Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — Page 6

RECIPES, ETC.

—Rice .Telly.—Boil one pound of-rice flour with half a pound of loaf sugar in a quart of water until tag whole becomes a glutinous mass; strain off the jelly and let it stand to cool. This is nutritious and light. —Carbonado, a Norwegian Dish.—lt consists of mince meat, eggs and fine herbs made up into a kind of cake and then fried or baked. meat probably if cooked in an ordinary way would defy mastication, but thus treated it is really a dainty plate. —There is no ingredient in cooking cabbage that gives it quite as good a flavor as a heaping tablespqonful of sugar. Cook the usual way, crown, butter, pepper, salt, a sprinkle of nour.if you like, but don't forget the finishing touch that is found in sugar. —Cauliflower Omelet. —Take the white part of a boiled cauliflower after it is cold jand chop it very small and mix with K a sufficient quantity of wellbeaten egg to make a very thick batter, and then fry it in fresh butter in a small pan and send it to the table hot. —To Stuff a Ham.—Parboil and place the ham on a tray; make incisions over it with a sharp knife some two or three inches deep, and stuff these with a dressing made of crackers cooked to a brown crisp and crumbled tine; add salt, pepper, egg, butter, parsley and onion chopped line, then bake it brown in a moderate heat and serve when cold. — As a rule warm water and a soft cloth are all that is required to keep glass in good condition; but water bottles and wine decanters, in order to keep them bright, must be rinsed out with a little muriatic acid, which is the best substance for removing the “fur” which collects in them. This acid is far better than ashes, sand or shot; for the ashes and sand scratch the glass; and if any shot is left in by accident the lead is poisonous. —How to Make Erasive Soap.—Here is an excellent recipe for making genuine erasive soap that will remove grease and stains from clothing: Two pounds of good Castile soap; half a pound of carbonate of potash, dissolved in half a pint of hot water. Cut the soap in thin slices, boil the soap with the potash until it is thick enough to mold in eakes; also add alcohol, half an ounce •. camphor, half color with half an ounce of pulverized charcoal. —To make a nest egg, take an ordinary hen’s egg, break a small hole in the small end about three-eighths of ;rn inch in diameter, extract the contents, and. after it is thoroughly dear inside, till it with powdered slacked lime, tamping it in order to make it contain as much as possible. After it is full seal it up with plaster of Paris, and you have a nest egg which cannot be distinguished by the hen from the other eggs, and one which will not crack (like other eggs) by , being frozen.— Scientific American.. .A —Pure, soft water is the best of all blood-purifiers. It dissolves almost every impurity that may find its way info the blood, and passes it off through the skin, lungs and kidneys, thus wash ing out the blood w ithout any irritation in passing through the system and without those chemical changes and deposits which are likely to arise from the action of (hugs. Why then use doubtful, dangerous" and often injurious drugs for purifying the blood when pure, simple, sate, pleasant and far more effectual water may be bad without money and without price’: ""

Mulching Wheat in Winter.

Mulching rices and shrubs is extensively practiced by gardeners and orohardists to prevent injury from drought in summer, and we can see no giK)d reason why the same practice should not be extended to the small grains or even vegetables raised upon every farm. There are nwiij localities where little •or no snow falls in winter to protect the small grains sown in autumn, and these frequently sutler greatly from exposure j to frosts and drying winds during the j colder months, droughts being probably -| the more injurious of the two, through quite extended w heat-grow ing regions of j the West and South. Mulching, or, as it ] _ usually called, top-dressing the grain in ; fall with some coarse kind of material,! such as half-decayed straw, lowland or j prairie hay, will, in a great measure, ; prevent Kisses from the causes named. : in addition to the benefits derived from the application in the way of preserving moisture am? protection from cold, such materials will add something to the feitiliiy of the soil, and at the time and til ace most needed. The lo w average yield of w inter grain in Kansas, Missouri and other comparatively mild climates, and where the land is naturally very rich, shows that there is something lack- i ing to bring the crops up to a standard ; which might be reasonably expected under the circumstances, and we have not the .least doubt that winter protec- j tion in the form of mulching is just the thing needed. There are localities! where the materials suitable for mulch-j ing cannot be obtained in sufficient , quantities or at a cost which would ad- ! mit of their extended application:; but we may safely presume iliat in regions where they are most meded they are . abundant.* In fact, we Know that mill-. ions of tons of straw have been burned up to get rid of it in the prairie States, I And just where it is most needed for j mulching? ... '* 1 The straw from this year's harvest, if spread out into wide, low piles, will become decayed sufficiently to be used for mulch by the time cold weather sets in, At which time it should be spread thinly j over the field. Fresh, dry straw will be i too light to remain where placed, and; would soon be carried off by the winds. Coarse, strawy manure from the bafayardis still hetter, adding fertility to the soil, besides affording protection to the , joung grain.» j

Where snows cover the ground the greater part of winter the mulching is not needed, and if applied in any considerable quantities it might smother \.e grain, thereby doing more injury than good. But well rotted barnyard manure may be applied quite liberally in ti e autumn with benefit to all kinds of winter grain, borne of our best farmt s practice this method of applying manu e in preference to hauling out upon flu ( r summer fallows and plow ing under. If straw cannot be‘had then use the wee ds and coarse sedges from the sw amps and low grounds; even sawdust or tanbark is far better than nothing. If those farmery who complain of " winter-killing of their wheat" would practice this system of mulching we believe they wodld find it beneficial,, and in the end profitable. Neither manure aor other kinds of mulch should be ap

plied until cool dr cofld weather, or as soon as the ground is hard enough to admit of driving over it without injuring the roots of the grain. -r-New Fork Sun.

Keeping Sheep in Good Condition.

® 7l\i ~ ■ u v: ——; The ample feed this fall ought to bring all sheep in first-rate condition for w inter. Both hay and grain Will lie high, and, therefore, it will by hoove every flock-master to economize in every practicable way. Nevertheless, it is not economy stint any animal, much less a sheep, in its food; for on plenty of provender,'carefully fed, depends the integrity of the fleece. It matters but little whether food he in the shape of hay or grain, for sheep will winter perfectly and improve in flesh on good hay alone it kept comfortably warm. Indeed, 4 per cent, of the live weight of an animal of good hay fed daily will not only keep an animal in good health hut furnish a full average gain; according to the experiments of a committee of the Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts, of about two pounds of flesh daily. more than corn; and while sheep do w ell enough on hay alone they will do far better if fed both hay and grain ; and this is also much cheaper to the farmer than a nearly exclusive diet of either hay or grain. ‘" - ' Whatever the feed he good results cannot be expected unless the animals be kept perfectly comfortable. The building where sheep are kept, whether closed shed or stable, must be thoroughly ventilated; for a slice]), while it must he kept in a pretty uniform temperature to reach the best results in wool and carcass, at the same time must have plenty of pure air They are essentially an Alpine race, and only because their wool and flesh is so necessary to man have they become so universally domesticated and* widely distributed. Ticks are often exceedingly vexatious to flock-masters. These parasites thrive on indifferently-kept sheep. If the sheep be fat and healthy they usually disuppear of their own aeeord, and for two principal reasons: one,•. that parasites cannot live where mueli oil is present and a fat animal is always oily; another reason is that they cannot penetrate to the veins so easily lor their sustenance. Hence a little oil meal fed *ocrasionally "is~good to i idn flock of these pests, since., a portion usually finds its way quickly to and through the pores of the skin. Hut if fed liberally on good hay and corn or other grain and kept comfortably winm and w ith good ventilation but little trouble will be experienced from ticks, and when shorn tlie wool, from its tine and homogeneous quality, commands a much higher-price Arum the expert buyer than that of wool whose growth lias been repeatedly checked and therefore rendered w eak from irregular feeding. Sheep allowed to fall away front cold or bad feeding in w inter and Hum by extraWcltding suddcnly forced into growth will be troubled with shedding of wool. Tins wild be an additional reason why they should Be well looked after in the fall and winter. Western Rural. .

About Stove-Pipe.

The season of the year has arrived when all well regulated families commence to look under the bed, up-stairs and down cellar for the stoves and the stove-pipe, taken down and laid away last June. I know all about putting up stoves. The first thing to be done in putting up—a stove is to strain your back lifting it, and mash your toes wheeling it into place. The next thing is to jump around’ on one foot and jaw your wife, and slur all her relatives way back to Capt. John Smith. When you regain your natural state of sweet temper put the first joint of pipe on to the stove. Patience will do it. It's a great deal easier, of course, to work about ten minutes and then throw the joint at the looking-glass, kick the stove over, and threaten to murder all the tinsmiths in town—but that won’t put the -stove up. A man who will keep his temper can put a joint of pipe on in an hour and a hail by the clock, and Til warrant it. Then put on the second—in doing this you will loosen the first and both will come down together. If you want to jump for the ax and, smash both joints fiat, why, it’s all right, but it’s better to sit down in a chair and gaze out of the window, and appear utterly indifferent. By and by you can kind of fool around the joints, pound the end of one in and the other put, press with your hands, tap with a hammer, and they’ll go together. Then put on the half joint. It was made to lit. Tiie tinsmith will bet a thousand dollars bn it, but you can't fit them—not if you get. mad. Try one end. then the qther, then press, then pound, then jump up and down and yell to your wife that you wouldn't care a cuss if the house was on tire. 1 know men who do that way and they fool around for a day and a half, where 1 wouldn't be over five hours'about it. Having put the half joint on put on the elbow - Stand upon a chair—you’ll be sure to knock all the other pipe down, and no one ever saw stove-pipe fall without tlie joints all coming apart. The pipe won't either fit in or go over, How eould you expect it to? Hammer it with a flat-iron, just to vary the monotony. Then pound it again anil again witTi the hammer to vary some more monotony. Then -press, and* squeeze, and breathe hard and bung your eyes out. It lacks just a fair’s breadth "of fitting, but it might as well lack a mile. Get mad at last, fling the whole pipe down, kick each separate joint, bark your shin on the stove and fall into a chair and commence on By thunder!’’ and deliberately go through the whole programme until you reach “ By gum.” I put up stoves last week and I never had the least bit of trouble. I merely wandered around to a tinner's, whispered *■ Stoves!” in his ear, and they werg up when I reached home, and I saved over nineteen hundred *“ swears” to use in the future, when book-canvassers or sewingmachine agents pull the bell at ten o’clock at night. —“ M. Quad." in Our Fire Si df Friend. "

Fighting With the Feet.

In the northern counties of England, and especially in Lancashire, kicking is a favorite mode of lighting, and, as the poorer classes in lhat region wear„ wooden clogs, these contests sometimes result fatally. The custom 4 s one against which strenuous measures have been adopted by the authorities, but with little result* The matter is to be b rough by petition. Flogging is regarded as the only possible effective punishment, and Parliament will be requested to confer upon magisrates t he power of condemning to the lash

for the otlense. A police magistrate at Oldham, Lancashire, says on the sublet: ■ _ • " “ “ ‘ “ Th« practice of violently assaulting parties in the streets at night by severe kicking has been so common of late in this locality that I veuture to remark that in all cases of extremely violent assault the law' would have to be rigidly enforced, and if ihyvere found to be insufficient additional power would have to be sought from Parliament to order heavier punishment. My experience teaches me that the moral feelings of the perpetrators of these "crimes are so thoroughly barbarous and oblivious to everything that is kind, moral and just, their habits of life so thoroughly degraded, their homes such sinks of iniquity , t hat si tuple iinprisonmen t is no punishment to them. They do nat feel, it to be-a degradation, and tlie only way to reacli their feelings is to mete out to these ruffians as much corporeal punishment as they mete to their victims. You are aware that the lash had a salutary, effect upon garroters. The conduct of these kickers is equally vicious and dangerous, and public opinion is strongly in favor of iis being applied as a means of punishment for crimes of this description.”

A Happy Family.

Tlie Sass PrancTsccrpTtpers-Aell—us of apoor Missouri family who found themselves perfectly' destitute - iu San Francisco, and also found friends iu the hour of their greatest need. Such incidents are pleasant to read of, and the recital always put us in a better humor with humanity, no matter how conteht and self-satisfied we may be. A poor man of forty or thereabouts, thinly clad and starved-lookiug, went to the wharf one evening and inquired of a 'longshoreman for a vessel going to Mendpeina. It was getting late, the man was shivering with cold, and a conversation ensued between the two poor men. The stranger said he was from Missouri, and had w ith him a family consisting of a wife and eight children. The wife and children soon came up; they were all shivering and starved-., looking. The man sakl lie had expected to find friends in tsau Francisco, but ascertained that they had gone to Mendocjna. The family had been obliged to sell all the clothing they had except the thin covering they had on, to buy food. - They- had no money and—no place to sleep, and the uiglit wind was coming chilly and cold from tlie sea. No vessel was going that night. The ’longshoreman was touched in a tender place! lie was rough, but lie understood human nature; saw that large, clinging family in distress. and took off bis hat and put his heart, and a dollar in it. lie carried round the hat among his fellows —all poor—and in a fßw minutes collected thirty dollars, which he banded to the distressed Missourian. The man was surprised and overcome with emotion. They would have a roof for the night and a comfortable bed to sleep in, and th e y .hail prbs pects for the morrow too. Memiocina was to them a promised land. A vessel would leuve~at nine o’clock in the morning. Maybtfdke Captain would be kind. They were up early’and on the wharf, but not before their friends of the •iglit before, who were there to finish up their work. The Captain had been seen, lie agreed to take tlie family to their destined port if they could feed themselves on the passage. Now it was all right. The 'longshoremen had attended to that. They had brought with them when they had come to their daily toil bundles'of clothing and baskets of food. Shawls, coats, pantaloons, shoes, etc., were among the stores which they-could spare, and which their wives had bundled up for them. Such tokens of kindness made the parents and their children cry for joy. The Missouri family went off on the schooner, and the ’longshoremen never felt happier in their lives. —St Louis Republican.

An Ingenious Device.

The liability of water-pipes to burst from the effect of frost is one of the most prolific sources of discomfort and expense both in households and in manufacturing establishments; and no effectual safeguard from the evil lias liiiharto been found. An English inventor now proposes a method which has certainly the merit oi ingenuity, and seems well adapted to its object. The increase in bulk of water, in freezing, is about onetwelfth, and the expansive force thus exerted is so powerful that no pipe or vessel yet made can resist it. But this inventor adroitly evades the difficulty bypassing through the water-pipe an indiarubber tube of such diameter that the space inside of it is a little more than the increase in the volume of water in freezing. The rubber tube is kept full of air, its supply being acted upon by the water pressure in such a way that the equality of tension is automatically preserved. When the water in the pipe freezes and expands the rubber-tube simply yields to it and is compressed, giving space for tlie increase in bulk which would otherwise exert an irresistible bursting pressure upon the pipe. When the ice melts the air tube again expands, and the original position of thiugs is restored; It is also worthy of note that by communicating heat through the rubber tube the pipe when frozen can be thawed out. For water-closets, boiler supply-pipes, kitchen boilers, etc,, the device seems to be in the highest degree desirable. —Mechanical Sac.-t.

Penikese.

At the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science, Prof. Putnam gave a very interesting account of the work done in this school. Following out Agassiz’ idea, text-books are avoided, and every effort is made to coiiipel the students tq original investigation. Each one receives a fish, with directions to study it externally for two days and tell the instructor what haS been observed. Then its anatomy is ini yestigated in the same way, until finally two things have been gained—the habit of self-study has been formed and a thorough knowledge of a vertebrate animal, formed on observation, has been obtained. One little fact was developed in this way in regard to the much-mooted "co-education of the sexes.” It. was found that ladies are quite capable q's making original investigations, and four or five of them actually did make original observations before any of the gentlemen began to do. so. The students were mostly teachers, and numbered twenty-two gentlemen and twenty-one ladies—forty-three in nil.—Galaxy for yor ember. « ; . —Nine million horses in the United States: value, $660,000.000. France has 3,663.600; Austria, 3,100,000; England, 2,666.200; Germanv, 2,500,000; Prussia, 1,800,000; Turkey, 1,100,000. *

Our Young Folks. ANITA AND 11EU DOLLS. Famtty-laden, Wfie. ivife maiden —i- Knit, her h?hw In dainty knot. : Ilnw to (roily Cure of lolly Occupies her bu.-r thoughts. " Dollie'a wet her Feet to get her l'otlca in the morning dew; Sure to be sick— Cold or colic— Like as not the measles too.' “There is Freddy, Always ready Into awful 'fairs to fall: Had a» Kosy— DoodneSe knows, I Lion't know how to manage ‘tall i '“Jack or Norah's Tolled, a story! One or t'tiver ate ma s cake! While there's silly, Greedy Willy Got a dreffut stomach. ache ! - “ Naughty Bessie Pored her dress; she Wants annver Otne. I spose; I tell you what It tales a lot Of work to teep my dolls in those!" Look! she lays her Dow n by C;esar — What can be the matter now} Dine eyes closing. Blinking, dozing—- - —. .Wee white hands and lily brow — Cheeks sis w axen. Tresses flaxen. Footstep that a fairy seemsC- • All now wantfer . 1 Over yonder. In the happy land of dreams! —llural Frees.

TATE’S DOLL’S WEDDING.

BY PENN SHIRLEY.

Tate Bedell was going to liave a birthday the next day. That, in itself, was something for a little girl to be proud of who only had had eight birthdays in her life, and couldn’t remember half of those. But more than that, she was to give a party in honor of the occasion—her mother had said she might—and besides, and beyond, and above all, it was to be a wedding party, and Tate’s doll—the open-and-shut-eyed Luella Viola—was to be the bride! And though that small lady couldn’t, by any manner of means, be married before to-morrow, because her bridegroom wasn’t expected Tlffl- the morn-mg-Trn-inr -she was alreadydressed for. the ceremony in white muslin—with such a trail!—and lay on the spare chamber bed under a pillow-sham, face down, for fear of crushing her long veil and wreath of orange blossoms. Tate herself was on her kijfees by the bureau packing the bridal wardrobe into the japanned cake-box, leaving out the traveling-dress, of course, for Luella Viola to wear on her wedding journey, Was there ever an outfit like it? Six complete suits; and by changing them about a little —putting the polonaise of one over the underskirt of another, you know—you could make as many more; six hats, all of the latest styles; a handkerchief, bordered with real lace; besides two entire sets of underclothing that had been sewed bv Tate, every stitch of them, without aJhimble. “ Got the notes ready, Tate?” That was Minty Mozier!s voice in the hall. and that was Minty’s happy little self clumping up-stairs after the wedding invitations. She was to carry them around. Tate couldn’t, of course; for I forgot to say dear little Tate was lame and not able to walk beyond the garden, even with her pretty rosewood crutch. And it was very stupid ofinc not to mention this before, since but for her lameness and her sweet, patient way of bearing it I suppose her mamma would never have taken the pains to plan the doll’s wedding of which I am telling you. “Deaf me! No, Minty!” said Tate, moving along to give Minty kneeling room by the trunk. “Toney hasn’t printed ’em yet!” “ I say he’s poison slow!” grumbled Minty, folding Luella Viola’s balmoral into a neat bundle. “ And lie’s been teasing to take the invitations round himself. Do you care if I let him?” “ Pooh! not the least bit,” said Minty. “ 'Cause, you- see, lie thinks I’m real mean not to have boys at my party,” said Tate, looking relieved; “ and 1 ought to make it up to him somehow.” “ As if you wanted to play with boys!” said Minty, indignantly. “ Oh, of course I don’t want ’em!” said Tate, decidedly; “but Toney says ’twon’t be an} - kind of a wedding’tliout I have ’em, ’cause at grown-up weddings they always invite men.” “ But then, men behave!" put in Minty. “ Boys are horrid—all but five or six, you know!” “ Well, I can't have ’em, anyway,” said Tate, cheerfully. “ Mamma says I’m not strong enough. But I can ask nine girls to my birthday, ’cause I shall be nine years old —and going on ten, just think!” “ Yes,”-said Minty, very meekly. She was only seven and a half, and it mortified her dreadfully. But she forgot this affliction before long in helping Tate pack the trunk and buckle her mamma’s shawl-strap about it; and when she trudged home at noon she was just as happy as a girLonly seven and a half years old could possibly be; for wasn’t she going to a wedding-party in her new pink sash and bronze boots? And wasn't Toney coming that very afternoon to leave her a printed invitation? To be j sure he was: She knew that as well as if Tate had said it! • Indeed, as it happened, Toney was, rushing into Tate’s house at precisely this minute with the notes lie bad just struck otf on his little printing-press. Theyiwere the daintiest affairs in the world, printed on pink satin paper, and reading this way: Slist Tate Bedell Request? the pleasure of Vonr presence at the Marriage other DolL Luella Viola Bedkll, to .clarence Osborne, ■ Oil Thursday. Sept. 4. 1873, at Three o’clock. P. S.—Please Bring all your dolls. Tony had slightly objected to the postscript, but he finally added it to satisfy Tate. She had now only tojlpuble these sheets across the eenterj and they filled their envelopes,-exactly: such pretty envelopes, with the monogram “B. 0.” embossed on them. That stood for Bedell and Osborne, of course. Toney walked up and down the gravel path, whistling, while Tate directed the envelopes-*© her nine-little iriends,; and just before he lost his patience she brought them out to him, in a neat willow basket, with a white satin bow perched on the top, to give it a bridal air. And then be carried round the notes, delivering a funny speech with each one. But, alas! for poor Minty ! There w»s none for her! From the back-doorstep, where she was amusing the bald-headed baby with tin muffin-rings, she saw Toney call at the door opposite and hand Jdnny Gilson a note, and then walk

straight on—never so much as looking at her house! No wonder Minty nearly cried her eyes out, and went to bed that night thinking this was a dreadful world for a little girl only seven and a half years old to live in! Papa Bedell came next day in the early train, right from New York, and brought with him Clarence Osborne, Luella Viola’s bridegroom, a handsome young gentleman in a black broadcloth suit, with white gloves and waistcoat, and a watch no bigger than a buttercup. Tate took him up to the front chamber, to wait till it was time to band Luella Viola down to the parlor; and there he had been standing( in a corner, handkerchief in hand, fully five hours, for now it was quarter of three, and, as Tate said, “ almost late enough for the wedding to begin.” She had got together all the old dolls she could find about the bouse and had just ranged them on the sofa to represent* Luella Viola’s poor relatives come to see her married, when Jenny Gilson rushed in quite out of breath. “O Tate!” cried she; “didn’t you mean to ask little Minty Mozier? She feels awfully because you haven’t sent her an invitation!’!: “ Why, Jenny Gilson! 1 Hid send her one—l certain did!" cried Tate, hopping about on her crutch in great excitement. “ Toney must have lost it. O dear! what shall I do?” “ I’ll carry her one and tell her about dtv-sha'-frtl?”said J©any,-eagerly-. “1 ’most knew it was a mistake,” “ But they’re all gone. Toney only printed nine!” said Tate, fairly crying. “ I’d write her one, right oft’ quick, before the rest come,” cried Jenny, who was a born peacemaker. “ But folks don’t write wedding cards on just hare paper,” sobbed Tate, dragging her writing-desk from beneath the what-not; “and I’m afraid Minty wop’t like it!” “There’s her invitation, this minute, I do believe!” shouted Jenny, joyfully, as Tate opened the desk. And there, to be sure, it was, half-hidden by a package of envelopes; but so plainly directed to Minty Mozier that tlie Postmaster himself might have read it. jenny darted off with it, and at the gate met the rest of the wedding guests, all dressed in white, who, of «ourse, must know the whole story. “Let’s go with Jenny, and take Tate along!” they cried. And in a twinkling the two larges! girls had joined bands and madra’seflaH-glritii' for Tate, and theentire party was hurrying on after Jenny. It was amazing how Minty could have dressed herself so quitfidy! I think her mother must have helped lier, for when the sedan-chair arrived at Mr. Mozier’s door she was all ready, even to her coral beads. Jenny and Lottie Prince would make a chair for her too; and the little white procession, on its way back, with Minty and Tate riding at its head, made such a gay appearance that Bobby "Wright got out bis drum in great baste, and trotted behind it as fast as his chubby legs would carry him, having a misty notion that the Fourth of July had come again, ~ . But this was small excitement beside the wedding which followed. Jenny -Gilson played minister* in a water-proof cloak and white handkerchief necktie; and Tate had to make the responses for -tha hfidg and bridegroom, as. Luella Viola could only say “ papa” and “mam ma,” which would not have done at all on this occasion, and Clarence Osborne was too much stuffed to speak a ■word. - After the ceremony Minty led each doll up in turn to kiss the bride and offer congratulations; and then Tate passed around a little waiter heaped with bride’s cake and slices of- wedding-cake, folded in white paper. And all the while the wedding presents were lying in state on the chess-table. There were spoons, and knives and forks, and napkin-rings, and salvers, and card-receivers, and I can’t begin to tell you how many other tilings cut out of silver paper. The bride lierself couldn’t stay to examine them. She and lier husband were whisked off on their wedding tour in a babycarriage. Tate threw an old slipper after them for good luck, and then turned to kiss Minty for the sixth time. “ Oh, Minty,’my wedding would have been spoilt if you hadn’t come!” “ I’ve had the splemlidest - time!” said Minty, swinging Jenny Gilson’s hand; “ and you made me, Jenny!” And of them all, I think Jenny was the happiest girl at Tate’s doll’s wedding. — St. Nicholas.

The Three Sieves.

“ Oh, mammal” criedlittle Bella, “I’ve heard such a story about Edith Howard! I didn’t think she would he so naughty. One ” “My dear,” interrupted Mrs. Phillips, “ before you continue we will see if your story will pass the three sieves.” “ What does that mean, mamma?” inquired Bella. “I will explain it. In the first place, Is it time ?" “I suppose so; I got it from Miss "White, and she is a great friend of Edith’s.” “And does she show her friendship by telling tales of her? In the next place, though you can prove it true, Is it hind f" “ 1 did not mean it to be unkind, mamma; but lam afraid it was. 1 should not like Edith to have spoken of me as I did dfiher.” ' - ’ ————tt- —• -r-- — “And, Is it necessary ?" “ No. of course not, mamma; there was no need for me to mention it at all.” “ Then'put a bridle—on- your tongue, dear. If we cannot speak w„ell of "our friends, let us not speak of them at all.”

—EdwarcTWaldron, of Jackson, MicH., was killed by the cars the other morning. He was a brakeman on the westward freight, which became separated. He started over the train to apply the brakes, and coming to the break, and not seeing it, he was precipitated to the ground and was cut in two by the rest of the train. - ■ —The other morning while "William Beatty was ascending in the elevator in Beatty & Co.’s cracker factory, Dugan’s wharf, Baltimore, some one called him from below. Looking over the side of the elevator his head was caught between it and toe ceiling above and horribly mangled, killing him instantly. A Universal Remedy ! —Wishart’s Pine Tree Tar Cordial for coughs, colds and ; bronchial affections stand first in public con- j fidence and favor. This result has been acquired after a test of many years. From Maineilo California millions of children are wealing SILVER-TIPPED Shoes. Why not? Th^are the cheapest and never wear through at the toe. Try them. For sale by all Shoe Dealers.

THE HTIN6 BODY SUPPLIED WITH THE VIGOR OF LIFE THBOUGH DR. RADWAY’S jSarsaparillian Resolvent, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. ONE BOTTLE Will make the Blood pure, the Skin clear, the Eyes bright, the Complexion smooth and transparent, the Hair strong, and remove all Sores, Pimples, Blotches, Pustules, Tetters, Cankers, etc., from the Head, Face, Neck, Mouth and Skin. It Is pleasant to take and the dose is small. It Resolves away Diseased Deposits; It Purifies the Blood and Renovates the System. It cures with certainty all Chronic Diseases that have lingered In the system five or ten years, whether it be Scrofula or Syphilitic, Heredi- — —tary-or-Coatagious,---. BE IT SEATED IN THE Lungs or Stomach, Skin or Bones, Flesh or Nerves. CORRUPTING THE SOLIDS AND VITIATING THE FLUIDS. IT IN THE ONLY POSITIVE CUBE FOE Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary and WoHib Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, Dropsy, Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine, Bright’s Disease, Albuminuria, and in all cases where there are brick-dust deposits; Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula, Glandular Swelling, Hacking Dry Cough Cancerous Affections, Syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of the Lungs, Dyspepsia, Water Brash, Tic-Doulou-reux, White Swellings, Tumors, Ulcers, Skin and Hip Diseases, Mercurial Diseases, Female Complaints Gout, Dropsy, Rickets, Salt Rheum, Bronchitis, Consumption, Liver Complaints, Ulcers In the Throat, Mouth, Tumors, Nodes in the Glands and other parts of the system, Sore Eyes, Strumorous Discharges from the Ears, and the worst forms of Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Fever Sores, Scald Head, Ring Worm, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Acne, Black Spots, Worms in the Flesh, Cancers in the Womb, and alt weakening and painful discharges,Night Sweats, Loss of Sperm, and all wastes ot the life principle are within the curative range of this wonder of Modern Chemistrv, and a few days’ use will prove to any person using It ~f dr WtheroftheseTorns of disease itr potent power—to cure them. Sold by Druggists. SI.OO per Bottle. Jr&. Jibe* RADWAY’S READY RELIEF! The Cheapest and Best Medicine for Family Use in the World! ONE 50-CENT BOTTLE WILL CURE MORE COMPLAINTS AND PREVENT THE-SYSTEM AGAINST SUDDEN ATTACKS OF EPIDEMICS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS EXPENDED FOR OTHER MEDICINES OP. MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. , THE MOMENT RADWAY’S READY RELIEF IS APPLIED EXTERNALLY—OR TAKEN INTER. NALLY ACCORDING TO DIEECTIONS-PAIN FROM WHATEVER CAUSE, CEASES TO EXIST. IMPORTANT.—Miners, Fanners, nnd others residing in sparsely-settled districts, where it is difficult to secure the services of a physician, RADWAY’S READY RELIEF is invaluable. It cau be used with positive assurance of doing good in all cases, where nain or discomfort is experienced; or if seized with Influenza, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Bad Cbughs, Hoarseness, Bilious Colic, Inflammation of the Bowels. Stomach, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys ;*or with Croup, Quinsy, Fever and Ague;»or with Neuralgia, Headache. Tlc-Doulourcux, Toothache, Earache; or with Lumbago, Pain In the Back, or Rheumatism ; or with Diarrhoea, Cholera Morhus or Dysentery; or with Burns, Scalds or Bruises; or with Strains, Cramps or Spasms. The application of RADWAY’S READY 1 RELIEF will cure you of the worst of these complaints in a few hours. Twenty drops in half a tumbler of water will in a few moments cure CRAMPS. SPASMS, SOUR STOMACH, HEARTBURN. SICK HEADACHE, DIARRHtEA, DYSENTERY, COLIC, WIND IN THE BOWELS, and all INTERNAL PAINS. Travelers should always carry a bottle of RADWAY’S READY RELIEF with them. A few dropsin water will prevent sickness or pains from change of water. It is better than French Brandy or Bitters as a stimulant. Sold by Druggists. Price, 50 Cents. DR. RADWAY’S REGULATING FILLS! Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and strengthen. ItADWAY’S PILLS, tor the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation Costiveness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Bilious Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all Derangements of the Internal Viscera. Warranted to effect a positive cure. Purely Vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals or deleterious drugs. tW Observe the following symptoms rosultlngfrom Disorders of the Digestive Organs: Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness of the Blood in the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food, Fullness of Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eructations. Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head. Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of \ ision. Dots or Webs before the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Chest, Limbs, and Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh. A few doses of RADWAY’S PILLS will free the system from all the above-named disorders. Price 25 cts. per Box. Sold by Druggists. Read “FALSE AND TRUE.” ■ -Send one letter-stamp to RADWAY & CO., No. 32 Warren street. New York. Information worth thousands will be sent you. WISH ART’S PineTreßTarCorflial ' *lt is now fifteen years since the attention of the public was first called by Dr. L. Q. C. Wishart to this wonderful remedy, and so well has it stood the test of time that to-day it not only has the confidence of the entire community, but is more frequently prescribed by physicians in their practice than any other proprietary preparation jn the country. It is the vital principle of the Pine Tree obtained by a peculiar process in the distillation of the Tar, by which its highest medicinal properties are retained. For the following Complaints—lnflammation of the Lungs. Coughs, Sore Throat and Breast. Bronchitis. Consumption, Liver Complaint. Weak Stomach, Disease of the Kidneys, Urinary Complaints, Nervous Debtlity. Dyspepsia, and diseases arising from an impure condition of the blood— there is no remedy in tho world that has been used so successfully or can.show such a number of marvelous cures. The following will serve to show the estimation in which this-sovereign remedy is heid by those who have used it. Consumption for Ten Tear. Cored. Dr. L. Q. C. Wishart- Dear Sir—l am grateful to yon from the fact that vou have made a medicine that will cure the disease of the Lungs. My wife lias had the Consumption for ten years. Physicians had told me that they could only natch her up for the time being. She was confined to lier bed, and had been for some time. I heard of your Pine Tree Tar Cordial and secured one bottle; it relieved her cough. She has now finished her fonrth bottle, and Is able to do the work for her familv. and may God speed you on with vour great discovery and cure you have made for Consumption. Rev. E. -JL HOPKINS. Jackson Center, Shelby Co., Ohio. From St. Louis, Mo. Dr. WtsHART. PntLADZLi-HiA: Dear Sir—During * visit to Philadelphia some three years ago, I was sub ferine from a severe coldt and was induced to take a bott'e of your Pine Tree Tar Cordial, which, had the effect of curing me in a few days. I have used it In my family ever since, and'am of the opinion that It saved the life bf my daughter, who was suffering from a severe and painful cough. If the publication of this will be of any service, you are at liberty to use it. Yours respectfully. JOHN HODNETT, St Louis, Mo. Tor sale by all Druggists and Storekeepe rs, and at Bfl. L. Q. C. WISHART’S Office, No. 232 N. Second St., Philadelphia, P?_ ? ----- * i