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. to The Mo9e4 Hotel Wark. The model hoteihotel olerkis a ye=ng man Who hA orlattialil created to ll on emperor's throne or .adown a duke. dom. biut when 4e areW u0N thee b4eug fewer thrones and diiedems than there were emperors and dukes, he was tema porarily forced to take a position behind a hotel register. His chief characterix ties are dignity of bearing, radiant gor. geousness of apparel, haughtiness of man ner. aud jeweJry. His principal duties consist of hammering on the cahI bell, in handing guesta the wrong keys to their rooms, and of keeping a supply of toothpicks at the end of the desk. When all his time is not taken up in the performance of these aduous duties, he will condescend to explain to a guest that he does not know whether the north-bound train leaves at 8 P. M. or not, and if the sauest 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. tei, 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 splutters fragments of the guest's name all over "yesterday's arrivals." The clerk, after turning hround the register and examining the signature to see if it is genuine, expres ses some doubt as to there being a va cant room in the house. The stranger says Io 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 writos some bioroglyphics on the register, and then lie talks for half an hour witi the porter and the baggage man about the trunk of the gentleman in No. 40 having got mixed with bag gage belonging to the gentleman in No. 64 Whe he gets that matter arranged b sits down to polish and admire the long nail that he is cultivating on his little finger, and forgets the gentleman that has routed No. . , 192, until he is made aware of his existuuce by an im patient tap on the counter. With the air of a martyr, and a sign that expres see the fact that he considers the whole traveling public his enuemis, he says : "Ah I would you like to go to your room ?" There in 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-tho clerk-is passing poor on $12.50 a week and board, yet he is proud and is merely filling tho ignoble position lie how occupies until lie can como into his dukedom, which includes among its perquisites a yacht on the coast anid a shbooting lodge in the high lands of 8cotland. The n John1 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 hit ter kicks about it, when hie is leaving next day, because it was on the flth floor, and was furnished with nothing but a bed, a bar of soap. and crack mi the coiling, the clerk tells him that if he had only been staymag another day. .he con ld haivo had an excellent room, in fact, the best room in the house, wvhich woul be vacated aifter bireakfast, by a gentleminnwLo was leaving on the noon train. To our certai' knowledge, the gentleman has beon leaving that excel lent-that "bet room ii the house" every to-miorriow for the last twenty years. The hotel clerk is said to be dhstinctly rolattd to the raiilroad ticket elerk, b'ut this mus.t be. a mistake, having its Oi gin in the fact that there are ertain traits and ati-ocit ie of character com mon to both. T'ao hotel olerk has no relations. Not one mani in a thousand can remember over having aeon a hotel cha rk's father or uncle. Tue night clerk is not so gorgeous or inclement as the day cler-k. He wears a smaller linger riag and a larger boot. ils duties are not so onerous as ai-e those of the day clerk, lHe sleeps in a chair near the stove or reads novels all night, and his niostimiportant duty is to waske uip and suced the pa.rting guest whmo goe-s off on the mornmng ti-ain. The hotel clerk has muchi to triy him, and peihaps we would finud many ex cuses for what we consider his exaspera ting peculiarnties, if we stood on his side, of the roister and had the experi ence of how ir feels to be a targetior the grumbling, the fault-fladlig, and the Interrogations of the average traveler who live-s on corn broad and bacon at home, but howls loud andi long, because he does not get turtle soup and four kinds of pio thrqee tunes a day when lie stops at a hotel. ileat ronice niest.. "When Fox wrote is "Book of Martyrs" there wore nd subunrbani po lcenion with twenty squares to a baeat," said an officer of the Twenty-fourth district, Philadelphia, desomribiug 'him self to a reporter. "If we had existed then Fox would have slapped us ini along with the rest." The oflicor was standing in a puddle in a wild, un kempt street, north of Allegheny ave b4. -nue. The little highway rau between Frankford avenue and Rlichimond street, probably at an equal distance from bo0th. Everything had to be guessed at in that neighborhood, however There was no moon and the inky clouds, which chased each other -from the northeast, made a' glimpse at a watch dial omit of the question. The polie. manand-the-newspaper man stood in puddles because there was no choice whatever in the matter. "?es,'' be resumed, wiping the rain drtops off is faco, "wi liave a rather mooon~ous time of it af tpr aark, Can 0~ .0 you see that fara bounse 'way out there?' He extended his aim in a northwesterlj direction. 'AIittla moe to the left Now youe got'It, by the light Ad th( Window. Well, under a :little grating there 'that leads to a obiloken housi lives the dr.rndest dog in the whok ward. It's the end of my beat, and h( gets loose about twice a week. He' almost as big as a horse and grips liki a vice. I bet he's barking now an hungering after a leg or an arm.' Ani sure enough there was a faint baying noise in the distance. In the outlaying police distriots ther< is a general 'complaint of insuffeieenc: of men and consequent largeness of thi men's beats. A proposition is afloat t4 put some of the officers on horseback it order that they may be able to cove more ground in a shorter space of time Some of the lieutenants object to thi and only ask that a sum equivalent t< the cost of the horses and their koei for twelve months be given to then every year to spend on extra men. The Twenty-fourth district, whi] includes the whole Twenty-fifth ward and whose station-house is at Belgrad and Olearfield streats, Konsington, ha forty-six men on active duty. Twenty three of these are on by day and th rest at night. Eight are posted at th sub-statin at Nicetown and four v Bridesbitrg. Two have charge of th river front. Lieutenant Nester says thi the number of men at Niacetown an, Bridesburg should be doubled, Take a l around he could get along ver; nicely with sixteen more officers. 1 the northern section there is very littl, else but fire-plugs to relieve the ma notonous stretch of country, bat thes have to be looked after and the grouni has to be covered. The adjoining o Twenty-second district, which Is bound ed on the north by School lane, on th, south by Montgomery avenue, and thi river Schuylkill, respectively, has fort.; men. Tutere is one beat in it large than the whole Fourth district. anothi thirty-two squares long, one twenty eight, one twenty-four and the averag is twenty squares. Officers in the suburbs in time get t know the very footsteps of the neigh bors and caun tell a stranger a mile ofl They got friendly with the farmers who make them very often substanti.' presents. For this reason they oftei relieve their confined feeling by arrebt ing a pig with whom they are acquaint ed or al)prehending a familiar mulo aw returning him to Ins owner. Whe] Bergeant Peaco, who died in 1878 while holding a position in the Sixteoit] district, was a patrolman in the Tweaty second, he claimed to know every pi within a two-milo radius of his beat The census of pigs was never taken ii that district, but their numbers wcr vast. One night Peaice tho'ught he heard faminiar bleat. As it came nearer hi concealed himself and waited doveloy moents. A short, thin man, with a soal let muffler, was driving a hittle po~rke that wvas just old enough to know hol to curl its tail. Peace darted out an< captured both of themn. The ma: swore the animal was his ; Peaco swor it belonged to ' Squire Oohvell, up th road, and prepared to prove his oath 'Mark Anthony," lie cried. The pii wvagged his tail and nodded approvingly looking up into the face of the office with what might have been translate, into a smile. Pe-ace was triumphannt "Billy," cried the driver in his turn The ammual pirouted oin his lind 'es and gavo a resp~onsivo glance, bloatiu1 withal. Thinugs looked dubious, bu Peace took his man to the station housec where he found he had made his firs mistake in the pig connection. That Park Ouards have the mnat r mantle time of it. While in sonmc part of the county the moon ghiuits on empt; lots and artificial streets, made of brick bats and deceased calts, at Fairmnoun it shines on dewy turf and foliago. Th drnukards who pass the night wvithia the Park limits in sweet consp~irao; with Dame Fature trouble the men il the light uniforms. They are p'icke< up), prematurely lodged in the cene tories or dczing on the brmnk of a rescr vior or river, "as if they knowv anythinj about water" This is how a Park Guari put it to a reporter, speaking as if bi had reached the ae of his indignation On an average the number of animal spuriously gazetted as escaped from thi Znologicai Garden is two per week This tends to enliven thmngs somewhait anid the nowly-omnitod Park Ouardt apt to fancy himwseli in an ludian jungl when in reahity within a stone's throv' of Belmont. Rabbiit Shuoting, Rabbit shooting is always good fun in wvoods, in gorse, in hiedeoerows, it rough grass, whatever the ktndl 0; cover, there is no more lively sport, In low wood, whore you can seJ to shool them as they get up in frou~t of you, it is, porhaips, at its best, Capital sport is also to be had outside, aftei the covers have been weoll beaton, espe. cially if the holes have been stop'ped; the rabbits then lie in the hecduerows, in thq stubble, in the grass, whorevo, the~y can find ansything to hide them, but mostly in the hedges, amnd a couph 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 uhlich the gun affords, Rabbits forced out of a hedgerow by dogs go at their best paoe, ailhd any one who can kill them well may call krimself 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-round shot, though the converse by no moans holds good, for many men can kill pheasants and partridges very well who miss five reaits omtio s r. n hat To ESa Aad Drmk Waen Twiefiong Some riders ohoose to take no regular meals at all during thei journey, pro. forring to 0arry with them some plain and stl#ple food and drink, 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 I plan answers very well indeed when a I long distance has to be made and there is little or no time for rest. It is botter, nevertheless, to dismouut take a light meal of mixed food, rest for a good long r time to let digestion have full swing, ) and then on again, gently at first, brisk ) ly afterward. Such a plan gives good I digestion of the food, quick and excel r lent distribution of it over the body for nutritive purposts, 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 animal foods like tish and fowl and mut ton are very good to work on; eggs and milK are very good. A couple of eggs beaten well up in a cup, mixed with 3 hot water, sweetened moderately with sugar, and treated with a small quantity of milk so as to make from half a pint Sto three-quarters of a pint, is with a little biscuit, an excellent sustaining meal for those to whom eggs are easily a 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 substaiining. Broad should be taken in moderate quantity, and 3 fresh vegetables und fresh fruit are al ways in ch %racter when not taken in 3 excess. Sonie fruits which for a mo I ment seem extromoly refreshing while r on the travel become a canso of thirst - if the day is very warm. I notice this 3 particulary in regard to oranges, the 3 most tempting perhaps and the most easily obtuined of all fruits. r Of 0riuking during tricycle exercise r I must speak with some care. It is not very dillicult to learn tricycle without i desire for too much drink of any kind. But if the beginner does not learn to > breatho through the nose, If he ac - quire the liawit of broothing through the mouth, he is sure to acquire also the desire to tako liquids far too freely. Lo will becoio so dry in tie mouth he 1 will feel lhe cannot got on unles he has - something to quench his thirst, and - that is an ovil habit even though the I drink be as innocent as the purt st water i itself. The first point. thereforo, is to , drink as little as possible: to drink as I much as will fill up the loss *that is - made by evoporating of the water from ( the body and not any more. What the charactor of the drink shall I be is not very diflicult to answer, and L) what it should not ho is atnMwered with leas diliculty, for cotaivly of all things 1again it shouldl not bo an alcoholic stim 3uhant. On thia last named point we wh~o are adlvocatesa for total aibstineqect' -from all alcoholic beverages haye se r cuired, beyond aniy mistake, a flue score Vfrom tricycling experiences. Those who 1are to some de'gree ini opposition to us ou ht: gejieral quaestioni, I mean those La wiho still hld that alcoholic drinks are 3 in their right place as luxurica and .should not be donied as luxuries, are I with us if they are practised tricyclists, ,in expressing that alcoholio stimulation r is fatal to good.* sure, and sustained I work. 5ho Obeyetd un In'puia B Fiftecen years ago. the daughter or a rich ( anid r sperous manil, living mn line style on Fi AvenueI, New York, went outL in a carriage otteily on a shopping expe diit ion. AL 1ew~ 'rn 's srore she left the carriage~nndl her coiechman waited for over two hours, untuil finally, becominng anxious, -he madte inqinrice. The young latty had disappeared, anid though a great (deal o1 moiney was si nt and~ 'nuch effoit niaade to ' .liscover her, there was no trace. Tne - years passed~ and the dletective who had t worked on the case very faithftully and Saoxiously, ro'sc by dngrees to tihe rank ol poh1ce captain, One cold night, just after a Cuaistas, tour or live of his ollicers en V tered the etation with eight or ten intoxi c ated women mn their custodly. Onec or jtwo were crying over their arrest, and the prospLet of a s~rison; others were fierce in their oaths at the ie ference of the pollen -with their orgie, white others again were Ssulky. draiidhing a little apart from the I group of prisoners the Captain nuticedl a a itl woman albout thirty. anid he saw that sie land once been beautitul, though now h r face w ai d aflauied by a bru se oa IlLe 'cheek and a lhck welt uinder die eye. 3 L'nere was, however, an air of refinement anout the woman that attracted the polIce captain, andi lie eyed her curiously while the sergeant recorded the names of the' prl)isoniers. buiddenlly the womnaf bsckonca to him. "Caiptnan dto you know me?" was her questiou-." "'No." "Didn't you once try to find Mis Grace ''Well, I'm her. I ran away just out of pure deviltry, and I've nad my full share of it." ..G0od heavenel Why did you do iti" ''Oh, I don't know. 'Il he notion canme into miy headl, and I obey ed the hn puilse.' *tAnd! where have yotu been all this timetc' ' Iight here In the ward, under your very niose. Yotu nover' suspiected me though I saw s ou of ten enough. "And have you not repented of the st< p?'' 'liepentcol" and the wvords thrilled In the ciaptain's ear like the wail of a lost, soul. "RepetoJl Oh, God, yea inut It ras too late." '-It's never too late." "Yes it is. .lrit it's not too late toi dlie." Anti Defoze the Captain could pre vent she had drawn a small pistol and shot herself. The poor creature livedl for two days, and when she dietd It was in the aims of her fstther. Trhe mother had (lied a few years before of grief. Thil~s is a true story andi shows how much stran ger real life is thuan tior Ion. ibomo F~renchi c'huuets1 have succeeded in soidifying raetroleuum; In which state it, burns like tallow. This solitication Is affected by adding to disetilled petroleum twenty-live per cent. of the purified jane of plants belonging to the family of the Euphorbiacee. A Dentes'. PP ghs. ThIs has bein an unusually su1csful hUntng seasn. A arer number of deer have been kilq4d in the inpuntans of Northern PehnsYlvania than ever before, end Many rewarkable adventureo have been met with, Dr. George W. Kliump, a well-known Williamsport dentist and a great lover Qf the chose, has just returned lr) L a hunting expedition in the Laurel Hill Mountain, near LlbertyTioga county, which involved one or two thrilinic adven. tures worthy of nottoe. He entered the mountales by the Trout Run Canon, and after traveling northward soine ten miles arrived at the hunting grounds. Before starting in he secured the services of Joe Bastian and Bill Urist, two old and ex perienced huntere, who had killed a great deal ot gaiue in their time. They pro ceeded to a hut in a lonely part of the mountain near the haunted spring, where they established their headquarara. The second day out the doctor succeeded in Killing a doe and sishtly wounding a bear the carcass of which he dressed and sus pended on a tree for safe keeping unitl it could be rentoved to the cabin. Joe Pat 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. One night, as thoy were resting quietly in their cabin and listening to some won derlul hunting stories by Christ, they were startled by an unearthly sureamu from some wild animal. It proved to be a wildcat., which had been attracted to their camp by tlie scent of venison and, taking a position on a hemlock whoe bianches overhung their cabin, commenced sending forth semeams that would have trightened any one not accustomed to them. Bastian suszed his title and after some time sue cOeced in shvoting the cat, which tumbled ol the tree almost in front of their door. I1 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 otice attaoted bi.n. .Not having time to reload his rilte and knowing how danger - ous it was to encounter a door smarting under a wound, lie realized the neocssity of prompt action. The madt'ened buck dtshud at hinm, but the doctor escapel by crawling under the trunk of a fallen hem lock, where he suoceeded in reloading his gun. In the meanLie the deer was jump iug back and forth over tie log, pawing toe ground and snorting fiercely. The doc tor managed to fire ron his recumbent pt.sition, but only wounded the buck again, which seemed to inensify his an ger, and with glaring eyes lie tried to paw aim out from under the log. Matter were growing serious and the doctor hau about uiad up his mind to pass the night in that uncomioitable position, when Bill Urist caine along and dispatched the deer at the tiret shot. It proved to be a very targe and fine one. A day or two after this adventure tho doctor nad another one which was more exciting. In moving through the forest he encountered an old bear sleeping in a nest f leaves buneath the ion of a failen hem lock. -lie fired at it, but failed to kill it. In a moinent it was after him witb dia Leuded jaws and glaring cyes. The docto: realized iis great winger and prepared for a dcadly encounter. lie carried a good minting knite, which he drew and held in ins hantl ready to strike when it closed on himt. 'I he infuriated beast seemed utnus ually fleree, whicn causedt the uouitor to loojk around for a inoiiont. The truna 01 a large lallen pino lay wIthin a few leet 01 inmi, on wlhich lhe ciamabered. Trho beat folluwed witih an agility that was surpris ing chasedi him along it15 enitre length. ilei hei, rushledl to ai large tree standiog neart by and conmmenced running ar!)tndl the the trunK, whiceh was at, ieast twenty feet .n circunmferenice, lollowedl clowtly by Bruint, wlio scented inrent on niischief. r'is kind ol running was kept up for full) hail an hour, wnen thu doctor began t. tire. What, to do he knew not. If the ferocious beast once got liini in Its arms he wouid be cruished to (leath In a few annliutes. Tiuere was no time to lose, What, was dune must be done quick.). IFu ally in a fit of deuperation, lte iesolvea to gtaple w ith the beast and trust to him kuife lit. halted and faced it blkity. Tino atimtal reared up on its hind legs and came at himl with dmistendedl iniorih and bry eyes andm in a muomnett the doctor was in its otibraco. Lie heldnisl knile rirmly in his right iiand~, and as the bear hugged him to its breast, ho buried the long blade deep in its utek and fortutiately severed the jiugular. rThe blood mpiwted all over him, and be iore the mionster couild give himi the death aug he lelt, its gra-p reiarxing, when stad tienly it. rollets over on its side an'i died in a few seconds. The doctor crawled away; a few feet and wipod the bloo'd of the ani mal f rom hin face, wIch had well-nmgh blindedi him. As he Etood viewing the carcass and dii liberatin~g what to dn Joe Basian~ hap pened along, having heard the noiso of the conlhet wihile watchmng for a deer on the opposite hill, lie was an~azed to find that the doctor htad suicceedled In killing the bear as lie did. Such good luck is rare. rho. doctor was literally covered wit'. blood from nead to fool, his clothes were almost torn iruom his body, his hat was gone and lie preentedl a horrible appear anice. lie was nearly exhausted andi it was with some uhillculty that the old hunter aucceedid Ia getting him to the cabin, where he lai for two days before no was suflemtly recovered to return iomie. Hie say)s that he nat had enough hunting for this winter. OhamsacI by Co:,otes. Major P. Rlusoell, the sheep man, says that coyotes do not bother sheep much in Mlontana. They will, however, keep around the sheep iat a distance and howl in the early morning and at night. The shepherd dogs lie considiers a groat pro tection, as they wvill run the coyotes off, although they catnnot whip them. Re cently, however, the order of things wvas reversed, and a band of coyotes corraled a valuable shepherd slog and ran him off through the hills. Theb absence of the dog was afterwards, fortunately, soon discovered, and borders, mounted on fleet and sure-footed horsest, follo ecd in soarch. The dor wvas itt lonigth soon at a distance,-complete~y surrouiidcd by asbout ton of the onuning coyotes, wvho were sutccessfully <trivinig the poor faith ful creature away fromt the camp, At intrvatls tihe dog woutld attempt to break his cordon of wild herders and return to his charge, but tho fierce animals. anitiiting tiht movement, would close thteir ranks and piesen. a snarling un broken row of shiming ivory. At the ap proachi of the horsemen theo'cowarly ooyotes at once dropped their tails and disappeared almost as suddenly as if the earth had opened up and awallowed them, AGBIOULTURBE, Anvin lvDOs.-n all tre4 the budo which represent the fMture brstnh for vat yiar's growth are prouce4 sqd elay: orated In the proceeding autump. As the dead leaves fall off In Ootoier," theA, ivig chlorophyil and protoplasm i hich formed their active functional parts are withdrawn into 'he permanent tissues of the trees;and their withdrawal, aided. by varlous Internal chemical changes, chiefly of the nature of oxidation, leaves the minor coloring mat ters of the fohage far more prominent than before, and so gives rise to the glow of crimson and gold which we commonly kItow as autumn tinte. Outside the buds are enveloped in dry, brown scales, which make them very iuconspicious to the eyes of their enemies, who would otherwise devour these rising hopes of- the future season. These scales also act ar great coats or clsake to cover rite dormant living germs from the cold of winter. Everybody knows that frost kills plants; and every. body has noticed that it the foliage ex pands in spring too soon, It as very apt to get nipped off by a late return of morning rime. Now, what is true of the vital matter in leaves generally, is especially true of tho vital matter in very young and undevolop ed leaves. It cannot resist the slightest fros . Hence natural selection has In the course of long ages insured the. best possi 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. This is an unusually good word, imbrica ted, by way of scientific therminology; for it means art auged like tiles on a roof; and in fact the scales do really lap over one another like the Italian tiles that one sees on cottages in Southern Europe. These short, boad, brown, cloeest scales ar themselves by origin ablortive i.-aves; or,to put it moae 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 sharp teeth of the irost. Undercean the outer brown pieces, however, you conic at last to some tiny bright green knob.-; and these shapeless httle things are the living parts which carry on the continuity of tne bush from one season to another. SMALL GRAIN IFon Pios.-Wsternt far. mera have beconie so accI'stoimed 'o mak ing p0k rom coin that they scarcely know what to do when a corn crop fails. Alany farmers hesitate to settle north of .he line where large cropo of corn are raised, because they think they cannot produce pork to advantage. Now no one will deny that coin is a most excellent lood for fattening hogs, and where it can tie cheaply produced it is generally the most econoni'ical article that can 6e em m oyed for that purpose. It is true, how ever, that corn is economically produced in places where corn can not Do ripened, and the farmeis there find as much profit in raising beef and mutton. In Great Britain barley is chiefly used for fattening hogs. In Canada all the small araii a ex cept wheat, peas ana roots large-ly taje the place o' corn. In the New Englano 8tates a little corn is used in conuectioi) with potatoes, apples, pumpkins and mill leed. A variety of the tood given to bogs appears to pion.ote health anti to produce ment of fine dlavor. As prices range this scasoin at is likety that, oats will prove to be a cheaper bood for liogs an many parts of thme WVest wheie but little corn is raised. Ixperiumenats tried by several seem to show taut, two bushels of oats are worth as much asa one bushel of corn for making pork tany narta of the country it is eansie io raise two busbela of oat-s than 1 bushel of corn. Thme cost of thras-bing the oats is less than that of husking the corn. To pioduco Lthe best resulis the oats should be ground beo they are led. I hey will be readily eaten snd digested, however, ii they are soaked hi nuilk or water. Barkey which has been discolored by exposure as an excellent food for yigs. The like is true of rye andi pcais. Tna cellar of nany a farm house has caused disease which could have been avoided with a little extra care. Decay ing vegetables and truit till the cellar with their unhiealthfuf odors and gaseP, and these arise to the rooms above through cracks aid~ crevices or thacough thme open door, ana the famaily is compuielled to in hale tinm. This may be remedied by carefully assorting out all riccaying vegetatbies once oar to ice a month,, amt by opening the ce!= lair windows at mnight ad closing them througch the day. Ventilation is the se. cretf. It is a good plan to connect a hlue Iroin the bottonm of the cellar with tee chiimney by which noxious gases will be renioved. Don't put tff thsa mnatter of kventilation until it is too late. MlANY compllain that onions d'o Lsot keep. The trouble is in keeping thenm too warm. The onion is a bulb, a plant at rest, and the least warmith ttarts it inato activity. It is much better that onions shoul remaim frozen tharough the Winter, piovided they can taw graaauaaly, then, to put them into a cellar or other warn' 1)lace where tacir vegetatie powers willI be aroused. If puit, in large h~alps onions will be sure to spoil; but at spread in thin laa3 ers and covered w ith hay and straw, so that if fiozen the thaing will be gradual, they wIll keep well through the Winter. Alais the custon of oion growers to get their crop to miar act as soon tas pissible. if they were to provide proper storagie storage they would aenalize nlaUch more froni then wshen sent to market later in the season. Fout keeping apples the eseential requi sites may be summed up thus: Pack wIthout, bruising; store without heating; winter wathout frosting: utse one or inore thzermaometers; preserve ant unchanage(t temperature; guiard against air cuirents; givo ned~ed ventilation; removea rape ape cinmens before decayinig; separate the fruit room fhom all otlier naartments, With these precautions and care, such apples as the Buldwin, Rted Canaua, dwaar,Famaeuse and Northern bpy nay be kept fresh into June and ,July, as we have had an oapper Lubaity for teatinmr. I)AaRviNo is nan inportact iiduistry ini this country. For an raveaago good season, the annual butter product is set down at 1,20u,000,000 pounds, and or cheee 400,000O,000 pouinds. TJaR average of shorph~orni cattle sales in 1881 was $158 rper head; this year It, wats $192. A goodi sign of quality has causedt it, but speiculation and "famnoy" ped-igree sometimes go tno far. A VaoETAiiLS not generally used. is the whiatiott, which reaembles chicory; 'Tho only p~art used as a vegetable is t he leaves of the heart. They may be eaten as a salad or boiled._______ Now s the tuaie to paint up thue farm mplenmenats; a <collar's worth of paint will a. tiany a dvlh~r a wort4 in the wear and tear of the tools. TmunT'ratta crops of corn have been grown on a fild near Cedar itspids, Iowa, without annhiaion of minnuro. DOMES'I. - mnAN floss silk emlrojdery is oieiu. ted upon blak wbitanet, wt ito or colored floss silk in Im e tfo . tht made by natives of India. .t t be suliected to much wear. ' 4 bu it is excellent for brackets, 1 mall hangigs, and for evening, dres triam. mixigs. It is very easy to make. Traie out an Oriental design. upop, pins paper muslin and work the outlines in prdinary satin stitch, then tack white or black net on to the paper muslin and cover the pattern over with a series. of long satin stitches worked in floss silk. If cream-white floss is ued it has a more Oriental look than where colors are in. troduced. Dzxiozous jolly can be made of elder. To one pint of clear, sweet older allow one. pint of cold watero two pouds of sugar. one package of gelatine, one large pint of boiling water. Soak the gola tine until it is entirely dissolved in the cold water: then add to this the sugar, a spoontul of oinnamon, the juice of two lemons, the grsted rind of two, then the gelatine. Add the cider last; then put all in, a thick flannel bag and let it' drain. Do not squeeze it at all. Pat it in bowls or glasses and set it away to cool. Sherry or Madeira wine may be substituted for the older. APRoNS made of brown linen of the proper width so that the selvage needs no hemming at the sides, may be made very pretty by fringing out the bottom to the depth of two inohes; overcast the edge where the ravelling ceases, then about two inches above that draw out threada for an inch and a half, and then zun a bluo or scarlet ribbon through the threads that are loft, making blocks of the ribbon and thread alternately. Above and below this a row of feather stitching is adiled, and a row on the band and sides also; the pocket trimmed to match is put on at the right side, AN excellent soup is made by boiling a small beef soup-bone for two hcudrs, adding while there is time for them to cook tender, three onions, two carrots, two small round turnips, a little cabbage and etIery; chop these all very fine; a little cream isan agreeable addition to this soup. Many cooks aerve this with the vegetables and i'6lled crackeras; others strain the soup and thicken slightly with a little corn-starch or flour stirred in thwcream or milk. I tissimV ly a matter of taste. CANNED PUMPKIN.--Pare, remove the seeds, cut il sLuall pieces and steam un. til tender. Drain in a colander until free Irom juice, then press in jars and place over the fire in cold water. Boil slowly one and a half hours, then take from the fire and seal as you do any other kind of fi nit. Pumpkin preserved in this way in the fall will make excel lent pics any tinie dhuring the following summer. MAPLE walnuts are made thus: Beat the white of one egg to a stiff froth, stir in enoigh 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 minutes two tablespoonfuils of maple sugar in one of water, or in this propor tion. Press sowe of the hard frosting between the two halves of the wvalnut and let it harden. Dates may be pro. pared im this way, and butternuts and Eiiglish walnute also. POREws and flounders, thiough not costing nearly so much as many other varieties of pan ilsh, can be0 cooked so that they will satisly 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 butter anti lard mixed -rub the fish with ilour, and put in the hot fat; fry until they are a dlelicate brown, turning them often enoungh to be sure they are (done. RIBED figures, covered with colored cotton or cashmere, are a peCculiarity of genuimo Japan. so embroidery, and they have an extremely curious effect. A whole screen may be covered with these raised figuiies, and one of the strangest things about them is that the hair, eye. brews and moustache or beard will be worked in human hair, and each gar ment or implement in use will be senar ate from the figure, This work 'has never been successfully imit ated. .A nown~ of good pea-soup is as satisfy ing us a hearty i nner on a cold day. T'o makbe a gallon of it, wash a pint of peas and soak themn over night; then boil in flye pints o~f water, gently sim mnerig three hiours or so, until thor ough y soft. With a p)otato-masher rub the soup through a colander or wire sieve. A pound of beef or ham bone may be be boiled with the peas. 'I he soupj may be ileasoned in various ways --ubifi onions, cloves, peppers, etc, LYONNATBE potatoes are an especially goeut e i for supper with eukt meat. kFut a harge lump of butter ini a sauce pan, and let it inelt; then add one small onion, chopped tie or sliced very thin; when it is brow~ned nmcely, but not scorched, p)ut in slices of cold boiled potatoes, salt anid p~epper well, let thre potatoes cook until they are also well browned; serve while hot. A litei parsley, chopped line, may be added, ii you like thei Ilavor. DARNED netting is coining into favor again, it is ver y effective for half win dow cur'taims or shades. Tio work it a ioun~d aion of square meshes must be netted, which can be slightly starched in a Iramie, anid upon01 this f oundationi a design is wvorkad by daraing ini ain out ci the meshes, filling some critirely iind others only partially. -To imitate old Irahan lace two or three dIifferent stitch es can be mntroduced. To make elderberry wine, allow two gallons of boiling water to three gallons of the juice of the berries, ten pouunds of b~rowni sugar, one oune of cloves, three ounces ot broised ginger root, and on10 pmnt of French brarndy; when feimeunta tion ceases5, draw Irom the ca k( in whica you havo kept it, and bottle. ConN bread can be made without eggs, though two eggs added to the quaniitaty o1 hatter mnitionied hero im proves it very miuch: Two cups of corn mecal, sifted; onie cup of flour; twvo cups of sweet milk; two tablespoonfuls of mnclted butter; one heaping 01n0 of su gar; two talespuoiluls oh baking pow dher. BREAD) UBUMBS Fon PASRY.--Many puddings that are et mimonly baked in a crust, such as cocoanut, potato, apple and lemon, are equally good and more, wholesome, made by strewiig grated' bread orumbs over a buttered j ie plato or pudding dish to the~ usual deptat of crust; pour in the pudding, strew acoth or laye of bread crumbs over .the top and ba. NDWM IN B 1RF, -MEurop. must buy - 79,000 tons of ba this M .0 bush Of grai -The potato crop of Euroe is re ported forty per cent. below that of last Seaon. - , -Out of the 618 000 people of West Virginia there are 5,000 who cannot write. -Baltimore In endeavoring to take the school commission out of the do. main of ward politIes. -'The Washington monument grew 90 feet during this year. Auother, quarter of a million is asked for to continue the work. -Among the new drugs in use are pear seeds, corn silk, elephant's foot, and chewatiok, in the form of fluid ex tracts, --Two years ago Wesson, Miss., was only a pino forest. It has now a cotton mill employing 1,000 hands, and nearly 8,000 inhabitants. -The youngest inveintor on the re oords in Washington is Walter Nevegold, 'a lad 15 years of age, of Bristol, Pa., who has patented important improve ments in rolling mill machinery. - "That want of general courtesy and universal graciousness, which is a very real want among the Euglish middle elas ses," is a phrase taken from London Queen. -The exports of provisions from the United States during the eleven months which ended ou November 80th last amounted in value to $84,808,008 against $120,845,C62 during the coiroeponditig period of 1881. ' -A short winter is predicted in Montana by hunters and trappers, who base their predictions on the fact that the hair on the buffaloes is short this year. -Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be among the lariest in the world. have been made by the South Borton Iron Worls. Mach lathe contains 600,000 pounds of iron. They are to be use(d to bore out cannon. - Manufactnrea of linsded cake in the north of France are alleged to ad ulterate their products with spout maine Irom distilleries, and that, of course, the usual porcoentage of oily matter is not prese.t. -Suit was brought by the city of San Francisco againfit J. U. Flood to re cover taxes on g600,000 worth of min ing stock in NevaLa. le proved that the mines are situated in California anud won the suit. -A diver, at 600 yards'distance from the persons communicating with him, can converse with ease with persons abovo water by means of the telephone, as was recently proved by Mr. Ware, of the River Mearo Commissioners. -The head-dresses of the ladie . in 1776 were remarkable for their enor mous height. The coiffure of a bello of fashion was described as "a mountain of wool, hair, powder, lawn, mulin, net, lace, ganze, riubon, ltonera, feathers and wire." -Among the trees which grow in Alaska is one called the yellow cedar, which hus a fragrance somewhat like that of sandal wood and nearly as marked, It is a grainless wood, of straw color, and the Russians formerly built nmany ships of it, for which pur pose0 it is admirably adapted. -Now Jersey has 348,526 children of school age. The average attendane upon the public schools is 113,512 ; 44, 560ehildren are mn the private schools. Tae school receipts of the State during the past year were $2. 140,704 84. 01 the 8,508 teachers 2,594 are women. The value of New Jerse~y's school pro perty is $6,270, 778. -I the year 1784 eight h~ales of cot tuon gkown ii the United States were sent to England, whewo, upon arrival, it was seized and condemned by order of the Paivy Councii, on the ground that so barge au amount of cotton cotud not possIliy have been raised in America. This year the cott91u crop of the United States will be hot lar from 7,000,000 bplei;. -Mark T wain failed to answer alotter written to him byv Herjaant all.antin. Af ter waiting a reasonable time the lat ter was so exasperated at not receiving an answer that he mailed Twain a sheet of paper and a postagu stanmp as a gen th. reminder. Mr. Olemens wrote back on apostal : "Paper and starup'received; please send an envelop.." -A G~ridley (Cal. ) farmer hunts geese wilthl a cow. It is statedI that he has trained the animal to wadk out to wheoe a flock of geese have ettled down on the grain, browsing ali the wvay along, he walking alongside on the off side from the geese, and when near enough the cow lies down and he shoote into t-ha flock. -Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour has aiven to the Clinton collection of MSS. in the New York State Library a manuscript deed of land from "George Washington and George Clinton, Qf the City of New York, Esquires," to Na thaniel Griffin, of Whitestown, Mont - gomery county. It boars date of July 22, 1790. -At Rome a bronze votive lamp, three feet high, has been found with tho names of four pious gentdien, to wit : t3. Tettius, T. Annius, L. T1attius and P. Tettienus. It is shaped like a cornu,. copia, with thee wicks, is fluted, and has a large hole on top for pouring in the perfumed oil. The sharp end of thle cornucopia fits Into a kiaad of scab baird, to wnieh it ls fastened with a movable locket. -Queen Victoria has at length con sented to admit that "she is growing old," for the new Egyptian medal that sheorecently distributed represenlts har face of 1882, and not of J 842, as it has appeared on the stamp, coins and medals. In her own time she has dis tributed medals for six lndiani cam paigns, three for South Afrieaun affaurs, and one each for the Crimeau, Glunose, Abyssinian nd Ashiantee conflicts. PUNINo the publisher: Author "Don't you want to buy the rnanuscript of a earrier's adldress ?" Publisher " Well, yes " A.-"what d'ye give?9" P. -All the wvay up from $1.00 to $1.75." A.-"Yes, but you don't know about this. Tnis onie Is allegolical, metaphor Ical, historical, calorical, rhetorical and nmeteorical 1". P.--"Yes, but there's a glut of literature just now; haven't you seen the paragraph about the magazInes having enough nater ahead for .three years ?" A,-"O, yes; but this la aile gorical, metaphorical histo-" P... ''Great Scott I you aint goig over that again? Here is your 62." (But, happy, the allegoriaal6 maitahotoL, ata