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Keeping Meat ? scientist gires a bit of information fox housekeepers that may be found useful Ho says m ta ?8 ought never to bo wrapped in paper eran while com ins from the butcher's, much less should they ho left in paper over night, or when put away tn the 1 co bos. A large-sized sheet of paper will absorb half of thc juice of a good steak if it has the opportunity, and thus destroy the most delicate and rclishable portion of it. One house keeper has a covered china dish that she sends to the market, and in this meats are placed. "When she requires a. large amount she often sends the porcelain-lined preserving kettle with a rack in tho bottom and a piece of ice underneath. Of course this 1B not necessary in very cold weather, hut during fall and spring people do not realize that meats deteriorate very rapidly upon exposure to the air. The temperature is so much cooler for them that they forget that chemical changes tak<? place quickly even in moderately cool weather. A market basket fitted with an agate tray or ba sin is excellent for meats. An ordi nary cover may be used, and in this way the steaks .and joints will come to the table in a much botter state than as though they had been allowed to give up their substance to a bit of manilla. The custom of sending home butter in wooden trays is severely crit icised.. The wood is almost certain to impart a disagreeable flavor to the butter. It may not develop immedi ately, but the butter will not keep as long, and ls quite sure to become ob jectionable before it is used. Paper is Quite as bad, and when one reflects on thc material of which ordinary paper is made the suggestion is scarcely cal culated to prove an appetizer. Of course a very high degree of heat and powerful chemicals are great clean sers, but all the same a fastidious taste prefers the purity that comes of contact with nothing but surfaces known to be perfectly clean.-The Ledger. Chalk from England. Ono of the few exclusively important imported British products used in our country is "chalk. It comes from the hanks of the River Thames, being ob tained nowhere else in large quantities. In its crude form, r?markable flint fos sils .are sometimes found, usually the remains of fish. The process of manu facture from the natural state to that of a form when it can be utilized is simple. When received at the mill the chalk is put into great machines and ground in water, then floated off into vats of water, where all the impurities and foreign substances are precipitated, the water being afterwards drawn off by a series of filtering operations, and the soft residuum dried by steam heat and exposure to the air; the substance is then reduced to a powder of differ ent degrees of fineness by grinding in burr milis and belting, when it is ready to be packed in barrels and shipped for use, among the largest consumers be ing the rubber goods manufacturers; rubber, in its crude state, being sticky, unmanageable and available only for very simple purposes, becomes vulcan ized and hardened by adding to it chalk while it is hot, thus rendering it suitable for the various uses to which it is put. As is also well known, a large quan tity of chalk is employed in the pre paration of paint' and putty, being termed whiting when in this form. Boston Transcript Master Key in a Finger Ring. A Cincinnatian, lately returned from England, says he saw a rather novel innovation in the way of a master key. At a country place at which he stopped he was surprised to see the host unlock the gateway with a small key, which was hidden in his seal r'r.g, and further was surprised when the host unlocked his .secretary with the same key. The American was cur ious to know something about the key, and he was told it unlocked every door j in the house, including the wine cel lar, the cases and the closets. But this key was the only one that would do this. The butler's key unlocked his domain, the housekeeper hers, but they could not unlock each other's doors. The master key was the only one for all. As he wore it in a ring, he would always have it with him. Ornithological Repartee. "What's the matter?" asked the bluebird. "It's that horrid husband of yours!" yelled the catbird. "I was sitting on the currant bush with a big, fat berry in my eve and he flew down and gob bled *it!" "What a pity!" exclaimed the blue bird, sarcastically, "that he disturbed the current of your thoughts!"-New York Press. Destructive Storms Along: the Coast. Reporta of maritime disasters along the coast como in thick and fast. People who "tro down to tho sea in ships" should bear in mind one thing in particular, namely, that it is highly desirable to take along a supply of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for sea sickness. Nausea, dyspopsia, biliousness, coasts pa Hon, malaria, nervousness and kid ney trouble, ali succumb to its beneficent and speedy action. lt's a poor article that can't get a testimon ial of some kind. Chew Star Tobacco-The Best Smoko Sledge Cigarettes. When cats fl^'ht in the dark they always scratch a mutch. STATE OP OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ! .. LUCAS COUNTY. f ' FRANK J. CHENF.Y makes oath that he is tho senior partner nf the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co.. doini business in tho City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and thatsaid il rm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every caseof CATARRH that can not be cared by thc use ot HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me nnd subscribed in my ( -1- ) presence, this Cth day of December, J SHAT, VA. Di 188ft. A. w. (3 LEA So v. ( -,- j .Votary Public. nail's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, and actsdirectly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonies, free. F. .T. CHENEY <fc Co.. Toledo, O. Sold bv Druggist*. 7?c. Hall's Family Pilis are the best. 1 cannot speak too highly of Pi?o's Cum for Consumption.-Mrs. FRANK MOBBS,315w.2Sd St, Now York, Oct. 2). 1804. Fits rnrmnnently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Klino's Great Nerve Restorer. $3 trial bottle and treatise free. DR. R. IL KLTSK, Ltd-, tfll Arch St. I'liila.. Pa. Look out for colds At this season. Keep Your b!ood pure and Rich and your system' Toned up by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then You will be able to Resist exposure to whick A debilitated system Would quickly yield. FOR FREE SCHOLAR SHIP. ACTUAL BUSINESS TAUGHT ; Railroad Faro Paid. JOS! Tl OSS GU A ?US- j TEED. Open aU year to Both S exes. Georgia-Alabama liuslnex? College, MACON, QsonoiA. OUK BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUCHTER.PROVOKINC STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Domestic Fixture-Patting Him to tho Test-Tho Mest Reliable Method-Pre sentiment*-Moro to tho Purpose-Com parativo Antiquity-Tho Sufferer, Etc. His wife can fire china, He's clever with a gun; But, as to firing Mary Ann, They vow it can't bo dono. -Cincinnati inquirer. Putting Him to tho Test. He-"I would die for you!" She-"Really? Go and ask papa for my hand."-New York Journal. The Most Kellabio Method. Dorothy-"Have you read that ar ticle on 'How to bo Beautiful?' " Anna-"Yes; but I think " e best way is to bo born so."-Puck; Its Origin. Tramp-"Will yer kindly give er hungry mortal er bite ter eat? Per de past free days-" Lady-"Say nothing but saw wood." -Puck. Comparative Antiquity. New Yorker-"That vase was dug up in Pompeii." j Chicagoan-"I'm a lover of curios myself. I've got a shaving mug that was through the fire. "-Puck. Her Only Hopo. Lazy Sallie-"What are you going to do when your constitution is all j worn out?" Progressive Peggy-"Live on my I by-laws."-New York Journal. More to tho Tarposo. Lord Hamercy-"You've no publi cation in America like our Burke's Peerage to tell you 'Who's Who.' " Miss Gotrox-"No; but, our Brad street tells you 'What's What,'" Best He Could Do. "I asked little Tom what physical geography was." "Did lie know?" "He said he guessed it was a kind of geography that boys had to learn or take a licking." Present? m cn ta. "Toa say you felt it in your bones that there was a burglar under your bed?" "Yes; you see, I stuck my foot out from under the covers and he grabbed j it."-Detroit Free Press. Ho Overlooked a Point. Mr. Saphead-"They say that all beautiful people are weak-minded, don't you know." Miss Pretty-"That may all be, Mr. Saphead; but you must not forget that all weak-minded people are not beau ties." The Sufferer. "I see in this account of the wedding supper that 'the table groaned with the delicacies of the season.'" "Yes; butl'll bet that was nothing to the groaning of the man cf the house when he had to pay tho bill."-Pkila ielphia North American. Admiration. "Do you consider tho Electoral Col lege a desirable institution?" inquired the maa whose mind is on the nation. "Well," remarked the nervous friend, "I can't help admiring it for the fact that I never yet heard of an Electoral College yell."-Washington Star._ His Injury Located. "And where was the man stabbeel?" asked the excited lawyer of a phy sician. "The man was stabbed about an inch and a half to tho left of tho medial line, and about au inch above the umbilicus," was the reply. "Oh, yes; I understand now; but I thought it was near the Town Hall." -^it-Bits. A Pitiful Position. Miss Goodgirl-"What are you thinking of so intently?" Young G ay boy-"Well, if you must know, I was thinking what tho result would bo if I should suddenly grab yon and kiss you." Miss Goodgirl-"Oh, Mr. Gnyboy, how terrible for you to have such thoughts when no one in the world could possibly come to my assistance!" -Harlem Life. Uer Vindication. "No," said Briggs, "my wife didn't seem to be very badly frightened when we heard that the hotel had caught fire, in spite of the fact that our room was on the thirteenth floor." "How was that?" "Why, tho first thing she said, when we awoke and heard thc commotion, was: 'There, now. Joe Briggs, maybe you'll not be so ready to laugh the next time I tell you thirteen's an un lucky number.' "-Chicago Nows. Literary Opinion. "I'd like your candid opinion of this new novel," she said to the young man who talks literature a great deal. "Are you sure you want my candid opinion?" "Yes. I wish to know exactly what you think of it without prevarication or concealment." "Well, to be downright honest with you, I think it is ono of the greatest books whose advertisements I have .ver read."-Washington Star. Tho Victim. "May I ask what is going on in the village?" asked the observant stranger. "We're celebrating the birthday of the oldest iuhabitaut, sir," replied the nativo. "She's 101 to-day, sir." "And tell me, pray, who is that little man wich the dreadfully sad countenance who walks by the old lady's side?" "That's her son-in-law, sir. He's been keepin' np her life insurance for the last thirty years."-Tit-Bits. Oricin of tho y?me. The origin of the name "doll" has baffled some of the wisest and. most learned, the majority of whom have at last^como to tho conclusion that it comes from "Dolly," the diminutive of "Dorothy," a favorite name for girls in England two hundred years ago. The word "doll" is not found in common use in our language until the middle of the eighteenth century, and, as far as one can discover, first appears in tho Gentleman's Magnzino for Sep tember, 1751, anti the following quota tion: "Several dolls with different dresses, made in St. James street, have been sent to the Czarina to show the manuer o? dressing nt present in fashion among English ladies." Prior to this, tho word used to describo tho favorHo playtl .ing of all girls in all countries and n all ages was "baby," which is to be found together with "poppet" or "puppet" in this sense in the works of most of the great earliest writers. To Mako a Needle. A needle passes through eighty dis tinct operations before it is perfectly -tn ?cte, TriE CZAR'S CURIOSITY. I He Destroyed Bis Daughter's Doll to See { How tho Mechanism Worked* The heavy burden of autocracy has not destroyed all the boyish instincts in Nicholas II.'s disposition,as the fol lowing anecdote, heard at a dinner, party given in honor of a gentleman; of M. Faure's escort in his late jour-^ ney, proves. The President, after' having searched all of the best Paris ian shops to find some toys worthy of the two little Grand-duchesses' accept ance, and, having bought the ever lasting golden rattle for Miss Tatiana,1 was in despair for something out of the common to give Miss Olga. He at last chose two wonderful dolls, one got up as an elegant lady, the other HS an overdressed little girl; and, after much difficulty, a most complicated piece of machinery was inserted, thanks to which, when wound up, tho lady and her daughter begin a ludicrous bit of conversation, which is finished by the little girl crying because she is not allowed to ride a donkey on account of her gauze dress. The baby Grand-duchess 'was de lighted, but not more so than her father, who, it appears, spent au hour on the floor with the child, listening to the squeaky dialogue between the dolls. But the time carno when the' Princess had to go to bed, wh? h she did very reluctantly. As for thc Em peror, he remained au instant in the boudoir ufter her departure with the' two clever artificial ladies who had tiken his fancy, while the Empress, M. Faure and some ladies and gentle men of the Court were talking in the next room. Suddenly a strange noise like'that of an infernal machine was heard, followed by a loud cry of dis may, and everybody rushed to see what it was. There was tho Emperor, safe and sound, but with a dismal face, looking at the dolls, which ho had partly un dressed to find out tho secret hidden in their bosoms, while tho dolls wore chattering away as if they would never stop. Tho Empress, unable to re strain her temper, snatchod up tho carpeted board on which wore stand ing and shaking tho two precious ladies, and, after having crushed her husband with a withering eye, she said to a gentleman near her: "Please send this away; it is too bad, indeed. The Emperor sjDoils everything he touches. " But Nicholas looked so penitent and the mishap was so fanny that she could not help laughing.-Philadel phia Times. The Habit of Saving. Now that the good times are march ing upon us, filling the farm and the faotory, and makiug the people cheer ful and the country glad, it might be well for all to remember that the best way to profit by tho depression is to save something out of the new pros perity for any other possible season of idleness and distress. With the vast abundance that this country has known, tho habit of economy Jhas como slowly. Many have seen the wisdom of it, and they are our rich people and the owners of our lands and industries and banks and various profitable properties. But the great majority of the people have lived up, to their incomes, and when tho wages stopped or the salary ceased, grim want stalked in. And so good mon and well-bred women had to go to charity to keep from starvation; had to sacrifice their pride and acoept ot the publio bounty, beoaus? in the days of prosperity they had forgotten the future. Saving comes easily when it is once begun. Do not spend more than you earn. When Peter Cooper earned ?1 he lived on fifty cents of it, and the other successful men will testify how hard the struggle was to save the first money and how easy it was after the habit had been formed. We aro go ing to havo some of the greatest years thc world has ever knewn, but no one should let thai prospect delude him into spending all he gets. There is safely only in saving.-Leslie's Weekly. Cut On" His Own Leg to Savo His Li.e. Tattooing is not nearly as common among savages as it was before tho in fluence of missionaries began to be felt. Many of the natives of the South Pacific islands, howover, still keep up the practice. Every nativo boy, when he reaches tho age of eigH years, must submit to the needle. It is a peculiar fact that all Samoaus are tattooed alike. Devices representing animals are never used. Tho tattoo marks run from the waist to the ? knees in intersecting lines resembling tho small checks sometimes seen in cloth fabrics. Tho lines are so close together that at a distance a nude na tivo appears to be clad in a pair of blue knickerbockers. '? As an illustration of the capacity Ox the Samoan to enduro pain, tho fol io-ing incident will suffice: Ahoy, eiguteeu years old, named Mua, in jured his foot on a jagged pieco of coral. Gangrono set in and he real ized that his leg would have to be cut off to save his life. No Burgeon was at hand and the boy decided to per form the operation of amputation'him self. He tied a string tightly around his leg above the knee, and, seating himself on tho ground, severed thc member at thc knee with an ordinary sailor's jackknife. Tho rudo flaps of flesh were bound together, covered with healiug leaves, and, strunge as it may seem, the lad recovered. Sa moaus regard auy exhibition of the consciousness of pain as au evidence of weakness. The Farm n Training School. If anyone will tako the trouble to inquire into the early lifo of the most prominent business men of the South, he will find, with scarcely an exception, that those who have been the most successful started lifo with out fortune, surrounded by tho con servativo, healthful iuflueuces of the country; laboring upon tho farm in summer and attending school in win ter; taught in early lifo how hard it is to make a dellar and how easy it is to spend it; cultivating habits of sys tematic industry: accepting tho labor of life as one of its duties, to be per formed with promptness, vigor and cheerfulness. There are barefooted boys who to day follow tho plow, clad in coarse garments and living on tho plainest food, who will in twenty-five years be the leaders in tho business world and the presidents of our great railways and tho directors of tho policies of this Government. Such boy* are having their hardships in early life, to be followed by great achievement and triumphs and wealth and honor in later life. They are going thr "?ugh s severe training, but timo will demon strate its wisdom.-Atlanta Journal. I Irish Egga? Ireland has 13,000,000 fowls, and might raiso many moro, and Irish egg merchant. are ondeav< ing to devise somo safeguards against the shipments of bad eggs, which have thrown so much opprobrium on the Irish prod ucts. AGRICULTURAL. Cellar Wintering. Bees may be successfully wintered ir cellars, if properly managed, but it takes oare and experience in mos! cases to make a sure success of it. A cellar used for bees shonld be for bees alone und not for other purposes,from tho fact that a collar that contained decayed fruits and vegetables would not be as healthy for bees, besides frequent visits to the cellar would an noy the bees and may result in disas ter to them. A part of a cellar that is seourely partitioned off exclusively to itself might answer, if proper pre caution is always tauen on entering it, or doiug any work in it while the bees are there.-Agricultural Epitomist, Cut Straw on tho Floor. It is well to again call attention to the importance of using cut straw on the poultry-house floor after cold weather begins, as it serves to keep the house warm. Leaves are also ex cellent, but the supply is Boon ex hausted. It is important to out the straw short. If only one inch in length, all the better, and nse it lib erally, spreading it on the floor to a depth of two or three inches. When feeding whole grain to the hens scat ter tho grains in the cut straw, and do tho same with millet-seed. The hens will be induced to scratch, which will bo beneficial to them, promoto the ap petite and induco laying.-Farm News. Influence of Stock on Scion. Tho Academy of Science, Paris, France, sends out a report of the effect of the stock on the scion in the case oi two pear trees, fifteen years old,which had grown side by side in a garden where they were apparently subject to the same conditions, with the excep tion * the stocks into which they were grafted. The variety was the Triomphe de Jodoigne, and one was grafted upon a seeding pear, the other upon a quince. Each tree bore about 300 fruits each year, and for three years the fruits when mature were col lected, compared and analyzed. Tho color of the fruits was very different, those upon the pear stock ?being green and those on the quince stock golden yellow, with a decided rose blush on tho side toward the sun. Ten fruits from the quince stock averaged to weigh 40G grams, against 2S0 grams on the pear Block. Both fruit and fruit juice on the qninco stock had greater density, and it also exceeded that on tho pear stock in acidity and in contents of sugar. The sugar was in the proportion of eleven kilogrammes of tho quince stock to seven on the pear stock. These observations were in th e main confirmed by others made some years ago on Winter Doyenne scions on seeding pear and quiuce stock.-Bos ton Cultivator. Iliiits on Dairying. As a rule, with any kind of setting now practiced, the cream will all he at the top as soon as the temperature stops falling. It will, if tho tempera ture is run down to forty-five degrees or below. The more rapid the cool ing tho more rapid the separation. It is not well to go below freezing. It is best to remove the cream while the milk is sweet, so that the milk can bs fed sweet to the pigs or calves. No good dairyman favors let ting the milk more than slightly be gin to change before skimming. To let the milk lopper is positively bad, as it renders it impossible to remove the cream without taking too much caseous matter with it. When cream is added, thoroughly stir and mix it with, the mass. Add no cream for twelve hours before ohurning, as it will not ripen and churn, and will therefore romain in tho buttermilk. The cream should be churned as soon as it becomes slightly acid. If souring goes beyond this, the acid be gins to cut and waste tho butter fats. Some, however, let the cream go so far as to even lopper. This gives a posi tive lactic-acid flavor to the butter, which many like, while the extra amount of caseiuo retained in the but ter makes up in weight for-the loss o? some of tho finer fats. It was claimed by the elder Toelcker, chemist of the Boyal Agri cultural Society of England, and by the lato Professor L. B. Arnold, that the 'finest-flavored and longest-keep ing butter is churned from sweet cream and is free from caseous matter; whilo some claim that such butter is insipid in flavor and does not "keep well But ?weep cream must be ripened by oxidizing before churning, and ex perimenters say that it must be churned at a lower temperature than sour cream in order to secure the best yield. Tho best temperature in which to ripen cream is about sixty degrees. It should be kept cool, not below for I y degrees, and the tempera ture bo slowly raised to the desired point of ripening and churning. The oxidation requires shallow set liug or some other method of expos ing the cream to the atmosphere. In all deep setting, souring tho cream becomes necessary to develop flavor, as the oxidation ia only partial. The natural butter flavor, developed by oxidation, is milder than thc lactic-acid developed hy roaring. Hence it is that many consumers pre fer the latter, which they are used to, as nearly all tho butter is made from sour cream. Tho contradictory opinions in re gard to sweet-cream butter appear to come from different ways in which the cream is handled, only a few knowing how to do it. But if one only makes good sweet-cream butter it demon strates tho fact that it can be done. Colonel T. D. Curtis, in Farm, Field and Fireside. Farm nnd Carden Notes. Fowls do not wear overcoats. Onlv a little crack or nail-hole but? * Only a small head roosting near said little crack or nail-hole-but? Only a little cold contracted from tho little draught-but? It's ronp. Clear, cold water is a great thing in butter making, but hot water is quite aa essential. Better cover the sides and roof of the poultry house with tarred (or other) roofing paper, then there will be no cracks. Don't let the animals become poor by trying to winter them too cheaply. Judicious feeding and care the year round is what wc are after. The pigs will, if given the oppor tunity, do much cleaning where threshing was done out doors; so will the chickens, and without tearing the ground up so much. Lot those who are building up their flocks and herds not neglect to head them with the best animals obtainable. These can be bought right, while scrubs ore dear at any price. When it comes to quality, there is far less diff?rence in the best butter made by deep aud shallow setting and hy centrifugal separating than dairy men were formerly led to suppose, 'I ? "y WOMAN'S WORLD Gowns For Nightwear on Trains,' Pretty gowns for nightwear on steamers and trains in cool Weather are of twilled flannel. They are in striped pink, blue and in darker and less attractive colors. They aro pret tily made with feather-stitched tucks down the front and collar and ruffles at the wrists embroidered in simple designs. They are said to wash ad mirably.-New York Tunes? The Cnlrass Bodice? The cuirass bodice of shimmering jet spangles and fine beads, embroid ered in a spreading design or sewn in closo bands on net and chiffon, was fl very conspicuous feature of the variety in dress at the Horse Show, This glittering armor was not always of jet, however, for both gray and white chiffon, heavily embroidered with steel or silver, were primo favorites. En tire bodices of iridescent spangles oh black net were also to be seen. Women's Pockots. Ladies fifty years ago, when going on a journey by stage coach, carried their cash in their under pockets. There were no railways opened in Wales then, and people who had not o closed carriage either went in tho mai) ? coach or in o post chaise. Farmers' I wives and market women woro these large under pockets. I remember my "Welsh nurso had one, wherein, if sha took me out cowslip picking, or nut ting, or blackberry gathering, Bhe oar ried a bottle of milk and a lot of bis cuit or a parcel of sandwiches, often a clean pinafore as well. Her pocket on these occasions was like a big bag. I was very proud when she stitched up a wee pooket for me to wear under my frock out of some stuff like bedticking,' similar to that of which sho made her own big pockets.-Notes and Queries. Successful Woman Fanner. Miss Mary E. Cutler, of Holliston, Mass., is one of the most successful agriculturists in that State. It is now almost thirteen years since she under took to manage Winthrop Gardens, ai her place is called, and, whilo she still retains active supervision of it, hei hardest work has been done. She had been heTfather's right hand for some years in his struggles againsl rocks and weeds, which were the prim cipal product of the land when he bought it, paying $250 for the whole Bi?.ty-eight acres. When he died sud denly she left the little schoolhouse where she was teaching and assumed the entire management of the place. Her brothers had left, one to become a lawyer and the other a physician in distant cities. She bought out theil interest, and, contrary to the advice ol her friends and relatives, undertook to be a practical farmer. Miss Cutler was not afraid of fail ing, but sho took no risks. At first she raised only those things that had already been grown with success upon tho farm, aud sho retained as her superintendent a man who had been omployed by her father for a number (tf years. Affairs turned ont well. The .woman farmer familiarized herself with every bit of the land she pos sessed and studied its possibilities. She practically directed tho men and worked with them when necessary and she was equally activo aud alert on the road and in the markets disposing ol hercrops.-Chicago Chronicle. As Kare Now as tho Dodo. What has become of the woman whe ugsd to. feast on chocolate eclairs ai noon and drink ice-cream soda a*t 4 o'olook in the afternoon? Sho is as rare as the dodo. Vanity, undoubtedly, is partially responsible for tho diets and regimoa adopted by tho modern girl. She is fl logical, thinking creature with more than a superficial understanding ol the laws of cause and effect, and kuow ing that a beautiful complexion, fine figure and reposo of manner are synonyms of good blood, perfect di gestion and calm nerves, sho acts ac cordingly. This tendency to bo "strong-mind ed" in the choico of her food is dis played conspicuously at tho hotels and restaurants which tho modern woman makos her own at luncheon hour. These "tuck shops," as Little Billee would call them, are .ill in tho shop ping district. Tho hotels in Fifth avenue and in Broadway below Thirty fifth street, the famous pink and purple Tea Room, a certain English bun-shop and a Viennese cafo aro thc principal haunts of the hungry shopper. Sev eral of thc big shops have a restaurant in thfa same building, but thc average woman likes a brief respite from babies and bundles and flees to Broadway for her noon-tide bite. Her luncheon is usually out of all proportion to hor size, which shows that healthy ideals have not been able to eliminate feminine perversity from tho logical woman's character. A big, broad shouldered girl will eat a slice of rare roast beef and driuk a cupful of hot water with the same cheorful heroism as would her brother, when in training for a football gamo. The fragilo little person with the aureolo of curls, whom one would expect to dine off a butterfly's wing, thinks nothing of demolishing a big English chop, a baked potato and a salad. Soups and oysters, patties of all kinds and rich salads are indulged in by tho less Spartanesque women, but the old-time feast of meringues and cream-puffs, ices and ice water has gono tho way of fainting-fits, hystorics and other uncomfortable things.-New York Commercial Advertiser. Fashion Fancies. Bright flannel shirt waists. Iridescent crystal shades for lamps. Various plaitings of chiffon and lace. Immense circular buckles of steel for hats. Velveteen waists, plain, dotted, plaided and checked. Black embroidery or passementerie combined with silver. Beady-mode scrolls of colored braid edged with gold cord. Haudsome gold and Rhinestone buttons for fancy silk waists. Black net blouso fronts patterned with jet and red or green spangles. Black and white neck ruffs edged with a cluster of vari-colored stripes. Pretty wash ribbons, an inch wide and in all shades and colors, can bo bought for underwear for thirteen conta a yard, or $1.25 a piece of ten yards. Black moire trimmed very elabor ately on the bodice with jet-spangled silk muslin forms a very elegant and vory popular gown for receptions, din ners and afternoon teas. Medium length black cloth and velvet capes, covered with silk applications and edged around the high collar and down tho front with fur, aro ono of the many styles in wrap?. Chiffon merveilleux is the name of a lovely fabric that makes up into ideal gowns, neckwear and light capos. It may be ha:l i:i holli single and double -.fidths, and is not expensive. SWISS CHEESE, The Cenulne Article ls Made In Huts High Up In the Alps. The American-made Swiss cheese re sembles very closely indeed the genu ine article, but there is a peculiar fla vor to the real article, readily distin guishable by good judges of cheese, which the American makers never have been able to produce. This fla vor, it is said, ls due to an herb which grows in great quantities in Switzer land, on which the milk giving ani mals feed. Efforts have been made by dairymen to cultivate the herb in this country, but they have failed. A few years ago when A. L. Reynolds was studying the cheese industries of Eu rope he was being shown over his farm by an old Swiss who had spent a life time in the. manufacture of cheese. With them Was a son of the old man, who spoke a little English. As the group was passing through a pasture where Bheep, goats and cows were grazing, turning to his son and point ing to the herb growing with the grass, the old man said: "Tell Herr Reynolds that is the secret of the success of our cheese and the reason his good countrymen cannot equal it." An opinion prevails that Swiss cheese is made altogether of goats' milk. This ia not wholly true. While much goat's milk is used, sheep and cows' milk also are Used. It is the custom of the Swiss farmers who have different milk giving animals to mix their milk in the manufacture of cheese. The genuine Swiss cheese is made mostly in huts, called chalets, high up among the Alp3. It ls made between the melting of the snow In May and early in September when the pastures on the mountain sides are green and accessible to the milk-giving animals and their herders. In the winter the goats, sheep and cows, are taken for shelter down Into the valleys, thou sands of feet below. The chalets in which the cheese-makers live are lo cated in the midst of the mountain pastures in spots protected from aval anches. In making the cheese the milk, part ly skimmed or not, according to the quality of cheese desired, is put into a large kettle hung over a fire. It is heated to a temperature of 77 degrees, and the kettle is then swung from over the fire and rennet is added to the milk. As the milk coagulates the curd is cut into very fine pieces. The ket tle is swung over the fire again, for each particle must be fully exposed to the action of the heat. The heat un der the kettle ls increased until the curd attains a temperature of 00 de grees. The kettle is then swung off the fire immediately, and the curd and whey stirred thoroughly, lt the cook ing has been properly done the par ticles of curd have the appearance of burst grains of rice swimming In the whey. The curd is then collected in a cloth, and all tho whey is carefully drained off. Next comes the salting process. The salt is rubbed from time to time on the outside of tt?? cheeso, great care being taken to discern when enough has been absorbed. This salting pro cess is continued, by the most careful of the cheese makers, from one to two years, at intervals of a week. The Gruyere cheeses, which are among the best known of the Swiss make, are commonly three feet in diameter and weigh more than one hundred pounds. A properly made, cheese of this sort is like a soft yellow paste which melts in the mouth. It is filled with cavi ties about the size of a pea, or larger, one or two in each square inch of cheese.-New York Advertiser. Facts About Alaska. Alaska ls two and one-half tlmee aa large as Texas. It ls eighteen limes as large as all New England. It is as large as tne South, Including Texas. It is as large as all the States east of tho Mississippi and north of the Ohio, in cluding Virginia and West Virginia. It makes San Francisco east of our centre. Its coast line ls 2G.000 miles. It has tho highest mountain in North America but one-Popocatapetl-in Mexico. It has the only forest-covered glacier In the world. The Treadwell is one of the groatest gold mines. It has the best yellow cedar in the world. It has the greatest seal fisheries. It has the greatest sal mon fisheries. It has cod banks that beat Newfoundland. It has one of the largest rivers in the world. A man standing on the bank of tho Yukon 150 miles from Its mouth cannot see the other bank. The Yukon is twenty miles wide 700 miles from its mouth. With its tributaries it is navigable 2,500 miles. It is larger than the La Plata. It is larger than the Orinoco. It discharges one-third more water than the Mississippi. The water is fresh fifteen miles from its mouth. It has probably more gold in its basin than any other river. Its color ls beautifully blue to its junction with the White River, 1,100 miles above its mouth. Putting On Her Wraps. She (smiling)-Your face is too near to mine. He-It's two inches away, and that's as bad as a thousand miles. She (poutingly)-It wouldn't be for some men.-Harlem Life. Bad Digestion, Bad Heart. Poor digestion often causos Irregularity of tho heart's aotlon. This irregularity may be mistakoa for roal, organic heart disease. T.'io symptoms aro much the same. Thero is, however, a vist difference be tween the two; organlo heart disease ls often Incurable; apparent heart disease Is curable if good digestion be restored. A case in point Is quotod from tho JVeio Eva, of Grounsburg, Ind. Mrs. Ellon Col som, Nowpoint, Ind., a womr\u forty-throe years old, had suilorod for four yoars with distressing stomach trouble. The gases generated by tho indigestion pressed on tho heart and caused an irregularity of its aotlon. Sho had muoh pain in her stomach and heart, and was subjeot to frequent aud severe choking spells, whioh were most severe at night. Doctors were tried In vain; t io patient became worse, despondent, and feared impending death. A CABE OF BEAUT FAILURE. She was'muoh frightonod, but noticed that in intervals In which her stomach did not annoy her, her heart's action became normal. Keasonlng correctly that her di gestion was alono at fault, sho procured tho proper medicino to treat that troublo, and with immediate good results. Her appetito carno brick, the choking spoils be camo leas frequent r>ud Anally ceased. Her weight, whioh had boen greatly reduced, was ?restorod, and she now weighs more than for years. Her blood soon became pure and her chocks rosy. The caso ls of general Interest because the disease is a very common one. That others may know tho meaus of cure wo give the name of the medicine usod-Dr. AVilliams' Pink Pills for Pale People. These pills contain all the elemonts necessary to give new lifo and richnoss to tho biood and restore shattered norveD. 4 4 Is your hair dry, han fading or turning gray? dandruff trouble you? F conditions there is an inf Y \y ,ym*fy> ^^mmsmsmm ? ^ A A> A A A A Why "Lead" Pencil? Once pieces of lead were used foi marking, and we continue to use the word, though lead ls no longer a pari of various pencils. History has failed to record the name of the genius wac gave the world those most useful little Instruments. We have heard all about the discovery of burnt snuff, and the sewing machine, and the typewriter, and all that, but the Inventor of the lead pencil has evidently go"o down Into the shadow of oblivion, "unwept, unhonored and unsung." "I have to laugh at tho queer Ideas some people have about pencils," said one manufacturer. "You will scarcely believe it, but the opinions of people who know nothing about it seem to be divided between the melting of the lead and pouring it into the hole in the wood, and cutting out the lead to fit the hole. "I know," continued the manufac turer, "that not one out of ten thou sand persons has the least Idea of what this lead is. See, here Is a fine black powder; that is graphite, and costa somewhere about twenty-five cents a pound. This white substance Is Ger man clay. It comes as ballast in ves sels, and all it costs us ls for freight. We mix clay and powder together and grind them In a mill, moistening the mass carefully during the process, un til the two are thoroughly assimilated and reduced to a paste that is about the consistency of putty. Here are the dies for the leads, into which we press ! this paste of graphita and clay. These leads are dipped In hot glue and are placed in the grooves as the blocks are ' made ready. When the lead is put in , there snugly and forever, the thin block ls glued to the thick one and left to dry thoroughly.-Bookseller and I Stationer. Norway's Quaint Vehicles. As every tourist is aware, a cari?le is a most comfortable little car on two wheels for one passenger. The seat ls shaped like, a- shell and nicely pad ded, and the traveler goes along with his feet resting in fixed stirrups at the sides, unless he likes to tuck them up in front of him, or dispose of them elsewhere on the framework of the carriage. The driver sits behind on a box, used for stowing away small pack ages inside and for taking quite a lot outside. A stolkjaerre is intended for two per sons and a driver. It is a rough cart, and again the driver sits behind. Very often these drivers are tiny lads. You may get one about eight in some places when the men are busy at the harvest, and it is usual, when two con veyances are required by the same party, to expect ono of the travelers to drive the second conveyance. As the little yellow ponies know the routes inch by inch, and as lt is the custom when numbers of conveyances are going the same way for them to form a very long procession, there is not much need for a crack whip. A trillo is rarely seen. It carries four persons, and is more or less like a small English barouche. The way in' which the driver manages to stow his person away in a luggage-crowded ve hicle is one of the wonders of Norway. Frivolity. The professor was endeavoring to entertain a group of seashore young women. He had been talking on the subject of geology. They yawned, but did not go away. He was the only man in sight. "I suppose," he said, the habit of interrogation asserting itself, "that any of you young ladies can tell me where the most important chalk de posits are to bo found." "I don't know for sure, professor," said the girl who is just out of school; "but I have an idea." "Where do you think they are lo cated?" "On the blackboard. "-Washington Star. Purely n Local Disease. Eczema is a local disease and needs loc? 1 treatment. Tho irritated, diseased skin must he soothed and smoothed awl healed. No use to dose yourself and ruin your stomach just because of an itching eruption. Tetterine is the only simple, safe and certain cure for Tet ter, Eczema, Ringworm and other skin trou bles. At drucnrlsts or by mail for 50 cents iu stamps. J. T. Shuptriue, Savannah, Ga. Tho sui tin of Turkey is crrcatly influenced in his public policy by a Suede. Carl Jenen, who was a common artisan, employed, before Abdul Hamid's accession, in the workshops of thc Yililiz Kiosk. To Curo a Cold In Ono Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggist* refund money i t lt falls to cure. 25o The Ontario government has decided that all who labor in Canadian lumber camps must bc Canadians, and that supplies must bo pur chased in Canada. Oh, What Splendid Coffee. Mr. Goodman, Williams. Co., 111., writes: "From ono package Saber'* German Coffee j Berry costing 15c I srew 300 lbs. of better coffee than I cnn buy in stores at 30 cents a ! lb." * A. c. 7 ! A package of this coffee and big seed and , plant catalogue is sent you by John A. Snlzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., upon rc-? ceipt of 15 cents stamps and this notice. Mr?. 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Puffiness and Dark Rings Under Eyes The symptoms of liver disease may differ according to the circumstances, tempera* ment, age, or constitutional weakness of thc individual. Not unfrequcntly thc com plexion becomes pale and sallow ana there :s a puniness and dark rings ur.dcr tho eyes. The functional powers of the stomach aro impaired and there is loss or irregular ity of appetite. These and all other <ilsor ders of the liver may be cured by that old reliable remedy, Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine The fact that imitators under* take to sail under our colors and sell on tho million dollar reputation of our Pr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine is a compliment to our goods, but an acknowledgment of tho inability or their article to stand on its own merits, and shows an attempt to unfairly appropriate thc business of another, wbico is unworthy of gentlemen, and thc pnblio should look ont for the imitations and re? .usc to have anything to do with them. ? FOR 14 CENTS ? 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