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STONEWALL, PAMLICO CO., N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1883.
S1.50 a Year.
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Giyintr .Thanhs.
Beyond tho il if stmt me in
1 li?nr tin- a Min is of 1 ibor,
WorM's woik jiihI p.iiti ami s u row 'no
S ri;n-d a' nifj'in-i w ith its n'i;;litor,
A'.il love so-i)iil ilcu'l, mill peat'e lmd fled
I-nr oil" to fi Ids m,
A' 1 'iniht - was l''if, nnd r,rn;;th was law;
Siieh wuW the ea: llitv vision.
My soul wns stirral: I prnjed, "Let me
Do some great woik so purely,
To riht li e's Wron;;, tliat I siinll kvw
That I have loved the:. MJrely."
My lipa send forth the eacr cry,
'1 he while my heait beat laster,
''For some gnat d ol to prove my love,
Send me, send uie uty Mast- r!"
But every road wnslu-dod with thrH-113,
My hands weio torn an. 1 bh ediii.:;
E a h gute was barred, niulucpe ill s'surcd
Wa3 in my henrt receding.
Nglitcatne; within the valley's rim
The sounds ol" p tin and sorrow.
G:ew faint; with i Jy folded hands
I waited lor the mouow.
From out the 6ience came a vo'ce
S iring, "II G.d thou te uest,
Rise up and.d , thy whole l:to through,
The duty that lu-s m nret.
The friendly word, the kiii-t-y deed,
Though small tho act in Mi-niin, ,
Shall in the end, unto thy soul
Pi ove mightier than thy di earning.::
Tlie cup of water to the taint, '
Tho rest unto tho weary,
The liyh; thou givest another's
Shall make thine own li s-i dreary.
knd boundless realms ol faith and love
Will wait tor thy possessing;
Not creed, but deeds it thou would'ot wis
Unto thy soul a blessing." 1
And so I wait wi'.h peneeful heart.
Content to do His pleasui e ;
Not crfrins it the world shall mock
At 4mallnc?9 of the measure.
'01 thi?uhts, or ileeil, or daily lif
- lie Inows the true endeavor
To dot Lis will, to seek his face;
Aii'4 he will hiil lnp never. Sarah Gibbs.
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- A Terrible Dream.
Christmas is a delightful season in
Christian lands, especially when tho
balance of presents anil dinners is in
one's favor, and the tin horn crop among
the children lies been a failure. . Very
different is Christmas in heathen land3,
where the hsrs'of the stacking are un
known, and C'.iristnias trees are hang
with uufortnnate travelers and unappre
ciated missionaries inbtead of glittering
and 'showy presents. Think of Christ
mas! in the region ' of the north pole,
whefre the night lasts for six month,9, so
thatj'eyen' the ablest of the Espiimaux
cannot distinguish Christmas evo Irom
Thanksgiving night, nor Christmas
morning from Washingten's birthday or
Decoration Day ! Even more depress
ing is" Christ in as iu Central Africa, as a
distinguished English traveller once
discovered, to his mingled sorrow and
danger.
The traveller was a good and noble
man. He was engaged in discovering
fresh lakes, new kinds of cannibals, and
original sources of the Nile in the heart
of Afiica, and hi only desire was to do
eood to the human race, and to prove
that the maps made by other traveler
were all wiong.' lie had leen three
years in the Djrk Continent, and, hav
ing suffered ince santly from fever, star
vation,' the rude embiaces of lions and
elephants, the bites of deadly serpents,
and the '-cruelties of native kings, was
nearly worn out. He arrived late one
Afternoon on the shore of a mighty lake
which no other white man had ever seen
and which was at lea-it live hundred
mil-! distant from any of tho various
localities in which European 1 map
makers had previously placed it. He
lay down under the shadow of the trees,
faint with ali thro various things that
predispose a rnan-tb be faint in Central
Africa, but exulting in the thought that
he would compel thy map-makers to
place Lake Mj tmbwe where he wanted
it, and not where they selfishly imagined
that it would present the' most pictu
resque appearance. Suddenly he re
membered that it was the 24th day of
December, and that Christmas Eve
would naturally arrive in ts course of
the next two hours. The thought sad
dened him. He glanced at his bare feet
for his supply of stockings had long
lince given out and he thought of the
happy homes in England, where the
children were preparing to hang up
their mothers' largest 'stockings, while
he must spend the blessed Christmas
season among savage heathen and un
trained animals. He felt at that moment
t: at he would give nis new lake for an
hour in his English home, and he cov
ered his face with his hands and sobbed
himself asleep. j '
When he awoke it was broad daylight.
The woods weie vocal with parrots who
incessantly remarked, "Polly wants a
cracker," and ostriches, and other trop?
ical birds, each singing at the top of its
" voice. On the bosom of the lake floated
immense native canoes bearing parties
of excursionist?, the music of whose
accordions and banjoes came over the
water to the wearied traveller. He was
hungry, and felt in his pockets for his
quinine pills, but they were all gone.
He tried to rise to his feet, but he was
too weafe and rheumatic to rise without
help, so he sank back, murmuring,
" 'Tis 'ard, ard indeed, to die on Christ
mas among the 'eathen." -
The sound of women's voices roused
him. Three native wome, only
ith tie tsetse and pombo worn, by
their sex in that part of Afiica, emerged
Irom the forest on their way to draw
water from the lake. They saw the
traveler, and one of them, moved with
compassion, sang, in a low, mournful
tone : "The poor white trash done come
to Africa. He hasn't no mother for to
fry hominy for him, norino wife for to
send to the store with a jug." Enfeeb
led as he was the traveler knew that
this was wrong, for he had read Mungo
Park's Travels, and he could not help
remarking, "You women don't sing that
song as it ought to be sung."
"Sing it youMelf, then," retorted the
Ginger, in a cold, heartless way,and
thereupon the women passed on, and
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left the wretehel wLite man to perish.
The cruelty of the Jwomen made the
traveler so indignant . that he resolved to
uifktt one tren endous effort for life. Ho
managed to ri:c, pfter painful exertions
aud the ue of many scientific terms,
and hobbled slowly toward a native vil
lage about a quarter of a mile away. He
had scarcely reached jit when he was
seized by two gigantic cannibals and
dragged to the Ming's palace, where he
hoped that either death or breakfast, he
did not much care which, awaited him.
The palace consisted of one large room
with an enormous throne extending en
tirely across one end of it. Oa . this
throne sat twelve native kings in a row,
each one with a musical instrument in
his hand. The one who sat in the mid
dle looked fiercely at the traveller, and
demanded of his captors what was the
charge against him; J
'iPoor white trash, Mr. Johnsing,'
brietly replied the largest of the two
cannibals. - J
' "Mr. Bones I should say prisoner,"
began the king, "what do you say for
yourself?" j
"I am a white mm," "replied the trav
eler ; "but f 'aveu't 'ad any soap for
ye.irs, so I plead hextenuating circum
stances. Besides, I jam 'ungrv. Will
you not give mo some breakfast ?'
' The king's face grew bright with rage
for it could not grow any darker than
it was amd he turned to h;s brother
kings, and conversed with them rapidly
in the Mjanibwe tongue. They were
evidently discussing the fa e of the trav
eler, for presently the middle king
cleared his throat, and said :
"Prisoner, you have forfeited vour
life, but we are disposed to be merci
ful. You c tight properly to be baked
alive, ami afterward eaten, but we shall
pronounce a lighter sentence. You will
listen attentively while we sing the op
ening clioiu and the favorite plantation
melodies, and you will guess every co
nundrum and laugh at every joke. Say
I not wisely, Broth?r Bones ?"
A unanimous "Yah ! yah !'' from the
other kings expressed their warm ap
proval, j
' No ! no!" cried the traveler, in an
ngony of fear. "Give me some little
show. Burn me, if you will, but do not
tortnre nib on this 'oly Christmas inorri
ing with your hawful songs nnd conun
drums. I've 'eard Uieni all at 'omo."
And in his desperation the wretched
man fell on his knees before the native
king who had pronounced tho dreadful
sentence. That monarch, indignant be
yond measure, raised his guitar and
struck the traveler a terriblo blow over
the heid. The whole earth seemed o
reel, and the doomed white man became
unconscious. ;
-When he regained his senses he found
himself sitting on the shore of the lake
w here ho eat the niecht before. A young
man neatly dressed id European clothes
stood before him, and remarked, in a
ghicefui way, "Mr. Jones, I believe."
"Ami von are Mr. "Smith, I dessay,"
ieplie.1 the traveler "'Ave you got
anything to heat with you?''
.The young man had beeu sent to find
tho traveler. He had with him all sorts
of stores, including canned plum pud
elirg and bouetl turkey. As he drew the
traveler's arm in his, and assisted him
to the placp where breakfast was await
ing them, he said, "1 wish vou a merry
Christmas!" ', j
It was the merriest Christmas the
traveler Lad ever known, aud when he
returned to England with more new
lakes and two private sources of the
! Nile, he said tha). all his honors could
i not give him the delight which he had
known during his! last Christmas in
Central Africa after j awakening from
his terribie dream of the twelve native
Lings. Harper's Mrigaziue.
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Artificial Honeycombs.
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An Eaglisli ge'itleman, W. M. noge;
in a long letter to the Pall Mall Gazette,
corrects the hypothesis of that journal
that the short honey crop in Kussia last
season was tlue to the decline in tho
price of beeswax. The real cause was
the failure of the blossoms to secrete as
much honey as usual.' Mr. Hoge states
that bee keepers prefer to keep the
honeycombs for refilling, instead of
selling them for wax,' as it pays them
better to do so. Ho says : "In the
United States broken combs are care
fully preserved and made over into
'comb foundation.' .This is done by
running thin sheets of wax through a
machine constructed somewhat like a
clothes wringer ; the rollers instead of
being made of lubber are made of en
graved metal, which makes impressions
on each side of the sheets, exactly like
the bottom of the natural cells. These
foundations are placed in the frames,
and the bees accept them only when
made of pure beeswax, and thankful for
that much of a start go at once to work
to lengthen out the cells and fill them
with honey. With the utilization of
broken combs for these foundations
the export of beeswax from the United
States has steadily decreased, while the
production of honey is constantly on the
.ncrease." t
A Boston Scene.
, " Who' is this well-dressed man with
the sealskin overcoat, hat and gloves?
He carries a gold-headed cane ard is
followed by -a bull J dog in a scarlet
blankt ? Do you know him ?" .
- "Oh, yes ; that is S the pugilist.
pine man. Hard hitter. Very popular.
Always surrounded by a crowd of ad
miring friends, as you see him now.
He is very well off; was given a benefit
the other night that netted him $500."
"Indeed I he is very fortunate."
"Oh, yes, a very j fortunate fellow ;
ranks high in his profession, you see."
"Who is that white-headed, , weary
looking old man close behind the pu
gilist and his friends? Poor man, he
seems thinly clad for this wintry weath
er. Do you know him ?"
"Oh, yes;, that is old Faithful, a
country clergyman. jVery learned man,
they say. Been a preacher of the gos
pel all his life, but J poor as a rat. He
had a benefit, too, the other night."
"Oh, indeed ! Did it net him much?"
"I don't think it did. You see it was
a sort of surprise party. His parishion
ers called upon him in a body, ate up
everything there was in the house, and
left him presents to the amount of sixty
cents.
OLD WOULD ITEMS.
Berlin hotel and restaurant keepers
have resolved not to employ waiters who
wear a" mustache.
' Baron Wilhelm Rothschild, of Frank
fort, returned hin income for 1881 at
237,5u0. He is a very strict Jew, and
spends long hours at his devotions.
The American artists in Paris are
accused of being a very wild and dissi
pated lot, who give the police a great
deal of trouble. We don't beiievo it.
Gerieva had a two headed girl on ex
hibition until the authorities interfered
and had the show stopped. The pro
prietor used bad language, and moved
on. .
A London paper says it is difficult
to conjecture where the fantastical pro
ceedings of the Salvation army will end,
and intimates that the army is a hum
bug. . .
Four new hotels are building in'Lon
tlon, two of which will have theaters
connected. Tke activity in British ho
tel circles just now is said to be re
markable. It is proposed to construct a canal
from Cologne to Antwerp, and a Dutch
engineer has petitioned the German
government for assistance in the pre
liminary work.
Sir Garnet Wolseley is the idol of
the day and ; tho hero of the hour in
London, and some .people are very
angry because Mr. Lubouchere called
him an egotist.
She ho threw herself from the tower
of Notre Datno in Paris has been iden
tified as Margueiito Flix, who w s
sensitive and not over r troug mentally.
A very slight reprimand was the cause
of the suicide.
Two men recently fought in the
streets of Hamburg with umbrellas and
pocket knives, and one was so badly
injured that he had to bo taken to the
hospital. The other was so bad morally
that ho had to be taken to jail.
Worth, the man modiste of Paris,
who, by the way, is an Englishman, is
about to retire from" business and his
sons do not desire to succeed him.
The business is to be turned into a
limited liability company next year.
There ilied recently at Oporto, Portu
gal, a venerable schoolmistress, at 103
years of age, who followed her vocation
up to her 101st year, assisted by her
daughter, a young lady of 7G. Neither
cares now whether school keeps or not.
In Paris a machine cabled the ocullo
graph is on exhibition. It is supposed
to tell in every language the name and
profession of each visitor; alco where
they .icomo from and whero they are
going. No gossip should be without
one.
New England Ancestry.
Some twenty years ago wo used to
hear a great ileal about "mudsills and
"F. F. V s." slang terms implying that
the people oi Virginia, or of the south
ern states in general, were of more aris
tocratic origin than the people of New
Eng'and. and were accordingly en'titletl
to look down upon them. "Wo arc tho
gentlemen of this country," said Robert
Toonib in 18o0. This assumption was
thoroughly baseless. In point cf fact
the English ancestors of the Washing
ton's, the Randolphs, the Fairfaxes, and
the 'I albots were no higher in social posi
tion than the families of the Winthrops,
tho Dudleys, the Eatons, and the Salton
stalis. The foremost families which
came to New England were of precisely
the same rank with? the foremost families
which came to Virginia, and in many
instances there was relationship between
the former' aud tho latter. So far as
mere names go, this is well illustrated
iu Bishop Meade's list of o'd Virginia
families, in which occur snch names as
Allen, Baldwin,: Brad iey, Bowdoin, Car
rington, Dabney, Davenport, Farley,
Gibbon, Holmes, Hubbard, Lee, Mor
ton, Meade, Nelson, .Newton, Parker,
Russell, Selden, Spencer, Talbot, Tyler,
Vaughan, Walton, Ward, Wilcox and
Wythe every one of which is a name of
freqnent occurrence in New England.
Two-thirds of the names in Bishop
Meade's list occur also in Savage's Dic
tionary of the Settlers of New England.
Most of the leaders of the Massachusetts
colonists were country gentlemen of
good fortune ; several of them were
either related or connected jby marriage
with the nobility ; the greater part of
them had taken degrees at Cambridge,
and accordingly one of the first things
that naturally occurred to them was to
found a new Cambridge in the New
World. If they had remained in Eng
land, many of them would have gone iu
to Parliament with Hampden and Crom
well, and would have risen to distinction
under the ' Commonwealth. Harper's
Magazine. r
Kossuth's Ideas.
A letter dated Turin has been re
ceived from M. Louis Kossuth by a
member of the reform club, in which
the writer gives his opinions upen the
present state of Europe. Speaking of
the huge armaments on the Continent,
he s-ays : " Tq see the FociaF structure
called states converted into gigantic
barracks the life-sweat of nations
drained tu keep up with armies counted
by myriads, these myriads in the best
vigor of their youthful strength, ab
straeted from protective labor; all
the soaring of human intellect made
subservient to the profession of whole
sale international slaughter and destruc
tion verily this is a condition so mon
strous, at the same time so utterly
intolerable, that unless some means are
devised for bringing it to a stop, unless
governments are checked in their head
long course toward exhausting the pa
tience of their subjects by draining
their life-sweat for nourishing the insa
tiable Moloch of exorbitant armaments,
it is absolutely impossible that the
tottering structure of social organization
should long escape the catastrophe of
an almighty smash." Referring to the
recent Egyptian campaign, which he
deeply condemns, Kossuth expre3ses
himself thus : " Great Britain, the
mighty, went to wage war on Egypt,
the weak, not on the plea that she had
to redress some violated right of Eng
land, but prompted by what she con
sidered to be her interest;" and he
entirely shares in the opinion of the
members of the House of Commons who
called it "an international atrocity."
Pall Mall Gazette.
The False Prophet.
Tho false, prophet of the Soudan
claims to be the Imam Mahdi, or the
last prophet' All ah will send to conqner
the enemies of Islam and rule supreme
over the world. To such a person all
MuhammeJans would kneel and serve.
The sultan himself would cease to
think of the caliphate in the presence
of such a potentate and representative
of Allah on earth.
L The ImamMahdi is to come, accord
ing to Mohammedan behef.accompanied
with great signs and wonders, aud ho
will appear shortly before the Jr.elgment
Day. He conies on a white horse, and
at the head of an army all monuted on
white horses. This bears a strong re
semblance lo the Kalki Avatar of the
Oindus, which is to make its appearance
on a whito horse, and when the white
horse stamps its foot the black age is to
end, and the golden age will begin
again. There have been many pre
tenders to this character in the East,
and the Indian bazaars during tho
mutiny often had wondrous tales of
his appearance leading lm army of
white horses.
Khartoum, of which he is said to bo
absolute master, is about 900 miles in a
direct line from Cairo, and perhaps 1000
miles following the winding tf the
Nile. The town is the principal place
in that region, and is situated among
palm trees on tho western bank of tho
Bahr-el Azrek, or the Blue Kile. This
is closo to the junction of that branch
with the Bahr el Aviad, or the Whito
Nile.
It is this position at the union of tho
two main branches- cf the Egyptian
river which gives Khartonm its strategi
cal importance, and made it long the
head-quarters of tho slave trade in
Upper Egypt. For some years past the
telegraph extended as far south as this,
and travelers who visit tho place are en
tertained there by tho ruling pasha in a
style reminding them of Paris at least
those who have reached Khartoum after
traveling in the tlesert and barbarous
countries around say that it seems like
Paris to dino. with the governor of
Khartoum, who produces knives and
forks, cut glass, and silver, and a menu
of fish, meat, and game, and conversa
tion carried on in French. A dance of
Rawazi, or Ntfuteh girls of tl o locality,
when ctgaret'es are being smoked after
forward, may just remind them that
they are not diuiug in a cafe on the
boulevards.
The Imam Mahdi, iustead of accept
in these eivilitet, and making believe
ho was iu Paris, is reported to have
killed Abdul Kadr, tho governor of tho
I place, to have eeeupied it, arel is gttiug
his Nubian troops into a disciplincil
condition, in order no eloubt to carry on
his conquests and keep up the character
he has assumed. Jjomli J)-iih Oleics.
Grass Widower.
I snpposo everybody -knows what
"grass widow" meaus a woman living
temp rarity absent from her husband. I
can think of no corresponding term to
apply to a man in like condition, unless it
is "gias.s-wido .ver."'' I know of one who is
just setting up his cabin on a northwestern
prairie, prepared for a summer campaign
of "breaking" praiiie sod. A boy of
fourteen is with him as "chief cook and
and bottle washer." x ft el a elee-p inter
est in their work, artieularly iu the
house keeping. The boy's success or
failure iu cooking, washing, etc., will
bring credit or tliscredit to his mother
and that's me. I have lately heard
the father inquire anxiously conceruirg
his capabilities: "Do you know how
to. cook our meals?"' "Can you make
such Giaham bread as this ?"' "Does he
understand the knack of making tlried
apples eatable ?" "You know how
mamma seasons the macaroni, don't
you ? ' etc. Both are very fond of milk,
and if they get a cow, or find good milk
for sale close at hand, tho cooking and
eating business will be simplified. Milk
goes well with almost everything that
our folks eat, as we never use pickles,
and vinegar very seldom. To mako
sure of cooking the oatmeal, cracked
wheat, rice and hominy, properly, they
have taken along a steamer made after
the farina-kettle plan. They are tlirect
ed to use one part oatmeal, rice or
hominy, or cracked wheat, to four parts
of cold water in tho inner kettle with
plenty of water to keep up boiling in
the outer one. To secure good Graham
bread, they have provided the lest of
Graham flour and a yeast cake. The
cook will set a thin sponge at night,
with half a yeast cake, and flour and
warm water enough to make a large
dripping-pan loaf (a'l they can bake at
one time m their oven), and in the
morning he will add sugar and Graham
flour until he has a stiff batter well
beaten. This will be turn eel into the
buttered" breadpan without kneaeling,
allowed to rise quite light and then
baked. It is pretty sure to be good
every time, for the same cook has gone
through the same movements many a
time, simply helping his mother, but
unconsciously educating himself to be a
great help to his father in this emer
gency, and possibly to himself later in
life. Exchange.
How It's Done.
The esthetic and most approved mode
of kissing is now to throw the right arm
languidly around the fair one's shoulder
tilt her chin up with the left hand until
her nose is pointed at an angle of forty
five degrees ; or, rather, until it has an
aspect resembling the bowsprit of a
clipper-built sloop; then stoop slowly,
and grazing about her lips in a quiet,
subdued sort of way, tickle her nose
with your mustache until she cries
"Ouch 1" The day is passed when a
young man could seize a young woman
round the neck, and gobble a kiss in a
rough but comfortable manner. The
iime when he could encircle her waist
with one arm, get his shirt bosom full
of hair oil, and pirouette his lips over
every square inch of her countenance, is
no more. Estheticism has proclaimed
against it, and. man shudders, but re
mains silent. The old style of kissinj?,
which sounds like some one tearing a
clapboard off a hen house, is now con
sidered bad taste, and, consequently, is
rapidly going out of fashion, although
the majority of young ladies admit that
science has cruelly destroyed all the
comfort of a long, lingering, heart
thrilling kiss, and causes them to expre-s
no little regret at the change.
FARM AND HOUSE HO Mi,
Interesting; to Faruurs.
It is a surprise that farmers near largo
cities do not grow moro vegetables lor
city markets. A farmer who grew a
small patch of carrots in his garden sold
them at the rate of $300 per acre. The
land was rich, but it will pay to make the
soil rich to obtain such results.
Pear roots generally sprout when
the variety grafted oa the stock is tho
weaker grower of the two, or when the
roots aie injured by the sjrtide, plow or
vermin. If pulled up while the wood is
still sort, as soon as we can get hold ol
them, they seldom
same season.
appear again tho
Tn Canada, farmers sow peas and oats
together as i'eed for hog with apparently
profitable results. But it must be ro
membered that thoso parts of Canada
where this is practiced most are not
adapted to corn growing. The same
may be said of England whero peas and
barley are common pig feed.
If chicken cholera gets a foothold iu a
flock the only safe way is to kill orele
stroy them, thoroughly clean the hen
house and premises, and wait a few
months before going into business
ugaiu. Chicken cholera has been
unusually prevalent the past season in
many localities.
It is not likely that Great Britain will
ship us any potatoes this year. Tho
acreage under this crop is 57,000 less
than last year, and there is considerably
moro tliseaso. The rot has made great
havoc among Regents and Victoria.",
fully half of them having becomo worth
less; Champions have suffered some
what, but they are at present f irly
souutl.
Among the objections to fall-planted
trees are that they aro frequently put iu
loosely, while many of the reot3 elo not
come in contact with the soil. Hence
to their great injury, the roots elo not
heal, but elry up. It should be remem
bered that it is the diying up of the
steins by colel, frosty wiz:tls, and not so
much low temperature, tLat injures
fail-planted trees.
The failure of apples for two years iu
succession is causing a elecided scarcity
of good cider vinegar. Most that passes
for this is a vile compound of various
chemicals anil very injurious to health.
The more common objection to vinegar
ai unhealthful ii mainly tlue to its atlul
teration. A vegetable acid is a good
tonic iu certain conditions of tho system
nd is speeelily beneficial in winter anel
spring.
In a eliscussion about farm mistakes
not long ago, one go- il farmer gravely
announced as one of his mistakes that
of not keeping a sufficient number of
hens. Being asked how rnanv he hael
ho replied, "Usually 3U0 to 100," which
of course raiseel a laugh. It is very rare,
however, that farmers can succeed with
so many as this, and certainly not with
out giving them the run of a large part
of their faims. "
' There is probably as much profit in a
good breeding sow well wintered and
r ady to farrow a litter of pigs in March
as in any animal kept on tho farm. She
need not or rather shonld not be fat
tened, but kept in fairly thrifty condi
tion, and if a good mother sho deserves
to be kept a number of years. A gooel
farmer has said he could make more
profit from a breeding sow with two lit
ters per year than from a breeding mare
and the sow woulel cost lcs3 in original
price anel in feed.
Undoubtedly, one rtason for the
great popularity of American cheese
among those who cannot afford to pay
fancy prices is tho circumstance that it
toasts well. This may bo owing, as is
suggested, to the presence of surrepti
tious kinds of fat ; but in any case the
fact remains that even the cheaper vari
rieties of American eheese, when placed
in a pan before tho fire, -'melt like but
ter." On the other baud, it is only of
the finer varieties of the English com
moelity that a palatable Welsh rarebit
cn be made. If tho American factories
use fat, there aro some English elairy
women who cannot resist the temptation
of selling .their cream, the conse
quence being that their cheese would
not be greatly mutilated if it were
bowled down a mountain side.
Preserving Egfta.
About a year ago I put down a quan
tity of fresh eggs in various way3 for the
purpose of testing the merits of each
particular method. The lime nel rait
mixture, consisting of one pint of lime,
newly slaked, and one pound of salt,
well stirred with a ten-quart pail of
water, kept the eggs very well for six
months, when the whites began to be
come clouded and the yelks dark end
too tough to beat up. Tho mixture of
beeswax, melted with twice as much
olive oil, smeared, while -warm, over
eggs, kept the eggs well for a year and
some of the egg?, yet unused, are still
good. Those eggs which were thus
prepared ami packed in air-slaked lkne
kept better than others packet! in oats.
The latter tasted considerably of the
rancid o 1 which seemed to be absorbed.
The eggs covered with melted paraffine
kept the best of all, and those of them
that were put down in weak brine, in
which they sank to the bottom, kept
better than ethers packed in dry salt or
in plaster. Since then I haye become
acquainted with a. German preparation
of salt, saltpeter, and borax, which,
however, is patented in America. I
have some eggs pu. down in this for five
monthf, and they are equal to fresh
eggs, even wheu boiled for eating, a very
delicate test, as eggs very soon exhibit
any staleress when so cooked. An om
elet made of eggs pat elowu in this
solution was very good, anel so was one
made of eggs a year old kept in rarafline
as was also a sponge cake made of
beaten eggs. Paraffine is easily removed
from the shells by holding them in hot
water for a short time. The salt nnd
lime mixture and the German salt both
keep the shells in perfect condition, and
simple rinsing only is required to
cleans? them. I think the German salt
promises to be the best but it is outra
geously dear. American Dairyman.
LATEST KEt EIPTS.
Pressed chicken : Bcil until tender.
Remove the meat from the bone and
chop very fine, keeping the dark and
white meat separate. Boil the liquor
until it will jelly. Butter a deep dish
and placo in it a layer of ihe dark meat,
season a&d cook w ith the liquor, then a
layer of white anel so on until the dish
is filled. Place a weight on it and it
will mold firmly.
When cooking pumpkiDS for immedi
ate use in pies, or to dry, it is a good
plan to drain off all the water you can ;
stew the pumpkin tender ; then lot the
kettle stand on the back of the stove,
and put on an extra griddle, ko that all the
moisture or a great deal of it will evap
orate. If it is to be dried, it should be
sifted just as if you are to make pics at
once.
Pound cakes : Beat to a cream one
pound of tJutter and one pound of pul
verized sugar, and mix in ax yelks of
beaten eggs. Then add one pound of
sifted flour. Season with a teaspooniul
of . powelered mace anel add one-half
pound of almonds, blanched by turning
boiling water over them till "the skins
will rub off. Pat the cake into small
scolloped or heart-shaped tins and sift
whito Miar over them. Bake in a
moelerately heateel oven for twenty min
utes. Composiiiton tea : This almost uni
versal lemedyof tho Sbakirs, and which
has been sought for by so many thou
sands as a panacea for colds, coughs,
lung irregularities ami inflammations,
is now made public : Take two ponnels
of bayberry root bark, ono pound of the
inner bark of hemlock, one pound of
ginger, two ounces of cayenne pepper,
all retluceil to a powiler anel sifted
through a fins seive. Mix well togeth
er. Dose : one teaspoonful in half a
cup of hot water. Adel milk and sugar
to please tho taste, and eirink as warm
as consistent.
Housekeepers who have not yet put
up quinces aro earnestly recommended
to try a new way of making jlly. When
you are about to can your quinces, stew
them until they are per.ectly tender in
water. Then take them out, make a
syrup very rich, with sugar, and let
them come to a boil iu it. The water
in which the quinces were stewed ten
tier will make jelly without the addition
of anything but sugar. Let this water
boil until it begins to thicken, then add
tho sugar in the usual projortion- .This
souuds almost incredible, but the clear
est, nicest jelly ever seen was made in
this way, and iu delicacy it far surpassed
that made from the skins and cores,
and one cm hardly imagine a more
economical jelly.
. ISTEnESTISU TO W'OMES.
A unique lamp shade may be made of
a straight piece of bright colored si k or
satin. Shirr tho top to fit the globe
and finish the bottom w ith lace.
years a tencher in tho public schools at
ii x'aso, oal., Las just been appointed
a notary public by Gov. Callom. She
is an expert steuographer.
Mrs. Mann, wife of the late Horace
Mann, has presented to the library of
Brown university the study chair used
by her husband when he was an under
graduate of tnat institution.
prot l t , : s
of the Aida linen canvas worked iu
long etitche of olive, pink, gold and
blue. On either side of this is black
velvet ribbon feather-stitched on with
with gold silk.
Handsjme table covers are made of
the basket flannel how so much in
vogue. Take a square of it in crimson
or olive and work a pretty border in
bright silks. Finish with a fringe of
crewel wool tied iu around the edge.
The principal wife of the ex-khedive
is rather a strong-minded woman, and
arrauges matters concerning the educa
tion of his children. His Parisian house
hotel has broken tlown many Oriental
barriers ; tho daughters go out with
very tliaphanons face veils, and the
harem is unguarded. The eldest daugh
ter is a beautiful consumptive blonde,
the youngest a fine linguist ami mu
sician. Painted tambourine : One may sug
gest so many things for Christmas pifts
that it would be a puzzle to know what
would be best. I noticed something
when calling at a neighbor's that I be
lieve would please our artist friends
i. e., a tambourine about the size of the
plaques bo much in us.) for adorning
parlors at the present time- The design
was a nest with eggs. The artist had
chosen tho most delicate colors, and tho
effect was pretty in the extreme. Eu
changt.
A handsome panel for the wall is
made of a strip of black satin fifteen
inches long and seven inches wide. Oa
this is embroidered in silk a bunch of
pink. Thi top and bottom of the
panel are finished with bands of scarlet
plush about two inches wide. A brass
wire is fastened to the top, ami a silk
cord to hang it by. On the bottom are
fine silk balls of various shades of red.
The panel should be lined with some
material of sufficient body to keep it
smooth. Another elegant panel is made
of f ale blue satin or plush, with a bird
and its nest painted on it in water
colors. Strange Liking.
The Burmese kings anel queens like
to get holtl of new inventions. Electric
light", sewing machines, balloons, and
all sorts of patent machines, have had
their turn. Whatever the thing may
be, it is sure to be soon put cut of order
by inexperienced , hands, and then it
is put out of sight, anel a new toy must
le got. I heard of oae very queer
fancy of the queen's. It seems that
there was an excellent American dentist
in Mandc'ay, and he was appointed
specially to attend the queen and court.
The last news of him is that he haa had
to give up practice for a while, the
queen having fallen bo much in love
with hi? instruments, to say nothing of
some veiy pink jaws with fine sets of
teeth, that sho bought up his whole
dentist's paraphernalia. French paper.
The (English) Nautical Gazette Bays
that during IStil the vessels .lost at sea
averaged about one everv four hours.
In 1879-80 there were 400 steamboat
collisions in the North Atlantic ocean.
Ancient Stationery.
Is it not strange, izx thes; dajs oi
cheap stationery, to think of a "tires
when both parchment and papyrus ha j
become so rare and so exorl itarJy ex
pensive that both Greeks and Roinanj
ware in the habit of using a palimp
sest, which was simply au oil manu
script with the f jrm?r writlr.g erased?
Thus countless works of authors now
celebrated, and whosa every word, is
hell priceless in this nineteenth cen
tury, were destroyed by their contem
poraries. Verily thoe prophets lacked
honor. Many were the expi-elier.!? re
sort eel to by the early scribes for a sup
ply of writing materials. Th?re was
no scribbling paper whereoa to jet
down trivial memoranda or accounts;
but the heaps of broken p;ts and
crockery of all sorts, which are "so
abundant in a!l Etprn towt5, p rove
ttie first suggestion for such china
tablets and slates as we now use, an!
bits of smooth stone or tiles were con
stantly useel for this purpose and re
main to this day. Fragments cf
ancient tile3 thus" scribbled cn (such
tiles as that whereon Ezekiel was com
manded to portray the city cf Jerusa
lem) have been found in many places.
The island of Elephantine, in the
Nile, is said to have furnished mor
than a hundrfnl sp-ciraens of thes
memoranda, which aro now in various
museums. One of th.n is a soMier's
lave of absence, scribM.l on th frag
ment of an old vase. How httlethwss
scribes and accountants foresaw ths
interest with which the learned de
scendants of the b;irb:iri.-in cf tha
isles would one el ay treasure lh"ix
rough notes.
Still epiainter were the writing ma
terials of t lie ancient Arabs, who. l-e-f
ore the time of MihammeM, used to
carve their annals on th shonl ler-
bladcs of sheep; these
chronicles were strung together, an 1
thus preserved. After a while, sheep's,
bones were replace! by sheep's skin,
and the manufacture of jarclient
was brought to sucli perfection as t j
place it among the refinement of art.
We hear of vellums that wer tinte.i
yellow; others white; ollr were
dyed a rieh purp, and the writ;-
therevjn was in g -1 le-n ink. with gdi
borders and many colored deeor-tkn.
These precious manucripT.s iver
anointed with oil of ce-lar to preserve
them from moths. We hear cf or.?
such, in which the name of Mohammed
is adomeel with garlands of tulips an I
carnation? painted ia vivil cclers,
Still more precious was the silky j ap?r
of the Parisians, powde red with g 0 i
and silver elust, whereon were paintf-i
rare illuminations, while the book was
perfumed with attar of re-s-.-s or esinc
of sandal-wood.
Of the elemand f or writing materi
als, oner may form some faint nction
from the vast manuscript libraries of
which records have br-o:i preserved as
having been collects! by the Caliphs
beth of the East an I We-t the fcrm-r
in Bag Lid, the latter ia An lahiia
where there were eighty great p i-!:
libiaries. besides that va t coe at Cor
elova. We also h-ar of private LI t.i
rievs such as that of the physician
declined an invitation fr :n thes' It n
of Bokhara, because the enrriar ef
his books would have reqxiired -J'.O
camels. If all the p'iyslcia:is cf Dae
dal were equally literary, the city
would scarcely have contained their
books, as we hear that the medical
brotherhood numbered 8V) llctu-Sfvl
practiticners.
Statitlrs of Theatre Fires.
The circus Maximus, in K-me, wa
tlestroyed f fire thrice between the
years 21 ux 61. From 17T7 to Ir
there were burned theatres, with
a less of 4,370 liv-s, ot hrr per
sons being seriously injured. Of these,
five had not bc-n opcueel. v. bile thre-
had entered upon tueir second century
of existence. Thirty-seven were
burned twice, eight thrice, eur four
times, and one the National theatre
of Washington five tiim-s. n an av
erage, nowadays, thirteen theatres are
burnetl every ye-ar.
Between 1610 and 1SS2, according
to another set o statistics, o2-'i the
atres have fallen a prey to the f.a:r.?.
Of con tlagrat ions in the Old Worl 1. the
mest terrible were those at :Sarag:?sa
in 1778 137 lives; accoriling to a sec
ond "authoritv," 000, and according to
a third, 1,005; at Capo dTsiriaT in
1794, 1,000; at bt. Petersburg, ia I sSo.
800, or, according to the Ilussian pa
pers, 3,000; at Canton, in
i,ov, ana wounueu; ai Lar.-
rhue, in 14, sixty-hree, and
200 wounded ; at Le ghorn, in
1S57, 10, and 2A wounded.
In recent years the two great catas
trophes have been those of Nice an 1
Vienna. At Nice, on March "23.
1881, the Italian opera-house was
burned, sixty-one lives Wing l ist, an 1
at Vienna, on December 8, 1S1, the
King theatre was detreyed, 384 --o
pie perishing in the flames. A memo
rial chajel has been ere-cted cn th
site of the theatre. Of the American
"horrors." one of the earliest, and for
many years the most terriMe,"was th
burning if the theatre at Ilichme ni.
Va., December 2, lsll, when sixty
seven persons were killed, including
Governor IS. W. Smith, while many
others were seriously injured. June
14, 1S46, the old chateau 8t. Louis at
Quebec, which bad Xt-n converted
into a the-atre, was se t on fire by an
explexling lamp, when forty-six per
sons lost their lives. But by far the
most fatal of all theatre tires in the
New Worl I was that of l)?cembrr 5,
1876, whe n, by the tlestruetien cf th
Brooklyn theatre, 295 lives were lost.
The last great fire of this kind was
the burning of the circus in Berdis
cheff. Russia, at which 25 persons
lost their lives.
Happily for the Chinese, says Tt"
Ycuag, lately of Hong Kr r.g, nearly
all their medicines are inert, such as
pearls, tiger's bones, rhinoceros hems.
fossil bones and other
no medicinal value.
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