Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 18, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 August 1884 — Page 2

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Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - VJWtsm

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST Pxlha3xlpkli reports the failures of Warner & Meiritt, fruit importers, with liabilities of $500,000; E. L. Minteer, Jr., canned goods; W. I. Eshelman fe Co., commission merchants; and Graham, Loder & Co., white goods. A Boston dispatch says the United States steamer Tallapoosa, the celebrated craft that has for years been employed as a freighter for naval stores in winter and an a pleasure yacht for the Secretary in summer, came to an untimely end in Vineland Sound, being run into by a coal schooner and sunk. The ship was on her way from Boston to Newport when the disaster cccurred, and had on board some of the per sonal effects of the Secretary and Mrs. Chandler, who were to have rejoined her at the latter point. The night was clear, and a good many vessels were in the sound. The vessel which struck the Tallapoosa was the schooner James S. Lowell, of Bath, Me,, from Baltimore for Portland. She is a large three-master, and was loaded with 800 tons of coal. The Tallapoosa was struck on the starboard bow and went down within five minutes. The officers and crew, numbering about 140 persons, were saved from tbe wreck by the schooner, all being accounted for except the following: Surgeon Black, William O'Donnell, of Boston, v seaman; William Jones, of Washington, a landsman; George Proctor, a colored saloon boy; Foster, a colored servant. EiiETKH persons sustained serious injuries by an accident on the New York and New England Bead, near Quinebaug, Connectacut A passenger car and a smoker were thrown down an embankment of twenty feet J. W. Phelps, of Hyde Purk Massachusetts, received what may prove a - fatal cut on the right temple. . . . Silver has been discovered near Ritchie, W. Va., and prospectors are flocking to the mine. The test assay at one mine showed $300 of silver and $11 of leal to the ton. . . .An assignment to secure liabilities of $35,0C0 has been made by the Dunbar Coke Company of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. THE WEST The Illinois Central Railroad have just issued a neat little pamphlet entitled the "World's Exposition Messenger, "giving a synopsis of the great Centennial Exposition that opens at New Orleans on the first of December. The publication contains much valuable information, and a large, correct map of the Crescent City. A copy can be obtained free by addressing Thomas Dorwin, General Northern Passenger Agent, 121 Randolph street, Chicago. Reports from various points in Missouri indicate the oats crop will be slightly above the average; wheat will yield about twenty bushels to the acre;' corn is h. excellent - condition, and promises a large yield; potatoes are small, and the hay crop light. The fruit crop is not up to the average.... The Breeders' Gazette asserts positively , that contagious pleuro-pneumonia has made, its appearance among five herds of Jersey cattle in Illinois, and grave fears exist that the infection is' much more extensive. The disease has spread from Cass County, and has made its ajroearance near Geneva, Ehnhurst, and Sterling..... The Northwestern Lumberman's Association, representing $500,000,000 capital, held meeting in Chicago, and after a long debate resolved that it would not be wise to close the mills before Nov. 1 Agent Dyer has informed the .Indian Bureau that ' the Cheyennes and Arapahoes abusejboys who have returned from the school at Car Ssle, Pemu, not wishing their people to be educated. A Stbeatob (Bl.) Sunday-school picnic excursion ' of thirteen coaches, carrying ' 1,000 people, was run into bya Cl,C and L freight at the crossing at Kankakee. James Penn was killed, and Father O'Kelly, of SI Michael's Church of Streator, was probably fatally wounded.. Many others were seriously hurt A fire at Swayzee, JncL, destroyed the principal stores in the Tillage. Dehkah Thompson, in his unrivalled character of Joshua Whiteomb, the good? natured, good-hearted New England farmer, is making his regular annual tour of the West; and occupies the boards of McVickcrt Theater, in Chicago, this week. For eight successive seasons, Mr. Thompson has appeared before the public in this sterling play, and yet so great is its popularity there, is as great a rua to witness it as there was the nrsi year of its advent. IT is thought that the value of the agricultural products of California this year will be $81000,000. About $56,000,000 worth of the product will be exported,... Thomas Murphy, a mechanic living at Jackson, Mich., who is in bad health, became excited the other night, and, thinking there were burglars in the house,' attacked his wife Vrith a pair of shears and stabbed her five times. She bled to death in ten minutes. . . .Pollock, Wilson & Sons' establish, ment at Sixth and Carr streets, Cincinnati, for the manufacture of saddlery hardware and chains, was destroyed by fire. Loss,

$50,000. The Webster County Bank of Marshfield, Mo., has suspended, with liabilites of $10,000 and assets estimated at $15,000 to $25,000. The saw-mills of Little & Peck and G. W. Peck & Son, at Duluth, were burned, involving a loss of $100,000, TOE SOUTH. Ths Governor of Kentucky has pardoned a horse thief and a homicide for timely assistance rendered the officers of the State prison during the recent outbreak. Theks was a reunion of the Fifth Georgia Begiment of the Confederate service at Macon. Mr. J. O. Young, of the Fiftysixth New York Regiment, which captured the regimental flag of the Confederates, restored it, amid the tears and plaudits of the vanquished. . . .The Government launch Daphne exploded her boiler at Memphis. Paymaster N. oden was blown overboard and drowned, and the engineer, pilot, and two others were seriously scalded. Gxsr. Lsboy Pop Waxkbb, first Secretary of War in Jefferson Davis Confederate Cabinet, and who gave the order for firing on Fort Sumter, died at his home in Huntsville, AlaM after a brief illness. Gen. Walker was President of the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1875, which framed the present constitution of the State. A TXBZ in the stable of W. H. Wilson, at Cynthiana, Ky., resulted in the cremation of thirteen horses, the loss on stock and

buildings being $50,000. Miss Laura Wilson ran through the flames, unlocked her father's safe, and secured his most valuable papers. WASH ICSXOHu The Treasury Department has issued orders to Collectors of Customs that hereafter when a vessel carrying rags arrives at any port it shall be the duty of the importer to produce positive evidence that the cargo is from a non-infected port, and is free from the germ of disease. The difficulty of producing such evidence virtually prevents the introduction of rags. . . .John B. Dawson, a clerk in the Pension Bureau at Washington, died last week. He weighed 438 pounds, and his body had to be placed in a grape arbor until a coffin could be made. Jacob A. E&A, Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Department, died at Washington, of erysipelas. He was formerly a member of Congress from New Hampshire. ' The gold reserve in the Treasury has increased to $120,000,000. , . .Judge George C. Lyon, of the Federal Court of Mississippi, died at Washington last week.

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Tks Greenbackei8 of Michigan met in convention at Detroit, adopted a plan for fusion with the Democrats on the electoral ticket and nominated J. W. Begole for Governor. A State convention composed of forty Anti-Monopolists placed Wildeman Mills in the field for the gubernatorial chair, but he promptly declined. The Michigan Democrats, in convention at Grand Bapids, accepted the terms of the Greenbackers. Under the terms of the fusion, the Greenbackers are allowed to nominate the Governor, Attorney General, Superintendent of Schools, Commissioner of the State Land Office,

and seven of the thirteen electors .... The Iowa Republican Convention, which met at Des Moines, nominated J. H. Bothrock for Justice of the Supreme Court, Gen. Baker for Attorney General, J. L. Lucas for Auditor, Frank D. Jackson for Secretary of State, and V. P. Twombly for Treasurer.... The New Jersey Democratic State Convention to select an electoral ticket was presided over by Gen. McClellan, who protested against centralization of power and the collection of superabundant revenues The Democrats of Texas renominated John Ireland for Governor, and selected State Senator Gibbs for Lieutenant Governor, both by acclamation:. . . .The Connecticut Republican State Convention at New Haven nominated Henry B. Harrison, of that city, for Governor. Boston dispatch: "Mrs. Pamell has been holding a conference at Boston with leaders of the Irish National League and several Catholic Bishops. Sb explains that she has expressed no preference as to Presidential candidates, but sought to secure a pledge from one or the other party for the introduction free of duty of many articles produced in Ireland which do not compete with American labor." Ignatius Donnelly has been nominated for Congress from the Third Minnesota District by the Democrats, the People'6 party, and the Farmers' Convention.... Frank Hurd was renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Tenth Ohio District. Thb Kansas Democrats met in State convention at Topeka on the 21st of August. A convention of Bepublicau Anti-Prohibitionists assembled at the same time and place. The result was a. complete fusion of the two forces and the nomination of George W. Glick for re-election as governor. C. E. Halliday, a Repnbliciu, was named for Lieutenant Governor. The remainder of the ticket is as follows : Secretary of State, Eugene Hagan; Auditor, Hugh V. Gavigan; Treasurer, W. A. Hutman; Superintendent of Public Instruction, M. J. Keys: Attorney General, G. P. Smith; Chief Justice, W. P. Campbell; Associate Justice, T. A. Hurd. The platforms of both conventions indorse the administration of Gov. Glick, and come out squarely against prohibition and in favor of a resubmission of the prohibitory amendment Capt. E. P. AixLEN has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Michigan District. .Charles Stuart, of Houston, has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First District of Texas. The Missouri Greenbackers met in State Convention at Kansas City, adopted a platform and nominated ex- Congressman Nicholas Ford for Governor. A resolution was adopted declaring it to be for the best interests of the party not to make other nominations for State offices, leaving the matter to the Central Committee. The action of the convention is understood to mean fusion with the Republicans, leaving with the latter party the nomination of the'remainder of the State ticket.

The Governor of Utah has written to the Governor of Tennessee, expressing thanks for his attempt to vindicate the law in the murder of Mormon missionaries, and hoping that the assassins may be brought to judgment. . . . Bradstreet reports 208 failures in the United States the past week, against 261 for the preceding week. A mob near Lincoln, Neb., took from the officers and hanged to a tree a Mexican charged with assaulting a girl. He had been identified by his victim and made a fuH confession. Near' Gates ville, Tex., the citizens took from the Sheriff and riddled with bullets an old man charged with burning some wheat-stacks and a thrasher. He was dragged from bed in his shirt and allowed five minutes for prayer. Sib John A. MacbonatjP, the Canadian Premier, denounces the project urged by the English cattlemen of Wyoming for the shipment of the cattle from the territories to England via Canada. Sir John says the project is fraught with danger to the interests of Canadian farmers and stock-raisers. ....Congress is to be asked to retain the Greely relief boats for use as survey vessels.... There were seventeen deaths from yellow fever at Havana last week.

The Foo Chow arsenal was destroyed, after three hours' bombardment, by the French fleet. Seven Chinese gunboats were sunk. The French fleet sustained no damage.... Li FongCao, the Chinese Ambassador to France, left Paris for Berlin soon after the announcement of the bombardment of Foo Chow. He had a bviei interview with M. Feny. It is thought in, London that the war will not continue very long, and that China will soon submit. . . , Iron-clads are to be sent to re-enforce the Russian fleet in Chinese waters. ,Th& bitterness against the Jews in the provinces is increasing in Russia. There has been an outbreak at Kutais, growing out of the

report of a Christian child having been stolen. The mob assaulted the J ewish quarters, and only desisted from a threatened massacre after the child was found. . . . Reports from the cholera-infected regions of the south of France indicate a decrease in the number of victims. The disease seems tobe spreading in Italy At Toulon the cholera is on the increase, which is attributed to the hasty return of the inhabitants. In Italy also the disease is increasing. ...The Novonti, St. Petersburg paper, referring to Germany's snubbing of England, says the humiliation of England would disturb the balance of power In Europe. ADDITIONAL HEWS. The City Marshal of Sharpsburg, Ky., killed Dr. Daniel Henry for resisting arrest. A Deputy Sheriff at Hot Springs was compelled to shoot a horse-thief whom he was conveying to the State Penitentiary, and the Coroner's jury indorsed the act. A Louisville policeman fatally wounded a notorions footpad named John Lynch, who was caught in the act of robbing a citizen. Thb schedules in the assignment of Hatch & Foote, the New York brokers, who recently failed, have been made public. They show the liabilities to be $4,497,000, of which $3,548,900 are secured. The actual assets are $298,871, about onefourth of the nominal assets.... The Sinking Fund Commissioners of Essex County, New Jersey, are shown to be short $600,000 in their accounts, and proceedings to recover the amount will be at once commenced There have been heavy frosts in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut,' and crops are damaged in many places. At a temperance camp meeting in a grove near Cuba, N. Y., St. John and Daniel received formal notice of their nomination for President and Vice President by the Prohibitionists. .David Preston, a wellknown Detroit banker, in a public letter says he will accept the nomination of the Michigan Prohibitionists for Governor if tendered it. China has formally declared war on France. Gen. Millot, the commander of the French forces in Tonquin, says he is fully able to resent Chinese agression. The bombardment of the Foo Chow forts was continued on the 25th of August The French were temporarily repulsed in their attack on the forts at the mouth of the river. Dr. Salmon, Chief of the National Animal Industry Bureau, is of opinion that pleuro-pneumonia can be checked in Illinois if quarantine regulations are promptly applied, and if the animals are killed when the disease first attacks them. . . . During a storm off the Newfoundland coast fifteen fishing smacks were lost at Outer Cove, the schooners Petrel and Elizabeth were sunk in White Bay, and a fishing smack with four men and two lady passengers was lost on Cape Broyle Willianr Norris, a schoolmaster at Markdale, Ont., shot his first as sistant, Miss Ford, in the school-room, inflicting a fatal wound. Norris then shot himself dead. Babon AmpthHiIi, better known as Lord Odo Russell, British Minister to Berlin, is dead. He had been one of the most conspicuous of English diplomats for twenty years. He was bora at Florence Feb. 20, 1829. His father was Minister to Berlin at one time, and was a distinguished officer of the British army. ... The Mark Lane Express in its weekly review of the British grain trade says: "Rates for wheat declining. The finest wheat com mands from 34s to 36s, and white wheat 38s per quarter. Such prices never before occurred in this country." Spain is taking precautions against a new revolt by Zorillu. The Portuguese authorities have arrested several prominent citizens of Lisbon for utterances classed as disloyal. When the special train containing eighty Poles who were to take the place of the striking miners at Buchtel, Ohio, arrived at that place a mob of strikers congregated and assaulted the leaders of the imported party. A free fight followed, during which an interpreter for the Poles was seriously injured and others received biu;ses. The Governor ordered a body of militia to the scene of the troubles, . . . W. R. Penick, a wholesale druggist at St. Joseph, Mo., with liabilities of $75,000, has closed his store.

"Doctob, I have got the " began a friend to a physician. "There, stop right there, n said the man of physic, adding: "You know I am rich and I can now afford to tell you that there is nothing the matter with you; nine people out of ten imagine four fifths of their ills. Divert your mind and you will be all right." Boston Globe.

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Oneoi' the Carious Features of the Map of Massachusetts Explained. Those who bavo studied the map of Massachusetts cannot but have notioed the peculiar appearance of a portion of the Connecticut boundary line just southeast of Springfield. The point referred to is a small square block at the town of South-wick, extending from this State into that of Connecticut. Al

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has often been noticed and commented upon, it is not generally known that this Tory point was for years the foundation for a most bitter controversy between the two States. From 1774 to 1801 the question of division came several times before special committees and commissioners from Massachusetts, and town-meetings were frequently held to settle the matter. In 1774 Connecticut attached a portion of land to South wick, south of the original colony line. Ten years afterwards, in 1874, a committee from Connecticut was appointed for the purpose of establishing the bounds at this point, but so tenacious was each colony of every inch of territory that it took more than a score of years to settle this very trifling matter. Two boards of Commissioners were appointed by Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1793 to ascertain and report the exact boundaries of South wick, Sandisfield, New Marlboro, and farther west to the New York State line and four years later, in 1767, joint commissioners were appointed to establish the line east of the Connecticut Biver. The Connecticut Commissioners reported that the lino was nearly all correct except the tract of land in question, a block about two and one-half miles square at Southwick, wnioh Massachusetts thought she should have to compensate her for the town she had lost. This the Commissioners refused to grant in 1801; but this State was willing in 1803 to compromise, so one year later it was arranged that Connecticut should keep a slice of Southwick and Mafsachusetts should hold the land west of the ponds in that place, the same indentation into the Nutmeg State which she now holds to-day. In May, 1810, Connecticut appointed another committee to examine the line east of the Connecticut River, but of the result no report can be found among the records of that State. In May 1822, however, the repor shows that the Commissioners agreed in all points, as in 1713, with the exception of the gore at Union. As the southeast corner of Woodstock had extended into Massachusetts 120 rods, and the northwest corner fortyeight rods, a jog had been left in the colony line between Woodstock and Union. This was the only jogged point at issue in the report presented in 1822. This jog was corrected in 1826, when the Commissioners' report was agreed to by both States, and the long and tedious boundry-line controversy between Massachusetts and her sister came to an end. The line of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad now runs directly through the jog connecting the two States, and Southwick Ponds, celebrated locally as a summer resort, lie partly in this State and partly in Connecticut. Boston Globe. The Thin Man Moves. "Are you moving to-day ?w asked the man with the cold-tea scheme. "No, I moved last night, n replied the thin man without shirt collar. "High rent ?M "High rent" "Couldn't agree with your landlord about the rent, hey?" "We couldn't agree." "So you moved?" "I moved." "That's it, that's just it," said the cold-tea man, emphatically. "Extortionate rent ruins hundreds of homes. A man don't like to live in a hog-pen, yet what can he do about it? He don't like to place his family in a few dingy rooms, but how can he help it ? I tell you $8 or $10 a month on rent counts up." "So it does," indorses the thin man. "Yes, sir; rapacious landlords break up many households," continued the cold-teaman. "How can a man of limited income afford to buy real estate in rent and then have nothing to show for it? He can't do it, sir. He has to accommodate himself to circumstances and house his family in a place he is ashamed of. High rents are the great drawback to prosperity. When a man has paid his rent on beer, penuckle, tobies, pool, cigars, base-ball matches, and cook fights, what has he left? Nothing, sir, absolutely nothing. His family mu5t suffer. Two cock-tails are a quarter. Set-'em-up-all-'round, 75 cents. There's a dollar plumb gone out of sight in a minute. Say it only occurs once every other day. That knocks the spots out of $15 a month. I tell you rents are too high. Take a few pools and lose $5 or $10 a week on them, and you can easily see where exorbitant rents keep a poor man. Why a man can punch half a month's rent into a billiard table in one night, they are up so. When did you say you moved?" "Last night," replied the thin man. "What, in the night time 2" "Yes. I wanted to avoid the dust on my furniture." "How much did your landlord raise you?" "He didn't raise me." "Why, what was the difference between you, then." "It was about the back rent," replied the thin man. Pittsburgh Chronicle. The Art of Drinking Milk. Milk should not be taken irt copious draughts like beer or any other fluids which differ from it chemically. If we consider the use of milk in infancy, the physiological ingestion, that is, of food provided for it, each small mouthful is secured by effort and slowly presented to the gastric mucuous surface for the primal digestive stages. It is thus regularly and gradually reduced to curd, and the stomach is not oppressed with a lump of half-coagulated milk. The same principle should be regarded in caso of the adult. Milk should be slowly taken in mouthfuls, at short intervals, and thus it is rightly dealt with by the gastric juice. If milk be taken alter other food, it is almost sure to

burden the stomach and cause discomfort and prolonged indigestion, and this for the obvious reason that there is not sufficient digestive agency to dispose of it, and the better the quality of the milk the more severe the discomfort will be under these conditions. Popular Science Monthly. Choate's Industry and Tafite. Mr. Edward Ellerton Pratt writes some interesting particulars, he says: "Mr. Choate was the mobfc untiring worker I ever met. He was up at five o'clock in the morning, as a rule, made a cup of tea for himself, worked awhile over his booKs, went out for a walk, came home arid breakfasted, went to business at nine, worked all day, and, perhaps, was before some legislative committee in the evening, and I have known him to be all that time without taking any food. Indeed, I have seen a check for half a dollar which he had given at the dose of such a day when, having no money irith him, he had become conscious of a need of refreshment." Mr. Pratt ralates how when the late James T. Fields was editing Thomas de Quiney's works, he showed Mr. Choate an article which had appeared in some magazine with no external evidence as to the author. On looking over it, Mr. Choate said it was written by De Quincy. Mr. Fields then wroto to De Quincy, who answered that he had not written the iper, and had never thought of the subject matter of it. With some exultation, Mr. Fields showed that letter to Mr. Choate, who said : "Never you mind ; let me have that article again, and I will go over it more carefully." He did so, and the next day Mr. Choate wrote him: "De Quincy did write it, De Quincy to the contrary, notwithstanding." Alter a time, DeQuinfey sent to Mr. Fields the original manuscript of the article, with a letter stating that he had found it among old papers, and, as it was the work of his pen, he must confess the authorship of it, though all recollection of it had passed away. In his studies, Mr. Choate kept place with the college and with modern thought aa there illustrated. He uaed to buy the text books of Harvard and Yale, beginning with the freshmen year, and in effect graduating with the students. I once asked him why he did this. He said: "I don't like these young fellows coming out of college crowding me. They are fresh and bright, I dull and rusty. Wo must either go back to the elements of first principles or note new applications of them by those whose epecial business it is to teach.' From a book by Judge IWeilson, of Brooklyn. Something About Ships Sailing vessels carry their square-

sails or fore-and-aft sails. A squaresail is one the head of which is "bent" or made fast to the jack-stay an iron rod on a yard. Fore-and-aft sails, instead of being bent to yards, are mostly supplied with a boom or a gaff, or both. The lower corners of squaresails are failed clews. The foresail and mainsail are often called the courses. Sail is seldom carried on the cross-jack (pronounced krojik) yard, the lowest yard on the mizzenmaai. The courses, when "set" are kept down by means of ropes leading from the clews fore and aft, called tacks and sheets. Above the course come the topsails; above the topsails, the topgallant sails; and next above, the royals. Some very large ships carry still loftier sails, called sky-sails. Most merchant ships carry double topsails, one above the other, for greater ease in handling; but on men-of-war, having large crews, single topsails are tho rule. The head-sails are those which the bowsprit and the booms it supports crry forward. These are the foretopmast stay-sail, the jib, and flying-jib. Large vessels carry even more headsails. The spanker, or driver, as our merchantmen sometimes call it, is a fore-and-aft sail, and is the aftersail of a ship or bark. A compass being divided into thirtytwo points, sailors consider the horizon at sea as having an equal number of divisions, and speak of a ship as sailing within five or six points of the direction the wind is blowing from. When the Bails of a ship are filled with wind, they are said to be drawing or full. A good sailor is never so happy as when with a whole-sail breeze he sees all his canvas spread and drawing, and feels hwself "off before itn. -ffar-per's Young People. Yeudooism In Alabama. We have before us something of a curiosity in the shape of a voudoo or conjur bag. Negroes in this section, even in their most enlightened circles, haver never got rid of tho lowest order of superstition common to the race since the birth of their most ancient fore

fathers, which is a firm belief in and practice of what has been called voudooism. The little bag we have before us was picked up on Broad street, in front oi the 'Selma furniture store a few days since. It contains a rabbit's foot, a piece of dried coon root, a bulbous plant that grows spontaneously in southern forests, also some other herbs and roots dug from the woods, and some small particles of parched tobacco. The rabbit's foot, perhaps possesses more powers of sorcery than any other instrument in use among the black magicians of the south. Numbers of negroes in the south carry a rabbit's foot in their pockets or concealed about their persons, as constantly iis the plow boy carries his knife. There is not one negro out of every hundred that will allow another person, white or black, to approach them with the enchanted foot They will almost 0 into spasms of terror aiid will fight, a for dear life, rather than come in contact with a rabbit foot in the hand of another person. What there is about the loot of an ordinary rabbit, or more properly speaking, hftre, that sways such a powerful influence for the negro juggler, is something we can't understand, but that it does is a settlad fact Selma (Ala.) Tiiimu . The best society and c onversation is that in which the- heart has a greater .share than the hefti.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. Discolorep ivory may be whitened by rubbing it with a paste com f rosed of burnt pumice-stone and water, and then place undtr glass in the sun. If a shirt-bosom or other article haa been scorched, in ironing, lay it where bright sunshiue will fall directly on it It will take the scorch out completely. Books that have been handled during recovery from scarlet fever should be burned after they have served their purpose for the patient, as such books frequently become charged with the germs of the disease. Thk strong light of the sun should

never be allowed to fall directly upon a mirror. The s.malgum or union of tin foil and mercury which is spread on glass to form & looking-glass is easy ily ruined by the direct continued ex-' posure to the solar rays, causing tho glass to look mitrty. To remove a tight glass stopper hold the neck of the bottle above the flames of a lamp not le tting the blaze touch it and turn the lottle steadily and rapidly so as to bring all parts of the neck equally under the influence of the heat, when if", will ha vanirilv ATnand. find

the stopper may be withdrawn by steady pull and twist It seems to be an unknown fact to most of our domestic assistants that platters and vegetable dishes are sure to crack, sooner or later, if they are set in a hot stove. If they are left there a moment only there is danger of their good looks being spoiled. It is a good plan to have something on or near the stove where such dishes may be placed. Of course, if one has a shelf above her range or stove, there is no excuse for the annoyance mentioned above ; but if there is no shelf, a brick may be kept in fViA liAftfoiF a.TA 11 OA1 vf.n nAMicaftW

or an iron flatiorn holder will be found useful. A great convenience in a humble kitchen which can not boast of all the modern improvents is made with so litlittle expenditure of time and money that almost any one may have it If the sink is small, as nearly all sinks are, have a piece of board the width of the sink and any moderate length, fay three-quarters of a yard long; have it placed at one end of the sink and let it rest upon the sink ; have a rim of board around the edge about four inches high, and this should be firmly screwed in place; this should be fastened to the wall and propped so that it will be well supported; the end furtherest from the sink should be slightly raised so that the water will drain from it To assist this process two grooves may be cut in the board, though not deeply. When the dishes are washed set them on the shelf, rinse them and drain them theie. It is really an important matter that great attention be paid to dishwashing. Always seek to inspire a new girl with zeal on this point. One excellent way of doing so is by providing a lib.eral supply of wiping-towels and dish-washers. Have a variety of

grades of dishes. Another point is never to allow the dishes to be cleansed with soap that is sticky and haa a bad odor; it is not fit to use in dish-washing, and sometimes no amount of rinsing will remove the offensive odor. Mr. Cottle Withdrawn

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the idea of running for Secretary of State, he at once decided that the proper thing to do was to convince the farmers of the country that he was interested in the great work of stirring the face of the earth. Adjoining his yard is aboun a half acre of land. This, after much deliberation, he decided to plant in peanuts. This conclusion was the result of two objects. One was to show the farmer that he had given so mush study to agriculture as to be familiar with ciops rarely raised in his neighborhood ; the other was to induce the cultivation of a highly productive and remunerative article of luxury. In planting the peanuts he closely followed a clipping taken from a Georgia paper. A few days of fine weather followed the planting. Mr. Cottle was glad of this, for he greatly desired to show his little field to the farmers' convention, which was soon to meet in the city. When convention day arrived, Mr. Cottle with satisfaction noted that the peanuts were coming up. He met the farmerci and talked learnedly of crops and the noble aim of the agriculturist "Gentlemen," said Mr. Cottle, ttI think that the Secretary o! the great State of Arkansaw should be familiar with agriculture, for without this knowledge, no man can find that affin

ity which should exist between high State officials and the bone and sinew of the land.11 The farmers cheered Mr. Cottle. "I was raiised on the farm, my fellowcitizens, and I am proud to say that I have followed the plow. A man who fullows the plow, follows the emblem of honesty." The farmer clapped his hands. "I have put in quite a fine crop of peanuts, and I would like very much for you all to go up to my houe with me and see under what a high state of cultivation I havo placed my little farm." The agriculturists would go, ?hey were anxious to test the f u ture Secretary of State's knowledge of their art. "You see they are coming up nicely, said Mr. Cottle, when the 4lgtii arrived at the lot. "i don't see that they are,w replied old man Spitslow: 'Dont se?" pointing. 14No, I don't Them's weeds." To be sure they are," replied Mr Cottle, coloring. Mr. Spitslow sci ate bed into a hill, took out the peanut, nd said : "Whar'd yer get yer seed?" "Bought them from an old Italian. "I lowed so' "Why? "Becase.. yer see, theyVe been roast ed. Yer'd jest as well ter hatch a boiled egg. Come on, boys, this feller don t know notltinV Mr. Cottle has withdrawn his name. Arkansatv Traveler. Yorss inao, you can not succeed in inveighing a young woman into giving her age by casually remarking that is your birthday. The trick has been tried,