Pike County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 March 1880 — Page 4

PIKE MTT DEMOCRAT, PETERSBURG, ; s s INDIANA. GENERAL BREVITIES, It is now asserted by a Boston dentist that the only true way to clean teeth is to bite into a raw potato three or four times per day. Ohio people now protect graves by criss-crossing railroad rails across the coffin. Ghouls can't pull them out without digging a hole six feet square. Mk. E. Remington, the gun manufacturer, has built a house at Cairo, Egypt, to cost $100,000. He has a pending claim against the Khedive’s Government for $600,000. The Indiana Supreme Court holds that a person injured by railroad trains while walking on the track is guilty of contributory negligence, and therefore not entitled to damages. The ladies of Burkeville, Va., have anounced an Easter entertainment, the proceeds of which are to be applied to the purchase of a new steam printing press for Mr. Alphius Bolling of the South Side Sentinel. The Rocky Mountain Courier, of Green River, Wyoming, gives an account of an active volcano near Brown’s Park. The crater is five feet in diameter, emitting sulphurous smoke; no lava yet. The snow in the vicinity melted from the heat pf the volcano. A Middleburg, Pa., mouse tunneled an ear of corn, built her nest in it, and was living on the grain on the outside. The ear was 8 1-2 inches in length and 9 1-2 inches in circumference, and it contained 1,600 grains Of corn. " Formerly, English shops of all descriptions had signs, although nowadays they are only borne by public houses. Longmans, the great publisher, had, in 1789, the sign, of the tShip and Black Swan.' Messrs. Hoare, one of the chief banking houses in London, still carry their old sign above their door of their splendid establishment in Fleet street. A couple of woodsmen had with them on a baggage car to Saginaw, Mich., the other day, a tame bear, and things went along smoothly until his bearship placed his fongh*d paws on the stove, burning them Merely. This so enraged Mm that he made an attack on those present and drove them out of the car, and it was not until he had been soothed to sleep with a club that order was restored.

A band of Sionx recently visited the Yellowstone Valley, Montana, and ran off about one hundred and sixteen head of horses. The thieves were pursued by citizens and Crows. The citizens and a portion of the Crows were compelled to turn back on the second day on account of having no change of horses. The rest of the Crows kept on in pursuit until the next morning, when they came upon the thieves in camp, killing two of them and capturing the horses. A Paris correspondent writes that at the. Theater Lynque the piece which . they are at present playing, “ Le Beau Solignac,” contains an effect which creates a tremendous sensation.-, The heroine gets too near an open grate and the train of her dress catches fire. Of course she is in imminent danger of burning to death, when the opportune hero rushes in and saves her. Numbers of women faint each night, who would not if they knew that all the dress but the'lace trimmings is steeped in a chemical solution which makes it fire-proof. At Rockaway Beach, N. Y., the most ^spacious seaside hotel in me world will t>e erected this summer. It is to havea frontage of one thousand one hundred and sixteen feet on the ocean, a depth of four hundred feet. The building is to be four stories in height, with lofty towers and spacious wings. The din-ing-room will have a seating capacity for six thousand guests. Rooms are to he furnished in a princely manner for one thousand five hundred permanent summer boarders. A lady called at a photograph gallery in Columbus, O., the other day, with a baby whose photograph she desired taken. The necessary arrangements were made, the littlp cherub was propped up in a chair in the best possible position, and the artist was proceeding to adjust his camera, when the mother excused herself for a moment'. The moment grew to minutes, and the minutes to hours. In short, the mother did not come back, and the artist finds himself with a ready-made baby on his hands, whose name and origin are unknown to him. v - ■

Chinese ■who come into contact with Europeans and Americans in the treaty ports of their own empire are becoming more and more favorably disposed to ■ the medical and surgical science of the west.. Indeed they sometimes imagine that its power and resources are miraculous and practically limitless. In a Shanghai journal the Tokio Times reads of a woman who had the misfortune to loose one of her limbs, but had.presented the bone. She had recovered from her injuiy when the fame of the western surgeon- reached her. One morning she presented - herself at the hospital, bringing with her the bone, carefully wrapped up, and desired that the doctor would fix it in its original position; expressing her belief that he would be able to restore it to useful membership. This was a work beyond all professional skill; but the poor woman was not a little surprised and disappointed. East Hartford has a Mr. Goodwin who believes that legislators ought not to be deadheads on the railroads. He is a stockholder in the New Haven Railroad, and as. such has applied for an injunction restraining the officers from issuing .free passes to members of the Connecticut Legislature. Three members, being called as witnesses, testified that they used passes. President Watrous said: “ My own judgment was that all not engaged in operating the road should pay their fare. As for members of the Legislature, with their high public duties to perform, they are very inadequately paid—meanly paid. A little concession to them, without increase of trains or much expense, will do no harm. Besides this, I want those people who have got, the power to apply the knife to my throat to feel kindly toward me. The Governor, for years past, has always had an an nual pass over all roads in the State. It .is State practice every where.” A decision has not been reached. A MuscoviTk letter carrier, last July, stole a reg istered money parcel containing several thousand roubles, and two days later resigned his appointment, retiring into private life with the resolve to have a good time upon the proceeds of his felonious achievement. By and by the theft was discovered and traced to him. His arrest followed, and stock to the value of 7,600 roubles was found in his possession. Like a prudent man he had invested his booty in good securities. About three weeks ago his trial came off l>efore a common jury at St. Petersburg. He acknowledged his crime, and pleaded in extenuation that his salary had been an absurdly small one, and tfcat he had been for a long time penetrated by the ambition really to enjoy life, :if only for a single day. He had taken (he money unconsciously, and, finding it in his pockety had speiit part of it in realizing his long-cherished dream. This plea made so favorable an impression upon the jurymen impaneled to try his case that they acquuted him unanimously without leaving the box.

The Infunons Election laws.. The folic wins' is a summary of Justice Field’s dissenting opinion upon the United States election laws, whose constitution; dity was recently sustained by the Unit ad States Supreme Court: He mainti tins that the United States Circuit Court never had jurisdiction to tiy the prisoner Clarke for the alleged offense of which he was convicted; first, because it is not competes,t for Congress to punish a State officer for the manner in which he discharges the duties imposed upon ,him by the laws of the State; and, second, because it is not competent for Congress to delegate any' jsortion of its legislative power to tha States. In support of the first position, he maintains that, although Corgress may adopt a law of a State, the adopted law must bo enforced as a law of the United States. In the presi mt case there is no pretense of such adt ption. It is for the violation of a State law, not a law of the United States, that punishment is prescribed, and the judicial power of the United States does not extend to a case of that kind. It extends only to “ cases in law and equity arising under the Constitution and laws of the United Slates,” and to certain other cases which the Constitution enumerates. It may be applied to new cases as they arise under the Constitution and laws of the United States, but it cannot be enlarged by Congress so as to embrace .cases not enumerated in the Constitution. This limitation of the Congressional power would seem to be conclusive in the present cane. But, he argues, there is another view of the subject, which is equally conclusive against the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. The act, of Congress asserts a power inconsistent with, and destructive of, the independence of the State in matters over which their authority has never been surrendered. If the Federal Government can punish a violation of the laws of a State, it may alsc punish obedience to them, and graduate the punishment according to its own judgment of their, propriety and tfisdem. It may thus exercise a supervision over the legislation of States subversive of all their reserved powers. If the Federal Government have this power, the States are not independent, the Tenth Amendment is a delusion.

ana the Mates may at any time be degraded %o the level of municipal corporations existing at the will of Congress. liut, he argues, this doctrine that the Unitec States may interfere with States1! regulation of elections trenches upon the rights of the States in still another way. It is admitted that the Federal Government has no power to interfere with the election of State officers or w ith the registration of voters for such elections, and yet the supervision ; and interference sanctioned by the act of Congress when Representatives tp that body are to be voted for amount practically to a supervision of and interference with the election of State officers, and constitute a plain encroachment upon State-rights. After some further remarks upon the character of Federal legislation since the war, and its bearing upon the reserved rights of States, Justice Field says, in substance, that, until the recent decisions in the Virginia cases wererendered, he could not have believed that the former carefully considered and repented judgments of this Court upon | provisions of the Constitution, and upon the general character and purposes of that instrument, would be disregard ed and overruled. But these decisions (in the Virginia cases) do, in his judgment, constitute anew departure, and, without intending any disrespect to his associates, Justice Field is of opinion that the rules therein laid down) ter d toward tho conversion of our Eederal system into a consolidated and centralized Government. In [Support of his second position, Justice Field argues that thelegislative powep of the Federal Government— vested by the Constitution in Congress - cannot be delegated to others. If Congress could" depute its authority; if it could say it would punish as an offense what another power enacts as such,! it might do the same thing with respect to the commands of any other authority. It could enact that what, the President proclaims shall be law; that what he declares to be offenses shall be punished as such. No one, Justice Field thinks, would go so far as this,' ant yet in principle there is no difference between the supposed case and ihe existing one. Finally, he is of opinion that the act of Congress under which the prisoners were indicted in both the Maryland and Ohio cases is unauthorized and. invalid, and thal the prisoners should be released. - 1 Vy Justice Clifford concurred in Justice Field's opinion. ’ An Investigation Republicans Do Not Like. The New York Tribune says: “Up to his time It would bo difficult to pick out any single fact discovered by Senator Voorkees which tends to show that the exodus had a pol tical “brigm, or that it is a matter which a C >ugrc8sionai committee has any gx>d reason for investigating.” To call things by their right names, this1 is an impudent falsehood. One witness, a colored Republican, and editor lof a Republican paper in Washington, testified that he assisted in the organization of the Emigration Aid So-cit-rv in that city; that at a meeting held scon after the organization a speech was made urging the sending of the lemigrants to Indiana, because “it would bs a close State next fall;” that this| speech was indorsed by the majority df the managers, and the> witness left the society on that account. His

statements nave never Deen aentea, much less refuted. Another witness testified that he was told by a prominent Republican of Indiana, whom he named, that enough negroes would be brought into the county—a doubtful on«V—to beat the Democracy at the next election. _ This statement has never been d inied, much less refctted. An affidavit of a colored emigrant wan produced which declared that he had received instructions to get. as many North Carolina negroes into Indiana as possible by the 1st of June, so that they ’could vote in November. This affidavit has never been denied, much less refuted. Here then, are three facts “discovered by Senator Voorhees” which prove the “ political origin” and object of the exodus beyond any reasonable doubt. The public does not forget; them as easily as the Tribune thinks; t>nd we may remark, the public is thoroughly convinced that the exodus i3 “a matter which a Congressional committee has good reason for investigating.’'1 The trouble is with the Tribune $nd other Republican organs that the investigation investigates too vigorously, revealing the Republican inwardness of the exodus, and showing that for purely partisan purposes the engineers of this mbven ent are willing to thrust carloads cf paupers into Indiana to. beg or starve. Republican organs thought n Republican Congress was doing God ana the country service in investigating the smallest “Southern outrage,” bill; they cannot see the propriety of a Democratic Congress inquiring into the exodus trick. Of course not; but it spoils the trick bv.puttmg the responsibility of it npon Republican shoulders. —'St. fjouis Republican.- < To convince his Mohammedan neighbors of his friendly feeling, the Czar has granted them permission to\ erect, a mosque at 8t. Petemberg. It will be situated in the central part of the c-ity, near the Newski Perspective, in Tolerance Street, where there are already a number of edifices belonging

The Republican Party and the Chinese Question. One of tiie specters which will con* :front the Republican National Convention upon its assembling at Chicago is the Chinese question. Four years ago, it will be remembered, at Cincinnati, the party convention took strong ground on that question. The delegates from the Facihc States insisted *that strong ground should be taken. They hid been instructed by their constituents to demand that the Republican party should commit itself to the doctrine of Mongolian oppression or extinction as a condition precedent to receiving the votes of.Calil'ornia, Oregon and Nevada. They dared not go home and ask Republicans to vote for the, candidates of the convention unless they could take with them the solemn assurance that the party was entirely sound on the Chinese question, and that the California doctrine in relation to the rights' —and wrongs—of the celestials was cherished by the entire Republican household as one of its most sacred

political convictions. Thus adjured, the party felt that strong ground must be taken, and promptly took it. With scarcely a dissenting voice, the convention courageously declared that it was “ the immdiate duty of Congress to fully investigate the effect of the immigration and importation of Mongolians on the moral ana material interests of the country.” There was no trimming or evasion, it will be observed; . no shallying or delay, or procrastination. The investigation was to be immediate, and it was to^be full. It was not to bear upon the “ material interests’-’ of the country alone, but upon those high “ moral interests” whereof the party has so long regarded itself the especial custodian. In a word, it was a grand, spontaneous proffer of party sympathy with the Republicans of the Pacific Slope in their noble indignation against the almond-eyed immigrant from far Cathay; and although it took the Pacific Republicans, who saw it for the first time in cold and unimpasSioned type, some time to realize its grandeur, its spontaneity and its sympathetic quality, they were easily persuaded by their representatives to accept it in the same cordial spirit in which, according to those representatives, it was tentiered. So accepting it, they gave the Republican candidate their votes, and sat them down to wait for the expected extinction of the Chinaman. And they are still waiting. Little by little it has damned upon them that the grand spontaneous utterance of the convention was a humbug, the sole object of which was to hoodwink the voters and capture the votes on the shore of the Pacific. As they ponder the fact that the Republican party never did anything toward solving the Mongolian question, and realize that its leaders never intended it should do anything, beyond the making of promises which meant nothing and could be easily broken, they begin to look forward to the coming convention as an opportunity for asking pertinent and embarrassing questions. The Conklings and the Camerons, the supporters of Blaine and the supporters of Sherman—if there are going, to be any—would do

weu iu prepare memseives ior answering these questions. They would do well, also, to prepare satisfactory answers. No promise of investigation wifi be sufficient. ■ If the votes of California and Nevada are to be bad, or even expected, for the Republican candidates, the Republican Convention will have to take positive ground in respect to the checkingorforbidding of Chinese immigration and the abrogation of all treaties which stand in the way. That the convention will hesitate about taking this ground, or any other which is deemed necessary to the securing of votes, there is no reason to doubt; but there is a possibility that in taking it the party will be involved in something lfke a contradiction of the centralizing doctrines to which it stands committed and which have so recently been approved by a Republican Supreme Court. Right or wrong in itself, the California opposition to the Chinaman and the California method of carrying that opposition into effect embody together a doctrine of State-rights as advanced as any that can be extracted from the Virginia or Kentucky resolutions. The newspapers of the Pacific slope see this and comment on it in a way that ihdicates'very clearly the sort of controversy that awaits the Chicago Convention. The Eureka Sentinel, for instance, a Nevada paper which believes in the doctrine expressed in the formula “ the Chinese must go,” says: There is a ludicrous side to this anti-Chinese business in the California Legislature. Everything that has been attempted involves the doctrine of State-rights in the broadest sense. The idea of a single State of the Union setting up in opposition to a law or treaty stipulation ot the Federal Government is too funny for anything, and a State, too, with a Republican Legislature and Governor. According to the Republican idea, as applied to other questions, the law-makers of the Golden State are guilty, each and every one of them, of high treason! —.Detroit Free Press. Queen Victoria at the Opening of Per* liament. Her Majesty acknowledges the grave greeting of her lieges by scarcely more than a glance of the eye. The head bent slightly, perhaps, hut I am not sure. She, too, walks slowly; there is no vulgar hurry about any part of the business. As she rounds the corner of the dais her face is turned full toward our gallery. It is the business of courtiers to say that the Queen looks always well. For my part, I thought she had grown old since I last saw her, and that the lines of the temples and about the mouth were cut deeper than ever. It can never haVe been more than a comely face, and” there is nothing, strictly speaking, in its contour, and nothing in the figure, which can be called beautiful or noble. What strikes you, nevertheless, is the air of authority and the air of stern sincerity which sits upon this royal brow and marks the least gesture of the Queen. The sadness of the face is profoundly touching; the dignity with which the burden—the all but intolerable burden, of her life—is borne, appeals to your respect. She is here, they say, to mark once 'more her sympathy with the First Minister of the Crown; and with the party which, under his guidance, has been leading this country so strange a dance these three years past. But politics are forgotten in such a presence; and any criticism one has to offer is put decently aside so long as the woman and Queen is here. When she had .seated herself upon the royal robes spread over the throne —which she might have worn one would think—there is .again a pause, almost solemn, and'there is time to observe the gown which the Majesty of England has on. The Majesty and Beauty of England are face to face, for the Princess sits nearly opposite, and as the Princess is perhaps the best-dressed woman in the room, so is the Queen almost the worst. Her gown is of velvet, with broad, longitudinal streaks of miniver or ermine running down the skirt and horizontal trimmings to match about the body. But you need not stop to look at it; the Koh-i noor glows in her corsage, and a miniature crown of diamonds shines above the stony head. The Princess Beatrice, in blue velvet, stands by»her mother’s side, with traces of the womanly attractiveness which belongs to her sister Louise, now reigning over the hearts of our Canadian friends. There was some maneuvering with footstools and arrangement of trains, and the Queen’s veil had to be extricated from the netted work of the throne. Then the Queen si and once Oar- & 7be seated, silence.—Lon9bn

A High-priced Hog. This stoir is told of on* of the wealthy residents of Wethersddd, and it is vonched for as true in every particular Perhaps it might he a little too personal to give his reS name, s* for the purposes of our sketch we will call him Doctor. The Doctor is a solid man ia more senses than one—he is solid in money and means, and bis avordupois can not be surpassed by any one man in town, his weight being close upon 300 pounds. He invariably carries a wellstuffed pocket-book arsgnd with him, and he is blessed with tlehappy faculty of holding on to what te has got. He never heads a subscription/list, though what he might do in this direction will never be known until some man with the requisite pluck can be found to ask him. Almost any cautious man would prefer to let out that job to some stranger by the month. He would not when at church consider it aapnpardonable sin if the Deaoon should go right by him with the contribution-box. And he would not be mean enough to caU it back again. But this talk is superfluous, as the good Deacon ngver forgets him. But when the contribution-box is shoved into the Doctor’s face he gives a sleepy yawn, and doesn’t give any thing else-, In fact, the Doctor may be ehl ed a little close. But on

one occasion he astonished an old resident of the town by an unexpected streak of liberality, which we will now relate. One day his plethoric calf-skin was missing, and with it $1,860 in banknotes. If an electric battery had poured a broad-side down the Doctor’s spinal column he could scarcely have felt a greater shock. His hands flew from pocket to pocket, and his face lengthened, and took on a lugubrious and sorrowful air. If *he had been a “ poor lone widow, ” and the little all had taken wings, the consternation could not have been greater. He lost his mental equilibrium, and was dancing round on the ragged edge of despair. Finally he bethought himself of a visit he had made that morning to Bill Wells’s, on Wolcott Hill, where he went to look at a sow of large size, in that interesting condition where a litter of pigs was liable to gladden the old sow’s eyes at almost any hour. The Doctor reasoned that his lost' pocket-book was in the pen against which he leaned. He assumed that it would be an easy matter for it to drop out of his pocket with his body thrown forward in the manner he remembered it had been. It was think and go with him. He clambered into his old lumber-box wagon, and headed his untamed Bucephalus'toward Bili Wells’s. • He only thought of that well stuffed pocketbook at the bottom of the hog-pen, and in his mind’s eye he saw that big old sow grunting with satisfaction as she poked and rooted his bank-notes about. He lashed his horse into a run, and the good people of Wethersfield wondered what the matter was as the old farmer thundered along at a John Gilpin gait. The Doetor lost his hat when opposite the Post-office, but he did not stop to pick it up. , From this point he went bare-headed, and the old horse did credit to the breed. He must have been a descendant of Eclipse; at all events, the record he made in that old lumberbox, with a three-hundred-pound driver, eclipsed by far any thing he had ever attempted before. On reaching his destination he rushed to the pen, expecting to see the wreck of his pocketbook scattered around the pdn. But he was .disappointed. Not a sign was there. — “By Godfrey,’’the Doctor exclaimed, “the old sow has swallowed it whole!” Then Mr. Wells appeared oqi the scene, and in a moment the excited Doctor cried out, “ What’ll you take for that sow?” “ Oh, I don’t know,” moderately responded the other. “ I don’t want any ‘ don’t knows ’ about it,” roared the Doetor. “What’ll you take for that sow, I say?” “ I don’t know as I wan’t to sell it,” replied Mr. Wells, who evidently didn’t understand the situation. “You must sell it. Set your own price, but I must have that sow,” pleadingly urged the old farmer. At this, Mr. Wells thought the Doctor had gone crazy, and tried to soothe him. But this only made the old fellow more angry and excited, and he almost danced over the quiet manner of the other. “ Set the price,” he shouted, “ set the price, I say.” “ But I don’t want to sell it ”— “ And I say you must. I’ll give you any price for"it.” “ Well, then, say $75,” and Wells’s eyes twinkled merrily as he named it, supposing the price would cool the Doctor's ardor. And he was astonished at the reply:

“i’ll take it. jnow kin tnat nog,” was the prompt reply. Mr. Wells now knew he was crazy, and again tried to curb his excitement. But fliis only added fuel to the flames. The Doctor now foamed with excitement, and it seemed like the froth of a lunatic. “•Kill that hog, I say,” again thundered the Doctor. “ She’!! digest it if you don’t.” “ Oh, come, get into your wagon and ride home with me,” soothingly suggested Wells. “ Great God, Bill Wells, do you think I am crazy? I tell you that sow has swallowed my pocket-book with $1,300 in it, and if you don’t huny up and have her killed, she’ll digest it and I’ll lose every dollar.” Mr. Wells still looked on in silent astonishment. “ My Christian friend, will you kill that hog?’* and he rammed his hands down in his overcoat pockets with such force that he discovered a hole in one end of the pockets, and as he dove deeper down his excitement gave place to a feeling of satisfaction. ‘Between the lining and the cloth of his coat he found the lost pocket-pook, with its contents undisturbed. Not a dollar had been digested by the innocent old sow. He offered his neighbor Wells a tendollar bill not to say any thing about it, but the offer was declined with thanks. It was too good to keep, and the whole town knew the story before sundown.— Hartford (Conn.) Times. -♦ A Lady Rescued from Peril. The other morning while the State Road train was speeding along at the rate of forty miles an hour, a short distance this side of Dalton, a lady in" attempting to pass from the sleeper to an adjoinijng car fell between the cars. Happily her dress, which happened to be of strong material, caught in the brake fastener, suspending her under the cars just below the platform. A few seconds after she fell Mr. Frank Gordon passed out upon the platform, and, with a presence of mind and promptness of action deserving all praise, rescued her from her perilous situation by fairly pulling her upon the platform. Her dress was fast losing its grip, and a few more seconds would have hurled her to a horrible death. White with terror, she was borne into the sleepingcar and placed upon a berth, where she immediately swooned. c^Upon recovering consciousness she sent for Mr. Gordon and expressed to him her unbounded gratitude for the gallant service rendered. The name of the lady is Mrs. Spencer, and she hails from the city of Chicago.—Atlanta Constitution, I. C. Cross, of Disco, Mich., has just found a long-lost brother and sister. The three were separated by the d.eath of their parents nearly h:' agikamt during the long years that up to a few weeks ago, knew ^B>g of one-another

HOME INTERESTS. Mock Mixes Pis.—Four Boston cfackers rolled, two-thirds of a cup of oold water, one cup of molasses, half a cup of sugar, half a cup of vinegar, one egg, and raisins and spices as for mince" pies. Fbfit Cake.—One pound butter, one pound brown sugar, one pound flour, ten eggs, one-half pound sbeed citron, two pounds dried English currants (washed and dried), three pounds seeded raisins, one tablespoon each of mace and cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, two grated nutmegs. Bake slowly in an evenly heated oven. Ckkam Pis.—Place one pint of milk on the fire. When it boils, -add onehalf cup of flour, rubbed smooth in milk; boil together; then set where it will keep hot, but not boil. Ad4 the yelks of two eggs and one-half pint of sugar, well beaten together. Have the crust previously baked; put in the mixture. Beat thoroughly the whites of the eggs with sugar, enough to make a stiff frosting; spread over the pies, and bake to a light brown. This is enough for two pies.

Snowball Pudding.—Boil one quart of rich milk, and then thicken it with a tablespoonful of flour or arrowroot; beat up the yelks of •' four eggs with three tablespoonfuls of white sugar, then pour the milk slowlyinto the eggs and sugar, stirring all the time. Pour this custard into a pudding-dish an<l brdwn it slightly; beat up the whites to a stiff froth, adding four tablespoonfuls of sugar, and flavoring with lemon; drop it on the custard (when browned) in the form of balls as large as an egg. Set it back in the stove to brown a little. Batter Pudding.—Two eggs well beaten; one pint butter-milk; one tablespoonful sour cream; a rounding teaspoonful of soda; a little salt and flour to make a mass so stiff that it would keep the shape of a veiy rough mountain if made into one. Stir in ripe berries, cherries or currants—or in the absence of these, the dried fruit—till they are as close together as the stars in the Milky Way look to be. Steam two hours. Serve with cream—not the mixture of milk and yelk of eggs used by city housewives—and sugar to which a little nutmeg may be added. Cocoanut Puffs.—The whites of three eggs beaten very light, a small teacupful of fine white sugar, one tablespoonful of; corn starch. When these ingredients are mixed, put the mixture into a custard saucepan or a jug, set in a pan of boiling water, and stir constantly for twenty minutes; then take it off the stove, and add a quarter of a pound of desiccated or grated cocoanut. When well mixed drop in teaspoonfuls on buttered paper. Bake in a very slow oven, as they must not brown at all. To Boil a Ham.—Scrape and wash carefully in plenty of cold water. Put it to cook in boiling water enough to cover it entirely, hock end up; let it remain on the front of the stove until the ham begins to boil; then put it back and let it siihmer steadily for three {lours. Take it off the fire, and let the ham remain in the water it is boiled in' till cool enough to handle; then skin it j put in a baking-pan and sprinkle with about three ounces of brown sngar; run your pan in a hot oven and let it remain a half hour, or until the sugar has formed a brown crust. This not only improves the flavor of the ham but preserves its juice. Beefsteaks Stewed Without Water.—Get three or four pounds of rump steak, cut about an inch thick; put an ounce of butter in a frying-pan large enough to hold your steak, and let the butter melt without browning; wash the steak quickly in cold water and put it in a fiying-pan, covering closely. As soon as it is thoroughly heated, season w h a teaspoonful of salt and a salt spoonful of pepper; then push the pan back on the stove where it will simmer —not boil—keeping it covered all the time, and a weight on the cover. It will be found to be cooked and perfectly tender in an hour and a half. Put on a hot dish and add half a teacup of tomato or two tablespoonfuls of walnut catsup to the gravy in the pan, and pour it over the steak.

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tore seemed to bear a charmed life, since, without a scratch, he dropped gracefully to the eaves and thence went like a flash down a waterspout to th» ground. His assailants were soon on nis track, and found him chattering in a yard in the rear of the house. But the animal’s good fortune forsook him npw, and he quickly succumbed to the pistols of the officers and an iron bar in the hands of an artisan from a neighboring factory. The baboon proved to be a large specimen of his species, so large by the reports as to be a real curiosity; but whether through fear of a suit for damages, or for some other reason, "ho claim has been presented for the body, and the persons having charge of a museum in the immediate neighborhood deny all knowledge of the fugitive and of course decline all responsibility for his acts. We have heard that Mr. Charles Reade—who keeps a commonplace book, if such it; may be called, of peculiar and wonderful .events to work up, on occasion, for professional purposes—asserts that no incident is painted in fiction, however improbable or astounding, bet that the reality to eqnai or go beyond it sooner or later occurs in real life. The scene we have portrayed certainly goes to corroborate this theory. But Httle transposition of incidents, and that of a plausible sort, is needed here fully to realize Edgar Poe’s seemingly incredible story. If the baboon had chanced to fiiid Flora Glatz sleeping in an upper room, had cut her throat and then made his escape by the waterspout that he yesterday slid down in circumstances but slightly changed; and if he had then found his; way home as such creatures, after straying, are apt to do, the reproduction of Poe’s, tale would have been almost literally complete.—N. Y. Post

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