Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 July 1889 — Page 2

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KITTY WARD'S RESOLUTION,

For two years Kitty ward had been earnestly striving1 to be good. She de sired, among all things, to be pure in heart, true in motive, single in purpose. But the result did not satisfy1, her. To her very great mortification she was forced to see that the real obstacle was self-love. The issue of all this was the following insertion in her diary:

Resolved, with the help of my heavenly Father I will seek to do good where and in what degree I can without any thought or hope of reward or return in any way.

At this juncture a pleasant voice from an adjoining room called: "Kitty, love!" ••Yes, dear mother." "Here are two invitations for you."

Kitty opened one, which ran as follows: "DEAH PUSS: Pack up your prettiest dresses and bring' them, with your sweet face, over to Woodlawn. I want to borrow you for a month or two. Brine all your supply of merry smites, bright looks and' winning ways, for the Marceaus, Living--stons, and Lees are here. Also, my dear bas bleu, bring all your wisdom, for Ursa Major is coming the last of the month. He cares for nothing but learning, and never opens his mouth to a lady save to prowl. Perhaps I should explain. By Ursa Major I mean Dr. Muller, the great savant, who, by the way, is likewise a great parti. I will send the carriage to the depot for you. Good-bye, dearie, "COUSIN ALICE."

The second note, from a good old1 Quaker aunt of her father, was in a different strain: "MY DEAR KATHERIXE: Will thee come and stay with thy old -unt a few weeks? I am sorely afflicted witti rheumatism, and* quite helpless. I long for thy bright face and cheerful voice. If thee will come thee will be doing a great kindness to thy affectionate "AUNT RUTH."

Kitty was thoughtful for some time. "Mother, what shall I do?" •'What do you wish, my child?" "Do you not think Cousin Sarah would go to Aunt Ruth?" she said, after a pause. "Very likely." "Oh, mother!" she said eagerly, "I should like so much to go to Woodlawn. It is so delightful there. The company is always refined, intelligent and entertaining. It improves my French so much to talk to the Marceaus. And Dr. Muller is to be there. He has been abroad for years, engasred in scientific researdhes connected with his profession. He knows everything."

Mrs. Ward saw very well the struggle ber daughter was undergoing, but she only said, "Decide for yourself, my dear," and left her.

Kitty ran upstairs, fully determined to go to Woodlawn, but the first object that met her gaze was her diary and the resolution.

Then commenced a sharp conflict. The many .and varied delights of 4Voodlawn passed before her the rides, the excursions, the boating parties, the fetes of all kinds, and the clegance and refinement of its surroundings and, in strong contrast, was patient, suffering Aunt Ruth in her quiet little home, widowed and childless for years, with no company, nothing cheerful. "Well, now, if ever there is a chance to act upon my new resolution and, to avoid further temptation, she wrote a regret to Cousin Alice and an acceptance to Aunt Ruth.

Aunt Ruth took of lier spectacles and wiped her eyes when she read Kitty's note and said, "Tho blessed child!" and then handed it to the physician by her bedside to re id. This physician, a grave, quiet-looking gentleman, with a broad, white forehead and deep eyes, was the child of a dear, early friend of Aunt Ruth.

Kitty came at the appointed time, and within a week the house was a changed place. The doors and windows were opened the sweet air and bright sunshine let in. Bouquets were scattered hero and there, freshly arranged every day. The rigid arrangement of the furniture was broken. Aunt Ruth's old piano was turned and drawn up near to the door of her room, that Kitty mi^ht sing old hymns to her. Aurt Rnth's good old heart was greatly ro'oiced by all this change, and the dctor wondered greatly. He saw the effect, and knew Kitty to be the oause, but the means was to him ft mystery. From day to day he spent much time wondering what change such a bright spirit would make in is grand, but somber old place, a mile or two distant.

Nothing could exceed Kitty's amazement when she found that Aunt Ruth'^ friend, to whom she has written so -often, of whom she talked so much, --was the great Dr. Muller. She did 'ii-,-.*®10' to Ik much in his presence, for she •fi «tood in real awe of him, but her de,iight was unspeakable in listening to

V?$!his conversation with Aunt Ruth. His

'4^#Vvast knowledge, his varied ex^ji^iperienccs, his creat and good ideas, if? iwerc wonderful to her, and she con^sSgratulated herself many times th it she .knew him so much better than she could have done at Woodlawo. 0f

To tho doctor Kitty was a revelation. He hid never had much time or opportunity for knowing ladies. He was not at all versed in their ways and manners. He thought Kitty's beaming face was like sunshine her merry laugh like rippling waters, her voice was melody. He noted her womanly xvays. her gentleness, her kindness.

He found he!1 never weary of well-do-ing. never seeking for her own." "Wflli. L* fell oil* a/ Kittr bo4

dieted. Aunt Ruth grew rapidly better. So, after all, Kitty went to Woodlawn about the time Dr. Muller did. But, for some reason, she did not enjoy it as she had in former timesiFvf.rything lacked tone and interest, and she, looked back with a sigh to the quiet conversations in Aunt Ruth's sick-room. She saw but little of Dr. Muller. He seemed engrossed by the' gentlemen. The fact was he avoided her for when he saw her so sought by ner young friends, no party being complete without her, the delight and ioy of all, he began to fear that the society of a dull student like himself must be irksome, and he only then discovered what it would be to him to have her always.

Toward the close of the visit Dr. Muller proposed that the party should transfer themselves to his place for a week or so. This invitation was hailed with delight, for the old Muller place, with its majestic trees, beautiful views, long avenues, grassy lawns, and, above all, the grand, mysterious rooms which had been closed since his mother's death were objects of interest to all. Not the smallest of Kitty's pleasure wa? '••vi-t sne round dear Aunt Kuin tftere, but yet she carried a dreary heart the while for it seemed to her that all the interest in life was concentrated in this ono spot, and how soon she was to leave it-

One day Dr. Muller sat in his library alone, his head buried in his hands. Aunt Ruth came softly in. She saw his look of wretchedness. "Thee ought to be a happy man, Hermann, with these broad lands and thy great opportunities to do goo d. But thee does not look so." "Aunt Ruth, I would give all of this and more for the one little ewelamb that is not mine." "What does thee mean, Hermann?"

I mean that my selfish heart, old, grave and full of cares, pines for your little Kitty."

Aunt Ruth walked out of the library with more celerity than her gentle movements usually permitted, went to Kitty's room in manner1 that might be called excited, and said: "Katharine, go to tho library the doctor has need of thee."

Kitty hastened, a little alarmed. "Aunt Ruth says you want me, Dr. Muller." "I do want you, I do. What else did she tell you? That my whole being is crying out for you, that my heart is hungry and insatiable? But I did not mean to disturb your happy life. I did not mean this knowledge to come to you."

Kitty turned her sweet, true face full upon him. "Dr. Muller, in all the world there is nothing I would rather have than your love."

She has been his wife now six months. Mrs. Muller is a good and noble woman, Dr. Mnller is a good and noble man and there is no reason why they should not lead good and noble lives. Aunt Ruth closed her little house and is their honored guest. Kitty still strives ardontly to keep her resolution, but her husband thinks she never had oeed to make it.

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Woman Handsomaly forced. Science comes creeping to Uhe front and sheepishly affirms what woman's Intuition discerned centuries ago. Science has been bending its back over dusty volumes. It has been studying earth and air, and water and disease. It has reached a conclusion which woman had practically indorsed since the beginning, to-wit: That spring housecleaning is necessary to health that to this yearly regeneration of the household gods are due the superior health and strength of civilized nations. Men hate housecleaning because they are dull creatures and have only a regard for their present dignity. It galls a man to drink cold tea and eat a cold chop from tha corner of the mantel or the kitchen pantry. A man has no imagination his soul cannot override the kitchen furniture in the front hall, or bars of soap, rusty nails, and tack hammers on his library table, and picture to himself the splendor of the afterglow. But science now proclaims that dangerous disease germs, wicked and infinitessimal, lurk about the habitatations of man, dangers for which there is no remedy but soap, and alkali and water, and a woman with a towel on her head and dust-broom in her hand. Science has silenced man. Washington Post

Infection in Books.

Hereafter the Boston board of health will cause the public library card in each family where a contagious disease is found to exist to be stamped, so as to indicate the presence of such a disease there. The library will thereafter decline to allow other books to be taken out on this card until the contagion has been stamped out from the home. When the books are returned from such a locality they will be disinfecied.

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An Unpromising Match. Mrs. Henpeck—"My dear, you will make a sad mistake if you marry Mr. Meak. He has no beard, and he wears a wig."

Danghter—"What difference does that make?" Huh! You try managing a husband with no hair of his own, and you'll find out"—New York Weekly.

FARM ASP HOME.

1 omatoes by the Acre.

Tomatoes yield the best crops in heavy loam, that will not pack or bake. The plants, except for early plantingt can be raised out-of-doors, in gardef beds. The ground should have a dress ing broadcast of 800 bushels to tha acre of good, well-rotced barn-yard oi hog-pen manure, well and thoroughly plowed in and harrowed down. When the season is well settled, harrow thi ground, and furrow oat live feet each way and put in plenty of fine, wellrotted manure at tho cressing of the furrows, using about eight hundred bushels to the acre in the hills, Tread down well and cover with soil about three inches deep. Set the plants we'I down in the ground, pressing the so I well up to them. It is best to wet tli plants when setting, as the soil adhere-: better. Keep the ground clean an! loose with the cultivator and the ho drawing the soil or hilling them each dresshig.

Tomatoes are marketed by placing in crates holding a strick or Winche ter bushel, made of two ends and on middle piece, each three-quarters of a-i inch thick, eight inches wide and foui teen inches long with slats nailed oi three inches wide, 22 inches long, and three-quarters of an inch thick. Good heavy mason's lath will answer foi slats, leaving a space of one inch for Ventilation between them. For a Icnsj distance from market they should be picked just as they begin to show a red ting at the blossom end but for near by they must be riper or so they wili be well ripened when they arrive in market. Care should be taken not to pack any cracked or wormy ones, as. they spoil the rest and injure the sale of the whole. For Philadelphia market they are usually shiped in fiveeighths stave peach baskets, covered with cloth, which are returned to th# shipper.

Transferring Uccs.

Mr. Heddon's mode of transferring bees is a good one, and is thus described by him. He says: About swarming time I take one of my Langs* troth hives containing eight frames of foundation, and with smoker in band, I approach the colony to be transferred. First, I drive the old queen and a majority of the bees into my hiving-box. I then remove the old hive a few feet backward, revising the entrance, placing the new ono in its place, and run in the forced swarm. In two days 1 find eight new straight combs with every beil worker, and containing a good start of brood. Twenty-one days after the transter, I drive the old hive clean of all its bees, uniting them with the former drive, and put on the boxes, if they are not already on. If there is any nectar in the flowers, the colony will show yoii copib hgnqtfft. A-tyut the queens: I usually kilTtne forced queen as the bees run in.

I run them together as I would one colony in two parts. Now to the old beeless hive of course there is no brood left, unless a little drone-brood, and we have before us some combs for wax for some foundation, and some firstclass kindling wood.

If you have no method by which you can use a full hive of frames, of full sheets of foundation, running a full swarm 'nto them at once, by all means procure it without delay.

ItaUiiig Grain.

One would think from the following that grain raising in the states had about come to an end because it cart be raised on cheaper lands in the farther west. On the same principle Why cannot the farmers of these same* cheap lands raise also all the beef and butter needed by the nation at large unci thus leave the farmers cast of the Missouri high and dry and with their occupation gone? Some of the writers for the papers have surely gone clean daft.

Is it not a curious condition of things when a Wisconsin farmer keeps skimming over several hundred acres o£ land in a large farm, that would sell for $50,.00 per acre, raising wheat, rye corn, oats, etc, to sell in competition Vith the grain raised on new cheap lands of the west, when ho knows that all the land of Ihe farm he makes a cent of profit on, is that part it taKes to feed the live stock he keeps? When he counts everything, he sees that if he did not have to pay taxes on the land he might as well open it to the commons, as to keep skimming it, raising small grain in excess of what his animals consume. We are bold to say that the only men who can afford to sell grain from their irms, are those who occupy cheap lands those who are "hard up," and those who have not and cannot get the animals to consume their products 1Vlieat As a Food For Sheep.

Dr. "Voelcker makes public the results of experiments carried out in feeding sheep for the Royal Agricultural society, at Woburn, for the third successive season. Tho object was to ascertain whether the use of eeraals as

additional food for sheep feeding turnips off the land was profitable, one of the most important points being that of ascertaining whether wheat could be giyen safely and economically. Tha result of the whole series of experU ments showing underground wheat, at the rate of lbs. per day, isaperfectJy «afe food, and that at the prices of re* catit years, it pays better than any other grain. In one of the experiments, however, linseed and tiecprtlcat-

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ed cotton-cake mixed proved wperioi to wheat. In some experiments' witli cattle a mixture of linseed-eaki decorticated cotton-cake and a maiz* meal gave the best results. The e:£ periments were made with EnglisX breeds of sheep, but we see no reasor why the results would not be the sam$ with the Merinos. But wheat should never be fed to excess.

Farm Notes.

It is much better to plant a seasonable crop than to plant what we have planned to plant out of season.

Every farmer ought to plant a small acreage of millet for the variety it afford* in th3 winter feeling of stoclc.

It" vour soil is a limestone one, the dowing should be done in the fall, •tfhen everything is favorable for plow,ig, as it leaves the soil upturned to 'ic action of the weather.

No occupation is more conducive to. ealih and happiness than tilling the il. No one is less dependent on' her producers, an 1 no oae is ?urar the means of living, than tho armer.

On good soil, in a favorable season, »e man can plow, plant anl culti vata ly acres of corn, and do it well, but' kept out of the crop by rain untit ho weeds get a start, extra help Mould be had to do the work at once lien the land dries off.

Cleanliness is the best preventive of uiltry diseases. Rooms should b3 ivquently cleaned in the summer and -prinkled occasionally with a disinfect-t-U. Put a quarter of a pound of sulphuric acid in a three gallon pail of ivater and sprinkle the roosts, wall* uul floor.

All the non-sitting breeds of hens !ay white eggs, and all of them can fly Dver a high fence. The Houdan ij probably tho largest, and the Hamburg the smallest. hey are excellent lay 3rs, forage industriously, and lay mora 2ggs than the sitters, but are not quito is hardy in winter.

Leghorns and Bramahs can not thrive together. Have your flocks uniform. When you send to a breeder 'or eggs of pure breeds, remember that in that case "eggs are not eggs." It is ihe stook you seek, not eggs particularly. You can get eggs at home, but .iot stock of the kind you wish.

The Rural World has as idea that fot ill the diseases of domestic animal* .here is a cause, and that the surest mu quickest road to a cure is in disjovering and removing it. This is true with regard to all the creation, luman and otherwse. It may be lillicuitto trace the cause but, be you jure that unless you do so, the remedy .s much more problematical if not ast!y more dangerous.

This matter of breeding horses is one dollars and cents. The farmers of America are producers. If they breed •ighJfc t.he market is supplied with what wanted is they do not,then the stuff sent to market hardly realizes the cost if transportation. It is not our busiiess what people shall want, or how hat want is to bo supplied. The people will have what they want, but will jo without rather than have that .vhich is unfashionable. Our business is to suply the demand. If that is for four-year old that can go in front ihree to four minutes, there is no good reason why we should not supply it if Afe can, and get a good profit on our produce. We take this to be self-evi-dent.

The Household.

PARSLEYED POTATOES.—Peel, quarter and wash as many potatoes as required, boil quickly in salted water antil just tender, strain at once, ind let them steam for a few seconds jver the fire add a liberal piece of tutter, and let it melt over the potatoes. Then strew over thom some iinely chopped parsley, cover, and taking tho handle with one hand and iiolding the lid down with the other, jh ke the sauce-pan so that the pota:oes turn over a few times. Then lish at once. This is an excellent way }f preparing old potatoes.

ICE-CKEAM CAKE.—Take the white af eight eggs, boat to a stiff froth, two jups of sugar, one cup of butter, one :up of sweet milk, two cups of A our, )ne cup of corn starch, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Cream the tmtter and sugar, sift flour, corn starch ind biking powder, add the beaten whites of the eggs last.' Bake in jelly lins. For the icing: Boi 1 four cups jf sugar until it will candy, and pour aver the beaten whites of four eggs, md add one teaspoonful of pulverized, citric acid. Stir until cold, and spread between layers.

IXOOV BREAD.—To a good one ha If pint of milk and a good one half pint of hot water, a little butter or lard, one teaspoonful of salt, and one tablespoonful of sugar. Dissolve one half cake of compressed yeast in one half cup of lukewarm water and add to the bove. To this put thirty heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, and stir and cut with a knife until the flour is worked in. Let it rise six or eight hour.?, or until light. Then give a short but vigorous kneading and put into pans. Lot it stand an hour or thereabouts. Bake one hour.

FRENCH ROLLS. —One quart of flour sifted with a teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of sugar, two cups of milk,- one-half cake of compressed yeast, two eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, llub the butter into the flour, add tho eggs beaten light, and the milk. Add tho yeast cake dissolved in threo tablespoonfuls of warm water. Knead well five minutes. Let it rise

over night, and in the morning mould into oval rolls. Place these in a pan just touching each other, and let rise again. Cut each across the top with a knife and bake. "Jt,

A PASTE THAT WILL KEEPV—Dissolve a teaspoonful of alum in a quart of water. When cold stir in as much flour as will give it the consistency of thick cream. Carefully beat up all the lumps. Stir in half a teaspoonful of powdered rosin. Pour on the mixture a teacup of boiling water, stirring it well. When it becomes thick pour in an earthen vessel. Cover and keep in a cool place. When needed for use take a, portion aud soften it with warm water. It will last at least a year. If you wish it to have a pleasant odor stir in a few drops of oil of wintergreen or cloves.

Ilow To COOK BKFFSTEAK.—Heat the frying pan quite hot. In this put the steak, previously pounded. No butter, no grease, remember, nor salt Allow the steak to merely glaze over then turn it quickly over, turning it several times until it is done. Do not cook it over three or four miuutes. When it is done lay it on a warm platter, butter and salt it, and jrou will find it delicious and juicy. Allowing the steak to heat but a moment on each side sears it over and retains ill its sweet juices, and salting it at :ne last moment while on the platter :raws out its juices.

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Dick Whitesmith's Tribute Gen. Lee. On the occasion of Gen. Robert E.. Lee's birthday, a few days ago several ex-confederate soldiers and their friends met and commemorated the dav in a dinner at Soiari's in this city. Alter several courses had been served with the usual interludes of wine, the cimpagne corks began to pop in earnest and good cheer went around the board. Of course the toast to him in whose namo they were assembled was reserved uutil the last and was ex-

H.''uod to be drunk in the eloquence of silence. First George Washington's name was proposed and several warm tributes of words wore paid to his ilear memory before the glasses filled in his glorious name were emptied. Then others and others were proposed and eulogized, and wine was drunk to their health or memory, as each case suggested. Of course so many to ists—the greater number of tli em to be living—could not be drunk without making some impression on the spirits of the quick-blooded southrons. Nobody was intoxicated, but there was buoyancy enough to float a balloon when—all was as silent as the tomb of him whose love and honored name had been spoken.

Robert E. Lee! Every man stood, his head bowed, his thoughts upon that earnest soldier who had wept to see the war begun and bled to see it ended. It seemed a sacrilege to speak, to break the silent spell that name had cast upon those followers and lovers of the dead. But— "Friends and brothers," said a rich, tremulous voice.

A shudder stirred the circle about the table. In his heart each man among them wished no word had been uttered, and by his manner every one strove to stop this interruption of the sweet, expressive silence. "Friends and brothers," said Col. Dick Wintersmith of Kentucky, steadying himself against the table as he raised one hand in solemn, impressive gesture toward high heaven, "when Robert E. Lee died and went to heaven he broke George Washington's awful solitude."

The time, the manner of this speech, and the reaction caused by it in the tearful hearts of those present made it perhaps the best-remembered utterance of a man whose florid eloquence has made for him the reputation of a stirring orator. "That," said the friends as they wiped away the tears and warmly shook his hand—"that is more eloquent than even silence."—Washington Post* Getting Flowers on an Ocean

Steamer,

The latest plan of pouring floral offerings at the feet of one's best girl when she is going to Europe is to interview a florist, who will for a monetary consideration receive packed up in air-tight boxes a selection of flowers calculated to keep for several days. These are handed to the butcher on board the ship in which the fair inamorata sails and are to be delivered to that damsel when the pangs ol seasickness have left her—one box each day. The fair one looked doubly fair with the floral setting and triumphs over her fellow passengers while, the butcher appreciates the situatioh from two points, as he geta tipped by both sides of tbe house.

She "Was Modest.

Mr. Jones—"I was thinking of going to the Howard to-night, Mary. Do you care to go?"

Mrs. Jones—"What kind of nn entertainment is it!" "Variety, I guess." "Young women in short sk:rts, I suppose?'' "Very likely." "Well, I don't care to go. I think it vory indecorous for young women to appear on the sthge in short skirts."

Then Mrs. Jones went to ber bureau and took out of a little envelope her last season's bathing suit and

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look it over tq see if it needed any repairs. —Boston Courier.

EXECUTION BY ELECTRICITY.

The New Method of Killing: Criminals More Patnful than Boiling in Molten Lead. "The enforcement of the death D3naltv by means of eleetrie currents would not only be agonizing beyond conception, but would also be irb.irous in the extreme." This is tne deliberate opinion of Myron Law, superintendent of the electrical department of the Brush Electric company of this city, says the Philadelphia Record. He was talking recently the comingelectric execution of the murderer Kemmle at Buffalo.

Mr. Law proceeled to give some interesting facts to demonstrate the :t. truth of the conclusion at which he had arrived. "Any person," said he, "who is thoroughly acquainted with an electric current could not possibly have any other idea th this. It is absurd to claim that execution by electricity is less painful than hangin g, that it would be instantaneous in its effects, or that it would do away with any repugnant features of our public executions." "In the first place death by electricity is not painless. anging, throat-cutting, the guillotine, shoot'ng, burning to death in molton lead or in furnaces are painless executions when compared with that by electricity. Let me cite a few instances of the pain felt by those who have received severe eleciric shocks. Six years ago one of my men named John Smith cut an electric wire which he thought to be 'dead.' This was on Eighth street, between Sansam and Walnut. Stauding on the ladder, with one hand he grasped the ruptured wire, which fed forty-eight lamps and had a current of 2,200 volts passing through it. With the other hand he held by means of plyers the other end of the wire. Im--5 mediately he made the most heartrendering screams for help. His hands were rivited fast and his whole body was undergoing most terrible contortions. "The electric current of 2,200 volt3 strength was passing through his body and pinned him to the spot. We threw a rope over his hands and jerked him from his perilous position. Both of his hands were burned terribly and his whole system was shattered. When he had sufficiently recovered a few days later to be able to talk intelligently he said that his sufferings were terrible beyond description. "Another man in our employ once received the full force of a current of several hundred volts. In removing his hands from the wire one of his lingers dropped off, having been burned almost to a crisp by the current. During the accident his face showed in a frightful manner intense pain and his body was in a constant tremor. "Of course, electricity can instantaneously kill a person, but in that infinitessimally small space of time of the transition from life to death the person will suffer inconceivable pain. Although the speed of electricity is afi the rate of 283,000 miles per second the killing can not be so instantaneous as to preclude all pain. Every particle of the nervous tissue is polarize 1, and polarization causes each particleof matter to revolve on its axis, which means the stretching of the nerves out. of all proportion and consequently the most intense pain. But the great fault with execution by electricity is that it is almost impossible to ascertain just how strong a current will kill a man instantaneously and ycf not be a barbarous mode of killing. If the current be but a few volts stronger than that required to instantly execute a certain person the consequences would be terrible. It would disfigure the body beyoud recognition and would disintegrate every portion of the corpse. "Should the current be just a trifle too weak to execute a person it would throw him into a trance so death-like that it is probable that the body would be buried alive. So in order to reduce this new mode of execution to a practical scientific working the amount of resistance in each body would have to be previously tested before any approximate idea could be reached as to how strong a current would surely kill without disfiguring or disintegrating the body or throwing the body into a trance. But even if this desideratum is found, there might be some hitch or slight fault in the electrical apparatus which would spoil everything.'*

Getting His Hand In. "I say, Jinks," said Blinks, "what in thunder is the matter with Winks? From being one of the must steady and economic fellows in the world, he has suddenly become a veritable spend-, thrift goes to parties, balls, banquets the opera, everything. Never saw such a change in my life." "You let Winks alone, old fellow," was the quiet reply, "he knows what he's about. He's only getting ready for his marriage with Miss Bullion in June. You know she has a million a year to

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The New York Postoffice. The New York postofTicc is the largest business establishment, affecting the greatest number of people under the government of tho United States. It delivers and collects every year a number of letters, papers, ctc., six times as numerous as tho entire population of tho Union. It handles in e. ch year over $85,000,000 in moneyorder business, while its own receipts are over $5,000,0J0, and the net revenue of the government is $3,250,Ooo.

Cruelty in a Race.

A jockey was taken to court by as Inspector for the English Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for icruelty, he having flogged and spurred a mare in a race although she was hopelessly beaten. The jockey was fined £3 and costs or two weeks in prison.

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