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THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE. J CHAPTER ON LATE FRUIT, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT. ?taserr1iifr Pcnrs, Peachett, tJrnpcs, Plum*. Crab Applet*, Tomatoes, Ulc.< lite. [From Harper's Bazar.] always desirable to have the fruit tlttt is to be preserved fresh. It will be more palatable and will keep better than if it has stood for any length of time. Glass is preferable to tin cans. A porcelain-lined or a granite-ware kettle and a silver or wooden spoon should always be used. A bright new tin pan may be used if necessary, but an iron suoon is to be avoided 011 all occasions. For canned peaches select freestones, and, when they arc to be had, give the preference to large yellow ones. They have a more attractive look if not a better taste than the smaller white peaches. "Remove the skins from the peaches, cut in halves, and take out the stones. Instead of paring the peaches, pour boiling water over a few at. a time, and then let them stand three or four minutes. The ekins will then slip off with little trouble. For each quart of peaches allow four ounces of sugar and one teacupful of water; boil two minutes, and skim. Add a few peaches at a time, not more than two or three quarts. Boil twenty minutes, lift out with a skimmer, and fill into glass bottles set in boiling water. Continue so until all the fruit has been used, then lift the jars out of the water, till up with syrup, and seal while hot. With pears proceed in the same way, ttsing six ounces of sugar for each quart of pears, and boiling thirty minutes. Small pears may be canned whole. To can plums do not remove the skins. Select perfect fruit, wash well in soda water, drain, and boil for ten minutes, using eight ounces of sugar to each quart, of plums. Grapes should be about two-thirds ripe. They are often canned with the seeds left, in, but the most desirable method is as follows: Pick the grapes off the stems; slip the pulp out of the skin, place the skins in the preserving kettle with enough water to cover, and boil slowly; stew the pulp about three minutes, adding only enough water to keep from burning. The seeds can now be easily lifted out with a skimmer, or the pulp may be put through a sieve. As soon as the seeds are removed, add the pulp to the skins, and put in eight ounces of sugar to each quart of grapes. Boil two minutes, pour into glass jars, and seal up while hot. Canned penches and pears can be quickly mnde into a delicious fresh preserve, when removed from the jar for use in the winter, by adding about as much more sugar as was used in the first place, and boiling slowly three quarters of an hour or a little longer. Grapes, plums, and crab-apples make excellent jelly. Grape and plum jelly is tart, and very good with meat and game. Crab-apple is milder flavored and much sweeter than the first-named. Catawba grapes make a particularly rich-flavored jelly, as also do the small Delaware grapes. \ To make grapes into jelly select such as are ripe, but not overripe. Pick them from the stems. Place in a kettle, with as little water as will keep them from burning. Stew quickly, stirring them with a wooden spoon until the skins and pulp bcginjto ssperate. Strain through a crash jelly bag, then through one of thick flannel. Measure the juice, return it to the kettle, and boil for twenty minutes; add as many quarts of sugar as there were of juice when measured, and boil for ten or fifteen minutes. Grape jelly to be eaten with meats is ; very nice,spiced. To spice four quarts of jelly, tie up in a thin muslin one teaspoonful of ginger, same of cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of cloves, and the same of allspice; place in the ketfrle with the juice, and remove when ready to pour it into glasses. Wild plums make the best jelly, but other varieties may be used. ' Stew until very soft, taking one quart of water to a peck of fruit, boil for twenty minutes and strain;, add as much sugar as there was juice, and a little over?one quart aud an eighth of sugar for each quart of juice is about the right proportion. Boil from fifteen to twenty minutes after the sugar is added. Crab-apples for jelly must be just ripe; if over-ripe, the jelly will be darkcolored. Cut them into halves, take two quarts of water to each peck of fruit. T?~:i ah A- J * ? jotm uiuii lenaer, strain, cook fifteen minutes, then add one cupful of sugar for each cupful of juice, and boil ten minutes. Any kind of a tart apple will make good jelly. Use the formula given for cral?-apple. A variety may be made by flavoring with lemon. Jelly may be tested by dropping a tea-spoonful into a cup of cold water. If it falls ?to wt - 1 * ' " >ut uvmuiii ill a lump, II. 1H CIOllC. Genuine old-time preserves, surrounded by clear, uinber-hued syrup, are charming to behold, and are endeared to our palates by their delicious taste and to our hearts by the delight of associations and the handed-down memories of our grandmother's store-room, where the ample shelves held no sweet less rich than preserves and cordials. v Quinces, peaches and pears can be made into preserves after exactly the same recipe. Remove the skin and core, leaving the fruit in halves. Allow one pound of sugar to each pound of fruit, make the sugar into a syrup with sufficient water, and boil and skim it for live minutes; then add the fruit, and boil gently until the fruit is clear and tender. Kemove the fruit into jars, boil the syrup until it becomes thick, then pour over the fruit. Leave the jars open until the contents are perfectly cold. It is an economical plan to make apple jelly at the same time as ouince nre serves. The peelings and perfect cores of the quinces boiled with the apples when preparing them for jelly will give a delightful flavor, and answer tho purpose quite as well as if the more expensive whole fruit had been used. Tomatoes make a pleasant-tasted preserve. The small egg-shaped tomatoes are preferred by some, but the other kind well prepared is quite as good. Select smootn, lialf-ripe tomatoes, peel them without scalding, place them in jars, and sprinkle sugar over them, using ^ two-thirds of a pound of sugar to a pound . of tomotoes. Let them stand until the ^ - sugar has drawn out all the juice, then put in a preserving kettle, and boil slowly until the tomatoes are tender and j of a dark f'olor. Remove the tomatoes i into jars, and, unless the syrup is quite | thick, boil it longer before pouring it j over them. Citron preserves arc much liked by many persons. Cut the fruit into quarters, and remove the rind. Boil it. until ' tender in a syrup made of water and the 1 weight of the fruit in sugar. . Remove the quarters to a platter, and cut them carefully into inch-wide strips. Cut the strips in two, and pack in jars. Boil the syrup thick, and pour over them. Citron can also be made into a very nice sweet pickle. Cut the citron in pieces an inch thick i?y two long. Steam until tender. Make a syrup of j sugar and vinegar, allowing one pint of ! not too sour vinegar and one and a half j pounds of sugar to every three pounds of fruk. Boil five minutes, then pour | over the steamed fruit which has been | puiccu in jars. i^et it stana overnight. | Then pour off the svnip, boil, and white i hot pour again over the fruit. Repeat again, adding spice to taste to the syrup. If the syrup'has boiled down so that the quantity is not sufficient to cover the fruit, add more vinegar and sugar. Peaches, pears, crab-apples, plums, or any kind of *fruit may be made into a sweet pickle by following the above directions. Water-melon rinds make a nice pickle when treated.in the same way, and much resemble eitron picklcs. Sour apples should be selected for apple marmalade. Peel, core, and cook slowly in little water until it is a thick pulp. Measure the pulp, and return to the same kettle. To each pint of pulp take one pound of sugar. Melt the sugar into a thick syrup; pour into the apple pulp; stir and cook until thick. Take up in small bowls. Marmalade made in this way will in a week or two be firm enough to cut with a knife. Crab-apple, quince, and pcac.li marmalade can be made after the same formula. BILL ARP'S LITTLE ONES. lie TcIIh ITh nil Altont. IIIh- Children and <?rnntlcliilrir?*n. Our grandchildren are having a good time now. They have finished breaking the bull calf and are verv busy making rt.itf,... i -i ? H...KI tiwiio UI1UCI till'- I1>11| H)f 111 (1 It (II. The fall is about five feet and they keep the water busy and the wheel, .too, and are talking about a little sawmill attachment. I just let them go along and use my tools and dull my handsaw and gap my axe and waste inv, nails and leave everything where they didn't find it, for they are on a big frolie now, and will have to go back to school in a few days. I overheard them talking about school, and one said: liI wish there wasn't such a thing as school!" And another one said: "Well, I don't, for the school is all right, and I don't want to grow up a dunce, but I wish my school days were all over?that's what I wish.*' Iiut Jessie, our Jessie, my Jessie, has left. tis. She has gone to town to school, and we will not see her but one day in a week. It. is mighty hard on us, for she is the light of the house and the. comfort of my age. One by one they have to leave us. Ralph has gone to Florida to live and work, and we are getting lonesome and homesick. "We miss them at night and in the morning and at the table. Even the dog looks sad and j watches the road for their coming. But all's well that end's well, and we are all thankful for the good that is left us. Carl is here yet and a lot of grandchildren. They carry their sling-sliots with as much impudence as a town boy carries his pistol in his hi]) pocket. Two of them made a target, of some fine pears in the top of a favorite tree and left the little rocks in the pears. I promised them a whipping but somehow or somehow else they didn't get it. There is always somebody around to interfere with my arrangements. So they wanted to go to the base ball again this evening and I just put my foot down and said no. I determined to punish them and now my opportunity has come. When I take a notion I am boss at my o\^n house, and now I've taken a notion and I'll show the little rascals how to shoot my pears. I'll teach them a lesson. Later.?They have gone to the base ball with their maternal ancestor, and nun s rne Kina 01 u man I am.-?Atlanta Conatitution. In the Lime-Kiln Club. "Gcm'lcn," said the President, as lie softly rose up and calmly looked down on the shining pates of Sir Isaac Walpole and Elder Toots, "dar am some few things it would be well fur you to disreckolect: "De man who sots on de fence when de sun shines will be diggin' fur grub when it rains. "Industry may make de back ache, but she tills de stomach an1 kivers de | ? a. 1 H'Cl. "Dp man who wants satisfaxshun by j law will satisfy dc lawyers sooner dan liissclf. "Knockin' a man down bekase he differs wid you doan prove de truf of your own posisliun. "De less a man knows de mo1 anxious he seems to be to make dc public believe he am a statesman." "All of fo'ty y'ars ago," solemnly abserved the President as he rapped for order after a resolution had been presented, "I made up my mind dat dc man wid a co'n on his toe must either grin an' b'ar it or suffer amputashun of dc leg close atde hip. Nuftin' has sincc happened to change my belief. De co'n doctah am a man who raises up false hopes in your busum. He talks grandly of delirium tremens, spinal miningitis an' lumbago an' odder portions of de human anatomy, an' he softens up your co'n and shaves off de top?charges, one I dollar. Fur dc ncx1 free days you bless ! all de world, but on de fo'th or tifth dc same ole co'n turns up fur bi/.ness, rested, recuperated an' ready fur six months of hard work. I^ct the resolushon stand. De Janitor will blow out de lights an' we will go home." I A Prkdtction.? Somebody remcmI hers that Morse once predicted that talking through a hundred miles of wir< would become-common, and that ocean steamers on a vo*-?ge would keep up communication c.^trieally with the shore. The first prediction having com< true, the second is hopefully regarded, though regarded as wild when made. FALL ON THE FARM. The Important Work of Mclcctlng Seed Corn. BY HENRY STEWAIIT. The selection of seed is of the highest importance to the farmer who wants to reap the most and the best as a recompense for his labor. Labor is thrown away on worthless material. A man may spend as much skill and pains in carving a medallion out of a pieeo of sandstone or soft slate as he might out of a hard, beautiful onyx or the purest alabaster, and at the end he has only txasli that is worthless and disagreeable to show for it. So a man may crib his corn in a few weeks, and in the spring, from a mass of moldy and refuse ears, he may hastily gather seed for the next r?rnn liiit if I*** 1 1 ?? uu VApWUt 21 gOUll 1UU1 al)uiHlant yield from it he will be sorely mistaken. It may seem to be unnecessary to state so plain and trite a truth, but there are thousands of farmers who will do this very thing, and some doubtless will do it who are now reading this warning. The enormous losses which have fallen upon farmers the past few jears through the use of inferior seeds have wrought damage to the extent of millions of dollars; some fanners lost nearly their whole crop last year and the year before, and thousands lost a large portion of it, and all this might have been prevented by the simple precaution of selecting good sound seed in the fall. There is another fact which should be considered, and that is that corn is susceptible of greater improvement through the selection and nse. of the best seed than any other plant grown upon farms, ami at the same time this plant can be better improved by using home grown seed than that procured at great cost from a distance. There are many wise and thoughtful farmers who have been saving seed from their best plants for many years?20, 40, and some l')r.">0 years?and their reputations for growing good corn and large crops have made them the seedsmen of their localities. Farmers who might have done the same for themselves have paid four or live prices for seed grown by these neighbors. Perhaps this common neglect is a neeesnry condition to establish the truth of the proverb mat "the, hand of the diligent maketh rich,*' but jit any late the result justifies the saying, This self-inflicted tax paid to the diligent. seed gatherer might bo spared and the public wealth increased by a hundred million dollars if every farmer would now "begin the work ot selecting seed corn, hereafter take special pain to cultivate the crops fjrown from it so as to improve the grain in every possible way. And just here we would deprecate as strongly as possible the so-called experiments of some agricultural experiment stations, and that of New York state in particular, the object of which has been to try to show that mouldy, lialf-ripened, shriveled corn would grow and produce a crop. What is the possible use of such an experiment? It may serve to encourage a thriftless farmer in neglecting the plainest precaution and duty, and so injure the interest which should be helped and encouraged by these stations, but no reasonable man would ever act u]>on such a suggestion. Besides, it is not true. It is an apparent impossibility that a grain of corn deficient in substance can bear a germ of sufficient vital strength to reproduce the original quality of seed. If it were otherwise, then all the claimed results of breeders from the excellent care and cultivation of a race of cattle and the selection of the best dams and sires would be falsified, and the poorest half-starved scrub might be used as the progenitor of a superior progeny. "As a mau sows so shall he reap." Then the farmer intent upon improving his corn will go into the field as the ears are ripening and select those plants which most nearly meet his ideal of what the best corn should be; plants with moderately sized and well leafed stalks which bear two cars, both well filled out and sound, 'and the earliest ripe, and from these plants he will choose the upper ear for seed, and mark the liv fvitwr <1 nnl/M-nrl * 1 -v vj ? x.vawiv.v* OlU|i U1UU11U the top of it. Or as .soon as he becomes an expert an<l ran select these stalks as lie goes along in cutting the crop lie leaves tlieni standing until the rest is all down and these ears arc ripe and dry, and then proceeds to save them in the best manner. If there is but one good ear on a stalk it may be saved, but as multiple earing is very desirable, we would choose a less attractive car from a twin-bearing stalk in preference to a single ear. But the top ear should always be tj\ken, -because it is the earliest. These selected cars may be strung upon a wire or a cord in dozens by using a long twine needle, and eight such strings would make a bushel.of shelled corn. These strings should be hung in a dry place out of the reach of vermin, and no extreme of cold likely to occur will injure them. In the South, where the corn ."weevil,'' as it is called, but really the corn moth worm, abounds, the corn should l>c kept in bags or old kerosene oil barrels nn*l t>mc reach of this pest. As early maturity is no special advantage in the South, it is not necessary to select the* first ripe ears, hut only the largest and best filled. And yet for some purposes and at some times enrly corn is useful even in the South, where the present season corn litis been bringing from $1 to $1.25 per bushel in places where the crop was short last year. Out ok Money.?Emory Storrs enjoyed an income of $25,000 to $30,000 a year, earned at the Chicago bar, and yet he was always out of money and in debt. It is said that he habitually drew on Samuel W. Allerton, a millionaire friend, who never failed him in his frequent emergencies. This friend helped him our 01 tne dilemma when, at the time of sitting down to a dinner to Lord Coleridge, an unfriendly Sheriff seized tlio viands. AVak Houses for England. ? According to the Board of Trade statistics there are now about 2,000,01)0 agricultural horsey in the \Jnitcd Kingdom. Similarly, from the returns of the horse tax, when it was Inst leviod, it appears that there arc "also*in addition about 1,000,000 horses used for trade or by rlvate individuals. KHflHHKBnNBMw9SUHIlHeHara .'yry.y- <> *: / v." VM HE KNEW THE TRICK. Hovr th Diner Attempted to j (<cl it. Free .lieu!. [From tlio New York Timea.] At 8 o'clock the other evening the dark wood trimmings of a fashionable 1 upper Broadway restaurant contrasted 1 effectively : usual with the glitter of i silvei aim glass and the fall of snowy s drapery as the usual crowd of diners re- I ' galcd themselves over favorite dishes. t Among them a quietly dressed well-bred j appearing man, with a dash of gray in i his hair and Buruside whiskers, dis- j eussed his solitary meal with evident ' relish and appreciation of the chef's i skill. lie had dispensed with the ac- ; cepted overtures jto a successful dinner, ' soup and lish, plunging at once into the ] piece de resistance, winch in his ease ' was a choice eut of porterhouse of the ^ requisite thickness and tenderness, de- t lieiously broiled and most temptingly 1 served. Some delectable cream hash < potatoes came with it, a half dozen > olives served sis a relish, and for a sweet ) before his coffee the waiter had brought | him a trillc of preserved ginger. Finally ( the account was modestly presented, a 1 small fee deferentially received, ami the < waiter withdrew. j The gentleman seemed in no hurry to finish his coffee and evening paper, lie < glanced casually at his bill when it was < laid before him, hut did not appear particularly impressed. At length he 1 folded his journal, which he put in his i pocket, took his hat, and the slip of paper, end carted for tlit; door, via the; desk where accounts lire settled. The cashier faced him as he paused. Without a word he laid the check upon the desk. There was no money with it. "What is this V asked the cashier, glancing \ip quickly. "That is precisely what I should like to know," was the calm response. , ; "Very well, you shall then;" and the cashier came out from his place with a threatening air. "Pay me $1.8.1, the amount of this | check, or- I'll have an oliicer after you. I I'm on to that trick. It's old already." The man of the liurnsidcs at first drew Himself haughtily uj> as if to resent an affront, but as rapidly subsided, and, count inir out some change, hurriedly left the place. The aiTair had tracted no notice in the room, the writv./seemingly being the only one who had observed anything ir] regular. The cashier caught his eye and a moment later his question. "Yes, it was a game," he said, with a laugh, "but it didn't work. A dead e rot on bug was impaled upon his bill, lie intended that I should believe he got it here in his food, and, in my mortification over such an occurrence, discount j or remit altogether his account. I happened to hear of the dodge last week. ' 1 it has been tried several times lately, and successfully more than once. The high class restaurants are selected, for only in such is a fried Croton bug a dish that is never served. The thing is i brought in the vest pocket, it is easy to indorse the bill with it. and the rest is j left to the embarrassment of the cashier. This one didn't embarrass worth a cent." : "Are you often swindled ?M "No, swindling i-? about played out. < It. has become practically impossible. Watchfulness and distrust are inereas- 1 mg, and the old idea of.believing a man i honest till he is otherwise found out has given away to the exact reverse. Of course," added the cynical cashier, '*1 refer only to this particular line of busings." AMERICAN FABLES. TI1E VULTURE AND TIIK IU11DS. A Vulture, who had a Smut-Machine 1 of his own, Slandered and Abused and Vilified the Eagle, the Pheasant and all other Birds, even to the Humming Bird. This continued until a Sage had his Curiosity Aroused, and he cal ed upon the Foul Bird and inquired: "Why is it that you Abuse all the Bird Creation outside of your own Species? Have any of them Injured you?" < "Why, no," replied the owner of the : j Smut-Machine. "The fact that none of I them will stoop to notice me is what Punctures my Cuticle." < moral: A Vulture never Forgives the "World i that lie wasn't Created an Eagle. \ < the thistle and the cornstalk. i A Canada Thistle which had taken I root in a Fanner's garden, one day saw | a blade of Corn peeping 'out of the j Ground, and in tones of Ridicule called out: 4'What a Little one for a Cent! It's a 1 "Wonder you have the Check to force < Yourself into my Company." The blade continued to grow day by i day, and it was of such bright color and looked so Thrifty that the Thistle finally called to the Farmer and said: "Really, but I can't put up with such impudence, and I hope you will Remove that Corn-stalk at once." "And who are you?" queried the Farmer, having for the tirsttime noticed the Thistle. 1 "Me? Why, I'm the Biggest and Handsomest Canada Thistle in the Busi ncss. My Geneology carries me back to ' King ." "Uinpli!" interrupted the Farmer. ' "One grain of Corn is of more value than a Hundred Tliiath-a f'nmn Af \hat by the Roots!" moral: The T'.iicf who Abuses the Law always gives Himself Away.' Drought Him Out. i men J esse Witt was doing his best work as a pioneer in Texas he undertook to raise a large collection, and after ' forcibly presenting the merits of the ease lie said: "This thing must be done, and I will give $100 to help to do it. How ( much will you give, brethren?" A Bap- * tist layman arose and said: "I will give ] #500 for myself, and I will also pay j Brother Witt's $100. It was the seeing ( of this weather-beaten pioneer giving $100 which aroused the layman. To sec a preacher give is often a means of grace to others : but he cannot give if he is not t paid for his services.?liichniond (Va.) < Religious Herald. t V^V!jV.v-"iK j' - V.:. " > / "V ' .* '7 " ' A COUNTESS SURPRISED. ^lor Son Ilud Stolen lirr Peiirl NeckliiceTl>e i>Iimut*r Mi Wliicli it (,'nimi llnck U Her, Vienna is much agitated over a seanda here. The Countess of I> , a greal ady moving in the court circles then? s passionately fond of pearls?in fact i?,. ;u 4 4 -r i uv 1.7 iiu; Itniaii; ruvimt'i [Hii l u1 Jjvmv fopaz in "Lothuir." A few weeks ag< lie CountesH received a visit from he; jeweler, who very strongly reeom neiuled her to become the purchaser o i most umgniticcnt "rope of pearls.' Phey are quite unique, madaine, 1 assuri i'oii," said the jeweler, "and the price t< i'ou is only a hundred thousand florins.1 "Only a hundred thousand florins," re icated the Countess, with a smile "but, ii*import?., let me have a look a pour gems. I feel strong enough to re list the temptation to buy." Thereupoi :he jeweler opened the casket wliiel contained his treasure, and displayed i it ring of pearls of such fault less beaut; [hat Ijothair himself would have beei proud to present them to the Lad; L'orisande. Meanwhile the opening o Ihe easket acted like magic upon tin Countess. No sooner had she eaugh sight of its contents than she over whelmed the jeweler with a heap o questions. "Where, when, how did yoi come by these pearls? How much di< you give?I mean from whom did yoi buy them?" "I did not buy them a nil," replied the astonished jeweler ''neither do they l>elong to me. The were merely intrusted to me by a lad to sell on commission. I should hav hesitated a long time before buyinj such pearls as these, for which one can not find a customer every day in th vear, madamc; no, indeed, they inigh have been upon my hands for monthsyears." At the urgent request of the Countcs a footman was at once dispatched t bring the lady who had deposited th pearls with Mr. L . After a brie delay the lady arrived, young, hand some, and elegantly dressed in th height of the reigning fashion. Sh listened with :i subdued smile to th series of questions which the Connies of L addressed to her. Nettled hut still containing the conmuuid of he temper, the Countess wound up li touching a secret spring in the fasteninj of the necklace. "There, she ex claimed, pointing to her arms and mot to engraved on tin: side of the fasten ing, "however you came into the pos session of these pearls, you will hardl venture to dispute they belong to me Four years ago they suddenly disaji pearcd from mv jewel case, and now iifter all inquiry had proved fruitless they are found with you! I am undo great obligations to the lady who ha restored to me that which is my own. The Countess accompanied these word with a bow and smile of profound irony In answer to this tirade the lady uttere* not a word, but, opening a small retieul which she carried in her hand, produce* 11 highly scented billet-doux and handei it to the Countess, who started as i ii serpent] had stung her, and swoonei upon the spot. On recovering con sciousness she went straight to her writ in^- table, wrote a check for the ainoun ilcmauded by the lady, ami gave it t her without uttering a single word The billet-doux was in the handwritin: of the Countess' only son. What Caused the Trouble. [Detroit Free Press. 1 There was a case of assault and batter bctore one of the justices the other day und a witness with a black eye, scvcrti strips of court plaster across his nose am one ear badly lopped over, was asked b the defendant's lawyer if he saw Browi strike White. "Can't say as I did," he replied. "Did vou see the whole affair?" "Mostly." "Well, how was it?*' "Well, Smith and me sot 011 the reape talkin' evolution. Jones and Green so on the grass talkin' religion. Browi and White sot by the edge of the stra\ stack disputin' on politics. Three o four boys wa< in the barn gittin' up clog tight." "Yes, jfo on." tt T 1 1 ? i- um i iviiowimi, soincuouy eane< somebody else a liar. Next I knowei evolution, religion, politics and fii>htin; clogs was a rolling over each other on tli grass, and every man kicking and bitinj and hitting away fur all he was wuth. "But did you see Brown strike Whitei "Can't say as I did." "I)jd you see White strike Brown?" "Can't be sure of it. The onlv thiiij ri? ... -f ? ! *' L in aim: ui, llll.-UCT lllWVUr, IS tliat 111 old woman came out with a pail of ho water and licked the hull crowd and hat over two quarts left for next time." ' >*e Bavarian King1. King Yvudwig, the eccentric ruler o Bavaria, has come to a stopping placc ii his castle building. Out of seven struc tures, on which he has been engaged only one is finished, and it was begui by his grandfather. A whole army o Artisans are still busy at six others Chiemese surpasses the finest portions o Versailles, and its fountains excel al others in the world. It is the Loui XIV. style. The other residences ar gothic or feudal. King Ludwig's in herited fortune was so vast that it wa only within the last three years that h began to feel what his architectural ant operatic fancies cost him. He patron ized Wagner in the most vxtravagan manner; and when his treasurer ven hired to hint that the expense was toi great, King Ludwig answered that hi love lor Wagnerian operas was not s< costly its a queen-consort would be. 1 year ago it was found impossible to g< [>n without borrowing half a millioi iterling on the king's civil-list income und guaranteed by the heirs to the her jditary estates. More money is wanted rhe king's relatives arc incensed at hi 'laving spent all they could help hiu borrow, and creditors are clamorous. I ouncil of regency is demanded. Caituhed.?Winchester was captured md*recaptured more than any other citj luring the war. It changed hands 2C imes in the four years. \ ' ( IrHiih "rj -i-i- ;Vf Vx". xV-v .v 11 ' At. . 'A V- \ ' ' . ' IN - r RIDING TO DEATH. - A Runaway Railroad Train Rushing al 1 tltt* Rati* of Klfiiity iUilvM iiu Hour. j [From tlio CliarlcHton Star.] t, Mr. W, II. Edwards was on the wild ( train and witnessed all tin: horrors at( tending the killing and wounding of 1 seven men. After leaving the C. & (). > railroad a long stretch ol' level track is r had, leaving which a heavy incline is . had to within a short distance of the f mines. It frequently occurs that the ? loaded cars are sent down the incline L. without the aid of a locomotive, compete..! i...: i > ? " I ?.* ?... uninviiil'll IKIIIH lllilUVU UI1 I III: ' trains. Shortly before one o'clock on . the day the accident occurred, two loaded cars were detached from the t engine at the head of the inclinc, in . charge of tlx; brakcmcn. On the cars ^ were Superintendent Lavton S. Oakt ford, Mr. Toman, mining superintendn ent of the Coal Valley Coal Company; v Mr. Amos Mitchell, tipple boss at Coal[i burg; Mr. Hudson, a coal dealer of y Lewisburg; Mr. Peacock and Mr. Hall, f miners of Coal burg; Conductor-Epperly e and Mr. Edwards. The cars, each cont taining eighteen tons of coal, were _ started down the incline by detaching ,f them from the engine. n Mr. Oakford occupied a position on 1 the rear platform of the last car, standi ing on the right side. On his left stood t Mr. Toman, and Peacock, Mitchell and Edwards, Hall and Hudson were on the y rear bumper of the first car. .lust as y the cars moved oil Mr. Epperly placed e a hickory bar in the wheel of the rear tr car brake, using it as an extra lever on Z applying forcc to the brakes. He then ran over to the front ear and used the t same means in tightening the brake on .. that c;ir. By this time the momentum of the cars had increased greatly, causs ing another turn to be; had on the brakes, () but in a few seconds it became apparent (, to all on the train that the brakes were f failing to perform their work. Coni_ stcrnation seized every one. and prcparations were made to abandon the train us speedily as possible, but before any c determination could be arrived at. it was plain that to jump was to meet, death in S - l " - si iiornuie lonn. J\,aeh scconcl increased j. the velocity of the cars. A roar as if a v long express running at the rate of sixty ,r miles an hour was dashing by, con7 vinced the men on the wild cars that they were being whirled along at least eighty miles in sixty minutes, and then the fearful thought of being hurled to y death flashed upon their minds. Suddenly Mr. Oakford raised himself from between the cars, waved his hand to the men on the rear car and then disap- A ' pea red, the supposition being that, be' iug satisfied he would be killed if he reK inained on the cars, he jumped off after m waving his hand. s Mr. Edwards says, at this juncture : "I saw nothing of the other men now; j the coal in the cars was bubbling and P boiling; a thick cloud of dust followed I the lurching cars, and the noise was I awful. I threw away my hat, buttoned f my coat, and prepared myself for a j jump. To make the leap sit that time _ would have been to meet instant death, . and my only chance for life was to t spring when the final crash came, which (> I saw was not far distant. My senses almost left me; the rapidity with which ,*r the train was moving had lost its terrors; 3 a peculiar fascination for the weird scene seemed to possess me, and all my energies appeared to centre in holding fast to the rim of the coal hopper. Suddenly I felt a jarring of the car, and 1..1*1 ^1- - ? nm:n null nr mill It'll II1U H'llCK. 1116 next instant I sprang1 from my position y on the bumper; that leap I shall never forget. Instantly my past life was il photographed before my eyes, and my 3 only thought was a short prayer, not v spoken, but flashed through my brain _ u with mysterious rapidity. The next thing remembered by me I was runniag anions the grass and weeds, far away from the wreck. The rear car had turned over, and coals, wheels, and springs were flying thick in the air. Ii? r jumping I struck upon my feet in t marshy ground, turned a somersault, ti plunged my head into the mud, v then, springing to my feet, ran a short r distance. I turned about and found a Peacock upon his back lyi/ig on the tie i end of the track, lie had fallen of! the ! wreck and lay just where he had fallen: ] the blood was flowing from his mouth, I no*e and ears, and his skull seemed rr broken and badly mashed. He died in p about two hours. rr "I found Mr. Oak ford dead. lie had tried to drop himself from the train that ' he might strike an open space at a slack pile, but the projecting platform at. the storehouse caught him. The force ol rr the collision tore oil the ends of two v heavy oak planks from the platform, twisted the spikes that held them, and :l tore oft the top of one of his shoes, gashed a terrible wound in his side, and -k tossed him in the air, flinging him to the ground with broken arms and fractured skull. He never spoke. "Just, above the store, in the bed o! f the branch, we found Mr. Toman lying upon his back terribly injured. Hie - right leg was broken, his shoulder blade , smashed to atoms, and he received other i? injuries to his head and body. He died f the next morning. A quarter of a mile further up the track Mr. Mitchell's body f was found lying beside the railroad, 1 with his skull shattered and his brains s scattered along the track for many e yards. The wreck of the rear car broke - the connecting pin which held the two s cars together, and the front or forward (s car sprang loose and ran about a hali 1 mile further on down the track and up set, flinging Mr. Hudson out on the hiIIt side, seriously but not fatally injuring - him. He had a rib or two broken, hie 3 head was bi;dly contused, but he was ? able to walk up the track and help move 5 the body of Mr. Hall, who had fallen off ^ the car above the second wreck and had y been instantly killed. i "The time occupied, as well as I can? judge from the moment we started down. " the incline to the final wreck was prob ably not longer than two minutes, and 8 the distance travelled was about three * miles." Worn Off.?A Baltimore negro ha^ -V literally worn two lingers off in many I v/>arfi rvf oliAvuli? 4iaa1 rru ?. i? ? ^ j ? ? W* Qnyvvuuu i.uui. 1UU CWJlt* llf rer |>ortcd by a physician as a curiosity, i There is no apparent disease, and no in* convenience. /:$