Hendricks County Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Danville, Hendricks County, 27 October 1881 — Page 3

A Wonderful Dog. "Davvy, go buy a cake." At frequent intercal during the day one can hear this order given to a shaggy poodle dog in a saloon in Fourth street, and see the intelligent canine trot obediently to the nearest Italian vender, deposit a penny and receive in return a gingerbread cake, which is taken to his master and his permission awaited to eat it. Divvy is nine years old, pedigree unkonwn, and has been in possession of its present owner since puppyhood. The first striking evidence of the dog's intelligence was discovered by the father of the master. "I was joking with a firend," said he, "and in the course of the conversation I said that I though the pup was going to turn out a smart dog, and that I wished he would give some show of it then, ,and steal me an apple from the corner. Would you believe me the understood me? Yes, sir. He started off, and sneaked along the gutter until he got to the stand, snatched an apple and brought it to me. Don't that show he understood words? Ever since then—and,

mind you, he has never had an hour's training—he has increased in intelligence until now I believe he understands nearly every word spoken." "That Italian gets at least 75 cents a day from Divvy," remarked the saloon keeper. "Customers constantly give him pennies to see the thing done." "A clean towel, Divvy." In a moment one was produced, "Noww take it back and wet it and bring it to me." This is done almost as quickly. "Get me a lemon." The lemon was brought after demolishing two whiskey glasses in the way. "Count seven." The dog gave seven short, sharp barks, and the visitor tested him again to make sure there was no signal from his maste when the number had been reached. Several pieces of different colored paper were then torn into strips about the size of a greenback note, and, with a two dollar note, were thrown on the floor. The dog certainly had a knowing leer as he looked from one face to the other, and gave vent to a whine apparently in assent. "Now, then, Divvy," said the old gentleman, "get me a penny." Divvy ran behind the bar, drew out the money drawer, took out the coin and brought it as commanded. "Now go buy a cake." Off he went, with the penny held firmly in his mouth, returning with the gingerbread as described. "Get the money, Divvy." The dog nosed the paper and in a few seconds produced the bill, which he deposited behind the bar without any command. "That's why I call him, "Divvy," said the saloon man. "Money of any kind that is dropped on the floor the dog will seize, and carry behind the bar, as you have just seen him do. The most wonderful of all of 'Divvy's' performances, however, and which almost indicates reason—certainly more than instinct—was developed a few days since by chance. When pennies were given to the dog to buy cakes, it was often noticed that he returned to the saloon without any. After watching him for three days, it was discovered that 'Divvy' had been buying the gingerbread as usual, but instead of eating it himself he had been taking it to a yard in the vicinity wherein a bitch was confined, and with almost human ingenuity, pushing the edible under the bottom of the gate with his fore feet. Not content with this he had deposited no less than thirty cents in the same place. accordingly reasoning that his canine acquaintance could make the same use of the money as he could. "That dog is worth $400 a year to me for the trade he brings," said the owner as the reporter was leaving, "and I wouldn't sell him at any priee although I have twice been offered $300 cash to part with him." Divvy has been stolen seven tunes but always managed to find his way home again, no matter how far off he has been taken.—[Philadelphia Press. Forty seven years ago most of the water used for drinking and household purposes were drawn from deep wells into which it percolated through great layers of sand, beds of gravel, and crevises in ledges, and in its long journey from the surface of the earth to the wells all impurities were strained out of it, so that when taken to the sink, pantry, and stove it was pure. Not chemically pure, perhaps, for it was often impregnated with lime and iron and other materials, but pure in the sense that there is nothing unhealthy about it. It is different now. The tired weaklings of this generation do not like to lift water from the deep wells, and the old oaken bucket, the symbol of pure cold water, has long been part of the rubbish heap, even in the country, where the only excuse for throwing it aside is a desire to save work. In the cities other causes have helped "born weariness" to abolish wells and springs, and the lilience is now almost wholly upon surface water, which will carry itself into the sinks and pantries where it is needed. A Bad Break. Possibly the diligent Argo readers may not believe it, but reliable information has been received at this office to the effect that a certain young society bell of Quincy has been estranged from the object of her young heart's first affections, and this, too, under the most painful circumstances. Her devoted swain is connected with on of Quincy's largest business houses. Unfortunately for this young man, it is supplied with a telephone. If it had not been provided with one of the ingenious little contrivances, the young man would now be basking in the refulgent smiles of his adored one, instead of wandering around trying vainly to hatch up some sort of explanation to smooth matters down a little, and absently kicking melon rinds half-wat across the street, But, alas, it had a telephone, abd the young man fell. One afternoon a few days ago, this youn man suddenly remembered that he had promised his fair haired Madonna an interview that evening. So creeping cautiously to the telephone he rung her up. The conversation was progressing finely enough in that peculiar style of diction known only to those acquainted witht e secret of saying one thing and meaning another,

when a fellow clerk posessed of a devil, which has never been laid, crept up behind the telephonic Romeo and slipped a handful of No. 8

bird shot down the back of his neck. The attack was sudden, and the exclamation elicited full as abrupt, for before Romeo could remove his saccharine lips from the call bell of the wonderful invention, the words had sped over the line and scorched a large hole in the small pink ear of his lady love: "Damn you, clear out! Don't be acting the cussed fool all the time!" The autumn breezes idly blow, and the days pass wearily away. At times he casts a wild, revengeful look at the fatal telephone, but again relapses into that patient apathy which denotes a grieved and broken spirit.— [Modern Argo. Novel Wedding Underwear. Clara Belle in a recent fashion letter says; "At least one autumn bridegroom is going to be astonished. I have had a view of his affianced wife's trousseau at the manufacture's store, and the underwear is such that, if I knoew who and where he was, I should feel it my duty to prepare him beforehand for the blow. But I don't even know the girl, and can only judge of her physique by the size of the garments, which show that she is tall and remarkably slender. Of her mental make up, however, I am prepared to declare that beyond a doubt she is a reform crank. No other sort of a girl would devise for her wedding outfit a night-dress with legs to it, now would she? There is hang in the work-shops, an object of merry derision by half a hundred sewing-girls, a nondescript combination of shirt and drawers, whether the idea was to serve the purposes of modesty or warmth could only be conjecture. It was handsome in its workmanship, being made of palest blue surah, shirred over the shoulders and down the fronts, and adorned with a pointed hood, I suppose, is to be drawn over her queer head for a night-cap. The drawers are long enough to reach down to her ankles, are cut as Turkish trousers, and trimmed with lace. The forewoman had one of her girls put it on; but this wearer was a pretty creature, with roguish eyes and a merry laugh, and so the effect, though grotesque, was not unpleasant. If the brise should be scraggy and ugly, as is more than likely, the spectacle will be almost worth marrying her to see. A Skeleton Wrapped in Moose Skin. Some time ago some boys, while playing in the rear of the town hall at East Machais, discovered what appeared to be the burial place of an Indian. The remains have recently been exhumed and are, perhaps, the most interesting ever discovered in Maine. They are evidently those of a chief. A copper band nearly two inches wide encircled the head. To the right ear, which was dried and well preserved, were attached ornaments of copper, two and one-half unches long by one wide. A part of the scalp was also preserved, showing the long black scalp peculiar to the Indians. Upon the breast rested an iron knife completely oxidized. A piece of the skin with the imprint of the knife was also found. The face was covered with a mat made of the leaves of the cat tail rush. Birch bark was made to envelope the head, while the whole body was wrapped in moose skin, of which the hair and a few fragments remained upon the breast. Inside of this skin was a copper breast-plate sixteen or seventeen inches long. There was also found a triangular hatchet like those used by the early French settlers.—Banger, Me., Special. A Perfect Cup of Coffee. Coffee is the fine issue of Eastern hospitality—the climax of the visit. One recognizes, on entering, the sound of the coffee mortar; for in every properly regulated household in the East the coffee is not ground, but pounded to an impalpable powder, having been roasted that morning, each day its provision and pounded the moment it is needed. And no one who has not drunk it there and thus can presume to judge of the beverage. In England we roast it until it is black, grid it as we would cattle food, boiling it like malt for beer, and when we drink the bitter and unaromatic fluid which remains, say we have taken our coffee. The Eastern coffee drinker know all the grades of berry and preparation, as the silk merchant knows the quality of silk; the caffeje knows that to roast it a shade beyond the point where it breaks crisply under the pestle is to spoil it, and when the slow pulverizing is done each measure goes into its little copper ibrik, receives its dose of boiling water, just one of the tiny cups full rests an instant on the coals to restore the heat lost in the ibrik, and is poured into the eggshell cup and so it came to us, each cup in a gold enameled holder. The rule in thses lands are worth doing but these few are worth doing well, and there is no waste of life or material by over-haste. Circassian Greyhounds. The dogs used in the Crimea for coursing are called Tcherkess greyhounds. They stand considerably higher at the shoulder than our own dogs, are broken-haired, with a much longer coat than our stag-hound with a feathered stern. Iam told that on the flat the English grey hound beats them for a short distance, but that in the hills, or with a strong old hare well on her legs before them, the Crimean dogs have it all their own way. I never had the good fortune to to see the two breeds tried together. In fact waht coursing I did see was utterly spoiled by the Russian habit of cutting off the hare and shooting her under the dog's nose. That is, of course, utterly alien to our notions of sport—but so are most of their sporting habits. They never shoot flying if they can get a chance sitting. Bears and boars and such large game they shoot from platofrms in trees at night, and I never saw a horse jump in all my three years in Southern Russia. Of course, what applies to the Crimea and the Caucasns may not apply to other parts of Russia.—[Temple Bar.

FUNNY FANCIES.

The cry of Egypt: I want my mummy. If wit bandinage, what must it be in youth? A whine press—The dog's tail in the crack of a door. A good motto for the ice man: Just ice to whom just ice is due. When wild cattle get loose, people are apt to suffer from hist-steria. To find a lawyer who charges only a nominal fee certainly is phenomenal. A Missouri conductor's warning: "Look out for the train robbers when the bell rings." Correction: The rumor is untrue that Rossi is Charley Ross returned to this country. It is impossible for three people to keep the same secret unless two of them are dead. None of us are safe. A Philadelphian 72 years old has been sued for breach of promise. It was a Connecticut minister whose salary was $25 a year and half the fish he caught. The doctor down in Connecticut poisoned himself the other day. Gone to meet his patients. A Vassar college girl, upon being asked if she liked codfish balls, said she never attended any. "A prudent man," says a witty French-man, "is like a pin. His head prevents him from going too far. The "funeral obsequies" man is again writing for the newspapers. Where is the "wedding marriage" man? Curious fact: The man who won't work for a dollar a day will spend two hours trying to solve a riddle for nothing. Level-headed: "Not this evening," cried the young Flathead Indian, when his mother tried to put a board on his head. "Why don't you have some style about you" said the man who had looked along a mile of barbed fence for an entrance. Entirely unintentional: Fair Umpire at Lawn Tennis—Only keep your head, Mr. Jones, and you are sure to have a soft thing. 'Don't cut," murmured a sleepy customer in the barber's chair, fresh from a night-poker party—"don't cut; let 'em run." The old darkey's idea of Lord Cornwallis; After Gin'nal Wassington shelled 'im out he was Moss Cobwallis de co'n was gone." Fogg scores one: "I have come to the conclusion," said Brown, "that the less a man knows the happier he is." "Allow me to congratulate you, Brown," said Fogg. This is a beautiful language of ours. Ben Hogan, the retired pugilist, who has turned preacher, is spoken of as the ex-pouncer of the prize-ring and the expounder of the gospel. Gastronomic: "You have scent for me and I am here, "as the mustard remarked to the Limberger cheese. "Spread yourself if you're strong enough," growled the cheese. If you want to employ a white-washer contract with him to white-wash the floors, the furniture, and everything but the ceiling. Then he may get some whitewash on the ceiling. Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze; It's nothing but pepper and snuff. For woman is shaking her sealskin sacque, And chasing moths out of her muff. A point: There is something radically wrong about our professions when a pious minister only gets forty cents for joining a couple and a wicked lawyer receives forty dollars for untying the same. Song of a sealskin sacque: I'm a silk and satin young girl; I'm a velvet and plush young girl; A Gainsborough bonnet, with a humming-bird on it, A sealskin sacque young girl. The barber's children are little shavers; the upolsterer's are little trackers; the butcher's are young lambs; the carpenter's are chips from the old block; the banker's are cram baby tarts; and the angry man's are little pets. Requires practice: Lady Customer "Will you please direct me to the dress department?" Obliging Floor-walker— "Certainty, walk this wap?" Lady Customer—"My dear sir, I couldn't walk that way if I practiced for two years." A man was fishing for trout in the Tlonesta years ago, so the story runs, caught his hook on a bag of gold and brought it safely to shore. As he looked at the gold he sadly said: "Just my luck; never could catch any fish!" A Leadville man in one week was attacked and scratched by a catamount, hurt by an explosion, had a bowlder roll down on him, and stave in two ribs, and was kicked by a mule. And a local editor remarked that he had "been somewhat annoyed by circumstances lately." A very Absent-minded man, who often asked a friend to dine with him but always forgot to be himself at home on the day named, meeting his friend in the street said: "Come and dine with me on Thursday," and added, "I will be there." The Fuel of the Future. The National Gazette makes the following announcement in regard to the use of petroleum as fuel: "We shall be soon able to announce a wonderful stride in the mechanical appliances for using liquid fuel for generating steam in both marine and land boilers. The matter is in the hands of practical men, who will soon demonstrate they can make from twenty-eight to thirty gallons of crude petroleum, costing from eighty-five to ninety cents, do the work of

coal, costing from $4 to $4 25, without dirt or smoke, and when, as in the case of a large steamer carrying from forty to forty-five men in the fireroom, one man in each will be abundantly

able to keep up a uniform pressure of steam at all times. Liquid fuel is the intervening step between coal and electricity, which will in due season furnish motion for the world." GEMS OF THOUGHT. Skepticism is slow suicide. Ridicule is the fool's argument. Cant is useful to provoke common sense. A woman's fitness comes by fits.— Shakespeare. Heaven gives its favorites early death.—Byron. The society of woman is the element of good manners.—Goethe. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions. Souls are not saved in bundles. The Spirit asks of every man, how is it with thee? If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come at the first or second call. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Self-command is the main elegance. The good man bears with the faults of others very patiently; the bad man hears with his own in the same way. Communism posesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are hunger, envy and death. The man who plans a barn with modern improvements should be careful that his wife has modern improvements in her kitchen. One must feel intellectually secure before he can begin to dress shabbily; no one but a genius or a great scholar dares to be dirty.—Irving. If you wish to be happy you must learn to be just deaf enough not to hear some things and just blind enough not to see others. Use dispatch. Remember the world only took six days to create. Ask me for whatever you please except time that is beyond my power.—Napoleon; The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature like an inheritance; it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.— Voltaire. Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task, no duties of affections that constitute a necessity of existing. Every man's task is his life-preserver. The best part of human character is the tenderness and delicacy of feeling in little matters, the desire to soothe and please others—minutiæ of the social virtues. It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a Iee shore, and forsees a hurricane, stands out to sea, and encounters a storm to avoid shipwreck.—Colton. The difference between idfidelity and true religion is this:—The infidel tries to make the world useful to himself, while the Christian tries to make himself useful to the world. Depend upon it, whatever may be the mind of an old man, old age is only really happy, when, on feeling the enjoyments of this world pass away, it begins to lay a stronger hold on those of another. We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. Then while we remain here let us use the means placed at our command, with which to do all the good we can, for this is part of God's great plan. As water contains stony particles incrusts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hardens under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness and softness, and its aptitude to receive impressions. The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things which belong to adversity are to be admired, The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity fortitude, which in morals, is the more heroic virtue.—Bacon. The church for to-day needs to be a believing church, a witnessing church, a working church, a church whose individual members shall exert a fashioning influence on the communities in which they live, doing what they can to make men think aright and act aright toward God and man.— Zion's Herald. The best part of man's life is in the world of his natural afflections, and that realm has laws of its own that neither know nor heed king nor congress, and are deaf even to the voices of shouting popular majorities, but heed and obey rather the gentle voice of woman and theory of helpless and feeble childhood. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. It is the state of the soul at war, and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. It speaks the truth, and it is just, generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations and scornful of being scorned. It presists; it is of an undaunted boldness and of a fortitude not to be wearied out. "The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher and historian—the humble listener—there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and haleyon days to come" Dennis O'Carthy, a poor law guardian and land leaguer, was arrested at Dublin.

FOR THE LADIES ONLY. Directoire coats are revived. Kilt skirts are on woolen suits. Ostrich feathers trim new hat brims. Uncut velvet is used for trimming. Plush costumes are the fall novelty. Black pearls are stylish for mourning. New woolen suits are as costly as silk ones. Mandarin cloaks are the latest novelty. The new embroidery is called "cut" work. Ostrich feathers trim new evening dresses. Lengthwise stripes are seen in new hosiery. New wall-paper imitates Gobelin

tapestry. 'Hoops or no hoops ' is the vexed question. Two box plaits form the back of new skirts. Turtles and shrimps are new hat ornaments. Japanese designs are wrought in opera cloaks. Moire and surah silks are combined in new costumes. Feather tubans represent a bird sitting on its nest. Leopard plush is worn by young women and children. Dress waists with Iong court tails are the rage in Paris. A new bonnet ornament is a golden and bronze wish-bone. A new style of plush and beaver hat has a four-cornered crowd. Seal sacques are the standard cloak and are comparatively short. Tortoise shell glass is a novelty in glass bowls, vases and bottles. Worth fastens his long winter cloaks with elaborate frogs and cords. English porcelain is much in favor at present for ornimental pieces. Flounced skirts like those worn twenty years ago are very stylish. Quantities of bangle, bracelets are worn over the long-wristed gloves. New fall wraps appear handsomely trimmed with beaded plush bands. Shirred trimmings are much used when the fabrics are fine and supple. Dark bronze green toilets trimmed with plush are exceedingly fashionable. The postillion jacket is revived, to be worn with plain-skirted street costumes. Silvered beads are taking the place of steel, and are much more dressy and elegant. The English shoe with low heels and half high is a late style adopted by young ladies. Ostrich plumes and tips constitute almost the only trimming worn on this season's hats. Cloth princess dresses for small girls have a quilted silk lining throughout the skirt and waist. Gilt, pearl, steel and mock-ruby buckles are all fashionably worn on dresses and hats. The long Blarritz gloves are now shown in olive and silver gray shades, as well as in the popular tan colors. Watered silks are combined with cashmere, surah, and plush in the Frnch costumes imported for misses and little girls. Satin jewels and trinkets are so well finished nowadays that they now pass muster for the real, even where least suspected. This is esprcially true of diamonds and pearls. Striped plush is used for Directoire collars, and is trimmed with white English laces that are darned in Iong stitches to outline drooping flowers convolvull, lilies, etc. Veils are worn only on turbans or small round hats. A large poke or large hat has its style entirely destroyed by a veil. Dark garnet and bronze shades are worn for traveling. Fashionable hosiery consists of threads of gold running around the the leg almost horizontally. These come in colors and stripes to match the novelty silks and woolen goods of the season. The fancy for fluffy hair continues, as this full framing is necessary with large hats. The invisible net for the frent hair is is useful, but when it is at all visible it detracts from the studied carelessness of the coiffure. The open Saxon embroideries are imported done on black cashmere, black Surah, white Surah and white nun's veiling. Where colored embroideries are used, they are done to order on the material of which the dress is made. Grebe trimmings are in favor and are much used in costumes. A Russian fur, a species of ermine, and known as Berwitsky, promises to become popular for the inside linings of cloaks. A new trimming is beaver pointed with grebe feathers. Millinery ornaments are quainter than ever. They consist of tiny wolf heads, showing teeth and tongues, pistols of jet and gilt, roosters' heads of both metal and feathers, silver snails, green turtles and lobsters and crabs and shrimps. For dressy cloaks the long shapes of last year are most admired, and preference is given to straight Japanese garments with square sleeves. Some of these are made entirely of plush, others of cloth, satin serge, sicillienae or brocaded velvet. Charles Keiser and Will Whitson were young men of Charna, New Mexico, and bosom friends. Whitson, who was known as "Tex," held the office of town marshal, and seeing Keiser carrying a pistol in violation of local ordinances, deemed it his duty, notwithstanding their friendship to disarm him. Keiser resented this and refused to surrender his pistol, a quarrel ensued, and Tex proposed that they should fight a duel then and there. It was 11 o'clock at night, but clear. Kaiser accepted the challenge

and separating ten paces, they begain to fire at each other. In half

an hour both were dead. The manner in which they received their injuries was in itself slugular. At the first fire Keiser shot Tex almost through the heart. As Tex stumbled and fell he fired four times in quick succession, and one of the balls passed completely though Keiser's just above the navel. HOUSE AND HOME. Fresh lard is better that buttered grase cake pans. Soda or baking powder biscuits must be handled as little and made as rapidly as possible. Silver that is not in use may be kept from tarnishing by burying it is a box or barrel of oat meal. A little lard or butter improves bread or cake' made of graham or Indian meal—it makes them more light and tender. Pencil marks can easily be removed from walls, wood-work, and marble by rubbing with a damp woolen cloth and a little sapollo. Fine wire milk-pail strainers that become stopped-up up may be readily cleaned by rubbing with a damp cloth dipped into baking soda. Take a cup of cream off the milk pans every morning when you make bread. It will make the bread moist, white and delicate and you will hardly miss it from the cream. Oil can be got off of carpel or woolen stuffs by applying dry buckwheat plentifully and freely. Never put water or liquid of any kind to such a grease spot. If fruit jelly will not thicken satisfactorily, stand it in the sunshine and place window glass over the jelly cups, and it will all come out right in two days. The juice of a lemon squeezed into a glass of water, without sweetening, drank before breakfast at this season of the year is said to be a preventive of malaria and an admirable stomachic. To prepare ox-gall for washing colored clothing: Empty the gall into a bottle. Put in a handful of salt and keep closely covered. A teacupful to five gallons of water will prevent colored articles from fading. To wash red flannel: Mix a handful of flour with a quart of cold water, put over the fire and boil ten minutes. Add this to some warm suds and wash the goods very gently. Rinse in three or four warm waters. Take coach varnish and renew all your oil cloths. Wash them clean, wipe dry, and apply a coat of varnish. Be careful not to step on them until they are dry. If this is done once a year the oil cloths will last twice as long. A merino or cashmere dress may be mended neatly by wetting a piece of court plaster of exactly the same shade as the goods, and putting it on the wrong side, pressing down every frayed edge and every thread, and laying a weight on it until it is thoroughly dry. Fried egg plant; Make a thin batter of two beaten eggs, one-half cup of milk, a little salt and flour to thicken. Slice and pare an egg plant and place in salt and water for an hour. Dry the slices between a towel, dip each piece into the batter and fry in hot fat to a good turn. President White, of Cornell university, says that institution was never before on so solid a foundation as at the present time. It has an endowment of $1,700,000, and in two or three years it will have from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 additional, and then it will be the richest collegiate institution in the country. President Arthur is an expert fisherman, and is very fond of fishing as an amusement, and he takes to piscatorial literature as a pastime now and then. During the session of the senate, while he was vice-president, he frequently spent an hour or so in the library of congress poring over the books on fishes and fishing. Ink stains on mahogany or black walnut furniture may be removed by touching the stains with a feather wet in a solution of niter and water—eight drops to a spoonful of water. As soon as the spots disappear rub the place at once with a cloth wet in cold water. If the ink stains then remain, repeat, making the solution stronger. To tell good flour: It should be white with a yellowish tint. Squeeze some in your hand, it will retain the shape given by the pressure. Throw a little against a perpendicular surface, it will adhere or fall in a mass. Baked pears: Peel ripe pears, cut in halves and pack in layers in a stoneware jar. Strew a little sugar over each layer. Pour a small cupful of water, to prevent burning. Cover lightly and bake three or four hours in a well heated oven. Let them get very cold before serving. Eat with sweet cream. For the top of your round table that must reflect your face, use the following polish: Take one ounce of yellow rosin and a pint of raw linseed oil; melt the rosin in a pipkin, and add to it by degrees one-half of the oil; when thoroughly incorporated, add by degrees the remainder. Before using the polish, it will be best to wash the table well with warm water and rub it dry, If bread is a little stale, says "M. T. C," make Queen's toast of it. Cut it into half slices, not very thin, and dip it into two eggs beaten up with a large cup of milk and half a teaspoonful of salt. Lay it on a hot, buttered griddie and brown it nicely on both sides. If any addition is desired, a little suger or canned fruit spread over it will answer nicely. French toast may be made by spreading the slices of hot dry toast with beef or chicken gravy; pile them up and set in the oven till the gravy is absorbed. Milk toast slightly thickened and salted is another much relished lunch. Ralph Gore, a contractor, was killed at Erie, Pa., by the caving in of a sewer.