IN MEASURED TONES.

Man Wants But Little Here Below. Some men content from birth,

Their modest life-course run, And only want the earth

And a mortgage on the sun.

They’d live in quiet bliss And free from all that mars.

If they had the Solar Sys- Tem and the other stars.

— lidltiU.

From a Lady's Diary. The ball was somewhat dull to-night,

The ices slush, the meats were cold: I’m sure I looked a perfect fright;

It can’t be that I’m growing old!

This season is, I think, about My tenth, or twelfth; how fast they*T«

rolled! I was quite young when I came out;

I surely can’t be growing old!

My hair is still as black as jet, My eyes are brilliant, so I’m told;

My teeth are fairly good, and yet I sometimes fear I’m growing old!

These low-necked dresses are a sin, They make one look so very bold;

My sliolders are a trifle thin. Hut that’s no sign of growing old!

I’m sentimental, sing and paint, I hate a cat, I never scold;

I’m liable to scream or faint; Indeed, I can t be growing old!

Once I was very, very loath To let an amorous lover hold

One hand; yet now I offer both; And that don't look like growing old!

I aimed at rank and riches, too, I care not now, for place or gold;

A simple, plain, gold ring will do, Because, some day, I may grow old!

Different Women. The actress was angry—belligerent, too,

And ready for all sorts of strife; She picked up a club, just as mad people do.

And then made the hit of her lite. « — Washlngtc/i Critic.

She’s got an “ulster" in her throat. And “bunions'' o her hand,

Her skull is pressing on her brain— ’Twill have to be “japann’d.”

—F. H. Stauffer. The station at Which Little Ite*s Got

Out. A lot of chairs all in a row

Comprised the fast express: Conductor, noisy Master Fred:

The passenger. jvee Bess.

Past Lansdown. Northbrook, Riverside It swiftly onward sped,

Each stop with gravity announced By pompous Master Fred.

But running short of names at last, “Heaven?” he loudly cried.

At this wee Bess got up and seized The grip-sack by her side,

And said, in tone demure, sincere; “I dess I'll dit out here!”

—Harper's Bazar,

U s First Mustache. How he nurses it

To make it grow, How he curses it

Because it's slow; Always twirling it

To give it tone, Always curling it

When he’s alone.

Now he chuckles it So sweet and young;

Then he suckles it With loving tongue;

Now he taxes it Because it curls;

Then he waxes it To mash the girls.

How he flushes when You pass him by;

How he blushes when You catch his eye.

Do not make him cry By such a slip

As to ask Why That dirty lip?”

—Colur/ibus Dispatch. “The Art Preservative.”

Conundrum! Guess it if you can, And tell me, John, the answer,

Wherein a clumsy printer man Is like an honest dancer?”

I have it, Jane! You haven't though, I’d make a dozen bets.”

One of them sets the forms, you know, The other forms the sets.”

41 Sharp answer, dear, but not the one

Wrought by my mental caper— One of them pays the piper, John,

The other pies the paper.” —Printers' Circular,

Advice to Young Ladies. Be gentle, womanly and true. Learn how to cook, to scrub, to brew, To sew, to darn, to patch, to mend, And to all household duties ’tend.

Don't gossip of your neighbors’ sins, But learn to scour and polish tins; Never powder, bleach or paint, But keep your name without a taint.

With all these virtues at command, Of marriage you’ll a good chance stand. Then, when a man asks you to splice, Say “Yes!" He may not ask you twice.

—Orchard and Garden,

A Ouecr (Juery. HE.

Merry little maiden. Laughing all the day,

Why is all your life so sunny? Many a miser all his money

Gladly to the sage would pay Who could make his heart so "ay—

Merry little maiden, Laughing all the day."

SHE. 44 What a funny question!

As if I could tell! Glad and joyous am I ever, Just because till now I never

Thought about the matter. Well? Would you break the magic spell?

What a funny question 1 As if I could tell!

—Boston Journal of Education.

INTERESTING VARIETY.

The Chinese regard (he eye of a cat ns

an infallible indicator of the time of day. They go by the contraction and expansion of the pupil of the eye, which is influenced by the approaching or receding strength of the sunlight.

The Zulus value their women very high- ly, as many as ten cotvs being paid for one woman classed as just average. This may not be regarded as extravagant, by an en-

lightened race, however, when we learn that their cows are of little value.

The George Peabody building fund in London, left by him for the purpose of constructing improved houses for the poor, has grown, through rent and inter- est, from $2,5X1,000 to nearly 45,030,000. There are now over 5,000 houses contain- ing 11,150 rooms, and the average rent per week is $1.25 each.

The cream takes out of the milk about four parts of its solids, which are rated at thirteen parts of or.o hundred. This leaves eighty-seven parts water. On this basis some contend that a calf should uever be fed skimmed milk, as there is not enough food in it. AVell, if it is sour it is worse

yet. Admit it all. AArhen are the four parts of solid in the cream worth the most! As veal or butter? They aro worth four times as much as butter. All right! Do not starve the calf, but make up the four parts of solids with other food costing less than two cents per pound. This is busi- ness sense and scienco combined.

fireside jottings. A little sulphate of copper will prevent

the souring of starch when boiled. Ammonia, alcohol and water in equal

parts may be used to remove spots from black cloth.

A solution of colodian in alcohol painted over the silverware with a soft brush will prevent its tarnishing.

Pink or green calicoes are brightened by being rinsed in water to which a little vinegar has been added. Soda is used for purple or blue.

As A superior wash for the hair, the fol- lowing is recommended : One pint rain- water, one ounce salsoda, and one-quarter ounce cream tartar.

If oil be spilled upon the carpet apply at once, to prevent spreading, wheat flour or whiting. This will absorb the oil. When dry, remove with a stiff brush.

Palpitation of the heart may be re-

lieved by lying down at once upon the right side. This position insures the re-

turn of natural action of the heart. When the lamp wick sticks fast in the

burner, remove it and introduce a new

wick with a single thread drawn out near

the edge. This will not only render the wick tractable, but will produce an even flame when burning.

An approved method of cleaning and curling plumes for millinery purposes is to wash them in suds, rinsing in clear water, and dry them by thoroughly shaking, after which shake them in the smoke of burning corncobs sprinkled with salt.

A well-versed physician’s advice is to take a drink of fresh water with a little salt in it before breakfast. It acts as a

drainage for cleaning the stomach and its tributaries, and places them in good con-

dition for performing their day’s func- tions.

If furs are laid away quite early in the spring there need be no apprehension of the inroads of moths. Frequently they are worn quite late in the season, giving the moth fly an opportunity of depositing its eggs before care is taken to prevent its doing so.

an excellent eougn syrup is muue oi one

pound of split figs, one pound raisins, three lemons, one-half pound rock candy, one-

half pound loaf sugar and one quart cider. Place the fruit in layers in a fruit jar and pour over the cider; let stand a few days before using.

A carpet can be mended by cutting a

piece like the carpet a little larger than the hole. Put paste around theedge of the patch, then slip it under the carpet and rub it well with a warm iron until dry. It the figure is matched it makes a very neat

job as well as a quick one.

As a rule, if a woman looks well and is neat and tidy at the breakfast-table, it may be safely set down that she is ambitious and energetic. Good advice to young men

is to beware of the young lady who comes

down late, dawdles over the meal, or idles away the time with letter reading.

Vert useful and pretty work baskets are made of carboard, using a three-cornered piece of the board, which should be cov-

ered with silk or cretonne, the edges fin- ished with cord. Three pieces are re-

quired; join them carefully, making a deep receptacle, three-sided. For support use three canes, fastening them along the seams with ribbon or fancy cord, and tying the legs together with a huge bow of ribbon, or cord and tassels.

A pretty arrangement for hall or room has a corner closet of fancy wood, carved over the door and along the border of the shelves which HU the lower space. In the corner, above the closet, fasten a length of bright China silk or any bit of decorative material, allowing the length to fall in folds to the floor on one side; or use two widths and allow the drapery to fall on either side, drawing the fullness back near the center, and holding it in place with a

bunch of fancy feathers or pampas grass. It is natural for youth to be restless for

excitement. As a restraint against their seeking undesirable companionship mako the home furnish them this excitement. Thow open your best room to the children in the evenings. Have books and a mag- azine or two, even if you put away less money. Stimulate their ambition, and in- vent occupations and amusement for your children. Give them games and endear

yourself to them by sharing their joys and plays. Encourage them to be affectionate. Do not with formal coldness starve them for want of caresses.

AIDS TO THE COOK.

A smalt, piece of red pepper cooked with cabbage improves the vegetable and ren-

ders it harmless in digestion. If a mixture needs to be “short” merely,

butter may be rubbed in, but when a rich crust is desired, the butter should bo melted and poured in.

To make a good article of brown bread, a tall, round tin should be specially made with a close-fitting cover. The bread should be baked four hours.

Cucumhek Stew.—Pare and quarter the cucumbers, remove the seeds, soak in salt water one-half luAir, then cook in boding salt water until tender. Season and but- ter, and serve on toast.

Graham Pudding. — Two cups of graham flour, one cup molasses, one teaspoonlul dissolved in half-a-cup hot water, hall'-a- cup of sliced citron. Steam three hours and serve with hard sauce.

Egg Sandwich.—The yelks of two hard- boiled eggs pounded in a mortar with a

little chopped parsley, butter, pepper and salt. When formed into a paste, spread on the bread and lay on sliced chicken and salad.

Rice Cream.—Wash and parboil one-half pound of rice. Drain and cook in one

quart of white stock, made from a knuckle of veal, until soft, run through a sieve, add one pint cream, one teaspoon salt, a little pepper and one cup cooked asparagus tops. Thin with stock if necessary.

Imperial Cake.—Beat well together half a pound butter, half a pound sugar and half a pint cream; then add four eggs and one tablespoon lemon juice; mix one-quar- ter teaspoon soda and half a pound flour and add with citron, raisins and chopped almonds. Bake slowly in moderate oven.

Potato Salad. — Boil, mash and rub through a sieve four potatoes. Mix one

saltspoon mustard, two teaspoons salt, yelks of two hard-boiled eggs, a little onion chopped fino and a small quantity each of oil, vinegar and anchovy sauce. Mix thor- oughly with the potato and garnish with parsley.

Broiled Smelt.—Prepare the flsh with care and wipe perfectly dry. Melt some

butter, and with seasoning in a dish, flour the fish and roll in the butter; thon place them on a gridiron over a tierce fire for about three minutes, turning frequently, until browned. Serve on hot dish with chopped parsley, butter and lemon.

Cheese Balls.—Soak two ounces of bread crumbs in half a pint of milk, add one ounce butter, yelks of two eggs, three

tablespoonfuls cream, a little salt and cayenne, and the whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Mix the whole in a stew- pan in a warm place on the stovo. Mako into small balls, egg and broad them and fry in boiling fat to a rich brown; insert into the balls bits of cheese and garnish with fried parsley.

A TRIFLE ODD.

Ax inmate of a Wise nsin insane asylum was the recipient of the largest single pen- sion over paid by the Government. The amount was f 13,5 X).

Railroad men claim that upon north and south running roads, the west rails wear out the soonest. They say the east rail will out-wear live on the west side.

Tiie chirography of New Yorkers has been observed to be markedly different to that of Bostonians. The characteristics of the Boston style are delicacy and legibil- ity, while that of the New York style is

dispatch. It is somewhat remarkable that people

unused to the atmosphere of Pittsburgh, Pa., experience, upon going the first time into that city, a sensation as of a severe

sore throat. This is termed by many the “Pittsburgh grip.”

Gas is taking the place of oil for lighting the omnibuses of London, and is giving very satisfactory results. A sufficient supply to last several days is conveniently carried by a vehicle. The system is said to be superior in the matters of comfort and economy.

Travelers from Yucatan say that they have caught fish in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico which, when handled, gave forth a peculiar grunting sound and continued it so vigorously that they were hurriedly thrown back into the water. This fish is known to sailors as the “grunt,” and to science as the hremulon.

A woman has invented an apparatus called the “somonolizer” which, as its name implies, is intended as a guard against insomnia. It is constructed of hard rubber in the form of an S, and is applied to the carotid artery, compressing it, and thus regulating the ilow of blood to the head, and inducing sleep.

At a recent wedding in New York the bride wore a dress more than a century old. It was made for her maternal great- grandmother in 1778 and worn at her wed- ding, when Alexander Hamilton was

groomsman and General Washington and his staff were present as guests. It was

worn for the second time by the bride’s mother forty-five years ago.

A Michigan widower recently employed a young servant through an intelligence office. The girl \fas fair-looking and gave evidence of being competent in her work and amiable in disposition. The outcome of the engagement was the immediate mar-

riage of employer and servant, and the bridegroom declared himself the happiest man in tho county.

In Wallingford, Conn., there is said to be a woman, seventy-five years of age, who has raised a family of fifteen children and had six husbands, the lady having been a bride three times since her sixtieth birthday. She now lives alone on the South Plains, having provided herself with a coffin and a complete burial outfit, which is kept in the house ready for use.

Bull-fighting by the light of electric- ity is the latest departure in the customs of the Mexicans. An account is given in which a most fearful and bloody encounter took place between man and beast in the bull-pen. The usual brilliancy of the scene seemed to infuriate the bull, and he made a terrible charge killing and dis- abling several horses and tossing many of the men disabled from the arena.

A POPULAR physician has publicly de- clared in favor of the bustle. This affair of wire and springs that is the delight of every well-dressed woman, is said to pre- serve an even temperature in the small of the back, preventing, by its shape, the nu-

merous thicknesses of cloth that would oth- erwise accumulate in that vicinity. The bustle belongs to our time, and a woman

without one can’t be induced to move an

inch streetward. Apiiopqs of the real-estate boom in the

West, they tell in Kansas City of a man

who offered another IS,030 for a parcel of land. Tho owner accepted the offer and the buyer handed out a silver dollar to bind the bargain and afterward gave notes for three, six and nine months. Before the first note became due he had sold more

than enough of the land to take up all of the notes, and up to date he has realized more than $103,000 from tho sale of lots, and still owns half of the original parcel.

An animal growing between the high and low water-marks on the Japanese coast is a mud-worm called sabella. It occupies a hard, limy tube of its own mak- ing and gets its food when the high tide comes up over its hiding-place by thrust- ing out a head bushy with tentacles and sucking in currents of water loaded with minute particles oi nutriment, ciut oi inis

wriggling creature the shore people make a soup, which is true vermicelli, not a

paste imitation of “little worms;1’ and it is said to taste as badly as it smells.

A member o£ the London Zoological So- ciety says; “I once had a cat who always sat up to the dinner table with me and had his napkin round his neck and his plate and some fish. When ho finished his fish I sometimes gave him a piece of mine. One day just as the plates were put around for the entree puss came rushing up-stairs and sprang into his chair with two mice in his mouth. Before he could be stopped he dropped a mouse on his own

plate and then one on mine. He divided his dinner with- me as I had divided mine with him.”

What ingenious devices the old toper will resort to in order to get his accus-

tomed dram 1 One such recently asked a

druggist to sell him scane alcohol fora sore finger. Ho would not. “Won’t you pour some on my finger, then,” asked the man. The druggist said he would, and took hold of the finger which was com-

pletely hidden in bandages of cloth. It yielded to his touch, and ho pulled at it, the bandage came off and revealed the fact that the linger was badly bogus, be- ing made up of a Sponge. It was the fel- low's evident desire to get the sponge well soaked and then suck out the alco- hol.

Is a description of a singular island nnined Tristan d’ Acunha, in the South Atlantic, a London paper says; “It has the distinction of having a Blue Book devoted to it and its concerns. There are on the island nineteen families, comprising nine- ty-seven souls. They recently suffered the loss of fifteen of their men through the wrecking of a boat. They were afflicted with a plague of rats that escaped from a

shipwrecked vessel, destroying their po- tato crop. The islanders are under the leadership of a man named Peter V. Green, who was cast upon the island fifty years ago, but they consider themselves ps un-

der the British Government. A xewlv-marrieo couple who started

from Portland on a wedding trip the other day were having a hard time at last ac-

counts. It seems that while the bride- groom was looking after the baggaga at the depot, his best man, who was a trifle nervous, hurried the bride into the wrong car and started her for Boston one train too soon. The disconsolate husband took the next train, but got to Berwick only to find that his bride had returned to Portland. She, against the advice of her friends, did not stop there, but started west again and got to Boston at the same time he again reached the starting point At last ac- counts the two were hurrying backward and forward as fast as steam could take them, each frafitically trying to overtake the other.

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“1 don’t cate,” ext 1 t ine 1 the young woman behin 1 the counter, when she heard of the marring of an a< qu imtance to a rich old codger, old enough to he her father; “they sneer at me hecausj I am a

saleslady, but I’d rather be a saleslady than a lady lhat is sold.”

Photogkapiieb—“What style of photo- graph would you like, miss?’’ Miss High- tile—“I want the very latest; something that will show to advantage the capote of my basque and the back trimming of my hat, and at the same time display fully the repose of my Micado drag.” Photographer (sotto voce)—“Great grief! she might as well be taken behind a tree.”—Pancho.

With gloomy face and hat askew, with hair unkempt, unpolished shoe, with sloughing gait and actions queer, his neck-tie fastened ’neath his ear, he shuffles sulkily along, and looks as if there’s something wrong. Wouldst know what means that battered hat, that rusty, ragged, old cravat, that shambling gait, that tangled hair, that sullen aspect of despair? Approach and whisper in his ear: “Erastus, what’s to pay, my dear?” And hear old ’Rastus grumbling, say: “My wife is cleaning house to-day.”

A fluent conversationalist who plumed himself somewhat upon his conversance with the classics, upon returning to the parlor in which were a number of merry- makers, was asked by a young lady. “Why, Mr. B-, where have you been?” replied: “Uh, just out in the cuspador, walking pro and con.” “Indeed, aren’t you afraid you will contract a cold in thus exposing yourself to the draft!” asked the lady, concernedly. “Pooh-pooh, my dear; that’s all ipecac; me take cold! Nonsense!

How great an influence for good or evil is often brought to bear on us by the force of habit. For instance: A young man

forswears the use of tobacco and, acquir- ing the habit of forgoing this pleasant vice, is enabled to accumulate considerable coin of the realm—or at least he would be if it did not burn a hole in his pocket— to prevent which catastrophe, he gets in the habit of buying horse combinations at tho pool-room or, at any rate, is habitually “broke” through some means or other.

The loss of the dear partner of a man’s bosom is a calamity of the most excruciat- ing km J, and tends to depress and bow down bis heart, and dull his sensitiveness to the trivial things of life; yet, when he is mournfully jogging along hosa? on his return from the funeral, and th» plebeian driver of the hearse seeks to give him his dust, the grief-stricken heart will leap madly to the breach, and if there is any “go” in the equine in hand, he will tem- porarily discard all melancholy subjects and make that animal get right down to his work.

Arkansas Justice—“Wall, Mose, wot yo arranged fo’ this time!” Mose (re- pententlyj—“I reckon Ise dun bin drunk disoderly, yo onah, but Ise gwine ter swar off fo’ suah, jedge.” Justice (specu- latively)—“Wall, hawse, how much money yo’reckon yo’ got!” Mose—“Reckon Ise got fo’ bits, yo’ onah.” Justice— Wall, Mose, I reckon yo’ better deposit them fo’ bits in th’excheeker uv this 'ere coat,an’ lem me tell yo’, nex’ time yo’ come fo’ this coat yo’ better be perpared to sats’fy a bigger deman’ fo’ fun’s, as ther angel uv justice that persides over this shebang doan’ live on ther gentle zeffers thet parades these ’ere hallered premises.” f. b. w.

A small, western paper devoted to the mining interests of a sparsely-settled re-

gion, Saving weathered the inclemencies of a tougli winter, gives vent to the following burst of pent-up yearn: “Do you owe auy thing! If you do you will kindly got up and hump yourselves, hustle round and send 11s, if not all you owe, at least a part. There is a limit to even an editor’s endurance. It costs money to print a paper, ink costs money, the wearing away of tho gray tissue ol the brain is purchased. Some people may be able to exist on snow balls, and during the

siege of Paris hundreds of people lived on

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FRESH COMPILATIONS.

A Dakin i: Californian ridicule! a small pistol belonging i«» ::n acquaintance and said he would stand atone hundred yards and let the acquaintance shoot at him all day. He tried it on and the first shot went through lm heart.

Ac :oi;k:ng to a Ca'ifarnia paper, Los Angeles lias live hundred confirmed opium fiends; while d uu : Mines. looms up like a

hydra-headed monster, blighting the fair- est lives an l Ida ling tlie.foudest hopes, and endangering the gen *ral welfare of 1 lio city.

Tun police fo.ee of New Wrk City, ac-

cording to the latest., repert, numbers 8,210 men, cf winm 3,781 arc patrolmen, 10$ rnin (•; ih ovnteu an t th rest

superior officers. The c »u; : .oners

urge a luI ?• i.ntiiii a !«1 tion to tty .coon

the ground that duiinglhe las: s years the population h.is increased 27 [ or cent, us against •■•nly M percent, increase in the police.

A TEu/MAii p* oplc are said to '.. habit the Hod Hiv r valley, they being the de* corn!cuts of thooiirl.v Scotch sett; ts cf the Hudson’s Bay Company and their wives. Their singularity consists in th-dr dark skiu and high cheek-bones, an.I their blue eyes and light hair, Physically they are said to be a splcnuid race, being tall and muscular, and great runner s. Thor speak the Frenich language with a broad Scotch accent, making a queer combination. They are i'amou* hunters and trappers, are

peacefully disio < d, ,.n i do not affiliate with the French lu.l -breeds or 1 iniaris.

Situated some twelve miles fr .m Santa Cruz and along the Pacific coast is one of the largest and most productive dairy farms in America. The bound: ri^s inclose 2,200 acres of choice la ml adapted to t he cultivation of fruits, vegetables and grain, which lies at an altitude cf over one thou- sand foot above the sea. The location of the dairy and the unilVim’y ccoi ami brac- ing atmosphere link s this a superior place for the mau'il'mdur» cf edges? and butter. The product» of this ram n find their way, mostly, t > San Francisco. The lack of facilities l'or railway transporta- tion aloiii prevents this section being opened to the commercial world.

The manner of tho growth and cultiva- tion of lea posses so; much of interest to an inquiring mind. When first set out, the tea-bush is given three years in which to gain sufficient headway for a first crop. The plant is never entirely denuded, the bright green leaves which come out at the top in the spring being the only ones gath- ered. The finest quality of tea is made en- tirely of the tender shoots and soleet por- tions of he plant an l is the grade which

I costs as high as one to three dollars per pound. It is a pleasant sight to seethe women and girls scattered among the bushes, chattering merrily as their busy lingers quickly gather the fresh green leaves.