'roduct, it* itood. JJs Lamed to [cocktail waa cooler in hot ^Jqual. As a tonic it ijrything alcoholic. As I in without a rival. A dill pickle. A lump Jlk to the brim. Quaff h a drink would not h of any prospective For Preaident. , Hero ia sweet buttermilk and sour Etermilk. Let the former severely Tone. Givo it a few days in the ice >x, and it will ferment. Then drink In the old days in the country, no -v.-^i- over thought of churning un was sour, and the residue? butter was skimmed off?was for the gods. Buttermilk from rn creamery, is a fraud. Only dealers servo good Never touch it unless it is fwhite. Yellow buttermilk is enow that buttermilk was a In. - i in the North up to about ''act, I have a vivid recollection specimen of Yank touring the it. that tipbo. At dinner in a So in" he IJLl to/the waitress, Jmve youflBptak?" "We have ^?jaatu!rmilk,"8he replied, glass. "Oh, take that Tay," he cried; "we only feed to hogs in. my part of the coun At last the therapeutic value of ?rinilk is beginning to bo under ld. If our hospitals would use moro Ltcrmilk and less sweet milk their lierita would be less permanent, buttermilk diet will invariably cure fio gout. It contains more casein than hjgle milk, cream, skim milk, or but The fact that casein does not fm uric acid adapts it for the use of gouty. Ab gout and rheumatism ^lirst cousins, buttermilk is good :ino for the rheumatic. There aro lwho feel obliged to take an occa nk of whiskey. Some of the rones take a small glassful of FTtcrmilk as a chaser, which shows huch wisdom. The most eminent scientist in Europe Ipcnt years trying to understand the merits of buttermilk. He has discov ered a few of them. A great majority pf men prefer sweet milk. In the good ild summer time they should never like a drop of it in a public house with lit the addition of a little lime water. Viereare 6,000,000 microbes in every [bic inch of sweet milk left at your )r in the morning by the delivery Fin. A few of these fellows may be Fid; most of them are not only harm js, but necessary to help you digest fc milk. Be not fearful of microbes. It has been stated and stated again That milk is the only perfect food. It supposed to be meat, bread and jTTrink." It is also stated that the mo 1 ment a glassful of sweet milk reaches your stomach, it is curdled, which [ncans, of course, that digestion has ^]un. Why allow this curdling pro to occur in the stomach? Sour ^ermilk is curdled before it enters ^alimentary canal, which relieves ?mach of one duty. The bacteria ?'u enabled to set to work immediately Lo relieve your vitals of sundry distem pers. "NOT AT HOME" IN SWEDEN. The Curious Custom of Hanging the Key Outside the Door. When the Swedes go calling they lock up and then hang the key on the bell or door knob or in some other con spicuous place. When they go visiting for a few weeks holts and bars are slid nto plaec and then out goes the key. the house is shut up for an entire bason or a full year the gaily swing ing door key says "Not at home" to mssers by. There is no kicking your heels on the 'door mat in Sweden while the bell or knocker awakes the echoes in an empty house. Agents, peddlers, friends and relatives all know this message of the door, and, seeing it, pass by. As can be readily imagined, writes a correspondent of the Los Angles Times, I this strange custom has been put to j Lkoo(1 usc >n many instances when visi Vtors wore not wanted. Instead of tell r ing the maid to inform visitors that Mrs. Jones is not at home, the mistress says lo Jennie: "Hang out the door key at .1 o'clock this afternoon and ^Jbring it in at 9 o'clock; T don't wish to ? ace anyone for a few hours.'' About the first of the month in cer-1 tain districts door keys swing to the breezes in great numbers, and collec tors, knowing the custom and also its , misuses, scratch their heads in perplex ity at this not-at-home signal. Many amusing stories are told of crcditoia sitting down to await the #btinmc)ftlieir man while the debtor ?"?nut S?^?fchcr side of the locked door and chuckled. There have been in stances when a collector has taken the key, unlocked the door and entered the house to be met by the owner, who * ^jaj[mly laughed over his ruse. Again, a creditor has entered the house in' which he supposed tho owner to be hiding, only to find it vacant and to be ^caught by the irate master, arrested Kind mado to pay a fine, while the debtor ? '.'<> 1 an extension of tune on his bill. P These illegitimate uses of this very I old custom of not only leaving the - latchstring out, but also putting the door key at the disposal of all who pass, are not discovered at first glance, and they aro really very much in the mi nority, for Sweden is pro-ominently an honest land. In and about Stockholm thcro is very little need of policemen cong boxes, for every man, how Tcv low down in the social scale, seems to have duo respsct for another's prop erty. Although a few of the moro suspi cious, or tho foreigners who have not been brought up in this strange custom of leaving tho door key out, may lock fcup with bolts from tho inside and use Brother door for exit when theY leave Anc for an extended visit, the old Mlentf. idually leave their homes at ?disposal of any who may care to Rends who call and find tho kty out perfect liberty to unlock the UfLL' r ;u,(l rest before passing on. Ijfi^ -ldom misuse the confidence. ?jistartcd yu?fs ago, when it was the usual thing for "holy men" or priests to travel through Sweedish villages stopping to leave their bless ings on the households of the neighbor hood. These visits were looked for ward to with eagerness by the pious Swedes, and it was considered an act of grossest discourtesy to bar the door, for whatever reason, against a holy man. Consequently, if a family left home the key was always put out against the arrival of the prie?tv Meat and drink were left, and should the holy man stop at a vacant house he en tered, refreshed himself, left his bless ing in the form of a candle, a pottle of holy water or a bit of consecrated green, and passed on. Thus the custom originated, and al though these quaint villages** have be come towns, and traveling priests have passed away and the influx of other na tions has modernized Sweden and brought the evil of theft with it, the door keys still hang out aa cvidenco of trust and open-doorcd hospitality. A thief selom dtakes down one of the keys and enters, fo, there is uncer tainty about the absence of the resi dents spoken of to hold him back, and the knowledge that an exposed door key may merely mean that the owner has stepped across to the store and will return any minuto makes tampering with property risky.?Ex. Nothing lud]):; you more than a good night's rest. You can get this every night that you sleep on one of our Vic tor spring and Dextor mattresses. Get them. You wont regret it. S. M. & E. H. Wilkcs & Co. Vermont'? Two Sennona. Ono winter when Thaddens Stereos had como back to his Vermont home he was the victim of a severe cold and could not leave the house for many weeks. One of his callers was Lewis Clark, a man of short stature, who In earlier days had beon a playmate of the "Old Commoner" and was a near neighbor of the Stevens family in their Peacham home. Vermonters had just begun to wear buffalo coats, and Mr. Clark arrived at the Stevens borne al most lost In a coat which reached to the ground. His upturned collar com pletely covered his earn and face, whllo a fur cap completed tho dlsgulso. "Is that you, Lewis?" asked Mr. Stevens In an incredulous tone. "Yes, Thad," he replied. "Well, skin yourself and sit down," exclaimed the other. During the Interesting conversation which followed Mr. Olnrk asked Ste vens If he wouldn't come back to his Vermont home and live. "No," roplled Stevens. "You have but two seasons here?winter and late In the fall."?Harper's Weekly. The Crooodlle'n Slrong Jniv. Sir Samuel Bnker In his "Wild Bcosts" says that tho power of tho Jaws of the crocodile Is terrlltc. Onco he had the metal of a large hook, the thickness of ordinary telegraph wire, completely bent together, the barbed point being pressed tightly against the shank and rendered useless. This com pression was caused by "the Bnap of the Jaws when seizing a llvo duck which ho had used as a bait, the hook being fastened beneath ono wing. On one occasion ho found a fish weighing sov enty pounds bitten clean through as If divided by a knife. This, again, was the work of a snap from the Jaws of a crocodile M. Paul Bert onco made experiments on the strength of a croc odile's jaws by means of a dynamome ter. He found that a crocodile weigh ing 120 pounds.exerted a force of ?0S pounds In closing his Jaw. Tho lion has an enormous Jaw power. On one occasion an African traveler pushed the butt end of his gun Into a Jlon's mouth, and the pressure of the Jaws cracked It as though it had been struck by a steam hammer. Hoar und Boiled Turkey. "The hog," said a Baltlmoro Judge, "Is the greatest animal In the world. Every part of him has a different fla vor, and each flavor Is bettor than that of any other animal la the world.** "Better than a terrapin?" "I don't call a terrapin an animal. The terrapin is a creation. But, to re turn to tho hog, nil of him is good, from his tall to his front feet. Chlno Is a great dish, but It doesn't compare with Jowl. Jowl and turnip tops In the spring can be beaten by only ono thing, and that Is a boiled hen turkey. No body but a Yankee or a heathen would roast a hen turkey In tho spring. Hen turkeys are fat beforo they lay, and the flavor is delicious. Properly cook ed and served, such a dish Is fit for kings, and nations have gono to war for leas cause."?Baltlmoro News. An Anatomical I'uar.le. Behind the bridge of your nose la a little cavity in tho skull, tho origin of vhlch appears to be unknown. It pi?. My was a gland, consisting of two I i ' lobes, Joined together, and Is name 1 i i Selln turclca. Physiologists belle"o tat this is the remains of a sixth sense, which was of practical value to our antediluvian ancestors, but whether It enabled them to see In the dark In days beforo they possessed fire or helped thorn to find their way through trackless forests as wild beasts oau today or what other purpose It may have served we do not know and probably never shall know. The Wrong ireafhecM. There is little except the method of inflation that distinguishes tho balloon of tho twentieth century from the ma chine used by M. Pllntre do Roxlor, the first man to trust himself In a balloon, in October, 1783. Ono of his groat tri umphs was to hover over Paris at the holght of 000 feet for a spneo of nine minutes. M. Pllatre achieved all his efforts by means of hot air produced by a flro which ho carried In tho bal loon Itself and was almost as daring ns an Italian philosopher who took flight on a pair of wings of his own con struction from the summit of the castlo ?f Stirling in presence of King James IV. of Scotland. That courogeous ex perimenter when picked up from the ground with a broken leg accounted for the collapse of his wings by ex claiming to the sympathetic courtiers that he had made a mlstako In taking some of his feathers from the creotures of tho barnyard whoso Inclination was toward tho earth. Had ho selected them from creatures with a heaven ward tendency, llko tho eagle, the ex periment would have been successful. He was bolleved and suitably reward ed. A Street Sweeper'* Gratattlra. A city merchant used to give an old crossing sweeper sixpence ovcry Sat urday. One day he discovered he had given half a sovereign by a mistake. So he hurried back to the crossing. Tho sweeper said in reply to a question, "Will you com*, sir, after 4 o'clock to thJjL.?ddrc?s?j|n?Xl?ll Mft If lo^aro right ?b??f th? Bolnf' Iii? iner*n?nt a bushel. September furnished about two weeks of the mildest of tho season. Soon nfter.the middle it became very cold and frosty ?ice forming a quarter of an inch in thickness. October produced more than its usual sharo of cool weather; fro3t and ice common. November was cold, and blustering. Snow fell so an to mnko sleighing. December was mild and comfortable. We have thus given a brief summary of tho "Cold Summer of 1816," as it was called in order to distinguish it from tho cold seasons. The winter was mild. Frost and ice were common in i every month of tho year. Very little vegetation matured In the eastern ami middle slates. The sun's rays seemed to be destitute of heat thoughout the sum mer; and all nature was clad in a sable hue and man exhibited no Httlo anxiety concerning the futUUO of his life. 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