Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m V ■ ZMi! IT—T-TfnM 1 . . i - V The Model Hotel Clerk. The mcdel hotel hotel clerk is a young man who has originally created to fill an emperor’s throne or adorn a duke* dom, but when be crew up, there being fewer thrones and dukedoms than there were emperors and dukes, he was tem porarily forced to take a position behind a hotel register. His chief characteris tics are dignity of bearing, radiant gor geousness of apparel, haughtiness of manner and jewelry. His principal duties consist of hammering on the call bell, in handing guests the wiong keys to their rooms, and of keeping a supply of toothpicks at the end of the desk. When all bis time is not taken up in the performance of these arduous duties, he will condescend to explain to a guest that he does not know whether the north-boand train leaves at 3 P. M. or not, and if the guest insists on enticing it out of him, he was probably hand him a last year’s official railroad time table. When a stranger comes in on a late train, jams his valise down on the coun ter, and approaches the register, the hotel clerk, in a preoccupied and aus tere manner, turns the register and hands the stranger a pen —a pen that has an impediment in its legs, catches in the paper and splatters fragments of the guest's name all over "yesterday’s arrivals.’’ The clerk, after turning aronnd the register and examining the signature to see if it is genmne, expres ses some donbt as to there being a va cant room in the house. The stranger says lie is bound to have a room. The clerk retires behind the desk, and, after consulting some pigeon- holes, concludes that the gentleman may have No 1,192, He writes some hieroglyphics on the register, and then he talks for half an honr witu the porter and the baggage man al»ont the trunk of the gentleman in No. 46 having got mixed with bag gage belonging to the gentleman in No. 64 Whe he gets that mattei arranged b sits down to polish and admire the long nail that he is cultivating on Ins little finger, anrl forgets the gentleman that has rented No. 1 ,192, until he is made aware of his existence by an im patient tap on the counter. With the air of a martyr, and a sign that expres ses the fact that he considers the whole traveling public his enemies, he says : “Ah! would you like to go to yonr room ?” There is about as much hospi tality in his tone as there is in the voice of a bull-dog when somebody treads on his tail It is not intended to be hos pitable. It is intended to impress on the mind of the stranger the fact that although he—the olerk—is passing poor on $12.50 a week and board, yet he is proua and is merely filling the ignoble position he how occupies until he can come into his dukedom, which includes among its perquisites a yacht on the coast and a shooting lodge in the high lands of Scotland. Tin n John showed the gentleman to No. 1,192. No matter how crowded a hotel is, the hotel clerk always finds one room left for the late arrival. When the lat ter kicks aliont it. when be in leaving next day, because it was on the filth floor, ami was furnished with nothing bat a bed, a bar of soap, and crack in the ceiling, the clerk tells him that if he had only been staying another day. he could have had an excellent room, in fact, the best room in the house, which would be vacated after breakfast, by a gentleman who was leaving on the noon train. To oar certain knowledge, the gentleman has been leaving that excel lent—that “besT. room in the house” every to-morrow for the last twenty years. The hotel clerk is said to be distinctly related to the railroad ticket clerk, hut this must be a mistake, having ita on- gin in the fact that there are certain traits and atrocities of character com- mon to both. Tne hotel clerk has no relations. Not one man in a thousand can remember ever having seen a hotel ch rk’s father or uncle. Tue night clerk is not so gorgeous or inclement as the day clerk. He wears a smaller finger mg and a larger boot. His duties are not so onerous as are those of the day clerk. He sleeps in a chair near the stove or reads novels all night, and his most important duty is to wake up and speed the porting guest who goes off on the morning train. The hotel clerk has much to try him, and pet haps we would find many ex cuses for what we consider his exaspera ting peculiarities, if we stood on his side of the re. is ter and had tbe experi ence of how it feels to be a targetior the grumbling, the fault fiudiug, and the interrogations of the average traveler who lives on corn bread and bacon at home, hut howls loud aud long, because he does not get mrtle soup and four kinds of pi* three tunes a day when he stops at a hotel. Uleak Police Ueata. yon see that farm boase 'way out there?” He extended his a r m in a northwesterly direction. "A little more to the left Now you’re got ft, by the light In the windew. Well, under a little grating there that leads to a chicken Loose lives the dhrndest dog in the whole ward. It’s the end of my beat, and he gets loose about twice a week. He’s almost as big as a horse and grips like a vice. I bet he’s barking now and hungering after a leg or an arm.” And sore enough there was a faint baying noise in tbe distance. In the outlaying police districts there, is a general complaint of insufficiency of men and consequent largeness of the men’s beats. A proposition is afloat to put some of the officers on horseback m order that they may be able to cover more ground in a shorter space of time. Some of the lieutenants object to this and only ask that a sum equivalent to the cost of the horses and their k*ep for twelve months be given to them every year to spend on extra men. The Twenty-fourth district, which includes the whole Twenty-fifth ward, and whose station-house is at Belgrade and Clearfield streets, Kensington, has forty-six men on active duty. Twenty- three of those are on by day and the rest at night. Eight are posted at the Bnb-statkn at Nioetown and fonr at Bridesbnrg. Two have charge of the river front. Lientenant Nester says that the number of men at Nioetown and Bridesbnrg should be doubled. Taken s i aronnd he could get along very nicely with sixteen more officers. In the northern section there is very little else bnt fire-pings to relieve the mo notonous stretch of country, bnt these have to be looked after and the ground has to be covered. The adjoining or Twenty-second district, which is bound ed on the north by School lane, on the south by Montgomery avenue, and the river Schuylkill, respectively, has forty men. Tuere is one beat in it larger than the whole Fourth district, another thirty-two squares long, one twenty- eight, one twenty-four and the average is twenty squares. Officers in the suburbs in time get to know the very footsteps of the neigh bors and can tell a stranger a milo off. They get fnendly with the farmers, who make them very often substantial presents. For this reason they often relieve their confined feeling by arrest ing a pig with whom they are acquaint ed or apprehending a familiar mule and returning him to his owner. When Sergeant i’eace, who died in 1878, while holding a position in the Sixteenth district, was a patrolman in the Twenty- second, he claimed to know every pig within a two-mile radius of his beat. The census of pigs wau never taken in that district, but their numbers were vast. One night Peace thought he heard a familiar bleat. As it came nearer he conoealed himself and waited develop ments. A short, thin man, with a scar let muffler, was driving a little porker that waa just old enough to know how to curl its tail. Peace darted out aud I** tuem. i.ii6 mas swore the animal was his ; P«-ace swore it belonged to ’ Squire Colwell, up the road, and prepared to prove his oath. "Mark Anthony,” he cried. The pig wagged his tail and nodded approvingly, looking up into the face of the officer with what might have been translated into a smi’e. Peace was triumphant. "Billy,” cried the driver in his turn. The animal pirouted on his hind iejis and gave a responsive glance, bleating withal. Things looked dubious, but Peace took his man to the station hom-e, where be found he had made his first mistake in the pig connection. That Park Guards have the most ro mantic time of it. While in some parts of the county the moon glints on empty lots and artificial streets, made of brick bats and deceased cats, at Fairraount it shines on dewy turf and foliage. The druukarda who pats the night within the Park limits in sweet conspiracy with D&me Future trouble the meu in the light uniforms. They are picked no, prematurely lodged in the ceme teries or dosing on the brink of a reser- vior or river, “as if they knew anything abnut water” This is how a P.*rk Guard put it to a reporter, speaking as if he had reached the acme of his indignation, On an average the number of animals spuriously gazetted as escaped from the Zoological Garden is two per week. This tends to enliven things somewhat, aud the newiy-enlisted Park Guard is apt to fancy himself in on Indian jangle when in reality within a stone’s throw of Belmont. Rabbit shooting. ‘‘Whan Fox wrote his "Book of Martyrs” there were no suburban po licemen with twenty squares to a beat,” said an officer of the Twenty-fourth district, Philadelphia, describing him self to a reporter. "If we had existed then Fox would have slapped ns in along with the rest.” The officer was standing in a puddle in a wild, un kempt street, north of Allegheny ave- nue. The little highway ran between Frankford avenue and Richmond street, probably at an equal distance from both. Everything had to be guessed at in that neighborhood, however There was no moon aud the inky clouds, which chased each other from the northeast, made a* glimpse at a watch dial out of the question. The police man wnd the newspaper man stood in puddles because there was no choice whatever in tbe matter, "Tee,” he resumed, wiping the rain drops off his face, “we hate a rather monotonous ttine of it after dark. On Rabbit shooting is always good fan, in woods, in gorse, in hedgerows, in rough grass, whatever the kind of cover, there is no more lively sport. In low wood, where yon can see to shoot them as they get np in front of yon. it is, perhaps, at its beat Capital sport is also to be had outside, after the covers have been well beaten, espe cially if the holes have been stopped; the rabbits then lie iu the hedgerows, in thq stubble, in the grass, wherever they can find anything to hide them, but mostly in the hedges, and a couple of men, one on each side, with a span iel or terrier to find them, may have a day's shooting as good as almost any kind of sport whion the gun affords. Rabbits forced out of a hedgerow by dogs go at their best pase, aAl any ne who can kill them well may call Ml .self a good shot, whatever his practice at other kinds of game may be. The chances are, however, that a good rab bit-shot is a good al.-rouud shot, though the converse by no means holds good, for many men can kill pheasants and partridges vary well who miss five rabbits out of she. U hat To Ka*. And Drink Wiian Trfeyatlag Some rld-rs choose to take no regular meals at all during their journey, pre ferring to carry with them some plain and simple food and dnnk, like a meat biscuit and a bottle of cold tea or milk, and to partake of a little very frequent ly as they go along not even oaring to dismount for the partaking of the re freshment. We understand that this plan answers very well indeed when a long distance has to be mode and there is little or no time tor rest. It is better, nevertheless, to dismount take a light meal of mixed food, rest for a good long time to let digestion have fall swing, and then on again, gently at first, brisk ly afterward. Such a plan gives good digestion of the food, quick and excel lent distribution of it over the body for nutritive purposes, and a healthy and sharp appetite for the meal that is next to come. The diet itself can scarcely be too simple. Animal food should be fresh, not salted, and well cooked; light auimol foods like fish and fowl and mat- ton are yery good to work on; eggs and mils are very good. A couple of eggs beaten well up in a cup, mixed with hot water, sweeteued moderately with sugar, and treated with a small quantity of milk so as to make from half a pint to three-quarters of a pint, is with a little bisenit. an excellent sustaining meal for those to whom eggs are eudly digestible. To those who can digest it oatmeal porridge is very good to break fast on; and to all who can digest milk, milk is lightly thickened with wheat meal is most substaining. Bread should bo taken iu moderate quantity, aud fresh vegetables and fresh fruit are al ways in chiracter when not taken in excess. Some fruits which for a mo ment seem extremely refreshing while on the travel become a caase of thirst if the day is very warm. I notice this particulary in regard to oranges, the most tempting perhaps and the most easily obtuiued of all fruits. Of drinking during tricycle exercise I must speak with some care. It is not very difficult to learn tricycle without desire for too mneh drink of any kind. But if the begiuner does not learn to breathe through the nose, if he ac quire the habit of breathing through the mouth, he is sure to acquire also the desire to take liquids far too freely. He will become so dry in the mouth he will feel he cannot get on unless he has something to quench his thirst, and that is au evil habit even though tbe driuk be as innocent as the part st water itself. The first point, therefore, is to driuk as little as possible; to drink as much as will fill up the loss that is made by evoporating of the water from the body and not any more. What the character of the drink shall be is not very difficult to auswer, and what it should not be is anawered with loss difficulty, for ceriaihly of all things again it should not bo an alcoholic stim ulant. On this lost named point we who are advocates for total abstinenci' from all alcoholic beverages baye se cured, beyond any mistake, a fine score from tricycling experiences. Those who are to some degree iu opposition to us ou the general question, I mean those who still bold that alcoholic drinks are in their right place as luxuries aud should not be denied as luxuries, are with us if they are practised tricyclists, iu expressiug that alcoholic stimulation is fatal to good sure, and sustained work. She Obeyed en liupuu . Fifteen years agn the daughter of a rich and prosperous mau, living in line style on Fifth Avenue, New York, went out in a carriage ostensibly on a shopping expe dition. At Htewart * s'ore she left ibe camaze.nnd her coachman waited for over two hours, until finally, becoming anxious, be made inquiries. The young lady had disappeared, aud though a great deal ol money was sp< nt and much effort made to discover her, there was no trace. Tue jean passed and the detective who bad worked on the case very faithfully and anxiously, rose by degrees to the rank ot police captain. One cold night, just after Cnristmas, tour or five of his officers en tered the station with eight or ten intoxi cated women in iheir custody. Oue or two were crying over their arrest, and the prospect of a prison; o' bets were fierce m iheir oaths at the inie ference of the police with their orgie, while others again were sulky, lauding a liitle apart from the group of prisoners the Captain noticed a tall woman about thirty, and he saw that she bad once been beauiiiul, though now h r face was d shamed by a b:u se ou t ie cheek and a black welt under ihe eye. there was, however, an air of refinement anout the woman that attracted tbe police captain, and he eyed her curiously while the sergeant recorded the names of tbe prisoners, buddenly the womafi beckoned to him "Captain do you know me?’’ was her question—.” “No.” "Didn’t you once try to find Mis Grace 1” "*es.’' ‘‘Well, I’m her. I ran away just out of pure deviltry, and I’ve nad my full snare of it” ••Good heavend Why did you do it!’’ "Ob, 1 don’t know. The notion came into my head, and 1 obeyed tho ini pulse ’ •‘And where have you been all this timer’ • Right here in the ward, under your very nose. You never suspected me though I saw i ou often enough. "And have you not repented of the step?” Repented!” and the words thrilled in the captain’s ear like the wail of a lost sou). ‘‘Repented Oh, God, yea! But it was ;oo late.” * It’s never too late.” "Yes it is. But it’s not too iste to die.” And befote tbe Captoin could pre vent she bad drawn a small pistol and shot herself. The poor creature lived for two days, and wnen she died it was m tbe arms of her father. The mother had died a few years before of grief. Thu is a true atory and shows how much stran ger real life is than flerjon. Home Frencn cuemisu have succeeded in solidifying petroleum; In which state it burnt like tallow. Tnts solidification is i affected by adding to dualled pstroleum A Sautar'a Plight. This has been an unusually successful banting season. A ’arger number of deer have been hilled In tho mountains of Northern Pennsylvania than ever before, and many remarkable adventures have been met with. Dr. Oeorge W. Slump, a well-known Williamsport dentist and a great lover of the chase, has just returned trim a hunting expedition m the Laurel Hill Mountain, near Liberty,Tioga county, which involved one or two tnrilling adven tures worthy of notice. He entered the mountains by the 1 rout Run Canon, and after traveling northward some ten miles arrived at the burning gronuds. Before starling >n be secured the services of Joe Basuan and Bill Crist, two old and ex perienced hunters, who bait killed a great deal ot game in their lime. They pro ceeded to a hut in a lonely part of the mountain near the haunted spring, where they estahliahed their headquariera. The Second day out the doctor succeeded in Rilling a doe and slightly wounuiug a bear the carcass of which he dressed and sus pended on a tree for safe keeping until it could be removed to the cabin. Joe Hai tian, who hunted in these wilds for thirty years, killed a wildcat the third day, and Bill Crist got a long-range shot at a bear, but missed it. Oue night, as they were resting quietly in their cabin and listening to some won der! ul bunting stones by Christ, they were startled by an unearthly scream from some wild animal It proved to be a wildcat, which had been attracted to their camp by the scent of venison and, taking a position on a hemlock whose biaaches overhung their cabin, commenced sending forth uciearns that would have frightened any one not accustomed to them. Bsstian sj.zed his rifle and after some time sue ceeuod m shooting the cat, which tumbled off the tree almost in front of their door. It proved to be a very large and evidently was the same animal that had frequented tuose parts for a long time and had frightened a great many amateur hunters, on the fifth day the doctor succeeded in wounding a very large buck, which at ome atuci>od hi n. Not having time to reload bis nMe and knowing how danger • ous it was to encounter a deer smarting under a wound, he realized the moessity ol prompt action. The maddened buck dished at him, but the doctor escaped by crawling under the trunk of a fallen hem lock, where he succeeded iu reloading his gun. Iu the meanuire tbe deer was jump ing hack and forth over the log, pawing t^e ground and snorting fiercely. The doc tor managed to fire Irom bis recumbent position, but only wounded the buck again, which seemed to intensify bis an ger, and with glaring eyes he tried to paw uim out from under tbe log. Matters were growing serious and the doctor bau about made up bis mind to pass the night in that uncomioitable position, when Bill Crist came along and dispatched the deer at the first shot. It proved to be a very targe aud fine one. A day or two after this adventure tho doctor uad another one which was more exciting. In moving through the forest he encountered an old bear sleeping in a nest «f leaves beneath the rout of a fader hem lock. He fired at it, but faded to kill it. in a moment it was after him with dis tended jaws and glaring ejes. The doctor realized bis great danger and prepared for a deadly encounter. He carried a good minting knife, which he drew and held in ms hand ready to strike when r, closed on him. The infuriated beast seemed unus ually fierce, wiiicu caused the doctor to look around for a moment. The trims ot a large fallen pine lay within a few feet ot uuu, on which he clambered. The beat followed with an agility that was surpris ing chased him along u« eutire lennih. H» 'bet rushed to a large tree standing neat by and commenced running armnri the ibe truuk, which was at least twenty feet ■a circumference, followed clo-wiy by Bruin, who seemed intent on mischief. Tnis kind ot running wa< kept up tor full) hall au hour, wnen the doctor began to ure. What to do he knew not. if the ferocious beast once got h<m in its arms be wouid be crushed to death in & few minutes. Tuere was no time to lose. What was done niunt be done quick ). Fu ally in a fit of desperation, be resolved to grapple * ilh the beast aud trust to his knife fit halted aud <aced it boldly. Tne animal reared up on its hind legs and came at him with distended mouth and bry eyes and in a moment the doctor was in its embrace. He held his knife 'Irmly in his right hand, and as tbe heal hugged him to ns breast he buried the l ing blade deep in its mck and fortunately severed the jugular. The blood spoiled all over him, and be fore the moust-r could give him the death uug he tell iu gra p relaxing, when sud denly it rulied over on its side aal died in a few seconds. The doctor crawled away AGRICULTURE, Aotcmit Bros.—In all trees the bads which lepresent tbe future branches fur next years growth are produced and ehtb orated in the proceeding autumn. As the dead leaves fall off in October, the living chlorophyll and protoplasm which formed their setive functional parts are withdrawn into ’be permanent tissues of tbe trees;and their withdrawal, aided by various Internal chemical changes, chiefly of the nature of oxidation, leaves the minor coloring mat ters of the foliage far more prominent than before, and so gives rise to the glow of crimson snd gold which we commonly know as autumn tints. Outside the buds are enveloped in dry, brown scales, which make '.hem very incouspicious to tbe eyes of their enemies, who would otherwise devour these rising Lopes of the future season. These scales also act ar great coats or cisaks to cover rhe dormant living germs from the cold of winter. Everybody knows that frost kills plants; and ever) • body has noticed that it the foliage ex pands in spring too soon, it is very apt to get nipped off by a late retusn ot morning rime. Now, what is true of the vital matter in leaves generally, is especially true of the Vital matter in very young and undevelop ed leaves. It cannot resist the slightest fros . Hence natural selection has Id the course of long ages insured the best posai- ole means for keeping the true inner bud warm and snug. If you pick off some of the small brown scales, you will see how' closely they are packed together, overlap ping one another in regular rows, or im bricated, as the technical botanists call it. Tnis is an unusually good w ord, imbrica ted, by way ot scientific tbfrminology; tor it means arranged like tiles on a roof; and in fact the scales do really lap over one another like the lUhan tiles that oue sees on cottages in Southern Europe. These ibort, bioad, brown, closest scales ar- .hemtelves by origin abortive ijaves; or,to put it moie truly, they are leaves which have given up theer original function of digesting iresh material from the air. and have taken to the new function of protect ing their more active sisters from the sn&ip teeth of the frost. Underneath the outer brown pieces, however, you come at last to soma tiny bright green knob.-; and these shapeless little things are the living parts winch carry on the continuity of tne bush irom one season to another. DOMESTIC. far- Small Gkaid fob Tigs.—Western ours have become so accustomed <0 ing poik irom coin that they scarcely know what to do when a corn crop fails. Msny farmers hesitate to settle north ot ■he line where large crops of corn are raised, because they think they cannot produce pork to advantage. Now no one will deny that com is a most excellent food for fattening hogs, and where it can oe cheaply produced it is generally the most economical article that can be em it oyed for mat purpose. It is true, how ever. that corn is economically produced in places where corn can not be ripened, and the farmeis there find as much profit in raising beef and mutton. In Great Britain barley is chiefly used for fattening bogs. In Canada all the small grain ex cept wheat, peas and roots largely tgke the place o r corn. In tlie Now England males a little com is used in connection with potatoes, apples, pumpkins and mill teed. A variety of the food given to bogs appears to piomole health and to produce meat ol fine flavor. As prices range tins season it is hkeiy that oats will prove to be a cheaper lood for bogs m many parts of tbe West wbere but little corn is raised. Experiments tried by several seem to show that two bushels of oats are worth as much as one bushel of corn tor making pork la many Darla of the country it is easier io raise two busnel* ui oats man i bushel of com. Tbe cost of thrashing the oats is less than that of husking tbe corn. To produce the best resuiis the oats should be ground before they are fed. 1 hey will be readily eaien and digested, however, it they are soaked in mil*' or water. Barley which has been discoioreU by exposure is an excellent loud for yigs. The like is true of rye and peas. The cellar of many a farm house has caused disease which could have been avoided wilh a little extra care. Decay mg vegetables and Iruit fill the cellar with Iheir unbeaiihful odors and gases, snd these arise to tbe rooms above through cracks aud crevices or thiough the open door, and the family is compelled to inflate tbem. This may be remedied by carefully assorting out all decaying vegetables once or twice a month, and by opening the cel lar windows at night and closing them through tbe day. Ventilation is the se cret. It is a good plan to connect a flue trom the bulioni of the cellar with tbe chimney by which noxious gases will be removed. Don’t put iff this matter of a few feet and wiped the blood of the ani^kventilalion until it is too late, utal from his face, which had well-nigh blinded him. As he stood viewing the carcass and de liberating what to do Joe Baatian hap pened along, having heard the noise of the conflict while watching for a deer on the opposite bill. He was amazed to find that the doctor nad succeeded in killing the hear as he did. Bach good luck is rare, rite, doctor was literally covered wit 1 , blood from head to foot, ms clothes were almost turn irom his body, bis hat was gone and he presented a horrible appear ance. He was nearly exhausted and it was with some difficulty tost tbe old hunter succeeded ia getting him to the cabin, where he laid for two days before ne was suffldenily recovered to return home. He says that he haa had enough hunting for this winter. ChaaoU by Ci>>otes. Major P. Russell, the sheep man, says that coyotes do not bother sheep much in Montana. They wilt, however, keep around the sheep at a distance and howl in the early morning and at night. The shophexd dogs he considers a great pro to ction, as they will run the coyotes off, ttithough they oxunot whip them. Re cently, however, the order of things was reversed, and a band of coyotes corraled a valuable shepherd dog aud ran him off through the hills. The absence of the dog was afterwards, fortunately, soon discovered, aud herders, mounted ou fleet aud sure-footed horses, followed in search. The doz was at length seen at a distance,'complete'ysurrouudcd by about ten of the cunning coyotes, who were successfully driving the poor faith ful creature away from the camp. At intervals the dog would attempt to break bis cordon of wild herders and return to his charge, but the fierce animals, anticipating the movement, would close their ranks and present a snarling un broken row of shining ivory. At the ap- pro&cn of the hon>emen the oowarily coyotes at once dropped their tails and twenty-nve per cent, of tbs puriflsd juice disappeared almost as suddenly as if the of plants belonging to tbs family of tbs sarth had opened up and swallowed EuphocbUiOeai ! them. Tax average of short-bora cattle sales in 1881 was $168 per head; tnis year it was $192. A good sign of quality has caured it, but speculation and "fancy” {•edigree sometimes go too far. A VEOKTxiiLK not generally used is the whiliofl, which resembles chicory; The only part used as a vegetable is the leaves of the heart. They may be eaten as a salad or boiled. Now u the lime io paint up the farm mpkmeiilt; a collar's worth of paint will sav. uisny a dilibr s wortn in the wear and tear of the tools. TnjBTT-riTE crops of com have b««n grown on a field near Cedar Rapids, lows, without application of manure. Many comp lam that onions do not keep. The trouble is in keeping them too warm. Tbe onion is s bulb, a plant at rest, and the least warmth ttarts it into activity. It is much better that omens should remam f-osen through the Winter, provided they can tuaw gradually, than to put them into a cellar or other warm place where taeir vegetative powers will be aroused. It put in large heaps onions will be sure to spoil; but it spread in thin la) era and covered with Lay and straw, so that if fiozcn tbe thawing will be gradual, they will keep well through the Winter, it is the custom ot onion growers to get their crop to mar ket as soon ss possible, if they were to provide proper storage storage they would realize much more from then when sent to market later in the reason. Fob keeping apples tbe essential requi sites may be summed up thus; Pick without braising; store without heating; winter without frosting: use one or more thermometers; preserve an unchanged temperature; guard sgainst air cuirentr; give needed ventilation; remove npe epe- clmena before decaying; separate the fruit room from all other apartments, With these p.ecautions and care, such apples as the Baldwin, Red Canada, 6waar,Fameuse and Northern bpy may be kept fresh into June and July, as we have had an oppor tunity for testing. Daibying is an io.poitaet industry in this country. For an aveiage good season the annual butter product is set down at l,20u,000,000 pounds, and of cheese 400,000,000 pounds. Indian floes silk embroidery to execu ted upon black or white net, with white or colored floes silk in imitation of that made by natives of India. It cannot be subjected to much wear and tear, but it la excellent for brackets, or small hangings, and for evening dress trim mings. It is very easy to make. Trace out au Oriental design upon pins paper muslin and work the outlines in ordinary satin stitch, then tack white or black net on to the paper muslin aud cover the pattern over with a series of long satin stitches worked iu floes silk. If cream-white floss is used it has a more Oriental look, than where colors are in troduced. Delicious jelly can be made of cider. To one pint of clear, sweet cider allow one pint of cold water, two pou.ds of sugar, oue package of gelatine, oue large pint of boiling water. Soak the gela tine until it is entirely dissolved iu the cold water; then add to this the sugar, a spoonful of oinuamou, the juice of two lemons, the grated nnd of two, then the gelatine. Add the cider last; then put all iu a thick flannel bag and let it drain. Do not squeeze it at all. Put it in bowls or g'asses and set it away to cool. Sherry or Madeira wine may be substituted for the cider. Afbons made of browu linen of the proper width so tnat the selvage ueeds no hemming at the sides, may be made very pretty by fringing out the bottom to the depth of two iuohes; overcast the edge where the ravelling ceases, then about two inches above that draw out threads for an inch and a half, and then tun a blue or scarlet ribbon through the threads that are left, making blocks of the ribbon and thread alternately. Above and below this a row of feather stitching is adiied, aud a row on the band and sidec also; the pocket trimmed to match is put ou at the right side. An excellent soup is made by boiling a small beef soup bone for two hours, adding while there is time for them to cook tender, three onions, two carrots, two small round turnips, a little cabbage and ctltry; chop these all very fine; a little cream is.au agreeable addition to this soup. Many cooks serve this with the vegetables and I'olied crackers; others strain the soap and thicken slightly with a little corn-starch or door stirred ia the cream or milk. It is simp ly a matter of taste. Canned Pumpkin.—Pare, remove the seeds, cut in small pieces and steam un til tender. Drain iu a colander until free from juice, then press in jars and place over the fire in cold water. Boil slowly oue aud a baif hours, then take irom the fire and seal as you do any other kind of fi nit. Pumpkin preserved in this way in the full will make excel lent pies any time during the following summer. Maple walnuts are made thus: Beat the white of one egg to a stiff froth, stir in enough powdered sugar to make it like hard frosting, dip the walnut meats (which you have taken care to remove irom the shells without breaking) in a syrup made by boiling for two or three mmutts two tabiespoonfuis of maple sugar in one o* water, or in this propor tion. Press some of the hard frosting between the two halves of the walnut aud let it harueu. Dates may be pre pared iu this way, and butternuts aud English walnuts also. Pob«ie8 and flounders, though not costing nearly so much as many other varieties of pan flah, can be cooked so that they wili satisfy the appetite not only, but will be eaten with relish. Clean and wash them, let them drain, scatter salt over them, have hot fat in a frying-pan—and this fat may consist of beef-dripping, or butler and lard mixed —rub the hsh with Hour, and put in the hot fat; fry until they are a delicate brown, turning them often enough to be sure they are done. Raised figures, covered with colored cotton or cashmere, are a peculiarity of genuine Japam se embroidery, aud they have an extremely curious effect. A whole screen may be covered with these raised figures, and one of the strangest things about them is that the hair, eye brows aud moustache or beard will be worked in human hair, aud each gar ment or implement in use will be separ ate from the figure. This work has never been successfully imil a ted. A bowl of good pea-soup is as satisfy- mg us a hearty i inner ou a cold day. To mute a gallon of it, wash a pint of peas aud soak them over night; then boil m five pints of water, gently sim mering three hours or so, until thor- ough y soft. With a potato-masher rub the soup through a colander or wire sieve. A pound of beef or ham bone may be be boiled with tho peas. 1 he soup may be seasoned in various ways —with onions, cloves, peppers, etc. Lyonnaise potatoes are an especially good onh lor supper with ochi meat. Rut a large lump of butter in a sauce pan, and let it melt; then add one small onion, chopped tine or sliced very thin; when it is browned nicely, but not scorched, put iu shoes of cold boded potatoes, salt and pepper well, let the potatoes cook until they are also well browned; serve while hot. A littie parsley, chopped fine, may be added, ii you like the flavor. Dabned netting is coming into favor again, it is very effective for half win dow curtains or shades. To work it a round rlion of square meshes must be netted, which can be slightly starched iu a Irume, and upon this foundation a design is worked by darning in and out oi the meshes, filling some entirely and others only partially. *To imitate old Italian lace two or three different stitch- ea can be introduced. To make elderberry wine, a Tow two gallons of boiling water to three gallons of the juice of the berries, ten pounds of browu sugar, one ounce of cloves, throe ounces ot bruised ginger root, and oue pint of French brandy; when fermenta tion ceases, draw from the cu k in whicn you huYe kept it, and bottle. Cobn bread can be made without eggs, though two eggs added to the quantity ot batter mentioned here im proves it very much: Two cups of corn meal, sifted; oue cup of Hour; two cups ot sweet milk; two tabiespoonfuis of melted hutter; one heaping one of su gar; two tablespoonfuls of baking pow der. Bbkad Cbdmbs fob Pastby.—Many puddings that are ci mnroniy baked in a crust, such as oocoanut, potato, apple aud .’amon, are equally good and more, wholesome, made by strewing grated bread crumbs over a buttered pie plate or pudding dish to the usual depth of crust; pour in the pudding, strew sooth- «r lay sr of bread crumbs over the top and bene. NEWS IN BRIEF, —Europe must buy 793.000 tons of meat, and 845,000,000 bushels of grain abroad this year. —The potato crop of Europe is re ported forty per cent below that of last season. —Out of the 618,000 people of West Virginia there are 85,000 who cannot write. —Baltimore is endeavoring to take the school commission out of the do main of ward politics. —•The Washington monument grew 90 feet daring this year. Another quarter of a million is asked for to continue the work. —Among the new drags iu use are pear seeds, corn silk, elephant’s foot, and cbewstick, in ths form of fluid ex tracts, -Two years ago Wesson, Miss., was only a pine forest. It has now a cotton mill employing 1,000 hands, and nearly 3,000 inhabitants. —Theyouugest iuveLtor on the re cords in Washington is Walter Nevegold, a lad 15years of age, of Bristol, Pa., who has patented important improve ments in roiling mill machinery. — "That want of general courtesy and universal graciousness, which is a very real want among the English middle clas ses,” is a phrase taken from Loudon Quten. —The exports of provisions from the United States during the eleven months which ended ou November 30th last, amounted in value to $84,863,0(13 against $120,345,162 during the coirespouding period of 1881. —A short winter is predicted iu Montana by hunters and trappers, who base their predictions on the fact that the hair on tbe baffaloen is short this year. —Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be among the largest in the world, have been made by the South Boston Iron Works. Each lathe contains 600,000 pounds of iron. They are to be used to bore out cannon. — Manufactures of linseed cuke in the north of France are alleged to ad ulterate their products with spent maiae from distilleries, and that, of sourse, the usual percentage of oily matter is not present. —Suit was brought by the city of San Francisco against J. 0. Flood to re cover taxes on $600,000 worth of min ing stock in Nevaua. He proved that the mines are situated in California aud won the suit. —A diver, at 600 yards'distance from the persona communicating with him, can converse with ease with persons above water by means of the telephone, as was recently proved by Mr. Ware, of the River Meare Commissioners. —The hoad-dresses of the ladies m 1776 were remarkable for their enor mous height. The coiffure of a belle of fashion was described as "a mountain of woo!, hair, powder, lawn, muslin, net, lace, gaaze, riubon, flowers, feathers and wire.” —Among the trees which (.row in Alaska is one called the yellow cedar, which has a fragrance somewhat like that of sandal wood and nearly as marked. It is a grainless wood, of straw color, aud the Russians formerly built many ships oi it, for which pur pose it is admirably adapted. —New Jersey has 313,526 children of school age. The average attendance upon the public sch >ois is 113,512 ; 44,- 560*hi]dren are in tue private schools. Tne school receipts of the State during the past year were $2,140,704 84. Of ihe 3,508 teachers 2,594 are women. The value of New Jersey’s school pro perty is $6,270,778. —In the year 1784 eight bales of cot ton giown ui the United States were sent to England, where, upon arrival, it was seized aud condemned by order of the Piivy Council, on the ground that so large an amount of cotton could not possibly have been raised in America. This year the cotton crop ot the Umted States will be not tar from 7,000,000 bales. —Mark Twain failed to answer a letter written to him by Serjeant Ballontina. After waiting a reasonable time the lat ter was so exasperated at not receiving au answer that he mailed Twain a sheet of paper and a postage stamp as a gen tle reminder. Mr. Clemens wrote back on a postal: "Paper aud stamp received; please send an envelope.” —A Gridley (Cal.) farmer hunts geese with a oow. It is stated that he has trained the animal to walk out to wheie a flock of geese have i ottled down on the grain, browsing all the way along, he walking alongside on the off side from the geese, and when near enough the oow Lea down and he shoots into the flock —Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour has uiven to the Clinton collection of MSB. in the New York State Library a manuscript deed of land from "George Washington aud George Clinton, of the City of New York, Enquires," to Na thaniel Griffin, of Whitestown, Mont gomery county. It bears date of July 22, 1790. —At Rome a bronze votive lamp, three feet high, has been found with the names of four pious gentlemen, to wit; B. Tettius, T. Annins, L. Tattius and P. Tettieuus. It is shaped like a cornu copia. with thee wicks, is fluted, and has a large hole on top for pounug in the perfumed oil. The sharp end of the cornucopia fits into a kind of scab bard, to which it is fastened with a movable locket. —Queen Victoria has at length eon- sen ted to admit that "she is growing old," for the new Egyotiau medal that she recently distributed represents her face of 1882, and not of )842, as it has appeared on the stamp, coins and medals. In her own time she has dis tributed medals for six Indian cam paigns, three for South Afriean affairs, and one each for the Crimean, Chineee, Abyssinian and Ashautee conflicts. Punishing the publisher: Author— "Don’t you want to buy the mauuscript of a earner’s address?” Publisher— "Well, yea ” A.—“what d’ye give?” P. —All the way up from $1.60 to $1.75.” A.—"Yes, but you don’t know about tnis. This one is allegorical, metaphor ical, historical, calorica], rnetoncai and meteorioal!” P.—"Yes, bat there’s a glut of literature just now; haven’t you aeon the paragraph about the magazines having enough matter ahead for three years ?” A.—"O, yes; but this ia ado- gorical, metaphorical histo—” P.— "Great Scott I you ain't going over that again? Here is your f!L” [Exit, happy, the allegorical, metaphorical, etc.