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\ v VOF.VII. IN A MACARONI FACTORY. How a Palatable Italian Product Is ManufacturedSt. Louis Republic. Few people who out that toothsome article macaroni know how or where it is manufactured. They, however, \ (lo know that when it is properly pre ^ pared it forms one of the most palatable and healthful dishes that is Set upon the table. Many imagine that macaroni, vermicelli, spaghetti and noodles are chiefly made in Italy and imported into this country. To a certain extent this is true, but of late years the industry has so grown on this side of the ocean that now but one-tenth of the entire amount consumed in the United States is imported, aa s the Philadelphia Tim ex. Some years ago it was distinctive ly an Italian dish. The natives of that country were the first to make it, and they made a national dish of it. Other countries took np the article; until now it is known the world over. While a* lirst Italy had the monopoly of its manufacture and exported large quantities of it to Europe and also to the United States. In this country the work is lone nearly entirely by Italians, who have immigrated from the mother soil, or by their American descendants. In New York City there are sev oral large factories which produce am average of 35,000 po inds a day w ino 111 iiiLi city, wiin n sunnier number of factories, bet won 7,000 . unci 8,000 |> ?unils nre made daily. J'rohably the largest factory U. this city is ut Eight and Ohir tiai. streets. In this one alone 3,500 pounds are manufactured each day. Much of this is consumed in this city, hilt quantities are shipped to different places in the United States and to Canada and Cuba. IS A MVCAUONI KACl'OUY. A representative of this paper visited the factory at Eight and Christian yesterday and a tour of inspection through its three floors and watched the different stepsjwhich converts the flour into the hard and brittle substance that afterwatds becomes so palatable in the hands of the chef or adept housewife, The Hour and water is first put into what is called a dough-mixing machine. It is cylindrical in form and within it are knives or plates which are worked by steam power. The dough is kept in this machine until it is thoroughly mixed. Then it is thrown into a circular trough (5 feet in diameter. Through tliis trough rolls a largo stone weighing 3,300 pounds. Over and over the dough this heavy weight passes, rol ling it out flat. This process is kept up for half n hour. The next step is the placing of this well rolled material in a power fill circular press worked by steam. The bottom of this machine is a copper plate or mould. It is. about an inch thick and perforated with holes, in the center of which is a pin. The dough is forced through these holes, the little pin in the center each making the hollow center in the macaroni. It comes out in long strings, % soft and so pliable that it could be tied in a knot. taKks eight days to dry. It is then taken upstairs where a man lays it out in straight lengths no wire trays covered with paper. The whole ,is covered with heavy paper, and tlie tray8 are put up in racks to dry. It lies in this position for eight days before it hardens and dries completely. It is kept as much from the air as possible, as the dampness prevents it from drying properly. On nice clear days the windows are a1 lowed to remain open, but on windy days they are kept closed and the steam is turned on running the temperature up to between 70 and90 ** * degrees. This heat does not affect U1U III<l< ?I 0111, UUv 111" nil Uiy. Vermicelli, spaghetti and noodles are all made the sumo way, except that the holes in the moulds through which it is forced are smaller. The vermicelli is made both white and of u yellow tint. The coloring is done with saffron. When it is taken upstairs to dry it is laid out in curledup shapes that give it a fancy appear anco. There is yet another product that the factory makes that is fancy pas tcs. These are used for soup the same as noodles, but present a much IV nicer appearance. For the pastes the same mixing and rolling process is gone through with as in making the macaroni. Then the dough is taken up to the second floor, where it is placed in a pressing machine set in a horizontal position. Instead of the ordinary round holes in the moulding plate, the perforations take a number of different forms. All the letters of the alphabet are produced. INITIALS IN TllE SOUI'. There arc very small and complete as to form and enlarge after being placed in the soup. Thus the Smiths, the Joneses, the Browns and the lohnsons may have served the initial letters of their names in their soup. Ci Numbers, stars, rings and wheels are also made, while the pretty shapes ot the pepper olive and melon seeds are also produced. After the different articles are thoroughly dried and hardened they are packed for shipment. The macaroni is tnude up in pound packages wrapped in the familiar blue paper that many a housewife imagines has coma all the way from Italy. It is also put up in other colors, with labels of different kinds, bearing Italian names, all of which give it a foreign look. A UKCIl'E BY AN AI>BCT. Tilltro urn enun/u 1 tirntro <\P I ? 1 a ?iv? v i?i v ov/ ?ui m n (?J o VU UUUI\ I U ^ 1 macaroni. Some people cook it with tomatoes, others with cheese. The) hitter is probably the most palatable A liuly who is quite an adept in preparing the article gives the Times the following recipo for its preparation : Break the sticks into inch pieces, put in boiling water and boil 20 minutes. When half done add u little salt. When done strain in a colander and set if in cold water until the dressing is prepared. To make the dressing melt a lump of butter the size of a walnut and stir in an even tablespoon fill of Hour, add a cup of milk and a little salt and allow it to boil. I'utina half cup of grated sharp cheese, allow it to melt and add the yolk of one egg, which has been thoroughly mixou, but no beatten light. Then stir in the macaroni and put it where it will heat, but not boil. Courtship auJ MarriageWith an honorable girl, with an honorable man, an engagement oar ties witn it something more than a few sunny months of courtship. After oourtshii) mmcs marriiuy?. Af - 1 ~o? tor marriage comes the home. To describe the reasons which to some young people seem sufficient to justify them lirst in "flirting' and then iu getting "enguged," would answer no good purpose. Hut, putting aside the indirect manner in which writers address their renders, let me speak frankly to you as a friend ton friend Let inu ask you to consider what you uro to have in your future husband, in your future wife, to make it even tolerable to spend twenty, or thirty, or forty, years together. I will not insist on the elements which are necessary to the romantic perfection of married life, for most of us are commonplace people and a life of romance is beyond our reach. There are some very commonplace things which you ought to make sure of. Good sound health is one thing. There are twenty grave reasons for insisting on it. Next to this I should put perfect truthfulness. The man who will lie to other people will lie to his wife; the girl who will lie to other people will lie to her husband. Next to truthfulness, temperance, industry and courage. Then fortitude that is, the power to bear pain and trouble without whining. Then unselfishness, for the selfish man, the selfish girl, though drawn out of selfishness in the early weeks of court- j ship, will settle back into it again when the wear and worry of life come on. 1 said just now that most of us are commonplace people, and that a life of romance is out of otir reach; hut I believe in "falling in love." The imagination should be kindled, and the heart touched. There should be enthusiasm and even romance in the happy months that precede marriage, and something of the romance totno very end of life, or else the homo is wanting in its perfect happiness and grace. The wonderful charm which makes tho wife more to the husband than all other women, and tho husband more to tho wife than all other men?this is necessary to a happy marriage, nut take my woru for it, those plain, solid virtues of which I have spoken are indispensable to the security and happiness of a home, and it is a home you are drifting to when you are drifting into love.?II. W. Dale. ICeMlly Proved from Price List*. (Front The New York Tribune.; The Democratic National Committee is reviving the falsehood that was so industriously circulated in 1888 and again in 1800, concerning the price of American farming implements here and abroad. Tho allegation is that American manufacturers of agricultural machines, protected by a high tariff are selling those ma chines in tho European market; or, in other words, that the tariff is enabling them to cheat their American customers. From the Peoria II<?rul<l. Here are prices at home and abroad I It n 4 ft. it itt rtM it it /I niAAlanniA / I ll'lt f fni J 1)11 lUUi niiu I1ICUI1UI1IU IB frtmillinr with: A steel plough sold here for $8 is sold in Spain and South America for *4. Hav rake sold here for $25 is sold in Spain and South America for $17. A feed cutter sold here for $28 is sold abroad for $16. Blacksmith's hammers sold here for $10 a dozen are sold to foreigners for $0 a dozen. Hatchet, shingling, a dQzon, here, *4.60; to foreigners, $3.50. # * "He True to You )NWAY, 8. C., 1 A WOMAN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. Miss Ella L- Knowles is the Legal Advisor of the State of Montana(From tho Now York Press ) Hki.kna, Mon, November 12.? Montana has at Ins made something new under the sun. 11 is a woman Attorney General?a young woman, and a pretty one at that* The Popu lists, who have done so many queerthings, have this peculiar political freak also to their credit. And yet there is little doubt Miss Ella L. Knowlos, who has boon elected t} office, will make an excellent Attorney General. She is full of brains, dauntless, self-confident and plucky. She had two contestants against her?Haskell, Republican, and Hay, Democrat. She leads them both by 300 votes. T'lH OTll RK STATU OFFICICR8. Unofficial figures of the Legislature show; Senate, 10 Democrats, 5 Republicans, on? in doubt; House, 25 Democrats, 23 Republicans, 4 People's party, and three in doutbt. One of the Populists was endorse 1 by Democrats, and is pledged to vo'e for a Democratic United States Senator. The vote in doubtful districts is no close that it will take the official count to decide. Giving the Republicans all four, the Democrats will still have a majority of one on joint ballot. This insures the selection of a Democrat to sucoed Sanders, Republican, in the United States Senate: Enough returns are in to show a Republican majority on the Presidential ticket, Congressmen and all the State ticket except Attorney General and Blake for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who was beaten by Pemborton, Democrat and Populist. MISS 1CN0WI.K8'S CAHKKH. Miss Ella L. Knowles, Attorney General elect of Montana, was born 28 yeais ago in North wend, N. II. She is a graduate of Bates's College at Lewiston, Me, and has taken the degree of Master of Arts from that institution. 11 or legal studies wera ii.? i ..f II.,-.. [MUStUincU in tuc inn uiuuo wi IJUIII* ham & ltrown in Manchester, N. H., and later in Helena, Mon. There was considerable prejudice against allowing her to practice. So the plucky young woman went to work to influence the Legislature ?it was tho Territorial Legislature of 1888-89-to pass a bill admitting women to practice law. Western chivalry could not withstand her, and the bill was passed. In Decembor, 1890, she was admitted to the liar, and now she has a practice of whioh many men would be proud, to say nothing of her prospects politically, now KHH look8. Miss Knowles is described as being very womanly in appearance. She is the only woman lawyor in the State, but even into her profession she carries the gentler virtues. She has all a woman's keen sensibilities and ten/I am n ittvt 4 It i <tn<l n I 1 lltA % / \ /?!? . u*;i ojiupatiiicvi auu nu uuo iuu^ir ness of Western life with which she has come in contact has not impaired these qualities. In appearance she is more like a demure young matron than astern Portia. She is of medium height, neither thin nor stout, has a face which, while strong and firm, is also pretty. She believes in her right to practice law and to be paid for her legal services, and she believed in her right to be Attorney General of Montana if she could get enough votes. The People's party liked her spa it, and when it came to make up a ticket last July it gave her the nomination. She conducted a spirited campaign and all the credit of her victory belongs to herself. The Art of Sweeping. In sweeping, take long, light strokes, and do not use too heavy a broom. "Alice," said Leis, "do you honestly think sweeping is harder exercise than playing tennis?'* I hesitated. "I really don't know. One never thinks of hard or easy in iHitniH, me game is so nuere ung; and then, it's outdoor exercise, and there's no danger of inhaling dust." ''Well, for my part," said Marjor ie, *'I like doing work that tellsThere is is to much satisfaction in peeing the figurea in the carpet couae out brightly under my broom! Alice, what did you do to make your reception room so perfectly spendiferousP Girls, look here! You'd think this carpet had just come out of the warehouse." ' Mother often tells Aunt Hetty," said I, "to dip the end of the broom in a pail of water, in which she poared a little ammonia?a teaspoonful to a gallon. The ammonia takes off the dust, and refreshes the colors wonderfully. We could't keep house without it," I finished rather proudly. "Did you bring some from home?" r Word, Your Work and Y< THURSDAY N asked Marjorie, looking hurt, "Why, of course not! I asked your mother, and she gave me a bottle, and told me to take what I wanted.v "A little coarse salt or damp tea leaves strewed over the carpet before I sweeping, adds case to the cleansing process," said Mrs. Downing, appearing on the scene and praising us for our thoroughness. "The reason is that both the suit and tho ton 1oon>u being moist, keep down the light floating dust, which gives more trouble than the heavy dirt. Hut now you will all ho belter for|a short rest; so conic into my little snuggery and have a gossip and a lunch, and then you may attack tho enemy again."? i Selected. A Young Lady's Rules. The following rules of conduct fell out of the pocket book of a young lady and an unscrupulous newspaper j reporter picked them up, says the Padurah Standard. 1. 1 don't let a man sinoko when the walks or drives with me. If lie I knows no better than to do it, I | promptly tell him what I think of it. j 2. I don't give my photograph to I men. I used to, occasionally, but 1 am wiser now. I should hate, byaiul-by, to know that my face might be hanging up in Tom, Dick or Harry's room 3. 1 don't let a man take my arm | when he walks with inc. If he does, j I tell him 1 pcrfer him to give me his arm, d. I don't go out with a man! friend just because he asks me. I like it better if lie asks another lady tojgo too his sister for instance* 5. I don't let any man "see me i homo" from church. If he hasn't gumption enough to take me there and sit through the services with me he may stay awav altogether. (J. I don't let a in in friend give me presents unless it is something or a trilling cost, like fruit or Mowers. Ami I always guage 11 man by his taste in this respect. 7. I don't encourage any young man who is not perfectly polite and agreeable to my mother. Whoever calls upon nio sees a groat deal of her. 8. I don't allow a caller to stay ! later than ton o'clock. If ho does not go at that time, 1 politely tell him my custom. He Had Nerve. 41 About two weeks ago I was camping with u party on the shore of Lake Kric, trot far from Ashtabula," said George Wilson, a mill worker, to the Syracuse tStdmlard. Shortly after we had retired ono orenint.' 1 heard a peculiar whirring sound, which 1 recognized at once. 'There is a rattlesnake in camp,' I exclaimed. 'I am coiner to trot. nn.' - - - o r> ? n ~ _ " J" 'Hush!' caino tho word, slowly hissed through tho teeth from a companion near mo. 'The snake has crawled into my shirt bosom.' This was very softly and wo were almost para lyzod with fright at tho prospect. We were afraid to stir for fear tho reptile would tako alarm aud atriko its victim. It crawled over his body good-naturedly, evidently enjoying tho warmth, for the night was a little raw. "At times the snake's head was close to his face, and he told us afferwards he feared the motion of his chest up aud down in breathing would stir up the animal, and he tried hard to breathe as little as possible. Finally the snake crawled towards the fire and in an instant the whole camp was up. One seized a club and broke tho reptile's hack before it could make a spring. It measured nearly 5 feet. "The man who had the terrible experience collapsed like a rag after the experience was over. During the ordeal we were all surprised at the coolness and nerve he displayed. With Sill rlllllir.51* IMItf lia f..ll i>i?n . I ? %?.. W1 j'H'U liu IV II JIIIU f* faint, but he soon revived." i About the Word "Roorback.' i Yon have often heard and used the j word "roorback," especially at just about the eve of a political election, when any and all kinds of 'roorbacks" may be looked for, but it is ton chances to one if you "stopped in your mad rush," etc , as Nye would say, to figure on the origin of the term. My political dictionaries, each of which have a preface informing the lucky or luckless owner that ''the origin of every known political phrase" may bo "found upon the inside," are sadly lacking at the place where "roor" should como in. However, in a* little unpretentious scrap-book I find the following: "The word 'roorback' originated away back in 1814, when a lot of soulless political schemers in llaltimore published a fictitious story, said to be au extract from the works of one Baron Koorback. The object, of course, was to gain some po llitical point, tho extract from the Baron's book giving many good rca. sons why just that particular point should bo gained at any cost. The probabilities are that there never was such a person as 'Baron Koorback,' bat the incident related has made hit name a synonym for any gigantic electioneering lie." our Country" OVEMBEli 24, READY FOR FOUR YEARS HENCE' Democrats to be Downed as Republicans Have Been. News ami Courier. Dm-. Moinks, Iowa, Nov. 10.? Gen. Weaver, candidate for President on the PeopVs party ticket, issued an address to-day to tiro voters of the party He declares that the People's party is not far behind tlie Republican party in the number of States carried; that it would doubtless hold the balance of power in tho United States Senate; had doubled its adherents in tho House; had secured control of a number of Stute Governments: holds the balance of power in the majority of States, and bad gained a large following in every State of the South. Weaver says that the almost annihilation of tho Republican party organization leaves the former adherantsof that party free to align themselves with the anti-monopoly and industrial movement. The accession of the Democratic party to power is the result of a violent reaction and not the deliberate judgement of t he American people. Tho leaders of the Democrits, he declares, are without any x\i'l defined noliov excent I thut of contempt for every element of reform within the ranks of their own party ami among the people tit large, The new Administration will ignore three contentions of modern times relating to land, money and transportation, and in fact the whole force of the new regime will bo exercised to prevent reform in those important matters. The urgent demand for the free coinage of silver is to be disdainfully ignored and in oontompt of the doctrine of Andrew Jackson dictate our financial policy. The uniform legal tender currency of the Government is to he sacrificed and a serious attempt made to force the people to return to a fraudulent sys-1 tern of Statu hank issues. In Gen. Weaver's view the violent political storms of 1888 and 181)0 signify a turbulent condition of the political atmosphere foreshadowing a political crisis. He urges that the work of organization bo pushed with energy through all the States. ? - ?rnamm Some Greenville IdeasNrws and Courier. Ghkknvii.uk, November 15?Special: A bill lias been prepared and will be introduced in the Legislature bv fi mnmbnr fr<n?? lliiu nnnntMi .... ~J ' If" quiring county commissioners to Ink? charge of and feed priosners in the county jail. It is claimed that the bill will be passed and that it is a retrenchment and reform measure. The advocates of the measure say that sheriffs are now paid thirty cents a day for feeding prisoners when it does not cost over ten cents a day. The cotnmitjsionors, it is claimed, can buy food by the whole sale and probably keep the prisoners for les?s than ten cents a day. Uepresentativo-eloct Shuman will introduce a bill, which he has already drawn up, establishing a County Court for Greenville, anu it is not improbable that a bill creating County Courts all over the State will be passed. The bill for this county provides for a Judge at $1,000 a year salary and a prosecuting attorney at $500. The regular grand jury is to consider indictments and jurors will be drawn as|ltsual. The Court will have jurisdiction of all criminal cases except murder, arson, burglary, rape and a few other serious crimes. Jt will also hear civil cases. The Court will be run very much as the Circuit Courts, and the terms will be held every other month. There are so many provisions of tho bill that it is almost impossible to give all of them. Tho Judge and prosecuting attorney are to be elected by the people and their terms of office are to bo four years each. The postponed Cleveland and Stevenson jollification and torchlight procession will tako place on Friday night. Sam Randall's Poverty. Piiii.adki.phia, Pa., Nov. 14.? Pennsylvania's grent commoner, Samuel J. Randall, died a very poor man. How poor was not disclosed until to-day. Mrs. Fannie W. Randall, widow and administratrix of the deceased statesman, to day filed an answer in the Orphans' Court to proceedings brought by a creditor of the estate to compel an accounting. Mrs. Randall simply said in the answer thath her husband left no roal or personal estate save a few personal effects^ and that after the payment of the funeral expenses and the setting aside of her $400 widow's exemption there was nothing to account for nor enough money of the estate left to pay the costs required in the accounting. She added that no disrespect was intended by her to the Court, hut under the circumstances she had not complied with the request. A Large ShaikCapt. J. F. Howen brings the news tkart a monster shark was captured > |? ^ I I * I s \ 1892 one day Lst week, near Shallotte bur, in u purse 801110 belonging to Messrs. Mooro niul ltourk. Capt. Janies Chad wick was in charge of the net when it was hauled in. Tho shark measured 12 feot in length and 0 feet around the middlo of his body. Ilix tnolltli (iliiMii'i) frm l'tni'ii iiwiiou -I * * and his tcngue measured 8 inches across. This is the largest shark over seen in those waters, Southport hauler. Nellie Bailey, a Pennsvvania Belle, won By a DemocatSpecial to The Republic Hazel ton, l'u., Nov. 14*?Tho littlo town of Harvey villo, in thoval. ley below this city, is greatly excited over tho outcome of an election bet. Miss. Hat tie Ihiilcy, the buxom laughter of fanner Ihiilcy, seems to have inspired the bet and the desire to gain her hand may be tho means of bringing Win. Koons and Thomas McGraw together in mortal combat. For six months these young men have been paying attentions to Miss Bailey. Both aro well to do, and have good connections' Not infrequently one of them called at M iss. Bailey's home and found his rival there ahead of him. The young woman seemed to like both of them* No preference was shown. About a week ago both young men appear ed at the Bailey house hold together. Among tho subjects discussed during the evening politics came up. Mc( .' IMI ??? ivttu at 1 ^ ??VI l 1 ? I l On It 1? I ....... cio (i 11 c1' ?i ' i iv;?? II , i* 1111*3 111r> rival was a Democrat. Doth expressed themselves as confident in tho success of their favorite candidate. A wager was offered by the Cleveland man and Miss liailcy en eouruaged by offering to become stakeholder. The sntn had not been stipulated and while considering that subject McGraw hit upon the idea that a good chance to dispose of his rival had presented itself. The proposition was first made to the young woman. She was satisfied, and it was agreed that all claims on her company would he forfeited by the backer of the defeated candidate. When the news of his loss reached Med raw Wednesday he almost fainted. Ho did not lose hope, however, and when he recovered determined not to abide by the decree of fate. Last night Koons called on the lady, and, while seated in the parlor, was suprised to sec his old rival walk in Angry words were ex changed and both men left the room. What conclusion the men came to after leaving the house last night is not known, but it as learned that Mcdraw is in receipt of a challenge to fight a tluel. The young woman is inucn exorcised over tue turn nf fairs have taken, hut favors the Cleveland man, and will stand I>y him, she says. A School 11 oil no Full of People Blown up by Gunpowder* Four Persons Killed and Fifteen Wounded. i?ayetteville, Ark, Novombcr 17.? The Democrats of Mountain View held a Presidential ?lection celebration in the district school house last night, and a terrible disaster ended the proceedings prematurely. Anvil beating and the discharge of fireworks were features at the jolli fieation and as a consequence a large quantity of explosivoduid been provided. A portion of these had been stored in the school house. During the speech-making and while the building was packed two kegs of powder exploded. The results were frightful. The , school houso was totally wrecked land most of its occupants were burnled in thA ruins. Those who could extricate themselves set about at once to rescue the others. Shrieks and means cam ) from the mass of {wrecked timbers, the debris took fire in several places and it required hard work to prevent the cremation of the persons who were imprisoned. The flames were subdued, however only one person suffering from the fire. A son and daughter of Silas (irnhum were taken out dead and Berry Sherod, one of ?he most prominent resi dents of Washington County, was so badly injured that he has since died. Another man, whoso name has not been lean cd, was also killed. K'fteen persons were injured, some fatally, but their names have not been learned hero. Sherod suffering horrible agony before he was gotten out of the rains* He was pinned down by timbers and was burned beyond re. cognition. Ho lived several hours after being rescued. ? - ? ?? It is the song, the picture, the book, and the preacher that touches on the human basis in man that is successful. A medical man tells us that the habit amoug women of biting off the thread when sewing is the chief cause of blood poisoning. > , * I' I' ? ? - ? ' '? I ' im 1? I tm I itm NO; 19 CABENET-NAKERS AT WORK. A "Capital" Opinion of Congressman ) J. Hemphill[Special, to News ami Courier.] Washington, November 15.?In political circles hero it is rumoied that Mr. Cleveland is considering tho name of Representative J. J. Hemphill in connection with the Secretaryship of the Navy. The Star ! says: "The rumor has a basis of likoli* ! hood at least for it is known tkat Mr. Cleveland entertains a high regard for Mr. Hemphill's ability, and above all for bis sterling integrity. A warm personal friendship also exists between tho two men. Mr. Hemphill lias been very activo in the campaign in Mr. Cleveland's behalf, and lias been one of tbe national committee' stanchest workers in tho field. Mr. Hemphill will be in position to] accept tho appointment as tho Farmers' Alliance defeated him for rcnominntion to Congress. 41 As will be rente m herd. Mr. Hemphill recently married a beautiful young lady of this city, and be enabled to add to tho social side of tbe Administration to no small degree. Mr. Hemphill is fully quali tied to fill n place in Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet or any other place under the coming Administration to which he may bo assigned. He should have been a member of the 53d Congress. The State of South Carolina is to be deprived of his valuable services in the House simply because he dared to stand shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Cleveland on questions of tariff reform, the force bill and sound money. "It is not strange, therefore that the President-elect feels that he needs the assistance of just such statesmen as Representative Hemphill to make his Administration a national success During his long and faithful career in Congress Mr. Hemphill has not devoted much at tendon to naval affairs. His efforts have been in the direction of financial atul judical questions. He is, however, able to render distinguished service in any branch of the public service to which he^niay ho called after hin Congressional term expires." The Greatest Growth. (From tho British Medical Monthly.) The year of greatest growth in boys is the seventeenth; in girls, fourteenth' While girls roach full height in their fifteenth year, they acquire full weight at the ago of twenty. Hoys are stronger than girls from birth to the eleventh year; then girls become superior physically to the seventeenth year, when tho tables are again turned and remain so. From November to April children grow very little and gain no weight; from April to July they grow in height, but lose in weight, and from July to November they increase greatly in weight, but not height* Odds and Ends. Oliver Cromwell's father was a brewer. About a quarter of the people of Paris live in apartments. An inch of rain means 100 tons of water on every acre. Spain lias fewer drily papers than anyjjother European country. Put a teaspoonful of salt into a kerosene lamp once in awhile. A pretty woman's reflections aro seldom deeper than her looking glass. A yearly outlay cf *5,000,000 shows American enterprise in advertising. The first omnibus appeared in Paris in 1825:in New York live years later. The Davy safety lamp for miners was invented by Sir Humphry Davy i?i 1815. There is no time in life when books do not influence a man.?Wal. ter Bosnnt. Change the socks from one foot to the other unless you wear anatomical socks' It is estimated that about 250,000000 bricks are used monthly in Great Britain. A gold leaf electrometer was invented by Bennett in 1879, and sub sequently improved. The Cat in Art. Until the present century the peouliar difficulties offered by the structure and texture of cats had hardly been surmounted. When the old masters drew a cat they made it solid and hard?it is probable that the varieties they knew were less beautiful than those which wo now delight in?but also there was a conventional neglect of the furry character of the surface. In painting a cat now the danger is in ovoiding a false solidity, to lose all sense of the osseous forms in securing softness and lightness.?London Saturday Review.