent among*!
’ortiia ami Utah >
(taton in tins Union
d laws are ItieiiiicaL
are the onl)
whose mar-
To pnjoy Wopard shooting ono uniat
live in India, where a bru'o of this
kind waa ktlloil the other ilar after it
hail ilaln lit human beiiiga in lwentv-
HMiMk ' ! ' : "
In thia com,try S3,000,000 nerea of
land are being funned by irrigation.
France mvca in wonderful tucoeaa in
gardening to thia ayatom, and in lute
veara Italy haa apont over 1200,000,*
000 for thia purpose.
“From what 1 know of the history
of the trotting Imre*,” remarked S n-
ator Lclaiui Stanford of California
the other day, “it ia my opinion that
be traces back to lira thoroughbred,
and not lira trotter.”
The Chicago Herald relates that a
converted Chiiiaui.ni who |iroiiiiaed to
allow rino for a while to any mother
who would apare a child who would
Otherwise lie destroyed had at one
time aa many aa 540 pensioners.
A local Justice ip P.Usbttrg, Penn.,
has ruled that it ia not an assault lo
throw a pailful of water upon an
organ grinder, when lira water ia
thrown by a householder who is on
bis own premises and annoyed by the
strolling artist.
The principal agrienltaral exports
of Jamaica, lfiv-Ava per cent, of
whioh oome lo Ihe United Mates, are
cocoa, eoenaants, bananas, oranges,
ginger, pimento, rum, coffee, sngar
and logwood. Bananas aad cocoa-
nuts are largalr Increasing, wltilr cof-
- - fee and sugar decreased lalt year.
HOMING PIGEONS
How They Are Bred, Housed,
Fed and Trained.
Th« World’s Fair Will Stlmu-
iats Their Breeding.
trial during the World’s Fair, tlwy
will become popular with ilia public
and will be extensively used for carry’s
lug messages.—[Mail and Express
In Kentucky the public school teach-
ers are not paid a Axel salary, bnt
receive so much for each pupil. "Yhi*
plan has one good effect, that of stim-
ulating leaclisrt lo secure scholars,
and thus extend the beuciitt of educa-
tion, bnt some have been found mik-
ing falte re urns, ,
No one, says an Adirondack camp-
er, can fully value a frying-pan until
ono has taken to lira woo s. Our i
guide fries bacon, and he does it lo
thh frying-pan. lie bolls potatoes,
and lie docs it ia die frving-paii. He
bakes bread, and lie does It in lire fry-
ing-pan. lie sweeps up the floor, and
ira does it in Ihe frying-pan.
Many cii cunisisi no- make it appear
that millionaires bear charmed lives.
'J im inan who attempted to kill Kas-
sil Sage destroyed himself, while Mr.
^cumulating, says lira
Jay Gould, de-
■0*1 a thousand
Ji * mo---*'—
than eve
ago an engine rail Into'Tflr.'Wi esiing-
hunse’s car and hurt nearly everybody
in lira Irain bnt Mr. Wealiughoiise.
Mr. Frick will probably see Bergmaa
sentenced. And now, although tira
Alva run down a boat the niher day
and drowned tile man and woman on
it Instantly, when lira Alva is sunk
Mr. Vanderbilt, her owner, escapes,
and goes on Ida causer of pleasure as
though nothing had happened.
ll la quite likely lhat after the
World's Fair homing pigeons will be
much more popular than they are now.
I’igeon fanciers all over the country
ura making arraugomeiiU to have
prises offered for the birds that cau
ll.v tile greatest distance In tl)C short-
est time. Mot*, of the homing
pigeons in lids country are owned lit
the Eastern Slates, and many of them
in this city and Brooklyn. Their
-wtiers are now giving them a special
preparation and training for the race
they are expected to fly between Chi-
sago and their home lofts in this city.
A Mail and Express man visited one
of lira lofts on Ihe west side of the city.
It is not strange that the homing
pigeons are ia a hurry to fly bach
home when thoy have been taken
several hundred milos away into a
-irange country. No pains are spared
to make tlw lofte comfortable. There
ia an abmidnucc of light and fresh air.
Tha^ws^.swtewfae^-te^J^jlggshod,
and a large, clean trough in (he ceu-
(re of ilie loft ia alwaja tilled with
'lean mul cold running water. The
floor ia spriiikld l with fresh »and
every day or two.
"Pigeons arc strong, healthy blrday”
»aid the owner of (hi loft, “If they
have proper care. They are easy to
(a me. It may surprise you, however,
to know tint we are careful not ?!o
have the training pigeons become very
tame. We tike guod care of them,
but pay no more attention to them
Imn is necessary. This is done to
make them quick and active and lake
|o tlw* wing at om* as soon as they
are released frotn the basket to make
a journey,"
“1><> homing pigeons require any
speriai training before lliey m.iko a
journey V*
“Vos, these pigeons here would not
flv a great distance very qnickfy, fer
they never have done it amt are not
carefully bred for that purpose. Yota
know, there arc homing pigeons that
have records the swine as race horses.
The swiftest birds have flown a mile a
minute. A homing pigeon named
j Forty Minutes recently fle* thirty-nine
miles in forty minutes. He was 6
| months old at the time.
“The pigeons are taken out for
.heir first trial," c >11 tinned the fan-
cier, “when they arc alront six weeks
old. They are (Iks strongest and swift-
ent alien they are about three years
old,, but some birds have made good
time when they wen; ten years old.”
&> for as tlsrir appearance if con-
cerned one would not judge homing
pigeons to be apparently swift birds,
iOi^Aativo Zj!' ~~ jr1T**T* •*■*'*• —r—‘
Jgr I» iu their strong, broad wings.
jK The Kogiisli carrier pigeons hAVj^Unr '"T*’*’
appearance '’Fhctt^iaaSe nmlfx but M
llrair speed is gr/a lv hindered by the n t
traaVy wattle ou their i ills, which the
fanciers cultivate to be as large as
iweeible.
The homing pigeon haa lira advan-
tage of all oilier birds la (he construc-
tion of its eyes. They protrude from
Its head so far lhat tile pigeon can see
in all directions and even belting
Homing pigeons are dark bine in
eotor Slid have black bars on the
wings.’ Their breastj are prettily
frrcitiui
tioriug
looking
—
FARAWAY INDIA ]f
Captain William Crcig, a British
shipmaster who died In it,a Francisco
recently, was the owner aad tuier of f1T**' ^ ,He llark kl“e ‘"<J
gloss tliat ch&rtclerizcs the fealborsof
Fanning I-Und in the .Southern l'aclflc.
lie was a Scotchman by birtli-
Twenty-five years ago be built it
Honolulu a schooner am( began to
trade among the Far fle islands. On
one of bia voyages Ira touched the
Fanning Island and took possession of
it In the name of lira tjnoen. The
island being rich in gusto deposits,
and coeoanut-palms, and the pearl
flailing promising handsome returns,
Ornig established 'lynaelf there with
all his belongings. Tira 70Cf natives
of ill island were prevalleit upon to
I*BPJ»i*e him aa Guvernor or Kiug.
Most of tliem he afterwards employed
to gather cargoes of gnano, pearl, and
..copra, which ira shipped to San Fran-
cisco He built a flue bo.iaeon a com-
manding point on the Inland, and lived
for many years in Iropiaal luxury,
varie.l by occasional iripa to the
United Btatea wMflF* Ida children ere
o{ blood-
poisoning caused by aa old injury to
hia right leg.
Shop-lifting has become such a nai-
anuce in St, Louis, that well known
firms have adopted tira plan of keep-
ing a gallery containing the panto-
graphs of offenders. To litis collection
trusted employes hare access, and they
•re expected to keep a sharp lookout
for lira originals of the pictures and
see that they ara arrested if ait allempt
ia made lo carry off goods. The gal-
lery also contains likenesses of women
of society who are politely known n>
“kleptomaniacs,” snd who have to be
, <lc»|t With (artfully. “The number of
"teuton afflicted by lids mi fortune!*
malady in St Lotris,” says a. police
officer of (hat city, “readme well rip
Into (M hundreds. Scuroely > day
passes without an attempt on (hi pari
Omaniacs to purloin article* of
•OHIO of tira largo dry.
millinery houses in the city,
•hilly *el*e upon laoe handkar-
bits of ribbon, laoe patterns,
ornament* and the like,
*ty thing that eon-
ira secreted In the folds el
luakad away In ibair
in H» band.
B;
j a peacock,
Homing pigeons are very popular
i with fanciers On account of the use to
| Which (hey can be put in feeding the
young of other varieties of pigepna
“Yon will notice.” said the owner of
of tira loft, “that l have several differ-
ent kiwis of pigeons here and that
each variety feeds and brings np tira
young of another variety. This is
because of die peculiar way in which
pigeons feed Iheir little ones. .You
may know that seventeen days after
dm egg is laid a milk like secretion
appears ou die breast of both the ma'e
and tho female pigeons. This- is
directly ontslde of the crop. Tira old
bird takes (his from its breast with
its bill sud feeds it iuto the bill of the
youngster.
“Now (his pigeon ia a barb, which
is a very choice variety of pigeon, but
It can’t feed its own young on account
of Its strangely shaped hill. y0u see
It is short and thick, and covered with
a wattle. Of course the youngster's
hills are short and thick too. This
makes it impossible for the parent
pigeou to put the food into tira bill of
the young ones. But this difficulty is
remedied by having tho homing pig-
eon feed Ihe young of the barb, for
lira bills of tho homing pigeons are
long ami thin. And for tiie same rea-
son the young homing pigeons, with
their long kills, can be fed by the
other variety of pigeons.”
Tira Association of Owners of Hom-
ing Pigeons has an elaborate set of
rules to govern lira flight of pigeons.
Tira bird i* taken frotn iu home loft in
s bsaket lo toe point from which It 1,
to- Us released, and is' not fad for a
day, previous-to Hie lime of its flight.
This gives it greater ■ speed and makes
It more anxious to reach home. Be-
fore it is. released its wings and
femitters arc cafuffiffiy examined to see
that it doc« not carry lira name of iia
owner amt Ha honto This ia lo make
it impossible for if to be sent on to its
owner by express if it should alight
on the way. , ■
This ia not apt to happen, though,
for lira pigeon la not often sent a
it can. ga In a
day. Horning pigeons do not fly at
night ami are at a disadvantage in
A Mangier Spider.
A gentleman wlto has spent toverai
years traveling in Sonlh America, and
who haa a fine collection of inaecte
Slid birds Hut ho brought from that
country, has in his cabinet a curious
sjpecimen. He (ells the following in-
resting story about it: He was wnth
through lira forest one day*
ig for a near humming bird that •
he was anxious to secure, when a flut-
tering and faint chipplng-cloas by lilt
side attracted hia attention. A small
hollow tree was near him, with au
opening in the side about 8 inches
across, ,aud spread over thia was g
dense white web, Tiie upper part of
the web was broken a little, and an
curely fastened in it was a dead hum-
ming birr), of tho very kind
(lie explorer had been seeking. It
had bren dead hut a little while, It
seemed, fur iia head hung down limp
and motionless. Near lira bottom of
the web a s nail gray bird Was en-
tangled—a tomtit spending its winter
tmong the tropics, only to meet such
a fate aa this. Its wild fluttering had
entangled it more ami more, hut tiie
huge gray monster, hack in tira dark,
evidently fearing that iu prey would
escape, had waited ita opportunity,
and just as tbe traveller looked around
it sprang foil upon lha poor bird’s
breast, ciaaped its hairy arms around
tbs little fluttering body snd buried
its horrible fangs iu tira tender throat.
For an instant the observer stood
still, tod much startled lo move, while
the little bead of the bird drooped
helplessly and It ceased to struggle;
then, recovering himself, the gentle-
man hastily prepared his chloroform,
aad, taking advantage of lira spider's
preoccupation, brought it gradually
near.
So intent was the creature on hold-
ing the bird until it was quite dead
that it did not attempt to escape. Its
legs relaxed a little presently, but its
fangs remained buried iu thy bird’a
throat, and so it died and was given a
terrible immortality. For this gen-
tleman determined that tiie parties to
this tragedy could not be left in the
South American forests. Iia had the
tedious of lira tree truck careiully cat
above aud below tbo opening, and
lhat section elands in bis cabinet now,
with the strong white web, tbe two
poor withered little birds entangled in
it, and the great hairy spider still
clinging to tiie breast of one, ita
fangs never releasing their Isold, even
in death. Tlw hairy monater is known
aa lira Myg.de avicularia. Its body ia
two inches tong and its great lega
cover an expanae of sevon inches. It
has terrible fangs folded under its
toad, and when in pnranit of prey or
augered it will leai great distanoae
ami sink these fangs to the object of
ill anaoayrerr niiaOWpWX
Birdseye View of a Vasl
Oriental Empire.
It’s Immense Proportions
Great Population.
Matches and Fins.
Matches aud pins being among the
most common things in daily use, it ia
seldom that any thought it bestowed
upon them. Matches that pro ignited
by friction were first made in 1829,
before that time they were made lo
catch fire from a spark struck lrom
flint or steel—a very inconvenient
method. It it hard to say how many
millions of matches are made in a day,
hot when die number of people Hint
use them is reckoned, tbe total sum ia
appalling/ Probably in the city of
New York alone over twenty million
matchee are used every tweuly-four
boors. But matches are such little
things thai nobody ever teems to think
of drain. From an ordinary lliree-
inck plank 186,000 matches may be
made, yet even at tliat rate tbe lumber
used in die match business attains
enormous proportions.
Pius arc mentioned ts far back as
1683, but not until lira beginning of
thia century were they manufactured
by machinery. The old. way o( mak-
ing each pin by hand must litre been
very ledious, and it ia not likely that
people were- to careless with them
then, as they were much more expen-
sive Ilian now. It has ofien been
wondered what becomes of the
pins that are lost, bnt it is liard to
say. There are fourteen disliuct oper-
ations in making a pin, and lots of
trouble ai inched lo the process. Fins
are made of brass and Ijien tinned and
blanched, aud millions of litem are
mamifictnred daily. As a pin can be
used more than onoC| lira number
need does not equal tliat of matchea,
bat still miles upon miles of wire ire
used annually in their nmnnfactnre.
Like matclras, dray are little things
and not thought much of; but when
you need a pin or a match, and I her#
it none to be found, then you realize
what an important part tlwy play in
daily life.
Each Tear the world learnt more of
India, only to marvel at the vastneas
of Its empire, and to s|>eculato aa to
how Great Britain thall be able to
control its tremendous dependency.
It is well to familiarixo ourselves with
lira proimrliout and resources of In-
dia. Willi five times our own impu-
tation, India Is a member of the family
of undone worthy of closost study.
India is administratively divided
into British territory snd native or
feudatory States. Tire former is
under the direct control, In
tpect, of British official#, Tho con-
trol which tira atipremo government
exercises over lira native States varies
In degree. There were in March,
1890, 776. luuuicipal towns, with a
population of 14,260,000. In ill the
larger towns, aud iu many of the
amaller ton us, the majority of mem-
bers of committees are elected by tire
rate (tax) payera. Everywhere the
majority of town coiuiuillcoa consist#
of natives.
Total British territory aggregate*
944,108 square miles The area of
our own Texas it 262,290 square
mile*, and of all our S ales and Terri-
tories (eiolutivoof Alaska), 1,176,660
square miles, which will affuid terms
for comparison. Thu population of
“British India” wns given in 1891 as
220,629,100. In 1841—fifty years ago
—lids population was 158,680,0u0.
The population of British India it thus
over oira-acvenlh of (Ira esli mated
imputation of our j}lobc. Beside# tbe
proriuoet of India uuder direct British.
administration there arc more or lets
under tbe control of lira Indian Gov-
ernment i number of feudatory, or
native, States, covering an extout of
642,996 English square miles, with
66,167,860 inhabitants.
Tin total population of India i*
divided Into 110 groups on tira basis
of language. Of the Hindustani there
are 82,600,000 persons, of tlw Bengali
38,970 000. In India there are bnt
202,920 persons who speak lira English
tongue. In 1881 there were 76,188
Bniish-boru males in India and 12,610
such females. Of the total male
population in India under British rule
or tuierainly 62,009,088, or 40 per
cent., were reiurned in 1881 at en-
gaged in agriculture. Tiie average
death rate varies from 20.98 per 1000
in 1880 lo 27.97 in 1889. Calcutta lias
a population of 840, ISO; Bombay,
804,470. There are fifteen other cities
with populations above 260,000.
The most prevalent religion in India
ia that of tba Hindoos, their number
being three-fourths of the total
ipuiaiion together with the Moham-
medans, (hey comprise 94, per cent, of
lira population. There are nearly 2,-
000,000 Christiana iu luilii. There
are five lending universities, with
affiliated colleges in all, 136 of Hie
latter. Only 20.7 per cent, qt the
Imrt of a school-going age attend
school, tira percentage in cite of'Hie
girls being 1.9. In 1890 there
n r
iekdrb cammed goods save
you ara tira least bit nervous
about canned good* soak them—peat,
lobster#, anything—an hour In teed
water before bailing them. Thia will
remove any tinny Hate lhat may be
noticed la them, end take away Hie
halt shade of reproach tint may cling
lo that heal friend of tiie busy house’
keeper, Ihe canned article.—[New
York Journal.
VLOltAI. TAfil.V. HKCOHAtlONB.
There teems lo be no happy medium
In floral decoration! for (be table;
they must be either a low mound or a
tall arrangement, which carries the
flowers quite above the guests’ heads.
A pretty, simple, low design it a large
circular mirror on which resit a bow-
alt re^kuot of fino flowers, lira whole eu-
circled with a baud of close green liko
overlapping leaves. At a dinner
where this waa the arrangement the
motive was repeated ou lira dinner
ca, da and iu tho cluster of flowers at
each lady’s plate. The ices, loo, wor®
served in low cups wreathed and with
floral bowknot ou tho covers.—[Bos-
ton Cultivator.
Tint ruKssmo-BOAim.
Ono of the equipment# of tbe sew-
ing-room should bo a small pressing-
board. (let a smooth piece of board
about ten by thirty inches; cover first
with one or two thicknesses of old bed
ticking; then with a piece of old flan-
nol and lastly with soft muslin. This
latter simply pinned on the under aide
•o that it can be removed when tolled.
Nail a loop of leather aecurely to one
end and hang where it will be at free
from diist as possible. When you are
pressing seams or ironing colored
dress goods that have been washed
(his will save toiling either Ihe kotom-
board or the Irouing-ltoard proper.
A convenience akin to Hda ia a nar-
row board lhat can be iuaertod into
the arms aad legs of lillle jackets and
trousers when seams are lo be pres tod
open. This, it made of mahogany,
needs no revering, mid the scains need
iio dampening owing to the moisture
of the wood.—[New York World.
CLEANING SILK GARMENTS.
If there are gresae spots, or very
dirty places of any kind, on • silk
garment, llray should be lakon out
with soap and water or a little ben-
clue, before the garment ia washed.
This Is for Hie purpose of avoiding
rubbing, which ia apt to crack (ho
silk. Make a very light tuda with
lukewarm water with a little ammo-
nia (about a teaspoonful to a wooden
pail of water) and into thia dip tbe
tilk, switching it about, raising it up
and down and presalug it iratween Ihe
hands. If tills it kupt np for a few
minutoi it will remove uli ordinary
mrmm
qtntT.
There’s a dark little mtkl that always sighs
For hair with a golden splendor,
And u lily forehead snd hand- and ayaa
Like vlolett blue snd tender.
There’• a fair little maid, aad naught, tbe
kuowe,
But ooal-bltrk hair would oontent her,
With Hpe and chaeke like a rich red rota
And eye# like a pansy’s centre.
But suppoae some ftiry would M them
trade,
Or change them Into each other,
Oh I what would become of each little maid,
And whit would she ray to her mother!
—[Youth’s Companion.
THAT UimoRT HOT.
A small Detroit boy who haa a
peculiar npimllto'cau navor hear any-
thing in hit Sunday school Bible let-
ton about food without getting raven-
ously hungry. On these ocoaslons he
asked lo bo excused so he could go
home and get something to oal. His
ieaelter became tired of tbe interrup-
tion, and on the oeeaeion laat Sunday
of reading about Elijah and the ravens
took a new mol hod of appealing bis
pupil. *
•■Flense may I go home and get
something to eat P asked the lad.
“My young Elijah, I will be your
raven,” said Hie bland teacher, eud be
abstruciod from Ins pocket u good
slxed sandwich for the hungry boy.
But Ibis time he had reckoned with-
out hia host, for tho roat of the boya
In Hie cloaa out up aueh a erv of “no
fulr," “we're hungry too," that It
brought Ilia anperintendent on tho
occur, who was highly amused at lira
novel illustration of tho Sunday
school text.— [Detroit Fret Press.
AMIMAU WITH HUMAN VOICES.
A specie# of crow in India haa a
note which exactly resemble! tbe hu-
man voice In loud langhlng.
The laughing jackass, when warn-
ing hia feathered mates that day-
break ia at hand, ultors a cry resem-
bling a group of boys ahouting.
whooping and laughing iu a wild cho-
ral.
The nightjar haa a cry like one Iu.
meeting in ditlreit.
Among birds that havo the power of
imitation the parrot It the best; but,
as a matter of fact, iu voice ia decid-
edly Inferior lo tliat of the oilier my-
uab, a species of atorllng. Curiously
enough the male bird speaks iu a blgb,
clear tone, like that of a child, while
tbe female baa a gruff voice.
Another bird, Hie morepork of
Australis, ia frequently heard de-
manding more pork, in a clear, sten-
torian voice.
The whip-poor-wili also demands
bis punishment in a distinct imitation
of lira hum-in voice, aud Ihe com-
mand of lira guinea fow! to come
back could easily lie mistaken for n
human voice.
i
688 vernacular newspapers publiytfed
in sixteen different language^, in
1889, 363 persona were sentenced io
death, 1646 to transportation, and
161,661 to imprisonment. Of Hie
89,774 convicts admitted into jail dur-
ing 1890, 13,248 had been previously
convicted once, 4006 twice.—[Mail
and Express.
How lo Kemovr a Tight King.
“1 would rather not do a job like
this, but if vou want l( done it will
cost yon a dollar,” said a Broadway
jeweler to a Mail and Exprera man
wIio wanted a light finger ring re-
moved. “It takes up iny time, and
lime is money,” he ooiitinued.
The jeweler got a thin piece of twine
and wrapped it around the Auger, and
in a short time the gold circlet was in
iu owner's hands. It was simple
enough Tlw jewler passed the end
of Hie twine under (lie ring, and
wound it evenly around the finger to
Hie middle joint. Then lie took hold
of ihe lower end of lira string, and be-
gan to slowly1 Uiiwind upward.
The ring moved along ihe twin* to-
ward the Unger lip and dropped off.
The jaweler said that a Ibin rubber
baud wound around ihe finger to na
to drive lira blood fflto the hand would
answer Hie seine purpoae as ihe
twine.—[New York Mail aud Ex-
preaa. j
it between Hie bauds, but do not
wring Ik Wringing makes creases in
the silk; and the qjilv clmnn.tsnnes
niidtxygtoetl J|Ta aTlowable^Ti' WlSfe
ilk la in straight pieces, when it
the human voice i
nt’iiiAw lien 'lament!n
tWoKlIjpto’rSflag.
4 The cry of a worn
r
iy ira folded very amoothlv aud run
through a ringer. After the dirt Is
out rinse it in waler from which tho
chill his been taken, following the
same'rules about wringing aa when in
Ihe suds. If Hie garment ia a very
large oife or is lined it should be hung
in a shady place (ill partly dry, then
taken down and laid belweeu two
cloths, which will absorb tho rest of
Ihe dampness. Iron it on (lie wrong
side, with a cloth between lira silk
and iron. If a white ailk handker-
chief is ironed while wet It will pre-
vent its turning yellow. — [8t. Louis
8tar-8ayiug«. ~.
lUtnnn voice than those of the
ug the loss or cap-
lie cry of a wounded hare resent-
bles that of a child in distre-s.—[Yflb-
kee Blade.
A Sagacious Hus head.
“Wliai excuse liaise you to offer for
yourself?” said a lesrfitl young wife
to her ImibaihL who came in rather
late. . \
■> : y. , '-3» ■
“There is hardly any excuse that
would justify k mswUa staying away
so long from the society of- so lovely
and charming'a woman as yourself,
my darling, but on this occasion there
••tor—-
“Well, never mind, dearest,” she
said, drying her teari, ”lt’a all right;
let me help you tophll off your boots.”
—fNew York Press.
A Very lutereatlag Plant.
Lsrtuca icariola, a foreign weed, a
kiad of lettuce, is, according to Mee-
han, becoming abundant around Hie
Gettysburg battlefield. It ia a very
interesting plant from lbs fact tliat
tbe leaves are vert'lele, standing on
edge instead of l^jng horizontal. Dr.
Knglemann once aup|>oied "that they
were polar, aa well as vertical; that is
lo say, the edges of the leaves being
directed north and south, similar lo
those of Hie compass plain, A careful
examination of these at Gettysburg
show (hat though numbers are polar
here it a sufficient qumber having
their edges in other directions to war-
rant out in hesitating about calling it
• true polar-leaf plnnt. -
Colossal Christmas Plea.
The North of England is justly cele-
brated for Ha Christ mat pies, com-
posed of turkeys, geeoo and tmtll
birds. These plea are of largo sizes,
sometimes' weighing os much as half a
hundred weigh'. PJum pudding, of
whieh Sira siicient name waa llsekin
nssti! lira lime of Charles IL, ia
Mearalng Colors.
Black is the most iinivoraal mourn-
ing color in Europe, but there are a
few exceptions. For instance, in
Butsla black ia never used for cover-
ing coffins, the cloth being of a pint
shade when the deceased la a child or
young person, a crimson color for
woman land brown for widowa. Ifi
tana do sot use bit
netMf ased In tbe case jf,
fCldaago Times. ’
. y
RECIPES.
Slowed Tomatoes—Four boiling
waler over tomntoes to luosoii the
skin, poet and cut in thick slices, take
out Hie teods and put in a stew-pan,
add a little salt and cover, cook quick-
U, when done season with butler and
a tablespoon ful or more of grated
dr'«d crumbs. Serve hot.
Fruit Cream.—Tin cc oranges, three
bannanas, one pint strawberries, one-
half can aprioots, one pint ermm,
sugar to lisle. Take Hie Juice aud
pulp of tbe oranges, mash the bananas,
berries and apricots, and rub througli
a hair or wire sieve. Add the crcsm
and sugar to make it quite sweet.
Tlioii freeze as usual.
^Orango Pudding—Slice oranges aud
■Ikriiiklo over them some sugar, in His
proportion of about one cupful of
sugar to six oranges, and pour over
them a boiled costard. The beaten
whites of the eggs used in the custard
are spread over ihe (op, tad Hie
whole is set in the oven just long
uuough for the meringue to brown
delicately.
Cabbage Salad—Take one quart of
ehoppod cabbage and half (lie quan-
tity of chopped celery, mix together
and pour over the following dressing!
•Yolks of iwd eggs, Due leaspoouful
eaeh of sugar and •ait, two teaapoon-
f«ls of grounff mustard, one-half lea-
spoonful of black pepper, two table-
spoonfuls of butter and one cup of
vinegar. Boil together fire minutes.
Stuffed Okras.—Choose two doaen
leader hut good sized okras, cui off
(lie pointed ends and slit to remove
the aeods; beat three egg yolkt with
a seasoning of pepper and a very little
eali, add two lablospooufuls of Tory
finely minced ham, crumht enough to
thicken and ihe seed which yon bed
removed. Fill the pods with thia
staling and if necessary tin with a bit
of Ihrnhd. Place In s baking dith,
cover with a layer of erumlra and an-
Parmoaan cheese; dot with
A TACHTINO CAT AMD HIS ANTICS.
It was surprising to see bow quifk-
ly Middy modo himself at homo. He
acted aa if lie bad always been at sea.
He was never aeaaiek, no matter hew
rouglt it was or how uncomfortable
any of the rest of us were. He roamed
wherever he wanted to, all oyer lira
boat. At meal-times he came to the
table with (lie rest, sat up on a valise
and lapped hit milk and look what bits
of food were given him, at if ira had
eaten lhat way all hit life. When Hie
•ails were hoisted It was Ids especial
joke to jump upon (Ira main-guff and
be boistod with it; and once Ira aluied
on hia perch till lira sail was at (lie
masthead. One of us hnd to go aloft
and bring him down. When we had
oome to anchor and everything was
snug for the night he would come on
deck and scamper out on tho main-
boom, and race from there to Hie bow-
sprit end aa fast: a he could gallop,
HiCu climb, monkey-fashion, half way
up tbe matte, and drop bock to Ihe
deck or dive down into the cabin aad
run riot among the lierfhs.
One day, aa we were jogg-ng along
nnder n pleurant southwest wind, and
everybody was lounging aad dozing
after dinner, we beat d tbe lot’n call
out, “Stop that, you feilowel’’ and a
moment nftar “1 tail you, quit—or
I’ll come up and n.ake you I”
We opened our ,azy eyes to tee
what was the matter, and there sat the
Boa’n, down iu the cab.n, close to tho
oompanionway, the teasel of his
knitted cap coming nearly up to tbe
combings of Hie batch; and on the
deck oulside sat Middy, digging hie
claws into tbe tempting yam, and oc-
casionally going deep enough to
etratch the Boa’n'a eet.ip. When night
came and we were nil settled down In
lied, It was Middy’s almoet invariable
custom to go the rounds of ail the
berths, to see Jf we were properly
tucked in, and to end itlaiiiipe(;(h.itby
jumping into lira captain’s bed, tread-
ing himself « comfortable nest there
among the blankets, and curling him-
self down to sleep. It woe ids own .
idea to aalecl.the captain's berth aa tiie
only proper place in which lo turn In.
— [Si. Nlohol’ts.
A (M Fate.
Dora (at the seaside)—Arenl you
engaged yet?
Oara (disconsolately)—Indeed I’m
not, and I ven t ever be if I ete; In
tble foggy place.
"Why noir
”1 can’t keep my bug* In earl lo/.g
enough for a man to propoan.”—
[New York; Weekly.
A dowdy woman le one of nature’s
mlstekai.
Silence is tbe consummate eloquence
of sorrow.
Good victuals are the greatest good
to tho fewest number*.
The natural effect of sorrow over
tho dead is to roilne and elevate tbe
mind. p.
Love and death tire the two great
hitigst ou which all human sympathies'
iuruj !•
~The man who Is perfectly Mtllfled
with himself finds no one of like
opiuion.
The true use of speech is not so
much to exproae our wants u to con-
ceal them.
The sairo people who can deny
other peiple everything are fnmoae
for refusing Iheinsolves nothing.
Labor it Hie inevitable lot of the
majority, and Hie best oducatlon le
that which will make their labor moil
productive.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Tael toaclras you when to be silent.
Inquirers who are always Inquiring
never learn anything.
Talkativeness haa another plagne at-
tached to it, even curiosity; for
praters with to hear much that they
may have much to eav.
Life ia for action. We cannot wait
for proof or we shall never begin to
obey. To act we must assume, and
that nsinmplion is faith.
For thoughts alone ctute the round
of rebirth In this world; (at u man
•trive to purify hie thoughts. What
a man thinks, that be Is; this is tbe
old secret.
Is it not a thing divinu to have a
emile which, none know how, haa tbe
power to lighten the weight of that
enormous chain which all tha living in
common drag behind them ?
The good is one thing, the pleasant
another; these two, hiving different
objects, chain a man. It is well with
ldin who clings to the good; be who
chooses the piesaant misses hie end.
Wakes Over tke Dead.
Said a well known embalmerof this
city, speaking of waking tlw deadt
“Tbe custom is almost a universal one,
aud in some form is obeerved by every
race and tribe, whetlier civilized or
barbarous In tlds country wa ire
apt to associate wakes with tbe Catho-
lic people, bnt tbe sitting up with tbe
body after death, and especially dor.
lug the night timo, from time out of
mind, has been practised by lltote of
every other creed. Thia oastom
probably orhriunletl when eubalming
and undertaking were very crude aud
in their infanoy and the dread of dear
friet.da and relnttvea at leaving the
bodies of thefr loved ones alone over
uiglit, and to prevent any injary to
the body watchers who were selected
rife
> sal u|i all utgfd sad
ffverytWng that
able part of a man’s
hhmrel,!‘li"l» nlTl; hi
die {f&fuou, uls Keltii, III____
ships, bis position In llfs. hls
constitutes •
’s prosperity I
fl—b|s louse,
is, his Acme)
....... In Hfh.bls <
need money mid watching cent
him play the alumni with any
they are so far mat, tor they i
■■■ ........ mjwSjiX
world that "never eontlliuctti In one St.'/<
It Is eminently so with children. W
them every day, even when » e have
if we do not keep them as a man
treasure. They ean only he
trsliiiiiR, arewtb, development,
houses- little “hahunatinf hmisei
our loves snd hopis hive sweetest
ment. But if lliev are not kept, you
soon see the iveuther-f tain, the gaping i
the Incipient dicay. It the bouse Is to ’
and retain ’’lira similitude of e pal*«e."
must be “polished’’ day by day. They are
little picture^, fairer than human head ever
nnlntnl, In which the gazing eye will Had
tar depths, rich colorings, lira endless play
1
leht end shadow, the mantling of the Imll-
hiual rzpression, Slid a living beauty
>roueh the whole cannot be described, llul
through the whole cannot be deacribed.
at the moet valuable picture#
grow vile with hloti when hung
within lourh of the rude and caralera, or
hideous with cobwebs and dnat when left in
a deserted room; eo these sweet ll
■ “>ev him twin, raws -----aw
plotum toon cutcn tbe fltainn of rode com?
roerce and cnn lesa sodrfy when loo
exposed to them; soon darken and d*|M»«r^
ate. If tbfy an? hut n<f}rctadl ***
gardena, fairer apd more fragrant than 8ok
onion's In which he ‘planted trooa of all
kind* of fruit.” But you will aopn awtbo
weed, (he wlldnea-, (he overgrowth, if you
do not die, and cut, and l*nd. and train, nnd
water. It ia inaiructive tliat th« beat flower*
and plants of the garden are mostly tha ulti-
mate forma and products of far simpler
aud wilder thing*. Tbo beauty and tha
? deep coloring, the
trull ful link, the deep coloring, the double
oloaaoming, Ihe affluent alio, tha |u«ioM
flavor—these are all nflncmenla and clabo-
.............. illy la
just a garden of God whoro are those living
p<anLh called chiUlnn—who all havo aomo-
ililng of the wildness of nature in them and
by gracious he.'p we ara to nurturtand raiaa
them up Into finer and nobler forms of graca.
We are to labor until we have them ao that
«c ran uk otir h#it "Beloved” '*tO comfrintO .
we can ask our best "Beloved" ”tocomelalc .
Ills Harden to rat ll
[Alexrnder lUlelgh,
Bis Harden (oral ills pleasant fruits.’’-*
i.D.D.
d^ARISH WOSK AMONG Tilt LONDON POOK
The perish system provide* everything!
(or the men, cluU; far tbe women, naming
in sleknrra, friendly wtewral niwnye; Wp in
trouble; the girls are brought together and
krpi ou't of mischief, and rncourawed la eelf-
.............alflMf,"
aspect by ladles who know whet they w
nd how they look el thing!; the grown 1
re taken from Ihe streels, snd, with
want
ls*s
are taken from Ihe streels, snd, with tha
younger boys, ire laugh! arts and crafts, and
are trained In maul) ever* lies Just at if they
were boys of Eton snd Harrow. The church
serric* *, which used to be everything, are
now only a part of tba parieh work.
The rh rgv are at once servants of
the alar, preachers, tetchers, tlmonert.
leaders In all kinds of eoctetiet and
clubs and providers of emtuenranta end re-
creation. The propie look on, ho si out their
nands, recelre, at flrst Indifferently; but
presently, one by one, awaken to a new
iroee. As they receive. Ihey cannot choose
but to discover that these ladies hare given
up their luxunoui homes and tba life of
rase in order lo work among them. They
also discover that these voung gentlemen,
who ’’niu’’ the clubs, toevh the boy* gym-
nutlet. holing, drawing, carting snd tha
raat. give up for Ibis all their evenings—the
flutt er of Ihe day In Ihe flower of life. What
forr What do tlrty gel for ilf Not in Ibia
parish on>7, hut in every perish the sepia
kind of things go on, and spread daily. This
-observe—la lira last -tep but one of
last step
charity. For Ihe progress of charity
ia as follows: First, there is the
men toe r.**rer ana *nc ..................
then tira gift to the almoner; then the cheque
fo a society; next— leiest and beet— peraooel
service among Ihe poor. Tble le lioth flower
eerrke among the poor.
•nd fruit of clisrUr. One Iblng only re-
mains. And before long tble thing 11*0
ih»H come lo pus as well.
Thoee who live in Ibe dm* and wifnett
Ihce thing* done dally must fra stock, and
atones If they were Dot moved by them.
They ere oot storks and stones; they era
Beaant, in (be August ;Fiction Number)
Scribner.
took tarns In looking nflar lira condi-
tion of tha hotly. Then tiie doubt in
many people's minds that ttiair life-
less ones are not really dead It another
reason for tira custom.
“I will remember aa long aa I lira
when I was serving as aa apprentice,
I was callod upon to Join a parly of
watch®ra In a room where the body of
a stout old gentleman lay ratling on a
cooling-board io await ibe preparetloa
of a sphcial-slzed coffin. It waa my
duly to scoompany one of the youag
ladies preaent, who carried (lie light
iuto tiie room wlrare the body ley and
occasionally moisten a cloth with anti-
septic fluid that was spread over lha
face of Hie deed. It waa a bitter cold
night and the wind wea howling
tnonrnfhlly without and creaking
doore ami shaking windows, at we
passed in before tiie body and I raised
the corcriag from Hie dead maii'i face,
my companion Accidentally jogged tha
board, aud instantly following tbo
motion a low, gntiurai sound pro-
ceeded from lira mouth of llie dead
body which uoarlv pandrzed us with
fright. My companion shrieked. I
imagined I saw lira lips move and lira
eyelids quiver; Ihe cold sweat oozed
from inv furohoad in huge, hood-1 Ike
drops. All ilia watchers came In and
an InvesligHHon ensued. It was only
tho exit of some air iu tho body that
waa aiarlcd by tbe shaking of the body
ou Hie board, but it week terrible or-
deal to me, 1 can assure you.—[Pbile-
daiphia Press.
Temiag Leopards in ladla.
The citctah, or leopard, it lied in all
directions, principally from a thick
grummet of rope around hit loins,
while a hood fitted over hi* head
effectually bliuds him. Ha is fastoned
on e strong eot bedstead, aud the
kee|iers and their wives and families
reduce him to submission by etarving
him and koepiug him awake. His
bead ia made to face the village itreet,
aud for an hour at a time several
timaa n day his keepers make pre-
tended rushes at him and wave cloths,
sieves and other articles in Ills face.
He is talked to continually, and
womeii’s tongue* ara believed to lie
the most effective antisoporifldes. No
crested being could resist tbe effects
of hunger, want of sleep and femin-
ine scolding, end the poor cheleh be-
comes piteously, abjectly tame.—
[Beast aud Man in India.
Cruelty to (iwecte.
Butterflies, mollis aud beetles should
not be subjected to the cruelly of be-
ing impnlod by a pin while (till alive.
Every entomologist should carry with
blra as a pari of. bit outfit a small vial
of ather, A few drops of Ibis poured
on tbe sides of' worm, moth or beetle
will InslanHy kill the ineeet and en-
able the collector to adjust It with lest
diflaeliy Ilian If it wore alive, at bv
—[Mew York Journal,
srir-SACSincn.
There are those wbo are constantly eeyinf
tnat Christianity b*a lo*t Us power; that we
never brer ui any old Hnt* conviction sod
conversion; that Christians do not fe.l ttwm-
selvn i-allrtl upon to make sacrifice*, such ae
they did In times put, for conscience's ask*
snd for Clod. We see fled to he able to five
such charges flit denial; for we are constant-
ly w.tncHlng tbe work of the Spirit in a
marked and wonderful d«*ree, both In
3
nuu nwimniui ucjts« « , ts*
eom kdon *nd in the conxmlon of num.___
and young. Thai the Bplrlt of Hod, work-
ing In Ibe brute of hia people, does bring
shout illustrious examples of eelf-eaeriflee M
also true. We have in mind two mie, who,
within a few months, have Imcyipe Chris-
tians, one of them, at the time of higwn'
version, occupying • ronspicvoi
' > staff of <
relive position upon the stal
largest d ily papers, bringing
come of lrom three to foe
dollars a year. The other ____, ______
lot years, having spent his life in tbe sport-
ing world, bed attained sraong hit sleee an
be time of HI/ con-,
•onspicuous end low
staff of one of *nr
ringing him so In- \
to four thoutaM I
ilher a men, wh\/
bit life In IU sport-
ing world, bid attained eraong hit sleee aa
enviable reputation, snd whose sarnlngs
were from seventy-11 e to one hundred dab-
_ -----, Md far T
position,
with hie —
jastabrir'””
tafrek;
'he other
ttSKgjfi
with Ids large Income, Is today in a
day-laborer's place, rarnlug scarcely a dollar
a day. Ihcse are not fsnchnl casta, hnt
tars s week. For conscience’s take tad fer
God, the first one laid aside his position,
because he found it Inconsistent
allegiance lo Christ to hold It, and
t position at probably fifteen dollars a (Seek;
and tlds be haa done gladly. The other
in giving -up his old sporting tlfr,
have --t.nrattn.ler our own natural eye. nod
we thank Und for them. For, as t friend
has said, they give our own faith a great up-
lift. No doubt there arc thousands of just
such eases, dhl the church end the world
know them; built is* eberaeterlelic of thia
kind of consecration modestly to hide itaolf
from ihe eyes of the worm.—[Words tad
Weapons.
THAT "rERSECT WILL OV GOD.”
To Christians who lire la .._____
jeopardy of their lives, tbe injunction to pre-
sent their bodies s living .torifloe to God
must hive had a thrilling Import. We are
not now railed upon to Iny down our liras
for Christ, as some of thoae Roman Chris-
tiana were. If wc were I hope we should bt
willing lo do it. Borne one bee ,ald that we
are ready to write for the truth, to light for
It, to die for It—enyihiog hut lire for It. Ia
thia true! Christ now needs those
who will lead live* unspotted frjm tha
world u much u be once needed those who
would lay down life at hit call. Shall wa
fail him?
“The perfect will of God” meant to many
s Homan Christian lola of property and
friends, to some bonds and imprisonment,
to some death Itself.
To Christians living in the proud eenltal
of tbe work! among those whose oulv object
In life seemed to be enjoyment, end who
all tha laeciviout riles of
were engaged in nil
heathen wot ship, tha command lo “he not
conformed to the world” must hire had a
momrnlons meaning. Boat it mean lew to
us!
Ha tendeth forth bit command upon
esrth; His word runneth very swiftly.—
[Fsalmcilril., 16.
Kentucky Camp Meetings.
A writer claims that camp mcetin
originated in Kentucky In the year 18
at' Gasper River Church; iu Logan
County, and became established during
the grant Kentucky revival early in the
century. It ie claimed that both Pres-
byterians and Methodists participated
in the earlier, meetings, though the
camp meeting » now looked upon- ae
distinctly a Methodist institution. Tha
great revival is one of the curious tilings ,
iaoKcntucky history, aud its effeds ere
still visible in other things besides,, gamp
meetings, granting these religion! open
air gatherings to have bad the origin at-
tributed to them. Something of the
spirit of the old camp meetings yet sur-
vives in thn “holiness meetings,” but
tbe camp meeting bat in this tune de-
veloped some varieties that hire mi
kinship wlto the godlineaa and religious
fervor tost swept the Western country
when Kentucky was yet an infant com-
monwealth.— LpulsviHo Courier-Journal.
(Georgia) mats
tee e sow 6 y«rf* old, that hits been,
#nd D0" H
! .
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