Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Darlington News. H. T. Thompson, Ed. A Prop. Tin new Duchess of Marlborough has set out to i)'*';*} Hlemheim Castle spick ind span, and was astounded the other iey to Cud that the mending of its roof <n a tru'tworthj manner would cost just I 0,000 of her good American dollars. The report that two German bankets ire about to purchase the Island of Htrm Is creating a sensation in I'aris. The ab ■egcd bankers are said to be German aaval officers in disguise, whose design Is to familiarize themselves, by the aid of local pilots, with certain channels and currents, a knowledge which would be of immense value in the event of a war between France and Germany. Tito Island of Herm lies two and a half miles from Germany in the English Channel. The Elsctriral Ilftie r quotes Professor Asa Grey as saying that there is ground for the belief prevalent in Kurone that lightning strikes the Lombardy poplar In preference to other trees. He says an »ld fashioned Lombardy poplar, by its be ght, its complete covering of twigs ind small brauchei and by its sappy wood, makes a capital lightning rod and s cheap one. To make it surer the tree ibould stand in moist ground or near water, for wet ground is a good con ductor and dry a poor one. It is recom mended to plant a Lombardy poplar near the house and another near the barn. A WOLF HUNT. EXCITING PCHSUIT OF THE FOUR FOOTED GCERIL.L.AS. Mountain Wolves and Tbeir Canine Rivals—In (he Tolls at Last— A Test of the Unites Co u race. Sixty miles south of El Faso the main line of the Mexican Central railroad reaches a mount iiu gap where our trains stopped to replenish their tenders. While the peons carried up faggots of gnarled mes |Uite sticks one of my tiav- eling companions strolled out on the plaltorm of the freight shed and stopped in front of an uncouth-looking bundle — s heavy pack of grizzly skins, blood stained and haunted by myriads of buz zing ti es “What in the world would you call that?’’ be asked the cofice-colored sta tion master. “That? pedo cenizo—gray peltry,” said the Mexican, knocking the ashes off his cigarette. ‘ Gray—what?” “Gray peltry—wolf skins, you know. They are getting too foul to let them get mixed up with the other freight.” A curious Idea as ta relative values is givea by the publication in the same issue of a St. Paul newspaper of two lo cal court items, ooo of which states that a certain railroad company has been sued for $5000 damages by the administra tor of a citizen who lost his life, it is al leged, by the negligence of some of the company's employes. The second item is to the effe t that another railroad cor- poration has been sued by an engineer who wishes’to obtain $20,000 as recom- t ense for the loss of his foot, which was badly injured while was temporarily acting as a brake man. Editor Labouchere, of London Trnf\ is bringing some cur ous complaints to light os to the feeding of the British soldier. It seems that the stipulated “Wolf skinsT’ detaching one of the shriveled hides; “I thought they would be larger. Wolvts must be puny brutes, after nil.” The Mexican shrugged his shou'ders. “They are large enough to give us a good deal of trouble, tSeuor.” Few primitive nations would question that fact. The gray wolf docs not reach the height of a mastiff, and his weight rarely e<ceed< nine'y pounds, but for long ages that “puny brute” had dis puted the prestige of t od’s vicc-rezent on earth, and in many pastoral regions of Europe and North America is still a greater plague than all other beasts of prey and all troublesome birds and rep tiles taken together. The wilderness of the northern hemisphere has been con quered ouly by an alliance of men and wolf dogs, and the uuaided powers of our primitive ancestors might have failed ' to prevail against the vcrsaiile talents of | a creature that combines the fangs of a paniher with the lleetr,css of a deer and j the keen scent of the fox, and which ! only incessant persecution can p-cvent amount and qual ty of food is not served “Toram/ Atkins.” aad a m mber f r °i“ multiplying at the rale of sixty per of the Army and Navy Club avers that ! re !ii‘ * J e,4r ‘ The last wild wolf if the public could but look iuto a bar rack room during the distribution of tho soldiers’ midday meal they would be simply shocked to sec how those who happen to be off duty feel compelled to stint themselves for those on guard. 1 abouchere says the Italian soldier is better fed and cared for than the British. A largo part of the Bra ilian emp're is ready for republicanism, declares- the .1 mtriean Cultirator. Horn Pedro, the prerent Emperor, has been a father to his people. He has been largely in fluential in abolishing slavery, aud for the good he has done tho < m ire will not be disturbed in hii day. But he will have no successor. After his dea h republicanism will be the natural order of things. Bra il has cnoimous re sources and a territory that may possibly be subdivided iuto a number of govern ments. In time South A me L-a w 11 be gathered under a federative system, like that of the l nited Status. now At hen tie Po-toa ond irov der.ee radioed Company was chartered. Vr. •'obh C. I edge, of Attleboro, ' ass., conveyed a portion of his lard in consid eration that he a id hit fara ly should ride fiec over the li c as long land was used for ia '.way purposes grand-daugh’er of Mr. Lodge da nis that she is miiFed to thr iirivi- lege named in the deed, and that the word family n eant •dvteendants'’ of the grantor. 1 he lailway company demurred on the ground that the remedy of tho plu n i I it at iaw, a d not in equity. Judge Allen, however, lias ovetrulcd the demurrer, and expressed au opinion that under the deed the Bo-ton aid Provi dence Pa lrca 1 (orapiny would be re quired to cairy free the descendants of Mr. Dodge for all time. Notwithstanding unfavorable rumors ciiculated from time to time, the crops of 1888 are ratisfartory, asveits the Brooklyn Eafile. The wheat harve t is est mated at 400,000,000 bushels or more, and the money receipts from it arc expected to equal those of 1887, although the crop then was 450,820,000 bushels. The yield of corn this year is in round numbers 2,00',000,00J bushels, which will probably bring $1,000,000,000. Adding other products, including cot ton, the faithful soil will return to its cultivators the enormous sum of $2,340,. 000,000. As the crop# are the final 1 asis of all trade, these figures ought to be encouraging. A Presidential canvass is sometimes said to be injurious to busi- ness. But evidently politics does not hurt the harvests. of the British Isl* undsissaid to have been shot in 1702 in the highlands of the Western Grampians, but wolves still abound in the Apen nines, in the Carpathian Mountains, in the Southern Alps, in Kussia, Turkey, Norway,Transylvania,Southern Switzer land, in all the Spanish Sierras, and even in the highlands of the French Cevennes, hardly two hundred miles from the “caiiital of civilization .” Mexico ana our southern border states still harbor not less than three different species of the genus Ivptu: The black wolf, the coyote, or prairie wolf, and the gray wolf—the latter the most mischievous, and with the single excep tion of the grizzly bear, the boldest, preditory quadruped of the North American continent. Wolves, surprised la the act of disemboweling a dead horse, have been known to attack a meddlesome dog and tear him limb from limb, ajid then, as if encouraged by their success,'make a headlong charge upon a mounted hunter, and in spite of repeated pistol shots, pursue him for a distance of levei al miles. A full-grown wolf is more than a match for a man armed with the r rimitive weapons of our forefathers, alike the black bear, who preliminates ; the use of his teeth by a hugging match, the gray wolf is apt to decide his duello by a sing'e spring at the throat of his adversary, and neither the dewlap of a steer nor the garments of a fur-clad hunter, can resist the effic ency of his terrible fangs—fangs differing from the teeth of a New York butcher dog as a ns the Spanish «tiletto differs from a common jack-knife. A “hue and cry" is a phrase often ap plied to the petty stop-thief sensations of our modern cities, but he who would know the original significance of the term should witness the effects of a wolf- YF / Here is how they do it in Mexico, ac cording to the New York Commercial Advert iter: One Juan Falcon, who had removed to Texas was informed that his dead father had left him $1800, but upon going to receive it found that some mys terious “legal expenses” had eaten u ,, a thousand, aud when he asked for the re maining eight hundred was told by the Alcalde that au approaching election made it necessary for him to keep that till the exigencies of the campaign were past. As a naturalized American be had no remedy at law, so flung a bottle of ink at bis excellency’s head, was ar rested, tried and sentenced to two year*’ imprisonment, but broke jail and is now back in the land of his adoption, much richer in experience, though not in pocket, than when he went seeking his Kn.uxo the BRrrr. alarm in the uplands of Chihuahua. The restless vigilance of the mounted herd ers has gradually driven the wolf popu lation to the fastness of the alturas, of rugged highlands, where fcaverns and thickets of myrtle and cedar-shrubs offer them an inexpugnable vantage ground. In stress of famine, however, the fierce highlanders now and then sally in force, anil, by avoiding all bea'en roads oc casionally succeed in raiding the pastures of a lonely ranch and e Tecting their re treat to the summit regions of the Sierra. 'I hc experienced leaders of such ex- | peditions are not apt to tarry on a scene of carnage, well knowing that the shel ter at night alone can avert retribution if h s retreat should be interrupted. At tho first sound of the trompado, or alarm-trumpet, the farmer leaves his plow and the miner his pan, dogs are un chained, horses saddled in wild haste, and five minutes after, dust clouds sweep.ng across the vega as on the wings of the storm, announce the arrival of rescuing parties from far and near. There ts no time to bo lost. The baffled marauders are Hying for the Sierra, and | by an unsparing use of spur and whip may be overtaken, headid off, perhaps, and lurk willingly, possibly caught in the coils of a n»/e», or circle hunt—a sport the wild hunters would not exchange for the spectacle of the finest bull | ght in America. Forward, hound* and racers ahead, through bush and bramble, guided by the bugle signal of the vanguard—joining the direct pur suit or taking advantage of a bee line trail to gain the uplands ahead of tho fugitives, and turn their flight bja flank movement. * ' The wolves keep well together, fully aware that stagglm will be instantly cornered ; another mile and the thicket* are gained, but left and right the hill sides already clatter under the hoofs of galloping horses; the fatal trompad* r ugs out its signal blasts m ng'cd with even louder cheers, and the running fight with a legion of yelping curs pres ently becomes a general melee: the gal- S os, the fierce bloodhounds ol the bor er ranchos, have forged ahead, and, cheered by the yells of the hunters, at once rush into the thick of the Hying outlaws. For a moment the terrible snap bites of the m trauders prevu l; the a gres^ors recoil, but the victory has bieu purchased at the price of a | er.lous < e ay; the ta ers have pa-sed the foot- bi Iqand horn signals aheady blare fiom I he gates of the mountain passes; the re maining hopes of escape are measured by raiuntes. 1 he galgos aga.n rush in ; but in the midst of the confusion a veteran wolf is standing firm, scanning the rocks ahead with the eye of an expert cam- paigi e , evidently resolved to keep his wits steady and utilize every possible chance of salvation. But that chance is soon reduced to a problem of battle tactics. The confusion of the second charge has involved the loss of an additional minute, and that minute has decided the fortune of the day. i e enforcements of bloodhounds charge howling up the glen, a whirl of galloping hoofs sends down a shower of pebbles from the Hank of a lateial ridge, and a new detachment of hunters storms ahead to complete the blockade of tho alturas. Every galgo of the uplands will soon be on the ground, even if his owner should have to reca l him from the view halloo chase of a deer hunt. Near the little mining hamlet of Sau Kafael I once visited the camp of a railway sur veyor, when the echo of a tr mpada sent our Mexicans a-flyiug in all directions, and a few minutes after the first bevy of hunters, a strange team came thunder ing down the road; a lior-e, two mules and a two whee ed < art containing a hunter and a grizzly old gulgo. ’the dog was still sore from the sears of a recent prize fight and had one of his legs bandaged; but rather than incur tho odium of shirking the rally his owner had decided to fetch him out in a cart, and in spite of his wounds the old lighter stood bold upright, answering the cheers of the viliagars with deep- mouthed bark. ALL KINDS OF COURTING.! T(1E MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. ovaivt cttstovs or son ah* GIANT AND MODERN PEOPLE. l Ejt mfr. \ (?, A' 0 Thk vetkraw riding to the frat. A dozen su h champions can be war ranted to save the expense of gun powder, even in a wolf hunt. In the first heat of the pursuit, and when the plurality of his all es are far behind, they often outstrip the heroes and strain every nerve to accompl sh the maiu pur pose of interrupting the fugitives, but in a pitched battle they can appreciate the advantage of co-opeiative tactic*. Two tnd two, or in larger packs, they keep i lose together, and while the mounted hunters charge in with clubs of black berry wood, the : r lanine allies pick off blockade runners till the reduction of the hostile fo cc warrants a signal for a general i ssault. That signal tests the power of the leaders, for the wolves now close their ranks and the valor of their veterans seems to increase with the hopelessness of their plight, and even the last survivors perish in selling their lives as dearly as possible; dripping with blood a id the foam of their savage snap- bites, they stand bristling at bay, grimly determined to resist their aggressors to the very !&>t. She wolves, however, somewhat lack lhat atoiciam. and in view of inevitable death are apt to lift the r head-and wa'-e Ibe echo of the n/Iurus with a weird fare well howl, addressed perhaps to the memory of their starving whelps in the :avern of tho distant sierra. — C/ti.ago Utral l. Appearances Are llecelvlu# tf. f0S/ >Ys aojMT j*** i v77r/fjjj Fat Boy (from the Museum, who is not looking for the worst of it, drops into a tailor rhop unnoticed)—“Did I understand you to say you woold make me this suit for i2'n’’ Tailor twho thinks he has struck a sucker)—“Yes, sir; 1’ ve only one price.” Fat Boy—“Well, I will take this; you can take ray measure.” 8ftp A T Iwt M R r Fat Boy—“Well, Fm ready, sir." Tailor (who has been taken in)—“Ex cuse me, sir: you ha' c made a mistake. This is a tailor shop; we don’t cover balloous. You will find a sa l-loft on the next square.—Cincinnati Enquirer. There are e : ght mission ships now cruising in tho North Sea. each a com bination of church, chapel, temperance |assesses special advantages for mana tal 1 and dispensary. _ r —“” J — Sold at A act ion—The Esquimaux and Native Australian Way—A Battle for a Bride. Among the native Assyrians all mar riageable young girls were assembled at one place, and the public crier put them up for sale one after the other. The money which was received for tho-e who were handsome, and consequently Sold well, was bestowed as a wedding portion on those who weie plain. When the most beautiful had been disposed of the more ordinary looking ones were offered for a certain sum. and allotted to those willing to take them. In ancient Greece the lover was seldom favored with an opportunity of telling his passion to his mistress, and he used to publish it by inscribing her name on the walls, on the bark of the trees in the public walks aud upon the leaves of books. He would decorate the door of her house with garlands, and make liba tions of wine before it, in the manner that was practised in the Temple of Cupd. According to Dr. Hayes, courtship among the Esquimaux has not much tenderness about it. The match is made by the parenis of the couple. The lover luust go out »n 1 capture a Polar bear as an evidence of liis courage and strength. That accomplished, he sneaks behind the door o' his sweetheart’s honse, and when she comes out he pounces upon her and tries to csrry her to his dog sledge, the screams, bites, kicks and breaks away from him. He gives chase, whereupon all the old women of the settlement rush out and beat her with frozen strips of sealskin, bhc falls down exhausted, the lover lashes her to his sledge, whips up his dogs, dashes swiftly over the frosen snow, and the wedding is consummated. The Australian lover is still more lack ing in tenderness, if the statement made by Myers Deley is true. The lover makes up his mind as to which woman shall be his bride, and then hides in the bushes in the vicinity of her dwelling. As soon as she comes near the spot where he is concci.led he knocks herd^wn with u club, and carries her off before she comes to. If he docs not get her to h s hut before s’;e recovers there is 1 kely to b) a lively tight in the bush, for the Australian damsel is generally a vigorous one. and may have reasons of her own (or objecting to his attentions. The lover may then be obliged to club her again, aud as that is considered to be somewhat of a re lection ou the ardor with which his earlier effort was made, he is apt to put as much soul and muscle into his first love tap as he can summon. In some parts of Asia the question of a man’s title to a bride must be settled by a fierce t'ght between the friends of the contracting patties. If his forces are victorious his sweetheart becomes his trophy. If her friends are victorious he must pay such price as the v.'ctirs demand. All over that country tome ceremony of violence or exhibition of | hysicat power must precede a wedding. Some native tribes insist upon a foot race between the bride and bridegroom to decide the question of marriage, and others require a long chase on horseback. In some sections of Asia the lover must carry o:I his bride on h s back. If he reaches his hut w til her there can be no protest against the marriage. Failing in that, he must pay her parents for her in cattle. The wiLing bride makes no outcry; tho unwilling bride amuses the whole village, the residents of which try to rcs-'ue her. In the Isthmus of Darien either sex ran do the courting, while in the Ur- kra : ue the girl generally attends to it. When she falls iu love with a man, she ;oes to his house uud declares her pas sion. If he declines to accept her, she remains there, and his case becomes rather distressing. To turn her out would provoke her kindred to avenge the insult, 1 he young fellow has no re sort left him but to run away from home until the d >mscl is otherwise disposed of. A curious custom prevails in Oud Beierland, Holland. October is the aus picious month, and on the first Sunday (known as teview day) the lads and lasses, attired in their best, promenade the village s parately, stare each other Out Of countenance, and then retire to make up their minds on the second Sunday, which is called decision day. The young men go up and pay their compliments to the fair ones of their choice, to learn if they are regarded with favor. On the third Sunday, or flay of purchase the swain is expected to match the pocket handkerchief of his idored oile, 4nd if she submits to it with good grace he undeestaads that his chances of winning her are flattering, The captured pledge is restored to the fair owner on the fouith Sunday, the “Sunday of Taking I’ossess'on,” and it rarely happens that the damsel refuses the lover for whom she has Indicated a preference. On the Sunday following, (he suitor, according to custom, calls at the house of his inamorata, where he is isked to tea. If a piece of the crust of \ gingerbread loaf is handed to him, I here is nothing left tor him but to retire. If, on the other hand, the parents offer the young man a piece of the crumb, he is allowed to come again aud is admitted Into the familv. On tho Island of Himla, opposite I bodes, a girl is not allowed to have a lo-er until she has brought Up a certain number of sponges and given proof of her ability to take them from a certain iept'i. On the Island of Nicarus the eirl is not consulted. Her father gives ner to the best diver among her suitors, lie who can stay longest under the water »nd gather the most sponges marries the tnaub— Suffered For His Xother-Ii-Law. Joaquin Miller has transcribed the following fable from an old Chinese manuscript: “In the Chin dynasty there lived a man named Wang Hsiang, also called Hsiu Cheng. While he was yet young his own mother died. His father married again a woman of the Chu family, t-he was by no means a tender, loving mother, but was constantly tell ing the. father in secret that Wang Hsiang was not a good boy, and gradu ally the father lost hia affection for his son. Notwithstanding all this, the son still exercised filial uiety in the treat ment of his stepmother. On a certain day she desired to eat fresh fish, but it was the time of frozen waters: so this filial son took off his clothes and lay on the ice, honing that the warmth of his body would melt it. “Suddenly the ice opened, and two fresh fish leaped forth, and he took them to his mother. Among people there are often stepmothers, but under the heavens there has never been another Wang Hsiang. To this day upon the waters of the river are seen the prints in the ice.” STORIES THAT ABB TOLD BT THB FUNNY MEN OP THB PRESS. A Reigning Belle—What Did Rbe Mean? —A Question of Cared a Good Deal, Etc. “ She reigns a belle,” They sai-t, and, well, I thought so, too. And gloomy quite When from her sight I often grew. Now, she's my wife, Upon mv life. My lot I rue; Rbe reigns a belle, And, sad to tell. She reins me, too. Jaws — Fuasia will build a railroad early 1000 long miles through Siberia, to develops lhat country, which from all accounta factoring. What Did She Mean? Mr. Van V—“All alone, I see, Miss Quilt.” Miss Quilt—“Yes." Mr. \ an V—“I hate my own company.** Mist Quill—“So do I.”—rime. A Qn^stlon of Jaws. Wife—“What die* this circus ad vertisement mean when it speaks of a man with aa iron aw Husband—“Means what it says, of course.” “Dear me! I don’t know what I would do if 1 had an iron jaw,” “You’d wear it out in about six months." Cared a Good Deal. “And do you really care a good deal tbout me:” he asked. “Yes,” she answered: “qu'te a good deal. If you were to go away now, never to come back again, I should miss your horse aud boggy very much.”— Somerville Jumna'. A Permanent Discovery. “And so,” said he bitterly when he realized that she had rejected him, “and so you have been flirting heartlessly with me a 1 the while. Well, thank Heaven, 1 have found you out at U-t .” “Yes,” slie icplied, “you have: and what is more, I think you will always find me out hereafter when you call.”— Somerville Jour mil. HU Eleven Sisters. Mi*s Travis—“Mr. Po-eyboy, may I ask you how many sistenyou have?" Posey boy—“Eleven.” Miss Travis—“Goodness gracious, Mr. Poseyboy! It can’t be possible!" Poseyboy—“Why yes, Miss Travis. Theie's my own s'ster and t<n other g rls who have promised to be sisters to me.”—Minn.a wli* Tribune. Makin? a Pleasant Impression I ather (to daughter)—“I noticed, my dear, that when 1 came home late last evening every burner in tho two parlors was brilliantly lighted.” Daughter—“Yes, papa: the young gentleman who was calling on me is a junior member of the <-real Moral Gas- 1 ght Co., and 1 wanted him to have a pleasant impressioa of—of the family, you know.” An Expensive East Chance. “I’ve come to find out what you mean by charging me -. l Saturday night for that table spread and selling Mrs. Fer - guson one just like it on Monday forsixty cents. 1 idn’t you say it was my last change to get one so cheap?” “You mistook me, madam,” responded the clerk; “I said it wa- your last chance to cet one for $1. And it was, for v.e put them down to sixty cents Monday morning.”—dtila lelphia Call. Pursnert l»v Hard Lack. Miss (lara—“It distresses me greatly to cause you pain, Mr. Worchestershire, but I love another.” Sir. Worchestershire—“Ah, me!” Sliss Clara—“1 have always supposed that you were interested in r.thel ^imp- son, Mr. Worchestershire; she is a noble girl.” Sir. Worchestershire—“Ah. yes, Miss Clara; but I had the same luck with her that I have just had with jon."—L>/e. Turned Him Over. Shoe Dealer i rubbing his hands affa bly)— “Well, sir; what can Ido for you, •irf” Customer—“I want to look at fpair of your finest sho Shoe Dealer—“Yes,sir; sit right down on the sofa please, and—” Customer—“—a pair of your finest shoe strings.” Shoe Dealer (to clerk)—“James, show this gentleman the shoe strings. Epoch. He Met His Fate Gamely. Young wife (at dinner table, sobbing) —“I think you -you- are just as mean ns—as -you can be. I made that—that apple dumpling os a pleasant surprise for you, ancT- and—now—you—want me to bring a handsaw to cut it in two with.” Young Husband—“Good heavens, Maria! Is that a dumpling? I took it for a cocoanut.” (W.th de-perate firm ness.) “I’ll eat it now, Maria, if it kills me.” The Laws of Heredity Illustrated. Grigson (who has tripped up his friend, Professor Grampsou's, campstool just us the latter was sitting down on it) —"Hi! Don’t! It’s no good cutting up rough, you know—I inherited a ten dency to p:actical joking, and can’t help it—you said so yourself I” Grampson—"Quite so, my dear fellow; I ou’ienottoblameabit! But I’ve in- erited a tendency to kick practical jok ers, and can’t kelp it either.” (Kicks him.)—Punch. Aurelia-“Oh, paw! Do you forbid Arthur the house:” * Tagley—“He may come every night in the week if be pleases, but he shal not bring his dog into my parlor. last night his howling kept me awake for an hour.” Aurelia-“Why, paw! That waa At- thur singing a selection from Erntinia 1” —Ba:ar. The Test. “I saw an amusing incident early this morning,’’ said a policeman to a traveling man. “What waa it?” “It occurred about half paat one in the morning. A certain gentleman go Mit of a ha. k and went up the step* of his residenc**. He hesitated for a min- ate and then pulled the door bell. Drea mily a window opened up above and a voman put her head out of it. “That you, dear;’’ he inquired. “Yes.” she replied, “Lemme in,” said he. “Ray truly rural.” “Toory looral.” “You can’t <omein," she responded promptly, and shut the window down, lie waited a moment more and then got 'jack into the hack.—U rc’iant Traveler. Took Thing* Ltcerally. Peripatetic Agent—“I see by the papers, ma'am, that your house wax xttneked by burglars last night Let me show you one of Smith’s patent electro-tertahedral luminiferous burglar ilarms. They are constructed on purely scientific principles. It is absolutely impossible for a burglar " “It would be of no use, as we have had »n admirable burglar alarm in the house for some time ” “Sol unde stand, ma'am, but now that it is gone, you will want another. It is absolutely impossible for a burglar to enter a house which is furnished with one of Smith s paten t electro tetrahe ’’ “But our alarm is all right, we don’t want another." “Yes’m, but I saw by the papers, what perhaps you are not aware of, that the liurglars took the alarm and fled, and as you certainly need another ” The door slams.—Sprit,qfield Union, — HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. A Pineapple Pudding. Cut a fine ripe pineapple in slim, . nd boil it tor ten minutes in a pint of whit, sugar syrup, then remove the fruit and press it through a aievo. Add to th« syrup in which the pineapple *a* l,oiUi an ounce of gelatine which has W soaked in cold water for twenty minutea and atir over the fife until the gelatine is entirely dissolved, then strain the symp through a piece of muslin, and when rather cool atir it into the fruit pulp. You can decorate the inside of a mold with fruit if you desire. The fruit used for decoration should be dipped into melted gelatine, then it will adhera firmly to the mold. Pour in the pine apple, etc., and imbed the mold in ic* until required. If the decorating U done tastefully the pudding will form an elegant-looking dish. When more convenient, canned pineapple may he Used instead of fresh, and will answer the purpose very nicely.—A T «iz York Neat. . Grief I’nassnaged. Fagged Urchin twee ping)—“Oh, oh - oh. dear!” Benevolent Gent—“What is the mat ter, my boy?” “I’ve lost (sob) my penny. Oh I” (Howl.) “Never mind; here is another." I rchin sets up another howl as he pockets the coin. “W hat D the matter now?” “Oh, sir, if I hadn’t lost the other one Pd have two now.”—Arts York World. A Humanitarian Theoretically. “I tell yon, my friend,” exclaimed the gentleman vehemently, as he un- foded his napkin, “that a country that | tolerates aud encourages brutality will j never be allowed to prosper. Look at Spain. ! ook at Mexico. We have not their bull fights, it ia true, hut we have prize fighting, cock fighting, pigeon shootmg mutches, and in tho fate of those countries ’’ | Interruption by waiter]—“What will you have, siri” “Broil me a live lobster.—In the fate offaese countries, my dear, sir, we may see .he history of the L nited States fore- •hadowed," tc.-Chicago JrtW. The Rowling Kept Him Awako. Bagley (sternly)—“Aurelia, let this thing stop right here. Mr. D« Twir- Llfs of Mexican Editors. During the last twenty-five years a good many sanguine persons, torao of them very clever people, have under taken to publish humorous journals hero but none of them have had a long life. The temptation to indulge in a species of fun which lies dangerously near tho verge of the rigorous libel laws is too great to be resisted, and after a par ticularly brilliant issue the editor, or, as is said here, the “redactor responsible," goes down to occupy a narrow room in the famous prison of Belem. Under the libel law which prevails here a newspaper editor has to use the blue pencil and scissors very carefully, and the copy of the reporter goes through a process of excision unknown in Newspaper row in the good city oi Boston. For this rca on the respectabls citizen may go to bed at night quite sure that next morning's papers will not drag his name iuto counection with somebody's swindling scheme, or hold him up to ridicule because ho has turned Mugwump The strict “leyes de im- prenta” protect the private citizen quite as much as the greatest politic an ot Cabinet Miuistcr. If it is difficult to edit a daily journal so as to avoid de nouncements and legal proceedings, how much more difficult must it be to pub lish a comic weekly where the pencil of the caricaturist has not free range.’ The law of libel in this country is not designed for the protection of the rulers of the Hepublic any more than lor that of the humblest citizen. The butcher and the candlcstickmaker are as care fully guarded in their right to bo un molested by lively reporters, or sarcas tic editors, as the President himself. It is for these leasons that the carica turists confine themselves largely to dealing with phases of social life in the manner of the illustrators of the Parisian weekly press. Rome time ago, we had the llijo de Ahuiute, which in iti title recalled the famous satirical sheet of former days, the old, original A/mi- cute, but the writers and artists of this spicy little paper found themselves con tinually getting into hot water, or into Belem, and finally gave up the fight in despair. A very lively, witty, little French weekly here, the Petit Oauloi*, occasionally gets too racy, and the editor is furbished accommodations at the pub lic expense, but such is his perseverance that trifles like this do not daunt him, and he no sooner gets back to his desk than he begins to hit right and left in his own inimitable and witty manner.— Jstler to Pottm Herald. The Press In Rneela. The Constantinople papers are liberal and free-spoken compared with the avenge newspaper in Bussia. In these censor-ridden sheets no liberal sentiment is permitted to find expression, no ad verse criticism of the Government. Every copy of even the already blue-penciled Constantinople papers is searched through before it is permitted to enter l.ussia. I have in my possession now copies of the Constantinople Levant Herald that have paased through the Russian Post Office. About every fifth or sixth paragraph ia painted over with icdelibl*, gummy ink, so that it cannot be read. All foreign papers are ex amined at tho frontier Post Offices and subjected to this treatment. Every ob jectionable item is obliterated, and the papers are wrapped up again and sent to their destination. At the present time no copy of the Century enters Russia until Mr. Kennan's Siberian arti cles are torn out An exception, in all cases, is made in favor of the papers sent to the legations in 8t. Petersburg. A Valuable Collection of SUmpo. Tho collection of po-tage stamps re cently exhibited in Loston is said to be worth nearly $100,000. There were in the collection single stamps sai led at $100 each, and aeveral grou|w of six were placed at $1000. lhat the prices were uat all fancy was shown by the offer of $50 from a dealer for a blue envelope on which wax a small stamp marked Bremen, One group cc nsisting of four Government stamped envelopes »sw obsolete, was appraiasd at $400. Saner Krant. If our readers, says the Prairie Farmer will follow these directions they will have excellent kraut: Select good solid heads, trim off the outside leaves; get a sharp cutter, with the knives set tine. Cut, and fill a washtub, sprinkle over the cabbage just enough salt to season for cooking; with the hands work tho salt through the mass, until ail is salted.' Have a barrel ready and when a tuhfuli is salted, turn in; with a fiat pounder, pound carefully until the juice rises over the top. Make a depression in the center and with a cup dip out all the juice. It is this juice that emits the odor so offensive to many pera<.ns: Proceed in this way until the barrel is full. Cover the top with large cabbage leaves and set in tho cellar. It will be necessary to put a light stone weight on top of the leaves. In a week it will fer. ment, then remove the leaves, spread a doth over the cabbage under the weight, which should be removed once a week, washed and replaced. This will keep mould from collecting. The brine must always cover the cabbage; if at any time it does not, water must be added. The Perils of Damp Beds A respectable proportion of the deaths that occur during the winter season are either directly or indirectly due to sleeping in damp l>eds. As a matter of fact, this peril is of ihegreateat, and it is ever present with us. The experienced traveler rarely hazards the risk of sleep- ing between sheets which aie nearly sure to be damp, until they have been aired under his personal supervision at a fire in his bedroom. If.this he impracti- cable, he wraps his cloak around him, or pulls out the sheets and sleep* between the blankets, a disagreeable, but often prudent, expedient. The direct mis- ch ef may result from the contact of an imperfectly heated body with sheet* which retain moisture. The body heat is not sufficient to raise the temperature of the sheets to a sate point, and the result must be disastrous in the extreme, if, as is sure to happen, the skin i> cooled by contact with a surface colder than itself, and steadily abstracting heat all the night through Country people in particular are specially culpable iu this matter. A “spare” room is reserved for guc-ts. For weeks it may remain un occupied, unaired and un warmed. A visi- tor arrives. Unconscious of the fate that awaits him he calmly passes the evening in social enjoyment. Later he is shown to the “spare” room for the night. The atmosphere of the apartment has the chill and damp of tho tomb, and the sheets of the bed are veritable winding sheets—abrouds, in fact. He i* fortunate if he escapes with nothing more than a “cold.” There ia no excuse for the neglect of proper precaution to insure dry beds. — Cultiratur. Beet neii. Mt T VFrx».—One egg, one cup of sugar, one-third cup butter, «ne htlf cup milk, salt, spices, one teaspoonful baking powder a-id flour to make batter. Bake in a hot oven. Bkkad Prontso. - Take one pint of bread crumbs aoaked in one quart of sweet milk, one-half cup white sugar, two eggs beaten thoroughly, one cup of raisins, heaping teaspoonful of butter, salt to suit the taste; stir well together and bake. Indian Pi.vm Pcddino.—Three quar ters of a pound of bread crumbs, six onnees of Indian meal, three or four apples (chopped small), half pound of raisins, quarter pound of sugar, three ounces of candied peel, a little nutmeg (grated), and finely shred lemon peel; m;x with just enough water to keep It together. Boil three or four hours. CODKISIl WITH Eoos.—Fut 006 CUp of picked fi'h into one quart of cold water, neat slowly, when hot (not boiling) pour off water, remo\e fish to another dish, put into skillet one p : nt of rich milk, thicken with one tabfespoonful of flour, add fish, piece of butter size of a walnut, when gravy again boils add one or two eggs, stir briskly, and .serve at once. Spickd Bebf.—For a round weighing twenty pounds rub with a dessertspoon ful of saltpeter on both sides aud let it remain over night. Then take a soup plateful of salt, a tablespoonful of ground cloves, one of allspice and one of cayenne pepper. Rub the beef every day with a tablespoonful of it until it is used, and turn it each day. Boil in nearly enough water to cover it. Paus.nip Fritters.—Threelarge pars nips, boiled till Boft, which will require about two hours; acrapc and mash fine, picking out all strings and lumps: add two beaten egga two tablespoonfuls of new milk and two «f sifted flour, an even teaspoon ful of salt and quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper; mix thoroughly; make into small cakes, flour them and fry brown in butter or oil; eat with butter. Potato Gems.— A good way to make potato gems ia to work one cup of cold mashed potato smooth into one cupful of sweet milk, titir in one cupful of corn meal, or enough to make a batter which will drop easily from a spoon, with a pinch of salt, and add one well- beaten egg. Beat briskly three or four minutes, then put into well buttered gem pans and bake twenty minutes to half nn hour with a steady but not too hot fire. An Exrellent Remedy. They were returning from the theatre. “I am troubled with a si ght sore throat, Mia* Clara,” he said, “and I think it would be wise if I should button my coat tightly around my neck.” “I would indeed, Mr. 8amp*on,'’ ^ plied the girl with some concern. "At this season of thn year a sore throat ia apt to develop into something serious. Are you doing anything for it?" “Not so far,” he replied. “I h»rdlj know what to do.” “I have often heard papa sny,” shyly suggested tho girl, “that raw oyster* have a very soo.hing and beneficial ef fect upon auch a trouble,”—.Veir Sun. ,-a«;