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She Consented.
From the Mason City Republican.

From the Mason City Republican.
A Norwood damsel consented that
her Romeo might kiss her each time
a shooting star was seen. This she
reluctantly agreed to, and then only
because they were as good as en-
gagged. They seated themselves on
the Governors steps to watch Tor
shooting stars. 1t was not long be-
fore she called his attention to flying
meteors, and then to lightning bugs,
and finally to what seemed to be a
constant shooting star. After Romeo
had nearly killed himself trying to
fill his part Of the contract he con-
cluded to investigate little. lie
says. "what do you suppose | dlscoy-
cred ?" We gave 1t up; when he said,
cit was a lantern she had hung up IN
the barn, that wa, swinging to and
fro. Dog-goned if l don't believe
she put up job on me-" The poor
fellow was so exhausted that it would
have been cruel to have interviewed
him longer
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Baked Indian Pudding.

One qnarter pound butter, one
pint molasses, and warm them to-
gether; boil one quart Of milk, and
pour over one pint Indian meal NIX
all together; cover and let steep for
one hour; then set to cool; then ado
six eggs, and stir into it, add CHINA
mon and nutmeg, and grated rlnd OF
one lemon; put in buttered dish ana
bake two hours; to be eaten not
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glowing with light and warmth, and
then shown into5 large brilliantly
lighted drawing-ro9m
A moment later and the tall foot
man re-appeared. He apologlzed
for his masters non-app earance, AMI
requested me to obey the instructions
Of a note which he handed me from a
massive silver salver.
/ tore it open and read
"MR.PHIL. FosBERRY WILLIAMS
The next time you travel by rail, do
not smoke or annoy old gentlemen;
do not make the infrmities Of age
and seeming poverty your laughing
stock; do not tell your friends OF
your great expectations; do not speak
of your cracked Drained relatives do
not make extinguishers of old gentle
mans hats do not be slangy, vulgar,
and insulting to strangers do not
nourish vain hopes of inheriting me;
and, finally, do not lose any time IN
leaving forever the house Of your old
fireworks OF a felloWtrayeler.
PHILIP FOsBEBRY.
up. 81 enclose a e20 note to
pay your expenses
How I got out Of the house--how
got back to the station, and spent
the night in a wretched INFLOW |
returned to town and told my enraged
relations my wotul tale, wherein |
played such sorry part-how my
abject letter Of apology was returned
unread-I cannot tell only know
old Fosberry died worth 100000,
leaving his niece sole heiress, and that
I quarreled with Jack Evans about
il; nor have I ever spoke 10 him
since.
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Pineapple Pie.

Pare and CRATE one good-sized
pineapple; cream, one cup of sugar,
and third Of a cup OF butter beat
the yolks and whites of five eggs
separately. To the cream, butter and
sugar add the volks, then the apple,
and lastly, the whites. Bake in open
shells Of paste Eat cold.
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Prepare the tomatoes by laying
them in salt water over night in the
morning stick them quite full OF
cloves. Have on the stove a large
pan with the following ingredients
One pint vinegar, one pint water; one
pound sugar; let this come to a boil;
then place one layer Of tomatoes in at
q time and cook until well done, re-
peating this until you have used
about eight pounds Of tomatoes.
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Arrowroot Puddin 2.

Toa dessert spoonful OF dry arrow
root use half pint of milk or water
and teaspoontul of sugar. Mix the
arrowroot and sugar. and smooth
with little milk or water. When the
halt pint of milk has just come to a
boil, pour it over the sugar and root
and stir WE'LL To thicken nicely the
arrowroot must be kept in dry
place. If it does not thicken when
the milk is poured over place the
whole upon the fire and stir until it
does. This is very nutritious and
Strengthening. 1t is very pleasant
for children
To make the pudding two eggs,
one teaspoontul Of sugar and hall
ounce Of butter are required. After
the arowroot has cooled stir in the
yolks Of the two eggs, and sugar.
Beat the whites Of the two eggs stiffiy
and carefully stir into the mess.
Grease a small dish with butter, pour
in the mixture and bake only five
minutes in quick oven.
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An Essay on Woman.
After man came woman.

After man came woman.
And she has been after him ever
since.
l don't know Why Adam wanted
to fool away his ribs in that way, but
he was not accountable for what he
did.
It costs more to keep a woman
than three dogs and a shotgun.
But she pays you back with inter
est-by giving YOU house full Of
children to keep you awake all night,
and smear molasses candy over your
sunday coat.
Besides q wife is avery convenient
article to have about the house,
She is handy to swear at when you
cutsyourself with arazor, and don't
ieel like blaming yourself.
Woman is the superior being in
| Massachusetts.
There is about sixty thousand
more Of her sex than males in the
State
This accounts for the terrified,
| aiaiaaalI 4 0lzn - .Essssep ot.tbs single
men who emigrates from the East.
Woman vas not created perfect
She has her faults--such as false
hair, false complexion, and so on.
But she is great deal better than
her neighbors, and she knows it.
Eve was woman.
She must have bee q model wife
tor it cost Adam nothing to keep her
in clothing.
Still, don't think they were bit
happy.
She couldn't go to sewing circles
and tell all her information about
everybody she knew, nor excite the
envy of other ladies by wearing her
new winter bonnet to church.
Neither could she hang over the
back feuce and gossip with her dear
neighbor.
All these blessed privileges were
denied her,
Poor Eve she's dead now.
And fashion sheinaugurated is dead
now.
fit hadn't been Tor the COMPOUNDED
'snaix" perhaps the ladies of the
present day would dress as economi-
cally as Eve did
But the only place where her prim-
tive style is emulated is in a certain
portion OF Africa where the women
consider themselves in full dress when
they have but a postage stamp stuck
in the centre of the forehead.
Woman is endowed with a tremen-
dous fund OF knowledge, and tongue
TO suit.
She has the capacity for learning
everything she was intended to know,
and few extra items besides
Young ladies take great deal of
stock in classics, and learn fast.
When you see a young lady from
Vassar, with an absorbed look in her
eye, and her lips moving, you under
stand at once that she is memorizing
a passage from Virgil
But perhaps a closer inspection
will reveal the fact that she is only |
chewing gum.
A woman may not be able to
sharpen lead pencil, or hold an UNI
brella, but she can pack more articles
IN. trunk than Imam can in four
horse wagon.
There is some curiosity in feminine
nature
For instance, l once knew a young
lady who could pass another one on
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Hoe-Cake.

The genuine Southern hoe-cake is
made OF corn.meal and water, with q
little salt, and worked with the hands
until stiff enough, SO that it will
neither run nor crack when patted
down and made into little loaves an
inch or two in thickness. Bake as
already described as also in the ashes,
when it is called ash-cake.
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Frfeassee0 tomatoes.

-. lace tleAtomatQeS- IN =. Stone. jar
and put into q steamer. When they
are tender beat into pulp, put in
stew-pan with little onion (Which
has been minced and stewed in but
ter until it is tender), a seasoning Of
pepper and salt, and some chopped
parsley simmer the mixture Tor
few minutes, and serve it very hot 1t
is good either alone or served in the
dish with chops, or other meat, sau-
sages, or fish of any kind. Tomatoes
and sausages are capital. Fry the
sausages and arrange them in the
dish in front OF the fire Cut the to-
matoes into slices, with some onion
thinly sliced; fry them, season them
with pepper and salt, place them
among the sausages, and serve them
hot. In the same manner they are
excellent with anything warmed a
second time.
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the street without looking around to
see what she had on.
Poor thing; she was blind.
HOUSEHOLD KNOWLEDGE.
Canned Pineapple.

Make a syrup in the proportion of
three pounds Of granulated sugar to
three pints Of water; boil five min
utes, skim and add the sliced pine.
apple; boil until clear and tender
Have the cans hot, fill and seal as
quickly as possible.
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THE FLORIDA AGRIQULTURIST.

dence that the nerves Of some women
and surgeons are sometimes badly
balanced; and the moral is, when a
Young doctor has an imaginary bris-
tie to extract from a wealthy spin
sser's throat, he should perform the
operation before he gets married.
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A Story with q lL0ral.


An acute young surgeon III Eng
land was summoned to visit very
wealthy single lady, far advanced in
years, who had for a year been suffer
Inc from alleged bristle Of her tooth
brush that had fastened itself in her
throat. She stated that she had con
suited the eminent surgeons OF Lon.
don, but they had uniformly assured
her, after critical inspection, that she
was only the victim Of a nervous de.
lusioA that her throat was perfectly
healthy, that the disturbance was only
in her imagination, sand 50 they go,
the stupid, obstinate, peryerse, unteel-
inc creatures" concluded the poor
lady, Saying ely is nothing the
- ID iliilj
dying, dying" Tie surgeon Caught
his cue, and was equal to the occa-
sion, and after examining, her throat
with much deliberation announced
that she was quite right Sir Benja-
min Brodie and Sir James Clark were
mistaken; he could see the head OF
the bristle low down, almost out Of
sight, and if she would permit, he
wodld run home, get his instruments,
and extract it. Instantly. Certainly;
that was the very thing she was
longing for. The surgeon presently
returned with a delicate torceps, III
the teeth of which he held concealed
a bristle from toothbrush. The
lady threw her head back; the sur
geon introduced his torceps-a prick,
a scream, and it was all over. The
surgeon, with a smiling face, was
closely inspecting the extracted bsis-
tie. The lady was in raptures; she
Immediately recovered her health
and spirits, and went about every
where sounding the praises OF her
saviour, as she called the surgeon.
So enthusiastic was her gratitude, she
offered him her hand in marriage and
noble fortune The fact that the
young surgeon was already married
was an insuperable obstacle to this
arrangement. But other proof of
gratitude the lady showered on him.
She compelled him to accept car
riage and horses, service OF plate,
and a new house Unfortunately,
the lucky fellow could not keep his
own counsel. Like Samson with
Delilah, he impaired the secret OF
his cunning to the wife OF his bosom
She contided it to Louise Clarissa, her
especial friend, who had been her
bridesmaid. Louise Ciarissa told it
under VOWS OF iuviolabJe secrecy to
six other particular friends; and the
other particular triends-base and
unworthy girls-told it to all the
world. Ere long the story came
round to the old lady herself, Then
a storm arose She was transport
OF fury 1t was Of no avail Tor the
surgeon to remind her that he mad
unquestionably raised her from pit
liable condition to health and happi-
ness. "That mattered not. He had
tricked, fooled, bamboozled her She
would not forgive him ; she would
pursue him with uadying vengeancei
she would ruin INN.
All of which may be taken as evil
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Two Hundred Thousand Pounds

I shall never forget the uncomtor-
table position that | found myself in
through too free a use of that unruly
member, the tongue. / was a young
fellow then, clerk in London bank.
My father was an officer in the army,
and he often told US boys that setting
each of us up in some business or pro
fession was all he could ever do for
us, for the scant pittance he would
leave behind him must belong solely
to my mother and sister. But my
brother and l were energetic and
hopeful So long as each day
brought us enough to satisfy our
daily wants, we rocked little OF the
future.
One bleak, cold January morning
was greatly surprised on my arrival
at the bank to find my father pacing
up and down before the building. |
was not living at home just then, and
his presence there made me fear lest
something was wrong.
"Philip." he began, "are you IN
time? Can you spare me three min
utes ?"
eyes sir, +" breplied, for wonder,
II CO.. + ON ,+ay, n,inutas earlier thanh
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Fosberry ?"
"Oh, you mean the halt-cracked old
man who is awful rich, and is my
godfather, as we'll as cousin thirty
times removed ?" / asked.
Yes was the reply. "Well, last
night | received letter from him,
after years OF silence in which he
asks alter you" And he read me the
letter.
"What a queer old boy" | ex,
claimed "What does he mean p for
l did not exactly understand it.
"Mean I" cried my father, excitedly,
snatching the letter from me, and
crushing it in his pocket. "Mean i
why to make you his heir, Philip
his heir"
"Whew," said !, blushing; "that's
good idea"
aYou must apply for leave and go
off at once" said my father. Strike
while the iron is hot. It's a splendid
chance ,Philip-splendid Use it well,
and your fortune is made"
So I thought, applied for leave, and
set off for the Paddinguon Station
soon after, with my ears ringing with
legion of instructions for pleasing
old men given me by my fellow
clerks. The only one | could clearly
remember was, to rise whenever he
came into the room, and then eschew
every comfortable arm chair for fear
he should want it. | felt bursting
with Importance, and actually treated
myself to glass of hot whisky and
water at the retreshment room.
Hello, William |" suddenly cried a
voice.
"Why Jack, what brings you here?"
| replied, recognizing friend, John
Evans.
81 am going down to Gloucester
said he. "Where are you off tor
"Oh, to such luck !" cried. Il am
off beyond Hereford to honor an old.
gentlemann
"What p said Jack.
"Come along, and III tell you all
ABOUT it, said /, Second class? Yes,
all right. Here we are"
After we were settled in our places
an old man got in. He was poorly
dressed, aud wore green shade over
one eye while the other looked weak
and dropping. We grunted our dis
approval at his enterance, and made
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The more a man knows about any
subject the greater will be his ch az
ity tor and sympathy with views dill
tering from his own.
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A tramp applied to a ply for
work. The N, d. asked: Il can't
give you any work; what can you
do?" dig graves" was the grim
reply.
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stage he obtained fresh horse and re-
freshments and cheer for himself. He
had guides and AN escort part of the
way, and he followed across the coun-
try the trail which had been made by
an advancing army of 5000 men and
the innumerable OK carts which carried
the supplies of that army. Feats of
horsemanship and endurance, in which
great distance is made in a. short time.
and in which the riders life is never for
a moment guaranteed against the shot
of some lurking savage-these are the
staples of which the life of a scout in
the Indian country is made up. In
August, 1868, Buffalo Bill rode in
twelve hours from Fort Larned to Fort
Zarab and back, sixty-five miles; in the
succeeding twelve hours he carried dis
patches to General Sheridan from Fort
Larned to Fort Hays, sixty-five miles.
From Fort Hays he rode the next twen-
ty-four hours to Fort Dodge, ninety-five
miles; on the next night he went to
Fort Larned, thirty-five miles on foot
and thirty miles on q mule; and again
the next night from Fort Larned to Fort
Hays, sixty-five miles. He made on
horses, mules and afoot, S55 miles, and
he was in the saddle or on foot
fifty-eight hours. Every one of these
four successive rides was made through
a regular breakneck country, swarming
with hostile Indians-acountry in which
there were no roads, and in which a
scarcely perceptible trail had to be fol-
lowed in the obscurity of the night
Laurence Standard.
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Strange Suicide Of a Russian Lady.

Moscow society would appear to be
just now considerably exercised by the
suicide of one of its brightest orna-
ments, the young and lovely Countess
Vera Kofcheleff, who a short time ago
suddenly disappeared from her palace
in the old Russian capital, only two
days after her solemn betrothal to
Count Heimann, which had been cele-
brated with festive rejoicings upon an
unusually magnificent scale. No one
could imagine whittier she had gone
until her steward received letter from
her written at her chateau in the Cri-
mea, wherein she informed him that
(" she was going to bathe in the river
running through her estate, and should
notreturn alive from her bath" She also
described the exact spot near which her
body would be found in the water.
Search was of course made with all
possible promptitude; and it resulted
in the discovery of the beautiful young
Countess corpse sewn up in large
straw sack and sunk in the river. The
seams were found to be in the interior
of the sack, proving that Vera Kofche-
left had deliberately sown herself up in
the sack on the river bank and then cast
herself into the stream. In another
letter, addressed to one of her uncles,
and received by him some time after
her death, she gave as her reason for
enclosing herself in q sack previously
to drowning herself, her extreme fear
of crawfish and water beetles. Few
stranger and more fantastic suicides
have been recorded even in Russian
annals of self-destruction, which are
exceptionally rich in grisly stories OF
this particular description.
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thin envelope filled with gas of hydro
gen was light enough to ascend with a
burden. 1t was nearly a score of years
later than this when the first ascent
was successful. Two brothers, Stephen
and Joseph Montgolfier, paper manu-
facturers, near Lyons, France, in June,
1888, caused q captive balloon to mount
into the air to a height of over 1000
yards by heating the air contained in
the balloon by means of a fire in its
open mouth. Nov. 21, 1888, Pilatre
de Roster and the Marquis d'Arlandes
ascended in a balloon of this nature,
gaining height of 5000 feet and land
ing nearly six miles from where they
arose. During the same year, and on
Dec. 1, two men, NJ. NJ. Charles and
Robert, assembled in a balloon inflated
with hydrogen gas, alighting in an
hour and three-quarters at a spot twen-
ty-five miles from Paris, whence they
had started, and attained an elevation
of about 9, 700 feet.
The death of De Roster and Roman
occurred two years later, and from that
date was the beginning of the many
hazardous undertakings in the air. the
last known of which is the Wise disap-
Cincinnati Times.
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Rankin, the Scout.

RANKIN, the scout, who rode out of
the intelligence of the plight of what
made great ride, making 16o miles in
twenty-four hours. In other countries
this feat would have made great noise,
as it exceeds the correspondent Forbes
ride from the battle field with the news
of the British success at Ulundi. He
rode from nine p. m. one day until five
p. m. on the next, and made 10 miles.
His ride was in six stages, and at each
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AerOnautic Adventures.

The mystery surrounding the fate of
Professor Wise, ,whoi is now lying beneath
the cold waters of Lake Michigan, or
amid the wastes of the Northern pineries,
renders grimly attractive all reminis-
cences of wild and terrible experiences
that have heretofore befallen voyages
in the air. The sad story of Donaldson
and Grimwood, so familiar and vet so
nearly forgotten, has been revived, and
the horrible particulars of any balloon
disaster from that first one of history
when d. Roster in June, 1875, was
borne in q burning car across the En-
glish Channel and dashed TO the ground
from q height of 5000 feet--to the suf-
location of MIR. Chambers by escaping
gas when high above the city of Not
tingham, have been carefully and most
infinitely drawn out OF their historical
hiding places. The natural impression
created by this feeding on the dark side
of aeronautic history is that it is q rec
ord of sheer disaster, when the actual
fact is that during the hundred years
of experimenting in air travel
not over fifteen deaths have oc.
CURED as the result of rash en-.
deavors. Some years ago Monck Ma.
son, in his "Aeronantica," compiled
painstakingly all the names of persons
who had made ascents, and ascertained
that only nine out of AL adventurers
had been killed, while against these
nine deaths were arrayed the benefits
of science and the advances made to-
ward the time when the rapid transit
by air would be a glad actuality. II
must be confessed that this last argu.
ment possessed little weight when it is
remembered that the aeronaut of to-day
is as far from holding any control over
the direction of the air-ship as was
Montgolfier in 1888. The accidents to
Donaldson, and, indeed, to Wise, would
refute all such claims. 1t is within the
power of the aeronaut to ascend to the
utmost height to which human exist.
ence Il possible; but when he desires to
move in o horizontal direction, he is fol
the most part like rudderless ship al
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OVER three hundred thousand
roubles in paper money, supposed to be
contaminated with the plague poison,
were burnt in the Russian city of Tzar-
itzin on the 18th of last month. This
money was collected in the districts
stricken by the plague.
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Greatly Renehted.

NBw BURLINGTON. Clinton County Ohio.
Dear Sir-I was great sufferer before took your
Justly celebrated Indian Blood syrup. i was
fToubled with ;Neuralgia Of the stomach Ldses snd
Bowels In q terrible state. but thanks TO your
medicine, greatly improved. and believe your
syrup to be the greatest Blood Purifier known 20 the
world. THOMAS Il. SIEELE
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kidney Complaint.

. -r. .at. DUPONT, Putnam County, Ohio.
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. ESANsPoRT. Defiance County, Ohio
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