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sup and butter, or any cold gravy put
in a layer of potatoes and another layer
of meat in the same way till the dish is
full: have a layer of potatoes on the
top. Bake it until it is thoroughly
heated through.
BAKED MACARoNI Break into small
pieces as much macaroui as you desire
for dinner boil until soft, then place in
a baking pan-of course having drained
the water off. Place layer of macaroni,
then layer of cheese, and another of
macaroni, sprinkle cheese over the top
and small pieces of butter; over this
pour a mixture of half pint of milk
and two well beaten eggs.
RICE CHICKEN PIE.-Cover the bottom
of pudding dish with slices of broiled
ham; cut up a broiled chicken and
nearly fill the dish; pour in gravy and
melted butter to fill the dish add
chopped onions if you like, or little
curry powder, which is better; then add
boiled rice to fill all interstices and to
cover the top thick. Bake it for one
half or three-quarters of an hour.
COFFEE TO MAKE.-Nothing spoils
coffee like over boiling. Coffee should
be ground at home, for ready ground
coffee is always adulterated with chick
DRY. Java coffee is the best. After 1t
is ground mix little egg with 1t, then
pour IN as much water (cold) as required
for a meal allow it to come to n boil,
then set on the back of the stove where
it will keep hot, but not simmer; put IN
very little cold water to settle.
Scorer SHORT BREAD. - Mix two
pounds of -four, dried and sifted, with a
pound of powdered sugar, then melt half
a pound of butter in a saucepan and mix
with the flour and sugar; roll out the
thickness of half an inch, cut in any
shape you please and place on the top
white comfits in any fanciful shape you
like press them on slightly, sufficient to
keepin place, aud sprinkle on 5etweenthe
! large comtits colored nonperills bake a
! pale color put white paper III the tin
/ to bake the cakes on.
LADY FINGERS. Take one pound of
/ puiverized sugar, one dozen eggs, three
/ quarters of pound of flour. Beat the
/ yolks and sugar to cream, then beat
/ the whites, and lastly stir In the -four !;
/ flavor with lemon. Bake in long, small
/ tins made expressly for these little cakes,
I or you may drop them on white writing
/ paper they are likely in this case, how
/ ever, to look irregular about the edge.
! Be careful not to putt much dough in
/ the tin, as it will rise good deal. Have
! the oven hot and success Is certain.
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Earth-Eating Tribes.

NJ Grevaux, French naval surgeon
has lately been exploring the northern
parts of South America, more especially
in the valley of the Urinoco and It's affln-
ents. Among other facts of observation
he states that the Guaraunos, at the
delta of that river, take refuge In the
trees when the delta is inundated. There
they make sort of dwelling with
branches and clay. The women light
on a small piece of floor, the fire needed
for cooking, and the traveller on the
river by night often sees with surprise
long rows of flames at a considerable
height In the air. The Guaraunos dis.
pose of their dead by hanging them in
hammocks in the tops of trees. DR.,
Crevaux, in the course of his travels
met with geophagous or earth-eatip9
tribes. The clay, which often serves
for their food whole months, seems TO
be mixture of oxide of iron and some
organic substances. They have recourse
to it more especially in times of scarcity /:
but, strange to say, there are eager
gourmands for the substance, indiyid-
uals in whom the depraved taste becomes
SO pronounced that they may be seen
tearing pieces of ferruginous clay from
huts made of it and putting them in
their mouths.
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Advice to a Boy.

There, Bub, quit kicking the table
leg. brush back your hair, and take that
seat by the window while 1 give you a
little advice You wish to become ia
nous and to be known as Billy the Ter
ror of Kenosha, or The Boy Avenger.
Now this is not practicable outside of
books. To be sure you have read of boys
becoming bloodthirsty Williams, IN velvet
pants and top boots, In a marvelously
short time, but as a rule the boys who
start out to duplicate those yellow COW
cred fellows, bring up in some isolated
Jail and instead of velvet pants they are
adorned in real life with ragged overalls
with the vitals worn out sitting around
In lonely places waiting for the beautiful
maiden to come and fail in love with
them as they do In the book. But [ have
found a. way for you to crafty your long
cherished desires. 1 want you TO arm
Yourself with a dOuble-edged grammar
and self-cocking arithmetic and skulk
down to the school-house Monday bright
and early When school calls conceal
yourself behind your book, and whenever
YOU see an opportunity Jump onto duff
cult problem and probe 1t through and
through. After YOU have to all appear
ances. mastered It, turn it upside down
YOU have followed this up a couple of
months you Will begin to receive some of
the notoriety you crave and viii be
looked upon as The STARTER, or the Boy
Mathematician. BY the end OF the term
you viii be pointed out to admiring spec
tators as The Double Entry Wonder of
the Seventh Ward School.
You think row that this viii satisfy
You, but II viii not. On the contrary 1t
Will only spur you on to attempt still
more difficult achievements. An uncon-
trollable desire to graduate viii take pos
session Of YOU, and before YOU realize it,
You will be standing before a hall full OF
people, with a valedictory IN one hand
and cold sweat IN the other, trying to
carry OFF the hOnors of commencement
day. Thus you viii go on step by step,
until your friends would hardly recog-
nize the little Willie Brown Of to-day IN
the Red Headed Professor of Pough-
keepsie who Will be teaching a dead Ian
guage with one hand while he pulls an
astronomical constellation to pieces with
the other, twenty years from now. Oh
course you viii live longer than you
would il YOU had become famous AS The
Dashing Highwayman Of OconomOwoc
but YOU viii die in good time, full o.
years and govt, and the great dailies vii
devote half n column under some Gill
Edge Tonic advertisement 10 your obitu
airy notice, and some enterprising cigar
manufacturer viii name a brand of cigar:
after You, and you Will be mourned as
The Bald Headed Philosopher of the
Nineteenth Ceutmv. There, that Is al
this time. Now run out and tie this car
to the tail Of that liver colored dog tina
we shut up IN the smOke-house thu.
morning, and turn him down this stree
by the sitting-room window, while l &c
on my specs and see if it affects dog th'
same as it did fifty years ago.-Pau
lIjIEsy. in PecE'S Sun
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Concerning Cartridges.

The fact has just been made to appear
in France that powder In cartridges de-
composes, under certain circumstances,
causing diminished velocity and loss of
precision as compared with fresh cart
ridges. 1t seems that, between the
different dates of charge, 1876
and 1880, there was found a marked con-
trast in respect to efficiency. Thus, an
analysis of the matter contained Ii those
of 1876 proved them to be mixture Of
carbon, sulphur, saltpeter, sulphide of
potassium, sulphate and carbonate of
potash, and sesquicarbonate of ammonia
with some metallic salts arising from a
combination of the brass of the case with
the constituents of the powder. The
showing in these and other cartridges
examined clearly demonstrated a pro-
gressive decomposition of the powder in
the metallic cases and the quantity OF
powder transformed in the given time is
proved to depend on the character OF the
atmospheric influences, and especially
that of moisture, acting at the time OF
manufacture or during storage.
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The Penalty of Civilization,

An Indiana girl, who, before she went
to Hampton College, thought her fathers
log hut n palatial mansion compared
with the surrounding tepees, and kept up
the illusion, looking forward with pleas
ure to the grand reception her father
would have on her return, burst into
tears as she walked into the rude hut
and realized how completely her educa-
ton had isolated her from all that had
been so romantic in her former surround.
ings On the other hand when her SIS
ter saw her polonaise, her jaunty hat and
her high heeled French shoes she cried
her eyes out because she couldn't be
civilized, too. When the daughter began
to "clean up" and ''set things to rights"
in the old hut her father began to think
seriously about sending her back East.
He couldn't stand such nonsense as that
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GEMS OF THOUGHT.
From Geo. Elots's " Adam Bede ~

From Geo. LIots's 80 Adam Bade
THE beauty of a lovely woman is like
music.
OUR dead are never dead to us until
we have forgotten them.
a WOMAN may get to love by degreas
the best fire does not flare up the soon,
est.
A MAN may be very firm in other mat
ters, and yet be under a sort of witcherv
from woman.
WHEN death, the great reconciler has
come, it is never our tenderness that we
repent of, but our severity.
If YoU would love a woman without
ever looking back on your love as a folr-s
she must die while you are counting her
We ARE apt TO be kinder to the brutes
that love us than to the woman that love
US. Is it because the brutes are dumb e?
L DON'T want to know people that look
ugly and disagreeable, any more than I
want to taste dishes that look disagreea-
BILE.
THEN they looked at each other not
quite as they had looked before, for in
their eyes there was the memory of n
KISS.
THERE'S no pleasure in living if you're
TO be corked up forever, and only drib-
bic your mind out by the sly, like lealv
barrel.
OSE may be betrayed into doing
things by n combination of circum-
stances which one might never have
done otherwise.
"BUr, mother, thee knowst We can
not love just where other folks I'D have
US. There's nobody but God that can
control the heart of man.
The vainest woman is never thora@A
| conscious Of her own beauty teFsfS7
loved by the man who sets her own
passion vibrating IN return.
BECAUSE, dear, trouble comes to rs
all in this lie, we set our hearts on
things which isn't Gods Will fof us to
have, and then we go sorrowlng.
A MAN never lies with more delicious
langor under the influence of passion,
than when he has persuaded himself
that he shall subdue 1t tomorrow.
WHEN l have made up my mind thet /
can not afford to buy tempting dog, l
take no notice of him, BECAUSE Il he
took "a strong fancy to me, and looked
lovingly at me. the struggle between
arithmetic and inclination might become
unpleasantly severe.
Ir's a deep mystery-the way the
heart of man turns to one woman
out of ali the Test he's seen IN
the world, and makes it easier for him
to work seven years for her. like Jacob
| did for Rachel, sooner than have any
other woman for the asking.
Bur l believe there have been men
since his day who have ridden loRg
way TO avoid n rencoutre, and then
gaIloped hastily back, lest they should
miss it 1t Is the fayorite strategem Of
our passions to charm q retreat, and to
turn sharp around upon us the moment
we have made up our minds that the
day is our own.
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HOUSEHOLD HELP.


IRON the Detroit Free Press " Household ~
MEAT CAKEs.-Take cold meat mince
fine with fat bacon season with pep
per and salt mix well fry IN cakes and
serve in gravy.
BOILED LEG OF MUTToN-Boil well in
clear water until tender, seasoning the
water with salt; serve with egg sauce
and garnish with parsley, sliced lemons
or currant Jelly.
OLD COLONY CAKE.-Tbree eggs, one
scant cupful of butter, two and one-half
cupfuIs of sugar, one cupful of sour milk.
three and two-thirds cupfuls of flour,
teaspoonful of soda, spice to taste. Sift
powdered sugar over the top of the cake.
SPIcED APPLE TARrs.-Rub stewed
tart apples through a sieve; sweeten
and flavor with mace or CINNAMON. Line
soup plates with crust, fill with the apple.
and lay bars of crust quarter of an inch
wide over the top of the tart. Bake till
the crust is done.
VEAL PATEs.-Chop some cold veal
pne, molstsn with cream and an egg
beaten; season with salt and pepper
then make up with the hands in the
shape of cones or patty pans and roll in
crumbs. Either fry in buttered pan or
bake in n hot oven.
LAMB STEAK.-Lamb steak dipned in
egg and then In cracker or bread crumbs
and fried until 1t Is brown, helps make
variety for the breakfast table. With
baked sweet potatoes, good coffee and
buttered toast or corn mullins. one may
begin the day with courage.
PUFF PAsTRY.-One pound of flour.
a little more for rolling pin and board.
Out the butter and lard through the
flour (Which should be sifted) into small
thin shells, and mix with sufficient ice
water to roll easily. Avoid kneading it
and use the hands as little as possible in
mixing.
RICE FRUIT PUDDING. large tea
cup of rice, little water to cook it par
tally; dry; line an earthen basin with
the rice fill up with quartered apple, or
any fruit you choose. Cover with rice.
Tie cloth over the top, and steam one
hour. To be eaten with sweet sauce.
Do not butter the dish.
PorAToEs LA TRIANoS. Wash. peel
and slice some very good potatoes of
medium size, cutting each potato into
six pieces; steam until tender; have
ready some fresh butter cut into dice,
place the potatoes in hot dish, sprinkle
crushed salt and strew the butter over
them and serve Immediately.
MEAT PE.-Take mashed potatoes,
seasoned with salt. butter and milk, and
line a baking dish. Law mon it cold
meat of any kind; add salt, pepper, cat
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What Lincoln Said to Joshua Speed.

Joshua +. Speed was one of LincOln's
oldest and most COL Gdential friends in
his younger days, and their friendship
continued through all trials.
After the capitulation of General Lees
army, Speed came from his home IN
Louisville, Ky, TO visit Mr. Lincoln,
and while IN Washington was invited to
an informal meeting of the Cabinet.
The question of the disposition of JEFF
fersou Davis and other prominent Con-
federates, after they should be captured,
was discussed each member of the Cab
met giving his opinion, most Of them
for hanging the traitors, or some severe
punishment. Lincoln said nothing
Finally, Mr.. Speed, addressing the Pres
ident, said "Now, Mr. Lincoln, you
have invited me here, and this seems to
be free fight / have heard the opin-
ion of your ministers, and would like to
hear yours. "
&" Well, Jacob, replied Lincoln, " that
reminds me Of a story. When l was
boy, In Indiana, / went to a neighbours
house one morning and found a boy, of
my size, holding a coon 10y a string. l
asked HIM what he had and what he was
doing. He says: 1T Is a coon. Dad
cOtch six last night, and killed all but
this poor little cuss. Dad told me to
hold him until he came back, and I'm
afraid he's going to Kill this one, too.
Aud, oh, Abe 1 do wish he would get
away Well, why don't you let him
loose? That would not be right, and
if 1 let him go, dad would give me hell;
but If he would get away himself, 1t
would be al right. Now, said Mr.
Lincoln, eff JEFF. Davis and those other
fellows viii only get away, it viii be all
L. L \
1 should let them go, dad would give
me hell "
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Saddle Horses and Saddle Cats.

There Is an increasing demand of late
for good saddle horses. The gaits that
especially command a horse for use in
the saddle are the walk, the fox trot, the
single foot and the rack. The walk Is a
gait understood everybody, but every
body does not understand that a good
saddle horse ought to be able 70 go a
square walk at the rate of five miles an
hour The fox trot is faster than the
square walk and the horse viii usually
take a few steps ut this gait when chang
ing from a fast walk to a trot The
single-foot differs somewhat from the fox
trot and has been described as exactly
intermediate between the true trot and
the true walk. Each foot appears to
move independently of the other, with a
sort Of pit-a-pat, one-at-a-time motion,
and it is a much faster gait than the fox
trot. The rack is very nearly allied to
the true pacing gait, the difference being
that in the latter the hind foot keeps ex-
act time with the fore foot of the same
side, making it what has been called a
literal or one-side-at-a-time motion,
while in the former the hind foot touches
the ground slightly In advance of the fore
foot on the same side The rack Is not
so fast gait as the true pace, but Is
desirable gait IN q saddle hOrse.-Na-
donaL Line Stock Journal.
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A PrOdigiOus Worker.

In general terms it has often been re-
pcated that President Garfield was what
Queen Elizabeth called Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, "a prOdigious worker. One
might add he was a worker of prodigles.
Yet l doubt if one person of a thousand
has any adequate idea of tie hardships
Of study, privation and trial which Pres
ident Garfield was subjected to, especial
Is in the later years of his life. AS he
grew stronger, after he had reached the
maturity of his wonderful intellectual
power and greatness. he came to be IN
demand everywhere rs political speak
~, and he bent every energy of mind
and body to Dleet the increased demand
for his services. He never spoke but
upon full preparation, and so when he
entered the campaign, year after year,
Ac was almost exhausted physically by
The protracted vigils and meditations
over his books, to which, more than any
man since Clay and Webster, lac was
addicted. His physique was matchless
in form and fiber; his nerves, though
very fine, had the strength of steel, and
ne could, therefore, stand enough to kill
a hundred ordinary men. He drew
largely, lavi~hly, on this immense store
of vital and nerve force, as If he had
never llDuBnl Oh lAltIt btlLlS al 4llI4lt
to its endurance. He had labored long,
patiently, earnestly, IN comparative OBJ
scurity, and, if 1 must say SO, l happen
20 KIN w he felt it keenly. Once, sitting
IN the office Of the Gibson House III
Cincinnati, after he had glanced warily
and with pardonable air of disappoint-
ment at the Cincinnati dailies, he asked
sadly " Why do the editors here treat
f,s.. III fal Of
Because, General, they have greatmen
of their own. Hoadley, Pendleton,
Young, Matthews, Cox, and 50 on for a
quantity. You live out in the country,
away up on the Reserve. But your time
VIII come by and by, when they viii vie
with each other in the attempt to praise
and hatter you" He smiled sadly, but
said nothing. l rather thought that he
believed what l said, but L was never
sure of it. That was less than two years
ago Cor. Chicago Tribune.
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NJ. ROMAN, a French engineer, states
that the cultivation of the interesting
plant, the SOFA or iSOya has been largely
developed in Hungary and in various
parts of France. He thinks that it may
in the future become as important an
article of food as the potato. 1t grows
in any soil, even the dryest; and the
plant is an excellent fodder for cattle.
The seeds are very nutritious, and have
the form of small kidney beans. An
agreeable soup may be made of them.
The Chinese use them for various kinds
of cheese, to make a condiment with oil,
etc In France, the seeds have been
roasted like coffee, and NJ. Roman says
the decoction OF the Sofa bean is very
similar to that of average coffee.
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wha1the director said.

A Boston reporter, while in the office Of the
New York and Boston Despatch Express Com
many. had conversation with Mr.. b. f. Lara
bee one of the directors of the company, who
gave the following personal experience: "a
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NOT know what the trouble was, but continued
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skiIl of nv doctors. At last my symptoms de-
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Disease. which has been pronounced incurable
Inv All rhvsiclans My sufferings at that time
were indispensable. 1 was bloated from head to
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Mar. and l was unable to breathe except in
short. convulsive gasps. While suffering thus
/ learned of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
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bv the prominent physicians of Boston, and
thew had told my friends 1 could not live q
week. resolved to try this remedy as a last re-
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rerfect cure in my case, and with many of my
friends who have been afflicted with kidney
troubles. either of long standing or in their
scute forms. and who, under my advice, have
used this most wonderful remedy"
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To ConsnmIsaiNea.

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IT IS well known that the very feeblest
electric currents produce audible sounds
in the telephone, which is more sensitive
TO weak currents than the most delicate
galvanometer. NJ. Pelat lately declared
that the heat necessary to warm a
kilogramme 1.-TWO and quarter pounds
of water, one degree, if converted prop.
erly into the energy of electric currents,
would suffice to produce in telephone
: an audible sound for ten thousand years
continuously.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-12-16

This test of butter viii be read with
surprise by some. 1t is from the Paris
Journal de Pharmacies:
Rub some of the suspected butter on
a piece of broadcloth. Ii the butter
disappears without leaving a stain it is
pure, however poor. But If it leaves a
''grease spot" it has been mixed with
fat. Perhaps readers will not recall to
mind how singularly free from spots OF
any kind the clothing of dealers in but
ter usually is, although these men in
sampling their goods not unfrequently
find that some butter has been dropped
on their dress. The fact is that butter
instead of soiling broadcloth is useful
for cleaning it.
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Workingmen will economic by employing
DR.. Pierces Medicines. His Pleasant Pur-
gative Pellets " and 81 Golden Medical Discov-
cry" cleanse the blood and system, thus pre-
venting fevers and other serious diseases, and
curing all scrofulous and other humors Sold
by druggists.
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Lady Wants 70 Know

the latest Partisan style Of dress and bonnet
new way to arrange the hair. Millions are cx-
pended for artificial appliances, which only
make conspicuous the fact that emac1ation.
nervous debility, and female weakness exist
Dr. Pierces " Favorite Prescription is sold
under positive guarantee. If used as directed.
art can be dispensed with. 1t will overcome
those diseases peculiar to females. By drug
gists.
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FIFTY-EIGm million dollars is the estimated
value Of finger rings Of this country actually
worn, and still there are people mean enough
to go hacking and coughing because they do
rot want to invest % cents for bottle Of Dr.
Bills Cough Syrup.
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PURE Con LIVER on made from selected
livers. on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard &
Co.. New York. 1t is absolutely pure and sweet
Patients who have once taken IT prefer IT to al
Others. Physicians have decided it superior e
any Of the other oils II market.