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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. Train robbery ie pun?sable by death( in Arizona. The Supremo Court has, just upheld the constitutionality ol the statnte. ? The campaign of 1896 soon resolved itself into a campaign of education. The American people never knew sp much about Mexico before. / When Li Hung Chang was in Glas gow he told the Scotchmen that their bagpipes reminded him of China. They can't make out whether he meant it for a compliment or not. *s:^? Li Enng Chang is keeping a diary of his trip around the world. Whether the old diplomat will publish the re sult of his observations or not will probably be settled by the personage who manufactures the yellow jacket? ?* Pe*"?- ^ According to the last census oi Prussia the increase in population of, i he oities has been 92.1 per 1000 dur ing the last five years, while the in-, crease in the rural districts during the same period has been only 44.2 per 1000. _ Research has revealed to the Bath (Me.) Enterprise that the first phy sician to practice in that tc<ra and its vicinity was a woman, lt was about 1759, and her field extended over a large seotion of the country. There ia no woman practicing medicine in Bath to-day. J J It was onoe said that there was Iii ile or no drunkenness in France, where the people indulged freely in Hight wines, but such seems to be no' longer the case. A man's temperance iissooiation has been established re cently in Paris, and there is declared to be great need for it Says'flarper's Weekly : It was re cently reported that the post of mili? tary attache to the American Embassy tc ILondoa was vacant? and had been of fered to three officers, all of whom have declined it on the ground that their salaries coull not support the ?dignity of the job. It is a very pretty place, and one that has not been used to go begging. It calls for an officer of the rank of major, and gives bim little to do exoept to look handsome and to adorn London society with his presence. He is entitled to wear the most decorative clothes of any ont connected with the embassy. Wh?n. Jbejades out with the EmboBsador he -goes on the front ?eat inside, and not on the box seat with the coachman, ia ill-informed persons have erroneously supposed. Opportunities to meet Jolks that really are folks come to him. .daily. He dines out nearly every night, ead seldom is at loss for a frearty meal of nourishing food. His chmt expenses are for lodgings and, cab hire, but the hesitation of worthy officers to aecept the place indicates that even those expenses may be too considerable. The real trouble must re that the majors in Uncle Sam's army are middle-aged men with fami lies, and a salary that might maintain the attache himself well enough in London will not also maintain his family, either at home in his absence or with him abroad. If lieutenants had rank enough for the place, it would probably be easy to keep it filled with young unmarried officers of the requisite stature and comeliness. ? very curious state of affairs is re ported from France, where tho popu lation, whieh has been decreasing for some time, is growing at an alarmingly feeble rate. For some time the de crease among the French has been a cause of comment among European economists, but in most cases it has been ascribed to tho tremendous de struction among the men who, dnring the Prussian war, were just entering upon the middle years of manhood. This excuse can be used no longer, and it is noted with mortificatios among the Freneh leaders that tht present trifling increase in the popu lation is due chiefly to the immigra tion ot people from other Nations. The wisest observers of the situation claim to have found the reason for this sudden arrest in National growth, and their explana ^*on is both plausi ble and an important object lesson for people of other lands. It is pointed out that the increase of taxation in France to keep up the burden of the Rational debt has been such that peo ple who, some years ago, were per fectly willing to assume the respon sibility of supporting a household are now afraid to make the venture. The French peasant is proverbially thrifty, and one of the ohief ends of his thrift ia to supply his children with enougb mea os upon whieh to make a respecta ble start in life. If he oannot support a family and leave it in comparatively easy circumstances he prefers to have no family to support. He would rather forego the attempt to keep up a house hold if he believes that possibly his attempt may be a failure. This faot is now offered in explanation of the remarkable falling off in the growth of French population, and the Chicago Record maintains "it is a plausible one. There could be no better proof of the int:mate relationship which National legislation bears to individ ual anti National prosperity. The laws which oppress the people of a Nation hurt it physically just as surely as they hurt; it financially." NEW WONDERS. 21 ARTE LS DKSIONKD FUR THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1000. Hage Surveying Tower-A Great Globe-An Knormous Hole in the Ground-Largest Tele scope lu the World. NOVELTY is the note of the times and Paris strikes the note. It would be hard in* deed to provide posterity with a better illustration from which to gauge the taste of tho world's pub lic daring the declining days bf our century than the scientific abd engine ering eccentricities that will mark this exposition. We of to day are lovers of wonders. We will find enough in Paris four years hence to tickle ns to the end of oar days. Wonder number one will provide EXCITING RIDE IS MID-AIR. an aerial journey more than 900 feet above the earth I The scheme is to ming a midair suspension railway from the top of the Eiffel Tower to the summit of the distant Trocadero, from whioh will be hung by rollers chairs making the journey back and forth. Think'of it! The Ei9Fel Tower is 985 feet high. It will give you some notion of what that means to recall the oopper oap on the top of onr Washington Monument ia only 553 feet from the ground. Imagine such a trip ! Some folks found the journey round the Ferris Wheel at oar World's Fair a nervous ordeal. Compared with this aerial cable line, the Ferris Wheel is posi tively ridiculous as a hair starter. If shooting through the clouds in a cane bottomed chair is not sensational enongh to stir the blood of our modern novelty lover, let him enter the sur veying *ower, which will bo built close by. There is nothing particularly startling about the suggestion of a surveying tower, you say. Just wait till you hear all. You will enter a leaning cylindrical tower about fifty feet high and made of tempered steel, lt locks like noth ing more imposing than a metallic Tower of Pisa. You will find a circu lar seat inside, capable of holding about twenty persons. You will sit down and probably grasp the railing pretty tight, meantime holding your breath. When the seats are all filled you will suddenly shoot np into the air for a distance of two hundred feet! You will then discover that your tower is made of concentric steel tnbes that telescope into each other, and PROPOSED SURVEYING TOWER F that you are at the apex of the inner most-and now uppermost section. But the big tower will not stand straight up. It will bend over, rain bow fashion, in a long arc, with you dangling at the end of it, for all the world like a fish at the end of a sway ing rod. Then it will revolve slowly from itt base, swinging yon in a wide circle over a large section of the ex position ground?, and finally land yon on a stationsry tower, down which you drop by au elevator to tho ground. The scheme of this tower was chosen as the most startling of five hundred remarkable suggestions. Ono of the rejected schemes, by tho way, was to build a temple of literature out of bricks composed ot the compressed pulp of rejected manuscripts. The idea appealed strongly to the imagina tions of .the managers, bqt the senaa tional features of tho telescopic tower prevailed. The third wonder is the great globe, 120 feet in diameter, that will exhibit the entire geography of the world in the minutest detail. The exaat means by which tho visitor is to be brought in front of any particular spot on its surface he wishes to investigate is not yet finally deoided The latest plan is to encirclo it with a railroad, upon which will run a regular train of e?rs. It is calculated that this train will en able you to outdo Phineas Fogg'? mar vellori3 feat with a very large margin to Spare. You can go round the World in sixty second?. 1 , Marvel No. 4 ii an inverted Eiffel To wer. In other words, it is an enor mously deep hole in the ground. This will lie on the opposite side of the grounds and its bottom will be reached by a series of elevators. The depth that it is proposed to sink this shaft is 1000 feet. It will be lighted from top to bottom, and the construction of tho crust upon which tho city of Paris stands, will he ex hibited abd described in detail; One will pass through all raDges bf temperature in descending this deep pit. It is promised that every variety of climate, from torrid to Arctio, will be encountered, though just exactly how this happens is not yet fully de scribed by the management. Frequent stopping places are to be provided so that you can linger in any temperature thnl fauoy dictates.and at these points attractions consistent with the tem perature are to be provided. Tho lover of geology can here get the most exact data pertaining to his Ecien tific hobby illustrated, ia. Jfoj? ftfflfc , effective possible manner. The construction of this big hole will be one of the greatest feats, from a scientiSo point of view, of the expo sition. The most distinguished mining engineers in the world have been en gaged, and the problem of ventilation is likely to catii? no end of trouble. It is not as aa engineering feat;how ever, that the shaft will appeal tb the biggest public Takeh in the co nee ti on with f e Ei?el Tower, the wonder lov ing will be enabled to travel two thousands vertical feet within the period ot and hour without climbing one step. But the fifth and greatest wonder of the exposition is to bo a telescope. Need it to be added that it will be tho largest telescope in the world? The objeot lens of the Paris Exposi tion telescope will be four feet, three inches in diameter. Fifty-one inohes I Think Of that ? The largest telescope now in existence is the Lick; whose object glass has a diameter of thirty six inches. The second largest is at Pulkowa, Russia, with a glass of thirty inches. The third is at the University of Virginia, with a glass of twenty-six inches. Harvard has tho fourth largest, with a twenty-four inch glass and the fifth in size in the world belongs to Princeton College. At the present time there is making in Cambridge, Mase., a glass which has been heralded around the world. It is for the great Yerkes telescope, and its diameter will be forty inches. Thus will the Paris Exposition tele scope eclipse by eleven inches the dia OR THE PAR?3 EXPOSITION, 1900. meter of the greatest telescopic object glass of the vorld ! It will, so it is claimed, bring the moon within ono mile of us I The telcc^ope is to bo 180 feet long, and is to be rigged so that 630 persons can simultaneously view the heavens with it. Tho imago is to be received on a level m irror seventy-five inohes in diameter, and from that reflected upon a screou. The revelations ot the starry mys teries that lliis gigantic telescope is expected to make will thus bo given not to a Rolilary astronomer, to be by him f-ent iorih to the world in his own irood time and to the benefit of his fame alone, L>ufc direotly to the publie, and our of ns may be lortunate enough to be personally pr?tent at stellar dis coveries o? vast importance. These are the five great wonders ot the Paris Exposition. Bat it is four years off yet, and who knows what those four years may pro duoe? The Herald will doubtless yet tell its readers of other marvels equally great or mayhap greater than these with which the Capital of Nov elty will signalize the close of the greatest century Of the. World's his tory-, ???is. ui?f ye I; give ?? Bevon wOnd?r?.- New York Herald. LAUSEST WAR VESSELS AFLOAT. England's Two Nev? Cruisers, tho Terrible and the Powerful. England's two new protected cruis ers, tho Terrible and the Powerful, the largest war vessels afloat, have re cently undergone their official speed trials. They are sister ships, built on the same plans, but by different con structors. The estimated cost is $3,300,000. The Terrible is 538} feet long over all, 71 foet wide, and 43} feet deep from tho upper deck to the keelson, displacing 14,475 tons. The measure ments Of tho Power fill ore practically the same. The tonnage is almost double that of our Columbia, which is 116 feet shorter and 13 feet narrower. The Terzible is about as long os the St. Louis and the St. Paul of the Amerioan Line, but is eight foet broader and measures 2800 tods inor?. It ie 02 feet shorter but 6 feet broader than tho Cunarders Campania and Lu cania, and measures 1500 tons more than they. It is 27 feet shorter, 13 feet broader, and measnres 4500 tons more than the White Star steamers Majestic and Teutonic The European war cruiser that comes nearest it in displacement is the ll,000-ton Kassian Kurik. The Terrible's engines are in tended to furnish 21,660 horse power, giving a calculated speed bf twenty two knots with natural draught: The armament consists bf twd 9.2 in?h gun?, weighing 22 tons each, placed in barbette turrets, covered with 5-inch armor ) of twelve 6-inch rapid-fire guns, tis teen 12-pounders, twelve 3-pounders, and nine machine rt THE TERRIBLE, GREAT BRI guns. The larger guns aro above the protocted deck, the ammunition being conveyed to thorn by armored eleva tors. Theta are tilso twd tdrp?dd tubes tit each end of the vessel. A turret protected hy 10-inoh armor shelters the oommauding o Ticer in ac tion. Tho masts aro hollow, with am munition elevators to supply tho fighting tops. HANGS ON TO THINGS. The New York Zoo's New nnd Karo Kinkajou. Thore is a new animal at tho Centrnl Park (Now York) Zoo. Ho has a sorios of names arid a long tail, with which he hangs on to thing*. The name by whioh he is best known is kinkajou. He is sometimes called a honey bear, though naturalists say that he is more nearly related to the raccoon family than to the bear tribe. The Zoo peo ple have plaoed him in the monkey house, and ho appears to bo at home thero, although he does not make a monkey of himself. The kinkajou comes from Central and South America. Ho is as large as a big cat, and seems to be a crosri be tween the 'possum, the coou, the bea/ and the monkey. His tail is longer than his body and is prehensile. His tangue is long, and is used for drag ging insects and other kinkajou deli cados out of crevices. The kinkajou lives on mice, bird?, eggs, Louey nnd frnit. Bananas and oranges are particularly desirable from his point o view. The kinkajou can jump from one tree to another, if they are not too far apart, and alter tbe jump ho wraps hi-t tail around a limb and swings OM ?afely an.l contentedly as if in a hammock. Puring tho day time he Bleep?, wrapped up liken ball. At niorlit he lively, au.I the moakojR at tho Zoo have already entered a complaint about his nocturnal habits. A CAPITALISTS CABIS, Dallf It With His Own Hands an? Prefers lt to a Mansion. Offer in the Berkley Hills, says the SanJErancisco Chronicle, Captain P. R. Tjfomag, President of the Standard Soar?J?mpany? has hoed btisy foi sev eral ^ears building rt log cabin: Ev roke of the work, even to out* ' down the trees} has been per* ed by the well-known capitalist alf, and to-day he celebrated tho letion with Admission Day exer hrhiob were held at his palatial i La Loma Park. ?tain Thoma? not only built the , but lives in it, although his Borne house stands' within a stone's tl of the novel dwelling. Five or Bars ago the work of building was "J. The ti ees whioh Thomas cut down to make the logs were the euca lypti growing on the land snrround ]ie oabiD. They were allowed to in, and then the log house was started. Ever since, the old iteran has steadily pegged away task during his hoars of leisure -^-'business. Several littlr things are yet to be done within the cabin, hut ?Hom?s has already moved his bcd into it and sleeps* under a eira [ pery.of Old Glory; The log cabin has been creoted with two, ?oord and contains four main rooms. Three are on the first floor and one comprises the entire upper v?/,>">jw!*-:*'~ ? j TAIN'S GREATEST CRUISER. floor and is the room where Tuoraas spends most of his time. The tbree rooms on tho low?i floor are deco rated with United States flags/ war or? blems and bric-a-brac of various kinds; The hali above is fitted up with all tho possos?ions whioh aro nearost the Captain's heart. His sword and old uniform hang in ono corner and flogs oro droped oround tho walls. On one wall hanp.s o largo colorod picture of the aerial railway with whioh tho "soap king" expected to conneot San Francisco and Oakland, bnt for which tho Boord of Trna toes refuse o fran chise. One feature of tho room-is tho largo log Aro place which has been curofttlly tiled* Captain Thomas con sidered this tho hardest work in build ing, and spent several months in Atting tho tiles. The logs are ohinked with plastering and the living room of tho Captain is as snag a? one in a modern dwelling. "It is oorafortablo," says Thomas, "and I like to ho hore when I am through with my businoss " Captain Thomas is ono of the best knowh and weolthiest citizens of Berkely. He is n pioneor of Califor nia, and ereotod the first building on the West Berkoly shores, whore his soap works now stand. Tho Thriring Alaskan Reindeer. The schooner Ida Sohnaaer bas arrived from Port Clarenoo with o cargo of ivory and whalebone. She brought one passenger, J. C. Wedstad, superintendent of tho Government station at that point, who is bound for "Washington. The reindeers introduced into Alaska some years ago from Siberia ore reported to bo flourishing, the herd numbering exactly 1200. Four hundred and fifty of these are at Port Clarence, where an increase of 182 is reported this season. The animals are prospering under the care of Laplanders who went north under oontraot to the Government three years ago. Wodslad's mission to tho capital is to draw up another oontraot. He will also recommend a plan whiob, if carried into effect, will oe of much heneflt to tho Northwest Territory. The plan in brief is to establish a number of reindeer relay stations to bring about communication with the extreme north ; even Point Borrow, the northernmost settlement, to be included. This can he done ot small expense to the Government and will be of inestimable benefit to fishermen, whalers, revenue cutters and miners, particularly the latter, between Cook's inlet and tho Yukon. Ko outlay would be required except for the station buildings, os the animals are trained and the Laplanders only too filad to see each other.-Tacoma ! Ledger. A Picture ot ilio Ken Future. A bract ?cal inveution for family ex I cureions."-Flie?ende Blaotfcer. STYLES IN DRESS. SOME NEW FEATURRS IN FEM ININE GARMENTS. A So a son a bio Coat for Ladies or Misses-T.'niquo Combination ta Form an Attractive Toi lette for a Vodnff Gif 1. HINT from across i he Troter informs ne, writes May Man ton; (hat the ltio'se jacko) in ' its varions forms has met with special favor. A coat of this de sign which is especially noticeable and attractive is shown in the first engrav ing. It is made of satin-faced cloth in a deep shade of Kassian green, the revers, collar and cnffs being of vel vet, a darker shade. The garment of fashionable length is fitted by shoul der and underarm seams. The right front overlaps the left in double COAT OF UATIN-: breasted fashion and closes with two handsome pearl buttons. The back, exhibiting tho fashionable and uni versally popular Watteau effect, is joined to the square yoke. The velvet collar that conceals the yoko is a styl ishly noticeable feature. The fashion able sleeves are gathered at the top ana bottom, tba wrists being complet ed with deep velvet ou?s. AU season able coatings will develop stylishly by the mode. Smooth-faced cloths, plain ly tailor finished or combined with velvet, may be utilized for dressy oc casion or when finished in oheviot, diagonal or less expensive grades, the r?oae'l is ddapted to all-round practical wear; To make this jacket for a lady hav ing a 86-inoh bust measure, 3} yards bf 44-inoh wide material are required, and 2| yards for s miss fourteen years of age. ATTBACTTVE TOI LT!TTE FOB A GIRL, Grey mohair, mauve velvet, white satin and jeweled passementerie are uniquely combined in tho attractive toilette depicted in the second lara^e illustration. The shaping of the waist id accomplished by a fitted lining that closes invisibly in the center back, The upper portion has a shallow round yoke of velvet aoross the bust and shoulders, the fulness at tho lower edgo being well drawn to the center. Tbe full front droops gracefully in a fashion extremely becoming to youth ful figures. A stylish adjunct is the ATTJUOTIVE TOIL handsome bertha shaped at the upper edge in rounded ontline with the free edges outlined with carrow jeweled trimming. A standing collar of vel vet edged with A ?'all of cream lace completes the neck. The stylish sleeves are close fitting to a considera ble distance above the elbow, the short full puffs at the top being the newest of the season's modes. The skirt of fashionable width is gored tu expand gradually toward the lower edge, a band of passementerie above the facing forming the garniture. All seasonable fabrics such (is mohair, challis, crepon, in plaid, striped or figured designs, may be employed in developing tbe modo, and decorated with nearing or laviph hand. To muk" this waist for a miss in the medium size, it will require pf 41-inch wide material lj j ards, and 3? yardea fer the skirt. ^ LIVE INSECTS WO UN AS JEWELBr.^9. Women have taken to wearing jewelry that is alive and crawlp, a fact whioh requires some explanation. There is a little animal known as the Japanese terrapin, which for many years has been allowed to make its hafflclo way unnoticed. Then of a sudden sortie fickle Parisien ladies be' gan to tire of their brilliant chame leons, whioh they had formerly been fond bi wearing as a substitute for jewelry, and the pretty little terrapin was attached to a gold chain and be came the very newest fad. Then New York women took up the idea, and a New York jeweler, in response ta the demand; has just ordered some hun dreds of these living ornaments. Women are so quick td adopt an idea of this sort that it will not be very long before the bodioes of every fash FACED CLOTH. ionable woman will be adorned with a crawling specimen and the enterpris ing dealer's supply Will be more than exhausted. The terrapin is a harmless little creature, most amiable and un obtru sive in disposition and modest likewise in appetite. When one ia tired of him as an ornament he may safely be kept in a box and will subsist content edly on a little water and a fly or two every night. He hos a pretty mottled j LIVE TEUB IVX? AS AN ORNA1?I?NT. shell, to which tho gold chain is easily attached. This in turn is fastened to a stiokpin, whioh may be elaborate or otherwise. A gold heart is the simplest design, and a gold dagger is likewise popular. Tho terrapin is often worn with evening gowns, when ho astonishes the pnblio by crawling ovor his owner's fair neok. One has to conquer a little squeamishness to keep tixi with modern fads, and the ETTE FOR A fi IRL. terrapin permits no exception to this. -New York Journal. rRETTV. FT? COtitiAItS. The prettiest fur collars of fashion are large enough to almost cover tho Shoulder?, aurl a border of 6al>lo tails finishes the edges if yoi', can afford tho extravagance. Sable tail?, hy tho way, are in evidence on gowns and wraps of all eortp, and two or three arrangod with the cream lnco jabot in tho front of the bodice are quito tho thing. C. ADgier, a f-tono cutter in Mont pelier, Vt., has received notico that ha han ful lon heir te au estate in Franco worth $7,000,000. MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy. For Flatulent Cello, Diarrhoea, Dyacu tesy, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In fantum, Teething Children, Cholera Morbus, Unnatural Drains from the Bowels, Pains, Griping, loan of Appetite, Indigestion ?ad all DIs > easefi o? tho Stomach and Boorala. I ? PITTS CARMINATIVE . J . 'ls thc ttandard. It carries children I t the critical period of teething, *nd# . > it recommended by physicians a?? ' . the friend of Mothers, Adulta and' # Children. It is pleasant to the tarte, ?* And never inila to give satisfaction. ' : A tew dose? will demonrtrate its au ( t perla?ve virtuci. Price, 25 eta. per j I bottle. For sale bf druggists. HOUSEHOLD" AFFAIRS, BECTPES POS VKKUSO, To Pickle Cucumber to Last a Tear -?Wash oat and dry in the faa a so and butter tab, Foar into it two gallons' of boiling water and ia this dissorvo enongh salt to float an egg. It genet? ally requires a pint and a half. Add to this one ounce of saltpetre, and let it stand until cold. Then pick ni cu tu bers every day? as they ripen ; wash them well and pat them fn the brine, continuing to do so until th? tab is> filled. Take great care in having good, sound and hard cucumbers. Any desired herbs, or a few peeled onions; can be pat among them for flavoring. When the tab is filled, and the brine* is over the cucumbers, spread a white cloth over them and pat a board os top, with a stone on it so as to keep the cucumbers under water. Look after the cucumbers at least* once ? week, and if any scam has gathered wash it off, put a olean oloth on top, and replace the board and stone. In this way the cucumbers are utilized as thef come from the gardes, and, il properly attended to, will be nice and crisp, and keep all winter. Pickled Stringbeans That Can Bo Used as Salad-Make a brine strong: enough to float an egg; string tho beans, and put them in it for twenty four hours. Then pour off the brine and parboil the beans in vinegar. Fill glass jars with them. Boil the vine gar for half an hoof with all kinds of spices ; strain it, ano! dissolve in it eome alum, allowing to every quart a piece of alum as large as a hazelnut. Poor the vinegar hot over the bean?, and close at once. Pickled Small White Onions-Peel the onions and boil them for a quar ter of an hour in equal quantities of milk and water ; drain them and pus in glass jars. Boil whatever quantity [ of vinegar is required with the spica and poof boiling over the onions. Al; low to every gallon of vinegar half r*? ennce of mace, a quarter of aa ounce 1 of white cloves, Ave tablespoon inls ot ar.lt and half an ounce of alum. These onions, although easy to prepare, will be found economical as well as a great relish. The milk makes them less pugnent and the alum makes them -.ofter and helps to keep them dil win ter. Pepper and Cabbage Pickle-This" pickle is quickly made, economical and flt for daily use. Chop together six large-sized green peppers and ODO firm head of cabbage. While chop ping add one and a half cupfuls ot salt, half a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, a teaspoon fol of ground all spice and one-half pound of white mustard seed. When chopped quite fine put in crocks or glass jar?, cover with good, cold vinegar and tic up tight, so that no air gets in. It will be found to be ready for ase in six weeks, and is an excellent condiment for cold meats and boiled mutton. HOUSEHOLD HD?T3. Always fold a dress right side out for packing, as it will not wrinkle so muon. If a little flour is rubbed over a loaf Of cake before iceiag it will prevent the frosting from spreading and run ning off so readily. Every housewife should impress upon the minds of her family that the bess sauce for any meat is cheerful ness. Langhter aids digestion, and people should never grumble while eating. In making Indian meal mush, cook it with milk instead of water, or part water and part milk if not convenient to use all milk. The pudding will be much richer, and when fried will more readily take a nice brown. , In giving medicines in liquid form to an infant place the point of the spoon containing the medicine against the roof of the mouth. Administer- * ing it in-this way it will be impossible for the child to choke or cjeot the medicine. In relaying carpets after the fall cleaning it is well to sprinkle .some thing under the edges to destroy any I carpet bugs that may be lurking around. As good a thing as can be used is a powder made of equal paru of camphor gum and tobacco. Milk wood pods make a fine down for stuffing head rest ousb ions. Those fortunate enough to be in the country will have no trouble in finding plenty along the road side, and can gather enough to bring home with them for many a winter evening's comfort. In washing anything made of chamois skins use warm water with a * little ammonia in it. Wash by rub bing between the fingers, bat do not wring the chamois. Presi it between the palms of the hands to take oat the water and hang before the fire or in the hot sun to dry quick' y, rubbing and pulling the article into proper shape every few moments to prevent the skin drying hard and stiff. Linens that have been stained by tea or coffee may be cleansed by mois tening the spots with water and hold ing them over the fumes of a small piece of burning sulphur or a few sul phur matchee. Wash immediately in water in which a little ammonia or soda has been dissolved. Stains that nothing else will remove are often token out by the vapor arising from burning sulphur, but the material mast be washed thoroughly at once. THERE are over 100,000 children in the national schools of Germany who ore stutterer?.