Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1882 — Page 7

A <1 - * lowa has 18.000 Masons. Whitelaw Reid i# a tether. Sergeanj Maqpri is miking shoes.- j , The rihmber now 219. | Emerson left SIOO,OOO and no will. Nothing Is perfect but the first baby. . w. M— * 8«..- Swj Boston telephone offices sell theater Jay Gould’s present income is $1 a second. f | Oliver Cro’mwell fs * without a statue. g Edwin Booth is Worth over half a million. Mr. Darwin left an. autobiography behind him. ' Our dairy products are shipped to fifty countries. The high price of meats makes eggs dear in Boston; . . Lawn tennis is more popular than croquet this year. Oscar Wilde is said to be writing a book for children. J A lawer in Ohio has been deba/red for stealing sheep. St. Patrick’s cathedral, N. Y., wIH hold 5,000 persons. Circus clowns get all the way from SSO to SSOO a week. Beds heated by steam are the latest house hold.noveltyli Ripe peaches are making their appearance in Florida. The treacherous banana skin is being made into paper. The Philadelphia Knights of Labor are over 15,000 stropg... New wheat is sellihg at Waco, Texas, for $1.25 per bushel. I Hymen’s torch is lighted by those who make the match. A sl2’ooo cottage at' Long Branch rents, for a, season. « . * - Already the obituary list of 1882 takes high'historic rank.- V s ’ English crop prospects are remarkably good this season. Last year 154.184,800 tons Of coal were mined in England. There are in the United States 70,000,000 gallons of whisky. Chicago’s fiower missiomdlstributed 7,028 boquets last year. There will be thirty steamers On Lake George this summer. The census giifes '6',C00,000 miles of fence in the United States. The cotton worm eats $15,000,000 pf the cotton crop every year. There are now in Virginia 118,517 farms against 88,849, in 1870. Jennie Lind says the odor of flowers is injurious to a singer’s voice. A pear tree of New Yptk, over 200 years old, is blossomlng’rigaln. Whitelaw Reid is said to be writing a life of ex-Secretary Blaine. There are 53,459,840 of public lands in the state of Minnesota. Sunflower seeds are made into meal in Portugal and used fur bread. Mackeral are bigger than fortnany seasons, and the catch fe larger. j ? v ? Bob Ingersoll never allows hii family to take sulphur in the spring. Of 920,177 children born in Francs in 1880,68,227 were illegitimate. The Jumbo drink is the latest thing out in the New York bar rooms'. Recent observations make the sun's distance from the earth 93,100,000. At Mt. Desert, Me., the water is always too cold for much bathing. The fisherman of Maine nse 19,111,640 pounds of fish, yearly, for bait. The petitions for the pardon qf Sergeant Mason bad 550,000 signatures. New York seedmen are overrun with applications for sunflower Seeds Copper teapots are being introduced b y the manufacturers thereof. Last year’s white dresses* may b* worn'this year without alteration The Australian colonies an the richest, per capital in the world Jacksonville, Fla., claims to have shipped 20,100,000 oranges this season. All Indians use the nose as a musical instrument, in getting high notes. The corn crop for five years, from 1875 to 1879, inclmive, was $2,585,000,000. Anna Dickinson has abandoned her project of appearing on the London stage. Several famous English mansions are using or soon will use the electric light. The eritire production of coal in Great Britain last year was 154,000,000 tons. " > New York has some male swells who eat arsenic to beautify themselves. • A Dennisport, Massachusetts, factory is canning herring with a scotch flavor. f:« * -.••*; :•< J Within ay ear SCWa has hiA sixty-el'ght suicides and thirty-nine murders. Little girls of Pearls appear with two or three small sunflowers on their shoulders. Moses Taylor, of New York, is dead

FASHION NOTES.

Irish and ficelle laces are both in high favor,, Bids robes afo seen on all very dressy CflStttmes. 2 ’ ¥Bilk rftirfe are preferred to all others for underwear. Few underskirts are worn, and 1 those 1 aHWaefihmliud. the Stockings have become marvels of lace and operi work. Drawers are not gathered in at the knees for summer wear. The wildest combinations of color are the most popular. Underskirts short, and trimmed with heavy lace or embroidery. Flowers are extravagantly used for hat and bonnet trimmings. Large sagging puffs, form the panniers of many new model costumes. Watteau bbdiegs fold panniers are much worn by young girls abroad. Labe frills are wrinf around the neck and wrists as much as ever. Lace of various kinds is the preferred trimming for,silk underwear. Half-inch wide stripes of dolor on white grounds are a feature in inus-* lin ginghams and printed lawns. Pointed corsages,' puffed panniers, and bouffant toumures make them who wear them lookyery Elizabethan. Novelties in jewelry are pale pink pearls and turquoises mounted together, and set ip small fine diamonds. An eccentric fashion in -hosiery is the stocking of grfeen silk with a pdacock’s feather in tinted gold on the instep.

' Ladtes with sesthetic tastes are having dresses made of Madras muslin window curtains in Oriental designs rn A 1 (Jib* M Parasols are very large, and made to look larger by the lace and embroidered volantes with which they are bordered.

Straw and chip hats and bonnets of myrtle green, mahogany red, maroon, terracotta, and navy, sapphire, smalt, arid greyhound blue will be much worn. Large single flower patterns, in rich natural colors, fine as hand paintings, on grounds delicately tinted or pure, white, are the features pf new transparent muslins/* A large, loose, sagging puff is more fashionable for the bottom of dress skirts than plaited or shirred flopnees. One very narrow plaiting is used, however, to support the puff. Imitation pink pearls, carved out of pale pink coral, are so Iridescent when finely polished as to be indisti guishable from the real pearls, except under the close inspection of an expert. Flowers continue to form a large part of the decoration of ball dressesg add in color present a brilliant contrast to that of the dress instead of approximatining it as has been usual. Borne of the Wool Ftench’ garnitures are decidedly pronounced In contrast to the toilet, orlght scarlet being wojru with pink; lilac, with blue, ana bright yelloW over toilets of Burgundy red. 1 Worth’s black dresses are combinations of two or three fabrics, and have a color introduced. One special novelty is a black grenadine made over white moire, and trimmed with Spanish lace and moire ribbon. Bias bands of satin three Inches wide, or straight bands of stripes, or else smooth rows of lace or embroidery put on the skirt before it is plaited, are the most effective trimmings for plaited skirts of plain grenadine. English straw, in narrow raised shining plaits, either white, black or brown, is more fashionable this spring than (he flat Italian plaits; and the rough add ready, and porcupine straws do not seem likely to be as popular as last summer. r A new caprice in millinery shows narrow turned-over collars of lace or embroidery that are open on the side of the neck instead of in front. A neck-ribbon of plain tinted gros grain passes around the neck, and there is a small bow at the side. Parasols are very pretty; those intended for full dress are of white, black, or colored silk, satin or moire, trimmed with several rows of lace applique on the satin; the handles top and bottom are decorated with ribbons and flowers, and the knobs are works of art. One of the most superb parures lately mounted for a Parisian leader of fashion.an American of coure, is composed of a necklace, bracelet, diadem, earrings and Louis XVI. brooch of turquoises set in diamonds, with large pear shaped pink pearls for pendants. The polonaise, formed by panniers sewed on the edge of a Jersey basque, is found on many of the newest white lawn suits at the furnishing houses, with flounces .of embroidery on the lower skiftf two cblots of satin ribbon form the bows on these dresses, such as.porcelain blue laid over lemon yellow, or dark cardinal qver pale pihk. Dai My Arid elegant smeljing-bottlfecf with |iiy gefos and rbeauAifally carved upon the edges are now attached to the belt by a chatelaine of silver links. They are shaped like the Greek amorpbons, and give marked effect to a Grecian toilet; but owing to to their high price they are destined to be the exclusive ornaments of the highly flavored of fortune.

FIOUS SMALL TALK.

The Jubilee fund pf. the Congregational Union of Great Britain now amounts to overs6oo,ooQ.. The Catholic Wold calls Monsignor Capel who baptized the, Marquis of Bute,(the “Apostle to the Gentiles.” Hospital Sunday in London brought in $150,735. The total of metropolitan charities for 1881 reached $20,607,760. A statute to Luther is to be erected in Erfurt, to be unveiled next year, which will be the 400th anniversary of his birth: , ? • rt The Southern Baptist church numbers to-day nearly 2,000,000 communicants. and represents an aggregate wealth of $500,000,000. It is said that of the 626 ministers in the Presbyterian church of Ireland, only one can now preach in Irish, but there are a number of Bible readers who can use the old tongue. While off on a long spree, an lowa reprobate used the name of a t good; deacon on the registers of the hotels' at which he put up, and the deacon was put to great trouble, by the scandal which arose. At an educational convention, held in Albion, Mich.,, last week, Bishop Merrill said that the point bad been passed in which Methodists could hope to succeed with a ministry who lacked cultivation. A Methodist minister the other day said he prayed to be saved from the preacher who never falls in the pulpit. Hd'had a colleague of that kind once, he never had a bad time and the congregation never had a good one. In the far-away Synod of Otago, in New Zealand, the lowest salary among the Presbyterian ministers is over sl,ooQ—tbe Sustentatioh. Fund giving that dividend, and the churches often raising the salary much above that sum. A singular decision has been reached at a synodical election iu the Reformed Church at Basle. The Liberal party have proposed that unbaptized children may be admitted to confirmation . This dqclsldn was arrived at byJB votes against* 3. The latest proposition of the Sunday service sort is the idea of “invalid pews,” but it is not stated whether they are to be private boxes, like those of a theater, or separated by latticework from the rest of the auditorium or in the fotm of cushioned chairs on wheels. i' . ■ lam not aware that payment or even favors however gracious, bind ?»ny man’s soul and conscience on questions of highest morality and highest public importance.—[George Kingsley. Men’s minds are as various as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is more to be imputed to them, as a crime,than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature. are alike unavoldaole.—| George Washington. 1

The Rev. Philips Brooks says: “Never tolerate any idea of the dignity of a sermon which will keep you from saying anything tn it which you ought to say, or which your people ought tb hear. It is the same folly as making your chair so fine that you dare not sit down in it.” At the unveiling of the Caxton memorial window in St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, ( anon Farrer recently said that England’s first pririter lived the last eleven years of his life in that parish and was in the habit of attending mass at St. Margaret’s with the guild to which he belonged. His burial from the church was carried out with a splendor and solemnity quite unusual at that time. t A clergyman in Maryland recently received an anoynious letter containing $lO. Afterwards another anoymous communication was received as follows: “Please prey for a family so given up to dissension and hard thoughts all are unhappy. Worldly care has driven out peace and love, and ronly-God, who can change the heart, can make a change of the conduct and the disposition. Please pray that He would interpose in their behalf,” The most blooming condition of the church in Germany is at present found in Wurtemberg. This is surprising, especially when it is remembered that here wks the home of strauss, and that since the death of Balmer, Oehler and more recently Beck, the ancient University of Tubingen is by no means counted a bulwark of orthodoxy. Rationalism is comparatively unknown in the churches. The American missionaries who penetrated through the jungles and fever-stricken country of Umzila’s kingdom, in southeastern Africa, to his capita), report that the king was delighted to see them, sent greetings to America, and asked to have five missionaries with their families sent to teach his people. The king is said to be the finest specimen of royalty in Africa. His face is full of intelligence and genuinely pleasant. He is tall and spare, but well proportioned* The Rev. Dr. Tully, a presbyterian, of Oswego, preached at the (Spirituallists last Bunday. He said there were some people Iff Oswego on the brink of iri&mltv from their belief in the delusion. He wanted the mediums tested by asking them where are the murderers of Lord and Mr. Burke. |Horlce Greeley, beford k the sub-marine telegraph was laid, offered '52,500 forfany medium who would report the news from the old world to the New, without meeting with aucoese.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

If you cut pineapple in thin slices and scatter sugar over it the day be fore you serve it, you need not add any water to make the liquor. Keep it in a cold place. ' 4 A rich pudding sauce is made of the yolks of five eggs, one cup of su - gar, half a cup of butter; beat all to--BS“fc n,d4,l ” 1,0 “ e A man should be careful never to tell tales es himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused, and laugh at the time; but they will, be remembered and brought out against him on some subsequent occasion. Tomato sauce to pour over meat is ‘made thus: " Stew half a dozen ripe tomatoes, with a little choped parsley, salt and pepper to suit taste; steam it, put it fin the stove again,and when it begins to boil add a spoonful of flour, rubped smooth, with a tablespoonful of butter, and let it boil up once. J There is ho better Way to serve a large white-fish than to bake it: after cleaning fe&ut it in the refrigerator, while ypu prepare a pl Un stuffing of bread crumbs, a little butter and so ne herbs Keep a ball of cotton yarn and several large needles iu the kitchen touse when stuffing fish and fowls Alter.stuffing the fish lay it on a deep plate or platter in the drip-ping-pan, so that the grease will drip from it and not be absorbed in it; garnish with water cress. Trout baked in cream add a- new charm to life. Clean the fish, pepper arid salt ft both inside and out, put it in a dripping-pan and pour cream -over it. Give attention id it so that it will not burn. If small, the fish .will bake in from fifteen to twenty minutes. Serve with mashed potato and other vegetables. Puffs for dessert are delicate and nice; take one pint of milk and cream, the white of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one heaping cup of sifted flour, one scant cup of powdered sugar; add a little grated lemon peel and a little salt; beat these together till very light, bake in gem pans, sift pulverized sugar over them, and eat with sauce flavored with lemon.

“My only objection to veal,” said a gentleman at our table tlfe other day, "is i hat it is too premature.” This re mark might apply to the usual manner of cooking it as well as to the meat it-self. Veal steaks in order to bejaalatable must be cooked thouroghly, no matter how much haste the eook is in; this should never be sent to the table till it is nicely browned, the edges and aU. Balt and butter and k decided sprinkling of black pepper are also necessary. A very appetizing salad is made by chopping coarsely some cold boiled potatoes; theri season well with salt, pepper, and mristard; ’line of salad dish with fresh lettuce, then put in a layer of potatoes; on the top put a layer of cold boiled beets, also chopped and seasoned, garnish the dish liberally with lettuce, and just before sending it to the table, add vinegar, plain, or with ordinary salad dressing. The bottom of white holland curtains may be rendered very handsome by inserting squares of antique lace; for a shade of the ordinary width three squares are sufficient; leave a space between each of the same width as the square; of course these must be [Mitin a very neatly and with great care to be effective. Below the nem at the. bottom put antedge of the antique lace that matches the squares. Jelly rolls are delicious made from this recipe: Three eggs, half a cup of butter, one cup of flour, one and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two-thirds of a cup of pulverized sugar, a little-salt; bake in shallow pans—a dripping-pan well buttered is good for this purpose: put in the dough till it is about half an inch thick; takeJt parefullly from the tins when baked, and lay on a cloth; spread Jelly over it with a knife; roll while hot; if this is not done the cake will crumble.

The tops of steam radiators may be rendered less unsightly in Summer by covering them. A very handsome covering is made in this way: Cut a strip of felt of broadcloth of the exact shape and size—allowing for seams—of the top; to this sew a sort of flounce or lambrequin, made of the same material, with a border worked with the needle; the shades of red are pretty for this. It may be finished with a fringe or not as you please. The lambrequin may be worked on epnvas, after the fashion of the stripes for chair backs. An excellent mixture to remove grease spots, from boys and men’s clothing particularly, is made of four parts of alcohol to one part of ammonia, and about half as much ether as ammonia. Apply the liquid to the grease spot, and then rub diligently with a sponge and clear water. The chemistry of the operation seems to be that the alcohol and ether dissolve the grease, and the ammonia forms a soap with it which is washed out with the water- The result is much more satisfactory than when something is used which only seems to spread the spot an l make it fainter, but does not actually : emove it. If oil is spilled oil a earpet and you immediately scatter coni jjaeal ogeg it, the oil will bfifebsorbtM by Oikctoy also be removed fiom carpets upon which you do not dare put ether or ammonia by laying thick blotting paper over it and pressing a hot flat-iron on it. ReEat the operation several times, usg a clean paper each time.

JOKES FOR FUNE.

A six-button kid: A little boy, proud of his new Jacket, informed his sister that he’wae a six-button kid. Philosophy: Bophronia—“What is philosophy?” It, 18 something that enables a rich man to say there is no disgrace in being poor. Heartless: “Botj” continued Mrs. F.. /there is reason in all things.” “Excepting, of course, most of the things you say,” replied Fogg, the hard-hearted monster. Sporting item: it,you’ve shot the dug! A thsMgbt you told me youoould hold a .gum’,’ Pat: “Bure and so I dan yer Honor. Its the shot, sor, I couldn’t hdwldl” Natural history: “Listen, Auntie; what’s that the cuckoo, darling. Don’t you know the cuckoo?” “Oh, yes! The cuckoo’s that horrid bird that doesn’t lay Its own eggs!” Making Rome howl: “A mfeps Cato, amicus Plato, amicus Cicero, sed major veritas.” The next morning the lawyer found himself reported m the newspapers as follows: “I may cuss Cato, I may cuss Plato, I may cuss Cicero, said Major Veritas.” ~\ The professional patriot: My country JjUa from thee I long to get a fee, Of that I ring. Place me where Congress meets, Where I canfind the sweets, Or in some, ring. —Cambridge Tribune. Hit him a sockdolager: “Mercy! how the wind blows!” exclaimed Mrs. Fenderson. “Dfdyou ever know the wind when it didn’t blow?” asked Fenderson contemptuously. “Very true,” replied Mp.'F., “ana some people do a great deal of blowing without ever being able to raise the wind.” Brilliant simile: Michael’s wife was leaning overthe bank of the canal washing ionto clothes. A boatman on the tow-path observing her said: “Mike, aren’t you afraid Mrs. Mullaney rail in and get drowned?” “Divll a bit,” responded her husband, “she oan swim lolke a tailor’s goose.” ; A nice landlord: “Look here,*’ said an indignant Austin tenant to his landlord, ‘‘there is a cat in the cistern of that house you rented to me.” “Is it dead?” “It looks like it.” “Then it will not disturb you any at night, so I will raise your rent five dollars on that account..’' A Catches the eye: l “A loft to lett” is painted on a board suspended on the door of a Gold f street store. “Why don’t you spell those . words properly?” a customer asked the proprietor. “Because if we did no one would turn to read them. That extra‘t’ catches the eye.” 7, Strange: “I met Mr. Higgles today,” remarked Mrs. Chippick. “He’s quite a changed foan. I hardly knew him, he’s so chipper arid lively.” “Indeed/’ responded nerlhusband gravely* “How very steaugel I read in the paper that his wife had sailed far Europe last week.” ' Loyalty:. AGerman actor, anxious to secure some applause and unable to Sty for a claqiie. secured places in 6 gallery*'for hls fiine children and Instructed them carefully as to the moment when they should clap their hands and shout “Bravo!” The moment arrived at last, and to his amaze meat a chorus of nine called out: “Bravo, papa, bravo. At the grocery: They were speaking about cranial deformities down at the comer grocery Ifod evening. “I hold,” said a fly young man, “that a man with a big head is Just as apt to be a durned fool as a man with a small head*” ‘ WfTrtie,” replied an elderly man whfolwas holding down the cover to a.augar barrel, “but he gineraJly knqwft -it , and don’t give himself away.” The young man ordered a small bottle of spruce beer. Under green apple boughs: Soon will the vender, blithe and sweet, Yell “Cooking apploe!” on the street/ And when they’re bought and on the shelf, 1 The matron’s small boy—wicked elf— 3* Will reach above, o’er plate and ‘ cup/‘ • And eat a half a dozen up; In just an hour he’ll be seen All twisted by the apple green, But he will take it very cool, And next day stay atnome from school. —Puck. Doesn’t complain: A man who had been carried to a Philadelphia hospita while suffering from the effects of a severe contusion was asked if he had been treated kindly while there. “Consideringall things,” he answered, “I think I have no right to complain. They amputated both of my feet, removed my collar bone, cut off my right arm, trepanned me, took out a piece of the under jaw, sawed my left hip bone in two, and were about to excavate five or six ribs when a fire broke out in the establishment and the police got a way with the rest of my body in safety.” Arithmetical, Grand pew: Julia has 5 beaux and Emily has 8, whifo the old maid dppr jias none. How many beaux in ail,'.and how many would be lefLu they should give the old maid |hajL thftlcrpwd ? A man pays thirty cents for . three pound<ofevaporated apples and gets or lose,und mush? I A. has an overcoat for which he paid $lB, and his wife trades it off for two ted-clay busts qf Andrew Jackson worth thirty centseach. How much money wiu. he get from her husband to buy bMj bonnet?